{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3714", "width": "2390", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "(ilass\\nBook\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "^^^^^-P-", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE\\nHISTORY OF SAUSBURY\\nNEW HAMPSHIRE.\\nFROM DATE DF SETTLEMENT TD THE PRESENT TIME.\\nTHE WHOLE INTERSPERSED WITH NHMERDHS\\nINTERESTING INCIDENTS.\\nEMBELLISHED WITH MAPS, CUTS,\\nAND PDRTRfilTS Of CISTINGUISHED CITIZENS.\\nCOy^TED BY\\nJOHN J. ^DEARBORN.\\nEDITED BY\\nJAMES 0. ADAMS and HENRY P. ROLFE.\\ni\\nHESTER, N. H. V^ Vv/.?, J^,/r?i.\\nMANC\\nPRINTED BY WILLIAM E. MOORE.\\n1890.\\njn", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "DEDICATION\\nTo the memory of the brave men and noble women who tirst made\\ntheir homes in the wilderness of Salisbury, and for many years stood upon\\nthe borders of civilization, and kept watch and ward over the infant Province\\nof New Hampshire; whose sweat and blood moistened her virgin soil;\\nwhose valor defended its rude cabins from savage violence and destruction\\nand especially to those whose bravery was displayed on many sanguinary\\nfields through all the dark days of the Revolution whose fortitude in the\\ntimes which tried men s souls was a theme of constant praise; to the mem-\\nory of all those sons and daughters who have served their day and genera-\\ntion and have fallen asleep, illustrious in life and venerated in death; and of\\nthose who became her children by adoption, and those whose eyes first\\nbeheld the light in this favored town, and have passed over the silent\\nriver, and to all their descendants everywhere, who are living, this history\\nis most respectfully dedicated by its authors.\\nJOHN J. UEAKBORN.\\nJAMES O. ADAMS,\\nHENRY P. ROLFK.\\nCorVRlCHTED\\n1884\\nHv John J. Dearborn.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "^t~ ii^-.- c\\ni^^f\\nifj^\\nJ. J. DEARBORN, M. D.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nPrevious to May. iSb 2, Dr. John J. Dearborn, of Salisbury, had l:)een\\ncno^aged by the town to collate a history of the same. He was a young man\\nof much energy and enterprise, and displayed very commendable persever-\\nence in bringing together the material for a history. In his practice he had\\nexcellent opportunities to gather up a vast amount of material necessary for\\nthe work, and the records of the town were at hand for his inspection.\\nIn May, 1882, he exhibited to me what he had collected. The collection\\nwas minute and comprehensive, but was in no condition to he published. He\\nwas indeed entitled to much praise for what he had done.\\nIn the spring of 1883 the late lamented James O. Adams informed me\\nthat he had been employed by Dr. Dearborn to take the manuscript and\\nedit the history for publication. Having learned that I was familiar with\\nthe town and its former inhabitants, and with its moral, social and political\\nconditions, Mr. Adams desired me to join him in editing the work. 3*J\\nDr. Dearborn then made an arrangement with Mr. Adams and myself\\nto take the material and make such tranformations and additions as we\\nshould find necessary. I at once commenced to write the Constitutional\\nHistory, and when finished submitted it to Messrs. Dearborn and Adams.\\nThis was so satisfactory to them, as well as to the late (ieorgc W. Nesmith.\\nwho took much interest in the history, that I was requested to write the\\nPreliminary Chapter. This was also undertaken and upon its completion\\nMr. Adams importuned me to continue my labors. In a few months I had\\nfinished all that was given me to do. With his other duties as Secretary of\\nthe Board of Agriculture, Mr. Adams was slow in the discharge of his duty\\nto the history, but in time, with my assistance, he completed his share of\\nthe work, and on the 28th of October, 18S4. a part of the manuscript went to\\nthe printer. In four years from that time the printing was still unfinished.\\nAfter six years of patient waiting and deferred hope, the History of\\nSalisbury now makes its appearance. Such as it is. we commend it to the\\ncareful perusal and kind consideration of those who feel ;in interest in this", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "IV PREFACE.\\nremarkable old town and the glorious achievements of her sons. .She claims\\nthe home, the birth-place of the greatest orator vvlio ever spoke the lan-\\nguage of Milton and Burke.\\nTo the late George W. Nesmith is due the credit for tlie painstaking\\nand finished chapter on The Revolutionary War.\\nTo that most worthy and earnest statistician, the late John M. Shirley,\\nthe thanks of the proprietors of the History of Salisbury are due, for the\\nchapter on Roads and Turnpikes, and the article on Samaritan Lodge\\nof Masons.\\nIn his contract with the town, Dr. Dearborn agreed to submit the his-\\ntory to the inspection and approval of a committee, consisting of Col. John\\nC. Smith, Dea. Thomas D. Little, and Frank B. Calef, Esq., the two latter\\nbeing natives of the town and life-long residents. Col. Smith, having had\\nhis home there for si.xty-three years, was better acquainted with the inhabi-\\ntants and business of the town than any one in it. Mr. Calef has died since\\nthe history was written. The remaining members of the committee have\\ncarefully examined and approved the entire work.\\nHENRY F. ROLl K.\\nConcord, N. H., Dec. i, 1890.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nIntroduction\\nPreliminary Chapter\\nChapter I. Natural History of the Town\\nChapter II. Discoveries and Titles,\\nChapter III. Hakerstown.\\nChapter IV Stevenstown.\\nChapter V. The Men of Stevenstown.\\nChapter VI. Municipal History.\\nChapter VII. Municipal Historv continued,\\nChapter VIII. Civil History Concluded,\\nChapter IX. Constitutional History,\\nChapter X. Ecclesiastical History.\\nChapter XI. Ecclesiastical History continued.\\nChapter XII. Ecclesiastical History continued,\\nChapter XII 1-2. Ecclesiastical History Concluded,\\nChapter XIII. Educational History.\\nChapter XIV. Educational History Concluded.\\nChapter XV. Early Indian History,\\nChapter XVI. The Revolutionary War,\\nChapter XVII. The War of the Rebellion,\\nChapter XVIII. New Hampshire Militia,\\nChapter XIX. County Organizations.\\nChapter XX. Roads and Turnpikes.\\nChapter XXI. Bridges, Ferries, and C;inais.\\nChapter XXII. Perambulation of Lines,\\nChapter XXIII. Mills, Workshops, .Stores, and Hotels\\nChapter XX 1\\\\ Beneficent Institutions,\\nChapter XX\\\\ The Town House and Pounds,\\nChapter .X.W I. The Aims-House,\\n3\\n25\\n31\\n50\\n59\\n67\\n81\\n1 1 1\\n129\\n146\\n172\\n190\\n195\\n207\\n225\\n251\\n269\\n277\\n284\\n290\\n316\\n3 9\\n334\\n353\\n359\\nf 3", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nChapter XXVII. The Cemeteries\\nChapter XXVIII. Tax Collectors and Magistrates\\nChapter XXIX. Agriculture of the Town,\\nChapter XXX. Villages and other Locations,\\nChapter XXXI. Physicians and Lawyers,\\nChapter XXXII. Antiquities,\\nChapter XXXIII. The Tornado,\\nChapter XXXIV. Whipping the Cat, Etc.,\\nChapter XXXV. Visit of His Satanic Majesty,\\nChapter XXXVI. Conclusion,\\nChapter XXXVII. Genealogy and Biography.\\n367\\n371\\n381\\n39^\\n397\\n413\\n417\\n424\\n430\\n433\\n439", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nS\\nDaniel Webster, full length Frontispiece.\\nJohn J. Dearborn.\\nHenry P. Kolfe.\\nliirthplace of Daniel Webster,\\nMap of the Town,\\nInterior view of the Old Congregational Church.\\nWebster Plow,\\nBreaking and Swingling Fla;\\n.Spinning Wool, Cotton, and\\n.South Road The Crank,\\nThomas W. Thompson,\\n(ieorge W. Nesmith,\\nFrank R. Woodward,\\nIchabod Hartlett,\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, Sen.,\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, Jun.,\\n\\\\William H. Bartlett,\\nMoses H. Bean,\\nWilliam B. Dunlap.\\nJoel Eastman.\\nDaniel li. Gale,\\n-Moses Greeley,\\nCarlos S. Greeley,\\nNathaniel Greeley,\\nJoseph M. Greeley,\\nCharles B. Haddock,\\nGeorge H. Hutchings,\\nThomas D. Little,\\nEliphalet Little,\\nWilliam M. Pingree,\\nStephen I ingree,\\nWilliam J ingree,\\nCharles C. Rogers,\\nIsaac Sanborn,\\nThe Sawyer Homestead.\\nNathaniel Sawyer,\\nJohn C. Smith,\\nPorter B. Wat.son.\\nDaniel Webster.\\now,\\n^4\\n45\\n386\\n388\\n389\\n391\\n407\\n409\\n447\\n453\\n457\\n459\\n461\\n475\\n544\\n*5\u00c2\u00ab-\\n558\\n610\\n614\\n616\\n61S\\n6^5\\n641\\n655\\n656\\n710\\n711\\n712\\n721\\n724\\n732\\n757\\n794\\n826\\n836", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.\\nBY HENRY P. ROLFE.\\nSit at the feet of History. Through night\\nOf years the steps of virtue she shall trace,\\nAnd show the earlier ages, where her sight\\nCan pierce the eternal shadows o er her face,\\nWhen from the genial cradle of our race\\nWent forth the tribes.\\nThe name, Salisbury, is derived from the T atin sains, which\\nsignifies safety, or health, and the Anglo-Saxon burg, or\\nburh, a corporate town which is not a city hence, the town\\nof health and safety.\\nIt was named directly from Salisbury, Massachusetts, which\\nwas so called from Salisbury, England.\\nIt is situated in latitude 43\u00c2\u00b0 23 on the west bank of the\\nMerrimack and Pemigewasset rivers, sixteen miles north of\\nConcord and eighty miles from Boston. It was originally\\nbounded north by Andover, east by the rivers above named,\\nseparating it from Xorthfield (then Canterbury) and Sanborn-\\nton, south by Boscawen and Warner, and west by Warner and\\nwhat was Kearsarge Gore, and contained 28,600 acres.\\nIf, as Covvper has said, God made the country and man\\nmade the town, Salisbury remains, at the end of nearly a\\ncentury and a half from its settlement, very nearly as God\\nmade it. It has been the most productive town in the whole\\nState. It has produced more brains than any other municipal-\\nity in New Hampshire. There are three, perhaps four, hamlets\\nin the town, but the main dependence of her people has always\\nbeen upon the native products of the soil.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "2 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nOver much of the history of this distinguished town the\\ntwilight of uncertainty has already thrown its shadows, and\\nthe long, dark night of forgetfulness is fast descending upon\\nher traditions and her unrecorded acts. Soon the waters of\\noblivion will settle over them forever, unless the historian shall\\ncome forward to rescue them from the tomb. The lustre of\\nher great names should be made to shine down the track of\\ntime and the fame of her illustrious deeds should never perish.\\nWhen lulius temple, Claudius aqueducts,\\nAgrippa s baths, and I om])ey s theatre;\\nNay, Rome itself shall n(jt be found at all.\\nHistorian s books shall live: these stronf^ records,\\nThese deathless monuments alone shall show\\nWhat and how great the Roman Empire was.\\nThe great Father of History, who was moved with a desire\\nto rescue from oblivion the memory of former events and\\nrender tribute to the many great and wonderful actions of the\\nGreeks and Barbarians, had no more worthy themes for his\\nimmortal pen than this noble old town of Salisbury furnishes.\\nFor more than a decade of years her hardy and fearless settlers\\nwere the very pioneers of civilization, stood upon its extreme\\nverge, repelled the assaults of savage beasts and more savage\\nmen, defended their rude dwellings from violence and destruc-\\ntion, and bared their brows to the tomahawk and scalping-\\nknife and their breasts to the Indian bullet. Through the\\nfire and blood of a seven years revolutionary war her sons\\nshrunk from no toil and no danger, that they might estab-\\nlish and save to themselves and their posterity a name and a\\ncountry, and that, too, a free country. For several years after\\nits settlement there rose no smoke from the habitation of any\\nwhite man, between Salisbury and the settlements on the rivers\\nof Canada. Her women were slain by the tomahawk and her\\nmen and maidens were ambushed, seized, made to run the\\nguantlet, and carried away into captivity; and while the inhab-\\nitants of other towns were obliged to abandon their recently\\nmade homes and flee for protection to stronger and more popu-\\nlous settlements, the stalwart inhabitants of Salisbury stood\\nfirm, built their cabins, and defended them.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "PKKLIMINAKY CHAPTER. 3\\nWhen Philip Call, Nathaniel Mcloon, Benjamin Pettengill,\\nJohn and Ebenezer Webster, Andrew liohonan, and Edward\\nEastman and their associates built their rude dwellings in Salis-\\nbury, then Stevenstown, they formed the exposed picket-line of\\ncivilization in New Hampshire, and they maintained it till the\\npeace of 1763, notwithstanding Nathaniel Meloon, his wife and\\nthree children, were seized by the Indians and carried away to\\nCanada, and sold into captivity, and the wife of Philip Call was\\nmurdered, and Samuel Scribner and Robert Barbour were also\\ncaptured and sold into captivity, at Chamblee and St. Francis.\\nWhen the clash of arms with the mother country came, the\\npeople of Salisbury were ready at the country s call, and every\\none of her voters signed the Association Test, except two and it\\nis no dishonor to their names to mention them, for they declined\\nto sign on account of the fancied indignity implied in demand-\\ning that two such devoted men should sign their names to\\nrecommend their patriotism. Salisbury presented an unbroken\\ncolumn of patriots, and their zeal never abated and their con-\\nstancy never wavered until peace was proclaimed.\\nWhen General Burgoyne was marching with his splendid\\narmy through the State of New York, at the tap of the drum\\nCaptain PZbenezer Webster and his comrades started for the\\nfield of Bennington. Most opportune was their arrival, and\\nvaliantly did the soldiers of Salisbury represent their town in\\nthis first successful battle of the Revolution. The result of the\\nbattle of Bennington strengthened and cheered the cause of\\nAmerican independence, revived the drooping spirits of the\\nContinental Congress, and sent a thrill of joy and confidence to\\nthe hearts of our little armies throughout the colonies.\\nBefore setting sail with his army, to crush the colonial\\nrebellion, the song says of General Burgoyne:\\nlie entered the House a.s mute as a mouse,\\nWith armor and shield to defend him,\\nAnd straightway on board went this elegant Lord\\nWith all iiis blackguards to attend him.\\nWhen he reached the borders of New York he exclaimed\\nBoys, beat up the drum, the Indians will come,\\nYou ne er need grant a petition.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "4 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nThe soldiers from Salisbury came marching back to their\\nhomes from Bennington, singing:\\nAnd now the poor soul is on his parole,\\nDown by the banks of Stillwater.\\nWhen, in January, after the Declaration of Independence,\\nGeneral Washington with his little, diminished, defeated army\\nof four thousand men crept into winter quarters at Morristown,\\nwhen the difficulties seemed almost insurmountable, Congress\\ndiscouraged, the Middle and Southern States full of cruel,\\nrevengeful and malignant tories, no man in Salisbury quailed,\\nand the whole population were steadfast, immovable, always\\nabounding in zeal and devotion to their country s cause.\\nWhen in the winter of lyj j-y^ Washington retired to winter\\nquarters at Valley Forge, with his army of forty-seven thousand\\nmen diminished to less than twenty thousand, and the nation\\nwas nearly exhausted by the sacrifices made and the great effort\\nput forth, the father of the wife of Rev. Jonathan Searle, Jethro\\nSanborn, of Sandown, a sea-captain of considerable means, gave\\nhalf his fortune (more than twenty thousand dollars in gold and\\nSpanish coin) to buy shoes and blankets for our bare-footed\\narmy at Valley Forge. The agent of the government gave in\\nexchange to Captain Sanborn new, clean continental money,\\nwhich he retained till his death, and having willed it to his\\ndaughter, Mrs. Margaret Sanborn Searle, all that was ever real-\\nized from it was seven dollars, which his granddaughter paid as\\ntaxes upon a chaise.\\nIn the cause of religion Salisbury was not a whit behind any\\nother town in the State. Religious teachers were maintained\\nalmost from the first sound of the settler s axe, and in 1773 a\\nlearned minister, Rev. Jonathan Searle, a graduate of Har-\\nvard College, settled over the Congregational church, and con-\\ntinued to minister and break the bread of life to her people for\\neighteen consecutive years. The church then established has\\ncontinued to this day. Long before Boscawen or Concord\\nmade a move Salisbury had established an academy, one of the\\nnoted institutions of learning in New Hampshire, where Daniel", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "PRELIMINARY CHAPTEK. 5\\nWebster and his brother Ezekiel, Ichabod Bartlett, John A.\\nDix, Charles B. Haddock, William H. Bartlett, and Joel East-\\nman studied for college. Before Boscawen or Concord, Salis-\\nbury had furnished a bell to her church. Early in the present\\ncentury a library of three hundred and twenty-four volumes was\\nestablished, of books that contained the best of information.\\nW^hen the Merrimack County Agricultural Society was formed\\nSalisbury furnished more members than any other town, Salis-\\nbury furnishing thirty-six, Concord only about two-thirds that\\nnumber.\\nBut when wc come to speak of her great men, how illustrious\\ndoes this noble old town appear. What an array of names does\\nshe present what a roll of honor does she furnish! The\\nWebsters, the Bartletts, the Eastmans, the Haddocks, the Pet-\\ntengills, the Pingrees, the Smiths, the Sawyers, the Gales, and\\nthe Greeleys. Thomas W. Thompson, Richard Fletcher, Parker\\nNoyes, Israel W. Kelley, George W. Nesmith, Samuel I. Wells,\\nJonathan Searle, and Thomas Worcester became her citizens\\nby adoption. There has been but one man who has gained the\\ntitle of Defender of the Constitution, and he was born and\\nreared upon the soil of Salisbury. Fisher Ames has said that\\nthe most substantial glory of a country is its great men.\\nGovernor Boutwell, of Massachusetts, when receiving the sons\\nof New Hampshire who went to Boston to attend the funeral\\nobsequies of Daniel Webster, said New Hampshire has pro-\\nduced no other such son and Massachusetts no other such\\nstatesman as Daniel Webster. And Theodore Parker, who\\nwas the best critic of character and accomplishments that we\\nknew in Mr. Webster s time, said of him that he was the\\ngreatest orator that had ever spoken the language of Milton\\nand Burke.\\nIchabod Bartlett sheds lustre upon the town in which he was\\nborn. He who could measure swords with Webster, Clay,\\nand Jeremiah Mason, without either shield or shame, and who\\nobtained the first rank at the head of the New Hampshire bar,\\nin the company of Smith, Mason, Sullivan and Levi Woodbury,\\nbrings to the town of his nativity a precious jewel to be placed", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "O HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nin the crown of her rejoicing. Ezekiel Webster, Charles B.\\nHaddock, Joel Eastman, Samuel C. Bartlett, the present learned\\nPresident of Dartmouth College, and William H. Bartlett, our\\nbeau ideal of a learned and just judge, cut off, alas in the morn-\\ning, before his sun had reached its zenith, fill up such a roll of\\nhonor as no town in New Hampshire can furnish. Said Mr.\\nPhilips, the young Irish orator, It matters not what immediate\\nspot may have been the birth-place of such a man as Washing-\\nton. But it does matter to us, the natives of Salisbury, and\\nto their descendants, what immediate spot was the birth-place\\nof Daniel Webster and the other distinguished men whose\\nnames we have mentioned. We take pride in them. We love\\nto think of them as neighbors and townsmen of our ancestors.\\nWe rejoice in their achievements and feel a glow of satisfaction\\nthat they are an inheritance of our own. Not to know what took\\nplace before one was born, says Cicero, is forever to remain\\na child, caring nothing for the memories of the past and hoping\\nnothing for the destiny of the future.\\nThe chief charms of history are found in the recognition of\\nthe merits of those who have preceded us. How destitute of\\ninterest are mere facts and incidents, unless enriched and beau-\\ntified with biographical sketches of those who were actors upon\\nthe preceding stage. Mere names and dates do not in any\\nproper sense make history or biography. Memory can never\\nbe surfeited by a knowledge of what has been achieved by the\\ngifted and the good, if we can be made to feel a personal inter-\\nest in the authors. Shall we then know nothing of our progen-\\nitors Shall the line of the race from which we sprung be\\nsevered at our birth, and shall the living generation have no\\nretrospect, but keep its eyes forever steadily gazing into the\\nuncertain and illusive future, when there are so many of the\\nglories of the past shining along the pathway which has been\\ntraveled by our ancestors.^ There is no command to us to\\nlook not behind neither stay in all the plain. There is no city\\nof iniquity to look towards, no smoke of the country goes\\nup from the plains of Salisbury. No lurid fires light up its\\nconsuming dwellings. It is a town of safety, where the twin", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "A\\nPRELIMINARY CHAPTER. 7\\nangels of civilization, Education and Religion, were welcomed\\nand hospitably entertained, where enterprise had a home, where\\ndomestic virtue was constantly cherished, where knowledge\\nincreased, where patriotism was a ruling passion, where law and\\norder reigned supreme, and where illustrious men and noble\\nwomen were born and reared.\\nIn the days of small things, in the midst of dangers, hard-\\nships and privations, the people remembered the source from\\nwhence came all spiritual and temporal blessings, and builded\\nand maintained their temples for the worship of the Most High.\\nNeither Exeter or Andover, Gilmanton or Atkinson, all noted\\nseats of learning, can furnish such a catalogue of pupils as the\\nrural town of Salisbury.\\nCicero and Fisher Ames have been quoted, but nothing in\\nancient or modern times better illustrates the duties and im-\\nportance of the historian than what has very recently been said\\nby a distinguished and venerable son of New Hamp.shire, Hon.\\nMarshall P. Wilder\\nTo know nothing of our ancestors or from whence we came,\\nto have no reverence for the precious memories of the past, is\\nto ignore the elements and influences which have made us what\\nwe are, is to repudiate the natural instincts of the human heart\\nand to suppress the aspirations and hopes of a soul that is to\\ncourse on through the endless circles of eternity. And what\\nmore precious testimonial of your love of kindred and home can\\nyou leave than that which provides for the transmission of the\\nhistory of your ancestors, yourself and your family, to future\\ngenerations. And how consoling the thought that when you\\nshall have been gathered to your fathers this history shall live\\nthrough all coming time as a precious inheritance to your de-\\nscendants. And who so dead to sympathy and affection, to\\nkindred and country, that would not preserve the record of his\\nancestors, the ])lace of his birth, the home of his childhood,\\nand the sacred spot where repose the loved and the lost ones\\nof earth\\nCharles C. Coffin, when contemi:)lating the publication of a\\nhistory of Boscawen, called upon the Rev. Ur. liouton. who had", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "8 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nwritten a most excellent history of Concord, and was then\\nengaged in editing the Provincial Records of New Hampshire,\\nfor the State and he, more than any man of his time, was\\nconversant with the early history of the State and had a most\\nintimate knowledge of the eminent men who have shed lustre\\nupon the different towns in New Hampshire. To encourage\\nand stimulate Mr. Coffin to undertake the pious work of writing\\nthat history, he said: Mr. Coffin, you must write the history\\nof Boscawen. No other town has exercised a more potent\\ninfluence for good none can show a brighter record, or such a\\nroll of honor. Ah, noble, illustrious old town! Thanks to\\nMr. Coffin, the glory of thy deeds shall not fade, and the fame\\nof thy sons shall not perish from the memory of men. Thou\\nhast truly a brilliant roll of honor. Thy influence for good has\\nbeen most potent thy record is bright, illumined with brilliant\\ndeeds, fragrant with christian influences, and adorned by the\\nconstancy and the heroism of thy gallant sons. Honor to her\\nDix, her Fessenden, her Greens, her Farmers, her Littles.\\nSide by side Boscawen and Salisbury went through the\\nRevolution shoulder to shoulder they sustained the country\\nin the War of 1812 and in the War of the Rebellion their sons\\nfell on the same field, and their bones lie mouldering together\\nin the same unknown graves. And to-day a great nation of\\nfifty millions of people stands up, and with uncovered head\\nmakes its obeisance to her soldiers and statesmen. Within a\\nlimit of ten miles square, including Boscawen and Salisbury,\\nno other rural space of equal extent on this habitable globe has\\nproduced such a column of great names.\\nIt has been said that the early settlers of Salisbury sat in\\nthe light of the civilization of Boscawen. Not till 1773,\\nsays Mr. Coffin, thirty-three years after the settlement of the\\nRev. Phineas Stevens, was there a minister in Salisbury. But\\nNathaniel Meloon, Philip Call, and Ebenezer Webster, from\\n1748 to 1763, stood guard for Boscawen against the French and\\nIndians, and constituted the exposed picket-line for fifteen\\nyears; and no cabin was abandoned and no part of the settle-\\nment in Salisbury was deserted, notwithstanding Nathaniel", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. 9\\nMeloon s and Ebenezer Webster s dwellings were the outposts\\nof civilization in New Hampshire. No minister in Salisbury\\ntill 1773? Rev. Jonathan Searle preached in Salisbury several\\nyears before he was settled in 1773 even in 1769; and relij;ious\\nservices were held in houses, and preaching supported as soon\\nas any considerable number of settlers were located in the\\ntownship. But softly, eminent historian of l^oscawen Salis-\\nbury settlers never sat in the lurid light of the incendiary fire\\nthat consumed their only house dedicated to the worship of\\nAlmighty God. Salisbury men never applied the midnight\\ntorch to the district school-house, because it was not located\\nexactly where one section of the inhabitants desired it. Salis-\\nbury never used or adopted the whipping-post. Salisbury never\\nprosecuted her citizens for traveling a few miles on Sunday\\nmorning, to reach a sick and suffering family. Salisbury never\\ndragged a non-resistant preacher from her churches, simply\\nbecause, unasked, he attempted to speak to the congregation a\\nfew words in opposition to that sum of all villainies, Ameri-\\ncan slavery; but in 1819, in the Legislature, in the person of\\nIchabod Bartlett, Salisbury furnished the champion of religious\\ntoleration.\\nNone can show such a roll of honor Gently, venerated\\nhistorian! John Adams Di.x, William Pitt Fessenden, Samuel\\nWood, Ebenezer Price, and Jacob Little How nobly you\\nserved your country and your race in your day and generation.\\nYou appear to us as bright stars in our firmament as you look\\ndown upon us from your celestial abodes. iUit\\nYe stars that glitter in the skies\\nAnd gayly dance before our eyes,\\nWhat are you when the sun shall rise.\\nWhat are you in the presence of him who stood on Plymouth\\nRock, with the Pilgrim Fathers, in 1820; on Ikmker Hill, with\\nLafayette and the survivors of the Revolution, in 1825; in\\nFaneuil Hall in 1826, commemorating the lives and services of\\nJohn Adams and Thomas Jefferson, and in the Senate of the\\nUnited States, in iS^i, in an encounter with the monster of", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "lO HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nnullification? Your brilliancy is almost obscured in the pres-\\nence of such a luminary.\\nWithin the original limits of Salisbury, in the new town of\\nFranklin, on the Webster Farm, is located the Orphans Home\\nof New Hampshire. On the soil of Salisbury, the home of\\nDaniel Webster, of his father and mother, near where sleeps\\ntheir silent and sacred dust, is located the first Orphans Home\\noutside of city limits in New England, an institution whose\\nnoble benevolence as a State charity is universal. It was estab-\\nlished and dedicated in 1871. Under its guardian and shelter-\\ning care are gathered the poor and destitute orphans of all\\nnationalities, and the waifs that have been thrown out upon the\\nstormy sea of life. This heaven-directed home receives as its\\nbeneficiaries all perishing children of want, without regard to\\ntheir social status, nationality or complexion. It not only takes\\nin its arms the little orphans of the State, but it folds in its\\ngentle and tender embrace those that are more unfortunate than\\norphans, rendered so by the dissolute character and poverty of\\ntheir parents. It binds up the broken hearts of the little unfor-\\ntunates who have been crushed by the demon of intemperance\\nthose whose hopes would be blasted and whose prospects would\\nbe ruined by dissolute and drunken parents. These children\\nare cared for morally, intellectually, and physically. A school\\nis in session during the year, all are members of the Sunday\\nschool, and all have the benefit of divine service upon the Sab-\\nbath and of religious teachers.\\nUpon this home of benevolence, located in a spot as lovely\\nas earth and sky and air and sun can make it, as beautiful as\\nthe landscape and the softly-fanning breezes of heaven can ren-\\nder it, upon that fairy-like scene of Lower Franklin, at the\\nElms Farm, is concentrated the united charities of all religious\\ndenominations who worship Him who came to bind up the\\nbroken-hearted and to seek and save those who are lost, and\\nwho said, Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid\\nthem not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. II\\nWhere can such a home find another such appropriate spot\\ninteresting in its traditions, rich in its historical associations,\\nand charming in all its surroundings? where the greatest\\nintellect of America grew, expanded and matured, and where\\nthe great master of human speech dwelt and had his home\\nBut let the poet tell the tale\\nWhat hallowed memories arise\\nWithin our hearts and dim our eyes.\\nWe think of him without a peer,\\nWho spent his happy boyhood here,\\nAnd with his l^rother, brave and true,\\nAte honest bread and earned it too.\\nWe call to mind his mother dear.\\nWhose precious dust lies buried near;\\nHer record is preserved on high\\nIn characters that cannot die.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "o.\\nX\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0r.\\nH\\nI\\nn\\n-D\\nr-\\nn\\nm\\no\\no\\nin", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF SAygBURY\\nCHAPTER I\\nNATURAL HISTORY OF THE TOWN.\\nIn plains that room for shadows make\\nIn skirting hills to lie;\\nliound in hy streams which give and take\\nTheir colors from the sky;\\nUr on the mountain s crest sublime,\\nOr down the open glade,\\nO, what have I to do with time\\nFor this the day was made.\\nDESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY.\\nSi.xty years ago Moses Eastman, one of Salisbury s most\\neminent men, gave a description of the natural features of the\\ntown, in plain, terse style, which we now adopt\\nThis town is pleasantly situated on the western banks of\\nthe Pemigewasset and Merrimack rivers, fifteen or si.xteen miles\\nnorth of Concord.\\nIt is bounded on the east by the Pemigewasset and Merri-\\nmack, on the south by l^oscawen, on the north by Andover, and\\non the west by a tract of land once called Kearsarge Gore, lately\\nannexed to Warner. It is four miles wide, from north to south,\\nand nine miles long, frorri east to west.\\nA short turn on the Merrimack, to the east, forms a fine\\ntract of fertile intervale in the southeast corner of the town,\\nwhich consists of about three hundred acres, and appears to be\\nan alluvial of the Merrimack. In this place are as pleasant,\\nproductive and valuable farms as any in the town.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "14 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nThe original growth of wood on land adjacent to the rivers\\nwas pitch, Norway and white pine, with occasional elms,\\nmaples and birches.\\nFrom the intervale and pine lands on the Merrimack, there\\nis a gradual ascent to the uplands, which afford a pleasing\\nvariety of hill and dale, until you arrive at the valley of the\\nl^lackwater river. The hilly lands, in their natural state, were\\ncovered with a heavy growth of the sugar maple, white maple,\\nbeech, birch, elm, ash, and red and white oak. The valleys\\nwere interspersed with evergreens.\\nThe soil of the uplands is strong, deep and loamy, and has\\na substratum of pan.\\nFrom the Blackwater valley there is a rapid ascent to the\\nassemblage of hills which form the basis of Kearsarge mountain.\\nThe scenery is grand, beautiful and picturesque. The dis-\\ntant, azure mountains, the fertilizing streams, the cultivated\\nfields, the glens and valleys, and extensive pasture grounds,\\ninterspersed with beautiful copses of woodland, conspire to\\nrender it delightful to the eye, and to afford fine subjects for\\nthe pen.\\nRIVERS.\\nThe east part of the town is watered by the Pemigewasset\\nand Merrimack rivers. The union of the Pemigewasset and the\\nWinnipesauke forms the Merrimack.\\nBoat navigation terminates a short distance above the junc-\\ntion of those rivers. When a few obstructions shall be removed\\nand one or two locks erected on the Merrimack, above Concord,\\nby the medium of the Middlesex canal boat navigation will be\\nrendered safe and easy from Boston to the East Village in\\nSalisbury.\\nBlackwater, called a branch of the Contoocook in Richard\\nHazen s map of the township 1736-7 passes through the\\nwestern part of Salisbury. It takes its rise in the hilly regions\\nof Danbury, Wilmot, and New London, and in its passage\\nreceiving considerable accession from tributary streams trav-\\nerses Andover, and passing round the east end of Beech Hill,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY.\\nthrows itself into Salisbury in a large bay, which abounds in\\npickerel, perch, eels, and a variety of other fish. At the outlet\\nof this bay there is a j^radual descent for more than a mile,\\nwhich affords excellent sites for mills. I rom thence it rolls its\\ndingy waters through Salisbury and Hoscawen, and at length\\nunites with the Contoocook in the northern part of Hopkinton.\\nMOUNTAINS.\\nA considerable portion of Kearsarge range is within the\\nbounds of Salisbury, the northwest corner bound of which\\nextends nearly to the summit. The altitude of this mountain,\\nas taken by Captain Partridge in August, 1820, by means of the\\nbarometer, was found to be 2461 feet above tide-water. It is\\ncomposed of a range of hills, running from north to south a\\ndistance of about six miles. Its general aspect is ragged and\\ncraggy. Its northeast and southwest parts are steep and pre-\\ncipitous. It may be ascended with pretty severe exertions from\\nthe northwest or southeast corners. Its summit was formerly\\ncovered with evergreens, but it has long been stripped of its\\nprimitive honors by the combined agency of fire and wind. It\\nnow presents a bald rock of granite, many parts of which appear\\nto be in a state of gradual disintegration.\\nIn the spring of 1819 a large mass of rock, several tons in\\nweight, was loosened from the southern declivity of Hald hill\\nand precipitated with great violence to the valley below, carry-\\ning all before it for the space of forty rods in length and four\\nin breadth.\\nThe aspect from the summit of this mountain is magnificent\\nand beautiful. Snow and ice have been observed upon this\\nmountain in the month of July, in the clefts of the rocks on a\\nnorthern exposure.\\nMINERALOGY.\\nThe mineralogical productions have never been scientifically\\nexamined. The prevailing rock is granite. A very fine quarry\\nhas lately been discovered on Mr. William Webster s farm, on", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "l6 HISTORY OF SALISBURV.\\nthe east side of Meeting House hill. It yields readily to the\\nwedge and hammer, has a due proportion of its component\\nparts, and yields in beauty to no rock of that description in any-\\nother part of the State.\\nSUPPLEMENTARY DESCRIPTION.\\nTo make this chapter of our history complete, we must add\\nto the sketch which we have copied and enlarge on the descrip-\\ntion of the natural features of the town.\\nThe surface of the town is very uneven. It is hilly, and in\\nthe western section mountainous. But these broken areas afford\\nexcellent pasturage and compensate for all the disadvantages\\nthey occasion. The soil, which is of a granitic character and\\noften loamy, is productive of abundant harvests. It is retentive\\nin its nature, having a substratum of hard-pan or compact\\ngravel, which prevents loss of fertility and counteracts the\\neffects of drouth. The extreme variation in the weather is\\nfrom 25\u00c2\u00b0 below zero to 98\u00c2\u00b0 above, which limits seldom occur.\\nThe average for the year is not far from 44\u00c2\u00b0 above zero. Thun-\\nder showers, though frequent, are not destructive nor severe. It\\nis not unusual in summer time to see a shower in the northwest\\nstrike Kearsarge mountain and divide, one part passing west of\\nthe mountain and the other moving down the valley of the\\nBlackwater, while the highlands of the eastern part of the town\\nare not reached. The warm rays of the sun, attracted by the\\nmany hill slopes and the rocky soil, followed by irrigating\\nshowers, cause the productions common to the climate to ripen\\nquite as early as do corresponding crops in towns further south.\\nHILLS.\\nScar/es, or Meeting House hill, called Mount Zion on\\nthe Proprietors book, and Mount Pisgah by Mr. Webster,\\nwas named for the first settled minister, to which was added its\\nfirst supplementary name from the fact that it was the location\\nof Salisbury s Zion, or its first church. It is near the centre of\\nthe original town, and its summit was the scene of the alarm", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "SUPPLEMENTARY DESCRIPTION. IJ\\nfires, which were kindled as signals in the perilous days of\\nthe pioneers, and presents many magnificent landscape views.\\nAt one time it was thickly settled, but now only a single set of\\nbuildings remains.\\nLovcriii s Hill is situated on the centre range-way, west of\\nSearle s hill, and is of steep ascent. It was named for Samuel\\nLoverin, who resided there.\\nCalef Hill, named for the Calefs who resided on its summit,\\nis situated near Boscawen line, about midway of the southern\\nboundary of Salisbury.\\nBeans Hill is near the Union Meeting House, and was so\\ncalled for Sinkler Bean, who located in that section in 1766.\\nThe Indians are reported to have occupied this hill as a lookout,\\nand its northern ravine is said to have been used as a place of\\nretreat when pursued by the white man. By the upturning of\\nan old tree, a few years ago, an Indian oven was disclosed,\\nhaving been entirely covered by the roots of the tree. It is\\ntwo feet in depth, with a circumference of six feet, carefully\\nstoned on the sides and bottom. It is covered by a flat stone,\\nthrough which a round opening is cut.\\nBald Hill is a spur of the Kearsarge, situated on the western\\nline of the town.\\nSmith s Hill is situated easterly of Searle s hill and is in that\\npart of the town which now belongs to Franklin. It had its\\nname from Lieutenant Robert Smith, the first permanent set-\\ntler in that vicinity.\\nRaccoon Hill lies northeasterly of Centre Road Village. It\\nis a good farming section though the soil is stubborn until sub-\\ndued by the plow and the hoe, when it becomes profitably pro-\\nductive. For many years it has been known as the home of the\\nShaws, who are among the best farmers in the town.\\nPLAINS.\\nNotwithstanding the many hills of the town, and the moun-\\ntainous territory, there is no inconsiderable portion of plain\\nland, particularly in the western section, on both sides of the\\nBlackwater. Nearly one-sixth part of the town has a sandy soil.\\n2", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "1 8 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nKEARSARGE.\\nThis noted mountain rises abruptly from a comparatively\\nlevel country. It is situated seventy miles southwest of the\\nWhite Mountains, in the towns of Salisbury, Andover, Warner,\\nSutton and Wilmot. Its height is 2943.5 feet above tide-water\\nand 943.5 feet higher than Ragged Mountain, in Andover. For\\nthe accompanying notes the compiler is indebted to John M.\\nShirley, Esq., of Andover, who has recently prepared an elab-\\norate and carefully studied historical address on Kearsarge\\nMountain, in Merrimack county, the occasion of which was a\\ndiscussion which originated a few years after the sinking of the\\nConfederate gunboat Alabama, June 19, 1864, by the Union\\nsloop-of-war Kearsarge. Carroll county claimed that the moun-\\ntain within its borders was the original Kearsarge, and that the\\nmountain in Merrimack county derived its name from an English\\nhunter named Hezekiah Currier Sargent, who was supposed to\\nhave had his home sovieiuJiere upon it. Governor Harriman, in\\nhis History of Warner, says: It is a sufficient answer to this\\nto say that no such a man ever lived on Kearsarge Mountain,\\non the top or on either side of it. The story is a fabrication.\\nMr. Shirley s address is a thorough explosion of that fallacy,\\nand proves that the mountain in Merrimack county is the true\\nKearsarge.\\nThe Indian name for this mountain is Coowissewasseck.\\nIn the Journal of Capt. Samuel Willard, of Lancaster, Mass.,\\na noted Indian ranger, a record is made of seeing the mountain,\\nand writing it Cusagec. In 1652, Governor Endicott explored\\nthe Merrimack river to Lake Winnepesauke, and made a plan\\nof the survey, which was recently brought to light by George\\nE. Emery, of Lynn, Mass. It bears no date, but must have\\nbeen executed before 1670. On this plan the mountain is\\nspelled Carasaga. July 4, 1733, the proprietors of what is now\\nBoscawen hired Richard Hazen to make a plan of the planta-\\ntion, a copy of which map is in the possession of the compiler\\nof this history. Along the northern and western boundary line\\nis represented an irregular line of hills which he calls Kiasarja", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "SUPPLEMENTARY DESCRIPTION. I9\\nHills. In Clough s survey of Stevenstown (Salisbury) is a\\nsketch of the mountain, with the inscription, An exceeding\\nhigh mountain, called by the Indians Coowissewasseck, and by\\nthe English Ciresay.\\nIt is not easy to convey, by the use of English letters, the\\nprecise sounds given by the Indians. The reader must bear in\\nmind that the parties, spelling this name, had never seen it\\nin print, that they had no communication with each other.\\nThey spelled it as it sounded when pronounced to them. Al-\\nthough spelled differently, the pronunciations are somewhat\\nsimilar. It is often pronounced Ki-ah-sarge.\\nMitchell and Hazen s map, of 1750, gives the mountain in\\nMerrimack county in its proper place, and spells it Kyasage\\nMts. The same can be said of Holland s map, published in\\n1784, the orthography being Kyar-sage Mt., by the Indians\\nCowissewaschook. In the first official map of the province,\\npublished in 1792, it was spelled Kearseage, and in 1794,\\nKearsarge, since which time the latter spelling has been most\\ngenerally observed. A plan of Kearsarge Gore, drawn by Col.\\nHenry Gerrish, previous to 1757, spells it Kaysarge. In the\\nProprietors records of Sutton it is spelled Kiasargg Hill.\\nL.\\\\KES AND PONDS.\\nWebster Lake, so called in compliment to Mr. Webster, who\\nmade frequent visits to it in his hours of recreation, is located\\nin that ]:)art of Franklin which was taken from Andover. We\\nappropriate it from its association with Salisbury, and because\\nits waters reach the river by a course through territory that\\nbelonged to us. Mr. Webster called it Lake Como, from\\nits resemblance to the Italian water of that name. It has been\\ncalled Chance pond and Great pond. It is a pleasant summer\\nresort, and in winter is often visited by fishermen.\\nTucker s Pond is the largest body of water within the present\\nlimits of Salisbury, and was named for the Tucker family, whose\\nolder members were the first settlers upon its shores. In early\\nrecords it is called Almsbury pond, from its proximity to War-\\nner, which was called Almsbury at the time of its settlement.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "20 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nGreciiougJi s Pond, known also as Cook s pond, was named\\nfor Richard Greenough, and is situated in the westerly section\\nof the town, near the South road.\\nWilder s Pond, named for Captain Luke Wilder, a large land-\\nholder and one of the first merchants in the town, is located\\nabout half-way up Kearsarge mountain, and is fed by mountain\\nsprings. On the old maps it is called Kearsarge pond. Its\\noutlet divides into three streams, which empty into the Black-\\nwater river.\\nBROOKS.\\nBog, Beaver Dam, or Bowley Brook, called Buttermilk brook\\non Richard Hazen s map, 1736, rises in the meadow southwest\\nof the Centre Road Village, and flows southerly into Couch s\\npond. Taking the same name at the outlet of the pond, it pur-\\nsues a southerly course, passing through Great pond in the town\\nof Webster, and emptying into Contoocook river.\\nCJiance Pond Brook, or Mill brook, takes the water from Web-\\nster Lake to the river. Although the lake from which it flows\\nhas borne various names, the stream has had but one since the\\noccupation of the town. On an early map of Andover and\\nSalisbury, before they bore their present names, it is called\\nClough s brook. Its outlet is 446 feet above sea level.\\nStirrup-Iron Brook rises in the meadow-land south of Raccoon\\nhill, flows southeasterly and empties into the Merrimack, a half\\nmile below the south line of the town. It received its name, as\\nthe story goes, from a stirrup-iron lost in the stream by General\\nHenry Dearborn, of revolutionary fame.\\nPunch Brook, so called as early as 1767, has also sometimes\\nbeen designated as Hancock brook, for Mr. John Hancock, who\\nresided near by. On this brook was built the Proprietors mill.\\nWigzvag Brook. A story is told regarding the naming of this\\nand the preceding brook. A company of men, it is said, started\\nfrom Penacook (Concord) with a cask or keg of rum, for Ply-\\nmouth. It was fastened to a pole by ropes, and carried by a\\nman at each end. They followed the Indian trail, and reaching\\nthe brook first named, rested and partook freely of punch, made", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "SUPPLEMENTARY DESCRIPTION. 21\\nfrom the contents of the keg and the clear water of the stream.\\nFrom the drink they took on its bank they gave it the name of\\nPunch brook. Cherishing pleasant sensations of their experi-\\nence here, they rested again at the next brook. By this time\\ntheir steps became unsteady, and their cask swung to the right\\nand left in a wig-wag way. They therefore called the second\\nbrook the Wigwag or crooked brook.\\nVARIETIES OF TREES AND PLANTS.\\nWhen the first settlers came to this town they found it a\\nwilderness. In the forests could be seen nearly forty varieties\\nof trees, the most valuable among them being the mighty white\\npines, which were marked with the arrowhead, as reserved\\nfor the royal navy. To cut one of these was a crime which was\\npunished with much severity. Though they might never be\\nrequired for masts, they were the king s property and must not\\nbe removed. They were often found of great height, even\\nexceeding one hundred and fifty feet in length. Nearly all the\\noriginal varieties of forest trees are still found, though usually\\nof smaller growth than formerly. At the present day we find\\nthe poplar and bass wood, and several varieties of beech, oak,\\nbirch and maple, which were not in the early times designated\\nas distinct varieties. We may also add the ash, the elm, lever\\nwood, chestnut, hickory and butternut, though rare, and most\\nof the evergreens. The flora of Salisbury possesses nothing\\nnot common in towns of corresponding soils, and demands no\\nespecial mention.\\nWILD ANI.^L\\\\L^, P.IRDS AND REPTILES.\\nThese forests abounded, at the time of the early settlers, in\\nblack and brown bears, catamounts, wild cats, and grey wolves.\\nMoose and red deer were not uncommon. The beaver, musk-\\nrat and otter were often seen, as were the mink, ferret, red fox\\nand raccoon, which are now but rarely found. The grey or\\nsilver fox, the woodchuck, red, grey, striped, and flying squirrels,\\nthe hedgehog, skunk and rabbit, still occupy our woods and fields.\\nThe rivers and ponds are stocked with common fish, though", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "22 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nnone have been put into our waters by authority of the State.\\nThe brook and mountain streams furnish the wary trout. The\\ndifferent varieties of fish found in our waters are said to be the\\ncommon perch, flat-side, horned-pout, two or three varieties of\\nsuckers, the grass-fish or ordinary shiner, the eel, dace, and pick-\\nerel. Specimens of the black bass have also been taken. For-\\nmerly the shad and the salmon, and perhaps other varieties,\\nfrequented the Merrimack. Naturalists tell us that the shad,\\ncoming to the junction of the Winnepesauke and Pemigewasset\\nrivers at East Salisbury or Franklin, instinctively continued on\\nto the lake, for spawning, while the salmon invariably sought\\nthe waters of Squam or Newfound lakes.\\nThe birds found here are common to other sections of the\\nState, in the same latitude, and need not be enumerated. The\\nsame is true in regard to snakes and the ordinary reptile tribes.\\nGEOLOGY.\\nThe entire area of the town of Salisbury rests upon a granitic\\nbase, though its geological aspect is somewhat varied. At the\\nclose of the Laurentian period of the Eozoic era, which was the\\nfirst period of the first era, according to the classification of the\\ngeological epochs, the earliest dry land of the State made its\\nappearance, constituting an archipelago of about thirty islands.\\nOne of these embraced a small portion of the territory of Salis-\\nbury and Warner the northernmost section being in Salisbury\\nand identical with the neighborhood that now surrounds Tuck-\\ner s pond. The geological designation of this development was\\nporphyritic gneiss.\\nSucceeding the Laurentian came the Atlantic period of the\\nsame era, and during its continuance appeared as solid land the\\nremainder of Salisbury first, Lake gneiss, covering the greater\\npart of more than the southern half of the town, and bounded\\nby an irregular line on the north, which extended along the\\nKearsarge Andalusite group of rocks, then running just north\\nof the West Salisbury post office, and then turning to the south-\\neast as far as Salisbury Centre, where it forms an angle, and", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "SUPPLEMENTARY DESCRIPTION. 2$\\nfollows a curve in a northeasterly direction till it reaches the\\nwestern boundary of the town of Franklin.\\nNext in order comes the Montalban series of rock, covering\\nthe entire remaining area of the town, and including the Kear-\\nsarge Andalusite groups, characterized as the name indicates\\nby the presence of andalusite, which, when found in a perfect\\nstate, is a mineral having the shape of a rhombic prism. The\\nLake gneiss derives its name from its prevalence in the neigh-\\nborhood of Lake Winnepesauke, and the Montalban series from\\nthe White Mountains.\\nThe valley of the Blackwater river embraces an area of modi-\\nfied drift, extending with varying width from West Salisbury\\npost office to the southern limit of the town. This drift pre-\\nsents the characteristics of a soil that has been formed by river\\nfloods, being an alluvium made up of sand, gravel and clay,\\ndeposited on the original Lake gneiss, which was there long\\nbefore it.\\nIt does not appear that there is any formation of granite within\\nthe present limits of Salisbury. Gneiss, though resembling\\ngranite in some of its constituents, is specifically different and\\nfurnishes a better foundation for a productive soil.\\nMINERALS AND ROCKS.\\nThe rocks are mostly Montalban and Simonite. A species\\nof bog ore, containing iron, also exists. The mineralogy of\\nKearsarge mountain is andalusite and tourmaline. In the west\\npart of the town, near Wilder s pond, tripoli is found in large\\nquantities near the surface of the ground. This is of economic\\nvalue. After cleansing it of foreign substances and drying, it\\nis an excellent polishing powder. With other ingredients it\\nmakes a valuable cement, and gives a pure whiteness to linen,\\nwhen properly used. Plumbago exists in various sections of\\nthe town, a large vein being found on the eastern slope of\\nKearsarge. This vein has been worked, but through lack of\\ncapital or cost of transportation it has been abandoned. An-\\nother vein has been found on the southern slope of Searle s hill.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "24 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\non the parsonage lot. Silver has also been discovered in small\\nquantities.\\nNear the southern border of the town, a few rods from what\\nis called the New road, from Holmes s Mill to North Bos-\\ncawen, in the woody pasture of William Holmes, is a huge\\nbowlder, foreign to this section, which lies almost wholly above\\nground. It was probably brought there ages ago by some giant\\nflood, in a floating iceberg. When the flood abated the mass\\nof ice melted and joined its kindred waters, leaving the bowlder\\nin a strange land. Its dimensions have been often taken. It\\nis recorded as 57 feet in length and 26 feet in height, with a\\ncircumference of 150 feet. It has been cleft in two by some\\npotent agency, leaving an open space sufficiently wide to allow\\ntwo or more persons to walk through it side by side. In the\\nchasm are now (jrowing trees of differinsr varieties.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": ":d\\n0\\no\\nTl\\nJ)\\nr\\nc", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nDISCOVERIES AND TITLES.\\nThe deep, primeval wood how still!\\nLo, Silence here makes all his own;\\neiled shapes, with hands upon their lips,\\nStand round about his darkened throne.\\nEARLY DISCOVERIES.\\nModern history has reliable data. It is not based on myths\\nor legends. Records may be incomplete or conflicting, but\\npatient research will disclose the truth and relieve the investi-\\ngator of doubt.\\nThere is but little uncertainty connected with the history of\\nour country. It is true that claims to priority of discovery have\\nbeen made in behalf of navigators who sailed along our coast\\nyears before Columbus sought a New World. It is also true\\nthat adventurers of different nationalities shared the honors of\\nvisiting the new-found continent more than a century previous\\nto the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, or the settlement\\nof the Cavaliers at Jamestown.\\nDISCOVERIES i;V THE C.MiOTS.\\nOur title to the country came through the enterprise of the\\nCabots, father and sons, who in 1497 were commissioned by\\nHenry VII, to sail to all parts of the east, west and north,\\nunder the royal banners and ensigns to discover countries of\\nthe heathen unknown to Christians to set up the king s banners\\nthere to occujjy and possess as his subjects such places as they\\ncan subdue; and to exercise rule and jurisdiction over them.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "26 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nThe discoveries made through this expedition gave England\\nthe conceded, if not the rightful, possession of all this vast\\nAmerican territory, with the exception of a small area, called\\nAcadia, in the actual possession of the French.\\nROYAL CHARTERS.\\nThe king assumed authority to bestow grants of these lands,\\nfor friendship or favor, or any consideration that pleased him.\\nEarly in the seventeenth century King James the First,\\ndesirous of extending his authority and exerting his influence,\\ngranted patents to certain knights, gentlemen and merchants,\\nand encouraged them to colonize his American possessions,\\nthen called Virginia, covering a breadth of thirteen degrees of\\nlatitude and extending from sea to sea. The Plymouth\\nCompany, or Council of Plymouth, under the charter of 1620,\\nhad control of the northern portion of the territory, which\\nembraced all that section now known as New England.\\nMASON AND GORGES.\\nIn this Council were two adventurous spirits, I erdinand\\nGorges, President, and John Mason, Secretary. They were\\nmen of energy and influence, and obtained especial grants from\\ntime to time, from the Council, including those of 1622 and\\n1629, until they had a large portion of what subsequently became\\nNew Hampshire, and no inconsiderable portion of the State of\\nMaine. In the course of a few years a division was made\\nbetween Mason and Gorges, by which the latter conveyed to\\nthe former all his right and interest in lands west of the Piscat-\\naqua and also a tract extending three miles beyond that river\\non the east. Mason now claimed to have a valid title to all the\\narea which at that time was known as New Hampshire, except\\na limited section on which settlements had been made, a few\\nyears previously, by Edward Hilton and others.\\nTITLE DISPUTED.\\nBut he was not permitted to possess the land in peace. There\\nwere conflicting or obscure provisions in the charters which", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "DISCOVERIES AND TITLES. 2/\\nhad from time to time been conferred. One grant was partially\\ncovered by subsequent ones to other parties. Special grants of\\nunoccupied lands had been conferred on sundry parties, cover-\\ning the soil from the Merrimack to the Connecticut, and even\\nencroaching on the limits of Vermont. New constructions\\nwere put upon patents, to favor selfish interests. Massachu-\\nsetts, by the terms of early charters, sought jurisdiction over a\\nlarge portion of the territory claimed by Mason and his suc-\\ncessors, and for a time, by consent of actual settlers, exercised\\ncontrol.\\nIt was not strange that there should be conflicting claims.\\nThese arose partly from ignorance of the geography of the\\ncountry, as appears from the terms of certain charters. In the\\ngrant of Massachusetts by the Plymouth Company, the territory\\nwas limited on the north by a line three English miles north of\\nthe River Merrimack, or to the northward of any and every\\npart thereof. The same words precisely were used in the\\noriginal charter by King James, and in those relating to ?ilassa-\\nchusetts and New Hampshire. It was evidently supposed that\\nthe Merrimack maintained the same easterly course through its\\nwhole length as it does near its entrance to the ocean.\\n.\\\\N E.XPLOKLNG P.\\\\KTV.\\nWith the view to support their construction of the charter,\\nin 1639 there was sent out by the Massachusetts Bay Company\\na Committee to find out the most northerly part of Merrimack\\nRiver. They reported that some part of it, above Penacook,\\nwas more northerly than forty three and a half degrees. How\\nfar above Penacook this committee proceeded we have no\\nknowledge. Possibly they went as far north as the union of\\nthe Pemigewasset and the W innepesaukc. If so, they were\\ndoubtless the first white men whose feet trod the soil which\\nafterwards was included in the limits of the town of Salisbury.\\nTHE SECOND E.XPI.oRINr, I .\\\\KTV.\\nNo satisfactory information having been obtained, in 1652 the\\nGeneral Court of Massachusetts chose Captain Edward Johnson", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "28 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nand Simon Willard Commissioners to ascertain the northern\\nboundary of the territory granted the Company. Attending the\\ncommission were two surveyors and several Indian guides.\\nThey went up the river, exploring the country on both banks,\\nand determined its source to be at that point where it issues\\nout of the Lake Winnapusseaket, in latitude 43\u00c2\u00b0-40-i2\\nbesides those minutes which are to be allowed for the three\\nmiles north, which run into the Lake.\\nThis is but a few rods south of Wiers Landing, near the\\niron bridge across the stream.\\nTHE ENDICOTT ROCK.\\nOn a large bowlder at this point is now legible an inscription\\nwhich, it is supposed, was made by that party. The rock is\\nknown as the Endicott Rock, and bears marks as follows:\\nEl SW\\nWP lOHN\\nENDICVT\\nGOV\\nAs this survey was made under the administration of Gov-\\nernor Endicott, the significance of the inscription is evident.\\nTHE BOUNDARY CONTROVERSY.\\nIt was to this point, and three miles beyond, that the claim\\nof Massachusetts was limited. The contest was persistently\\nwaged. Courts were not competent to settle the matter. Arbi-\\ntration was ineffectual. It was a triangular contest, the Mason-\\nian heirs striving for the possession of the lands they claimed\\nNew Hampshire, to maintain her authority and do justice to\\nher people, and Massachusetts to enlarge her domain and extend\\nher authority. The controversy was severe and prolonged,\\nMassachusetts refusing to accept any fair adjustment of the\\ndifficulty. New Hampshire ordered the matter to be brought\\nbefore the king. His majesty caused a commission to be con-\\nstituted, consisting of four counsellors of the neighboring prov-\\ninces, who should have power to determine the disputed bounds.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "DISCOVERIES AND TITLES. 2g\\nThe commission met at Hampton, the Legislature of Massa-\\nchusetts at the same time assembled at Salisbury, and that of\\nNew Hampshire at Hampton Falls, but five miles apart. On\\nthe part of Massachusetts the occasion was attended by much\\npomp and display. Governor Belcher, accompanied by members\\nof both branches of the General Court, and escorted by an im-\\nmense cavalcade, came to Hampton Falls, and addressed the\\nmembers of the New Hampshire assembly. But fine speeches\\nand parades did not change the determination of New Hamp-\\nshire settlers. They could discover no indication of justice to\\nthemselves, and they treated the ostentatious spectacle with\\npropriety but with no genuine respect. It was made a subject\\nof ridicule and recorded in burlesque rhyme, in lines like these\\nDear Paddy, you ne er did behold such a sight,\\nAs yesterday morning was seen before night;\\nYou, in all your born days saw, nor I didn t neither,\\nSo many fine horses and men ride together.\\nAt the head, the lower house trotted two in a row,\\nThen all the higher house pranced after the low;\\nThen the (Jovernor s coach gallop d on like the wind,\\nAnd the last that came foremost were the troopers behind.\\nHut I fear it means no good, to your neck or mine.\\nFor they say, /is to fix a right place for the line\\nThis commission made a decision which was evasive and\\nunsatisfactory to both provinces and was promptly rejected.\\nTHE LORDS IN COUNCIL DECIDE.\\nBut the authorities of New Hampshire would suffer no further\\ndelay. They caused the matter to be carried before the King s\\nCouncil, and early in 1740 it was decided that the northern\\nboundary of Massachusetts be a curve pursuing the course of\\nthe Merrimack River, at three miles distance on the north side\\nthereof, beginning at the Atlantic ocean, and ending at a point\\ndue north from Pawtucket Falls; and a straight line drawn\\nfrom thence due west till it meets with his Majesty s other\\ngovernments.\\nThis gave New Hampshire an extent of territory fifty miles\\nin length and fourteen miles wide, which she had never claimed,", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "3\u00c2\u00a9 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nincluding twenty-eight townships previously claimed by Massa-\\nchusetts, many of which had been created by special grants\\nfrom the Governor of Massachusetts.\\nA SEPARATE GOVERNMENT.\\nNow that the controversy had been settled, lines run and\\nestablished, the ne.xt step was to make New Hampshire a sep-\\narate government. This was done with very little delay, and\\nin 1741 Benning Wentworth was appointed Governor.\\nTHE MASONIAN CLAIM REVIVED.\\nThe Masonian claim again came up for determination, which,\\nafter several years delay, was decided in favor of the legal suc-\\ncessors of Captain John Mason. But the decision was accom-\\npanied by conditions which would protect settlers in any of the\\ngrants from being disturbed in their possessions.\\nTHE MASONIAN PROPRIETORS.\\nThe entire right and interest of Mason, after it was confirmed\\nto his heirs, was sold in 1746 to twelve men, residents of\\nPortsmouth and vicinity. They were the leading men in the\\nCouncil and Assembly, and had the greatest influence in the\\ngovernment.\\nThree-fifteenths of the purchase was assigned to Theodore\\nAtkinson, two-fifteenths to Mark Hunking Wentworth, and one-\\nfifteenth to each of the other ten, viz Richard Wibard, John\\nWentworth, Jr., John Moffat, Samuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne,\\nJr., George Jeffery, Jr., Joshua Pierce, Nathaniel Meserve,\\nThomas Wallingford, and Thomas Packer.\\nThey were known in the history of the State as the Mason-\\nian Proprietors.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nBAKERSTOWN.\\nThe patient pleading of the trees,\\nHow deep it shames the soul s despair!\\nIn supplication moveless, mute,\\nThey keep their attitude of prayer.\\nA WILD COUNTRY,\\nIt was a hundred years after the first visits of the white man\\nbefore any efforts were made to settle the section of country\\nwhich was afterwards called Bakerstown, now Salisbury. It\\nwas a wilderness and remote from settlements. The Indian\\nand the Indian scout alone traversed its hills and plains. If\\nadventurous pioneers passed up and down the rivers, their his-\\ntory is unwritten and unknown. We must therefore pass over\\nthe long period between 1652 and 1733, as furnishing no events\\nimmediately connected with the history of the town.\\nA SETTLEMENT ANTICIPATED.\\nAt this latter date, Richard Hazen, who had been employed\\nto survey Contoocook, made an examination of the land to the\\nnorthward. This was the first recorded step towards the\\ncoming settlement. The land had been seen and it was deemed\\nworthy of occupation.\\nMASSACHUSETTS GRANTS CHARTERS.\\nIt was the policy of Massachusetts, during the pendency of\\nthe boundary question, to confer grants in the disputed terri-\\ntory on soldiers who had been enga^^ed in the French and Indian", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "32 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nwars, and even on any parties who were friendly to the province.\\nThis was done with the view to strengthen her hold on New\\nHampshire soil, which she was determined not to relinquish.\\nTo soldiers in the expedition against Quebec, in 1690, eight\\ngrants of townships were made, including Bow, Todds-Town,\\n(Henniker) Beverly-Canada, (Dunbarton) and Bakerstown,\\n(Salisbury).\\nA GRANT SOLICITED.\\nThere appears to be no accessible record of any petition to\\nthe General Court of Massachusetts for a grant, but the records\\nof the Council indicate that John Tyler, Joseph Pike and oth-\\ners, presented a request for two townships to be granted to the\\nofficers and soldiers of the companies under command of the\\nlate Captain John March, Captain Stephen Greenleaf and Cap-\\ntain Philip Nelson, deceased.\\nTHE PETITION ANSWERED.\\nThe answer of the General Court is copied from the records\\nIn answer to the Petition of John Tyler, Joseph Pike and others.\\nIn the House of Representatives\\nDecember 9th, 1736. Read and ordered that this Petition be received, and\\nvoted that two Tracts of the unappropriated Land of this Province, of the Contents\\nof Six miles Square each, be and hereby are granted to the Petitioners, the Otificers\\nand Soldiers of the Companys under the Late Capt. John March, Capt. Stephen\\nGreenleaf, and Capt. Philip Nelson, Deceased, anno 1690, their Heirs and assigns\\nrespectively, and the Heirs Legal Representatives, Descendants of Such of them\\nas are Deceased, and their Heirs and assigns forever, for two Townships, to lay in\\nSome Suitable Place, that the Grantees be and are obliged to bring forward the\\nSettlement of the Said Townships in as Regular a manner as the .Situation and cir-\\ncumstances of Said Townships will admit of, in the following manner, viz: That\\neach Grantee, his Heirs and assigns, build an House on his Respective Lot and share,\\nof the contents of eighteen feet square and Seven Stud, at the Least, and Plow or\\nbring to Grass fit for mowing six acres of Land, and that they Settle in each Town a\\nLearned and orthodox minister, and build a convenient meeting-House for the Pub-\\nlick worship of God; and that a Sixty-third part of the Said Township be and here-\\nby is Granted to the first Settled minister, the like quantity for the use of the minis-\\ntry, and the like quantity for the use of the School, in all the Divisions of the Said\\nTownship; that the Grantees be and hereby are obliged to Give Bond of twenty", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "BAKERSTOWN. 33\\nPound, for the fulfilment of the Conditions aforesaid, within five years after the\\nReturn and Confirmation of the Plan of Said Township, and that Capt. John Hob-\\nson and Major Charles Pierce be a Committee, with Such as the Honorable Hoard\\nshall Joyn, to lay out Said Township and Return Plots thereof, within one year, for\\nConfirmation, and the Said Committee to observe Such Rules and Directions for\\nthe taking of Pond and admission of the (Grantees, agreeable to the order of Court\\nin March Last, and said Committee to receive thirty-three pounds, Six Shillings and\\nEight Pence of the new Projected Bills, viz. Sixteen pound, thirteen shillings and\\nfour pence for each of the said Townships, out of the Publick Treasurer, to enable\\nthem to Pay out Said Township.\\nIn Council, February 3d, 1736.\\nRead and Concurred, and Thomas Berry, Esq., is Joyned in the affair.\\nConsented to,\\nJ. BELCHER.\\nCopy Examined by\\nSLMOX FROST, Dept. Secy.\\nA TOWNSHIP LAID OUT.\\nUnder the direction of the commission named in the answer\\nto the petition, a township of the contents of six miles square\\nwas laid out westerly of the Merrimack River and northerly of\\nand adjoining to Contoocook, by Richard Hazen, surveyor,\\nOctober 23d, 1738, and approved by the commission on the\\n30th day of November following. The names of the grantees\\nor proprietors are recorded as follows\\nCapt. Stephen Greenleaf, James Tappan,\\nDea. Joshua .Moody, Daniel Bradley,\\nJoseph Gould, David Bartlett,\\nJoseph Page, Jun r, P eter Ayers,\\nKlisha Sweat, Benjamin Hoag,\\nJohn Kent, John liadger,\\nCaleb Moody, Sam l Smith, Jr.,\\nRev. William Johnson, Jonathan March,\\nWilliam Huse, Joseph Isley,\\nJoseph Davis, dideon Lowel,\\nHenry Dow, Stephen Chase,\\nSamuel Sargeant, Joseph Short,\\nSamuel Silver, Thomas Huse,\\nRobert Savory, John I.unt,\\nTristram Greenleaf, .\\\\braham Titcomb,\\nHannah Bolton, James P.rown,\\nCapt. John Sargeant, Stephen Longfellow,\\nNathaniel Clark, Eleazer Johnson,\\n3", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "34\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nJohn Thurlo,\\nJoseph Osgood,\\nSamuel George,\\nJeremiah Gutteridge,\\nCapt. Thomas Wallingford,\\nJohn March,\\nNathaniel Bearnard,\\nCapt. Thomas Hale,\\nEleazer Hudson,\\nDr. Joseph Hills,\\nThomas Challis,\\nJonathan ]jlaisdale,\\nLazarus tioodwin,\\nJames Anderson,\\nJohn Littlehale,\\nEdward Emerson,\\nZachariah Heal,\\nCapt John Seargeant,\\nPercival Clark,\\nEbenezer Stuart,\\nJoseph Holland,\\nJoseph Pike,\\nStephen Longfellow,\\nSamuel Bartlett, 3d.\\nORDER FOR A MEETING.\\nTo enable the grantees to effect an organization, the accom-\\npanying order was passed by the House of Representatives and\\nCouncil of Massachusetts\\nIn the House of Representatives:\\n|an. 9, 1739. Ordered that Thomas Berry, Esq., be and hereby is empowered\\nto assemble the Grantees of the Township Lying on Mearimack River, Granted to\\nthe Officers and Soldiers in the expedition to Canada, Anno 1690, under the com-\\nmand of Captain John March, Capt. Stephen Greenleaf, and Capt. Philip Nelson,\\nin Such Place and at Such time as he Shall think fit, then to chuse a Moderator\\nand Proprietors Clerk, to agree uppon Rules, method and orders, for the Division\\nand Disposall of said Propriety in the most proper method for the Speedy fulfil-\\nment of the Conditions of these Grants, and to agree upon methods for the calling\\nfuture meetings.\\nSent up for Concurrence.\\nEBENEZER RUMROV,\\nSpkr Protempore.\\nIn Council:\\nJan. 20, 1739. Read and concurred.\\nConsented to.\\nSIMON FROST, Dept. Secy.\\nJONATHAN BELCHER.\\nA true copy, E.vamined by\\nSIMON FROST, Dcpt. Secy.\\nMR. BERRY S RETURN,\\nEssex, SS Ipswich, January 26, 1739.\\nIn obedience to the foregoing order, I have caused notification to be Posted in\\nthe towns of Newbury, Almsbury and Haverhill, appointing the meeting to be", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "BAKEKSTOWN. 35\\nFeb y 12th, 1739, at the House of Mr. Tristram Greenleaf in Newbury, at ten of the\\nclock, before noon.\\n(Signed) TIKiM.AS i;ERRV.\\nWe have not been able to find any record of a meeting held\\nby the grantees in accordance with the foregoing call. If one\\nwas held, the votes for choice of of^cers for its government, as\\nwell as the questions discussed and the measures adopted, were\\nnever recorded in history.\\nTHE NAME HAKERSTOWN.\\nThe township, by common consent if not by official action,\\nreceived the name of Bakerstown, in honor of the brave Captain\\nThomas Baker, who, in 1720, killed the Sachem Waternumus,\\nby the rapid stream which enters the Pemigewasset near Ply-\\nmouth, and bears the name of Baker s river. So little was the\\ngeography of the country known that the location of the grant\\nwas supposed to be in the vicinity of that river.\\nThe second township granted to the same parties was prob-\\nably Emeristown or Emery s-town, afterwards New Bre-\\nton, now Andover.\\nWe find these two towns were subsequently granted, at one\\ntime, by the Masonian Proj^rietors, and this fact confirms our\\nbelief that they were originally conveyed, at the same time, by\\nMassachusetts authority.\\nCHARTER NOT ACCEPTED.\\nIt does not appear that either of these towns was settled\\nunder the grants conferred. In fact it is quite certain that the\\ngrantees of Bakerstown made no progress towards a settlement.\\nThus, in the short space of a single decade, there came into\\nofficial and formal e.xistence, and died without a record, a town-\\nship bearing an honorable name, to be succeeded by another\\ntown with the same metes and bounds, granted by another\\nauthority, but known and called by the name of a hardy yeoman\\nwho was foremost in securing the grant, but who died before he\\ncould realize the importance of his work.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV\\nSTEVENSTOWN.\\nI love the past, those warlike days.\\nWhen men possessed a purpose strong\\nAnd, filled with faith, in thousand ways\\nPursued the life of noble song.\\nACTION OF THE MASOMAN PROPRIETORS.\\nWhenever parties neglected to improve lands granted them,\\naccording to the conditions imposed by the grantors, they\\nreverted to the former proprietorship, and, when occasion\\nrequired, were conveyed to other parties who were interested\\nin the settlement of the country and the improvement of their\\nlands.\\nAs we have seen, the grantees of Bakerstown failed to com-\\nply with the terms of the grant of 1738. The lands could not\\nrevert to Massachusetts, for it had been decided that the forty\\ntownships in New Hampshire which Massachusetts had granted\\nwere never hers to bestow. The Masonian Proprietors, under\\nthese circumstances, were the rightful possessors of the terri-\\ntory in question.\\nIt was in the month of December, 1748, that these Proprie-\\ntors decided to grant the township to other parties than the\\noriginal grantees, as appears by the\\nproprietors records.\\nProvince ok New Hampshire:\\nAt a meeting of the Proprietors of Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason,\\nEsq., in the Province of New Hampshire, held at the dwelling house of .Sarah\\nPriest, widow, in Portsmouth, in s d Province .on Wednesday the seventh day of\\nDecember, 1748, by adjournment,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "STEVENSTOWN.\\n37\\nVoled, That Ebenezer Stevens, Esq., associates have a Township equal to\\nsix miles square, beginning on the north of Contoocook, in the most convenient\\nform, without interfering with the Township called No. One, [Warner] as the\\nGrantors shall think proper, and that Mr. Edniond Brown and associates have a\\nTownship equal to si.x miles square, joining upon the north side of Stevens and\\nassociates aboves d tract, upon the west side of Pemigewasset River, upon Reser-\\nvations and Limitations hereafter to be agreed upon.\\nCopy of record, Attest,\\nGEO. JEFFERY, Proprietori Clerk.\\nAt this meeting it was voted to grant a township, as desig-\\nnated in the records, and at a subsequent meeting, nearly a year\\nlater, the township was described, the boundaries and measures\\ngiven, the Reservations and Limitations stipulated, and the\\ngrantees named.\\nGRANT OF STEVENSTOWN.\\nPROVINXE of XkW irA n SIIIRK:\\nAt a meetiag of the I roprietors of the lands purchased of John Tufton Mason,\\nEsq., in the Province of New Hampshire, held in Portsmouth in s d Province, on\\nWensday, the 26th day of October, 1749,\\nVoted, That there be and hereby is granted unto\\nEbenezer Stevens,\\nEbenezer Page,\\nSamuel Hean,\\nKenjamin Stevens,\\nNathan Sweatt,\\nElisha Winslow,\\nMoses Quimby,\\nJoshua Woodman,\\nJohn Hunton,\\nJedediah Philbrick,\\nThomas Newman,\\nSamuel Colcord,\\nJonathan fireely, Jun r,\\nJoseph lOastman, Jun r,\\nJohn Fitiekl, Jun r,\\nHenry Morril,\\nWilliam Calfe,\\nJohn Hunton, Jun r,\\nJohn I.add, Jun r,\\nHenjamin W.-idleigh,\\nNathaniel Ladd,\\nEbenezer Stevens, Jun r,\\nElisha Sweat,\\nSamuel Sanborn,\\nJohn Darling, Jun r,*\\nSam l Webster,\\nJohn Currier,\\nSamuel Winslow, Jun r,\\nHumphrey Hook,\\nJacob (Juimby,\\nJonathan Greeley.\\nTristram Sanborn, Jun r,\\nEbenezer Long,\\nAbraham Greene,\\nJoseph I ean, Jun r,\\nTristram (Juinby,\\nPenjamin Ladd,\\nJeremiah Phill rick,\\nThe Revd Joseph Secombe,\\nJames Tappan,\\nTristram Sanborn, tertius,\\nPeter Sanborn,\\nCapt. Joseph Greeley,\\nWilliam Huswell, tertius,", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "38 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nXath l Hunton, Jeremiah Webster,\\nSamuel Eastman, Jun r, Jonathan Sanborn,\\nSamuel Fifield, Ephraim Collins,\\nJoseph Clifford, Joshua Webster,\\nEbenezer Eastman, Samuel Stevens,\\nof Kingston, in said Province; Peter Aver of Haverhill, Jabez True and Uavid\\nGreeley, both of Salisbury; Benjamin Sanborn, of Kingston afores d, Philip Call\\nbeing in on part of the land hereinafter mentioned; and Peter Derborn of Chester;\\nin equal shares, on the Terms, Conditions and Limitations hereinafter expressed,\\nall that tract of Land within the Province of New Hampshire, Containing the\\nExtent Quantity of six miles square, Bounded as follows; viz: Beginning at\\na white oak tree standing on the brink of Merrimack River, six rods southerly from\\na deep gutter running into the River, said tree being marked on four sides thence\\nrunning west seventeen degrees south, nine miles; then beginning again at the\\nRiver, at the said White Oak and Running upon the River northerly about a mile\\nabove the Croch, upon Pemigewasset River, to a large Rock in the Bank of the\\nRiver, at the head of Pemigewasset Great Falls; thence running west fifteen\\ndegrees south nine miles; thence on a straight line from the westerly end of this\\nline to the westerly end of the line first mentioned on the other side. To have and\\nto hold to them, their heirs, assigns, in equal shares on the following terms, con-\\nditions Limitations, that is to say, that the whole tract of land within the said\\nboundaries, saving what is hereinafter mentioned to be otherwise Improved, be\\nDivided into Eighty shares or Rights, each share into four distinct lots, one of\\nwhich to contain sixty acres, and the other three the rest of the land belonging to\\neach respective share, of which the intervale to be one lot; that the lots which\\nbelong to our share be numbered with the same number, beginning with One and\\nending with Eighty; that the said land be so laid out within one year after the Pro-\\nclaiming of Peace with the Indians, and then the Lots drawn in the usual manner\\nof drawing for lots of Land in such cases, and that this be done, under the care and\\ndirection of the Grantees, and that there be but one Draft for the Lots which belong\\nto our share; that one of the s d shares be for the first Minister of the Gospel who\\nshall be settled on said Lands, and continue there during his life, or untill he shall\\nbe Regularly Dismissed, to hold, to him, his heirs assigns, and one other of the\\nsaid shares to be for and toward the support of the Gospel ministry, there for-\\never, and the sixty acres Lots belonging to these two shall be laid out as near\\nthe place where the Meeting House shall be built, as conveniently may be, and\\ndrawn for as the other lots; that there be ten acres of Land left in some convenient\\nPlace, as the major Part of said Grantees shall Determine, within the said bound-\\naries, for building a meeting house and a school house upon, and to improve for a\\ntraining field, a Burying Place, and other Publick uses, to which the Inhabitants\\nthere shall see cause to apply it; that one more of said shares be for the support of\\nthe aforesaid school there forever; that seventeen of said shares be and hereby are\\nreserved for the use of the s d Proprietors the Grantors, in these Presents, their\\nheirs and assigns; that the owners of the other sixty make a regular settlement\\nthere, at their own expense and charge in the following manner, viz: that within\\ntwo years after the said Peace, the said owners or Grantees shall clear and make a\\ngood cartway from the place called Contooke to the Place left for Publick uses, as\\nafores d within the said boundaries; that within three years after said Peace, the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "STEVENSTOWN. 39\\nsaid )wners shall have a saw mill huilt fit for sawing and making I .oards and other\\nTimber for the use of the settlers there and that the same he put under such a\\nRegulation as shall best serve the interest of the settlement, and that each settler\\nmay be served in that Respect on Reasonable Terms that within four years from\\nsaid term, each owner of the said shares, shall fell the trees upon three acres of the\\nLand belonging to his share, and within one year more, shall clear and fit the same\\nfor mowing or Tillage; that within six years, each of the said owners shall build a\\nhouse of sixteen feet square or ecjual thereto on his respective share, and to have\\ntwo acres of Land more fitted for Tillage or mowing and the said house fitted to\\nlive in; that within seven years after the said Peace, the said owners shall build a\\nmeeting house within the said Houndaries, to be placed as aforesaid and finished\\nfit for Public Worship within eight years from said Term, and some Person living\\nin each owner s house there, and that within nine years from said Term, the said\\nowners and settlers there maintain the Preaching of the Gospel, in said house; that\\neach owner of the said sixty shares Pay to such Person or persons, as shall be\\nappointed by the Major Part of said Owners to receive the same, his proportion of\\nall sums of money from time to time as the said major Part of the said owners shal\\ndetermine to be necessary to be paid for the carrying on the said settlement and\\naccomplishing the matters and things aforesaid and what shall be hereinafter men-\\ntioned for the making. Perfecting and finishing the said settlement; that in laying\\nout the said lotts care be taken to sort them in such a manner as to make the shares\\nas equal as Possible, that the Lots be laid in Ranges, when the land will admit of\\nit and land Left Between the Ranges for highways, of four rods wide and between\\nthe Lots of two Rods wide, where the land will admit of it that a Plan of the whole\\nwhen so laid out be made at the charge of the said owners and returned to the said\\nGrantors, as soon as may be conveniently Done, at the charge of the said owners;\\nthat the seventeen reserved shares be exonerated, acquitted and fully exempted\\nfrom Paying any charges towards making the said settlement, and not held to the\\nconditions limited to the other shares, nor Liable to Pay any charge, tax or assess-\\nment, untill Improved by the Respective owners thereof or any under them; that\\nall white Pine trees fit for making the Royal Navy be and hereby are I reserved\\ngranted to his Majesty, his Heirs and successors forever, for that Purpose; that if\\nany of the Grantees or owners shall neglect, fail and omit to make and I erfect the\\nsaid settlement in manner aforesaid according to the true Intent and meaning of the\\nseveral articles, matters and things herein before mentioned by them to be Done,\\nthe said Grantees and owners shall forfeit their Rights, shares and Interest, in the\\nsaid granted Premises to the Grantors, their heirs and assigns, (saving such of the\\nsaid owners, as shall have Done and Performed his Part and i erposion of the said\\narticles, matters and things,) his Respective Rights and share of the said Premises,\\nand the said Grantors, their Heirs and assigns, may and it shall be lawful for them\\nor any Person or Persons for and in their name and stead to enter into and upon\\nthe Rights or share so forfeited, and the same again to seize, take Possession of,\\nand apply to their own use, I rovidcd that if a war with the Indians should again\\nhappen before the expiration of several Limitations of time for the Doing and Per-\\nforming the said matters and things Respectively, then the same term of years to\\nl e allowed after that Impediment shall be Removed, and in case any action or suit\\nshall l)e Hro t against the grantees or owners for the said tract of Land or any Part", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "40 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nthereof, the said Orantees or owners, or such of them as shall be sued, shall and\\nhereby are obliged to vouch the said Grantors, their heirs or assigns, and they the\\nsaid Grantors hereby Promise and Ingage that they, their heirs and assigns shall\\nand will at their own cost and charge Defend the respective suit upon our title and\\nPersue the same to final judgment through the whole course of the Law if there\\nshall be occasion) and in case the final judgment in such trial shall be agaiii^t the\\nGrantors, the Grantees or owners shall recover nothing over in satisfaction of and\\nfrom the said Grantors, their Executors or administrators, or any of them, and fur-\\nther it is the true intent and meaning of the Grantors and Grantees of these Presents\\nthat in case any of the sixty shares shall be forfeited to the Grantors by default of\\nPerforming the Proportion of duty, and making the said settlement as aforesaid, the\\nsaid Grantors shall oblige those to whom they shall dispose of such shares to do\\nand Perform their Proportion of the articles, matters and things herein enjoined and\\nrequired of the original Grantees, and in case the said Grantors hold such forfeited\\nRights to themselves or any of them, they shall do and I erform all their Proportion\\nof duty and part of their proportion of all charges as is herein required of the\\noriginal Grantees.\\nCopy of Record,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Attest, GEORGE JKFFERV,\\nProprs^ Clerk.\\nAmong the grantees are the names of three men who were\\nnamed in the grant of Bakerstown. They were Elisha Sweatt,\\nJames Toppan, and Peter Ayers. It seems that only these three\\nwere sufficiently interested in the first grant to desire an inter-\\nest in the same territory under a new name and organization.\\nNAME.\\nNo name was given the granted township in the conveyance\\nby the Masonian Proprietors, but the grantees with one accord,\\nwithout formal action, designated it as Major Stevens-Town,\\nwhich in the course of time was abbreviated and called\\nSTEVENSTOWN.\\n(1749.) Immediately on receiving the grant, Oct. 25, 1749,\\nforty-four of the grantees signed and issued the following\\nWARRANT FOR A MEETING.\\nProvin ce of Xew Hampshire:\\nThis is to Give Notice to all that have any Right in the new Township or Grant\\nof Land, called Major Stevens-Town, to meet at the House of Capt. John Ladd in\\nKingston, in s d Province, Inholder, on Wensday the 6th day of November, 1749,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "STEVENSTOWN. 4I\\nat one of the clock in the afternoon to choose a Clerk for the Proprietors of s d\\nTownship or drant of Land, and to agree how the Meeting of the aboves d Propri-\\netors shall be warned or Called, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, and\\nto conclude upon and do any thing that may be thought necessary relating to s d\\nTownship or Grant of Land, or for the Interest of the aboves d Proprietors.\\nThis is by Order and Agreement of us the Subscribers and others. Proprietors\\nof the aboves d Grant of Land.\\nAs witness our hand, Oct ye 30, 1749.\\n[Signed by Forty Four (Jrantees.]\\nFIR.ST MEETING.\\nThis meeting was held according to the warrant, and Elisha\\nSweatt was chosen Moderator, and Jedediah Philbrick. Clerk.\\nThe records show that the following votes were passed\\nVoted, That the meetings of the Proprietors of the aboves d Township or\\nGrant of Land shall be warned or called from time to time, at all times hereafter\\nby a Com te, that shall be chosen yearly for that purpose, or until such time as we\\nshall be otherwise enabled by Law, and that the aboves d Com te shall warn a meet-\\ning at any time, upon the request of any Twenty of the s d Proprietors.\\nVoted, That Elisha .Sweatt, Benjamin Stevens, Samuel Fifield, Peter Sanborn,\\nJedediah Philbrick shaH be a Com te to warn or call Proprietors Meetings as\\naboves d for the year ensuing.\\nVoted, That we will Lay out the s d Tract of Land as soon as may be, after the\\nfollowing manner, viz: In four Divisions, namely One Interval Lot to each\\nRight or Share, and also one Home Lot of Sixty acres to each Right or .Share, and\\nalso one Hundred acre Lot, and one Eighty acre Lot to each Right or .Share.\\nVoted, That Lieut. Elisha Sweatt, Peter Sanborn, James Tappan, Henry\\nMorril, Samuel Bean Tristram Sanborn shall be a Com te to Lay out the Land\\nas afores d.\\nVoted, That Jeremy Webster, shall be the Surveyor to assist and join with the\\ns d Com te in laying out the Land as aboves d.\\nThe records of this meeting make no mention of Major Stev-\\nens, the prime mover in the enterprise to establish a new town\\nin the wilderness. Five days before he had closed his eyes on\\nmortal scenes and was numbered with the dead.\\nACTIVITY OF THE GK.ANTEES.\\nThe grantees were in earnest to commence a settlement.\\nThey had but to order by a majority vote, and the work was\\ne.xecuted according to the directions. As soon as authority was\\ngiven, they called their first meeting, on the briefest lawful", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "42 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nnotice. Votes were passed directing the manner of assigning\\nlots, and naming the parties to execute the duty. In two weeks\\nmore, on the 22d of November, though the lands were remote\\nfrom the residence of the body of the grantees, the committee\\nreported that they had laid out the lands as directed. The\\nboundary of each of the four divisions, and of each Right, is\\ndescribed in full in the Proprietors records. The situation of\\neach lot may be seen by the map in this volume.\\nNEW STYLE ADOPTED.\\n(175 1.) This year the British Parliament passed an Act,\\nproviding that in the month of September, 1752, eleven days\\nshould be dropped from the calendar, in order to conform to the\\nnew style, as established October 5, 1582, by Pope Gregory\\nXIII, to rectify the errors into which the world had been led\\nby disregarding the precession of the equinoxes.\\nBREAKING GROUND.\\n(1752.) The next meeting of the Proprietors, of historic im-\\nportance, was held April 23, 1752, at the house of Benjamin\\nSanborn, in Kingston. At this meeting it was\\nVoted, To plow twelve acres.\\nVoted, To give Mr. John Webster and Mr. Jonathan Greeley Jun r, the sum of\\none hundred and twenty pounds, old tenor, for plowing up twelve acres of Land by\\nthe 20th of May next ensuing.\\nVoted, To pay on each Right three pounds, old tenor, for to defray charges.\\nVoted, That the Committee shall make a rate, and commit it to the Collector\\nfor the above sum.\\nAlthough this is the first act of the Proprietors toward im-\\nproving the soil, land had been previously cleared and plowed\\nby individuals on the grant, as will be seen by a future vote, as\\nwell as by the terms of the grant.\\n1753.) The Proprietors this year voted to build four houses,\\nStephen Call s house to be one of the number. Mr. Call had\\nbeen for several years on the land granted, and had erected a\\nsuitable dwellinsf.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "stp:venstowk. 43\\nfear of the indians.\\nIt was about this time, or a little before, that the Indians\\nbegan to molest the inhabitants of this neighborhood. Some\\nyears before they had killed parties in Contoocook and carried\\nothers away captives. This year they made sudden and fatal\\nattacks on the settlers and threatened to arrest all further efforts\\nto make a settlement.\\nThe Proprietors sent a guard of five men for the protection\\nof the few families settled there. But this was not sufficient.\\nJeremiah Webster and others petitioned the Assembly and the\\nCouncil to provide soldiers to occupy a fort which they had\\nbuilt and to defend the settlers. In response the Assembly\\nsent a small company to guard the settlers, as appears by the\\nrecord\\nA GUARD PROVIDED FOR STEVENSTOWN AS A FRONTIER TOWN.\\nProvi.nce or .\\\\t a special Convention of the members of the (leneral Assembly\\nNew H.-^mpr ^t Portsmouth on the 22d day of Augt 1754 in pursuance of an\\norder from his Excellency the Governor, To the Sheriff of sd Province to summon\\nthe Members to Meet as on file.\\nWhereas his K.xcellencv the Governor by his Message of the twenty first Instant\\ntakes notice of sundry Hostilities committed upon sundry of his Majesty s subjects\\nat a place called Stevens Town within this Province by Indians (suppos d to be of\\nthe St Francis Indians) and that the Inhabitants on the Frontier are much e.xposed\\nand so put in fear that they stand in need of Protection and help Therefore it is\\nagreed upon by the members of the House of Representatives that there be the\\nnumber of si.xty men enlisted or Impress d (and his E.xcellency is hereby desired to\\ngive orders for the enlist g\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Impres g y t number) for the protection and defense\\nof the Frontier, not exceeding the space of two months, and that the Allowance for\\ntheir pay subsistence and amunition be the same as at the latter end of the last\\nIndian War and in order for a fund therefor it is further agreed that there be so\\nmuch of the Hills of Credit of ye Intrest of the Twenty five i housand pounds loan\\nin the hands of the Treasurer borrowing as will be sufficient for the same and\\nthat for the Replacing the same in the Treasury it is further agreed. That there\\na ta.x layd on the Polls and I .states within this I rovince Ai^r^MNc- to the last pro-\\nportioned to be payd by the 30th day of December, 1755, there shall be a\\nTax P.ill for that end as .soon as the Gen l scmbly shall be in a condition to act\\nin a legislative capacitv.\\nMKSIIKi II WI.AKK, Speaker.\\nThe chapter on Indian Wars contains a full account of depre-\\ndations, assaults and murders bv the Indians in this vicinity.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "44 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nROAD TO COOS.\\nIt was during this year that the route for a road to Coos\\n(Northern New Hampshire) was determined, John Stark being\\nthe guide. Zacheus Lovewell, of Dunstable, John Talford, of\\nChester, and Caleb Page, of Dunbarton, were the committee\\nappointed by the Assembly to execute the work.\\n(1754.) June 30, voted, That we will pay five men that\\nhave been to guard those that are at s d Township.\\nThe same party that last year were chosen by the Assembly\\nto mark out a road to Coos were this year sent by the Governor\\nto explore the country.\\n(I755-) June 15, voted, That Jeremy Webster, Esq. Peter\\nSanborn and Dea Elisha Sweatt arc a Committee to enter and\\nrecord our papers that are on file.\\nCHARTER ENLARGED.\\n(1756.) May 15, Jacob Gale, Samuel Fifield, and Peter San-\\nborn were chosen a committee to go to Portsmouth, when the\\nMasonian Proprietors held their business meetings, to secure an\\naddition to the charter of the township.\\ni^7S7) Col. Ebenezer Stevens and Capt. Samuel Fifield\\nwere a committee for the same purpose.\\nThe object of the amendment was to provide for the sale of\\nsuch rights as were forfeited by neglect to conform to the con-\\nditions under which the charter was conferred. Some of the\\ngrantees had refused to pay the taxes assessed, even though\\nrepeated efforts had been adopted to make collections. The\\nrights of such i:)arties were liable at any time to be forfeited on\\nclaim of the original proprietors. It was important for the har-\\nmony of the owners that they have the privilege of purchasing all\\nsuch interests, to the exclusion of strangers or those who might\\ncause trouble in the new settlement. This committee, it is\\nreasonable to suppose, presented their case in person, as there\\nis no record of any written request or correspondence.\\nThe Masonian Proprietors considered the matter and granted\\ntheir request, as appears by the accompanying document", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "STEVENSTOWN. 45\\nProvince of New Hami shire:\\nAt a meeting of the I roprietors of Lands purchased of John Tufton Mason,\\nEsq. in said Province held at Portsmouth, hy adjournment on the 6tli day of March\\n175S the preamble and resolution following were passed:\\nWhereas the said Pro])rietors on the 25th day of October 1749 granted their\\nRight to a certain Tract of Land containing the extent and quantity of six miles\\nsquare, the Pounds of which arc Particularly Set forth in said grant to Ebenezer\\nStevens, Jedediah Philbrick tv: others therein named on certain Conditions, Limita-\\ntions and Reservations as may more particularly appear by Reference to said\\nGrant, among which of sd Reservations is this viz. that every one of the sd. Gran-\\ntees, who shall not comply with Perform the several terms conditions, accord-\\ning to the true tenor and meaning of the same, as expressed in the said (jrant to\\nthe Grantees, as may more fully appear by the said Grant.\\nAnd whereas the Grantees have petitioned to the said Proprietors to grant to\\nthose of the said (Jrantees, who shall have performed the said terms and conditions,\\nall such Rights shares, aforesaid, as are or shall be forfeited to them, the said\\ngrantors as aforesd.\\nTherefore, Voted That all the said Rights, shares and parts thereof, that are or\\nshall be forfeited to the grantors, for the reasons aforesd, all Rights, Property,\\nInterests and Demand, of the said Grantors, of, in and unto such forfeited Rights\\nand shares, and any and every part thereof, are hereby granted to such of the said\\ngrantees as have and shall do. Perform and comply with the terms of said grant to\\nbe Determined by the Majority of grantees disposed of as they shall agree and\\ndetermine, with this Limitation, that the said grantees cause the same to be settled\\naccording to the tenor of the grant, within two years after the Indian wars shall be\\nended, but in default thereof the same shall Return to the said Proprietors as is\\ndeclared in said above recited grant.\\nCopy Examined, GEO. JEKFERV,\\nProp. Clerk.\\nIn this as in other transactions the grantees were fortunate,\\nas it kept the full control of affairs within the hands of those\\nhaving a common interest. Unlike many other townships,\\nStevenstown had a full title to the soil. She had no claims to\\nadjust, while in the case of many other towns there were long\\nand costly contentions.\\nRIGHTS OFFERED FOR SALE.\\n(1759.) At a meeting of the grantees, March 22d, of this\\nyear, it was\\nI oted, To sell three of the most deficient Rights at a publick vendue to the\\nhighest bidder, provided the owners of sd deficient Rights do not pay their arrears\\nby the first of July next.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "4^ HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nVoted, That Capt. John Webster, of Contoc k, and those that are inhabitants\\nat Stevenstown shall work as much on the ways in the township as their Rights are\\nin debt to said Society, at two Pounds O. T. per day.\\nLAND GRANTED TO JOHN \\\\YEBSTER.\\nAt the same meeting it was\\nFoled, That Dea Elisha Sweatt, Lieut John Huntoon, and Ephraim Collins\\nare chosen a committee to lay out to Capt John ^Vebster one hundred acres of land\\nthat was granted to said Webster.\\nA month later the committee, acting with the promptness\\nthat characterized the grantees, made their report that they had\\nassigned a lot situated and described as follows\\nA certain piece of Land laid out to Capt John Webster of Contoocok, for\\nbuilding a sawmill on that tract of Land called Major Stevens-town, Bounded on the\\nRiver on Jacob Morrill s land, thence running westerly on sd Morrill s land to the\\nlowermost one hundred acre lot in the third Range, and so running on the easterly\\nside of said one hundred acre lot and so running northerly [easterly] to the river,\\nand so running on the river to the first mentioned bound, it containing one hundred\\nacres as it is laid out and bounded, be it more or be it less, reserving a highway\\nfour rods wide through the same.\\nSLO^V PROGRESS.\\n(1762.) There seems to have been some misunderstanding\\nregarding the line between Boscawen and Stevenstown, for we\\nfind that Boscawen chose a committee to settle the line and\\nbounds between the two towns.\\nFor a period of eight years, perhaps more, there appears to\\nhave been but little progress in Major Stevenstown. A few\\ndwellings were erected, additional settlers came slowly in, and\\nbut very limited areas of land were placed under cultivation.\\nThe people of Stevenstown had endured many hardships. They\\nhad a stubborn soil, mostly covered with a heavy growth of\\nwood. They were in constant fear of the Indians they had\\nbeen subjected to great expense in defending their frontier, in\\nbuilding a fort, and in purchasing arms and ammunition. They\\nbegan to grow discouraged, but not yet did they once propose\\nto abandon the settlement. They resolved to go to the General\\nAssembly for assistance. They petitioned for aid. The Prov-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "STEVENSTOWN. 47\\nincial Papers contain a copy of the petition, entitled, Petition\\nfor aid in settling SaiishiDy, dated June, 1765. The word\\nSalisbury was evidently substituted for Stez cnstown by the\\ncopyist, as Salisbury had no existence until three years later.\\nThe petition is here given\\nPetition for aid in Settlinc. Salishtry. Stevknstown.]\\nTo his Excellency Benning Wentworth I lsqr Cap (leneral Governor Com-\\nmander in Chief in and over his Majesties Province of New Hampshire, and to the\\nHonble his Majesties Council and House of Kepresentatives in General Court\\nassembled. The I etition of the Proprietors and Settlers of a Tract of Land in the\\nProvince aforesd, comonly called Stevens-Town, humbly She vetli\\nThat the sd Proprietors have been at great expence in settling sd Tract en-\\ncouraging the same and in the late Wars have been at considerable cost to defend\\nthe same by Building a fort thereon paying soldiers to keep the same, even at\\nour own private expense And there are now many familys settled and many more\\nsettling. We have also Built a sawmill are building a grist Mill, yet there are\\ncostly duties to be performed such as building the Meeting house, settling a\\nMinister c And the s d Petitioners being in no capacity to rais money for the\\nDefraying these other incidental charges, We therefore Humbly pray that your\\nExcellency Honours will be pleased to add to our cost lai)our that further\\nencouragement to settle the waste lands viz To make an Act according to your\\nExcellys Honours Wisdom that will enable the sd Proprietors settlers to rais\\nmoneys for the carrying on their settlement tV defraying the Necessary charges that\\nmay arise for the future, And so your Petitioners shall as in duty bound ever\\npray S:c\\nTRUEWORTHV LAD\\nIn behalf iJc by order of the Proprietors and Settlers\\nJune the 12th day 1765\\nIn Council June 20th 1765\\nRead and ordered to be sent down to the Honble Assembly\\nT ATKINSON Jun Secy\\nProvince of New In the House of Representatives\\nHampshire 1 june 20th 1765\\nThis Petition being read Voted That the Prayer thereof be granted so far as\\nthat the Petitioners have libity to bring in a bill accordingly\\nA CLARKSON Clerk\\nIn Council, Kodem die,\\nRead iS; Concurr d.\\nT ATKINSON Jun Secy.\\n(1766.) This year the following Act was passed, in compli-\\nance with the wishes of the proprietors of the several rights in\\nthe township:", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "48 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nAn act to Enable the proprietors of a Tract of Land called Stevens Town to\\nraise money to carry on a Settlement thereof to Enforce the payment by\\nsul)jecting Proprietors Land to the Payment of the assessment on Each Orig-\\ninal right\\nWhereas the Orantees of said Tract of Land have applied to the General\\nAssembly representing the necessity of a Law to authorize them to raise money in\\na [more] summary way than agreed, voted by the sd Grantees or Proprietors of\\nsaid land to build a meeting house, settle a minister, clear highways, build Bridges,\\nand to carry on the other works necessary for the advancing the more speedy\\nsettling said Lands praying that an act may be formed for that End. And it\\nappearing to serve much to the dispatch of settling said Lands\\nP e it therefore Enacted by the Governor Council and Assembly that the said\\nGrantees or Proprietors are hereby Enabled authorized at any of their meetings\\nhereafter to be held, to choose any Officers or persons being Proprietors to do and\\nperform any service necessary to the End aforesd, or assessors or Persons to pro-\\nportion any sum granted to the several rights or shares to make assessments thereof\\nwith the names of the proprietors sum assessed to Each right with an order to the\\nCollector or Collectors to Collect the money and when to whom to pay it; to\\nappoint a Clerk to make regular Entries keep proper Entries records of their\\nproceedings; a Collector of the sums assessed, or more than one if they see cause,\\nand any other Officer tho not named which the proprietors shall find necessary or\\nconvenient, these officers to be under Oath for the Faithful discharge of their\\nrespective Trusts shall Continue therein until the said Proprietors shall super-\\nsede them by a New Choice and as rights of Land are daily transferred the pres-\\nent Owner at any supposd time Cannot be Certainly Long known therefore all\\nassembled it shall be made in the name of the Original Grantee or proprietor, who\\nwill always be known by him who holds under hini\\nAnd when any such Collectors shall have met, assessment made in consequence\\nthereof he shall give notice of the same by Carring an advertisemt thereof to be\\nprinted in the New Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively, of the sum\\nassessed on the Original right which is finally subjected to the paymt, where to\\nwhom the money be paid the time appointed for Completting the Paymt if\\nthe money shall not be sent by the respective Proprietors by the Expiration of Four-\\nteen days after the last of said three weeks, the said Collector shall then advertise\\nthe intended sale of so much of the right of Land of theproprietors whose part of\\nsaid assessment then remains unpaid, setting forth again the sum due the time The\\nPlace propos d for the sale, which advertizement shall be printed as afores d at\\nthe Time appointed if the money so due shall not be paid, the Collector or Collec-\\ntors shall proceed to sell by Auction is hereby authorized to Execute a good Deed\\nor Deeds as the Case shall require of all the Title, Interest or Demand of such\\nProprietor in unto such a quantity of any of his Lots as will raise money sufficient\\nto answer the Tax assesssmt with all Incidental Charges.\\nBut such Proprietors paying the sum due with the Charges arizing at any time\\nbefore the Execution of such Deed the Collector shall proceed no further therein\\nand as in such cases it would be next to impossible to sell Land exactly sufficient to\\nraise the sum due, the Collector is directed to come as near to the sum as he can\\nif the sum should be something more, it shall not Prejudice to sale, but the\\nCollector shall restore the overplush sum (if any) to the Proprietor to whom it", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "STEVENSTOWN. 49\\nbelongs as soon as may be and in settling the Charge the Cost of the first adver-\\ntisement shall be paid by the proprietors, the Charge of the advertizement for\\nsale shall be proportioned amongst those whose Lands are advertised the Charges\\nof sale amongst those Lands are sold\\nAnd this act shall be deemed and Continued to extend to such sums already\\nvoted to be raised by said Proprietors as are not Paid as well as to those which\\nshall hereafter be agreed on by them and voted\\nAnd be it further enacted that the said Proprietors shall have the same remidy\\nagainst their Collectors or any of them who shall neglect to make such Collection\\nafter having undertaken it or shall neglect to make paymt agreeable to their orders\\nfrom the Assessors, which the Inhabitants of towns have against Constables Delin-\\nquent in such Cases to be executed in the same manner.\\nAnd if the said Proprietors have already chosen Assessors Collectors or any\\nother such Officers necessary for the service herein directed, they are hereby invested\\nwith the same power and authority for Carrying this act into Execution as those\\nwhich shall hereafter be chosen for that purpose by the said Proprietors in conse-\\nquence of this act. Saving the Rights of Female covenants (coverts,) Infants,\\nPersons in Captivity or beyond seas, so far as to allow them six months after their\\nRespective Impediments are removed, they paying the sums due as aforesd with the\\ninterest thereof at the rate of \u00c2\u00a36 pr Centum per annum, for their I leirs Assigns\\nrespectively to redeem the same Provided nevertheless that where any Original\\nRights shall be owned by two or more persons, in that Case either of them paying\\nhis I roportion according to his Interest informing what particular Lot or part of\\nthe Lot he Owns the Collector shall accept thereof shall not make sale of such\\nPart.\\nThis act to be in force for three years no longer\\nPassed house July S 1766\\nSenate July 10 1766\\nIn the year following, 1767, at a meeting of the proprietors,\\nsome of whom had become actual residents on the granted\\nlands, it was\\nVoted, That one half the meetings for the ensuing year be held at John\\nHuntoon s in Kingston, and the other half at Benjamin Sanborn s in Major-Stevens-\\ntown.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nTHE MEN OF STEVENSTOWN.\\nSo the multitude goes, like the flower and the weed,\\nThat wither away to let others succeed\\nSo the multitude comes, even thc^e we behold,\\nTo repeat every tale that has often been told.\\nGRANTEES.\\nThough but few of the grantees became actual settlers in\\nStevenstown, or even ever visited the township, they manifested\\nan interest in its prosperity and are deserving of notice in our\\nhistory. We have been able to gather but scanty information,\\neven of the active ones who did not become actual settlers.\\nMAJOR EBENEZER STEVENS.\\nThere appear to have been two grantees of the name of\\nEbenezer Stevens, both of Kingston the Major and the\\nColonel. A third one of the same name is mentioned, and is\\nknown as the Captain. They represent as many different\\ngenerations. The Major was a prominent man in Kingston,\\nand was the first grantee of the town named in his honor. We\\nare not able to ascertain the date or the place of his birth. It\\nis recorded that he died November i, 1749. He was for several\\nyears a member of the Assembly, and four or five years Speaker\\nof that body, from the year 1743 to 1747. He was a soldier in\\nthe Indian wars, and in 17 10, when Captain Oilman went with\\na company in pursuit of the Indians who killed Colonel Hilton s\\nparty, Stevens was his guide.*\\n*Coloner Potter says, Ebenezer Webster, grandfather of Daniel Webster, was\\nthe pilot.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE MEN OF STEVENSTOWN. 5 1\\nCOLONEL EBENEZER STEVENS.\\nColonel Stevens was a son of the Major, born in 171 5, and\\nwas one of the foremost men in his section of the State. He\\nhad command of a company of cavalry in 1750, and in 1758 was\\nColonel of the 7th Regiment. He was a personal friend of\\nGovernor Benning Wentworth, and it is said he made His Ex-\\ncellency very happy by the presentation of a fine pair of o.xen.\\nIt is believed that Colonel Stevens was a religious man as well\\nas a good soldier, and that he officiated as deacon of the Con-\\ngregational church, in Kingston, from 1765 to the year of his\\ndeath, 1780.\\nREVEREND JOSEPH SEC0M15E.\\nThe Rev. Joseph Secombe was the minister at Kingston,\\nwhere a majority of the grantees resided, and made one of their\\nnumber by the liberality of his friends. His grandfather, Rich-\\nard Secombe, emigrated with his family from the west of Eng-\\nland, about the year 1660. John, the son of Richard, resided\\nin Boston, and November 2, 1702, married Mehitable Simmons.\\nJoseph, their first son, v/as born in Boston, June 14, 1706, and\\nwas baptized in the old North church two days later. He\\npursued his studies preparatory to entering college, under the\\ndirection of the Rev. Mr. Wigglesworth, of Ipswich, Mass., and\\ngraduated from Harvard in 1731 was ordained at Boston, De-\\ncember 12, 1733, in company with Stephen Parker and Ebenc-\\nzer Hinsdale, as a missionary, chosen by the Commissioners\\nto the Honorable Society at Edinburgh for propagating Christ-\\nian knowledge, to carry the Gospel to the aboriginal nations on\\nthe borders of New England. He was installed as minister of\\nKingston, November 22, 1737, j)reaching his own installation\\nsermon, from Mark T-Zl- married Mary Thuriel, January\\n17, 1738, but left no children. He died at Kingston, September\\n15, 1760. His nephew, Simmons Secombe, lived with him and\\nbecame his principal heir. Dr. Josiah Bartlett boarded in his\\nfamily some time after his settlement in Kingston, and had the\\nbenefit of his library, a large and valuable one for those times.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "52 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nA list of his books, in the hand-writing of Governor Bartlett, is\\nstill in existence.\\nJEDEDIAH PHILBRICK\\nWas a son of Thomas Philbrick, Jr.; was born at Hampton\\nin 1700, and in 1721 married Mary Taylor; Jeremiah, his son,\\nwho was one of the grantees, was born in 1722, and in 1744\\nmarried Mary Stevens, by whom he had three children. Mr.\\nPhilbrick, the senior, was the second man among the grantees,\\nand after the death of Major Stevens was elected to the Assem-\\nbly for several consecutive years. He was designated in the\\nJournal of the House as Esquire Philbrick, while the represen-\\ntative from Hampton was known as Deacon Philbrick.\\nOTHER GRANTEES.\\nLieutenant Samuel Colcord was born in 1656 and died Octo-\\nber 5, 1736. He had a son, Samuel B., who was a grantee, born\\nAugust 22, 1 7 10, and married Mehitable Ladd, December 28,\\n1732, by whom he had several children. His brother, Peter,\\nwas captured by the Indians, in May, 1724.\\nEnsign Tristram Sanborn was born in 1683 married April 2,\\n171 1, Margaret Taylor, and had six children prior to March 3,\\n1729. He came to Kingston in 1705 or 1706, where he was\\ndeacon of the church for many years.\\nTristram Sanborn, 3d, son of the preceding, was born Feb-\\nruary 2, 1719; married Hannah Stevens, September 28, 1742,\\nby whom he had two children, John, born July 30, 1743, and\\nHannah, born June 7, 1745.\\nPeter Sanborn, a brother of Tristram, 3d, was born in 171 3\\nand died in 18 10.\\nAbraham Green was a physician, who practiced at Kingston,\\nand died there April 6, 175-.\\nLieutenant Elisha Sweatt, born 1705, was deacon of the\\nchurch in Kingston, was active in the settlement of Stevens-\\ntown, and held various offices of trust. He died in 1788.\\nPeter Dearborn, the last in the list of grantees, was born\\nNovember 14, 17 10; married Margaret Fifield, of Kingston,\\nDecember 2, 1736. He resided in Chester, on home lot No.\\n25. He was an earnest christian, and contributed liberally in", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE MEN OF STEVEXSTOWN. 53\\nbuilding the first church in Kingston. He was a large land-\\nowner, and it is recorded that he had twenty-five head of\\nstock. He died October 28, 1781.\\nFIRST SETTLERS.\\nIt is traditional that there were eight families residing in the\\ntownship prior to 1754. As nearly as can be ascertained at\\nthis remote period they were as follows, and came in the order\\nnamed.\\nI St, Philip Call came previous to October 3, 1748, as appears\\nfrom old records. Mrs. Call was said to have been the first\\nwhite woman in the settlement, Mrs. Maloon being the second.\\n2d, Nathaniel Maloon came to the town about the same time,\\nfrom Contoocook, and made his residence in the western sec-\\ntion of the town, near the site of the present Union meeting\\nhouse.\\n3d, Jacob Morrill is said to have been the third settler. He\\nwas a resident in 1752, for at a meeting of the grantees held at\\nJonathan Greeley s, in Kingston, sometime during that year, it\\nwas Voted and granted to Jacob Morrill, that lives at Major-\\nStevenstown, so called, all our right to 60 acres of common land\\nin said grant of land, the above said Morrill, carrying on his\\nproportion of charges in making and carrying on the settlement\\nof said grant of land, according to the number of acres, he, the\\nsaid Morrill, has granted to him, viz: that he, the said Morrill,\\nshall have that piece of common land, that he, the said Morrill,\\nnow lives on and so much more as to make up the said sixty\\nacres, where it may be convenient, reserving for the use of said\\nproprietors all such convenient highways through said granted\\nsixty acres of land as shall be found wanting. The true mean-\\ning of this vote is that the above said Morrill shall have sixty\\nacres of land over and above what said highway shall take out\\nof said piece of land so granted to him. The above sixty acres\\nwas what is now a part of the Orphans Home farm, at\\nFranklin Lower Village, and was the third intervale lot. Nov.\\n28, 1763, Morrill conveyed twenty acres of this land to Klipha-\\nlet Gale.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "54 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n4th, Ephraim Collins settled half a mile west of the river, on\\nthe road leading to Shaw s Corner. He was a man of consid-\\nerable importance in the town and held responsible positions.\\nHe was first chosen surveyor of Stevenstown by the grantees\\nat Kingston, in 1759. ^7^4 ^^^s a resident in Stevens-\\ntown, and conveyed to Benjamin Sanborn two tracts of land\\nand his intervale lot, for ;!\u00c2\u00a3^340, O. T. He was buried in the\\noldest cemetery in the town, near the Orphans Home, and the\\ngrave is marked by the oldest head-stone in the town.\\n5th, Samuel Scribner.\\n6th, Robert Barber.\\n7th, John Bowen.\\n8th, Jonathan Greeley.\\n9th, William Silloway.\\nFor further notices of the above, see Genealogy.\\nOTHER EARLY SETTLERS.\\nHenry Morrill married, in Kingston, January 30th, 1739,\\nSusanna Folsome, of Exeter, daughter of John (or Beard) Fol-\\nsome, who was killed by the Indians, at Nottingham, in 1742.\\nThis is the same Morrill who aided Peter Bowen in burying\\nSabattis and Plausawa. Morrill came to Stevenstown and set-\\ntled on Smith s hill. He had five children, a son (Henry) and\\nfour daughters. All are recorded as baptized between 1742\\nand 1752.\\nTristram Ouimby settled opposite the E. D. Stevens farm,\\nwhere he died in 1813. He was a soldier in the French war\\nand served in the Revolution. His widow survived him many\\nyears.\\nJacob Ouimby was an early settler. He may possibly have\\nbeen a relative of Edward Ouimby. (See Genealogy.)\\nJames Tappan, it is said, was a native of Scotland. He set-\\ntled on the farm now owned by Mr. Caleb T. Roby, on North\\nroad, and came here about 1753. February ist, of that year, he\\nbought one-eighth of the undivided land of Jonathan Greeley,\\nfor \u00c2\u00a364, 12 shillings, O. T.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE MEN OF STEVENSTOWN. 55\\nWilliam Newton came from Sandown, previous to 1754, and\\ncleared up the farm now occupied by Elbridge Shaw. He\\nremoved to the Captain Josiah Evans farm, in that part of\\nAndover now in Franklin. He was a good soldier, and served\\nat West Point, Bennington, etc.\\nJohn Jemson came here from Salem, as early as 1765, set-\\ntling south of the Abraham Shaw farm, on the North road.\\nThe Tappans, Newtons, and Jemsons were Scotch-Irish, and\\nprobably related to each other.\\nJohn Bawley (probably Burleigh) settled just east of George\\nE. Fellows s present residence, in the Eastman pasture. He\\nserved throughout the Revolution. His children were John,\\nHannah, and Sally. John married Sarah, daughter of Moses\\nFellows; Hannah married Tucker; Sally married\\nAtkinson.\\nDavid Hall came here quite early, settling on the Joel East-\\nman farm. Selling the same to David Pettengill, he removed\\nto Raccoon hill. He served at Bunker Hill and throughout the\\nRevolutionary war. Married Heath, and had Abigail, born\\nOctober 10, 1775.\\nAmong the other early residents, were the following, who\\nwere grantees John Fifield, Jr., John Huntoon, Joseph Bean,\\nJr., Benjamin Sanborn, Jabez True, Daniel Greeley, and Tris-\\ntram Sanborn. Their individual history will appear in subse-\\nquent chapters.\\nPROFKIETARV OFFICERS.*\\n(1749.) Elisha Sweatt, m. Jedediah Philbrick, c. Elisha\\nSweatt, Benj. Stevens, Samuel Fifield, Peter Sanborn, Jedediah\\nPhilbrick, s. Jeremy Webster, sur.\\n(1750.) Lieut. Elisha Sweatt, m. Capt. Ebenezer Stevens,\\nc. Jedediah Philbrick, Elisha Sweatt, Ebenezer Stevens, Sam-\\nuel Fifield, Jonathan (ireeley, s.\\nM. indicates Moderator; c. Clerk; s. Committee chosen to call Proprietors\\nmeetings, look after the interests of the grantees, c., their olifice heing similar to\\nthat of the Selectmen of the present day col. Collector treas. Treasurer sur^\\nSurveyor.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "$6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n(175 1.) Elisha Sweatt, m. Jedediah Philbrick, Esqr., c.\\nCapt. Elisha Sweatt, Samuel Fifield, John Fifield, William\\nCalef, Joshua Woodman, s.\\n(1752.) Jedediah Philbrick, Esqr., m. W illiam Calef, c.\\nBenjamin Stevens, Peter Sanborn, John Webster, Samuel Fi-\\nfield, Joshua W^oodman, s. Samuel Fifield, treas. Jonathan\\nGreeley, col.\\n(1753-) Jedediah Philbrick, Esqr., m. Jeremy Webster, c;\\nLieut. Elisha Sweatt, Jeremy Webster, Samuel Fifield, Capt.\\nEbenezer Stevens, Peter Sanborn, s.\\n(1754.) Joshua Woodman, m. Peter Sanborn, c. Capt.\\nEbenezer Stevens, Peter Sanborn, Samuel Fifield, Jonathan\\nGreeley, William Calef, s. John Webster, col.\\n(1755.) Dea. Elisha Sweatt, m. Peter Sanborn, c. Capt.\\nJohn Ladd, William Calef, John Fifield, Benjamin Sanborn,\\nJacob Gale, s. Capt. Samuel Fifield, treas. Benjamin San-\\nborn, col.\\n1756.) Capt. John Ladd, m. Peter Sanborn, c; Capt. Elisha\\nSweatt, Lieut. John Huntoon, John Fifield, William Calef, Capt.\\nJohn Ladd, s. Capt. Samuel Fifield, treas. Joshua Wood-\\nman, col.\\n(1757.) Capt. Elisha Sweatt, m. Peter Sanborn, Esq., c.\\nCol. Ebenezer Stevens, Tristram Sanborn, tertius, Capt. John\\nLadd, William Calef, Benjamin Sanborn, s. Capt. Samuel Fi-\\nfield, treas. Nathan Sweatt, col.\\n(1758.) Elisha Sweatt, m. Peter Sanborn, Ebenezer Stev-\\nens, Esqr., Joshua Woodman, John Fifield, Dea. Sweatt, s.\\nNathan Sweatt, col.\\n(1759.) Dea. Elisha Sweatt, m. Peter Sanborn, Esqr., c.\\nCapt. Samuel Fifield, Peter Sanborn, Esqr., Dea. Elisha Sweatt,\\nJoseph Greeley, W illiam Calef, s. Nathan Sweatt, col; Ephraim\\nCollins, sur.\\n(1760.) Jeremy Webster, m. Jeremy W^ebster, c. Capt.\\nJohn Ladd, William Calef, Lieut. John Huntoon, Nathan Sweatt,\\nJoshua Woodman, s. Nathan Sweatt, col.\\n(1761.) Deacon Elisha Sweatt, m. Col. Ebenezer Stevens,\\nC. William Calef, John Fifield, John Huntoon, Joshua Wood-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE MKN OF STEVENSTOWN. 57\\nman, Benj. Sanborn, s. Ephraim Collins, sur. Nathan Sweatt,\\ncol.\\n(1762.) Capt. Trueworthy Ladcl, m. Col. Ebenezer Stevens,\\nc. John Huntoon, Trueworthy Ladd, John Fifield, Dea. Elisha\\nSweatt, Ebenezer Stevens, s. John Calfe, col. Benjamin San-\\nborn, sur.\\n(1763.) Capt. Samuel Fifield, m. Ebenezer Stevens, c.\\nDeacon Elisha Sweatt, Capt. Trueworthy Ladd, Capt. Samuel\\nFifield, s. John Calfe, col. Benjamin Sanborn, sur.\\n(1764.) Elisha Sweatt, m. Col. Ebenezer Stevens, c. Capt.\\nSamuel Fifield, Capt. Trueworthy Ladd, Samuel Philbrick, s.\\nJohn Calfe, col. Capt. Samuel Fifield, Trueworthy Ladd, Na-\\nthan Pettengill, Stephen Call and Ebenezer Webster, sur.\\n(1765.) Capt. Trueworthy Ladd, m. Ebenezer Stevens, c.\\nCapt. Samuel Fifield, Capt. Trueworthy Ladd, William Calfe,\\ns. John Calfe, col. Capt. Nathan Pettengill, Stephen Call, sur.\\n(1766.) Deacon Elisha Sweatt, m. Ebenezer Stevens, c.\\nDea. Sweatt, Capt. Samuel P ifield, Nathan Sweatt, s. John\\nCalfe, col.\\n(1767.) Capt. John Webster, m. Ebenezer Stevens, c.\\nJoshua Woodman, Ebenezer Stevens, Joseph Bean, Dea. Elisha\\nSweatt, Lieut. Nathan Pettengill, s. Jacob Gale, Shubael\\nGreeley, col. Capt. John Webster, Ebenezer Webster, sur.\\n(1768.) Deacon Elisha Sweatt, m. Ebenezer Stevens, c.\\nJoshua Woodman, Dea. Elisha Sweatt, s. Joseph Eastman,\\nWilliam Calef, junior, Sinkler Bean, col.\\n(1769.) Deacon Elisha Sweatt, m. Ebenezer Stevens, c.\\nWilliam Calef, Nathan Sweatt, Ens. John Huntoon, s. John\\nCalef, col. Moses Garland, Eliphalet Gale, sur.\\n(1770.) Capt. John Webster, m. Ebenezer Stevens, c.\\nJoseph Bean, Ens. Jacob Gale, Joseph Bartlett, s. John Calfe, col.\\n1771.) Jeremy Webster, m. Ebenezer Stevens, c. Joshua\\nWoodman, Ebenezer Stevens, Maj. Jacob Gale, s. Capt. John\\nCalef, col.\\n(1772.) William Calef, m. Col. P^benezer Stevens, c. Col.\\nEbenezer Stevens, Joshua Woodman, Esqr., Col. Josiah l^art-\\nlett, Dea. Elisha Sweatt, s. Capt. John Calfe, col.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "58 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n1775.) Dea. Elisha Sweatt, m. Col. Ebenezer Stevens, c.\\nCol. Josiah Bartlett, Ebenezer Stevens, Capt. John Huntoon,\\ns. John Calfe, col.\\n(1779.) Capt. John Webster, m. John Collins, c.\\nThe last record of the Proprietors was made in 1801, when\\nColonel Ebenezer Webster was Moderator, and Andrew Bowers,\\nClerk. As the town of Salisbury was organized in 1768, there\\nwas no necessity for the Proprietors to continue their organi-\\nzation. It was however done in many towns, and in Concord\\nthe practice is still maintained.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI\\nMUNICIPAL HISTORY.\\nXow from the hurrying train of Life\\nFly backward, far and fast,\\nThe mile-stones of the Fathers,\\nThe landmarks of the past.\\nTHE INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN.\\nImmediately after the passage of the Act of 1766, to enable\\nthe Proprietors of Stevenstown to raise money by a direct tax,\\nto carry on the settlement of the town and defray the necessary\\nexpenses, a petition was presented by residents in the township\\nto His Excellency the Governor, for an Act of Incorporation.\\n(1767.) .The ratable estate in the town at this time was\\ninventoried at ^{^1701 the number of polls was 52, and the\\npopulation 210. Concord had then 750 inhabitants, Canterbury\\n500, and Boscawen 2S5 while the territory to the north, Hav-\\nerhill and Plymouth excepted, was for the most part entirely\\nunsettled.\\n1768.) On the first day of March, Governor Wentworth, in\\nthe name of King George the Third, declared and ordained the\\ntownship, called Stevenstown, to be a town corporate, vested\\nand incorporated into a body politic by the name of S.\\\\li.si5urv,\\nas will appear bv his hand and the seal of the Province.\\nIn this charter, as in others given under similar circumstan-\\nces, there are points deserving particular attention. It purports\\nto be given by the king, of his especial grace and certain\\nknowledge, and with the advice of our trusty and well-beloved\\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province of New\\nHampshire, when in fact the king had no certain knowledge", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "60 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nabout it, and exercised no especial grace to the inhabitants\\nof the township; nor did he ever see the petition humbly\\noffered, as represented in the preamble to the grant of incor-\\nporation. The introduction to the charter was a mere form to\\ngratify the vanity of the sovereign and to represent the dignity\\nand authority of the British throne. The document was made\\nby the direction of the Governor of the Province, of his espec-\\nial grace, and was modestly signed J. Wentworth, with no\\ntitle or designation of official position attached to the signature.\\nIt was once thought, and is still believed, even by eminent\\njurists and statesmen, that prior to the Revolution justices of\\nthe peace, coroners, notaries-public, and similar officers were\\ncommissioned by the king, over his own sign manual, but we\\nare unable to find any evidence to sustain such belief.\\nThis charter was to continue at the pleasure of the grantor,\\nwhich proved to be perpetual. The charter of Boscawen, con-\\nferred in 1762, was to continue but two years, though it was\\nreadily renewed at the expiration of that time. Other charters\\nwere variously restricted, and but few contained as liberal pro-\\nvisions as that of Salisbury.\\nTHE CH.ARTEK.\\nProvince of New Hampshire.\\n[Z. 6 George the Third, liy the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and\\nIreland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth.\\nTo all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting.\\nWhereas our loyal subjects, Inhabitants of a tract of land within our Province\\nof New Hampshire, aforesaid. Known by the name of .Stevens-Town lying between\\nBoscawen on the East and New Breton, so called on the West,* and containing by\\nestimate, thirty six square miles, have humbly Petitioned and Requested us, that\\nthey may be erected and Incorporated into a Township and Enfranchised with the\\nsame Powers and Privileges as other towns within our said Province, by law, have\\nand enjoy and it appearing unto us conducive to the general good of our Province,\\nas well as of the said Inhabitants, in particular, by maintaining good order and\\nencouraging the culture of the land, that the same should be done,\\nKnow ye, therefore. That we of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and for the\\nencouragment and promoting the good purposes and ends, aforesaid, by and with the\\n*This error was probably adopted in consequence of the belief once entertained\\nthat the Merrimack river had only an easterly course.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 6 1\\nadvice of our trusty and well beloved John NN entworth Esq. our Governor, and Com-\\nmander in Chief, and, of our Council for our I rovince of New Hampshire, have\\nerected and ordained, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do will\\nand ordain, that the Inhabitants of a tract of land shall inhabit and improve thereon\\nhereafter the same being butted and bounded as follows viz: Beginning at a\\nWhite Oak tree, standing on the bank of Merrimack River six rods southerly from\\na deep gutter running into the River, said tree being marked on four sides; thence\\nrunning west 17\u00c2\u00b0 deg s. south, nine miles; then beginning again at the river at the\\nsaid White Oak, and running upon the river northerly above The Croch upon\\nPemigewasset river to a large rock in the bank of the river, at the head of Pemige-\\nwasset Oreat Falls; thence running west 15 degs. south, nine miles; thence on a\\nstraight line from the westerly end of this line to the westerly end of the line first\\nmentioned, be and hereby are declared and ordained to be a Town corporate and\\nare hereby erected and incorporated into a body Politic and Corporate, to have\\ncontinuance during our pleasure, by the name of .S.mjshl RY, with all the Powers\\nand authorities, Privileges, Immunities and franchises, which any other town in the\\nsaid I rovince, by law holds; and [we] convey to the said Inhabitants, or who shall\\nhereafter Inhabit there, to their successors for said Town, always reserving to us\\nand our successors all white pine trees, that are or shall be found growing and being\\non the said Tract of Land, fit for the use of our Royal Navy, reserving also to us,\\nour heirs and successors, the Powers and Rights of dividing said town when it shall\\nappear necessary and convenient for the Inhabitants thereof. Provided nez ertheless,\\nand it is hereby declared that this charter and grant is not intended and shall not\\nin any manner be construed to affect the Private Property of the soil, within the\\nlimits aforesaid.\\nAnd, as the several Towns within our said Province are hereby by the laws\\nthereof enabled and authorized to assemble and by a majority of the voters present,\\nto choose all such officers and transact such affairs as in the said laws are declared.\\nWe do by these presents nominate and appoint Capt Jn. Webster, Esqr. to call\\nthe first meeting of said Inhabitants to be held within the said Town, at any time\\nwithin fifty days from the date hereof, giving legal notice of the time, place and\\ndesign of holding such meeting; after which the annual meeting in said town shall\\nbe held for the choice of said officers and the purpose aforesaid, on the 2d Tuesday\\nof March annually.\\nIn testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of our Province to be appended,\\nthis 1st day of March, 176S.\\nJ. WEXTWORTH.\\nWARRANT FOR A MEETING.\\nProvince ok New IIami shire.\\nWhereas the town of .Stevenstown, so called, in s d Province is now by His\\nExcellency s order Erected Incorporated into a P.ody corporate Politick, by\\nthe name of Salisbury by his E.xeellency s Pleasure I am appointed to call the\\nfirst meeting of the inhabitants of s d Town.\\nThese are therefore to warn give notice to the inhabitants of s d Salisbury\\nto .Assemble and Meet together at the house of Mr. Andrew Pettengill in s d Salis-", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "62 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nbury on the first Tuesday in April next, at ten of the clock in s d Day, then\\nthere when Met, to choose a Town Clerk, Constable, Selectmen all other Town\\nOfficers, as the law directs for s d year ensuing.\\nAlso to see if the inhabitants will Vote to Raise the Money that hath Been\\nExpended in Procuring the Charter of s d Town, to pass any other vote that Shall\\nbe thought Proper at s d Meeting.\\nGiven Under My Hand this 14th iJay of March, Anno Dom. 176S.\\nJOHN WEBSTER.\\nBy His Excellency s Order.\\nFIRST MEETING.\\nIn accordance with the foregoing call, the legal voters of the\\nnew town of Salisbury met, on Tuesday, the 7th day of April,\\n1768, at the house of Andrew Pettengill, who resided at what\\nis now known as the South Road Village, on the site occupied\\nby Thomas D. Little, and chose officers and transacted business,\\nas recorded by the Town Clerk, as follows\\nFirst Capt. John Webster was chosen Moderator for s d meeting.\\n2ndly, Sinkler Bean, chosen Town Clerk for the year ensuing.\\n3dly, Andrew Bohonnon, chosen Constable for the year ensuing.\\n4thly, Messrs. Stephen Call, Joseph Bean tS; Thomas Chase, chosen Selectmen\\nfor the ensuing year.\\n5thly, Sinkler Bean and Matthew I ettengill chosen Assessors for the ensuing\\nyear.\\n6thly, John Jemson iX: Abel Tandy chosen tithing men for the year ensuing.\\n7thly, Eliphalet Gale, Wm. Calef, Nathaniel Meloon, sen r Hezekiah Silleway\\nchosen Surveyors for the year ensuing.\\nSthly, John Fellows Daniel Bean chosen fence viewers for the year ensuing.\\nQthly, John Jemson Ephraim Collins chosen Howards for the year ensuing.\\nlothly, Stephen Call, chosen leather sealer for the ensuing year.\\niithly, Abel Tandy and Thomas Chase, chosen Surveyors of lumber for the\\nyear ensuing.\\nI2thly, Voted that some part of Benjamin Sanborn s Barn be used as a sufficient\\nPound the year ensuing.\\nI3thly, Daniel Bean chosen Pound Keeper for the year ensuing.\\nI4thly, Andrew Pettingill chosen Field driver, for the year ensuing.\\nI5thly, Capt. John Webster, John Collins John Fellows, chosen a Committee\\nto examine adjust the Selectmen s accompts, for the year ensuing.\\ni6thly, Voted that the money be Raised by way of Rate, that hath been expen-\\nded in procuring the Corporation Charter of the Town.\\nijthly, oted that Four Dollars be Raised to purchase a Town Book like-\\nwise to pay Esq Clough for Swearing the Town Officers.\\nSINKLER BEAN,\\nT. Clerk.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 63\\nUSE OF THK WORD DOLLAR.\\nThe term dollars, used instead of pounds, undoubtedly has\\nreference to Spanish dollars, which were in frequent use at this\\ndate and previously. The town of Boscawen, in 1762, voted to\\npay the minister a given number of dollars, at six pounds per\\ndollar. In 1767, Boscawen voted to give the minister a right\\nof land, which contained eighty acres, at a cost of eighty\\ndollars, and in 1768 that town voted one hundred dollars\\ntowards building a meeting house. Warner also, in 1771, voted\\nto give the minister one hundred dollars in labor and other\\ntowns, at their annual meetings, made appropriations in dol-\\nlars as well as in pounds.\\nIn the preceding records several officers are named which at\\nthe present day are not recognized. A hayward, or how-\\nard, was an officer who had the care of the hedges, and who\\nimpounded cattle running at large. Tithing men, originally\\nappointed to collect tithes, were officers to maintain order in\\nthe time of religious service and to enforce the observance of\\nthe Sabbath. Within the memory of people now living, tithing\\nmen have executed the law in restraining travelling on the\\nSabbath, and in quieting disturbances occurring on the Lord s\\nday. They were usually hard-faced and exacting men, very\\nrigid in the performance of that duty.\\nAX OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT.\\n1770.) No local act of importance is on record for this year,\\nbut there is beginning to appear a state of unrest throughout\\nNew England, in which the Province of New Hampshire and\\nthe new town of Salisbury had their share of anxiety. The\\nhome government was yearly becoming more exacting. She\\nwas determined to raise a revenue from her American colonies.\\nThe Stamp Act had been passed, and at length repealed. The\\nAct imposing a tax on tea had also been passed, but proved no\\nless odious than the Stamp Act. Soldiers had been stationed\\nin Boston by the crown, and this year, on the 5th of March,\\noccurred the event known as the Boston Massacre.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "64 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n1772.) At the annual meeting in March, the to\\\\Yn voted\\nforty dollars to support preaching, and in December follow-\\ning it was voted to give Mr. Searle fifty pounds, to be paid in\\nlabor, in clearing up the parsonage land and putting it in a con-\\ndition for cultivation the next year.\\nAN ECONOMICAL MEASURE.\\n(1773.) The town voted to choose a committee to send\\ndown to Amherst in order for them to proceed in some method\\nor other to prevent the unreasonable charges that are likely to\\ncome against the county on account of Kelly and Thomas break-\\ning gaol. Josoph Bean, Ebenezer Webster, and Edward East-\\nman were chosen for that purpose.\\nCHOICE OF JURORS.\\nOn the 1st of September, Ebenezer Webster was chosen\\ngrand juror from Salisbury, and Andrew Pettengill petit juror.\\nIt was voted to give the petit juror twelve shillings lawful\\nmoney for his services. This was the first time the town had\\nbeen called upon to furnish jurors. The clerks of the courts\\ndirected the sheriff to return to the court a certain number of\\nmen worth fifty pounds in personal estate, and from them the\\njury were selected, at a town meeting called for that purpose.\\nThe jurors pay in the Superior Court was at first six shillings\\nand sixpence per day. The grand jury received for each indict-\\nment thirteen shillings; the petit jury received an equal sum\\nfor each case tried, and each member of the grand jury received\\nin addition two shillings for each day s attendance. A law\\npassed in 1771 provided, that the pay for the jurors at the\\nSuperior Court shall be forty shillings, new tenor, in each action\\nthey shall try, two thirteenths thereof shall be to and for the\\nforeman. Jurors were chosen, not drawn by lot. There was\\na good reason for adopting this plan. It indicated great confi-\\ndence in the popular voice, and the custom was a safe one.\\nOnly sensible, competent and honest men were selected for this\\ngrave and responsible duty in those days.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 65\\nA NEW COUNTY PROPOSED.\\nDuring this year a meeting was held by parties from several\\ntowns in the northern sections of Hillsborough and Rockingham\\ncounties, to devise measures for the organization of a new\\ncounty, but no effective action was recommended.\\nOBNOXIOUS MEASURES.\\nThis year, 1773, was noted in our national history for the\\nIndian Tea Party, which was held in Boston on the evening\\nof the 1 6th of December, when three hundred and forty chests\\nof tea were thrown into the harbor.\\n(1774.) Incensed by the action of the colonists. Parliament\\nthis year passed the famous Port Bill, closing the port of Bos-\\nton, thereby strengthening the determination of the American\\npeople to resist oppression.\\nHAWKERS AND PEDDLERS RESTRAINED.\\n1775.) On the 13th of February, a committee consisting of\\nBenjamin Sanborn, Leonard Judkins, Capt. P^benezer Webster,\\nJoseph Fifield and Sinkler Bean were chosen to arrest hawkers,\\npeddlers and petty chapmen, and deal with them according to\\nlaw. This was done by authority of a colonial law which was\\nenacted in the year 1771, providing that no hawker, peddler,\\nor other trading person going from town to town, shall be per-\\nmitted to sell or offer for sale any goods, wares or merchandise,\\nunder a penalty of twenty pounds.\\nTHE CONFLICT COMMENCED.\\nThe first great national event of the year was the attack of\\nthe British regulars on the minute-men, at Lexington, on the\\n19th of April. On the first of May the citizens of Salisbury\\nhad learned the movements of the British army, and anticipat-\\ning sudden calls to meet the enemy, they voted to raise fifteen\\npounds, lawful money, in order to purchase ammunition for a\\ntown stock to be kept in Salisbury. Voted, To choose a\\nCommittee of Inspection in s d town. Capt. Kbcnezer Web-\\n5", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "66 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nster, Joseph Bartlett, Joseph Bean, Esq., Capt. Matthew Petten-\\ngill and Stephen Call were chosen for said committee.\\nIn May of this year the town chose Joseph Bean to go to\\nExeter, to consult and act on public affairs, but in June refused\\nto send a delegate to Amherst for the same purpose.\\nA SINGULAR VOTE.\\n(1776.) At the annual meeting, March 12, it was voted to\\ntake away Widow Sanders. But why she was to be taken\\naway, no explanation is given. It was customary to warn\\nout of town any persons who were liable to become town\\ncharges. It may be she was one of that class, who refused to\\ngo or it may be she was a legal resident of some other town,\\nand was not able to return to her home without aid. But it\\ndoes not appear that she was taken away. It was only voted\\nthat she be taken, so far as the record shows.\\nThe town voted to pay the expenses of those men, who the\\nyear before went to Cambridge, on express. It appears that\\nseveral men, on hearing of the determination of the British to\\nmake an attack, hastened at once to aid the people at Cam-\\nbridge, and the town manifested its approbation of the act by\\nproviding for their payment.\\nAt the same meeting it was voted to Destroy all the town\\npapers save such as the committee see fit to enter in the Select-\\nmen s Book.\\nThe war was progressing with terrible destruction of life and\\ntreasure, with a dread uncertainty as to its final results. In\\ncase of failure, the leading men might all die on the gallows.\\nWhatever had been said or done against the authority of Eng-\\nland would be produced in condemnation of the authors of such\\nwords and deeds. The records of towns might be searched for\\ntestimony in behalf of the crown. The residents of Salisbury\\nwere brave men, and had spoken bold words against their legal\\nrulers. They were as prudent as they were daring and in the\\nexercise of their prudence they decided to destroy all written\\nevidence of their disloyalty to the king.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nMUNICIPAL HISTORY CONTINUED.\\nThe land lies open and warm in the sun,\\nAnvils clamor and mill wheels run\\nFlocks on the hillside, herds on the plain,\\nThe wilderness gladdened with fruit and grain.\\nTOWN VOTES.\\nWe record on these pages the important votes of the town\\nrelative to furnishing men and supplies for the army, but the\\nheroic part which the people sustained in the Indian wars, the\\nRevolution, the contests for the maintainance of national rights,\\nand for the integrity of the Union, will be fully given in chap-\\nters especially devoted to those subjects.\\nTOWN OFFICERS IN THE ARMY.\\n(1776.) It seems that Salisbury in early times did not limit\\nher service in her country s cause to the passing of votes and\\nthe recording of resolutions, nor to the hiring of substitutes\\nand encouraging her young men and humbler citizens to go into\\nthe ranks of war. l^ut the strong men were ready to go the\\nmen of influence and official position as appears from the\\nrecords. A meeting was held October 17, 1776, called to choose\\na selectman and an assessor, to serve in the place of those\\nthat are absent. The selectman was Capt. Ebenezer Webster,\\nand the assessor was Moses Garland, who had gone to the war.\\nTHE ASSOCIATION TEST,\\nThe Continental Congress passed and sent out the following\\nresolution, to all sections of the country, in order to ascertain", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "68 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nthe respective strength of the friends and enemies of the patriot\\ncause\\nIn Congress, March i6th, 1776.\\nResolved, That it is recommended to the several Assemblies, Conventions, and\\nCouncils or Committees of Safety of the United Colonies, imtnediatelv to cause all\\nPersons to be Disarmed within their Respective Colonies who are Xotoriously\\ndisaffected to the cause of America, or who have not associated, and refused to asso-\\nciate to defend by arms the united Colonies against the Hostile Attempts of the\\nBritish Fleets and Armies.\\nExtracts from the Minutes.\\nCHARLES THOMPSON, Sec y.\\nThis was submitted to the Committee of Safety of New Hamp-\\nshire, of which Hon. Meshech Weare was the efficient head.\\nHe forwarded a copy to the chairman of the selectmen in every\\ntown, and one of the board circulated it for signatures. In\\nSalisbury it was entrusted to the hands of Captain Ebenezer\\nWebster.\\nColony of New Hampshire,\\nIn Committee of Safety,\\nApril 12, 1776.\\nIn order to carry the underwritten Resolve of the Hon ble Continental Congress\\ninto Execution, you are requested to desire all Males above twenty-one years of age,\\nLunaticks, Idiots, and Negroes excepted) to sign to the Declaration on this Paper;\\nand when so done to make Return thereof, together with the name or names of all\\nwho shall refuse to sign the same, to the General Assembly, or Committee of Safety\\nof this Colony.\\nM. WEARE, Chairman.\\nARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.\\nIn consequence of the above Resolution of the Hon. Continental Congress, and\\nto show our determination, in joining our American Brethren in defending our\\nLives, Liberties and Properties of the Inhabitants of the United Colonies\\nWe, the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise, that\\nWE WILL, TO the UTMOST OF OUR POWER, AND AT THE RiSQUE OF OUR LiVES\\nand Fortunes, with arms, oppose the Hostile Proceedings of the British\\nFleets and Armies against the United American Colonies.\\nSIGNATURES.\\nEbenezer Johnson, Samuel Scribner, John Collins,\\nReuben Greele, [Greeley] William Suton, Benj a Bean,\\nJob Heath, Phineas Bean, John Jemson,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY.\\n69\\nJohn Sanborn,\\nMoses Elkins,\\nRobert Smith,\\nLeonard Judkins,\\nShubael Greele, [y]\\nDavid Pettengill,\\nWilliam Webster,\\nJohn Fifield,\\nJeremiah Webster,\\nEphraim Heath,\\nNathaniel Meloon,\\nIddo Scribner,\\nBenj. Scribner,\\nJohn Scribner,\\nJohn Challis,\\nEphraim Colby,\\nAndrew Bohonan,\\nMoses Seller,\\nJoseph French,\\nJohn Bowen,\\nDaniel Scamell,\\nRobert Barber,\\nEbenezer Clifford,\\nAbel Elkins,\\nDaniel arran,\\nJacob True,\\nRev. Jonathan Searle,\\nAndrew Pettengill,\\nJonathan Fifield,\\nBenj m Huntoon,\\nJoseph Bartlett,\\nJacob Garland,\\nWilliam Searle,\\nEdward Fifield,\\nEzra Tucker,\\nHezekiah Foster,\\nJohn Bean,\\nEdward Scribner,\\nJoseph Marston,\\nlienjamin Greele, [y]\\nJohn Webster, Jr.\\nAnnaniah Bohonan,\\nGideon Dow,\\nStephen Call,\\nBenj. Sanborn,\\nJohn Webster,\\nNathaniel Marston,\\nReuben Hoyt,\\nAbraham Fifield,\\nCutting Stevens,\\nJohn Gale,\\nEbenezer Webster,\\nWilliam Calef,\\nEdward Eastman,\\nJonathan Cram,\\nJohn Row,\\nWilliam Eastman,\\nAbel Tandy,\\nMoses Garland,\\nEben Tucker,\\nNathaniel Meloon, Jr.\\nObediah Peters Fifield,\\nEdward i^cribner, Jr.\\nMoses Sawyer,\\nJohn Fellows,\\nDaniel Huntoon,\\nAndrew Bohonan, Jr.\\nNathan Colby,\\nJacob Bohonan.\\nJoseph Basford,\\nIsrael Webster,\\nMatthew Pettengill,\\nJoseph Fifield,\\nRichard Purmont.\\nThis may certify to the General Assembly or Committy of Safety of the Colony\\nof New Hampshire, That we, the subscribers have offered the within Declaration\\nto the Inhabitants of the Town of Salisbury and they sign freely.\\nSinkler Bean, EBENEZER WEBSTER, Selectmen\\nJoseph Bean, ^^P^^ JONATHAN FIFIELD, for Salisbury.\\nNathaniel Meloon, Jr., was the third .selectman. Every male\\nadult, then in town, except two, subscribed to the test, and it\\ndoes not appear that those two were unfriendly to the cause of\\nthe colonies, for they were often trusted with town business,\\nand aided in supplying the demands of the army. It is reported\\nthat one was a Quaker, and the other a Justice of the Peace\\nunder the royal authority.\\nRLSIDEXT TA.XI AVERS.\\nFollowing are the names of the legal taxpayers in the town,\\nas taken the previous year\\nJohn Ash,\\nWilliam Ash,\\nJoseph Bartlett,\\nPeter Bowen,\\nSamuel Eaton,\\nEdward Evans,", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "70\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nJoseph Bean,\\nSinkler Bean,\\nJohn Bayley,\\nWilliam Bayley,\\nDaniel Brottlebank,\\nGeorge Bayley,\\nRobert Barber,\\nAndrew Bohonan,\\nJacob Bohonan,\\nBenjamin Baker,\\nJeremiah Bowen,\\nJohn Bowen,\\nJohn Bean,\\nBeniah Bean,\\nPhineas Bean,\\nDaniel Gillman,\\nBenjamin Greeley,\\nMoses Garland,\\nBenjamin Greeley, Jr.\\nShubael Greeley,\\nReuben Greeley,\\nJacob Garland,\\nDavid Greeley,\\nNathaniel Greeley,\\nMatthew Greely,\\nNehemiah Heath,\\nJob Heath,\\nDavid Hall,\\nNathaniel Huntoon,\\nBenjamin Huntoon,\\nJoshua Snow,\\nBenjamin Sanborn,\\nSamuel Sanders,\\nJohn Smith,\\nRobert Smith,\\nJonathan Searle,\\nBenjamin Scribner,\\nWilliam Searle,\\nPeter Severance,\\nAnnaniah Bohonan,\\nThomas Challis,\\nJohn Challis,\\nEphraim Colby,\\nNicholas Colby,\\nEbenezer Clifford,\\nTrue worthy Chase,\\nJohn Collins,\\nStephen Cross,\\nJonathan Cram,\\nEnoch Chase,\\nSimeon Chote,\\nWilliam Chase,\\nWilliam Calef,\\nWilliam Eastman,\\nBenjamin Hayward,\\nJoseph B. Hoyt,\\nEphraim Heath,\\nReuben Hoyt,\\nLeonard Judkins,\\nCaleb Judkins,\\nEbenezer Johnson,\\nJames Johnson,\\nJohn Jemson,\\n.Samuel Loverin,\\nJoseph Loverin,\\nPhilip Lufkin,\\nNathaniel Lovel,\\nWilliam Kezar,\\nSamuel Kezar,\\nCutting .Stevens,\\nMoses Sawyer,\\nSamuel Rowe,\\nElisha Sanborn,\\nEzra Tucker,\\nEbenezer Tucker,\\nJacob True,\\nAbel Tandy,\\nJohn Webster,\\nEdward Eastman,\\nBenjamin Eastman,\\nJohn Fellows,\\nJonathan Fellows,\\nJonathan Fifield,\\nWinthrop Fifield,\\nJoseph Fifield,\\nAbraham Fifield,\\nJonathan Foster,\\nEzekiel Fellows,\\nIsaac Fitts,\\nJoseph Fitts,\\nJoseph French,\\nMoses Fellows,\\nJohn C. Gale,\\nJacob Morrill,\\nJoseph Marston,\\nNathaniel Marston,\\nNathaniel Meloon, Jr.\\nMatthew Pettengill,\\nAndrew Pettengill,\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\nRichard Purmont,\\nDavid Pettengill,\\nDudley Palmer,\\nSamuel Pillsbury,\\nIddo .Scribner,\\nJohn Sanborn,\\nEdward Scribner,\\nDaniel Stevens,\\nEbenezer Webster,\\nJeremiah Webster,\\nMoses Woodman,\\nJoseph Webster,\\nJohn Webster, Jr.\\nWilliam Webster,\\nIsrael Webster.\\nFURNISHING SOLDIERS FOR THE ARMY.\\n(1777.) March 3i.st, a town warrant was issued for a meet-\\ning of the legal voters, at the meeting house, on four days\\nnotice, to see what encouragement the town will vote to give\\nto ten able bodied men to serve in the Continental army as sol-\\ndiers during the war with Great Britain, or for three years.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. yi\\nThe first bridge was this year built over the Blackwater, on\\nthe centre rangeway.\\nIt was also voted to choose a committee to see what each\\nman must have that doth go into the Continental service for\\nthree years in behalf of sd town. Capt. John Webster, Capt.\\nMatthew Pettengill and Lieut. Robert Smith were chosen as\\nthe committee. The selectmen and assessors were authorized\\nto estimate what each man hath done in the service of the\\nwar. It was voted to give ten men seventy dollars each who\\nshould go to the war for three years.\\nOn the 22d of May, it was voted to choose five men to reg-\\nulate the prices of sundry articles. Chose Capt. John Web-\\nster, Capt. Ebenezer Webster, Nathaniel Meloon, Jr., Capt.\\nMatthew Pettengill, and Jonathan Cram as the committee.\\nThere is no record of the acts of the committee appointed for\\nthis purpose but it is worthy of notice that during this year\\nthere was a general demand for a restriction in prices. In\\naccordance with public sentiment the General Assembly passed\\nan Act regulating values of products, when used as a substitute\\nfor money, in e.xchange for commodities, or in the payment of\\ndebts. The prices were as follows\\nF-eans 6 o Pease S\\nButter o lo Potatoes 2\\nCorn 3 6 Pork o\\nd.\\nCheese 6 Rum, \\\\V 1 6 S\\nCoffee I 4 Rum, N E 3 10\\nCotton 3 S Rye 4 6\\nCoarse Linen 4 o Salt 10 o\\nFarm Labor 3 4 Sole Leather i 6\\nFlannel 3 o Sugar o S\\nFla.\\\\ I o Stockings 6 o\\nHides o 3 Tow Cloth 2 3\\nIron 41 o Wheat 7 6\\n.Molasses 3 4 Wool 2 o\\n\u00c2\u00bbats 2 I\\nVoted, That all the men of this town that have done any-\\nthing in the war since the 17th of April, Anno Domini 1775,\\nshall be allowed therefor according to the discretion of the\\ncommittee chosen for that purpose.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "72 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nVoted Fifteen Dollars to Capt. Ebenezer Webster, and John\\nBowen for money they paid to Reuben Hoitt, on account of the\\ntown. The town would not allow private persons to pay boun-\\nties which were offered by town authority.\\n(1778.) During the year the vote formerly passed, to hire\\nten men for the Continental service, was rescinded. It was\\nvoted to make an average in said town, but it does not appear\\nwhat constituted an average. Very likely it was the design\\nof the voters to equalize the expenses of furnishing soldiers for\\nthe war.\\nIt was also voted that each month, what each man hath done\\nin the service of war shall be allowed alike; that each man\\nthat hath done service for the town, that are now inhabitants in\\ns d town, shall be allowed 30 Dollars per month. Jonathan\\nFifield and Joseph Bartlett were chosen to assist with the\\nSelectmen as a committee to examine what has been done in\\nthe service of war.\\nIt was voted that when men are required for the service, the\\ncompany be called together, the proposals that the State offers\\nbe heard, and if men decline enlisting for those proposals, then\\nBenjamin Huntoon and Edward Eastman with the selectmen\\nbe a committee to assist the officers in procuring the men for\\nthe town. The citizens of Salisbury, with rare exceptions, were\\nready to furnish men for the service and to provide liberally for\\ntheir pay.\\nThis year Ebenezer Webster and Matthew Pettengill were\\nchosen delegates to a convention at Concord, for forming a State\\nConstitution.\\nIn the September following. Voted, To re-consider the vote\\nthat was passed, to give Thirty Dollars per month, upon this\\nsupposition that the Committee that Shall be Hereafter Chosen,\\nwith the Selectmen, make an Inventory of each man s Estate\\nEstimate what Each man has done in this Present war, Esti-\\nmate The currency upon the Produce of the Country, that Those\\nmen that have not Done according to their Interest, be Called\\nupon by a tax or Draft till they have Done Equal to Those that\\nhave already Done Service in the war, according to interest.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 73\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster and Capt. John Webster were chosen\\nto assist the selectmen, as a committee.\\n(1779.) i\\\\Iay 24, Voted, To Choose a Committee in order\\nfor them to make up of the proposed methods to procure the\\nProprietors Book of Records of Said Town, for the Use of this\\ntown and for Said Committee to Proceed to accomplish said\\nBusiness, as soon as may be.\\nChose Jonathan Fifield, P2dward Eastman and Dr. Joseph\\nBartlett.\\nVoted, To recommend the appointment of Joseph Bartlett\\nas Justice of the Peace.\\nJuly 12. A meeting was called to proceed upon some proper\\nmethod to raise four Continental soldiers during the war, or for\\na year or so, yearly, during the war. Likewise two soldiers to\\nserve si.\\\\ months at Rhode Island, agreeably to orders from Col.\\nStickney and Capt. Ebenezer Webster.\\nCapt. IMatthew Pettengill and Capt. Ebenezer Webster were\\nchosen a committee to assist the Selectmen in procuring the\\nabove men.\\nJuly 28. The people were called on to give their votes, for\\nor against, the Declaration of Rights and Plan of Government,\\nformed by the Convention of Delegates of said State, chosen\\nfor that purpose, which met at Concord. Each article was\\nread, and discussed separately, and the whole were rejected by\\na vote of forty-five to none\\nSept. 13. Capt. John Webster was chosen a delegate to go\\nto Concord and meet other delegates to establish prices on\\ncommodities.\\nDEPRECI.VTION IN THE CURRENCY.\\n1780.) This year the town appropriated si.x thousand dollars\\nfor repairing and building highways, and twelve dollars were\\nallowed for a day s work This was double the sum raised the\\npreceding year, and the price of labor was fifty per cent more in\\ndollars, but owing to the depreciation in money it was probably\\nof about the same real value.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "74 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nIt was voted to increase the minister s salary Ten Double,\\nalso to build four school houses.\\nMarch 15. The legislature on this day proposed an Act\\nassigning upon the people of the State, for public use, two\\nmillions and one hundred and sixty thousand pounds. The\\nproportion of Salisbury was 17,820 pounds, one-third to be paid\\nby June ist, one-sixth by August ist, one-third afterwards.\\nMORE MEN.\\nJune 29. A meeting was called to raise five men to join the\\nContinental army for six months, the town choosing Capt.\\nEbenezer Webster, Lt. Robert Smith, Lt. William Calef, Ens.\\nJoseph Fifield, Capt. Benjamin Pettengill, Dr. Joseph Bartlett,\\nand Capt. Matthew Pettengill, as a committee to hire the men.\\nJuly 10. Voted, To choose six persons as a Committee to\\njoin the former Committee for the purpose of making an aver-\\nage, of what each man hath done during the last war, and\\nchose Capt. Matthew Pettengill, Elder Benjamin Hunton, Ens.\\nJoseph Fifield, Lt. Robert Smith, John Collins Gale, and Capt.\\nBenjamin Pettengill.\\nA COLD WINTER.\\nThe winter of 1779-80 was remarkable for the severity of the\\nweather. Historians say that for forty days, including the\\nwhole month of March, there was no perceptible thawing on\\nthe south side of any house. Snow laid four feet deep upon\\nthe level, from the middle of November to the middle of the\\nfollowing April.\\nTHE DARK DAY.\\nDuring the year there were many wonderful auroral displays,\\nand several large spots were seen upon the sun, while just pre-\\nvious to the dark day it is stated that a strong smell of sulphur\\npervaded the atmosphere. On the 19th of May, 1780, occurred\\nthe Black Friday, or Dark Day, as it is called. On the event-\\nful morning the sun rose clear, but soon became obscured by\\nclouds and smoke. By the middle of the day it was so dark", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 75\\nthat the fowls went to roost, and in the houses candles were\\nlighted to see by. During the remainder of the day a sickly,\\nmelancholy gloom hung over the earth, while the first part of\\nthe night was equally dark, although the moon was at the full.\\nJonathan Calef s wife related the following incident She and\\nher father (Moses Garland) were out planting corn, when it\\nbegan to grow dark so fast that her father sent her in the house,\\nhe fearing harm of some description.\\nThe following lines, by an unknown writer of that date, are\\ndescriptive of the event\\nT was oil a May day of the far old year,\\nSeventeen hundred eighty, that there fell\\nC)ver the bloom and the sweet life of Spring,\\nOver the fresh earth and the heaven of noon,\\nA horror of great darkness, like the night\\nIn day of which the Norland sages tell,\\nThe Twilight of the Gods. The low-hung sky\\nWas black with ominous clouds, save where its rim\\nWas fringed with a dull glow, like that which climbs\\nThe crater s sides, from the red hell below.\\nBirds ceased to sing, and all the barn-yard fowls\\nRoosted; the cattle at the pasture bars\\nLowed and looked homeward bats on their leather wings\\nFlitted abroad; the sounds of labor died\\nMen prayed and women wept; all ears grew sharp\\nTo hear the doom-blast of the trumpet shatter\\nThe black sky, that the dreadful face of Christ\\nMight look from the rent clouds, not as he looked,\\nA loving guest at Bethany, but stern\\nAs Justice and inexorable Law.\\n(1781.) Feb. 12, Voted, To Raise our Proportion of con-\\ntinental men for three years or During the War, agreeably to\\norders sent from the General Court of the State.\\nVoted, That our Proportion of men be Raised by a joint\\nCharge or Expense of this whole town.\\nVoted, To Raise our Proportion of Heef for the Continental\\narmy this current year agreeably to orders sent from the Gen-\\neral Court.\\nVoted, To Choose a Town Treasurer, and chose Joseph\\nBean, Esq. to hire Soldiers, and to purchase Beef for said town.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "^6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nCapt. Matthew Pettengill, Capt. Ebenezer Webster, Capt.\\nJohn Webster, Ens. Joseph Fifield, and Lieut. Robert Smith\\nwere chosen a committee to Give Instruction from time to\\ntime to the Town Treasurer, and to call for his accounts when\\nthey think most proper.\\nVoted, That the above committee act in behalf of the\\ntown.\\n1 78 1.) This year the town voted to raise twelve thousand\\ndollars, to be worked out on the roads at twenty-four dollars\\nper day It was also voted to raise money to maintain one\\nschool, the whole year, and that all ox-sleds be made four feet\\nbetween joints\\nThe town instructed the selectmen to look out for a place\\nand build a bridge over the Blackwater.\\nTHE CONSTITUTION-.\\n(1782.) Jan. 8, a special town meeting was held to act on\\nthe proposed Constitution, and it was voted to choose a com-\\nmittee to consist of nine persons, to consult upon the Constitu-\\ntion and report at an adjournment, consisting of Joseph Bean,\\nEsq., Joseph Bartlett, Esq., Jonathan Fifield, Lieut. John Pier-\\nson, Jacob Cochran, Dea. John Collins, Capt. Ebenezer Web-\\nster, Lieut. Robert Smith, and Ensign Joseph Fifield.\\nJan. 15. Met on adjournment. Voted, That there be an\\namendment made to the 7th Article in the Bill of Rights by\\nthis addition, Without a voice of the General Assembly.\\nVoted, To reject the manner of electing Senators and Rep-\\nresentatives, asserting that every man of lawful age, being\\ncompos mentis and being friendly to the State and a proper\\nResident thereof, and of the Protestant Religion, has a right\\nto elect and to be elected into either branch of the General\\nAssembly.\\nVoted, That the Governor when elected ought not to have\\npower to Build or Demolish fortifications, without advice of\\nCouncil.\\nA regulation probably made with reference to breaking out roads.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. JJ\\nVoted, The Governor may be elected Annually, so long as\\nthe People shall unite in his Abilities and good Conduct.\\nVoted, To leave it with the Selectmen and Committee to\\nstate the objections.\\nMarch 12. Voted, To send a Delegate to Concord, the first\\nTuesday in June.\\nThe officers of the town for the first time were this year chosen\\nby hand vote, but no treasurer was chosen. It is recorded that\\nthe ministerial tax of a citizen belonging to the Society of\\nFriends was remitted, an example of religious toleration seldom\\nexhibited in those times.\\nTHE FIRST GU.N .SHIP.\\nThe America, a 74-gun ship, built at Portsmouth by orders\\nfrom Congress, was launched on the 5th of November. This\\nwas the first line-of-battle ship built in the country, and was\\nundoubtedly made staunch with timber reserved for the use of\\nthe royal navy.\\nPAYING WAR CLAIMS.\\n1783.) April 7, Voted, That the Soldiers engaged for three\\nyears, in 1777, Shall receive Again what the Treasurer Allowed\\nto the Town in the year 1783 on their account. For some\\nreason, which does not appear by the record, the Treasurer did\\nnot pay to certain soldiers the amount due them, but left it in\\nthe treasury, subject to the action of the town; and now, after\\nthe lapse of six years, in a legal town meeting it was voted to\\npay the arrearage.\\nTHE CONSTITUTION ONCE MORE.\\nSept. 8. Again the question of accepting the State Consti-\\ntution was brought before the town, and it was voted to alter\\nthe Eighteenth Article in the confederation agreeably to the\\nproposal of Congress.\\nVoted, That the Executive Power in the State of New\\nHampshire Shall be lodged with a President and Council, as\\nProposed by the Convention.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "78 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nVoted, To Give twenty Dollars per Head for old wolves\\nand Ten Dollars per head for young Do. to those Catching\\nthem, belonging to this town.\\nIMPORTANT EVENTS.\\nThis year several important events occurred. The Treaty of\\nPeace between England and America was signed the American\\narmy was disbanded the British evacuated New York and\\nCharleston, and Washington surrendered his commission and\\nbade farewell to his companions in arms.\\nA NEW COUNTY AGAIN PROPOSED.\\n1785.) For a period of fourteen years, from the organization\\nof counties, the sessions of the courts for Hillsborough county\\nhad been held only at Amherst. But the people in the northern\\nsection began to demand better accommodations for the transac-\\ntion of county business. They voted that the courts should be\\nheld in the centre of the county, or that a portion of them should\\ngo to the northern section. The people of Salisbury were inter-\\nested, partly on account of their great distance from the shire\\ntown and partly with the hope of having their own town made\\na half shire. At the annual meeting this year it was voted,\\nTo have all the Courts in and for the County of Hillsboro\\nheld in the Centre of the County, or otherwise to have a New\\nCounty.\\nPetitions to the General Court, to establish a half shire were\\npresented by several towns, which resulted in an Act of the\\nLegislature, in 1790, removing a portion of the county business\\nto Hopkinton. Though not acceptable to the people of all the\\nneighboring towns, it was a more favorable location for the\\nnorthern section than Amherst, and there was a general acqui-\\nesence in the Act. Hopkinton was now an important and a\\ngrowing town. A court house was at once built for the use of\\nthe county, and was occupied for the inauguration of Governors\\nand the holding of legislative sessions, four times within a period\\nof ten years preceding 1808.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "municipal history. 79\\nwise s ferry.\\nThis same year the town voted to petition the General Court\\nfor the privilege of a ferry across the Merrimack River.\\nWise s Ferry was subsequently established.\\nMOKE ABOUT PAPER MONEY.\\n1786.) Voted, To allow Joseph Bean for the paper money\\nhe lost by counterfeit in the year 1780. The paper currency\\nof the country had become so much depreciated as to be of\\nscarcely more value than an equal amount of white paper. The\\npeople of the town, as well as of other towns in the State, had\\nbecome thoroughly disgusted with it, and in the autumn of this\\nyear voted not to have any paper money on any plan at\\npresent.\\nUNITED STATES CONSTITUTION RATIFIED,\\n(1788.) The Legislature, on the 21st of June of this year,\\nratified the Constitution of the United States, making the\\nrequisite number of States to establish the validity of that\\ninstrument.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nCIVIL HISTORY, CONCLUDED.\\nFor we are the same that our fathers have been,\\nWe see the same sights that our fathers have seen.\\nWe drink the same stream, and we view the same sun.\\nAnd we run the same course that our fathers have run.\\nTHE FRUITS OF PEACE.\\nFrom the time the people of the young colonies threw off\\nthe British yoke, to 1790, was an eventful era in our nation s\\nhistory, and especially in our own State. The adoption of the\\nFederal Constitution, in 1787-1788, and the re-organization of\\nthe State government, which went into force June 10, 1784,\\nbrought about a new order of things; and the inhabitants, hav-\\ning been freed from an.xieties and doubts, settled down to the\\nquiet and profitable pursuits of peace and, from this time on,\\nthe population of the town rapidly and steadily increased.\\nPublic confidence grew apace and prosperity began to send\\nforth her sun-lit smiles.\\nTAXES.\\n(1791.) April 12, Voted, That those ta.xes committed to\\nDea. John Collins, by the title of Continental and State Debt,\\nbe not collected at all.\\nVoted, That the Present Selectmen be a Committee to take\\nback those taxes, and also the Meeting house frame ta.v, in Mr.\\nJonathan Fifield s hand.\\nThe latter vote shows that at least part of the Congrega-\\ntional church building tax had been collected but there being\\n6", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "82 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nSO much disatisfaction relative to the erection of the building,\\nit was judged best not to build by a tax upon the town but by\\nprivate contributions.\\nTHE PARSONAGE LAND.\\n(1793.) April 15, Voted to re-lease the Parsonage land for\\nthe term of 999 years, and the Selectmen be the persons to\\nre-lease the same in behalf of the town.\\nThe income derived yearly from this lease was to be ex-\\npended for the support of the ministry.\\nTHE GREAT FROST.\\n(1794.) May 17, occurred what is known as the great\\nfrost, destroying the grain crop for that season throughout the\\ncountry, except the winter wheat and winter rye.\\nMINUTE MEN PAID.\\nNov. 3. Voted to choose a Committee of seven men to\\nconsult what encouragement to offer to those men who shall\\nEngage as Minute men and report to this meeting.\\nVoted Coll. Ebz r. Webster, Capt. John C. Gale, Joseph\\nBartlett, Esqr., Lt. Joseph Adams, Benjamin Whittemore,\\nMoses Eellows Lieut. Joseph Fifield shall be s d Committee.\\nAfter an hour s adjournment the committee reported the fol-\\nlowing, and it was\\nVoted that the town make up the wages of each man to\\nSeven Dollars per month from the time they shall march, while\\nin actual service, and also to furnish each man with one good\\nBlanket Gratis, when called to march, and also to give each\\nman one Dollar as a bounty when he enlisteth, and also when\\ncalled to march to pay each man five dollars as advance pay.\\nThe above stipulations were made for forty men,\\nPOST GUIDES.\\n(1795.) Voted to pay William Williams 15 shillings for\\npainting Post Guides y\\nThis was the commencement of placing guide boards or\\nfinger marks at the corners where two or more roads met.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 83\\nThey were put up in accordance with an Act of the Legislature\\nrequiring their erection.\\nThis year the income from the parsonage lands was divided\\nbetween the two societies.\\nCHURCH MUSIC.\\n(1799.) March 4, Voted to give liberty for the whole of\\nthe front gallery to be altered occupied as Singers Seats.\\nIn olden times there were no rules for singing. All sang as\\nthey pleased, and such tunes as were supposed to be familiar\\nto most of the congregation. The singing was mostly by\\nrote.\\nThe first settlers of Salisbury sang Psalms then came\\nhymnology. The singing at church was congregational. The\\nminister read the psalm and repeated the first two lines, which\\nthe chorister took up and sang. A deacon in his seat, directly\\nin front of the pulpit, then read a line which the congregation\\njoined in singing, then another line was read and sung, and so\\non through the psalm. This was called deaconing the psalm,\\nA reform in the matter of singing seemed to be demanded\\nsinging schools were taught, singing books introduced, and\\nthe church choir became an institution in divine worship.\\nMinister and people alike saw the necessity of uniformity and\\na leader in singing, that there must be rules governing the\\nrhythm, and regulating the time, and that the people must learn\\nto sing by note instead of by rote.\\nTo bring about this new order of things a great commotion\\nwas produced, and not unfrequently disturbances were created\\nbut the Singing Master was abroad. Singing books were\\npublished, and the people soon became satisfied that the new\\nway was the best and the old custom had to give way to the\\nnew, or the more modern. During the last decade of the last\\ncentury, hymn-books were introduced, and with them came the\\nbass-viol and other instruments. Previous to the introduction\\nof the bass-viol, the pitch pipe and the pitch fork were\\nused for striking the key note and for setting the tune.\\nJeremy Webster was the first leader of church music that there", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "84 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nis any record or tradition of in the town. Later ones are\\nmentioned in the biography. Abial Wardwell taught singing\\nschools at this time, and for several years. He and Jeremy\\nWebster lived on the South road about a mile from the meet-\\ning house. Enoch Little, of Boscav^^en, an excellent teacher,\\ntaught singing schools in Salisbury.\\nTHE MEETING HOUSE BELL.\\n(1800.) Stephen Webster was voted seven dollars for ring-\\ning the meeting house bell for one year. This is the first\\nnotice of the church bell. It was probably bought and hung in\\n1799, and was noted far and wide for its clearness of sound. It\\nhas been said that residents of Springfield went to church by the\\nringing of this bell. It is quite certain that people in all the\\nsurrounding towns went to church, to their work, and returned\\nto their meals by this signal. It could be distinctly heard at\\nConcord, sixteen miles away.\\n(1804.) The General Court established the second Tuesday\\nin March as the day for the annual town meeting.\\nPARTY CELEBRATIONS.\\n1805.) Daniel Webster delivered the Fourth of July oration\\nto the Federalists, at the South Road, and Thomas Hale\\nPettengill to the Democrats, then called Republicans, at the\\nCenter Road.\\nACTION REGARDING THE MEETING HOUSE,\\n(1806.) April 25, Voted to sell the floor seats on the east\\nside of the broad alley of the South Road meeting house.\\nVoted to choose a Committee to erect pews and dispose of\\nthem at Public Sale.\\nVoted that John Sweat, Andrew Bowers, and Joel Eastman\\nbe a Committee for the above purpose.\\nVoted that the proceeds of the sale of s d pews be de-\\nlivered into the hands of the Selectmen, and they are ordered\\nto lay it out in painting the Meeting-house, and such other\\nrepairs as they shall think proper. Four pews were finished", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORV. 85\\nand sold at auction, at the house of Josiah Rogers, October i.\\nTen per cent was paid down and the remainder in sixty days\\nwith interest.\\nPew No. 59, sold to Levi llean, for $74-50\\nPew No. 60, sold to Capt. David Pettengill, for 73--5\\nPew No. 61, sold to Josiah Rogers, for 57 -oo\\nPew No. 62, sold to Archelas Adams, for 56.00\\n1807.) The Journal of the House of Representatives shows\\nthat a motion was made that the session of the General Court,\\nwhich by the Constitution is to be held in June next, be holden\\nat Salisbury. The motion prevailed by a vote of 83 to 72.\\nJune 18, the Senate amended the House vote, by striking\\nout the word Salisbury, and inserting Concord. The House\\nrefused to concur in the amendment. The bill fell between the\\ntwo houses, and Salisbury thereby failed to be honored by the\\npresence of the Legislature of 1808.\\nFOURTH OF JULY ORATION.\\n(1808.) An oration was delivered at the Center Road, on\\nthe Fourth of July, by Ichabod Bartlett, then a Senior in Dart-\\nmouth College.\\nCOLD FRIDAY.\\n1 8 10.) Friday, the loth of January, was one of the coldest\\ndays ever known in Salisbury Very little snow had fallen all\\nwinter, while at this time there was none. Rev. Mr. Runnels,\\nin his History of Sanbornton, says: From the mild tempera-\\nture of forty-three degrees above zero, at sunset the evening\\nbefore, the mercury sank to sixteen degrees below zero in six-\\nteen hours. Few people ventured out of doors. To stand in\\nthe door, throw out water, and see it strike the ground frozen,\\nwas enough to satisfv the most incredulous. The wind was\\nvery strong and destructive. Caleb Morse, then an occupant\\nof the one-story part of Sylvester Greene s house, where he\\ncarried on the hatter s trade, aided by his apprentice, chained\\nthe roof of the building down to keep it from blowing away.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "86 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nHis son Stephen says that his father sent him to the D. J.\\nMann house, after a pail of milk. On the way home the milk\\nfroze and the wind carried away his heavy cap, which was never\\nfound.\\nCHECK LIST.\\n(1813.) The check list was first used at the annual March\\nmeeting, a law requiring its use having been passed by the\\nLegislature the year previous.\\nWARNER LINE.\\n(1815.) October 9, Voted to choose a Committee to con-\\nfer with the Selectmen in procuring evidence in favor of the\\nTown, respecting the Settlement of the line between this town\\nand Kearsarge Gore, lay the same before the County Com-\\nmittee at their adjourned meeting.\\n(1816.) November 11, Voted that our Representative be\\ninstructed to oppose the granting of the Petition of Thaddeus\\nHardy to have his lands in Salisbury annexed to Warner.\\nVoted that the town do not agree to pay the Committee on\\nline between Kearsarge Gore and this town.\\nTHE COLD SEASON.\\n(1816.) This was noted as the cold year, and great anx-\\niety was felt for food to sustain life. At this time means of\\ncommunication were very limited, and if there should occur a\\ngeneral failure of the crops a famine was apprehended. Such\\nwas the apprehension in the summer of 18 16. Rev. Ebenezer\\nPrice, in his Chronological History of Boscawen, remarks\\nThe whole face of nature appeared shrouded in gloom. The\\nlamps of heaven kept their orbits, but their light was cheerless.\\nThe bosom of the earth, in a mid-summer day, was covered with\\na wintry mantle, and man and beast and bird sickened at the\\nprospect. Autumn returns, alas not to fill the arm with the\\ngenerous sheaf, but the eye with the tear of disappointment.\\nOn the 6th of June, the day of general election, snow fell sev-\\neral inches deep, followed by a cold and frosty night, and the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 8/\\nfollowing day snow fell and frost continued. July 9th, a deep\\nand deadly frost killed or palsied most vegetables. The little\\ncorn which had the appearance of maturity was destitute of its\\nnatural taste and substance. But the providence of God was\\nbountiful in supplying the article of bread from the crops of rye,\\nwhich were uncommonly good.\\nA journal of the season, kept by Deacon I-^noch Little, Sr.,\\nof Boscawen, states:\\nThe spring was very cold and backward, hay was very\\nscarce, and a great deal of corn was fed to cattle, which made\\nbread scarce. May was generally cold June very cold. The\\n6th, 7th and 8th it snowed the ground was covered, and in the\\nnorth part of the State it was a foot deep. June loth, frost\\nkilled the corn on frosty land. July 9th, frost killed both corn\\nand potatoes on pine land. July 17th, hay is very short, per-\\nhaps half a crop no corn silked, and little hope of a crop.\\nSeptember 27th, frost killed almost all the corn in New Hamp-\\nshire and not half of it is fit to roast. October, no corn of con-\\nsequence. From four acres I shall not get eight bushels fit to\\neat. November, cattle came to hay early on account of short\\nfeed. December, generally cold. The prospects arc alarming.\\nThe crop of winter wheat and winter rye saved a vast amount\\nof suffering and perhaps a famine in New I^^ngland. There had\\nbeen no such time of apprehension in Salisbury since its settle-\\nment. Hay, in the month of April, 1817, was $40 a ton corn\\nor rye, $2 a bushel; oats, $1 wheat, $3; cheese, I2 cents a\\npound, butter 25 cents, and pork 18 cents a pound, and there\\nwas literally no money to purchase with, and he who had shared\\nwith him who had not. There were no western wheat fields,\\nand elevators filled with corn and other grain, and if there had\\nbeen an abundance in other parts of the country, there were\\nthen no railroads to bring the grain to our doors in Salisbury.\\nThis, too, happened the ne.\\\\t year after the war with Great Brit-\\nain ended, when the whole country was suffering from war s\\ndesolation. Oats could not then be utilized as food for man,\\nwhile at the present time they are made to yield a most nutri-\\ntious and healthy article of diet.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "05 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nOn a blank leaf of school records, in District No. i, is the\\nfollowing entry: 1817, May 31, cold froze half an inch\\nthick of ice.\\nPRESIDENT Monroe s visit.\\n1817.) This year, President Monroe made his tour through\\nNew England, and on July i8th visited Concord the first\\nPresident who had honored the capital of the State with his\\npersonal presence. He was received by the citizens with every\\nmark of respect due to his exalted personal character, and his\\nposition as the unanimously chosen head of the nation. This\\nwas termed the era of good feeling in American politics. In\\nhis journey through New England he was received with the\\nmost genial hospitality, and every evidence of high personal\\nregard was shown him. He was addressed at Concord by Hon.\\nThomas W. Thompson, an ex-Senator of the United States,\\na former resident of Salisbury, and made a feeling response.\\nA sumptuous dinner was given in his honor at Barker s tav-\\n-ern on the 18th, in the evening, he attended a musical concert\\non the 19th, he received calls during the day, and in the\\nevening attended a private party at Col. Wm. A. Kent s. On\\nthe 20th, he attended public worship at The Old North\\nChurch, and on Monday, the 21st, left Concord for the north,\\nstopping at Salisbury South Road, at the residence of Mr.\\nAndrew Bowers, whose guest he remained for one day. He\\ndesired to stop in the town which was honored as the birth\\nplace of Daniel Webster and Ichabod Bartlett, two members of\\nCongress, (who were then already known to fame,) and as the\\nformer home of Senator Thomas W. Thompson.\\nThe residence of Andrew Bowers was at the corner of South\\nand Mutton roads, and is still standing. At the only hotel in\\nthe place, numbers of citizens had collected anxious to see the\\nPresident of the United States, but no preparations had been\\nmade for a reception, as his visit \\\\yas unexpected until the Sun-\\nday before his arrival. Samuel Greeley proposed to the assem-\\nblage that a committee be appointed to wait upon His Excel-\\nlency, at the residence of Squire Bowers, and ask him to take", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 89\\nthe Squire s arm and walk down past the residence of Thomas\\nR. Little to the academy cross over to the home of Moses\\nClement on the north side of the. road, and walk up i)ast the\\nmeeting house to the tavern, where the citizens could pay their\\nrespects to him. Mr. Greeley was appointed chairman of that\\ncommittee, and immediately, with his associates, waited upon\\nthe President at the residence of Squire Bowers. The follow-\\ning is the speech of the chairman to the President of the\\nUnited States\\nPresident Monroe: Your \\\\isit to our rural town is so\\nunexpected that we have had no time to give you such a recep-\\ntion as we would like to honor you with, and Jiope yoii will\\ntake the will for the deed. Quite a large number of your fellow-\\ncitizens have assembled at the tavern opposite, who are desirous\\nof meeting you and grasping your hand, and the good women of\\nour little village zvould like to get a glimpse of you. We have\\nbeen chosen a committee by the citizens to wait upon you, and\\npropose to you that, at four o clock, you take the arm of our\\nfriend, Squire Bowers, and walk down on the south side of the\\ncommon to the academy, and pass up on the other side by the\\nmeeting house to the tavern, in view of the people of our village.\\nOn the lawn in front of the tavern our citizens will be happy\\nto greet you. If this arrangement will be agreeable to you it\\nwill be gratifying to us. If you prefer any other way than this,\\ntake your 02i ii course, I ask ye T\\nThe President replied that such a course would be exceed-\\ningly agreeable to him, and it would afford him much pleasure\\nto meet the good men, and get more than a glimpse of the\\ngood xvometiy the mothers and daughters, of the good town of\\nSalisbury.\\nAt four o clock, the President and Squire Bowers, arm-in-\\narm, walked down past the residence of Thomas R. Little to\\nthe academy, crossed over to the residence of Moses Clement,\\nand walked up by the meeting house to the tavern; and\\nthere, on the green, grass-covered lawn of the common, the\\nchief magistrate of the nation was greeted as warmly and as", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "go HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nheartily as in any place in the broad land. There was no pomp\\nor parade, no military display, no banners flying, and no\\nSonorous metal blowing martial sounds,\\nbut a plain, genial, respectful, hearty greeting, which warmed\\nthe heart and cheered the spirit of the good President.\\nFor some years the town maintained its ordinary activity,\\nwith no events requiring especial notice.\\nLAND SLIDE.\\n(1819.) In the spring of this year, a mass of earth and\\nstones, of several tons weight, became detached from the south-\\nern declivity of Kearsarge mountain, and was precipitated with\\ngreat violence into the valley below, sweeping a path of forty\\nrods in width.\\nOPPOSITION TO A NEW ROAD.\\n(1824.) Februarv i, the following article was voted upon:\\nTo see what method the Town will adopt respecting a contem-\\nplated Highway through the westerly part of said town of Salis-\\nbury, said highway having been petitioned for to the County\\nCourt of Sessions by J. Stark, S. Currier, Roger E. Perkins,\\nand one hundred and fourteen others.\\nVoted to leave it to the discretion of the Selectmen to ap-\\npoint an agent to attend the Court of Sessions to try to procure\\na postponement of the petition mentioned.\\nDecember 16, Voted to remonstrate against the road men-\\ntioned in the second article of this warrant.\\nVoted the Selectmen be a committee to confer with the\\nSelectmen of Andover, Boscawen and Hopkinton, and use their\\ndiscretion in opposing said road.\\nNEW COUNTY PROPOSED.\\nAt the annual March meeting the voters of Salisbury were\\ncalled upon to vote on the incorporation or formation of a new\\ncounty, from a part of Hillsborough and Rockingham, to be\\ncalled Merrimack. The number of votes in favor of the new\\ncounty was 240; against it, 19.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 9I\\nTHE GREAT FRESHET, ETC.\\nThis year occurred the Great Freshet, on the nth and\\n1 2th of February. It rained all of two nights and part of one\\nday, and carried away all the snow. The ground was frozen\\nand the water ran into the streams, which rose rapidly, and\\ncarried away two stone piers and part of the body of Concord\\nlower bridge, one wooden pier and about two-thirds of Concord\\nupper bridge, all of Canterbury bridge at Boscawen Plain, the\\nnew Republican bridge between Salisbury and Sanbornton,\\nSmith s bridge at New Hampton, four bridges on the Contoo-\\ncook river in Henniker, three in Warner, and four in Weare.\\nImmense quantities of timber which had been prepared and\\ncarried to the bank of the Merrimack were swept away by the\\nflood, and it was equally destructive in other parts of the State.\\nTimber at this time was drawn in winter upon the banks of the\\nrivers, and in the spring fastened together in immense rafts,\\nor shots, and when the water was at a certain height or\\npitch, these rafts shots, were run by skilled men over\\nEastman s, or Pemigewasset Great Falls, (at PVanklin,) in the\\nPemigewasset River, and Sewall s Falls, in Concord, on the\\nMerrimack. There were but few men who had prudence, skill,\\nstrength and courage to run a raft of logs over Eastman s or\\nPemigewasset Great P alls, in the river on the eastern boundary\\nof the original town of Salisbury. Previous to 1846, sawmills\\nwere erected at Lowell for the manufacture of lumber, and im-\\nmense quantities of timber were cut by Fisk Norcross, on\\nthe Pemigewasset and branches, and drawn upon the ice in the\\nwinter, and in the spring were let loose and driven by large\\nnumbers of river-men over the rocks, sand-bars and falls to the\\ncity of Lowell. At the completion of the Concord Railroad,\\nthe Middlesex Canal and the locks on the Merrimack below\\nConcord were of no more use, and rafting became at once\\na glory of the past. Very soon the driving of logs must\\ncease, and the Merrimack will be no h^iger a highway for the\\nlumbermen. Its waters will be entirely monopolized by the\\nmanufacturing capitalist, and its reservoirs will hold the power,\\ngreater than is possessed by any river in the world. The lakes,", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "92 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nthe ponds, the brooks and the little rills that swell the current\\nof the Merrimack, furnish treasures of greater value than the\\nmountains and gulches of California and Nevada, or the coal\\nmines of Maryland and Pennsylvania.\\nNEW TOWN.\\nIn the House of Representatives, December 8th, Mr. Bing-\\nham, chairman of the Committee on Towns and Parishes,\\nreported that the petition of Ebenezer Eastman and others for\\na new town, including a part of Salisbury, be postponed to the\\nfirst Tuesday of the next session. The report was accepted\\nand action postponed.\\nTHE NEW TOWN AGAIN.\\n(1825.) At the March meeting it was Voted to choose an\\nagent to oppose the petition of Ebenezer Eastman and others\\nfor a new town.\\nVoted that we shall employ council if thought necessary.\\nChose Moses Eastman, Esqr., Agent.\\nVoted the agent shall draw up a remonstrance and put it\\ninto the hands of the Selectmen to obtain signers.\\nAt the June session, the remonstrance against the petition\\nfor a new town was referred to the Committee on Towns and\\nParishes.\\nMr. Healey, as chairman of that committee, reported the fol-\\nlowing resolution, which was adopted\\nThat the petition of Ebenezer Eastman and others, praying\\nfor the incorporation of a new town, to be taken from the\\neasterly part of Salisbury and Andover, south-westerly part of\\nSanbornton and westerly part of Northfield, be referred to a\\nselect committee of three, to be appointed by the Speaker of the\\nHouse of Representatives and that said committee be author-\\nized to take into consideration the prayer of said petition, and\\nat the petitioners request, they view all the ground for which\\nthe contemplated new town is to be taken, hear all the parties\\ninterested, and give due notice to the Selectmen of the hearing,\\nand report at the next session of the Legislature.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 93\\nJune 17, the Speaker appointed Caleb Keith, WilHani Phim-\\nmer and Abel Merrill.\\nGENERAL LAFAYETTE.\\nDuring the summer of 1824, upon the invitation of Pre.sident\\nMonroe, General Lafayette re-visited the United States. Be-\\ntween the time of his leaving this country and his invitation to\\nbecome the guest of the nation, forty years had elapsed. To\\nthe survivors of the Revolution it was the return of a long-loved\\nand long-absent brother, and to the later born generation it was\\nthe second advent of him who had come to save us when we\\nfeared we were lost. He was to us the instrumentality which\\nwas all powerful in giving us a name and a country. In. the\\ndark days of our struggle for existence he came to our assist-\\nance, lavished his fortune, and spilt his blood for our indepen-\\ndence. In his character as a friend he seemed to combine all\\nthe titles to love, admiration, gratitude and enthusiasm, which\\ncould operate upon the heart and imagination of the young and\\nardent. Modest, generous, good and brave, he had little idea\\nof the glow of expectation that was awaiting his arrival upon\\nour shores, or of the enthusiastic reception with which he was\\nto be greeted. As he approached New York harbor he inquired\\nof an acquaintance if he could find a hack to carry him to some\\nhotel! The roaring cannon, as they thundered forth his wel-\\ncome, soon told him that his approach to our shores had been her-\\nalded and that the arms of the nation were open to receive him.\\nAs he passed from city to city and from State to State doubled\\nin number since his departure he received a constant series\\nof ovations. He was made the guest of all the States and of\\nthe principal towns and cities, and as he passed on his journey\\nfrom one end of the Union to the other, the whole population\\ncame out to meet and to welcome him.\\nOn the 22d of June, General Lafayette honored Concord with\\nhis presence, and was received by the Legislature, then in ses-\\nsion, and by an immense concourse of citizens from all parts of\\nthe State. Great preparations were made for his reception,\\nand Concord has never seen another such occasion of universal", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "94 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nenthusiasm. Six hundred citizens, inchiding the Governor and\\nhis council, the members of the Legislature, and more than two\\nhundred revolutionary officers and soldiers, sat down to a public\\ndinner in the state house yard, with General Lafayette. Two\\nhundred and ten revolutionary soldiers, several from Salisbury,\\nwere introduced to Lafayette by General Pierce, the father of\\nPresident Pierce. Toasts were drank, and original songs com-\\nposed for the occasion were sung. A great many people from\\nSalisbury, of all ages and of both sexes, were present to testify\\ntheir affection and gratitude to the nation s defender. He was\\nmet at the town line between Concord and Pembroke, and was\\naddressed by Hon. William A. Kent, chairman of the committee\\nof arrangements. He was then handed into a carriage, to which\\nwere harnessed eight beautiful white horses six of them from\\nSalisbury driven by the accomplished and skillful reinsman,\\nLyman Hawley, of the firm of Hawley Gilman, who kept the\\ntavern at the South Road. He was driven by Mr. Hawley, with\\nthis splendidly caparisoned team, through the entire length of\\nMain street and returned to the gate of the state house yard,\\nwhere he was received by the Governor and the Legislature,\\namid the enthusiastic and prolonged cheering of an immense\\nconcourse of people. He returned to Concord on the 27th of\\nJune, on his way to Windsor, Vermont, when he took his final\\nleave of Concord and of the State.\\nCELEBRATION.\\nFourth of July this year came on Sunday. On the fifth the\\npeople of Salisbury celebrated the day at the South Road. An\\naddress was delivered in the meeting house, by George W.\\nNesmith, and a public dinner was partaken of at the Stage\\nHotel, with toasts and post-prandial speeches.\\nTHE NEW TOWN AND ROAD MATTERS.\\n(1826.) At the March meeting, Voted that the Selectmen\\nbe instructed to take all necessary measures to oppose the\\nacceptance of the Report of the Committee on Said road, (viz.,\\nthe road from Andover to Hopkinton,) and shall remonstrate\\nagainst it,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 95\\nVoted that it be left to the drscretion of the Selectmen to\\nemploy such council as they shall think necessary to oppose the\\nnew town (Franklin) at the publick hearing at the next session\\nof the General Court.\\nJune i6, the Committee of the House of Representatives,\\nappointed at the previous session, consisting of Messrs. Keith,\\nPlummer and Merrill, reported the following resolution, which\\nwas adopted, yeas 122, nays 86:\\nResolved, That the whole subject in regard to the new town\\nof Franklin be indefinitely postponed.\\nTHE AUGUST FRESHET.\\nOn the 28th of August of this year the most terrific and\\ndestructive rain storm visited New Hampshire that had been\\nknown since the settlement of the State. The windows of heaven\\nwere literally opened, the rain descended and the floods came,\\nand the torrents came tumbling from the hills. Roads were\\ncompletely destroyed, bridges were swept away, and the hills\\nthemselves descended into the valleys.\\nDuring the night of the 28th, a whole family in the Crawford\\nNotch of the White Mountains were buried beneath a land-slide.\\nA violent tempest raged about the Notch during the night, and\\na vast amount of rocks and soil on the W illey mountain was\\nprecipitated into the valley below, burying Mr. Willey, his wife,\\nfive children, and two hired men. Mr. Willey feared a slide\\nand started, as is supposed, with his family for a place of safety,\\nbut all were overtaken soon after leaving the house. A large\\nstone in the rear of the dwelling saved that from destruction,\\nand had they remained there they would have been safe. Many\\nof the road-beds in Salisbury were completely destroyed and\\nmost of the bridges were carried away.\\nGRASSHOPPER YEAR.\\nThe summer was very hot and dry, and with the drowth\\ncame a vast army of grasshoppers, which destroyed nearly\\nevery green thing. This year was referred to for a long time\\nafter as the time of the great drowth, the year of the great\\nfreshet, and the grasshopper year.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "9^ HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nREPAIR OF HIGHWAYS.\\nOctober 20, Voted to raise $i,ooo to defray the expense of\\nrepairing the highways and bridges that were destroyed by the\\nlate freshets. Voted to raise $300 for the repairs of high-\\nways.\\nThese extraordinary sums were raised independently of the\\nannual appropriations to rebuild the bridges and repair the\\nhighways injured and destroyed by the storm.\\nDEATH OF TWO EX-PRESIDENTS.\\nOn the 4th of July of this year, just half a century from the\\nbirth of American independence, John Adams and Thomas\\nJefferson, two of its bold and fearless advocates, who had\\nlong been the aged and venerable objects of a nation s admir-\\nation and regard, terminated their illustrious liv^es and finished\\ntheir career of earthly renown. Daniel Webster won an im-\\nmortality of fame from his oration upon the lives and services of\\nthese distinguished authors of the Declaration of Independence.\\nPRODUCTIVE SEASON.\\n(1827.) This year was marked as one of abundant fruitful-\\nness, when the earth gave forth her increase and made glad the\\nheart of the husbandman.\\nTHE PARSONAGE FUND.\\nAt the March meeting it was Voted to divide the parsonage\\ninterest money among the several religious societies in said\\ntown, according to their polls and ratable estate, to be ascer-\\ntained by the Selectmen taking the minds of the inhabitants.\\nSCHOOL COMMITTEE.\\n(1828.) March 12, agreeably to an Act of the Legislature,\\npassed July 6, 1827, the voters of the town elected the following\\nschool committee, one in each school district, for one year:\\nSouth Road District, No. i John White.\\nSouth Road District, No. 2 Isaac Sawyer.\\nSouth Road District, No. 3 John Couch, Jr.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 97\\nCenter Road District, No. i Thomas 1 1. Pettengill.\\nCenter Road District, No. 2 Thomas Chase.\\nBlackwater Mills, Stephen I ingree.\\nBlackwater Center District David I ettengill, 2d.\\nBlackwater Center Road District, David Stevens.\\nRiver Road, now Franklin,) Isaac Hale.\\nVillage District, now Franklin,) John Cavender.\\nNorth Road District, No. i Samuel Ouimby.\\nNorth Road District, No. 2 Joshua Fifield.\\nWesterly District, Kearsarge dore,) Daniel Watson.\\nRaccoon Hill District, dreenleaf Cilley.\\n.\\\\CTION ON THE NEW TOWN.\\nNovember 3, Voted that the Representatives be Instructed\\nto oppose the petition of Dea. Sanborn, Caleb Merrill and others\\nfor a new town. (Franklin.)\\nVoted that the Selectmen be instructed to take the sense\\nof the Town by going to each individual and get his opinion for\\nor against the aforesaid petition, and that the Selectmen notify\\nCaleb Merrill, Esq., of the time they appoint to take the opinion\\nof the individuals aforesaid.\\nThe Act incorporating Franklin, passed at the fall session,\\non the 1 2th of December, 1828. The line between Salisbury\\nand Franklin is as follows\\nBeginning on the Merrimack River, where the line between Salisbury and\\nBoscawen commences, thence South about 70 Degrees west, following the line\\nbetween said Towns to the .Southwest corner of lot No. 10 in the tirst range of lots\\nin Salisbury, thence North si.x degrees East following the westerly line of said lot\\nto a stone monument at the Northwest corner of said lot, thence North four rods\\nacross the first range way in Salisbury, thence South about 73 Degrees west to a\\nstone marked C. B. at the Southwest corner of Lot No. 1 1 in the second range of\\nlots in Salisbury, thence North si.x Degrees West on the Westerly line of said lot\\nto the Northwest corner of said lot on the South side of the Centre Road so called,\\nthence South about 73 West 63^ rods, thence North four rods across the road,\\nthence South about 73 Deg. West 63^ rods to a stone marked C. B. at the South-\\nwest corner of lot No. 61 in the third range of lots in Salisbury, thence North 14\\nDeg. East on the Westerly line of said lot, 474 rods to a stone marked C. B. at the\\nSouth side of the road, thence North about 73 Deg. East following the course of\\nthe Range way to the Southwest corner of lot No. 52 in the 4th range of lots in said\\nSalisbury, thence North following the Westerly line of said lot to a Stake and\\nStone on the line between Salisbury and Andover.\\nParker Noyes, John Simonds, Dearborn Sanborn and Edward Leighton or any\\nthree were appointed to call first meeting. Aproved Dec. 24, 1S2S.\\n7", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "98 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n(1829.) March 16, Voted that the literary fund be added\\nto the school fund, and the interest of said fund and that only\\nbe used for the benefit of the District Schools until the town\\nshall otherwise direct.\\nDEATH OF EZEKIEL WEBSTER.\\nOn Friday afternoon, April loth, 1829, at about half-past\\nthree o clock, Ezekiel Webster, at the age of forty-nine,, in the\\nfullness of apparent health, at the zenith of his intellectual\\npower and the height of his usefulness, when his prospects for\\nfame seemed to be ripening, while addressing a jury in the\\ncourt house at Concord, receiv^ed his silent summons and passed\\nin an instant from the court of earth to the court of heaven.\\nWhile standing before the jury, with the judges, lawyers, and a\\nlarge audience all listening intently to his words, with his form\\nerect and his arms hanging gracefully by his side, he closed a\\nbranch of his argument and instantly closed his eyes in death.\\nThe eloquent, silver-tongued George Sullivan was to follow\\nhim upon the other side of the case, and great interest was felt\\nin the arguments by the friends of both.\\nNeither tongue nor pen can describe the consternation of the\\ncourt, the jurors, and the crowded audience, whose eyes were\\nriveted upon the speaker, at the moment when the messenger\\nof death so suddenly summoned him away.\\nIn the opinion of many, Ezekiel Webster was, next to his\\nbrother Daniel, the most eminent man that Salisbury has pro-\\nduced. Perhaps fame will divide its honors between him and\\nIchabod Bartlett.\\nHis funeral took place on Sunday, at the meeting house on\\nBoscawen Plain, and a large concourse of people, including\\nmany from his native town, were present to testify their respect\\nfor the head of the Merrimack bar.\\nSaturday morning, Hon. Charles H. Atherton announced to\\nthe court the deep feeling which pervaded the bar by this mel-\\nancholy bereavement, and suitable resolutions were adopted.\\nGeorge Sullivan, in addressing the court and bar, exclaimed,\\nIn the midst of life we are in death What shadows we are\\nand what shadows we pursue!", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 99\\nThe New Hampshire Journal, in referring to his death, said\\nMr. Webster was one of the ablest lawyers in the State a\\ndistinguished legislator and left a rich inheritance in fame for\\nhis orphan children. He stood at the head of the Merrimack\\nbar, by every member of which he was honored and esteemed,\\nfor his courtesy, talents and integrity. The void created by his\\npremature death will not soon be filled.\\nRETRENCHMENT AND REFORM.\\n(1831.) March 8, Capt. Benjamin Pettengill introduced the\\nfollowing resolution: Resolved, That the Representative of\\nthe Town of Salisbury in the Gen l Court be instructed to use\\nhis utmost efforts to reduce the Salary of the Governor, Secre-\\ntary of State, State treasurer, adjutant General and the pay of\\nthe Legislature.\\nVoted that an attested copy of these resolutions and vote\\nof the Town be sent by the Town Clerk to each of the printing\\npresses in Concord, for insertion in the several newspapers.\\nSNOWING STARS.\\n1833.) On the 13th day of November of this year occurred\\nthe most remarkable phenomenon ever witnes.sed by the inhab-\\nitants of Salisbury. It was said that it snowed stars. In\\nthe morning, long before daylight began to dawn, meteors\\nbegan to fall thick and fast, like snow-fiakes. There was no\\nwind, and the night was clear and cool; no moon was shining,\\nand the air was thick with the falling meteors. The shower\\nlasted for a considerable time, and was seen by every one who\\nhappened to be awake and out of doors at the time. It caused\\ngreat commotion and, in many cases, among the timid and\\nsuperstitious, no little alarm. Edwin Booth, in writing an auto-\\nbiographical sketch many years ago, spoke of this meteoric\\nshower as happening in Baltimore, Maryland. The phenomenon\\nhas since had several satisfactory e.xplanations.\\nProf. John Brocklesby, of Trinity College, Hartford, remarks\\nthat the wonderful display of meteors, in 1833, drew the atten-\\ntion of philosophers to the subject of shooting stars, and from", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "lOO HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nthe results of subsequent researches and observations, there is\\nnow reason to believe that certain epochs exist when these\\nluminous bodies appear in greater numbers than usual, and that\\nsometimes, at the return of these periods, they literally descend\\nto the earth in showers. He describes the meteoric shower of\\nthe 13th of November, 1833, as by far the most magnificent\\ndisplay of the kind that has ever occurred. It extended from\\nthe northern lakes to the south of Jamaica, and from 61\u00c2\u00b0 west\\nlongitude, in the Atlantic, to about 150\u00c2\u00b0 west longitude, on the\\nPacific. For the space of seven hours, from 9 P. M. to 4 A. M.,\\nthe heavens blazed with an incessant discharge of fiery meteors\\nfrom the cloudless sky. At times they appeared as thick as\\nsnow-flakes falling through air, and as brilliant as the stars\\nthemselves.\\nPRESIDENT Jackson s visit.\\nOn the 28th of June of this year, Andrew Jackson, President\\nof the United States, honored New Hampshire with a visit.\\nHe was the third President who had favored the State with his\\npresence. The Legislature was in session, and his only stop was\\nat Concord, from whence he returned after his visit direct to\\nWashington. This interesting occasion called forth an immense\\nconcourse of people, to do honor to the chief magistrate of the\\nnation, the hero of New Orleans. Large numbers from Salis-\\nbury went to Concord to pay their respects to the most popular\\nman who had occupied the presidential chair since Washington.\\nHe was received at Bow line by eight brilliantly uniformed\\nindependent military companies, and left his barouche and\\nmounted an elegant snow-white horse. Though sixty-six years\\nof age, no person ever saw a more exhilarating and inspiring\\nsight than the gallant old hero of three wars, as he rode through\\nthe streets of Concord on his beautiful snow-white charger,\\nbowing gracefully right and left in response to the continual\\nshouts and the deafening hurrahs of more than ten thousand\\npeople.\\nthe COLD WEDNESDAY.\\n1835.) On the i6th day of December of this year occurred\\nwhat has been known as the cold Wednesday. The wind was", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. 10 I\\nhigh and boisterous, and the average state of the thermometer,\\nfrom 7^ o clock in the morning till sunset, was 1 1\u00c2\u00b0 below zero.\\nIt was 6\u00c2\u00b0 below zero at noon. It was the coldest day for more\\nthan forty years, or since the notable cold Friday. On the\\nsame day occurred a most destructive fire in New York city.\\nThe hose attached to the fire-engines froze up, and the fire was\\neventually stopped by blowing up buildings. This was the\\nmost destructive fire that ever occurred in that city. The\\nintense cold prevailed throughout the United States and the\\nCanadas.\\nA COLD SEASON.\\n1836.) The winter was remarkably cold, and on the 26th of\\nApril of this year, Rice Corser went on runners from Corser\\nHill, in Boscawen, to Concord, and found it good sleighing.\\nFast day there were snow-drifts ten feet deep, on Corser Hill\\nand vicinity, and many places in Salisbury.\\nANOTHER FRESHET.\\nDuring this winter occurred another great rain, which carried\\noff a large body of snow and broke up the rivers, causing great\\ndestruction of bridges. The Canterbury bridge, Boscawen\\nbridge, and four bridges in Concord were swept away.\\nTHE FINANCIAL CRASH.\\n(1837.) Several of the preceding years had been cold, and\\nthe crops had been short little corn or wheat was raised. The\\npeople of Salisbury began to feel the pinch of short crops. In\\nthis year came the great financial crash it was black Friday\\nthroughout the whole of the year, and the blackness did not\\nend with the year. There was little money, except wild-cat\\nmoney, but a plenty of that. Banks suspended and issued frac-\\ntional bills, to take the place of specie to make change, and few\\npersons dared to take a bank bill, for fear the bank which\\nissued it had failed the day before or would fail the next day.\\nThe countrv stood still, or worse, advanced backward. The", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "I02 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ncauses of this financial distress were many. The great com-\\nplaint was that the United States government had failed in its\\nduty to provide a currency a circulating medium for the\\ncountry. Volumes could be written upon the subject. Previ-\\nous to 1837, surplus money from duties on imports had accum-\\nulated in the United States treasury, and had been distributed\\namong the several States and this, among other things, caused\\nthe duties on imported goods to be reduced; so that, in 1840,\\nmanufactures were languishing or at a stand-still, all public\\nimprovements had been abandoned, and the United States\\ntreasury was empty. The country has hardly ever seen such a\\nperiod of financial gloom as culminated in 1837. The hard\\ntimes continued, and food became scarce as well as money.\\nRye was imported from Italy and Russia and brought to Salis-\\nbury and sold in considerable quantities at the store of Samuel\\nGreenleaf Co., at the South Road. There were times during\\nthe cold seasons, from 1836 to 1839, when corn was worth $2.50\\na bushel, and many farmers raised only the small, Canada corn.\\nAbout this time India wheat, somewhat resembling buckwheat,\\nwas extensively raised, as food for hogs and poultry. It was\\nalso used to make bread, which when eaten hot was light and\\npalatable. As a food for man it soon went out of use, as it was\\nevidently not a kind of bread upon which man could live alone.\\n1839.) In the month of February occurred another destruc-\\ntive freshet, which carried off many bridges. The rivers were\\nbroken up, and immense bodies of ice jammed up against the\\nbridges, forcing them from their foundations. The ground was\\nfrozen very deep, and the snow was all melted. In this freshet\\nRepublican bridge was again swept away.\\nSURPLUS REVENUE.\\nMarch 14, Voted that the proportion of the surplus revenue\\nnow in the hands of the State Treasurer at Concord, belonging\\nto the Town of Salisbury, remain in the treasury to be put at\\ninterest for the benefit of the Town. Chose Nathaniel Bean as\\nagent for the town to receive the interest on said money as it\\nbecomes due said Town.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. IO3\\nThere is no record in the Treasurer s office at Concord, to\\nshow when this surplus money was paid to the town, or that\\nit had ever been paid. The State Treasurer of that time, it is\\nsaid, claimed that he was a special trustee to hold this fund for\\nthe benefit of the town, and hence no account of it is kept in the\\nTreasurer s books. The interest this year amounted to $i 17.50.\\nIn 1840 it was voted, That the Selectmen be agents to apply\\nfor and receive the surplus money, and on the treasurer s book\\nwe find they received the principal, amounting to $3357.57, and\\ninterest on the same amounting to $193.27. Although there is\\nno town record to show what became of it, we are assured that\\nit was used towards building the town house and for other town\\nexpenses.\\nHARD CIDER CAMPAIGN.\\n1840.) This year was the most noted of any since the foun-\\ndation of the government, for the exciting political canvass for\\nPresident and Vice President, between the Democratic and\\nWhig parties, the Liberty party not having then been formed.\\nIt was a square contest. Martin Van Buren, then in office, was\\nre-nominated by the Democrats, and General William Henry\\nHarrison, a war-worn soldier, was nominated by the Whigs.\\nThe Whigs charged the Democrats with being responsible for\\nthe commercial distress and the financial gloom which pervaded\\nthe country. They raised the cry of reform. The Democrats\\nhad been enjoying a long lease of power. Some indiscreet\\neditor of some one of the many democratic newspajiers in the\\ncountry said that General Harrison was born in a log-cabin.\\nSome one ridiculed him as having been cradled by his mother\\nin a sap-trough. Some even alleged that he was rocked in a\\nhog-trough, and dressed in coon-skins, and was brought up on\\nhard cider. These unwise and senseless allegations called forth\\nno rebuke from the Democratic papers; and the Whigs, seeing\\ntheir advantage, caught at them at once, and he was paraded in\\nthe papers, in pictures, in handbills, and everywhere, as the", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "I04 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nlog-cabin, hard cider, coon-skin candidate for President.\\nWhat was intended as a reproach was immediately seized upon\\nas merit. Let him, said Mr. Webster, be the log-cabin\\ncandidate. What you say in scorn we will shout with all our\\nlungs, and we will see whether he who has dwelt in one of the\\nrude abodes of the West may not become the best house in the\\ncountry. The Whigs accepted the name of coons, and\\ngloried in it, while they called the Democrats locofocos.\\nIn April, 1834, John Mack, of Park Row, New York city,\\nobtained a patent for a self-lighting cigar, on one end of which\\nwas a composition that would ignite by rubbing. These were\\ncalled Locofoco cigars.\\nIn 1835 a division occurred in the New York Democracy.\\nAt a meeting held at Tammany Hall a brawl and tumult was\\nraised. One party turned off the gas-lights, but some of the\\nother wing, having some locofoco matches, immediately re-\\nlighted the hall. The Courier and Enquirer newspaper, in a\\nnotice of the meeting, called that wing of the party Loco-\\nfocos, and the country accepted the name. The Whigs there-\\nupon called their opponents by that term, while the Whigs were\\nnicknamed Coons.\\nThe Democrats had been a long time in power, and for three\\nyears all public enterprise had been languishing. They could\\ncharge nothing, but could only labor to throw off the responsi-\\nbility of the financial ruin that had overtaken a majority of the\\nbusiness men of the country. So the Coons charged continu-\\nally, and it was said took nothing back. The Locofocos had\\nto stand on the defensive. On the 4th of July, in 1840, in a\\ntown not far distant from Salisbury, a gentleman stated before\\na public audience that it could be proved that Isaac Hill, while\\nGovernor, stole four pairs of cartwheels from the State of New\\nHampshire and took them to Portsmouth and sold them and\\nhe asked with an air of triumph, If he didn t steal the wheels,\\nwhere are they Let him produce them\\nIn this campaign three eminent speakers, natives of Salis-\\nbury, took a very active part, and their influence in the campaign\\nwas very marked. They were Daniel Webster, Ichabod Bart-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. IO5\\nlett, and Joel Eastman. Daniel Webster was at the zenith of\\nhis greatness and power. No man probably ever had manner,\\nform and features, eyes, voice and action all the attributes of\\na stump speaker as Webster, in the Hard Cider campaign\\nof 1840. Ichabod Bartlett was several years younger, and a\\nbrilliant speaker, while Joel Eastman had a commanding figure\\nand a voice that could be heard at almost any distance, and yet\\nit was like music.\\nAt a hard cider, log-cabin, coon-skin, bear-trap, Tippecanoe\\nand Tyler too hig mass-meeting, in Salisbury, October 26,\\ntwo of these distinguished men were present, Bartlett and East-\\nman, and made addresses. Upon the election of Harrison,\\nDaniel Webster was made Secretary of State, Joel Eastman\\nUnited States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire,\\nand Israel W. Kelley, the brother-in-law of Mr. Webster, United\\nStates Marshal three important offices for one little rural\\ntown in the Granite State.\\nMR. WEP.STER AT SARATOGA.\\nOn the 19th of August, 1840, Mr. Webster was at Saratoga,\\nto attend a session of the Court of Appeals. He was invited\\nto address the people on the issues of the campaign. It is well\\nauthenticated that this famous speech, in the beginning of the\\ncampaign, he intended to deliver at a mass-meeting to be held\\nat Salisbury early in the summer. The meeting did not come\\noff in the early jjart of the season, so it was delivered at Sara-\\ntoga. It was, no doubt, his best effort on the stump. It was\\nin this speech that he spoke with such tenderness and regard\\nof his father, his brothers and sisters, and his rude home in\\nSalisbury. It does great credit to his head and to his heart,\\nand it is most appropriate that it should find a place here\\nGentlemen: It did not happen to me to be born in a log-\\ncabin, but my elder brothers and sisters were born in a log-cabin,\\nraised amidst the snow-drifts of New Hampshire, at a period so\\nearly that when the smoke first rose from the rude chimney\\nand curled over the frozen hills, there was no similar evidence", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "I06 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nof a white man s habitation between it and the settlements on\\nthe rivers of Canada. Its remains still exist I make to it an\\nannual visit I carry my children to it, to teach them the hard-\\nships endured by the generations which have gone before them.\\nI love to dwell on the tender recollections, the kindred ties, the\\nearly affections, and the touching narratives and incidents which\\nmingle with all I know of this primitive family abode. I weep\\nto think that none of those who inhabited it are now among the\\nliving, and if ever I am ashamed of it, or if I ever fail in affec-\\ntionate veneration for him who reared it and defended it against\\nsavage violence and destruction, cherished all the domestic vir-\\ntues under its roof, and, through the fire and blood of a seven\\nyears revolutionary war, shrunk from no danger, no toil, no\\nsacrifice, to serve his country, and to raise his children to con-\\nditions better than his own, may my name and the name of my\\nposterity be blotted from the memory of mankind.\\nJUNE SNOW.\\n(1841.) On Saturday, June nth, more or less snow fell\\nthroughout the State.\\nEND OF THE WORLD.\\n(1S43.) Great excitement existed in regard to the final des-\\ntruction of the world, in accordance with the prediction of one\\nMiller, who had followers in Salisbury and throughout the coun-\\ntry. So confident were some people of the fulfilment of certain\\nprophecies, as explained by the preachers of this doctrine, that\\ntheir property was sold at merely nominal prices, their shops\\nwere closed, and their farm crops remained unharvested. The\\nappearance of a remarkable comet about this time, while it was\\nhailed by the believers as a supernatural sign, contributed to\\nincrease the excitement and consternation of the ignorant and\\nsuperstitious.\\nA COUNTY FARM.\\n(1847.) May 7th, the town voted on the question, Is it\\nexpedient to purchase a farm for the support of the poor of said\\nCounty.? Yeas, 52; nays, 54. Subsequently the countyde-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. IO7\\ncided the question in the affirmative, and the result of their\\naction was the establishment of a county house and farm, in the\\nnorth part of the town of Boscawen, about 1864.\\nGREAT HAIL STORM.\\n(185 1.) Wednesday, August 13th, occurred a notable hail-\\nstorm. This was preceded on the 9th, (Saturday) between the\\nhours of three and four o clock in the afternoon, by a terrific\\nshower. During some minutes darkness prevailed to such an\\nextent that print could not be read. This was followed by a\\nperfectly clear and cool day, but on Monday the sky became\\novercast and towards evening the weather was as sultry as on\\nthe preceding Saturday. On Tuesday evening another power-\\nful rain fell, likewise accompanied with much vivid lightning.\\nWednesday was hot and sultry before the storm, which rose to\\na tornado, with lightning and hail. As first seen by our citizens\\nit appeared approaching from Ragged mountain. The first\\ndamage in town was at the O. B. Stevens house. Centre Road\\nVillage escaped serious damage. Continuing over the hill, it\\nstruck William H. Moulton s house and barn, breaking all the\\nglass, taking out the sash and shattering clapboards. The house\\nof Frank B. Calef was struck by the full force of the storm,\\nmost of the glass shattered, and clapboards and shingles torn\\nfrom their fastenings. Some of the hail-stones weighed two\\nounces, many measured five inches in circumference and at least\\none seven inches. The indentations made by them are to be\\nseen at the present day. The course of the tornado through\\nSalisbury was very irregular and at no point over a mile in width.\\nAll crops in its track were destroyed.\\nCONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.\\n(1852.) March 13th, on the proposed amendments to the\\nConstitution, submitted to the town, the vote was in the affirm-\\native, 189 to 44.\\nTEMPERANCE MOVEMENTS.\\n(1852.) For several years there had been an increasing\\ninterest in the temperance cause, and the question of passing a", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "I08 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nprohibitory law, similar to one already in operation in the State\\nof Maine, was widely discussed. Towns instructed their repre-\\nsentatives in the Legislature in regard to their action on this\\nquestion. Salisbury was a temperance town, and was willing\\nto give a positive expression of her position. At the annual\\nmeeting this year, John B. Smith introdued the accompanying\\nresolution, which was accepted\\nResolved, That we disapprove of the use of alcoholic liquor as a beverage, and\\nrequest our representative, in his capacity, to vote for a law to prevent the sale of\\nit in the State and we hereby instruct our selectmen, in their capacity, to take all\\nprudent, lawful measures to stop the sale of it in the town, except for medicinal\\nand mechanical purposes.\\nAN INACTIVE PERIOD.\\nFor several years the town moved on in a quiet way. There\\nwas but little enterprise manifested a few shops and mills were\\noperated, for the manufacture of lumber or light implements.\\nSchools were maintained, and churches were regularly opened\\non the Sabbath. The population gradually diminished, and\\nreal estate depreciated.\\nTHE REBELLION.\\n(1862.) But when war was declared in 1861, many of the\\nyoung men, anxious for a change in their condition, and inspired\\nby a love of the Union, volunteered. By official action, the town\\nencouraged her citizens to enlist, as will be seen in the chapter\\non the Civil War. August 2d, of this year, a town meeting\\nwas held, to take action regarding enlistments. Cyrus Gookin\\nwas chosen moderator.\\nVoted, To pay to soldiers who will volunteer to fill our quota\\nof the first three hundred thousand men, called for by the Pres-\\nident of the United States, the sum of one hundred and fifty\\ndollars, [each] to be paid when they are mustered into the\\nservice of the United States.\\nVoted, To pay all those who have enlisted since the war\\ncommenced, (except three months men,) who are now in the\\nservice of the United States, the sum of fifty dollars [each]", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "MUNICIPAL HISTORY. IO9\\nalso the widows of said enlisted men who have been killed or\\ndied while in service of the United States.\\nOn the 20th of October of the same year it was Voted to\\ninstruct the selectmen to borrow five thousand dollars, on the\\ncredit of the town, to pay volunteers that have enlisted to fill\\nthe quota called for by the President of the United States, and\\nwho may enlist hereafter for that purpose, and also to pay State\\naid to soldiers families.\\nThe Legislature authorized towns to pay a given sum monthly\\nto the families of soldiers who were in the service.\\n1863.) On the first day of October, Voted, That the sum\\nof three hundred dollars be appropriated for each and every\\ndrafted or conscripted man from this town, who has been drafted,\\nand has been, or shall be accepted as a conscript or soldier, or\\ntheir substitutes, agreeably to the law in such case made and\\nprovided.\\nVoted, That the selectmen are hereby authorized and in-\\nstructed to hire on the credit of the town a sum of money suffi-\\ncient to pay the sum of three hundred dollars to each and every\\nman who has been drafted and accepted, or may be accepted,\\nas a conscript from the town, or their substitutes, and give the\\ntown notes therefor.\\n1S69. July 7th, by an Act of the Legislature, certain terri-\\ntory was severed from the town of Franklin and anne.xed to the\\ntown of Salisbury,\\nThe civil history of the town for the years immediately ensu-\\ning is mostly embraced in the history of the Rebellion, as set\\nforth in a subsequent chapter of these annals.\\n(1872.) In 1871 the Legislature passed an Act, providing\\nfor the partial reimbursement of towns for money paid during\\nthe war to meet the demands of the army. Bonds were issued,\\nand the amount assigned to Salisbury was $7,975. CK). These\\nbonds the town sold and appropriated the funds towards paying\\nthe town debt.\\nATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA.\\n(1881.) September 6th was characterized as the Yellow\\nDay, and will be remembered as exhibiting some of the most", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "no HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nbeautiful phenomena ever witnessed. The day was warm, even\\nsultry, and the rays of the sun were obstructed by a curtain of\\nhaze or smoke. The green of the grass and foliage of the trees\\nand shrubbery was converted into blue, while the prevailing\\ntint upon other objects was yellow. At times the cloud was so\\nthick as to cause a deep gloom, making gas or other light nec-\\nessary for the transaction of business. The gas-jets burned\\nwhite; nothing appeared to the eye in its natural hues, and the\\neffect was like a magical transformation by invisible artists be-\\nhind the scenes, with the world for a stage. Travelers in Eng-\\nland, it is said, have witnessed similar effects from the sun dimly\\nshining through a London fog. The cause is undoubtedly\\nto be attributed to the presence of smoke, which by a peculiar\\ncondition of the atmosphere was held suspended like a screen\\nbetween the earth and the sun. As extensive forest fires had\\nbeen raging in Canada and in northern New York and Vermont\\nno other explanation seems to be necessary. The phenomena\\nextended beyond the limits of New England.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nOUR CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.\\nI-uild me straight, O, worthy master,\\nStaunch and strong, a goodly vessel.\\nThat shall laugh at all disaster.\\nAnd with wave and whirlwind wrestle.\\nA STATE GOVERNMENT FORMED.\\nThat we may show the work which Salisbury performed in\\nthe organization of a State government, and in the original\\nadoption and subsequent amendments of the Constitution, it\\nbecomes necessary to depart from the ordinary course of town\\nhistories, and give brief notes relative to the different conven-\\ntions which were held to institute and perfect the Constitution\\nof the State.\\nGovernor John Wentworth, in September, 1775, issued his\\nlast official, but unexpected order, dated at the Isles of Shoals,\\nand immediately returned to Boston.\\nOn his departure the royal government was dissolved. There\\nwas no executive head, and the State of New Hampshire was\\npractically without form and void, so far as rules were con-\\ncerned. The political necessities of the time brought order\\nout of this chaos.\\nOn the 14th of November, 1775, in accordance with a recom-\\nmendation of the Continental Congress, the Fourth Provincial\\nCongress of New Hampshire adopted a plan of representation,\\nupon which an election of delegates was held. Prov. Pap.\\nVol. 6, pp. 657-8-9.] In this plan Boscawen and Salisbury\\nwere entitled to one delegate, and the whole number constitu-\\nting the convention was 89.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "112 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nThis body, when assembled, was Impowered to resolve\\nthemselves into a House, and remain such for one year.\\nThese delegates when elected met at Exeter, on the 2ist\\nday of December, 1775, and continued a Congress until the 5th\\nof January, 1776 (Fifth Provincial Congress,) and then, by\\nleave of the Continental Congress, resolved themselves into a\\nHouse of Representatives or an Assembly for the Colony of\\nNew Hampshire. [State Pap. Vol. 8, p. i.] This body, after\\nthis, and while engaged in forming and adopting a new plan of\\ngovernment, was virtually the First Constitutional Convention\\nof New Hampshire. It adopted the Report and Plan of the\\nCommittee, consisting of Matthew Thornton and others, with\\nslight modification, and this became the first form of govern-\\nment of the Colony, by the people for the people. A copy of\\nthis Constitution is published in Page 2, Vol. 8, State Papers.\\nA fac-simile of the original printed issue is contained in the\\nnth Vol. of Town Papers, p. 739.\\nOn the 5th of January, 1775, the P ifth Provincial Congress\\nceased to exist.\\nHaving adopted the above Plan of Government, and having\\nelected a Committee, it immediately became the Council and\\nAssembly of the Colon}^ of New Hampshire.\\nThis form of government was not made permanent, but to\\ncontinue during the present unhappy and unnatural contest\\nwith Great Britain.\\nHenry Gerrish, Esq., was delegate from Boscawen and Salis-\\nbury in this assemblage. He was sent March 12, 1776, as a\\nmessenger to Orford, entrusted with letters to Colonels Morey\\nand Bedel, and with other confidential matters.\\nThis Constitution is believed to be the first adopted by any\\nColony or State in the Union. It continued in force from\\nJanuary 5th, 1776, to the first Wednesday in June, 1784, a little\\nmore than eight years and five months.\\nFIRST CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.\\nA Convention was called, to be held in Concord, June loth,\\n1778, For the sole purpose of forming or laying a permanent\\nPlan of Government.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. II3\\nApril 2 1 St, 1778, Salisbury chose Capt. Ebenezer Webster\\nand Capt. Matthew Pettengill, delegates to attend this Conven-\\ntion, and they met the delegates chosen by the other towns and\\nparishes for the abovesaid purpose, in Concord, on the day\\ndesignated, June loth, 1778. [State Pap. Vol. 8, pp. 757-8,\\n774-5-]\\nRev. Mr. Bouton, in Vol. 9 of his Town Papers, p. 834,\\nremarks It is much to be regretted that the journal of that\\nConvention cannot be found. Search was made in vain by the\\nlate John Farmer, Esqr., and Mr. G. Parker Lyon, as also by\\nthe editor of this volume. Mr. Lyon was at great pains, how-\\never, in collecting the names of the delegates to that Conven-\\ntion from the town records throughout the State.\\nOn the same page (834) and the three following pages, is a\\nlist of the names of the delegates thus collected, which list is\\ndoubtless imperfect, as George Jackman is put down as the\\ndelegate from the classed towns of Boscawen and Salisbury,\\nwhen the fact is there were two delegates from Salisbury, Capt.\\nEbenezer Webster and Capt. Matthew Pettengill, as the records\\nof the town show.\\nThe adjourned meeting of this Convention was held in Con-\\ncord, June 5th, 1779, at which time a Constitution was agreed\\nupon, and copies sent to each town for ratification. [Town\\nPap. Vol. 9, p. 837 Coll. of N. H. Hist. Soc. Vol. 4, pp. 156,\\n157 Town Pap. Vol. 11, p. 741.]\\nThis Constitution, which had been sent out to the people for\\nratification, was rejected, but the state of the vote upon it no\\none has been able to find.\\nSECOND CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.\\nOn the 25th of March, 1781, the House of Representatives\\nvoted to call another Convention, known as the Second Con-\\nstitutional Convention, and which was to meet at Concord, on\\nthe second Tuesday of June, 1781. Capt. Plbenezer Webster\\nwas chosen as delegate.\\nThe Constitution formed was submitted to the people and\\nby them rejected.\\n8", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "114 HISTORY OF SALISBURY,\\nIn June, 1783, the same Convention met and agreed upon\\nanother form for a Constitution; Jonathan Cram, in 1782, hav-\\ning been chosen a delegate. This Constitution was submitted\\nto the people, and the Convention adjourned to October 31st,\\n1783, to await the decision of the people upon this the third\\nConstitution. It was ratified and adopted.\\nUpon the assembling of the Convention it made a declara-\\ntion of the adoption by the people, and that it was established\\nas the Civil Constitution for the State of New Hampshire, to\\ntake effect on the first Wednesday of June, 1784.\\nThe time from the assembling of the Convention, June 5th,\\n1 78 1, to the declaration of the adoption of the Constitution,\\nOctober 31st, 1783, was two years and nearly three months.\\nFEDERAL CONSTITUTION, ETC.\\nNew Hampshire was the ninth State to adopt the Federal\\nConstitution. The first session of the Convention to consider\\nthe subject met at Exeter on the thirteenth day of February,\\n1788. The most distinguished statesmen and civilians of the\\nState were among its members, and General John Sullivan was\\nits president.\\nSalisbury sent, as delegate, Colonel Ebenezer Webster. It\\nis a noticeable fact, that, to all these Conventions where wise\\njudgment and careful deliberation were to be exercised, Mr.\\nWebster should be chosen. At this time Mr. Webster was a\\nState Senator, holding the office in 1785-1789 and 1790-1791,\\nand was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Hillsborough\\nCounty, from 1791 to the time of his death in 1806.\\nThe action of Judge Webster, and of the town, in this Con-\\nvention, is best told by Hon. George W. Nesmith, who is con-\\nversant with the subject.\\nIn 1788, January 16, Col. Webster was elected a delegate to\\nthe Convention at Exeter, for the purpose of considering the\\nUnited States Constitution. A committee was also chosen by\\nthe town to examine said Constitution and advise with said\\ndelegate. This committee was composed of Joseph Bean, Esq.,\\nJonathan Fifield, Esq., Jonathan Cram, Capt. Luke Wilder,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. II5\\nDeacon John Collins, I-^dward Eastman, John C. Gale, Capt,\\nRobert Smith, Leonard Judkins, Deacon Jacob True, Lt. Bean,\\nLt. Severance and John Smith. At the first meeting of the\\nConvention, in Feburary, Col. Webster opposed the Constitution\\nunder instructions from his town.\\nA majority of the Convention were found to be opposed to\\nthe adoption of the Constitution. The Convention adjourned\\nto Concord to meet in the succeeding month of June. In the\\nmeantime Col. Webster conferred with his constituents, advised\\nwith the committee on the subject, asked the privilege of sup-\\nporting the Constitution and he was instructed to vote as he\\nmight think proper. His speech made on this occasion has\\nbeen printed. It did great credit to the head and heart of the\\nauthor.\\nSPEECH OF COL. EBENEZER WEBSTER.\\nMr. President: I have listened to the arguments for and\\nagainst the Constitution. I am convinced such a government\\nas that Constitution will establish, if adopted a government\\nacting directly on the people of the States is necessary for\\nthe common defence and the general welfare. It is the only\\ngovernment which will enable us to pay off the national debt,\\nthe debt which we owe for the Revolution, and which we are\\nbound in honor fully and fairly to discharge. Besides, I have\\nfollowed the lead of Washington through seven years of war,\\nand I never have been misled. His name is subscribed to this\\nConstitution. He will not mislead us now. I shall vote for\\nits adoption.\\nA session of four days was sufficient to complete the work.\\nThe final vote stood fifty-seven in favor of the Constitution and\\nforty-six against it.\\nFIRST REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION.\\nA Convention to revise the Constitution convened at Concord,\\nSeptember 7, 1791, and is known as the Third Constitutional\\nConvention. Salisbury selected as a delegate the first settled\\nminister of the town, the Rev. Jonathan Searle. He was a", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "Il6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ngraduate of Harvard University. Prov. State Pap. Vol. lo,\\nP- 36, (41)-]\\nRev. Mr. Bouton, in said volume, says The journal of the\\nNew Hampshire Convention in 1 791-2, which revised the\\nState Constitution of 1784, furnishes the names of the distin-\\nguished men who composed that Convention and mark an era\\nin our history of which the State may be justly proud.