{"1": {"fulltext": "-v\\nOF THE\\nliJJiiiMtowaMiiitrwfi\\nJUNE 9,1892", "height": "3633", "width": "2248", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3497", "width": "2149", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3492", "width": "2154", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "WnAC\\nN. h).\\nis\\nHISTORY\\nPROCKKDINGS\\nOF THE\\nCELEBRATION OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH\\nANNIVERSARY OF THE INCORPORATION\\nOF THE SETTLEMENT OF\\nWINDHAM IN NEW HAMPSHIRE,\\nHELD JUNE 9, 1892.\\nThere comes a voice that awakens my sSxal. is the voice of years that\\nare gone they roll before me with their 4\u00c2\u00abed\u00c2\u00abvi-OssiAN.\\nm\\nSi\\n^^^riiT-^\\nt LIBI^AH^^\\nWINDHAM, N\\nPUBLISHED BT THE EiECUliVE COMMITTEE.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "1\\nK 3^1\\nC\\nf44-", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "C0 gesrmbants of tlje Jfirst Settlers,\\nWHEREVER IN THE WIDE WORLD SCATTERED,\\nS^ts recoth of a ttltbiation in ^onoi of t^t names, tl^e birtnes, anb i\\\\t betbs of\\nS^at gallant banb of ptoplt of Stottb bloob, fo^o fonnbeb tl^e tofains^ip of \u00c2\u00aelinb^am in\\nC^is Volume is Jnsmkb,\\nUa *fe* (S\u00c2\u00abtntibe dominittet.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "LIST OF ILLUSTEATIO:^rS.\\nThe Windham Glee Club\\nFaces page 33\\nGov. Hiram A. Tuttle\\n(C\\n40\\nHon. James Dinsmoor\\ni\\n45\\nHon. George Wilson\\na 1\\n83\\nRev. William E. Westervelt\\n4\\n87\\nWilliam H. Anderson\\nii i\\n88\\nHon, James W. Patterson\\na\\n94\\nHon. Albert E. Pillsbury\\nii i\\n96", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "TABLE OF CONTENTS.\\nPREFATORY.\\nPAGB\\nTitle-page i\\nDedication iii\\nList of illustrations v\\nTable of contents vii\\nPreface xi\\nHISTORY.\\nHistory 1\\nPetition to the selectmen 2\\nWarrant for town-meeting 2, 3\\nAction of the town, and committee appointed 2. 3\\nAnniversary levees 5-7\\nAppointment of committees 7\\nSelection of orator and poet, and letters to them 8, 9\\nProceedings of the annual town-meeting, March 8, 1892 9, 10\\nDifferent committees on the celebration 10, 11\\nSelection of place for celebration 11\\nCommittee s badge 12\\nReport of the secretary 13, 14\\nPublication of historical article in Boston Journal 14\\nCol. J. E. Pecker s article in Boston Journal, May 17, 1892 15-17\\nThe invitation 19\\nThe work expands 20\\nDiflBcult questions solved 21\\nWork of committee on barges 22\\nAmount of funds collected for celebration 23\\nThe committee vote to have the proceedings compiled 23\\nVote of thanks to Hon. James Dinsmoor 23\\nThe committee vote to print the proceedings of the celebration 24\\nEstimation of cost 24", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Vlll\\nTable of Contents.\\nPROCEEDINGS, JUNE 9, 1892.\\nPART I.\\nThe programme\\nDinner tickets\\nHaverhill (Mass.) band and list of members\\nReception to Gov. Hiram A. Tiittle and IVIrs. Tuttle\\nThe marshal escorts visitors and speakers to the tent\\n25-27\\n27\\n27, 28\\n28\\n29\\n29\\n29-76\\nForenoon exercises in the tent\\nExercises in the tent\\nIntroduction of the president of the day by the marshal, John H\\nDinsmoor, Esq.\\nReading of the Scriptures by Rev. E. B. Blanchard\\nThe prayer, by Rev. Augustus Berry\\nThe Glee Club, and list of its members\\nThe song, Give me your hand, old friend of youth\\nThe song, Hurrah for old New England\\nAddress of welcome by the president\\nList of officers of the day, read by the secretary, Hiram S. Rev\\nnolds, Esq.\\nReading of the Petition for the Charter, with names of its signers\\nby the town-clerk. John E. Cochran, Esq.\\nAddress of Gov. Hiram A. Tuttle\\nIntroduction of Mrs. Sarah EUenwood, aged 100 years\\nPoem by Mrs. Margaret M. (Park) Dinsmoor\\nAddress of Hon. James Dinsmoor\\nSong, Rock of Liberty, by the Glee Club\\nThe intermission and dinner\\nPART III.\\nAftemoou exercises in the tent 76-104\\nAddress of Evarts Cutter, Esq 76-79\\nAddress of Rev. Samuel Mon-ison 79-88\\nAddress of Hon. George Wilson 8-3, 84\\nAddress of William C. Harris, Esq 84-86\\nThe generous offer of Hon. George Wilson 86\\nAddress of Rev. William E. Westervelt 87, 88\\nAddress of William H. Anderson, Esq 88-91\\nAddress of Rev. Warren R. Cochrane, D. D 91-98\\nAddress of Hon. James W. Patterson 94, 95\\nAddress of Hon. Albert E. Pillsbury 96-98\\nAddress of Hon. Frederic T. (ireenhalse 98-101\\n20\\n29-31\\n31-38\\n38\\n33, 34\\n34, 35\\n3.^-87\\n37, 38\\n39, 40\\n40-42\\n42\\n42-45\\n45-73\\n74\\n74-76", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Table of Contents.\\nIX\\nAddress of Hon. J. G. Crawford\\nMotion to adjourn to June 9, 1942\\nClosing words of the president and adjournment\\nPoetical lines of Hon, Benjamin L. Baxter\\nProf. William S. Harris s article\\n101, 102\\n102\\n103\\n103, 104\\n104\\nLETTERS.\\nThe old parish of Aghadowey, county of Londonderry, L-eland 104, 105\\nLetter of Kev. Gilbert A. Kennedy 106-108\\nLetter from the mayor of Londonderry, Ireland 108\\nLetter from John Carr, Esq 108\\nLetter from Thomas Dinsmoor, Esq 109\\nLetter from Prof. Jonathan L. Noyes 109, 110\\nLetter from Orlando Davidson, Esq. 110\\nLetter from Rev. John H. IMorison, D. I) 110\\nLetter from Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger Ill\\nLetter from Daniel M. Park, Esq Ill, 112\\nLetter from Rev. Carroll Cutler, D. D 112\\nLetter from President Harrison 112\\nLetter from Hon. William E. Chandler 113\\nLetter from Frank E. Park, Esq 113\\nLetter from Rev. Joseph S. Cogswell 113\\nLetter from George S. Morison, Esq. 114\\nLetter from Hon. George A. Marden 114\\nl^etter from D. Wallis Morrison, Esq 114, 115\\nPoem by Mrs. Mary Whitney Morrison 115-117\\nLetter from Rufus A. Morrison, Esq 117-119\\nLetter from John Morrison, Esq. 119\\nLetter from Albro A. Osgood, i^sq. 119,120\\nLetter from ex-Gov. Charles H. Bell 120-122\\nLetter from Charles H. Milner, Esq 123\\nLetter from Samuel M. Nesmith, Esq 123, 124", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "PKEFACE.\\nOn the day of the celebration, a court stenographer of large expe-\\nrience and acknowledged ability was employed by the committee to take\\ndown the proceedings of the day. This he did, from the commencement\\nof the public exercises to their close, with the exception of those addresses\\nof w^hich he knew a manuscript copy had been furnished me.\\nThe regular method adopted by him in his record, the style, the form\\nof address, and the exact language he used, have been adopted .by me in\\nthis printed book, with the exception of a few unavoidable changes.\\nThe addresses, as uttered or furnished in MS., are here given, together\\nwith the many addressed letters here printed and, in the main, they are\\nin the exact form of address and language of the speaker or writer.\\nI assume full responsibility for the preparation of the historical part\\nof this book, and for the compilation. Whatever errors or inaccuracies\\nmay there appear belong to me.\\nOf the addresses and letters which are in this book, if anything appears\\nin form of sentiment or expression to excite the criticism of any one, the\\nwidely scattered, genial, and philosophical authors will, no doubt, bear\\nthe same with good-humored complacency.\\nThe long time which it has taken to secure engravings is the cause\\nof the delay in the appearance of this volume. They who have inserted\\ntheir engravings have the thanks of the committee.\\nL. A. M.\\nWindham, N. H.,\\nNovember 8, 1892.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "HISTORY.\\nSince the first settlement of Windham one hundred and seventy-\\ntwo years have passed away. Its founders have fallen asleep with\\ntheir children and grandchildren, while those who remain in town of\\nthe fourth and fifth generations from their immigrating ancestors are\\nthe active men to-day. The memory of the olden time has been kept\\ngreen. In many homes cherished mementoes of the past, of gener-\\nations passed away, and of old homes beyond the sea, have been hand-\\ned down from generation to generation. The lamp of political and\\nreligious faith has not been suffered to grow dim, nor devotion to\\nsacred trusts to die.\\nThe living descendants, in honor of their deceased progenitors, the\\nfounders and incorporators of the town, proposed to celebrate the\\n150th anniversary of its incorporation. For more than ten years\\nmany of the people of Windham were watching and waiting for the\\neventful day and hour to come. As the anniversary drew near, they\\nproposed to observe it with some attention, even in mid-winter, and\\nwith a more fitting celebration in the warm, glowing weather of June.\\nIt was deemed proper that the town, in its legal capacity, should take\\nformal action for the proper notice and observance of the day. A\\npetition to the selectmen for a special meeting of the town was pre-\\npared, of which the following is a copy, with the names of the signers.\\nOthers would gladly have signified their approval by appending their\\nnames to the document had it been necessary, but enough signa-\\ntiu es were obtained to answer the legal purpose, and to abundantly\\nshow the general appreciation of the object and purpose of the cele-\\nbration.\\nAs it was an expressed desire by some that full details should be\\ngiven of the proceedings of the committee, with quotations from the\\nreport of the secretary, I have made a full report of the proceedings\\nand free quotations from the secretary s report, for the interest of the\\npresent generation in this town, and for the benefit of future ones.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "2 Warrant for Town 3Ieeting, Jan. 23, 1892.\\nTo the Selectmen of Windham, N H.\\nGentlemen We, the undersigned, legal voters in said town, request\\nyou, at your earliest convenience, to call a meeting of the town, and\\ninsert in your warrant the following articles\\nArticle 1. To see if the town will vote to celebrate with appropriate\\nexercises the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the town.\\nArt. 2. To choose such committees as may be thought necessary to\\ncarry the above vote into effect.\\nArt. 3. To decide on the manner of raising monej to meet the ex-\\npenses of the celebration.\\nArt. 4. To transact any other business relating to the celebration that\\nmay be deemed expedient.\\nWindham, N. II., Dec. 21, 1891.\\nWilliam C. Harris,\\nIsaac P. Cochran,\\nJohn E. Cochran,\\nHorace Anderson,\\nPatsey Mahoney,\\nGeorge W. Johnson,\\nHorace P. Dinsmoor,\\nWilliam 1). Cochran,\\nJoseph W. Dinsmoor,\\nChas. A. Reed,\\nper L. A. M,\\nGeorge F. Armstrong,\\nCharles J. Miers,\\nGeorge E. Seavey,\\nJames AI. Crowell,\\nSamuel L. Prescott,\\nDavid C. Foss,\\nDalton J. Warren,\\nAbel Dow,\\nGeorge P. Dow,\\nAlbert A. Morrison,\\nHenry ,T. Richardson,\\nJohn W. I\\\\I. W^orledge, Horace Berry,\\nCharles II. Barker, Henry T. Wheeler,\\nBenjamin E.Blanchard, Eugene AV. Armstrong,\\nJoseph P. Crowell,\\nJames Cochran,\\nJohn G. Bradford,\\nJohn II. Dinsmore,\\nLeonard A. jNIorrison,\\nJos. \\\\V. Dinsmoor, Jr.,\\nAlbert O. Alexander.\\nCaleb B. Clark,\\nWilliam H. Armstrong,\\nDavid C. Anderson,\\nJohn A. Park,\\nWilliam A. Thorn,\\nFrank A. Crowell,\\nper E. B.\\nA true copy of petition. Attest John E. Cochran, Town Clerk\\nA true copy of record. Attest John E. Cochran, Town Clerk.\\nThe vrarrant issued was as follows\\nr T The State of New Hampshire.\\n[l. s.]\\nTo the inhabitants of the town of Windham qualified to vote in town affairs:\\nPursuant to an application to us of this date by ten or more voters of\\nsaid town, you are notified to appear at the lower town hall in said town\\non Saturday, the 2;5d day of January, inst., at 1 o clock in the afternoon,\\nto act upon the following subjects\\nFirst, To choose a moderator to preside in said meeting.\\nSecond, To see if the town will vote to celebrate with appropriate ex-\\nercises the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the town.\\nThird, To choose such committees as may be thought necessary to\\ncarry the above vote into effect.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Action of the Totvn. 3\\nFourth, To decide on the manner of raising money to meet the ex-\\npenses of the celebration.\\nFifth, To transact any other business relating to the celebration that\\nmay be deemed expedient.\\nGiven under our hands and seal, this 9th day of January, 1892.\\nAlbp:rt E. Simpson,\\nJohn A. McVoy,\\nAugustus L. Barker,\\nSelectmen of Windham.\\nWindham, January 23, 1892.\\nWe do hereby certify that on the 9th day of January last we posted\\nand attested a copy of the within warrant at the place of meeting within\\nspecified, and a like copy at the store of John G. Bradford, a public\\nplace in said town.\\nA. E. Simpson,\\nJ. A. McVoY,\\nA. L. Barker,\\nSelectmen of Windham.\\nA true copy of the warrant and the return thereof.\\nAttest John E. Cochran, Town Clerk.\\nAt a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Windham on the\\n23d day of January, 1892, at the lower town hall in said town, at 1\\no clock in the afternoon, William D. Cochran was elected moderator.\\nIt was then unanimously voted to celebrate the 150th anniversary,\\nand to choose a committee of two from each former school district, the\\nfollowing gentlemen being chosen\\nNo.l.\\nWilliam D. Coclu an,\\nLeonard A. Morrison.\\nAlbert E. Simpson,\\nJohn W. M. Worledge.\\nHorace Berry,\\nGeorge E. Seavey.\\nNo. 4. Hiram S. Reynolds,\\nAlphonso F. Campbell.\\nNo. 2.\\nNo. 3.\\nNo. 5. Augustus L. Barker,\\nJoseph P. Crowell.\\nNo. 6. William C. Harris,\\nJames Cochran.\\nNo. 7. Charles H. Davis,\\nHorace B. Johnson.\\nIt was voted to leave the manner of raising funds in the hands of\\nthe committee, and they were authorized to fill all vacancies occurring\\nin their number. The town also voted that the celebration should\\ntake place in the month of June, 1892, and that the date should be\\nleft with the committee.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "4 Names of Committees Clioseii.\\nOn January 29th this committee met at the lower town hall, com-\\npleted its organization, and considered the matter of raising funds to\\ndefray the expenses of the celebration. Leonard A. Morrison was\\nchosen president Hiram S. Reynolds, secretary Albert E. Simpson,\\ntreasurer and William D. Cochran secretary j9ro tern.\\nIt was voted to have a tri-semi-centennial festival on the evening of\\nFebruary 12, 1892, with a C Supper, the tables to be furnished with\\narticles of food commencing with the letter C. John H. Dinsmore\\nwas chosen president for the evening, John A. McVoy to seU tickets,\\nJohn L. Bradford to collect them, John H. Cochran to care for the\\nclothes, and John W. M. Worledge, William C Harris, William D.\\nCochran, to procui e posters and provide entertainment for the even-\\ning. The admission for adults, including supper, was fixed at forty\\ncents children under twelve years, twenty cents.\\nThe following announcement of the celebrating festival was sent\\nout by the committee", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "ANNIVERSARY\\nTCWN HALL, WINDHAM, N. H.\\nFRIDAY EVENiO, FEB. 12. 1892\\nBy the citizens of Windham, for the purpose of raising money to\\naid in Celebrating, in June next, the One Hundred and Fif-\\ntieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town.\\nENTERTAINMENT BY\\nCABLE. Comedian\\nor BOSTON\\nIce Cream. Confectionery, and Flowers will be for Sale\\nTHERE WILL BE A GUESS CAKE. SPIDERS WEB. AND MANY OTHER ATTRACTIONS,\\nC SUPPER BBLL OF FARE\\nCLAM CHOWDER CHICKEN\\nCRANBERRY PIE CURRANT PIE CHICKEN PIE CUSTARD PIE CREAM PIE\\nCRACKER PUDDING CHOCOLATE PUDDING\\nCAKE COOKIES CHEESE CRABAPPLE TARTS CRANBERRY TARTS CURRANT TARTS\\nCOFFEE CHINESE TEA\\nADIMISSIOEM, including supper, 40 CENTS.\\nCHILDREN, under twelve years of age, 20 CENTS.\\nIt very stormy the Levee will be tlie first fair evening of the next week\\nWindham. N. H.. Feb. 3. 1892. ssr-.r", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "The Festival of February 12, 1892. 7\\nThe people of the town engaged with enthusiasm in the work of\\npreparation, and the prospect for a brilliant success was never better.\\nThe daily papers announced Much Disturbance on the Surface of\\nthe Sun, accompanied with dark spots of large size which some\\njournals insisted on proclaiming presaged heavy storms on this planet.\\nBe that as it may, the storm came, and a severe one, on the day and\\nnight of February 11th. The wind blew with great violence, the snow\\nfell rapidly, and before the dawn of the morning of February 12th a\\nfoot and a half of snow covered the ground. The evening was one of\\nthe finest. The moon was at its full the air was cool, crisp, and still,\\nand not a cloud dimmed the azure vault above. A goodly company\\nassembled in the town hall, and the evening passed away enjoyably,\\nnot the least of the attractions being the five handsomely laden tables\\nin the lower hall. The supper was excellent, and was duly appreci-\\nated by the guests. A supplementary supper and entertainment were\\nheld in the same place on Monday evening, February 15th, and the\\nproceeds from both entertainments, above expenses, were $115.\\nAt a meeting of the town committee, who adopted the name of the\\nExecutive Committee, holden at the town hall, February 13, 1892,\\nseveral committees were chosen.\\nOn motion of William C. Harris, a Committee on Finance were\\nchosen, as follows Albert E. Simpson, Joseph P. Crowell, William\\nC. Harris.\\nOn motion of Horace Berry, a committee of three were chosen to\\nselect an orator, and to arrange an order of literary exercises for the\\ncelebration. The committee were Leonard A. Morrison, William D.\\nCochran, William C. Harris.\\nOn motion of Mr. Berry, an Investigating Committee were chosen\\nto consult and see what would be an appropriate order of general\\nexercises for the day of the celebration to name the different com-\\nmittees necessary to be appointed by the Executive Committee and\\nto suggest a list of persons for these committees the Investigating\\nCommittee to report their doings within two weeks to the Executive\\nCommittee for their action upon the same. The Investigating Com-\\nmittee were Leonard A. Morrison, Horace Berry, and James Cochran.\\nThe committee to select an orator met and voted unanimously to\\nextend the invitation to an honored son of Windham, Hon. James\\nDinsmoor of Sterling, 111.\\nThe foUowinw letter was sent to him", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "8 Letter of Hon. James Dinsmoo)\\nWindham, New Hampshire (Canobie Lake, N. H., P. O.)\\nFebruary 15, 1892.\\nHon. James Dinsmoor,\\nSterling, Illinois\\nMy Dear Sir At a special meeting of this town, holden January\\n23, 1892, it was unanimously voted to celebrate the 150th anniversary of\\nthe incorporation of the town. The incorporating act was passed on\\nFebruary 12, 1742 the celebration will be holden in the early part of\\nJune, 1892, when the weather is usually agreeable and pleasant. An\\nExecutive Committee were chosen to make arrangements, and to carry\\nthe vote of the town into effect.\\nIt is proposed to render a tribute of honor, slight though it may be in\\ncomparison with their merits, to those Scotch people of heroic mould,\\nwho for opinion s sake fled from the mountains and valleys of Scotland\\nto Ireland, and who themselves or their descendants, a little later, came\\nto New Hampshire and founded this settlement. It was considered by\\nthe committee especially appropriate that at the celebration the histori-\\ncal address should be delivered by one of their descendants, a son of\\nWindham, and they have unanimously selected you as the orator who\\ncould very fittingly make that address. It gives me pleasure, in their\\nname, as well as individually, to give you a most cordial and urgent invi-\\ntation to again visit your own early home, the home, too, of your fathers\\nfor four generations, and to address your former fellow-citizens and\\nfriends, and those who will be present on that memorable occasion.\\nHoping that nothing will prevent you from accepting this invitation,\\nI remain.\\nSincerely yours,\\nLeonard A. Morrison,\\nFor the Committee on Literary Exercises.\\nThis letter of invitation brought forth the following letter of accept-\\nance\\nSterling, III., March 15, 1892.\\nHon. L. a. Morrison,\\nWindham, N. H.:\\nMy Dear Sir The request of the Committee of Arrangements for\\nthe proposed celebration of the 150th anniversary of the organization of\\nour native town, to have me prepare an address for that occasion, has\\ngiven me much pleasure, and at the same time not a little perplexity,\\npleasure that while so many of the natives of that good old town have\\nbeen called to active life remote from the home of our childhood, there\\nyet remain within her borders sons who appreciate the physical and\\nmental vigor and moral worth of the fathers of 150 years ago peri^lex-\\nity that my present engagements and health will not permit me to make\\nsuch preparation as may justify their selection. The latter has caused", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Historical Town Meeting, March 5, 1892. 9\\nmy delay in thanking the committee for the invitation, and expressing\\nthe hope that I may be able to contiibute my mite to the meed of praise\\nof our fathers of 1742.\\nBe so kind as to extend to the several members of the committee my\\nkindest regards. Hoping this may find you in good health, I am\\nAffectionately yours,\\nJas. Dinsmoor.\\nThe Committee on Literary Exercises selected Mrs. Margaret M.\\n(Park) Dinsmoor as the poet for the celebration, and the following\\ninvitation was given\\nWindham, N. H., February 18, 1892.\\nMy Dear Mrs. Dinsmoor\\nThere will be a celebration in June next in commemoration of the\\n150th anniversary of the act of incorporation of this town. The Com-\\nmittee on Literary Exercises, Leonard A. Morrison, William D. Cochran,\\nand William C. Harris, have unanimously selected you as the poet, and\\ndesire, and now invite you to furnish a poem for that historic day.\\nHoping that nothing will prevent you from so doing, I am.\\nSincerely yours,\\nLeonard A. Morrison,\\nFor the Committee.\\nTo Mrs. Margaret M. (Park) Dinsmoor,\\nAvondale Farm, Windhaiii, N. H.\\nMrs. Dinsmoor accepted the invitation.\\nPROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL TOWN MEETING HELD\\nMARCH 8, 1892.\\nAt a legal town meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Wind-\\nham, on the 8th day of March, 1892, at the lower hall in the town\\nhouse, in said town, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon, the meeting\\nwas called to order by William D. Cochran, chairman of the Board\\nof Supervisors.\\nLeonard A. Morrison was elected moderator.\\nPrayer was offered by Rev. William E. Westervelt.\\nThe moderator called William D. Cochran, chairman of the Board\\nof Supervisors, to the chair, and introduced the following resolution\\nResolved, That we, the people of Windham, in town meeting assembled,\\non this, the 150th anniversary of the day and the hour when the founders\\nof this town met in their first annual town meeting, under the act of\\nincorporation, revere and honor those who established this township", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "10 The Bay to Celebrate Selected.\\nthat we hold their names and recorded acts in veneration, and would have\\nthem kept in perpetual remembrance.\\nLooking backward 150 years, we behold the fathers in their town\\nmeeting and tender them honor; looking into the future 150 years, we\\nsalute our successors of a remote generation.\\nWhen they shall gather in their annual town meeting in March, 2042,\\nwe commend to them the familiar names, the manly acts, the heroic vir-\\ntues, of the founders of this town, that they may honor and emulate\\nthem, and in their turn commend to their successors of 150 years later\\nthe names of those whom we honor by this resolve, that their memory\\nmay not perish from among men.\\nHe made some remarks in favor of the resolution, moved its\\nadoption and that it be recorded with the records of the town.\\nThis motion was seconded in appropriate words by Horace Berry, and\\nthe town voted to adopt and record the resolution.\\nIt was a singular coincidence that William D. Cochran, who called\\nthis meeting to order, was a lineal descendant of Robert Dinsmoor,\\nchairman of the Board of Commissioners to call the first town meet-\\ning, and who undoubtedly called that meeting to order on March 8,\\n1742, just 150 years before, to the very day and hour and that\\nLieutenant Samuel Morison, who was elected the first moderator in\\n1742, was the great grandfather of the person chosen in 1892.\\nOn March 12th, the Conamittee of Arrangements met and decided\\nto have the celebration at the center of the town on June 9th. Va-\\nrious committees were chosen, as follows\\nON INVITATIONS.\\nWiUiam C. Harris,\\nLeonard A. Morrison,\\nWilliam D. Cochi an,\\nAlphonso F. Campbell.\\nON DECORATIONS.\\nHorace Berry,\\nJohn W. M. Worledge,\\nHorace P. Dinsmoor,\\nCharles H. Davis.\\nIt was decided to have a brief synopsis of the history of the town\\nand the proposed celebration prepared and printed in a leading\\npaper, and to send the same to natives, former residents, and friends\\nof the town. A Committee on Newspapers were chosen, consisting\\nof Albert E. Simpson, William C. Harris, and Alphonso F. Campbell.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "A Place Selected. li-\\nON SINGING.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ft^\\nBenjamin Edwin Blanchard, //J .y*\\nHiram S. Reynolds,\\nAlbert A. Morrison.\\nON BAND.\\nEdwin 0. Dinsmoor,\\nHorace Anderson, *-7\\nJacob A. Nesmith.\\na:\\nIt was voted that the Committee on Reception should consist of\\nthe Executive Committee and their ladies, with Benjamin E. Blan-\\nchard and Albert A. Morrison.\\nOn motion of William D. Cochran, it was voted that Leonard A.\\nMorrison and William C Harris should constitute a committee to\\nprepare a list of names which, when approved by the Executive Com-\\nmittee, should, on the day of celebration, be the Honorary Committee.\\nThis closed the proceedings of that day.\\nThus the good work went on and the hopes of the committee began\\nto materialize.\\nThe question of the selection of a proper place for holding the cele-\\nbration had been an important one. Mr. Abel Dow, the manager and\\nproprietor of the Granite State Grove, Canobie Lake, near the rail-\\nroad station at that place, had generously offered to the committee\\nhis spacious and beautiful grounds, and buHdings with the exception\\nof the skating rink, as a place to hold the celebration, if they desired.\\nAfter due consideration, on March 12th, it was decided to hold the\\ncelebration at the center of the town, and the committee at their meet-\\ning on April 7th, on motion of Horace Berry, passed the following\\nresolution\\nResolved, That the Executive Committee extend to Mr. Abel Dow their\\nheartfelt thanks for his kindness and generosity in offering his grove for\\nthe coming celebration of the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of\\nWindham.\\nThe secretary was authorized to notify Mr. Dow of said vote.\\nAt the meeting April 7th, thi-ee persons were chosen a committee\\nON COLLATION.\\nWUliam D. Cochran,\\nAlbert E. Simpson,\\nGeorge E. Seavey.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "12\\nA Free Collation.\\n1 damm itt^\u00c2\u00ab^\\n0\u00c2\u00a3\\nrratt|uments.\\nin old English letters.\\nIt was voted, on motion of W. C. Harris, that\\nshould not exceed one hundred dollars, and that\\nham Center at 8:30 a. m. and remain till 5:30 p.\\nIt was voted,\\non motion of WU-\\njliam C. Harris, to\\nhave a free dinner\\nat the celebration,\\nand the meeting\\nadjourned to April\\n23d.\\nMet accoi ding\\nto adjournment,\\nwhen it was voted\\nthat Leonard A.\\nMorrison be a\\ncommittee to pro-\\ncure thirty-six\\nbadges for the Ex-\\necutive Comm i t\\ntee. These he\\nsubsequently pro-\\ncured, at a cost of\\ntwenty cents each.\\nThey were of the\\nfollowing descrip-\\ntion Made of\\nwhite satin, four\\ninches in length\\nand two inches in\\nbreadth, attached\\nto a glittering pin,\\nwliich looked like\\ngold^ but perhaps\\nwas not of that\\nmetal, and with\\ngilt fringe. The\\nsatin was marked,\\nCommit tee of\\nArrange m e n t s\\nthe expense of a band\\nit should be at Wind-\\nm. After the transac-", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Report of the Secretary. 13\\ntiou of other business, the meeting adjourned, subject to the call of\\nthe president.\\nThe committee again met, on May 4th. The Haverhill, Mass.,\\nCity band had been secured, at an expense of one hundred dollars.\\nIt having been decided to secure a large tent, the spot on which to\\npitch it caused the committee a good deal of anxiety, as the grounds\\nin front of the town house were not of sufficient extent. After sev-\\neral places had been examined, it was finally voted to put it in the\\nfield of James Cochran, on the west of his house, and with the under-\\nstanding that there the tables should be set the day before the celebra-\\ntion, as that would relieve the ladies of care and labor on the celebra-\\nting day and that the seating capacity at the tables should be for\\n1,000 i^ersons. At this meeting William D. Cochran, chairman of\\nthe Committee on Collation, gave a valuable report in relation to the\\nsort of tents and the expense and general method of providing and\\nsupplying the great congregation with a free dinner. It was decided,\\naccording to the report of the secretary, to have the speaking some-\\nwhere around the town house.\\nIt was moved by Albert E. Simpson that the schools of the town,\\nwith their teachers, be invited to meet at the schoolhouse in No. 6,\\non the day of celebration, the whole to be under the direction of the\\nschool board, and that they be escorted in the order in which the sev-\\neral districts come, by the band, to the town hall, and that they have\\na separate table for dinner. It was so voted.\\nThe following is an original, racy, and quaint report from the sec-\\nretary s record The question of posters, how they shall be worded,\\ncame up, and was discussed at some length. [This included the gen-\\neral one of invitations.] The question of invitations came up, and\\nwas discussed by different gentlemen. It was thought that 1,000\\nought to be sent out, and that, in all probability, not more than one-\\nhalf would respond. L. A. Morrison gave liis ideas (as he has on\\nseveral different occasions), in plain and outspoken language. He\\nthinks the invitation should include any one who has any inclination\\nto come he would invite the whole of creation and have dinner\\ntickets (at a fixed price), and any person or persons who wanted din-\\nner should notify the committee accordingly, and secure them.\\nAnother grave and important matter has just come up, and that\\nis, whether the committee are willing to release Mr. William D. Coch-\\nran (one of the important persons on the Executive Committee, and\\nchairman of the Committee on Collation) to go on a trip to Portland,\\nOregon, to be gone most of the time between now and the coming", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "14 Report of the Secretary.\\ncelebration. Most of the committee are willing, but A. E. Simpson\\n(also on Committee on Collation) is inclined to object, on the ground\\nthat W. D. Cochran is the hub of the wheel, as well as the spoke, and\\nsays, further, that if W. D. C. does go, he (Simpson) wants to feed\\nthe crowd in a different manner (the way subsequently adopted), that\\nis, without setting tables. W. D. Cochran objects to that way, on the\\nground that it would be very much more work his idea is to relieve\\nthe ladies on celebration day from being obliged to work hard all day;\\nthey could mingle with the crowd, see their friends, and be relieved\\nfrom very much care, etc., etc. So the matter is left undecided. The\\nmeeting adjourned sine die at 6:45 p. m. H. S. Reynolds,\\nSecretary.\\nAt this same meeting, Albert E. Simpson, chairman of the Com-\\nmittee on Newspapers, reported that he had made arrangements with\\nthe Boston Journal to supply 800 copies of the Journal at three\\ncents each, to be sent to different parties, on being furnished a list of\\nnames by the committee. The following article in relation to the cel-\\nebration was prepared by Col. J. E. Pecker, of Concord, correspon-\\ndent of the Journal^ who visited Windham, took items from the com-\\nmittee, and prepared the article from those facts and from other in-\\nformation found in the History of Windham in New Hampshire.\\nLeonard A. Morrison prepared a list of 600 names, which was sup-\\nplied to the Journal office, and this article, published in the Morn-\\ning Journal, May 17, 1892, was mailed direct from that ofl ce\\nto the parties named in that list. The other 200 copies came to\\nWindham, and were mailed to different persons and divided among\\nthe members of the committee, for distribution among the people of\\nthe town.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Col. J. E. Pecker s Article. 15\\nWINDHAM, N. H.\\nIts 150th Anniversary to he Celebrated Arrancjements for a Orand Re-\\nunion of Former Residents Notes on the History of a Town Which\\nHas no Mean Record.\\n[Special Dispatch to The Boston Journal.]