\\nThis Convention, having ably finished the work given it to\\n.do, adjourned to meet again on the 5th of September, 1792.\\nThe amended Constitution having been submitted to the people,\\nit was ascertained, on the re-assembling of the Convention, that\\nit had been ratified by a vote of 2122 for and 978 against it\\nand it remained in force till 185 1, nearly sixty years.\\nSECOND REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION.\\nThe people of the State, at the annual meeting in March,\\n1850, voted to call a Convention to revise the Constitution.\\nOn the 8th of October of that year, each town chose one or\\nmore delegates, to meet in Convention for the above purpose,\\nat Concord, on the 6th of November, 1850.\\nSalisbury selected as delegate, Abraham H. Robinson, a\\npracticing physician in the town, and a graduate of Yale\\nCollege.\\nThe Convention met at the time designated and continued\\nin session till the 2d of January, 185 i. Fifteen different amend-\\nments were agreed upon and submitted to the people for their\\nrejection or adoption at the annual March meeting, in 185 1,\\nand all of them were rejected.\\nOn the 1 6th of April following, the Convention re-assembled\\nand agreed upon three amendments, i. To abolish the pro-\\nperty qualification for office. 2. To abolish the religious test.\\n3. To empower the Legislature to originate future amendments\\nof the Constitution.\\nThe amendment abolishing the property qualification for\\noffice was then adopted, and the other two were rejected.\\nThis was the P ourth Constitutional Convention.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. 11/\\nTHIRD REVISION OF THK CONSTITUTION.\\nIn 1876, at the annual meeting in March, the people voted\\nto call a Convention to revise the Constitution, and delegates\\nwere chosen at the Presidental election in November,, 1876.\\nThere were thirteen amendments agreed upon by the Conven-\\ntion and all but two were adopted by the people at the annual\\nelection in March, 1877.\\nThis was the Fifth Constitutional Convention.\\nThe delegate from Salisbury to this Convention was Nathaniel\\nBean.\\nUnder the Plan of government in New Hampshire, from\\n1784 to the adoption of the Constitution, September 5th, 1792,\\nthe chief magistrate of the State held the title of President,\\ninstead of Governor, although elected in the same manner as\\nthe present Governor.\\nIn the lists given below the successful candidate is indicated\\nby an asterisk\\nVOTE FOR STATE PRESIDENT, I784 TO I79I, INCLUSIVE.\\n1784.\\nMeshech Weare,\\n2S*\\n17S8.\\nJohn Langdon,\\n33*\\n1785.\\nCol. Josiah Bartlett,\\n30\\nJohn Sullivan,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a25\\nJohn Langdon,\\n0*\\nJo.siah Bartlett,\\n5\\n1786.\\nJohn Langdon,\\n29\\n1789.\\nJohn Sullivan,\\n,3*\\nGeorge Atkinson,\\n2\\nJohn Pickering,\\n15\\nJohn Sullivan,\\n0*\\n1790.\\nJohn Pickering,\\n62\\nI7S7.\\nJohn Langdon,\\n27\\nJosiah Bartlett,\\n0*\\nJohn Sullivan,\\n24*\\n1791.\\nJosiah Bartlett,\\n78*\\nVOTE FOR GOVERNOR,\\n1792 TO 1885, INCLUSIVE.\\n1792.\\nJosiah Bartlett,\\n86*\\n1800.\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n134*\\n1793-\\nJosiah Hartlett,\\nTimothy Walker,\\n100*\\nI\\nTimothy Walker,\\nPhilip Carrigan,\\n40\\nI\\n1794.\\nJohn T. (lilman,\\n106*\\n1801.\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n.03*\\n1795-\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n86*\\nTimothy Walker,\\n50\\n1796.\\nJohn T. fiilman.\\n103*\\nScattering,\\n5\\nAbiel Foster,\\nI\\n1S02.\\nJohn P. Oilman,\\nU3*\\n1797-\\nJohn T. (lilman.\\nno*\\nJohn Langdon,\\n44\\n1798.\\nJohn T. (lilman.\\n82*\\n1S03.\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n57*\\nOliver Peabody,\\n22\\nJohn I^angdon,\\n66\\n1799.\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n72*\\n1S04.\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n35*\\nOliver Peabody,\\n6\\nJohn Langdon,\\n79", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "ii8\\nHISTORY\\nOF SALISBURY.\\n1805.\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n144\\n1824.\\nDavid L. Morrill,\\n135*\\nJohn Langdon,\\n127*\\nLevi Woodbury,\\n38\\n1S06.\\nJohn Langdon,\\n122*\\nScattering,\\n75\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n72,\\n1825.\\nDavid L. Morrill,\\n273*\\nScattering,\\n58\\nScattering,\\n4\\n1807.\\nJohn Langdon\\nIII*\\n1S26.\\nBenjamin Pierce,\\n153\\nTimothy Farrar,\\n31,\\nDavid L. Morrill,\\n63*\\nScattering,\\n18\\nScattering,\\n4\\n1 80S.\\nJohn Langdon,\\n66*\\n1S27.\\nBenjamin Pierce\\n2 I 2*\\nThomas W. Thompson,\\n22\\nScattering,\\n16\\n1809.\\nJeremiah Smith,\\n168*\\n1828.\\nBenjamin Pierce,\\n193\\nJohn Langdon,\\n121\\nJohn Bell,\\n167*\\n1810.\\nJeremiah Smith,\\n158\\nScattering,\\nI\\nJohn Langdon,\\n144*\\n1S29.\\nBenjamin Pierce,\\n159*\\niSii.\\nJohn Langdon,\\n166*\\nJohn Bell,\\n78\\nJeremiah Smith,\\n154\\n1S30.\\nMatthew Harvey,\\n150*\\n1812.\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n162\\nTimothy Upham,\\n68\\nWilliam Plummer,\\n145*\\n1831.\\nSamuel Dinsmore,\\n157*\\nScattering,\\n2\\nIchabod Bartlett,\\n81\\n1813.\\nWilliam Plummer,\\n176\\nScattering,\\nI\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n173*\\n1832.\\nSamuel Dinsmore,\\n134*\\n1814.\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n207*\\nIchabod Bartlett,\\n60\\nWilliam Plummer,\\n149\\n1833-\\nSamuel Dinsmore,\\n164*\\nScattering,\\n2\\nArthur Livermore,\\n29\\n1815.\\nJohn T. Oilman,\\n183*\\nScattering,\\nI\\nWilliam Plummer,\\n145\\n1834-\\nWilliam Badger,\\n236*\\nScattering,\\nI\\nScattering,\\n6\\n1S16.\\nJames Sheafe,\\n176\\n835-\\nWilliam Badger,\\n138*\\nWilliam Plummer,\\n172*\\nJoseph Healey,\\n61\\nScattering,\\n3\\n1836.\\nIsaac Hill,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a235*\\n1817.\\nWilliam Plummer,\\n170*\\nWilliam Itadger,\\n5\\nJames Sheafe,\\n147\\nScattering,\\n4\\nScattering,\\n4\\n1837-\\nIsaac Hill,\\n156*\\n1818.\\nWilliam Plummer,\\n173*\\n1838.\\nIsaac Hill,\\n154*\\nJeremiah Mason,\\n145\\nJames Wilson,\\n94\\n1819.\\nSamuel Bell,\\n161*\\n1839.\\nJohn Page,\\n158*\\nWilliam Hale,\\n135\\nJames Wilson,\\n102\\nScattering,\\n2\\nScattering,\\nI\\n1820.\\nSamuel Bell,\\n295*\\n1840.\\nJohn Page,\\n159*\\nScattering,\\n8\\nEnos Stevens,\\n77\\n1821.\\nSamuel Bell,\\n215*\\n1841.\\nJohn Page,\\n160*\\nJeremiah Mason,\\n3\\nEnos Stevens,\\n94\\n1822.\\nSamuel Bell,\\n209*\\nScattering,\\nI\\nJeremiah Mason,\\nI\\n1842.\\nHenry Hubbard,\\n192*\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a61823.\\nSamuel Dinsmore,\\n148\\nEnos Stevens,\\n59\\nLevi Woodbury,\\n13s*\\nScattering,\\n4\\nScattering,\\n2", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.\\n119\\n1843.\\nAnthony Colby,\\n39\\n1859.\\nAsa P. Cate,\\n152\\nHenry Hubbard,\\nH3*\\nIchabod Goodwin,\\n118*\\nScattering,\\n9\\ni860.\\nAsa P. Cate,\\n159\\n1844.\\nJohn H. Steele,\\n128*\\nIchabod Goodwin,\\n127*\\nAnthony Colby,\\n7-\\n1S61.\\nGeorge Stark,\\n152\\nScattering,\\nJ4\\nNathaniel S. Berry,\\n94*\\n1845.\\nJohn H. Steele,\\n128*\\n1862.\\nGeorge Stark,\\n38\\nAnthony Colby,\\n69\\nNathaniel S. Berry,\\n95*\\nScattering,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a23\\nPaul J. Wheeler,\\n13\\n1846.\\nJared W. Williams,\\n141\\n1863.\\nIra A. Eastman,\\n147\\nAnthony Colby,\\n79*\\nJoseph A. Gilmore,\\n52*\\nNathaniel S. Berry,\\n20\\nWalter Harriman,\\n31\\n1847.\\nJared W. William s,\\n173*\\n1864.\\nEdward W. Harrington,\\n152\\nAnthony Colby,\\n87\\nJoseph A. Gilmore,\\n108*\\nNathaniel S. Berry,\\n16\\n1865.\\nEdward W. Harrington,\\n146\\n184S.\\nJared W. Williams,\\n180*\\nFrederick Smyth,\\n108*\\nNathaniel S. Berry,\\n77\\n1 866.\\nJohn G. Sinclair,\\n156\\nAnthony Colby,\\nI\\nFrederick Smyth,\\n102*\\n1849-\\nSamuel Dinsmore,\\n163*\\n1S67.\\nJohn G. Sinclair,\\n139\\nLevi Chamberlin,\\n56\\nWalter Harriman,\\n99*\\nNathaniel S. Berry,\\n17\\n1868.\\nJohn G. Sinclair,\\n153\\n1850.\\nSamuel Dinsmore,\\n165*\\nWalter Harriman,\\n94*\\nLevi Chamberlin,\\n62\\n1869.\\nJohn Bedel,\\n122\\nNathaniel S. Berry,\\n17\\nOnslow Stearns,\\n87*\\nI85I.\\nSamuel Dinsmore,\\n159*\\nScattering,\\nI\\nThomas E. Sawyer,\\n54\\n1870.\\nJohn Bedel,\\n83\\nJohn Atwood,\\niS\\nOnslow Stearns,\\n82*\\n1852.\\nNoah Martin,\\n163*\\nSamuel Flint,\\n38\\nThomas E. Sawyer,\\n64\\nLorenzo D. Barrows,\\nII\\nScattering,\\ni6\\n1871.\\nJames A. Weston,\\n127*\\n1853-\\nXoah Martin,\\n147*\\nJames Pike,\\n94\\nJames Bell,\\n51\\nScattering,\\n7\\nJohn H. White,\\n7\\n1872.\\nJames A. Weston,\\n115\\n1854.\\nNathaniel B. Baker,\\n153*\\nEzekiel A. Straw,\\n5*\\nJames Bell,\\n5\\nLemuel P. Cooper,\\n7\\nJared Perkins,\\n13\\n1873-\\nJames A. Weston,\\n3\\nIS55.\\nNathaniel B. Baker,\\n144\\nEzekiel A. Straw,\\n107*\\nRalph Metcalf,\\n13\\nScattering,\\n9\\nScattering,\\n2\\n1874.\\nJames A. Weston,\\n123*\\n1856.\\nJohn S. Wells,\\n150\\nLuther McCutchins,\\n75\\nRalph Metcalf,\\nI 26*\\nScattering,\\nI\\nIchabod Goodwin,\\n4\\n1875-\\nHiram R. Roberts,\\n129\\n1857.\\nJohn S. Wells,\\n49\\nPerson C. Cheney,\\n89*\\nWilliam llaile,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a235*\\nScattering,\\nI\\n1858.\\nAsa P. Cate,\\n54\\n1876.\\nDaniel Marcy,\\n^V\\nWilliam Haile,\\n120*\\nPerson C. Cheney,\\n8o\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "I20\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n1877. Daniel Marcy,\\n118\\n1880-81. Frank Jones,\\n128\\nBenjamin F. Prescott,\\ngo*\\nCharles H. Bell,\\nno*\\n1878. Frank McKean,\\n124\\n1882-83. Martin V. B. Edgerly,\\n3\\nBenjamin F. Prescott,\\n80*\\nSamuel W. Hale,\\n103*\\nScattering,\\n5\\n1884-S5. Moody Currier,\\nIII*\\n1879-81. Frank McKean,\\n108\\nJohn M. Hill.\\n103\\nNatt Head,\\n75*\\nWarren G. Brown,\\n16\\nREPRESENTATIVES.\\nThe names upon the town records were often differently\\nspelled, accordingly as the town clerk understood their pro-\\nnunciation. Titles were prefixed to proper names, or not, just\\nas the recorder supposed to be correct.\\nThe early annual election for officers was held on the last\\nTuesday in March, until 1795, when the day was changed to\\nthe second Tuesday in March. In 1878 the State, county offi-\\ncers, supervisors, and representatives were for the first time\\nelected biennially in November.\\n1775, Salisbury and Boscawen sent, as classed towns, Henry\\nGerrish, of the latter town 1779, Henry Gerrish 1780.\\nIn 1784, under the new Constitution, Salisbury sent Capt.\\nMatthew Pettengill.\\n1780. Capt. Ebenezer Webster,\\n1781. Capt. Ebenezer Webster,\\n1782. Jonathan Cram,\\n1783. Capt. Matthew Pettengill,\\n1784. Capt. Matthew Pettengill.\\n1785-6. Lt. Robert Smith.\\n1787-8-9. Voted not to send.\\n1790-1. Col. Ebenezer Webster.\\n1792-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-1800. John C. Gale.\\n1801-2-3-4. Andrew Bowers.\\n1805. Col. John C. Gale.\\n1806. Andrew Bowers.\\n1807-S. Thomas W. Thompson.\\n1809. Andrew Bowers.\\n1810-11-12-13. Maj. Jabaz Smith.\\n1814-15. Lt. Benjamin Pettengill.\\n1816-17-18. Maj. Jabez Smith.\\n1819. Israel W. Kelly.\\n1820-21. Maj. Jabez Smith.\\n1822. Samuel C. Bartlett.\\n1823-24. Maj. Jabez Smith.\\n1825. Voted not to send.\\n1826. John Townsend.\\n1827. Samuel C. Bartlett.\\n1828. John Townsend.\\n1829-30-31. Matthew P. Webster.\\n1832. Moses Greeley.\\n1833-34. Voted not to send.\\n1835-36-37. Benj. Pettengill, 2d.\\n1838-39. Nathaniel Bean.\\n1840-41. True George.\\n1842-43. Cyrus Gookin.\\n1844-45. Richard Fellows.\\n1846-47. Stephen Pingry.\\n1848-49. David C. Gookin.\\n1850-51. Peter Whittemore.\\n1852-53. Currier Quimby.\\n1854-55. James Fellows.\\n1856-57. Dr. A. H. Robinson.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.\\n121\\n1858-59. Gilbert Eastman.\\n1860-61. John C. .Smith.\\n1S62-63. Porter H. Watson.\\n1S64-65. Daniel J. Calef.\\n1866. John M. Hayes.\\n1867-68. Moses P. Thompson.\\n1869. Charles C. Rogers.\\n1870. Benjamin F. Scribner.\\n187 1. Charles C. Rogers.\\n1872-73. Caleb E. (mith.\\n1S74-75, Joseph N. Greeley.\\n1876-77. Isaac Sanborn.\\n1878. Jonathan Arey.\\n1879. Daniel C. Stevens.\\n1880. Pliny A. Fellows.\\n1882. John Shaw.\\n1884. Warren C. Webster.\\nTOWN OFFICERS.\\nThe following list embraces the names of moderators, (M.),\\ntown clerks, (C), and selectmen, (S.), chosen at the annual\\nMarch meeting, from April 7th, 1768, to 1884, inclusive:\\n1768. Capt. John Webster, M. I774-\\nSinkler Bean, C.\\nStephen Call, S.\\nJoseph Bean,\\nThomas Chase.\\n1769. Ebenezer Webster, M. 1775\\n.Sinkler Bean, C.\\nJohn Collins, S.\\nRobert Smith,\\nEbenezer Webster.\\n1770. Capt. John Webster, M. 1776.\\nSinkler Bean, C.\\nEliphalet Gale, S.\\nAndrew Pettengill,\\nEbenezer Webster.\\n1771. Capt. (John) Webster, M. 1777.\\nEbenezer Webster, C.\\nSinkler Bean, .S.\\nJoseph Fifield,\\nJohn Collins.\\n1772. Benjamin Sanborn, M. 1778.\\nEbenezer Webster, C.\\nCapt. Matthew Pettengill, S.\\nBenjamin Sanborn,\\nEbenezer Webster.\\n1773. Capt. John Webster, M. 1779-\\nEbenezer Webster, C.\\nCapt. John Webster, S.\\nMoses Garland,\\nJohn Fifield.\\nJoseph Bean, M.\\nDr. (Joseph) Bartlett, C.\\nShubael Greeley, S.\\nJonathan Cram,\\nEbenezer Webster.\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster, M.\\nDr. Joseph Bartlett, C.\\nLeonard Judkins, S.\\nEns. John Webster,\\nDeacon John Collins.\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster, M.\\nJonathan Cram, C.\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster, S.\\nJonathan Fifield,\\nNathaniel Meloon, jr.\\nDeacon John Collins, M.\\nJonathan Cram, C.\\nDavid Pettengill, S.\\nDr. Joseph Bartlett,\\nBenjamin Iluntoon.\\nCapt. Ebenezer W\u00c2\u00abbster, M.\\nJonathan Cram, C.\\nJacob Cochran, S.\\nDavid Brottlebank,\\nDeacon John Collins.\\nCapt. John Webster, M.\\nJonathan Cram, C.\\nLt. Robert Smith, S.\\nJohn Hoit,\\nDr. Joseph Bartlett.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "122\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n1780. Capt. Ebenezer Webster, M. 1789.\\nDeacon John Collins, C.\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster, S.\\nJoseph Bartlett, Esq.,\\nEdward Eastman.\\n1781. Capt. John Webster,]M. 1790.\\nDeacon John Collins, C.\\nJonathan Fifield, S.\\nWillet Peterson,\\nJoseph Bartlett, Esq.\\n1782. Capt. John Webster, M. 1791.\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nJoseph Bartlett, Esq., S.\\nPhineas ISean,\\nJohn Collins.\\n1783. Capt. John Webster, M. 1792.\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nElder Benj. Huntoon, S.\\nCapt. Benj. Pettengill,\\nJohn Collins Gale.\\n1784. Capt. Ebenezer Webster, M. I793-\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nJohn Sweatt, S.\\nDaniel Brottlebank,\\nJacob True.\\n1785. Capt. Ebenezer Webster, M. i794-\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nJohn Smith, S.\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster,\\nBenjamin Greeley, jr.\\n1786. Col. Ebenezer Webster, M. 1795.\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nDavid Pettengill, S.\\nCol. Ebenezer Webster,\\nJoseph Bartlett, Esq.\\n1787. Col. Ebenezer Webster, M. 1796.\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nCapt. David Pettengill, S.\\nCapt. Robert Smith,\\nCapt. Luke Wilder.\\n1788. Col. Ebenezer Webster, M. 1797.\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nEdward Fifield, S.\\nLt. Samuel Pillsbury,\\nCol. Ebez r Webster.\\nJonathan Fifield, M.\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nLieut. Joseph Severance, S.\\nCapt. David Pettengill,\\nJonathan Cram.\\nCol. Ebenezer Webster, M.\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nAquila Pingry, S.\\nLt. Joseph Fifield,\\nLt. Phineas Bean.\\nCol. Ebenezer Webster, M.\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nLt. John C. Gale, S.\\nJoel Eastman,\\nNathaniel Meloon.\\nElder Benj. Huntoon, M.\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nJoel Eastman, S.\\nAndrew Bowers,\\nAmos Pettengill.\\nEdward Eastman, M.\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nAndrew Bowers, S.\\nJoel Eastman,\\nAmos Pettengill.\\nLt. John C. Gale, M.\\nJohn Collins, C.\\nAndrew Bowers, S.\\nReuben True,\\nMoses Fellows.\\nCapt. Luke Wilder, M.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nMoses Fellows, S.\\nJoel Eastman,\\nRichard Greeley.\\nBenjamin Whittemore, M.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nMoses Fellows, 8.\\nReuben True,\\nLuke Wilder.\\nJudge Ebez r Webster, M.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nJoel Eastman, S.\\nReuben True,\\nMoses Fellows.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY\\n123\\n1798. Hon. Judge Webster, M. 1808.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nJoel Eastman, S.\\nReuben True,\\nMoses Fellows.\\n1799. Andrew Bowers, M. 1S09.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nJoel Eastman, S.\\nJohn Smith,\\nIsaac Blaisdell.\\n1800. Andrew Bowers, M. 1810.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nJoel Eastman, S.\\nCapt. Aquila Pingry,\\nBenj. Pettengill.\\n1801. Benjamin Whittemore, M. iSii.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nBenjamin Pettengill, S.\\nJabez Smith,\\nReuben True.\\n180^. Ebenezer Webster, M. 181 2.\\nJoel Eastman, C\\nJoel Eastman, S.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\nReuben True.\\n1S03. Judge Webster, M. 1813.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nJoel Eastman, S.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\nJoshua Fifield.\\n1804. John Sweatt, M. 1814.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nJoel Eastman, S.\\nBenjamin Pettengill, jr.,\\nJoshua Fifield.\\n1805. Thomas W. Thompson, M. 181 5.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nReuben True, S.\\nJoshua Fifield,\\nNathaniel Xoyes.\\n1806. Edward Blodgett, M. 1S16.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nReuben True, S.\\nJoshua Fifield,\\nNathaniel Noyes.\\n1807. John Sweatt, M. 1817.\\nJoel Eastman,\\nSamuel Orccnlcaf, S.\\nJohn Smith,\\nLieut. Benj. Pettengill.\\nAndrew Bowers, M.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nLt. Benj. I ettengill, S.\\nJoshua Fifield,\\nJohn Smith.\\nJohn Sweatt, M.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nJoshua Fifield, S.\\nLt. Benj. Pettengill,\\nDea. Amos Pettengill.\\nEdward Blodgett, Esq., M.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nBenj. Pettengill, jr., S.\\nLevi Morrill,\\nCapt. Wm. Pingry.\\nSamuel Greenleaf, M.\\nJoel Eastman, C.\\nBenj. Pettengill, jr., .S.\\nJoshua Fifield,\\nCapt. Benj. Pettengill.\\nSamuel Greenleaf, M.\\nJohn Townsend, C.\\nBenj. Pettengill, jr., S.\\nJoshua Fifield,\\nEnoch Osgood.\\nSamuel Greenleaf, M.\\nJohn Townsend. C.\\nCapt. Benj. Pettengill, S.\\nLt. John Couch,\\nMoses Greeley.\\nIsrael W. Kelly, M.\\nJohn White, C.\\nCapt. Benj. Pettengill, S.\\nJoshua Fifield,\\nJohn Smith.\\nIsrael W. Kelly, M.\\nJohn White, C.\\nJoshua Fifield, S.\\nIsrael W. Kelly,\\nSamuel Greenleaf.\\nIsrael W. Kelly, M.\\nJohn White, C\\nJoshua Fifield, S.\\nBenj. Pettengill, jun r.,\\nCapt Joel Eastman.\\nIsrael W. Kcllv, M.\\nJohn Townsend, C.\\nCapt. William I ingry, .S.\\nLieut. Benj. Pettengill,\\nCapt. Joel Eastman.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "124\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ni8i8. Israel W. Kelly, M. 1827.\\nJohn Townsend, C.\\nWilliam Pingry, S.\\nJabez Smith,\\nJohn Townsend.\\n1819. Israel W. Kelly, M. 1828,\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, C.\\nWilliam Pingry, S.\\nJohn Townsend,\\nMoses Greeley.\\n1820. Maj. Jabez Smith, M. 1829.\\nJohn Townsend, C.\\nWilliam Pingry, S.\\nMoses Greley,\\nCapt. Matthew P. Webster.\\n1821. Israel W. Kelly, M. 1830.\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, C.\\nLt. Benj. Pettengill, S.\\nMatthew P. Webster,\\nJoshua Fifield.\\n1822. Israel W. Kelly, M. 1831.\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, C.\\nMatthew P. Webster, S.\\nLt. Benj. Pettengill,\\nJoshua Fifield.\\n1823. Israel W. Kelly, M. 1832.\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, C.\\nLt. Benj. Pettengill, S.\\nJoshua Fifield,\\nCapt. Matthew P. Webster.\\n1824. Israel W. Kelly, M. 1833.\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, C.\\nLt. Benjamin Pettengill, S.\\nMatthew P. Webster,\\nNathaniel Webster.\\n1825. Thomas Pettengill, M. 1834.\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, C.\\nNathaniel Webster, S.\\nMatthew P. Webster,\\nCapt. Joseph Morrill.\\n1S26. Israel W. Kelly, M. 1835.\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, C.\\nJabez Smith, S.\\nNathaniel Webster,\\nThomas Chase.\\nJabez Smith, M.\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, C.\\nJabez Smith, S.\\nNathaniel Webster,\\nThomas Chase.\\nIsrael W. Kelly, M.\\nJohn Townsend, C.\\nMatthew P. Webster, S.\\nMoses Greeley,\\nStephen Sanborn.\\nMoses Greeley, M.\\nJohn Townsend, C.\\nWilliam Pingry, S.\\nThomas Chase,\\nNathaniel Bean.\\nWilliam M. Pingry, M.\\nJohn Townsend, C.\\nWilliam Pingry, S.\\nThomas Chase,\\nNathaniel Bean.\\nCapt. True George, M.\\nJohn Townsend, C.\\nNathaniel Bean, S.\\nJoshua T. Greene,\\nDaniel Fitts.\\nCapt. True George, M.\\nJoseph Couch, C.\\nTrue George, S.\\nJoshua T. Greene,\\nDaniel Fitts.\\nTrue George, M.\\nJoseph Couch, C.\\nBenjamin Pettengill, S.\\nNathaniel Bean,\\nTrue George.\\nIsrael W. Kelly, M.\\nJohn Townsend, C.\\nNathaniel Bean, S.\\nMatthew P. Webster,\\nSamuel Allen.\\nIsrael W. Kelly, M.\\nJohn Townsend, C.\\nNathaniel P\u00c2\u00abean, S.\\nJohn C. Gale,\\nJohn L. Eaton.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.\\n125\\n1S36. True CJeorge, M.\\nJohn Tovvnsend, C.\\nNathaniel Hean, S.\\nMatthew P. Wehster,\\nMoses Greeley.\\n1837. True George, M.\\nJohn Townsend, C.\\nNathaniel Hean, S.\\nMatthew P. Webster,\\nCyrus Gookin.\\n1S3S. True George, M.\\nJohn Calef, 2d, C.\\nCyrus Gookin, S.\\nMoses (Jreeley,\\nNathaniel D. Iluntoon.\\n1539. True George, M.\\nJohn Calef, 2d, C.\\nCyrus Gookin, S.\\nNathaniel D. Huntoon,\\nHezekiah F. Stevens.\\n1540. True George, M.\\nJohn Calef, 2d, C.\\nNathaniel Bean, S.\\nII. F. Stevens,\\nPeter Whittemore.\\n1 84 1. True George, M.\\nJohn Calef, 2d, C.\\nNathaniel Bean, S.\\nRichard Fellows,\\nStephen I ingry.\\n1S42. True George, M.\\nJohn Calef, 2d, C.\\nNathaniel Bean, S.\\nRichard Fellows,\\nStephen Pingry.\\n1843. Nathaniel Bean, M.\\nRev.) John Burden, C.\\nRichard Fellows, S.\\nStephen Pingry,\\nEbenczer Johnson.\\n1844. Nathaniel Bean, .M.\\nJohn Burden, C.\\nMatthew P. Webster, S.\\nHenry .Morrill,\\nJohn Calef, 2d.\\n1845. Nathaniel Bean, M.\\nJohn Burden, C.\\nD. C. Gookin, S.\\nMoses Fellows, jr.,\\nHenry Morrill.\\n1846. Nathaniel Bean, M.\\nMoses P. Thompson, C.\\nDavid C. Gookin, S.\\nMoses Fellows,\\nCurrier Quimby.\\n1S47. True George, M.\\nMoses P. Thompson, C.\\nDavid C. Gookin, S.\\nCurrier (^)uimby,\\nNathaniel Bean.\\n1848. True George, M.\\nMoses P. Thompson, C.\\nNathaniel Bean, S.\\nCurrier Quimby,\\nHenry Morrill.\\n1849. True George, M.\\nDr. A. H. Robinson, C.\\ni^urrier Quimby, S.\\nStevens Fellows,\\nBenjamin F. Gale.\\n1850. True George, M.\\nDr. A. H. Robinson, C.\\nCyrus Gookin, S.\\nJames Fellows,\\nBenjamin F. Gale.\\n1851. Cyrus Gookin, .M.\\nDr. A. H. Robinson, C.\\nCyrus Gookin, S.\\nJames Fellows,\\nNathaniel Sawyer.\\n1S52. True George, M.\\nDr. A. H. Robinson, C.\\nJames Fellows, S.\\nGilman Moores,\\nNathaniel .Sawyer.\\n853- Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nDr. A. H. Robinson, C.\\nJames Fellows, S.\\nGilman .Moores,\\nNathan Tucker, jr.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "126\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n1854. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nDr. A. H. Robinson, C.\\nOilman Moores, S.\\nNathan Tucker, jr.,\\nMoses C. Webster.\\n1S55. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nDr. A. H. Robinson, C.\\nCyrus Gookin, S.\\nMoses C. Webster,\\nEbenezer Johnson.\\n1856. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nMoses P. Thompson, C.\\nGilbert Eastman, S.\\nDavid R. McAllister,\\nJohn R. Brown.\\n1857. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nMoses P. Thompson, C.\\nGilbert Eastman, S.\\nDavid R. McAllister,\\nJohn R. Brown.\\n1858. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nHiram F. French, C.\\nJohn C. Smith, S.\\nMoses P. Thompson,\\nPorter B. Watson.\\n1859. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nHiram F. French, C.\\nJohn C. Smith, S.\\nMoses P. Thompson,\\nPorter B. Watson.\\n1560. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nEverett W. Guilford, C.\\nMoses P. Thompson, S.\\nPorter B. Watson,\\nDaniel J. Calef.\\n1561. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nWilliam Dunlap, C.\\nNathaniel Bean, S.\\nDaniel J. Calef,\\nSylvester P. Scribner.\\n1862. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nWilliam Dunlap, C.\\nDaniel J. Calef, S.\\nSylvester P. Scribner,\\nIsaac Sanborn.\\n1863. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nWilliam Dunlap, C.\\nDaniel J. Calef, S.\\nSylvester P. Scribner,\\nIsaac Sanborn.\\n1864. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nWilliam Dunlap, C.\\nIsaac Sanborn, S.\\nJohn R. Brown,\\nIra H. Couch.\\n1S65. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nJohn M. Hayes, C.\\nJohn R. Brown, S.\\nIra H. Couch,\\nWilliam H. Moulton.\\n1866. Nathaniel Bean, M.\\nJohn M. Hayes, C.\\nSylvester P. Scribner, S.\\nWilliam H. Moulton,\\nCharles C. Rogers.\\n1867. John C. Smith, M.\\nJohn M. Hayes, C.\\nSylvester P. Scribner, S.\\nCharles C. Rogers,\\nHenry C. W. Moores.\\n1868. John C. Smith, M.\\nThomas H. Whitaker, C.\\nCharles C. Rogers, S.\\nHenry C. W. Moores,\\nFrancis Stevens.\\n1869. John C. Smith, M.\\nThomas H. Whitaker, C.\\nHenry C. W. Moores, S.\\nFrancis Stevens,\\nGeorge E. Fellows.\\n187c. Cyrus Gookin, M.\\nThomas H. Whitaker, C.\\nDaniel J. Calef, S.\\nThomas D. Little,\\nGeorge E. Fellows.\\n187 1. Daniel J. Calef, M.\\nThomas H. Whitaker, C.\\nThomas D. Little, S.\\nNathan Killburn,\\nMoses C. Webster.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.\\n127\\n1872. Albert H. Martin, M. 1879.\\nThomas H. Whitaker, C.\\nCharles C. Rogers, S.\\nMoses C. Webster,\\nDaniel C. Stevens.\\n1873. D. R. Everett, M. 18S0.\\nElbridge Smith, C.\\nCharles C. Rogers, S.\\nDaniel C. Stevens,\\nJonathan Arey.\\n1874. Charles C. Rogers, M. 1881.\\nElbridge Smith, C.\\nCharles C. Rogers, S.\\nJonathan Arey,\\nThomas H. Whitaker.\\n1875. Charles C. Rogers, M. 1882.\\nElbridge Smith, C.\\nCharles C. Rogers, S.\\nJonathan Arey,\\nThomas D. Little.\\n1876. Charles C. Rogers, M. 1883.\\nElbridge Smith, C.\\nJonathan Arey, S.\\nThomas M. Whitaker,\\nJohn Shaw.\\n1S77. Charles C. Rogers, M. 1884.\\nElbridge Smith, C.\\nJonathan Arey, S.\\nThomas H. Whitaker,\\nJohn .Shaw.\\n1878. James L. Foot, M.\\nGeorge H. Scribner, C.\\nJohn Shaw, S.\\nElbridge Smith,\\nDana J. Mann.\\nCharles C. Rogers, M.\\nGeorge H. Scribner, C.\\nThomas H. Whitaker, S.\\nCaleb E. Smith,\\nJohn W. Fifield.\\nCharles C. Rogers, M.\\nWarren C. Webster, C.\\nThomas H. Whitaker, S.\\nCaleb E. Smith,\\nJohn W. Fifield.\\nCharles C. Rogers, M.\\nWarren C. Webster, C.\\nThos. H. Whitaker, .S., (resigned.)\\nCaleb E. Smith,\\nMichael Lorden.\\nCharles C. Rogers, M.\\nWarren C. Webster, C.\\nJohn Shaw, S.\\nMichael Lorden,\\nPliny A. Fellows.\\nSilas P. Thompson, M.\\nWarren C. Webster, C.\\nMichael Lorden, S.\\nPliny A. Fellows,\\nThomas R. Little.\\nJohn Shaw, M.\\nBenjamin F. Severance, C.\\nPliny A. Fellows, S.\\nThomas R. Little,\\nCharles H. Prince.\\nTOWN TREASURERS.\\nThe first treasurer of the town was Joseph Bean, Esq., chosen\\nFebruary 12, 1780. In 181 2, Andrew Bowers was chosen to fill\\nthe office, but for the greater part of the time the chairman\\nof the board of selectmen has acted as treasurer. Subsequent\\ntown treasurers were as follows\\n1877. Jonathan Arey.\\n1878-79. John Shaw.\\n1880. David S. Prince.\\niSSi-82. Charles C. Rogers.\\n1 88 3-84. Andrew E. (^uimby.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "128 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nSUPERVISORS.\\nThis board, consisting of three members, was instituted in\\n1878. They are elected in November, biennially, and have the\\nentire control in making up the checklist\\n1878-79. Jonathan Arey, 1882-83. David S. Prince,\\nThomas Whitaker, Merril Perry,\\nAmos Chapman. Thomas R. Little.\\n1880-81. Isaac Sanborn, 18S4-5. David S. Prince,\\nElbridge Smith, Lewis D. Hawlvins,\\nDana J. Mann. George H. Pressey.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nIn the Church of the Wilderness Edwards wrought,\\nShaping his creed at the forge of Thought,\\nAnd with Thor s own hammer wielded and bent\\nThe iron links of his argument,\\nWhich strove to grasp, in its mighty span,\\nThe purpose of God and the will of man.\\nFIRST MEETING-HOUSE IN THE STATE.\\nThe first church, or meeting-house as it was called in old times,\\nerected in the State was located at Dover Point. It was sita-\\nated so as to command every access, and was surrounded by for-\\ntifications, with flankers extending up and down the bay. This\\nhouse was built in 1633 or 1634. One or two others were con-\\nstructed at very nearly the same time. The church at Hamp-\\nton, which has often been regarded as the oldest, was built in\\n1635, at least one year later than that at Dover. The minister\\nat Hampton was the Rev. Stephen Bachiler, a remote ancestor\\nof Daniel Webster. Mr. Bachiler came from Norfolk County,\\nEngland, as did also many of- the original settlers of Hampton.\\nTHE CHURCH IN EXETER.\\nWhen the Rev. John Wheelwright declared his belief in cer-\\ntain doctrines, enunciated by his sister, Mrs. Anne Hutchinson,\\nhe was accused of sedition and was ordered by the Court to\\nleave Boston. On taking his departure, eight of the members\\nof his church accompanied him. Settling at Exeter, in 1638,\\nthey organized a church. They were Calvinists but, like their\\nreligious guide, had embraced certain doctrines in conflict with\\nthe Puritan creed, and sought a location where they might\\n9", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "130 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nexercise a broader religious freedom. Neither Baptists, nor\\nQuakers, nor Antinomians could be harbored in the Province\\nof Massschusetts.\\nSUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY.\\nThe Masonian Proprietors, in imitation of the English gov-\\nernment, exercised great discretion, when, in giving grants of\\nland, they provided that the ordinances of religion should be\\nmaintained. One of the essential duties of the grantees was to\\nprovide a place of public worship, and maintain a learned and\\northodox minister.\\nIn the charters obtained from executive or legislative author-\\nity, the same provisions were expressed. The most important\\nvotes at the annual town meetings related to ministers and\\nmeeting-houses, and the raising of money to support them.\\nThe standing order was the congregational denomination or\\nthe orthodox. To this denomination the appropriations made\\nby the town for the support of the gospel were assigned, prior\\nto the year 18 19, when the Toleration Act was passed. After\\nthat the rights of all denominations were recognized, and every\\ntaxpayer had liberty to designate the religious society in town to\\nwhich his proportion of the minister s tax should be paid.\\nIn the grant to Stevenstown, 1749, as in grants of other\\ntownships, a right of land equal in amount to each of the other\\nshares was assigned to the minister, which he was not only at\\nliberty to use while he continued to preach the gospel to the\\npeople,, but on his settlement the share became his property.\\nAnother right or share was set apart for the support of the\\ngospel ministry forever. These lots were to be laid out as\\nnear the location of the meeting-house as convenient. Ten\\nacres of land were to be laid out in some convenient place, as\\nthe major part of said grantees shall determine, for a meeting-\\nhouse, a school house, a muster field, a burying place and other\\npublic uses.\\nLOCATION OF THE MEETING-HOUSE.\\nFrom a very early map of the Merrimack valley, there appears\\nto have been located a meeting-house not far from the west", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. I3I\\nbank of the river, in the vicinity of the fort, on the Webster\\nfarm, near the Orphans Home.\\nIn 1765, when the people of Stevenstown petitioned for aid\\nin settling the town, they represented that they had built a fort\\nand were about to build a meeting-house. It may be they\\nhad constructed one of logs previous to this date. There is\\nsome reason to believe that they had so done, but there is no\\naccessible record to indicate it.\\nAt a meeting of the Proprietors, held in Kingston, in 1764,\\nDeacon Elisha Svvett and Jonathan Woodman were constituted\\na committee to designate where the meeting-house should be\\nlocated. This committee selected ten acres on the north side\\nof what was afterwards called Searle s Hill, or, as Mr. Webster\\nwas accustomed to call it, Mount Pisgah, about midway\\nbetween the north and south lines of the township, but much\\nnearer the eastern than the western border.\\nTHE FIRST CEMETERV.\\nHere, soon after, the church was erected a school house\\nonce stood near it, and just east of the meeting-house was the\\nburying ground. In this cemetery sleep the early dead of\\nSalisbury. Here the infant brothers and sisters, and the self-\\nsacrificing mother of Daniel Webster were buried. Here was\\nlaid, near one hundred years ago, the wife of the first minister\\nof the town, and others beside her, old and young,\\nWho by the wayside fell and perished,\\nWeary with the march of life.\\nThis land, including the cemetery, afterwards came into the\\npossession of Stephen Perrin. It was subsequently owned by\\nDavid Pettengill, who sold it to Samuel Guilford. Guilford,\\nhaving no respect for the dead, with sacriligious hands removed\\nthe grave-stones and plowed up the land, and the burial place\\ndisappeared. The land is now owned by John C. Smith, and is\\nused as a pasture.\\nnUILDING THE MKETING-HOUSE.\\nAfter the selection of a lot of land, the earliest recorded\\naction in relation to the erection of a meeting-house was in", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "132 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n1767, when the grantees voted to build a meeting-house the\\nsame bigness as that in the second parish in Kingston, now\\nEast Kingston, and that the pulpit be of the same size as the\\none at Hawke, now Danville. Capttain John Webster, Col.\\nEbenezer Stevens, Joseph Bean, Joshua Woodman, Dea. Elisha\\nSwett and Joseph Woodman were chosen a committee to see\\nto the building of the meeting-house.\\nVoted, that a tax of three and a half dollars be assessed on\\neach taxable poll towards building the house.\\nAs the sum raised was insufficient to meet the expense of\\nthe house, it was voted a few years later to raise an additional\\ntax of two and one-half dollars, to pay outstanding bills.\\nIn the spring of 1768 the frame was erected, boarded and\\nshingled, and the lower floor was laid. It was then voted to\\nsell the privilege for pews in the meeting-house to the highest\\nbidder and lay out the money towards finishing s d house.\\nSALE OF PEWS.\\nThe sale appears to have been advertised, the conditions\\ndetermined, and the pews to be sold designated. It took place\\nat Kingston, April 7, 1768. The purchaser was required to\\npay down the money or give security to the assessors. No. 3\\nwas struck off to David Tilton, for t\u00e2\u0080\u009e 13s. the second pew\\non the left hand of the west door, to John Calef, for ^3, 2s.\\nNo. 4, on the floor, to Samuel French, for \u00c2\u00a3,t\u00e2\u0080\u009e 15s. the second\\npew on the right hand of the east door, to Jonathan Ladd, for\\njQT), 4s., 6p. The sale was then adjourned to the 25th of May,\\nto be held in Salisbury, at the house of Benjamin Sanborn.\\nThe purchasers at the first sale were non-residents, though\\nproprietors of shares. There were other non-residents who\\npurchased pews, among them Hon. Josiah Bartlett, Governor\\nof the State in 1790. He was accustomed to occupy his own\\npew when he visited his nephew, Dr. Joseph Bartlett, At the\\nadjourned sale parties purchased as follows:\\ns.\\nNo. I, by Capt. John Webster, Jr., 6 3\\n2, Ens. Jacob dale, 4 16\\n5, William Calef, 4 5", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. I 33\\nNo. 6, by Andrew Hohonon, 4 4\\n7, Capt. John Webster, 4 5\\n8, Thomas Webster, 4 5\\n9, Andrew I ettengill, 4 i\\n12, Elienezer Webster 3 14\\n13, John Collins, 2 17\\n14, Jacob Gale, 3 5\\n1 5, Jacol) Gale, 2 18\\n1 6, Shubael Greeley, 2 13\\nFURTHER MEETING-HOUSE VOTES.\\nThe records this year show that the bill of Joseph Bean was\\npresented and paid: To laying a plan and finding a place to\\nbuild the meeting-house, and one day at Kingston, jQi, 13s.\\nThe building of this house was let in lots to different parties,\\nthe work to be done by the job, the contractor to find all the\\nmaterial and do all the work pertaining to his contract. Among\\nthose to whom awards were made were Matthew and David\\nPettengill, David Tilton, William and Jonathan Webster, An-\\ndrew Bohonon, Jacob Cjale and Thomas Welch. The town\\nrecords of 1773 inform us that Capt. John Webster did some\\nwork clapboarding, and put in four windows. Ebenezer\\nWebster, Joseph Bean and Capt. John Calef were a committee\\nto see that the desk was built in a workmanlike manner.\\nBenjamin Huntoon, Ebenezer Stevens and Robert Smith were\\na committee to settle with those who purchased pews.\\nThe timber for the church was procured near by, as the hill\\nwas covered with a heavy growth of oak and pine. The shingles\\nwere manufactured at the homes of the citizens split and\\nshaved after the manner of the times. The clapboards were\\nalso split out of clear pine and shaved by hand. They were\\nbevelled at each end and lapped when laid. The boards were\\nsawed at the J^benezer Webster sawmill, on Punch Brook.\\nAt the first annual town meeting, in 1768, it was voted to\\nappropriate seven pounds, four shillings, 1. m. to be paid for\\npreaching, and Ebenezer Webster was chosen a committee to go\\nafter a minister. Although there is no record to indicate that\\nhe secured a preacher, it was very evident that he did, as it was\\nvoted that the meetings be held at the house of Andrew", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "134 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nPettengill, which was located where Deacon T. D. Little now\\nresides. At the next annual meeting it was voted, to raise\\ntwelve dollars towards supporting the gospel for the year ensu-\\ning. In 1770 six pounds were raised, and Lt. Matthew Pet-\\ntengill, Andrew Pettengill and Sinkler Bean were chosen a\\ncommittee to provide preaching. In October of the same year\\nit was voted that the parsonage lot should not be strewed with\\ngrain this year.\\nIt is probable that the wood and timber had been cut on some\\npart of the lot and the ground put in a state preparatory to a\\ncrop of winter grain, but for reasons that do not concern us the\\nvote was passed as recorded. It may be presumed the people\\nwere disappointed in settling a minister that year, as they had\\narranged to do.\\nA PARSONAGE BUILT.\\nThe parsonage was nearly ready to be occupied. It was\\nlocated northwest of the meeting-house, on the ten acres re-\\nserved for public uses. The house was large, two stories high,\\nthe lower story extending back, and the roof of the main house\\ncovering the extension. It was what in those days was styled\\na comb-case roof.\\nEARLY MINISTERS.\\nThere is mention on the town records of several clergymen\\nwho preached a few times in the town. The Rev. Mr. Elliot\\nwas the first to whom a call was given. He accepted the\\ninvitation, the day was named for the ordination, and arrange-\\nments were made for the occasion in conformity with the cus-\\ntom of the times. But, as the day approached, he evidently\\nanticipated the many hardships that were before him in a new\\ncountry, and seasonably asked to be released from all obliga-\\ntions, as appears from a letter given in a future chapter.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Searle, who had previously occupied the pulpit\\nvery acceptably, was then asked to become pastor of the church\\nand people, and was the first settled minister in the town. He\\ncame in 1773, occupied the parsonage house, and resided there", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 135\\nuntil his death in 1819. A biographical sketch of Mr. Searle\\nis given in a succeeding chapter.\\nAfter Mr. Searle s death the house was occupied by his son,\\nAmos Searle, until his death in 183 1. His widow, Hannah\\n(Hoit) Searle, then occupied it, with her son, Daniel Franklin\\nSearle, for some years. It was eventually sold and taken down,\\nand the timber used in the construction of other buildings.\\nMATERIAL PROGRESS.\\nNot only ecclesiastical history has been made since the incor-\\nporation of the town, up to this date, but municipal history as\\nwell. Building of houses and clearing of lands have been in\\nprogress. Mechanics have found work to be done. A settle-\\nment, commenced on the bank of the river, in the east part of\\nthe town, has been prospering another, at what is known as\\nSmith s Corner, has been thriving and extending up the river\\nto the Mills. At the Crank, or South Road, a little vil-\\nlage has been springing up, and between Searle s Hill and the\\nBlackwater many new buildings have been in process of con-\\nstruction, and new clearings in all directions appearing. The\\ntown has been making progress.\\nTHE MEETING-HOUSE CONTROVERSY.\\nAt this time, about the beginning of the year 1773, some\\nrestless spirits proposed the removal of the meeting-house. At\\na town meeting, April 9th, it was voted that the meeting-house\\nstand where it now is. No money was raised that year to\\nsustain preaching. For several years the question of removing\\nthe church from the hill was seriously considered. It was dis-\\ncussed throughout the town. Every man had formed an opin-\\nion and was ready to defend it. There was much excitement\\nin regard to the matter, and no little bitterness of feeling was\\nengendered. The population near the centre of the town had\\nincreased rapidly, and a rivalry existed between that village and\\nthe other at the South Road. The Fast Village barely held its\\nown. New roads were opened, which gave advantage to the\\nwesterly section of the town, and the word went out, The", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "136 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nchurch must be moved. The people in the northwest section\\nunited with those at the Centre Road and Garland s Hill, with\\na view to secure the location at the latter place. The Crank\\nsaw the advantage which the church would give that locality.\\nBoth parties were determined. As a result, local differences\\noccurred, families were estranged, and the villages were nearly-\\nready to go to war with each other.\\nThis condition of affairs continued for several years. At\\nlength, at a town meeting held January 19, 1784, it was voted\\nto set the meeting-house on Capt. John Webster s land, oppo-\\nsite to Capt. Matthew Pettengill s northwest corner bound of\\nhis home lot. This was near the site of the present Congre-\\ngational church, on the South Road.\\nCapt. John Webster offered to donate the land for that pur-\\npose, and on the 25th of April of that year a town meeting was\\ncalled to see if the town will accept the land and erect a church\\nthere. Fifty-six voted in the affirmative and twenty-eight in\\nthe negative.\\nDecember 13th, 1785, it was voted that all former votes\\nconcerning the meeting-house be null and void. It was then\\nvoted to set the meeting-house on Capt. John Webster s land,\\non the north side of the Crank, so-called, in the place before\\nmentioned.\\nAt an adjourned meeting, December 27th, it was voted not\\nto ratify the vote for setting the meeting-house near the Crank\\nso-called, but it was unanimously agreed that two places be\\nnominated for to set s d house, the one on Garland Hill, so-\\ncalled, on the Centre Road, the other on the South Road, near\\nwhere the school house lately stood, near Ensign John Web-\\nster s and that two men, with two papers, the one for those to\\nsign that would have the house on Garland Hill, the other for\\nthose that would have s d house on the South Road, near where\\nthe school house lately stood, each person to sign for the place\\nhe pleases, and the place that has the most signers for it to be\\nconsidered as the place for the meeting-house.\\nEsquire Matthew Pettengill and Ensign Joseph Fifield were\\nchosen to go to the inhabitants with said papers.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 137\\nAt an adjourned meeting, January lO, 1786, voted to accept\\nJoseph Bean, Jr., for carrying the papers about town, as Ensign\\nFifield declined. The record says, said Bean went in his\\nstead; when, upon counting the signers, it appeared that\\nthere were 81 signers for the meeting-house to set near the\\nSouth Road, where the school house lately stood, and 46 signers\\nfor it to set on Garland Hill, so-called, on the Centre Road.\\nJohn Swett, Lt. Robert Smith and Col. Ebenezer Webster were\\nchosen a committee to draw a plan of a house. They reported\\nas follows: That the house be 60 feet long, 44 feet wide, and\\n26 foot posts, or thereabout.\\nVoted, to put up the frame of the meeting-house, by way of\\na ta.\\\\ on s d town. The committee, to see to the building of\\nsaid frame, consisted of Edward Eastman, Ensign John Web-\\nster, Esq. Joseph Bean, Phinehas Bean, and John C. Gale. It\\nwas to be put up as soon as may be convenient, in a work-\\nmanlike manner.\\nAugust 15th, the town voted not to sell any pews in the\\nmeeting-house, and not to take any method to procure land\\nof Capt. Webster to set a meeting-house on. Voted to hold\\nchurch at private houses instead of on Searle s Hill, 50 votes-in\\nthe affirmative and 49 against it. A vote was passed to build\\na new house, and a committee was appointed to buy the lumber.\\nBut September 4th, it was voted to reconsider and annul all\\nformer votes relative to setting and building a meeting-house.\\nAt a meeting held March 31, 1788, voted unanimously to\\nmake use of the meeting-house timber as it was provided.\\nVoted, To choose a committee to appoint a place for s d\\nmeeting-house. The vote was not carried into effect, no com-\\nmittee having been chosen, but at a subsequent meeting, on the\\n7th of April, it was voted, 50 for setting the meeting-house on\\nGarland Hill and 49 to set it at the Crank, so-called. This\\nwas the first vote in favor of the Garland Hill people, but they\\nwere not sufficiently united to build the house. At a meeting\\nheld October 22d, the town refused to hold divine service at\\nprivate houses as heretofore.\\nNo further effort seems to have been made to locate and build", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "138 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\non Garland Hill, but it was voted, the people of that section\\nfavoring, that the whole of the glass be taken out of the meet-\\ning-house after we have met in it four Sabbaths from this time.\\nIt was also voted to have the meetings on Sabbath day, after\\nthe fourth Sabbath from this, removed for the winter season,\\ntwo-fifths of the time on Centre Road, two-fifths on the east\\nand north grant, and one-fifth on the South Road, near where\\nthey were held last winter.\\nJuly 13th, 1790, it was voted in town meeting to choose a\\ncommittee to agree what each pew owner shall be allowed for\\nhis privilege in the old meeting-house. At the same meeting\\nthe town voted to sell the old meeting-house at a public ven-\\ndue and that the interest of what said house shall fetch shall be\\nconverted to the use of schooling, after the pew-owners have\\nbeen paid what should be allowed to them by s d committee.\\nTHE OLD MEETING-HOUSE.\\nDiligent inquiry among old residents, and repeated search of\\nthe records of the town and the church, fail to give any infor-\\nmation regarding the sale of the house. It is traditional that\\nit was bought by leading citizens on the South Road, taken\\ndown, and, new timbers being supplied, re-erected a few rods\\nsouthwest of its present location, some time between July 13,\\n1790, and the ne.xt ensuing April. From what follows it seems\\nthis may have been true, and that the purchasers formed a\\nsociety for religious worship, for it is recorded that, at a town\\nmeeting held at the meeting-house erected by the society, in\\nsaid town, September i, 1791, it was voted that the inhabi-\\ntants of this town above Blackwater river shall have the liberty\\nof what money they pay towards the support of the gospel\\npreached out amongst them, at such place as they shall agree\\non, and also be exempted from any cost in the settlement or\\nparsonage house.\\nANOTHER MEETING-HOUSE.\\nThe following is from the records, apparently of the orig-\\ninal society: After hearing the offer of the Society which", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORV.\\n139\\nbuilt the meeting-house, which was as follows: Salisbury,\\nAugust 31, 1791, at a meeting of the Meeting-house Society,\\nheld at the meeting-house, on Tuesday, the 30th day of August,\\ninstant. Voted to offer sd house to the town of Salisbury, for\\nthe town s use, on the following conditions, viz that all and\\nevery part of sd house, which is sold and considered as individ-\\nual property, shall remain and continue the property of the\\npurchasers, as individual persons or their assigns, and that any\\npart of sd house which is appropriated by said Society, shall\\nremain and continue for the use for which the same is appro-\\npriated by sd Society, and that the undertakers for finishing sd\\nhouse be held bound to finish said house according to their\\nobligations to the Committee, and that sd house shall be con-\\nsidered and improved, as a place of public worship, for the\\nstanding congregational order of worshipping christians and for\\nthe denomination of antipedobaptists, in proportion of time for\\neach denomination as follows, viz: four days for antipedobap-\\ntists to forty-eight days for the standing order, which is agree-\\nable to the original principles and intent of building sd house.\\nSd Society then voted to accept the sd meeting-house for\\nthe town s use, with the reserves before mentioned to those\\nthat built the said house, by a majority of 135 for accepting\\nand 39 against it. The negative votes are recorded as follows\\nDaniel Brockleli.ink,\\nWm. Kastman,\\nDan. Parker,\\nJoseph ean, jr.,\\nAnaniah Bolionoii,\\nBailey Chase,\\nJoseph Severance,\\nHenj. P razier,\\nWinthrop Sanborn,\\nAbel Elkins,\\nSamuel Xorris,\\nNathaniel Bean,\\nMoses Ciarland,\\n.Samuel Hean,\\nSherburn Filield,\\nAbraham Fifield,\\nDavid Pettingill,\\nLevi George,\\nKnos Challis,\\nl?enj. Pettingill, jr.\\nPeter Sweatt,\\nJoseph Bean,\\nPeter I .a.-itman,\\nWm. Silleway.\\nElijah Wadleigh,\\nEdward Fitield,\\nJeremiah Bean,\\nJoseph Fifield, jr.,\\nAbraham .Sanborn,\\nJoseph March,\\nEzekiel Ciove,\\nIncrease I arnham,\\nReuben True,\\nJoseph Fifield,\\nMoses Morse.\\nThe record says 39 negative votes were given, but only 35\\nnames are registered. Benjamin Woodman and Sinkler Bean\\ndid not express an opinion, and are so recorded. All these, and", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "I40\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nin addition, Samuel Lovering, voted against extending a call to\\nthe Rev. Thomas Worcester, to settle in the work of the\\nministry.\\nMINISTERIAL TAX-LIST.\\nThe following list embraces the names of those constituting\\nthe ministerial tax-list in 1791, with the amounts assessed:\\ns.\\nd.\\ns.\\nfl\\nThos. Redington,\\n2\\n4\\nRobert Wise,\\nI\\n4\\nJob Heath,\\n6\\nI\\nStephen Perrin,\\nI\\n4\\nJustice Heneman,\\nI\\nDavid Perrin,\\nI\\nRichard Fellows,\\nI\\nID\\nCol. Eben r Webster,\\nII\\n5\\nMoses Fellows,\\n4\\n10\\nThos. Perrin,\\nI\\nJohn Fellows, jr..\\n2\\nI\\nBenj. Sanborn,\\n8\\n8\\nCharles Collins,\\nI\\nII\\nAbel .Morrii,\\n2\\n5\\nCaleb Cushing,\\nI\\n8\\nAbel Morril, jr..\\nI\\nNehemiah Heath,\\n3\\n6\\nAmos Gilman,\\n2\\nShubel Grele,\\n9\\nI\\nArchelas Adams,\\nI\\n3\\nJeremiah Webster,\\n4\\nT\\nJames Osgood,\\nI\\nJohn Fellows,\\n3\\n9\\nMoses Page,\\nI\\nDaniel Fellows,\\n4\\nDavid Webster,\\n2\\nI\\nJoel Eastman,\\n5\\n9\\nRichard Kimbel,\\nI\\nDea. John Collins,\\n6\\n9\\nJohn Bohonon,\\nI\\n6\\nJohn Collins, jr.,\\nI\\n5\\nAzra George,\\nI\\n4\\nEsq. John Webster,\\n12\\nII\\nBenja. Batihler, [Batchelder]\\nI\\n8\\nStephen Webster,\\n9\\n6\\nJonathan Fifield,\\n12\\n8\\nCapt. Luke Wilder,\\n5\\n3\\nThos. Chase,\\nI\\n3\\nAndrew Bowers,\\n4\\n9\\nBaley Chase,\\nI\\nJona. C. Pettingill,\\nS\\nI\\nLevi George,\\nI\\nLeonard Judkins,\\n9\\n4\\nAbel Elkins,\\nS\\n6\\nBenja. Baker,\\n6\\n3\\nDaniel Parker,\\nI\\n3\\nJoseph Bean, jr.,\\n7\\n6\\nJohn Muzzy,\\nI\\n3\\nAdj. John .Sweat,\\n4\\nCapt. Benja. Pettengill,\\n10\\nII\\nEsq. Joseph Bean,\\n17\\nII\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\\\\mos Pettengill,\\n5\\n7\\nEns. Andrew Bohonon,\\n5\\n4\\nRuben True,\\n3\\n5\\nJeremiah Bean,\\n3\\nJ\\nBenja. Pettengill, jr.,\\n7\\n5\\nWillet Petterson,\\n3\\n3\\nSamuel Bean,\\n6\\n6\\nPhinehas Eastman,\\nI\\nBenja. Wadleigh,\\nI\\n2\\nEdward Eastman,\\n12\\n4\\nElijah Wadleigh,\\n3\\n3\\nNath l Noyes,\\nI\\n10\\nEns. Abraham Fifield,\\n4\\n8\\nSam l Grendlif, [Greenleaf]\\n2\\nI\\nLt. Annaniah Bohonon,\\n3\\n10\\nStephen Grendliff,\\n6\\n2\\nJohn Walker,\\nI\\nWd. Sarah Smith,\\n5\\n2\\nWm. Siliway,\\nI\\n2\\nJacob True,\\n8\\n2\\nWm. Eastman,\\n6\\n6\\nStephen Cross,\\nI\\n5\\nEnos Challis,\\n2\\n2\\nJohn Bowers,\\n5\\nJeremiah Roberts,\\n2\\n8", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\n141\\nDavid Hall,\\nHumphrey Webster,\\nBenja. Woodman,\\nSherhurn Fifield,\\nMoses Moss,\\nDaniel Currer,\\nJoseph Marsh,\\nLt. William Calf,\\nEsq. Joseph Bartlett,\\nIsrael Webster,\\nEns. Joshua Talor,\\nEben r Johnson,\\nRobert Barber,\\nPeter Barber,\\nThos. Chalice,\\nGeorge Halley,\\nSam l Allen,\\nEdward Evans.\\nJosiah Evans,\\nDaniel Brocklebank,\\nEdward Fifield,\\nEns. .Moses Garland,\\nEdward West,\\nEphraim Colby,\\nJoseph Sweat,\\nJ eter Sweat,\\nLt. Joseph Adams,\\nLt. Joseph Fifield,\\nJoseph Fifield, jr.,\\nCapt. David Pettingill,\\nCuting Stevens,\\nJoseph Calf,\\nEnoch Colby,\\nWilliam Severance,\\n-Aciuila I ingry,\\nJoseph Lowel,\\nPeter Whittemore,\\nJoseph Fifield,\\nWinthrop Sanborn,\\nWd. Hannah Huntoon,\\nJames Clay,\\nJohn Page,\\nJal e/ Morril,\\nMj. Baley Bartlet,\\nLt. Joseph .Severance,\\nMoses Silly,\\ns.\\nd.\\ns.\\nd.\\nI\\n10\\nKoljert P owler,\\n2\\n2\\nS\\n2\\nWilliam Orsbonn,\\nI\\n4\\nDaniel Lowel,\\n7\\n2\\n6\\nDaniel Huntoon, jr.,\\n7\\n5\\n2\\nII\\nI hinehas Huntoon,\\nI\\nII\\nJ\\n4\\nNehemiah Lowel,\\nI\\n5\\nI\\nJonathan Huntoon,\\n3\\n5\\nII\\n4\\n.Sam l Richardson,\\nI\\n3\\n3\\n2\\nWilliam Kezer,\\n5\\n4\\n4\\n2\\nJames Lowel,\\n6\\n2\\n2\\n4\\nLt. Calel) Judkins,\\n2\\n7\\n3\\n2\\nI hilip Blasdel,\\nI\\n3\\n2\\nJacob Garland,\\n4\\n4\\n2\\nII\\nWm. Calf, jr.,\\n4\\n7\\n2\\n7\\nJoseph Garland,\\nI\\nI\\n2\\n10\\nLt. Samuel Pilsbury,\\n4\\n10\\n2\\n4\\nWilliam Webster,\\n4\\n5\\n4\\n2\\nHenj. Eastman,\\n2\\n2\\nI\\n3\\nJosiah Danforth,\\nI\\n5\\n4\\nl ben r Ouimby,\\n4\\n6\\n6\\n3\\nAbijah Watson,\\n2\\nI\\n5\\n7\\nCaleb Watson,\\nI\\n3\\nI\\n7\\nEben r Tucker,\\n2\\nII\\n6\\nI\\nMatthew Greele,\\n2\\n3\\n6\\nNathaniel Meloon,\\n6\\n7\\n3\\n2\\nJoseph Meloon,\\n9\\n3\\n6\\n4\\nJona. Foster,\\n2\\n3\\n7\\nJohn Smith,\\n3\\nS\\nI\\nLt. Phinhas Bean,\\n5\\n7\\n14\\n7\\nLt. Sinclear Hean,\\n4\\n5\\n5\\n7\\nBenaiah Bean,\\n3\\n9\\n6\\n4\\nJoseph Lufkin,\\nI\\nI\\n5\\nJacob Tucker,\\n5\\n7\\nI\\nII\\nRichard Green o,\\n2\\n5\\n3\\n5\\nDaniel Stevens,\\ns\\n6\\nI\\n6\\nIsaac Stevens,\\n2\\n5\\n5\\n4\\nJohn Hoit,\\ns\\n8\\n3\\nSam l Eaton,\\n7\\nI\\n3\\n6\\nMoses Sawyer,\\n6\\n2\\n7\\nEzra Flanders,\\n2\\nII\\nI\\nJohn F landers,\\nI\\nI\\nJohn Chalice,\\n2\\n7\\n7\\nBenj. Greele,\\nS\\n5\\nJohn Gilman,\\n4\\n7\\n10\\nBenj. Scribner,\\n4\\nID\\n6\\n6\\nPeter Severance,\\n5\\n2", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "142\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nJ-.\\nd.\\ns.\\nd.\\nBenj. Howard,\\n3\\n3\\nLt. James Gale,\\n2\\n5\\nJabez True,\\n1\\n5\\n.Samuel Norris,\\nI\\n5\\nPeter Eastman,\\nI\\n4\\nJohn Farnam,\\n4\\n5\\nNath l Bean,\\n2\\n5\\nRichard Foster,\\n2\\nI\\nSamuel Elkins,\\n3\\n6\\nHezekiah Foster,\\n4\\n2\\nDaniel Huntoon,\\n2\\n3\\nJohn Xorris,\\nI\\n5\\nEns. Benj. Huntoon,\\n9\\n5\\nLemuel Norris,\\nI\\nLt. John C. Gale,\\nIS\\n2\\nHenj. Danforth,\\nI\\n2\\nOnesiphoras Page,\\n2\\nI\\nObediah P. Fifield,\\n2\\n7\\nHubarcl Stevens,\\nI\\nI\\nJoseph Mason,\\n2\\n9\\nDaniel Oilman,\\nI\\n3\\nJohn Mason,\\nI\\n8\\nLt. Joseph French,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a25\\n1 1\\nBenj. Fifield,\\nI\\n6\\nBenj. Orsgood,\\n8\\n4\\nLevi Eaton,\\n2\\nI\\nJames Clay,\\n4\\nlO\\nJesse Stevens,\\nI\\n8\\nSamuel Scribner,\\n6\\n8\\nIddo Scribner,\\n5\\n7\\nJohn Fifield,\\n9\\n5\\nEdward Scribner, jr..\\n4\\n2\\nWinthrop Fifield,\\nI\\n4\\nBenj. Thomson,\\n2\\n4\\nRichard Greele,\\n3\\nII\\nRichard Cliford,\\n3\\nI\\nLt. Samuel Judkins,\\n6\\n4\\nBenj. Cliford,\\nI\\n6\\nSamuel Judkins,\\nI\\no\\nEdward Cliford,\\nI\\n9\\nAndrew Judkins,\\nI\\nI\\nEdward Scribner,\\n7\\nJacob Bohonon,\\n2\\n9\\nLt. Isaac Blasdel,\\n2\\n6\\nWm. Clay,\\nI\\no\\nEns. John Clement,\\n6\\nI\\nStephen Sawyer,\\n6\\nI\\nCapt. Enoch Chase,\\n3\\n7\\nEdward Sawyer,\\nI\\n6\\nWm. Chase,\\n2\\n7\\njNIoses Jemson,\\nI\\n3\\nSamuel Loverin,\\n4\\n5\\nAbel Tendy,\\n2\\nlO\\nMoses Clement,\\nI\\nID\\nSamuel Tendy,\\nI\\n4\\nBenj. Frasuer,\\nI\\n3\\nThos. Rundlet,\\n2\\n4\\nJohn Couch,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a27\\n5\\nDea. John Sanborn,\\nlO\\nBenj. Pettingill, ye 3d,\\n9\\n2\\nRECONSTRUCTION OF THE HOUSE.\\nThere was an unwilling acquiescence in the acts of the major-\\nity. The meeting-house became the property of the town, but\\nbefore it could be occupied it required extensive modifications\\nand repairs. Messrs. Wilder and Bowers were employed to\\nexecute the work, receiving as compensation the right to sell\\npews. The church was 60 by 44 feet, with 26-foot posts, accord-\\ning to a plan previously presented to the town. Its location\\nwas not many feet southwest of its present site. The church\\nwas lighted by two tiers of windows. A porch was built at\\neach end of the house, and a high tower or steeple above the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 1 43\\nporch on the west end, with a belfry, in which was afterwards\\nplaced an excellent bell, noted for the remarkable clearness of\\nits sound. In favorable weather it could be heard in Concord,\\nand in places equally distant to the north. It was cast ex-\\npressly for this church, and contained twenty silver dollars,\\ncontributed by the Rev. Mr. Worcester, for the purpose of\\nimproving the quality of its tone. It was proudly claimed by\\nthe people of the town that this bell had the right ring to\\nit. In each of the porches was a flight of stairs leading to the\\ngallery, which extended around on three sides. Entrances to\\nthe church were by a single door at each end, and a double one\\non the south side. From this main entrance a broad aisle\\nextended directly to the pulpit on the north side. A narrow\\naisle, extending east and west from the end doors, intersected\\nthe main aisle at the centre of the building. There was also\\nan aisle passing round between the wall pews and those on the\\ncenter floor. The pulpit was elevated upon a platform ten or\\ntwelve feet high, being enclosed by panel-work sheathing, and\\nwas reached by stairs on the west side. When the minister\\npassed in and closed the door he was shut out from the sight of\\nthe people below, until he arose and began the services of the\\nday. Above the pulpit, fastened by an iron rod attached to the\\nframe timber, was suspended the old-time sounding board.\\nNo meeting-house was complete in its furnishings without this\\naccompaniment to the pulpit. It was made of wood, somewhat\\nbell-shaped, and at the base was eight feet by six, while it was\\nabout six feet in depth or height. The identical board, with\\na portion of the old pulpit, is now in the possession of Deacon\\nThomas D. Little. The object of the sounding board was\\nto give, as was supposed, intensity to the voice, an erroneous\\nsupposition which science and experience have united in cor-\\nrecting. It served however to attract the attention of children,\\nwho, perched upon high benches and unable to rest their feet\\nupon the floor, were unable to comprehend any other part of\\nthe service.\\nIn front of the pulpit and near the ascent to it were the\\ndeacons seats, elevated like the wall pews. Mere, in earlier", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "144 HISTORY OF SALISBURY,\\ntimes, usually sat the venerable deacons. In the rear, and a\\nfoot higher, was a square pew which was occupied by the ruling\\nelders, when such officers existed in the church.\\nAll the pews on the floor and in the galleries were square in\\nform, sheathed up to a given height on the sides, and continued\\na foot higher by a series of turned ballusters. Each pew was\\nfurnished with a swinging door. In the days of the fathers, it\\nwas a mark of reverence for the congregation to rise during\\nprayer. To facilitate the act the seats were hung by hinges\\nand readily turned back as the people rose, but the slamming\\nand confusion which existed at the close of the long prayer\\nwas suggestive of the rattling fire of musketry at a military\\nmuster.\\nLATER MODIFICATIONS.\\nThe church remained in the condition described until 1835,\\nwhen Stillman Fellows, of Hopkinton, took the contract to\\nmake changes which have been mainly acceptable to the present\\nday. It was moved back from the street, northerly, and turned\\npartly round. The posts were cut down, one tier of windows\\nremoved and larger ones supplied. The pulpit and pews gave\\nplace to those of modern style, the old sounding board and gal-\\nleries were removed, the entrance changed and various other\\nmodifications made. No expenditures have been made on the\\nchurch, beyond shingling and occasional painting, for nearly a\\nhalf century. It is somewhat antiquated, but serves well for a\\ncountry church. The people would be happy to occupy a better\\nedifice, and if the town was as prosperous as it was years ago\\na new church would be one of the very first improvements to\\nbe made.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "INTERIOR VIEW OF OLD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.\\nlO", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XI.\\nECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, CONTINUED.\\nThere, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,\\nThe village preacher s modest mansion rose.\\nA man he was to all the country dear\\nAnd passing rich, with forty pounds a year\\nRemote from towns he ran his godly race,\\nNor e er had changed nor wished to change his place\\nUnpracticed he to fawn, or seek for power\\nBy doctrines fashioned to the varying hour:\\nFar other aims his heart had learned to prize,\\nMore bent to raise the wretched than to rise.\\nHe tried each art, reproved each dull delay.\\nAllured to brighter worlds and led the way.\\nTHE REVEREND JOHN ELLIOT,\\nOf this minister very little is known. He was invited to\\nsettle in the town, January 14, 1771, on certain conditions pro-\\nposed by himself, as follows: His salary to begin at forty\\npounds a year L. M., the first year, and to rise five pounds a year\\ntill it shall amount to fifty pounds and remain until the expira-\\ntion of three years, and then rise five pounds to give him\\ntwenty-five cords of wood yearly and make the parsonage as\\ngood as it was voted at the last meeting. The town had\\nvoted at said meeting to finish some portions of the house.\\nIt was also stipulated that the town should keep two cows and\\none horse for the use of the minister, until there should be pas-\\nturing on the parsonage land.\\nApril 9, 1771, it was voted to raise thirteen pounds L. M.\\nto lay out on the parsonage this year, and kieut. Pettengill,\\nEbenezer Webster and Moses Garland were chosen a committee\\nto see that this sum was expended.\\nIt was also voted that the ordination of Mr. Elliot be on\\nthe third Wednesday of September next, 1771.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. I47\\nVoted to raise five pounds, L. M., to defray ordination\\ncharges.\\nVoted that the Selectmen make Provision for s d Ordin-\\nation.\\nPreparations were made to ordain Mr. Elliot, and expecta-\\ntions were confidently entertained that Salisbury was to have a\\nregularly ordained religious teacher but between the time of\\nhis acceptance and the day fixed for his ordination a change\\ncame over him. Previous to July 4, 1771, Mr. Elliot sent to\\nthe selectmen the following communication\\nTo the Selectmen of Salisbury\\nYou are Desired to put in the following article, viz to see whether the town\\nof Salisbury will give Wt. for Mr. Elliot s Dismission from them, upon his Request\\npreferred for that Purpose, and from the Reasons that may be offered by him as the\\ncause of sd Request.\\nJOHN ELLIOT.\\nThe following is a copy of Mr. Elliot s request to the town\\nfor dismission\\nThe reasons in Brief for the request preferred by me for a Dismission from\\nSalisbury, viz:\\n1st, My present want of Health of Itody in order to carry on my Studies. 2d,\\nbecause of the entire change in my Mind in Respect to my Call to preach or labor\\nin sd place among them as their Minister, and because I cannot stay without I am\\nforced utterly against my Present Mind, and am not a Volunteer in the Place, and\\nas I am Convinced that there is another Place that the Great Governor of the world\\nhas appointed for my labors.\\nAttest, JOHN ELLIOT.\\nSalisbury, 8th July, 1771.\\nAt a legal meeting, holden at the meeting-house in said town,\\nJuly 8, 1 77 1, Voted Mr. John Elliot s Dismission from the work\\nof the Ministry in this Place upon the Request for the Rea-\\nsons there Given in at sd Meeting.\\nMr. Elliot was doubtless an acceptable man, and a good\\npreacher, but the wilderness had no smiles for him. He shrank\\nfrom the trials and privations incident to a pioneer life, and as\\nthe day of his ordination and installation drew near, he began to\\nrelent and finally became convinced that it was not the place\\nthat the Great Governor of the world had appointed for his", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "148 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nlabor. On the 8th day of July, 1771, the very day of the date\\nof his letter, the Great Governer of the world, Mr. Elliot, and\\nthe people of Salisbury were in perfect accord, and his dismiss-\\nion was granted at once. A settlement was made with him,\\nreceipts given and recorded, and a release of all rights obtained\\nfrom him as the prospective first settled minister of the town.\\nTHE REVEREND JONATHAN SEARLE.\\nThe minister who followed him was a man of different stamp.\\nIn the summer of 1768 Mr. Jonathan Searle preached in Salis-\\nbury, and on the 22d day of that year the town voted that the\\nCommittee discourse with Mr, Searle before they apply to any\\nother candidate. But he was then teaching in Rowley, Mass.,\\nhis native town, and could not leave. He continued to teach\\nin Rowley, and to preach in Salisbury, Chester, N. H., Rowley\\nand Ipswich, Mass., and in other places, till 1773, when he gave\\nhimself unreservedly to the work of the ministry.\\nMr. Searle was born in Rowley, Mass., November 16, 1746,\\nand graduated at Harvard College in 1765, being then only\\nnineteen years of age. He was a fine scholar and had acquired\\na liberal education at the most eminent university in the land,\\ntaught several years, and was fitted for the ministry at twenty-\\none years of age. He preached in Salisbury as early as the\\nsummer of 1768. After a protracted trial he was invited or\\ncalled to settle, and a committee consisting of Benjamin\\nSanborn, Ebenezer Webster and Robert Smith was chosen to\\nreceive Mr. Searle s answer. The following is the beautiful,\\ntender and eloquent answer of Mr. Searle, to the call of the\\npeople of Salisbury to come and settle amongst them\\nSalisbury, October nth, 1773.\\nTo the Committee\\nMessuers Benjamin Sanborn, Ebenezer Webster Robert Smith. To be\\nCommunicated to the Town.\\nMy fathers Brethren I have had a time to consider the solemn important\\nCall you have given me to Spread my Labors in this part of the Gospel Vineyard,\\nhave abundant reason to be thankful to Jesus Christ for putting me into His", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, I49\\nHonorable Service all things considered, I cannot in Duty do otherwise than\\nto Accept your Call; though most unworthy in need of Much Divine Strength to\\nanswer its Design. By your continued prayers for me, may I obtain Grace of God\\nto be faithful mercy to be successful in winning Souls Savingly unto Christ. May\\nwe live together as Heirs of Eternal Life here share in the immortal Glories of\\nthe Heavenly world which Jesus shall give to all that wait for his appearing. And\\nI am obliged to you that in addition to you Calling me to Ministerial Services in\\nthis Place, you have made Provision for my Comfortable temporal Support, in an\\nHonorable way proportioned by that rule given in the Scriptures for Gathering\\nCollections for the Saints. As it is Greatly Self Denying to me to be at such a\\nDistance from Relations, since I am but a man of like passions with you, you will\\nnot be unwilling that I take Opportunity to visit them. Accordingly I make a\\nreserve of two Sabbaths Yearly for that purpose, looking upon Myself to be at my\\noption on those Days. I take it to be a Charter Grant that I am made an Original\\nProprietor in the Land of this town, by virtue of my Settlement among you in the\\nGospel Ministry, as you have indeed implyed in a vote for Exchanging uf Land\\nwith me.\\nWishing temporal Eternal Blessings may be given you your Children I am\\nYour Real friend Servant in Gospel Bonds,\\nJONATHAN SEARLE.\\nAt a town meeting held October ii, 177 it was voted to\\naccept Mr. Searle s letter, and Ebenezer Webster, John Col-\\nlins and Capt. Matthew Pettengill were chosen a committee to\\ncall a council. It was voted to give Mr. Searle fifty pounds L,\\nM. for two years, and then rise four pounds L. M. a year till it\\ncomes to si.xty pounds, and there stand during his labor in the\\nwork of the ministry in said town also twenty-five cords of\\nwood at his house yearly.\\nIt was voted that the ordination of the Rev. Mr. Searle be\\nthe third Wednesday of November, (the 17th) 1773.\\nVoted that a Committee consisting of Sinkler Bean, Benja-\\nmin Huntoon and Joseph Fifield see that Mr. Ebenezer Johnson\\nmake suitable support for the ordination.\\nVoted to raise twenty dollars to defray the ordination ex-\\npenses.\\nAn invitation was extended to the churches and other parties\\nin Concord, Sanbornton and Ilopkinton, in N. H., and Rowley\\nand Ipswich, Mass., to form a Council, examine Mr. Searle,\\nand if found worthy to ordain him.\\nOn the morning of the i6th of November, 1773, all the pas-\\ntors and delegates of the churches above named convened at", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "150 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nthe house of Mr. Andrew Pettengill, at the South Road, and\\nresolved themselves into an Ecclesiastical Council, and chose\\nthe Rev. Mr. Walker, of Concord, Moderator.\\nVoted to accept Mr. Jonathan Searle s Declaration and\\nConfession of faith as Satisfactory to the Council.\\nIn order to proceed to the ordination, voted that the mem-\\nbers, who signed the covenant presented, be acknowledged as a\\nsister church and treated as such.\\nVoted, that Rev. Mr. Chandler give the Solemn Charge.\\nRev. Mr. Woodman make the First Prayer.\\nRev. Mr. Dana give the Right Hand of Fellowship.\\nRev. Mr. Fletcher make the Last Prayer.\\nRev. Mr. Jewett preach the Sermon.\\nThe members who signed the covenant, and were by the\\ncouncil constituted a church, are as follows\\nJonathan Searle, Ebenezer Johnson, John Collins,\\nSinkler Bean, Abel Tandy, Jeremiah Webster,\\nRobert Barber, John Sanborn, Benjamin Sanborn.\\nBenjamin Huntoon, John Fifield,\\nThis business having been transacted, in the presence of a\\nlarge assembly of divines and scholars,* the council adjourned\\nto the meeting-house on the 17th. The hospitality of the good\\npeople of the town, during the intervening social hours, was\\ngreatly enjoyed by the visiting guests, many of whom came\\nfrom Kingston, Sandown and Rowley, Mass., and Warner,\\nHillsborough, JJopkinton, Canterbury, Sanbornton and Con-\\ncord, to witness the ceremonies of the occasion and participate\\nin the pleasure of ordaining a minister so near the then limits\\nof civilization. This was the most northern church in the Prov-\\nince of New Hampshire, on the west side of the Merrimack\\nriver. The Rev. Joseph Woodman was ordained at Sanbornton,\\nNovember 13th, 1771, but did not preach in the new meeting-\\nhouse till November 21, 1775. These two churches remained\\nfor several years the most northern in the Province.\\nAn ordination in those days was an important event, as\\nshown by the fact that people attended this at Salisbury, trav-\\n*The scholars are supposed to have been candidates studying for the ministry.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. I5I\\nelling on horseback from Rowley and Ipswich, Mass., a distance\\nof eighty-five miles, fording streams and following paths marked\\nby notched (spotted or blazed) trees. Mr. Searle could with\\nmuch truth say, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.\\nMake straight the way of the Lord.\\nThe ordination sermon, by the Rev. Mr. Jewett, of Rowley,\\nwas preached in the meeting-house, as we have seen that it had\\nbeen completed the year before. Besides, no private house\\ncould hold the assembled multitude. The subject of the\\ndiscourse was, How the Ministers of the Gospel are to be\\naccounted of. The text was from ist Corinthians, Chap. 4,\\nverse i, Let a man so account of us as of the ministers of\\nChrist and stewards of the mysteries of God. This sermon,\\nin accordance with the wishes of the people, was printed, and\\na copy has been preserved in the rooms of the New Hampshire\\nHistorical Society, at Concord. It was an able discourse, full\\nof deep thoughts and telling passages, and carried conviction\\nwith its utterances. Mr. Searle was commended as the right\\nman in the right place, although barely twenty-seven years of\\nage, having been ordained the day after he reached that age.\\nHe was a man of large ability, of fine manners, finished educa-\\ntion, with a dignified bearing, and full of strength, energy and\\nfortitude. He dared the wilderness to preach the gospel to all\\npeople. Mr. Walker was then the settled minister in Concord,\\nMr. F letcher in Hopkinton. Daniel Webster, not then born,\\nmarried the daughter of the latter. Mr. Woodman had been\\nsettled but a few years in the adjoining town of Sanbornton.\\nMr. Jewett was the settled minister in Rowley, and had been\\nthe religious instructor of Mr. Searle from his boyhood. Mr.\\nSearle was si.x feet tall, of fine proportion, wore a powdered\\nwig, deer-skin breeches, long silk stockings, ornamented with\\nbrilliant silver knee and shoe buckles, with ample surplice\\nand gown, a fitting figure for so solemn and imposing an occa-\\nsion.\\nTHK MEETING-HOUSE QUESTION.\\nThe meeting-house was located on the northerly slope of\\nnearly the highest hill in Salisbury, about the centre of the", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "152 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ntown, and the approaches to it in all directions were steep and\\ndifficult. As soon as the forests were cleared away, the deep\\ndrifting snows came on and made the roads almost impassable\\nand in the course of ten or twelve years a feeling grew up that\\nthe location of the place of worship should be changed. Searle s\\nHill, unlike the Hill of Sion, did not yield a thousand sacred\\nsweets and during the latter years of Mr. Searle s ministry\\ncontention and difficulty arose relative to moving the meet-\\ning-house, as has been seen. The question was earnestly dis-\\ncussed, passions were allowed to usurp the place of reason, and\\njealousies grew and multiplied. It was no wonder that, under\\nsuch circumstances, a man of Mr. Searle s ardent temperament\\nshould become disheartened, as he saw the pillars of his church,\\nto whom he had held up the merits of the dying Saviour and\\nto whom he had broken the bread of life for many years, leav-\\ning him, and the members of his beloved flock, who had so often\\ncommuned together in spirit and in truth, now passing each\\nother without a bow or sign of recognition.\\nMR. SEARLE A GOOD HUSBANDMAN.\\nHe was a most excellent husbandman, and made the wilder-\\nness about him blossom as the rose. He procured an orchard\\nto be set out in Rowley, grafted with choice fruit, and after a\\nfew years transplanted it to his home in Salisbury. It grew\\nand became the finest orchard within the limits of the town.\\nThe Rev. Samuel Wood procured scions from Parson Searle s\\norchard, about 1785, with which he grafted one of the most\\nvalued orchards in Boscawen. There is a picture of two Bell\\npears, painted by Mr. Searle s daughter, Margaret, as they hung\\nfrom the bough in front of her chamber window. This picture\\nis now in the possession of her son, Henry P. Rolfe, in Con-\\ncord, as is also the bull s-eye watch purchased by his great-\\ngrandfather, Capt. Jethro Sanborn, of Sandown, in 1765, in\\nLondon, for which he paid fifty Spanish milled dollars.\\nDISMISSION DESIRED.\\nAfter a pastorate of nearly twenty years, May 31, 1790, a\\nchurch meeting was called by the pastor to act on the question", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 153\\nof his dismission. It was proposed to call a council, and Mr.\\nSearle consented to remain until his people could secure a suc-\\ncessor, provided it should be done within one year from their\\nannual meeting. In his letter asking for dismission he giv^es\\nthe following reasons: Want of bodily health sufficient to\\ncontinue a charge requiring so many and varied cares and so\\nmuch labor. Col. Ebenezer Webster, Elder Benjamin Hun-\\ntoon and Deacon John Collins were chosen a committee for\\nthis year.\\nMr. Searle wished to be dismissed from his pastorate, first,\\nupon gospel principles of love and mutual friendship second,\\nto continue in the work of the ministry until his successor\\nshould be employed third, that the congregation be freed from\\ntaxes, that they might be legally called upon to make up to\\nhim on account of the depreciation in the currency; fourth, the\\nparsonage right to be improved by him long enough to remun-\\nerate him for clearing up the land, and circumstantial costs.\\nThe church committee last named, with Benjamin Pettengill,\\nEdward Eastman, David Pettengill, Samuel Pillsbury, William\\nWebster and Dr. Joseph Bartlett were chosen a committee to\\nsettle with Mr. Searle.\\nThe most Important articles in the settlement were, that Mr.\\nSearle should quietly and peaceably enjoy the minister s right,\\nreserved in the charter by the grantees of said town, for the\\nfirst settled minister and his heirs forever; the parsonage land\\nto be improved by the minister, his heirs and assigns, until the\\nclose of the year 1791, he to be free from ministerial work,\\nAugust 15, 1790.\\nA council was held November 8, 1791, and Mr. Searle s dis-\\nmission granted.\\nVoted unanimously to recommend the Rev. Mr. Searle to\\nthe fellowship of all the churches, and also to the work of the\\ngospel ministry, should he incline, wherever God in his provi-\\ndence may call him.\\nHIS LATER LIFE AND DEATH.\\nHe continued to live on the parsonage and finally owned it\\nat the time of his death. In consideration of his services as a", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "154\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nminister of the gospel there was sold to him a lot of land, near\\nwhat is now Franklin village, to be free from taxes to him and\\nhis heirs for nine hundred and ninety-nine years. This lot of\\nland came by inheritance to his daughter Margaret, Mrs. Ben-\\njamin Rolfe. It was not taxed till 1835, when it was ascer-\\ntained that as a matter of law no land could be granted free\\nfrom taxes.\\nThe following members united with the church under Mr.\\nSearle s pastorate\\nMoses Silley,\\nEbenezer Webster,\\nSimeon Wadleigh, Sr.,\\nHannah Rogers,\\nNathaniel Meloon,\\nDelia Wadleigh,\\nIMirriam Greeley,\\nElisabeth Pillsbury,\\nAnna Fifield,\\nBenja. Haywood.\\nRichard Foster,\\nRuth\\nHannah Greeley,\\nElisabeth Sanborn,\\nJonathan Huntoon,\\nMirriam Collins,\\nSusannah Webster,\\nSarah Collins,\\nSarah Smith,\\nAnna Webster,\\nAnna Stevens,\\nAbigail Sillaway,\\nSarah Huntoon,\\nMolly Eastman,\\nAnna Eastman,\\nMary Huntoon,\\nRachel Tandy,\\nElisabeth Whittemore,\\nAbigail Webster,\\nMary Fellows,\\nElisabeth Silley,\\nRachel Greeley,\\nRuth Webster.\\nAfter his dismissal, Mr. Searle preached occasionally, but\\ndevoted himself mainly to the improvement of his farm and the\\nsupport of his large family. His church, wherein he had been\\nordained with so much solemn and imposing ceremony nearly\\na score of years before, had been taken down and converted\\ninto a new one at the South Road. The sacred desk was no\\nlonger supplied by him, his mind gradually became unsettled,\\nand he finally began to show unmistakable signs of insanity.\\nHe wandered about among his former church members and\\nparishioners, with his habitual dignified bearing, being perfectly\\nharmless. It is recorded of him that he lost his christian\\nstanding through intemperance, but he did not indulge in\\nstimulants till long after his mind became seriously impaired.\\nHe continued to fade away until December 2, 18 18, when his\\nweary spirit took its departure from its worn-out tenement, and\\nthe manly form of the christian minister was laid away in the\\nsilent home at Shaw s Corner, there to sleep till the bright\\nmorning of the resurrection.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 155\\nA PLEASANT REMINISCENCE.\\nThe following is from the pen of the late Gen. Walter Harri-\\nman, who gave much examination to the early history of the\\ntown of Salisbury, and no little research into the character of\\nits inhabitants, he having been a native and a long time resident\\nof the adjoining town of Warner.\\nA DAY WITH THE WEBSTERS.*\\nOne bright morning in .August, 1875, we Mrs. H. and myself) took a suitable\\nteam at Concord, with one day s rations, and, in, light marching order, set off for\\nElms Karm, Shaw s Corner and Searle Hill. We desired more light on a few points\\nin reference to the early life of Daniel Webster. \\\\t ISoscawen Plains, that ancient\\nvillage, with its broad street, shaded houses and magnificent distances, we made\\nour first halt. A venerable lady of intelligence and culture gave us the information\\nwe there sought. She /v/c^i Daniel Webster and hi.s brother Ezekiel. She related\\ninteresting anecdotes concerning their life in Boscawen, and pointed out, the exact\\nspot where, in 1805, Daniel Webster opened his first law olilice, and commenced\\n(as he used to e.xpress it) making writs. He occupied this office but two years,\\nwhen he gave it up to Ezekiel, and went to Portsmouth. This office, at the Plains,\\nwas a small building attached to a dwelling house, just above the ancient cemetery,\\nand on the same side of the street, but it was removed from this place many years\\nago, and the ground on which it stood is now a shaded lawn.\\nSome of the readers of this periodical will remember how the country was\\nshocked by the sudden termination of the life of Kzekiel Webster. On the loth\\nday of April, 1829, while arguing a case in the Court-IFouse at Concord, he fell life-\\nless to the floor.\\nHaving visited the ancient cemetery at Boscawen, and particularly noticed the\\nincriptions on the tombstones of Ezekiel Webster and his first wife, we proceeded\\non our journey. We soon passed the county buildings (and the magnificent farm\\nconnected therewith) which overlook the charming valley of the Merrimack, and\\ncame to Stirrup-Iron l^rook, which comes down from Salisbury, passes under the\\nNorthern Railroad and falls into the river. This brook takes its name from the\\ncircumstances, that, sometime after the independence of the colonies was acknowl-\\nedged, Gen. Dearborn, of Revolutionary fame, while going, on horseback, to visit a\\nsister at Andover, in fording this stream, which was then at a high stage of water,\\nlost one of his stirrup-irons.\\nWe cross the railroad and are soon looking both to the right and left upon the\\nbroad, smooth acres of the Elms Farm (now the Orphans Home). To this place\\nDaniel Webster was brought, with the family, when he was about one year of age,\\nand around this sacred spot clustered all his early recollections. I le owned this farm,\\nafter his father s decease, and made annual pilgrimages to it till the year he died.\\nHere was the theatre of his early sports and jovs, as well as trials and disappoint-\\nments. Here his school days began: from here he went to Philijis .\\\\cadcmy at\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Granite Monlhly. Mjy, 1880.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "156 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nExeter for a term of six months, when fourteen years of age from here he went to\\nBoscawen Plains, under the instruction of Rev. Samuel Wood, D. D., to prepare for\\ncollege, in the spring of 1797; from here he went to Dartmouth, and when he\\ngraduated, with distinction, in 1801, it was right here where he entered the law\\nofifice of Thomas W. Thompson, as a student of Blackstone.\\nThis Thompson first opened an office at Salisbuary South Road, but after\\nremaining there a year he came down to the river road, where his office was nearly\\nopposite the Webster House. This office was removed many years ago and made\\nthe ell of a house standing on the hill towards Shaw s Corner. Thompson finally\\nwent to Concord, and after a life of industry and success, having filled the chair of\\nSpeaker of our House of Representatives in June, 1S13, and served as Senator in\\nthe Congress of the United States from June, 1S14, to March, 1S17 (to fill a\\nvacancy), he died and was buried in Concord.\\nWith reverent step we entered the Webster cemetery at the Elms Farm; saw\\nwhere Captain Ebenezer Webster and his wife, Abigail, (the parents of Daniel) as\\nwell as many others of his kindred, were laid to rest, and we felt that this was the\\nproper place for the dust of the great expounder to sleep instead of being secreted\\noff in that lonely pasture at Marshfield. We felt, too, that Webster made a mis-\\ntake in cultivating the barren slopes of Green Harbor and making a home there,\\nwhen the Elms Farm presented opportunities so much better. We visited the\\ncelebrated oak tree on which fas tradition has it) Daniel hung his scythe after fail-\\nmg to make it suit him, hung in any other way. But the tree was then dead on the\\nmow-field. Time had laid it low, as it had him who had often basked in its shade.\\nWriting of this place toward the close of his life, in a letter to a friend, Webster\\nsays Looking out at the east windows, with a beautiful sun just breaking out,\\nmy eye sweeps along a level field of 100 acres. At the end of it, a third of a mile\\noff, I see plain marble gravestones, designating the places where repose my father\\nand mother, and brothers, and sisters, Mahitable, Abigail and Sarah good scrip-\\nture names, inherited from their Puritan ancestors. This fair field is before me. I\\ncould see a lamb on my part of it. I have ploughed it, raked it, but I never mowed\\nit somehotv I could never learn to hang a scythe. My brother Joseph used to say\\nthat my father sent me to college in order to make me equal to the rest of the\\nchildren.\\nWe crossed the mouth of Punch Brook, just above the Elms Farm, and, turning\\nimmediately to the left, proceeded on up the old road running to Shaw s Corner.\\nAbout half way up, and near where the road crosses the brook, we find the founda-\\ntions of a saw-mill which Capt. Webster owned when Daniel was a lad. From\\nletters of the latter we learn, that, while at work with his father in this mill, while\\nlistening to the roar of the water-fall and gazing on the mountains and forests in\\ntheir grandeur, Daniel Webster had his first visions of future eminence, or of the\\npossibility of it. Here, to this youth, there were sermons in stones, tongues in\\ntrees, and books in the running brooks.\\nA half a mile or more to the northward of Shaw s Corner, on a road leading to\\nEast Andover, and on the charmed banks of Punch ]irook, where the birds sing\\nsweetly in May, is the birthplace oi Daniel Webster. Here Judge Webster, coming\\nup from Kingston, .selected his farm in the wilderness. It was average land for\\ntillage and pasture, and was quite valuable on account of its pine timber, but by\\nyears of neglect and waste the farm has become very ordinary. The old log cabin", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. I 57\\nwas demolished before D aniel s birth, but the spot where it stood is still visible,\\nas well as the foundations of the grist-mill which Capt. Webster erected on Punch\\nBrook. The well and the historic elm are there, and a part of the little frame house\\nin which Daniel Webster was born is there, constituting the ell of the present two-\\nstory house standing on the premises. The room in which Daniel was born is there,\\nprecisely as it was Jan. i8, 1782, excepting that now there are two windows in\\nfront, whereas, at the former period, there was but one. Of all these facts we satis-\\nfied ourselves after patient and thorough investigation.\\nWe now began our toilsome ascent. The sun having passed an hour beyond its\\nhigh meridian, and our experiences for the day having been not totally unlike those\\nof him of the olden time, who, in weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and\\nthirst, in fastings, jjursued his high calling, we halted and went into bivouac. On\\nthe eastern slope of .Searle Mountain, under the shade of a large mck-maple which\\nstood by the side of a sparkling rivulet, we supplied our wants. A fire was kindled,\\nthe coffee-pot and frying-pan were taken from the carriage, and salt-hoss and\\nhard-tack (the soldier s fare) made the foundation of our meal. Old Ximrod,\\nthe faithful animal who had been ridden in the army, was not forgotten, but was\\nled into green pastures, and had set before him his coveted gallon of shoe pegs\\nwhich had been brought along for the occasion.\\nThe summit of Searle Hill (more commonly known, perhaps, as Meeting-house\\nHill was now our objective point. It is a mile west of Shaw s Corner, on an old\\nroad leading to Salisbury Centre. The ascent of this hill, especially from the east,\\nis attended with much labor. The hill is both long and steep very steep, even for\\nthe mountainous regions of New Hampshire. The road is rough, and is now\\nentirely abandoned as a public highway. Giving the horse his head, we toiled up\\nthis mountain as pedestrians. Half way up from Shaw s Corner, on the right hand\\nside of the road, is seen an old cellar and all the foundations of extensive farm,\\nbuildings. But the voices which rang on that mountain side are hushed. It was\\nWilliam Webster, a brother to Capt. Ebenezer, who settled on this spot. Here, in\\nhis early manhood, he came and selected his home. Here he raised his large family,\\nlived a life of usefulness and died. But this deserted place is further made\\nmemorable by the fact that Daniel Webster, after leaving Exeter .\\\\cademy in the\\nspring of 1797, and before commencing with Rev. Mr. Wood at Boscawen Plains,\\ntaught a private school for a few weeks, on this side-hill, occupying for his school-\\nhouse a room here in his Uncle William s dwelling-house. Daniel had a fine class\\nof girls and boys, and his brief charge here, it is said, was pleasant and bewitching.\\nThis was\\nIn life s morning m.irch, when his bosom w.is yojng.\\nOn the top of Searle Hill, on the left hand side of the road as we are travelling,\\nstood the first church edifice erected in Salisbury. could not be hid. It was a\\nlarge two-story building, without a steeple, with but little inside finish, and with a\\npulpit at a dizzy height. Think of bleak December, the cold blasts sweeping\\ndown these old mountains, the roads blocked full in every direction, no fire in the\\nchurch, but two long sermons, reaching up to sixteenlhly, every Sunday. It s\\nenough to make a saint shudder!\\nJonathan .Searle, the first occupant of this pulpit, commenced his labors here\\nbefore the Revolution, viz., in 1773, and closed them, after iS years of faithful", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "158 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nservice, in 1791. He was a graduate of Harvard, a man of large ability and of lofty\\nand dignified bearing. He was also a man of fine personal appearance. He wore a\\ntri-cornered cocked hat, powdered wig, ornamented knee and shoe buckles, with the\\nmost ample surplice and gown. All the Websters worshipped in his congregation.\\nYoung Daniel was baptised here, by the Rev. Mr. Searle, in the summer of 1782.\\nThe day was pleasant and warm, but on that mountain top there was a strong\\nbreeze. After the ceremony of baptism, as the Webster family were leaving the\\nchurch, a Mrs. Clay, who no doubt was an excellent lady though a little intrusive,\\nmade herself quite conspicuous. She had on a new bonnet, and a large one, it\\nwas large for the fashion, and fashion at that time justified one simply immense.\\nThis bonnet was liberally decked with flowers, feathers and ribbons, and taking it\\nall in all was well calculated to make a sensation on Searle Hill. This good\\nwoman pushed her way into the aisle, congratulated the minister on the felicity of\\nhis performance, congratulated Captain Webster and his wife on the auspicious\\nevent, patted little Daniel lovingly on the cheek, and chiefly cut off the view of the\\nrest of the congregation. Just as she was leaving the vestibule of the church, a\\nsudden flaw of wind struck her ponderous bonnet, snapped the slender thread that\\nfastened it under her chin, and like riches that noted bonnet took to itself wings.\\nThis woman called lustily on the dignified Searle, who was nearest to it, to seize\\nthe fugitive article of head-adornment and Searle was willing, but it would be un-\\nministerial for him to run. She called again Do, Reverend sir, catch my bon-\\nnet; it will be ruined! He quickened his pace a little, but still preserved a\\nmeasured and dignified tread. The distance between pursued and pursuer began\\nrapidly to widen, when good Mrs. Clay, becoming frantic and unguarded, sang out,\\nSearle, yoic devil you, why don t you run The reverend gentleman did then\\naccelerate his motion, and overtaking that indispensable article of head-gear, bore\\nit in triumph to its distracted owner.\\nA grandson of this reverend ambassador for Christ is one of the prominent and\\nsolid lawyers of Concord, and it is said that in personal appearance and in many\\ncharacteristics of mind he bears a striking resemblance to his worthy ancestor.\\nThe venerable sanctuary, which the winds and rains of heaven beat upon in the\\nlast century, has been gone a great many years, and on the old mountain, which was\\nonce the abode of numerous and thrify families, silence now reigns undisturbed.\\nStill the distant view from the summit is as varied and grand as in the days of\\nDaniel Webster s infancy still the eye takes a broad reach over mountain, mead\\nand vale, embracing no insignificant fraction of\\nThis universal frame thus wondrous fair.\\nComing on down to the South Road, where stands the chief village of Salisbury,\\nwe were fortunate in finding a Mrs. Eastman, a native of that town, and a very\\nintelligent old lady, who was pleased to favor us with items of much interest, and\\nwho pointed out the very house J now in a good state of preservation) in which\\nDaniel Webster, Esq., of Portsmouth, and Miss Grace Fletcher, of Salisbury,\\nwere married, in June, 1808.\\nNight approaching, and the object of our short trip having been more than\\nrealized, we struck a bee-line for Concord.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAI. HISTORY. I59\\nTHE REV. THOMAS WORCESTER.\\nThis eminent divine was a son of Noah and Lydia (Taylor)\\nWorcester, and was born November 22, 1768. He had four\\nbrothers, three of whom were ministers, viz the Rev. Noah\\nWorcester, D. D., of ]kii;hton, Mass. the Rev. Leonard Wor-\\ncester, M. A., of Peacham, Vt., and the Rev. Samuel Worcester,\\nD. D., of Salem, Mass. They were all distinguished as orators\\nand writers for the religious press. The other brother, Jesse,\\nwas the father of Joseph K. Worcester, author of Worcester s\\nDictionary and other valuable works. Mr. Thomas Worcester\\nwas a self-educated man, and had studied for the ministry with\\nthe Rev. Daniel Emerson, at Hollis. In April, 1791, he was\\nemployed three months upon trial, and in the following Sep-\\ntember was invited to settle in Salisbury. Col. Ebenezer Web-\\nster, Dea. John Collins, Elder B. Huntoon, Edward Eastman\\nand John Sweatt were chosen a committee to hire Mr. Worcester\\nand make suitable arrangements for his ordination. A town\\nmeeting was held Septemder i, 1791, when it was voted to\\ngive him one hundred and twenty pounds as a settlement, one\\nhalf to be paid in nine months and the residue in eighteen\\nmonths. Also eighty pounds yearly as long as he should con-\\ntinue. This was quite a salary at that time for a young man\\nonly twenty-three years of age. His letter of acceptance bears\\ndate October 16, 1791, and is as follows:\\nBrethren and Frirnds:\\nI call myself under obligations of gratitude to you as a church and people, for\\nthe respectful treatment I have received from you, since God in his providence\\ncalled me to preach in this place; more particularly for the respect you have shown\\nme in calling me to settle in the work of the Gospel ministry among you. Since I\\nhave been among you, I think I have endeavored carefully to attend to the various\\noccurrences of divine I rovidence that I might learn my duty: and since I received\\nyour invitation to continue with you, and take the charge of you as your Pastor, I\\nthink I have carefully and prayerfully attended to the matter that I might be led to\\na wise determination and after repairing to the Throne of CIrace, and looking to\\nthe Great Head of the Church, for directive and deliberate consideration of the\\nmatter, I have been led to conclude that it is my duty to comply with your request.\\nI therefore now accept your invitation and consent to stay among you according to\\nyour proposals. But my friends you will remember that I am young, that I am but\\na man, and that the work which I have undertaken is great and attended with many", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0183.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "l60 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ndifficulties. My youth and the disadvantages under which I labor respecting my\\nacquirements of human Cuning loudly call for your candour and your prayers. I\\ntrust you will make all reasonable allowances for me; that you will cover my fail-\\nings with a mantle of love, so far as it is consistent with the rules of the Gospel\\nand that you will afford your endeavors to strengthen my hands and keep me under\\nadvantages to be wholly devoted to the arduous work into which I am called so\\nlong as God shall continue me among you; and may God for Christ s .Sake grant\\nthat the present apparent union of this Church and Congregration, may be\\nstrengthened and continued, may He cause the Gospel to be understandingly and\\nfaithfully preached, and to become a Savior of life into life to the Souls of many.\\nMay He build up his Church and Kingdom in this place, and may He give us all a\\nspirit of wisdom, of meekness, of watchfulness, of faithfulness and of brotherly love,\\nthat we may be truly a religious people, zealous of good works: that this may be\\na city set on a hill, the light of which shall shine all round; that we may glorify\\nGod and dwell together like brethren in unity.\\nN. B. I desire liberty to leave you destitute as to my supplying you with\\npreaching two Sabbaths in a year, when occasion shall call for it.\\nTHOMAS WORCESTER.\\nSalisbury, October i6, 1791.\\nHe was ordained November 9th, by the same council which\\nhad dismissed Mr. Searle on the day previous. On this day the\\ncouncil had assembled preparatory to the ordination, when some\\nhesitation arose among the ministers of the council, on account\\nof Mr. Worcester s youthful appearance, and limited opportuni-\\nties for an education, or because he had not received a collegiate\\neducation. The people without became impatient at the delay\\nand demanded that the ordination should proceed. As Judge\\nWebster was chairman of the committee who hired Mr. Wor-\\ncester, he was requested to wait upon the council and inquire\\ninto the cause of the delay. He appeared before them, heard\\ntheir statements, and arose and addressed them in an earnest,\\ndirect and impressive manner. Gentlemen, said he, the\\nordination must come off iiozv, and if you cannot assent we\\nmust try and get along without you. The point under discus-\\nsion must be postponed to some other day. The council\\nacquiesced, and the ordination proceeded without further delay.\\nTwo months before this the town had voted to accept a church\\nwhich had been erected at the South Road, but which had not\\nbeen finished upon the inside.\\nThe congregation which attended upon his preaching was\\nfor many years very large. He was a faithful and laborious", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0184.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. l6l\\npastor, and his pulpit addresses were attractive, earnest and\\ndirect. All were interested, many deeply moved. During his\\nministry there were several seasons of the special outpouring of\\nthe Holy Spirit. An extensive revival of religion occurred\\nsoon after his settlement, and over eighty were received into\\nthe church. Probably the most enjoyable occasion of the\\nkind which ever took place in this church was in December,\\n1792. As a result of the last-mentioned revival, thirty young\\nconverts made public profession of their faith in the Lord Jesus\\nChrist. His brother, Samuel Worcester, united with the church\\nFebruary 13, 1793. William Webster, uncle to Daniel, united\\nwith the church September 8, 1796, and Daniel Webster him-\\nself September 13, 1807. Seven years after this Mr. Webster\\nwrote out his own creed or profession of faith, and subse-\\nquently left it with his father. It will be found in his biog-\\nraphy.\\nAnother special revival occurred about 1815, when more than\\nsixty persons made public profession of their faith.\\nUnder his pastorate 268 united with the church he adminis-\\ntered the sacrament of baptism to 322 children, solemnized 307\\nmarriages, and attended 25 ecclesiastical councils.\\nIn the year 1791 there was some difficulty about collecting\\nthe funds for the support of preaching, and it was voted to\\nassess the inhabitants of the town for the minister s salary,\\nand to ring the bell on Sabbath days, and on all public days, as\\nis usual.\\nFor some time previous to Mr. Worcester s dismissal from\\nthe church he had departed from the strict orthodox faith, in\\nregard to the deity of Christ. He was originally led to this\\ndeparture, no doubt, by the influence of his older brother, Dr.\\nNoah Worcester, who resided in Salisbury from 1800 to 1813,\\nwhile publishing his Bible News and other controversial\\nwritings on the subject of the Trinity. There is no clear indi-\\ncation of the change in the Rev. Thomas Worcester s views till\\nthe year 181 3.\\nThe church creed had been made a little more liberal than\\nformerly, although considered a Congregational church and\\nI I", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0185.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "l62 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ntreated as such by sister churches. The alteration however\\nwas made by Mr. Worcester himself, as he had left on record,\\nupon his own individual responsibility. Mr. Worcester was at\\nlength charged with preaching other views than orthodox Con-\\ngregationalism, and out of that charge, and the facts on which it\\nrested, grew dissatisfaction, embarrassment, and dissentions,\\nwhich eventually did the church much harm.\\nA mutual council was finally called, April 23, 1823, consisting\\nof the following pastors and delegates From the West Parish\\nchurch in Londonderry, Rev. Daniel Dana, D. D., pastor, Dea.\\nWm. Anderson, delegate from the church in East Londonderry\\nRev. Edward L. Parker, pastor. Elder Samuel Burnham, dele-\\ngate from the church in Lyme, Rev. Baxter Perry, pastor. Rev.\\nNathaniel Lambert, delegate; from the church in Hopkinton,\\nRev. Roger C. Hatch, pastor, brother David Greeley, delegate.\\nThis council was charged with the duty of considering the\\ncircumstances, and advising in respect to Mr. Worcester s dis-\\nmission. It met at the house of Andrew Bowers, Esq., and\\nRev, Daniel Dana, D. D., was chosen moderator, and Rev. R.\\nC. Hatch, scribe.\\nThe council say that after a careful and impartial investiga-\\ntion of all the charges against Mr. Worcester, we are happy\\nto find that no specific charges are preferred against him seri-\\nously affecting his moral and christian character, and to his\\nassiduity and tenderness as a pastor we give our united sanction,\\nand we rejoice in that signal blessing with which it has pleased\\na Sovereign God to crown his labors in years that are past.\\nThe council however add that they are constrained to confess\\nthat in the course of his proceedings of recent date there occur\\nsome deviations from strict consistency and propriety, which\\nthey are inclined to ascribe, in a considerable degree, to mis-\\ntaken views, to bodily infirmities, and to the agitation and\\ndistress of mind excited by the thought of separation from a\\nbeloved people.\\nHis dismissal was occasioned by his doctrinal position and\\nteachings. His one dereliction, as the council declared, was\\nconcerning the doctrine of the proper deity of Jesus Christ,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0186.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. I63\\nand was not in this case accompanied, as it usually is, with an\\nabandonment of other distinguishing and glorious doctrines of\\nthe gospel. His creed shows however some difficulty on\\nthe subject of the Holy Spirit. On the character of Christ he\\nwould seem to be what is called a high Arian.\\nHe remained in Salisbury, and December 12th, 1831, was\\nreceived back into the church and died in full communion; but\\nfrom some of his last letters and verbal communications it is\\nclear that he did not relinquish his Unitarian views. Just\\nbefore his death he said, I have not changed my views; they\\nare unshaken, and are growing stronger the more I search the\\nscriptures.\\nIn 1806 he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts\\nfrom Dartmouth College. He was a natural orator and the\\nfame of his eloquence extended far and wide. He was emphat-\\nically the Channing of New Hampshire. He was also a man of\\nsterling integrity, and of extended knowledge of the Bible, of\\nhistory, and of human nature. He was a good writer, charitable\\nin his views and liberal with his purse.\\nMarch 11, 1792, he married Miss Deborah Lee, of Manches-\\nter, Mass. He occupied the house now owned by D. J. Calef.\\nNo children blessed their union, but they adopted a number of\\nchildren, giving them a good education, and providing them\\nwith this world s goods as far as they were able. He died\\nDecember 24, 1831, aged 6t, years.\\nThe whole difference between Mr. Worcester and the church\\narose from his views of the Trinity. These views he wrote out\\nbut they were never published. They are herewith published,\\nand will be found to show much thought and close reasoning.\\nWe record them as the best exposition of his faith.\\nAN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT.\\nFollowing is a copy of the title-page of a school book, by the\\nRev. Thomas Worcester, taken from the original in Mr. Wor-\\ncester s handwriting. The document has fifty-four chapters,\\nand is without date", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0187.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "164 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nTHE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTOR\\nOR\\nSACRED SCHOOL ROOK,\\nGiving a Connected Viezv of the Most Interesting Things\\nin the Bible.\\nBY THOMAS WORCESTER, A. M.,\\nPastor of a Church in Salisbury.\\nThis is the wisdom which speaks of hearts.\\nAn honest statement to correct the great misrepresentations of Deacons,\\nLawyers and others concerning my sentiments.\\nCREED OF THOMAS WORCESTER.\\n[As copied from the manuscript in his own hand writing.]\\nIn regard to the divinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit; I verily believe all\\nthat I understand Trinitarians in general to have believed, except the propriety\\nof using some words and forms which they have used.\\nI believe there are three which bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word and\\nthe Holy Ghost; that God has given us eternal life, and that this life is in his\\nSon, but also of one divine nature; one likewise in the creation and the govern-\\nment of the Universe, and especially one in the great work of our salvation.\\nIn regard to the divinity of Christ, I certainly deny nothing which Trinitarians\\nin general have believed so far as I have knowledge I do verily believe that Christ\\nis God, in a very high sense; God who was in the beginning with God, and\\nwithout whom there was not anything made; God whose father has anointed\\nhim to an everlasting throne; God over all, b!e.ssed forever, in that all power is\\ngiven unto him in Heaven and in earth, and in that he is made head over all\\nthings in the Church the first and the last, as he is in the Father and the\\nFather in him, as he is the author and the finisher of our faith, as all things\\nwere made by him and for him, and as his, one in divine nature, oite in divine full,\\nness, 07ie in divine purpose, one in divine work, and one in divine glory with the\\nFather.\\nAs to the dependence of the Son on the Father, I believe exactly as I under-\\nstand the greatest and best of Trinitariati writers. I believe, in idea, that the Son\\nis, as we are, without power or sufficiency in himself, for it has pleased the Father\\nthat in him should all fullness dwell. Divine fullness so perpetually and\\nunavoidably dwells in Christ, that he is ever mighty to save, mighty to do any-\\nthing and everything which the good of his kingdom requires. Trinitarians believe.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0188.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. l6$\\nthat, in some high sense, the Father is greater than the Son, and so do exactly as\\nit is expressed by the great and good I )r. Owen, who, using the words of our Savior,\\nsays, The Kather hath life in himself, and he giveth unto the Son to have life in\\nhimself, by communicating unto him his sustenance. And, as another great\\ndivine says, What the Kather is he is from none, what the Son is, he [is]\\nfrom the Father. The Son receives his being and his power from another, other-\\nwise, it could not be said there are not more (iods than One. At the same time,\\nI believe, as Trinitarians do, that there is a high sense in which the Son is equal\\nwith the Father. He is equal in power and glory, for in him dwells all the full-\\nness of the C lodhcad.\\nLikewise, I believe, as I understand Trinitarians in general to have believed, in\\nthe Holy Spirit. So far as I have knowledge, they have generally believed, that\\nthe Spirit was not 2i person, in the same sense that a man or an angel is a person,\\nand many, if not the most, of great and good Trinitarians have supposed the Spirit\\nto be divine po7uer or divine jrooiiness, or a holy divine cners^y, in many instances\\npersonified, and particularly in the great work of regeneration and sanctification.\\nAnd such is my own view of this matter.\\nThus do I, with all the understanding I have, believe in the Father, Son and Holy\\nSpirit. And so, I trust, with all my heart, unite in the worship with the heavenly\\nmillions, who give glory to (Jod and to the Lamb who was slain.\\nTHOMAS WORCESTER.\\nSalisbury, April 31st, 1S14.\\nTHE REV. ABIJAH CROSS.\\nMr. Cross was settled over the church, December 23d, 1S23,\\nand on the 9th of May following the church adopted new or\\nrevised articles of faith and covenant, agreeably to the ortho-\\ndo.x creed.\\nAt the time of Mr. Cross s settlement there were one hundred\\nand eleven resident members. Also thirty-nine non-resident,\\nmaking at the time of Mr. Worcester s dismission a total num-\\nber of one hundred and fifty. Of this number twenty-three\\nabsented themselves on the adoption of revised articles of faith.\\nUnder Mr. Cross s pastorate there were added to the church\\nseventeen members, and nine were dismissed. He adminis-\\ntered the sacrament of baptism to fifteen. His dismissal was\\nApril I, 1S29.\\nDuring his ministry an effort was made by Rev. Benjamin\\nHuntoon, a Unitarian clcrgynvan, to organize a Unitarian Socie-\\nty in town, but not finding a very large congregation of this\\nfaith, and only five persons to organize into a church, and no\\nproper place being found to hold religious worship, he con-\\ntinued in town but one year.", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0189.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "l66 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nTHE REV. ANDREW RANKIN.\\nMr. Rankin was settled over the church July ii, 1830, and\\nwas dismissed in October, 1832. During his pastorate seven-\\nteen were added to the church by profession, eleven by letter,\\nand about twenty were converted by his preaching.\\nMr. Rankin was a son of Andrew Rankin, who came with his\\nfather, John Rankin, from Glasgow, Scotland. They landed at\\nSalem, Mass., Boston harbor at that time being blockaded.\\nThey eventually settled at Littleton, Mass., where Rev. Andrew\\nwas born, November i, 1795. He died at Danbury, October\\n22, 1862. He married Lois, daughter of Jeremiah Eames, of\\nEast Stewartstown, by whom he had six children, Lucy, (Albee)\\nCambridgeport, Mass. Rev. Jeremiah E., of Washington, D. C;\\nAndrew E., of St. Johnsbury, Vt. Lois A., of Boston, Mass.,\\nand Caroline L. (Bartlett,) of Jacksonville, 111.\\nMr. Rankin was a scholarly man, possessed of much energy,\\nwas an able and attractive preacher, and thoroughly devoted to\\nhis calling. He espoused the temperance cause with great\\nzeal, and was one of the pioneers of that reform in the State.\\nIt required no little fortitude at that time for the minister to\\nstep out from amongst the wine bibbers who were mem-\\nbers of the church, and demand total abstinence from every-\\nthing which could intoxicate. But he did not fail to declare to\\nthem that Wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging, and\\nwhosover is deceived thereby is not wise, and that at last\\nit biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. A drunk-\\nard cannot inherit the Kingdom of God, was his frequent\\nadmonition. He was a fearless and faithful servant of the\\nMost High, and laid up his treasures where moth and rust\\ncould not corrupt them. Of his six children two are now liv-\\ning: Rev. Jeremiah E., of Washington, D. C, and Lucy, (Albee)\\nof Cambrigeport, Mass.\\nTHE REV. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FOSTER.\\nHe was a son of Richard and Esther (Jewell) Foster, and\\ngrandson of Hezekiah Foster, an early settler in Salisbury, and\\nwas born June 16, 1803. During his pastorate he resided in", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0190.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "PXCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 167\\nthe house now occupied by P. A. Fellows, which was then the\\nparsonage. Mr. Foster was settled Nov. 13, 1833, and continued\\nhis charge thirteen years, being dismissed by mutual council July\\n23, 1846. He was a good minister, esteemed by his parishion-\\ners, and respected as a citizen, pastor and friend. Eighty mem-\\nbers were admitted to the church during his ministry in Salis-\\nbury, forty by profession of faith, and forty by letter. Several\\nseasons of religious awakening occurred during his ministry, the\\nmost marked being in the winter of 1842-43. For several\\nyears he taught the Academy in Salisbury, and his memory is\\nfondly cherished by all who came under his instruction.\\nNovember 7, 1S46, a call was extended to the Rev. Moses\\nKimball which was not accepted.\\nTHE REV. E. H. CASWELL\\nSucceeded Mr. Foster, June 28, 1848, and was dismissed by\\nmutual council the following February. Four were admitted\\nto the church by profession, and one by letter, during his brief\\nlabors in the ministry. While at Salisbury Mr. Caswell mar-\\nried Miss Sarah J., youngest daughter of Dea. William Parsons,\\na fine scholar and accomplished lady. Mr. Caswell did not\\npossess very firm health, and died young, leaving one son, who\\nresides with his mother in Boston. Mr. Caswell occupied the\\nCongregational pulpit in Hooksett for a time, and is pleasantly\\nremembered by his parishioners in whatever field he was called\\nto labor.\\nTHE REV. ERASMUS D. ELDRIDGE\\nWas settled as pastor, January 12, 1849, salary of S400\\nand the use of the parsonage, and was dismissed November i,\\n1854, on account of failing health. During his ministry twenty-\\nsix were received into the church. Mr. P^ldridgc s health fail-\\ning him, and being of a tubercular predisposition, he was often\\nobliged to seek a milder climate than Salisbury afforded. The\\nlabors of Mr. Eldridge were very useful in the church and very\\nacceptable to the people. He was a high-toned gentleman and\\nfelt the responsibility of his high calling. Nature had endowed\\nhim with an even temper and a gentle spirit, combined with the", "height": "3506", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0191.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "l68 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nbuoyancy of hope, and he was always kind and cheerful. He\\nwas born in Dunstable, Mass., March lo, 1804, graduated at\\nAmherst College in 1829, and studied for the ministry, at An-\\ndover, in the class of 1833. He married Mabel Tappan Hill, of\\nPortsmouth, and died at Athens, Ga., April 18, 1876. He was\\nordained pastor at Hampton, April 4, 1838; dismissed May 7,\\n1848. Settled in Salisbury, January 12, 1849; dismissed Nov.\\nI, 1854. He removed to Georgia in 1855, and remained till\\ni860; installed at Alton, January 24, 1861 dismissed Novem-\\nber 24, 1863; installed at Kensington, June 30, 1864; dismissed\\nJanuary 13, 1875. While in Salisbury he built and occupied the\\nhouse now owned by Hartwell C. Noyes.\\nTHE REV. THOMAS RATRAY\\nCame from Toronto, Canada, and was installed at Salisbury\\nMay 7, 1856, and on account of ill health was dismissed April\\ni5j 1857. He was employed at a salary of $550, and the\\nexpenses of moving. After leaving Salisbury he went to Scot-\\nland, the place of his nativity, to revisit early scenes and old\\nfriends. Upoi-j his return he built a house in Concord, where\\nhe remained for several years, and from there removed to\\nMassachusetts.\\nTHE REV. HORATIO MERRILL\\nWas a son of Nathaniel and Phebe Merrill Merrill, and was\\nborn at Brownsfield, Me., April 26, 181 7. Studied at Phillips\\nExeter Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1840. He\\nstudied at Andover Theological Seminary, in the class of 1843.\\nHe w^as ordained at West Newbury, Mass., in 1845 dismissed\\nApril II, 1847. He was installed in Salisbury March 17, 1858.\\nA council held March 15, 1864, dismissed him from the pastor-\\nate, although he had not preached in the church for two years.\\nOn his application for a letter of dismission from the church,\\nthe church voted to expel him, and the following preamble and\\nresolution were unanimously adopted:\\nWhereas, a difficulty arose in this church during the ministry of Rev. Horatio\\nMerrill, on political grounds and whereas certain mem!)ers of the church left the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0192.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "ECCLKSIASTICAL HISTORY. I69\\ncommunion of the church and were subsequently expelled; and whereas the ground\\nof said difficulty has been removed; therefore,\\nJicsolvtui, That if any such desire to return to the communion of the church,\\nthe difficulty alluded to shall be no bar to their returning on the same standing as\\nif no difficulty had ever occurred.\\nThe difficulty above alluded to sprang from a political dis-\\ncourse, delivered July 4, 1858, in which Mr. Merrill made some\\ngross misstatements, which were very offensive and intended\\nto injure and wound the feelings of members of the church be-\\nlonging to one of the political parties. Five persons left the\\nhouse. When Mr. Merrill was shown where he was in the wrong\\nand asked to correct the error and make amends, he refused to\\ndo so. Other things coming up to his detriment, a portion of\\nhis congregation withdrew and built a new church on the\\ncorner, east of Mrs. Lois Crane s house, and organized as the\\nMethodist Society, which existed until Mr. Merrill left. Then\\nthis society sold their building and most of them returned to\\nthe Congregational church. July 11, 1849, he married Sarah,\\ndaughter of Royal Whitman, of Turner, Me. He died at Hop-\\nkinton, Iowa, September 7, 1878. During his ministry, nine-\\nteen were received into the church by profession, five by letter,\\nand four were dismissed.\\nMr. Merrill was an eloquent preacher, and wrote excellent\\nsermons, and for a time was much admired by his parishioners.\\nTHE KEV. USAL W. CONDIT\\nCame to Salisbury from Deerfield, and was installed March\\n16, 1864, upon the dismission of Mr. Merrill. He was dis-\\nmissed by mutual council, January 13, 1869. During his min-\\nistry eleven were admitted to the church by profession, eight\\nby letter, and he administered the ordinance of baptism to\\nseven.\\nTHE REV. JOSEPH H. COOK\\nWas installed January 13, 1869, and was dismissed May 19,\\n1876. Mr. Cook was hired at a salary of S500. He was a man\\nof eminent piety and his influence as a scholarly preacher was\\nverv marked. He resides at Hebron.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0193.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "I/O HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nTHE REV. WILLIAM C. SCOFIELD\\nFollowed Mr. Cook, coming here from Newark, N. J., in the\\nfall of 1875, continuing till 1877. During his pastorate between\\ntwenty and thirty united with the church.\\nTHE REV. GEORGE W. BOTHWELL\\nWas born in Ohio, in 1850, of Scotch-Irish parents, his\\nfather emigrating form the north of Ireland in 1842, and settling\\nnear Marietta, Ohio. He possessed a strong desire for histori-\\ncal information, and a greneral knowledge of letters. His old-\\nest son, the subject of this sketch, most of the people of Salis-\\nbury remember as a stated supply of the Congregational church,\\nand a man who took a great interest in beautifying the village,\\nand as a worker in every good cause. He was a gentleman in\\nevery sense of that word. At the early age of sixteen he began\\nteaching; graduated at Adrian College, Mich., in 1875; had\\ncharge of Mission churches until he entered Yale College, from\\nwhich he graduated, May, 1877, and is now supplying the Con-\\ngregational church in Portland, Mich. Five months of his\\nvacation, between his junior and senior year (1879) i^ Yale\\nTheological Seminary, were spent in Salisbury, in which time\\nfive were added to the church.\\nTHE REV. SAMUEL H, BARNUM\\nSon of Rev. S. W. and Charlotte (Betts) Barnum, was born\\nat Springfield, Mass., April 7, 1852, fitted for college at Hop-\\nkins Grammar School, and graduated at Yale College in 1875,\\nand from Yale Theological Seminary in 1879, removed to\\nSalisbury, November 9, 1879, where he remained until May,\\n1882, when he received a call to go to Durham, where he was\\nordained and installed, April 24, 1883. While at Durham, July\\n13, 1882, he married Miss S. Pauline, daughter of Dea. Thomas\\nD. and Susan E. (Smith) Little, of Salisbury. (See Geneal-\\nogy.)\\nTHE REV. CHARLES E. GORDON\\nSon of Jackson and Marcia Fish) Gordon, was born at Law-\\nrence, Mass., October 15, 1848. He graduated from Yale Col-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0194.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. I7I\\nlege in 1872, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1875.\\nMay 17, 1876, he was ordained pastor of the Congregational\\nchurch, in Pomfret, Ct., and officiated there for fifteen months.\\nJune, 1878, he was installed over the church in East Hardwick,\\nVt., where he remained until August, 1882. In November of\\nthat year, he supplied the pulpit in Salisbury and in Webster,\\n(Corser Hill,) only a few miles apart, and October 4, 1883, was\\ninstalled pastor over both churches, to which he still adminis-\\nters. The installation took place in the Webster church.\\nMr. Gordon makes Salisbury his place of residence and occu-\\npies the parsonage. On the 30th of September, 1878, he mar-\\nried Amy A., daughter of Prof. Edwin R. and Louisa J.\\n(Sumner,) Keys, of Connecticut. They have two children,\\nTheodore W., born at East Hardwick, Vt., August 13, 1881,\\nand Edwin R., born at Salisbury, Eebruary 9, 1883.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0195.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII.\\nECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, CONTINUED.\\nWe had straight forward gone\\nTo endless death, but Love doth pull\\nAnd turn us round, to look on One\\nWhom if we were not very dull\\nWe would not choose but look on still,\\nSince there is no place so lone\\nWhich He doth not fill.\\nTHE BAPTIST SOCIETIES.\\nIn the long and bitter controversy which resulted in the\\nremoval of the meeting-house to the South Road, the people\\nliving at the centre, and in the west part of the town, believed\\nthat great injustice had been done them and began to discuss\\nmeasures for the formation of a new society.\\nOn the 25th of May, 1789, a large number of the leading citi-\\nzens met at the school house, near the residence of Mr. Abel\\nElkins, to find how many there were of the Baptist faith, and\\nto take some proper steps to procure preaching. The meeting\\nwas organized by the choice of Daniel Brottlebank, as modera-\\ntor, and Jonathan Cram, clerk. Lieut. Joseph Severance, Jon-\\nathan Cram and Lieut. Moses Clough were chosen a committee\\nto procure preaching.\\nOn the 23d of June a meeting of those interested in the for-\\nmation of a new church and society was held, when seventy-six\\npersons adopted and signed the following\\nCOVENANT,\\nKnow all Men by this. That we, the subscribers, being conscious of One only\\nindependent, supreme, superintending, absolutely perfect, all-gracious lieing; and\\ntherefore conscious of our dependence upon him, from whence naturally arises our", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0196.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. I73\\nobligation to him, as rational creatures, and therefore capable of moral government,\\nas it is expressed in the first and second commandments, which are a compendium\\nof the whole duty of man, for on these two commandments hang all the law and\\nthe prophets, without the knowledge of which we are a riddle to ourselves; and\\nsince that the heart be without knowledge it is not good; and Clod, in his all-wise\\nsuperintendency, has cast our happy lot where, in addition to the manifestations of\\nhis own glorious perfections by creation, he has more abundantly made himself\\nknown in the scriptures of the Old and New Testament, which are able to make us\\nwise unto salvation, through faith which is in Jesus Christ, in whom dwells the\\nfullness of the Clodhead bodily; and not only so, but has, in said Scriptures delin-\\neated every character with which we stand in need to he acquainted, in order to\\nglorify God, which is, in fact, to treat all characters and objects according to their\\nworth and excellency therefore we ought, stripped of all prepossessions of opinion\\nand sentiment, to search the Scriptures, to find out and know ourselves, what is\\ngood, and practice accordingly, realizing we must shortly be accountable to him, that\\nis ready to judge the quick and the dead.\\nWe, therefore, in the view of these things, as men, amidst all the controversy of\\nreligionists and the errors of the times, would assume our natural rights in the\\nchoice of a religious sentiment for ourselves, and do accordingly, having had the\\nopportunity to peruse, examine and determine upon several religious schemes or\\nsentiments, presume voluntarily to choose and prefer what is called the strict Anti-\\nPedobaptists sentiments of religion, and do hereby make said sentiments of religion\\nour own, taking it upon candid examination, according to our best light in the Holy\\nScriptures, to be the most agreeable thereto. And we, the subscribers, do hereby\\nmutually covenant and agree to and with one another, that we will for the future\\nexert our persons and disburse of our temporal interest, for the propagation and\\nsupport of said religion, in equal proportion one with the other, so far as shall be\\nthought prudent and advisable by two-thirds of the whole of us, in matters of the\\ngreatest importance having had fourteen or fifteen days provious notice by a commit-\\ntee chosen for that and other purposes, and in matters of less importance so far as\\nshall be thought prudent and advisable by three-fourths of us who shall be present,\\nhaving had four days previous notice by said committee. We do furthermore, by\\nthese presents, bind ourselves to the strict observance of all the laws and orders made\\nand enacted by the authority and rules aforesaid for the government of ourselves,\\npromising to behave ourselves civilly one to the other and to the world of our\\nfellow-men, so far as we shall have occasion to be conversant with them. Finally,\\nwe do and shall by these presents, consider ourselves as a distinct, separate body\\nfrom all other denominations of religionists, and would have others take notice of\\naud treat us accordingly in a religious view only.\\nBenjamin Silley, Nicholas Elliott, Wiggin Evans,\\nJon.ithan Cram, Joseph Elliot, Joseph Brown, jr.,\\nJoseph Severance, Edward l.add, Joseph L.idd,\\nThomas Chase, Joseph Kcnncston, John Elliott,\\nMoses Garland, Daniel I rottlebank, Reuben Hoyt,\\nBenjamin Roberts, l?cnj.imin Woodman, Abrah.am Hoyt,\\nJonathan Fifield, Winthropc Sanborn, S.amuel Atkinson,\\nEdward Fifield, Elisha Sclley, John Jerrod,\\nAbraham Sanborn, Benjamin Silley, jr., Phincas Huntoon,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0197.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "174\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nDavid Pettengill,\\nThomas Sleeper,\\nPeter Sweatt,\\nPeter Eastman,\\nIsaac Blasdel, Blaisdell\\nSamuel Bean,\\nJacob Flanders,\\nAbraham Fifield,\\nWilliam Eastman,\\nSamuel Loverin,\\nDea. John D. Sweatt,\\nDaniel Parker,\\nPeter Severance,\\nSimeon Conner,\\nJosiah Haines,\\nPelatiah Corliss,\\nBenjamin Fraizer,\\nAnaniah Bohonon,\\nCutting Stevens,\\nJacob Dudley,\\nAbel Elkins,\\nReuben True,\\nJedediah Sleeper,\\nJoseph Fifield,\\nRichard Elkins,\\nSamuel Elkins,\\nBenjamin Hoyt,\\nJohn Farnham,\\nMoses Call,\\nSamuel Eaton,\\nJohn Stevens,\\nWilliam Marcy, jr.,\\nNathaniel Brown,\\nNathan Barttlett,\\nTimothy Sweatt,\\nLevi Morrill,\\nJosiah Green,\\nEnoch Fifield,\\nJohn Hobbs,\\nSteven Blaisdell,\\nJohn Fifield, 3d,\\nJohn Kenneston,\\nJabez Morrill,\\nSamuel Quimby,\\nJames Pettengill,\\nWilliam Cate,\\nIddo Scribner.\\nBUILDING A MEETING-HOUSE.\\nFor a time the society held meetings in private houses, and\\nin an old school-house, which it appears they had bought of the\\ntown. The congregation rapidly increasing, on the 9th of Octo-\\nber, 1790, it was voted to build a meeting-house, and sell the\\nhouse on the south side of the road, on Abel Elkins s land,\\nand that said meeting-house shall be free. On the following\\n26th of the month it was voted to build a meeting-house, the\\nsame bigness as that at the South Road. This vote was not\\ncarried into effect. March 17, 1 791, it was voted to build the\\nmeeting-house 52 feet long and 40 feet wide, to be finished\\nthroughout as early as 1794. Chose Jonathan Fifield, Joseph\\nFifield, John Clement, Benjamin Pettingill and Abel Elkins, a\\ncommittee to erect the frame. Chose Benjamin Pettingill, jr.,\\nAbra. Fifield, Samuel Bean, David Pettingill, Edward P ifield,\\nWilliam Eastman, Benjamin Pettingill, Reuben True and Bailey\\nChase, a committee to sell pews.\\nThe house was erected within the specified time, and stood\\non the south-west side of the road, at the Centre Village, just\\nnorth of the location of the present house, the main entrance\\nbeing on the east side. On each end was a porch, supporting\\nsmall steeples, similar to the one still standing on the north\\nend. In each of these porches was an entrance. In the north\\ntower was a bell. The interior was like most of the churches\\nat that time, box pews, a large pulpit on the west side of the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0198.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 1/5\\nhouse, a gallery opposite and on the other two sides. An\\nupper and lower set of windows furnished the light.\\nIn 1839, Dea. William Parsons had the contract to remodel\\nthe church into its present general style. He moved it back,\\ntook down the back tower, enlarged the north one, removed the\\nfacing side galleries, changed the location of the pulpit, put in\\nnew pews and new windows, added blinds, painted, and made\\nother specified repairs, for the sum of $i,ioo. He furnished\\nall the lumber and had all the old or unused material. After\\nthis Josiah Green purchased a large clock, which he put into\\nthe steeple to remain at his pleasure, for the use of the society\\nand the public.\\nThe first minister the society settled, was\\nELDER ELIAS SMITH,\\nSon of Stephen and Irene (Rawson) Smith, born at Lyme,\\nConn., June 17, 1769, and died there, June 29, 1846. He was\\nof English descent. He had two brothers, one a preacher,\\nand the other a distinguished physician. He also had two sis-\\nters. His father was a Baptist, his mother a Congregationalist.\\nPossessing a love for learning, he improved every opportunity,\\nand though his advantages were limited, at the age of sixteen\\nyears he was a school teacher at Woodstock, Vt., where he\\nunited with the Baptist church, in 1789, and two years after\\nbegan to preach. In the spring of 1791, agreeably to a pro-\\nmise, he preached his first sermon in Salisbury. It was the\\nfirst time religious service had been heard in the new church.\\nAlthough the building was finished on the outside, no pulpit\\nor pews had been constructed, and the interior was in an incom-\\nplete state. The speaker occupied a carpenter s bench for a\\nplatform. His text was from i Kings, viii, 27, But will God\\nindeed dwell on the earth Behold the heaven, and heaven\\nof heavens cannot contain thee how much less this house that\\nI have builded. He first portrayed the greatness and glory\\nof the Creator then how he dwelt on the earth, which was\\nthrough the mediator, and finally pictured to his hearers the\\nmighty work which God had done.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0199.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "176 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nHe visited Salisbury again in November, 1792, and preached\\non a week day. At that time nine persons came forward, pro-\\nfessed their faith in Christ, and were baptised by immersion in\\na small stream south of the church, over which a dam had been\\nconstructed by Mr. Josiah Green, in order to supply the pow-\\ner to run a saw-mill. In February, 1793, he again returned\\nand was invited to become the pastor of the church.\\nRelative to this invitation, he wrote to a friend They have\\na new meeting-house, completely finished, the society is large,\\nrich and liberal, and propose to give me two hundred dollars a\\nyear, and to find me a home and wood. There is a prospect of\\ndoing good in this and surrounding towns, that wish to have\\nBaptist preachers.\\nAbout this time an antipedopaptist society was formed in\\nWarner, a room provided for meetings, and Elder Smith was\\ninvited to preach, possibly to settle there in charge of the\\nchurch.\\nElder Smith was ordained at Lee, by an ecclesiastical council,\\nthe third Wednesday in August, 1792, and came to Salisbury\\nJanuary 7, 1793. He married Mary, daughter of Josiah Bur-\\nleigh, of Newmarket, by whom he had Ursula, born September\\n28, 1794, and Asa, born June 10, 1797. He also had Matthew\\nHale, born 18 10, who for a time preached in Nashua and\\nelsewhere; was a well known and popular newspajDer writer,\\nand was very liberal in his religious belief. He was a brilliant\\nbut eccentric man. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1880.\\nIn the May following Elder Smith s settlement he visited\\nNewmarket, and returned bringing his wife who had not before\\nmade her home in Salisbury.\\nIn order to render all possible aid to the minister, the people\\nof his church raised by subscription the requisite money, and\\npurchased a house and land for his use, as will be seen by the\\naccompanying paper\\nSalishurv, March ye 6, 1794.\\nWe the Subscribers I romise to pay to the Committee (of the Baptist Society)\\nSixty Six pounds twelve Shillings L. M. for the Place they lately Purchased of\\nLemuel Kezer Wife Each subscriber to pay his Proportion according to a Rate", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0200.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY,\\n177\\nbill Said Place to he given to Eld r Smith in this manner (Viz) the half acre of\\nland and the buildings thereon to be given to him free and Clear and the improve-\\nment of the twelve acres of land as long as he remains our Preacher, s d Place\\nbelonging to the subscribers if Eld r Smith does not except of it.\\nBenj. Pettengill, juner,\\nAbr m Fifield,\\nAnaniah Bohonon,\\nJohn Karnham,\\nBenj. Silley,\\nJohn Eliott,\\nDude Kliott,\\nSamuel Lovering,\\nIsaac Page,\\nReuben True,\\nWm. Pingrey,\\nJohn Fifield,\\nBenj. Woodman,\\nMoses Garland,\\nThomas Chase,\\nEliphalet Williams,\\nBenj. Hoyt,\\nWadleigh Clough,\\nElisha Silley,\\nCleorge Seavey,\\nAron Silley,\\nSimeon Connor,\\nJoseph Mason,\\nBenj. Oreley,\\nJoseph Brown, juner,\\nJosiah Hains,\\nWilliam Morey, juner,\\nPelatiah Corlis,\\nBenj. Pettengill,\\nDavid Pettengill,\\nWm. Eastman,\\nMoses Clough,\\nEzra Flanders,\\nI^onard Judkins,\\nMoses Sleeper,\\nMicheal .Sargant,\\nJacob True,\\nSamuel Eaton,\\nJona n Fifield,\\nCaleb Judkins,\\nNicholas Eliott,\\nPeter Barber,\\nSamuel Bean,\\nJosiah Scribner,\\nThomas Sleeper,\\nPeter Eastman,\\nDaniel Parker,\\nIsaac Blaisdel,\\nJedediah Sleei er,\\nSamuel Elkins,\\nRichard Elkins,\\nJoseph Keneson,\\nSamuel Davis.\\nIn 1796, the enthusiasm which for a time existed in this\\nchurch and others in the same faith, the reformation as it\\nwas styled began to abate. New doctrines were accepted by\\ncertain members. Some were Calvinists in their views, and\\nothers exceedingly liberal. There was no union of sentiment\\nor belief to hold them together. Not a few withdrew from the\\nfellowship of the church. This year, in order to obtain the\\ncomforts of life, Mr. Smith taught school. His church diffi-\\nculties, the alienations of his friends, and overwork, brought\\non a serious illness, and induced him to seek relief by supplying\\nthe pulpit only one-half the time.\\nIn the latter part of the year he left his pulpit in Salisbury,\\nand began to preach in Woburn, Mass. But after a few\\nmonths, in February, 1791, he returned to his Salisbury charge,\\nand resolved to locate there permanently. But in January of\\nthe next year he went again to Woburn, taking his family with\\nhim. He was shortly after dismissed from the church in Salis-\\nbury and recommended to sister churches. In 1801 he returned\\nand preached in Salisbury and vicinity; not satisfied with the\\n12", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0201.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "178 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nsupport which preaching gave him, he opened a store in partner-\\nship with Josiah Green and Elisha Perkins. Although ordained\\nas a Baptist, his methods were so erratic that the denomination\\nbecame cautious about endorsing him. He left its fellowship\\nand preached for a time the doctrines of Universalism, and\\nfinally became what was called a Christian a denomination at\\nthe present day known as Christian Baptists. Having left both\\ntrade and preaching in Salisbury, he settled in Portsmouth, and\\nin 1805 began the publication of a work entitled The Christ-\\nian s Magazine, Reviewer, and Religious Instructor containing\\nSubjects Historical, Doctrinal, Experimental, Practical and\\nPolitical. It was published once in three months for two years.\\nMr. Smith resided for a year or two in Philadelphia, where he\\nhad a printing office and published some books. Returning to\\nPortsmouth in September, 1808, he began the publication of the\\nHerald of Gospel Liberty, said to have been the first religious\\nnewspaper published in the United States, being five years in\\nadvance of the Religious Remembrancer, of Philadelphia, and\\nantedating by eight years the Boston Recorder. In March,\\n1 8 16, he published the Life, Conversion, Preaching, Teaching\\nand Sufferings of Elias Smith, Portsmouth, i2mo.\\nOTHER MINISTERS.\\nAfter Elder Smith left the town, in 1797, Elder Ariel Ken-\\ndrick ministered 10 the church and people for two years, and\\nwas succeeded by P^ider Joshua Young, who occupied the posi-\\ntion from 1799 to 1802. No reliable records of any importance\\ncan be found regarding either of these men.\\nFor several years the church was without a permanent minis-\\nter. It had become thinned by deaths and removals, and had\\nlost the evidence of an ecclesiastical existence, but at length\\nreorganized, adopted new articles of faith, and by the decision\\nof a council was recommended to the fellowship of other\\nchurches. The members at this time were limited to Michael\\nSargent, Simeon Connor, Eunice Connor, Samuel Kimball,\\nJacob True, Lydia True, George Seavey, James Pettengill, and", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0202.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 1 79\\nDaniel Parker, the latter being chosen clerk, which office he\\nheld for the period of thirty-one years. He was succeeded by\\nBenjamin O. Adams.\\nTHE KKV. OTIS KOBINSON.\\nThe subject of this sketch was the second pastor of the\\nBaptist church in this town. In the fall of 1809 he received a\\ncall from our people to locate with us. fie was at that time\\nresiding at Sanford, Me., settled as the pastor of a most flour-\\nishing church built up under his ministry.\\nTen years had passed since the labors of the first pastor, the\\nRev. Elias Smith, had ceased. The church had lost its organi-\\nzation. Everything connected therewith was at the lowest ebb.\\nThe state of religious feeling was far from promising. How-\\never, Mr. Robinson, signifying a willingness to accept the call,\\nwas ordained in the spring of 18 10. Here he continued for\\nsixteen years and saw his little band grow under his adminis-\\ntration to a large and flourishing church of one hundred and\\nthirty members.\\nIn 1826, after a very gratifying revival of religion, in which\\nmany were added to his church, Mr. Robinson, now quite ad-\\nvanced in life, on his own request, was dismissed from his pas-\\ntoral charge. He still continued however to reside in the\\nhouse he built, now owned and occupied by Stephen Morse,\\nEsq.\\nMr. Robinson occasionally preached in our adjoining towns,\\neven up almost to the day of his death, which occurred March\\n1st, 1835, in the seventy-first year of his age, and the thirty-\\nseventh of his ministry. His remains, with those of his wife,\\nlie interred in the church cemetery. He made a very happy\\nchoice for a helpmate in Miss Hannah Reed, of Attleboro\\nMass. They were married in 1785. She was a most amiable\\nand noble woman, a loving wife and affectionate mother.\\nMr. Robinson was highly esteemed and respected in the\\ndenomination. He was a man of capacity and zeal, with an\\nindomitable will and firmness of character, that marked him\\nas a leading man in the communitv. He was one of the origi-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0203.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "l80 HISTORY OF SAI.ISBUKV.\\nnators and founders of the Baptist Salisbury Association, a\\nvery prominent institution in the State; instituted in Salisbury\\nin the old Baptist church, on the 14th of October, 18 18. He\\nwas its moderator from the time of its organization till the\\nresignation of his pastoral office.\\nSome of our citizens will recall the event of the fifteenth\\nanniversary of this association, held here on the 17th of Sep-\\ntember, 1868, and the well merited tribute to the memory of\\nMr. Robinson, passed by the venerable Rev. E. E. Cummings,\\nin his sermon on that occasion. It was in these words: Here\\nit may be profitable for us to pause a moment, and look in upon\\nthe first meeting of the Salisbury Association. It is being\\nheld in the ancient church edifice, which has long since given\\nplace to this modern structure. The old square pews are filled\\nwith venerable men and women, and the galleries with young\\npeople, all giving solemn heed to the exercises of the meeting.\\nThe old fashioned deacon s seat is occupied by a man of tall\\nand commanding appearance, past the meridian of life, but\\npossessed of great energy and unsurpassing executive ability,\\nthat is Rev. Otis Robinson. Such were\\nthe men whose names stands on the records of the first meet-\\nting of this association, and it is worthy of note that for a num-\\nber of years after its formation, these men with rarely an\\nexception were present at its annual gatherings. They were\\nnoble men, and though they have passed from our view, yet\\ntheir names are still fragrant in the recollection of those whom\\nthey have left behind.\\nMr. Robinson was a fluent and powerful speaker, always\\naddressing his congregation extemporaneously, without written\\nmemoranda of any kind and so noted was he, that many\\ncame from a distance to hear him preach. The mother of Seth\\nEastman, Esq., a prominent citizen of Concord, often came\\nhere on horseback alone, fourteen miles to attend his meetings.\\nMr. Robinson was born in Attleboro Mass., June 7th, 1764,\\nof good old patriotic stock. His father, Dea. Enoch Robinson,\\nwas the Captain of a company of soldiers in the Revolution.\\nWord reaching Attleboro on the day of the battle of Lexing-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0204.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. iSl\\nton, he immediately called out his men and marched to Boston,\\nto engage in the great struggle for independence. His little\\nson, Otis, then but eleven years of age, was clamorous to join\\nhis father, brothers and uncle, but he was left behind. So\\nanxious was he to bear arms in that glorious cause, that he said\\nhe used to watch with eager impatience the slow growth of his\\nbeard, that mark of coming manhood which he hoped would\\npass him through the portals of the army. At the age of four-\\nteen they could restrain him no longer, and he then enlisted in\\nthe continental army. At this date he Was lacking in regu-\\nlation height nearly two inches, and fearing he would not be\\naccepted, he stood upon tip-toe when the mustering officer\\npassed. He served his country for four years, to the close of\\nthe war. At the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to the\\ntrade of a blacksmith. Three years after he married Miss\\nReed, and, in 1787, moved to Winthrop, Me. In 1791, he re-\\nmoved to Livermore, Me., where he became converted, and\\nwith seventeen others united in forming the first Baptist church\\nin Livermore. Soon after his connection with the church, he\\nfelt it to be his mission to carry the glad tidings to others.\\nTo this end he devoted all of his spare moments to a rigorous\\nself education for four years. Meanwhile on secular days was\\nheard the vigorous strokes of his hammer, as it rang out its\\nmerry peals upon his anvil, wKile on the Sabbath his voice was\\nheard in eloquent appeals for his Master. On the 7th of June,\\n1798, on his 34th birthday, he was ordained as the pastor of the\\nBaptist church in Sanford, Me. The church then had a mem-\\nbership of thirty only. In less than two years it was increased\\nto one hundred and forty-four members. Mr. Robinson had\\neight children. His third son, the late Cyrus Robinson, Esq.,\\na highly respected citizen of Concord, was made prominent by\\nhis efforts in the cause of temperance and in the abolition of\\nslavery. He was often elected to important town offices, and\\nwas called several times to represent his fellow citizens in the\\nlegislative halls of his State.\\nDecember 22, 1826, forty members of the church withdrew,\\norganized as the Religious Calvinistic Baptist Society, and", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0205.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "l82 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nclaimed to be the First Baptist Church in Salisbury. July\\n3, 1828, this church and society voted unanimously to call to\\nthe pastorate\\nTHE REV. EBENEZER E. CUMMINGS.\\nA committee consisting of Dea. William Gate, Enoch Fifield\\nand Thomas Chase was chosen by the church, to join with a\\ncommittee of the society, to extend a call and make arrange-\\nments for the support of Mr. Cummings, at a salary of $250 a\\nyear and the use of the society s land. Mr. Cummings accepted\\nthe call on the conditions named, and was ordained and installed\\non the 17th of September following. December 18, 1829, the\\nsalary was increased to $300.\\nThough Mr. Cummings was a prudent and excellent man, and\\nlabored assiduously for the union and harmony of his people,\\nhe could not exorcise the evil spirit that had long possessed\\nthem. Differences of opinion and even bitter contentions ex-\\nisted among the members of the church. The pastor knew\\nthat no good could come of a church which was divided against\\nitself and refused to longer remain in a position of so much\\nanxiety as he constantly experienced. He asked a dismission,\\nwhich was granted January 5, 1831.\\nThe leading members of the two churches which then existed\\nmet in consultation, decided to forget the past, and to go on\\ntogether in a christian life. A new church was formed, January\\n19, 1 83 1, by an ecclesiastical council composed of pastors and\\ndelegates from Baptist churches in Concord, Sanbornton, Bow,\\nHopkinton, Sutton, New London and Newport.\\nThe following are the names of the members of the old\\nchurches who constituted the new church organization:\\nDea. William Cate, Oliver Shaw, 1.. True,\\nThomas Chase, Susan Garland, Abigail .Shaw,\\nJoseph Sanborn, Daniel Parker, Maria Dunlap,\\nJudith Scribner, Herschel Green, Eunice Connor.\\nJ. Kenniston, Elisabeth Sanborn,\\nJohn Shaw, Emma Scribner,\\nThe new church extended an invitation to Mr. Cummings to", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0206.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 1 83\\nbecome its pastor. In a letter bearinc; date June 4, 1831, he\\nconsented to remain, but was not installed.\\nThe next spring he removed to Concord and was settled over\\nthe First Baptist church, March 2, 1832, where he remained\\nuntil January 11, 1854. After that he was ten years pastor of\\nthe Pleasant Street Baptist church. Reserved for thirty years\\nin the Baptist ministry in Concord, going in and out before\\nhis people with the love and approbation of all. He still lives\\nin that city, having passed his four-score and four milestones in\\nthe journey of life.\\nEbenezer Edson Cummings was the son of Joseph and Han-\\nnah Cummings; was born in Claremont, March g, 1800; grad-\\nuated at Waterville College in 1828. For many years he was a\\nTrustee of the New Hampton Theological Seminary. He was\\nPresident of the Board of Trustees for the New London Insti-\\ntute from its beginning, and had the degree of D. D. conferred\\nupon him by Dartmouth College, in 1855. He is now Honor-\\nary President of Colby Academy. While residing in Salisbury\\nhe married, in 1828, Chloe B. Humphrey, of Orwell, Vermont,\\nwho had previously been a teacher, and had the honor of\\nteaching Stephen A. Douglass to read. She died in Concord\\nin 1 87 1. Dr. Cummings was an agreeable speaker, a faithful\\npastor, and always zealous in the work of the Lord.\\nThe records of the society and of the church, from this date,\\nhave not been kept in a manner to afford reliable information.\\nThere are three separate books, by no means complete and\\nsometimes contradictory. In August, 1832, a call was ex-\\ntended to the\\nKEV. SAMUKL EVERETT,\\nof Milford. He became the pastor a few weeks later, remain-\\ning until July 10, 1838. He is remembered as an amiable and\\nacceptable pastor, one who loved his people and who labored\\nfor the interests of the church. He was succeeded by the\\nREV. JOHN LEARNEO,\\nwho was installed in September, 1838, and remained but one\\nyear. Being in delicate health, he was not physically adequate", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0207.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "184 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nto the demands of the parish. He was an excellent scholar, a\\nmodel of gentlemanly courtesy, and an exemplary christian.\\nTHE REV. JOHN BURDEN\\nsucceeded Mr. Learned in the autumn of 1839, or soon after.\\nMr. Burden was a man of the world rather than of the church.\\nHe was talented and capable of edifying the people, but he had\\na knack for business. He received a salary of $400 a year\\nand, as he used to say, never cheated his people. While in\\nSalisbury he married Miss Kate Pettengill, daughter of Thomas\\nHale Pettengill, Esq., an accomplished and amiable lady. After\\nleaving Salisbury he resided in Meredith, and in 1864 repre-\\nsented that town in the Legislature.\\nFor several years prior to 1853 the church was in a dormant\\nstate. The third one, formed from the ruins of the first and\\nsecond, was now itself in a state of decay. It had scarce a living\\nbranch remaining at the date named. But the vital elements\\nof the three churches that had survived the trials of the past\\nunited and formed the Salisbury Baptist Society. The Arti-\\ncles of Faith and the Covenant, adopted in Philadelphia that\\nyear, were signed by the members of former organizations who\\ndesired to unite with the new church. They numbered seven-\\nteen. A council was called and the new church instituted and\\ncommended to the fellowship of other churches of kindred faith.\\nIt was pronounced a Calvinist-Baptist church. A sermon was\\ngiven at that time by that good man, the Rev. Edmund Worth,\\nof Fisherville, formerly of Concord.\\nBut little can be written of the pastors who ministered to this\\nchurch, nor of the many who from time to time supplied or\\ntemporarily occupied the pulpit.\\nThe Rev. Stephen Coombs, born at Barnstable, Mass., in\\n1796, was the first pastor after the reorganization. He grad-\\nuated at New Hampton in 1825, and was ordained at New\\nChester (now Hill) the same year. He came to Salisbury from\\nWoodstock. He now resides on a farm at North Concord.\\nIn 1856 the Rev. Samuel H. Amsden was installed but we\\nfind no record beyond that fact.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0208.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. I85\\nThe Rev. Joseph B. Damon is said to have preached there\\nin 1854. If so, it was only as an exchange or a temporary sup-\\nply, as Mr. Coombs occupied the pulpit from July, 1853, to\\nJanuary, 1856.\\nThe Rev. Thomas B. Joy preached in 1863.\\nThe Rev. Albert A. Ford supplied from 1864 to 1866.\\nThe Rev. Joshua Clement, of North Thetford, Vt., preached\\nthere for several months in 1866-67.\\nThe Rev. Joseph Storer is remembered as preaching for a\\nshort time.\\nThe Rev. J. L. Sinclair, of the Freewill Baptist denomina-\\ntion, occupied the pulpit one year.\\nElder Hiram Stevens sometimes preached during the pastor-\\nate of the Rev. Mr. Robinson. The Rev. David Gage, of Man-\\nchester, the veteran clergyman who has visited every Baptist\\nchurch in the State, often supplied the desk for short periods.\\nElder Buswell and the Rev. Elias Dane are named among\\nthe temporary supplies.\\nElder Peter M. Hersey, a Christian preacher, occupied the\\npulpit for a time. Mr. Ames, a student at the Methodist Sem-\\ninary, occasionally preached.\\nThe Rev. A. H. Martin, of the Christian sect, a native of\\nBradford, Vt., born in 1823 and ordained there in 1842, was a\\nstated preacher in this church for five years, from 1869 to 1875,\\na part of the time supplying the Union church in Andover, to\\nwhich place he removed. He was formerly settled at West\\nRandolph, Vt. At various times he was employed in evangeli-\\ncal labors. His home has recently been in Franklin.\\nRULING ELDERS PRIOR TO 1 800.\\nBenjamin Howard, chosen July 6, 1793. Michael -Sargeant, chosen June 7, 1794.\\nNathaniel IJean, chosen June 7, 1794.\\nDEACONS.\\nNathaniel Hean, chosen March 10, 1792. Jacob True, cho.sen July 6, 1793.\\nEzra Flanders, chosen June 7, 1794. Ebenezer Quimby, chosen June 7, 1794.\\nJonathan Wiggin, chosen June 7, 1794.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0209.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "1 86 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nWilliam Cate, Amos Fifield, F. \\\\V. Fifield,\\nJonathan Keniston, *Joseph Couch, Isaac K. Blaisdell,\\nJames Severance, Isaac Bailey, Richard Fellows.\\nDaniel Parker,\\nThe following notes are taken from a private journal, kept\\nby Dea. Daniel Parker, for many years clerk of the society:\\nSalisbury, Aug. 6, 1792.\\nThis day the Salisbury branch of the Church of Christ at P rentwood, met at the\\nhouse of Joseph Quimby of this town, and passed the following votes, viz\\n1st. Chose Brother Nathaniel Bean, Moderator, and to give the Right Hand of\\nFellowship to a number of brethren and sisters, viz Joseph and Kbenezer Quimby,\\nAbijah Watson, Jere h I almer, Joseph Watkins, William Sanborn, Ezra Waldron,\\nSisters, Patience Quimby, Rebecca Wells, Hannah Quimby, Elisabeth Savory,\\nSarah Watson, Miriam (Quimby.\\nNov. 10, 1792.\\nThis day received into our fellowship the following persons: Baptised by\\nElder Samuel Shephard, D. D., I,eonard Judkins, Peter Eastman, Samuel Eaton,\\nand Sister Mary Judkins; Nathaniel Bean, baptised by Elder John Peck; Moses\\nClough, from the Church at Deerfield; Sister Lamson Noyes, from the Church at\\nNewton; Benjamin Silley and Sister Asia Silley, baptised by Elder Simonds of\\nNew London.\\nChose Brother Nathaniel Bean to stand as Deacon, and Daniel Parker as Church\\nClerk. Then Elder Elias Smith baptised the following persons, Jacob True,\\nCaleb Judkins, Benjamin Woodman, George Stone, Daniel Parker, John Stevens,\\nSusanna Elliott, Abigail Hoit, Lydia Eaton, Lydia True, and received them into\\nour fellowship. The same day, broke bread and formed a manifestation of Divine\\napprobation among us.\\nMarch 2, 1793.\\nThis day, the Brethren of this branch met and received a number of Brethren\\nand Sisters into their fellowship, viz: Benjamin Hoit, John Palmer, Caleb Wells,\\nAbner Flanders, Warner,) Mary Richardson, Joanna liohonon, baptised by Elder\\nElias Smith; Elisabeth Shepherd, baptised by Elder Samuel Shepherd, of Brent-\\nwood.\\nMarch 30, 1793.\\nThis day met and passed the following votes, viz: Chose Brother Nathaniel\\nliean. Moderator voted to receive Elder Elias Smith, as pastor of this branch of\\nthe Church fur one year, or further, yearly. Voted to accept Elder Elias Smith s\\nproposal, which is that he will preach with us six months at least, and then see if\\nfurther Duty Calls.\\nIn addition to those already named, the following persons\\nwere admitted to the church previous to 1800;\\nDismissed May 13, 1836.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0210.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\n187\\nSusanna Graves,\\nJames Palmer,\\nSarah Watkins,\\nJonathan X\\\\ atkins,\\nSarah Wells,\\nWilliam C orser,\\nMary liurneys,\\nEzra Flanders,\\nJemima Connor,\\nElisha Silley,\\nSarah Howard,\\nThomas Wells,\\nHannah Swett,\\nAbraham Fifield,\\nAbigail (^uimby,\\nJohn Rolfe,\\nSarah Walker,\\nBenjamin Howard,\\nTabitha Connor.\\nTHE UNION MEETING-HOUSE.\\nSoon after the formation of the Baptist Society the residents\\nof the west section of the town began to discuss the advantages\\nwhich would result from the maintenance of preaching in their\\nown neighborhood. They petitioned the selectmen to call a\\nspecial town meeting to act on the question of forming a new\\nparish. A meeting was accordingly held at the residence of\\nJ. C. Pettengill, on the 17th of January, 1791. The meeting\\nnot being fully attended, it was adjourned for ten days, to the\\nhouse of Capt. David Pettengill. At this time it was voted,\\nThat the upper end of the town may be set off as a parish\\nagreeable to request. Voted to raise twenty pounds for the\\npurpose of supporting the gospel. Voted, That the people\\nabove Blackwater River have their part of the above sum\\npreached out amongst them, they providing the house.\\nIn 1832 they proposed to build a church. Finding in the\\ncongregation a number of Methodists, Christians, Congrega-\\ntionalists and Universalists, they decided to build a union\\nmeeting-house, each denomination to occupy the pulpit one\\nSunday in succession through the year.\\nFebruary 26, 1834, a meeting was held to take action in\\nrelation to the erection of a place of worship. A committee\\nconsisting of John Couch, Paul True, David Hobbs, David\\nStevens, hen]. Scribner, Israel K. Bean, William Couch, Daniel\\nWatson, and David Harvey were appointed to confer upon the\\nmost judicious ways and means of building the house. The\\ncommittee selected as the site that now occupied by the church,\\nand to defray the expenses of building they recommended that\\nall pledge themselves to pay a certain sum. To provide means\\nto finish the inside, it was proposed to sell the pews to the", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0211.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "i88\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nhighest bidders. These recommendations were acceptable to\\nthe meeting. A constitution was adopted in which we find\\nthe provision that each denomination shall have the house in\\nproportion to the amount of property they shall possess in the\\nhouse. Forty-two persons pledged the sum of $20.00 each\\ntowards building and finishing the same, and if that was not\\nenough they agreed to pay an equal proportion for the remain-\\ning indebtedness. Joshua S. Bean, Caleb Smith, John S. Eaton\\nand John Couch, 3d, were the church committee. The house\\nwas built and completed at once, and dedicated.\\nThe following were the pew owners, so far as known, at the\\ntime of dedication\\nPaul True, 3 pews,\\nReuben Greeley,\\nJabez Abbott,\\nJesse .Stevens,\\nCaleb .Smith,\\nJohn Rogers,\\nPhinehas Colby,\\nDaniel C. Gookin,\\nElias P. .Smith, 3 pews,\\nJabez True,\\nBenj. Pettengill,\\nNathaniel Tucker,\\nJohn Elkins,\\nJohn Peaslee,\\nHezekiah F. .Stevens,\\nJoseph .Stevens,\\nDaniel .Stevens,\\nTrue Flanders,\\nCouch Farnum,\\nNathaniel Greeley,\\nRichard Fitz,\\nJohn S. Eaton, 3 pews,\\nJohn Couch, 3d,\\nJesse Eaton,\\nJ. Albert Couch,\\nMoses J. .Stevens,\\nJoshua S. Be^n,\\nBenj. .Scribner,\\nNathaniel Abbott,\\nJohn Jackman,\\nRichard Hunt,\\nIMoses Greeley,\\n.Samuel Couch, jr.,\\nBenj. Tucker,\\nSamuel Couch,\\nDavid .Stevens,\\nJohn Greeley,\\nWilliam Pearson.\\nAmong the ministers who have preached in this house for\\nany regular time are the following:\\nCHRISTIAN.\\nD. S. Harriman,\\nBenj. Cilley,\\nM. Tilton,\\nMoses B. Scribner,\\nW. F. Morrill,\\nA. H. Martin,\\nNehemiah Sleeper,\\nJohn Whitney,\\nJulius Blodgett,\\nJohn Burden,\\nMETHODISTS.\\nReuben Dearborn,\\nJames Ryder,\\nJohn Collins,\\nM. Fletcher,\\nW m. D. Cass,\\nJ. M. Bean,\\nJ. W. Bean,\\nJ. G. Jameson,\\nJames Parmenter,\\nM. Folsom,\\nE. Davis.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0212.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORV. 1 89\\nCONGREGATION ALISTS.\\nBenjamin V. Foster, Nathaniel Ladd.\\nUNIVERSALISTS.\\nJolin Moore, Robert IJartlett.\\nDEACONS.\\nJohn Bean, John Couch, Richard Fellows.\\nBenjamin Tucker, Kl)enezer Johnson,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0213.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII.\\nECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, CONCLUDED.\\nThe first tal: ernacle to Hope we will build.\\nThe second to Faith, which insures it fulfilled;\\nAnd the third to the Lamb of the great sacrifice,\\nWho bequeathed to us both, when he rose to the skies.\\nEAST VILLAGE CHURCH.\\nFor years there was no church and no place of public wor-\\nship in Pemigcwassett, or the East Village (now Franklin) in\\nSalisbury. To attend religious services the people were obliged\\nto go to Searle s Hill, and subsequently to the South Road; or\\nto go beyond the limits of the town, to Sanbornton or North-\\nfield. From time to time the village increased in business,\\npopulation and wealth, and the necessity of permanent minis-\\ntrations of the gospel was plainly seen. In February of the\\nyear 1820, after long deliberation, it was decided to make the\\neffort to establish an orthodox church of the Congregational\\norder, and erect a meeting-house. A lot was selected, located\\nbetween the dwelling house of John Rowell and Gardner\\nColby s blacksmith s shop. A subscription paper was circu-\\nlated for the purpose of raising money to build a house of wor-\\nship. On this paper were the names of the most active citizens\\nof that village and vicinity, as follows\\nEbenezer Eastman, $90 00 John Hancock, jr., $10 00\\nJames Garland,\\n40 00\\nJohn Rowell,\\n8 00\\nEbenezer Blanchard,\\n40 00\\nB. D. Cass,\\n8 00\\nWilliam Haddock,\\n30 00\\nReuben Taylor,\\n8 00\\nParker Noyes,\\n20 00\\nJames Proctor,\\nS 00\\nEzekiel Webster,\\n20 00\\nStephen Sawyer, jr.,\\n6 00\\nWinthrop Fifield,\\n12 00\\nSamuel Judkins, jr.,\\n6 00\\nThomas Greeley,\\n10 00\\nSamuel George,\\n6 00", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0214.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. IQI\\nDudley Ladd,\\n$5\\n00\\nJesse Merrill,\\n$3 oo\\nBenj. Rowe,\\n5\\nCO\\nIsaac Hale,\\n3 oo\\nWilliam Durgin,\\n5\\noo\\nMoses Heath,\\n2 oo\\nEli liutman.\\n5\\noo\\nRichard Chapman,\\n2 oo\\nJeremiah Hall,\\n5\\noo\\nTristram Sanborn,\\n2 oo\\nJoseph Gerrish,\\n5\\noo\\nPhinehas Eastman,\\n2 oo\\nJ. D. Sanborn,\\n4\\n00\\nBenj. Shaw,\\n2 oo\\nWilliam Robertson,\\n4\\noo\\nEnoch Holt,\\n2 oo\\nJames Clark,\\n4\\noo\\nWilliam Huntoon,\\n2 oo\\nJohn Clark,\\n4\\noo\\nJohn Colby, jr.\\n2 OO\\nThomas Elkins,\\n4\\noo\\nJoseph Sanborn,\\nI OO\\nStevens Sanborn,\\n4\\noo\\nJohn Cate,\\nI 00\\nJonathan Sanborn, jr.,\\n3\\n00\\nEdward Blodgitt.\\nI 00\\nThe lot, a very desirable one, was the gift of Ebenezer h2ast-\\nman. The subscribers did not all reside in Salisbury. The\\npeople of Sanbornton and Northfield, as well as Salisbury, were\\nto be accommodated, and made donations accordingly. The\\nsum raised was inadequate to meet the e.Kpense of the building,\\nbut the revenue from the sale of pews supplied the deficiency.\\nA meeting of the subscribers, to effect an organization, was\\nheld at Reuben Taylor s Inn, March lo, 1820. Parker Noyes,\\nEsq., was chosen clerk. Capt. Blanchard, and Messrs. Hale,\\nLadd, Clark, Haddock, Sanborn and Samuel George were\\nelected a committee to construct the house. Blanchard and\\nGeorge were to erect the frame. The work of completing the\\nhouse, after the erection of the frame, was offered at auction to\\nthe lowest bidder, and was awarded to Benj. Rowe, for $360.00.\\nThe contractor soon learned that he had not fully calculated\\nthe cost, and refused to execute the work as he had promised.\\nJuly 4, 1820, Capt. Blanchard, James Garland and Richard\\nPeabody were appointed to take charge of the frame and finish\\nthe house. On three sides of the interior of the church, gal-\\nleries were built, which contained thirty-two pews.\\nOn the day of the sale of the pews, July 4, 1820, the Rev,\\nThomas Worcester, pastor of the church on the South Road,\\ndelivered a patriotic oration, which was received with great\\nenthusiasm. William Haddock, taking his place on a stand\\nconstructed for the purpose, sold by auction the choice of pews,\\nas represented on a plan which he held in his hand. It is said", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0215.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "192 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nthat, bein a holiday, an abundance of good punch was fur-\\nnished and plenty of liquor, and that some of the foremost men\\nin the enterprise let their generous spirits get the better of\\ntheir judgment. The sum received from the sale was $2202.25.\\nThe church was completed by November 25, 1820, and was\\ndedicated December 13th, the Rev. Asa McFarland, of Concord,\\npreaching the dedication sermon.\\nORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH.\\nThe church was organized June 11, 1822, under the advice\\nand direction of Rev. Mr. Wood and Rev. Mr. Price, of Bos-\\ncawen. Rev. Thomas Worcester, of Salisbury, and Rev. Abram\\nBodwell, of Sanbornton. A church covenant and confession of\\nfaith was adopted, and signed by the following persons\\nSarah Butman, Jesse Merrill, Richard Swaine,\\nEsther Eastman, .Sarah Peabody, Abigail Chase,\\nPaul Noyes, Letitia Cass, Sally Merrill,\\nMary Robinson, Charlotte Eastman, Andrew Robertson.\\nAretus Chandler, Charlotte I eabody,\\nPaul Noyes was the first deacon, or at least one of the first.\\nThe church had no settled pastor before the organization of the\\ntown of Franklin.\\nA bell was purchased on subscription, which cost $300.00.\\nThe only living contributor at this date is Mr. Richard Judkins.\\nA bible for the desk was given by Messrs. Holmes Horner,\\nand a communion service by Messrs. Kendall O. Peabody,\\nCharles Tappan, R. F. Crane, Parker Noyes and P^benezer\\nEastman. The first stoves used in the church were the gift of\\nMr. Dudley Ladd.\\nAfter the establishment of rhe new town of P^ranklin business\\nrapidly increased, and the church sustained able and faithful\\npastors, but we are unable to give detailed reports of its pro-\\nceedings. It was organized as a Salisbury institution, but was\\nentrusted to PYanklin for its support and prosperity.\\nThe Rev. William T. Savage, D. D., for a long time pastor,\\nin his twenty-third anniversary sermon, in 1772, said In the\\ndepartment of preaching, the church and society, for some six", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0216.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. I93\\nyears from the beginning, seems not to have had a regular pas-\\ntor. In formal documents and loose papers, allusion to the\\nfollowing ministers as having occupied the pulpit for one or\\nmore Sabbaths are found Rev. D. Dana, Rev. M. B. Murdock,\\nRev. Abel Wood, of Warner; Rev. Robert Page, Missionary;\\nRev. David McRitchie, Steader and Holt, Missionaries, and\\nRev. Moses Bradford, of Francestown. In 1826, Rev. Abijah\\nCross, pastor of the church at the South Road, preached fifteen\\nSabbaths. In 1827, Rev. George Freeman officiated eleven\\nSabbaths, and in 1828, Rev. Reuben Farley sixteen Sabbaths.\\nCOUNTY CONFERENXE.\\nThe Merrimack County Conference of Congregational\\nChurches was an outgrowth of the Hopkinton Association,\\nand was the result of a special meeting held at the dwelling\\nhouse of the Rev. Dr. Wood, of Boscawen, April 4, 1827.\\nThis meeting was held to hear the report of a committee\\npreviously chosen to report upon the expediency of instituting\\na circular conference of churches. They reported in favor of\\nthe object and presented the draft of a constitution, which was\\naccepted.\\nAmong the articles presented were the following: This\\nconference shall be composed of pastors and delegates from the\\nCongregational churches within the bounds of the Hopkinton\\nAssociation. It shall assume no control over the faith or the\\ndiscipline of the church. The officers shall be annually\\nelected, and the annual meeting be the fourth Tuesday in June.\\nA collection shall be taken for indigent churches within the\\nassociation.\\nThis article was afterwards so modified that the funds were\\nto be used for charitable purposes, home and foreign missions,\\nSunday school unions, and for the educational society.\\nThe first meeting was held on the fourth Tuesday of June,\\n1828, at ten o clock in the forenoon, in the Congregational", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0217.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "194 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nchurch at Salisbury, The Rev. Abijah Cross was then pastor.\\nThe first year of its existence it was known as auxiliary to the\\nHopkinton Association, but the name was changed to that\\nwhich it now bears. At this meeting the following pastors and\\ndelegates were present Boscawen, Rev. Samuel Wood, D. D.,\\nJohn Rogers, delegate second church, Boscawen, Rev. Eben-\\nezer Price, Enoch Little, delegate Dunbarton, Rev. Walter\\nHarris, D. D. Canterbury, Rev. William Patrick, Abial Foster,\\ndelegate Sanbornton, Rev. Abraham Bodvvell, Moses Emery,\\ndelegate; Pembroke, Rev. Abraham Burnham, Moses Chamber-\\nlain, delegate Henniker, Rev. Jacob Scales, Deacon Nathaniel\\nCoggswell, delegate; Bradford, Rev. Robert Paige, Charles\\nMorse, delegate Northfield, Rev. Liba Conant Concord, Rev.\\nNathaniel Bouton, Deacon Joshua Wilkins, delegate Hopkin-\\nton, Deacon Thomas Farwell, Isaac Long, delegate Warner,\\nFrederick Eaton, delegate; Bow, Marshall Baker, delegate;\\nDanbury, Deacon Joshua Jackson, delegate New Chester (Hill),\\nRev. Stephen Morse, Deacon James Whitney, delegate Salis-\\nbury, Rev. Abijah Cross, Deacon Amos Pettengill, delegate.\\nThe sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Harris, from Revela-\\ntions, xii, 7.\\nIn 1838, the association again met at the Congregational\\nchurch, in Salisbury, Rev. Benjamin Foster, then pastor. June\\n10, 1884, the conference again met in Salisbury, Rev. Charles\\nE. Gordon, pastor; eleven churches being represented by their\\npastors and delegates. The session continued for two days,\\na large number were in attendance, and much interest was\\nmanifested by those present. The church was most profusely\\ndecorated with evergreens and flowers.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0218.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIII.\\nEDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\nRough, bleak and hard, our little State\\nIs scant of soil, of limits straight\\nHer yellow sands are sands alone,\\nHer only mines are ice and stone\\nVet on her rocks, and on her sands\\nAnd wintry hills, the school house stands;\\nAnd what her rugged soil denies\\nThe harvest of the mind supplies.\\nCOMMON SCHOOLS.\\nThe history of the common schools of the State is yet to be\\nwritten. Not even that of town or district schools with rare\\nexceptions has been given. The earliest town schools of New\\nHampshire were undoubtedly established by authority of a law\\nof Massachusetts, passed in 1647, and was prefaced by this\\nexpressive Puritanic preamble\\nIt being one chief point of that old Deluder, Satan, to keep men from a knowl-\\nedge of the Scriptures, as in former times, by writing them in an unknown tongue;\\nso in these later times, by persuading from the use of tongues, that, so at least, the\\ntrue sense and meaning of the original might be clouded by false glasses of saint-\\nseeing deceivers that learning may not be buried in the grave of the fathers, in the\\nchurch and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors,\\nIt is therefore ordered, etc.\\nThe law provided that every township having the number\\nof fifty households, shall forthwith appoint one within their town\\nto teach all children as shall resort to him, to write and read,\\nwhose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of\\nsuch children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of sup-\\nply, as the major part of those that ordered the prudentials of", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0219.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "196 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nthe town shall appoint, provided, those that send their children\\nbe not oppressed by paying much more then they can have\\nthem taught for in other towns.\\nWhenever a township had one hundred families, it was pro-\\nvided that a grammar school should be maintained, in which all\\nthe studies, requisite to qualify the student for the university,\\nshould be taught.\\nProvisions were made for schools in New Hampshire very\\nsimilar to those in Massachusetts, which were from time to time\\nmodified and adapted to the necessities of the people.\\nPrevious to the incorporation of the town, in 1768, no school\\ncommittees existed, and it was seldom that a school house was\\nerected. Masters were the teachers, usually giving instruc-\\ntion in their own houses or in rooms cheaply furnishecf by the\\ntown. The selectmen transacted the business and had the\\ncontrol of the schools.\\nTHE FIRST SCHOOL MONEY.\\nAt the first town meeting in Salisbury it was voted to raise\\nsome money for school purposes. How much was appropri-\\nated cannot be ascertained, nor are we able to learn that the\\naction was continued in the years immediately following. In\\n1772 the sum of twelve dollars was voted to support a school\\nthe present year. It was also voted to raise half a day s\\nwork on the single head, to be done on the south end of the\\nsi.xty acre lot, which was laid out for the school.\\nTHE FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE.\\nThe lot was located on Searle s Hill, on the centre rangeway,\\nby the parsonage, opposite the ten acre meeting-house lot. A\\nschool house, the first in the town, was built in the summer of\\nthat year. It was made of logs, and though its dimensions are\\nnot recorded we have reason to suppose it was not less than\\ntwenty feet square, having a cobble-stone fireplace, or perhaps\\nsmall stones or brick laid in clay. The seats were simply a\\nrow of boards on two sides of the room, against the walls.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0220.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. IQ/\\nFOUR SCHOOL HOUSES.\\nSix years later the population had increased, and although\\nthe war was draining the country of men and the products of\\nthe soil, the town voted with great unanimity to build four\\nschool houses. These were built by the job, the lowest bid\\nbeing accepted. The clerk s record for 1778 says: Capt.\\nEbenezer Webster, Dea. John Collins and Capt. Matthew Pet-\\ntengill were incorporated a Committee to treat with the Pro-\\nprietors. This meeting was adjourned for a few days, and on\\nreassembling the voters decided to divide the town into four\\nschool districts, and that each district build its own house with-\\nin three months; in case of delay beyond that time, the select-\\nmen had authority to erect the buildings and the districts were\\nrequired to meet the expense. The district lines do not appear\\nto have been distinctly defined, as there is no record of them.\\nOne was located near the Blackwater, at what is known as\\nSmith s Corner. This was built by Benaiah Bean, for S398.00.\\nA second one was placed at the South Road, on the southwest\\ncorner of Capt. John Webster s land. It was built by Dea.\\nJohn Collins, for $680.00. Another was situated at the Centre\\nRoad, at the southeast corner of Jonathan Fifield s land. The\\ncontractor for erecting this house was Edward Fifield, and the\\nprice was S678.00. The last of the four was on the North\\nRoad, near Mr. Wadleigh s. Mr. Andrew Pettengill received\\n$494.00 for building it. Such buildings, for some time before or\\nsoon after, could have been completed for less than one-half the\\ncost of these. But money was so much depreciated that labor\\ncommanded $8.00 per day. The amount raised annually for\\nschools at this time was about S500.00, while $3,000.00 were\\nappropriated for the improvement of roads!\\nThese four houses were made ready for use according to con-\\ntract. They had wooden frames, were boarded and shingled,\\nand furnished with windows and immense fire-places.\\nNow and then we find among the old papers of the town a\\nreceipted bill for public instruction, given to the selectmen by\\nsome ancient pedagogue, like the following", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0221.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "198 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nSalisbury, Nov. 25, 1778.\\nThen received of the Selectmen of Salisbury two hundred dollars in full for\\nteaching school five months I say, Rec d by me,\\nTIMO. OSBORN.\\nToppan, etc.\\nHIGH GRADE SCHOOLS.\\nAbout this time Mr. Edward Eastman, who had obtained a\\nhigher education than the ordinary district schoolmaster, pro-\\nposed to teach a school of the higher grade, if the town would\\ngive him the use of the school lot. The arrangement was made.\\nHe agreed to maintain a reading and writing school for three\\nmonths in the year, for ten years, and then a grammar school\\nfor six months a year, for ten years more and, as the record\\nsays, so, on, as it is understood for seventy years, for the\\ntown actually gave him a seventy-year lease of the land. For\\nseveral years we are not able to say just how long Mr.\\nEastman fulfilled his contract, but at the request of the school-\\nmaster the obligation was cancelled long before the expiration\\nof the three-score years and ten.\\nFor a time, after the close of the war, no appropriation was\\nmade for the support of public schools. There was little\\nmoney home products found no market, and articles of distant\\nor foreign production were held at exceedingly high prices.\\nSALE OF SCHOOL LANDS.\\nIn March, 1784, it was voted to sell all the school lands\\nand put the principal in the bank, and use the interest for the\\nsupport of schools in the town annually. It was also voted at\\nthe same time to sell all the schoolhouses belonging to the sd\\ntown and the money be contributed to the use of the town.\\nThe notice of the vendue was as follows\\nWhereas, At the annual meeting of the town of Salisbury, in the County of\\nHillsborough, on the 9th day of March 17S4, the inhabitants of sd Town voted to\\nsell all the Land belonging to the .School Right, in sd Salisbury, that the interest of\\nthe money sd land comes to, may be laid out in schooling yearly:\\nAccordingly, we, the Selectmen of sd Town, have advertised the hundred acre\\nlot belonging to the said School Right, it being No. 59, in the North Range; to be\\nsold at the house of Capt. Matthew Pettengill in sd Town, at Public Vendue, to the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0222.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. I99\\nhighest bidder, sd Vendue to begin at one o clock, in the afternoon, on Monday the\\n7th day of June, 17S4.\\nArticles of sale are as follows: That each and every person have equal right\\nand liberty in bidding; the person giving such security as shall be satisfactory\\nto sd Town the purchaser paying the interest annually and the principal to be\\npaid in six years from this date. If not paid in that time, then to be at the option\\nof the Town, when to take the Principal, and that no bid be accounted valid under\\nthree pence per acre.\\nDANIEL BROCKLEBANK,\\nJACOB TRUK, Selectmen.\\nJOHN SWEATT,\\nSalisbury, June ye 7, 17S4.\\nCapt. Samuel Webster was appointed Vendue Master.\\nThe sale took place in accordance with the notice, and the land\\nwas sold to Ephraim Colby, for three pounds, fifteen shillings\\nand three-pence per acre.\\nThe sale of the school houses brought, in the aggregate,\\n$63.75, a depreciation of $2277.25 in five years. John C. Gale\\ngave $19.50 for the one on the North Road; John Webster\\n$16.00 for that at the South Road; Joseph Bean $16.00 for the\\nhouse at the Centre Road, and John Smith $12.25 ^or the one\\nbeyond the Blackwater.\\nSCHOOLS IN THE ASCENDANT.\\nWe talk approvingly of the voice of the people, and in accord-\\nance with the requirements of our fundamental law we are\\naccustomed to acquiesce in its decisions. But there is nothing\\nin nature more inconsistent than the verdicts often rendered by\\nthe people. Two years ago the town of Salisbury not only\\nrefused to supj)ort public schools, but, in a spirit of narrow\\neconomy, sold all her school houses for the magnificent sum of\\n$63.75 Now, in 1786, reason appears to be returning, for the\\ntown voted to raise $210.00 in lawful money for the support of\\nschools, and ordered that each district provide its own school\\nrooms and pay its proportion of the sum appropriated for the\\ncause of education.\\nThe ne.\\\\t appropriation on record for this purpose was one of\\n$300.00; and in 1791 a school house was built at the Lower\\nVillage, now the Orphans Home district. This was the first", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0223.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "200 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nerected in that section of the town. The site was nearly oppo-\\nsite the residence of Benjamin Sanborn. Here the boy, Daniel\\nWebster, attended school here the young man, Mr. Daniel\\nWebster, was employed in teaching the district school and not\\nfar remote in time, the statesman and orator spent here his\\nleisure days.\\nPRIVATE INSTRUCTION.\\nIt was the practice of the early settlers to give their children\\nsuch rudimentary instruction as they were capable of impart-\\ning, at their own homes. In some instances neighbors united\\nand occasionally employed a teacher, often selecting one who\\ncould aid in the household or on the farm. But the compensa-\\ntion for such service was small money was never abundant\\nwith the pioneers of the town land was obtained at a low price\\nand needed little beyond good tillage to ensure a bountiful har-\\nvest. But the most e.xact economy was required. Without\\nmoney, or with a narrow margin, they reared large families,\\nsupported the gospel, maintained schools, built houses, opened\\nroads, cleared up forests, constructed garrisons, fought the\\nIndians, and made heroic sacrifices for independence. And\\nyet, with the improvements of a hundred years in our favor, we\\ncomplain of hardships, of burdensome taxation, and of the\\nsevere demands of modern society.\\nBUILDING SCHOOL HOUSES.\\nThe second school house at the South Road was built by\\nsubscription, and was located at the corner east of Mrs. Crane s,\\nopposite the residence of P. A. Fellows. Though built and\\nused for a school, it was reallv private property, as may be\\ninferred from the following subscription\\nWe, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do hereby, each one of us, promise\\nand engage unto the others, to pay, each one, towards building and finishing the\\nschool house, that now standeth by the South Road in said Salisbury, and on the\\ncorner of land now owned by Capt. John Webster, which land is known by the\\nname of the Gale lot, according to our interest or estate in the same proportion that\\nwe are now ta.\\\\ed, in the State ta.x the said school house to be finished and made\\ncomplete on or before the first day of November ne.vt ensuing, and also we prom-\\nise and engage to repair and keep in repair the same, from time to time, as the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0224.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 201\\nsame may happen, in the same manner as aforesd to be kept for the use and ben-\\nefit of a school, so long as the same shall last, and shall be under the government\\nof the major part of the subscribers or some person or persons by them appointed\\nand whosoever of the subscribers shall neglect or refuse to pay their part or propor-\\ntion, as above mentioned, seasonably to complete the afores d house at the time\\nas above, shall suffer all the cost and damage, that shall happen thereby, the same\\nif not otherwise prevented, to be recovered in a common course of law, as shall be\\nthought best by the major part of the subscribers, that have performed according\\nto agreement.\\nWitness our hands, the 14th day of July Anno Domini 17S7.\\nAndrew Bohonon, Benjamin Baker, Joseph Bartlett,\\nLuke Wilder, Peter Barber, John Webster, Jr.,\\nJohn Collins, Joseph Bean, Edward Evans,\\nEbenezer Johnson, Stephen Webster, Philip Colliy.\\nLeonard Judkins, John Sweatt,\\nGeorge Bailey, William Calef,\\nAugust 26, 1787, Capt. John Webster sold to the above\\nnamed, for the consideration of a school and school house, a\\nsite on the southwesterly corner of the sixty acre lot, No. 23,\\nlaid out for Samuel Stevens. Witnessed by John Hoyt and\\nEzra Flanders.\\nThe house was completed according to the agreement, and for\\nmany years was used for the accommodation of a public school.\\nAfter the academy was removed from its original location to\\nthe South Road, the school was transferred to one portion of\\nit, and the old house was given to other uses.\\nFORMATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS.\\nIn 1 8 19 the town was divided into eleven school districts,\\nand there were school houses in nine of them. In the others,\\nschools were kept in private rooms. Changes were subsequent-\\nly made and other districts formed, increasing the number to\\nfourteen, partially described in the records.\\nNumber I. This district was organized in 1820, agreeably\\nto a petition of Joel Eastman and others, and known then and\\nnow as South Road School District No. i. The Academy\\nbuilding was appropriated for the use of the school, and some\\npart of it has been used for that purpose since it was removed\\nfrom the original site.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0225.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "202 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nNumber II, known as the Centre Road District, was formed\\nApril 2, 1823, on petition of Josiah Green and others. The\\nfirst school house in this district stood a short distance to the\\nwest of F. W. Fifield s barn. It was afterwards located just\\nnorth of the meeting-house. For many years the school house\\nhas stood on the south side of the road leading from the Centre\\nRoad to West Salisbury, a few rods from its junction with the\\nold turnpike road. At one time the town voted that the town\\nhall might be used for a school room, but this was probably only\\nwhile the school house was undergoing repairs, or it may have\\nbeen for a private school.\\nNumber III, now called Sawyer s, and formerly South\\nRoad District No. 2, was organized in 1820, on petition of\\nNathaniel Greeley and others.\\nNumber IV, or Scribner s, embraces the section of the\\ntown around Scribner s Corner.\\nNumber V is on the North Road. This school house is the\\noldest in the town.\\nNumber VI. This district includes that part of the town\\nwhich is known as The Mills. There was a school located\\nhere as early as 1806, and a school house in 18 16. It became\\nunfit for use years ago. In 1884 the district erected a fine and\\ncommodious building, with modern conveniences.\\nNumber VII is at Smith s Corner, or the Union Meeting\\nhouse neighborhood. One of the school houses, built in 1782\\nand sold two years afterwards, was in this district. The second\\nschool house in this section of the town was erected in 1789,\\nby Phineas Bean, Joseph Meloon and Richard Foster. It was\\n20 by 25 feet in size. To aid in its completion more than sixty\\ndollars were contributed by individuals. Nathaniel Meloon\\ngave $12.00, Phineas Bean, $12.00, Benaiah Bean, $10.00, John\\nSmith, $12.00, Nathaniel Meloon, Jr., $5.00, John Sawyer, $4.00,\\nJabez True, $4.00, Simeon Sawyer, $2.00, and Richard Foster,\\n$1.00. The district was at one time designated as No. 8. In\\n1825, on the petition of Daniel Fitts and others, a district was\\norganized embracing this section of the town, and was called\\nSouth Road District No. 3. How it came to be No. 7 in this\\nsystem of districts we are unable to say, for we find no record.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0226.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 203\\nNumber VIII, or Thompson s Corner District. The first\\nschool house in the town, built of logs in 1772, was on a site\\nincluded in the limits of No. 8. The second school house in\\nthe district was built in 18 16, and was located east of the pres-\\nent brick school house in this district.\\nNumber IX is on Loverin s Hill, and was established in\\n1826, on petition of Thomas Chase and others. It has been\\ncalled Centre Road District No. 2. The house was built by\\nDaniel Loverin, in 1826, and is now abandoned.\\nNumber X is on the southern spur of Kearsarge mountain,\\nand is usually called the Watson District. A school house\\nwas built here as early as 18 12.\\nNumber XI is on Raccoon Hill, and is often denominated\\nthe Shaw District. In 1847 Mr. George Shaw gave the\\nland and built the school house for $149.50. In 1871 the dis-\\ntrict was enlarged, and in 1876 the house was repaired.\\nShaw s Cotiner District. This was originally known as\\nSouth Road District No. i, then as South Road District No. 2.\\nThe first school house stood just south of Thomas Bruce s gar-\\nden. The town sold it to Samuel Ouimby, who made interior\\nmodifications and rented it to Kben (commonly called Cain\\nWhittemore, for a dwelling house, who occupied it for many\\nyears, raising a large family of children. The next house for\\nschool purposes was erected in 1820, at the Corner, where it\\nremained until 1881, when it was removed, a commodious and\\nhandsome house taking its place.\\nLower Village District, now Orphans Home, in Franklin.\\nThe school house was located on the triangular lot of land south\\nof G. B. Matthews s barn. The present house is of brick, and\\nwas built by private contribution or by subscriptions for shares,\\nat a value of $10.00 per share. The records of this district\\nwere in the hands of Parker Noyes, Esq., at the time of his\\ndecease.\\nEast Village District Franklin.) The land now occupied\\nby a school building, in that portion of Franklin formerly be-\\nlonging to Salisbury, was given by Ebenezep Eastman, for\\neducational purposes, in 18 16. The deed was given to the", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0227.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "204 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nRepublican Village Association in Salisbury. The first\\nschool house in that part of the town was built in 1805-6. The\\nsecond house was remov^ed to give place to a larger one. For\\na time it occupied the corner where Sanborn s block now stands.\\nIt was used as a store and was occupied by John Robertson.\\nThe present house, recently built, is one of rare taste and\\nexquisite beauty, and in outward appearance resembles a coun-\\ntry residence of wealth and refinement.\\nEARLY TEACHERS IN THE TOWN.\\nNo perfect record is found of the teachers in Salisbury. It\\nis certain that prior to 1805 those here named were employed\\nin the districts mentioned.\\nRobert Hoag, who originally wrote his name Hogg, taught\\nwest of the Blackwater in 1793, and in some section of the town\\nat least two years previously. He was of Scotch parentage and\\nmay have been related to the family of the name that came to\\nthis country with the ancestors of General Stark. He settled\\non the farm now known as the Reuben Greeley place, west\\nof that of D. J. Stevens. He was an eccentric man but a good\\nscholar, and noted as a teacher. Master Hogg was a famil-\\niar name in his day and for years after he died. His daughter\\nmarried Richard Greenough.\\nThe same year, 1793, Benjamin Fifield and Moses Eastman\\ntaught on the North Road, Mr. McDaniel on Raccoon Hill, and\\nWilliam Hoyt on the Centre Road.\\nThe next year Thomas Chase taught on the Centre Road,\\nWilliam Hoyt on Raccoon Hill, Jonathan French on the North\\nRoad, and Moses Eastman on the River Road.\\nIn 1795 John Huntoon taught on the North Road, at $10.00\\nper month Moses Sawyer and David Ouimby taught on the\\nSouth Road.\\nThe names of Reuben French, Moses Eastman and Oniseph-\\norus Page are also recorded as teachers. The latter received\\nsix pounds, fifteen shillings, for teaching in the Bog District,\\nin 1795-6.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0228.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "KDUCATIONAL HISTOKV.\\n205\\nIn 1 801 a sister of Daniel Webster taught in the town, and\\nin 1805 Ichabod Bartlett and Grace Fletcher are mentioned as\\nteachers.\\nTimothy Osborn was one of the earliest teachers.\\nMoses Marsh taught in 1796.\\nNancy h^astman taught in 1797, at seven shillings a week.\\nWilliam Couch taught above lilackwater, on the South Road,\\nin 1794.\\nWilliam Hazelton taught in 1794, and Dame Jacobs in 1796.\\nEphraim l^^astman, of Andover, taught on Raccoon Hill, in\\n1796.\\nJohn Page taught in 1798.\\nElder Elias Smith, taught in the Centre Road District, in\\n1796, for which he received five pounds eighteen shillings and\\nseven pence.\\nSUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEES.\\nFrom the year 18 10 to 1827 there appears to be a record of\\nschool committees in the town. From the latter date to 1852\\nthere is almost an entire omission\\n1810 Andrew Howers,\\nMoses Kastman,\\nJob Wilson,\\nParker Xoyes.\\n181 1 Andrew Howers,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nJob \\\\V Ison,\\nI arker Noyes.\\n181 2 Andrew Howers,\\nI arker Noyes.\\nEdward Blodgett.\\n1813 Andrew I .owers,\\nJob Wilson,\\nMoses Eastman.\\n1814 Parker Noyes,\\nRichard Fletcher,\\nSamuel C. Hartlett.\\n1S15 Richard Fletcher,\\nSamuel C. Kartlett,\\nAndrew Itowers.\\n1S16 Andrew Bowers,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nJob Wilson.\\n1817 Andrew Howers,\\nBenjamin Gale,\\nJob Wilson.\\niSiS Moses Eastman,\\nJoshua Fifield,\\nSamuel C. Bartlett.\\n1S19 Samuel C. Hartlett.\\nMoses Eastman,\\nI arker Noyes.\\n1820 John White,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nJames (larland.\\niS::i Andrew Howers,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nJames darland.\\n1S22 Moses Eastman,\\nI arker Noyes,\\nJoshua Fifield,\\nSamuel I. Wells,\\nSamuel C. Hartlett.\\ni S23 Moses Eastman,\\n.Samuel I. Wells,\\nAndrew Bowers.\\n1824 Thos. II. I ettengill,\\nI arker Noyes,\\nJob Wilson.\\n1825 Moses Eastman,\\nI arker Noyes,\\nRev. Abijah Cross.\\n1S26 Rev. T. Worcester,\\nPeter Bartlett,\\nAndrew Howers.\\n1S27 (Jeorge W. Nesmith,\\nJoshua I i field,\\nJohn White.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0229.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "206\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nIn 1828 the committee consisted of fourteen, one for each\\ndistrict. In 1829 there were twelve members. In 1830 Thos.\\nH. Pettengell, Samuel I. Wells, and Rev. E. E. Cummings con-\\nstituted the committee. The writer remembers that Thomas\\nHale Pettengill, Esq., was one of the committee in 1839, though\\nhe paid no attention to the schools. It was rarely that the\\nschool officials gave much attention to the duties of their ap-\\npointment in those days. After 185 1, the records show that\\ncommittees were regularly appointed\\n1852 Rev. E. D. Eldridge,\\nRev. S. Coomljs,\\nThomas D. Little.\\n1S53 James Fellows,\\nIra H. Couch,\\nRev. John Burden.\\n1S54 Rev. John Burden,\\nIra H. Couch,\\nRev. D. B. Damon.\\n1855 Ira H. Couch,\\nJames Fellows,\\nJoseph P. Stevens.\\n1856\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ira H. Couch,\\nJoseph P. Stevens,\\nA. H. Robinson.\\n1857 Hiram F. French,\\nRobert Smith,\\nStephen M. Pingree.\\n1858 Joseph P. Stevens,\\nCharles C. Rogers,\\nSamuel C. Pingree.\\n1S59 Charles C. Rogers,\\nRobert Smith,\\nElbridge D. Couch.\\n1S60 Charles C. Rogers,\\nElbridge D. Couch,\\nHenry A. Fellows.\\n1S62\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles B. Willis,\\nCharles C. Rogers,\\nElbridge D. Couch.\\n1S63-4-5\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCharles C. Rogers,\\nIra H. Couch,\\nDaniel J. Calef.\\n1866 George W. Towle,\\nCharles C. Rogers,\\nReynolds S. Rogers.\\n1867 George H. Towle.\\n1868 George H. Towle,\\nCharles C. Rogers.\\n1869 Charles C. Rogers,\\nDaniel J. Calef.\\n1870-1\\nRev. Jona. B. Cook.\\n1S72 Rev. A. H. Martin.\\n1873 Charles C. Rogers.\\n1S75 Rev. A. H. Martin.\\n1876 Charles C. Rogers.\\n1877 Daniel J. Calef.\\n1878\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Drusilla Blasdell.\\n1879 Charles C. Rogers.\\n18S0-1\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nEdward Wayne.\\n1S82\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Elbridge Smith.\\n1S83 *Silas P. Thompson,\\ntErnest C. Currier.\\n1884 Charles C. Rogers.\\nResigned in April, t Appointed.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0230.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV.\\nEDUCATIONAL HISTORY, CONCLUDED.\\nThe riches of the Commonwealth\\nAre free, strong minds and hearts of health,\\nAnd more to her than gold or grain\\nThe cunning hand and cultured brain.\\nSALISBURY ACADEMY.\\nAt the close of the last century, Salisbury was the residence\\nof an unusual number of prudent, intelligent and scholarly men.\\nThey had pride in the good name of the town, and looked for-\\nward with cheerful anticipations to a higher position which it\\nmight hold in the State. They not only maintained good order,\\nliberally supported schools and sustained an able and faithful\\nministry, but saw the advantages which would result from a\\npermanent institution of learning, and at length united in the\\nestablishment of an academy. At the annual town meeting in\\n1792 it is recorded, the people gave their approbation for an\\nacademy, to be located between Ens. Moses Garland s and Ens.\\nEdward West s. After no little delay a petition was presented\\nto the Legislature for an Act of Incorporation. The petition\\nwas signed by the active men of the town, and was presented at\\nthe winter session, in January, 1795.\\nto the honble senate and house of representatives in general court\\nConvened, at Concord:\\nThe petition of the undersigned persons humbly showeth.\\nThat we have long experienced the want of an institution in this vicinity, where\\nyouth may be instructed in the higher branches of learning, and be prepared to\\ntransact the common business of life with advantage, or to finish their education at\\na university. We feel a deep conviction of the importance and utility of a general\\ndiffusion of literature and good morals. To facilitate the means of education is,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0231.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "208\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nwe are persuaded the most effectual means of accomplishing this desirable object.\\nThe dearest interests of our country are fast devolving upon the rising generation,\\nthey will soon become citizens, and be interested with all the relations of life; we\\nregard them with a paternal anxiety and ardently wish that they may enter upon the\\ntheatre of life with such qualifications as will do honor not only to republicans, but\\nto human nature. We consider knowledge as the palladium of liberty, we consider\\ngood morals the foundation of happiness, public and private with such sentiments\\nwe have associated for the purpose of erecting and supporting an academy by the\\nname of the Salisbury Academy, where youth may be initiated in the arts and\\nsciences, acquire habits of morality and piety, and an invincible attachment to the\\nprinciples of civil and religious liberty. The design of our association has received\\nthe approbation of a majority of our fellow townsmen, and we now respectfully\\nsolicit the patronage of the Legislature of New Hampshire.\\nYour Honors must be sensible that the business of such an institution cannot\\nbe well managed without a Board of Trustees, we therefore pray your Honors for\\nliberty to bring in a bill to constitute Honbls Timo. Walker, Abiel Foster, Esq.,\\nRev. Jonathan Searle, Rev. Elias Smith and Luke Wilder, a Corporation by the\\nname of the Trustees of Salisbury Academy, and to invest the above named gen-\\ntlemen and their business, with all the necessary power of a body corporate to\\ncarry into execution the design aforesaid of your petitioners.\\nAnd your petioners as in duty bound will ever pray.\\nJonathan Searle,\\nLuke Wilder,\\nAndrew Sowers,\\nJonathan Fifield,\\nElias Smith,\\nCaleb Judkins,,\\nLeonard Judkins,\\nMoses Garland,\\nJohn Swett,\\nEphraim Colby,\\nJacob Garland,\\nMoses Morse,\\nIsrael Webster,\\nNathaniel Ash,\\nAbiel Elkins,\\nBenjamin Pettengill.\\nStephen CJeorge,\\nReuben True,\\nJames Currier,\\nWiliam Eastman,\\nJona. C. Pettengill,\\nBenjamin Whittemore,\\nAnaniah Bohonon,\\nSamuel Lovering,\\nSamuel Greenleaf,\\nStephen Webster,\\nJoseph Severance,\\nJoseph Adams,\\nJoseph Fifield,\\nISenjamin Pettengill, jun r,\\nEliphalet Williams,\\nJul ward West,\\nJacob Bohonon, junr.,\\nLeonard Judkins, junr.,\\nInsn. Levi George,\\nAndrew Bohonon,\\nCaleb Cushing,\\nAbraham Sanborn.\\nSalisbury, Dec. 20th, 1794.\\nA CHARTER GRANTED.\\nSt.\\\\te of New Hampshire, L\\\\ the House ov Representatives.\\nJanuary 15, 1795.\\nThe Committee on the within petition reported that the petitioners have leave\\nto bring in a bill, at this or the next session of the General Court, for the purpose\\nmentioned in said petition, but so guarded as not to allow the Corporation to hold\\nany real estate free of taxes, which report being read and considered,\\nVoted that it be received and accepted.\\nJOHN P.ENTON,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0232.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 209\\nIn the Senate, same day, read and concurred.\\nXATHAX PARKER,\\nDept. Seciy.\\nWhile the petition was before the Legislature, a town meet-\\ning was held, when the vote which was passed three years pre-\\nviously, approving the movement, was repeated, with the quali-\\nfication that the academy be built at the expense of the erec-\\ntors. The location, between Ens. Garland s and Ens. Edward\\nWest s, was again approved.\\nAn Act of Incorporation was granted, bearing date of Decem-\\nber 22, 1/95, in accordance with the terms of the petition.\\nERECTING THE BUILDING.\\nThe Board of Trustees, by authority of the Legislature, had\\nthe charge of the institution. They selected a site and caused\\nthe building to be erected. It was placed on the ridge of Gar-\\nland s Hill, nearly west of the residence of Nicholas Wallace,\\nand was two stories high.\\nThe funds for its construction were raised by subscription.\\nWe have no data regarding its cost, nor do we know the names\\nof the contractors or workmen. There is no record of a for-\\nmal opening or dedication, nor can we find a catalogue of the\\nteachers and students at that date, nor for years after. We only\\nknow that one Thomas Chase was the first principal. We\\nhave no knowledge of him beyond this fact that he instructe.d\\nat this time the lad who became America s greatest statesman,\\nand who was a pupil in the institution. (See Genealogy.)\\nITS PROSPERITY.\\nThe academy was for a time well sustained, but owing to the\\nsparse population in that neighborhood, and the consequently\\nlimited number of dwelling houses, board could not be obtained.\\nIn those days clubs were not common students had not\\nlearned to board themselves, and no public boarding house was\\nmaintained. The school was therefore closed in a few years\\nafter it had been instituted.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0233.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "2IO HISTORY OF SALISBURV.\\nA REMOVAL.\\nIt was proposed to move the building to the South Village\\nand open it under new management. At an adjourned meeting,\\nMarch 26, 1805, Andrew l^owers and Moses Clement were\\nchosen to procure a lot of land on which to set the academy.\\nThey purchased of William Little forty square rods, at the\\njunction of the Turnpike with the College Road, being the\\ndelta now occupied by the academy. The cost was 120.00.\\nAgain a subscription was raised, for removing the building to\\nthe new location.\\nTHE SCHOOL DISTRICT SECURES AN INTEREST.\\nThe expense of this removal and the proper repairs were\\nfound to exceed the contributions, and the School District at\\nthe South Road Village, with the view of using the lower\\nrooms for a public school, voted to meet the deficiency by\\ntaxing each poll according to its ratable estate.\\nAndrew Bowers was constituted the agent of the district, to\\nnegotiate with the proprietors of the academy. Terms were\\nmade satisfactory, and, on April 15th of the same year, John\\nWebster, John Sweatt, Moses Clement, Samuel Greenleaf and\\nBenjamin Pettengill were chosen a committee to move the\\nacademy. The removal took place April 29, 1805.\\nNew underpinning was put in by Stephen Bohonon,at a cost\\nof $29.50; a chimney was built on the east side, by William C.\\nLittle, for which he was paid $46.00. This chimney communi-\\ncated with a large fire-place in each story. John Sweatt and\\nMoses Clement were chosen to collect the subscriptions and to\\nfinish the house, or rather that portion of it appropriated to the\\nuse of the district. The same men, with the addition of Sam-\\nuel Greenleaf, finished the upper room, which was assigned to\\nthe use of the academy. Mr. Bohonon took the contract and\\nwas paid $80.00.\\nOn the 13th of January, 1806, the district voted to move in\\nnext Wednesday morning. As then constituted, the part\\noccupied by the district contained two rooms. The floor of the\\nsoutheast section of the one and of the west side of the other,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0234.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 211\\nfor a short distance, was elevated and occupied by the desks of\\nthe scholars. The teachers desks were opposite to those of\\nthe pupils.\\nThe entrance to the upper rooms and to the north room\\nbelow was on the cast side of the building, near the northeast\\ncorner; but to the lower south room the entrance was at the\\nmiddle of the south side. From the east side the entrance was\\nto a small hall a few steps led to a platform or broad stair from\\nthis platform a flight of stairs led to the upper north room, and\\nby a narrow hall or walk to the south room on the second floor.\\nIn the south room brick stoves succeeded fire-places, but at a\\nlater period iron stoves were substituted.\\nAgain a subscription was raised to make repairs on the build-\\ning and add to its accommodations. The fire-places were taken\\nout, the lower rooms made into one, a chimney built on the\\nnorth side, and the ceiling of the lower story lowered. It was\\nat this time that the entrance on the east end, and the stairway\\nleading to the second story, were changed to the southeast cor-\\nner of the building. New windows were supplied and blinds\\nadded. The cost of these repairs was about $300.00. This\\nwas in 1837-8, and Benjamin Pettengill, Nathaniel Bean, and\\nRev. Valentine Little were the committee to supervise the work.\\nIn 1856 the lower school room was repaired by restoring the\\nceiling to its original height, laying a new floor, and repainting\\ninside and outside. The school room was furnished with new\\nand improved furniture, so that it was the most pleasant and\\nconvenient school room in the vicinity.\\nSince that time a few changes have been made, but none of\\nmaterial importance, if we except the additions of a projection\\nof the upper story, by which the hall is enlarged, and the stair-\\nway made more convenient. These improvements were made\\nin 1S83.\\nA NEW ORGANIZATION.\\nTo go back again, tt) the instruction given in the Salisbury\\nAcademy: In 1806, after its removal to the present location,\\nMr. Joel Eastman, father of the late Hon. Joel Eastman, of", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0235.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "212 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nConway, made a proposition to all interested, to the effect that\\na company be formed who will support a school in that part\\nof the house intended for an academy, at least one year, with\\nthe privilege of continuing it as long as they shall think proper,\\nat their own risque, receiving the benefit of the tuition, which\\nshall not exceed twenty-five cents per week for each scholar,\\nthe said company to have the management and direction of the\\nschool entirely to themselves, the school to be opened as soon\\nas a Preceptor can be conveniently engaged.\\nThe district on its part accepted the proposition, and no other\\nparties objected. A petition for the renewal of the charter was\\npresented to the Legislature, signed by Andrew Bowers, Moses\\nEastman, Samuel Greenleaf, Joseph Bartlett, Israel W. Kelly,\\nJoel Eastman, Moses Clement, Eleazer Taylor, Rev. Thomas\\nWorcester, Amos Bean, Levi Bean and Nathaniel Noyes. The\\npetition was answered by a new charter, December lo, 1808.\\nThe new corporation conducted the institution with great\\nearnestness and prudence for a long period, during which time\\nit gained and sustained a reputation for good scholarship and\\nexcellence in all its departments. Its standing was not inferior\\nto the best institutions of its kind in the State. Students came\\nfrom distant towns, and some of the most distinguished men in\\nthe country received their academical education in Salisbury\\nAcademy.\\nBut by degrees there came a period of decadence. Some of\\nthe active supporters died, others removed from the town, and\\nthose who were left lost their interest and after many years of\\nsuccess the school was suspended and the doors of the academy\\nclosed.\\nA THIRD CHARTER.-\\nA new and third attempt to maintain an academy in the town\\nwas made by Tristram Greenleaf, Nathaniel Bean, Jonathan H.\\nClement, Nathaniel Sawyer, Robert Smith, Thomas D. Little,\\nI. N. Sawyer, Peter Whittemore, Moses Greeley and Horatio\\nMerrill. They obtained a new charter in 1859, and made an\\neffort to revive the spirit of the past. But high schools were", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0236.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 213\\nestablished in all the large towns, where excellent instruction\\ncould be had, without personal expense, and the few well-\\nendowed academies, like those at Exeter, New Hampton and\\nMeriden, took those students who desired to pursue an ex-\\ntended course of preparatory study.\\nShortly after its re-incorporation in 1808, Benjamin Gale,\\nEsq., an enterprising and scholarly gentleman of the town, left\\na legacy of one thousand dollars to the institution. This was\\naccepted by the trustees and the interest was used for the ben-\\nefit of the school; but when a final suspension took place the\\nfund was restored to the heirs of Mr. Gale.\\nIt is a matter of regret that catalogues of the school, if any\\nwere printed, were not preserved. A complete record of the\\npupils attending the school would have given the present gener-\\nation the names of many eminent men and women in the various\\nwalks of life. The editors have seen but one printed catalogue.\\nThat bears a date of 1852.\\nA programme of an exhibition of the school, which took place\\nin 1 8 19, has been preserved, and is of sufficient interest to\\noccupy a place in the history of the institution and the town.\\nThis programme, or Order of Exercises, is a broadside, on a\\nsheet of coarse, dingy yellow, 11x18 inches, surrounded with a\\nborder, and was probably considered at the time as in the\\nbest style of the printer s art. It reads as follows\\nSALISBURY ACADEMY.\\nOrder of Exercises for a Public Exhibition\\nAUGUST 20. iSi^.\\nFORENOON.\\n1. Prayer.\\n2. Oration in Latin. R. G. Eastman.\\n3. Oration on T ortitude. y. Calcf.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0237.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "214 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n4. Dialogue; Priuli and Jaffier. A. M. Qiiimby W. P.\\nWeeks.\\n5. Poem The Portrait. P. Dodge.\\n6. MUSIC.\\n7. Dialogue; Triumph of Temper. E. Colby, S. Cavis, D.\\nP. Smith, A. Kith-edge, D. B. Penticost, A. M. Ouiniby,\\nT. C. Merrill, J. S. Elliot, P. Upham, J. St^anwood,\\nSally Pettengill, Fanny Sawyer, Fanny West.\\n8. Oration The moral tendency of the writings of some\\ncelebrated authors. B. C. Cressey.\\n9. Dialogue on Literary Pursuits. E. F. Greejiongh F.\\nW. Greenough.\\n10. MUSIC.\\n11. Dialogue; Honest Auctioneer. P. Dodge, H. Shed, E.\\nWest, Eliza N. Webster.\\n12. Oration; The Fall of Bonaparte. A. Kittredge.\\n13. Dialogue; The Parting of Hector and Andromache. B. C.\\nCressey, Abigail Blaisdell.\\n14. *Oration The Pleasures of Anticipation. J. Eastman.\\n15. MUSIC.\\n16. Dialogue on Duelling. A. Green, H. Greenleaf, A. M.\\nQiiimby, H. Fificld, G. W. Johnson, W. P. Weeks,\\nP. Upham, Marcia Eastman, Elizabeth J. Tozvnsend.\\n17. Oration E. West.\\n18. Dialogue; The Prize. H. Shed, P. Rolfe, D. P. Smith,\\nJ. S. Elliott, Nancy West Susan P. Webster.\\n19. MUSIC.\\n20. Poem The Rose Bud. F. J. Willis.\\n21. Prologue to the Dialogue, Bunker-hill. D. P. Smith.\\n22. Dialogue; Bunker-hill. A. M. Quimby, H. Fifield, B. C.\\nCressey, y. Eastman, G. W. Johnson, A. Kittredge,\\nW. P. Weeks, y. Calef, y. S. Elliot, Lucia Eastman,\\nand Eunice Greenleaf.\\n23. MUSIC.\\nAFTERNOON.\\n1. Oration in Greek. W. Kelly.\\n2. Prologue to the Search after Happiness. Mary E.\\nLittle.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0238.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 215\\n3. Search after Happiness. Marcia Eastman, Ann Clement,\\nHannah Bncanon, CyntJiia P. Blanehard, Sally Pettcn-\\ngill, Abigail Blaisdell, Mary E. Little, and yulia\\nEmerson.\\n4. MUSIC.\\n5. Dialogue; The Battle of Trenton. A. Green, G. W.\\njhohnson, S. Cavis, and Eliza N. Webster.\\n6. *Oration on Benevolence. D. P. Smith.\\n7. Dialogue; The Pedants. P. Rolfe, H. Grcenleaf, D. B.\\nPentieost, and S. Cavis.\\n8. MUSIC.\\n9. Dialogue; Scene from Daranzel. P. Dodge, and B.\\nC. Cressey.\\n10. Poem on Novels. P. Rolfe.\\n11. Dialogue; Roderic Dhu and King James. H. Shed and\\nI. )V. K el ley.\\n12. MUSIC.\\n13. *Oration; The good effects resulting from some recent\\nPolitical Revolutions. D. B. Pentieost.\\n14. Dialogue; William Tell. A. Green, J. Calef, I. IV.\\nKelly, G. W. Johnson, S. Cavis, J. S. Elliot, E. West,\\nand Elizabeth y. Totunsend.\\n15. *Oration Sketch of the Progress of Literature. H.\\nFifield.\\n16. MUSIC.\\n17. Dialogue; Dr. Pangloss and Lord Duberly. y. Eastman,\\nand P. Dodge.\\n18. Poem. Elbridge G. East num.\\n19. Dialogue; Lochiel. A. Kittridge, and W. P. Weeks.\\n20. MUSIC.\\n21. Dialogue; Spungc and Snarl. T. C Merrill, and D. B.\\nPentieost.\\n22. Poem. A. M. Qnimby.\\n23. Dialogue l^ajazet and Tamerlane. P. Rolfe, y. Calef,\\nand T. C Merrill.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0239.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "2l6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n24. MUSIC.\\n25. *Oration on the Character of De La Fayette. A. Green.\\n26. The Tears of Science. W. Kelly.\\n27. Dialogue The Weathercock. H. Greenleaf, H. Shed,\\ny. Eastman, H. Fifield, J. Stanwood, P. Uphani,\\nNancy J Vest, and Susan P. Webster.\\n28. MUSIC.\\n29. *Oration on the Progress of Refinement, with the Vale-\\ndictory Addresses. H. Greenleaf.\\n30. Sacred Music.\\n31. Prayer.\\nOriginal.\\nC. Spear, Printer. .Hanover.\\nTEACHERS IN THE ACADEMY.\\nIt has not been possible to obtain a complete list of the\\nteachers in the institution, nor to give full or extended sketches\\nof many of them. There were frequent changes of instructors,\\nas it was not often that sufficient compensation was afforded to\\nthose teachers who commanded high salaries, or were perman-\\nently employed.\\nThomas Chase, as has already been noted, was the first\\ninstructor, and had charge of the school when it was located on\\nGarland s Hill. He was succeeded by\\nJames Tappan, who was a teacher of more than ordinary\\nreputation. Webster often referred to Master Tappan.\\nRev. Samuel Worcester, a native of Hollis, born Novem-\\nber I, 1770, taught district schools in Salisbury, and was one of\\nthe early teachers in the academy. He united with the Con-\\ngregational church, of which his brother was pastor, in 1793.\\nHe graduated at Dartmouth in 1795, and it is probable that his\\nteaching in Salisbury was during the winter vacations of his\\ncollege years. He became pastor of the Congregational church", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0240.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 21/\\nin Fitchburg, Mass., and subsequently of the Tabernacle church\\nin Salem, Mass. He was appointed Theological Professor at\\nDartmouth, but declined the position. He was Secretary of\\nthe American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.\\nHe died while on a visit to the Cherokee Indians, at the age of\\nfifty-one years. Rutgers College conferred on him the degree\\nof D. D. in 1811.\\nRev. Noah Worcester, D. D., was the eldest of a family of\\nsixteen children, including Rev. Dr. Samuel Worcester, Rev.\\nThomas Worcester and Rev. Leonard Worcester. He was\\nborn in 1758, at Hollis was a shoemaker by trade; engaged in\\nthe battle of Bunker Hill and was also at Bennington. He\\nremoved to Salisbury in 1810, and occupied the Eliphalet Little\\nhouse for three years. Though not a college graduate, he\\nbecame eminent as a preacher, author and theologian. He\\nreceived the degree of Master of Arts from Dartmouth, in 181 1,\\nand that of D. D. from Harvard, in 18 18. While at Salisbury\\nhe assisted his brother in his clerical duties. It was while in\\nSalisbury that he wrote his most noted work, entitled Bible\\nNews, which passed through several editions.\\nIcHABOD Bartlett, of whom an extended notice is given in\\nthe proper place in these pages, taught in 1804.\\nRev. Thomas Worcester, pastor of the church for many\\nyears, taught several terms; and his wife, Mrs. Deborah Wor-\\ncester, was Preceptress in 1822. She was a woman of fine\\neducation and rare accomplishments.\\nHon. Richard PYetcher taught in 1809, and Samuel I.\\nWells, Esq., from 181 3 to 18 16, of whom extended notices are\\ngiven elsewhere in this volume.\\nNathaniel Hazelton Carter, A. M., born at Concord,\\nSeptember 17, 1787, died at Marseilles, P ranee, January 2, 1830.\\nGraduated at Dartmouth in 181 1, taught in the academy in the\\nsame year; read law but never practiced; was distinguished as\\na writer and literary editor travelled in P2uropc, and published\\nLetters from P^urope, in two volumes. He also published\\nmany excellent poems. He was a Professor in Dartmouth\\nUniversity, when the State took possession of Dartmouth\\nCoUesfe.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0241.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "2l8 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nLamson Carter, of whom we have very little knowledge,\\ntaught in 1815.\\nStephen Bean, son of Joshua and Lydia (Brown) Bean, born\\nat Brentwood, April 4, 1772; died at Boston, December 10,\\n1825 graduated at Dartmouth, 1798; taught soon after gradu-\\nation, read law, and practiced in Boston. Married, May 4, 1808,\\nSusan, daughter of Thomas Hubbard,\\nRev. Benjamin Huntoon taught from 1817 to 18 19, nearly\\nthree years. (See Genealogy.)\\nRev. Daniel Fitts, D. D., born at Sandown, May 28, 1795\\ngraduated at Dartmouth in 18 18; taught from 18 19 to 1822.\\nHe studied theology, and for forty years was a successful\\npreacher. Married Caroline Sawyer.\\nZachariah Batchelder, born at Beverly, Mass, February\\n4 1796; graduated at Dartmouth in 1821 taught in 1822, read\\nlaw with Samuel I. Wells, Esq., practiced in Chichester, in\\n1827, and removed to Wolfeborough.\\nW. Bailey taught in 18 13.\\nHenry Greenleaf taught in 1822.\\nCaleb Stetson taught in 1825-26.\\nHenry Fitts.\\nWilliam Claggett taught in 1826-27.\\nAlfred Kittredge, son of Dr. Jonathan and Apphia (Wood-\\nward) Kittredge, born at Canterbury, October 22, 1805; grad-\\nuated at Dartmouth in 1827 and taught in 182S.\\nCaleb B. Kittredge, taught in 1829-1832.\\nRev. B. F. Foster taught in 1838-39. (See Ecclesiastical.)\\nCharles T. Berry taught in 1840; was a native of Pittsfield\\nand a graduate of Dartmouth College.\\nElbridge Gerry Emery taught in 1842-43.\\nDavid Dimond graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842 and\\ntaught in 1843.\\nCaleb P. Smith. (See Genealogy.)\\nWilliam S. Spaulding, A. M., graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1842 and taught in 1844-45; became a Congrega-\\ntional clergyman and settled in Newburyport, Mass.\\nS. C. Noyes.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0242.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 219\\nJ. H. Upton.\\nClark.\\nHon. William M. Pingree. (See Genealogy.)\\nRev. E. S. Little. (See Genealogy.)\\nDr. J. Q. A. French. (See Genealogy.)\\nDr. Crockett, son of Dr. Ephraim Crockett, of Sanbornton.\\nD. B. Penticost.\\nRev. E. D. Eldridge. (See Ecclesiastical.)\\nJohn A. Kilhurn taught in 1851; afterwards a lawyer at\\nFisherville, where he died.\\nJohn W. Simonds, born in Franklin, ]\\\\Iay 10, 1829, was the\\nonly son of John and Betsey (Merrill) Simonds. His early\\nadvantages for an education were limited to home instruction,\\nthe district school, and one term nominally at the Instructors\\nSchool, at Franklin. The summer months were spent in labor\\non his father s farm. At the age of fourteen he began his college\\npreparatory course, graduated at Bowdoin in 1854, and received\\nthe Master s degree in due course. While in college he taught\\ndistrict schools, and acquired a good reputation as a disciplin-\\narian and instructor. His first experience in a high grade\\nschool was during the winter of 1852-53, in which he met with\\ngreat success. After leaving college he married Mary W.\\nClement, who assisted him in his professional labors. He was\\nPrincipal of the Fisherville High School for three years. In\\n1857 he was chosen Principal of the New England Christian\\nInstitute, then just established at Andover. He occupied that\\nposition for fourteen years. In 1871 he was appointed State\\nSuperintendent of Public Schools, and was reappointed in 1873.\\nHe was subsequently elected Superintendent of Schools in\\nMilford, Mass. In 1882 he was Principal of Burr and Benton\\nSeminary, at Manchester, Vt., a school of high standing in\\nthat State. He has recently been elected President of the\\nUniversity of Dakota, located at Vermilion. Mr. Simonds has\\nbeen repeatedly invited to many other positions of honor and\\nusefulness.\\nJohn R. Eastman was born July 29, 1836, on Ikech Hill, in\\nAndover; was the son of Royal F. Eastman; attended the dis-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0243.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "220 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ntrict school and the Andover Academy, when not at work on\\nthe farm, and began to teach school when seventeen years old.\\nHe taught in Wilmot, Danbury, Weare, Beverly, Mass.. and in\\nSalisbury, in all eleven terms. He taught the district school\\nat Salisbury South Road, during the winter terms of 1860-61\\nand 1861-62, and the academy for the fall term of 1861. He\\nentered the Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in\\ni860, and in 1862 graduated at the head of his class. On\\nexamination he was appointed assistant in the United States\\nNaval Observatory, at Washington, D. C, in November, 1862,\\nand promoted to Professor of Mathematics, U. S. Navy, with\\nthe rank of Lieutenant, in February, 1865. The degree of\\nPh. D. was conferred upon him by Dartmouth College in 1877.\\nSince 1862 he has been actively engaged in astronomical work,\\nand has now the rank of Commander, U. S. N. He married\\nMary Jane, daughter of Samuel A. Ambrose, of Boscawen.\\nSOCIAL LIBRARY.\\nEarly in the year 1794, several of the citizens of Salisbury\\nagreed to organize a voluntary association for the purpose of\\nestablishing and sustaining a library. The first regular meet-\\ning was held on the 27th of March, at the house of Rev. Mr.\\nWorcester. Col. Ebenezer Webster was chosen chairman, and\\nAndrew Bowers, clerk. The matter was from time to time\\ndiscussed, and meetings were occasionally held to devise plans\\nto accomplish the object. At length a petition was pre-\\nsented to the General Court for an Act of Incorporation, with\\nthe right to hold funds for the benefit of the institution. A\\ncharter was granted in 1798, the corporators being Ebenezer\\nWebster, Luke Wilder, Andrew Bowers, Reuben True, and\\nJohn C. Gale. The extent of the capital allowed was one\\nthousand dollars, in personal estate. All who made contribu-\\ntions to the society were members, and authorized to exercise\\na voice in its management.\\nAt one of the early meetings of the proprietors of the library,\\non the first Monday in March, 1799, the following articles were\\nadopted for the regulation of the institution", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0244.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\n221\\n1. Every Proprietor shall set his name to this, or such articles as the Society\\nshall adopt, before he has any further privileges in the library, and as heretofore a\\nright in the library shall be estimated at three dollars. A Proprietor by paying\\nmore than three dollars, e.xclusive of the annual ta.x, may have his privilege in-\\ncreased in proportion to what he shall pay.\\n2. A committee of three persons shall be annually chosen by the Society, and\\nsaid committee shall lay out the Society s money for the preservation and enlarge-\\nment of the library, as they shall judge the interest of the Society requires.*\\nThe names of the early owners as far as the records show, are\\nThomas Worcester,\\nLuke Wilder,\\nEbenezer Webster,\\nJohn C. Gale,\\nTheophilus Runlet,\\nLeonard Judkins,\\nJoel Eastman,\\nStephen Sawyer,\\nAndrew Bowers,\\nJohn Webster,\\nStephen Webster,\\nRobert Smith,\\nJoseph Downs,\\nWinthrop Fifield,\\nStephen Greenleaf,\\nReuben True,\\nMoses West,\\nJonathan P. Webster,\\nWilliam C. Little,\\nCaleb Judkins,\\nTheodore Gushing,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nBenjamin Whittemore,\\nlienjamin Whittemore, jr.,\\nHenry Elkins,\\nMoses Sawyer, jr.,\\nSamuel I. Wells,\\nAmos Fifield,\\nLyman Hawley,\\nBenjamin Huntoon,\\nJohn Taylor,\\nThomas R. White,\\nThomas R. Greenleaf,\\nJohn Smith,\\nElias P. Smith,\\nSamuel Allen,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The rules were numerous, reaching the\\nthat the books shall ever become private\\nProprietors.\\nJohn Sweatt,\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\nAmos Pettengill,\\nJohn Collins,\\nPhinehas Eastman,\\nPeter Whittemore,\\nJoseph name not legible,]\\nJohn [name not legible,]\\nEdward Quimby,\\nEdward West,\\nNathaniel Greely,\\nJoseph Abbott,\\nIsaac Blaisdell,\\nBenjamin name not legible,]\\nBenjamin Pettengill, jr.,\\nWilliam Calef, 3d,\\nSamuel C. Bartlett,\\n[name not legible,] Webster,\\nParker Noyes,\\nJoseph Wardwell,\\nMoses Greeley,\\nJohn White,\\nIsrael W. Kelly,\\nJoseph Bartlett,\\n-Samuel Quimby,\\nStephen Fellows,\\nRichard [name not legible,]\\n|ohn B. Smith,\\nJohn Calef,\\nDaniel Smith,\\nEzekiel Colby,\\nWilliam Parsons,\\nMary Pettengill,\\nJohn S. Winter,\\nChristopher Page.\\nnumber of twenty; the final one forbids\\nproperty without the consent of the", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0245.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "222 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nFor many years the annual meetings were held at the resi-\\ndences of the members and the requisite officers chosen but\\nwe are not able to find a complete record. A few names are\\ngiven. Andrew Bowers served as clerk until 1803. I March,\\n1852, the society met at Smith s Temperance House, and chose\\nStephen Fellows, chairman, Gilbert Eastman and T. D. Little,\\ncommittee. At this date there were 474 volumes in the library\\nand ninety-two cents in the treasury. From this time to\\nMarch 9, 1859, when the last meeting was held, apparently not\\nmuch interest was manifested. The same board was annually\\nelected. At this time the number of books was 496. The\\ntreasurer reported cash on hand, March i, 1855, $1.55; cash\\nfor taxes, $1.25; paid for two books, $1.50; cash on hand,\\nMarch 7, 1859, $^-30.\\nSeldom did the funds of the society exceed ten dollars. As\\nfast as any money came into the treasury it was expended for\\nbooks. It was to this library that Mr. Webster referred when\\nhe said that his early reading was gathered from a small circu-\\nlating library.\\nLITERARY ADELPHI.\\nThis society was organized June 25, 181 3, when the academy\\nwas in the height of its prosperity. It was composed largely of\\nmembers of the academy, who generally conducted its literary\\nexercises. It is said to have been founded by the following\\nnamed persons\\nWilliam liaily, Joseph Walker, Trueworthy Flanders,\\nBenjamin Huntoon, Daniel Morse, Joseph Connor,\\nPeter Bartlett, Moses Pettengill, Eliphalet Webster,\\nJeremiah Elkins, Joseph Bartlett, David Clark,\\nIsaac Colby, jr., Carlton Chase, William Shed,\\nMarvin Gates, David Page, Samuel Watkins.\\nWilliam T. Haddock,\\nThe preamble is as follows\\nConvinced of the benefits of social intercourse and reciprocal friendship, anx-\\nious to derive all the advantages from society which mutual confidence, an inter-\\nchange of ideas and examination of opinions are calculated to afford, we have", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0246.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "EDUCATIONAL HISTOKV\\n223\\nthouglit proper to form ourselves into an association for the purpose of literary\\nimprovement, the cultivation of friendship and the promotion of morality and\\nvirtue.\\nThe following, among many others, were provisions of the\\nConstitution\\nThe officers shall be a President, Vice President, Secretary, Inspector of Com-\\npositions, and a Treasurer. The stated exercises shall be two orations; one to open\\nand the other to close the meeting one extemporaneou.s, and one written dispute,\\nand one dissertation. These exercises shall be assigned by the Secretary, and the\\nquestions for dispute read at the meeting preceding the performance; when in the\\nopinion of the society any cnniposftion shall be worthy of preservation, a copy shall\\nbe deposited with the society.\\nA number of these compositions were printed but, so far as\\nwe are able to learn, none are now in existence. During term\\ntime meetings were held every Wednesday evening. For non-\\nattendance the members were fined. Those only who excelled\\nas scholars and sustained a good moral character were consid-\\nered eligible as candidates for admission to the society. Two\\ndissenting votes forbade their entrance. Upon admission each\\ncandidate paid to the society a fee of seventy-five cents. Hon-\\norary membership was allowed. The constitution authorized\\npublic exhibitions for the performance of such original exercises\\nas they thought proper to give. The following names are\\nrecorded as the list of members\\n*Thomas Worcester.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Andrew 1 Sowers,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Joseph Bartlett,\\n*Moses Kastman,\\nJoseph Wardwell,\\nCharles r Haddock,\\nlienjamin Kastman,\\nJohn I Abbott,\\nStephen Coodhue, jr..\\nRichard Fletcher,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Henjamin Woodbury.\\nJames Creely,\\nAaron Foster.\\nOilman Merrill,\\nJohn Taylor,\\nA. H. Simpson,\\nJames E. Seamans,\\nSamuel Whitney,\\nBela Adams.\\nDavid C. Proctor,\\nDaniel .Stickney,\\nWillard Sayles,\\nLevi Hibard,\\nJcdediah lloyt, jr..\\nRowel Colby, jr.,\\nJohn 15all,\\nHenry Pond,\\nIsr.iei W. Kelly,\\nLevi Manuel,\\nNathan S. Colby,\\nSamuel Hill,\\n(icorge Richardson,\\nCharles Robbins,\\nThomas G. Buswell,\\nSamuel I-ailey.\\nRobert ^niith,\\nStephen Sanborn,\\n\u00c2\u00bbSamuel L Wells,\\nIsaac Jones,\\nSimeon Uuckncll,\\nEdward Rollins,\\nI homas J^rown,\\nStephen Sawyer,\\nJohn I ifield,\\nCharles French,\\nKbenezer C. Tracy,\\nAmos Webster,\\nAsa Mead,\\nLevi Hadlock, jr.,\\nJohn Little.\\nJesse Sanborn,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0247.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "224\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nNathan Crosby,\\nJames O. Adams,\\nP. Robinson,\\nWilliam Kelley,\\nWilliam C. Thompson,\\nJohn Jameson,\\nAmos Bean,\\nEdward West, jr.,\\nArthur Latham,\\nPearson Rolfe,\\nHenry Greenleaf,\\nWilliam G. Webster,\\nAaron Greene,\\nLeonarcl W. Noyes,\\nCaleb P. Bailey,\\nBenjamin Noyes,\\nCaleb Greenough,\\nWilliam P. Wells,\\nPlumber Dodge,\\nHonorary members.\\nSamuel Woodbury,\\nJoseph P. Stevens,\\nJohn Bartlett,\\nAsa Robbins,\\nBenjamin O. Adams,\\nJacob Little,\\nJoseph B. Eastman,\\nJohn R. Sandborn,\\nJoshua L. Weare, jr.,\\n*John White,\\n*John Townsend,\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nEzra Eastman,\\nWilliam Claggett,\\nJoel Eastman, jr.,\\nIMoses Calef,\\nDaniel Fitz,\\nDavid P. Smith,\\nPerley Dodge,\\nSamuel Huntington,\\nGeorge Pomroy,\\nT. J. Carter,\\nStephen G. Easton,\\nJohn Calef,\\nD. B. Pancost,\\nT. Gilman Worcester,\\nJoseph W. Daniels,\\nNoah Worcester,\\nJohn Proctor,\\nJohn Jervis,\\nAaron Kitridge,\\nAbel M. Quimby,\\nHiram Fifield,\\nAlbert Kelly,\\nEnoch Colby,\\nBenjamin C. Cressey,\\n*Thomas Greenleaf.\\nThere were without doubt other members, but they are not\\nknown. Very soon after the organization these gentlemen con-\\ntributed sums ranging from seventy-five cents to one dollar and\\na half, for the purpose of forming a library.\\nThat some of the students had a leaning towards the gentler\\nsex is shown by the fate of the following topic for discussion\\nWhich has the greatest influence upon society, women or\\nmoney. Decided for the former. The subjects for written\\ndisputes at this meeting were, Is lying ever justifiable. de-\\ncided in the negative; Have slaves been a greater detriment\\nthan benefit to the United States. decided in the affirmative.\\nThe last meeting of the society was held in the middle^of\\nJune, 1 8 19.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0248.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XV.\\nEARLY INDIAN HISTORY.\\nLo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind\\nSees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind,\\nHis soul proud Science never taught to stray\\nI ar as the solar walk or milky way.\\nVet simple nature to iiis hope has given,\\nIJehind the cloud-topp d hill, an humble heaven.\\nNo more difficult ta.sk has occupied the pen of poet or orator,\\nthe theologian or philosopher, than that of describing the charac-\\nteristics of the American Indian. How successful or how vain\\nhave been all efforts to civilize or christianize him, let other\\nhistory tell. After two and a half centuries of studied devotion\\nto his welfare, he remains an Indian. Soon we shall hear the\\nroar of the last wave that will settle over him forever.\\nTHE PRINCIPAL TRIBES.\\nAt the first settlement of New England there were five prin-\\ncipal tribes of Indians:\\nI. The Pequots of Connecticut.\\nII. The Narragansetts of Rhode Island.\\nIII. The I awkunnawkutts, in the southeastern part of Mas-\\nsachusetts.\\nIV. The Massachusetts, inhabiting the country about the\\nbay of that name.\\nV. The Pawtucketts, inhabiting the country adjacent to the\\nPawtuckett Falls. Subject to the control of this latter tribe\\nwere several smaller ones.\\nThe Penacooks occupied the country about Concord. There\\nwas another tribe in Canada known as the St. Francois, who\\nfrequented the country now New Hampshire, and occasionally\\n15", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0249.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "226 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nMassachusetts, especially the valley of the Merrimack. The\\nMerrimack river and its intervales were their highway. To this\\nlatter tribe are due most of the depredations and massacres\\nfrom which the early settlers of New Hampshire suffered.\\nIt is understood that the Penacooks were friendly to the\\nwhites till the real or fancied outrages committed upon them\\ngave them reason for retaliation. Soon after the massacre at\\nDover the Penacooks went to St. Francis, Canada, and joined\\nthose Indians, and for seventy years after their departure they\\ncontinued their raids upon the white settlers in this section,\\ntill the peace of 1755.\\nCHRISTO.\\nAmong the Penacooks were some who had been converted\\nby the Apostle Eliot, at Namaskeag, or Amoskeag Falls. One\\nof these was Christo, the English name being Christian, often\\ncalled Christi. His cabin was on th\u00c2\u00bb banks of a small stream\\nemptying into the Merrimack, just below Amoskeag Falls.\\nHere he lived by hunting and fishing, and was on the most\\nfriendly terms with the whites as late as 1744. Being suspected\\nof assisting the hostile Indians in one of their battles with the\\nsettlers, his cabin was laid in ashes. In 1746 he retired from\\nthe presence of the whites in New Hampshire, joined the St.\\nFrancois tribe and became hostile to the settlers.\\nPLAUSAWA AND SABBATIS.\\nIn 1747 Christo assisted Plausawa and Sabbatis, at Epsom,\\nin the capture of Mrs. McCoy and in the burning of her house.\\nHe probably died at St. Francis in 1757. Plausawa and Sab-\\nbatis, two of the St. Francois tribe, made frequent excursions to\\nthis section and were always in company. These two notables\\nwere in peace distrusted and in war hated; and the governors\\nof Massachusetts and New Hampshire gave them much greater\\nconsideration, in a human view, than they were worthy to re-\\nceive. We shall say enough of these men in what follows to\\nenable the reader to form a just estimate of their character.\\nThe name Sabbatis is Indian for the French Jeati-Baptiste, or", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0250.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 22/\\nthe English JoJui Baptist. Plansawa, or more correctly Plawn-\\nsaiva, is the Indian or French name Francois, the St. Francois\\ntribe using P instead of F and L instead of R, in their attempts\\nto pronounce the names given them by their Jesuit priests.\\nBOWEN AND MORRILL.\\nIn 1753 Plausawa and Sabbatis were both slain, either in the\\ntown of Salisbury or Boscawen, (Stevenstown or ContoocookJ\\nthere is no means at this late day of telling which or whether\\ntheir slayers, Peter Bowen and John (or Jacob or Henry) Mor-\\nrill, were residents of one town or the other; nor is there any-\\nthing to show whether they were slain by Bowen and Morrill\\nin self-defence, or wantonly. They were buried in the town of\\nSalisbury, under Indian Bridge, this name being given the\\nbridge because the two Indians were buried there. The ne.xt\\nspring after the burial their bodies became exposed, and they\\nwere taken up and buried somewhere else, perhaps on the other\\nside of the Merrimack river, in what is now Northfield, then\\nCanterbury but no one knows to this day the exact resting-\\nplace of these two Indian freebooters, any more than we know\\nthe exact burial place of Moses. We give hereafter all the his-\\ntory, the different published accounts that have come to hand.\\nBowen lived in what is now Franklin for several years after\\nthis, his dwelling being just a few rods south of the Burleigh\\nmansion. Its remains still exist. What became of him no\\nman can tell. It is the tradition that he feared the avenger\\nand removed to some distant section of the country, and under\\nan assumed name spent the remaining days of his life. Morrill\\nlived and died in Salisbury. He was a soldier of the Revolu-\\ntion and participated in many of its battles. The three towns\\nof Boscawen, Salisbury and Canterbury, including what is now\\nNorthfield, were the theatre of this singular tragedy.\\nThe Arosagunticook, or St. Francois Indians, pretended to\\nhave accepted Christianity from the Jesuits. They had little of\\nthe form of godliness and none of the power or spirit. Since\\n1749 this tribe had been on friendly terms with the settlers in\\nContoocook, Canterbury and Stevenstown, and they came and", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0251.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "228 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nwent at their pleasure, and were kindly and hospitably treated,\\nit being the desire of all the inhabitants to give them no cause\\nof offence. These two above named were frequent visitors.\\nThe settlers of the Connecticut valley were at this time mak-\\ning preparations to occupy the rich meadows of the great Ox-\\nBow, at Haverhill, and Newbury, Vt., ascending the Connecti-\\ncut from Charlestown, No. 4. The Indians, jealous of what\\nthey regarded as an encroachment upon their own domain,\\nthreatened retaliation. Sabbatis and Plausawa, who had been\\nabout in the region of Salisbury, receiving the friendly assuran-\\nces and hospitality of the settlers, suddenly slyed away, stealing\\ntwo negro slaves, one belonging to a Mr. Miles and the other\\nto a Mr. Lindsey, of Canterbury. One of the negroes made his\\nescape, while the other was taken to Crown Point and sold to a\\nFrench officer. The hypocrisy, treachery and dissimulation of\\nSabbatis and Plausawa irritated the settlers. After stealing\\nthe two slaves, Sabbatis and Plausawa revisited the settlements\\nto sell their furs, etc., and stayed for some time about Pena-\\ncook, Contoocook, Canterbury and Stevenstown. They had\\nthe audacity to claim hospitality from the very people in Can-\\nterbury from whom they had stolen the slaves, and in the ab-\\nsence of the master of one house had threatened his wife with\\npersonal violence. Such boldness and criminal daring moved\\nthe fierce anger of Mr. Lindsey, and Bowen and Morrill were\\nmen who very naturally sympathized with him.\\nHon. George W. Nesmith thinks that Bowen and Morrill had\\nheard of the insolence and threats of the Indians, and went\\nover to Canterbury to visit Miles and Lindsey, the owners of\\nthe stolen slaves and in order to disarm the savages made use\\nof occupe (rum), and while the Indians were dazed with drink\\nsecretly withdrew the charges from their guns and prepared to\\nmeet their insolent threats as they deserved. Bowen and Mor-\\nrill knew no fear, and it was said had as lief fight an Indian as\\nto eat when hungry. The next day, or soon after, these two\\nsavages visited Bowen and Morrill on this side of the river, and\\nafter a night s debauch, when on the way to another part of the\\nsettlement, their savage instincts overcame their cunning and", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0252.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 229\\nthey attempted to shoot Bowen with their unloaded guns. The\\ntwo settlers took summary vengeance upon them for what they\\nhad done and what they intended to do. Hearing in mind the\\ndesire of the settlers to keep peace with the savages, wh\u00c2\u00bb had\\ndashed out the brains of innocent babes who fell into their\\nhands, for some real or fancied wrong or for no wrong at all,\\nand knowing that these two savages in return for hospitality\\nhad stolen the two slaves, and that these wild men of the forest\\nhad threatened vengeance upon the unprotected wife of Mr.\\nLindsey, we think Bowen and Morrill did what we should have\\ndone under the same conditions. But to the facts:\\nCOURSE OF THE GOVERNOR.\\nSabbatis and Plausawa were killed in a time of peace between\\nFrance and England, and although one of the slaves was bought\\nby a French officer, who must have known that the Indians had\\nkidnapped him, rumors of murder went abroad, and Governor\\nShirley, of Massachusetts, was apprehensive that the Indians\\nwould take revenge upon settlers along the frontier. The act\\nof Bowen and Morrill became an inter-colonial question, and an\\nearnest and memorable correspondence between Governor Shir-\\nley and Governor Wentworth grew out of it. Legislative action\\nwas resorted to and the arrest of Bowen and Morrill caused\\ngeneral excitement throughout the community. Many i)eople\\nwill remember the arrest of fugitive slaves in Boston, during\\nthe presidencies of Fillmore and Pierce, and the excitement it\\ncaused. Governor Shirley began the correspondence. He sent\\na letter to Governor Wentworth, as follows\\n15osru.N, February 4th, 1754.\\nSir:\\nYour excellency may remember my letter to you, dated 17th of September last,\\nwherein I acquainted you with an account we had of a barbarous Afurther said to\\nbe committed within the Proriuce of JVe-w Ham/ shire, upon two Indians of a tribe\\nin amity with the English. I wa.s afraid it had then come to the Knowledge of\\nthe Indians, that complaint would have been made at the conference, but no\\nnotice was taken of it then. I have this day received a letter from C apt. I.ithgow,\\nof Fort Kichmund, [in Maine,] advising me that it is now come to their knowledge\\nii. that they are determined to rn enge the murther.\\nI shall send your excellency copy of his letter so far as relates to this affair. It", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0253.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "230 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nwill probably be attended [with disastrous] consequences to the Frontier, of one\\nor both of the Provinces, if this murther be not detected punished. I will send\\nCol. Minot who gave me the first information, desire him to obtain all further\\ninformation possible, cS: transmit it by next Post, until when your e.xcellency has\\nsome knowledge of the Persons concerned so as to be able to secure them, I doubt\\nnot you will think it prudent to keep the affair as private as may be.\\nI am with great respect, Sir your Excy s most humb l and most obedient sev t,\\nW. SHIRLEY.\\nOn the 9th of the same month Governor Shirley sent another\\nletter to Governor Wentworth, urging that justice be done to\\nthe Indians in this unhappy affair.\\nThe action of Governor Shirley was influenced by the affi-\\ndavits of Thomas Barret and Ephraim Jones, and by one Elea-\\nzer Melvin, three citizens of Massachusetts, who had been visit-\\ning in the vicinity of Stevenstown, and had interviewed Bowen\\nin regard to the fate of these two Indians.\\nAFFIDAVITS OF THOMAS BARRET AND EPHRAIM JONES.\\nThomas Barret Ephraim Jones, both of lawful age testify declare that in\\nthe month of August 1753 being in the town of Rumford in the Province of New\\nHampshire at the house of Henry Lovejov.\\nThat two Indians one named Sabbatis the other Plansawa came to said Con-\\ntoocook about the beginning of June having the value of about two hundred\\nPounds Old Tenr in Peavers other effects; that said Sabbatis being known to be\\none of the two Indians who took two Negroes at that settlement the year before\\ncarried one of them to Canada, the other making his escape, the said Bowen pro-\\ncured a gallon of Rum from Rumford he with one or two others, whose names I\\ndo not remember gave said Indians rum very freely took an opportunity to draw\\nthe charges out of the Indian s [guns] without their knowledge then went with\\nthem into the woods getting some distance apard said Bowen had an engagement\\nwith said Sabbatis who it is said flashed his gun at him the sd Bowen struck his\\nhatchet in sd Indian Head then chopped him several time in the Back afterwards\\nwith a knife stabbed him to death. The other Indian coming up to him begged him\\nthat he would not kill him but sd Bowen without speaking to him struck him on the\\nhead killed him on the spot leaving him by the Path side till next morning it is\\nsaid that Bowen with his son as it is supposed went dug a hole by the Path side\\nthrew them into it covered them with earth but so shallow that the dogs or\\nother creatures uncovered them the bones have often been seen since.\\nTHOMAS BARRET,\\nEPHRAIM JONES.\\nMiddlesex ss.\\nConcord Feb 9, 1754.\\nThen the above Thomas Barret Ephraim Jones came before me the subscrib-\\ner made oath to the truth of the foregoing declarations.\\nJAMES Ml SOT, /us/H-g of the Peace.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0254.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 23 I\\nEleazer Melvin of lawful age testifieth declares that he heard the substance\\nof the foregoing Declaration or to the same purport in Aug last from Mr. Lovejoy\\nsome others further declares that about the same time in conversation with sd\\nBowen he asked him concerning the sd Indians whether they were certainly dead\\nhe answered he would warrant it that they never would do any more mischief to\\nthe En[;lish or to that effect iS: if he killed them he did it in his own defence as he\\ncould prove.\\nELKAZEK MELVIN.\\nGovernor Shirley forwarded these affidavits to Governor\\nWentvvorth, who immediately sent up and had Bowen and\\nMorrill arrested, taken to Portsmouth and confined there in\\njail. The time assigned for their trial was Thursday, the 21st\\nof March, 1754.\\nThe acts of Bowen and Morrill were doubtless justified in the\\neyes of the settlers who stood on the frontier and defended, as\\nbest they could, their persons and their property from savage\\nviolence and destruction. Not so the two governors, who sat\\nby their firesides, feeling no alarm for their persons or property.\\nQuite a party from Contoocook, Stevenstown and Canterbury\\nwent to Portsmouth to be present at the trial. They were de-\\ntermined, like the Cornish men, to know the reason why\\ntheir neighbors, Bowen and Morrill, must die. They were not\\nat the trial however but put in an appearance before the trial.\\nDuring the night before the court met, about one hundred\\nstalwart men, armed with axes, crowbars and other instruments,\\nbroke open the jail, knocked the irons from the limbs of the\\nprisoners, set them at liberty and conducted them back to their\\nhomes. The most noted of the men who made this raid upon\\nthe Portsmouth jail was Simeon Ames, of Canterbury. There\\nwere several who were afterwards well known in Salisbury\\nJacob Hancock, whose son and grandson lived and died in\\nFranklin Edward Blanchard, the grandfather of Mrs. Stephen\\nKendrick, and Lindsey Perkins, the ancestor of some of the\\nPerkins family who have lived in that vicinity.\\nGOVERNOR WKNTWOKTH s MKSSAGE.\\nThe Governor brought this affair to the notice of the Coun-\\ncil promptly on the following morning:", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0255.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "232 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nFrom the Council Records.]\\nHis excellency acquainted the Council that the high sheriff of the Province had\\ninformed him that at two of the clock in the morning of this present day a number\\nof persons to the amount of one hundred or more made an attempt upon the\\nProvince Gaol with axes, iron crows broke open the doors of the prison res-\\ncued the prisoners indicted for the murther of two Indians said to be killed at or\\nnear Contoocook Vis John alias Anthony Bowen John Morrel aided assis-\\nted them the said Bowen Morrel to escape His Excellency then desired the\\nCouncil what steps they thot necessary or proper to be taken in the affair in order\\nto the apprehending the said Bowen or Morrel or either of them bringing the\\npersons who broke open the Gaol as aforesaid or was aiding or assisting in the said\\nbreach or rescous the Council apprehended that such a number of persons as were\\nsupposed to be the authors of the rescous must be many of them known as it is\\nsuggested that some of them are known may be brought to justice without offer-\\ning any reward liut with respect to the two Prisoners Bowen Morrel that his\\nexcellency be advised and desired to issue a Proclamation offering a reward of two\\nhundred pounds (Jld Tenr to any person or persons that shall apprehend the sd\\nBowen the like sum of ;^200 in Old Tenr to any person or persons that shall\\napprehend the sd. Morrel bring them or either of them to his Majesty s Gaol in\\nPortsmo all necessary charges in bringing the said prisoners or either of them to\\nthe said Gaol.\\nWHAT THE OTHER SIDE HAD TO SAY.\\nThe citizens of Contoocook, Stevenstown and Canterbury\\nhad a little something to say on the subject, as well as the two\\ngovernors, and Col. Joseph Blanchard, a Justice of the Peace in\\nBedford, took the testimony of the parties who knew the facts\\nwhich led to the killing of the two Indians.\\nTESTIMONY OF ELIZABETH MILES AND MRS. LINDSEY.\\nElizabeth Miles Wife of Josiah Miles of Canterbury in the Province of New\\nHampshire Testifies Says That some time in the month of May 1752 two St Fran-\\ncis Indians (as they called themselves) named Sabbattis Christo came to Canter-\\nbury Sabbattis made his General Lodging at the said Josiah s House for Eight or\\nTen Days was Treated with all Possible Friendship and Courtesy, Notwithstand-\\ning the said Sabbattis often Discovered a Restless Malicious Disposition\\nSeveral Times Her husband being absent with Insulting threats put her in very\\ngreat fear. Constantly kept a long knife Naked in his hand and on seeing any man\\ncome towards the House (of which he kept a constant watch) arm d himself\\nThat the evening after he went away a Negro man of the said Josiah s was taken", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0256.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 233\\n(named Peer) and another belonging to James Lindsey of Canterbury aforesaid\\nNamed Tom and carried away said Peer of the value of five hundred pounds Old\\nTenor at the least.\\nThat the said I eer about three days after return d pinion d \u00c2\u00abS: Pound with Indian\\nLines and said that Sabbattis and Christo had taken them and that by accident he\\nmade his Escape.\\nThat some time in the month of May 1753 she was going to the field and an\\nIndian (named Plansaway) spoke to her behind a Fence asked for her husband\\nwho was there at work close by, her husband enquired what company he had and\\nhe said Sabbattis, he enquired what he came for or how he dare come (meaning\\nSabbattis) he evaded an answer, her husband Desired him to go into the house\\n(being vehemeatly suspicious they were designed for Further Mischief where he\\nkept him that night and urged the appearance of Sabbattis. Plansaway said he\\nwas afraid that he or Lindsey would kill him for stealing their negroes the year\\nBefore.\\nThat after assurance that if he made his appearance he should not be hurt.\\nNext day searching in the woods found him and after a parley he came in\\nThe wife of James Lindsey a near neighbor, hearing the Indians was there came\\nto the house (the Englishmen were all gone out to work) and finding Sabbattis\\nthere said Lindsey s wife urged his ingratitude that after he had received so much\\nkindness at their house to commit such a Villanous Act as to Rob her of her slave\\nwith some Few more words to the same Purpose Both the Indians immediately\\narmed themselves with their guns Sabbattis with a long knife and Plansaway with\\na Hatchet and with a furious Gesture Insulted her holding the Hatchet over her\\nhead making attempts as if he would strike and told her if she said one word more\\nabout it he would split her brains out if he died for it the ne.xt minute Sabbattis\\nwent out to her husband in the field and told him that if he ever see the .said Lind-\\nseys wife any more he would kill her be the event what it would (as her husband\\nthen told her) that the said Sabbattis insisted that the said negro was Lawful Plun-\\nder the Deponent sold the said Indians two shirts happened to see them when\\nthey shirted and there was next [their] skin Tyed a Number of small Metump Lines\\nnot such as are usually made for Tying Packs a collar of a Length about suf-\\nficient to go around a Mans Neck and as she then apprehended was what is called\\nCaptive Lines\\nThat the Deponent and her husband frequently seeing them uncommon Lines\\nAsked what Business .Sabbattis and he could have there as they had not brought\\ntheir packs for trade at length I lansaway said he had a kinsman (named .Sabbat-\\ntis who had at Cape Sable killed an Indian and that they agreed for his Redemp-\\ntion (being held by them to pay five hundred pounds to get an English Slave.\\nThat Sabbattis being his Namesake offered to assist him in the Redemption and\\nsaid the Hunting was best this way.\\nThat the Indian must be released by the money or other ways (by Summer) or\\nhe must be put to Death.\\nCanterbury May 21st 1754\\nBefore JOSEPH PI.ANCHARD\\nJus of Peace.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0257.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "234 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nIn March, after receiving Governor Shirley s letter of Febru-\\nary 4th, Governor Wentworth sent a special message to the\\nHouse of Representatives, as follows\\nMr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Assemlily\\nThe breaking down of the doors of the Provincial Gaol setting at liberty two\\nCriminals Indicted for murther, in the most insulting and insolent manner, is so\\nwell known and particular circumstances attending the tumultuous outrage of the\\npeople that committed the fact, are so clearly evident to the respective members of\\nthe Legislature that I need not take up any part of your time to inform you of the\\nincidents attending it. But Gentlemen, To show your abhorence and detestation\\nof a crime so apparently destructive of government in general is injurious to socie-\\nty, so dangerous to our Constitution, so heniously aggravated, even committed\\ncontemptuously during the Session of his Majesty s Supreme Court of Judicature,\\nmerits your immediate attention, I do in the most pressing terms recommend the\\nconsideration of this insult on the authority of Government, which threatens noth-\\ning less than total subversion of that Government his Majesty has been graciously\\npleased to Establish, as not worthy of your first care, and to which all other public\\nconcerns must, and ought to give place. Therefore that the honor, welfare, safety\\npeace of the Government may be preserved, as well as the guilt of blood re-\\nmoved from the Government, your assistance is required that the perpetrators, favor-\\ners, advisers or those that have been in any ways aiding or assisting in committing\\nthis hard crime may be brought to condeyn punishment Such a Law Enacted as\\nmay prevent calamitys of the like nature for the future, otherwise I shall not think\\nmy presence safe in attending to the Kings business, an end must be put to the\\nadministration of Government, until a representation can be laid before his Majesty\\nfor his further direction commands herein.\\nB. WENTWORTH.\\nCouncil Chamber in Portsmo, March 26, 1754.\\nAfter the reception of this high-sounding message of the\\nGovernor, on the next day after the adjournment, in the fore-\\nnoon, the Council and House met in the House of Representa-\\ntives and had a conference relating to the breaking open the\\nprison at Portsmouth. The Journal of the Council and Assem-\\nbly, of March 27, 1754, has the following:\\nThe council took under consideration the subject matter of his Excellency s\\nmessage to the House of yesterday the same having been communicated to the\\nBoard by the House, and are of the opinion, that tis necessary to make the utmost\\nscrutiny into that affair, and therefore Ordered that the Secretary forthwith Issue\\nSumons directed to the High Sherif or his Deputy to summon the Several Inhold-\\ners on the road between Chester Portsmo where a number of persons who hav-\\ning assembled in a tumultous manner, had the day preceeding the riotous Breaking\\nof the Province Gaol stoped, and to any other I erson or Persons that they be", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0258.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 235\\nthought capable of giving any acct of the Persons connected in the before mention-\\ned riot.\\nLETTER FROM GOV. SHIRLEY.\\nOn the first day of April following, Governor Shirley sent\\nthe following letter to Governor Wentworth\\nBoston, April i, 1754.\\nSir:\\nI am favor d with two of your Excellency s Letters by the Post before this and\\nconsidering that part of your Excellency s Letter of the 22d of last month which\\nrelates to the riotous violent Breaking open your Prison carrying off the\\nPrisoners indicted for the murther of the two St Francois Indians. I would sub-\\nmit it to your Excellency s consideration whether it would not be of service for\\nyour (Government to grant a Present to some of the nearest Relatives of the de-\\nceased Indians for willing off the Blood as they term it; Which may possibly have\\na good effect, and in some measure soften the Resentments the whole tribe have of\\nthis great injury for the like method used by this Government after the murther\\nof the Indians at Wiscassett had sucess for preventing a war at that time; and\\nfurther I apprehend it may be of some advantage for alleviating the wrong done\\nthe Indians, to set before them the Provocation given their men by the Indians\\ncarrying off the two Negroes belonging to them selling one of them at Crown\\nPoint at a time when they were rescued kindly by the English thus themselves\\nmade a show of Friendship; Tho this can by no means justify the barbarous act\\nof the murther; It might likewise be proper to put the Indians in mind of the\\nmurther committed by them upon the English men near Merrimack River all which\\ntaken together is in full Reprisal of the wrong done them by the English, notwith-\\nstanding which. That it is your Excellency s full purpose upon the recovery jf the\\nPrisoners (for which you are using all proper means) that they shall be brought to\\na legal trial for the murther they stand charged with in the Indictment of your\\nGrand Jury.\\nI have more to say to your Excy but am obliged thro a great hurry of business\\nto postpone it until the next Post when I shall have the honor of writing you\\nI am with much regard Sir N our Excy s most humbl and most ob serv t,\\nW. SHIRLEY.\\nHis Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq.\\nPUBLIC SENTIMENT.\\nAfter all this manifestation of indignation by the two gov-\\nernors, Bowen and Morrill remained at their homes in undis-\\nturbed quiet, and public sentiment in Contoocook, Stevenstown\\nand Canterbury sided with them. The people manifested their\\nthankfulness that these two Indian thieves, who had wantonly\\nkilled and scalped many captives, were beyond the possibility", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0259.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "236 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nof doing the settlers further wrong. Governor Wentworth was\\ndetermined to uphold the authority of the crown and the dig-\\nnity of the law, and the sheriff and his assistants came to Can-\\nterbury and arrested Simeon Ames, who was doubtless the\\nringleader of those who liberated the prisoners.\\nGentlemen, said Ames, when called upon by the sheriff\\nand his posse, I will go with you, but you will stop and take\\ndinner with me before we start.\\nYes, said the sheriff, we shall be delighted to accept\\nyour hospitality.\\nWhen about to start the prisoner said, You will allow me\\nto ride my own horse to Exeter.\\nThe sheriff had no objection, as he and his assistants were\\nmounted, and they started off, quite a pleasant party for an\\nafternoon ride to Exeter. About sunset they had reached\\nBrentwood, the town adjoining Exeter. Ames was a very\\nentertaining man, and the officers as they rode along on\\neither side of their prisoner enjoyed his society and conver-\\nsation. As they were ascending a hill the officers horses ap-\\npeared jaded, while that of Ames was comparatively fresh and\\nvery fleet.\\nI declare, said he, it is most sunset. Good evening, gen-\\ntlemen, I don t think I will go with you any farther to-night.\\nIn an instant he was gone. At a movement of the rein the\\nhorse wheeled, and the rider bowed politely to his companions\\nand disappeared. The officers sat upon their horses in blank\\nastonishment and gazed at their prisoner as he went flying\\naway from them, with his head half turned back, bowing his\\ncompliments and bidding them a graceful goodbye. They saw\\nit was no use to attempt to pursue a man who was going away\\nfrom them like the wind besides, public sentiment was with\\nAmes, and he was never again molested. Governor Wentworth\\ntook up with the advice of Governor Shirley and made some\\npresents to the relatives of the Indians, and no further attempts\\nwere made to punish the offenders. The Indians were appeased\\nand the matter dropped.\\nThe Hon. Chandler E. Potter, in the Farmers Monthly Vis-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0260.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 23/\\nitor, September, 1853, g wes an extended relation of Christo,\\nSabbatis and Plausawa, three Indians, of whom the two latter\\nwere slain. Mr. Potter says Both the murder and the res-\\ncue, however, were generally justified in the community. And\\nalthough rewards were offered by Governor W entworth for the\\napprehension of Bowen and Morrill, yet in a short time they\\nwere openly about their business, without fear of molestation,\\nand the men engaged in breaking the jail at Portsmouth,\\nthough well known, were never called to account, but on the\\ncontrary were considered as having performed a most merito-\\nrious act. In fact, some of the most substantial men in the\\ncountry were engaged in the rescue by assistance or advice\\nand the government could not have made an arrest had they\\nmade the attempt. Presents were afterwards made to the rela-\\ntives of the Indians, by the government of New Hampshire,\\nand thus the blood was wiped away to the satisfaction of the\\nFndians.\\nINDI.AN BRIDGE.\\nThe following account is found in i^ armer Moore s Histor-\\nical Collections, published in 1824:\\nIn the fall of the year 1753, Sabatis and Plasawa, two In-\\ndians, were at a place where Deacon Sawyer now lives, in Can-\\nterbury. There Joshua Noyes and Thomas Thorla, from New-\\nbury, who were looking after cattle which had been turned into\\nthe woods the spring before, met them. Plasawa had been\\nseveral times at Newbury and knew Noyes and Thorla, and they\\nknew him. The Indians appeared not much pleased at seeing\\nthem, and began to put their baggage into their canoe, and to\\nprepare to go away. Sabatis appeared sullen and disposed to\\ndo mischief, but was kept from it by Plausawa. Noyes and\\nThorla proposed to buy their furs. At first they refused to\\nsell, saying they would not trade with the English, but would\\ngo to Canada. Afterwards they offered to sell furs for rum.\\nThese men had bought rum on purpose to trade with the In-\\ndians, but seeing their temper, especially that of Sabatis, they\\nrefused to let them have any and concluded to go away and", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0261.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "238 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nleave them. As they were departing, Plasawa in a friendly\\nmanner advised them to go home, and to avoid meeting with\\nIndians lest they should be hurt. When they had gone a little\\ndistance from the Indians, Sabatis called them and said, No\\nmore you English come here me heart bad me kill you.\\nThorla replied, No kill English and Indians now all broth-\\ners. They soon met Peter Bowen going towards the Indians,\\ntold him in what temper the Indians were and advised him not\\nto go to them, and by no means let them have a drop of rum.\\nHe replied that he was not afraid of them, that he was ac-\\nquainted with Indians and knew how to deal with them. The\\nIndians had got into their canoe and were going up the river.\\nBowen called to them and asked them to go to his house and\\nstay that night and he would give them some rum. It was then\\nnear night. They went with Bowen to his house, which was in\\nContoocook, at some distance below where they then were.\\nHe treated them freely with rum, which made them at first\\nwell pleased, but as they became more intoxicated they began\\nto be troublesome. Bowen, who had every quality of an Indian,\\nhad lived much with them and knew perfectly well how they\\nwould conduct, fearing they might do mischief, took the pre-\\ncaution to make his wife engage their attention while he drew\\nthe charges from their guns, which were left behind the door\\nin the entry. After this was done the night was spent in a\\ndrunken frolic, for which Bowen had as good a relish as his\\nguests. The next morning they asked Bowen to go with his\\nhorse and carry their baggage to the place where their canoe\\nwas left the night before. He went and carried their packs on\\nhis horse. As they went, Sabatis proposed to run a race with\\nthe horse. Bowen, suspecting mischief was intended, declined\\nthe race, but finally consented to run. He however took care\\nto let the Indian out-run the horse. Sabatis laughed heartily\\nat Bowen because his horse could run no faster. They then\\nproceeded apparently in good humor. After awhile Sabatis\\nsaid to Bowen, Bowen walk woods, meaning, Go with me\\nas a prisoner. Bowen said, No walk woods all we broth-\\ners. They went on together until they came near the canoe,.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0262.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 239\\nwhen Sabatis proposed a second race, that the horse should be\\nunloaded of the baggage and should start a little before him.\\nBowen refused to start so but consented to start together.\\nThey ran, and as soon as the horse had got a little before the\\nIndian Bowen heard a gun snap. Looking round he saw the\\nsmoke of powder and the gun aimed at him he turned and\\nstruck his tomahawk in the Indian s head. He went back to\\nmeet Plausawa, who, seeing the fate of Sabatis, took aim with\\nhis gun at Bowen; the gun flashed; Plasawa fell on his knees\\nand begged for his life. He pleaded his innocence and former\\nfriendship for the English but all in vain. Bowen knew there\\nwould be no safety for him while the companion and friend of\\nSabatis was living. To secure himself he buried the same tom-\\nahawk in the skull of Plausawa. This was done in the road on\\nthe bank of Merrimack river, near the line of Contoocook, now\\nBoscawen. Bowen hid the dead bodies under a small bridge,\\nin Salisbury. The ne.xt spring the bodies were discovered and\\nburied. That bridge has ever since, to this day, been called\\nIndian Bridge. N.\\nNov. 28, 1823.\\nThe above article is supposed to have been contributed for\\nthe Historical Collections by Parker Noyes.\\nThere is a story in Peter Harvey s Reminiscences of Daniel\\nWebster which is more curious than authentic. It evidently\\nrefers to this matter of the death of Sabatis and Plausawa, and\\nthe indictment, imprisonment and escape from jail of Bowen\\nand Morrill. It is only referred to here to show how well a\\nman can state facts who knows hardly anything about them.\\nCAPTURE OF THE MELOON FAMILY.\\nFor several years previous to 1754 (from 1744) some depre-\\ndations had been committed upon the lives and property of the\\ninhabitants of Canterbury, Contoocook, Penacook und Hopkin-\\nton, by the Indians. It is an important fact that James John-\\nson, a prisoner in Canada from Charlestown, No. 4, early in\\n1754 heard some of the Indians of the St. Francis tribe say", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0263.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "240 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nthat they had sent eight of their men to Merrimack river, to\\ntake revenge for killing two of their number, known as Sab-\\nbatis and Plausawa. Accordingly, on the nth of May of this\\nyear these Indians arrived in this vicinity and first made their\\nattack on Nathaniel Meloon and family, who had recently re-\\nmoved from Contoocook to West Stevenstown. Meloon was\\ntaken prisoner in Contoocook, near Wm. Emery s house, (now\\nWebster) while on the way back from his residence to the fort\\nin Contoocook, on business. They knew him and knew where\\nhe lived, and directed him to his dwelling, to which they\\nrepaired and took as prisoners his wife, his children, Mary and\\nRachel, John and David, also Sarah, then an infant thirteen\\nmonths old. The eldest son, Nathaniel, Jr., was at work in\\nthe field at a short distance from the house, planting corn and\\nin plain sight. The father was ordered to call him, which he\\ndid; but the son saw the Indians, and understood his father s\\nwish for him to escape by the significance of his voice. He\\ndropped his hoe, fled to the woods, swam the Blackwater, eluded\\nthe pursuit of the Indians, and reached the fort in safety.\\nThe Indians plundered the house, and then returned with\\ntheir captives to Canada. The infant (Sarah) was soon after-\\nwards taken sick, and the Indians took the child from the\\nmother, and probably destroyed it. The prisoners were sold in\\nCanada, Meloon and his wife to a French Priest near Quebec.\\nThe children were scattered. Another child, whose name was\\nJoseph, was born Nov. 1755. In 1757, Meloon, his wife and\\nthree sons were shipped in a French vessel destined to France.\\nThe ship was captured by a British man of war off Halifax, and\\nMeloon and family were landed at Portland, and from that place\\nthey found means of returning to their former residence.\\nRachel remained in Canada until 1763. She was about nine\\nyears old when taken prisoner, and when Samuel Fowler of\\nBoscawen found her in 1763, she was so much attached to the\\nIndian mode of living that she had little inclination to return\\nto civilized life. She, however, was induced to return, and\\nafterwards married Reuben Greeley, whose son was Nathaniel\\nGreeley, a respected citizen of Salisbury. Reuben was a veteran\\nsoldier, who died at Valley Forge in 1778,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0264.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 24I\\nWhen rescued Rachel was about to be married to Peter\\nLouis, an Indian. She was at one time taken by the Indians\\nto the Mississippi, but they were not permitted by the resident\\nIndians, the Flat Heads, to remain, so she returned to Canada\\nwith her captors. Rachel always retained a partiality for the\\nmanners and habits of Indian life. She learned the Indian\\nlanguage and was accustomed to sing her Indian songs. The\\nfollowing is a specimen\\nShe dokina wen to niarkit,\\nAsoo, sa, sika me a saw,\\nSo waka catawunka naw,\\nChicka way sa catawunka naw.\\nThe girk tha went su su tunga tuck,\\nRun au by 00 a soo sa soas,\\nRun au by 00 a soo sa soas,\\nJo etuh butka\\nEFFORTS TO REDEEM THE CAPTIVES.\\nIn the House, December 19, 1754, it was voted one hun-\\ndred and fifty pounds sterling money of Great Britain towards\\nthe redemption of seventeen persons taken captive by the\\nSt. Francis Indians and now in the hands of the French and\\nIndians, amongst whom were Nathaniel Meloon and family,\\nSamuel Scribner, Robert Barber, and Enos Bishop.\\nVoted, That there be a tax laid on the Polls and Estates for\\n450 pounds new tenor bills of credit to be added to the above\\nsum for redemption of the above captives.\\nThe Journal of the House, March 26, 1762, shows that\\nNathaniel Meloon and his family were allowed for himself and\\nfamily captured and carried to Canada in 1754, ten pounds\\nsterling.\\nThe boy, David, was redeemed in July, 1761, as appears by a\\npetition of the father, presented to the Governor and Council\\nand the Assembly.\\nThe petition bears the date of March 12th, 1762, and is as\\nfollows\\n16", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0265.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "242 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nNew Hampshire:\\nTo his Excellency, Bcnning Wentworlh, St c.\\nThe humble petition of Nathaniel Meloon of Stevens Town, so called, in said\\nProvince, Sheweth, that your petitioner about seven years ago was with his wife\\nand three children captivated by the Indian enemy and carry d to Canada, where\\nyour petitioner and his wife remained captive about four years and seven months.\\nThat one of said children dyed in Canada, one remained captive with the In-\\ndians and the French until July last, and the other is still a captive with some of\\nthe Indians.\\nThat your petitioner has been put to great costs and trouble to redeem one of\\nhis said children, and expects to be at much more cost and trouble if he shall be\\nenabled) to redeem his other child now with the Indians. That your petitioner\\nand his family have become very poor and indigent by means of their said captivity\\nbeside the miserys and punishments they underwent during the same so that your\\npetitioner cannot adventure upon the redemption of his child now remaining with\\nthe Indians, unless aided and assisted by the honble Court, to whose favor and\\nclemency he commits himself.\\nHumbly hoping that your Excellency and Hons will take this poor and distress-\\ned case under your wise consideration and grant him such relief and assistance in\\nthe premises as to your Excellency and Hons in your wonted clemency and benevo-\\nlence shall deem mete.\\nAnd your petitioner, as in duty bound, shall ever pray c.\\nNATHANIEL MELOON.\\nThe following affidavits have been preserved, and are here\\ninserted as supplying additional interesting details concerning\\nthese events\\nTESTIMONY OF WILLIAM EMERY.\\nWilliam Emery of Contoocook in the Province of New Hampshire of Lawful\\nage Testifies Says That on the Tenth Day of May 1754 his wife being 111\\nPeople afraid to tarry take care of her there, being an outhouse, moved her into\\nTown with the rest of the family about five miles the next morning he Returned\\nto his House and found it Plundered what of his goods was not carried off was\\nspoilt of the value to his damage Two Hundred Pounds Old Tenor at the least\\nthe same time found Nath l Maloon s Horse tyed at his said House which Maloon\\nhis wife Rachel .Sarah Son Samuel were captivated Carried away by the\\nIndians of Clothing Bedding Provisions of the value of Two hundred Thirty\\nPounds Old Tenor at the least.\\nProvince of New\\nHampshire,\\nContoocook\\nMay 2 2d 1754 the above Named William Emery made oath to the truth of the\\naforesaid written Deposition before\\nJOSEPH BLANCHARD\\nJust of Peace.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0266.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 243\\nTESTIMONY OF JOHN FLANDERS.\\nJohn Flanders of Contoocook in the I rovince of New Hampshire of Lawful\\nage Testifies says\\nThat in May 1753 an Indian named Planseway came to Contoocook aforesaid\\nexulting telling of his Frequent coming to that place in the war how many he\\nkilled taken [from] Merrymack in the war The Deponent told him that in the\\nF all he intended to Catch some Heaver to make him a hat asked I laiiseway if he\\nwould hurt him if he see him, who answered yes if he found him hunting he would\\nkill him earnestly repeated it several times\\nAnd the Deponent further says That on the nth day of May 1754 in the Fore-\\nnoon at Contoocook aforesaid William Emery came to the Body of the Town in-\\nformed that somebody had that morning broke open his house taken many things\\nspoiled others, a house his family had moved from the night I efore all his clothing\\n(his beds empty d ticks cut to pieces) supposed it to be Indians the Deponent\\nothers Immediately went, found the house strip d Plunder d to the said Emery s\\nDamage at least Two hundred Pounds old Tenor.\\nThat they proceeded to the house of Nathaniel Maloon in Stevenstown so called\\nwhich was six miles Farther met with said Maloon s Eldest son who gave account\\nof the Indians that day captivating his Father Mother three children who re-\\nturned with the scout to his Father s house where they found it plundered strip d\\nby the best accts the Deponent could get of things missing broke iv: Cutt to\\npieces were of the value to Maloon s damage at least two hundred thirty pounds\\nold Tenor.\\nProvince of Contoocook May 22d\\nNew Hampshire I754\\nThe aboved named John Flanders made Oath to the truth of the aforewritten\\nDeposition.\\nBefore JOSEPH BLANCHARD\\njust Peace.\\nTESTIMONY OF NATHANIEL MELOON.\\nNathaniel Maloon the son of Nathaniel Maloon of Stevenstown in New Hamp-\\nshire aged about 14 years Testifies says\\nThat at Stevenstown aforesaid on the nth day of May 1754 in the morning be-\\nfore sunrise his Father set out Designing to go to Penacook a place about twenty\\nmiles distant whose road went by the house of Mr William Emery of Contoocook.\\nThat the same morning about nine of the clock the Deponent was at work in his\\nFathers field soon a number of Indians he thought ten or a dozen running to the\\nhouse two took after the Deponent, but a thicket near was quick out of sight\\nmade his escape hid not far off. Some time afterwards he heard his Father call\\nhim sundry times\\nThat after he supposed the Indians Drawn off made his escape to Contoocook.\\nProvince of At Contoocook\\nNew Hampshire the 22d of May 1754.\\nThe above named c\\nBefore JOSEPH BLANCHARD\\nJus Peace.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0267.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "244 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nTHE PEOPLE BECOME ALARMED.\\nIt appears from an old account book, which once belonged to\\nCaptain John Webster, a leading citizen, first of Contoocook\\nand afterwards of Stevenstown, who owned a sawmill in Con-\\ntoocook, was interested in the lumbering business and in farm-\\ning, and who then kept a small retail store, that the neighbor-\\ning inhabitants of Stevenstown were so far forewarned as to\\nprovide themselves with ammunition against the impending\\ndangers. The records of Stevenstown indicate that there were\\nno more than eight families then settled in that town. We find\\nin Capt. Webster s book, under the date of July 15, 1754, the\\nfollowing charges or entries\\nStephen Call, Dr. To one Pound of Powder, i Pound lo Shillings.\\nRob t Barber, Dr. do do do do\\nSam l Scribner, Dr. do do do do\\nEphraim Collings, Dr. do do do do\\nAlso, July 19. 1754, there was delivered to Ephraim Collings\\n60 Bullets and two pounds of Powder, to be kept in store.\\nThe price is not stated.\\nJohn Bowen, who afterwards became a citizen in Salisbury,\\nwas charged with breaking and destroying two of my mill-\\nsaws. His trespass was waived. From the above charges it\\nappears that the price of powder was high, or the standard of\\nthe State currency was quite low.\\nATTACK ON PHILIP CALL s HOUSE.\\nOn the 1 6th of August of this year, as Philip Call, his son\\nStephen, and Timothy Cook were at work on their farm, the\\nsavages suddenly appeared at the door of the dwelling-house,\\nand as Mrs. Philip Call opened it she was at once struck down,\\nkilled and scalped.\\nPhilip Call was an experienced and well-trained warrior. His\\nfirst service appears to have been performed in 1744, under\\nCapt. Jeremiah Clough, of Canterbury, being engaged about\\nthree months in scouting and in defending the garrison in that\\ntown. Also a similar service of two months, in the winter of", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0268.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 245\\n1745 also in June, 1746; again, from July to December in the\\nsame year, under Capt. Daniel Ladd and Capt. Jere. Clough.\\nHis son, Stephen Call, was engaged with him in the latter ser-\\nvice. Philip was also engaged in garrison duty in Canterbury\\nand in defending the people of that town against the Indians,\\nfrom the 5th of January, 1747, to the 12th of November follow-\\ning, inclusive.\\nIt is a tradition and perhaps an established fact, that when\\nthe house was attacked, Stephen Call s wife, being within, con-\\ncealed herself and her infant child (John) behind the chimney,\\nand was not discovered by the Indians. Both Philip and his\\nson Stephen escaped into the adjoining forest. Timothy Cook\\nwas pursued and in endeavoring to cross Merrimack River was\\nfired upon and killed.\\nHe was the son of Thomas Cook, who had been slain at Clay\\nHill in Contoocook, on the 4th day of May, 1746, by the Indians.\\nThe attack on the Call family was made by a party of thirty\\nor more Indians, under command of Capt. Sasup. Two men\\nset out from the fort at Contoocook, at the time of the attack\\nupon Philip Call they were Ephraim Foster and Andrew\\nMooar. After their return to the fort they were sent to warn\\nsettlers further south, and it appears that Andrew McClary, of\\nEpsom, hastened to Portsmouth, to give the Governor and\\nCouncil information of the attack. On the i8th McClary ap-\\npeared before the Governor and Council and made the following\\nstatement\\nPortsmouth, Aug. 1754.\\nThe said .Vndrew M cCIary being examined declared that Ephm Foster and\\nStephen Mooar acquainted the declarant that they were at Stevenstown the day the\\nmischief was done by the Indians and found the body of Mrs. Call lying dead near\\nthe door of the house, scalped and her head almost cut off upon further search\\nfound the body of a man by the name of Cook dead and scalped. That the In-\\ndians were supposed to be about thirty in number according to the account of\\neight men; that upon hearing the news went immediately from Contoocook to\\nStevenstown in that way the enemy who soon followed them and they endeavored\\nto escape. One of the company, one Uishop, Stood Some time and fired at the\\nIndians, but was soon obliged to run. liishop was supposed to be killed and\\nSunk in the river he being still missing that there were two men belonging to the\\nplantation at a distance haying in a meadow that as yet were not come in Scrib-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0269.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "246 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nner Barber) and it is feared that they had fallen into the hands of the enemy\\nthat is the declarant had understood all the inhabitants, consisting of about eight\\nfamilies were come down into the lower town (Contoocook) and had left their im-\\nprovements, corn hay cattle.\\nFrom the Council Records.]\\nAt at council holden in Portsmouth on Wednesday May 15th 1754.\\nPresent\\nHis excellency the Governor\\nHenry Sherburne\\nTheodore Atkinson I Esqrs.\\nRich d Wibbird\\nJno Downing J\\nSampson Sheaffe\\nDaniel Warner Esqrs.\\nJoseph Newmarch\\nMr. Stephen Gerrish appearing at this I-oard presented a petition of Phineas\\nStevens eight others inhabitants at Contoocook setting forth that the Indians had\\nbegun hostilities in that part had captivated a family rifled the house of another\\nc Emery and Maloon being examined what he knew of the affair says on Sat\\nthe nth Inst he saw a lad son of Nathaniel Malloon who lived at a place called\\nStevenstown about five miles from Contoocook who informed him that his father\\nfamily were taken as he supposed by the Indians he having seen a number of\\nIndians near his fathers house which occasioned him the sd lad to run into the\\nwoods by which he escaped upon which report the said Gerrish sundry others\\nwent immediately to the house where they had found the feather beds emptied\\nupon the floor the tickins carry d off Most of the meal that was in the house\\nwas carry d.\\nThey tracked the Indians some way from the house that the family consisting\\nof the man his wife and three children were all gone off and by the said signs he\\nimagined were all carried into captivity. The petitioners therefore prayed some\\nspeedy succours to guard defend them to prevent if possible future depredations\\nupon which petition information his excellency asked the council what they\\nwould advise in the Premises. The council considering thereof did advise His Ex-\\ncellency to give the necessary orders for enlisting or impressing twenty effective\\nmen to be immediately sent to Contoocook, Canterbury Stevenstown to be\\ndestined as his excellency shall think most advantageous for guarding the inhabi-\\ntants in those parts one month.\\nSAMUEL SCRIBNER AND ROBERT BARBER.\\nThese two hardy men had located within half a mile of our\\nnorthern boundary line, near Emerystown, (Andover,) and at\\nthat time were our most remote settlers. They had already\\ngot out the timber to build a house, and at the time of their\\ncapture were mowing in the meadow now owned by Elbridge", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0270.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 247\\nShaw. Scribner s back was to the Indians. Barber saw them\\ncoming andjshouted out to Scribner, who was but a few rods\\nfrom him, Run, Scribner, run, for God s sake, run the Indians\\nare upon us! Whether he did not hear him or misinterpreted\\nthe words is not known, but he kept on whetting his scythe\\nuntil grasped from behind by an Indian, l^arber ran, but went\\ndirectly into an ambush of the savages. An Indian, holding\\nup a scalp before Barber, asked him in broken Englisl) if he\\nknew it. He said, Yes, Mrs. Call s. The Indians took along\\ntheir prisoners. Barber, Scribner and Bishop, and it being near\\nnight they camped on the southern shore of what is now called\\nWebster Lake. In the early morning they started for St.\\nFrancis, Canada, which place they reached after a journey of\\nthirteen days. For the last nine days they subsisted on berries,\\nroots, etc., which they found in the wilderness. On arriving at\\ntheir destination they were kindly treated, although obliged to\\nwork very hard. Scribner was sold to a Frenchman, at Cham-\\nblee. Barber was sold to a Frenchman, about a mile from St.\\nFrancis, for 500 livres, a livre being ten pence sterling or i8/4\\ncents, called in these times a twenty cent piece. September\\n26, 1755, Barber made his escape, with two others. After Bar-\\nber s capture his wife returned to the fort at Contoocook. They\\nhad no children, and after a time, thinking her husband dead,\\nshe married again. After his escape and return, finding how\\nmatters stood, the widowed Barber accepted the situation, also\\nmarried again, and settled on the farm now owned by George\\nWells, where he resided for a long time. His daughter, Esther\\nBarber, was the mother of Abel Morrill, 3d, and was the first\\nwhite woman born in Salisbury.\\nSoon after Scribner and Barber were captured, friends piled\\nup the lumber they had got out for a house, and after Scribner s\\nreturn to Salisbury, he built the large two-story house known\\nas the Scribner house, at the North Road.\\nInformation having been conveyed to Contoocook of the dis-\\nasters of Stevenstown, on the i6th, the ne.xt day, a number of\\nthe people from Contoocook, supposed to be thirteen in number\\nor more, visited the residence of Philip Call and found the bodies", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0271.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "248 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nof Mrs. Call and Timo. Cook, and upon their return met the\\nIndians, some thirty in number. Not deeming it prudent to\\nhazard an engagement with a force so much superior, they dis-\\npersed in different directions none firing a gun except Enos\\nBishop, who after making some resistance was forced to sur-\\nrender at discretion. Bishop, Barber and Scribner were all, as\\nprisoners, conveyed to Canada and sold at Chamblee and St.\\nFrancis. Bishop found means to escape and return home\\nwithin a year from his captivity. Scribner was subsequently\\nransomed by the State Government within less than two years.\\nIn the meantime the Proprietors of Stevenstown paid for five\\nmen to render assistance to the suffering settlers of their town,\\nand the State authorities ordered Col. Jos. Blanchard, with a\\nbody of men under his command, and Capt. John Webster with\\nanother company to reconnoitre our frontiers and assist the\\nfugitive inhabitants of Stevenstown, who had retired to the fort\\nat Contoocook, in gathering their crops and in collecting and\\nsecuring their cattle and other property. They discovered no\\nIndians and were soon discharged.\\nBut little progress was made in the settlement of this town\\nuntil after 1760, when Canada had been subdued.\\nEarly in the winter of 1755, Gov. Went worth ordered Col.\\nJoseph Blanchard of Dunstable to raise a regiment of six hun-\\ndred men, and to rendevous at the fort in Stevenstown in the\\nspring. This fort had doubtless been built on what is well\\nknown as the Webster Farm, as a defense against the Indians,\\nand was afterwards known as the Salisbwy fort. We cannot\\nstate the precise date when this fort was erected from any\\nexisting recorded evidence. It was probably built some time\\nbetween 1746 and 1750, as there were various scouting parties\\nthen ordered and employed west of the Merrimack and on our\\nfrontiers, about the Pemigewasset and Winnipisiogee rivers.\\nThe early records of the town make mention of the existing\\nfort and that it was located about forty rods southerly of the\\ncemetery on the Webter intervale and surrounded by eight acres\\nof cleared land, early cultivated.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0272.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HISTORY. 249\\nIt seems quite certain that his regiment arrived in April, 1755\\nhe was not engaged in erecting a fort, but did spend about six\\nweeks in preparing boats for transporting his troops and\\nbaggage up the river. This effort was found fruitless, and Gov.\\nWentworth ordered the troops to proceed through the Province\\nto No. 4, Charlestown) thence to Crown Point by the Albany-\\nroute. The time of service of this regiment expired in October.\\nThe authorities of our State ordered the enlistment of a regi-\\nment of three hundred more men to take the j^lace of Blanchard s\\nregiment. They were mustered into service about the 20th of\\nSeptember, 1755, and were discharged at the end of three\\nmonths.\\nIn these regiments we find may of our pioneer settlers in this\\ntown, who while detained at the fort had opportunity to explore\\nthe surrounding territory. We find the names of Benja. San-\\nborn, Benj. Baker, Samuel Judkins, John Bean, Robert Smith,\\nTristram Sanborn, Andrew Bohonon, Henry and John Elkins,\\nJohn Webster, Thomas Welch, Jacob Hancock, Nehemiah\\nHeath, Ebenezer Johnson, Tristram Quimby, Samuel Lovering,\\nIddo Webster, Benj. Huntoon, B. Clifford, Edward Eastman,\\nJohn Wadleigh, Jere. Quimby, John Fellows. Most of these\\nmen, then soldiers from the neighborhood of Kingston, soon after\\n1760 became permanent settlers in Salisbury.\\nIn 1756, Col. Nath. Meserve raised a regiment for the Crown\\nPoint expedition, consisting of seven hundred men. Length of\\nservice from May to December that year.\\nIn Col. Meserve s regiment, in addition to the names of men\\nalreadv mentioned, we find Jona. Fifield, John Smith, D. Gil-\\nman, Reuben lloyt, Sani l Fifield, John Ash, Sam l Scribner,\\nwho had now returned from captivity, J. Blaisdell and Daniel\\nStevens. In Meserve s regiment, for eight months service in the\\nCrown Point expedition for 1757, we find the following addi-\\ntional soldiers, who afterwards became permanent residents in\\nSalisbury: J. Merrow, Joseph Webster, Benj. Pettengill, John\\nSanborn and Stephen Webster. A portion of this regiment\\nsuffered severely at the surrender of Fort William and Mary.\\nIt has been said that Philip Call was killed, or died, in this", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0273.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "250 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ncampaign. We do not hear of him afterwards, and no stone\\nmarks his grave here.\\nIn 1757, Major Thomas Tash enlisted a battalion of two and\\nthree months men, mustered in in August and discharged in\\nNovember. We append the following names found in this bat-\\ntalion John Cross, Sam l Scribner, Robert Barber, the two\\nlatter in the same company, and Matthew Pettengill.\\nIn 1758, Col. John Kart raised a regiment of 700 men, for\\nseven months, commencing in April, for the Crown Point expe-\\ndition. We find upon the roll the following-named men who\\naftewards became residents of Salisbury Moses Garland,\\nMoses Sanborn, Benj. Shaw, Sam l Scribner, James Johnson,\\nWilliam Hoyt, and Nathaniel Meloon, who had been restored\\nto freedom.\\nIn Capt. Trueworthy Ladd s company. Col. Hart s regiment,\\nwe find the name of Joseph Bean, afterwards the first Justice of\\nthe Peace in Salisbury under the crown, and that of Ebenezer\\nWebster, Captain of the militia company in Salisbury during\\nthe whole Revolutionary war. Also Philip Flanders, Onesi-\\nphorus Page, Iddo Webster, John Wadleigh and Moses Tucker.\\nIn Col. John Goffe s regiment, serving in Canada from March\\nto November, 1760, in Capt. Philip Johnson s company, of\\nGreenland, we find Ebenezer Webster, Orderly Sergeant Tris-\\ntram Ouimby and Stephen Webster, Corporals also privates\\nRowell Colby, Robert Smith, Benj. Webster, Elisha Ouimby,\\nRichard Tucker, D. Rowe, Moses Tucker, Benj. Collins and\\nJona. Roberts. All settled in Salisbury soon afterwards.\\nAfter the severe calamities of 1754, the inhabitants of Stev-\\nenstown periodically repaired to the forts, until Quebec fell, in\\n1759. Then the survivors permanently returned to their sev-\\neral homes, and were no longer molested. New pioneers came\\nand settled among them, especially from the towns of Kingston\\nand Salisbury, Mass., and that vicinity, and peace once more\\nsmiled upon the hardy sons of Stevenstown.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0274.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVI.\\nTHE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.\\nShall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side\\nIn the cause of mankind, if our creeds do agree\\nLEXINGTON AND BUNKER HILL.\\nThe people of Salisbury caught the first echo of the shot\\nwhich the embattled farmers at Lexington fired, and which\\nwas heard round the world.\\nAnd there was mounting in hot haste.\\nHer sons were not in season for Lexington, but they were at\\nBunker Hill. They went, too, uninvited to that banquet of\\ndeath and fame which was celebrated on the 17th of June, 1775.\\nWhen hostilities commenced at Lexington there were but\\nfive hundred inhabitants in Salisbury. All able-bodied men\\nbetween sixteen and sixty were made liable to do military duty.\\nThere was one company of militia thus composed, consisting of\\nabout seventy-five men, organized and officered. This company\\nwas commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Webster, who had first\\nreceived his commission in 1774. Robert Smith, who then\\nresided where his grandson, Charles Smith, now resides, in\\nFranklin, was the Lieutenant Moses Garland, for a short time,\\nand then Andrew Pettengill, who resided on the farm now oc-\\ncupied by Thomas D. Little, in Salisbury, was the Ensign.\\nUpon the alarm of the Lexington conflict, these officers and a\\nnumber of the citizens repaired to Cambridge. They had yet\\nreceived no orders from our State authorities. They there met\\nthe Massachusetts Committee of Safety, also John Stark, of\\nDerryfield. James Reed, of b itzwilliam, and Paul Dudley Sar-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0275.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "252 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ngent, of Amherst. These three men each received a Colonel s\\ncommission from the State of Massachusetts, subject to the\\ncondition of subsequent ratification by New Hampshire.\\nThey were advised to enlist men as speedily as possible. In\\na short time Stark enlisted eight hundred men, or fourteen\\ncompanies, while Reed and Sargent had enlisted four companies\\neach. The New Hampshire Assembly soon convened, and\\nvoted to raise two thousand men, to be divided into three res:i-\\nments of ten companies each. The regiments were numbered\\nI, 2 and 3. Col. John Stark had command of the first, Enoch\\nPoor, of Exeter, of the second, and James Reed of the third.\\nThe first and third regiments were engaged in the battle of\\nBunker Hill. The second did not arrive at Cambridge until\\nthe week after the battle.\\nENLISTMENTS IN SALISBURY.\\nSalisbury men enlisted into three or more of the companies of\\nStark s regiment. Among the early enlistments are the names\\nof Peter Severance, Jonathan Cram and Jacob Morrill, in Capt.\\nHenry Dearborn s company also Abraham Fifield, 3d Sergt.\\nin Capt. Joshua Abbott s company, of Concord also, privates\\nJohn Bean, Joseph Lovering, Samuel Lovering, Moses Welch,\\nand E. Rano in some other companies, Daniel Stevens, Ed-\\nward Evans, Moses Garland, Moses Fellows, John Bowen, John\\nJemson, Benj. Howard, Reuben Greeley and Samuel Scribner,\\neighteen in all. These brave volunteers represented Salisbury\\nin the Bunker Hill battle. About twelve of the number enlis-\\nted for the term of six months, and encountered the perils of\\nthe siege. Two of these men, John Bowen and Moses Fellows,\\njoined Capt. Henry Dearborn s company, and in the autumn of\\n1775 made a part of Arnold s regiment, that marched through\\nthe wilderness of Maine, to Quebec. At Bunker Hill Rano\\nwas severely wounded but recovered. He and three others of\\nthe volunteers returnd home soon after the battle. In the mean\\ntime the citizens of the town were frequently called together,\\nand in town meeting voted supplies of ammunition and such\\nother supplies of money, clothing and provisions as the emer-\\ngency required.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0276.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. 253\\nNEW HAMPSHIRE TROOPS AT BUNKER HILL.\\nThe New Hampshire men who fought at Bunker Hill, and\\nthe record of the killed and wounded may be stated as follows\\nCol. John Stark s regiment, ten companies, according to their\\nreturns the week preceding the battle, contained 632 men\\nCol. James Reed s regiment returned 488; Capt. Dow s com-\\npany, of Hollis, embraced in Col. Prescott s (Massachusetts)\\nregiment, 63 Plaistow men, in Capt. Sawyer s company, Frye s\\nregiment, 4; a total of 1187.\\nKILLED.\\nKilled in Stark s regiment, 15; killed in Reed s regiment, 5;\\nkilled in Mann s and Dow s companies, (Col. Prescott s regi-\\nment) all Hollis men, 8; killed from Plaistow, i; Major Mc-\\nClary, staff officer, i total number killed, 30.\\nWOUNDED.\\nWounded in Stark s regiment, 45 wounded in Reed s regi-\\nment, 27 Hollis men, 5 Plaistow, i a total of yS. Total\\nnumber killed and wounded, 108.\\nAmong the officers killed and wounded, in addition to Major\\nMcClary, of Epsom, were the following Capt. Isaac Baldwin,\\nof Hillsborough, Stark s regiment, killed Capt. Reuben Dow,\\nof Hollis, wounded Lieut, William Scott, of Peterborough,\\nReed s regiment, wounded and a prisoner. Lieut. Scott was\\nconveyed to Halifax, but escaped and arrived safely at home.\\nAID TO CONNECTICUT.\\nIt is an interesting matter of history that in November, 1775,\\nthe term of service of the Connecticut troops expired, without\\nany provision for a new supply from that State. Accordingly,\\nWashington and Gen. Sullivan made a direct and urgent appeal\\nto Massachusetts and this State to supply the deficiency. Both\\nStates came to the rescue. New Hampshire at once furnished\\nthirty-two companies of recruits, who served for about six\\nweeks, when troops from Connecticut came to their relief.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0277.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "254 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nSalisbury furnished one-half of a company on this occasion,\\nand the town of Pembroke the other half, Capt. Connor, of\\nPembroke, taking the command, and Capt. Matthew Pettengill,\\nof Salisbury, taking the position of Lieutenant. It is our mis-\\nfortune that we cannot anywhere find the names of the soldiers\\nwho composed these thirty-two companies. We have only the\\nnames of their officers. We have searched our town and State\\narchives in vain for the names of the men who enlisted from\\nthis town. More than half of the able-bodied men must have\\nbeen in service during a portion of the most inclement season\\nof this year.\\nMORE RECRUITS.\\nThe British evacuated Boston about the first of April, 1776.\\nAs the term of the six months men, who had enlisted in June,\\n1775, expired, it became the duty of the town to supply their\\nplaces by some new recuits. We understand the last term of\\nservice, for about four months, was supplied by the enlistment\\nof Capt. Ebenezer Webster and his other company officers, and\\nsome dozen other soldiers of their militia company whose names\\nhave not been preserved.\\nALARM LIST.*\\nThe within is a list of the Company under my command.\\n(Signed) EBENEZER WEBSTER.\\nRev. Jonathan Searle, Ens. Andrew Bohonon, Nehemiah Heath,\\nElder Sinkler Bean, Ens. John Webster, Benj. Greely,\\nElder Benj. Huntoon, Ens. Moses Garland, Joseph Marston,\\nDea. John Collins, Stephen Call, Nath l. Meloon,\\nCapt. John Webster, Benj. Sanborn, Nath l. Meloon, Jun r,\\nCapt. Matthew Pettengill, Nathan Webster, Ezra Tucker,\\nEsq. Joseph Bean, Robert Barber, Hezekiah Foster,\\nDr. Joseph Bartlett, John Fellows, Edward Scribner.\\nAndrew Bohonon, Nathan Colby,\\n*The lists given undoubtedly embrace the greater part if not all the names of.\\nthe men from Salisbury, who composed the companies enlisted for active service,\\nat Bunker Hill, and also in the subsequent enlistment for the term of six weeks\\nabove referred to.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0278.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY.\\n255\\nA LIST OF THE TRAINING SOLDIERS OF THE TOWN OF SALISBURY,\\nDRAWN MAY 27TH, 1 776.\\nSergt. Jacob Cochran,\\nSergt. William Preston,\\nSergt. Ananiah Bohonon,\\nSergt. I hineas Bean,\\nRichard Purmont,\\nCutting Stevens,\\nDavid Pettengill,\\nNath l Marston,\\nEzekiel Lunt,\\nStephen Cross,\\nBenj n Basford,\\nReuben Kezar,\\nDaniel Felch,\\nJohn Brown,\\nKdward Eastman,\\nDaniel Sewell,\\nBenj n Eastman,\\nJohn Sanborn.\\nEbenr. Clifford,\\nGeorge Bagley,\\nJames Johnson,\\nDaniel Uran, [of Concord,\\nStephen Webster,\\nPhilip Flanders,\\nEphraim Colby,\\nDavid Hall,\\nJeremiah Webster,\\nShubael Greeley,\\nJohn Bean,\\nJonathan F ifie]d,\\nAbraham Fifield,\\nJoseph Fifield,\\nAbel Klkins,\\nJonathan Cram,\\nMoses Woodman,\\nMoses Silley,\\nPhilip Mitchell,\\nWilliam Bagley,\\nJob Heath,\\nEphraim Heath,\\nBenj n Howard,\\nWilliam Eastman,\\nReuben Greely,\\nJeremiah Eastman,\\nBenj n Greeley, Jun.,\\nJohn Challis,\\nMoses Sawyer,\\nLeonard Judkins,\\nJacob Garland,\\nEdward Fifield,\\nReuben Iloit,\\nWilliam Searle,\\nJacob Bohonon,\\nWilliam Webster,\\nJohn Jemson,\\nGideon Dow,\\nNathan Greeley,\\nPhilip Lufkin,\\nJoseph Meloon,\\nEben r Tucker,\\nJacob Tucker,\\nJonathan Foster,\\nBeniah Bean,\\nEdward Scribner,\\nBenj n Scril^ner,\\nIddo Scribner,\\nObediah Peters Fifield,\\nAbel Tandey,\\nJohn Fifield,\\nJoseph French,\\nMoses El kins,\\nJohn Collins Gale,\\nNath l Huntoon,\\nDaniel Huntoon,\\nJohn Rowe,\\nJacob True.\\nThe following soldiers are raw in the Publick service, May 27, 1776)\\nJoseph Basford,\\nJohn Bagley,\\nPhilip Huntoon,\\nSam l Loveren,\\nWells Burbank,\\nReuben Iloit, Jun r,\\nEbenezer Scribner,\\nSimeon Sanborn,\\nJames Basford,\\nJonathan Huntoon,\\nJoseph Loveren,\\nRowell Colby,\\nIsrael Webster.\\nOur next enlistment for 1776 was for the relief of the north-\\nern army. In Capt. Osgood s company, of Concord, we find\\nthe name of Capt, John Webster, of Salisbury, as his Lieuten-\\nant also the name of Edmund Sawyer as private in his com-\\npany. The regiment was commanded by Col. Moody Bedel.\\nThe record of this regiment was not fortunate.\\nUpon the evacuation of Boston by the British, part of their\\narmy soon after invaded New York. Another portion, command-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0279.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "256 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ned by Burgoyne, invaded Canada by way of Quebec. The\\nNew Hampshire regiments which had been at the siege were\\nfirst ordered to New York, and our Salisbury men, thirteen in\\nnumber, were in Col. Stark s regiment. According to the roll\\nrecently found, on the 26th day of May, 1776, their names were\\nJohn Basford, James Basford, John Bagley, Wells Burbank,\\nRowell Colby, Reuben Hoit, Jr., Jona. Huntoon, Philip Hun-\\ntoon, Samuel Loverin, Joseph Loverin, Ebenezer Scribner,\\nSimon Sanborn and Israel Webster.\\nReinforcements were called for. Another regiment was or-\\nganized to reinforce Washington at New York. It was com-\\nmanded by Col. J. Wyman, and to serve six months. Capt.\\nJames Shepard, of Canterbury, recuited a company. Salisbury\\nfurnished ten men for this company, viz: John Bean, Ensign;\\nBenj. Huntoon, Orderly Sergeant Privates, Cutting Stevens,\\nStephen Call, James Johnson, Samuel Scribner, Philip Flanders,\\nJona. Scribner, Jona. Foster, Robert Wise.\\nAfter the unfortunate battle of Long Island, in August,\\nWashington again appealed to New Hampshire for aid. Salis-\\nbury had furnished already her full quota. Her population was\\nonly about 600. Her able-bodied men, between the ages of\\nfifteen and fifty, were about eighty. Our Legislature gave\\nauthority to Col. Nahum Baldwin, of Amherst, to raise another\\nregiment.\\nA PATRIOTIC EXAMPLE,\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster, who then commanded the company\\nof militia, was appealed to to furnish men. Ten men holding\\nmilitia commissions, and some others, volunteered to serve as\\nprivates in the company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Emery,\\nof Concord, and were mustered into service on the 20th day of\\nSeptember, 1776, as will be seen hereafter.\\nAccording to the roll of the company examined more recent-\\nly, and other evidence, we are enabled to state that Captain\\nWebster on this occasion said he had already asked enough\\nfrom his soldiers and that now he would turn out himself as a\\nprivate; and challenged his brother ofificers and others of the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0280.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. 257\\nalarm list to follow his example. Accordingly his Lieuten-\\nant, Robert Smith, Ensign Moses Garland, and Orderly Ser-\\ngeant Andrew Pettengill, all acceiDted the challenge, as did also\\nEnsign Andrew Bohonon, of the alarm list, and his neighbors,\\nEdward Eastman, Joseph Eifield, Edward Fifield, Joshua Morse\\nand Stephen Bohonon. He also resigned the office of chairman\\nof the board of selectmen, and Jonathan Cram was chosen in\\nhis place. Here was a signal exhibition of true patriotism and\\nlove of country, as shown by these ten men, including also\\nJoseph Pjcan and Nathaniel Huntoon, who enlisted in Captain\\nGoffe s company of the same regiment. All but two were\\nheads of families; disregarding office and rank in the time of\\nthe country s greatest peril, they selected the private station as\\nthe post of honor. They joined the army in season to partici-\\npate in the battle of White Plains.\\nThe noble and disinterested example of these men of course\\nhad not only a favorable effect in advancing their own popular-\\nity with the people at home, but also infused new energy and\\nspirit into the apparently drooping cause of our country. The\\nyear closed with some success to our arms by the capture of\\nthe Hessian forces, at Trenton and Princeton. The number of\\nour army was much diminished; Congress found that short en-\\nlistments had operated unfavorably, and the States were called\\nupon to furnish an increased number of men, for three years or\\nduring the war.\\nA CHANGE OF OFFICERS.\\nIn January, 1777, Col. Stark resigned, in consequence of be-\\ning superseded by the appointment of Brig. Gen. Poor over\\nhim. Col. Joseph Cilley assumed the command of the first\\nNew Hampshire Regiment of continental soldiers Male had\\ncommand of the second, and Scammell of the third. The regi-\\nments had, as before suggested, been much reduced in num-\\nbers, and our Legislature and the town authorities were obliged\\nto put forth the most vigorous exertions to fill up the ranks of\\nthese regiments to the required standard.\\n17", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0281.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "258 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nSOLDIERS RAISED BY BOUNTY.\\nThis town was obliged to offer bounties of $70.00 each, to\\nmeet its quota. We find John Ash, who had enlisted March\\n8, 1777, to serve during the war, discharged December 31, 1781,\\nand Ananiah Bohonon, Philip Flanders and John Bowen, en-\\nlisted March 13, 1 781, in Col. Cilley s regiment and in Capt.\\nMorrill s company, were discharged December 31, 1781.\\nThe following men were enlisted for three years in Col. Alex-\\nander Scammell s regiment Moses Fellows, Orderly Sergt. in\\nCapt. Gray s company; and Ephraim Heath, Reuben Greeley,\\nReuben Hoit, Matthew Greeley, Philip Lufkin, Wm. Bayley,\\nDaniel Felch, Benj. Howard and Joshua Snow, as privates.\\nThese fourteen men were our quota of continental soldiers for\\nthree years, and were mustered into service in March, 1777.\\nTICONDEROGA.\\nIn the meantime Ikirgoyne with his army was threatening\\nour northern frontier. The important fort of Ticonderoga was\\nin danger. Our State was appealed to to relieve that fort and\\nmen were dispatched for that purpose.\\nIn June, 1777, Capt. Ebenezer Webster, Lieut. Peter Kim-\\nball, of Boscawen, and Ensign Richard Herbert, of Concord,\\nmarched with seventy men to relieve Ticonderoga. They pen-\\netrated Vermont about twenty miles, when they learned that the\\nfort had been evacuated, and then returned.\\nA DRAFT ORDERED.\\nIn July, 1777, the State militia was divided into eighteen\\nregiments and two brigades. Gen. William Whipple had com-\\nmand of the first brigade and Gen. John Stark of the second\\nbrigade, of nine regiments each. It was also voted by the New\\nHampshire Assembly that one-quarter part of the militia of the\\nsecond brigade, also of Col. Thornton s regiment, of London-\\nderry, Col. Webster s regiment, of Chester, and Col. Badger s\\nregiment, of Gilmanton, in the first brigade, be forthwith drafted\\nfor the service of this State, to march immediately for the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0282.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. 259\\ndefence of this and the neighboring States, to prevent the\\nravages of the enemy therein.\\nWe are happy to be able to say that there was no occasion\\nto draft soldiers in most of our towns. Both officers and men\\nvolunteered to serve for the term of two months, commencing\\nwith the 20th of July, when they were mustered into service.\\nSALISHURY s roll at nENNINGTON.\\nWe here present the roster of Capt. Ebenezer Webster s\\ncompany, which fought in the battle of Bennington, on the i6th\\nof August, 1777:\\nWe first give the name of Adjutant Edward Evans, as one of\\nthe staff officers of Col. Stickney s regiment. He was the\\nschoolmaster of Salisbury at that time.\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster, Salisbury, commanding the com-\\npany.\\nLieut. William Emery, of Andover, excused by reason of\\nsickness.\\nLieut. Robert Smith, Salisbury.\\nLieut. Andrew Bohonon, Salisbury.\\nEnsign William Pope, Hillsborough.\\n1st Sergt. John Hoyt, Warner.\\n2d Sergt. Paschal Pressey, Warner.\\n3d Sergt. Robert Gould, Hillsborough.\\n4th Sergt. Abraham Fifield, Salisbury.\\n1st Corporal, William Booth, Hillsborough.\\n2d Corporal, Paul S. Manton, Andover.\\n3d Corporal, Samuel Lovering, Salisbury.\\n4th Corporal, Joshua Morse, Salisbury.\\nDrummer, John Sanborn, Salisbury.\\nFifer, Jonathan Foster, Salisbury.\\nPRIVATES.\\nEld. I5enj. lluntoon, Salisbury. John Fifield, Salisbury.\\nWilliam Searle, Joseph Fifield,\\nRichard Turmont, Edward Fifield,\\nIddo Scribner, Jona. Fifield,\\nHenj. Scribner, Jacob Hohonon,\\nPeter Severance, Wm. Calef,\\nKowell Colby, Edmund Sawyer,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0283.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "26o HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nJoseph Fellows, Andover. Abel Elkins, Salisbury.\\nEben. Tilton, James Johnson,\\nThomas Sleeper, Jacob Garland,\\nNath. Burwash, Geo. Bagley,\\nJedediah Sleeper, Moses Welsh,\\nPhilip Mitchell, Dan l Brocklebank,\\nWm. Morey, Matthew Pettengill,\\nReuben Kezar, Canterbury. Edward Eastman,\\nJohn C. Gale, Salisbury. John McNiel, Hillsborough.\\nJacob True, Wm. Simons,\\nJohn Jemson, Asa Dresser,\\nRobt. Barber, James Gibson,\\nJos. Tucker, Sam l Preston,\\nMoses Elkins, Solo. Andrews,\\nJohn Smith, Dan l Shepard, Canterbury.\\nWm. Newton, Abner Watkins, Warner.\\nIsrael Webster, Francis Davis,\\nDavid Pettengill, John Palmer.\\nRank and file from Salisbury, forty-one militia men. To this\\nnumber add Ensign Andrew Pettengill, who served in this cam-\\npaign as Ensign, in the Concord and Boscawen company. We\\nhad also three other men, enrolled in Col. George Reed s con-\\ntinental regiment, viz Samuel Sanders, Jacob Morrill and Jos-\\neph Meloon, making of the continental and militia men in actual\\nservice, in the summer of 1777, forty-five militia men and seven-\\nteen continental or regular troops, a total of sixt3^-two men.\\nOf Col. Reed s men, all had been in the battle of Hubbard-\\nton. Samuel Sanders was reported among the missing, but\\nwas finally restored to service. Ensign Andrew Pettengill\\nnever recovered from the injury he received in the battle of\\nAugust 1 6th, but died on the 12th of December following.\\nCapt. Webster s company belonged to that part of Col.\\nStickney s regiment which was stationed opposite to the log\\nentrenchments of Col. Baum. Capt. Iddo Scribner, who was\\nthen present, informed Mr. Nesmith that one of Baum s cannon\\nwas frequently discharged in front of their company, but the\\nshot hit the trees over their heads. Capt. Webster remarked\\nto Col. Stickney, Wc must get nearer to the enemy. Hence\\nthe command was given to advance, and we soon mounted the\\nentrenchment and made good use of our guns. Joseph Fifield\\nwas the first man to mount the enemy s breastworks.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0284.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. 26 1\\nJohn McNiel, of Hillsborough, was the strongest man in\\nCapt. Webster s company, and knocked over four of the Hes-\\nsians with the butt end of his musket. John McNeil, (after-\\nwards Lieut. McNeil) was the father of Gen. John McNeil, dis-\\ntinguished in the military campaign of 1814, also of Gen. Sol.\\nMcNeil, a well-known citizen of Hillsborough. He was re-\\nmarkable for his stalwart form and physical strength.\\nThe method of McNeil s successful onset at Bennington is\\nfortified by the opinion of Gen. Grant, who in a recent inter-\\nview with Bismarck and his generals, at Berlin, said that he\\nwould take away the bayonet, as so much useless weight, and\\nuse the butt ends of the muskets instead.\\nNEW Hampshire s loss.\\nThe men of New Hampshire put forth their whole power to\\ndefeat Burgoyne, in 1777. Their sacrifices and losses for that\\nyear alone were probably not exceeded in the remaining years\\nof the entire war. New Hampshire lost men at Brandywine\\nand Germantown, also at Ticonderoga, Fort Anne, and Hub-\\nbardton in all at least fifty men and probably more. At Ben-\\nnington the loss was nearly seventy men. At Stillwater, Gen.\\nPoor s brigade, which contained our three continental regi-\\nments and Maj. Dearborn s battalion of four companies, in the\\nbattle of September 19th, sustained the loss, according to Wil-\\nkinson s return, of one hundred and si.xty-one men killed and\\nwounded, more than half of the whole American loss in that\\naction. In the ne.xt battle New Hampshire had a larger num-\\nber of troops engaged, though not suffering so severe a loss in\\nmen. Wilkinson made no return of the battle of October 7th,\\nbut the estimate may be safely made that our loss in killed and\\nwounded in that engagement could not have been less than one\\nhundred.\\nIt will be understood that one-quarter of the militia of Gen.\\nWhipple s brigade, besides several detachments of volunteers\\nfrom Stark s brigade, were at Saratoga, exclusive of the con-\\ntinental forces.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0285.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "262 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nOur summary of the loss in the campaign of 1777 may be\\nput down as follows: Hubbardton, 50; Bennington, 70; Sara-\\ntoga, 260. Total number of New Hampshire troops killed and\\nwounded, 380.\\nThough the Salisbury men were largely exposed, and though\\nSanders was reported among the missing at Hubbardton, Pet-\\ntengill wounded at Bennington, and Lufkin and Bayley wound-\\ned at Stillwater, yet no death resulted except that of Andrew\\nPettengill. It is\u00c2\u00bbwell known that after the surrender of Bur-\\ngoyne, Poor s brigade rejoined Washington s army, which went\\ninto winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Here the\\nwhole army suffered extremely from exposure and sickness,\\nand from want of clothing and provisions. Early in 1778 dis-\\nease began to thin the ranks of our veterans, and in March and\\nApril we lost four of our men in camp, who had been exposed\\nto the perils and privations of the preceding year, viz: Ephraim\\nHeath, Reuben Greeley, Philip Lufkin, and William Bayley, all\\nof Capt. Gray s company, Col. Scammell s regiment.\\nBATTLE OF MONMOUTH.\\nIn June, 1778, the battle of Monmouth was fought, when a\\npart of our continental regiments were engaged, and conducted\\nso well as to receive the special approbation of Gen. Washing-\\nton upon the field.\\nEXPEDITION TO RHODE ISLAND.\\nIn August of this year the expedition to Rhode Island was\\norganized and executed, under the command of Gen. Sullivan.\\nCol. Moses Nichols, of Amherst, raised a regiment to serve\\nabout a month, in Gen. Whipple s brigade. Capt. Ebenezer\\nWebster, of Salisbury, commanded the third company in this\\nregiment. Elder Benjamin Huntoon was his Orderly Sergeant\\nand Edward Eastman was Corporal. The following men from\\nSalisbury were privates in his company Lieut. Robert Smith,\\nEnsign Andrew Bohonon, Joseph Fifield, Samuel Scribner,\\nBenj. Pettengill, James Johnson, Wm. Calef, Jonathan Fifield,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0286.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. 263\\nShubael Fifield, Joseph Hoyt, Winthrop Fifield, Ensign Moses\\nGarland, Jeremiah Bowen, John Sanborn, Moses Welch, Benj,\\nEastman, and Phineas Bean. Also, in Col. Center s regiment,\\nJoseph Bean, Joseph Webster, and Daniel Oilman. The total\\nnumbering twenty-two rank and file.\\nIn the battle of Rhode Island, Phineas Bean was severely\\nwounded in the face.\\nMORE SOLDIERS RECRUITED.\\nJuly 12, 1779, a town meeting was called, at which Captain\\nMatthew Pettengill and Capt. Ebenezer Webster were appoint-\\ned a committee to aid the selectmen in procuring four men for\\nthe continental army, to serve during the war also two sol-\\ndiers to serve six months at Rhode Island. Stephen Bohonon\\nand James Johnson were enlisted to serve at Rhode Island.\\nThey were severally to receive thirty bushels of Indian corn, in\\naddition to their ordinary wages, as a bounty from the town.\\nThe following four men were enlisted for the continental army\\nand were mustered in in June, 1780. Each man received a\\nliberal amount of continental money, which was then worth but\\nabout twenty per cent., as a bounty. The four men were Geo.\\nHackett, David Greeley, Jonathan Fifield and Joseph Webster.\\nDuring this year, 1779, Gen. Sullivan invaded the Indian\\ncountry. John Bean, of Salisbury, was wounded at Newton,\\nN. Y., and afterwards received half-pay from the State in con-\\nsequence of his disability.\\nS.\\\\LISHURY MEN AT WEST POINT.\\nIn 1780, Capt. Ebenezer Webster commanded the fourth\\ncompanv in Col. Moses Nichols s regiment, raised for the defence\\nof West Point, and stationed there for eight months. Winthrop\\nCarter, of Boscawen, was the first Lieutenant. This company\\nwas made up from the enlistments in the towns that constituted\\nCol. Stickney s regiment of militia. From Salisbury we recog-\\nnize the names of Robert Wise, Stephen Bohonon, Jethro Bar-\\nber, Joseph Hoyt, Benj. Eastman, S. Fifield, Winthrop Fifield,\\nBenj. Ingalls aud Thomas Welch.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0287.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "264 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nThe late Stephen Bohonon is authority for the following\\nincident, which occurred at West Point during his sevice at\\nthat place\\nIn the month of September, after the treachery of Arnold\\nhad been discovered, being the night after he had escaped and\\njoined the enemy, Washington called Capt. Webster into his\\ntent, and requested him to order his company on guard before\\nit during that night, observing, If I cannot trust you, I cannot\\ntrust any man. Capt. Webster answered, You may rely on\\nme and my men. Bohonon remarked that Washington was\\nmuch excited and that he spent the night without sleep, writing\\nin his tent. It was a time of great distrust but Washington s\\nconfidence in the men of New Hampshire was not misplaced,\\nand was justly claimed by Capt. Webster and his company as a\\nmark of high distinction and honor. When Washington was\\nfirst elected President, Col. Webster was an elector for this\\nState and had the privilege of voting for him.\\nA BOUNTY PAID IN COWS.\\nIn the year 1780 the term of service of the three years con-\\ntinental men expired, and it became necessary to re-enlist some\\nfifteen men, to take the places of those who were discharged.\\nIn addition to the four men who took the places of those who\\ndied at Valley Forge, the following men were secured, most of\\nthem for three years, others for less time. The bount} de-\\nmanded and paid was chiefly in cows, at the rate of four cows\\nat $12.00 each, for each year of service, or about $50.00 in sil-\\nver or gold per year. Continental currency was then reduced\\nto a standard of about fifteen dollars for every hundred.\\nThe following men were enlisted to serve as above stated for\\nthree years, for Salisbury, from the spring of 1780: Joshua\\nSnow, John Smith, Moses Fellows, John Fellows, Jr., John\\nAsh, Geo. Nichols, Josiah Mason, Benj. Howard, Wm. Lufkin,\\nAnaniah Bohonon, Josiah Smith, and Thomas Cross.\\nFor Col. Geo. Reed s regiment, the following men were ob-\\ntained Samuel Sanders, Ed. Scribner, Jethro Barber, Joseph\\nMeloon, and S. Fifield.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0288.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. 265\\nGeo. Nichols was enlisted in Exeter, for the quota of Salis-\\nbury, by Hon. Josiah Bartlett, and was not from this region.\\nHe subsequently deserted, was imprisoned, and finally returned\\nto his regiment.\\nWe give the form and substance of the contract the town\\nmade with the soldiers during the last three years of the war,\\nwho engaged to serve in the continental ranks, as to bounties,\\nshowing that the cow was preferable to continental money.\\nHere is the contract with John Fellows, Jr.\\nDec. I2th, 17S2.\\nWe the subscribers do promise and engage, for and in behalf of the Town of\\nSalisbury, to pay or cause to be paid unto John Fellows, Jun., twelve heifers three\\nyears old, with a calf by their side, or fair with calf, to calf in good season for a\\ndairy, to be delivered to him or his order, on, or before the first day of May, 1784,\\nat the House of Matthew Pettengill, in said Salisbury, provided the Said Fellows\\nserve in the Continental Army, for and during the space of three years, from about\\nthe middle of February, 1781, if not, the same to be paid in proportion to his service\\nfor said Town.\\nSigned, lOHN COLLINS, Selectmen\\nPHIXEAS BEAN, of Salisbury.\\nsnow s RECEIPT.\\nNov. 1 6th, 17S4.\\nRec d of the Selectmen of Salisbury, nine middling cows to the amount of loS\\nSpanish Milled Dollars, acreeably to a Note of the Town of Salisbury, the same\\nbeing a gratuity by Said Town for service done by me in the Continential Army.\\nJOSHUA SNOW.\\nCOMPANIES OF 1 78 1 AND 1 782.\\nThe following men were raised from Salisbury to reinforce\\nthe army in New York, and served in various companies in the\\nregiment commanded by Col. D. Reynolds, of Londonderry:\\nMoses Webster, Thomas Challis, Henry Elkins,\\nPeter Whittemore, J. Fifield, Sam l Meloon,\\nJ. Judkins, lienj. Sanborn, S. French.\\nPeter Severance, .Xbel Morrill,\\nEdward Eastman, Jacob Morrill,\\nIn November, 1781, the following soldiers enlisted for three\\nmonths and were returned to Col. Stickney, viz: Moses Fel-\\nlows, Matthew Greeley, Benj. Sanborn, Elisha Shepard.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0289.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "266 HISTORY OF SALISBURY. s\\nLevi Lufkin enlisted April 9, 1781 discharged December\\n31, 1781. John Smith enlisted March 31, 1781; discharged\\nDecember 31, 1781. Samuel Sanders enlisted in March, and\\nwas discharged in December, 1781.\\nIn 1782, Capt. Ebenezer Webster performed a six months\\nservice in the north part of this State. His Lieutenant was\\nJames Ladd, of Haverhill. Jeremiah Bowen v/as the only priv-\\nate from Salisbury. Josiah Haines, of Andover, and Edward\\nDyer, of Northfield, were also soldiers in his company. An\\nentry against the name of Jonathan Pike, of Haverhill, shows\\nthat he was taken prisoner June 13, 1782, Most of the soldiers\\nof this company resided in the north part of the State. It was\\nknown as the Ranger Service, and was the last in which\\nCapt. Webster was engaged in this war.\\nTHE WAR OF 1812.\\nOur means of reporting the achievements of the men and the\\nevents of the war of 18 12 are very inadequate, in consequence\\nof our inability to have access to the army rolls, which are\\npresumed to be at Washington.\\nOne of our active officers in the army of the United States\\nduring the war, and in the campaign against the western In-\\ndians antecedent to this war, was Captain John Smith. He\\nwas a member of Dartmouth College, and in the class with\\nEzekiel Webster and Thomas Hale Pettengill, but did not\\ngraduate.\\nHe was the son of Capt. Robert Smith, who served often and\\nbravely in the Revolutionary War.\\nAfter he left college he enlisted in the army and had com-\\nmand of a company in the battle of Tippecanoe, in 18 11, fought\\nby Gen. Harrison. We heard him give a graphic account of\\nthat battle.\\nHis brother, Jabez Smith, had the rank of Major in the first\\nRegiment of the United States Volunteers, mustered in this\\nState on the 28th of November, 18 12, serving one year under", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0290.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "THE WAR OF l8l2. 267\\nCol. Aquilla Davis, of Warner, and Lt. Col. John Carter, of\\nConcord. He was stationed on our northern frontier. At\\nthe end of this year Congress broke up the volunteers, and\\nMajor Smith returned to his farm, then in Salisbury, now\\nFranklin. He was a good citizen, distinguished for his good\\nsense and sound judgment, and was elected to the office of\\nselectmen and representative of Salisbury. He died in Frank-\\nlin.\\nIn the year 1814, our seaport, Portsmouth, was threatened\\nby the British navy, and our militia were called upon more\\nthan once to defend this port. We believe the quota required\\nfrom this town volunteered their services, no draft being re-\\nquired. Those who were mustered for three months, from the\\nnth day of September, 18 14, were the following named men,\\nviz Capt. Jona. Bean, and his son, Phineas Bean, as waiter\\nPrivates Benj. Fifield, Moses Fifield, Enoch Fifield, Samuel\\nFifield, Jonathan P. Sanborn, Nehemiah Lowell, Matthew T.\\nHunt, Wm. Johnson, John Johnson, Nathaniel Stevens, John\\nWebster, Jesse Wardwell, Moses Osgood, Jun., enlisted in the\\nUnited States service, October i, 18 [4. Of the sixty days\\nmen who enlisted October 2, 18 14, in the company commanded\\nby Capt. Silas Call, of Boscawen, we find the following men\\nLt. Samuel Ouimby, Ord. Sergt. Timothy Hoit, Corp. Thomas\\nChase, A. B. Bohonon, musician; Privates Nathan Tucker,\\nJabez True, Theodore George, Samuel Webster, Jona. Morrill,\\nIsaac Proctor, Joseph Fifield, Joseph Adams.\\nIn Col. Davis s Regiment, in the company commanded by\\nCapt. Thomas Currier, we recognize the following soldiers, who\\nserved one year, as belonging to Salisbury Daniel Woodward,\\nSerg. Jere. Bean Privates Samuel Fifield, Wm. Frazier, Amos\\nGeorge, Jeremiah Gove.\\nIn Capt. Mason s company, Joel Judkins, Jonathan Johnson,\\nJohn Sanborn, J. Ouimby, Edward West, Ebenezer Webster\\nBohonon, also served for one year or more, but we are not able\\nto state their company or regiment. Ithamar Watson was a\\nCaptain of Minute Men.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0291.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "268 HISTORY OF SAL-ISBURY.\\nThe following named soldiers are also credited to Salisbury:\\nJames Currier, Joseph Stevens, Moses Morse, Abel Wardvvell,\\nSamuel Kezer, Matthew Sanborn, Paul Greeley, and Richard\\nGreeley.\\nTHE WAR WITH MEXICO.\\nIn 1845, the vast territory known as Texas, to which Mexico\\nlaid a claim of possession, was annexed to the United States,\\nwhich led to war. At the meeting of Congress, in December,\\ntwo millions of dollars was voted, and the President issued a\\ncall for fifty thousand soldiers.\\nThe regular army and volunteers met the demand without\\ncreating a necessity for State governments to furnish a given\\nquota. Recruiting offices were opened in the cities and at other\\npoints, and men enlisted freely. We have no evidence that\\nSalisbury furnished any soldiers.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0292.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVII.\\nTHE WAR OF THE REBELLION.\\nThrough quiet valleys sounded clear the war drum s rolling beat,\\nAnd soon was heard, in prompt reply, the tramp of many feet,\\nAnd breaking rudely from the clasp of peace and love of home.\\nBrave souls rushed on, where battle s surge was crowned with crimson foam.\\nPREPARING FOR THE STRUGGLE.\\nFor years there had been a growing discontent in the south-\\nern section of the Union. Though the area of slavery had been\\nincreased, the desire for still broader fields in which it might\\nflourish was constantly strengthened. Threats were uttered\\nthat the Union would be sundered, if the liberal policy which\\nhad been exercised toward the institution of slavery was modi-\\nfied, and there were men, even in the free states, ready to acqui-\\nesce in an act of secession.\\nA change of administration, by the election of i860, involv-\\ning a probable radical political change in governmental policy,\\nwas accepted as a sufficient cause for secession by most of\\nthe southern States, and the forming of an independent confed-\\neration.\\nThis was in anticipation of any action by the government,\\nfor the new administration could exercise no authority for\\nmonths to come.\\nOn the 27th day of December, i860, the confederates seized\\nForts Moultrie and Pickens. On the 9th day of January, 1861,\\nthey fired their first shot, from Fort Moultrie and Morris\\nIsland, into a government vessel carrying troops and supplies to\\nMajor Anderson, who had transferred his entire force to Fort\\nSumpter.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0293.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "270 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nTreason had now disclosed itself; overt acts had been com-\\nmitted, rebellion was inaugurated, and nothing remained for the\\ngovernment to do but to put forth its strong arm to crush a\\nrebellion which threatened the life of the republic. Men were\\ncalled into the field at first by thousands, and then by tens of\\nthousands, and money was voted by millions to carry on a fra-\\nternal strife that could not be averted.\\nBut it is not for us here to discuss the causes, the prosecution,\\nor the results of the war, but to record the acts of the people,\\nin furnishing money and men to meet the demand of the govern-\\nment.\\nOn the day following the evacuation of Fort Sumpter, Presi-\\ndent Lincoln issued a call for seventy-five thousand volunteers\\nfor three months service. On the call. New Hampshire furnish-\\ned one regiment of infantry, which was placed under command\\nof Mason W. Tappan. We do not find a record of any Salis-\\nbury men in this regiment.\\nIn accordance with the requirements of law, the selectmen\\nfor 1 861 transmitted to the Secretary of State a list of the\\nnames of men liable to do military duty, numbering one hun-\\ndred and two. Some of these men could have obtained cer-\\ntificates of exemption had they submitted to an examination,\\nand thus reduced the quota for the town. Accepting this basis,\\nSalisbury furnished not only the required number, but a small\\nsurplus.\\nThere was not on the first call many citizens coming forward\\nfor the service, nor was the quota finally filled from our own\\ncitizens. In this respect, Salisbury was not unlike many other\\ntowns. But when bounties were offered and a draft was ordered,\\nthe ranks were filled by residents and substitutes as fast as\\nrequisitions were made. A record of the action of the town in\\nrelation to this matter is given in the municipal history on\\npreceding pages, but additional votes were afterwards passed.\\nJune 16, 1 864. Voted, To authorize the selectmen of this\\ntown to borrow a sum of money not to exceed six thousand\\ndollars, to purchase ten volunteers or substitutes, to fill the\\nquota of this town.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0294.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "WAR OF thp: rebellion. 271\\nVoted, To authorize the selectmen of this town to borrow\\nsuch sums of money from time to time, as may be necessary to\\npurchase volunteers or substitutes, to fill the quota of the town,\\nas they may be called for by the President of the United States,\\nsuch sums of money not to exceed fifty thousand dollars.\\nVoted, That the selectmen act as agent or agents of the\\ntown for the above purpose.\\nThe selectmen were Isaac Sanborn, John R. llrown and Ira\\nH. Couch.\\nFrom the above votes it will be seen that the town of Salis-\\nbury made liberal provisions for raising and supporting its\\nquota of soldiers for prosecuting the war.\\nThe loth Regiment was raised under a call made in July,\\n1862, for three hundred thousand three years troops. Captain\\nMichael T. Donahoe, of Manchester, of the 3d Regiment, was\\nappointed Colonel. The camp was established at Manchester,\\nand the men began to arrive at the rendezvous, which was\\nnamed Camp Pillsbury, in honor of Hon. Oliver Pillsbury of\\nthe Governor s Council, on August 20, 1862, and were mustered\\nin on the 5th of the following September. The regiment con-\\nsisted of nine hundred and twenty-eight officers and men.\\nCompany E was raised at Andover, and was commanded by\\nCapt. Aldrich B. Cook, who resigned January 9th, 1863, and\\nwas succeeded by Capt. Thomas C. Trumbull, of Manchester,\\nwho was in turn succeeded by Capt. James A. Sanborn, of\\nPortsmouth. The following are the names of the men who\\nenlisted from Salisbury:\\n.Sergt. John C. Carter, enlisted Sept. i, 1S62, discharged for disability, Jan. 9, 1S65,\\nPrivate William C. Heath, enlisted Sept. i, 1862, discharged June 21, 1S65, died in\\nSalisbury.\\nPrivate Calvin Hoyt, enlisted Sept. i, 1S62, discharged June, 14, 1S65.\\nAnson W. Glines, enlisted Sept. i, 1S65, discharged for disability, Nov. 16,\\n1S63, died in Salisbury, Oct. 15, 1883.\\nPrivate Willis W. Kenniston, enlisted Sept. i, 1S62, died of the Black Measles at\\nNewport, Penn., Feb. 18, 1863.\\nPrivate Alfred Sanborn, enlisted Sept. i, 1S62, discharged June 21, 1S65, resides at\\nPenacook.\\nPrivate Harry Scott, enlisted Sept. i, 1862, died of disease at Bermuda Hundreds,\\nJan. 30, 1865.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0295.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "2/2 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nPrivate William Whittemore, enlisted Sept. i, 1S62, discharged for disability Feb\\n2S, 1S65.\\nPrivate Nathaniel A. Ilodge, enlisted .Sept. i, 1S62, wounded severely June 3,\\n1S64, mustered out May 12, 1865.\\nPrivate Henry M. French, enlisted Sept. 12, died at Portsmouth, Va., Oct. 30, 1863.\\nGeorge Atwood, enlisted Sept. i, 1862, promoted to Corp., wounded severely\\nat Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, mustered out July 10, 1S65.\\nPrivate George W. Chase, enlisted Sept. i, 1S62, mustered out June 3, 1864.\\nThe i6th Regiment was raised under the call of the Presi-\\ndent for three hundred thousand nine months men, the term of\\nservice being from October 20, 1862, to August, 1863. This\\nregiment was under the command of Col. James Pike. Com-\\npany E was commanded by Capt. Jonathan P. Sanborn, of\\nFranklin. From Salisbury we find the following men in the\\nabove company, who were discharged at the close of service\\nSergt. Benjamin Gale, Corp. Alonzo D. Davenport, Corp.\\nGeorge F. Smith Privates Evan M. Heath, Harrison V. Heath,\\nMoses Colby, William R. Dimond, Ferdinand M. Daysburg,\\nBenjamin L. Frazier. Charles K. Heath died three days after\\nhis return to Salisbury, August 19, 1863; Albert A. G. French\\ndied at Port Hudson, La., July i, 1863; Henry C. George died\\nat Port Hudson, La., July 29, 1863 Charles Colby died of dis-\\nease at Baton Rouge, La., July 20, 1863; Meshech W. Blaisdell\\ndied at Cairo, while on his way home.\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nIn the First New England Cavalry, which after its arrival in\\nWashington was united with the First Rhode Island Cavalry,\\nwe find the following:\\nCorp. Madison B. Davis, enlisted as Corporal, December 17,\\n1861, TroopI; promoted to Sergt. July 13, 1862; re-enlisted\\nJanuary 5, 1864. Cyrus C. Huntoon, bugler, enlisted Decem-\\nber 16, 1 86 1, Troop I,\\nPrivate William Bagley, enlisted December 20, 1861, Co. H,\\n8th Regt. killed at Port Hudson, La., June 14, 1863.\\nPrivate Andrew J. Colby, enlisted at the same time in the\\nsame company and regiment, died of disease at Baton Rouge,\\nLa., June 27, 1863.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0296.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "WAR OF THE REBELLION. 2/3\\nJohn Miller, enlisted in Co. F, 2d Regt.\\nLieut. Joseph C. Clifford, enlisted September 6, 1864; ist\\nLieut. Co. E, ist Regt.\\nJonathan J. Bagley, enlisted September 18, 1861, Co. K, 4th\\nRegt. killed in action near Petersburg, Va., July 5, 1864.\\nM. H. Whitmore, enlisted September 17, 1862, Co. G, 5th\\nRegt.\\nClinton A. Shaw, enlisted September 9, 1862, Co. G, 12th\\nRegt. mustered out June 21, 1865.\\nJohn G. Maxfield, enlisted November 7, 1861, Co. E, 7th\\nRegt. discharged for disability, at St. Augustine, Florida,\\nJune 6, 1863; returned to Salisbury and remained some four\\nmonths went to Boston and re-enlisted in the Massachusetts\\nCavalry served two years, then went to White River Junction,\\nVt., where he died.\\nHenry Sanborn, enlisted November 24, 1861, Co. F, 2d Regt.\\nU. S. Sharpshooters; discharged for disability March 6, 1862;\\nre-enlisted September 12, 1862, in Co. E, loth Regt.; dis-\\ncharged June 21, 1865. He is credited to Andover, but be-\\nlonged in Salisbury.\\nFrank Stevens, i8th Regt. N. H. Infantry.\\nThe following residents of the town were also in service, but\\nwe have little knowledge concerning their record beyond the\\nfact of enlistment\\nFrank D. Kimball, Co. E, 4th Regt. discharged January 22,\\n1863. John Woodward, Ebenezer Farnum, James Farnum,\\nCharles Bruce, Caleb B. Smith, Henry Moores, Benjamin S.\\nHeath, Joseph Ladd, Read Huntoon; James W. Gardner, en-\\nlisted July 27, 1864, in Veteran Reserve Corps; Daniel W.\\nShaw, enlisted February 16, 1864, in Co. E, 3d Regt., credited\\ntQ Portsmouth C. O. Wheeler, George H. Whitman, W. C.\\nWhitman.\\nThe following soldiers were either natives or residents of the\\ntown of Salisbury at the time of their enlistment, but enlisted\\nout of the town or State:\\nAmos S. Bean, credited to and enlisted from Manchester, in\\nCo. A, Heavy Artillery, which was raised to garrison Fort Con-\\n18", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0297.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "274 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nstitution, in Portsmouth, under Capt. Davidson transferred to\\nCo. E, 9th Regt., August 25, 1862; discharged for disability, at\\nCamp Dennison, Ohio, January 22, 1864.\\nGeorge E. Bean, credited to and enlisted from Manchester,\\nAugust 23, 1862, in Co. A, loth Regt.; killed at Cold Harbor,\\nVa., June 3, 1864.\\nAlbert Kilburn, enlisted at Boston, in the 5th Mass. Regt.\\nof three months men honorably discharged went to Minneap-\\nolis and re-enlisted as a teamster; discharged; afterwards in\\nthe employ of the government as a carpenter; died at Vicks-\\nburg, Miss.\\nAbraham S. Sanborn is credited to Manchester; enlisted\\nSeptember 18, 1861, in Co. G, 4th Regt.; died of disease at St.\\nAugustine, Fla., September 3, 1862.\\nSamuel Sleeper, credited to Canaan enlisted March 26,\\n1862, in Co. D, 4th Regt.; discharged April 15, 1865.\\nRufus Emerson, Co. C, 2d Vt. Regt.\\nElbridge G. Emerson, Co. C, 2d Vt. Regt.\\nNathan S. Corser, 22d Mass. Infantry killed at Gaines s Mill.\\nCharles W. Corser, 6th Mass. Infantry; re-enlisted in the\\n22d Mass.\\nGeorge (or Henry) Elkins, 2d Regt.; died in hospital at\\nWashington.\\nJohn Shaw record not known.\\nSilas Holmes, enlisted April 12,1861, in 6th Mass.\\nDavid F. Bacon, enlisted September 6, 1861, in Co. E, 2d\\nVt.; discharged for disability, January 4, 1864; re-enlisted in\\nCo. G, Veteran Reserve Corps of the same State, August, 1864;\\ndischarged October, 1865.\\nCharles H. Bacon, 12th Vermont.\\nDaniel R. Calef (See Genealogy.)\\nJohn Alfred Calef, in the marine service.\\nSUBSTITUTES.\\nThe following are the names of substitutes who performed\\ntheir engagements with the town of Salisbury, and who hon-\\nored themselves and the cause they supported", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0298.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "WAR OF THE REBELLION, 2/5\\nThomas Fleming, enlisted December 15, 1862, in Co. G, 4th\\nRegt.; captured at Deep Run, Va., Aug. 15, 1864; escaped\\nApril 5, 1865; mustered out June 5, 1865.\\nHamilton Carr, enlisted November 28, 1864, in Co. C, 4th\\nRegt.; mustered out August 25, 1865.\\nOctave Vezina, enlisted December 25, 1863, in Co. B, 9th\\nRegt.; wounded May 31, 1864; transferred to 6th N. H. Vols.,\\nJune I, 1865.\\nJohn Robinson, enlisted December 24, 1863, in Co. B, 9th\\nRegt.; transferred to 6th N. H. Vols., June i, 1865 mustered\\nout July 17, 1865.\\nJames Dolan, enlisted December 23, 1863, in Co. A, 9th Regt.;\\nwounded July 30, 1864; transferred to 6th N. H. Volunteers,\\nJune I, 1865 discharged for disability, July 30, 1865.\\nRobert Brown, enlisted December 24, 1863, in Co. A, 9th\\nRegt.; wounded July 30, 1864, and died of wounds on the 20th\\nof August following.\\nJames McDonald, enlisted November 29, 1864, in Co. E, (or\\nD,) /th Regt.; promoted to Corporal June 26, 1865; mustered\\nout July 20, 1865.\\nDaniel P. Morrison, enlisted August 15, 1862, in Co. D, 7th\\nRegt.; mustered out September 3, 1864; returned and was ap-\\npointed bugler; mustered out June 9, 1865.\\nWe give the following additional names of substitutes known\\nto have been enlisted, but little or no additional information\\ncan be gathered concerning them\\nJames Carroll, Joseph Storms, Henry Miller, Jerry Potter,\\nCharles Sutton, Peter Carroll, William Loverin, James Meami.x,\\nJohn Murphy, Co. F, 6th Regt., Warren Dinslow, Co. H, 9th\\nRegt., Nathan Lackey, Co. C, 9th Regt., Michael Conners,\\nJames Moran, George Perry, James Durgin, Corp. Nelson\\nDavis, promoted to Sergt. from Troop I William B. Winship,\\nenlisted October 12, 1861, in Co. G, 5th Regt. and discharged\\nfor disability March 19, 1863; J. F. Coburn, enlisted for three\\nmonths, 1863; William Williams, three months, 1863; Robert\\nAllen, three months, 1863; H. C. Rock, Henry McCarty.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0299.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "276 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nTwenty-two additional substitutes were enlisted in 1863 and\\n1864, and are recorded as deserters, having performed little or\\nno service. Having degraded themselves as soldiers, we shall\\nnot allow them to disgrace the town that employed them, by\\npublishing their names.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0300.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVIIL\\nTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE MILITIA.\\nA well-regulated militia is the right arm of the nation s defence.\\nOur glad eyes awoke as day begun,\\nWhen broad banners rose to meet the sun,\\nAnd soldier boys went forth with fife and drum.\\nITS ORIGIN.\\nThe commission issued in 1679, by His Majesty the King,\\nto John Cutt, as President of New Hampshire, contained the\\nfirst allusion to the employment of a military force ever made\\nby official declaration in the province. Full authority v^^as given\\nin the commission to appoint officers for the regulation and dis-\\ncipline of a militia, and in case of an invasion, to encounter,\\ne.xpel, repel and resist, by force of arms, any and all persons,\\nwho shall attempt the destruction, invasion, detriment or an-\\nnoyance of our subjects.\\nThe ensuing year a militia was organized, consi.sting of one\\ncompany of foot, in each of the four towns of Portsmouth,\\nDover, Exeter, and Hampton; one company of artillery at the\\nfort, and one troop of horse. From that time to the present,\\na period of more than two hundred years, some form of militia\\nhas been maintained in New Hampshire. We do not propose\\nto follow its history, nor to discuss the military system that has\\nbeen at any time sustained in this State.\\nThe Congress of New Hampshire, at E.xeter, in 1775, made\\nprovision that whenever any vacancy occurred in the general\\nand field officers, their successors should be chosen by the Coun-\\ncil and Assembly, and that all inferior officers should be chosen\\nby the respective companies.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0301.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "2/8 HISTORY OF SALISBURY,\\nA NEW SYSTEM.\\nAfter the Declaration of Independence a new militia system\\nbecame necessary. Two classes of soldiers were constituted,\\na Training Band and an Alarm List. (See Revolutionary\\nHistory, page 254.)\\nThe former included all able bodied male persons, from the\\nage of sixteen years to that of fifty, with certain exceptions.\\nThe alarm list included those not belonging to the active\\nband. This class was to be called into service only upon special\\nnecessity, and in any sudden emergency were to be summoned\\nby the firing of cannon, the beating of drums, and the lighting\\nof beacon fires on the hill tops. The beacons of Salisbury\\nwere on Searle s Hill, and were answered by similar signals from\\nother towns.\\nThe people of this town, during the period of the revolution-\\nary war, were in a state of constant anxiety and watchfulness.\\nThose who were not already in the army were in a state of\\nreadiness to march whenever danger threatened, and wherev-\\ner the interests of the country called them. Old men, the\\npatriarchs of their day, and the young and brave, all responded\\nwith enthusiasm to the summons, when it came.\\nANOTHER MODIFICATION.\\nMarch 18, 1780, a new military law was enacted, constituting\\nregiments, brigades and divisions, giving the Committee of\\nSafety and the President of the Council great authority in the\\nappointment of officers and the movements of soldiers. The\\nMajor General also had a direct voice in the selection of many\\ninferior officers. In short, the control was in a more concen-\\ntrated agency, and the force if rightly conducted was the more\\nefficient.\\nChanges in the statutes were often made under the provin-\\ncial as well as the State government, which it is not our work\\nto record.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0302.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "THE STATE MILITIA. 2/9\\nTHE STATE MILITARY FORCE.\\nIn 1767 there were nine regiments in the province, and one of\\nhorse-guards; in 1775, there were twelve regiments; in 1788,\\nthere were in the State twenty-five regiments-, and three of\\nlight-horse; 1794, seventeen; in 1800, thirty-one; in 1810, thirty-\\nseven in 1820, thirty-eight. In 1842 there were forty-two regi-\\nments, which that year were organized in six brigades and three\\ndivisions. The whole number of enrolled men in 1840 was\\n32,113. Each regiment was mustered once a year, between the\\nfirst of September and the fifteenth of October, for inspection\\nand review, and each company was required to meet for inspec-\\ntion and drill on the first Tuesday in May, annually. Each town\\nwas required, by a ta.x, to meet the expense of these military\\ndisplays.\\nBATTALIONS AND REGIMENTS.\\nThe companies in the towns of Boscawen, Salisbury, Andover,\\nNew London, and Kearsage Gore, afterwards and now Wilmot,\\nand a part of Warner, formed the first battalion. Those at Hop-\\nkinton, Sutton, Warner, Fishersfield, (now Newbury,) and Brad-\\nford formed the second battalion and those two battalions\\nconstituted the Twenty-First Regiment, which was at first in-\\ncluded in the Third Brigade and Fourth Division, but was sub-\\nsequently in the Eighth Brigade. The regimental officers of\\nthe Twenty-First at this time were Lt. Col. Philip Greely, Com-\\nmander, Maj. Joseph Gerrish, First Battalion, Maj. Timothy\\nDarling, Second Battalion. In 1808 Isaac Chandler was Lt. Col.\\nCommanding, and Moses Jones, Major of the First Battalion.\\nMILITIA SERVICE IN THE WARS.\\nThe military history of this town is so closely identified\\nwith its war history, whether that of the early or later periods,\\nthe French and Indian wars, the Revolution, that of 18 12-15, or\\nthe late civil strife, that we need not repeat its record here.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0303.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "280 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nMUSTERS.\\nThe autumnal muster marks an eventful period in each year.\\nTo the day when it was to occur, thousands of anxious men, and\\nwomen also, looked forward. It was the theme of conversation\\nfor weeks before it took place. Mr. Coffin, in his History of\\nBoscawen, pictures with graphic pen the anticipations and the\\nexperiences of the old time muster day. Everybody, he says,\\nwent to muster; the soldier to perform his duty and to drink\\negg-nog; his wife to admire him, and his children to eat ginger-\\nbread and candy. There was little sleep the night preceding\\nthe muster day. Each soldier deemed it his privilege to salute\\nhis officers by firing beneath the windows, shattering the glass\\nby his heavy charges. The salute was acknowledged by an\\ninvitation to the soldier and everybody else to step in and help\\nthemselves to rum, gin, whiskey or brandy, and if the officer\\nwas married, to sit down to baked Indian pudding and beans.\\nThese annual parades were held in the towns composing a\\nregiment, Salisbury having the honor of a due proportion of\\nthe musters. A muster was held here in 1822, and ever fourth\\nyear subsequently. One was held on the Webster farm before\\nFranklin was organized.\\nThe day began with a carouse. By sunrise every road lead-\\ning toward the muster-field was swarming with men, soldiers\\non foot, on horseback, and in wagons, with troops of boys and\\npeddlers of every description.\\nThe volunteer companies took pride in being the first on\\nparade, to display their uniforms and marching, before the regi-\\nmental line was formed. Then began the drum-beat, the\\nlong-roll, the formation of the company by the corporal, the\\nreception of officers, the commands of the Captain, By sec-\\ntions, right wheel, march. Then the fifes and clarinets and\\nbugles began, and the soul-stirring strains floated out on the\\nmorning air, and the soldiers, with full stomachs and steady steps,\\nmarched across the field, to the delight of the admiring specta-\\ntors. For an hour or more each company marched, counter-\\nmarched and wheeled in section, in battalion, filed right and", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0304.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "THE STATE MILITIA. 28l\\nleft, passed defiles and obstacles, changed front, and display-\\ned itself to the best advantage.\\nThen came the formation of the regimental line, the inspec-\\ntion and review, and dismissal for dinner, when each man ate\\nas he never ate before. On this one day he gorged himself.\\nDid he not pay for his dinner.^ Then he was entitled to all he\\ncould eat. Did the State furnish him with a dinner. Then\\nhe could have all he could get.\\nThrough the forenoon he drinks several glasses of grog. He\\ntakes another glass after dinner. In the afternoon comes the\\nsham-fight, when muskets blaze and cannon roar. The soldier s\\nlegs are getting weary, and he takes more grog to give him\\nstrength.\\nWhile the sham-battle is going on there is a crowd upon the\\nfield. Peddlers are hawking their wares, showmen exhibiting\\ntheir curiosities, a sleight-of-hand performer is pulling ribbons\\nout of his mouth, and chewing tow and spitting fire.\\nThe sham-battle is over, the regiment is in line once more,\\nthe rear rank has been called before the Colonel, and thanked\\nfor the soldierly appearance of the troops, and the regiment is\\ndismissed.\\nEach company moves away, some with broken ranks, some\\nwith soldiers who are unsteady on their legs. The drummer\\ngets his rub-a-dubs mi.xed, and does not quite know whether he\\nis playing common or compound* time, while the fifer gets\\nYankee Doodle confounded with On the road to Boston.\\nSoldiers are firing their last gun, hucksters disposing of their\\nlast sheets of ginger-bread, and the bibulous crowd taking their\\nlast drink of grog. The sun goes down through the murky\\nclouds of the sham-battle, the cannon with sulphurous lips is\\nlimbered up and taken away, and the field gradually becomes\\ndeserted.\\nThe following list comprises Colonels of the 2ist Regiment\\nso far as known\\nLIST OF OFFICERS.\\n17S6 Henn rierrish, Boscawen. 1S26-32 Moody A. Pilsbury, Hoscawen.\\n17S7 Ebenczer Webster, Salisbury. 1S33 Joseph Sweat, Andover.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0305.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "282\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n1788 Joshua Bailey, Hopkinton.\\n1800 Joseph Gerrish, Boscawen.\\n1802 John C. Gale, Salisbury.\\n1808-10 Isaac Chandler, Boscawen.\\n1813 Benjamin Swett, Salisbury,\\n181 5-17 Jonathan Weare, Jr., Andover.\\n1818 Moses Gerrish, Boscawen.\\n1819-20 Jonathan Bean, Salisbury.\\n1821-23 John Greeley, Salisbury.\\n1824 Cyrus Chase, Salisbury,\\n1825 Joseph S. Huntoon, Andover.\\n1834 Tho. J. Cilley, Andover.\\n183s John Rowe, Andover.\\n1S36-38 David F. Kimball, Boscawen.\\n1839 Ira Darling, Franklin.\\n1841 Frederick W. Coffin, Boscawen.\\n1842 Nathan P. Ames, Boscawen.\\n1843-44 John S. Pressey, Sutton.\\n1847 Enoch Gerrish, Boscawen.\\n1848 John C. .Smith, Salisbury.\\n1849-50 Joseph L. Pillsbury, Boscawen.\\n1851-53 Gustavus V. Webster, Salisbury.\\nEARLY MILITIA OFFICERS.\\nThe following is a list of early militia officers in the town of\\nSalisbury, as nearly as can be ascertained\\nCapt. John Webster,\\nFIRST COMPANY.\\nLt. Matthew Pettengill, Ens. Andrew Bohonon,\\n1774-\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster, Lt. Robert Smith,\\nLt. Robert Smith, Ens. Andrew Pettengill,\\nEns. Moses Garland, Capt. Ebenezer Webster,\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster, Lt. Robert Smith,\\nLt. William Calef,\\nEns. Joseph Fifield.\\nCapt. Robert Smith,\\nLt. Jos. Fifield,\\nLt. Samuel Pillsbury,\\nEns. John C. Gale,\\nCapt. Robert Smith,\\nLt. Samuel Pillsbury,\\n1784.\\nLt. John C. Gale,\\nEns. Abram Fifield,\\nCapt. John C. Gale,\\nLt. Aquilla Pingrey,\\nEns. Benjamin Eastman,\\nCapt. Aquilla Pingrey,\\nLt. Samuel Huntoon,\\nEns. Jabez Smith,\\nCapt. Aquilla Pingry,\\nLt. Benj. Pettengill,\\nEns. John Greeley.\\nThe second Infantry Company was formed at the Centre\\nRoad Village.\\nCapt. David Pettengill,\\nLt. Phineas Bean,\\nLt. Ananiah Bohonon,\\nEns. Stephen Webster,\\nSECOND COMPANY.\\nCapt. Iddo Scribner,\\nLt. Benj. Bean,\\nEns. Watkins,\\nCapt. Benj. Bean,\\nEns. Jonathan Bean,\\nCapt. Joel Eastman,\\nLt. Jonathan Bean,\\nEns. Obadiah P. Fifield,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0306.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "THE STATE MILITIA.\\n283\\nCapt. J. Clement,\\nLt. Iddo Scribner,\\nLt. Stephen Webster,\\nEns. Nathaniel Greeley,\\nLt. Joel Eastman,\\nEns. Benj. Thompson,\\nCapt. Henj. Bean,\\nLt. Joel Eastman,\\nCapt. J. Bean,\\nLt. Obadiah P. Fifield,\\nEns. Edward Welch.\\nThe third company was formed in what was known as the\\nBlackwater District.\\nTHIRD COMPANY.\\nCapt. Isaac Blaisdell,\\nLt. David Pettingill, 2d,\\nEns. Stephen George,\\nCapt. Isaac Blaisdell.\\nLt. David Pettengill,\\nEns. Nathaniel .\\\\sh,\\nCapt. Enoch Fifield,\\nLt. Samuel Adams,\\nCapt. William Pingry,\\nLt. Abram Sanborn,\\nEns. Jonathan Fifield.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0307.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIX.\\nCOUNTY ORGANIZATIONS,\\nFrom the sources of the Merrimack\\nTo the city s northern walls,\\nFrom Newbury s old and rocky hills\\nTo bright Pittsfield s busy falls,\\nAs the population increased, there arose a demand for better\\nfacilities for the transaction of judicial business, and in 1755 a\\nmovement was initiated to divide the Province into two counties.\\nAn act was passed by the Assembly for their creation, one to\\nbe called Rockingham, with Exeter as its shire town, and the\\nother Cumberland, with Dunstable as its county seat. The Mer-\\nrimack river was the general dividing line. The Council refused\\nto concur unless Portsmouth could be made the shire town.\\nThe Assembly immediately passed another act constituting\\nthree counties, with Portsmouth, Exeter and Dunstable as the\\nlocations for the transaction of the county business. The act\\nwas amended by the Council the Assembly refused to concur\\nand the measure again failed. In 1769, after a lapse of fourteen\\nyears, an act was passed, dividing the Province into five\\ncounties, but no organization took place for two years, it being\\nnecessary to await the approval of the home government.\\nPrior to this time the courts and sessions of the Assembly were\\nheld at Portsmouth, and people living in the northern and\\nwestern sections were subjected to great inconvenience in the\\ntransaction of public business.\\nThe original counties were Rockingham, Strafford, Hills-\\nborough, Cheshire and Grafton, the shire towns being Exeter,\\nDover, Amherst, Keene and Haverhill. The county of Coos", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0308.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS. 285\\nwas formed in 1803 from the northern towns of Grafton. Merri-\\nmack, from the northern towns of Hillsborough and Rocking-\\nham, was organized in 1823 Sullivan, from the northern towns\\nof Cheshire, was instituted in 1827; and in 1840 the old county\\nof Strafford was subdivided and the counties of Belknap and\\nCarroll were added to the number, in accordance with the\\nnecessities of that section of the State.\\nChanges have from time to time been made by the removal of\\nboundary lines, and measures have at intervals been introduced\\nin the General Court, to organize a county from portions of\\nHillsborough and Rockingham.\\nPrior to the formation of Merrimack county, the people of the\\nupper towns of Hillsborough were strenuous in their efforts to\\nremove the county seat to some central town, or to establish a\\nhalf-shire in the northern section. Salisbury, Warner and Hop-\\nkinton, were most interested. All made propositions to induce\\nthe Legislature to give them the location. Hopkinton was suc-\\ncessful, and for years had the privilege of accommodating the\\ncourts, and on several occasions was honored by sessions of the\\nLegislature and the inauguration of governors. Concord was\\nconstituted the shire town of the county in 1823, when Merri-\\nmack was created, and as soon as practicable thereafter the offi-\\ncial business of the county was transacted there.\\nMerrimack is the interior county of the State it is the cen-\\ntre in population, and in location nearer central than any other.\\nIt is bounded by si.\\\\ of the remaining nine. Its greatest length,\\nfrom the most northern point in Danbury to the south line of\\nHooksett, is sixty miles, and its breadth, from Pittsfield to\\nNewbury, fifty-five miles. Its area is 505,000 acres. The\\npopulation at the time of its organization was about 33,000,\\nand in 1880 was 46,300.\\nThe towns embraced in the county are given below, with\\nbrief historical notes\\nAllenstown derived its name from Samuel Allen, the pur-\\nchaser of the Masonian claim. It was first settled by John\\nWalcott, Andrew Smith, Daniel Evans and Robert Bunton,\\nprevious to 1748. Incorporated in 1831.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0309.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "286 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nAndover was granted by the Masonian Proprietors in 1746,\\nwas first called Emeristown, or Emery stown, and afterwards\\nNew Breton. The first settler was Joseph Fellows, whose\\nbrother, John Fellows, was an early settler in Salisbury. It\\nwas incorporated in 1779.\\nBoscAWEN was granted in 1733, under the name of Contoo-\\ncook, and in the succeeding year was first settled by Nathaniel\\nDanforth, Andrew Bohonan, {who afterwards settled in Salis-\\nbury,) Moses Burbank and Stephen Gerrish. It was incorpor-\\nated in 1760, under its present name, in honor of Edward Bos-\\ncawen, an English admiral.\\nBow, so named on account of the bow or bend in the river,\\nin that portion once claimed by Bow but which now constitutes\\na part of Concord. Bow was granted by the Province of New\\nHampshire in 1727, at the time its first settlement was made.\\nBradford, an English name, first called New Bradford, was\\nsettled in 1771, by Deacon William Presbury, on the reception\\nof the grant from the Masonian Proprietors. Incorporated in\\n1787.\\nCanterbury, originally embracing Loudon and Northfield,\\nwas named for an English town, and was granted by the pro-\\nvincial government in 1727, to Richard Waldron and others.\\nConcord, the county seat and State capital, was granted by\\nMassachusetts in 1725, under the name of Pennacook, to Ben-\\njamin Stevens, Ebenezer Eastman and others. It was settled\\nin 1727, Capt. Ebenezer Eastman and family, from Haverhill,\\nMass., being the first residents. This settlement was on the\\neast side of the river, near the present railway station. The\\ntown was incorporated in 1733, under the name of Rumford, by\\nauthority of Massachusetts, and by New Hampshire in 1765,\\nunder the name of Concord. It became a city in 1853.\\nChichester originally included Pittsfield. The grant was\\ngiven in 1727, to Nathaniel Gookin and others. Paul Morrill\\nwas the first settler, in 1758.\\nDanbury was taken from Alexandria and incorporated as an\\nindependent town in 1795. Until 1874 Danbury was in Graf-\\nton county.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0310.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS. 28/\\nDuNBARTON, oftcn Called Starkstown, was named in com-\\nmemoration of the town and castle of Dumbarton, in Scotland,\\nnear which was the residence of General Stark s ancestors. It\\nwas granted by the Mason ian Proprietors, to Archibald Stark\\nand his associates, in 175 1. The first settlement was made in\\n1749, by Joseph and William Putney, James Rogers and Obediah\\nFoster. Incorporated in 1765.\\nEpsom was granted in 1727, to Theodore Atkinson, (who was\\none of the Masonian Proprietors,) and his associates. A settle-\\nment was commenced prior to the grant.\\nFranklin was formed from portions of Salisbury, Andover,\\nSanbornton and Northfield, in 1828, and named for our distin-\\nguished countryman, Benjamin Franklin.\\nHenniker was known as No. 6, in a series of towns granted\\nby Massachusetts. It was also granted by the Masonian Pro-\\nprietors. A settlement was commenced in 1 761, by James\\nPeters. Incorporated in 1768 and named for John Henniker,\\nmember of Parliament, London.\\nHooKSETT, once called Isle la Hooksett, was composed of\\nparts of Dunbarton, Chester and Goffstown, and was incorpor-\\nated in 1822.\\nHoPKiNTON, originally known as No. 5, was granted by Mas-\\nsachusetts in 1736, and afterwards as New Hopkinton, in re-\\nmembrance of Hopkinton, Mass., from which the first settlers\\ncame as early as 1740. Incorporated in 1765.\\nHill was incorporated in 1778, as New Chester. It origin-\\nally included Bridgewater and Bristol. The present name was\\ngiven by the Legislature in 1836, in honor of Governor Isaac\\nHill. It belonged to Grafton county until 1867.\\nLoudon received its name from the Earl of Loudon, a Scot-\\ntish peer. It was settled in 1760, by Abraham and Jethro\\nBatchelder, and was incorporated as an independent town in\\n1773, having been previously a part of Canterbury.\\nNewbury was first called Dantzick upon its incorporation\\nin 1778 it was named Fishersfield, from Mr. John Fisher, who\\nwas active in securing its charter, but who returned to Eng-\\nland soon after. Its present name was given in 1836, by act of\\nthe Legislature.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0311.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "288 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nNew London was settled by Nathaniel Merrill and James\\nLamb, in 1776, and was called Heidleburg. It was incorpor-\\nated under its present name in 1779.\\nNoRTHFiELD was Originally the north part of Canterbury.\\nIt was settled in 1760, by Benjamin Blanchard. Incorporated\\nin 1780.\\nPembroke, granted by Massachusetts in 1727, as Suncook,\\nwas settled in 1729 and incorporated in 1759.\\nPiTTSFiELD was formed from a portion of Chichester and was\\nincorporated in 1782. Its first settler was John Cram.\\nSalisbury is derived from the Latin stilus, health, or safety,\\nto which biuy, a contraction of borough, is added. It has been\\ncalled by the several names, Bakers-town, Gerrish-town, Stev-\\nenstown and Salisbury.\\nSutton was named from an English town. The town was\\ngranted by the Masonian Proprietors, in 1749, to Obediah Perry\\nand others, from Haverhill, Newbury and Bradford, Massachu-\\nsetts. The name of the leading grantee was at first given it.\\nThe first settlement was made in 1767, by Daniel Peaslee, and\\nwas incorporated in 1784.\\nWarner, named for Col. Seth Warner, of the New Hamp-\\nshire Grants, as Gov. Harriman says, or for Daniel Warner, of\\nGov. Wentworth s Council, according to other authority, was\\ngranted by Massachusetts, in 1735, to Dea. Thomas Stevens\\nand sixty-two others, inhabitants of Amesbury and Salisbury,\\nMassachusetts. It was denominated No. i, having been the\\nfirst in a series of ten towns extending westward, granted by\\nthe General Court of Massachusetts. It was afterwards called\\nNew Almsbury, then subsequently granted by the Masonian\\nProprietors and called Jennitown. In 1774, it was incorpora-\\nted under its present name. That portion of Kearsarge Gore,\\nsouth of the summit, was added to the territory in 18 18.\\nWebster was taken from Boscawen in i860, and named for\\nthe great statesman.\\nWiLMOT, formed from New London, New Chester, (now\\nHill,) and the north part of Kearsarge Gore, was incorporated\\nin 1807.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0312.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS.\\n289\\nThe accompanying table in the N. H. Hist. Pap., Vol. Ill, p.\\n169, gives the statistics of the several towns at the time of the\\nformation of the county, to which has been added the popula-\\ntion of the towns originally constituting the county, as given\\nin the census of 1880:\\ni\\niS\\n3\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2c\\n3\\nX\\na\\nX\\nX\\nX\\nj:\\nj:\\nS\\nCO\\ndi\\nOi\\nAllenstown,\\nAndover,\\nboscawen,\\nBow,\\nBradford,\\nCanterbury,\\nChichester,\\nConcord,\\nDumbarton,\\nEpsom,\\nNewbury,\\nHenniker,\\nHooksett,\\nhopkinton,\\nLoudon,\\nNew London,\\nnorthfield,\\nPembroke,\\nPiTTSKlELD,\\nSalisbury,\\nSutton,\\nWarner,\\nWiLMOT,\\n433\\n1642\\n2113\\n935\\n1318\\n1696\\nlOIO\\n2838\\n1450\\n1336\\n874\\n1900\\n800\\n2437\\n1694\\n924\\n1304\\n1256\\n1178\\n2016\\n\u00c2\u00bbS73\\n3246\\n670\\n1708\\n1204\\n1380\\n734\\n9SO\\n1034\\n784\\n1384s\\n711\\n909\\n590\\n1326\\n1766\\n1836\\nI32I\\n87s\\n918\\na79S\\n1964\\n795\\n993\\nIS37\\n1080\\nTotal, 38 228 216 77 m 143 81 41 40 38 60 132,743 40,955\\nThe towns not included in Merrimack county at its organi-\\nzation are as follows Danbury, with a population of 760\\nFranklin, 3,265; Hill, 667; Webster, 647.\\n19", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0313.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XX.\\nROADS AND TURNPIKES, ETC.\\nFrom the broad beaten track, when the traveller strays,\\nHe may land in a bog, or be lost in a maze\\nYou had better pay toll when you take to the road.\\nThan attempt through a by-way to reach your abode.\\nTHE IMPORTANCE OF ROADS.\\nHighways con.stitute an important element in the civilization\\nof a country. Without them there can be no enterprise, no\\nsociety, no improvement or progress in any direction.\\nAs a people abandon lines of travel marked by spotted trees,\\nand bridle paths in which they went from place to place, and\\nseek well built highways as they leave these for the macadam-\\nized road and the railway, they advance with equal steps to a\\nhigher plane of education and refinement.\\nOur ancestors were only acting upon the teachings of nature\\nwhen they levied taxes and formed corporate companies to pro-\\nvide roads to important business points. One of the first\\nmeasures that interested the early proprietors and the pioneers\\nin our New Hampshire towns was that of surveying and build-\\ning passable roads and bridges in their respective townships.\\nAlthough something was done towards the construction of\\nroads by provincial or State authority, the burden rested most\\nheavily on the sparse population of the towns.\\nRANGEWAYS AND ROADS.\\nThe earliest highway in the town of which we have a record\\nwas one along the west bank of the Merrimack river, which\\nwas intended to open communication with the Coos country. It", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0314.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "HIGHWAYS AND RANGEWAYS. 29I\\nwas laid out by a commission appointed by the Assembly, con-\\nsisting of Zebulon Lovewell, of Dunstable, John Talford. of\\nChester, and Caleb Page, of Starkstown. John Stark was the\\nguide, and the noted ranger, Robert Rogers, was one of the\\ntwenty men who accompanied the surveying party. The time\\noccupied was twenty-two days. The road was a mere pathway,\\nmade without filling ravines or cutting down hills. The streams\\nwere not bridged nor were the heavy rocks and bowlders dis-\\nturbed. It was traversed only on horseback, or by oxen draw-\\ning the rude sleds of the day. Mr. Coffin, in his History of\\nBoscawen, shows us the probable origin of this highway, as\\nfound in the field-book of John Brown, a surveyor of that town\\nMay 16, 1740. Joseph Gerrish, Nathaniel Dan ford, Edward\\nFitzgerald and myself laid out a highway of four rods broad\\nfrom King Street in Contoocook to Pemichewassett. Mr.\\nCoffin remarks that this line of road is nearly identical with\\nthe present travelled road. If the road extended to the Pemi\\ngewasset it must have passed through Lower Franklin, and\\nreached at least to the centre of that town. On the 3d day of\\nJuly, 1820, the selectmen of Salisbury legally laid out the River\\nRoad so-called, commencing at the Andover line, thence south-\\nerly by courses and distances so far as to intersect with the\\nOld Road in Salisbury Village, and near the present centre\\nof Franklin.\\nWhen the early proprietors of Stevenstown had decided to\\nmake a settlement in the town, they laid out a portion of the\\nland into lots of 100, 80, 60 and 30 acres, but reserved ample\\nrangeways for public roads. (See map accompanying preface.)\\nNot that roads would be laid out on these precise lines, but\\nthat an amount of land equal to these reservations should be\\nappropriated to that purpose. Three of these rangeways ex-\\ntended nearly the entire length of the town. They commenced\\nin the vicinity of the Merrimack river and run in a direction\\nnearly west to the highlands at the base of Kearsarge. Subse-\\nquently roads were constructed over them, so far as the neces-\\nsities of the town required or the nature of the land permitted.\\nThe South Rangeway extended from a point near the", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0315.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "292 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nold Webster place, westerly through the location of the South\\nRoad Village, by the southern extremity of what was formerly\\nknown as Cook s pond, and onward in a direct line to the north\\nof Tucker s pond, and continued westerly over the mountain\\ninto Warner. A road intersecting the range way just west of\\nthe pond is the direct route to that town. On the south of this\\nthere were thirty consecutive lOO-acre lots laid out, the first of\\nwhich was assigned to Philip Call, who was on the land at the\\ntime the grant was given. South of this rangeway there were\\nalso other loo-acre lots, and many others, each containing forty,\\nsixty, or eighty acres. The road corresponding to this range-\\nway was surveyed by William Calef, and in 1763 was built un-\\nder the superintendence of Nathaniel Huntoon and Benjamin\\nSanborn, It commenced at Shaw s Corner, ran south of west,\\nand at a point not far east of the South Road Village it struck\\nthe rangeway and followed it substantially westward over the\\nBlackwater.\\nThe Centre Road, occupying the rangeway limits very fully,\\nwas surveyed by Mr. Calef in 1768, the year in which the town\\nwas incorporated under the name of Salisbury. It commenced\\nin the eastern section at the river, by the Webster cemetery, ex-\\ntended west over Searle s hill, was subsequently crossed a little\\nsoutheast of the Centre Road Village by the Fourth New\\nHampshire Turnpike, and then extended on towards the west-\\nern boundary of the town. Commencing at the eastern ter-\\nminus, in 1770, the building of this road was continued west-\\nward as rapidly as settlements took place. The people of\\nPerrystown (Sutton) built for their own accommodation a road\\nto connect with it, and for a long time were accustomed to\\nbring their grain over this Salisbury road to the Webster mill,\\non Punch brook.\\nThe road corresponding in part with the North Rangeway\\nwas surveyed in 1763 fourteen years after the grant of Stev-\\nenstown was conferred by William Calef, who at that time\\nwas always employed by his townsmen for similar work. Only\\na few sections of it were ever built, and even portions of those", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0316.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "HIGHWAYS AND RANGEWAYS. 293\\nhave been discontinued, so that but little of the original range-\\nway is now used for a highway.\\nAs early as 1774 a road commenced at the eastern bound of\\nDr. Joseph Bartlett s home lot, on the South Road, and ran\\nnorthward to the Centre Road, just west of the old meeting\\nhouse on Searle s hill, and connected with other roads on the\\nnorth. There is no accessible record of the discontinuance of\\nthis road, or of several others that now exist only on a few\\nwell-worn record books. That section between Parsons s Cor-\\nner and the location of the Thompson school house was called\\nCash street, because many of the residents were obliged to\\npay cash for their purchases.\\nA highway, called the North Road in some of the town\\npapers, was constructed in 1770, between Shaw s Corner and\\nthe residence of Benjamin Huntoon, and soon afterwards was\\nextended north to the Andover line. This was the second\\nhighway leading to Andover, the other being along the Pemi-\\ngewasset. This was for many years a great thoroughfare for\\nthe northern section of the country.\\nThe Bog Road was built as a substitute for that by Dr.\\nBartlett s, above described. It connected the South Road with\\nthe Centre, before the existence of the College Road or the\\nFourth New Hampshire Turnpike, leaving the South Road\\neast of the Village, and intersecting the Centre Road at Thomp-\\nson s Corner. A continuation of the Bog Road extends north\\nof the Thompson school house, and north to Stevens s Corner,\\nwhere it intersects with the North Road.\\nRaccoon Hill Road extends from north of the Thompson\\nschool house, the whole length of Raccoon Hill, where it inter-\\nsects the rangeway between Andover and Salisbury, at what\\nis known as Rano s Corner, by Eliphalet Shaw s. This range\\nroad runs east and west for a long distance, intersecting several\\nother roads. It was built in 1781.\\nThe Mills Road extends westerly from the Centre Road\\nVillage, past William Dunlap s store, continuing to Prince s\\nmill, where it turns slightly to the north and terminates at the\\nfoot of the hill west of Frank VVhittemore s. In former times", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0317.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "294 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nit continued on to the Frazier place. At the foot of this\\nWhittemore hill the North Range Road again begins and con-\\ntinues west. A branch of this Mills Road turns south at\\nPrince s mill, extends by the residence of C. C. Rogers, and\\nintersects the Centre Range Road at Frank P. Rand s. It\\nthen continues south, past the Union meeting-house, where\\nit is known as the Couch Road, and leads into Webster. An-\\nother branch of the Mills Road commences south of Daniel\\nColby s, goes past the Glines place, and comes out at the South\\nRange Road, east of Blackwater river bridge.\\nA road begins just west of Alpheus B. Huntoon s house\\nand continues over Beach hill into Andover.\\nBays Road extends from Shaw s Mill, in West Salisbury,\\naround the eastern shore of The Bays, crosses the Turnpike\\nRoad south of Blackwater river bridge, and intersects the old\\nCollege Road eastwardly.\\nA cross range road begins at the south range, just east of\\nD. C. Stevens s, and continues north until it intersects the\\nCentre Range Road, at Harrison Heath s.\\nThe New Road to Franklin begins on the Bog Road, one-\\nhalf mile north of the Thompson school house, and extends\\neastward to the North Road, which it intersects just south of\\nthe Birthplace. It was laid out in October, 1869. The\\nroute was surveyed by Thomas D. Little. The land damages\\namounted to ^275.\\nCross Range Road was so called because its general direc-\\ntion nearly north and south, and it crossed the South and Cen-\\ntre rangeways. The northern terminus of the road was on what\\nis now known as the turnpike in Centre village. Tradition\\nsays the northeastern bound was a. pile of bricks, near the\\nsouthwest corner of D. J. Mann s house. It run south by the\\nBaptist church cemetery, and continued southward by the old\\nArchelas Adams place, now J. H. Smith s, west of J. M, Gree-\\nley s and on the height of land in a circuitous route towards\\nCorser Hill. The southern section is usually called Battle\\nstreet. Changes were made many years ago so that now, at\\nthe Centre, this road intersects the turnpike several rods further", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0318.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "HIGHWAYS AND RANGEWAYS. 295\\neast, by the former residence of the late Dr. Job Wilson.\\nChanges have also been made in the southern section, that por-\\ntion by Mr. Greeley s having been discontinued and a new piece\\nconstructed further to the west. The northern extension of\\nthis road leads to the highlands known as Racoon Hill.\\nMutton Road. This road extends from the South Road Vil-\\nlage in a southerly course to Corser Hill, in Webster, and was\\ndesigned to afford better facilities for reaching Hopkinton, then\\na half-shire town. It was built about the year 1819. Ensign\\nJohn Webster owned most of the land in Salisbury through which\\nit passed. The name was given it from the fact that some\\nresidents upon it helped themselves to mutton that did not\\nbelong to them.\\nWater Street, east of Mutton Road, commences near the\\nacademy and runs in a southerly direction towards the west part\\nof Boscawen, where it is continued under the same name.\\nA road not now much travelled leads from the turnpike a lit-\\ntle south of Water Street over Calef Hill into Water Street\\nin Boscawen.\\nThe New Road, as it has been called for the want of a legiti-\\nmate name, leads from the vicinity of Holmes s Mill to North\\nBoscawen, where it connects with the River Road. It was built\\nin 1849.\\nThe road from the South Road to the M. H. G. W. Fellows\\nplace was built in 1787. Moses Fellows gave the land and the\\ntown built the road.\\nThe new road leading from Shaw s Corner to Franklin was\\nbuilt in 1823-24.\\nThe building of the Fourth New Hampshire Turnpike through\\nSalisbury proved detrimental to the interests of the people of\\nHopkinton. As soon as they perceived it, the leading men of the\\ntown, Roger Perkins and Gen. Davis, petitioned the court for a\\nhighway from the Potter place in Andover through the western\\npart of Salisbury to Hopkinton. They were so confident of\\nsuccess that immediate action was taken and some portion of a\\nroad built through the town of Salisbury. It is not known\\nwhat action the town took, but the court rejected their petition,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0319.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "296 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nmainly through the efforts of Ezekiel Webster, who never for-\\ngot nor forgave the hostility of the people of that town towards\\nhim in the trial of an important case in which he was personally\\ninterested. The ground taken by the court was that portions of\\nthe road ran over established highways.\\nTHE COLLEGE ROAD.\\nA hundred years ago, in the early days of Dartmouth Col-\\nlege, it was considered necessary that good roads should be\\nconstructed from different points to Hanover. Governor John\\nWentworth, in the days of his administration, caused such a road\\nto be made from his mansion in Wolfeborough. Roads were\\nbuilt along the borders of the Connecticut, and from other locali-\\nties highways were opened, to facilitate travel to the seat of\\nlearning, which a few years previously had been established in\\nthe wilderness.\\nAmong others one was proposed which was to commence\\n.on the Merrimack, in Boscawen, and extend through Salisbury\\nto the Connecticut river at or near Dartmouth College. A\\npetition was presented to the General Court in 1784, represent-\\ning the necessity of such a public highway.\\nAt the November session of that year, the petition received\\nfavorable action, and an act was passed authorizing Timothy\\nWalker, of Concord, Ebenezer Smith, of Meredith, and Henry\\nGerrish, of Boscawen, to lay out a road in accordance with the\\npetition.\\nAt the next session of the General Court, the committee\\nhaving performed the duty assigned them, made the following\\nreport\\nREPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.\\nIn the House of Representatives, October 28, 1^8^.\\nThe Committee appointed to lay out a public road from the River road in\\nBoscawen to Connecticut River at or near Dartmouth College, reported the follow-\\ning returns, viz: Beginning at Dartmouth College thence southeasterly nearly as", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0320.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "THE COLLEGE ROAD. 297\\nthe road is now trod about three miles to where a bridge formerly stood over Mink\\nbrook on Eleazer Hill s Land, thence South about eighteen degrees East to Leban-\\non line as now spotted, thence nearly on the same course to the road by Clapp\\nSumner s House thence easterly as the road is now trod to Col. Payne s House\\nthence nearly on a straight course to the road between Piiillip Paddleford s\\nHouse and Barn in Enfield, thence as the road is now sjiotted to Col. Payne s House\\nin Enfield, thence on the road as now trod to Elijah Paddleford s House, thence\\nSouth si.xty-eight degrees East to the road as now trod, thence in said road to the\\nspotted line about fifteen rods from Nathaniel Hovey s Sugar camp, thence on\\nsaid spotted line to Mascoma River in Canaan thence nearly on a straight course\\nto the bridge over Mud Pond Brook, thence as the road is now trod about ten rods\\nthence on a straight course to the road by Eleazer Scofield s House, thence in\\nsaid road as now trod to Grafton line, thence on a straight course to a stump three\\nrods to the South of Joseph Bean s Barn thence straight to a stump four rods to\\nthe North of Resolve Matterson s House thence straight to the road as now trod\\nthence in the road to the path that leads to Cardigan thence on a straight\\ncourse to the road by Jonathan Nichols s House thence nearly as the road is now\\ntrod to Capt. Joseph Hoyt s House thence nearly as the road is now spotted\\nthrough Alexandria and New Chester to Benjamin Scilly s House in Andover\\nthence straight (leaving John Sawyer s House three rods to the North) to the road\\nas now trod thence by said road to the bridge over Ragged Mountain Brook\\nthence nearly on a straight course to a stake three rods to the South of Simeon\\nConnor s Barn thence on a straight course to the road by Jeremiah Scribner s\\nHouse, thence in said road to a beech tree marked E thence straight about\\nseventeen rods across Lieut. John Roe s Land to the road, thence in said road to\\nBenjamin Huntoon s House in Salisbury thence on a straight course to the road\\nbetween John Gale s House and l!arn thence in said road about twenty rods\\nthence on a straight course by the side of Anna Fifield s House to the road\\nthence in said road to a stake opposite Joseph French s House thence on a\\nstraight course to the road between Samuel Scribner s House and Barn, thence in\\nsaid road to a stake four rods to the East of Lieut John Pearsons s House, thence\\nstraight to Andrew Bohonon s House, thence following the old road East of\\nJacob Bohonon s House to the road as now trod thence in said road about ten\\nrods thence straight to the Bridge over the Mill Brook thence in said road to\\nthe bridge by Abel Tandy s House thence nearly as the road formerly went by\\nthe West end of Simeon Wadley s House, thence southeasterly about eighteen\\nrods to a stake by the road as now trod thence in said road to a stake twenty-five\\nrods short of Edward Eastman s corner thence on a straight course leaving said\\nEastman s House to the West to the road as now trod thence in said road to the\\neasterly side of John Bowen s land thence southerly on said l owen s Land by\\nLieut. Robert Smith s Land thirty-eight rods thence southeasterly on as straight\\na course as the land will admit of to Stirrup Iron meadow Brook nearly as the\\nroad is now spotted thence by said spotted road to Boscawen line thence as\\nthe road is now cut out to the River road in Boscawen near Col. Henry Gerrish s\\nHouse Said Road to be four rods broad.\\nConcord October 26, 17S5.\\nSigned, TLMOTHV WALKER,\\nEBENEZER SMITH, ^Committee.\\nHENRY GERRISH,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0321.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "298 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nVoted, That the foregoing report be received and accepted.\\nThe above committee were paid thirty-nine pounds ten shil-\\nlings for their services.\\nThe report was accepted and the road surveyed. The General\\nCourt, by resolution, instructed the selectmen of the several\\ntowns through which the road was to pass to assess a tax on\\nthe rateable polls, agreeably to the laws of the State, for the\\nconstruction of highways and bridges. And for the more\\neffectual carrying this act into execution, a committee was\\nchosen to call on the selectmen of the respective towns to build\\nthe road and keep it in condition safe and convenient for public\\ntravel. The committee was empowered and directed to see\\nthat the same is seasonably and effectually completed. This\\nduty was committed to Col. Elisha Payne, Capt. Joseph Hoyt\\nand Lieut. Robert Smith.\\nThis legislation having been insufficient, the committee the\\nensuing year was further directed, after giving reasonable\\nnotice to the selectmen, to cause the road to be built through\\nsuch towns as had neglected to comply with the instructions of\\nthe Legislature, and to present the bills for the expense of the\\nsame to the General Court for approval. In case towns then\\nrefused payment, the property of such towns was to be attached\\nand sold, by process of law, to satisfy the claims and costs.\\nThis road was built, but not on the exact route laid out by the\\ncommittee. There was a road answering nearly to the descrip-\\ntion of this once existing. It commenced on the River Road,\\noriginally called the Coos Road, at the farm of Henry Ger-\\nrish, in North Boscawen, now the Merrimack County Farm,\\nwest of the location of the county buildings, and continued on\\nthe base of the high ground nearly the whole distance to Salis-\\nbury. There are now to be found evidences of this in the vicin-\\nity of the old Angell mill, in Boscawen, also in several places\\nin Salisbury, and there is no doubt that it passed by the Col.\\nJohn C. Gale place into Andover.\\nBut what is known as the College Road by the older citizens\\nwe are told had its starting point on Water street, and\\nextended north over Calef Hill to the road known as the turn-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0322.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "THE COLLEGE ROAD. 299\\npike, passing the Levi Bean place thence with a slight turn\\neastwardly it continued on to the south rangeway, turning\\nsharp to the west by Gilbert Eastman s house, and after pas-\\npassing through the South Road Village, by Eliphalet Little s\\nhouse, it turned to the north and continued on past Dennis\\nLauder s the Ensign Moses Garland house when it turned\\nsharp to the west again at the centre rangeway, and continued\\non westerly to Parsons s Corner; thence on the line of the\\nfuture turnpike through Centre Road Village to a point just\\neast of Moses C. Webster s residence, when another turn north\\nwas made, and the road run just east of M. P. Thompson s\\nhouse, east of O. M. Tucker s barn thence west, crossing\\nthe line where the turnpike was afterwards laid out, then\\nturned north and passed just east of S. P. Webster s house,\\ncontinuing north down the hill, crossed again the turnpike\\nline by the guidepost, continuing north to what was called\\nthe switch, in Andover. From this point, with the view to\\na direct route, a partial survey was made over a portion of\\nRagged Mountain, terminating near the location of the railway\\nstation in Danbury.\\nWe have endeavored to follow this road through its windings\\nand angles in the town of Salisbury, with a steady head and if\\nthe reader has maintained his equilibrium in pursuing the same\\ntortuous and angular way, he will not regret his release from\\nfurther efforts in the same direction.\\nTHE FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNPIKE.\\nIn this State the turnpike road is a thing of the past. If it\\nwere not there would be no necessity for the historian to des-\\ncribe it or to explain its workings and advantages. It is a road\\nbuilt by a company of men, under special authority conferred\\nby the legislative branch of the government, by what is termed\\nan act of incorporation.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0323.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "300 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nThe company thus incorporated is allowed to use a given\\namount of capital, raised in equal shares, the grantees or those\\nassociated with them being permitted to take as many shares\\nas the members composing the company may determine. The\\nmanagement of such corporate bodies is regulated by the terms\\nof the charter given by the incorporating power.\\nThe term turnpike signifies a pike or set of pikes, fixed to a\\nbar or pole, that is made to swing on a pivot or pin, so as to\\nobstruct the passage of carriages. A turnpike road is one with\\npikes or gates, erected for the purpose named. As the benefit\\nto the builders of this class of roads is derived from specified\\ntolls, to be paid by those who pass over the roads, the company\\nis authorized to stop travellers and require payment.\\nTurnpike roads were very common early in the present cen-\\ntury, not only in our country, but among most civilized people.\\nFifty or more such roads were chartered by our State authori-\\nties, during a few years immediately preceding and directly after\\nthe commencement of the nineteenth century. The first turn-\\npike was incorporated in 1796, and extended from Piscataqua\\nbridge, in Durham, to the Merrimack river in Concord, passing\\nthrough Lee, Barrington, Nottingham, Northwood, Epsom and\\nChichester, a distance of thirty-six miles.\\nIn the year 1800, Messrs. Elisha Payne, Russell Freeman,\\nand Constant Storrs asked the Legislature for an act of incor-\\nporation, authorizing them and their associates to construct a\\nturnpike road from some point in Boscawen or Salisbury to the\\nConnecticut river, opposite the mouth of White River, in the\\ntown of Lebanon, and also a branch from Lebanon to Hanover.\\nThe petition was read and action postponed until the next\\nsession, which was held in the autumn of the same year, when\\nthe following Act was passed\\nState of New Hampshire, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand\\neight hundred.\\nAn Act to incorporate a company by the name of the Proprietors of the Fourth\\nTurnpike Road in New Hampshire.\\nSection i. Be it enacted by the Senate House of Representatives in general\\ncourt convened, that Elisha Payne, Russell Freeman and Constant Storrs and their\\nassociates and successors be, and they are hereby incorporated and made a body", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0324.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNPIKE. 3OI\\ncorporate and politic under the name of tlie proprietors of the Fourth Turnpike\\nRoad in New Hampshire, and in that name may sue prosecute, and be sued and\\nprosecuted to final judgment and execution, and shall be and hereby are vested\\nwith all the powers and privileges which by law are incident to corporations of a\\nlike nature.\\nSec. 2. And be it further enacted, that the said Elisha Payne, or Russell Free-\\nman shall call a meeting of said proprietors by advertisement in the newspapers\\nprinted at Concord Hanover, to be holden at any suitable time and place at least\\nthirty days from the first publication of said advertisement, and the proprietors by\\na vote of the majority of those present or represented at said meeting, accounting\\nand allowing one vote to each share in all cases, shall choose a clerk, who shall be\\nsworn to the faithful discharge of said office, and shall also agree on the method\\nof calling meetings, and at the same, or at any subsequent meetings may elect such\\nofficers, and make and establish such rules and by-laws, as to them shall seem\\nnecessary and convenient for the regulation and government of said corporation, for\\ncarrying into effect the purpose aforesaid, and for collecting the tolls hereinafter\\nestablished, and the same by-laws may cause to be executed, and annex penalties\\nto the breach thereof; provided the said rules and by-laws are not repugnant to the\\nconstitution and laws of this state and all representations shall be proved by\\nwriting signed by the person to be represented, which shall be filed with the clerk,\\nand this act and all rules, regulations and proceedings of said corporation shall be\\nfairly and truly recorded by the clerk in a book or books provided and kept for that\\npurpose.\\nSec. 3. And be it further enacted, that the said corporation are empowered to\\nsurvey, lay out, make and keep in repair, a turnpike road of four rods wide, in such\\nroute or tracts as in the best of their judgment and skill shall combine shortness of\\ndistance with the most practicable ground from the east bank of Connecticut\\nriver in the town of Lebanon, nearly opposite to the mouth of White river, east-\\nwardly to the west bank of Merrimack river in the town of Salisbury or Boscawen;\\nand also to survey, lay out, make and keep in repair as aforesaid a turnpike road\\nfour rods wide, from the east abutment of White river falls bridge in Hanover^\\nsoutheastwardly till it intersects the road first mentioned and to be a branch thereof.\\nSec. 4. And be it further enacted, that if said proprietors and the owners of\\nland over which the road may run shall disagree on the compensation to be made\\nfor said land and the building or buildings thereon standing, and shall not agree in\\nappointing persons to ascertain such compensation, the judges of the superior court\\nof judicature, holden within and for the county in which said land lies, upon the\\napplication of said proprietors, or of the owner or owners of such, reasonable notice\\nof such application having been given by the applicants to the adverse party, shall\\nappoint a committee who shall ascertain the same in the same way as compensation\\nis made to owners of land for highways as usually laid out, execution, on non-pay-\\nment, against said proprietors, shall issue of course.\\nSec. 5. And be it further enacted, that the corporation m.iy erect and fix such\\nso many gates or turnpikes upon and across said road as will be necessary suf-\\nficient to collect the tolls and duties hereinafter granted to said company from all\\npersons traveling in the same with horses, cattle, carts, and carriages.\\nSec. 6. And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful for said cor.\\nporation to appoint such and so many toll-gatherers, as they shall think proper, to", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0325.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "302 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ncollect and receive of and from all every person or persons using said road the\\ntolls and rates hereinafter mentioned and to prevent any person riding, leading or\\ndriving any horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, sulkey, chair, chaise, phaeton, coach, chariots\\ncart, wagon, sley, sled, or other carriage of burden or pleasure from passing through\\nthe said gates or turnpikes, until they shall have respectively paid the same, that is\\nto say, for every mile of said road, and so in proportion for a greater or less distance,\\nor greater or smaller number of sheep, hogs, or cattle: viz., for every fifteen sheep or\\nhogs, one cent for every fifteen cattle or horses, two cents for every horse and his\\nrider or led horse, three fourths of one cent for every sulkey, chair, or chaise with\\none horse or two wheels one and an half cents for every chariot, coach, stage-\\nwagon, phaeton, or chaise with two horses and four wheels, three cents; for either of\\nthe carriages last mentioned with four horses, four cents; for every other carriage of\\npleasure, the like sums, according to the number of wheels and horses drawing the\\nsame for each cart or other carriage of burthen with wheels, drawn by one beast,\\none cent; for each wagon, cart, or other carriage of burthen drawn by two beasts,\\none and an half cents if by more than two beasts, one cent for each additional yoke\\nof oxen or horse for each sley drawn by one horse, three fourths of one cent if\\ndrawn by two horses, one and an half cent and if by more than two horses, half a\\ncent for every additional horse; for each sled drawn by one horse, half of one cent;\\nfor each sled drawn by two horses or a yoke of oxen, one cent and if by more than\\ntwo horses or one yoke of oxen, one cent for each additional pair of horses or yoke\\nof oxen; and at all times when the toll-gatherer shall not attend his duty, the gates\\nshall be left open and if any person shall with his carriage, team, cattle, or horses,\\nturn out of said road to pass the said turnpike gates, on ground adjacent thereto,\\nsaid ground not being a public highway, with intent to avoid the payment of the\\ntoll due, by virtue of this act, such person shall forfeit and pay three times so muc h\\nas the legal toll would have been, to be recovered by the treasurer of the said cor-\\nporation, to the use thereof, in an action of debt or on the case provided that\\nnothing in this act shall extend to entitle the said corporation to demand toll of any\\nperson who shall be passing with his horse or carriage to or from public worshp, or\\nwith his horse, team or cattle, or on foot, to or from any mill, or on their common\\n\u00c2\u00aer ordinary business of family concerns, within the town where such person belongs.\\nSec. 7. And be it further enacted, that the said proprietors are hereby em-\\npowered to purchase, and hold in fee simple, so much land as will be necessary\\nfor said turnpike road, and the share or shares of any said proprietors may be\\ntransferred by deed duly executed acknowledged, and recorded by the clerk of\\nsaid proprietors on the records and the share or shares of any proprietor may be\\nsold by said corporation, on non-payment of assessment duly made agreeably to the\\nby-laws that may be agreed upon by said corporation.\\nSec. 8. And be it further enacted, that no toll shall be taken by said corpora-\\ntion for any mile of said road until six hundred dollars shall have been expended\\nthereon, or a proportionate sum upon the whole number of miles, reckoning from\\nsaid east of Connecticut river to said west bank of Merrimack river, where said\\nroad shall terminate.\\nSec. 9. And be it further enacted, that said corporation may be indicted for\\ndefect of repairs of said road, after the toll gates are erected, and fined in the same\\nway and manner, as towns are by law fineable, for suffering roads to be out of repair.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0326.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNPIKE. 303\\nand said fine may be levied on the profits and tolls arising or accruing to said pro-\\nprietors.\\nSec. 10. Provided, nevertheless, and be it further enacted, that if said turnpike\\nroad shall, in any part, be the same with any highway now used, it shall not be lawful\\nfor said corporation to erect any gate or turnpike on or across said part of the road^\\nthat now is used occupied as a public highway, anything in this act to the con-\\ntrary notwithstanding.\\nSec. II. And be it further enacted, that when said proprietors shall make it ap-\\npear to the judges of the superior court of judicature, that they have expended said\\nsum of six hundred dollars on each mile, or a proportionable sum as aforesaid, the\\nproprietors shall have the liberty to erect the gates as aforesaid.\\nSec. 12. And be it further enacted, that each of the towns through which said\\nroad shall be laid, shall have a right be permitted to become an associate with\\nthe original proprietors in said corporation; and in case of the refusal or neglect of\\nany such town, any inhabitant or inhabitants thereof, shall have the same right,\\nprovided, however, that such towns and inhabitants respectively shall be limited in\\nsaid privilege of becoming associates to such number of shares, as shall bear the\\nsame proportion to the whole number of shares as the number of miles of said road,\\nwithin such town shall bear to the whole number of miles of said road; provided\\nalso, that such towns, and inhabitants, shall accept the privilege hereby reserved,\\nbecome associates by making application for that purpose to the directors or clerk\\nof said corporation, or in case no directors or clerk shall then be appointed, to the\\noriginal proprietors, within three months after the public notice, hereinafter directed,\\nshall have been given by said corporation.\\nSec. 13. And be it further enacted, that said corporation shall immediately,\\nafter the route of said road shall be marked out and established, cause public notice\\nthereof to be given, by advertising the same, three weeks successively in the news-\\npapers printed at Concord Hanover.\\nSec. 14. And be it further enacted, that at the end of every six years, after the\\nsetting up any toll gate, an account of the expenditure upon said road, and the\\nprofits arising therefrom, shall be laid before the legislature of this state under for-\\nfeiture of the privileges of this act in future; and a right is hereby reserved to said\\nlegislature to reduce the rates of toll before mentioned, as they may think proper,\\nso however, that if the net profit shall not amount to more than twelve per cent,\\nper annum, the said rates of toll shall not be reduced.\\nSec. 15. Provided, nevertheless, and be it further enacted, that whenever the\\nnet income of the toll shall amount to the sums which the proprietors have ex-\\npended on said road, with twelve per cent on such sums so expended from the times\\nof their actual disbursement, the said road with all its rights, privileges and appur-\\ntenances shall revert to the State of New Hampshire and become the property\\nthereof, to all intents and purposes; anything in this act to the contrary nothwith-\\nstanding.\\nSec. 16. And l e it further enacted, that, if in six years the said road shall not\\nbe completed, according to the provision of this act, every part and clause thereof\\nshall be null and void. Provided also, that the State of New Hampshire may, at\\nany time after the expiration of forty years from the passing of this act, repay the\\nproprietors of said road the amount of the sums expended by them thereon, with\\ntwelve per cent per annum in addition thereto, deducting the toll actually received", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0327.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "304 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nby the proprietors and in that case the said road, with all its privileges, and appur-\\ntenances, shall, to all intents and purposes, be the property of the State of New\\nHampshire; anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.\\nSec. 17. And be it further enacted, that the directors and clerk of said corpora-\\ntion shall, whenever hereafter required, by a committee appointed for that purpose\\nby the legislature of this state, exhibit to said committee, under oath if required, a\\ntrue account of all expenditures upon said road, and all incidental charges apper-\\ntaining to the same, and also a true account of the toll received up to the times of\\nexhibiting such accounts; under forfeiture of the privileges of this act in future.\\nAccording to authority giv^en in the act, Messrs. Payne, Free-\\nman and Storrs associated with themselves such other gentle-\\nmen as they deemed advisable.\\nWhile the matter was before the Legislature a town meeting\\nwas held in Salisbury, and it was voted, October 27, 1800,\\nthat the inhabitants of Salisbury have no objection to a turn-\\npike road provided they have liberty to travel on said road, toll\\nfree, while transacting business that shall end in said town.\\nThe first meeting of the corporation was duly warned by\\nElisha Payne, January 28, 1801, and held at the house of Clapp\\nSumner, innholder, in Lebanon. On March 24, 1801, Elisha\\nPayne was chosen moderator, and Benjamin J. Gilbert, clerk,\\nwho was sworn accordingly. The meeting adjourned to the\\nsame place, April 14, 1801, at which time it was voted, That\\nthe rights and privileges of the Fourth Turnpike Road in New\\nHampshire be divided into four hundred shares.\\nVoted, That there be assessed upon the shares aforesaid\\nthe sum of six hundred dollars, that is to say, one dollar and\\nfifty cents upon each share, to be paid on or before the first\\nday of September ne.xt, and that, if any proprietors shall neglect\\nto pay the sum so assessed on his share or shares by the time\\naforesaid, the share or shares of such proprietor shall be soid\\nat public vendue, and such vendue shall be advertised six weeks\\nprevious to the day of sale.\\nMajor Constant Storrs was chosen Treasurer, and gave bonds\\nto the amount of five thousand dollars.\\nAt the first sale of shares, Thomas W. Thompson had two\\nshares, Andrew Bowers one, and Amos Pettengill four. We\\nfind no other Salisbury names recorded as proprietors. The", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0328.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNPIKE. 305\\nrival interests along the line were very strong and to locate the\\nroad was a very delicate and difficult matter. To avoid all\\nlog-rolling, which had made so much trouble in other cases,\\nthe proprietors voted, That James VVhitelaw, of Ryegate,\\nGen l Elias Stevens, of Royalton, and Major Micah Barron, of\\nBradford, all of Vermont, be a committee to survey and lay out\\nthe route.\\nJuly 6, 1 80 1, voted and chose a committee to draft a code of\\nby-laws for the government of the corporation. September 24,\\nthe committee reported the different routes. That part of the\\nreport which related to Salisbury was as follows:\\nFrom said pond Horse Shoe in Andover) through Salisbur}-, two routes the\\nnorthern by -Maj. G-ile s to Col. Gerrish s* is 9 miles 1 13 rods; from said Gerrish s\\nto Boscawen meeting-house is 2 miles 240 rods; from Horse Shoe pond through\\nthe south vale (See note) in Salisbury by Esq. liean s to, Boscawen meetino--house\\nis 10 miles 226 rods which is i mile 113 rods further than by Col. Gerrishes, but is\\nI mile 117 rods nearer than the south route by Col. Gerrishes to Boscawen meet-\\ning-house. Your committee recommend the south route by Esq. Bean s, provided\\nthere is no particular embarrasments in procuring the land.\\nELISHA PAYXE,\\nin behalf of the committee.\\nOn the question, shall the north route surveyed by the com-\\nmittee from Horseshoe pond, in Andover, through Salisbury, to\\nCol. Gerrish s, in Boscawen, be accepted for the turnpike road,\\nthe vote was 284 affirmative and none negative. John C. Gale\\nwas chosen as one of the five directors.\\nIf this route had been accepted it would have aggrieved Sal-\\nisbury Centre and South Road Villages, whose leading citizens\\npossessed both money and influence.\\nFebruary i, 1803, it was voted, That the particular route\\nreported by the directors, from Salisbury lower meeting-house\\nto Boscawen bridge be accepted. Selfishness was at work to\\nlocate the turnpike at the South Road, thus ignoring the Centre\\nCol. Henry Gerrish resided near where the County Farm is located at North\\nBoscawen, and Maj. Gale on the North Road, Salisbury, near the .Andover south\\nline. No person knows postively anything about .South Vale. It was probably\\nthe valley east of Raccoon hill, while North Vale was on the west side.\\n20", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0329.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "306 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nRoad people but at a meeting held in Andover, April 14, 1803,\\nVoted that the votes of the proprietors passed at the last\\nmeeting, relative to the course of said road through the town\\nof Salisbury, be reconsidered.\\nVoted, That instead of the route which has heretofore been\\npointed out by the proprietors for laying out the turnpike road\\nthrough the town of Salisbury, the said road shall be laid out,\\nmade and established on the straightest course practicable\\nthrough said town, anything in any former votes of the propri-\\netors to the contrary notwithstanding, and the same is hereby\\nestablished as the same may be particularly surveyed and staked\\nout by David Hough, Stephen Harriman and Elias Curtis, or\\neither two of them, to which purpose they are hereby fully\\nauthorized and empowered.\\nDecember 6, 1803, it was voted, That the same committee,\\nJoel Marsh, Elias Stevens and Jesse Williams, Esqrs., be ap-\\npointed to examine the different courses which have been pro-\\nposed for the turnpike through the town of Salisbury, and\\nascertain the practicability of making it on a different route\\nfrom where it is at present laid, and also to receive any propo-\\nsals the town of Salisbury or individuals may make the proprie-\\ntors respecting the same, and report at the next meeting.\\nAt a meeting held February 7, 1804, Thomas W. Thompson\\nwas chosen treasurer, and Andrew Bowers, Esq., first director.\\nThere was a continued contest between the South Road res-\\nidents and those at the Centre Village, each striving to secure\\nthe benefits of the new road and to prevent the other from\\nobtaining any advantages. The following representations were\\nmade by different parties to induce the directors to locate fav-\\norably to those specially interested\\nFOR BOTH VILLAGES.\\nWe the subscribers promise engage to the Proprietors of the fourth Turnpike\\nroad in New Hampshire in consideration that they should think proper to lay out\\nand make said Turnpike road by both of the meeting houses in Salisbury in the\\nusual ordinary way of making said road, that we will be responsible for all the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0330.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNPIKE. 307\\nextra expense in labor on tlie road, to make the same so that it shall not rise more\\nthan eighteen inches in a rod in any part of said road from Esq. Bean s to Widow\\nFifield s land, to the satisfaction of the Directors of said Corporation.\\nJONATH.^N FIP IELD,\\nAMOS PETTENGILL,\\nREUBEN TRUE,\\nISAAC BI.AISDELL,\\nJAMES PETTENGILL.\\nSalisbury Dec 22 1S03.\\nTo the foregoing is added, by way of post.script\\nNot to vary more thaTi eight rods from a straight line. It is further verbally\\nproposed that instead of the rise being eighteen inches in a rod it shall on the same\\ncondition be made to be only fifteen inches in a rod.\\nFOR THE CENTRE ROAD.\\nWe the subscribers promise and agree with the Proprietors of the fourth New\\nI lamp. Turnpike road, provided they can consistently with the public good, lay out\\nand make said road in such a direction as to pass by the Centre road meeting-house,\\nto pay them or the owners of the land all the damages which may be assessed by a\\nCommittee from the Court in consequence of said road being made across any\\nlands, from the place on Widow F ifield s where the road would vary from the direc-\\ntion where it has heretofore been laid out to half the distance through Mr. Ephraim\\nColby s land.\\nJONATHAN FIFIELD,\\nAMOS PETTENGILL,\\nJAMES PETTENGILL.\\nSalisbury Dec 21 1803\\nANOTHER PROPOSITION.\\nWe the subscribers promise agree to pay the damages which may be assessed\\non land from Ensign Moses Garland s to Esqr. Bean s in consequence of the fourth\\nNew Hampshire Turnpike being laid out and made across said land, or to pur-\\nchase said land of the owners and convey the same to the Proj^rietors of said Turn-\\npike on consideration said Turnpike shall be laid out and made to pass between\\nCapt. Luke Wilder s house and Mr. Josiah Rogers s, in Salisbury, and we further\\nagree in case said road should be made through Kphraim Colby s land to pay one-\\nhalf of the damages, or to purchase the one half of the land necessary for said road\\nconvey the same to the said proprietors for the use of said road.\\nSAMUEL (iREENLEAF,\\nMOSES EASTMAN,\\nANDREW BOWERS.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0331.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "308 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nSalisbury, December 19, 1803, at a meeting of the proprie-\\ntors, the committee reported as follows\\nWe the undersigned, a committee appointed by the proprietors of the fourth\\nNew Hampshire turnpike, to examine the different routes which have been proposed\\nfor malving said road in the towns of Lebanon Salisbury and to receive propo-\\nsals from the inhabitants of said towns report That in the town of\\nSalisbury comparing the public claim to the shortest course, with the inconven-\\nience and great damages to a very respectable part of the town, and the large sums\\nto which the corporation would be subjected in damages, we say that the road\\nought to be made by the two meeting houses, provided the inhabitants fulfil their\\nproposals and if the corporation in addition, would lay out a small part of what\\nthey will save in damages by the road going by said meeting houses, it would make\\nsuch a road, as in our opinion, the public would have no cause of complaint\\nELIAS STEVENS,\\nJESSE WILLIAMS, Committee.\\nJOEL MARSH,\\nVoted, That the report of said committee be accepted so far\\nas it respects the route of said road in the town of Salisbury,\\nand that the directors cause the same to be laid out, made and\\ncompleted, provided sufficient security be given for a compli-\\nance with the aforesaid proposals, it being considered that the\\ncorporation are to be indemnified for all extra expense in mak-\\ning said road there, so that it shall not rise more than fifteen\\ninches in one rod, and any vote or votes respecting the laying\\nout of said road in the town of Salisbury so far as they are\\ninconsistent with this vote, are hereby reconsidered.\\nThe survey was in due time completed, and is given in full\\nin the following pages\\nTHE FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNPIKE ROAD.\\nA Survey of the Fourth Turnpike Road m New Hampshire, completed in Decern-\\nber, 1S04.\\nBeginning at the northwest corner of the Toll house, at the bridge over Merri-\\nmack river, against the town of Boscawen,\\nThence north 65 west iS rods to a stake and stones.\\nThence north 33\u00c2\u00b0 west 47 rods to an Elm tree marked II.\\nThence north 27\u00c2\u00b0 west 33 rods to an Elm tree marked III.\\nThence north 15\u00c2\u00b0 west 26 rods to a stake marked IIII; four rods easterly from\\nthe northeasterly corner of Maj. Chandler s house.\\nThence north 32 west 332 rods to a stake marked IIIIL", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0332.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNPIKE. 3O9\\nThence north 37 west 2S rods to a stake marked IIIIII.\\nThence north 48\u00c2\u00b0 west 18 rods to a stake marked IIIIIII.\\nThence north 34\u00c2\u00b0 west 179 rods to a Willow tree by Nathan Carter s marked 8.\\nThence north 35^ west 240 rods to a stake marked IX.\\nThence north 45 west 70 rods to Landlord Pcarsons s signpost near the meeting\\nhouse.\\nThence north 54*^ west 28 rods to a stake marked XI.\\nThence south 80*^ west 30 rods to a stake marked XII.\\nThence north 49*^ west 18 rods to a stake marked XIII.\\nThence north 20*^ west 42 rods to a stake marked XI III.\\nThence westerly over the hollow 52\u00c2\u00b0 west to a Pine tree marked XV.\\nThence north 52\u00c2\u00b0 west 213 rods to a stake in Cogswell s pasture marked XVI.\\nThence north 43*^ west 102 rods to a stake marked XVII.\\nThence north 57 west 116 rods to a stake marked XVIII.\\nThence north 48\u00c2\u00b0 west 97 rods to a stake marked XVIIII.\\nThence north 18 west 157 rods to a stake marked XX.\\nThence north 14*^ west 84 rods to a stake marked XXI.\\nThence nortli 39 west 14 rods to an Apple tree by Landlord Choate sbarn\\nmarked XXII.\\nThence north 19*^ west 349 rods to a stake marked XXIII, by the blacksmith\\nshop by Stephen Gerrish s.\\nThence north 22 west 42 rods to stake and stones against the end of said Ger*\\nrish s wall.\\nThence north 35 west 16 rods to stake and stones opposite Henry Gerrish s\\nhouse.\\nThence north 48 west 14 rods to stake and stones.\\nThence north 55\u00c2\u00b0 west 78 rods to a stake marked XXIIII.\\nThence north 58** west 32 rods to a stake marked XXV.\\nThence north 65^ west 80 rods to a Hemlock stub on the end of the Hogback\\nmarked XXVI.\\nThence north 44 west rods to Salisbury line.\\nThence the same course 246 rods to stake and stones marked XXVII.\\nThence north 46*^ west 80 rods to stake and stones friarked XXVIII.\\nThence north 54 west 96 rods to stake and stones in the old road marked XXIX.\\nThence south 79* west 38 rods to the southwest corner of Samuel Greenleaf s\\ndoor-yard.\\nThence north 55\u00c2\u00b0 west 18 rods to an Apple tree marked I.\\nThence north 44 west 68 rods to stake and stones marked H.\\nThence north 50** west 197 rods to a Maple staddle* marked HI.\\nThence north 56* west 120 rods to a stake and stones by the old road marked\\nnil.\\nThence north 59^ west 99 rods to stake and stones by the old road marked V.\\nThence north 44\u00c2\u00b0 west loi rods to a stake and stones one rod from the south-\\nwest corner of Dea. Amos Pettengill s house marked VI.\\nThence north 29\u00c2\u00b0 west 25 rods to the westerly corner of Page s hatter s shop.\\nThence north 22\u00c2\u00b0 west 355 rods to stake and stones marked VI I L\\nThence north 28* west 68 rods to a .Maple tree marked IX.\\nA Staddle is a small tree left standing after the growth has been cut.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0333.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "310 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nThence north 35*^ west 123 rods to a Hemlock tree marked X.\\nThence north 32\u00c2\u00b0 west 91 rods to stake and stones marked XI.\\nThence north 40\u00c2\u00b0 west 202 rods to a Pine tree marked XII.\\nThence north 38^^ west 66 rods to a Hemlock tree on the bank of Blackwater\\nriver marked XIII.\\nThence south c^q\u00c2\u00b0 west 84 rods to a Hemlock tree marked XIV.\\nThence north 68 west 40 rods to a Uirch tree marked XV standing on the bank\\nof the river.\\nThence north 56\u00c2\u00b0 west 34 rods to a Hemlock tree marked XVI.\\nThence north 40\u00c2\u00b0 west 17 rods to a Hemlock stump marked XVII.\\nThence north 52\u00c2\u00b0 west 30 rods to a Beech staddle marked XVIII.\\nThence north 62\u00c2\u00b0 west 70 rods to the Cross road near the bridge last built by\\nCapt. Harriman.\\nThence north 49\u00c2\u00b0 west 92 rods to a stake and stones marked I.\\nThence north 28\u00c2\u00b0 west 45 rods to a stake and stones marked II.\\nThence north 50 west 10 rods to a stake and stones marked III.\\nThence north 69 west 122 rods to a White Ash staddle marked IIII.\\nThence north 88\u00c2\u00b0 west 94 rods to a stake and stones about two rods south of\\nMr. Mitchel s house.\\nThence north 78 west 54 rods to a Pine stump marked VI.\\nThence north 85 west 226 rods to stake and stones marked VII.\\nThence north 71 west 20 rods to the end of Harriman s gap to stake and stones\\nmarked 8.\\nThence north 59 west 100 rods to a stake and stones marked 9, about four rods\\nwesterly from Landlord Thompson s house in Andover.\\nThence north 87\u00c2\u00b0 west 29 rods to a Pine stump marked 10.\\nThence north 70\u00c2\u00b0 west 86 rods to a stake and stones marked 11.\\nThence north 70 west 33 rods to the southwest corner of Walter Waldo s barn.\\nThence north 58\u00c2\u00b0 west 27 rods to a Spruce stump marked 13.\\nThence north 54\u00c2\u00b0 west 74 rods to a Hemlock stump marked 14.\\nThence north 71\u00c2\u00b0 west 37 rods to a stake and stones marked 15.\\nThence north 33^^ west 28 rods to a Pine stump marked 16.\\nThence north 54\u00c2\u00b0 west 160 rods to a Pine stump marked 17.\\nThence north 60\u00c2\u00b0 west 57 rods to a stake and stones marked iS.\\nThence north 87 west 27 rods to the northerly corner of Harriman s bridge.\\nThence north 75\u00c2\u00b0 west 35 rods to a Hemlock stub marked 20.\\nThence north 84\u00c2\u00b0 west 1 19 rods to a great rock with stones on it.\\nThence north 73\u00c2\u00b0 west 57 rods to a Hemlock stump marked 22.\\nThence south 88\u00c2\u00b0 west 40 rods to a Hemlock stump marked 23.\\nThence north 50*^ west 82 rods to a stake and stones marked 24.\\nThence north 32\u00c2\u00b0 west 22 rods to a rock with stones on the top.\\nThence north 63\u00c2\u00b0 west 34 rods to a Beech stump and stones marked 26.\\nThence north 57\u00c2\u00b0 west 46 rods to a great rock with stones on top.\\nThence north 50*^ west 48 rods to a Spruce stump marked 28.\\nThence north 66 west 60 rods to Hemlock stump marked 29.\\nThence north 63 west 90 rods to Mack s oven.\\nThence north 74\u00c2\u00b0 west 62 rods to a Birch tree marked 31.\\nThence north 65\u00c2\u00b0 west 54 rods to a Hemlock tree marked 32.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0334.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNPIKE. 3II\\nThence north 45^ west 61 rods to a Beech stump marked 33.\\nThence north 41\u00c2\u00b0 west 24 rods to a Beech tree marked 34.\\nThence north 63\u00c2\u00b0 west 2S rods to the northerly corner of Mack s bridge.\\nThence north 52 west 66 rods to a stub and stones marked 36.\\nThence north yj west 44 rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence north 53*^ west 52 rods to a Maple tree marked 3S.\\nThence north 65 west 116 rods to a Hemlock tree marked 39.\\nThence north 51 west 4S rods to a Birch stump marked 40.\\nThence north 60\u00c2\u00b0 west 152 rods to a stake and stones six rods north of Maj.\\nGay s north door of his low house.\\nThence north 39 west 22 rods to a stake and stones marked i.\\nThence north 71\u00c2\u00b0 west 52 rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence south 70*^ west 34 rods to a stake and stones marked 3.\\nThence south 60 west 22 rods to a Spruce stump marked 4.\\nThence north 88^ west 49 rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence north 57** west 32 rods to a Maple stump marked 6.\\nThence north lo west 100 rods to a Beech tree marked 7.\\nThence north 16 west 48 rods to a Beech tree marked 8.\\nThence north 25 west ^t, rods to a Birch tree marked 9.\\nThence north 20 west 52 rods to a Hemlock tree marked 10.\\nThence north 32\u00c2\u00b0 west jS rods to a Maple tree marked 11.\\nThence north 21 west 26 rods to a .Spruce tree marked 12.\\nThence north 45^ west 116 rods to a stake and stones marked 13.\\nThence north 22 west 15S rods to a Bass wood tree marked 14.\\nThence north 15 west 56 rods to a Beech tree marked 15.\\nThence north 35*^ west 22 rods to a stake and stones marked 16.\\nThence north 49\u00c2\u00b0 west 26 rods to a stake and stones marked 17.\\nThence north 63 west 52 rods to a Spruce stump marked iS.\\nThence north 53 west 42 rods to a Hemlock tree marked 19.\\nThence north 60\u00c2\u00b0 west 124 rods to a Spruce stump marked 20.\\nThence north 67*^ west 100 rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence north 53\u00c2\u00b0 west 26 rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence north 63 west 45 rods to the top of a ledge of rocks at the southeasterly\\nend of the meadow or log on the height of land.\\nThence north 50*^ west 9S rods to a Hemlock stump marked 24.\\nThence north 24 west 36 rods to a Birch stump marked 25.\\nThence north 33\u00c2\u00b0 west 46 rods to a Hemlock tree marked 26.\\nThence north 82 west 36 rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence north 52 west 21 rods to a Birch stub marked 28.\\nThence north 38^ west 36 rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence north 66\u00c2\u00b0 west 82 rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence north 51 west 112 rods to a stump marked 31.\\nThence north 36*^^ west 300 rods to a Hemlock stump marked 32.\\nThence north 10 west 143 rods to a Birch tree marked opposite Mr. Lacey s\\nhouse.\\nThence north 23 west 40 rods to a Birch tree marked 34.\\nThence north 16 west 6S0 rods to a .Spruce stub marked 35.\\nThence south 25 west 50 rods to a Hemlock stub marked 36.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0335.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "312 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nThence north 14\u00c2\u00b0 west 278 rods to a stake and stones marked 37.\\nThence north 26 west 36 rods to a Hemlock tree marked 38.\\nThence north 33*^ west 40 rods to a Beech tree marked 39.\\nThence north 48^ west 366 rods to a great rock with stones on the top against\\nCol. William Johnson s.\\nThence the same course 54 rods to a stump marked i.\\nThence north 59\u00c2\u00b0 west 49 rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence north 45 west 90 rods to a rock with stones on the top.\\nThence north 53\u00c2\u00b0 west 26 rods to a rock with stones on the top.\\nThence north 23 west 35 rods to a Beech stump marked 5.\\nThence north 26\u00c2\u00b0 west 30 rods to a Beech tree and stump marked 6.\\nThence north 36\u00c2\u00b0 west 184 rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence north 62\u00c2\u00b0 west So rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence north 42^ west 100 rods to Clough s, four rods northerly of the line of\\nhis horse barn.\\nThence north 36 west 201 rods to stake and stones opp. Curriertown marked 10.\\nThence north 43*^ west 66 rods to stake and stones marked XI.\\nThence north 52 west 132 rods to a south corner of the Shakers fruit garden.\\nThence north 39*^ west 106 rods to northerly end of a water course.\\nThence north 28\u00c2\u00b0 west 36 rods to a Hemlock stump marked XIIH.\\nThence north 3 west 94 rods to corner of Shakers orchard marked XV.\\nThence north 94 rods to the pond.\\nThence by the side of the pond 330 rods to a Hemlock tree or stump marked\\nxvn.\\nThence north 45 west 92 rods to a Maple stump marked XVHI.\\nThence north 20\u00c2\u00b0 west 40 rods to a stake and stones marked XIX.\\nThence north 33\u00c2\u00b0 west 66 rods to Houston s barn southwest corner.\\nThence north 48 west 88 rods to a stake and stones marked XXI.\\nThence north 55\u00c2\u00b0 west 122 rods to a Beech tree marked XXII.\\nThence north 82 west 10 rods to a Beech tree marked XXIII.\\nThence south 63\u00c2\u00b0 west 48 rods to a stake and stones marked XXIIII.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Thence south 42\u00c2\u00b0 west 36 rods to a Maple tree marked XXV.\\nThence south 40 west 60 rods to a stake and stones marked XXVI.\\nThence south 77\u00c2\u00b0 west 14 rods to Capt. Aaron Cleaveland s horse shed.\\nThence north Sg west 68 rods to a stake and stones marked XXVIII.\\nThence south 80 west 136 rods to a stake and stones marked XXIX.\\nThence south 65 west 64 rods to a stone causeway built by Peter Miller at the\\nnorth end.\\nThence north 68\u00c2\u00b0 west 160 rods to a Birch tree marked XXXI.\\nThence north 50 west 40 rods to a White Birch tree marked XXXII.\\nThence north So\u00c2\u00b0 west 66 rods to southeasterly corner of Packard s bridge so\\ncalled.\\nThence north 20\u00c2\u00b0 west 12 rods across the river to stake and stones marked\\nXXXIIII.\\nThence west 32 rods to a great rock with stones on toj).\\nThence north 38 west 40 rods to a stake and stones marked XXXVI.\\nThence north 50\u00c2\u00b0 west 37 rods to a Pine stump marked XXXVII.\\nThence north 65 west 24 rods to a Pine stump marked XXXVIII.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0336.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNPIKE. 313\\nThence north 45\u00c2\u00b0 west 71 rods to a White Maple tree at the crotch of the road\\nmarked XXXIX.\\nThence on tlie river road towards the mouth of White river.\\nThence north 64 west 67 rods to a stake and stones marked I.\\nThence south 82\u00c2\u00b0 west across the river 31 rods to a stake and stones marked II.\\nThence north 65^ west 42 rods to a Chery tree marked III.\\nThence south 83*^ west 28 rods to a stake and stones marked I III.\\nThence south 73\u00c2\u00b0 west 52 rods to a stake and stones marked V.\\nThence south 85\u00c2\u00b0 west 118 rods to the south end of Hough s horse shed.\\nThence 80\u00c2\u00b0 west 44 rods to a stake and stones marked VII.\\nThence north 71 west 70 rods to a rock with stones on top.\\nThence south 81 west 90 rods to a Maple tree by Mr. Peck s house marked IX.\\nThence south 87 west 1 56 rods to a stake and stones at the west end of Mr.\\nPeck s bridge.\\nThence west 100 rods to the south abutment of a bridge by Mr. Gates.\\nThence north 71*^ west 38 rods to a stake and stones marked XII.\\nThence north 85 west 14 rods to a stake and stones marked XIII.\\nThence south 78 west 70 rods to a stake and stones marked XIIII.\\nThence north 87 west 130 rods to the north c jrner of the bridge called Dock.\\nParkhurst s bridge.\\nThence south 62\u00c2\u00b0 west 14 rods to a stake and stones marked XVI.\\nThence north 75*^ west 13 rods to an Oak tree marked XVII.\\nThence north 46^ west 98 rods to Mr. Waters s well.\\nThence north 35\u00c2\u00b0 west 78 rods to a Pine bush marked XVIIII.\\nThence north 33\u00c2\u00b0 west 98 rods to a stake, one rod south of Hubbard s store.\\nThence north west 22 rods to Esqr. Hutchinson s office.\\nThence north 8\u00c2\u00b0 west 76 rods to a stake and stones marked XXII standing\\nnorth from Dana s tavern.\\nThence north 46 west 54 rods to a Pine stump marked XXIII.\\nThence south 65\u00c2\u00b0 west 15 rods to the north end of Lyman s bridge over Con-\\nnecticut river.\\nWhich road is four rods wide southeasterly from the aforesaid bounds, and is\\nsurveyed by order of the Directors, by me,\\nJOEL MARSH, Surveyor.\\nCopy, c., examined by William Woodward, Clerk.\\nDec. 8, 1804.\\nThe above survey made by direction of us,\\nANDREW HOWERS, Directors of 4th\\nfOEL MARSH, X. H. Turnpike\\nWILLIA.M JOHNSON,) Corporation.\\nCopy examined by Parker Noyes, Prop. Clerk.\\nIt was generally supposed that the road was one of profit to\\nthe Proprietors, but a full and accurate statement of its con-\\ndition and income was never made, as required by the Legisla-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0337.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "314 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nture, until 1830, though it was completed in i8o4, but gates\\nwere not erected until two years later.\\nThe road as surveyed commenced at the northwest corner of\\nthe toll house at the bridge leading from the north part of Con-\\ncord, east side, and the south part of Canterbuury to the south\\npart of Boscawen, just north of the mouth of the Contoocook.\\nThe toll house, at that time, was evidently on the west side of\\nthe river, but thirty years later, in the memory of men of the\\npresent day, it was on the opposite side.\\nThere was a toll-gate in nearly every town. The gate in\\nSalisbury was called the Parker Gate, and was kept for many\\nyears by that faithful man, Dea. Daniel Parker. The toll-house\\nstood on the west side of the road, at the corner where the road\\nintersected the old College Road, south of the present residence\\nof B. F. Heath. The old cellar is still to be seen.\\nFrom the toll house the road was built as the river road now\\nruns, with slight variations to the Gerrish tavern, now the\\nresidence of Trevett Boyce, then through Boscawen Plain, by\\nNathan Carter s, now Caleb Hall s, thence north to Pearsons s\\nHotel, now Samuel A. Ambrose s, then turning to the west\\naround the cliff, and north past the toll house near the gulf,\\nstill standing and occupied by Aunt Aphia Thurston. It ex-\\ntended on north, as the road now goes to the Gerrish place and\\nup the long hill to Landlord Choate s, now Deacon Samuel\\nChoate s, on High street, over the Hogback to Salisbury,\\nLeaving the line of the College Road after passing Calef Hill, it\\nintersected the south range west of the present site of the\\nacademy, and went westward through the South Road Village,\\nturning on a curve line northward by the old Greenleaf store,\\nit crossed the centre rangeway, and run through Centre Road\\nVillage, by Dea. Pettengill s tavern, the site now occupied by\\nDaniel F. Searle, turning sharp round Charles G. Morse s house\\nthrough the Parker gate and passed on by the Mitchell place,\\nin Andover, now occupied by John M. Shirley, by the old\\nThompson tavern, and the Waldo tavern at the Potter Place.\\nAmos Pettengill carried this corporation by his personal in-\\nfluence through many a dark day. He invented a snow plow", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0338.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNPIKE. 315\\nthat was often drawn through the deep snow piles of Salisbury,\\nby thirty yoke of oxen, cutting a path a rod wide.\\nWe need trace the old turnpike no further, since we\\nhave carried the reader over its devious way, from its starting\\npoint in sight of Dustan s Island through Boscawen, Salisbury\\nand Andover, where it seems most proper to leave it.\\nBut its history is not completed. It has obstacles yet to over-\\ncome, or it must yield to their opposing force. The road was\\nnever popular toll bridges and pike roads seldom are. Though\\nresidents of the town were privileged to pass free on business\\nwithin town limits, and when attending church, or school, or\\nfunerals, they often cheated the road of its revenue, by acting\\nif not uttering falsehoods, and adopted measures to increase its\\nunpopularity; complaints were filed against its management;\\nsuits were brought to recover damages through the neglect of\\nits managers and operators, and petitions were sent to the\\nLegislature for the repeal of its charter.\\nBut it lived until near the year 1840, when an order was\\nissued by the court, declaring the southern portion of it free to\\npublic travel, the town of Salisbury paying the corporation\\n$600, as its share of indemnity to the stockholders. Other\\ntowns were awarded corresponding proportions of the amount\\ndue the company.\\nThere is connected with this enterprise the memory of a sad\\nevent. It will be seen that Mr. Russell Freenmn was one of\\nthe most active men in securing the charter and constructing\\nthe road. He was one of the most respected citizens of Grafton\\ncounty. It was his misfortune to contract more debts than he\\ncould cancel. As a consequence he was committed to the jail\\nat Haverhill Corner, under the law of his times, on complaint\\nof a creditor. Here he and a Mr. Starkweather were placed in\\nthe same cell or room with a miserable villian by the name of\\nBurnham. Taking offence at something these gentlemen had\\nsaid, Burnham, having secured a deadly weapon, suddenly fell\\nupon them and killed both of them. It was one of the most\\ndiabolical acts ever committed in the State, for which the mur-\\nderer was publicly executed.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0339.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXI.\\nBRIDGES, FERRIES AND CANALS.\\nWizard Fancy builds me bridges,\\nOver many a dark ravine,\\nWhere, beneath the gusty ridges,\\nCataracts dash and roar unseen.\\nBRIDGES.\\nThs first important bridge in the town was built over the\\nBlackwater river, in 1776. Nathaniel Meloon and Sinkler Bean\\ntook the contract to build it, at fifty cents per head, as the\\nrecord reads; but that needs an explanation which we are not\\nable to give, unless it be that a poll-tax of fifty cents was levied\\nto meet the expense. This bridge was probably on the line of\\nthe south rangeway, where it crosses the stream.\\nThe second bridge was also over the same river, but on the\\ncentre rangeway. Capt. Iddo Scribner contracted to build it\\nfor the sum of $39.00. It was constructed in 1777.\\nThese bridges were undoubtedly rebuilt in the course of a\\nquarter of a century, and others of less importance were also\\nfrom time to time constructed but they do not appear to have\\nbeen matters of record.\\nThe first bridge over the Pemigewasset was built in 1802,\\nand afforded the means of communication between Salisbury\\nand Sanbornton. Previous to this there was no crossing the\\nstream with teams, except by ferries, or by fording it at low\\nwater, or upon the ice in the winter, neither of which methods\\nwere available at certain seasons of the year. Crossing was.\\neffected just north of the location of Bepublican bridge, the road\\nleading to the stream being just south of the Gerrish block.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0340.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "FOURTH NEW HAMPSHIRE TURNPIKE. 317\\nIn 1793, it appears that Charles Glidden, Jonathan Eastman,\\nPeaslee Badger, Ebenezer Eastman, Jeremiah Clough, Obadiah\\nCloiigh, Chandler Lovejoy, Thomas Oilman, David McCrillis\\nand Thomas Cross obtained a charter to erect a toll-bridge\\nacross the Merrimack river, between Salisbury and Northfield,\\nwithin three miles of Cross s Ferry. The charter lapsed\\nthrough the neglect of the grantees to build.\\nAn act of incorporation was obtained in the year 1800, sty^d\\nAn Act to incorporate certain persons for building a bridge\\nover the Pemigewassett Branch, at Webster s Falls, between\\nthe towns of Salisbury and Sanbornton, and for supporting the\\nsame. The parties named as grantees were Ebenezer Web-\\nster, Ebenezer Eastman, Joseph Clark, Samuel F. Oilman,\\nThomas Clough, Jr., Ellison Fowler, Ebenezer Clark, Jonathan\\nAyers, Elijah Sargent and William Smith.\\nEbenezer Webster was authorized to call the meeting for\\norganization and the transaction of other business. They were\\nrequired to build within three years or forfeit the charter. It\\nwas completed before the limitation prescribed, though we find\\nIK) record of any meeting of the corporation, and none of the\\ncost of construction. The rates of toll permitted by the terms\\nof the charter were\\nFor a person on foot i cent.\\nFor a horse and rider 3\\nFor a horse and chaise or other carriage drawn by one horse, 10\\nFor a sleigh and one horse 4\\nFor a sleigh drawn by more than one horse 6\\nSheep or swine\\nFebruary 12, 1824, there occurred one of the most destructive\\nfreshets ev-er witnessed in this section. For some days the\\nweather had been very cold this was followed by a southerly\\nwind which increased to a gale, and during the night previous\\nthe rain fell in torrents the snow was rapidly melted, and in a\\nfew hours the heavy ice in the river broke up, and the swollen\\nstream swept away bridges and everything in its course. This\\nbridge shared the fate of all others on the Pemigewasset. It\\nwas rebuilt at once. The History of Sanbornton says the new", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0341.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "3l8 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nStructure was an old-fashioned string-bridge, with wooden piers,\\nand built upon contract by the Sanbornton brothers, William\\nand John Durgin, at a cost of ^2,000. The winter freshet,\\naccompanied by the tremendous gale and storm of January 27,\\n1839, again demolished it. The following summer the present\\ncovered bridge was erected, at a cost of $7,000. It continued\\na toll-bridge until 1845.\\nThe toll-house stood on the west side of the river, near the\\nnorthwest corner of the bridge. The toll-gatherers, whose\\nnames have been handed down to the present day, are Edward\\nBlodgett and John Robertson.\\nFERRIES.\\nIn 1800 there were two ferries over the Merrimack. The\\nupper one, known as Wise s Ferry, was nearly opposite the east\\ntermination of the south rangeway the other, called Cross s\\nFerry, was farther down, and furnished communication over the\\nMerrimack with Northfield and Canterbury.\\nCANALS.\\nAn act passed the Legislature, January i, 1796, authorizing\\na number of gentlemen to construct a canal from the Isle of\\nHooksett to the mouth of the Winnepesaukee river, and so\\ncontinue to the lake. Upon the expectation that the canal\\nwould be built. Col. Ebenezer Webster, Thomas W. Thompson\\nand others, in 1804, obtained a charter to build a canal by\\nWebster s Falls. This would enable them to transport goods\\nbetween Boston and the northern country at a cheap rate. But\\nneither of these projects was carried into execution, although\\nfreight was brought up the river on flatboats to Salisbury, to\\nBlodgett s Landing, south of Republican bridge. The design\\nwas that this canal should connect at Concord with the Middle-\\nsex Canal from Boston.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0342.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXIL\\nPERAMBULATION OF LINES.\\nNow that the septennial year has come around,\\nWe ll perambulate our territorial bound.\\nSTATUTE REQUIREMENT.\\nIt is a requirement of the statutes of the State that the lines\\nbetween towns shall be perambulated, and the marks and\\nbounds renewed, once in every seven years. In the provincial\\ndays the limit was three years. The work must be executed by\\nthe selectmen or by such parties as they may appoint.\\nTHE EARLIEST PERAMBULATION.\\nThe earliest record of the perambulation of the lines of Salis-\\nbury was made in the year 1762, when the township was known\\nas Stevenstown. In the month of September of that year,\\nElisha Sweatt, Peter Sanborn and Ebenezer Stevens were ap-\\npointed by the proprietors, at a meeting held in Kingston, a\\ncommittee to perambulate our adjoining town lines; for which\\nservice it was voted to pay them five pounds old tenor per day.\\nOn the part of New Breton, or Andover, the committee con-\\nsisted of Nathaniel Healey, John Sanborn and Jeremiah Lang.\\nThese men run the lines and established anew the monuments\\nbetween the towns they represented, and made a record, of\\nwhich the following is a copy:\\nProvince of New Havipshire.\\nWe, the subscribers, being chosen a Committee by the Proprietors of each town-\\nship hereinafter named, to settle the boundaries and lines between Stevenstown and\\nNew Breton, so called, have made a perambulation as follows, viz:", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0343.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "320\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nWe began at a Pine Tree, standing on a great rock in the bank of the Pemige-\\nwasset River, which is the boundary between the towns aforesaid, running about\\nSeventeen degrees South, about nine miles, to a beech tree* marked on the South\\nside with the letter S, and on the north side with the letter B, and with other marks\\nthereon.\\nWitness our hands, ELISHA SWEATT,\\nPETER SANBORN,\\nEBENEZER STEVENS,\\nNATHANIEL HEALEY,\\nJOHN SANBORN,\\nJEREMIAH LANG.\\nStevenstown,\\nDated October the First,\\n1762.\\nStevenstown, Oct. 22, 1762.\\nWe, the Subscribers, being a Committee chosen by the Proprietors of each\\ntown to settle the boundaries and lines between Stevenstown and Boscawen, have\\nsettled said boundaries, and made the lines agreeable to each charter of said towns.\\n1\\nELISHA SWEATT,\\nPETER SANBORN,\\nEBENEZER STEVENS,\\nNATHANIEL DANFORD,\\nJOHN FOWLER,\\nPETER COFFIN,\\nCommitee\\nfor\\nStevenstown\\nand\\nBoscawen.\\nTHE BOUNDARY LINE DISPUTE.\\nThe north line of Contoocook (Boscawen) run west fifteen\\ndegrees south; the south line of Stevenstown (Salisbury) run\\nwest seventeen degrees south that is the north and south lines of\\nStevenstown were not drawn parallel, as they were designed to\\nbe. The north and south lines of New Breton were each fif-\\nteen degrees south of west, and consequently parallel, and cor-\\nresponded with the north line of our town. The fact undoubt-\\nedly is that the mistake was made by the recording officer sub-\\nstituting seventeen for fifteen, thus covering a gore of Contoo-\\ncook previously granted.\\nTwenty years pass away, and the controversy regarding the\\nboundary lines has apparently just commenced. In 1780, De-\\ncember 22d, it was voted to join with Col, Henry Gerrish, to\\n*The stump of the beech tree is undoubtedly the one referred to by the Legisla-\\ntive Committee in 1S16, in their report establishing the line between Salisbury and\\nKearsarge Gore. It is frequently referred to in the records.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0344.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "TOWN BOUNDARIES. 321\\nprefix the boundaries at the western end of Salisbury, provided\\nhe comes with authority from the grantors to settle and prefix\\nthe same. Capt. John Webster, Dea. John Collins and Joseph\\nBean, Esq., were chosen as the committee. Several ineffectual\\nefforts were made to adjust the matter. Meetings were held\\nand adjourned; plans were laid and disconcerted; propositions\\nmade and rejected. On the 17th of October, 1781, the commit-\\ntee appointed nearly a year before, announced their readiness\\nto make a report of their acts.\\nOctober 9, 1787, they reported as follows:\\nCol. Gerrish came to us with a power of attorney that we\\ndeem sufficient to settle the boundaries at the western end of\\nthe township of Salisbury, and as it appeareth to us, that there\\nis a mistake in the grantors of the charters of Salisbury and\\nAndover, interfering one upon the other, and also a mistake in\\nthe grantors in laying out their lots beyond the limits of nine\\nmiles from Merrimack river, we think it best to give up our\\nclaim to the land north of seventeen degrees on the north upon\\ntheir confirming to us as far westerly as to take in all our land\\nthat is lotted, which we have encouragement from said Gerrish,\\nupon a straight line.\\nIn February, 1800, a committee was again chosen to estab-\\nlish the northwest corner bound of Salisbury.\\nJanuary 17, 1801. Voted, To accept the report of the com-\\nmittee chosen the 5th of February, last, to ascertain the north-\\nwest corner bound of said town, which was to the effect that\\nthey run the line from the southwest corner bound of the town,\\nnorth one degree west, between Salisbury and Kcarsarge Gore,\\nuntil the line intersected the south line of Andover, as is infer-\\nred from the description given by the committee.\\nLINE BETWEEN SALISBURY AND WARNER.\\nMay 30th, 1770, the town voted that Ensign Jacob Gale,\\nNathaniel Maloon, Joseph Bean, John Collins and Capt. John\\nWebster, be a committee to run the line with New Almsbury\\nand settle the bound at the southwest corner of Salisbury.\\nPerambulations were made in 1795 and in 1805. At each and\\n2 I", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0345.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "322 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nevery one of these, the southwest corner was reported in accord-\\nance with the original charter of Stevenstown, in 1749.\\nKEARSARGE GORE.\\nAs this tract of land lay adjacent to the western limit of\\nSalisbury, and was the occasion of much controversy and liti-\\ngation, it becomes important to refer to it in this connection.\\nThe ^lasonian Proprietors held possession of the Gore, in\\n1779, and on the 7th of April, of that year, at a meeting in\\nPortsmouth, they voted to survey out any ungranted land in\\nand about the mountain Kearsarge, and to lay out the same into\\none hundred acre lots. The same was surveyed and laid out\\nby Henry Gerrish, who reserved in each lot five acres for high-\\nways. These lots were distributed by the proprietors, and\\nthereafter were held by inhabitant owners. No settlements\\nhad been made in the Gore prior to this division of that land.\\nSalisbury was settled years before, but not through the entire\\nlength of the town to its western boundary. When the Gore\\nwas surveyed and lotted, it is very probable that the Masonian\\nowners unwittlingly trespassed on the territory of Salisbury,\\nand appropriated some portions of the common land of the\\ntown, and included them in the distribution. This was not\\nnoticed by the Salisbury people until some years had passed,\\nwhen it was discovered that the territory fell short of the speci-\\nfied nine miles. When Salisbury claimed what was regard-\\ned as her full area of land, a dispute arose as to the town line,\\nfollowed bv suits at law, and finally called for action on the part\\nof the Supreme Court.\\nIn 181 5, the Legislature appointed a committee to investi-\\ngate the matter at issue, to report to the next Legislature.\\nThe town of Salisbury, on the 23d of September, 181 5, in\\nregard to the action of the Legislature on the boundary ques-\\ntion, voted, to take the requisite steps to protect our interest.\\nAnd again in May, 18 16, the town chose Andrew Bowers,\\nEsquire, agent for the town, to act with the Representatives\\nat the General Court, in remonstrating against the acceptance\\nof the report of a committee to establish a line between this", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0346.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "TOWN BOUNDARIES. 323\\ntown and Kearsarge Gore, and to attend to all other business\\nrespecting^ said line, which they shall judge necessary for the\\nbenefit of the town.\\nAt the session of the Legislature in 1816, the committee\\nmade the accompanying\\nREPORT.\\nThe within named committee, having notified the Selectmen of Salisbun, and\\nKearsarge Gore, met and fully heard therein, and that, in their opinion, the line\\nhereafter described is the true division and ought to be established as the line of\\njurisdiction between said towns, viz Beginning at a large rock on the westerly\\nside of the highway on Warner line, opposite Thaddeus Hardy s house; thence\\nrunning north five degrees east about five miles to a beech stump, at the northerly\\nend of William Pingrey s land, formerly John Wentworth s thirty acre lot numbered\\n54, by Andover line, it being about two rods southeasterly from the bound between\\nland of Jonathan Brown and land of Moses Brown in said Andover, which stump\\nwas heretofore known by the name of the middle northwest corner bound of Salis-\\nbury, and is situate one hundred and eighty-four rods easterly of the birch tree\\nentwining a spruce tree, which Salisbury claims as their northwest corner bound;\\nand two hundred and eighteen rods westerly of the beech tree which the proprietors\\nof Salisbury marked for their first northwest corner bound, which line was satisfac-\\ntorily proved to the committee to have been the true westerly line of Salisbury at the\\ntime of its incorporation. And they further report, determine and award that the\\ntown of Salisbury pay for the services of the committee, their assistants and expen-\\nses, taxed at fiftv-one dollars.\\nJOHN OSGOOD BALLARD,\\nrOSEPII BARTLETT,\\nJOHN SMITH.\\nThe report was accepted in the House, and the Senate con-\\ncurred. The boundary was established accordingly.\\nThis action cut off one hundred and eighty-four rods claimed\\nby Salisbury next to the Gore, and gave Salisbury two hundred\\nand eighteen rods west of the bound established in 1762.\\nOn June 13th, 1818, Kearsarge Gore was annexed to the\\ntown of Warner. Looking at a map of the towns, it would\\nnaturally be suggested that the Gore should have been annexed\\nto Salisbury, but the access to Warner is far more easy, and\\nthis reason alone induced its addition to that town, Salisbury\\nnot desiring it.\\nREMONSTRANCES AND DEPOSITIONS.\\nThe papers prepared by parties in relation to the controversy", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0347.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "324\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nhave been generally preserved, and are of interest in our\\nhistory.\\nTo the Honorable the Senate 6^ House of Representatives of the State of N ew\\nHampshire ifi General Court cojivened\\nHumbly shew the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the town of Salisbury in the\\nCounty of Hillsborough, that we are owners of different lots of land in that part of\\nsaid Salisbury which adjoins Kearsarge Gore which lots have ever, when taxed,\\nbeen taxed in Salisbury and in no other town or place from the first settlement of\\nthe country to this day.\\nWe have been informed that the report of a Committee appointed by the Gen-\\neral Court to establish a line of jurisdiction between Salisbury Kearsarge Gore\\nwas at the last June session revised and accepted by the General Court which\\nreport drew a new line of jurisdiction, whereby if that line be established the\\naforesaid lands will be transferred to the Jurisdiction of, be liable to be taxed in\\nKearsarge Gore which will occasion us great inconvenience.\\nWith all due respect for the respectable Gentlemen who composed that Commit-\\ntee, we think the Report was made from an imperfect view of the subject, that if\\nits merits had been fully laid open to the view of the General Court the Report\\nwould not have been accepted.\\nWherefore, we pray that the Vote accepting the said Report may be reconsid-\\nered, or that such order may be taken on the subject as the wisdom of the General\\nCourt shall think the case requires.\\nTo shew that our opinion of that report is not without foundation, we beg leave\\nto submit the following facts and remarks\\nThe proprietary Grant of the tract of land now called Salisbury, formerly called\\nStevenstown, was made in the year 1749 by the Masonian Proprietors, who were at\\nthe same time the owners of the tract of land called Kearsarge Gore\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe Grantees of Stevenstown, soon after the grant divided part and only part\\nof the land granted to them into lots, leaving a considerable tract undivided\\nIn the year 1773 they laid out the thirty acre lots at the we.st end of the Grant\\nadjoining Kearsarge Gore, and then run it as [not legible] for the first time, the\\nwest end line of their grant, marked trees to shew the line.\\nThe thirty acre lots laid out in 1773 up to this time were immediately after\\ndrawn among the Grantees, some of the lots were drawn to the reserved rights of\\nthe Grantors, the Masonian Proprietors, who have ever since claimed held these\\nlots accordingly\\nIt is believed that the Masonian Proprietors by taking those lots in 1773\\nholding them ever since, in [not legible] as their reserved right, in the\\ngrant of Stevenstown did then recognize the right of the Proprietors of Stevens-\\ntown to the land as far westward as their line.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At that time Kearsarge Gore was\\nheld by the Masonian Proprietors in common; and was not laid out into lots until\\n1782 In the year 1782 Col. Henry Gerrish as the agent by the direction of the\\nMasonian Proprietors surveyed laid out into lots the tract of land called Kear-\\nsarge Gore bounded on the aforesaid line of lots adjoining Salisbury The sur-\\nvey plan of the lots then made by Gerrish was adopted by the Masonian Proprie-\\ntors has ever since been recognized by them", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0348.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "TOWN BOUNDARIES. 325\\nAt a subsequent period since question being made respecting the bounds between\\nSalisbury Kearsarge Gore the Masonian Proprietors appointed said Henry f ierrish\\ntheir agent, to join with a Committee of the Proprietors of Salisbury to settle the\\nquestion determine the proprietary line between Salisbury Kearsarge Gore.\\nIn the the year 1801 the said Gerrish on the part of the Masonians the said Com-\\nmittee of the Proprietors of Salisbury went together to the bound which has ever\\nbeen known recognized as the southwest corner bound of Salisbury from thence\\nrun northward the course directed by the Masonians on the aforesaid line which\\nwas run i^: marked in 1773, to be the north line of Salisbury and there made a\\nbound between Salisbury and Kearsarge Gore\\nThus the aforesaid line run in 1773, was recognized by the Masonian Proprietors\\nin 1773 in 17S2 again in iSoi was settled confirmed by the parties\\nThe limits of the grant from the Masonian Proprietors being thus settled by\\nthose who had the right so to do, it is believed that the Proprietors of Salisbury\\nKearsarge Gore are both bounded thereby.\\nThe description of the town of Salisbury in the act of Incorporation is the same\\nas in the Masonian Grant was probably copied from it\\nThe Proprietors of Salisbury have ever since [not legible] held the land west-\\nward to the aforesaid line run in 1773, to the town of Salisbury has ever held juris-\\ndiction to the same line.\\nThe aforesaid Report takes from Salisbury a tract of land of a triangular form\\nfour miles in length, one hundred eighty-four rods wide at the north end, running\\nto a point at the south iS: laying east of the aforesaid line.\\nThe inconvenience which will be the consequence of dividing the lots by this\\nnew line of jurisdiction, and transferring part of a lot to Kearsarge Gore leaving\\npart in Salisbury, we trust will l)e deemed a sufficient apology for this our request.\\nNovr 1S16\\nSigned \\\\Vd. ELIZABETH STRAW,\\nJAMES P. STRAW,\\nSTEPHEN S. STRAW,\\nSAMUEL EATON,\\nWM. PINGREY,\\nJAMES JOHNSON,\\nTHOMAS CHASE,\\nEBEZR. JOHNSON,\\nMOSES GREELEY.\\nAFFIDAVITS.\\nI Phineas Pean of the age of si.\\\\ty-si.\\\\ years testify and say that in the year of\\n1773 I was at a meeting of the Proprietors of Salisbury held at Kingston when the\\nProprietors Chose a committee to run out the town according to the charter, and\\nlay out the last division or thirty acre lots. My Father Sinkler 15ean, Benjamin\\nHuntoon i\\\\: Capt. John Webster were chosen for that Committee, the Committee\\nall lived in Salisbury. My Father moved into the town I with him in 1766 the\\nCommittee proceeded according to their orders, finding that Andover Charter run\\ntwo degrees on Salisbury they adjourned reported to the Proprietors that Andover\\ncharter run two Degrees on Salisbury requested instructions. The Proprietors", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0349.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "326 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nsoon after wrote to them that they had laid the matter before the Grantors, who\\nhad agreed to make up for said two Degrees at the west end of the town, even if\\nit should extend to Perrystown, and directed them to proceed lay out the last\\nDivision of lots, the Committee proceeded executed their commission in No-\\nvember 1773.\\nWhile they were at work at the west end of the town two of the Committee\\nHuntoon Webster and Mr. Foster the surveyor boarded at my Fathers came\\nthere put up every night. I saw them have the Charter of the town heard\\ntheir conversation, I heard Mr. Foster the surveyor say that the course they must\\nrun for the head line of Salisbury was due north from the southwest corner Bound,\\nwhich bound was a beech tree then well known. This beech tree was the southwest\\ncorner bound of lot numbered 23 stood where the stone is which is now recog-\\nnized as the southwest corner bound of Salisbury. The day that they run the west\\nend line of the town it came on stormey towards night and when Mr. Foster\\nthe committee came in I heard them say that they had run marked that line over\\nthe bald mountain as they supposed almost to the north line of the town, when\\nthe surveyor fell and broke his compass, which prevented them from going any\\nfarther and it being very rainy and cold they returned home.\\nI further testify that I have known some of the thirty acre lots adjoining that\\nline run by Foster to have been in part cleared up improved about forty years ago,\\nand the same have ever since been held under the Proprietors of Salisbury the\\nMasonian Proprietors drew their several rights or lots in this division of thirty acre\\nlots, one of them drew the lot since called the Fisher lot which is bounded on the\\nFoster line.\\nI further testify that in the year 1782 I understood that Col. Henry Gerrish run\\nlaid out into lots part of Kearsarge Gore and was then told, by James Flanders\\nEsquire others who assisted Gerrish, that Gerrish bounded the lots in the Gore on\\nthe Foster line.\\nI further testify that in June iSoi I was called to attend Colo John C. Gale\\nJoseph Bean Esqr. who were appointed as a committee by the Proprietors of Salis-\\nbury to join with Colo Henry Gerrish agent of the Masonian Proprietors, to run\\nthe west end line of the town and establish the northwest corner Bound.\\nCol. Gerrish the Committee appointed Mr. Ephraim Eastman surveyor to run\\nthe line. Ezekiel Straw, Reuben True and I went as their assistants.\\nWhile we were at the stone which is the southwest corner Bound of Salisbury,\\nI heard Col. Gerrish declare to the committee from Salisbury that he was commis-\\nsioned by the Masonian Proprietors as their agent to join with the committee from\\nSalisbury to perambulate run the west end line of Salisbury establish the north-\\nwest corner bound.\\nAfter some conversation about the point they should run, Colo. Gerrish said he\\nwas instructed by the Masonian Proprietors to run a course that would cover the\\nold Foster line, if it did not take more than one Degree west of north, the one\\nDegree he said was for the variation of the compass, they accordingly agreed to\\nstand one Degree west of north and said if that point hit the westerly bounds of\\nthe upper thirty acre lots in said last division they would agree it was right go on\\naccordingly. They started on that course as they went, they found an old spotted\\nline some of the bounds of the thirty acre lots. After proceeding some waj s East-\\nman the surveyor set his compass for an object at a distance Colo. Gerrish the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0350.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "TOWN BOUNDARIES. 32/\\ncommittee looked through the sights of the compass saw that it hit that oljject\\nthen Gerrish the committee went forward to the object the surveyor others\\nfollowed, and when we came near to the object which proved to be a Bass stub, we\\nfound Gerrish and the committee standing by it they called to us to come on\\nsaid we were right, that the Hass stul) was the southwest corner bound of the Fish-\\ner lot. \\\\Vhen we came to that stub I saw it was spotted and numbered, the marks\\nwere ancient but plain to be seen. One of the committee then said to Colo Gerrish\\nare you satisfied. Gerrish answered yes, come let us start on. We all went\\non together I do not recollect hearing anything said afterward about the correct-\\nness of the point which we run, for all agreed that we were right.\\nWe proceeded found marks of an old line in the woods, which by the appear-\\nance of the marks on the trees, was run as early as 1773 We found on this line a\\nlarge white rock which is seen at a great distance had long been noted as being\\non the line; there were then ancient marks evidently made by man on the rock\\nMr. True marked it again with his ax.\\nColo. Gerrish had his compass with him, and very often went forward on the old\\nline, set his compass and looked back would say you are right, come on.\\nWe found ancient marks on trees all along our course in the woods until we\\ncame as near as I can judge within half a mile of the north line we passed the\\nsame course to the north line, and there we marked a Birch tree with a spruce by\\nthe side of it for the northwest corner Bound of Salisbury each one present placed\\na stone at the foot of the tree that it might bt; known as the Bound. We set off\\nfor home, but it soon came on dark we were obliged to lay out in the woods all\\nnight.\\nI have lived ever since the year 1766 at the distance of about two miles from\\nthe aforesaid line called the Foster line tS: have never known any other line at the\\nwest end of the town run by the Proprietors of Salisbury or by the Masonian Pro-\\nprietors. When Foster the committee were running the said line in 1773 I under-\\nstood from them that the west end line had not before been run by anybody. In\\niSoi I with John Webster others assisted in surveying the common land in the\\nwest part of Salisbury. Ephraim Eastman was the surveyor We surveyed and\\nmeasured all the common land up to the Foster line so called, a plan of it was\\nmade which I exhibited to Nathan l A. Hazen Esquire agent of the Masonian Pro-\\nprietors, also informed him of the doings of the Proprietors of Salisbury respecting\\na sale of the land, and he recommended to sell all the land according to that plan.\\nAfterwards Mr. Ilazen as agent for the Masonian Proprietors authorized me to\\nrepresent sell their shares of all the common land according to that plan. I did\\nsell it paid over the money to his order and took his discharge for the same.\\nQuestion, by Richard Herbert, Jr.: Who were the committee for selling the\\ncommon land in Salisbury.\\nAnswer, by Deponent .\\\\ndrcw Bowers, Benjamin Pettengill, Jr., and Benjamin\\nLittle.\\nQuestion, by the same 1 )id you act as Auctioneer in selling said common land\\nAnswer. Ves.\\nQuestion, by the same 1 )icl you, or did you not at the time of said sale repre-\\nsent that said common land extended westwardly to the Foster line so called.\\nAnswer. I did so represent it, and sold all the land situated between the lotted", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0351.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "328 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nland in Salisbury westwardly to said Foster line, which was considered the western\\nhead line of Salisbury. I acted only as auctioneer in selling said land under the\\ndirection of the aforesaid Committee.\\nSigned, PHINEAS BEAN.\\nState of Nexo Hampshire, Rockingham, SS.\\nOn the thirtieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-\\ndred and seventeen, personally appeared before us the subscribers Justices of the\\nPeace quorum the said Phineas Bean and made solemn oath that the fore-\\ngoing Deposition by him subscribed, contains the whole truth and nothing but the\\ntruth relative to the point for which it is taken.\\nBefore us ALBE CADY, Justices of the Peace.\\nJOHN ODLIN, Quorum\\nI Reuben True testify and say that sometime in the month of June iSoi I was\\ncalled on by one of the Proprietors committee of Salisbury, to help run the west\\nend line, ascertain, establish, the north west corner bound of said town. I\\naccordingly went with them to the south west corner bound, which was a Large\\nstone, placed in the ground, by its appearance, and their joined in company with\\nJoseph Bean Esqr., and Colo. John C. Gale, committee in behalf of Salisbury Pro-\\nprietors and Colo. Henry Gerrish of Boscawen, agent for and in behalf of the Ma-\\nsonian Proprietors, Ephraim Eastman of Andover, was appointed surveyor by the\\npartyes. Phineas Bean Esqr Ezekiel Straw, and I assisted as ax-men, carrying\\nthe chain c. At the stone before we started, their was considerable conversation\\nbetween Colo. Gerrish the committee about the point of compass they should run.\\nI understood Colo. Gerrish was instructed by the Masonian Proprietors, to run a\\ncourse or point that would just cover the Foster line so called, if it did not take\\nmore than one Uegree west of north, which would strike the west Bound on the\\nwest side of the thirty Acre lots in the last Division, in that corner of said town.\\nAccordingly they started North one Degree west, said they could tell whether\\nthey were right or not when they came to the south west corner bound of the Fish-\\ner lot so called it was my duty to follow the surveyor and spot the line we steered\\non found an old line and some bounds of lots. I recollect one more particularly\\nafter we had run some considerable distance, the surveyor Mr Eastman asked me to\\nlook at his compass see his Object I did, saw it at a great distance, we called\\nit a .Stump but after passing over a piece of rising ground we found the object was a\\nstub; when coming up to it we found Colo. Gerrish the committee standing by it, it\\nwas a bass stub, which they all said was the south west corner bound of the Fisher\\nlot so called, and Colo. Gerrish and the committee agreed that they were right, and\\nafter that their was no doubt about the correctness of the course and all went on\\nI further testify that we found marks of an Old line along on our course, and\\nparticularly, a large white stone on the side of Bald Mountain so called, which ap-\\npeared to have ancient marks on it, and was recognized as being on the old Foster\\nline. I also marked that stone with my ax; we found some spotted trees, after we\\ndecended said hill along some ways, Colo. Gerrish had his compass with him, and\\nwould very often go along Forward on the old line and set his compass, and loo k", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0352.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "TOWN BOUNnARIES. 329\\nback, hallow out you are right, come on When we arrived to the north line of\\nSalisbury \u00c2\u00abS; ascertained it, Colo. Gerrish the committee of the Proprietors of\\nSalisbury marked a Birch tree I think with a spruce near the side of it, for the\\nbound, which they called the North west corner Bound of Salisbury and each one\\npresent placed a Stone at the foot of the tree.\\nSoon after we set off for home, but it was soon so dark that we could not find\\nthe way, and was obliged to stay in the woods all night. We built up a fire and cut\\nsome little hemlocks and laid down very tired indeed.\\nColo. Gerrish observed that he had surveyed more or less for several years and\\nnever had so severe a days work before.\\nI further testify that some time in the year 1S05 (I was one of the Selectmen\\nthat year) I assisted in running that line, with Mr. Joshua Lane, when he made a\\nsurvey of this town, who hit some of those objects, and particularly the above\\nnamed Stone, and he said it was about the best line that he ever followed in the\\nwoods, and was very well spotted indeed.\\nREUBEN TRUE.\\nS^ate of New IIatn/ shire, Rockingham, SS.\\nOn the thirtieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight\\nhundred and seventeen, the said Reuben True personally appeared before us the\\nsubscribers Justices of the Peace, quorum unus, made solemn oath that the fore-\\ngoing Deposition by him subscribed, contains the whole truth and nothing but the\\ntruth relative to the point for which it is taken. Said Deposition is taken in per-\\npetuam rei memoriam.\\nBefore us, ALBE CADV, I Justices of the Peace.\\nJOHN ODLIN, (quorum unus.\\nI Ephraim Eastman do testify and say that some time in June in the year iSoi\\nI was called upon by Joseph Bean of Salisbury to run the Line at the westerly end\\nof said Salisbury, I accordingly went and met with said Joseph Bean, also John\\nC. Gale, Colo Henry Gerrish, Phinehas Bean, Reuben True, Ezekiel Straw at a\\nstone which I understood then was the south west corner Bound of the Town of\\nSalisbury; and while we were there, there was considerable conversation passed\\nconcerning the Point of compass we should run, in which Colo. Gerrish appeared to\\ntake quite an active part, which caused me to make some enquiry, and I was told\\nthat Colo Gerrish was acting as agent in behalf of the Masonian Proprietors, and\\nJoseph Bean John C. Gale were a Committee for the Proprietors of Salisbury,\\nand I understood I was to run an ancient Line North point, and I was ordered to\\nrun North one Degree west on account of the variation of Compass, which I did;\\nand when I had run a half a mile or more, I came to a small pile of stones, I asked\\nwhat that ment, and I was told that it was one of the westerly Bounds of one of the\\nwesterly thirty acre lots in Salisbury, and when I had continued on a mile or more,\\nI struck a Bass stub, and when I came to it Mr. Gale, Colo Gerrish, Esq. Bean\\nwere standing around it, and I was informed that it was the south west corner\\nBound of the Fisher Lot so called. This stub appeared to have ancient marks on it.\\nI then continued on by my point and heard no more concerning the point of Com-\\npass that I can recollect. .Xfter we left said Bass stub I struck a large whitish Stone", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0353.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "330 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\non the side of bald Mountain so called, which was a noted object, Esq. Bean and\\nColo Gerrish had their Compasses with them and all the way till I came to the said\\nwhitish Stone they appeared to criticise my Line very particularly and appeared to\\nbe very well satisfied with the correctness of it, and when we were in the woods\\nbefore we came to the said Whitish Stone I heard one of them say at a short dis-\\ntance from me here is the Old Line. I continued on till I struck a birch Tree\\nwhich was standing on or near Andover Line, which some or all them spotted and\\nmarked, calling it the North west Corner Bound of Salisbury, and if I mistake not\\nput some stones around it.\\nQuestion, by Moses Greeley: Did you see any tree on or near the line you run\\nthat appeared to be anciently spotted.\\nAnswered, by Deponent I did.\\nEPHRAIM EASTMAN.\\nState of New Hampshire, Rockiftgham, SS.\\nOn the thirtieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-\\ndred and seventeen, the said Ephraim Eastman, personally appearing before us the\\nsubscribers Justices of the Peace, quorum unus, made solemn affirmation that the\\nforegoing Deposition by him subscribed, contains the whole truth and nothing but\\nthe truth. Said Deposition is taken in perpetuam rei memoriam.\\nBefore us, ALBE CADV, Justices of the Peace,\\nJOHN ODLIN, quorum unus.\\nI Joel Eastman of Lawfull age testify and say that sometime in the fall of the year\\n1795 I was called on by the Selectmen of Kearsarge Gore to perambulate the line\\nbetween the Town of Salisbury and said Gore and I did attend to that duty as one\\nof the Selectmen of the Town of Salisbury and that the Selectmen of the Gore at\\nthe South west corner bounds of Salisbury, which is now a large Stone, and agreed\\nto run a due North course and did run that course, and found a Number of bounds\\nof both and in particular a bass Stub, which bound appeared to agree well with\\nour corner, and on said corner found ancient mark of a line and I well remember a\\n.large white stone on bald hill which we took for an object before we ascended said\\nhill, and we found Marks of an old line descending said hill and before we arrived\\nto the North line Night came on and we made our course for the first settlement\\nwhich was Phinehas Huntoon s on Andover line, and it being .Saturday we did not\\npersue the business further.