\\nWindham, N. H., May 16. The citizens of Windham will celebrate\\nthe 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the town on June 9th, and\\nthe proposed festivities are akeady the eager topic of discussion among\\nall classes in this community. The various committees are hard at work,\\nand they are promised so generous a measure of hearty co-operation from\\nthe citizens that it is safe even now to predict that the reunion will be a\\ngrand success. The first movement toward this celebration was the draft-\\ning of a petition directed to the selectmen by William C. Harris en-\\ndorsed by others, which was largely signed by the voters of the town\\nThe petition called for a special meeting to be held for the purpose of\\ntaking action in the matter. The meeting was held on January 23d, and\\nthere was a good attendance. It was unanimously and enthusiastically\\nvoted to hold the celebration on the date already named. A Committee\\nof Arrangements, to have entire charge of the proceedings, was chosen,\\nconsisting of two from each of the old school districts. This committee\\nwas composed of the following gentlemen William D. Cochran, Hon.\\nLeonard A. Morrison, A. M., Albert E. Simpson, John W. M. Worledge,\\nHorace Berry, George E. Seavey, Hiram S. Reynolds, Alphonso F. Camp-\\nbell, Augustus L. Barker, Joseph P. Crowell, William C. Harris, James\\nCochran, Charles H. Davis, and Horace B. Johnson. The committee or-\\nganized by choosing Hon. Leonard A. Morrison, A. M., of Canobie Lake,\\nchairman, and President of the Day, and Hiram S. Reynolds, of West\\nWindham, secretary. A Committee on Finance was selected, with Al-\\nbert E. Simpson, of Windham, chairman. Various sub-committees were\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0chosen on the subjects of literary exercises, including the selection of an\\norator, invitations, collation, decorations, music, and reception. The\\ntown was not asked to appropriate money, as it was desired to meet all\\nexpenses with voluntary contributions, which are coming in very gener-\\nally from citizens, former residents, and descendants of early settlers. As\\nthe exact date of the 150th anniversary was on February 12th, a public\\nfestival was held on the evening of that day in the town hall, to com-\\nmemorate that event, it being understood that the formal celebration\\nshould occur in the summer, the date of which was subsequently fixed\\nas already given.\\nThe general committee voted to hold the exercises at the center of the\\ntown. Under this arrangement, visitors from abroad are expected to\\ndebark from the cars at Windham Junction, where barges will be in\\nattendance to convey them to the center village, a distance of two and a\\nhalf miles. The Committee on Literary Exercises unanimously voted", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "16 Col. J. E. Pecker s Article Continued.\\nto invite Hon. James Dinsmoor, a lawyer of Stei-ling, Illinois, to deliver\\nthe historical address, which invitation has been accepted. Mr. Dins-\\nmoor is a native of Windham, a graduate of Dartmouth College, and a\\njurist of high character and reputation. He has always taken a great\\ninterest in his native town, making frequent visits to it, and the fact of\\nhis acceptance of the invitation to deliver the oration has caused great\\nsatisfaction to the entire population of Windham. Mrs. M. M. P. Dins-\\nmoor, of Windham, will read an original poem. Among other speakers\\nexpected from abroad are Rev. W. R. Cochrane, D. D., of Antrim, Rev.\\nSamuel Morrison, of Charlton, Mass., and Rev. C. M. Dinsmoor, of Exe-\\nter. The exercises will commence at 10 a. m., and the remainder of the\\nforenoon will be devoted mainly to listening to the historical address.\\nDinner will be served at 1 p. m., followed by toasts and speeches. Fine\\ninstrumental and vocal music will be furnished. It is expected that a\\nlarge tent will be pitched near the hall for dming purposes. All bells in\\nthe town will be rung at sunrise, and there will be extensive decorations.\\nGovernor and Mrs. Tuttle will be among the invited guests. Rev. Gil-\\nbert A. Kennedy, of tiie Presbyterian church in the parish of Aghadowey,\\ncounty of Londonderry, province of Ulster, Ireland, of which church\\nsome of the first settlers of that portion of Londonderry, now Windham,\\nwere members, has been sent a most cordial letter of invitation.\\nWindham was originally settled by people of Scotch blood, some\\ndirect from Scotland, but most of them from Scotch settlements in\\nthe North of Ireland. The territory now comprising Windham was\\nfrom 1719 to February 12, 1742, a portion of Londonderry. The first\\nsixteen settlers of Londonderry, with their wives and families, were\\nJames McKeen, John Barnet, Archibald Clendennin, John Mitchell,\\nJames Starrett, James Anderson, Randall Alexander, James Gregg,\\nJames Clark, James Nesmith, Allen Anderson, Robert Weir, John Mor-\\nison, Samuel Allison, Thomas Steele, and John Stuart. Of these sixteen,\\nMcKeen, Anderson, Alexander, Clark, Nesmith, and Stuart were each the\\nancestor of the Windham families which bear their respective surnames.\\nThe homes in Ireland of the McKeens, Dinsmoors, McGregors, and Nes-\\nmiths, and many other families which settled in Windham and London-\\nderry, were in the valley of the river Bann, in or near the parishes or\\ntowns of Kilrea, Coleraine, Ballywatick, Ballymoney, and Ballynoolen.\\nIn September, 1719, five months after the first settlement, there were\\nseventy families, and in October there were 105. There is no account of\\nany Indian outrage to an inhabitant of Windham or Londonderry, save\\nthat of the boy who was killed on Golden Brook about 1721.\\nThe first grant of land in Windham was one of 500 acres, ordered by the\\nLegislature of Massachusetts, to Rev. Thos. Cobbett, of Ipswich, that state.\\nIt was surveyed and laid out in October, 1662, by Joseph Davis, Jere-\\nmiah Belcher, and Simon Tuttle. This was approved by the General\\nCourt at Boston, May 27, 1663. The bounds were renewed May 2, 1728,\\nby Jonathan Foster, John Jacques, Thomas Gage, and David Haseltine.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "JEmigration to Coleraine^ Mass. IT\\nThis farm was laid out in 1662, or fifty-seven years before the Scotch\\nmade a settlement in Londonderry, of which Windham was a part. Un-\\ndoubtedly Londonderry had been traversed again and again by exploring\\nand hunting expeditions, before and after 1662 still, it is doubtful if any\\npermanent settlements were made till the advent of the Scotch in 1719.\\nThe first settlement in Windham was southeast of Cobbett s Pond, near\\nthe cemetery, on the highest elevation of Copps Hill. There the first\\nhouse stood, and the first occupant was John Waddell, and this was not\\nfar from 1720. In 1740 an emigration of some fourteen families took\\nplace from Windham and Londonderry, to Coleraine, Mass., among them\\nbeing Morrisons and Stuarts.\\nThe petition to Governor Benning Wentworth, praying for the erec-\\ntion of a new parish, though not dated, was drawn in 1740, and was\\nsigned by Thomas Morison and forty-eight others. In that year Eze-\\nkiel Morison, one of the petitioners, died. Those who signed the in-\\nstrument asked that a tract of land near six miles in length and four in\\nbreadth, lying on the south side, at the easterly end of said town of Lon-\\ndonderry, be made into a new parish. The reasons for presenting the\\npetition were narrated to be considerable difficulty, unknown to others\\nnot in their circumstances, more especially with respect to their attend-\\nance on public worship. It was stated that the greater part of the peti-\\ntioners, or rather all of them except three, were living upwards of seven\\nmiles from either of the meeting houses in said town, the inconveniences\\nof which were self-evident. From this it will be seen that the early set-\\ntlers of Londonderry were church-going people, those asking for the new\\ntown of Windham making their strongest claim on the ground of living\\nat an inconvenient distance from the earliest houses of worship in the\\nsettlement.\\nThe charter for Windham was granted January 21, 1741, and An Act\\nfor incorporating a new parish in the township of Londonderry in the\\nProvince of New Hampshire, was passed by the General Com t Febru-\\nary 12, 1742. It was also enacted that Robert Dinsmoor, Joseph Waugh,\\nand Robert Thomson be hereby authorized and appointed to call the\\nfirst meeting of the inhabitants of the said parish on the 8th day of March\\nfollowing. The charter was granted on the condition that the inhabit-\\nants of the said parish should from time to time provide, maintain, and\\nsupport an orthodox minister of the gospel among them. The charter\\nwas signed by Andrew Wiggin, Speaker Richard Waldron, Secretary of\\nthe Council Board, and B. Wentworth, Governor, and a copy was at-\\ntested by Samuel Campbell, town clerk. The sun which rose on the\\nmorning of February 12, 1742, ushered in a new and brighter day to\\nthose hardy settlers who on that date became the inhabitants of the new\\ntown of Windham.\\nThe first town meeting was held according to the provisions of the\\ncharter, and on March 8, 1742, the initial measures were taken that laid\\nthe foundations for the new town of Windham, upon whose people the", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "18 Noted Men.\\nsun of prosperity has ever shone. It is unnecessary to mention in detail\\nthe more prominent events in the record of the town, for they can all be\\ngleaned from its excellent history that was the fruit of years of assidu-\\nous labor on the part of the widely-known author and genealogist, Hon.\\nLeonard A. Morrison, A. M., and who published the same in 1883. It\\nmay be stated, however, that Windham has always been distinguished for\\nthe enterprise, intelligence, patriotism, and religious culture of its inhab-\\nitants. Education has ever been fostered with care and faithfulness,\\nchurches have been well supported, and her children have always been\\ntaught loyalty to the state and nation. In all the wars in which the\\nUnited States has been engaged, Windham s sons have always done their\\npart, especially in the War of the Rebellion, to defend the flag of their\\ncountry, Windham s first library was established in 1800, which was\\nfollowed by numerous others from time to time, including the Nesmith\\nFree Public Library, which was established in 1871, the donor being\\nCol. Thomas Nesmith, of Lowell. The natural scenery of Windham is\\nnoted for its varied beauty. The diversity of the landscape is such that\\nthe eye never tires in beholding its grand old hills, valleys, lakes, and\\nstreams of water.\\nAmong natives, or descendants of the earliest settlers, now residing\\nbeyond the limits of the town, who have helped to give character and\\nreputation to Windham, may be named ex-Gov. Charles H. Bell, of Ex-\\neter, the two ex-(iovs. Dinsmoor, of Keene, Hon. Wm. H. Anderson, a\\nlawyer of Lowell, George W. Armstrong, of Boston, Hon. Charles H.\\nCampbell, of Nashua, John Campbell, of Henniker, James M. Campbell,\\nof Manchester, Judge George C. Clyde, of Columbia county, N. Y.,\\nMilton A. Clyde, of Springfield, Mass., Hon. James Dinsmoor, of Illin-\\nois, Hon. Silas Dinsmoor, of Alabama, Hon. James Dinsmore, of Ken-\\ntucky, WOliam B. Dinsmore, late president of the Adams Express Com-\\npany, of New York city, Nathaniel Hills, of Ipswich, Mass., Hon. John\\nC. Park, of Boston, Hon. Aaron P. Hughes, of Nashua, Hon. Alva Mor-\\nrison, of Braintree, Mass., Prof. James Morrison, M. D., of Quincy,\\nMass., Hon. John Nesmith, of Lowell, Mass., and Prof. J. L. Noyes, of\\nFaribault, Minnesota.\\nThe work of the committee went rapidly forward. Tlie several\\ncommittees were attending closely to their different lines of labor and\\nworked together hai-moniously and well. Leonard A. Morrison, for\\nthe Committee on Invitations, had printed, on May 11th, 1,100 copies\\nof the following invitation, and on May 12th about 600 single copies\\nwere folded and addressed at the American office, in Lawrence, Mass.,\\nand mailed at Windham to the persons named in a list which had been\\nprepared. Most of the remaining copies were sent by different mem-\\nbers of the Executive Committee to parties in different sections of", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "The Invitation. 19\\nthe country. The responses to this invitation were enthusiastic and\\nnumerous.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00941892.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWindham, New Hampshire.\\nSettled, 1720. Incorporated, 1742.\\nThe Citizens of Windham\\nwill celebrate the\\n150th Anniversary of its Incorporation,\\nJune 9th, 1892.\\nExercises\\nTo Commence at 10 o clock A. M.\\nat\\nThe Town Hall.\\nGive me your hand. Old Friend of Youth.\\nHistorical Address by\\nHon. James Dinsmoor.\\nIt is proposed to make this the most interesting celebration ever\\nheld in the Town. Tents will be erected and everything done to\\nmake the occasion worthy of those in whose honor we celebrate.\\nDescendants of the early settlers, wherever located, natives, and\\nformer residents, are cordially invited to return to the old home, and\\nwith the citizens of Windham participate in the festivities of the day.\\nYour presence is requested.\\nPlease notify the Committee of your acceptance.\\nWilliam C Harris,\\nLeonard A. Morrison,\\nWilliam D. Cochran,\\nAlphonso F. Campbell,\\nCommittee on Invitations.\\nN. B. Visitors from abroad, and guests of the Town, will leave\\ntrains at Windham Junction, from which barges will be run, and\\nwhich can convey them to the Town House. Guests of the Town will\\nbe received by the Committee of Arrangements in the Upper Hall.\\nBarges will run during the day between the Town House and the\\nStation, connecting with aU trains. Particulars will be given in the\\nProgrammes.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "20 The Work Expands.\\nThe next meeting of the committee was on May 28th, and matters\\nof much importance came up, were fully discussed, and decided. The\\ncelebration had grown on the hands of the committee. It had be-\\ncome advertised in all the surrounding country. The occasion was in\\nitself a very fascinating one, and one which always draws a multitude.\\nTen thousand peojjle had gathered in 1869 at the Londonderry cele-\\nbration. It was prophesied by some who had participated in the man-\\nagement of that affair, that this one would draw five thousand people,\\nif it was a pleasant day. Others asserted that three thousand people\\nwould be present. But it was an uncertain quantity, though it was\\nin the air that a large number would be in Windham, if the weather\\nwas fine. They would flock to Windham as men flock to a banquet,\\nor as doves to their windows. They would\\nCome as the winds come, when\\nForests are rended\\nCome as the waves come, when\\nNavies are stranded.\\nAnd the people of Windham wanted them to come, but they wished\\nalso to provide for them in an acceptable manner. Such was the sit-\\nuation of the committee. They were making preparations for 1,000\\npeople, and 5,000 might be present.\\nWilliam C. Harris discussed the subject at length. His solution of\\nthe problem was, that the distinguished guests, speakers, etc., should\\nbe entertained at tables in the lower town hall, the children in Good-\\nwin s hall, and then provisions could be carried among the multitude\\noutside, and the speaking be held in the tent.\\nJoseph P. Crowell took the floor and remarked that he was aware\\nthat we had a big enterprise on our hands, and thought it was imprac-\\nticable to set tables in the tent, as had been intended.\\nSeveral others thought that the present plans would have to be\\nradically changed. All oiu* guests could not be accommodated at the\\ntables, as proposed. A general and lengthy discussion ensued. Then\\nJ. P. Crowell moved that the chair appoint three persons as a special\\ncommittee, to withdraw and draft a plan, in writing, as to the best\\nmethod of feeding the probable thousands who would attend the cele-\\nbration, the best place to have the tent located (as there were serious\\nobjections to the one decided upon), and to make other necessary sug-\\ngestions. The chair appointed Joseph P. Crowell, William C. Harris,\\nand Albert E. Simpson as that committee, and they immediately", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Difficult Questions Solved. 21\\nretired. In three fourths of an hour the special committee returned\\nto the hall and submitted the following report\\n1st. That the tables be set for dinner in the town hall for the distin-\\nguished guests and band, and that tickets be distributed to as many\\nothers as can be seated at the tables.\\n2d. That tables be set in Mr. Goodwin s hall for the school children\\nand teachers.\\n3d. That the balance of the people be seated in the large tent and the\\nfood be passed to them, the tent to be located on the north side of the\\ntown hall.\\nThe report of the committee was quickly adopted as the best solu-\\ntion of a difficult question, and late in the afternoon the meeting ad-\\njourned till Thursday, June 2d.\\nOn the latter date the committee and others met at the town house,\\ncleared up the grove about it, cut down two large trees, an oak and\\nan elm, moved the hearse house to make room for the tent, and\\ngraded up the ground. Some of the public-spirited citizens volun-\\nteered to aid in this work.\\nOn Saturday, June 4th, the Executive Committee met, and, with\\nothers, erected the tent, with the tent manager, after which they met\\nin the town hall.\\nA long list of names was read by the president, and proposed as\\nhonorary officers and members of the committee. On motion of Hor-\\nace Berry, the list of names was adopted by a unanimous vote.\\nThe president stated that, considering the programme which had\\nbeen prepared, it was a matter of absolute necessity that the exercises\\nshould commence promptly on schedule time, and that there should\\nbe no delay.\\nThe preceding is explanatory of the following from the unique re-\\nport of thp secretary\\nThe matter of getting the school children to Schoolhouse No. 6 by\\n9 o clock in the morning was discussed and talked over at some length.\\nJohn A. Park was asked if he could get them there in season, and in fact\\nwas asked point blank by the president if he luould get them there in\\nseason from District No. 1. After a number of heavy shots were fired at\\nhim, he finally agreed to undertake the job (and did it finely). It was\\nthought by the executive committees from the various districts that the\\nschool children would get there in season without any special convey-\\nance. So that matter was settled. L. A. Morrison reported that he had\\nmade arrangements with the Boston and Maine railroad to have the 8:20\\na. m. express train stop at the Junction and let off passengers. He also\\nhad found out the terms by which a special train could be had to run", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "22 Report of the Secretary.\\nfrom the Junction after the 6:30 p. m. train up, so as to accommodate\\nthose who might wish to go to Boston or any other point south later\\nthan the 5 o clock train.\\nIt was moved by James Cochran, and seconded by A. E. Simpson,\\nthat we have a special train from Windham Junction to Lawrence, Mass.\\nCarried by a majority vote, and L. A. Morrison was authorized to secure\\nit.\\nEfforts were made to secure a special train on the Nashua and Roch-\\nester road late in the afternoon of June 9th, by the committee, J. P.\\nCrowell. After consultation with the parties most interested, in Nashua,\\nit was thought best to abandon the project.\\nA. E. Simpson takes the floor, and says he wants to do the carpenter\\nwork on Monday next, as on Tuesday he must go to Lawrence to get the\\ndishes and other things necessary for setting the tables and feeding the\\nmultitude, and on Wednesday he wants about thirty to come (men and\\nwomen) and work all day, to wash the dishes, set the tables, cut the\\nmeat and bread and make the sandwiches, etc. The plans of Mr.\\nSimpson were subsequently carried out.\\nI quote again from the secretary s report\\nThe subject of drinks comes up. It is suggested by H. Berry that\\nwe ought to have a clean barrel set near the town house, with ice water\\nin it and supplied with faucets. The matter was finally settled by a\\nmotion from H. Berry that A. E. Simpson secure two barrels at Law-\\nrence, with faucets, so they can be used to supply the people with all\\nnecessary liquids, to cool the parched tongues and quench the thirst of the\\nheterogeneous crowd. Carried.\\nThe Committee on Barges, Horace Berry, Jolin W. M. Worledge,\\nand Alphonso F. Campbell, were instructed to make the best terms\\npossible in procuring barges. They hired Mr. Abbott, of Derry, who\\ncharged 20 cents a passenger, each way, for transportation from\\nWindham Junction to the town house.\\nThe selectmen were authorized to hire four policemen from some\\nneighboring city for the day of celebration, and the meeting ad-\\njourned, to meet on Monday, June 6th.\\nOn that day a portion of the committee and some others, to the\\nnumber of fifteen, met at the town house and made the seats in the\\ntent, built a stage at the north side of the tent, about equally distant\\nfrom either end, for the speakers, and another at the west end for\\nthe band. The work was continued on Tuesday.\\nOn Wednesday many of the committee and a large number of peo-\\nple met at the town house, when the tables were partially set in the\\nlower town hall and in Goodwin s hall, and the provisions cut and", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Collation Prepared. 23\\narranged for distribution to the people in the large tent the following\\nday. The people of the town provided liberally of provisions, with\\nthe exception of meats and bread, which were purchased by the Com-\\nmittee on Collation, ready for use. The following morning, A. E.\\nSimpson, member of the Committee on Collation, who had had prin-\\ncipal charge of that important branch of the celebration, was, with\\nhis wife and family as helpers, and others of the committee and peo-\\nple of the town, early at the town house, making the final arrange-\\nment for feeding the multitude. Dea. William D. Cochran, chairman\\nof the Committee on Collation, who, the afternoon previous, had\\narrived home from Portland, Oregon, where he was a delegate from\\nthe Boston Presbytery to the Presbyterian General Assembly, was\\npresent, and assisted in the work. The setting of the tables in the\\nlower town hall was completed, all the work that could be done was\\naccomplished, and everything was ready for the public exercises of\\nthe celebration.\\nThe accoxmt of the celebration appears elsewhere.\\nThe day following the celebration, June 10, 1892, the committee,\\nwith others, met at the town house, where the dishes were washed\\nand packed, ready for return to Lawrence; the seats were taken\\ndown and the liunber was piled up, and W. C. Harris was authorized\\nto seU the same. Provisions and personal property on hand were sold\\nby the committee.\\nFrom aU sources $869.95 had been paid in, and A. E. Simpson,\\ntreasurer, reported that there would be a surplus. The committee\\nwere in favor of publishing the proceedings connected with the\\ncelebration, from the commencement to the close. It was moved by\\nWilliam D. Cochran, and seconded by Alphonso F. Campbell, that\\nLeonard A. Morrison be authorized to compile the proceedings.\\nThe committee adjourned subject to the call of the president.\\nAt a meeting of the Executive Committee, July 29, 1892, the fol-\\nlowing resolutions, introduced by Horace Berry, were unanimously\\npassed\\nResolved, That we, the members of the Executive Committee of the\\ncelebration of the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of Windham,\\nN. H., tender our grateful thanks to our former fellow-citizen, Hon.\\nJames Dinsraoor, of Sterling, 111., for his finely-written, able, and instruc-\\ntive address, at the celebration on June 9, 1892.\\nResolved, That the secretary be requested to transmit a copy of these\\nresolutions to Mr. Dinsmoor.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "24 Vote to Print Proceedings.\\nAt this same meeting, on motion of William D. Cochran, the com-\\nmittee voted to print the History and Proceedings of the Celebra-\\ntion of the 150th Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Settle-\\nment by People of Scotch blood, of Windham, N. H., held June 9,\\n1892, as prejjared by Leonard A. Morrison.\\nFigures giving an approximate cost of the publication of the same\\nwere presented by Mr. Morrison, and the committee voted to have\\n1,000 copies printed to use the money in the treasury, $168.44, to re-\\nduce the cost of the work to charge 75 cents a copy for the same,\\nafter thus reduced, and that Mr. Morrison secure the publication and\\nhave charge of the same.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "PROCEEDINGS,\\nJUNE 9, 1892.\\nThe following was the programme prepared for the day by Leonard\\nA. Morrison, William D. Cochran, and William C. Harris, Commit-\\ntee on Literary Exercises. This was carried through successfully, as\\nevery person assigned, with one exception, was present, and filled his\\nallotted place. Three gentlemen, Hon. James W. Patterson, Hon.\\nGeorge Wilson, and Hon. John G. Crawford, who were not upon the\\nprinted order of exercises, accepted invitations to speak.\\nCELEBRATION\\nof the\\n150TH ANNIVERSARY\\nof the\\nINCORPORATION OF WINDHAM,\\nNew Hampshire,\\nJune 9, 1892.\\nPROGRAMME.\\nRinging of the bell at sunrise.\\nMusic by the band on its ai rival.\\nAt 9:30 a. m., the marshal, John H. Dinsmore, Esq., with the\\nband, wiU march with the school children, under the charge of the\\nSchool Board, from schoolhouse No. 6 to the town house, where they\\nwill disband.\\nThe marshal will then escort the officers of the day, the speakers,\\nand invited guests, to the speakers stand.\\n1. The marshal will introduce the president of the day.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "26 The Programme.\\n2. Reading of the Scriptures, Rev. E. B. Blanchard, Andover,\\nMass.\\n3. Prayer, Rev. Augustus Berry, Pelham, N. H.\\n4. Song Give me your hand, Old Friend of Youth, by the\\nWindham Glee Club.\\n5. Address of Welcome, by the president, Leonard A. Morrison.\\n6. Music by the band.\\n7. Reading of the petition for town charter, by the town clerk,\\nJohn E. Cochran, Esq.\\n8. Poem, Mrs. Margaret M. P. Dinsmoor.\\n9. Music by the band.\\n10. Historical address, by Hon. James Dinsmoor, Sterling, 111.\\n11. Song: The Rock of Liberty, by the Glee Club.\\n12. Greetings from over the ocean Letter of Rev. Gilbert Alex-\\nander Kennedy, of Aghadowey, county of Londonderry,\\nIreland.\\nINTERMISSION.\\nInvocation of the Divine Blessing, Rev. Cadford M. Dinsmoor, of\\nExeter, N. H.\\nA social hour will be passed, enlivened by music by the band.\\nAfter dinner, speaking to be resumed in the tent.\\nRESPONSES TO SENTIMENTS.\\n1. The Town of Windham, Evarts Cutler, Esq., New Haven, Ct.\\n2. The Church of Windham, Rev. Samuel Morrison, Charlton,\\nMass.\\n3. Our Public Schools, William C. Harris, Esq., Windham.\\n4. Music by the band.\\n5. The Nesmith Free Public Library, Rev. WiUiam E. Wester-\\nvelt, Windham.\\n6. The Townships of Londonderry and Derry, Our Early Part-\\nners, William H. Anderson, Esq., Lowell, Mass.\\n7. Music by the band.\\n8. Our Scotch Forefathers in Scotland, Ireland, and New Hamp-\\nshire, Rev. Warren R. Cochrane, D. D., Antrim, N. H.\\n9. The Law, Hon. Francis Alexander Marden, New York City.\\n10. Our Native State, New Hampshire, Gov. Hiram A. Tuttle.\\n11. Music by the band.\\n12. The United States, Hon. Frederic T. Greenhalge, Lowell, Mass*", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "The Programme.\\n27\\n13. Windham s Absent Sons and Daughters, and their Children,\\nHon. Albert E. Pillsbury, Boston, Mass.\\n14. Music America by the band, and sung by the audience.\\n15. Closing Words by the president.\\n16. Music by the band.\\nTRAINS LEAVE WINDHAM JUNCTION\\nFor Manchester and Concord,\\n1 48, 4 09, 6 28, 7 30 p. m.\\nFor Lawrence and Boston,\\n3 04, 5 00 p. m.\\nA special train will leave Windham Junction, for Lawrence at\\n6:30 P. M. This train will connect with trains for Boston, and\\nplaces South and East, and will enable visitors to remain till the close\\nof the celebration.\\nFor Rochester and the East,\\n2 20, 2 59, 4 34, 5 37 p. m.\\nFor Nashua,\\n3 46 p. M.\\nBarges will leave the Town House and carry passengers to all\\ntrains.\\nDINNER.\\nI50th Anniversary\\nWindham, N. H.\\nLOWBR HAIvIv.\\nThe Haverhill, Mass., City band, an organization of high repute,\\nfurnished music. It is one of the oldest organizations of the kind in\\nthe country, being organized February 3, 1843. It had the honor of\\nplaying at the dedication of Bunker Hill monument, and its members\\nhave badges worn by former members on that occasion. This is the\\nlist of members present June 9, 1892", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "28\\nMembership of the Band.\\nMEMBERSHIP OF THE HAVERHILL CITY BAND, JUNE 9, 1892.\\nAlbin Kneupfer, Musical Director,\\nWalter H. Goss, Agent, and General Business Manager\\nSolomon Lowe,\\nCharles B. Huntington,\\nGeorge A. Keene,\\nR. B. Edwards,\\nFranz Wilfert,\\nA. D. Wingate,\\nJosejA E. Goodrich,\\nWilliam J. Godfrey,\\nMichael McGirr,\\nC. Oscar Kimball,\\nStephen Ryan,\\nC. F. Berry,\\nJames C. Wilkes,\\nFred W. Connor,\\nA. G. Robertson,\\nHerbert W. W. Downes,\\nCharles Leighton,\\nWilliam Bartoll,\\nHenry Page,\\nWalter Thomas, Drum Major,\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nLawrence.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverliill.\\nLawrence.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nBradford-\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nHaverhill.\\nGov. Hiram A. Tuttle and Mrs. Tattle, together with Attorney-\\nGeneral Albert E. Pillsbury and Mrs. Pillsbury, came on the early\\ntrain, from Boston, which reached Windham about 9 a. m. Leonard\\nA. Morrison, president of the day, boarded the train at Canobie\\nLake, to receive Governor and Mrs. Tuttle. A proper equipage\\nawaited them at Windham Depot. Governor and Mrs. Tuttle,\\nLeonard A. Morrison, Hon. A. E. Pillsbury, and Rev. E. B. Blan-\\nchard rode together from Windham depot to the town hall. Several\\nbarges were present to carry the throngs that had arrived from Mas-\\nsachusetts on the train. On the route many places were beautifully\\ndecorated with bunting and flags, and historic places designated no-\\nticeably, the houses of Horace Berry and Mrs. D. M. Batchelder,\\nand the Manse, occupied by Rev. William E. Westervelt. At Mr.\\nHorace Berry s, the spot where the early Nesmith home was located\\nwas appropriately designated.\\nAt the parsonage, the governor and party were met by the band,\\nwhich played Hail to the Chief. On reaching the upper town", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "Reception of Distinguished Guests. 29\\nhall, members of the Executive Committee, with their ladies, Rev.\\nWilliam E. Westervelt, Mrs. Westervelt, and their daughter, and\\nother citizens of Windham, together with visitors and guests, were\\nwaiting to receive the governor and his party. The reception lasted\\ntiU 10:30 a. m., when the marshal of the day, John H. Dinsmore, Esq.,\\nformed the officers and visitors in line, and escorted them to the\\nspeakers stand in the great tent. The marshal headed the line, fol-\\nlowed by the president of the day and Mrs. Tuttle, Governor Tuttle\\nand Mrs. Attorney-General Pillsbury, Hon. James Dinsmoor, orator\\nof the day, Mrs. Dinsmoor, and other distinguished guests, visitors,\\nspeakers, and officers.\\nPrevious to this, at 10 o clock, the school children of the town\\nformed in procession at the Center schoolhouse. No. 6, and marched\\nthi ough the village to the town hall, conducted by the marshal, John\\nII. Dinsmore. The procession was as follows Haverhill City band,\\n22 pieces school board, Benjamin E. Blanchard, William J. Emerson,\\nand John W. M. Worledge students of Pinkerton academy, carrying\\na banner inscribed, Success scholars of the six public schools with\\ntheir teachers, and carrying banners bearing the mottoes, Punctual-\\nity, Obedience, Kindness, Diligence, Honesty, and Per-\\nseverance.\\nEXERCISES IN THE TENT, JUNE 9, 1892.\\nThe exercises in the tent began at twenty minutes to 11 o clock.\\nThe marshal of the day, John Howard Dinsmore, Esq., entered the\\ntent with the Haverhill City band, under the direction of Albin\\nKneupfer. Then followed the school children, in charge of the mem-\\nbers of the school board, carrying pretty banners. They were hand-\\nsomely attired and took their seats on the left, facing the speakers\\nstand. The great tent was well filled when Mr. Dinsmore, ascending\\nthe platform, called the company to order, and said\\nFellow-citizens, ladies and gentlemen I now have the pleasure of\\nintroducing to you, Hon. Leonard A. Morrison, President of the\\nDay. [Applause.]\\nMr. Morrison Ladies and gentlemen, the exercises of this\\ninteresting occasion will begin with the reading of the Scripture by\\nRev. E. B. Blanchard, of Andover, Mass.\\nMr. Blanchard said I will select, from God s Word, the 44th\\nPsalm, and read the first eight verses", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "30 JSxercises in the Tent.\\n1. We have heard with our ears, God, our fathers have told us,\\nwhat work Thou didst in their days, in the times of old.\\n2. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plant-\\nedst them how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.\\n3. For they got not the land in possession hy their own sword, nei-\\nther did their own arm save them but thy right hand and thine arm,\\nand the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto\\nthem.\\n4. Thou art my King, O God command deliverances for Jacob.\\n5. Through thee will we push down our enemies through thy\\nname will we tread them under that rise up against us.\\n6. For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.\\n7. But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to\\nshame that hated us.