\\nQuestion, by Moses Greeley Did you assist, and when in placing the large\\nstone at the southwestern corner bounds of Salisbury?\\nAnswer, by Deponent I did assist in placing said stone and I think in the\\nyear 1796. I had known previously where said corner was prior to placing said\\nstone the corner was designated by a stake.\\nJOEL EASTMAN.\\nState of New Hampshire, Rockinghafti, SS.\\nOn the thirtieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-\\ndred and seventeen, Joel Eastman, personally appearing before us the subscribers.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0354.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "TOWN BOUNDARIES. 33I\\nJustices of the Peace, quorum unus, made solemn oath, that the within Deposition\\nby him subscribed, contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth relative to\\nthe point for which it is taken. Said Deposition is taken in perpetuam rei memo-\\nriam.\\nBefore us, ALBE CADV, lustices of the Peace,\\nJOHN UDI, IN, j Quorum unus.\\nI James Flanders testify and say that when Colo Henry Gerrish of Boscawen\\nsurveyed Kearsarge Ciore he came to my house and put up all night, it was if I\\nrecollect right in the spring of the year 1782. That evening Colo Gerrish told me he\\nwas appointed as a surveyor by the Masonian I roprietors to survey and lot Kear-\\nsarge Gore for them, and asked me (if I recollect right) if I would go and show\\nhim where Salisbury corner bound head line was. I accordingly went the next\\nmorning with Colo Henry Gerrish others to the south west corner bound of Salis-\\nbury shew it to Gerrish I then lived in Warner about forty or fifty rods from the\\nbound which was then a beach tree, this beach was also the south west corner\\nbound, of the south westerly thirty acre lots in Salisbury, was then well spotted\\nand marked. I also shew him the head line of Salisbury which run northerly from\\nthat bound on the west side of the two upper thirty acre lots in the south range,\\n(one of said lots is now known to belong to the Straw farm and on that course I\\nshew him a spotted line as far north (as near as I can judge) as two thirds of the\\nway across the west end of Salisbury which I then told Gerrish, was the west end\\nline of said town, this line was very well spotted and Colo Gerrish e.xamened it\\nvery closely.\\nI further testify that some time in the year 1796 (if I recollect right) I assisted\\nCapt Joel Eastman as one of the Selectmen of Salisbury (as he said in hailing and\\nplaceing a large stone where the within named beach tree formerly stood which was\\nthen recognized as the south west corner bound of Salisbury south east corner\\nbound of Kearsarge Gore.\\nQuestion, by Samuel Eaton: Was any part of that farm now called the Straw\\nfarm, cleared up, when you shew Colo Gerrish the line and bound?\\nAnswer, by the Deponent: I can not recollect certainly as to that point.\\nJAMES EAST.MAN.\\nHenniker, April, i, 1S17.\\nState of A ew Hampshire,\\nHillsborough, SS.\\nOn the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred\\nand seventeen, James Flanders, F.squire appeared, before us, the subscribers\\nJustices of the Peace quorum unus and made solemn oath that the foregoing\\ndeposition by him subscribed, contains the truth, the whole truth and nothing but\\nthe truth relative to the points for which it was taken. The deposition was taken\\nin Perfettiiitn Rei Mevioriuvt.\\nJOSHUA DAKI.IXG, Justices of the Peace,\\nOLIVER NOYES, (Quorum unus.\\nFrom what we are able to learn, we conclude that Parker\\nNoyes, Esq., and Thomas H. Pettengill, Esq., were the counsel", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0355.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "332 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nfor the parties. If so, it is quite probable that the following\\nquestions, which were raised by the committee of the proprie-\\ntors, Benjamin Little and Andrew Bowers, were put by their\\nattorney, Mr. Pettengill, and answered, most certainly, by Mr.\\nNoyes.\\nQuestion i. Does Salisbury by assuming a line beyond what the charter con-\\ntains give them a right to the soil\\nAnswer. If the Proprietors of Salisbury in making the bounds of their grant\\ndid go beyond the exact measure mentioned in the grant, and the Grantors, knowing\\nthe same, acquiesced for a time long enough to give title by possession, or in any\\nway recognized those bounds, as bounds, the Proprietors of Salisbury will hold to\\nthose bounds.\\nIf the Grantors appointed an agent with powers to run the line and fix the\\nbounds, he with the Proprietors of Salisbury did run the line and fix the bounds,\\nthe line bounds so made are conclusive on both parties, unless the agent exceed-\\ned his powers.\\nThe neglect of the agent to report his doings to his employers, or their neglect\\nto record the same will not vacate what was done; but the same may be proved by\\nthe testimony of witnesses.\\nIf the Proprietors of the Gore seeing the bounds which Salisbury had made to\\ntheir grant, and the occupation of the land to those bounds, neglected for more\\nthan 20 years to make an entry on the land, and have brought no action to\\ntry the title, it is believed that such neglect will amount to such an acquiescence as\\nwill put an end to the claim of the Proprietors of the Gore.\\nQuestion 2. Will not the Proprietors of the Gore hold the land west of the line\\nas lately established by the General Court s committee?\\nAnswer. The doings of that committee have no effect on the right of soil.\\nThey have no more effect on the question between the two parties, than the flying\\nof a bird thro the air would have.\\nThe General Court have not power, could not give power to their committee,\\nto determine the bounds of the land thereby bind the two sets of Proprietors in\\nrespect of the right of soil.\\nThe right of soil remains ever will remain precisely the same as if that com-\\nmittee had never been appointed.\\nThe Proprietors of Salisbury are one body.\\nThe town of Salisbury as a corporation is another.\\nThe rights of these two bodies are as distinct, as the rights of any two persons\\ncan be.\\nThe only effect that the doings of that committee can have if they have even so\\nmuch, is to determine the line of jurisdiction of the Town of Salisbury as a cor-\\nporation.\\nThe right of the Proprietors of Salisbury to the soil has no connection with,\\nnor dependence on, the line of jurisdiction whicii the General Court has assigned\\nor may assign to the town of Salisbury.\\nSigned, PARKER NOYES.\\nMay 6, 1S18.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0356.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "TOWN BOUNDARIES. 333\\nSalishury, May 8, iSiS.\\nA. Bowers, Esqr.\\nSir, I have endeavored to answer the questions put by the committee of the\\nProprietors of Salisbury by Mr. Pettengill by you.\\nIf the answers are not sufficiently explicit, I will at any time add any thing I can\\nto make them more so.\\nI am respectfully.\\nYour C^bed t Servant,\\nSigned, PARKER NOYES.\\nQUESTIONS BY MR. BOWERS.\\nQuestion i. If Salisbury Proprietors hold the land that is lotted, will they of\\ncourse hold the Common between the disputed lines?\\nAnswer. I Doubt, but incline to think they will. There is no doubt, if the line,\\nrun by Gerrish the Proprietors of Salisbury, be established.\\nQuestion 2. What effect has the law quieting all the claims of disputed land\\nwithin the curve line claimed by the Masonians on this case.\\nAfiswer. That law does not meet this case. It was merely an extinguishment\\nof the claim of the State in favor of the [not legible] on the lands between the\\ntwo disputed head lines of Mason s patent.\\nQuestion j. What would be the effect of Mr. Garland and Mr. Marston and\\nothers testifying that a beech stub more than a mile east of our claim was shown\\nto them by the Selectmen of Salisbury as the northwest corner bound that one\\nselectman had repeatedly preambulated to the same as such?\\nAnswer. The doings of the officers of the Town of Salisbury could not affect\\nthe rights of the Proprietors of Salisbury to the soil. That might be evidence of\\nthe extent to which the town of Salisbury claimed jurisdiction at that time but\\nwould not bind the Proprietors.\\n(Signed) P. NOYES.\\nMay 7th, iSiS.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0357.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXIII.\\nMILLS, WORKSHOPS, STORES AND HOTELS.\\nHigh curled the smoke from the humble roof, with dawning s earliest bird,\\nAnd the tinkle of the anvil, first of the village sounds, was heard\\nThe bellows puff, the hammer-beat, the whistle and the song.\\nTold, steadfastly and merrily, toil rolled the wheels along.\\nLabor is rest, from the sorrows that greet us;\\nRest from all petty vexations that meet us,\\nRest from sin promptings that ever entreat us.\\nRest from world-syrens that lure us to ill.\\nSAWMILLS.\\nBenjamin Chase, in his History of Chester, gives a clear and\\ncondensed description of the old-time sawmill, which we copy\\npreliminary to our record of mill building in Salisbury\\nThe early saw-mills were built with flutter or undershot water\\nwheels, with heavy rims, and at least three feet and a half high,\\nand about four feet wide, with a wrought-iron crank, from six-\\nteen to eighteen inches long. The water was brought on in a\\ntangent of about forty-five degrees. The gate hoisted perpen-\\ndicularly. The saw-frame run in rabbets in the fender-posts,\\nsecured by wooden knees called hook pins. The pitman, to\\nconnect the crank to the saw-frame, was all of wood. The saws\\nwere of iron, so that when the breast was worn hollow they\\ncould heat the saw and strike the back on an anvil and straight-\\nen it.* The carriage run on pieces of plank, called nogs, about\\ntwo feet apart, set perpendicularly in timbers, the corners cut\\nout to receive the carriage. Only one carriage side was cogged.\\nReel dogs were used both ends, so that the dogs were drawn\\nevery run. To feed, a roller went across the mill, in front of\\nthe saw, resting on wooden bearings on the plates, and a head\\n*The historian is doubtless mistaken, for an iron saw would be useless. The\\nsaw was recut, not heated and bent back.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0358.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "MILLS, WORKSHOPS, STORES AND HOTELS. 335\\nhanging down, from which there was a pole some ten feet long,\\nwith a pawl or hand on the end, to work the rag-wheel. They\\nhad no apparatus for raising the hand, but always had to be\\nthere, to take it up and lay it on a pin. They had no negro, or\\njig-wheel, but run the carriage back with the feet and to have\\nit go easier would have the mill incline a foot and a half or two\\nfeet in the length.\\nIt is generally understood that the first sawmill in the town\\nwas the Webster or Proprietors mill, located on Punch brook.\\nWe have accepted this as the fact but the following letter,\\nfound among the Masonian papers, at Portsmouth, will show an\\nanterior claimant for the enterprise\\nMarch ye i6th, 1748.\\nTo the Gentlemen, Proprietors Purchasers of Capt. John Tufton Mason, Esqr.,\\nhis right in Lands in ye Province of New Hampshire. I, the subscriber, humbly\\nshew that in or about ye year 1743, being a proprietor in the Grant of a Township\\ncalled Bakers Town, did in my own right, in ye Right of ye other Proprietors,\\nbuild a saw mill, and cleared and sowed an acre of Ground, and also built a meet-\\ning house for ye said Proprietors; but now understanding ye right of land is in you,\\nI earnestly request that I may be a Grantee in said tract of Land called Bakers\\nTown and that I may also have ye benefit of the Mill I built upon such Conditions\\nand Terms as the said Tracts of Land shall be CJranted and disposed of by you and\\nyou will oblidge Your very Humble serv t\\nSTEPHEN CHASE.\\nThis Stephen Chase was a descendant of Aquilla Chase, of\\nold Newbury, and was one of the grantees of the Massachusetts\\ncharter of Baker s-Town, perhaps the only one who had the\\nfortitude to come up and remain in the new country. No action\\nappears to have been taken in regard to his petition. There\\nhas been found a rough sketch of Bakerstown, bounded on the\\neast by the Merrimack river, with a sawmill located on Punch\\nbrook. On the intervale and near the banks of the river, at a\\nbend in the stream, is indicated what at that day was called a\\nmeeting house. The location appears to be northeast from the\\nspot where the Salisbury fort afterwards stood.\\nA rude outline of New Breton and Stevenstown, made by\\nWilliam Brown Clough, in 1753, or previous to that date, locates\\na sawmill at the Hancock falls. But it is not certain that any", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0359.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "3^6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nmill then existed in the town, except on paper. The first saw-\\nmill, so far as our authority warrants, was\\nTHE WEBSTER OR PROPRIETORS MILL.\\nTo advance the settlement it became necessary to construct\\na sawmill, and at a meeting of the proprietors, held at Kings-\\nton, March 22, 1759, it was voted that Deacon Elisha Sweatt,\\nLieut. John Huntoon, and Ephraim Collins are chosen a com-\\nmittee to lay out to Capt. John Webster one hundred acres of\\nland, that is granted to said Webster, for building a sawmill.\\nThe committee reported that they had attended to the duty\\nassigned, as appears by the record. Peter Sanborn, Capt. Elisha\\nSweatt, and Capt. John Webster were chosen to locate the\\nsawmill, make all necessary arrangements and have the work\\ncompleted by the first of October, 1761.\\nThe mill was erected on land belonging to Ebenezer Web-\\nster. During the year there was raised, at different times, five\\ndollars on each right, to defray expenses of building the mill\\nand laying a road to it.\\nVoted, to give four men that go to Stevenstown to work on\\nthe sawmill four pounds O. T, per day.\\nKingston, Sept. 29, 1761. Voted, the one-half the use of\\nthe sawmill to Capt. John Webster for three years, he, the said\\nWebster, sawing the proprietors lumber at the halves when\\nsupplied with water, keeping said mill in good repair, and at\\nthe end of said three years to leave said mill in as good repair\\nas when he, the said Webster, received said mill, except from\\nfire. If the mill should burn down he would not be under obli-\\ngations to rebuild.\\nLikewise voted, to Ebenezer Webster and Eliphalet Gale,\\neach of them one-quarter share of said sawmill on the same\\nconditions above-mentioned.\\nThe foregoing was signed by John Webster, Ebenezer Web-\\nster and Eliphalet Gale.\\nNovember 3, 1764, after the expiration of the lease, it was\\nvoted, to give Ebenezer Webster the use of the mill for three", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0360.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "MILLS, WORKSHOPS, STOKES AXD HOTELS. 337\\nyears from this date, he to saw the proprietors lumber at the\\nhalves and keep the mill in good repair.\\nMr. Webster subsequently purchased the mill and run it,\\nwhenever there was a supply of water. After he removed to\\nhis intervale farm he sold it to Stephen Sawyer, who continued\\nto run it, and also a grist mill in connection with it. At a\\nlater day he erected a clothing mill a little way down the\\nstream.\\nIn 1764, Capt. John Webster built a saw mill on Chance Pond\\nbrook. The mill and a barn stood just north of the residence\\nof ]\\\\Irs. Dudley Ladd. He also built a low log house. These\\nwere the first buildings erected in what is now Franklin West\\nVillage. The old name of Pemigewassett River Falls, or\\nthe Carrying Place, was changed to Webster s Falls, and\\nlater was called Eastman s F alls. Capt. John Webster sold\\nto Enoch Bartlett, and years after, Bailey Bartlett, who inher-\\nited it, sold the whole mill property to Ebenezer Eastman, for\\n$775.00.\\nIn order to secure more power, he built an aqueduct to\\nbring water down over the road, from the Carter grist mill into\\nhis mill. In 1805 the old mill ceased running, and Gardner\\nColby remodelled it into a forge-shop, and made horse shoes\\nand a variety of iron implements.\\nJeremiah Tilton had a clothing mill on the upper end of the\\ndam, and James Garland owned the premises when the build-\\nings were swept away in a great freshet.\\nAbout the year 1805, a dam was constructed across the falls\\nin the Pemigewasset river, in the rear of Joseph Brown s\\nhouse, in Franklin West Village, then known as Salisbury\\nEast Village.\\nA saw mill, one hundred feet long, was erected soon after-\\nwards, some fifteen rods southerly of the dam. Water was con-\\nducted to it by means of a flume on the west side of the river.\\nAt the same time was built The Mill House.\\nThese works were constructed and owned by an incorporated\\ncompany, under the style of the Pemigewassett Canal Com-\\n22", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0361.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "338 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\npany. Among its stockholders were Col. Moses Lewis and\\nCol. John Greeley. Thomas W. Thompson was the President\\nand Treasurer, and Edward Blodgett was the Clerk.\\nAccompanying is a copy of a certificate of stock issued to\\nJoshua Fifield.\\nPEMICxEWASSET CANAL.\\n[Seal.] Share No. 51.\\nThis certifies that Joshua Fifield of Salisbury in the County of Hillsborough\\nand State of New Hampshire is the Proprietor of Share Number Fifty one in the\\nPemigewasset Canal; which Share is transferable by making an Assignment on\\nthis Certificate, and causing the same to be entered in a book, kept by the Clerk\\nfor that purpose.\\nIn Testhnouv luhereof, the Seal of the Corporation is hereunto affixed, this\\nSi.xth day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and\\nseven.\\nTHOMAS \\\\V. THOMPSON,\\nAttest President.\\nED^VARD BLODGETT,\\nClerk.\\nMr. Fifield was the agent in buying and selling and had the\\ndirection of the mill. The lumber manufactured was sent to\\nNewbury port, and was a source of profit to the proprietors and\\na benefit to the town. But after a few years, in consequence\\nof restricted sales, the company suspended operations. The\\nproperty passed through several ownerships, including those\\nof Skinner Hurd, who, in 18 16, sold to Ebenezer Eastman.\\nIn 1823, Eastman left this location and operated mills near\\nthe site of the present grist mill, further up Chance Pond\\nbrook.\\nJohn Hancock had a saw mill half a mile up the brook, which\\nwas built as early as 1801. On the opposite side of the brook\\nJoseph Noyes had a grist mill and a clothing mill.\\nCapt. Winthrop Fifield tapped Punch brook north of the\\nnew road leading from Shaw s Corner to Franklin, and built a\\ncanal, evidences of which may be seen at the present day,\\nwhere it crosses the Franklin road west of Punch brook bridge.\\nHe extended the canal to the rear of his residence, where he\\nerected the larsrest saw mill in the town. He was accustomed", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0362.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "MILLS, WORKSHOPS, STORES AND HOTELS. 339\\nto run the mill by night, in season of abundant water. The\\ncanal cost more than $1,200, and at that day was a great\\nundertaking.\\nGRIST MILLS.\\nIn 1764, a committee was chosen to select a site for a grist\\nmill, and the ne.xt year it was voted, To give 200 acres of\\ncommon land to Benjamin Sanborn and Ebenezer Webster,\\nliving in Stevenstown, to provide a privilege, build a mill and\\nkeep it in repair for fifteen years, for which they shall have the\\nland.\\nVoted, Capt. Trueworthy Ladd, Col. John Webster, and\\nLieut. Matthew Pettengill are chosen a committee to lay out\\nsaid land and receive the obligations of said Sanborn and Web-\\nster for building said grist mill.\\nThe parties discharged their obligations, and for many years\\nthis was the only grist mill in the settlement. The mill stones\\nwere brought up on an ox sled by Col. Ebenezer Webster, in\\nthe winter of 1765, and are still in the vicinity of the mill site.\\nIn 1766, the proprietors voted to give Joseph Bean, Jr., and\\nothers, a privilege to erect a grist mill, for a term of fifteen\\nyears, but the offer was not accepted.\\nJacob Carter erected the first grist mill on Chance Pond\\nbrook. His wife, Sarah, was a sister to Ebenezer Eastman,\\nwho succeeded Carter in the ownership of the mill. This mill\\nstood where James Taylor s foundry is located.\\nThe first saw and grist mill erected in the west part of the\\ntown was built by Capt. Samuel Elkins, of Epping, who removed\\nto Salisbury between 1781 and 1785, building the house now\\noccupied by John Colby. He constructed a dam and erected\\nmills on the site of the D. S. Prince mill. He was a captain\\nin the Revolutionary waR His wife was Esther Robinson, of\\nPoplin, (Fremont.) From Salisbury he removed to Andover,\\nwhere he died in 1823.\\nOn the stream running from Tucker s pond to the Black-\\nwater, Nathaniel Greeley, many years ago, had a saw mill On", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0363.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "340 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nMill brook, back of the Maloon house, Silas Elkins had a shin-\\ngle mill, which was built by Israel and John Bean.\\nJames Currier early erected a grist mill on Blackwater river\\nopposite the John Shaw mill, the canal being in front of\\nThomas Whittaker s. A plank walk was built across the river\\nto give access to the mill.\\nSamuel Dunlap, Jr., purchased the Deacon Amos Pettengill\\nsaw mill and built a small grist mill on the site of the John\\nShaw mill. In May, 1834, he sold the property to D. C.\\nCyrus Gookin, who removed the old mill, and erected the\\npresent convenient fliour mills. For many years it received\\npatronage from the neighboring towns.\\nFrancis Stevens bought out the Gookins in 1858 and run\\nthe works until 1867, when James Shaw went into partnership\\nwith him. In 1872, John Shaw bought Stevens s interest.\\nThe Shaw Brothers continued it until the death of James, in\\n1873. Since that time it has been run by John Shaw.\\nOIL MILL.\\nWilder Bowers erected, before the close of the last cen-\\ntury, a large flaxseed oil mill, on the site south of William\\nHolmes s saw mill. It was the first mill built on Stirrup Iron\\nbrook, and for a number of years it did a good business. As\\nthe cultivation of fla.x ceased, they closed business, and the\\nmill was swept away by the freshet of 1826.\\nHenry and Samuel Calef^bought the privilege, put in a grist\\nmill, run it for a time, and were succeeded by John Emerson,,\\nwho put up a tannery there.\\nWOOLEN MILLS.\\nThe first woolen mill in Salisbury was erected by Aquilla\\nPingree, on Punch brook, soon after 1783. He was succeeded\\nby his son, Solomon Pingree. Capt. William Pingree, near the\\nclose of the last century, erected a fulling and carding mill in.\\nthe west part of the town, on Blackwater river.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0364.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "MILLS, WORKSHOPS, STORES AND HOTELS. 34 1\\nPOTASH MANUFACTORIES.\\nIn clearing the land, large quantities of wood were burned\\non the ground, the ashes of which, with those from the fire\\nplaces, were collected by the farmers and sold to the potash\\nmakers, at prices varying from si.x to nine pence a bushel.\\nThey were leached and the lye boiled to the required strength,\\nwhen it was dipped out with wooden ladles into large cast iron\\nkettles. After being cooled, it was taken out, packed in\\nbarrels, and transported to the larger towns.\\nAndrew Bowers had the first potash manufactory in town.\\nIt is said to have been first located near his residence, and\\ntraces of a building are found there. But it is certain that Mr.\\nBowers carried on the business on the north side of the road,\\n-opposite the academy, which was afterwards operated by John\\nWhite. John C. Gale, at the North road, also made potash.\\nJonathan P. Webster, at the Centre road, had potash works\\nabout 1820, the old pump which was used still remaining to\\nmark the location. Stephen Sawyer had another manufactory\\njust north of the Webster saw mill.\\nTANNERIES.\\nThe first tannery in East Salisbury, or Pemigewasset Vil-\\nlage, was built by Mr. Leavitt on the site of the present one.\\nHe sold to Jeremiah Green and Ira Greeley.\\nAt the foot of the hill on Cross range road, not far south of\\nCentre Road Village, Herschel Green had a tannery which he\\nrun for several years.\\nIt was in a small, artificial pond, near by, made by throwing\\na dam across the brook, that the first baptism by immersion\\ntook place in the town.\\nWilliam Haddock, at one time, had a tannery at the Lower\\nVillage.\\nJohn Emerson, as already mentioned, changed a grist mill\\non Stirrup Iron brook into a tanning and currying mill. This\\nhe sold to David F. Kimball, of Boscawen, who took Moses\\nSawyer as a partner and converted it into a grist mill. Joseph", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0365.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "342 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nO. Hall purchased it, and while it was in his possession it was\\ndestroyed by fire. Henry and Parker Weeks bought the land\\nand sold it to William Holmes.\\nCARPENTERING.\\nWhen it became the custom to build framed houses, there\\nwas an increased demand for carpenter work. The work was\\nvery laborious. The sawing of boards into different widths\\nand all planing of boards was done by hand. Doors and sash\\nwere made by the same slow process, as were cornices, mould-\\nings and brackets. Nails were also made by hand, and of\\nwrought iron. The first carpenter in the settlement was, evi-\\ndently, John Fellows. Of the same occupation, and good\\nworkmen, were Samuel Greenleaf, Annaniah Bohonon, Na-\\nthaniel Noyes, and Thomas and Eliphalet Williams. Several\\nof these mechanics took the contract to build the old Dart-\\nmouth Hall at Dartmouth College. They walked from Salis-\\nbury to Hanover and carried their tools on their shoulders.\\nA/ BLACKSMITHING.\\nAndrew Pettengill was the first blacksmith in the town.\\nHis shop was on the South road, just west of T, D. Little s\\nresidence. He was a skillful workman and made all the iron\\narticles required by the people.\\nAbel Morrill was the first blacksmith at the Lower Village,\\nlocating there in 1785.\\nJames Proctor was a native of Unity learned edge tool mak-\\ning at Claremont removed to Salisbury East Village in 1809,\\nand built a shop and run a trip hammer north of Mrs. Dudley\\nLadd s, on Chance Pond brook. He died February i, 1847.\\nHis wife was Abigail Ladd, a native of Unity, who died June\\n17, 1873-\\nIn 1811, Robert M. Adams, having completed his appren-\\nticeship with Mr. Morrill, opened a shop on Cash street, but\\nafterwards removed to East Concord and carried on the busi-\\nness there for forty years.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0366.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "MILLS, WORKSHOPS, STORES AND HOTELS. 343\\nIsaac Cole came to Salisbury in 1821, having, with his son,\\nJohn A., put up a foundry the year precedinfj. It was located\\non the north side of the dam, opposite to Ebenezer Eastman s\\ngrist mill, on Chance Pond brook. The building is still stand-\\ning. This foundry was the second established in the State,\\nthe first having been built in Dover some years before. Mr.\\nCole was the son of a Revolutionary soldier who lived in\\nMethuen, Mass., in 1768; married Harriet Atwood, of Atkin-\\nson. He conducted a successful business until 1827, when he\\nsold to Dudley Ladd, and moved to Lake Village, where he\\nbuilt a foundry and continued for many years, selling to his\\nsons, B. J. Cole Company. Their stoves were found in many\\nvillage stores throughout the State.\\nTAILOR SHOPS.\\nThe town has had several residents engaged in the tailoring\\nbusiness. The earliest was Caleb Judkins. Deacon William\\nCate was also a manufacturer of custom made clothing. In\\nJune, 1795, he bought land of Abel Elkins and built the house\\nin which Edward Shurtleff now lives. He usually had several\\napprentices, among whom was M. P. Thompson, who succeeded\\nhim. Cate married, March 13, 1796, Polly, daughter of Joseph\\nFifield. He was an active member of the Baptist church, and\\ncontinued to reside in town for many years. He was at one\\ntime a member of the firm of Dearborn Cate.\\nHAT SHOPS.\\nThe first hatter in town was Caleb Morse. Charles Aver\\nwas in the business in 1824 and subsequently, residing where\\nMoses B. Calef now lives. He afterwards removed to Man-\\nchester, where he died. Thomas R. Greeleaf was the largest\\nmanufacturer of hats in this section.\\nCOM I! FACTORY.\\nPrevious to the incorporation of Franklin, Eli Bootman came\\ninto town and made horn combs by hand, in the house in", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0367.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "344 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nwhich Marcus French now lives. The finishing was done by\\nMrs. Chase and her children, who came to Salisbury from\\nBradford, Mass.\\nBAKER AND BOOKBINDER.\\nKendall O. Peabody had a bakery opposite A. K. Moore s\\nhotel, in Republican or Pemigewasset Village. He kept sev-\\neral teams on the road, selling gingerbread, cakes, crackers,\\nand similar articles made in his shop.\\nChristopher Page had a bookbindery at the South road in\\n1823, but the patronage did not warrant its long continuance.\\nHe came from Sutton and on leaving went to Nashua.\\nCHANCE POND BROOK BUSINESS PLACES.\\nWhen P ranklin was organized the following were the places\\nwhere industrial pursuits were carried on upon the banks of\\nChance Pond brook Ebenezer Eastman run a grist mill below\\nthe foundry, on the opposite side of the brook, was James\\nProctor s scythe factory on the east side of the road was the\\nwoolen and satinet factory, occupied by Benning Moulton\\nopposite was the comb factory, and Deacon James Garland s\\ncooper shop and mill for sorting wool.\\nSTORES, OR PLACES OF TRADE.\\nMajor Stephen Bohonon had the first store in town. His\\ndwelling-house stood where the parsonage house is now situ-\\nated, and he kept a small stock of goods in one of the front\\nrooms. He sold to Andrew Bowers, who moved the house\\nback, making an ell to the present house, which he built about\\nthe year 1806.\\nNathaniel Noyes had the second store and was engaged in\\ntrade from about 1785 to 1808. His store was located at the\\nSouth Road Village, on the north side, near the junction of the\\nold turnpike and the South road.\\nIn the year 1793 there were six stores in the town, con-\\nducted by John C. Gale, William Hoyt, Luke Wilder, Andrew", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0368.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "MILLS, WORKSHOPS, STORES AND HOTELS. 345\\nBowers, Nathaniel Noyes, and Dr. Joseph Bartlett. The en-\\ntire valuation of these stores did not e.xceed ;j{^i,ooo, though\\nthey were undoubtedly inventoried much below their real\\nvalue.\\nWilliam Hoyt was located at the Lower Village, now Lower\\nFranklin. His house was on the lot where B. S. Hancock s\\nhouse stands. After Hoyt s death, William Haddock opened\\na small store near by.\\nThe first store building at Republican, or East Village, was\\nerected by Ebenezer Eastman, who was first taxed on his\\ngoods in 1803. Edward Blodgett probably bought him out.\\nThe building stood gn the site of the Gerrish Block, and is\\nthe same building that now stands opposite Richard Judkins s\\nhouse.\\nJohn Robertson went into trade, in the east part of the town,\\nquite early. His store was the old school house, which stood\\non the present site of the John Sanborn Block. Thomas\\nGreenleaf was associated with him at one time, as was also\\nRobert White.\\nJoseph Noyes, familiarly known as Hard Money Joe,\\nbuilt the house lately occupied by Mrs. Isabella West, and\\nopened a store in the basement, in 1809, and continued three\\nyears, when he sold to Capt. Ebenezer Blanchard and moved\\nup the River road where he built another store. He continued\\nin trade many years and was succeeded by his grandsons, John,\\nEbenezer, and Andrew J. West.\\nThe Factory Store stood just south of the Webster\\nHouse. It was built in 1822 by Ebenezer Eastman, accord-\\ning to an agreement with the Smithville Company for a three\\nyears lease, at $100 rent. It was 25x45 feet, with a back\\nstore. In 1828, Caleb Merrill built the brick house now owned\\nby Senator Pike, and the same year Ebenezer Eastman and\\nHenry Greenleaf commenced trading in it.\\nThomas and Eliphalet Williams, brothers, originally from\\nNewburyport, Mass., but coming to Salisbury from Hopkinton,\\nsoon after 1790, built the D. J. Mann house in the Centre", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0369.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "34^ HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nRoad Village, which has more fine wood work than any\\nother house in the town. Eliphalet opened a store in the\\nwest end of the house, which was fitted up for that purpose in\\n1794. He paid a tax on ;^200 value of stock in trade. He at\\nlength returned to Hopkinton, where his brother Thomas went\\nseveral years previously.\\nIn Elder Smith s book he gives an account of going into\\ntrade at the Centre Road and suffering pecuniary loss. He\\ndoes not refer to partners, but the following paper contains a\\npartnership contract\\nWe, whose names are underwritten, having this day mutually commenced Busi-\\nness in the Mercantile Line, do promise to each other -to perform to each other\\nunder the forfeiture of five thousand Dollars the following conditions\\n1. That each one will pay an equal part of the stock in trade.\\n2. That we will bear an equal part of all expense which arises from this con-\\nnection and each guard the interest of the company.\\n3. That we will bear an equal part in all the gain and loss.\\n4. That this company shall not be dissolved but by mutual consent.\\nIn witness whereof, we have set our hands and seals this nth day of Oct. 1800.\\nWoodstock.\\nELIAS SMITH,\\nJO.SIAII GREP:N, Jr.,\\nP:LISIIA PERKINS.\\nWoodstock, Dec. 29, 1S08.\\nThis day received of Josiah Green all the property belonging to the late part.\\nnership of Green Perkins, and I hereby engage and promise to clear said Green\\nfrom all demands or debts which concern said partnership which I have contracted\\nin behalf of said partnership since said Green and I dissolved with Elias Smith.\\nWitness my hand.\\nELISHA PERKINS.\\nThis was the second store at the Centre, and stood a little to\\nthe northwest of Joseph Hutchings s house. The building was\\npurchased by Samuel C. Bartlett about the year 1805, who put\\nin a stock of miscellaneous goods the year following. The\\nbuilding, or one in its place, was occupied for trade for many\\nyears and was finally removed to South Road Village.\\nJonathan P. Webster, although a Salisbury man, commenced\\ntrade in the neighboring town of Boscawen, but returned to\\nSalisbury, where he opened a store in the house which he", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0370.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "MILLS, WORKSHOPS, STORES AND HOTELS. 347\\nbuilt and which is now occupied as a hotel by Mr. Drew at the\\nCentre. His first tax was assessed in 1801. He continued in\\ntrade for nearly half a century. He died October 29, 1858.\\nThe old Nathaniel Noyes store at the South Road was re-\\nmoved by W. H. Moulton to a site near the Israel W. Kelly\\nhouse and occupied first as a store and then as a barn. El-\\nbridge F. Greenough, about 1850, built the Greenough Store,\\nin which he did business for about ten years, when he removed\\nto Ohio. His stock of goods was sold at auction and purchased\\nby C. E. Foote Co., who carried on the business for several\\nyears. Deacon T. D. Little was the company, and during\\nPresident Lincoln s administration he was postmaster. The\\nbuilding has since been used by Amos Chapman, for the evap-\\noration of fruit.\\nThe Greenleaf St ore, so called, was erected by Samuel\\nGreenleaf previous to 1794, in which year he paid a ta.\\\\ on\\ngoods valued at ^^150. It was, while under his proprietorship,\\nand has since continued to be, the principal store in town.\\nMr. Greenleaf was an active business man. Being situated on\\nthe principal thoroughfare between Vermont and the sea coast,\\nhe had an excellent opportunity for trade. The northern\\nfreights delivered their produce at his store, taking in ex-\\nchange such goods as were needed in their part of the country.\\nThe seaboard freights brought up groceries, manufactured\\ngoods, salt, fish, liquors, and similar articles, and returned\\nloaded with such goods as found a sale in their part of the\\ncountry. Under the arrangement Salisbury became known as\\nthe seaboard town. Mr. Greenleaf usually employed six or\\neight clerks who worked busily from five in the morning until\\nlate at night. Francis S. Greenleaf was one of these. Finally\\nhe became a partner and then conducted the business alone.\\nHe went to Boston, and in company with one Cragin engaged\\nin business under the firm name of Cragin Greenleaf. After-\\nwards Francis S. came to Franklin and went into company\\nwith other parties, on the east side of the river, manufacturing\\nstockings. He finally bought out the firm and conducted the\\nbusiness alone. He afterwards sold and removed to Holder-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0371.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "348 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nness, engaging in business there, and then moved to Manches-\\nter and died. Mr. Greenleaf sold to Jonathan Clement, a son\\nof Benjamin M. and Rachel (Herrick) Clement, who moved to\\nNew London in 1796, where Jonathan H. was born, July 28,\\n1 8 10. He completed his education at Hopkinton Academy in\\n1834, went at once to Salisbury, where he served as a clerk\\nfor the Greenleafs for seven years. In April, 1841, he entered\\nthe firm of F. S. Greenleaf Co. continued five years then\\nas Greenleaf Clement six years more, and then became sole\\nproprietor. In 1863 he removed to Concord and engaged in\\ntrade. In, 1871 he went to Derry, where he has since remained.\\nHe married Nancy M., daughter of John B. Smith. Mr.\\nClement was succeeded at Salisbury by his nephew, George S.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Clement, who took as partner John M. ^Hayes, to whom he\\nsoon sold his interest. Mr. Hayes was born in New London,\\nFebruary 16, 1823, and was for several years there engaged in\\ntrade, and for twelve years was postmaster. He removed to\\nSalisbury in i860, where he was afterwards elected town clerk.\\nHe was chosen representative in 1866 and senator the two\\nfollowing years. He removed to Manchester in 1869, where\\nhe served as an alderman and was also a candidate for mayor.\\nHis death occurred January 10, 1880. His wife was Sarah M.\\nCarr, of New London, who, with a son and daughter, is still\\nliving in Manchester.\\nCharles E. Foote Co., who had been in trade in the\\nGreenough store, succeeded Mr. Hayes at the Greenleaf place.\\nThey remained, however, but a short time, selling to D. R.\\nEverett. Mr. Foote removed to Penacook, where he still\\ncarries on business as junior partner of the firm of Brown\\nFoote. Everett sold to Elbridge Smith and Arthur S. Calef\\nin 1873. In 1878, David G. Bean, who owned the building,\\nremodeled it, and in April, 1878, leased it to W. B. Parsons,\\nwho had previously occupied the Greenough store. Mr. Par-\\nsons s son-in-law, Edwin B. Emerson, was a partner for a short\\ntime, but sold to C. P. Smith. In January, 1882, A. E.\\nOuimby, of Boscawen, son of John S. and Jane B. (Dustin)\\npurchased the stock and continued the business.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0372.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "MILLS, WORKSHOPS, STOKES AND HOTELS. 349\\nThere were probably other parties in trade in the town in\\nthe early days, and doubtless several in later times who have\\nnot been named among the trading fraternity. It is quite\\nprobable that about the year 1804, Master Chase had a\\nsmall stock of dry goods and groceries at the Centre, and that\\nafter a year or more he was succeeded by Joseph Adams, Jr.\\nPUBLIC HOUSES.\\nThe first tavern in the town was erected by Andrew Petten-\\ngill, at the South Road, prior to 1767, and for a number of\\nyears all meetings of a public nature were held at his house.\\nIn 1762, when a resident of Kingston, Mr. Pettengill pur-\\nchased one hundred acres of land of Benjamin Sanborn, situ-\\nated near the location of the Academy, on which the tavern\\nwas built. He was succeeded in the management of the house\\nby his brother, Capt. Matthew Pettengill. The old tavern site\\nis now occupied by Thomas D. Little.\\nStephen Webster, son of Capt. John Webster, erected a\\nlong, two-story, framed house on the north side of the South\\nRangeway, afterwards the site of the hotel which for many\\nyears v/as kept there. It faced southward and had a door in\\neach end. This was built not long after the erection of the\\nPettengill tavern, and it is claimed that it antedated it. This\\nwas not, however, probable. About the year 1795, he sold\\nto Josiah Rogers, who built a one-story addition extending\\neastward. A second story to the ell was added, and when the\\nFourth New Hampshire Turnpike was built a north ell was\\nalso added.\\nIn 18 1 5, Lieut. Benjamin Pettengill left the homestead the\\nWilliam Holmes place and conducted the hotel. He was\\nsucceeded by Lyman Hawlcy, the well known stage proprietor,,\\nwho drove the eight white horses on the carriage conveying\\nGeneral Lafayette when he visited Concord in 1S25. True-\\nworthy Oilman became his partner. The firm failed and Gil-\\nman became a pauper, and eventually committed suicide by\\ndrowning in Greenough pond. Mr. Hawley subsequently went", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0373.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "350 HISTORY OF- SALISBURY.\\nto New York, and during a severe thunder shower was thrown\\nfrom his carriage and killed.\\nSamuel Allen followed Hawley Oilman, in 1827. John\\nShepherd was the successor of Mr. Allen. Shepherd had a\\nfancy for stage business, and bought in Concord the first stage\\ncoach made by Lewis Downing. He built the long stable con-\\nnected with the place, and was followed in the management of\\nthe house by the Ainsworth Brothers. Col. John B. Smith\\nrun the hotel in 1836, and afterwards his brother Nathan took\\npossession and conducted it for fifteen years. While Col.\\nSmith had control, it was a temperance house, not only in\\nname, but in every day practice. It was a novel act for a hotel\\nkeeper to rise in town meeting and advocate the prohibition\\nof the sale of liquors, as Col. Smith was accustomed to do.\\nThe hotel was afterwards managed by Col. John C. Smith, now\\na prominent citizen of the town. During his possession of the\\nplace it was known to be a temperance house. It was early\\ncalled the Rogers tavern, after its builder. More recently it\\nbore the name of Elm House. It was destroyed by fire, July\\n19, 1882.\\nThe first tavern at the Centre Village was built by Abel\\nElkins, in 1794, and is now occupied by Caleb E. Smith. It\\nwas located near where the pump stands, facing southerly.\\nMr. Elkins was an energetic and liberal citizen, and was one\\nof the prime movers in building the Baptist Church. The land\\non which it was located, the burying ground, and the common,\\nwere given by him.\\nDeacon Amos Pettingill erected the second hotel in this\\npart of the town, on the lot where Daniel F. Searle resides.\\nBenjamin Pettengill purchased the Reuben True place, in\\n18 16, on the west side of the turnpike, and fitted it up for a\\nhotel, which became extensively known as the Bell Tavern.\\nIn its day, it was one of the best hotels in this section. One\\nof the barns was 40x140 feet and another 40x40, and it was\\nno unusual sight to see one hundred horses stabled at night\\nand the house full of guests. Mr. Pettengill retired in 1836,\\nand was succeeded by Ezra Austin, son of Edward Austin, of\\nBoscawen. He rented the place for two years, when Moses", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0374.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "MILLS, WORKSHOPS, STOKES AND HOTELS. 35 1\\nC. Webster purchased it and for some years was its manager.\\nMr. Austin purchased the Deacon Amos Pettengill hotel\\nstand and occupied it until 1840, when the hotel became a\\nprivate residence. Mr. Austin moved to Franklin and took\\nthe hotel then owned by Joshua Heath. He continued there\\na few years, sold to O. B. Davis, removed to Illinois, and died.\\nA public house is now kept in the Centre Village by Mr. Drew.\\nEnsign Moses Garland built the house owned by Dennis\\nLarden, near the centre of the town, between the South and\\nCentre Villages. This was a rendezvous on occasions of regi-\\nmental musters.\\nEbenezer Eastman built the first hotel at Republican Village,\\nwhere the Webster House now stands. When the present\\nhouse was built the old material was used. The house was\\nwell known for years under the management of O. B. Davis.\\nMoore s hotel was of later date, situated further north and\\non the opposite side of the street.\\nCol. Ebenezer Webster removed from his first framed house\\nto the Lower Village in 1784 or 1785. He built a large two-\\nstory house on the corner facing south, and a two-story ell\\nextending north into what is now G. B. Matthews s garden.\\nThis was the first tavern in that part of the town. In 1799,\\nexchanged places with his son-in-law, William Haddock, who\\nconducted a hotel for a little time and then leased it to Wil-\\nliam Kimball Smith, in April, 1820. Smith was followed by\\nDaniel Osgood, who sold it to Daniel Webster, in 1839.\\nWe have but a meagre history of William K. Smith. We\\nare told by old citizens of the town that he had one son, born\\nin Salisbury, who became conspicuous as a public speaker and\\nlawyer, who subsequently became a revival preacher, and died\\nnot many years ago. He changed his name from Smith to\\nDurant, and under the new name achieved wealth and honor.\\nIt was through his liberality that Wellesley College, for young\\nladies, was established.\\nPUBLIC H.\\\\LLS, ETC.\\nThe first public hall in town was over Major Stephen Boho-\\nnon s store. In was in this hall that Major Stephen Bohonon,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0375.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "352 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nnephew to Judge Webster, taught a dancing school. The fol-\\nlowing humorous story is told in which Judge Webster had the\\nmajor part: Having sorne business with his nephew, he found\\nhim teaching the young people to dance. He entered the hall\\nwhere the dancing was going on, and, after waiting a short\\ntime, finished his business and returned home. Soon after the\\nrumor was circulated that Judge Webster had been seen in a\\ndancing hall. A member of the church entered a complaint,\\nrequiring satisfaction for this reproach. Parson Worcester\\nsuggested a written acknowledgment. Judge Webster replied\\nthat he would put nothing on file, but would make an ample\\nconfession before the congregation. Accordingly on the next\\nSabbath, after the forenoon services were closed, he rose in\\nhis place and said A few days since, I had some business\\nwith my nephew, Stephen Bohonon went up to his house,\\nfound him in the hall of the tavern, instructing the youth in\\ndancing. They were in the midst of a dance when I entered\\nthe hall. I took a seat and waited until the dance was closed\\ntook the earliest opportunity to do my errand with Stephen\\nfound the young folks civil and orderly saw nothing improper.\\nNow if, in all this, I have offended my Maker, brethren, I am\\nsorry for it.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0376.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXIV.\\nBENEFICENT INSTITUTIONS.\\nThink not the good,\\nThe gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done,\\nShall die forgotten all the poor, the pris ner.\\nThe fatherless, the friendless, and the widow.\\nWho daily own the bounty of thy hand.\\nShall cry to Heaven, and bring a blessing on thee.\\nSAM.\\\\RITAN LODGE OF MASONS.\\nNear the close of the last century there were in the town\\nseveral members of the Masonic Order, though no lodge ex-\\nisted nearer than Concord. With members from Andover,\\nthey were often seen at regular periods leaving their homes on\\nhorseback, on an afternoon, and returning the next day. It\\nwas at length discovered that they visited Concord to attend\\nmeetings of the lodge. Centre Lodge, No. 20, was organized\\nin Sanbornton, in 1809, after which members of the order were\\naccustomed to meet with brethren in that town. It is quite\\nprobable that meetings were sometimes held in town, at the\\nresidences of some of the members. As their membership\\nincreased, they applied to the Grand Lodge of New Hamp-\\nshire for a dispensation, or charter, and in due time received\\nthe following answer\\n[SE.\\\\L OF GRAND LODGE.]\\nTo all the Fraternity to whom these presents shall come. The Grand Lodge o\\nthe Most Ancient and Honorable Society of P ree and Accepted .Masons for the\\n^tate of New Hampshire sendeth Greeting.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0377.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "354 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nWhereas, A Petition has been presented to us by Andrew Bowers, Israel W.\\nKelley, Samuel Brown and others, all Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, pray-\\ning that they, with such others as shall hereafter join them, may be erected and\\nconstituted a Regular Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, which petition appear-\\ning to us as tending to the advancement of Masonry and the good of the Craft.\\nKnow ye therefore that we, the Grand Lodge aforesaid, reposing special trust\\nand confidence in the prudence and fidelity of our beloved Brethren, above men-\\ntioned, have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and\\nappoint them, the said Andrew Bowers, Israel W. Kelley, Samuel Brown and\\nothers, a Regular Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, under the title and desig-\\nnation of Samaritan Lodge, No. 36. Hereby giving and granting unto them and\\ntheir successors full power and authority to convene at Wilson s at the town of\\nSalisbury in the County of Hillsborough and State aforesaid, to receive Entered\\nApprentices, pass Fellow Crafts, and raise Master Masons, upon the payment of\\nsuch fees for the same as the regulations of the Grand Lodge do now, or may\\nhereafter require. Also to make choice of Master, Wardens, and other officers\\nannually or otherwise as they shall see cause, to receive and collect funds for the\\nrelief of poor and distressed brethren, their widows or children, and in general to\\ntransact all matters relating to Masonry, which may to them appear to be for the\\ngood of the Craft according to the ancient usages and customs of Masons.\\nAnd we do hereby require the said constituted Brethren to attend the meetings\\nof the Grand Lodge by their Master and Wardens, or by proxies regularly ap-\\npointed. Also to keep a fair and regular record of all their proceedings and lay\\nthem before the Grand Lodge when required.\\nAnd we do enjoin upon our brethren of the said Lodge that they be punctual\\nin the payment of such sums as may be assessed for the support of the Grand\\nLodge, that they behave respectfully and obediently towards their superiors in\\notifice, and in all other respects conduct as good Masons. And we do hereby\\ndeclare the proceedings of the said Lodge in the Grand Lodge and elsewhere to\\ncommence from the date hereof.\\nIn testimonv whereof. We, the Grand Master, Deputy Grand Master, and\\nGrand Wardens, by the power and authority to us committed have hereunto set\\nour hands and caused the Seal of the Grand Lodge to be afti.xed at Concord, this\\n14th day of Tune, A. L. 5821.\\nJOSHUA DARLING, Grand Master.\\nSAMUEL LARKIN, DeptUy Grand Master.\\nANDRE\\\\V PEIRCE, Senior Grattd Wardeji.\\nFRED A. SUMNER, Junior Grand Warden.\\nAttest:\\nTHOMAS BEEDE,\\nGrand Secretary.\\nNo record of the organization of Samaritan Lodge can be\\nfound, but its membership has been ascertained, and it in-\\ncluded the most active business men of that day in the town.\\nThe following residents of Salisbury received the degrees in\\nthis lodge: Andrew Bohonon, Edward West, John Greeley,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0378.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "BENEFICENT INSTITUTIONS. 355\\nSamuel I. Wells, John Townsend, Thomas R. Greenleaf, William\\nC. Thompson, James B. McGregory, Timothy Taylor, Moses\\nWest, John T. Hale (first degree), Francis S. Greenleaf.\\nIthamar Watson, a resident of Salisbury, received the de-\\ngrees in Warner Lodge, No. 35, in 18 19; was Secretary in\\n1830-34-38-39-44; Senior Warden, 1832 Master in 1833-36-\\n37-41-44-46-47-48. Joseph True, also a resident of Salisbury,\\nreceived the degrees in 1821, and continued a member till 1830,\\nin the same lodge. Nathaniel Thurston received one degree\\nin 1819. Edmund Baker received the degrees in 1821, but does\\nnot appear as a member. Daniel Watson received the third\\ndegree in 1834; held minor offices and was Junior Warden in\\n1836-37; Master in 1839.\\nIn Centre Lodge, No. 20, Sanbornton Square, John P.\\nSweat received the first degree in 181 3 Jacob Trussell re-\\nceived the first degree in 181 5 Jonathan Proctor received the\\nfirst degree in 1815 but their names do not appear afterwards.\\nIn Blazing Star Lodge, No. 11, Concord, Andrew Bowers\\nreceived the degrees in 1799, and was elected Master the same\\nyear; dimitted August 7, 1822. Zaccheus Colby received the\\ndegrees in 1801 Joseph Bartlett in 1806; Stephen Webster\\nin 1809. Samuel C. Bartlett was elected to membership, in\\n1807, in Blazing Star Lodge, Concord; dimitted to Samaritan\\nLodge, August 7, 1821 and was one of its leading members\\ntill it became e.xtinct during the dark ages. He furnished\\nthe silver coin for the jewels of King Solomon s Lodge. Ste-\\nphen Morse received the first degree in Warner Lodge, No.\\n35, at Warner, June 5, 1822 passed Fellow Craft, in Samari-\\ntan Lodge, at Salisbury, September 30, 1822; was raised to\\nthe degree of Master Mason in said lodge, November 25, 1822\\nand was returned by said Warner Lodge as a member thereof\\nin its returns to the Grand Lodge, April 15, 1824.\\nFrom other sources we have the following Samuel C. l^art-\\nlett, Cyrus Gookin, David Carter Gookin, Garland Calef, Dea-\\ncon Peter Stone, and Stephen Morse were members of Samari-\\ntan Lodge at the time it lost its charter by forfeiture and were\\namong the petitioners for Kearsarge Lodge, No. 81, at Andover\\nCentre, April 16, 1866.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0379.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "356 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nDuring the dark ages the public feeling was so strong\\nagainst Freemasons that they were frequently assaulted on the\\nstreet. Raids were made upon their lodge rooms and their\\nfurniture seized by force and burned. The records of Samari-\\ntan Lodge were taken by a few of the members and secretly\\nburied. For some years it was impossible to hold regular\\nmeetings. The lodge made its last return to the Grand Lodge,\\nJune ID, 1828, although it appears to have kept up an organiza-\\ntion until 1830, perhaps later. In 1838 or 1839, member of\\nthe lodge wrote the District Deputy Grand Master that the\\ncharter, furniture, etc., had been lost. Samaritan Lodge was\\nstricken from the roll and its charter declared forfeited, June\\n9, 1840.\\nThe meetings of the lodge were held in the hall over the old\\nWilliams store at the Centre Road, now owned by Dana J.\\nMann, and in the hall fitted up for that purpose over Thomas\\nR. Greenleaf s hatter s shop, which stood just north of Nathan\\nKilburn s dwelling. It was afterwards moved to its present\\nlocation and occupied by Deacon T. D. Little as a shop. The\\nbuilding was familiarly called Freemasons Hall. It was\\ndrawn from the spot where it stood by sixty yoke of the\\nlargest cattle that could be collected in Salisbury and the\\nadjoining towns. There were four strings of fifteen yoke each.\\nFor the following notes we are indebted to Nathan Wood-\\nbury, Secretary of Kearsarge Lodge, No. 81, Andover Centre:\\nThe petition was signed by John Elliott, Jr., Samuel C. Bart-\\nlett, William Little, Josiah B. True, John Woodbury (Andover),\\nDudley Ladd, Samuel Cilley (Andever), and Israel W. Kelley.\\nThe officers for the first year (5821) were: Andrew Bowers,\\nMaster Israel W. Kelley, Senior Warden Samuel Brown,\\nJunior Warden; William Little, Treasurer; Samuel C. Bartlett,\\nSecretary John Woodbury, Senior Deacon John Elliott,\\nJunior Deacon Josiah B. True, James Severance, Stewards\\nJoseph Cilley, Tyler. This is shown by the records of his lodge.\\nIn a return to the Grand Lodge, dated June 3d, 5822, and\\nsigned, Samuel C. Bartlett, Secretary, we find the above offi-\\ncers chosen for that year, (1822), with the following note:", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0380.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "BENEFICENT INSTITUTIONS. 357\\nThomas Beal, Edward Baker, Samuel Cilley (Andover),\\nEnoch Morrill, Jeremiah Marston (Andover), Elijah Hilton\\n(Andover), Leonard W, Noyes, Otis Robinson, Jr., members.\\nThe following officers are recorded for 1823 and subse-\\nquently: 1823. Israel W. Kelley, Master; Samuel Brown,\\nAustin George, Wardens John Townsend, Secretary. 1824-\\n25. Samuel Brown, Master John Townsend, Secretary. 1826.\\nThomas R. White, Master John Townsend, Secretary.\\n1827. Peter Stone, Master John Townsend, Secretary.\\nMr. Garland Calef, at the age of eighty-one years, re-\\nmembers as Masters of the lodge, Andrew Bowers, Israel W.\\nKelley, Samuel Brown (Andover), Thomas R. White, and\\nPeter Stone as Secretaries, John Townsend, Thomas Green-\\nleaf, James Severance, and Samuel C. Bartlett and also as\\nmembers in addition to those previously named, Pelatiah\\nGookin, Lemuel Call, Royal Hale, John Elliott, Joseph Morse,\\nand Paul Pearsons, all of Boscawen.\\nOTHER ORGANIZATIONS.\\nThe Salisbury Sacred Musick Society was incorporated in\\nJune, 1808, and had a continuous and prosperous career for\\nnearly twenty-five years. Andrew Bowers was President Is-\\nrael W. Kelley, Vice President Samuel I. Wells, Secretary\\nand John White, Treasurer. Jeremy Webster, the grand-\\nfather of J. Frank Webster, of Concord,) and Abial Wardwell\\nwere for many years choristers. Wardwell was a singing\\nmaster. The society had a large choir and an accompaniment\\nof stringed and wind instruments. Their music was mostly\\nsacred.\\nTHE TEMPERANCE CAUSE.\\nEarly in the history of the temperance movement, Salisbury\\nhad many citizens who were earnest in the work. Her clergy-\\nmen were among the foremost ones, and even her hotel\\nkeepers at times were consistent members of temperance or-\\nganizations. With rare exceptions, the town has been noted for", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0381.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "358 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nits temperance principles, and has seldom suffered in its repu-\\ntation from the sale of intoxicating liquors within its borders.\\nFIRE ENGINE COMPANY.\\nIn March, 1844, a fire engine company was formed, with\\nJohn C, Smith as captain. It had twenty-two members. The\\nengine was made in the town and was capable of doing good\\nwork. At one time it ran to a fire in a barn, three-fourths of\\na mile away, and was the means of saving the house from\\ndestruction. The company was sustained until about six years\\nago.\\nSUNDAY SCHOOLS.\\nThese institutions have been sustained for many years, the\\nfirst of which we have an account being instituted in 1827,\\nThey have generally been maintained in connection with the\\nchurches and in several of the district school houses.\\nfarmers club.\\nA Farmers Club has been maintained for several years, con-\\nsisting of about eighty members. Many meetings have been\\nheld at private houses and in public places. The papers which\\nhave been read have been of a practical and meritorious char-\\nacter, and the discussions have created much interest. Ladies,\\nas well as gentlemen, are eligible to membership and its usual\\nwork. The President at this date is D. C. Stevens.\\npatrons of HUSBANDRY.\\nBartlett Grange, No. 104, was formed in November, 1884,\\nwith thirty-one charter members. It numbers at this date,\\nMay 8th, 1885, forty-four members. John C. Smith is the\\nMaster and Thomas D. Little, Secretary.\\nGRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.\\nPingree Post, No. 84, was organized in January, 1885,\\nwith sixteen charter members, Amos Chapman, Commander.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0382.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXV.\\nTHE TOWN HOUSE AND POUNDS.\\nGo cut down trees in the forests,\\n.-Ynd trim the straightest boughs\\nCut down trees in the forest,\\nAnd build me a wooden house.\\nAnd here in the pine /o~vn-house\\nThey shall choose men to rule\\nIn every needful faculty,\\nIn town, and state, and school.\\nThe early town meetings were held at various places in the\\ntown first at Andrew Pettengill s tavern, then at Matthew\\nPettengill s. They were sometimes held at the old meeting\\nhouse on Searle s Hill subsequently at the South Road and\\nat the Centre Road meeting houses. The minor business\\nmeetings were held at the public houses, with which the town\\nwas well supplied.\\nA special meeting was held at the house of Moses C. Web-\\nster, June 4, 1839, to see what the town will do in regard to\\nbuilding, or providing some suitable place for a Town House.\\nVoted, That we build a town house and that the Select-\\nmen examine the state of the town, and locate the house where\\nit shall accommodate the whole town.\\nTwo days later a petition was widely circulated, and, bearing\\nthe names of eighty persons, was presented to the selectmen\\nto call a town meeting to take further action in relation to\\nlocating the house. The signers of the petition desired that\\nthe location be at the South Road, and that it be built by a\\nspecial committee chosen for that purpose. They pledged", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0383.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "360 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n$200 towards meeting the expenses, provided the house be\\nlocated where they should indicate.\\nThe meeting was held at Moses C. Webster s, June 27, 1839.\\nCol. True George was chosen moderator. It was again voted\\nto build a town house.\\nThe third article in the warrant was to see if the town will\\nvote to locate said house at the South Road Village, by a com-\\nmittee to be raised for that purpose, provided $200 towards\\nbuilding the same shall be guaranteed said committee to be\\npaid by individuals. On this question, the vote was in in\\nthe affirmative and 121 in the negative.\\nOn the motion to accept the report of the selectmen, 1 14\\nvoted in the affirmative and 104 in the negative.\\nThe report was as follov/s\\nWe, the subscribers, do hereby certify that we have measured and noted the\\ndistance of each voter, separately, in ten out of the eleven school districts, and\\nhave estimated the rest according to the best of our abilities, and find that the\\nwhole of the inhabitants can assemble together on the turnpike thirty-three rods\\nsoutheast from Samuel C. Bartlett s store, with less travel, making it more equal\\nfor the different parts of the town than any other place on the travelled road.\\nCYRUS GOOKIN, Selectmen\\nN. D. HUNTOON, of\\nH. F. STEVENS, Salisbury.\\nMoved, That the above report be amended by striking out\\nthe place designated by the selectmen and substituting the\\nCentre Road Common. The amendment was carried.\\nIt was voted that the selectmen be authorized, as a com-\\nmittee, to locate the town house on the Centre Road common,\\naccording to the vote just passed; that they be authorized to\\nbuild the same before the second Tuesday in March next.\\nThe house was built according to direction and was first\\nused at the spring election of 1840. It is a one-story building,\\nabout 30x36 feet. The land on which it is located was owned\\nby Abel Elkins, who, for a mere nominal consideration, gave\\nthe land south of the highway and north of the fence for the\\nlocation of the house and the common where the church stands.\\nThis was done prior to the building of the Baptist church.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0384.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "THE TOWN HOUSE AND POUNDS. 36I\\nIt order to secure proper accommodations, the town bought\\nsmall parcels of Thomas H. Pettengill, Reuben Fifield, Suel\\nFifield, Polly Gate, Moses C. Webster, John Fifield, I. N. Saw-\\nyer, Lydia Batchelder, and Polly Pettengill, they being heirs-\\nat-law and assignees of the original proprietor of the common,\\nfor the consideration of one dollar each. The deeds of these\\nparties, acknowledged before Samuel C. Bartlett, Justice of the\\nPeace, convey so much of the common, on said Centre road,\\nnear the Baptist meeting house in said Salisbury, as may be\\nsufficient to set a town house on, the same to be located\\nthereon by the selectmen of said town, reserving the privilege\\nof passing to, from, and around the same when necessary. The\\ndeed bore date of July 12, 1839.\\nThe foundation and underpinning of the building were laid\\nby Moses C. Webster. Horatio N. Harvey, of Fisherville, by\\ncontract, erected the house. The town books of expenses for\\nthe year 1839 have this item: December 27. Paid Horatio\\nN. Harvey s bill, $1,025.97.\\nThe house still remains in good condition, and is used for\\nvarious public meetings besides those pertaining to town affairs.\\nPOUNDS.\\nThe first pound established in the town was in a portion of\\nBenjamin Sanborn s barn, at the Lower Village, and Daniel\\nBean was the first pound-keeper.\\nIn 1787, the selectmen were instructed by the legal voters\\nto build a pound, in the same manner as the highway ta.\\\\ is\\nworked out, and that year a pound was built near Ebenezer\\nEastman s. This was in the east section of the town, near\\nEastman s or Pemigewasset Falls.\\nIn 1794, it was voted to build a sufficient pound on the\\nhill near Ensign Moses Garland s that said pound be built\\nwith good and sufficient posts and rails.\\nVoted, That it be 32 feet square.\\nVoted, That the selectmen be a committee to build said\\npound.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0385.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "362 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nEnsign Moses Garland was the first pound-keeper in his sec-\\ntion of the town. He was succeeded by his son, who was\\nfollowed by Levi Morrill.\\nEarly in this century the pound went to decay, and a stone\\npound, still used, was erected in 18 19. The site was purchased\\nof Moses Garland for $200.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0386.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXVI\\nTHE ALMSHOUSE.\\nSpeak gently, kindly to the poor,\\nLet no harsh term be heard\\nThey have enough they must endure\\nWithout one unkind word.\\nFor many years after the settlement of the town, Salisbury\\nwas not burdened to maintain paupers. The settlers were men\\nin the vigor of life, and were able to keep the wolf from the\\ndoor. In case of sickness, or accident, or loss of property,\\nindividual assistance was usually promptly rendered. It was\\nin accordance with custom and law for the officers to warn\\naway such persons as came into their towns without having\\nsome occupation or the means of self support, and thus by\\nanticipation save the expense which their own inability to\\nobtain a living might occasion. Salisbury seldom, if ever, exer-\\ncised this right. But she had no paupers for a half century\\nafter the settlement of some parts of her territory. When it\\nbecame necessary to grant assistance beyond that requisite to\\nmeet temporary or occasional wants, special provision was\\nmade by the selectmen or by vote of the town. The usual\\ncourse was to board the poor with those reliable citizens, who,\\nin addition to the labor which they could perform, would take\\nthem for the smallest amount of money. This was generally\\ndetermined at the annual town meeting by a vendue. The\\nsuccessful bidder, on his part, was to take the paupers from", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0387.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "364 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ntheir homes or previous places of residence, furnish them\\nwith the necessary meat and drink, washing and lodging, rum\\nand tobacco, while the town would provide clothing and such\\nother aid as was especially stipulated.\\nThis was the practice in Salisbury, with possibly an occas-\\nional exception, up to the year 1831.\\nIn 181 2, at the annual meeting, it was voted that the town\\nprocure a suitable house for the poor of said town, and that all\\nthe poor, who are chargeable to the town, be supported in said\\nhouse the present season.\\nIt does not appear from any record or report that such a\\nhouse was provided, nor that any bills were paid for the sup-\\nport of the poor therein. But the next year it was voted that\\nthe selectmen shall vendue the poor of the town to the lowest\\nbidder.\\nVoted to choose a committee to draft Bye Laws and Reg-\\nulations to govern the poor of the town. Chose Major Jabez\\nSmith, Capt. Joel Eastman, Moses Eastman, Andrew Bowers,\\nRichard Fletcher, and Parker Noyes, Esquires.\\nWe are not able to ascertain what action the committee or\\nthe town took, as there is no record. It is evident that the\\nold course was pursued with regard to the few paupers in the\\ntown, until 1831, when it was voted to choose a committee\\nto inform themselves concerning the support of the poor on a\\nfarm, and how they can purchase a farm, farming utensils and\\nstock, and consider all expenses attending the same, and re-\\nport at some future time. Chose Matthew P. Webster, Dr.\\nPeter Bartlett, Thomas H. Pettengill, Esq., Benjamin Petten-\\ngill, 2d, Thomas Chase and Isaac Sawyer.\\nApril 1 2th, 1 83 1, the committee reported in writing as\\nfollows\\nYour Committee are of the opinion that the measures heretofore pursued by the\\ntown to support their poor have proved expensive and have had an immoral tendency.\\nFrom the best estimate they have been able to make the expenses for the last 30\\nyears to the town, for the support of paupers, have not been less than Eighteen\\nThousand dollars. The Committee are of the opinion that the\\ncheapest and best method of supporting the poor is upon a farm, and this Com-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0388.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "THE ALMSHOUSE. 365\\nmittee have come to this result by enquiries made of other towns who have estab-\\nlishments of their own. Your Committee therefore recommend that the town\\nimmediately purchase and put in operation such an establishment for the future\\nsupport of the poor, and that said poor-house be used not only as an asylum for the\\npoor but for a house of Correction for the Idle and dissolute. They also recom-\\nmend that a portion of the town funds be appropriated to purchase said farm, stock\\nand tools, that a committee be chosen to purchase the same, and that the Selectmen\\nfor the present year be authorized to take a Deed in their names for and in behalf\\nof the town of such farm and buildings as the said Committee may bargain for, and\\nalso that said Selectmen be authorized to employ a proper person to take charge of\\nsaid poor-house and to carry on said farm the present year, and that said .Selectmen\\nbe the overseers of said poor-house and farm, and render an account of the doings\\nand of the e.xpenditures about said house and farm, also for the support of the poor\\nat the next annual meeting.\\nSigned by the Committee.)\\nVoted, That so much of the report of the committee as\\nrelates to the purchase of a farm be accepted.\\nVoted, That the Selectmen are instructed to purchase a\\nfarm for the use of the town, at any time within the year, leav-\\ning it to their discretion to embrace the first opportunity which\\nwill in their opinion promote the best interest of the town.\\nResolved, That the selectmen be authorized to take and\\nappropriate the school fund and Literary funds of said town to\\npurchase said farm, stock and tools, and that the town be\\naccountable for the annual interest of said funds in the same\\nmanner said interest is now appropriated.\\nThe resolution was adopted.\\nVoted, That the Selectmen be instructed to appropriate so\\nmuch of the Parsonage fund as shall be found wanting to carry\\ninto effect the aforesaid establishment for supporting the poor,\\nafter making use of the school fund and literary fund as afore-\\nsaid.\\nVoted, That the house which the Selectmen shall purchase\\nfor the use of the town be used as a house of correction for\\nIdle and disorderly persons.\\nVoted, That Thomas H. Pettengill and Samuel I. Wells,\\nEsquires, be a Committee to draft rules and regulations for\\nthe order, Government and discipline of the poor house in con-\\ntemplation.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0389.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "366 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nApril 1 8, 1 83 1, agreeably to the instructions, the select-\\nmen purchased the farm containing about one hundred and fifty\\nacres, of Daniel Kent, paying ^1,850. The stock and tools cost\\n1^672.20. Enoch Fifield and wife were employed to take\\ncharge of the house and farm. In the year 1830, it had cost\\nthe town ^395.60 to support its poor. In the year 1832, the\\nexpenses dropped to $191.61, and for the year ending March i,\\n1836, the expenses were $389.08.\\nThis system of supporting the poor was continued for more\\nthan thirty years.\\nMarch 13, 1866, the town voted to sell the Pauper farm\\nand the personal property connected therewith, and that the\\nSelectmen be authorized to sell the same when in their judg-\\nment it shall be for the interest of the town, said sale to be\\nmade within one year.\\nThe lumber, wood, and some personal property were sold at\\nauction. The real estate was purchased by Roland R. Kelley,\\nand is now owned and occupied by Cook. The whole prop-\\nerty sold for nearly as much as the original cost. The proceeds\\nof the sale were used in the liquidation of the town debt.\\nSince the sale of the farm, some of the poor requiring assist-\\nance have been taken to the county farm, according to statute\\nprovision. The few persons remaining who require assistance\\nhave been supported by friends at low rates, and the town has\\ngranted satisfactory remuneration.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0390.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXVII\\nTHE CEMETERIES.\\nI count the old familiar names,\\nO ergrown with moss and lichen gray,\\nWhere tangled briar and creeping vine\\nAcross the trembling tablets stray.\\nFormerly the dead were buried about the church where\\nthey worshipped or in some retired place on the home lot\\nbut as times changed this was gradually done away with.\\nAs there is almost nothing else so deeply interesting to the\\nliving as the disposal of the remains of those whom they have\\nloved and lost, so there is perhaps nothing so indicative of the\\ncondition and character of a people as the method in which\\nthey bury their dead.\\nThe first interment within the limits of Salisbury was at the\\nLower Village and was that of the remains of four soldiers who\\ndied as early as 1754, at the old Salisbury fort. It is supposed\\nthat the wife of Philip Call was buried here. But the oldest\\nrecord of a death is found on a native, rough stone, nearly\\nburied in the ground. The inscription appears to be Aaron\\nSettle Collins, April 5, 1764. He resided on the east side of\\nthe river (Canterbury) in what is now Northfield. This yard\\ncontains a large number of unmarked graves. Many of our\\nfirst settlers located in this vicinity, and, without doubt, were\\nburied here. Here is the resting place of some of the ances-\\ntors of Daniel Webster, although it is said that Ebenezer", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0391.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "368 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nWebster s first two children were buried near the log cabin, or\\nby his first wife, on Searle s Hill. Here are the graves of the\\ndeparted children of Thomas W. Thompson, and a slab bears\\nthe following inscription, which assures us of the kindness of\\none of Salisbury s most eminent men\\nIN MEMORY\\nOF\\nSILVIA MARCY KIMBALL\\nA FAITHFULL BLACK SERVANT\\nIN THE FAMILY\\nOF\\nTHOMAS W. THOMPSON.\\nShe d. Dec. 28, 1800,\\nin the i4th year of her age.\\nThe second graveyard in age, named for the donor of the\\nland, is situated near Union meeting house in the west part of\\nthe town. Sinkler Bean gave the land, provided the people\\nwould clear it up, fence it, and give him the space in the yard\\nsouth of the gate, which is used by the Bean family. The\\nMaloons are buried at the right hand, just as one enters the\\ngate from the east. They are buried near the eastern wall.\\nNo stone marks the resting place of this, the second family in\\ntown.\\nOn the completion of the first church, land east and south\\nof the building was used as a burying-ground for many years\\nand was known as Searle s Hill graveyard. On the removal\\nof the church to the South Road, and the opening of other\\ngrounds, this became one of the things of the past. The\\nstones were removed, the ground plowed, and hardly a vestige\\nof the burial place remains.\\nThe land for the cemetery at the South Road was given by\\nCapt. John Webster, and was originally about one-half of an\\nacre. An addition was made on the north in 1879. The old-\\nest stone is erected to the memory of Nathaniel Huntoon, who\\ndied October 19, 1784. Capt. John Webster s stone bears this\\ninscription\\nLet me not forgotten lie,\\nLest you forget that you must die.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0392.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "THE CEMETERIES. 369\\nFour ministers, several of the deacons of the Congregational\\nchurch, the Bartletts, the Websters, the Beans, the Calefs, and!\\nmany former residents of the South Road, are buried in this,\\nground.\\nThe Centre Road, or Baptist cemetery, was laid out at the\\ntime of the building of the church, in 1791. Previous to that\\ntime, the people in this neighborhood buried their dead in the-\\nfield east of F. W. Fifield s house. The land was given by\\nAbel Elkins. The oldest stone is that of Rhoda, wife of\\nReuben True, and daughter of Gov. Josiah Bartlett, 1794.\\nHere are buried the Sawyers, Fifields, Pettengills, Websters\\nand Adamses. The ground is now much neglected and over-\\ngrown with weeds.\\nThe cemetery connected with the Congregational church, in\\nwhat is now Franklin, was given by Ebenezer Eastman. Many\\nbodies were formerly interred here, but they have been taken\\nup and removed to the cemetery on the east side of the river.\\nThe first body buried here was a child of Joseph Chapman, who\\nworked for Eli Bootman. This child was drowned, and buried\\nJune 18, 1815.\\nThe Stevens burying-ground came from the farm of Daniel\\nStevens, who, for the consideration of $1.00, sold the land to\\nhis surrounding neighbors. The oldest stone is that of Ann,\\nwife of John Challis, Jr., who died May 6, 1807.\\nThe Watson yard is situated in the Watson district, near the\\nWarner line.\\nThe Calef yard is situated on the Bog road. The land was\\ngiven by John Calef, son of William, and grandson of the first\\nWilliam. Like other yards, it was fenced by the families who\\nburied in it. The first person buried there was John Taylor^\\nwho died May i, 1826.\\nThe Pingree yard was given by William Pingree, Sr., with\\nthe proviso that he was to have the north front lot and his son\\nStephen the south front lot. It was fenced by the neighbors,\\nand, in 1880, an addition on the south was made by John Hun-\\ntoon, since deceased. The yard is pleasantly situated, well\\nfenced, and the grounds kept in good condition. In 1826, a\\n24", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0393.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "370 HISTORV OF SALISBURY.\\n-grave was robbed in this yard, and after that a watchhouse was\\nerected in the enclosure. The first person buried was Mrs.\\nNancy Dunlap, who died in July, 1819.\\nFor Shaw s Corner yard the land was probably given by Col.\\nJohn C. Gale. This is one of the old graveyards. The Rev.\\nMr. Searle was buried there, as the cemetery on the hill had\\nbeen abandoned at the time of his death. It is said that the\\nfirst person buried here was Hannah, a daughter of Dudley\\nPalmer, who died February 22, 1784.\\nThe last public cemetery laid out, and by far the best located,\\nis known as Oak Hill Cemetery, situated on the road north\\nfrom the Centre Road to Raccoon hill. It embraces two acres\\nof land and was purchased of Benjamin Pettengill, in Novem-\\niber, 1868, by the following named gentlemen:\\nDaniel F. Searle, Sanborn Shaw, Moses P. Thompson,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Stephen Morse, Oliver N. Tucker, Benjamin F. Shaw,\\nFrederick C. Shaw, Hale P. Shaw, Eliphalet A. Shaw,\\nSylvester W. Green, Frederick S. Fifield, Stephen B. CoOmbs,\\nAugustus C. Pettengill, Moses C. Webster, George Shaw,\\nWarren W. Sleeper, John Shaw, Daniel Miller.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0394.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXVIII.\\nTAX COLLECTORS AND MAGISTRATES.\\nWhy tribute Why should we pay tribute\\nIf Caesar can hide the sun from us with a blanket,\\nOr put the moon in his pocket,\\nWe ll pay him tribute for light;\\nElse, sir, no more tribute.\\nCONTINENTAL AND PROVINCIAL ASSESSMENTS.\\nThe provincial or State tax for several years was as follows,\\nas per receipts in the possession of Mr. Nesmith\\nIn 1769, the first tax after the incorporation of the town was\\ntwelve pounds, three shillings 1771, ten pounds, two shillings\\n1774, four pounds, sixteen shillings; 1777, two hundred and\\nsixty-eight pounds, six shillings and sixpence.\\nWe find also the following record of money raised:\\nSeptember 28, 1775, the Colonial Congress raised four thous-\\nand pounds, 1. ni., Salisbury s portion being ^^19, 4s.\\nMarch 22, 1779, ordered for the continental army,\\nof two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, .Salisbury s propor-\\ntion being ;^ioo6, $s. Also one hundred thousand pounds for\\nthe State, of which Salisbury s proportion was jCGyo, is. yi.\\nJune, 1779, the General Court raised four hundred and fifty\\nthousand pounds for the army, Salisbury s proportion of jQ-i,o\\\\S,\\ni$s., to be paid in continental bills.\\nMarch 15, 1780, the General Court raised two millions one\\nhundred and sixty thousand pounds, 1. m., of which Salisbury s\\nproportion was ^17,820.\\nIn 1783 the State tax was fifty-five thousand pounds, Salis-\\nbury s proportion being ;i\u00c2\u00a3,453, 15^.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0395.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "372\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nINVENTORY FOOTINGS, 1 782.\\nNo. of acres of orchard land, 13 Harvest cattle, 3 years old 155\\nTillage 202 2 years old 134\\nMowing 1033 I year old 88\\nPasturage 1277 Yearly rent of mills, repairs de-\\nNo. of horses and mares 71 ducted p^ 3\u00c2\u00b0\\nOxen 167 Money on hand and at interest. ;^ioo\\nCows 291\\nINVENTORY FOR I783.\\nThe Selectmen say no changes have been made in value for\\nfour years, except correction of errors and transfers of property\\nwhich had chansred hands\\nNo. of acres of orchard land\\nTillage\\nMowing\\nPasturage\\nNo. of horses and mares\\nOxen\\ni-jyi No. of Cows 292\\n297 Horses and cattle 3 years old.... 121\\n1201 2 years old.... 166\\n1502 I year old 204\\n93 Yearly rent of mills, deducting re-\\n184 pairs Z^\\nTotal of all real estate not enumerated before and owned by inhabitants, \u00c2\u00a3t^i i\\nTotal value of all real estate not owned by the inhabitants,\\nTotal of money in hand or at interest.\\nThe ratable estate in 1792 was,\\n1809\\n1823\\n1838\\n1873\\nHIGHWAY TAX, I78O.\\n465\\n2510\\n170\\n6.f. 8\\n$2013 49\\n2173 99\\n2757 07\\n7984 25\\nThe highway tax on the whole town, for the year 1780, with\\nthe amount against each person, is given in dollars only. It\\nwill be observed that these taxes are very high, but it was dur-\\ning the revolutionary war, and the dollars were worth only\\nabout a third of a silver dollar\\nEdward Evans,\\n$38 00\\nEbenezer Johnson,\\nI58 00\\nGeorge Bayley,\\n13 00\\nSimeon Chote,\\n12 00\\nJohn IJayley,\\n58 00\\nJoseph Bartlett,\\n24 00\\nRobert Barber,\\n70 00\\nLt. William Calef,\\n103 00\\nEzekiel Roberts,\\n12 00\\nIsrael Webster,\\n57 00\\nPeter Severance,\\n107 00\\n*Ens. Andrew Bohonon,\\n53 00", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0396.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "TAXES, MAGISTRATES, ETC.\\n373\\n*Esq. Joseph Bean, $189 00\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Leonard Judkins, 50 00\\nCapt. Matthew Pettengill, 112 00\\nBenjamin Baker, 10 00\\nNicholas Colby, 12 00\\nReuben Iloit, 15 00\\nWillard Peterson, 55 00\\nCapt. John Webster, 112 00\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Stephen Webster, 21 00\\n*Ens. John Webster, 105 00\\nJohn Sweat, 12 00\\nEphraim Colby, 37 co\\nDea. John Collins, 58 00\\nZachariah Colby, 38 00\\nDavid Hall, 20 00\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6John F ellows, 62 00\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Jeremiah Webster, 48 00\\nCutting Stevens, 41 00\\nDavid Pettengill, t8 00\\nEns. Joseph P ifield, 68 00\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Shubael Greeley, 65 00\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Nehemiah Heath, 48 00\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Job Heath, 46 00\\nBenjamin Greeley, 37 00\\nJames Hazard, 10 00\\nJohn Smith, 19 00\\nBenjamin Greeley, Jr., 61 00\\nBenjamin Sanborn, 36 00\\nJohn Challis, 27 00\\nMoses Sawyer, 21 00\\nParker Carr, 45 00\\nJohn Hoyt, 17 00\\nElder Sinkler P)ean, 72 00\\nPhineas Bean, 28 00\\nNathaniel Meloon, 68 00\\nJoseph Meloon, 16 00\\nNathaniel Meloon, Jr., 64 00\\nEzra Tucker, 39 00\\nEbenezer Tucker, 17 00\\nObadiah Peters Fifield, 22 00\\nIddo Scribner, 26 00\\nJohn Bean, 24 00\\nPMward Scribner, Jr., 36 00\\nJonathan h ostcr, 12 00\\nHezekiah Foster, 34 00\\nBenaiah Bean, 40 00\\nBenjamin Fifield, 10 co\\nHighway Taut, 1791.\\nJoseph Mason, $20 00\\nEdward Scribner, 28 00\\n.Samuel Loverin, 20 00\\nDaniel Stevens, 28 00\\nWilliam Eastman, 24 00\\nAnaniah Bohonon, 27 00\\nAbraham Fifield, 30 00\\nRichard Piermont, 37 CX3\\nJeremiah Roberts, 14 00\\nJonathan Huntoon, 1 1 00\\nSamuel Bean, 25 00\\nCapt. Benjamin Pettengill, 137 00\\nBenjamin Pettengill, Jr., 23 0\u00c2\u00b0\\nJonathan Fifield, 144 00\\nElias Elkins, 89 00\\nJonathan Cram, 49 00\\nMoses Woodman, 45 00\\nMoses Garland, 44 00\\nEdward Fifield, 35 00\\nDaniel Brottlebank, 47 00\\nJacob Garland, 30 00\\nMoses Lang, 14 00\\nSamuel Pillsbury, 23 00\\nBenjamin Webster, 20 00\\nJacob Bohonon, 24 00\\nWilliam Webster, 37 00\\nEbenezer Webster, 49 00\\nAndrew Bohonon, 14 00\\nWilliam Searle, 20 00\\nCharles Hilton, 10 00\\nJohn Pierson, 26 00\\nJohn Fifield, 109 00\\nSamuel Scribner, 72 00\\nWilliam Newton, 79 00\\nJoseph French, 89 00\\nMoses Elkins, 18 00\\nJacob Cochran, 42 OO\\nJohn C. Gale, 92 00\\nLt. Joseph Severance, 30 00\\nMoses Silly, 47 00\\nGideon Dow, 39 00\\nDaniel Lovell, 38 00\\nJohn Clement, 23 00\\nPeter Eastman, 12 00\\nJohn Bowen, 85 00\\nLt. Robert Smith, 123 00\\nJacob True, 5", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0397.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "374\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nLt. Joseph Basford, $15 oo\\nBenjamin Basford, 25 co\\nJohn Farnham, 19 00\\nStephen Cross, 21 00\\nEnoch Bartlett, 19 00\\nNathan Webster, 14 00\\nTristram Quimby, 14 00\\nDudley Palmer, 24 00\\nAbial Tandy, 38 00\\nRichard Greenough, 7 00\\nRowell Colby, 10 00\\nRobert W. Smith, 14 00\\nJonathan Roberts, 23 00\\nElder Benjamin Huntoon, 93 00\\nDaniel Huntoon, 21 00\\nJames Lovell, 38 00\\nRobert Fowler, 12 00\\nWilliam Kezer, $25 00\\nLemuel Kezer, 37 00\\nSamuel French, of Kingston, 9 00\\nJabez Morrill, of Andover, 5 00\\nMoses Clough, of Andover, 4 00\\nEdward Eastman, 109 00\\nBenjamin Sanborn, 109 00\\nJohn Call, 48 00\\nEzekiel Heath, 17 00\\nSimeon Sanborn, 18 00\\nJohn Jameson, 28 00\\nJohn Sanborn, 25 00\\nTheophilus Runlett, 12 00\\nSamuel D. Wadleigh, 28 00\\nJoseph Bean, Jr., 13 00\\nBenjamin Chote, 12 00\\nThe individuals named below were taxed on highways for\\n1791:\\nJoseph Harriman,\\nCaleb Cushing,\\nCapt. Luke Wilder,\\nAndrew Bowers,\\nWillard Peterson,\\nDavid Currier,\\nJoseph March,\\nEns. Joshua Taylor,\\nSamuel Allen,\\nEdward West,\\nThomas Chase,\\nBayley Chase,\\nDavid Parker,\\nJesse Stevens,\\nLewis Morris,\\nJohn Morris,\\nSamuel Morris,\\nHazen Foster,\\nBenjamin Howard.\\nThe following highway tax lists give the names of individual\\ntaxes in the South Road district for 1775\\nJoseph Marston,\\nMoses Sawyer,\\nJohn Chellis,\\nBenjamin Greeley, Jr.,\\nReuben Greeley,\\nWilliam Eastman,\\nWidow Greeley,\\nBenjamin Greeley,\\nJob Heath,\\nNehemiah Heath,\\nShubael Greeley,\\nIsrael Webster,\\nJoseph Bartlett, M. D.,\\nRobert Barber,\\nJeremiah Webster,\\nJohn Fellows,\\nDavid Hall,\\nEphraim Colby,\\nJohn Collins,\\nCapt. John Webster,\\nJohn Webster, Jr.,\\nCapt. Matthew Pettengill,\\nLeonard Judkins,\\nEns. Andrew Bohonon,\\nJoseph Bean, Esq.,\\nWilliam Calef,\\nEbenezer Johnson,\\nAndrew Pettengill,\\nJohn Bayley.\\nVARIOUS LOCALITIES.\\nEbenezer Clifford,\\nIsaac Fitts,\\nEzekiel Fellows,\\nJohn Kennedy,\\nJoseph Loverin,\\nIsaac Marston.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0398.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "TAXES, MAGISTRATES, ETC.\\n375\\nHighway taxpayers in the Centre Road district, west of the\\nBlackwater, in 1789:\\nWilliam Eastman,\\nEnos Challis,\\nJeremiah Roberts,\\nPeter Eastman,\\nSamuel Frazier,\\nBenjamin Frazier,\\nSamuel Elkins,\\nRichard Elkins,\\nHenjamin Pettengill,\\nSamuel Bean,\\nJoseph Severance,\\nJonathan Cram,\\nNathaniel Hean,\\nSamuel Norris,\\nJohn Farnham,\\nJacob Flanders,\\nAbram Sanborn,\\nAnaniah Bohonon,\\nAbram Fifield,\\nElijah Wadleigh,\\nBenjamin Wadleigh,\\nRichard Greeley,\\nDavid Pettengill.\\nHighway taxpayers in South Road district, west of the Black-\\nwater river, 1790:\\nJoseph Lufkin,\\nEns. Jonathan Young,\\nBenaiah Bean,\\nElder Sinkler Bean,\\nLt. Thomas Bean,\\nJohn Smith,\\nJonathan Foster,\\nJoseph Meloon,\\nNathaniel Meloon,\\nMatthew Greeley,\\nJacob Tucker,\\nEbenezer Tucker,\\nJohn Couch,\\nCaleb Watson,\\nAbijah Watson,\\nEbenezer Quimby,\\nLt. Isaac Blaisdell.\\nHighway taxpayers in Raccoon hill district, in 1797, with the\\namounts assessed:\\nPeter Whittemore,\\n$5 62\\nPeter Sweatt,\\n^3 30\\n0. Lowell,\\n5 71\\nWinthrop Sanborn,\\n4 22-\\nWilliam Kezer,\\n4 46\\nJames Randall,\\n17\\nSamuel Richardson,\\nSi\\nMoses Silley,\\n4 40\\nRobert Fowler,\\n90\\nSamuel French,\\n2 93\\nNehemiah Lovell,\\n2 78\\nJoseph Severance,\\n5 01\\nDavid Lovell,\\n5 07\\nJohn T.iylor,\\n05\\nJoseph Sweatt,\\n362\\nEstate of N. Huntoon,\\n47\\nCOLLECTORS.\\nThe following list embraces the names of the tax collectors^\\nand date of service, from the organization of the town\\nShubael Greeley,\\nLieut. Andrew Pettengill,\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster,\\nJohn Fifield,\\nDavid Pettengill,\\nElder lienjamin lluntoon.\\nEns. John Webster,\\nEdward Eastman,\\n1768.\\nAndrew Bohonon,\\n1776.\\n1769.\\nJoseph Hean,\\n1777.\\n1770.\\nNathaniel Maloon,\\n1778.\\nI77I.\\nMatthew Pettengill,\\n779-\\n1772.\\nStephen Call,\\n1780.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2773-\\nRobert Smith,\\n1781.\\n1774-\\nWilliam Calef,\\n1782.\\n1775-\\nEbenezer Johnson,\\n783-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0399.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "376\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n1784.\\nJoseph French,\\n1832.\\nJohn L. Eaton,\\n1785.\\nJonathan Fifield,\\n1833-\\nJohn L. Eaton,\\n1786.\\nWilliam Newton,\\n1834.\\nJohn L. Eaton,\\n1787.\\nJohn Collins,\\n1835-\\nJohn L. Eaton,\\nJ 788.\\nLeonard Judkins,\\n1836.\\nJohn L. Eaton,\\n1789.\\nMoses Garland,\\n1837-\\nJohn L. Eaton,\\n1790.\\nJacob True,\\n183S.\\nBenjamin Pettengill, 2d,\\nI79I.\\nBenjamin Greeley,\\n1839.\\nJohn L. Eaton,\\n1792.\\nNathaniel Meloon,\\n1S4O.\\nJesse Eaton,\\n1793-\\nAquilla Pingrey,\\n184I.\\nJesse Eaton,\\n1794.\\nJohn C. Gale,\\n1842.\\nJohn L. Eaton,\\n1795-\\nLieut. Joseph French,\\n1843.\\nTrue George,\\n1796.\\nEns. Moses Garland,\\n1844.\\nTrue George,\\n1797-\\nJoseph Fifield, Esq.,\\n1845.\\nTrue George,\\n1798.\\nAquilla Pingrey,\\n1846.\\nMoses Clement,\\n1799.\\nPhineas Bean, Esq.,\\n1847.\\nMoses Clement,\\n1800.\\nEphraim Colby,\\n1848.\\nGilbert Eastman,\\n1801.\\nJohn Smith,\\n1849.\\nGilbert Eastman,\\n1802.\\nBenjamin Whittemore,\\n1850.\\nJesse Eaton,\\n1803.\\nBenjamin Pettengill, 3d,\\n1851.\\nJesse Eaton,\\n1804.\\nAquilla Pingrey,\\n1852.\\nJesse Eaton,\\n1805.\\nLevi Morrill,\\n1853-\\nJesse Eaton,\\ni8o6.\\nOnesiphorus Page,\\n1854.\\nMoses P. Thompson,\\nJ807.\\nAquilla Pingrey,\\n1855-\\nMoses P. Thompson,\\nj8oS.\\nAquilla Pingrey,\\n1856.\\nJohn C. Smith,\\n1809.\\nAquilla Pingrey,\\n1857.\\nJohn C. Smith,\\n[i8io.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\n1858.\\nHiram Scribner,\\n1811.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\n1859.\\nJoseph S. French,\\n.1812.\\nEdward Quimby,\\ni860.\\nJoseph S. French,\\n1813.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\n2d,\\nI861.\\nHiram Scribner,\\n1814.\\nSamuel Greeley,\\n1862.\\nHiram Scribner,\\n1815.\\nSamuel Greeley,\\n1863.\\nHiram Scribner,\\n1816.\\nSamuel Greeley,\\n1864.\\nGilman Moores,\\n1817.\\nSamuel Greeley,\\n1865.\\nMoses P. Thompson,\\n1818.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\n2d,\\n1866.\\nMoses P. Thompson,\\n1819.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\n2d,\\n1867.\\nJohn C. Smith,\\n1820.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\n2d,\\n1868.\\nJohn C. Smith,\\n1821.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\n2d.\\n1869.\\nJohn B. Dunlap,\\n1822.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\n2d,\\n1870.\\nJohn B. Dunlap,\\n1823.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\n2d,\\n187I.\\nJohn B. Dunlap,\\n1824.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\n2d,\\n1872.\\nJohn B. Dunlap,\\n1825.\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\n2d,\\n1873-\\nJohn B. Dunlap,\\n1826.\\nMoses Greeley,\\n1874-\\nJohn B. Dunlap,\\n1827.\\nMoses Greeley,\\n1875.\\nJohn B. Dunlap,\\n1828.\\nNathaniel Bean,\\n1876.\\nJohn B. Dunlap,\\n1829.\\nMoses Greeley,\\n1877.\\nCharles C. Rogers,\\n1S30.\\nJoshua T. Green,\\n1878.\\nCharles C. Rogers,\\nTrue George,\\n1879-\\nCharles C. Rogers,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0400.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "TAXES, MAGISTRATES, ETC. 37/\\n1880. Charles C. Rogers, 1883. Daniel J. Calef,\\n1881. Daniel J. Calef, 1884. Daniel J. Calef,\\n1882. Daniel J. Calef. 1885. Daniel J. Calef.\\nJUSTICES OF THE PEACE.\\nThe first Justice of the Peace in Salisbury was Joseph Bean,\\nwho was commissioned by Gov. Wentworth. He was a resi-\\ndent of Kingston, and was doubtless commissioned at once on\\ngoing to Stevenstown. Each town was permitted to recom-\\nmend the person they preferred for this office. At a legal\\nmeeting held at the meeting house on the 24th of May, 1779,\\nit was voted to have a justice of the peace in sd town. Dr.\\nJoseph Bartlett was chosen for the same. He was appointed,\\nand held the office until he died. He did justice business in\\nthis and the surrounding towns.\\nFrom records at the state house, we have been able to obtain\\na complete list of the justices, the dates of their first and sub-\\nsequent commissions. Most of them held their commissions\\nthrough life or until their removal to other towns.\\nThose marked with a were Justices of the Peace and Quo-\\nrum, and those marked with a f were limited to county juris-\\ndiction\\nDr. Joseph Bartlett, May 24, 1779; Dec. 20, 1789; Jan. 3, 1795; Dec. 21, 1799.\\nCol. Ebenezer Webster, Jan. 28, 1789; *June 19, 1790; June 12, 1795; Jan. 11,\\n1800; June 14, 1805.\\nJoseph P ifield, Jan. 5, 1795; Dec. 21, 1799; Dec. 5, 1S04; Sept. 19, 1S09; Sept.\\n29, 1S14.\\nAndrew Bowers, Jan. 5, 1795; *Dec. 21, 1799; Dec. 5, 1S04; Sept. 19, 1S09; Sept.\\n29, 1S14; June iS, 1S19; Aug. 4, 182S; Aug. 5, rS33.\\nPhineas Bean, Jan. i, 1S02; Sept. 22, 1S06; Sept. 23, iSii; Sept. 19, 1S16; June\\n29, 182 1.\\nThomas Thompson, Dec. i, 1796; Dec. 30, iSoi. Appointed County Solicitor,\\nFeb. 22, 1802.\\nJohn (iale, Dec. 28, 1805; Sept. 20, iSio.\\nMoses Eastman, Dec. 21, 1805; Sept. 20, iSio; Sept. iS, 1S15; June 20, 1S20;\\nAug. 6, 1838; Dec. 23, 1844.\\nThomas \\\\V. Thompson, Sept. 22, 1806.\\nAnthony Whitmore, Sept. 22, 1806; Sept. 23, iSii; Sept. 19, 1S16.\\nEdward Blodgett, June 15, 1807; June 15, 1812; June 14, 1S17.\\nParker Noyes, Sept. 21, 1807; Dec. 8, 181 2; May 15, 1818; \u00e2\u0080\u00a2May 16, 1S23.\\nSamuel Grecnleaf, Feb. 3, 1S12.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0401.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "37^ HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, Jan. 25, 1815; June 20, 1S20; Aug. 4, 1828; Aug. 5, 1833;\\nAug. 6, 1838; Aug. 8, 1843; *June 24, 1842; June 22, 1847; June 14, 1852\\nJune 13, 1S57; June 14, 1862.\\nJoshua Fifield, Jan. 25, 181 5; June 20, 1820.\\nSamuel I. Wells, June 26, 1822; Aug. 4, 1828; *Aug. 5, 1833.\\nThomas H. Pettengill, July i, 1823; June 27, 1830; Dec. 5, 1835; *Dec. 7, 1840;\\nDec. 23, 1845; May 17, 1851; May 17, 1856.\\nJohn Cavender, July i, 1823.\\nJabez Smith, July i, 1823.\\nWilliam Pingrey, June 27, 1829; June 17, 1S34; June 21, 1S39; June 20, 1S44;\\nSept. 25, 1857; tSept. 13, 1862; Jan. 3, 1868.\\nBenjamin Pettengill, 3d, Dec. 2, 1830 Dec. 5, 1S35; Dec. 7, 1840; Dec. 23, 1S45;\\n*May 20, 1S47; May 21, 1852.\\nJohn Townsend, Dec. 2, 1830 Dec. 5, 1835; *Jan. S, 1S38; Jan. 9, 1843; I^^c. 7,\\n1847.\\nIsrael W. Kelly, June 16, 1829; *June 24, 1834; June 21, 1839.\\nMatthew P. Webster, June 27, 1S31 June 11, 1836; June 12, 1841 June 17, 1846.\\nJosiah S. Bean, June 21, 1832; June 14, 1S37 June 14, 1842; June 14, 1847.\\nMoses Greeley, June 21, 1832; *June 30, 1837; June 14, 1842; June 14, 1847; June\\n14, 1852; June 3, 1857; June 14, 1862.\\nIthamer Watson, July i, 1834; June 22, 1849; June 21, 1854.\\nStephen Pingrey, June 27, 1835; June 13, 1840; June 13, 1845; *July 6, 1846; June\\n27, 1851; June 24, 1856; July 15, 1861 July 15, 1866.\\nValentine Little, June 26, 1837, June 13, 1840; June 14, 1847; June 14, 1852.\\nNathaniel Bean, Dec. 14, 1840; Dec. 23, 1845; ^ov. i, 1850; Nov. 2, 1855; Nov.\\n24, i860.\\nTrue George, June 26, 1841 June 30, 1S46; June 27, 1851.\\nNathaniel D. Huntoon, June 26, 1841 June 14, 1847.\\nAlbert G. Allen, Dec. 21, 1841.\\nCyrus Gookin, Dec. 21, 1841; Dec. 7, 1847; Dec. 3, 1S52; Sept. 26, 1S57; Sept. 13,\\n1862; Sept. 13, 1867.\\nNathan Smith, June 29, 1843; June 19, 1848; June 18, 1S53.\\nFrancis F. Greenleaf, June 20, 1844.\\nDaniel Chase, Dec. 7, 1840.\\nEbenezer Johnson, July 6, 1846; June 27, 1851; June 24, 1856; June 15, 1861;\\nJuly 2, 1866.\\nBenjamin F. Gale, July 6, 1846; June 27, 1S51 June 24, 1856.\\nAbraham H. Robinson, Sept. 23, 1S46; Aug. 4, 1851 *JuIy i, 1853; June 30, 1S57;\\ntjune 14, 1862, Concord.\\nJohn Bean, July 3, 1847; June 14, 1852; June 13, 1S57 June 14, 1862.\\n.Jonathan P. Webster, July 3, 1847; June 14, 1852; June 13, 1857.\\nDavid C. Gookin, Nov. i, 1850.\\nPorter B. Watson, June 27, 1851 June 24, 1856; June 15, 1861.\\nJonathan H. Clement, June 27, 1851 June 24, 1856; June 15, 1861.\\nGilbert Eastman, July 4, 1851; June 24, 1856; June 15, 1861.\\nMoses Fellows, June 14, 1852; June 13, 1857; June 14, 1862.\\nArthur L. Graves, Sept. 18, 1852; *July 13, 1855; tMay 14, 1858; April 11, 1863;\\nApril II, 1868; April 11, 1873.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0402.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "TAXES, MAGISTRATES, ETC. 379\\nElbridge F. Greenough, Dec. 3, 1852; Sept. 25, 1857.\\nMoses P. Thompson, July i, 1853; June 18, 1858; Sept. 29, 1863; *June 13, 1868;\\nJuly 2, 1873; tjune 28, 1878.\\nJames Fellows, July 15, 1854; *March 30, 1855.\\nNathaniel Sawyer, March 30, 1855; Dec. 31, 1859; Dec. 31, 1864; June 16, 1870;\\ntjan. 6, 1876.\\nGarland Calef, July I3,*i855.\\nJohn C. Smith, July 11, 1856; June 15, 1S61 June 15, 1866; June 15, 1871;\\ntMarch 18, 1S75; Feb. 11, 1880.\\nJonathan W. Fifield, July 11, 1856.\\nMoses J. Stevens, June 17, 1859; June 9, 1864; July 2, 1869; J 874; tJune\\n10, 1879.\\nJoseph P. Stevens, Sept. 23, 1859; Sept. 22, 1864.\\nThomas D. Little, May 18, i860; May 16, 1865; April 28, 1870; March 18, 1875;\\nI June 9, 1880.\\nNathan Tucker, Jr., Nov. 24, i860; Oct. 31, 1865; Oct. i, 1870; Sept. 20, 1875.\\nJohn M. Hayes, Nov. 26, 1861 tNov. 9, 1866.\\nAugustus C. Pettengill, Jan. 3, 1S63; Jan. 3, 1868.\\nJoseph Dow, June 13, 1863.\\nAmos P. Stevens, June 14, 1862.\\nJoseph C. Clifford, July 7, 1864.\\nCharles C. Rogers, June 15, 1S66; June 15, 187 1 *June 13, 1876.\\nCaleb E. Smith, Jan. 3, 1868.\\nWilliam Dunlap, Sept. 10, 1868; Aug. 22, 1873; Oct. 15, 1879.\\nCharles E. Foot, May 13, 1869.\\nB. F. Scribner, June 16, 1870.\\nD. R. Everett, Jan. i, 1870; tSept, 13, 1872.\\nE. B. Emerson, July 10, 1874; tOct. 20, 1874; Oct. 21, 1879.\\nJonathan Arey, March 18, 1875; Feb. 11, 1880.\\nDaniel J. Calef, Ntay 12, 1875; June 9, 1880.\\nIsaac S. Blaisdell, April 10, 1877.\\nSylvester W. (ireen, April 10, 1877.\\nThomas II. Whittaker, June 4, 1878.\\nCENSUS OF STEVENSTOVVN IN 1 767.\\nUnmarried men, from 16 to 60, 18 Male slaves, I\\nMarried men, from 16 to 60, 36 Female slaves, O\\nPoys, from 16 years and under, 55 Widows, 2\\nMen Oc years and above,\\nFemales unmarried,\\nFemales married.\\nThe census of 1767 having been found imperfect, the Provin-\\ncial Congress, held at Exeter, August 26th, 1775, issued an\\norder to the several towns and places in the province for taking\\n18\\nMale slaves.\\n36\\nFemale slaves.\\n55\\nWidows,\\n62\\nTotal,\\n36", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0403.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "380 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\na new census, and also for taking an account of the number of\\nfirearms, the quantity of powder, etc., in each town. Agreea-\\nbly to this requisition, the town authorities made the following\\nreturn\\nColony of New Hampshire,\\nHillsborough, SS. f\\nSalisbury, October ye 3rd, 1775.\\nTo the Gentlemen of the Committee of Safety for said Colony, pursuant to a\\nLetter to us Directed from the President of the Provincial Congress, we have taken\\nan Exact number of the inhabitants of this town including Every Soul in said town\\nand is as follows viz\\nMales under 16 years of age, 142\\nMales from 16 years of age to 60, not in the army, 92\\nAll males above 50 years of age, 15\\nPersons gone in the army, 6\\nAll females, 242\\n*Negroes and slaves for life, i\\nFirearms fit for use 47 arms wanted 45. The above is a true account taken\\nby us.\\nJOHN COLLINS, J^ Selectmen for\\nLEONARD JUDKINS, j Salisbury.\\nNovember 19th, 1775, the above gentlemen went before Joseph Bean, Jus. Peace,\\nand made oath to the above statement.\\nPOPULATION OF SALISBURY AT DIFFERENT PERIODS.\\nPopulation, 1786, 1045 Population, 1820, 2016 Population, i860, 1191\\n1790, 1372 1830, 1379 1870, 897\\n1800, 1767 1840, 1329 1880, 795\\n1810, 1819 1850, 1228\\n1782. Number of polls from iS years of age and upward, 162\\nFemale slaves, i\\n1783. Number of polls from 18 years of age to 75, 171\\nFemale slaves, i\\n*One slave belonged to Benj.imin Sanborn, and served in the Revolution, but did not return.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0404.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXIX.\\nAGRICULTURE OF THE TOWN.\\nHeaven speed the plow! Fair Nature s shuttle true!\\nThe farmer is her weaver, and the field\\nHer web and woof Long ages but renew\\nProofs of her power, while rots the weaver s shield.\\nWhen Major Stevens and his co-workers commenced the\\nsettlement of a township on the banks of the Merrimack, and\\nbeneath the shadow of Kearsarge, there was immediately be-\\nfore them but one industry that gave hope of success. The\\nforests must be felled shelter, though rude and scant, must be\\nprovided and the lands, rough and obdurate, must be prepared\\nfor the production of immediate harvests. The sturdy pion-\\neers had been inured to toil and hardship, and they were ready\\nto meet them in the new location they had chosen.\\nThe meadows and intervales were deprived of their spontan-\\neous growth woodlands fell beneath the blows of the a.xe\\nfire consumed the fallen trees and prepared the stubborn earth\\nfor the spade and the plow, adding fertility to a soil already\\ncapable of producing all the vegetable growth required for the\\nsustenance of man and beast. Annually, wider areas of hill-\\nside and plain were opened to the sun, and richer harvests\\nwere gathered. The cultivation of the earth, and the feeding\\nof flocks and herds constituted the one great interest. The\\nwhole population was able to practice the art of husbandry.\\nEven the minister and the schoolmaster understood the culture\\nof the soil as well as the culture of the mind. Mechanics\\nwithdrew from the farm, as demands on their special skill and", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0405.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "382 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nlabor increased. The sound of the saw and hammer followed\\nthe work of the axe, and agriculture kept pace with the growth\\nof the mechanic arts. Salisbury has ever been strictly an agri-\\ncultural town, and many of its citizens have accumulated\\nwealth from the skilful cultivation of the soil. Though the\\nchief markets were distant, the beef and pork, the wool and\\nmutton, the butter and cheese, and the surplus grains, were\\noften sold at their doors, and few were the farms that did not\\nproduce sufficient to clothe and feed the occupants, and have a\\nsurplus to make improvements in lands and buildings.\\nThe farmers have, with rare exceptions, been the substantial\\ncitizens of the town, holding a full proportion of official posi-\\ntions, and contributing liberally to sustain the institutions of\\neducation and religion.\\nThe leading harvests have been grass and corn, and the\\nsmaller grains. Apples have been abundant, and have a repu-\\ntation for excellent qualities. Cider, until recently, has been\\nas common in the farm house as milk or corn. The orchards\\nare still a source of much profit. Pears are grown in many\\ngardens, though not in large quantities. It is said the first\\npear tree in the town came from seed planted by Benjamin\\nGreeley. It is certain that Rev. Mr. Searle grew excellent\\npears in his garden. A specimen was long years ago painted\\nby one of the parson s daughters, which is now in the posses-\\nsion of her son, Hon. Henry P. Rolfe.\\nFlax was once grown in the town, and among the relics of\\nthe past are still found, in barn or garret, the implements for\\nbreaking, swingling, carding and spinning flax. The old style\\nloom and spinning wheel are now seldom brought to view, ex-\\ncept at antiquarian exhibits, as remembrances of the past.\\nThe farming in the town has been, until very recently, car-\\nried on with old style implements, and with little scientific\\nknowledge. But now we may place the successful farmer of\\nSalisbury among the progressive tillers of the soil. Farm ma-\\nchinery is widely used, and the ancient implements have given\\nplace to those of greater utility. If the harvests are lighter\\nthan in earlier days, they are more easily produced, and little", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0406.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "AGRICULTURE OF THE TOWN. 383\\nbesides the want of ready markets, the high cost of labor, and\\nthe departure of his sons from home, brings discouragement to\\nthe farmer s home.\\nAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.\\nThe following record give the annual average products for\\nmany years\\nAcres of improved land, 171637\\nNumber of horses, 172\\nNumber of cattle, 1.034\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Number of sheep, 3.830\\nNumber of swine. 206\\nEstimated value of live stock, $88,573\\nBushels of wheat grown, I. 49\\nBushels of rye grown, 254\\nBushels of corn grown, 8,167\\nBushels of oats grown, 2,166\\nBushels of barley grown, 500\\nBushels of peas and beans grown, 373\\nBushels of potatoes grown, 17,266\\nValue of orchard products, $12,042\\nPounds of wool, 6,215\\nPounds of butter, 3 585\\nPounds of cheese, 2,335\\nPounds of hops, long ago,) 3.629\\nPounds of maple sugar, 3.5 5\\nPounds of poultry, 6,131\\nPounds of honey, 705\\nTons of hay, 2,500\\nDozens of eggs, 12,548\\nQuarts of milk, used,) 5S.OOO\\nValue of forest products sold, $6,867\\nValue of slaughtered animals, $18,239\\nEstimated value of farm products, $129,914\\nMERRIMACK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.\\nSoon after the formation of Merrimack county, in 1S23, sev-\\neral gentlemen in the central towns met and resolved to organ-\\nize a county society. Early in the ensuing year, a society was\\ninstituted, and a charter granted, at the June session of the\\nlegislature:\\nFormerly 8,000; now but few hundreds.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0407.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "384\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nThe number of members was 145. Of these, Allenstown\\nfurnished i Andover, 3 Boscawen, 13 Bradford, 2 Canter-\\nbury, 12; Chichester, i Concord, 31 Dunbarton, i Epsom,\\n2; Henniker, 13; Hooksett, i; Hopkinton, 17; New London,\\nI Northfield, 3 Pembroke, 2 Pittsfield, i Warner, 6. Sal-\\nisbury had 36 members, the largest from any town. The\\nnames of the Salisbury men are as follows\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nIsrael W. Kelly,\\nNathaniel Webster,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nJabez Smith,\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\nBenjamin Calef,\\nJosiah Greene,\\nM. P. Webster,\\nSamuel I. Wells,\\nJoel Eastman,\\nJohn Cavender,\\nLyman Hawley,\\nParker Noyes,\\nDavid Pettengill,\\nLeonard W. Noyes,\\nJoshua Fifield,\\nThomas H. Pettengill,\\nJonathan P. Webster,\\nBenjamin Pettengill,\\nJames Garland,\\nThomas Beal,\\nChristopher Page,\\nKendall O. Peabody,\\nTrueworthy Gilman,\\nBenjamin Pettengill, 3d,\\nAndews Bowers,\\nSamuel C. Bartlett,\\nWilliam Haddock,\\nMoses Clement,\\nJ. L. Eaton,\\nPeter Bartlett,\\nEbenezer Blanchard,\\nCharles Ayer,\\nJeremy Webster,\\n|ohn Townsend.\\nThe society held its first fair at Salisbury South Road, on\\nthe 19th day of October, 1823. It was at this fair that Eze-\\nkiel Webster first introduced what was afterwards familiarly\\nknown at the time as the Webster breed of hogs.\\nThere were entered for premiums 1 1 farms, 50 head of cat-\\ntle, II horses and colts, 52 sheep and 7 swine, two of the\\nlatter, a boar and a sow, bearing the aristocratic names of\\nCount and Countess Rumford.\\nThe record says, A procession was formed and moved to\\nthe meeting house, under the direction of the marshals of the\\nday, where the throne of grace was addressed by the Rev. Mr.\\nCross, and an address delivered by Dr. Ebenezer Lerned, pres-\\nident of the society. There were awarded in premiums,\\n^202, of which same the Count and Countess Rumford\\neach obtained $4.00 for exhibitors of farms, $70.00 cattle,\\n$47.00; sheep, $14.00; horses, $6.00; domestic manufactures,\\n$57.00, including seven pieces of fulled cloth, five pieces of\\ncarpeting, two of flannel, and two of linen cloth. No fruit,\\nor field or garden crops were entered.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0408.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "AGKICULTURE OF THE TOWN. 385\\nEzekiel Webster was its second president, and delivered the\\nsecond annual address. His manuscript copy has been pre-\\nserved in the New Hampshire Historical Society s collections.\\nIt was printed in the New Hampshire Agricultural Society s\\ntransactions for 1856, page 471.\\nThis society in no instance failed to hold its annual meetings,\\nfor thirty years, till the state fair divided the allegiance of the\\npeople of the county, and lessened the interest in the county\\norganization. It still owns extensive grounds, and ample ac-\\ncommodations for a county, state, or New England fair, on the\\nplains, on the east side of the Merrimack river, in Concord. Its\\nfiftieth anniversary was celebrated at the court house, in Con-\\ncord, on the 15th of January, 1874. An interesting historical\\naddress was given by Joseph H. Walker, Esq., which was fol-\\nlowed by a public dinner, a poem by Mrs. Abba Gould Wool-\\nson, and an ode of rare merit by George Kent, Esq. Parker\\nNoyes, Benjamin Pettengill, Ebenezer Eastman, and Joshua\\nFifield, prominent citizens of Salisbury, were officially con-\\nnected with the formation of the society.\\nTHE WEBSTER PLOW.\\nThe pages of our history will show that many of the emin-\\nent citizens of the town have been among the most earnest\\npatrons of husbandry. They have kept the best stock, culti-\\nvated excellent farms, and given their personal influence and\\nmost generous efforts to improve the occupation of the farmer.\\nEspecially may we say this of Mr. Webster, who always mani-\\nfested a strong attachment to the soil of his native town. He\\nwas fond of cattle, and introduced animals of great merit into\\nthe town. He advocated improved implements and by the aid\\nof a farm workman made the noted Webster Plow, now in\\nthe museum of the Agricultural College. Its length was 13\\nfeet; beam, 9 feet, i inch handles, 6 feet, 4 inches; distance\\nbetween handles, 2 feet, 10 inches; width of moldboard, 20\\ninches; width of span, 16 inches. This implement was in-\\ncluded in the New Hampshire collection exhibit, at Philadel-\\nphia, in 1876.\\n25", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0409.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0410.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "AGRICULTURE OF THK TOWN. 38/\\nMr. Webster is reported to have said, in regard to it\\nWhen I stand between the handles of my big plow, drawn\\nby six or eight stout oxen, and see it cut through the earth,\\nturning in and covering grass, stones and stumps, I feel a\\ngreater enthusiasm than I ever experienced in the most ear-\\nnest efforts at the bar, in the senate, or on the platform.\\nRECKNT FARMING ORGANIZATIONS.\\nThe town has two active organizations, barely mentioned in\\nprevious pages, Bartlett Grange and the Farmers Club. These\\nare doing good service, and keep alive a love for the home and\\nthe farm of the fathers. The Farmers Club has initiated a\\nseries of fairs, which promise lasting benefits to the town.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0411.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "BREAKING AND SWINGLING FLAX.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0412.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "SPINNING WOOL, COTTON, OK TOW.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0413.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXX.\\nVILLAGES AND OTHER LOCATIONS.\\nLoveliest village of the plain,\\nWhere health and plenty cheered the laboring swain,\\nWhere smiling spring its earliest visit paid.\\nAnd parting summer s lingering bloom delayed.\\nThere were three or four general business centres in the ol d\\ntown, to which we may add as many other hamlets or special\\nlocations, all bearing names suggested by their positions or\\nsurroundings. The severance of her territory transferred two\\nof them to the new town of Franklin.\\nThe South Road Village was named from its situation on\\nthe south road, or south rangeway, which runs through it\\nfrom east to west. The turnpike road, intersecting the former\\nnear the easterly limit of the village, occupies common ground\\nto the westerly section of the village, and then takes a north-\\nwesterly direction toward the Centre Village. Here are located\\nthe academy, once a popular institution, the Congregational\\nchurch, a post office, two stores, and several mechanical work-\\nshops. Formerly this village was a great centre for trade,\\nand its hotels were resorts for travellers, teamsters and the\\nfarmers from the north, who brought their products to market.\\nWith the opening of railroads the business rapidly decreased,\\nand the South Road Village, like that at the Centre, gave in-\\ndications of decline.\\nWe present an outline, drawn by Thomas D. Little, Esq., of\\nthe principal streets and their connections, with the designa-\\ntions of dwellings and places of business, at present and in\\nformer years", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0414.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0415.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "392 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n1. Residence of Dr. Joseph Bartlett and his son, Dr. Peter Bartlett; subse-\\nquently of Tristram Greenleaf and B. F. Weeks. House burned in 1S74.\\n2. Residence of David Calef. House rebuilt about 1835. Residence of D. J.\\nCalef. Residence of Merrill Perry.\\n3. Residence of Israel Webster, son of Capt. John Webster. House removed\\nin 1829.\\n4. Built by Rev. E. D. Eldredge, in 185 1. His residence until 1854. Now\\nresidence of H. C. Keyes.\\n5. Residence of Rev. Thomas Worcester until his death. Now residence of\\nD. J. Calef.\\n6. Residence of one Bohonon. Torn down about 1S32.\\n7. Residence of Amos Bean, I. W. Kelley and Gilbert Eastman. One of the\\noldest houses in town.\\n8. Location of a school house before 1S05.\\n9. Location of Methodist church, built in 1858. Removed after four or five\\nyears. Now site of P. A. Fellows s blacksmith shop.\\n10. Residence of I. W. Kelley, where Daniel Webster was married to Grace\\nFletcher.\\n1 1 Residence of Benjamin Baker now of Mrs. Lois Crane, and L. A. Hawkins.\\n12. Academy building located here in 1805. Moved from Garland s hill.\\n13. John White s potash manufactory. Removed about 1830.\\n14. Residence of Mr. Judkins, Moses Clement, John Peters, and Amos Bean.\\n15. Nathaniel Noyes s store. Removed in 1841.\\n16. Residence of Nathaniel Noyes, Rev. Abijah Cross, Rev. Andrew Rankin\\nand Nathaniel Bean.\\n17. Site of first two-story house in town, between the Merrimack and Black-\\nwater. Torn down in 1S34.\\n18. Site of residence of Andrew, Matthew and Carlton Pettengill. After iSoo,\\nthe residence of William C, T. R. and T. D. Little.\\ni8}4- Supposed site of Pettengill s blacksmith shop.\\n19. Residence of Moses Eastman, Esq., Dr. A. H. Robinson, Jesse Eaton, Mrs.\\nMorrison, and Mrs. Moores. House burned in 1S16. Rebuilt by Mr. Eastman.\\nPost office here many years. Hon. T. W. Thompson first built on this site and here\\nundoubtedly kept the first post office, previous to his removal to the Lower Village.\\n20. Congregational church.\\n21. Store of E. F. Greenough. Formerly the Xoyes store. Moved here in\\n1S41.\\n22. Residence of John White, Samuel .Xllen and Samuel Guilford.\\n23. Greenleaf s store. J. H. Clement s. Now occupied by A. E. Quimby.\\n24. Greenough s store. Built and occupied by him about 1S50. Occupied by\\nC. E. Foote Co. Now used as a Fruit Evaporator. Site of Stephen Bohonon s\\nhouse, afterwards the first store in town.\\n25. Residence of Andrew Bowers and E. F. Greenough. Now the parsonage.\\n25^. Supposed site of Wilder Bowers s potash manufactory.\\n26. Residence of Samuel Greenleaf, F. S. Greenleaf, J. H. Clement, Joseph\\nSmith and D. G. Bean.\\n27. John White s store, then the Allen store, then J. H. Clement s shoe factory.\\n27^. Flanders s tin shop. Residence of Julia F. Bean.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0416.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "VILLAGES AND OTHER LOCATIONS. 393\\n28. Residence of John Townsend, J. B. and J. C. Smith.\\nzSyi. Townsend s harness and saddler s shop. Now residence of Mrs. B. O.\\nAdams.\\n29. Residence of John Townsend, D. R. Kverett and X. Kilburn.\\n29^. Site of T. R. Greenleaf s hat factory also of Masonic I fall. Moved in 1834\\nto site of No. 17. Is now T. D. Little s steam mill and drag rake factory.\\n30. Residence of Stephen \\\\Vebster, son of Capt. John Webster. It became\\nthe site of the old tavern kept by Rogers, Ciilman Hawley, the Shepherds, Al-\\nlen, Ainsworth, J. B., Nathan and J. C. Smith. Burned July 19, 1882.\\n31. Residence of Capt. John Webster, Ensign John Webster, his son, Thomas\\nFoote and G. F. Elliott. (3ne of the oldest houses.\\n32. Residence of Mr. West, Dr. Proctor and E. Little.\\n33. Residence of Mr. West. Now occupied by G. P. Titcomb.\\n34. Residence of Edward West, Bohonon and John Peters.\\n35. Residence of Benjamin Smith, Dr. Baker and L. M. Learned.\\n36. Residence of Ensign John Webster, Nathaniel Webster, John Eaton and\\nW. H. Moulton.\\n36^. Residence of John Collins, Heiijamin Baker, E. Austin and Mr. Dimond.\\n37. Residence of Francis Little and T. R. Little.\\n38. Residence of William Flanders, Mr. Heath and John Huntoon.\\n39. Residence of Noah West and E. P. Eastman.\\n40. Residence of N. Woodbury and S. Erasure.\\n41. Residence of E. Eastman.\\n42. Residence of James Woodbury, Rev. V. Little and E. T. llarvey.\\nMr. Eastman, in his description in 1823, says This is also\\non the northern mail route from Boston to Burlington. In\\nthis village there are about thirty dwelling houses, one Con-\\ngregational meeting house, erected in the year 1790, two\\nstores, one bookbindery, one tavern, one saddlery, one hatter s\\nshop, two shoemaker s shops, three wheelwright shops, two\\nblacksmith s shops. Also, a post office, called the West Post\\nOffice, two law offices and an academy.\\nOf the Centre Road Village, he says: The Centre Road\\nVillage is pleasantly situated one mile and a half north west of\\nthe South Road Village, on the same great mail route. Here\\nalso are about thirty dwelling houses, a Baptist church, erected\\nin 1 79 1, three stores, one tannery, two shoemaker s shops, two\\ncabinet maker s shops, one blacksmith s shop and a law office.\\nBoth villages are situated on elevated ground and the sur-\\nrounding scenery is grand, beautiful and picturesque. The\\ndistant azure mountains, the fertilizing streams, the cultivated\\nfields, the glens and valleys, and e.xtensive pasture grounds,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0417.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "394 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ninterspersed with beautiful copses of woodland, conspire to ren-\\nder it delightful to the eye, and it affords fine subjects for the\\npen.\\nThe church and the dwellings remain, but age has left its\\nmarks upon them. A few of the residences have been im-\\nproved. Now and then one that was prominent years ago, has\\nbeen taken down or removed. Some trade is still carried on\\nthere and limited mechanical work executed. Recently a hotel\\nhas been opened. Here, near the church, on the common,\\nstands the Town Hall, where the public meetings of the town\\nand other organizations are held. A school house has long\\nstood in the west section of the village, on the road to the\\nmills.\\nThe record made more than a half century ago, which we\\nhave copied, covered the villages on the Merrimack and Pemi-\\ngewasset, which now belongs to Franklin. It says\\nPemigewasset, or East Village, is situated in the north east\\ncorner of the town, at the great falls on the Pemigewasset\\nriver. This is a pleasant, thriving place already, and of con-\\nsiderable and increasing business. By the enterprise and\\nliberality of a few individuals, an elegant meeting house has\\nlately been erected in this village and ornamented with a bell.\\nHere also are two stores, one tavern, one tannery, three or\\nfour cooper s shops, one blacksmith s shop with trip hammers,\\nand one manufacturing establishment. The stream affords\\nseveral excellent sites for a variety of other mill machinery.\\nA toll bridge across the Pemigewasset leads from the vil-\\nlage to Sanbornton and Northfield. There is a post office in\\nthe village, called the East Post Office.\\nAbout three miles below this village, on the alluvium of the\\nMerrimack, mentioned before, the earliest settlements were\\neffected. This is a pleasant farming village, consisting of\\nabout ten or twelve dwelling houses, two taverns, one store, a\\ntannery, one blacksmith s shop, one joiner s shop and a law\\noffice.\\nThe organization of the town of Franklin gave a new im-\\npetus to business in the village known as Pemigewasset or", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0418.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "VILLAGES AND OTHER LOCATIONS. 395\\nRepublican Village, or East Salisbury, but the earlier desig-\\nnations were lost in the general name of the new town. The\\nchurch is still on its primary location, and is accompanied by\\nhotels, places of trade and manufacturing, and educational\\nbuildings, adequate to the demands of the busy place. The\\ntown hall and the railway station are located on territory for-\\nmerly embraced in the town of Salisbury.\\nThe Lower Village has not maintained its once thriving con-\\ndition. Its hotels and stores, its lawyers and mechanics have\\ngone, but the farmers are fi.xed on the soil they till and are\\namong the most prosperous of its population. Here have re-\\nsided not a few of the most eminent men of the town. First\\nand foremost among them stand the names of Thompson, Had-\\ndock and Webster. Of the living men, whose early work was\\nmostly done here, we may name only George W. Nesmith,\\nnow far past his four score years. His chief interest is in the\\nOrphans Home, whose most liberal patron he has ever been.\\nThis little hamlet is now called South Franklin, Elms\\nFarm, Webster Place, or Orphans Home. All these\\ndesignations are accepted by the rural residents.\\nAt the railway crossing, just south of the village, was the\\nmost elegant house of early times in the town. It was built\\nas early as 1800, by Samuel George, for Capt. Thompson, a\\nbrother of Hon. Thomas W. Thompson. It was sold to\\nBrackett Weeks, the father of the late Hon. William P. Weeks,\\nof Canaan, who, in his youthful days, resided there with his\\nparents and attended the academy at the South Road. It was\\npurchased and occupied by Mr. Henry Burleigh, and at the\\npresent time is owned and occupied by Mr. Wallace Burleigh.\\nIn addition to the business locations named are other prom-\\ninent points, well known to residents of the town and those\\naccustomed to visit it, which, being named, serve to mark dif-\\nferent sections, and are conv^enient when reference is made\\nto parties residing in their vicinity.\\nThe Mills is the name given to the locality in School\\nDistrict No. 6, where most of the manufacturing and mechan-\\nical industries are conducted. Here is also a post office.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0419.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "396 HISTORV OF SALISBURY.\\nSmith s Corner, is in the westerly section. It was early\\nsettled, having at one time a large hotel, kept by Phineas\\nBean, and it is quite evident that English and West India\\nGoods were once kept there for sale on the southwest corner,\\nby Mr. Bean, or perhaps by one Adams. The Union meeting\\nhouse, built in 1834, is located here. On the northeast corner\\nlived Reuben Greeley, and Joseph Colby on the northwest\\ncorner, where he had a harness shop.\\nScribner s Corner is a mile and a quarter north of Smith s\\nCorner, and is so called for the Scribners, who early settled\\nthere.\\nParsons s Corner is at the junction of Cash street and\\nthe turnpike road, and was so called out of respect for one of\\nSalisbury s good citizens, Dea. William Parsons.\\nOuimby s or Shaw s Corner, is situated in the east\\npart of the town. It was named for Edward Quimby, an early\\nre^dent, who had a blacksmith shop there. Stephen Perrin\\nmanufactured hats there. It has recently been called Shaw s\\nCorner, probably from the fact that a family of that name re-\\nside near by on a road leading directly to that locality.\\nThe Birth Place, as it is now called, is in Franklin, not\\nfar from the Salisbury line. In determining the limits of the\\nnew town, an irregular line was established, ostensibly not to\\ndisturb the boundaries of a school district, but more probably\\nfor the honor of claiming the farm on which the greatest\\nAmerican statesman was born.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0420.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXXI.\\nPHYSICIANS AND LAWYERS.\\nDivinity, Physic, .ind Law\\nOf tlie good things of life have possession.\\nAnd who wishes to put in his claw,\\nMust follow a learned profession\\nFor if each vulgar elf, through his lucre of pelf,\\nIs permitted to plunder and pilfer his brother,\\nThe friends of the church will he left in the lurch.\\nAnd Physic and Law may go hang one another.\\nPHYSICIANS.\\nThe first physician in the town was Dr. Colby, who remained\\nbut a short time. It is said that a neighbor being annoyed by\\nsome transaction of the doctor s, complained of him to the\\nchurch for racing horses on the Sabbath. This so vexed the\\ndoctor that he left the town for a more congenial location.\\nJOSEPH r.AKTLErr,\\nson of Joseph and Jane (Colby) Bartlett, was born in Ames-\\nbury, Mass., January 14, 1751, and studied medicine with his\\nuncle, Joseph Hartlett, of Kingston, who was one of the signers\\nof the Declaration of Independence. At the age of twenty\\nhe came to Salisbury and settled opposite the present residence\\nof Merrill Perry. Dr. Bartlett, being the first permanent phy-\\nsician, his practice soon became very e.xtensive, reaching into\\nmost of the surrounding towns. He soon won the respect of\\nhis fellow townsmen as a citizen, and the confidence, as a\\nlearned and skillful physician, of all who knew him. In town\\naffairs he took a lively interest, and was often selected as\\nan agent of the town and upon important committees. He be-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0421.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "398 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\ncame the first Justice of the Peace after the incorporation of\\nthe town, having been designated by a vote of his fellow\\ntownsmen. He was much employed outside of his profession,\\nofificially and otherwise. Early in life he joined the Masonic\\nOrder, in which he took a very active part through his life.\\nHe died September 20, 1800, having been in practice nearly\\nthirty years.\\nAs an illustration of the prices charged by physicians for\\ntheir professional services at that time, the following bill of\\nfees is appended\\nEnsn. Moses Garland to Joseph Bartlett, Dr.\\ns. d.\\nBleeding Lydia Sleepier, 008\\nEmpl. Diachy. C. G. and Cantharides for his\\nwife,\\nA visit, Elix. Camph. Sal. Cath. Am. c., for q\\nhis child, S\\nSpir. Hierapic. Sal Mirab. Glaub. Canth. r\\nfor his wife, S\\nDressing his leg, c., 007\\nDressing his leg ung Basil Flav. Tinct. I,\\nMyrrh Escharot Powdr. for his leg, j\\nDressing his leg ung Basil Flav. Tinct. I. 5\\nMyrrh for his leg, S\\nA visit. Elix. Camph. Ingred. for a purg.\\napoz. Rad. Valer. Syl. G. Ammon. Cortx. o 4\\nPeru, c., for his child,\\nUng Emmol for his wife s ankle, o i o\\nCalling, G. Myrrh Camph. Ammon. c., I r,\\nhis Daughter, f\\nJany. nth, 1785. A visit. Elix. Camph. Opium Theb. G. Dra-\\ncon Magnes Alb. Cm. Ol. Anis, c., c., for o 8 o\\nhis wife and Childn. and Tarrying,\\nMay 23rd,\\n1778.\\nDec. 8th,\\nDo\\nMarch ist.\\n1779.\\nOctr. 14th,\\nDo\\nDeer. 4th,\\n26th,\\nJany. 2nd,\\n1780.\\nNovr. 19th,\\n1780.\\nAugust 1 2th,\\n1783.\\n1784.\\nTotal, \u00c2\u00a3143\\nContra. One Bushel of Rye by Mr. Judkins, 040\\nII lb. of Veal, a 023\\nfive Hund d 12 feet of Oak Joist at my house, 012 o\\no 18 3\\nJOSEPH BARTLETT, JR.,\\nson of the first physician, was born in Salisbury, April 8,\\n1775. H^ studied medicine with his father, whom he suc-\\nceeded in practice, making and sustaining the reputation of a\\ngood man and a skillful physician. He died March 18, 18 14.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0422.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "399 PHYSICIANS AND LAWYERS.\\nPETER BARTLETT\\nwas brother to Joseph, Jr., with whom he studied. He at-\\ntended lectures at Dartmouth and received the degree of M. D.\\nin 1809. He practiced a short time at Sanbornton, and re-\\nturned to Salisbury as early as 18 17, succeeding his brother\\nJoseph on the homestead. In 1836 he removed to Peoria, 111.,\\nwhere he died September 6, 1838. Dr. Bartlett was an active\\nand enterprising member of society, a man of fine personal ap-\\npearance and engaging manners. He was probably never sur-\\npassed in the state as a prompt, energetic and attentive physi-\\ncian. When called upon for his services, he went like the\\nwind, keeping three very fleet horses and one in the harness\\nconstantly to obey all calls promptly. His removal to the far\\nwest produced universal regret. He was Secretary of the New\\nHampshire Medical Society from 1823 to 1825 inclusive, Presi-\\ndent in 1 83 1 and 1832, and a delegate to the medical school at\\nHanover in 1827.\\nJONATHAN KITTREDGE\\nwas a descendant of John Kittredge, who came from England,\\nand settled in Billerica, Mass., and there died in i j 76. Dr.\\nJonathan removed to Salisbury from Canterbury about the\\nyear 18 10, where he had been for more than twenty years in\\nthe medical profession. In Salisbury, he resided in the house\\nopposite Benjamin Pettengill s. He died at the age of 56\\nyears, February 27, 18 19. He belonged to the Kittredge fam-\\nily of Tewksbury, Mass., of whom it used to be said they\\nwere natural-born physicians. While in Salisbury, he was\\nlicensed to preach by the Baptist Association, and for years\\nwas accustomed to conduct religious e.xercises in the west part\\nof the town. March 17, 1791, he married Apphia Woodman,\\nof Sanbornton, born May 2, 1773, died August 21, 1842. The\\noldest son of Jonathan and Apphia (Woodman) Kittredge was\\nJudge Jonathan (D. C. 1813) who read law in New York, and\\nlocated at Lyme, and, in 1840, removed to Canaan. He was a\\nJudge of the Court of Common Pleas, and held other important", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0423.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "4CX) HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\noffices. In 1859, he moved to Concord, where he died, 1864,\\nat the age of 70 years. He was for a long time a leading power\\nin the temperance cause. J. Perry Kittredge, of Concord, is\\nhis son.\\nThe other children of Dr. Kittredge were Joseph Wood-\\nman, Moses and Aaron, (twins,) and Alfred, Martha and Mary\\nEsther.\\nJOB WILSON\\nwas born in Gilmanton, January 25, 1776, studied medicine\\nwith Dr. Jonathan Kittredge, and received the degree of M. B.\\nat Dartmouth Medical College, in 1804, and M. D., in 1823.\\nDr. Wilson first settled on Water street, in Boscawen, and re-\\nmoved to Salisbury previous to 18 14, locating at the Centre\\nRoad, and soon had an extensive practice. In 1830-4, he built\\nhimself a large house in Franklin known as the bird house,\\nto which he eventually removed, and there continued his prac-\\ntice. He died in September, 185 1. Dr. Wilson became a\\nnoted physician and attained to the highest eminence as a sur-\\ngeon. He had a large consulting practice for many years. He\\nwas a member of the State Medical Society, and its President\\nin 1825-6. He was also a member of the Central Medical So-\\nciety and was elected a delegate by that society to Dartmouth\\nMedical College, in 1822. He was a diligent student and a\\nfrequent contributor to the Boston Medical and Surgical Jour-\\nnal. He was the author of a work on Spotted Fever. He was\\nvery methodical in all his business transactions. He early\\nunited with the Congregational church in Salisbury and con-\\ntinued an active and exemplary member to the end of life.\\nTHOMAS W. WILSON\\nwas born in Salisbury, February 15, 1806, studied medicine\\nwith his father and Dr. Joseph M. Harper, of Canterbury, and\\ngraduated at Dartmouth Medical College and began practicing\\nin Salisbury with his father. He had a large practice. He\\nfirst united with the Calvinistic Baptist church in Salisbury\\nand afterwards with the Congregational church. Dr. Tom,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0424.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "PHYSICIAXS AND LAWYERS. 401\\nas he was familiarly called, possessed the Wilson character-\\nistics as a physician, and in general practice was by many sup-\\nposed to be superior to his father, but did not reach his father s\\nreputation as a surgeon. He died April 13, 1861.\\nLEVI G. HILL\\nwas born at Strafford in 18 12, and was educated at Strafford,\\nNewmarket, and Gilmanton academies. Studied medicine with\\nDr. Webster, of Strafford, Dr. Wright, of Gilmanton, and Prof.\\nMuzzey, of Hanover, and graduated from Dartmouth Medical\\nCollege, in November, 1837. Subsequently, he spent consider-\\nable time in hospitals and medical colleges, at Boston, New\\nYork, and Philadelphia. He came to Salisbury in 1838, and\\nresided in the house now occupied by John C. Smith. He re-\\nmained in Salisbury about three years, when he removed to\\nVirginia, and remained at Norfolk about one year, the climate\\nnot agreeing with him. He then returned and settled in\\nDover, where he has since resided and practiced. Dr. Hill is a\\nmember and ex-President of the City, District, and State Med-\\nical Societies, Honorary Member of the Maine Medical Associ-\\nation and Vice President of the American Medical Association.\\nHe married Miss Abigail Burnham, daughter of Samuel Shack-\\nford, of Barrington, and has four children. He has been for\\nseveral years a member of the school board, and also of the city\\ngovernment of Dover.\\nJOIIX PROCTOR\\nresided and practiced in Salisbury previous to 1820. He re-\\nsided in the house recently owned by Eliphalet Little, which\\nhe sold to him when removing to Epsom. He came here from\\nAmesbury, Mass. This is all that is known of him.\\nJESSE MERRILL\\nwas born at Peacham, Vt., August i, 1794. His paternal an-\\ncestor, Nathaniel, settled at Ipswich, Mass., as early as 1638.\\nDr. Merrill studied medicine with Drs. Mcllvain, of York, Me,,\\nand Shed, of Peacham, Vt., graduated at Dartmouth Medical Col-\\n26", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0425.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "402 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nlege in 1819, and settled in that part of Salisbury now Franklin,\\nwhere for a quarter of a century he was the leading physician of\\nthat village and practiced extensively in the surrounding towns.\\nHis charges at the time of his commencing practice and for\\nmany years were twenty-five cents for the west side of the\\nriver and thirty-four cents for the other side, in the village pre-\\ncincts. June 20, 1820, he married Sarah Johnson, of Peacham,\\nVt. After changing his residence several times, he built the\\nsecond house north of the present residence of Judge Nesmith.\\nHe also moved the old Noyes school house and fitted it up for\\na dwelling, into which he moved and in which he resided till\\nhis removal to Hopkinton, Mass., where he died Nov. 18, i860.\\nHe was a generous spirited man and gave himself unreservedly\\nto his profession, and if a call was made upon him day or night,\\nhe was ready to answer it promptly, both in the darkness and\\nthe storm, and it made no difference whether it came from\\nthe rich or the poor. Dr. Merrill was a strong anti-slavery\\nman and remembered those in bonds as bound with them, and\\nhad for a co-laborer Dudley Ladd. The fugitive slave, as he\\nfled from bondage in our then boasted land of freedom, had the\\nsympathy, the encouragement and material aid of these gen-\\ntlemen.\\nIn June, 1822, his family, with a few others, formed the\\nnucleus of a Congregational church in that village. With his\\nother manly virtues, he was a noted temperance man. His\\nwife died March 27, 1847. In November, 1848, he married\\nMiss Ann H. Morrill, of Boscavven, who died in October, 1880.\\nMOSES HILL,\\nson of Moses and Mary (Hoit) Hill, vvas born in Warner, May\\n5, 1805 he pursued his academic studies at Kingston and Salis-\\nbury academies; studied medicine with Dr. Peter Bartlett,\\nand graduated at Dartmouth Medical College in 183 1. He\\nattended several courses of lectures at Philadelphia, and began\\npractice in Northwood, where he married Miss Eliza Clark.\\nOn the removal of Dr. Peter Bartlett to Peoria, III, Dr. Hill\\nsucceeded him and remained one year, when he removed to", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0426.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "PHYSICIANS AND LAWYERS. 4O3\\nManchester and there pursued the practice of medicine very\\nsuccessfully for twenty-three years. He then removed to Bur-\\nlington, Iowa, and died while on a visit to Port Huron, Mich.,\\nJanuary 27, 1875.\\nBENJAMIN E. WOODMAN\\nwas born at Salem, November 13, 1802; studied medicine with\\nDr. Peter Bartlett three years, graduating at Dartmouth Medi-\\ncal College in 1829. He began practice in Andover, and suc-\\nceeded Dr. Moses Hill, in Salisbury, when he removed to Man-\\nchester and remained one year. He resided at Hampstead,\\nmarried, October 20, 1830, Miss Ann, daughter of Moses\\ndement, and died February 24, 1877.\\nJOHN BAKER\\nwas born in Salisbury, May 23, 1792, attended the academy,\\nand studied medicine with Dr. Jonathan Kittredge. It is said\\nhe practiced medicine in Salisbury from 1841 to 185 1. He\\nresided in the L. M. Learned house. He died at Little Rock,\\nArk., June i, 185 1. He married Miss Esther Town, of Hills-\\nborough, December 6, 183 1, by whom he had John G., born in\\nWeare, September 24, 1823, (graduated at Dartmouth Col-\\nlege in 1846,) Harriet, born August 14, 1825, married Kel-\\nlogg and resides in Georgia. He married Mary, sister of the\\nfirst wife, who died January 2, 1845, leaving one son, George,\\nwho resides in Nebraska. He married for his third wife\\nLydia Hale, of Salisbury. Dr. Baker practiced in Antrim,\\nHillsborough, Weare, Salisbury, and Lowell, Mass., from\\nwhence he went to Arkansas.\\nCALVIN nACHKLDER\\nwas born in Pittsfield, May 2, 1796, and was a son of Jacob and\\nMary (Cleaveland) Bachelder. He studied medicine with\\nDr. Enoch Hoit, of Northfield, and received his degree at\\nDartmouth Medical College in 1825. He was in successful\\npractice, as a physician, from 1827 to 1846. After practicing\\nhis profession about eighteen months, he came to Salisbury in", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0427.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "404 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nthe autumn of 1827. He married Lydia, daughter of Capt.\\nBenjamin Pettengill, and sister of Thomas Hale Pettengill,\\nMay I, 1826. His wife died November 22, 1842. He subse-\\nquently practiced medicine in Lowell and Taunton, Mass., and\\nin Oshkosh, Wis., where he died in 1865. His second wife\\nwas Mrs. Dorothy M. (Pike) Steele, of Cornish, Me. His\\nonly child, Henriette Ackland Bachelder, born of his first wife,\\nat Centre Harbor, September 28, 1827, married March 20,\\n1852, Prof. Jonathan Tenney, a graduate of Dartmouth Col-\\nlege in 1843, who now resides in Albany, N. Y.\\nABRAHAM HAZEN ROBINSON\\nwas born in Concord, January 8, 1813 prepared for college at\\nPhillips Exeter Academy in 1S30; entered the sophomore class\\nin Yale College in 1832, and graduated in 1835. In 1836, he com-\\nmenced the study of medicine with Dr. Timothy Haynes, of Con-\\ncord, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1840, opened an office\\nin Hillsborough, at the Bridge, and soon after removed to Salis-\\nbury into the Moses Eastman house. He had an extensive\\npractice, was chosen town clerk in 1849, was re-elected\\nfor five succeeding years. He was a delegate to revise the\\nState Constitution in 1850-1, and a representative to the legis-\\nlature from this town in 1857-8. He removed to Concord in\\n1859. At the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, he\\nwas appointed assistant surgeon and had charge of the hospi-\\ntal department at Concord for three years. He was President\\nof the New Hampshire Medical Association in 1867.\\nCHARLES B. WILLIS\\nremoved to Salisbury from Brattleborough, Vt., in the spring\\nof 1859, and had an office in the building just west of the\\nhotel. He remained in practice in Salisbury till 1863, when\\nhe removed to Tilton, and soon after entered the army. He\\nis naw understood to be in Des Moines, Iowa.\\nGEORGE H. TOWLE,\\nson of Roby M. Towle, was born in Pittsfield, April 13, 1839,.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0428.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "PHYSICIANS AND LAWYERS. 4O5\\nattended Pittsfield Academy, studied medicine with Dr. John\\nWheeler, of Pittsfield, attended courses of lectures at Dart-\\nmouth, Harvard and Bowdoin Medical Colleges, graduating\\nfrom the latter institution in 1865. In July of that year he\\ncame to Salisbury and settled on the South Road, where he re-\\nmained in practice till December, 1868, when he removed to\\nDeerfield, where he has since resided, and has had a large\\npractice. In 1881 he was elected and served as state senator.\\nWARREN W. SLEEPER\\nwas born at New Hampton, January 22, 1828, received his\\neducation at the New Hampton Institution, and studied medi-\\ncine with Dr. Smith, of Dover, and Dr. O. P. Warren, of Pitts-\\nfield. He graduated at the Worcester Medical College in 1849\\nand commenced practice at Meredith Bridge (Laconia) where\\nhe continued four years. He then removed to Salisbury. In\\n1875, he removed to Franklin, where he is now in practice.\\nHe married Miss Lizzie Randall.\\nEDWARD B. BUXTON,\\nyoungest child of Charles and Polly Bailey, was born at Dun-\\nbarton, November 12, 1845. At the age of two years, he was\\nadopted by Rev. Edward Bu.xton, a highly respected Congrega-\\ntionalist minister of Boscawen Webster.) He was educated\\nat Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, studied medicine with\\nDr. Thomas H. Currie, of Webster, and graduated from Dart-\\nmouth Medical School in 1868. He began practice in Green-\\nfield, Iowa; thence he went to the Illinois Asylum for the In-\\nsane. He afterwards practiced at West Concord, Campton,\\nLoudon and Derry. In October, 1875, he moved to Salisbury,\\nsucceeding Dr. Sleeper, and remained till 1875, when he re-\\nmoved to Concord. Like George Washington, he has returned\\nto the cultivation of the ground, and is now carrying on a farm\\nat Hill. He married Miss C. VI. Roby, of Fishcrville.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0429.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "406 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nGEORGE PILLSBURY TITCOMB,\\nson of Jeremiah and Rebecca Pillsbury Titcomb, was born at\\nBoscawen, September 30, 1838, graduated at the Eclectic Med-\\nical College of Pennsylvania, and immediately began the prac-\\ntice of medicine at Danbury, in 1859, where he continued till\\nthe breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, when he enlisted\\nin the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteers. After a service of\\neleven months, he was assigned to the field hospital depart-\\nment, and was finally discharged for disability. He returned\\nto Danbury, where he continued such practice as his enfeebled\\nhealth would permit, and removed to Salisbury in 1868, where\\nhe now resides.\\nJOHN J. DEARBORN,\\nthe eldest of two sons of John M. and Ruth E. (Hoit) Dear-\\nborn, was born in Concord, December 19, 185 1 received a\\ncommon school education also served three years in a school\\nof pharmacy. In 1869 he began the study of medicine under\\nDrs. Gage and Conn, of Concord attended medical lectures at\\nHanover and at Burlington, Vt., receiving his diploma in 1873,\\nin which year he succeeded Dr. Harry M. Dearborn as a physi-\\ncian, in Hopkinton. He removed to Salisbury in 1878 and es-\\ntablished a good practice. In 1884 he removed to Tilton.\\nNovember 21, 1881, he married Etta J. Bean, only child of\\nDavid G. and Eliza J. (Severance) Bean, of Salisbury.\\nWILLIAM RICHARDSON\\nwas born in Londonderry, February 26, i860. Was brought\\nup on a farm, his father being a farmer and lumber manufac-\\nturer. In 1880 he began the study of medicine and received\\nthe degree of M. D. at Dartmouth Medical College, November\\n13, 1883. He was married to Miss Esther F. Whidden, of\\nAuburn, August 27, 1884, and came to Salisbury, December\\n4, 1884, as successor to Dr. John J. Dearborn.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0430.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0431.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0432.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "PHYSICIANS AND LAWYERS. 407\\nLAWYERS.\\nTHOMAS WHITE THOMPSON\\nwas the son of Uea. Thomas Thompson, whose name he bore.\\nThe name White was inserted by authority of the legisla-\\nture as a matter of convenience. He was born March lo, 1766,\\nprepared for college at Dummer Academy, liyfield, Mass.,\\nunder the instruction of the venerable Samuel Moody, and\\ngraduated at Harvard University in 1786. He was aid to Gen.\\nLincoln during the Shays Rebellion. Afterwards, he decided\\nto become a clergyman and was enrolled as a student in the\\nAndover Theological Seminary, but being appointed tutor in\\nHarvard University, he accepted the position, which he occu-\\npied for two years, and gave up his intention of becoming a\\nclergyman. He gained the favor of the students and faculty\\nof the college by his fine scholarship and courteous manners.\\nUpon leaving the position, he studied law in the office of Theo-\\nphilus Parsons, of Newburyport, Mass., was admitted to the\\nbar in 1791, and commenced practice the same year in Salis-\\nbury, until about 1799 or later, when he removed to the Lower\\nVillage. His office was in the Nathaniel Bean house at the\\nSouth Road. He was postmaster from 1798 to 1803, trustee of\\nDartmouth College in 1801, serving until his death; county\\nsolicitor in 1802; representative to the legislature for one or\\nmore years following; was elected representative to the ninth\\ncongress in 1805; was state treasurer in 1810, and removed\\nto Concord was a member of the house of representatives\\nfrom Concord in 1S13 and 1S14, and was speaker both years.\\nThe second year, he was chosen United States Senator for\\nthree years, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of\\nNicholas Oilman.\\nMr. Thompson was not a politician, but a statesman, of re-\\nfined manners, superior scholarship, an elegant speaker, a\\nlearned lawyer, and a christian gentleman. He was a deacon\\nof the First Church in Concord at the time of his death in\\n182 1. His disease was pulmonary consumption, induced by\\ninjuries which he accidentally received.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0433.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "408 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nHis retirement from political life is said to have been occas-\\nioned by his vote in favor of the increase of the pay of mem-\\nbers of congress, and all who voted with him on that question\\nshared the same fate. A very eloquent address, delivered by\\nhim at Salisbury on a Fourth of July, was published in pam-\\nphlet form, copies of which may possibly be found among some\\nof the older families in Salisbury and among historical collec-\\ntions.\\nPARKER NOYES\\nwas born at South Hampton, November i8, 1778, fitted for\\ncollege at Dummer Academy under the same instruction as\\nThomas W. Thompson, graduated at Dartmouth College in\\n1796, and read law with Mr. Thompson. He was admitted to\\nthe bar in September, iSoi, when he removed to Warner and\\ncommenced practice there, where he remained till 1803. He\\nthen returned to Salisbury and became the law partner of Mr.\\nThompson. When the latter removed to Concord in 18 10, Mr.\\nNoyes bought the interest of Mr. Thompson in Salisbury and\\ncarried on the business, and eventually took in as partner his\\nformer law student, George W. Nesmith. He died in August,\\n1852. Mr. Noyes was appointed to the bench oi the Supreme\\nCourt, and was offered the attorney generalship, both of\\nwhich exalted positions he declined, although in early years he\\nwas county solicitor for a few years. With him exalted worth\\nwas elevated place. As a lawyer Mr. Noyes stood in the front\\nrank, with Smith, Mason, the Websters, Sullivan, and other\\nmembers of the legal profession who have contributed to the\\nrenown of New Hampshire. He was personally held in high\\nesteem by all his cotemporaries in the State. He was a man\\nof modest merit, and one of the marvels of the world, since\\nhe neither desired nov sozior/i^ office. In 1805 he married Ellen,\\nsister of Thomas W. Thompson, who died in 1827. They had\\nthree children, but only one, Horace, born in 1808, reached\\nmature years.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0434.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0435.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a3co.f\\\\r JfltnuTpfo.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0436.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "PHYSICIANS AND LAWYERS. 4O9\\nMOSES EASTMAN\\nAvas born in Salisbury, August i, 1770, fitted for college under\\nthe instruction of Rev. Dr. Samuel Wood of Boscawen, grad-\\nuated at Dartmouth College in 1794, read law with Thomas W.\\nThompson and was admitted to the bar in 1797. He com-\\nmenced the practice of law in an office on the site now occupied\\nby Mrs. H. C. \\\\V. Moores, at the South Road. He removed to\\nConcord in 1826.\\nPrevious to the formation of a new county, he was clerk of\\nthe Circuit Court from 18 16 to 1823. Upon the organization\\nof Merrimack county he was appointed clerk of the Superior\\nCourt, and was continued in that office till 1834. He was\\nalso clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. He returned to\\nSalisbury in 1834, and remained there until 1847, when he\\nremoved to Waltham, Mass., where he died April 19, 1848.\\nTHOMAS HALE PETTENGILL\\nwas born in Salisbury in November, 1780, fitted for college at\\nSalisbury Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1804 read\\nlaw with John Harris of Hopkinton, was admitted to the bar\\nin 1808, and opened an office at Canaan, where he remained\\ntill 1822, when he returned to the place of his nativity and\\npurchased the place now occupied by Caleb E. Smith, and con-\\ntinued a resident of Salisbury till his death, except two years\\nwhich he spent at Franklin. Mr. Pettengill was a quiet, unas-\\nsuming gentleman, and was possessed of much wit and pleas-\\nantry. His life was active and honorable; he was a wise and\\nsafe counsellor, and at the time of his decease was one of the\\noldest of the members of the American bar.\\nGEORGE WASIUNGTOX NESMITH.\\nThe first man of much prominence who settled in Mast\\nSalisbury, or in Republican Village, was Ebenezer Eastman.\\nThirty years after him came the subject of this sketch. The\\ntown if Franklin owes him a debt of gratitude for his efforts", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0439.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "4IO HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nin procuring an act of incorporation, and for much of the growth\\nand development of the natural advantages of the town.\\nHe was born in Antrim, October 23, 1800, and graduated at\\nDartmouth College in 1820. In August, 1822, he removed\\nto Salisbury, and began the study of the law with Parker\\nNoyes; was admitted to the bar in 1825, and formed a part-\\nnership with Mr. Noyes, who, at the end of the year, withdrew\\nfrom practice, thus giving Mr. Nesmith an extensive business.\\nIn April, 1829, he removed to what is now Franklin Village.\\nIn the formation of the town his efforts were earnest and\\nunceasing. He wrote the charter, and dictated the name of\\nthe town. He has held all the offices in the town, and has\\nbeen many times a member of the Legislature. With unusu-\\nally good foresight he enlisted in the railroad enterprise, and\\nsecured the right of way for the Northern railroad to pass\\nthrough Frankhn. He was its president for eight years, and a\\ndirector from its organization, in 1845. He has been trustee\\nof his alma mater since 1858, and a trustee of the Agricultural\\nCollege since its establishment in 1866, and its president since\\n1877. Dartmouth College conferred the degree of LL. D. upon\\nhim in 1871. In the Orphans Home, at Lower Franklin, he\\ntakes a deep interest. He was Associate Justice of the Su-\\npreme Judicial Court for eleven years, and until he reached the\\nlimit which the psalmist has assigned to manly life. He mar-\\nried, September 26, 1826, Mary M., daughter of Samuel and\\nAnnie (Bedel) Brooks, born at Haverhill, July 8, 1799, who died\\nMay 31, 1885.\\nRICHARD FLETCHER\\nwas born at Cavendish, Vt., January 8, 1788. He was a son of\\nAsaph and Sarah (Green) Fletcher, and graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1806. He came to Salisbury to teach in the academy,\\nand taught two, years, and at the same time pursued the study\\nof the law. After teaching two years he went to Portsmouth\\nand read law with Daniel Webster. While there, in a letter to\\nRev. Mr. Worcester, dated April 22, 1808, he says: I have\\nbut few changes in the even road of a student s life, and am", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0440.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "PHYSICIANS AND LAWYERS. 4I I\\npleasantly situated in an agreeable family. In 1809, Mr.\\nFletcher returned to Salisbury, and commenced the practice of\\nhis profession at the South Road, where his success was soon\\nassured, and he rapidly rose to the position of one of the first\\nadvocates at the bar. While in Salisbury he was found in\\nnearly every good work, and was a patron of many a poor boy\\nwho was climbing the hill of science. To scholastic and\\nliterary institutions he rendered material assistance, not only\\ngiving his personal attention thereto, but lending pecuniary\\naid. He was made an honorary member of the Literary Adel-\\nphi, in July, 1813. While at Salisbury he had his oflfice at the\\nSouth Road, over Samuel Greenleaf s store. In 18 19 he\\nremoved to Boston, and there remained till his death. He was\\nan orator of great power, fluent and eloquent in diction,\\nbright and sparkling in speech, and quick at repartee. Fletch-\\ner Genealogy, p. 173.) William Pingree said of him I once\\nlistened to a legal argument from him, of an hour s duration,\\nwhich was the most learned and powerful that I ever heard\\nfrom human lips. He had little to do with political life,\\nalthough he was a member of Congress from Massachusetts\\nfrom 1837 to 1839. H^ ^s elected deacon of the church, but\\neither declined or resigned the office because he was not scrip-\\nturally qualified. The scripture required that he should have\\none wife, and he never had any he died a bachelor. In 1848\\nhe was appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts a Judge\\nof the Supreme Court of that State, which position he resigned\\nin 1853. Dartmouth College, in 1826, and Harvard University,\\nin 1849, conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. He was a\\ntrustee of Dartmouth from 1848 to 1857, and in his will made\\nthe college a very liberal bequest. Upon his retirement from\\nthe bench he withdrew from public life, and spent the remain-\\nder of his days in study.\\nSAMUEL ISRAEL WELLS\\nwas the son of Israel and Lucy Lyon Wells, and was born in\\nShelburn, Mass. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 18 14,\\nand taught the academy in Salisbury a number of terms. He", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0441.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "412 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nread law with Richard Fletcher at Salisbury, and was admitted\\nto the bar in 1819. He opened an office in Salisbury, and was\\nin practice there till 1836, when he removed to Windham, Me.,\\nthence to Alabama, where he taught school. He married, at\\nWindham, Miss Lucy Kellogg, a lady of much literary merit,\\nand a writer of Sunday school books, her father being a minis-\\nter. In the class with him in college were many students who\\nattained eminence in the varied stations of life. He stood first\\nin his class, and delivered the valedictory at commencement.\\nHe was an excellent scholar, possessed of a most wonderful\\nmemory, and was fitted for any judicial position in the State.\\nHowever accomplished he was as a lawyer, a scholar, and a\\ngentleman, he had none of the power and arts of an advocate.\\nCourteous in the extreme, he never used bravado, and never\\ntried to brow-beat a witness, and he treated his brethren with\\nstudied politeness.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0442.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXXII.\\nANTIQUITIES.\\nHe had a routh of old nicknackets,\\nRusty airn caps, and jinglin jackets,\\nAnd parritch-pots, and old saut buckets,\\nAfore the flude.\\nTHE FIRST CHILD\\nborn in town was undoubtedly John Call, son of Stephen Call.\\nHe owed his preservation to his mother, who took him in her\\narms, when an infant, and hid with him behind the large chim-\\nney in her house, at the Lower Village, at the time the Indians\\nmade their raid upon Stevenstown, and murdered the wife of\\nPhilip Call, the mother of Stephen.\\nSTOVES.\\nThe first stoves, of which there is evidence of use in the town,\\nappear to have been in 1803, when Moses Eastman purchased\\na brick stove for the South Road school district, he guarantee-\\ning it safe, and the district being responsible for its good use,\\nand paying $25.00. This same year Reuben True charged the\\ntown for the use of a stove.\\nTHE FIRST PIANO\\nwhich was brought into Salisbury was owned by Daniel .Bart-\\nlett, when he was a trader in Grafton, about 1826. It was here\\nthat President Samuel C. Bartlett, while on a visit to his uncle\\nin 1827, fingered the keys and obtained melodious music,\\nexciting much wonderment in his youthful mind. His uncle\\nwas called a good player. On the removal of Dr. Peter\\nBartlett to Peoria, 111., in 1836, it was brought to Salisbury by", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0443.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "414 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nIchabod Bartlett, and placed in the old Bartlett homestead, in\\nthe front room, where it excited much curiosity. This was\\nthen the residence of the mother. At her death, in 1839,\\nIchabod presented it to Moses Eastman, who, on his removal\\nto Massachusetts, in 1846, left it in charge of Dr. A. H. Rob-\\ninson. Dr. Robinson took the music all out of it, and now\\nuses it as a side-board (1886).\\nFIRST CLOCK.\\nBefore clocks came into use, sun-dials were used. These\\nwere made of marble or pewter, with a triangular upright piece\\nto throw the shadow, when the sun shone, upon the different\\nfigures and lines of the dial, so as to indicate the time of day.\\nThis upright piece was called the gnomon or pin of the\\ndial. This was placed on the meridian line, and the shadow,\\ncast upon the graduated circumference, would indicate the\\nhours and minutes. These were useless in the night time and\\non cloudy days, but exact when the sun shone.\\nThe earliest clocks were of English manufacture, and very\\nexpensive. David Blaisdell, of Amesbury, born in 1712, was a\\nclockmaker, as was his son, Isaac, a resident of Chester. One\\nof his clocks is owned by his descendant, Isaac Blaisdell, of\\nSalisbury. These clocks were of brass, and heavily made, and\\nrun but one day without winding up. One line and one weight\\noperated as a mainspring for both time and striking. The first\\nclock brought into Salisbury belonged to the wife of Robert\\nSmith. Her father made a wedding present of it to her, and\\nit was brought to Salisbury on horseback. It still keeps most\\nexcellent time, and is owned by Gilbert Eastman, a descendant\\nof Mrs. Smith on his mother s side.\\nWATCHES.\\nA watch was a rare institution in Salisbury in the early set-\\ntlement of the town. In 1765 Capt. Jethro Sanborn purchased\\nin England an English bull s-eye watch, for which he paid fifty\\nSpanish milled dollars. This watch came by will to the pos-\\nsession of Mrs. Searle, wife of Rev. Jonathan Searle. She", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0444.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "ANTIQUITIES. 4I5\\npresented it to her daughter, Margarette, who afterwards\\nbecame the wife of Benjamin Rolfe, of Boscawen. She gave\\nit to her son, Enoch Sanborn Rolfe, who was named for his\\ngreat-grandfather Sanborn. Upon the decease of Enoch San-\\nborn, by direction of the mother, the watch came into the\\npossession of her son, Henry Pearson Rolfe, of Concord, in\\n1 88 1, and is now owned by him but many years ago,\\nTt stopped, short, never t i go again.\\nCHAISES,\\nIt is said that the first chaise owned in town belonged to\\nThomas W. Thompson. In 1804 he purchased a new one.\\nDuring his residence in Concord, to which place he removed\\nfrom Salisbury, he owned the finest one in town, and it was\\nsuch a curiosity that people traveled many miles to see it. In\\n1804, the following persons were taxed for chaises Andrew\\nBowers, Samuel Greenleaf, Thomas W. Thompson, Reuben\\nTrue and in 1806, in addition to the above, Mrs. Hannah\\nBartlett, Ebenezer Eastman, John C. Gale, Stephen Greenleaf,\\nJoseph Noyes, Edward Blodgett, David Pettengill, Josiah Rog-\\ners, Ebenezer Taylor, and Mrs. Sarah Smith. Persons going\\nupon journeys swung their trunks under the axle of the chaise\\nby straps placed upon the trunks for that purpose, but they had\\nno Saratogas at that time.\\nWAGONS.\\nWagons came into use after chaises. In the earliest settle-\\nment of the town, the journcyings were on horseback, and in\\ncarts, and on sleds. By and by chaises were used, but only by\\nthe select few. At length wagons were introduced, and they\\nwere a very little improvement upon the ox-cart. They came\\ninto pretty general use in Salisbury as early as 18 15. The light\\nwagons, as they were termed, were rather rough and heavy,\\nwithout thorough-braces or springs, and the body rested on the\\naxletrec behind, and the rocker-bar forward. There were\\nsprings for the seat to rest on, made of wood, but the occu-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0445.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "4l6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\npants were constantly, if not painfully, reminded of the rough-\\nness of the roads. Moses Greeley owned the first wagon\\nwhich was fitted with thorough-braces. Before chaises and\\nwagons came into use it was no uncommon sight to see\\nman and wife and one child traveling on horseback, the wife\\nsitting behind the man upon the pillion, carrying the child, and\\na pair of saddle-bags slung across the horse, filled with provis-\\nions. The early settlers came from Massachusetts, with their\\nhousehold goods on the pack-horse. Daniel Webster went to\\nDartmouth College on horseback, and carried his feather-bed\\nand bedding, his clothing, books, and provisions to eat on the\\nway, on horseback. It is said that when he reached Hanover,\\nhe turned his horse to pasture, and had him to ride home at\\nthe end of the term in November.\\nAs the ox-sled preceded the cart, so sleighs for traveling\\npreceded the wagons. The first sleigh in town of which there\\nis any trace was owned by the father of Daniel Webster.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0446.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXXIII.\\nTHE TORNADO.\\nThe sky\\nIs overcast, and musters muttering thunders.\\nIn clouds that seem approaching fast, and then\\nIn forked flashes a commanding tempest.\\nGeneral Walter Harriman, in his History of Warner, says\\nthat the winged messenger of death, which bore down through\\nWarner that fatal day of September, 1821, was a tornado, and\\nso let it hereafter be forever known. It is immaterial whether\\nit be called a blizzard, a cyclone, a whirlwind, or a tornado. It\\nseized the fowls, the animals, the people and their habitations,\\nand whirled and tossed them about as a very little thing. It\\nstripped the trees of their branches and twisted off their trunks\\nit rended the forests, and it spared little that stood in its way,\\nleaving nothing in its remorseless track but death and desola-\\ntion. The day and the hour when this visitation occurred was\\nSeptember 9, i82i,at about five o clock in the afternoon. For\\nseveral days previous, it was warm, and the 9th was sultry.\\nAll the air a solemn stillness held,\\ntill about five o clock, when a black cloud was observed to rise\\nrapidly in the northwest, and to bear in a southeasterly direc-\\ntion. All of a sudden there were violent agitations in the\\natmosphere in that vicinity. This cloud was charged with\\nthunderbolts, and it was illumined in its course by incessant\\nand vivid flashes of lightning. This cloud was portentous of\\nevil, and in it there was a most terrifying commotion, which\\ngave warning of fearful desolation. A high wind prevailed as\\n27", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0447.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "4l8 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nfar back as Lake Champlain, but it acquired no distinctive force\\ntill it passed over Grantham and Croydon mountains. In Croy-\\ndon, the house of Deacon Cooper was shattered, and his barn\\nwas torn to atoms, and, with its contents, was entirely swept\\naway. No other buildings were directly in its narrow path till\\nit reached nearly to Sunapee lake. Here it struck the farm\\nand buildings of John H. Huntoon, in Wendell, now Sunapee.\\nThere were eight persons in the house. They all beheld the\\nfrightful appearance of the clouds had seen the air before it\\nfilled with birds and the broken limbs of trees and rubbish of\\nall kinds but there had not been much time for reflection or\\nfor seeking safety. The tornado, after a moment s warning,\\nwas upon them and the house and the two barns were instantly\\nprostrated to the ground. A broadside of the house fell upon\\nMr. Huntoon and his wife, who were standing in the kitchen.\\nThe next moment it was blown off and dashed to pieces. Mrs.\\nHuntoon was swept at least ten rods from the house. A child\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2eleven months old was sleeping on a bed in the west room\\ntbe dress it wore was soon after found in the lake, a hundred\\nand fifty rods from the house, but the child could not be found.\\nThe Wednesday following its mangled body was picked up on\\nthe shore of the lake, whither it had floated on the waves.\\nThe bedstead, on which the child was sleeping, was found in\\nthe woods eighty rods from the house, northerly, and clear out\\nof the track of the cyclone. The other seven persons of the\\nhousehold were injured, but none of them died. Every tree in\\na forty acre lot of woodland was leveled with the ground. A\\nbureau was blown across the lake. A horse was dashed against\\na rock and killed.\\nThe tornado passed across Sunapee lake, drawing up into its\\nbosom vast quantities of water. New London suffered a loss\\nof property estimated at $9,000. Eight or ten barns, five or\\nsix houses, and many outbuildings were entirely or partially\\ndestroyed in that town. From New London the tornado passed\\nacross the northerly part of Sutton, cutting a swath through\\nthe forests which is visible to this day but it did not come in\\ncontact with any buildings. It bore up on the northwest side", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0448.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "THE TORNADO. 4I9\\nof Kearsarge mountain, apparently in two columns. In pitch-\\ning down over the mountain into the Gore, the two columns\\nmerged into one, and came crushing along with renewed force.\\nThe thunders rolled fearfully, the forked lightning flashed on\\nthe dark background, and the flood was driven with the gale.\\nIn this valley, between the two spurs of the mountain, stood\\nseven dwelling-houses. The tornado first struck the barn of\\nWilliam Harwood, and demolished that passing onward, its\\nouter limits came in contact with the houses of M. F. Goodwin,\\nJames Ferrin, and Abner Watkins. All these houses were\\ndamaged. Ferrin s barn was destroyed, and Watkins s unroofed.\\nThe late Stephen N. Ferrin, of Warner, said that on a fence\\nwere a flock of turkeys more than half grown, about fifteen in\\nnumber. These were caught up and whirled away, and no trace\\nof any one of them could ever be found, neither feathers nor\\nanything else. Next in the line of march stood Daniel Sav-\\nory s house. Hearing a frightful rumbling in the heavens, Mr.\\nSamuel Savory, aged seventy-two, the father of the proprietor\\n(who was away hastened up stairs to close the windows.\\nThe women started to his assistance, when the house whirled\\nand instantly rose above their heads, while what was left be-\\nhind, timbers, bricks, etc., almost literally buried six of the\\nfamily in the ruins. The body of the aged Samuel Savory was\\nfound at a distance of six rods from the house, where he had\\nbeen dashed against a stone and instantly killed. His wife was\\nseverely injured. Mrs. Daniel Savory was fearfully bruised in\\nthe head, arms and breast, and an infant she held in her arms\\nwas instantly killed. The house of Robert Savory stood very\\nnear this place, and that also was utterly demolished. Mrs.\\nSavory and the children, six in number, were buried together\\nunder the bricks and rubbish. Some of them were severely\\ninjured, but none killed. Not only the houses, but the barns\\nand outbuildings at the two Savory places, were utterly cleaned\\nout not one stone was left upon another. Trees, fences, hay,\\ngrain, boards, shingles, the legs, wings and heads of fowls filled\\nthe air. Crops were swept off clean stone walls were thrown\\ndown, and stones partly buried in the earth were upturned.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0449.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "420 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nTrees of every description were denuded of their branches^\\ntwisted off at the trunk, or torn up at the roots. There were\\ntwenty-five hives of bees at the Robert Savory place, perhaps\\nthe property of both families these were swept out of sight in\\nan instant. The ground was sweetened with honey for half a\\nmile, but no hive and no sign of a bee was ever afterwards seen.\\nThe Savorys and Abner Watkins had caught a noble old bear\\non the mountain, and had chained him to a sill of Robert Sav-\\nory s barn, intending to exhibit him at the muster which was\\nto occur on the loth of September, back of George Savory s\\nhouse. Though the barn was entirely destroyed to its founda-\\ntion, the sill to which the bear was chained, being a cross sill,\\nand sunk into the ground, remained in its place, and the bear\\nwas unhurt, but he had the good sense not to show himself on\\nthe muster field the next day.\\nJoseph Palmer, who lived up to the eastward of the Savorys\\na third of a mile, saw the cloud, in shape like a tunnel inverted,\\nand the air filled with leaves, limbs, shrubbery, quilts, beds,\\nclothing, crockery, aud almost every conceivable thing. He\\nheard the ominous rumbling, and sprang to enter the house,\\nwith the purpose of fleeing with his wife to the cellar. He got\\nthe door but partly open when the house gave way, burying\\nMrs. Palmer under the debris, and inflicting upon her serious\\ninjuries. In this valley between the hills, everything in the\\ndirect course of the tornado was rooted out. Bridges made of\\nlogs were scattered in every direction, timbers being thrown to\\nthe right and left, and even to the rear, as well as to the front.\\nThe tornado passed on over the next spur of the mountain,\\ntwo and a half miles, and then bore down upon the houses of\\nPeter Flanders, in Warner, and Deacon Joseph True, in Salis-\\nbury. Peter Flanders was the father of True and Eben Flan-\\nders, the latter of whom occupied the old homestead in 1880.\\nDeacon True was the father-in-law of a Mr. Jones. Jones and\\nhis wife were on a visit to True s. Being at the door, they were\\napprised of the danger, and called out lustily to the family to\\nseek refuge as best they could. The buildings were whirled\\naloft and torn into fragments, falling around the family like", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0450.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "THE TORNADO. 421\\nmissiles of death but no one at this house was killed outright.\\nThe buildings of Mr. Flanders were also scattered like chaff,\\nthe violence of the gale being unabated. Anna Richardson, an\\nelderly woman calling on Mrs. Flanders, and a child of the lat-\\nter, were crushed to death. Several others were grievously\\nwounded, one of whom, a child of Mr. True, died of its injuries\\na short time afterwards. From here this remarkable cyclone\\npassed on over Tucker s pond, drawing up vast sheets of water\\nfrom its surface, and after destroying the house of Mr. Mor-\\nrill, near Boscawen line, in Salisbury, it lifted itself into the\\nheavens and vanished.\\nPeter Flanders says that this day the family had been baking,\\nand the bricks were hot, and the chimney falling on three of\\nthe children, so injured one of them, a girl, that she died that\\nnight, and so burned another, a boy aged five years, about the\\nlegs that the sores caused thereby did not fully heal for seven\\nyears, and he was made a cripple through life. The third child\\nwas uninjured. At the time the tornado struck Peter Flanders s\\nhouse he was standing at the west of the chimney by the jamb\\nand close to the cellar door. His son True was standing in\\nfront of the fire-place. The child Phebe was asleep on the bed,\\nand Mrs. Flanders and Mrs. Richardson were east of the chim-\\nney. The building being borne completely away, Mr. Flanders\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was found with his feet partly down the cellar stairs, partially\\nparalyzed, from which shock he did not recover for some si.\\\\\\nmonths. The son. True, was thrown into the fire-place (the\\nfire being out after dinner) and was not injured. The girl,\\nPhebe, (now Mrs. Augustus Pettengill) was carried with the\\nfeather bed and dropped some rods from the house, and one\\narm was broken. Mrs. Flanders was thrown to the floor and\\nMrs. Richardson on top of her, and a large stick of timber was\\nfound upon Mrs. Richardson. Her arms and legs were broken,\\nand she sustained other injuries, from which she died in\\nhalf an hour. Mrs. PManders was the daughter of Jabez and\\nsister of Joseph True, and was so badly injured about the head\\nthat she never recovered. Mrs. Richardson resided over a mile\\naway on the road to the Gore, and was at this house for milk.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0451.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "422 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nThe amount of damage suffered by this tornado was ap-\\npraised to each, and a subscription in the several towns was\\nraised for their relief, as will appear by the following bill and\\nsubscription list. .It will be seen that the greatest sufferers\\nwere the two Savorys, in Warner, and the Trues, father and\\nson, in Salisbury and that Joseph True was the greatest indi-\\nvidual sufferer.\\nIn 1869, General Walter Harriman addressed a mass meeting\\nin Painesville, Ohio. At its close an old gentleman, whose\\nform was bent with age, and whose head was bowed with sor-\\nrow, came forward and made himself known as Mr. Huntoon,\\nthe father of the child that was destroyed in Wendell, N. H.,\\nin the tornado of 1821. He had left the shores of Sunapee\\nand the devastated track of the tornado fifty years before, and\\nmade him a home in Ohio. Soon after this meeting with Gen-\\neral Harriman, he escaped from the storms and the blasts of\\nthis life, and went to a land of peace and safety.\\nSUFFERERS IN SALISBURY.\\nThe following is the list of subscriptions for the relief of the\\nsufferers by the tornado in Salisbury\\nSamuel Eaton,\\n$H\\n00\\nBenjamin Howard, Jr.,\\n50\\nMoses (Jreeley,\\n8\\n00\\nDaniel Fellows,\\n2 00\\nJohn Greelej\\n4\\nGO\\nStevens Mann,\\n2 00\\nPaul Greeley,\\nGO\\nReuben Wardwell,\\n2 CO\\nJohn Greeley,\\nI\\nGO\\nMoses Eastman,\\n4 00\\nSamuel Greeley,\\n7\\n00\\nDaniel Smith,\\n2 00\\nJacob Greeley,\\n2\\nGO\\nFrancis Little,\\n50\\nIsaac Stevens,\\n3\\n00\\nEdward Baker,\\nI 00\\nNathaniel Stevens,\\n2\\nGO\\nJoseph Bean,\\nI 00\\nJob Heath,\\n2\\nGO\\nJohn Calef,\\nI GO\\nAbial Wardwell,\\n2\\n50\\nPeter Whittemore,\\n50\\nJames Fellows,\\nI\\n00\\nISenjamin Whittemore,\\nI GO\\niVIoses Call,\\nI\\n50\\nJoseph Bean, Jr.,\\n75\\nAroses Fellows,\\n3\\nOG\\nJohn Sanborn,\\n2 00\\nBenjamin Pettengill, 2d,\\n4\\nGO\\nJohn Webster,\\n5 00\\nJeremy Webster,\\n2\\n50\\nJohn Townsend,\\n2 00\\nRobert Greenough,\\n50\\nJacob Brown,\\nI 00\\nJoel Eastman,\\n4\\nGO\\nWilliam Calef,\\nI GO\\nPeter Bartlett,\\n2\\nGO\\nHawley Gilman,\\n2 00\\nDavid Pettengill,\\n50\\nWilliam Flander.s,\\n2 GO", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0452.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "THE TORNADO,\\n425\\nSamuel Quimby,\\n50\\n15enjaniin Iluntoon,\\n2 25\\nWinthrop Fifield,\\nI 00\\nT. K. Grcenough,\\nI 00\\nJames Garland,\\n00\\nJohn White,\\n2 00\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\n2 00\\nA. Bowers,\\n7 00\\nJames Proctor,\\n50\\nP. Noyes,\\n2 00\\nIsaac I roctor,\\nI 50\\nJonathan Calef,\\nI 00\\nKendall O. Teabody,\\nI 00\\nJohn Bean,\\nI 00\\nJohn Sanborn,\\n2 00\\n(Ireenleaf Morse,\\nI 00\\nJohn Hancock,\\n50\\nDavid Calef,\\n1 00\\nWilliam Ladd,\\n2 00\\nWilliam IJttle,\\n2 00\\nJacob True,\\n4 00\\nIsrael W. Key,\\nI 00\\nJabez Smith,\\n4 00\\nMoses West,\\nI 00\\nIsaac Hale,\\n50\\nS. I. Wells,\\n2 00\\nStephen CIreenleaf,\\nt 00\\nJames Woodbury,\\n2 00\\nMrs. Phineas Eastman,\\nI GO\\nJoseph Burley,\\n87\\nThorndike Proctor,\\n2 00\\nH. T. Sawyer,\\n67\\nNathaniel French,\\n2 CO\\nJoshua Fifield,\\nI 00\\nEnoch Osgood,\\n2 DO\\nSamuel Couch,\\nI 50\\nl!enjamin Gale,\\n10 00\\nTimothy Taylor,\\n2 00\\nSamuel Iluntoon,\\n1 CO\\nLOSSES IN WAKNEK AND SALISBURY.\\nThe following are the names of the sufferers by the whirl-\\nwind in Warner and Salisbury, on the 9th of September, 1821,\\nwith the amounts lost, as appraised by the committee:\\nFoster Goodwin,\\nWilliam Harwood,\\nJames Fcrrin,\\nSamuel Tiler,\\nI.orra Little,\\nRuth Cloodwin,\\nCharlotte (Joodwin,\\n.\\\\bner Watkins, Jr.,\\nWidow .Savory,\\nI )aniel Savorj\\nRobert .Savory,\\nJohn J. Palmer,\\n$43 o J Joseph True, SSoo oo\\n75 00 Peter Flanders, 75S oo\\n194 00 Jonathan Morrill, S5 00\\n5 00 Ezekiel Flanders, 30 00\\n20 00 Benjamin and Jesse Little, 200 00\\n6 00 James B. Straw, 50 00\\n6 00 Nathaniel Greeley, 100 00\\n350 00 Moses Stevens, 10 00\\nICO 00 Jabez True, 100 00\\n675 00 Enoch Morrill, 20 cx\\n775 00 W. Huntington, 20 00\\n100 00 Michael Bartlett, 10 00\\nAs a contribution for the relief of the sufferers sundry arti-\\ncles were sent from the Shakers to l^enj. Kvans, Esq., and by\\nhim divided. The value of these Shaker goods was estimated\\nat $134.72. Various other sums were received and divided by\\nthe committee from time to time, amounting in the aggregate\\nto the sum of $501.04.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0453.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXXIV.\\nWHIPPING THE CAT, ETC.\\nFew save the poor feel for the poor;\\nThe rich know not how hard\\nIt is to be of needful rest,\\nAnd needful food debarred\\nThey know not of the scanty meal,\\nWith small pale faces round\\nNo fire upon the cold damp earth\\nWhen snow is on the ground.\\nIn early times, and as late as 1835-6, and perhaps later, shoe-\\nmakers were accustomed to take their benches, lap-stone,\\nclamps, lasts, and kit of tools, and go from house to house and\\nmend up the old boots and shoes, and make new ones for the\\nwhole family for a year. Sale shoes were little used, previ-\\nous to 1825, in the town of Salisbury. Farmers would take\\ntheir cow-hides and calf-skins to the tanner, one year, and the\\nnext year they would be tanned and returned to them. Sole\\nleather would be purchased by the side, and when the shoemak-\\ner came around, shoes and boots would be made for the year.\\nThe shoemaker, who went from house to house in this way,\\nwent about iv]iippi)ig the cat.\\nAbout 1828, there lived in Salisbury two brothers, Amos and\\nEben Whittemore. Eben lived at Shaw s Corner, in what is\\nnow Franklin. He was very poor, and had a large family of\\nchildren, sixteen in number, ranging from six months to nine-\\nteen years of age. He was lame, and walked with some diffi-\\nculty, and his hands were somewhat deformed. He was an\\nindifferent shoemaker, but on account of his misfortunes, his\\npoverty, and his large family, he went about whipping the cat,\\nand was quite extensively employed in Salisbury and the neigh-\\nboring towns. He was a story teller, and the people were fond\\nof having him tell stories, especially the young boys. He\\nlived in a rude house, with two rooms and an attic. In one", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0454.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "WHIPPING THK CAT. 425\\nroom down stairs he lived with his family, his turn-up bed\\nand his trundle bed, and here he carried on his trade of cob-\\nbling and making boots and shoes, when not away whipping\\nthe cat. His worldly possessions consisted of his shoemaker\\ntools, worth fifteen dollars perhaps, and his household goods,\\nworth twenty more. He did not own an inch of land on earth.\\nHe had a cow and a pig.\\nHis brother, Amos, lived on the southeastern slope of Rac-\\ncoon Hill, about two miles and a half away from his brother\\nEben. He was a fore-handed farmer, with a small family, and\\nwas exceedingly fond of the law. The road between the two\\nbrothers led directly over Searle s Hill.\\nDuring the hard winter, Eben, who had the nick-name of\\nCain, mortgaged his farrow cow to his brother to buy food\\nfor his family, promising faithfully to pay in the spring but\\nspring came and no money could be had. Amos demanded the\\ncow in payment. Eben told him he had no money, and needed\\nthe milk of his cow for his little children, and asked his broth-\\ner s forbearance but his heart was hard, and amidst the cries\\nof the little children, and the tears of the older ones, the well-\\nto-do brother, the hard-hearted uncle, drove away the mother-\\nly, white-face, line-back cow, whose milk had been largely the\\nsupport of the family through the winter. Eben went imme-\\ndiately to the young lawyer who had just set up in Salisbury,\\nGeorge V\\\\^ Nesmith, to see what could be done about it. What\\nadvice the young attorney gave him, history does not inform us\\nbut the next night being dark, I^ben hobbled up over Searle s\\nHill to his brother s barn, and there, in the yard, discovered\\nthe welcome white face of his cow. The bars were quietly let\\ndown, and the cow immediately struck out for Shaw s Corner,\\nwhich she soon reached. When Eben, following on after,\\nreached his home and found his cow there, he took her into his\\nhouse and locked her up. The mortgage gave the right to\\nenter into the dwelling-house and take the mortgaged prop-\\nerty. Soon Amos came again for his brother s cow, broke into\\nthe house and led her away, and for a time kept her locked up\\nin his barn at night, and turned her to pasture during the day.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0455.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "426 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nLocking the barn soon came to be an old story, and the covv^\\nin the warm spring-time, was kept in the barn-yard.\\nBy-and-by Eben went to the home of Abraham Stevens to\\nwhip the cat. Stevens then lived on the Webster place. Elms\\nFarm, four and a half miles from the residence of his brother\\nAmos.\\nStevens had a horse which ran in the road, and no one, ex-\\ncept the members of the family, could catch him, and then not\\nwithout a measure of grain. It was simply impossible for\\nEben to limp, during one short night in the summer, from the\\nWebster farm to Raccoon Hill and back, over Smith s and\\nSearle s Hills.\\nWhen it was ascertained that the cow was left at night loose\\nin the yard, Eben again visited the young lawyer, and history\\nis again silent as to what advice the poor man received.\\nHe went back to Mr. Stevens s, and went to cobbling up the\\nboots and shoes of the family. When night came on apace,\\nthe Stevens boys and the hired men, four of them, went up to\\nbed and soon Eben went hobbling up, and passed directly by\\nthe room where the four young men were awake in bed. He\\nlooked in upon them, told them several stories, and then went\\nsinging some doleful ditty to his room and to bed. The\\nyoung men were soon lost in sleep.\\nHad some one been looking about that house that night,,\\nabout half past nine o clock, he might have seen the venerable\\nfather of the Stevens boys slipping out of the house with a\\nlittle measure of grain and a bridle concealed behind him, and\\nslying up to the wary Old Dobbin, till he got hold of his\\nmane, and then slipping the bridle upon him. A few minutes\\nlater, the horse might have been seen tied by the roadside, all\\nsaddled, all bridled, all fit for a ride to Raccoon Hill. Anon\\nthis fleet and trusty steed, with Cain Whittemore, the lame\\ncobbler, astride of him, might have been seen flying over Punch\\nBrook, up by the site of the Webster saw-mill, past Shaw s\\nCorner, close by his sleeping children, unconscious of his near\\npresence up over Searle s Hill, to near the home of the un-\\nnatural brother. About midnight, the same charger, with the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0456.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "WHIFl lNG THK CAT. 42/\\nsame rider, leading the willing and obedient cow, might have\\nbeen seen in the darkness passing along the new road from\\nShaw s Corner to the East Village, where a pot of black paint\\nhad .been seasonably prepared, which changed the emblem of\\ninnocence in the cow s face and on her back, so that it corres-\\nponded with the intense darkness of the night. On the oppo-\\nsite side of the Pemigewasset, in Sanbornton, in a green, retired\\npasture, about three o clock in the morning, a perfectly black\\ncow might have been seen lying down to rest, while the horse,\\nwith his rider, was making the trees and fences fly past him,\\nlike clouds by the moon, on his return to the house of Daniel\\nWebster, the home of Mr. Stevens. The following handbill\\nsoon appeared\\n.STR.WED OR STOLEN\\nFrom the premises of Amos Whittemore, in Salisbury, on Raccoon Hill, a large\\nblack cow, with white face, and a broad white line on her back. Whoever will\\nreturn said cow, or give information where she may be found, shall be suitably\\nrewarded. .\\\\mo.s \\\\Viiirn;.MORE.\\nSalisbury, July 20.\\nAfter the most extensive search for the cow, all efforts to\\nfind her were given up. No such strange cow had been seen,\\nno such stray cow could be found, and Amos prosecuted his\\nbrother for stealing the cow. Richard Fletcher instituted the\\nprosecution, and young lawyer Nesmith appeared for the\\nrespondent. All the four young men were summoned for the\\nprosecution, and testified that they saw Eben when he went up\\nto bed on the night the cow went away, heard him tell several\\nstories, and heard him when he went singing to bed, and saw\\nhim the next morning when he went down early to his work,\\nand heard his hammer upon his lap-stone. The sons testified\\nthat it was impossible for any one, except the father and the\\nsons and hired men, to catch the horse, Mr. F letcher did not\\nthink to summon the father. ICben was acquitted and dis-\\ncharged.\\nIn green pastures beside the still waters of Sanbornton\\nthe black cow waxed and grew fat, and in the following win-\\nter the family of Eben had meat to eat that his brother Amos\\nknew not of.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0457.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "428 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nSome time afterwards, Mr. Nesmith was employed by Amos\\nWhittemore to contest a note held by the estate of Ezekiel\\nWebster. Whittemore claimed that he had paid the note, ex-\\ncept a few dollars, and the case was referred to Moody K*ent,\\nof Concord. Mr. Nesmith conducted his defense to a success-\\nful issue. Whittemore proposed to Mr. Nesmith that he would\\nrelease his brother from all claims, and pay the attorney s bill\\nwhich his brother had been unable to pay, if Mr. Nesmith\\nwould tell him what became of the cow. The history of the\\ncow was thereupon fully detailed to him.\\nTHE LOST TREASURE.\\nAnother story of early days must not be omitted from our\\nhistory. It is here briefly told\\nGeorge W. Nesmith settled at the East, or Pemigewasset\\nVillage, but was soon very well known throughout the town.\\nHe was a man of familiar, pleasant manners, and soon made\\nextensive and agreeable acquaintances, not only in the town\\nbut in the State. There lived, at the South Road, Moses Green-\\nough, who had a singular foot that was noticeable, like Mr.\\nNesmith s, and the controversy about taking part of Salisbury\\nfor the new town of Franklin made Mr. Nesmith as well known\\nat the South Road as any resident there. He frequently tried\\ncases before Andrew Bowers, who lived in the house on the\\ncorner of the South and Mutton Roads. It was before Justice\\nBowers that Eben Whittemore was tried for stealing the\\nblack, white-face, line-back cow. In 1824 he delivered the\\nFourth of July oration at the South Road. Justice Bowers\\nhad a little smoke-house in the southeast corner of his door-\\nyard where he smoked his hams. One morning early, he went\\nout to build his little cob fire in the smoke-house, and found\\none ham missing. The ground was soft, and there were sure\\nindications that Moses Greenough s club foot had been to his\\nsmoke-house, and had gone back down the road towards his\\nresidence. Squire Bowers followed the track to Greenough s\\nhouse, knocked at the door, and Moses appeared and greeted\\nthe justice with a most bland smile, and gave him a very gra", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0458.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "THE LOST TREASURE. 429\\ncious invitation to walk in. Justice Bovvers said he had called\\nto see his neighbor Greenough, to get a little assistance. Said\\nhe, Last night I lost a very nice ham out of my smoke-house,\\nand I called to see you, Moses, in the hope that you might help\\nto me find it. Certainly, said Moses; anything I can do\\nto assist you to find your ham, I will be most happy to do. So\\nJustice Bowers and Moses marched back to the smoke-house,\\nand when within a few feet of the door, a track was pointed out\\nthat no one in the town of Salisbury could make but Moses\\nhimself. Now, Moses, said the. justice, won t you e.xamine\\nthat track, as it leads up to the door and goes away again, and\\nsee if you can tell me who has taken my ham. Yes, says\\nMoses, I can tell you who has got that ham. It s Nesmith,\\ndown to Franklin.\\nThe ne.xt morning the gracious justice, when he opened his\\nsmoke-house, found his lost ham hanging up in the same place\\nwhere it had disappeared the morning before.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0459.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXXV.\\nVISIT OF HIS SATANIC MAJESTY.\\nFrom his brimstone bed, at break of day\\nA-walking the Devil is gone,\\nTo visit his snug little farm on the earth\\nAnd see how his stock goes on.\\nWe read of the superstitions of earlier times and the enormi-\\nties practiced in church and state of the judicial murders of\\nthe innocent and helpless, both in this country and in England,\\nwho were charged with witchcraft, and we little realize how\\nnear that age of bigotry and superstition comes to us but we\\nhave learned that our forefathers, like the ancient Bereans, were\\ntoo religious the apostle said, too superstitious.\\nAs late as the final adoption of our most excellent constitu-\\ntion, which stood the test of time for sixty-six years without an\\nalteration, and for ninety-three years with but a single amend-\\nment, an occurrence happened in Salisbury which is strange to\\nrelate. The incidents recorded below were taken from the\\ndiary of the late Asa Reddington, of Waterville, Me., who was\\na revolutionary soldier. He was at work at the time for a Mr.\\nGreeley, in Salisbury.\\nAn elderly lady by the name of Kailey, of whom it was said\\nshe loved toddy, happened to be at the barn one day when there\\ncame up a heavy shower, accompanied with loud thunder and\\nvivid flashes of lightning, during which period the Prince of\\nDarkness appeared unto her. In consideration of some valuable\\npromises made to her, she entered into a contract with him,\\nagreeing to give herself up both soul and body to his Infernal\\nMajesty, on a certain hour of a certain day, and in about six\\ndays after this interview. When the storm was over the good", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0460.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "VISIT OF HIS SATANIC MAjESTV. 43 1\\nold lady returned to the house and gave the members of the\\nhousehold a history of what had taken place, adding that she\\nhad signed and sealed the contract with her blood, showing the\\nwound on her finger from which the blood was drawn. Her\\nfriends were exceedingly alarmed at the dreadful story, and the\\nnews spread like wildfire both far and near. What could be\\ndone to save her.^ Notice was immediately given to Mr. Searle,\\nthe then settled minister of the town, and like a good shepherd\\nhe at once determined to defeat the Evil One, if possible. Ac-\\ncordingly, on the Sabbath following he mentioned the appalling\\ncircumstances to the congregation, and with tears in his eyes\\ntold them Reddington being one of his hearers) that the Prince\\nof Darkness had appeared in bodily shape to one of his parish-\\nioners, and on a certain day was to make his appearance, accord-\\ning to contract, and take away with him a member of his church\\nto the regions of despair. He announced that on the day named\\nfor the e.xhibition he should, by the consent of the church then\\npresent, appoint a meeting, and wished if any one present had\\nany objection to make it known. A pause then ensued and not\\neven a whisper was heard. The minister then said he should,\\nand accordingly did, appoint the meeting. On that important\\nday a multitude of persons of all ages and sexes assembled in\\nMr. Pettingill s orchard, on an elevated piece of ground; meas-\\nures having been i)reviously taken to have twelve ministers\\nfrom the neighboring towns in attendance upon the meeting,\\nthey accordingly appeared in due season for the exercises. The\\ngood old lady was then introduced and placed in the centre of\\nthe multitude, the ministers forming in a circle around her;\\nthen another circle composed of deacons and elders, with mem-\\nbers of churches, and in the rear of these the multitude formed\\nin close column. ICverything being in readiness for action,\\nand at least an hour before the time appointed for his Satanic\\nMajesty to make his appearance, the exercises began by sing-\\ning, praying and supplicating, all in favor of the good old lady\\nand against the tempter. This continued till five o clock in the\\nafternoon, it then being several hours after the time appointed\\nfor the explosion, but there being no smell of brimstone or any", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0461.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "432 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nappearance of danger, the multitude began to disperse, the old\\nlady was delivered over to her friends, and by sunset the ground\\nwas cleared. In closing his account Mr. Reddington says:\\nMr. Greeley, early in the day, geared up his old steed with\\nsaddle and pillion, went a number of times, taking the females\\nof his family on to the ground in good season, and returning-\\nhome in the same way, which was not accomplished till nearly\\ndark. I did not attend at this scene of folly, but the meeting\\ntook place in sight of where I was hoeing corn in Mr. Greeley s\\nfield, and I could plainly see the gathering multitude at the\\nplace of action. The particulars of what took place at the\\nmeeting I had from several persons present. My brother,\\nThomas Reddington, then resided near Mr. Greeley s, and had\\na knowledge of the transaction and recollects it.\\nApropos to the foregoing are Mrs. Lydia L. S. Very s lines\\non the personality of the devil. She declares she has found\\n^ut all about him, and bursts out in song as follows\\nHe walks the streets in broadcloth clad,\\nNo cloven hoof tis he foretelling;\\nHis feet in patent leather bright,\\nHe waltzes at the ball at night,\\nOf fragrant perfumes smelling.\\nWithin the lawyers ranks he sits,\\nIndignantly he talks of crime;\\nWith rounded periods, striking hits\\nHe can describe; the coat so fits,\\nFor he has worn it through all time.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0462.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXXVI.\\nCONCLUSION.\\nCustom calls me to it,\\nWhat custom wills in all things should we do it.\\nA little learning is a dangerous thing:\\nDrink deep or taste not the Pierian spring.\\nPOST OFFICES AND POST MASTERS.\\nThomas W. Thompson, appointed April i, 1798. At that\\ndate he undoubtedly resided at the South Road Village, in a\\nhouse which stood on the site of Mrs. H. C. W. Moore s resi-\\ndence. He was succeeded by\\nMoses Eastman, appointed April i, 1803, who continued in\\nthe same place.\\nJoshua Fifield, appointed October 17, 1826.\\nJohn White, appointed December 20, 1827; undoubtedly\\nkept the office at his store.\\nSamuel Allen, appointed January 13, 1829; continued the\\noffice at the same store.\\nJohn Townsend, appointed November 3, 1829; removed the\\noffice to his harness shop.\\nMoses Eastman, appointed February 25, 1S37 kept the\\noffice in the southeast front room of Mrs. 11. C. W. Moore s\\nhouse.\\nAbraham II. Robinson, M. D., appointed August 15, 1846;\\ncontinued the office in the same place as his predecessor.\\nNathaniel 1?ean, appointed April 12, 1856; continued the\\noffice in the same place as his predecessor.\\nThomas D. Little, appointed April 12, 1861 removed the\\noffice to the Greenough store, thence to the Greenleaf\\nClement store.\\n28", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0463.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "434 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nDaniel R. Everett, appointed April 4, 1870; continued\\nthe office in the Greenleaf Clement store.\\nLewis A. Hawkins, appointed January 29, 1874.\\nArthur S. Calef, appointed January 24, 1878; both con-\\ntinued the office in the Greenleaf Clement store.\\nWilliam B. Parsons, appointed November 22, 1878 re-\\nmoved the office to the Greenough store, thence to the Green-\\nleaf Clement store.\\nHenry B. Sweatt, appointed August 8, 1882 continued\\nthe office as above until August 22, 1882, when it was removed\\nto the store of Chapman 81 Sweatt continuing until February\\n5, 1884, when it was returned to the Greenleaf Clement\\nstore. Resigned April 21, 1885, in favor of\\nAndrew E. Ouimby, appointed May 20, 1885 continued the\\noffice at the same place.\\nThe postoffice at what is now Franklin was first called Salis-\\nbury Village. The office was established February 23, 1820,\\nwith a continuous appointment of postmasters as follows\\nEbenezer Eastman, appointed February 23, 1820.\\nJohn Cavender, appointed August 15, 1822.\\nName changed to Franklin, January 12, 1829. John Caven-\\nder re-appointed January 12, 1829.\\nCaleb Merrill, appointed May 27, 1829.\\nThomas R. White, appointed December 26, 1838.\\nCaleb Merrill, second term, appointed April i, 1843.\\nJoseph Clark, appointed June 15, 1849.\\nJohn White, appointed November 26, 1852.\\nDavid Gilchrist, appointed April 14, 1853.\\nJames Colburn, appointed May 31, 1861.\\nMiss Eunice G. Colburn, appointed November 17, 1862,\\nNow made a presidential office, and Miss Eunice G. Colburn,\\nre-appointed March 2, 1867; April 17, 1871 December 14,\\n1875 January 12, 1880, and still holds the office.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0464.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "CONCLUSION. 435\\nCOLLEGE GRADUATES.\\nFollowing are the names and professions of college graduates,\\nexcepting those given with ecclesiastical and educational chap-\\nters, or with physicians and lawyers. A star signifies that\\nthey were not born in Salisbury, but spent there some portion\\nof their lives, as citizens:\\n7S4. *Christopher Page, Dartmouth, minister. See Genealogy.\\n794. Moses Eastman, A. M., Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n795. Moses Sawyer, A. M., Dartmouth, minister.\\nSoi. Daniel Webster, LL.D., Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n804. Ebenezer Fifield, A. B., Dartmouth, professor. See Genealogy.\\nS04. Thomas H. Pettengill, A. M., Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n804. Ezekiel Webster, A. M., Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n805. Nathaniel Sawyer, A. 1!., Dartmouth, lawyer.\\nS06. John True, A. 1!., Dartmouth, physician.\\n808. Nathaniel Huntoon, Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n808. Ichabod Bartlett, A. M., Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n811. Valentine Little, A. 1!., Middlebury, minister.\\n812. lienjamin Pettengill, 3d, A. M., Middlebury.\\n812. James liartlett, A. M., Middlebury, lawyer.\\n813. Joseph Wardwell, A. 15., Dartmouth, professor.\\n816. Charles B. Haddock, D. D., Dartmouth, professor.\\n816. Joseph Bartlett, A. AL, Dartmouth, physician.\\nS17. Benjamin Huntoon, Dartmouth, minister.\\n820. William C. Thompson, Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n83r. Joseph B. Eastman, A. B., Dartmouth, minister.\\n821. K. G. Buswell, A. L, Dartmouth. Born at Salisbury; died at Charles\\nton, S. C, August 27, 1S27, aged 27.\\n822. Amos Foster, A. M., Dartmouth, minister. Sec Genealogy.\\n822. Albert L. Kelley, lawyer.\\n823. Henry Greenleaf, A. ^L, Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n824. Joel Eastman, Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n825. James K. Cushing, Bangor Theological Seminary, minister. See Gen-\\nealogy.\\n828. Charles E. Thompson, Dartmouth, lawyer. See Genealogy.\\n828. Elbridge F. Greenough, Dartmouth.\\n829. Benjamin F. Foster, Amherst, minister.\\n832. William NL T ngry, A. M., Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n833. Jacob Gale, Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n833. William Wells Proctor, Dartmouth Medical School, physician. See\\nGenealogy.\\n835. Joseph Bartlett, I )artmouth, minister. See Genealogy.\\n826. Samuel C. liartlett, LL.D., Dartmouth, minister. See Genealogy.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0465.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "436 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\n1836. Sylvanus Huntoon, Castleton Medical College, physician. See Pingry\\nGenealogy.\\n1S47. Elbridge L. Little, Michigan L^niversity, minister. See Genealogy.\\n1840. Solomon M. Pingrey, Dartmouth, minister.\\n1841. Francis B. Webster, Dartmouth, merchant.\\n1844. Humphrey Webster, Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n1844. William T. Heydock, Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n1845. John W. Little, M. D., D.D. S., Dartmouth, physician. See Genealogy.\\n1845. Ephraim F. Wilson, Castleton Medical School, physician,\\n1846. John Baker, Dartmouth. See Genealogy.\\n1847. Jeremiah W. Wilson, Castleton Medical School, physician. See Gen-\\nealogy.\\n1847. William H. Bartlett, Dartmouth, lawyer. See Genealogy.\\n1848. Henry L. Watson, University of Vermont, physician. See Genealogy.\\n1S49. Moses S. Wilson, Harvard Medical School, physician.\\n1851. William H. Burleigh, M. D., Dartmouth, physician.\\n1852. Walter Wells, Bowdoin, professor and author.\\n1857. Henry A. Stevens, Amherst, minister.\\n1857. Samuel E. Pingry, A. M., Dartmouth, lawyer.\\n1861. Ebenezer L. Little, Michigan University, minister.\\n1861. *George H. Hutchings, Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio,\\nphysician. .See Genealogy.\\n1861. *Frank R. Morse, D. D., Dartmouth, minister. See Genealogy.\\n1865. John M. Fitz, Dartmouth Medical College, physician. See Genealogy.\\n1872. Irving A. Watson, University of Vermont, physician.\\n1S72. Charles H. Sawyer, Dartmouth, civil engineer.\\n1881. Charles A. Morse, Dartmouth Xfedical School, physician. See Gen-\\nealogy.\\n1S82. N. W. Bean, Dartmouth Medical School, physician. See Genealogy.\\nThe following gentlemen chose a professional life without a\\nfour years collegiate education. So far as known they were\\neminent and highly respected in their several professions.\\nUnless their names are followed by a they were natives of\\nthe town. Some of these may be college graduates, but we\\nare unable to ascertain the fact\\nJonathan French, M. D.; Rev. Julius C. Blodgett. See Genealogy.\\nBenjamin Loverin, M. D., attended medical lectures at Dartmouth. Practiced at\\nSutton and died there.\\nJohn Q. A. French, M. D.; Jesse Fifield, M. D. James Fifield, M. D.; John L-\\nFifield, M. D.; John P. Scribner, M. D. See Genealogy.\\nRev. Moses B. Scribner, ordained Pastor of the Christian Church, in 1857. See\\nGenealogy.\\nRev. Winthrop Fifield. See Genealogy.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0466.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "PROFESSIONS. 437\\nParmetus Ilunton, admitted to the bar in 1837. See Pingry Genealogy.\\nAndrew L. Greeley, admitted to the bar in 1S59.\\nI.uther J. Greeley, admitted to the bar in 1S63.\\nStephen M. Pingry. admitted to the bar in i860. See Pingry Genealogy.\\nCharles L. Greenough, admitted to the bar in 1872.\\nJames L. Foote, admitted to the bar in 1877.\\nGeorge W. Stevens, A. M., 186S.)\\nJohn W. Pettengill, admitted to the bar, in Massachusetts, 1859.\\nElbridge G. Eastman, graduated at West Point Military School. See Genealogy.\\nHiram M. Couch, attended medical lectures at Dartmouth, 1847.\\nRev. James M. P-ean Rev. John \\\\V. Bean; Rev. Hiram Stevens; Elder John\\nCouch. See Genealogy.\\nRev. Trueworthy Cole, a Christian minister.\\nThomas Jefferson Xoyes, M. I).\\nJohn Gale, a lawyer in California.\\n*L)avid Page, son of Onesiphorus practiced at Meredith.\\nA. Hunton, M. D. See Pingry Genealogy.\\nRev. Josepn Tucker. See Genealogy.\\nJoseph Whittemore, minister, then physician; resides at Ossage, Iowa. See Gen-\\nealogy.\\nRev. David R. Whittemore; Elder Abijah Watson; Rev. Joseph Watson. See\\nGenealogy.\\nIsaac T. Sawver, lawver.\\nCHARTER AMENDED.\\nBy the following Act of the Legislature, in 1869, the section\\nherein described was disannexed from Franklin and annexed\\nto Salisbury\\nDESCRIPTION.\\nBeginning on Hoscawen town line on the South-west corner of said Franklin, and\\nthe South-east corner of the town of Salisbury, thence easterly on said Boscawen\\ntown line across lots numbered 7, 8, 9, and 10 in the South range in said Franklin\\nthence north three and one-half degrees east between lots numbered 6 and 7 in said\\nFranklin, one hundred and forty rods to the north-east corner of land of Joseph", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0467.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "438 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nSmith, adjoining land of Charles Smith thence westerly by the north line of said\\nJoseph Smith, across lots numbered 7, 8, and 9, to the west side of said lot num-\\nbered 9, adjoining lot numbered 10; thence northerly between lots numbered 9 and\\n10 eighty-four rods to land occupied by Lewis Buswell; thence north forty and one-\\nhalf degrees west, by said Buswell s land, thirty-five rods to the south rangeway, so\\ncalled; thence westerly by said rangeway, fifty-nine rods to land of Gilbert East-\\nman; thence northerly by said Eastman s east line one hundred and fifteen rods to\\nthe south road leading from the South Village in said Salisbury to Franklin afore-\\nsaid; thence westerly by said road to the bound begun at; be and the same hereby\\nis disannexed from said town of Franklin, and annexed to said town of Salisbury..\\nThis Act shall take effect on and after its passage.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0468.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "GENEAI^OGY AND BIOGRAPHY,\\nCHAPTER XXXVII.\\nHe who takes no interest in the history of his ancestors does not deserve to be\\nremembered by his posterity.\\nPRELIMINARY REMARKS.\\nThe object of this work is to communicate to present and\\nfuture generations some knowledge of the early settlers, the\\ndate of their arrival, and the trials and privations they endured,\\ntogether with such additional information as will be of interest\\nto their descendants.\\nGenealogies of towns are well worth preserving, from the\\nearliest known settlers to present times, and in order to make\\nthem valuable the work should be comprehensive and thorough,\\nparticularly in regard to dates of births, marriages, deaths, and\\nremovals to other localities.\\nPersons who have never undertaken the collection of materi-\\nals for even a single family history little realize the innumerable\\nobstacles the compiler has to surmount, especially so when full\\nand accurate dates are desired. Families are scattered, the\\nmembers perhaps widely separated records are not preserved,\\nin default of which the memory has to be trusted many care\\nvery little or take no interest in their ancestry; frequently no\\nanswer is received in reply to letters asking for information of\\nvital importance to the compiler; succeeding letters perhaps", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0469.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "440 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nrefer the author to others equally careless or indifferent, and so\\nit continues. To this class belong the dissatisfied ones, who\\nsay, He has not got that right; I could have told him differ-\\nently. To such we say, regretfully, If the sketch is not sat-\\nisfactory it is largely your fault you have been urgently asked\\nby letter and public notice to furnish the compiler with facts\\nrelative to your family, and in too many instances the desired\\ninformation has been withheld.\\nProof-sheets have been sent to such members of each family\\nas in our judgment would be most likely to make all the nec-\\nessary corrections. Such information as we have been able\\nto obtain by visiting and consulting aged inhabitants, in this\\nand other towns by extensive correspondence with scattered\\nmembers of families; by examination of letters, manuscripts,\\nfamily bibles and registers and by searching the Kingston\\nchurch records, books, newspapers, gravestones, and every oth-\\ner source likely to afford facts or data, has been laboriously\\ngathered and is freely given.\\nThe records as presented are, from the nature of the case,\\nimperfect. Many of the lists are copied from the town records\\nand of course are reliable and authentic, so far as they go. We\\nare under the disadvantage of not being a native of the town,\\nand while the work of the genealogist is never finished, it is\\nstill a humiliating fact that in this work there must inevitably\\nbe found errors and omissions, and in the case of some families\\nbut a meagre record. The author s aim has been to embrace\\nwhat could be learned respecting both the ancestry and poster-\\nity of all the older families, and from the amount of material\\ncollected he has been compelled to exclude many later families,\\nwith those whose residence in town was but temporary.\\nThere were families in town whose history would be full of\\ninterest, of which little is given, for the reason that little is\\nknown of them. In many cases it has been found impossible\\nto trace the female side of the family, except where they mar-\\nried and continued in town, in which case the word {see) will\\nfollow the name, when by turning to the husband s name their\\nchildren will be found. Many of our Salisbury women reared", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0470.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 44I\\nfamilies of ability and prominence, but as the children were\\nborn elsewhere they cannot be noticed here.\\nExcept in a few instances, where families resided in the east\\npart of the town, just previous to the incorporation of Franklin,\\ntheir genealogies are dropped. Many proper names of families\\noriginally of the same stock are variously spelled by individuals\\nin different families. As given in the following pages, the\\northography is that found in the original records.\\nA mark of interrogation after a name or date implies un-\\ncertainty. The ordinary abbreviations for titles are employed,\\nas also for the names of states, territories or provinces. Names\\nof towns, unless otherwise designated, are supposed to be in\\nNew Hampshire.\\nThe following additional abbreviations are also employed:\\nb. for born, m. for married, unm. for unmarried, d. for died, res.\\nfor resides, res d for resided, rem. for removed, t. r. for town\\nrecords, g. s. for gravestone.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0471.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "442\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nTHE ADAMS FAMILY.\\nFOUR BRANCHES.\\nRobert Adams, a tailor, came to Ipswich, Mass., in 1635,\\nremoved to Salem in 1638, and finally settled in Newbury,\\nMass., in 1640.\\nHe is supposed to have been an Englishman, but exhaustive\\nresearch has thus far failed to ascertain the locality from whence\\nhe came. One tradition has it Devonshire another, of equal\\nvalue, Holderness, in Yorkshire, though no trace or clue has\\nbeen found in either. He came with his wife, Eleanor, and\\ntwo children, a son and daughter, and had eight other children\\nafter his settlement in America. He d. Oct. 12, 1682, aged 81,\\nleaving a widow, his second wife, Sarah (Glover) Short, who\\nd. Oct. 24. 1697.\\nArchelaus, (2) the tenth child and youngest of the family,\\nwas b. about 1654; m. ist, Sarah and 2d, in 1719, Sarah\\nGreen, of Salisbury, Mass., and had eight children.\\nArchelaus (3) seventh child, b. Nov. 21, 17 14, was also twice\\nmarried; ist, to Dorothy Clement, in 1741, and 2d, to Mary\\nPearson, in 1742. His ten children were all by the second wife,\\nwho died at Salisbury, Mass., in Jan., 1783.\\nI.\\nArchelaus, (4) youngest child of Archelaus and Mary\\nPearson Adams, was b. at Salisbury Point, Mass., June\\n14, 1755; m. Jan. 4, 1781, Hannah Osgood, of the same", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0472.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 443\\ntown. She d. June 8, 1814, aged 54. In 1792 he rem.\\nto Salisbury, N. H., settling on the cross-range road, on\\nthe farm where J. H. Smith now resides. He occupied\\nthe premises to the day of his death, Dec. 13, 1828.\\nTheir children, exclusive of two who died in infancy^\\nwere\\n2. Mercy, b. 17S2, d. at Concord, Jan. iS, 1S55, unm.\\n3. Robert Morrill, b. March 14, 17S9. (see.)\\n4. Aaron, b. Jan. 20, 1792. (see.)\\n5. James Osgood, b. Jan. 8, 1795; d. March S, iSrg.\\n6. Benjamin Osgood, b. June 23, 1797. (see.)\\n(3.) Robert Morrill, who joined to the cultivation of a farm\\nthe trade of a blacksmith, which he maintained for more\\nthan forty years, res d in the mountain district, in East\\nConcord. In 1855, after the death of his wife, he sold\\nhis property in Concord and rem. to Laconia, where he\\ncontinued until his death, Nov. 8, 1861 m. i Nov. 12,\\n1812, Demaris Eastman, of Corinth, Vt., who d. June\\n24, 1854; m. (2) 1856, Mrs. Clara, widow of Jonathan\\nWeeks. She d. in 1879. s children, all b. in Concord,\\nwere\\n7. Ezra Eastman, b. Aug. 29, 1813; was a student at Salis-\\nbury Academy, graduating at Dartmouth College, 1836.\\nOrdained a clergyman at Concord, in 1839, d was sta-\\ntioned as chaplain to seamen at Cronstadt, Russia, and\\nHavre, France, for thirteen years; was pastor of the\\nPearl St. Church, at Nashua, and subsequently founder\\nof the North Broad St. Presbyterian Church, in Philadel-\\nphia. He afterwards held the chair of Sacred Rhetoric\\nin Lincoln University, at O.xford, Penn., where he d.\\nNov. 3. 1 87 1. He m. in London, 1840, Betsey B. Berry,\\nof Newbury, Vt\u00e2\u0080\u009e dau. of Judge Joseph Berry. She d. in\\nNew York city, 1846; m. (2) Frances M. Stevens, of\\nConcord, dau. of lion. Josiah Stevens, in 1847.\\nChildren all b. at IFavre; (i) Josiah Robert, b. Dec. 21, 184S; counsellor and\\nattorney at law, Philadelphia. He is married but has no children. (li)\\nJames Osgood, b. May 13, 1S50; m. Jan. 4. 18S6, Emma H. Greeley, dau.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0473.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "444 HISTORV OF SALISBURY.\\nof the late Phiiieas D. Greeley, D. D., of Washington, D. C. Physician\\nat Washington, and formerly a lawyer at Omaha, Neb. (in) Benjamin\\nP)., h. Aug. 15, 1S51 physician at Washington, D. C.\\nS. Hannah Osgood, b. July 26, 181 5; d. 1S16.\\n9. James Osgood, b. June 5, 18 18; graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege, 1843 taught school at Centre Road, 1840, and\\nelsewhere for six years; printer and editor for thirty-\\nyears, at Manchester member of the legislature for\\nmany sessions president of the Manchester Common\\nCouncil, and for eleven years City Superintendent of\\nPublic Instruction, and Secretary of the State Board of\\nAgriculture since 1870. A well-known writer and speak-\\ner. He m. April 2, 185 1, (i) Lucy Payson Foster, of\\nManchester, who accompanied him to Europe, and d.\\nP eb. II, 1852; m. (2) Oct. 3, 1854, Eliza Ellen Everett,\\nof Manchester, who d. March 20, 1861 m. (3) Aug. 20,\\n1862, Susan A. Everett, who d. Oct. 30, 1873; m. (4)\\nLizzie R. (Smith) Perkins, of Newburyport, Mass., July\\n13, 1874.\\nHis children are: (i) Lucy E., b. April 2, 1S5.S; d. March iS, 1861. (a) Ezra\\nE., b. Aug. 26, i860; graduated at Agricultural College, Hanover, 1878;\\nres. in Philadelphia, (iii) James H., b. May 14, 1863, d- Sept. 28, 1867.\\n(IV) Luella A., b. May 17, 1864, d. Dec. 20, 1884. (v) Susie B., b.\\nMarch 20, 1866, d. Dec. 23, 1870. (vi) Willis E., b. Aug. 23, 186S, d.\\nDec. 25, 1S70. (VII) Alice G., b. June 28, 1871. (vili) Lewis Willie,\\nb. Feb. 20, 1873.\\nno. Mary D., b. Dec. 5, 1S21, d. Nov. 5, 1S45. Preceptress of Caledonia Acad-\\nemy, Lyndon, Vt.\\n11. Benjamin O., a merchant in Concord, b. Sept. 27, 1S24, d. Dec. 14, 1849.\\n12. John Q., b. March 18, 1827; formerly at Gilmanton, now at Laconia; m. Lattice\\nMann, of Concord, 1854; three children, Mary D. d., John Q. and Frank\\nL. at Laconia.\\n13. Henry C, b. Nov. 25, 1831 res. at Tilton m. Irene Mann, 1S58, two children,\\nSarah and Mary.\\n(4.) Aaron, remained on the homestead, where he d. Feb.\\n27, 1827; m. Sept. I, 1820, Susan Hill, of Northfield\\nshe d. Nov. 12, 1858. Their children were:\\n114. Hannah C)., b. Sept. 2, 182 1 m. Levi Fifield and res. at Jackson, Mich.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0474.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND lUOGKAril Y. 445,\\n15. Emery II., b. Feb. 2S, 1824. Obtained his education at\\nSalisbury and New London academies. In the fall of\\n1844 he rem. to Lowell, Mass., where he m. Aug. 16,\\n1846, Laura R. Proctor. Rem. to New York city and\\nengaged in the wholesale jewelry business, continuing\\ntill 1870, when with his family he rem. to Orange, N.\\nwhere he still remains.\\nChildren: (i) tieorge E., b. Feb. 13, 1S49, Kugene E., b. Aug. iS, 1851.\\n(Ill) Eva J., b. Sept. 10, 1S53; m. Jan. 27, 1S76, Horace Stetson, (iv)\\nKrank I,., b. Oct. 12, 1S56; m. June 29, iSSi,\\n(6.) Benjamin Osgood, b. June 23, 1797; educated at Salis-\\nbury Academy. His elder brother (Aaron) dying, the\\ncare of the farm came upon him and for many years he\\nsuccessfully carried it on, teaching school in the winter,\\nwhich occupation he found more agreeable to his tastes\\nthan farming. He taught in this and the surrounding\\ntowns for thirty-two years. Possessing an appreciative\\nmind, a gentle but firm disposition, and qualifications for\\nthorough instruction, his services were in frequent de-\\nmand. He was an excellent disciplinarian as well as\\nteacher. He early joined the Baptist church, and after\\nJiis removal from town considered that communion his.\\nhome. He was one of the few christians the writer has\\nmet who endeavored to lead a godly life under all condi-\\ntions. There was no superficial Christianity about him.\\nIn 1843 he rem. to East Concord, where he engaged in\\nagriculture, at times assisting his brother-in-law, John\\nM. Dearborn, in his country store. He m. March 24,\\n1843, Sarah J., dau. of John J. and Sarah (Messerve)\\nDearborn, who was b. at Canterbury, Aug. 3, 1806. He\\nd. at Concord, Sept. 3, 1876.\\nII.\\n16. Joseph Adams, brother to Archelaus, bought of Jonathan\\nCram three sixty-acre lots in the third range, laid out to", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0475.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "44^ HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nBenjamin Ladd, Nathaniel Huntoon and Ebenezer East-\\nman. In 1800 Joseph Adams, Jr., had taxable stock in\\ntrade amounting to $200.00 and in 1801 to $500.00. He\\nsettled on Cash street, near the Dr. W. W. Sleeper place.\\nNo other record of the family has been found.\\n17. Moses, b. Jan. 2, 1792; rem. to Plymouth; iS. Aaron.\\n19. Joseph, (see.) 20. James. 21. Polly. 22. Another girl.\\n19.) Joseph resided on the homestead. He may have been\\nthe one who kept the store, if so, it was the Master\\nThomas Chase stand m. Marian Fifield she d. he\\nd. Sept. 1840.\\n23. Mary, b. Jan. 28, iSoS; m. Francis W. Deane, of Canton, Mass.; she d. July\\n26, 1S47.\\n24. Marian, [Maria] b. Oct. 8, 1810; m. Oct. 30, 1S31, S. P. Deane, of Canton,\\nMass.; she d. July 29, 1875.\\n25. Betsey, b. Nov. 10, 181 1 m. July 1S3S, Edwin E. Goodale res. at Hooksett.\\n26. Emily, b. Jan. 12, 1816; m. Jan. 5, 1S51, Francis W. Deane; res. at Canton,\\nMass.\\n27. Joseph, b. 28. Charles P., b. (^.f^ 29. Rennselaer.\\n30. Albert. 31. James. 32. Nancy, m. Shaw; res. at Burlington, Mass.\\n(28.) Charles Pinckney, by the death of Deacon Cate and wife,\\ncame into possession of their property he once lived at\\nEast Concord, and d. at Penacook, Sept. 12, i860. He\\nm. in Lowell, Mass., Sarah A. Tracy, of Preston, P. 0.\\nShe res d at Suncook, but now lives with her daughter.\\n33. Emily A., b. m. Charles H. Morrill res. at Andover.\\n34. Ellen M., b. Feb. 10, 1851 m. Oct. 18, 1877, Hendrick A. Currier, of Danbury,\\nafterwards a successful merchant at Franklin.\\n35. Sarah F., b. Feb. 6, 1853; m. Nov. 29, 1867, Charles Emery; res. at Suncook.\\nIII.\\n36. Enoch Adams, b. at Newbury, Mass., Nov. 29, 1755 en-\\nlisted in Capt. Gerrish s company of that town, in April,\\n1775, and afterwards served five other enlistments during\\nthe revolutionary war. After the war closed he rem. to\\nSalisbury, purchased land, and erected a set of buildings", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0476.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0477.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "y -^Miy Sam,^.\\n(2^i? ^^^^^^.tW", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0478.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGV AND IJIOGRAPHV. 447\\non the north side of the rangeway west of Scribner s\\nCorner. He received a government pension; d. Feb.\\n27, 1842, aged 87; m. TLlizabeth Russell, b. June 27,\\n1759, who d. in Aug. 1802.\\n37. Russell, 1). Jan. 20, 17S2; d. Oct. 21, 17SS.\\n38. Richard, b. Aug. 21. 17S3, d. Nov. 1788.\\n39. Eli, b. Sept. 29, 1784; m. Abigail True. He d. July 17, 1832, aged 48.\\n40. Judith, b. Jan. 2, 17S7; m. Enoch Eastman, of lioscawen. She was the mother\\nof Timothy Eastman, of Salisbury.\\n41. Russell, b. May 12, 17S8; m. Susan, dau. of Obediah P. Fifield. He d. Nov.\\n19, 1859; she d. Apr. 27, 1S56. They resided at Hill, and had seven\\nchildren, (i) Gilson, b. June 15, 1815. (11) Harrison, b. June 6, 1817;\\nres. at Hill, (in) Daniel, b. Feb. 3, 1819, d. at Hill, (iv) James R., b.\\nJan. 26, 1821; res. at Hill, (v) Enoch, b. Feb. 24, 1823; resides at Bel-\\nmont. (VI) Obediah F., b. Nov. 29, 1824. (vii) Emeline S., b. Jan. 26,\\n1S30.\\n42. Richard, b. July 29, 1790; m. Dec. 28, 1813, Sarah Dunbar.\\n43. Eliza, b. May 3, 1792. 44. I hebe, b. July 2, 1795.\\n45. Dorcas, b. July 19, 1797; m. Daniel S. Woodward. Remained in Salisbury\\nuntil 184S, when they rem. to Penacook, remaining four years, thence to\\nFranklin, where they kept the old Hotel Hoarding House, then rem. to\\nHill. She died March 10, 1877. Their children were:\\n46. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 22, 1828; d. Dec. 23, 1S76.\\n47. Hannah, b. Nov. i, 1830. 48. Phebe, b. Jan. 7, 1832; res. at Hill.\\n49. Daniel R., b. April 10, 1S33. 50. Stephen, b. Aug. 22, 1834; res. at Franklin.\\n51. Alvira A., b. May 22, 1836; res. at Hill.\\n52. Dorcas, b. Feb. 22, 1838; res. at Franklin.\\n53. Diana, b. Sept. 22, 1839; res. at Northfield.\\n54. Paulina A., b. .\\\\ug. 1842; d. Sept. 1844.\\n55. Frank R., b. Feb. 9, 1845. His educational advantages\\nwere obtained in the district school, which he attended\\nonly in the winter. His mother, a devoted christian\\nwoman, greatly desired that he should be educated for\\nthe ministry, but unavoidable circumstances prevented.\\nAfter a course of study at the old Noyes school, he com-\\nmenced work in the mill and assi.sted in the support of\\nthe family. In 186S he went to Manchester and entered\\nthe employ of H. Forsaith, in a needle factory. In a\\nshort time he became so efficient that he was made the\\nsuperintendent. In 1870 he bought out Mr. Forsaith,\\nmoved the enterprise to Hill, and carried on a thriving\\nbusiness, until he sold out and commenced the manufac-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0481.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "448 HISTORY OF SALISBURY.\\nture of novelties in hardware, especially a rotary steel\\nglass-cutter, axle washer-cutter, etc. Mr. Woodward has\\nbeen very successful, and his business has so increased\\nthat his works in this line are the largest in the world,\\nhis goods being sold all over the globe. He takes a\\nlively interest in educational matters, He has served as-\\nsuperintending school committee, and represented his\\nadopted town in the legislature. Mr. Woodward is a\\nmember of the Masonic fraternity, an Odd Fellow, a\\nKnight of Pythias, Knight of Honor, and a Good Tem-\\nplar. He was appointed postmaster in Sept. 1885. He\\nis married and has had five children, all deceased. He\\nhcfs erected a handsome block, 32x62, two and a half\\nstories high, containing a store, 16x61, and a room in\\nwhich is located the post office, 8x24, and a tenement.\\nIn this building is located as fine a hall as can be found\\nin any country town; the size of it is 31x53, 15 feet\\nposts, and a gallery, 8x31, in addition to which are two\\nfine reception rooms. It is a most commendable act on\\nhis part, as he cannot get a fair interest on the money\\ninvested, and it is a credit to the town. See History of\\nMerrimack County, p. 558.\\nIV.\\n56. Samuel Adams was a son of Samuel, b. at Salisbury,.\\nMass. He rem. to Salisbury previous to this century,\\nand may have kept a small store near Union meeting\\nhouse, or he may have resided at Scribner s Corner. In\\n1800 he paid a tax on $100 worth of goods. He rem.\\nto Enfield, and d. Dec. 9. 185 1. He m. in Salisbury,\\nMay 8, 1795, Polly (Mary) Greeley; she d. Feb. 28,\\n1845. A Samuel Adams m. in Salisbury, April 16, 1799,\\nNancy Calef. Samuel Adams, of Enfield, had\\n57. Polly, (Mary) b. April 26, 1801 she m. March 3. 1S28, E. Pike Smith; she\\nd. Aug. II, i860.\\n58. Nancy S., b. Sept. 4, 1S03; m. March 3, 1853, William Broswell she d.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0482.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 449\\n59. Hiram, b. Aug. 3, 1S05; nr. March 20, 1S62, Harriet F. Cook; he d. Aug. 26,\\n1S76, leaving four children.\\n60. Eliza G., b. July 21, 1S07 m. Nov. 12, 1S29, James Little, who died in June,\\n1877. Their son, James Albert Little, res. at Enfield.\\n61. Sarah, b. Aug. 11, 1809; d. unm. April 8, 18S0.\\n62. Hannah P., b. Dec. 28, 1812; m. Charles Hobart; she d. Oct. 23, 1864; two\\nchildren.\\nADDENDA AND CORRECTIONS.\\nJames O. Adams, (9) grandson of Archelaus or Archelas,\\nas he wrote it has detached memoranda regarding the Adams\\nfamily of Salisbury, from which the following minutes, not fully\\nin accord with the record already given, are copied\\nThe children of the first Archelaus, son of Robert, were John, Samuel, Stephen\\nwho dying left two daughters,) and Archelaus, the second of that name.\\nArchelaus m. Mercy Dow and had Sarah, (Mrs. Merrill,) Mary, (Mrs.\\nTucker,) Betsey, Mrs. Flanders,) and Zilpha, (Mrs. Ring,) Joseph, who d.\\nat the age of 59, Abigail, Mrs. Stevens,) and Archelaus, the head of oue\\nbranch of the Salisbury family.\\nDr. Benjamin B., son of Ezra E., (7) is m. and has two children. Ezra E., son of\\nof James O., (9) m. Dec. 24, 1885, Alda Corrinne Reed, of Syracuse, N.\\nY. Luella A. d. Dec. 22, 1S84. John Q., son of John Q., (12) d. at\\nLaconia, Aug. 31, 1SS6, aged 31 years.\\nJoseph Adams 16) had Joseph, William, Moses, Betsey, Mrs. Lowell,) Mehitable,\\nMrs. Fifield,) Polly, and probably other children.\\nThree of the daughters m. men by the name of Dean, of Mansfield, Mass., but res d\\nin Canton, viz: Mary 23) m. Oct. 16, 1S27 d. July 26, 1S47. Emily m.\\nher deceased sister s husband. Betsey, Mrs. E. E. Goodale,) d. Oct. 13,\\n1884. The name given as Marian should be Maria.\\nCharles Pinckney (28) was m. Dec. iS, 1S42. His children (record corrected\\nfrom p. 446 were\\n-;)2f Emily A., b. Nov. 23, 1847; m. Nov. 26, 1S74, Charles H. Morrill, and res. at\\nDanbury.\\n34. Sarah F., h. Feb. 6, 1849; ^\u00c2\u00bbov. 29, 1867, Charles Emery, and res. at\\n.Suncook.\\n35. Ellen ^L, b. Feb. 10, 1851 m. Oct. 18, 1S77, Hcndrick A. Currier, and res. at\\nFranklin Falls.\\nSamuel Adams, brother to the second Archelaus, h-id .Samuel, b. in 1774, who is\\nbelieved to have been identical with Samuel, of Enfield; Betsey, b. 1776;\\nWilliam, b. 1778; Nancy, b. 17S1, (Mrs. Morrill,) d. 1820; Sallv, b. 1783,\\n29", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0483.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "450 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nd. 1871 Stephen, b. 17S7. The last two unm. res d in Candia. Nancy S.,\\ndau. of Samuel, of Enfield, mentioned on p. 448, m. William R. Brownell\\nnot Broswell and d. Oct. 26, 1866.\\nWilliam Adams but whether the brother of Samuel, of Enfield, or of Joseph, of\\nSalisbury, is not clear had three sons, Charles W., George W. and War-\\nren. The two former lived and died in Manchester. Charles W. had a\\nson and a daughter, and George W. had five daughters.\\nTHE AREY FAMILY.\\nSolomon Arey was a native of Wellfleet, Mass., b. March\\n12, 1787; m. Oct. 18, 1808, Patty Hopkins, b. at Eastham,\\nMass., Feb. 20, 1789; rem. to Boscawen, where he d. Nov. 25,\\n1846. She d. April 14, 1863. Their fourth child was\\nI. Jonathan, b. at Wellfleet, Jan. 28, 18 16. He learned the\\ntrade of a blacksmith, with Dea. William Temple, of Bos-\\ncawen rem. to Salisbury in August, 1836, and erected\\nthe building where he now lives. For a long period he\\npursued his chosen occupation but at length turned his\\nattention to sheep husbandry, and for years was the\\nlargest owner of Merino sheep in town. He has also\\nbeen successfully engaged in fruit culture. Mr. Arey\\nwas elected to his first office in 1873, and since that time\\nhas filled nearly every official position in the town, in-\\ncluding that of representative in the legislature. He m.\\n(i) Sept. 4, 1839, Charlotte H., dau. of Caleb Smith,\\n(which see.) She d. March 9, 1864; m. (2) Jan. 28,\\n1865, Mrs. Mary Pevare, (which see.) His children\\nwere\\n2. Susan E., b. Aug. 22, 1S43; ^^7 ^76, Moses Trussell; res. at Warner.\\n3. Lucy A., b. Oct. 25, 1845.\\n4. Henry S., b. March 16, 1848; m. Jan. i, 1875, Lucinda M. Dana, of Newbury;\\nshe d. July 8, 1876; he d. Aug. 22, 1878.\\n5. Augusta C, b. Jan. 18, 1851 d. Aug. 15, 1880.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0484.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 45 I\\nTHE BAKER FAMILY.\\nI. Benjamin Baker came to Salisbury in 1781, on foot,\\nwithout money or friends, bringing with him his kit of shoe-\\nmaking tools. He came from Beverly, Mass., having been in\\nthe army and done faithful service at Bunker Hill. He built\\nthe house now occupied by Mrs. Lois Crane, where he followed\\nhis trade as a shoemaker. His price for a pair of shoes was\\none bushel of corn. When corn was plenty he did not lack for\\nwork when it was scarce he had customers to buy it at a profit.\\nBy economy he generally had some ready money, which he\\nloaned on real estate. In this way he obtained the Dea. John\\nCollins farm, and built the house now occupied by J. S. Dimond,\\nwhere he d. Nov. 1 1, 1830. He m. April 29, 1779, Mary George,\\nand d. Oct. 30, 1830, aged 75 years.\\nHis children were:\\n2. Daniel, b. July 15, 17S0; m. Betsey rem. to Topsham, Me.\\n3. Anne, b. Jan. 2, 17S2; m. Feb. 12, 1S04, John Townsend. {see.)\\n4. Benjamin, b. Oct. 23, 17S3. (see.)\\n5. Polly, b. Dec. 25, 17S6; d. April 25, 1790.\\n6. Jonathan, b. Dec. 15, 17SS; a wholesale merchant; res. at Topsham, Me.\\n7. John, b. May 23, 1792. See Physicians.\\n8. Mary, b. May 23, 1792; m. Reuben Wynian rem. to Chatham, afterwards\\nto Bartlett, where he d. in 1857, and she soon after that date. They were\\nboth buried at South Chatham.\\n9. Edward, b. June 5, 1794; m. Betsey Clark; rem. to 1 i.-inhnrv. Tie w.is the\\nfather of the famous Baker Family of singers.\\n10. Asa, b. July 12, 1795; ^o Little Rock, Ark.\\n(4.) Benjamin remained on the homestead and followed his\\nfather s occupation; m. June 19, 1806, Mary VVyman d.\\n1852. His children were:\\n11. Lucy A., b. Feb. 29, 180S; m. i .\\\\pril 1S30, David lluntoon, of Unity; m.\\n(2) July 4, 1858, John Baglcy.\\n12. Mary J., b. Oct. 23, 181 2,; d. Dec. 9, 1S13.\\n13. Mary CI., b. Oct. 10, 181 5; d.\\n14. Caroline K., b. Jan. 21, 181S; m. Nov. 25, 1S41, Joseph French, (see.)\\n15. Daniel B., b. April 26, 1822; m. Susan Lcavitt of Chatham. He served in\\nthe regular army in the .Mexican war and that of the Rebellion returned\\nto Salisbury; thence rem. to Chatham, where he d. April 17, 1864.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0485.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "452 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE BARTLETT FAMILY.\\nFrom a work entitled Sketches of the Bartlett Family, by\\nthe late Levi Bartlett, of Warner, and from various other\\nsources, are gathered the outlines of the Bartlett family here\\ngiven.\\nL\\nAdam Barttelot, of Brian de Stopham, came to England\\nwith William the Conqueror, and settled at Stopham, in Sus-\\nsex. He died and was buried there, in the year iioo. His\\ndescendants came into possession of a large landed estate,\\nwhich never passed out of the Bartlett name. At present it\\namounts to 8000 acres, and is occupied by Sir Walter B. Bart-\\nlett, baronet, M. P.\\nOne of Adam Barttelot s descendants, Edmund of Ernley,\\ndied in 1591, leaving four sons, Matthew, John, Richard and\\nThomas. The record, in England, of John, Richard and Thom-\\nas, all born between 1580 and 1590, ended there in 1634. The\\nnext year these brothers came to this country, John and Rich-\\nard to Newbury, and Thomas to Watertown, Mass.\\nThe family at Salisbury descended from Richard, who died\\nMay 25, 1647. His issue in this line is as follows\\nRichard, b. 162 1, d. 1698. His son, Richard, b. Feb. 21, 1649,\\nm. Hannah Emery in 1673, and lived at Bartlett s Corner,\\nin Amesbury, Mass. His son, Stephen, b. April 21,\\n1691, m. Hannah Webster, of Salisbury, Mass. He d. at\\nAmesbury, April 10, 1773. His son, Joseph, b. April 18,\\n1720, m. Jane, dau. of Ichabod Colley, and d. 1753. His\\nchildren were Levi, Nicholas, Joseph and Ichabod C.\\nJoseph, b. at Amesbury, Jan. 14, 175 i, was a physician.\\nHe m. Dec. 16, 1773, Hannah Colcord, of Kingston, and\\nwith her came to Salisbury immediately after his mar-\\nriage, and was the first physician in the town. (See\\nPhysicians.) His children were", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0486.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0487.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "^-c-\\nIp\\net^", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0488.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 453\\n1. Joseph, b. Aprils, 1775. (See Physicians.)\\n2. Susannah, b. April 17, 1777 m. Oct. 12, 1800, Moses Eastman, (see Lawyers)\\nand d. Nov. 6, 1806.\\n3. Samuel C, b. Jan. 16, 1780. See p. 457.\\n4. Hannah, b. Nov. 25, 1782; d. Nov. 12, 1802.\\n5. Levi, b. June 3, 1784; m. Dec. 19, 1814, Clarissa, b. July 27, 1788, youngest\\ndau. of Judge Timothy Walker, of Concord. He engaged early in mercan-\\ntile pursuits, in which he spent an active life, dying June 21, r864, at the\\nage of 80 years.\\n(7.) Peter, b. Oct. 18, 1788. (See Physicians.) He m. Aug. 11, i8i6, Ann Pet-\\ntengill she d. Oct. i, 1837. Their children were\\nCharlotte P., b. May 15, 1817 m. Jacob Gale, of Peoria, 111. Clarissa W., b. Oct.\\n7, 18 18. Eleanor C, b. Dec. S, 1S20; m. Walter Akerman, of Portsmouth;\\nboth deceased. Lucy A., b. Sept. 8, 1822 m. Leonard Holland, deceased.\\nPeter C, b. Feb. 13, 1826; m. i Abby Thompson m. 2 Cuthbert-\\nson. Susan, b. m. W. A. Herrick, of Peoria, 111.\\nICHABOD BARTLETT.\\nBY HENRY P. ROLFE.