\\n8. In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name forever.\\nSelah.\\nAlso from Psalm 78, the first seven verses\\n1. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the\\nwords of my mouth.\\n2. I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings of\\nold:\\n3. Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.\\n4. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the gen-\\neration to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his\\nwonderful works that he hath done.\\n5. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in\\nIsrael, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them\\nknown to their children\\n6. Tliat the generation to come might know them, even the chil-\\ndren which should be born who should arise and declare them to\\ntheir children\\n7. That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works\\nof God, but keep his commandments.\\nAnd from Psalm 102, verses 11 to 28\\n11. My days are like a shadow that declineth and I am withered\\nlike grass.\\n12. But thou, O Lord, shalt endure forever and thy remembrance\\nunto all generations.\\n13. Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion for the time to\\nfavour her, yea, the set time, is come.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Scripture Readings. 31\\n14. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the\\ndust thereof.\\n15. So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the\\nkings of the earth thy glory.\\n16. When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his\\nglory.\\n17. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise\\ntheir prayer.\\n18. This shall be written for the generation to come and the\\npeople which shall be created shall praise the Lord.\\n19. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary\\nfrom heaven did the Lord behold the earth\\n20. To hear the groaning of the prisoner to loose those that are\\nappointed to death\\n21. To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in\\nJerusalem\\n22. When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to\\nserve the Lord.\\n23. He weakened my strength in the way he shortened my days.\\n24. I said, my God, take me not away in the midst of my\\ndays thy years are throughout all generations.\\n25. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the\\nheavens are the work of thy hands.\\n26. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure yea, all of them shall\\nwax old like a garment as a vesture shalt thou change them, and\\nthey shall be changed\\n27. But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.\\n28. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall\\nbe established before thee.\\nThe President: Prayer will be offered by the Rev. Augustus\\nBerry, of Pelham.\\nTHE PBATER.\\nLet us pray Our Father, who art the Lord and the God of all\\nthe earth, whose we are and whom we should serve and acknowledge\\nin all the scenes of life, we rejoice to recognize Thy presence and to\\nrecognize Thy government and Thy providence, and Thy beneficence\\nas we are gathered on this occasion to remember the past, to recall the\\ninteresting and tender scenes of by-gone years. We thank Thee for\\nthis goodly town, this town whose sons and daughters have gone forth", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "32 The Invocation.\\nto distant states, and other parts of the world, and have come back\\nto-day to commemorate the 150th anniversary of its organization.\\nWe thank Thee for all that is benignant in the day for the skies\\nthat are above us, withholding their moisture for the beauties of the\\ngreen earth, and for tliis glad assemblage which has gathered on this\\noccasion. And now we render Thee thanks that in the past there was\\nestablished this municipality which has conserved the rights and in-\\nterests of generations which has stood for justice and for truth. We\\nthank Thee, Heavenly Father, for the fathers who did establish gos-\\npel institutions, and who did care for the interests of education. We\\nthank Thee for the regard which they had for Thy Sabbath and for\\nThy sanctuary. We thank Thee for the virtues of life which distin-\\nguished them, and that there did come through them a posterity that\\nhas made its mark in the world, and has so stood for justice and right\\nand for all the great interests of our humanity. We pray that Thy\\nsmile may rest in an especial manner upon this occasion: we ask,\\nHeavenly Father, that Thou wilt sanctify unto those who have come\\nfrom a distance, those who have come from homes in other places to\\nthis, the home of their ancestors and of their own childhood and as\\nthe tender memories of life come to them and throb in their souls,\\nmay it be a grand uplift to their own souls, and give each a higher\\nand more precious view of the privilege of life, and may it intensify\\nin them the responsibilities of living, and may all go forth from this\\noccasion better prepared for duty, and to glorify the name of God.\\nRemember those in an especial manner who have staid by the old\\nhomesteads, the old hearthstones, and the old interests of this munic-\\nipality. We ask that Thou wilt stimulate their hearts by the exercises\\nof this day and may the toil and service and sacrifice which they\\nhave made to render this occasion a grand welcome to their kindred\\nfrom abroad, inspire them with greater hope, greater faith, greater\\nfortitude, and greater joy in service and wilt Thou spare here, among\\nthese hills and iti these vales, homes of purity, homes of love, homes\\nof Christian nurture, and homes of that intelligence which has char-\\nacterized all the past, as long as the sun shall cause the green to come\\nupon these hillsides and in these vales, and as long as the white man-\\ntles of winter snows shall rest upon these same vales and these same\\nhillsides.\\nWe pray that Thy grace may abound in large measure on this occa-\\nsion to this people, and to all that shall come to occupy homes hei*e in\\nthe future, and when, at length, the great drama of time shall have\\nbeen concluded, may this town have been found to have accomplished", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Crive Me Your Hand^ Old Friend of Youth.\\n33\\nmanifestly and well her great part in human living. May Thy grace\\nabound to us all may Thy benediction rest upon us, and may we be\\nprepared for the sweet, for the blessed, and the eternal reunion in\\nthose vales where the sun never sets, and where sorrow and parting\\nare unknown. We ask all in the name and for the sake of Jesus\\nChrist, who is our Lord, our righteousness, and our Saviour. Amen.\\nThe President Ladies and gentlemen, in 1856 was organized\\nthe Windham Glee club. From that time to the present its ranks\\nhave been unbroken by death. Although out of practice, its members\\nhave very kindly consented to render some music for us to-day, at the\\nearnest solicitation of their many friends. They will now sing the\\nsong, Give Me Your Hand, Old Friend of Youth.\\nThe members of the Glee club, Benjamin E. Blanchard, James\\nCochran, William D. Cochran, Horace Anderson, Milan Anderson,\\nEdwin O. Dinsmoor, and Albert A. Morrison, were applauded as they\\ntook their places upon the platform, and sang the following words\\nGIVE ME YOUR HAND, OLD FRIEND OF YOUTH.\\n1.\\nGive me your hand, old friend of youth,\\nOne hearty shake will do me good\\nThough years have passed since last we met.\\nThe heart s the same tis love renewed.\\nTalk not of palace, prince or crown,\\nOr worldly wealth, that fickle chaff.\\nBut rather round our hearts entwine\\nSweet schoolboy s days and childhood s laugh.\\nChorus\\nGive me your hand, old friend of youth.\\nOne hearty shake will do me good\\nThough years have passed since last we met,\\nThe heart s the same, tis love renewed.\\nChorus.\\nGive me your hand, old friend of youth,\\nThough wrinkles on your brow are seen\\nThose eyes grow dim, but speak the words\\nOf love though years have I olled between.\\nWe ve met the world with all its change,\\nAnd sought its pleasures, felt its pain\\nNow the bright moment s come at last.\\nOf early days we re young again.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "34 Hurrah for Old New England.\\n3.\\nGive me your hand, old friend of youth,\\nGray though we ve grown, old Time keeps pace\\nBrothers are we, in love and truth\\nNo fears have we to end the race.\\nHere s happiness to friends of old,\\nAffection s urn brimful of love\\nSoon will it blossom, and unfold,\\nA glorious flower, in realms above.\\nChorus.\\nThe club rendered the song with remarkable clearness, steadiness,\\nand harmony, and, when they had completed, the applause was so\\nprolonged that they felt bound to respond to the encore. This they\\ndid by singing the old-time popular air, beginning, Hurrah for old\\nNew England and her cloud-capped granite hills.\\nHURRAH FOR OLD NEW ENGLAND.\\n1.\\nThis is our own, our native home,\\nTho poor and rough she be\\nThe home of many a noble soul.\\nThe birthplace of the free.\\nWe ll love her rocks and rivers,\\nTill death our quick blood stDls\\nHurrah for old New England\\nAnd her cloud-capped granite hills.\\nChorus\\nChorus.\\nHurrah for old New England\\nAnd her cloud-capped granite hills.\\nHurrah for old New England\\nAnd her cloud-capped granite hills.\\nShall not the land, tho poor she be.\\nThat gave a Webster birth.\\nWith pride step forth, to take her place\\nWith the mightiest of the earth\\nThen, for his sake, whose lofty fame\\nOur farthest bound ry fills.\\nWe ll shout for old New England,\\nAnd her cloud-capped granite hills.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Address of Welcome.\\n35\\nChorus.\\nChorus.\\nThey tell us of our freezing clime,\\nOur hard and rugged soil,\\nWhich hardly half repays us for\\nOur springtime care and toil;\\nYet gaily sings the merry boy,\\nAs the homestead farm he tills.\\nHurrah for old New England\\nAnd her cloud-capped granite hills.\\n4.\\nOthers may seek a western clime\\nThey say tis passing fair.\\nThat sunnj are its laughing skies.\\nAnd soft its balmy air\\nWe ll linger round our childhood s home,\\nTill age our warm blood chills.\\nTill we die in old New England,\\nAnd sleep beneath her hills.\\nThis song was finely rendered, and was received with much enthu-\\nsiasm by the audience at its conclusion.\\nADDRESS OF WELCOME.\\nLeonard A. Morrison, president of the day, gave the following\\naddress of welcome\\nLadies and Gentlemen\\nWe walk to-day the halls of story,\\nMid pictures of the olden time.\\nAnd voices, from an ancient glory,\\nThat charm us like a silver chime.\\nIt is well to meet upon this interesting occasion. It thrills our\\nhearts with throbbing memories of a past historic, and fruitful of\\ngood deeds. It awakens recollections that are sacred arouses a\\ndeeper veneration for all that was grand, true, and heroic in the char-\\nacters and lives of our predecessors. It causes the patriotic fires to\\nglow with a steadier, brighter, and purer flame. As we review the\\n150 vanished years as there pass before our mental vision the silent\\ngenerations with their accomplished labors as we stand this day and", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "36 The First Residents.\\nmoment in their sacred presence, on this ground which they trod\\nlike the Jewish patriarch of old, we would remove the shoes from off\\nour feet, for the ground on which we stand is holy\\nSurrounded hy these sheltering hills, on these lengthening vales our\\nfathers founded their homes, and lived their eventful lives. With me,\\nturn backward the rolling years, and behold the founders of this set-\\ntlement. Behold them in their ancient homes behold them here.\\nSince their advent, 172 years have joined those beyond the flood, and\\n150 have passed since the incorporation.\\nThis town was a bleak and cheerless wilderness at the advent of its\\nfirst residents. It was vininviting to less dauntless souls but they fal-\\ntered not. With courage undaunted, with tenacity of purpose strong\\nas life, they labored successfully, and laid deep and abiding the foun-\\ndations of the institutions of this township.\\nThey belonged to a class not easily dismayed by obstacles, to a\\nclass that never was, and never could be, permanently subdued or\\nconquered. Ojipressions numberless, sufferings innumerable, and\\nsometimes unto death itself, had they, or their ancestors, endured.\\nYet the heel of no conqueror ever successfully pinioned their strong\\nnecks to the cold bosom of the earth. They could die for the right,\\nbvit they never betrayed it. They belonged to a class who were\\nashamed to die tUl they had accomplished something which added\\nto human knowledge, human advancement, and human joy.\\nThis people were Scotch in blood, Presbyterians in their religious\\nfaith, and John Knox was their great high priest. Their ancestors in\\nthe mountains and moors of Scotland had subscribed to the Solemn\\nLeague and Covenant, and neither king nor pope, prelate nor priest,\\ncould force them to abjure their faith. Their own religious teachers\\nthey judged by the high standard of the Bible.\\nThey were largely from the lowlands of Scotland, the land of\\nBurns and Scott, of Wallace and Bruce the land of fair fields and\\nwild heather, of famous mountains and foaming floods. Persecutions\\nfierce and unrelenting drove them from their native heaths to the war-\\nsmitten province of Ulster in Ireland, and a generation later some of\\nthis same people settled in Londonderry and Windham. Many of\\nthose now before me are their descendants, and at this moment I am\\nlooking into their very eyes. Such were the people who founded this\\ntownship.\\nWhat they and their descendants have accomplished here physi-\\ncally, let the observant stranger behold as he passes through the\\nlength and breadth of the town, in the smiling fields reclaimed from", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Their Scotch Blood. 37\\nthe unbroken forests, and gardens and vast tracts of land freed from\\nrocks and boulders, planted there by Nature s too lavish hand.\\nWhat they and their descendants have accomplished in various di-\\nrections, others sball rehearse to you.\\nThe founders and fathers of this settlement are gone. Their places\\nare vacant. Their memory, fresh and undying, lingers ever with us.\\nTheir strong thoughts are crystallized into living facts and institutions.\\nTheir sparkling wit glitters in many a speech, while the lips which\\nfirst uttered it long ago mouldered back to dust. The fiercely beat-\\ning winds have for long years swept over their resting places on plain\\nand sloping hill. The white wintry blasts have sung their dirge\\nwhile Nature s kindly hand has over them to-day strown the light and\\nheat of summer s sun.\\nNo sigh can reach them,\\nFor they dream an endless dream.\\nSons and daughters of Windham On this anniversary day we re-\\njoice to see you here. We bid you welcome to your early home, and\\nto the home of your fathers. We bid you welcome to our streets, to\\nour hills, valleys, and sparkling waters to our historic places, with\\ntheir associations and tender memories we bid you welcome to hos-\\npitable homes. The arching skies, the smiling fields, the shimmering\\nwaters of every stream, with the warbling notes of every bird of\\nevery tree, give forth their joyous welcome. To friends of every\\ntown of every state, to every stranger here, we give kindliest greeting.\\nWe are all one to-day. One in interest, one in joy, one in recogniz-\\ning the claims of the living and in honoring the memories of the\\ndeparted.\\nIn all that shall stir the heart with irrepressible joy, we unite with\\nyou. In all that shall awaken blessed memories of years that are\\ngone, we rejoice together. We devote this day to these sentiments,\\nassociations, and quickened memories. Once more, my friends, one\\nand all, in behalf of the citizens of Windham, tenderly, gladly, and\\nheartily, I bid you welcome.\\nThe band then struck up the American Overture, composed of\\nnational airs, which was beautifully rendered.\\nThe President Ladies and Gentlemen Hiram S. Reynolds,\\nEsq., secretary of the Celebration Committee, will now announce a\\nlist of the ofl cers of the day.\\nIt was as follows", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "38 Officers of the Day.\\nOFFICERS OF THE DAY.\\nPresident Leonard A. Morrison.\\nVice-Presidents William C. Harris, John H. Dinsmore, Janiies\\nEmerson, WUliam A. Dinsmoor, Jacob Alpheus Nesmith, Isaac P.\\nCochran, Windham Rei Hills, Pelham Samuel Campbell, Derry\\nGeorge W. Armstrong, Boston, Mass. George WUson, New Bedford,\\nMass. WiUiam D. Blanchard, Thomas W. Simpson, Aaron Blanch-\\nard, Lowell, Mass. Benjamin O. Simpson, Cherokee, Iowa Silas\\nM. Moore, Chicago, 111. Robert P. Morrison, Lawrence, Mass.\\nRobert C. Mack, Jonathan McAllister, Londonderry James C Tay-\\nlor, Joseph Montgomery, Greenleaf C. Bartlett, Joseph R, Clark,\\nDerry Francis A. Marden, Nashua Orlando Davidson, Elgin, 111.\\nGeorge Marshall, Everett, Mass. Charles Jesse Simpson, West Som-\\nervUle, Mass.\\nSecretaries Hiram S. Reynolds, Windham George W. Weston,\\nExeter William W. Poor, Derry.\\nMarshal John H. Dinsmore.\\nHonorary Committee Benjamin E. Blanchard, Abel Dow, James\\nBarker, Isaiah W. Haseltine, George F. Armstrong, Joseph C Arm-\\nstrong, Windham Virgil Dow, Methuen, Mass. Charles Cochran,\\nOlivet, Kansas Charles Cutler, Tallmadge, Ohio Jonathan L.\\nNoyes, Faribault, Minn. Carroll Cutler, Talladega, Ala. D. O.\\nSmith, Hudson John Hall, Philadelphia, Penn. Joel C. Carey,\\nDarius Milton Thom, Salem.\\nIn recognition of the early and intimate connection of Londonderry\\nand Derry with Windham, Robert C Mack and Jonathan McAllister\\nof Londonderry, and W. W. Poor, James C. Taylor, Joseph Mont-\\ngomery, Greenleaf C Bartlett, and Joseph R. Clark of Derry were\\nmade honorary officers of the day.\\nThe President In 1742 this town was incorporated. Among\\nits settlers was William Thom. I have in my hand the oldest record\\nbook of the town. These records were written by one who has been\\nsleeping in his grave for nearly one hundred years. This book alsa\\ngives the petition for the incorporation of the town, which will now\\nbe read by John E. Cochran, Esq., the town clerk.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Petition for Charter. 39\\nPETITION FOR CHARTER.\\nTo His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq Gov t and Commander In Chief\\nin and over His Majestys Province of New Hampshire, The Hon^^^ His\\nMajestys Council and House of Representatives for said Province in\\nGeneral Court Convened.\\nI he Petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of the South part of Lon-\\ndonderry in said Province, Humbly Shows\\nThat your Petitioners by the Situation of their estates and Places of\\nresidence in the said Town labor under considerable difficulties unknown\\nto others not in their circumstances more especially with respect to their\\nAttendance on the public worship. The greater part of them or rather\\nall of them except three living upwards of Seven miles from either of the\\nmeetinghouses in the said Town, the inconveniences of which are self\\nevident.\\nThat the Inhabitants of the Parish in the said town to which your\\nPetitioners principally belong, sensible of the difficulties attending your\\nPetitioners in this regard have lately at a public meeting voted what\\nshould be the boundaries of a new parish if the Petitioners can obtain\\nthe aiithority of this court to incorporate them, and that there will be no\\nopposition (as your Petition conceive) from any part of the said Town\\nto the erecting a new parish by the boundaries voted as afores Where-\\nfore your Petitioners most humbly Pray this Hon^ Court to erect a New\\nParish in the said Town by the boundaries aforesaid which will compre-\\nhend a tract of land near six miles in length and four in breadth lying\\non the South side at the Easterly end of the said Town and Take in your\\nPetitioners habitations estates, and that they may be invested with\\nsuch legal powers and authorities as may be sufficient to answer the ends\\nand purposes of such a precinct, and your Petitioners as in duty bound\\nwill ever pray, c.\\nThom. Morrison. Jam Bell.\\nHalbert INIorrison. Sam McAdams.\\nJn\u00c2\u00b0. Dinsmore. Jn\u00c2\u00b0 Bolton.\\nRob Hopkin. Tho Quigly.\\nJohn Cochran. David Gregg.\\nAlexand Dunlap. John Armstrong.\\nJn\u00c2\u00b0 Gillmore. Alexand Park, Jr.\\nJam Dunlap. Alexand Park.\\nRob Tompson. Ezekiel Morrison.\\nJn Wilson. Rob* Dinsmore.\\nJn\u00c2\u00b0 McKye. Sam Morrison.\\nJos Waugh. W Jameson.\\nJn\u00c2\u00b0 Stewart. Jn Kyle.\\nW- Bolton. Ja Gilmore.\\nJ Bolton. Rob Park.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "40 Address of Grov. Hiram A. Tuttle.\\nDavid Bolton. Ja^ Caswell.\\nW Gregg. Jno Kyle, Jr.\\nHenry Campbell. Samuel Campble.\\nW Campbell. Jam\u00c2\u00ab Campble.\\nTho\u00c2\u00bb Campble. NatW Hemphill.\\nHugh Grimes. Sam Smith.\\nW Emerson, Jr. W Waugh.\\nJa Caswel, Jr. Ju\u00c2\u00b0 Gilmore.\\nJno Murray. Jn\u00c2\u00b0 Vance.\\nArthur Grimes.\\nMr. Cochran read this quaint old document very effectively, and it\\nproved of general interest.\\nThe President Ladies and Gentlemen It is a very interesting\\nfact that one of the commissioners appointed by the governor and\\ncouncil to call the first tovrn meeting vpas Robert Dinsmoor, an ances-\\ntor of the orator who wiU to-day deliver the historical address. In\\nthis connection, it is with pleasure that I announce to you that we\\nhave with us the chief magistrate of the state. Upon the progi*amme he\\nwas to respond to a sentiment this afternoon, but he assures me that\\nhe will be obliged to leave before the conclusion of the day s exer-\\ncises, so I shall call upon him in a few moments to respond to this\\nsentiment, Our native state of New Hampshire the bright particu-\\nlar star in the galaxy of states which commands our deepest love. May\\nthe inspiration from the lives of her illustrious sons and daughters, like\\nthe quickening breezes from her granite hiUs, infuse new life, nobler\\nthoughts, and more elevated sentiments into the hearts of her living\\nchildren. To respond to this sentiment, which touches a responsive\\nchord in every soul, I now caU upon His Excellency Governor Hiram\\nA. Tuttle, and I ask you all to give three cheers for the governor.\\nEvery one arose and gave three hearty cheers, the band playing,\\nmeanwhile, Hail to the Cliief.\\nADDRESS OF GOVERNOR HIRAM A. TUTTLE.\\nMr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen I sincerely thank you for\\nthis very cordial gi eeting. I did not come here to-day to make a\\nspeech but rather to listen, and I will say this much, that I am very\\nmuch pleased with what I have heard and seen here. A courteous\\ninvitation brought me to witness the celebration of the 150th anniver-\\nsary of the organization of the goodly town of Windham. Ten years\\nago there was a gathering for a similar purpose of the residents and", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "/W 0^ :^^i-7-^^", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Address of Grov. Hiram A. Tuttle. 41\\nformer residents of my native town, in which I took part, and I am\\nthereby better able to appreciate your impressions and emotions now\\nas you meet and greet each other here. These occasions are desirable\\nand profitable. By them the old and middle-aged are gratified and\\nthe young may be inspired with nobler purposes.\\nWhen the appointed orator and other speakers sketch in pleasant\\nterms the favorable part of our history, and unfold before us the\\nbrave and beneficent deeds and many virtues of our townsmen of the\\npast and present, our breasts swell with commendable pride and our\\nnerves thi ill with delight.\\nI have often shot through Windham rapidly by rail, but have never\\ntarried long enough to become familiar v/ith its special localities. I\\nknow it best through acquaintance with some of its excellent citizens.\\nBut it is a well and widely known fact that Windham, with the other\\ntowns formed from the primitive Nutfield, was exceedingly fortunate\\nin having for its first settlers those sturdy Scotch people who had\\nbeen trained through successive generations in maintaining their re-\\nligious convictions and forms of worship against the most cruel perse-\\ncution in both Scotland and Ireland. Never were emigrant settlers\\nmade of better stuff than were these. They brought with them love\\nof God, a strong, steadfast, abiding faith, love of learning, and a love\\nof civil liberty with the wiU to defend it. They brought with them\\nhabits of industry, economy, and thrift. Bissell s camp and its deni-\\nzens were not in accord with Windham notions.\\nRemembrance of many of the higher benevolent, brave, and bril-\\nliant deeds of people in New Hampshire towns will soon be lost in\\noblivion for want of an appreciative scribe to record them. But\\nWindham has been fortunate in having in one of her own sons a\\nhistorian whose work will transmit to future ages a knowledge of its\\npeople for the past 150 years or more. [Applause.]\\nHaving been called upon to sjDeak for New Hampshire, pardon me\\nfor referring to your history, with which you are all so familiar, to\\nshow that New Hampshire is fortunate in having Windham among\\nits municipalities. She has given the state a governor, who was also\\na member of the national house of representatives. This governor\\nhad a son who in due time succeeded his father as governor. One of\\nthe fair daughters of Windham became the wife of a governor, and\\nalso the mother of a governor who subsequently represented New\\nHampshire in the United States senate. The sons of Windham have\\nattained distinction in each of the learned professions. Among her\\nmen of letters are a college president, three college professors, a dis-", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "42 The Centeiiarian.\\ntinguished editor, and numerous teachers of eminence. In inventions,\\nmanufactures, transportation, and various other branches of extensive\\nbusiness enterprises, the natives of Windham have held high rank.\\nMany of her sons and daughters, seeking broader and more promising\\nfields for the exercise of their genius, enterprise, and industry, may\\nbe fou:id in homes scattered over our country, where prosperity and\\nsuccess have attended them. Such as these and the residents here\\nshould continue to cherish a profound regard for the old town, and\\nnever cease to instil into the minds of their children a love for\\nWindham and its history, and a love, also, for their heroic ancestry\\nbeyond the sea, until Jenney s hill, Cobbett s pond, and Butterfield s\\nrock are no more. [Applause.]\\nAt this point the president conducted to the stage the venerable\\nMrs. Sarali EUenwood, formerly of Pelham, a remarkably well pre-\\nserved lady, who passed her 100th birthday several months before,\\nand who is a resident of Windham. She was presented to the audi-\\nence in these words\\nI am gratified to state this interesting fact, that there is a lady\\nhere, Mrs. Sarah EUenwood, of this town, who has reached the ven-\\nerable age of almost 101 years. [Loud applause.] I now have the\\npleasure of presenting her to you. [Renewed applause.]\\nThe audience showed great interest in the aged lady, who looked\\nbright and smart, and seemed to enjoy the occasion, which she had\\ncome three miles to attend. She bowed and smiled to the audience,\\nand Governor Tuttle helped her to a chair, and seated her comfort-\\nably beside himself.\\nThe President The next thing u2)on the programme, my\\nfriends, is a poem written by Mrs. Margaret M. (Park) Dinsmoor,\\nof th s town, which, by her request, I will now read.\\nONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY.\\nTwo hundred years have sunsets glowed and paled,\\nTwo hundred years of stu-ring tale and song,\\nSince from the moors and crags of Scotia s land\\nA sturdy band uprose and fled from wrong.\\nA fair green isle lay smiling near at hand.\\nAnd bright the grasses trembled in the breeze\\nOf softened air that swept the Emerald isle\\nWhere homes they sought, across the narrow seas.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Mrs. M. M. P. Dinsmoor s Poem. 43\\nNo welcome warm they met on Celtic shores,\\nBut cool dislike that ripened into hate.\\nT was peace they asked. Alas 1 t was war they found,\\nAnd heavy-handed wrong from church and state.\\nThen angry foes and Stuart king pressed hard,\\nWith harrying fire and fight on every side\\nBut staunch and true, their mighty faith ne er shook.\\nThey triumphed even while they fell and died.\\nThe bold MacGregors of the highland clans,\\nWith stout old fighters of the Lowland moor,\\nJoined hands when dire injustice reigned in blood.\\nAnd strove with sword and shot to break its power.\\nIn vain yet o er the waters wild and wide,\\nA rugged land lay open-armed and free.\\nThe west wind wandr ng from the deep pine woods\\nBrought o er the waves the breath of liberty.\\nThe broad seas stretched a helping hand across.\\nAnd ere the century grew old in years.\\nOur shores had welcomed a small pilgrim band,\\nWho thus a victory won o er blood and tears.\\nThey chose a pleasant place among the pines,\\nAnd chestnut groves, where flowing brooks give food.\\nThey planted there the banner of their faith,\\nSang praise, and asked a blessing where they stood.\\nThe God for whom they fought upheld them well.\\nNo red man drew his twanging bow in hate\\nNo fire or flood their hard-earned homes laid waste\\nNor lurking foe in ambush crouched await.\\nThe wild beast fled before their hearthstone s blaze\\nAnd soon broad fields lay smiling to the sky:\\nGnarled oak and towering pine tree soon gave place\\nTo tasseled corn and dancing wheat and rye.\\nThe canny Scotsmen to their western homes\\nBrought thrifty trades and honest craft,\\nAnd soon in every lowly log-built house\\nThe flax-wheel hummed and happy children laughed.\\nThe father to the listeners at his knee\\nTold tales of troublous days in Fatherland,\\nWhere yellow gorse and purple heather bloomed,\\nAnd tassled broom its golden plumy wand", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "44 Mrs. M. M. P. Dinsmoor s Poem.\\nWaved where the craggy hidden pathway lay,\\nWhen Claverhouse with cruel minions crept\\nTo find the secret way, and tracked their steps,\\nThen on theu- homes like mighty whirlwind swept.\\nThey sang old songs of Bothwell Brigg,\\nOr hap of war at direful Killiecrankie\\nThe Battle of the Boyne with joyful notes,\\nOr scorn of Brave MacKye behind the bankie.\\nTheir lives were bare, yet sweetened with the rare\\nAnd beautiful content that true hearts know,\\nThat glorified the labors of each day\\nLike landscape bathed in sunset s afterglow.\\nThe tree thus planted grew apace and strong\\nIts roots struck deep, its branches spread afar,\\nAnd sheltered all who sought its cheery shade\\nTheir numbers grew, their gateways always stood ajar.\\nA vigorous, sturdy shoot from that fair tree\\nSprang up and grew hard by in neighboring soil\\nThe Covenanter grasped hands with Puritan,\\nAnd, side by side, those noble men of toil\\nBuilt church and school and laid foundations broad\\nFor future strength in right and justice true\\nWith conscience clear their steady lives went on\\nWhate er was right, they bravely dared to do.\\nAll honor then to the stern old Scottish men\\nWhose stalwart feet were set beneath our sky\\nWith trust in God, no hand of man could mar.\\nWho came, with battle-scars scarce healed, to die\\nIn stranger land with hardships closed around,\\nFor Peace, sweet Peace, and perfect Liberty,\\nTo worship undisturbed by sound of aught\\nSave winds, and singing birds, and humming bee.\\nOur Fathers claimed, ere yet of two score years\\nThe snows lay white on autumn s fields of brown,\\nA place among the archives of the land.\\nAnd stood among their fellow men a Town.\\nThe century its years has rounded full\\nAnd at the halfway milestone paused a jot.\\nTo greet today, the Birthday of our Town.\\nLet childi-en s children e er forget it not.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "^^^2^^, a.^^^^ 2r\\n;.^fe^", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor. 45\\nBut send a backward glance along the Past\\nAnd gather up the memories ere they fade\\nLet Then and Now clasp hands across the gulf\\nThat three times fifty changeful years have made.\\nLet cheery welcome be on every tongue\\nEach friend meet friend with brightening eyes\\nAnd while with joy old friendships we renew,\\nWe draw still closer yet our clannish ties.\\nWhen fifty years thrice o er have paused again,\\nAnd Progress marked its way with giant stride,\\nLet sons and daughters gather here once more\\nAnd greet our staunch old Scottish town with pride.\\nAt the conclusion of the reading of the poem, the band played a\\nselection entitled O Fair Dove O Fond Dove This arrangement\\nwas really a fantasia on the beautiful song.\\nAfter a few minutes recess the president again called the assem-\\nblage to order and said,\\nAmong the noted families of this town is that of Dinsmoor.\\nThe migrating ancestor came very early to this township. It has\\nhad many illustrious men and beautiful women among its members.\\nThe orator of this day belongs to this family. He is one who has\\ncast honor upon this township and has done credit to himself. I have\\nthe pleasure of introducing to you the Hon. James Dinsmoor, of\\nSterling, Illinois, the orator of the day. [Loud applause.]\\nADDRESS OF HON. JAMES DINSMOOR.\\nMr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen One hundred and fifty\\nyears ago, our fathers, clothed with authority from the legislative\\nbranch of the then province of New Hampshire, assembled in pursu-\\nance of the warrant of the three men named in the charter, at the\\nhouse of James Bell, and by those concurrent acts the town of Wind-\\nham became a living entity. Lord Macaulay has said that A peo-\\nple which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ances-\\ntors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered by remote\\ndescendants.