\\nThe subject of this sketch was born in Salisbury, on the\\nSouth Road, at the old Dr. Bartlett place, fitted for college at\\nSalisbury Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth in i8oi\u00c2\u00a7.* The\\nyear of his graduation he delivered an oration in his native\\ntown, on the Fourth of July, which was published. He studied\\nlaw with Moses Eastman and Parker Noyes, was admitted to\\nthe bar in 1812, and commenced practice in Durham.\\nHe removed to Portsmouth, where he soon took high rank in\\nhis profession, of which he was subsequently its acknowledged\\nhead. The New Hampshire bar was at this time probably un-\\nsurpassed in ability by any in the world. Side by side with\\nsuch eminent advocates as Webster, Jeremiah Mason, Jeremiah\\nSmith, Bell, Sullivan, Fletcher and Woodbury, liartlctt won\\nhis way to fame. He was small in stature, but it can, with\\ntruth, be said of him that he was the brightest, wittiest, gritti-\\nest advocate who ever addressed a court or jury in New Hamp-\\nshire. He was condescending and gracious to young men of\\nthe profession, and possessed fine manners. He was consid-\\nered by his contemporaries, both before a court of law and", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0491.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "454 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nbefore a jury, the most dangerous antagonist they had to meet.\\nHis power of ridicule was great, and his sarcasm was at times\\nperfectly withering. Jeremiah Mason once said to him that\\nif he did not cease his insolence he would take him and put\\nhim in his pocket. Mason was a large man. Bartlett re-\\nplied Do it, and then you will have more law in your pocket\\nthan you ever had in your head. When asked How do\\nyou feel, such a little fellow, among such giants as Mason,\\nWebster, Woodbury, Fletcher and others He replied Very\\nmuch like a silver ninepence (i2}4 cts.) among a lot of copper\\ncents. He served as clerk of the State senate in 1817 and\\n18 1 8, was appointed county solicitor for Rockingham in 18 19,\\nand was elected a member of the legislature the same year.\\nHe signalized his entry upon the political arena by his famous\\nspeech in support of the Toleration Act, in July of that year.\\nThis law placed all religious denominations in the State upon\\nequal grounds abolishing what was called the regular order,\\nand making all religious organizations dependent upon volun-\\ntary contributions for support. He continued a member of\\nthe legislature for three successive years, and was speaker in\\n1821. He was again a member in 1830, 1832, 185 1, 1852.\\nHe was elected to congress in 1823, and took his seat in\\nDecember as a member of the i8th congress. He made his\\nappearance at a time of unusual excitement, when Mr. Web-\\nster had introduced, and Mr. Clay was supporting with his\\ncharacteristic dictatorial and impetuous manner, the famous\\nresolution in favor of the Greeks. Bartlett, considering it his\\nduty to stem the current of popular excitement, opposed the\\nresolution. Mr. Clay, in replying to him, alluded to the\\nyoung gentleman from New Hampshire, and offered some\\nadvice to him, saying, that the gentleman has but just got\\nhere. The air of superiority which Mr. Clay displayed prob-\\nably never suffered a more severe rebuke then Mr. Bartlett\\ngave. His retort on this occasion is remembered as one of the\\nmost effective and triumphant off-hand speeches ever made in\\ncongress. Mr. Clay took offense, and contemplated challeng-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0492.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND I5I0GRAFHY. 455\\ning Mr. Bartlett. Some one of Clay s friends went to Mr.\\nPlummer, then a colleague of Mr. l^artlctt, and wished to know,\\nconfidentially, whether Bartlett was a man of courage, and if\\nhe would recognize the code if he would fight. Plummer\\nreplied that Bartlett was a highed-toned gentleman, a man of a\\nproud spirit, and of dauntless courage, and whether he would\\nfight if challenged he really did not know, but there was one\\nway that Mr. Clay s friend could easily find out, he could go\\nand ask hint. Mr. Clay very soon began to comprehend the\\nnobility of his young friend from New Hampshire and Mr.\\nBartlett eventually secured the consideration and the respect\\nof his great antagonist. Some lines were afterwards written,\\nwhich caused much merriment on the part of the friends and\\nadmirers of Mr. Bartlett.\\nIn Congress here the other day,\\nTween East and West tliere rose a fray.\\nSays East, your resolution s queer,\\nSays West, young man you ve just got here.\\nThe poem, which was quite long, ended with some lines\\ncharacteristic of Mr. Bartlett.\\nYes, you are tall and you can dare me\\nIf I am small, do n t think you ll scare me.\\nHe continued in the house till 1829, and was distinguished\\nas a bold and spirited debater, and his published speeches sus-\\ntain his reputation as an orator. Those on the Suppression\\nof Piracy, in 1825 on the Amendment to the Constitution,\\nin 1826; on Internal Improvements, in 1827; and on Re-\\ntrenchment, in 1828, are favorable specimens of his forensic\\npower.\\nIn 1840 he addressed a mass meeting at Concord in favor\\nof the election of General Harrison. He arraigned the admin-\\nistration of Mr. Van Buren, and in the midst of his enthusi-\\nasm he exclaimed, If I had power equal to my zeal I would\\nrain forty days and forty nights on the sins and iniquities of\\nthe present administration.\\nWhile in the State legislature, in 185 i, a member, who was\\npleased to refer quite frequently to the revolutionary and other", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0493.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "456 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nservices of his father, on one occasion said, that in the war of\\nthe revolution, while a boy, he received a bullet in his person\\nwhich was never extracted, and that he carried this trophy of\\nhis valor through life and to his grave. Mr. Bartlett remarked,\\nthat this accounted for the leaden head of his son.\\nHe was a candidate for governor in 1831 and 1832, in\\nopposition to the Jackson party, and was defeated by Samuel\\nDinsmore.\\nIn 1850 he was chosen a member of the State convention,\\nfrom Portsmouth, to revise the constitution, and was its tem-\\nporary chairman, being succeeded by Franklin Pierce as pres-\\nident of the convention. In this convention, as in the State\\nlegislature, upon his frequent reelections, although in a minor-\\nity on all political questions, his genius and ability were such\\nas to elicit the admiration of his opponents, and his influence\\nwill be felt and his name and memory long cherished as one\\nof the most eminent in the history of his native State. It was\\nhowever in the field of his first triumphs at the bar that he\\nachieved his greatest distinction, in the fullness and maturity\\nof his powers. Master of all the graces of action, speech and\\nthought, yet strong in argument, his success was brilliant and\\ncontinuous, and he retained his position to the end of his career.\\nNew Hampshire has been chary of her honors to her great-\\nest men. There was no public station, however exalted, which\\nIchabod Bartlett would not honor. The mantle of no dis-\\ntinguished son of the State fell upon him. He was s id generis\\nand of all the brilliant names which have shed lustre upon the\\nState, none were more worthy than his. Ichabod Bartlett, the\\nRandolph of the North, who could measure swords with Sul-\\nlivan, Mason, Webster and Clay, without either shield or shame,\\nleaves a brilliant page upon the history of his native town, o nly\\na little less resplendent than that of his great townsman, the\\nDefender of the Constitution.\\nHe died in Portsmouth, where he spent most of his life,\\nOctober 9, 1853, aged 6^. He was never married. His gene-\\nalogy is given in that of the Bartlett family.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0494.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0495.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "Eng -hy Geo.E Fenne.N.York\\n^Oyl.^C L\u00e2\u0082\u00acj^ /Jcl^^^^^TZJ", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0496.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 457\\n8. James, b. Aug. 14, 1792. He graduated from Dartmouth\\nCollege in 18 12, and studied law with Moses Eastman,\\nof Salisbury, and with his brother Ichabod, at Ports-\\nmouth. He began practice at Durham, removing to\\nDover, where he d. July 17, 1837. He represented Dover\\nin the legislature, and was State senator. From 18 19 to\\nto 1836 he was register of probate for Strafford county.\\nHe was regarded as a sound and able lawyer, character-\\nized more by strength and clearness than brilliancy. He\\nm. I June, 1820, Lydia Ballard, of Durham (2) June,\\n183 1, Jane M., dau. of George Andrews, of Dover.\\n9. Daniel, b. Aug. 25, 1805. For a time he was in the em-\\nploy of his brother, Samuel C, at Salisbury, then estab-\\nlished himself in trade at Grafton, which town he repre-\\nsented in the legislature. In that body at one time four\\nbrothers were representatives, viz Samuel C, from\\nSalisbury, James, from Durham, Ichabod, from Ports-\\nmouth, and Daniel, from Grafton. After some years he\\nremoved to Boston, and entered into the dry goods busi-\\nness with Daniel P. Stone. Late in life he retired from\\ntrade, and res. at the Ouincy House, where he d. in\\nAug., 1877, unm.\\n(3.) Samuel Colcord, at the age of nineteen, on the death of\\nhis father, went to Rumford, Me., where he engaged in\\nbusiness with Daniel Baker, of Salisbury. In 1805 he\\nreturned to his native place, and opened a store at the\\nCentre Road Village, as successor to Elias Smith, paying\\nin 1806 a tax on seven hundred dollars worth of goods.\\nHis business gradually increased, and by frugality, in-\\ndustry and enterprise he accumulated for those times a\\nlarge property. He built the store in which he traded\\nfor many years, bought of Mr. Elkins the house adjoin-\\ning, and remodeled it, July 31, 18 10, he m. Eleanor,\\ndau. of Dea. Amos Pettengill. The marriage took place\\nat the bride s home, after which they walked to their\\nnew home, spending the evening in company with a", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0499.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "458 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nlarge circle of friends, and resided there together for\\nmore than fifty years. Esquire Bartlett, as he was usual-\\nly called, was liberal minded and public spirited. In\\ntown affairs he took a leading part, being elected moder-\\ntor, town clerk, and representative. He long held a\\ncommission as justice of the peace, and possessing a\\nquick mind and strict integrity did a large justice busi-\\nness. In everything he was mathematical and exact,\\nand his books and papers were written in a fine, clear\\nhand, and in this respect were models. He retained his\\nmental faculties to the time of his death, March 31, 1867,\\naged 87 years. No man ever resided in Salisbury more\\nrespected and trusted. Mrs. Bartlett was a worthy help-\\nmate, a woman of remarkable force of character and ex-\\necutive ability, a devoted christian, loved and honored\\nby all. She was particularly noted for her amiable dis-\\nposition and her dignity of manner. She d. March 7,\\n1 86 1. The children of Samuel C. and Eleanor P. Bart-\\nlett were\\n11. Amos Pettengill, b. May 14, 1812, was educated at Salis-\\nbury and Derry academies, after which he chose a busi-\\nness life, and went to Rockport, N. Y., in 1832, engaging\\nin the dry goods trade. In October, 1846, he m. Sarah\\nM. Rogers, of Dansville, N. Y., and immediately rem, to\\nPeoria, 111., where he has since continued as a successful\\nmerchant, an active, useful and respected gentleman.\\nHe took a prominent part in the early and later develop-\\nment of Peoria, and exerted a leading influence, espec-\\nially in the cause of education. His children were:\\n(I.) Mary E. ii.) Sarah, became Mrs. John S. Stevens, (in.) Samuel C,\\ngraduated at Dartmouth College in 1867. iv.) William H., graduated\\nat Dartmouth College in 1S71. Both engaged in the grain business at\\nPeoria, 111, (v.) Helen.\\n12. Joseph, Rev., b. Jan. 26, 1816; graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege, in 1835. He taught at Phillips Academy, An-\\ndover, Mass., 1837-38, and was tutor at Dartmouth from", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0500.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0501.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "y^t^. (^a..^ ^z:", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0502.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 459\\n183S to 1841 inclusive. He studied theology at Union\\nTheological Seminary, New York city, and at Andover\\nTheological Seminary, graduating from the latter in\\n1843, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational\\nchurch, at Buxton, Me., Oct. 7, 1847, retaining the con-\\nnection until 1867. For some years he preached at\\nSouth Newmarket, before, with broken strength, he re-\\ntired in search of rest. He d. at Gorham, JVIe., Aug. 12,\\n1882. He m. Oct. 26, 1847, Margaret, dau. of Capt.\\nRobert Motley, of Gorham. Mr. Bartlett had by nature\\nfine sensibilities, a quick perception, an eminently sug-\\ngestive and appreciative mind, and a retentive memory.\\nHe was of a sensitive and somewhat shrinking nature,\\nand was a fine writer, his sermons ranking as excellent,\\nand they were highly appreciated by the best minds.\\nAs a pastor he was eminently faithful, useful and beloved,\\nand as a man true, genial, sympathetic and considerate.\\nHe would never forsake a friend or violate a principle.\\nHe left a married daughter, Ellen Motley, Hodgdon,)\\nwho d. very soon after her father, soon, followed by two\\nof her three children.\\n13. Samuel Colcord Bartlett graduated at Dartmouth College\\nin 1836, and immediately began teaching at Peacham,\\nVt., continuing until 1838, when he was appointed tutor\\nat his alma mater, continuing there one year. He stud-\\nied at Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in\\n1842 was ordained pastor of the Congregational church,\\nat Monson, Mass., Aug. 2, 1843, and was dismissed April\\n7, 1846; Professor of Intellectual Philosophy and Rhet-\\noric, at Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, from\\nSeptember, 1846, to July, 1S52; installed pastor of the\\nFranklin St. Congregational church, at Manchester, Nov.\\n3, 1852, remaining there until Feb. 18, 1857; accepted a\\ncall from the New England Congregational church, at\\nChicago, 111., was installed April 15, 1857, and dismissed\\nMarch i, 1859. In May, 1858, he became Professor of\\nSacred Theology, at the Chicago Theological Seminary.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0505.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "460 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nHe purchased valuable property in that city and intended\\nto make it his future home, but duty called him else-\\nwhere. He was elected to the Presidency of Dartmouth\\nCollege, and in May, 1877, entered upon that important\\nand responsible position. During the ten years of his\\nadministration the College has greatly prospered, having\\nadded $400,000 to its funds, and received many valuable\\nenlargements and improvements. His publications are\\na volume of Lectures on Universalism, Life and\\nDeath Eternal, Sketches of Missions, From Egypt\\nto Palestine, and Sources of History in the Penta-\\nteuch. A large number of orations, addresses and re-\\nview articles have also been published, and he is consid-\\nered one of the best scholars and critics on religious\\nand literary subjects. President Bartlett is an associate\\nmember of the Victoria Institute, or Philosophical Soci-\\nety of Great Britain, which comprises the leading biblical\\nscholars in the world. In 1861 Dartmouth conferred\\nupon him the degree of D. D. and the College of New\\nJersey the degree of LL.D. He m. (i) Laura, dau. of\\nNehemiah Bradlee, of Peacham, Vt., Aug. 16, 1843\\nshe d. the following December; m. (2) May 12, 1846,\\nMary Bacon, dau. of Rev. Erastus Learned, of Fall\\nRiver, Mass. They have the following children\\n(l.) Edwin Julius, Professor of Chemistry at Dartmouth College^ (ii.) William\\nAlfred, pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, Chicago, 111. in.) Alice\\nWheaton, m. the Rev. Harvey A. Stimson, of Worcester, Mass. iv.)\\nSamuel Colcord, student at Dartmouth.\\n(4.) Levi James, b. Aug. 28, 1823 was educated at Peacham,\\nVt., and New Hampton Academies; m. Oct. 4, i860,\\nHarriet Crane, of Salisbury. He remained in Salisbury\\nuntil 1867, when he removed to Greggsville, 111., where\\nhe still resides. Has one son, Albert, and dau. Grace.\\n(5.) Alfred Henry, b. April 19, 1825; d. Feb. 19, 1826.\\n(6.) William Henry, b. Aug. 20, 1827.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0506.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0507.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^V-/ /.^a^U^Z^r-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0508.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 461\\nWILLIAM HENRY BARTLETT.\\nin- HENRY r. ROI,FE.\\nThis distinguished son of Samuel Colcord and Eleanor Pet-\\ntengill Bartlett was born in Salisbury, at the Center Road\\nVillage, August 20, 1827, the youngest child of the family. I\\nknew him as boy, man, scholar, lawyer, magistrate and neigh-\\nbor, and it is as valuable a compliment as I have ever received\\nthat his most estimable and accomplished widow has deemed\\nme worthy to write a brief biographical sketch of her honored\\nhusband, for the history of Salisbury. I take intense satisfac-\\ntion in the discharge of this duty, because I was associated\\nwith him as a school-boy at Salisbury Academy, two years as\\na student in Dartmouth College, three years while pursuing\\nthe study of the law in Concord, admitted to the same bar, the\\nsame year, and practised in the same and on the opposite sides\\nof cases with him before the court of our native county, till\\nthe government of the State honored and gratified us all by\\nplacing him upon the supreme bench with Bell, Sargent, Bel-\\nlows, Perley, Eastman, Nesmith, and Doe, all of whom were\\neminent jurists.\\nHe fitted for college at Salisbury Academy, at home, under\\nthe instruction of James O. Adams, his brothers, and also at\\nMeriden, and entered Dartmouth in 1842. Although he was\\nthe youngest member of his class, with one exception, he was\\nacknowledged to be the leader in scholarship, and that position\\nwas accorded to him to the end of his college course, not only\\nin his own but in all the classes. I sat by him two terms at\\nSalisbury Academy, and I never caught him idle. There is a\\ndeserved and beautiful tribute to him in a eulogy delivered at\\nDartmouth at the Commencement in 1880, by Hon. Isaac W.\\nSmith, an associate justice of the supreme court, who was for\\none year his classmate. He says I have no hesitation in say-\\ning I do not know that I ever met a finer scholar, and seldom", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0511.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "462 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nhave I ever encountered a brighter or stronger intellect. I\\ncan supplement this characterization of him and say, that from\\nthe time I first met him, as a lad, up to the time when the un-\\nseen enemy laid his remorseless hand upon him and began to\\nabate his vital force, did I ever meet so fine a scholar or en-\\ncounter a brighter or stronger intellect of his age. In college\\nand out, although exceedingly fond of merriment, he was never\\nrude and while inflexible in his integrity, he possessed the\\nhighest type of courage. He was\\nMild and lovely,\\nGentle as the summer breeze,\\nPleasant as the air of evening\\nWhen it floats among the trees.\\nHe was so young when he entered college that it was deemed\\nbest for him to remain away one year. He reentered college,\\nand graduated in the class of 1847. During the following\\nyear he occupied his time at the Western Reserve College,\\nwhere his brother Samuel C. was a professor, in the study of\\nhistory, the German language, the Greek dramatic poets, and\\nin general reading, so that when he commenced the study of\\nlaw with Chief Justice Perley, in 1848,\\nHis library, though large, was read,\\nTill half its contents decked his head.\\nHe pursued the study of the law with Judge Perley till\\nthat eminent jurist went upon the bench in 1850, and after-\\nwards with Chief Justice Bellows, till he was admitted to the\\nbar, in Merrimack county, July 9, 185 i. As his student Judge\\nPerley admired him, as a friend he esteemed him, as a lawyer\\nhe respected him, as judge he was exceedingly proud of him,\\nand when death came grieved as for the loss of a son.\\nThe following is the tribute of Chief Justice Perley Few\\nmen have excelled him in quickness of apprehension, and this\\nwas a general trait of his mind, observable in whatever he un-\\ndertook in his classical and mathematical studies, in the law,\\nand even in any amusement or recreation in which he might\\nbe led to indulge. There was a playful ease in his way of doing", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0512.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 463\\nthe most difficult things, which made them look more like\\namusement or a pastime than an irksome labor. With all his\\ndispatch he was distinguished for accuracy and correctness.\\nIt was seldom he fell into a mistake or a blunder. His mem-\\nory was also tenacious and exact. In the law he united two\\nthings, which are not often found together in the same indi-\\nvidual, a perfect mastery of principles, with great and ready\\nrecollection of points and authorities.\\nHe was the soul of professional honor there was no mean\\nadvantage to be taken by him. He was deferential to his as-\\nsociates, respectful to witnesses, and there was nothing irritable\\nor irritating, and everything he said and everything he did was\\nentirely consistent with uniform kindness and gentleness of\\nmanner.\\nSpace will not allow me in a brief historical notice to do jus-\\ntice to the full merits of such a man as the subject of this\\nsketch.\\nHe was city solicitor of Concord, and was several times re-\\nelected to the office, and discharged its duties to universal\\nacceptance.\\nIn February, i86r, in obedience to the united voice of the\\nprofession, he was appointed associate justice of the Supreme\\nCourt, and- it may, with peculiar emphasis, be said of him, as\\nDaniel Webster said of Chief Justice Jay, When the spot-\\nless ermine of the judicial robe fell on him, it touched nothing\\nless spotless than itself.\\nHow he discharged the duties of this exalted position, how\\nhe won the esteem of the good and the learned, the language\\nof his associates can best explain. The following letter was\\naddressed to Mrs. Bartlett on the day of the funeral\\nDear Madam We could not bear to separate, after assisting to pay the last\\ntribute of respect to the memory of your lamented husband and our dear friend,\\nwithout some expression to you of our deep sympathy in your great bereavement.\\nOur intimate association with him, in the discharge of our duties, for several\\nyears past, ha.s made us better acquainted perhaps than any others out of the im-\\nmediate circle of his own family, with those qualities which have not only rendered\\nhim so useful to the State, but have so much endeared him to all who have had\\nthe advantage of his personal acquaintance.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0513.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "464 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nYour grief is, we are well aware, inconsolable. May a Merciful Providence sus-\\ntain and comfort you in this hour of your great affliction.\\nWith greatest respect and deepest sympathy,\\nIRA PERLEY,\\nJ. E. SARGENT,\\nHENRY A. BELLOWS,\\nC. DOE,\\nGEO. W. NESMITH.\\nConcord, Sept. 28, 1867.\\nIn a note, full of gentleness and tender sympathy, addressed\\nto Mrs. Bartlett the day after sepulture, Chief Justice Doe paid\\nJudge Bartlett the following tribute\\nWhy refer to the official sphere which he more than filled\\nWhy endeavor to describe any portion of his intellectual or\\nmoral nature, his public services, his private worth when\\neverybody knows that in 1861, there being a vacancy on the\\nbench, the prominent lawyers of the State refused to be can-\\ndidates, because they understood that he might be persuaded\\nto accept the appointment (an incident unparalleled in the his-\\ntory of New Hampshire) when everybody knows that as long\\nas his physical strength permitted he not only performed his\\nown duty with most distinguished ability but also greatly aided\\nthe rest of us when everybody knows that he was a model\\njudge and a model man when everybody knows that no one is\\nleft in New Hampshire who could be so much missed, who\\ncould leave behind him a grief so unusual and profound as that\\nwhich is now upon the people of all parties and all occupations.\\nCut off in the flower of his manhood, at a time when the\\nhighest expectations were being realized, and before his sun\\nhad reached its zenith, he left a void that has not been filled.\\nIf virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures, he died ir^\\nthe full maturity of a grand and noble life. If that life is\\nbest which answers life s great end, the end of this life came\\nwhen he was splendidly fitted to enter upon another and a\\nbetter. On the 24th of September, 1867, he passed over the\\nsilent river.\\nI risk nothing in saying, for all the members of my profes-\\nsion who knew Judge Bartlett, that we considered him while\\nliving, and now remember him when no longer with us, as our\\nbeau ideal of a judge.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0514.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 465\\nTHE BATCHELDER FAMILY.\\nThe Salisbury family bearing this name are descendants of\\nthe Rev. Stephen Bachiler, (Batchelder) the first minister at\\nHampton. He emigrated from England, reached Boston June\\n5, 1632, and first preached at Lynn, Mass.\\n1. Elisha Batchelder was b. at Danville, and rem. to Salisbury in 1843, purchasing\\nland of Samuel Scribner. His children were\\n2. Robert, b. at Danville, Jan. 28, 1821 rem. to the farm in Salisbury in 1S47\\nbuilt the present residence. He is one of the largest fruit farmers in\\ntown m. Jan. 22, 1S52, Lydia M., dau. of John Scribner, which see. His\\nchildren were\\n3. Ruth A., b. Nov. 29, 1S52 m. Frank Prince.\\n4. John S., b. March 11, 1854; d. April 14, 1S56. 5. Lydia F., b. July i, 1855.\\n6-7. Alice and Grace, b. April 15, 1857; Alice d. March 22, 1S5S; Grace m. John\\nR. Dodge.\\n8. Alice, b. Nov. 20, i860; m. Frank L. Gookin. 9. John H., b. Oct. 3, 1863.\\nFor another Batchelder, see Physicians.\\nTHE BEAL FAMILY.\\nI. Thomas Beal was b. at Sanford, Me., Sept. ii, 1785, and\\nrem. to Salisbury in the fall of 1809, with his father-in-law, the\\nRev. Otis Robinson. He res. many years in the M. R Thomp-\\nson house, which was built for him. By trade he was a stone\\nmason, and when not engaged in that occupation made shoe-\\npegs by hand-power, at that time an important industry. He\\nwas a constant attendant at the Baptist church, where he played\\nthe bass viol. He d. Dec. 23, 1852; m. Oct. 30, 1808, Abigail\\nRobinson, (see Robinson genealogy) a woman of more than\\nordinary intelligence, energy and christian virtues she d. at\\nBoston, Mass., Sept. 12, 1858. Their children were:\\n2. Hannah, b. at Sanford, Aug. 22, 1S09; m. Dec. 24, 1S33, James K. Conner;\\nd. at Andover, July 21, 1S79.\\n3. Helen M., b. June 23, 1813; m. Sept., 1836, Freeman Hardy.\\n4. Lucy B., b. April i6, 1S15; m. at Providence, R. L, Lewis Downing, Jr.; d. at\\nConcord, April 30, 1S55. Before her marriage she was a successful school\\nteacher.\\n5. Caroline P., b. .May 31, 181S; m. Nov. 27, 1S47, J. Buckman Greene res. at\\nRichland, Cal.\\n6. Clara S., b. June 6, 1830; m. Oct. 11, 1S57, at Boston, Charles H. Crombie.\\n30", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0515.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "466 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE BEAN FAMILY.\\nThe common ancestor of the Beans of Salisbury was, it is\\nbelieved, John, of Scotland, who emigrated to this country-\\nprevious to 1660, and settled near Exeter. His wife died on\\nthe passage, and he married a woman, name not given, who\\naccompanied them. They had six sons, as appears from family\\nrecords. It is not possible to trace the genealogy, in full, by\\nany authority at command. We have good reason to infer, as\\nabove stated, that the Salisbury families have inherited the\\nblood and sterling characteristics of John, the Scotchman,\\nTHE ESQUIRE JOSEPH BEAN BRANCH.\\nTo begin with the record of those who have been identified\\nwith the history of the town, we find that Joseph, the son of\\nJoseph, born at Kingston, was one of the grantees and an\\nearly settler in the town. He was known as Esquire Joseph,\\nhaving been commissioned as a justice of the peace under the\\ncrown before coming to the new settlement. He was a wealthy\\nand influential citizen, the first town treasurer, and loaned\\nmoney to the town to purchase equipments and pay bounties\\nto soldiers. Notwithstanding he refused to sign the Test Act,\\nand complained of repeated war assessments, he paid his rates,\\nwas chosen delegate to Exeter in 1775, aided in arresting de-\\nserters, and maintained the reputation of a loyal citizen.\\nHe first settled on Calef Hill, erecting a house there. This\\nhe subsequently took down, rebuilding, with large additions, on\\nthe west side of what was once the Fourth New Hampshire\\nTurnpike. This house is known as the Bean Homestead,\\nand is now occupied by David F. Bacon. He was greatly inter-\\nested in the building of the turnpike, and was instrumental in\\nsecuring its location by his residence. He was a large owner\\nof land, and gave a farm to each of his children. The present\\nGilbert Eastman house, which he built, was given to his son", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0516.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 46/\\nAmos. His death occurred June i, 1804, aged 66. A\\nKingston record says: Joseph, son of Joseph and Betsey\\nFifield, his wife, born Aug. 7, 1744. There is a discrepancy\\nin the records which we are unable to reconcile. But it mat-\\nters not just when he was born. We have a history of his\\nactive life on the records of the town.\\nOf the children of Joseph i are given Joseph 2) and Betsey, (3); the latter m.\\nDurrell Elliot, of Boscawen. Their other children were:\\nJeremiah, who is recorded 4 on the genealogical page, m. April 10, 1788, Mehit-\\nable, dau. of Moses Garland, and rem. to VVilmot. They had six children:\\nPolly, d. in infancy; Dorothy, b. Jan. 15, 1791, m. Caleb Tucker (see)\\nPolly, b. July 15, 1792; Hannah, m. Thomas Brown, of Wilmot Moses\\nand Joseph d. unm.\\nThe sth in the line of Esq. Joseph was Marian, who m. Feb. 10, 1795, ^^^j- Jabez\\nSmith. See.\\nThe 6th was Amos, who m. i Dec. 19, 1799, Betsey Elizabeth Shepherd, who d-\\nJuly 8, 1S08, aged 31 years m. 2 Mrs. Stanley, and res d in the Gilbert\\nEastman house. His children were Achsah, d. young Phebe, Panuel\\nand .\\\\mos, who d. unm.\\n2.) Joseph, recorded as 7th, was b. Oct. 19, 1767 m. P)etsey Perkins, of Sanborn.\\nton, who d. Sept. 20, 1S49, ^ged 84; he d. March 9, 1831. His children\\nwere: 11. Joseph, b. Jan. 5, 1790. 12. Marian, b. Dec. 10, 1791 m. Feb.\\n8, 1813, Capt. Moses Pillows. See. 13. Betsey, b. Dec. 18, 1793; i- Ju y\\n5, 1819, Amos Corser, and res d at Webster. 14. Nathaniel, b. March\\n5, 1796.\\n8. Levi, b. in 1770, was known as Capt. Bean, and built the addition to the Mrs-\\nLevi Bean house, where he kept a hotel. He m. April 17, 1797, Abigail\\nStickney; d. Aug. 9, 1814; she d. May 23, 1842, aged 68. Their children\\nwere: 15. Amos, b. Oct. 28, 1797; d. Aug. i, 1816. 16. Cynthia, b. Sept.\\n8, 1799; d. unm. Nov. 4, 1878. 17. Levi, b. Aug. 13, 1805.\\n9. Folsoin, m. Dorcas Garland and rem. to Andover. Their children were\\nDavid, m. June i, 1S17, Dolly Sanborn; Mehitable, m. Charles Bohonon\\nLouisa, unm.\\n10. Dorothy, d. unm. June 23, 1839.\\nII.) Joseph remained on the homestead; d. Sept. 30, 1S59, from the effects of a\\nfall from a tree m. March 19, 1S23, Belinda Bohonon, who d. Dec. 23, 1879,\\naged 78. His children were: 18. Charles E., b. Sept. 27, 1823; m. June\\n23, 1856, Julia A. Tupper, and res. at Dell Rapids, Dakota Territory.\\n19. Francis B., b. Feb. 4, 1826. 20. Susan E., b. July i, 1S29; m. May\\n20, 1856, John Wesley, son of John W. and Lydia (Atwood) Huntoon, b.\\nJuly II, 1834. Their children were; i. Emma A., b. Dec. 28, 1856; m.\\nOct. I, 1874, Henry L. Fellows, and res. at Manchester. 11. George E., b.\\nMarch 8, 1866.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0517.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "468 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n21. Belinda A., b. Jan. i6, 1S32; m. Sept. 7, 1854, Alfred B. Richardson she d.\\nJuly 19, 1872. Their children were i. Mary A., b. in Salisbury, Aug. 9,\\n1855 m. Charles Goodwin, and res. in Manchester. 11. Charles F., b-\\nMay 20, 1S62.\\n22. Joseph W., b. Nov. 15, 1833; m. Jan. i, 1867, M. J. Chamberlain, and res d in\\nTemple she d. Jan. 10, 1870.\\n23. Robert A., b. Jan. 6, 1840; d. July 27, 1841.\\n(14.) Nathaniel, b. March 5, 1796, was a prominent and influ-\\nential citizen, for a long time filled various town offices,\\nand was the oldest delegate in the constitutional con-\\nvention of 1876. He m. (ist) Melinda Sanborn, who\\nd. March 11, 1837, aged 37; m. (2d) Eliza, dau. of Maj.\\nJabez Smith. He d. Jan. 18, 1877. He had two child-\\nren (24) infant, d. March 25, 1831 (25) Simon S., b.\\nMarch, 1834, d. Dec. 6, 1850.\\n17.) Levi remained on his father s farm and d. Oct. 23, 1S55 m. April 28, 1840,\\nMrs. Almira H. Bohonon, widow of Andrew B. Bohonon., see b. at\\nAlexandria, Oct. 20, 1S16. His children were:\\n26. Amos S., b. March 5, 1841 m. April 12, i860, L. J. Clark, and res. at Salis-\\nbury.\\n27. George E., b. Aug. 18, 1S43; army, unm. June 31, 1S64.\\n28. Frank P., b. June 10, 1S48; m. May 2, 1S62, E. J. Patton.\\n29. Abby J., b. July 4, 1851 m. Sept. 31, 1874, H. S. Cook, and resides at\\nWenham, Mass.\\n19.) Francis Bliss remained on the old homestead; m. Oct. 29, 1852, Almira A.\\nBarnes, who d. Sept. 18, 1881 he d. Nov. 29, 1881. His children were\\n30. Bradner, b. Sept. 24, 1853; ^^Y -i 1871, Margaret E. Chisholm.\\n31. Charles O., b. Feb. 3, 1855; m. Aug. 1877, Persis Kimball; res. at Lowell,\\nMass.\\n32. Flora E., b. Aug. 30, 1S60; d. June 28, 1S63.\\nTHE SINKLER BEAN BRANCH.\\nSinkler Bean was a native of Brentwood, from which place\\nhe removed to Contoocook (Boscawen) in 1734, and in\\n1766 to Salisbury. He built a log house on the west\\nside of Blackwater river, on the upland near the Fitz\\nmeadow, a few rods southwest of D. R. McAllister s\\nresidence. With the exception of the Meloons, he was", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0518.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND I5I0GRAPHY. 469\\nthe first settler west of the Blackwater. A Quaker in\\nhis religious belief, he refused to sign the Test Act.\\nHe was a man of decided moral principle, and his influ-\\nence was always on the side of religion and good citi-\\nzenship. He was the first town clerk, after the incorpo-\\nration of the town, and held the office four years. He\\ngave the land for the Bean cemetery, and was a member\\nof the committee to locate the meeting-house in Bos-\\ncawen, in 1767. He was also an elder in the church.\\nHe m. July 18, 1739, Shuah Fifield, and d. Feb. 21, 1798.\\nTheir children were\\n2. Abigail, b. Aug. 9, 1740. 3. Mary, b. Nov. 27, 1742. 4. Shuah. b. Feb. 19,\\n1745. 5. Uenaiah, b. Sept. 14, 1747. 6. Phineas, b. Sept. i, 1750.\\n7. John, b. Sept. 9, 1752; m. Sally Foster. 8. Martha, b. April 2, 1755;\\nd. Oct. 20, 1756. 9. Martha, b. June 12, 1757. 10. Sarah, b. Sept. 27,\\n1759. 11-12. Mehitable and Nathaniel, b. Nov. 21, 1761 Mehitable m.\\nBenjamin Fifield. 13. Micajah, b. May 29, 1764; d. July iS, 1764.\\n(6.) Phineas was a man of unusual ability, and he built a\\nlarge house and kept tavern on the site of the house\\nowned by Frank A. Watson, west of D. R. McAlister.\\nLater, he built a frame house here, and here were born\\nnot only his children, but also those of John and Israel,\\nhis sons. In these three families thirty children were\\nborn at this ancestral home. He was appointed coroner\\nJuly 5, 1795, and held the office till 1822 was appointed\\na justice in 1802, holding the office through life. He\\nserved in the revolutionary war, and an old French piece\\nwhich he brought home is now the property of Rev. J.\\nW. Bean, of Manchester. He m. Dec. 11, 1770, Judith\\nSnow, and had children as follows\\n14. Sinkler, b. June 4, 1772. 15. Anna, b. Nov. 25, 1773; m. Chaffin and d. in\\nKentucky.\\n16. Jonathan, b. Feb. 26, 1776; m. Lydia Hoyt, of Hopkinton, and had thirteen\\nchildren. He settled in Ohio antl died there. I le was commissioned as\\nCaptain, Sept. 1 1, 1814, and was promoted to Colonel.\\n17. Mary H., b. June 23, 1779, d. Nov. S, 1779.\\n18. Joshua S., b. July 27, 1780; m. Polly Nelson; was coroner from 1S25 to 1837,\\nwhen he rem. to New Voile, where he died.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0519.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "470 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n19. Mary B., b. June 6, 1782; m. 1799, Richard K. Sawyer, of Warner, who d.\\nOct. 1838, at Alexandria she d. May, i860, in Minnesota. The eight\\nchildren of Richard K. and Mary Bean Sawyer were i. Lois, b. Dec.\\n19, 1801, at Newport; d. June, 1863, in Minnesota. 11. Phinehas B., b-\\nMarch 4, 1804, at Newport; d. April, 1853, in Hebron. III. Jonathan B.,\\nb. March 27, 1806, at Sutton; d. March, 1848, in Alexandria, iv. Moses,\\nb. Oct. 15, 1807, in Sutton; d. March, 1876, in Iowa. v. Ann C, b. Sept.\\n2, 1809, at Warner; d. Jan. 1857, in Minnesota, vi. Lorenda, b. Feb. 6,\\n1813, at Hill; d. Dec. 1875, in Minnesota, vii. Judith, b. Jan. 3, 1818, in\\nSanbornton; d. Dec. 1865, in Minnesota, viii. Mary E., b. Oct. 20, 1823,\\nat Alexandria.\\nThe descendants of this family are given as follows\\nLois Sawyer m. in 1824, William Abbott. Their children were: Willliam N.\\nAbbott, b. at Sanbornton, July, 1827; m. Harriet L. Curtis, of Medford,\\nMinnesota; two children. Asa J., b. at Sanbornton, 1829; m. Mary\\nPiper, of Sanbornton, and res. at Clinton Falls, Minnesota eight children.\\nMartin Luther, b. at Sanbornton, 1832; m. Sarah Taylor, of Sanbornton,\\nand res. at Grand View, Tennessee four children. Mary H., b. at San-\\nbornton in 1835 and d. there in 1850. Laura, b. at Sanbornton in 1S38 and\\nd. the same year.\\nPhinehas B. m. i Relief Vickery, in [Hebron, in 1S28. Their children were\\nElizabeth, b. in Alexandria, 1829; d. in 1869, in Lemond, Minn. George, b.\\nin Alexandria, 1831, d. at Hebron in 1835. Phinehas m. 2 in 1836, Lydia\\nSanborn, of Bristol. Their children were George P., b. in 1838, who\\nwas killed in the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863; Sarah, m. Matthew\\nHeartley, and res. at McCook, Nebraska; two children, Alice, b. in 1848\\nand m. in 1882, Herbert Granger d. 1883, at Taylor s Falls, Minn. Mary,\\nb. in 1850, m. Ed. James in 1877 and d. in 187S; one dau. res. in North-\\nfield, Minn.\\nJonathan B. m. in 1837 Orpha Powell, of Bristol. Their children were: Richard\\nK., b. in Alexandria, in 1838; d. in Plymouth, in 1869; he left one son\\nwho res. in California. Lois Ann, b. in Alexandria in 1840; d. in 1842.\\nMoses m. in 1S30, Catharine Ladd, of Hebron. Their children were Ann Eliza-\\nbeth, b. in Hebron in 1831, d. 1835. Charlotte E., b. in Alexandria in\\n1833, died in Hebron, 1834. Laura A., b. in Hebron in 1836; m. Richard\\nCarr, have three children and res. in Advance, Iowa. William A., b. in\\nBristol in 1S38; m. and has three children; resides at Advance, Iowa.\\nMary A., b. in Sanbornton, May, 1842; m. Horatio Morrison and has five\\nchildren; res. at Advance, Iowa. Newell, b. in Sanbornton in 1846; m.\\nbut has no children; res. at Advance, Iowa. Anna, b. in Sanbornton in\\n1858; m. Henry Reynolds, have five children and res. at Advance, Iowa.\\nAnn C. m. in 1836, Joseph Sawyer, of Warner. Their children were: Flora A.,\\nb. at Warner in 1837 m. in 1858, Isaac N. Sanborn, of Medford, Minn.;\\nhave seven children and res. in Windsor, Mo. Mary L., b. in Warner in\\n1840; m. 1S59, Alfred Sanborn, of Medford, Minn.; have two sons and", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0520.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 47 1\\nres. at San Jose, Cal. Joseph, b. at ^Varner, in 1S47; m. in i88r, Nellie\\nAbbott have two sons and reside at Owatonna, Minn. William F., b. at\\nWarner in 1S50; m. and has one son. Joseph and William F. are lawyers\\nin Owatonna, under the firm name of Sawyer iV Sawyer.\\nLorenda, m. in 1S34, Ezekiel Sanborn, of Alexandria. Their children were\\nMariella S., b. at Alexandria in 1S35 ^^S7 John Jeffrey, of Medford,\\nMinn; she d. in 1S79, leaving three children who res. in Medford, Dakota.\\nJosiah H., b. at Alexandria in 1S39; m. and has six children; res. in Med-\\nford, Dakota. Colby E., b. at Alexandria in 1841 m. Alsina l)eaman, has\\ntwo children and res. at Casson, Minn. Mary A., b. at Alexandria in\\n1845; 1864, David Curtis, of Medford, Minn., and res. at Northfield,\\nMinn. Lora J., b. at Alexandria in 1848; m. in 1872, at Medford, Minn.,\\nJohn Kearney, has four children and res. there.\\nJudith m. in 1840, Zachariah Scribner, of Salisbury; had no children she died in\\n1865, ^t Fairbault, Minn.\\nMary E. m. in 1847, Kendrick Prescott, of Hill. Had Edith M., b. at Hill in 1848\\nd. in 1849; res. at Elmwood, Illinois.\\nElizabeth m. about 1852, John Calgan. Their children were: John H., b. in\\nBoston about 1853. William, b. in Boston about 1855 and res. at Water-\\ntown, Dakota. Robert, b. in Boston in 1856, and res. in Miller, Dakota.\\nNellie, b. in Boston in 1858; m. Frank roran, of Watertown, Dakota, and\\nres. there. Josephine, b. at Medford, Minn., in i860; m. Fred. Abbott, of\\nWatertown, Dakota. James, b. at Medford, Minn., in 1862, and res. at\\nMiller, Dakota. Mary, b. at Lemond, Minn., in 1864. Edward, b. at\\nLemond, Minn., in 1S66. Harry, b. in Lemond, Minn., in 1868.\\n20. Phinehas B., b. Oct. 12, 1784, m. i April 24, iSoS, Mary Atkinson, of Bos-\\ncawen, and 2 Susan Bean.\\n21. Judith, b. March 21, 1786; d. Aug. 31, 1869; m. 1S12, Moses Page, who d.\\nNov. 12, 1S35. Children: i. Mary, b. March S, 1813; m. about 1840,\\nAndrew Palmer; res. at Garland, Me. Ii. John B., b. April 17, 181 5; d.\\nMay, 1851. III. David, b. Dec. 7, 1816; m. 1850, Elizabeth Akerman, and\\nres. at Alexandria, iv. Moses, b. Oct. 22, 1S18; m. i 1838, Hannah\\nWalker, dead had six children, George, Walker, Warren, .Samuel, .\\\\nn\\nand Sarah m. 2 Mrs. Fogg and res. at Garland, Me. v. Joshua B., b.\\nApril 26, 1822; d. Aug. 25, 1S63; m. i 1850, Jane Phelps, who d. in\\n1853; two children, Nahum and Abbie. Hem. 2 in 1854, Mrs. Thais\\nTyler; had three children, Almira, Mary and Ida. vi. Benjamin Frank-\\nlin, b. May 24, 1S25; m. i April, 1S4S, Harriet A. Danforth, who d.\\nSept. 2. 1851 m. (2) 1866, Elvina C. Peaslee; had by first wife, Siphorus\\nH., b. in 1849 m. 1870, Barbara Seafort two children, Ethel and.Mamie\\nres. at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. .Another son, Harry P., b. in Salisbury, May,\\n1851, res. in Manchester.\\n22. O. Israel, b. May 11, 17S9. 23. John, b. .\\\\ug. 10, 1791.\\n24. Martha, b. Aug. 10, 1791 m. June 10, 1S17, Timothy Peaslee. of Sutton d. in\\nHollis, Oct. 12, 1875; he d. Aug. 5, 1842, in Alexandria. Their children\\nwere: i. Jcrusha, b. Dec. 19, 1819; m. Dec. 22, 1S42, Dari-is Babb, of\\nAlexandria; their children were, John. C, b. .\\\\pril 15, 1847, who m. Anna", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0521.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "472 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nStory, and Georgia A.; John had two children, ii. Richard K., b. April\\n27, 1822; he went to California in 1849 and has not been heard from.\\nIII. Harriet B., b. Nov. 30, 1824, d. Jan. 18, 1845, at Nashua, iv. Martha\\nA., b. Nov. I, 1S26; m. Henry Elliot, of Hebron; had one son and a dau.,\\nEdward, who m. Hattie Hamlet, of Canaan, and Hattie. who m. Friend\\nPressey. Edward had two children and Hattie four. v. Henry, b. Dec.\\n3, 1829; d. at Alexandria in 1832. vi. Caroline, b. Oct. 16, 1833; m. i\\nNov. 18, 1852, Gustavus Randlett, of Hebron, who d. April 29, 1870; m.\\n(2) S. D. Farrar, of Bristol, who d. May 9, 1884. vii. Elvina C, b. Sept.\\n4, 1835; m. Aug. 18, 1S66, B. F. Page, of DeWitt, Iowa. viii. John C,\\nb. June 4, 1838; d. Sept. 11, 1841.\\n(14.) Sinkler, b. June 4, 1772; m. i Nov. 22, 1791, Dorothy\\nOuimby; m. (2) Mrs. Mary Woodward. He lived for\\nsome years on the corner opposite the Union meeting-\\nhouse, where it is said he had a small store. He d. in\\nthe brick house, on Mutton road. After his death she\\nm. Mr. Moody, of the Potter Place, Andover. Their\\nchildren were\\n25. Samuel Q., m. Polly Jones d. at Troy, N. Y. 26. Susannah, d. unm. 27.\\nWilliam, d. unm. 28. Susannah, m. i Moses Page m. 2 Phineas\\nBean. 29. Nancy, m. Stephen Blaisdell d. in Vermont.\\n30. Joshua, b. May i, 1805; m. in 1827, Mary L., dau. of Moses Smith; res. at\\nTaftsville, Vt. had two daughters, i. Sarah S., b. in Salisbury, March\\n30, 1828; m. Jan. 7, 1849, William Reynolds, of Manchester; he d. Sept.\\n1877. She went to Manchester in 1846, and from that time devoted\\nherself to vocal music, in which she acquired a wide reputation. She has\\nsung in the best choirs and at concerts, and was always received with\\ngreat favor. 11. Marietta, b. in Hartford, Vt., in 1831 m. Mr. Darling.\\n31. Judith d. unm. 32. John d. unm. 33. Reuben C, m. i Sarrah Follansbee;\\nm. (2 Adaline Hoyt; d. at Fisherville.\\n34. Hannah, m. Silas Elkins, who d. 1885; she d. Sept. i, 1886, both at Boscawen.\\n35. Sophronia W., m. Aug. 3, 1S34, Daniel Wells, and res. at Goffstown.\\n(22.) O. Israel B, m. (i) 1S14, Shuah Fifield, who d. 1819; m. (2) Dec. 1823,\\nMehitable Fifield, who d. in 1836; m. (3) Rachel, dau. of David Stevens.\\nSee. He died in 1875.\\nThe children by the first wife were\\n36. Orzilla B., b. May 19, 181 5; m. i 1840, John Elkins, who d. in 1854; m. 2\\nJohn Thurston, and res. at Boscawen.\\n37. Derwin, b. 1817; res d in Nebraska; m. 1846, Betsey Worthen, who d. in\\n1870; he d. in 1885.\\n38. Perley, b. in 1819; m. Susan Heath and d. at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1845.\\nThe children by the second wife were\\n39. Shuah, b. 1824, d. 1840. 40. J. Warren, b. 1826; m. 1835, Lucy Harris; he\\nd. in 1864. 41. George W., b. 1828; m. 1846, Ann Davis; d. in 1870.\\n42. Jane, b. in 1831 m. 1850, John Wright, and res. at Waltham, Mass.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0522.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "V", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0523.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0524.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 4/3\\n43. John, b. 1S33; m. Lizzie Davis and res. at Manchester. 44. Myra, b.\\n1835 and res. at Philadelphia, Pa.\\nBy the third wife had\\n45. Abbie S., b. in 1S42; resides at Hanover.\\n(23.) John remained on the homestead and its vicinity for\\nseventy-three years; removed to Penacook in 1864 and\\nd. March 25. 1880. When living he could call the roll\\nof eight children, forty-six grand-children, thirty-seven\\ngreat-grand-children, and one great-great-grand-child.\\nIn 1833 he became a member of the Methodist church,\\n(Union meeting-house) and was one of its main sup-\\nporters. He was in politics a Democrat, an enterprising\\nman, and was highly respected. He. m May 18, 181 5,\\nNancy, dau. of Benjamin and Molly (Hoyt) Hill, who\\nd. Dec. 25, 1875.\\n46. Erastus, b. March 20, 1S16; m. i Aug. 27, 1S38, Nancy B. Corliss, of Alex-\\nandria; she was b. March 16, 1S20, d. March 20, 1S49; m. 2 June 28,\\n1S49, Phebe W. Nutter, who was b. Feb. 11, 1820, and d. Aug. 20, i8Si\\nhe d. Dec. 31, 1872.\\nThe children by first wife were; I. Harriet Amelia, b. June 13, 1S39; m. Aug. 16,\\n1S55, Samuel IHaisdell, b. Jan. 3, 1836; had three children, Ida A., b. Aug.\\n3, 1S56, who m. May 28, 1S73, Winfield S. Willey, and had one child,\\nHoward A.; Arthur L., b. Jan. 12. 1S6S, and Edith P., b. Aug. 11, 1875,\\nwho d. Feb. 3, 1SS4. 11. Ellen Augusta, b. March 17, 1845;\\nJuly iS, 1867, Schuyler Walker, who d. in California, May 28, 1876; m.\\n(2) Oct. 31, 187S, Carlos Ordway; had by first husband two children,\\nLulu May, b. Dec. 30, 1870; Alice Maud, b. July 20, 1S73, and d. July\\n18, 1S83; child of Phebe \\\\V. iii. Erastus Frank, b. June 20, 1851 m.\\nNov. 19, 1870, Edla Dow, who was b. Dec. 9, 184S, at Hopkinton; one\\nchild, Horace Dow, b. Nov. 3, 1871.\\n47. Albert, second son of John and Nancy Bean, was b. at\\nWarner, March 11, 1817; m. April 23, 1839, Arvilla A.\\nConnor, who was b. at Henniker, May 20, 1820. She\\nd. May 2, 1880, at Wautoma, Wis. He was a black-\\nsmith and for several years worked at his trade in Hen-\\nniker. He was also a captain in the militia of that town.\\nHe removed to Wisconsin, in 1855, and carried on the\\nbusiness of manufacturinor wajrons and carriages at Wau-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0525.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "474 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\ntoma for nineteen years. He d. there, March 22, 1872,\\nTheir children were\\nI. Charles U., b. April ii, 1840, at Henniker; m. and has two children res. in\\nSmithsville, N. Y. 11. John J., b. April 2, 1842, at Henniker; m. and has\\ntwo children, Mary J. who m. Wright, and has one son b. in 1885,\\nWillie J., b. in 1868 res. at Scotia, Nebraska, iii. Francena, b. Sept. 16,\\n1844, at Henniker; m. Whitney; one child and res. in Wisconsin. IV.\\nGeorge H., b. at Salisbury, d. in Wisconsn. v. Fred., b. in Salisbury; m.\\nand had two children d. at Black Hills, Montana, vi. Katie, b. at W^au-\\ntoma. Wis., m. the Rev. C. S. Vail, and had one child, vii. Eddie, b. at\\nWautoma, Wis., and res. in Wisconsin, viii. Emma, b. at Wautoma,\\nWis., m. Searl and res. in Wisconsin.\\n48. Mary, third child of John and Nancy Bean, b. June 26, iSiS m. Sargent\\nSanborn, who was in the 4th Reg. N. H. Vols., and d. at Port Royal\\nS. C; she d. Feb. 11, 1848. Their children were i. Alfred, b. March\\n9, 1838; served in Co. C, loth Reg. N. H. Vols.; m. Dec. 7, 1865, Kate\\nS. Huntoon, of Salisbury, and res. at Penacook; had four children, one\\nb. Sept. 8, 1866, and d. in infancy; Arthur C, b. April 25, 1869; Walter,\\nb. d. Jan. 14, 1S68 and an infant, b. March 22, 1874, who d. in infancy.\\nII. Martha J., b. May 7, 1840; m. i Scott Severance; m. (2) Hoyt;\\n(3) had two children, a son and a daughter; res. at Franklin, in.\\nJohn, b. m. Annis, of Plattsburg, N. Y, and had one child, a son.\\nIV. Nancy, b. March 2, 1845; Feb. 20, 1866, William Moore and res. ai\\nGoffstown; eight children, William H., Charles C, John E., Frederick L.,\\nArthur F., Frank E., George M. and Minnie M. one d. in infancy. V.\\nMorrison S., b. Oct. 17, 1847; name changed to Bachelder in 1S59; m. (1)\\nJune 2, 187S. Lottie E. Paine, who d. April 22, 18S0 m. 2 Mrs. Emily\\nJ. Morse, of Pembroke two children by second wife, Susan S., b. Aug. 8,\\n1882, and Perley A., b. Sept. i, 1885; res. at Chichester.\\n49. William D., fourth child of John and Nancy, b. March 22, 1820 m. i Mary\\nM. Garland, of Salisbury, Nov. 17, 1842, who d. Jan. 4, 1877 m. 2 Sept.\\n27, 187S, Mrs. Abbie Annis.\\nChildren by his first wife i. John M., b. Oct. 13, 1S43 m. Nov. 28, 1S66, Clara Col-\\nlins. II. Mary M., b. Oct. 13, i8.|6. in. William Andrew, b. Dec. 5, 1848;\\nm. June 17, 1871, Ida Jane Shepard, who was b. Feb. 28, 1855; two chil-\\ndren, James Arthur, b. June 14, 1S72; Maud Lillian, b. Jan. 3, 1877, and\\nres. at Concord, iv. Frank E., b. Dec. 29, 1S50; m. Aug. 30, 1871, Mary\\nJ. Noyes; one child, Jennie Louise, b. Sept. 16, 1873. v. Josiah G., b.\\nMay 29, 1S53; m. Jennie Agnes Davis, of Ogdensburg, N. Y. two chil-\\ndren, Mamie Davis, b. April 11, 1S80, at Lowell, Mass.; William Sidney,\\nb. Sept. 6, 1882, at Port Henry, N. Y.; resides at Glen Falls, N. Y. vi.\\nLucia A., b. Jan. 28, 1856, m. Jan. 31, 1S69, Fred. M. Morse; one child,\\nRalph Garland, b. July 31, 18S4.\\n50. Charlotte, fifth child of John and Nancy, b. April 13, 1S22 m. Dec. 26, 1843,\\nLowell Scribner res. at Franklin Falls. Their children were I. George\\nH., m. Olive Sanborn one child, dead. 11. Edna, m. George Rollins and", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0526.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0527.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "i^rf-\\n^J^-YUe^.^\\nI", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0528.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 475\\nres. in Alexandria, iii. Mary, m. Frank Edwards and res. at Franklin\\nFalls; one child, Edith.\\n51. Martha, si.\\\\th child of John and Nancy, b. Jan. 12, 1S24; m. May 14, 1845,\\nJason F. Dow, of Walden, Vt. res. at Boston, Mass. had six children,\\nJ. Ceylon, Henry C, Alton M., Adin W., Charles 15. and Fred. M.\\n52. Moses Hill, seventh child of John and Nancy Bean, was\\nb. Oct. 21, 1825. He received a fair education, and\\nfollowed farming until 1846, when he removed to Pena-\\ncook, where he worked upon the Penacook or new\\nmill, then in process of erection, in the employ of H. H.\\nJ. S. Brown. He was peculiarly successful in adapt-\\ning himself to various pursuits. He originated the\\ntrucking business at Penacook, and later farmed for a\\nwhile. At various times he was in the employ of the\\nBrowns about ten years. In 1862-64, he entered the\\ngrocery and dry goods business with D. Putnam, and in\\n1865 he carried on the same business for himself. In\\n1867, he bought out the boot and shoe business of D.\\nMarsh, and added the tin and stove business, and after-\\nwards the express agency and mail carrying. Disposing\\nof the store, he later entered the livery business. He\\nwas successful as a stone mason, and took many con-\\ntracts for work, which stand as monuments of his labors.\\nIn 1874, he became interested in York Beach, as a sum-\\nmer resort, and materially aided in developing its advan-\\ntages. He was among the first members of the Baptist\\nchurch, and at one time a deacon. He was a faithful\\nchristian, a prominent Odd P^ellow, and a staunch Repub-\\nlican. He was honored by his fellow-citizens with various\\npositions of trust. He believed in education, patriotism\\nand temperance. He d. Jan. 12, 1882 m. April 5, 1848,\\nElizabeth A., dau. of Eliphalet Brown, of Loudon, who\\nwas b. October 13, 1824. Their children were\\nI. Moses Quincy, b. July 22, 1849. He attended the common\\nschools and Penacook Academy, and graduated from the\\nNew London Literary and Scientific Institute, in the\\nclassical course, in 1872. He was by occupation a clerk.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0529.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "476 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nMarch 26, 1875, m. Mary Nellie, only dau. of Prof. Mon-\\nroe and Mary A. Weed, the first teachers of Penacook\\nAcademy. Prof. Weed and wife were, for many years,\\nwell-known educators in western New York. Mary\\nNellie completed her education at Vassar college, in the\\nclassical course, class of 1873. In 1873-74, she was\\npreceptress in Southbridge, Mass., high school. Their\\nchildren were: i. Raymond Monroe, b. Jan. 24, 1876.\\n2. Mary Daisy Gertrude, b. Sept. 18, 1881.\\nII. William Arthur, b. July 21, 1S51, at Salisbury. Attended the common schools\\nand Penacook Academy, at Penacook. Is a tinsmith and has followed the\\nbusiness for years. He m. Nov. 29, 1882, Lillian E., dau. of Bartlett Roby,\\nof Sutton. Their children were William Hill, b. May 29, 1884; Edmund\\nElgin, b. Nov. 10, 18S6.\\nIII. James Carlos, b. Dec. 19, 1853; d. March 12, 1854.\\nIV. Emma Lizzie, b. Dec. 3, 1855, at Penacook, and there attended the common\\nschools and academy. She m. Dec. 25, 1882, Jeremiah C. Goodwin, and\\nres. at Tamworth two children, Florence Belle and Agnes May.\\n53. Joshua S., eighth child of John and Nancy, b. Dec. 29, 1827 d. Oct. 17, 187 1\\nm. March 24, 1849, Sarah T. Woodward. Their children were i. George\\nR., b. June 30, 1851; m. Dec. 23, 1874, Cora F. Sessions; two children,\\nMabel S., b. Nov. i, 1875; Harry L., b. Nov. 12, 1883. 11. Allen Cordis,\\nb. Aug. 27, 1853; m. Oct. 31, 187 1, Phebe Ann Crowther, who was b. Feb.\\n23, 1S53; four children, Allen Joshua, b. April 11, 1873; Fred. Watkins,\\nb. Sept. 4, 1875; Bertie Arthur, b. Sept. 6, 1878; Myra Lucy, b. Aug. 19,\\n1885. III. Sarah Elvira, b. Sept. 5, 1855; d. April 15, 1856. iv. Leroy\\nWesley, b. Feb. 20, 1S57 m. Etta Loomis; he d. Oct. 30, iSSo. v. Ches-\\nter E., b. Dec. 24, 1S60; m. Dec. 24, 1880, Abbie E. Bennett; one child,\\nMattie, b. Nov. 5, 1S83. vi. Ella E., b. July 27, 1865; m. Dec. 23, 1883,\\nEugene H. Davis, and res. at Warner.\\n54. Susan, ninth child of John and Nancy, b. Jan. 29, 1S30; m. May 31, 1853,\\nCharles H. Scribner, who d. Oct. 17, 1867; she d. Feb. 7, 1859. Their\\nchildren were: i. Mary A., b. Aug. 14, 1854: m. Sept. 23, 1876, John E.\\nTucker; had one child, Katie L., b. Feb. 2, 1880, who d. Sept. 20, i88o;\\nadopted Gracie B. Hunt, b. March 14, 1877, and name changed March,\\n18S5, to Gracie B. Tucker. 11. Susie, b. Oct. 27, 1S5S, d. Aug. 14, 1859.\\n55. Charles C, tenth child of John and Nancy, b. Dec. 31, 183 1 m. May 24, 1854,\\nSophronia, dau. of Nelson Davis, of Warner, and res d at Penacook. Did\\na large teaming business d. April 21, 18S6; children, Chas. N., b. May 25,\\n1865, who m. Dec. 28, 1886, Minnie C. Sargent Nellie G., b. Nov. 20, 1868.\\n56. James Movvry, (Rev.) eleventh child of John and Nancy, b. Nov. 18, 1833; m.\\nNov. 13, 1S62, Mary T. Trussell, who was b. at Boscawen, Nov. 26, 1835.\\nSee history.) Their children were I. Laura Adella, b. Oct 2, 1868, at\\nLandaff. 11. Alice Mabelle, b. July 8, 1878, at Sandwich.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0530.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 47/\\n57. John W., (Rev.) twelfth child of John and Nancy, b. June 17, 1S36. (See\\nhistory.)\\n58. Rhoda Jane, thirteenth child of John and Nancy, b. Sept. 23, 1.S3S; m. Feb.\\n12, kS6i, Alexander McAlister, and res. on the ancestral homestead. The\\nchildren were: i. Nancy Jane, b. Sept. 15, [864; m. June 23, 1885, Fred.\\nTucker; have one child; res. in Salisbury. II. Susie Rebecca, b. Oct. 31,\\n1869. III. CarlosOrdway, b. Dec. 3, 1875. iv. Jessie Maud, b. JuneiG, 1879.\\n(56.) The Rev. James Mowry obtained such school advantages\\nas were possible in his locality, paying his way at the\\nNew Hampshire Conference Seminary and the Theo-\\nlogical School, then at Concord. He preached for two\\nyears at Alexandria, prior to April, 1864, when he joined\\nthe New Hampshire Conference, and was returned to\\nAlexandria for another year. He afterwards preached\\nat Lempster and Unity two years. Loudon one year,\\nLandaff one year, Manchester (first church) three years,\\nCanaan two years, Amherst and Milford two years,\\nGoffstown two years, Sandwich one year, Milton Mills\\ntwo years, Londonderry three years, Salem one year,\\nand is at present stationed in Kingston.\\n(57.) The Rev. John Wesley was very early in life made con-\\nscious of his responsibility, and with eagerness sought\\nto prepare for a life of usefulness. Receiving his educa-\\ntion in Salisbury, he entered the Methodist Biblical\\nInstitute, at Concord. After two years of study his\\nhealth failed and he was obliged to relinquish his studies.\\nOn recovery he was ordained a deacon, by Bishop D. W.\\nClark, at Lisbon, April 11, 1869. He joined the New\\nHampshire Conference, Methodist Episcopal church,\\nApril, 1 87 1, and after a course of four years study was\\nadmitted and ordained an elder, by Bishop J. W. Willey,\\nat Haverhill, Mass., April 25, 1875. Since that date he\\nhas been stationed at the following places: Loudon,\\nEast Tilton, Gilmanton, West Salisbury, Webster, Tuf-\\ntonborough, Wolfeborough, Grantham, Chichester, and\\nat the first M. E. church, Manchester. Mr. Bean is a\\nstirring, energetic preacher, and as a consequence the", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0531.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "478 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nchurches under his ministration have been quickened, and\\na genuine reformation has been the result of nearly every\\nchange of location. He m. i Feb. 28, 1858, Phebe D.\\nTucker, who d. Oct. 5, i860; m. {2) May 23, 1861,\\nSarah B. Sanders. The children by his first wife were\\nI. Newell Wesley, b. May 12, 1859; graduated from Dartmouth Medical College,\\nNov. 14, 1882, and in practice at Henniker; m. March 5, 1883, Mabelle\\nS. Preston, of Derry; two children, Elsa Winifred, b. July 24, 18S4, and\\nEdith Florence, b. Feb. 13, 18S6. 11. Minnie Foss, b. Aug. 5, 18S1,\\nadopted and name changed to Minnie Florence Bean, March, 1SS6.\\nTHE BLAISDELL FAMILY.\\nThe name was very early written Blasdale, then Blasdell and\\nBlaisdell. Ralph Blaisdell, i the ancestor, stands sixty-third\\non the list of original commoners. He was a man of educa-\\ntion and good standing in the colony, officiating as prudential\\nman, constable and attorney in court, at Hampton, in 1648.\\nHe died in 1650, and his widow, Elisabeth, settled his estate.\\nShe died in 1665. We trace the family through these several\\ngenerations\\nC. Henry, (2) b. 1632 or 1633; Sarah, b. d. Jan. 17, 1647;\\nMary, b. March 5, 1640, m. John Stevens; Ralph, b. in\\n1643. C. Henry m. i in 1656, Mary Haddon, and was\\none of the original proprietors of Amesbury, Mass. He\\nkept the Garrison house. She d. Dec. 12, 1690. He\\nm. (2) Elizabeth he d. in 1703 or 1704.\\nJonathan, (3) their fifth son, m. Hannah Stevens, of Salisbury,\\nin 1699. He was a school teacher, made deeds, settled\\nestates, and was selectman for about twenty years he\\nwas also by trade a blacksmith b. about 1675 and d. in\\n1748. He had nine children.\\nDavid, (4) was b. Feb. 5, 1712 m. Dec. 10, 1733, Abigail, dau.\\nof Samuel and Abigail Colby. He was noted for ingen-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0532.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 479\\nuity and mechanical skill, and made clocks, ship irons,\\nguns, spoons, and various kinds of iron implements then\\nin use, besides surgical instruments. In 1756 and pre-\\nviously he served as selectman. He died in Aug., 1756,\\nat Lake George, N. Y., where he had gone to build boats\\nfor the army operating against the French.\\nIsaac, (5) the third son, was b. March 27, 1738; m. Jan. 22,\\n1757, Mary, dau. of Ebenezer Currier, of Amesbury.\\nHe made twenty-four hour clocks, with but a single\\nweight, which operated both the running and striking\\ngear. One of these curious clocks is now owned by Mr.\\nIsaac K. Blaisdell and keeps perfect time. He was con-\\nsidered a very skillful artisan. He frequently held town\\noffices in Chester, residing in that part now Auburn, to\\nwhich place he removed in 1762, and from which he\\nentered the revolutionary army. They had ten children,\\nthe two oldest having been b. at Amesbury. He d. in\\n1791- She m. (2) Jonathan Swain, of Raymond, and d.\\nDec. 6, 1795.\\nIsaac, (6) known as Major, their second child, was born at\\nAmesbury, June 2, 1760. He sold his land in Chester,\\nin 1782, and removed to Salisbury, where he soon after\\nbuilt a two-story house, near a large apple-tree still stand-\\ning in Sylvester W. Greene s garden. Here he followed\\nhis trade, which was that of a blacksmith. Previous to\\n1791 he rem. to Smith s Corner, settling on the road\\neast of D. R. McAlister. Subsequently he returned to\\nthe Centre Road, purchased the Jacob Bohonon farm,\\nto which he soon removed, and d. March 11, 1817. His\\nshop stood north of the house, on the opposite side of\\nthe street. He held the rank of Major in the 2d R\u00c2\u00abgi-\\nment of Light Horse. He m. i Elizabeth Grcen,* of\\nAmesbury m. (2) Sabra Green m. (3) Abigail Petten-\\ngill, dau. of Benjamin Pettengill she was b. Dec. 31,\\n1767. and d. June i, 1858. The Rev. Mr. Burden, when\\npreaching at the Centre Road, was accustomed to take", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0533.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "480 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\ndaguerreotypes. When Mrs. Blaisdell (who was a mem-\\nber of his church) was past ninety years of age he sent\\nher an invitation to sit for her picture. She declined in\\nthe following lines\\nMy hair is gray, my eyes are dim,\\nAnd beauty from my face has fled\\nMy feeble strength can scarce support\\nAnd bear my aged body up.\\nI d rather leave an example bright\\nOf all that s excellent and right,\\nThan have a picture of my face,\\nWhich soon will sleep in death s embrace.\\nThe children of Major Blaisdell were\\n2. Moses, b. July 30, 1789; d. Sept. i, 1S04.\\n3. Rachel, b. Oct. 20, 1791 m. June 29, 1814, Benjamin Calef. See.\\n4. Martha, b. Oct. 28, 1793; i Feb. 1820, Trueworthy Blaisdell; d. Oct. 5, 1S55,\\nat Manchester; had one dau., Mrs. C. W. Barker, who res. at Manchester.\\n5. Mehitable, b. Feb. i, 1796; m. (i) Nov. 27, 1819, Meshech\\nWeare, of Andover, who was b. March 4, 1791, and d.\\nApril 29, 1 841. She m. (2) May 8, 1845, William\\nGraves, of Andover, who d. Nov. 6, 1875. She res. on\\nthe Weare farm. At the age of twenty years she united\\nwith the Congregational church, under the Rev. Mr.\\nWorcester, and was his firm friend through life. On\\nthe formation of a Congregational church at Andover\\nshe joined there by letter. Her first attendance at\\nschool was in the old schoolhouse at the lower end of\\nthe Centre Road, and her first teachers were Ezekiel\\nand Daniel Webster.\\n6. Isaac, b. Aug. i, 1798; d. Sept. 28, 1S02.\\n7. Kimball, b. Jan. 2, 1801 d. Oct. 10, 1S02.\\n8. Abigail, b. Feb. 10, 1S03; m. Nov. 24, 1S22, Calvin Campbell, of Hopkinton\\nhe d. at Hill; she moved to Franklin and d. June 6, 18S6.\\n9. Drucilla, b. Aug. 10, 1805; m. Oct. 5, 1S25, John Carr, of Hopkinton; rem. to\\nNewport, where she d. April 14, 1871.\\n10. Isaac K., b. Oct. 10, 1S07. See history.\\n11. Benjamin P., b. Majch 18, 1810; rem. to Canada and m. d. Jan. 11, 1870.\\n12. Jonathan L., a child by first wife, d. May 10, iSii.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0534.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY, 481\\nID.) Deacon Isaac K. remains on the farm, and is one of\\nour enterprising farmers and citizens; is a deacon in\\nthe Christian church. He m. Dec. 30, 1834, Aurilla, dau,\\nof Isaac and Mary (Davis) Sweatt, who was b. at Bos-\\ncawen, Nov. 14, 1806, and d. Feb. 14, 1881. Their\\nchildren were\\n13. Isaac S., b. Jan. ii, 1836; d. Nov. 5, 1SS3. 14. Aurilla A., b. June 18, 1837;^\\nd. July 14, 1857. 15. Henry \\\\V., b. Oct. 28, 1838. 16. Drucilla, b. June\\n8, 1840. 17. Mehitable, b. Sept. 23, 1841 d. July 29, 1844. 18. Meshech\\nW., b. April 19, 1844; d. at Mound City, 111., Aug. 20, 1863. 19. Lavinia J.\\nb. Sept. I, 1845. 20. Martha L., b. Aug. 24, 1847; d. Aug. 9, i860.\\n21. William G., b. Aug. 23, 1849.\\nBLANCHARD AND KENRICK FAMILIES.\\nColonel Joseph Blanchard was distinguished in the French\\nand Indian wars for his undaunted courage. In 1755 he\\nmarched his regiment of six hundred men up the valley of the\\nMerrimack to the Salisbury fort, where he remained si.x weeks,\\nthen continuing his march through the wilderness to Crown\\nPoint and Canada. See Indian history. Chapter XV.\\n1. Benjamin Blanchard was probably a member of the above\\nregiment. He m. at Hampstead, Azuba Keizer. When\\nthe regiment left he remained at the fort, purchased land\\nand erected a log house in Canterbury. It is supposed\\nthat his mother was Bridget, a woman of Scotch-Irish\\ndescent, who was captured at Salisbury by the Indians,\\nin 1752, and who was a very courageous woman. After\\nremaining for a long time at the lower portion of Salis-\\nbury he removed to that part of the old town now within\\nthe limits of Northwood, where in 1760 he built a log\\nhouse and carried on farming, being the first settler in\\nthe latter town. He was an enterprising citizen and\\naccumulated considerable property. His son was\\n2. Edward, (Captain) m. Isabella Wason, a native of Scotland,\\nwhose parents were among the very earliest settlers of\\n31", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0535.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "482 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nLondonderry. They had nine sons and one daughter.\\nAmong the former was\\n3. Ebenezer, (Captain) b. in what is now Northfield, June 12,\\n1768; m. Sarah Smith, b. at Windham, March 7, 1774.\\nShe was of Scotch-Irish parentage and a woman of rare\\nmental endowments. After marriage she accompanied\\nher husband to his northern home, riding upon a side-\\nsaddle which is still in use. She d. in Franklin, March\\n22, 1855, aged 81. Capt. Blanchard began trade in the\\nstore which stood on his Bay Hill farm in Northfield, as\\nearly as 1789, and may have continued the same until\\n1805. It is said that he opened a store at Sanbornton\\nBridge, now Tilton, as early as 1800, but we understand\\nthe store stood on the Northfield side of the river, near\\nthe upper bridge. About 1808 he removed to Salisbury\\nand bought the Joseph Noyes place, in what is now\\nPVanklin. Leaving his Sanbornton Bridge store in care\\nof a partner, he added a second story to the Noyes house\\nin which he resided, the basement of which he used for a\\nstore, and for more than forty years carried on an exten-\\nsive business in general merchandise. It is believed he\\nput in the first stock of dry goods in that part of the\\ntown. He did his own teaming, taking the goods of his\\nown manufacture and country produce to Portsmouth\\nand returning with groceries, cotton, etc. He made the\\ncotton into cloth. He finally sold the store to Thomas\\nGreenleaf. Capt. Blanchard and Ebenezer Eastman\\nbuilt the first mill on the site of Sulloway s hosiery mill,\\nat what is now known as Franklin Falls. Here they\\nsawed large quantities of lumber, which they rafted to\\nNewburyport, Mass. He d. in Franklin, Feb. 12, 1849,\\naged 81. We have a record only of six children, all but\\nthe youngest b. in Northfield, as follows\\n4. Isabella S., b. Dec. 23, 1795; m. Feb. 22, 1S17, James West, of Concord, who\\nfor years kept the old West tavern on Boscawen Plains. He d. at Frank-\\nlin. She d. at Franklin, June 18, 1882.\\n5. Edward, b. May 14, 1797 d. of spotted fever, Feb. 21, 1799.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0536.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 483\\n6. Alice, b. Feb. 2S, iSoo; m. Nov. 15, 1S21, Kendall O. Peabody. She d. Dec.\\n23, 1832.\\n7. Ebenezer K., b. July 4, 1S02; m. Oct. i, 1S26, Kanny Jacques. He d. Feb.\\n2S, 1S28.\\n8. Cynthia 1 b. July 17, 1S04; d. at Boscawen, June 27, 1838, unm.\\n9. Clarissa Ann was b. in Salisbury, Oct. 7, 181 5; m. Dec.\\n29, 1S33, Stephen Kenrick. Mr. Kenrick was b. in\\nHaverhill, Mass., June 15, 1806, son of John and Sarah\\n(Colby) Kenrick, and the youngest of a family of nine\\nchildren. In 1836 Mr. Kenrick came to Franklin, at\\nonce identified himself with the interests of the town\\nand became one of its most active and prosperous citi-\\nzens. He had large interests in several railroads and in\\n1861 became president of the Concord Portsmouth\\nroad, which office he held until his death. He was also\\npresident of the National Bank at Hillsborough Bridge,\\nand one of the trustees of the Franklin Savings Bank.\\nHe took a deep interest in the management of the affairs\\nof the town, serving as selectman five years and as rep-\\nresentative two years. He was a member of the Con-\\ngregational church and one of its most generous sup-\\nporters. He d. Aug. 4, 1884. Their children were:\\nEbenezer B., b. March 3, 1837; d. Aug. 6, 1838. 11. Eben.\\nezer, b. Nov. 6, 1838; d. Feb. 9, 1839. in. Stephen B.,\\nb. April 9, 1842; m. Elizabeth Ro we and res. at Fort\\nMadison, Wisconsin. Is superintendent of the Fort\\nMadison Northwestern R. R. iv. Charles C, b.\\nApril 8, 1844. He conducts a livery and sale stable at\\nFranklin Falls, has a large farm, and is one of the most\\nenergetic, active and enterprising citizens of that busy\\nvillage, v. John S., b. Oct. 28, 1846; d. Aug. 10, 1847.\\nVI. Timothy F., b. July 8, 1849. He completed his edu-\\ncation at Dartmouth, and began the study of medicine\\nat Long Island College, graduating at Bellevue College\\nJune I, 1874. Dr. Kenrick was called to the Sanford\\nHall Asylum, Flushing, N. Y., as first assistant physi-\\ncian and remained until 1876, when he was given the", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0537.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "484 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nposition of assistant physician in the New York State\\nLunatic Asylum, at Utica. In 1878 he started upon a\\nforeign tour, for the benefit of his health, and d. at Na-\\nples, Italy, Jan. 29, 1879. vii. Clarissa A., b. Nov. 8,\\n1852; d. Aug. II, 1853.\\nTHE BLODGETT FAMILY.\\nWe know but little of the family history of the Blodgetts who\\nonce dwelt in the town of Salisbury. They were descendants\\nof the distinguished Judge Samuel Blodgett, of Derryfield,\\n(now Manchester) the builder of the Blodgett canal around\\nAmoskeag Falls, and one of the most energetic men in that\\nsection of the State.\\n1. Edward, a nephew, was b. in Charlestown, Mass., in 1771,\\nand came to Salisbury East Village in 1 801-2. He res d\\nfor a time in the toll-house, built the house now occupied\\nby J. H. Powell, and lived there. This house formerly\\nstood with the south-east corner to the street, so that he\\ncould sit in it and look both ways. He was once engaged\\nin trade in the old Eastman store, and later in life did\\nmuch surveying. He was appointed a justice of the\\npeace June 15, 1807. He d. in 1844; m. Ruth Kimball,\\nof Chester, who d. in 18 18. Their children were:\\n2. Harriet, b. in 1802; m. Thomas H. BuUard. 3. Eliza, b. March 20, 1S04; d. at\\nConcord, unm. 4. Julius Caesar.\\n5. Augustus Caesar, b. March 25, 18 10. He was a printer and\\nonce one of the proprietors of the New Hampshire States-\\nman. He rem. to Peterborough, and subsequently went\\nto the west, where he died.\\n(4.) Rev. Julius Caesar was b. in Salisbury, March 6, 1806, at\\nwhich time his parents res d in the toll-house. His edu-\\ncation was acquired in the common schools and at Salis-\\nbury Academy. He was ordained a minister of the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0538.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 485\\nChristian denomination, at Sanbornton, in Jan., 1830,\\nand preached at E.xeter, Newton, Franklin and Kensing-\\nton, besides at several i:)laces in New York and at Port-\\nland, Maine. He spoke with i^reat force and energy and\\nwas a very effective revivalist. In 1845 he became edi-\\ntor of the Christian Herald, the organ of the Christian\\ndenomination, then published at Exeter. He possessed\\nboth talent and taste for literary work. He m. Sept. 3,\\n1837, Abigail C. Shaw, of Kensington, youngest dau. of\\nRev. Elijah Shaw, a justly celebrated minister of that\\nchurch. He had three daughters and four sons. His\\nactive labors covered a period of forty-three years. Died\\nat Kensington, March 26, 1878.\\nTHE BOHONON*. FAMILY.\\nIn the old cemetery at the South Road Village repose the\\nremains of a large part of at least three, and a part of four and\\nfive generations bearing this name, so often heard a century\\nago and for two-score years later, but rarely mentioned now\\nexcept in quaint legend, but around which cluster tales of\\nvaliant deed and pleasant memory.\\nTHE FIRST GENERATION.\\nIn the early settlement of Contoocook (now Boscawen) in\\nthe spring of 1734, the fourth name on the list of the twenty-\\nseven first settlers was Andrew Bohonon. He is presumed to\\nhave come there from Salisbury or Newbury, Mass., and tradi-\\ntion familiar to his descendants declares him a native of Scot-\\nland, a son of and (Johnson) Bohonon, of most respectable\\nand well-to-do family. He was imprcs.sed for duty at sea at the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The ancestral name was 15uchanan, but s i:iie of tlie ciescendants prior to or about\\nthe time of the birth of this emigrating ancestor changed the spelling to Bohonon.\\nSo many varying and trivial reasons are assigned in tradition for the change that\\nthe writer omits mention of any, as unsatisfactory. .Some of the descendants of\\nthis emigrant adhere to the original spelling, Huchanan. In Scotland the names\\nare synonymous.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0539.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "486 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nearly age of fourteen years. Some declare he was enticed on\\nboard a ship anchored in the harbor and when the vessel sailed\\nrestrained from going on shore, instead of being regularly im-\\npressed. The vessel on which he was doing duty, making a\\ntrip to this country and landing at Boston, he decided to tarry\\nin America.\\nIn early life he frequently talked of returning to the mother\\nland and the comforts of his early home but frontier life proved\\nfascinating, and, marrying, his wife and children afterwards per-\\nsuaded postponement until such plans were from time to time\\ndeferred, then finally abandoned.\\nBorn about 1709, he married in 1734-5 Tabitha Flanders,\\nfirst child of Deacon Jacob and Mercy (Clough) Flanders, early\\nsettlers of Boscawen, from South Hampton, and on Jan. 22,\\n1736, was born to them Sarah, the second female white child\\nborn in that town.* The year following, Aug. 11, 1737, was\\nborn Andrew, (Jr.) the first male child born in Boscawen. f\\nA man but little above medium stature, but of lithe and sin-\\newy limb strong in courage, possessed of remarkable energy\\nand great power of endurance with mental abilities above the\\naverage, modest, companionable, full of quaint humor, and\\nsparkling with ready wit, he was a favorite with all, and his\\nwitty sayings are quoted to this day.\\nHe served in the company organized for Indian defence, in\\n1743-4, afterwards in the French and Indian wars, again in\\n1754, in Capt. Joseph Eastman s company, and in 1755 in Col.\\nBlanchard s regiment, in the expedition against Crown Point.\\nHe also served in one or more campaigns against the French\\nand Indians in 1756. After his return he made a permanent\\nsettlement on Salisbury south road, having begun living there\\nsome years before, and was active in public affairs. At the\\nbeginning of the revolutionary war he was too far advanced in\\nyears for continuous military duty, but with his old zeal re-kin-\\ndled he was enrolled in the alarm list, and performed some\\nservice in that campaign. He reared a family of devoted\\n*Rev. Ebenezer Price s History of Boscawen, 1820.\\ntPublished Obituaries, 1826.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0540.jp2"}, "527": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 48/\\npatriots, who did efficient service in their country s struggle for\\nindependence, and after a long and useful life died in Salisbury\\nabout 1803. His wife, Tabitha, a devoted christian wife and\\nmother, died at Salisbury, Feb. i8, 1810, having reached the\\nremarkable age of one hundred and one years. The New\\nHampshire Patriot of March 6, 1810, says: Three of her\\nchildren attended her funeral whose ages aggregated two hun-\\ndred and thirteen years, one being seventy-four, one seventy-\\ntwo and one sixty-seven years of age. A great-grand-child of\\nMrs. B. was buried at the same funeral.\\nThe name multiplied with succeeding generations but has\\nnow become nearly or quite extinct in Salisbury. Occasionally\\nto this day some remote descendant visits this town, to pay at\\nthe old shrine loving tribute to the memory of a patriotic and\\nhonored ancestry.\\nThe following children of the second generation were b. in Boscawen\\n1. Sarah, b. Jan. 22, 1736; m. Judkins and settled in Salisbury.\\n2. Andrew, b. Aug. 11, 1737. See.\\n3. John, b. Feb. 29, 1740; was ta.xed in Salisbury 1791-6, after which time it is\\nsaid he rem. to and settled in Xew Brunswick.\\n4. Jacob, b. Nov. 22, 1741. See.\\n5. Ananiah, b. July 22, 1743. See.\\n(2.) Andrew, long and familiarly known as Ensign Bohonon,\\ncame to Salisbury from Boscawen with his father s fam-\\nily, not far from 1750. The son of a gallant soldier, he\\nwas early imbued with the spirit of his father, and at\\nseventeen years of age (1755) was engaged in the\\nFrench war, under Capt. John Stark, (afterwards Gen.\\nStark,) and continued with the Rangers until the close\\nof that war. When the revolutionary war began, no less\\nready to engage in his country s cause, he turned out as\\na volunteer under Capt. Connor, of Pembroke, went to\\nWinter Ilill and continued there during the siege of\\nBoston. In 1776 he joined the company of Capt. Benj.\\nEmery, in Col. Baldwin s regiment, was in the battle of\\nWhite Plains, and continued with the army until the fol-\\nlowing winter. In 1777 he was a Lieutenant under Capt.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0541.jp2"}, "528": {"fulltext": "488 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nEbenezer Webster, and was in the battle of Bennington,\\nunder Stark. In 1778 he again turned out as a volunteer\\nand went with Gen. Sullivan to Rhode Island. While\\nthere the volunteers were ordered to take their stand\\nupon the lower pickets, near where lay the enemy s\\nships. One morning when he was on guard he espied a\\nBritish lieutenant of marines in a field of corn at no\\ngreat distance from him. He hailed the bold intruder,\\nbrought him to and ordered him to lay down his arms,\\nwhich the proud Briton found it necessary to do, and our\\nhero marched in with his prisoner of war amidst the loud\\nacclamations of his fellow-soldiers. An obituary notice\\nof considerable length, from which the above facts are\\nselected, appears in the New Hampshire Patriot of June\\n1 2th, 1826, which adds: Lieut. Bohonon maintained\\nthrough life a uniform character of integrity and upright-\\nness. A builder and joiner by occupation, houses are\\nstill standing in Boscawen and Salisbury the building of\\nwhich was under his supervision. He was said to have\\nbeen a handsome man, particularly in form and figure,\\nand in continental days was conspicuous by his pictur-\\nesque personal appearance.\\nThe old three-cornered hat,\\nThe breeches and all that\\nWere so queer.\\nHe m. (first) in 1762, Susannah Webster, b. in East\\nKingston, in 1741, (baptized Jan. 31, 1742, by Rev. Peter\\nCofifin.) She was the dau. of Ebenezer and Susannah\\n(Bachelder) Webster, and the sister of Judge Ebenezer\\nWebster, the father of Daniel Webster. The wedding\\nwas long remembered in Salisbury, and for many years\\nafterwards the guests were pleased to relate how they\\ndanced on white sugar at Lieut. Bohonon s wedding,\\nthe floor being covered with powdered loaf sugar instead\\nof sanding it as was the custom at that time. Mrs.\\nBohonon, conspicuous for her ability, of rare qualities of\\nmind and heart, was a lady of commanding presence, a", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0542.jp2"}, "529": {"fulltext": "GENKALOGY AND BIOGRAPHV. 489\\ndevoted christian, much confided in and greatly beloved\\nby all. The family were especially hospitable, and full\\nneighborhood gatherings were frequently held at their\\nhouse. On that memorable dark day of 1780, May 19,\\nso long remembered, so vividly recounted, in the middle\\nof the forenoon, as the darkness increased, the clouds\\nassumed a more forbidding appearance, and birds flew\\ninto the houses through open doors or windows, the\\npeople became greatly alarmed consternation generally\\nprevailed, and as the darkness became more intense the\\npeople were terrified; the neighborhood gathered at\\nEnsign Bohonon s, the house became filled to overflow-\\ning, and fear seemed depicted on every countenance.\\nMrs. B. took her chair into the yard, (a scene for the\\npainter) opened her bible, and by the lurid glare of the\\ntorch, in that awful stillness of great alarm, read to those\\nwho gathered about her. Listen catch the comforting\\nwords\\nGod is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.\\nTherefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the\\nmountains be carried into the midst of the sea;\\nThough the water thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains\\nshake with the swelling thereof.\\nThe Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.\\nBe still and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I\\nwill be exalted in the earth.\\nThe Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge.\\nAnd then, on bended knee, with upturned eye, a suppli-\\ncation reassuring\\nThat coming light no mortal cloud\\nCan quite enshroud I\\nThrough all our doubts, above the range\\nOf every fear and every change.\\nOur faith can see, with weary eye.\\nThe dawn of heaven on earth s dim sky\\nAnd from afar\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Chines on our souls the morning star.\\nBeloved and lamented by all, she died three years later,\\nApril 27, 1783.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0543.jp2"}, "530": {"fulltext": "490 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nChildren {3d generation) born in Salisbury\\n6. Stephen, b. Oct. 10, 1763. See. 7. Ananiah. b. April 6, 1765. See.\\n8. Jacob, b. Feb. i, 1767. See. 9. Hannah, b. 1769; d. in 1787, unm.\\n10. Josiah, b. in May, 1772. See. 11. Moses, b. Feb. 22, 1774. See.\\n12. Olive, b. March 7, 1777. See. 13. Dorcas, b. Feb. 23, 1779. See.\\n14. Mary, (Polly) b. April 11, 1780. See. 15. George, b. in Sept., 1782; rem. to\\nand settled in Ohio, but d. in early life.\\nAndrew Bohonon m. (second) in 1784, Mrs. Betsey (McMiles)\\nGarvin. His children by second wife were\\n16. Betsey, b. in Aug., 17S5; was a teacher in Montpelier, Vt., and d. in that town\\nMay 6, 1829.\\nAndrew Bohonon d. May 24, 1S26. His second wife, Betsey Garvin, d. about 1S15.\\n17. Ebenezer, b. in 1790, was in the army in the war of 18 12-\\n14. He wrote home from near New Orleans, saying\\nthey had been ordered to and were just leaving for that\\ncity and that he would write again on arrival there. He\\nwas never heard from afterwards.\\nHis ashes flown\\nNo marble tells us whither.\\nA rest for weary pilgrims found,\\nThey softly lie and sweetly sleep\\nLow in the ground.\\n(6.) Major Stephen Bohonon, we copy from the press of\\nFeb., 1 83 1,) was one of the last survivors in Salisbury\\nof the revolutionary war. He was distinguished among\\nthat hardy corps known as the Rangers. Early in the\\nwar, when less than sixteen years of age, his uncle, Capt.\\nEbenezer Webster, then commanding a company of mil-\\nitia, called one morning at the house of his sister and\\nsaid to her at the door that she must give up Stephen\\ntoo, (her husband was already in the service,) to go and\\naid the cause of the country. He dwelt upon the urgent\\nneed of more men, and at once, or all might be lost. A\\nmother s fond misgivings for a moment caused her to\\nhesitate, but the spirit which animated the breast of\\nWebster glowed also in the heart of his sister, and\\nStephen was given up to the service, on the promise of", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0544.jp2"}, "531": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 49I\\nCapt. Webster that his nephew for a tune at least should\\nnot be exposed but serve as his clerk and waiter. With-\\nin doors Stephen had heard all, and with a temper worthy\\nof his family came forward and said, Uncle, I wish to\\ngo into the service, but I will not go as a waiter to any-\\nbody I will enter the ranks as a soldier. Stephen,\\nreplied Capt. W., you are a brave boy and shall serve\\nin such manner as you please. He immediately pro-\\nceeded in the company under his uncle s command to\\nBennington, and performed his part well in the engage-\\nment with the British troops under Gen. Baum. Imme-\\ndiately afterward he entered the regular service and re-\\nmained in it in different positions during the war, justi-\\nfying by his conduct at all times the hope inspired by\\nhis heroic bearing in boyhood. Judge Nesmith relates\\nof him the following Major B. was under Capt. Web-\\nster at West Point, in a six months service, when the\\ntreachery of Arnold was discovered. Capt. W. had the\\ndistinguished honor of being selected to guard Washing-\\nton s headquarters the night following the discovery.\\nWashington invited Webster to his room and said to\\nhim, I have seen you at the Boston siege and in the\\nWhite Plains campaign, and if I cannot trust you I cannot\\ntrust any one. I now pledge you in a glass of wine\\nplace your company around my quarters this night.\\nWebster obeyed the order, considering himself highly\\nhonored. Bohonon walked before his tent all night, and\\nsaid Washington did not once lie down but was employed\\nin writing through the night. Major. B. built the first\\nhouse on the site of the Congregational church parson-\\nage, (the Andrew Bovvers house,) and in one of the front\\nrooms he kept a small stock of goods. This was proba-\\nbly the first store at the South Road Village, if not the\\nfirst in town. For many years Major B. resided in Chel-\\nsea, Vt., and was prominent in public affairs, having been\\na magistrate, town clerk in 1791, member of the State\\nlegislature in 1796, etc. But the last twenty years of", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0545.jp2"}, "532": {"fulltext": "492 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nhis life were spent in Salisbury, the village in which he\\nwas born. He m. March 8, 1785, Olive Elliott, who was\\nb. in Boscawen, 1765, and d. June 10, 1843. He d. Jan.\\n26, 183 1. The N. H. Patriot of Feb. 7, 183 1, noticing\\nhis death, says: His funeral was attended by a large\\nconcourse of citizens, among whom were eight soldiers\\nof the revolution, each nearly eighty years of age, with\\nappropriate badges, moving in a body in the solemn fun-\\neral march to the last home of their companion in arms\\ndoubly affecting on account of the deep unction mani-\\nfested by those few and infirm remnants of the army of\\nindependence. The tear which fell in silence down their\\nfurrowed faces bespoke the depth and the strength of\\nthe tide of memory which overwhelmed them the whole\\nfuneral ceremonies were appropriate to the character of\\nthe dead, and full of instruction to the living, offering\\nstrong encouragement to the active generation to serve\\nwell their country in time of need, by affording proof\\nthat such services would not be forgotten. The child-\\nren of the 4th generation were\\nI. Benjamin, b. in Salisbury, Feb. 15, 17S6; m. Olive Archelaus, of Boscawen.\\nHe d. Sept. 27, 1S26, leaving two children, Charles and\\nII. Susan, b. in Salisbury, Feb. 20, 17S8; d. in Chelsea, Vt., Jan. 9, 1792.\\nIII. John E., b. April 13, 1790. He became a sea captain of note. His portrait,\\nwith chart and compass, adorns the wall of a pleasant cottage in Salisbury.\\nHe m. Elizabeth and d. in Manchester, Mass., Feb. 26, 1842. His wife\\nand one child survived him but a few years.\\nIV. Susan, 2d, b. March i, 1793; Salisbury, June 16, 1S75, unm.\\nV. Andrew Bowers, b. July 8, 1795. served as a musician in the war of 1812-\\n14. He. m. April 28, 1834, Almira H. Corliss. He d. Dec. 19, 1839. His\\nchildren were: (i) Eliza, b. June 17, 1836; m. Oct. 29, 1854, C. H. Mor-\\nrill. (2) Stephen, (twin) b. May 15, 1839, d. Jan. 7, 1840. (3) Olive,\\n(twin) b. May 15, 1839; m. (first) May 25, 1853, N. C.Elliott; he d. May\\n24, 1871, and she m. (second) Harrison Corning. The widow of Andrew\\nB. m. second Levi Bean.\\nVI. Hannah, b. 1796, d. May 23, 179S. She was drowned in Chelsea, Vt. A little\\nplaymate, with clothing drenched with water, was observed coming along\\nthe road crying. When inquired of as to where she had been and the\\ncause of her distress, she replied, In the brook and Nannie s in the\\nbrook now. She was found in a few moments but life was extinct.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0546.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 493\\nVII. Ebenezer Webster, b. in 1799. He was in the war 1814 three months, doing\\ngarrison duty at Portsmouth. He m. Jan. 28, 1822, Mary Elliott. He d.\\nJuly 20, 183S. Their children were: (i) Emily, m. James Francis; she\\nd. Sept. 15, 1850, leaving one child, ^^ary Ellen. (2) Ann Jeanette, d.\\nAug. 24, 1S46. (3) Charlotte, m. Clough, settled in Mass.\\nVIII. Belinda, b. April i, 1801 m. March 19, 1823, Joseph Bean, Jr.; she d. Dec.\\n231 1879. See Bean genealogy.\\nIX. Hannah, 2d, b. in 1802 m. Oct. 2, 1825, Pearson Rolfe, and settled at Fort\\nCovington, N. Y. She d. Sept. 23, 1879.\\n(7.) Major Ananiah Bohonon was another soldier in the war\\nfor independence, entering the army March 13, 1781,\\nand rendering efficient service until the disbanding of\\nthe forces in 1783. He served first in Capt. Webster s\\ncompany, together with his brother Stephen, their father\\n(Andrew) being Lieut, in the same company. In figure\\nhe was very erect, and was personally complimented by\\nBaron Steuben for his fine soldierly bearing when the\\ntroops were passing in review before that officer. After\\nthe close of the war he settled in Salisbury, but about\\n1796 he removed with his brother Stephen to Chelsea,\\nVt. He is spoken of in Reminiscences of Chelsea as\\npossessing natural talent almost the equal of his distin-\\nguished cousin, Daniel Webster, and, like the rest of the\\nBohonons, exceedingly bright and witty. He m. at\\nSalisbury, June 16, 1795, Sarah Cushing, b. Dec. 26,\\n1 77 1, dau. of Caleb and Sarah (Sawyer) Cushing. He\\nd. Sept. 7, 1853; she d. Aug. 12, 1850, at Chelsea, Vt.\\nChildren (4th generation) b. at Chelsea, were:\\nI. Betsey, b. Jan. 17, 1797; d. at Nashua, Dec. 27, 1875.\\nII. Susan Webster, b. March 12, 1799; d. in Chelsea, Aug, 26, 1870.\\nIII. Andrew, b. Aug. i. iSoi rem. to Hampton, Me., in 183S; d. in 1S63 or 1S64.\\nIV. Olive, b. Aug. 16, 1803; d. in Jan., 1804.\\nV. Isabel, b. Dec. 19, 1804; rem. to Nashua in 1855.\\nVI. Adaline, b. June 12, 1807; m. at Corinth, Vt., Sept., 1830, Jonathan March,\\nwho was b. at Springfield, in 1S04 he d. in the U. S. naval service. Had\\nCharles, b. May 10, 1834.\\nVII. John Wainwright, b. Oct. 25, iSog; d. Jan. 10, 1818, at Chelsea.\\nVIII. Lucrctia Dearborn, b. Aug. 6, 1812; m. at Lowell, Mass., March 15, 1S38,\\nSamuel Scott, and settled at .Montpelier, Vt., in 1S39. He d. June 25,\\n18S0. Their children were: i Ellen, b. Aug. 26, 1S39, and d. in 1840.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0547.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "494 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(2) Ellen, b. in Jan., 1842, d. in 1844. (3) Ellen, b. Nov. 7, 1844, a\\nteacher in New York city. (4) Walter, b. Feb. 15, 1847 d. July 4, 1851,\\nin Montpelier, Vt. (5) Winfield, b. Oct. 55, 1849; d. in New York city,\\nNov. 9, 1878.\\nIX. Sophia, b. Feb. 28, 18 16.\\n(8.) Jacob, a carpenter and builder. He erected many build-\\nings in and around Salisbury, and some of the college\\nbuildings at Hanover. He rem. to Danbury later in life.\\nHe m. in 1789, Sarah Judkins, of Brentwood, b. Jan. 5,\\n1773 he d. in 1832, she d. in 1850. Their children (4th\\ngeneration) were:\\nI. Stephen, b. Feb. i, 1790; served in the war of 1812. He m. in 1827 Rebecca\\nYV^illard, and settled in Bristol. He d. Oct. 13, 1878 she d. Jan. 27, 1851.\\nTheir children were i Melinda Ruth, b. March 30, 1828; d. June 23,\\n1846. 2 John Willard, b. Oct. 15, 1830, d. in Feb., 1832. (3) Lucy M.,\\nb. Oct. 15, 1830; m. Dec. 21, 1848, Moses Emmons and res. at Bristol.\\n(4) Leonard W., b. July 16, 1835; m. July 4, 1859, M. J. Dily and res. at\\nAlexandria. (5) Daniel Webster, b. March 25, 1842. See.\\nII. Susan Webster, b. in 1792; m. in 181 5 Calvin Cilley he d. at Tunbridge, Vt,\\nin 1836; she d. at Lowell, Mich,, 1876, leaving four children, one of whom\\nis the Rev. E. G. Cilley, of Holton, Mich.\\nIII. Samuel, b. in 1792, settled at Boston, Mass., and d. in 1826.\\nIV. Sarah, b. in 1794, m. Jonathan Snow, of Concord, Mass. He d. in 1843, she\\nd. in 1852 had four children.\\nV. Sophia, b. in 1796; m. Asa Kimball, of Brushton, N. Y. He d. in 1872, she\\nd. in 1878; had four children.\\nVI. Hannah, b. in 1798, and m. James Fairbanks, of Holliston, Mass. He d. in\\n1825, she d. in 1S26.\\nVII. Leonard, b. in 1799 and d. at Augusta, Ga, in 1834.\\nVIII. Mary Bowers, b. in 1800 and d. at Danbury in 1S26.\\nIX. Betsey, b. in 1802; m. Jonathan Clark, of Danbury. He d. in 1S82 she d. in\\n1824; had one child.\\nX. Ruth Webster, born in 1S03 and d. in 1828.\\nXI. Louisa Webster, b. in 1S05, and d. at Brushton, N. in 1830.\\nXII. Jacob, b. in 1S06; m. Mary Nutting, of Jaffrey, and settled in Danbury. He\\nd. in 1875, she d. in 1855 had 4 children.\\nXIII. Lucy Maria Vaughn, b. in 1808 and d. at Brushton, N. Y., in 1825.\\nXIV. Olive W^arren, b. in 1811 m. Isaac C. Perkins and settled in Danbury. Had\\ntwo children.\\nXV. Martha Ann, b. in 1813 and d. in 1834.\\nXVI. Moses Henry, b. in 1S15; m. Hannah Wright and settled in Brookline. He\\nd. in 18S4, she d. in 1870 had six children.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0548.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 495\\n(lo.) Josiah, a carpenter and joiner by occupation. About\\n1808 he went to Chelsea, Vt., but soon after removed to\\nand settled in Alburgh, Vt. He was among the Vermont\\nvolunteers who marched to the defence of Plattsburgh,\\nin 1 8 14. Several buildings now standing in Alburgh\\nattest the work of his hands in the earlier years of the\\npresent century. He m. about 1810 Esther Reed, of\\nSheldon, Vt. He d. in 1844; she d. in 1836. Their\\nchildren were\\nI. Andrew, b. iSii m. Anna Gates; d. in Jan., 1S75; had five cliildren.\\nII. Chauncey, b. 1813; m. Maria Ann Gilbert and had three children.\\nIII. Roena, b. 1814; m. Theodore Storm and had four children.\\nIV. Olive, b. 1816; m. Philip W. Deuel and had-four children.\\nV. Josiah, Jr., b. 1818, m. Anna Sweet; d. in May, 1S85.\\nVI. Mary, b. in 1819, m. Martin Reed.\\nVII. Moses, m. Moniva Morehouse; had eight children.\\nVIII. Esther, m. Hosea Orcutt had four children.\\nIX. Lucy, m. George .Sheldon and had eight children.\\nX. Amanda, m. Alexander Anderson.\\nXI. Reed, m. Samantha Strait; had four children.\\n(11.) Moses, son of Andrew and .Susannah (Webster) Bohon-\\non, was b. in Salisbury, Feb. 22, 1774. He was possessed\\nof a vigorous and active mind, quick and keen in obser-\\nvation, a character of marked e.xcellence in business and\\nsocial relations. He was a carpenter and cabinet maker\\nby occupation, employing several men. Specimens of\\nhis cunning and ingenious handiwork are still preserved.\\nHe was a great favorite among the family connections\\nand in the neighborhood generally, and his early death\\nwas much lamented. He m. at Orange, Jan. i, 1801,\\nLois Waldo, b. in Canterbury, Ct., March 30, 1777. She\\nwas a daughter of Dr. Nathan and Zerriah (Payne)\\nWaldo, early settlers of Cardigan, now Orange.* He d.\\nin Salisbury,. Aug. 5, 181 1 she d. in Concord, May 5,\\n1856. Their children (4th generation) were:\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Nathan Waldo was a descendant of Deacon Cornelius Waldo, of Ipswich,\\nMass., (1654.) Zerriah Payne was a dau. of Rev. Klisha Payne, of Long Island, and\\na sister of Hon. Elisha Payne, who was conspicuous in the early history of New\\nHampshire and Vermont. The latter s wife was also Nathan Waldo s sister.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0549.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "496 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nI. Louisa Waldo, b. in Salisbury, Oct. 28, 1802. She taught school in early life\\nand m. at Concord, April 29, 1S29, Capt. John Chamberlin Ordway, son of\\nJoses and Lucy Chamberlin Ordway, b. in Loudon, Nov. 3, 1801. They\\nsettled in Concord, where their entire married life was passed. He d.\\nMarch 5, 1870; she d. Nov. 28, 18S0. She was a singularly devoted and\\nself-sacrificing mother, a true and constant friend; all who came under her\\ninfluence loved her deeply.\\nTheir children 5th generation) born in Concord were: i Harriet Sherman,\\nb. March 16, 1830. (2) Ellen Louisa, b. Dec. 27, 1831. {3) Eliza\\nFrances, b. Dec. 29, 1833. (4) John Chamberlin, Jr., b. Jan. 30, 1839.\\n12.) Olive, m. at Salisbury, Jan. 2, 18 14, (second wife) Love-\\nwell Warren, of Middlesex, Vt., b. in Marlboro Mass.,\\nOct. 25, 1764. He d. Sept. 30, 1834; she d. Feb. 15,\\n1861. One child, William Z., b. Dec. 19, 1818; d. May\\n15, 1872.\\n(13.) Dorcas, m. in Chelsea, Vt., Jan. 12, 1797, Elias Lathrop,\\nof Vershire, Vt., b. in Norwich, Ct., Feb. 18, 1763. He\\nd. March 5, 185 1; shed. Oct. 5, 1862. Their children,\\nb. in Vershire, Vt., were\\nI. Betsey, b. in 179S, m. in 1827 Franklin Carlton, of Morristown, Vt. She d. in\\n1882. Of four children but one survives.\\nII. Elias, b. in 1800; m. in 1838 Nancy Durgin and settled in Chelsea, Vt. He\\nd. in 1S63.\\nIII. Rufus, b. in 1802; m. in 1832 Ruth Shaw and settled in Vershire, Vt. He\\nd. in 1878. Of five children but three are now living.\\nIV. Chauncey, b. in 1S05; m. in 1835 Sarah Pickering and settled in Chelsea, Vt.\\nHe d. in 1882.\\nV. Olive, b. in 1807; m. in 1S37 Peter Bragg and settled in Strafford, Vt. Had\\none child, deceased.\\nVI. Alfred, b. in 1811 m. in 1838 Mary Sawyer and settled in Vershire, Vt. He\\nd. in 1866. Of two children but one survives.\\nVII. Hiram, b. in 1814; m. in 1S42 Harriet Richardson and settled in Vershire,\\nVt. Of four children three are living.\\nYill. Warren, b. in 1820; m. in 1S66 Nellie Aldrich and settled in Versl^ire, Vt.\\nHad four children, two of whom are living.\\nIX. Lodicy, b. in 1824; m. in 1850 John Long and settled in Amesbury, Mass.\\nHad five children.\\n(14.) Mary, (Polly) m. in Salisbury, in 1803, James Taylor, b.\\nin Danbury, Jan. 17, 1781 settled in Salisbury, but in\\n18 18 rem. to Montpelier, Vt. She was a woman of rare", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0550.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 49/\\nqualities and greatly beloved. She d. July 26, 1868 he\\nd. Dec. 15, 1855. Their children (4th generation) born\\nin Salisbury, were\\nI. Caroline, b. April 13, 1S04; m. Oct. 9, 1826, Luther Warren, b. in Middlesex,\\nVt., March 13, 1S03; settled first at Montpelier, Vt., later in life at Nashua,\\nlie d. March 9, 1S81. Their children were: i Mary Amy, b. in Mid-\\ndlesex, Vt., Jan. 17, 1S2S. (2) Charles Henry, b, Oct. 14, 1829; d. at\\nYellow Springs, Ohio, Oct. 27, i860. (3) James Taylor, b. Nov. 13, 1831.\\nII. Ephraim, b. Jan. 21, 1S06; m. Amy Hill and settled at Middlesex, Vt., but\\nrem. to Barton in 1854. Of four children but one is now living.\\nIII. Susan Webster, b. Dec. 10, 1807 m. Leander Warren and settled in Middle-\\nsex, Vt. Of four children three are now living.\\nIV. Rufus, b. Oct. II, 1809; m. (first) Amanda Post, and had four children; m.\\n(second) Sarah Robinson and had one child. Settled at Montpelier, but\\nlater rem. to Nashua.\\nV. Moses Bohonon, b. May 8, 1812; m. Betsey May, settled in Middlesex and\\nafterwards in Montpelier, Vt., and now res. in Berlin. Had five children\\nof whom two only are living.\\nVI. Hannah Louise, b. Nov. 17, 1813, d. March 22, 1845.\\nVII. Mary Ann, b. Oct. 21, 1S15; m. as second wife William Johnson and settled\\nin L inchester, Mass. She d. Oct. 12, iSSo; had one child, deceased.\\nVIII. Eliza Ann, b. in Middlesex, Vt., June 9, 1821, and res. in Montpelier.\\nIX. James French, b. in Middlesex, Vt., Dec. 23, 1822; m. Clara W. Davis, settled\\nin Montpelier but afterwards rem. to Barton, Vt. He d. May 13, 18S4;\\nhad three children, two now living.\\n(4.) Jacob, son of the first Andrew, served in the revolutionary\\nwar as early as April, 1776. He was in the battle of\\nBennington, 1777, and probably continued in the service\\nlater, perhaps through the war. He settled in Salisbury\\nand m. about 1761 Fifield. Late in life they lived for\\na time with their son, in Vermont, but both d. in ad-\\nvanced years in Springfield, later than 18 16. Their\\nchildren, b. in Salisbury, were\\n18. John, b. in 1762. See. 19. Joanna, b. in 17(14; m. Moses Page, settled in Salis-\\nbury.\\n(iS.) John, (long known as Capt. John,) m. about 1789 Mercy\\nDearborn, b. in 1766, a dau. of Shubael Dearborn, of\\nNorthfield settled in Springfield but later rem. to Wash-\\nington, Vt. He d. at Whcelock, Vt., in 1833, alone ir\u00c2\u00bb\\nhis carriage while returning home from town. His wife\\nd. in Orange, Vt., Aug. 9, 1827. Their children were\\n32", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0551.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": "498 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nI. Sarah, b. in Salisbury, Sept. 23, 1790; m. (first) Feb. 15, 1814, Eli Dinsmore\\nand settled in Chelsea, Vt., afterwards rem. to Orange, Vt., where he d. in\\n1846; she m. (second) in 1847 Isaac Holt, of Piermont. He d. June 5,\\n1851 she d. in Huntington, Vt., Sept. 5, 1S72. The children by first mar-\\nriage were: i Caroline, b. in Chelsea, Vt., Dec. 19, 1S14; m. April 14,\\n1S33, Rev. Lyman Sargent and settled in Middlesex, Vt. (2) Emelia, b.\\nNov. 26, 181 6; m. Andrew Richardson and settled at Orange, Vt., but\\nafterwards rem. to Lawrence, N. V. (3) Calvin, b. Sept. 25, 1818; m.\\nApril 12, 1849, Celestia Cunningham and settled in Orange, Vt. (4)\\nLouisa, b. May 30, 1820; m. (first) Hubbard Melendy and (second) Eli\\nP. Kingsbury; first settled at Chelsea, afterwards at Ludlow, Vt. She d.\\nApril 24, 1SS5. (5) Denison, b. Oct. 10, 1822; m. March 21, 1850, Sarah\\nAnn Peake, settled first at Orange, afterwards at Barre, Vt.\\nII. John, Jr., b. in Salisbury, May 17, 1794; m. Polly Eastman, of Corinth, Vt.,\\nand rem. to Aurelius, Mich., where he died.\\nIII. Jonathan, b. in Salisbur) Dec. 4, 1798; m. Ruth Norris and settled at Bolton,\\nVt. He d. at West Bolton.\\nIV. Polly, b. in Salisbury, June 2, 1800; m. March 4, 1817, Samuel Dryer, of\\nBrookfield, Vt, and settled there but afterwards removed to Jonesville,\\nMich. Their children, born in Brookfield, were: (i) John Wainwright,\\nb. April 16, 1819. (2) William, b. Nov. 9, 1820. (3) Orrin Carpenter,\\nb. Jan. 19, 1824. (4) Shubael, b. July 11, 1826.\\nV. Betsey, d. 1 1 years of age.\\nVI. Nancy, b. in Springfield, April 2C, 1S02; m. Dec. 12, 1821, Samuel Carleton, of\\nBrookfield, Vt., afterwards rem. to Chelsea, Vt. He d. in Moretown, Vt.,\\nJune 7, 1871. Children: i. George S., b. in Chelsea, March 29, 1836; m.\\nSept. 12, i860, Lucy Grover, and res. at Waterbury, Vt.\\nVII. Charlotte, b. in Springfield, Feb. 13, 1808; m. April 6, 1845, Daniel Squires.\\nShe d. in Orange, Vt., March 14, i860.\\nVIII. Shubael, b. in Springfield, Jan. 3, 1810; m. Lucy Brown and settled in Barre,\\nVt. He. d. in 1S46.\\n(5.) Ananiah, (Lieut.) b. in Boscawen, July 22, 1743, was\\nanotlier soldier of the revolution. He served in 1776\\nand perhaps earlier, under Gen. Sullivan, in Connecticut,\\nalso in the White Plains campaign, and afterward in the\\nBennington expedition serving later as Sergeant and\\nLieutenant, by which latter title he is frequently men-\\ntioned in the town records. After retiring from the\\narmy, Dec. 31, 1781, he settled in Salisbury. He was a\\nfarmer in good circumstances and was one of those who\\norganized the Calvinistic Baptist society, March 20, 1794.\\nPrevious to 1800 he sold his farm in Salisbury and rem.\\nto Washington, Vt., where he remained some years, but\\nlater in life returned to New Hampshire, spending his", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0552.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 499\\nlast years with his son Jonathan. He m. about 1776\\nShuah Fifield, of Salisbury. He d. in Sutton about 18 18.\\nHis wife d. in 18 13. Their children, b. in Salisbury\\n20. Sarah, m. April 23, 1795, James Currier, Jr., of .Salisl)ury. They afterward rem.\\nto Lowell, Mass., where they died, leaving si.\\\\ children, roily, Hetsey,\\nJames, Sarah, Charlotte, and Jeremiah.\\n21. Jonathan, b. July 18, 1778. See. 22. Ananiah, Jr., b. May 8, 17S3. See.\\n23. Fifield, b. in June, 17S6. See. 24. Joseph, b. Aug. 9, 1788. See.\\n25. John, b. in 1791. See.\\n(21.) Jonathan (Deacon) was a farmer and lived for some\\nyears in Vermont, but about 1808-9 returned to New\\nHampshire, living in Springfield, Temple and Sutton.\\nHe was very active in church affairs. He m. about 1800\\nDorothy Wells, b. in Sandown, April 21, 1776. He d. in\\nTemple, Feb. 4, 1861 his wife d. Nov. 10, 1855, and\\nboth are buried at Sutton Centre. Their children (4th\\ngeneration) were\\n26. David, b. in Washington, Vt., March 12, 1801. See.\\n27. Shuah, b. in Washington, Vt., Aug. 25, 1S03; m. N. B. Favor and settled in\\nLowell, Mass.\\n28. Theodaty, b. in Washington, Vt., June 14, 1S05; m. Jan. 22, 1832, Asa Bean;\\nsettled in Sutton. She d. Sept. 22, 1874. Their children were: (i) Mary\\nEliza, b. Dec. 3, 1835; d. Nov. 6, 184S. (2) Addison A., b. Nov. i, 1845,\\nand res. at Chester.\\n29. Jonathan, Jr.. b. Jan. 14, 1807. He m. (first) Sept., 1832, Sarah Andrews, of\\nliradford. She d. April 20, 1845. He m. (second) July 27, 185^, Eliza-\\nbeth Whitcomb, b. in Henniker Jan. 10, 1816. They settled in Temple\\nbut afterwards removed to Chelmsford, Mass., where he d. May 17, 1S75.\\nShe res. at West Wilton. The children by first marriage were:\\nI. George W., b. at Sutton, April 25, 1S35. He served in the late war, 33d Mass.\\nVols. He was wounded at the battle of Lookout Mountain and carried to\\nChattanooga hospital, where he d. from his wounds a few days later, Nov.\\nI, 1863. He was a young man of sterling qualities, much respected, a\\nfavorite in the company and a brave soldier.\\nII. Maria, born in Peterborough, June 5, 1837 d. .\\\\ng. 3, 1848.\\nThe children by the second marriage were:\\nIII. Walter, b. in Temple, Dec. 22, 1857.\\n30. Dorothy, b. in Washington, Vt., Nov. 7, 180S; m. Jan. 28, 1S46, Philip Kim-\\nball and settled in Bradford, Mass. He d. March iS, 1S68. The children\\nb. in Bradford were: (i) George Adin, b. Jan. 16, 1847. (2) Nelson\\nWinslow, 1). Jan. 2, 1853. (3) Oliver Irvin, b. Sept. 20, 1854.\\n31. Sargent, b. in Springfield, Sept. 24, 181 1; m. (first) July 28, 1S33, Roxana\\nBlood, b. in Sharon, July 4, 1810. She d. Jan. 24, 1S70. He. m. (second)", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0553.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "500 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nSept. 19, 1S72, Elizabeth B. Cudvvorth.b. in Whitefield, May 13, 1S27. She\\nd. April 3, 1879. He m. (third) Oct. 6, iSSi, Mrs. Mary H. Snow, b. in\\nDublin, April 25, 1820, and res. at Peterborough. His children by first\\nmarriage were: (i) Cyrus H. (2) Mary E., b. June 5, 1836, m. Giles\\nLakin, of Hancock, and d. July 24, 1S64.\\n32. Sarah, b. June 19, 1S14; d. at Temple, March 28, 1865.\\n26.) David, m. April 23, 1826, Belinda Bean. He lived in\\nSutton many years, but later in life removed to West\\nHopkinton. His children were:\\nI. Samuel Bean, b. May 31, 1S27 m. July 10, 1S51, Ellen Stuart.\\nII. Andrew J., b. Aug. 8, 1831. He served in the late war. He m. Sept. 22, 1867.\\nMary J. Newton.\\nIII. Dorothy Bean, b. Nov. 9, 1S33; m. (first) Nov. 4, 1855, Lemuel S. Pope; m.\\n(second) Cyrus Leet.\\nIV. James Smiley, b. Aug. 2, 1836; m. Nov. 2, 185S, Fannie A. Keysar and res. at\\nNew London.\\nV. Sarah A., b. July 15, 1S39; m. April 7, 1S59, Warren H. Gould.\\nVI. Adaline Favor, b. March 28, 1841 d. Aug. 11, 1844.\\nVII. Diana R., b. May 14, 1843; m. April 30, 1868, John B. Hinton.\\nVIII. David Nelson, b. March 21, 1845 (first) May i, 1871, Martha A. Wiggin;\\nm. (second) Jennie Fisk. He. d. Jan. 31, 18S0.\\nIX. John Wilbur, b. May 27, 1847 m. May 2, 1S76, Delia A. Jewell, b. in Weare,\\nFeb. I, 1855. Their children were Bernice Mary, Elsie Diana, Lester\\nJewell, Etta Lucy.\\nX. Mary A., b. July 8, 1849; m. J. Bailey Clark.\\nXI. Josephine A., b. Nov. 9, 1851 d. April 3, 1873.\\n(22.) Ananiah, Jr., b. in Salisbury, May 8, 1783, and rem. to\\nWashington, Vt., with his father s family, but about 1807\\n(taxed in 1808) returned to Salisbury. He m. (first)\\nMarch 7, 1805, Lucy Stanley, dau. of Peter Stanley, and\\nsettled in Salisbury. Later he rem. to Lowell, Mass.,\\nthence to Haverhill, and subsequently to Bradford, Mass.\\nHis first wife d. Jan. 18, 1838, and he m. (second) Abby\\nSpaulding. She d. Aug. 24, 1856, and he m. (third)\\nAlmira S. Spaulding. He d. in Bradford, Mass., May 23,\\n1859. The children by first marriage, b. in Salisbury,\\nwere\\n33. Sophia B., b. July 25, 1S06; m. Philip Kimball and settled in Bradford, Mass\\nShe d. March i, 1845. Their children were: Henry, Abby, Sarah Jane,\\nLeverett, Warren.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0554.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 5OI\\n34. Benjamin Stanley, h. June 21, iSoS m. (first) at Concord, Oct. 26, 1835, Maria\\nL. Capen, dau. of Ehenezer Capen. She d. at Billerica, Mass., Feb. 21,\\n1842; hem. (second) June, 1845, Al^igail Baker, of Dunbarton. lie d.\\nDec. 26. 1869. The children by first marriage were\\nI. Sarah, b. Nov. 2, 1S36; m. Aug. 11, 1.S59, James Hogan.\\nII. Georgiana, 1). Dec. 7, 1S3S; m. Sept. 23, 1858, Carlos Bohonon.\\nIII. Louisa, b. Aug. 24, 1842; d. in Nov., 1865.\\nIV. Alfred, (twin) b. May 17, 1846; m. 1871, Cora Means.\\nV. Albert, (twin) b. May 17, 1846; m. (first) in 1872, Mattie Farr, who d. in\\n1877. He ni. (second) in iSSo, Annie Moulton. Had, by first marriage,\\nBertie, deceased by second marriage, Ethel and Fred.\\n35. Betsey E., b. May 8, iSio; m. Philip Flanders; d. Dec. 4, 1842.\\n36. Peter Bartlett, b. March 31, 1812; m. Oct. 11, 1842, Susan E. Tibbetts, of\\nRochester. He was postmaster at Billerica, Mass., in 1S77, and is now\\nstation agent B. L. R. R. His children were\\nI. Francis Bartlett, b. July 4, 1S45; ^^t. 23, 1872.\\nII. Harriet Augusta, b. April 8, 184S.\\n37. Sarah, d. at Lowell, Mass.\\n38. Mark .Morrill, b. Oct. 11, 1816; m. Augusta William?. He d. in Kansas, Feb.\\n20, 1S84.\\n39. Abigail, b. April 21, 1819; m. George Brown and had five children George,\\nAlbert, Orrin, Annie and Jennie.\\n40. William Piroadstreet, b. Aug. 6, 1S2S, at Bradford, Mass. He m. (first)\\n.^[artha Allen; m. (second Mary Chase, by whom he had three children,\\nGeorge, Edward and Nellie.\\n(23.) Fificld, b. at Salisbury in June, 1786; moved to Wash-\\nington, Vt., with his father s family; m. July 5, 1810,\\nLuceba Crook, and settled in Washington but afterward\\nrem. to Chelsea, Vt. He d. Nov. 5, 1865 she d. April\\n29, 1873. Their children, born in Washington, were\\n41. Kerziah Richardson Crook, b. Nov. 19, iSio; m. Sept. 23, 1S30, Dr. Danie\\nP. P.ennett. She d. June 20, 1S83.\\n42. Alpheus Goodrich, b. Dec. 3, 1S12; m. Jan. 4, 1S42, Henrietta Godfrey, b.\\nDec. 17, 1818. She d. May 7, 18S3. Their children were:\\nI. Alba F., b. Nov. i6, 1843; m. June 20, 1S77, Laura A. McCrillis.\\nII. Hattie Elvira, b. Aug. 19, 1846; d. Sept. 9, 1863.\\nIII. Henrietta M., b. Feb. i, 1849; m- June 21, 1S70, Norman B. Clough.\\nIV. Charles Martin, b. Aug. 9, 1S53; m. Oct. iSSi, Lucy Gove.\\nV. George Alpheus, b. July 15, 1S56.\\nVI. Cora A., b. Max 12, 1S61 d. April 29, 18S3.\\n43. Samuel C, b. Dec. 20, 1814; m. Nancy Shipley. He d. in Feb. 1849.\\n44. Diana, b. March 13, 1S17; m. Ora K. Goodale. She d. Feb. 5, 1S42.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0555.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "502 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n45. Alvira, b. Jan. i, 1819; m. John Emery. She d. July 20, 1S57.\\n46. Chauncey Stuart, b. March 3, 1821 m. March 29, 1S52, Susan Hood. Their\\nchildren were: i. Samuel, b. Dec. 29, 1854; 2. Lizzie Ellen, b. Oct. 5,\\n1856; 3. Fred Herbert, b. April 17, 1859; 4. George Henry, b. Dec. 25,\\n1S61 5. Ellis P., b. Aug. 5, 1S64; 6. Edward F., b. Dec. 5, 1870, and d.\\nApril 24, 1S72.\\n47. Dianthe, m. R. R. Slack.\\n48. Silas Burke, b. May 12, 1825; m. Dec. 9, 1S51, Pamelia Kingsbury. He d.\\nJuly 21, 1SS5. Their children were: i. Wealthy Philona, b. Aug. 25,\\n1852, who m. Oct. 6, 1S73, N. T. Davenport; 2. Cyrus Willard, b. Dec.\\n18, 1854.\\n49. Carlos Emmons, b. Aug. 14, 1827 m. Sept. 23, 1858, Georgiana Bohonon,\\ndau. of Benjamin Stanley Bohonon, (34) and res. at Lowell, Mass.\\n50. Octavia, b. July 20, 1S29; m. Sept. 9, 1849, Cyrus B. Holden. Their children\\nwere: i. George Cyrus, b. Dec. 18, 1853, who m. Jan. 31, 1S71, Isabel\\nStuart Dean.\\n51. Fifield, Jr., b. Aug. i, 1831 m. March 31, 1853, Sarah Jane Perkins. Their\\nchildren were i. Louisa E., b. Feb. 2, 1857, and d. Nov. 6, 1S74 2. Les-\\nlie H., b. Nov. 10, i860, m. Nov. 6, 1883, Clara Coburn and res. at Chelsea,\\nMass.\\n52. Sarah Luciba, b. July 31, 1835, and d. in infancy.\\n53. Wealthy P., b. March 6, 1838; d. Feb. 14, 1S44.\\n(24.) Joseph, son of Ananiah, (5) b. in Salisbury, Aug. 9, 1788,\\nrem. with his father s family to Washington, Vt., where\\nhe permanently settled, but d. in early life.\\nHe m. in 1809-10 Sally Ingram. He d. Aug. 21, 1825 she d. Oct. 20, 1857. Their\\nchildren were i. Prudence, b. July 15, 1810; 2. Robert, b. Feb. 19, 1813\\n3. Martin I., b. May 8, 1820; 4. Sarah, b. Feb. 4, 1825.\\n(25.) John, son of Ananiah, (5) born at Salisbury in 1791,\\nrem. to Washington, Vt., with his father s family, and\\nm. Fannie Fish.\\nHe d. May 29, 186S. Their children were i. Clarissa, b. in 1824 2. Ervilla, b. in\\n1829, deceased; 3. Alonzo Allen, b. in 1S34; 4. Albert, b. in 1S44,\\ndeceased.\\n^8-1-5.) Daniel Webster Bohonon enlisted Aug. 28, 1862, in\\nCo. C, 1 2th N. H. Vols. He served faithfully during his\\nthree years service, doing duty in every battle in which\\nhis regiment was engaged. At the battle of Gettysburg\\nhe was wounded through the thigh. He was promoted\\nto Lieutenant and Captain. On the muster out of the\\nregiment in June, 1865, the recruits from the 12th were", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0556.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 503\\nconsolidated into one company and transferred to the 2d\\nRegiment, to which Capt. B. was transferred as their\\ncommanding officer, and served some months in that\\nregiment. After the war he was made U. S. Insjiector\\nand settled in Richmond, Va. He d. suddenly, of apo-\\nplexy, July 26, 1880. The Richmond Dispatch says of\\nhim Capt. B. was widely known, much respected and\\ngreatly beloved. He came to us fresh from service in\\nthe Union army, as an officer in the internal revenue\\nservice, and soon became very popular in business and\\nsocial relations. He was a man of very brilliant talents,\\na popular speaker, and a poet of much merit he was\\nalso prominent as a politician, but never offensively so.\\nOn Confederate Memorial Day he delivered the address\\nat Oakwood cemetery, which was replete with tender feel-\\ning and patriotism. Genial, warm-hearted, sympathetic,\\nall who came within the range of his acquaintance seemed\\nirresistibly drawn towards him. Few men certainly\\nnone of northern birth and of his political opinions\\never had more numerous or more sincere friends among\\nall classes of the community. fhe news of\\nhis death was soon circulated, and his body lying in state\\nat St. Alban s hall was visited by a large number, among\\nall of whom pervaded a feeling of great sorrow, at the\\nuntimely ending of a career that promised so brightly.\\nOf this old family, now almost e.xtinct in town, it may be said\\ntheir virtues were of the plain old-fashioned sort loyal to coun-\\ntry and kin, strong in their attachments, modest, brave, indus-\\ntrious, kind and unselfish generous to friend or foe, hospitable\\nnever seeking official position. The first generation served\\nlong and faithfully, from a sense of duty, in the early Indian\\nand French wars the second and third generations in the\\nstruggle for independence and the war of i8 12-14, and the\\nfourth and fifth generations in the war for the maintainance of\\nthe union.\\nCalm and still\\nThey sleep beyond life s woe and wail,\\nBevond the fleet of sailing clouds,\\nfjeyond the shadow of the vale.\\nJ. C. O.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0557.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "504 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE BOWEN FAMILY.\\nThere were two Bowens, Peter and John, brothers, living in\\nSalisbury and vicinity as early as 1737.\\nI. Peter, the eldest, was a bold and reckless adventurer, well\\nacquainted with Indian life and customs, as may be seen\\nin the chapter on Indian troubles and the war record.\\nBy occupation he was a trapper, and was sometimes\\ncalled Anthony and William Bowen. After his escape\\nfrom jail, when confined on account of killing the Indians\\nnear Indian bridge, he was not often seen in the settle-\\nment but was in the army most of the time. Aug. 19,\\n1745, he served as a private in Capt. Daniel Ladd s com-\\npany, doing scout duty about Canterbury. In 1749 he\\nwas a scout about Concord, and for some two years was\\nin Capt. Ebenezer Eastman s company. His war record\\nis connected with the famous Rogers Rangers. While\\nserving with them he lost an eye in the manner shown\\nby the following deposition\\nProvince of New Hampshire.\\nTo His Excellency, yohn IVeiihvorth, Esqr., Captain General, Governor and Com-\\nmander in Chief,\\nThe Honorable His Magesties Council and House of Representatives in Grand\\nAssembly convened the 27th daj of December, Anno Domini, 1770. The Petition\\nof Peter Bowen of New Hampshire in the Province aforesaid most humbly sheweth,\\nThat in the year 1751, he Inlisted into the Provincial Service as a private soldier\\nunder the Command of Major Robert Rogers, then Captain of said Company in a\\nRegiment Commanded by Coll. Blanchard. That some time after he inlisted, being\\nupon duty in said Company the gun of one Charles McAuly or Auley was acciden-\\ntally Discharged (being loaded with a ball) which Entered the head of this Peti-\\ntioner near his Right Eye which blew out the same, by which accident your peti-\\ntioner was Rendered utterly unable to proceed in Said Services, and was confined\\na long time wholly unable to do any kind of business whatever. What Reason he\\ncannot tell, he was left out of the Muster Role of s d company when it was made\\nup, and has never Received Any wages only the bounty when he inlisted, and one\\nmonths billeting food.) Your Petitioner further shews, That he has continued to", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0558.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 5O5\\nbe under Doctors hands Ever Since said accident happened and has been of Great\\nExpense but could not obtain a Cure, but has Entirely Lost his Right Eye and is\\nalmost blind with the other. That he is very poor and has a Large Family Con-\\ncisting of a wife and six small children, who are entirely unable to help him, the\\nEldest of whom being not more than Sixteen years of age. Wherefore your Peti-\\ntioner most humbly prayes the Interposition of ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0our Excellency honors, and that\\nyou would be pleased to Grunt him such Relief herein as to you in your Great Wis-\\ndom and easal Clemency should think adequate, and your Petitioner as he is in\\nDuty bound will Ever pray, c.\\nPortsmouth, December 27th, 1770. his\\nWitness, Rich d Cutts Shannon. PETER X BOWEX.\\nmark\\nIn the House of Rei Resent.vtives,\\nDecember 29th, 1S70.\\nProvince of New Hampshire.\\nThe foregoing Petition being considered. It appearing that the Petitioner was\\nOmitted in the Muster Roll and has been at great Expense to the Doctors, c.\\nVoted, That there be allowed and Paid (;)ut of the money in the Treasury to\\nthe said Peter r owen fifteen Pounds Law l Money in full satisfaction for what is\\nset forth in the Petition.\\nM. WEARE, Gov.\\nRead concurred, Geo. King, D. Sec.\\nConsented to, WENTWORTH.\\nThe deposition of John Stark, Lieut, in the company, was pre-\\nsented, as was that of Ruth Fowler, the latter stating\\nthat Bowen had been under treatment by her husband,\\nDr. Fowler, whose professional bill was ;i^2O0 O. T.\\nHe was a resident of the town of Salisbury in 1775, and\\nresided with his brother John. He afterwards rem. to\\nCanada, where he died. He m. Aug. 27, 1752, Sarah\\nSilloway. A family of this name were early residents of\\nSalisbury. Their children were\\n2. Mary, b. Jan. 5, 1754. 3. Jeremiah, b. April 4, 1756; d. Nov. 8, 1756.\\n4. Enoch, b. Aug. 14, 175S. 5. Sarah, b. March 27, 1760.\\n6. Jeremiah, b. Dec. 15, 1760. 7. John, b. Dec. 17, 1765.\\n5. Hannah, b. May 17, 176S.\\nH. John Bowen, a brother of Peter, was by occupation a car-\\npenter, and built a house at Contoocook (Hoscawen) for\\nJohn Rolfe, of Newbury, for which Rolfe gave him the\\nuse of one-half of the house, and deeded to him one-half", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0559.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "506 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nof all his lands at Contoocook, where the deed was dated\\nMay 26, 1737. June 6, 1753, Ebenezer Burbank, of New-\\nbury, sold to John Bowen for \u00c2\u00a3,1 1 his intervale lot No. i.\\nIt is said that he settled on the farm now owned by\\nSamuel Morse on Smith s hill. Old settlers point to a\\ncellar-hole just north of Morse s house and say Bowen\\nlived there. Charles Smith, a grandson of Lieut. Robert,\\nsays, It was always told me that my grandfather bought\\nhis farm of Morrill, who assisted Bowen in the Indian\\naffair. They were neighbors. Bowen sold to Stephen\\nGreenleaf and rem. to the interval opposite the Burleigh\\nplace, building a house now standing south of Mr. Bur-\\nleigh s. About 1790 Bowen sold his large farm to Capt.\\nSamuel Thompson and removed to Stanstead, Canada.\\nCapt. Thompson was a wealthy tobacco merchant, from\\nNewburyport, Mass., who res d in the Bowen house dur-\\ning the building of his mansion, the residence of Wal-\\nlace Burleigh. John Bowen, like his brother, utterly\\ndespised the Indians and improved every opportunity to\\ndo them an injury. He served in the revolution and was\\na hardy and fearless soldier. He m. Catherine and\\nhad eight children\\n2. Eleanor, b. Aug. S, 1779. 3. Anthony, b. Feb. 11, 17S1.\\n4. John, b. March 3, 1785. 5. Benjamin, b. July 19, 17S5.\\n6. Peter, b. Feb. 4, 1789; m. Nancy Clay.\\n7. Frederick, b. May 28, 1791 d. April 21, 1794.\\n8. Catherine, b. Feb. 13, 1794. 9. Joseph, b. Sept. 27, 1796.\\nTHE BOWERS FAMILY.\\nAndrew was a native of Billerica, Mass., from which place he\\nremoved to Salisbury as early as 1789-90. He purchased the\\nproperty of Jacob Bohonon, moved the dwelling back and built\\nthe large two-story house, now the Congregational church par-\\nsonage. In 1793 we find him engaged in trade at the South", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0560.jp2"}, "547": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 50/\\nRoad village, having a stock of goods valued at ^80. In com-\\npany with Capt. Luke Wilder he was engaged in several money\\nmaking enterprises. They had a linseed oil mill just south of\\nWilliam Holmes s sawmill a brick yard in Col. J. C. Smith s\\npasture, at the foot of Cram hill, and a large potash factory.\\nEsquire Bowers, as he was familiarly called, was about the\\nmedium height, of good weight, and possessed of a genial dis-\\nposition. He was quick in motion as in thought and promptly\\nattended to his business affairs. It is said he built the present\\nCongregational church, taking his pay from the sale of pews.\\nHe undoubtedly became owner of the first church, which was\\nerected on Searle s hill. He and his wife were members of the\\nchurch and contributed liberally towards its support. He was\\na trustee of the academy and also held many town offices was\\nmoderator in 1799, selectman in 1792-3-4, and representative to\\nthe legislature in 1801-3-4-6-9. He was appointed justice of\\nthe peace Aug. 4, 1828, and held the office through life. Near\\nthe close of the last century he joined Blazing Star Lodge of\\nFree and Accepted Masons, at Concord, and was Worshipful\\nMaster in 1802 was also one of the charter members of Samar-\\nitan Lodge No. T)6, of Salisbury, and Worshipful Master in\\n1822. Strangers passing his old home frequently stop and ad-\\nmire the beautiful masonic emblems with which the house is\\nornamented. Upon the formation of the Salisbury Sacred\\nMusick Society, for the advancement of church music, he held\\nthe office of president from 1824 to 1827 inclusive.\\nDuring the last years of the e.xistence of the Masonian Pro-\\nprietors he was the clerk, and their meetings were held at his\\nhouse. When the County Court met in Salisbury the sessions\\nwere held in his north-east front room. It is said he graduated\\nat Harvard college. He m. Jan. 10, 1790, Mary Pollard, of\\nBillerica, Mass., who d. Feb. 3, 1843, aged JJ. No children\\nblessed their union, but they brought up a number, giving them\\na good education. He d. Jan. 31, 1833, aged 74,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0561.jp2"}, "548": {"fulltext": "508 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE BROTTLEBANK FAMILY.\\nDaniel, of whom little is known, was the first settler of that\\nname and cleared up the farm now owned by Timothy Eastman.\\nHe was an influential member of the Baptist church, of which\\nhe was clerk until his removal to Plainfield. He sold his farm\\nto Peter Whittemore. He m. Sarah and had the following\\nchildren\\n2. Polly, b. Sept. 20, 1776; d. Sept. 23, 1779. 3. Thomas, b. Jan. 14, 1778.\\n4. David, b. Aug. 10, 1779; d. young. 5. Amos, b. June 11, 1781.\\n6. Daniel, b. May 26, 17S3; d. Dec. 3, 17S4. 7. John, b. Nov. 10, 1784.\\n8. Daniel, b. July 19, 1786. 9. Betsey, b. March 17, 1788; d. July i, 17S8.\\n10. Samuel, b. July 13, 1789. 11. Sally, b. April 12, 1791.\\nTHE BURLEIGH FAMILY.\\nGiles Buriey (Burleigh) was a native of England, and with\\nhis wife Elizabeth settled at Ipswich, Mass., in 1648. Varia-\\ntions in the orthography of the name have been numerous. In\\nolden times it was spelled Bowley and Buriey, but although\\nBurleigh is claimed to be the more ancient it is in this country\\nthe more modern name.\\nThe above Giles (i) m. Elizabeth and had James, (2) who\\nhad a son Thomas (3) b. in 1697, whose son Thomas (4)\\nb. July 2, 1723, m. Sarah Haley, and d. at Epping, June\\nI, 1803. Their fourth child was Joseph, b. Aug. 7, 1755.\\nHe early entered the revolutionary army, serving until\\nthe last year of the war, when he returned to Dorchester\\nand represented that town in the legislature for several\\nyears. He was the largest farmer in town and a man of\\ncharacter. He m. Mary Hilton, b. in Epping, who d.\\nMarch 11, 1821. In 1820 he exchanged his farm with\\nBrackett Weeks, of Salisbur)^ who purchased it of Capt.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0562.jp2"}, "549": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 509\\nSamuel Thompson, of Salisbury, Mass. Mr. Thompson\\nbought the land and buildings thereon of John Bovven,\\nin 1804-5, after which Bovven went to Canada. Joseph\\nIkuley d. Aug. 6, 1838. His children were\\n2. Alice, b. at Epping, Sept. 14, 1782; m. Benjamin Dow; d. March 21, 1826.\\n3. Joseph, b. at Dorchester, April 28, d. March 21, 1826; m. (i) March 27, 18 10,\\nLois liartlett, who d. Nov. 28, 1S19; m. {2) Feb. 3, 182 1, Sarah Rundlett,\\nwho d. Nov. 9, 1857.\\n4. Mary, b. Nov. 24, 1785; d. March 22, 1S32, unm.\\n5. Betsey, b. Aug. S, 1787 d. in 1S3S; m. Daniel Pillsbury.\\n6. Edward, b. .\\\\pril 16, 1791 d. Dec. 30, 1S63; m. March 13, 1826, Mary Holden\\n7. Henry, b. Dec. 1793.\\n8. Gordon, b. Aug. 25, 1795; d. Jan. 17, 1865; m. Elizabeth P. Weeks, who d.\\nMarch 14, 1872.\\n9. Martha, b. June 11, 179?; d. April 24, 1S19; m. Enoch Pillsbury, of Boscawen.\\n10. Hilton, b. Aug. 3, 1799; d. at Canterbury, May 9, 1843; m. Sarah Oilman.\\n11. Asa, b. March 20, 1802; d. at Thornton, July 21, 1S52.\\n12. Job, b. in Dec, 1803; d. young.\\n13. Charlotte, b. June 27, 1S05; d. at Haverhill. Mass., Oct. 14, 1S79; ni- Tristram\\nGreenleaf. See.\\n(7.) Henry remained for a time at Dorchester but in 1827\\nrem. to the homestead in Salisbury. He continued farm-\\ning and was one of the most esteemed and useful citizens\\nof the town. A Whig in politics, his public life began\\nin 1834 and ended in 1858. He served as selectman for\\ntwelve years and was a representative in 1840-41. He\\nm (i) in 1824 Eliza Gregg, of Dorchester, who d. Oct.\\nI, 1844; m. (2) Mrs. Lydia (James) Bailey, dau. of Jacob\\nTrue, (see) who d. 1871.\\n15. Gordon, b. at Dorchester, Ajiril 15, 1825 m. Charlotte E.\\nTurner, of Charlestown, Mass. He is a farmer by occu-\\npation and one of the most prominent and honorable\\ncitizens of Franklin. He served as county commissioner\\nfrom 1S83 to 1887, and several times as selectman.\\niC. William Henry, b. Jan. 23, 1S27; m. Nov, 17, 1558, Martha\\nJ. Hanscomb, of Lawrence, Mass. He entered Kimball\\nUnion Academy in 1845, graduated with honor at Dart-\\nmouth, in 185 1, and read medicine with Dr. L. M.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0563.jp2"}, "550": {"fulltext": "5IO HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nKnight, of Franklin, and Dr. Edmund R. Peaslee he\\nentered the Medical College, University of New York,\\nwhere he devoted himself to the study of anatomy and\\nsurgery thence to Bowdoin College, where he was dem-\\nonstrator of anatomy, and graduated as AT. D. in 1854,\\nDartmouth conferring the degrees of A. B. and A. M.\\nHe then became assistant physician in the lunatic asylum\\nat Blackwell s Island, New York. Intending to make\\nsurgery a specialty, he went to France and entered a\\nschool of surgery at Paris. After studying one year he\\nreturned to America and settled in practice at Lawrence,\\nMass., where he d. Dec. 20, 1870.\\n17. Walter, b. Sept. 12, 183 1, is one of the live business men\\nof Franklin. He worked diligently to have the post\\nofifice established at Franklin Falls, was appointed post-\\nmaster Sept. II, 1874, continuing until April i, 1886.\\nHe has represented Franklin in the legislature, and has\\nbeen for many years and is still engaged in active busi-\\nness. He m. Nov., 1856, Augusta R., dau. of Jedediah\\nand Aurelia (Bickford) Danforth.\\n18. Wallace, b. Sept. 12, 183 1 m. Catherine B. George. See.\\nHe succeeded his father on the farm, is an extensive\\nlumber dealer, has represented Franklin in the legisla-\\nture, and served as selectman for several years.\\n19. Sarah B., b. July 2, 1834; d. March 4, 1857.\\n10. Rufus G., b. Jan. 9, 1842; m. Oct. 31, 1866, Mary A.,\\ndau. of John and Polly (Hilton) P ellows, b. at Andover,\\nAug. 24, 1845. Hg is a merchant at Franklin Falls.\\nHe served in the navy during the late war, on board the\\nU. S. steamer Lancaster, in the Pacific ocean. Rufus\\nG. and Walter Burleigh built the first brick business\\nblock in Franklin Falls, in 1871, known as Burleigh\\nBuilding:.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0564.jp2"}, "551": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 5 II\\nTHE CALEF FAMILY.\\nFIRST DRANCH.\\nWilliam Calef was a native of Kingston, a grantee of Stevens-\\ntown (Salisbury) and took an active part in the settlement of\\nthe township. In 1751 he held the office of selectman, or one\\nof the committee to call proprietors meetings, holding the\\nof!ice nine years was proprietors clerk in 1753, and modera-\\ntor several times. By profession he was a surveyor, doing\\nmuch of that business in this town. In 1761, he was one of\\nthe committee of three to come here and Agree with Eben-\\nezer Webster on the mill privilege, which mill the proprietors\\nwere erecting on Punch brook. One of his children, William,\\nwas b. at Kingston, June, 1737. May 22, 1764, he bought of his\\nfather for ^1000 O. T., a one hundred acre lot, No. 18, south\\nrange, laid out to the right of Richard Wiberd, Esq, In the\\nfollowing November, he bought for ^237 O. T., one-half of the\\n100 acre lot adjoining on the east, (No. 17,) Joseph Bean own-\\ning the other half. John Calef and Garland Calef say that\\nWilliam erected the first stack of chimneys and the first\\ntwo-story frame house in town. Me came here previous to\\npurchasing the land, and after the purchase built the house.\\nHe was a hard worker, muscular, energetic, and proud of his\\nfamily was one of our large land owners, giving a farm to each\\nof his children on their marriage, and left considerable property\\non his death, which occurred June 10, 18 12. He m. at Kings-\\nton, Anna Rowcll, b. in Feb., 1736; d. Feb. 22, 1S13. On the\\nincorporation of the town he was chosen surveyor, and held\\nthe office for a long series of years.\\n2. William, b. in 1761. .See.\\n3. Moses, m. Nancy Lovering, a sister to the mother of Peter .Stone, of Boscawen.\\nHe settled on Battle street, Boscawen, and d. suddenly. Their children\\nwere: I. Nancy, m. April 2, iSii, M. P. Webster. See. 11. Moses, m.\\nOct. 25, 181S, Dolly Perry. He d. in what is now Webster.\\n4. Jonathan, b. in 1766. 5. David, b. Oct. 30, 1774.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0565.jp2"}, "552": {"fulltext": "512 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n6. Daniel, b. in 1777. Settled opposite his brother Moses, at the corner of the\\nroad leading from Battle street to Little s hill. He m. Asenath, dau. of\\nMoses Garland. See. He d. April 22, 1S35, ^ged 58; she d. May 19,\\n1S64. Had one child, Garland, b. Jan. 5, 1802 m. (i) July 10, 1834, Nancy\\nR. Calef, who d. Nov. 14, 1S38. He m. {2) Jan. 26, 1S41, Maria T. Fitts,\\nwho d. Jan. 6, 1873, aged 54. His (Garland s) children by first wife, all\\nb. in Salisbury, were: i. Daniel R., b. April 16, 1635; m. and res. in\\nMissouri. II. Freeman W., b. Nov. 23, 1S37 m. and res. in Missouri.\\nHis children by second wife were in. Mary B., b. March 26, 1S42; m.\\nJune 19, 1878, John C. Bean and res. at Warner, iv. Fitts R., b. Feb. 6,\\n1S46; m. Jan. 5, 1876, Mary E. Kneeland; he d. in Kansas, March 25,\\n1S79. V. Moses G., b. April 29, 1S48; m. Oct. 28, 1874, Ella M. Flanders\\nand res. at Wilmot. vi. Mattie J., b. Nov. 3, 1854; m. Sept. 11, 1S78,\\nCharles Savage and res. at Webster, vii. Frederick A., b, Oct. i, 1S56;\\nunm. and res. in Iowa. viii. Albert E., b. Jan. 15, 1S62, and res. at\\nHaverhill, Mass,\\n(2.) William had land on Searle s hill, building a large house\\nwest of the meeting house, where he continued, and d.\\nDec. 5, 1843. He m. Dec. 29, 1785, Hannah Eastman,\\nb. 1764; d. April 13, 1823. The buildings were destroyed\\nby fire in November, 1879.\\n7. William, b. Sept. 4, 17S6; m. Nov. 22, 1S16, Polly Kimball. He settled on the\\nroad leading from Shaw s corner to the Webster Ijirthplace.\\n8. John, b. Jan. 27, 17S8.\\n9. Hannah, b. March 13, 1790; m. Oct. 21, 1S24, Samuel Pearson. See.\\n10. Polly, b. Dec. 6, 1791 m. James Fellows.\\n^^11. Nancy, b. April 2, 1794; d. unm. 12. Moses, b. July 3, 1796; d. Jan. 10, 1797.\\n13. Moses, b. Oct. 28, 1797; d. unm. 14. Susannah, b. Jan. 17, iSoo; d, in 1802.\\n15. Henry, b. June 10, 1S04; rem. to Me. See Mills.\\n16. Samuel, b. Nov. 24, 1S06. See Henry, (15.) 17. Susannah, b. April 24, iSoS.\\n(4.) Jonathan lived in a house built for him by his father,\\non Calef hill, (south end of lot No. 18.) When the\\nfourth New Hampshire turnpike was built, he moved the\\nhouse to the location where it was destroyed by fire in\\n1886. The building was moved entire, the family living\\nin the house, and the uncracked plastering remained on\\nthe rooms until the building was burnt. The house was\\nbuilt previous to his marriage, which occurred Feb. 5,\\n1786, to Hannah, dau. of Ens. Moses Garland. (See.)\\nShe d, July 8, 1869, aged 102. She was a remarkable", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0566.jp2"}, "553": {"fulltext": "GENEALaGT AND BIOGRAPHY. 513\\nwoman, possessing great perseverance and endurance,\\na most affectionate mother, and always a friend to the\\nneedy. She possessed a most retentive memory, which\\nwas not impaired at her disease. He d. April i8, 185 1.\\n18. David, b. in 1793; 1- J^ Y j- 9- John, b. Oct. 28, 1797.\\n20. Moses, m. at Newburypoit, Mass., I-ucy Mansfield, of Salisbury, Mass. He\\nwas a sea captain and d. at Newburyport, Nov. 25, 1870.\\n21. Joseph, b. in iSoo. .After working at Lowell, Mass., for eleven years he returned\\nto Salisbury, where he continued until his death, March 16, 1S63. He m.\\nHannah Jackman, by whom he had two children who d. young; had also\\nMary, b. Feb. 6, 1S40, who m. (i) Farmer; m. (2) John W. Folsom.\\nHer children by second marriage were: i. Willie J., b. in Salisbury, May\\n17, 1864; drowned in the Merrimack river. 11. Eugene, b. in Indiana,.\\nMarch 8, 1868. ill. Mary Bell, b. Jan. 12, 1871.\\n22. James, b. Oct. 28, 1803. Most of his active life was spent at the Merrimack\\nPrint Works, Lowell, Mass. Ten years previous to his death he returned\\nto Salisbury, bought the Dr. Robert Smith farm, and d. while on a tempor-\\nary visit to Boston, March 17, 1874. He m. Mary A. Shadduck. Their\\nchildren were Mary J., Kate, Kliza A., Helen, Bell, George W., and\\nAlbert B.\\n(5.) David remained on the homestead; removed the old\\nhouse and upon the old cellar built the cottage owned\\nby Merrill Perry. He d. June 14, 185 1. He was an\\nextensive land owner and a man of property. He m.\\nNov. 25, 1807, Sarah Jones, b. Sept. i, 1785 d. May 31,\\n1843.\\n23. Nancy R., b. Feb. 24, 1809; m. Garland Calef. See.\\n24. Sarah J., b. Feb. 12, 181 1 d. Feb. 6, 1.S45, unm.\\n25. Eliza C, b. .N[ay i, 1813; m. May 31, 1843, John Ci. Couch; res. at Boscawen.\\n26. Mary J., b. July 28, 181 5; m. Dec. 28, 1842, Henry C. George, of Canaan, after\\nwhose death she m. again.\\n27. David, b. Sept. 25, 1817; d. in the South, Sept. iS, 1844, unm.\\n28. Edgar, (twin) b. Dec. 5, 1820; d. Dec. 12, 1S20.\\n29. Edwin, (twin) b. Dec. 5, 1820; d. Dec. 12, 1820.\\n30. Daniel h. Jan. 31, 1S24. See.\\n(8.) John settled opposite his father, building the house now\\noccupied by William F. Parsons. He d. May i, 1851;\\nm. Dec. 27, 1814, Martha Gale, who d. Nov. 20, 1856.\\n31. Charles, b. Nov. 19, 1S15; d. May 26, 1822.\\n32. Rufus, b. Jan. ii, 1817; m. June, 1S51, fane Gault.\\n33", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0567.jp2"}, "554": {"fulltext": "514 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n33. Harriet J., b. July iS, 1S18; d. May 19, 1S22.\\n34. John G., b. Mafch 29, 1820; res. at Tiskilwa, Bureau Co., Illinois.\\n35. Benjamin G., b. Oct. 29, 1821 m. March 15, 1846, Emily C. Weeks.\\n36. Charles, b. June 4, 1823; d. July, 1848.\\n37. Martha J., b. March 3, 1825; d. Dec. 31, i860: m. Aug. 21, 1837, Benjamin C.\\nCouch. He res. at Tiskilwa, Illinois.\\n38. Lucy A., b. Dec. 23, 1826; m. William H. Eadds, and res. at Bethany, Mo.\\n39. Harriet A., b. July 4, 1829; m. July 2, 1854, Daniel R. Everett, (see mer-\\nchants) who was b. at New London, Aug. 26, 1827. Their children were\\nI. Charles E., b. June 24, 1855. 11. Rufus C, b. Nov. 12, 1857; d. Sept.\\n12, 1863. III. Martha G., b. April 13, i860, iv. Mary C, b. in Hill, Dec.\\n4, 1865.\\n40. Christopher, b. July 9, 1832 m. Lydia Weeks.\\n19.) John came into possession of the homestead farm, where\\nhe continued, and d. July 31, 1884. He possessed\\nstrongly the family characteristics, with the Garland\\nlongevity. Although not an office seeker, he did, at the\\nearnest solicitation of friends, irrespective of party, hold\\nsome town offices, and was school committee for a num-\\nber of years. He m. Dec. 28, 1823, Ruth Chase Whit-\\nmore b. Nov. I, 1801 d. April 9, 1875.\\n41. Francis Burdette, b. March 31, 1825; m. Dec. 24, 1851, Jane Proctor, of Lowell,\\nMass. He remained on the farm until his buildings were burnt, April 15,\\n1881, still continues in town, aud is regarded as one of our most respected\\ncitizens. Their children were: i. Frank J., b. in Jersey City, N. J., Feb.\\n5, 1858, and res. at Bismarck, Dakota Territory, ir. Mary K., b. Feb. 8,\\n1861 d. March 11, 1878. Zc^ ft^^ f J ^c\\n42. Elizabeth A., b. April 29, 1827 m. Juiie 27, 1861, George H. Whitmore, M. D.\\nHe d. May 18, 1S69. She res. at Lowell, Mass.\\n43. Joseph W., b. Dec. 23, 1829; m. March 23, 1867, Eliza A.\\nBird, of Jerusalem, Mass. On becoming of age he went\\nto Munroe, Wis., thence to McGregor s Landing, Iowa,\\nwhere he erected the first flour mill in that vicinity.\\nHe then built a large dam at Cedar Falls, Iowa, then\\nremoved to St. Louis, remaining one year; then to Nash-\\nville, Tenn. When the war broke out he was at Augusta,\\nGa., where he was threatened with tar and feathers for\\nhis northern sentiments. Dropping down the river to\\nSavannah, he was three times drafted into the confed-\\nerate service, before he made his escape, which he did", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0568.jp2"}, "555": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND HIOGRAPHY, 515\\nin season to enlist in the northern army, and participated\\nin the last battle of Charlestown, S. C. In 1763 he re\\nturned to Salisbury and started a tannery, south of the\\nHolmes saw mill, where by a patent process leather was\\ntanned in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours. He res.\\nat N. Easton, Mass., and is engaged in the patent right\\nbusiness at l^oston.\\n44. Sarah P., b. Nov. 1S31 d. .Vug. 21, 1837.\\n45. Mary M., b. Feb. i, 1S34; m. Nov. 1S54, Edward Bush, of Boston, Mass., where\\nshe resides. He was drowned while sailing in the harbor.\\n46. Caroline R., b. Dec. 23, 1S36; d. March S, 1.S77, unm.\\n47. Jane P., b. April 23, 1S38; m. Feb. 6, i86o. Rev. Freeman If. Rider. She res.\\nat Middleborough, Mass.\\n48. Georgiana, b. Sept. 12, 1840. A successful school teacher at Brockton, Mass.\\n49. John .Mbert, b. Nov, 18, 1842. Married.\\n50. David C, b. March 23, 1847 m. June i, 1S70, Josephine Elliott, of Lisbon, and\\nres. at East Boston, Mass.\\n(30.) Daniel J., has held more town offices than any member\\nof the family. It is a sufficient guarantee of worth.\\nHe m. Nov. 22, 1849, Maria H. Stevens.\\n51. Arthur S., b. Dec. 2, 1850; m. Feb. 3, 1876, Mary A., dau. of Lewis and\\nBetsey (Richardson) Hawkins.\\n52. Emma H., b. April 25, 1852; m. Elbridge Smith. See.\\n53. Walter, b. Feb. 15, 1858; d. March 3, 1S59.\\n54. Bertha A., h. May 2, 1S63; d. Oct. 27, 1S64. 55. Harry B., b. June 15, 1866.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n56. William Calef, of Kingston, a cousin of William, (i) was\\nborn in 1706 and d. Nov. 14, 1784; m. Louise who\\nd. in 1799, aged 82. Their children were: i. Louise,\\nb. Jan. 6, 1739-40. n. Joseph, b. Dec. 12, 1742. in. Sarah,\\nb. Sept. 1749. IV. Lydia, b. July, 1755. v. Mary, b.\\nSept. 1^58. VI, Dolly, b. June 20, 1762. William spent\\nmuch of his time in Salisbury, with his son and visiting\\nhis cousin s family. In 1757 he was chosen church\\nchorister at Kin rston.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0569.jp2"}, "556": {"fulltext": "5l6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n57. Joseph, (11) above mentioned, purchased land in Salisbury\\nof Daniel Stevens, March 11, 1789, remaining on the\\nfarm now occupied by Benjamin, his descendant. He\\nd. May 16, 1823, aged 81. He m. Hannah, dau. of Ben-\\njamin Pettengill. The following poem was composed\\nby the Rev. Thomas Worcester, then in his third year\\nas pastor of the Congregational church\\nSome Serious Thoughts\\nOccasioned by the Death of the Much Respected Mrs. Hannah Calef, Consort of\\nMr. Joseph Calef, and Sister of the Church of Christ in Salisbury, who\\nDied December sth, 1793, in the 46TH year of her age.\\nBY THOMAS WORCESTER,\\npastor of said church.\\nPublished by the Desire of Mourning Friends.\\nI.\\nThe soul who loves eternal Truth,\\nWho loves religion here below;\\nWho stores her mind with knowledge good,\\nAnd by her works her faith doth show.\\nShe lives by pious Friends beloved,\\nHer holy joys exceed her pain\\nShe dies, and leaves the world in peace.\\nAnd death to her, is richest gain.\\nWhen once She bids a long farewell.\\nTo all which time and sense afford;\\nBy Angels she s conducted home,\\nTo reign in glory with her Lord.\\n4-\\nFrom toilsome labor, pain and grief,\\nFrom wars and slavish fears she rests;\\nHer soul is filled with all those things,\\nWhich her immortal mind requests.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0570.jp2"}, "557": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND HIOGRAPHY. 517\\n5-\\nHer living faith is changed to sight,\\nHer hope is in fruition gone;\\nAll her desires are satisfied,\\nDwelling in God before His throne.\\n6.\\nKternal glories she beholds,\\nUnveil d! with strong immortal eyes;\\nAnd all her powers are now employ d\\nIn her belov d Redeemer s praise.\\nAnd every new display of God,\\nWill bring her soul a fresh supply;\\nAnd thus her bliss shall be renewed,\\nAlong an everlasting day.\\n8.\\nIs this the happy fate of those\\nWho walk in wisdom s pleasant ways;\\nAre they thus bless d in life, and death,\\nIn time, and to eternal days\\n9-\\nThen why should we lament and mourn.\\nWhen such do close their eyes in death\\nThey re only called to their blest home\\nT employ their powers in nobler breath.\\n10.\\nAnd why so few on Zion s side!\\nO, why is virtue so dcspis d!\\nWhat dreadful evil hath it done!\\nAnd why is vice or sin prefer d.\\nII.\\nNo heavenly glorious rest remains\\nFor those who live and die in sin;\\nWhene er their eyes are roll d in death,\\nThen sorrows without end begin.\\nO, then be wise, ye sons of men.\\nImprove your precious day of grace\\nBreak off your sins and turn to God,\\nMake Jesus Christ your biding place.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0571.jp2"}, "558": {"fulltext": "A\\ni\\n518 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n58. Elizabeth, b. Oct. i, 1767; m. Worthley, who d. at Warner; probably m. (2)\\nApril 2, 1800, Nathaniel Couch, of Boscawen.\\n59. Nathaniel, b. Oct. 26, 1769. He became a deacon, at Grantham.\\n60. Louis, b. Dec. 4, 1770; m. Jesse Worthley and res d at Bradford, Vt., where\\nhe died.\\n61. Joseph, b. Jan. 31, 1773; m. Nov. 12, 1795, Elizabeth (Esther T. R.) Stevens;\\nres d at Washington, Vt., and d. there.\\n62. Hannah, b. Nov. i, 1774; m. Meloon and lived and d. at Grafton.\\n63. Judith, b. June 3, 1777.\\n64. Rebecca, b. Jan. 26, 1779; m. Oct. 25, 179S, John Huntoon. See.\\n65. Dorothy, b. April 24, 1781 m. May 5, 1803, Asa Sargent, of Warner.\\n66. Benjamin, b, June 22, 1783. Deceased.\\n67. Benjamin, b. June 13, 1786. He lived on the homestead until 1841, when he\\nremoved to the O. B. Stevens house. He d. May 19, 1854; m. July 13,\\nC\\\\_ 1814, Rachel Blaisdell, who was b. Oct. 20, 1792, and d. Sept. 4, 1872.\\nMoses B., b. May 3, ;8i6; m. Dec. 25, 1841, Emeline, dau. of Rufus and Han-\\nnah Fuller, who was b. at Francestown, March 14, 1812; she d. June 21,\\n18S3. Their children were: i. George F., b. July 5, 1843; m. Nov. 24,\\n1865, Abby Brown, who d. Aug. 18, 1877. 11. Benjamin R., b. May 7, 1845;\\nd. young. III. Sarah J., b. Feb. 9, 1845.\\n69. Hannah, b. Aug. 19, 1818; d. March 24, 1821.\\n70. Caroline M., b. April 6, 1S21 m. April 2, 1S48, Samuel Murry, of Hopkinton.\\nShe d. April 13, 1863.\\n71. Joseph W., b. Aug. 2, 1S25; m. Elizabeth Roberts, of Maine, and res d at\\nManchester, where he d. Aug. 2, 1885.\\n72. Benjamin P., b. Sept. 18, 1827; m. Nov. 29, 1S52, Mary Green, of Franklin.\\nHad Benjamin A., b. March 16, 1S58, who res. on the homestead.\\n73. Alfred K., b. Aug. 3, 1830.\\n74. Hannah M., b. Aug. 16, 1S34; d. June 6, 1858, unm.\\n75. Lucy J., b. Jan. 18, 1836 m. Nov. 6, 1S56, Charles G. Morse. See.\\nTHE CALL FAMILY.\\nPhilip Call is said to be one of two brothers who came to\\nAmerica from England. Philip is known to have been at Con-\\ntoocook (Boscawen) as early as 1733. He was the first settler\\nin this township after the granting of the Masonian proprietors,\\nand was subsequently made a grantee (see records.) In 1753\\nthe grantees voted to build four houses and that Philip Call s\\nshall be one of them. This shows that Call already had a house\\nhere. His name appears upon the roll of Capt. Jeremiah", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0572.jp2"}, "559": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND DIOGRAPHY. 519\\nClough s company as a scout, from September 26 to December\\n16, 1733, receiving 3I. 15s., provisions extra. Again, in 1746,\\nfrom July 4 to December 4, 81. 13s., and again in 1747, from\\nJan. 5 to Nov. 2, receiving 16I. los. lod. The family, were\\nnoted for their muscular activity, swiftness of foot, and bravery\\nin Indian fighting. The site of the Call house is to be seen\\nand easily recognized by a pile of broken bricks and stones,\\nwhich once constituted the chimney, and a large apple tree in\\nclose proximity. The site is on land belonging to the Orphans\\nHome farm, south-west from the house, on the west side of\\nthe railroad track, a mile north of Boscawen line, and in close\\npro.ximity to the Salisbury fort. The Indian attack was made\\nupon this family in 1754. Philip and his son Stephen were at\\nwork in the field and witnessed the attack. Stephen wanted\\nto discharge his gun at the savages, but the father would not\\nlet him for fear they would be killed. The Indians, seeing the\\ntwo men, pursued them. Philip took the path for the fort at\\nContoocook, (Boscawen) but finding the Indians close at his\\nheels, plunged into the Merrimack river, swimming to the Can-\\nterbury shore. The Indians still pursuing, he swam to the\\nwestern shore, and continuing back and forth six times he\\neventually reached the fort. Stephen ran into the woods and\\nonly saved himself by dropping his nice new hat, which so\\npleased his pursuers, that while examining it, he escaped.\\nShortly after this the Calls returned to their home. Philip\\nserved in Col. Nathaniel Meserve s regiment, Capt. John Tit-\\ncomb s company, in the expedition against Crown Point, in\\n1757. It is said that Philip Call built the house subsequently\\noccupied by Col. Ebenezer Webster as a tavern. His son may\\nhave owned it, as Philip died previous to Nov. 28, 1763, (see\\nEliphalet Gale) and probably before 1759, and was buried in\\nthe eastern side of the Webster yard. His wife is not known.\\nWe have a record of Stephen (2) and Sarah (3.) Sarah Call, of\\nDurham, spinster, for ;^ioo O. T., sold to Stephen Call one-\\nhalf of two tracts of land in Contoocook, which she had of her\\nfather, Philip Call. Deed dated May 30, 1759.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0573.jp2"}, "560": {"fulltext": "520 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n2. Stephen Call m. Danforth, a sister of Nathaniel Dan-\\nforth, who settled opposite the residence of the late Prof.\\nJ. W. Simonds, at Franklin, formerly Andover, about\\n1750. She d. in Aug. 18 16; he d. a few years later.\\nLike his father he did much scout duty, serving in Capt.\\nJeremiah Clough s company one month and three days.\\nIn Capt. Daniel Ladd s company be did scout duty about\\nCanterbury and Concord, in 1746, receiving il. los. In\\nCapt. John Goff s company, scouting on the frontier from\\nMay 28 to July 15, 1748, receiving 4I, 14s. 3d., and in\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster s company, Col. Nichols s regt.\\nin the Rhode Island campaign of 1776. He was cho-\\nsen one of the selectmen at the first town meeting after\\nincorporation of the town, subsequently holding other\\ntown ofifices. He was a man of character and ability.\\n4. John. See. 5. Stephen, m. Mehitable, dau. of Jonathan Cass, of Sanbornton.\\n6. Nathaniel, m. Dec. 11, 1783, Sarah Chapman, of Sanbornton. Both of these\\nbrothers left their families and went to Upper Canada.\\n7. Philip, m. Keziah, dau. of David Morrison. He rem. to Sanbornton, where he\\nwas engaged in milling operations, and finally rem. to Stanstead, Canada\\nEast, about 1S05.\\n8. Sarah, m. David Chapman. 9. Susannah, m. Stephen G. Chapman.\\n(4.) John was the infant hidden behind the chimney at the\\ntime of the Indian massacre. He inherited the farm,\\nwas a sociable man, and a great hunter and fisherman.\\nOne autumn he caught eleven bears in a trap set in the\\nsame place. He also speared a salmon in the Merrimack\\nriver weighing forty-two pounds. He rem. to that part\\nof Andover now Franklin, on the farm now occupied by\\nhis grandson, Hazen H. He m. Dolly, dau. of Benjamin\\nSanborn. (See.) Part of the children were born in\\nSalisbury.\\n10. Hazen, b. March 24, 1772 m. Catherine Ash, of Andover, soon after he was of\\nage. He was a farmer at Andover, where he d. May 21, 1854. Had seven\\nchildren.\\n11. Polly, m. Jonathan Weeks and res d at Andover, where she died.\\n12. Stephen, rem. to Canada.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0574.jp2"}, "561": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND RIOGKAPHY 521\\n13. Daniel, m. Sally Thomas and res d in Sanbornton, afterwards rem. to anada.\\n14. Dolly, m. Simeon Cate, of Andover. 15. John, went to sea and d. unm.\\n16 Eunice, m. Moses Abbott, of Concord.\\n17. Peter, m. Sanborn, of Hill. icS. Abigail, ni. Robert Rogers, of Concord.\\n[Many of the above facts differ from published accounts of this\\nfamily, but our notes agree with those of Prof. J. W.\\nSimonds, who had unusual advantages for getting verbal\\nfacts. The compiler acknowledges aid from Prof. Si-\\nmonds. For more of this family the reader is referred\\nto the excellent History of Sanbornton, by Rev. M. T.\\nRunnels.]\\nMoses Call m. Sarah Boynton and had\\n19. Enoch, m. Ruth Colby. 20. Moses. See.\\n21. John, m. Dorothy Downing. 22. Sarah, m. Jonathan Stevens.\\n23. David, m. I olly Fellows. 24. Nathan, m. Susan Webster.\\n25. Luke, ni. Olive Elliott, of Boscawen.\\n[The foregoing-mentioned Moses Call may have been a brother\\nto old Philip, (i.) The following are found upon the\\ntown records of Salisbury\\n26. Hannah, dau. of Moses and Mehitable Call, b. Sept. C\\\\ 1751.\\n27. Phebe, b. Sept. 11, 1753. 28. Moses, b. June i, 1755.\\n29. Timothy, b. Feb. 13, 1763. 30. David, b. May iS, 1765.\\n31. Daniel, b. Oct. 13, 1767. 32. Nathan, b. Oct. 15, 1770.\\n(20.) Moses, b. in Boscawen, early rem. to Salisbury, and\\nsettled at the top of the hill northeast of Benjamin F.\\nCall s house. He served in the war of 1812, returning\\nto Boscawen, and d. May i, 1848. He m. (i) Dec. 7,\\n181 2, Sally, dau. of Richard Fellows, (see) she d. April\\n27, 1828; m. (2) April 24, 1829, Sally Stone. Children\\nall b. in Salisbury.\\n33. Lorcnzy, b. Nov. 23, 1S14; m. J. ^L Swcatt and res. at Penacook.\\n34. Benjamin Franklin, b. Oct. 27, tSi6; m. Nov. 27, 1S45, Eliza C. Stone and res.\\nat Webster. Their children were: I. Adelia F., b. Nov. 3, 1S46; m.\\nDec iS, 1872, W. L. (ieorgc. 11. Ira A., b. Nov. 3, 1S49. in. Herbert\\nL., b. Feb. 10, 1852; m. May 8, 187S, Lizzie S. Morgan, iv. Almon H., fa-\\nJuly 10, 1854; d. Nov. 30, 1861. V. Arthur C, b. Dec. 22, 1857.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0575.jp2"}, "562": {"fulltext": "522 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n35- Sarah, b. Aug. 2S, 1S18; d. Jan. 7, 1S43, unm.\\n36. Rachel, b. Sept. i, 1820; d. Aug. 21, 1S63, unm.\\n37. Calvin N., b. May 26, 1822; d. April 23, 1828.\\n38. Moses A., b. May 15, 1824; m. Mary Kingsley, of Wisconsin. He d. in the\\narmy.\\n39. Hiram S., b. May 15, 1826; d. Feb. 23, 18\\n40. Hannah L., b. Nov. 15, 1S30; m. Frank Shepherd. Deceased.\\n41. Elizabeth J., b. July 18, 1833; m. Frank Shepherd.\\nTHE CHASE FAMILY.\\nFIRST BRANCH.\\nAquilla Chase, who emigrated from Cornwall, England, in\\n1630, married, at Newburyport, Mass., Ann Wheeler, and had\\nfive sons and six daughters. He was the progenitor of the\\nfamily bearing this name in Salisbury.\\nI. Thomas rem. to Salisbury previous to 1768, residing in a\\none-story house which stood in Caleb E. Smith s garden.\\nMaster Chase, as he was called from his being a suc-\\ncessful school teacher, was of a pleasant and sociable\\ndisposition, a gentleman of the old school, and was very\\nprudent in his business transactions. He was without\\ndoubt the first schoolmaster located here, teaching the\\nschools when they were kept in private houses, going\\nfrom one neighborhood to another and also into the sur-\\nrounding towns. He was the first teacher from whom\\nDaniel Webster received public instruction. Webster\\nsaid of him that he could read tolerably well and wrote\\na good hand, but that spelling was not his forte. Mr.\\nChase rem. to Cornish with his children, his wife having\\ndied some years previous. He returned to Salisbury and\\nd. Jan. 14, 1807.\\n2. Timothy, b. Jan. 22, 1758; d. young. 3. Moses, b. March 23, 1759; d. young.\\n4. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 10, 1760. 5. William, b, Oct. 18, 1762; d. in Cornish.\\n6. Joannah, b. July 16, 1764; d. April 17, 1S36; ni. John Hobbs, of Andover\\nwhere he d. Aug. 13, 1851, aged 84.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0576.jp2"}, "563": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND niOGRAPIlY. 523\\n7. Martha, b. May 17, 1766; d. young.\\n8. Mary, b. April 10, 1768; res d at Meriden, Conn., unm.\\n9. Hannah, b. Dec. 27, 1769; m. Dec. 25, 1817, Stephen Lang, of Canterbury.\\n10. Wells, res d at Cornish and was thrice married. 11. Emma.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n12. William Chase was a native of Kino^ston. He early rem.\\nto Salisbury, building a log house, and subsequently the\\nframe house southeast of Harrison V. Heath s, clearing\\nup that farm. He d. Dec. 27, 1845, aged 84. During\\nthe revolutionary war he spent three months in the ser-\\nvice, at Portsmouth. He m. Feb. 11, 1783, Betsey\\nFifield, who. d. in 1848, aged 91.\\n13. Thomas, b. March 8, 17S4. See.\\n14. Polly, b. April 25, 1786; d. March 29, 1837, unm.\\n15. Nancy, b. March 26, 1790. It is said she d. unm., but PInoch Chase, of Hop-\\nkinton, m. Feb. 29, 1834, Nancy Chase, of Salisbury.\\n(13.) Thomas remained on the farm, and d. March ig, 1832.\\nHe m. Nov. i6, 1S15, Ann Johnson.\\nr6. George b. Feb. 1821 d. Aug. 23, 1S25.\\n17. Thomas, b. April 14, 1832; res. at Eldreth, Nebraska.\\n18. Albert G. remained on the farm until NLirch, 1870, when he rem. to Eldreth,\\nNebraska. He m. March, 1S42, Clarissa C. Collins, of Springfield, by\\nwhom he had nine children, of whom those not named below d. young\\n19. Sarah M., b. May 6, 1S43; m. March, 1S71, Benjamin F. Heath. 20. George W.\\nir. Mary A., b. April 16, 1853; m. Dec. 28, 1866, Ephraim Simonds, of Hopkinton,\\nand res. at Lowell, Ma.ss.\\nTHE CHELLIS FAMILY.\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nThe family are of English descent, but no early consecutive\\ngenealogy can now be given.\\nI. John Chellis res. at Kingston, where his children were\\nborn. He had two wives, as the sons who rem. to Salis-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0577.jp2"}, "564": {"fulltext": "524 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nbury were half-brothers, and both served at the battle of\\nBunker Hill. His children v/ere: i. Timothy. 11. John,\\n(see.) III. Thomas, (see.) iv. Enos, who res. in Ver-\\nshire, Vt., thence rem. to Buffalo, N. Y. v. Seth, a sail-\\nor, lost at sea. vi. Hannah, vii. Marion, viii. Eliz-\\nabeth.\\n(11.) John. b. in Kingston in 1841, rem. to Salisbury previous\\nto 1773, settling just east of the Moses Greeley home-\\nstead, on the north side of the south rangeway, where\\nhe continued until his death. He m. in 1767 Dorothy\\nSleeper, who was b. in Kingston in 1746, and d. May\\n6, 1828.\\n10. Cartanet, b. Oct. 4, 1771 d. in i860.\\n11. Annie, b. in Salisbury, Sept. 30, 1773; d- iSS^; m. 179S, John Philbrick.\\n12. Dorotliy, b. Feb. 19, 1775; d. at Manchester.\\n13. William, b. July 27, 1777 d. at Corinth, Vt.\\n14. John, b. April 10, 1779; m. Dec. 31, 1S12, Amanda Fifield; rem. to Corinth, Vt.\\n15. Seth, b. April 16, 1781 d. young.\\n16. Elizabeth, b. April 20, 1783; d. unm. at Corinth, Vt.\\n17. Timothy, June 19, 1785; m. Lovejoy and d. in 1850.\\n18. Hezekiah, b. Aug. 31, 1788. He was somewhat celebrated as a school teacher.\\nHe d. in 1S29, at Bradford, unm.\\n19. Sarah, b. April 29, 1791 d. in 1S34, at Corinth, Vt., unm.\\n10. Hannah, b. Feb. 19, 1794; m. Dec. 9, 181S, John Greeley, Jr. She d. Dec.\\n26, 1818.\\n(4.) Thomas Chellis was the first settler on the William\\nHolmes farm. He sold this farm to Lieut. Benjamin\\nPettengill, and rem. to Plainfield. He m. Nov. 1771,\\nMolly (Mary) French. Their children were all born in\\nSalisbury, (i\\n21. Anne, b. March 3, 1772 m. Watson; d. at Plainfield.\\n22. Enoch, b. Jan. 22, 1774. 23. Lydia, b. Sept. 23, 1778.\\n24. Molly, (Mary) b. April 6, 1779; m. Puddelford, and res d at Lebanon.\\n25. b. June ID, 1781 m. Baker, of Lebanon.\\n26. Thomas, b. March 24, 1784; m. Abigail Morgan, June 25, 1809, who was b.\\nFeb. 9, 1786; rem. to Plainfield.\\n27. Samuel F., b. Aug. 3, 17S6, and d. at Newport.\\n28. Moses, b. April 11, 1788, and d. at Plainfield.\\n29. Amos, b. Sept. 7, 1790, and d. at Plainfield.\\n30. John, b. April 6, 1793, and d. at Natchez, Mississippi.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0578.jp2"}, "565": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 52$\\nTHE CLKMENT FAMILY*\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nRobert, the ancestor, was b. in Coventry, Warwickshire,\\nEngland, in 1590 and removed to this country in 1642, settling\\nat Haverhill, Mass. He was very prominent in the colony and\\nwas one of the first to take the deed of the town from Passaga\\nand Saggahem (Indians) in 1643. was the first represen-\\ntative of the town to the general court, in 1645, holding the\\noffice nine years in succession, and being succeeded by his son\\nJohn for two years. On the latter s return to England the ves-\\nsel was wrecked and he was drowned. His son Robert (2) was\\ncounty commissioner and associate judge. His son Fawn (3)\\nsettled at Newburyport. His son Jonathan (4) settled in that\\npart of Amesbury now Merrimack. His son Jacob (5) had\\n1. Stephen, b. Feb. 12, 1751, and remained at Amesbury.\\n2. John, b. in Amesbury, March 17, 1753. See.\\n3. Moses, b. March 22, 1755. See. 4. Hannah, b. March 14, 1757.\\n5. Sally, b. March 30, 1759. 6. Anne, b. Jan. i, 1763.\\n7. Jacob, b. July 23, 1765. He remained on the homestead, which has been held\\nby the Clement family in Salisbury for 166 years, [to 1885] and is now\\noccupied by Moses G.\\n(2.) Capt. John rem. to Salisbury in 1787, settling on land at\\nthe south end of the cross road leading from the south\\nrange near D. C. Stevens to the centre range. Here he\\nremained for thirteen years, then rem. to Warner, where\\nhe d. April 12, 1827. He m. Elizabeth Stevens, who d.\\nat Warner, Feb. 6, 1827.\\n8. Hannah, b. Sept. i, 1776. 9. Joseph, b. Aug. 15, 1777.\\n10. .Moses, b. in 1779. He read medicine with Dr. Leonard, at Hopkinton, and\\nsettled at Cocymans, N. Y.\\n11. Abigail, Irorn in 17S0. 12. John, b. May 27, 17S2.\\n13. Nancy, b. Sept. 7, 17S4. 14. Mary, b. Dec. 3, 1788.\\n15. Sally, b. June 22, 1791. 16. Hctsey.\\n17. Lois, b. July 15, 1798; m. Sept. 10, 1S20, lienjamin Edwards; d. at Warner,\\nAug. 4, 1S50.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2For the ancestry of this family I am indebted to Mr. J. \\\\V. Clement, of Warner.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0579.jp2"}, "566": {"fulltext": "526 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(3.) Moses rem. here with his brother John, in 1787, clearing\\nup what is known as the Lewis farm on the centre range,\\nremaining here till 1800 when he purchased the Leon-\\nard Judkins farm at the south road, opposite the academy,\\nwhere he d. April i, 1838. He m. Mary Kendrick, of\\nAmesbury, who d. in 1842. Mr. Clement was highly\\nrespected, an influential citizen, a successful and well-to-\\ndo farmer, and very unassuming in his manners. He\\ngave his children a good education and was for many\\nyears one of the trustees of the academy.\\n18. Susan, b. in 1799; d- March 28, 1861, unm. She was a most amiable lady and\\na successful teacher.\\n19. Sarah, m. Isaac Smith, of Hampstead, who d. May 2, 1866, aged 70. Their\\nchildren were: i. Joseph, who d. young. 11. Rufus C, a merchant at\\nHaverhill, Mass.\\n20. Anne, m. Dr. Benjamin E. Woodman. See physicians.) She d. Feb. 24, 1877,\\naged 75.\\n21. Hannah, d. suddenly June 9, i8oS,*aged 17.\\n22. Hannah, d. March 28, 1809, aged one year.\\n23. Moses, b. in the Judkins house Dec. 12, 1805. He m. (i)\\n1830, Cynthia, dau. of Rev. Jonathan Wilkins, a Congre-\\ngational minister, of Concord. She d. April 7, 1863,\\nao-ed 60. He m. (2) Aug. 18, 1864, Mrs. Sarah E. Smith,\\nof Deerfield, who d. Sept. 6, 1868. He m. (3) in 1871,\\nMrs. Sarah M. Elkins. In 1868 Mr. Clement sold his\\nfarm and rem. to Franklin, where for several years he\\nwas an overseer at the upper paper mill. Unusually\\nrespected, kind and obliging, social in his intercourse\\nand honest in all his dealings, h d. Sept. 19, 1881. His\\nchildren by first wife were\\n24. Rufus \\\\V., d. Dec. 30, 1S34, aged 3 years.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a271:. Mary W., b. Nov. 23, 1835; ^ov. 11, 1853, Prof. J. W. Simonds. (See\\nacademy instructors.) He d. at Vermillion, Dakota, June 5, 1885, at which\\nplace he was President of the University of Dakota. The remains were\\nbrou Tht to Franklin and deposited in the family lot. Their children were\\n1. Jefferson A., b. Feb. 15, 1856. Ii. Anne C, b. Feb. 20, i860, d. Feb. 11,\\n1865. III. Arthur P., b. March 6, 1864. iv. Mabel J., b. Aug. 8, 1S69.\\nV. Harry L., b. Aug. 26, 1875.\\n6 Sarah J., b. Jan. 7, 1838; m. Moses G. Kimball and res. at Franklin. He d.\\nFek 19, 1887.\\n2- Rebecca K., b. July 21, 1842; m. Otis F. Batchelder, of Franklin.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0580.jp2"}, "567": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND RIOGRAPHV. 52/\\nMoses (23) had by second wife\\n28. Edgar S., b. Nov. 20, 1870; d. at the age of 3 years.\\nTHE COLBY FAMILY.\\nTWO I5RANCHES.\\nI. Enoch Colby was a direct descendant from Samuel, who\\nmarried Elizabeth and who according to tradition fled from\\nLondon, England, at the time of the great plague, (1665) set-\\ntling at Amesbury, Mass. The above Enoch was the eldest son\\nof Barzillai and Elizabeth (Plumer) Colby, b. at Amesbury,\\nFeb. 4, 1759. Hannah Kendrick, and rem. to Salisbury\\nprevious to Nov. 23, 1791, at which date he bought of Abraham\\nSanborn one acre of land, which was part of an eighty-acre lot\\nNo. 49, on the second range. On this land he settled and after-\\nwards built the house occupied by Evan M. Heath, his farm\\nbeing located on the opposite side of the road. He was by\\ntrade a carpenter, joiner and mason, his shop standing west of\\nhis dwelling. He d. July 12, 1824.\\n2. John, m. at Haverhill, Mass., Mary Ila/.elton; died in New York city.\\n3. .Seth K. (See.)\\n4. Enoch, m. March 8, 1803, Polly Couch and rem. to Leroy, Ohio, where he d.\\naged 60.\\n5. Enos, b. Dec. 20, 1793. 6. Ketsey, m. Nathaniel Huntoon.\\n7. Hannah, m. Philip Heath; she d. at Buffalo, N. V., in 1878.\\n(3.) Seth K. learned the blacksmith trade of Meshech Weare,\\nof Andover, and rem. to Candia. He m. Mary, dau. of\\nStephen and Nancy (Eaton) Clay, who was b. Nov. 19,\\n1787. While there he followed his trade, and returning\\nto his native town in 1814 followed his trade on the home-\\nstead, then built the house occupied by his son Daniel,\\nhad a shop, and continued at his trade there. He d.\\nNov. 17, 1 86 1, aged y^ she d. Jan. 12, i860.\\n8. Eliza H., b. at Candia, March 3, 1S12.\\n9. .\\\\nn K., b. Dec. i, 1S13; m. in 1S40 Levi Cirtcr, of Hoscawen.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0581.jp2"}, "568": {"fulltext": "528 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n10. John B., b. May, iSi6; m. Feb. 9, 1845, Eunice G. Dunlap.\\n11. Daniel, b. July 17, 1818.\\n12. Seth K., b. Sept. 11, 1S27, and rem. to Ilelinia, Ala. He d. Aug. 11, 1S79, unm.\\n(5.) Enos m. July 22, 1821, Lydia Babb, b. May 17, 1794, and\\nrem. to Solon, Me., returning to Salisbury in 1855. He\\nd. in the Moses Colby house, April 23, i860.\\n13. James, b. March i, 1S22, d. young. 14. Moses C, b. May, 1823, d. young.\\n15. Mary A. C, b. Jan. 11, 1825; m. Thomas Lewis. Both d. in Salisbury.\\n16. Jane, b. Nov. 2, 1S26.\\n17. Harriet, b. Nov. 14, 1828; m. Dr. Jason Copp and res. at Manchester.\\n18. Sarah, b. Feb. 25, 1831, d. young.\\n19. Moses, b. July 5, 1833; m. Dec. 18, 1856, Asenath H. Scribner. He is a\\nfarmer and remains in Salisbury.\\n20. True F., b. July 29, 1857; m. Sarah Tyler.\\n21. Mary A., b. Oct. 28, 1859; m. Jan. i, 1878, Fred. G. Clough.\\n22. Walter H., b. July 9, 1861 m. Aug. 20, 18S2, Ella Mahana; res. at Peoria, 111..\\n23. Celia S., b. Dec. 22, 1864.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n1. Handel N. Colby, son of John P. and Hannah (Raino)\\nColby, was b. at Hill, Oct. 27, 1843, from which place he\\nremoved to Lawrence, Mass., where for nearly seven\\nyears he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. The busi-\\nness proving too confining, he purchased of Daniel Piper\\nthe Col. John C. Gale farm, Oct. i, 1870. He has since\\nbeen putting this farm of nearly three hundred acres in\\nfirst-class condition, and it is now one of the best farms\\nin town. He m. Oct. 26, 1868, Anna R., dau. of Simon\\nand Rebekah (Hamilton) Hanscom, who was b. at Ban-\\ngor, Me., June 8, 1848. He rem. to South Lawrence in\\nDec, 1884, where he still resides.\\n2. Frank H., b. Nov. 5, 1S69. 3. Mary B., b. .\\\\pril 23, 1871.\\n4. Bertha E., b. Jan. 26, 1877.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0582.jp2"}, "569": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 529\\nTHE COLE FAMILY.\\nJames Cole was the first of the name in America, settling in\\nthe Plymouth colony in 1633. His descendant, John Cole, was\\nborn in 1669, resided at Lynn, Mass., and died in 1737. He\\nand his son Samuel moved to Boxford, Mass., in 17 17. Samuel\\nhad fifteen children, all of whose sons served in the revolution-\\nary war. The third child, Solomon, born in 1743, had\\nI. Isaac, b. at Beverly, Mass., June 26, 1769. He was a car-\\npenter by trade, and m. Hannah Atwood, a native of\\nAtkinson. After marriage he rem. to Chester, thence\\nto Landaff, and about 18 13 went to Franconia, to assume\\nthe superintendence of the wood-work department of the\\nNew Hampshire Iron Manufacturing Co., and continued\\nthere eight years. In 1821 he rem. to Salisbury, settling\\nin that part of the town now included in Franklin, and\\nbuilt a small foundry on the north side of Chance pond\\nbrook, opposite Taylor s foundry. This was the first\\niron foundry in this section as well as one of the first in\\nthe state. He carried on his foundry here for si.x years,\\nand in 1827 rem. to Lake Village, where he again estab-\\nlished a small foundry, which he operated for nine years.\\nThis subsequently formed part of the plant of the present\\nextensive iron works at that place. He was an active\\nman, of marked mechanical aptitude, and of great indus-\\ntry and perseverance. He was a member of the Free\\nBaptist church. lie d. July 8, 1854, aged 85. His\\nchildren were\\n2. Hannah, m. John .\\\\ldrich, of Franconia.\\n3. Mchitabic, m. Jo.scph Towne, who lived in Lisbon the most of his life, remov-\\ning to Lake Village, where he died.\\n4. Isaac, m. Lucy Knapp, of Franconia.\\n5. Mary, m. Perley Putnam, of Franconia.\\n6. John, m. (i) M.iry Ryan, of Plymouth; m. (2) Abigail Davis, of Lowell, .Nfass.\\n7. Fiizabcth, m. Horace ltugl ee, of Hartford, Vt.\\n8. Timothy (Rev.) m. .Susan Hill, of .Springfield. He was a preacher of the\\nChristian denomination, beginning his ministry in 1S28. Most of his life\\nwas spent in evangelical work. He d. at Lake Village, Jan., iSOg.\\n9. Abigail, m. Joseph Hill, of Springfield.\\n34", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0583.jp2"}, "570": {"fulltext": "530 HISTORY OF SALISBURV\\nlo. Benjamin J. was b. at Franconia, Sept. 28, 1814. He ob-\\ntained his education principally at the old Noyes acade-\\nmy, the first normal school in the state. In December,\\n1836, in connection with his brother Isaac and his brother\\nin law John Aldrich, he purchased the foundry at Lake\\nVillage of his father, and continued the business under\\nthe firm name of Cole Co. This firm continued oper-\\nations until 1846, when it became Cole, Davis Co. In\\n1857 Mr. Cole became sole proprietor, conducting it un-\\ntil 1873 under the name of B. J. Cole Co. In 1873\\nthe plant was taken by an incorporated stock company,\\nwith a capital of $72,000. At the present time their\\nannual product amounts to one hundred thousand dollars,\\nfurnishing employment to seventy-five hands. For a\\nmore extended sketch the reader is referred to the His-\\ntory of Merrimack and I^elknap Counties, page 774.\\nTHE COLLINS FAMILY.\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nI. Deacon John was one of the early settlers, removing here\\nfrom Kingston previous to 1768, settling south of the south\\nrangeway, on the east side of the road which leads from the\\nrangeway to the Moses Fellows farm. Later in life he moved\\nto the John S. Dimond place. Early in life he owned much\\nland here and was intimately connected with town affairs pre-\\nviously to and after its incorporation. He was the first deacon\\nof the Congregational church and was a very exemplar} man.\\nNone of his lineal descendants are known. He was b. Feb. 14,\\n1741 d. Sept. II, 1844; m. Oct. i, 1761, Sarah Challis, who\\nwash. Jan. 10, 1741, and d. July 5, 1832.\\n2. Winthrop, h. Jan. lo, 1763; m. Dec. 2, 17S4, Alarian Elliott, of Boscawen.\\nChildren b. in Salisbury were 1. Winthrop, b. Sept. 8, 17S5. 11. Marian,\\nb. Dec. 31, 1786, d. Dec. 3, 1796. in. John, b. April 3, 17S8. iv. Charles,\\nb. March 8, 1790. v. Nancy, b. 1791. vi. Hannah, b. Sept. 10, 1795.\\nVII. Moses C, b. Oct, 11, 179S. viii. Amos P., b. March 21, 1802.\\n3. Charles, b. Oct. 5, 1764; m. Jan. 2, 1786, Sarah Flanders. Children b. in\\nSalisbury were: i. Sarah, b. July 13, 1787. 11. Anne, b. F eb. 23, 1790.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0584.jp2"}, "571": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 531\\n4. John. b. April 6, 1767. See. 5. Carteret, b. Aug. 5, 1769; m. May 17, 1792,\\nComfort Carpenter; he d. July, 1847. 6. Joseph, b. May 6, 1771. Sec.\\n7. Enoch, b. Jan. 22, 1773.\\n8. Enos, b. Sept. 20, 1775; m. Aug. 30, 1798, Elizabeth Sawyer; he d. May 10,\\n1S17. Had Elias, b. in Salisbury, May 31, 1799.\\n9. Sarah, b. June 20, 1779, d. Feb. 1S19; m. Nov. 5, 1797, Jacob Badger.\\n10. Annie, b. March 19, 17S1, d. Dec. 31, 17S9.\\nn. Scth C, b. F eb. 15, 17S5, d. Jan. 25, 1847 rn- Oct. 11, 1807, Marian Sawyer.\\n(4.) John settled south of the Getchell place, then rem. to the west part of the\\ntown and finally to Springfield, where he d. Dec. 6, 1853. He m. Dec. 27,\\n1 791, Mehitable Fellows, who d. at Springfield, Oct. 10, 1828.\\n12. Timothy, b. Aug. 10, 1793, d. young. 13. Sally, b. June 30, 1794, d. young.\\n14. Timothy C, b. May 28, 1796. Moved west and d. June 12, 1S69; m. I ^eb. 18,\\n1819, Susannah Colby. 15. Ezra, b. July 9, 179.S, d. May 16, 1823.\\n16. Dolly W., b. Sept. 3, 1S03; m. Nov. 23, 1826, Levi Waterman, of Vermont.\\n17. Mary F., b. Dec. 10, 1805, d. April 12, 1879, unm. 18. Larana, b. March 5,\\n1808. 19. Adaline, b. June 3, 1810; m. James runroe she d. Sept. 30,\\n1879. 20. John, b. Feb. 14, 1812, d. Feb. Feb. 27, 1813. 21. Nancy H., b.\\nDec. 3, 1814. 22. Luther NL, b. June 22, 1819; m. and rem. to N. Y.\\n(6.) Joseph, m. Aug. 9, 1792, Phebe Fellows. Subsequent to the birth of three\\nchildren he rem. to .Springfield.\\n23. Polly, b. Sept. 21, 1793. -4- Joseph, b. June 26, 1795.\\n25. Hannah, b. June 15, 1797. 26. Phebe, b. June 4, 1799.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\nThomas Collins, of whom nothing is known, was the head of\\nthis branch in Salisbury. He probably married, in Nov. 1771,\\nMolly French. The following entries are taken from the town\\nrecords\\n1. Anne, b. March, 1772.\\n2. l^noch, b. Jan. 22, 1774; m. Dec. 19, 1797, Dolly Canfield.\\n3. Lydia, b. .Sept. 23, 1775, d. Sept. 28, 177S. 4. M0II3 b. April 5, 1779.\\n5. Lydia, b. June 10, 17S1. 6. Thomas, b. .March 29. 17S5.\\n7. Samuel F rench, b. .Aug. 3, 1786. 8. Moses, b. April 11, 1788.\\n9. Amos, b. Sept. 7, 1790; deceased. 10. b. April 6, 1793.\\nTHE CORSON FAMILY.\\nJohn Corson was a native of Lebanon, Me., residing on the\\nfarm inherited from his father. He served in the revolutionary\\nwar. He m. Jenny llodgdon and had five children, Thomas,\\nSamuel, Ralph, John, and Charlotte. Ralph, the third child,\\nremoved to Lee, where he m. Betsey IClliott. Of this family\\nwe have a record of", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0585.jp2"}, "572": {"fulltext": "532 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n6. John, b. at Lee, Sept. 13, 1826; m. Feb. 13, 1854, Ellen\\nMurnane, dau. of Garrett and Margaret (Scannell) Mur-\\nnane, who rem. to this country from Aunescales, County\\nKerry, Ireland, purchasing the Corson farm afterwards\\nrem. to Andover, Mass., thence to Lawrence, Ellen was\\nb. March 18, 1834. Mr. Corson rem. to Salisbury in\\nApril, 1863. Mrs. Corson cast the first female vote in\\ntown, for prudential school committee, and is a very\\nactive, energetic woman.\\n7. John L., b. at Durham, June 13, 1855; res. in California.\\n8. Frank H., b. at Durham, Jan. 31, 1859; res. in Concord.\\n9. Elmer E., b. at Durham, Aug. 3, 1862. He was drowned in the Sacramento\\nriver, California, April 10, 1884.\\n10. Belle E., b. in Salisbury, June 9, 187 1.\\nTHE COUCH FAMILY.\\nFIRST BRANCH.\\nThe ancestry of this family fled from Scotland to England at\\na time of religious persecution. Three brothers came to Amer-\\nica from Wales. Joseph settled at old Newbury, Newburyport\\nMass., and another settled at Kingston. The third re-shipped\\nfor England and was never heard from.\\nI. John came to Contoocook (Boscawen) previous to 1768,\\nsettling on the farm owned by Miss Nancy Couch, and\\nd. in 1784. He m. (i) Elsie Rowell m. (2) Mrs. Nancy\\nWebster m. (3) Mrs. Muzzey. The children by his\\nfirst wife were\\n2. John. See. 3. Elsie, m. John Sawyer, of Hopkinton.\\n4. Benjamin, b. June 25, 1753; d. April 16, 1823.\\n5. Joseph, b. in Dec, 1755; d. Feb. 7, 1S21.\\nThe children of Joseph (i) by his second wife were:\\n6. Mary, b. March 22, 1761 m. Friend C. Little; d. May 14, 1834.\\n(2.) John was b. in 1749, m. Polly Gordon, and res d for a\\ntime on Battle street, in Webster rem. to Springfield,\\ncarrying their goods on a hand-sled, his wife carrying the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0586.jp2"}, "573": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 533\\nchild. After remaining there seven years they returned\\nand settled in Salisbury, on the farm now occupied by\\nhis descendant. He d. in July, 1837.\\nWilliam, h. Oct. 19, 1775. See.\\nElsie, 111. Xatiianiel Weare and settled at Whitefield.\\nJohn, d. young. 10. John. See. 11. Polly, m. Enoch Colby.\\nDaniel, killed by the kick of a horse. 13. Joseph, d. young.\\nAbigail, m. liagJey Colby. 15. Amos. See.\\nRachel, m. Caleb Watson, which see. 17. Samuel. See.\\nSally d. in infancy. 19. Benjamin, d. young.\\n(7.) William settled just across the boundary, in Warner, on\\nthe farm now occupied by his son Albert J., and d. April\\nII, 1856. He m. (i) Oct. 14, 1798, Polly Quimby, who\\nwas b. Nov. 28, 1781, and d. Sept. i, 1835 m. (2) Sally\\nLittle.\\n20. Sally, b. June i6, 1799; m. Daniel Sargent, of Warner; d. March 24, 1861.\\n21. Sophronia, b. Nov. S, 1801 m. John Greeley; d. April 26, 1S76.\\n22. Simeon, b. Jan. 15, 1S04; m. Rosamond Colby; d. in April, 1836.\\n23. Hannaii, b. May 29, 1S04; m. Dec. 1S37, True Flanders.\\n24. Abigail, b. Jan. 21, 1S09; m. (i) John Currier; m. (2) Joseph L. Couch.\\n25. Daniel W., b. Oct. 16. 1S12; m. (i) Susan (May) A. Davis; m. (2) E. J. Aus-\\ntin, of Sutton. He d. in July, 1S6S.\\n26. Albert J., b. March 9, 1S14; m. (i) Sept. 7, 1834, Ruth Sargent, of Warner, who\\nd. July 6, 1S54; m. (2) Nov. 3, 1S54, Slary A. Hoardman.\\n27. Mary, b. Oct. 31, 1S16; m. Nov. 4, 1839, Humphrey Jackman.\\n28. Emily M., b. April 29, 1S27 m. Albert S. Hillard and res. in Gilmanton.\\n(lo.) John (Deacon) was b. May 7, 1780. He built the house\\noccupied 1883 by Clarence E. Couch. By trade he was\\na blacksmith and a skilful edged-tool worker. He rem.\\nto Concord in 1863, and d. Oct. 7, 1866. He. m. Aug.\\nII, 1803, Lydia B. Bean, who d. Feb. 20, i860, aged 76.\\n29. Sally, b. Tan. 21, 1805; m. Paul Pearson, of Boscawen. She d. Nov. 27, 1S75.\\n30. Eliza, b. Dec. 7, 1807 m. Nathan Pearson, of Boscawen. She d. Aug. 7, 1877.\\n31. Miriam, b. March 11, iSio; m. (i) Nathan Webster; m. (2) James Merriam, of\\nConcord.\\n32. John. See.\\n15.) Amos, b. in Salisbury, May 1 1, 1790. He remained here\\nuntil 1 82 1, when he rem. to Water street, Boscawen.\\nHe m. (i) March 20, 18 14, Hannah Ray, of Henniker,\\nSecond wife not known.\\n33. Hale, b. May 2G, 1S14; d. Aug. 29, 1S53. 34. Eunice, b. March 15, iSiS.\\n35. Charles R., b. in I^oscawen, Oct. 22, 1S23 d. .Vug. i, 1S24.\\n36. Charlotte, b. .\\\\pril 12, 1S26; m. Moody Pillsbury, Jr.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0587.jp2"}, "574": {"fulltext": "534 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(17.) Samuel built the house east of Deacon John s, succeeded\\nhis father at blacksmithing and followed the trade for\\nsome years. He secured the services of a criminal who\\nhad been pardoned out of the state prison, who taught\\nMr. Couch how to properly weld steel and iron and tem-\\nper the same, and the Couch axe was much sought\\nafter, being considered the best axe made. He d. Jan.\\n8, 1865. He m. (i) Susan Call, of Boscawen, who d. in\\n1845 m. (2) Sally Moody, of Boscawen.\\n37. Henry C, b. July 28, 1S21. 38. Martha J., b. May 9, 1823, d. Oct. 28, 1846.\\n38. George W., b. Aug. 11, 1823; m. Mehitable Eastman, of Warner; d. July\\n13, 1867.\\n40. Levi W., b. Sept. 29, 1S27 m. Nov. 22, 1855, Mary J. Abbott.\\n41. Charles, b. Oct. iS, 1829; m. (i) Lucretia N. Abbott, who d. in July, 1868; m.\\n(2) Nov. 12, 1869, Judith N. Bullock.\\n42. Adaline, b. April 23, 1833; m. Nathan Tucker. See.\\n(32.) Elder John was b. Aug. 4, 18 14. He completed his edu-\\ncation at the Noyes school, under the instruction of\\nBenjamin Tyler. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in\\nthe state militia when but eighteen years of age, com-\\nmissioned Captain of one of the companies of Grena-\\ndiers, and was a Major when only twenty-one. Two\\nyears later he was made a justice of the peace. He m.\\nin 1855 Almeda, dau. of Benjamin Greeley, who d. May\\n17, 1870, by whom he had: i. Benjamin VV. 11. Clara.\\nIII. Eliza J. Clara d. at the age of twenty-one the rest\\nres. at Concord. He m. (2) Maria J. Pickering, of Barn-\\nstead. In 1S42 Mr. Couch felt himself called to preach\\nthe gospel as an adventist, and has since labored with\\nmuch vigor for that denomination, meeting with marked\\nsuccess. In 1850 he was chosen senior editor of the\\nBible Banner, published at New York, retaining his con-\\nnection for three years. In 1873 he was elected editor\\nof the World s Crisis, a large religious paper published\\nat Boston, where he still remains. He is a very labor-\\nious worker and a gentleman much respected. The first\\ntwenty-five years of his life were spent in Salisbury,\\nremoving to Warner, thence to Concord, and for the last\\nfourteen years at Boston.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0588.jp2"}, "575": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY, 535\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n43. Samuel, son of Benjamin and Rachel Heath) Couch, and\\ngrandson of Joseph, the first of that name who settled at\\nBoscawen, was b. Jan. 25, 1789, and m. Sept. 15, 1812,\\nEunice Howard, of Salisbury. She d. Oct. 24, 1858 he\\nd. March i, 1858. He res. in the Nathan Morgan house,\\nwhich was built by his elder brother, I^enjamin.\\n44. Samuel L., b. in Salisbury, Jan. 29, 1S15; m. Nov. 2S, 1839, Eliza Couch, b.\\nJan. S, rSr^. He d. July 2, 1872.\\n45. Hiram i\\\\Iorrill was b. in Salisbury, Feb. 16, 1818. An\\nambitious and industrious student, he completed his\\nstudies at the Salisbury academy and the University at\\nNorwich, Vt., under the instruction of Capt. Partridge,\\nand began to teach when he was eighteen years of age.\\nFrom i(S40 he taught five terms at Georgetown, Mass.\\nHe began the study of medicine with Dr. Herbert, after-\\nwards with Dr. Robinson at Salisbury, and Dr. Timothy\\nHaines at Concord. He graduated at the Dartmouth\\nMedical School in 1847, and began practice at George-\\ntown, where he d. Dec. 22, 1862. He. m. Dec. 13, 1848,\\nMahala Tilton, of Sanbornton, by whom he had two chil-\\ndren. Dr. Couch successfully performed a number of\\ndifficult surgical operations. He was also possessed of\\nconsiderable musical talent and was much respected.\\n46. Ira H., b. Jan. 17, 1S21 m. June 27, 1S59, .Mary, dau. of Jonathan P.rown, of\\nAndover. She d. Oct. 9, 1861. He res. at Contoocook.\\n47. Elbridge D., b. July 27, 1S25, unm. 48. Ellen M., b. April 5, 1835, unm.\\n49. Warren, b. July 7, 1S41. 50. Joseph, b. Feb. iS, 1843.\\n51. Silas W., b. Jan. Si 1846.\\nnil CROSS famh.v.\\nThree families of this name settled on the east side of Merri-\\nmack river, viz Thomas, who resided at what is now Franklin\\nFalls, where he had a store and manufactured potash, etc., and\\nJesse and Abraham.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0589.jp2"}, "576": {"fulltext": "536 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nI. Stephen was a lineal descendant of Thomas, the family emi-\\ngrating to this country from Ipswich, England. Stephen\\nrem. to Salisbury from Massachusetts, settling at the\\nlower village, (Orphans Home, Franklin,) on the site\\nnow occupied by Wallace Burleigh s brick house. In\\naddition to farming he operated a ferry across the river\\nto Jesse Cross s, in Northfield. He m. Peggy, sister of\\nCapt. Peter Bowen, which see. Children all b. in Salis-\\nbury.\\n2. Judith, b. Aug. 19, 1771 m. Feb. 21, 1796, John Edwards, of Montpelier, Vt.\\n3. Stephen, b. July 20, 1773, after recovering from a fractured\\nleg, learned the tailor s trade and carried on that busi-\\nness in what is now the town of Tilton, where he m.\\nJune 23, 1799, Sally, dau. of Winthrop Durgin. He d. at\\nTilton, April 30, 1841 she d. at Plymouth, Aug. 20,\\n1867, aged about 85.\\n4. Abraham, b. June 10, 1775, res. in that part of Sanbornton\\nnow Tilton, where he built a large sawmill, known as\\nthe Cross mill. He m. Jan. 21, 1880, Ruth, dau. of\\nDeacon Francis Sawyer, of Canterbury. He. d. Sept.\\n24, 1853 she d. April 15, 1868.\\n5. Isaac, b. Dec. 11, 1776. 6. Timothy, b. Dec. 12, 177S.\\n7. Peggy, b. May 28, 17S0. 8. Moses, b. March 20, 1783.\\n9. Peter B., b. May 28, 1785.\\n10. Michael, b. April 18, 1787; m. Nov. 26, iSii, Betsey Sanborn; remained on\\nthe homestead.\\nII. Ruth, b. May 23, 1789. 12. Rebecca, b. Aug. 11, 1791.\\n13. Theodore, b. April 23, 1794.\\n14. Luke, b. Oct. 30, 1796. When he was 40 years of age all the members of the\\nfamily were living.\\nTHE CURRIER FAMILY.\\nJames removed here from Newburyport, Mass., and built the\\nhouse now occupied by Mrs. Farnum. He built the first grist-\\nmill in that vicinity, which stood opposite Mr. John Shaw s", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0590.jp2"}, "577": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHV. 53/\\nmill. (See mills.) He rem. to Enfield, where he died. He\\nm. (i) Lydia who d. Nov. 13, 1802, aged 66; his second wife\\nis not known.\\n2. Nathan remained on the homestead and d. Xov. 6, 1844; ^^^V I3 1802,\\nSally Carter, of Canterbury, who d. at Wilmot, Dec. 7, 1845. Their chil\\ndren were: I. Nathan, m. Oct. 4, 1835, Mary Frazier, who d. at Weare,\\nleaving one son. Dr. G. W. Currier, who res. at Nashua. II. Thomas W.\\nm. June 3, 1833, Elvira W. Bi.xby; he d. at Wilmot; she m. (2) Daniel\\nHobbs and re.s. at Wilmot. Hi. .Sarah E., m. April 18, 1847, Jesse\\nStevens; d. May 24, 185 1.\\n3. Gideon, m. Sarali Dunlap; d. in Massachusetts. 4. James. See.\\n5. Richard, m. (1) Nov. 30, 1797, Nancy Pettengill m. (2)\\nMay Garland and rem. to Enfield, where he became cel-\\nebrated as a popular hotel proprietor.\\n(4.) James built a house which stood in William Dunlap s\\ngarden. He rem. to Lowell, Mass., and afterwards to\\nDanville. He m. April 23, 1795, Sally Bohonan.\\n6. Mary, m. June 16, 1814, William Loverin.\\n7. James, m. (i) April 8, 1823, Phebe Dustin second wife not known; res d at\\nHaverhill.\\n8. Betsey, m. Coffin and res., at West Newbury.\\n9. Sarah, m. White and res. at Lowell, Mass.\\n10. Smith. II. Charlotte.\\nOther members of this family are\\nI. Daniel Currier, m. Feb. 3, 1791, Dorothy French. Their children were:\\nI. Henry, b. Jan. 2, 1792. 11. Sarah, b. Feb. 12, 1794.\\nTHK CLASHING FA^HLY.\\nFIRST BRANXH.\\nPrior to 1400 the name is spelled Cusheyn and otherwise.\\nThe earliest authentic record of the Gushing family, from which\\nan unbroken descent can be traced, is found in several deeds\\nand charters, dating from 1466 to 1480. Matthew, the third\\nchild of Peter and Susan Hames, whom he m. June 2, 1585,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0591.jp2"}, "578": {"fulltext": "53^ HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nwas the son of Thomas, the second son of John of Hardingham,\\nEngland. Matthew m. 1613, Mazareth Pitcher, and with his\\nchildren embarked in the schooner Diligent, arriving at Bos-\\nton Aug. 10, 1638. With his fellow-passengers he began the\\nsettlement of Hingham, which they named in memory of their\\nformer home.\\n1. Caleb Gushing, third child of Caleb and Sarah (Sawyer)\\nCashing, who was the third son of John and Eliza (dau.\\nof Rev. Seaborn Cotton) Cushing, who was the son of\\nJohn and Sarah (dau. of Matthew Hawke, of Hingham,)\\nCushing, this John being the youngest son of Matthew,\\nreferred to above. Caleb, the 7th in descent from John\\nof England, was b. at Haverhill, Mass., Sept. 4, 1767;\\nm. in 1792 Polly (Mary) Church, and rem. to Salisbury,\\nsettling on the old college road and building the house\\nnow standing northeast of Moses P. Thompson s. He\\ncarried on the blacksmithing business, afterwards remov-\\ning to Orange, Vt., and d. at Charlestown, Me., Aug. 22,\\n1863. She d. there in 1861. He was for many years a\\njustice of the peace, and for nineteen consecutive years\\nwas a representative to the general court. He was emin-\\nently a self-made man, having but slight school advan-\\ntages, a shrewd, close observer of men and things, and\\ncorrect in his estimate of character. As will be inferred\\nfrom the names of his sons, he was in politics a demo-\\ncrat. The children, all b. in Salisbury, were\\n2. Sally, b. June 15, 1793; i^^- i. 1S16, Dr. Benjamin Flint, who d. Sept. 26,\\n1838. She res. at Bangor, Me.\\n3. John C, b. Feb. 12, 1795; d. at New Orleans, La., Jan. 12, 1S73, unm.\\n4. Harriet, b. June 18, 1798; m. July 16, iSiS, Dr. Samuel Haskins. He d. June\\n12, 1873.\\n5. Thomas Jefferson, b. Feb. 7, 1801 m. Dec. 21, 1826, Sophia Gallison. He d.\\nJune 26, 1841.\\n6. Henry Dearborn, b. Oct. 15, 1S03; d. at Washington, D. C, Oct. 16, 18S1,\\nunm. For some years he was engaged on the genealogy of the family, and\\nto his researches we are much indebted.\\n7. Jonathan Ambrose, b. May 12, 1806; m. June 8, 1843, Nancy W. Hill. He\\nd. at Washington, D. C, July 3, 1873.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0592.jp2"}, "579": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 539\\n8. James Madison, b, Sept. 19, 1S08 m. June 5, 1S50, Maacha T. Miller. lie d. at\\nIJoston, Mass., March 26, 1SS3.\\n9. .\\\\manda M., b. May 15, 1S13; m. .\\\\ug. 24, 1S37, Elihu R. Averhill, and res. at\\nDover, Me.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\nI. Theodore Cashing, ne.xt younger brother to Caleb, (i)\\nwas b. March 9, 1780. His father fought at Lexington,\\nserved through the revolution, and was at West Point at\\nthe time of Arnold s defection, holding the position of\\nbrigade quartermaster. He went to Hopkinton, where\\nhe was engaged in a store, removing to Salisbury about\\n1793. On his journey here he met Abigail, dau. of Dea.\\nSamuel Jackman, whom he m. May 27, 1798. While a\\nresident here he made the acquaintance of Daniel Web-\\nster, and t/ie first case Webster ever tried in open court\\nwas for him. While here he wrote a series of political\\narticles for a federal newspaper at Concord, under the\\nsignature of the Freewill Baptist Preacher, which were\\nvariously attributed to Esq. Bowers, the Rev. Mr. Wor-\\ncester, and a lawyer at Concord. He also wrote a series\\nof letters to young men, which appeared in a literary and\\nreligious magazine called the New Star, then published\\nat Concord. In 1806 he rem. to Thetford, Vt., where he\\nfollowed his trade and farming till June, 1831, when he\\nrem. to West Grace, near Rochester, N. Y., where he\\nengaged in the manufacture of furniture and spinning\\nwheels, and d. there Jan. 13, 1850. Of Mr. Cushing\\nDaniel Webster said I knew him in Salisbury thirty-\\neight years ago, as one of the most honest and industri-\\nous men I ever knew. He possessed a most retentive\\nmemory and a confiding and truthful disposition. He\\nwas a member of the masonic fraternity, and became,\\nOct. 15, 1S47, a corresponding member of the New\\nICngland Genealogical Society.\\n2. Samuel was b. Jan. 21, 1799, Vermont with his\\nparents, where he attended school. He learned the trade", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0593.jp2"}, "580": {"fulltext": "540 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nof a chairmaker with his father, and rem. to Monroe\\ncounty, N. Y., in 1838, accompanied by his family. The\\nyear following he located at Crete, N. Y., where he d.\\nJan. 8, 1 88 1. He was universally respected for his kind-\\nness of heart and purity and uprightness of character.\\nHe was a deacon in the church, a noted anti-slavery ad-\\nvocate, and assisted many a poor slave to freedom. He\\nwas once indicted for harboring slaves, but when the day\\nof his trial came his accusers were not to be found. He\\nm. (i) Rebecca Lee; m. (2) Elizabeth, dau. of Elias\\nStone, a revolutionary soldier.\\n3. James Royal (Rev.) was b. Nov. 24, 1800, and rem. to\\nVermont with his parents. He entered Bangor Theolog-\\nical Seminary about 1823, completed his studies in 1825\\nand immediately began to preach, laboring as city mis-\\nsionary at Boston, Mass., and as pastor at Boxboro\\nTaunton, and East Haverhill, Mass., and at Wells, Me.\\nHe spent fifty years in the ministry and d. at Haverhill,\\nApril, 1880. He m. (i) Hannah Lawrence, of Woburn,\\nMass., by whom he had four children m. (2) Charity M.\\nDaniels, of Boston, Mass., who d. in 1879.\\n4. Ann, b. Nov. 2, 1S02 m. Dea. Enoch Foote. She res. at Haverhill, Mass.\\n5. Nathaniel Sawyer, b. Dec. 7, 1804. In 1827 he rem. to Monroe co-unty, N. Y.\\nHe m. in 1830, Melissa Wright, of Ogden res. till 1837 at Brockport, then\\nrem. to western Illinois, and in 1840 took up his residence in Chicago,\\nwhere for thirty-five years he was a large wholesale paint and plaster dealer.\\nHe was twice married and res. at Lamboard, a suburb of Chicago.\\n6. Sarah J., b. at Thetford, Vt., Feb. 14, 1S07 d. Dec. 31, 1809.\\n7. Emily Worrel, b. at Thetford, Vt., July g, iSoo; m. Rev. Samuel Porter, and\\nres. at Crete, 111.\\n8. Maria A., b. Feb. 11, 1S12; d. Sept. 3, 1S40.\\n9. William Theodore was b. at Thetford, Vt., Jan. 28, 18 16,\\nand rem. to western New York in 1830. He pursued\\nhis preparatory studies with S. B. Bradley, M. D., and\\nentered a college located at Brockport, New York, which\\nshortly afterwards became defunct in the financial crash\\nof 1837. He spent the year 1840 at Chicago, then a", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0594.jp2"}, "581": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 54I\\nplace of less than 5000 inhabitants, and in the fall of that\\nyear rem. to Rochester, N. Y., where he was engaged in\\nmercantile pursuits for thirty-seven years. While a res-\\nident of that city he held the ofifice of school commis-\\nsioner and was a member of the city council. In 1867\\nhe rem. to Chicago, and in 1877 to Atlantic City, Iowa.\\nHe m. in 1844 Lucian A. Grayer.\\nTHE DIMOND FAMILY.\\nThe ancestor of the Salisbury family bearing this name emi-\\ngrated to New England prior to 1640.\\nI. John m. (i) Sally Emerson, the first person buried in the\\ncemetery at Millville, (Concord) dying about 1797. He\\nm. (2) Quig Stevens. Of his family by first wife was\\nSamuel, b. July 29, 1791, who was reared on his fath-\\ner s farm at Concord. He learned the cooper s trade,\\nwhich he afterwards relinquished and engaged in mer-\\ncantile pursuits, having a store at West Concord. After\\ngaining a competency he sold out, removing to the farm\\noccupied by his descendant in 1836. He m. Aug. 14,\\n1822, widow Susan (Dimond) Blanchard, of Concord-.\\nHe d. in 1856; she d. in 1878.\\n4. George, b. Feb. 3, 1S23; rem. to Salisbury with his parents. In 1845 went\\nto IJoston, Mass., and for many years conducted a large grocery store, relin-\\nquishing which he returned to Salisbury. He m. June, 1858, Mary Chand-\\nler, who d. May 24, 1S6S.\\n5. Ora, b. July 19, 1825, and rem. to California.\\n6. John S., b. Feb. 25, 1827; m. Nov. 1853, Eliza Williams.\\n7. Lucilla N., b. Jan. 25, 1830; m. William Hunt and res. at Wauseon, Ohio.\\n8. Esther F., b. April 24, 1S32; m. Albert Morrison and res. at Boston, ^^ass.\\n9. Reuben O., b. May 15, 1834; m. Mary E. Hoothby, deceased. He resides at\\nElmira, N. Y.\\n10. Clara A., b. Dec. 10, 1835; d. Oct. 7, 1S39.\\n11. William, b. in 1837; m. and res. at Newton, Mass.\\n12. Mary S., b. in 1842; m. Charles Grcenleaf and res. at Wauseon, Ohio.\\n13. Ellen, b. in 1S45; m. Fred. Horr and res. at Boston.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0595.jp2"}, "582": {"fulltext": "542 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE DUNLAP FAMILY,\\nI. Samuel, son of Archibald Dunlap, a native of the south\\nof Ireland, (Scotch-Irish) emigrated to this country and mar-\\nried, in 1741, Martha, daughter of Joseph Neal. He settled on\\nthe home lot, No. 26, in Chester. (See History of Chester.)\\nTheir children were\\n2. Joseph, b. in 1742; m. Anna, dau. of Hugh Wilson, and settled at Goffstown.\\nJames, b. in 1741^; ni. Dorcas Davis and had one son, John, who was b. in\\n1794, d. in 1S67.\\n4. John, b. in 1746; res d at Bedford. 5. Mary.\\n6. William, m. Boyes, and rem. to Schenectady, N. V.\\n7. Sarah. 8. Samuel. See.\\n9. Martha. The father and the daughters d. of diphtheria.\\n(8.) Samuel was b. in Chester and bound out to learn the\\ncarpenter s trade. On becoming of age he m. Nancy\\nCochran, and rem. to Henniker. While a resident in\\nChester he worked at his trade in Concord, assisting\\nin building the steeple of the first church erected in that\\ntown, which was built in 1783. When his son Samuel\\nwas fourteen years old (1797) he rem. to Salisbury, and\\npurchased the Elkins property, now owned by John Col-\\nby, where he d. Aug. 2, 1830. She d. July 17, 18 19, at\\nthe age of 61. Dec. 30, 1806, he bought one-half of the\\nsawmill of David Pettengill, on the site of the present\\nPrince mill, and on March 10 following he bought the\\nother half of Capt. William Pingrey. He probably put\\nin a gristmill, as April 13, 18 11, he sold to his sons, John\\nand James, the saw and gristmills. In 1826 the for-\\nmer bought out the interest of James in both mills.\\n10 Sarah, b. March lo, 17S1 m. Gideon Currier and rem. to West Newbury,\\nMass.; deceased.\\n11. Joseph, b. June 9, 1782 d. Oct. 183S, unm.\\n12. Samuel, b. Dec. 15, 1783. See. 13. John, b. Dec. 178^.^\\nT4 Tames D., b. Oct. 12, 1787; m. Eleanor Morrill, of Salisbury; she d. June 7,\\n1S65. He operated the mill from iSii to 1826, res d on the homestead, and\\nd. Aug. 13, 1875. daughter, Eunice G., b. Dec. S, 1S20, who\\nm. Feb. 9, 1845, John Colby, which see.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0596.jp2"}, "583": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 543\\n15. William D., b. April 2, 17S9; m. Amelia Ilunnificld, of Northfield, and\\nrem. to Danbury.\\n16. Mary, b. Jan. 7, 1791 m. Hugh Moore, father of James Moore, a hardware\\nmerchant at Concord.\\n17. Thomas, b. April 18, 1792; d. Oct. 8, 1S23, unm.\\n18. David, b. April 2, 1794. See.\\n19. Nancy, b. April 5, 1796; m. Dec. 25, 1S17, Amos George and d. at West\\nXewbury, Mass.\\n20. Thomas, b. .\\\\pril 3, 1798; d. unm.\\n21. Daniel, b. Feb. 16, 1800; m. I hebe Chandler and rem. to Concord. He d.\\nAug. 7, 1S75.\\n22. Joel, b. Feb. i, 1S06; d. unm.\\n(12.) Samuel moved the John Shaw house (1883) to its present\\nlocation, from the top of the small hill east of Mrs. Cyrus\\nGookin s, and built a small gristmill on the site of the\\npresent John Shaw mill, making extensive repairs on the\\ndam. He sold out the gristmill to the Gookins, (which\\nsee) in 1834, removing ta Andover, Me., where he d.\\nJan. 10, 1853. He learned the cabinet-maker s trade,\\nand much of his furniture is still in use and as sound as\\nthe day it left the shop. He m. Nov. 1806, Sarah\\nPingrey, who d. May 12, 1877.\\n23. Benjamin F., b. May 4, 180S, and res. at Falmouth, Me.\\n24. Harriet N., b. Aug. 20. 1809; m. Philbrick and res. at .Andover, Me.\\n25. Phebe, b. April 21, 181 1 d. Sept. 17, 1837, unm.\\n26. Maria, b. April 7, 1813; m. Lovejoy.\\n27. Morrill, b. Jan. 24, 1815; m. July 4, 1S47, Cynthia 1!. Sanborn, of Franklin;\\nres. at Concord.\\n28. Louisa E., b. Jan. 29, 1S17 m. Grover and res. at Rumford, -Me.\\n29. Mary C, b. Aug. 24, 1819; m. Grover.\\n30. Emeline, J., b. Feb. 5, 1824, and res. at Concord.\\n31. Mary P., b. March i, 1826; m. John Perkins, of Nfarblehead, Mass.\\n32. Sarah C, b. June 3, 1S31 m. Richardson she d. at Concord, Jan. 1877.\\n(13.) John, m. in 1812 Elizabeth Carter, of Canterbury; she\\nd. May 8, 1853. After his marriage he built the Frank\\nPrince house, and carried on the saw and gristmill with\\nhis brother James. The gristmill was located in the\\nsouth end of the D. S. Prince mill. He d. Sept. 19, 1838.\\n^y David C, b. May 9, 1S13; m. Nov. i, 1S36, Ro.\\\\ana Pingrey; he d. Sept.\\n16, 1S3S.\\n34. John D., b. Oct. 23, 1815. See.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0597.jp2"}, "584": {"fulltext": "544 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n35. Eliza J., b. Oct. 5, 1817, d. Sept. 26, 1839,\\n36. Mary A., b. May 16, 1820; m. (i) April 13, 1S41, Samuel Heath. He. d. March\\n26, 1847, by falling from the scaffold of the Frank Prince barn. She m. (2)\\nEdwin Scribner; she d. Feb. 7, 1859.\\n(34.) John Bartlett m. Nov. 12, 1839, widow Ruth M. (Pin-\\ngrey) Foster, and remains on the Pingrey farm. Their\\nchildren were\\n37. William B. was b. Oct. 3, 1840; m. Feb. 21, 1866, Kate\\nWoods, of Mattoon, 111. The Mattoon Commercial of\\nJan. 1883, in speaking of the annual meeting of the First\\nNational Bank in that city, and the election of Mr. Dun-\\nlap as its President, says For the past twenty years\\nMr. Dunlap has been connected with the banks of this\\ncity, and during the past four years has virtually dis-\\ncharged the duties of President and Cashier of the First\\nNational Bank, during which time the surplus and undi-\\nvided profit has been increased from $15,000 to $35,000.\\nMr. Dunlap justly merits the honor conferred and con-\\nfidence reposed in his financial ability and discretion.\\n38. Alpheus P., b. July 21, 1S43; he m. March 11, 1869, Mary M. Kenniston, of\\nAndover, where she was b. May 20, 1S43. Their children were i. Mary\\nK., b. May 30, 1870. 11. Walter E. K., b. Oct. 4, 1873. i- William B.,\\nb. Feb. 7, 1875. IV. George A., b. May i, 1879.\\n(18.) David early rem. to Schenectady, N. Y., where he was\\ntaught the saddler s trade under his uncle William, (16)\\nrem. to Newburyport, Mass., where he m. Feb. 4, 1824,\\nFanny, dau. of Abel and Bridgett (Smith) Bartlett, who\\nwas b. at Newburyport Jan. 15, 1801, and d. Sept. 24,\\n1829; he d. there in Nov. 1829.\\n39. Joseph D., b. Sept. i, 1S25; res. at Westfield, Mass.\\n40. William, b. Aug. 23, 1826. See.\\n41. Henry S., b. in Feb. 1828; m. Ruth E. Thompson and res. at Concord.\\n(40.) William was b. at Newburyport and after the death of\\nhis father came to Salisbury, to live with his uncle James,\\nwith whom he remained sixteen years, having school\\nadvantages and learning the mill business. He m. May", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0598.jp2"}, "585": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0601.jp2"}, "586": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0602.jp2"}, "587": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 545\\n22, 185 1, (i) Amelia T. Severance, and rem. to Concord,\\nwhere she d. March 31, 1855. Returning to Salisbury\\nin 1856 he m. (2) May 2, 1858, Ellen C, dau. of Richard\\nFellows, which see. Commencing trade Jan. i, 1857, in\\ncompany with Cyrus Gookin, he continued seventeen\\nyears. After the death of Mr. Gookin he purchased of\\nthe heirs and has since continued, to the satisfaction of\\nthe public generally. He has been postmaster at that\\npart of the town since its establishment.\\n42. Frank H., b. Jan. 8, iS6o; m. March 25, 1884, Carrie L. Prince.\\n43. Willie G., b. Dec. 23, 1863. 44. Fred. A., b. Nov. 20, 1872.\\nTHE EASTMAN FAMILY.\\nThe ancestor was Roger Eastman, born in Wales, in 1611.\\nHe emigrated to America in the ship Confidence, in 1638,\\nand settled at Salisbury, Mass, in 1640.\\nI.\\nEdward, accompanied with his small family, removed to Salis-\\nbury from Kingston, in 1765-66. Another record says\\nhe did not remove here until 1774. He settled on the\\nwest side of Smith s hill, where he cleared up a large\\nfarm and erected the buildings now occupied by Titus\\nH, Wardsworth. In addition to farming he did much\\ncoopering. He was a prominent man in the town, served\\nwith distinction in the revolutionary war, and was one\\nof the committee of safety. He d. April 12, 18 14, aged\\n82; m. May 6, 1758, Anna Judkins; shed. March 24,\\n18 1 7, aged JT.\\n2. Benjamin, b. June 19, 1759. See. 3. Joel, b. Nov. 23, 1760. See.\\n4. Hannah, b. Feb. 12, 1764; m. Dec. 29, 17S5, William Calef, which see. She\\nd. April 13, 1823.\\n5. Phineas, b. June 20, 1766.\\n6. Mchitablc, b. June 20, 1768; m. April 26, 1794, William iloyt, (see mer.\\nchants) d. without issue.\\n35", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0603.jp2"}, "588": {"fulltext": "546 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n7. Moses, b. Aug. II, 1770. See. 8. Nancy, b. Aug. 5, 1772 d. April 2, 1814, unm.\\n9. Abigail, b. March 5, 1775; unrn., aged So.\\n10. Samuel, b. April 4, 1780; when a young man he went west, m. and d. without\\nissue.\\nTQ\\n(^2.) Benjamin (Ensign) entered the revolutionary army at the\\nage of sixteen and was appointed Ensign in the militia.\\nHe built a two-story house at Shaw s Corner. In addi-\\ntion to farming he engaged in shoemaking. He d. April\\n28, 1814; m. March 23, 1788, Dolly, dau. of Daniel\\nBean. She was b. at Orford and d. January 13, 1853,\\naged 85.\\n11. Edward, b. Sept. 12, 1788; m. in 1811 Susan Cheney of Bristol he d. April\\n5, 1880.\\n12. John, _b. Jan. 13, 1791 d. Aug. 18, 1803.\\n13. Betsey, b. May 7, 1793; April 1824, David Bean, of Northfield d. April,\\n1856.\\n14. Nabby, b. April 21, 1795; d. Aug 20, 1S03.\\n15. Phebia, b. Oct. 21, 1797; d. Aug. 19, 1803.\\n16. Moses, b. Nov. 2, 1799; m. April 22, 1826, Irena Wells, of Salisbury; resides\\nat Danbury.\\n17. Daniel B., b. March 26, 1S02 m. Feb. 1827, Cynthia Whitcher, of Northfield.\\nHe d. in 1854; she died at Buda, 111., May 5, 1S82.\\n18. Abby, b. Jan. 25, 1805; m. 1822 Moses Sweatt, of Andover; she d. Jan. 11, 1837.\\nig.; John T b. Oct. 1808; m. May 29, 1830, Betsey Chandler, of Danbury. He\\nd. in November, 1879.\\n20. Benjamin F., b. July, 181 1 m. Sarah Leavitt, of Northfield. He d. July, 1878.\\n21. Nancy, b. Oct. 1813; d. May, 1814.\\n(3.) Joel, m. Betsey, dau. of Capt. David Pettengill. On her\\nmarriage her father presented her with the farm on\\nwhich they resided. Mr. Eastman built a large set of\\nbuildings, which were destroyed by fire in the winter of\\n1882. He was one of our most wealthy farmers and a\\nprominent citizen, enjoying the good will and respect of\\nhis townsmen, and all who knew him bear testimony to\\nhis uprightness of character. For more than forty years\\nhe was a member of the Congregational church. He d.\\nMay 23, 1849, aged 89; she d. Sept. 30, 1867, aged 105\\nyrs., 5 mos., 11 days. (For a sketch of this interesting\\nand remarkable woman see Capt. David Pettengill s\\ngenealogy.)", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0604.jp2"}, "589": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0605.jp2"}, "590": {"fulltext": "JOEL EASTMAN.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0606.jp2"}, "591": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 547\\n22. Sally, b. April 20, 17S6; m. June 12. 1813, Dr. Elijah Rowell, of Clarkston,\\nN. Y. She d. Aug. r, 1852.\\n23. Pettengill, b. Dec. 9, 1788; d. Dec. 10, 1788.\\n24. Pettengill, b. Nov. 18, 1789; d. Jan. 25, 1790.\\n25. Betsey, b. Dec. 12, 1790; d. in 1806.\\n26. Mehitable, b. Sept. 25, 1793; ^^c- 10. 1817, Moses Fellows; she d. June\\n7, 1836.\\n27. Nancy, b. Feb. 8, 1796; m. Dec. 25, 1822, Enoch Couch; she d. Sept. 26, 1828.\\n28. Joel, (Hon.) b. Feb. 22, 1798. He fitted for college at\\nSalisbury Academy, under the tuition of Henry Fitts,\\nentered Dartmouth College in his twentieth year, and\\ngraduated in 1824, with the second rank in the class of\\ntwenty-eight. The following obituary notice and accom-\\npanying resolutions are here appended, as evidence of\\nthe high estimation in which he was held by his fellow-\\ncitizens\\nHon. Joel Eastman, a distinguished jurist and an eminent public man, died\\non Sunday, March i6, 1S84, at Conway, N. II. He was born in Salisbury, that\\nstate, Feb. 22, 179S, and was a son of Joel and Betsey Pettengill Eastman. The\\nmother died Sept. 30, 1S67, at the age of 105 years, 9 months, retaining her faculties\\nto a remarkable degree until a short time before her decease. The son fitted for\\ncollege at the Salisbury Academy, and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1S24.\\nHis class numbered twenty-eight, of whom four are living. Among his classmates\\nwere Hon. Benjamin Bonney, LL. D., of New York, a former trustee of the college,\\nHon. Oliver P. Chandler, a lawyer of Vermont, Hon. Charles H. Peaslee, a lawyer\\nof Concord and Representative to Congress, and Abel Underwood, Judge of the\\nCircuit Court of Vermont. After graduation the subject of this sketch read law\\nwith Hon. Samuel I. Wells, at .Salisbury, and Hon. William C. Thompson, of Ply-\\nmouth, and having been admitted to the bar in August, 1S27, he located himself at\\nConway, which was afterward his home. The same ability and studious habits\\nwhich caused him to rank second in his class at Dartmouth soon gave him success,\\nand, before many years, an eminent rank as a lawyer, not only in his county but in\\nhis state. In politics he was a pronounced Whig, and on the stump he was a clear,\\neloquent and persuasive speaker. He early mingled in civil affairs, and in 1S36\\nwas elected member of the Legislature. The same honor was conferred upon him\\nin 1S37, 1S3S, 1853, 1854 and 1855. The latter year his colleague from Conway was\\nHon. Francis R. Chase, the Democratic Speaker of the House. In 183S he was a\\nWhig candidate for Congress, but was unsuccessful, as the Democrats were in pow-\\ner. In 1S39 he was a delegate to the Ilarrisburg National Convention, which nom-\\ninated General Harrison for President, and after his return home he took the stump\\nfor the ticket and did splendid service. He was appointed United States District\\nAttorney for New Hampshire in iS4i,and held that othce until the Polk adminis-\\ntration, when he was succeeded by Hon. Franklin Pierce. He was made Judge of", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0607.jp2"}, "592": {"fulltext": "548 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nProbate for Carroll County in 1S56, and held the office until constitutionally dis-\\nqualified by age in 1S6S. In 1861 he was a candidate for the Republican nomina-\\ntion to Congress, but Hon. Oilman Marston, of Exeter, was nominated and elected,\\nthe friends of Judge Eastman claiming that he would have been nominated had not\\na severe storm prevented a considerable number of his delegates from reaching\\nDover in season to participate in the convention. In 1863 he was nominated for\\nCongress but was defeated by Hon. Daniel Marcy, Democrat, of Portsmouth, by\\na plurality of 80. It was no secret that Judge Eastman s failure to be sent to Con-\\ngress was the bitterest disappointment he had ever received, and he never became\\nfully reconciled to it. In 1868 he was President of the New Hampshire Electoral\\nCollege. Judge Eastman was a man not only of a vigorous mental but physical\\nconstitution, and at the age of 85 he had not fully retired from the active duties of\\nhis profession. He was fortunate in financial matters and had a beautiful home,\\nwhere he always extended a most generous hospitality. He married, Dec, 1832,\\nMiss Ruth G. Odell, daughter of the Hon. Richard Odell, of Conway, who was\\ninsane for many years, but was most affectionately cared for until death by her hus-\\nband in their own home. She died April 8, 1S80; he died March 16, 1S84.\\nAt a meeting of the Carroll County Bar Association, at the Court House in\\nOssipee, on the 15th day of April, 1884, the following resolutions were passed in\\nrelation to the death of Hon. Joel Eastman\\nResolved, That in the recent death of the Hon. Joel Eastman, we recognize the\\nloss of an esteemed brother and worthy man. One whose great longevity was made\\nhonorable by his integrity, ability, unblemished character, successful professional\\npractice, and by his usefulness in all the varied relations of life.\\nResolved, That Brother L. D. Sawyer present the above resolution to the Court\\nwith the request that it be entered on the records of Court, and that the clerk be\\ndirected to send a copy of the same to Joel Eastman Morrill, of Conway, the nephew\\nand adopted son; and also to Oilbert Eastman, the surviving brother of the de-\\nceased.\\nSeldom does any man pass away to whose memory a more truthful and earnest\\ntribute can justly be paid.\\n29. Lucia, b. Aug. 3, 1800; m. Jan. 14, 1839, Moses Fellows; she d. Dec. 8, 1872.\\n30. Gilbert, b. July 5, 1S02. See.\\n31. Marcia, b. Sept. 15, 1S04; m. Jan. 23, 1826, John E. Forrest, of Northfield,\\nwhere she d. Dec. 2, 1871.\\n32. Betsey, b. Oct. 27, 1808; m. Jan. 12, 1832, Dr. Robert Morrill, of Canterbury.\\n5.) Phineas remained on the homestead, removing thence to Raccoon hill, where\\nhe d. Feb. 19, 1847 m. Judith Gale, of Concord, who d. P^eb. 16, 1855.\\n33. Susan, b. m. Shaw, and resided at New Boston.\\n34. Samuel, b. d. unm.\\n35. Mehitable, b. m. and became a noted writer.\\n36. Sally, b. m. James Jackman. 37. Edward, b. d. aged 17.\\n38. Charlotte, b. m. Houston and resided at Hanover.\\n39. Sophia, b. m. Eastman. 40. Edward, resided in N. Y.\\n(7.) Moses, Esq., (see lawyers); m. (i) Oct. 12, 1800, Sukey, dau. of Dr. Joseph\\nand Hannah (Colcord) Bartlett; she d. Nov. 6, 1S06 m. (2) Dec. 10,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0608.jp2"}, "593": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 549\\niSo7, Eliza Sweetser, of Charlestown, Mass. she d. at Baltimore, Md.,\\nJuly 5, 1855. Children all born in Salisbury.\\n41. Joseph Bartlett, A. M., b. Feb. 4, 1804. He graduated at\\nDartmouth College in 1821, read law with his father,\\nthen took up the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr.\\nPeter Bartlett, completed his studies, and was in practice\\nuntil 1 83 1, at Waterford, Me. He taught school at Sal-\\nisbury and Concord until 1835, when he began the study\\nof divinity at the Andover Theological Seminary, in the\\nclass of 1837. He was licensed to preach by the Addison\\nAssociation of Vermont, and is said to have been or-\\ndained a Presbyterian minister by the Troy Presbytery,\\nN. Y., in 1844. His ministry was spent at Sherburne,\\nVt., Caldwell, Sandy Hill, Ticonderoga, Greenfield,\\nPrinceton and Windsor, N. Y., where he d. Dec. 31,\\n1864. He m. Aug. 14, 1837, Mary, dau. of John Huse,\\nof Hill. His children were:\\n1. Harriet II. E., b. at Hurlington, Vt., May 3, 1S38; m. Joseph W. Brown.\\nII. Mary E., b. at same place, April 24, 1S40; m. G. M. T. Johnson.\\nIII. William, b. at Caldwell, N. Y., and d. iv. Charles F., b. at Cald-\\nwell, Aug. I, 1S44 graduated at Amherst College in 1S69, studied at Leip-\\nsic University and resided at Easton, Md. v. Joseph II., b. at Sandy Hill-\\nN. Y., Feb. 23, 1847 deceased, vi. John H. E., born at Sandy Hill, Aug.\\n23, 1849; graduated at Amherst College and taught Greek and Latin three\\nyears; studied at Union Theological Seminary, graduated in 1S75 and was\\npastor at Katonah, N. Y. vil. George E., d. young.\\n42. Elbridge G., b. graduated at West Point Military School and was a highly\\nrespected officer in the regular army; d. at Fort Gibson, Ark., 1S37, unm.\\n43. Elizabeth R., b. m. June 14, 184S, I ^lbridge F. Greenough. (See.)\\n44. William S., b. a merchant at Baltimore, Md., and d. in 1S3S, unm.\\n45. Charles J. F., b. m. and was a merchant for forty years at Boston d. 1S71.\\n46. Susan B., b. m. Sept. 30, 1S39, G. Bassett d. at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1S47.\\n47 Samuel J., b. died in 1S16.\\n4S. Ichabod B., b. m. and was a merchant at Baltimore, Md d. 1877, unm.\\n49. Sarah B., b. m. C. Coleman, of Buffalo, N. Y. He d. in 1S63.\\n50. Moses J., b. d. in 182 1.\\n51. Rebecca F., b. m. C. M. Fellows, a merchant at Boston, Mass., where he\\nd. in 1S78.\\n52. Francis H., a fur dealer; d. at Bismarck, Dakota, in 1877.\\n53. Alfred R., b. drowned in a pond in Hill, in 1842.\\n(30.) Gin)ert, m. June 23, 1S29, .Xbigail, dau. of Maj. Jabez Sn.ith remained on\\nthe homestead a few years, thence to Smith s hill, afterwards returning to", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0609.jp2"}, "594": {"fulltext": "550 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nSouth road, where she d. Jan. 3, 18S1, aged So. She was a most exem.\\nplary woman, possessing a fine memory, and through her long life was a\\ngreat worker.\\n54. Francis M., b. in 1832; d. April 28, 1S3S.\\n55. Gilbert B., b. Feb. 12, 1842 m. May 6, 1S60, Roxana Frazier. He d. Dec. 18,\\n1881. Children: i. Abby F., b. June i, 1S61. 11. Joeline A., b. Nov. 9,\\n1863; d. Feb. 18, 1S85. III. Joel, b. April 12, 1S66. iv. Charlie S., b.\\nFeb. I, 1S71. V. Christiana E., b. July 5, 1S73. Jennie B., b. March\\n31, 1876.\\nII.\\nColonel John Eastman, a relative of the above family, was b.\\nFeb. 25, 1741 m. Joannah French; rem. from Kingston\\nto Salisbury, where he d. Sept. 14, 1804. Nothing more\\nis known of the family.\\nIII.\\nWilliam Eastman came to Salisbury from Kingston he may\\nhave been the son of Samuel, who resided at Kingston.\\nMr. Eastman settled west of Centre road previous to\\n1776. Little is known of his family, of which there were\\nmany members. He m. Mary, dau. of Joseph Bean.\\nShe d. he m. (2) Jane Knight Merriam was one of\\nthe family a dau. m. Enoch Elliott another m. Joseph\\nElliott, and tradition says one m. Robert Barber.\\nIV.\\nEbenezer Eastman descended from the original ancestor, Rog-\\ner, (i) through Philip, (2). He was b. Dec. 20, 1644;\\nm. Aug. 22, 1675, widow Mary Barnard Morse; he had\\nEbenezer, (3) b. Feb. 17, 168 1, who m. March 4, 17 10,\\nSarah Peasley. He was known as Capt. Ebenezer, and\\nwas one of the first petitioners for the territory now\\nembraced in Concord. He was one of the most enter-\\nprising, useful and wealthy proprietors. Of his children\\nwas Moses, (4) b. Jan. 17, 1723, who m. in 1750 Eliza-\\nbeth Kimball, by whom he had", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0610.jp2"}, "595": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 55 I\\n56. Ebenezer, (5) b. at Concord, Oct. 19, 1765; m. Esther\\nFarnum, rem, to Salisbury and paid his first tax in\\n1797. For a time leased the Capt. John Webster mill\\non Chance pond brook, in what is now Franklin, after-\\nwards purchasing the mill and other buildings and three\\nhundred acres of land of Bailey Bartlett, of Haverhill,\\nMass., for $775.00, the deed bearing date of August 27,\\n1803. He was a man of extraordinary business capacity,\\nupright, honest and interested in every good work. The\\nland upon which the Congregational church at Franklin\\nstands was a gift from him to the society, as was also\\nthe school lot, given for educational purposes. Uncle\\nEbenezer, as he was familiarly called, was always ready\\nto do what he could for every moral and religious enter-\\nprise, and was the prime mover in getting the town of\\nFranklin incorporated. The falls above the bridge on\\nthe Pemigewasset river were named in his honor, though\\npeople still call them for the person for whom they were\\nfirst named, Capt. John Webster. He built a tavern on\\nthe site of the Webster House. He d. in the Nathaniel\\nFrench house, April 16, 1833, aged 6^. After his death\\nhis widow built the Rev. A. H. Martin house, where she\\nd. Oct. I, 1854, aged 82. The gravestone says his wife\\nwas Esther Lyford.\\n57. Judith, b. m. Dec. 31, 1S15, Caleb Morrill, of Plymouth; lo children.\\n58. Charlotte, b. Apr. 19, 1798; m. May 2i, 1823, Dudley Ladd. (See.) She d.\\nJan 30, 1826.\\n59. Franklin, b. m. Mary Morrison; 2 children.\\n60. Mary A., b. Feb. 8, 1S09; m. Dr. John L. Perley and resided at I.aconia. She\\nd. June 12, 1834.\\nTHE EATON FAMILY.\\nCOMPILED BY MRS. ABBIE S. BROWN.\\nI. Captain Samuel Eaton was born in Plaistow, Dec. 30,\\n1756; married Oct. 10, 1780, Lydia Ladd, who was born in", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0611.jp2"}, "596": {"fulltext": "552 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nKingston, Jan. 4, 1759. He was a descendant of the fourth\\ngeneration from Deacon Enoch Eaton, who came from England\\nin 1660. She died in Salisbury, March 29, 1839; he lived on\\nthe farm now owned by T. Rowleigh, and died March 7, 1826.\\n2. Hannah, b. May 14, 17S1 m. March 10, 1803, Moses Greeley; she d. August\\n8, 1833-\\n3. Lydia, b. April 25, 1783 m. March 4, 1S05, Peter Fifield she d. June 9, 18S0.\\n4. Sarah, b. Jan. 7, 1785; m. Dec. 22, 1814, Capt. Silas Call, of Boscawen. She\\nd. July 12, 1S36.\\n5. Samuel, b. Feb. 19, 1787; d. Aug. 11, 1792.\\n6. Mehitable, b. May 2, 1789, m. March 30, 1813, Caleb Smith. (See.) She\\nd. June 6, 1864.\\n7. Abigail, b. Sept. 2, 1791 m Dec. 24, 1815, Joseph Huntoon, of Andover. She\\nd. Dec. 4, 1S25.\\n8. Samuel, b Dec. 7, 1793; d. April 11, 180S.\\n9. John, b. March 29, 1^96; d. Sept. 22, 1797. 10. John L., b. July 27, 1798. See.\\n11. Lucy, b. Aug. 5, 1800; m. (i) June 25, 1822, William Jackman, of Enfield; he\\nd. July 2, 1832; m. (2) Feb. 14, 1835, Alstead Brownell. She d. April\\n29, 1872.\\n12. Jesse, b. May 13, 1803. See.\\n(10.) John L. m. (i) May 22, 1825, Mary Morgan, of Plain-\\nfield; she d. April 20, 1834; m. (2) March, [837, Lovey\\nBickford, of Me. She resided at Princeton, 111. He\\nlived in the house on the farm now owned by William\\nHolmes buildings removed. He moved to Princeton,\\nIII, was a successful farmer, and d. Sept. 7, 1870.\\nChildren of Mary: 13. Mary Ann, b. April 17, 1S26; m. Nov. 15, 1849, ^^^v. Ira\\nCase resided at North Scituate, R. I.\\n14. Betsey, b. in July, 182S; d. July iS, 1834.\\n15. Andrew J., b. in Oct. 1830; d. July 20, 1834.\\nChildren of Lovey:\\n16. Andrew J., b. in 183S. He was a successful farmer and res. at Princeton, 111.\\nI 7. Sarah E., b. in 1840 m. D. K. Warren, a dealer in lumber, also state senator.\\nresides at Astoria, Oregon.\\n18. Truman, b. in 1843; dealer in lumber and resides at Astoria, Oregon.\\n19. Lewis M., b. in 1845; former residence at Princeton, 111.\\n12.) Jesse m. June 10, 1832, Susan H. Rogers, of Lempster; she d. Feb. 22, 1872\\nhe lived on the homestead and d. Aug. 20, 1S61.\\n20. Samuel, b. May 5, 1833. See. 21. Mary R., b. Oct. 17, 1834; d. July 4, i860.\\n22. Ella H., b. Feb. 26, 1846; m. Nov. 1872, W. A. Brown; res. at Manchester.\\n20.) Samuel, m. (i) Dec. 10, 1857, Sarah J. Wormin, of Wheeling, Va. She d.\\nSept. 20, 1858; m. (2) Oct. IX, i860, Adello Fisher, of Princeton, 111. He", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0612.jp2"}, "597": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 553\\nis a merchant and resides at Chicago, III. Of six children three are now\\nliving: Jesse, b. Nov. 27, 1S65; resides at Chicago. Annie L., b. Dec.\\n12, 1867. Mary, b. April i, 1870.\\nTHE EVANS FAMILY.\\nEdward Evans was born in the city of Sligo, Ireland, of Irish\\nancestry. His family were protestants, very respectable and in\\ngood circumstances, giving Edward a good school education.\\nHe was of medium height, spare built, active and sprightly in\\nhis movements, possessing the Scotch complexion and was very\\ngood looking. He was attracted to the new world by the emi-\\ngration from Londonderry, Ireland, came over about 1760 and\\nsettled at Chester. He at once entered upon the pursuit of\\nteaching, and was the only instructor for several years, teach-\\ning in the different neighborhoods portions of the year 1766.\\nIn 1769 married Sarah the fifth child of the distinguished par-\\nson, Ebenezer (and Lucretia Keys) Flagg, of Chester, born\\nJuly 8, 175 1. Mrs. Evans is remembered as being a woman of\\nmarked sweetness of disposition and amiability of character,\\nwell-favored, and with fine natural endowments. It is said Mr.\\nEvans removed to Bow near the breaking out of the revolution-\\nary war, where he had his home till its close. He certainly\\nresided at Chester from 1766 to 1773. The tax list of Salisbury\\nfor 1775 shows him to have been a resident here at that date.\\nHe was regarded as a very successful and popular teacher, gen-\\nerally known as Master Evans. His services were in great\\ndemand, especially where discijiline was necessary to success.\\nHe was at Bunker Hill, but not in season to participate in the\\nfight. He served as secretary to Gen. Washington for a time,\\nand in the same capacity for Gen. Sullivan, his education and\\nespecially his excellency in penmanship fitting him for such a\\nposition. On the recommendation of Capt. Ebenezer Webster,\\nand by favor of Gen. Sullivan, he was commissioned Adjutant\\nof the second N. H. regiment of militia, Col. Stickney s. His\\ncommission, under date of July 18, 1777, was signed by Meshech", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0613.jp2"}, "598": {"fulltext": "554 HISTORY OF SALISAURY\\nWeare, President, and E. Thompson, Secretary, At Benning-\\nton Mr. Evans held the highest position in Capt. Ebenezer\\nWebster s company, and was engaged in the severest part of\\nthe battle. He was at Saratoga but did not participate in the\\nbattle. He also served in some of the campaigns in New York\\nand New Jersey, in the performance of his duties as adjutant.\\nServing until the close of the war he was honorably discharged,\\nand although entitled to a pension he declined to make appli-\\ncation. On his return he bought the Buzzell farm, with con-\\ntinental scrip, and built the house which was subsequently\\ndestroyed by fire. Master Evans took great pains in educating\\nhis children. They took their books into the field, where, after\\nworking awhile, they withdrew to the shade of a tree, where he\\ntaught them, writing on birch bark. Late in life he removed\\nto that part of Andover now Franklin, settling on the river\\nroad near his son Josiah, where he died May 26, 18 18, aged 82.\\nShe died July 29, 1831, aged 79.\\n2. Josiah, b. in Chester, 1770; m. Mary Wells; d. Feb. 7, 1847. He was a\\ncaptain in the state militia and a large farmer.\\n3. Richard, b. m. Lois Sargent; res. at Plainfield and Hanover.\\n4. Mary, b. second wife of John Colby, Sen of Andover, Franklin his first\\nwife being Susannah, dau. of Capt. Ebenezer Webster. (See.\\n5. Lucretia, b. m. Samuel Dyer, of Andover. She d. at Methuen, Mass.\\n6. Nancy, b. m. Samuel Pillsbury, of Danbury.\\n7. Ebenezer, b. 1775; m. Judith Wells; settled in Andover, now Franklin, where\\nhe d. Oct. 3, 1S2C. She d. 1813. Son Gilbert b. in Salisbury, Dec. 2,\\niSoS res. at Boston.\\n8. Sally, b. d. at Salisbury, aged 20, unm.\\n9. Betsey, b. m. Stephen Piper, of Sanbornton. She d. at Upper Gilmanton,\\nnow Belmont, Oct. 10, 1856.\\n10. Susan, b. Oct 24, 1793; m. Nathaniel P. Morrison. She d. at North Cam-\\nbridge, Mass.\\n11. Gardner, b.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 m. Lucy Danforth. He d. at- Hill, March 10, 1865, aged 74.\\n12. Edward, b. May 15, 1795; m. Dec. 26, 1S22, Phebe Morrison. He died at\\nSanbornton, Sept. 14, 1872.\\n13. John d. aged 29, unm.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0614.jp2"}, "599": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 555\\nTHE FARNUM FAMILY.\\nRalph Farnum, the ancestor of the Salisbury family of this\\nname, emigrated from Wales and settled at Andover, Mass.,\\nprevious to 1650, in which year he married Elizabeth Holt, and\\nhad seven children. The si.\\\\th son died at Andover, five sons\\nof whom were among the earliest settlers of Pennacook, now\\nConcord. The name has been variously spelled Farnum,\\nFarham and Farnham the latter orthography being undoubt-\\nedly correct, and is now adopted by many branches of the fam-\\nily, the signification of the name being fern home, or home\\nof the ferns. This beautiful etymology should lead to the\\nrestoration of the original name Farnham.\\nI. John Farnum removed here from Concord, settled at the\\nwest part of the town, and d. in the house at the Corner\\nwest of Mr. Alpheus Huntoon s. He was a farmer and\\nextensive land owner. He m. Aug. 16, 1798, Sarah\\nPeters, or Philbrick.\\n2. Betsey, m. Savery, at Corinth, Vt. 3. William. See.\\n4. Joseph, m. Sally Peters.\\n5. Ebenezer. m. Dolly Tucker. 6. Seaborn, d. in Vt. 7. Jacob. See.\\n8. John, m. Sally Phillbrick, and died in Vt. 9. Hannah, m. John Fifield.\\n10. Sarah, m. Nathan Tucker. 11. Benjamin, d. in Mass.\\n(3.) William, remained on the farm for a time, and then removed to Hill; d.\\nm. Eliza Tucker.\\n12. Moses. 13. Sebon. 14. Eliza. 15. Almon. 16. William.\\n17. .*^amucl, d. unm. 18. Hannah, m. William Lampeer, of Warner.\\n19. John, d. unm. 20. Kichard K., m. Mary Philbrick. dau. of John.\\n21. James, m. Dorothy Morrill; d. in the army. 22. Joseph d. in VVilmot, unm.\\n23. Daniel, m. April 22, 1S45, Mary E. Philbrick; d. .March 31, 1S72.\\n24. Job W., m. Oct. 31, 1841, Philbrick; d. in the army. She res. in Wilmot.\\n25. .Sarah, d. young.\\n26. Emelinc, m. i Wakeham, of Topsfield, Mass. m. 2 William Eddy.\\n27. Ebenezer, res. Wilmot. 28. Nancy, m. Elijah Keed, res. Unity.\\n(7) Jacob remained on the farm d. m. Nancy Tappan, of Corinth, Vt.\\n29. Nancy, b. 1816; m. Stephen Heath. 30. Martha, b. 1S18, d. 1S24.\\n31. Dorothy, b. Dec. 24, 1820; m. April 10, 1S43, Hiram French, of Salisbury; he\\nd. .she resided at Andover.\\n32. Hiram P arnum, son of Ebenezer, (4) m. Oct. 20, 1835, Betsey Philbrick; d.\\n33. Alonzo, b. .Aug. i, 1838; m. Martha Tilton, of Wilmot. Children: I. Oscar", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0615.jp2"}, "600": {"fulltext": "556 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nW., b. Oct. 1861. II. James F., b. July 23, 1864. in. Lizzie B., b. Oct.\\n29, 1870.\\n34. Mary R., b. Feb. 25, 1S46; m. Ira O. Heath, of Rumney. [The writer is not\\npositive about this family, as he obtained the records orally.]\\nTHE FELLOWS FAMILY.\\nI. Ebenezer Fellows married Dec. 171 8, Elizabeth she\\ndied Nov. 8, 1764. They had children as follows:\\n2. John, b. April 27, 1720. (See.) 3. Abigail, b. Nov. 6, 1721.\\n4. Moses, b. Dec. 31, 1723. 5. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 19, 1727.\\n6. Joseph, b. June 10, 1729; settled at New Britain, now Andover, in 1761.\\n7. Benjamin, b. March 16, 1730. 8. Anne, b. March 15, 1733.\\n9. Elizabeth, b. June 26, 1738.\\n(2.) John removed to Salisbury with his family, from King-\\nston, in 1766, building a small house by the northeast\\ncorner of the road which went to the Fellows house, de-\\nstroyed by fire in 1880. He was by trade a ship and\\nhouse carpenter, being one of the first house carpenters\\nin town. He d. in 1812, aged 92 m. (i) March 6, 1746,\\nElizabeth Blaisdell, of Kingston, who d. in Kingston in\\nJuly, 1766; m. (2) widow Mary (Tucker) Kenniston.\\nChildren by first wife\\nID. David, b. Oct. 6, 1746; m. (3) Tucker; had a son John who m. Betsey\\nEaton, of Weare, where they resided.\\n11. Adonijah, b. July 11, 1748. (See.)\\n12. Hezekiah, b. Dec. 16, 1750; d. at Cambridge, Mass., unm.\\n13. Ebenezer, b. July 9, 1753; served in the revolutionary war, and d. at Charles-\\ntown, Mass., unm.\\n14. Moses, b. Aug. 9, 1755. See.)\\n15. Sarah, b. Dec. 9, 1758; m. Benjamin Howard. See.)\\n16. Betsey, b. March 9, 1762; d. unm.\\n17. John, b. Feb. 7, 1764; m. Oct. 22, Prudence Stevens; lived and d. at\\nTopsham, Vt.\\n18. Hannah, b. June 17, 1766; m. William Terrill, of Deerfield, and settled at\\nCanterbury.\\nChildren by second wife\\n19. Richard, b. Aug. 14, 1767. (See.) 20. Daniel, b. Feb. 12, 1769.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0616.jp2"}, "601": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 557\\n21. Isaiah, b. April 29, 1771 m. Sept. 1792, Betty Hudson Tucker. Children b.\\nin Salisbury: i. Polly, b. Nov. 10, 1793. 11. Mehitable, b. March 6, 1795.\\nIII. Eliza C, b. April 28, 1797. iv. Isaiah, b. Feb. 27, 1799; d. March 23,\\n1799. V. Isaiah, b. June 2, 1800. The family removed to .Stewartstown,\\nwhere the old gentleman d. aged 94.\\n22. Mehitable, b. June i, 1773; m. John Collins.\\n23. Phebe, b. May 23, 1775; m. Joseph Collins; had four children who d. young.\\n(11.) Adonijah, at the age of nineteen years, was given his\\ntime and removed to Deerfield, where his children were\\nborn. In 1796 he returned to the Col. Pressey farm,\\nbuilding the present house. He d. in 1821 m. (i) Eliz-\\nabeth Rowell, of Kingston she d. April 6, 1797 m. (2)\\nJan. 4, 1798, widow Sally Clough, of Salisbury; m. (3)\\nwidow King, of Hopkinton.\\n24. Danieh m. French, a sea captain, who was shipwrecked and lost.\\n25. Betsey, b. d. young.\\n26. Rhoda, m. John Stevens and settled at Corinth, Vt.\\n27. Ebenezer settled southeast of his father; m. Oct. 15, 1797, Mercherba Stevens.\\nAfter the births of their children he removed to Tunbridge, Vt., where he\\nd. Children: i. Rowell, b. Feb. 28, 1798, and d. unm. 11. Nancy, b.\\nMarch 18, 1800; d. Nov. 24, 1804. iii. Sarah, b. July 23, 1802. iv. Isaac,\\nb. Aug. 23, 1S04.\\n(14.) Moses, in his twentieth year, fought at Bunker Hill, at\\nwhich time a ball fired by the British cut off the cord to\\nwhich his powder horn was suspended. With his last\\ncharge of powder and no ball he fired his ramrod with\\nsuch precision as to kill one of the enemy. He served\\nthrough the revolution, crossed the Delaware with Gen.\\nWashington, endured the winter s hardships at Valley\\nForge, and at the battle of Falmouth captured a British\\nofficer. He built the large red house occupied by his\\ngrandson, Moses H., where he d. in Feb. 1846. He m.\\nMay 20, 1782, Sarah, dau. of Reuben Stevens, who was\\nb. at Plaistow, Nov. 26, 1762, and d. in July, 1863, aged\\n100 years and 8 months. On her one hundredth birth-\\nday she gave a party to her large circle of friends, who\\nwere the oldest people in town. In her eighteenth year\\nher parents removed to Springfield. She attributed her", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0617.jp2"}, "602": {"fulltext": "558\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nA\\nlong life to a good constitution, regular habits and early\\nrising. She left 7 children, 63 grand-children, 131 great-\\ngrand-children, and I great-great -grand-child.\\n29. Hezekiah, b. Dec. 22, 1782; d. June 16, 17S3.\\n30. Hezekiah, b. June 18, 1784. (See.) 31. Moses, b. Jan. 26, 1786. (See.)\\n32. Reuben, b. Oct. 12, 1787; m. and d. in Canterbury.\\n33. Ebenezer, b. Jan. 21, 1790; m. Elizabeth Carr and removed to New York.\\n34. James S., b. Nov. 7, 1791 m. Polly Mary Calef, resided at Webster and\\nd. in Iowa.\\n35. Sarah, b. Dec. 4, 1793; Dec. 20, 180S, John Bowley, Burleigh.)\\n36. Samuel, b. Nov. 28, 1795; m. Betsey Williams and d. in N. Y.\\n37. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 14, 1797 m. John Tirrell and d. in N. Y.\\n38. Polly, b. Feb. 8, 1800; m. May 9, 1820, David Call, of Webster, where she d.\\nin Feb. 1863.\\n39. Meele, b. April 3, 1802; m. Eliphalet Little. (See.)\\n40. Adonijah, b. March 17, 1804; m. Polly Gerald, of Webster, and d. in N. Y.\\n41. Pierce, b. July 3, 1807. See.)\\n(19.) Richard settled on the old road to Boscawen, (Webster)\\nsouthwest of his Brother Moses. While on his way to\\nBoston with a load of goods he broke his back, maiming\\nhim for life, although he survived the accident fifteen\\nyears. He m. Rachel Scribner.\\n42. Benjamin, b: March 22, 1790; d. at Derry. 43. John, b. July 11, 1793.\\n44. Sarah, b. Nov. 8, 1794; m. Dec. 7, 1812, Moses Call. See.)\\n45. David, b. July 11, 1796; d. Feb. 20, 1797.\\n46. Margaret, b. Nov. 16, 1798; m. and resided at Goffstown.\\n47. David, b. Feb. 28, iSoo; m. June 4, 1823, Sophia Thurlow, of Newburyport,\\nMass., and resided at Boscawen.\\n(20.)\\n49.\\nDaniel remained on the homestead, following his father s\\ntrade of a cabinet maker, and made all kinds of farming\\nimplements. He built the Fellows house in 181 8, which\\nwas destroyed by fire in 1880. For some years he car-\\nried on a brick yard, south of the Stephen Fellows place,\\nand was a smart, energetic and respected citizen. He\\nd. May 7, 1863, aged 94. He. m. Nov. 28, 1789, Susan\\nStevens, who was b. Nov. 28, 1769, and d. April 26,\\n1864, aged 95.\\nMehitable, b. April 22, 1790; m. (i) Capt. Edward Berry, asea captain; m. (2)\\nAug. 10, 1S21, Benjamin Howard. See.\\nReuben, b. May 4, 1792; m. Hannah Heath, and d. in Michigan. It is tradi-\\ntional that he was the strongest man in the state. He easily lifted up to", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0618.jp2"}, "603": {"fulltext": ".^.^^t^.^", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0621.jp2"}, "604": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0622.jp2"}, "605": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 559\\nhis body the bell on the Congregational church, Lieut. Benjamin Petten-\\ngill only raising it from the ground. He served in the war of 1812.\\n50. Lydia, b. July 6, 1794; m. Moses Watson. See.\\n51. Stevens, b. Sept. 28, 1796. See.\\n52. John, b. Feb. 12, 1799; m. (i) Temperance ork, who d. in 1S32 m. (2) Lucy\\nRobinson and resided April 15, 1804, at Cornish. lie d.\\n53. Richard, b. July 16, iSoi. 54. Sargent, b. Dec. 9, 1803; d. April 30, 1S04.\\n55. Richard, b. April 6, 1S06. See.\\n56. Susan, b. March 31, 1S09; m. Samuel Smith; she d. Jan. 6, 1S64.\\n57. Daniel, b. Nov. 26, iSii; m. 1S36, Euphemia Greeley and res. in Michigan.\\nHe d. in Aug. 1SS7; she d.\\n58.5; Eliphalet, b. Jan. 8, 1S15; d. Feb. 21, 1816.\\n(30.) Hezekiah obtained such school advantages as his native\\ntown afforded, and became one of the best scholars in\\nthe academy. In 1820, in company with his brother\\nMoses, he removed to Corser hill, now in Webster, con-\\ntinuing there till 1830. He was town clerk from 1817\\nto 1855, when, in the sudden sweep made by the Know\\nNothing party, which had as quick decline as its rise\\nwas sudden, he failed of a re-election. He was a repre-\\nsentative to the legislature, with Ezekiel Webster, in\\n1810, 1824 and 1825. His word was as good as his note,\\nhis fellow-citizens trusted him implicitly, and he never\\nbetrayed their confidence. Although not a member of\\nthe church, he was a constant attendant at worship and\\ndid much for the gospel and when the Congregational\\nchurch was erected on Corser hill, in 1823, he presented\\nthe society with a pulpit bible. He was kind, genial\\nand unreserved in his ways. He d. Oct. 10, 1861 m.\\nDec. 13, 1806, Parmela F. Center; she d. Children\\nborn in Salisbury\\n59. Salome, b. July 26. 1807 d. Jan 23, 1823.\\n60. A son, b. July 11, 1809; d. Sept. 30, 1S09.\\n61. Catherine, b. Sept. 30, iSio; d. March S, 1S13.\\n62. Kbenczcr S., b. in 1813; d. Oct. 21, 1S29.\\n63. John, b. Oct. 7, 181 5. He graduated at Dartmouth Col-\\nlege in 1838, read medicine and practiced for a time at\\nLoudon, where he m. Leonora Hosmer, of Hoscawen.\\nHe subsequently removed to Concord, where he contin-\\nued in practice, and d. in 1873.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0623.jp2"}, "606": {"fulltext": "560 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n64. Moses, b. March 11, 1S18; d. July 14, 1819.\\nChildren of Ilezekiah (30) born in Boscawen\\n65. Catherine A., b. May 6, 1820; m. Feb. 23, 1837, Horace Gleason, of Boston.\\n66. Lucy S., b. May 27, 1822 d. Oct. 4, 1846.\\n67. George R., b. April 19, 1824; m. Fanny B. Wheeler; he d. Dec. 13, 1862.\\n68. Salome, b. Aug. 25, 1827 m. D. A. McCurdy.\\n{31.) Capt. Moses see his brother, (30) learned the trade\\nof a carpenter and joiner. He resided in the Rev. Ed-\\nward Boxton house, Corser hill. While his brother held\\nthe office of town clerk, the townsmen of Moses had\\nequal confidence in his ability as selectman, which posi-\\ntion he held from 1825 for eleven years, and also served\\nas representative in the legislature in 1832-35. He was\\nenergetic in business and brought the same fidelity to\\nthe discharge of his public duties that he gave to his\\nprivate affairs. In 1840 Mr. Fellows removed to the Joel\\nEastman house, destroyed by fire in 1882, where he d.\\nin 1864. He m. (i) Feb. 8, 1813, Miriam Bean, who d.\\nJuly 2, 1814; m. (2) Dec. 10, 1817, Mehitable Eastman,\\nwho d. m. (3) her sister, Lucia Eastman, who d.\\nMarch 20, 1864.\\n69. Miriam, b. m. Hiram Gage. 70. Caroline, m. F. W. Gile.\\n71. Charles W., m. Rebecca Eastman, of Salisbury. He was a merchant at Boston.\\n(41.) Pierce remained on the farm and d. in 1862. He m.\\nOct. 2, 1 83 1, Polly Saunders, who was b. at Grafton\\nDec. 13, 18 10, and d. May 31; 1881.\\n72. Elizabeth, b. June 17, 1S32; m. Aug. 2, 18S2, William Duckworth, and res. at\\nPennacook.\\n73. Samuel P., b. March 27, 1834; d. in Aug. 1843.\\n74. James B., b. Aug. 29, 1S37 d. in July, 1850.\\n75. Sarah, b. March 2, 1S40; m. James T. Minard and res. at Andover; she d.\\n76. Frank J., b. April 27, 1843; Boulder, Colorado.\\n77. George W., b. May 28, 1846. 78. Moses H., b. June 21, 1850.\\n79. John P., b. Nov. 27, 1854; d. April 2, 1S67.\\n(51.) Stevens built the house near that of his uncle Moses,\\ncontinuing there until the latter years of his life, when\\nhe went to Henniker, remaining with his son {81) where\\nhe. d. Nov. 9, 1880. Mr. Fellows was an extensive", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0624.jp2"}, "607": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 56I\\nreader, possessing a remarkable memory, and was well\\nversed in political and historical facts. In politics he\\nwas an uncompromising Democrat, and although ten-\\ndered town offices he declined. By honest dealing and\\nhard labor he gained a competence, and preferred to suf-\\nfer rather than do wrong. As he was about to leave his\\nold home he turned, raised his hat, and delivered the\\nfollowing\\nDear old house, I leave you at last,\\nFifty years with you I have passed;\\nMy children raised and filled my purse,\\nNow must I leave you for better or worse.\\nHe m. Oct. 19, 18 18, Mrs. Miriam Dow, dau. of John\\nTewksbury, of Sandwich, who d. Oct. 18, 1871, aged 74.\\n80. Susan H., b. Dec. 8, 1819; m. (i) Oct. 25, 1837, Caleb Eastman; m. (2) Lewis\\nC. Hardy, and res. at Prescott, Wis.\\nSi. James, b. Sept. 12, 1821. .See.\\n82. Betsey, b. Feb. 10, 182S; m. George Scribner, of Salisbury, and resides at\\nChandler, Wis.\\n(55.) Richard remained on the homestead until its destruc-\\ntion. He was a man strictly honest in his dealings and\\nmuch respected by his townspeople. He d. July 8,\\n1881 m. Feb. 22, 1832, Alice H. Watson, of Salisbury.\\nShe d. April i, 1882.\\n83. Matilda W., b. Jan. 14, 1S33 d. Jan. 19, 1S6S, unni.\\n84. Ellen C, b. July 16, 1834; m. William Dunlap. See.\\n85. Joseph W., b. April 2, 1836; m. (i) Feb. 7, 1856, Betsey J. Pierce; m. (2)\\nSusie Langmaid, and resides at Manchester.\\n86. Henry A., b. April 11, 1838; m. Aug. 10, 1869, Marion,\\ndau. of James and Jane Stevens Fellows. He was for\\nsome years a merchant at Ilopkinton, Contoocook\\nwas one of the founders of the N. H. Antiquarian Soci-\\nety, and the originator of the Philharmonic Club, of\\nContoocook, now a merchant at Winsor, Mo.\\n87. George E., b. Feb. 7, 1S41. See.\\n88. Frances A., b. June i, 1S44; m. (i) James Shaw; ni. (2) Walter Sargent, of\\nWarner.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0625.jp2"}, "608": {"fulltext": "562 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(8r.) James, son of Stevens and Miriam Fellows, m. (i) June\\n15, 1843, Jane, dau. of Daniel Stevens, of Salisbury,\\nwhich see; she d. July 8, 1885 m. (2) Aug. 22, 1886,\\nAmelia M. Stanley, of Hillsborough, dau. of Jacob\\nChandler. He purchased the Timothy Eastman place,\\nputting the buildings into their present shape. He was\\nselectman for four years, representative to the legisla-\\nture two years, and superintending school committee\\nsix years. In 1856 he was elected register of deeds of\\nMerrimack county, and re-elected for a second term. On\\nretiring from this office he removed to Hopkinton, N. H.,\\nwhere he continued in trade eight years, during which\\ntime he was chosen county commissioner for the years\\n1864, 1885 and 1886. He also served as justice of the\\npeace for twenty-three years. From Hopkinton he re-\\nmoved to Henniker, where he was for seven years en-\\ngaged in trade. In 1872 he operated a steam sawmill at\\nDorchester, where in the following March he lost his\\nleft arm. He then disposed of the mill, went to Boston\\nand rented the Massachusetts House, and afterwards the\\nCrystal House, at Hubbardston. Returning to Henni-\\nker, he purchased the Foster Grange place, and made\\nextensive improvements in fitting it for a summer hotel.\\nHis children were\\n89. Clara Adelia, b. Jan. 13, 1846; m. Feb. 22, 1S68, Charles Mackintire, of Pea-\\nbody, Mass.; d. Oct. 10, 1884.\\n90. Marion Awilda, b. July 22, 1848; m. Aug. 10, 1S69, Henry A. Fellows, of\\nSalisbury,\\ngi: John Stevens, b. June 18, 1850; d. Nov. 8, 1858.\\n92. Wilfred Dunbar, b. Aug. 16, 1852; m. Dec. 14, 1873, Mary Ellen Gordon, of\\nAndover. She d. April 8, 1S76; m. (2) April 20, iSSo, Emma V. Ander-\\nson, of Sedalia, Mo.\\n93. James Fred, b. Sept. 25, 1855; m. Jan. 19, 1S76, Lillian I. Davis, of Andover.\\n94. Nellie Stanwood, b. May 5, 1S59; d. Sept. 15, 1879.\\n95. John Henry, b. July 8, 1861 m. Sept. 26, 1885, Martha W. Campbell.\\n(87.) George E. carries on the ancestral farm m. Oct. 30,\\n1862, Hannah C. Morrill, of Salisbury.\\n96. Agnes M., b. April 10, 1864; d. May 2, 1864.\\n97. Kate A., b. Aug. 29, 1S67 d. Sept. 2, 1869.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0626.jp2"}, "609": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 563\\nTHE FIFIELD FAMILY.\\nFIVE BRANCHES.\\nJohn was the father of five sons, who removed here from\\nKingston. The church records of that town show the follow-\\ning Mary, baptized Dec. 8, 1743; Joseph, son of John, bap-\\ntized Feb. 14, 1748 David, baptized March 14, 175 i and John\\nand Mary, baptized Feb. 24, 1754.\\nI. John, b. in Kingston in 1733 m. Anna Snow, who d. Oct.\\n21, 1824, aged 84. She was a smart, capable and ener-\\ngetic woman, and was present at the birth of Daniel\\nWebster. Mr. Fifield purchased land of Col. Ebenezer\\nStevens, removing to Salisbury previous to 1771, build-\\ning a log house, in which he resided until 1776-8, when\\nhe erected the large house now occupied by his lineal\\ndescendant, John VV., at North road. He d. Oct. 24,\\n1824, aged 91. This aged couple were buried in the\\nsame grave.\\n2. Winthrop. See. 3. Mary, b. d. young. 4. Edward, removed to Maine.\\n5. Mary, b. m. Peter French. See.\\n6. Anna, b. m. William Searle, a brother to Rev. Jonathan Searle.\\n7. Joshua, b. Dec. 24, 1776. See.\\n(2.) Winthrop, (Capt.) served in the revolutionary war as a\\nmarine. He settled in Enfield and afterwards returning\\nto Salisbury he located on the old Mill road. He built\\ntwo houses west of Punch brook, the second being a\\nlarge frame house, painted yellow, which was destroyed\\nby fire in 1879. ^^s*^ erected a two-story brick house,\\non the rise of land east of the brook, known as the\\nmansion, which was also destroyed by fire. In this\\nhouse he d. Jan. lo, 1834. He m. March 11, 17S4, Me-\\nhitable, dau. of Benjamin Pettengill she d. Oct. 8, 1831.\\n(See also sawmills.)\\n8. Amos, b. Jan. i6, 1785. See. 9. Edwin, d. young.\\n10. Benjamin P., b. Jan. 27, 17SS. See.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0627.jp2"}, "610": {"fulltext": "564 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n11. John, b. Jan. 10, 1791 m. Hannah Babcock and resided at Hampden, Me.\\nHe d. Sept. 8, 1872.\\n12. Mehitable, b. July 18, 1793; Nov. 14, 1819, March Barber, of Canaan.\\nShe d. Oct. 25, 1875.\\n13. Sukey, (Susan) b. Feb. 25, 1795; d- Sept. 21, 1S03.\\n14. Israel, b. Aug. 17, 1798; m. Judith Taylor, of Danbury. He remained on the\\nhomestead, carried on several sawmills and d. Nov. 28, 1834.\\n15. Nancy, b. Feb. 28, 1800, and d. young.\\n16. Nancy, b. Jan. 1802; d. March, 1802. 17. Nancy, b. in 1804, and d. in 1805.\\n18. Winthrop, b. Jan. 3, 1806. See.\\n19. Polly, b. Sept. 23, 1808; m. Joshua Jackson and res. in Danbury.\\n(7.) Joshua, known as Squire Joshua, from his being a jus-\\ntice of the peace, being first appointed Jan. 25, 1795.\\nHe was ofificially associated with S. C. Bartlett, trans-\\nacted a considerable justice business and settled many\\nestates, being honest in all his acts and universally re-\\nspected. He was a large lumber dealer, and remained\\non the farm till deacon Amos removed from Danbury,\\nwhen he sold out and removed to what is now Franklin,\\nbuilding a brick house, now the Congregational parson-\\nage. Previous to his permanently leaving the farm he\\nremoved to the South road and resided in the Mrs. H.\\nC. W. Moore house, where he was postmaster from Oct.,\\n1826, to Dec, 1827. Contemplating a visit to St. Louis,\\nMo., he had a premonition that he should die before his\\nreturn, and made his will, leaving his business affairs with\\nJudge Nesmith. While on this visit he d. at St. Louis,\\nNov. 17, 1840. He m. (i) Susannah Sanborn, who was\\nb. July I, 1781, and d. Jan. 25, 1826; m. (2) Sept. 18,\\n1827, Louisa Smith, of Peterborough, who d.\\nChildren by first wife\\n20. Hiram, b. Jan. 16, 1802; d. Feb. 22, 1822.\\n21. Susan, b. Jan. 16, 1804; m. Aug. 1826, Dr. Robert Smith. See.\\n22. Joshua S., b. April 24, 1806.\\n23. Ann S., b. April 10, 181 5; m. Dec. 11. 1836, Calvin Gerrish; res. at Concord.\\n24. Mary B., b. April 29, 1817; d. Jan. 7, 1821.\\nChildren by second wife\\n25. John, d. young. 26. William H., d. young.\\n27. Mary M., m. in the west and d. there. 28. Louisa.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0628.jp2"}, "611": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 565\\n(8.) Amos, (Deacon) m. April lo, 1805, Hannah Sherburne, b.\\nat Kingston, March i, 1788, and d. Sept. 9, 1848. After\\nmarriage he removed to the south part of Danbury, clear-\\ning up a large farm, and resided there until 1832, when,\\nhis father s health failing, he returned to Salisbury.\\nAfter the latter s death, in 1834, he bought out his uncle\\nJoshua s share of the homestead and with his only son,\\nJonathan W., carried on the farm until his death, April\\n26, 1858. He was made a deacon while residing at Dan-\\nbury, and after his removal here was one of the influen-\\ntial members of the Babtist church. Children\\n29. Hannah, b. Oct. 6, 1806; m. Dec. 1S26, Abraham Shaw. She d. Nov. i, 1857.\\n30. Jonathan W., b. June 20, 1S08. See.\\n31. Nancy, b. June 4, 1814; m. Ezekiel Bartlett. She d. in Hill, Oct. 2, 1870.\\n32. Mary, b. Dec. 28, 1819; m. (i) Oct. 4, 183S, John Huntoon, who d. Jan. 19,\\n1854; m. (2) March 14, 1855, David Pavere, who d. Aug. 14, 1863; m. (3)\\nJan 28, 1865, Jonathan Arey. See.\\n(10.) Benjamin Pettengill resided for a time with his brother\\nAmos, at Danbury, thence removed to Franklin, resid-\\ning in the old Edward Eastman house. He d. at Dan-\\nbury, March 8, 1857; m. Dorothy Taylor, of Danbury,\\nwho d. March 28, 1844. Children\\n33. William, b. 182 1 d. Dec. 5, 1846. 34. Albert, died in California.\\n35. Winthrop, resides in California. 36. Martha, b. in 1828, d. Sept. 29, 1S46.\\n37. Dorothy, b. 1829, d. Oct. 25, 1856. 38. Mary A., m. and res. in the west.\\n(18.) Winthrop, (Rev.) read medicine with Dr. Jesse Merrill,\\nof Salisbury, Franklin attended medical lectures at\\nDartmouth, and practiced three years at Pittsfield. He\\nstudied theology with Rev. Jonathan Curtis, at Pittsfield,\\nand at Andover Theological Seminary, and was ordained\\npastor of the Congregational church at Epsom, May lo,\\n1837, continuing there ten years. He was then settled\\nat East Concord, March 24, 1847, and was dismissed\\nMarch 25, 1S50. Feb. 15, 1852, he began his christian\\nlabors with the Congregational church at South New-\\nmarket, continuing until his death. May 9, 1862, much\\nlamented by a kind and devoted people. Mr. Fifield", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0629.jp2"}, "612": {"fulltext": "566 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nwas modest and very unassuming in manner and pos-\\nsessed great faith through prayer. He m. (i) Oct. 1833,\\nSophia Garland, who was b. Feb. 10, 18 15, and d. Nov.\\n19, 1836; m. (2) Jan. 17, 1842, Sarah A. O., dau. of Jon-\\nathan Piper, who was b. at North wood, Dec. 26, 1821.\\nHis children were: i. Ellen, b. d. Aug. 19, 1836.\\nII. Charles W., b. at Epsom, Feb. 19, 1843. iii. Ellen\\nS., b. at Epsom, Dec. 5, 1845. iv. Ann E. G., b. at East\\nConcord, Dec. 4, 1848. v. Sarah H., b. at East Con-\\ncord, Jan. 26, 185 1. VI. John E., b. at South Newmar-\\nket, Nov. 2, 1857.\\n(30.) Jonathan Ward remained on the farm and d. suddenly,\\nFeb. I, 1874. He was a prominent Odd Fellow and a\\nman much respected. He m. (i) Theodora D. Dickin-\\nson, who d. April 22, 1850; m. (2) Elizabeth Rowell,\\nwho was b. at Alexandria, March 17, 18 19, and d, March\\n20, 1857; m. (3) the widow of Dr. Carr, of Sanbornton.\\nChildren\\n39. John W., b. Dec. 6, 1832. See.\\n40. Julia A., b. April 13, 1735 m. Nov. 25, 1855, Francis Shaw, who d. Feb. 1881.\\n41. Martha J., b. March 17, 1838; m. Charles W. Butler, of Lowell, Mass.\\n42. Mary H., b. June 25, 1843; m. Cyrus A. SuUoway, of Manchester.\\n43. George C, b. July 27, 1856; d. March 20, 1857.\\n(39.) John Ward succeeded his father on the farm, and has\\nheld several town offices. He m. Nov. 19, 1855, Martha\\nM., dau. of Jonathan Clark, of Danbury. In speaking of\\nthe Fifield house on this homestead, Daniel Webster\\n(who was born near) said he had lived to see seven\\ngenerations in the house. This being before the pres-\\nent occupant was married it must have been in the fol-\\nlowing way John, the grantee, (i) John, virho built\\nthe house, (ii) the old lady Snow, mother of John s\\nwife, (iii) Winthrop, (iv) Amos, (v) Jonathan W.,\\n(vi) John W., (vii) whose daughter Adelaide made the\\neighth generation.\\n44. Adelaide M., b. Dec. 16, i860, m. Aug. 1881, Leon Boswell, of Franklin.\\nShe d. 1888.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0630.jp2"}, "613": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 567\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n45. Jonathan Fifield, a brother to John, (i) was b. at Kings-\\nton in 1747, and removed to Salisbury previous to 1774,\\nsettling on the north side of the centre rangeway, at the\\ntop of the hill west of Parsons corner, where he built a\\nsmall frame house, it being the ell of the present F. S.\\nFifield residence, erected by him a few years later. He\\nserved at the battle of Bennington, in Capt. Webster s\\ncompany, and in other battles of the revolution, and was\\na man of much ability. He d. Jan. 15, 1828, aged 81\\nm. Dorcas Pearson, who d. June 10, 1833, aged 78. His\\nchildren were\\n46. John. See. 47. Enoch, b. Aug. 14, 1774.\\n48. Ebenezer O., b. June 29, 1781. He fitted for college at\\nSalisbury Academy and entered Dartmouth College with\\nEzekiel Webster, they being close friends. After grad-\\nuation, in 1804, he read medicine with Dr. Nathan\\nSmith, of Hanover, and when Daniel Webster went to\\nBoston to practice law Mr. P ifield went with him, and\\ncompleted his studies with Dr. Asa Ballard, the young\\nmen boarding and sharing the same room together. On\\nthe completion of his studies Dr. Fifield removed to\\nMaine, practicing in the vicinity of Bangor, but not lik-\\ning there he returned to Boston. It is said that after\\npracticing a short time he opened a store at Frankfort,\\nand afterwards one at Boston. On the breaking out of\\nthe war of 18 12 he entered as a surgeon on board the\\nship-of-war Oriole, This vessel was captured by the\\nFrench, and with others he was taken to France, remain-\\ning a prisoner for eight months. Returning to Boston\\nshattered in health, he went to Alexandria, Va., where\\nhe taught the academy. In 1823 he again returned to\\nBoston and was principal in the Bennett street school,\\nafterwards occupying a position in the old State Bank.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0631.jp2"}, "614": {"fulltext": "J\\n568 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nHis eyesight failing, in 1830, he left the bank and re-\\nmoved to Lowell, Mass., where he d. Oct. 22, 1859. He\\nhad a large circle of honored friends. He m. July 6,\\n1809, Anna G., dau. of William Gough, of Boston; she\\nd. April 15, 1875. Five children were b. to them, the\\nsurviving ones being i. Elizabeth, who m. John Bil-\\nlings. II. Ellen, m. both reside at Boston, Mass.\\n49. Pearson, b. Dec. lo, 17S4. See.\\n50. Levi, unm., went to sea, and d. at New Orleans, La.\\n51. Jonathan, d. in Virginia. 52. Reuben. See.\\n53. Sewall, b. m. (i) Sarah Sawyer, who d. May 6, 1855,\\naged 65 m. (2) in 1856, Mary Morrill, of Boscawen.\\nHe d. Dec. 4, 1871, aged 75. He was by trade a cabinet\\nmaker, and was a famous fifer in the old state militia\\ntimes.\\n54. Rebecca, b. m. Dec. 25, 1807, Capt. James Ruther-\\nford, who was b. at Newburyport, Mass., Nov. 18, 1769,\\nand d. at Troy, N. Y., Sept. 19, 1838. He was a sea-\\ngoing man for thirty years, and commanded a number of\\nvessels. During the period of the Embargo Act he\\ncame to Salisbury, married, and built the house now oc-\\ncupied by Mrs. George Kilbourne, fitting up the north-\\nwest front room as a store, remaining here till 1815. She\\nd. at Troy, Sept. 14, 1826; five children, all dead.\\n(46.) John resided east of Mrs. Wallace Sanborn, and d. in the\\nO. N. Tucker house. May 23, 1849, aged j^ m. May 27,\\n1793, Hannah Elkins, who d. Oct. 30, 1S50, aged 75.\\n55. Enoch B., b. March 27, 1794, and went west.\\n56. Philema A., b. Aug. 4, 1796, unm. and resided at Methuen, Mass.\\n57. Dorcas P., b. April 27, 1798; d. June 27, 1831, unm.\\n58. Sarah B., b. Dec. 9, 1799; m. Shepherd, the hotel keeper at South road,\\nand d. at Manchester.\\n59. Henry E., b. Jan. 29, 1802; m. and removed to Michigan.\\n60. Thomas, b. Jan. 10, 1804; d. March i, 1805.\\n61. Judith E., b. Aug. 6, 1805; m. (i) Benjamin Thompson; m. (2) Moses Calef.\\nSee.\\n62. Thomas E., b. Dec. 8, 1S07, and went west.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0632.jp2"}, "615": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 569\\n63. Nancy G., b. Oct. 6, 1S09, and res. at Methuen, Mass.\\n64. Hannah C, b. May 8, i8io; m. Darius Messer and d. at Methuen, Mass.\\n65. Mary J., b. Nov. 4, and res. at Methuen, Mass.\\n(47.) Enoch resided on the Dr. W. W. Sleeper place. He m.\\nin 1798, Abigail Stevens, who was b. at Salisbury, Mass.,\\nFeb. 12, 1778, and d. Feb. 20, 185 i.\\n66. James, b. Oct. 23, iSoo m. Catherine Richards, but had no children. He\\nd. April 21, 1S39. He resided on Cash street, where he made and gilded\\nlooking-glasses and picture frames, afterwards removing to Jackson, Mich.\\n67. Osgood H., b. April 4, 1S04, and d. at Jackson, Mich., Nov. 16, 1872.\\n68. John S., b. Sept. 5, 1806, and d. at Jackson, Mich., Feb. 25, 1872.\\n69. Levi, b. March 7, 1S07 m. Hannah Osgood, dau. of Aaron Adams, and re-\\nmoved to Jackson, Mich., where he d. June 8, 1878.\\n70. George W., b. Sept. 7, iSio; resides at Jackson, Mich.\\n71. William P., b. July 7, 1S13, and d. Feb. 12, 18S0.\\n72. Abigail S., b. Aug. 29, 1S15; m. Woodworth, and d. at Jackson, Mich.,\\nSept. S, 1S5S.\\n73. Newell J., b. Dec. 8, 1S17; m. Mehitable Stevens.\\n(49.) Pearson removed to Frankfort, near Winterport, Me.,\\nin 1808, and m. Rebecca, dau. of Stephen Atwood,\\nHe worked at the trade of tanner, currier and shoe-\\nmaker. In 1 812 he returned to Salisbury with his wife\\nand one child. From Salisbury he was drafted into the\\narmy and served at Lake Champlain. In 181 5 he rem.\\nto Vassalboro, Me. By his first wife he had si.x children,\\nthe youngest, Harriet B., b. June 9, 1828. She m.\\nDec. 10, 1855, Josiah S. Richards, and resides at Molina,\\n111. In 1834 Pearson m. (2) Mary H. Whitcomb, of Bos-\\nton, Mass., by whom he had two daughters, the young-\\nest, Anna D., residing at Hampden, Me.\\n(52.) Reuben remained on the homestead, and d. April 28,\\n1841 he m. Mary Healey, who d. Oct 23, 1858, aged 62.\\n74. Caroline 15., b. Oct. 5, 1S19; m. Jan. 6, 1S5S, Moody A. Kilbum, of Boscawen,\\nwho d. July 25, 1875. ^^c Sept. 22, 1S80.\\n75. Eveline C, b. Nov. 30, 1S21, and d. Nov. i, 1861, unm.\\n76. Joseph H., b. March 18, 1S26; m. (i) Thankful who d. Oct 10, i860; m.\\n(2) Alvina Gentleman, and res. at Jackson, Mich.\\n77. Frederick S., b. Aug. 27, 1827, remains on the homestead,\\nis a deacon ot the Baptist church, and has also served", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0633.jp2"}, "616": {"fulltext": "570 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nthe town most faithfully. He m. June ii, 1862, Mary\\nA., dau. of Joseph and Mary Taylor Hutchins, who was\\nb. at Charlestown, Mass., June 4, 1842.\\n78. Fred. H., b. March 16, 1866. 79. Grace M., b. Feb. 16, 1874.\\nTHIRD BRANCH.\\n80. Abraham Fifield, (Ensign) a brother to John, (i) and Jon-\\nathan, (45) is said to have come from Hampstead, but\\nwas a native of Kingston. He settled on the farm now\\noccupied by B. F. Shaw, building the house. In the war\\nof the revolution he served at Bunker Hill, and was in\\nCapt. Webster s company at Bennington, being the sec-\\nond man that crossed the breastworks. He d. June 9,\\n1840; m. Abigail Sulloway, of the Centre road village,\\nwho d. May 9, 1838, aged 83.\\n81. Peter, b. May 20, 1781. See. 82. Betsey, d. unm. Feb. 27, 1856, aged 77.\\n83. Abigail, d. unm. Aug. 13, 1848, aged 62.\\n84. Amos, b. m. May 22, 1813, Agnes Greenough, who d. in Salisbury. His\\nchildren were: I. Melinda, b. in 1815, and d. Dec. 7, 1817. 11. William,\\nb. in 1819, and d. Dec. 27, 1S24.\\n85. Daniel, continued on the farm and d. July 21, 1S45, ^g^d 48.\\n86. Samuel, removed to Michigan where he d. He m. Sarah Norris, of Danbury.\\n(81.) Peter purchased the Chase farm, on the southwest slope\\nof Loverin hill, removed to Andover in 18 14, (i*) and d.\\nNov. 17, 1856; m. Lydia, dau. of Samuel Eaton. (See.)\\nShe d. June 9, 1880.\\n87. John L., b. Aug. i, 1S05; m. Laura Cushman. He read medicine with Dr.\\nElkins, at Andover, and became a successful practitioner at Victoria, III.,\\nwhere he still resides,\\n88. Peter F., b. April 7, 1812 m. Aug. 2, 1842, Mary Norton. He was a farmer\\nand d. at French Grove, III., July 7, 1880.\\n89. Samuel, b. in Andover, Sept. 24, 1816; m. Laurena, dau. of Moses Stevens,\\nof Canterbury, and d. at Buda, 111., March 23, 1869.\\n90. Hiram, b, Nov. 14, 1818 m. Mary E. Holmes and res. at Andover.\\n91. Silas C, b. Jan. 7, 1821 m. Lucy A., daughter of William Jackman, of En-\\nfield, and res. at Andover.\\n92. Lucy J., b. Aug. i, 1826; m. Marcus Nelson and res. at New London.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0634.jp2"}, "617": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 5/1\\nFOURTH BRANCH.\\n93. Edward Fifield, a brother of John, Jonathan and Abraham,\\n(i, 45, 80,) removed here in 1776, settling on the farm\\nnow owned by Michael Lorden. After a few years he\\nsold out and removed to Meriden, then nearly a wilder-\\nness, purchasing 250 acres of land, and building a large\\nframe house, still standing, one half mile from Kimball\\nUnion Academy, where he d. Aug. 19, 1834, aged 83.\\nThis would make him nearly the same age as Ensign\\nAbraham. With his brothers he served in the revolu-\\ntionary war. He m. Dorothy Sleeper, who d. Aug. 26,\\n1827, aged 79. They had twelve children, all born in\\nSalisbury, as follows\\n94. Dorothy, d. unm. 95. Ira. 96. Josiah, removed to Irasburg, Vt.\\n97. Susan, m. Everiston Jennings and resided at Queechee, Vt. Had seven chil-\\ndren, all d. but E. J. Jennings, who. m. Maria Jones and res. at Wood-\\nstock, Vt.\\n98. Lydia, m. Oliver Taylor, and rem. to N. Y. 99. Mehitable G., d. unm.\\n100. Phebe, m. Enos Richard, or Ricard, and resided at Weathersfield, Vt. Re-\\nmoved to Plainfield, Vt. and died.\\nloi. Perley, m. Marian, dau. of Capt. Nathaniel Morgan; she d. May 29, 1S49,\\naged 52; he d. June 11, 1863, aged 75.\\n102. James, (M. D.) b. m. Lucinda Palmer, of Claremont, where he practiced\\nmedicine and d. April 30, 1S27, aged 23- She d. Aug. 22, 18S1, aged 78.\\n103. Edward, m. and d. at Weathersfield, Vt.\\n104. Lucinda, b. at Meriden, and m. Cyrus IJeckley.\\n105. Jesse, (M. D.) m. Susan Burnham and settled at Waterloo, N. V. Had four\\nchildren and the youngest m. D. N. Burnham, Esq., and resides at 1274\\nIndiana Avenue, Chicago, 111.\\nFIFTH BRANCH.\\n106. Joseph,* brother to the foregoing heads of families,\\n(i, 45, 80 and 93,) was b. at Kingston in 1740, and was\\nthe first of the family to locate here, having removed to\\nSalisbury previous to 1769, building a large two-story\\nhouse on the site occupied by Mrs. Tenney s residence,\\nat Parsons corner. His gravestone in the Baptist church-\\nIn this sketch there are undoubtedly many inaccuracies, as the compiler has\\nbeen able to gather but little trustworthy information.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0635.jp2"}, "618": {"fulltext": "572 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nyard at Centre road has this inscription Esqr. Joseph\\nFifield, d. Sept. 29, 1813, aged 73. He was also called\\nEnsign Joseph, and served in the revolutionary war.\\nHe m. Badger.\\n107. Sherburne. See. loS. John. See. 109. Joseph.\\nno. Amanda, m. John Chellis. in. Ezra,seei39. 112. Jonathan. See.\\n113. Miriam, m. Joseph Adams.\\n114. Polly, m. March 13, 1796, Deacon William Gate. 115. Josiah. See.\\n(107.) Sherburne erected a large house near the present house\\nof Mrs. L. B. Graves, and subsequently removed to the\\nCollege road west of the George Farm, where he died.\\nHe m. (i) Nov. 29, 1785, Alice Barnard, who d. May 8,\\n1791 m. (2) Nov. 20, 1791, Elisabeth Sanborn.\\n116. Stephen, b. March 20, 1787; m. Hannah, dau. of Moses Morse and removed\\nto Meriden.\\n117. Polly, b. Nov. 12, 17S8, and d. unm.\\n118. Moses, b. June 6, 1793; m. Sally Bachelder, of Andover, and rem. west.\\n119. Joseph, b. Jan. 25, 1795; Nichols, settled in Hill and rem. west.\\n120. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 23, 1796, and d. young.\\n(108.) John, called Mountain John, settled in Kearsarge\\nGore, removing thence to the foot of Garland hill, where\\nhe died. He m. (i) Betsey, dau. of Capt. Benjamin Pet-\\ntengill m. (2) Hannah Farnum. His children by first\\nwife were\\n121. Moses, removed to N. Y.\\n122. Amos P., m. (i) Sally Tucker; m. (2) and removed to N. Y.\\n123. Levi, lived in Warner and afterwards went to Illinois.\\n124. Benjamin P., m. Merrill and d. in Canaan; she d. May 3, 18S3.\\n125. Eliza, m. Ransom Brooks and d. in Claremont.\\n126. Ruth, m. William Forest and d. in New York.\\nChildren by second wife\\n127. True, m. Conner and resided in Andover, 128. David.\\n(109.) Joseph (Ensign) m. Hannah Pettengill, of Newburyport,\\nMass., and removed to Plainfield.\\n129. Nancy B., m. David Winkley, of Strafford. Children: i. Alonzo, m. Eliza-\\nbeth Daniels, of Plainfield, and res. in Iowa. 11. Mary A., m. Martin Cole\\nand res. in Meriden.\\n130. David. 131. Polly, m. Calvin Fifield, of Plainfield, and res. in Meriden.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0636.jp2"}, "619": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 5/3\\n132. Joseph, m. Ann Powell, of Pottsdam, N. Y.\\n133. Rosannah, m. (i) David Raymond. m. (2) King, and resided at\\nPottsdam, N. V.\\n134. Jefferson, m. Klizabeth Wilcox, of Orford. 135. Hannah, d. unm.\\n136. Dorothy, res. at Plainfield. 137. m. Oliver Raymond res. at Plainfield.\\n(112.) Jonathan (Ensign) resided with Sherburne Fifield and\\nthence removed to the Dr. G. P. Titcomb house, where\\nhe died.\\n138. Frank, learned the cabinet maker s trade of Deacon Parsons; m. Hannah\\nFifield he d. and his widow again married.\\n139. Thankful A., m. John Severance, of Andover, and removed west.\\n140. Adelaide, d.\\n(115.) Josiah, or Ezra. I do not know whether this is\\nthe son of Ensign Joseph or not. He lived on the Sher-\\nburne Fifield place and was twice married.]\\n141. Sherburne, resided at Deerfield. There were also: David, who m. Polly\\nBrooks and d. in Plainfield Calvin, m.\\n142. Benjamin Fifield was at Rumford (Concord) Jan. 2,\\n1747-8, and signed the petition to Benning Wentworth\\nto furnish a guard for the gristmill at that place. He\\nalso signed the Association Test Act. He m. Han-\\nnah Peters, who d. March 8, 1794.\\n143. Mary, b. April i, 1748; m. Ezra Carter and res. at New Marlborough, Me.\\n144. Obediah P., b. Aug. 31, 1749. See. 145. William, b. May 6, 1751. See.\\n146. Hannah, b. Dec. 21, 1752; m. Bagley.\\n147. Benjamin, b. Oct. 4, 1754, and settled soon after his brother, Obediah P., at\\nthe top of the hill west of M. J. Stevens. He m. (1) Mehitable Bean and\\nresided on the farm now occupied by ICrncst C. Currier, thence removing\\nto Grafton. He m. (2) Susanna Chote, of Chelsea, Vt.\\n148. Jonathan, b. Aug. 9, 1756. 149. Sarah, b July 13, 1758.\\n150. Paul, b. Aug. 5, 1760; m. Temperance Furber and removed to Maine.\\n151. John, b. May 20, 1762; m. Phebe P ry.\\n152. Moses, b. Aug. 11, 1764, and resided at Plainfield.\\n153. David, b. Jan. 16, 1767, and resided at Plainfield.\\n154. Shuah, b. Jan. 27, 1769; m. Zeneth Wheeler, of Concord, and rem. to N. Y.\\n(144.) Obediah Peters, at the age of 32, (viz. in 1781 removed\\nto the western part of the town, settling on the north\\nside of the centre rangeway, beyond M. J. Stevens, the\\nold cellar hole still remaining, he and the Scribners", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0637.jp2"}, "620": {"fulltext": "574 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nbeing the first settlers in that neighborhood. He. m.\\nSarah, dau. of Sinclair Bean.\\n155. Elizabeth, m. Aug. 6, 1793, Moses Stevens.\\n156. Benjamin, b. Aug. 8, 1777. See. 157. Polly, m. David Tenney, of Hill.\\n158. Sally, m. March 3, 1807, Ebenezer Mason, of Hill.\\n159. Jonathan, m. March 17, 1806, Hannah Thompson, of\\nSalisbury. He was by trade a blacksmith, and was noted\\nfor his ingenuity in the manufacture of iron tools of all\\ndescriptions and the tempering of steel. He resided for\\na time east of his father s, afterwards removing to War-\\nner. Children i. Benjamin, m. Caroline Perkins, of\\nSouth Boston, Mass., and resided in Sutton. He had\\nseventeen children, six b. in Salisbury.\\n160. Susan, m. Russell Adams.\\n161. Obediah, m. (i) Hildreth, of Sutton; m. (2) Rebecca Savery, of Kearsarge\\nGore, Warner. He was by trade a blacksmith and removed to New York,\\nwhere he died.\\n162. Shuah, m. Jan. 12, 181 5, Israel Bean. See.\\n163. Elizabeth, m. Thomas Dickinson.\\n(155.) Benjamin remained on the farm and with the assistance\\nof his father built the large double house, (near the site\\nof the first house) destroyed by fire some years ago.\\nThis house was the largest dwelling in that part of the\\ntown and was a prominent landmark. He removed to\\nWilmot in 1837, and d. Jan. 10, 1842; m. Rachel\\nChote, of Enfield, who d.\\n164. Mary, b. Oct. 2, 1801 m. in 1S20, Samuel Currier. He d. she d. Dec. 8,\\n1884. Children i. Lavina, b. m. Elisha R. Ilorton, both dead.\\nII. James, m. Sarah Bean. He d. in. Clement S., d.\\n165. Asa, b. in 1815; m. (i) Lydia Eastman, of Andover; m. (2) widow Sarah\\nBailey, who d. He res. in Wilmot.\\n166. Abigail, b. in 1817, and m. Jonathan Bean.\\n167. Sarah, b. Feb. 11, 1824; m. Thomas Addison, of Weare. She d.\\n(145.) William resided at the East Village, (Franklin.) He\\nwas a miller by trade, and employed by Ebenezer East-\\nman to conduct his gristmill. He removed here in 1799\\nand d. in 1822; m. Nov. 21, 1776, Dorothy Eastman,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0638.jp2"}, "621": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 575\\ni68. Molly, b. Sept. 30, 1777; drowned in 17S6.\\n169. Jeremiah, b. March 20, 1779 and removed west.\\n170. Rebecca, b. Sept. 22, 17S2; m. Ralph Webster. She d. aged 90 he d.\\nin 1S54.\\n171. William, b. Oct. 24, 1784, and settled at New Hampton.\\n172. Moses, b. Oct. 20, 17S6, and settled at Northfield, Mass. He m. (r) Sylvia\\nWarren.\\n173. Philip, b. Dec. iS, 1788, and d. young.\\n174. Molly, b. Aug. 9, 1791 m. Benjamin Judkins. See.\\n175. Susan, b. Nov. 12, 1793-94; m. (i) John Robertson, who d. Feb. 2, 1825; m.\\n(2) Nov. 18, 1849, Jeremiah Sanborn. She d. Jan. 17, 1869.\\n176. Sally, b. Jan. 3, 1796; m. May 22, 1817, John Russell, Jr., who was b. at An-\\ndover. May 30, 1793, d d. at Franklin, May 25, 1867 she d. July 5, 1868.\\n177. Ruth, d. aged 7 years.\\nTHE FITZ FAMILY.\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nThe ancient source of this family in America was Sir John\\nFitz, of Fitz-ford, Devonshire county, England, in the 13th\\ncentury. The immediate American ancestor of the Fitz (or\\nFitts) family was Robert Fitz, (i) who, with his wife, Grace\\nD., were among the original settlers of Salisbury, Mass., as\\nearly as 1639, first settling in Ipswich, in 1835. He left one\\nson, Abraham, (2) who m. (i) May, 1655, Sarah Thompson m.\\n(2) Jan. 7, 1668, the widow of Tyler Ikadley among the child-\\nren by his second wife was Richard, (3) b. Feb. 26, 1672 m.\\nApril, 1727, Sarah Brown, and settled at South Hampton. He\\nhad Daniel, (4) b. Sept. 25, 1729; m. Abigail Currier and set-\\ntled at Sandown. He had Richard, (5) b. Aug. 8, 1758; m.\\nDorothy Kimball and settled at Sandown had nine children.\\nFn ST BRANCH.\\n6. Daniel, the eldest, b. at Sandown, March 7, 1789, where he\\nm. (i) Nov. 12, 1812, Abigail Mitchell, who was b. at\\nHaverhill, Mass. He removed to Salisbury in 18 18,\\npurchasing the farm of Abial VVardwell, known as the", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0639.jp2"}, "622": {"fulltext": "576 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nSinkler Bean farm. In April, 1836, he removed to\\nthat part of Boscawen now Webster, where he d. July\\n13, 1865 she d. Dec. 27, 1837, aged 49; m. (2) March\\n17, 1846, Sarah A. Weeks, of Hopkinton. By his second\\nwife he had no children. Mr. Fitz was a man of positive\\ncharacter, indomitable energy, and a public spirited citi-\\nzen. Embracing Christianity in 183 1, with others, he\\nestablished the Union meetinghouse. After his re-\\nmoval to Webster he was one of the foremost members\\nof the society in building the Methodist church. His\\npolitical creed was that the people should govern.\\n7. Almira, b. Sept. 2, 1813; m. May 9, 1S75, John Tebbett.s, of Cliarlestown,\\nMass. She d. March 10, 1879.\\n8. George Washington, b. April 21, 18 15. By trade he was a\\nmiller and dealt in grain at Cambridge, Mass. He be-\\ncame one of the early settlers of Lawrence, Kan., where\\nhe entered into the struggle to prevent border ruffian-\\nism. He m. at Cambridge, May i, 1842, Sarah A.\\nThompson, who d. April 22, 1851 m. (2) Ellen Malone.\\nHad five children by his first wife, three of whom died,\\nand five children by his second wife.\\n9. Cyrus, b. Sept. 16, 1S18. See.\\n10. John Mitchel, (M. D.) b. Oct. 19, 1820. He attended the\\nschool at the South road, living with Mrs. Andrew Bow-\\ners, and then entered the Samuel Greenleaf store where\\nhe remained during his minority. In 1845 began the\\nstudy of medicine under Charles P. Gage, M. D., of Con-\\ncord. He also attended medical lectures at Harvard,\\nand after some years of study and practice graduated at\\nDartmouth Medical College in 1865. He began the\\npractice of medicine at Bainbridge, Ga., and in 1849 lo-\\ncated at Vershire, Vt. In 1852 he opened an office at\\nWarner, remaining there till 1865, when he removed to\\nSouth Sutton, and thence to Bradford, where he contin-\\nued with a large and successful practice. He was an", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0640.jp2"}, "623": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 5/7\\nactive member of the N. H. Medical Society, and one of\\nthe first members of the state board of censors, to exam-\\nine medical graduates for a license. A man of great\\nperseverance, and gifted with quick faculties of percep-\\ntion, he arrived at a diagnosis seemingly by intuition\\nhe never failed to respond to a professional call, by rea-\\nson of the pecuniary circumstances or on account of the\\nweather. He m. April 13, 1858, Nancy, dau. of H. B.\\nChase, of Warner; he d. Feb. 8, 1883.\\n11. Orlando H., b. Nov. 5. 1S22 d. Aug. 21, 1825.\\n12. Mary 13., b, Feb. 28, 1825. She was a school teacher of considerable note.\\n13. Harriet E., b. April 8, 1S27; m. Aug. 13, 1854, John \\\\V. Colby, of Franklin.\\nHe d. at Lawrence, Kan., Feb. 8, 1875.\\n14. Orlando H., b. Jan. 8, 1830; m. (i) Aug. 28, 1866, Mrs. Julia M. Foster; m.\\n(2) April 14, 1870, ^lary S. Worth, by whom he had John L., b. Oct. 28,\\n1875, and resides at Webster.\\n15. Daniel, b. April 22, 1832; d.\\n(9.) Cyrus, in the winter of 1832-3, began work for Dr. Peter\\nBartlett, remaining two years. In 1837 he was commis-\\nsioned Ensign of the Boscawen infantry, afterwards ris-\\ning to the rank of Captain. Under the pastorate of the\\nRev. John French, he united with the M. E. church, (in\\n1847) and since 1875 he held church office. In 1S44 he\\nremoved to Cambridge, Mass., where he followed the oc-\\ncupation of a miller. Returning to Webster in 1846, he\\nfollowed the same business for two years, when he rem.\\nto Little s hill, where he has a large and productive\\nfarm. He m. July 3, 1843, Elizabeth Corser has eight\\nchildren, seven of which were born at Webster.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n16. Richard Fitz, a brother of Daniel, (6) was b. Dec. 6, 1790,\\nand removed here with his brother, occupying the same\\nhouse. He m. (i) Mary, dau. of Hon. Joseph lilanchard,\\nof Chester, who d. Feb. i, 1S25 m. (2) Jan. 2, 1827,\\nMaria, dau. of Isaac Stevens, who d. July i, 1833, aged\\n37", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0641.jp2"}, "624": {"fulltext": "5/8 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n32. He d. on the John Corser farm in Boscawen, Jan.\\n10, 1846.\\nChildren by first wife:\\n17. Maria F., b. Jan. i, 1S19; m. Jan. 26, 1841, Garland Calef. She d. Jan. 6,\\n1873; had seven children, born at Webster.\\n18. Sally, b. May 20, 1820; m. May 20, 1S46, Israel Tebbetts, of Charlestown,\\nMass. She d. Sept. 9, 1861.\\nig, Mary A., b. Jan. 12, 1822; m. Nov. 10, 1846, Albert Danforth. She d. Jan. 9,\\n1851.\\nChildren by second wife:\\n20. Rhoda J., b. Feb. 6, 1828; m. June 17, 1S52, Alpheus Ballard, of Boston\\nMass. She d. June 30, 1854.\\n21. Hannah, b. Aug. 30, 1832; d. March i, 1833.\\nTHE FLANDERS FAMILY.\\nI. William bought seven acres of land of John Chellis, and\\nerected a house on the site now occupied by Mrs. Moses Gree-\\nley. Here he built a tannery and had a shoe shop. Moses\\nGreeley having purchased this property, Mr. Fifield removed\\nto South road and built the house now occupied by John \\\\V.\\nHuntoon. He d. Sept. 10, 1837, aged 55. The name of his\\nwife is not known, as he married previous to coming here. He\\nwas a man of much respectability, smart and energetic, and was\\nin his day the acknowledged leader of the democratic party.\\nFew facts concerning his descendants are known, except that\\nbis sons became connected with the shoe industry.\\n2. James, b. July 4, 1800; rem. to Lynn, and may have died here in 1S33.\\n3. Daniel, b. April 10, 1802; m. July 12, 1S27, Bertha Scribner.\\n4. William, b. June 5, 1804; removed to Woburn, Mass.\\n5. Benjamin F., b. Oct. 31, 1807; d. March 31, 1813. 6. John, b. Oct. 26, iSio.\\n7. Henry H., b. July 31, 1813.\\n8 Benjamin F., b. Aug. 24, 1816. All removed to Woburn, Mass.\\nEzra Flanders removed to Grafton or Canaan m. April i,\\n1768, Sarah Blasdel, (Blaisdell.) Children all born here,\\nas follows\\nTO. John, b. Jan. 24, 1769. 11. Dolly, b. Nov. 19, 1770.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0642.jp2"}, "625": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 579\\n12. James, b. Aug. 26, 1772. 13. Daniel, b. Aug. 30, 1774.\\n14. Abner, b. April 13, 1777. 15. William, b. May 12, 1779.\\n16. Sarah, b. Aug. 10, 1781 d. Dec. 6, 1781. 17. Ezra, b. Oct. 8, 17S3.\\nTHE FOOTE FAMILY.\\nLewis Foote was born at Amesbury, Mass., Feb. 14, 1784,\\nand was by trade a ship carpenter. In the war of 1812 he en-\\nlisted in the navy, and shipped from Portsmouth in the priva-\\nteer Mass, she having been commissioned by French letters\\nof marque, having been taken from the French during that\\nwar. She was shortly after lost during a severe gale. Among\\nhis children were\\n1. Thomas, b. at Amesbury, March 14, 1813. Jan. 12, 1831,\\nhe came to Salisbury, and eventually purchased the\\nCapt. John Webster homestead, where he resided until\\nhis removal to Hampstead in the fall of 1878. During\\nhis residence here he was engaged in carpentering and\\nin manufacture of cabinet articles. Public office he\\nwould never hold. He was a man of much self-respect\\nand very methodical in his daily life. He m. Nov. 26,\\n1835, Lydia, dau. of David F. Favor, who was b. at Bris-\\ntol, R. I., Aifg. 3, 1813 d. at Hampstead, Dec. 17, 1887.\\n2. Mary E., b. Sept. i, 1S37; d. Aug. 26, 1S40.\\n3. Charles Edwin, b. June 5, 1S40; m. June i r, 1S60, Mary F., dau. of Dr. Robert\\nSmith. He is engaged in mercantile business at I ennacook.\\n4. Frederick W., b. April 21, 1.S43; d. April 24, 1S44.\\n5. Henry Thomas, b. Sept. 27, 1845; m. Charlotte .Xmcsworth and resides at Pen-\\nnacook, on the Boscawen side, where he is engaged in mercantile business\\n6. Alfred W., b. Feb. 21, 1S4S; m. Fanny Randall and res. at Hampstead.\\n7. James Lewis, b. April 15, 1856. At the age of fifteen he\\nbegan as office boy for John M. Shirley, Esq., at Ando-\\nver, and soon after began the study of law under the in-\\nstruction of Mr. Shirley, afterwards studying law with\\nE. B. S. Sanborn, Esq., of Franklin Falls, for two years.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0643.jp2"}, "626": {"fulltext": "580 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nHe was admitted to the bar in 1S77, and removed to\\nManchester, where he was in practice for some years.\\nWhile in Manchester he m. and is supposed to have\\ngone west.\\nTHE FOSTER FAMILY.\\nReginald Foster, or Forester, as the name is spelled in the\\nEnglish records, was the patriarch of the family in America,\\nemigrating from Exeter, (Devonshire) England, about 1638, and\\nsettling at Ipswich, Essex county, Mass. He brought with him\\nhis wife, Judith, five sons and two daughters. She died at Ips-\\nwich, Oct. 16, 1664; married (2) the widow of John Martin, of\\nIpswich he died previous to June 9, 1681.\\nI. Hezekiah Foster removed to Salisbury quite early, settling\\nwest of Blackwater river, where the old cellar hole is yet\\nto be seen, by a large elm tree, which was set out by one\\nof his daughters. He signed the association test act\\nand was a smart, capable farmer. He m. (i) East-\\nman m. (2) Bean m. (3) Aug. 22, 1776, Mrs. Abi-\\ngail (Tyler) Pearson, who, after her husband s death,\\nm. Currier. Children by first wife\\n2. Sally, m. John Bean. 3. Jonathan. See.) 4. Richard. See.)\\n5. m. Clark. 6. Susan M. Stickney.\\n7. Mehitable, m. Simon Ward, b. at Salisbury, Mass., April\\n13, 1762. He resided at Warner, served through the\\nrevolutionary war, and d. at Newbury, Vt., in 1858. She\\nd. Jan. I, 181 1. They had seven children. She was the\\ngrandmother of Baxter P. Smith, historian and author of\\nseveral historical works, who resided and d. at Hanover.\\n8. Caleb, d. at Baltimore, Md., unm.\\nChildren by second wife:\\n9. Polly, m. Jewett.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0644.jp2"}, "627": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 58 1\\nChildren by third wife:\\n10. Abigail, b. in Salisbury, Dec. 30, 1777; m. 1799, David Stevens. (See.) She\\nd. April 22, 1859.\\n11. Jacob F., b. Sept. 11, 1779; Lucy Bartlett.\\n(3.) Jonathan settled just south of the homestead, on part of\\nan eighty-acre lot, which he purchased of John Smith,\\nSept. 16, 1786. His granddaughter, Mrs. Sophronia\\nEngals, resides at Hanover. He m. July 30, 1778, Mary\\nGreeley.\\n12. Hannah, b. Sept. 22, 1779. 13. Sarah, b. Nov. 25, 1780.\\n14. Mehitable, b. March 25, 1783. 15. Jonathan, b. May 2., 17S5.\\n16. David, b Feb. 12, 17SS. 17. Polly, b. Aug. 25, 1791.\\n18. Hezekiah, b. Jan. 12, 1794. 19. William, b. Aug. 12, 1796.\\n20. Jesse H., b. June, iSoi d. 1802.\\n(4.) Richard remained on the homestead until 1798, when\\nwith his family he removed to Hanover, where he d. Oct.\\nI, 1833 m. (i) July 29, 1784, Sarah Greeley, who d. May\\n4, 1795, aged 30; m. (2) March 10, 1796, Esther Jewell,\\nwho d. Nov. I, 1843.\\n21. Caleb, b. April 19, 1785; d. Sept. 19, 1S62; m. Putnam.\\n22. Asa, b. July 16, 1786, d. at sea.\\n23. Richard, b. March 6, 1788. He was by occupation a farm-\\ner and a gentleman highly respected he d. Nov. 22,\\n1868, aged 80; m. Irena, dau. of Rev. Eden Burroughs,\\nD. D., for many years pastor of the church at Hanover.\\nThey had nine sons and one daughter. Seven of the\\nsons graduated at Dartmouth College. For a sketch of\\ntheir usefulness the reader is referred to the Alumni of\\nDartmouth, 1851.\\n24. Sarah, b. May 24, 1790; d. young.\\n25. Susannah, b. March 9, 1792 d. Sept. 19, 1S73, aged 81 m Chaliis Currier.\\n26. Elizabeth, b. March 13, 1794.\\n2 Amos, (Rev.) A. M., was b. March 30, 1797. He pre-\\npared for college at Kimball Union Academy, and in the\\nsummer of 18 18 entered at Dartmouth, graduating in\\n1822. As resident graduate he studied theology with\\nPresident Tyler, D. D., and Professor Roswell Shurtleff,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0645.jp2"}, "628": {"fulltext": "582 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nD. D., and was licensed to preach by the Windsor Asso-\\nciation, at Norwich, Vt., in Feb. 1824. On the second\\nof March, 1825, he was ordained pastor of the Congre-\\ngational church in Canaan, from which he was dismissed\\nJan, 2, 1833. Feb. 13, 1833, he was installed at Putney,\\nVt., and dismissed Nov. 9, 1853 installed at Ludlow,\\nVt., Nov. 9, 1853, and dismissed Dec, 30, 1856; installed\\nat Acworth, Feb. 18, 1857, when, after a pastorate of nine\\nyears, he was dismissed and returned to his former pas-\\ntorate at Putney, Vt., where he supplied the pulpit for\\nseven years and there died, Sept. 21, 1884, aged dtj.\\nDartmouth College conferred upon him the degree of\\nA. M, He m. June 29, 1825, Harriet, dau. of the Rev,\\nBroughton White, of Washington, N. H., who d. in Oct.\\n1882. His publications were, A Thanksgiving Ser-\\nmon, delivered at Canaan, Nov. 29, 1827 A Discourse\\nto Young Men, preached at Putney, Feb. 28, 1836, and\\nthe Ordination Sermon of the Rev. E. D. Foster,\\nD. D., at Henniker, Aug. 18, 1841. His children, born\\nat Hanover, were\\n28. Daniel, b. March 27, 1800; d. young.\\n29. Benjamin F. was b. June i6, 1803. (See Congregational\\nministers.) He fitted for college at Kimball Union\\nAcademy, graduated at Amherst College in 1829, studied\\ntheology with the Rev. Silas McKean, D. D., of Brad-\\nford, Vt., was licensed to preach Aug. 2, 1831, and was\\nordained an evangelist, in March, 1832. He was in-\\nstalled at Salisbury, Nov. 13, 1833, and dismissed July\\n23, 1846. In the following September he was installed\\nover the Congregational church, at Dummerstown, Vt,,\\nbut on account of ill health was dismissed Dec. 18. 1867.\\nHe m. (i) April 19, 1832, Ruth H. Kimball, of Orange,\\nwho d. June 3, 1845, aged 37; m. (2) May C, Perry, of\\nManchester; he d, at Dummerstown, Vt,, Nov. 2, 1868.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0646.jp2"}, "629": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 585\\nTHE FRAZIER FAMILY.\\nI. Benjamin was born July 21, 1767, his parents moving to\\nDeerfield when he was a child. While a resident there he mar-\\nried Mary who was born March 1 1, 1769, and d. Dec. 7, 1843.\\nAfter the birth of their first child they removed to Salisbury,\\nsettling at the west part of the town, beyond Mr. Frank Whit-\\ntemore s. Clearing one acre of land he built a log house, which\\nwas soon followed by the frame house still standing in what is\\nnow a pasture. Although living at the extreme west part of\\nthe town he rapidly purchased and cleared up more land, which\\nbeing very productive gave him the reputation of a thrifty\\nfarmer. His home was a famous resort for our people, when\\nthey wished to go a visiting and have a good time. In poli-\\ntics he was a democrat, liberal minded, frank and generous.\\nHe was a famous hunter, and upon his land all kinds of wild\\ngame was killed, one piece in particular being known as bear\\nworld, on account of the large number of bears killed there.\\nHe died June 12, 1820.\\n2. Levi, b. in Deerfield, Nov. 27, 17S9; m. Sarah Quimby of Salisbury and rem.\\nto Danbury d. March 16, 1857.\\n3. Mary, b. in Salisbury, July 25, 1792; m. April 13, 1S12, John Roby, Jr., of\\nWeare. He was a Quaker in religion; d. Oct. 29, 1S72.\\n4. Benjamin, b. Jan. 5, 1794; d. Jan. 23, 1842; m. in New York, Jane Bussey.\\n5. Sarah, b. Dec. 20, 1798; d. April 8, 1856, unm.\\n6. Moses, b. F eb. 21, 1801 d. June 5, 1843; m. Almira Meloon, of Deerfieldr\\nand settled in Andover.\\n7. Judith C, b. March 24, 1803 d. June 5, 1S45, uinri-\\n8. John C, b. April 7, 1805. (See.)\\n9. Lydia, b. June 28, 1807; d. Dec. 5, iSoS.\\n10. Samuel C, born Feb. 14, 1810; he settled at Methuen, where he married\\nSarah Ingalls; d. Sept. 29, 1S52.\\n11. Lydia, b. Nov. 28, 1S12 d. March 19, 1856, unm.\\n12. Alonzo, b. .March 11, 1816; d. Aug. 23, 1S16.\\n(8.) John C, after the birth of his eldest child, moved to Dan-\\nbury, where he d. Nov. 26, 1886 m. July 15, iS^2, Alice,\\ndau. of Moses Eastman, who d. Feb. 20, 1879.\\n13. John, b. Jan. 16, 1S36; m. Mary O. Frazier. She d. April 22, iSSo. He re-\\nsides at Duxbury.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0647.jp2"}, "630": {"fulltext": "584 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n14. Mary, b. Oct. 17, 1S3S; d. March 6, 1846. 15. Moses, b. Sept. 20, 1843.\\n16. Mary A., b. Feb. 25, 1846; d. March 4, 1851.\\n17. Frank P., b. April 29, 1S50 m. June 14, iSSi, Clara Duff, of Peoria, 111., where\\nthey reside.\\nTHE FRENCH FAMILY.\\nI. Lieutenant Joseph removed here from Kingston previous\\nto 1775. clearing up the farm on which he resided, now owned\\nby Woodbury Stevens. He obtained his title in the revolu-\\ntionary war, and was a smart, enterprising man. He married,\\n(i) at Kingston, Huldah Clifford, who died aged j}, m. (2) the\\nwidow Clough, of Gilmanton he died in Salisbury,\\n2. Mehitable, b. June 13, 1769; m. Phineas Huntoon. 3. Peter. (See.)\\n4. Samuel, b. March 25, 1773; m. (i) Nov. 3, 1794, Hannah, dau. of Dea. Moses\\nSelley d. Nov. 22, 1804; m. (2) widow Wiggin.\\n5. Abigail, b. Oct. 8, 1775; d. unm.\\n6. Jonathan, (Dr.) b. Oct. 5, 1777; m. Shaw; studied medicine, and practiced\\nhis profession at Hampton removed to Amesbury, Mass., d.\\n7. Sarah, b. Feb. 10, 1780, m. Jan. 8, 1818, Thomas Follinsbury; d. in Hill.\\n8. Joseph, b. July 5, 1782 m. (i) m. (2) widow Huntoon\\nm. (3) Mrs. Betsey Batchelder, of Loudon removed to\\nHill and died. I am not certain about the above mar-\\nriages he certainly married Emma Dickenson. He had\\n6 children, one of which, Hon. Augustus Chaflin French,\\nwas b. in Hill, Aug. 2, 1808. He resided with his grand-\\nfather, attending the Salisbury Academy, and after ad-\\nmission to the bar removed to Illinois, and was governor\\nof that state for six years. He died at Lebanon, 111.\\nAnother son. Dr. Edward, resided in Illinois.\\n9. John, b. July 2, 1785; removed west.\\n10. Mary, b. April 10, 1788; m. Sept. 10, 1807, Enoch Poor.\\n11. Nathaniel. (See.)\\n{3.) Peter, b. Dec. 22, 1770, remained on the homestead; m.\\nMarch 31, 1795, Dorothy Fifield.\\nJ2. Susannah, b. Dec. 24, 1796; m. Dec. 27, 1827, James Morse; he died March\\n20, 1S48,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0648.jp2"}, "631": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 585\\n13. Peter, b. Feb. 4, 1799; d. unm. in Andover.\\n14. Nancy, b. July 24, 1801 d. young. 15. Nancy, b. Sept. 12, 1803.\\n16. John F., d. aged 6. 17. Lucien. 18. Dorothy, d. unm., aged 43.\\n(11.) Capt. Nathaniel, b. Nov. 29, 1791, remained on the farm\\nand m. May 7, 1818, Phebe Wells, who d. in 1858, aged\\n64 he d. in 1858.\\n19. Augustus J., b. Aug. 7, 1817 m. Mary A. Wyatt, of Canterbury; she d. he\\nres. at Enfield.\\n20. Joseph S., b. Aug. 19, 1S19; m. Nov. 25, 1841, Caroline K. Baker, of Salisbury;\\nres. in Franklin.\\n21. Hiram F., b. 1S22 m. Dorothy Farnum; he d. at Andover, where she res.\\n22. Eliza, m. Charles F. Delano; res. at Lynn, Mass.\\n23. Jonathan, b. Oct. 20, 1824 m. March 22, 1854, Emeline Perry res. at Andover.\\n24. Mary J., d. 1849, unm. 25. Dr. John Q. A.; res at Washington.\\n26. Marcus M., b. Nov. 8, 1832 m. Jan. i, 1861, Betsey Simonds res. at Franklin.\\n27. Lucas, b. Oct. 5, 1835, unm.\\n28. Charles M., d. Nov. 22, 1886, aged 35; b. at Salisbury.\\nTHE GALE FAMILY.\\nThree generations of this family practiced medicine in King-\\nston, viz: Drs. Amos, senior and junior, and Dr. Ezra Bartlett\\nGale, exclusive of others bearing this name. The Gale and\\nBartlett families were closely connected by intermarriage. A\\nwriter remarks: It is believed that no two families in our\\ncountry have furnished more physicians than the Bartlett and\\nGale families of Kingston. (Hist, and Gen. Reg. Vol. i, p.\\n97.) The progenitors of this family, who settled at South road,\\nwere i. Ed#ftF4^, wa9-borrv\u00c2\u00abt Cambridge, Mass., and died at\\nBoston, July 29, 1642, (O, S.) n. His son, Bartholomew, of\\nSalem, married (i) 1662, Martha Lemon; married (2) Feb. i,\\n1663, Mary Bacon, of Salem, in. His son, Daniel, born Aug.\\n17, 1676; married, in 1700, Rebecca Sweatt, of Newbury.\\nIV. His son, Jacob, of E.xeter, born Nov. 30, 1708; married in\\nJ 735 the widow of John Collins. (See Collins genealogy.)\\nShe was the mother of John Collins, who settled here. Jacob\\ndied in 1762, leaving", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0649.jp2"}, "632": {"fulltext": "586 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nI. Jacob, b. June 30, 1736. (See.) 2. Susannah, b. Nov. 28, 1737.\\n3. Daniel, b. Sept. 2, 1739, and removed to Gilmanton.\\n4. Eliphalet, b. Sept. 5, 1741. See.)\\n5. Dr. Amos, b. April 9, 1743; m. Hannah Oilman.\\n6. Eli, b. Feb. 23, 1745; m. Dorothy 7. Mary, b. Nov. 22, 1747.\\n8. Benjamin, b. March 6, 1749; d. 1771.\\n9. John Collins, b. Nov. 26, 1750. See.)\\n10. Stephen, b. Oct. 12, 1752; d. young.\\n11. Hannah, b. Oct. 2, 1754; d. 1754.\\n12. Stephen, b. Jan. 5, 1756; d. Jan. 22, 1770.\\n(i.) Jacob (known as Col. settled at Kingston previous to\\n1770, from which town in 1774 he was chosen a delegate\\nto Exeter. He was a Major in Col. Draper s regiment,\\nin 1777, and was at the surrender of Burgoyne. In 1778\\nhe participated in the Rhode Island campaign, and was\\nappointed successor of (President) Josiah Bartlett, in\\nthe command of the 5th N. H. militia. He m. Abigail\\nTappan, a sister of John, who was a brother to Weare\\nand grandfather of the Hon. Mason W. Tappan, Attor-\\nney General of N. H. He d. Jan. 27, 17S4.\\n(4.) Eliphalet was one of the lessees of the proprietors sawmill\\nin Salisbury. He sold his land to Jacob Morrill, and\\nwas living at Alexandria, May 20, 1777. He probably\\nremoved to Williamstown, Vt. Some of his children re-\\nsided at Colchester, Vt., and one of them was James.\\n(9.) John Collins, (Deacon and Col.) His father died when\\nhe was twelve years of age, leaving him for an inheri-\\ntance the land on which he subsequently settled, known\\nas the Gale farm, now owned by Handel N. Colby.\\nLike many boys he was bound out to service, but, pos-\\nsessing an active, ambitious nature, he left his place and\\ncame to Salisbury, where he m. Rebekah, dau. of Capt.\\nJohn Webster, who d. Sept. 26, 181 1, aged 61. His first\\nhouse was built on the south part of the farm, in what is\\ncalled the sheep pasture. During his first winter a\\nvery severe snow storm occurred, and Capt. Webster\\nbecame very much concerned about his little children,\\nas he called them, and went through the snow to see", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0650.jp2"}, "633": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 5S7\\nthem, taking a head and pluck, which in those days\\nwas a very acceptable gift, while it was significant of de-\\ntermination and perseverance. It is needless to add\\nthat the children were found all right. The second\\nseason he built a small house on what was then called\\nChicken hill, and in 1803 went a little northwest and\\nbuilt the present commodious house. The well was in\\nthe present garden, and was made by an arrangement\\nwith his wife, he agreeing to dig at the well every time\\nshe went to the spring for water. His Colonel s com-\\nmission bears the date of June 27, 1804, and the follow-\\ning story is told of his first appearance before his men\\nin his new rank. Being liberal he determined to do the\\nproper thing, procuring a quantity of codfish and bis-\\ncuit, and directed his hired man to put up five gallons\\nof N. E. rum for the officers his wife made some re-\\nmark about furnishing so much liquor; the new-made\\nColonel was drawing on his new boots and said, Re-\\nbekah, that boot looks well, moreover it is a good fit,\\nand told the man to make it eight gallons Said Re-\\nbekah, You will all get as drunk as beasts before\\nnight. Drawing on the other boot and looking at it\\nadmiringly he replied, Go round the tumbler and put\\nup ten gallons!! Undoubtedly the privates as well as\\nthe officers had something to help them in swallowing\\ntheir fish, and if those boots were not a tight fit before\\nnight some of the officers were. At that time the Col-\\nonel was keeping a store and hotel at North road, and it\\nwould not do for the reputation of that part of the town\\nto be behind its rival, the South road. This store was\\non the opposite side of the road from his house and in\\n1793 was the largest store in town. At that time there\\nwas much travel over this road, and to accommodate the\\npublic he opened his house as a tavern. He also had a\\npotash manufactory, and Gale s was a busy place.\\nWhile carrying on the tavern a traveler gave his daugh-\\nter Rebekah the small po.v, but Dr. Amos Gale carried", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0651.jp2"}, "634": {"fulltext": "588 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nthe family safely through. The Colonel also erected an\\nacademy on the height of land west of his house, but\\nthe South road people got the better of him and the pro-\\nject was relinquished. He d. Aug. 29, 1812. He was\\nvery small in stature, but was smart, genial and warm\\nhearted.\\n13. Benjamin, b. May lo, 1772. (See.)\\n14. Susannah, b. March 14, 1774; m. Oct. 14, 1794, David Merrill, of Sedgwick, Me.\\n15. Hannah, b. May 13, 1779; m. Sept. 18, 1803, Daniel Weeks, of Portsmouth,\\nand resided and died at Gilford.\\n16. Rebekah, b. Aug. 31, 17S2; m. Oct. 28, 1804, Samuel Smith, of Corinth, Vt.\\n17. John, b. July 21, 1784; m. Smith, and removed to West Andover.\\n18. Martha, b. July 20, 17S6; m. Dec. 27, 1S14, John Calef. See.)\\n19. Jacob, b. April 31, 1789; m. Betsey Webster, and remained on the farm. He\\nd. Sept. 3, 181 2.\\n(13.) Benjamin possessed a speculative mind. His neighbors\\nbeing poor and unable to own cows, Mr. Gale rented the\\nanimals to them at a stipulated price, with their increase.\\nAt the close of the last century cattle were very high,\\nand from such rentals and sales he made the first pay-\\nment on his farm at Fairfa.x, Vt., which he purchased at\\nthe age of twenty-six for the sum of $2000. In 1799 he\\ntook up his first drov e of cattle. He m. Jan. 13, 1801,\\nAchsah Bailey, who was b. in Weare and d. in Salisbury\\nJuly 7, 1848. In January, 1814, he returned to the\\nhomestead, carried on the store and farm, and d. Jan. 9,\\n1822.\\n20. Benjamin F., b. Nov. 3, 1801. See.)\\n21. Rebekah, b. Sept. 17, 1S03; m. Feb. 7, 1825, John J. Bryant, of Canterbury.\\nTheir only dau. m. Hoag, and res. in Illinois.\\n22. John C, b. Jan. 27, 1S09. See.)\\n23. Sally, b. Nov. 27, 181 1, d. April 14, 1834, unm.\\nChildren b. in Salisbury:\\n24. Jacob, b. Feb. 22, 18 14, fitted for college at the Salisbury\\nAcademy, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1833. The\\nfollowing year he removed to Peoria, 111. He read med-\\nicine for a time, but lost courage when he came to see\\nthe misery to which the human race was subject and how", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0652.jp2"}, "635": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY egg\\nlittle, comparatively, physicians understood their high\\ncalling. At Peoria he was a merchant in 1834-5, ^fter-\\nwards read law, was admitted to the bar, and made that\\ncity his home. In 1844 he became clerk of the Circuit\\nCourt, holding the office twelve years was elected judge\\nof the Judicial Court in 1856, resigning after a year s\\nservice, when he was elected superintendent of the pub-\\nlic schools. Bringing his extensive knowledge and ability\\nto bear upon the schools under his charge, he laid the\\nfoundations of a system which is to-day one of the best\\nin the west. At two periods he was chosen mayor of\\nPeoria and held many other offices requiring ability, judg-\\nment and knowledge of men and public affairs. Judge\\nGale has led a very active and busy life, and is one of\\nthose rare, unassuming men, who have held office until\\nthey would no longer consent to serve in public life. In\\nstature, temperament, liberality and public si^irit he\\nresembled his grandfather. Married at Peoria, June 7,\\n1S38, Charlotte, dau. of Dr. Peter Bartlett shed, in 1871.\\n25. Daniel Bartlett, b. March 30, 1816, worked on the farm\\nuntil he was fourteen years old, receiving his education\\nfrom the district school and the Salisbury Academy. In-\\ntending to become a lawyer, he entered Meriden Acade-\\nmy to prepare for college, but a change having come\\nover his mind he abandoned that idea and became a clerk\\nin the store of Samuel C. Bartlett. A friend, who knew\\nhim well at that period, writes He was rather impul-\\nsive, very affectionate in his nature, and more delicate\\nin his constitution than his brothers, and on that account\\nperhaps rather more the favorite of his mother. He\\nwas always, even in boyhood, perfectly correct in his de-\\nportment, reliable in all he said and did, and was never\\nguilty of any of those boyish tricks so common with\\nyoung men, and by some considered almost necessary\\nfollies of youth. There was a small public library in\\nSalisbury, from which he procured books, and he early", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0653.jp2"}, "636": {"fulltext": "590 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nacquired the habit of filling up his leisure time in read-\\ning. This habit continued ever after and made him a\\nman of general information. In the meantime his\\nbrother Jacob had located at Peoria, 111., and when Dan-\\niel became of age Jacob was anxious to have him settle\\nat that place. Having some money from his father s es-\\ntate at his disposal Daniel purchased a stock of goods in\\nBoston and shipped them by the way of New Orleans.\\nArriving at Peoria in March, 1838, he met Carlos S.\\nGreeley, (see Greeley genealogy) who urged upon his\\nyoung townsman the advantages to be derived at St.\\nLouis as a business centre, and visited that city. As\\nMr. Greeley was just opening business there he sug-\\ngested the formation of a partnership, offering to put in\\n^2000 worth of goods, then on the way up the river.\\nMr. Gale accepting the proposition they went to a hotel\\nand there arranged a business partnership and the gen-\\neral principles on which the business should be conduct-\\ned. This agreement was wholly verbal, and on the 28th\\nof March, 1838, the firm of Greeley Gale was organ-\\nized, without any written articles of co-partnership, and\\nfor the space of thirty-six years, during which the prin-\\n.cipals were associated, they never found it necessary to\\nchange their original plan. Mr. Greeley says Mr.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Gale was a good, honest, working man, always ready to\\ndo his share of the hard work and there was plenty of\\nit for many long years. A more conscientious or correct\\nman I never had the pleasure of knowing. I never\\nknew him to fail in any capacity. Mr. Gale did not\\nallow his time or capital to be squandered in outside in-\\nvestments, while to all public enterprises he gave hearty\\nand material support. P^or many years he was a director\\nin several of the banks, and a large stockholder in the\\nKansas Pacific Railroad. In company with Messrs.\\nGreeley, John D. Perry, Joseph O Neal, and others, he\\nrendered to that great enterprise important financial aid.\\nHe was also an incorruptible representative of the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0654.jp2"}, "637": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 59I\\nseventh ward in the city council of St. Louis. Upon his\\ndeath he was thus eulogized by the Union Merchants\\nExchange A gentleman of universally modest deport-\\nment, yet widely known and beloved, on account of the\\nremarkable purity and benevolence of his character a\\nmerchant of sterling integrity, about whose name the\\nmost pleasant memories will forever cluster. Mr. Gale\\nwas a thoroughly benevolent man, and for many years an\\nefficient worker in that noble charity, the Provident As-\\nsociation, and was also a trustee and counselor in various\\ncharitable organizations. To the cause of education he\\ngave freely, and at his death, which occurred on Sept.\\n23, 1874, among other liberal benefactions, he devised a\\nbequest of five thousand dollars to Shurtleff College,\\nUpper Alton, 111., and an equal sum to the Girls Indus-\\ntrial Home, in St. Louis. On March 15, 1850, Mr. Gale\\nwas made a member of the second Baptist church, of St.\\nLouis, and during the war was its treasurer, and used his\\nprivate funds to preserve the credit of the church. He\\nm. Feb. 3, 1842, Caroline E. Pettengill, of Salisbury.\\nChildren Charles, Theodore P., Ella R., Arthur H., also\\nGeorge, Charles and George, who d. young. Theodore\\nF. d. aged 21. Ella R. m. Charles W. Barstow, of St.\\nLouis.\\n26. Amos, b. Oct 28, 1818 died of consumption, at San Fran-\\ncisco, Cal., March 27, 1867. A man of much business\\ncapacity, who experienced the ups and downs of this life\\nmost severely, but through indomitable perseverance suc-\\nceeded to affluence before his death. Unmarried.\\n27. Stephen, b. Dec. 28, 1820; m. Sally Bailey, and has three\\nsons and a daughter. To him the compiler is under\\nobligations for facts furnished, notwithstanding which\\nhe has failed to give any information concerning him-\\nself or his family.\\n(20.) Benjamin Franklin m. (i) Lucy Pavere, of Andover, and\\nremoved to his father s farm in Vermont. Remaining", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0655.jp2"}, "638": {"fulltext": "592 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nthere till 1838 he returned to Franklin and remained two\\nyears, and then returned to the homestead, where his\\nwife d. in Nov., 1850; m. (2) May 11, 185 1, Susan Robie,\\nof Andover he purchased the Woodbury Stevens farm,\\nwhere he d. June 8, 1877,\\n28. Benjamin, b. at Fairfax, Dec. 21, 1832, m. (i) Nov. i, 1S64, widow of Christo-\\npher Calef, nee Julia Weeks, d. May 3, 1S66; m. (2) Nov. 2, 1867, Mrs. A.\\nF. Weeks; res. at Franklin.\\n29. John, b. m. A lawyer in California.\\n30. Azro d. in the army.\\n31. George P., b. Nov. 28, 1849; m. June 10, 1S75, Lilla G. Farrington, of Frank-\\nlin, where he is engaged in trade.\\n32. Nancy, b. Jan. 16, 1840; m. July 30, i860, Woodbury Stevens.\\n-T^y Mary, b. removed to St. Louis, m. Scudder.\\n(22.) John Collins remained on the homestead and died while\\non a temporary visit to St. Louis, Oct. 1 1, 1839 5 June\\n28, 1834, Emily Bailey, of Fletcher, Vt., who was b. June\\n29, 1812. After the death of her husband she m. Nov.\\n15, 1840, Richard Pavere. Children by first husband\\n34. Francis, b. July 13, 1837; d. Feb. 14, 183S.\\n35. Maria R., b. Feb. 3, 1S39; m. Thomas B. Clough; res. at Franklin Falls.\\nChildren by second husband:\\nRichard Pavere, son of Richard and Nancy Simonds Pavere, b. at Andover,\\nNov. 6, 1815; remained on the Gale farm thirty-five years, then removed\\nto North Boscawen, and there continues. Children all b. in Salisbury.\\n36. Ellen S., b. July 25, 1841 m. Nov. 1867, H. M. Putney; res. at Manchester.\\n37. Carlos G., b. Aug. 17, 1843 ^^Y -5 1S70, Ellen M. Edmonds, of Andover,\\nwhere he is a merchant and postmaster.\\n38. Edwin F., b. July 27, 1846; m. Oct. 30, 1881, Abbie Leavett, of Andover; res.\\nat Manchester.\\n39. Philmore N., b. Oct. 23, 1848. 40. Sarah A., b. March ii, 1851.\\nTHE GARLAND FAMILY.\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nI. Ensign Moses came from the vicinity of Kingston, previ-\\nous to the revolutionary war, building a log house just west of\\nthe pound. The old well in what is now the road was dug by", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0656.jp2"}, "639": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 593\\nhim. After the war closed he built the Dennis Lorden house,\\nwhere he kept tavern for man and beast. The tavern was on\\nthe old College road, and he received a large patronage, es-\\npecially from the old soldiers, who made it a tarrying place\\nwhere they could enjoy their toddy, smoke, and tell over old\\nwar experiences. He cleared up the field in front of the house,\\nbuilt a log fort and had a muster field for sham fights, Indian\\npow-wows and athletic sports. The Ensign served in Rog-\\ners s Rangers throughout the revolutionary war. See chapter\\non Wars.) He died Nov^ 13, 1833, aged 88; his wife was Me-\\nhitable Sleeper, who d. June 13, 1821, aged y8.\\nJonathan. See.) 3. Moses. See.) 4. Joseph. See.) 5. Mehitable, m.\\nApril ID, 17SS, Jeremiah Bean.\\nLydia, m. Joseph Garland, and resided in Hooksett.\\nHannah, b. Sept. 5, 1767; m. Feb. 5, 17S6, Jonathan Calef. (See.)\\nBetsey, d. Oct. i, 1S47, unm.\\nAsenath, m. Daniel Calef; she d May 29, 1S65.\\nDorcas, m. Folsom Bean.\\nMary, m. Richard Currier, of Hanover; she died in 1S75.\\n(2.) Jonathan built the Nicholas Wallace house, removed to\\nHanover, and d. June 23, 1874, aged 89; m. Dec. 25,\\n1 8 14, Susan Green, who d. Aug. 15, 1873, aged 80.\\n12. Mary M., b. June 13, 1S15; m. William Bean.\\n13. Lucia A., b. Jan. 22, 1817; m. M. P. Thompson. (See.)\\n14. Susan, b. May 29, 1819; d. July 30, 1S22.\\n15. Jonathan S., b. March 31, 1S23, and married at Lexington, Mass., April 16,\\n1848, Julia A. Stoddard, b. at Woburn, Mass., May 16, 1829; res. there\u00c2\u00bb\\n16. John M., b. Dec. 25, 1825; d. July 26, 1832. He removed to Canada and\\ndied there.\\n(3.) Moses removed here from Canada, where he lived for some\\ntime; m. Dec. 31, 1800, Hannah Hackett.\\n17. Hannah, b. Oct. 17, 1801 m. Samuel Flanders and lived in Enfield.\\n18. Asenath, b. Sept. 18, 1S03; m. John Pool. She died in California.\\n19. Enoch O., b. Jan. 10, 1805; m. Mary Pastor, of Andover. He died in Cali-\\nfornia.\\n20. Ruth, b. March 7, 1806; m. Joshua Bufham. They res. in Wilmanton, Mass.\\n21. Sarah, b. Dec. 4, 1S08 m. Josiah Marston he died and she res. at Bridge-\\nwater.\\n22. Joseph H., b. Feb. 27, iSio; m. Lorinda Carter, and res. at Canaan.\\n39", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0657.jp2"}, "640": {"fulltext": "594 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n23. Moses, b. May 10, 1S13; m. Oct. iS, 1852, Mary E. Kingsbury, of Newton,\\nMass. res. at Tilton, N. H., where he d. Nov. 3, 1887.\\n4. Harriet, b. April 14, 1818; d. unm.\\n(4.) Joseph lived just north of Sanborn Shaw s, on Raccoon\\nhill he m. Ruth Elkins.\\n25. Darwin. 26. Jerome. Both removed west. 27. Moses. 28. Joseph.\\n29. Judith, m. Gilbert. 30. Mehitable, m. Mathews.\\n31. Mary, m. Merrill, and res. in Massachusetts.\\n32. Eliza, m. Read.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\nI. Jacob Garland, a cousin to Ensign Moses, was a cooper\\nby trade. He served at Bennington and in other hard-\\nfought battles of the revolution. Little else is known of\\nhim; m. Betsey Pettengill, who d. July 18, 1818, aged\\n75 he d. Sept. 30, 1797, aged 59.\\n2. Joseph, settled in the town named in his honor. Garland, Me.; d.\\n3. Jacob, lived and died in Bangor, Me.\\n4. James, b. in 1775. (See.)\\n5. Benjamin, b. June 13, 1777; m. (i) Feb. 3, 1807, Betsey Quimby m. (2)\\nElizabeth He built the Franklin House, at Bangor, Me.; d.\\n6. Elizabeth, m. (i) m (2) Humphrey Webster, then of Plymouth. (See.)\\n7. Hannah, m. March 14, 1788, Jonathan Dickerson, Esq., of\\nNew Chester, (Hill.) Five children blessed their mar-\\nriage, four of which are dead. To the surviving member\\nof this family, Kendrick R., of Grenville, Iowa, the com-\\npiler acknowledges indebtedness for some facts concern-\\ning this family.\\n8. Mehitable, m. Ebenezer Tenney.\\n9. Sally, m. Jan. 3, 1792; Moses Tenney.\\n10. Jane, b. June 13, 1778; m. (i) Samuel Greeley; d. at Garland, Me., May\\n23, 1832; m. (3) Dea. Amos Pettengill; she d. Feb. 27, 1S35.\\n11. Polly, m. Phillip Greeky\\n(4.) James built the O. K. Moore tavern stand, in what is now\\nFranklin, renting the front part of the house to John\\nCavender, who built a cooper shop just north of the\\nhouse. Mr. Garland had the first carding machine in\\nthat part of the town. He d. July 14, 1856, aged 81", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0658.jp2"}, "641": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 595\\nm. (i) Sept. 22, 1804, Jane Greeley, who d. Nov. 14,\\n1 8 18; m. (2) Dec. 28, 18 19, Lydia, dau. of Jacob True,\\n(see) who d. April 5, 1866, aged 84.\\n12. Frank, removed to St. Louis, Mo.\\n13. Charles, m. widow Jane L. Sanborn. He d. March 2, 1S79, aged 65; shed.\\nAug. 15, iSSo.\\n14. Persis, m. James .Smith; she resided at .St. Louis, Mo.\\n15. Rosalina, d. March 16, 1S26, aged 16.\\n16. Sophia, m. Rev. Winthrop Fifield. See.) She d. Nov. 19, 1836.\\n17. Cereila E., m. Oct. 9, 1824, Joshua Rogers, of Sutton.\\nTHE GEORGE FAMILY.\\nTHREE BRANCHES.\\nI. Stephen was a native of Salisbury, Mass., removed here\\nprevious to 1796, and built the house north of Sylvanus Web-\\nster s, and was a carpenter by trade. In building the barn of\\nWilliam H. Moulton he fell from the ridgepole, receiving injur-\\nies from which he died, in June, 1821, having been a sufferer\\nfor eight months. He married. May 8, 1792, Mrs. Eunice Mor-\\nrill, of Salisbury, Mass., who died\\n2. Amos, m. (i) Dec. 25, 1S17, Nancy Dunlap, and d. at West Newbury, Mass.\\nm. (2) he conducted the town poor farm at Franklin for a number of\\nyears removed to Concord, and d. in Connecticut.\\n3. True, b. in Salisbury, Feb. 25, 1797. See.)\\n4. Stephen, d. aged iS years.\\n5. Axy, m. Dec. 21, 1S24, Daniel Andrews, and removed to Maine where he\\nd. She returned to Franklin and there d.\\n6. Ursula, m. Oct. 8, 1S22, Benj. .Sanborn; d. March 2, 1S65, aged 64.\\n7. Eunice, b. Aug. 15, 1S05; m. March 4, 1851, Robert Thompson, of Warner,\\nand resides there.\\n8. Jonathan, b. Oct iS, iSoS; m. 1S32, Mary Hill, of Warner, a sister of Dr.\\nMoses Hill, (see physicians); res. in Concord.\\n(3.) Capt. True learned the trade of a tanner and currier with\\nhis neighbor, Reuben True. He built the house now\\noccupied by B. V. Heath, north and east of which he put\\nin a tannery on the George brook, where he did a", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0659.jp2"}, "642": {"fulltext": "596 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nsuccessful business. While in Maine on business the\\ngreat August freshet occurred, (1826) when his dam gave\\nway, washing out his tannery pits and carrying the hides\\nand leather into the Blackwater river. The works were\\nnever rebuilt. In 1841 he was appointed a justice of the\\npeace, and held that office through life. Pleasant, capa-\\nble and honest in his dealings, he held at various times\\nall the town offices, and for fifteen years was moderator\\nat our annual town meetings. In 1843-4 he was chosen\\ncounty treasurer in 1846 he was appointed road com-\\nmissioner, serving two years, and was also for a number\\nof years deputy sheriff. In politics he was a democrat.\\nOn his appointment as keeper of the county jail he re-\\nmoved to Concord and there died, Sept. 21, 1875 he m.\\nDec. 31, 1819, Elizabeth Calef, of Lyman, Me., who was\\nb. July 8, 1795, and d. Sept. 30, 1879.\\n9. Elizabeth H., b. Nov. 15, 1S20; m. Dec. 22, 1842, William B. Parsons. (See.)\\n10. Mary C, b. April 27, 1822; ni. Isaac Flanders; d. July 12, 1S75.\\n11. Lucy F., b. Nov. 10, 1823; m. Aug. 5, 1843, John S. Russ, and resides at\\nConcord.\\n12. Erastus, b. Dec. 17, 1S25 m. April 16, 1850, Mattie Clark. He died at Og.\\ndensburg, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1863 she d. in Vermont.\\n13. Nancy C, b. Dec. 8, 1827; m. July 27, 1850, George Fitch; res. at Concord.\\n14. Jane C, b. Aug. 24, 1S30; d. Nov. 18, 1832.\\n15. EdsonC.b. July 4, 1833; m. (i) Frankie McQuestion m. (2) res. in Kentucky.\\n16. Austin F., b. March 31, 1837 d. Sept. 12, 1837.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n17. Samuel C. George, son of Ezra, and brother of Ezra and\\nLevi S., (see below) and cousin to Stephen, (i) was b. at\\nHaverhill, Mass., April 16, 1786. After serving an ap-\\nprenticeship at the carpenters and builders trade he\\nremoved to Salisbury, settling at the lower village, Or-\\nphans Home, Franklin,) building the house now occu-\\npied by Henry W. Burleigh, where he died Nov. 5, 1861.\\nOn account of his honesty and faithful workmanship he\\nwas nicknamed Deacon. Most of the buildings in\\nthat vicinity were built under his supervision. He m.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0660.jp2"}, "643": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 597\\nOct. 8, 1807, Susannah, (Sukey) dau. of Nathaniel Mor-\\nrill, who was a son of Henry, a son of Henry the son of\\nEzekiel, the first of the Morrill families who settled in\\nSanbornton. She was b. Dec. 14, 1788, and d. April 5,\\n1864.\\n18. Prescott, b. April i8, 1S09; d. May 21, iSio.\\n19. Nathaniel, b. Sept. 11, 1810; m. Sept. 21, 1834, Margaret M. Andrews; d.\\nSept. 21, 1831.\\n20. Samuel C, b. May 14, 1S12; d. April 13, 1S43.\\n21. Eliza A., b. June 24, 1814; m. Oct. 6, 1S35, ^^leb P. Smith. (See.) She d.\\nMarch 20, 1847.\\n22. Susan, b. April 23, 1S16; m. Feb. 28, 1842, Galutia Heath; d. April 6, 1850.\\n23. Cynthia, b. March 21, i8iS m. Oct. 3, 1836, Joshua Heath; he d. Oct. 3,\\n1S51 m. {2) April 16, 1853, M. S. Stevens, who d. Feb. 11, 1857.\\n24. Charles F., b March 25, 1S20; d Jan. 9, 1827.\\n25. William B., b. Feb. 21, 1S22 m. Aug. 12, 1845, Eliza D. Riggs; d. March\\n10, iSSi.\\n26. Ezra, b. Oct 27, 1823; m. July 15, 1845, Amanda Mclntire; d. Aug. 25, 1853.\\n27. Alfred K., b Jan. 31, 1826; m. March 18, 1853, Kate Hughes d. May 13, 1856.\\n28. Mary N., b. July 3, 1829 d. Feb. 19, 1849.\\n29. Catherine B., b. May 2, 1S31 m. Dec. 14, 1854, Wallace Burleigh. (See.)\\nTHIRD BRANCH.\\n30. Col. Levi S. George (see above) came here previous to\\n1796, resided for a time at the lower village, (Orphans\\nHome, Franklin,) thence to the Centre road and after-\\nwards to Canaan. He m. (i) Sept. 13, 1790, Polly, dau.\\nof Benjamin Pettengill, (see) m. (2) Oct. 25, 1814, Bet-\\nsey Sanborn. Children by first wife, born here\\n31. Polly, b. March 24, 1792. 32. Betsey, b. \u00c2\u00a5eh. 13, 1793.\\n33. Hannah, b. June 2, 1795. 34. Pemerton, b June 15, 1797.\\n35. Kimball, 36. Clifton.\\n.37. Henry C, m. Dec. 28, 1842, Mary J. Calef.\\nChildren by second wife:\\n38. Nancy, b. Jan. 14, 1815. 39. Levi W., b. A\\\\n\\\\] 4, 1S16.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0661.jp2"}, "644": {"fulltext": "59^ HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE GOOKIN FAMILY.\\nThe earliest known was Arnold Gookin, (spelled Gookinge)\\na resident of the county of Kent, England, early in the i6th\\ncentury. His son Thomas was a resident of Beakesborne,\\nKent, and his grandson dwelt at the manor of Repple Court,\\nAt this time the family was wealthy and of considerable conse-\\nquence. John Gookin married Catharine Dennie, whose family\\nwas among the oldest and best in England. Arnold Gookin s\\nsons became possessed of the spirit of adventure Daniel and\\nVincent (whose son Vincent was the author of the great case,\\nTransplantation in Ireland Discussed, removing to Ireland,\\nwhere they took up large tracts of land. Daniel removed to\\nVirginia in 162 1, coming to New England in 1644.\\n1. Nathaniel, b. at Hampton, Feb. 22, 1742. David Carter\\nGookin says Grandfather when a young man worked\\nin a shipyard at Newburyport, Mass. He may have\\nbeen born there, as the entry of his birth is not found on\\nthe Hampton records. Jan. 18, 1766, he m. Mary Clark,\\nof Newburyport, who was b. Jan. 7, 1742, and d. Dec. 17,\\n183 1. By occupation he was a farmer and early removed\\nto Boscawen, settling on Water street; he d. Nov. 18,\\n1825.\\n2. Samuel, b. Aug. 25, 1767 m. He kept the first store in what is now Web-\\nster, as early as 1794.\\n3. Sarah, b. July 18, 1769; m. June 30, 1789, Stephen Corser. She d. April 26,\\n1793-\\n4. Daniel, b. Dec. 28, 1770.\\n5. Betsey, b. Sept. 14, 1772; m. Joseph March.\\n6. Mary, b. Sept. 3, 1774; m. Samuel Elliott, of Boscawen.\\n7. Nicholas, b. Jan. 16, 1776; d. May 29, 1848, unm.\\n8. Pelatiah, b. June 7, 1778. See.)\\n9. Mercy, b. April 29, 1780 d. young.\\n10. Anne, and 1 1, Moses, twins b. May 6, 1782. Anne m. Thomas Carter, of Bos-\\ncawen, Webster.)\\n12. Abigail, b. Jan. 6, 1784; d. Nov. 16, 1856, unm.\\n13. Benjamin S., b. April 21, 17S6.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0662.jp2"}, "645": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 599\\n(8.) Pelatiah was by trade a clothier, following that occupation\\nat Sweatt s mills, residing for a time at Warner. In\\nMay, 1834, he removed to West Salisbury with his fam-\\nily, settling in the house now occupied by Mrs. Cyrus\\nGookin. He d. in the William Dunlap house, March 3,\\n1858; m. (i) Martha, dau. of David and Dorcas (Fitz-\\ngerald) Carter, who was b. Aug. 25, 1781, and d. Jan. 24,\\n1844; m. (2) Sept. 18, 1850, Belinda, widow of Joshua\\nWood, who was a dau. of George and Hannah (Spencer)\\nLatimer, of Woodstock, Vt., and who was b. Feb. 10,\\n1790, and d. Sept. 3, 1861.\\n14. Daniel C, b. in Warner, Nov. 2, 1799. (See.)\\n15. Cyrus, b. Aug. 22, 1802. See.)\\n16. Flora, b June 22, 1812; m. Oct. 6, 1831, James F. Sargent, M. D., of Concord,\\nwho resided there and d. She d. at Concord, June 13, i888.\\n17. Mary C, b. July i, 1836; d. June 30, 1S54, unm.\\n(14.) David Carter, by occupation a cloth manufacturer and\\nmiller. In 1820 he removed to what is now Webster\\nand engaged in the cloth-dressing business. In May,\\n1833, he removed to Salisbury, (although still owning a\\nmill in Webster, with his brother Cyrus,) bought out the\\nDunlap mill, and with Cyrus built the present John Shaw\\nmill, which was completed in the following November.\\nThey industriously prosecuted the flouring, grist, and\\nsaw mills for many years. The flour mill had a wide\\nreputation, not only for the good quality of flour made\\nbut for the small waste and large capacity for grinding.\\nWhile a resident of Webster he professed religion, was\\nbaptised by Elder David Harriman, and on his arrival\\nhere associated himself with the Christian church, of\\nwhich he was a deacon for over forty years. From 1841\\nto 1864 he held the office of coroner. In Nov., 1850, he\\nwas appointed a justice of the peace, and also held offices\\nof trust in his adopted town. In Dec, 1875, he removed\\nto Franklin, where he d. Oct. 27, 1880; m. (r) Dec. 6,\\n18 19, Nancy Stanley, dau. of Moses Carlton, of Webster,\\nwho was b. Oct. 16, 1800, and d. June 21, 1S51 m. (2)", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0663.jp2"}, "646": {"fulltext": "600 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nFeb. 7, 1852, Abby, dau. of. Josiah and Belinda (Latimer)\\nWood, who resides at Franklin.\\n18. Martha C, b. July 3, 1820; m. Nov. 25, 1841, William H. Huntoon, who d. at\\nNewport, June 19, 1875; (2) Charles C. Davis, and res. at Franklin.\\n19. Alfred H., b. July 12, 1826; d. Dec. 5, 1826.\\n20. Emma W., b. Dec. 14, 1S53; d. Jan. 18, 1858.\\n21. Amelia W., b. Dec. iS, 1855; m. 1880, Elbridge Thompson; res. at Franklin.\\n(15.) Cyrus (see 14) was an extensive land owner and oper-\\nated the sawmill alluded to above. He was an influen-\\ntial, energetic and successful business man. Dec. 21,\\n1841, he was made a justice of the peace and held the\\noffice through life. For fourteen years he was modera-\\ntor of our town meetings, selectman five years, and rep-\\nresentative to the legislature in 1842-3. In 1857 he and\\nWilliam Dunlap built the present store, where he was a\\nsuccessful merchant. He d. Dec. 10, 1873 m. May 15,\\n1832, Martha, dau. of Jeremiah and Rebekah (Corser)\\nEastman, who was b. at Webster, Feb. 5, 18 11.\\n22. Hamilton, b. March 5, 1833. See.)\\n23. Frank, b. Sept. 18, 1843; ^^S- 1S47.\\n24. Flora, b. May 13, 1849; ni- May, 3, 1870, Francis C. Shaw, and res. at Hill.\\n25. Myra, b. May, 11, 1852.\\n26. Georgianna, b. Sept. 8, 1854, m. Oct. 12, 187S, F. S. Sargent; res. at Exeter.\\n(22.) Hamilton is a wheelwright by trade, and runs the saw-\\nmill. He built the first silo in this state m. Oct. 22,\\n1855, Mary, dau. of Nathan Tucker.\\n27. Isabel M., b. July 18, 1856. 28. Cyrus F., b. April 28, 1858.\\n29. Abbie M., b. March 22, i860. 30. Martha J., b. Dec. 15, 1S62.\\n31. Frank, b. Feb. 2, 1866. 32. Guy, b. Feb. 5, 1869.\\nTHE GRAVES FAMILY.\\nArthur L., son of Jeremiah and Mehitable (Thompson)\\nGraves, both of whom were natives of South Hampton,\\nwas b. at Meredith, July 15, 1815 m. April 3, 1842,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0664.jp2"}, "647": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 60I\\nLucy B., dau. of Dea. William Parsons. (See.) He built\\nthe house where he resided at Parsons corner. By trade\\nhe was a sign and carriage painter, but soon after his\\nremoval here he purchased the Herschel D. Green mill,\\nwhich he converted into a wood-turning shop, where he\\nmade various articles. Two years previous to his death\\nhe and a Mr. Sleeper purchased a planing mill at Frank-\\nlin, where they continued business under the firm name\\nof Sleeper Graves, Mr. Graves retaining his residence\\nin Salisbury. In politics Mr. Graves was a republican,\\nand sought all honorable means to convert men to his\\npolitical belief. As a business man he was capable and\\nhonest in all his dealings. He possessed a fine tenor\\nvoice and for a number of years he led the church choir\\nand gave instruction in vocal music. In 1858 he was\\nelected county treasurer, holding the position two years.\\nWas U. S. assistant assessor for upwards of seven years,\\nand at the time of his death was a member of the repub-\\nlican state central committee. Was appointed justice of\\nthe peace, Sept. 18, 1852, and made a state justice in\\n1858 he d. of heart disease, Aug. 26, 1874.\\nHelen J., b. Nov. 9, 1S43; m. Oct. 27, 1S6S, Frank \\\\V. Durgin, of Andover,\\nand d. in iSSS at West Lebanon.\\nWillie, b. Nov. 8, 1847; m. June 27, 1S83, Marian IL Corbitt. He is a\\ncomposer and professor of music at the North-Western University, Ev-\\nanston, 111.\\nLucy P., b. March 30, 1S52 m. Charles W. Dow; res. at Melrose, Mass.\\nTHE GREEN FAAHLY.\\nCapt. Josiah, son of Josiah and Esther Green, was born in\\nStoneham, Mass., March 5, 1735 married (i) i 1757, P31iza-\\nbeth, dau. of Josiah and Sarah Green, by whom he had eight\\nchildren she d. Oct. 27, 1798; m. (2) Ann Skinner, of Stone-\\nham, by whom he had eight children he died July 31, 18 14.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0665.jp2"}, "648": {"fulltext": "602 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nI. Capt. Josiah Green, son of the above by his first wife, was\\nb. Feb. 24, 1768; m. Nov. 19, 1789, Susannah, dau. of\\nJohn and Susannah (Wright) Buckman, of Stoneham\\nshe d. Feb. 25, 1848, aged 79. Capt. Green removed\\nfrom his native town to Salisbury Centre road, in 1800,\\nand soon after went into business, the firm being Smith,\\nGreen Co. (See merchants.) In 1808 he sold out to\\nthe junior member of the firm, Elisha Perkins. Soon\\nafter his removal here he became connected with the\\nBaptist church, and through life was one of its most\\nprominent and useful members. He d. June 4, 1846.\\nJosiah, b. May 25, 1790. See.) 3. Joshua, b. Nov., 1791 d. Jan. 9, 1796.\\nSusan A., b. Aug. 5, 1793; m. Dec. 25, 1814, Jonathan Garland. (See.) She\\nd. Aug. 15, 1873.\\n5. Herschel D., b. Dec. 9, 1795.\\n6. Roxallana, b. May i, 1798 m. March 24, 1825, Isaac Bailey, 3d, of Hopkin-\\nton; she d. Aug. 17, 1S27.\\nJoshua T., b. Aug. 7, 1800.\\nClarissa H., b. Oct. 10, 1802; m. Oct. 11, 1S24, Deacon Reuben Pettengill,\\nand res. at Ogden, N. Y.\\nAnn G., b. Feb. 20, 1806; m. Oct. 7, 1S30, Isaac Bailey, 3d, of Ilopkinton.\\nHe d. here Jan. 3, 1868; she died Oct. 20, 1885.\\nEmily A., b. Oct. 22, 1808 m. Jesse Martin, of Canaan, and d. Nov. 4, 1870.\\nII. Nathan B., b. Aug. 11, 1810; m. Lucy Davis, of Grafton,\\nwhere he was for some years a merchant. He subse-\\nquently became a prominent railroad builder, settled at\\nPennacook, and d. Aug. 17, 1872, from the effects of a\\nblow inflicted by a runaway horse. He had three child-\\nren the eldest m. Mr. Harris, the large woolen manu-\\nfacturer, of Pennacook, who d. he afterwards m. the\\nyoungest, Kate, (i*)\\n(2.) Josiah, at the age of fourteen, went to South Reading,\\n(now Wakefield, Mass.,) where he served during his min-\\nority in learning the carpenter and builder s trade, then\\nreturned to Salisbury and followed his trade, building a\\nnumber of houses at the Centre, among which was the\\nMrs. Isaac Bailey house, in which he resided for a few\\nyears. He removed thence to the homestead, opposite", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0666.jp2"}, "649": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 603\\nto which, in 1820, he opened a store and was in trade\\nuntil 1840, although some years previous he followed the\\noccupation of clock repairing, in which he gained a great\\nreputation. Like his father he was connected with the\\nBaptist church, shouldered many of its debts, and gave\\nmuch to charitable purposes. He d. Feb. 22, 1866; m.\\n(i) Jan. 21, 1817, Clarissa Sweetser, who d. March 22,\\n1848, aged 56 m. (2) widow Blake m. (3) widow Ruth\\nJ. Silver.\\n12. Josiah B., b. Sept. 20, 1818. (See.)\\n13. Elizabeth S., b. July 2, 1820; m. Nov. 30, 1S43, William F. Elliott, and res. at\\nMeredith.\\n14. Sylvester W., b. Dec. 2, 1S23. (See.) 15. Alvin S., b. March 15, 1S27.\\n16. William E., b. Dec. 30, 1S2S; m. Mary L. Currier, of Hopkinton d. aged 25\\n1 866.\\n(5.) Herschel D. learned the trade of a tanner and currier.\\nWith the assistance of his father he built the dam on\\nMeadow or Beaver Dam brook, on the centre rangeway,\\nwhere he put in a tannery and in addition built a grist-\\nmill, where for many years much business was done.\\nHe resided in the house south of the mill, where he d.\\nJune 6, 1875 m. (i) Nov. 26, 1821, Phebe, dau, of Joseph\\nand Sarah (Pillsbury) Couch, who d. Sept. 22, 1854, aged\\n56; m. {2) Nov. I, 1857, Dorothy Ross, of Gilmanton,\\nwho d. Oct. II, 1859, ^g^cl 54; m. (3) Jan. 17, 1865, Mrs.\\nMaria Keekin, of Dover. Children by first wife\\n17. Joseph C, b. Nov. 28, 1S22; m. March 7, 1S66, Martha H. Swallow, of Al-\\nbany, N. Y. She d. at Buffalo, Jan. 28, 1873, aged ^2. He res. at Tan-\\nnando, N. Y.\\n18. Charles F., b. July i, 1S25; m. April 9, 1854, Catherine M., dau. of Rufus\\nand Hannah Dow Fuller, and a sister of Moses B. Calef s wife of\\nFrancestown. One son, Charles A., b. Dec 15, 1854.\\n19. Alfred B., b. Jan. 5, 1827 m. July 2S, 1S51, Mary J. Bridgman, of Dorchester-\\nShe d. July 2S, 1S62, aged m. Sept. 5, 1S64, Sarah B. French, of\\nGreenfield, and removed to .Michigan, in March, 1S66, residing at Nunica,\\nChildren b. in Salisbury: i. Samuel N., b. 1S52, d. 1S54. it. Alfred N.,\\nIII. Emma C, b. Feb. 9, 1854. iv. Alfred N., b. Jan. 27, 1859,\\nV. Edgar E., b. July 14, 1861 d. Sept. 7, 1S62.\\n20. Samuel E., b. May 14, 1833; d. Sept. 16, 1834.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0667.jp2"}, "650": {"fulltext": "604 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n21. Phebe J., b. Feb. 8, 1S37 m. July 4, 1S71, John L. Spencer. She d. Sept.\\n(7.) Joshua F., (Capt.) Like his paternal ancestor he was a\\nCaptain in the old state militia. By occupation he was\\na cattle and sheep drovier, being somewhat celebrated\\nfor the large flocks of cattle and sheep which he drove\\nto Brighton market. He resided in the house now (1883)\\noccupied by Mr. M. B. Calef, and d. Oct. 5, 1835 m.\\nJuly 10, 1833, Ann W. Sanborn, of Sanbornton, who d.\\n22. John, res. in Montana. 23. Joshua T., d. Nov. 3, 1S37.\\n(12.) Josiah Buckman is of the fourth generation bearing the\\nname of Josiah. Nov. 13, 1849, in company with his\\nyounger brother, Sylvester W., he left New York in the\\nsteamer Crescent City for California, arriving at San\\nFrancisco Dec. 31 following. Remaining about the\\nplace some two months, they purchased their packs,\\nand started up the Sacramento river into the wilderness,\\ntaking up some two hundred acres of what was known\\nas swamp and overflow land. After a while the\\nyounger brother returned, Joshua still remaining on the\\nland which he cleared up, and putting in the first crop.\\nThis location was in Richland, Sacramento county, 25\\nmiles below Sacramento city, and 125 miles up the river\\nfrom San Francisco. His farm now comprises two\\nthousand acres of cultivated land; situated on a large is-\\nland, and on the land adjoining the river, where he has\\nlarge wharves, buildings, and all needed appliances for\\nconducting his extensive business, which is the raising\\nof peaches and plums, grass and dairy products. In the\\nseason of 1881 he shipped 29,153 baskets of peaches and\\nplums, equal to 13,076 bushels; sold $7,000 worth of\\nbutter, cut 1000 tons of cultivated grass, and raised\\n5000 bushels of barley. His income for 1881 was $25,-\\n000 and was increasing at the rate of $5000 a season,\\nnot taking into account the extensive improvements.\\nHe m. Nov. 27, 1847, Caroline P., dau. of Children:", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0668.jp2"}, "651": {"fulltext": "c//\u00e2\u0082\u00ac^ f-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0669.jp2"}, "652": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0670.jp2"}, "653": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 605\\nI. George B., b. March 4, 1849; m. Jan. i, 1875, Alice\\nM. Stanley. 11. Lester D., b. June 2, 1854; m. Jan. 3,\\n1878, Mary N. McDonnell, in. Albert S., b. Jan. 24,\\n1857; d. Jan. 2, 1869. IV. Frank H., b. Jan. 7, 1861\\nd. June 17, 1863.\\n(14) Sylvester Walker (see 12) prefers a New England home\\nand remains on the homestead, following his father s\\ntrade of clock repairing, in which he enjoys a most ex-\\ncellent reputation throughout central New Hampshire.\\nHe m. Sept. 12, 1867, Susan E., dau. of Moses P. Thomp-\\nson. (See.)\\n24. William K., b. April 24, 1S71. 25. Albert T., b. June 30, 1S74.\\n26. Arthur A., b. July 23, 1877.\\nTHE GREENOUGH FAMILY.\\nFIRST BRANCH.\\nI. Richard removed to Salisbury from Plaistow, about 1780,\\nclearing up the farm afterwards occupied by Reuben Greeley.\\nBy trade he was a wheelwright and it is said he built the first\\nthorough-brace wagons used in town. He was a very ingenious\\nman and made improvements upon many of the farming imple-\\nments. He d. at South road village, Nov. 17, 1834, aged 88;\\nm. (i) Elizabeth Hoag, who d. Dec. 25, 1810; m. (2) June 23,\\n181 1, Susannah Shirley, who d. Dec. 7, 1848, aged 82.\\n2. Kobe/t. See.) 3. James. 4. Ezra both removed to New Vork.\\n5. Moses, b. d. uiim.\\n6. l?racket, b. m. dau. of Jesse Stevens. He followed the wheelwright busi-\\nness at Lebanon; d. at Bristol.\\n7. Ira, b. followed the wheelwright trade in the John Bagley house, at South\\nroad; m. removed to\\n8. John, d. at Springfield. He was 6 feet 4 inches tall and very strong.\\n9. Charles, m. intention published Oct., 1S03, to Khoda Thorla, of Boscawen, and\\nrem. to New Vork. One of his children, Sophronia, m. F eb, 2S, 1826,\\nTenas Horton, a butcher by occupation.\\n10. Hepscy, m. Pillsbury, d. at Springfield. 11. Hannah, rem. to Xcw Vork.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0671.jp2"}, "654": {"fulltext": "6o6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n12. Edna, m. Severance, and rem. to Canada. 13. Betsey, d. in New York.\\n14. Agnes, m. (i) Amos Fifield; m. (2) Dudley Cram.\\n15. Samuel, served in the 1812 war; m. Sarah Norris and removed to Michigan.\\n16. Daniel,\\n(2.) Robert removed to South road, built the E. P. Eastman\\nhouse, and had his carriage shop north of the house.\\nHe was one of the first who built coaches, the construc-\\ntion of which was for a long time kept secret. Samuel\\nGreenleaf, being a prominent man of the place, was ad-\\nmitted to the shop, and after asking a number of ques-\\ntions of a workman he was finally told that fools and\\nchildren should not ask questions. He had one daugh-\\nter, Sukey the family removed to Lebanon.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n17. Elbridge Flagg Greenough, son of John and Nancy (Fos-\\nter) Greenough, was b. at Canterbury, Feb. 30, 1808.\\nHe graduated at Dartmouth College in 1828, read law\\nwith Ezekiel Webster, Richard Fletcher, of Salisbury,\\nand Ebenezer Greenough, of Sudbury, Pa., where he be-\\ngan practice, remaining six years. He removed to Sal-\\nisbury in the autumn of 1842, and was in trade in a store\\nowned by Moulton. Some years after he built what\\nis known as the Greenough store, where he carried on\\ntrade and also practiced his profession. In the autumn\\nof i860 he removed to Nauseon, Ohio, where he d. in\\n1875 m. June 14, Elizabeh R., dau. of Moses East-\\nman. Children i. Charles F., b. in Salisbury, July 29,\\n1849; read law with his father and was admitted to the\\nbar at Nauseon, Ohio, in July, 1872.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0672.jp2"}, "655": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 607\\nTHE GREELEY FAMILY.\\nCOMPILED BY MRS. ABBIE S. BROW^f.\\nThree brothers, named Greeley, (spelled five different ways)\\n^emigrated to America in 1640. One settled in Maine, where\\nhe has many descendants, another in Rhode Island, where he\\nsoon died, and the third, named Andrew, in Salisbury, Mass.\\nHe married Mary their children were, Philip, born in 1644;\\nAndrew, born in 1646; Joseph, born in 1652, and Benjamin,\\nborn in 1654.\\nI. David Greeley, of Salisbury, Mass., owned considerable\\nland in Salisbury, N. H., to which place four of his sons\\ncame.\\n2. Shubal, (See.) 3. Richard. (See.) 4. Benjamin. (See.)\\n5. John, came in 1757, but returned in two years, being dissatisfied.\\n(2.) Shubal, b. in 1730, came to Salisbury in 1757 m. Nov. 9,\\n1758, Hannah Pettengill settled and built the house\\nknown as the town poor house. He was a man of\\nmeans and had a very large family d. in Salisbury in\\n1 8 14.\\nMartha, b. Dec. 3, 1759. (See.)\\nMary, b. Dec. 18, 1760; m. Jon. Foster, and lived in Lebanon.\\nDavid, b. April 5, 1762; d. Aug. 5, 17S3.\\nBetsey, b July 27, 1764; m. James Hazard, and lived and d. at Springfield.\\nSarah, b. Oct. 11, 1765; m. Richard Foster, lived and d. in Salisbury.\\nMiriam, b. April 5, 1767; m. Noah Harriman, and d. at Garland, Me.\\nHannah, b. Jan. 16, 1769; m. (i) June 29, 17S6, Xathan Parker; m. (2.) Dec.\\n6, 1792, Daniel Flanders, and d. at Dorchester.\\nJonathan, b. Dec. 23, 1770; d. April 15, 1771.\\nJonathan, b. Jan. 23, 1773; m. Sarah Sawyer, and lived at Hanover.\\nSamuel, b. June 22, 1775. See)\\nLucy, b. Jan. 17, 1777, m. Jeremiah Morrill, and lived and d. at Kingston.\\nRebekah, b. Oct. 30, 1779; m. George Fullington, and lived at Fairfax, V^t.\\nJane, b. Aug. 30, 17S0; m. (i) Jacob True; he d. April 23, 1S16; m. (2) Oct.\\n29, iSiS, Jonathan Dickerson she d. Sept. 30, 1S45.\\nPhilip, b. Feb. 22, 17S3; m. Mary Garland, and lived and d. at Garland, Me.\\nThey had six children. He was thrown from a horse and killed.\\nDavid, b. Feb. 12, 17^5; m. Judith Pattee, and lived and d. at I over. 111.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0673.jp2"}, "656": {"fulltext": "6o8 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n21. Abigail, b. June lo, 1787; rn. (2) Dr. Benj. Loverin, of\\nSalisbury he attended lectures at the Dartmouth Med-\\nical School, and removed to Sutton, where he practiced\\nsuccessfully, and d. July 25, 1825 m. (2) Joseph Pills-\\nbury she d. Sept. 17, 1871,\\n(3.) Richard, b. in Salisbury, Mass., about 1736; came to Sal-\\nisbury in 1757, settled at the North road, and built the\\nhouse now occupied by Daniel Moore; m. (i) m. (2)\\nhe was a shoemaker and was killed by the kick of a\\nhorse, about 1806. Children:\\n22. Abigail, b. 1772; m. Samuel Jedkins. He was b. 1766, and d. Feb. 21, 1S43;\\nshe d. Feb. 6, 1858, aged 86.\\n23. Col. John, b. in 1775 m. Sept. 5, 1793, Sarah Greeley, of\\nHopkinton. He was in command of the 21st regiment\\nof N. H. militia, in 1820. He removed to No. 8, Maine,\\nbefore 1828; had five children; moved to Minnesota\\nand d. there in 1855.\\n(4.) Benjamin, Jr., b. Dec. 30, 1749, came to Salisbury in 1772.\\nHe received a deed from his father, Sept. 26, 1773, which\\nreads as follows In ye thirteenth year of his Majes-\\ntie s Reign Geo. ye third, in consideration of ye sum of\\nten pounds, 60 acres of land lying in ye north end of\\nSouth Range No. 72. He built the house now owned\\nby John Corson m. in 1772, Lydia, dau. of Ezekiel True,\\nwho was b. in Salisbury, Mass., Dec. 15, 1750; he moved\\nhis family Oct. i, 1774, consisting of his wife and one\\ndaughter, on horseback. His wife brought a pear in her\\npocket, from the seeds of which grew the first pear tree\\nin town. They were people of piety and liberal to the\\npoor. She d. June 19, 1834; he d. Dec. 13, 1827.\\n24. Hannah, b. in Salisbury, Mass., May 26, 1773; m. Lieut. Benjamin Pettengill,.\\nand d. Oct. 29, 1838. See.)\\n25. Polly, b. March 9, 1776; m. Samuel Adams, and d. Feb. 28, 1826, at Enfield.\\n26. Moses, b. Sept. 28, 1778. See.) 27. Benjamin, b. Jan. 7, 17S0. See.)\\n28. Jane, b. Dec. 21, 1782; m. Sept. 22, 1804, James Garland; d. Nov. 14, 181S", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0674.jp2"}, "657": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 609\\n29. Richard, b. March 20, 1784. (See.)\\n30. Lydia, b. April 20, 1786; m. July 6, 1814, Moses Rowell, of Andover. He. d.\\nJune 30, and she died July 6, 1S71.\\n31. John, b. June 27, 17SS. (.See.)\\n32. Paul, b. Aug. 29, 1791 served in the war of 1S12, and went to Hampden, Me.,\\nin 1S23. He was a cooper, and m. Esther Carter; they had no children;\\nd. at Hampden, Dec. 26, 1832.\\nTi2- Jacob, b. May 16, iSoo. (See.)\\n(6.) Matthew, b. Dec. 3, 1759. He enlisted in 1777 in Capt.\\nGray s company, Col. Scammell s regiment, for which he\\nreceived seventy dollars bounty, serving three years and\\nre-enlisting in 1780 for another three years of service.\\nHe m. (i) Jan., 1782, Abigail Stevens; settled near the\\nnorthwest corner of Tucker s pond was a farmer and\\nremoved to Canaan before 18 17; d. June 24, 1842.\\n34. Shubal, b. March 18, 1782 lived in Rumney, d. March 22, and his wife, Lydia,\\nd. March 24, 1868, both being buried in one grave.\\n35. David, b. April 20, 1784.\\n36. Ephraim, b. July 5, 1786; d. at Racine, Wis.\\n37. Martha, b. Nov. i, 1788 d. at Akron, O., July 9, 1847.\\n38. Sarah, b. May 29, 1791 d. at Lebanon.\\n39. Hannah, b. July 20, 1793; Walker, la., Jan. 12, iSSo.\\n40. Abigail, b. July 2, 1795; March 1796.\\n41. Abigail, b Feb. 7, 1797 m. Whitney, and res. at Canaan.\\n42. Achsa, b. March 23, 1799; m. Dutton, and res. at Canaan.\\n43. John D., b. Aug. 23, iSoi, and res. at Hyde Park, Mass.\\n44. Lydia, b. May 10, 1804; d. Jan. 18, 1851.\\n45. Ira, b. July S, 1806; d. March 1807.\\n(15.) Samuel, b. June 22, 1775 m. June 20, 1799, Jane Gar-\\nland, who was b. June 13, 1778; he d. at Garland, Me.,\\nMay, 23, 1832. She m. (2) Aug. 30, 1835, Dea Amos\\nPettengill, of Salisbury; she d. in Salisbury, Feb. 27,\\n1836.\\n46. b. Sept 24, 1799; m. 1829, Martha Hartlett d. at Garland, Sept. 20, 1850.\\nThey had no children.\\n47. James, b. Dec. 28, 1801 m. Jan. 12, 1830, Lura Dow. She d. Sept. 3, 1S70;\\nhe d. P eb. 26, 1S63, at Hampden, Me. Two daughters living: Eliza, m.\\nI enton, and Hannah, m. Horace Hopkins.\\n4S. Eliza P., b. March 15, 1S04; m. March 22, 1S31, Daniel Shaw; he d. in 1835\\nand she d. Feb. 9, 1832, at South Carolina. They had no children.\\n49. Samuel, b. March 19, 1806; m Jcrusha Mayo; d. June 2, 1S39; no children.\\n39", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0675.jp2"}, "658": {"fulltext": "6lO HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n50. David, b. April 27, 180S; m. July 30, 1S34, Phebe Gushing. She d. March 28,\\n1S36; he d. at New Orleans, La., April 26, 1839.\\n51. Joseph, b. June, 1810 d. Sept. 17, 1810.\\n52. Joseph, b. Sept. 18, 1814; m. March 22, 1849, Lucy A. Crane. He was a flour\\nbroker at 188 State St., Boston, Mass.\\n53. Philip, b. May 31, 181S, and d. Nov. 5, 1822.\\n(26.) Moses, b. Sept. 28, 1778. Ke enjoyed a common school\\neducation, learned the tanner s trade of William Flan-\\nders, and afterwards bought of him the homestead and\\ntannery. He m, (i) March 9, 1803, Hannah Eaton, who\\nd. Aug. 8, 1833; m. (2) May 19, 1836, Sarah, dau. of\\nJames and Mary (Montgomery) Bridges, of Andover,\\nMass., who was b. June i, 1797. He was for a number\\nof years a member of the board of selectmen and a rep-\\nresentative to the legislature; at the same time he filled\\nminor offices of trust and responsibility. He was an\\nactive member of the Congregational church, and one\\nwhose generous sympathies made him a friend of the\\npoor and unfortunate, who were often the recipients of\\nhis counsel and substantial kindness. He d. Oct. 20,\\n1865; she d. Aug. 26, 1883.\\nChildren of Hannah:\\n54. Ira, b. Aug. 8, 1804. See.)\\n55. Irena, b. July 6, 1806; m. May 26, 1806, Rice Corser, of Boscawen. He res.\\nat Salisbury.\\n56. Hannah, b. March 28, 1808; d. Jan. 14, 1809.\\n57. Hannah, b. Oct, 26, 1S09; m. Joseph Brown, of Andover. He resided at La-\\nconia, and d. Jan. 13, 187S.\\n58. Moses True, b. Nov. 21, 181 1, and went to Illinois in 1833. He was a grocer;\\nm. Dec. I, 1837, Chloe Barnes, and d. at Tiskilwa, III., Dec. 7, 1864.\\nThere are three children living: Jane m. James Worthington Amy m.\\nJames Garter; Clark m. M. Mills.\\n59. Paul, b. July 24, 1814. See.)\\n60. Lydia E., b. Sept. 7, 1816; m. Edmund Stevens, of Boscawen, and res. at\\nTiskilwa, 111.\\n61. Mary J., b. May i, 1819; m. (i) June 27, 1839, Calvin Stevens, of Boscawen;\\nm. (2) Sept., 187 1, Rev. F. B. Nash. She d. at Tiskilwa, 111., Jan. 31,\\n1874.\\n62. Ursula P., b. March 5, 1822; m. March 5, 1S44, Lorenzo D., son of Abram G.\\nStevens, who resided at Franklin, and d. Jan. 22, 1876.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0676.jp2"}, "659": {"fulltext": "-^^ej\u00c2\u00a3^ee^^", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0677.jp2"}, "660": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0678.jp2"}, "661": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 6ll\\n(27.) Benjamin, b. Jan, 7, 1780; lived with his father on the\\nold homestead; m. in 1808, Rebecca Whitcher, who. d.\\nMarch i, 1826. In 1818 he removed to what is now\\nFranklin, and removed to Illinois in 1836; was a cooper\\nand farmer; he d. at Fremont, III, Jan. 23, 1857.\\n63. Narcissa, b. Jan. 20, iSio, m. March 5, 1S40, Freeman Kingman, and res. at\\nFremont, 111. She d. July, 1SS4.\\n64. Carlos S.\\n65. Almeda, b. March 22, 1S13; m. May 13, 1835, John Couch. (See.) She d.\\nMay 9, 1S69, at Concord. He res. at Haverhill, Mass.\\n66. Philena, b. Nov. 21. 1S14; m. (i) John Calef, of Tiskilwa, 111., formerly of\\nSalisbury; m. (2) John Maffett, and res. at Weedside, Cal.\\n67. Augustus, b. Dec. 26, 1S17, and d. Dec. 6, 1S48.\\n68. Julian, b. Sept. 15, 1S19; m. S. Scriven, and res. at Groveland, 111.\\n69. James Madison, b. Oct. 8, 1821, d. Feb. 13, 1854.\\n70. George W., b. Jan. 31, 1824; m. Sarah Beeker. He is a farmer and res. at\\nFremont, 111.\\n(29.) Richard, b. March 20, 1784, went to Salem, N. Y., where\\nhe learned the trade of a wheelwright and carpenter.\\nHe was working there at the time of the battle of Platts-\\nburg, in 18 14, and volunteered to go in defence of the\\ncountry, for which he received a bounty of a quarter-\\nsection, 160 acres of land.) He removed to Clarendon,\\nafterwards to Rochester, Vt. he m. Sept. 27, 18 17, De-\\nsire Horford, who was b. in Hebron, Conn., Nov. 27,\\n1793, and d. at Manhattan, Kan., Feb. 3, 1879; he d. at\\nRochester, Vt., June 16, 1866.\\n71. Albert True, b. Aug. 31, iSiS; m. Feb. 19, 1S61, Maria Jones, and has two\\nsons one, a wheelwright and carpenter, res. at Rochester, Vt.\\n72. Jane A., b. Aug. 31, 1820; m. Sept. 17, 1S56, K. L. Foster, Esq., and res. at\\nManhattan, Kan.\\n73. Hannibal II., b. Sept. 21, 1S22; m. May 16, 1S4S, Jane A. Barst; they have\\ntwo sons and one dau. He is a farmer and res. at Manhattan.\\n74. Edward H., b. Aug. 8, 1824, and d. Aug. 22, 182S.\\n75. William R., b. Sept. 12, 1827, and d. July 25, 1839.\\n76. John F., b. June 30, 1S30; m. May i, 1S61, Maggie O Boy, of Rochester, O.\\nThey have four sons. He is engaged in the mercantile and mining busi-\\nness, and res. at Fresno, Fresno (.!o., Cal.\\n77. Edward R., b. Oct. 22, 1832, and d. Sept. 2, 1S36.\\n78. Henry H., b. May 2, 1S36, and res. at Truckce, Cal.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0679.jp2"}, "662": {"fulltext": "6l2 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(31.) John, b. June 27, 1788; m. (i) Hannah Chellis, who d.\\nDec. 26, 1818; m. (2) Sophia Couch, of Warner, who\\nwas b. Nov. 8, 1801, and d. April 26, 1876. He lived on\\nthe homestead and was by trade a blacksmith he d.\\nMay 2, 1855. Children of Sophia\\n79. Hannah, b. April 21, 1S23 m. Francis Perry, of Boston; a shoemaker by\\ntrade, and res. at Brockton, Mass.\\n80. John, b. Dec. 16, 1825. He served in the war of the re-\\nbellion, enlisting in the first call of Massachusetts troops,\\nCo. F, 1 2th Regt., and was wounded in the arm at Bull\\nRun. Was also in the following battles Pittsburg, Ce-\\ndar Mountain, South Mountain, Antietam, Gettysburg,^\\nBristow Station, Rapahannock Station, Wilderness, and\\nothers. He m. Ann White, has eight children, and re-\\nsides at Winthrop, Me.\\n81. Caroline, b. Aug. 18, 1827 m. Samuel Waterman, of Middleborough, Mass.;\\nshe d. at Campella, April 2, 1S63.\\n82. Augusta H., b. Aug. 10, 1S29; m. Albert Holt, of Pembroke, a carpenter, and\\nres. at Concord.\\n83. Sarah J., b. Aug. 8, 1S31 m. Cyrus Lewis, a shoemaker. She d. Jan. 4,\\n1877, at Campella, Mass.\\n84. Maria A., b. July 22, 1833; m. Joseph Beals, of Hanson. He served in the\\nwar of the rebellion, was mortally wounded at the battle of Gettysburg,\\nand d. July 30, 1863. She res. at Campella, Mass.\\n85. Warren, b. June 27, 1835; d. Nov. 22, 1S37.\\n86. Betsey A., b. May 31, 1837 m. Shepard Whittier, of Sidney, Me. He served\\nin the war of the rebellion, in the nth Me. Reg t, Co. D. a shoemaker\\nby trade, and res. at Campella, Mass.\\n87. Warren, b. Nov. 8, 1839. served in the war of the\\nrebellion, in Co. E, ist Maine cavalry, and was in the\\nbattles of Winchester, seven days before Richmond,\\nCedar Mountain, second Bull Run, Antietam, Chancel-\\nlorsville, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Rapidan River,\\nWeldon Railroad and others was not wounded but had\\ntwo horses killed under him. He was a shoemaker, and\\nresided at Campella, Mass.\\n88. Frances, b. Nov. 14, 1842 m. (i) Charles Strafton, of Nantucket m. (2) Dan-\\niel Roberts, a farmer, and res. in Salisbury.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0680.jp2"}, "663": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 6l$\\nS9. Eliza, b. Feb. 14, 1S44; m. (i) Tilton, of Franklin; m. (2) Frederick Getch-\\neli he served in tlie war of the rebellion in the 2d Reg t, Co. F, U. S.\\nSharpshooters, and res. at IJristoI.\\n90. George, b. Dec. 26, 1S51 a shoe stitcher, and res. at Campella, Mass.\\n(33-) Jacob, b. May 16, 1800. He went to Hampden, Me., in\\n1823, afterwards removing to Levant, now Kenduskeag\\nm. Nov. 18, 1834, Hannah Wood, who was b. Oct. 4,\\n1810; he still resides at Kenduskeag, is a cooper by\\ntrade and a very active citizen.\\n91. George M., b. Dec. 27, 1835; m. Louisa Sturgis, and d. at Memphis, Tenn.,\\nJan. 31, 1873.\\n92. Augusta A., b. Aug. 29, 1837; d. June 16, 1S56.\\n93-11 Fannie E., b. March 26, 1842 m. W. H. Stackpole, and res. at Kenduskeag,\\nMaine.\\n94. Ella H. b. June 5, 1846; m. Rev. E. G. Smith, pastor of the Cong. Church at\\nSharon, Mass.\\n95. Emma P., b. Jan. 11, 1855; m. Arthur Hall, and res. at North Leominster,\\nMass.\\n(54.) Ira, b. Aug. 8, 1804. At the age of eighteen he was\\nchosen Lieutenant, but soon rose to the position of Cap-\\ntain of a company of militia. In 1827 he removed to\\nwhat is now Franklin m. Aug. 30, 1833, Sarah L., dau.\\nof Eben Peabody, who d. Aug. 30, 1S78. He was iden-\\ntified with the interests of the town for half a century,\\nserved several years as a member of the board of select-\\nmen, and was respected as a man of sound judgment.\\nHe was a tanner by trade; d. Dec. 20, 1880.\\n96. Caroline, b. March 11, 1834; m. Horatio B. Morrison, and d. at Mason City,\\nla., March 19, iS6S.\\n97. Sarah L., b. Sept. 14, 1S36; m. Henry S. Hodgdon, and d. at Concord, Nov.\\n21, 1863.\\n98. AVilliam L, h. Jan. 24, 1S39; m. Judith A. Pilkington, and is a prominent\\ncitizen of Tiskilwa, 111.\\n99. Ellen E., b. Sept. 28, 1842 d. Oct. 16, 1856.\\n100. Emma B., b. March 31, 1847 m. Andrew J. Fellows, and res. at Lynn, Mass.\\n(59.) Paul, b. July 24, 1814. He attended the common school\\nand one term at P ^ranklin Academy worked on his\\nfather s farm until he was of age. In the fall of 1S36 he\\nwent to Savannah, Ga., where he was employed as a", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0681.jp2"}, "664": {"fulltext": "6l4 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nbookkeeper by the firm of Hazard, Denslow Webster,\\nremaining with them till 1843, when, his health render-\\ning a change of climate necessary, he accepted the situ-\\nation of bookkeeper and general assistant in the Hazard\\nPowder Co. s works at Enfield, Conn., remaining there\\nsix years. With others he then formed the Enfield Pow-\\nder Co., and built a set of mills at Scitico. These mills\\nhaving been purchased by the Hazard Powder Co., he\\nremoved to South Acton, Mass., and superintended the\\nworks of the American Powder Co. until 1855, when,\\nhaving purchased an interest in the powder works at\\nSchaghticoke, N. Y., he removed to that place and be-\\ncame the principal manager of the business. He was\\nordained an elder in the Presbyterian church at Schagh-\\nticoke, May 13, 1866. He possessed a benevolent heart,\\ndelighted in doing good, was a true christian, and showed\\nby good works that religion was with him a vital prin-\\nciple. His executive abilities, wielded with excellent\\njudgment and energy, gave success to his undertakings.\\nHe d. at Hezelton, Penn., from injuries received while\\ntraveling on the Hezelton R. R. He m. April 22, 1844,\\nCaroline Woodworth, of Albany, N. Y. Children A\\nson, b. and d. Sept. 6, 1846.\\nloi. Emily C, b. Feb. 6, 184S; d. Sept. 5, 1848.\\n102. Edward A., b. May 8, 1851 d. Dec. 28, 1857.\\n103. Ellen R., b. Nov. 18, 1853; m. June 13, 1871, Rev. Charles S. Durfee, now\\npastor of the Presbyterian Church at Liverpool, N. Y.\\n104. Emma M., b. May 24, 185S; m. April 22, 1884, Dr. J. B. Burroughs, and res.\\nat Honeaye Falls, N. Y.\\n(64.) Carlos S.. b. in Salisbury, July 11, 1811. He attended\\nschool at Salisbury and Franklin academies. May 17,\\n1832, he left Franklin, half his means being only enough\\nto pay his expenses to Brockport, N. Y., where he en-\\ntered as clerk the store of Moses Pettengill and Stephen\\nSanborn, continuing with them two and one-half years.\\nIn 1835 he bought one-fourth of the store, continuing\\nthere until the fall of 1836, when he sold out but re-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0682.jp2"}, "665": {"fulltext": "cr LCi", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0685.jp2"}, "666": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0686.jp2"}, "667": {"fulltext": "GKNKALOGY AND BIOGKAFHY 61;\\nmainecl a year longer. In Nov. iH^y, he went to St\\nI^oms. Mo., and March 28. ,838, commenced the whole-\\nsale grocery bu.sines.s with Daniel H. Gale. He has con-\\nt.nued in the same business ever since, having just com-\\npleted the largest building for that purpose in the United\\nStates. He has ever been clo.sely connected with many\\npublic enterprises in the city of St. Louis, and his keen\\nbusiness qualities place his reputation high in rank as a\\nfinancier, his name as president standing at the head of\\nvarious financial enterprises, as well as of learnincr char-\\nity and philanthropy. When the war of the re bellion\\nbroke out he left the management of a lucrative business\\nand became a member of the Western Sanitary Commis-\\nsion until the clo.se of the war. He possessed a benevo-\\nlent heart, a sympathetic nature, and a liberal hand\\nwhich, together with his wealth, have rendered his acts\\nof kindness and beneficence truly noble. He is con\\nnectedwith the second Presbyterian church; m Julv\\n1841. Emily R. Robbins. of Hartford. Conn., who was b\\nNov. 18 1 5, and d. Feb. 17, 1878.\\n0-- Kmily J., b. Feb. 1847; m. Feb. 2.. 1871. Dwight Tred-\\nway. a member of the Greeley-Burnham Grocer Co St\\nLouis. Mo. Mr. Tredway enlisted at the age of nine\\nteen years as a private in the 23d Regt. Wisconsin Vols\\nand by successive steps was raised to Captain and Quar\\ntermaster. with the rank of Major, by appointment of\\nthe President, and having successivelv served as recri-\\nmental, brigade and division Quartermaster, resigned\\nafter three years service. Children: i. Emily n Car\\nlos Greeley, b. Aug. ,2. ,878. Dwight is the son of\\nWilham Wyseand Mary (Brown) Tredway, b Au- m\\n843; his father, (William W.) is the son of Dyer and\\nJerusha (Hovey) Tredway, son of Eliphalet. son of Jo-\\nsiah. son of James the son of James, son of Nathaniel\\nIredway. (Treadway who lived at Watertown, Mass\\nwhere he was selectman in 1653. continuing in office six\\nyears.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0687.jp2"}, "668": {"fulltext": "6l6 HISTORY OF SALISBUKV\\nio6. Charles B., b. Sept. 5, 1882; a member of the Greelev-Hurnham Grocer Co.-\\nSt. Louis. Mo.; m. May 6, 1882, Minnie Arland, of Brooklyn, X. V.\\nANOTHER BRANCH.\\n1. Benjamin, another branch of the Greeley family, removed\\nhere from Amesbury, Mass., about 1757, and settled an\\nthe farm now occupied by J. S. Heath. He was com-\\nmonly called Grandfather, to distinguish him from\\nBenjamin, 2d, son of David. He had two sons\\n2. Reuben. See.)\\n3. Nathaniel, m. Maria they lived on the homestead and had one dau. Mar-\\ngaret, who married Isaac Stevens, and d. about 1S40. After the death of\\nNathaniel, Maria m. Benjamin Scribner.\\n(2.) Reuben, b. m. Jan. 7, 1773, Rachel Meloon, who was\\nb. in 1744, carried captive by the Indians, May 11, 1753,\\nand brought back to Salisbury about 1763. She m. (2)\\nJohn Gilman, removed to Springfield and there died,\\nleaving two sons by Gilman. Reuben lived on the farm\\nnow owned by S. B. Greeley. Enlisted in 1777 and was\\nfor three years in Capt. Gray s Co., Col. Scammell s\\nRegt., for which he received seventy dollars bounty. He\\nd. in the spring of 1778, while with Gen. Washington s\\narmy at Valley Forge.\\n4. Nathaniel, son of Reuben, was b. June 20, 1775; m. (i)\\nJan. 25, 1798, Mary, dau. of Cutting Stevens, who was\\nb. Feb. 27, 1781, and d. Feb. 20, 1832; m. (2) April 30,\\n1834, Abiah Eastman, of Hopkinton, widow of Timothy\\nCorser, of Boscawen she d. Sept. 17, (861. His life\\nbegan three days after the battle of Bunker Hill, contin-\\nued through the long period of peace succeeding the rev.\\nolution, and closed just as the war clouds of our late\\nrebellion were passing away. He was a kind parent and\\na good neighbor; for the last six years of his life he was\\nconfined to his bed, during which period he manifested\\nentire resignation to the ways of Providence. Children\\nof Mary\\n5. Reuben. (See.) 6. Cutting Stevens. (See.) 7. Nathaniel. (See.)\\n8. Green. (See.)", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0688.jp2"}, "669": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0689.jp2"}, "670": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0690.jp2"}, "671": {"fulltext": "CiKNKALOGY AN D BIOGRAPHY 617\\n9. Mary, b. Oct. 4, 1S05; m. Henry French, if Hopkinton, and had six children\\nFrancis, Sarah, Kdward, Harrison, fJreelcy and Walter H., and res. at\\nWebster.\\n10. I.aura, b. ieb. 6. 1S07 d. Feb. 17, 1833.\\n11. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 11, iSo9;d. Aug. tg, 182S. 12. Joseph Maloon. (See.)\\n13. Solomon H., b. June 25, 1S12; d. Oct. 2.8, 1S20.\\n14. koxillana, b. May 25. 1814; m. Ira Jackman and res. at Webster.\\n15. .\\\\rleite, b. -Aug. 21, rSi7;ni. Oct. 15, 1846, Alvah Hall, of Salem, and had\\ntwo daughter^; Mary K. m. VV. L. Bradford, of Pelham; Nora A., b. June\\n9, 1852; d. Nov. 27, i860. Arlette d. Sept. 10, 1865.\\n16. Solomon H. (See.) 17. Luther, b. Feb. 2, 1823; d. Nov. 18, 1840.\\n(5) Reuben (ireoley, son of Nathaniel nnd Mary Greeley, was\\nb. in Salisbury, Jan. 3, 1799; Nov. 23, 1823, m. Miss\\nMary Ann, dau. of Capt. James and Susanna Shirley, of\\nChester. Shortly after they went to Boscawen and\\nkept the Gerrish tavern two years, then returned to\\nSalisbury, settling near Smith Corner, where he became\\ninterested in the lumber business; he also erected a\\nsaw mill on Mill brook, and for some years did a large\\nbusiness. After closinij up there Mr. Greeley moved to\\nthe Greenough farm, where with farming he carried on\\nthe wood, lumber and coal business. Mr. Greeley was a\\nman of integrity and intelligence. In all the movements\\nof his lime where the good of the people were concerned\\nhe was interested. He d. Oc^ 27, 1862, leaving a wife\\nand seven children. His wife died May ii, 1880, aged\\n82 years. Children\\nkS. Anna G. (ireeley, b. in Salisbury, July 4, 1827; m. Charles S. Colby, of Rum-\\nford. Me., Oct. 18, 1850. Children, James L. Colby, b. Nov. 15, 1855.\\n19. .Nathaniel K. Creeley was b. in Boscawen, June 10, 1829; spent the early part\\nof liis life in California, where he was interested in mining. Returned to\\nSalisbury, and m. Kmily S. all, of Webster, June 14, 1864; home in Pen-\\nacook; children, Leon .M. Greeley b. in Webster, April 15, 1866; Leonora\\nG (ireelcy, b. in Webster, .\\\\ug. 26, iS(JS.\\n20. Janeite vV. Greeley, b. in Salisbury, June 20, 1831.\\n2 1. Joseph M. Greeley, b. in Salisbury, March lo, 1834. In\\nthe year 1852 he went to California, where he became a\\nsuccessful miner. Returned to his home in Salisbury\\nin 1859 Was a member f)f the House of Representa-\\ntives in 1874-75.\\n22. Andrew L. Grctlcy was b. in Salisbury, Sept. 10, 1835; read law in the office\\nof Samuel liuticrfield and J. M. Siiirley of Andover was admitted to the", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0691.jp2"}, "672": {"fulltext": "6l8 HISTOKV OF SALISBUHV\\nbar before the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, Nov. 1S59; went to\\nNevada, and was a member of the first legislature which convened after\\nthe territory became a state; was district attorney of Esmeralda county\\nalso holding many other places of trust. He was m. to Mrs. Mar\\\\ E.\\nSwartwott, of Marshall, Michigan, in 1876. Died in Salisbury, Nov. iS.\\n1888. Home in Mason Valley, Nevada. Children, Paul S. Creeley. b.\\n1877; Andrew L. Greeley, b. 1879; Julia Greeley, b. 1881.\\n23. Abiah E. Greeley, b. in Salisbury, May i, 1837 m. John G. Currier, of Wilniot.\\nNov. 26, i860; children, Nettie F. Currier, b. May 2, 1864; Katie K., h.\\nNov. 2, 1866; Wilfred J., Dec. 12, 1868; Gertrude, b. Sept. 12. 1873.\\n24. James L. Greeley, b. in Salisbury, Feb. 5, 1840; read law in the office of\\nJohn M. Shirley of Andover; was admitted to the bar before the Supreme\\nCourt of New Hampshire, in Oct. 1863; home in Hodie, Cal., where he\\nwas a successful lawyer. He was married to Miss .Sarah McWilhey, of\\nBurlington, Michigan. He died at Eureka, Cal., Jan. 29. 1885; children,\\nLuther J. Greeley, b. Oct. 17, 1883; Ciertrude Greeley, b. Nov. 24, 1881.\\n(6.) Cutting S. was b. Aug. 17, 1800; m, March 18. 1823,\\nLydia, dau. of Joseph Nichols, of Sprin j;field, who was\\nb. April I, 1795, and d. March 30, 1878; he lived with\\nhis grandfather. Cutting Stevens, until about 1837, when\\nhe removed to Andover, where he d. June 28, 1882.\\n25. Mary A., b. Feb. 29, 1824; m. July 22, 1847, Daniel Mowe; ci. April 23, 1850.\\n26. George I., b. May 26, 1826; m. Dec. 2, 1852, Abbie Campbell, and resides at\\nFranklin Falls.\\n27. Lydia A., b. Aug. 27, 1829; m. June 28, 1854, Henry Proctor, ami res. at West\\nDanvers, Mass.\\n28. Harriet M., b. July 14, 1831; d. Oct. 16, 1846.\\n29. Calvin P., b. Nov. 9, 1833; m. Oct. 30, 1859, Sarah ft all, of Salem, and res. in\\nNew York city.\\n30. Alonzo S., b. March 14, 1836; m. June 13, i860, Mary Sargent. He is a farmer\\nand res. at East Andover.\\n31. Laura A., b. in Andover, Feb. 23, 1S38; m. May 30, 1879, Tucker and res.\\nat Hill.\\n32. Byron N., b. in Andover, Oct. 13, 1841, and res. at San Francisco, Cal.\\n(7.) Nathaniel, b. May 18, 1802; m. (i) Feb. 14, 1831. Nancy\\nWyman, of Chatham, who d. April 2, 1862; m. (2) Nov.\\n18, 1869, Harriet W. Durgin, of Thornton, who d. Nov.\\n22, 1878 m. (3) Oct. 6, 1879, Susan P. Mace, of Camp-\\nton, who d. Nov. 14, 1880. For many years he kept a\\nsummer hotel at Waterville, N. H., to which place he", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0692.jp2"}, "673": {"fulltext": "Cl{i^^^JrS:^---jJf t^\\nJOSEPH M.GREELEY.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0693.jp2"}, "674": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0694.jp2"}, "675": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 619\\nremoved with his wife when it was a wilderness. He rep-\\nresented that town in the legislature and served the\\ntown as selectman a number of terms, between 1857\\nand 1866; d. at Waterville. Children of Nancy:\\n33. Merrill, b. July 3, 1832; m. Nov. 10, 1864, Lizzie M. Merrill, of Hill. He is a\\nhotel-keeper at Waterville, where they reside, and was also a representa-\\ntive in 1S62. They have two children: Mabel L., b. Feb. 2, 1871, and\\nGeo. H., b. Nov. 3, 1872.\\n34. Henry, b. Nov. 12, 1837; m. Emma Holmes, and res. at San Francisco, Cal.\\n(8.) Green, b. Jan. 17, 1S04; m. (i) Nancy Kenniston, of An-\\ndover m. (2) Nancy, dau. of Isaac Stevens, who d. at\\nSalisbury, Oct. 22, 1882 he is a farmer and resides at\\nAndover. Children of Nancy K.\\n35. Lydia M., b. Nov. 24, 1S2S m. in 1S58, John S. Pressy, and res. at Salisbury.\\n36. Mary E., b. Dec. 26, 1S31 m. Aug. 5, 1852, John S. Heath, and d. March\\nI, 1S67.\\n(12.) Joseph M., b. Oct. ii, 1810; he left home in 1830; m.\\nMarch 31, 1838, Frances Tyson, of N. Y. In the same\\nyear he commenced the hotel business in New York\\ncity, retiring from a lucrative business in 1859, when he\\nbought a residence at Fairview, N. J., where he d. Oct.\\n20, 1870.\\n37. Joseph L., b. Jan. 28, 1839; m. Ada Stowell, and res at Fairview, N. J.\\n38. George A., b. June 22, 1842, m. Nellie Hall, of Salem, and res. at New\\nYork city.\\n39. Emma A., b. Feb. 10, 1846; m. Frank Merit, and res. at New York city.\\n(16.) Solomon Bartlett, b. March 24, 1819; m. June 2, 1841,\\nLouisa, dau. of Timothy Corser, of Boscawen, who was\\nb. Dec. 25, 1818; he is a farmer and resides on the\\nhomestead.\\n40. Nathaniel, b. April 29, 1S42 m.\\n41. Edward T., b. July 28, 1S44 miner and engineer, and res. at Aurora, Nev.\\n42. Solomon B. See.)\\n43. Octavia L., b. June 27, 1850; m. May 10, 1S76, Sidney F. Eastman, and res. at\\nHopkinton.\\n44. Frances T., b. Aug. 3, 1853 she m. Oscar Durgin and res. at Thornton.\\n45. Adelaide, b. Aug. 22, 1S56; m. 1SS8, George Scribner, of Salisbury.\\n46. Fred E., b. Dec. 11, 1859.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0695.jp2"}, "676": {"fulltext": "620 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(43.) Solomon B., b. Nov. 6, 1847; i- IMarch, 1871, Dorothy,\\nA., dau. of William Holmes, of Salisbury she was b.\\nFeb. 7, 1847 i he is a butcher and resides at Franklin.\\n47. Eugene H., b. Jan. 13, 1872 he d. May 14, 1S79.\\n48! Walter F., b. Nov. 16, 1874; d. April 22, 1S79.\\n49. Robert J., b. June 5, 187S; d. April 29, 1879.\\n50. Agnes L., b. Sept. 16, 1S80.\\nTHE GREENLEAF FAMILY.\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nThe ancestors of this family were Huguenots, who in the\\nseventeenth century left France on account of their religious\\nprinciples and settled in England. The name is a literal trans-\\nlation from the French, Feuillevert. Edmund Greenleaf, the\\ncommon ancestor, was born in the parish of Brixham, county of\\nDevonshire, England, in 1600. He married Sarah Dole, by\\nwhom he had several children, born in England, and emigrated\\nto this country in 1635, settling at Newbury, (Newburyport)\\nMass.\\nFIRST BRANCH.\\nI. Stephen Greenleaf, (vii) Tristram, (vi) Tristram, (v) Tris-\\ntram, (iv) Stephen, (in) Stephen, (ii) Edward, (i) b. at\\nNewbury, Mass., April 11, 1766. At the age of ten, his\\nfather having died in 1789, he removed with his mother\\n(Mrs. Lois R. Greenleaf, who d. March 10, 1817, aged\\n87,) to Salisbury, settling on the Bacon farm. Smith s\\nhill, where he engaged in farming, afterwards removing\\nto the Nathaniel Bean house. South road, where he d.\\nDec. 26. 1845. Mr. Greenleaf was a well-built man, six\\nfeet in height, not inclined to corpulency, with black\\neyes, auburn hair and light complexion of a nervous\\ntemperament, and very active and quick in all his mo-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0696.jp2"}, "677": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 621\\ntions. He m. (i) March 21, 1793, Ruth, dau. of David\\nand Ruth (Heath) Pettengill, who d. March 18, 1826;\\nm. (2) widow Page, of Sutton.\\n2. Thomas R., b. July 6, 1793. See.)\\n3. Harriet, b. March 17, 1795 ^ept- 1796-\\n4. Henry, (A. M.) b. May 15, 1797. Graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1823, taught school at Columbia, S. C, for\\nthree years, and subsequently went into mercantile pur-\\nsuits. Returning to Franklin he was there engaged in\\ntrade, and d. Nov. 27, 1832, unm. For a time he read\\nand practiced law.\\n5. Lois, b. June 9, 1799; m. Aug, 23, 1826, Isaac Crane, who was b. at North-\\nfield, in April, 1798, and d. at Boscawen, Nov. 7, 1S58, aged 60.\\nChildren of Isaac Crane b. at Franklin\\nI. Harriet S., b. June 9, 1S27 m. Levi. J. Bartlett. See.) 11. Henry G., b. April\\n15, 1829 m. Nov. 14, 1872, S. E. I atten, a screw manufacturer, at Worces-\\nter, Mass. in. Charles C, b. Oct. i, 1830 he d. at Chattanooga, Tenn.,\\nDec. 8, 1S63. IV. Robert T., b. Nov. 3, 1832 d. Aug. 17, 1867. v. Albert\\nI., b. May 31, 1834; d. Jan. 19, 1874.\\n6. Eunice, b. Nov. 15, 1801 m. James Colburn, of Franklin d. Jan. 26, 1839.\\n7. Harriet, b. Aug. 26, 1S03 m. Dec. 23, 1S45, Nathan G. of Claremont\\nand d.\\n8. Francis S., b. July 10, 1S05 m. Charlotte F. Britton, (^ee early stores and\\nmerchants and res. at Bedford, Mass.\\n9. Tristram, b. Nov. 24, 1807, and resided for a time in the D. Bartlett house.\\nHe d. at Haverhill, Mass., Jan. i, 1882; m. March, 1835, Anna Burleigh.\\n(See.) She d. in Haverhill, Oct. 14, 1879, aged 71. They had five chil-\\ndren two d. in infancy one married and d. at Haverhill, July 25, 1880\\nCharles C, m. March 22, 1S65, Mary S. Dimond, res. at Nauseon, Ohio,\\nand Charlotte, unm.\\n10. Hannah, b. June 14, 1812; d. 1857, unm.\\n(2.) Thomas Rowell learned the hatter s trade and built the\\nshop now owned by T. D. Little. He traded for a time\\nin what is now Franklin, and before 1S20 had a store on\\nthe Kendall stand, at Sanbornton, afterwards returning\\nto Salisbury, where he was in trade at the Chapman\\nSweatt store removed to St. Louis, where he d. m.\\nwidow Mary E. Hawley he had three children who died\\nyoung.\\nII. George Henry, b. 1S39; d. unm. 12. Andrew S., b. 1S41 d unm.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0697.jp2"}, "678": {"fulltext": "622 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n13. Samuel Greenleaf, a brother of Stephen, (i) was b. at New-\\nbury, Mass., June, 1768, removed to Salisbury with his\\nbrother and built the David G. Bean store and house.\\n(See stores and merchants.) He was a man of much\\nenterprise, energy and thrift removed to Boston, Mass.,\\nwhere he d. in 1845 m. (i) Jan. 24, 1797, Sally Smith,\\nwho d. Aug. 15, 1802; m. (2) Mary Wiggin, of Hopkin-\\nton. Children by first wife\\n12. Samuel, b. Jan. 13, 1802; d. June 7, 1S03.\\nChildren by second wife.\\n13. Sarah, m. Charles J. Cazenone; d.\\nTHE HADDOCK FAMILY.\\nI. William Haddock was born in 1769, and removed to Sal-\\nisbury from Haverhill, Mass., previous to 1794, building the\\nmiddle part of the dwelling occupied as the Orphans Home, at\\nLower Franklin, the west end of the house having been built\\nby Daniel Webster and the east end by Mr. Fay. Mr. Had-\\ndock was by trade a tanner and currier, which business he con-\\ntinued here, in addition to shoemaking and the grinding of\\nbark. After the death of William Hoit, about 1805, he erected\\na store now standing, (the yellow building west of the Orphans\\nHome) in which he traded for some years, closing up the busi-\\nness previous to his death. He built the house occupied by\\nG. B. Matthews, where he d. June 3, 1828. He was quite a\\nfarmer, a close financier and a smart business man, accumulat-\\ning considerable property, but through misfortune losing a share\\nof it. He married (i) Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Webster,\\nwho died Dec. 13, 1804; married (2) Lucretia Eaton, who died\\nJan. 10, 1852. Children (two died in infancy) by first wife:\\n2. Charles Brickett, A. M., D. D., was b. June 20, 1796. Pre-\\npared for college at the Salisbury Academy and entered\\nDartmouth in 18 12, Possessing marked mental abilities", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0698.jp2"}, "679": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 623\\nfrom his mother, his natural endowments and diligence\\nin application made him the best scholar of his class.\\nAfter graduating, in 1816, he entered the Theological\\nSeminary, at Andover, Mass., remaining two years, im-\\npaired health not permitting him to complete his course.\\nTo restore his health he made a tour on horseback\\nthrough many of the southern states, returning in 1815\\ngreatly improved. He was at once appointed to the\\nchair of rhetoric at Dartmouth, being but twenty-three\\nyears of age, which position he held till 1838. For the\\nduties of this professorship he was especially fitted by\\nhis varied culture and high scholarship. As an instruct-\\nor he was thorough, as a critic discriminating, as a writer\\nfertile, and as a speaker graceful and attractive. With\\nthe students he was popular, endearing them to him by\\nhis dignified courtesy and that thoughtful, manly kind-\\nness, which improves and gives a charm to every form of\\nintercourse. After resigning the chair of rhetoric he\\nwas elected Professor of Intellectual Philosophy and\\nCivil Policy, resigning in 1854. While holding this posi-\\ntion he was appointed charge d affaires of the United\\nStates, at Portugal, from 1850 to 1854. Prof. Haddock\\nnever sought the fame of authorship, but in 1846 he pub-\\nlished a volume of Addresses and Miscellaneous Writ-\\nings. This book consists of addresses and discourses\\ndelivered on different occasions, which are i^roductions\\nof rare merit, showing the same finish of style, purity of\\ndiction and richness and practicability of suggestion\\nwhich characterized all his intellectual efforts. While\\nacting for many years as secretary of the New Hamp-\\nshire Educational Society, his published annual reports\\nwere able and comprehensive discourses upon subjects\\nof great educational interest. Among these we find,\\nThe Standard of Education for the Pulpit, The Influ-\\nence of Elevated Mind, and The Eloquence of the\\nPulpit, as affected by Ministerial Character. The latter\\npart of his life was spent at his home in West Lebanon,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0699.jp2"}, "680": {"fulltext": "624 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nwhere he died Jan. 15, 1861, He m. (i) Aug. 19, 1S19,\\nSusan Saunders, dau. of Richard Long, of Hanover; m.\\n(2) July 21, 1841, Mrs. Caroline (Kimball) Young, dau.\\nof Richard Kimball, of Lebanon she resides at Hanover.\\n3. William Townsend, A. M., b. April 4, 1798, spelled and\\npronounced his name Heydock. Fitted for college at\\nSalisbury Academy and graduated at Dartmouth in 1819.\\nHe read law with his uncle, Daniel Webster, at Boston\\nwas admitttd to the bar in 1822, beginning practice at\\nHanover, continuing there two years, when he removed\\nto Concord, at which place he published the Probate\\nDirectory; removing to Boston in 1829, he took the\\neditorial chair of Jurisprudence, a law journal, pub-\\nlished weekly. Died of consumption while on a tempor-\\nary visit to Hanover, Nov. 6, 1835. He m. Jane Alcott,\\nwho d.\\n4. Benjamin Franklin, b. he resided and d. at Chicago, Dec. 23, 1S71, where\\nhe became president of a bank.\\n5. George W., b. March i8c6-8 drowned May 18, 1871.\\n6. Edward Hiram,.. b. April 2, 1811, lived on the farm until he\\nwas twenty-two years of age, when he went to Chicago,\\n111., a poor young man. He first engaged as a stage\\nagent, then as a hotel keeper. He m. in 1834, Louisa,\\ndau. of Dexter Graves, a hotel keeper. He had the\\nYankee trick of saving as well as earning money, and\\npossessed a shrewdness which made him successful in\\nall his business undertakings. He was of untiring indus-\\ntry, strict integrity, and quiet and unpretending in man-\\nner was a member of the second Presbyterian church\\nwas one of the judges at the first municipal election, and\\nserved as alderman under B. S. Norris, the second mayor\\nof the city. After accumulating great wealth he retired\\nfrom public life in 1855. After the great fire he resided\\nat No. 2976 Michigan avenue, where he d. May 22, 1881,\\nleaving one daughter, Helen, who m. John DeKoven, of\\nthe Merchants National Bank, Chicago.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0700.jp2"}, "681": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0701.jp2"}, "682": {"fulltext": "6L^^^.^r^iA^", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0702.jp2"}, "683": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 625\\n7. Roswell, b. 1810 m. and res. at Sutton.\\n8. Lorenzo, b. was a lawyer at Buffalo, where he died Mehitable may\\nhave been a daughter. She m. March 29, 1827, Ens. Daniel Osgood.\\nTHE HALE FAMILY.\\nI. Isaac, son of Paul, who married Sept. 21, 1787, Hannah\\nLang, by whom he had four children, was born Jun. 10,\\n1791, at Newburyport, Mass., removing to that part of Salis-\\nbury now Franklin, in 18 17, where he built a brick house south\\nof Wallace Burleigh s. By trade he was a brick mason he\\ndied at Fisherville, (Penacook) June 10, 1865. Mr. Hale was\\na smart, capable business man, a democrat in politics, and\\nserved as senator from the 4th district from 1842 to 1844. He\\nmarried (i) June 22, 18 13, Betsey Pearson, of Webster, (Bos-\\ncawen) who died Jan. 9, 1832, aged 41 married {2) Polly, a\\nsister to his first wife, who died Nov. 14, 1865.\\n2. Eliza, b. in Boscawen, Oct. 23, 18 14; m. L. M. Chadwick, of Boscawen.\\n3. Robert, b. in Boscawen, Oct. i, 1S15; m. Ann Ward, and res. at Minneapolis,\\nMinn.\\n4. Nathan, b. in Salisbury, Sept. 28, 1S17; d. Feb. 11, 1819.\\n5. Mary, b. Oct. 5, 1819, d. Dec. 5, 1S75 m. Feb. 22, 1S42, Dr. William W. Proctor.\\n(See.)\\n6. Hannah, b. Dec. 8, 1S22 m. March 5, 1S57, John Sawyer, and res. at Fisher-\\nville, Penacook.)\\n7. Ellen, b. Nov. 23, 1824; m. March 26, 1S45, A. G. Kimball, and res. at Pish.\\nerville, Penacook.)\\n8. Jane, b. Feb. 13, 1827, and d. Sept. 21, 1S49.\\n9. Ann, b. Jan. 9, 1829; m. (i) March 3, 1S48, .\\\\sa L. Pavere m. (2) Feb. i,\\n1872, Moses Farnum, and res. at Concord.\\n10. Harriet, b. Nov. 12, 1831 unm. and res. at Fisherville, Penacook.)\\nTHE HANCOCK FAMILY.\\nI. John, son of John, was born at Northfield, Aug. i, 1791.\\nHe learned the trade of a tanner and currier, with Chickering,\\nat Concord, and removed to Salisbury previous to iSio, follow-\\n40", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0705.jp2"}, "684": {"fulltext": "626 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\ning his trade with William Haddock, at the lower village, where\\nhe built a house, shop and tan vats on the site now occupied by\\nE. H. Sturtevant s drug store, in Franklin. The house and\\nshop were incorporated in the drug store building. Here Mr.\\nHancock conducted a large and successful business, being a\\nmost excellent tanner and currier and doing fine work. Event-\\nually he removed to the Orphans Home district, erecting the\\nfirst set of buildings south of Punch brook, where he died Aug,\\n13, 1875. He was called Tanner John, to distinguish him\\nfrom others bearing the same name. Married Dorothy, daugh-\\nter of John Sanborn, who died Feb. 17, 1869.\\n2. George W., b. Aug. 7, 181 1 d. at Manchester, Feb. 17, 1877. He m. Dorothy\\nOsgood, of Gilmanton.\\n3. Hannah S., b. Feb. 25, 1813; m. Jonathan Prescott he d. in 1874.\\n4. Harriet N., b. June 15, 1815; m. Dustin L. Judkins. He d. at Manchester,\\nwhere she res.\\n5. Susan K., b. Feb 5, 1817; m. Rev. Joseph Loring, and res. at East Otisfield,\\nMaine.\\n6. Benjamin S., b. April 6, 1S19. (See.)\\n7. Albert, b. March 11, 1821 he rem. to Lowell, became a mill overseer, and\\nthere d.\\n8. Emily, b. March 19, 1823 m. Samuel M. Westgate.\\n9. Leonard, b. March 28, 1825; m. Mary Hazelton, of Concord.\\n10. Squires, b. March 16, 1827 d. Nov. i, 1S32.\\n11. Daniel, b. June 21, 1829; d. Oct. 25, 1832.\\n12. Ann. M., b. June 16, 1832; m. Joseph L. Thompson, a noted school teacher at\\nFranklin.\\n(6.) Benjamin Sanborn, m. in 1836 and removed to Amoskeag\\nFalls, (Manchester) where he was engaged in the first\\ncotton factory built at that place he remained there till\\n1850, then removing to Fisherville, (Penacook) where\\nhe remained but a short time, when he returned to Man-\\nchester. He was one of the first overseers in the Stark\\ncorporation. Leaving there in March, 1857, he returned\\nto his native town, purchased the Hoyt place, the pres-\\nent house being in process of erection by Horace Noyes,\\nand is one of the leading men of that part of Franklin.\\nHe m. Oct. 29, 1840, Achsah N. Gould, who was b. at\\nWeare, June 8, 18 16.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0706.jp2"}, "685": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 62/\\n13. Frank N., b. Jan. 23, 1849; Aug. 14, 1862, Mary A. Lyon, of Lowell, Mass.\\nChildren i. Mary H., b. Oct. 23, 1873.\\nTHE HEATH FAMILY.\\nI. Job was a native of Plaistow, removing to this town pre-\\nvious to the revolutionary war, settling on the eastern slope of\\nthe hill west of Joseph N. Greeley s. By occupation he was a\\nfarrier, and when not otherwise employed was engaged in farm-\\ning. Married Nov. 23, 1772, Susanna Stevens.\\n2. Moses, b. Jan. 19, 1773. (See.) 3. Mary, b. Oct. 7, 1774.\\n4. Ephraim, b. Julys, 1777; m. iSoi, Polly Corser, of Boscawen, and had six\\nchildren.\\n5. Prudence, b. Sept. 27, 1780; m. Josiah Corser, of Boscawen, rem. to Canada\\nabout 1812, and afterwards to Vermont, and d.\\n6. Job, b. Feb. 15, 1784. See.) 7. Nehemiah, b. May 28, 1786; m. Corser.\\n(2,) Moses remained on the homestead m. Lydia Clark.\\n8. Hannah, m. Reuben Fellows. 9. David. 10. Moses. See.)\\nII. Amos, was deaf and dumb and by trade a cooper. 12. Daniel.\\n13. Sargent. 14. William. 15. Lydia; d. young. 16. Abigail; d. young.\\n(6.) Job built the Joseph N. Greeley house m. (i) Fisk, of\\nBoscawen m. (2) Jane Watson, of Meredith.\\n17. Hial, b. Feb. 22, 1813; m. Esther Mellett. She res. at Newton, Iowa.\\n18. Lavina, b. March 24, 1816; m. Jonathan G. Fuller, of Lynn, Mass.\\n19. Sallina, b. Aug. i, 1818; m. April 2, 1843, Solomon Mackintire, and res. at\\nDanvers, Mass.\\n20. James IL, born July 29, 1821 m. Martha Read.\\n(10.) Moses built, in 182 1, the house now occupied by his\\nwidow. He was by trade a cooper but also carried on\\nhis farm served in the war of 18 12, and d. Aug. 23,\\n1839 ;.m. I^GC. 22, 1814, Ruth Shirley.\\n21. Susan, b. 1S20; drowned in Blackwatcr river, 1S29.\\n22. George W., b. Sept. 3, 1S22 m. Hannah Hunker, d. 1855.\\n23. Charles G., b. Aug. 28, 1S24; m. 1S64, Judith Healy.\\n24. Kmeline K., b. Aug. 13, 1826; m. Oct. i, 1843, John Carter, of Holdcrness;\\nd. Sept. 19, 1S82.\\n25. James A., b. June 15, 1S28 he m. Harriet Clark and res. at Contoocook.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0707.jp2"}, "686": {"fulltext": "628 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n26. Elbridge G., m. F. Thomas. 27. Moses F., m. Jane Stone.\\n28. Harrison V., b. Sept. 12, 1835; Dec. 6, 1865, Ruth C. Loverin. I. Minnie,\\nb. July 5, 1866; m. Nov. 11, 1882, Wallace B. Sanborn. 11. Carrie P., b.\\nAug. 27, 1868. III. Edwin F., b. April 15, 1871.\\n29. William F., b. July 13; d. aged 17.\\nTHE HOLMES FAMILY.\\nI, William was born at Hopkinton, April 4, 18 18, and at\\nthe annual March meeting, in 182 1, was struck off to the lowest\\nbidder as a town pauper, this occurring for a number of years.\\nEach season found him with a new master, and until well into\\nhis teens he had no school advantages. Without the influ-\\nences and care of a mother s love his life was a hard one, until\\n1839, when he came to Salisbury, making his home with Lieut.\\nBenjamin Pettengill, whose farm he eventually purchased, and\\nthere continued. He built the sawmill on the old Wilder\\nBowers dam, (part of which was originally a beaver dam) saw-\\ning annually 500,000 feet of lumber. He owns over eight hun-\\ndred acres of land, cultivating about one hundred acres. In all\\nenterprises of the town he takes a prominent part, having con-\\ntributed the lumber for the addition to the academy, also giving\\npersonal and pecuniary aid in establishing the Salisbury Tele-\\ngraph. He married, March 12, .1841, M. daugher of Ebene-\\nzer Johnson.\\n2. George, b. Oct. iS, 1843 m. June 5, 1S67, Orissa M. Dearborn, of Tilton, and\\nres. at Huron, Dakota.\\n3. Dorothy A., b. Feb. 17, 1847 I Solomon B. Greeley. See.)\\n4. Charles, b. Oct. 17, 1850; m. (i) May 8, 1878, Mary A. Wadleigh, of Sutton,\\nwho d. April 20, 1880; m. (2) Helen Low, of Hopkinton. They have two\\nchildren Clara, b. in 1887, and a son, b. in 1888. He resides on the\\nDavid Kimball farm and conducts the saw mill.\\n5. Curtis D., b. Sept. 2, 1852 m. 1874, Mary E. Smith, b. at Enfield, July\\n3, 1857. I. Freddie W., b. in Salisbury, Oct. 30, 1876. 11. Frankie Leroy,\\nb. in Franklin, Feb. 18, 1881, and d. April 30, 1883.\\n6. Emma J., b. Aug. 10, 1S55 m. Jan. 14, 1872, Henry M. Weeks, and res. at\\nEskridge, Kan.\\n7. Nellie M., b. March 8, 1857 m. Aug. 31, 1881, Howard E. Dearborn.\\n8. William J., b. June 23, 1S67 m. 1SS8, Neomia Shaw. 9. Leland, b. May 9, 1870.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0708.jp2"}, "687": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 629\\nTHE HOWARD FAMILY.\\nThis name is spelled Howard, or Hereward. The first Amer-\\nican ancestor of the family was Nathaniel Howard, who emi-\\ngrated from Suffolk, England, to Dorchester, Mass., in 1641,\\nand was made a freeman in 1643.\\n1. Benjamin. His father, Benjamin, was b. at Ipswich, Mass.,\\nDec. 24, 1727, and d. at Newburyport, July, 1773 m.\\nFeb. 18, 174S, Meele Sweatt, dau. of Stephen and Judith,\\nof Newbury, where she was b. Aug. 25, 1724; she d.\\nthere in June, 1788. Benjamin, (i) b. at Newbury, Mass.,\\n1758, was a famous Indian fighter. He served in Gen.\\nJohn Sullivan s expedition into the Indian country, (New\\nYork) during which time he kept a very accurate diary\\nof current events. The first twenty-two pages of this\\ndiary are missing, as are an equal number after the 76th\\nday. The diary covers a period from Aug. 12 to Sept.\\n13, 1777, and is in possession of his maternal grandson,\\nE. D. Couch, of Contoocook, and a copy is among the\\nHistorical Collections of the Antiquarian Society, at\\nContoocook, Vol. 4, p. 347. He served at Bunker Hill\\nwith the Salisbury men, remained in the army until the\\nclose of the revolutionary war, when he came to Salis-\\nbury. He m. Dec. 7, 1780, Sarah, dau. of John Fellows.\\n(See.) She d. Aug. 22, 1835, aged tt. He settled on\\nland now owned by Lyman Couch, south of the Couch\\nbrothers dwelling, on Battle street, where he d. Feb, 26,\\n1832, aged 74.\\n2. Meele, b. Sept. 15, 1781 m. Oct. 20, 1803, Joseph Couch, who built the house\\nnow owned and occu])ied by Joseph I.ang Couch; she d. Oct. 13, 1S64.\\n3. lienjamin, b. 17S3. (See.)\\n4. Sarah, b. May 23, 17S5; m. May i, iSoo, Samuel Morrill, of Warner; removed\\nto Bradford, and d. March 10, 1862.\\n5. Eunice, b. Nov. 15, 1793; m. Sept. 15, 181 2, Samuel Couch, and res. on the\\nNathan H. Morgan farm. She d. Oct. 24, 1S5S, and he d. March 1, 1858.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0709.jp2"}, "688": {"fulltext": "630 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(3.) Benjamin settled just east of the homestead, where the\\nchildren were born, removed to Corser hill (Webster)\\nand d. April 11, 1864. He enlisted in the army, in\\nApril, 1813, and was discharged in April, 18 18; m. (i)\\nApril 18, 1 8 10, Polly, dau. of David and Hannah (East-\\nman) Burbank m. (2) Aug. 10, 1821, Mrs. Mehitable\\nFellows her husband s name was Berry, who was a sea\\ncaptain and d. at sea she d. April 2, 1864.\\n6. John, b. in Boscawen, Dec. 10, 1810; rem. to Pomfrey, N. Y., and d. Dec.\\n6, 1S39.\\n7. Ransom, rem. to N. Y. about 1814.\\n8. Sarah, name afterwards changed to Rosannah, for her aunt.\\nTHE HOYT FAMILY.\\nWilliam was a printer at Newburyport, Mass., from whence\\nhe removed to the lower village in Salisbury, now Orphans\\nHome, Franklin, quite early. He was the first merchant in\\nthat part of the town. In 1793 we find him paying a tax jDf\\n\u00c2\u00a312,0 on his stock in trade. He settled on the farm now owned\\nby Benjamin S. Hancock, where he d. about 1805-6; he m.\\nAug. 26, 1794, Mehitable Eastman. (See.) No children blessed\\ntheir union. He taught school here a number of years, both\\nDaniel and Ezekiel Webster having been numbered among his\\npupils. The former gives this account of Hoyt see Curtis s\\nLife of Daniel Webster, page 15: William Hoyt was for\\nmany years teacher of our country school in Salisbury. I do\\nnot call it village school, because there was at that time no vil-\\nlage, and boys came to school in the winter, the only season in\\nwhich schools were usually open, from distances of several\\nmiles, wading through the snow or running upon its crust, with\\ntheir curly heads of hair often whitened with frost from their\\nown breath. I knew William Hoyt well, and every truant\\nknew. He was an austere man but a good teacher of children.\\nHe had been a printer in Newburyport, wrote a very fine and", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0710.jp2"}, "689": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 63 1\\nexcellent hand, was a good reader, and did teach boys that\\nwhich so few masters can or will do, to read well themselves.\\nBeyond this, and perhaps a very slight knowledge of grammar,\\nhis attainments did not extend. He had brought with him into\\nthe town a little property, which he took very good care of.\\nHe rather loved money.\\nTHE HUNTOON FAMILY.\\nThe Hunton or Huntoon families of New England are the\\ndescendants of Philip Hunton, who came to this country when\\na boy. Daniel T. V. Huntoon, of Canton, Mass., who is about\\npublishing the Genealogy of the Huntoon Family, says that\\nthe true tradition as to where he came from is, that upon the\\nrevocation of the edict of Nantes, a family bearing the name of\\nHunton fled from France and sought refuge in the island of\\nJersey, whence Philip came to America, and was employed by\\na man by the name of Hall, at Exeter, whose daughter Philip\\nsubsequently married. On the morning of July 22, 1710, Philip\\nand his eldest son, Samuel, were plowing in a field, when they\\nwere surrounded and fired upon by a band of Indians. Samuel\\nfell, mortally wounded. Philip and Jacob Gilman were taken\\nprisoners, and suffered the most terrible indignities and cruel-\\nties. After their arrival in Canada they were sold to the F rench\\nas prisoners. For a most authentic and complete record of this\\nfamily the reader is referred to The Huntoon Genealogy,\\npublished by Hon. Thomas D. V. Huntoon, son of the Rev.\\nBenjamin Huntoon, a native of this town. Nathaniel Huntoon,\\n(John, ii, Philip, i,) was born in 1721 married (i) May 22, 1742\\nmarried (2) Martha Judkins. He was a grantee of Stevenstown,\\n(Salisbury) but never resided here, moving to Unity as early\\nas 1772.\\nI. Philip, youngest son of the Philip above mentioned, was b.\\nabout 1694, and d. in May, 1780; m. (i) Dec. 22, 1720,\\nAnn Eastman, who d. in 1750; m. (2) Calliot. He", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0711.jp2"}, "690": {"fulltext": "632 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nowned a right in the township of Unity, which he sold\\nto his son Benjamin. Between 1772 and 1775 he re-\\nmoved to Salisbury, settling at South road.\\n(2.) Benjamin, the fifth child of Philip, (i) and a grandson of\\nPhilip first above mentioned, was b. at Kingston, Sept.\\n4, 1729, and d. Dec. 12, 1815 m. (i) Feb. 7, 1750, Judith\\n(Sarah) Clough, of Poplin, who d. April 17, 1756; m.\\n(2) Abigail Page m. (3) Mercy Dearborn, who was b,\\nAug. 21, 1732, and d. Oct. 23, 1791 m. (4) Hannah\\nJames, widow of Samuel Dearborn. He served in the\\nmemorable expedition against Louisburg. In 1746 we\\nfind him doing scout duty in Capt. Daniel Ladd s com-\\npany, afterwards serving at various times from 1750 to\\n1759. In 1776 he had charge of the powder belonging\\nto New Britain, (Andover.) He served at Bennington,\\nin Capt. Webster s company. In 1778 he was engaged\\nin apprehending deserters, and in 1783, as constable of\\nthis town, he received money to defend the western\\nfrontier. In 1772 Benjamin bought of George Jaffrey,\\nof Portsmouth, his one hundred acre lot. No. 64, third\\nrange, on which he settled and died.\\n3. Philip, b. Nov. 20, 1751 d. in 1780; m. Fellows.\\n4. Jonathan, b. Jan. 4, 1754; m. Sarah Prescott, he d. March 25, 1S15.\\n5. Sarah, b. March 17, 1767; m. Isaac Marston d. Aug. 28, 1814.\\n6. Nathaniel, b. June 16, 1759. (See.)\\n7. Mary, b. Dec. 15, 1761 m. Joseph Fellows, of Andover; d. March 29, 1805.\\n8. Hannah, b. Nov. 13, 1763; m. Jonathan Bartlett, of Norwich, Vt. d. March\\n7, 1858.\\n9. Benjamin, b. April 6, 1765. (See.) 10. Anna, b. Aug. 13, 1766.\\nII. Samuel. 12. Rebecca, b. Nov. 28, 1769; m. David Webster; d. May 28, 1836.\\n13. Elizabeth, b. May 3, 1771 m. Jonathan Brown, of Andover d. Aug. 9, 1853.\\n14. John, b. July 15, 1773; ^5 ^79^ Rebecca, dau. of Joseph Calef, who\\nd. Sept. 17, 1836; he removed to Andover, 111., and d. Oct. 26, 1818.\\n15. Mercy, b. April 18, 1775; m. June 16, 1796, David Chandler, of Hanover; she\\nd. in May, 1833.\\n16. Anna, b. Aug. 13, 1776; m. Jonathan Bartlett, of Norwich, Vt. d. Dec. i6\\n1838.\\n(6.) Nathaniel probably settled on Raccoon hill, east of the\\nbarn standing in 1881 north of B. F. Sanborn s, from", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0712.jp2"}, "691": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 633\\nwhich place he used a larp^e tree to signal from to each\\nof his brothers; m. Sept. lo, 1783, Hannah Webster,\\nwho was b. in 1756 and d. Jan. 22, 1793 had one son,\\nNathaniel, b. here March 26, 1785, who graduated at\\nDartmouth College in [808, read law and settled in prac-\\ntice at Portsmouth, where he d. July 2, 1816.\\n(9.) Benjamin m. (i) May 10, 1792, Mehitable, dau. of Onesi-\\nphorus and Mehitable (Doty) Page, who was b. Sept. i,\\n1771, and d. Sept. 9, 1804; m. {2) May 21, 1805, Hannah\\nBaker, of Bow, who was b. Sept. 15, 1774, and d. March\\n28, 1843 she was a daughter of Joseph and Marion\\n(Moore) Baker. He resided on the homestead and d.\\nJan. 26, 1856. He held a high position in the town, and\\nwas much respected for his honesty and christian worth.\\nIn the church he took a prominent part, and was chosen\\na deacon of the Congregational church, July 9, 1815.\\n17. Benjamin, b. Nov. 2S, 1792. (See.)\\n18. Mehitable P., b. May 2, 1S06; m. Oct. 3, 1848, Jolin White; he d. Feb. 25,\\n1874; she resides in Enfield.\\n19. John, b. Nov 27, 1S14; d. Jan. 19, 1854; m. Oct. 4, 1838, Mary J., dau. of\\nAmos and Hannah Sherburne Fifield, and resided on the homestead.\\nChildren: i. Henry, b. Oct. 4, 1S40; m. Nov. 13, 1S59, P^meline V. Fol-\\nlansbee. 11. Mary A., b. March 2, 1S47 m. Jan. 12, 1S67, Perry H.Cheney,\\nof Warner; resides in East Lexington, Mass. iii. Diantha A., b. Feb. 23,\\n1850; m. Sept. 7, 18S2, Edward Wood, and resides at East Lexington.\\n(11.) Samuel, first child of Mercy, was b. May 10, 1768, and\\nd. Dec. 13, 1835 m. June 4, 1801, Martha, dau. of Eben-\\nezer and Mary (Adams) Tucker, of Salisbury, Mass., who\\nd. Oct. 18, 1850.\\n20. Mary A., b. Nov. 15. 1802 m. Oct. 30, 1S32, Jonathan French, of Hopkinton.\\nShe d. -Vpril 14, 1S80.\\n21. Nathaniel D., b. Aug. 10, 1804; d. July 18, 1S61 m. Oct. 18, 1832, Rhoda J.\\nTrue. Children: I. George H., b. Nov. 27, 1834; d. in May, 1S57, unm.\\nII. Charles F., b. .Sept. 23, 1S36; m. Gcorgie A. Ford, of Concord, where\\nthey reside. III. J. Frank, b. Sept. 13, 1839; d. Oct. 4, 1864; m. Mary E.\\nAske, of Brighton, 111.\\n22. Sarah S., b. April 26, i8aS m. Nov. 23, 1S36, Ebcnezer Thurston, of Hill she\\nd. June 9, 1839.\\n23. Martha F., b. Dec. 6, 1812; m. Aug. 15, 1S36, John W. Robertson, of Frank-\\nlin. She d. Jan. 7, 187S.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0713.jp2"}, "692": {"fulltext": "634 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n24. Samuel W., b. Sept. 15, 1814; d. Sept. 10, 1818.\\n25. Harriet A., b. May 27, 1S16; d. April 30, 1817.\\n26. Harriet N., b. Feb. 18, 1818; m. Jan. 19, 1854, Nathan Kilburn. (See.) She\\nd. Sept. 3, 1881.\\n27. Samuel N., b. Nov. 4, 1821 d. Feb. 25, 1823.\\n(17.) Benjamin, (Rev.) m. (i) Sept. 4, 1820, Susan, dau. of\\nAmos and Charlotte (True) Pettengill, who d. at Peoria,\\n111., Nov. 8, 1839; ni- (2) July 7, 1841, Lydia Bowman,\\ndau. of Edmund and Elizabeth (Vose) Baker, who was\\nb. at Dorchester, Feb. 20, 1806, and d. at Canton, Mass.,\\nOct. 2, 1844; m. (3) July 30, 1846, Ann Payson, dau. of\\nElijah and Fanny (.Sumner) Lewis, who was b. at Rox-\\nbury, Mass., Aug. 13, 1804. His early life was passed\\non his father s farm, at North road. He commenced his\\nacademical studies, preparatory to entering college, at\\nthe Academy in Salisbury, and graduated at Dartmouth\\nin 1 8 17. During all this time he supported himself by\\nteaching school. He had the ninth appointment in the\\ngraduating exercises, which was a dialogue with Benja-\\nmin Woodbury, who was his college chum, on the ques-\\ntion, Which of the learned professions is more favora-\\nble to literary eminence. Divinity or Law.? Mr. Huntoon\\ntaking the side of divinity. After leaving college he\\ntaught the academy at his native town until 18 19, when\\nhe entered upon the study of divinity at Andover Theo-\\nlogical Seminary. In the spring of 1829, his health fail-\\ning, he went to Boston and took charge of an academy\\nin Salem street. While carrying on this school he was\\ninvited to the ministry of the First Congregational\\nchurch in Canton, Mass., and was ordained January 30,\\n1822, Rev. John Pierce, of Brookline, preaching the ser-\\nmon, Rev. Henry Ware giving the right hand of fellow-\\nship. He soon became widely and favorably known as\\na most earnest worker and eloquent preacher, and prob-\\nably delivered more occasional discourses than almost\\nany other minister in the neighborhood. In the latter\\npart of the year 1829 he was invited to preach the ser-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0714.jp2"}, "693": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 635\\nmon at the dedication of a new Unitarian church, in Ban-\\ngor, Me., and the society there prevailed on him to resign\\nhis pastorate at Canton, and he was installed at Bangor\\nin June, 1830. In the fall of 1833, his health failing\\nunder his numerous and onerous labors, he asked and\\nreceived a dismission from that church, and spent the\\nwinter at Savannah, Ga., preaching to the Unitarian\\nsociety there. In 1834 he returned to the north with\\nreinvigorated health, and was installed over the First\\nCongregational church, in Milton, (Rev. Dr. Morrison s)\\nOct. 15, 1834. Again, on account of failing health, he\\nwas obliged to resign his charge, and passed the winter\\nin the then far west, preaching at Peoria, and at Chicago,\\n111. In the spring of 1837 he was invited to settle at\\nCincinnati, O., where he remained one year. In June,\\n1838, he went to Peoria, where he remained preaching\\nto the First Unitarian church there until August, 1840,\\nwhen he was invited by the church in Canton, where he\\nhad been first ordained, to return, and he was according-\\nly re-installed at Canton, March 13, 1841. In 1849 he\\nresigned the pastorate and went to Marblehead, Mass.,\\nwhere he became the pastor of the Second Congrega-\\ntional society. In 1855, his health failing, he left that\\nplace, and in May, 1856, took charge of the parish at\\nWinchendon, Mass., where he remained until Nov. 8,\\n1857. In April, 1859, he was installed over the society\\nat Westboro but, his health continuing to fail, he was\\nforced to relinquish his charge in February, i860. In\\nthe fall of that year, having a desire to return to the\\nplace where he had been first ordained to the ministry,\\nand where he had passed so many happy years, he re-\\nturned to Canton and refitted and repaired his old house.\\nHere he spent the declining years of his life, blessed with\\nthe love and fellowship of those who had known and re-\\nvered him in his earlier days, a constant worshipper and\\nan occasional preacher in the church which was erected\\nthrough his exertions in the first years of his ministry.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0715.jp2"}, "694": {"fulltext": "636 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nHis presence and his daily walk were a benediction and\\na psalm. His name was a household word in every fam-\\nily. The traditions of his early labors were familiar to\\nall. Those whom he met at the sacrament of the Lord s\\nsupper those whom he had blessed at the marriage\\nthose whom he had baptized in infancy, whom he had\\nwatched over in the schools and counselled in their riper\\nyears alike revered and loved him, and came weeping\\nas mourners to his funeral. And when he died\\nHe fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long,\\nOr, like a clock worn out by eating time,\\nThe wheels of weary life at last stood still.\\nHis death occurred on the morning of April 19, 1864,\\nfrom paralysis. It does not become us to attempt an\\nanalysis of his character. At the funeral the Rev. Dr.\\nThompson, of Jamaica Plain, spoke of him as one pecul-\\niarly fitted to be a pioneer in the advance of liberal\\nChristianity. His services were sought for by the infant\\nchurches in every part of the country. There was an\\nearnestness of personal, vital piety, an animated hopeful-\\nness and an enthusiasm of manner which gave great\\npower and effect to all his pulpit labors. He was an\\nactive and zealous laborer in the cause of human broth-\\nerhood, and recognized and zealously maintained the\\nrights of all men, of whatever color, or creed, or condi-\\ntion. He was the uncompromising opponent of every\\nform of oppression, took a manly stand on all the live\\nquestions of the hour, while his voice, his pen, his purse,\\nhis house, were always at the service of those who strove\\nto promote the public good. He was proposed for the\\ndegrees in masonry, in St. John s Lodge, Boston, in 182 1,\\nand on the third day of April the same year was raised\\nto the sublime degree of Master Mason. Upon his re-\\nturn to Canton in 1822 he connected himself with Rising\\nStar Lodge, also with Mt. Zion Royal Arch Chapter, at\\nStoughton was exalted March 11, 1825, and in the fol-\\nlowing December was elected High Priest he held the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0716.jp2"}, "695": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 63/\\noffice of Grand Chaplain for. five years. In 1842 and\\n1843 he served as District Deputy Grand Master of the\\nthen Fifth Masonic District. On May 4, 1842, he deliv-\\nered an eulogy, by special request of the Grand Lodge,\\nupon the deaths of T. M. Harris, D. D., and Samuel\\nThaxter, M. D. On March 13, 1844, Winslovv Lewis,\\nM. D., having resigned the office of Corresponding Grand\\nSecretary, Bro. Huntoon was elected to fill the vacancy\\nand the office from 1845 to 1848 inclusive. In 1853 he\\nwas Junior Grand Warden. He was a constant attendant\\nupon the meetings of the Grand Lodge. He was Grand\\nHigh Priest of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Massa-\\nchusetts, in 1849, 1850, and 1851, also receiving the\\nCouncil degrees. For over forty years he was an enthu-\\nsiastic member of the fraternity. In the old anti-masonic\\ntimes, when he preached it was a frequent occurrence\\nfor some of his hearers to go out. On one occasion,\\nwhen this method of showing their hostility to masonry\\nhad been freely indulged in, and quite a number had left\\nthe sanctuary, a prominent Jack remarked, I had\\nalways thought that Mr. Huntoon was a good preacher,\\nbut never knew before that he had apostolic powers.\\nUpon being asked what he meant, he replied, Because\\nhe has cast out many devils. It has been related upon\\ngood authority that Bro. Huntoon remarked: Should\\nthe fanaticism of the day require me to renounce mason\\nry, or give up my position as a clergyman, I should un-\\nhesitatingly leave the ministry. The following among\\nhis discourses have been published Masonic Address\\nat Walpole, 1823 Sermon preached at South Dedham,\\n1825 Oration at the laying in masonic form the corner-\\nstone of the court-house at Dedham, July 4, 1825 Ser-\\nmon at dedication of the church at North Bridgewater,\\nAug. 9, 1826; Address at the installation of Mt. Zion\\nR. A. Chapter, Stoughton, Dec. 15, 1828; Sermon at\\ndedication of the Unitarian Church at Bangor, Me.,\\n1829 Sermon at installation of Rev. \\\\Vm. Farmer, at", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0717.jp2"}, "696": {"fulltext": "638 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nAugusta, Me., 1831 Sermon at Belgrade, Me., 1831\\nSermon at re-opening and dedication of a church at Mil-\\nton, Dec. 9, 1835 Masonic Oration at Ottawa, III, 1839\\nEulogy in commemoration of Rev. and R. W. Thaddeus\\nMason Harris, D. D., and R. W. Brother Samuel Thax-\\nter, M. D., Boston, 1842; an Address delivered on the\\noccasion of the centennial celebration of Hiram Lodge,\\nNew Haven, 1850.\\n28. Benjamin, b. here July 6, 1821 d. at Milton, Mass., Oct. 18, 1834.\\n29. Frederick W. L., b. at Canton, Mass., July 26, 1824; d. at Marblehead, Mass.,\\nAug. (or May) 14, 1S68 m. Sept. 9, 1850, Ann Chamberlain.\\n30. Marcellus, b. at Canton, July 18, 1826.\\n31. John, b. at Canton, Aug. 4, 1828; m. Jan. 20, 1868, Mary G. Hyde, and resides\\nat Boise City, Idaho Territory.\\n32. Isaac D., b. at Bangor, Me., July 20, 1830; m. June 3, 187 1, Clara E. Priest-\\nman, and resides at San Francisco, Cal.\\n33. Susan M., b. at Bangor, Me., June 30, 1832; m. Aug. 3, 1853, Rev. John Tal-\\nmagc she d. at Peoria, 111., June 11, 1854.\\n34. Benjamin B., b. at Bolton, Mass., Jan. 30, 1836; m. Aug. 14, i860, Sarah J.\\nHuntoon, of Hanover resides at Louisville, Ky.\\n35. Daniel Thomas Vose, b. at Canton, Mass., Sept. 4, 1842;\\nm. Oct. 23, 1867, Ella A. French. In Jan., i860, he re-\\nmoved to Kentucky, remaining there a year read law\\nwith Elias Adams, Esq., at Canton, during 1862 and\\n1863; he travelled extensively through the old world;\\nreturning in 1866, he was chosen superintendent of the\\npublic schools at Canton, holding the office for two terms\\nwith much credit resides at Canton.\\n36. Phineas Huntoon, {4) Daniel, (3) John, (2) Philip, (i)\\nwas b. at Kingston, April 22, 1768, and settled on the\\nsouth line of Andover part of the farm and the barn,\\nwhich is still standing, are in Salisbury. The farm is\\nnow (1881) occupied by Charles E. Currier. Later in\\nlife he removed to Salisbury, residing in a house which\\nstood at the corner just west of Mr. Alpheus Huntoon s,\\nwhere he d. Dec. 7, 1836; m. May 3, 1789, Mehitable\\nFrench, who d. April 21, 1840. Children, all born in\\nAndover", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0718.jp2"}, "697": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 639\\n37. William, b. April 22, 1789. (Sec.)\\n38. Mehitahle, b. Oct. 14, 1791 m. James Morse, of Salisbury. She d. Nov. 11\\n1S26.\\n39. Nathaniel, b. Keb. 4, 1793. (See.)\\n40. Joseph v., b. May 17, 1795; m. (i) Ann Blaisdell m. (2) Hetsey Sleeper; m*\\n(3) and removed west.\\n41. Daniel, b. Dec. 17, 1797; m. Melinda Norris.\\n42. Phineas, b. Nov. 7, 179S. (See).\\n43. Abigail, b. Aug. 7, iSoo; m. Kdward Doanc.\\n44. Sarah, b. Oct. 17, 1802; m. David Barnard. She d. April 24, 1837.\\n45. Polly, b. May 18, 1804; m. Charles Iluntoon, of Unity she d. March 12, 1843.\\n46. Aurelia, b. March 16, 1806; m. David Barnard.\\n47. John v., b. Nov. 19, 1808. See.)\\n48. Lavinia, b. Oct 18, rSio; m. Philo Cilley.\\n49. Eliza, b. May 11, 1814; d. March 26, 1836, unm.\\n(37-) William remained on the farm, thence removing to An-\\ndover Centre; d. March i8, 1867; m. Dec. i, 1814,\\nLydia, dau. of Dea. Hubbard Stevens, (see) who d. April\\n10, 1868.\\nSylvester, b. April i6, 1S15; d. April 15, 1820.\\nWilliam H., b. Oct. 8, 1817; m. Nov. 25, 1S41, Martha C. Gookin remained\\nfor a time on the farm, then removed to Newport; d. June 19, 1875.\\nLydia A., b. Sept. 9, 1820; d. Aug. 26, 1843.\\nSylvester, b. Sept. 9, 1823; d. Sept. 7, 1824.\\nSylvester Dana, b. Sept. 29, 1825; d. at Hopkinton, Sept. 9, i860; m. Martha\\nB. Ordway.\\nSylvanus, b. Sept. 7, 1S28; d. Dec. 23, 185S, unm.\\nElizabeth AL, b. Sept. 26, 1832; m. William L. Bennett, of Concord.\\nAnnette R., b. May 20, 1S37; m. Aug. 22, 1871, David E. Clark, of Andover.\\n(39.) Nathaniel after his marriage removed to Wilmot, after-\\nwards returning to the house which stood just west of\\nhis birth-place, and after several removals finally returned\\nto Salisbury and d. m. Betsey Colby.\\n58. John. 59. Moses. 60. P.etsey. 61. Daniel. 62. Scth. 63. ICnoch.\\n64. Woodman. 65. Daniel. 66, John. 67. George N. 68. Sarah A.\\n69. George. 70. Harriet. 71. Martin. 72. Read. 73. Charles.\\n(42.) Phineas removed to Salisbury, residing in the house oc-\\ncupied by his son Alpheus, where he d. June 4, 1877;\\nm. (i) Catherine Sleeper; m. (2) Julia Gookin; m. (3)\\nAdeline Sleeper.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0719.jp2"}, "698": {"fulltext": "640 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nMartha A., b. Nov. 23, 1831 ir.. Williams and d. in 1855.\\nLuther H., b. June 12, 1836; m. March 20, 1861, Betsey Heath, by whom he\\nhad Nahum W., b. Feb. 7, 1862, d. July 18, 1882.\\nCyrus, b. March 13, 1837 m. Patience Rocket he d. at Fall River, Mass.,\\nJan. I, 1875.\\nMalvina, d. young.\\nHerrick C, b. Jan. 18, 1S42 m. Aug. 1869, Emma Hobbs resides in Lowell,\\nMass.\\nKate S., b. Dec. 5, 1844; m. Alfred Sanborn and resides in Franklin.\\nLevi S., b. Jan. 20, 1846 m. and res. at Providence, R. I.\\nAlpheus, b. March 11, 1849; m. June 28, 1873, Isabella Morgan, of Warner, by\\nwhom he had John, b. April 25, 1875. ^d ^^^7-\\nJennie N., b. June 17, 1S49; (George W. Childs and resides at Lawrence,\\nMass.\\nNahum, b. Nov. 4. 1850, and d. in 1S53.\\nLizzie M., b. July 24, 1853, unm.\\n(47.) John F. resided in the William Pingrey house at the foot\\nof the hill he d. May 10, 1881 m. (i) Nov., 1837, Erne-\\nline A. Saunders, who was b. in 18 15 and d. March 26,\\n1847; m. (2) Sept. 10, 1848, Aphia K. Putney, of Hop-\\nkinton.\\n85. John F., b. in 1S37 and d. in 1838.\\n86 John F., b. April 5, 1839; d. at Vicksburg, Miss., in 1864, unm.\\n87. Emeline, b. in 1841 and d. the same year.\\n88. Henrietta E., b. Aug. 25, 1S42 m. J. G. Colburn, of Manchester.\\n89. Cora A., b. Nov. 24, 1S45; Roberts and resides at Manchester.\\nChildren by second wife\\n90. Warren, b. Nov. 19, 1850; m. Nellie S. Morrill and resides at Hopkinton.\\n91. Mary E., b. Dec. 7, 1851; d. May 10, 1868.\\n92. Cyrus P., b. May 12, 1853. 93. Caroline J., b. Feb. 11, 1855.\\n94. Selina S., b. April 29, 1857 d. Feb. 8, 1879.\\n95. Charles H., b. Nov. 19, i860.\\nTHE HUTCHINS FAMILY.\\nI. Joseph, son of Joseph and Polly (Allen) Hutchings, (for-\\nmerly so spelled,) son of Edward, who was a son of one of the\\nbrothers who emigrated to America from Scotland, was born at\\nKittery, Me., June 15, 1813, where he subsequently followed\\nthe sea for four years, afterwards learning the house carpenter", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0720.jp2"}, "699": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0721.jp2"}, "700": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0722.jp2"}, "701": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 64I\\ntrade at Boston, Mass. Removing to Charlestown, thence to\\nSalisbury in 1846, purchasing the John Carter place, and event-\\nually buying the Samuel C. Bartlett property. He married Mary,\\ndaughter of John and Mary (Burdette) Taylor, who was born\\nat Harvard, Mass., June, 181 7; he died June 29, 1884. Children\\nborn at Charlestown\\n2. George H. See.)\\n3. Mary A., b. June 4, 1S42; m. June 4, 1862, Frederick S. Fifield. See.)\\n4. Sarah A., b. Aug. 20, 1S45; ^ct. 2, 1S66, Joseph M. Gerrish, of Townsend^\\nMass.\\n5. Joseph S., b. in Salisbury, June 5, 1S54; d. 1S60.\\n(2.) George H., M. D., b. at Charlestown, Mass., Feb. 3, 1840.\\nAt the age of six years he removed to Salisbury, where\\nhe received his education, finishing at the academy. En-\\ntered Harvard Medical College in 1857, where he was\\nunder the instruction of Drs. Oliver Wendell Holmes,\\nHenry J. Bigelow, Horatio Storer and others. Possess-\\ning an independent and progressive mind he read eclectic\\nmedicine and received his degree of M. D. at the Eclec-\\ntic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, May 22, 1861.\\nIn the following October he began practice at Wilmot,\\nremaining three years. In April, 1864, he removed to\\nTownsend, Mass., where he met with good success, and\\nwas town physician for three years. Through the advice\\nof friends he removed to Woburn, Mass., where he con-\\ntinues. He is strong in his convictions, believing the\\neclectic method the only true and scientific manner\\nof practicing the healing art. Mag?ia est Veritas et\\nprevahcbit. He was a delegate to the National Eclectic\\nAssociation at Philadelphia, in 1870, and elected Vice\\nPresident of the same, holding the office four years. In\\n1 87 1 he was chosen Professor of Laryngoscopy in the\\nEclectic Medical College of Pennsylvania, where he re-\\nmained two years. In 1876 he became a member of the\\nMassachusetts Eclectic Medical Society, and was during\\nthe same year sent as a delegate to the National Eclec-\\ntic Convention, held at Washington, and in 18S2 was\\n41", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0723.jp2"}, "702": {"fulltext": "642 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nagain chosen a delegate to the same body in their con-\\nvention held at New Haven, Conn. He was editor of\\nthe Journal of Rational Medicine, and author of The\\nLaryngoscope in Diseases of the Larynx, and Aphony,\\nits Causes and Cure. He m. June 4, 1862, Emily M.\\nLathrop, of Auburndale, Mass.\\n6. Joseph H., b. at Wilmot, Oct. 13, 1863; a student at Tufts College.\\n7. Alice J., b. at Townsend, Mass., Oct. 11, 1S66.\\nTHE JOHNSON FAMILY.\\nThe first ancestor of this family, so far as I have been able to\\nlearn, was Maurice Johnson, Esq., M. P. for Stamfort in 1523.\\nIsaac Johnson was the first of the name in America, and one of\\nthe original settlers of Massachusetts; arrived at Salem June\\n12, 1630, and died Sept. 30 following. By virtue of nobility and\\nwealth he ranked next to Gov. Winthrop. Edward and Wil-\\nliam, half-brothers of Isaac, came to America about 1630. For\\na more extended notice of the family see Mass. Historical Col-\\nlections, Vol. I, p. 252.\\nI. Ebenezer Johnson, of Plaistow, bought of John Webster, of\\nStevenstown, (Salisbury) fifty acres of land, the north\\nhalf of the lOO acre lot laid out for Jonathan Greeley,\\nNo. 15, ist range, paying for the same ;^350 old tenor,\\nunder date of May 3, 1767. Mr. Johnson immediately\\ncame here and settled on the above land, (at the top of\\nthe small hill west of William Holmes) and built a large\\nhouse, in which the ordination of the Rev. Jonathan\\nSearles took place. His son James having removed to\\nEnfield, the old gentleman went there and spent his last\\ndays.\\n2. Moses settled in Sutton, resided on the George Wells farm for a time, and re-\\nmoved to m. Jan. 22, 1799, Ruth Chase.\\n3. James. See.) Both James and Moses were b. at Sandown.]\\n4. Sally, m. Goodhue and removed to Plainfield.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0724.jp2"}, "703": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 643\\n(2.) Capt. James, accompanied with his brother Moses, entered\\nCapt. Blanchard s company, which marched from Salis-\\nbury to No. 4, (Charlestovvn thence on to I^ennington\\nand Ticonderoga, also serving at Saratoga and through\\nthe revolution. Upon entering the army he was but six-\\nteen years of age and weighed 96 pounds his knapsack\\nand contents weighed 22 pounds, to which add his mus-\\nket, (no light affair) a horn containing a pound of pow-\\nder, bullets, flint, canteen, etc. While a resident of En-\\nfield his son James boarded at Capt. David Pettengill s\\nand went to school at Centre road, the schoolhouse stand-\\ning near George Kilburn s. While the children were\\nplaying with a large cartwheel it ran over a Pettengill\\nboy, killing him instantly. This fatality occurred May\\n20, 1801. James m. (i) Mehitable, dau. of Capt. David\\nPettengill they remained on the farm some years, then\\nremoved to Enfield, where he was connected with the\\nbuilding of the 4th New Hampshire turnpike, and was\\none of the original proprietors. After the death of his\\nfather he removed to Salisbury, settling near the Dr.\\nSleeper place, thence removing to the west part of the\\ntown, on the centre rangeway, opposite Zachariah Scrib-\\nner s, where he d. May 5, 1833, aged jt^. She d. Feb. 15,\\n1816 he m. (2) Jan. 1818, Anne Johnson, of Hopkinton,\\nwhere she was b. May 20, 1769 she d. June 26, 1862.\\nChildren, who lived to grow up\\n4. John. 5. Mehitable m. Oliver Goodhue, of Enfield; d. in Illinois.\\n6. James m. Persia and d. at Colchester, Vt. He resided here for a time and\\nmade bricks.\\n7. Ebenezer, b. at Enfield, Jan. 16, 1794. (See.)\\n8. Anne, ni. (i) Nov. i6, 1S15, Thomas Chase; m. (2) Enoch J. Chase; d. at\\nWilmot.\\n9. Abigail, m. (i) Sept. 25, 1S27, Nehemiah Story, of Enfield; m. (2) Eleazer\\nTaylor, d. in Vermont.\\n10. Rebecca, m. John Peasley d. in Vermont.\\n11. David m. Catharine, an adopted daughter of Ebenezer Taylor; resided (1882)\\nat Bristol, and d. Sept. 25, 18S7.\\n(7.) Ebenezer returned to Salisbury when seventeen years of\\nage and resided for a long period opposite Zachariah", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0725.jp2"}, "704": {"fulltext": "644 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nScribner s. He had been connected with town offices\\nand possessed the good will and respect of his townsmen.\\nHe m. (i) March 14, 1822, Dorothy Hildreth, who d.\\nMay 12, 1845 m. (2) Feb. 4, 1846, Lydia Stevens, who\\nd. Oct. 28, 1865; m. (3) Harriet K. Rollins; he d.\\n1888. David was a brother of Ebenezer his wife d.\\nSept. 25, 1887.\\n12. Mehitable J., b. Dec. ii, 1822; m. William Holmes. (See.)\\n13. Ephraim, b. in June, 1824; d. Aug. 30, 1826.\\n14. Ebenezer, b. in Feb. 1829; d. March 4, 1845.\\n15. Moses, b. Dec. i, 1846; m. Hattie Poor, of Peabody, Mass., where he was en-\\ngaged in mercantile pursuits resides at Kansas City, Mo.\\nTHE JUDKINS FAMILY.\\nTHREE BRANCHES.\\nThe ancestors of this family came from England and settled\\nin Rhode Island, afterwards removing to Hampton. The three\\nbrothers removed to Salisbury from Kingston, Mass.\\nFIRST BRANCH.\\nI. Leonard, the elder brother, came previous to 1768, settling\\non the Moses Clement farm at South road. After clear-\\ning the farm he removed to Danbury m. Aug. 6, 1763,\\nSarah Cram he was a tailor by trade.\\n2. Obediah, b. Aug. 6, 1764; m. Elizabeth Lewis, of Boscawen, and removed to\\nDanbury.\\n3. Leonard, b. Aug. 26, 1770; one of his descendants was Leonard, who m. in\\nAndover Mary Fellows, who was b. Oct. 10, 1826.\\n4. Sarah, b. Jan. 5, 1774; m. Jacob Bohonon. (See.)\\n5. Moses, b. Aug. 23, 1775; d. Sept. 20, 1775.\\n6. Jonathan, b. Sept. 20, 1777; removed to Portsmouth. Benjamin.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n7. Caleb Judkins settled on the west side of Searles hill, near\\nthe Thompson schoolhouse, his occupation being that of", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0726.jp2"}, "705": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 645\\na tailor, thereby earning the nick-name of Tailor Jud-\\nkins. He remained in Salisbury until his death, Aug.\\n25, 1816, aged 43 m. Jan. 13, 1777, Mary Huntoon.\\nS. Anna, b. Feb. 27, 177S. 9. Molly, b. July 18, 1780; m. Daniel True.\\n10. Caleb, b. March 30, 1783. Entered Dartmouth College,\\nbut through lack of funds left in his second year he re-\\nmoved to Unity, where he became an influential citizen.\\n11. Hilton, b. May 25, 1786. 12. Mehitable, b. May, 3, 1788; d. Nov. 2, 1797.\\n13. Benjamin, b. March 13, 1791 m. May 9, 1815, Ketsey Thompson; resided on\\nthe river road. He was a cooper by trade.\\n14. Moses, b. Jan. 12, 1794 m. Jan. 29, 1S29, Sally True, and settled at Claremont.\\n15. Levi, b. Nov. 20, 1796; removed to Unity.\\n16. Daniel, b. April 11, 1799. 17. Joel.\\n18. Joseph. The two last named removed to Sutton and married.)\\nTHIRD BRANCH.\\n19. Samuel Judkins settled on North road, just beyond the\\nbirthplace, and for some years worked in the Col.\\nEbenezer Webster sawmill. He did faithful service in\\nthe revolutionary war. Children, so far as known\\nMehitable, b. in Kingston; m. Daniel Oilman; d. at Springfield.\\nAbigail, b. in Kingston; m. Abial Hardy; d. at Springfield.\\nA daughter, m. Samuel Pettengill d. at Springfield.\\nBetsey, m. Kimball. 24. Samuel, b. in 1766. See.)\\nBenjamin, remained on the farm and d. 26. Moses.\\n(24.) Samuel, who was undoubtedly one of the first children,\\nm. Abigail, dau. of Reuben Greeley resided at Spring-\\nfield some twenty-five years, but returned to Salisbury\\nand bought a farm on the rangeway between Salisbury\\nand Andover, where he d. Feb. 21, 1843 she d. Feb. 6,\\n1858, aged 86. Children, all b. at Springfield\\n27. Samuel, b. June 23, 1793. (See.) 28. Joel.\\n29. Richard, b. March 17, 1800. See.)\\n30. Hiram, m. Dorothy Judkins: d. in the west.\\n31. Lewis, b. m. Kazhariah Roe; remained on the farm, which came into his\\npossession adopted a daughter .Mary.\\n32. Mary, b. m. Goss, of Springfield.\\n33. Hannah, b. m. March 13, 1817, Samuel Sawyer. See.)", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0727.jp2"}, "706": {"fulltext": "646 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n34. Sarah, b. m. Elijah George and resides at Manchester.\\n35. Edith, b. June 22, iSio; m. June, 1848, Anthony Colby, of Franklin.\\n(27.) Samuel resided on the river road, in what is now Frank-\\nlin, where he conducted a farm and also carried on the\\ncooper s business, accumulating considerable property.\\nHe was a devout christian and a man much respected by\\nhis townsmen. He d. May i8, 1873 m. Kimball, of\\nWarner; she d. in 1871.\\n36. Jeremiah K., b. m. Davis, and resides at Franklin Falls. It is said he\\nwas the first child born in Franklin after the town was incorporated.\\n37. Nancy, b. m. T. O. Whittier.\\n38. Louisa, b. m. Simeon Brown she d.\\n39. Horace, b. m. Davis; he d. She m. (2) Joseph Brown.\\n(29.) Richard m. in Boston, Apr. 21, 1827, Mehitable Worthen,\\nof Candia, who was b. Dec. 31, 1802, and d. Oct. i, 1881.\\nAfter a residence of eight years in Charlestown, Mass.,\\nhe removed to the homestead, afterwards buying the Ash\\nfarm on the river road, where he remained eight years,\\nthen permanently settled at Franklin village.\\n40. Mary, b. at Charlestown, April 26, 1829, unm.\\n41. Edwin, b. at Franklin, Feb. 12, 1833; m. Mary Ladd and resides at Franklin.\\n42. Joseph G., b. June 2, 1834; m. Chastina Noyes and resides at Franklin.\\nA Judkins m. a daughter of Benjamin Pettengill, ist.\\nThe following notes are copied from the first church records of\\nKingston\\nJoel Judkins m. Mehitable Calkins and had: i. Leonard, b. Sept., 1741. 11. Sam-\\nuel, b. Jan. 8, 1736. III. Moses, b. Feb. 9, 1738. iv. Hannah, b. v. Jos-\\neph, b. Aug. 23, 1743. VI. Abi, b. Aug. 9, 1745. vii. Mehitable, b. Nov.\\n22, 1747; d. 1749. viii. Benjamin, b. April 18, 1749. ix. Henry, b. Dec.\\n5. 1750-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0728.jp2"}, "707": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 64/\\nTHE KELLEY FAMILY.\\nI. Hon. Israel Webster Kelley was the son of Moses Kelley,\\nof Newbury, (Newburyport Mass., who commanded a company\\nin the revolutionary war, and was sheriff of Hillsborough coun-\\nty in 1S03. Judge Kelley, as he was familiarly called, was born\\nin Goffstown, Jan. 4, 1778, removing to Salisbury from Bridge-\\nwater in 1S03, residing in the Pliny A. Fellows house, then in\\nthe William Moulton house, after which he removed to Concord,\\neast side, about 1843-4, cl died there March 10, 1857. For a\\nperiod of thirty-five years he was one of our most prominent\\ncitizens, and always regarded as a talented and accomplished\\ngentleman. He was sheriff of Hillsborough county from 1813\\nto 1818 Judge of the Court of Sessions for the same county\\nin 1821 was re-appointed upon the formation of Merrimack\\ncounty, and continued in that office until the court was abol-\\nished. Judge Kelley did much pension business for the revolu-\\ntionary soldiers. Under President Taylor he was appointed U.\\nS. Marshal, remaining until removed by President Pierce. In\\npolitics he was a republican, and although the town was demo-\\ncratic he held the office of moderator of our annual town meet-\\nings for thirteen years, besides holding other town offices. In\\nwhat is known as the Oxford war, which was the threatened\\nwar with PVance during the administration of President John\\nAdams, 1797, he was ist Lieut, in Capt. Nathaniel Greene s\\nCo., of Boscawen. Married Aug. 17, 1801, Rebecca, daughter\\nof Rev. Elijah and Rebecca (Chamberlain) P^letcher, who was\\nborn at Hopkinton, July 19, 1776, and died Rev. Elijah\\nFletcher was the son of Timothy and Bridget Fletcher, of\\nWestford, Mass. he graduated at Harvard College in 1769, and\\nwas ordained pastor of the first Congregational church at Hop-\\nkinton, Jan. 27, 1773; he died April 8, 17S6; his widow mar-\\nried (2) Rev. Christopher Page, which see. By her first hus-\\nband she had i. Bridget, who married Josiah White, of Pitts-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0729.jp2"}, "708": {"fulltext": "648 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nfield. II. Rebecca, who married Judge Israel Webster Kelley.\\nIII. Timothy, a merchant at Portland, Me. Grace, born Jan.\\n16, 1781 married June 10, 1808, Daniel Webster. (See.) She\\ndied Jan. 21, 1828.\\n2. Albert Livingston^ b. at Bridgewater, Aug. 17, 1802. After\\nobtaining early school advantages here he fitted for col-\\nlege at Atkinson Academy and graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1822. He read law and began practice at\\nFrankfort, Me. He m. at Boston, Feb. 18, 1829, Caro-\\nline, dau. of Waldo Pierce, of Frankfort he d. at Win-\\nterport, Me., Aug. 19, 1885.\\n3. Israel Webster, b. in Salisbury, Jan. i, 1804; graduated at\\nDartmouth College in 1825. While at college he dropped\\nthe name of Israel, and was afterwards known through\\nlife as Webster Kelley. He read law with Hon. Joseph\\nBell, at Haverhill, Mass., also at Bangor, Me., and prac-\\nticed for a time at Boston, Mass. He m. at Boston, Aug.\\n29, 1842, Lucilla S., dau. of Waldo Pierce, of Frankfort,\\nMe., in which state he practiced his profession he d.\\nwhile on a visit to Henniker, July 5, 1855.\\n4. Elijah Fletcher, b. in Jan. 1806; dropped the name of\\nElijah. He served in the Mexican war, holding a Cap-\\ntain s commission was ship-wrecked, and a few days\\nafter attacked with yellow fever, from which he d. at the\\nage of 32, leaving a widow and three children.\\n5. Ann M., b. Oct. 14, 1807 resides at Concord, unm.\\n6. Ellen W., b. Dec. 1809; m. Nov. 29, 183S, Henry H. Pierce, Esq., and resides\\nat Winterport, Me.\\n7. William P., b. in 1812, and d. Dec. 27, 1834.\\n8.] Rebecca F., b. Feb. 10, 1S16; resides at Concord, unm.\\n9. Sarah E., b. in 1818 d. July 6, 1837.\\n10. Charlotte S., b. in 1820; m. Charles Willey and resides at Newfield, N. J.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0730.jp2"}, "709": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 649\\nTHE KILBURN FAMILY.\\nThomas, (i) the common ancestor of the family bearing this\\nname, residents of Salisbury, was born in the parish of Wood-\\nDitton, Cambridgeshire, England, in 1578. He had Margaret,\\nThomas, Elizabeth, George, Mary, Lydia, Francis, and John.\\nIn company with five of his children he sailed on the ship In-\\ncrease, from England, and settled at Weathersfield, Ct., in 1639.\\nHis son George (2) married Elizabeth and resided at Row-\\nley, in 1640. Their fourth child, Samuel, (3) born Sept. i, 1656,\\nmarried Mary Foster. Their fifth child, Jedediah, (4) born\\nApril 20, 1699, married Susanna Fiske, of Ipswich, and had\\nseven children. The eldest was\\n1. Nathan, (5) b. at Rowley in 1750, and removed to Newbury-\\nport, Mass., where he m. Sarah Plummer he afterwards\\nremoved to that part of Boscawen now Webster, in 1794,\\nwhere he resided on Corser hill and was an extensive\\nland owner. She d. on the farm he d. at Grafton, while\\non a visit to Vermont. Of their four children two d.\\nyoung. Their second son was\\n2. James, (6) (Deacon,) b. at Newburyport, Nov. 17, 1783 m.\\nNov. 27, 1807, Elizabeth Thurston, who was b. at New-\\nburyport, Feb. 24, 17S5. They had si.x children b. in\\nBoscawen he removed to Salisbury in May, 1852, and\\nwas soon chosen a deacon of the Congregational church.\\nHe d. here Nov. 11, 1869; she d. March 20, 1869.\\n3. Nathan, (7) fourth child of James and Elizabeth, was b.\\nMarch 2, 1814; m. (i) Dec. 28, 1836, Polly (Mary) Dan-\\nforth, who d. June 19, 1853 m. (2,) Jan. 9, 1854, Harriet\\nHuntoon, who d. Sept. 3, 1S81, after many years of acute\\nsuffering. Mr. Kilburn remained a few years on the\\nCorser hill farm, removing to Salisbury in March, 1856.\\n4. .Albert, b. .Aug. 15, 1S40; d. at Vicksburg, Miss., in Dec. 1874.\\n5. Sarah C, b. June 25, m. Feb. 9, 1S6S, W. P. Warren.\\n6. Angelia, b. Sept. 22, 1847. 7. Marietta, b. June 27, 1S51 d.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0731.jp2"}, "710": {"fulltext": "650 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE LADD FAMILY.\\nDaniel Ladd, the ancestor, came from England in the ship\\nMary and John, in 1633-4. From him descended Dudley\\nLadd, of Exeter, (son of Nathaniel) who married Dec. 15, 1748,\\nAlice Herley, of Haverhill, Mass., at which place they settled\\nand had nine children. Their sixth child, (i) Dudley, was born\\nJuly 8, 1758 m. March 13, 1783, Bertha Hutchins, of Concord,\\nto which place they removed after marriage. He was a hatter\\nby trade and resided at the corner of what is now South and\\nPleasant streets, paying for his land ^25 old tenor. Thence he\\nremoved to Salisbury, (now Franklin) where he died Dec. 23,\\n1841. His children were:\\n2. Samuel G., b. April 14, 17S4; m. Oct. 3, 1815, Caroline D. Vinal. These were\\nthe parents of Prof. Horatio O. Ladd, of the State Normal School, at Ply-\\nmouth. Mr. Ladd was a tin plate worker, and settled at Hallowell, Me.\\nRemoved to Pennsylvania and d.\\n3. John, b. Feb. 15, 17S6; m. April 4, 1807, Abigail Prouse, of Portsmouth. He\\nwas a cabinet maker, and removed to Georgia, where he d. July 26, 1824.\\n4. Dudley, b. Aug. 19, 1789. (See.)\\n5. Nathaniel G., b. Sept. 25, 1791 settled in New York. He was the father of\\nW. D. Ladd, for many years a resident of Concord; m. Ann Morton.\\nWilliam M., b. Feb. 9, 1794; m. Betsey Collins, who d. He was for many\\nyears a druggist at Laconia resides at Lynn, Mass.\\n(4.) Dudley went to Hallowell, Me., where he served an ap-\\nprenticeship with his elder brother at the tinsmith trade.\\nIn 181 5 he removed to Salisbury East Village, (now\\nFranklin) where he began the manufacture of lead pipe,\\nin the old Silas Eastman iron wire shop, standing\\nnear the outlet of Webster Lake brook, near the Clem-\\nent carriage shop his shop was carried away during one\\nof the great freshets. He did much piping for aque-\\nducts in this state, as well as in Vermont and Maine,\\nand much of his work is still to be seen about the village\\nof Franklin, which speaks well for his usefulness and\\nthoroughness. When the statehouse was built at Con-\\ncord, in 1818, he took the contract for the tinning of the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0732.jp2"}, "711": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 65 I\\ndome, which he did from a swinging stage. While work-\\ning there one cold windy day his staging caught fire and\\nbut for rare presence of mind would have burned so as\\nto have precipitated him to the ground. In 1833 he\\nbuilt the residence of Edwin C. Stone, and the store\\nthe latter was not rented for some years after its comple-\\ntion because he would not allow liquor sold on his prem-\\nises. As a man of wealth he erected a number of build-\\nings and did much for the prosperity of the place. Mr.\\nLadd was a strong anti-slavery advocate and often se-\\ncreted slaves on their way north to liberty, for which he\\nwas once arrested, but the case never came to trial. He\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2was honorable in his dealings, a strict temperance advo-\\ncate, and a devout christian, being one of the pillars of\\nthe Congregational church erected at that place, having\\nunited with the church in 1837. He d. March 20, 1875.\\nThe first stoves in the aforesaid church were a gift from\\nhim, being cast at his foundry, which stood near the\\npresent Taylor foundry. He was chairman of the com-\\nmittee on building the church and gave personal and pe-\\ncuniary aid in its alteration, about 1834. He m. (i)\\nMay 21, 1823, Charlotte, dau. of Ebenezer Eastman, who\\nd, Jan. 30, 1826; m. (2) Dec. 24, 1837, Amanda Palmer,\\nof Orford, who still resides at Franklin.\\n7. Charlotte E., b. in Hnllowcll, Me., May 5, 1S24; m. Oct. 28, 1845, Edward H.\\nBarrett, and resides at Minneapolis, Minn.\\n8. Ellen F., b. Nov. 6, 1S3S; m. June 10, 1862, Daniel F. Murphy and resides at\\nStoneham, Mass.\\n9. Harriet L., b. Nov. 11, 1.S40; unm. She was for fourteen years a successful\\nteacher at Chauncy Hall .School, Boston, which position she relinquished\\non account of poor health. Resides at \\\\o. 10 Beacon street.\\n10. Julia A., b. Oct. 21, 1S42; m. Aug. i, 1 86 r, George O. Baker and resides at\\nBoston.\\n11. Maria F., b. July 2, 1S44. Vot some years she has been matron at the New\\nEngland Hospital, Boston. It is justly celebrated and the only one of the\\nkind in New England, giving treatment to women and children. In addi-\\ntion to this women receive special instruction to fit them for the responsi-\\nble position 5f nurses. The institution is conducted by ladies- who are\\nstrongly interested in the advancement of their sex.\\n12. Charles 1)., b. Aug. 13, 1S47, unm. Resides at Benton, Montana.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0733.jp2"}, "712": {"fulltext": "652 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE LITTLE FAMILY.\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nI. George resided on Unicorn street, London, England,\\nwhere he followed the occupation of a tailor. He emigrated to\\nNewbury, (Newburyport) Mass., in 1640. He was a man of\\nenterprise, thrift and good judgment, acquiring some of the\\nmost productive land in that town, a large portion of which\\nis still held by his descendants. He died between March 25,\\n1693, and Nov. 27, 1694; he married (i) Alice Poor, of New-\\nbury, who d. Dec. i, 1680, aged 62 married (2) Eleanor, wid-\\now of Thomas Barnard, of Amesbury, who d. Nov. 27, 1694.\\nChildren by first wife\\n2. Sarah, b. May 8, 1652; d. Nov. 19, 1652.\\n3. Joseph, b. Sept. 22, 1653; d. Sept. 6, 1740; m. Oct. 31, 1677, Mary, dau. of\\nTristram Coffin, Esq., of Newbury.\\n4. John, b. July 28, 1655; d- July 20, 1672.\\n5. Moses, b. March 11, 1657 d. March 8, 1691. See.)\\n6. Sarah, b. Nov. 24, 1661 m. March 3, 1682, Joseph Illsley, of Newbury.\\n(5.) Moses (2) m. Lydia Coffin, and had Moses (3) b. Feb. 26,\\n1691 m. Sarah Jacques, and had John, (4) b. Nov, 16,\\n1721 m. Temperance Ripp and had\\n7. William Coffin, (5) the fifth descendant from the ancestor,\\nb. at Newburyport, Mass., Nov. 17, 1745. He learned\\nthe trade of a silversmith and removed to Amesbury,\\nwhere he followed his trade for ten years. About 1800\\nMr. Little purchased the old Andrew Pettengill place of\\nJonathan Carlton Pettengill, who had in 1798 built the\\nmain house and made other extensive repairs. In 1801\\nMr. Little removed his family here and took up farming,\\nwhich he continued until his death, Dec. 16, 1816, aged\\n71 m. his wife d. Oct. 18, 1840, aged 95.\\n8. Thomas R., b. Sept. 29, 1769; d. July 8, 17S4.\\n9. William, b. April 7, 1771. He followed the occupation of his father and re-\\nmoved to Philadelphia, where his descendants still reside. He d. while\\non a temporary visit to Kentucky.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0734.jp2"}, "713": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 653\\n10. John, b. Nov. 13, 1773 d. July 9, 1812 m. Kendrick, resided at Amesbury,\\nand was one of the pioneers in the manufacture of wagons.\\n11. Nabby, b. Aug. 30, 1777; d. in 1^59; m. (i) William Chase, of Amesbury; m.\\n(2) Aretas Chandler, of Franklin.\\n12. Francis, b. May 7, 1780. (See.)\\n13. ^^ary, b. May 15, 17S2; d. Nov. uS, 1S27, unm.\\n14. Thomas R., b. May 23, 17S6. (See.) 15. Valentine, b. Feb. 21, 1790. (See.)\\n(12.) Francis was a carriage manufacturer, at Amesbury, Mass.,\\nwhere he m. Polly Sargent and removed to Salisbury,\\nresiding in the house now occupied by Thomas R. Little,\\nwhere he followed farming and getting out bows for the\\ntops of chaises. He d. in Salisbury in i860. Children\\nall b. in Salisbury\\n16. Dorothy, b. Oct. 30, 1808; d. Aug. 20, 1815.\\n17. Sarah E., b. Jan. 30, 181 1 d. Sept. 5, 1S53; m. Patten, at Amesbury.\\n18. John, b. Dec. 13, 1813. He was a cabinet maker at Manchester, Mass. Re-\\nsides at Minneapolis, Minn.\\n19. Dorothy S., b. Jan. 24, 1816; d. in Sept. 1839.\\n20. William C, b. Feb. 19, 1818; resided at Woburn, Mass., and Newmarket and\\nnow resides at Concord.\\n21. Moses S., b. March 10, 1820; d. Oct. 15, 1S22.\\n22. Moses S., b. March 20, 1823; d. at Framingham, Mass., July 6, 1879.\\n23. Francis V., b. Dec. 20, 1826. He is a piano case manufacturer and resides at\\nBoston, Mass.\\nChildren by second wife\\n24. George S., b. Aug. 18, 1844. 25. Stephen K., b. Dec. 26, 1846.\\n26. Hazen R., b. Oct. 31, 1853; d. Sept. 15, 1876.\\n(14.) Thomas Rowell remained on the homestead and followed\\nfarming as an occupation but possessing the trade of a\\nwheelwright, and in order to facilitate his business, he\\nmoved the Thomas R. Greenleaf hatter s shop to its\\npresent location, in September, i S34, and put in machin-\\nery, which he ran by horse-power, and did considerable\\nbusiness. He was one of our prominent and enterpris-\\ning citizens; d. in Jan. 1861 m. Dec. 27, 1814, Nancy\\nWebster, who d. in Sept. 1869.\\n27. An infant son, d. young.\\n28. John Webster, M. D., D. D. S., b. April 7, 1818. He read\\nmedicine with Dr. A. H. Robinson, of Salisbury, and Dr.\\nTimothy Haynes, of Concord graduated at Dartmouth", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0735.jp2"}, "714": {"fulltext": "654 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nMedical College in 1845. His health not being good he\\nnev er established himself in active practice, but turned\\nhis attention to dentistry, which he practiced at Fisher-\\nville (Penacook) and at Concord for thirty-four years,\\ngaining an enviable reputation for judgment and skill in\\nhis profession, securing and retaining a large practice.\\nThe degree of D. D. S. was granted by the Dental Col-\\nlege, of Philadelphia, Penn. He was a charter member\\nof the New Hampshire Dental Society, and one of the\\nboard of censors. He was a member of Eureka Lodge\\nof F. and A. M., also a member of the Congregational\\nchurch in Salisbury. He m. (i) Jan. 1848, Sarah P.\\nWhite m. (2) Elizabeth J. Goodwin, who resides at\\nConcord, where he d. Dec. 21, 1877.\\n29. Thomas D., b. Aug. 14, 1823. See.)\\n30. Ann K., b. Oct. 27, 1S30; d. Sept. 9, 1S34.\\n(15.) Valentine, (Rev.) A. B., received his preliminary educa-\\ntion at Salisbury Academy and graduated from Dart-\\nmouth College in 1811. He taught school at Plymouth\\nand at Haverhill, Mass., studied divinity with the Rev.\\nJoshua Dodge, of Haverhill, Mass., served on a mission\\nat Bethel and Gideon, Me., two years, then taught at the\\nBridgeton Academy two years was afterwards a mission-\\nary in Maine for four years. Was ordained pastor of the\\nCongregational church at Lovell, Me., Jan. 22, 1826;\\ndismissed Jan. 22, 1834 removed to Salisbury in 1836,\\nresiding on the farm now owned by Enoch T. Harvey,\\nwhere he died June 4, 1852 m. (i) Nov. 9, 1815, Mary,\\ndau. of Jonathan Clark, of Bethel, Me. m. (2) Sept. 15,\\n183 1, Miranda C, dau. of Rev. Nathan Church, of Bridge-\\nton, Me. shed. Feb. 5, 1879.\\n31. Salina D., b. Oct. i, 1816; m. John Barker, of Lovell, Me., where she d.\\n32. Orsina P., b. Oct 20, 1821 m. Andres A. Barker and res. in Pennsylvania.\\n33. Caroline E., b. Dec. 12, 1S23 m. Sept. 23, 1S40, Elden Barker; resides at\\nJewell City, Kansas.\\n34. Henry M., b. April 11, 182S; m. and resides at Ochtochnee, Thomas coun-\\nty, Georgia.\\n35. Miranda M., b. Feb. iS, 1S36; m. Lorenzo D. Davenport; res. at Franklin.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0736.jp2"}, "715": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0737.jp2"}, "716": {"fulltext": "/O iM^L^-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0738.jp2"}, "717": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 655\\n(29.) Thomas Dearborn received his education at the Salis-\\nbury Academy, of which later in life he became a charter\\nmember and trustee, also serving as librarian of both\\nsocieties connected with the school. He studied survey-\\ning with Rev. Valentine Little, and was employed by the\\nNorthern Railroad on the preliminary surveys at the\\ntime of the construction of that road, and has since been\\nthe town surveyor. In 1848 he began the manufacture\\nof drag rakes, getting out the material by hand. From\\nthis small beginning he has established a good trade,\\nnecessitating the employment of much machinery. In\\n1868, to better fasten the handle to the rake, he obtained\\na patent, which is quite extensively used. Finding the\\nneed of a gristmill, and his manufacturing interests be-\\ning on the increase, in December, 1859, ^^o^ 0 t the\\nhorse-power and put in steam, and in 1882 was obliged\\nto increase that. In his younger days he taught school\\nfor ten years, four of which were in the academy. His\\ninstruction was characterized as being more practical\\nthan that conveyed by ordinary te.xt-books, and imparted\\nto his pupils with excellent judgment. In 1861 he was\\nappointed postmaster, which position he held for eight\\nyears; was appointed justice of the peace in 1855 and\\nstill holds the office; was a. member of the firm of C. E.\\nP oote Co., from i860 to 1869, when they did consid-\\nerable business in the old Greenough store. Although\\nnot an office-seeker, he was on the board of selectmen in\\n1870 and 1871, giving good satisfaction. He united\\nwith the Congregational church in 1849 and was chosen\\na deacon in i860; was clerk of the same church a few\\nyears later and is one of its main supports. He is a lib-\\neral contributor to needed charitable objects, is a careful\\nand methodical business man and enjoys the respect of\\nhis townsmen. He m. (i) Nov. 27, 185 i, Susan E., dau.\\nof Dr. Robert Smith, who d. Jan. 21, 1S75 m. (2) Nov.\\n30, 1876, Lucy L., dau. of Andrew Davis, of Rutland,\\nVt. Children by first wife:", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0741.jp2"}, "718": {"fulltext": "656 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n36. Thomas R., b. Sept. 19, 1853; m. April 29, 1876, Carrie B., dau. of Lewis A.\\nand Betsey (Richardson) Hawkins. Children: I. Carrie, b. Nov. 28,\\nrS79. II. I ewis, b. May 2, 18S5. ill. Arthur S., b. Sept. 6, 1888.\\n37. Charles W., b. Dec. 20, 1855 d. May 6, 1870.\\n^S. Susan P., b. July 8, 1858; m. July 13, 1882, Rev. Samuel H. Barnum. (See\\nEcclesiastical Chapter.)\\n39. John W., b. Jan. 21, 1861 m. Nov. 26, 1884, Hannah M. Moores. Children\\nI. Ralph Dearborn, b. Jan. 15, 18S6.\\n40. Alice M., b. June 4, 1866. 41. Robert S., b. May 7, 1870.\\n42. William D., b. July 11, 1874; d. Nov. 15, 1875.\\nChildren by second wife\\n43. Edwin D., b. Sept. 14, 1878.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n44. Eliphalet Little, (6) son of Eliphalet and Dolly (Hunt)\\nLittle. The line of his descent is as follows George\\n(i) had Joseph, (2) b. Sept. 22, 1653; m. Mary Coffin\\nand had George, (3) b. Jan. 12, 1682 m. Edna Hale and\\nhad Joseph, (4) b. June 22, 1727 m. Sarah Wells, their\\nyoungest child being Eliphalet, (5) who m. Dolly Hunt.\\nMr. Little was b. in that part of Boscawen now Web-\\nster, Aug. 10, 1798, removing to Salisbury in June, 1831.\\nA shoemaker by trade, he followed that business until\\nthe infirmities of age obliged him to relinquish it. He\\nm. (i) April 3, 1823, Meele, dau. of Moses Fellows, who\\nd. Oct. 20, 1853 m. (2) April 15, 1855, Amanda, dau. of\\nCol. John Pressy. (.See.) He d. July i, 1884.\\n45. Moses, b. in Webster, Aug. 31, 1823; removed with his\\nparents, at the age of eight years, to Stewartstown and\\nColebrook returned to Salisbury and fitted for college\\nat Salisbury Academy, and was ready to enter at the\\nage of eighteen. Remaining here during his minority\\nhe then started to seek his fortune, walking to Ports-\\nmouth and Bostorrand thence to New Bedford, where he\\nshipped for a four years whaling voyage, visiting many\\nports in South America, the Sandwich Islands, and the\\ncoast of China, also cruising in the Japan sea. After\\nnarrow escapes he returned home in April, 1848. The\\nCalifornia gold fever breaking out, he joined a party at", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0742.jp2"}, "719": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0743.jp2"}, "720": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0744.jp2"}, "721": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND niOGRAPHY 65/\\nLynn, Mass., and in the spring of 1849 made the overland\\ntrip to Sacramento, Cal., and worked at mining on the\\nAmerican river. Returning home in 1853, he m. (i) Feb.\\nI9\u00c2\u00bb 1853, Mary C, dau. of Dimond Shaw, and in May\\nfollowing removed to Hill and went into trade with Isaac\\nT. Parker, (see) which connection continued for several\\nyears. Mr. Little has been selectman for three years\\nand town clerk five years, and has the respect of his\\ntownsmen. July 5, 1876, he had the misfortune to lose\\nhis right arm by a circular saw. Through all these\\nyears he has kept a daily journal of his transactions, as\\nwell as of matters of public interest. His wife d. Jan.\\n22, 18\u00e2\u0080\u0094; m. (2) April 17, 1856, Lucy J., dau. of San-\\nborn Shaw, who d. Feb. 17, 1869; m. (3) Oct. 4, 1869,\\nwidow Mary F. Rayno, dau. of Adonijah and Polly\\n(Fitzgerald) Fellows, of Livermore, N. Y.\\n46. Salome F., b. in Webster, Aug. 9, 1825; m. Feb. 7, 1S47, George Foster, of\\nBedford, where she resides.\\n47. John P., b. at Colebrook, April 8, 1831 m. Nov. 26, 1861,\\nElizabeth Ann M., dau. of John and Sarah (Fellows)\\nBurleigh, of Livermore, N. Y., where they reside. In\\ni860 he removed to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he was\\nlargely engaged in contracting and building houses. In\\nSept., 1880, he removed to Three Oaks, Mich., where he\\nwas engaged in the hardware and lumber business.\\n48. Sarah E., b. in Salisbury, Dec. 9, 1S34; ni. Sept. 9, 1854, Amos Elcxander\\nand resides in Chicago.\\n49. Ebenezer Langdon, (Rev.) A. K, h. in Salisbury, April\\n30, 1837. Educated in Salisbury, and at the age of fif-\\nteen years was given a certificate to teach the district\\nschool, at a salary of i^6.oo per month and board. In\\n1855 he entered the middle class at Colby Academy,\\nNew London, graduating in Latin, F*rench and the high-\\ner mathematics in July, 1857. The spring before gradu-\\nation he experienced religion and was baptized at New\\n42", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0745.jp2"}, "722": {"fulltext": "658 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nLondon. In September, 1857, he entered the Univer-\\nsity of Michigan, and graduated in 1861 with the degree\\nof A. B, In i860 he received a license to preach from\\nthe Baptist church at Ann Arbor, and supplied the pul-\\npit at Baxter and aftervfards at Lapier, where he did\\ngood work. During the years 1861 to 1863 he was super-\\nintendent of public schools. In September, 1863, he\\nentered the Theological Seminary at Rochester, N. Y.,\\ngraduating in May, 1866. He accepted a call to the\\npastorate of the Baptist church at Clinton, N. Y., where\\nhe was ordained in December, 1866, and dismissed in\\n1868. In April, 1868, he was installed at Fairport, N.\\nY., remaining there three years. In July, 1 871, he accept-\\ned a call from the Baptist church at Lapier, Mich., en-\\ntering upon his duties there the following September\\nand remaining six years. In 1878 he became pastor at\\nAlpena, Mich., where he still continues {1882) with\\nmore than ordinary success. He m. Dec. 26, 1861,\\nSusan Cordelia Lamson, of Windsor, Vt.\\n[The author is under obligations to Mr. G. T. Little, of\\nAuburn, Me., for the ancestry of this family.]\\nTHE LOVERIN FAMILY.\\nI. Samuel, was born at Kingston in 1753, removed to Salis-\\nbury previous to the revolutionary war, and settled on the\\nsouthwest slope of the height of land named for him, Loverin\\nhill. He built a log house southwest of the present house,\\nwhich latter was built about 1805. On the first news of the\\nrevolutionary strife he started for the seat of war, enlisting and\\nserving until the war closed. He drove home a cow (as a pres-\\nent to his wife) which he had received in part payment for his\\nservices. About 1805, in company with Thomas Chase, he\\nbuilt a sawmill on the small brook in the meadow, and put in a", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0746.jp2"}, "723": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 659\\ndam and raceway, the water-wheel being one of those huge\\naffairs which wasted more water than was used, but by flowing\\nthis meadow they were enabled to saw considerable lumber\\nAll the houses in that vicinity were built of lumber sawed at\\nthis mill. In addition they put in a run of stone and did grind-\\ning for the neighborhood. He died Dec. 12, 1829; married\\nAug. 31, 1775, Mehitable Rowe, who d. Feb. 22, 1834, aged jG.\\n2. .Sarah, b. ]ur\\\\e i8, 1778; m. Abraham Sanborn, (see); d. Aug. 29, 1859.\\n3. Moses, b. March 30, 17S0; m. (i) Detsey Cooper; m. (2) Mahala Copp; d. in\\nLowell, Mass.\\n4. John, b. May 3, 17S2; m. (i) Nov. i, 1S21, .Sarah Maloon m. (2) widow\\nRoby d. at Sutton.\\n5. Joseph, b. May 6, 17S4; m. Nov. 7, 1S04, Hannah Dustin d. at I lainfield.\\n6. Henjamin, (Dr.) b. June i, 1786; m. March 10, 1814, Abigail Greeley; d. at\\nSutton, July 25, 1825.\\n7. Peter, b. Aug. 5, 17SS; d. at Hill.\\n8. William, b. Feb. 13, 1792; removed to Lowell and died there.\\n9. Cutting S., b. Nov. 8, 1796. See.)\\n10. Daniel, b. Oct. 27, 1798; resides at Venis, Kra county, Ohio.\\n11. Luke, b. Oct. 16, 1803; m. May 9, 1822, Rebecca Hunt, of Warner; removed\\nto Lowell and d. there.\\n(9.) Cutting Stevens remained on the farm d. from injuries\\nreceived in falling from a sled, April 25, 1867; i- Oct.\\n5, 1830, Lucy Burnham, who was b. at Hopkinton, April\\n22, 1804.\\n12. Grace, b. May 6, 1S32 m. April 24, 1S53, Kvan M. Heath. Children-.\\nI. Ruth A., b. Feb. 14, 1S62.\\n13. Ruth, b. June 8, 1837; m. Harrison V. Heath. (See.)\\n14. An infant, b. Jan. 25, 1S35; d. Feb. 5 following.\\nTHE MANN FAMILY.\\nWilliam was the first of this family who emigrated to this\\ncountry, as early as 1793, from Klgin, Scotland, and was by\\noccupation a ship carpenter. He was shipwrecked, rescued\\nand brought to Boston, and was so well pleased with the coun-\\ntry that he ^ent for the rest of the family, and in 1795 John\\nMann, the father of William, accompanied by his son James", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0747.jp2"}, "724": {"fulltext": "660 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nthen fourteen years of age, removed to America. The father\\ndied at Hampstead, N. H., Sept. 27, 1831. William settled in\\nMassachusetts.\\nI. James, b. Dec. i, 1799, removed to Danbury in 1809, where\\nhe m. Sept. 9, 1820, Marian Taylor, who was b. at Dan-\\nbury, April 21, 1799. While resident there Mr. Mann\\nand his wife united with the Congregational church, un-\\nder the pastorate of Rev. Thomas Worcester, traveling\\ndown and back each Sabbath, on horseback, a distance\\nof sixteen miles each way. Mr. Mann became a deacon\\nof this church, holding the office until his death, Oct. 10,\\n1845. In 1827 he removed to Hampstead, and in April,\\n1832, removed to Salisbury, settling in the Daniel\\nMowe house, afterwards removing to Parsons corner,\\nwhere he died. In 1849 ^^s. Mann and her family re-\\nmoved to Fisherville, Penacook) returning to Salisbury\\nin 1875, where she d. Aug. 11, 1876.\\n2. Jonathan T., b. Sept. 23, 1821 d. in Orange Co., Va., April, 1S63; m. Sep-\\ntember, 1846, Sarah Spencer.\\n3. Sarah, b, Sept. 23, 1823 d. Oct. 26, 1S36.\\n4. Jannett L., b. Nov. 22, 1825; m. Charles Smith. See.)\\n5. Martha A., b. March 26, 1829; m. May i, 1856, Jacob Quimby.\\n6. Mary, b. Jan. 14, 1831 d. Jan. 20, 1834.\\n7. Louisa, b. June 6, 1833 d. July 5, 1S66, unm.\\n8. Dana J., b. July 20, 1837; m. Feb. 17, 1S72, Jennie Dow, of Contoocook,\\n(Hopkinton.) He resides in the old Eliphalet Williams house; has held\\nseveral town offices.\\n9. Samuel R., b. June 15, 1S39; m. Oct. 9, 1870, Mary George and resides at\\nFisherville, Penacook.)\\nTHE MARSHALL FAMILY.\\nJohn W. Marshall, with his wife, Judith (Jackman) Marshall,\\nremoved to Salisbury about 1832, purchasing the farm which he\\nsold to John Bean (west of Smith s corner) when he removed\\nto Bradford. Of this family was John Webster Marshall, born", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0748.jp2"}, "725": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0749.jp2"}, "726": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0750.jp2"}, "727": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND IJIOGRAPHY 66l\\nin Salisbury, Feb. 9, 1835. In the fall of 1848 he went out in-\\nto the world to earn his own living, with barely clothes enough\\nto serve as a covering. After two years spent in earning his\\nliving and attending school, he entered the employ of G. W.\\nWadleigh, at Fisherville, Penacook as a clerk, thence going\\nto Manchester, where he was engaged in the gun shop of Mr.\\nOilman B. Fogg. Determined to become a machinist, he se-\\ncured a situation in the Manchester Locomotive Works, where\\nhe remained six years. Desiring to become more proficient he\\nremoved to l^oslon. The same devotion to his chosen work\\nshown at Manchester was exhibited there. The allurements of\\nthe great city had no charm for him his evenings were spent\\nin improvement he became proficient in mechanical drawing\\nand engineering, and he was made superintendent of the draft-\\ning department of the Atlantic Works. Exercising the same\\ndiligence and studiousness which had so signally characterized\\nhis life, he thoroughly qualified himself for the post of mechan-\\nical engineer, to which position he was advanced in two years.\\nHis patience and assiduity, his modest and unassuming ways,\\nand his painstaking accuracy and promptness, won for him the\\nposition of superintending engineer. He was sent to Europe\\nto study the construction of iron vessels, and he passed three\\nmonths in the leading shipyards of England, Scotland, Belgium\\nand France. Nine months after his return to Boston he was\\nengaged by Peter Wright Co., of Philadelphia, to superintend\\nthe construction of vessels for the Red Star line. He re-\\nmained in England nearly three years, during which time the\\nVaderland, Nederland, and Switzerland were construct-\\ned, and it was fully demonstrated that Mr. Marshall thoroughly\\nunderstood the principles underlying an intelligent knowledge\\nof his work, and he was made superintendent of the Red Star\\nand American lines. In 187S he again went to England and\\npersonally superintended the building of the Bengenland and\\nRhyneland. He continued in the emj)loy of the company till\\nhis death, at Boston, Jan. 6, 1882. He married, Feb. 11, 1S64,\\nMartha J., daughter of Benjamin K. Wadleigh, of Bradford\\nhad two children.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0751.jp2"}, "728": {"fulltext": "662 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE MELOON FAMILY.\\nI. Nathaniel was among the earliest settlers of Contoocook,\\n(Boscawen) where he resided in 1743-44, and removed to Stev-\\nenstown (Salisbury) very early, it being the tradition that his\\nwife was the second woman in the settlement. Being thor-\\noughly acquainted with the Indians and their habits, he settled\\non the low land at the west part of the town, and fenced in a\\nlarge tract of land, in fact all he wanted, thinking that by so\\ndoing he held absolute possession. Whether he was here at\\nthe time of the second granting of this land is not known, but\\nhe probably moved here about that time, as it is said he was\\nthe second settler here, but the facts are not known he was\\ncertainly the first settler in that part of the town his log\\ncabin stood directly northwest of Augustus Pettengill s house,\\non the south side of the brook and on a slight rise of land, the\\ncellar hole being still visible. There he cleared up land and\\nwas putting in a crop of corn at the time of his capture by the\\nIndians. {See chapters on Indian troubles.) After his return\\nfrom captivity in 1757 he built a house just west of Augustus\\nPettengill s. In some old prints the fort at West Salisbury is\\nspoken of; this house was the fort. The lower part was\\nbuilt of two-inch oak plank, set up endwise and made solid. It\\ncontained small windows, with heavy shutters to cover them\\nthe door was also built of plank and made strong enough to re-\\nsist any attack that might be made. Some years ago the\\nbuilding was taken down and the timbers were found very mas-\\nsive in size and in a good state of preservation. The fence\\nhe had built previous to his captivity had become destroyed,\\nand he petitioned the grantees to be made one of the proprie-\\ntors. At one of their meetings, held at Kingston, June 14,\\n1763, it was voted, That Mr. Nathaniel Meloon shall have the\\ngrant of land where he now Posses in the Second Range that is\\nnot already laid out and that he shall be made equal to any\\nProprietor in Sd town made up in the first Range that is not", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0752.jp2"}, "729": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 663\\nlaid out according to Quantity and Quality he giv-\\ning security under his hand and seal that he will settle under\\nthe Claus of Masons Right viz obligations with the other propri-\\netors. (Prop. Records, p. 95.) Previous to Mr. Meloon s cap-\\nture the Indians were frequently at his cabin, and partook of\\nfood, particularly of corn bread and milk, the latter being a very\\nrare article. Of one of these meals Mrs. Meloon used to relate\\nthe following incident As usual when Indians were in that\\nvicinity they came to her cabin for food, and she cooked them\\nsome dry fish; with the exception of one they ate heartily,\\nclearing their plates and being very quiet and orderly but one\\ntook his share, tasted of it, took his wooden platter and went\\nout in the bushes and emptied it, for which act his associates\\nsoundly berated him. Mrs. Meloon s sole iron cooking utensil\\nconsisted of a small kettle, possessed of three legs or projec-\\ntions on the bottom, so that it would sit on the coals and not\\ntip over, and a hole at the top this kettle she kept by the\\ncabin door. One morning she found it gone. The family were\\nin a plight no meal could be boiled, which was their chief sub-\\nsistence, and nothing whatever cooked except in the ashes.\\nMr. Meloon hearing that Indians were in the vicinity, and well\\nknowing their thievish propensities, started after them but they\\nhad disappeared. The kettle was never recovered. In 1758\\nthe state raised a regiment of eight hundred men for Crown\\nPoint, under command of Col. John Hart. Mr. Meloon served\\nin the 7th company, commanded by Capt. Alexander Tott, from\\nApril 15 to Oct. 30. Dr. Farmer, in a note to Dr. Belknap,\\n(the publisher of the first History of New Hampshire) and the\\nRev. Mr. Price, in his History of Boscawen, say: At the\\ntime of the Meloon capture his family consisted of himself,\\nwife and four children. Gerrish in his affidavit says, three\\nchildren were taken. Meloon, in his petition to the council\\nfor assistance to regain his daughter Rachel, says three child-\\nren were taken. The former number is undoubtedly wrong.\\nDiligent inquiry among his descendants, and the descendants\\nof those who resided in that vicinity and who remember the\\nMeloon stories, gives but three children. They were Rachel,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0753.jp2"}, "730": {"fulltext": "664 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nDaniel and Sarah. Nathaniel escaped capture. Those who\\ndied here are buried close to the stone wall, on the right hand\\nside as one enters the gate of the Bean burial ground at the\\nwest part of the town. No stone marks the last resting place\\nof this noted family. Mrs. Meloon died in November, 1803,\\naged 95. The Boston Evening Post, of Oct. 25, 1762, contained\\nthe following notice Whereas an English Girl whose name\\nis Maloon was captured with her father some years ago either\\nat Contoocook or Pennacook and is now at St. Louis Falls in\\nCanadia which Girl is now about 16 years of age. If the Fath-\\ner (who was released about four years ago) or any of the Girls\\nFriends will apply at the Secretaries Ofifice in Boston they may\\nbe informed how she may be recovered from the Indians.\\n2. Nathaniel, b. March 27, 1741. See.) 3. Mary, b. May 29, 1743; d. young.\\n4. Rachel, b. Jan. 29, 1744; m. (i) Reuben Greeley; m. (2) John Oilman and\\nremoved to Springfield.\\n5. John, b. Oct. 24, 1748; d. young.\\n6. Daniel, b. in 1751. See Indian troubles.)\\n7. Sarah, b. before the captivity, April 6, 1753. One historian\\nsays She was taken from her mother and her brains\\ndashed out against a tree. The true story is that she\\nwas taken from her mother for a time, but finding she\\nwas likely to die and that they would therefore lose all\\nprospect of a ransom for her, she was given to her moth-\\ner, but d. at St. Francois, September, 1754.\\n8. Joseph, b. in captivity Nov. 20, 1755; d. Oct. 14, 1836.\\n(2.) Nathaniel served in the first expedition against Crown\\nPoint, in 1755, and possibly in 1758, instead of his fath-\\ner. He resided in the house which his father built after\\nhis return from captivity, where he d. aged about 70.\\nHe was a very likely man and held various town offices.\\nHe m. Jan. 25, 1768, Bathsheba Tucker, who d. at an\\nadvanced age.\\n9. Molly, Mary) b. Jan, 25, 1769; m. April 3, 1794, Joseph Abbott, of Boscawen.\\nlo. Sarah, b. March 2, 1771; m. Nov. 21, 1S21, John Loverin she d. and he m.\\n(2) widow Roby.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0754.jp2"}, "731": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 66S\\n11. Daniel, b. April ii, 1774; d. unm.\\n12. Ezra, b. Oct 17, 1776; m. (i) Feb. 6, 1799, Hannah Calef m. (2) Feb. 23,\\nLucinda Tucker.\\n13. Mehitable, b. m. May 17, 1S03, David Severance, of 1 )anbury, and d. there.\\n14. Hannah, m. Dec. 27, 1S24, Jonathan Tucker and removed to Verniont.\\n15. Rachel, m. Feb. 10, 1S14, Moses Moody, Jr., of Boscawen she d. April 4,\\n1S63; he d. Oct. 22, 1863, aged 51.\\nThe following abstract is taken from notes contributed by\\nMrs. Horace Eaton, of Palmyra, N. Y. Her mother s maiden\\nname was Betsey Sawyer, see Sawyer genealogy who mar-\\nried Nathaniel G. Webster, a son of William Webster, who was\\nan uncle of Daniel Webster. As a child Betsey was a favorite\\nwith old Mrs. Meloon and frequently visited the old lady, sit-\\nting in her lap and listening to Indian stories of what happened\\nduring her captivity. Previous to the death of Mrs. Webster\\nher daughter Mrs. Eaton wrote out the story and read it to\\nher mother, who said, That is just as old Mrs. Meloon told\\nme about it. There are some known mistakes, undoubtedly\\ndue to imperfect recollection from lapse of time, which I have\\nindicated\\nThe liritish hired the Indians to fight for them, paying them a certain\\nsum for each scalp. Mr. Meloon and one neighbor were reluctant to go to\\nthe garrison. They didn t want to leave their land and they thought they would\\nrisk it. Hut the other family got frightened. The wife was about to be confined\\nand the assistants were all there. These women heard the Indians around the\\nhouse and told the husband they would not remain with his wife unless he would\\nimmediately remove to the garrison He got up his ox team, put in his sick wife\\nand the women, arriving at the garrison at Contoocook safely.\\nThe very next morning Mr. Meloon left his home to do some business and\\nstopped at his neighbor s vacant house to bait his horse, and turned the oats he had\\nwith him on the ground to feed the animal. This was about nine o clock in the\\nmorning. He looked up and found the Indians upon him. They had emp-\\ntied a feather bed, turned the tick, and were packing pork in it. Then they took\\nMr. Meloon to his own house. Rachel, his little girl of nine years, stood at the\\ndoor and as they approached said, Mother, father is coming home and a lot of In-\\ndians with him. Oh, no, said the mother, they are only the dark stumps\\nwhich you see. The mother set to screaming. One of the Indians, who\\ncould talk Knglish, told Mr. Meloon that if his wife did not stop that noise he\\nwould kill her upon the spot. Mr. Meloon, in a quiet, resigned way said, It s of\\nno use. We ve got to go to Canada and wc may as well give up and say nothing.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0755.jp2"}, "732": {"fulltext": "666 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nThe Indians wanted to kill the old man s cattle for the sake of their horns, in\\nwhich to hold powder, but Mr. Meloon told them there were horns in the garret, so\\nthey spared the cattle. Mr. and Mrs. Meloon took with them Rachel and the baby\\nand one other boy- Their son Taylor [this is certainly a mistake] was seventeen\\nyears old. The day before the capture he had stood by a hollow log and said to\\nhis father, This log will be a good place to hide in if the Indians are around.\\nWhen he saw them coming he ran out and crawled into this log, pulling weeds and\\nsticks before the opening. The Indians made the father call for this boy, and as\\none understood English, he managed his voice so the Indian would not understand\\nwhat he said. [The boy s name was Nathaniel; a little insinuation and he could\\nunderstand that instead of saying Na-than-iel, he said, We ve-got-to-go-to-Can-\\nada, If-you-want-to-go-come-along. The boy understood and kept hid.\\nThey camped the first night at the foot of Bald hill, in Kearsarge Gore, having\\npork, partridge and venison for their supper. Their food they were allowed to\\ncook in their own way. They crossed Lake Champlain, striking the lake at the\\nvery place where their two canoes had been safely fastened to the shore when they\\nsallied forth for this raid.\\nThey were unwilling that Mrs. Meloon should have her little child on the jour-\\nney. In crossing the lake they put the baby into the other canoe, away from its\\nmother. It would climb up the side of the canoe and looking towards her would\\ncry piteously, Mum, Mum, when they would strike the child down with the pad\\ndie, and she would pray that if it was the will of God it might never rise again.\\nWhen they reached Canada the children were separated from her. Once\\nshe had occasion to go to a neighboring wigwam where she saw her baby hanging\\nup in an iron cage, a little skeleton. She hastened to it and took it down. The\\nIndian squaw sitting there frowned and said, If my jm\u00c2\u00ab(?/ [meaning husband]\\nwere home he would kill you. When she took it down it nearly bit a piece out of\\nher cheek, it was so hungry. Taking the child to her house she tenderly nursed it\\nfor three days, when she was sent out on some errand and when she came back the\\nchild was gone shs never knew what became of it. Mr. and Mrs. Meloon worked\\nfor a French friar, who thought a great deal of them, she doing the cooking, wash-\\ning and butler-making. When peace was declared the French valued them\\nso much that they determined to send them to France. They put the captives on\\nboard a privateer, and on their way down to St. Lawrence river they found the offi-\\ncers and crew drank very heavily. The prisoners got the ship into the hands of the\\nEnglish l)y hoisting the French flag. The English captors landed the prisoners at\\nPortsmouth, from which place they journeyed on foot to their old home. On\\ngoing after Rachel she refused to return home and was engaged to an Indian chief-\\nThe boy was found in a French school, and the father identified him by a\\nmark on the hip. Mr. Meloon gave Capt. Fowler eighty pounds to bring\\nRachel back.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0756.jp2"}, "733": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 667\\nTHE MOORE FAMILY.\\nI. Greenleaf came here from Newbury, Mass., in 1819-20,\\nliving in what is now the L of the house owned by Edward\\nWayne, eventually building the two-story part. The date of\\nhis death is not known; married (i) Poor, from Newbury:\\nm. (2) Knight m. (3) Woodbury. Children by first wife\\n2. Greenleaf, m. at West Newbury, Mary Poor he resided and d. there.\\n3. Oilman. See.)\\nChildren of second wife:\\n4. Joseph, m. Martha Ordway, of West Newbury, where he resided and died.\\n5. Mary, m. Whittier, of Newburyport, Mass.\\n6. Stillman, m. Coleman, of Newburyport, Mass., and removed west received\\na government appointment at Washington, where he resided and died.\\nChildren by third wife:\\n7. Nathan, m. (i) Mary Dow, of Concord; m. (2) Lucy Goodwin, of Great Falls\\nresides at East Concord.\\nS. Addison, m. (i) Nancy Pierce, of Byfield m. (2) d. west.\\n9. William 1)., m. Nov. 29, 1S32, Hannah Fifield, of Salisbury; resided here but\\nd. at Concord.\\n10. Eliza, m. Thomas Eastman, of Concord.\\n(3.) Oilman received a good education in his adopted town,\\nthence removing to Newbury, where he learned the shoe-\\nmaker s trade. Returning to Salisbury he followed his\\ntrade and for a time the cutting of shoes for Greenleaf\\nClement and Eilbridge F. Greenough. He also car-\\nried on the farm and d. April 11, 1871 m. (i) Hannah\\nOrdway, of West Newbury, who d. July 29, 1857, aged\\n52; m. (2) April 22, 1858, Sarah Elliott, of Boscawen,\\nwho d. in February, 1879.\\n11. Henry Clark Wright, b. May 28, 1826. Like his father\\nand grandfather, he learned the shoemaker s trade, which\\nhe for a time followed. Nov. 6, 1855, he removed to\\nConcord, bought out his uncle Nathan, and carried on\\nbutchering until August, 1857, when upon the death of\\nhis mother he returned to the homestead, where he fol-\\nlowed the last-named business and farming. In the", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0757.jp2"}, "734": {"fulltext": "668 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nspring of 1879 he removed to the Esquire Moses East-\\nman house he d. May 17, 1880. Mr. Moore was select-\\nman in 1867-68-69, and was a man universally esteemed\\nby his townsmen. He m. Sept. 6, 1849, Melissa B.,\\ndau. of William M. and Lois (Kenniston) Pierce.\\n12. Hannah, b. March 12, 1S66; m. Nov. 26, 1S84, John W. Little. See.)\\nTHE MORRILL FAMILY.\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nThree brothers of this name came to this country from Ire-\\nland, to which country they or their ancestors removed from\\nFrance. These were Jacob and Abraham the third, whose\\nname is not known, removed to New York and died without\\nleaving posterity.\\nI. Abel, descended from Abraham, b. in 1743. He was a\\nblacksmith at Brentwood, from which place he removed\\nto Salisbury; m. Hannah French, who was b. in 1737\\nand d. Dec. 29, 18 19. He entered the continental army\\nand served seven years. About 1785 he removed with\\nhis family to the farm now 1887) owned by A. L.\\nWard, at Lower Franklin. He built the first black-\\nsmith s shop in that part of the town, carrying on the\\nbusiness until 1797, when he was stricken with paraly-\\nsis, from which however he soon recovered he d. in\\n1808.\\n2. Hannah, b. in 1761 m. Aquilla Pingrey. (See.)\\n3. Sarah, b. in 1763; m. Edward Quimby. (See.)\\n4. Nancy, b. April 6, 1766; m. Feb. 12, 1794, James Taylor, of Danbury; she d.\\nApril 16, 1847 he d. in 1848.\\n5. Abel, b. Aug. 2, 1768. See.)\\n6. Mary, b. March 8, 1771 m. William Pingrey. .See.)\\n7. Abigail, b. in 1773; m. Peter Sanborn, of Bridgewater; she d. in 1S07-S.\\n8. Joseph, b. in December, 1775; m. Mary Cole and removed to Danville, Vt.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0758.jp2"}, "735": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 669\\n(5.) Abel came into possession of the homestead, succeeded\\nhis father in the blacksmith shop, and in addition opened\\na brickyard close by where his son, Col. Joseph, resided.\\nHere was an exhaustless bed of fine clay, near running\\nwater. With the assistance of his son he made many\\nbrick, and most of the early brick buildings of PVanklin\\ncame from this yard. He d. Aug. 19, 1845 m. Dec. 27,\\n1794, Jennie Jemson, dau. of John Jemson. (See page\\n55.) It is the tradition that she was the first female\\nchild born in the town b. Sept. 10, 1768 d. March 21,\\n1847.\\n9. Joseph, (Col.) b. Oct. 25, 1795; i^- J S Hannah Tandy, who d. Feb.\\n1S76; he d. without issue, Oct. 13, 1S72.\\n10. Abel, b. May 14, 1797. See.)\\n11. Dorothy, b. Oct. 12, 1799; m. James Farnum she d. May 9, 1S74 he d. in\\nthe army, Jan. 30, 1863.\\n12. arah, b. June 4, 1802; d. May 14, 1S54, unm.\\n13. Abigail, b. April 25, 1804; m. April 5, 1836, William Moody, of Haverhill; he\\nd. May 14, 1844; she d. at Andover, in iSSi.\\n14. Hannah, b. Dec. iS, 1S06; d. June 4, 18 10.\\n15. Hiram, b. Oct. 7, iSoS; m. Dec. 25, 1833, Mary M. Stewart, of Danbury; he\\nd. at Andover, Jan 13, 1864, where she resides. Children: i. Charles\\nH., b. in Salisbury, March 2, 1838; m. (i) Sabra Cheney, of Sutton; m.\\n(2) Emily Adams, of Salisbury, ii. George H., b. Jan. 2, 1842; m. Jennie\\nChase, of Wilmot he d. Feb. 8, 18S0.\\n16. Hannah V.,h. Dec. 24, 1810; m. Dec. 25, 1S32, Elisha C. Kenniston, of .\\\\n-\\ndover, where they reside.\\n17. Mary J., b. Sept. 20, 1S13; ni. .\\\\lfred Weare, of .\\\\ndover; he d. Sept. 19, 1876.\\n(10.) Abel remained on the homestead, living in the house\\nwith his brother Joseph, and conducted his father s busi-\\nness until along in years, when he went to coopering.\\nHis first schoolmaster was Daniel Webster, (in i8oi)of\\nwhom he said: His school was quite large; he kept\\na stick, but rarely used it looking at the culprit was\\nenough. lie was very pleasant in school and much\\nliked by his scholars. While teaching here Mr. Web-\\nster s pay was Sio a month besides his board, which was\\n$1 a week. Mr. Morrill was a member of the Congrega-\\ntional church he resided a few years at Wilmot he", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0759.jp2"}, "736": {"fulltext": "6/0 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nd. on the homestead, May 20, 1873; m. March 25, 1819,\\nAbigail Clay. Children born in VVilmot\\n18. Jane E., b. July lo, 182 1 m. Nov. 12, 1S43, K chard Gove.\\n19. Marietta F., b. Sept. 30, 1822; m. Nov. 15, 1S61, J. Xesmith.\\nRoschella S., b. Dec. 4, 1S24; m. C. Lydia Brown.\\nSamuel T., b. Feb. 29, m. July 31, 1851, Lucretia M. Vickery.\\nHiram J., b. April 18, 1S29; m. Oct. 9, 1851, Ann Huse.\\nJoseph E., b. May 28, 1831 m. July 13, 1851, Melissa A. Fogg.\\n24. William C, b. Aug. 6, 1834; m. Sept. iS, 1S56, E. T. Chase.\\n25. Ann C, b. July 8, 1S36; m. Jan. 11, 185S, Joseph Morrill.\\n26. Abby C, b. Aug. 29, 1838; m. June 17, 1852, Charles E. Adams.\\n27. French H., b. March 17, 184 1 m. Feb. 22, 1865, Lizzie Garland.\\n28. Roxey, b. March 11, 1S44; m.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n29. Levi Morrill had two brothers, William and Ephraim,\\nneither settling here. In 1798 Mr. Morrill, then a resi-\\ndent of Salisbury, Mass., purchased of Joseph Adams,\\nfor ;\u00c2\u00a3i89 L. M., one acre of ground and the buildings\\nthereon. This was the site on which the present (1887)\\nMichael Larden buildings stand. Mr. Morrill erected\\nthese buildings, and also a blacksmith s shop, which\\nstood just v/est of the dwelling-house. He was a famous\\nscythe maker and manufactured other edge tools used in\\nfarming. He d. Feb. 19, 1858, aged 93; m. Mary Bag-\\nley, who d. April 3, 1856, aged 85. Of a large family of\\nchildren the following are known\\n30. Clarissa H., b. in Salisbury, Mass., Jan. 9, 1794; m. March 9, 1823, George\\nW. Bagley, of Amesbury, Mass.\\n31. Henry, b. in Salisbury, N. H., Jan. 24, 1796; remained on the farm -and was a\\nblacksmith and farmer; m. widow L. V. Kimball Little, of Grafton he\\nd. Uec. 7, 1S08; she m. Benjamin Eastman and resided at Concord; had\\ntwo girls.\\n32. William B., b. Feb. 11, 179S; removed to Maine where he died.\\n33. John M., b. Aug. 11, 1800; removed to Maine and died there.\\n34. Jacob B., b. Aug. 17, 1802; d. young. 35. John B., b. Sept. 29, 1803.\\n36. Levi, b. Aug. 20, 1S05; d. June 6, 1879; m. at Plainfield, Aug. i, 1829, Mehit-\\nable Pearson, who was b. at Newport, Sept. S, iSoS. Children: i. Mary.\\nII. Ellen. in. Charles H., resides at Bradford, iv. Frank, v. George\\nW. VI. Edward E.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0760.jp2"}, "737": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 6/1\\n37. Daniel O., b. June 19, 1S07. 3S. Benjamin F., h. Aug. 12, iSio.\\n39. Mary \\\\l., b. March 2:, 1S13, d. unjn.\\n40. Daniel B., b. Dec. 31, 1S15; d. Feb. 19, 1S62.\\nTHE MORSE FAMILY.\\nThe name is variously spelled, Morsse, Morss, and Moss.\\nThe latter is a very ancient name, occurring as early as 1 177.\\nThe name of Morse also claims high antiquity, occurring A. D.\\n1358, in the reign of lidward III. There were five distinct\\nfamilies bearing this name, who emigrated to this country.\\n1. Samuel Morse, b. in Kngland in 15S5; emigrated in 1635 settled at Ded-\\nham, Mass., in 1637.\\n2. Joseph Morse, b. in England about 1 5S7 emigrated in 1635 and settled at\\nIpswich prior to 1641.\\n3. Anthony. See.)\\n4. William, a brother of .\\\\nthony, b. in 1608 and settled at Newbury.\\n5. Robert, a brother of Anthony and William, arrived in Boston prior to 1644\\nand settled at Newbury in 1667 removed to New Jersey.\\n6. Joshua Morse, a chaplain in the army under .Sir William Phipps, in 1689.\\n7. John Moss, b. in England in 1619; settled in New Haven, Conn., in 1639.\\n(3.) Anthony Morse, b. at Marlboro, Wiltshire, England, May\\n9, 1606, and settled at Newbury, Mass., in 1635, where\\nhe d. Oct. 12, 1686. He belonged to that class of Puri-\\ntans who strove to separate from the corruptions of the\\nestablished church, while they continued in it he was\\na man of great moral courage, energy and perseverance\\nhe had two wives and ten children. The second, Benja-\\nmin, (Dea.) (2) b. March 4, (27) 1640; m. Ruth Sawyer\\nand resided at Newbury had eleven children. The\\nfourth, William, (Dea.) (3) was b. Jan. 23, 1673-4; d. May\\n10, 1749; m. Sarah Morrill and resided at Newbury;\\nhad ten children. The third, Peter, (4) was b. Oct. 5,\\n1701 m. in 1726, Hale, and resided at Hampstead\\nhad si.