\\nFully appreciating this aphorism of the learned historian, we have\\nassembled to stand upon the ancient ways our fathers trod, and to\\nplace upon memory s altar a tribute of praise to those heroes and her-", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "46 Address by Hon. James Dinsmoor.\\noines who laid the foundation and hewed the architrave of our exist-\\nence as a town. The same sun shines over our heads, the same soil is\\nunder our feet, the same beautiful lakes fill the measure of their an-\\ncient compass, the same limpid streams flow on their course to the\\nsame Merrimack. All else, how changed The very act of incor-\\nporation was in the name of George Second, by the Grace of God, of\\nGreat Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the Faith,\\netc. Then, England was a second-class power in Europe. France\\nand Spain both excelled her in wealth and military splendor, and the\\ntitle of George the Second to be king of France was an ancient fic-\\ntion. France, at that time, held Nova Scotia, with the then strongly-\\nfortified post of Louisburg, both the Canadas, and, in connection with\\ntheir Indian allies, a chain of stations west of the Alleghanies extend-\\ning to Louisiana. The English colonies in this country were then\\npoor and feeble, and probably did not exceed a million of people,\\nscattered along the Atlantic coast with a savage foe always hanging\\non their flank. No brotherly love existed between France and Eng-\\nland, and the superior military tact and finesse of the French with the\\nred man, placed the English colonists in constant alarm from the in-\\ncursions of the French and Indians. The tillable land on the Atlan-\\ntic coast was covered with a dense growtli of timber, which must be\\ncleared oif by the colonists before cultivation of the soil coiild yield\\nsustenance. No pioneer had preceded them, and built a shelter from\\nthe heat, or cold, or storm which the colonist could buy. No roads\\nhad been made, no stream dammed for water power, no miU built for\\nmeal or lumber. There was naught but the broad, savage expanse of\\nland and trees, and naught but the good hands of the colonists could\\ncut the way to the comforts of civilized life. No faint-hearted man\\nwas equal to such an undertaking. He must be a born hero, and his\\nwife must be such as our mothers were.\\nWhat marvellous results have been achieved since that day By\\nthe dread arbitrament of arms the English-speaking races have be-\\ncome the sole masters of the fairest portion of the American conti-\\nnent. What was then a vast vilderness, the abode of savages, has be-\\ncome the seat of the most enlightened and refined people, the richest\\nin agricultural, mineral, mercantile and commercial wealth where\\ncivil and religious liberty, like the air of heaven, pervades the whole\\nland where there are in everyday use, for the ordinary wants of the\\npeople, more miles of better-equipped railroads than in all the rest of\\nthis earth where the whole people are better fed, better clothed, bet-\\nter behaved, than any other nation on the face of the earth where", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor. 47\\nlegislative bodies do not feel compelled to sit in session with their hats\\non, as does the British Parliament, in order to notify the lookers-on\\nthat they acknowledge no man as superior, but preserve the amenities\\nof civilized life while legislating for the most powerful of nations. All\\nthis, and much more, is the product of a century and a half of free,\\nintelligent, and self-applied labor. To whom is the world indebted\\nfor this boon to the human race Whence came the men who had\\nthe physical powers of endurance, to overcome the untamed forces of\\nnature, and subject them to the growing wants of civilized man to\\nface and overcome a savage foe, and, at the same time, the still more\\nwonderful ability to keep up the religious, moral, and political train-\\ning which enabled them to rule their own spirit, which the wise man\\ntold us was greater than taking a city to govern and educate them-\\nselves, and to provide a constitutional, representative government for\\nthemselves, to be transmitted to their posterity The casual student\\nof American history would be led to attribute all this to the Puritan,\\nthe Hollander, the Huguenot, and the Cavalier, as he reads what\\nthese people have written of what has been said and suffered and\\ndone. But we have to do to-day with the Scotch-Irish, the men who,\\nin the early days of the 17th century, carried with them to the north\\nof Ireland that love of God and of hmnan liberty which they had\\nlearned in lowland hut and kirk, and which had become the web and\\nwoof of their moral being. Now, let us see whence our fathers came,\\nand who they were. In blood they were pure Scotch, and in religion\\nthey were Presbyterians. The early history of the Scotch, as a race,\\nis involved in mystery, and I will not attempt to unveil it at this\\ntime. There were several well-defined characteristics which ran in the\\nblood, and have been handed down from generation to genei*ation in\\ntheir posterity, and crop out to this day. The Scotch are not Eng-\\nlish they are not Irish. We know by Roman history that the Ro-\\nmans conquered and held sway over continental Europe, and con-\\nquered England, and held it in subjection 400 years, and we know\\nfrom the same source that they did not and could not conquer Scot-\\nland, and gave up trying. Not only that, but they could not protect\\ntheir subjects in England from the warlike incursions of the Scots.\\nAnd the Roman emperor, Agricola, in order to protect the English\\nfrom the Scots, built a wall twelve feet high and seventy miles long,\\nextending from Solway Firth to the mouth of the Tyne, with a moat\\nthirty-six feet wide and twelve feet deep. But that did not restrain\\nthe Scots, and, subsequently, the Emperor Adrian built a second\\nwall, extending from Newcastle to Carlisle. The intervening terri-", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "48 Address hy Hon. James Dins7noor.\\ntory between the two walls was the fighting ground of the Scots and\\nthe Romans till the inroads o\u00c2\u00a3 the Goths and Vandals on the Eternal\\nCity obliged the Romans to abandon Britain. And, afterwards, Scot-\\nland was never subject to the crowned head of England till England\\nwas obliged, by the divine right of succession, to go to Scotland to\\nget a head to crown. Scotland, up to the time of James First, of\\nEngland, was governed, so far as it was governed at all, by its own\\nkings and subject to the laws enacted by the Scotch parliament, if, in\\ntruth, they can be said to have been subject to any power, save the\\narm that was, at the time being, the strongest.\\nHistory tells us that one of the Scottish chiefs was summoned for\\ntrial for an ofliense against the government. He came willingly, but\\nhe brought with him 5,000 of his dependents, mounted, and armed to\\nthe teeth, as much as to say, I am ready to be acquitted who\\ndoubts it, let him look around me. He was acquitted.\\nThe revival of learning, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,\\nroused the world from that lethargy in which it had been sunk for\\nages. The human mind felt its own strength, broke the fetters of au-\\nthority without reason by which it had been so long bound, and\\npushed inquiries with boldness into all subjects of thought, and reli-\\ngion was one of the fii st objects that claimed its attention. The opin-\\nions of Luther spread from the heart of Germany, with astounding\\nrapidity, over all Europe, and wherever they came, endangered or\\noverturned the ancient system of religion. The vigilance and address\\nof the court of Rome, cooperating with the power of the Austrian\\nfamily, suppressed the teachings of Luther in the southern kingdoms,\\nbut the fierce spirit of the north, irritated by multiplied impositions,\\ncould neither be mollified by the same arts nor subdued by the same\\nforce, and easily bore down the feeble opposition of an illiterate and im-\\nmoral clergy. The form of popery which prevailed in Scotland was\\nof the most bigoted and illiberal kind. Those doctrines which are\\nmost apt to shock the mind, and those legends which farthest exceed\\nbelief, were proposed to that people without any attemj^t to palliate or\\ndisguise them, nor did the j^eople ever call in question the reason-\\nableness of the one or the truth of the other. The power and wealth\\nof the Romish church kept pace with the progress of superstition.\\nThe Scottish kings early demonstrated how much they were under its\\ninfluence, by their vast additions to the immunities and riches of the\\nclergy. The profuse piety of King David I., who acquired on that\\naccoimt the title of saint, transferred almost the whole of the crown\\nlands of the Scottish kings, which were at that time of great extent,", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor. 49\\ninto the hands of the clergy. This example was imitated by his suc-\\ncessors, and this spirit spread among all orders of men, who loaded\\nthe priesthood with new possessions. The Scottish clergy paid one\\nhalf of every tax imposed on land, so that, at the time of the Refor-\\nmation, little (if any) less than one half of the national property had\\nfallen into the hands of the church. This extraordinary share in the\\nnational property was accompanied with a proportionate weight in\\nthe supreme council of the kingdom. The lord chancellor was the\\nfirst subject in the kingdom, both in dignity and power. From the\\nearliest ages of the monarchy to the death of Cardinal Beaton, fifty-\\nfour persons had held that office, and forty-three of them had been\\nchurchmen.\\nSuch was the religious condition of Scotland in 1534, when Henry\\nthe Eighth, of England, threw off the papal yoke, because the pope\\nwould not grant him a divorce from Queen Catharine. Eight years\\nafter that, John Knox began to disseminate the doctrines of the Ref-\\normation among his pupils in Scotland, in consequence of which he\\nwas degraded from the priesthood, denounced as a heretic, and only\\nescaped assassination by flight. He was a man of great oratorical\\npowers, bold and fearless in his speech, captivating in his style, and\\nto Scotland what the justly-celebrated George Whitefield was to\\nEngland, as a preacher, in his day.\\nWe don t know how much we are indebted to that same John\\nKnox. Historians acknowledge that he was the chief promoter of\\nthe Reformation in Scotland. He was born in 1505, in a suburb of\\nHaddington, secured the rudiments of his education at the Had-\\ndington grammar school, and studied philosophy and theology\\nat St. Andrew s college. This fact, which historians have record-\\ned of John Knox, shows us the condition of education in Scot-\\nland in his day. I remember that our college professor of history\\nused to tell us that the common school system, which has been\\nthe glory and the boast of New England, and has traveled west with\\nevery emigrant wagon tiU it has reached the Pacific ocean, originated\\nin Scotland. I have not time to verify his statement, but we find a\\ngrammar school in that little town one hundred years before the May-\\nflower struck Plymouth Rock, and prior to the Scotch emigration to\\nthe province of Ulster. Knox became so obnoxious to Cardinal Bea-\\nton and Archbishop Hamilton that he was obliged to seek safety in\\nconcealment in the castle of St. Andrews, where he resumed his\\nduties of teaching, giving lectures on the scriptures, and regularly\\ncatechising his hearers in the parish church in which he ministered.\\n4", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "60 Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor.\\nWhile there, the castle was invested by the French force sent to the\\nassistance of the regent, Arran, and the garrison, after a brave and\\nvigorous resistance, was obliged to capitulate, and all witliin it were\\ncarried to France as prisoners of war. The captives were detained\\nin the galleys in France more than a year, and Knox, in that place of\\nconfinement, wrote out a confession of his faith, and transmitted it to\\nthe adherents of the Reformed reUgion, in Scotland. This is the ear-\\nliest written confession of Presbyterian faith of which we have any\\naccount. His reputation, and zeal in the Reformation commended\\nhim to Archbishop Cranmer, of England and, through the interposi-\\ntion of Edward Sixth of England with the king of France, Knox\\nwas released, passed over to England, appointed by the privy coun-\\ncil preacher of the reformed doctrines, preached before his majesty,\\nEdward the Sixth, at Westminster, was offered the bishopric of Roch-\\nester, but declined it, and returned to Scotland.\\nIt wUl be kept in mind that, all this time, the influence of the\\ncrown, so-called, in Scotland, was adverse to the Reformation, and\\nyet, in August, 1560, the Presbyterian religion received the sanction\\nof the Scotch parliament, the old ecclesiastical courts were abolished,\\nand the exercise of a religious worship according to the rites of the\\nRomish church entirely prohibited. Wlien King James the Sixth\\nwas crowned, John Knox jireached the coronation sermon, the first\\ncoronation sermon ever preached by a Protestant. AVhen James the\\nSixth, of Scotland, became king of England and Ireland, as well as\\nScotland, he found that the province of Ulster, and, indeed, about\\none fourth of the territory of Ireland, had been depopulated by wars\\nto subdue rebellions, and that by biUs of attainder passed by the\\nEnglish parliament, the lands had reverted to the crown. King\\nJames, with a Scotch eye to home industry and thrift, conceived the\\nplan of re-peopling those waste places with an industrious, thrifty,\\nloyal people. The method adopted was the only one that has proven\\nsuccessful in colonization. The land was vacant. The man of enter^\\nprise, courage, push the man in debt who wanted another chance of\\nsuccess, with different surroundings the man who was hemmed in\\nwith too close neighbors, or crowded out by the ill-tempered and over-\\nbearing, woidd see the chance to assert himself, and, with nerves of\\nsteel, would take up his line of march for the promised land. It was\\nthe process of sifting out the sturdy, self-reliant, independent men and\\nwomen from every neighborhood in which that class could be found.\\nIt was but natural that the lowlands of Scotland should furnish the\\ncomplement of people for such an enterprise. They were educated", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Address by Hon. James Dinsmoor. 51\\nto think for themselves. They had adopted the Presbyterian form of\\nchurch government under the teaching of the peerless John Knox, and\\nin the church polity had the fundamental principles of self-govern-\\nment. They went upon the lands as tenants, and by their industry\\nand tact reclaimed the province of Ulster from the ruins of the cruel\\nwars that had wasted the substance of its former inhabitants, started\\nits commerce, built up its manufactures, and made it rich in herds and\\nflocks. The colonists flourished during the reigns of James the First,\\nCharles the First, during the Commonwealth under Cromwell, and\\nunder Charles the Second, to such an extent that Macaulay says that,\\nin 1688, when King James the Second, after being deposed from the\\nthrone in England, undertook, with the Celtic inhabitants of Ireland,\\nto drive out or kill the Protestants, Though four fifths of the popu-\\nlation of Ireland were Celtic, and Roman Catholics, more than four\\nfifths of the projDerty of Ireland belonged to the Protestants, in the\\nterritory settled by colonists under James the First. Thus we see\\nwhat the Scotch colonists had done for themselves, in about eighty\\nyears in the abandoned and desolate province of Ulster.\\nNow, the reader of this history naturally asks himself what possible\\nobject had the king of Ireland, as he styles himself, in arming four\\nfifths of the inhabitants of his country, to make war on the other one\\nfifth, who were peaceable, industrious subjects, unarmed, making no\\nthreats of war, and who had taken a waste territory, and in eighty\\nyears had produced out of the soil five times as much as all the other\\ninhabitants had accumulated in all the previous history of the country.\\nCertainly he could not have thought of the well-being of his subjects\\nfor a moment. The trouble with him was that these peaceable, thi if ty,\\nlaw-abiding citizens did not think as he did, nor as the non-productive\\nfour fifths of his people did, on the subject of religion. The Irish\\nnation, so called, that is, the Celts, were called to arms, and the call\\nwas obeyed with promptitude and enthusiasm indeed, that is the\\nleading characteristic of the Celts to this day. The flag on the castle\\nof Dublin was embroidered with the words, Now or never Now\\nand forever.\\nNever, in modern Europe, was there seen such a rising of the\\nwhole people. The habits of the Celtic peasant were such that he\\nmade no sacrifice in quitting his potato patch for the camp. He loved\\nexcitement and adventure.\\nThe army, which had previously consisted of eight regiments, was\\nincreased to forty-eight, which were full to overflowing. The pay of\\nthe soldier was threepence a day, and only half of this was given in", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "52 Address hy Son. James Dinsmoor.\\nmoney. But a far more seductive bait was the prospect of boundless\\nlicense. The garners, the cellars, the flocks, and the herds of the\\nminority were abandoned to the majority. Whatever the regular\\ntroops spared was devoured by bands of marauders, who overran\\nalmost every barony in the island. Every smith, every carpenter, and\\nevery cutler was at constant work on guns and blades.\\nIf any Protestant artisan refused to assist in the manufacture of\\nimplements which were to be used against the Protestants, he was\\ncast into prison. The Protestants not only were not protected by the\\ngovernment, but were not permitted to protect themselves. It was\\ndetermined that they should be left unarmed in the midst of an armed\\nand hostile population. A day was fixed on which they should bring\\nall their swords and firelocks to the parish churches, and it was\\nordered that every Protestant house in which, after that day, any wea-\\npon should be found, shoidd be given up to be sacked by the soldiers.\\nChief Justice Keating, a Protestant, and almost the only Protestant\\nwho held official position in Ireland, struggled courageously in the\\ncause of justice and order, against the united strength of the govern-\\nment and the populace. Whole counties, he said, were devasta-\\nted by a rabble resembling the vultures and ravens which follow the\\nmarch of an army. Most of these wretches were not soldiers, and\\nacted under no authority known to the law, yet it was, he said, but too\\nevident that they were encouraged and screened by some who were\\nhigh in command. How else could it be that a market overt for\\nplunder should be held within a short distance of the capital Noth-\\ning was more common than for an honest man to lie down rich in\\nflocks and herds acquired by the industry of a long life, and to awake\\na beggar.\\nIt was to small purpose that Justice Keating attempted, in the\\nmidst of that fearful anarchy, to uphold the supremacy of the law.\\nPriests and military chiefs appeared on the bench for the pui pose of\\noverawing the judge and coimtenancing the robbers. One rufiian\\nescaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Another declared he\\nhad armed himself in conformity to the orders of his spiritual guide,\\nand according to the example of many persons of higher station than\\nhimself, whom he saw at that moment in court. The chief riches of\\nthe Protestants consisted in flocks and herds. More than one gentle-\\nman possessed twenty thousand sheep and four thousand cattle. The\\nfreebooters who now overspread the country belonged to a class which\\nwas accustomed to live on potatoes and sour whey, and which had\\nalways regarded meat as a luxury reserved for the rich. These men", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor. 53\\nrevelled in beef and mutton, as the savage invaders who of old poured\\ndown from the forests of the north, on Italy, revelled in Mussic and\\nFalerian wines. A French ambassador reported to his master that in\\nsix weeks 50,000 cattle had been slain, and were rotting on the ground\\nall over the country. Any estimate which can be made of the value\\nof property destroyed during this fearful conflict of races must neces-\\nsarily be inexact. The Quakers were neither a very mmierous nor a\\nvery opulent class. It is supposed that they did not exceed one-\\nfif deth part of the Protestant popidation of Ireland. They were non-\\ncombatants, and undoubtedly better treated than any other Protest-\\nant sect, yet they computed their loss at \u00c2\u00a3100,000. In Leinster,\\nMunster, and Connaught, it was impossible for the Protestants, few\\nin number, to make any effectual resistance to this terrible outbreak\\nof the aboriginal population.\\nMany families submitted, delivered up their arms, and thought\\nthemselves happy in escaping with life. Many resolute and high-\\nspii ited gentlemen and yeomen were determined to perish rather than\\nyield. They packed up such valuable property as could be easily\\ncarried away, burned what they could not remove, and, weU armed and\\nmounted, set out for those spots in Ulster which were the strongholds\\nof their race and faith. The flower of the Protestant population of\\nMunster and Connaught found shelter in Enniskillen. Whatever was\\nbravest and most true-hearted in Leinster took the road to London-\\nderry. To reduce the Protestants of Ulster to submission before aid\\ncould arrive from England, was the chief object of Tyrconnel. A\\ngreat force was ordered to move northward, under the command of\\nRichard Hamilton. The coxmtry behind him was a waste, and soon\\nthe country before him became equally desolate, for, at the fame of\\nhis approach, the colonists burned their furniture, pulled down their\\nhouses, and retreated northward. The fugitives broke down the\\nbridges and burned their ferry boats. The people of Omagh de-\\nstroyed their dwellings so utterly that no roof was left to shelter the\\nenemy. The people of Cavan emigrated in one body to Enniskillen\\nall Lisburn fled to Antrim, and, as the foe came nearer, all Lisburn\\nand Antrim came pouring into Londonderry. Thirty thousand Prot-\\nestants of both sexes, and of every age, were crowded behind the\\nearth walls of that city. The siege of Londonderry continued 105\\ndays. During all this time the walls were closely besieged, and all\\ncommunication with the outside world for supplies of any kind was\\ncut off. No preparation for a siege had been made by the Protest-\\nants, nor was it expected by them. The city was destitute of all mill-", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "54 Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor.\\ntary and civil government. No man in the town had a right to com-\\nmand any other the defences were weak, and provisions scanty. An\\noverplus of people had crowded into the place, with no suitahle ac-\\ncommodations for their ordinary comfort even in times of peace. An\\nincensed tyrant and an army of savages were at the gates. Whatever\\nan engineer might think of the strength of the ramparts, all that was\\nmost intelligent, most courageous, most high-spirited, in Leinster and\\nUlster was crowded behind them. The number of men capable of\\nbearing arms, within the walls, was 7,000, and the whole world could\\nnot have fui-nished 7,000 men better fitted to meet such a terrible\\nemergency with clear judgment, dauntless valor, and stubborn pa-\\ntience. The pecidiar situation in which they had been placed as colo-\\nnists in Ireland had developed in them some qualities which in the\\nmother country might have remained latent. They had been enabled\\nby superior intelligence, a close union, sleepless vigilance, and cool\\nintrepidity, to keep in subjection a numerous and hostile population.\\nAlmost every one of them had been, in some measure, trained both\\nto military and civil functions, and they were fitted both to command\\nand to obey in any position and in any emergency in which they\\nmight be placed. Let us examine the situation in which the people\\nof Londonderry were placed at this time.\\nIn 1609 the corporation of London entered into an agreement to\\nrebuild Derry, and that the liberties of the city should extend three\\nmiles every way. The Society of the Governor and Assistants\\nLondon, of the new plantation in Ulster, was granted the towns of\\nDerry and Coleraine, with 4,000 acres, besides bog and mountain, at\\nDerry, and 3,000 acres at Coleraine, and the fisheries and ferries of\\nthe Foyle and Bann. The society was to maintain a garrison in Cul-\\nmore Castle forever, and to fortify and enclose Derry (henceforth to\\nbe called Londonderry) with stone walls. By the same charter the\\ncitizens of Londonderry were incorporated by the name, The Mayor\\nCommonalty and Citizens, and had the power to appoint two sheriffs\\nof the city and county, and to send two members to the Irish parlia-\\nment. The walls of Derry were laid out and built at a cost of neai-ly\\n\u00c2\u00a390,000. A dry ditch eight feet deep and thirty feet broad ran from,\\nthe west end along the south to the water s edge, which cost, vrith\\nother fortifications, \u00c2\u00a32,300. Five hundred and fifty-eight pounds\\nwas spent for arms, \u00c2\u00a340 for ordnance, and \u00c2\u00a314,000 for building 111\\nhouses, all defrayed by the city of London. In 1617, Mathias Spring-\\nham, a Londoner, at his own expense, erected the original free school\\nhouse. Ireland was at that time a kingdom, dependent on the crown", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor. 55\\nof England, and a part of the royal inheritance, and, therefore, must\\nfollow its fate, which it could not decline without ruin to its own\\ninterest. Now, King James having abdicated the throne of England,\\nWilliam the Third being in possession of it by the consent of the\\nparliament of England, was de facto king of England and Ireland,\\nand it was the duty of Protestants in Ulster to be subject to the\\ncrown of England. No wonder that the peaceable, industrious, thrifty,\\nUlster men should refuse to acknowledge as their sovereign James the\\nSecond, who had lost the throne of England by his own stupidity.\\nThe men of Londonderry knew that they were right, and, as Shake-\\nspeare says,\\nThrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just\\nAnd he but naked, though locked up in steel,\\nWhose conscience with injustice is oppressed.\\nThe situation of the English government at this time, it will be re-\\nmembered, was very trying. James the Second had just been deposed,\\nand William the Third, Prince of Orange, had come over from Hol-\\nland, and had been recognized by the parliament as king. King\\nJames, with the aid of the king of France, had gone into Ireland, and\\nin person taken command of the Catholics, with the hope of rallying\\nall the Catholics in the kingdom to his support, and driving the Prince\\nof Orange out. WiUiam had not yet got full hold of the lines in the\\nthen, to him, new covmtry, and the people of England had been so\\ndemoraUzed with the conduct of the deposed king, with fresh memory\\nof the execution of Charles the First, and the Commonwealth of Crom-\\nwell, that a painful uncertainty prevailed in the minds of the people\\nas to Avhat would be done by the new made king.\\nThere was no disposition on the part of the House of Commons to\\nlet the brave people of Londonderry and Enniskillen be butchered or\\nstarved by the one hundred thousand at the command of James the\\nSecond. An expedition, which was thought to be sufficient for the\\nrelief of Londonderry, was dispatched from Liverpool under the com-\\nmand of Kirk. On the 16th of May, Kirk s troops embarked, but he\\ndid not reach Londonderry till the evening of the 31st of July. The\\ntrue condition of the garrison can be learned by the account given in\\nJuly.\\nThe condition of the city was, hour by hour, becoming more fright-\\nful the number of the people had been thinned more by famine and\\ndisease than by the fire of the enemy. Yet the fire of the enemy was\\nas constant as ever. Every attack was still repelled by the besieged,", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "56 Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor.\\nbut the fighting men were so much exhausted that they could scarcely\\nkeep their feet. A very small quantity of grain remained, and was\\ndoled out by mouthfuls. The stock of salted liides was considerable,\\nand by gnawing them the garrison ap}3eased the rage of hunger.\\nNine horses were still alive, but barely alive. They were so lean\\nthat little meat was to be found on their bones. It was, however, de-\\ntermined to slaughter them for food. The people perished so fast\\nthat it was impossible for the survivors to perform the rites of sepul-\\nture, and almost every cellar contained an unburied dead body. And\\nyet in this extremity the cry was No sui vender, and it was no slight\\naggravation of the suffering of the garrison that all this time the Eng-\\nlish ships, sent for their relief in May, were in Lough Foyle, the com-\\nmander, Kirk, not having courage and tact enough to sail past the\\nenemy s batteries, on the banks of the Foyle, and break through the\\nboom that had been placed in it to prevent the landing of supplies in\\nLondonderry. At the last he received from England peremptory\\norders to relieve Londonderry, and he set about obeying the order.\\nAmong tlie merchant ships that had come under his convoy, was one\\ncalled Montjoy, con.manded by Micajah Browning, a native of Lon-\\ndonderry, which had a cargo of provisions for the starving garrison.\\nHe had repeatedly remonstrated against the inaction of the fleet, and\\nnow eagerly volunteered to take the first risk of succoring his fellow-\\ncitizens, and his offer was accepted. Andrew Douglas, master of the\\nPhoenix that had on board a great quantity of meal from Scotland,\\nwas willing to share the danger and the honor.\\nThe two merchantmen were escorted by the Dartmouth, frig-\\nate of thirty-six gmns, commanded by Capt. John Leake. It was\\nthe 30th of July. The sun had just set. The evening sermon in the\\ncathedral was over, and the heart-broken congregation had just sepa-\\nrated, when the sentinels on the tower espied the sails of three vessels\\ncoming up the Foyle. Soon there was a stir in the Irish camp. The\\nbesiegers were on the alert for miles along both shores. The ships\\nwere in extreme peril, for the river was low, and the channel ran\\nnear the left bank, where the headquarters of the enemy had been\\nfi:xed, and Avhere the batteries were the most numerous.\\nLeake performed his duty with a skill and spirit worthy of his\\nnoble profession, exposing his frigate to cover the merchantmen, and\\nusing his guns with great effect. At length the little squadron came\\nto the place of peril. The Montjoy took the lead, and went right at\\nthe boom. The huge barricade cracked and gave way, but the shock\\nwas so great that the Montjoy rebounded and stuck fast in the mud.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor. 57\\nA yell of triumph rose from the banks the Irish rushed to their\\nboats, and were prepared to board, but the Dartmouth poured on\\nthem a well-directed broadside, which threw them into disorder.\\nJust then the Phoenix dashed at the breach which the Montjoy had\\nmade, and was in a moment within the fence. Meantime the tide was\\nrising fast the Montjoy began to move, and soon passed safe through\\nthe broken stakes and floating spars. But her brave master was no\\nmore. A shot from one of the batteries had struck him, and he died\\nthe most enviable of all deaths, in sight of the city of his birth, of his\\nhome, which had just been saved by his courage and self-devotion\\nfrom the most frightful form of destruction. The night had closed\\nin before the conflict at the boom began, but the flash of the guns was\\nseen and the noise heard by the lean and ghostly multitude that cov-\\nered the walls of the city. When the Montjoy grounded, and the\\nshout of triumph rose from the Irish on both banks of the river, the\\nhearts of the besieged sank within them. One who endured the un-\\nutterable anguish of that moment, has told us that they looked fear-\\nfully livid in each other s eyes.\\nIt was 10 o clock before the ship arrived at the quay. The whole\\npopulation able to move was there to welcome them a screen made of\\ncasks filled with earth was hastily thrown up to protect the landing\\nplace from the batteries on the other side of the river, and then the\\nwork of unloading began. First were rolled on shore barrels which\\ncontained six thousand bushels of meal. Then came great cheeses,\\ncasks of beef, flitches of bacon, kegs of butter, sacks of pease and bis-\\ncuit, and ankers of brandy.\\nA few hours before this, half a pound of tallow and three quarters\\nof a pound of salted hides had been weighed out, with scrupulous care,\\nto every fighting man in the garrison. The ration that each now\\nreceived was three pounds of flour, two pounds of beef, and a pint of\\npease. The Irish guns roared all night, and all night the bells of the\\nrescued city answered them with peals of joyous defiance.\\nThrough the whole of July 31st the batteries of the besiegers\\ncontinued to play, but soon after sunset flames were seen arising from\\nall their camps, and on the morning of the first of August, a line of\\nsmoking ruins marked the site they had lately occupied, and far o\u00c2\u00a3E\\nwas seen the long column of pikes and standards, retreating up the\\nleft bank of the Foyle. Thus ended the siege of Londonderry. Of\\nthe seven thousand effective men in the garrison when the siege began,\\noidy about three thousand remained. The loss of the besiegers is not\\nknown.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "58 Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor.\\nThus we see that the little city of Londonderry in Ireland, then a\\ndependency of the crown of England fortified not by military skill,\\nnor naval armaments, but by heroic, Protestant, Christian hearts,\\ndevoted to the cause of religious freedom, became the arena upon\\nwhich the fate of the liberties, not only of Great Britain but of\\nAmerica, was to be decided. The defence of Londonderry, by\\narresting the onward march of King James toward Scotland, whither\\nit was his intention to go, after the Protestants of Ulster had been\\nsubdued, contributed largely to his ultimate overthrow, the establish-\\nment of the revolution which secured William and Mary on the\\nthrone of England, and gave Protestantism to Great Britain.\\nSo important did King William and the British Parliament con-\\nsider this defence, and so highly did they appreciate the heroic valor,\\nendurance, and moral worth of the defenders, that in addition to all\\nother acknowledgments, an act was passed exempting from taxation\\nthroughout the British dominions, all who had borne arms in that city\\nduring the siege. Of this act, those of the defenders who settled in Lon-\\ndonderry, N. H., availed themselves until the American Revolution and\\ntlieir farms were marked exempt on the assessment rolls. From the\\nloins of the heroes of Londonderry sprang our fathers. Of the six-\\nteen families that first settled in our town when it was called Lon-\\nderry, James McKeen, John Barnet, James Anderson, Randal Alex-\\nander, James Clark, James Nesmith, John Stuart, John Morrison,\\nArchibald Clendenin, Samuel Allison, by themselves or their immedi-\\nate descendants, helped to people that part of Londonderry of which\\nour town of Windham was made. The emigration of the Scotch-\\nIrish to America did not proceed entirely from the siege of London-\\nderry, and the war of James the Second. For, as early as 1631, hav-\\ning heard of the success of the Independents, who had settled at\\nPlymouth eleven years before, and another settlement at Salem, the\\nPresbyterians of Ulster, anxious to escape, if possible, from the injus-\\ntice of the perfidious Charles the First, whose reign bad just com-\\nmenced, began to make preparations to remove to America. Agents\\nwere appointed who proceeded to London to procure a passage to New\\nEngland. Soon after this they sent over an agent who pitched upon\\na tract of land near the mouth of the Merrimack whither they\\nintended to transport themselves, and in pursuance of this, in 1636,\\nthe Eagle Wing, a vessel of one hundred and fifty tons burthen,\\nsailed from Loch Fergus with one hundred and forty emigrant pas-\\nsengers, bound for New England, following directly in the track of\\nthe Mayflower. Four of her passengers were distinguished Pres-", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "Address by Hon. James Ditismoor. 59\\nbyterian preachers, Blair, Livingston, Hamilton, and McClelland.\\nHer passengers were to have settled on the Merrimack river, but the\\nvessel encountered storms off the coast, and was so badly damaged\\nthat the master felt it unsafe to cross the ocean, and put back into\\nthe same harbor. This company of men, Dr. Foote says, were\\nsubsequently the efficient agents in the hands of God of embodying\\nthe Presbyterianism in Ireland, of spreading their principles far and\\nwide, and marshaling congregation after congregation, whose industry\\nmade Ulster blossom as the rose. It was better, says he, that\\nGod s wise providence sent them back to Ireland and shut them up to\\ntheir work, and it was best of all that they laid the foundation of that\\nchurch which may claim to be the mother of the American Presby-\\nterian church. And while that attempt of the Ulster men, made in\\n1636, was unsuccessful, yet it is more than probable that it was the\\ncause of our ancestors coming to Londonderry nearly a century after-\\nwards. For we find them in 1718, when they landed, immediately\\ninquiring for lands on the Merrimack river. Another well authenti-\\ncated fact in this connection deserves oiu consideration, as a century\\nand a half stone, to be looked at, to see whether, in a humanitarian\\nview, we of this age and generation have advanced or retrograded\\nsince 1718. No less than five vessels of emigrants from Ulster\\narrived on the coast of New England, but, forbidden to land at Boston,\\nthe immigrants moved up the Kennebec and landed. But the winter\\nof 1718-19 being one of unusual severity, the great majority of these\\nsettlers left the Kennebec and went overland to Pennsylvania, and\\nsettled in Northampton county. My authority did not state positively\\nwhy the Ulster people were not permitted to land in Boston harbor,\\nbut intimates that it was because they were not Pm itans.\\nWe know that good Roger Williams was driven out of Massachu-\\nsetts, and with like reason good Presbyterians from Ulster might not\\nhave been permitted to land. This act, apparently discreditable to\\nthe authorities of Boston in 1718, I cannot recite without naming in\\nthe same connection the fact, as given by Willis in his History of\\nPortland, that in the autumn of 1718, a vessel arrived in the harbor\\nwith twenty families of emigrants from Ireland. They were rigid\\nPresbyterians. They suffered severely in the winter from the failure\\nof their provisions. The inhabitants, not having either food or shelter\\nfor so large an increase of poi3ulation, petitioned the General Court at\\nBoston for relief, and on this application the General Court ordered\\nthat one hundred bushels of meal be allowed and paid out of the\\ntreasury for the poor Irish people mentioned in the petition. It is", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "60 Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor.\\nsubjoined, in a note to this account, that James McKeen, grandfather\\nof the first president of Bowdoin College, was of this company and the\\nagent who selected the land on which they settled. The latter facts\\nmake it evident that our ancestors were aided in their settlement by\\nthe Great and General Court of Massachusetts.\\nAnd while it is not entirely improbable that our ancestors were in\\none of those five vessels that were turned down to Casco bay to find\\na harbor, yet I would prefer to think that in lieu of its being done by\\nthe authority of the town it was by some one man, for as Shakespeare\\nsays\\nProud man\\nDrest in a little brief authority,\\nMost ignorant of what he s most assured,\\nHis glassy essence, like an angry ape,\\nPlays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,\\nAs make the angels weep.\\nWhat New England lost by the turning away of those five vessels,\\nwith their living freight, of sturdy, God-fearing Presbyterians from\\nUlster, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, nay the whole coun-\\ntry and the world at large, gained. Any one who studies the history\\nof the Scotch-Irish race will be forced to believe that in the providence\\nof God there are no accidents.\\nThe skilled metalurgist knows that it is not only necessary to select\\nthe desired metal with care but it is as necessary to submit it to fer-\\nvent heat, to expel the dross and slag, and when the pure metal\\npours from the furnace the fitting mould must be ready to receive it\\nand give the molten mass form and comeliness and if the material\\nis designed to receive a polish it must be taken from the mould and\\nwith its kindred pieces placed in a revolving cylinder and kept\\nrev9lving till, by continual contact, the casting is scoured and made\\nready for the burnisher. Our ancestors were selected in Scotland,\\nthe best man-metal the world ever exhibited. They were molten by\\nthe wars and persecutions, foreign and domestic, and by the preach-\\ning of John Knox and his coadjutors moulded into Presbyterians, all\\nI ight, stiff, and strong. But they must be scoured before they can\\nreceive the polish and grace of which they are susceptible. Over in\\nthe desolate, poverty-stricken, war-wasted, God-forsaken, priest-ridden,\\nIreland is just the place to scour the castings and there they went in\\nGod s providence.\\nOne hundred years of scouring in Ireland made a race of men fit\\nfor transjjlanting to America, of whose superiors history has as yet", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor. 61\\nmade no record. When the report from the first emigrants to\\nAmerica reached their friends in Ulster, shipload after shipload\\nfollowed in quick succession and settled in the immediate vicinity, if\\npossible, of their predecessors.\\nSo we find that the sixteen families that on the 11th of April, 1719,\\nselected the common field on the north side of the brook as the first\\nsettlement in Londonderry, on the 23d of September of the same\\nyear had increased by immigration from Ulster to seventy families,\\nand had petitioned the General Court of New Hampshire for corporate\\nexistence as a township. There was no Lord Baltimore, no William\\nPenn, no City of London, nor any patron behind this colony to give it\\naid, place, or power.\\nOur fathers brought with them and introduced into North America\\nas an article of diet, the potato, called, and known from that day to\\nthis, the Irish potato, the Scotch being left o\u00c2\u00a3E for short, I suppose\\nas it is well known that the potato was first found by Sir Francis\\nDrake in South America and taken by him to England.\\nAn examination of the town charter of Londonderry shows the first\\nand only evidence I ever saw of an inflation of the currency by the\\npotato. The charter provides, among other things, The same men\\nand inhabitants, rendering and paying for the same to us, and to our\\nsuccessors, or to such officers as should be appointed to receive the\\nsame, the annual quit-rent of one peck of potatoes, on the first day of\\nOctober yearly, forever. This shows that the charter was drawn by\\nan Ulster man. It contains the element of thrift and success in life.\\nThey wanted to pay their honest debts, and in something they had to\\nseU.\\nThere is another evidence that it was drawn by one of our ances-\\ntors. It contains the unique provision that on every Wednesday\\nforever, they may hold, keep, and enjoy a market for the buying and\\nselling of goods, wares, and merchandise, and divers kinds of creat-\\nures, endowed with the usual kinds of privileges, profits, and immun-\\nities, as other market towns fully hold, possess, and enjoy and two\\nfairs annually forever, the first to be held and kept within said town\\non the 8th day of November next, and so annually forever. The other\\non the 8th day of May in like manner. Provided, That if either of\\nthose days falls on the Lord s day, then said fair shall be held on the\\nday following. Our fathers were linen drapers. They brought over\\nto this country the spinning-wheel and the loom. They were skilled\\nin weaving linen. The apprentice boys who shut and locked the gates\\nof Londonderry, just as the besieging soldiers were about to enter the", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "62 Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor.\\ncity, and as Macaulay says deserved to have their names preserved\\nin letters of gold, were apprentices to the weavers of linen.\\nWith an eye to the sale of their products of the loom, they provided\\nby legislative enactment for a market day every week and two fairs\\nfor a similar purpose. The iinen manufactured by the early settlers\\nin Londonderry and Windham had an extensive reputation for qual-\\nity, and to prevent its coming into competition with an inferior arti-\\ncle, foreign or domestic, they had inspectors of linen appointed to ex-\\namine, seal, and stamp the Londonderry linen, and give the maker\\na certificate of its genuineness. And Thomas Nesmith, to whose\\nthoughtful generosity the citizens of our town are largely indebted for\\ntheir library, told me that he got his financial start in life by peddling\\nthe linen cloth and thread made then by the women of Windham and\\nDerry.\\nIt is impossible to disconnect Londonderry from Windham, when\\nspeaking of the early history of our town. We were part and parcel\\nof the Londonderry of that day, and its history is part of 0U7 liistory.\\nTo such an extent had Londonderry increased in population in the\\nfirst eighteen years of its corporate existence, that forty-nine men liv-\\ning in the southerly part of said town united in a petition to the Gen-\\neral Court of the province of New Hampshire for a town charter.\\nThe draft of the petition is scholarly and business-like, and if any one\\nwas preparing a book of precedents for similar petitions he could not\\ndo better than adopt that.\\nThe charter contains a provision characteristic of om- ancestors, and\\nwas tmdoubtedly drawn by them. I desire to call my friends atten-\\ntion to that proviso. It is of the essence of the grant, and without\\nthe observance of it a declaration of forfeiture may some day be de-\\nclared, and the corporate existence of our good old town be wiped out.\\nThe whole grant hangs on the last clause, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Provided, That the\\ninhabitants of said Parish shall from time to time provide, maintain,\\nand support an orthodox minister of the gospel among them. Daniel\\nWebster, in his great argument in the Girard will case, said There\\ncan be no republican form of government maintained in any country\\nwithout morality, and there can be no morality maintained without\\nChristianity. Our fathers intended that when Windham ceased to\\nbe inhabited by a Cliristian people it should cease to be. Of the min-\\nisters who, from time to time, preached the gospel to the people in\\npursuance of the provisions of the charter, I think naught but good\\ncan be said. The Rev. Simon WilUams, who was settled over the\\nparish in 1766, was, as I have been told by some of those who fitted", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Address by Hon. James Dinsmoor. 63\\nfor college under his tuition, not only a most useful minister, but a fine\\nscholar and a most apt instructor. Soon after his ordination, he en-\\ngaged in teaching the classics and higher mathematics, fitting young\\nmen for college. That was before Dartmouth College was founded,\\nand before the organization of the academies which subsequently did\\nso much for education in New England. Our quondam senior part-\\nner, Derry, since famous for her academies, had not at that time any.\\nSamuel Burnham, who started the first classical school, which eventu-\\nated in Pinkerton Academy, began his school in 1796. Mr. Williams\\ngathered around him not only the smart boys of Windham, but also\\nthose of Londonderry and the neighboring towns. Joseph McKeen,\\nthe grandson of Justice McKeen, the pioneer of the first sixteen fam-\\nilies in the Londonderry settlement, not only fitted for college with\\nMr. Williams, but came back after graduating, and studied divinity\\nwith him.\\nIt was certainly a high compliment that the future president of\\nBowdoin College paid Mr. Williams, to come back from college and\\ntake another preparatory course with the scholar who, single handed\\nand alone, in a country town, remote from libraries and from cities,\\nhad taught him the rudiments of a then coUege education. Simon\\nWilliams was no ordinary man. The incidents of his early life, told\\nby our most pains-taking and reliable historian, Leonard A. Mor-\\nrison, show that he possessed most winning manners and that tact\\nwhich commands success.\\nHe was born in the province of Leicester, Ireland, in 1729, and\\nwhen sixteen years of age, became engaged to be married to a young\\nlady whose parents forbade the banns. Nothing daunted by this,\\nthey both ran away to England, and, boylike, he laid his case in per-\\nson before King George the Second. The king became interested in\\nthe loving couple, educated them for four years, then married them\\nin London, and sent them to the island of St. Thomas, in the West\\nIndies, where Mr. Williams taught for several years, then removed to\\nPhiladelphia, and taught there, and then afterwards was so connected\\nwith Princeton College as to take a degree from that institution.\\nOf the Windham students, whose names occur to me, and all of\\nwhom I knew as a boy knows men whom he sees and hears converse,\\nwere Samuel Armour, Samuel Dinsmoor, the elder governor. Col. Silas\\nDinsmoor, superintendent of the Cherokee Indians under the appoint-\\nment of President Washington, and Dr. John Park. I recollect the\\nanecdote Col. Silas used to tell connecting Mr. Williams with the\\ndoctor. Dr. John Park was said to be, in his day, a literary prodigy.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "64 Address hy Son. James Dinsmoor.\\nHe took to books as a duck takes to water. It was the practice of\\nMr. Williams to oiDen the exercises of school in the morning with\\nprayer, and no uncommon occurrence to particularize any student\\nwhom he thought specially needed Divine assistance. Dr. J. was the\\nyoungest in the school the distance he had to walk to reach the\\nschool was great, and the facility with which he acquired the les-\\nsons was so great that less absolute attendance on school by him\\nwas necessary than with the rest of his class. But punctuality was\\none of the cardinal virtues with Parson Williams, and he prayed one\\nmorning for poor little Johnnie Park, who comes to school one day\\nand stays at home the next, thinking to keep up with his class.\\nHe was succeeded in the ministry by Mr. Harris, who kept up the\\ngood old Scotch-Irish Presbyterian custom of calling his people to-\\ngether in neighborhoods on week days for religious conversation and\\ninstruction, and who was in the habit of giving out on the Sabbath\\nthe names of the families he intended to visit during the ensuing\\nweek. On one occasion, when he had exchanged with a neighboring\\nminister, the list of families to be announced was read by the latter,\\nand the mispronunciation of the name Hughes fixed in my mind the\\nfact of Mr. Harris visiting his flock. He said Mr. Harris would visit\\nthe family of Mr. Barnet Huge, Mr. John Huge, and Mr. Huge\\nWilson.\\nIt will be kept in mind that Mr. Harris s flock embraced the whole\\ntown, and they aU attended meeting on the Sabbath, men, women,\\nand children. There was no hunting or fisliing in Windham on the\\nSabbath, in his day, unless some outside barbarian broke into the\\ntown for that purpose. He lost the command of his vocal powers to\\nsuch an extent that he could not be heard by his audience, and his\\npeojjle waited on him a year or more with the hope that the great\\nrestorer, Time, would enable him to resmne his duties. The deacons\\nused to take turns in reading sermons when it was not possible to get\\nan Andover student, or some member of the Presbytery did not volun-\\nteer to preach for them. I remember that Mr. Bradford, of New Bos-\\nton, came and preached one bright summer day. His text was taken\\nfrom that matchless composition, the book of Job Hast thou an arm\\nlike God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like Him And\\nwhen he preached, people might well listen, for they must listen.\\nThe sainted Calvin Cutler succeeded Mr. Harris. He was a think-\\ning, studious, aggressive man, and active in the cause of temperance.\\nHe made it his practice to visit every school in town, and had the\\nbest conducted and most intelligent Sunday school it was ever my", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Address by Hon. James Dinsmoor. 65\\npleasure to see. As early as 1831 he preached on Fast day an anti-\\nslavery sermon from this text The days of ignorance God winked\\nat, but now He commands aU men to repent. The congregation in\\nWindham was very critical they knew a good sermon when they\\nheard it. The daily newspajjer had not at that time absorbed the at-\\ntention of the people. No man then could buy his opinions on almost\\nevery subject, as he can now, for two cents. Each man had to make\\nhis own, and the critical process of doing this made him a careful hearer\\nof the sermon. I recollect an incident of our neighbor, Jonathan\\nParker, who, while not a member of Mr. Cutler s church, was a most\\nconstant attendant on his preaching, and, while he never had the ad-\\nvantage of a scholastic education, few men excelled him in good sense.\\nHe had occasion to visit a brother who resided in Reading, spent the\\nSabbath there, and went to meeting with him. On his return home,\\nhe came into our house, and was speaking of his visit to his native\\ntown and, among other things related, he spoke of the preaching,\\nand wound up by saying, I asked Sam if he paid for such preaching\\nas that. His mental model was, no doubt, Mr. Cutler.\\nRev. Loren Thayer, the successor of Mr. Cutler, I knew slightly in\\ncollege. He was two years my senior, and his college life justified\\nhis selection, as filhng the provisions of the Town Charter. I\\ncannot forbear to sjjeak of my classmate, Nathaniel Hills. He\\nworked on the home farm, till he was nineteen years old, most labori-\\nously, mth his brothers. I remember how his mother filled her pew\\nin church with her family. The boys were hard worked through the\\nweek, and nature would assert her demands for rest and sleep on the\\nSabbath, but she brought her boys to meeting to listen to what the\\nminister said, and if one was overcome with sleep, she had him get\\nup and stand, so that he could hear. All the way through life Nathan-\\niel adhered to the same inflexible rule with himself. His stern and\\nunyielding observance of duty, and his gentle disposition fitted him\\nfor the position of teacher. I recollect his telling me, when I visited\\nhim in 1875, that in the course of his thirty-four years of teaching\\nhe had never been absent one half day, and only once had been tardy,\\nand that was occasioned by an accident to the cars.\\nI have thought that Samuel Armour was not duly appreciated by\\nhis fellow-townsmen but of this, being only a boy when my observa-\\ntions were made, and he a man, past the prime of life, perhajis I was\\nwrong in my estimate for I find by the record that he was town clerk\\nseventeen years, a selectman six years, represented the town in the\\nlegislature fifteen years, was the standing justice of the peace, and an\\n5", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "66 Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor.\\nunobtrusive man, whose opinion was sought and taken by his fellow-\\ntownsmen, as a balance wheel is used to regulate the motion of\\nmachinery. He was a man of commanding presence, and of exem-\\nplary manners. I recollect, when the church choir had dwindled to\\nsmall proportions, after the benediction had been pronounced, stand-\\ning in his pew, he asked all those interested in having good music in\\nthe church, to stop and take measures to secure a teacher of music.\\nThe result was that Mr. Griffin from abroad was hired to come and\\nteach a singing school for a month, every day and evening. A new\\nsinging book was obtained, the singing talent of the whole town was\\ncalled out, and that most necessary accompaniment received such an\\naccession of home talent that it was a fitting accompaniment to the\\npreaching of Mr. Cutler.\\nI should do the occasion, the town, and myself an injustice if I did\\nnot speak of that most worthy yet extinct famUy, that succeeded Es-\\nquire Armour on liis farm in the range. Jacob Abbot had been a\\nminister at Hampton Falls, but resigned his pastoral charge there in\\n1826, and purchased what was then the best equipped farm in that\\nstUl beautiful range. He brought with him seven daughters and three\\nsons, and engaged in farming. The whole family engaged in every\\ngood word and work in the town. Their deeds of charity and kind-\\nness to the sick and distressed were innumerable, and, although Mr.\\nAbbot had been a Unitarian minister in his settlement at Hampton\\nFalls, he and his family attended the meeting at Windham till the\\nsenseless vote of the town was taken, in 1833, which resulted in the\\nPresbyterian church vacating the old meeting-house after which Mr.\\nAbbot (who had in no manner aided the crusade against the Presby-\\nterians) occasionally preached in the old church, and on the day of\\nhis death had preached there. He had walked down to the pond, in\\nconnection with some of his neighbors, in the morning, and had been\\nrowed over that, and walked thence to the meeting-house. At the\\nclose of the afternoon service, in attempting to return by the same\\nmeans, the boat, which was old and unsafe, filled with water, and he\\nand Capt. John Dinsmoor were drowned. His daughters all married\\ngentlemen out of the town, and each reflected credit on their parents\\nand the town. Ebenezer, one son, married the only daughter of Col.\\nJacob Nesmith, and was an estimable citizen on the farm till his\\ndeath, when the farm passed out of the family name. George J., a\\nbrother, graduated at Harvard College, and was induced by Abbot\\nLawrence of Boston, then a representative in Congress, to go to Wash-\\nington and establish a private school, which he continued a number of", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Address by Hon. James Dinsmoor. 67\\nyears. He was afterward employed as consular correspondent in the\\ndepartment of state, and was private secretary of Daniel Webster and\\nwith him at liis death at Marshfield. Lucy, the youngest daughter,\\nwas my most excellent assistant in Westford Academy, and afterward\\nmarried one of my predecessors in that institution, and settled in\\nCincinnati, Ohio.\\nOne of the best representative business men of Windham was Col.\\nThomas Nesmith. He began his mercantile career when eighteen\\nyears of age, assisting his mother in conducting the business left by\\nthe sudden death of his father, and connected with it the sale of the\\nlinen made by the industrious mothers and daughters of that neigh-\\nborhood. His younger brother, Jolm, went to Haverhill, and served\\nan apprenticeship with John Dow. On the expiration of his appren-\\nticeship, John had the business education, but it took cash to buy\\ngoods and start in business. John Nesmith was one of the brainiest\\nmen Windham ever produced in all financial matters. He soon laid\\nbefore Thomas, who had saved six thousand dollars, a scheme that\\npromised well for both, to which Thomas assented, and they engaged\\nin general merchandise in Windham. This place was not sufficient\\nto occupy the active mind of John long, and he soon opened another\\nstore at Derry Lower Village, as it was called. He soon after induced\\na Derry man to buy out the stock at Windham, and, leaving a younger\\nbrother to look after affairs at Derry, John and Thomas opened a\\nwholesale dry goods store on Pine street, New York.\\nThat was before the days of railroads, and steamboats, and I recol-\\nlect that after the brothers had got started in New York, their sister,\\nLucy, who was my schoolmistress, in order to visit her brothers in\\nthe metropolis of America, went to Boston, took passage in a coasting\\nvessel, and reached New York in safety at the expiration of nine days,\\nas she wrote home. The two brothers met with that success in Pine\\nstreet that Scotch-Irish tact and pluck usually have brought. John\\ninduced a younger brother and a cousin or two to go there and take an\\ninterest with them, and he looked out for a new field of adventure.\\nAbout this time Boston capital was investing in manufacturing in\\nLowell, and the Livermore estate in Tewksbury was for sale, which\\ncaught the eye of John as an investment promising well in the future,\\nand, in connection with Thomas, he bought it. Thomas was always\\na gentleman of elegant leisure, who never troubled himself to look up\\nan investment for his money, but kept ready to invest when a good\\none offered. Up to this time he had been popular with the unmar-\\nried people in Windham and Derry, and had tastefully performed the", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "68 Address by Hon. James Dinsmoor.\\ndelicate duties of best man at more weddings in those towns than any-\\nother ten men that could be found, but had never been in a position\\nto need the return of a similar favor. But this summer, on one of\\nhis annual visits to Windham and Derry, he was interested in making\\nhimself agreeable to Miss Fay, one of the teachers in the Female\\nseminary in Derry. This was a favorable time for his brother John\\nto engage him to join in the purchase of the Livermore property, on\\nthe east bank of Concord river, and build with him a double house,\\nfor the home of each, a proposition to which he readily assented, and,\\nhaving laid out a plat of ground for a park, they erected a modest\\nhouse of wood, in which they both resided for some years. Each\\nbrother afterward built a residence commensurate with the wants of\\ntheir growing families, commanding a view of the plateau laid out by\\nthem for a park. Both brothers were averse to mere sbow, and, as\\nlong as they lived, practiced the same economy which had been one\\nof the secrets of tlieir success in life.\\nLet me take you all into the old meeting-house, as it was in its\\npahny days, when I was a boy. We will enter, if you please, by the\\nwest door. In the raised wall-pew at your left sat John Hemphill,\\nmassive in make-up, with a brogue worthy of his ancestry, and when\\nthe choir in the gallery struck a tune with melodious chords, he would\\njoin in a majestic bass fit for a chorus of the skies. Next came the\\nRevolutionary hero, David Campbell, who limped through life, by rea-\\nson of the wound received in the army, with his son David, my Sun-\\nday school teacher, a most excellent man. Next came Uncle Robert\\nDinsmoor, the rustic bard, who was always in his place, and never\\nfailed to add his melodious tenor to the efforts of the choir. Next\\ncame the minister s family pew, and then the pulpit. On the east\\nside of the pulpit sat Deacon Silas Moore, and across the aisle, in the\\nbody pews, sat Mrs. Hills and her family. In the rear of her sat\\nCapt. Isaac Cochran, and by his side sat Esquire Armour. Next\\nthem, in a wall pew, sat Capt. McCreary, and so many others beyond\\nthe reach of my vision, till you come to the wall pew of Capt. John\\nCampbell, with his tall family. Next came the Noyeses and the Ha-\\nzeltines, and then the front door.\\nMoving past the door, going west, came Joseph Clyde, whose flow-\\ning gray locks and wide-skirted blue coat gave him a majestic mien.\\nNext came John Hughes and Uncle John Dinsmoor then, at the\\ncorner, Capt. William Campbell, with his bouncing family of twelve.\\nNext was the pew owned by my father and our cousin, William Dins-\\nmoor. And, now, we are ready to go out at the same door we came", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor. 69\\nin, but wait a moment. Of the many fine families that occupied the\\nbody of the house were the Deacons John, James, and William Da\\nvidson, all of them model men in all the walks of life. Robert\\nCampbell, too, who, in the drowsy weather of summer, used to stand\\nin sermon time, and shake off the otherwise overpowering sleep. Near\\nhim the Nesmiths sat, and still farther on Jeremiah and Christopher\\nMorrison, with their two sisters of queenly beauty. But I must stay\\nin this rehearsal, lest my failure of memory of names and faces of\\nmore than half a century ago should seemingly compel me, by failure to\\nmention all, to make invidious distinctions, when all deserved mention.\\nOf the doctors that I knew, J. W. Perkins was the first in my day.\\nI certainly have occasion to speak well of him, for in the winter of\\n1827 he attended me when sick with lung fever, fed me on calomel,\\nand with most scrupulous care forbade my tasting cold water. But\\nby careful nursing and the kindness of friends and neighbors, I came\\nout in the spring with every tooth in my head loose salivated and\\nsaved, as I suppose the doctor thought. He was a good citizen, and\\nsubsequently abandoned his profession for that of divinity.\\nAbout the time Dr. Perkins left the town, Dr. Simpson moved in.\\nHe was a native of the town, but had been absent since boyhood. He\\nwas a man of great push and vigor, had by his own industry earned\\nthe means of obtaining his education and profession, and had prac-\\nticed some years before locating in our town. He was a skilful sur-\\ngeon and physician, and the practice in the town was not equal to the\\nmental demands of the doctor on his own powers. He purchased a farm\\nover in the range, and united farming with his practice of medicine.\\nA few years after, he moved to Lowell, where he engaged in financial\\nenterprises congenial to his tastes. Among them was that of building\\nthe Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad. He was careless of\\nhis dress and personal appearance, and for years, in cold weather, his\\nouter garment was a blue camlet coat. Time, which rejuvenates the\\nfield and the forest every spring, had an opposite effect on the doc-\\ntor s coat, and it continued in the sear and yellow leaf all the year\\nround. At one of the meetings of tlie board of directors of the road,\\nat Plymouth, his associates on the board concluded that a well-dressed\\nboard of directors would enhance the value of their railroad bonds, in\\nthe market of Boston, where proverbially well-dressed men congregate,\\nand they suggested to the landlord at the Plymouth House, that if\\nsome one of his guests should, by mistake, take the doctor s camlet\\ncoat, they would pay for a new coat that would fit the doctor s person.