\\\\ children. The fourth, Peter, (5) was b. July 7,\\n1739; d. Feb. 23, 1821 m. Ann Currier and resided at\\nHampstead. Lieut. Peter, as he was called, had twelve\\nchildren. The seventh was", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0761.jp2"}, "738": {"fulltext": "6/2 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n8. Caleb, born at Hampstead, Sept. 28, 1770, the 6th descend-\\nant from Anthony, served an apprenticeship at the\\nhatter s trade removed to Salisbury in 1796, settling\\njust south of where his son Stephen resides, where he\\ncarried on his business for a number of years, and then\\nbuilt the house east of Bog brook, on the centre range-\\nway, where he managed the gristmill for Josiah Green\\nremoved to the house just south of the old mill. Later\\nin life he bought out Daniel Parker, who resided in the\\none-story part of the S. W. Green house, took a partner\\nnamed Page and there carried on the hatter s trade.\\nHe m. in 1789, Mary Healey, of Dunbarton, a descend-\\nant of one of the early families of Chester, where she\\nwas b. April 5, 1776, her parents removing to Dunbar-\\nton in 1780; she d. Nov. 5, 1856; he d. Aug. 4, 1850.\\n9. Stephen, b. May i6, iSoo. See lo. Healey, b. March icS, 1S02. See\\n11. Elizabeth, b. March 18, 1S04; m. April 29, 1827, Joseph Sanborn, of Sanborn-\\nton.\\n12. Mary A., b. June 26, 1S06; d. Jan. 4, 1818. 13. Caleb. See.)\\n14. James M., b. April 16, iSii d. Aug. 7, 1818.\\n15. Abigail, b. April 19, 1S13; d. Aug. 5, 181S.\\n(9.) Stephen (Capt.) completed his education under Samuel\\nI. Wells, at Salisbury Academy was then a clerk for\\nThomas R. White, (whose store stood between Dr. Tit-\\ncomb s and J. C. Smith s stable who removed his stock\\nto Warner, young Morse going with him and remaining\\nthree years, when he went into trade for himself three\\nyears. Health failing, he took out of door exercise, and\\nfor three years was engaged in the construction of the\\nNorthern Railroad. At the age of thirty-nine he re-\\nturned to Salisbury. He m. April 27, 1827, Lucy B.\\nSmith, who was b. at Fort Independence in 1804; he d.\\nNov. 15, 1887.\\n16. John C, killed on the western plains.\\n17. Charles G., m. Nov. 5, 1856, Lucy J. Calef, and resides at Salisbury. Had\\nChildren: i. Charles Alfred, b. in Salisbury, Sept. 24, 1857; he read\\nmedicine with Dr. E. E. Graves, of Boscawen, and graduated at Dart-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0762.jp2"}, "739": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 673\\nmouth Medical College in iSSi located at Newmarket; m. (i) Sept. 5,\\n1SS3, Annie E. Sanders, of Epsom; m. (2) Alma J., h. in Salisbury, Nov.\\n2, 1859.\\niS. Mary A. 19. Frank R., b. in Warner. See.)\\n20. Lizzei E., m. Newton V. B. Hartlett. and resides at South Natick, Mass.\\n(10.) Healey removed to Salem, Mass., in 1827, engaging in\\nthe staging business removed to Danvers where he fol-\\nlowed the same occupation m. June 4, 1840, Harriet N.\\nAdams returned to Salisbury, May 28, 1848, remaining\\nuntil Jan. 27, 1854, when he removed to Fisherville,\\n(Penacook) purchased a hotel and managed the same for\\nsix years, selling out to H. Bonney he d. at Fisherville\\nNov. 12, 1882. Children b. in Danvers:\\n21. Frank II., b. April ii, 1841; m. Dec. 14, 1S76, Minnie J. Whitney, of Bos-\\ncawen.\\n22. Harriet A., b. March 25, 1.S43 m. March 11, 1S6S, Frederick J. George, of\\nFisherville, Penacook) and resides at Boston.\\n23. George A., b. Sept. 21, 1S47 m. Dec. 7, 1S71, I*211a G. Kimball, of Boscawen.\\nChildren b. in Salisbury\\n24. Albert H., b. Oct. 23, 1S49 ^1- Ju y 4- ^^S9-\\n25. James M., b. March i, 1S53 m. Sept. 23, 1S79, Mattie A. Hardy, of Lebanon\\nresides at Penacook.\\n26. Mary E., b. in Fisherville, Penacook -Vug. 22, 1858.\\n(13.) Caleb was b. in the Herschell Green house, Aug. 19,\\n1808, remaining until he was nineteen, when he embarked\\non the sea of fortune, bringing up at Salem, Mass., and\\nfrom there to Andover, Mass., where he was either clerk\\nor proprietor of a hotel for a number of years. In the\\nspring of 1834 he removed to Newburyport, Mass., and\\nin the fall of 1835 removed to Augusta, Me., taking the\\nAugusta House, which he soon made the best hotel\\nin the state. His lease e.xpiring in 1840, he went to\\nBoston. In the spring of 1843, with his wife and four\\nchildren, he returned to Salisbury, and showed that the\\nold adage of a rolling stone gathers no moss was not\\nalways reliable. While at Andover, Mass., at the age of\\ntwenty-four, he m. Sarah B., dau. of Capt. Amos Holt, a\\nnative of that town, possessing the spirit of Andover\\ntheology. Finding life here too tame to suit his migra-\\n43", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0763.jp2"}, "740": {"fulltext": "6/4 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\ntory spirit, he started in the spring of 1 846 for the then\\nwilds of Minnesota, landing at St. Croix Falls. Mr.\\nMorse was there employed by a large land company to\\nprosecute their interests and build a town, going four\\nhundred miles inland from civilization. On their arrival\\nthey were greeted by 400 Indians, 30 white men and one\\nwhite woman. Finding the life too rough he put his\\nfamily in a skiff and paddled down the river thirty-five\\nmiles, to meet a boat going to Fort Snelling. Bringing\\nup at Monroe, Wis., he remained there ten years, educa-\\nting his children. In November, 1856, he removed to\\nWaverly, the county-seat of Bremer county, Iowa, where\\nhe has contributed much to its growth and prosperity.\\nMr. Morse has held many offices of trust, filling them\\nwith great fidelity, having been deputy register of deeds,\\ndeputy sheriff, and jailer of Green county, Wis. At his\\npresent residence he has been city assessor, mayor, coun-\\nty treasurer, county commissioner and register of deeds,\\neach of which offices he has held for a number of years.\\nIn 1876 he was commissioned by the governor one of\\nthe superintendents to represent Iowa at the Centennial\\nExposition. In politics Isaac Kill was his school and\\nthe N. H. Patriot his text-book, until the late war. In\\n1866 he united with the Congregational church, of which\\nhe is one of the deacons.\\n(19.) Frank Rogers, A. M., D. D., received his preliminary\\neducation at Salisbury Academy, fitted for college at\\nthe New London Literary and Scientific Institute, now\\nColby Institute, entered Dartmouth College in 1857, and\\ngraduated four years later, when he began a four years\\ncourse at the Newton Theological Institute, graduating\\nin 1865. He m. Emma B., dau. of John Giles, an exten-\\nsive carriage manufacturer in New Jersey had one dau.,\\nMaud M. E. Rev. Mr. Morse has been pastor over\\nsome of the largest Baptist societies in the country. He\\nis a brilliant and easy speaker, thoroughly versed in the-\\nology, and a laborious worker in Christ s vineyard. He is", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0764.jp2"}, "741": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 675\\nat present (1884) pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church\\nat Brooklyn, N. Y., is one of the professors in the Brook-\\nlyn Lay College and Biblical Institute, which has a wide\\nreputation for the great good it has accomplished in fit-\\nting young men for the ministry he is also one of the\\nowners and editors of the New York Watch Tower, a\\nreligious weekly journal published in the interest of the\\nBaptist denomination, and having a wide circulation.\\nDuring his ministry of over seventeen years upwards of\\none thousand persons have united with the churches un-\\nder his charge. In 1882 the Central University of Iowa\\nconferred upon him the degree of D. D.\\nTHE MOULTON FAMILY.\\nThe Moultons of New England are the descendants of two\\nbrothers. William, the elder, came to this country with his\\nwife from Edinburg, Scotland, at the earnest solicitation of a\\nsea-captain from Newbury, (Newburyport Mass., at which\\nplace they settled, removing thence to Amesbury. They had\\ntwo sons one was a famous jeweler at Newbury, the other,\\nWilliam, removed to Amesbury and married Harriman. At\\nthe age of sixteen he served as aid to Gen. Wells, and was at\\nthe battle of Long Island. Aug. 28, 1776, at the battle of Mon-\\nmouth, that terrible hot Sunday, when above the noise of the\\nbattle rose the cry for water, water, from the wounded and\\ndying, young Moulton shared their sufferings. He was present\\nat the hanging of Major Andre, Oct. 2, 1780. Of his family\\nwas Caleb H., who lived and died at Hampstead, in the Moul-\\nton homestead now occupied by the 5th generation. He mar-\\nried Sophia Hardy, of Tewksbury, who still resides at Hamp-\\nstead. Children: i. William M., born at Hampstead, Dec. 16,\\n181 2; removed to Salisbury in the fall of 1840; purchased of\\nJohn L. Eaton the Nathaniel Webster place, in 1845 married\\nin 1846 Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel and Dorothy Langley,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0765.jp2"}, "742": {"fulltext": "6^6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nwho was born at Wilmot, Sept. 23, 1821. Mr. Moulton was\\nmade a justice of the peace before settling here, has held vari-\\nous town offices, and has ranked as one of our leading farmers\\nand substantial citizens. The other ancestor of this family was\\nCol. Jonathan Moulton, a younger brother of William first above\\nmentioned. Jonathan, with his wife and seven sons and sixty-\\none others, received the grant of the present town of Moulton-\\nborough from the Masonian proprietors, Nov. 17, 1763.\\nTHE NOYES FAMILY.\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nI. Nathaniel was a descendant of Rev. James Noyes, who\\nemigrated from Charleston, England, in 1634, settling at New-\\nbury, Mass., in 1635 5 his son William had a son Parker, who\\nwas the father of Rev. Nathaniel, who was born Aug. 12, 1735,\\ngraduated at the College of New Jersey in 1759, was ordained\\npastor of the Congregational church at South Hampton, Feb.\\n23, 1763, and d. at Newbury in 1810; married (i) Sarah Hale\\nmarried (2) by his first wife he had Nathaniel, (i) born at\\nSouth Hampton, Nov. 24, 1766, who settled in Salisbury about\\n1790. (See carpenters.) He resided in the house known as\\nthe Nathaniel Bean place, and had a store in what is now Mrs.\\nNathaniel Bean s garden, which was eventually removed to the\\nopposite side of the street and made into a barn. In 1793 he\\npaid a tax on ;^50 worth of goods, and in 1808 a tax on goods\\nworth $2000 he died Jan. 7, 1821 married, in 1809, Sarah\\nEmery, of Newbury, Mass., by whom he had the following chil-\\ndren who lived to grow up\\n2. Nathaniel E., settled at Baltimore, Md.\\n3. Mary E., m. Alfred, son of Dr. J. Kittredge, and resides at Haverhill, Mass.\\nBy his second wife he had Parker Noyes, Esq. See Lawyers.)\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n4. Joseph was b. at Hampstead in 1764, and early in life was\\na merchant at Haverhill, Mass., removing in a few years", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0766.jp2"}, "743": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 6\\nto Salisbury, where he settled on the well-known Noyes\\nfarm, now owned by A. D. Davenport. In 1808 the\\nhouse was destroyed by fire, occasioned by his second\\nson, Joseph, playing with fire, from which he got the\\nnick-name of Federalist. After the fire Mr. Noyes\\nmoved down to Republican village, (now Franklin) and\\nbuilt the house lately occupied by Mrs. Isabella West.\\nThe basement he finished into a store and continued in\\nbusiness until he sold out to Capt. Ebenezer Blanchard.\\nHe was honest, upright and industrious, but close in his\\ndealings, thereby becoming known as Hard Money\\nJoe. In his marriage he was unfortunate his wife be-\\ning extravagant run him into debt, business was not\\ngood, and he became exceedingly enraged against the\\nvillage people, particularly Ebenezer Eastman. Shaking\\nthe dust from his feet he moved up the river and built a\\nhouse in which he kept store and d. Dec. 23, 18 18. Mr.\\nNoyes was the founder of the Noyes School, in Ando-\\nver, and at his death left $10,000 in money and his home-\\nstead farm in the hands of his executor, Robert Barber,\\nEsq., (son of Robert I^arber, of Salisbury,) to found a\\nseminary of learning. In his will appears the follow-\\ning item: I do hereby direct my executor to take\\n$10,000 of my personal property and bank stock, and ap-\\npropriate it for the support of a public school said\\nschool to be under the direction of six directors, who\\nshall at first be appointed by my executor, and after that\\nthey shall fill their own vacancies. The house for said\\nschool to be buiit on the farm on which I now live,\\nwhich farm I also give and bequeath for the support of\\nsaid school said school to be denominated Noyes\\nSchool. Agreeably to this bequest Mr. Barber, who\\nwas an honorable and enlightened gentleman, one who\\nsmoked much and had the happy faculty of keeping\\nhis mouth shut, proceeded to the execution of his trust,\\nand in 1822 built a large two-story schoolhouse, nearly\\nopposite the Noyes residence, and in the following year", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0767.jp2"}, "744": {"fulltext": "678 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nthe school went into successful operation, under Mr.\\nTylor. The school was maintained for some five years,\\nthe old homestead having been converted into a board-\\ning house. In 1828 his son Joseph had succeeded in\\nbreaking the will, on the plea of insanity, and came into\\npossession the schoolhouse was sold, moved to the vil-\\nlage, (now Franklin) and located on the corner opposite\\nJudge Nesmith s. The store was bought by James Gar-\\nland, removed to the same village and converted into a\\ncooper s shop.\\n5. Thomas Jefferson, b. Nov. 20, 1S05 studied medicine.\\n6. Joseph, b. Jan. 10, 1807; m. Susan Tucker, of Andover he d. March 13,\\n1870 she d. July 30, 1861, aged 51.\\n7.. James, b. Oct. 19, 180S; d. May 26, 1810. 8. Lucy R., b. Oct. 9, 181 1.\\nTHE OSGOOD FAMILY.\\nI. Enoch was born at old Salisbury, Mass., June 13, 1773.\\nRemoving to Salisbury in the spring of 1791, he cleared up the\\nland and built the house now occupied by Elbridge .Shaw, and\\nremained on the farm during his residence here. In the spring\\nof 1834 the family removed to East Andover, where he died\\nJune 19, 1835. Mr. Osgood was a good farmer and a man uni-\\nversally esteemed by his townsmen. He was one of the most\\nfirm and staunch friends of the Rev. Mr. Worcester, and after\\nthe latter s severance from the Congregational church he fre-\\nquently held Sabbath services at Mr. Osgood s, to large and\\nchristian audiences. He married, July 22, 1807, Dorcas Brown,\\nof Northfield, who was b. April 5, 1785, and d. Nov. 9, 1861.\\n2. Benjamin, b. Aug. 6, iSoS d. in September, 1810.\\n2. Benjamin, b. Sept. 21, 1810; d. Sept. 12, 1839, unm. He learned the cabinet\\nmaker s trade of John Rowell, at Franklin.\\n4. Joseph, b. May 8, 1812; removed to East Andover and d. Nov. 2, 1S72.\\n5. Enoch M., b. Dec. i, 1815; he was one of the first settlers at Oakland, Cal.,\\nwhere he d. Nov. i, 1853.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0768.jp2"}, "745": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 679\\n6. Hannah R., b. Dec. 17, 1817; m. (i) Jan. 2, 1840, Caleb P. Marston, a native\\nof Andover, who d. June 27, 1858 m. (2) Sept. 18, 1859, John Fellows, of\\nAndover, who d. Nov. 23, 1868 she resides at Andover.\\n7. Mary B., b. May 7, 1820 d. Nov. 5, 1848.\\n8. Dorcas B., b. March 5, 1822 d. in September, 1826.\\nTHE PAGE FAMILY.\\nTHREE BRANCHES.\\nI. Onesiphorus Page removed from South Hampton to Sal-\\nisbury about 1790, purchasing the land, clearing up the farm\\nand building the house now occupied by Caleb T. Roby. He\\nwas a man of good education and ability and frequently taught\\nschool winters. Mrs. Mehitable Doty (Hannah Page, of Til-\\nton,) says: My father (John 4) had four brothers, Robert,\\nJoseph, Orlando and Capt. Samuel, also two sisters, one of\\nwhom married a Pingrey and lived at Danbury. The record,\\ngathered from numerous sources, is as follows\\n2. Moses, b. July i, 1769. (See.)\\n3. Mehitable, b. Sept. i, 1771 m. May 10, 1722, Dea. Benjamin Huntoon. See.)\\nShe d. Sept. 9, 1804.\\n4. John, b. in 1773 m. Jan. 24, 1799, Hannah Batchelder removed to Vermont\\nand thence to that part of Sanbornton now Tilton, where he d. June 9,\\n1S52, aged 79; she d. Sept. 6, 1S63, aged 91.\\n5. Onesiphorus, b. He was a successful school teacher.\\n6. Samuel, (Capt.) remained on the farm until 1S32, when he removed to Maine;\\nhe d. in 1873 m. (i) Sept. 6, 1S07, Rhoda, dau. of Rev. Jonathan Searles\\nm. (2) Feb. 19, 181 1, Dolly Sargent, of Boscawen.\\n7. David, b. He was a physician located at Meredith.\\n(2) Moses resided at the foot of the hill, south of J. W. Fi-\\nfield s. Mis death occurred from an accident, Nov. 12,\\n1835 he m. (i) Joanna, dau. of Jacob Bohonnon, who d.\\nOct. 4, 1811; m. (2) March 12, 1812, Judith, dau. of\\nPhineas Bean.\\n8. Moses, b. April 21, 1797 m. March 12, 1812, Susan, dau. of Sinkler Bean.\\n9. Sarah, b. Aug. 10, 1799; m. April 8, 1819, AIjcI Tandy.\\n10. Mehitable, b. Oct. 7, 1803 m. in 1829, Nathan Johnson; she d. Sept. 16, 1880.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0769.jp2"}, "746": {"fulltext": "680 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n11. Mary, b. March S, 1S13; m. Nov. 14, 1843, Israel Palmer and resides at Gar-\\nland, Me.\\n12. John B., b. April 17, 1815 d. in April, 1S51, unm.\\n13. David, b. Dec. 7, 1816; m. Elizabeth Atkinson, of Alexandria.\\n14. Moses, b. Oct. 22, i8i8; m. in 1S45, Hannah Walker, of Salisbury resides at\\nGarland, Me.\\n15. Joshua B., b. April 26, 1822 m. in 1850, Jane Phelps, of Wilmot he d. April\\n25, 1863.\\n16. Benjamin F., b. May 24, 1825 m. in 184S, Harriet A. Danforth, of Salisbury\\nthey reside at Manchester.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\nRev. Christopher Paige, (so spelled) A. M., son of William and\\nNancy (Aiken) Paige, was b. at Harwich, Mass., June\\n12, 1762; graduated at Dartmouth in 1784; studied di-\\nvinity and was ordained pastor of the Congregational\\nchurch at Pittsfield, in 1789, and was dismissed Jan. 7,\\n1796; supplied at Deering and Washington; was in-\\nstalled pastor at Roxbury, Nov. 21, 18 16, and was dis-\\nmissed March 2, 18 19; removed to Salisbury, where he\\nd. Oct. 12, 1822. He m. Rebecca, relict of Elijah\\nFletcher, of Hopkinton she d. July 9, 1821.\\nTHIRD BRANCH.\\nEbenezer Page, settled east of South Road village. In 1765\\nit was voted, To lay out to Ebenezer Page what is due\\nhim to make up his right in sd. town.\\nTHE PALMER FAMILY.\\nDudley Palmer settled on the east side of Searles hill he\\nmarried, March 27, 1777, Rebecca Pingrey. Children\\nI. Dudley, b. July 18, 1778. 2. Rebecca, b. March 15, 17S0.\\n3. Hannah, b. June i, 1782; d. Feb, 22, 1784; she was the first person buried\\nin the graveyard at Shaw s corner.\\n4. John, b. Dec. 26, 1783.\\n5. Hannah, b. Oct. 9, 1785 m. July 5, 1805, John Colby, of Concord.\\n6. Phebe, b. July 9, 1787.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0770.jp2"}, "747": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 68 1\\nTHE PARKER FAMILY.\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nI. Daniel, (Deacon) b. at Charlestown, Mass., Oct. 27,\\n1762. To escape the threatened war his mother left there\\nApril 19, 1775, fleeing to Medford, thence to Haverhill. He\\nwas bound out to his uncle, E. Townsend, at Chester, to learn\\nthe saddler s trade, remaining during his minority m. Oct. 27,\\n1784, Nancy Healey, who was b. at Chester, Sept. 6, 1763 he\\nremoved to Salisbury, March 3, 17S6, building the one-story\\npart of the S. W. Green house, the front room of which he used\\nfor his trade. On the completion of the 4th New Hampshire\\nturnpike he was appointed gate-keeper, his house standing\\nopposite the road leading from the turnpike to East Andover,\\nhis shop standing south from the house. He became converted\\nto the Baptist faith, and was church clerk and deacon for a\\nnumber of years d. April 22, 1842 she d. Sept. 16, 1839.\\n2. Mary, b. Aug. 31, 17S5 m. March 4, 1813, Jonathan Sleeper, of .\\\\ndover she\\nd. in Maine, Dec. 13, 1S4S he d. in 1S6S. They left four children the\\nyoungest, Rev. William K., b. Feb. 9, 1S19, graduated at the University\\nof Vermont in 1S50, and at the Andover Theological .Seminary in 1S53; is\\npastor of the .Summer St. Congregational church, at Worcester, Mass.\\n3. John, b. May 31, 17S7 d. May 27, 1S25; m. Rachel Carter, of Wellington,\\nMass., who d. at Athens, Iowa, in 1826.\\n4. Mary, b. June 8, 17S9; m. Jacob Smith, of Sanbornton d. Nov. 13, 1S49.\\n5. .\\\\bigail G., b. Jan. 8, 1792; m. (i) July r, 1817, William True, of Andover!\\nm. (2) Osgood Pingrey; d. in Maine in 1S69.\\n6. Daniel, b. Jan. 2, 1794 m. Mary, dau. of Judge Whittemore, of Tembroke d-\\nat Lowell, Mass.\\n7. Elizabeth, b. March 10, 1797; m. .\\\\mos Garland and removed to Topsham\u00c2\u00bb\\nVt. d. April 3, 1S72.\\n8. Hannah T., b. April 30, 1799; m. Feb. 10, 1S23. Samuel Cilley, of Andover;\\nd. July 2, 1849.\\n9. Isaac T., b. March i8, 1804; m. Sarah Moore, of Amherst,\\nwhere she d. April 13, 1834; he removed to Hill in 1835,\\nwhere he m. (2) March 8, 1837, Mary M. Fowler, and\\nwhere he has since been engaged in mercantile pursuits.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0771.jp2"}, "748": {"fulltext": "682 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nHe represented that town in the state legislature, in\\n1847-8, and served as postmaster under presidents\\nPierce and Buchanan he was a member of the constitu-\\ntional convention in 1876; d. at Hill, March 2, 1883.\\n10. Nathaniel (Hon.) was b. Jan. 31, 1807; removed to Willis-\\nton, Vt., in September, 1826, which town he represented\\nin the legislature in 1839-42 removed to Burlington in\\nMarch, 1845. He was appointed deputy collector and\\ninspector in 1843, holding the position for six years.\\nFor a number of years he held the position of director in\\nthe Merchants and Commercial banks, and was an active\\ndirector in the Vermont Life Insurance Co. from the date\\nof its incorporation. In past years he has been and is at\\npresent president of the Burlington Glass Co., of which\\nhis son Frank H. is superintendent, as also superintend-\\nent of the city water works. In 1870 he was appointed\\nAssistant Judge of the County Court, holding the office\\nfor six years. Since his residence in Burlington he has\\nin various ways identified himself with the interests of\\nthe city. Judge Parker superintended the building of\\nthe first court house in the state, the noble and charita-\\nble Fletcher Free Hospital, and an Art Gallery. He\\nm. (i) May 24, 1828, Cynthia L. Haines, of Williston,\\nwho d. Feb. 19, 1845 m. (2) Jan. 15, 1846, Julia, dau. of\\nNathan B. Hoswell.\\n11. Edwin R., b. Dec. 17, 1830; d. Nov. 11, 1S4S.\\n12. George H., b. May 22, 1S34; d. Sept. 14, 1836.\\n13. Sarah A., b. Sept. 2, 183S; m. Jan. 22, 1862, Clark Willis.\\n14. Frank 11., b. Sept. 11, 1853; m. July 4, 1871, Carrie Root.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n15. Nathan Parker is supposed to have resided in the one-story\\npart of the Sylvester W. Green house, although his\\nname may have been confounded with that of Deacon\\nDaniel Parker. He m. June 29, 1786, Hannah, dau. of\\nShubael Greeley; he d. she m. (2) Dec. 6, 1792,\\nDaniel Flanders, of Boscawen she d. at Dorchester, (i*)\\n16. Edward Pettengill, b. Oct. i, 1786.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0772.jp2"}, "749": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 683\\nTHE PARSONS FAMILY.\\nThe ancestor of the New England family bearing this name\\nwas Joseph, who was born in England. He married Mary\\nBliss and emigrated to this country in July, (636, settling at\\nNorth Hampton.\\nI. William, (Deacon) son of Ebenezer and (Potter) Par-\\nsons, was a grandson of Rev. William Parsons, the first\\nordained minister and one of the proprietors of Gilman-\\nton, to which place he removed, Aug. i, 1763, from\\nSouth Hampton. He was an excellent minister of the\\nCongregational faith two of his brothers were ministers\\nand an only sister married a minister. Dea. William\\nwas b. at Gilmanton, Dec. 10, 1791 m. Feb. 16, 1815,\\nSally, dau. of Dea. Hubbard Stevens. (See.) She d. in\\nSalisbury, Feb. 13, 1865. Shortly after marriage he\\nremoved to Pittsfield, remaining one year, when he re-\\nmoved to Salisbury and purchased and put into its pres-\\nent shape the E. H. K. Gilbert house. By trade a car-\\npenter and cabinet maker, in order to carry on the latter\\nbusiness he built a large two-story shop, which stood in\\nMr. Gilbert s garden the shop was eventually moved to\\nits present location by Rev. Mr. Coombs, where the lat-\\nter resided, and is the house east of Stephen B. Sweatt s\\nshop. The handiwork of Mr. Parsons is seen in the res-\\nidences of our older families, and shows serviceable wear.\\nHe altered over, moved back and put the steeple on the\\nBaptist church. Soon after removing here he united\\nwith the Congregational church, under the pastorate of\\nthe Rev. Mr. Worcester, was made a deacon and held\\nthe office until his death, July 31, 1869.\\n2. Lucy 15., b. June 15, 1S17 m. April 3, 1S52, Arthur L. Graves. See.)\\n3. William B., b. Oct. 8, 1819. (Sec.)\\n4. Sarah J., b. Aug. 20, 1823 m. in 1S48, Rev. Enoch H. Caswell, who was b. at\\nMiddleton, Vt., in 181S; graduated from Middlebury College and Andover\\nTheological Seminary; preached in this state and Vermont some eighteen", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0773.jp2"}, "750": {"fulltext": "684 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nyears; he d. while preaching at Bennington, Vt., Nov. ii, 1853. Child-\\nren: I. George B., b. in Salisbury, Dec. 16, 1850; m. Oct. 13, 1881, Sophia\\nA. Chamberlain, of Cambridgeport, Mass.\\n5. Andrew H., b. Feb. 17, 1831. See.)\\n(3.) William Brown m. Dec. 22, 1842, Elizabeth H. George;\\nhe built the house occupied by Mrs. Tenney. In 1874\\nhe removed to the Andrew Bowers house, (Congrega-\\ntional church parsonage) and opened the old Greenough\\nstore, doing a general mercantile business until April i,\\n1879, when he removed to the Samuel Greenleaf store.\\nHe was appointed postmaster in the fall of 1878, and\\ncontinued in trade until he sold out, Jan. 19, 1882, to A.\\nE. Quimby removed to Concord, where he d. Jan. 15,\\n1885.\\n6. Clara J., b. April 29, 1S45; m. Jan. i, 1S66, Dr. G. P. Titcomb. (See Physi-\\ncians.)\\n7. Mary E., b. Nov. 24, 1S4S; m. July 6, 1S71, Edwin B., son of Hiram and Eydia\\nK. Emerson, a grandson of Jonathan and Polly Emerson, who were early\\nsettlers in Weare. He was b. at Littleton, May 22, 1849, educated at\\nColby Academy and at St. Johnsbury, Vt. He was three years with E. T.\\nFairbanks Co., having charge of their small ware department at their\\nretail store. For a time he was with the Nashua Shirt Co., at Nashua,\\nand afterwards for nine years with H. M. Burr Co., at Boston. When\\nhis father-in-law removed to the Greenleaf store he joined in partnership,\\nselling out to Charles P. Smith.\\n8. Ann Ella, b. Feb. 21, 1S53; m. Dec. 15, iSSi, Charles P. Smith.\\n(5.) Andrew Hubbard m. Sept. 11, 1856, Carrie D., dau. of\\nAlonzo R. and Louisa (Rogers) Dinsmore, of Auburn.\\n9. Lilla A., b. Feb. 4, 1S59. 10. Walter E., b. June 22, 1S61.\\nII. Frank W., b. Aug. ii, 1870. 12. Helen D., b. Jan. 31, 1875.\\nTHE PEARSON FAMILY.\\nI. Moses, son of Moses, b. at Newburyport, Mass., removed\\nto Hopkinton, thence to Salisbury, settling in the old- Robert\\nBarber house, near George W. Wells; he died in 1818; mar-\\nried Lois Rogers, of Newburyport, who died in October, 1842.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0774.jp2"}, "751": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 685\\n2. Lois, b. July 12, 1796; d. unm.\\n3. Moses, b. April 16, 1798; m. Dec. 17, 1820, Sally Ladd removed to Lowell,\\nMass.\\n4. Samuel, b. March 19, iSoo. See.)\\n5. Susan, b. Feb. 15, 1803; m. Feb. 26, 1828, Caleb, son of Caleb Hean, who was\\nb. at Gilmanton, Feb. 16, 1S06; he resided on the south side of the south\\nrangeway, opposite Charles Holmes; he d. Feb. 12, 1865; she d. Jan. 12,\\n1873. Children: i. Susan P., b. March 6, 1829; m. Dec. 8, 1S47, L R\\nGale he d. in November, iSSS. 11. Moses C, b. July 17, 1831 m. (i) Jan,\\nI, 1855, Lydia M. Cram, who d. Dec. 27, 1858; m. (2) Jan. 22. 1862, Helen\\nM. Smith resides at Haverhill, Mass. in. Julia F., b. July 29, 1834\\nIV. George W., b. Dec. 5, 1839; m. Oct. 27, 1866, Hannah Hilton; resides\\nat Haverhill.\\n(4.) Samuel resided for a time at the top of the hill, west of\\nWilliam Holmes, where he carried on a brick yard, and\\nremoved thence to the Charles Holmes house. In 1835\\nhe removed to the William Calef house, on Searles hill,\\nwhich was destroyed by fire in 1879; he d. there Dec.\\n15, 1871 m. Oct. 21, 1824, Hannah, dau. of William and\\nHannah (Eastman) Calef.\\n6. Hannah I., b. April 19, 1S26; m. Oct. 24, 1863, E. I ierson and resides at\\nFranklin.\\n7. William F., b. Apr. 2, 1828; he purchased the John Calef farm, opposite his\\nfather s; m. Jan. i, 1857, Mary J. Hancock, who was b. at Franklin, Dec.\\n10, 1834. Children: i. Mary Lizzie, b. Nov. 18, 1S57. 11. Clara A., b.\\nApril II, 1859. III. Sammie, b. Jan. 30, 1861. iv. Willie A., b. April i,\\n1863. V. Neddie F., b. Oct. 26, 1S64. vi. Alice, b. Nov. 3, i86S. vii. Car-\\nrie G., b. Aug. II, 1S70, VIII. John 1 b. Dec. 10, 1S72. i.\\\\. Klla, b. July\\n15, 1876. X. Anna, b. Sept. 23, 18S1.\\nTHE PEASLEY FAMILY.\\nI. John married Oct. 2, 1820, Ruth Stevens, an adopted\\ndaughter of Joseph Meloon, and carried on the Meloon farm\\nhe was by trade a shoemaker, the shop standing at the foot of\\nthe hill, east of the house. Children so far as known\\n2. Nancy, d. young.\\n3. Haven, m. Lucinda Johnson and resided on Cash street in the .-\\\\dams house.\\n4. Daniel, m. French. 5. Ira, m. Louisa Kastman resides at Prescott, Minn.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0775.jp2"}, "752": {"fulltext": "686 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n6. Lyman. 7. Gideon. 8. Eliza A., m. William Hunt d. at Woburn, Mass.\\n9. Mary, m. Frank Busiel, of Concord; resides at Nashua.\\n10. Helen, d. young. 11. Julia, m. Montresser Allen; resides at Woburn, Mass.\\nTHE PECKER FAMILY.\\nJonathan E. Pecker was for several years a resident taxpayer\\nand school teacher in Salisbury. Born in Concord, May 28,\\n1838; graduated from the Chandler Scientific Department,\\nDartmouth College, in 1858; taught school and read law for\\nseveral years. In 1862 he was a member of the staff of corres-\\npondents of the Boston Journal and since 1872 has been mana-\\nger of the New Hampshire News Bureau of this paper, in Con-\\ncord. Was in Virginia in 1861 as a newspaper correspondent,\\nand as such has traveled extensively in Canada, the West, and\\nMexico. Was present at the banquet given in honor of the late\\nMajor-Gen. Ord, U. S. A., in the City of Mexico, and at the\\ngrand review of the troops of the Valley of Mexico, at Tacu-\\nbaya, in 1881 was a guest of Ex-President Diaz in an official\\nexcursion in southern Mexico. On the staffs of Govs. Prescott\\nand Head was an aide-de-camp with the rank of Colonel and\\nchief of the honorary staff of the 3d Regiment, State National\\nGuard. He is chairman of the library committee of the New\\nHampshire Historical Society member of the New England\\nHistoric-Genealogical Society, of Boston, and biographical sec-\\nretary of the Chandler Alumni Association honorary member\\nof the New Hampshire Press Association, and of the Kansas\\nState Historical Society. In 1865 he was State Military His-\\ntorian. He is unmarried and makes his home in Concord.\\nTHE PERRIN FAMILY.\\nI. Stephen, of whom very little is known, settled at Shaw s\\ncorner on land originally laid out to Henry Morrill and Ebene-\\nzer Lang, and was probably the first settler at the corner; his\\ndwelling was small, part of which he used as a hatter s shop", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0776.jp2"}, "753": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGKAPHV 68/\\nhe sold out to Edward Quimby, who tore down the old house\\nand built another the property then came into the possession\\nof Benjamin Shaw. When Perrin sold out he removed to near\\nthe top of Searles hill, on the eastern slope, the place afterwards\\nowned by Mr. Guilford.\\n2. Caleb, had a son True. 3. Polly.\\n4. Sally, m. Aug. 2S, 1S21, Samuel Ordway, of Greenfield, 5. Stephen.\\n6. Amos. 7. Martha, m. Jan. 10, 1S21, Samuel Whittemore.\\nTHE PETERS FAMILY.\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nJames, the ancestor of this family, came from Europe, bring-\\ning seven sons. Cogswell s History of Henniker. p. 55, says:\\nIn the spring of 1761 Mr. James Peters and his family moved\\ninto town from Hopkinton. He was one of the grant-\\nees of Henniker, but born in Europe. The town was an un-\\nbroken forest his nearest neighbors on the east were at Putney\\nhill, Hopkinton, and there was no mill or store nearer than\\nPenacook, (Concord.) His wife did not see a white woman for\\neighteen months after reaching town, e.vcept a hired girl she\\nhad brought with her. He resided there for several years, then\\nreturned to Hopkinton with his family and afterwards removed\\nto Vermont, where he spent the remainder of his days. His\\ngreat-grandchildren, who reside at Danbury, say their great-\\ngrandfather James did not reside in Vermont, but moved from\\nHenniker to Salisbury, clearing up the land on which he resid-\\ned, known as the Morrill farm, now occupied by Moses Colby,\\nat the southwest part of the town. His genealogy gives him\\nthree sons: 1. William, who m. Sarah Peters, (see History of\\nHenniker, p. 391,) settled in Henniker in 1763, upon the farm\\nknown as the Jacob Peters place, and was killed by the falling\\nof a tree, July 5, 1775. 11. Sibbons, d. j)rior to 1772. iii. Jo-\\nseph, b. in 1768; m. Nov. 29, 1791, Sarah Peters. He had an-\\nother son, John, (iv.) My impression is that this is the one", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0777.jp2"}, "754": {"fulltext": "688 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nwho settled on the Morrill farm instead of his father, James,\\nand that his son (John 2) was the one who settled by Peters\\nbridge, when his father went to live with him, and after the\\ndeath of his father John (iv) went to Danbury. I have made\\nmy sketch of the family to coincide with this view.\\n1. John (iv, see above,) settled on the Morrill farm early in\\n1796; he went to live with his son John and d. there.\\nIn the revolutionary war he served in Stark s brigade, at\\nthe battle of Bennington, where he was wounded in the\\nshoulder by a musket ball he was also with Washington\\nat the time Arnold s treason was discovered. He m.\\n(i) Hannah Usher, of Dracut, Mass. m. (2) widow Bet-\\nsey Stanley, of Hopkinton.\\n2. John. See.) 3. Sally, m. Joseph Farnum.\\n(2.) John was the first settler by Peters bridge, which was\\nnamed for him his house stood on the south side of the\\nbridge, on land now owned by Charles C. Rogers when\\nhis parents got old they came to live with him, and after\\ntheir death, in 1 818, he removed to Danbury, where he\\ndied. He m. Sally Peasley, of Sutton, who was b. Sept.\\n29, 1 791, and d. Sept. t6, 1869.\\n4. John, b. Dec. 25, 1813; m. (i) Laura Williams, of Grafton; m. (2) Eleanor E.\\nWhitney, of Brooklyn, N. Y. m. (3) widow Mary A. Titus, of Hill; he\\nresides at Danbury.\\n5. Susan, b. Dec. 26, 1815; resides at Danbury.\\n6. Hannah, b. March 20, 1S18; d. Jan. 15, 1836.\\n7. Nancy, b. April 24, 1820; m. Joseph Sanborn; resides at Tama City, Iowa.\\n8. William D., b. Oct. 10, 1822; d. Sept. 20, 1832.\\n9. Drucilla J., b. Aug. 31, 1825; resides at Danbury.\\nic. Mary A., b. July 19, 1829; d. May 23, 1863; m. James G. Tenney resides at\\nAlexandria.\\n11. Ruth M., b. Jan. 15, 1832; m. Sanford Kimdall resides at Columba, Iowa.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n12. William, eldest child of Jacob Peters, who m. Dec. 3, 1793\\nSarah Wood Eager, of Henniker, whose father was Wil-\\nliam, who m. Sarah Peters, whose father was James, one", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0778.jp2"}, "755": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 689\\nof the grantees of Henniker, was b. at Henniker, Sept.\\n10, 1794; m. Jan. 23, 1822, Fanny Hadley she d.\\nhe d. in Salisbury.\\n13. John, b. Dec. 2, 1S22. .See.) 14. Obedi.ah, b. .Vpril 4, 1825. See.)\\nIS- Hannah, b. Jan. 9, 1S27 m. Peabody Davis.\\n16. Sarah, b. Oct. 22, 1S28; m. Willard Richardson.\\n17. Drucilla, b. /Vug. 23, 1S33; d. in June, 1.S69; m.\\n(13.) John m. (i) Jan. 16, 1842, Hannah Taplin, who d. Jan.\\n29, 1856; m. (2) Rosannah Hadley. Children by his first\\nwife\\niS. Drucilla, b. Sept. 20, 1S51 d. April 10, 1S5S.\\nChildren by second wife:\\n19. William F., Oct. 10, 1857 m. March 3, 1879, Emily F. Brown.\\n(14.) Obediah H. was b. at Bradford, April 4, 1S25 he resid-\\ned for a time at Newport, then at Nashua, and in 1878\\nremoved to Salisbury m. (i) in Newport, Lydia Hurd,\\nwho d. April 9, 1862 m. (2) July 26, 1863, Hattie Hutch-\\ninson. Children by first wife\\n20. Sarah E., m. J. R. Hutchinson. 21. Fannie, m. Alfred Kelly, of Warner.\\n22. William H. 23. Josie, m. Henry K. White, of Enfield.\\nChildren by second wife\\n24. Emma L., b. March 5, 1S68.\\nTHE PE ITENGILL FAMILY.\\nFOUR BRANCHES.\\nThe family emigrated from Yorkshire, England, purchasing\\na large tract of land in what is now Newburyport, Mass., in\\n1640. A portion of this land remained in the family until 1875,\\nwhen it passed into the hands of the gold speculators. From\\nthis land considerable of the precious metal has been taken.\\nThe family in all its branches has been enterprising, hospitable,\\ngiven to social enjoyment, moral and conscientious, positive in\\ntheir opinions, faithful to their engagements, and universally\\nrespected. The brothers and sisters who settled in Salisbury\\n44", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0779.jp2"}, "756": {"fulltext": "690 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nwere: i. Matthew, (see.) 2. David, (see.) 3. Andrew, (see.)\\n4. Benjamin, (see.) 5. Betsey, who married Jacob Garland,\\n(see.) 6. Hannah, who married Joseph Calef, (see.)\\nFIRST BRANCH.\\n(i.) Lieut. Matthew removed to Salisbury from Plaistow, as\\nearly as 1764. He was one of the proprietors selectmen\\nin 1767, and his registered sheep-mark is dated 1768.\\nHe resided in the house with his brother Andrew, after\\nwhose death he succeeded to the farm and kept the tav-\\nern. What became of him is not known. Hon. Moses\\nPettengill says: His son Matthew (13) I remember\\nseeing about 1812; he settled in Springfield or Enfield,\\nhad a family, and some promising sons. He m. (i)\\nSarah Carlton, who d. in 1767; m. (2) Sarah Colby.\\nChildren by first wife\\n7. Sarah, b. Dec. i, 1759.\\n8. Susannah, b. Oct. i6, 1761 m. Jan. 17, 1779, Stephen Webster. (See.)\\n9. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 17, 1763. 10. Phebe, Rhoda b. April 2, 1765.\\n11. Jonathan Carlton, b. Feb. 17, 1767. See.)\\n12. Molly, b. Feb. 19, 1769; d.\\nChildren by second wife:\\n13. Matthew, b. Dec. 3, 1770; settled at Springfield or Enfield.\\n14. Mary, b. Sept. 18, 1772. 15. Zaccheus, b. April 24, 1774; removed to Enfield.\\n16. Hannah, b. April 7, 1776; d. unm.\\n17. Andrew, b. April 6, 1778; removed to Enfield.\\n18. Sarah, b. June 5, 17S0. 19. James, b. Nov. 10, 1782; removed to Enfield.\\n(i I.) Jonathan Carlton, familiarly known as Carlton, sold out\\nthe estate to William C. Little, (see) in April, iSoo, for\\n$4500, and removed to Enfield. He m. Sept. 22, 1791,\\nMary Hall.\\nSukey, b. May 26, 1792; m. Nov. 15, 1812, Nathaniel Dow.\\nPhebe, b. Jan. 25, 1794; d. Sept. 4, 1795.\\nJohn, b. Jan. 10, 1796; m. Nov. 11, 1S24, Mahala Kimball.\\nPhebe, b. Feb. 22, 1798. 24. Daniel McDaniel, b. Nov. 21, 1799.\\nAbigail, b. Feb. 5, 1801 d. Nov. 24, 1802.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n(2.) Capt. David Pettengill undoubtedly came here as early as\\n1760; he certainly resided here in 1767, settling on the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0780.jp2"}, "757": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND RIOGRAPHY 69I\\nsite now occupied by Isaac N. Sawyer. He devoted his\\nentire interests to farming, owned much land and gave a\\nfarm to each of his children as a marriage portion. He\\ndied wealthy and esteemed by all. He m. in May, 1760,\\nBetsey Heath, who d. Jan. 12, 1831, aged 91.\\n26. Lydia. b. March 3, 1761 m. Nov. 9, 17S0, Rowell Colby. He took sixty\\nyoung trees on his back, including apple, rose and currant bushes, to En.\\nfield in one day, setting them out on his farm at that place.\\n27. Betsey, b. April 22, 1763 m. April 5, 1785, Joel Eastman.\\nWhen quite young she rode from her home, in Rocking-\\nham county, to Salisbury, on a pillion, with her uncle.\\nShe was one of a number of young girls who discovered\\nthe lifeless body of an infant under a loose floor in a\\nbuilding in South Hamptom, connected with the school-\\nroom where Ruth Blay was teaching. She was then\\nabout five years of age. Miss Blay was arrested, tried\\nand convicted for concealing the death of an infant\\nchild. She was executed in December, 1768. The\\nsheriff who executed her was Thomas Packer. The fact\\nthat the discovery was made by Betsey and her school-\\nmates, in consequence of which Miss Blay was exposed,\\ntried and executed, cast a gloom over Mrs. Eastman s\\nwhole subsequent life, and in her later years she often\\nreferred to her knowledge of and connection with that\\nmelancholy affair, dwelling upon it with much sadness,\\nand exhibiting great feeling and a spirit of compassion\\nfor the unfortunate victim, whose shameful death made\\na deep and lasting impression upon the public mind at\\nthe time. She always had a lurking suspicion that Miss\\nBlay was wrongfully executed, and this opinion was\\nshared by many, and although at that time her age was\\nunder the bounds of responsibility, she felt shocked at\\nhaving contributed to the death of one who might have\\nbeen more sinned against than sinning. (See Appen-\\ndix.) lietsey soon returned to Salisbury and ever after\\nmade the town her home, casting sunshine all around by", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0781.jp2"}, "758": {"fulltext": "692 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nher loveliness of disposition and genial temper. Under\\nthe preaching of Rev. Mr. Worcester several very marked\\nrevivals occurred, particularly one on Dec. 2d, 1794, when\\nthirty young converts professed their faith in Jesus\\nChrist, among whom was Mrs. Betsey Eastman. She\\nwas a woman of remarkably active body and retentive\\nmemory, which latter she retained until her death, Sept.\\n30, 1867, aged 105 years, 5 months and 7 days. No\\nperson ever left her door hungry, and among the poor\\nshe was particularly charitable. Her native wit is well\\nshown by the following anecdote Her son, Hon. Joel\\nEastman, visited her just before her death, and when\\nleaving kissed her and said, Well, mother, we may\\nnever meet again on this earth, She quickly replied,\\nWhat, Joel, do you expect to die soon\\n28. Mehitable, b. June 23, 1765. 29. Marion, b. .May u, 1767 or 1768.\\n30. David, b. March 29, 1769. See.)\\n31. Ruth, b. April 7, 1772; m. March 21, 1793, Stephen Greenleaf. (See.) She\\nd. March 18, 1826.\\n32. Ann, b. June 26, 1775; d. Aug. 28, 1776. 33. Ann, b. June 19, 1777.\\n34. Rebecca, b. Aug 25, 1779; m. in April, 1800, Isaac F. Sawyer. (See.) She\\nd. Feb. I, 1845.\\n35. Nancy, b. m. Richard Currier, of Enfield.\\n(30.) Lieut. David remained on the farm, building the present\\nI. N. Sawyer house. In 18 16 he built the brick mansion\\non Centre road, when laborers were hired for a peck of\\nshelled corn per day. After its completion he removed\\nthere and d. Dec. 29, 1829. He m. Jan. 18, 1797, Polly,\\ndau. of Dea. Moses Sawyer, (see) who d. May i, 185 i.\\n36. Betsey, b. Nov. 6, 1799; m. IJenjamin Pettengill. (See.)\\n37. Melinda, b. Aug. 5, 1801 m. Rev. Iliram Stevens. See.) She d. Feb. 2, 1S74.\\n38. Polly, b. Sept. 22, 1803; Worcester Webster. (See.)\\n39. John Milton, b. Jan. 4, 1806; came into possession of the old homestead\\nwhere he d. April 10, 1838; m. Catherine Goss, of llenniker, where she d.\\nNov. 14, 1877, aged 74; two children, both d. young.\\n40. David, b. July 26, 1812; d. Aug. 26, 1813.\\n41. John F., b. d. April 16, 1840, aged 12.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0782.jp2"}, "759": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 693\\nTHIRD RKANCH.\\n(3.) Ensign Andrew Pettengill was b. at Plaistow in 1742,\\nfrom which place he removed to Salisbury previous to\\n1769. He owned considerable property about South\\nRoad village, and built a two-story frame house, which\\nstood between the dwelling house and shop owned and\\noccupied by Dea. T. D. Little. It is said this house\\nwas the first two-story frame house between the rivers.\\nThis house was the Pettengill tavern, the first public\\nhouse in town. The town meetings, and public and re-\\nligious gatherings, were for many years held at this place-\\nMr, Pettengill was a blacksmith by trade, undoubtedly\\nthe first in the settlement, the shop standing west of his\\ndwelling. He participated in the fight at Bunker Hill\\nwas 2d Lieut, in Capt. Peter Kimball s company, of Bos-\\ncawen. Col. Stickney s regiment, at Bennington, where\\nhe was wounded in the leg, from the effects of which he\\nd. after his return, Dec. 12, 1777, aged 35. He m. Abi-\\ngail Greeley, who was b. at Plaistow in 1749. She m.\\n(2) Sept. 20, 1779, Peter Severance; she d. at Bradford,\\nVt., in 1819.\\n42. Benjamin, b. April 23, 1770. (See.)\\n43. Betsey, Rebecca) b. .March 11, 1772; m. John Flanders, of Bradford, Vt.\\n44. Abigail, b. July 26, 1774; m. Eliphalet Tenney, of Corinth, Vt.\\n45. Marian, b. July 6, 1776; m. March 25, 179S, John Bean, of Warner.\\n(42.) Lieut. Benjamin, at about the time of his marriage, built\\nthe William Holmes house and carried on the large farm,\\nin addition to which he purchased and carried on the old\\nWilder Bowers grist and linseed oil mill. About 1816\\nhe removed to South road and succeeded Stephen Web-\\nster in the tavern. Not liking hotel life he returned to\\nthe farm in 1820. As a most successful farmer he accum-\\nulated much property he was of more than ordinary\\nability, and in the Congregational church, of which he\\nwas a member, as well as in society, his standing was\\ngood. Although not a politician his friends had such", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0783.jp2"}, "760": {"fulltext": "694 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nunbounded confidence in his ability and integrity that\\nthey sent him to the legislature for two terms and con-\\ntinued him as one of the board of selectmen for more\\nthan twenty-five years. For more than forty years he\\nwas tax collector. He m. Dec. 31, 1788, Hannah Gree-\\nley, who was b. June 26, 1772, and d. Sept. 28, 1838 he\\nd. June 20, 1853.\\n46. Andrew, b. April 30, 1790; m. Dec. 31, 181 1, Mary Smith. After the death\\nof her husband, at Salisbury, Jan. 22, 1817, she m. (2) June 16, 1819, Capt.\\nElias Pike, of Newburyport, Mass., where she d. They had one son,\\nSilas, who settled at Alton, 111., where he d. in 1S3S. Mr. Pettengill built\\na house on the site of the residence of Charles C. Holmes. He had a tan-\\nnery and carried on the gristmill.\\n47. David, b. Dec. 4, 1791 m. (i) Jan. 21, 1817, Hannah Quimby, who d. April\\n25, 1S30; m. (2) Abigail Quimby. He resided for a time on Searles hill,\\nand had seven children he d. at Alton, 111., leaving three sons: David E.,\\nwho resides at Bunker Hill, III. George and Benjamin, and four daugh-\\nters, viz: Mrs. D. B. Gale, of St. Louis, Mo., Mrs. Dr. Erving, of Alabama,\\nLucy and\\n48. Mary, b. Dec. 14, 1793; d. Dec. 3, 1S63, unm.\\n49. Moses, b. Nov. 27, 1795; d. Jan. 7, 1801.\\n50. John, b. Oct. 19, 1797; d. Nov. 28, 1816.\\n51. Sarah, b. Oct. 23, 1799; m. Col. Stephen Sanborn, (see. She d. at St. Louis,\\nMissouri, June 6, 1840, leaving three daughters, Mary, Cordelia and Sarah,\\nthe latter being married. They are well educated and are worthy christian\\nwomen, residing at Bunker Hill, 111.\\n52. Moses, b. April 16, 1802. (See.)\\n53. Ursula, b. April 2, 1804; m. Moses True, (see.) She d. at Bunker Hill, III,\\nAug. II, 1842.\\n54. Benjamin G., b. April 30, 1S06; m. Fanny Stevens, of Rochester, N. Y. He\\nd. at St. Louis, Mo., July 27, 1839.\\n55. Julia A., b. July 20, 1808; m. Joseph Smith, (see.) She d. March 8, 1859.\\n56. Lydia J., b. Jan. 5, 1812 m. William H. Smith; d. at St. Louis, Feb. 10, 1841.\\n57. Abigail T., b. Feb. 21, 1S14; m. Dr. Robert Smith, (see.) She d. Feb. 22,\\n1868.\\n58. John A., 1). May 14, 1817; m. Johnson and resides at Bunker Hill, 111. He\\nhas two sons and two daughters; the former like their father are active\\nbnsiness men the daughters are married and worthily fulfilling the place\\nof wives, mothers and christians.\\n(52.) Moses, (Hon.) His school advantages were concluded\\nat Salisbury Academy in 1820, after which he taught\\nschool in his native town, at Lowell, Mass., and at Sara-\\ntoga, N. Y. In 1827 he embarked his earnings in a gen-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0784.jp2"}, "761": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 6g$\\neral store at Rochester, N. Y., and was burned out in\\nJan., 1828, losing all his property. Returning to Salis-\\nbury he again went to teaching, and after a short time\\nwent into business at Bucksport, N. Y. While there he\\nm. May 23, 1833, Lucy, dau. of Dea. Amos Pettengill,\\n(see.) She was one of Salisbury s most successful\\nteachers and for a time followed that occupation at the\\nIpswich (Mass.) Female Seminary. As a wife and\\nmother she was faithful and ordered her household with\\nwisdom. As a Sabbath school teacher and church mem-\\nber, at her new home in Peoria, 111., she evinced an earn-\\nest desire to do her duty to her scholars and to her heav-\\nenly father. In the dark days of slavery Mrs. Pettengill\\nwas heart and hand with her husband in sympathy for a\\ndown-trodden and oppressed race. She d. at Peoria,\\nFeb. 29, 1864. In June, 1834, with his wife and Mr.\\nJacob Gale, (see) he removed to Peoria, (then Fort\\nClark) 111., and in company with Mr. Gale opened the\\nfirst hardware and stove store in that place. In 1835\\nMr. Pettengill bought out his partner and added the\\nmanufacture of sheet iron and copper ware, the first in\\ncentral Illinois. He also engaged in the manufacture of\\nplows and in the lumber business. In 1870 he began\\nthe manufacture of soap, but later withdrew from the\\ncompany. He then engaged in the wholesale boot and\\nshoe business, purchasing the interest of his partner in\\n1873, and in 1875 the firm of Moses Pettengill Son\\nwas formed to carry on the same business. In the\\nspring of 1872 the Pettengill Boot and Shoe Manufactur-\\ning Co. was formed, with Mr. Pettengill as President,\\nand S 100,000 capital stock. Within a year they secured\\nthe labor of the convicts at the Illinois State Penitentia-\\nry. They employ 250 men, and manufacture 65 cases a\\nday, at a cost of Si 300 a day. By his first wife Mr. Pet-\\ntengill had Hannah G., b. Sept. 5, 1836; d. March 22,\\n1841 Moses T., b. May 17, 1839; J- Nov. 21, 1844.\\nHe m. (2) May 17, 1S65, Mrs. Hannah W. (Bent) Tyner,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0785.jp2"}, "762": {"fulltext": "696 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nan educated and christian lady, a native of Middlebury,\\nVt. By her former marriage she had one son, S. B.\\nTyner, b. Oct. 17, 1850, whom Mr. Pettengill adopted\\nand took into partnership. In Dec, 1834, Peoria s first\\nchurch Presbyterian or Congregationalist was organ-\\nized by Mr. Pettengill and wife, among elev^en members.\\nFrom 1834-5 to 1881 he held the office of trustee and\\ndeacon, and since the latter date that of deacon. Dur-\\ning these forty-nine years he gave largely of his time\\nand means to aid in building a frame church, a frame\\nmission chapel, a brick church with bell and town clock,\\nand a new stone church costing some $75,000, towards\\nwhich he contributed 311,000, and in 1859 gave also a\\nThanksgiving offering to his church of $4000. He sub-\\nscribed princely sums in aid of the negro, and his purse\\nwas always open for his country and the soldiers. He\\nalso gave liberally to sustain Wheaton College. For\\nsome years he had thought there was great need of an\\ninstitution of learning for girls especially to qualify\\nthem for responsible positions. After friendly consulta-\\ntion he purchased two lots in Peoria, costing $4500, and\\nerected a three-story brick building with stone facings,\\n50x64. This was completed in 1882, at a cost of about\\n$25,000, the steam heating apparatus alone costing not\\nless than $1600. The building is used as a day and\\nboarding school, which is meeting with great success.\\nMr. Pettengill took much more interest in his family and\\nin the moral questions of the day than in politics. He\\nwas however elected on a heavy vote by the Free Soil\\nparty to the state senate. He held the responsible office\\nof treasurer of the city school fund, and was also school\\ndirector, making an effort to secure free schools and free\\nschool houses, things at that time unknown in Illinois.\\nFor a time he held the office of city councilman. For\\nupwards of forty-nine years Mr. Pettengill watched the\\ngrowth of Peoria, and d. in his adopted city Nov. 9, 1883.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0786.jp2"}, "763": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 697\\nFOUKTH BRANCH.\\n(4.) Capt. Benjamin Pettengill was b. at Haverhill, Mass.,\\nMarch i6, 1730; m. Mehitable Kimball, who was b. in\\nHaverhill in 1739 d. in Salisbury, April 23, 1812.\\nThe following obituary is taken from a Concord newspa-\\nper Died in Salisbury, April 23, the widow Mehitable\\nPettengill, aged 74. Her husband, the late Capt. Benja-\\nmin Pettengill, for many years kept a public house, in\\nwhich many weary and needy travelers, especially in the\\ntime of the infancy of many settlements in this state and\\nin Vermont, had opportunity to witness the exemplary\\ndeportment, the peculiar hospitality, the sympathetic\\nkindness and the truly christian charity of the deceased.\\nTo her children, grand-children and her numerous rela-\\ntives she was greatly endeared by the most tender and\\nunwearied regard to their welfare. To her neighbors\\nand all around her she was a mother in Israel. Her\\nchristian profession from early life to old age was adorned\\nby a steady discharge of her duty to her God, to her Sav-\\nior, to her brethren in the Lord, and to her fellow-crea-\\ntures in general. Her religion was not so much in words\\nas in deeds. Counting her own attainments in godliness\\nas small, she appeared clothed in humility, saying less\\nbut doing more than others. Soon after marriage Mr.\\nPettengill removed to Plaistow, from which place he re-\\nmoved to Salisbury prior to 1773. It is the tradition\\nthat he settled over the cellar-hole on the north side of\\nthe road, west of John C. Carter. He may have built\\nthe house afterwards occupied by his son James. He\\nd. March 15, 1S05. His children were:\\n59. Benjamin, b. Sept. 22, 175S. See.) 60. .\\\\mos, b. Nov. 5, 1760. See.)\\n61. 15etsey, h. m. John Fifield, 2d.\\n62. .Abigail, b. Dec. 31, 1767; m. Maj. Isaac I .laisdell. (See.)\\n63. Mehitable, b. m. .March n, 17S4, Capt. Winthrop Fifield. (See.)\\n64. Polly, Mary) b. m. Sept. 13, 1790, Col. Levi. S. George. See.)\\n65. m. Judkins.\\n66. Moses, b. in 1773: drowned in Blackwatcr river, June 30, 1794.\\n67. James, b. Nov. 13, 1775. (See.)", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0787.jp2"}, "764": {"fulltext": "698 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(59.) Capt. Benjamin (2cl) built the John C. Carter house, and\\npossibly the Stone house, opposite the brick mansion.\\nWhen the news of the battle of Lexington reached here,\\nin the forenoon, he and his father were at work in the\\nfield his mother called him to the house, told him what\\nshe had heard about the battle, and bade him go to his\\ncountry s rescue. With a small bundle of necessities\\nprepared by the mother, with his father s gun and equip-\\nments, he rapidly travelled south and arrived at Charles-\\ntown in season to participate at Bunker Hill, and served\\nwith distinction in other battles. He d. Feb. 3, 1834;\\nm. Lydia Sleeper, of Kingston, who was b. at Plaistow,\\nNov. 13, 1755, and d. Dec. 10, 1830.\\n68. Thomas Hale, b. Nov. 20, 17S0. See.)\\n69. Lydia, b. April 28, 1782; m. May i, 1826, Dr. Calvin Batchelder, of North-\\nfield. See Physicians.)\\n70. Benjamin, b. March 17, 1784; d. in 17S5.\\n71. James, b. in November, 17S6; removed to Louisiana, where he d. March 9,\\n1826, he had one son, Narkel, who removed to Georgia and d. unm.\\n72. Benjamin, b. Sept. 17, 1789. See.) 73. Moses, b. in 1790, d. in 1791.\\n74. Mehitable, b. June 19, 1792 m. Joseph Couch and removed to Nashua, where\\nshe d. in September, 1874, leaving one son, Enoch.\\n75. Moses, b. March 8, 1794; d. at .Savannah, Ga., in September, 1819, unm.\\n(60.) Amos (Deacon) before his marriage bought the old Cur-\\nrier mill privilege, (see mills) and with unusual foresight\\npurchased all the land about the Bays, up as far as the\\nC. J. White farm in Andover. By this means he con-\\ntrolled all the flowage. He soon erected a mill and later\\nbuilt the sawmill on the site of the Gookin sawmill, just\\nprevious to the August freshet of 1826. He then pur-\\nchased the Peter Severance farm, (now the D. F. Searles\\nfarm on Centre road) built additional buildings and con-\\nducted a famous hotel from 1805 to 1838. He. d. March\\n18, 1840. Mr. Pettengill was one of the town s most re-\\nspected, enterprising and active citizens, possessing a\\nsound judgment and not easily turned from his course\\nwhen once decided. One of the prime movers in the\\n4th New Hampshire turnpike, he owned much of the", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0788.jp2"}, "765": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 699\\nStock and held several offices in the same. He got up a\\nsnow plough, to which he attached twelve or fifteen yoke\\nof oxen, making a road fifteen feet wide through the\\ntown. For many years he was one of the deacons in\\nthe Congregational church. His numerous family of\\ndaughters were accomplished and refined ladies, of fine\\npersonal appearance, possessing high worth and christian\\nprinciples, and were educated at the old Dummer school\\nin Byficld, Mass. He m. (i) Feb. 2, 1786, Charlotte\\nTrue, who d. June 26, 1834, aged 73; m. (2) Aug. 30,\\n1835, Jane Greeley, who d. Feb. 27, 1836, aged 59; m.\\n(3) May 19, 1836, Deborah, widow of Rev. Thomas Wor-\\ncester she d. July 26, 1839. Children\\n76. Eleanor, b. Dec. 26, 17S6; m. Samuel C. liartlett. (.See.)\\n77. Amos, b. March 22, 17S9; d. March 22, 1790.\\n78. Ann, b. April 10, 1791; m. Dr. Peter Bartlett, (see.) She d. at Peoria, 111.,\\nNov. 3, 1S6S.\\n79. Susannah, (Susan) b. Aug. 10, 1793; benjamin Huntoon, see.) She\\nd. at Peoria, Hi., Nov. 8, 1837.\\n80. Mehitable, b. Nov. 12, 1795; m. in October, 1S24, Rev. Benjamin Woodbury,\\nA. M., who was b. at New London, 1792, and d. at Plain, Ohio, Dec. 29,\\n1845; she d. at Bowling Green, Ohio.\\nSi. Sarah, b Sept. 21, 1797; m. June 27, 1821, Josiah Babcock, of Andover. He\\nwas a successful manufacturer and merchant; he d. at Galesburg, 111.; she\\nd. at Hampden, Me., in 1S52.\\nSz. Amos, b. April 5, iSoo; d. Feb. 13, 1801.\\n83. Lucy, b. Feb. 5, 1802 m. Hon. Moses Pettengill, see foregoing sketch.) She\\nd. at Peoria, 111., Feb. 29, 1S64.\\n84. Charlotte T., b. Feb. 26, 1805; m. June 2, 1828, Dr. Enoch Cross; she d. at\\nGorham, Me., in September, 1S43. He resided for a time at Peoria, 111.,\\nand is now (18S3) at Newburyport, Mass. She was an accomplished and\\nhighly educated woman, and was for a time an assistant teacher with Miss\\nGrant and Mary Lyon, at Derry, N. H., in a young ladies school, which at\\nthat time was without a superior.\\n(67.) James Pettengill (Capt.) wash. Nov. 13, 1775; m. Jan.\\n8, 1797, Hannah True. He left Salisbury in 1816, in\\nthe forty-first year of his age, for the wilds of western\\nNew York, selling his place to Jonathan Kittredge. He\\nhad managed, aside from an ample outfit for the new\\nhome, to scrape together three thousand silver dollars,\\nwhich were carried in saddle-bags so that they might be", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0789.jp2"}, "766": {"fulltext": "700 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nthrown upon the horses backs and saved by flight, in\\ncase of trouble or attack, a thing not improbable in those\\nearly days. The furniture and other personal effects of\\nthe family were drawn by four splendid horses. The fam-\\nily rode in an immense carriage constructed especially\\nfor the purpose of the long journey, and with one or two\\noutriders the whole caravan started out of Salisbury one\\nbeautiful spring morning. No less than eight carriages\\nand vehicles filled with friends and neighbors accompan-\\nied this brave little band, departing in such a truly patri-\\narchal style, for a whole day s journey. There was dur-\\ning the day much hilarity as well as sadness, many jests\\nand many sad words of parting, and at length the last\\ngood bye. The second morning the Pettengill family\\nand young Sewell B. Scribner, who accompanied them\\nas a guard, arose betimes and headed resolutely for the\\ngreat west, to reach which one lofty mountain chain had\\nto be crossed, and hundreds of unbridged rivers and\\nstreams forded, and the way picked for hundreds of miles\\nthrough an almost unbroken forest. The Indians were\\nstill numerous, especially about the small lakes in cen-\\ntral New York, but fortunately they were at this partic-\\nular time in a friendly attitude. At length, after a jour-\\nney which was to the boys like one long picnic or hunt-\\ning excursion, strange and wild to the girls, to the moth-\\ner a cup of mingled hope and fear, and of heroic enter-\\nprise to the brave Captain, one evening in June they\\nsafely reached their destination, the place now known as\\nOgden, Monroe county, New York, a short half mile\\nnorth of and upon the same street where now stands the\\npresent Ogden post office. Of the children, Hannah m.\\nNathaniel Rollins. Of her two children, Louise and Ed-\\nwin, the son survives and still lives in Ogden. His no-\\nbleness of character and religious devotedness tells in\\nhis life the story of his mother s spirit and training. Of\\nthe boys, Benjamin, the eldest, felt perhaps more severe-\\nly than his younger brothers the heavy hand of manual", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0790.jp2"}, "767": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY /OI\\nlabor; he d. July 30, 1868, leaving an only daughter,\\nMrs. C. C. Buckley, of Leoni, Mich. Reuben m. Claris-\\nsa Green, a most devoted, intelligent and faithful woman,\\nwho still survives him and is spending her declining\\nyears encircled by the love of her children he d. at San\\nJose, Cal., while visiting his children there, Feb. 6, 1883\\naged 82. Reuben had spent the most of his life at the\\nold Ogden homestead, and was blessed with si.x children,\\nfour of whom were daughters. The eldest daughter,\\nRhoda, widow of Roswell P. Wyman, and his eldest son,\\nReuben T., now reside at Tonkus, on the Hudson, N. Y.\\nRhoda is the mother of Charles Dinsmore Wyman, a\\ngraduate of the University of Chicago and of the Albany\\nLaw School also Vice President of the Belt R. R. of\\nN. Y. and a member of the executive committee of the\\nAmerican Railway Association. Reuben T. has always\\nbeen identified with the Sunday school interests of the\\nBaptist church. His children are all daughters but one,\\nReuben Wilson he and Louis, the young son of James\\nPettengill, of San Jose, are the only descendants of Capt.\\nJames who bear the Pettengill name. Ro.xana, the wife\\nof George Bull, of San Francisco, is the mother of three\\npromising sons, Arthur and Jerome being in the agricul-\\ntural implement business with their father in San Fran-\\ncisco, and her daughter is the wife of the Rev. T. G.\\nMcRune, pastor of the Baptist church there. Susan, the\\nwidow of Horatio Webster, resides at Medina, N. Y.\\nMoses, who was the most intelligent and scholarly of the\\nfamily, married twice and both times happily. He spent\\nthe most active portion of his life at Niles, Michigan,\\nbut finally, like his brother Reuben, he sought the genial\\nclimate of California, at Auburn, where he d. Feb. 3,\\n1884. What he saw in his extended and frequent jour-\\nneys he wrote up for the press, and his articles were read\\nwith profit and pleasure. Moses was as tolerant in spirit\\nand genial in manner as he was thoughtful and cultiva-\\nted. He left a widow and two married daughters, Mrs.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0791.jp2"}, "768": {"fulltext": "702 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nCoolidge, of Niles, Michigan, and Mrs. Hoppin, of Wood-\\nland, Cal, both of whom are very lovely and accom-\\nplished women. James Osgood Pettengill resides at\\nRochester, N. Y. He was first married at the early age\\nof twenty to Emeline Woodbury, a dau. of Manley G.\\nWoodbury, one of the earliest aldermen of Rochester.\\nShe d. April ii, 1850. Married (2) Mrs. Harriet B.,\\nwidow of Dr. George C. Howard, who d. Oct. 13, 1882.\\nMr. Pettengill is a man of much tact, coupled with force\\nand executive ability. Eminently thrifty and practical,\\ncareful of reputation and example, always sympathetic,\\nhe is admirably fitted for helping others, without unduly\\nneglecting his own interests. While with these charac-\\nteristics he has been exceedingly prosperous in all his\\nventures he has been at the same time public spirited\\nand interested in many public affairs. During his earlier\\nyears he served often as highway commissioner, also as\\nschool commissioner, and was a magistrate and supervis-\\nor. In 1 85*3 he became a member of the legislature, and\\nat once took rank as a sensible and extremely practical\\nlawmaker. In 1863 he retired from business and became\\ninterested in the founding and management of the Roch-\\nester Theological Seminary, which he has since devoted-\\nly served with his usual force and determination. Al-\\nways a trustee of this institution, he was for sixteen or\\neighteen years chairman of the executive board which,\\nbetween the infrequent meetings of the whole board, is\\ncharged with the management of its affairs. The chair\\nof Church History in this institution bears his name, in\\nappreciation of donations made for the benefit of the\\nseminary. For many years he has been a deacon of the\\nfirst Baptist church, of Rochester. By his first marriage\\nhe had three daughters Martha, the youngest, died in\\nchildhood the second, Mary, died in Havana, Cuba, at\\nthe age of thirty-three, whither she had repaired for her\\nhealth, having been three times married. Sarah, the\\neldest and only surviving daughter, is the wife of Hon.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0792.jp2"}, "769": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 703\\nG. Hilton Scribner, formerly Secretary of State of the\\nState of New York, who resides at Inglehurst, Vonkers,\\nN. Y., on the Hudson. Mr. Scribner is the youngest\\nson of Sewell B. Scribner, who accompanied the Petten-\\ngills to western New York. By this union Mrs. Scrib-\\nner is the mother of six children now living.\\n85. Benjamin, b. Dec. 13, 179S. 86. Reuben, b. May 3. 1801. See sketch.)\\n87. Rhoda W., b. Feb. 12, 1803. 8S. Hannah O., b. Nov. 10, 1S04.\\n89. Moses, b. May 22, 1S08.\\n90. James Osgood, usually called by his last name, b. .Vpril 17, iSio. (See fore-\\ngoing sketch.)\\n(68.) Thomas Hale, Esq., (see lawyers) m. Jan. 17, Alphia\\nMorse, of Canton, Vt., who was b. April 6, 1786, and d.\\nat Portland, Me., Nov. 10, 1861.\\n91.^. Franklin, b. Oct. iS, 1810; m. Nov. 2S, 1833, Mary Eaton, of Pittsfield. He\\nresides at Andover, where she d. May 11, 1884.\\n92. Ellen M., b. Jan. 9, 1814; m. Aug. 6, 1834, Dr. Warren E. Chase, of Portland.\\nMe., where she d. May 6, 1879. Children: i. Warren, it. Hale, in.\\nCharles, all wealthy citizens of that city.\\n93. Catharine Corbit, b. June 9, 1S19; m. in August, 1841, Rev. John Burden, at\\nthat time pastor of the Baptist church at Salisbury. Children i. John\\nH., b. in Salisbury, March 20, 1845.\\n94. Melvina, b. Feb. 8, 1822; d. Nov. 21, 1831.\\n95. Clara, b. Nov. 27, 1S32; d. Dec. 19, 1832.\\n(72.) Benjamin, A. M., graduated at Middlebury College in\\n18 1 2. Not caring for a profession he purchased the\\nReuben True Farm, made extensive alterations in the\\nbuildings and established the tavern for so many years\\npopularly known as the Bell Tavern, afterwards the\\nTravelers Home, now owned and occupied as a dwel-\\nling by Mr. Moses C. Webster. He was a merchant in\\nthe Jonathan P. Webster store, and had a large potash\\nestablishment afterwards kept tavern and then went to\\nthe present John C. Carter farm. Removing over the\\nBlackwater he built the Ernest C. Currier buildings,\\nthen went back to the tavern, again to the Carter place,\\nand about 1840 returned to the Currier farm, from which\\nhe permanently located in the brick mansion at Centre", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0793.jp2"}, "770": {"fulltext": "704 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nroad during the fall of 1853. The date of his death is\\nnot known. Squire Benjamin, as he was familiarly\\ncalled from his having been a justice of the peace and\\nfrom his knowledge of law matters, was often consulted\\nin questions involving litigation and settled many estates.\\nHe was one of our most prominent citizens, considerable\\nof a politician of the republican stamp, and took an ac-\\ntive part in the questions of the day but the only public\\noffice he could be induced to accept was a seat in the\\nhouse of representatives for 1835-36-37. To this office\\nhe was elected by a large vote, notwithstanding his party\\nwas in the minority. Those were stormy sessions, and\\nhe was usually engaged in controversies with Atherton,\\nof Nashua, Hon. George VV. Morrison, of Manchester,\\nEdwards, of Keene, and occasionally with Jonathan Kit-\\ntredge and Jim Wilson. He was a strong anti-slavery\\nman. He m. Betsey, dau. of Lieut. David Pettengill,\\n(see) who d. at the home of her son, Hon. J. W. Petten-\\ngill, at Maiden, Mass., April 27, 1883.\\n96. Augustus C, b. Nov. 22, 1817. (See.)\\n97. David Milton, b. Nov. 12, 1819 he became a merchant at Charlestown, Mass.,\\nand on the breaking out of the California fever he started for that country\\nand was taken sick and d. at Panama, May 8, 1849; m. (i) Feb. 3, 1846,\\nMiranda P. Rice, who was b. .Sept. 17, 1820, and d. m. {2) Merrill,,\\nof North Reading, Mass. Children: i. Bessie M., b. Dec. 6, 1846; m.\\nCharles H. Ring who d. in Boston, Mass in 18S7. II. Vesta Ann, b. May\\n5, 1S4S; m. in October, 1869, John Gardner. She d. Nov. 3, 1S70.\\n98. Benjamin Hale, b. Jan. 16, 1824; resided here for a time\\nbecame a merchant at Salem then went to Charleston\\nand with his brother, David M., started for California.\\nAfter his return he became city marshal of Charlestown,\\nand after holding various offices of trust in that city he\\nremoved to Pine Bind, Minn., where he is extensively\\nengaged in farming. He m. May 2, 1850, Joanna Mat-\\nthews. Children, all b. in Salisbury: i. Benjamin F.\\nH., b. Feb. 27, 1851 d. Dec. 14, 1857. 11. Mary H., b.\\nOct. 6, 1852. III. Mehitable, b. Jan. 31, 1855. iv. Ben-\\njamin H., b. May 4, 1857. v. John W., b. April 13, 1859.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0794.jp2"}, "771": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 705\\n99. John Ward, (Hon.) was b. Nov. 12, 1835, prepared for col-\\nlege under Dyer H. Sanborn, at Hopkinton Academy,\\nand entered the sophomore class at Dartmouth College,\\nin 1852. Concluding not to finish a collegiate course he\\nbegan the study of law under Hon. Asa Fowler, at Con-\\ncord. From a close application to study his health\\nfailed and he went into a store in that city in 1854. Re-\\nturned to his home in 1857, where under the influence of\\nthe mountain air he rapidly recovered. He went to\\nCharlestown, Mass., in the spring of 1858, and renewed\\nhis law studies under Hon. J. O. A. Griffin, a graduate\\nof Amherst and an eminent lawyer. During the April\\nterm of court in 1859 he passed a rigid written examina-\\ntion of three days, by Hon. Geo. P. Sawyer, U. S. Dis-\\ntrict Attorney, who afterwards said, He passed the\\nbest examination I ever saw. Mr. Griffin desired his\\nformer student to remain with him, but Mr. Pettengill\\ndesired to be wholly independent and hung out his sign\\nat Charlestown, where for six months he did not have a\\nclient. Then Dame Fortune brought him a hard case,\\nwith which he was successful, since which his rise has\\nbeen rapid. In April, 1874, he removed to Washington\\nstreet, Boston, where he continues, with his residence at\\nMaiden. While a lawyer at Charlestown he was for three\\nyears city solicitor, and lost but three cases. Under the\\nadministration of Gov. Talbot, he was made Judge of the\\nDistrict Court, having jurisdiction over nine towns, hold-\\ning court at Maiden and Wakefield twice a week, and was\\nin addition associate judge at the Charlestown police\\ncourt. He m. (r) April 25, 1866, Margaret W., dau. of\\nJohn R. and Mary D. Demeritt b. Oct. 20, 1843, d.\\nSept. 29, 1869; m. (2) Emma M. Tilton, who was b. at\\nGreenland, N. H. m. (3) May 31, 1871, Mary Demeritt,\\nsister of his first wife d. March 7, 1872 m. (4) The\\nchildren by his first wife were i. Margaret B., b. Sept.\\n21, 1867. By 3d wife he had John Tilton, b. April 4, 1874.\\n45", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0795.jp2"}, "772": {"fulltext": "706 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(91.) Augustus Chesterfield resides on the Nathaniel Meloon\\nfarm, where he has accumulated considerable property.\\nHe m. (i) Jan, 27, 1848, Eliza A. Shaw, who d. Sept. 20,\\n1868; m. (2) April 12, 1869. widow Moses Moody.\\n100. Benjamin, b. Feb. 2S, 1S49; m. Nov. 13, 187 1, Mary Eila Stone, of Webster.\\nChildren: i. Freddie H., b. Dec. iS, 1875.\\nloi. Betsey, b. Jan. 8, 1853; m. Sept. 8, 1S74. James H. Whitaker, of Maiden,\\nMass., an extensive ship owner and merchant.\\n102. Carrie V., b. Sept. 28, 1855; m. March 26, 1S7S, Ernest C. Currier.\\n103. John D., b. Sept. 14, 1859.\\nTHE PHILBRICK FAMILY.\\nJonathan removed here from Deerfield, then removed to\\nVermont and died. Children\\nI. James, d. at Wilmot. 2. Polly (Mary) m.\\n3. John, m. Aug. 2, 1798, Nancy Challis and removed to Corinth, Vt., in 1820;\\nd. at Sanbornton. Children: I. Betsey. 11. Nancy, m. Durgin, of San-\\nbornton. ill. Carterette, m. Job W. Farnum. iv. Mary, m. v. James,\\nm. Lydia Philbrick. VI. William, m.\\n4. Benjamin, d. at Wilmot.\\nc;. Stephen, m. April 6, 1S07, Lydia, dau. of Cutting Stevens; removed to Cor\\ninth, Vt., in 1S20.\\n6. Ebenezer. See.) 7. Sally, removed to Corinth, Vt.\\n8. Daniel, removed to Corinth, Vt.\\n(6.) Ebenezer, b. at Deerfield, Oct. 6, 1779; he built the red\\nhouse at the west end of the north rangeway, where he d.\\nNov. 26, 1832; m. Dec. 27, 1808, Mary C. Carter, of\\nCanterbury, where she was b. June 30, 1779, and d. Feb.\\n13, 1868.\\n9. Abigail C, b. March 12, iSio; m. July 10, 1S34, Amos P. Stevens she d. Feb.\\n22, 1864: he d. at Wilmot, March 12, 1S82.\\nID. Mary E., b. April 12, 1814; m. April 22, 1845, David Farnum he d. March 31,\\n1872.\\nII. Martha, b. Oct. 24, 1819; d. Sept. 12, 1825.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0796.jp2"}, "773": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 707\\nTHE PINGREY FAMILY.\\nFOUR BRANCHES.\\nAaron and Moses came from near London, England, and set-\\ntled at Ipswich, Mass., prior to 1641. Hon. William M. Pin-\\ngrey, who has recently published a very extensive and exhaust-\\nive genealogy of the family, says: Five generations had\\npassed away before any attempt was made to trace the family\\nhistory and lineage. Our early ancestors were men\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of character, standing and influence, industrious and frugal,\\nand able to sustain themselves and rear their families for use-\\nfulness. The same characteristics have to a great extent\\nmarked their posterity. Trained as most of them\\nhave been to habits of industry, frugality and uprightness, de-\\nscended from puritan ancestry and embracing much of their\\nstrictness, they have been law-abiding and ready to contribute\\nmuch of their property and influence to promote the general\\nwelfare. Moses married Abigail, daughter of Robert Clement,\\nand of his children was Aaron, (ii) who married Ann Picard, of\\nRowley, to which place he removed in 1696; had Aaron, (iii)\\nwho married in 1707, Elizabeth Pearson, of Rowley had Steph-\\nen, (iv) b. Jan. 26, 1712; he married (i) Jane Jewett married\\n(2) Ann Jewett. The first bearing this name who resided in\\nSalisbury was William, son of John and Elizabeth (Jewett)\\nPingrey, who was born at Rowley, Sept. 25, 1757; removed to\\nSalisbury and m. Elizabeth, sister of James Garland, (see) re-\\nmoved to Bridgewater and died Dec. 14, 1S02.\\n2. John, b. in Salisbury, Dec. 30, 17S;;; crushed to death at liridgewater, Dec.\\n14, 1S02.\\n3. Betsey, b. at Bridgewater, Feb. 20, 17S2.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n4. Aquilla, son of Stephen (iv) and Ann (Jewett) Pingrey, was\\nb. at Rowley, July 30, 1761. July i, 1781, he was a res-\\nident of Salisbury, at which time he purchased for jC^o", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0797.jp2"}, "774": {"fulltext": "708 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\none hundred acres of land. He settled near Punch brook\\non the road leading to Shaw s corner, his house being\\nthe first after leaving the river road. By occupation he\\nwas a clothier, pursuing that business on the above\\nbrook. He m. in 1783, Hannah, dau. of Abel Morrill,\\n(see) who d. July 2, 1790; m. (2) Jan. 21, 1794, Polly\\nTrue, who d. Nov. 24, 1796, aged 20; m. {3) Dec. 10^\\n1797, Dorothy Page, of Andover. In 1814 Mr. Pingrey\\nsold out to his son-in-law, Solomon Pingrey, removed to\\nDanbury and d. in 1845 she d. in 1844. Capt. Aquilla\\nwas a pleasant, social man, honest in all his dealings,\\nand fond of engaging in the athletic sports of the day,\\nin which he excelled all competitors. Children by his\\nfirst wife\\n5. Hannah, b. Jan. 28, 17S6; m. April i, 1S19, Timothy Abbott, of Andover, Me.,\\nwhere she d. in March, 1S70.\\n6. Sarah, b. March 28, 1788; m. in Nov., 1806, Samuel Dunlap, (see.) Died\\nMay 12, 1877.\\n7. Lydia, b. Dec. 12, 1790; m. Solomon Pingrey, (see.)\\nChildren by third wife\\n8. True, b. Dec. 29, 1798; m. Hannah Flavor, of Danbury resides at Omro, Wis.\\n9. Osgood, b. Oct. 20, iSoo; m. in 1822, widow Abigail Barker True removed\\nto Smyrna, Me., where he ranked as an important citizen.\\n10. Mary, b. Aug. 28, 1802 m. in 1822, Jonathan Favor, Jr., of Danbury.\\nTHIRD BRANCH.\\n11. Solomon, (vi) son of Thomas (v) and Molly (Burnham)\\nPingrey Stephen (iv), Aaron (iii), Aaron (ii), and Moses\\n(i). He was b. in 1788, purchased the property of his-\\nfather-in-law, (Aquilla Pingrey,) and conducted the busi-\\nness until his death, Aug. 5, 1820. She m. (2) Lemuel\\nKenniston, by whom she had two sons, Abel and Charles.\\n12. Mary A., b. in 181 5; d. April 8, 1844.\\n13. Susan, b. Jan. 7, 1S17 d. June 17, 1S17.\\n14. Susan, b. in 1818; d. Oct. 10, 1832.\\n15. Solomon Morrill, b. Nov. 12, 1820. He graduated at Dartmouth College in\\n1840; d. Oct. 20, 1840. He was a Congregationalist and intended to enter\\nthe ministry.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0798.jp2"}, "775": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 7OQ\\nFOURTH BRANCH.\\n16. William Pingrey, brother of Aquilla, (iv) was b. at Rowley,\\nMarch 15, 1771, and removed to Salisbury in November,\\n1783, to live with his brother and learn the clothier s\\ntrade. In 1793 he removed to Blackwater river and\\nbuilt a house on the site lately occupied by Mr. John F.\\nHuntoon. In 1802 he built the house at the top of the\\nhill, where he d. Jan. 24, 1846. His first mill was on\\nthe west side of the river, but he afterwards built a ful-\\nling- and carding mill on the east side, where for those\\ntimes he did a large business. About 1810 he built a\\nsawmill, some hundred rods south of Mr. David S.\\nPrince s mill, which was carried away during the August\\nfreshet of 1826. June 27, 1829, he was appointed a^us-\\ntice of the peace, which office he held through life, and\\nwas often consulted by his townsmen in their difficulties.\\nBeing a man of sound judgment, industry and frugality,\\nhe acquired a competency. He m. (i) Mary Morrill, a\\nsister of Aquilla s first wife, who d. Sept. 22, 1825 m.\\n(2) March 6, 1827, widow Lydia (Nelson) Cram d June\\n5, 1858, aged 82.\\n\u00c2\u00ab7- I olly, b. Sept. 6, 1791 m. in 1S09, Dr. Ariel Hunton. as lie spelled it b. at\\nUnity. He read medicine with Drs. Long, of Warner, and Harvard of\\nSpringfield received the degree of M. D., from the Dartmouth Medical\\nSchool, m 1S47. He practiced medicine for forty-three years, thirty-nine\\nof which were spent at Hyde Park, where he d. Nov. 25, 1S57, aged 6S.\\nDr. Hunton made Salisbury his home until after 1S13. Polly d at the\\nhome of her son-in-law, Rev. S. A. Parker, at Bethel, Vt., April 29, 1S74\\nChildren: i. Parmetas, b. in Salisbury, Nov. 30. 1S09; studied law and\\nwas admitted to the bar of Lamoille Co., Vt., at Hvde Park, in 1837- m\\nLouisa Parsons, of Randolph. Vt., in May, 183S; he d. at Charleston, S.\\nC, Aug. 4, 1839. II. Sylvanus. b. in Salisbury, June 2. iSii m. Sept. 5,\\n1841, Clarissa M. Bailey, of Unity; he studied medicine and graduated at\\nCastleton Vt.) .Medical College, in 1S36. but did not practice; he d. at\\nC arrollton, Ga., Feb. 25, 1847. m. Eudosia, b. in Salisbury, May i, 1813-\\nd. at Hyde Park, Vt., Aug. 3, ,844. unm. iv. Augustus P., b. at Grafton.\\nFeb 23, 1816; m. April 29, 1S49, Caroline, dau. of Dr. Alfred Page, of\\nBethel, Vt. For a more extended notice of Hon. A. P. Hunton see Pin-\\ngrey Family Genealogy. p. 45. v. Tryphena R., b. at Hyde Park. Vt\\n/an. 20. 1827; d. Nov. 11, 1S43. vi. William P.. b. at Hyde Park. Nov.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0799.jp2"}, "776": {"fulltext": "710 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n24, 1832; d. Feb. 22, 1856. VII. Mary A., b. at Hyde Park, Nov. 24, 1832,\\nm. Rev. Sylvester A. Parker and resides at Bethel, Vt. She is distin-\\nguished both as a writer of prose and poetry and has also interested herself\\nin historical matters.\\n18. Stephen, b. April 7, 1785. See.) ig. Ruth, b. Jan. i, 1799; d. Dec. 8, 1S07.\\n20. William Morrill, (Hon.) A. M., was b. May 28, 1806; m.\\n(i) May 26, 1836, Lucy G., dau. of Enos and Hannah\\n(Griswold) Brown, who was b. at Springfield, Vt., Nov.\\n20, 1815, and d. Aug. 23, 1865; m. (2) Feb. 12, 1868,\\nMrs. Lucy C. Richardson, dau. of Capt. Jesse and Har-\\nriet (Wait) Carpenter, who was b. at Waitsfield, Vt.,\\nFeb. 28, 1822. Judge Pingrey received a good common\\nschool education, finishing at Salisbury Academy, and\\ntaught school at North road. In 1826 he was made a\\ncaptain in the militia and promoted to major in 1830. He\\nstudied law with Samuel I. Wells, Esq., at South road,\\nfrom March, 1828, to October, 1830, and then with Shaw\\nChandler, at Danville, Vt. Was admitted to the bar\\nof Caledonia county, at the June term, 1832. Com-\\nmenced practice at Waitsfield, Vt., in July, after having\\nbeen admitted to the bar, remaining nearly nine years,\\nwhen he removed to Springfield and then to Perkinsville,\\nVt., where he remained, except from November, 1854, to\\nAugust, 1857, when he was cashier of the White River\\nBank, at Bethel. While at Waitsfield he held the offices\\nof town clerk, treasurer, selectmen, county surveyor, etc.\\nWhile at Perkinsville he was a member of the constitu-\\ntional convention in 1850; county commissioner and\\nstate auditor from 1853 to i860; represented Weathers-\\nfield in the legislature in i860, 1861 and 1868, and Wind-\\nsor County in the senate in 1869-70-71. At present\\n(1882) he is assistant judge of Windsor county court.\\nIn i860 he received the degree of A. M. from Dartmouth\\nCollege. For forty-one years he was a deacon of the\\nBaptist church and for thirty-three years superintendent\\nof the Sunday school. In 1830 he was moderator of the\\nMarch meeting in Salisbury, getting the business com-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0800.jp2"}, "777": {"fulltext": "JJL-fi\\nntl", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0801.jp2"}, "778": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0802.jp2"}, "779": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0803.jp2"}, "780": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0804.jp2"}, "781": {"fulltext": "21.\\nGENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY /I I\\npleted on the first clay, an unusual event. He d. at Per-\\nkinsville, Vt., May i, 1885, aged yS. Rev. \\\\V. H. Rugg,\\nof Perkinsville, paid the following tribute to the memory\\nof Judge Pingrey His careful and accurate judgment,\\nhis love of justice, and his remarkably tenacious mem-\\nory, which held in its grasp minute details concerning\\npersons, places and events, singularly qualified him to be\\na servant of the public and a reliable source of informa-\\ntion on many and various matters of public and private\\ninterest. He loved peace, often counselling would-be\\nlitigants to settle their difficulties instead of carrying\\nthem into court. His religious life was not the fruit of\\nimpulse or strong emotion, but of profound conviction\\nbased on the teachings of the Bible. In his relations to\\nothers, official as well as private, he was courteous in his\\nbearing, a true gentleman of the old school.\\nRuth M., b. Jan. 31, 1810; m. (i) Aug. 5, 1S28, John C. Foster, of Haverhill,\\nMass. He d. at Pittsburg, Pa., April 12, 1835. Three children blessed\\ntheir union, all dead. She m. (2) Nov. 12, 1839, John 1 Dunlap. See\\n(18.) Stephen was b. at the foot of the hill. After his father\\nmoved to the top of the hill he tore down the old house\\nand built the present dwelling, where he d. Feb. 6, 1870.\\nHe carried on his father s business until larger mills\\nwere built which manufactured cloth cheaper, when the\\nmill was taken down. He then engaged in lumbering\\nand farming, and at the time of his decease owned some\\nseven hundred acres of land. Esquire Pingrey was for\\nmany years a justice of the peace and in that line tran-\\nsacted much business. He was a man of great energy\\nand industry, independent in opinions and not afraid to\\nexpress them. Among his townsmen he e.xerted great\\ninfluence. Possessed of a most retentive memory, in his\\ndeath the historian lost much traditional information.\\nHe m. (i) July 21, 18 17, Polly, dau. of Moses Morse, of\\nSalisbury, who d. Jan. 29, 1820; m. (2) Dec. 18, 1820,\\nJudith, dau. of Deacon Benjamin True, who d. Oct. 3,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0805.jp2"}, "782": {"fulltext": "712 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n1855; m. (3) June 28, 1858, Lucy, dau. of Oren Hub-\\nbard, of West Lebanon. Children by first wife\\n22. Roxana, b. July lo, i8iS; m. (i) Nov. i, 1S36, David C. Dunlap, who d. Sept\\n19, 1S3S; m. (2) July 21, 1840, Iddo S. lirown, of Wilmot; she d. Jan. 11,\\n1856.\\n23. Mary M., b. Jan. 18, 1S20 m. Nov. 18, 1841, Col. Moses Sanborn. See.)\\nChildren by second wife\\n24. Julia A., b. Dec. 20, 1821 m. Oct. 17, 1844, George W. Dudley.\\n25. Rhoda T., b. May 21, 1823; d. Feb. 21, 1838.\\n26. Alpheus, b. Jan. 26, 1825; d. Feb. 16, 183S.\\n27. Lydia, b. Dec. 23, 1826; d. Oct. 6, 1848.\\n2S. Benjamin T., b. Nov. 11, 1828; d. July 4, 1S76.\\n29. William, b. Nov. 2, 1830; m. Nov. 20, 1856, Mary, dau. of\\nCalvin and Betsey Barnes, of Belvidere, 111. For twenty-\\nnine years he was general ticket agent for the Northwest-\\nern R. R., at Chicago, 111., and is universally esteemed\\nfor his manliness, courtesy and general business capacity.\\nOn account of failing health he removed to Los Angeles,\\nCal., in November, 1882.\\n30. Samuel Everett, (Col.) A. M., was b. Aug. 2, 1832; m.\\nSept. 15, 1869, Lydia M. Steele, of Newport, Vt. Grad-\\nuated at Dartmouth College in 1857; studied law with\\nHon. A. P. Hunton, at Bethel, Vt., was admitted to the\\nbar of Windsor county, in December, 1859, com-\\nmenced practice at Hartford, Vt. Enlisted in the U. S.\\nservice in 1861 and was severely wounded at Lee s Mills\\nwas promoted to Lieut. Col. Jan. 15, 1863. Returning\\nhome with his regiment, as Colonel, after three years of\\nservice, he was mustered out July 27, 1864. He has\\nbeen president of the Officers Re-union Association\\nof Vermont, and in 1869 delivered the annual address.\\nHe continues in active practice at Hartford, where, by\\nhis integrity and attention to business, he has a large\\nand lucrative practice. He has been state attorney for\\nhis county two terms and also town clerk.\\n31. Stephen Morse, (Col.) was b. March 21, 1835 m. Nov. 19,\\n1S65, Mary Foster, of Bethel. Read law with Hon. A.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0806.jp2"}, "783": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0807.jp2"}, "784": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0808.jp2"}, "785": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0809.jp2"}, "786": {"fulltext": "714 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n5. John S., (Col.) b. at Sandown, April 9, 1S97. Col. Pressey, as he was famil-\\niarly called, remained on the farm, where he d. March 16, 1881 m. (i)\\nMay 21, 1835, Rhoda, dau. of Isaac Stevens, (see) who d. April 6, 1848 T\\nm. (2) Oct. 19, 1848, Roxana St. Clair, who. d. April 4, 1851, leaving one\\nchild, which d. young; m. (3) Nov. 29, 1855, I-ydia M., dau. of Green\\nGreeley, of Andover, where she was b. in 1827.\\n6. Amanda A., b. Aug. 2, 1836; m. John S. Heath.\\n7. Harriet J., b. July 2, 1838.\\n8. Daniel A., b. Nov. 9, 1S43; d. Nov. 22, 1865, unm.\\n9. Maria F., b. May 29, 1840; d. Aug. 6, 1843.\\nID. John S., b. Feb. 19, 1S46; resides at Silver City, Nevada.\\nII. George H., b. Feb. 16, 1857. 12. Mary F., b. Sept. 26, 1865.\\nTHE PROCTOR FAMILY.\\nTHREE BRANCHES.\\nJohn Proctor, with his wife Miriah and two children, sailed\\nfrom London, England, April 12, 1685, settling at Ipswich,\\n(now Essex) Mass. He was born in 1593. The generations\\nin lineal descent from this ancestor to Thorndike Proctor, who\\nsettled at Salisbury, are: John, (i) John, (2) Thorndike, (3)\\nJonathan, (4) Thorndike, (5.) He was a sea-captain and resid-\\ned at South Danvers, now Peabody, Mass. He married, Jan.\\n24, 1 77 1, Sarah Osborn and had\\n6. Thorndike, b. Aug. 17, 1772. See.) 7. Sarah, b. Oct. 29, 1775.\\nS. Susan, b. in June, 1777. 9. Benjamin C, b. July 25, 1778, and d. young.\\nID. Benjamin, b. June 9, 17S1. ii. Joseph, b. in August, 1786.\\n(6.) Thorndike, the sixth in line of descent from the ancestor,\\nremoved to Salisbury from Salem, Mass., settling on\\nwhat is known as the Samuel Scribner farm, where he d.\\nfrom paralysis July 18, 1830, his heiFS selling out to Mr.\\nHoit. He m. Hannah Wells, who d. Jan. 25, 1851, at\\nthe age of y8.\\n12. Thorndike, b. Sept, 23, 1802. See.)\\n13. Benjamin, b. Dec 4, 1804; d. Nov. 3, 1S13.\\n14. William, b. May 9, 1807. Read medicine with Dr. Joseph", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0810.jp2"}, "787": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY /1 5-\\nBartlett, attended lectures at Dartmouth Medical School,\\nfrom which he graduated in 1833, and began practice at\\nHill. Removed to Pittsfield, where he d. April 23, 1861.\\nHe was a faithful and conscientious physician, and was\\nmuch respected. He m. Feb. 22, 1842, Mary, dau. of\\nIsaac Hale, of Franklin, (see.) She d. Dec. 5, 1875.\\n15. Jonathan, b. Nov. 6, iSii. He was a cabinet maker by trade and removed to\\nMaine in 1S35, where he became a ship carpenter resides at Topsham, Me.\\n16. Sally A. M., b. Feb. 22, 1816; d. Jan. 10, 1S23.\\n(12.) Thorndike enlisted in the state militia, Sept. 12, 1827,\\nand was Captain of the 2d Co., 21st Regt. of Infantry,\\nresigning March 24, 1828. He was a carpenter by trade\\nand resided for a time on the True George farm re-\\nmoved to Penacook, where he d. April 4, 1864; m. in\\nApril, 1833, Mary Ann Willey, of Gilford, who resides-\\nin Penacook.\\n17. Charles H., b. in Andover, June 22, 1743; resides at Penacook.\\n18. Lafayette, b. May 7, 1845; d. Aug. 23, 1S69.\\n19. Sarah E., b. May 7, 1S47 d. June 13, 187S.\\n[The compiler is under obligations to Frank W. Proctor, for\\nthe ancestry of this branch of the family.]\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n20. Isaac Proctor was b. at Townsend, Mass., Feb. 3, 1784.\\nLearning the trade of a cooper, he came here through\\nthe efforts of Ebenezer Eastman, who employed him at\\nhis trade. He m. Nov. 27, 1886, Hannah Nutter, of Gil-\\nmanton, where she was b. Jan. 10, 1782. After this he\\nleft town for a time. Returning in 1708, he built the\\nhouse now occupied by his son William s widow, Mrs. S.\\nH. Proctor. He d. at Franklin, Dec. 10, 1856; shed, at\\nthe same place, Dec. 12, 1848.\\n21. Mary S., b. Dec. 18, 1S07; d. July i, 1.S60, unm.\\n22. William, b. March 17, 1810; m. 1846, Sally II. Cilley, of .\\\\ndovcr. He-\\nremained on the place and d. Dec. 17, 1866.\\n23. Mary J., b. Feb. 17, 1819; d. Oct. 7, 1S39, unm.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0811.jp2"}, "788": {"fulltext": "7l6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHIRD BRANCH.\\nJames Proctor, b. at Kingston, Sept. 13, 1777, removed to Uni-\\nty, where he m. Nabby Ladcl, who was b. at Unity, Sept.\\n10, 1784, and d. at Northwood, June 17, 1873. They\\nremoved to Claremont, thence to Andover, and then to\\nthat part of Salisbury now Franklin, his shop standing\\non the bank of Webster lake brook, just north of Mrs.\\nDudley Ladd s. He was a manufacturer of scythes, axes,\\nand edge tools of all descriptions, and sustained a good\\nreputation. He d. Feb. i, 1847.\\n24. Hial, b. at Unity, Feb. 22, 1S05.\\n25. James H., b. at Claremont, Nov. 23, 1S06; d. at Lowell, Mass., Nov. 20, 1S67\\nm. Eliza Brown.\\n26. Hiram, b. at Andover, Sept. 21, 1S08; d. at Lowell, Mass., Nov. 25, 1S76.\\n27. Milton, b. at Salisbury, Sept. 21, iSii resides at Manchester.\\n28. Clarissa, b. Dec. 5, 1813; drowned June 15, 1815.\\n29. Clarissa, Clara) b. Feb. 8, 1816; m. Sept. 2, 1840, Hon. Asa P. Cate, a noted\\nlawyer in that part of Sanbornton now Tilton, with a residence at North-\\nfield, where he d. Dec. 12, 1874.\\n30. Abigail A., b. Aug. 12, 1818; m. Clarence Proctor, of Andover.\\n51. Alma, b. May 16, 1820; drowned June 23, 1822.\\n32. Martha A., b. Aug. 21, 1822.\\n33. Mary F., b. Sept. lo 1824; d. at Tilton, Feb. 18, 1865.\\n34. Lydia J., b. Sept. 24, 1827; m. Sept. 9, 1851, Hon. John F. Taylor, a merchant\\nat Tilton. He d. in November, 1887.\\nTHE OUIMBY FAMILY.\\nI. Edward built the second house at Shaw s corner, in 1795.\\nTwo years later he built a large two-story frame house, painted\\nyellow, afterwards occupied by Benjamin Shaw, which was\\ndestroyed by fire in 1875. He was the first blacksmith at\\nthe Corner, where he did a large business, shoeing, and mak-\\ning everything, from a nail to a plowshare. He was b. at Brent-\\nwood d. Feb. 24, 1830; m. Sarah who d. Sept. 2, 1849,\\naged 82.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0812.jp2"}, "789": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND I5I0GKAPHY J\\\\J\\n2. Moses, d. Sept. 20, 1792. 3. Betsey, m. Benjamin Garland. (See.)\\n4. Samuel, b. April 10, 17S9. (See.)\\n5. Abel, m. Mary Morrill, at Bangor, Mc. He was a teacher by occuijation and\\nd. at Orange, N. J.\\n6. Susan, m. Levi Frazier and settled in Danbury. 7. Polly, d. unm.\\nS. Abigail, m. David Pettengill d. April 25, 1S30.\\n9. Hannah, m. Jan. 21, 1S17, David Pettengill. He m. (2) Abigail, (S).\\n(4.) Samuel removed here with his parents in 181 5, and built\\na house a few rods east from the homestead removed\\nto Franklin village and d. aged 89. He was by trade a\\nblacksmith, working with his father, and was in all his\\ndealings an upright and honorable citizen. He. m. Dec.\\n28, 1 81 5, Hannah Whittemore.\\n10. Maria, b. Jan. 21, 1S17; d. June 14, 1S34, unm.\\n11. Samuel D., b. Sept. S, 1S19; m. (i) May 14, 18 Octavia O. Guildford; m.\\n(2) May 14, 1S44, Guildford; he d. at Winchester, Mass., Aug. i, 1864;\\nhad one son, Lerome S., b. Feb. 15, 1S47.\\n12. Hannah F., b. June i, 1S22; m. July 30, 1845, Moses S. Morse and resided at\\nFranklin she d. Sept. 22, 1SS2.\\n13. Alfred W., b. Feb. 15, 1S25; m. Edna J. Sargent, of Canterbury resides at\\nWinchester, Mass.\\n14. Frederick R., b. Aug. 27, 1S27 m. Nov. 24, 18 Sarah E. Reed, of Franklin,\\nwhere she resides; he d. Feb. 3, 1S66.\\nSalisbury had a number of families bearing the name of\\nOuimby, but I have been unable to obtain further information\\nconcernins: them.\\nTHE ROBERTSON FA^^LY.\\nI. John Robertson and six other children accompanied the\\nparents from Scotland and settled at Plymouth, Mass. His\\nson John (2) was a drummer boy at the battle of Bunker Hill.\\nHe settled at Bow, as keeper of the ferry in that town, which\\nbore the name of Robertson s Ferry. In 1809 he was carried\\nover Garvin s falls and drowned, leaving a widow and four\\ndaughters, one of whom, Rebecca, m. June 17, 1821, Ebenezer,\\nyoungest brother of Kendall I eabody. Ebenezer removed to", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0813.jp2"}, "790": {"fulltext": "7l8 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nSalisbury in 1819, carrying on the blacksmithing business.\\nAfter the death of John Robertson he purchased the latter s\\nhouse and had a shop opposite. Children i. Louisa O., b.\\nFeb. 13, 1822; m. Fellows and resides in Janesville, Wis.\\nII. Caroline B., b. Feb. 11, 1824; d. May 2, 1832. in. George,\\nb. Sept. 3, 1826 d. July 5, 1867. iv. Horace, b. Dec. 23, 1828\\nresides at Franklin, v. Jennette, b. March 14, 1830; d. Nov.\\n22, 1858. VI. Andrew J., b. Aug. 13, 1835 d. June 26, 1874.\\nVII. Betsey, b. Dec. 23, 1836; d. Feb. 13, 1856. viii. Mary T.,\\nb. Feb. 16, 1842 m. William S. Wheeler and resides at Frank-\\nlin. IX. Sarah A., b. Jan. 3, 1844; d. Nov. 25, 1863. Osgood\\nC, b. July 29, 1846; d. April 15, 1867. Mehitable, the eldest,\\nm. James Emerson, of Concord. Sally m. Joseph Butterfield,\\nof Goffstown. Margaret m. Daniel Berry, of Greenland, and is\\nnow (1886) the only survivor. The boys were Ezekiel, who\\nsestled in New York; James d. at Plattsburg, N. Y., in 181 2;\\nEbenezer d. in New York Giles d, in Wisconsin the other\\nlived at Manchester. These, with the above-named John, com-\\nprised the family of ten children.\\nJohn, (3) John, (2) John, (i) learned the tailoring business at\\nBoston, removing to Salisbury 18 16- 17, and settled at\\nwhat is now Franklin, living in the Joseph Brown house.\\nHe then kept the toll gate at Republican bridge, built\\nan addition to the west end of the house, and did a gen-\\neral country trade for seven years, after which he went\\ninto business with Thomas Greenleaf, at the top of the\\nhill. In the great freshet of 1824, which carried away\\nthe bridge, he was left on the Sanbornton side, and\\ncrossed the river by leaping from one cake of ice to an-\\nother. When near the Salisbury shore he fell into the\\nwater but safely reached the land. From the effects of\\nthis bath he got a severe cold and d. Feb. 2, 1825. He\\nm. Susan, dau. of William Fifield, (see.) After his death\\nshe m. in 1849 Jeremiah Sanborn she d. in 1869.\\n2. John W., a machinist at Piermont, N. Y., d. March 31, 1S55 m. .Vug. 15^\\n1836, Martha J. Huntoon she d. at Salisbury.\\n3. William. 4. Susan, both d. young.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0814.jp2"}, "791": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 719\\nAlice, b. July 27, 1S21 m. (i) Dec. 5, 1S39, Freeman Hammond; he d. Aug.\\n5, 1850; she m. (2) March 8, 1855, *--o Stephen Gerrish, of Xorthfield;\\nresides at Franklin, where he is in the livery stable business.\\nTHE ROBINSON FAMILY.\\nTWO BRANCHES.\\nI. George Robinson, Sr., was a landowner in 1641, in what\\nwas then known by the Indian name of Waseuiawassett. This\\nwas four years before its adoption into the jurisdiction of the\\nPlymouth colony and incorporation as the township of Reho-\\nboth, from which Attleborough was subsequently taken. Mr.\\nRobinson was one of the principal proprietors when it was in-\\ncorporated in 1645. H^ married, April 18, 165 i, Joanna Ingra-\\nham, and had eight children. Their third child, George, (2) b.\\nJuly 20, 1656, m. Nov. 17, 1680, Elizabeth Guild, and had nine\\nchildren. Their youngest child, Noah, (3) b. Oct. 9, 1702, m.\\nOct. 4, 1722, Patience Daggett, and had seven children. Their\\nsi.xth child, Enoch, (4) b. at Attleborough, Nov. 4, 1736, was a\\nLieutenant in the revolutionary war. He m. Dec. 17, 1761,\\nWindrell Shepard, and had ten children. Their second child\\n2. Otis, (4) Rev., (see biographies of Baptist ministers) was\\nb. at Attleborough, Mass., June 7, 1764; d. in Salisbury,\\nMarch i, 1835; m. March 17, 1785, Hannah, dau. of\\nWah {J) Reed and Dorcas Chaffee, of Attleborough.\\nHer (Hannah s) great-great-grandfather was one of the\\nsettlers of Rehoboth, and came to this country with Gov.\\nWinthrop, whose wife was a Reed. Shed, in Salisbury,\\nJuly 23, 1840.\\n3. Lucy, b. at .Attleboro Jan. i, 1786; d. at .\\\\ttleboro Jan. 6, 17S6.\\n4. Nabby, b. at .Vttleboro April 2, 1787 d. at Salisbury, Sept. 1 2, 1S5S m. Thom-\\nas Beal. See.)\\n5. Noah, b. at Attleboro May 5, 17S9; d. at Waterborough, Me., June 27, iSSi.\\n6. Otis, b. at Winthrop, Me., Jan. 6, 1794 d. at Salisbury, (J)ct. y, 1833. See.)\\n7. Cyrus, b. in Livermore, Me., June 24, 1796; d. at Concord, .\\\\pril 1, 1S76.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0815.jp2"}, "792": {"fulltext": "720 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n8. Harmon, b. at Sanford, Me., Sept. 28, 1S02 resides at Meredith.\\n9. Hannah, b. at Sanford, Me. Dec. 21, 1805; d. there July 27, 1807.\\n10. A son, b. at Salisbury, Feb. 27, 1810; d. Feb. 27, iS\\n(6.) Otis Robinson, Jr., n^ May 10, 1815, Azubah, a dau. of\\nElijah Andrews, of Berlin, Conn. Mr. Robinson was\\nthe fourth child of the Rev. Otis Robinson, of Salisbury.\\nHe was installed as pastor of the Baptist church in Gro-\\nton, Vt., in 1824, where he resided for several years,\\nuntil ill health obliged -him to resign his charge. He\\ncame to Salisbury soon after but lived only a short time.\\nTheir children were i. Harriet, b. in Berlin, Conn.,\\nFeb. 12, 1816; d. Feb. 15, 1816. 11. William A., b. in\\nBerlin, Feb. 14, 1817 d. Nov. 14, 1855. iii. George, b.\\nin Berlin, Feb. 14, 1819; d. July 12, 1819. iv. Harriet\\nReed, b. in Berlin, May 9, 1820; d. Jan. 7, 1867; m.\\nHiram Case, of Simsbury, Conn., and resided at Plain-\\nville, Conn. they had no children, v. Louisa, b. in\\nBerlin, Feb. 15, 1826 m. Jerome Johnson, of Berlin, and\\nreside in Plainville they have no children, vi. Otis\\nG., b. in Woodstock, Vt., Feb. lo, 1828; d. July 8, 1880.\\nVII. Caroline A., b. Dec. 14, 1830; d. May i, 1832.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\nI. Abraham H. Robinson, M. D., (see physicians) a son of\\nJosiah Robinson, a native of Stratham, whose ancestors\\nwere among the earliest settlers of that town, and Lucy,\\ndau. of Lieut. Abram Sanborn, an officer of the revolu-\\ntion. This couple passed together a married life of more\\nthan fifty-six years. He was b. at Concord, Jan. 8, 1813\\nm. July 14, 1840, Abigail Gould, who was b. at Hillsbor-\\nough, and d. at Concord, Aug. 26, 1884. Children all\\nb. in Salisbury\\n2. Lucy, b. May 5, 1S41, d. May 6, 1845.\\n3. Mary, b. May 5, 1841 d. July 14, 1841.\\n4. Joseph F., b. Nov. 17, 1S45; removed to Texas and is supposed to have died\\nthere.\\n5. Allen H., b. July 11, 1847. 6. John W., b. Oct. 8, 1853.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0816.jp2"}, "793": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0817.jp2"}, "794": {"fulltext": "i^^(^^", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0818.jp2"}, "795": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND lUOGRAPHY 72 1\\nTHE ROGERS FAMILY.\\nI. John Rogers was the eldest son of John and Rhoda\\n(Shedd) Rogers. She dying young he married for his second\\nwife Sally Pollard. The subject of this sketch was born at Bil-\\nlerica, Mass., Jan. 31, 1790, and early removed to Concord,\\nwhere he engaged in mercantile pursuits. From there he re-\\nmoved to Salisbury, in March, 1823, and purchased the Daniel\\nStevens farm, which is now owned and occupied by his son,\\nCharles C. He d. Oct. 2, 1875 m. in 1S13 Hannah C, dau. of\\nMoses and Rhoda (Carter) Farnum. She was b. at Concord,\\nSept. 7, 1793, and d. June 21, 1878.\\n2. John C, b. in Concord, Dec. 7, 1S15; d. Dec. i, 1S16.\\n3. Rhoda C, b. March 7, 1S17 m. Jan. 2S, 1S40, E. G. Chase and resides at East\\nAndover.\\n4. Emeline A., b. Oct. 31, 1819; m. April 28, 1S42, Adner Sargent, of llopkinton.\\n5. Phebe W., b. Feb. 22, 1823; m. Sept. 3, 1S40, Moses J. Stevens. See.)\\n6. Charles Cyrus, b. at Salisbury, Nov. 27, 1S24. See.)\\n7. Sarah E. P., b. Aug. 4, 1S30; m. April 24, 1S56, Justin Thompson, of Tewks-\\nbury, Mass. He d. at Maiden, Mass., Feb. 13, 1S63; she d. at Salisbury,\\nJan. 27, 1865.\\n(6.) Charles Cyrus m. March 5, 1856, Martha J., dau. of Ira\\nand Hannah Putney, of Hopkinton, where she was b.\\nJuly 13, 1835. Mr. Rogers remained on the home farm\\nwhere he was born, and is one of our most energetic and\\nprogressive farmers. He was appointed a justice of the\\npeace in June, 1866, and justice of the state ten years\\nlater. No man in town has held the number of town\\noffices for so many successive years that he has, being\\nchosen representative to the legislature for two terms\\nserving on the board of selectmen for seven years, being\\nchairman five; town treasurer seven and collector of\\ntaxes four years chosen moderator at town meetings for\\nten successive years superintending school committee\\nfor seventeen years, and at present chairman of the\\nschool board, which shows in a measure the confidence\\n46", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0819.jp2"}, "796": {"fulltext": "722 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nand esteem with which he is regarded by his townsmen.\\nHe was also a successful school teacher, having taught\\ntwenty-seven terms in this and adjoining towns. He\\nhas done much in the settlement of estates at the west\\npart of the town, and always with satisfaction to all\\nparties concerned.\\n8. Lizzie K., b. July S, 1S62. 9. Nellie J., b. Sept. 23, 1S65.\\nTO. John P., b. Dec. 14, 1S69. 11. Ned C, b. May 23, 1S75.\\nTHE SANBORN FAMILY.\\nFOUR BRANCHES.\\nI. John Sanborn, born about 1600, married the daughter of\\nRev. Stephen Bachilor, and lived and died in Derbyshire, Eng-\\nland. His widow, with her father and three sons, came to this\\ncountry, landing at Boston in 1632, and eventually settling at\\nHampton. These three sons were\\n2. John, born in 1620. (See.) 3. William, b. in 1622.\\n4. Stephen, who undoubtedly returned to England with his grandfather Bachilor.\\n(2.);^; John, of whose children was Lieut. John, b. at Hampton,\\nwho had John, Jr., (4) b. in 1649; Deacon and Ensign\\nTristram, (5) b. at Kingston in 1683, (see) Abraham,\\n(6) b. April 2, 1717, and m. Abigail Clifford; John, (7)\\nb. Feb. 19, 1 74 1, (see.)\\n(5.) Deacon and Ensign Tristram Sanborn was appointed one\\nof the deacons of the church at Kingston, Dec. 26, 1737,\\nfilling the office forty years. He m. April 2, 171 1, Q)\\nMargaret Taylor, by whom he had six children. He was\\none of the grantees of Stevenstown, as was his son Tris-\\ntram, and grandson, Tristram, 3d.\\n(7.) John, b. Feb. 19, 1741, the 7th s.^eneration from John (i)\\nthe English ancestor, m. Elizabeth Sargent, of Scotch\\norigin. She had the true Scotch disposition and com", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0820.jp2"}, "797": {"fulltext": "GKNKALOGY AND niOGRAPHV 723\\nplexion, was a great worker and very saving. He died\\nApril 10, 1797.\\nS. Abigail, and 9, Aljiahani, b. June 29, 1759. See.)\\n10. Winthrop, b. Jan. 11, 1761. (See.) 11. Sarah. 12. Moses, b. Dec. 10, 17G6.\\n13. I .lizabetli, b. Jan. 5, 176S. 14. Jethro, b. Sept. iS, 1770.\\n(9.) Abraham, (Capt.) came here the spring he was sixteen\\nyears old, in 1775, remaining until fall, when he returned\\nto his parents at Sandown, continuing that way until he\\ngot his land in a suitable condition for tillage, when he\\npermanently located here, building a house on the site\\nnow occupied by David S. Prince. He. d. Nov. 25, 1843\\nm. (i) Lois Taylor; m. (2) Sarah Loverin, (see) who d.\\nAug. 29, 1859, aged 82. Children by first wife:\\n15. Reuben, m. and d. in Boston, Mass. i6. John, b. Aug. 30, 17S5. See.)\\n17. Sally, b. in Chester. 18. Polly, d. unm. 19. Eliza, m. in Salem d. there.\\n10. Moses, d. in Concord, unm.\\n21. Sewell, m. (i) Bean; removed to Bristol, married again and d. there.\\nChildren by second wife\\n22. Samuel, m. (i) Coll)y, at Plainfield; m. (2) Muzzey; d. at Plainfield.\\n23. Mehitable, m. John Sanborn, who d. she resides at English Prairie, III.\\n24. Lois, b. Oct. 22, 1S12 m. Oct 23, 1833, ^lazen Heath; he d. she d. Jan.\\n16, 1SS6.\\n25. Isaac, b. June 4, 1S14. See.)\\n26. Abraham S resided in the William Dunlap house. He m. (i) Mary E. Bean;\\nm. (2) Irenia Flanders. He d. in the army. Children i. Alfred, b.\\nMarch 9, 183S; resides at Penacook. 11. Martha Jane, b. March 7, 1S40;\\nm. (i) Scott Severance; m. (2) Asa Hoyt resides at Franklin, in. Nancy,\\nb. March 2, 1843; m. William Morse, iv. John F., b. Aug. 17, 1S45; m.\\nKate Huntoon. v. Marion, b. Oct. 16, 1847, and resides at Plainfield.\\nVI. Curtis W., d. in 1S69.\\n27. Jacob, d. unm. 28. Moses, d. unm. 29. Aaron, d. unm.\\n30. Benjamin F. See.)\\n(16.) John built a house on north range, nearly north of the\\nhomestead, which was destroyed by fire in 1N47. lie d.\\nAug. 10, 1857; m. I ^liza Shaw, who d. Aj^ril 16, 1847.\\nHarriet. 32. Harriet. ;^y .Moses C. See\\nLouisa, m. .Augustus Webster. 35. Caroline, m. William Heath.\\nMalaka J., m. Kufus Martin; d. in Andover.\\nJames W., b. Feb. 23, 1S22. (See.) 3S. Abraham, d young.\\nIra, resides in Ohio. 40. Kbenezer, d. at Great Falls. 41. Eliza.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0821.jp2"}, "798": {"fulltext": "724 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(25.) Isaac (Capt.) remains on the home farm. He has held\\na number of town offices and is among our wealthiest\\nfarmers m. April 19, 1833, Lavinia H., dau. of Hopkins\\nand Lavinia L. Flanders, of Warner, who was b. May\\n20, 1820, she d. Dec. 10, 1886.\\n42. Christina L., b. Oct. 5, 1841 m. in 1S62, David L. Brown and resides at\\nFranklin.\\n43. Lucy A., b. Nov. 20, 1843; ^^^Y 3 1S44.\\n44. Frank M., b. Aug. 20, 1847 d. Dec. 4, 1S63.\\n45. Nellie F., b. April 14, 1852; m. Jan. 20, 1876, George S. Scribner, (see who-\\nd. in Feb., 1883. Children: i. Irving, h. in Dec, 1876. 11. An infant\\ndaughter, b. and d. in Feb., 1SS3.\\n(30.) Benjamin Franklin m. Dec. 15, 1847, Nancy D. Flan-\\nders, of Warner, who v/as b. Sept. 4, 1822, and d. March\\nII, 1878.\\n46. Sarah E., b. May 2, 1850; m. Nov. 13, 1S71, James N. Clifford, and resides at\\nLynn, Mass.\\n47. Lavina A., b. June lo, 1851 m. Charles E. Watson. (See.)\\n48. Kate, b. Sept. 4, 1852; m. Oct. 20, 1S75, Parker J. Webber; resides at Lynn.\\n49. Augusta N., b. Dec. 5, 1S55; m. Nov. 25, 1S73, Alvin W. Saunders; resides at\\nPittsfield.\\n50. Isaac K., b. Aug. 27, 1857. 51. Emeline E., b. Jan. 11, 1SC4.\\n(33.) Moses C, (Capt.) was b. Feb. 8, 1816. He built the\\nhouse occupied by his son, Charles P. he d. May 28,\\n1875; m. (i) Nov. 18, 1841, Mary M., dau. of Stephen\\nPingrey, (see) who d. March 11, 1867; m. (2) Feb. 16,\\n1871, widow Sally S. (Aldrich) Ticknor, of Northfield.\\n52. Ann, b. Oct. 23, 1843; m. Sept. 11, 1S66, Levi Tucker. (See.)\\n53. Charles P., b. June i8, 1845; Sept. 23, 1875, Abbie A. Ticknor.\\n54. Mary A., b. Dec. 7, 1850; m. George Whitmore, see d. Nov. 14, 1869.\\n(37.) James Wallace built the house occupied by his widow;\\nhe d. Sept. 12, 1877; m. March i, 1849, Mary J. Shaw,\\nof Weare. She d. in 1888.\\nGeorge S., b. Nov. 2, 1849.\\nClara E., b. May 4, 1854; m. Jan. 26, 1S71, Warren C. Carter.\\nWallace B., b. Sept. 29, 1856. 58. Squire F., b. June 16, 175S.\\nGerrish S., b. Nov. 21, 1S59. 60. Warren R., b. April 16, 1862.\\nJohn F., b. Sept. 2, 18 62. Georgia E., b. May 2, 1868; d. younj\\nBertie F., b. May 10, 1870.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0822.jp2"}, "799": {"fulltext": "ISAAC SANBORN.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0823.jp2"}, "800": {"fulltext": "726 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\ning a strong temperance man his scruples would not\\nallow him to sell liquor, which in those days was the\\nmain support of a public house, and thinking that his\\nchildren might be ruined by it he concluded to give it\\nup. In 185 I the buildings were destroyed by fire, with\\nthe contents. He d. May 5, 1853 m. (i) Dorcas Nel-\\nson, who d. Feb. 20, 1834; m. (2) Sarah Pepperel Ayers,\\nof Canterbury. She was a lineal descendant of the Pep-\\nperells of Portsmouth, and d. Sept. 24, 1875, aged 83.\\nAll the children were by first wife\\n78. Dorothy m. John Hancock. See.)\\n79. Stephen, (Col.) m. (i) Dec. 29, 1817, Polly, dau. of Maj. Jabez Smith, by\\nwhom he had one child; m. (2) Jan. 24, 1826, Sarah, dau. of Lieut. Benja-\\nmin Pettengill, (see) she d. at St. Louis, Mo., June 6, 1840, leaving three\\nchildren; m. (3) Abby P., widow of Jacob True; he d. Dec. 17, 1876; she\\nresides at Bunker Hill, III.\\nSo. Benjamin, b. in 1800. See.)\\nSi. Abigail, m. May 17, 1827, Edward Wyatt d.\\n82. Rebecca, m. Willis Russell and resides at Quebec, Canada,\\n(80.) Benjamin remained on the farm, and in early life was a\\nsmart, enterprising man. He d. Sept. 20, 1849; m. Oct.\\n8, 1822, Ursula, dau. of Stephen George, (see); she d.\\nMarch 2, 1865, aged 64.\\n83. John, d. Aug. 15, 1S28. 84. An infant, d. Nov. 21, 1828.\\n85. Stephen G., d. Sept. 18, 1827.\\n86. Cynthia B., m. July 4, 1847, m. Morrill Dunlap and resides at Concord.\\n87. Amos S., d. at Lowell, Mass.; m.\\n88. Catherine, m. Harmon Piper and resides at Laconia.\\n89. Benjamin F., removed to California.\\n90. John, removed to Newport; m. d.\\n91. Ursula, m. Thomas Burleigh. See.)\\n92. Charlotte, m. (i) Frank Wadsworth m. (2) Cummings, a brother of e.x-\\nmayor George Cummings, of Concord m. (3) George Pressey and resides\\nat Newport.\\nTHIRD BRANCH.\\nJohn Sanborn, eldest child. of Tristram and Abigail (Blake)\\nSanborn, son of John and Mehitable (Fifield) Sanborn,\\nson of John and Judith (Coffin) Sanborn, son of Lieut.\\nJohn, son of John the ancestor, was b. Nov. 25, 1731", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0824.jp2"}, "801": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND CiOGKArilV 727\\nm. (i) Elizabeth (Margaret) Clifford, who d. in March,\\n1758; m. (2) Oct. 25, 1759, Abi^i^^ail (Elizabeth) Snow;\\nhe d. at Lee, in 1771. Children by first wife\\n93. Elisha, 1). Oct. 1755; d. Nov. 15, 1772.\\n94. Peter, b Oct. 20, 1757; d. in 175S.\\nChildren by second wife\\n95. Lydia, b. Dec. 29, 1761. 96. Lois, b. Feb. 14, 1764.\\nFOURTH HKANCII.\\nMoses Sanborn, probably a brother of the foregoing John, as\\nboth lived on the old road from Shaw s corner, served in\\nthe revolutionary war. The following may not comprise\\nall the children, as very little is known of either of these\\nfamilies\\n97. Abigail, m. Clay. 98. Sarah, m. John Barber. 99. Lydia, m. Colby.\\n100. Deliverance, m. Bean. loi. Mary, m. Mills.\\n102. I etsey, ni. George. 103. Mehitable, m.\\n1C4. Hannah, m. Samuel Tandy. See.)", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0825.jp2"}, "802": {"fulltext": "728 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE SAWYER FAMILY.\\nFIRST GENERATION.\\n(i) I.* William Sawyer (i) came from England, and, ac-\\ncording to the best tradition, from some part of Lincolnshire.\\nHe is first found in Salem, Mass., in 1640; afterwards in\\nWenham, Mass., in 1643, and the next year in Newbury, Mass.,\\nwhere he settled, raised his family, and died. He married\\nRuth whom he undoubtedly brought from his fatherland,\\nand had the following children, all born in Newbury\\n2-1. John, (2) b. Aug. 24, 1645; m. Sarah Poor of Newbury, f eb. iS, 1675, ^7\\nwhom he had seven children and d. in 16S9.\\n3-2. Samuel, (2) b. Nov. 22, 1646; m. Mary by whom he had eight children\\nand d. in 17 18.\\n4-3. Bitfield, (2). Few traces can be found of him and those go to show that\\nhe never married and lived to the advanced age of 97 years.\\n5-4. Ruth, (2) b. Sept. 16, 1648; m. Benjamin Morse, Aug. 27, 1667, and had\\nten children.\\n6-5. Mary, (2) b. Feb. 23, 1649; June 24, 1659.\\n7-6. Sarah, (2) b. Nov. 20, 1651 m. Joshua Brown, Jan. 15, 166S, and had\\nsix children.\\n8-7. Hannah, (2) b. Feb. 23, 1653; d. Jan. 20, 1659.\\n9-S. William, (2) b. Feb. i, 1655 m. Mary Emery, March 10, 1670, and had si-\\\\\\nchildren. (2) IL\\n10-9. Francis, {2) b. March 24, 1657 d. Feb. 7, 1659.\\nii-io. Mary, (2) b. July 29, 1660; m. John Emery, Jr., June 13, 16S3. She had\\nsix children and d. Nov. 3, 1699.\\n12-11. Stephen, (2) b. April 25, 1663. In 16S6 m. Ann Titcomb, b. June 7, 1666.\\nStephen d. June 8, 1753, aged 90.\\n13-12. Hannah, (2) b. Jan. 11, 1664; d. Aug. 28, 16S3.\\n14-13. Frances, b. Nov. 3, 1670.\\nThe Arabic figures in parentheses indicate the number of the Family, and the Roman figures that of\\nthe Generations in America. The first Arabic figure set against a child, marks the number of the indi-\\nvidual in this genealogy, and the second in his or her particular family. By aid of these, persons occu-\\npying more than one place may be traced forwards or backwards, and their various relations to others\\nascertained.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0826.jp2"}, "803": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 729\\nSECOND GENERATION.\\n(2) II. William Sawyer, (9-8) the eighth child of William,\\nSenior, was born in Newbury, Mass., Feb. i, 1655, and\\nthere settled. On the loth day of March, 1671, he mar-\\nried Mary Emery.* They had six children\\n1 5-1. Mary. {3) b. Jan. 20, 1672.\\n16-2. Samuel, (3) b. June 5, 1674.\\n^7-3- John, (3) b. March 15, 1676.\\n1S-4. Ruth, (3) b. Sept. 20, 1677.\\n19-5. Hannah, (3) b. Jan. 12, 1679.\\n20-6. Josiah, (3) b. Jan. 20, 1681. (3) IIL\\n*The Emery family is one of the oldest and most respectable among the early\\ncolonists of New England. Two brothers emigrated from Romsey, in England, in\\nthe ship James, to Newbury, in June, 1635. Anthony went from Newbury to Kit-\\ntery, and settled in that or some other part of Maine. John settled in Newbury.\\nHis eldest son, John, was born in P2ngland, in 1629. He married in Ipswich, Oct. 29,\\n1650, Mary Webster, the widow of John Webster. On the 24th day of June, 1652,\\nthe aforesaid Mary, the wife of William Sawyer, was born, being their first child.\\nTHIRD GENERATION.\\n(3) III. Josiah Sawyer, (20-6) who is handed down as sus-\\ntaining the ofifice of Captain, was born Jan. 20, 16S1, and\\nmarried They had five children\\n21-1. Josiah, (4) b. 170S; d. June 10, 1792, aged 84 years. (4) IV.\\n22-2. Moses, (4) Dr., b. 171 1 d. Aug. 25, 177S.\\n23-3. Terzah, (4) b. 171 5, d. 1782. She married David Ring\\nand had one or more children, all of whom d. in infancy.\\nFor her second husband she married Reuben French.\\nThey had no children and both died June 3, 1782, within\\ntwo hours of each other. They were both buried in one\\ngrave, in Southampton, N. II. He was fifty-two years\\nof age and his wife was sixty-nine. Although there was\\na difference of seventeen years in their ages, they lived\\nvery affectionately and happily together.\\n24-4. Gideon, (4) b. 17 19; d. Dec. 26, 1S06.\\n25-5. Hannah, (4) b. 1735; d. Sept. 24, 1759, unm.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0827.jp2"}, "804": {"fulltext": "730 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nFOURTH GENERATION.\\n(4) IV. JosiAH Sawyer, (21-1) the eldest son of Josiah, Sen-\\nior, was born in 1708 and married about 1735, to Mary\\nOrdway,* of Newbury, the daughter of Deacon John\\nOrdway, who was highly distinguished for the amiability\\nand sweetness of her disposition, her kind and courteous\\ndeportment, and her deep, devoted, personal piety. He\\nwas a farmer, and they resided in Newbury until 1746,\\nwhen he purchased a farm in Southampton, N. H., and\\nremoved to that town in April of that year. He d. June\\n10, 1792, aged 84 years. His children were\\n26-1. Josiah, (5). (5) V.\\n27-2. Israel, (5). (6) V.\\n2S-3. Miriam, (5) d. Sept. 4, 17S0, unm.\\n29-4. John, (5). (7) V.\\n30-5 Hannah, (5) b. 1746; d. Sept. 24, 1770, aged 24 years, unm.\\n31-6. Richard, (5). (S) V.\\n32-7. Matthias, (5). (9) V.\\n33-S. Moses, (5). (10) V.\\n34-9. Terzah, (5) b. 1758; d. Sept. 2, 1S32, aged 74 years, unm.\\n35-10. Molly, b. 1764; d. Sept. 21, 1789, aged 25 years, unm.\\n*The name of Ordway is a highly respectable one among the first settlers of\\nMassachusetts Bay. The family originated from James Ordway, who was born in\\nWales, in 1620, and either there or in England married Ann Emerj on the 23d\\nof November, 1648, and soon emigrated to and settled in Newbury. On the\\n17th of November, 1658, John, their fifth child, was born; who on the 5th Dec,\\n1 68 1, married Mary Godfrey. John, the son of the said John, Senior, and Mary,\\nwas born in 16S3, and died Aug. 25, 1773, aged 90 years. He is handed down on\\nthe record as a deacon in the Puritan Church and as a pious and highly respectable\\nman. On the loth Jan., 1713, they had born a son, Nehemiah, whom they educated\\nas a physician, and who became very eminent in his profession. He settled in\\nAmesbury, had a very extensive practice and accumulated a large fortune for that\\nday. By the medical annals, this Dr. Nehemiah Ordway is represented as one of\\nthe most skillful and successful practitioners in New England, of that time. He\\nwas worn out by the fatigues of his practice and died Jan. 13, 1779, aged 66 years.\\nHis sister Mary was born Nov. 2, 1714 and died Mar. 2, 1796, aged Si years and\\nfour months.\\nFIFTH GENERATION.\\n(5) V. Josiah Sawyer, (26-1) son of Josiah, (4) was born in\\n1737 and settled in Deerfield, N. H. He died June 19,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0828.jp2"}, "805": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND IHOGRAPHY 73 1\\ni8i2, aged 75 years. He was one of the original propri-\\netors of Nottingham and settled where Daniel Jones\\nnow (187S) lives, near the line between Deerfield and\\nNottingham. Me married a sister of Jeremiah Eastman,\\nwho surveyed the town of Deerfield. His children\\n36-1. Josiah, (6) removed to Ciiiford.\\n37-2. Jeremiah, (6). (ii) VI.\\n3S-3. David, (6) b. April 14, 1666. (12) VI.\\n39-4. John, (6) lived in Andover, where he died, leaving children.\\n40-5. Israel, (6) married and lived on the homestead. (13) VI.\\n(6) V. Israel Sawyer, (27-2) son of Josiah, (4) was b. 1739.\\nHe settled in Southampton, N. H., m. Miriam Clough,\\nand d. July 19, 1821, aged 82 years. Their children\\n41-1. Polly, (6). (14) VI.\\n42-3. Jemima, (6). (15) VI.\\n43-3- Sally. (6). (16) VI.\\n44-4. Terzah. (17) VI.\\n45-5. Lydia, (6).\\n46-6. Israel, (6). (iS) VI.\\n47-7. William, (6) b. June 20, 17S7; d. Jan. 29, iSii, unm.\\n(7) V. John Sawyer, (29-4) son of Josiah, (4) was born 1745\\nand settled in Salisbury, Mass. He was of a very slen-\\nder constitution and d. March 19, 1796, aged 51 years.\\nHe m. Abigail Shepherd, of Salisbury, Mass. Children\\n4S-1. John, (6). (19) VI.\\n49-2. Hannah, (6) died unmarried.\\n5C-3. Jeremiah, (6). (20) VI.\\n(8) V. Richard Sawyer, (31-6) son of Josiah, (4) was born\\nMay 31, 1748, and d. June 22, 18 18, aged 70 years. He\\nwas a farmer and lived in Corinth, Vt. He m. Elizabeth\\nClark. Their children\\n51-1\\n52-2\\n53~3\\n54-4\\n55-5\\n;6-^\\nHannah, (6) b. Oct. 3t, 1774. (21) VI.\\nRichard, (6) b. in Southampton, N. H., Dec. 14, 1776. (22) VI.\\nPlant, (6) b. in Southampton, N. H., April 19, 1779. (23) I.\\nBetsey, (6) b. Sept. i, 17S2. (24) VI.\\nSally, (6) b. Nov. 17, 17S5. (2;) VI.\\nAbigail, (6) b. Aug. 15, 1789. (26) VI.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0829.jp2"}, "806": {"fulltext": "732\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(9) V. Matthias Sawyer, (32-7) son of Josiah, (4) was born\\nMay 31, 1748, settled in Gilmanton, X. H., and d. June\\n22, 18 18. He married Eunice Batchelder, who d. Nov.\\nI, 1785. Their children\\n57-1. William, (6). (27) VI.\\n58-2. Jonathan, (6).\\n59-3. Mehitable, (6).\\n6c3-4. Mary, (6).\\n61-5. Sarah, (6). (28) VI.\\n62-6. Judith, (6).\\n63-7. Noah, (6). (29) VI.\\n64-8. Timothy, (6) unm.\\n65-9. Elizabeth, (6). {30) VI.\\n66-10. Israel, (6). (31) VI.\\n67-11. Eunice, (6) unm.\\nHOUSE OF DEACON MOSES SAWYER, SITUATED ON SOUTH ROAD\\nTWO MILES WEST OF THE SOUTH ROAD VILLAGE.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0830.jp2"}, "807": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 733\\n(lo) V. Moses Sawyer, (Deacon,) (33-8) the eighth son\\nof Josiah, (4) was b. at Southampton, N. H., Aug. 2, 1750. He\\nmarried Jan. 16, 1775, Ann Fitz, daughter of Richard Fitz of\\nthis town, and a great-great-grandaughter of Robert Fitz, who\\nwas the first Anglo-American ancestor of the American Fitzes\\nand an uncle of Sir John Fitz, a distinguished barrister of Lin-\\ncoln s Inn, London, who had a country-seat near Tavistock, in\\nDevonshire county, England, near a ford of the river Tavy,\\nnamed from its location Fitz Ford.*\\nRobert Fitz was of good social position and estate, but, find-\\ning his situation at home unpleasant on account of the Puritan\\nprinciples which he had espoused, he emigrated to America and\\nsettled at Salisbury, Mass., about 1640. He there became an\\ninfluential citizen and died in June, 1665. There is some reason\\nto believe that he was at Ipswich for a few years before 1640.\\nAnn Fitz was the youngest of fourteen children, twelve of\\nwhom lived to maturity. She was b. at Southampton, Jan. 20,\\n1750. Previous to his marriage Mr. Sawyer had purchased a\\ntract of land in Salisbury and had spent several seasons in\\nclearing a portion of it for a farm, and had also erected upon it\\na temporary dwelling.! He became a permanent resident of\\nthe town soon after his marriage. His name appears upon the\\nList of Training Soldiers of the Town of Salisbury, drawn\\nMay 27, 1776, being the fifty-first on a roll of seventy-five. All\\nhe possessed at this time, besides his partially cleared farm and\\nhis scanty herd, was youth, health, hope, an unwavering trust\\nin God, and a noble wife, in full sympathy with him in all his\\nviews and purposes.\\nAbout the close of the revolution, probably in 1782, J he\\nbuilt a more commodious house, which afterwards became his\\nresidence. This house still remains in his family, and is yet in\\nfair condition. Its heavy oak timbers have been only hardened\\nby time, while their external covering has suffered but little\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The scene of the novel Fit* Ford, by Mrs. Bray, is laid in this locality. For account of the\\nFitzes of Fitz Ford see Wescot s Devonshire, p. 446.\\nt This stood at the fork of the roads near his subsequent residence. See foregoing page.]\\nJMy authority for this date is his grandson, Isaac Newton Sawyer, of Salisbury. J. B. W.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0831.jp2"}, "808": {"fulltext": "734\\nHISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nfrom exposure. It is a good type of the house of a well-to-do\\nNew Hampshire farmer of a hundred years ago. With timely\\nrepairs it will easily outlast this century and the next.\\nFLOOR PLAN OF FIRST STORY.\\nThis house is of two low stories, with a length of thirty-eight\\nfeet and a breadth of thirty. Attached to it on the back side is\\na small ell, twenty feet long and eighteen wide, but one story.\\nThe main house is painted red, while the casings and corner\\nboards are white. The ridge-line of the roof is broken only by\\na short, bulky chimney, indicative of the comfort and good\\ncheer which abounded below and within. Facing the south,\\nthe front door is upon the back side, and opens upon a square\\nvestibule, which affords access to the two south rooms. The\\nother half of the first story is taken up by a long kitchen, dim-\\nly lighted by a single window in its northwest corner, and", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0832.jp2"}, "809": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 735\\nflanked at one end by a small bedroom and at the other by a\\npantry, the chamber stairs, and a side entry. The division of\\nthe second story, so far as made, corresponds very nearly with\\nthat of the first.\\nAs before intimated, the huge chimney occupies the central\\nportion of the house, and affords five spacious fire-places, the\\none in the kitchen being some five feet from jamb to jamb. In\\nearly days this rendered important aid to the good deacon in\\nheli)ing him dispose of the large quantities of useless wood\\nwhich his forest clearings produced. Before these blazing fires\\nfour generations of Sawyers have scorched their faces and\\nfrozen their backs.\\nIn this venerable home Deacon Moses Sawyer and his wife\\nlived happily together for a period of forty-six years. Here\\nthey reared their children here a modest competency, secured\\nby daily industry, was to them an abundance here they estab-\\nlished and maintained a family altar.\\nDeacon Sawyer was a member and an officer of the Salisbury\\nCongregational church for many years. When at length its\\npastor promulgated certain religious opinions, which he deemed\\nunsound, he withdrew from its membership and joined the\\nCorser Hill church, in Boscawen. The cause and manner of\\nthis action is clearly set forth in the following letter of Mrs.\\nHorace Eaton, of Palmyra, N. Y., to one of the compilers\\nPalmyra, April 1SS4.\\nJoseph H. Walker, Esq.\\nVou ask me to note down some things which my mother, .Mrs. Hetsey Sawyer)\\nWebster, used to tell me of her parents.\\nGrandmother Sawyer, (Anne Filz,) descended directly from Puritan stock.\\nHer ancestor, Robert Kitz, came over from England in 1631, only eleven years after\\nthe landing of the Pilgrims. The rights of primogeniture were taken from him by\\nhis father because he espoused the cause of the Puritans. Our grandmother pos-\\nsessed great strength of character. .She was a noble wife and mother. .She endured\\nwith heroism the trials incidental to pioneer life; for Salisbury, when she first made\\na home in it, was a frontier town. Much of the description of a virtuous woman,\\nin the 31st chapter of Proverbs, could truthfully have been applied to her.\\nHer husband, Deacon Moses .Sawyer, was a man of good common sense, in-\\ndustrious, energetic, devout. Knowing the right, he dared maintain it.\\nThe history of the Ecclesiastical Council held in .Salisbury, somewhere about\\nthe year 1S14, shows how careftilly the great string-pieces of the gospel system", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0833.jp2"}, "810": {"fulltext": "736 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nwere guarded by our fathers. They obeyed the injuntion of the Apostle, Mold\\nfast the form of sound words. The language of their solicitude was, If the\\nfoundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do.\\nOne Sabbath afternoon, after a communion season, at which some persons had\\nunited with the church, grandfather returned home silent and thoughtful. He\\ntalked low with grandmother. The Articles of Faith and the Covenant he knew\\nby heart, but as read that day by the minister. Rev. Thomas Worcester, brother\\nof Rev. Drs. Noah and Samuel Worcester,) they did not sound as aforetime.\\nHoping that peradventure it was an oversight, he awaited the next sacramental\\nservice. It came. He listened attentively. He tried to catch the name of the\\nsecond person of the adorable Trinity, Jesus Christ the Saviour, of the third per-\\nson, the Holy Ghost, the Blessed Comforter, but they did not fall upon his ears.\\nThere was a void, a vacuum, over which hovered a darkness that could be felt.\\nHe passed a sleepless night. The morning meal was left untasted. Saddling his\\nhorse, a ride of two miles and a half found him at the gate of the parsonage.\\nHe meekly inquired of the pastor if there had not been a change in the covenant\\nof the church, and received the brusque reply, I have altered the Covenant and\\nthe Articles of Faith, and shall do it again at my pleasure. Repeated interviews\\nbrought them no nearer together. The differences involved were radical. To our\\ngrandfather it seemed that tliey had taken away his Lord and he knew not where\\nthey had laid him. He then asked Mr. Worcester to unite with him in a Mutual\\nCouncil, which should discuss and settle the questions at issue. This Mr. Wor-\\ncester very peremptorily refused to do. Grandfather then proceeded to summon\\nan ex-parte council. This council were forbidden by Mr. Worcester to assemble\\nin the church at the South road. So they convened at the old red house, the home\\nof our grandparents. There were some forty delegates present, embracing the most\\nprominent clergymen and laymen of the Congregational church of New Hampshire\\nI can recall but few names Rev. Samuel Wood, D. D., of Boscawen, Rev. Abra.\\nham Bodwell, of Sanbornton, Rev. Dr. Moore, one of the professors of Dartmouth\\nCollege, Rev. Moses Bradford, of Francestown, Rev. Ephraim P. Bradford, of New\\nBoston, Rev. Walter Harris, D. D., of Dunbarton and Rev. Seth Payson, of Rindge,\\nfather of Rev. Edward Payson, D. D., of Portland, Me.\\nIn those primitive times, the entertainment of so large a number of guests for\\ntwo or three days together was no inconsiderable matter. The work of the house-\\nwife was not expedited by modern facilities; meats were roasted in the tin kitchen\\nin front of the huge, open fire-place, or in the immense brick oven, heated by wood.\\nThe vegetables were boiled in kettles suspended on the adjustable iron hooks of a\\ncrane. Tea and coffee were set to draw on little heaps of burning coals at\\nthe corner of the hearth. When their heat began to wane, the coals were renewed,\\nor fanned with the bellows. The necessary labor was systematically divided.\\nGrandmother s aged but deft fingers prepared the bread and the doughnuts,\\nwhile your mother and mine with Aunt .Sarah attended to the meats, pies and more\\nfancy dishes, as well as to the general ordering of the household. It was the year\\nbefore my mother s marriage, rendering the situation a little complicated, as the\\nWebster s were all devoted friends of Mr. Worcester.\\nThe august sessions were held in the west room. The tall eight-day wooden\\nclock ticked in the corner. Cynthia, empress of the night, revolved at its head.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0834.jp2"}, "811": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 737\\nThere was always a simper on her face, which upon this occasion must have seemed\\nslightly irreverent. I .rass candle-sticks, brightly polished, held the tallow candles,\\nwhich on mantel-board and stand, lighted the divines at their evening con-\\nferences.\\nThe bed was removed from the old bed-room, where six of the eight children\\nhad been born, and that apartment was entirely devoted to the liquors for the use\\nof the clerical company. Our grandfather had previously provided a liberal sup-\\nply of these at Concord. By the side of the bottles and decanters were bowls of\\nwhite sugar broken off from tall loaves, encased in wrappers of Tyrian purple hue.\\nWater to dilute the port wine. New England and Jamaica rum, Holland gin and\\nCognac brandy, was brought from the old oaken bucket, dripping with coolness,\\nand drawn up by the long arm of the well-sweep. One by one, as need required,\\nthese fathers and brethren stole away from creeds and canons and comforted the\\ninner man with these beverages. My mother noticed that the intervals of refresh-\\nment were much shorter with some than with others.\\nBut those days when the true faith was confronted by Arianism and Arminian-\\nism, under the shadow of Kearsarge, ended at last. The council reported that\\nerrors fatal to the souls of men were rife in the Salisbury church, and they\\ngave Mr. and Mrs. Sawyer and several others letters of recommendation to evan-\\ngelical churches.\\nIt was hard for the old deacon to leave his church-home, where on communion\\nSabbaths he had lined the hymns and distributed the sacred elements for a long\\nterm of years. But he had his reward. Many of his posterity have been sus-\\ntained in life and in death by the great doctrines of grace he then and there de-\\nfended. His oldest son, who bore his name, preached the gospel with faithfulness\\nand success for twenty-four years in Henniker, N. H. His grandaughter, Mrs.\\nJessie Lockwood, told the story of the cross to the Creeks and Choctaws of Ar-\\nkansas. And recompense came a half century or more after his death, when his\\ngreat grandson, Rev. Frank T. Bayley, was ordained in Canandaigua, N. V., over\\na church distinguished for its talent and benevolence, where men in the nation s\\ncabinet worshiped. Youthful like Timothy, eloquent like Apollos, with modesty,\\nclearness and ability, he answered the questions of the council, and .spoke words\\nthat gloriously exalted the divinity and the atoning sacrifice of Jesus the Christ.\\nIt was then I blessed God for the heroic steadfastness of our ancestor, Deacon\\nMoses Sawyer, of Salisbury, X. H. Mrs. Hor.\\\\ce Eaton.\\nHow a man, with a fair-sized Salisbury farm as his only re-\\nsource, could pay his full share of the state, county and town\\ntaxes, support in comfort a large family, send two of his sons\\nto Dartmouth College, give a good English education to his\\nother children, and at his death leave a respectable estate to\\nhis heirs at law, is doubtless a mystery to any person unac-\\nquainted with the ordinary farm life of New England seventy\\nyears ago. Every one in Deacon Sawyer s household earned\\nhis or her living day by day. The family raised its own food\\n47", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0835.jp2"}, "812": {"fulltext": "738 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nand produced most of its own clothing. God-fearing, self-re-\\nspecting, healthy, industrious, level-headed, they could not fail\\nto succeed.\\nDeacon Sawyer died of lung fever, April 29, 1821. Mrs.\\nSawyer survived him about fifteen years and died October 4,\\n1836. Their children\\n6S-1. Moses, (6) b. March II, 1776. {32) VI.\\n69-2. Isaac Fitz, (6) b. March 9, 177S. (}2) VI.\\n70-3. Polly, (6) b. May 30, 1780. (34) VI.\\n71-4. Nathaniel, (6) b. March 13, 17S2; d. March 22, 17S3.\\n72-5. Nathaniel, (6) b. April 10, 1784. (35) VI.\\n73-6. Ann, (6) b. June 21, 1786. (36) VI.\\n74-7. Sarah, (6) b. June 5, 1789. (37) VI.\\n75-S. Betsey, (6) b. May 17, i793- (jS) VI.\\nSIXTH GENERATION.\\n(11) VI. Jeremiah Sawver, (37-2) son of Josiah, (5) married\\nMiss Purrington, of Brentwood, and removed to Gil-\\nmanton, where he died. His children\\n76-1. John, (7).\\n77-2. Jeremiah, (7) who served in the war of the revolution.\\n78-3. James, (7).\\n79-4. David, (7).\\n80-5. Nancy, (7).\\n81-6. Miriam, (7).\\nS2-7. Lydia, (7) m. Jones, of Epping, N. H.\\n(12) VI. David Sawyer, (38-3) son of Josiah, (5) b. April 14,\\n1766, and settled in Deerfield, N. H., but subsequently\\nremoved to Lee, N. H., where he d. Aug. 21, 1845, aged\\n80 years m. ist, Hannah Palmer. Children:\\n83-1. David, (7). (39) VII.\\n84-2. Josiah, (7). (40) VII.\\n85-3. John, (7) b. March 16, 1801. (41) VII.\\n86-4. Hannah, (7) m. John Porter.\\n87-5. Luella, (7) m. Conklin, of Exeter.\\nm. 2d, Mary, sister of Deacon Levi Knowles, of North-\\nwood, N. H. Child\\nSS-6. Jefferson, (7). (42) VII.\\nm. 3d, Mrs. Susan Chesley, widow of Thomas Chesley,\\nof Durham, N. H.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0836.jp2"}, "813": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 739\\n{13) VI. Israel Sawyer, (40-5) son of Josiah, (5) m. and\\nlived on the homestead. Children\\n89-1\\n9C^2\\n9 -3\\n92-4\\n93-5\\nCoffin, (7).\\nEbenezer, (7).\\nPhebe, (7).\\nTristram, (7).\\nJohn, (7).\\n{14) VI. Polly Sawyer, (41-1) daughter of Israel, (5) married\\nSamuel Currier. Children\\n94-1. Reuben, (7) unm.\\n95-2. Samuel, (7) unm.\\n96-3. Polly, (7) m. Jacob Rowe, of Plainfield, N. II. Children, ist, Mary Ann,\\n(S) 2d, William, (8).\\n(15) VI. Jemima Sawyer, {42-2) dau. of Israel, (5) m. Isaiah\\nPalmer, Esq., of Southampton, N. H. Children\\n97-1. Israel, (7) died young.\\n9S-2. John, (7). (43) VII.\\n(16) VI. Sally Sawyer, (43-3) daughter of Israel, (5) mar-\\nried Thomas Flanders, of Cornville, Me. Children\\n99-1. Parker, (7) ni. Ann Blaisdell.\\n100-2. Salina, (7) m. John McClure.\\n101-3. Lydia, (7) m. Greeley.\\n102-4. Thomas, (7).\\n103-5. William, (7).\\n(17) VI. Terzah Sawyer, (44-4) dau. of Israel, (5) m. Parker\\nFlanders, of Cornville, Me. Children\\n104-1. Parker, (7).\\n105-2. William, (7).\\n106-3. Washington, (7).\\n107-4. Kliza, (7)-\\nloS-s. F:ilen, (7).\\n(18) VI. Israel Sawyer, (46-6) son of Josiah, (5) married\\nMary Galishan. Children\\n109-1\\n110-2\\niit-3,\\n1 1 2-4\\n3-5\\n1 1 4-6\\nMary, (7) m. Adams Gale, of Amesbury, Mass.\\nRebecca, (7.)\\nJacob, (7) died young.\\nCaroline W., (7).\\nAbba, (7).\\nHannah, (7) m. Kzekiel Merrill. Children: Israel Sawyer, (8).", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0837.jp2"}, "814": {"fulltext": "740 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(19) VI. John Sawyer, (48-1) son of John, (5) m. Hannah\\nPerkins. Child\\n115-1. John, (7) m. Ann Perkins. Children: ist, Ann, (7) 2d, Hannah, (7).\\n(20) VI. Jeremiah Sawyer, (50-3) son of John, (5) m. Betsey\\nFitz. Children\\n116-1. Enoch, (7) m. Apphia Kelley. Children ist, Susan, (S) 2d, Enoch, (8).\\n1 17-2. Moses Judkins, (7) unm.\\n11S-3. Elizabeth, (7) unm.\\n1 19-4. Josiah, (7) m. Abba Page. Children: ist, Albert, (8) 2d, Sarah A., (8).\\n120-5. Sarah, (7). (44) VII.\\n121-6. Jeremiah Hayden, Dr., (7) Newburyport m. Lydia Olive Davis.\\n(21) VI. Hannah Sawyer, (51-1) daughter of Richard, (5) b.\\nOct, 31, 1774; d. Aug. 18, 1817; m. Ezekiel Courier, of\\nHampstead, N. H., a Methodist minister, who died in\\nOrange, Vt., in 1851. Children:\\n122-1. John, (7) farmer, b. 1796. (45) VII.\\n123-2. Hannah, (7) b, 179S. (46) VII.\\n124-3. Betsey, (7) b. Sept. 14, 1799, unm.\\n125-4. Nancy, (7) b. Aug. 31, 1801. (47) VII.\\n126-5. Richard Sawyer, (7) b. June 22, 18\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (48) VII.\\n127-6. Lucinda, (7) b. March 17, 1805. (49) VII.\\n128-7. Sabin, (7) b. March 29, 1807. (50) VII.\\n129-8. Susan, (7) b. January, 1809. {51) VII.\\n130-9. Newell, (7) b. in 181 1 died young.\\n131-10. Philura, (7) b. in 1S13; died young.\\n132-11. James Monroe, (7) b. July 28, 1817. (52) VII.\\n(22) VI. Richard Sawyer, (52-2) son of Richard, (5) farmer,.\\nb. at Southampton, N. H., Dec. 14, 1776; m. Anna Poor,\\ndau. of Lieut. David Poor, of Hampstead, N. H., b. June\\n9, 1777. Children\\n133-1. Betsey, (7) b. Sept. 26, iSoo; d. at Salisbury, N. H., of brain fever, July\\n26, 1835.\\n134-2. Atalus, farmer, b. Jan. 17, 1804; d. July 26, 1S50.\\n135-3. Brydone, (7) b. June 27, 1805; d. April 10, 1831 stone cutter.\\n136-4. Moreau, (7) cabinet maker, b. Feb. 23, 1809; d. of consumption Oct. 29, 1828.\\n137-5- Mayo Greenleaf, (7) farmer, b. Dec. 11, 1810; d. of consumption Aug. 13,\\n1845; m. Caroline Eastman, of Haverhill, N. H. Children: ist, Rich-\\nardson, (8) 2d, Brydone, (8).\\n138-6. Mary Poor, (7) b. Feb. 15, 1S14; d. of dropsy June 5, 1S48 m. Alfred\\nLathrop, farmer, of Vershire, Vt.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0838.jp2"}, "815": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 74I\\n139-7. Anna, (7) b. Nov. 2, 1815; d. of typhus fever Nov. zt, 1842; m. Erastus\\nDickinson, farmer, Washington, Vt. Child: Joseph Leonard, (8).\\ni.jo-S. Susan, (7) b. April 5, 1S17 m. John Bragg, farmer, of Thetford, Vt. Chil-\\ndren 1st, Dana, (8) 2d, John, (8) 3d, Albert, (8).\\n141-9. Sarah G., (7) b. Jan. 12, 1819, unm.\\n142-10. Caroline, (7) b. Feb. 11, 1S21, unm.\\n(23) VI. Plant Sawyer, (53-3) son of Richard, (5) farmer, b.\\nin Southampton, N. H., April 19, 1779; d. Feb. 28, 1840,\\nof dropsy m. Ruth Eastman, of Coventry, now Benton,\\nN. H., b. July 25, 1785. Children\\n143-1. Ira, (7) b. Nov. 6, 1808 d. Nov. 26, 1823.\\n144-2. Rosilla, (7) b. Aug. 25, iSio; m. Horace Richardson, farmer, of Corinth,\\nVt. Children, ist, Fanny M., (8) 2d, Orin, (8).\\n145-3- Otis, (7) b. Feb. 17, 1813. (53) VH.\\n146-4. Alvira, (7) b. March 3, 1815; d. March 7, 1817.\\n147-5. Dana, (7) b. Aug. 14, 1817; m. Sally C. Sanborn, b. in February, 181S.\\nChildren 1st, Emma V., (8) 2d, Henry T., (8).\\n148-6. Almira, (7) b. Sept. 13, 1819. (54) VH.\\n149-7. Emeline, (7) b. Jan. 9, 1822; m. Hilas Dickey, mason, Manchester, N. H.\\nChild Edwin, (S) died young.\\n150-8. Lucinda, (7) b. Sept. 24, 1826; m, Amos P. Collins, farmer. Children\\n1st, Charles E., (8) died young; 2d, Carlos C, (8).\\n151-9. Moreau, (7) b. June 14, 1829, unm; is a mason in Missouri.\\n(24) VI. Betsey Sawyer, (54-4) dau. of Richard, (5) b. Sept.\\nI, 1782; m. David Poor, farmer, Hampstead, N. H., b.\\nSept. 5, 1773. Children\\n1 52-1. Plant Sawyer, (7) b. Jan. iS, 1S03; d. June 27, 1846.\\n153-2. Seneca, (7) b. Nov. iS, 1807; d. Feb. 14, 1S09.\\n154-3. Christina, {7) b. June 13, 1811 m. Samuel C. Clement, farmer. Children\\n1st, Orson C, (8) 2d, Martin Van Buren, (SK\\n(25) VI. Sally Sawyer, (55-5) dau. of Richard, (5) b. Nov.\\n17, 1785; d. 1846; ni. John Clifford. Children:\\nIS5-I\\n156-2\\n1 57-3\\n158-4\\n59-5\\n160-6,\\nPeter Lorenzo, (7).\\nClark, (7).\\nEdwin, (7).\\nPlant, (7).\\nRichard, (7).\\nSally, (7).", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0839.jp2"}, "816": {"fulltext": "742 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(26) VI. Abigail Sawyer, (56-6) dau. of Richard, (5) b. Aug.\\n15, 1789; m. Stephen Merrill, farmer, Corinth, Vt., b.\\nJuly 10, 1776, and d. July 30, 1842. Child\\n161-1. Louisa M., (7) b. Dec. 6, 1S31.\\n{27) VI. William Sawyer, (57-1) son of Matthias, (5) mar-\\nried Polly Lane. Children\\n162-1. Thomas, (7).\\n163-2. William, (7). (55) VII.\\n(28) VI. Sarah Sawyer, (61-5) dau. of Matthias, (5) married\\nStephen Marvin. Children\\n164-1. George, (7).\\n165-2. Franklin, (7).\\n166-3. Mary F., (7).\\n(29) VI. Noah Sawyer, (63-7) son of Matthias, (5) married\\nAdaline Flanders, of Alton, N. H. Child\\n167-1. Leander, (7).\\n(30) VI. Elizabeth Sawyer, (65-9) dau. of Matthias, (5) m.\\nAlfred Jacobs, of Gilmanton, N. H. Children\\n1 68-1. Sarah E., (7).\\n169-2. Charles T., (7).\\n170-3. Mary Ann, (7).\\n(31) VI. Israel Sawyer, (66-10) son of Matthias, (5) married\\nBetsey Small, of Guilford, N. H. Children\\n171-1. Sarah, (7).\\n172-2. Israel, (7) married Lucinda Colman.\\n(32) VI. Moses Sawyer, Rev., (68-1) son of Moses, (5) was\\nborn at Southampton, N. H., March 11, 1776. Gradu-\\nated at Dartmouth College in 1796 and took one of\\nthe first honors of his class. He read divinity with Rev.\\nAsa Burton, D. D., of Thetford, Vt., and was pastor of\\nthe second Congregational church in Henniker, N. H.,\\nfrom May 26, 1802, to March 29, 1826. In his History of\\nHenniker, Mr. L. W. Cogswell says of him: Through\\nhis straightforward manner of conduct, his even disposi-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0840.jp2"}, "817": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 743\\ntion, amiability and urbanity, always having a pleasant\\nword for all with whom he came in contact, he became\\ncjuite a favorite with the people of the town and much\\nregret was felt at parting with him. He lived in the\\nhouse that he built, on the site occupied now by the res-\\nidence of Mr. Moore. He was a valuable citizen, always\\ntaking a deep interest in everything pertaining to the\\ninterest of the town. He was subsequently settled\\nover the Congregational church in Scarborough, Me.,\\nand afterwards for brief periods over churches in Glou-\\ncester, Mass., and Saugus of the same state. His health\\nfailing, he relinquished preaching and retired, first to\\nBoscawen, N. H., for a time, and then to Ipswich, Mass.,\\nwhere he died of paralysis, Aug. 26, 1847. He married,\\nJuly 7, 1802, Miss Frances Kimball, daughter of Capt.\\nPeter Kimball, of Boscawen, who was b. Aug. 9, 1776,\\nand d. at Medford, Mass., May 13, 1854. Children\\n173-1. Caroline, b. May 2S, 1S04. (56) VII.\\n174-2. Livonia, b. May iS, 1S06. (57) VII.\\n175-3. Cassandra, b. June 24, 1S09. (58) VII.\\n176-4. Moses Kimball, b. July 7, 1S12. (59) VII.\\n{33) VI. Isaac Fitz Sawyer, (69-2) son of Moses, (5) was b.\\nat Southampton, N. H., March 9, 1778. When a child\\nhe went to Salisbury, where as a farmer he passed his\\nsubsequent life upon his paternal farm. He married,\\n1st, Rebecca Pettengill, dau. of Capt. David Pettengill,\\nwho died March 9, 1834. Children\\n177-1\\n178-2\\n179-3\\n1S0-4\\niSi-5\\n1S2-6\\n183-7\\n1S4-8\\nKS5-9\\nHannah, (7) b. Jan. i, iSoi. (60) VII.\\nFanny, (7) b. May i, 1803. (6i) VIL\\nDavid. (7), b. in January, 1S06; d. at Concord, April 27, 1S27, unni.\\nAmanda Malvina, (7) b. in February, 1S09. (62) VII.\\nIsaac Newton, (7) b. April 5, iSn. (63) VII.\\nMoses, (7) b. Sept. 14, 1S13; d. suddenly of heart disease Nov. 4, 1S41, and\\nwas a young man of much promise unm.\\nNathaniel, (7) b. Sept. 14, 1S15. (64) VII.\\nDaniel Fitz, (7) b. Feb. 29, 1820. (65) VII.\\nFrancis Brown, (7) b. April 2, 1S23. (66) VII.\\nMr. Sawyer m. 2d, Mehitable Colby, of Bradford, N. H.,\\nwho d. April 23, 1847, aged 55 years. He was a man of", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0841.jp2"}, "818": {"fulltext": "744 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\ngreat industry, sound judgment and high integrity. He\\ndischarged from time to time various public trusts, with\\ngreat fidelity. Died Feb. i, 1S46.\\n(34) VI. Polly Sawyer, (70-3) dau. of Moses, (5) was born\\nat Salisbury, May 30, 1780. She married Lieut. David\\nPettengill, son of Capt. David Pettengill, of Salisbury,\\nwho d. Dec. 29, 1829. He was a farmer and lived in the\\nthree-storied brick house in Centre Road Village. She\\ndied Nov. i, 1856. Children\\n1S6-1. Betsey, (7) b. in November, 1799. (67) VIL\\n187-2. Malinda, (7) b. in August, iSoi d. Feb. 2, 1S74. She married ist. Elder\\nHiram Stevens; 2d, Capt. Daniel Miller, qf Salisbury.\\n1S8-3. Polly, (7) b. in September, 1S03. (68) VII.\\n189-4. John Milton, (7) b. in June, 1S06. (69) VII.\\n(35) VI. Nathaniel Sawyier, (72-5) the fourth son of Dea.\\nMoses and Ann Fitz Sawyer, was born in Salisbury, April 10,\\n1784, at the family homestead, now in possession of the heirs of\\nDea. Nathaniel Sawyer. His daughter, Mrs. Henry O. Hotch-\\nkiss, of New Haven, Conn., says of him\\nIn the years succeeding the revolution women were formed\\nin sterner mould than at the present day, and the mother of\\nthat family was a notable example of energy and ability. The\\nrugged soil of the farm required constant labor to render it pro-\\nductive, and it was from this source that the wants of a grow-\\ning family were to be met. Order, industry and economy ruled\\nin this household, and, while training her children in these\\nrespects, Mrs. Sawyer also brought them up in the fear and\\nadmonition of the Lord, thus sowing early the seeds of useful-\\nness and power. The educational advantages of Salisbury were\\nmostly limited to the schools kept in winter, but generally\\nclosed in summer. The eldest son, Moses, and the youngest,\\nNathaniel, the subject of this sketch, early developing a taste\\nfor study, were placed at different times under the care of Rev.\\nDr. Samuel Wood, an eminent Congregational clergyman, of\\nBoscawen, who received boys into his family and fitted them\\nfor Dartmouth College. Aside from the mental training there", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0842.jp2"}, "819": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 745\\nreceived, the pupils were instructed in the first principles of\\nNew England theology.\\nWhile under the care of Dr. Wood, Mr. Sawyier s religious\\nimpressions were developed and the fervent piety that pervaded\\nhis after life and character may be traced back to this period.\\nHis habit of daily reading and studying the scriptures, his strict\\nobservance of the Sabbath, his lofty integrity and strictness of\\nmorals, were due in a great measure to the teachings of this\\nworthy divine.\\nMr. Sawyier graduated at Dartmouth College in 1805, and\\ncommenced the study of law in the office of Judge Samuel\\nGreen, of Concord, and completed the course two years after in\\nthe office of Joseph Story, of Salem, Mass. He was admitted\\nto the Massachusetts bar March 11, 181 1, and to practice in\\nthe Circuit Court of the United States Oct. 15, 1812. He first\\nlocated in Newburyport, but removed soon after to Boston. In\\n1813 he left with two or three others for Le.\\\\ington, Kentucky,\\nwhere they remained. He settled at Frankfort in the same\\nstate, and there continued his professional labors for eight\\nyears.\\nHis practice was largely confined to land suits and claims,\\nand he was often employed by soldiers to obtain patents and\\nwarrants from the government. At that early day it was cus-\\ntomary for lawyers to receive portions of the lands for fees,\\nupon the adjustment of the claims or the location and survey\\nof the lands. In this way Mr. Sawyier became the owner of\\nlarge tracts in what was known as the Virginia Military Dis-\\ntrict of Ohio, lying between the Scioto and Miami rivers.\\nOn the 1 2th of September, 1821, Mr. Sawyier was married\\nto Mrs. Pamela Anderson Bacon, widow of Col. Edward Bacon,\\nan officer in the war of 18 12. The following October he re-\\nmoved to Chillicothe, Ohio, which was his residence until 1S39.\\nThese last eighteen years cover a period of active, laborious,\\nprofessional life. At its expiration the successful results of\\nthis care and diligence enabled him to retire from the active\\nduties of his profession. Desiring the advantages of a city life,\\nhe removed to Cincinnati, where he ever after resided, and", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0843.jp2"}, "820": {"fulltext": "746 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\ndied, after a protracted illness, on the third day of October,\\n1853-\\nIn politics Mr. Savvyier was a whig and, later on, an ardent\\nfree soiler. His hatred of human slavery dated from the time\\nof his residence in Kentucky, and he stood by his convictions\\nwith the steadfastness of his Puritan ancestry. He was a sin-\\ncere friend and supporter of Daniel Webster. Connected by\\nblood on the mother s side, playmates in boyhood and compan-\\nions in college, although not classmates, they continued their\\nfriendship by personal intercourse and by correspondence until\\nMr. Webster died.*\\n^DANIEL WEBSTER S AUNT RUTH.\\n[Taken in substance from the recollections of Mrs. Betsey Webster, who died at Palmyra, N. Y., in\\n1880, aged 87 years.]\\nDaniel Webster was the son of Ebenezer Webster by his second wife, Abigail\\nEastman. This second wooing came about on this wise. For a long time Capt.\\nEbenezer Webster, the bereaved husband, took upon himself the double respon-\\nsibility which the death of his first wife had imposed. But between the labors\\nof a frontier farm and the oversight of his family, matters went from bad to worse.\\nOne day everything about the house seemed to rush to a climax of confusion.\\nThe children frollicked and rollicked; the quick-witted Joe tapped the cask of me-\\ntheglin in the cellar, and his young brain was fired twas destruction before and\\nsorrow behind. Capt. Webster had calmly and boldly confronted the enemy at\\nTiconderoga and Crown Point, at White Plains and Bennington. But now he was\\nbaffled, conquered. With his minute-men he had guarded Gen. Washington s per-\\nson and camp on Dorchester Heights and at West Point. But his own camp he\\ncould neither guard nor regulate.\\nThe distracted father silently removed his hat from the peg, walked out the\\ndoor and took the cross-road southward to the house of his brother, William Web-\\nster, whose farm joined his own. It was situated one-third of the way up the east-\\nern slope of Searles Hill, the highest eminence save Kearsarge in the town of Salis-\\nbury, New Hampshire. Capt. Webster had often been cheered by the sympathy\\nand advice of Aunt Ruth, as the children called her, his brother William s wife.\\nShe was to him a true sister. He entered the door, the picture of despondency.\\nThe worthy matron sat bolt upright spinning fia.x. At the sight of that dejected\\nface, she shoved aside the little wheel and placed a high-backed kitchen chair for\\nher brother. Her first salutation was, Eben, what is the trouble He prefaced\\na graphic recital of the horrors of his domestic condition with these words:\\nEverything, Ruth is going heads and hauls at home. I can t stand it any longer.\\nPity marked the lines of her face as she listened. When he had finished she\\ndid not at once reply, but gazed solemnly with a faraway look out of the south", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0844.jp2"}, "821": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 747\\nMr. Sawyier was also a staunch advocate of education. In\\nthe early settlement of Ohio, he felt that the first step in the\\nlaying out of a town, after the location of the church, was to\\nestablish that of the schoolhouse. He not only gave land for\\nthis purpose, but he used his influence to bring teachers from\\nhis loved New England.\\nwindow. Who shall say that her thoughts at that moment were not directed by a\\ndivine wisdom Suddenly a light kindled in her eye which shot a ray of hope\\ninto his. She drew nearer to him, laid her hand upon his arm, and with a face\\nglowing with earnestness and inspiration, said, Eben, have you never heard of\\nNabby Eastman Her mother was Jerusha Fitz, and she is a cousin of Deacon\\nMoses Sawyer s wife, who was Anna Fitz. She is a tailoress by trade, and knows\\nwhat life i.s. In every respect she is a most excellent person. She is up from\\ndown below, visiting her relatives here. Then with emphasis she added, Eben,\\nit s my opinion that Nabby P^astman will make you a good wife, and your children\\na good mother. Go home, put on your Sunday suit, and ride over and see Nabby.\\nThe broad-shouldered, dark-eyed man, as he left the house saw not the valley\\nof the Merrimack, stretching away in its loveliness for miles to the north and the\\nsouth. With quickened step he walked around the high ledge and followed the\\nroad shaded by the tall, primeval pines, that seemed to whisper to him of a new\\nlove and the joys of a restored home. He obeyed to the letter the directions given\\nhim by the sibyl. Like Boaz of old, he did not long rest, but reasoned that if\\nit were well done when tis done, then twere well it were done quickly. There\\nwas no undue precipitation, but before many moons had wa.\\\\ed and waned, the\\nmanly, military figure of Capt. Webster could have been seen on his horse with Miss\\nEastman seated on a pillion behind him on their way to the minister s to be mar-\\nried. The residence of the parson was hard by the meeting-house, near the summit\\nof Searles Hill for in those days the mountain of the Lord s house was estab-\\nlished in the top of the mountains, and was exalted above the hills, and all the peo-\\nple flowed unto it.\\nThe ceremony over, down from the mountain crown, where a ladder would\\nhave been an improvement, they safely wended their way to the home where they\\nwere to begin anew their journey and their life. As they arrived at the lowly house,\\nthe little ones were playing around the banking. The tender father introduced\\nthe new mother in these simple words, so much like the style of his gifted son\u00c2\u00bb\\nThese, A abby, are my children.\\nAunt Ruth made no mistake in her counsel to her widowed brother in his per-\\nplexity. The children of Ebenezer Webster s first wife arose up and called her\\nblessed; her husband also, and he praised her. Her features wore the expression\\nof strength rather than beauty. The heavy, shaggy eyebrows of her youngest son,\\nDaniel, were the transcript of the mother. Her mind was strong, her faith strong.\\nAt the close of life, her peace in believing was so deep and unrutfled that it forbade\\necstasy. She survived her husband ten years, and died at the residence of her son,\\nEzekiel Webster, in Boscawen, N. H., in iSi6, aged seventy-six years. .^V. Y. Evan\\ngelist, March iSSj.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0845.jp2"}, "822": {"fulltext": "74S HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nOne of his marked characteristics was his firm adherence\\nto what in his judgment was right. In his love for civil and\\nreligious liberty he was a worthy descendant of his Puritan\\nancestors, whose memory he venerated. At the meetings of\\nthe New England Society, at Cincinnati, he would picture with\\nglowing words the lives and deeds of those who, for conscience\\nsake, braved the dangers of the sea, the perils and privations of\\nthe wilderness, and laid deep and strong the foundations of our\\nliberties.\\nHe was a man of marked presence, commanding figure, and\\npossessed of regular features, a fair, florid complexion and blue\\neyes. His abundant brown hair became silvery white in his\\nlater life and enhanced the dignity of his appearance. Mrs.\\nSawyier lived, in the full enjoyment of all her faculties, until\\nMarch, 1888, and died at the advanced age of ninety-six years.\\nHis children, all born in Chillicothe, are\\n190-1. Mary Ann Fitz, (7) b. Dec. 27, 1S22. (70) VII.\\n191-2. DeWitt Clinton, (7) b. July 25, 1825. (71) VII.\\n192-3. Sally Frances, (7) b. Dec. 29, 1829. (72) VII.\\n193-4. Nathaniel I-saac, (7) b. Oct. 29, 1832. (73) VII.\\n(36) VI. Ann Sawyer, (73-6) dau. of Moses, {5) was b. June\\n21, 1786. She was educated at Salisbury Academy and\\nwas for several years a teacher. She was married, March\\n22, 1820, by Rev. Ebenezer Price, to Capt. Joseph\\nWalker, of Concord, where she died Dec. 25, 1824. Her\\nchildren\\n194-1. Joseph Burbeen, (7) b. June 12, 1822. (74) VII.\\n195-2. Anna Burbeen, (7) b. Dec. 24, 1S24 d. Jan. 5, 1825.\\n{37) VI. Sarah Sawyer, (74-7) daughter of Moses, (5) born\\nJune 5, 1789; m. Sewell Fifield, of Salisbury, a cabinet\\nmaker.\\n(38) VI. Betsey Sawyer, (75-8) dau. of Moses, (5) was b.\\nMay 17, 1793. She m. Nov. i, 1815, Nathaniel Webster,\\na merchant, of Boscawen Plain, who was b. Feb. 15, 1781,\\nand died Aug. 8, 1828. Children\\n196-1. Betsey Sawyer, (7) b. Feb. 20, 1S17; d. Sept. 8, 1S25.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0846.jp2"}, "823": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 749\\n197-2. Nathaniel Sawyer, (7) b. May II, iStS. (75) VII.\\n19S-3. William, (7) b. Feb. 20, 1821 d. Aug. 8, 1826.\\n199-4. Ann Ruth, (7) b. Nov. 26, 1S23. (76) VII.\\nImmediately after her marriage Mrs. Webster removed\\nto Boscawen, where she lived until 1862, when she went\\nto Palmyra, N. Y., to reside with her daughter, Mrs.\\nHorace Eaton. She was a woman of commanding pres-\\nence, of marked mental vigor and of great intelligence.\\nHer broad common sense never forsook her, and when,\\nat the age of thirty-five, by the death of her husband, the\\nsole care of her family and estate devolved upon her, she\\nassumed unhesitatingly her new duties and discharged\\nthem with signal ability. She lived and died a firm be-\\nliever in the old Puritan doctrines in which she had been\\nreared. She never lacked the courage of her convictions\\nand would have firmly walked to the stake had duty\\ncalled her there. Her pastor. Rev. Warren H. Landon^\\nsaid of her at her funeral She was a type of the New\\nEngland woman of the past. Where can another such\\ncountenance as that be found It often seemed to me\\nas I looked into .her grand old face as if she were one\\nwho had lived in the far past and had been saved to\\nshow us the good of the past and to teach us to live as\\nwell as our fathers. She died Oct. 20, 1880, aged 87\\nyears. How appropriate the words of one who appre-\\nciated her excellencies\\nHow fit that such a life, so full.\\nSo rounded, so complete, should close\\nWhen Autumn crowns the fruitful year,\\nAnd burdened nature seeks repose.\\nSEVENTH GENERATION.\\n(39) VII. David Sawyer, (83-1) married Deborah Knowles,\\nof Northwood. Children\\n200-1. Oilman, (S).\\n201-2. Emeline, (S).\\n202-3. I erry, (8).", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0847.jp2"}, "824": {"fulltext": "750 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(40) VII. JosiAH Sawyer, (84-2) married Joanna Sanborn, of\\nKingston, N. H. Children\\n203-1. Angeline, (S).\\n204-2. Almira, (8) m. Edward Bartlett, of Lee, N. H.\\n205-3. t rank, (8) lives in Lee, N. H.\\n(41) VII. John Sawyer, (85-3) b. March 16, 1801 married\\nClarissa Chesley, dau. of Thomas Chesley, of Durham,\\nApril 19, 1826, and settled near the base of Saddleback\\nmountain, where B. D. Smith resides. Children\\n206-1. Hannah S., (8) b. April 4, 1827 m. Francis G. Beane, June 25, 1846; lives\\nin Manchester, N. H., and has one child, Emma F., (9) b. Oct. 23, 184S.\\n207-2. Ezra A. J. Sawyer, (S) b. Nov. 3, 1S2S. (77) VIIL\\n(42) VII. Jefferson Sawyer, (88-6) m. Jane Knowles, dau.\\nof Jonathan Knowles, of Northwood, N. H. Lives in\\nLee, N. H., near Wadleigh s Falls. Children\\n208-1. Francena J., (8) m. John P. Eaton and lives in Nebraska.\\n209-2. Arabelle, (8).\\n210-3. Hattie Beecher, (8).\\n21 1-4. Charles, (8).\\n(43) VII. John Sawyer Palmer, (98-2) son of Jemima Saw-\\nyer Palmer, m. ist, Sophia Magoon. Child:\\n2I2-I. Sophia S., (8).\\nMarried, 2d, Miriam French. Children\\n213-2. Miriam, (8) m. Stephen Courier.\\n214-3. Betsey, (8) m. Jacob Pillsbury.\\n215-4. Jacob, (8) died young.\\n216-5. Louisa, (8) m. Davis.\\n217-6. Sarah, (8) m. Leavitt. Children: ist, Almira, (9) 2d, George, (9) 3d,\\nJohn, (9) 4th, James, (9) 5th, Lydia, (9) 6th, Sarah, (9).\\n(44) VII. Sarah Sawyer, (120 5) dau. of Jeremiah Sawyer, (6)\\nm. Rev. William Douglas, of Providence, R. I. Children\\n218-1. Sarah A., (S).\\n219-2. Francis Wayland, (8).\\n220-3. Ives, (B).\\n221-4. Charles, (8).", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0848.jp2"}, "825": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 751\\n(45) VII. John Courier, {122-1) son of Hannah Sawyer\\nCourier, b. 1796, d. Jan. 29, 1852; m. ist, Mary Ann\\nColby, b. 1798, d. March 3, 1850. Children\\n222-1. Charles Edson, (S) b. in 1S22 m. Lucinda Graves. Children: ist, George,\\n(9) 2d, Charles M., (9).\\n223-2. Almira, (S) b. in April, 1S24, unm.\\n224-3. Almond, (S) b. in August, iS2~, unm.\\n(46) VII. Hannah Courier, (123-2) b. 1798; married Moses\\nPaine, farmer, of Hardwick, Vt. Child\\n225-1. Prin, (S) b. in November, 1S20; m. Abigail Colby, of Orange, Vt., b. in 179S,\\nd. March 3, 1S50. Children ist, Helen A., (9) 2d, Plant Sawyer, (9) b. in\\nMay, 1822. m. Sarah S. Townsend, 3d, Lydia, (9) b. in 1826, 4th, Eliza\\nA., (9) b. in 1S32, 5th, Emily, (9) b. in 1S38.\\n(47) VII. Nancy Courier, (125-4) dau. of Hannah Sawyer\\nCourier, (6) b. Aug. 31, 1801 m. Lynds Luther, farmer,\\nof Corinth, Vt. Children\\n226-1. Saloma, (S) b. Feb. 12, 1S23, unm.\\n227-2. Benjamin, (S) b. Sept. 30, 1S24; m. Jerusha Richardson.\\n22S-3. Lucy Ann, (8) b. Dec. 28, 1S31.\\n(48) VII. Richard Sawyer Courier, (126-5) farmer, b. June\\n22, m. Fanny R. Pratt, b. Oct. 20, 1809. Children\\n229-1. Fidelia R., (8) b. Dec. 23, 1833, unm.\\n230-2. Charles, (8) b. Aug. 25, 1836.\\n231-3. Fanny E. L., (8) b. Oct. 30, 1847.\\n232-4. Ella Victoria, (8) b. Oct. 2, 1851.\\n(49) VII. Lucinda Courier, (127-6) b. March 17, 1805, d.\\nin November, 1843 m. Anson Wood, of Topsham, Vt.,\\nb. in 1805. Children\\n233--\\n234-2\\n235-3\\n236-4\\n237--5\\n23S-6\\nCynthia, (S) died young.\\nSylvanus G., (S) b. in March, 1S30.\\nLucy A., (8) b. in May, 1S32.\\nLuther J., (8) b. in -August, 1S34.\\nLucetta T., (S) b. in 1S35.\\nLucinda \\\\V., (8) died young.\\n(50) VII. Sabin Courier, (128-7) farmer, b. March 29, 1807;\\nm. Almyra Richardson, Feb. 4, 18 Children\\n239-1. Mary Jane, (S) h. Aug. 31, 1S33.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0849.jp2"}, "826": {"fulltext": "752 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n240-2. Rosilla, (S) b. April 2S, 1837; d. March 11, 1839.\\n241--3. Pascal \\\\X., (S) b. Feb. 27, 1842.\\n(51) VII. Susan Courier, (129-8) b. in January, 1809; m.\\nSamuel Richardson, farmer, of Barre, Vt., born in 1805.\\nChildren\\n242-1.\\nFidelia, (8).\\n243-2.\\nLuther, (8).\\n244-3-\\nAlmira, (8).\\n245-4.\\nCaroline, (8).\\n246-5.\\nBetsey, (8).\\n247-6.\\nWarren F., (8)\\n{52) VII, James MuNROE Courier, (132-11) b. July 28, 1817;\\nm. Olive Hutchinson, Children\\n24S-T. Marietta C, (8).\\n249-2. Harriet, (8).\\n250-3. Oramel, (8),\\n251-4. Dana, (8).\\n252-5. Sarah, (8).\\n(53) VII, Otis Sawyer, (145-3) b. Feb. 17, 1813 m. ist,\\nMary Ann Bickford, b. in February, i8i3,d. in October,\\n1842, Children:\\n253-1. Ira, (8).\\n254-2. Dana, (8).\\n2d, married Caroline Rowe. Child\\n255-3. Clara, (8).\\n(54) VII. Almira Sawyer, (148-6) born Sept. 13, 1817; m.\\nDaniel Fitz, farmer, Washington, Vt. Children\\nMary Jane, (8).\\nJulia Ann, (8).\\nLucia, (8).\\nMonroe, (8).\\nEmeline, (8).\\n256-1\\n257.-2,\\n258-3\\n259-4\\n260-5\\n(55) VII, William Sawyer, (163-2) married Betsey Courier.\\nChildren\\n261-1. Mary, (8).\\n262-2. Arthur, (8).\\n263-3. Clarinda, (8).\\n264-4. Oliver, (8).", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0850.jp2"}, "827": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 753\\n(56.) VII. Caroline Sawyer, (173-1) the oldest daughter of\\nRev. Moses Sawyer, was born at Henniker, N. H., May\\n28, 1804, and married Sept. 5, 1826, to Rev. Daniel Fitz,\\nD. D., of Ipswich, Mass. Children\\n265-1. Sarah .\\\\dams, (S) b. June 30, 1S27. (74) VIL\\n266-2. George Currier, (S) b. April 14, 1830. (78) VIII.\\n267-3. Louise Adams, (8) b. May 17, 1S33; died Oct. 17, 1847.\\n26S-4. Caroline Frances, (S) b. Aug. 14, 1837. (79) VIII.\\n269-5. t)aniel Francis. (S) b. Aug. 14, 1S37. (80) VIII.\\nMrs. Fitz, who possessed high mental endowments com-\\nbined with great sweetness of disposition and much\\nsocial culture, died at Ipswich, Jan. 10, 1862, aged fifty-\\nseven years. A fuller account of Mrs. Fitz may be found\\nin the History of Essex County, Mass. Rev. Daniel\\nFitz, D. D., the son of Currier and Sarah (George) Fitz,\\nwas of the sixth generation in descent from Robert Fitz,.\\nof Ipswich, Mass., the first Anglo-American ancestor of\\nall the Fitz families in the United .States. He was born\\nat Sandown, N. H., May 28, 1795, but in infancy removed\\nwith his parents to Derry, N. H. He graduated at Dart-\\nmouth College in 18 18, and after serving for one term as\\nassistant teacher in Pinkerton Academy, Derry, went to\\nSalisbury, N. H., and was for two years principal of the\\nacademy of that town. At the expiration of this period\\nhe accepted an invitation to take charge of the Academy\\nof Marblehead, Mass., where he remained a year and a\\nhalf, and left to enter Andover Theological Seminary,\\nfrom which he graduated in 1825. On the 26th of June\\nof the next year he was ordained and installed colleague\\nof Rev. Joseph Dana, D. D., and assistant pastor of\\nthe second Congregational church, of Ipswich. Dr.\\nDana died in 1827, and from that time onward to his\\nresignation in 1867 Mr. Fitz was sole pastor of that\\nchurch. He subsequently continued his residence in\\nIpswich, without clerical charge. He was married a\\nsecond time to Mrs. H. B. D. Howman, who survived\\nhim. Dr. Fitz was a good scholar and was honored by\\n48", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0851.jp2"}, "828": {"fulltext": "754 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nhis alma mater in 1862 by its degree of D. D. Besides\\nbeing an acceptable preacher, earnest, lucid, eloquent at\\ntimes and always judicious, he was a devoted pastor.\\nWhile holding firmly the doctrines of his denomination\\nhe entertained a broad liberality for all such as differed\\nfrom him in religious views. He died Sept. 2, 1869, and\\nwas buried from the church in which he had ministered\\nso long, the services being largely conducted by his\\nfriend, the Rev. John Pike, D. D., of Rowley, Mass.\\n(57) VII. Livonia Sawyer, (174-2) daughter of Rev. Moses\\nSawyer, was born at Henniker, N. H., May 18, 1806.\\nShe married Capt. C. T. Bayley, for many years a ship-\\nmaster, but during the latter part of his life in business\\nin Boston. She had one child\\n270-1. Francis T., (S) b. Aug. 19, 1S46. (S3) VIII.\\n(58) VII. Cassandra Sawyer, (175-3) daughter of Rev. Moses\\nSawyer, was born at Henniker, N. H., June 4, 1809.\\nShe was educated at Ipswich Female Seminary, under\\nMiss Grant and Miss Lyon. She professed religion at\\nChillicothe, Ohio, in 1829, and was married at Glouces-\\nter, Mass., Sept. 22, 1833, to Rev. Jesse Lockwood, who\\nwas born at North Salem, Westchester county, N. Y.,\\nNov. II, 1802. He graduated at Williams College in\\n1830 and afterwards studied divinity two years at Prince-\\nton and one year at New Haven. Subsequently becom-\\ning a missionary to the Cherokee Indians, he lived at\\nDwight Mission, in Arkansas, where he died July 11,\\n1834. Mrs. Lockwood returned to her father s home the\\nnext year, making the long journey first in Indian\\ncanoes, and subsequently by such slow conveyances as\\nthe time and the locality traversed afforded, reaching\\nhome April 14, 1835, having borne in her arms the long\\nway her only child. She died June 23, 1840. During\\nthe last year of her life she was unable to speak an\\naudible word. She had one child\\n271-1. Jesse Dwight, (S) b. Aug. iS, 1S34. (84) VIII.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0852.jp2"}, "829": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGKAPHV 755\\n(59) VII. Moses Kimball Sawvek, (176-4) son of Rev. Moses\\nSawyer, was born at Henniker, N. li., July 7, 1812. He\\nmarried Oct. 7, 1844, Caroline Kimball, daughter of\\nBenjamin Kimball, of Boscawen, N. H. He was a tan-\\nner in early life and lived for a time in Peabody, Mass,\\nHe subsequently engaged in the grocery business, living\\nat Concord, N. H., and at Portland, Me., at the latter of\\nwhich he died Jan. 7, 1875. Children\\n272-1. .ALiry Frances, (S) 1). July 23, 1S45. (Si) VIIL\\n273-2. Louise Kimball, (S) b. Aug. 25, 1S47. (82) VIIL\\n(60) VII. Hannah Sawyer, (177-1) daughter of Isaac Fitz\\nSawyer, was born in January, 1805, and married Feb. 28,\\n1827, to Royal Choate, of Choate s Hill, Boscawen, N.\\nH. Shed. July 31, 1833. Children:\\n274-1. David S., (S) born Nov. 28, 1827; died Feb. 22, 1S33.\\n275-2. Samuel, (8) b. Feb. 24, 1S30. (85) VIIL\\n276-3. Nancy J., (8) b. Nov. 5, 1832. (86) VIIL\\n{61) VII. Fanny Sawyer, (178-2) daughter of Isaac Fitz\\nSawyer, was married Feb. 9, 1831, to Uri Perley, of En-\\nfield, N. H., who died April 27, 1S87, aged eighty-three.\\nChildren\\n277-1. John Quincy, (S) b. Nov. 27, 1831. (87) VIIL\\n27S-2. Rebecca Sawyer, (8) b. Dec. S, 1836. (88) VIIL\\n279-3. Isaac Newton, (8) b. Jan. 17, 1839. (89) VIIL\\n2S0-4. Moses Sawyer, (8) b. March 31, 1842. (90) VIIL\\n(62) VII. Amanda Malvina Sawyer, (180-4) daughter of\\nIsaac Fitz Sawyer, of Salisbury, born in February, 1809;\\nmarried Thomas W. Wilson, M. D., of Salisbury, and d,\\nSept. 19, 1S82, at Ohio Township, St. Clair county,\\nMissouri. Dr. Wilson died at Salisbury, April 13, 1861,\\naged 55 years. Children\\n281-1. Moses Sawyer, (S) b. Nov. 21, 1S35. (102) VIIL\\n282-2. Mary Ann, (8) b. Dec. 7, 1S37 was married Oct. 21, 1S72, to Rev. Isaac\\nNewton Locke, who died Feb. 2, 1882. Mrs. Locke resides at Akron, O.\\n2S3-3. George T., (8) b. May 31, 1841. (103) VIIL\\n284-4. Francis S., (8) b. Jan. 19, 1845. (104) VIIL\\n2S5-5. Ellen Amanda, (8) b. Feb. 23, 1S49. Resides at Ohio, St. Clair Co., Mo.\\n2S6-6. Abbic Jane, (S) b. Sept. 14, 1S52. Resides at Ohio, St. Clair Co., Mo.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0853.jp2"}, "830": {"fulltext": "756 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(63) VII. Isaac Newton Sawyer, (18 1-5) son of Isaac Fitz\\nSawyer, of Salisbury, was born April 5, 181 1. He was\\nmarried Jan. 22, 1834, to Abigail M. Chellis, of Plain-\\nfield, N. H., born April 30, 18 10. She died April 15,\\ni860. He was married a second time, Jan. i, 1861, to\\nB, Jane L. Hoit, daughter of Gorham W. Hoit, of Lee,\\nN. H. Children\\n2S7-1. Leander Newton, (S) b. Dec. 13, 1S61.\\n2SS-2, Gorham Hoit, (8) b. June 15, 1S66.\\nMr. Sawyer, as well as his brothers living in Salisbury\\nand vicinity, has during his entire life been largely inter-\\nested in merino sheep husbandry. Thorough masters of\\nthe business, they have all bred excellent animals and\\nproduced large quantities of fine merino wool. Their\\nfacilties for the prosecution of this business have been\\npeculiar, as they have not only good upland farms, but\\nextensive pastures upon the southerly and easterly slopes\\nof Kearsarge mountain.\\n(64) VII. Nathaniel Sawyer, Deacon, (183-7) son of Isaac\\nFitz Sawyer, of Salisbury, was born Sept. 14, 18 14. He\\nmarried, ist. May 12, 1840, Lucy H. Wood, daughter of\\nCapt. Ephraim Wood, of Lebanon, N. H. She was born\\nDec. 6, 1816, and died April 19, 1863. Children\\n2S9-1. Lucy Ann, (S) born Oct. 15, 1S41. She married Oct. 15, 1873. George\\nLittle, of Webster, N. H. They had one child, George Sawyer, who was\\nborn June iS, 1880, and died April 6, 1882. She died Aug. 22, 18S0.\\n29C-2. Mary Rebecca, (8) b. Oct. 22, 1843. She married Aug. 31, 1SS2, George\\nLittle, of Webster, N. H.\\n291-3. Charles Henry, (8) born Oct. 4, 184S; is a civil engineer and was married\\nJan. 23, 18S1, to Eva M. Davison, of Empire Prairie, Mo., and lives in\\nStanbury, Mo. Child: Charles Nathaniel, (9) b. Oct. 2, 1887.\\n292-4. Fannie Elizabeth, (S) b. June 20, 1S54.\\n293-5. Caroline Wood, (8) b. Jan. 16, 1S57.\\n294-6. Martha Louise, (8) b. Oct. 30, 1S59. (100) VHL\\nMr. Sawyer was married a second time to Mary Ann-\\nWood, sister of his first wife, Jan. 23, 1S66. Child\\n295-7. Edward Nathaniel, (8) b. June 29, 1S67.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0854.jp2"}, "831": {"fulltext": "NATHANIKl. SAWYHK.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0855.jp2"}, "832": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0856.jp2"}, "833": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 757\\nMr. Sawyer was a successful farmer and lived on the\\nfamily homestead, where his grandfather settled upon\\ncoming to Salisbury more than a hundred years ago.\\nHis townsmen conferred upon him various public trusts,\\nand the Congregational church elected him a deacon,\\nApril 28, 1S60. He d. Dec. i, 1885.\\n{65) VH. Daniel Fitz Sawyer, (184-8) son of Isaac Fitz\\nSawyer, was born Feb. 29, 1S20. He was a farmer and\\nalways resided in Salisbury. Jan. 8, 1846, he married\\nMary Ann, daughter of Rev. William DeMerritt, of\\nDurham, N. H. She was born in September, 18 15, and\\ndied Nov. 11, 1863. Mr. Sawyer died May 22, 1878.\\nChildren\\nC96-1. Nancy Rebecca, (S) b. in October, 1S50; d. in December, 1S70.\\n297--2. Isaac Fitz, (S) b. Feb. 16, 1S54. Is an attorney at law, Cambridge. Mass.\\n{66) Vn. Francis Brown Sawyer, (185-9) son of Isaac Fitz\\nSawyer, was born April 14, 1823, and married Sept.\\nII, 185 I, to Ellen, daughter of Deacon Enoch Little, of\\nWebster, N. H., who d. Oct. 5, 1870. Children\\n29S-1. Mary Frances, (S) b. May 2S, 1S53.\\n299-2. Sarah Ellen, (S) b. Dec. 25, 185S.\\n300-3. Emma Elvira, (8) b. April 10, 1S61.\\n301-4. Hermon Little, (8) b. April 25, 1S65.\\n302-5. Louisa Jane, (8) b. July 14, 1S6S; d. Jan. 6, 1870.\\nMr. Sawyer soon after his marriage settled at Little s\\nhill, in Webster, where he still resides. He is a prom-\\ninent man in his town and has held various positions of\\ntrust. July 5, 1846, previous to his removal to Webster,\\nhe was elected a deacon of the Salisbury Congregational\\nchurch.\\n(67) VII. Betsey Pettengill, (186-1) daughter of Polly Saw-\\nyer Pettengill, was born Nov. 6, 1799. She m. in 1S16,\\nBenjamin Pettengill, of Salisbury, who was b. Sept. 17,\\n1789, and graduated at Middlebury College, Vt., in 1S12.\\nHe lived in Salisbury and followed farming. Hed. Dec.\\n6, 1873. His wife d. April 26, 1883. Children", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0857.jp2"}, "834": {"fulltext": "760 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nHaven, and died at St. Croix, West Indies, Dec. 5, 1852.\\nChildren\\n321-1. William Horace, (8) b. June 5, 1850; died in September, 1S50.\\n322-2. George Augustus, (S) b. Sept. 22, 1S51 died in August, 1852.\\n323-3. Williemena H., (8) b. Jan. 30, 1S53. (9S) VIII.\\nShe married, second, April 5, 1859, Lebeus C. Chapin,\\nof New Haven, who was born at Gilbertsville, Otsego\\ncounty. New York. He was fitted for college at Mun-\\nson, Mass., and graduated at Yale College in 1852. Hav-\\ning served for a time as tutor in that institution, he\\nstudied medicine and graduated from its Medical School\\nin the spring of 1864. He entered the United States\\narmy and in 1865 had charge of the general hospital, at\\nBeaufort, S. C. In 1S67 he removed with his family to\\nKalamazoo, Mich., where he d. Nov. 21, 1885. Children\\nof Dr. and Mrs. Chapin\\n324-4. Fitz Henry, (8) b. Feb. 2, 1862. Now in business in Kalamazoo, Mich.\\n325-5. Fanny Anderson, (8) b. Nov. 21, 1863.\\n326-6. Mary Bell, (8) b. Nov. 3, 1866.\\n327-7. Helen Maude, (8) b. July 10, 1868.\\n(73.) VII. Nathaniel J. Sawyier, Dr., (193-4) was born at\\nChillicothe, Ohio, Oct. 29, 1832. He received his ad-\\nvanced academical education largely at Phillips Exeter\\nAcademy and at Brown University. He graduated in\\nmedicine at the Ohio Medical School in 1857. The year\\nfollowing he went to Valparaiso, South America, and for\\na time had charge of the United States marine hospital\\nin that city. In the fall of i860 he returned to this\\ncountry and on the 9th day of January, 1861, he was\\nmarried to Helen Wingate, daughter of Henry Win-\\ngate, Esq., of Frankfort, Kentucky, who was born June\\n23, 1839. In 1862 he removed to his farm. Table Rock,\\nin Madison county, Ohio, where he practiced his pro-\\nfession and managed his land. In 1871 he settled at\\nFrankfort, where he has since resided in an old-fashioned\\nKentucky home, whose traditions and associations he", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0858.jp2"}, "835": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 761\\npreserves with much care, while pursuin;:^ his profession\\nand answering many other calls public and private upon\\nhis time. Children\\n32S-1. Lilian, (S) b. in Frankfort, March 5, 1862.\\n329-2. Henry Wingate, (S) b. in Franlifort, April 14, 1863.\\n330-3. Paul, (8) b. at Table Rock, Lafayette township, Madison county, Ohio,\\nMarch 23, 1S65.\\n331-4. Natt., (8) b. at Table Rock, Dec. 14, 1S66; d. Dec. 17, 1866.\\n332-5. Natalie, (8) b. at Table Rock, Feb. 19, 1869.\\n333-6. Mary Campbell, (S) born at Georgetown, -Scott county, Kentucky, Nov. 30,\\n1S70.\\n334-7. Robert ^Vingate, (8) b. at Frankfort, April 3, 188 1 died at .Staunton, Va.,\\nJuly 28, 1883.\\n{74) VII. Joseph Burbeen Walker, (194-1) was born at\\nConcord, N. H., June 12, 1822. Fitted for college large-\\nly at Phillips Exeter Academy, and graduated at Yale\\nin 1844. He studied law in the office of Hon. Charles\\nH. Peaslee, of Concord, and was admitted to the New\\nHampshire bar in March, 1847. He married, ist. May\\n5, 1847, Sarah Adams Fitz, (265-1) daughter of Rev. Dr.\\nDaniel Fitz, of Ipswich, Mass. She was born June 30,\\n1827, and was educated partly at Ipswich, in the Female\\nSeminary of Rev. Dr. Cowles, and partly at Esse.x,\\nMass., in the school of Hon. David Choate. She died\\nNov. 21, 1844. Mr. Walker married, 2d, May i, 1850,\\nElizabeth Lord Upham, daughter of Hon. Nathaniel G.\\nUpham, of Concord, who was born Aug. 18, 1830, and\\neducated partly at Concord and partly at Bradford Mass.)\\nAcademy. Children\\n335-1. Charles Rumford, (S) born Feb. 13, 1852, was fitted for college at Phil-\\nlips Kxeter Academy, and graduated at Vale in 1874. He pursued his\\nmedical studies at the Harvard Medical School, from which he graduated\\nin 1S77. Afterwards he was for a year and a half an interne of the Hoston\\ncity hospital, and subsequently, for about two years, he pursued post-\\ngraduate studies at Dublin, Vienna, and .Strasbourg, in Kuropc. He is\\nnow settled in practice at Concord, N. H. (loS) IX.\\n336-2. Susan Purbeen, (S) born June 27, 1S53. She was married Nov. 14, 1SS2, to\\nCharles M. Gilbert. (loDVHL\\n337-3. Nathaniel Upham, (S) born Jan. 14, 1855. He was fitted for college at\\nAndover Mass.) Academy, and graduated at Vale in 1877. He after-\\nwards studied law at the Harvard Law School, and in the office of Jewell,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0859.jp2"}, "836": {"fulltext": "762 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nField Shepard, Boston, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in January,\\n1880. He is now in active practice in Boston. He was married June 6,\\n1888., to Helen F. Dunklee, of Boston.\\n338-4. Mary Bell, (S) a child of great personal beauty and promise, was born Sept.\\n15, 1856, and died Feb. 2, 1S67.\\n339-5. Eliza Lord Walker, (8) was born Jan. 4, 1S63, and has received her educa-\\ntion partly at Concord and partly at Andover (Mass.) Female Seminary.\\n340-6. Joseph Timothy, born Dec. 12, 1865, was educated at Concord and at Phil-\\nlips Exeter Academy. He now resides in Savannah, Ga.\\n(75) VII. Nathaniel Sawyer Webster, (197-2) was born\\nMay II, 18 18, and received his education at Boscawen\\nand Pembroke academies. He has always lived in Bos-\\ncawen and followed farming. One of its substantial cit-\\nizens, he cheerfully cooperates in all the good enter-\\nprises of his native town, which he represented in the\\nstate legislature in 1876 and 1877. At the sesqui-cen-\\ntennial celebration of its settlement he was president of\\nthe day. He married, July 2, 1846, Lucy Ann Lord, dau.\\nof Edward D. Lord, then of Epsom, N. H. Children\\n341-1. Edward Lord, b. Aug. 24, 1847 d. Feb. 15, 1S52.\\n342-2. Julia Appleton, (8) b. April i, 1853. (99) VHL\\n343-3. Charles Irving, (8) b. Jan. 6, 1856. Is a teacher at East Orange, N. J.\\n(109) IX.\\njG) VII. Ann Ruth Webster, (199-4) was born at Boscaw-\\nen, N. H., Nov. 26, 1823, and graduated at INIount Hol-\\nyoke Female Seminary in 1842. For two years afterwards\\nshe was a teacher in that institution and was married\\nAug. 18, 1845, to Rev. Horace Eaton. Children:\\n344-1. Horace Webster, (8) b. June 28, 1846. Yale College, 1S70; Law School,\\nWashington, D. C, 1884.\\n343-2. John Spaulding, (8) b. Aug. 27. r84S; d. at Palmyra, N. Y., July 4, 1868.\\n346-3. Anna Sawyer, (8) b. April 21, 1851 d. at Palmyra, Sept. 11, 1853.\\n347-4. Mary Sawyer, (8) b. Dec. 19, 1853. Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, 1876.\\n348-5. Elizabeth Webster, (8) b. March 25, 1857. Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary,\\n1878.\\nMrs. Eaton possesses a fine mind, which has been thor-\\noughly trained. Her published writings evince marked\\nliterary ability. Her husband. Dr. Eaton, was born at\\nSutton, N. H., Oct. 7, 1810. He graduated at Dart-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0860.jp2"}, "837": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 763\\nmouth College in 1839, Union Theological Sem-\\ninary in 1842. He was soon after ordained and settled\\nover the sixth Presbyterian church in New York city,\\nwhere he remained until 1849, when he removed with\\nhis family to Palmyra, N. Y., and was installed over the\\nPresbyterian church of Palmyra. He continued pastor\\nof that church for thirty years. He resigned in 1879\\nand was never afterwards settled, but supplied the pulpit\\nof the Congregational church of Marion, N. Y., a town\\nwithin easy reach of his residence, until his death, which\\noccurred Oct. 21, 1883, and closed a continuous proclam-\\nation of the gospel for forty-two years. For a full\\naccount of his life see memoir of her husband, prepared\\nby Mrs. Eaton.\\nEIGHTH GENERATION.\\n(7 J) Vni. Ezra A. J. Sawyer, (207-2) born Nov. 3, 1828,\\nwas married May 24, 1853, to Sarah Collins, daughter of\\nJoseph Bean and Lydia H. Collins, daughter of the late\\nSamuel Collins. He lives at Deerfield Parade, was a\\nmember of the New Hampshire legislature in 1865 and\\n1866, and has been a deputy sheriff for many years.\\nChildren\\n349-1. Frederick B., (9) b. .\\\\pril 16, 1S54. Lives at Dubuque, Iowa.\\n350-2. John F., (9) b. March 2, 1S56. Lives at Dubuque, Iowa.\\n351-3. Mabel J., (9) b. April 11, 1S61.\\n(78) Vni. George Currier Fitz, (266-2) born April 14,\\n1830, was married Feb. 9, 1854, to Mary Buck Crofut, of\\nArlington, Vt., born April 22, 1833. He resided in Ips-\\nwich, Mass., and was engaged in the express business.\\nHe died Aug. 9, 1873. Children\\n35J-1. (ieorge Lendrum, (9) d.\\n353-2. Daniel, (9) b. Aug. 15, 1S60. Resides in Ipswich.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0861.jp2"}, "838": {"fulltext": "764 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(79) VIII. Caroline Frances Fitz, (26S--4) was born at Ips-\\nwich, Mass., Aug. 14, 1837, and educated largely at the\\nIpswich Female Seminary, under the Rev. Dr. and Mrs.\\nCowles. She was married Sept. i, 1858, to Joseph W.\\nWoods, Esq., of Boston, who has for many years been\\nidentified with the wholesale dry goods interest of that\\ncity. Children\\n354-1. Harriet Appleton, (9) b. June 15, 1859. (105) IX.\\n355-2. Caroline Frances, (9) b. July 9, 1S62 d. Aug. 17, 1S62.\\n356-3. Joseph Fitz, (9) b. Oct. 9, 1S63.\\n357-4. James Haughton, (9) b. Nov. 27, 1S64.\\n358-5. Arthur Hale, (9) b. Jan. 29, 1S70.\\n359-6. Herbert Richardson, (9) b. Oct. 9, 1872.\\n(80) VIII. Daniel Francis Fitz, {26g-^) was born Aug. 14,\\n1837, and graduated at Harvard College in 1859. He\\nstudied law and is now a member of the Suffolk bar.\\nHe was married Oct. 10, 1865, to Mary Frances, daugh-\\nter of William P. Wade, of Somerville, Mass., born Aug.\\n23, 1843. Children\\n360-1. Daniel F., (9) b. Nov. 28, 1S70.\\n361-2. Mary Wade, (9) b. Dec. 8, 1S71.\\n{81) VIII. Mary Frances Sawyer, (272--1) was born in Pea-\\nbody, Mass., July 23, 1845, and married Oct. 7, 1869, to\\nEdward B. Cook, a hardware merchant, of Portland, Me.\\nChild\\n362-1. Philip Howard, (9) b. Feb. 2, 1878.\\n{82) VIII. Louise Kimball Sawyer, (273-2) was born in\\nSalisbury, N. H., Aug. 25, 1847, a was married June\\n16, 1870, to Charles S. Chase, lime and cement merchant,\\nPortland, Me. Child\\n363-1. Alice Sawyer, (9) b. Jan. 11, 1S75.\\n(83) VIII. Francis T. Bayley, Rev., (270-1) was born in\\nBoston, Mass., Aug. 19, 1846, and was married Oct. 22,\\n1869, to Julia M. Palmer, of Bath, Me. He is at present\\npastor of the State St. Congregational church, Portland,\\nMe. Children", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0862.jp2"}, "839": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 765\\n364-1. Dwiglit Smith, (gt b. May 31, 1871.\\n365-2. Frank Sawyer, (9) b. May 3, 1874.\\n366-3. Julia Fannie, (g) b. May 26, 1S75.\\n(84) VIII. Jesse Rossiter Dwight Lockwood, (271--1) son\\nof Cassandra Sawyer Lockwood, was born at Dwight\\nStation, Arkansas Territory, Aug. 18, 1834. He mar-\\nried Sept. 13, 1864, Clara Maria Lawrence, born at Pep-\\nperell, Mass., Dec. 31, 1842. Mr. Lockwood is engaged\\nin business in New York, and has one child\\n367-1. Clara Sawyer, (91 b. April 3, iSSi.\\n(85) VIII. Samuel Choate, (275--2) is a farmer, living on\\nChoate s hill, Boscawen, N. H. He was born Feb. 24,\\n1830, and married Caroline M. Perkins, of Georgetown,\\nMass. Children\\n36S-1. Mary H., (9) b. July 20, 1S63,\\n369-2. Lizzie M., (9) b. Jan. 10, 1S65.\\n(86) VIII. Nanxy J. Choate, (276--3) was born Nov. 5, 1832,\\nand married Moses C. Sanborn, a farmer, of Concord, N.\\nH. Children\\n370-1. David, (9) b. July 21, 1S56.\\n371-2. Xewton Sawyer, (9) b. .\\\\ug. 21, 1S60.\\n372-3. Ella Maria, (9) b. March 6, 1.S65.\\n373-4. Shaddie, (9) b. March i, 1870; d. May 4, 1S71.\\n(87) VIII. John Quincv Pekley, (277--1) was born at Enfield,\\nN. H., Nov. 27, 1 83 1, and married Elizabeth Dow Pattee,\\nof Canaan, N. H., Oct. i, 1859. Children\\n374-1. Charles Allen, (9) b. .\\\\ug. 6, 1S60.\\n375-2. Ida Frances, (9) b. Sept. 28, 1S62.\\n376-3. May Bell, (9) b. Oct. 8, 1S66.\\n(88) VIII. Rebecca Sawyer Perley, (278-2) was born at\\nEnfield, N. H., Dec. 8, 1836, and married Lewis C, Pat-\\ntee, of Canaan, N. H., April 15, 1858. Children:\\n377-1. NL-iry Elizabeth, (9) b. March 8, 1859.\\n37S-2. Fanny Louisa, (9) b. Feb. 8, 1862.\\n379-3. Alice Kena, (9) b. Sept. 28, 1S65.\\n3S0-4. Fred k Lewis, (9) b. Oct. 16, 186S.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0863.jp2"}, "840": {"fulltext": "766 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n3S1-5. Lillie Rebecca, (9) b. March 2S, 1871 d. Jan. 30, 1873.\\n382-6. Rose Bell, (9) b. Dec. 10, 1S73; d. Jan. 27, 1S75.\\n(89) VIII. Isaac Newton Perley, (279-3) was born Jan. 17,\\n1839, d married Kate E. Sturtevant, of Lebanon, N.\\nH., Oct. I, 1867. Children\\n3S3-1. Harry Sturtevant, (9) b. Aug. 18, 186S; d. July 28, 1S69.\\n3S4--2. Carrie Cole, {9) b. Aug. 20, 1870.\\n3S5-3. Charles Raymond, (9) b. March 28, 1875; d. Aug. 19, 1875.\\n{90) VI II. Moses Sawyer Perley, (280--4) was born March\\n31, 1842, and married Sarah Jane Harris, of Enfield, N.\\nH., May 13, 1869. Child:\\n386-1. Fanny Sawyer, (9) b. March 13, 1870.\\n(91) VIII. Augustus Cesar Pettengill, (303--1) son of\\nBenjamin and Betsey Pettengill, was born Nov. 22, 18 17,\\nand is a farmer living in Salisbury. He married, ist, on\\nthe 27th day of January, 1848, Eliza Ann Shaw, who was\\nborn July 23, 1824, and died Sept. 20, 1868. Children\\n3S7--1. Benjamin Pettengill, (9) b. Feb. 28, 1849. (106) IX.\\n388--2. Betsey, (9) b. Jan. 8, 1853. (107) IX.\\n389-3. Carrie V., (9) b. Sept. 28, 1855; m. March 6, 1878, Ernest C. Courier.\\n390-4. John D., (9) b. Sept. 14, 1859.\\n{92) VIII. Daviu Milton Pettengill, (304-2) was born\\nNov. 12, 1 8 19. He married Miranda P. Rice, Feb. 13,\\n1846, and died May 8, 1849. Children\\n39I--I. Betsey M., (9) b. Dec. 6, 1846.\\n392-2. Vesta Ann, (9) b. May 5, 1S48; m. Oct. 6, 1S69, and d. Nov. 3, 1870.\\n(93) VIII. Benjamin Hale Pettengill, (305-3) was born Jan.\\n16, 1824, and married May 2, 1850, Joanna Matthews,\\nwho was born April 20, 1823. Children\\n393-1\\n394-2\\n395-3\\n396-4\\n397--5\\nBenjamin F., (9) b. Feb. 27, 1851 d. Dec. 14, 1S51.\\nMary Hester, (9) b. Oct. 6, 1852.\\nHattie E., (9) b. Jan. 31, 1855.\\nBenjamin, (9) b. May 4, 1857.\\nJohn W., (9) b. April 15, 1S59.\\n(94) VIII. John W. Pettengill, Hon. ,(306-4) was born Nov.\\n12, 1835. He is a lawyer and lives in Maiden, Mass.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0864.jp2"}, "841": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY J^l\\nHe married, ist, April 25, 1S66, Margaret Maria Den-\\nnett, who was born Oct. 20, 1843, and died Sept. 29,\\n1869. Child:\\n39S-1. Margaret Hetsey, (9) b. Sept. 21, 1S67.\\nMarried, 2d, Mary Dennett, May 31, 1871, who d. March\\n7, 1872, aged 35 years. He married, 3d, April, 1873,\\nMary Emma Tilton, who d. April 14, 1874. Child\\n399--2. John T., (9) b. April 4, 1S74.\\n(95) VHI. Charles Williams Webster, (307--1) was born\\nSept. 14, 1826. He married Jan. 5, 1853, Lucia Maria,\\ndaughter of John Greenough, of Boscawen, who was born\\nOct. II, 1826. For many years Mr. Webster was a\\nwholesale boot and shoe dealer in ]?oston. Of late years\\nhe has resided upon the Webster homestead in Boscawen.\\nChild\\n400-1. Edward, (9) b. Oct. iS, 1S60.\\n(96) VHI. Mary Axn Webster, (309--3) was born in July,\\n1839. She married Charles E. Johnson, of 13rookline,\\nMass. Children\\n401--1. Robert Webster, (91 b. Sept. 23, 1S67.\\n402-2. Philip V. K., (9) b. March 31, 1869.\\n(97) VHI. Nathaniel Sawyier Hotchkiss, (313--1) was born\\nat New Haven, Conn., April 14, 1842. Was educated\\nin New Haven and married Jan. 15, 1868, Frances\\nLouise, daughter of James P. Thorndike, Esq., one of the\\nsolid men of Boston, born Dec. 30, 1847. He lives in\\nBoston, and is deeply interested in the highest welfare\\nof his adopted city. He is treasurer of the McKay Met-\\nallic Fastening Association. Child\\n403--1. Louise Thorndike, {9) b. March 27, 1869.\\n(98) VHI. Williemena H. Elliot, (323-3) was born Jan. 30,\\n1853. She graduated at Vassar College in 1872, and at\\nthe Woman s Medical College, New York city, in 1877.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0865.jp2"}, "842": {"fulltext": "768 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nOn the 26th of December, 1877, she was married ta\\nEdward Emerson, M. D., who graduated at Williams\\nCollege in 1865, and is now in the practice of medicine\\nat Detroit, Mich. Children\\n404--1. Paul Elliot, (9) b. July 14, iSSo.\\n405--2. Philip Low, (9) b. Nov. 7, 18S2.\\n(99) VIII. Julia A. Webster, (342-2) was born at Boscawen,\\nN. H., April I, 1853, and in 1870 married Clarence F.\\nCarrol, who graduated at Yale College in 1881, and is\\nnow principal of the Connecticut Normal School, at New\\nBritain. Children\\n406-1. Stella Webster, (9) b. Aug. 3, 1874.\\n407-2. Harry, (9) b. Dec. 28, 18S0.\\n408-3. Carl Herman, (9) b. Oct. 10, 1882.\\n409-4. Margaret Ethel, (9) b. June 29, 1888.\\n(100) VIII. Martha Louise Sawyer, {294-6) daughter of\\nDea. Nathaniel Sawyer, was born at Salisbury, Oct. 30,\\n1859, and married Sept. 5, 1883, Dr. Frank. A. South-\\nwick, of Buxton, Me. Children\\n410-1. Margarett Southwick, (9) b. Oct. 24, 1884.\\n411-.2. Katharine Southwick, (9) b. Jan. 10, 18S7.\\n(loi) VIII. Susan Burbeen Walker, (336-2) daughter of\\nJoseph B. Walker, was born at Concord, N. H., June 27,\\n1853, and educated at the school of Rev. George Gan-\\nnett, in Boston, Mass. She was married Nov. 14, 1882,\\nto Charles M. Gilbert, importer and wholesale grocery\\nmerchant, of Savannah, Georgia, born July 9, 1844.\\nChildren\\n412-1. Elizabeth Walker, (9) b. at Concord, Nov. 11, 18S4.\\n413-2. Harvey John, (9) b. at Savannah, Feb. 26, 1887.\\n414-3. Mary Bell, b. at Concord, Oct. 2, 18S8.\\n(102) VIII. Moses Sawyer Wilson, (281-1) son of Amanda\\nMalvina Sawyer, was born at Salisbury, N. H., Nov. 21^\\n1835. He graduated at the Harvard Medical School in\\n1859, and began the practice of medicine in Warner", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0866.jp2"}, "843": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 769\\nHe married, Nov. 28, 1861, Mary A., daughter of Ira\\nHarvey, of Warner. Upon the death of his father, in\\n1 861, he removed to Salisbury. In 1863 he entered the\\nUnited States army as a surgeon. Upon his retirement\\nfrom the service, he settled at Griggsville, 111., where he\\ndied Feb. 26, 1873. Children:\\n415-2. Mary Helen, (9) b. Aug. 30, 1S63.\\n416-2. Guy Fred, (9) b. Oct. 3, 1S65.\\n417-3. George Francis, b. Feb. 8, 186S.\\n418-4. Fanny Moses, (9) b. in March, 1873.\\n(103) VIII. George T. Wilson, (283-3) son of Amanda Mal-\\nvina Sawyer, was born at Salisbury, N. H., May 31,\\n1841. He was married March 9, 1875, to Belle Nesbitt,\\nof Ohio, St. Clair county, Mo. She died Feb. 16, 1877.\\nHe resides at Ohio, Mo. Child:\\n419-1. Belle F., (9) b. Jan. 30, 1S77.\\n(104) VIII. Francis S. Wilson, (284-4) was born Jan. 19,\\n1845, and married in 1875, to Fidelia Holden, of Ohio,\\nSt. Clair county, Mo., where he resides. Children:\\n420-1. Lila H., (9) b. July 20, 1S77.\\n421-2. Edward, (9) b. Feb. 6, 1881.\\n422-3. Newton Locke, (9) b. Sept. 25, 1SS3.\\nNINTH generation.\\n(105) IX. Harriet Appleton Woods, (354-1) was born June\\nI5\u00c2\u00bb 1859, d was married Dec. 11, 1879, ^o Rev. Philo\\nW. Sprague, rector of St. John s church, Charlestown,\\nMass. Children\\n423-1. Caroline Woods, (10) b. March 22, iSSi.\\n424-2. Maud Woodruff, (10) b. Jan. 28, 1885.\\n49", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0867.jp2"}, "844": {"fulltext": "770 GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY.\\n(io6) IX. Benjamin Pettengill, (386-1) was born at Salis-\\nbury, Feb. 28, 1849, where he now resides, and married\\nMay 13, 1871, Mary Etta Stone, born Aug. 17, 1852.\\nChild:\\n425-1. Fred Hermon, (lo) b. Dec. iS, 1875.\\n(107) IX. Betsey Pettengill, (387-2) was born Jan. 8,\\n1853, and married in September, 1874, J. H. Whittaker.\\nChild\\n426-1. Betsey Florence, (10) b. Nov. i, 1875.\\n(jo8) IX. Charles Rumford Walker, (335-1) married Jan.\\n18, 1888, Frances Sheafe, daughter of William Sheafe,\\nof Boston. Child\\n427-1. Sheafe, (19) b. Nov. i6, 1888.\\n(109) IX. Charles Irving Webster, (343-3) married July 8,\\n1886, Abbie Dodd. Child:\\n428-1. Alice, (10) b. July 2, 1887.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0868.jp2"}, "845": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 7/1\\nTHE SEARLE FAMILY.\\nI, Rev. Jonathan Searle (see Ecclesiastical History) mar-\\nried Mrs. Margaret Toppan, widow of Rev. Amos Toppan, the\\nthird settled minister of the Congregational church at Kings-\\nton, N. H., where he was ordained August i8, 1762, continuing\\ntill his death, June 23, 1771, leaving one daughter, Mary, who\\ndied February 16, 1792. Mrs. Toppan (the common orthogra-\\nphy at present being Tappan was the third child of Jethro\\nSanborn, Esq., and Elizabeth Mr. Sanborn was a sea cap-\\ntain and accumulated much property. When the treasury of\\nour young republic was depleted and paper money at so great a\\ndiscount during revolutionary times, he lent one-half of his for-\\ntune to the government, taking paper money at par value in\\nexchange. Of course he never realized anything from it, and\\nlater in his life said, I am willing to give all my fortune in a\\njust cause. He was the fifth generation from the common\\nancestor and was born March 13, 1720; married September 14,\\n1745, Elizabeth Sanborn, and died April 25, 1781. She mar-\\nried (2) Smith. Mrs. Tappan was baptized November 25,\\n1748, and died January 24, 1792. Rev. Mr. Searle died in\\nDecember, 1S18. Children:\\n2. Jethro, b. Aug 21, 1776; returned to Sandown, then removed to Vershire, Vt.,\\nwhere he m. and d. leaving a son and a daughter.\\n3. Elizabeth V., h. May 3, 1778. When a child she fell from an apple-tree, injur-\\ning her hip, and was made a cripple for life.\\n4. Amos, b. Nov. 15, 1779. See.\\n5. Margaret, b. Feb. 12, 17S2; m. Feb. 13, iSii, Henjamin Rolfe, of Boscawen\\nd. at Hill, Dec. 27, 1S40. Her husband d. Jan. ro, 1S57.\\n6. Isaac, b. Oct. 25, 17S3; removed to .Mbany, X. Y., and engaged in mercantile\\npursuits under the firm name of Erastus Corning Co. d. at C6nway in\\n1S31, unm.\\n7. Rhoda, b. Nov. 9, 1793; Sept. 6, 1S07, Samuel Page, (see.) It is said she\\nwas the most beautiful girl b. in Salisbury.\\n(4) Amos m. Aug. 21, 181 5, Hannah Hoyt, of Orange. She\\nd. May 20, 1847. He remained at the parsonage occu-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0869.jp2"}, "846": {"fulltext": "772 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\npied by his father on Searle s hill, entered college, stud-\\nied law, and while standing at the mirror tying his cravat\\nwas seized with almost total blindness, from which he\\nnever recovered. He d. July 3, 1830.\\n8. James S., b. July 8, 1816; m. (i) Susan Stewart; m. (2) IVIary and resides in\\nIllinois.\\n9. Daniel Franklin, b. July 12, 1818; he remained on the farm till 1841, when he\\ncame to Centre road, purchased the Dea. Amos Pettengill tavern-stand, of\\nEzra Austin, and in 1S57 built the present buildings; m. Dec. 3, 1846,\\nMary, dau. of Samuel and Rachel Storer Dresser, who was b. at Sutton\\nin April, 1814.\\n10 and II. Mary and George F., b. Oct. 6, 1848; Mary d. June 9, 1S56. George\\nfitted for college at New London, but finding a professional life not suited\\nto his taste he went for a year to Boston, Mass., as a clerk, then removed\\nto Lowell, where for seven years he was engaged in the sewing machine\\nbusiness, afterwards removing to Concord, N, H., which he makes his\\nheadquarters as the agent for the Domestic Sewing Machine Co. Married\\nDec. 25, 1884, Clara M. Andrews, of Concord.\\nTHE SEVERANCE FAMILY.\\nThe first of the name in England is that of John Edmund\\nSeverance, in Thetford county, Northampton. John Severance\\nmarried Abigail Kimball, at Ipswich, England. In 1635, as\\nmaster of the ship George he brought over a load of emigrants\\nfor New England, and later settled at Salisbury, Mass.\\n1. Benjamin Severance was from Kingston, where he m. Ruth, dau. of William\\nLong; he removed to Chester in 1751, where he d. early; she d. in 1816.\\nChildren\\n2. Joseph, b. in 1746. See. 3, Peter. See. 4. William. See.\\n(2) Lieut. Joseph, like many young men at that time, was\\nbound out to a man by the name of Stetson, at Dunbar-\\nton, where he remained during his minority. Returning\\nto Chester he m. Anna, dau. of Gideon Currier, Sr.\\nLeaving his wife and one child he went to New Britain,\\n(Andover) his deed of land there bearing date of 1769,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0870.jp2"}, "847": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 773\\nwhere he felled trees and built a log house. He then\\nwent to Chester for his wife and child, and returned to\\ntheir new home at the close of the thirty-first day from\\nthe time he started to clear his land. Dec. 13, 1770, he\\nbought one 80-acre, one 60-acre, and one 30-acre lot in\\nSalisbury, cleared up the land, and built the first house\\non the site occupied by Eliphalet Shaw, where he d.\\nMarch 16, 181 3. She d. Oct. 20, 181 3, aged 66.\\n5. Elizabeth, b. in Chester; m. Abner Hall and d. at Tunbridge, Vt.\\n6. James, b. in Andover, Dec. 19, 1776; he early removed to Vermont, where he\\nm. Aug. 21, 1S03, Sarah True, of I lainfield, residing in Vermont thirteen\\nyears. On the death of his father he returned to Salisbury and carried on\\nthe farm for some years. He d. in the old D. S. Princa house, March lo,\\n1854 she d. in 1865. spelled his name Severens, and was one of the\\ndeacons of the Baptist church. Children born in Vermont\\n7. Abigail, b. Feb. 13, 1S06; m. in February, 1844, E. R. Rowe, who d. she\\nresides in Salisbury.\\n8. Ziba, b. July 20, 1807 resides just across the line in Andover.\\n9. Royal, b. Feb. 5, 1S09; d. Jan. 28, 1S14. 10. Salina, b. Oct. 6, 1810; d. unm.\\n11. Paschal P., b. Sept. 11, 181 1 d. Dec. 31, 1S30.\\nChildren b. in Salisbury\\n12. Salina, b. May 12, 1814; m. Sanborn Shaw. See.\\n13. Harriet, b. Aug. 6, 1816; m. (i) Jackson Tucker; m. (2) Samuel Morrill; d.\\nat Andover.\\n14. Judith, b. March 2, 181S; m. Charles S Sargent and resides at New London.\\n15. Sarah T., b. Dec. 14, 1S19; m. J. R. P rown and resides at Brockport, N. Y.\\n16. Nancy J., b. Sept. 9, 182 1 m. Andrew J. Cilley, of Andover, where she d.\\n17. Ruth, b. Nov. 10, 1823; m. April 20, 1S48, Daniel C. Stevens. See.\\n18. Amelia, b. April 12, 1826; m. May 22, 1851, William Dunlap. See. Shed.\\nMarch 31. 1855.\\n(3) Peter. Chase s History of Chester speaks of his being\\nthere, and says: He m. Sarah, daughter of Nathaniel\\nHall. He d. 1817 she d. Dec. 23, 1839, and had sons, G.\\nW. and James, who lived in Auburn. A Peter Sever-\\nance, brother of Lieut. Joseph, resided on the site now\\noccupied by D. Searle, where it is said he resided\\nprevious to Dea. Amos Pettengill s removal to Bradford,\\nVt. He d. From the Salisbury town records we\\nfind the following Married Sept. 20, 1779, widow Sarah\\nPettengill d. at Bradford, Vt., 18 19. Children", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0871.jp2"}, "848": {"fulltext": "774 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n19. Betty, b July 27, 17S0. 20. Andrew P., b. July 9, 1782.\\n21. Reuben G., b. June 6, 1784. 22. Ruth, b. Aug. 8, 1786.\\n23. Peter, b. Dec. 25, 1788. 24. Moses, b. Sept. 30, 1792.\\n(4) William resided on the east side of Searle s hill, on the\\nWilliam Webster place. It is thought the family or\\ntheir descendants went to Sandwich.\\nTHE SCRIBNER FAMILY.\\nFIVE BRANCHES.\\nI. Samuel, came from Kingston, and while there he bought\\nland in Salisbury, of Jonathan Sanborn, then a resident of\\nKingston, the deed bearing date of March i, 1753. Soon after\\nthis he erected a log house. On August 17, 1754, he and his\\nfellow-workman, Robert Barber, were captured by the Indians,\\nwhile engaged in haying on what is called the Proctor mead-\\now, now owned by Elbridge Shaw on North road. (See pages\\n246-24S.) After his return from captivity he went to Kingston,\\nwhere he found his wife and children. Previous to his capture\\nhe got out the timber for his large frame house, and after visit-\\ning his family he returned and put up the house located on the\\nNorth road and known as the Proctor house. It is said that\\nwhen he came here his family consisted of a wife and six small\\nchildren, to which number one was added after his removal\\nhere. From old records I find a Samuel Scribner married at\\nKingston, Nov. 4, 1740, Hannah Webster, said to be a cousin of\\nDaniel Webster.\\n2. Hannah, b. marriage intention published Jan. 4, 1766, to Samuel Raino,\\nof New Britain, Andover.)\\n3. Iddo, b. in 1751. See.\\n4. Josiah m. (i) Webster; m. (2) widow Farmer, nee Mary A. White. Child-\\nren b. in Andover: i. Samuel. 11. Josiah. in. Parker, iv. William.\\nChildren by second wife: v. Benjamin F. vi. Isaac W., a physician\\nand author, vii. Jonathan F. vni. Phebe. ix. Hannah, x. Arethusia.\\nXI. Polly. XII. Mary A.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0872.jp2"}, "849": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 775\\n5. Ebenezer, moved to Tunbridge, Vt. m. and returned to Andover.\\n6. Susan, m. Webster. 7. m. Rowe.\\n(3) Iddo (Capt.) went to the west part of the town to settle,\\nbuilding the house now (18S9) occupied by Jesse Stev-\\nens, remaining until 1820-1, when he removed to Ando-\\nver. Died Feb. 5, 1831, (see Revolutionary war record)\\nm. (i) Dec. 30, 1773, widow Judith Brown. By her pre-\\nvious marriage she had Laban, b. Jan. 31, 1770, who m.\\nAug. 22, 1793, Sarah Danforth and removed to Wilmot.\\nCapt. Iddo m. (2) widow Huldah (Morse) Jewett, of Ips-\\nwich, Mass., who had by previous marriage Fanny, who\\nm. Brown, of Beech hill, Andover. Children by first\\nwife\\n8. Jonathan, b. April i8, 1775. 9. Ebenezer, b. May 23, 1777; both rem. to Vt.\\n10. Johannah, b. March 20, 1779; d. unm. (A Johannah Scribner m. May 22,\\n1823, John Peasley, of Sutton.)\\n11. Iddo, b. Sept. 20, 1780. See. 12. Samuel, b. June 20, 17S2. See.\\n13. Josiah, b. Dec. 5, 1784; m. (i) Charity, who, tradition says, was an Indian; he\\nd. at Henniker.\\nChildren by second wife\\n14. Jeremiah J., b. April 5, 1814. See. 15. Eunice P., b. m. Jonathan Morrill.\\n(11) Iddo resided in the old Fifield house at North road and\\nremoved to Vt. Married and had\\n16. Polly, m. (i) Hardy; m. (2) 17. Abraham, resided at Pittsfield.\\niS. Martha, m. Carlton Kendall, and resided at Wilton, Me.\\n19. Sinclair, resided at Worcester, Mass.\\n20. Phebe, m. (i) Hardy; m. (2) Possibly this and 16 are the same.)\\n21. Iddo, removed to Maine. 22. Judith, d. unm. 23. Daniel, d. unm.\\n(12) Samuel, m. Hannah Peaslee children all born here; he\\nremoved to Wilmot and d. she returned to Salisbury\\nand d. in 1852.\\n24. Martha, b. in 1809; m. in 1840, Bailey Corliss; she d. in 1845.\\n25. Judith, b. in 181 1 m. in 1841, Nathaniel Buzzell, of Wilmot, where she resides.\\n26. Charlotte, b. in 1813; m. Feb. 21, 1S3S, Sylvester Fowler; she d. at Wilmot.\\n27. Samuel, b. in 181 5; m. in 1S44, Lydia McKean he d. in 1846.\\n28. Lucinda, b. in 1S19; m. in 1841, Robert Currier.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0873.jp2"}, "850": {"fulltext": "yy^ HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n29. Moses B., (Rev.) b. March 22, 1825, sought and found the\\nSaviour in early life and consecrated himself to the ser-\\nvice of the Lord, uniting with the Christian church at\\nWest Salisbury, over which church he was ordained in\\n1857, preaching as opportunity offered in surrounding\\ntowns and particularly at Wilmot, where he formed a\\nChristian church, the pastoral charge of which he held\\njointly with the church in Salisbury. He then went to\\nWebster for five years, and thence to Somerset, Mass.,\\ntwo years, and while there was invited to settle at the\\nBroad Street Christian Church, at Providence, R. I,,\\nwhere he had a much larger sphere of usefulness, and\\nsince that time preaching in several places in that state.\\nHe possesses a commanding presence, a powerful and\\nmusical voice, a logical mind, and a large, warm, chris-\\ntian heart. He m. (i) in 1847, Sarah E. Farwell, of\\nNashua m. (2) in 1849, Mary A. Kendrick, of Littleton\\nm. (3) Sylvia C. Perry, of Henniker. He has four sons\\nand two daughters.\\n(14) Jeremiah Jewett, children all b. in Salisbury; removed\\nto Andover and d. April 28, 1861 m. Nov. 28, 1833,\\nElizabeth, dau. of Daniel and Polly Stevens she d. May\\n23, 1881.\\n30. Lucy M., b. March 28, 1836; m. in April, 1S54, Daniel Roberts; she d.\\nAug, 28, 1867.\\n31. Clarinda B., b. Feb. 4, 1838 m. Heman Sanborn and resided at Webster d.\\n32. Asenath H., b. May 5, 1840; m. in 1856, Moses Colby.\\n33. Huldah, b. March 19, 1842, and d. young.\\n34. Huldah, b. Jan. 11, 1844; d. Aug. 30, 1861. 35. Harriet A., b. May 10, 1846.\\n36. Daniel G., b. May 22, 1S48; m. Dec. 25, 1868, Mary L., dau. of True Flan.\\nders, of Warner, and resides in W^ebster.\\n37. George S., b. Dec. i, 1849; m. (i) Jan. 26, 1876, Nellie F., dau. of Capt. Isaac\\nSanborn. See.) She d. Feb. 15, 1883. He m. (2) Adelaide Greeley.\\n38. Betsey A., b. April 23, 1S51 m. April 31, 1873, I^ewis Haines, of Chichester\\nhe d. June 16, 1875.\\n29. Lydia F., b. Oct. 22, 1853; m. March 30, 1876, Benjamin Buzzell; he d. in\\nApril, 1881.\\n40. Morrill D., b. March 19, 1857; m. Delia G. Scott.\\n41. Walter C, b. April 18, i860, and d. young.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0874.jp2"}, "851": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY J J\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n42 Edward Scribner, brother of John (69) and possibly of\\nBenjamin, (89) removed here from Kingston and settled\\nat the west part of the town known as Scribner s\\ncorner, while the Maloon family were in captivity,\\nbeing the second settler at that part of the town. For\\nhis war record the reader is referred to the chapter on\\nthe revolutionary war. He m. Oct. 31, 1763, Shuah, dau.\\nof Sinkler Bean. The dates of death are not known.\\n43. Shuah, b. Sept. 3, 1765. 44. Mary, b. Dec. 31, 176S; m. Clifford.\\n45. Hannah, b. Oct, 28, 1770; m. Benjamin Webster and removed to Maine.\\n46. Edward, b. Oct. 3, 1774; m. Feb. 2, 1796, Mary Richardson. The family\\nlived on the road to the Watson district.\\n47. Dolly, b. March 31, 1776; m. Jan. 8, 1S04, Isaac Livingston, of Unity.\\n48. Stephen, b. Sept. 20, 1778; m. Savory Fox, of Enfield.\\n49. Ebenezer, b. April 7, 17S4; m. and lived and d. in Montpelier, Vt.\\n50 and 51. Eunice and Benjamin, b. Dec, 9, 1786. Eunice m. Bartholomew Stev-\\nens and removed to Washington, Vt. Benjamin remained on the home-\\nstead and d. Nov. 23, 1S56; m. March 31, 1801, Martha I easley, who was\\nb. Nov. 15, 1786, and d. Aug. 28, 1854.\\n52. Oilman, b. Sept. 14, 1807; m. (i) Jan. 16, 1S34, Louisa Bacon; m. (2) Per-\\nry; m. (3) Harriet Abbott, of Concord; he d. at Henniker, June 26, 1881.\\n53. Hiram, b. April 13, 1809; d. Nov. 10, 1812,\\n54. Eunice, b. March 4, iSii; m. March 31, 1833, Humphrey Mason; she d.\\nMarch 9, iSSi.\\n55. Daniel S., b. May 20, 1813. See.\\n56. Shuah, b. July 31, 181 5; m. Feb. 27, 1825, Samuel Frasier.\\n57. Hiram, b. July 13, 1S18. See.\\n58. Dorothy, b. Oct. 17, 1820; m. Feb. i, 1S41, Oliver Elkins; shed. Sept. 6, 1849.\\n59. Roxanna, b. Feb. 5, 1S22; m. Nov. 30, 1S43, John F. Berry, of Henniker; she\\nd. March 3, 1851.\\n60. George W., b. July 2, 1824; m. Nov. 21, 1851, Betsey Fellows, and resides at\\nChandler, Wis.\\n61. Julia A., b. Nov. 25, 1S27 d. Dec. 20, 184S.\\n(55) Daniel S. resided for a time in Maine, then returned\\nto the homestead and carried on the farm. W\\\\ the chil-\\ndren were b. in .Salisbury. Me. d. May 14, 1S49; m.\\nFeb. I, 183S, Polly Pcasley, who d. Oct. 12, 1 841, aged 27.\\n62. Mary J. 63. Lorenzo. Both d. unm.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0875.jp2"}, "852": {"fulltext": "778 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(57) Hiram (Capt.) m. (i) Nov. i6, 1849, Mary C. Little, of\\nBoscawen she d. Nov. 3, 185 1, aged 31; m. (2) March\\nII, 1852, Harriet Batchelder, who resides at Carman,\\nMinn. He d. June 29, 1869.\\n64. Elisha B., b. Aug. 26, 1S52. 65. Herrick C, b. Nov. S, 1S54.\\n66. Lewis D., b. May 4, 1856; d. July 22, 1863. 67. Fred. E., b. Dec. 2, 1859.\\n68. Mary H., b. Nov. 22, 1862.\\nTHIRD BRANCH.\\nJohn Scribner removed here after his brother Edward, settling\\non the farm now occupied by Zachariah, and building\\npart of the present house. He was a famous hunter\\nand many stories are told of his exploits. He m. March\\n10, 1774, Mehitable Clifford, who d. Dec. 26, 1797.\\n70. Molly, b. Oct. 6, 1775; m. Jacob Tucker and removed to Orange, Vt.\\n71. Mehitable, b. Dec. 26, 1776. d. Jan. 29, 1864, unm.\\n72. Zachariah, b. July 25, 1780; d. March 16, 1850, unm.\\n73. John, b. May 31, 1781. See.\\n74. Rachel, b. Sept. 3, 1785; m. (i) Nov. 27, 1806, Benaiah Peasley; m. (2) B. R.\\nDavis.\\n75. William C, b. April 5, 1788. See.\\n76. Sarah, b. Sept. 2, 1790; m. Jan. 24, 1815, Abraham Peasley and removed to\\nSutton.\\n77. Rhoda, b. Sept. 20, 1792; m. Dec. i, 1814, John Littlehale and removed to Vt.\\n(73) John remained on the farm and d. Dec. 13, 1841 he m.\\n(i) Polly Peasley; m. (2) Feb. 15, 1815. Hannah C.\\nWright, of Newport, where she was b. Sept. 4, 1789; d.\\nJan. 25, 1859.\\n78. Sylvester P., b. Jan. 29, 1820; m. April 30, 1844, Sarah Buswell, of Goffstown,\\nwhere she resides. He resided opposite the Jesse Stevens place, where\\nthe children were born; removed to Goffstown and d. March 28, 1875.\\nChildren: I. Lydia F., b. April 12, 1845; d. Sept. 8, 1845. II.\\nMary F., b. April 24, 1847, d resides at Goffstown. in. Nellie H.,\\nb. Aug. 11, 1849; r)ec. 25, 1873, Taylor Pierce, and resides in Goffs-\\ntown. IV. Sarah J., b. Aug. 5, 1S56; m. Nov. 20, 1877, Byron H. Cram\\nand resides in Goffstown.\\n79. Polly, b. March 29, 1816; d. May 3, 1878, unm.\\n80. Mehitable, b. Jan. 9. 1818; d. May 10, 1865, unm.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0876.jp2"}, "853": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 779\\n81. Edwin, b. July 2, 1822; m. (r) 1S4S; m. {2) Mrs. Mary A. Heath; m. (3) July\\n1856, Abbie 15. Morrill. Child: Mary A., b. in Salisbury; m. Geo. Good-\\nhue, of Manchester, where he d. May 2, 1878.\\n82. Lydia M., b. July 5, 1824; m. Robert F. Hatchelder. See.\\n83. John P. D., b. March 30, 1827; resides at Worcester, Mass.\\n84. Zachariah C, b. May 26, 1829, and resides on the homestead.\\n(75) William C. resided in the Jesse Stevens house, where he\\nd. Jan. 7, 1842 m. Polly Peasley, who d. Oct. 31, 1850.\\n85. Zachariah, b. m. Judith Sawyer.\\n86. Mary A., b. d. Dec. 14, 1S33, aged 20. (A Mary A. Scribner m. Nov. 4,\\n1S27, William B. Fraser.)\\n87. Almeda, b. in 1S23; m. Benjamin Livingston.\\n88. Charles, b. m. Susan Bean and removed west.\\nFOURTH BRANCH.\\n89. Benjamin Scribner resided near Scribner s corner. He\\nm. (i) Feb. 23, 1770, Margaret Clifford, who d. Oct. 20,\\n1776; m. {2) second wife d. Aug. 26, 1803.\\n90. Rachel, b. Feb. 7, 177 1.\\n91. Benjamin, b. Nov. ii, 1772; m. April i, 181S, Rachel Stevens and removed to\\nCorinth, Vt.\\n92. Sarah, b. Oct. 4, 1774. 93. Margaret, b. Sept. 20, 1776.\\nFIFTH BRANCH.\\n94 Thomas Scribner as early as 1765 resided in town, near its\\nnorthern boundary with Andover. The following, from\\na letter written by Albert G. Scribner, of Ogden. N. Y.,\\ncontains all the information I have been able to gather\\nconcerning him or his descendants Thomas Scribner,\\nof Andover, was my grandfather. I have no history\\nback of 1760 or 1765, and that I take from the birth of\\nmy father, who was a son of Thomas. He was born\\nMay 12, 1767, married when about twenty, and died May\\nII, 1853, aged 86. His mother s name was Hannah\\nDay. Thomas had two sons and four daughters, David\\nthe eldest. Jonathan was married and was drowned\\nsoon after; Mehitable married a Dudley Hannah mar-\\nried a Roberts; Oily married a Keyser Rachel I have", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0877.jp2"}, "854": {"fulltext": "780 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nno account of. I have no record of the time of births,\\nmarriages, or deaths of any except my father. They all\\ndied long ago. My parents resided in Andover, at a\\nplace called Beech hill, where they raised a family of\\nnine children to man and womanhood. I had four broth-\\ners and four sisters; they are all dead but one my\\nyoungest brother. At the time Mr. Scribner wrote the\\nabove letter he was in his eighty-third year.\\nTHE SHAW FAMILY.\\nRoger Shaw was at Cambridge, Mass., in 1636, and removed\\nto Hampton, N. H., being one of the petitioners to the general\\ncourt in 1638. The family came originally from Scotland. The\\nearliest record I have of this family is that of four brothers\\nI. Caleb, grandfather of Elder Abijah Shaw, one of whose\\ndaughters married Ladd and removed to Andover. 11. Elisha.\\nIII. Moses. IV. Gideon, who lived and died at Hampton.\\n1. Benjamin Shaw was a resident of Sandown m. Follans-\\nbee and had\\n2. Edward, a deacon at Newbury; m. and had a large family.\\n3. Benjamin. See.\\n4. Thomas, m. settled at Hartford, Vt., and had a large family.\\n5. Joshua, b. remained on the homestead; had no children.\\n6. Joseph, b. and d. at Sandown, unm.\\n7. Hannah, b. m. Sanborn, and resided at Sandown. Had i. Newell.\\nII. Russell. III. Joshua, and two girls, one of whom m. Badger and\\nresided at Gilmanton, and one m. Page and lived in Danville.\\n(3) Lieut. Benjamin was b. at Sandown in 1758, where he m.\\nSarah, dau. of John and Lizzie (Sargent) Sanborn. He\\nremoved to Weare, and in 181 5 to Salisbury, settling at\\nwhat was called in his honor Shaw s Corner, and pur-\\nchasing the Edward Quimby house,- which was destroyed\\nby fire in 1875. He d. in 1825; she d. April 16, i860,\\naged 96. When the battle of Bunker Hill occurred she", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0878.jp2"}, "855": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0879.jp2"}, "856": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0880.jp2"}, "857": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 78I\\nsat upon her father s woodpile at Sandown and heard\\nthe firing.\\n8. John, b. at Sandown, May 22, 1785. See.\\n9. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 27. 1788; m. John Sanborn.\\n10. Benjamin, b. at Weare, Dec. 6, 1791. See. 11. Sanborn, b. Feb. 20, 1793. See.\\n12. George, b. Feb. 27, 1795. 3- Dimond, b. April 5, 1798. See.\\n14. Abram, b. April 20, 1800. See.\\n15. Eliphalet, b. Aug. 9, 1803, d. young.\\n16. Ira, b. March 2, 1805; m. Sept. 6, 1832, Hannah Heath and settled on Rac-\\ncoon hill. Had: I. Helen. 11. Roxanna. in. Leonard. Removed west\\nwhere he died.\\n(8) John, familiarly known as Farmer John, first settled in\\nAndover, his deed bearing date of Dec. lo, i8ir, of lot\\nNo. 57, first range. Early in 1815 he removed to Salis-\\nbury, settling on the farm now (1889) occupied by his\\ngrandson Jarvis B., erecting the present buildings in 183 1,\\nbeing t)ie first of the family who settled on the hill. In\\nstature he was tall and stoutly built, a great worker, and\\nwas held in high estimation by his townsmen. He was\\nan active member of the Baptist church. Died March\\n31, 1869; m. (i) Abigail Nichols, who was b. at Bow in\\n1789, and d. Nov. 26, 1842; m. (2) widow Nancy Phil-\\nbrick, who d. Aug. 7, 1865 m. (3) the widow of Stephen\\nSawyer, (see.)\\n17. Lorena, d. young. i8. Oliver, b in Weare, March 5, iSii. See.\\n19. Sanborn, b. in Andover, May i, 1814. See.\\n20. Eliphalet, b. in Salisbury, Aug. 29, 1818; d. Sept. 27, 18S8. See.\\n21. Augustus, b. March 26, 182 1, and removed to Andover, April 30, 1S57 m.\\nFeb. 12, 1S46, Mary Tucker, who was born at Andover, Dec. 4, 1 821.\\nHe d. July 22, 1889. Children: I. George F., b. July 26, 1S47, and m.\\nOct. 7, 1880, Esther R. Hill, of Bristol. 11. Rhoda L., b. Dec. 16, 1849.\\nin. Watson D., b. June 23, 1859; d. Dec. 23, 1862.\\n22. Eliza A., b. July 23, 1824; d. Sept. 20, 186S; m. Jan. 27, 1S4S, Augustus C.\\nPettengill. See.\\n23. Mary J., b. Aug. 29, 1827 m. March i, 1849, James W. .Sanborn she d. Sept-\\n26, 1 888.\\n(10) Benjamin settled on the Joseph Swcatt place, the property\\neventually coming into the possession of George Shaw.\\nThe buildings were destroyed by fire in the summer of", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0881.jp2"}, "858": {"fulltext": "782 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n1879. He afterwards removed to Shaw s Corner, where\\nhe d. Dec. 17, 1846; m. April 29, 18 17, Ann Fellows,\\nwho was b. at Deerfield, Oct. 24, 1787, and d. at Frank-\\nlin, April 8, 1882, aged 95.\\n24. Elizabeth, b. April 20, 181S; d. Oct. 21, 1828.\\n25. Benjamifi F., b. Feb. 2, 1820; d. March 31, 1826.\\n26. Sarah A., b. March 28, 182?; m. (i) April 20, 1S46, William McDougall, of\\nGoffstown; m. (2) Aug. iS, 1866, John C. Moulton, of Laconia.\\n27. Hiram, b. July 13, 1824. See.\\n28. Catharine, b. May 14, 1826; m. May 27, 1846, Joshua W. Brown, of Concord,\\nMass.\\n29. Francis, b. Sept. 22, 1830; m. (i) April 25, 1S53, Martha J. Upham, of\\nAmherst; m. (2) Nov. 24, 1855, Julia A. Fifield he d. at Franklin, Feb.\\n17, 1S81.\\n(i i) Sanborn settled on the site now occupied by Kale P.\\nShaw, removed to the Osgood farm on North road and\\nthence to the famous water cure at Hill. Late\\nin life he removed to Northfield, and d. Feb. 5,\\n1 88 1. He was a thoroughly honorable, upright man,\\nwho through life never experienced enough sickness to\\nemploy a physician. Married (i) Oct. 19, 1819, Nancy\\nA. Sherburne, of Salisbury, who d. in 1841 m. (2) Oct.\\n1843, widow Louisa (Smith) Evans, of Northfield, who\\nd. June 2, 1880.\\n30. Elvira, b. Aug. 16, 1820; m. (i) in 1844, George Farrington, of Newton, who\\nwas killed at the battle of the Wilderness, in 1865; m. (2) in Oct., 1867.\\nJohn Washburn. She d. June 24, 1874.\\n31. Emeline, b. May 4, 1822; m. in 1847, John Washburn, of Swampscott, Mass.,\\nwhere she d. June 29, 1866.\\n32. Nancy, b. June 16, 1823; d. in March, 1857, unm.\\n33. Elbridge, b. Sept. 17, 1825; m. April 3, 1S51, Ann L. Evans, of Northwood.\\nHe resides on the Osgood farm at North road. Children i. Emma L.t\\nb. Jan. 30, 1852; m. Sargent, of Danbury. 11. Addie E., b. Nov. 6,\\n1857 m. Nov. 3, 1877, Frank P. Chase and resides in Danbury. in. Grace\\nA., b. Jan. 2, 1861. iv. Elwyn,b. May 29, 1866; d. March 5, 1867. v. Josie\\nC, b. Feb. 10, 1868. VI. Herman W., b. Dec. 7, 1872.\\n34. Harry, b. Oct. 4, 1827; m. April 17, 1856, Adaline Evans. Children: i. Her-\\nbert W., b. in Salisbury, July 16, 1857; d. at Northfield, Nov. 9, 1885.\\nII. Frank W., b. at Northfield, Sept. 30, 1862.\\n35. Warren, b. Feb. 23, 1829; d. Nov. 28, 1848.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0882.jp2"}, "859": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 783\\n36. Sarah, b, April 30, 1S31 d. June 22, 1853.\\n37. Lucy J., b. Nov. 22, 1833; m. Moses F. Little. See.\\n38. Peter B., b. July 31, 1836; m. Nov. 15, iS6t, Sarah E. Gealucia.\\n39. Arabella V., b. July 6, 1847 m. Daniel Smith. 40. Warren, b.\\n(12) George m. Aug. 25, 1825, Sarah Sanborn, who d. Jan. 26,\\n1879 he d.\\n41. Darius B. F., b. Feb. 3, 1826; m. Jan. 6, 1853, Relief W. Nelson, b. at Bristol,\\nMay 10, 1829. Children: i. Adoniram, b. Dec. 9, 1853; d. Jan. 15, 1857.\\nII. Charles, b. June 22, 1855. ill. Naomi A., b. Nov. 8, 1858; m. Oct. 10,\\n188S, William Holmes, iv. Oscar F., b. Dec. 20, 1862; m. Nov. 28, 1888,\\nMrs. Lue French, v. Sarah, b. Dec. 16, 1S64.\\n42. George W., b. March 7, 1828; m. Eliza Durrell, of Laconia, where he was a\\nmerchant; d. at Salisbury, ^L-lrch 10, 1S65. She m. (2) N. A. Richardsoni\\nof Concord.\\n43. Charles A. J., b. Nov. 16, 1829; m. Oct. 19, 1863, Kate P. Pcttengill, of\\nAndover; he d. Aug. 5, 1873.\\n44. Hale P., b. May 28, 1831. See.\\n45. Rhoda A. F., b. March 4, 1838; d. Aug. 5, 1840.\\n46. Lyman B. W., b. May 28, 1844.\\n47. Adoniram J., b. April 2, 1846; d. Nov. 13, 1848.\\n(13) Dimond came to SaHsbury in 1826, settling on the site\\nnow occupied by Frederick C. Shaw, removed to Hill and\\nd. May 13, 1874; m. (i) May 21, 1826, Rachel Dresser,\\nwho was b. at Sutton, June 9, 1798, and d. Nov. 14,\\n185 I m. (2) Feb. 26, 1852, Mrs. Sarah Ouimby, of Hill.\\n48. John, b. at Sutton, Sept. 14, 1S26; m. Dec. 23, 1869, Barbara Glass, and\\nresides at Avery, Mich.\\n49. Mary C, b. Jany. 6, 1S2S; m. Feb. 19, 1852, Moses F. Little. See.\\n50. Frederick C, b. June 12, 1832. See.\\n51. Abigail M., b. Oct. 25, 1S32 d. June 20, 1842.\\n(14) Abram resided on the G. B. Roby farm and d. Dec. 16,\\n1871 m. (i)Dec. 22, 1828, Hannah Fifield, who d. Nov.\\nI, 1857; m. (2) April 23, 1863, Betsey Emerson, who d.\\nFeb. 17, 18S1. Children by first wife:\\n52. Adaline E., b. Oct. 5, 1829; m. Feb. 19, 1S52, William A. Batchelder and\\nresides at East .Andover.\\n53. Alfred F., b. Sept. iS, 1831 d. July i, 1S34.\\n54. Amanda W. F., b. May 28, 1S33; m. Sept. 28, 1852, James Morrison, of Ply.\\nmouth, and resides in Dakota.\\n55. Hannah A., b. Feb. 5, 1S35; m. April 5, 1855, Mason W. Cass; d. May 14, 1S56.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0883.jp2"}, "860": {"fulltext": "784 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n56. Mary S., b. Oct. 16, 1S36; m. April 6, 1869, E. G. Emery, who d. Dec. 26, 1877\\nshe resides at East Andover.\\n57. Vesta L., b. May 14, 1838; m. John C. Smith. See.\\n58. Amos v., h. Jan. 14, 1S40; m. May 28, 1868, Josephine Moulton, and resides\\nin Dakota.\\n59. Alfred M., b. Nov. 18, 1841 m. Maria Morgan d. May 28, 1876.\\n60. Calvin G., b. Aug. 15, 1843; ^ept. i, 1870, Abby Laughton, and resides in\\nDakota.\\n61. b. Sept. 28, 1S51 d. Dec. 16, 1851.\\n(18) Oliver came here with hi.s parents and m. April 16, 1834,\\nJane Stanwood, of Boscawen. He resided in the old\\nDavid Prince house, afterwards in the west part of the\\ntown, and Nov. 16, 1837, removed to the H. P. Shaw\\nfarm he finally removed to St. Paul, Minn., and d. April\\n25, 1855. Children all b. here:\\n62. Francis, resides in St. Paul, Minn. 63. Henry D., d. in the army, unm.\\n64. Mary J., m. Lorenzo Fifield. 65. Benjamin, m. widow Ackerman.\\n66. Eliza. 67. Maria.\\n(19) Sanborn, m. Nov. 23, 1837, Salina, dau. of Dea. James\\nSeverance, (see.) He remained on the D. S. Prince\\nfarm until 1843, when he rem. to his present location.\\n68. Sarah J., b. Feb. 9, 1840; m. May 20, 185S, Francis Stevens and resides at\\nNorthfield.\\n69. James S., b. May 28, 1841 m. March 11, 1869, Fanny A. Fellows; he d. Dec.\\n13. 1S73.\\n70. Abbie, b. Dec. 6, 1842; m. March 7, 1867, George F. Weeks and resides at\\nNorthfield.\\n71. Ann J., b. March 28, 1844; m. Sept. 14, 1882, David S. Prince.\\n72. John, b. Jan. 25, 1846. See. Child Lizzie E., who d. Feb. i, 1885.\\n73. Byron, b. Oct. 24, 1847 m. May i, 1873, Nellie S. Oliver, of Salisbury, and\\nresides at Northfield. Child Everett S., b. Jan., 1888.\\n74. True, b. Aug. 25, 1849; m. March, 2, 1880, Mary A. Hersey, who was b. Oct.\\n29, 18\u00e2\u0080\u0094. Child: Ella May, b. Oct. 9, 1885.\\n(20) Eliphalet m. (i) March 14, 1844, Eliza A. Stanwood, of\\nBoscawen, who d. March 24, 1851 m. (2) July 8, 1852,\\nEmily Barney, of Grafton he d. Sept. 27, 1888. Child-\\nren by first wife\\n75. Gerrish, b. June 2, 1845; m. (i) Jennie M. Heath, who d. July 8, 1S76; m.\\n(2) in Feb. 1881, widow P. Heath.\\n76. Dimond, b. April 16, 1848; m. Ida Sargent, of Loudon.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0884.jp2"}, "861": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 785\\nChildren by second wife\\nEmma A., b. July 5, 1853. 78. Jarvis H., b. May 20, 1855.\\nGilbert W., b. May 12, 1857; d. in 1863.\\nJennie M. B., b. Aug. 6, 1859; m. Nov. 25, 1880, Charles F. Taylor.\\nSamuel B., b. Aug. 16, 1861. 82. Salina A., b. Jan. 10, 1863.\\nFlora M., b. July 13, 1864. 84. Eliphalet, b. Aug. 3, 1865; d. in 1865.\\n(27) Hiram m. April 5, 1850, Sarah Simonds, of Manchester.\\nHe died in September, 1889.\\nArthur S. N., b. Sept. 27, 1851 m. Ella Kelly.\\nAnnie, b. Aug. 10, 1853; m. James B. Warren.\\nNellie, b. Jan. 24, 1855; m. Charles Conant. 88. Addie, b. Nov. 23, 1857.\\nEdwin J., b. Sept. 15, iS6o. 90. Walter H., b. Oct. 6, 1865.\\nKate B., b. June 28, 1867. 92. Clara E.. b. Aug. 3, 1870.\\nPhilip F., b. April 13, 1873. 94. Benjamin, b. Dec. 15, 1876.\\n(48) Hale P. m. June i, 1864, Maria Pettengill, of Andover.\\n95. Lucy E., b. April 26, 1865. 96. Henry G., b. Aug. 5, 1866.\\n97. Villa L., b. Oct. 24, 1868. 98. Mary K., b. Sept. 19, 1870.\\n99. Rhoda M., b. July 4, 1872. 100. Frank H., b. May 14, 1S79.\\n(50) Frederick C. m. Feb. 3, 1852, Sarah, dau. of David and\\nSarah (Morrill) Shaw, who was b. at Sanbornton, March\\n5, 1829.\\nloi. Charlotte A., b. Nov. 21, 1853; April 5, 1S76, Gilbert M Sulloway, of\\nGrafton.\\n102. Morgie A., b. Nov. 21, 1S59. 103. Abbie M., b. March 5, 1861.\\n(72) John left the farm and engaged in milling, at the old\\nGookin mills, where by attention to business and\\nkeeping alive to the times he has gained a good reputa-\\ntion throughout the surrounding towns. It is said He\\ncan grind more flour, and of a finer quality with a given\\namount of wheat, than any flour mill in the State.\\nHe certainly does a large business, and our citizens have\\nconfidence in his ability and integrity, which they have\\noften shown by electing him to several town offices,^and\\nas representative in 1883. Married Sept. 21, 1872, [Annie\\nA. Stevens, (see.)\\n104. James S., b. Nov. 2, 1873. 105. Abbie F., b. Nov. 28, 1874.\\n106. Lizzie E., b. Jan. i6, 1S76; d. Feh. i, 1S85.\\n107. Lewis C, b. Jan. 12, 1878.\\n50", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0885.jp2"}, "862": {"fulltext": "jS6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE SMITH FAMILY.\\nFOUR BRANCHES.\\nI. Lieut. Robert removed here from Seabrook. After pur-\\nchasing a farm he returned to his home, married, and in 1768\\npermanently settled here with his wife on the hill named in his\\nhonor, Smith s hill, now in the town of Franklin. It is the\\ntradition that he purchased his farm of Jacob (i*) Morrill, of\\nIndian fame. In 1755, in the expedition against Crown Point,\\nhe served in Capt. John Moore s company (the 7th) from April\\n28 to Nov. 28. At the battle of Bennington he served as\\nsecond lieutenant in Capt. Ebenezer Webster s company. Col.\\nStickney s regiment, and also served with distinction through-\\nout the revolution. Capt. Webster and Lieut. Smith were not\\nonly neighbors but friends and they often consulted together\\nin matters of importance. In religious matters Mr. Smith was\\nintimately connected with the church. He took a prominent\\npart in the affairs of the town, and was one of the selectmen\\nchosen after its incorporation. He married, Sept. 18, 1768,\\nSarah Eaton, who was born at Seabrook, in 1743, and died Feb.\\n25, 1 8 19. She was a woman of remarkable energy, proud of\\nher northern home, exercised good taste and took pleasure in\\nout-of-door exercise. Her flower-garden, which was the first in\\nthe settlement, was noted for the great variety and beauty of\\nits flowers. She also set out black walnut, chestnut and Eng-\\nlish walnut trees, and barbary, currant and gooseberry bushes,\\nbringing the young shrubs with her. She was gifted with a\\nvery retentive memory. The first clock owned in town was\\ngiven to her by her father for a wedding present, and she\\nbrought it up on horseback, making two trips to accomplish\\nthat purpose. He died Nov. 11, 1801.\\n2. Jabez, b. June S, 1769. See.\\n3. Marion, b. July 9, 177 1 m. Oct. 10, 1793, Reuben Morrill, of Canterbury.\\n4. Robert, b. March 20, 1773 m. Oct. 23, 1802, Molly (Mary) Smith, of Seabrook;\\nhe d. Nov. 11, 1S02; she m. (2) Nichols.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0886.jp2"}, "863": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND DIOGRAPHY 787\\n5. Sally (Sarah), b. April iS, 1775; m. Jan. 24, 1797, Samuel Greenleaf; d. Aug.\\n15, 1802\\n6. Richard, b. April 10, 1777; m. settled in Corinth, Vt., where he d.\\n7. Samuel, b. Feb. 20, 1779; m. settled in Corinth, Vt. d. at Hopkinton.\\n8. John, b. May 26, 1783; m. (i) in Portsmouth; rem. to Indiana, thence to\\nOhio returned to S. served in war of 1812 and after its close went west\\nreturned and settled at Hoscawen, where he d. m. (2) Morrill, of\\nCanterbury; m. (3) Dec, 1847, Emily, dau. of Samuel Bridge, of Billerica;\\nshe was a sister of Ezekiel Webster s first wife.\\n(2) Major Jabez built the house ne.xt east of the homestead,\\nwhere he remained until the death of his father, when\\nhe returned and carried on the homestead farm. He d.\\nSept. 20, 1830. Major Smith possessed a commanding\\nfigure, stout and very erect, with a frank and open coun-\\ntenance. He was a most influential and highly-respected\\ncitizen, was a democrat in politics, and much in office,\\nreceiving votes irrespective of party, and conducted the\\ntown s affairs with promptness and fidelity. Married\\nFeb. 10, 1795, Marion, daughter of Joseph Bean, who d.\\nAug. 28, 1846.\\n9. Sarah, b. Aug. 28, 1796; d. Feb. 5, 1S76; unm.\\nID. Polly, b. July 30, 1797; m. Dec. 29, 1817, Stephen Sanborn; d. Feb. 20, 1819.\\n11. Robert, b. Sept. 22, 1798. See.\\n12. Abigail, b. Jan. 4, 1801 m. Gilbert Eastman. See.\\n13. Eliza, b. Sept. 12, 1S03; m. June i, 1S4S, Nathaniel Bean. See.\\n14. Joseph, b. July 21, 1805. See. 15. Charles, b. Aug. 20, 1807. See.\\n16. Lydia, b. Aug. 30, 1812 m. Oct. 25, 1840, Rev. Joseph Elliott.\\n(11) Dr. Robert completed his studies at the Salisbury and\\nPembroke academies, read medicine with Dr. Hoyt, of\\nNorthfield, and attended medical lectures at Dartmouth,\\nreceiving from that college the degree of M. D. in 1827.\\nHe m. in August, 1826, Susan, dau. of Joshua Fifield,\\nand removed to Amesbury, Mass., where he began the\\npractice of his profession, afterwards removing to Hamp-\\nton where his wife d. He m. (2) Hannah, dau. of Abrara\\nMarston, who d. at Hampton, Feb. 7, 1S40. After her\\ndeath Dr. Smith relinquished his practice and removed\\nto Franklin, where he m. (3) Abigail, dau. of Lieut. Ben-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0887.jp2"}, "864": {"fulltext": "788 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\njamin Pettengill, who d. Feb. 22, 1868. After residing\\ntwo years at Franklin he again went to Hampton, and\\nfinally in 1848 removed to Salisbury, residing on the\\nfarm owned by Albert Calef, where he d. April 13, 1873.\\nChildren by first wife\\n17. Susan E., b. at Amesbury, Mass., Oct. 2, 1828 m. Thomas D. Little. See.\\nChildren by second wife\\n18. Mary F., b. at Hampton, Jan. 25, 1838; m. Charles E. Foote. See.\\n19. Charles, b. at Hampton, Oct. i, 1839; is a lawyer; res. River Falls, Wis.\\nChildren by third wife\\n20. Robert, res. Peoria, 111. 21. Benjamin P., res. Marlborough, Mass.\\n22. Joseph, res. Peoria, 111.\\n23 and 24. Sarah and Lucy, b. Sarah m. Robert Morrill res. Canterbury.\\nLucy m. Erdix Smith res. Davenport, Iowa.\\n25. Ellen M., b. 1843 d. July 18, 1848.\\n(14) Deacon Joseph resided in the house now owned by David\\nG. Bean, removing to North Boscawen, then to East\\nConcord, where he d. Feb. 24, 1881. Mr. Smith was a\\nfarmer by occupation, accumulating considerable proper-\\nty, was a deacon of the Congregational church at East\\nConcord, and extensively known through his identity\\nwith the temperance cause. He m. (i) in 1829, Julia A.\\nPettengill, who d. m. (2) Mrs. Mary L. Pecker, dau.\\nof Jonathan Eastman, Esq. She m. (i) Jeremiah Pecker,\\nof East Concord her two living children are Col. J. E.\\nPecker, state agent and correspondent for the Boston\\nJournal, and George B., of Boston, Mass. She d. Jan.\\n15, 1880. Children by first wife\\n26. Jabez, b. in S. Jan. 22, 1S30 d. Dec. 17, 185S. 27. Jane, d. young.\\n28. Matilda R., b. Sept. 20, 1835; m. May 13, 1S63, Major Ai B. Thompson.\\n29. Jennie P., b. Oct. 22, 1840; d. Jan. 29, 1S64; m. Aug. 14, 1S61, J. Ware But-\\nterfield, Esq.\\n30. Julia A., d. young.\\n(15) Charles remains on the ancestral homestead; m. April\\n28, 1840, Jeanette Long Mann. He d. Oct. 19, 1889.\\n31. John C, b. May 2, 1842 m. Jan. 3, 1862, Vesta Shaw; two children.\\n32. Elbridge, b. Sept. 19, 1844 m. Dec. 23, 187 1, Emma, dau. of Daniel J. Calef;\\nthree children.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0888.jp2"}, "865": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 789\\n33. Warren, b. July 26, 1S54; d. March 30, 1S82.\\n34. Mary J., b. April 16, 1857 m. Warren C. Webster. See.\\n35. Charles J., b. Jan. 24, i86g; drowned Aug. 31, 1S89.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n35- John Smith was a native of Old Ipswich, Mass., and was b.\\nNov. 13, 1749; m. Mary A. Pike, of Salisbury, Mass.,\\nwhere she was b. Oct. 4, 1753, and d. Aug. 26, 1836.\\nShortly after his marriage Mr. Smith removed to old\\nSalisbury, and thence to New Salisbury, (as this town\\nwas at that time frequently called) just after the associa-\\ntion test act, settling on land he had purchased of Fran-\\ncis Green, of Boston. This land was a 60-acre lot, No.\\n28, in the second range. The deed bears date of Feb.\\n22, 1775, and the consideration was ^1^45 L. M. He\\nserved at Bunker Hill, and entered the army after his\\nremoval here, as per the following receipt, June 30, 1780:\\nThis day rec d of the Town of Salisbury four hundred\\nand fifty Dollars as a bounty from said Town for enlist-\\ning into the Continental army six months, signed John\\nSmith. Feb. 26, 1784, he purchased an eighty-acre lot,\\nNo. 60, first range, for ^^105. This land is now owned\\nby his descendants, on a part of which the Union meet-\\ning house stands. Quite early he located opposite Zach-\\nariah Scribner s, but, swapping that location with\\nEbenezer Johnson, he removed to the site now occupied\\nby his descendants, where he d. Nov. 30, 1832.\\n36. Samuel, b. Sept. 30, 1776. See.\\n37. Moses, b. Sept. 17, 1778; marriage intention published\\nMay 25, 1800, to Mary Burbank. He settled near her\\nfather s in the present town of Webster, where he had\\nI. Moses. II. Jeremiah C, after which he returned to\\nSalisbury, settling near his father, in. Silas, b. in Salis-\\nbury, Dec. 15, 1807 resided at Taftsville, Vt., where he\\nd. Jan. I, 1 881. After the birth of Silas, Mr. Smith", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0889.jp2"}, "866": {"fulltext": "790 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nreturned to Webster, where the remainder of his children\\nwere born. She d. April 5, 1817; he m. (2) Nancy, dau.\\nof John Sweat, of Salisbury. After the death of Mr.\\nSmith she m. Abram Pierce, of Norwich, Vt. iv. Mary\\nL., b. in Webster, Sept. 5, 1809; m. Joshua Bean, (see.)