\\nThe hint to the landlord was sufficient, and in the night the old coat", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "70 Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor.\\nmysteriously disappeared. An ample apology and a new coat from\\nthe landlord satisfied the doctor that a mistake, if not a misfit, had\\nbeen made, and his associates paid the biU. He has passed away. I\\nknow the old Latin maxim, Z)e mortuis nil nisi honum but I can-\\nnot be true to history without laying at his door the blame for depriv-\\ning the Presbyterian church of the use of the old meeting-house. I\\nwas a boy in the gallery, and heard him discuss the right of the town\\nto the meeting-house, and saw him marshal his hosts that cast the ma-\\njority vote, which resulted in the church leaving the house as a place\\nof worship. True, the town, as such, built the house, in pursuance of\\nits charter and the law of the state, but it had sold the pews inside,\\nand deeded them to the purchasers, who had held possession some\\nthirty-five years, consecutively. Now, for a part owner of the out-\\nside of the house to drive out his co-tenant in the walls, and who\\nowned the entirety of the inside, is an anomaly in law. A few days\\nafter the annual town-meeting liiy guardian took me away to school,\\nand I neither saw nor heard of the subsequent acts of the church in\\ngoing out of the meeting-house, but, at the close of that year, when I\\nreturned, I found the meeting-house empty on the Sabbath, and Mr.\\nCutler preaching in Bartley hall, a most unsuitable place, which soon\\nwas abandoned for the commodious house which has ever since been\\nused as a place of worship by the Presbyterian church.\\nOf the many men who have honored their native town by well-spent\\nlives, Robert Dinsmoor, the rustic bard, especially deserves men-\\ntion. He was one of the elders of the Presbyterian church for fifty\\nyears, and for the greater part of that time was clerk of the session.\\nHe was at Saratoga when Burgoyne surrendered to Gates, the turn-\\ning-point in the Revolutionary war. As a result of that battle, France\\nacknowledged the government of the united colonies as an indepen-\\ndent nation. He was then twenty years old, and volunteered, as\\nmost of the New Hampshire soldiers did, to go under General John\\nStark, of Londonderry. He learned to write on birch bark, as did\\nall his brothers, and, although he had the benefit of some attendance on\\nParson Williams s school, yet, owing to the demands of his father for\\nhis labor on the land, he being the eldest son of the family and some\\nyears older than his next oldest brother, it was not jiossible for him to\\nbe spared to get an education. Books, in that day, were few and ex-\\npensive, and he was poor, as the whole country then was. He was a\\nmost genial and affable man, had a wide circle of acquaintances, for\\nhis day, and when we call to mind the fact that he had a family of\\neleven children to rear, with no income save what could be forced", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor. 71\\nfrom the reluctant soil of his farm, and the sale of wood cut there-\\nfrom, and was called upon hy his friends, upon any occasion, for a\\npoetic composition, which took his time from the farm, and yielded\\nno compensation except the mental pleasure of composition, we mar-\\nvel at what he accomplished. He might have said, as did Pope,\\nWhile still a youth, as yet unknown to fame,\\nI wrote in numbers, for the numbers came.\\nHe was a man of massive build, had a most musical voice, and a\\nready command of language.\\nHe has been called by some who have assumed to criticise his poetic\\ncomjDosition, an imitator of Burns. He was the imitator of no one.\\nHe wrote in the Scotch dialect, as he had a right to do. It was the\\ndialect of the common ancestors of both. It was the mother tongue\\nof each.\\nIt is a well known aphorism that great exigencies make great men.\\nIt is equally true that the training of the mothers has made the heroes\\nof the world. When the Spartan mother gave the shield to her son\\nas he went into battle, with the injimction return with this\\nor on it, she taught him the elementary principle of success in every\\nbattle in life, no surrender. I would not omit to speak of the loving\\nhands, the kindly persuasive counsels, the self-denying toils of our\\nmothers, to all which we are so much indebted for what we are and\\nwhat we have done. The courageous, successful endeavor of the\\nwidowed mothers of our town is a living inspiration that wUl nerve\\nthe heart and uphold the hands of all mothers that may be called to\\nface a similar experience. The life of Agnes Park Hemphill, widow\\nof Captain Nathaniel, was an epic which waits a Homer to hand it\\ndown to posterity in verse. Colby University is indebted for its\\nname and its funds to the heroic mother of its founder, in whose veins\\ncoursed the blood of the McKeens, the Dinsmoors, the Nesmiths, and\\nthe Davidsons of our town. How much we are indebted to the kind,\\npatient, painstaking industry of the nmnberless female school teachers\\nwho have endured our wayward tempers and roguish ti icks, and\\ntaught us that most useful lesson, obedience, as well as how to speak\\nand write our mother tongue Who can count the debt due to our\\nlate veteran Olive Park, whose tact and charm of manners held the\\nannually recurring troops of little ones in tow around her till the\\nthree score and fifteen years admonished her that the silver cord\\nmust be broken.\\nBut, my friends, let us glance over our country and see where the", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "72 Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor.\\nScotch-Irish have been found, and what footprints they have left on\\nthe sands of time. Bancroft says The fii*st public voice in America\\nfor dissolving aU connection with Great Britain came not from the\\nPuritans of New England, the Dutch of New York, nor from the\\nplanters of Virginia, but from the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of\\nNorth Carolina. The prototype of the declaration of independence\\nwas put forth by the Scotch-Irish at Mechlenburg, North Carolina,\\nbefore Thomas Jefferson, another Scotch-Irishman, made himself and\\nit immortal in Carpenter s Hall in 1776. Nay, more, after the mem-\\norable declaration had been passed by the Continental congress, and it\\nwas proposed that each member should put his sign manual to that\\ndocument which made him a traitor to his then king, it was not tiU\\nJohn Weatherspoon, the Scotch-Irish Presbyterian preacher, the lineal\\ndescendant of John Knox, rose in his place with solemn mien and\\ndeclared that his gray head must soon bow to the fate of the human\\nrace, but he preferred that it should fall by the axe of the executioneer\\nrather than that the cause of independence of Great Britain should not\\nprevail, that the hesitating stood firm, and every man came up after\\nhim and affixed his name to the immortal document. Of those who have\\nfilled the presidential chair, eleven have been of Scotch-Irish ancestry,\\nand of the illustrious names tliat have aided in making the Supreme\\nCourt of the United States the most respected of all the judicial tribu-\\nnals in the world five at least have been of Scotch-Irish ancestry.\\nThe first independent legislative body organized in any of the so-\\ncalled English colonies was that of New Hampshire in which Matthew\\nThornton of Londonderry, an Ulster man by birth, was its cliief execu-\\ntive, then styled president. The Scotch-Irish settled in Virginia and\\ngave to the American Revolution Patrick Henry, James Madison, and\\nThomas Jefferson. They settled in Pennsylvania, and history has\\nrecorded the declaration made at Carlisle, before July 4, 1776, that\\nthese colonies must be free from the oppressive hand of Britain and\\nfor fiity years a Scotch-Irishman was governor of Pennsylvania.\\nThe Scotch-Irish settled in North Carolina, and May 20, 1776,\\nsounded the keynote of rebellion in the Mechlenbiirg declaration.\\nWhen the Scotch-Irish of the land declared that the American\\ncolonies should be free it meant that the Scotch-Irish blood was\\nready to flow upon the battle field, that the Scotch-Irish arm vt^as\\nready to wield the battle axe, and that the word surrender would\\nnever be uttered. Who shall be found to write the history of the\\nUlster men in the United States\\nOf the many who have gone from this town, to other theatres of", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Address hy Hon. James Dinsmoor. 73\\naction, no one has been known to cast disgrace on the town of his\\nnativity, or that of liis ancestry, by the commission of crime. Leon-\\nard A. MoiTison, our most painstaking and accui*ate town historian,\\nhas found the natives of this town and tbeir descendants in all the\\ndevious walks of business life, honored and respected by those who\\nare law-abiding citizens.\\nThe tendency has been to emigration. The manufacturing cities,\\nwith the demand for skilled labor incident thereto, have been a great\\nattraction to the ambitious and venturesome of both sexes. The rail-\\nroad has offered new fields for occupation, has nearly annihilated\\nspace, and brought in competition with the farming interests of the\\ntown the cheap virgin soil of the West and South, and forced the cul-\\ntivator to abandon the crops that supported the fathers, and adopt one\\nnot exposed to the competition of more generous soils or of more\\ngenial climates. The lessons of industry and economy, taken in with\\ntheir mother s milk, have been their best banking capital.\\nAnd we can say to-day to the world, if it want s a good husband or\\na good wife, if it wants the example of a good father or a good\\nmother, if it wants a good carpenter or a good mason, a good\\nmacliinist or a good ship-builder, or that prime necessity of the travel-\\ning American, a man that will always have your baggage where you\\ncan get it, if it wants a merchant or a manufacturer, if it wants a\\nmember of a town or city government, if it wants a member of the\\nstate legislature or of congress, if it wants a lawyer or a doctor, a\\nschool master or a school mistress, a judge or a governor, a president\\nof a college or of a deaf and dumb asylum, in fact, if there should\\never be found a place to be filled with the first order of talent, let it\\ncome to Windham and get its supply. And now, my friends, what\\ncan I say for those of us who have left the hearth-stone, that should\\nbe a fitting tribute to the worth of tliose who have withstood all the\\nblandishments of city life, of manufacturing villages, of the boundless\\nWest, of the gold fields of California, and of the plains of Texas, and\\nhave trod the steps the fathers and mothers have trod, have kept\\nbright and burning the light in the window for the wandering boy\\nand girl, have sustained the tottering steps of the aged, and looked\\nwell to it that the reputation of our good town took no detriment by\\nthe passage of time nay, more, have killed the fatted calf for us\\nto-day and given us this royal reception\\nDaniel Webster said that the highest earthly reward any man\\ncould receive was the consciousness of a duty done.\\nMay that he yours.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "74 The Bock of Liberty.\\nThe President The next feature of the programme will be a\\nsong by the glee club, The Rock of Liberty.\\nTHE ROCK OF LIBERTY.\\nOh, the firm old rock, the wave-worn rock,\\nThat braved the blast and the billow s shock.\\nIt was born with time on a barren shore\\nAnd laughed with scorn at the ocean s roar.\\nT was here that first the Pilgrim band\\nCame weary up the foaming strand,\\nAnd the tree they reared in the days gone by.\\nIt Jives, it lives, and ne er shall die.\\nThou stern old rock, in the ages past\\nThy brow was bleached by the warring blast,\\nBut thy wintry toil with the wave is o er,\\nAnd the billows beat thy base no more.\\nYet countless as thy sands, old rock,\\nAre the hardy sons of the Pilgrim stock.\\nAnd the tree they reared in the days gone by,\\nIt lives, it lives, and ne er shall die.\\nThen rest, old rock, on the sea^beat shore\\nThy sires are lulled by the breaker s roar.\\nT was here that first their hymns were heard,\\nO er the startled cry of the ocean bird.\\nT was here they lived, twas here they died,\\nTheir forms repose on the green hillside.\\nBut the tree they reared in the days gone by,\\nIt lives, it lives, and ne er shall die.\\nThis magnificent composition was well sung by the club and roundly\\napplauded by the assemblage.\\nThe Pbesident Ladies and gentlemen, considering the lateness\\nof the hour, a very interesting letter from the old camping ground of\\nour fathers on the soil of Ireland, wUl, for the present, be omitted.\\nThere will be an intermission for a short time dxiring which dinner\\nwill be served, and after that the exercises will be resumed here in\\nthe tent. This will close the forenoon exercises.\\nThe president, the speakers, and the distinguished guests, to the\\nnumber of 140, repaired to the lower town hall where five long tables,\\nbeautifully spread and laden with choice delicacies, awaited them.\\nThe governor s table was in the center, at the end but on one side sat", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "The Dinner. 75\\nthe president of the day, with the governor and Mrs. Tuttle on his\\nright. Opposite was Hon. James Dinsmoor, the orator of the day,\\nwith his wife, followed by ex-Senator James W. Patterson, and\\nAttorney-General Albert E. Pillsbury and Mrs. Pillsbury while other\\nspecial guests sat on either side of this and the other tables.\\nThe president called the people to order and invited Rev. Cadmore\\nM. Dinsmoor to invoke Divine Blessing.\\nThe school children, with the school officers, teachers, and others, to\\nthe number of nearly 100, sat down to well-laden tables in what was\\nknown formerly as Bartley s hall, now Goodwin s hall, which stands\\nfronting the town-house, and upon the opposite side of the highway.\\nThe rest of the people, to the number of some 1,500, were regularly\\nseated in the tent, and served by waiters in an orderly and systematic\\nmanner. Each waiter knew his section and attended to it. Fifteen\\nhundred packages of food had been previously prepared. Each con-\\ntained bread and meat, cake, or other eatables, and a banana the\\nlatter was separated from the food by a Japanese napkin. These\\nwere all placed upon a smooth, hard-surfaced manilla paper, cut for\\nthe purpose 16 inches square, which was then folded and pinned\\ntogether in neat packages, and contained a variety and sufficiency to\\nsatisfy all. The committee had purchased in Boston 24 bailed wooden\\nbaskets. The bails were erect, the baskets were 22 inches in length,\\n14 inches wide, and 11 inches deep, with lids at each end. Each held\\nfrom 20 to 25 of the prepared packages. Each gentleman waiter,\\nwith a light but well-filled basket upon his arm, with one lid securely\\nfastened down, and the other opened sufficiently to take forth the\\nbundle of food, passed through his appropriate section, and all were\\nquickly and amply supjilied. Everything was orderly, and there was\\nnot the slightest confusion. Large quantities of bread, meat, and cake\\nremained after all had been supplied.\\nOne hundred and twenty gallons of coffee had been made by a firm\\nin Boston and shipped in tanks to the town-house, hot and ready for\\nuse. Each guest had been provided with a mvig the coffee was passed\\nthrough the great tent in strainer pails bought for the occasion, and\\nas this work was systematized the same as the passing of the food,\\neach guest was quickly supplied with the excellent beverage. In the\\nsame manner the guests in the lower town-haU, and in Goodwin s haU,\\nhad been supplied with coffee. Cold water was provided in abundance.\\nThe band had early gone to the lower town-hall for dinner, and\\nreturned to the tent soon after the close of the forenoon s exercises,\\nand entertained the people by playing the following March, Wash-", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "76 Address of Evarts Cutler^ Esq.\\nington Greys Overture, Orpheus Song without words, Longing\\nConcert Galop, The Alarm.\\nThe Committee on Collation were William D. Cochran, Albert E.\\nSimpson, and George E. Seavey. Mr. Cochran was absent attending\\nthe General Assembly in Portland, Oregon, the gi*eater part of the\\ntime that preparations were being made for the celebration, and Mr.\\nSeavey was prevented by private business from taking any part as\\nmember of the committee, so the burden of planning and carrying out\\nthe details of the work fell largely upon Mr. Simpson. He and those\\nwho aided him are entitled to much credit for the systematic, orderly,\\nand efficient manner in which everything was done.\\nAFTERNOON EXERCISES.\\nAfter dinner, speaking was resumed in the tent. At a quarter to 3\\no clock the president called the assemblage to order, and said\\nThe first things to be listened to will be the sentiments and the\\nresponses. And, to begin, we have the toast, The Town of Wind-\\nham a place of sacred associations and pleasant memories. For\\nmany generations the honest industry of her people has been success-\\nfully exhibited in each annual golden harvest and, better still, in the\\nvalued institutions they have established and sustained. I have the\\npleasure of introducing to you the son of a former pastor, Evarts\\nCutler, Esq., of New Haven, Conn., who wiU respond to this senti-\\nment. [Applause.]\\nADDRESS OF EVARTS CUTLER, ESQ.\\nMr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen At such a time as this,\\nthe state of one not brought up to speechmaldng, not a minister, or a\\nlawyer or a politician, is that of a man of whom you may have heard.\\nThis man had the inflammatory rheumatism so he couldn t move,\\nand, at the same time, had the St. Vitus dance so he could n t keep\\nstill. [Laughter.]\\nThe St. Vitus dance, in my case, is my anxiety to acknowledge the\\ncourtesy of your committee in inviting me to speak, and my desire to\\npay some slight tribute to my native town the town where my hon-\\nored father and my sainted mother spent the best and most active\\nyears of their lives in loving labors for the spiritual and temporal\\nwell-being of its people.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Address of JEvarts Cutler, Esq. 77\\nThe town of Windham needs no eulogy. She is so strong in the\\naffections of her sons and daughters her history, her deeds, and her\\ncharacter speak for her so eloquently, that words of mine are not\\nneeded yet two or three words I must say.\\nWhen I was a lad, and lived here, it hardly occurred to me that\\nWindham was beautiful, but in these later years, when I come back\\non occasional visits, I am charmed with her natural scenery. Ride\\nthrough the range, look down upon beautiful Corbett s pond, and\\nacross its blue waters to the plain where stands the home of my child-\\nhood, and to the wooded hills beyond or, stand upon the top of But-\\nterfield s Rock, and view the wide expanse or, climb to the top of\\nDinsmoor s hill, or Jenny s hiU, and take into your gaze the panorama\\nof field and farm, forest, lake, and distant mountain, and, surely, you\\ncan but feel that Nature has made our town fair and lovely to look\\nupon.\\nBut the stronger claim upon our loving admiration comes from her\\nhistory and her character. Her history has already been broadly\\nand vividly sketched by one of her distinguished sons, the orator of\\nthe day and we have in the noble volume compiled and edited with\\nsuch ability and exhaustive research by the president of the day,\\nwho deserves and should receive the thanks of every son of Windham,\\na rich mine of information that may weU fill us with pride; and this\\nspeaks forcibly for her sturdy qualities of honesty, morality, intelli-\\ngence, and patriotism.\\nNo town has a better record than she. When the nation has\\nsounded the call to arms, to battle for the right, to repel invasion or\\nsuppress rebellion, Windham has always responded with promptness,\\nzeal, and loyalty, and her patriotism has been shown in still higher\\nforms she has been of untold benefit to our country in raising up and\\ntraining men and women of high character and lofty aims to go forth\\ninto the towns and cities of other states, or out to the wild frontier, to\\nestablish and uphold institutions of education, philanthropy, and reli-\\ngion, and, by the force of manly and consistent character, to elevate\\nthe moral tone of society. Herein lies her strongest claim upon the\\nrespect of her children and the gratitude of our country.\\nAnd, if I might be permitted to speak of the duties of the present\\nresidents of Windham, it would be to urge upon you the desirability,\\nnay, the imperative obligation, of uniting all your forces to preserve\\nand advance the high standard of education, morals, and religion, that\\nhas distinguished the town from its beginnings. To do this in the\\nmost effective manner, it is necessary to have, and to exercise, a feel-", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "78 Address of Evarts Cutler, Esq.\\ning of exalted self-respect, a true estimate of your own importance, a\\nconviction that the high character of a small town is as important to\\nthe well-being of the state as though it were a large town.\\nIn these days, when the great cities of the land are growing so\\nrapidly, and absorbing so much of the wealth of the country, and, at\\nthe same time, attracting to themselves such swarms of the idle, the\\nignorant, and the vicious, the off-scourings of creation, men who know\\nlittle of our American institutions, and care still less it is the liighest\\nduty of the people of the country towns to make themselves an irre-\\nsistible power in the state and the nation, to counterbalance what\\nthreatens to be an overwhelmingly corrupt influence of the great cities.\\nIt is the urgent duty of every citizen to be thoroughly informed on\\npublic affairs, and to use every efPort to enlist his neighbors and his\\ntown in cooperation with the powers that make for political purity,\\nhonesty, and intelligence. To this end, a spirit of mutual encourage-\\nment, of helpfulness, and of emulation, should be excited. Above all,\\nI would urge the duty of a spirit of hopefxilness, a determination not\\nto despond when things seem to be going down-hiU. Losing heart\\nand hope is often equivalent to losing the battle. All great reforms,\\nall grand advances, are led by men and women of hopeful, sanguine\\ntemperament. Beware of the motto that so many either consciously\\nor unconsciously adopt Expect nothing, and you will not be disap-\\npointed. Such a spirit is a dead bar to all progress. It cuts the\\nnerve of all effort, and its possessors are disappointed, into the bar-\\ngain. It is the feeling of the despondent man who, when he killed\\nhis pig, and was asked how much it weighed, replied, It didn t weigh\\nas much as I expected, and I never thought it would. [Laughter.]\\nI often wish the world was more largely composed of men of the\\neven temper, the hopeful spirit, and the undaunted courage, of good\\nold Deacon Hopson. No matter what trials or losses, disappoint-\\nments or provocations, came to himself, his family, his friends, his\\nchurch, or his town, he always rallied at once, and said Well, it\\nmight have been worse it might have been worse. [Laughter.]\\nOne time, a friend, to try him, said to him Deacon Hopson, I\\nhad a bad dream about you last night.\\nAh what was it\\nI dreamed I saw the devil carrying you off on his back\\nDid you did you Well, well it might have been worse, it\\nmight have been worse. [Laughter.]\\nWorse How could it have been worse\\nOh, he might have made me carry him [Great laughter.]", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Address of Rev. Samuel Morrison. 79\\nI hope Deacon Hopson will never have the inflammatory rheumatism\\nand St. Vitus dance at the same time but, if he should, I am sure his\\ncalm philosophy will triumph. [Laughter.]\\nBut, Mr. President, I am trespassing upon the time that belongs to\\nothers. Only a word more. From the force of circumstances and\\nthe natural shifting of the centers of production and of trade, Wind-\\nham may have decreased in population in the last fifty years, but the\\nsuccess of this celebration demonstrates that the old spirit survives.\\nIt is only by large-minded liberality, generous hospitality, thorough\\norganization, and unity of feeling and purpose, that such a result is\\nreached.\\nThe men of Windham have shown us to-day that they are worthy\\nsons of worthy fathers, and the women of Windham have shown us\\nthat they are not one whit behind their mothers in dainty cookery and\\nlarge-hearted generosity. [Applause.]\\nIf the good people of Windham can unite all their energies on such\\na celebration as this, and achieve such success, why may they not\\nunite most heartily on all measures for the public good They can,\\nand I believe they will, and, at the bi-centennial in the year 1942, her\\nsons and daughters, assembled as we are to-day, will recount her\\ndeeds and dwell upon her history with the same loving pride that\\nfills our breasts to-day. I close with the heartfelt sentiment, God\\nbless the Town of Windham. [Loud applause.]\\nThe President To-day we celebrate the incorporation of this\\ntown. Just as truly do we also celebrate the establishment of the\\nChristian church. In those early days, their history was indissolubly\\nconnected. The church established at the time of the incorporation\\nremains unchanged. One of the sons of this town, Rev. Samuel Mor-\\nrison, of Charlton, Mass., wiU respond to the sentiment, The Church\\nof Windham. [Great applause.]\\nADDRESS OF REV. SAMUEL MORRISON.\\nMr. President, Ladies and Gentlevien I am told that there is\\nno time to lose. Therefore I shall omit all the jokes, and attend\\nstrictly to that which is substantial. My memory easily covers more\\nthan one-third part of the time since the organization of the church\\nin tliis town. I can readily go back more than fifty years and pict-\\nure to my mind what were then real scenes and real experiences.\\nAnd no part, or hardly any part, of a picture that I would thus form,", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "80 Address of Rev. Samuel Morrison.\\nis more clear than that part about which the church is the center. In\\nsome way it was borne in upon me that, iaside from the home, the\\nchurch was the most important of all institutions and, of all local\\nchurches, this one stood first. And in my later life I have seen no\\nchurch building more suggestive of Christian worship than the one\\nwhich stands yonder and no other house of worship has ever been\\nto me so much a house of sacred worship. One minister only began\\nhis work, and, consequently, one other only closed his work with his\\npeople, during my early Hfe in this town. To both of these men I\\nlistened during all the early part of life, and for them both I have\\nalways cherished the highest feelings of esteem and regard. I\\nremember them as men of sterling Christian character men of sim-\\nple and impressive Christian dignity and I will add that I have held,\\nas have others, in equal estimation and in equal regard, the wives of\\nthese two men. I have always thought they stood on a level of entire\\nequality with their husbands, and were held in equal estimation by\\nthe people.\\nI remember the congregation as it was forty or fifty years ago. I\\ncan picture it in my mind very clearly a congregation of families\\nparents and children a family to a pew. I remember the pews that\\ndifferent families occupied. I remember the choir, and, by a slight\\nexercise of memory and imagination, can again sit in our family pew,\\nand listen tO the song part of Christian worship. I remember the\\nfathers and mothers who are not, and the children who are but it\\ndoes seem to me that a wind, bearing somewhat of a scorching quality,\\nhas swept across these faces and it does seem as though the white\\nclouds from the skies have come down and laid upon these heads.\\nBut my thought is not in the direction of history or eulogy or rem-\\niniscence or contrast between the past and present, but rather in the\\ndirection of the importance, influence, and mission of the church and,\\nas time is pressing, I will try to be not very long in this direction.\\nThe importance of the church consists in this, that it stands for the\\nChristian religion and the unportance of the Christian religion in\\nthis, that it is of divine origin, and that it has a divine mission in the\\nworld. I think its importance is emphasized by the fact that it is the\\nreligion of the ages, the religion of Adam and Eve, of Enoch and Noah,\\nthe religion of Abraham, of Isaac, and Jacob the religion of Christ\\nand his disciples it is the changeless religion of the ages. Christ\\nhimself gave the world no new religion nor did he change the old\\nreligion. He freed it from form and ceremony that it might the bet-\\nter be apprehended as spiritual truth, fitted for human hearts, faith,", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Address of Rev. Samuel 3Iorrison. 81\\nhope, and charity its divisions, and obedience its visible fruit. The\\nchurch has a natural and pervasive influence which belongs to it as\\nheat belongs to fire. The chiu ch has a general influence on opinions.\\nWhatever this town is to-day, it is something else than what it would\\nhave been were it not for the church. When I say church, I gener-\\nally mean the Christian religion, that which the church stands for.\\nAlong with other institutions and other agencies, the church weaves\\nits threads of influence into the history of the town and these threads\\nare among the finest and brightest of all. The influence of the\\nchurch comes silently into all homes and into all hearts it pervades\\nthem. Religion reaches every one as really as the air and the sun-\\nshine. Society in all its phases is modified by it. It makes the dif-\\nference betAveen civilization and barbarism. The church means better\\ngovernment, better laws it means better home\u00c2\u00a7 and better schools\\nbetter manners and better habits higher refinement, sweeter friend-\\nship, and broader charity it means better neighbors, better citizens, bet-\\nter men and women it means all these, besides what is usually spoken\\nof as Christian character, sanctified hearts and lives. Everything you\\nsee and handle is changed by the touch of Christian influence. Every\\nbook and paper you read, every house you enter and all that you see\\nwithin, every horse you drive, the carriage you ride in, the roads you\\nfollow, the walls and fences by the roadside, every person you see or\\nmeet, every roadway and corner you pass, every cultivated field and\\nmeadow you look upon, all bear the impress of Christian civilization.\\nAnd Christian civilization is but the outward expression of the Chi-is-\\ntian religion. We breathe an atmosphere charged with religious\\ntruth. We live, we walk, and we work in the light of religion. We\\nthink and we feel under its inspiration. We grow along the line of\\nits influences toward the ideal of its requirements. We may not be\\nwhat we might be, what we ought to be, but we are what we would\\nnot be except for the Chi istian religion. But, aside from its natural\\ninfluence, the church has a special mission. It is in the world to be\\nthe light of the world, according to the statement of Him who is the\\nworld s personal light. It has a local home mission as wide as the\\nhome land, touching individual life and character, fvdfilled by direct\\nChristian effort a mission of aggression and conquest, of voluntary\\nplan and purpose fulfilled by its agents who possess its spirit and\\nteach its doctrines where it has no existence, or exists only in weak-\\nness. How many border states and new states in our land have been\\nblessed by the Christian ministry of our older churches. But, still\\nfui ther, it has a foreign mission, reaching to all nations. The great\\n6", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "82 Address of Rev. Samuel Morrison.\\npetition of divine authorship is, Thy kingdom come. The great\\ncommission of divine authority is, Go ye into aU the world and\\npreach the Gospel to every creature. And this prayer is to he an-\\nswered, and this commission fulfilled, through the instrumentality of\\nthe church. Christ touched the eyes of the hlind, and they saw. The\\nchurch reaches forth its hand and touches the far-off islands of the\\nsea and the distant nations of the earth, and they come into possession\\nof a new sight they see as they have not seen hitherto. Old things\\npass away, and aU things become new. Christ commanded, and the\\ndead lived again. The church speaks the living Word, and these\\nsame islands and these same nations are quickened into newness ot\\nlife_a spiritual life. They live as they have never lived before\\nand the church will continue to offer this prayer and to address itself\\nto the fulfiUment of this commission till prayer and Christian work\\nare no longer needed on earth. j\\nI am reminded to-day of the mortality of the mdividual and the\\nimmortality of the institution. Men die, but the church lives None\\nof the orioinal members of this church are present with us to-day, but\\nthe church is here, and it is the same church and when all its present\\nmembership shall have passed away the church will abide still, and be\\nthe same church, doing the same work, under the same guidance, and\\nin the use of the same methods. The church moves on like the flow\\nof a river the same river, but different waters the same church, but\\na different membership. But, unlike a river, which always flows to\\na lower level, the church carries its moving tide upward. The receiv-\\ning ocean is higher than any part of the river-bed.\\nchurch above has been enriched by the contributions of this churdi.\\nWhere are the ministers that fell on this battlefield, and where the\\nlong line of godly men and women that gave the church its dignity\\nand its power for good? And where the many who came withm the\\ncircle of the quickening influence of the church? They are not in\\nthese cemeteries of the town. We thought we laid them there, but,\\nsilently and unseen by us, they were borne upward to the skies.\\nThey are not now of the church militant, but of the church triumph-\\nant not now the toiling and suffering, but the crowned and glorified.\\nWe who spring from tliis people and belong to this people, are repre-\\nsented in the great church above by fathers and mothers, by wives\\nand husbands, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, who also be-\\nlone- to this people. _ i.\\nThe church is of heavenly origin, and its mission is to bring heaven\\nand earth into communion to bring the world into the embrace of its", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "^l^^~ 37^k^Ll^", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Address of Hon. George Wilson. 83\\nfaith into the current of its heavenward movement. The great cry\\nof divine authorship is, Thy kingdom come. The great commis-\\nsion of equally divine authority is, Go ye into all the world and\\npreach the gospel to every creature. And when this is done this\\ngreat commission will be fulfilled, the gi^eat petition granted. Then\\nthe mission of the church will be accomplished, and the last page of\\nits active, changeful history in this world will have been written.\\nCitizens of the town of Windham, take care of the church, for it\\nis the church that takes care of you. [Applause.]\\nThe President A former citizen of Windham is now here and\\nwiU speak a few words to you. I will introduce the Honorable George\\nWilson, ex-mayor of New Bedford, Mass.\\nADDRESS OF HON. GEORGE WILSON.\\nMr. President Excuse me for breaking into the order of your\\nexercises, but it is necessary that I do so at the present moment. I\\nwill not detain you long. I am not a resident of Windham, although\\nI am a native, and I reside in New Bedford. I went away from\\nhere fifty-five years ago, poor and unknown, and have just main-\\ntained my position. I am very happy to see you here, and I hope\\nto hear further from you before I leave. My principal object in\\ncoming here, if not inappropriate to this meeting, is one of some\\nimportance, and I will proceed at once to say what I have to say. I\\nhave long had it in my mind to do a little something to preserve the\\nbeauty of the cemetery on the hill east of Corbett s pond, and I intend\\nto make this proposition to the officers of the town to give them\\none thousand dollars, in trust, for the purpose oi fertilizing and bemi-\\ntifying this spot of hallowed land. [Applause.] This matter wiU\\nneed to be made pretty clear and definite, in order that the benefit\\nmay not be fritted away, otherwise a hundred years from now the\\nincome of this money might be used for something else. I make this\\ndonation on condition that if the interest on the fund should be used\\nfor any other purpose than that stipulated, the fund shall revert to\\nmy heirs-at-law. I shall put the fund into the hands of my friends\\nhere, who know all about my purpose, and when the town is ready to\\naccept the terms, the money will be ready for it.\\nAnd let me add one word. It takes so long to get the cemetery in\\nfine order, where we are depending upon the interest to accrue from\\nthis money, that I would suggest, if there are others interested in this\\nwork, and my own interest comes in part from the fact that my", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0113.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "84 Address of William C. Harris^ Esq.\\nmother and father are resting there, I say if others feel interested\\nenough to join me, and will raise one hundred dollars, I will put\\nanother hundred to that, which wiU enable the town authorities to\\nfertilize and beautify the cemetery in an acceptable manner [Ap-\\nplause.]\\n(A gentleman in the audience immediately shouted that he would\\ngive ten dollars.)\\nThe President In behalf of the citizens of Windham, I will\\nreturn thanks to Mr. Wilson for the liberal offer he has made.\\n[Applause.]\\nThe next sentiment will be Our Public Schools, The educators of\\nyouth a main support of our free and benign institutions of govern-\\nment. This will be responded to by Wm. C. Harris, Esq.\\nADDRESS OF WILLIAM C. HARRIS, ESQ.\\nThe first desire of the early settlers of New England was to pro-\\nvide homes for their families. Their next thought was to erect a\\nhouse in which to meet for the worship of their Creator and then\\ntheir attention was directed to the educational wants of their children.\\nIn this movement they made no mistake, for they made New England\\nwhat she is, the home of liberty, education, and intelligence. The\\nimportance of having the whole community well educated cannot be\\noverstated. Thomas Jefferson once said If a nation expects to be\\nignorant and free, it expects what never was, and never will be.\\nOur republic is founded upon intelligence, with the common school\\nas its corner-stone. A New England poet has written as follows\\nYet on her rocks, and on her sands,\\nAnd wintry hills, the schoolhouse stands\\nAnd what the rugged soil denies,\\nThe harvest of the mind supplies.\\nWe are not to suppose the writer of those lines had Windham\\nespecially in view, but are not the words quite applicable The soil\\nhere is rocky and less productive than in many localities, yet here\\nhave been reared boys and girls who have grown to be men and\\nwomen, who have become distinguished in the various vocations of\\nlife. Here, in Christian homes and district schools, was laid the\\nfoundation of an education which aided its possessors in becoming\\nuseful and valuable members of this and other communities.\\nSome have selected the clerical, some the legal, and others the med-", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0114.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "Address of William C. Harris^ Esq. 85\\nical profession others have filled high and responsible positions in\\nour state, in cities, in banks and other corporations a large number\\nof men and women have gone to various parts of the country as teach-\\ners, in schools of all grades, from the common school to the highest\\ninstitutions of leai*ning and many others have engaged in the culti-\\nvation of the soil in the East, and in the West. Intelligent men and\\nwomen are the staple production of the town.\\nFor information relative to the schools in the early years of this\\ntown, I am indebted to the historian of. Windham. He says: The\\nfirst school in town, of which there is any record, was in 1766, when\\nJames Aiken was hired, in the east part of the town, to teach the\\nchildren to read. No doubt there were schools in the different parts\\nof the town at a much earlier date. How our early settlei s received\\ntheir education, and found means to educate their children, is a sub-\\nject full of interest, and one upon which we have but little informa-\\ntion. The branches taught in the early schools were reading, spell-\\ning, and writing in addition, the Westminster catechism was used as\\na text-book, and lessons in it recited every Saturday forenoon arith-\\nmetic was, after some years, added. Geography was used as a reading\\nbook, only, at first. The first schoolhouses were built, not by tax, but\\nby subscription. It is supposed there were schoolhouses in districts\\nNo. 1 and No. 2 as early as 1750. Schools were also taught in pri-\\nvate houses, and sometimes in barns and shops. The session-house\\nthat stood near the meeting-house, on the range, was used for school\\npurj^oses.\\nAbout the year 1768, Rev. Simon Williams, the minister of the\\ntown, opened a private academy for the benefit of the young, which\\nnot only gave a new impulse to the cause of education in this place,\\nbut attracted the attention and patronage of other towns, and was re-\\nsorted to by students from Boston, and other large cities. Such was\\nhis success in teaching that he fitted many young men for college. Dr.\\nJohn Park, Sil^s Betton, Esq., Silas Dinsmoor, John Dinsmoor, and\\nGovernor Samuel Dinsmoor were among the number from this town.\\nSometimes the school contained forty or more scholars. It was kept\\nin the parsonage, which stood where Mrs. Call s house now stands.\\nThe academy was in operation about twenty-two years, and closed on\\naccount of Mr. Williams s failing health. In the fall of 1832, Dr.\\nMilton Ward taught a high school at the center of the town. Four\\nor five years latei a term was taught by Miss Lucinda Foster for\\nseveral years afterward there were fall terms taught by college stu-\\ndents or graduates, all of which were of great value to those who", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0115.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "86 Address of William C. Harris, Esq.\\nattended. The scholars came to these schools from all parts of the\\ntown.\\nIn later years, the district schools have been much longer, be-\\ncause of the increased amount of school money. Many of the more\\nadvanced scholars have gone to Pinkerton Academy, and institutions\\nin other places. Fifty years ago, the school money amounted to\\n$326 last year it was $1,277. For several years past we have\\nraised $300 above the requirements of the law for schools, and last\\nMarch we added another $100. A fact worthy of mention is that,\\nbetween the years 1852 and 1863, each district in town built a new\\nschoolhouse, at an aggregate cost of $8,400. This revolution resulted\\nfrom two causes First, the burning of the No. 3 house, and, second,\\nthe generous gift of $1,000 to district No. 2, for a school fund, by\\nSamuel W. Simpson, Esq., and also his liberal offer to aid other dis-\\ntricts in obtaining funds of like size. Three thousand dollars was\\ninvested in this way, thus making for school purposes, an outlay of\\n$11,400 in the space of eleven years. A new interest in the cause of\\neducation was awakened, which still continues. We now have seven\\ngood schoolhouses, all painted white, with blinds. Each house is\\nwell supplied with blackboards, globes, charts, and Webster s una-\\nbridged dictionaries, and several have clocks. Ample playgrounds\\nsurround each house. At the present time there are six schools in\\nsuccessful operation, presided over by efficient teachers, and under the\\ndirection of a competent school board of three members. The com-\\nmon school is the richest and most valuable legacy we have received\\nfrom our fathers let us see to it that we transmit it to our children\\nunimpaired.\\nAt the conclusion of Mr. Harris s address there was music by the\\nband, a baritone solo, Polka Brilliante, by A. D. Wingate.\\nThe president then addressed the assemblage as follows\\nWhat I am to say is not upon the programme. The generous offer\\nof Mr. Wilson has met with a prompt response in the hearts of the\\npeople here. One gentleman has said that if it was the intention to\\nraise one hundred dollars, he would give twenty-five dollars another\\nwill give ten dollars and another has passed me five dollars. So you\\nmay take that matter up among yourselves, and if you can raise the\\nmoney for this good purpose for which Mr. Wilson has so generously\\ntendered one hundred dollars, it will be very acceptable.\\nThe next sentiment is, The Nesmith Free Public Library. Found-\\ned through the generosity and public spirit of a son of Windham, it", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0116.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0117.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "^mi\\nHHHF\\n,Wm ^s\\n|^B^~\\n^n^\\nMl\\nMS\\n~i\\nN^.\\nfn\\nK I-", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0118.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Address of Rev. William E. Westervelt. 87\\nis a source of improvement to yomig and old, of recreation to all, and\\nis an educator next in value to our public schools. I will call\\nupon the Rev. William E. Westervelt, of Windham, to respond.\\nADDRESS OF REV. WILLIAM E. WESTERVELT.\\nMr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: It goes without saying\\nthat the Nesmith Free Public Library is a very valuable institution.\\nIt reflects honor upon its generous founder, and credit upon the intelli-\\ngence and good sense of the people of Windham. It was a noble\\ndeed of the late Col. Thomas Nesmith to confer the favor, and a\\nwise step on your part to accept it.\\nA library of 3,000 volumes, containing the best thoughts of many\\nof the standard authors upon a variety of the most important subjects,\\nand annually increasing, is a boon which I imagine but few towns of\\nthe size of ours can boast.\\nHere is an opportunity for the young men and women of our town,\\nwho will avail themselves of it, to acquire a liberal education. Had\\nour highly honored and deeply lamented presidents, Lincoln and Gar-\\nfield, enjoyed such a privilege in their youtliful days, they would have\\ndeemed themselves among the most fortunate of favored young men.\\nTo them a single book of solid worth, with the blaze of only a pine\\nknot by which to read it, was an invaluable treasure. And your own\\nhistory shows that the early settlers of this town would have prized\\nit above gold or rubies. They were a reading people and their\\ndescendants made various attempts to establish a public library, and\\ntheir efforts were crowned with creditable success. But they were not\\nfuUy realized until 1871, when the Nesmith Library was founded by\\na gift of $3,000, of which $2,000 was to be immediately expended\\nfor books, and the balance to be placed on interest at six per cent,\\nand the interest annually applied for the increase of the same.\\nThat trust was wisely and faithfully executed by your able and\\njudicious committee, of which the Hon. Leonard A. Morrison, our\\nwell known author and ardent lover of good books, was a member.\\n[Applause.]\\nBy that benevolent act of Col. Nesmith, a perennial fountain was\\nopened in his native town, whose pure waters have ever since brought\\nsolace, stimulus, refreshment, and strength to the homes and hearts of\\nthe people of Windham. [Loud applause.] His name has become a\\nhousehold word. It is remembered and cherished by the aged and\\nthe young, by the sick and the well, by the bed-ridden invalid and the", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0121.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "88 Address of William H. Ayidersoii^ Esq.\\nnightly watchers. He has supplied the means for beguiling many a\\nweary hour, of sustaining many a sinking hope, and of reviving many\\na fainting heart. He has endeared himself to all the thoughtful, and\\nhis memory is embalmed in the hearts of a grateful people. There\\nit will live and be fragrant as long as the Nesmith library shall exist\\nand the citizens of Windham continue to be a reading people. All\\nhonor to his name and to the names, also, of those who by like ben-\\nefactions have helped the cause of education, morals, and religion in\\ntheir native town, to wit, James Wilson, Jeremiah Hills, Harriett\\nDinsmoor, and others. May we not hope that their example will be\\nfollowed by others of Windham s prosperous, generous, and grateful\\nsons and daughters, who will thus link their names with perpetual\\nusefulness and honor in promoting the best interests of coming gener-\\nations\\nSome of the custodians of the Nesmith libraiy have already\\nexpressed grave apprehensions that the day is not distant when they\\nmay find themselves in the plight of the old Avoman who lived in a\\nshoe and had so many children she knew not what to do. Not,\\nindeed, that she had too many, but that she needed ampler quarters\\nfor their accommodations, and a larger purse to supply their wants.\\nAnd we are not afraid of ever having too many books, but we\\nshall need more siDacious accommodations for them and their\\nreaders.\\nAnd as the cause of education and of religion should always go\\nhand in hand, we trust that in the future, as in the past, both causes\\nwill find a warm place and a liberal response in the hearts and gifts\\nof those who wish well to the future interests of their native and hon-\\nored town.\\nThe President The next sentiment will be, The Townships of\\nLondonderry and Windham early partners may their future be\\nbright with the noble deeds of their sons and daughters.\\nI will introduce to you William Henry Anderson, Esq., of Lowell,\\nMass., to respond to that sentiment. [Applause.]\\nADDRESS OF WILLIAM H. ANDERSON, ESQ.\\nMr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen In common with you all\\nthis afternoon, I was very much charmed with the songs of the Glee\\nClub, and I was very much surprised that men of their age could\\nsing so well. But during the intermission I think the mystery was", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0122.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "^^2-^^^^^^jG^iU^", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0125.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "a eak-iti.vg", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0126.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "Address of William H. Anderson^ Esq. 89\\nexplained, for the leader of the club told me that his first recollection\\nof the orator of the day to-day, Mr. Dinsnioor, was, when he went to\\nschool to him, of his giving him a couple of very severe boxes on the\\nhead, one on each side. Our friend said it came very hard to him\\nthis forenoon to sing, Give me your hand, old friend of my youth.\\n[Laughter.] But he ought not to complain, because that is probably\\nwhat gave him his musical ear. [Laughter.]\\nCaesar, in his Commentaries, tells us that, in ancient times, All\\nGaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the\\nAquitani another, those, who in their own language are called Celts,\\nin ours, Gauls, the third. So we, in more modern days, know that\\nall ancient Londonderry is divided into three parts, Londonderry,\\nDerry, and Windham.\\nAfter describing the three provinces, two of which were separated\\nby the river Garonne as Londonderry and Windham are separated by\\nthat stream which in the days of my childhood was a majestic river,\\nbut is now only Beaver brook, he adds, All these differ from each\\nother in language, customs, and laws. Here the analogy fails, for\\nno argument is needed on this occasion, or any other, to satisfy any\\nson or daughter of either town or any of their descendants, near or\\nremote, that the three towns, call them as you choose, former part-\\nners or parents and children, not only resemble each other in those\\nrespects in which the divisions of ancient Gaul differed from each other,\\nbut that they to such an extent have the same thouglits, speak the\\nsame language, and do the same acts are so alike in their views of\\nreligion, politics, laws so agreed as to the hard work and small\\nprofits attending life on a farm so well assured that no people ever\\nhad such an ancestiy as they have in the Scotch-Irish from the north\\nof Ireland so equally indifferent to good highways and patient\\nwith bad ones, that, were it now as much the fashion to unite towns\\nas it was 150 years ago to divide them, there would be no difficulty\\nwhatever in welding the three parts again into one homogeneous\\nwhole.\\nLet me not be understood in what I have said as intimating that\\nsince the dissolution of the old firm, the taking down of the weather-\\nbeaten sign, the squaring up of the old accounts, and the opening of\\na new set of books by each partner town on its own account, there has\\nnot been rapid and substantial progress in all those things which go\\nto make up a well-ordered New England community. Ah, no, Mr.\\nPresident, I am far too wise a man, although I may not look it, to\\nintimate any such thing when the border line of that city of refuge.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0127.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "90 Add7-ess of William IT. Anderson, Esq.\\nMassachusetts, is so far away, the road to it so sandy, and it is allow-\\nable in New Hampshire to punish slanderers by personal chastise-\\nment. What I do say is, that that progress has been common to all\\nthe towns forming the old triumvirate. They have advanced with\\nequal steps in all those things which have tended to ameliorate the\\nhard conditions of life as they existed during that year, 150 years\\nago, when Windham started in the world for itself.\\nWe all know how common an experience it is, after an old, well-\\nestablished firm has kept on a conservative course for a term of\\nyears, and after the partnership is dissolved, and the individual mem-\\nbers start in business for themselves, one after another, for the young-\\nest and least-experienced partner to branch out the broadest, put on\\nthe most airs, and not only to think, but to be sure, he knows it all,\\nand is a little ahead of those who remain at the old stand. So with\\nour three towns, I suppose it is the youngest partner, Derry, which,\\nwith its electric lights, its system of waterworks, its brass band, its\\nnewspaper (which, by the way, is a credit to it), its dozen or more\\njiner societies, its circus, its living whist, and its new academy\\nbuilding, thinks itself a little smarter and better than either of the\\nstaid old senior partners, Londonderry and Windham. But let not\\nDerry boast itself unseemly Londonderry and Windham are not far\\nbehind. There seems to be a veritable western boom at North Lon-\\ndonderry, and house lots are surveyed and staked out and the praises\\nof the place sounded in a way to bring a blush to the cheek even of a\\nKansas real estate agent, and am I not building a custom house at\\nWest Windham, at the head of navigation on Beaver brook\\n[Laughter.] Let Derry beware.\\nI have often wondered, Mr. President, why the new town char-\\ntered in 1742 was called Windham, and its historian has not told us.\\nWas it in honor of some individual, or family, of that name, or in\\nconsequence of some real or fancied peculiarity in its natural features,\\nor was it selected because it is an easily spoken and smoothly sound-\\ning word\\nBut, we must not linger over these speculations. In these days of\\ndiscussions of tariffs, duties and taxes, and disagreements as to what\\nshall, and what shall not, bear the burden of taxation, everybody will\\nagree that the patience of an audience, gathered under these circiun-\\nstances, is one of those things that ought not to be taxed. [Laugh-\\nter.]\\nI close, Mr. President, with this sentiment, which has not only the\\nbeauty of terseness, but the strength of truth The men, the women,", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0128.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "Address of Rev. Warren R. Cochrane, D. D. 91\\nthe children, of the respective members of the three towns, London-\\nderry, Derry, Windham\\nThe first are strong\\nThe second are neat\\nThe third are sweet,\\nAnd all are exceedingly hard to beat.\\n[Loud applause.]\\nAt this point the skies were darkened and the rain was falling fast\\nupon the tent. But the exercises proceeded. The band gave the\\nselection, A Night in Grenada.\\nThe President Ladies and gentlemen, our next sentiment will\\nbe, Our Scotch forefathers in Scotland, Ireland, and New Hamp-\\nshire May they live forever in song and in story. May their heroic\\nvirtues be the priceless legacy of their descendants. I will call upon\\nKev. Warren R. Cochrane, D. D., of Antrim, N. H., to respond to\\nthis toast. [Applause.]\\nADDRESS OF REV. WARREN R. COCHRAKE, D. D.\\nFriends: You have given me a subject that it would take two or\\nthree hours to adequately treat, a subject which I have not time to speak\\nupon or strength to be heard upon at this moment. I remember see-\\ning a notice somewhere in the portals of a certain church, Don t\\nshoot the organist, and I thought, perhaps, if I were called upon to\\nspeak to-day, the first thing I would put in would be such a caveat as\\nthat I would caution you not to shoot the speaker, who, after such\\neloquence, can add nothing, with such an abstract thing as this, to\\ninterest an audience, after the effusions and the charms of music that\\nhave been poured into their ears.\\nI have been asked to speak to the sentiment, The Scotch in Scot-\\nland, the Scotch in Ireland, and the Scotch in America. My friend\\nMorrison has written three or four volumes on this subject, and yet he\\nexpects me to crowd into a five minutes speech the facts that cover\\nthe whole ground. I should like to talk to an audience gathered in a\\nchurch, or somewhere where I could be heard for an hour on this\\ntheme. My heart is in it. I am a Scotchman, and I rejoice in the\\nScotch character, for it is a working power, interested in everything\\ngood all over the world.\\nThe first that we know about Scotchmen is a reference that we find\\nin Roman history to a Scotchman up among the highlands of", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0129.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "92 Address of Rev. Warreti R. Cochrane, B. D.\\nold Scotland and i\u00c2\u00a3 I were going to say three things of this person-\\nage, I sliould say first that he was a mighty Scotchman. The whole\\nRoman army was afraid of the few clans camped to the north of\\nthem. The whole cultivated area of Scotland at that time was less\\nthan that of the state of New Hampshire, and yet the whole power of\\nRome was never able to conquer little Scotland and when they were\\nso terrified, and did not know how to live in security, they built a wall\\nup between Scotland and England, to keep the Scotchmen from con-\\nquering the Roman army. The Romans conquered England, but nei-\\nther the Roman, nor any other power under Heaven, could ever con-\\nquer little Scotland. [Applause.] They tried it a few times, you\\nknow, and they had a little interview with Robert Bruce, at Bannock-\\nburn, and left 50,000 of their soldiers dead on the field, or carried off\\nas prisoners under the touch of Bruce and after that day they were\\ncontent to let the Scotch manage their own affairs. The Scotch were\\nmighty smart, and were Presbyterians. I cannot stop to tell all\\ntheir remarkable deeds of bravery, but there were five kings of Eng-\\nland who tried to force Episcopacy on Scotland, but did not succeed,\\nand Scotland remains Presbyterian, and always will be such, while\\nthe world stands. The Scotch, in sentiment, were sui generis they\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0were themselves they were Scotch, not English, or Irish, or Britons,\\nor Danes, or Saxons. They were Scotch when the Romans found\\nthem, and when they left them, and they are Scotch to-day, and in\\ntheir posterity they are Scotch, anyway, and nothing else. Well,\\nKing James had a little land fall to him over in Ireland, by confisca-\\ntion, and after the English sent up to Scotland to get a king to govern\\nthem, he knew the Scotch character so well that he sent some over to\\nIreland, and by thrift and enterprise they flourished there, and\\nawakened the jealousy of their Irish neighbors, and after a time they\\nwei e conquered, but they could not be subdued. They were mighty\\nsmart in Ireland. The Scotch in Ireland were Presbyterians still,\\nand the Scotch in Ireland were sui generis. They were themselves,\\nnot merged with any others. They were not Britons, Angles, Dutch-\\nmen, or Jews, and no Irish blood was in their veins, but they were\\nScotch to the backbone. When they came to America they were\\nstill Scotch.\\nIf I had time, I should like to speak of the Scotch in America at\\ngreat length, but I will only take a minute to say that it is astonish-\\ning to see how many of Scotch blood have gone to Pennsylvania and\\nother great states of the Union to take high j^laces in tliis land. We\\nhave had that blood in eleven presidents of the United States, five", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0130.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "Address of Rev. Warren R. Cochrane, D. D. 93\\nchief-justices of the United States supreme court, and any quantity of\\nsenators, representatives, lawyers, and poor sticks of ministers like\\nmyself thrown in. [Laughter.] I expect that the Scotch in Amer-\\nica will go on and keep separate from other people, and not become\\nAmerican. They do not need to be Americanized. They need only\\nto remain what they are, for the Scotch, and Pilgrim fathers allied\\nto them, are the American ideal. They are the American ideal, I\\nsay, and need not to be Americanized. Let others come to them, the\\nPilgrim, and of the Scotch standard, not the Scotch-Irish standard,\\nnothing else. We want the nation to come to them. So we say,\\nLet the nations be few or be many,\\nWherever humanity s flag is unfurled,\\nWe expect the Scotch boy to be foremost of any,\\nAnd the bonnie Scotch lassies to rule the whole world.\\n[Applause.]\\nAt the conclusion of Dr. Cochrane s address, the band was prepared\\nand expected to play that sweet song of our dear old Fatherland, The\\nBanks and Braes of Bonnie Doon, but the hastening moments neces-\\nsitated its omission, which, was a regret to all.\\nTo the sentiment, The Law May it ever be the Defender of the\\nRight, it was expected that the Hon. Francis Alexander Marden,\\nof New York city, an honored son of Windham, would respond. He\\ndid not reach the celebration until afternoon, and was not seen by the\\npresiding officer. It was a matter of general regret that his voice was\\nnot heard upon the rostrum.\\nAt this time the exercises were held under some disadvantages.\\nThe rain fell in torrents, and, as the down-pour came upon the great\\ntent, the music of the rain and the rolling of distant thunder made it\\nalmost impossible for many at this moment to hear the orators. Many\\npeople stood upon the seats, and raised their umbrellas. While Sen-\\nator Patterson was speaking an umbrella was held over him for\\nprotection from the rain which beat through the tent. At this\\nmoment it was a veritable contest between the elements and the dis-\\ntinguished ex-senator to see which could make the most noise, and it\\nwas generally considered about a draw game.\\nThe President There is a gentleman with us whom the people\\nof New Hampshire are always glad to welcome. I do not know upon\\nwhat subject he wiU speak. He can talk upon any topic. All he has\\nto do is to open his lips, and the words pour forth like the rain upon", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0131.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "94 Address of Hon. J. W. Patterson.\\nthis tent. [Laughter.] I would call upon Hon. James W. Patterson.\\n[Applause.]\\nADDRESS OF HON. J. W. PATTERSON.\\nLadies and Gentlemen I see you are being baptized into the\\ntrue Scotch theology. [Laughter.] But if you will just read your\\nprogramme, or rather hill of fare, you will observe that I am not\\ndown. It reminds me of the Englishman up in Montreal who went\\ninto a French restaurant but could not read French. He did not\\nwant anybody to know of his ignorance, and so he took up the bill of\\nfare and gave his order to the young lady who was waiting on liim.\\nShe did not understand him, and he pointed to the first thing upon\\nthe bill. She brought in some soup. He ate the soup and pointed\\nto the next thing, and she brought him some more soup. He took\\na little of it, and, thinking that he would come at last to something\\nsolid, he called the young lady and pointed to the last thing on the\\nhill of fare. She brought in some toothpicks. [Laughter.] He said,\\nWhat did you bring me those for I have had nothing to eat.\\nYou have had a great deal of solid food to-day, and I do not be-\\nlieve you have need of my toothpicks but I am reminded also of the\\nlittle boy who said to his mother one day, Mother, I wish I was a\\ntwin. What do you want to be a twin for? said she. If I was\\na twin, he replied, I would send my brother to school and I would\\ngo fishing. [Laughter.] I came fishing to-day, and here I am called\\nupon to recite. There is nothing fair about it [laughter] but I will\\nsay one or two words, simply, and let you off.\\nI am called upon to speak in the place of Governor Tuttle and\\nGovernor Tuttle was to speak on New Hampsliire. If I had time I\\nwould like to develop one or two thoughts in that connection. We\\nhave heard a great deal from our Massachusetts friends about the\\nPilgrims and Puritans. WeU, they were a splendid and godly sort\\nof men, and it was my privilege last summer to go to old Scrooby,\\nAusterfield, and Leyden, and stand where the Pilgrims stood be-\\nfore they came to Plymouth and established a free state and a free\\nchurch for which we honor their memories but the Scotch-Irish who\\nplanted Londonderry in our state have a history as grand and impres-\\nsive in the eyes of the Christian world as the Puritan or the Pilgrim.