\\nV. Caleb P., b. in Webster, Oct. 5, 18 10. At the age of\\nten years he came to live with his grandfather, remain-\\ning six years, then went to Concord to learn the printer s\\ntrade with Jacob Bailey and Henry Eaton Moore. (By\\na singular succession of events this history is now being\\npublished by the youngest son and sole living descend-\\nant of H. E. Moore.) He shortly returned to Deacon\\nWilliam Parsons, (see) to learn the cabinet maker s trade\\nbut finding the trade too hard he attended the first term\\nof the Instructors School, under the tutorship of Ben-\\njamin M. Tyler. After this he taught four terms in\\nSanbornton, where he was called a most excellent\\nteacher, He taught the Salisbury academy for the\\nyear 1833, when he removed to Wilmot and became a\\nmerchant, then sold out and removed to New London,\\nwhere he did a large mercantile business. He m. (i)\\nEliza A. George, (see); m. (2) Eunice N. Clark, of\\nFranklin. From New London he removed to that part\\nof Sanbornton, now Tilton, where he engaged in trade.\\nHis wife d. there, leaving three children. After his\\nsecond marriage he removed to Laconia and successfully\\nedited the Belknap Gazette. Obtaining a clerkship\\nthrough Daniel Webster, he removed to Washington, D.\\nC, and became Webster s private Secretary. Mr. Smith\\nwas a great scholar, familiar with the choicest literature,\\nand possessed of a remarkable memory. In politics he\\nwas a whig and rendered his party valuable service. He\\nhad also fine musical abilities, appearing before large\\naudiences, vi. Samuel, b. in Webster, Aug. 22, 181 3\\nd. at Woodstock, Vt., Feb. 12, 1882; m. vii. John,\\nb. in July, 1815 d. in 1816. viii. Sarah, b. April 2,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0890.jp2"}, "867": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 79I\\n1817, and d. young, ix. Nancy S., by second wife, b.\\nOct. 30, 1820; m. J. N. Buxton, of Manchester; d. Sept.\\n20, 1850.\\n38. John, b. Feb. 16, 1781 m. Miriam Bean d. May 23, 1864.\\n39. Daniel, b. March 22, 1784; m. Pike. One son, Daniel A., res. Newbury-\\nport, Mass.\\n40. Benjamin, b. July 20, 17S7. See. 41. Caleb, b. Aug. i, 1789. See.\\n42. Mary, b. Oct. 11, 1793; (0 Dec. 31, j8ii, Andrew Pettengill; he d. Jan.\\n22, 1817 she m. (2) Capt. Elias Pike, of Xewburyport, Mass. d. June\\n26, 1844. 43. Silas, b. Oct. 29, 1796; d. Oct. 7, 1802.\\n(36) Samuel remained on the farm and m. Shuah Bean, who\\nd. Dec. 31, 1847; he d. March 8, 1848.\\n44. Elias Pike, b. Feb. 20, 1S02 m. (1) Feb. 3, 1829, Mary Adams, who d. Aug.\\n12, 1859; m. (2) May J. Austin, of Webster; he remained on the home-\\nstead, and d. Sept. 28, 1885. Children I. Austin P., b. Nov. 17, 1862.\\nII. Mary F., b. April 19, 1864 d. aged 8.\\n(40) Benjamin m. Feb. 12, 1818, Abigail Call, who was b. Jan.\\n21, 1796, and d. Oct. 27, 1849. He remained in Salis-\\nbury until 1833, when with his family he removed to\\nBoscawen he d. March 27, 1872.\\nEmeline, b. Oct. 28, 1818; d. Sept. 7, 1820.\\nJohn F., b. Feb. 15, 1821 d. July 9, 1842.\\nLeonard R., b. June 22, 1823 d. April 23, 1842.\\nEmeline, b. April 2, 1S27 m. Jeffers; res. South T.amworth, Vt.\\nMay J., b. in Boscawen, Feb. 16, 1S41.\\n(41) Caleb resided a mile southwest of the homestead, in the\\nCouch district he purchased of his brother John, March\\n26, 1 82 1, one-half acre of land opposite the Meloon s,\\nthen removed to the Rolfe farm on High street, in Bos-\\ncawen, now occupied by Francis Colby. While a resi-\\ndent at Boscawen he served as selectman six years and\\nrepresentative two years, and with Simeon Little was a\\ndelegate to revise the state constitution in 1850. Re-\\nturning to Salisbury in the fall of i860 he purchased the\\nfarm since occupied by his son, Caleb K. Smith, where he\\nd. Oct. 23, 1873. On the 26th of August previous to his\\ndeath he was taken with a paralytic shock, which left the", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0891.jp2"}, "868": {"fulltext": "792 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nmuscles of the throat in a rigid condition, preventing\\nhim from receiving any nourishment, and only by the\\nmost strenuous effort was he able to swallow any water.\\nIn this condition he remained fifty-six days. He m.\\nMarch 30, 181 5, Mehitable, dau. of Samuel Eaton, who\\nd. June 6, 1864. Children b. in Salisbury\\n50. Charlotte H., b. Aug. i, 1817 m. Sept. 4, 1839, Jonathan Arey d. March\\n9, 1864.\\n51. Lucy A., b. Oct. 4, 1819; m. Oct. 4, 1843, Jeremiah Rolfe res. Boscawen.\\n52. Caleb E., b. May 28, 1822. See.\\n53. Mary E., b. Aug. 31, 1824; m. June 25, 1856, David Rolfe, of Webster; d.\\nJan. 2, 1877. He d.\\n54. Susan J., b. Sept. i, 1827; m. May 23, 1S50, Charles B. Little, of Webster;\\nd. March 17, 1863.\\n(51) Caleb E. returned here with his parents, residing for a\\nshort time at the west part of the town, then returning\\nto Centre Road. In July, 1864, he purchased the\\nstage and mail route of Mr. Bennett, and with a slight\\nexception operated the line until 1880. In 1871-3 he\\nattended the general court, and also for three years\\nserved as selectman. Upon the establishment of the\\npost office at Centre road h^ was appointed deputy post-\\nmaster, in which position he has since continued, to the\\nentire satisfaction of his townsmen. He m. Nov. 15,\\n1849, Charlotte A. West. (See West genealogy.)\\n55. Joseph Henry, an adopted son, b. in Boscawen Jan. 23, 1853 m. Dec. 28, 1876,\\nLaura A. Severance res. on the Archelaus Adams farm three children.\\n56. Francis, b. d. Feb. 19, i860.\\n57. Charles P., b. May 20, 1858 m. Dec. 15, 1881, Nellie A., dau. of William B.\\nParsons. See. 58. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 28, 1864; m. John Woodbury and\\nres. at Concord.\\nTHIRD BRANCH.\\n58. William Kimball Smith was b. at Plaistow, Sept. 13, 1766;\\nm. in 1787, Susannah French, who was b. at Sandown\\nJune 26, 1770. Mr. Smith removed to Salisbury in\\nApril, 1820, renting of William Haddock the Col. Eben-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0892.jp2"}, "869": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 793\\nezer Webster hotel stand, where he d. Sept. 27, 1 820-1.\\nMrs. Smith managed the hotel for seven years, when she\\nremoved to Republican village, (now Franklin) where\\nshe carried on the tavern owned by Ebenezer Eastman,\\nremaining there till the spring of 1835, when she went\\nback to her home, and d. Dec. 29, 1855. Of ten child-\\nren four sons d. in infancy.\\n60. William, b. Nov. 19, 1789; d. in Boston, Mass. A lavCyer. Two sons sur-\\nvived him, both lawyers: William, now living at Wellesley, Mass., and\\nHenry F. Durant (Smith), the founder of Wellesley Female Seminary, who\\nd. in Wellesley, Mass., Oct. 3, 1881.\\n61. Thomas (Col.), d. in Exeter, March 9, 1S60. Three children survived him.\\n62. .Susan, b. Feb. 15, 1792; d. in Franklin, June 3, 1839.\\n63. Fannie, b. April 26, 1794; d. in Newbury, Vt., March 26, 1875.\\n64. Eliza, b. July 3, 1796; m. David Johnson, of Newbury, Vt., where she resides.\\n65. Waity G., b. June 22, 1805 m. in April, 1S35, Rev. Thomas Riggs, who died\\nin Glens Falls, N. V., Aug. 11, 1880; she res. there.\\nFOUKTH BRANCH.\\n66. Col. John Baker Smith was b. at Beverly, Mass., Dec. 2,\\n1789. His father, John, m. Feb. 19, 1788, Abigail Baker,\\n(see Baker genealogy) of Beverly, and removed to Brad-\\nford, N. H., Feb. 21, 1794, remaining till Feb. 27, 1797,\\nwhen he removed to Unity, and in the spring of 1836\\nremoved to Salisbury, spending his last days with his\\nson Nathan. Col. John B. removed with his family from\\nUnity to Salisbury in March, 1828, to take the care of\\nhis mother s brother, (Benjamin Baker) after whose\\ndeath he bought out the tavern stand of John Shepherd,\\nwhich he kept at various times for a long period of years.\\nDuring one of his occupations the house became exten-\\nsively known as Smith s Temperance House, as at\\nthat time it was an unusual thing to keep a public house\\nand not sell liquor. In 1832 he served as deputy sheriff\\nand continued as such for a number of years. His title\\nof Colonel was due to his appointment to the com-\\nmand of the i6th N. H. militia, previous to his removal", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0893.jp2"}, "870": {"fulltext": "794 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nhere. Early in life he became a cattle drover, for the\\nDanvers (Mass.) market. He d. Jan. 3, 1859; m. July\\n4, 1813, Hannah, dau. of John and Susannah (Chase)\\nHuntoon, who was b. at Unity, in 1793 and d. May i,\\n1880. Her father (John Huntoon) served at Ticonder-\\noga and was a captain in the revolutionary war he was\\nb, at Kingston, Jan. 4, 1753, and d. at Salisbury, aged\\n85 he was the son of Charles, son of John, son of Philip,\\nthe common ancestor. (See Huntoon genealogy.)\\n67. John C, b. in Unity, Aug. 13, 1815. See.\\n68. Nancy M., b. May 22, 1818; m. Jan. 27, 1842, Jonathan H. Clement. (See\\nmerchants.)\\n{66) Col. John Cyrus, after receiving a good common school\\neducation, began life for himself in the purchase of cat-\\ntle for the down-country markets, and then as a partner\\nwith Mr. Jonathan Arey in the wheelwright and black-\\nsmith business, and for a time freighted goods over the\\nroad to Boston, Mass., and that vicinity. He afterwards\\npurchased the hotel property of his uncle Nathan, which\\nwith several intermissions he conducted for twenty-one\\nyears. While owning the hotel he purchased the John\\nTownsend house, where he still resides. He commanded\\nthe Franklin rifle company, was appointed adjutant of\\nthe twenty-first regiment, passed up through the line of\\npromotion, and was made Colonel of the regiment in\\n1848. Report says, he made a very efficient officer, a\\nstrict disciplinarian, and familiar with all military move-\\nments. Under sheriff P. Gale he served as deputy in\\n1854, receiving a similar appointment under William H.\\nRixford was appointed justice of the quorum July 11,\\n1856, and of the state June 10, 1879, in that capaci-\\nty (outside of the profession) has done more business\\nthan any man in town since the time of Dr. Joseph\\nBartlett, Sr. In the settlement of estates he is excelled\\nby few in the county, in proportion to number of inhabi-.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0894.jp2"}, "871": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^h\\ni\\nv-E-^V", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0895.jp2"}, "872": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0896.jp2"}, "873": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY\\n795\\ntants. A sound and eminent judge of this county said\\nHe was t;he best administrator and caused the least\\ntrouble of any one I knew. In town affairs he has\\nbeen the acknowledged leader of the democratic party,\\nbut of late years has given up politics, and the town is\\nnow about evenly divided politically. He has held at\\ntimes all the town offices, and no person living is so well\\nposted on the town s affairs as Col. Smith. As a farmer\\nhe is successful, as a business man thorough and system-\\natic in all his undertakings; correct in his dates, his\\nstatements can be relied upon, as the writer has often\\nfound. To Col. Smith your historian is under great\\nobligations for valuable facts, corrections of errors\\nand for wise counsel and encouragement when most\\nneeded. On the completion of the Northern R. R. to\\nFranklin, superceding the stage route, he took the first\\ncontract in 1S46-7 to carry the U. S. mail, receiving it\\nat Boscawen, making daily trips and bringing it to South\\nroad. When the post office was established at West\\nSalisbury he sold out the route to William Huntoon, in\\n1859, who in turn sold out to Mr. Bennett, the latter sel-\\nling to Caleb E. Smith, who disposed of it to D. J. Mann\\nhe again disposed of his interest to Mr. Smith, from\\nwhom it passed to J. H. Smith, who continued for a\\nyear, when it again came into the possession of C. E.\\nSmith, then of Col. J. C. Smith, and then of Amos S.\\nBean. Col. Smith m. May 26, 1841, Clara, dau. of Reu-\\nben and Judith H. (Chandler) Johnson, of Penacook,\\nwho was b. at Concord, Dec. 3, 1817.\\n69. George F., b. Sept. i, 1842; m. Sept. 26, 1S67, Annie M. Conner. Had three\\nchildren. He served in the i6th N. II. regiment during the last war was\\nstationed at Baton Rouge, La., and Nashville, Tenn removed to Minne-\\napolis, Minn., in 1S64, and is one of that city s largest hardware merchants.\\n70. Clara J., b. Nov. 4, 1S45 m. Dec. 23, 1875, Samuel C. Forsaith, (See William\\nM. Pierce genealogy), b. in Goffstown, Sept. 29, 1827 resided at .Milford,\\nremoving to Manchester in 1S60; engaged in the manufacture of all va-\\nrieties of machinery, doing a business of $400,000 a year has held city", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0897.jp2"}, "874": {"fulltext": "796 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\noffices, and served his ward in the legislature in 1876; was made an Odd\\nFellow in 1849, Mason in 1870, and lieutenant in the Amoskeag Veterans\\na gentleman foremost in all good works. He dted March 24, 1885. Six\\nchildren living.\\n71. May Ella, b. Feb. 24, 1848; m. Dec. 9, 18S5, Henry Burleigh res. Attleboro\\nMass.\\n72. John R., b. April 21, 1850; m. in 1875, Leonora B. Day; two children.\\n73. Cornelia M., b. Dec. 6, 1853. 74. Hannah E., b. April 23, 1857.\\n75. Cyrus H., b. June 26, 1859; d. in Minneapolis, Minn., where he had been in\\ntrade, Nov. 27, 1881.\\nTHE SNOW FAMILY.\\nJoshua, known as Fiddler Snow, was a famous character\\nresiding in the vicinity of Smith s corner. He served in the\\nrevolution, see war chapters and removed to Danbury. His\\nwife may have been Judith, daughter of old Jacob Bohannon.\\nHe had a daughter or sister Judith, who married Phineas Bean.\\nThe following ancient document sufficiently explains itself\\nTo the Honorable Committee at Exeter\\nWhereas one Joshua Snow was lately returned from (the) Enemy as he says, he\\nwas taken prisoner and carad to New York, and now he is advertised as a Diserter\\nand the young man is willing to throw himself on the favor of the Committee and\\nsays he can prove that he was taken prisoner by the Enemy near Croton River\\n(Hudson river) and the youth prays that the honorable Committee wait till Conall\\nDarborn Dearborn comes to so that he can make it appear that he was taken\\nprisoner and Simeon Sanborn who I send this young man by will be the young\\nman s bail which is sufficient, so I refer the whole matter to you the honorable\\nCommittee of Safety. Obedient humble servant. Ebenezer Webster.\\nSalisbury November\\nye 27. 1780.\\n1. Jonathan Snow resided at the foot of the hill near the Josiah Hook place; d. at\\nConcord, Mass.; m. Sarah, dau. of Jacob Bohannon.\\n2. Sarah, b. in 1S16, d. young.\\n3. Sophia, b. in 181- m. William Dunn and resides at Concord, Mass,\\n4. George, b. in 1818; resided at Dracut, Mass. 5. Louisa, b. in 1820.\\n6. Charles, b. in 1822 resides at Medford, Mass.\\n7. Frank, b. in 1824, and resides at Charlestown.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0898.jp2"}, "875": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 797\\nTHE STEVENS FAMILY.\\nFOUR BRANCHES.\\nI. Major Ebenezer Stevens, of Kingston, died about 1765.\\nHis children were\\n2. Ebenezer. 3. Samuel. 4. John. 5. Benjamin.\\n6. Hannah, m. Tristram Sanborn. 7. Mary, m. Israel Dimond.\\n8. Cutting, b. about 1748; came to Salisbury and served four years and three\\nmonths for the 78th lot in the 3d range, it being the farm now occupied by\\nCharles F. Green; m. Oct. 7. 1770, Anna, dau. of Dr. Green, of Exeter;\\nshe d. at Franklin in 1839, aged 94 years he d. Dec. 17, 1837.\\n9. Anna, b. in Salisbury, May 14, 1771 m. Solomon Hartlett, of Deering.\\n10. Esther, b. Aug. 11, 1773; Joseph Calef, of Washington, Vt.\\n11. Abigail, b. Feb. 10, 1775; m. Richard Stevens, of Wheelock, Vt.\\n12. Sarah, b. March 10, 1776; m. Nov. 7, 1796, Reuben French, of Ilopkinton.\\n13. Abram G. See.\\n14. Elizabeth, b. July 15, 1779; m. Benjamin Tucker.\\n15 and 16. Mary and Martha, b. Feb. 27, 1781. Mary m. Nathaniel Greeley;\\nMartha m. Samuel .Sleeper, of Washington, Vt.\\n17. Lydia, b. m. Stephen Philbrick, of Corinth, Vt.\\n(13) Abram Green, b. Jan. 14, 1778; m. Judith Flanders, who\\nwas b. at South Hampton, Feb. 13, 1775 removed to\\nNew Chester, and afterward to Salisbury lower village\\nand lived on the Daniel Webster farm for twelve years.\\nThey spent their last days with their son, Lorenzo D.\\nShe d. in February, 1867, at a great age he d. August\\n27, 1S64.\\n18. William, b. Aug. 2, 1800; m. Rebecca Joslin; he d. Jan. 30^ 1852; she d. in\\nDecember, 1S81.\\n19. Hiram. See. 20. Cutting G., b. in iSo6.\\n21. Enoch C, b. May 9, 1S09; m. April 14, 1833, Mary Fogg, of Hampton, who\\nwas b. Jan. 15, 1812. He served in the war of the rebellion, in Co. I, 4th\\nReg t N. H. Vols. He d. April 14, 1871; she resides at Lowell, Mass.\\nThey had one son, George W., who enlisted at the age of fourteen years\\nand served in the same company with his father until the close of the war,\\nand d. Jan. i8, 1S67, aged 20.\\n22. George W., A. M., Col.) was b. Nov. 16, 1814. He read law with Hon. Geo.\\nW. Nesmith, practiced at the bar in I^conia, and was considered an able\\npolitical orator. He was a colonel in the old state militia on the staff of\\nGen. John Wadleigh. He m. in 1845, i^arah Davenport, who d. Nov.\\n8, 1875; hed. Oct. 2, 1877.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0899.jp2"}, "876": {"fulltext": "798 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n23. Lorenzo D., b. in New Chester, July 4, 1820; m. Ursula P., dau. of Moses Gree-\\nley. He was a captain of grenadiers in the 21st reg t N. H. militia, in 1841\\nserved in the board of selectmen and was chosen a deacon of the Congre-\\ngational church in Franklin, in December, 1S75 J^^i- 22, 1S76.\\n(19) Hiram, b. Dec. 12, 1803; m. (i) Malinda Pettengill m.\\n(2) Esther Eastman m. (3) Ann Lane. He was an\\nelder in the Freewill Baptist church and preached in\\nSalisbury, Meredith, and other places. He commenced\\npreaching with only a common school education, and\\nwas an eloquent and powerful speaker. He d. June 6,\\n1880. [The foregoing sketch of the first branch of this\\nfamily was compiled by Mrs. Abbie S. Brown.]\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n24 Daniel Stevens was b. at Old Plaistow in 1747, removed to\\nSalisbury when he became of age, (1768) settled on the\\nsite now occupied by Benj. Calef, remaining until 1777,\\nwhen he removed to the site now occupied by his grand-\\nson, Daniel C. He took part in the battle of Bunker\\nHill and also served in subsequent engagements. He\\nd. Oct. 10, 1824, aged jj m. Mehitable Heath, a sister\\nto David Pettengill s wife, her mother being a Bradley\\nshe d. March 6, 1830, aged 93.\\n25. Marabah, m. Ebenezer Fellows and removed to Tunbridge, Vt.\\n26. Susan m. Stephen Fellows. 27. Isaac, b. in 1768. See. 28. John. 29. Jesse.\\n30 and 31. Lizzie and James. 32. Moses, b. Aug. 4, 1779. See.\\n33. David, m. June 21, 1810, Nancy Call, of Boscawen. He was a blacksmith and\\ncarried on the business nearly opp. the D. C. Stevens house; removed to\\nWaterloo, Warner) and subsequently to Canada.\\n(27) Isaac resided in the J. S. Heath house and m. Nov. 13,\\n1789, Margaret Greeley, who d. May 21, 1837, aged ^6\\\\\\nhe d. Jan. 25, 1837.\\n34. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 1, 1791 d. July 4, 1S30, unm.\\n35. Maria, b. in 180c; m. R. Fitts, of Boscawen; d. Jan. i, 1833.\\n36. Rhoda, b. July 22, 1813; m. May 21, 1835, John Pressey, (see.)\\n37. Sarah, b. in 1796; d. May i, 1853,\\n38. Ruth, b. in 1797; d. Sept. 5, 1834, unm.\\n39. Nancy, m. Green Greeley d. in 1882. 40. Miriam, removed to Andover.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0900.jp2"}, "877": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 799\\n{32) Moses remained on the homestead, building the present\\nhouse he m. Nancy Colby, of Enfield, who was b.\\nMarch ii, 1788, and d. March 17, 1842; he d. May 16,\\n1844.\\n41. Lydia, b. March 8, 1806; m. Feb. 4, 1846, Ebenezer Johnson d. Oct. 28, 1865.\\n42. John, b. Sept. i, 1808; m. Nancy Stevens and resides at Jackson, Mich.\\n43. Gilbert, b. May 11, iSii; m. Elvira Wing and resides at Oysterville, Wash-\\nington Territory.\\n44. Mary, b. Aug. 3, 1S13; m. April 25. 1S34, George W. Morgan and resides at\\nriainfield.\\n45. Mehitable, b. Oct. 22, 181 5; m. Newell J. Fifield; he d. April 2, 1878.\\n46. Nancy, b. March 4, 1S17 d. May i, 182 1.\\n47. Daniel, b. April 20, 1820; d. June 3, 1821.\\n48. Lucretia A., b. Dec. 22, 1823; d. Nov. 2, 1844.\\n49. Daniel C, b. Jan. 3, 1826. See.\\n50. Francis, b. March 8, 1828; m. May 20, 185S, Sarah Shaw and resides at North-\\nfield.\\n51. Andrew J., b. Sept. 11, 1S31 d. Aug. 13, 1S33. 52. An infant, d. young.\\n(49) Daniel Colby remains on the homestead m. April 20,\\n1848, Ruth W. Severance.\\n53. Nancy E., d. Jan. 4, 1856. 54. True O., b. Oct. 29, 1856.\\n55. Amelia A., b. Oct. 29, 1S5S. 56. John A., b. Aug. 14, i86i.\\n57. Sadie M., b. May 7, 1865.\\nTHIRD BRANCH.\\n58 Jesse Stevens bought the north half of the 80 acre lot No.\\n19, second range, of Joseph Webster, Feb. 21, 1767, for\\n;^I20, immediately removing here from Old Plaistow,\\nwhere he was born, settling just south of the present\\nresidence of his grandson, Moses J., and died soon after.\\nHe m. Abigail Jackman, of Plaistow.\\n59. David, ^ee.\\n60. Bartholomew removed to Vermont; he m. May 15, 1806, Eunice Scribner, of\\nSalisbury.\\n61. Jesse, m. April 6, 1803, Betsey Hook and removed to Chelsea, Vt., where his\\nchildren were born returned to Salisbury and d. in Webster.\\n67. Rachel, m. I .enjamin Scribner d. in Corinth, Vt.\\n63. Polly, m. (I) Sumner; m. (2) Brown. 64. m. Brackett Greenough.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0901.jp2"}, "878": {"fulltext": "800 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n65. Moses, m. (i) Aug. 6, 1793, Elizabeth Fifield m. (2) Dec. 29, 1796, Mary\\nHeath; m. (3) at Corinth, Vt., Currier. He had a son Daniel b. here,\\nwho removed to Vermont with his father, returned to Salisbury and m.\\nJan. 25, 181 5, Dorothy Peasley, of Sutton, then removed to Sutton for two\\nyears, but returned and eventually bought the Lewis farm, and followed\\nthe occupation of a cattle drover. In 1851 he removed to Potter Place\\n(Andover) and d. Jan. 13, 1852, aged 58; she d. April 27, 1873. Their\\nchildren were: i. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 4, 1815; m. Nov. 28, 1837, Jeremiah\\nJ. Scribner; d. May 23, 1S81. 11. Asenath, b. April 14, 1818; m. Oct. 8,\\n1840, Rev. Solomon Holman, of Concord; she d. at Portsmouth, Jan. 21,\\n1866. III. Moses, b. Feb. 17, 1819; m. in January, 1846, Emily E. Call, of\\nBoscawen, and resides at Franklin, iv. Arvilla, b. Oct. 9, 1821 m. Nov.\\n28, 1844, Timothy Eastman, who was b. at Boscawen (Webster,) Nov. 23,\\n1814, and resides on the farm cleared by Daniel Brottlebank. Children all\\nb. in Salisbury: i. Charlotte A., b. Oct. 26, 1845; ii. Delflora M., b.\\nAug. 15, 1849; iii. Susan B., b. March 10, 1857. v. Nancy Jane, b. in\\nAugust, 1823; m. in June, 1844, James Fellows, (see.) vi. Susan S., b.\\nJune 14, 1825; m. June 10, 1845, E. M. Dunbar and resides in Warner.\\nVII. Frank, b. in April, 1827; m. (i) in November, 1842, Miriam Glover;\\nm. (2) Mary Mills; m. (3) Clara Stevens, viii. Maria, b. in March, 1829;\\nm. D. J. Calef, (see.) ix. Benjamin, b. Jan. 4, 1832; m. in July, 1868,\\nLucy Towle; he d. March i, 1880; resided at Chichester, x. Mary Ann\\nwas b. April 13, 1834; m. Sept. 28, 1867, Pliny A. Fellows, xi. Andrew\\nJ., b. July 16, 1836; m. Mary Locke.\\n(59) David, his father dying when he was sixteen years of age,\\nhad the farm and its cares fall upon his young shoulders,\\nbut he conducted the same most successfully, in after\\nyears becoming quite a landowner. He built the house\\noccupied by his son, Moses J., where he d. March 7,\\n7, 1865, aged 89; m. in 1799, Abigail, dau. of Hezekiah\\nand Abigail (Pearson) Foster, who d. April 22, 1859.\\n66. Abby C. W., b. Aug. 6, 1799; m. March 15, 1819, Stephen Carter, formerly of\\nCanterbury; he d. January 22, 1830; m. (2) April 2, 1845, James Worces-\\nter, of Sanford, Me. She d. from accidental injuries, April 17, 1863; he\\nd. June 16, 1843.\\n67. Hezekiah F., b. in i8ci m. Rahannah Titcomb. He built the house opposite\\nthe homestead, where he remained ten years, then removing to Salem,\\nMass., where he was overseer of the city farm, then to Amesbury, where he\\nd. April 27, 1848. Children all b. here: Henry A. (Rev.) graduated\\nat Amherst College in 1S57, studied for the ministry at Andover Theologi-\\ncal Seminary, completing in i860, was ordained Sept. 12, 1861, and settled\\nas pastor at Melrose, Mass. He was dismissed May iS, 186S, and became\\npastor of the First church, North Bridgewater, in June, 1868; was installed", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0902.jp2"}, "879": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BFOGRAPHY 80I\\nat Brighton, June ii, 1874; became pastor of the Congregational church at\\nBristol, K. T., July 26, 1S81, where he still continues. He m. Oct. 23, 1S61.\\nSarah N., dau. of Hon. Moses Tenney, of (Georgetown, Mass. ir. Moses,\\nin. Charles A., resides in Colorado, iv. Ellen, b. at Salem, Mass., d.\\n68. Judith, b. in September, 1802; m. July 18, 1822, Joseph Scribner, of Sutton\\nremoved to Ohio; d. in May, 1879.\\n69. Ruth G., b. May 15, 1S04; m- Nov. 12, 1831, Ira Worcester, of Ipswich, Mass.,\\nwhere she d. Oct. 17, 1879.\\n70. David, b. in 1S06; d. Sept. 17, 1S25. 71. Jesse, b. Aug. 14, 1S07. ^^e.\\n72. Betsey, b. in July, 1S09; d. Dec. 7, 1827.\\n73. Rachel, b. in iSii m. in 1839, Israel 13. Bean, who d. May 2, 1S74, aged 84;\\nshe d. March 3, 1841. 74. Moses J., b. Sept. 27, 1S16. See.\\n75. William J., b. Feb. 5, 182 1 m. Cynthia Young, of Acworth.\\n(71) Jesse m. (i) April i8, 1847, Sarah E. Currier, who d. May\\n24, 185 1 m. (2) May 6, 1859, Sarah, dau. of Paul and\\nSarah (Marcutor) Tebbetts, who d. July 16, 1881, leav-\\ning no children. He d. Jan. 7, 1890.\\n(74) Moses J. continued on the homestead, as one of our lead-\\ning farmers, an active member of the Kearsarge Agri-\\ncultural Association, and a justice of the peace. He\\ngave material aid in the erection of the Union meeting\\nhouse. He m. Sept. 3, 1846, Phebe W. Rogers. In\\n1850 he went to Andover, Mass., where he had charge\\nof the almshouse for four years, was turnkey at the house\\nof correction, at Ipswich, and afterwards filled the same\\nposition in the jail, at Salem. He d. Dec. 11, 1886.\\n76. Annie A., b. Aug. 5, 1847 f John Shaw. See.\\n77. Justin F., b. June 13, 1S59; m. May 5, 1SS5, Lizzie Corser.\\nrOURTH BRANCH.\\n78. Deacon Hubbard Stevens was b. at Durham in 1767.\\nWhen eleven years of age he went to Gilmanton, living\\nin the family of Joseph Parsons, with whom he learned\\nthe trade of tanner and currier. He remained with Mr.\\nParsons during his minority, after which he went to\\nMaine and visited his parents whom he had not seen for\\nnearly eleven years. Returning to Gilmanton he became\\n51", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0903.jp2"}, "880": {"fulltext": "802 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nacquainted with and married, Jan. 31, 1768, Miss Lydia\\nBerry, who was born at Gilmanton in 1768. Shortly\\nafterwards, in 1788-9, he removed to Salisbury, settling\\non North Road, in what is now known as the Morrison\\nhouse. Here he opened up a tanning business and\\nshoe-making. He afterwards returned to Gilmanton,\\nremaining there three years. He returned to Salisbury,\\nand d. in the S. B. Sweatt house, Jan. 31, 1852. His\\nfirst wife d. Aug. 19, 1826, and he m. (2) Dec. 12, 1827,\\nMiss Mary Baker, of Pembroke. Mr. Stevens, soon\\nafter his removal here, united with the Congregational\\nChurch, of which he was chosen Deacon in 1801, holding\\nthat office thirty-five years.\\n79. Sally, b. Apr. 10, 1789; m. Deacon William Parsons. See.\\n80. Lydia, b. Dec. 2, 179c; m. Dec. i, 1814, William Huntoon, of Andover.\\n81. Betsy, b. Sept. i, m. Capt. Moses Sanborn; she d. Sept. 4, 1867 he resides\\nin Bristol. 82. Deborah, b. Sept. 29, d. at Wilmot, unm.\\nS3. Joseph P., b. in 1799. See. 84. Amos P., b. March 11, 1806. See.\\n(83) Joseph Parsons m. (i) Laura, dau. of Dr. Sayles, of Graf-\\nton m. (2) Mrs. Nancy Randall, of Canterbury; she\\nresides in Franklin; he d. Sept. 28, 1869. He resided\\nin the first house west of D. R. McAllister s. Children\\nby first wife\\n85. Almina M. 86. Emma, unm. a school teacher in Lawrence.\\n87. Ellen, m. Perry Martin res. Grafton. 88. Isabella, d. young.\\n(84) Amos Pettengill m. (i) July 10, 1834, Abigail C. Phil-\\nbrick, who d. Feb. 22, 1864; m. (2) March 27, 1866,\\nAsenath Upton, of Wilmot. He resided on the Philbrick\\nfarm in the north-west part of the town until 1870, when\\nhe removed to Wilmot.\\n89. Elbridge G., b. Aug. 20, 1842 d. Aug. 31, 1872.\\n90. Martha P., b. Oct. 18, 1836; d. Dec. 25, 1838.\\nw", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0904.jp2"}, "881": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND niOGKAFHY 803\\nTHE SWETF FAMILY.\\nFormerly spelled Sweate and various ways as it was pro-\\nnounced. John Sweate was admitted to the freedom of the\\nMassachusetts colony May i8, 16.42, and was one of the New-\\nbury grantees, Dec. 7, 1642. His son Elisha, b. at Hampton\\nin 1670, m. Karthiah, dau. of Thomas Page, Oct. 3, 1696. He\\nd. at Kingston in 1753; had two children: John, b. Dec. 4,\\n1702; Elisha, b. Sept. 30, 1705, and d. in 1788. Frequent\\nmention is made of this Elisha, who was a grantee of Salisbury\\na smart, capable and much respected man. He was chosen\\nDeacon of the First Congregational Church at Kingston in\\nJuly, 1755-\\n1. Joseph Swett removed here from Danville in 1754, settling\\non Cash street; removed thence to Raccoon Hill, where\\nhe cleared up the George Shaw farm, the latter pur-\\nchasing it of Joseph Swett, Jr. Mr. Swett then removed\\nto Andover, and cleared up the C. J. White place. He\\nd. Sept. 25, 1806, aged 77. He was a member of the\\nsociety called Friends, and of that portion known as\\nWhite Quakers, which name was applied on account\\nof the drab clothing worn by them. He m. Hannah\\nSleeper, who d. Feb. 21, 1825, aged 92. He had a brother\\nElisha, who removed to Vermont and d. very aged.\\n2. Joseph, b. in Salisbury; remained on the Raccoon Hill farm some years; re-\\nmoved to Andover; m. no issue. He was one of our leading citizens\\nand an active member of the Baptist Church.\\n3. Peter, b. Oct. 22, 1756. See.\\n4. John D., b. m. April 6, 1S24, Hann.ili Wrlwtcr. (Sec iS.)\\n5. Mary. 6. Sally.\\n(3) Peter remained on the homestead and, like his brother, was\\nstrongly interested in the Baptist Church. He m. Mary\\nWadleigh, who was b. in 1760 and d. Nov. 14, 18 14.\\nHe d. May 13, 1822. Children all b. in Salisbury:", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0905.jp2"}, "882": {"fulltext": "804 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n7. Sally, b. Nov. 17, 1785; d. in May, 1S59, unm. [A Sally Sweatt m. Sept. 29,\\n1807, John W. Gushing, of Bath.] 8. Mary, b. Feb. 22, 1788; d. young.\\n9. Polly, b. May 14, 1791 m. Jan. 24, 1819, Capt. Joseph Brown; d. in Andover,\\nFeb. 23, 1861. Had Daniel and Peter,\\nro. Joseph (Col.), b. Jan. 4, 1795; m. Betsey Burbank no issue. He resided in\\nthe William Haddock house. He was appointed Adjutant of the 21st\\nRegt. in 1826, Major in 1830, Lt. Col. in 1S31, and Col. in 1834. He held\\nstate and county offices, was a man of much respectability and honored by\\nall who were acquainted with him. He d. Jan. 25, 1S78.\\n11. Peter (Hon.), b. March 27, 1801. He began life s business as a merchant at\\nGrafton; removed to Brockport, N. Y., in 1830, remaining until 1S36\\nwhen he removed to Peoria, 111., where he did a large mercantile business.\\nHe d. at Peoria, July 29, 186S. In 1853 he represented the Peoria district\\nin the State Senate was postmaster of Peoria, re-appointed by President\\nBuchanan, and was city treasurer. He m. in Brockport, Frances Trum-\\nbull, of Philadelphia, Pa., where she d. in 1872. Had one daughter,\\nJosephine, b. in 1832 m. L. D. Collins, who died in 1867 she resides in\\nNew Orleans, La.\\n12. John W., b. May 11, 1803. On becoming of age he began trade at New Ches-\\nter; sold out in 1831 and removed to Brockport, N. Y., where he re-\\nmained till 1843; returning, he went into business in the old Factory\\nStore at Franklin Falls, where he remained until 1853; he continued in\\ntrade until 1873. ^^^Y -9 1879. He m. Eliza Tucker, by whom\\nhe had five children, all of whom are dead but Mrs. Ann Tilton, who\\nresides in F ranklin Falls.\\n13 John Sweatt [may have been son of Joseph (i)], m. Nov.\\n4, 1779, Hannah Patterson.\\n14. Anne, b. Aug. 7, 1780. 15. Hannah, b. June 17, 1782.\\n16. Sarah, b. April 17, 1784. 17. Polly, b. April 11, 1786.\\n18. John, b. April 17, 1789; may have m. Hannah Webster, instead of 4.\\nHuldah Sweatt m. Dec. 2, 1818, Ebenezer Lang, Jr. Moses Sweatt m. April 13,\\n1823, Abigail Eastman. Susan Sweatt m. Dec. 14, 1814, Nathaniel Clark, of San-\\nbornton.\\nTHE TANDY FAMILY.\\nI. Abel, accompanied by two brothers, emigrated from\\nScotland. He settled just west of the hill west of the present\\nhouse, which is over one hundred years old. He was a power-\\nful built and muscular man. He settled here just after his", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0906.jp2"}, "883": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 805\\nmarriage, Nov. 5, 1751, to Rachel Smith, a sister to Ezekiel\\nWebster s first wife. In 18 19, when going to her home from\\nShaw s Corner, she was caught in a whirlwind on the sand hill\\njust south of the house, was thrown down by its violence and\\nchoked by the sand from the effects of which she died in a few\\nhours. He died May 19, 1797. An Abel Tandy had baptized\\nat Kingston, July 19, 1761, a son Abel.\\n2. Samuel, b. Sept. 10, 1766. See. 3. Rachel, b. Oct. 7, 176S; m. IMake.\\n4. Priscilla, b. Dec. 28, 1770; m. lllake, a brother to above; rem. to Canada.\\n(2) Samuel m. Nov. 29, 1787, Hannah Sanborn.\\n5. Polly, b. Oct. 30, 1789; d. young. 6. Sally, b. Sept. 12, 1791 d. unm., aged 83,\\n7. Polly, b. Aug. 4, 1793; d- young.\\n8. Moses, b. Sept. 28, 1795 Susan Moody rem. to Charlestown, Mass. d.\\nhe was a cooper by trade. 9. Abel, b. 1797. See.\\n10. Hannah, b. July 24, 1799; m. June 11, 1818, Capt. Joseph Morrill; d. 1876.\\n11. Deliverance, b. July 11, iSoi d. young.\\n12. Lavina, b. May 25, 1803; m. Sept. 25, 1828, Osgood Colby, of Bristol.\\n13. Mehitable, b. July 29, 1S05; m. May 12, 1825, Walter H. Cross; d.\\n14. Eliza, b. June i, 1807 m. .April 25, 1S30, William Cross; he d. Oct. 3, 1877.\\n15. .Samuel, b. in July, 1S09; d. in 1816.\\n(9) Abel removed to Vermont returned to the River Road,\\nnorth of Orphans Home; thence removed to Haverhill,\\nMass. d. He was a cooper by trade. He m. Sarah,\\ndau. of Moses Page. Children born in Salisbury\\n16. Almira, m. Joseph liean; res. Haverhill, Mass.\\n17. Sarah, m. (i) Taylor; m. (2) Sebley.\\ni8. Mehitable, b. in Vt.; m. Jesse Sargent. 19. John, b. in Salisbury; d. young.\\nTHE THOMSON FAMILY.\\nTWO liRANCHES.\\nI. Hon. Thomas White (sec lawyers) was the son of Thomas\\nThompson, who was b. Oct. 3, 1742, near Alnwick North-\\numberland, England, and d. at Newburyport, Mass., March 7,\\n1808, and Isabella White, who was b. at Glasgow, Scotland,", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0907.jp2"}, "884": {"fulltext": "8o6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nMay i6, 1743, and d. at Nevvburyport, Aug. 24, 1791. He was\\nb. at Boston, Mass., March 15, 1766; m. Dec. 25, 1796, Elisa-\\nbeth Porter, who was b. at Haverhill, N. H., June 21, 1775.\\nHe d. at Plymouth, Sept. 2, 1834.\\n2. Lucia Kinsman, b. in Salisbury, May 6, 179S; d. June 29, 1S24; m. Jan. 9, 1S23,\\nRev. Thomas J. Murdock, of Norwich, Vt.\\n3. Caroline, b. Jan. 8, 1801 d. Jan. 19, iSoi.\\n4. William Coombs, b. March 17, 1802. He read law with\\nHon. George Blake, of Boston, and Parker Noyes (see),\\nat Salisbury. He graduated at Dartmouth College in\\n1820, and began the practice of his chosen profession at\\nConcord in 1824, removing to Plymouth in 1826. In\\n1852, he removed to Worcester, Mass., and there con-\\ntinued until his death, April 27, 1877. The following\\nobituary, by William R. Hooper, Esq., appeared in the\\nCongregationalist\\nIn his early life he settled at Plymouth,\\nN. H., where he took high rank at the bar as a safe and\\njudicious counsellor. Too modest and quiet to be a\\nsuccessful jury advocate, he acquired a large practice by\\nthe confidence the community felt in his legal knowledge\\nand his sound judgment. He early identified himself\\nwith the church there, and became one of its steadfast\\npillars. On his removal to Worcester, he joined the\\nCentral Church, Rev. Dr. Sweetser, pastor, where he\\nwas a uniform supporter of every good work. Age\\nbrought blindness, and blindness brought grace. In the\\nlast few years of a life shut off from all outward activity,\\nhe found no occasion for murmur, but only for rejoicing.\\nHe ripened for heaven by meditation on God s goodness.\\nMy cup runneth over with blessings, he was wont to\\nsay. He came to his grave in full age, like a shock of\\ncorn fully ripe, leaving behind him a high reputation as\\na man, a lawyer and a christian.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0908.jp2"}, "885": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY SO/\\nHe m. (i) Oct. 15, 1828, at Windsor, Vt., Martha H.,\\ndau. of John Leverett, of Windsor, who d. April 26, 1841\\nm. (2) June 21, 1843, Susan B., dau. of John Nelson, of\\nHaverhill, i. William Charles (LL. B., Harvard, 1856),\\nb. at Plymouth, Sept. 25, 1832; graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1853 practised law several years at St. Paul,\\nMinn. present residence, Worcester, Mass. n. John\\nLeverett, b. at Plymouth, Feb. 2, 1835; served through\\nthe war of the rebellion; Colonel of ist N. H. Cavalry,\\nand brevetted Brigadier General at the close of the war;\\nat present engaged in the practice of law in Chicago;\\nm. Sept. 5, 1866, Laura Chandler, of Concord; their\\nchildren, born in Chicago, are, Leverett, b. Nov. 1 1, 1869,\\nand Susan, b. Jan. 26, 1874. in. Thomas W., (A. M.),\\nnamed for his grandfather, b. at Plymouth, Aug. 31,\\n1837; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1S59, and at\\nAndover Theological Seminary in 1866; from 1868 to\\n1875, missionary of the American Board in Pekin,\\nChina; resides in Worcester, Mass. iv. Martha Lev-\\nerett, b. at Plymonth, Sept. 3, 1840; d. at Plymouth,\\nApril 30, 1846.\\n5. Francis, b. at Salisbury, Feb. 24, 1S04; drowned in Merrimack river, June 22,\\n1814.\\n6. Charles Edward, b. at Salisbury, June 19, 1807. Fitted for\\ncollege at the Salisbury Academy and graduated at\\nDartmouth in 1828. Read law one year with his\\nbrother at Plymouth, then traveled three years in South\\nAmerica and the south seas, after which he engaged in\\ntrade at Mobile, Ala., until 1835. Returning to Plym-\\nouth, he completed his law studies and was admitted to\\nthe bar in 1838. He commenced practice, Nov. 28,\\n1838, at Haverhill, where he continued till 1854, when\\nhe removed to Chicago, 111. Resides at Cresskill, N. J.\\nHe m. May 20, 1835, Mary, dau. of Hon. Miles Olcott,\\nof Hanover, i. Isabella D., b. Mobile, March 29, 1836;", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0909.jp2"}, "886": {"fulltext": "808 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nm. Charles Briggs, of New York City; res. Cresskill.\\nII. Helen H., b. Hanover, Dec. 30, 1837; d. Jan. 25,\\n1847. III. Alice, b. Haverhill, Nov. 23, 1840; d. Feb.\\n23, 1846. IV. Caroline Bell, b. Haverhill, July 29, 1843.\\nV. Richard, b. Haverhill, July 12, 1845; d. Chicago.\\nSECOND BRANCH.\\n7. Moses r. Thompson, b. at Wilmot, Aug. 31, 1817. At the age of fifteen he\\ncame to Salisbury and apprenticed himself to Deacon William Cate to\\nlearn the tailoring business. After Mr. Cate died he succeeded him in the\\nold established stand, where he continued a large and lucrative business a\\nfew years longer. He removed to Sutton and remained a year, then\\nreturned and continued in business until ready-made clothing came into\\ngeneral use. Mr. Thompson has been intimately connected with the\\ntown s affairs, serving as collector four years, representative two terms,\\nselectman a number of times, and county treasurer in 1865; was appointed\\ndeputy sheriff under Nathaniel A. Davis (see justices). He became\\nCaptain in the militia, Aug. 20, 1S43, t^^^ 4*^^ Co. of Infantry, 21st Regt.,\\n4th Brigade. He m. Aug, 22, 1838, Lucia A., granddaughter of Ens.\\nMoses Garland.\\n8. Mary A., b. June 7, 1839; d. April 8, 1840.\\n9. Resto H., b. Feb. 19, 1841 m. Aug. 28, 1866, Jennie P. Godfrey.\\nID. Mary A., b. June 4, 1843; m. March 20, 1863, Frank A. Buzzell, of Andover;\\nres. Providence, R. I.\\n11. Susan E., b. July 7, 1845; m. Sylvester W. Greene. See.\\n12. Francis W., b. Sept. 29, 1847 E)ec. 26, 1880, Caroline R. Piper; res. Tilton.\\n13. Lucia E., b. Dec. 3, 1854; m. June 5, 1870, George H. Scribner.\\nTHE TOWNSEND FAMILY.\\nThe Townsend, or Townshend, families of America are a\\nmixture of Saxon and Norman origin, and of great antiquity in\\nthe county of Norfolk, England. Walter Atte Townshende,\\nson of Sir Locloviede de Townshende, a Norman nobleman\\nwhom Collins, in his Peerage of England, puts at the head\\nof the family, flourished soon after the conquest.\\nJohn Townsend was a descendant from Thomas Townsend,\\nof Lynn, Mass., who had sixty acres of land deeded to him in", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0910.jp2"}, "887": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 8O9\\nthe general division in 1638, was a freeman the same year, a\\ngrand juryman in 1641, and a person of influence in the colony\\nhis signature to a petition in the General Court, in 1643, can\\nstill be seen in the Massachusetts Archives, book in, folio i.\\nHis son Samuel lived at Rumney and Chelsea, Mass.; he held\\nseveral town offices, was freeman in 1683, and d. in 1704. His\\neldest son Samuel removed to Charlestown and afterwards to\\nMaiden, where he died in 1723; he was a husbandman and\\nplanter, a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery\\nCompany, of Boston, a freeman in 1690; had two wives and\\nseveral children his estate was settled by his widow and the\\neldest son by the second marriage was John, who was b. at\\nCharlestown in 1701 m. Hannah Hancock, a cousin of Gov.\\nJohn Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independ-\\nence he lived at Charlestown till the battle of Bunker Hill,\\nwhen his house was burned by the British troops in the general\\nconflagration after the battle; he was then 74 years old, and\\nfled with his aged wife to the house of his son, Cornet David,\\nat Waltham, where he d. in 1792. His son Ebenezer had re-\\nmoved from Charlestown, where he was born, with his wife,\\nAnn Parker, early in 1775, to Chester, N. H., where he estab-\\nlished himself as a saddler and was a prominent citizen of the\\nplace, held town offices and was interested as a private citizen\\nin public affairs; he m. in Chester, June 4, 1776, Ann Parker,\\nwho d. June 12, 1831, aged 71 he d. Oct. 12, 1840, aged 88\\nnine children blessed their union, of whom\\nI. John, the eldest and subject of this sketch, was b. at Ches\\nter, March 24, 1777. He early removed to Salisbury\\nwhere he m. Feb. 12, 1804, Anne, dau. of Benjamin and\\nMary (George) Baker (see), of Salisbury; she d. Dec. 15\\n1854. Mr. Townsend was a saddler and harness-maker,\\nand carried on a large business for many years, building\\nthe Arthur S. Calcf residence for a workshop. For\\nmany years he resided in the John C. Smith house; later\\nin life he removed the white store from opposite", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0911.jp2"}, "888": {"fulltext": "8lO HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nNathan Kilburn s, which now constitutes the one-\\nstory part of Mr. Kilburn s house, built the two-story\\naddition, and resided in the Kilburn house until his\\ndeath, Jan. ii, 1849. The introduction of railroads\\ncaused him to turn his attention to other pursuits. He\\nwas one of the selectmen, was town clerk thirteen years,\\nand representative to the General Court in 1826-28.\\nHe was appointed postmaster in 1829, but declined, as\\nhe favored the appointment of his friend, Thomas R.\\nGreenleaf. He was register of deeds for Merrimack Co.\\nfrom 1837 to 1839. I^ politics a Jeffersonian Republi-\\ncan, and as such elected to the General Court. When\\nthat party went out of existence in the campaign which\\nresulted in the election of Andrew Jackson to the Presi-\\ndency in the autumn of 1828, he became a member of\\nthe Democratic party. He took a lively interest in\\npublic affairs, was a keen observer, a great reader, a\\nprofound and acute reasoner. He was an industrious\\nmember of the General Court, serving on important\\ncommittees he took an active part in framing a bill for\\nthe more equitable distribution of the public taxes, and\\nhad more than an ordinary interest in the cause of edu-\\ncation. In town affairs he was looked up to for advice\\nand council. His advice had great weight in the settle-\\nment of estates. He was not given to lengthy addresses\\nin public assemblies, but what he said was always to the\\npoint. He was much esteemed and respected by all\\nwho knew him.\\n2. Mary Anrt, b. July 7, 1S04; m. May 13, 1S24, Timothy Taylor, of Lebanon.\\n3. Elizabeth Jane, b. Feb. 6, 1806, m. Nov. 9, 1S32, James P. McGregory, of New-\\nport. 4. Emily F., b. March 16, 180S: d. Feb. 20, 1815.\\n5. John Baker, b. Jan. 17, iSio. See.\\n6. Charles, b. Nov. 27, 1S12; d. Feb. 28, 1S35, unm.\\n7. Catherine P., b. Jan. 20, 1S15; m. (i) Coram Sheperd, of Salisbury; he was\\ndrowned in Poverty Pond, in Hill, and she m. (2) Amos Tuck, of Exeter;\\nno children.\\n8. Daniel G., b. Oct. 6, 1S20; d. July 27, 1830.\\n9. Patrick Henry, b. Oct. 20, 1823. See.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0912.jp2"}, "889": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 8ll\\n(5) John Baker learned his father s trade, but his desire to\\nacquire knowledge and experience by travel led him to\\nleave his native town at the age of eighteen years, visit-\\ning the principal cities and towns in Massachusetts,\\nNew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio, working\\nat his trade in the various places, improving himself in\\nhis occupation until he became expert in the branch\\nwhich he preferred and which gave the largest return,\\nthat of saddle-making. He visited home occasionally,\\nbut never again made this his residence. He established\\nhimself in business with his brother Charles at Rutland,\\nVt., under the firm of Townsend Co. This point\\nbeing a staging centre, they did a good business. Here\\nhe married Eliza C. Alrood, dau. of John and Olive\\n(Cogswell) Alrood, of Cornwell. He was afterwards\\nestablished in Middlebury, where his eldest son was\\nborn, and afterwards in Montpelier. In 1835 he removed\\nto Albany, and to Troy, N. Y., the same year, where he\\nformed a partnership with his friend, under the firm of\\nPaddock Townsend, carrying on the largest business\\nnorth of New York City. At that time a large stage\\nmanufacturing business was carried on in Troy, and\\norders came from all parts of the country, and from\\nTexas and Mexico, for stages, harnesses and saddles.\\nThe firm found employment for scores of workmen to\\nfill their orders for stage equipments, besides others on\\nfiner work for their custom trade nearer home. The\\ncrisis of 1837 wrecked them and the partnership was\\ndissolved but Mr. Townsend soon started again and did\\na custom trade which flourished for many years. About\\n1852 he retired from business and took a more active\\ninterest in public affairs, became a prominent leader in\\nthe Democratic party, and held many political positions\\nof party honor and confidence. He also held various\\nlocal offices of honor and trust, had many friends, was", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0913.jp2"}, "890": {"fulltext": "8l2 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nvery active and energetic, and took part usually in most\\nof the public movements in which citizens engaged. He\\npossessed a fine intellect and a generous heart, and his\\nmind was well stored with facts and the details of public\\nevents that had transpired during his life. Possessing a\\ngenial disposition, his many good qualities endeared him\\nto numerous friends and acquaintances. He was U. S.\\ndeputy marshal for the northern district of New York in\\n1858, and for several years he was city marshal at Troy;\\nhe was a commissioner of his native state for the state\\nof New York, having received his appointment from Gov.\\nWilliam Haile in 1857. He d. at Troy, Jan. 23, 1869,\\nHis wife d. Oct. 23, 1876.\\n10. John Pomeroy, living in New York City since 1850; vice\\npresident of the Bowery Savings Bank, the largest insti-\\ntution of the kind in the country, having assets of over\\n^40,000,000; president of the Municipal Gas Light Co.,\\nRochester; vice president of the Maritime Exchange;\\ndirector of the Long Island R. R. Co. secretary and a\\nmanager of the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled,\\nand a trustee and manager in other benevolent and chari-\\ntable institutions. He contributed the items for this\\nsketch. He m. Elizabeth A. Baldwin, dau. of Nehemiah\\nand Mary Baldwin, and has three children.\\n11. Emily F. m. J. W. Cusack, of Troy.\\n12. Charles H. m. Martha J. Bentley; res. New York City.\\n13. Sarah J. m. Frank A. Ray; res. Albany, N. Y. 14. Helen E. d. young.\\n15. Alwood B. d. young. 16. Kate S. m. Frank Wright; res. Troy.\\n(9) Patrick Henry Townsend, son of John and Anna (Baker)\\nTownsend, was born at Salisbury, the 20th of October,\\nA. D. 1823. His early life was spent in Salisbury. He\\nhad no real liking for trade and a decided aversion to\\nwork upon the land. In his seventeenth year he went\\nto Lebanon, N. H., and attended the academy for several\\nAbstract of sketch prepared by the late Hon. Amos Tuck, of Exeter, N. H.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0914.jp2"}, "891": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 813\\nterms. On his return home, and stating his ambition to\\npursue a collegiate course, his father remembered that\\nhaving been obliged, as surety for another person, to pay\\nabout eight hundred dollars to Phillips Exeter Academy,\\nhe had been told by the treasurer that the trustees would\\nfeel disposed, out of sympathy for him to assist any son\\nhe might send to that school. At the earnest solicita-\\ntion of Henry, his father went to E.xeter, and arranged\\nterms for his admission. His scholarship and progress\\nwere very satisfactory, and the trustees, on the recom-\\nmendation of the faculty, admitted him to the charity\\nfoundation. Such a favor could only be bestowed upon\\na pupil of superior merit and scholarship. Doctors Sparks\\nand Palfrey and Professor Bowen, as well as others, had\\nmany years before enjoyed similar privileges at the\\nacademy, and made the position particularly honorable.\\nYoung Townsend s course at the academy enabled him,\\nin the fall of 1848, to enter the junior class at Bowdoin\\nCollege. By his course ^t Exeter he acquired a good\\nreputation and general success, which he maintained at\\nBrunswick, and was graduated with credit at the com-\\nmencement in 1850. Among his classmates were Gen.\\nHoward, of the U. S. Army, and Gov. Chamberlain,\\nafterwards president of the college. Being somewhat in\\ndebt for college expenses, he accepted a position in the\\nTreasury Department at Washington, which he held\\nuntil the advent of Franklin Pierce s administration.\\nDuring this time Henry made some progress in the\\nstudy of law, the profession he intended to follow. He\\nsubsequently, at Exeter, in the office of Hon. Amos\\nTuck, his brother-in-law, and at Galena, 111., in the office\\nof Hon. E. B. Washburn, afterwards Member of Con-\\ngress, Secretary of State under Gen. Grant, and U. S.\\nMinister at Paris, completed his law studies and was ad-\\nmitted to practice. About this time, the idea of rescuing", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0915.jp2"}, "892": {"fulltext": "8l4 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nKansas from the slaveholders took possession of the\\npeople of the North, and Henry decided to cast his lot\\nwith the Northern emigrants. He arrived at Lawrence,\\nKansas, in the fall of 1855, at the height of excitement.\\nThe night of his arrival the Free State Hotel, where he\\nstopped, was seized, rifled and burned by border ruffians,\\nand he lost a large portion of his clothing. Mr. Towns-\\nend became interested in property at Big Springs, and\\nestablished himself at that place. But the territory was\\nso agitated that he had no opportunity for quiet atten-\\ntion to business, and soon interested himself wholly in\\nthe great question then convulsing the country. He\\nbecame a member in due time of the Free State Terri-\\ntorial Convention at Topeka, and took an active part in\\nresisting and finally in thwarting the designs of the\\nslaveholders. He sympathized fully with John Brown,\\nand was very serviceable in forwarding the action which\\nfinally overpowered the enemies of the territory. Thus\\nengaged, he postponed all plans for private gain and was\\nthere during the successive years of famine occasioned\\nby drought and the grasshopper plague. During these\\nperiods, Mr. Tovvnsend was among the most serviceable\\nand devoted of those who suffered and labored for that\\nunhappy territory. He took measures to have money\\nand supplies collected where he had acquaintances, and\\ndevoted his whole time and services to distributing con-\\ntributions so as to relieve the pervading distress. He\\ntravelled on foot in many cases in the dead of winter,\\nacross the trackless prairies, at the risk of perishing\\nhimself, in order to save the lives of families he knew to\\nbe without food or clothing. In one case, he arrived at\\na house just in time, by most tender and discreet aid, to\\nsave the life of a woman about to expire from hunger.\\nHaving thus labored through all the dark days of Kan-\\nsas, with serious danger to his health, without laying up", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0916.jp2"}, "893": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND HIOGKArHY. 815\\nanything, and having expended all he had in serving\\nothers, his friends recommended him to accept a position\\nin the Treasury Department at Washington, and on the\\n4th of April, 1861, he entered upon his duties there\\nunder Mr. Chase, the Secretary. He had scarcely been\\ninducted into office, before he became a member of a\\nvolunteer military company, which did service every\\nnight in defending the President s house and in guard-\\ning the city against attack. He soon attained promo-\\ntion in his position and continued in the Treasury De-\\npartment with satisfaction to all. In the month of May,\\n1864, he had been unwell for about a week, so that he\\nconfined himself to his room. While encased in con-\\nversation with a friend, in a brief pause in their talk he\\nsuddenly expired. II is decease caused great grief among\\na large circle of friends. His remains were sent to Exe-\\nter, N. H., where they were interred.\\nTHE TRUE FAMILY.\\nJabez True was a resident of Salisbury, Mass. He was a\\ngrantee of Stevenstown. What relation he bore to the follow-\\ning families is not known.\\n1. Ezekiel True, of Salisbury, Mass., (may have been a son of\\nJabez), m. Mary and had\\n2. Sarah, b. .Sept. 29, 1746. 3. Jacob, b. March 26, 174S. See.\\n4. Lydia, b. Dec. 15, 1750; ni. Greeley. 5. Martha, b. Feb. 20. 1753.\\n6 and 7. Ezekiel and Mary, b. May 16, 1755.\\n5. Jabez, b. March 9, 175S. See. 9. John, b. March ir, 1762.\\n10. William, b. April 15, 1764; settled in Andoverj his son William m. July i,\\n1S17, .\\\\bigail Parker. 11. Paul, b. Sept. 11, 1766; d. Nov. 14, 17S5.\\n(3) Jacob Deacon removed here from Salisbury, Mass., as\\nearly as 1767. settling on the farm now (1882) occupied\\nby Moses S. Morse. He d. He served in the Rev-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0917.jp2"}, "894": {"fulltext": "8l6 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nolutionary War, and was in Capt. Ebenezer Webster s\\nCompany at Bennington. Nov. lo, 1764, he purchased\\nof Capt. John Webster 80 acres, No. 8, second range,\\npaying eighty Spanish milled dollars. He m. April 5,\\n1773, Lydia Dow, who d. Oct. 6, 1848, aged 96.\\n12. Daniel, b. Dec. 13, 1774. See. 13. Molly, b. Jan. 8, 1786.\\n14. Jacob, b. Jan. 10, 1778. See.\\n15. Ezekiel, b. Feb. 6, 1780; removed to Corinth, Vt. m. Nutting, raised a\\nfamily, and died there.\\n16. Lydia, b. Feb. 29, 1782; m. Dec. 28, 1S19, James Garland.\\n17. John, b. April 9, 1789. See.\\n(12) Daniel remained on the farm until 1824-5; renioved to\\nMichigan m. Polly, dau. of Caleb Judkins.\\n18. Polly, b. May 29, 1800; removed to Unity.\\n19. Lydia, b. July 24, 1802; m. (i) Luther True; m. (2) James Bailey; m. (3)\\nwho d. in 1845; m. (4) Henry Burleigh; d. 1871.\\n20. Mehitable J., b. Dec. 10, 1804; m. Nov. 3, 1825, John M. Barker, of Unity.\\n21. Emily, b. Aug. 11, 1807; m. Rev. res. Ann Arbor, Mich.\\n22. Rhoda, b. May 19, 1810. 23. Asenath, b. Feb. 15, 1814. Both rem. to Mich.\\n24. Jacob, b. d. at St. Louis, Mo., 1846\\n(14) Jacob m. Jane, dau. of Shubael Greeley; he d. April 30,\\n1816; she m. (2) Oct. 28, 1816, Jonathan Dickerson, of\\nNew Chester; she d. Sept. 30, 1855.\\n25. Polly, b. March 14, 1802 m. Sept. 19, 1S21, Benjamin Tucker, of Andover,\\nwhere she d. April 19, 1845.\\n26. Luther, b. July 19, 1804 {3) m. Sept. 2, 1823 (4) Lydia, dau. of Daniel and\\nPolly True; resided on the homestead; d. April 21, 1832.\\n27. Moses, b. Aug. 30, 1806 (5); m. (i) 1823, Ursula, dau. of Lt. Benjamin and\\nHannah (Greeley) Pettengill who d. at Bunker Hill, 111., Aug. 11, 1842;\\nm. (2) Sarah, dau. of Thomas and Molly White (see), who d. Oct. 2, 1845;\\nm. (3) April 21, 1846, Nancy Clark, who d. Oct. 11, 1875 one son, James\\nC, b. Sept. 10, 1S48; res. Kansas; in. (4) April 15, 1876, Betsey M. George\\none child, Mary G., b. Feb. 3, 1877. Deacon Moses removed to Hamp-\\nden, Me., in 1823, thence to Bunker Hill, 111. He is a man of much influ-\\nence and Christian worth, a deacon in the Presbyterian Church.\\n28. Sally (Sarah), b. Dec. 16, 1808; m. Jan. 29, 1829, Moses Judkins; res. Cal.\\n29. Rhoda J., b. Feb. 17, 1810; m. (i) Oct. 18, 1832, Nathaniel D. Huntoon m.\\n(2) Ephraim Carter; res. Newton, Mass.\\n30. John II., b. Aug. 2, 1812 rem. west d. Aug. 28, 1833, unm.\\n31. Minerva, b. Aug. 23, 1814; d. March 20, 1816.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0918.jp2"}, "895": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND UIOflKAI HV 817\\n(17) John graduated at Dartmouth College in 1806; received\\nthe degree of A. B. from his alma mater read medi-\\ncine with Dr. Peter Green, at Concord, and at Dartmouth\\nMedical School began practice at Haverhill, Mass.\\nthence removed to Tennessee, where he followed his\\nprofession; d. Aug. 31, 1815.\\n(8) Jabez removed here from his native place previous to 1797,\\nsettling on the land his brother bought, (see) No. 8,\\nsecond range, on the road leading to the Gore remained\\nsome years and removed to the D. S. Scribner place; d.\\nin 185 1 m. (i) Eaton, of Salisbury, Mass.; m. (2)\\nHannah, widow of Daniel Pierce. Daniel Pierce s chil-\\ndren were\\nI. Sarah, m. Ebenezer Dustin; res. and d. at Hopkinton. n. Samuel, m. Abigail\\nDavis, of Warner; rem. to Irasburg, Vt., where he d. iir. Isaac, ni. Mary\\nFloyd, of Warner; rem. to Norwich, Vt. iv. Robert, m. Sarah Harvey;\\nd. in New London, v. Daniel, m. Clara Hardy, of Warner; d. in Hop-\\nkinton. VI. William M., b. June 15, 1S06. See. vir. .\\\\bigail, m. Morrill\\nClement, of Hopkinton, and d. there.\\n(VI.) William M. remained in Salisbury; enlisted in the 9th N. IT. Kegt. d. at\\nFalmouth, Va., Nov. 27, 1S61 m. June 4, 1825, Lois C, dau. of Noah\\nW. and Abigail Quimby Kenniston, who was b. at Lis.bon, .May 3, and\\nd. at Salisbury in 1SS5.\\nvui. Melissa B., b. Dec. 2, 1826; m. II. C. W. .Moores. See. i.\\\\. Nancy W.,\\nb. July 15, 1828; m. P^eb. 7, 1846, Samuel C. Forsaith (see J. C. Smith\\ngenealogy). By this wife Mr. Forsaith had i. Frank P., b. June 14, 184S\\nm. Ceiia Thompson, ii. George B., b. June 28, 1849; m (i) Carrie Dustin\\nm. (2) Mattie Doyle, iii. William R., b. Jan. 7, 1855; m. Mary Voung.\\nAll reside in Manchester. X. William R., b. July 3, 1831 m. Rhoda\\nHutchinson, of Mi!ford he d. at Clinton, Ma.ss., in 1854. xr. Betsey J.,\\nb. Oct. 9, 1836; m. Warren Fellows (see) she d. Sept. 1S78.\\nChildren by first wife:\\n32. Esther, b. Jan. 28, 17S4; m. Joshua Davis, of Warner: rem. to Massachusetts.\\n2)j,. Sally, b. March 12, 1785; m. Peter Flanders.\\n34. Paul, b. Sept. 25, 1786; d. suddenly Oct. 2, 1875, unm.\\n35. Oliver, b. Dec. 6, 1787 removed West; m. d.\\n36. Joseph, b. April 15, 1789; (see account of the tornado) settled on the site\\nnow occupied by True Flanders; removed to Warner Village, from the\\nlatter place going West; he was a wheelwright by trade, making the old\\nlinen and spinning wheels, furniture, etc. the shop stood across the brook,\\neast of the house m. (1) Polly Jones, who d. .Xpril 2, 1S24 m. (2) Aley.\\n52", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0919.jp2"}, "896": {"fulltext": "8r8 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n2J. Hannah, b. July 31, 1790 m. Moses Thompson, of Newport d. at liristol.\\n33. Jabez, b. April i, 1792; served in the War of 1S12; d. at Portsmouth?\\n39. Abigail, b. Sept. 6, 1793; 1* Adams; d. at Warner.\\n40. Jane, b. .Sept. 19, 1795; d. young. 41. Aley, b. Aug. 6, i~0j removed West.\\n42. John, b. July 9, 1799; m. Fellows resided at Jackson, Mich.\\n43. Sally, b. m. Oct. 14, 1S13, IJenjamin Cass.\\nTHE TUCKER FAMILY.\\nFOUR BRANCHES.\\nJohn Tucker came from England and settled at Hingham,\\nMass., previous to 1636. Ezra removed to Salisbury previous\\nto the Revolutionary War, settling on the eastern shore of a\\npond called in his honor Tucker s Pond. He was a native\\nof Poplin, now Fremont. He was twice married, his family\\nconsisting of twelve sons and six daughters, all of whom raised\\nfamilies, and whose average length of life was seventy years.\\nOf this numerous family four settled here, viz. i. Ebenezer,\\n(see) 2. Jacob, (see) 3. Nathan, (see) 4. Bathsheba, m.\\nNathaniel Maloon, (see).\\n(i) Ebenezer, b. 1754; settled on the south-east shore of the\\npond. He m. Molly Farnum. He d. in 1825 she d. in\\n1832, aged 82. They had six boys and five girls. I can\\nonly give the following\\n5. Ezra, b. at Poplin; m. Hannah IJouley [Burleigh]; settled at Enfield.\\n6. Mehitable, m. March 30, 1799, Abner Watkins settled at Warner.\\n7. James, b. in 1774; m. in 1794, Betsy Farnum, who was b. in 1771 she d. at\\nStewartstown in 1861, aged 90; he d. at Lisbon in 1S62.\\n8. Lydia, b. Aug. 12, 1776; ni. Ephraim Colby; settled at Ogden, N. Y., where\\nshe d. in 1S23.\\n9. Ephraim, m. Jan. i, 1S07, Nancy Burbank; removed to New York.\\n10. Caleb, m. Dec. 26, iSii, Polly Wiley; removed to New York.\\n11. Ebenezer, m. Sarah Wiley; settled at Andover.\\n12. Phebe, m. April 25, 1820, Ebenezer Dustin, of Ilopkinton settled at Henniker.\\n13. Polly, m. Calvin Pressey; settled at Canaan.\\n14. Benjamin, b. Oct. 12, 1791 m. (i) Dec. 25, 1817, Nancy, dau. of Humphrey\\nSargent, of Warner, where she was b. May 7, 1794 she d. March 20, 1853", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0920.jp2"}, "897": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 819\\nm. (2) in 1S57, Betsey Dimond. He resided on the homestead. He d.\\nOct. r4, 1S72. Deacon Tucker was an influential citizen and a christian\\nman in every respect. Children\\n15. Leavitt, b. Jan. 27, 1S19; d. Nov. 28, 1846; unm.\\n16. Nancy, b. Feb. 19, 1821 d. Sept. 27, 1852, unm.\\n17. Louisa, b. June 24, 1822; m. April 19, 1S49, James, son of James Wells, of\\nSutton; d. at Tilton, April 24, 1881, aged 63.\\niS and 19. Martha J. and Mary J., b. April 7, 1825; the former d. Nov. 9, 1840;\\nthe latter m. June 13, 1854, Albe Cady, son of Stephen Sweatt, of Bos-\\ncawen, Webster where he was b. April 24, 1824, and where they resided\\nuntil 1S74, when they removed to Fenacook.\\n20. Clara W., 1). July 21, 1S27 d. Nov. 6, 1847.\\n21. Rhoda S., b. July 11, 1S35; d. Feb. 27, 187 j, unm.\\n(2) Jacob, m. (i) Feb. 22, 1781, Sarah Hoyt m. (2) Feb. 11,\\n1795, Molly Scribner and had (22.) Nathaniel, b.\\nJuly 9, 1782.\\n(3) Nathan, b. at Poplin, Oct. 18, 1764; settled on the west\\nside of the pond, on the site now occupied by his grand-\\nson, Levi VV. (39); m. (i) March 14, 1782, Lydia Ste-\\nvens m. (2) Mary Welch, of Canaan. Children by first\\nwife\\n23. Joseph Rev.) b. July i8, 1782; m. Dolly Clough, of Canterbury. He erected\\na set of buildings south-west of the homestead, the roofs of which were\\ncarried away by the high wind during the cold Friday. He was a Baptist\\nminister and permanently located at Tunbridge, Vt.\\n24. Hannah, b. Dec. 23, 1783; m. Feb. 23, 1804, Nathaniel Richardson; d. at Ca-\\nnaan.\\n25. Polly, b. Dec. 15, 1785; m. Nov. 26, 1S07, John Preston, of Tunbridge, Vt.\\nremoved to Canaan.\\n26. Caleb, b. Nov. 6, 1789; m. Dec. 26, iSii, Dorothy liean settled at Wilmot.\\n27. Ezra, b. March 22, 1793; m. Judith Burbank, of 15oscawen rem. to Grafton.\\nand d. Among his eleven children was Oliver N., b. at Grafton, Oct.\\n3, 1816; remained on the farm during his minority; learned the trade of\\nclock repairer with Mr. Durgin, at Andovcr m. July 4, 1S42, Betsey G.,\\ndau. of Ezekiel and Maomi Carr Robey, who was b. at Boscawen, April\\n28, 1822 settled in Salisbury, where he continues. I. Sarah J., b. Feb. 7,\\n1848, m. Warren Merrill; res. Lowell, Mass. II. Julia A., b. May 13,\\n1850; m. Nov. 27, 1870, J. Hatch Culver, of Lake Village; res. Lowell.\\nIII. James L., b. Dec. 19, 1852; m. in 1S77, Lizzie Thompson, of Wake-\\nfield. IV. Carrie E., b. Dec. 25, 185S; m. May 22, iSSi, Frank Matthews;\\nres. Franklin, v. Edward E., b. May 9, 1S61.\\n28. Nathan, b. May 31, 1794- Sec.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0921.jp2"}, "898": {"fulltext": "820 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nChildren by second wife:\\n29. Lydia, m. OrenCarr she d. in Salisbury.\\n30. Eliza, m. Jeremiah Sanborn, of Sutton. 31. I.ucinda, m. I^zra Maloon. See.\\n(28) Nathan remained on the homestead d. March 24, 1871\\nm. (i) Mary Fellows, by whom he had four children, all\\ndead m. (2) March 18, 1823, Mrs. Sarah Farnum. Chil-\\ndren by second wife\\n32. John, b. Nov. 30, 1S23; m. Hannah Sargent; res. Danbury.\\n33. Peter B., b. Dec 19, 1827 m. Lucinda Morrill res. Warner.\\n34. Nathan, b. April 16, 1825. See.\\n35. Mary, b. Aug. 10, 1828; m. Oct. 22, 1855, Hamilton Gookin. See.\\n36. Phebe D., b. May 30, 1830; m. Rev. J. W. Bean (see) she d. Oct. 5, 1S60.\\n37 and 38. Harrison and twins, b. Nov. 23, 1832 the former d. April 13, 1S43\\nthe latter d. April 20, 1833.\\n39. Levi W., b. Sept. 13, 1834; m. Ann Sanborn; remains on the farm; three\\nchildren.\\n40. Harriet N., b. Aug. 4, 1836; d. April 20, 1855.\\n(33) Nathan resided west of Scribner s Corner. He held a\\nnumber of town offices, and d. June 17, 1881 m. May\\nI7\u00c2\u00bb 1853, Adaline Couch she d. Dec. 9, 1879.\\n41. Martha J., b. April 7, 1854. 42. Frank, b. Aug. 3, 1S56.\\n43. Fred, b. Sept. 28, 1858; m. Nancy J. McAllister.\\n44. Clara, b. March 19, i860. 45. Emma, b. Dec. 11, 1863.\\n46. Freeman, b. May 3, 1866. 47. Nettie, b. Nov. 30, 1868.\\nTHE WARDWELL FAMILY.\\nI. Jeremiah, b. Dec. 17, 1748; removed to Salisbury from\\nPembroke, in 1804-5, settling on the farm now owned by D. R.\\nMcAllister, at Smith s Corner d. Aug. 9, 1817; m. Nov. 21,\\n1769, Mary Lovejoy, who was b. April 29, 1748 she d. Feb.\\n23, 1813.\\n2. Amos, b. Oct. II, 1770; d. April 19, 1817; m. Anna res. and d. at Han-\\nover.\\n3. Mary, b. Aug. 28, 1772; m. Jonathan Hutchinson res. at Merrimack.\\n4. Isaac, b. Nov. 29, 1774; m. Mary Cushing; res. at Lebanon, where he d. June\\n9, 1848. [An Isaac Wardwell m. July 6, 1806, Judith Bean.]", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0922.jp2"}, "899": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND lUOGKAPHY 821\\n5. Abial, b. Nov. 25, 1777 removed here previous to his parents, settling in the\\nhouse opposite Joseph N. Greeley s he was a noted singer, and led the\\nchoir at the Congregational Church, besides teaching large singing classes;\\nm. Nov. 8, 1813, Sally Webster; d. Feb. 9, kS6o, without issue.\\n6. Phebe, b. April 29, 1780; m. Jeremy Webster. .See.\\n7. Sally, b. Feb. 11. 1783; m. Adams.\\n8. John, b. Sept. 14, 1785; m. Clarissa Davis, of Warner; remained on the farm\\nfor a time, then removed to Laconia.\\n9. Joseph, b. July 3, 1788; d. at Itoston, Mass., Feb. 3, 1814; he graduated at\\nDartmouth College in 1813 and became a school teacher.\\n10. Jesse, b. Dec. 3, 1790; went to sea and was lost; unm.\\n11. Reuben, b. April 23, 1795; built the Josiah Hook house, where he d. April 15,\\n1838 he was a carriage maker by trade, and made improvements on the\\nold style wagons; a man much respected by his townsmen; m. Polly\\nMary) Webster, who was b. April 23, 1790; she d. Sept. 22, 1S36.\\n12. Janett, b. Jan. iS, 181S d. Oct. 29, 1S3S, unm.\\n13. Harriet, b. Feb. 24, 1S19; d. April i, 1S41.\\n14. Charlotte, b. Feb. 21. 1821 d. July 12, 1831.\\n15. George, b. May 16, 1825; d. 16. Abial, b. Feb. 6, 1827; d. Oct. 25, 1S52.\\n17. Mary F., b. Dec. 9, 1829; d. Sept. 3, 1837.\\niS. John Webster, b. June i, 1832; he has been for many years connected with\\nthe Concord Railroad.\\nTHE WATSON FAMILY.\\nWe are able, authentically, to trace the Watsons of this town\\nback to Nicodemus (5), a register of whose family may be\\nfound on the Hampstead records. From the traditional his-\\ntory of the family descendants, the accuracy of which is not\\ncertain, we have prior to Nicodemus:\\nI. Parmenus Watson, b. 1700, who was the paternal\\nancestor of our families m. Mary Flanders, and had\\n2. Obadiah. 3. Pelatiah.\\n4. Parmenus, who settled in that part of Warner called Joppa. He was one of\\nthe first deacons of the Congregational Church, and filled various town\\noftices.\\n5. Nicodemus. See. 6. Caleb. 7. John. No daughters.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0923.jp2"}, "900": {"fulltext": "822 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(5) Nicodemus resided at Hampstead m. Elizabeth Harri-\\nman, and had\\n8. Daniel, b. 1755 lived in that part of Warner called Joppa.\\n9. Abijah, b. 1759. See. 10. Caleb. See. 11. Ithamar, b. 1853; no daughters.\\n(9) Abijah Elder) remained here with his younger brother\\nCaleb settled and cleared up the farm now occupied by\\nJ. S. Clough, where he d. Dec. i, 1828. He was a\\npreacher and farmer. He m. Sarah Ouimby, who d.\\nJan. 25, 1830. Children all born here:\\n12. Daniel, b. Oct. 23, 1787. See.\\n13. Joseph, b. Feb. 29, 1784; m. Sept. 3, 1805, Polly Sargent, of Warner. Rev.\\nMr. Watson preached in Bradford and vicinity for some years; rem. to\\nWinchendon, Mass., where he continued his ministerial labors; d.\\n14. Nicodemus, b. Jan. 15, 1786; m. Prudence Morrill, of Warner, where he d.\\nSept. 10, 1844.\\n15. Betsy, b. Feb. 11, 178S; m. in 1S35, Zebulon Sargent; d. without issue, at\\nOrange, Feb. i860.\\n16. Abijah, b. Feb. 21, 1760; m. Sally Sargent; d. in 1876.\\n17. Lucy, b. July 6, 1762 m. in May, 1810, Abel Buzzell d. Jan. 7, 1815. He d.\\nApril 3, 1812, leaving one daughter, who m. in 1829, Currier Quimby, who\\nlived in the Watson District and had six children, Jessie, Mary and John\\ncow living.\\n18. Sally, b. June 28, 1795; Samuel B. Peasley; rem. to Winchendon, Mass.;\\nd. 1871.\\n19. Polly, b. Oct. 21, 1797 m. Dec. 31, 181S, Israel Dow, Jr. he d. Aug. 11, 1858;\\nshe resides in Warner.\\n20. David, m. (i) in 1S24, Levina Pattee m. (2) Dec. 20, 1S55, Mrs. Mary C.\\nGould; he d. Dec. 27, 1870.\\n21. Jonathan, b. March 13, iSoo; m. Nov. 28, 1822, Achsah Wheeler; resides in\\nWarner.\\n22. Nancy, b. April 2, 1804; m. in 1826, Clark Sargent; d. in 1842.\\n(12) Daniel remained on the homestead d. in 1853 m. Dec.\\n12, 1804, Sarah Palmer, of Salisbury where she was\\nb. Dec. 18, 1732 she d. Oct. 7, 1856.\\n23. Abijah, b. July 31, 1805; d. at Cincinnati, Oct. 4, 1870; m. (i) in June, 1832,\\nLavina Watkins, of Warner; m. (2) in 1833, Phebe Sargent, of Windsor,\\nVt.\\n24. Mirriam F., b. Dec. 26, i8c8; m. in Dec. 1832, Benjamin Wells, of Sutton; d.\\nin Minn., Nov. 28, 1873.\\n25. Lucy B., b. April 6, 1816; m. Sept. 26, 1841, Obadiah Glines; resides in\\nNorthfield.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0924.jp2"}, "901": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND JJIOGKAI IIV 823\\n26. Nicodemus. See. z-j Prudence, b. July 13, iSiS; d. Nov. 5, 1S22.\\n28. Abel B., b. Feb. 9, iSi t d. April 27, 1829.\\n{26) Nicodemus remained on the farm until after the birth\\nof children; rem. to Boscawen d. Nov. 4, 1875; m.\\nApril 3, 1843, Eliza VVilkins res. Carlisle, Mass.\\n29. .Sarah A., b. .\\\\pril 5, 1S45; 111. March 14, 1863, yoliii I Watson; res. North-\\nfield.\\n30. ^[ary P., b. Feb. 15, 1S49; m. in 1.S69, Edward Atkinson.\\n31. George .S., b. Oct. 1 1, 1S51 m. Dec. 1 1, rSjj, Lorena M. Stilling.s, of Canter-\\nbury.\\n^10) Caleb, b. at Hampstead, Dec. 6, 1760; m. Dec. i, 1781,\\nLydia, dau. of Thomas Hovvlet i she was b. at Hillsbor-\\nough, Mass., Nov. 23, 1761 she d. March 20, 1842 re-\\nmoved to Weare with his father just prior to the revolu-\\ntion. Mr. Watson bought wild land and built a log house,\\ninto which he moved his family, in 1788. After years of\\ntrial and hardship incident to a pioneer life, he cleared\\na valuable farm, and erected frame buildings, in which\\nhe d., in affluent circumstances, April 28, 1832. He was\\namong the first to espouse the doctrines of the Free\\nWill Baptist Church, under its founder. Rev. Benjamin\\nRandall, and was for many years a deacon of that church.\\nFew have lived more exemplary lives than this couple,\\nwho lived to see their large family of children honored\\nmembers of society. Mr. Watson served in the Revolu-\\ntionary War, from Weare, in Capt. Randall s company,\\nassigned to the defence of the western frontier, under\\nthe command of Major Whitcomb. This company was\\nfor a time stationed at a fort in Corinth, Vt. the site of\\nwhich was a few years since well defined by a circular\\nmound with a depression in the center. While stationed\\nhere, a messenger came with the news that the Tories\\nand Indians were burning Royalton and butchering the\\ninhabitants. Capt. Randall immediately started to inter-\\ncept the fiends, but was too late and the pursuit was\\nabandoned. On their return to the fort, Watson and", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0925.jp2"}, "902": {"fulltext": "824 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nfourteen others were detailed to visit another fort. Get-\\nting lost in the woods, they came near perishing with\\nhunger twelve of their number laid down expecting\\nnever to rise. The other three continued on and dis-\\ncovered srnoke among the trees, which guided them to\\nthe house of a man named Clemmens his wife provided\\nfor their immediate wants, and the husband, with a\\nknapsack of provision and a bottle of rum, started for\\nand brought in the remaining twelve. After they were\\nsufficiently recruited, he conducted them to their desti-\\nnation. Though a farmer by profession, he was a natural\\nmechanic, and made most of the articles used by farm-\\ners, cart-wheels, ox-yokes, barrels, boots and shoes, etc.\\n32. Thomas, b. May 10, 1782 m. Rebecca Davis, of Shapleigh, Me., where he was\\nin mercantile pursuits for a number of years; rem. to Thorndike, Me., and\\nd. Jan. 12, 1863.\\n33. Ithamar. See. 34. Calel), b. in Weare, Feb. 3, 1787. See.\\nChildren born in Salisbury\\n35. Safford, b. Dec. 29, 1791 m. Sept. 25, 1S17, Abigail Currier, who was b. at\\nDeerfield, Oct. 27, 1792 they had five children. They lived to celebrate\\ntheir golden wedding and the following morning led a large party to the\\ntop of Kearsarge. He d. at Sutton, July 13, 1S72.\\n36. Lydia, b. April 23, 1789; m. in Jan., 1822, John Clement, Jr., of Warner; d.\\nthere Jan. 17, 1854; they had two children, John W. and Rachel C.\\n37. Moses H., b. July 23, 1794. See.\\n38. Mark K., a jeweler; d. in New Jersey, unm.\\n39. Hannah, ni John True d. in Michigan. 40. Alice, ni. Richard Fellows; (111.)\\n(SiS) Ithamar b. in Weare, Sept. 7, 1784 m. Dec. 25, 1807, Dolly,\\ndau. of Stephen Thurston, then a resident of Salisbury,\\nb. at Newburyport, Mass., d. Nov. 2, 1853, aged 71. Mr.\\nWatson was a school teacher, a farmer and mechanic,\\nmaking wool-carding machines, and built and put in\\nsuccessful operation the second machine of this kind\\never operated in Vermont. Later in life he made spin-\\nning jennies and looms for factories, and could make\\nfrom wood, iron, steel or brass anything he required, and\\nnothino- left his hands until it showed the finish of a", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0926.jp2"}, "903": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY ANH BIOGRAPHY 825\\nmaster workman. During the last war with England he\\nwas Captain of a company of minute-men, and for some\\nyears was Captain of the Blackwater militia company,\\nhis fine physique and military bearing well fitting him\\nfor a commander. In 1820 he removed to Orford and in\\nFebruary, 1821, to Corinth, Vt., remaining there seven\\nyears removed to Warner, exxhanged farms with his\\nson-in-law, returning to Salisbury, Nov. 2, 1855. She\\nd. June 6, 1859. l^oth were members of the Baptist\\nChurch. For a number of years he was a Master Mason,\\nand was District Deputy Grand Lecturer. He was\\nnoted for his honesty and integrity.\\n41. Henry L., b. in Salisbury, Fei). lo, iSii. .See.\\n42. Melinda C, b. in Salisbury, June S, 1816; ni. Jan. 1, 1S3S, Penny Hardy; he\\nd. Feb. 23, 1873; resided at Littleton.\\n43. Joseph W., b. in Corinth, Vt., June to, 1823; d. young.\\n44. Porter P., b. in Corinth, Vt July 13, 1S25. See.\\ni^y) Moses H. resided on the old homestead d. Nov. 23,\\n1858; m. April 28, 18 13, Lydia F ellows, who was b.\\nJuly 6, 1794, and at the present time (1890) enjoys good\\nhealth and possesses a most retentive memory.\\n45. Albert F., b. .May 17, 1S20. See.\\n46. Mary M., b. Jan. 25, 1S23; d. July 30, 1865, nnm.\\n(34) Caleb settled in Warner, conducting the carriage-making\\nbusiness was a skillful mechanic removed to Salis-\\nbury in 1820, settling on the homestead; d. April 12,\\ni860; m. Nov. 24, 1814, Rachel, dau. of John Couch;\\nshe. d. July 9, 1863.\\n47. Harriet B., b. Oct. 4, 181 5 ni. Deacon James Morrill, of Warner; d\\n48. Sophrona K., b. March 27, 181S; d. July 31, 1S55, unm.\\n49. Ithamar H., b. March 19, 1S20; m. Sarah J. Page; resided in Manchester;\\nd.\\n50. Louisa J., 1). July 31, 1825; ni. John C Ela res. in Warner.\\n51. John C, b. May 13, 1S2S; m. Hannah A. Morrill; res. in Warner.\\n52. Lucinda H., b. Dec. 26, 1830; m. Samuel J Mvrick tl. .it M.inchester.\\n53. Livonia, b. July 5, 1833; d. young.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0927.jp2"}, "904": {"fulltext": "826 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(41) Henry Lyman, M. D., obtained his academic education\\nat Salisbury and Phillips Academies, teaching winters.\\nHe read medicine with Hon. Leonard Eaton, M. D., at\\nWarner, graduating from the Vermont Medical School\\nin 1848, since which time he has followed his chosen\\nprofession, one and a-half years at Stewartstown, twenty\\nyears at Guildhall, Vt., and the last fourteen years at\\nLittleton, owning a drug store in the latter place for\\nsome five years. In 1859 he was made a Mason in\\nNorth Star Lodge, of Lancaster; in 1861 he was a\\ncharter member of Pulaski Lodge, of Newbury, Vt., was\\nits first Secretary, and was Marshal of the same at the\\ntime of his removal to Littleton, where he is a member\\nof Burns Lodge. Dr. Watson, from his youth up, has\\nbeen a strict temperance man, both by profession and\\npractice, believing that a physician, of all men, should be\\nstrictly moral and free from all pernicious habits.- In\\nMarch, 1832, his first vote was given in Salisbury, he\\nvoting, with his father, grandfather and two uncles, the\\nDemocratic ticket. In 1852, he was elected to the Ver-\\nmont State Senate, and was re-elected in 1853. In\\n1866-7, he represented Guildhall in the Legislature, and\\nhe was postmaster at that place during the administra-\\ntion of President Polk. After his removal to Littleton\\nhe was postmaster for a time, and has creditably filled\\nnumerous positions of honor and trust, both public and\\nprivate. He m. (i) June 4, 1840, Roxana, dau. of Jesse\\nHughes b. at Maidstone, Jan. 19, 1816 d. Dec. 7, 1850;\\nm. (2) Jan. i, 1852, Mary J., dau. of Thaddeus Hardy, of\\nWarner she d. in August, 1884. Children by first wife\\nI. Henry Porter, b. at Guildhall, Vt., June, 8, 1844; is a\\nphysician at Haverhill, N. H. 11 and iii. Mary Hughes\\nand Ellen Melinda, b. Dec. 18, 1847; former d. Apr.\\n22, 1849; t^G latter m. F. S. Leach; res. Littleton.\\n{44) Porter Baldwin was educated at the Salisbury Academy.\\nHe was selectman 1858-60, representative 1862-3, and", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0928.jp2"}, "905": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0929.jp2"}, "906": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0930.jp2"}, "907": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 82/\\nwas justice of the peace while a resident here. In 1864\\nremoved to Newbury, Vt., where he remained till 1869,\\nremoving to Littleton. In 1873 he engaged in the glove\\nleather manufacture and in 1880 entered into partner-\\nship with the Eureka Glove Company, at Littleton. He\\nm. Oct. 17, 1848, Luvia E., dau. of P. P. Ladd, of Lunen-\\nburgh, Vt. In 1883 he was elected treasurer of Grafton\\ncounty, and in 1889 selectman and overseer of the poor.\\nChildren\\n54. Irving Allison, b. Sept. 6, 1849; read medicine with Drs.\\nH. L. Watson, A. B. Crosby, and Prof. Howard of New\\nYork graduated from the Medical Department of the\\nUniversity of Vermont, June 18, 1871 practised in\\nNorthumberland from June, 1871, to Oct., 1881. He\\nrepresented the town in the Legislature, 1879-81. By\\nan act of the Legislature of 1881, a State Board of\\nHealth was created and Dr. Watson was appointed on\\nthe board and elected permanent secretary, with office\\nat the State House, Concord, where he now resides. In\\n1883 he was elected secretary of the American Public\\nHealth Association was re-elected in 1886 and again in\\n1889, each election being for a term of three years. In\\n1S83 he was by legislative act made registrar of vital\\nstatistics for the state. In 1884 he was commissioned\\nsurgeon of the 3d regiment, with the rank of major, and\\nin 1889 promoted to medical director of the N. H. N. G.\\nwitn the rank of Lieut. Col. In 1S85 Dartmouth Col-\\nlege conferred upon him the degree of A. M. He m.\\nApril 17, 1872, Lena A. Earr, of Littleton. He has one\\nchild, Bertha M., b. Feb. 2, 1880.\\n55. Idella, 1). May 14, 1S51 ni. Jan. i, 1.S74, Otis Streetcr, of Littleton; has\\none child, Ina, b.\\n56. Walter W., b. Feb. 9, 1S53; m. Sept. 12, 1S77, Ada Hatch, of Littleton.\\n57. Fred, b. Feb. 26, 1S55; d. Nov. 3, 1858.\\n58. Alice L, b. Feb. 17, 1S5.S m. Jan. I, 1884, William F. Andrus.\\n59. Fred A., h. Aug. 23, i860; m. June 15, 18S3, Ella J. Idc.\\n60. Angie 1$., b. Nov. 17, 1S62.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0931.jp2"}, "908": {"fulltext": "828 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n6i. IMinnie C, b. Feb. 28, iS66; m. Nov. 4, 1885, S. E. Richardson d. 1887.\\n62. Albert L., b. April 21. 1874.\\n(45) Albert F. remained on the homestead; m. Jan. 22, 1844,\\nLydia Nichols, who was b. at Hampton, Oct. 7, 1820;\\nhe d. Jan. 15, 1886.\\n63. Frank A., b. April 11, 1S45 ^^77 Dora A. Elkins, d. in 1S78.\\n64. Charles E., b. Aug. 11, 1851 m. (i) Feb. 5, 1871, Nettie True, who d. Oct. 3,\\n1875; 1- Sept. 18, 187 Lavina A., dau. of B. F. Sanborn. One\\ndaughter, Laura F., b. in July, 1873; d. young.\\n65. Martha A., b. Jan. i, 1855; m. in Nov. 1875, Worthy W. Woodbury; res. in\\niJloomington, 111.\\nTHE WEBSTER FAMILY.\\nFOUR BRANCHES.\\nThe common ancestor of the Webster family in New Eng-\\nland is in doubt, some historians claiming John Webster, who\\ncame from Ormsby, England, settled at Ipswich, New Eng-\\nland, and admitted freedman of Massachusetts in 1635, as the\\nfirst ancestor. At the present time, Thomas Webster is\\nthought to be the ancestor of the Salisbury families. He died\\nat Ormsby, England, April, 1634, leaving a widow Margarie\\n(who m. Deacon William Godfrey) and one son Thomas, (2)\\nwho settled at Ipsich and admitted freedman in 1674 or\\n1635 it is said he emigrated from Essex, county of Suffolk,\\nEngland m. Nov. 2, 1757 (1756) Sarah Brewer; removed to\\nHampton, N. H., where he d. Jan. 5, 171 5, aged 83, leaving\\nentre alias Ebenezer, (3) b. at Hampton, Aug. i, 1667; m. July\\n25, 1709, Hannah Judkins. He was one of the grantees of\\nKingston, to which place he removed in 1700. He was pilot in\\nCapt. John Oilman s company, Aug. 16, 1710, which went in\\npursuit of the Indians. He was a valiant soldier in the Indian\\nwars and d. at Kingston, Feb. 21, 1756. Among his descend-\\nants we find Ebenezer (4) b. at Kingston, Oct. 10, 17 14; m.\\nJuly 20, 1738, Susan Bachiler, a descendant of Rev. Stephen", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0932.jp2"}, "909": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 829\\nBachiler, the first settled minister in the state located at\\nHampton. She was a woman of remarkable strength of char-\\nacter, robust in form, with black hair, a piercing black eye and\\nof dark complexion. Of this Ebenezer, (4) Rev. Elias ^^ason J 1\\nsaid N. E. Genealogical Register, vol. 6, p. i. He lived in a\\nsmall house the cellar of which may still be seen on the left\\nside of the road leading from East Kingston depot to Kings-\\nton. He was poor, versatile and witty, obtaining a scanty\\nlivelihood by hatcheling fia.x, cutting cord wood, shearing\\nsheep, etc. His wife was a woman of marked ability. The\\nWebsters were Scotch, emigrating to England quite early.\\nThey were light complexioned, blue eyed, and had small hands,\\nexceptions being found in Ebenezer and his son Daniel, both\\nof whom very markedly took after the maternal side. Eben-\\nezer (3) had eight children, viz.: Ebenezer (4) b. Oct. 10, 1714;\\nWilliam, b. Aug. 26, 1716; John, b. Aug. 4, 1719; Joseph and\\nMary b. Sept. 15, 1724; Iddo, b. Feb. 16, 1727, and two others,\\ngirls.\\nEbenezer, the fifth descendant from the ancestor Thomas, b.\\nat East Kingston, April 22, 1739; (O. S. m. Jan, 18, 1761,\\nMehitable Smith, b. at Kingston d. in Salisbury, March 28,\\n1774; m. (2) Oct. 13, 1774, Abigail Eastman, b. at Salisbury,\\nMass., July 10, 1737 ;d. April 14, 1816, aged j i. Her father\\nwas Thomas, son of Samuel, who m. in 1686 (84) Elizabeth\\nSeverance. He was one of the grantees of Kingston his\\nfather was the ancestor, Easman, (Eastman) b. at Wales,\\nEngland, in i6[i and came to this country in 1638 and settled\\nat Salisbury, Mass., in 1640; d. Dec. 10, 1694. She was a\\nwoman of clear, vigorous understanding, of more than ordinary\\ncommon sense and enjoyed nothing more than a debate on any\\nsubject a woman of high spirit, proud of her children and\\nambitious for their future distinction.\\nOn the authority of Mrs. Benjamin Shaw, (Ann Fellows)\\nwhose father, Ananiah, was a childhood playmate of I 3benezer\\nWebster, I have the following: His father not being in very\\nprosperous circumstances, Ebenezer was bound out to a trade", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0933.jp2"}, "910": {"fulltext": "830 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nto a man named Brown, who proved to be a close-fisted, tyran-\\nnical master, and when Ebenezer was fourteen years of age he\\nran away and went to live in the family of Col. Ebenezer Ste-\\nvens, whose name vas the first on the list of grantees of the\\npresent town of Salisbury, and in whose honor the town was\\nnamed (Stevenstown). Col. Stevens owning much land here,\\npersuaded young Webster to locate here, which he did on\\nreaching his majority, (1760.) After his marriage in 1761 he\\ntook up his permanent residence here, settling on Punch brook,\\nand building a log house on the west side of the road, facing\\non what is called the North Road. Just north of the bridge\\ncrossing the brook and in close proximity to a beaver meadow\\nthe cellar hole is still (1890) to be seen just south of a small\\napple tree close to the stone wall, and south of what is known\\nas the birth-place. A spring just west of the house fur-\\nnished water noted for its purity, and the orchard set out by\\nhim still flourishes. The farm originally contained 225 acres.\\nWhen he settled here his house was the most northern on the\\nroute to Canada. In this log house the family resided seven\\nyears, when he built the house of which the accompanying\\npicture is taken from the only true cut in existence. This\\nhouse was said to be the first frame house in town.\\nThe house faced the south and stood just south east of the\\npresent two-story commodious dwelling. In the west front\\nroom (still standing) Daniel and Ezekiel were born. The\\nwest half of this old house is still standing, it being the ell of\\nthe house known as the birthplace, the apartment being 19\\nfeet square and seven feet post. The farm is owned by Hon.\\nGeorge W. Nesmith. The present buildings were erected by\\nStephen Sawyer near the close of the last century. He cut\\nthe old house in two and moved the west half to its present\\nlocation the east half was moved back and converted into a\\nhog pen. There were two rooms to the main house, while at\\nthe back was a long, low kitchen. The present well was dug\\nby Mr. Webster, who also set out the large elm tree, (now gird-\\ning 21 feet) and all the old fruit trees about the place. He", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0934.jp2"}, "911": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND HIOGKAPHV 83 1\\nremained in this house until 1785-86, when he removed to\\nwhat is known as the lower village, now Franklin, building a\\nlarge two-story tavern stand with a two-stor} ell, extending\\nnorth in what is now George H. Matthcvvs s garden. July 1 1,\\n1780, he purchased 60 acres, and one-half of a i co-acre lot of\\nland of Sarah Call, daughter of Stephen Call, the first settler,\\nfor the sum of /li6$ at the rate of three shillings per bushel of\\nIndian corn. On part of this land he built the tavern stand.\\nHere he remained till 1799, when he exchanged his tavern\\nwith William Haddock for the house where he died, (1806) the\\nmiddle house connected with the Orphans Home. His two\\neldest children were buried near the log house and his first\\nwife was buried on Searle s Hill; his second wife and many of\\nhis children were buried east of his last home, in the original\\ngraveyard belonging to Elm s farm.\\nThe first saw and grist mill were located just east of his\\nhome on Punch brook. On the e.vpiration of the proprietor s\\nlease, Mr. Webster purchased and managed the mill, and in\\naddition had a large cider mill southeast of his house. Mr.\\nWebster held his first public office in 1764, being chosen high-\\nway surveyor. At the first town meeting in 1768 he was\\nchosen moderator, which office he held forty-three times after-\\nwards, the last being in March, 1803. In 1769 he was chosen\\nselectman, holding the office nine years, although in Septem-\\nber, 1776, he resigned and performed six months service in\\nthe army enlisting a company, he marched to New York and\\nparticipated in the battle of White Plains. He started for\\nBunker Hill but did not arrive until the morning after the\\nbattle. As chairman of the board of selectmen in 1776, he\\ncarried around the Association Test Act for the male residents\\nof the town to sign their loyalty to this then young province.\\nIn 1778-80 he was chosen representative of the classed towns\\nof Salisbury and Boscawen. He was representative from Salis-\\nbury in 1790-91, and senator for the years 178 5-86-87- 8S-89.\\nMr. Webster was in the court house at Exeter in 1786 when\\nthe trouble arose over the currency question and the mob", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0935.jp2"}, "912": {"fulltext": "832 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nthreatened to clear the court house, and was called out to aid in\\nquieting the people. Without creating any excitement he\\nstepped to the platform and his whole speech was: I com-\\nmand you to disperse, which had the desired effect.\\nIn March, 1778, the town chose a committee, consisting of\\nEbenezer Webster and Capt. Matthew Pettingill as delegates\\nto a convention to be holden at Exeter on June 10 following,\\nfor the sole purpose of forming a permanent plan of govern-\\nment for the future well being of the good people of the\\nUnited Colonies. July 16, 1788, Salisbury again sent Mr.\\nWebster as delegate to the convention at Exeter, for the pur-\\npose of considering the proposed constitution, and a town\\ncommittee chosen to talk the matter up and instruct Col.\\nWebster how to vote upon their decision. Like most of these\\nnorthern towns they told him to vote against it. Mr. Web-\\nster was privately in favor of the new constitution and at the\\nfirst meeting held, opposed it by silence. Public feeling was very\\nstrong at Exeter in opposition to the constitution the friends\\nof the measure found if the meeting for its adoption was held\\nthere they would meet with defeat, and they adjourned to\\nmeet at Concord in June, 1788. Mr. Webster came home and\\ntalked strongly for its adoption, of the many benefits to be\\nderived from its provisions, and finally asked the privilege of\\nsupporting the proposed constitution, and the answer was, that\\nhe might do as he thought proper. When the vote was about to\\nbe taken Mr. Webster arose and said: Mr. President, I hav^e\\nlistened to the arguments for and against the constitution I\\nam convinced such a government as that constitution will\\nestablish, if adopted a government acting directly on the\\npeople of the states is necessary for the common defence\\nand the general welfare. It is the only government which will\\nenable us to pay off the national debt the debt which we\\nowe for the Revolution and which we are bound in honor to\\nfully and fairly discharge. Besides, I have followed the lead of\\nWashington through seven years of war and I have never been", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0936.jp2"}, "913": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. 833\\nmisled. His name is subscribed to this constitution he will\\nnot mislead us now; I shall vote for its adoption.\\nIn addition to the above glorious record he was one of the\\nelectors for president when Washington was elected. In the\\nspring of 1791 he was chosen judge of the Court of Common\\nPleas, for the county of Hillsborough, holding the office\\nthrough life. In matters pertaining to the church Judge Web-\\nster exercised great influence, uniting with the church under\\nthe pastorate of Rev. Mr. Searles, and was chosen deacon\\nApril 5, 1793, but declined serving. His wife was a member\\nof the church, as were most of his children. When but eight-\\neen years of age he served in the Indian war, and in the\\ncampaign of 1758 he went as a private in Capt. Timothy Ladd s\\ncompany, also as a sergeant in Capt. Philip Johnson s company\\nin Goff s regiment, against Crown Point, in 1760. In the Rev-\\nolutionary war he was captain of the first company, composed\\nof 66 men, 42 of whom were from Salisbury, in Col. Stickney s\\nregiment and Gen. Stark s brigade, participating at l-?enning-\\nton and in other hard fought battles, which weakened Burgoyne\\nand finally forced him to surrender. In August, 1778, Capt.\\nWebster, in obedience to a request from the Committee of\\nSafety, raised a company in this vicinity which he com-\\nmanded it was the third company in Col. Nichols s regiment\\nof Whipple s brigade, serving in the Rhode Island campaign.\\nIn 1780 we find him captain of the fourth company in Col.\\nNichols s regiment, raised for the defense of West Point. In\\n1782, he commanded a company of Rangers, raised for the j^ro-\\ntection of our western frontiers. In 1784 he was appointed\\ncolonel, and this office gave him authority over all able-bodied\\nmen between the ages of si.xteen and fifty in Salisbury. One\\nof Capt. Webster s soldiers, (Stephen Bohannon) who was\\nwith him at the time of Gen. Washington s discovery\\nof the treason of Arnold, related the following to\\nJudge J. W. Nesmith Capt. Webster was called to Gen.\\nWashington s tent and commanded to guard it during that\\nnight, and he remarked, I believe I can trust you. His\\n53", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0937.jp2"}, "914": {"fulltext": "834 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nnephew, Maj. Stephen Bohannon, said that Washington did\\nnot sleep at all that night, but spent the time either in writing\\nor walking in his tent. As an officer he was beloved by his\\nsoldiers and set the good example of always being in front of\\nhis men and in the thickest of the battle. He was born to\\ncommand; of cool, steady nerve, and possessing sound judg-\\nment. In statue six feet tall, erect, stately, and of splendid\\nphysique, with a voice of great compass and clearness, making\\nhimself heard all along the line and in the thickest of the\\nbattle. Eyes black and piercing, a countenance open, frank\\nand generous, and a complexion which could not be soiled by\\npowder. It has been stated that Capt. Webster could not\\nread or write as a boy he received a very limited education,\\nbut some of his correspondence in possession of the compiler\\ndispels all such stories. Col. Stevens compelled Mr. Brown\\nto give him a yoke of oxen which he drove to the new settle-\\nment these were undoubtedly the first oxen owned in the\\ntown. Capt. Webster was a self-educated man, gaining a\\nknowledge which many of the men of the present day would be\\nproud of. Many of his letters are still in existence, written in\\na clear, bold hand, well punctuated and spelled, and showing\\nhim to be a fair grammarian. The secret of Mr. Webster s\\nsuccess and influence, outside of his commanding figure, was\\nhis energy, perseverance and war record. Removing to this\\ntown, then a wilderness, planting his house upon the outskirts\\nof civilization, he built up a reputation for honesty, fearlessness\\nand integrity such as few men at that date possessed.\\n2. Olive, b. Jan. 28, 1762; d. young. 3. Ebenezer, b. July 16, 1764; d. young.\\n4. Susannah, b. Oct. 25, 1766; m. John Colby of Andover, where she d. March 23,\\n1S04.\\nr. David, b. May 5, 1769; a farmer by occupation m. and reared a large family;\\nd. at Stanstead, Canada.\\n6. Joseph, b. March 25, 1772; d. Jan. 20, iSio.\\nChildren by second wife\\n7. Mehitable, b. Sept. 21, 1775; d. July 14, 1S14; a school teacher.\\n8. Abigail, b. Feb. 8, 177S; d. Dec. 13, 1805; m. William Hadduck.\\n9. Ezekiel, b. March 11, 1780. See. 10. Daniel, b. Jan. 18, 17S2. See.\\nII. Sarah, b. May 13, 17S4; m. Aug. 21, 1808, her cousin Ebenezer Webster; she\\nd. March 19, 181 1 he d. June 31, 1S61.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0938.jp2"}, "915": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 835\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2(9) Hon. Ezekiel Webster spent the first nineteen years of\\nhis life upon the farm, and in obtaining a common\\nschool education. He was finely proportioned, six feet\\ntall, possessing a commanding figure, while his complex-\\nion was just the opposite of his brother Daniel, who\\nsaid of him: He appeared to me the finest human\\nthat I ever laid eyes upon. Between them there\\nexisted general unity of opinion, sentiment and affec-\\ntion they were never known to disagree, and they\\nloved each other with intensity and consistency. When\\nDaniel had decided that Ezekiel should go to college,\\nthe latter spent two terms at the Salisbury Academy\\nacquiring the rudiments of Greek and Latin, and after-\\nwards with Rev. Dr. Woods at Boscawen, where he\\nfitted for college in nine months, entering Dartmouth\\nCollege in the spring of 1801; from this institution he\\ngraduated in 1S04, having spent but three years in col-\\nlege. In the classics he had no superior. In the spring\\nof his senior year, for the want of funds, he taught a\\nprivate school in Boston. While teaching he read law\\nwith Gen. Sullivan, then Att y-Gen. of Massachusetts.\\nIn 1806 he returned home, continuing his studies with\\nParker Noyes, Esq., from whose ofifice he entered the pro-\\nfession in September, 1807; settled at Boscawen, where\\nhe continued. His legal knowledge and moral worth\\nsoon became known and acquired for him an extensive\\nbusiness. As a lawyer he had few equals he was a\\nwise counsellor and an able advocate. In debate he\\nwas dignified and courteous his weapons were strong\\narguments, clothed in simple but elegant language. Mr.\\nWebster was in the court house at Concord, standing\\nerect on a plain fioor, the house full, the court, jurors\\nand audience listening attentively to his words, and all\\neyes were upon him speaking with full force and utter-\\nance, he arrived at the end of one branch of his argu-\\nment, uttered the last sentence and the last word of that", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0939.jp2"}, "916": {"fulltext": "836 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nsentence, with perfect tone and emphasis, and then in an\\ninstant, erect and with his arms dependant by his side,\\nhe fell backwards without bending a joint, and so far as\\nappeared was dead before his head reached the floor,\\nApril 10, 1829. Politically, he was a Federalist, often\\nrepresenting his adopted town in the legislature. He\\nwas a constant attendant at the Congregational church\\nat Boscawen and a trustee of Dartmouth College from\\n1819 until his death. Mr. Webster delivered a famous\\nFourth of July oration at South Road in 1808, and one\\nin 1825. Ichabod Bartlett also delivered one at Centre\\nRoad in 1808. He m. (i) Jan. 15, 1809, Alice Bridge, of\\nBillerica, Mass.; she d. 1821 m. (2) Aug. 2, 1825, Ach-\\nsah Ballard, b. at Nashua, res. at Concord.\\n12. Alice, b. m. June i, 1836, Prof. Jarvis Gregg, the first preceptor of Bos-\\ncawen Academy, from 1828 to 1830; he d. at Western Reserve College,\\nOhio; m. (2) Rev. George Whipple of Oberlin, Ohio; she d. Nov. 6, 1876.\\n13. Mary, b. m. Dec. 11, 1837, Prof. Edwin D. Sanborn, LL. D., of Dartmouth\\nCollege; she d. Dec. 30, 1S64.\\n(10) Hon. Daniel Webster, LL.D. So many volumes have\\nbeen printed, and orations and memoirs delivered on\\nthis, the greatest defender of the constitution the\\nworld has ever produced, that probably nothing new\\ncan be obtained, and I give a few historical facts, leav-\\ning the enquiring reader to peruse the above works.\\nThere is no state in the Union that did not hold centen-\\nnial celebrations to commemorate his birth, and we trust\\nthat they will be collected and printed in a book dedi-\\ncated to that subject. As a child Daniel was weak, and\\nit was thought by his parents that he would never be\\nable to perform hard, manual labor, and they would give\\nhim such an education as would fit him to get his living\\nby teaching and literary pursuits. A half brother of his\\nonce said, Dan was sent to school that he might get as\\nmuch knowledge as the other boys. His mother", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0940.jp2"}, "917": {"fulltext": "^^2^c^S^ ^*^a^^^^:L.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0943.jp2"}, "918": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0944.jp2"}, "919": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 8^7\\ntaught him to read, and, as he said, he could not re-\\nmember the time when he could not read. His\\nfirst instructor was Master Robert Hoag and his second\\nJames Tappan, both of Salisbury. Later in life he\\ntaught school at Shaw s Corner, in the school house\\nstanding just south of Thomas Bruce s, at North Road,\\nand at the Lower Village, (see Merrill genealogy.) The\\nfirst time he ever saw the constitution of the United\\nStates he read it on a cotton pocket handkerchief which\\nhe purchased of William Hoyt, who kept the store close\\nby, paying every cent of money he possessed, viz.:\\ntwenty-five cents. He possessed a most powerful, reten.\\ntive memory, and during the last years of his life he was\\nable to recite long narratives, which he learned when a\\nboy. When fourteen years of age he spent si.x months\\nat Phillips Academy, E.xeter, (entering in May, 1796,)\\nunder the instruction of Dr. Benjamin Abbot. He mas-\\ntered the principles and philosophy of English grammar\\nin less than four months, and commenced the study of\\nLatin. It was at this Academy that he met with such\\na failure in trying to speak on the public stage. In his\\nfifteenth year, and just after his return from Exeter,\\n(Feb., 1797,) he taught a short term of school at the\\nLower Village, and then he went to Dr. Woods at Bos-\\ncawen. It was while under Dr. Woods s tuition that he\\nlearned his long lesson in Virgil, and while his father\\nwas taking him from the Elms farm to Dr. Woods up\\nthe long hill, that he unfolded to Dan the idea of send-\\ning him to college, which he entered in 1798, graduating\\nfrom Dartmouth in 1801, with high honors. It was uni-\\nversally believed that he ought to have received the\\nvaledictory, being the highest scholar in the class, but\\ninfluence then, as now, made a great difference, and he\\nwas given an inferior part. On his return he deter-\\nmined I-lzekiel should attend college, and to help out the\\ntreasury, he went to Eryeburg, Me. Returning to his", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0945.jp2"}, "920": {"fulltext": "838 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nhome in September, 1802, he began the study of law\\nin the office of Thomas W. Thompson, and continued\\nthere until 1804; o^ July 20th of the same year Daniel\\nwent to Boston and introduced himself to Mr. Christo-\\npher Gore, who heard his maiden speech, and told him\\nto hang up his hat, and here he remained until the fol-\\nlowing March when he was admitted to the lower bar of\\nthe court of common pleas in Boston, and immediately\\n(March, 1805,) removed to Boscawen, where he opened\\nan office, and continued there until September, 1807,\\nwhen he turned over his business to his brother Ezekiel\\nand removed to Portsmouth. In the year of 1807, he\\nwas admitted to the Superior Court of New Hampshire.\\nIn 1820 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts\\nconstitutional convention, to hold office until his death,\\nwhich occurred in 1852. He was a candidate for nomi-\\nnation for the presidency of the Whig party at each\\npresidential election after its formation, but never\\nreceived the nomination, mainly on account of his sup-\\nposed want of popularity. The disappointment he felt\\nno doubt hastened his death. His public life may be thus\\nsummarized He was a representative in congress eight\\nyears, a senator in congress nineteen years, a member\\nof the Massachusetts constitutional convention live\\nyears, and in the president s cabinet as secretary of state.\\nDuring most of this time his party was in the minority.\\nIn the spring of 1839 he traveled extensively in Eng-\\nland, Scotland and France was chosen president of the\\nPhi Beta Kappa Alpha society in 1821, and Dartmouth\\nCollege conferred upon him the degree of LL.D. While\\nin college he delivered two or three addresses, which\\nwere published, as were some poems. He also paid his\\nboard one year in college by editing the Dartmouth Ga-\\nzette. He early began the public discussion of political\\nquestions, and also contributed to the journals of the\\ntime. In 1804 he wrote a political pamphlet entitled,", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0946.jp2"}, "921": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 839\\nAn appeal to the old Whigs. He delivered Fourth\\nof July orations as follows at Hanover in 1800, at Frye-\\nburg, Me., in 1802, at Salisbury in 1805, and at Concord\\nin 1806. Daniel Webster joined the Congregational so-\\nciety in Salisbury, under Rev. Thomas Worcester s\\npreaching, Sept. 13, 1806. Later in life he wrote out\\nhis faith and sent it to his old pastor, Mr. Worcester,\\namongst whose papers it was found after his decease.\\nAugust Sth, 1S07.\\nDear Sir:\\nThe other day we were conversing respecting confession of faith. Some time\\nago, I wrote down, for my own use, a few propositions in the shape of Articles, in-\\ntending to exhibit a very short summary of the doctrine of the Christian religion\\nas they impress my mind. I have taken the liberty to enclose a copy for your pe-\\nrusal.\\nI am, sir, with respect, yours etc.\\nD. WEBSTER,\\nCONFESSION OF FAITH.\\nI believe in the e.xistence of an Almighty God, who created and governs the\\nwhole world. I am taught this by the works of nature and the word of Revela-\\ntion.\\nI believe that God exists in three persons; this I learn from Revelation alone-\\nnor is it any objection to this belief, that I can not comprehend how one can be\\nthree, or three, one. I hold it my duty to believe, not what I can comprehend or\\naccount for, but what my Maker teaches me.\\nI believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the will and word\\nof God.\\nI believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God. The Miracles which he wrought,\\nestablish in my mind his personal authority, and render it proper for me to\\nbelieve whatever he asserts. I believe therefore all of His declarations, as well as\\nwhen He declares himself to be the Son of God, as when he declares any other\\nproposition; and I believe there is no other way of salvation than through the\\nmerits of His atonement.\\nI believe that things past, present and to come are all equally present in the\\nword of the Deity that with Him there is no succession of time, nor of ideas; that,\\ntherefore, the relative terms i)ast, present and future, as used among men, cannot\\nwith strict propriety be applied to the Deity. I believe in the doctrines of fore,\\nknowledge and predestination, as thus expounded. I do not believe those doctrines\\nas imposing any fatality or necessity on men s actions, or in any way infringing free\\nagency.\\nI believe in the utter inability of any human being to work out his own salvation,\\nwithout the constant aids of the Spirit of All Grace. I believe in those peculiari-\\nties of Christian religion, a resurrection from the dead and a day of judgment.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0947.jp2"}, "922": {"fulltext": "840 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nI believe in the universal Providence of God, and leave to Epicurus, and his un-\\nreasonable followers in modern times, the inconsistency of believing that God made\\na world, which he does not take the trouble of governing. Dr. Sherlock.)\\nAlthough I have great respect for some other forms of worship, I believe the\\nCongregational mode, on the whole, preferable to any other.\\nI believe religion to be a matter, not of demonstration, but of faith. God re-\\nquires us to give credit to the truths which he reveals, not because we can prove\\nthem, but because He declares them. When the mind is reasonably convinced\\nthat the Bible is the word of God, the only remaining duty is to receive its doc-\\ntrines, with full confidence of their truth, and practice them with a pure heart.\\nI believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvi-\\nous meaning of its passages; since I can not persuade myself that a book intended\\nfor the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true mean-\\ning in any such mystery and doubt, that none but critics and philosophers can dis-\\ncover it.\\nI believe that the refinements and subtleties of human wisdom are more likely to\\nobscure than to reveal the enlightened will of God; and that he is the most accom-\\nplished Christian scholar who hath been educated at the feet of Jesus and in the\\nCollege of Fishermen. I believe that all true religion consists in the heart and\\nthe affections, and that therefore all creeds and confessions are fallible and uncer-\\ntain evidences of evangelical piety.\\nFinally, I believe that Christ has impressed on all of his disciples a life of active\\nbenevolence that he, who refrains only from what he thinks to be sinful, has per-\\nformed but a part and a small part of his duty, that he is bound to do good as a\\ncommunicant, to love his neighbor, to give food and drink to his enemy, and to en-\\ndeavor, as far as in him lies, to promote peace, truth, piety and happiness, in a\\nwicked and forlorn world; believing that in the great day which is to come there\\nwill be no other standard of merit, no other criterion of character, than that which\\nis already established. By their fruits ye shall know them. N. H. Gen. Associ-\\nation Minutes, 1S4S-66, pp. 77, 78.\\nThe late Hon. John M. Shirley, of Andover, in his Dartmouth\\nCollege Causes, p. 4, says with a great degree of truth\\nWebster was not a learned man, much less a learned lawyer, but he was a great\\nman. A century hence complete justice may be done him. Few gave him\\ncredit for tact and management, but no American equalled him in knowledge of\\nmen, and his power to overawe and persuade judges as well as others. No\\nskilled performer ever handled the keys of his instrument with anything like the\\nconsummate skill and tact with which Webster, when hard pressed, played upon\\nthe prejudices, passions and sympathies as well as the understanding of men.\\nShortly after his admission to the bar he came to Amherst, Hillsborough county\\nand argued a motion before Judge Farrar s court with such clearness that the dis-\\ntinguished jurist remarked to his associates, That young man s statement is a\\nmost unanswerable argument, and at once granted the motion. He opened an", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0948.jp2"}, "923": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 84I\\noffice in Boscawen, then in Hillsborough county, in the summer of 1805; entered\\ntwenty-two cases at the September term, held at Hopkinton, and two jury cases\\nin the presence of his father, then upon the bench. These causes were Haddock\\nV. Woodward, and Corser v. forser. He gained the former and lost the latter,\\nParker Noyes, an able opponent and two years his senior in law, carrying off one\\nof the verdicts. All of this occurred six months before he entered the court house\\nat Plymouth, where he was first counsel for the respondent in a murder trial.\\nHe m. May 29, 180S, in the middle west room of the P. A. Fel-\\nlows house, then occupied by Judge Israel W. Kelly,\\nGrace, daughter of Rev. IClijah Fletcher, of Hopkinton,\\nwhere she was b. Jan. 16, 1781. She received her edu-\\ncation at Atkinson Academy, completing it in the fall of\\n1800. When her sister Rebecca married Judge Kelly,\\nGrace made his house her home. She was a woman of\\nsuperior culture and refinement, associating with the\\ngreatest men of her day. She d. Jan. 12, 1S28. He m.\\n(2) 1832, Caroline Bayard LeRoy.\\n14. Fletcher, b. July 23, 1S13; graduated at Harvard College in 1833; he m. Car-\\noline S., dau. of Stephen White of Salem, Mass. He was colonel of the\\n1 2th Mass. V. M., and fell in the service of his country, Aug. 30, 1862.\\nChildren, i. Caroline S., b. at Detroit, Mich. Aug. 29, 1S37; d. at Boston,\\nFeb. 7, 1S44. 11. Harriet, b. Sept. 6, 1S43; ^larch 2, 1S45. ill. Daniel,\\nb. d. 1866. IV. Atherton.\\n15. Grace, b. 1837.\\n16. Julia, b. Jan. 16, 1S18; m. in Loudon, Sept. 24, 1S39, Samuel Appleton; she d.\\nApril 18, 1S48; he d. Jan. 4, 1S61. They had one child, d.\\n17. Charles, b. Dec. 31, 182 1 d. Dec. 14, 1S24.\\nHon. Daniel d. at Mansfield, Mass., Oct. 24, 1S52. His last words were, I still\\nlive. The funeral occurred Oct. 29, and his remains were escorted to the\\ntomb by some ten thousand friends.]\\n18. William Webster, brother to Ebenezer, (5) b. at Kingston, 1749; removed to\\nSalisbury prior to 1775, settling on the east side of Scarle s Hill on the\\nfarm known as the liacon farm, where he d. April 24, 1S24, aged 78;\\nm. Nov. 17, 1773, Kuth Grecly she d. Dec. 16, 1S23.\\n19. Nathaniel G., b. Nov. 8, 1774; d. Feb. 9, 1790.\\n20. Benjamin, b. Nov. 22, 1776; d. at Haverhill.\\n21. Mary, b. Jan. 2, 1779; d. at Boscawen, Dec. 25, 1847; unm.\\n22. Nathaniel G., b. Feb. 15, 1781 m. Nov. i, 1805, Betsey, dau. of Dca. Moses\\nand Ann Fitts Sawyer; (see.) d. Aug. 8, i82.S.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0949.jp2"}, "924": {"fulltext": "842 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n23. Ruth, b. Feb. 18, 17S3; d. at Hill, Oct. 26, 1830; unm.\\n24. Susannah, b. March 22, 1785; d. Jan. i, 1793.\\n25. Ebenezer, (Col.) b. Aug. 10, 1787; m. Sarah, dau. of Col. Ebenezer Webster;\\nshe d. March 19, 181 1 he d. at Boscawen, June 3, 1861. He was a mer-\\nchant at Hill from 181 5 to 1846, when he removed to Boscawen. He was\\na colonel in the state militia.\\n26. William, b. 1789; d. in Canada.\\n27. Amos, b. Jan. 13, 1792; d. at Crescent City, 111., unm.\\n28. Worcester, b. Oct. 25, 1794; m. (i) Feb. 22, 1825, Polly Pettingill; d. Feb. 22\\n1842; m. (2) Mary J., dau. of Hon. Silas Benton; removed to Boscawen\\nand engaged in trade, purchasing the business of his brother Nathaniel\\nafter the death of Hon. Ezekiel Webster, he purchased the property where\\nhe d. Children by first wife, all b. in Boscawen i. Charles W., b-\\nSept. 14, 1826; m. Jan. 5, 1853, Lucy M. Greenough rem. to Boston in\\n1S47, engaging in trade; then returned to Boscawen where he resides. 11.\\nGeorge W., b. 1S31 rem. to Boston in 1S50; d. there in June, i860; unm.\\nIII. Mary A., b. July i, 1839; m. Nov. 1S66, Charles E. Johnson, of Bos-\\nton res. Newton.\\n29. Jeremiah Webster, a cousin to Ebenezer Webster, (i) a native of Kingston\\nand son of Jeremiah, one of the grantees. He was a surveyor and one of\\nthe committee to lay out this township, who reported to the grantees, Nov.\\n22, 1749. Jeremiah, Jr., succeeded his father as surveyor and was a prom-\\ninent man in the early settlement. He came here previous to 1769, and\\nsettled on the site now occupied by Phineas Clough; d. March 4, 1817,\\naged 74; m. June 9, 1774, Anne Sleeper; d. Jan. 10, 1S41, aged 86.\\n30. Jeremy, b. June 19, 1775. See.\\n31. Joseph, b. Feb. i, 1777 d. March i, 1777.\\n32. Dolly, b. March 4, 1778 d. unm.\\n33. Josiah, b. March 13, 1780; resided on the homestead; d. unm., in the John\\nDimond house.\\n34. Ann, b. March 12, 1782; m. Aug. S, 1813, Moses Coffin, of Boscawen, where\\nshe d. Jan. 24, 1841. He was b. at Newbury, Mass., Sept. 9, 1767.\\n35. David G., b. March i, 1784; m. Emma Wardwell.\\n36. Nathaniel, b. March 26, 1786; d. April 30, 1804.\\n37. Joseph, b. March 31, 1788; d. 1789.\\n38. Elizabeth, b. Oct. 2, 1790; d. Oct. 4, 1790.\\n39. Eliphalet, b. April 5, 1792 rem. to Portland, Me., where he d. Nov. 3, 1S66.\\n40. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 4, 1794; m. Sept. 28, 1818, Rev. John S. Winter, of Dan-\\nbury; later she removed to Georgetown, Mass., with her children.\\n{30) Jeremy built the Clough house and was a famous singing\\nmaster he d. Aug. 20, 1841; m. Phebe Wardwell; she\\nd. Jan. 20, 1847.\\n41. Amos, b. Nov. 24, 1801 d. Aug. 30, 1821.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0950.jp2"}, "925": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 843\\n42. James R., b. March 20, iSc^; rem. to Georgia, where he d. Sept., 1841.\\n43. Phebe, b. March 4, 1S06; m. Hubbard Hutchinson, of Merrimack.\\n44. Nathaniel F., b., March 4, 180S; m. Couch; he d. at Savannah, Ga., Sept.\\n20, 1854; one child, J. Frank, b. at Dorchester, Mass., Nov. 18, 1837; m.\\nMary J. Cutting; he holds an important position on the Concord railroad.\\n45. Mary A., b. May 20, 1810; m. (1) Joshua Burpee, of Boscawen m. (2) Samuel\\nGilman of Lake Village.\\n46. Joseph \\\\V., b. Nov. 12, 1812; a merchant of Savannah, Ga., where he d. March,\\ni860.\\n47. Emily, b. Dec. 20, 1S15; d. Feb. 26, 183S.\\n48. Elizabeth J., b. Aug. 28, 1818; d. June 10, 1839; unm.\\n49. Eliphalet, b. Jan. 4, 1821 d. Jan. 16, 1S22.\\n50. Amos E., b. Sept. 17, 1S28; d. in Ga., Aug., 1S60, where he m. Eliza Sawyer.\\n51. Capt. John, son of John and cousin to Ebenezer, i b. in\\nKingston, in 1710. One of the proprietors of Contoo-\\ncook, (Boscawen) to which place he early removed, and\\nwas one of the most prominent men. He kept the old\\nContoocook fort in which he had a store. He procured\\nthe act of incorporation of the town of Boscawen, for\\nwhich service the town voted him ;^82, old tenor. He\\nwas one of that town s first selectmen in 1760, and\\nchairman of the board in the following year. On the\\ncapture of the Meloon family, in 1754, Gov. Wentworth\\npromptly ordered out a company of 20 men, giving the\\ncommand to John Webster, whose experience, energy\\nand efficiency admirably fitted him for the command.\\nThe ne.xt descent was made upon the Call family, on the\\nintervale, near the Salisbury fort. Gov. Wentworth\\nordered out a company of 62 men under command of\\nCapt. Blanchard, these two companies working together.\\nIn 1755, New Hampshire sent a regiment of si.x hun-\\ndred men, under the command of Joseph Blanchard of\\nDunstable, against Crown Point, Capt. Webster serving\\nas a private. He enlisted May i, 1756, and was in\\nservice until Sept. 2, of the same year, for the second\\nexpedition against Crown Point, this time in Capt.\\nDoe s company. In 1757, an expedition was fitted out\\nunder the command of Col. Meserve. John Webster", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0951.jp2"}, "926": {"fulltext": "844 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nenlisted in Capt. Emery s company, serving from March\\n7 to Nov. 5, and was at Fort Henry at its surrender.\\nCapt. Webster was commanding officer of the first mili-\\ntary company in town, Matthew Pettengill being his\\nlieutenant, and Andrew Bohannon the ensign. At\\nwhat time Capt. Webster moved to Salisbury is not\\nknown. In 1752, the proprietors voted to plow up\\ntwelve acres of land in Stevenstown, and to pay John\\nWebster and Jonathan Greely 120 old tenor, for doing\\nthis work. In 1759, the proprietors granted him a\\nhundred acres of land for building a saw mill. (This\\nland began about where the South Road intersects the\\nriver road, and extending north to Chance pond brook\\nin what is now Franklin.) After the completion of his\\nthree years lease of the proprietor s saw mill, he came\\ndown and built a saw mill on Chance pond brook. (See\\nsaw mills.) When the inhabitants of Stevenstown\\nwished to be incorporated they called upon Capt. John\\nWebster, who consented to go before the General Court\\nwith the petition signed by our people for an act of\\nincorporation. The act was granted the first day of\\nMarch, 1768, and it instructed him to call the first town\\nmeeting. He served as moderator in 1770, and for the\\nsix years following. Sept. 7, 1778, Capt. John Webster\\nand Capt. Ebenezer Webster were chosen by the town\\nto aid the selectmen in taking an inventory of the\\ntown, to estimate what each man hath done in this pres-\\nent war, to fix the currency upon the produce of the\\ncountry, and to call on those who have not done their\\npart to come up to their duty by tax or draft, and he\\nwas on the committee in 1 781, to raise men and procure\\nbeef for the army. After getting his Chance pond\\nbrook (Webster lake brook) saw mill in operation he\\nremoved to South road and built the G. F. Elliott house\\nwhere he d. April 29, 1788, aged 78 years. He, or his son\\nEnsign John, gave some land for the site of the Congre-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0952.jp2"}, "927": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 845\\ngational church and the cemetery for the same. He m.\\nSusannah Snow and d. March 20, 1804, aged 91.\\n52. John, b. 1745. See. 53. Stephen. See.\\n54. Israel, resided for a long period of years near Dr. Joseph IJartlett. He rem.\\nto Maine and returned to Salisbury, where he d. in the Josiah Hook house.\\nHem. Nov. 25, 1773, Elizabeth Kolfe. i. Ruth, b. May, 1773; d. in the\\nJosiah Hook house, Sept. 17, 1859, aged 86; unm. 11. Israel, b. Oct. 10,\\n1775; d. June 22, 1851. III. John, b. June 20, 1777. iv. Sarah, b. Oct.\\n27, 1779. V. Humphrey, b. Feb. i, 1781. vi. Samuel, b. Jan. 15, 1783; d.\\nMarch 2, 1784. vii. Charlotte, b. March 4, 1785. viii. Betsey, b. April\\n20, 178S.\\n55. Humphrey, b. April 11, 1764. See.\\n56. Sarah, remained with her brother Israel d. unm.\\n57. Rebecca, m. John C. Gale. See.\\n(52) Ensign John very strongly took after his father; built the\\nWilliam H. Moulton house, and after the death of his\\nfather he owned both houses; d. Feb. 3, 1S24, aged 79;\\nm. Rebecca Dearbon of Kingston she d. Dec. 4, 18 19,\\naged 69.\\n58. Mary, b. Oct. 1776; d. Dec. 4. 1S57; unm.\\n59. Susan W. S., b. Aug. 11, 1780; d. Sept. 4, 1849; -^sa Shaw of Kensington.\\n60. Hannah W. W., b. Aug. 17S1; d.\\n61. John Dearborn, b. May 11, 1782; m. Nov. 15, 1S04, Sarah V. West; b. at\\nStratford, Vt., Sept. 17, 17S4, and d. at Ogden, N. V., Veb. 10, 1S62; they\\nremoved to Genesee county in N. V., as it was then called where he d.\\nMay 9, 1S65. Children b. at Ogden, N. Y.: I. John \\\\V., b. Aug. 4, 1S04;\\nm. Oct. 15, 1S33, Esther Arnold. 11. Persis, b. Oct. 18, 1806; m. March 2.\\n1835, P- I arker; he d. Jan. 26, 18S0; she res. at Spencerport, N. V.\\nIII. Clarissa M., b. Aug. 27, 1810; m. June 26, 1831, W. M. Hrown she d.\\nNov. 26, 1879. IV. Samuel N., b. March 24, 1822; m. Feb. 15, 1844, Maria\\nScott.\\n62. Ruth, b. March 29, 1787; d. Sept. 23, 1862; unm.\\n63. Nancy W., b. Dec. 25, 1788; d. Sept. I, 1S6S; m. T. R. Little. See.\\n64. Nathaniel, b. Feb., 1790; built the brick house on Mutton road where he d.\\nMarch 6, 1835 unm. He was the first introducer of the Merino sheep into\\nSalisbury, this famous sheep being introduced into this country in 1S02\\nby Col. David Humphreys.\\n65. Samuel, b. May, 1791 d. Jan. i, 1S26; m. I ay; res. in the Elliott house.\\n(53) Stephen built the first building just south of the Elm", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0953.jp2"}, "928": {"fulltext": "846 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nhouse, which was later made a part of the hotel. It was\\na long, narrow, two-story building facing the south; a\\ndoor in the middle and one at each end. He used it as\\na Tavern stand; some tradition says it was the first\\ntavern in the town. He afterwards occupied the Nicho-\\nlas Wallace house. He m. Jan. 17, 1779, Hannah, dau.\\nof Lieut. Matthew Pettingill.\\n66. Stephen C, b. Nov. 29, 1779.\\n67. Jonathan P., b. May 20, 17S2. See.\\n6S. Sally, b. Jan. 3, 1785; m. Joseph Little; d. April 8, 1828.\\n(66) Stephen C, by trade a carpenter; resided in the N. Wal-\\nlace house succeeded Josiah Rogers in the hotel moved\\nto the Getchel house where he had a carpenter shop d.\\nOct., 1850; m. Sept. 4, 1803, Nancy Hacket; d. Oct. 25,\\n1 87 1, aged 84.\\n69. Harrison W., d. young. 70. Susan, m. Tafts, of Boston, Mass.\\n71. Jeanette, m. Warren, of Hanover.\\n72. Eliza, m. Whipple, of Detroit, Mich.\\n(55) Humphrey settled on the site now occupied by Sylvanus\\nWebster; March 8, 181 5, he rem. to Bridgewater, thence\\nto Plymouth, where he d. Sept. 3, 1838; m. (i) Rhoda,\\n(Phebe) dau. of Lieut. Matthew Pettingill, by whom she\\nhad eleven children, five of whom d. in infancy m. (2)\\nMarch 9, 1815, widow Eliza Pingrey, of Bridgwater; d.\\nJan. 2, 1843, aged 81.\\n73. Matthew P., b. Sept. 27, 1787. See.\\n74. Humphrey, b. Dec. 12, 1789; enlisted in the war of 1S12; received a bullet\\nwound in the face; after the close of the war he returned home, remaining\\na year, when he removed to Virginia where he practiced law; d. 1S20.\\nM. C. Webster say.s, he graduated at some college. Middlebury\\n75. Amos P., b. May 23, 1793; learned the cabinet maker s trade; rem. to Boston,\\nMass.; m. he became proprietor of a large livery stable and later of\\nan eating house d.\\n76. Betsey, m. Jacob Gale.\\n77. Susan C, b. June 3, 1S04; m. Nov. 9, 1826, Wm. W. Russell, a merchant of", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0954.jp2"}, "929": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 84/\\nPlymouth, his son, W. W., continuing the business, which was founded by\\nMoore Russell, in 1798; she d. Sept. 15, 1845; he d. Sept. 3, 1872.\\n78. Mary Amanda, b. Dec. 3, 181 1 m. March 13, 1S35, Hon. Peter Harvey of Bos-\\nton; she d. Dec. 29, 1839; he d. 1878.\\n{6y) Jonathan P., in trade first at Boscawen, and for more\\nthan forty years in trade in the house where he d. in\\nSalisbury, Oct. 29, 1858. The following obituary was\\nwritten by a former secretary of state, and an intimate\\nfriend Everywhere and by everybody he was esteemed\\na good citizen, an affectionate husband, an indulgent\\nfather, a kind neighbor aud an honest man. Every\\nevening his books were well arranged, either for con-\\ntinued action or for a final closing up. He m. in Bos-\\ncawen, Jennette Wilkins, Dec. 28, 1809; b. Oct. 13, 1789,\\nd. March 17, 1867 dau. of Dea. Jonathan Wilkins of Con-\\ncord.\\n79. Francis Brown, b. May 27, 1816; graduated at Dartmouth college in 1S41\\nread law with Hon. Samuel 15. Ruggles at New York, but did not prac-\\ntice went into mercantile pursuits; m. April 2, 1S50, Martha, dau. of Hon.\\nRobert Harry, of Barnet, Vt.; merchant at P)Oston and Cambridge, Mass.\\nSo. Frederick H., b. Jan. 5, 1S25; d. suddenly, Xov. 11, 1832.\\n(73) Matthew P., remaining on the farm built the present\\nSylvanus Webster house. At the age of 6}, he went to\\nCalifornia, where he remained three years returning\\nwent to Washington and visited his friend, Frank Pierce\\nto 1\\nthen president; returned and began speculating in arti-\\nticles for California. He killed the last wild deer in\\ntown m. April 2, 181 1, Nancy Calef d.\\n81. Moses C, b. Dec. 28, 1812. See. 82. Noycs, d. young. S3. Phel)C.\\n84. Gustavus v., m. Feb. 25, 1S41, Louisa Sanborn.\\n85. Humphrey, b. Feb. 19, 1821 graduated at Dartmouth in 1S44; became a\\nteacher at Springfield, Mass., then at Worcester; rem. to Maborn, N. C,\\nwhere he had a plantation just previous to the war; d. 1S66; m. Nov. 29,\\n1S53, Kliza Hamilton, dau. of Lucius A. Emery, of West Newbury, Mass.\\n86. Sylvanus P. 87. Charles P., d. young. SS. John, d. young.\\n89. Amos, d. young. 90. .Amanda, m. Lovcll d. here.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0955.jp2"}, "930": {"fulltext": "848 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(81) Moses C, m. Priscilla P., dau. of Aldad Austin b. at\\nBoscawen, (now Webster) July 14, 18 13.\\n91. John A., b. Nov. 9, 1835; d. June 17, 1839.\\n92. John A., b. Aug. 9, 1S40; d. March 7, 1854.\\n93. Charles, b. July 27, 1843. 94- Matthew A., b. April 31, 1847; d. July 17, 1877.\\n95. Jennie, b. July 10, 1849; d. Aug. 28, 1871.\\n96. Warren C, b. Feb. 5, 1853; m. Dec. 29, 1881, Jennie Smith, i. Warren S., b.\\nDec. 25, 18S2. 11. Jennie, b. Oct. 28, 1884. in. Marion, b. March 20,\\n18S7 d. Feb. 9, 1889.\\n[Humphrey Webster, Jr., of Boscawen, and Clarissa Greeley s marriage was posted\\nFeb. 16, 1S04; m. March 20, 1804, Mary Webster of Salisbury; m. June\\n26, 1808, Reuben Raino of Andover.]\\n[By permission of the Secretary of State we are permitted to\\ninsert on tlie next page a cut of the statue of Webster in the\\nState-house yard, at Concord.]", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0956.jp2"}, "931": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0957.jp2"}, "932": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0958.jp2"}, "933": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 85 I\\nTHE WELLS FAMILY.\\nI. Samuel I., Esq. See his biography in the chapter de-\\nvoted to lawyers. He m. Miss Lucy Kellogg, a most fascinat-\\ning and accomplished lady, possessing much literary talent in\\nthe writing of Sunday school books. He d. at Portland, Me.,\\n1846-7. Children all b. in Salisbury:\\n2. Andrew J. 3. Spencer. 4. Lucy.\\n5. Walter, b. Oct., 1830; fitted for college at Yarmouth academy; entered Bow-\\ndoin college from which he graduated in 1S52, with high honors. The\\nsubject of his oration was: The Conflict of Great Principles. He was a\\nteacher and lecturer on educational topics for a number of years, deliver-\\ning addresses on a variety of scientific subjects in several states of the Union.\\nIn 1S67 he took charge of the Hydrographic survey and embodied the\\nresult of his labors in the work entitled, Water Power of Maine. He\\nalso wrote an Elementary Physical Geography, and many pamphlets on\\ndifferent subjects, besides being a frequent contributor to magazines. In\\n1869 and 70 he was Secretary of the National Association of Cotton Man-\\nufacturers and Planters, located in Boston, and while in that position he\\nwrote an elaborate and exhaustive report on the relation of the tariff to\\nthe growth and manufacture of cotton in the United States. Subsequently\\nMr. Wells was connected with the Fairbanks .Scale Company, and later\\nwas in the employ of various railroads. He was a liberal minded, genial\\nman, and strictly honorable in all his dealings. He d. at Portland, Me.,\\nApril 2\\\\, iSSi m. 1S76, Mary Sturdivant of Cumberland, who, with one\\nchild, Theodore, are left to mourn the loss of an affectionate husband and\\nfather.\\nTHE WEST FAMHA\\nI. Nathaniel West, who married Sarah Burbank, was born\\nin Concord and had thirteen children. His twelfth child was\\nEdward, who settled in Salisbury; b. Dec. 30, 1762; m. at\\nConcord Sept. 28, 17S6, Miriam Badger, who was b. March 10,\\n1768, and d. at the home of her daughter, in Concord, Jan. 19,\\n184. He d. Sept. 12, 1821, at Salisbury. When he moved to", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0959.jp2"}, "934": {"fulltext": "852 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nSalisbury in 1790 he located on the site now occupied by Mrs.\\nEliphalet Little. April 14, 1794, David and Nathan Currier\\nsold to Mr. West 46 rods of land for ;^8o old tenor, on which\\nhe erected a blacksmith shop, which stood on land now occu-\\npied by Jonathan Arey, just west of the above house. On the\\ncompletion of the 4th New Hampshire turnpike he built the\\nFlanders house, lately occupied by L. A. Hawkins, his shop\\nstanding between his dwelling and that of Dr. G. P. Titcomb.\\n2. Noah, b. at Concord, May i, 17S7. See.\\n3. William, b. April 2, 1790; m. Mary Barker resided in Concord d. Nov. 7\\n1855-\\n4. Moses B., b. Feb. 23, 1793. See.\\n5. Joseph C, b. April 29, 1794 m. Mary Abbott of Concord, where they resided\\nd. Oct. 26, 1859.\\n6. Edward, b. Aug. 23, 1796; d. Aug. 29, 1796.\\n7 and 8. Nancy and Fanny, b. April 19, 1800; d. iSoi.\\n9. Nancy, b. Feb. 17, 1803; m. Peter S Cate; resided at Lowell, Mass.\\n10. Fanny, b. April 15, 1805; m. Peter S.?) Cate of Sanbornton she d. Sept. 5,\\n1835 when he m. Nancy.\\n11. Sophia B., b. at Concord, Feb. 7, 1812; m. Nov. 22, 1837, Rufus Merrill, pub-\\nlisher and bookseller, of Concord.\\n12. Edward, d. Jan. 18, 1831.\\n(2) Noah, m. July 19, 1807, Hannah, dau. of Ensign John\\nWebster; b. 1781 d. Aug. 19, 1863. Resided for a time\\nin the ell of Dr. L. A. Hawkins house, when he built\\nthe G, P. Eastman house, where he d. July 20, 1835.\\nRebecca, b. Aug. i6, 1S07 m. Sinkler Bean she d. in Mich.; he res. Spring\\nHarbor, Mich.\\nJohn W., b. April 22, 1S09; m. Hannah Hilton; d. at East Andover, where\\nshe res.\\nJoseph C, b. Aug. 28, 1810; m. Rebecca Pike; d. at Amherst, March 2, 1859.\\nClarissa P., b. April 22, 1813; m. Oct. 23, 1842, Hiram Moon; res. at Kalama-\\nzoo, Mich.\\nJane, b. Oct. 28, 1814; d. Sept. 21, 1S20. 18. Ruth, b. March 20, 1S17; she\\nlives with her sister at East Andover.\\nCharles E., b. Jan. 29, 1819; m. (i) Ann Bickford; m. (2) Mrs. Elizabeth San-\\nborn res. at Concord d\\nMary J., b. Sept. 2, 1820; m. July 5, 1846, Charles B. Hilton; res. E. Andover.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0960.jp2"}, "935": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 853\\n(4) Moses B. resided in the George r2astman house until 1829,\\nwhen he rem. to Lowell, Mass.; returned to the William\\nMarden house in Boscawen d. m. March 14, 1823,\\nMarinda B. Elliott, of Boscawen he d. Jan. 15, 1847.\\n21. Charlotte A., b. Dec. 2S, 1823; m. Caleb E. Smith. See.\\n22. Sarah F., b. July 5, 1S2S; m. Feb. 23, 1849, Samll F. Whitney; res. Plattsburg,\\nN. Y. She d. Sept. 27, 1887.\\n23. Ellen, b. in Boscawen, Oct. 24, 1S37; m. Joseph Morrill, of I enacook; d. f)ct.\\n1S69.\\nTHE WHITTAKER FAMILY.\\nI. Robert, b. in Salem, N. H., Aug. 28, 1798; m. (i) Feb.\\n2, 1820, Mary A. Woodard b. at Jamaica Plain, Mass., March\\n27, 1802; she d. at Atkinson, May 15, 1838; m. (2) at Atkin-\\nson, Aug. 28, 1839, Abigail M. White, of Haverhill, Mass.; d.\\nhere, March 20, 1858. Mr. Whittaker and his family removed\\nto Salisbury, May 20, 1842, purchasing the Nathan Currier\\nhouse, where he d. April 27, 1S48.\\nChildren by first wife:\\n2. Louisa A., b. at .Salem, May 12, 1S22; m. .April 30, 1S54, John F. Perley, of\\nTopsfield, Mass.; d. July 3, 1881.\\n3. Hannah W., b. at Salem, April 16, 1825; m. Nov., 1S46, John H. Potter, o^\\nTopsfield, where she d. Nov. 25, 1865.\\n4. Thomas IL, b. at Salem, Oct. 6. 1827; m. Sept. 21, 1S51, Abiah E. Roby, of\\nBoscawen she d. Sept. 24, 1S82. Mr. Whittaker remains on the home-\\nstead, following the occupation of his father, that of a shoemaker, with\\nshop adjoining the store of William B. Dunlap. He was chosen town\\nclerk in 1S6.S, holding the office for five successive years, and was also\\nelected selectman, continuing until his resignation in 18S1-2. i. Olive, b.\\nNov. II, 1S55. II. Alma C, b. Feb. 11, 1.S57; m. Feb. 10, 1S7S, Frank F.\\nBaker, of .\\\\ndover.\\n5. Susan S.. b. May 2, 1S30; m. Nov. 25, 1852, F. H. Locke, of Topsfield.\\n6. Robert M., b. Sept. 4, 1832; d. at .Vtkinson, March 12, 1836.\\n7 and 8. William O., and .Mary O., b. at Atkinson, Sept. 22, 1835; William O. d.\\nDec. 12. 1S35; Mary O. d. Dec. 6, 1835.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0961.jp2"}, "936": {"fulltext": "854 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nTHE WHITE FAMILY.\\nThe ancestor of this family was William, b. in Norfolk\\ncounty, England, in 1610, arriving in America in 1635. He\\nhad a son John, b. in 1640, who d. at Haverhill, Mass., in 1668;\\nhe had a son John, b. 1664, who d. in 1729; he had a son Nic-\\nodemus, b. 1698, d. in 1782; he had a son, Noah, b. in 1728,\\nd. in 1788; he had a son, James, b. May 20, 1754; m. 1775,\\nEunice Kingsbury he d. Dec. 18, 1830. Among his numer-\\nous family was\\n1. Thomas R., b. at Haverhill, Mass., Feb. 23, 1776. See.\\n2. John, b. July 19, 1783. See.\\n(i) Thomas R. was a clerk in Samuel Greenleaf s store, and\\nlater opened a store on Corser hill, Webster, where he\\nm. Dec. 28, 1812, Mary H. May. Returning to Salis-\\nbury, he opened a store in what is now Amos Chapman s\\nhouse, and then he built a store between Dr. Titcomb s\\nhouse and J. C. Smith s barn. He rem. to Warner, and\\nlater to Andover, being in trade at both of these places.\\nHe d. at Franklin, Aug. 24, 1857.\\n3. Lucy J., b. in Webster, Feb. 4, 1S14; m. Joseph Clark; d. at Franklin, June 6^\\n1864.\\n4. Mary M., b. in Salisbury, Aug. 9, 1S15; m. Feb. 19, 1839, C. H. Clark.\\n5. Sarah M., b. in Salisbury, Jan. 20, 1S18; m. Dea. Moses True. See.\\n6. John, b. in Warner, March 4, 182 1 m. Martha Richardson.\\n7. Caroline, b. in Warner, Oct. 25, 1822; m. 1851, Hon. Austin F. Pike; she res.\\nat Franklin.\\n8. Harriet, b. in Andover, Dec. 30, 1S25; m. John Patricks, of Canterbury; d. in\\nIowa in 1873.\\n9. Catherine, b. in Andover, May 4, 1S2S. She was a successful practitioner of\\nmedicine.\\n10. Francis E., b. in Andover, June 8, 1S32 d. unm.\\n11. George F., b. in Andover, May 5, 1834; killed at Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 17\\n1864.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0962.jp2"}, "937": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 855\\n(2) John was a clerk in Greenleaf s store, and then he built the\\nstore owned by Alfred Richardson, in which he did a\\ngood business. April i6, 1828, he sold out to Thomas\\nR. Greenleaf. He rem. to Andover, Mass., and later to\\nChester. He d. Feb. 3, 1868; m. Dec. 12, 1811, Sophia\\nWilkins.\\n12. Caroline, b. Sept. 25, 1S12; d. Dec. 28, 1S19.\\n13. William H., b. Sept. 8, 1814; d. Nov. 23, 1S43; i-\\n14. Caroline, b. Oct. 26, 1S19; d. Sept. 13, 1821.\\n15. Ann M., b. June 6, 1S23; d. July 2, 1852, unm.\\n16. James, b. Feb. 8, 1S26; d. July 17, 1846.\\nTHE WHrrMORE FAMILY.\\nThis name is recognized as early as the twentieth year of the\\nNorman conquest. It is claimed by some that VVhitmore was\\nthe ancestral name, but, the family becoming more numerous,\\na branch of it changed their name to Whittemore. Persons\\nposted on the families say there were two distinct families.\\n(i) Anthony, b. at Newburyport, Mass., March 15, 1771, rem.\\nto Salisbury in 179S, where he purchased the Williams\\nstore in which he traded several years; subsequently\\ntrading the place with Benjamin Pettingill, he came into\\npossession of the Dr. Batchelder place. (See.) Mr.\\nWhitmore bought the Abel Elkins tavern stand, and\\npartly turning the building around, he put it in its pres-\\nent shape, and sold it to Esquire Hale Pettingill for\\n$2,600. He then built the Jonathan P. Webster build-\\ninsrs. He owned much real estate about Centre Road.\\nIn 18 1 2 he purchased the farm recently occupied by his\\nson, Anthony K., where he d. July 12, 1825. Sept. 6,\\n1806, he was appointed justice and for some years did\\nmuch of that business. He was one of those live, ener-", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0963.jp2"}, "938": {"fulltext": "856 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\ngetic business men, satisfactorily accomplishing what-\\never he undertook. He m. Jan. 16, 1795, Priscilla, dau.\\nof Master Thomas Chase, b. at Newburyport, Mass.,\\nJan. 22, 1776; d. May 31, 1856.\\n2. Anthony K., b. in Newburyport, Mass., June i, 1797. See.\\n3. Elizabeth H., b. in Salisbury, April 7, iSoo; m. Jan. 1826, Dr. Daniel Mowe,\\nthe celebrated patent medicine proprietor, of Lowell, Mass. He d.\\nShe d. at Lowell, Mass., Jan. 5, 1890.\\n4. Ruth C, b. Nov. I, 1801 m. Dec. 28, 1823, John Calef. See.\\n5. Samuel K., b. April 3, 1803; d. at Haverhill, Mass., 1880; m.\\n6. Benjamin F., b. Dec. 24, 1802; m. Whitmore, of Lebanon; d. at St. Louis,\\nMo.\\n7. Joseph W., Sept. 16, 1S09; m. Mary A. Cross, of Salem, Mass. He d. at Port-\\nland, Me., where he was engaged in the post office. He was a smart and\\ncapable business man. She res. at Portland.\\n8. Sarah K., b., Aug. 30, 181 5; m. Nov. 23, 1837, Prof. John liutterfield, M. D.,\\na native of Lowell, Mass. He was a professor in the medical college at\\nCincinnatti, Ohio, and afterwards rem. to Columbus. After settling up his\\naffairs he returned to Salisbury, and d. at F. B. Calef s. She m. (2) Hon.\\nJoseph H. Giger, of Cincinnati, where they reside.\\n(2) Anthony Knapp remained on the farm. He d. Dec. 13,\\n1883 m. April 23, 1823, Abigail Huntoon. Shed, Dec.\\n19, 1872.\\n9. Susan B., b. March 9, 1834; m. Dudley Colley. 10. Samuel K., b. Dec. 5, 1S35.\\nII. William W., b. Dec. i, 1S37; unm.\\nEmily J., b. Jan. i, 1840; m. Wallace; res. Antrim.\\nSarah K., b. Feb. 10, 1842; m. Whitney Hill.\\n14. George F., b. Feb. 15, 1844; m. 15. Anthony, b. April 24, 1S46.\\n16. Elizabeth M., b. April 24, 1849; Tristram Page; res. Antrim.\\n17. Edward C, b. April 24, 1851. 18. Priscilla C, b. April 17, 1855; m.\\nTHE WHITTEMORE FAMILY.\\nTHREE BRANCHES.\\nRev. Aaron, b. at Concord, Mass.; graduated at Harvard\\ncollege in 1737; he was ordained the first minister at Pem-\\nbroke, N. H., March 12, 1737, remaining till Nov. 16, 1767,\\nwhen he was seized with paralysis while preaching and died", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0964.jp2"}, "939": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 857\\nthe following morning, aged 55 years. Among his numerous\\nfamily was\\nI. Benjamin. See. 2. Ebenezer. See. 3. Peter.\\n(i) Capt. Benjamin, better known as Button Whittemore,\\nwas a famous character and was always in law with some\\none, even if it was his own sons, one of whom put the\\nlitigious old gentleman in jail. Nov. 29, 1791, he pur-\\nchased Daniel Brottlebank s farm, and later removed to\\nDanbury. He d. at Concord, He had 16 children\\nby one wife. He m. (i) Abigail m. (2) Sarah Saw-\\nyer, (Ruth D. on gravestone) d. July 15, 1828, aged 29\\nyears.\\n4. John, b. in Pembroke, Feb. 22, 1776; rem. to Salisbury in 17S2, and in 179S he\\nrem. to Rumford, .\\\\Ie., where he m. (i) Jan. i, 1799, Betsey Pillsbury; she\\nd. Dec. 15, 181 5; m. (2) Dec. i, 1S34, Olive Brainard; rem. to Danbury in\\n1807, and June i, i8i2, he rem. to and became the first resident at Dix-\\nville, where he remained until his death, which occurred on Jan. ig, 1S46.\\nHe went to Dixville as agent for Daniel Webster, to look after and take\\ncharge of the land in that vicinity. Children by firstwife Benjamin, Sarah,\\nSamuel, John, Daniel, Mary and Elizabeth; by second wife, Octavia.\\n5. Ebenezeer. 6. Benjamin, d. in Danbury. 7. Amos. See.\\n8. Samuel, who resided in the David Bacon house, which was destroyed by fire\\nin 1882, m. Jan. 1821, Martha, dau. of Stephen Perrin. She had seven\\nchildren, among whom were, Lucy, Mary, Martha, Harriet and Susan, who\\nwere all noted school teachers.\\n9. Esther, b. d. June 22, 1S25, aged 37 years.\\n10. Judith, b. m. Aug. 8, 1799, (either this date is wrong or she was a sister\\nto the father) Joseph Adams, of Boscawen.\\n11. Susan, b. m. April 24, 1S33, Joseph Goss, of Springfield; rem. west.\\n12. David. 13 Amelia, b. d. Feb. 27, 1833.\\n(7) Amos, resided in the Miss Kate Shaw house on Racoon\\nhill. He m. (1) Nov. 28, 1821, Judith Kemp, of Salis-\\nbury; d. March 14, 1835, aged 39; m. (2) Aug. 22, 1S41,\\nMrs. Mehitable Ouimby, of Springfield. He d. at\\nPrincetown, 111.\\n14. Deborah, b. Nov. 1824; d. Oct. 11, 1825.\\n15. Fletcher K., b. 1S34; d. Oct. 10, 1837.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0965.jp2"}, "940": {"fulltext": "858 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n(2) Ebenezer, better known as Cane Whittemore, from his\\nbeing lame and using a cane in his profession. He\\nsettled in the old school house, which stood by a large\\ntree, south of Thomas Bruce s, at Shaw s corner. In\\nthis small room, with an L attached, he raised a large\\nfamily, and followed the occupation of a shoemaker,\\nalthough most of his business was whipping the cat.\\nIn olden times, shoemakers took their tools on their\\nback and went from house to house, making up the\\nyear s supply of boots and shoes for the family, and this\\nwas called whipping the cat. He was b. at Pembroke,\\nMarch 2, 1778; m. Feb. 2, 1800, Lydia S. Richards, of\\nBoscawen b. May 5, 1778; she d. July 13, 1845; he d.\\nNov. 2, 1863. Seventeen children were the fruits of\\ntheir marriage. One died an infant, one at ten years,\\nand two each at one and three years. Thirteen became\\nmen and women. The family without exception were\\nintelligent and temperate each of them had a comforta-\\nble home and maintained a high standing in the\\ncommunity in which they lived, and most have been\\nactive church members. Four sons and one daughter\\nremain.\\n16. Daniel B., the second son, left Wilmot some forty-five years^ removing to\\nKeene, Ohio, where he has been a farmer and merchant.\\n17. Albert G., b. 1806; is a successful farmer at Napoli, N. Y.\\n18. Joseph, b. 1813 and was ordained a pastor of a Baptist church in Tiverton,\\nR. I., in 1S40, but for twenty years has practiced medicine, and now res. at\\nOsage, Iowa.\\n19. Daniel R. The following extract from the Biographical Cyclopcedia of Rep-\\nresentative Men of Rhode Island, 18S1, gives a very good sketch of the\\nremaining son: Whittemore, Daniel Richards, was b. in Salisbury, N.\\nH., July 31, 1819. He was the sixteenth child of Ebenezer and Lydia\\n(Richards) Whittemore, of a well-known New Hampshire family.\\nIn March, 1835, Mr. Whittemore left the employment of the farm, to\\nwhich his earlier years had been devoted, and went to Lowell, Mass.,\\nwhere he was a mechanics apprentice, a student at Dracut academy, and\\nthe publishing agent of Zion s Banner, a weekly religious newspaper.\\nDuring this period he was actively engaged in religious work. Early in\\n1842 he removed to Rhode Island, and in October of that year was", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0966.jp2"}, "941": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND HIOGRAPHY 859\\nordained to the gospel ministry and became pastor of tiie Kree ISaptist\\nchurch, at North Providence. Rev. Martin Cheeney and Joseph A.\\nMcKensey were members of the council. In 1S46 he became pastor of\\nthe South Free Haptist church in Newport, R. I. Since 1849 he has\\nresided in the westerly part of Providence, on the Whittemore Place.\\nMr. Whittemore has been widely kuown as a member of the Free IJaptist\\ndenomination, and has aided many of its churches. He was an out\\nspoken Abolitionist and has always been an officer of the Rhode\\nIsland Peace Society. At the same time he has been successfully\\nemployed in the insurance, and other business, and while he has combined\\nthe work of both a clergyman and layman, he has sustained a character\\nthat honors both. Incisiveness of opinion, correctness of judgment, and\\npositiveness of opinion are traits which make him a wise counsellor and a\\nbold leader. Mr. Whittemore was married Nov. 29, 1S42, to Kliza Jane\\nGilbert, of Francestown, N. H. They have four children, Lucy H., the\\nwife of the editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper in West Union, la.\\nGilbert E., a prominent member of the Providence school board. Joseph\\nA. and David H. are printers and publishers at Providence.\\n20. Susan C, the youngest of the family, m. Moses Noyes; res. Springfield, N. H.\\n(3) Peter built the Samuel Emerson house, where he followed\\nthe occupation of a farmer, and highly respected by his\\ntownsmen. He gave his children a liberal education,\\nand some of them became noted teachers. His grave\\nstone in the Calef yard bears this inscription\\nPETER WHITTEMORE,\\nSON OF REV. AARON W.,\\nborn\\nin Pembroke, April 2, 17 58,\\nMarried Jan. 1783.\\nCame to this town June do.\\nwhere he lived respected and\\ndied\\nDec. 16, 1S36, aged 78.\\nHis wife was Elizabeth, dau. of Dea J. Baker b. in Pembroke,\\nFeb. 19, 1763 d. Sept. 4, 1826.\\n21. Betsey, b. April 21, 17S9; d. in Hristol, Oct. 30, 1S48.\\n22. Caleb, b. m. Dorcas Taylor, resided and d. in Hridgewater.\\n23. Charlotte, b. d. Sept. 2, 1S40. 24. Peter, b. May 7, 1787. See.\\n25. Joel, b. m. Rachael Hrown. of Andover; rem. to Springfield, afterwards\\nwent west.\\n26. Susan, b. m. Deacon Goss, of Springfield.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0967.jp2"}, "942": {"fulltext": "86o HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\n27. Mary, (Polly) b. Aug. i, 1793; i- Moses Eaton, of Grantham. She was a\\nnoted teacher for 34 years, and d. in Salisbury, Jan. 16, 1S71.\\n28. Hannah, b. m. Capt. Samuel Quimby.\\n29. Relief m. Daniel Haley; m. (2) Thomas Haley; res. E. Andover; d. June 30,\\n1885.\\n30. Abigail; d. unm. She was a school teacher.\\n(24) Peter res. in the Dea. John Woodbury house d. May 8,\\n1870, aged 83; m. (i) Dec. 12, 1833, Susan Baker, of\\nBow; d. Aug. 4, 1856, aged 54; m. (2) May 4, 1858,\\nMary H. Clement, of New London res. all the chil-\\ndren d. young.\\nTHE WILDER FAMILY.\\nI. Capt. Luke, of whom very little is known, except in con-\\nnection with Esquire Bowers, in a number of business transac-\\ntions, removed here from Billerica, Mass., and undoubtedly\\nreturned to the same place. He was full of life and vigor,\\nand was above-board in all his transactions. Previous to 1793,\\nhe kept a store at South Road, in which year he paid a tax on\\n;^250 worth of goods, and in 1803 a tax on ;^3,ooo worth.\\n2. Susannah, b. Nov. 8, 1794. 3. Luke, b. March 10, 1796.\\n4. Charles W., b. March 19, 179S.\\nTHE WILSON FAMILY.\\nThe earliest of this family in America was Thomas, who left\\nScotland in 1633, joining the Wheelwright compact at Exeter,\\nin 1638, Dr. Job, (i) being the sixth descendant from Thomas.\\nDr. Job s father was Capt. Nathaniel, who was one of the early\\nsettlers of Gilmanton, where he m. a daughter of Robert Bar-\\nber. She d. 1824, aged 85 he d. 18 19, aged 80.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0968.jp2"}, "943": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 86l\\nI. Dr. Job, (see physicians b. at Gilmanton, Jan. 25, 1776;\\nm. Oct. 1801, Nancy Farnum b. Jan. 30, 1782 d. March\\n10, 1854. He d. at Franklin, Sept. 22, 185 1. All of\\ntheir children were b. in Salisbury.\\n2. Benjamin, b. Oct. 15, 1S02; d. Oct. 10, 1803.\\n3. Benjamin F., b. May 3, 1S04; d. Jan. 25, 1S50, iinm rem. to Kalamazoo, Mich.\\n4. Thomas \\\\V., b. Feb. 15, 1806. See.\\n5. Job P., b. May 25, 1810; m. Laura Stevens, of Haverhill; rem. to Rumney.\\nHe d. she m. (2) Webster; res. Haverhill.\\n6. Abigail S., b. Jan. 25, 1812; d. unm.\\n7. Lydia J., b. Feb. 2, JS14; d. April 5, 1872; m. Aug. 20, 1S40, Grove Stevens,\\nof Piermont.\\n8. Jeremiah W., b. Jan. 11, 1S16; read medicine with his father, and attended\\nlectures at Dartmouth Medical College in 1840. He rode with his father\\nuntil 1846, when he went to the Castleton, Vt.,) Medical school, where he\\ngraduated in 1847. Soon after he located at Contoocook Village, Hop-\\nkinton where he continues. Aug. 18, 1845, he was appointed surgeon of\\nthe 2ist regt. State Militia. He m. March 30, 1847, Elizabeth, dau. of\\nDeacon Thomas Gerrish, of Boscawen she d.\\n9. Ephraim F., b. Oct. 30, 1817; read medicine with his father in 1839; pursued\\nthe same studies with his brother. Dr. Thomas W.; attended lectures at\\nthe Castleton Vt.) Medical school, where he graduated in N ov., 1845^\\nHe first opened an office at Union Bridge, now East Tilton in 1S46. In\\n1S49 to East Concord, his practice being restricted by older prac-\\ntitioners. In 1854 he removed to Rockville, Conn., where he enjoyed an\\nextensive practice, which he was obliged to relinquish on account of failing\\nhealth, and engaged in the drug business. He m. April, 1847, Rhoda\\nBarnard; had Ellen L., a graduate at Holyoke Female Seminary. His\\nfirst wife d. m. (2) Eleanor Eastman; one son, John E.\\n10. George \\\\V., b. July 15, 1825; m. May 15, 1855, Ellen M., dau. of Stephen\\nSawyer. See.\\n(4) Thomas W., (see physicians) m. Oct. 27, 183 1, Amanda\\nM. Sawyer. He d. April 13, 1861. She d. The\\nchildren were all b. in Salisbury.\\nti. .Moses Stevens, M. D., b. distinguished for quiet industry while at school\\nspent two years in a drug store at Lowell, Mass.; read medicine with his\\nfather; attended lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, and later at\\nCastleton, Vt., graduating at Harvard .Medical school, receiving his degree\\nin March, 1859. He opened an ofticc in Warner, where he contined until\\nthe death of his father in 1S61, when he returned to the homestead in\\nSalisbury, where he remained until his appointment as assistant sur^^eon in", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0969.jp2"}, "944": {"fulltext": "862 HISTORY OF SALISBURY\\nthe 7th N. H., regiment, which was stationed at St. Augustine, Fla. His\\nhealth failing he resigned in the summer of 1864, and in the following\\nSept. rem. to Galesburg, 111., where he d. Nov. 14, 1873; Nov. 28,\\nMary S., dau. of Ira Harvey, of Warner. Dr. Wilson was thoroughly at\\nhome with his business, and was in sympathy with the present liberal\\nand progressive spirit of the profession, and charitable in his expressions.\\nIn 1S65 he united with the Congregational church.\\n12. George T., born May 31, 1S41 m.\\n13. P rancis S., born Jan. 10, 1S45 m.\\nROBERT WISE,\\nFirst settled opposite the nouth gate leading into the ceme-\\ntery, at what is now Lower Franklin, and for some years\\nconducted a ferry across the Merrimack river, known as\\nWise s ferry. (See Ferries.) He afterwards moved nearer\\nLower Village, near Clay Hill and d. He formed an attachment\\nin the army for Col. Ebenezer Webster, and after the war he\\ncame here under the protection of Col. Webster who while\\nhere looked out for his protege. Wise afterwards became\\nreduced to straightened circumstances, and for some years\\nbefore his death he was aided by the town. After his death\\nthe town took care of his widow and after her death, the\\ntown sold what little personal property remained. Hon.\\nDaniel Webster apostrophizes this odd character in his autobi-\\nography. See Curtis s Life of Webster, pp. 10 and 11.\\nEarly and deeply religious, my father had still a gocxl deal of natural gayety\\nhe delighted to have some one about him that possessed a humorous vein. A\\ncharacter of this sort, one Robert Wise, with whose adventures, as I learned them\\nfrom himself, I could fill a small book. He was a near neighbor, and a sort of a\\nhumble companion for a great many years. He was a Yorkshire man had been a\\nsailor; was with Byng in the Mediterranean; had been a soldier; deserted from\\nthe garrison at Gibraltar; traveled through Spain, France and Holland; was taken\\nup afterward, severely punished and sent back to the army; he was in the battle of\\nLinden had a thousand stories of the yellow-haired Prince Ferdinand; was sent to\\nIreland, and later to Boston, with the troops brought out by General Gage;\\nfought at Bunker Hill; deserted to our ranks; served with the New Hampshire", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0970.jp2"}, "945": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY 863\\ntroops in all the succeeding campaigns, and at the peace built a small cottage in\\nthe corner of our field, and lived there to an advanced age. He was my Izaak\\nWalton. He had a wife but no child. He loved me because I would read the\\nnewspapers to him, containing the acccounts of battles in the Kuropean wars. He\\nhad twice deserted from the English king, once at least committed treason, as well\\nas desertion, but he still had a Hritish heart. When I had read to him the details of\\nthe victories of Howe and Jones, etc., I remember he was excited almost to convul-\\nsions, and would relieve his excitement by a gush of tears. He finally picked up a\\nfatherless child, took him home, sent him to school, and took care of him, only, as\\nhe said, that he might have some one to read the newspaper to him. He could\\nnever read himself. .Mas, poor Robert I have never so attained the narrative art\\nas to hold the attention of others as thou, with thy Yorkshire tongue, hast held mine.\\nThou hast carried me many a mile on thy back, paddled me over and over, up and\\ndown the stream, and given whole days in aid of my boyish sports, and asked no\\nmeed, but that of right. I would set down at thy cottage door, and read to thee\\nsome passage of thy country s glory; thou art indeed a true I5riton.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0971.jp2"}, "946": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0972.jp2"}, "947": {"fulltext": "DANIEL AND EZEKIEL WEBSTER.\\nAN ADDRESS\\nBv Hon. Hknkv I Rolke,\\nDelivered at Lancaster, February 2, /SS6, before the Annual .^feeting of the\\nBar Association of Grafton and Cods Counties.\\nAt the age of fifteen, Daniel Webster s health was not good,\\nand lie was far from strong. He could do only the light work\\nabout the house, the stable, and the farm. On the other hand,\\nEzekiel, two years older, was a sturdy, strong, well made young\\nman, who did his full share of hard farm-work with the hired\\nhands. He lisped considerably when talking, but Daniel spoke\\nin a full, clear, deliberate manner. Both boys were studious:\\na laily who attended school with both of them has said that she\\nnever saw either of them idle in school.\\nTheir father did not have an abundance of this world s goods.\\nHe had been one of the first settlers in Salisbury, establishing\\nhimself on the extreme frontier and he had spent a large share\\nof his life in the service of his country, with poor pav, or no\\npay at all. When he began to think about the education of his\\nsons, his farm was under a mortgage, but he had determined\\nto raise his children to a condition better than his own.\\nConsequently he sent Daniel to l*hillips academy in Kxeter,\\nthen the capital of the state. Both boys had attended everv\\nday their own district school while it lasted, aiul the schools in\\nadjoining districts frequently were arranged so as to afford one\\nor two months more instruction to pupils living near by, 80,\\nwhen at the age of fifteen his father sent him to Hxeter, Daniel\\nwas proficient in all English branches. His school-masters had\\nbeen Master Chase, anil, specially, the renowned .lauies Tappjin,\\nwhom he afterward mentions in the most endearing terms. His\\nhealth improved with study, and his intellect brightened and", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0973.jp2"}, "948": {"fulltext": "866 DANIEL AND EZEKIEL WEBSTER.\\nstrengtbened as bis body developed and grew strong. Exeter\\nacademy was an expensive school for the father s straitened\\nmeans, and the son s intellectual growth seemed to outstrip the\\nconditions and opportunities around him. So, after two terms,\\nor six months, at Exeter, the father determined to send his son\\nspeedily to college, and with this object made arrangements to\\nplace him at Boscawen under the instruction of the Rev. Samuel\\nWood, a most benevolent man and excellent teacher. He kept\\nhis determination from the boy for some time, and at length\\ntold him he would carry him over to Boscawen and i)lace him in\\nthe care and under the tuition of Mr. Wood, where he could do\\nchores and thereby pay a good share of his expenses.\\nDaniel had heard a great deal of Dartmouth college, and had\\nonged for the advantages and delights that an education there\\nwould confer upon him, but had never dared to expect, or even\\nhope, that he could be the happy recipient of them.\\nWhen he came near the end of the journey to Boscawen, and\\nwhile ascending the long, steep hill that led to Mr. Wood s\\nhouse, the fatlier, for the first time, opened to his son his deci-\\nsion to send him to college. O happy day for Daniel Webster\\nhappier day for Dartmouth college With a heart full of\\nfilial love and overflowing with filial gratitude, the boy laid his\\ndizzy head upon the paternal shoulder and wept, but said noth-\\ning. Late in after life he wrote, The thing appeared so high,\\nand the expense and sacrifice it woul,d cost my father so great,\\n1 could only press his hand and shed tears. Excellent, excel-\\nlent parent I cannot think of you now without being a child\\nagain The lips that never afterwards failed to express the\\nemotions of that great, noble, loving heart were dumb with\\noverpowering thankfulness, and the tongue that afterwards\\nthrilled the civilized world with its eloquence cleaved to the\\nroof of his mouth.\\nLater, his father sent for him, and he went home for the hay-\\nmaking, but the hay-field was lonely compared with Mr. Wood s\\nstudy turning the mown grass was dull work compared with\\nturning the leaves of Don Quixote, or the translation of Vergil\\nand Cicero. He thought his scythe hung more gracefully, and\\nmore to suit him, on the limb of an apple-tree than in his hands\\nDaniel went to Hanover on horseback to enter college, and", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0974.jp2"}, "949": {"fulltext": "DANIEL AND KZEKIEL WKHSTKU. 867\\ncarried his bud, bedding, cUjtIiiiig, ;iiid liooks witli liim. His\\nway led through New Chester, Hill, I):udiiiiv, (oafton. Orange,\\nCanaan, Enfit bl, and Lebanon. He was poorly prepared for\\ncollege, his preparatory course having lasted only eleven\\nmonths. He liimself said, -I was not lilted for college.\\nThere, as everywhere else, he was never idle. In addition to\\nhis prescribed studies and duties he read much, and paid his\\nboard for an entire year by su|\u00c2\u00bberintending the publication of a\\nlittle weekly paper during the winter vacations he taught\\nschool. When he went away one winter he wore away Benja-\\nmin Clark s new ten dollar beaver hat hats at that time were\\nmade of real beaver fur. He was quite a swell as school-master,\\nwith this elegant new head-covering. His class-mate, Clark,\\nsu|)posed it was surely lost. Clark had searched high and low\\nfor his new hat, and was obliged to i)ut up with an old one that\\nhe had. When Daniel came back to college with the hat, Clark\\nshook hands with him over the joke, and tiiey were good friends\\nand so glad was the latter to find that his nice new hat, the\\nenvy of the college, had not been stolen, that they remained\\ngood friends ever after this so called college prauK.\\nWhile Daniel for two years and a half was exulting in the\\nenjoyment of educational advantages, Ezekiel, wliom he loved\\nwith all the tenderness of youthful brotherly ardor, was at\\nhome, at work early and late on the farm hel|)ing his father and\\ncontributing to the support of Daniel in college, without mur-\\nmuring or ol)jecting. The latter began to feel uneasy at his\\nbrother s situation. It troubled him to think that Ezekiel, with\\nmany gifts as great as his own, should be plodding at honie on\\nthe farm, while he himself was obtaining a liberal education.\\nThough Daniel was unhappy at his brother s prospects, what\\ncould be done? To educate one son at Dartmouth seemed\\nalmost more than his father, with limited nieansand a mortgaged\\nfarm, could do. When Daniel had been at college one year and\\ntwo terms, and was paying many of his own expenses by the\\nlabors above dcscril)ed, he took courage for his brother Zeke\\nand went home to spend bis May vacation. The two boys went\\nto bed, and through the live-long night held serious consultation\\nabout the elder Itrother s chances to fit for college and complete\\nhis education. Daniel was two years his junior, and already", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0975.jp2"}, "950": {"fulltext": "868 DANIEL AND EZEKIEL WEBSTER.\\nnearly half through his collegiate course the elder brother was\\nat least five years behind him. They rose after sunrise without\\nhaving shut their eyes, but they had settled their plans. All the\\npros and cons had been weighed and considered, and, although\\nit might seem late in life for Ezekiel to commence his prepara-\\ntion for college, it was settled that Daniel should propose to his\\nfather that Ezekiel should be sent to school and to college.\\nThis was the first cause of importance that the great advocate\\nundertook, and it was before a most appreciative tribunal, and\\nhe had a client whom he adored. The father was old, his health\\nnot good, his circumstances not easy, the farm must be carried\\non, the mother and two sisters tenderly cared for when Ezekiel\\nshould go away the mainstay of the family would be gone.\\nFather said Daniel, I am extremely unhappy at P^zekiel s\\nprospects in life. Nature has been bountiful in gifts to him.\\nIn personal appearance, in manly beauty, he is inferior to no-\\nperson that I ever saw. It is true he lisps a little, but, with\\nme, this only adds a charm to his speech. But he has rare\\nqualities both of head and heart, and when his natural endow-\\nments shall be improved and polished by a liberal education, he\\nwill be a man that his father, his mother, his brother, and his\\nsisters will be proud of. I cannot bear to be enjoying advan-\\ntages denied to him. For myself, I can see my way through.\\nMy pathway to respectability, to knowledge and self-protection,\\nis clear before me. I am nearly half-way through college, and,\\nby editing a paper at Hanover and teaching school for the past.\\ntwo winters, I have been able tlius far to pay more than half\\nmy bills. I am no longer despondent about myself. I am full\\nof courage. I can keep school and stay more than four years\\nin college, if necessary, if only my brother can have the advan-\\ntages that I am enjoying. I hope never to fail in affectionate\\nveneration for you and mother, nor in tender regard for my sis-\\nters but I want Ezekiel to have the advantages which I have^\\nand then they will afford me more than double enjoyment. It\\nwill sadden all my future life to have him denied the privileges\\nwhich he deserves as much as yes, more than I.\\nThe reply of that father, who shrunk from no sacrifice to\\nserve his country through the fire and blood of a seven years*^\\nrevolutionary war, entitles him to the appellation of excel-", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0976.jp2"}, "951": {"fulltext": "DANIEL AND EZEKTKL WKRSTFR. 869\\nlent, excellent parent. My son, said lie, I Jun e lived and\\nim living bnt for my wife and my children. I have but little of\\nthis world s goods, and on that little I put no value, except as\\nit may be useful to them. To carry you botii through college,\\nmy son, will take all that I am worth, and I am willing to run\\nthe risk myself; but when it comes to your mother and sisters,\\nit is a more serious matter. You are all equally dear to me, and\\nhad it pleased heaven to endow me with riches, there is no priv-\\nilege of education that should be denied any one of you. Eze-\\nkiel and you must settle this matter with your mother and sis-\\nters if their free consent is obtained, you shall both have a\\ncollegiate education, and I will put my trust in Providence and\\nget along to the end of life as well as I can.\\nThere was a grave family council of father, mother, sons, and\\ndaughters. For a time the father sat in silence. At length he\\nsaid to the mother, I have had a long talk with Daniel about\\nEzekiel s going to college, and the hearts of both the boys seem\\nto be set upon it but I have told them that I could promise\\nnothing without the free consent of their mother and sisters.\\nThe farm is already mortgaged, and if we send Ezekiel to col-\\nlege it will take all we have but the boys think they can take\\ncare of us.\\nParents and children mingled their tears together. Daniel\\nhad gone, and now Ezekiel, the strong staff upon which the\\naged father and mother and the unmarried dependent sisters\\nwere leaning, must be separated from them and tlu-ir home no\\nlonger be cheered daily by his presence.\\nIt was a moment of intense interest to all the family. The\\nmother was a high-minded, stout-hearted, sagacious woman,\\nand it did not take her, the mother of two such boys, long to\\ndecide the matter. She at once saw the reasonableness of the\\nrequest, and the great advantage to be derived by her son if his\\nrequest should be granted, and she gave her decision in these\\nwords: I have lived long in this world, and have been happy\\nin my children. If Daniel and Ezekiel will promise to take care\\nof me in my old age, I will consent to the sale of all our prop-\\nerty at once, that they may enjoy with us tli.- iMmnt of whiit\\nremains after our debts have been paid.\\nO excellent, excellent father! Nol)le, noble mother! Dear", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0977.jp2"}, "952": {"fulltext": "870 DANIEL AND EZEKIEL WEBSTER.\\ndevoted sisters The die was cast, and with tears and benedic-\\ntions the family submitted to a temporary separation. But the\\nfarm was not sold, and the parents continued in comfortable\\ncircumstances to the end of life. One of the sisters was happily\\nmarried and became the mother of the well known and accom-\\nplished scholar, diplomat, and orator, Charles B. Haddock, while\\nboth spent useful and happy lives and left behind them good\\nand honored names.\\nDaniel went back to Hanover Ezekiel took his bundle of\\nclothes and books to Dr. Wood s, and began the study of Latin\\nand Greek, for he, like Daniel, was well up in the English\\nbranches. There was an excellent academ} at Salisbury, and\\nas Daniel had been allowed two terms at Exeter, Ezekiel was to\\nbe allowed two terms at Salisbur} after which he was to return\\nto Dr. Wood s. He spent six months at the academy, and then\\ncompleted his preparatory course with Dr. Wood, where his ex-\\npenses were about one dollar a week. It is fair to presume the\\nelder brother was as well fitted as the younger, for he was quite\\nas studious, although he distrusted his ability to get on. But\\nDaniel wrote him frequently from Hanover, cheered him up,\\nand allured him along.\\nIn the spring of 1801, Ezekiel entered Dartmouth, before his\\nbrother had graduated. In August of the same year Daniel\\ntook his diploma, his brother having already accomplished one\\nyear of his collegiate education.\\nIt has often been said that Daniel was exasperated with the\\ntreatment of the faculty in not giving him the valedictory, and\\nindignantly tore up and threw away his diploma, exclaiming,\\nDartmouth college will hear from me hereafter. This story\\nhas no foundation in truth whatever, and no graduate of the col-\\nlege ever cherished more personal regard for the professors and\\nmore veneration for his alma-mater than did Daniel Webster.\\nTheodore Parker, in his sermon on Mr. Webster s death,\\npreached in the Melodian in October, 1852, remarked that Dr.\\nWood had small Latin and less Greek. Mr. Parker was misin-\\nformed. Dr. Wood graduated at Dartmouth in 1797 with the\\nhighest honors of his class, and was awarded and delivered the\\nvaledictory address at commencement. He studied theology,\\nwas licensed to preach, and began his ministry in the October", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0978.jp2"}, "953": {"fulltext": "DANIEL AND EZEKIEL \\\\V?:HSTER. 871\\nfollowing. He prepared four score of young men for college,\\nand was considered a ripe scholar for liis time. Tlie writer of\\nthis article was born and reared in the same school-district\\nwhere Dr. Wood resided during all his life in Boscawen, and\\nknows he was an excellent linguist and an eminent divine. It\\nwill not be supposed that Daniel Webster was taken from so\\ndistinguished and competent a teacher and classical scholar as\\nDr. Abbott of Phillips Exeter academy to complete his prepar-\\natory course and put on the finishing touch with Dr. Wood, if the\\nlatter had small Latin and less Greek. He was, as I have\\nsaid, an excellent classical scholar and a learned man, and tlie\\ndegree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him at a time\\nwhen that honor signified something.\\nDIPLOMA.\\nI desire to call attention to anotiier mistake of Mr. Parker s,\\nmade in the same sermon, anil which was current as a tradition\\na long time before Mr. Webster s death. He said, He grad-\\nuated in his twentieth year, largely distinguisiied for power as a\\nwriter and speaker, though not mucli honored by the college\\nauthorities. So he scorned his degree, and, when the faculty\\ngave him their diploma, he tore it in pieces in the college yard\\nin presence of some of his mates, it is said, and trod it under\\nhis feet. I heard this a great many times when a boy, and\\nwhile fitting for college and in college, and always considered it\\nan invention of some idle, careless, disappointed person who\\nhad neither earned or deserved collegiate honors. I shrank\\nfrom contradicting this story, but at the same time hail the\\nbest evidence that it had no shadow of a foundation, for if\\nDaniel Wel)ster had, more than a year after his graduation,\\nshown and translated his diploma to one of his loved and cher-\\nished friends, it would i)e rather convincing proof to me that he\\ndid not tear it up and trample it under his feet. Hut within one\\nyear, Mr. Steplien M. Allen, president of the Webster Histori-\\ncal Society, in the Spectator, has reiterated the story as a tradi-\\ntion\\nAt an agricultmal fair, where George W. Nesmith was present,\\nhis attention was called to a decision upon the merits of two\\nanimals, wherein one had an award in money and the other, a", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0979.jp2"}, "954": {"fulltext": "872 DANIEL AND EZEKIEL WEBSTER.\\ndiploma. A person remarked that the money award was made\\nto the wrong animal, and he further said, If I were that ani-\\nmal that has received the diploma, I would do with it as Daniel\\nWebster did with his I would tear it up in the presence of the\\ncommittee on bulls, and tread it under my feet. Mr. Nesmith\\nsaid he related this to Mr. Webster soon after, and he said there\\nwas not a word of truth or semblance of it in the story. He\\nsaid, It was true the valedictory lay between me and another\\nvery worth} member of the class, and I thought I deserved the\\nhonor, and many of my classmates thought so too, and I felt not a\\nlittle chagrined but you do n t suppose I was so indiscreet as to\\nshow it, much more to tear up my diploma, which I then prized\\nas the most choice treasure a young man could possess. Be-\\nsides, I should have been obliged to decline the honor, for I had\\nalready been selected by my class to deliver an address before\\nthe Fraternity, which I preferred at that time to the honor of\\nbeing valedictorian. This has been told me within two years\\nby Mr. Nesmith, and he has assured me that the late Professor\\nShurtleff told him the same in refutation of this story. Judge\\nVesey, of Rutland, Vermont, had his attention called to this\\nmatter by the publication of Mr. Allen s article in the Spectator,\\nand he replied to it in the Century Magazine, and relates there\\nthe same thing told him years ago by Professor Shurtleff, in\\ncomplete refutation of the diploma fabrication.\\nBut to return to the subject After this episodical defence of\\nDr. Wood s classical fame, Ezekiel taught school one winter in\\nSalisbury and two winters in Sanbornton. In the spring of\\n1804, three years after he entered college, he began a private\\nschool in Boston, which he taught for a year. So studious was\\nhe, that three years from his entrance into college he went to\\nBoston, and returned at commencement, passing his examina-\\ntions and earning his degree, thus accomplishing in three years\\nwhat Daniel did in four. So reduced did his father s finances\\nbecome, that he could no longer furnish the boys with funds.\\nEzekiel was sent money by Daniel during his last year at Han-\\nover, and Daniel earned this money at Conway, b} copying\\ndeeds in the Register s office. The father continued to hold the\\noffice of Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, to which he was\\nappointed in 1791, till his death in 1806.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0980.jp2"}, "955": {"fulltext": "DANIEL AND EZEKIEL WEBSTER. 873\\nIn the discharge of all the duties of citizen, soldier, magis-\\ntrate, parent. Christian. Judge Webster was a man of whom his\\nneighbors, his townsmen, his country, and his illustrious children\\nmight be justly proud. Of all the brave men who stood watch\\nand ward over the frontier of civilization in New Hampshire,\\nnone displayed more fortitude than he. He had the heart of a\\nlion, and the sweet, tender sympathy of a giil.\\nWhen Daniel was admitted to the bar in 180. he came to\\nBoscawen and opened an ollice in oider that he might be near\\nhis honored father, to administer to his wants and to comfort\\nhim in his old age. In 1807, having paid the debt of gratitude\\nas well as he could to these excellent parents, anil having\\nlaid them tenderly away to that rest which remaineth for them,\\nhe transferred his ofiice and most of his business to Ezekiel,\\nand moved to Portsmouth to continue the career that in the end\\nmade him the n)ost illustrious son of this republic.\\nThe beautiful and tender tril)ute which he paid to his father\\nat Saratoga on August 19, 1840, is the sweetest and most fra-\\ngrant expression of filial love and childlike veneration within\\nthe limits of language.\\nSpeaking of the log-cabin in which the elder brother and\\nsisters were born, he said, If I ever fail in affectionate ven-\\neration for him wlio reared it and defended it from savage vio-\\nlence and destruction, cherished all the domestic virtues beneath\\nits roof, and, through the fire and blood of a seven years revo-\\nlutionary war, shrunk from no danger, no toil, no sacrifice, to\\nserve his country and to raisi iiis children to a condition better\\nthan his own. may my name and the name of my posterity be\\nblotted forever from the memory of mankind.\\nIn the history of Boscawen and Webster by CofHn, there is\\nwhat purports to be a likeness of Ezekiel Webster. It bears\\nbut little resemblance to him. It has not the princely head of\\nthe original. It has a stiff tape and buckram appearance.\\nIt lacks the full, thickly covered head of snowy-white hair, and\\nthe open, manly countenance and clean-cut features, of the\\noriginal. Daniel, looking with eyes of brotherly tenderness,\\nsaw in him, as he lay in his collin, the liiicst human form he\\never laid eyes on.\\nAt the age of forty-nine, when his liopi and prospects were", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0981.jp2"}, "956": {"fulltext": "874 DANIEL AND EZEKIEL WEBSTER.\\nripening, tiie silent summons was served upon him, and lie\\npassed from earth to heaven, from the inferior court below\\nto the supreme court above. Standing erect before a jury in\\nMerrimack county, with the judge, the bar, and a large audi-\\nence listening intently to his words, his arms hanging gracefully\\nby his side, he ended a branch of his argument, and instantly\\nclosed his eyes in death. In the midst of the solemn scene,\\nGeorge Sullivan, the eloquent attorney-general, who was to fol-\\nlow him in his argument, exclaimed What shadows we are,\\nand what shadows we pursue\\nEphraim Hutchins, then twenty-three years of age, whom\\nDaniel Webster well knew, and at whose father s tavern he was\\naccustomed to stop when in Concord, started immediately in a\\nprivate conveyance for Boston to carry the sad intelligence to\\nDaniel. The roads were muddy, and badly cut up by heavier\\ntraffic. Frequent changes of horses enabled him to reach\\nBoston late in the night of the same day or early in the morning\\nof the next. Young Hutchins knew where Mr. Webster lived,\\nand, driving directly to his house on Summer street, knocked at\\nthe door. A window iu the chamber above was immediately\\nraised, and Mr. Webster was visible. The wagon stopping in\\nfront of his house in the stillness of the night had given notice\\nof the arrival of some one before the signal knock at the door.\\nWho is it? said Mr. Webster. Ephraim Hutchins, was\\nthe reply. Is P^zekiel dead? came the enquiry from the win-\\ndow. Yes, was the response; while addressing the jury\\nin the court-house in Concord, he fell dead in an instant with-\\nout a moment s warning. I thought, replied Mr. Webster,\\nthat must be the errand you came on when I heard the wheels\\nof your carriage stop in front of m} door. There was no tele-\\ngraph, no railroad then, and no public conveyance except the\\nstage-coach, and the condition of the roads April 10th, in the\\nnight, made the journey, over seventy-five miles long, a severe\\none. Mr. Hutchins related to the writer forty years after, with\\ntears standing in his eyes nearly all the time, the incidents of\\nthis journey, and the never-to-be forgotten interview with Mr.\\nWebster just described. Nineteen years after the death of their\\nloving and beloved brother, Daniel Webster, in kind remem-\\nbrance of this service, requested President Taylor to appoint", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0982.jp2"}, "957": {"fulltext": "DANIEL AND EZEKIEL WEHSTER. 875\\nMajor Hutcbins post-master of Concord, and it wti.s done.\\nFrom 1849 to 18 )3, the man wlio tlirougli tln darkness of tlie\\nlone night had hinried over the long and weary way with early\\ntidings of this lamented death, most faithfully and most accept-\\nably discharged the duties of the odlce.\\nNEW HAMTSniRK A GOOD STATIC TO KMKiUATK FKOM.\\nIn October, 1844, being then a member of Dartmouth college\\nin the freshman class, I was obliged to visit Boston on business,\\nand on my way took in a Democratic mass meeting at Salis-\\nbury. It was a cold, bleak, dreary day, and the meeting was\\nin an open field at the South Road, and Charles II. Peasiee and\\nLevi Woodbury were the tield orators. It was so cold that an\\nadjournment was had to the hotel, and the last speaker was\\nFranklin Pierce. I had never before seen him, and I was capti-\\nvated by his manners, his personal appearance, and the beauty\\nand elegance of his diction. In the course of his speech he\\nsaid, It was the remark of a distinguished son of New\\nHampshire, who was born and reared on your soil, and who\\nhasn t drawn a free breath for the last fifteen years, that New\\nHampshire is a good state to emigrate o^h. He put especial\\nemphasis upon the word from, and I think I am not saying any-\\nthing extravagant, wlien I allirra that no man could give more\\nsignificance to a word or a sentence by his manner and the\\nsna|) of his head, than Franklin Pierce. He did not call Mr.\\nWebster s name, but every person in the crowd knew perfectly\\nwell that the distinguished son of New Hampshire, who was\\nborn and reared on the soil of Salisbury, was Daniel Webster,\\nand many knew that he referred to his having been paid a lib-\\neral sum to acce[)t a position in the Senate of the United States\\nwith a salary of eight dollars a day there, when he could obtain\\nin the practice of his profession in Boston many times that\\namount. At a colored beverage entertainment in Franklin\\nin 1850, after Daniel Webster had made his celebrated 7th of\\nMarch speech. General Pierce said to Mr. Webster, when specu-\\nlating a little upon the proltability of the Whigs dropping him\\non account of that speech and other speeches supplementary to\\ntliat, If the Whigs lrop you the Democrats will take you up\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0983.jp2"}, "958": {"fulltext": "876 DANIEL AND EZEKTEL WEBSTER.\\nand they will raise you so high that your feet will scorn to kick\\nthe stars.\\nAt a public dinner given at the Eagle hotel, on its completion\\nin 1852, when Franklin Pierce had been shown to be the choice\\nof the people for the presidency of the United States, Col. John\\nH. George, who always echoed his friend s declarations, re-\\nmarked when called upon for some postprandial remarks,\\nDaniel Webster used to say tliat New Hampshire was a good\\nstate to emigrate from, not emphasizing the word from. Mat-\\nthew Harvey, George G. Fogg, Asa McFarland, General Pierce,\\nCharles H. Peaslee, and many other gentlemen distinguished in\\npublic affairs, were present, and no one seemed to doubt that\\nDaniel Webster made this remark. I have heard it on other\\npublic occasions, more out of the state than in. I have seen it\\nin print but Daniel Webster never made the remark. No\\nsuch idea ever entered into his brain. He doubtless did think\\nthat it was a credit to a man to hail from New Hampshire. He\\nmight say We raise men up in New Hampshire and he might\\nhave said, I am a New Hampshire man, the same as the\\nRoman was accustomed to say, I am a Roman citizen, but\\nthat he ever said or intimated that New Hampshire was not a\\ngood and noble state to be born in, to live in, and to die and be\\nburied in, is untrue. No man ever manifested more love, or\\ncherished more affectionate regard, for his native state than\\nDaniel Webster, and it was one of the studies of his life how he\\nmight the more appropriately declare his devotion to the land\\nof his birth, tiie home of his childhood, and the state where the\\ntriumphs of his early manhood were achieved. But I am not\\nleft without a witness in this matter. My lamented friend,\\nGeneral Walter Harriman, said to me many times during the\\nfour or five years before his death, that he had a conversation\\nwitii Peter Harvey upon this saying, and Mr. Wel)ster denied\\nwith much feeling that he ever publicly or privately made any\\nsucli remark in that form or anything that could be construed\\ninto it, and that every word of it was a pure fiction. Peter\\nHarvey is gone. General Harriman has just stepped over the\\nthreshold of immortality, but George W. Nesmith still lives.\\nHe has told me many times, and within a few months, that he\\nhad several interviews with Mr. Webster, and he said, I never", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0984.jp2"}, "959": {"fulltext": "DANIEL AND KZKKIKL WEBSTER. 877\\nsaid it, nor anvtliinu; of tliiit import. My utterances have been\\nrather public, and it seems as thougii some one could tell the\\ntime, the place, or the occasion where I made such a remark, or\\nany other remark not respectful to the land of my birth. The\\nremark was many years ago attributed to Jeremiah Mason, but\\nI do not think he ever made it.\\nAbout 18 lo, Ezekiel Webster and Richard Fletcher were\\narrayed against each other, before a board of referees in 8al-\\nisbiu v, where a young school-master was complained of for\\nunmercifully punishing one of his pupils. The referees were\\nAndrew Bowers, Benjamin Pettengill, and .labez Smith. The\\ntrial excited a great deal of interest, and it is not too much to\\nsay that these attorneys were the best advocates in that section\\nof the state. Webster was for the little lad, an\u00c2\u00abl Fletcher for\\nthe school-master, and the following is the exordium of Web-\\nster s argument: May it please you, gentlemen referees: It\\nhas got to be the case now-a-days, that when a young man gets\\nto be sixteen or seventeen years of age, goes to an academy\\nschool six weeks, gets a five-dollar French watch in his pocket,\\na rattan as long as your arm, and a ruflle shirt as wide as a\\nhand-saw, he is fit to teach school. Kzekiel Webster has been\\ndead fifty-four years, l)ut the school-master still lives, and\\nDaniel Webster, in 1841, caused him to be appointed Tniled\\nStates attorney for the district of New Hampshire.\\nIn the columns of an old newspaper published in the northern\\npart of New Hampshire, is the following story, entitled\\nDaniel Webster and the Teamster. N\u00c2\u00ab ar the end of the\\nlast century a teamster from (Irafton county (;ame to a hill near\\nthe house of p benezer Webster, father of Daniel, in what is\\nnow Franklin, formerly Salisbury. This hill was too hard for\\nhis team, and he sought aid at the house of Mr. Welister.\\nDaniel, then a youth, and not very well clad nor very genteel,\\nwas sent to his assistance. Years passed, arul the teamster s\\nproperty was in peril. An eminent lawyer. Moses P. Payson,\\nof Bath, was employed as his counsel. In the trial of the cause\\nhe needed the aid of able associate counsel, and secured the ser-\\nvices of Daniel Webster, then a rising young lawyer in New\\nHampshiie. When told by Mr. Payson who it was that was to\\nassist him. the teamster replied that he had little hope of their", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0985.jp2"}, "960": {"fulltext": "878 DANIEL AND EZEKIEL WEBSTER.\\nsuccess, as he recognized in hitn tlie swarth} boy whom he had\\nmet 5 ears before, and he did not look as though he would make\\na great lawyer. At the opening of the case the desponding\\nclient took a seat in a remote corner of the court-room, feeling\\napparently as little interest in the result of the trial as any of\\nthe spectators. When Mr. Webster opened his argument the\\nclient found that this lawyer was really something of a man.\\nAs he proceeded, his estimate of his ability increased. When\\nhe closed it was evident to everybody in the court-room that\\nMr. Webster had won the case, and liad convinced all present\\nthat he was no ordinary man. The jury returned a righteous\\nverdict, and tlie grateful client, who twice in early life had lost\\nhis all, said to Mr. Webster with deep feeling, I regard you\\nas an angel sent for my deliverance. My wife and children\\nwill bless you to their latest day for what you have done for us.\\nGentlemen, brothers, and members of the bar of Grafton and\\nCoos counties I have long sought some public occasion to give\\nthese utterances in respectful regard to the memory of him who\\nwas school-mate, neighbor, and friend of my mother who was\\ngenial, gracious, and kind to his townsman, my father and it is\\nfitting and proper that I should utter them here before this glow-\\ning mass of intelligence, before these cultured gentlemen,\\namong the great mountains, whose gleaming peaks and towering\\nheights tell me of majesty, sublimity, grandeur, and beauty,\\nwhere genius drew in the inspiration of a great life beneath\\nthese extreme northern skies, from whence this Jupiter Tonans\\nof America first drew down the bolts of that matchless thunder\\nwhich eventually went reverberating around the world.", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0986.jp2"}, "961": {"fulltext": "IN DEX.\\nA\\nHagley, George 70,141.2. ,5\\n20 i,-J\u00c2\u00bb;2\\nAbbott, Jabez\\n188\\nJohn 70,265,256\\nJohn D.\\n223\\nJonathan J. 278\\nJoseph\\n221\\nAVilliam 70, 255, 258, 2i;2\\nJoshua\\n252\\n272\\nAcademy, Andover 220\\nBailey, Caleb 1*. 2J4\\nAmherst\\n168\\nGeorge 201\\nColbv\\nSalisbury\\n183\\nIsaac 186\\n207. 208\\nJoshua 2. 2\\nAdams, Archelas\\n85, 140, 94\\nSaiMiifl 282\\nHela\\n2-23\\nWilliam 21S,222\\nBenjamin 0.\\n179,224\\nBaker, Benjamin 7 140\\nJames 0.\\n2J4\\n201\\nJolin\\n9.9G\\n249\\nJoseph, Lieut.\\n82,141,2 8\\nKdmund 355\\n2tj7\\nKdvvurd 357,422\\nJoseph, Jr.\\n349\\nJohn 4 3,436\\nRobert M.\\n342 1\\nMarshall 194\\nSamuel, U.\\n283\\nThomas, apt ,3.\\nAdrian College\\n170\\nBakerstown 31, 32, 33, 35\\nAgricultural Society 5,383\\n39.\\n384\\nBakery 844\\nAlarm list\\n278\\nBaldwin, Isaac 2,53\\nAllen, Albert G.\\n378\\nNahum 266\\nKobert\\n275\\nBallard. John O. 323\\nSamuel 124,141,221,285\\nBall, .lohn 222\\n351,433\\nBaptist Association\\nAlmsbury Pond\\n19\\nSalisburv Society 180\\nAmbrose, Samuel A. 314\\nCalvihistic l\u00c2\u00abl.\\nAmes, Natliaii 1*.\\n282\\nBarber, t^llicr, 1st child 247\\nAmherst 78,252,\\n2.56,262,284\\nJethro 2t-}. Ji .4\\nAmes, Simeon\\n231\\nKobert 8,-54. 69.7 \u00e2\u0080\u00a2.141.15\\nAmsden, Uev. S.\\nli. 184\\n241,244,246,247,248.250\\nAnderson, James\\n34\\n255,260\\nAndover Theological\\nPeter 141.177\\nSeminary\\n168\\nBarilett, Bailey 3H1\\nAntipodo-Baptists 130,189\\nBalev. Maj. 141\\n176\\nDuvi d 38\\nAntiquities\\n314\\nKiioch 8,37\\nArcy,Jona. V.\\n21, 1-27, 379\\nIchabod 5,85.98.206.216\\nAsh, Nathaniel\\n208,283\\n378,435\\nJohti\\n69,249,264\\nJames 4;t.\\nWilliam\\nC9\\nJohn 224\\nAssociation, test sign-\\nJoseph 5,6\\n121,132.1;\\ners of\\n68\\nAtherton, Charles H. 98\\n221.21 2,-\\nAtkinson, David\\n55\\nSamuel\\n173\\nJoseph, Jr. \u00c2\u00bbw\u00c2\u00bb.4a6\\nIbeodore\\n3 ,287\\nJosiah, Got. 61,67.68,132\\nAlwood, (ieorge\\n272\\n265\\nAustin, Kzra\\na -^i\\nNathan 174\\nAyers, Charles\\nai.i,8H4\\nIVter 206.222,864,884,898\\nJona.\\n317\\n422\\nPeter\\n88,38,40\\nnov. KoU-rt 1H9\\nB\\nSamuel, 3d 4\\n.SamueK 8r., C.120,124\\nHacon, Charles H. 274\\n2o6.221,346,866,860,8\u00c2\u00abil\\nDuvld F.\\n274\\n884\\nHadfter, I easlee\\n817\\nSamuel C-, Jr. 0,43fl\\nJohn\\n88\\nWilliam H. 6.6.104.438\\nBHrnstal)le. Mass. 1.84\\nBarritt. Ihomafi 280\\nBarrington 3\\nBaslord, Benjamin 255\\nJames 2. 5,25\\n.Joseph 69,255\\nBatclicld r. Abraham\\nand .lethro 287\\nZachariah 218\\nCalvin 403\\nRev. Stephen 129\\nBenj- 14\\nBeal, Ihomas 357,384\\n/acariah 34\\nBean, Amos 212,224\\nA mo* S. 273\\nBeniah 70,141,197.202,2.\\nBenjamin 68,282,2 ^8\\nDaniel 8)31\\nDavid G. 348\\nieorge K. 274\\nJohn 69,70.189.249,252 265\\n256.26.1,278.428\\nJonathan 267,282\\nJoseph 422\\nJoseph, Jr. 37.55.57,62 ft4\\niW.69.70.76.79.lZl, 183\\n137. 139. 140. 199. 20l\\n260, 26 S3, ,-521,826\\n328.829,.339.376\\nJoshua S. 1H8.378\\nI-ivl 86,212,268\\nJ. -Moroy 188.487\\nN. W. 486\\nPhiueas 6\u00c2\u00ab,70,115,122,137\\n141.202, 255, 262. 2t53\\n265.267, 282, 32. 128\\n37 .,377,:i9i)\\nSamuel 87,41,139,140,174\\n177\\nStephen 218\\nJ W.slev 188.437\\nBedel. Moodv 256\\nBerr\\\\. Cliarres T. 218\\nBishop. Knofi 141.245.247\\nBlack nilths ^42\\nBlalsdell, Isaac 123.142,174\\n177,221.283,3\u00c2\u00ab 17.379\\niMiac K. I i6,4l4\\nJonathan 34\\nM. \u00c2\u00bbliech W. 272\\nPhilip 141\\nStephen 174\\nBlanrlinrd, Benjamin 2H8\\nh.lMn./er 19J,lyi346,a j3\\nKdw.ird 2: 1\\nJox ph 2-32 283,242.248\\nUlodKvtt, l- iw\u00c2\u00abril 123.206\\n318,338, .H6,377,416\\nJulius lS8,4a8\\nBodwrll, Abraham 1\u00c2\u00bb4", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0987.jp2"}, "962": {"fulltext": "880\\nINDEX.\\nBohonon, Ens. Andrew 3\\n62,69,70. 133, 201, 2(18\\n249,255,257,259,282,286\\n298,375\\nAndrew 255,364\\nAndrew B. 267\\nAnnaniah 69,70,139,140\\n174,177,208,255,25\\\\264\\n282,342\\nEbenezer W. 257\\nJacob 69, 70, 142, 255, 259\\n298\\nJacob, Jr. 208\\nJohn 140\\nStephen 210,257,263,264\\n344,351\\nBookbindery, 344\\nBootman, Eli 343\\nBoscawen 1,4,5,8,15,46,60\\n63, 90, 152, 155, 194. 227\\n230.231,232,2a5.239,240\\n242,245,258.263,267,279\\n282,286,295,30U,3u5,314\\n320\\nBothwell, G. W. 170\\nBoundary between\\nMass. and N. H. 28\\nBouton, Nathaniel 7,116,194\\nHannah 33\\nBoulder 24\\nBow 194,286\\nBo wen, Jeremiah 70,263,266\\nJohn 54,69,70,72,227,228\\n229,230,-231,235,238,2.39\\n244,252,258,297\\nPeter 54,69,201\\nBowers, Andrew 58.84.86\\n120,122,140,143,162,205\\n208.210,212,221,304,306\\n322 327,341, c.\\nJohn 140\\nBradford 194, 279, 286, 384\\nBradford, Rev. Moses 193\\nBradley, Daniel 33\\nBrentwood 186, 218\\nBridges, first 366\\nRepublican 316, 318\\nBrooks 20\\nChance Pond 20, 337\\nStirrup Iron 155, 297\\nBrottlebank, Daniel 70,121\\n139, 141, 172, 174, .307\\n313, 332\\nBrown, Edmond 37\\nJacob 42^\\nJames 33\\nJohn 255\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0John R. 126,271\\nJoseph, Jr. 173, 177\\nJonathan 327\\nMoses 323\\n^Nathaniel 174\\nRobert 275\\nSamuel 354, 356, 357\\nThomas 223\\nBunton, Robert 285\\nBurden, Rev. John 125, 188\\nBurleigh, Henry 395\\nJohn 55\\nJoseph 423\\nJosiah 176\\nWallace 395\\nWilliam H. 432\\nBurnham, Rev. S. H. 170\\nBuxton, Edward B. 406\\nc\\nCalef, Arthur S.\\nBenjamin\\nDaniel J.\\n348, 434\\n384\\n121, 126, 163\\n206, 379\\nDaniel R. 274, 377\\nDavid 423\\nDavid F. 213, 214, 215\\nGarland 355, 357, 379\\nHenry 340\\nJohn 57, 58, 132, 133. 221\\n224,369,422\\nJohn, Jr. 125\\nJohn A. 274\\nJonathan 423\\nJoseph 141\\nMoses 228/\\nWilliam 56,62,69,70,74\\n133,141,201,259,262,282\\n292,375,422-\\nWilliam, Jr. v 141-\\nCall, John\\nLemuel\\nMoses\\nPhilip\\nSilas\\nStephen\\nCanaan\\nCanals\\nCanterbury\\n245,417\\n357\\n3,8,38,42,53,244\\n249,292\\n267\\n57,62,66,69,244\\n245,254\\n274\\n318\\n194,226,227,229\\n230,231,232,235\\n342-^\\nCarpenters, first\\nCarr, Hamilton 275\\nCarroll, James 275\\nPeter 275\\nCarter, Col. John 267\\nJohn C-, Sergt. 271\\nLamson 218 i\\nT. J. 24\\nWinthrop 263\\nCass, B. D. 190\\nCaswell, Rev. E. H. 167\\nCate, Dea. Wm. 174,182,186\\n3t3\\nJohn 191\\nCavender, John 378,384,434\\nCemeteries\\nCensus of S.\\nCenter, Col.\\nChallis, Enos\\nJohn\\nThos.\\n367\\n379\\n263\\n139,140\\n69.70,141,255\\n34,70,141,265\\nChamberlain, Moses 194\\nChandler, Aretus 192\\nCol. Isaac 279,282\\nChapman, Amos 128,347\\nRichard\\n191\\nCharter and Grant\\nMass.\\n33\\nMasonian proprietors 37\\nenlarged\\n44\\namended\\n438\\nChase, Aquilla.\\n(See Gen-\\nealogy.)\\n335\\nBailey\\n139,140,174\\nBenjamin\\n334\\nCarlton\\n222\\nCyrus\\n282\\nDaniel\\n378\\nEnoch, Capt.\\n70,142\\nGeorge W.\\n272\\nStephen\\n33, 335\\nChase, Thomas 62,97,121,124\\n140,173,177,182,203,219\\n216 349,364\\nThomas, 2d, Corp. 267\\nTrueworthy 70\\nWilliam 70,142\\nChester 61,148,258,291,334:\\nChote, David 222\\nSimeon 70\\nCilley, Benjamin 188\\nGreenleaf 97\\nJoseph 356\\nSamuel 356,357\\nThomas J. 282\\nClaggett, Wm. 218,224\\nClark, James 190\\nJohn 190\\nJoseph 317,434\\nNathaniel 33\\nPercival 34\\nClay, James 141,142\\nWilliam 141\\nClement, George 348\\nJohn, Capt. 142,174\\nJ. 283\\nRev. Josiah 185\\nJonathan H. 212,378\\niMo.ses 89.142,210,376,384\\nClitTord, Benjamin 142\\nEbenezer 69,70.255\\nEdward 142\\nJoseph 38,273,379\\nRichard 142\\nClough, Abner 19\\nJeremiah 244,317\\nMoses 172,177,186\\nObediah 317\\nThomas 317\\nWadleigh 177\\nWm. B. 335\\nCochran, Jacob 76,121,255\\nCotlin, Charles C. 7,8,279,291\\nFrederick C 282\\nPeter 320\\nColby, Andrew J. 272\\nDaniel 294\\nEnoch 141,224\\nEphraim 62,70,141,199,208\\n255\\nEzekiel 221\\nGardner 190\\nIsaac, Jr. 222\\nJohn, Jr. 191\\nMoses 272\\nNathan 69,2.54\\nNathan S. 223\\nNicholas 70\\nPhilip 201\\nPhineas 188\\nRow ell 223,250,255,256,259\\nColburn, J. F. 275\\nJames 434\\nColcord, Samuel 37,52\\nCole, n. J. 343\\nIsaac 343\\nTrueworthy 4:-l7\\nCollins, Benjamin 250\\nCharles 140\\nEphraim 38,46,54,66,244\\n336\\nJohn 140,376,380\\nDeacon John 62,68,76,81\\n115,121,133,140,149,150\\n153,159,197,201,221,226\\n254,265,321", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0988.jp2"}, "963": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n881\\nColHns, Rev. John\\nComb Manufactory\\nComniodities, price of\\nCoiiant. Kfv. Lcha\\nConcord 4.5,149.150,182\\n194.2;i9. .J5r.,267\\nCondit, Kev. V. \\\\V.\\nConnor, Joseph\\nSimeon 174,177\\nCook, Capt. A. B.\\nRev. ,lo8eph\\nJonathan\\nCook s I ond\\nCoombs, S. B. 184,206\\nCorser, Charles W.\\nNathan S.\\nRice\\nWilliam\\nCouch, K. D.\\nHirum\\nIra H. 12ti,20fi\\nJohn, Jr. 96,142, 1S7\\nJohn 3d 188\\nJoseph 124\\nJ. Allert\\nSamuel 188\\nSamuel, Jr.\\nWilliam\\nCounty, formation of\\nof Merrimack\\nFarm\\nCram, Jonathan 69,70,7\\n120,122,172,173.252,\\nCrane, R. F.\\nCresssy, B. C. 214,215\\nCrockett, Dr. Ephraim\\nCrosby, Nathan\\nCross, Rev. Abijah 165\\n194\\nJohn\\nStephen 70,140\\nThomas\\nCummingg, Rev. E. E.\\n182,\\nJoseph\\nCurrier, Ernest C.\\nDaniel\\nJames 205,208,\\nJohn\\nCashing, Caleb 140\\nD.\\nJames R.\\nJoseph\\nTheodore\\nZacbeus\\nD\\nDamon. Rev. Joseph B.\\nDana, Kev. I), l.\\nDanbury 14,tf4.220,2f l,\\nDane, Kev. Ellas\\nDamon\\nDanford. Nathaniel\\nDanfortli, Josiah\\n.Nathaniel\\nDaniels, J. W.\\nDark Day\\nDarling, .lohn, Jr.\\nMaj. Timothy\\nIra\\nDarjs, Aquilla\\nRev. K.\\nFrancis\\nJoseph\\n188\\n343\\n71\\nIW\\n,184\\n,384\\n16 t\\n222\\n,178\\n271\\n169\\n20(5\\n20\\n,370\\n254\\n274\\n101\\n187\\n206\\n4.37\\n,271\\n,1\u00c2\u00ab9\\n,437\\n,186\\n188\\n,423\\n188\\n187\\n285\\n[to\\n106\\n.114\\n255\\n267\\n192\\n,2-4\\n219\\n224\\n,193\\n205\\n2, )0\\n,265\\n3)7\\n180\\n,183\\n181\\n206\\n141\\n340\\n,20S\\n397\\n435\\n396\\n221\\n355\\nDavis, Madison B\\nNelson\\nSamuel\\n.ste|)hcn A.\\nDawns, .loseph\\n272\\n275\\n177\\n183\\n221\\n185\\nr. i\\n\\\\sr,\\n1S5\\n21*1\\n141\\n2 *t;\\n2-J4\\n74\\n37\\n2l HI\\n33\\nDaysbury,I erilinand .M. 272\\nDearborn, (ien. Henry 165\\n262\\nJohn J. 406\\nI eter 38,62\\nKev. Reuben 188\\nDeerlield 18t)\\nDfvenpor.l, A. D. 272\\nDimiind, Duvid 219\\nW. K. V72\\nDiiislow, Warren 27. S\\nDisputed Titles 26\\nDi.x. .John A. 5,8.9\\nDodfrc, riumbor 214,215,224\\nEaton, Frederick 194\\nJesse 188,376\\nJohn C. 124,876,384\\nJohn S. 188\\nLevi 142\\nSamuel 09,142, 174, 177, 1H5\\n326,3al,422\\n.Stephen G. 224\\nEl.lridK.., Kev. E. 167,219\\nElkins. Abel 69,139,14(1,172\\n1 74 .208.255,260,360,;j\u00c2\u00ab0\\nGeorge or (.Uenrv) 274\\nI .rley\\nDolnii, .lames\\nDonovan, .M. T.\\nDover\\nDover I oint\\nDow, Gideon\\nHenry\\n.Joseph\\nReuben\\nDre.sser, Asa\\nDudley, Jacob\\nDunliip, John B.\\nSamuel. Jr.\\nWilliam\\n224\\n27.i\\n271\\n177,284\\n129\\n69,265\\n31\\n379\\n263\\n260\\n174\\n376\\n340\\n126,293,37\\nDuiibartoii32,194,26I,287, 84\\nDur;:in. James 275\\nWilliam 191\\nDurham 800\\nDyer, Edward 266\\nE\\nEams, Jeremiah 166\\nEarly Discoveries 25\\nEastinun, Benjamin 70,141\\n223,266,263,282\\nEbenezer, of Concord 286\\nEbenezer .38, UIO, 191, \\\\V2\\n203,317,8. !6, .344, 34.1,351\\n369, :S4.4I5. 422,434\\nEdward :-5,t 4 \u00c2\u00abt,70,73,115\\n140,l,W,lb8,249.2. .i, 57\\n2i\u00c2\u00bbi,262,265,297,375\\nEl bridge G, 437\\nEphraim 205,326,327,329\\nS80\\nEzra 124\\nGilbert I21,126,222,876,:i78\\n414\\nJames 331\\nJohn R. 219\\nJ.K-I.tapt. S,6.S4,1(M,I(5\\n122, 123, 140,2111.211, 2IJ\\n221 ,282,283,33t.t,33l 384\\n422\\nJoel, Hon.\\nJonathan\\nJoseph B.\\n.loseph, .Ir.\\n211,224,433\\nal7\\n224, 4.V\\n37.57\\nMos.-s 2f\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abl.212,J21,22 .307\\n3tH,377,384,409,4n.423\\n433,43.\\nIVter 139,143,174. \u00e2\u0096\u00a077. 86\\nridneas 140,191,221\\n.Samuel, Jr. 88\\nWilliam 0,13fl,I40.174\\n177.208,266\\nHenry\\n221,249.265\\nJeremiah\\n222\\nJohn\\n188,249\\n51 ufcs\\n69,266,260\\nRichard\\n174,177\\nSamuel 142,174,177 839\\nSilas\\n340\\nThoniaa\\n191\\nElliott, Dudo\\n177\\nF. .S.\\n214\\nJohn\\n173.177\\nJohn, Jr.\\n3i ,6.85\\nKev. John\\n134,146,147\\nJoseph\\n73\\nNicholas\\n173,177\\nW. F. S.\\n214\\nEmerson, Kev.\\nDaniel 179\\nEdward\\nH\\nEdwin B.\\n348,379\\nElbridge G.\\n274\\nJohn\\n340,;i46\\nKufus\\n274\\nEmery. Elbridge G. 218\\nBenjamin\\nG.E.\\n2.56\\n18\\nMoses\\n194\\nWilliam\\n259\\nEndiiot, Gov.\\n18\\nEndicot Rock\\n28\\nEpsom 226,246,263,287,.100\\n384\\nEvans. Daniel\\n2*\u00c2\u00ab\\nE lward 69,140,201,262,269\\nJosiah\\n141\\nWiggln\\n173\\nEverett, D. R.\\n127,348,37\u00c2\u00bb\\n4.33\\nRev. .Samuel\\nim\\nExeter Academv 16.8\\nExeter 7.12^.252,205,277\\nExploring I arl\\nty 27\\nF\\nFarley, Rev. Keuben 193\\nFarmer, M. G. 8\\nJohn 112\\nFanners Club 866\\nFariiliani, Ebenezer 273\\nIncrease 1.39\\nJames 273\\nJohn 142,174,177\\nFar well, Thomas 194\\nFetch, Daniel 2f 5,2. 8\\nFellows, Daniel 140.4 22\\n(ifiirue E. V2$\\nHenry A 2 6\\nJames r2O,12.5.306,879.422\\nJohn t;2,69,7lM40, 249JM\\n38\u00c2\u00ab!,;42\\nJohn. Jr. 141,264.266\\nJonathan 70\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2losepli 2 0\\nH(MM", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0989.jp2"}, "964": {"fulltext": "8S2\\nrSDEX.\\nFellows. Moee$, Jr. If5\\nPUnT A. i*r,i6T.aoo\\nBich ard 1* .1S\u00c2\u00bb)\\nEichard, Jr. 120,125.1S\\nStephen 221.232\\nStillman 144\\nTerrin. James 423\\nFerTT. Wiie 5 79 315\\nCross s 31S\\nFessenden. W. P. 8.9\\nFilieW. Abraham 6S .122.1 iS\\n141,173.174.17T,1?7,2S2\\n255,2S-2\\nAmos lio.221\\nBenjamin 142^)4 JJJ.\\nEbenezer C. 435\\nEdward 6-^.122.139,141,173\\n174,l 7Jffi6.2S7.25\\nEnoch 174,lS2,267;S3.i^\\nEzekiel 70\\nFrederick Vr. 136,202.3\\n370\\nHiram 224\\nJames 436\\nJesse 436\\nJohn 56,57, 59,W2-15\\n25y.37.5\\nJohn, Jr. 3fr,ao,121,174.177\\na\\nJohn W. 127.379\\nJohn 3d 174.3S1\\nJohn L. 436\\nJonathan lU V2J\\nii .i40.77;:\\n3J6.34y.2^.! -_\\nJoseph 65.\\nS2.l2l.li:\\n14135^57.-: _\\n267\\nJoshua SC.lS,124.2-^5Jio$\\n3TS,3S4,4-3.4J3\\nMoses 2^\\nObediahP. 6 ,142A 5^2\\n2S3\\nEenben 3~\\nSamuel 3S.41.44.55-5\u00c2\u00ab5.-;.7\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a224yj2 rr\\nSherbarne 13y.l4l\\nShabael 2 S.2 i\\nSnel Srfj\\nWinthrop 70a42,l9\u00c2\u00abJ.221\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2263,335,423,4-38\\nFirst cemetery 1-^\\nchaise 415\\nchUd 413\\nchurch location 13\\nclock 414\\nfire company 2 i\\njnrors 64\\nland plowed 42\\nminister 134\\npears 382\\npiano 413\\nreligions paper pnb-\\nlished in the C. S. 178\\nsaw-mill 46\\nschool money 196\\nhoQse 196\\nsettlers -53\\nstores 417\\nstores 413\\ntown-meeting 61\\nwa^on 415\\nFisher, John 2ST\\nFitts. Daniel\\nEev. Daniel\\nHenry\\nIsaac\\nJohnM.\\nJoiseph 70\\nEichard IS-S\\nFitzgerald. Edward 2 1\\nFitzwilliam 251\\nFlanders. Abner ISo\\nEzekiel 423\\nEzra 142477,135,157,201\\nJacob 174\\nJames 326.331\\nJohn 142\\nPeter 423\\nPhUip 250,^3,256.258\\nTrue 13S\\nTmeworthv 22i\\nWilliam 422\\nFlemming. Thomas 275\\nFletcher, Eer. M. IfS\\nEichard 5,2t}e,2l7,223,3\u00c2\u00bb i\\n410\\nFolsom. EeT. F. 158\\nFoote, C. E. 3*73*8.379\\nJames L. 127.437\\nFord. Eev. A. A. 1*5\\nFort Salisbory 243\\nWilliam and JIary 249\\nFoster, Aaron 223\\nAbial 1S4.2I::*\\nAmos 435\\nBenj. F., Eev. 1 :.1S5.1.^\\n215 40.5\\nEphraim 24-5\\nHezekiah ^,142.16 jJic4\\nJonachan 70441,255,256\\n259\\nObediah 287\\nEichard 142,153.166,202\\nFowler. Ellison 317\\nJohn 33)\\nEobert 141\\nFrankUn S2.i4.t6. 7,135.219\\n2S7,2S3J61.43i\\nfirst boildin^ in 337\\nFrazier. Benj. 139,142^74\\nRrLJ. L. 272\\nWilliam 267\\nFre*man,EnseU -300 J\u00c2\u00bb 3L5\\nEev. Oeorge 193\\nFrench, Albert A. 272\\nCharles 223\\nHenrv 31. 271\\nHiram F. 2C0.226\\nJonathan 3H.436\\nJ. a. A.. Dr. 21S,4^\\nJoseph 69.70442,255,297\\n376\\nXathaniel 423\\nBeuben 2i:\u00c2\u00bb4\\nSamuel 132JJ65\\nFreshet 9I,S6401\\nGase, Eer. Darid 155\\nGate, Benjamin 2C\u00c2\u00ab5,213.423\\nBeDjamic. Jr. 272\\nBeDjamin F, 125.375\\nEliphalet 53,57,62,121..$?6\\nJacob 5,44,36,57,132433\\n3ai,4?5\\nJames 142\\nL2f 2\\nGale, John\\n215\\nJohn C. 70\\n215\\n122.124,1\u00c2\u00a3-\\n70\\n221,2,55,2r:\\n4%\\n326,3a.5,;5-\\nGardner, J. W. 2:\u00c2\u00a3\\nGarland. Jacob 6 ,70.14l\\n205.235 .29)\\nJames 1S\u00c2\u00abJ,2IJ6,337,344,3\u00c2\u00bb*\\n427\\nJoseph 141\\nMoses\\n141.1.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a225\\n29t.3ij7.i5o, .,l tit-, o75\\nGates, Marvin 222\\nGeology 22\\nGeorge Amos 267\\nAustin Sol\\nEzra 14W\\nHenry C. 272\\nLeri 139,14 ),2i; 8\\nSamuel 3iJS ,l9l,3!\u00c2\u00bb\\nStephen 2 :45,253\\nTb \u00c2\u00bbodore 267\\nTme 1304i*l^,^D,37\u00c2\u00bb)\\no7S\\nGerrish, Enoch 2S .2 5,ai6\\n330,321^22 SC-^i^^ -7\\nHenry 19,11-\\nJc Seph, Maj.\\nJoseph Isi\\nMos^rs 2S2\\nStephen 246^266\\nGiichnst, Darid 434\\nGilman. Amoe 140\\nDaniel 70441.249,253\\nJohn 141\\nSamuel F. 317,422\\nThomas 317\\nTrneworthy 3*9,3s4\\nGilmanton 7:SS\\nGlir A 271\\nGcf 250,257\\nGo _rii -2^3\\nGov^.-.,- v._.^.otTe 423\\nFoster 423\\nLazarus 34\\nW F. 4\\nGookin, Crms\\ni:-\\nDaridC. 121 .x_:.-.^.\\n\u00c2\u00a35,379\\nXathaniel 286\\nPelatiah 357\\nGordon. Chas. E. 1704S4\\nJackson 170\\nGorges, Ferdinand 26\\nGonid. Joseph 33\\nEobert 25y\\nGore. Jeremiah 267\\nGoremment, formation\\nof state 111.115,116\\nGoremor rote 117\\nGrand Army Pc\u00c2\u00abt 358\\nGrange. Bartlen 35*\\nGrantees, sketch of 50\\nGrasshopper year 97\\nGraves, A. L. 37S\\nGreeley, Andrew L. 437\\nBenjamin 69, 1 .141 .In\\n254,375\\nBenjamin, Jr. 704^2,^0", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0990.jp2"}, "965": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n883\\nGreeley, Daniel M\\nDavid 38,70.2tVJ\\nJacob 422\\nJames 22. i\\nJohn 188, 282,a^9,364.422\\nJonathan^ MAi\\nJonathan, Jr. 37,64,5. ).357\\nJoseph, Capt. 87.50\\nJosei)h N. 121.294\\nLuther J. 437-\\nMatthew 141,2. )S,2i.r)\\nMoses 120,12.3,lJ4,12r),lss\\n212,221.325,370,378, 41\u00c2\u00ab;\\n422\\nNathan 255\\nNathaniel 70,188,221,339\\n423\\nPaul 268,422\\nPhilip 279\\nReuben 08,70,188,204,240\\n2,52,255, 2:)S,202.;\u00c2\u00abMi\\nRichard 122,l42.2tW\\nSamuel 88,370.422\\nShubael 57,09,70,lil.l33\\n140,255,375\\nThomas 160\\nGreen, Xiithaniel 8\\nGreene, Abraham 37,62\\nAaron 224\\nHerschel 182.341\\nJeremiah 341\\nJoshua T. 124.370\\nJosiab 174,175,176,178,202\\n384\\nSylvester W. 85,370,.379\\nGreenleaf,Krancis S. 347,378\\nHenry 214,215,210,218.224\\n345.4 :5\\nSamuel 102,123.140.208\\n210,,307,342.347 377\\nThomas II. 221,224,343,a55\\n357\\nTrl.stram a3,212\\nStephen 32,33,34\\nGreenoiigh pond 20\\nGreenouph. Caleb 224\\nCharles 437\\nElbridKC F. 214,347,379,436\\nK. W. 214\\nRichard 104,141\\nRobert 422\\nT. R. 423\\nGrist-mills 339\\nGnilford, E. \\\\Y 120\\n.Samuel 131\\nGutteridge, Jeremiah 34\\nH\\nHackett, Georjie 263\\nHadduck, Charles B. 5,0\\n223,4.i\\nWilliam 5. 190,191,341, a51\\n.384\\nWilliam T. 222,430\\nHad lock. Levi 22 1\\nHail-storm 107\\nHaines, .losiuh 174,177,2t\\nHale. I.^^aac 97,191,423\\nJohn T. 355\\nRoval 867\\nThomas 34\\nHall. Caleb 314\\nDavid 5. .,70,141.2. k\\nJeremiah 191\\nJoseph 342\\nHampton 52,129,108.274\\nIlttiiCDck, Jacob 131,249\\nJohn 42.3\\nHardy, T. 86,.323\\nHarper, Dr J. M. 4oo\\nlliiniiiiiin, 1). S., Hev. ls\u00c2\u00ab\\nSli pliiMi 206\\nWalter 18.165,417\\nHarris, Walter. Kev. 194\\nHiirvev, David 1x7\\nllarwood, William 419,423\\nR. C.\\nIlntch, Kev.\\nHilt hops\\nHawkers\\nHawkins, L. D.\\nHawley, Lyman\\n102\\n;\u00c2\u00ab3\\n128,431\\n94,221,349\\n3S4\\nHays. J. M. 121.120..34S.379\\nHaywood, Henjamin 70,164\\nHaywoods lio\\nHa/.i ltoii, William 2ip5\\nlliizcii. W. A. .327\\nKicliard 14,18,31,33\\nHealov, Nathaniel 319,320\\nHeath, 1$. S. 273\\nB K. 314\\nC E. 272\\nEphraim 69,70.266,268,202\\nEvan M. 272\\nH. V. 272,25\u00c2\u00bb4\\nJob 08,70,141.266,422\\nMo.\u00c2\u00abes 191\\nXehemiah 140,249.264\\nW. C. 271\\nHebron Hi9\\nHen hiker 32.194,287,3K4\\nHerbert. Hichard\\n268\\nHichard, .Jr.\\n327\\nHer^ev, I eter M.\\n185\\nHibirrd, Levi\\n223\\nHill. Bald\\n17\\nBean\\n17\\nBeech\\n17\\nCalef\\n17\\nGarland\\n186,187\\nLoverin\\n17\\nHaccoon\\n17\\n.Searle\\nIG\\n.Smith\\n17\\n.Joseph\\n84\\nMoses\\n402\\n^^amuel\\n223\\nLevi O.\\n401\\n184,194,287,289\\nEleazer\\n294\\nHillsl.oroiiffh 150,253,269,2\u00c2\u00ab0\\nHilton. Elijah\\n857\\nHoap, lli iij.\\n33\\nRoliert\\n2 M\\nHobbs, John\\n174\\nDavid\\n187\\nHoliMoH, ,lohn\\n83\\nHodye. N.S.\\n27*\\nHodk, Hiiniphrer\\n37\\niiotiksett \u00c2\u00b0io;\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0,287,.% 4\\nHopkinton l.%,7s,Wi.l49.15o\\nlt;2,l82,l M,289,287,V95\\n3H4\\nAsso. Ct.njf Churches 193\\nHoward, Benjamin\\n142,187\\n252,266,258,422\\nHolmet ft Homer\\n192\\nSilai.\\n274\\nWilliam\\n309,342\\nHolland, Jo\u00c2\u00abPph\\n84\\nHolt, Enoch 191\\nHolt, Abraham 173\\nB.-njaiiilii 174,177,186\\nCalvin 211\\nJedediali,,Ir. 223\\nJ din 121,1H,201\\nJoseph 263\\nJoseph. Capt. 297,298\\nTimotbv 207\\nWilljiini 205,2. )0,.344\\nIloyt.John 269\\nBeuben 69,70,72,178.249\\n2. i5,26S\\nUiuluii, .!r. 266,256\\nHudson. i;ieazer 34\\nHunt. .M T. 267\\nHichard 1H8\\nHuntoon, A. B. 294\\nI Benj .9,7o,74. 122,133\\n142.149,1.50,1.53,1.^,221\\n222,249,255,266 292, 293\\n325,423\\nBenj., Hev. 165,218\\nCvrus 272\\nDaniel 69,142,255\\nDaniel, Jr. 141\\nJohn 37,46,49,65,50,57,58\\n204,336,369\\nJohn H. 418\\n.lonathan 141,154,255,266\\nJoseph 2(il2\\nNathaniel 38,70,25.5,2.57\\n292,436\\nNathaniel D. 125,3\u00c2\u00abX),378\\nI ariietis 437\\nPhilip 255.266\\nI hineas 141,173\\nHead 273\\nSamuel 283,423\\nSvlvanus 486\\n\\\\Villiaiii 1 )1\\nHiisc. I liomas 33\\nWilliam 33\\nHutchings, G. II. 436\\nI\\nIndiiiii bridge 227,234\\nIndiiiii-, risto 226^\\nNiirrii;;ansetts 226\\nSabatis and I lansuwa 229\\nSarap cap 245\\nsong 241\\nSt. Francois 225\\ncapture Maloon family\\n3.239\\nIngalls, Benj 2\\nIpswich, Mass. 148,149,151\\nJ\\nJackinnn, John 188\\nJackson, Oeorge 118\\nJoshua 191\\n.laiiiesi I. Ci. 188\\nJelferson. Thomas 9,96\\n.leffery (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2eorgp..Jr. 80\\nJemson, John 55,tr2.)M.70\\n224,26:.255,260\\nMoses 142\\nJerrod, John 173\\nJt-rvls, .lolin 221\\nJoluKon, EiN iii zer .33, W.70\\nI25.141,14lM8 .2)il.249\\nIVLf* 3*.^ 8T8\\nJarae* 70,250,2 !2O)/i6S\\n83S", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0991.jp2"}, "966": {"fulltext": "bS4\\nINDEX.\\nJohnson, James from\\nLadd, Joseph 173,273\\nCharlestowu\\n239\\nNathaniel 37\\nJohn\\n207\\nNathaniel, Rev. 189\\nJonathan\\n267\\nTrue wort by 47,57,230,339\\nPhilip\\n26U\\nWilliam 423\\nWilliam, Rev.\\n33\\nLamb, James 288\\nWilliam\\n363\\nLambert, Nathaniel 102\\nJones, Ephraim\\n230\\nLaug, Isaac 194\\nIsaac\\n223\\nJeremiah 319,320\\nMoses\\n279\\nLawyers 407\\nJoy, Thomas, Rev.\\n185\\nLee 176,300\\nJudkins, Andrew\\n142\\nLeighton, Edward 97\\nCaleb 70,141,177,180,208\\nLeonard, Ebenezer 384\\n221,347\\nJohn 183\\nJoel\\n265,207\\nLewis, Moses, Col. 338\\nLeonard 65,69,7\\n0,115,121\\nLibrary, Social 220\\n177,201,208,226,255,370\\nLiterary Adelphi 222\\n380\\nLittle, Benjamin 327,332,423\\nRichard\\n192\\nEbenezer L. 436\\nSamuel, Lt.\\n142\\nEliphalet 2H9\\nSamuel\\n142\\nElbridge F. 436\\nSamuel, Jr.\\n190\\nEnoch 84,87,194\\nJurors, pay of\\n64\\nE. S.,Rev. 219\\nJustices of Peace\\n377\\nJacob 9.224\\nK\\nJohn 223\\nJohn W. 436\\nKearsarge Gore\\n19,321\\nT. D. 89,126,127,143,170\\nmountain\\n15,18\\n206,222,251, 294,379,.380\\npond\\n20\\nT. R. 127,128\\nKeath, Caleb\\n93,94\\nValentine 210,378,435\\nW. A.\\n94\\nWilliam 210,356,423\\nKeene\\n284\\nWilliam C. 221\\nKelley, Albert\\n224,435\\nLittlehale, John 34\\nIsrael W. 5,105,120,12.3,124\\nLondonderry 162\\n221,223,354,356,378,384\\nLong, Ebenezer 37\\nIsrael, Jr.\\n214,215\\nLongfellow, Stephen 33\\nWilliam\\n224\\nLoiden, Dennis 299\\nKendrick, Ariel\\n178\\nMichael 127\\nKenniston,Jonathan 182,186\\nLovejoy, Chandler 317\\nJohn\\n173\\nLovel, Daniel 141\\nJoseph\\n173,177\\nJames 141\\nW. D.\\n271\\nJoseph 141\\nKent, George\\n385\\nNathaniel 70\\nJohn\\n33\\nNehemiah 141,267\\nKeys, H. C\\n168\\nLoverin, Benjamin 436\\nKilburn, Albert\\n274\\nDaniel 2(i3\\nJohn A.\\n218\\nJoseph 70,252,255.256\\nKimball, D. F.\\n282,341\\nSamuel 70,139,142,174,177\\nF. U.\\n273\\n208,249,252,255,256,259\\nMoses\\n167\\nWilliam 275\\nPeter\\n258\\nLowel, Gideon 33\\nRichard\\n140\\nLufkin, Joseph 141\\nSamuel\\n178\\nLevi 266\\nKingston 50,51,52,53,150,168\\nPhilip 70,255,258,262\\n250\\nLunt, Ezekiel 255\\nKing s trees\\n21\\nJohn 33\\nKittredge, Alfred\\n214,215\\n218\\nLyon, G. Parker 113\\nAaron\\n224\\nM\\nCaleb B.\\n218\\nJonathan\\n218,399\\nManchester 185,271,273,274\\nKizar, Lemuel\\n176\\nMann, D.J. 127,128,264\\nReuben\\n255,260\\nStephen 422\\nSamuel\\n70,268\\nManton, Paul S. 259\\nWilliam\\n70,141\\nManuel, Levi 223\\nL\\nMarch, John 32,34\\nJonathan 53\\nLackey, Nathan\\n275\\nJoseph 139\\nLadd, Benjamin\\n37\\nMarsh, Joel 306,308,313\\nDaniel\\n245,256\\nMoses 205\\nDudley 161,192,343\\nMarston, Jeremiah 357\\nEdward\\n173\\nJoseph 69,70.254\\nJames\\n266\\nNathaniel 69,70,255\\nJohn, Jr.\\n37,56\\nMartin, A. H, 127,185,186,188\\nJonathan\\n132\\n206\\nMasonian Proprietors 30\\n36,126,131\\nMason, John 26\\nJohn, Jr. 142\\nJoseph 142,177\\nTufton 36 37\\nMasonic 353\\nMathews, G. B. 203\\nMatterson, Resolve 297\\nMaxBeld, J. G. 273\\nMcAllister, D. R. 126\\nMcCarty, Henry 275\\nMcClary, Andrew 245\\nMcCrillis, David 317\\nMcDonald. James 275\\nMcFarland, Asa 192\\nMcGregory, J. B. 355\\nMcNeil, John 260,261\\nMead, Asa 223\\nMeloon, David 240,241\\nJohn 240\\nJoseph 141,202,240,255,260\\n264\\nMary 240\\nNathaniel 3,8,.53,62,69,71\\n141,240,241,242,243,245\\n250,255,316,321,368,375\\n376\\nNathaniel, Jr.\\n69,70,121\\n202,240.255\\n240,241,242\\n265\\n240,242\\n230,231\\n191,192,401\\n168,212\\n168,288\\n97,434\\n223\\nRachel\\nSamuel\\nSarah\\nMelvin, Eleazar\\nMerrill, Jesse\\nHoratio\\nNathaniel\\nCaleb\\nGilman\\nT. C. 214\\nMerrimack Co. Agri-\\ncultural Society 5\\nCong, churches 193\\nMerrow, J. 249\\nMeserve, Col. N. 30,245\\nMiddlesex canal 14\\nMill House 337\\nMiller, Daniel 370\\nHenry 275\\nJohn 273\\nMinerals 15,23\\nMitchel, Philip 255,260\\nMoffat. John 30\\nMoody, Caleb 33\\nJoshua 33\\nMoore, Samuel 30\\nJohn 189\\nMoores, Gilman 125,126,376\\nH.C.W. 126\\nHenry 277\\nMoran, James 275\\nMorey, William 177,260\\nMorrill, Abel 93,94,140,265\\n342\\nAbel, Jr. 140\\nAbel, 3d 247\\nEnoch 357,423\\nHenry 37,54,227,228,229\\n230,231,235,239\\nHenry, Jr. 125\\nJabez 141,174\\nJacob 46,53,70,252,260,205\\nJonathan 267,423\\nJoseph 124\\nLevi 123,174,362,376", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0992.jp2"}, "967": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n885\\nMorrill, I liul 2fi\u00c2\u00ab\\nW. V. 188\\nMorse. Caleb 8. ,;J4.3\\nCharles A. 43\\nCharU s U. 314\\nDaniel 22\\nMor-es 139,14I.2(\u00c2\u00bbS\\nJ oseph\\nJoshua 257.25 J\\nStephen 3o5,37i\\nStephen, Rev. 194\\nMoultun, Ik iinlDg 314\\nW.H. 107,1-6\\nMusic diurcli k3\\nMusical Society 357\\nMuzzy, John 14\\nN\\nNelson 32,34\\nNesmith, Geo. W. 5,M,114\\n205,228,4 9\\nNew calendar year 42\\nNew Hampton ThcoloR-\\nical Seminary 183,184\\nNew Lon.loii 18J,ls i,27lt,2M\u00c2\u00ab\\nNewton, William 55.2t;(),33t)\\nNorthtield 194,260,28t5,2*S\\n384\\nNicholsi, George 2 w\\nJonathan 297\\nMo8e8 2G2,2);3\\nNorris, Benjamin 142\\nJohn 142\\nLemuel 142\\nSamuel 139,142\\nNoyes, licnjamin 224\\nJoseph .338.\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb5,415\\nLeonard 224.3; 7,3.S4\\nNathaniel 123,140.212.344\\n34. ),.347\\nI arkcr 5,97, Ktn. 191, r,t2\\n203.205,221.2;i;t..n3,:\u00c2\u00abl\\n304,377,384,408\\nPaul li\u00c2\u00bb2\\nS. C. 218\\no\\nOdiorne, Jotham, Jr. 30\\nOil-mill 340\\nOrphans Home lO.M.Lil\\n15o,l ,2 i.3\\nOsborn. Timothy 198,2a-.\\nWilliam 141\\nOfguod, lienjamin 142\\nOnniel a^l\\nKnnch 123\\nJanit 140\\nJos -ph 84\\nMoMM, Jr. 2)17\\nPalmer. Dudley\\n.lames\\nilereiniah\\n.loliii\\nJohn J.\\nParker, Daniel\\nPaddl.-r..rd, Klij\\nah 21)7\\nI hilip\\n297\\nI age, Caleb\\n44.291\\nCbrUtopher\\n221,344..1H\u00c2\u00bb\\n4.r.\\nDavid\\n222.4.17\\nKlx-nizer\\na7\\nl.- UIIC\\n177\\nJulin\\n141,2n.-.\\nJoseph, Jr.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2M\\nMoHfS\\n140\\nOnisephnrus\\n2 4.260,37i;\\nKolM-rt\\nIM\\n70\\n187\\n18f5\\n18 !,2 Wj\\n423\\n1.39,140,174\\nWilliam U.\\nPatrick. William\\nPayne, Klislia\\n179.l82,lSti.314\\nEdward L. li 2\\nParnifiitiT. .Iiimes 18H\\nParsons, William lt .7,17, j\\n22l,:i3ti\\n348.434\\n194\\n297,298,300\\n.304,30. j\\nPeabody, Kendall V.r\\n314.427\\nRichard Ml\\nPearsons, .John 297\\nPaul a 7\\nWilliam 188\\nPeitsley, Daniel 288\\nJohn 188\\nPecker. Thomas 30\\nPembroke 194,254,288,384\\nPemi ;ewasset Canal Co.\\n.3.37 WS\\nPenticost, D. B. 214,21.0,219\\n224\\nI erambulatlon town lines\\n319\\nPerkins, Klisha 177,34i;\\nKoKcr K. W:J^)-,\\nPcrmont, Richard G9,7i\\\\2.V)\\n2. .9\\nPerrin, David Ho\\nStephen 131,140\\nThomas 140\\nPerry, Baxter lt?2\\n(loorjfe 275\\nMerrill 12\\nPi lers. .lames 2 *7\\nI etterson. Willot 122,14o\\nI ettengill, Andrew .i;i, ;2\\ntM. ti;t. 70. 121. 13.3. 134\\nl. 0,197.i .1.2. ,7.2iio,2 !2\\n2*2,342,349 3 )9.37.\\nAmos 122,I2:J,140,194,\u00c2\u00bb14\\n307,314 3.i t\\nAugustusC. 370,379\\nBenjamin 3,70.74.99, VJO\\n122. 123.124, I4o.14\u00c2\u00ab1.1. n{\\n174. KtV- -ix .2111,211.24\\n;2,2\u00c2\u00bb2,37^.;i- 4\\nIk njamin.2d 1 Jo,il;,j,m\\nI74.l77,lK.S, i),s. -Jl.:rJ4\\n;t49,3.j l.3t ^,370,37 i.3*4\\nBenjamin, ;td 142 4;i.-.\\nDavid iV..tW,7o.K5,12l.r. 2\\n131. 13.3. 141, l 3,173. 174\\n17f.,187, 25. J.2t; i,3;, ),3s4\\n422\\nJamcK 174.l7\u00c2\u00ab.3ii7\\nJonathan C. 140,-JOH\\nJohn W. 4. J7\\n.Matthew t!2,t ..ia),70.71.72\\n73,74,113. l-Jo. 121. 133\\n13l,l:i\u00c2\u00bbi.H9.197.19S. r. i\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J54, 2 lO, 2(;i.282,3;i ,34\\n8.VJ37.\\nM o\u00c2\u00abe\u00c2\u00ab T\u00c2\u00a3i\\nNutlian 77\\nIhoniBS H. M.97.124.1K4\\nli: :2 ^VJ3\\\\:. i.\u00c2\u00bb} ,3\u00c2\u00bbW)\\n378,384.40l\u00c2\u00bb\\nPhilbrick, Jedediah 37,41\\n52,66,56\\n.lereniiah\\n.Samiiid\\nThoniaH\\nPhyhicianH\\nPierce, Joshua\\nCharles\\nPierson, .lohn\\nPike, James\\n.lonathan\\n.loseph\\nPillsbury, J\\n.M A.\\nOliver\\nSiimuel\\n37\\n57\\n62\\n397\\n30\\n83\\n75\\n272\\n2tJ6\\n31\\n282\\n281\\n271\\n0,122,141,1.53,282\\nL.\\nPingry, Aquilla 122,123,141\\n2\u00c2\u00ab2,340,37ti\\nSamuel K. 436\\nSolomon M. 4^)6\\nStephen 07,120,125,378\\n437\\nWilliam 123,1 4.177,-J83\\n323.32o,340,.3 ;9.378\\nWilliam M.\\nPittslield\\nPlow, Webster\\nPlumbago\\nPluminer, Williarn\\nPoor, Enoch\\nPoor-house\\nPope, William\\n219,435\\n283,384\\n386\\n22\\n93,94\\n252,263,261\\n361\\n269\\nPortsmouth 231,245,271,273\\n277\\nPost guides 82\\nPotash manufactories 341\\nPotter, C. E. 296\\nJerry 275\\nPounds 861\\nPresident .lackson s visit 100\\nMonroe s visit 88\\nPressev, tieorge H. 128\\n.lohn S. 282\\nPaschal 2. 9\\nPreston, Samuel 2tW\\nWilliam 255\\nPrice. Ebenezer 9.86,192.194\\ni riiice, Davids. 127,128,839\\nCharles H. 127\\nProctor. David C. 223\\nIsaac 267,423\\nJames 190,342,344,423\\nJohn 224,40:\\n.loMUtlian 356\\nThoriulike 4-23\\nProprietors, Massachusotts\\n33\\nMasonian 80\\nProvineial Congress 111,112\\n118\\nQuakers\\nguiinbv, AUd M\\nAndrew K.\\nCurrier\\nDa\\\\id\\nKlM-ne/er\\nEdward\\nEii ha\\n.luodi\\nJeremiah\\nJlW4 pll\\nMo\u00c2\u00bbe\u00c2\u00ab\\n130\\n214,215\\n224\\n128,.-M8,434\\n120.126\\n204\\n141,185.186\\n221,376,896\\n2. iO\\n.37,54\\n249.267\\n186\\n87", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0993.jp2"}, "968": {"fulltext": "886\\nINDEX.\\nQuimby, Samuel 97\\n,174,203\\nRowe, John 69,255,297\\nSaw-mills 336,336\\n267,423\\nRowell, John 190\\nSawyer, C. H. 436\\nTristiam 37,54,249,250\\nRowley, Mass. 148,149,150\\nEdmond 255,259\\nR\\n151,152\\nEdward 142\\nRoyal charters 26\\nIsaac 96,364\\nRaino, E.\\n252\\nRunlet, Theophilus 221\\nIsaac N. 212,361\\nRankin, Andrew\\n166\\nThomas 142\\nIsaac T. 437\\nAndrew E.\\n160\\nRyder, James 188\\nJohn 202,297\\nJeremiah E.\\n166\\ns\\nMoses 5,69,70,141,204,255\\nJohn\\n166\\n435\\nRatray, Thomas\\n168\\nSalisbury 1,60\\nNathaniel 125,212,379,435\\nRedington, Thomas\\n140\\nacademy 207\\nStephen, Jr. 190\\nKeed, James 251,252,260\\naid in settling 47,48\\nSayles, Willard 223\\nRepresentatives\\n120\\nat Bunker Hill 252\\nScales, Jacob 194\\nReynolds, Col. D.\\n265\\nBaptist Society 184\\nScammell, Alexander 258\\nRichardson, George\\n223\\nCentre 136,138,197,199,202\\n262\\nSamuel\\n141\\ndescription of 16\\nDaniel 69\\nWilliam\\n406\\nEast 22,131,190,203\\nSchool-houses 196,197\\nRiver, Blackwater\\n14\\nFort 131,248\\nScofield, W. C, Rev. 170\\nContoocook\\n15\\nNorth road 197,199,202\\nScott, Harry 271\\nMerrimack\\n1\\nRevolutionary war 65\\nWilliam 253\\nPemigewasset\\n1,14,248\\nSouth road 135,138,197,200\\nScribner, Beniamin 69,70\\nVVinnipesaukee\\n14,248\\n202\\n141,187,188,255,259\\nRoads. Ash\\n293\\nWest 135,202\\nBenjamin F. 121,379\\nBattle (See Hist\\nSalisbury, Mass. 250\\nEbenezer 255,256\\nBoscawen\\n294\\nSanbornton 85,149,150,194\\nEdward 69,70,142,254.255\\nBays\\n294\\n317\\n259\\nBog\\n293,294\\nSanborn, Abraham 139,173\\nEdward, Jr. 69,142\\nCentre 292,293,294\\n208\\nGeorge H. 127\\nCollege 296,298,299\\nAbraham S. 274\\nHiram 316\\nCoos\\n44\\nAbram 283\\nIddo 69,76,142,174.255.259\\nCouch\\n294\\nAlfred 271\\n260,282,283\\nCross\\n294\\nBenjamin 38,49,54,55,56.57\\nJohn 69,142\\nFourth N. H.\\n295,299\\n62,65,69,70,97,121,132\\nJohn P. 436\\nMills\\n293,294\\n140,148,150,200,249,265\\nJonathan 256\\nMutton\\n295\\n292,339,361\\nMoses B. 188,436\\nNew\\n294\\nDearborn 97\\nSamuel 3,54,68,142,241,244\\nto Franklin\\n295\\nElislia 70\\n256,262\\nto N. Boscawen 295\\nHenry 273\\nSylvester P. 126\\nNorth\\n292,293\\nIsaac 121,126,128,271\\nSeamens, James E. 223\\nRaccoon\\n293\\nJ. D. 191\\nSeavey, George 177,178\\nSouth\\n291,292\\nJames A. 271\\nSearle, Amos 135\\nWater\\n295\\nJethro 4,152,414,423\\nDaniel F. 135,314.370\\nRobblns, Asa\\n224\\nJesse 223\\nJonathan, Rev. 4,5,9.63.69\\nCharles\\n223\\nJohn 69,150,255,263,267;422\\n70,134,148,149,150,151\\nRoberts, Benjamin\\n173\\nJohn of Andover 319,320\\n152,153,154\\nJeremiah\\n140\\nJohn R. 224\\nWilliam 69,70255,259\\nJonathan\\n250\\nJonathan 1 267,272\\nSearle s Hill 16,131,152,157\\nRobertson, Andrew\\n192\\nJonathan, Jr. 38,191\\n278\\nJohn\\n318,345\\nJoseph 182,191\\nSecombe, Joseph, Rev. 37.51\\nWilliam\\n191\\nMatthew 2G8\\nSeverance, James 186,356\\nRobinson, A. H. 120,125,126\\n:Moses 251,252,297\\n357\\n206,378,404,433\\nPeter 37,41,44,52,55,56\\nJoseph 122,139,141,172,173\\nCyrus\\n181\\n319,320\\n208\\nEnoch\\n180\\nSamuel 37\\nPeter 70,115,141,174,252\\nJohn\\n275\\nSimeon 255,256\\n259,265\\nOtis 179,180,185\\nStephen 124,223\\nWilliam 141\\nOtis, Jr.\\n357\\nTristram, Jr. 37,52,191,249\\nShaw, Abraham 65\\nRoby, Caleb T.\\n64\\nTristram Tertius 37,52,55\\nAbigail 182\\nRock, H. C.\\n275\\n56\\nBenjamin 191,250\\nRocks\\n23\\nWilliam 186\\nBenjamin F. 370\\nRogers, Charles C.\\n121,126\\nWinthrop 139,141,173\\nClinton A. 273\\n127,206,294,376,378,379\\nSanders,Sam 170,260,264,2()6\\nDaniel W. 273\\nJames\\n287\\nSandown 4,150\\nElbridge, 55,247\\nJohn\\n194\\nSanford, M. 179,181\\nEliphalet 293\\nJosiah 85,30\\n,349,415\\nSargent, Elijah 317\\nEliphalet A. 370\\nRobert\\n291\\nJohn 33\\nFrederick C. 370\\nRolfe, Benjamin\\n224\\nMichael 177,178,185\\nGeorge 203,370\\nEnoch S.\\n415\\nPaul D. 252\\nHale P. 370\\nHenry P.\\n152,415\\nSamuel 33\\nJames 340\\nJohn\\n187\\nSavage, William, Rev. 192\\nJohn 121,127,182,340,370\\nPearson\\n214,224\\nSavory, Daniel 427\\nOliver 182\\nRollins, Edward\\n223\\nRobert 33,419,423\\nSanborn 370\\nRowe, Benjamin\\n191\\nSamuel 419\\nShed, Henry 214,215,216\\nD.\\n250\\nwidows 423\\nMrs. 272", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0994.jp2"}, "969": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n887\\nShepard. Daniel 260\\nEllflia HOT)\\nSlu-|ili r(l, .laiiips 2; )t)\\nJohn 3,W\\nSiiiiuu-I IWti\\nShirley. Jolin M. 18,3U\\nJSliorl. JoHuph 33\\nKicliiird CI\\nSillfV, Aaron 173\\nlJ.-i.j\u00c2\u00abinln 173,177, lS\u00c2\u00bbi.2 (7\\nKllslia I7a,177.18\u00c2\u00ab5\\nMoses 09,154, 173.K.\\nSillcway, Uezelviali 2\\nWilliiim 54.139,140\\nSilver, Samuel\\nSiniontU, .lolin\\n.John W\\nSimons. Win.\\nSimpson, A B.\\nSinclair, J. L.\\nSleeper, Jedediali\\nMosps\\nNfliemiah\\n^amllel\\nriiomus\\nw. w.\\nSmith, Andrew\\nAsa\\nCaleb B.\\nCaleb K.\\nCaleb r.\\nCharles\\nCharles V.\\nDaniel\\nDavid P.\\nEbenczer\\nElbridfi^o\\n97,219\\n219\\n2ti0\\n2\\\\a\\n185\\n174,177\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2JtiO\\n177\\n1S\u00c2\u00ab\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2/74 i\\n174,177,2iiO\\n370,405\\nas5\\n17ti\\n293 I\\n121,127,a79\\n21\u00c2\u00ab I\\n251\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0MH\\n221,422\\n224\\n29r .297\\n127.128,2CH5\\nElder hilias I75.17\u00c2\u00bb!.I77,178\\n179,18t5,205,208,221 .a46\\nticor/e F. 272\\nJ 11 294\\nJabez, Major 120,123,124\\n2ti6,.:82,3lM,378.:i84,423\\nJohn7o.n. .,122.12a.l41,l .\u00c2\u00abt\\n221.249,268,260,2tV\u00c2\u00bb,2f.\\n3Af..i7\u00c2\u00bbi\\nJohn B. l(i .22l,3.V\u00c2\u00bb\\nJohn C. 121. 1211, 131.2S2\\n3;iO,3*S,37t;,37lt\\nJosiiih 2\u00c2\u00ab4\\n.Matthew H. 17t\\nNathan 378\\nRobert \u00c2\u00ab,r) t.70.71,74.7\\n115,120,r2l.l.H.I87.14\\n206,2 12,2:4 .2.-.7 .25;\u00c2\u00ab.2 ;2\\n26\u00c2\u00ab,297,298.;i75\\nKobort, Jr. 2 \u00c2\u00bbtl\\nSamuel, Jr. 33\\nWilliiim 317\\nWilliiimU. 851\\nTemperance Hotel 222\\nSnow Joshua 70,2, V .2t 4,2iL^\\nSpalilMid. W. S 21s\\nStark, John 44,2.-.1.252.2 .:i\\n20\u00c2\u00abi,267,2til\\nStamp act t3o\\nStetDun, Caleb 218\\nStevens, AmoK P. 379\\nBenj. 87.41.55.fi\u00c2\u00bb ..2st;\\nCutting G9. 70.141, 174.28\u00c2\u00abi\\nDaniel 70,U1,188,24U;2. 2\\nDaniel C. 12I,127.2!H\\nDavid 97,187,188\\nStevens, D. J. 204\\nEbenezer, ajit. 55,50\\nEbenezer, Col. 37,51,50.57\\n6S.132\\nEbenezer, Maj. 27,44.50,51\\n66,G6,67,68,2H0\\nEtias 300,3ti8\\nFrancis 34o\\nFmnk 273\\nCieorjie W. 4.17\\nHenry A., I!ov. 4:\u00c2\u00ab)\\nHozekiah F. 125,188,3i.O\\nilirain 185,4:S7\\nHubbard 142\\nIsaac 141.422\\nJesse 142,188\\nJoseiih 2t 8\\nJoseph M. 188\\nJoseph P. 206,224,379\\nL D. 64\\nOwen H. 107\\nM OSes 42;{\\nMoses J. 188.379\\nNathaniel 207.422\\nSamuel 3 ,2i)l\\nSullivan, (Jeorge 98,114\\nSutton town 288,-.;89\\nSuton, Wm. 68\\nSweatt, Elisha 33.37,40,41\\n44,40,52,55,56.57.58,131\\n132,319.320,.T20\\nHenry B. 434\\nJohn 84,122,12.3.137.140\\n201.210\\nJohn D. 174,208\\nNathan 37,.50.r)7\\nSwett, Henj. 2S 2\\nJoseph 141,2sl\\nJohn P. 355\\nPeter 141,174\\nTimolhv 174\\nSwaine. llichard 192\\nT\\nTailors 343\\nTalford. John 44.291\\nTandy, Abel 62.69.70.142\\n150.2 5,2!i7\\nSamuel 142\\nTanneries I l\\nTappan, Charles 33,.37,40.4I\\n54.215\\nMason W. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2j7o\\nTash. Thomas 250\\nTavl.ir. Kleazer 212\\n.John 221,223..3\u00c2\u00ab!\\nJoshua 141\\nUeiiU-n ltWl.191\\nTimothy 355,423\\nTavern, lirsl 349\\nTax-collectors 371\\nTein|)enince 107.108\\nTest act 3.1 (N\\nThompson. Benj. 142 2s.;\\nCharles E. 4 w\\nMoses P. 125,126,343.;iTo\\n370,: 79\\nSilas IV 127\\nTboina-\\nir.\\nWilliam I L.t-^.i-M\\nThornton. Col. 258\\nThurlo. John 34\\nI Thurston, Nathaniel 365\\nTiler. Samuel 428\\nTllton, David 132,133\\nEbenezer 200\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0leremjah 387\\nJeremiah M. 188\\nTitcomI). Abraham 33\\nCeorjje P. 400\\nTilliiiic-iiieii (Ki\\nTolerulion act 13U\\nTornuilo 417\\nTowle. N. 206,404\\nTowi, boundaries 3-3\\nhouse 369\\nolhcem 12(1,121, 122,1^3,124\\n126.120,127,128\\nwarrant Tor meeting 40\\njnoorporalioii 69,00\\nTown^eiid, John W 12(\u00c2\u00bb,123\\n124,126,2J4,356,:J. )7,378\\n384,422,433\\nTracy, Ebenezer 223\\nTraiiiinH-band 278\\nTrees, native 21\\nTrue, Jacob 01 ,7n,115.122\\n140,141.177,178,185,180\\n225,2\u00c2\u00abio.370.423\\nJabez 31,55,142,188^207,421\\n423\\nJohn 435\\nJoseph 356,420,421,423\\nJoslah B. 356\\nPaul 188\\nReuben 123.139,140,174.177\\n220,221 ,228,307,;i20,327\\ny29,415\\nTrumbull, Thomas C. 271\\nTrussell, Jacob 365\\nTucker, Benjamin 188,189\\nEbenezer 09.70,141,265\\nEzra 65,0 9,70,264\\nJacob 141,265\\nJoseph 200,437\\nMoses 250\\nNatliiiniel 184\\nN\u00c2\u00bbthiin..lr. 126.126,379\\nOliver M. 299,370\\nKIcliard 260\\nTucker s pond 19\\nTurnpike, 1st N. H. 290\\n4th N. H. (See roads.)\\nTyler, John 82\\nr\\nUnion meetiug-houee 187\\nCpham, P. 214,216\\nUpton. J. H. 219\\nUran. Daniel 265\\nV\\nVezlna, Octave 276\\nw\\nWudlev. Benjamin 37.140\\nDelia 164\\nKhjah 140\\nJohn 49.250\\nSimeon 154,21I7\\nWalcott.John 285\\nWalilron. Ezra 186\\nnichard 286\\nWalker. John 140\\njoiuph za\\nJoseph B. 866", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0995.jp2"}, "970": {"fulltext": "IXDEX.\\nWalker, Timothy 150,151\\n208,296 297\\nWallace, Nicholas 209\\nWallingford, Capt. 34\\nThomas 30\\nWardwell, Abial 84,268,357\\nJesse 267\\nJoseph 221,223,4,15\\nReuben 422\\nWarner 1,18,37,63,150,186\\n193,194,259,260,267,279\\n288,289,321,32:^,384\\nSeth, Col. 28S\\nWarren, Daniel 69\\nWaferville college 183\\nWatkins, Abner R. 260\\nJonathan 187\\nJoseph 186\\nSamuel 222\\nSarah 187\\nWatson, Abijah 141,186,437\\nCaleb 141\\nDaniel 187,355\\nHenry L. 436\\nIrving A. 436\\nIthamar 267,355,378\\nJoseph 437\\nPorter B. 121,126,378\\nWayne, Edward 206\\nWeare, Joshua L. 224\\nJonathan, Jr. 282\\nWebster, Amos 223\\nBenjamin 250\\nDaniel 4,5,6,t0,84,96,104\\n105,155,161,416,435\\nDavid 140\\nEbenezer 3,5,8,9,50,57.58\\n64,65,67,69,71,72,73. 76\\n82,113,114 120,121.123\\n133,137,146,148,149.153\\n150,157,159 160,197,220\\n221,251,254,556,258,259\\n260,263,264,267,281,282\\n317,336,339,351,352.356\\n368375,377\\nEliphalet 222\\nEzekiel 4,98,155,190,266\\n385,435\\nFrancis B. 436\\nGustavus V. 282\\nHumphrey 141.436\\nIddo 249,250\\nIsrael 69,70,141,208,255,256\\n260\\nJerem h38,43,69,70,140,150\\nJeremy 41,44,55,56,57,357\\na84,422\\nJoshua 38\\nJonathan 133\\nJonathan P. 221.341,346\\n37R,384\\nJohn G. 3,42,46,56,58,62.69\\n70,71,73,76,121,1.32,136\\n140,197,199,200,201,221\\n244,248,2.55,282,321,325\\n327,337,339,368,422\\nn\\nWebster, John, Ensign\\n121,133,140\\n201,210,254,267.295,375\\nJohn, Jr. (\u00e2\u0080\u00a29,70,201\\nJoseph 70,156,249,263\\nMatthew P. 120,124,125\\n364,378\\nMoses 265\\nMoses C. 126 127,299,;!59\\n361,370\\nNathaniel 124,384\\nNathan 254\\nSamuel 37,199,26\\nStephen 4,140,201,224.249\\n250,255,283,349,355\\nSvlvanus P. 299\\nThomas 133\\nWarren C. 121,127\\nWilliam 15,69,70,133,141\\n153,161\\nWebster 288,289\\nFalls 337\\nLake 19,247\\nWeeks, Brackett 395\\nH enry 342\\nParker 342\\nW. P. 214,215,395\\nWelch, Edward 283\\nMoses 252,260.263\\nThomas 133,249,263\\nWells, Caleb 186\\nGeorge 247\\nRebecca 186\\nSamuel I. 5,205,218,221,223\\n365,357,365,378,411,423\\nSarah 187\\nThomas 187\\nWilliam P. 224\\nWeutworth, Penning 51\\nJohn, Jr. 30\\nMark H. 30\\nWest, Edward 141,207,208\\n221,267, .354\\nEdward, Jr. 224\\nMoses 221,355,423\\nWheeler. C. O. 273\\nWhipple, Gen. W. 258,261\\n262\\nWhitaker, Thos. H. 126,127\\n128,379\\nWhite, John 96,123,205.221\\n224,357,423,433,434\\nThomas R. 221.357,434\\nWhitman, Geo. H. 273\\nRoyal 169\\nW. C. 273\\nWhitmore, M. H. 273\\nWliitnev, James 194\\nJohn, Rev. 188\\nSamuel 223\\nWhittemore, Amos 427,428\\nAnthony 377\\nBenjamin 122,123,208,221\\n37ti,422\\nBenj. Jr. 221\\nDavid R. 437\\nWhittemore, Eben r 203,424\\nFrank 293\\nJoseph 437\\nPeter 120,125,141,212,221\\n265,422\\nWilliam 272\\nWibard, Richard 30\\nWiggin, Jona. 185\\nWigglesworth, Rev. 51\\nWild animals 21\\nWi](^er pond 20\\nMarshall 1 7\\nLuke 20,114,122,140,142\\n201,208,221,307,344\\nWilkins, Joshua 194\\nWilliams, Eliphalet 177,208\\nS42,f45\\nJesse 306,308\\nThomas 342,345\\nWilliam 82,275\\nWillis, Charles B. 206\\nWilmot 14,18.220,279,288\\n289\\nWilson, Ephraim F. 436\\nJere W. 436\\nJob 205,295,400\\nMoses S. 436\\nThomas W, 400\\nWinship, Wm. B. 275\\nWinslow. Elisha 37\\nSamuel, Jr. 37\\nWinter, John S. 221\\nWise, Robert 140,256,2Ca\\nWoburn, Mass. 177\\nWolves, bounty on 78\\nWoollen mills 340\\nWood, Abel 19*\\nSamuel, Rev. Dr. 9.152\\n156,192,193,194\\nWoodard, Daniel 267\\nJohn 273\\nWoodbury, Benjaniin 223\\nSamuel 224.\\nWoodman, Benj. 139,141,17a\\n177,186\\nBenj. E. 403\\nJonathan 131\\nJoseph 150,151\\nJoshua 37.56.5X\\nM OSes 70,25\\nWoodstock, Vt. 175,184\\nAVorcesler, Deborah 217\\nLeonard 159,217\\nNoah 159,101,217,224\\nSamuel 159,161,216\\nT. Gilman 224\\nThomas 5,140,113,159,160\\n161,162,163,164,lii5,191\\n11-2,205,212,217,220,221\\n22S\\nWorth, Edmund 184\\nY\\nYale college 170\\nTheological seminary 170\\nYoung, Joshua, Elder 175", "height": "3496", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0996.jp2"}, "971": {"fulltext": "ADDI^NDA AM) ORUKCriONS.\\nPage 120. Governor votes 1886, Thomas CoK-swell 110, Charles H. Sawyer 88\\n1888, Charles H. Amsden 124, Davlil H. (Joodell, 102;* 1890, Charles H. Amstlen\\nHiram A. Tuttli\\nPaKf 121. Representatives: 1886, Benjamin T. Severance 1888, Frank H. Dun-\\nlap]; 1890, Huron \\\\V. Sanborn. Town offleers John Shaw, m. Anilrew H. Par-\\n.sons, c. Charles H. Prince, Charles {J. Mor.se, .Miihael Limlon,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 s. 1887 John\\nShaw, m. .Andrew H. Parsons, o. Charles O. Morse, Michael Lonlon, Amos\\nH. Bean,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 s. 1888 Daniel J. Calef, m. Andrew H. Parsons, c. Michael Lordon.\\nJohn W. Fitleld, Huron \\\\V. Sanborn,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 s. 1889 John Shaw, m. Andrew H. Par-\\nBons, c. Michael Lordon, Huron W.Sanborn, I^wls A. Hawkins,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 s. 1890 John\\nShaw, m. Andrew H. Parsons, c. John Shaw, Huron W. Sanborn, John W.\\nLittle,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 s. 1891: John Shaw, m. Andrew H. Parsons, c; John Shaw, John W.\\nLittle, Dimond Shaw,\u00e2\u0080\u0094.*.\\nPage 127. Treasurers: 188.V86, Andrew K. Quimby 1887, Andrew K. Quimby.\\nAfter his death Frank H. Dunlap was ap| ointed, and continued.\\nPage 171. Deacons of the ConKreKational Church John Cidlins, cho.sen May\\n25,1774; Col. Ebenezer Webster, chosen April ,5, 1793, decline l; Mo.ses Selley,\\nchosen April 18, 1793: Amos PettinKiH. cho.sen July 5, 1796; Mo.ses Sawyer,\\nchosen June 6, 1800; Hubbard Stevens, chosen May 8, 1801 Henjamin Huntuon,\\ncho.sen July 9, 1815 William Parsons, James Mann, cho.sen 1842 F.B.Sawyer,\\ncho.sen July 5, 1846; James Kilburn, Nathaniel Sawyer, T. D. Little, cho.sen\\nApril 28, 1860; Lsaac N. Sawyer, chosen to All vacancy of Nathaniel Sawyer\\nNov. 16, 1890; John A. .Stevens, EU)ridKe Smith, Junior deacons, cho.sen Nov.\\n16, 1890. Elders: H. Huntoon, H. Stone, cho.sen May 25, 1774 Ebeneser Webster,\\nRichard Foster, April 18, 1793.\\nPage 190. Mark the chapter XII j.\\nPage 206. School Committee 1885, Frederick S. Fitleld 18H6,J.ihn Shaw, one\\nyear, Thomas D. Little, two years, Charles C. RoKcrs, three years; 1887, John\\nShaw, Thomas D. Little, Charles C. RoKers 1888, Thomas D. Little, Charles C.\\nRogers, Jolm Shaw; 1889, Charles C. Rogers, Frederick S. Filleld. (U orge P.\\nTItcomb 1890. Charles C. Rogers, (ieorge P. Titinnib, I^ an ler N. Sawyear\\n1891, Charles C. Rogers, U-ander N. Sawyer, (ieorge H. Pre.s.sey.\\nPage 252. To enlistments from Salisbury add Jonathan Huntoon, Hezekiah\\nFellows, .Simeon Sanborn,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 21 in all.\\nPage 2.V Add Jo.seph Meloon,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 11 men in all.\\nPage l- iK. T my .Sanborn .served in Captain Clough s company, enlisting June\\n17, 1775; Joshua Bamford .Herve l in Cidonel Cilley s regiment. In Ca|)tain\\nHutchins s company, Cilley s regiment, we llnd Eliphalet Quinby. sergeant\\nEnos Chellls, corporal Jonathan Welisier, James Boles. James S\u00c2\u00ab lley ser\\\\ e\u00c2\u00abl\\nin Captain Timothy Clement s company John Kanade an\u00c2\u00abl Joseph Loverln\\nserved in the army during ih\u00c2\u00ab sununer of 1776.\\nPage 273. Amos S. Bean and (ieorge E. Bean should lK cr\u00c2\u00ab llt\u00c2\u00abMl to Salisbury\\nalso four other men whone names are unknown.", "height": "3547", "width": "2096", "jp2-path": "historyofsalisbu00dea_0997.jp2"}, "972": {"fulltext": "890 ADDENDA AND CORRECTIONS.\\nPage 358. P. of H., 1885, John C. Smith, Master; 1886- 87, Thomas D. Little;\\n1888, Daniel J. Calef 1889, George E. Fellows 1890, Thomas E. Little 1891,\\nGeorge P. Titcomb 1892, Steven B. Sweatt, Master.\\nPage 358. Woman s Relief Corps, No. 63, instituted in January, 1890, with 18\\ncharter members, and Mrs. Melissa Chapman, president 1891, Mrs. Melis.sa\\nChapman, president 1892, Mrs. Etta J. Dearborn, president.\\nPage 377. Tax collector 1886- 87, Daniel J. Calef 1888- 89, Thomas H. Whit-\\nacker 1890, Alpheus Huntoon 1891, Buron W. Sanborn.\\nPage 380. Population 1890, 658.\\nPage 405. W. W. Sleeper, M. D., died January 7, 1887.\\nPage 406. To John J. Dearborn add,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1888 he had complete paralysis of\\nthe right side, then a cranial abscess, followed by necrosis of the left parietal\\nbone, which was successfully removed, and he returned to Salisbury. One\\nchild, Eliza Severance Dearborn, born at Tilton, February 5, 1887.\\nPage 410. G. W. Nesmith died May 2, 1890.\\nPage 434. A. E. Quimby died October 12, 1887 Mrs. Quimby appointed Jan-\\nuary 16, 1888 John S. Huntress appointed July 12, 1889 George E. Huntoon\\nappointed September 29, 1890. Post-offlce at Centre Road established Novem-\\nber 21, 1877,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sylvester W. Greene postmaster, Caleb E. Smith, assistant Charles\\nG. Morse appointed May 6, 1885 Frank P. Drew appointed May 3, 1889. This\\noffice was changed to Salisbury Heights in the summer of 1891. William Dun-\\nlap, at West Salisbury, appointed February 17, 1857, still continues.\\nPage 436. Dr. Benjamin Loverin practised at Sutton, and died there July 25,\\n1825.\\nPage 437. To professional list add Thomas W. Wilson, M. D., Dartmouth Med-\\nical School, Rev. Julius C. Blodgett, Rev. Joseph Watson,* Elder Elijah Watson.\\nPage 447, 51. Alvira A. read Alvin A.\\nPage 450, 1. Mrs. J. Arey died March 4, 1890.\\nPage 450, 3. Lucy A. died October 16, 1888.\\nPage 450, 1. J. Arey married (3), March 17, 1891, Addie J. Davis.\\nPage 451, 11. John Bagley died October 15, 1889.\\nPage 465, 9. John H. married, June 7, 1888, Lula F. Campbell.\\nPage 465, 4. Lucy B. married May 2, 1849.\\nPage 468. (14) Mrs. Eliza Bean died December 27, 1889.\\nPage 476, 55. Mrs. Sophronia Bean died September 6, 1890.\\nPage 480, 5. Mrs. Mehitable Graves died Augu.st 17, 1887.\\nPage 481, 16. Drusilla died April 1, 1891.\\nPage 510, 18. Mrs. Wallace Burleigh died May 13, 1888.\\nPage 514, 41. Francis B. Calef died July 30, 1890.\\nPage 515, 45. Mary M. married (2), Dec. 5, 1887, Charles Davenport.\\nPage 515, 55. Harry B. was drowned May 29, 1887.\\nPage 521, 34. V, Arthur C. married, June 4, 1864, Nellie McEwen.\\nPage 526, 25. Ill, Arthur B. married, November 25, 1885, Kate L. Call.\\nPage 527, 8. Eliza B. died October 4, 1888.\\nPage 541. John Diuiond, born 1794, died 1866.\\nPage 541. (7) Lucilla N. read A. Lucilla.\\nPage 543. (29) Samuel Dunlap died in Vermont, 1891.\\nPage 546, 16. Both dead. She died January 26, 1891, aged 90.\\nPage 550. (30) Gilbert died June 16, 1891.\\nPage 550, 551. V, Charlie S. died July 4, 1891.\\nPage 556, 40. Mrs. Julia A. Shaw died July 5, 1889.\\nPage 566. (39) John W. died May 13, 1891.\\nPage 570, 77. Frederick S. died July 22, 1890.\\nPage 574. (159) Jonathan Fifleld, born April 28, 1784 removed to Sutton,\\nwhere he died April 16, 1846.\\nPage 577. 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