\\n[Applause.] They endured in the old country a harder fight for\\nconscience and freedom than the Puritans or the Pilgrims. Why,\\ngentlemen, it was my privilege to stand in old Londonderry a few\\nyears ago. I entered the city by the ferry gate which Morrison", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0132.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0133.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0134.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "Address of Hon. J. W. Patterson. 95\\nclosed in the face of the enemy, and around which the starving peo-\\nple who entered the army were to be seen steadfast in the struggle.\\nThe Irish were fighting for King James and the Scotch for William\\nand his cause. I have stood also at the slaughter gate where, under\\nGeorge Walker, the Scotch peasantry battled against the combined\\nIrish and French forces until the blood flowed in streams down the\\nhiU and under the gate wliich has been called Slaughter Gate from\\nthat day to this. Those men who stood in old Londonderry and\\nfought for their faith and freedom came to Londonderry in this\\ncountry and founded that town and this. They were your progeni-\\ntors. They were the men who planted New England. They had\\nfought for liberty, civil and religious, against the English crown, and\\nreligious intolerance, and were prepared to be defenders of liberty\\nhere-\\nOne thing more I want to say for the benefit of some of my Massa-\\nchusetts friends, and that is, that the old Scotch-Irish of Londonderry\\nfought the battle of Bunker Hill for Massachusetts. [Applause.] It\\nwas General Stark that Scotch-Irish hero from New Hampshire\\nwho led in the battle of Bunker Hill and it was Captain Moore, who\\nstood behind the stone wall on the pebbly beach on the Mystic, with\\nhis Scotcli-Ii ish friends, and hurled back the whole British force three\\nsuccessive times and when at last the British soldiery came over the\\nredoubt, it was the Scotch-Irish who clubbed their guns and covered\\nthe retreat and they, too, under General Stark, at Bennington, saved\\nthis country and its principles of freedom for future generations.\\nSo much for the Scotch-Irish, then. They have been loyal to liberty\\nand their faith ever since. They have given to this country more\\nscholars, more orators, more statesmen, relatively, than any other\\nrace that ever came to the shores of America and their descendants,\\nto-day, are true to the history, true to the principles, and true to the\\nblood of their ancestors. [Loud applause.]\\nAt the conclusion of ex-Senator Patterson s address the rain was\\nstill falling in torrents. The band was signalled to play and enter-\\ntained the audience several minutes till the rain subsided. They\\nplayed American Dance Characteristic Overture, Morning,\\nDoon, and night in Vienna, and other stirring and finely rendered\\nselections.\\nThe President Ladies and gentlemen, the sentiment, Wind-\\nham s absent sons and daughters and their children, will be responded\\nto by Hon. Albert E. Pillsbury, of Boston, attorney-general of Massa-\\nchusetts.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0135.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "96 Address of Hon. Albert E. PilUhury.\\nADDRESS OF HON. ALBERT E. PILLSBURT.\\nMr. President^ Ladies and Gentlemen This day belongs to the\\nScotch, and, in point of weather, it is certainly a good Scotch day.\\n[Laughter.]\\nI shall not expect you, under the circumstances, to remain here to\\nlisten to anything which I might have said, for it has so turned out\\nthat we have now to contend against the elements of heaven, and\\neven my Scotch-Irish blood is not quite equal to that. [Laughter.]\\nI believe this is the first occasion in my life on which I am at lib-\\nerty to boast of my ancestry, or to fairly claim to be of the first fam-\\nilies. But it is my good fortune to be descended from John Barnet,\\none of the sixteen original settlers of Londonderry, the mother of\\nWindham, and from Robert Dinsmoor, one of the petitioners for the\\ncharter of Windham, who was appointed, under the charter, to call\\nthe first town meeting, and at that meeting was elected chairman of\\nthe first board of selectmen of the town. Fovir generations of my\\nancestors lived and died and are buried in Windham. And my\\nmother, a member of the Dinsmoor family (which, I am glad to say,\\nstill survives here, both in quality and in numbers), has come, to-day,\\nfrom another part of the state to attend this celebration, at an age\\nwhich she wiU not allow to be told, if she can help it a woman who\\nnever weighed a hundred pounds in her life, but with so much of her\\nScotch ancestry in her veins that I would back her to-day against\\nhalf a score of people less fortunate in their descent. [Laughter.]\\nMy friend of the clarion voice which rises above the storm, ex-Sen-\\nator Patterson, has done us who happen to hail from Massachusetts\\nthe honor to address himself indirectly to us. He thinks, and I agree\\nthat the claim is not wholly without foundation, that Massachusetts\\nhas boasted perhaps a little too much of the Pilgrim and Puritan set-\\ntlers of New England, forgetting that the Scotch, too, are entitled to\\nshare the credit of that great enterprise. But there is one circum-\\nstance which he has omitted to mention, of which, in justice to our\\ncommonwealth, I beg leave to remind you. You Windham people\\nreally belong not to New Hampshire, but to us. If I read our friend\\nMorrison s history correctly, the first grant of land in Windham was\\nmade by the Massachusetts legislature. Windham was a part of\\nMassachusetts before it was part of New Hampshire, and if I were\\nspeaking to-day as a rejiresentative of Massachusetts, and not as a son\\n(or grandson) of Windham, I should lay formal claim to you. As it is,\\nI assure you that, if you can get the consent of Governor Tuttle and", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0136.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0137.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0138.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "Address of Hon. Albert E. PUlshury. 97\\nhis legislature to come back to us, we shall be very glad to retake you,\\nand we will receive you with open arms. [Applause.] I doubt, how-\\never, if that consent is ever asked or given. On the contrary, instead\\nof our retaking you, you are annually in the habit of retaking us. A\\nconsiderable fraction of my neighbors in the city of Boston come wan-\\ndering up here every summer, to breathe the mountain air of New\\nHampshire, to ramble over your hills and through your valleys, and to\\ndisturb your beautiful lakes with the oar and the angle and I am glad\\nto be assured that the summer boarder is one of the most profitable\\ncrops ever cultivated in the state. I am sure that it takes less work\\nto raise him than any crop known of when I was a boy on a New\\nHampshire farm. [Laughter.] You do not have to plough him, or\\nmow him, or lay him down to grass every other year. [Laughter.]\\nAnd you do not have to get up at four o clock in the morning to milk\\nlaim, for you can milk him all day, at your leisure. [Renewed laugh-\\nter.]\\nI have said nothing, as yet, of what it was my purpose to say, but\\nmost of that must be passed by. I came here to help celebrate this\\nanniversary, but if I should begin on that theme, it would render me\\nunable, I fear, to comply with your wholesome five-minute rule. If I\\nwere to undertake, at this hour, to say anything in behalf of the de-\\nscendants of the natives or founders of Windham, for whom you have\\ndone me the honor to ask me to speak, I shotild say, first, that we re-\\ngard the invitation which brings us here to-day as in the natm e of a\\ncommand. We do not feel at liberty to disregard this duty, which\\nevery descendant of Windham owes to his ancestry. It is no mere\\nsentimental regard that we have for the men of the Scotch or Scotch-\\nIrish race, I care not which you caU it, who planted and built up this\\ntown and community. Their influence lives and moves in the traits\\nwhich we fondly believe we have inherited from them, an influence\\nwhich we feel every day of our lives. If their successors, who have\\ngone in all directions over this land, helping to people the mighty val-\\nleys of the Mississippi and Missouri, and to plant the seeds of a\\nboundless harvest over the prairies of the great West, if they have\\naccomplished anything of success, if they have been able to do any-\\nthing of service to their fellow-citizens, or to mankind, they owe much\\nof it to the blood in their veins, and to the spirit and example of tlie\\nfathers, the founders of Londonderry and Windham; the spirit\\nwhich suffered for the covenant in the time of James, and fought\\nthrough starvation and slaughter behind the walls of Londonderry.\\nYou have shared this inheritance, and you inherit, also, the soil of\\n7", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0139.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "98 Address of Son. Frederick T. Q-reenhalge.\\nthis beautiful town, the spot on which they helped to fight the battle\\nfor civilization, and liberty of conscience, and political liberty and I\\ncan only stay to say to you, my friends of Windham, that I trust\\nyou may live long in happiness and prosperity to appreciate and enjoy\\nit. [Applause.] As one of your guests, let me add, too, a word of\\ncongratulation upon the public spirit, energy, and enterprise with\\nwhich you have projected this celebration, and carried it to such a\\nsuccessful conclusion, an occasion which has been full of interest for\\nus, and which you may well remember with pride and pleasure to the\\nlast day of your lives. [Loud applause.]\\nThe President The next sentiment is The United States\\nTaken all in all, it is the fairest land on earth Its government\\nthe best the ingenuity of man ever framed. I will introduce to you\\nthe Hon. Frederic T. Greenhalge, of Lowell, Mass., to respond to\\nthis toast.\\nADDRESS OF HON. FREDERIC T. GREENHALGE.\\nMy Friends of Windham I was not born here, but, at this mo-\\nment, I may declare with perfect truth that I was baptized here.\\n[Laughter.] And the baptism was total immersion. [Renewed\\nlaughter.] I never respected the Scotch- Irish blood so much as when\\nI saw this audience behave so nobly in the face of the storm, and\\nwhen I heard Senator Patterson bid the storm defiance, I thought, It\\nis only a game of pitter-patter, let it pour. [Laughter and applause.]\\nThey tell us about the experiments of a scientific character to make\\na downpour of rain. My fellow-citizen, WUliam H. Anderson, has\\njust explained the scientific method. He says it was his speech which\\nbrought down this terrible torrent of rain upon us at this moment.\\nThe experiments of Major Dryenfurth were failures. You want a\\nWindham man to deliver a five minutes speech, and aU the rain of\\nheaven is upon you in a moment. [Laughter.]\\nNow, I come here without the ability to boast of having been born\\nhere, or having any ancestors who were born here. I feel very much\\nlike that historical character who was un-named by your orator to-day,\\na fat man in Londonderry.\\nI stand here as an outside barbarian, as a horrible example of what\\na man must be who was not born in Windham and has had no ances-\\ntors born there. [Laughter.] But, as we might have said of this\\nstorm, in the epigrammatic spirit of Mr. Cutler s friend, It might\\nhave been worse. [Laughter.] So, I may say that, although gjreatly", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0140.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "Address of Ron. Frederic T. Greenhalge. 99\\ninterested in the event of my own birth, I had very little control over\\nthat event. [Laughter.] But, I may say that I have sought to\\nmake amends, so far as I could, for that perhaps infelicitous event.\\nA man has much more to say and to do about marriage than he has\\nabout birth. I may, therefore, say that I am better than any recreant\\nson of Windham who went away and married a girl descended from\\nsome other place and some other stock. [Laughter.]\\nI do not boast here without some right of my admiration of the\\nnoble qualities of that strong Scotch-Irish stock. Ah, I have proved\\nmy devotion I have proved my liearty approval in the full possession\\nof my senses and after the most deliberate judgment. I may say that\\nas Waverley, in Scott s novel, was, in anticipation of his marriage\\nto the sister of the chief of the clan, permitted to march with the\\nclan Mclvar on the way to battle, so I am permitted to march with\\nthis goodly and noble clan in its triumphal celebration to-day. Arte-\\nmus Ward said a man ought to receive great credit because he was\\nwilling that all his wife s able-bodied relations should render patriotic\\nservice in the war. [Laughter.] I therefore, my friends of Wind-\\nham, may boast that, in a sort of vicarious way, I myself have had no\\nsmaU part in all your trials, in all your tribulations, in all your fail-\\nures, and in all your victories. By right of marriage I stand here as\\none of the clan, and, as I hear the splendid rehearsal of the victories\\nof that stern, strong breed, I do not much care how my connection is\\nbrought about with such a noble, strong people. [Applause.] Ah, it\\nmakes the blood thrill to hear that grand old story of Londonderry\\nand, as you hear of the spirit which animated the men of that starv-\\ning city, and how they manned the ramparts when death was inside\\nand death was outside and the whisper went through the streets, No\\nsurrender, I say that from the moment when you left the gates of\\nLondonderry, down to to-day, in every stricken field of the Revolu-\\ntion, and from Baltimore to Appomattox, the cry of the old London-\\nderry breed has ever been, No surrender, no surrender [Loud\\napplause.]\\nAnd what has Windham got to do with the United States of Amer-\\nica? Everything. As Mr. Cutler said, it is not the great cities of\\nAmerica which work out the progress and salvation of the Republic.\\nIt is not the New York of to-day, it is not the Boston of to-day, it\\nis not the Lowell of to-day, to which you look for the true type of\\nAmerican character now. I tell you, my friends, that it is in the\\ncountry towns it is in the back country towns that the highest type\\nof individual and national character is to be found to-dav. Look at", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0141.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "100 Address of Hon. Frederic T. Gireenhalge.\\nthe splendor of the United States, reaching from ocean to ocean, and\\nfrom the gulf to the lakes look at its mighty commercial progress\\nlook at its teeming millions look at the millions who are applying for\\nadmission at its portals to-day. Yet, my friends, the keel of every\\none of the noble vessels of the white squadron was laid in your little\\nBeaver brook. Yes, and every one of the sixty-five millions of this\\npeople drinks in, wittingly or unwittingly, inspiration from the clear\\npure air of Windham and towns like this. It is here where the in-\\nspiration came from to build the factories of America. It is here\\nupon your hills where the foundations of the great capitol at Wash-\\nington were laid and, when I look around and see what has been\\ndone by these men of Londonderry, Derry, and Windham, I say I\\nwonder how you could send so many strong men out and have so\\nmany strong men left behind.\\nWhy, if they wanted a great journal established in the metropolis\\nof the country, it was Horace Greeley who had to be sent for to do it.\\nIf it was necessary to lead an expedition to the North Pole and plant\\nthe banner of the United States on the highest latitude known to man,\\nit was Adolphus W. Greely who had to do it. If it was to start man-\\nufactures, build a prosperous city here or there, in Massachusetts or in\\nany state, it was the figure of John Nesmith that sprung to the front\\nand did the work. [Applause.] If it was necessary to have liberty and\\nunion, it was another New Hampshire man who was called to do it\\nBenjamin Franklin Butler. [Loud applause.] Why, the Home\\nGuard that you have left here has maintained the old house in order.\\nEverybody comes back and receives new inspiration from this air\\nmei chant and lawyer, banker and tradesman. They aU come here to\\nrenew their inspiration, got of old amongst these silent hiUs and I\\ntell you, my friends, it is becoming a very important matter in politi-\\ncal action and in commercial action, that the true idea of American\\ncharacter shall maintain itself. I am not going to enter into any com-\\npetition as to whether Massachusetts or New Hampshire or Maine or\\nNew York did more in this thing or in that. It makes not the slight-\\nest difference that the men of Londonderry crossed the line, which\\nthey did not, to take part in the battle of Bunker Hill. It makes not\\nthe slightest difference that your strong sons and beautiful daughters\\nare working in other states or in other territories. The great fact\\nthat comes home to me at this moment, speaking under the stars and\\nstripes, is, that the work of each and all, Scotch-Irish, English, Welsh,\\nor the millions who belong to that race which my friend here has\\ndescribed as belonging neither to Jew nor Angle, or to any known", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0142.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "Address of Hon. J. Cr. Crawford. 101\\nrace of men, it makes not the slightest difference they are all welded\\ntogether in one splendid combination of true American progressive\\ncharacter. [Loud applause.]\\nTheir work and their triumphs are the triumphs of the United\\nStates just as long as the little, quiet, country town, with its library,\\nwith its beautiful individuality, with its deep, true notions of culture,\\nwith its lasting and ineradicable sentiment of religious liberty, as\\nlong as those things survive the United States of America, in all its\\npower, in all its glory, in all its prosperity, will live forever, a credit\\nto the world, a model and an example, a refuge and a bulwark of\\nstrength to mankind for all generations forever and forever. [Loud\\napplause.]\\nThe President Ladies and gentlemen, I now introduce to you\\nHon. John G. Crawford, of Manchester, N. H., a lawyer of Scotch\\ndescent, who will cheer us with his entertaining speech.\\nADDRESS OF HON. J. G. CRAWFORD.\\nMr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen I am one of the outsiders\\nwho have come here without any sentiment from the chairman,\\nneither have I any sentiment to present to you. I have to say, with\\na great deal of regret, that I was not descended from any one who\\nlived in Windham, neither did I come to Windham to get a wife.\\n[Laughter.] But I am proud to say, as you know by the name, that\\nI belong to that same old Scotch stock that settled here. The first\\ntime I ever heard of Windham, it was not the name of this town, but\\nway back in one of the old singing-books where they had the old tune\\nof Windham. I understand it was named for this town, and the\\nwords were appropriate, Broad is the road which leads to death,\\nand thousands walk therein. [Applause.]\\nI have always been anxious to come to Windham and see that road.\\n[Laughter.] I was told that it led straight from Windham down into\\nMassachusetts. [Laughter.] And thousands have left this town and\\ngone down to their death. [Laughter.] Why, sir, when they come\\nback up here and undertake to claim credit that Windham once\\nbelonged to Massachusetts, they do not show the wisdom of their\\nfathers when they concluded to separate themselves from that old\\nPuritan state and become part and parcel of the Switzerland of\\nAmerica. I was born in Massachusetts. My forefathers came over\\nwith yours from Londonderry, and some of them were engaged in", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0143.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "102 Address of Hon. J. Gr. Crawford.\\nthat terrible siege of Londonderry for 105 days. Why, Mr. Chair-\\nman, had they had the ladies of Windham to issue provisions, Lon-\\ndonderry would have held out until to-day. [Loud applause.]\\nThe old Scotch-Irish never yet were conquered. They fought for\\nthe freedom of Scotland, and then they carried that freedom into\\nEngland from the shores of northern Ireland. From that they came\\nto America, and here you find them always fighting beneath the ban-\\nner of the free. Before the declaration of independence was made,\\nwhen the Continental congress wished to know whether they were to\\nbe backed up by the American colonists, they sent forth a declaration\\nof loyalty to the people that if they would declare the colonies inde-\\npendent they pledged their lives and their fortunes to maintain it.\\nThat resolution was submitted to every man in New Hampshire over\\ntwenty-one years of age, and in the town of Windham, with Samuel\\nMorison, one of the selectmen, every man but three pledged him-\\nself, his life, and his fortune, for the defence of the independence and\\nliberty of this country. When came the terrible war, when it was\\nattempted to overthrow our government and trail our banner in the\\ndust, Windham men, the sons of those old Scotch heroes, rallied\\nbeneath that old banner which their fathers had given them, and\\nmarched forth to engage in that terrible war. And you never have\\nknown, history does not record the fact, of any Scotch-Irish man ever\\nbeing a traitor to liberty. God bless you, when I thought of that\\nbroad road that led to death I thought that if the programme was\\nfully carried out we need not worry about dying in any very imme-\\ndiate future we should have a long life extended to us if we got\\nthrough the whole programme. [Laughter.]\\nNow, ladies and gentlemen, you have about concluded your exer-\\ncises. The storm is over. The talking or eloquence you have heard,\\nnotwithstanding the downpour of the rain. I trust that you may all\\nbe spared to meet here again in 1942, and you will hear the same old\\nspeeches and the same old stories, but I trust you will not have the\\nsame old dinner, but one just as good. [Laughter and applause.]\\nThanking you for your attention, being an outsider, lapped on to\\nthe end of this long programme, let me say, in conclusion, may your\\nbroad road be turned into a narrow one, and all walk in that to ever-\\nlasting life. [Applause.]\\nWilliam C Harris, Esq., moved that when the meeting adjourn\\nit be to June 9, 1942, and tliis motion was put and carried.\\nThe band played, and the assemblage united in singing America.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0144.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "Closing Exercises. 103\\nCLOSING WORDS.\\nThe President Ladies and gentlemen, in a few moments this\\ncelebration will be ended. The settlement of this town, the names of\\nits founders, the words uttered in their honor and memory, together\\nwith all the observances of this day, now belong to history. We com-\\nmend them to our successors, who will meet June 9, 1942.\\nLooking into the future, far as human eye can see, I would say to\\nthem, Citizens of Windham of 1942, when you celebrate this natal\\nday we who now salute you will in our graves be sleeping. But guard\\nwell the precious heritage which is commended to your care. Honor\\nthe memory of the founders of this town, and transmit to your suc-\\ncessors unimpaired the good tilings received from your predecessors,\\ntogether with the garnered fruitage of all the years of your passing\\nlives.\\nIn obedience to your vote, I declare this celebration in honor of the\\n150th anniversary of the incorporation of Windham closed, and that\\nit stands adjourned to the 9th day of June, 1942. So close the pub-\\nlic exercises of this day, and the last official words of this celebration\\nare spoken.\\nThe band then struck up some very inspiring music, playing Rec-\\nollections of the War, and other pieces.\\nAfter the close of the public exercises old friendships were renewed\\nand they who had been long separated met in joy and gladness. It\\nwas a rare day, one of great enjoyment one which had been long\\nanticipated with emotions of delight, and one wliich those who par-\\nticipated in its exercises will through all the coming years look back\\nupon with supremest satisfaction and with joy.\\nAnd how can be better closed this portion of the day s exercises\\nthan by linking the far-away past of Windham s history with its\\nactive present; than by calling into our poetical service a lineal\\ndescendant of our first pastor and clergyman. Rev. William Johnston,\\nan early settler in 1742. The following lines were written by his\\ngreat-grandson, Hon. Benjamin L. Baxter, of Tecumseh, Mich., for\\nanother occasion. He never saw this home of his forefather, but\\nthese lines are applicable to this celebration\\nTis said no nobler thought nor kindly word,\\nNor deed of love, which once the heart hath stirred,\\nCan fail or die, but, strengthening day by day,\\nWhile those who wrought, in silence pass away,", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0145.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "104 Resume.\\nMoves on from heart to heart, from shore to shore,\\nA blessing and a boon forevermore.\\nAnd so, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0while we with deep-felt reverence turn\\nTowards that sacred spot which doth inurn\\nOur fathers dust, and consecrate, with tears.\\nThose hallowed memories of those earlier years.\\nWe, too, will make our own, where er we rove.\\nTheir high, heroic faith, and deeds of love.\\nAnd gathering here, around their burial sod,\\nRevow their vows to freedom, and to God.\\nRESUME.\\nIn a remarkably well-written article on the celebration, by Prof.\\nWilliam S. Harris, o\u00c2\u00a3 Northwood Academy, published in The News,\\nDerry, N. H., he says, in relation to the celebration\\nThe event so long anticipated by the good people of this old town\\nhas passed into history. The citizens gave a royal welcome to former\\nresidents, and friends from abroad, who gladly responded to the invita-\\ntion to unite in celebrating the birthday of the town. The town has had\\ncelebrations and reunions of interest before, but never any like this.\\nEighteen hundred persons gathered from all quarters of the country, to\\nhonor the past and renew its sacred associations.\\nThe preparations by the Committee of Arrangements, and other will-\\ning workers, were on a scale such as the occasion demanded, while friends\\nof the town, both at home and abroad, contributed liberally of their\\nmeans, so that over $800 was easily raised, to defray expenses.\\nThe exercises of the day were held at the Center, which, although not\\nthe first settled part of the town, has been, since 1798, when the old\\nchurch, now the town hall, was erected, the center of the town s interest,\\nand the place where its people have gathered for religious and nmnicipal\\npurposes. At the side of the town hall, a mammoth tent 130 feet long\\nand 60 feet wide was erected, with seats capable of holding 1,200 or more\\npeople. At one side was the speakers rostrum, and at the end the stage\\noccupied by the band. The upper town hall was used as a reception\\nroom for the guests as they ari-ived, while in the lower hall tables were\\nset for dinner for 140 of the distinguished visitors.\\nThe decorations were attractive and appropriate. The front of the\\nhall bore in large gilt letters and figures the devices, Welcome, 1720,\\n1742, 1892. The dining-hall was decorated with palms, hydran-\\ngeas, and other plants and flowers from the greenhouses of Horace P.\\nDinsmoor. The tent and the upper hall were trimmed with flags and\\nbunting, and the houses at the Center, and in other parts of the town,\\nwere also decorated for the occasion, many of the historic spots being\\ndesignated by placards.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0146.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "LETTERS.\\nSeveral hundred invitations were sent to individuals in all parts of\\nthe country, and some to friends across the water. Many whom the\\npeople of Windham would have gladly welcomed were unable to be\\npresent. The following include some of the letters received. None\\nwere publicly read, for lack of time. Letters of regret were also\\nreceived from Mrs. Horace Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt. Harry Ar-\\nmour, Esq., Edinburgh, Scotland Mrs. M. Lizzie Park, Belfast, Me.\\nRev. Charles Cutler, Talmadge, Ohio, and many others, not for pub-\\nlication.\\nTHE OLD PARISH OF OUR ANCESTORS IN IRELAND THE LETTER OF\\nREV. GILBERT ALEXANDER KENNEDY.\\nAghadowey, county of Londonderry, Ireland, is, historically, most\\nintimately connected with the Scotch settlement of Windham and\\nLondonderry, New Hampshire. It is six miles from Coleraine, and is\\nthe parish from which emigrated, in 1718, Rev. James McGregor, and\\na portion of his pastoral charge, to Londonderry and Windham. Mr.\\nMcGregor was settled over that parish from 1701 to 1718, when he\\nresigned, and came to America, and to Londonderry. Before leav-\\ning that place, he preached to his flock from Exodus 33:15 If Thy\\npresence go not with me, carry us not up hence. As he preached to\\nhis people, our ancestors, in Aghadowey, on the eve of their depar-\\nture from their homes, in 1718, so, on the 23d of April, 1719, he\\nspoke to our ancestors, a reunited flock, in this old Londonderry set-\\ntlement. On the east side of Beaver pond, or Tsienneto lake, under\\nthe spreading branches of a great oak, he preached from Isaiah 32:2\\nAnd a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind and a covert\\nfrom the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of\\na great rock in a weary land. The voice of that speaker has become\\nsilent, and his long-ago listeners no longer hear words falling from", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0147.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "106 Letter from Rev. Crilhert A. Kenjiedy.\\nhuman lips. The old pastor and the members of his flock in two\\nhemispheres are sleeping side by side in the ancient cemetery on the\\nhill, in the east village of Derry, N. H.\\nThe parish of Aghadowey is an interesting locality, and was first\\nvisited by the writer in 1884, and again in 1889. The roads are\\nhard and solid, the fields surrounded with trees and walls, or hedges of\\nscraggy hawthorn which line the highways. Many familiar family\\nnames are still there, in the old home of our fathers, and kindred\\nblood flows in the veins of that people. Considering the intimate\\nconnection which our ancestors had with that place, and that they\\nwere members of the Presbyterian chm-ch there, before their coming\\nto New Hampshire, words of greeting were sent to pastor and people\\nof that church, and a cordial invitation was given Rev. Gilbert Alex-\\nander Kennedy to attend the Windham celebration. To this came\\nthe following words of greeting from over the ocean\\nAghadowey Majstse, Blackhill, Coleraine,\\n12th May, 1892.\\nDear Mr. Morrison: I thank you very much for your cordial\\ninvitation to your anniversary. I should like exceedingly to be with\\nyou, and give you, by the medium of the living voice, the greetings of\\nour ancient church. We feel, naturally, proud of you, and take a\\ndeep interest in all that concerns you, but I am a young man, lately\\nsettled, and could not find it easy to afford the time and expense\\nrequired to perform so long a journey. I shall, however, send in time\\nfor your celebration a letter containing in a small compass the message\\nI would have conveyed in person. With kindest regard,\\nI remain, yours sincerely,\\nGilbert A. Kennedy.\\nTo the Citizens of Windham^ New Hampshire^ U. S. A. We,\\nthe members of the Presbyterian church of Aghadowey, county of\\nDerry, Ireland, have heard of your intention to celebrate on the 9th\\nof June, 1892, the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of your\\ntown and the 172d year of your settlement as a peoj)le in the far\\nWest. Being closely united to you by ties of kindred and of faith, we\\ndesire to assure you of our cordial sympathy with you in your rejoic-\\ning.\\nIt is now about 250 years since our forefathers and yours were\\ndriven by the red hand of persecution from their Scottish homes to", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0148.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "Letter from the Church of Aghadowey. lOT\\nthat portion of Ulster in which we now live. During the revolution\\nof 1688-90 they fought under William III., and were amongst the\\ndefenders of Derry during its historical siege. For a time the sur-\\nvivors enjoyed rest, but in the year 1704 their troubles re-commenced.\\nAt length the yoke became so galling that in our district some deter-\\nmined to surrender home, notwithstanding the blood they had shed in\\nits defense. Accordingly, in the year 1718, the Rev. James McGregor,\\nminister of this church, with 120 of his families, arose and emi-\\ngrated to America, settling finally in New Hampshire, and many of\\nyou are their descendants-\\nIt is a sad blot on the pages of our history that a loyal, pious, and\\nindustrious people were thus driven from the land they had bought at\\nso high a price, and the saddest element is the fact that the blow was\\nstruck by the hands of those who had lately been their comrades in\\narms. But all things work together for good to them that love\\nGod. The Aghadowey Pilgrim Fathers landed on the friendly shores\\nof America, a free people. Their descendants have not only found a\\ncovert from the storm they have shared in the glory of building up\\nthe gi-eat republic of the West, where peace and contentment reign\\nand not only commerce, but religion and the fine arts grow and\\nflourish.\\nWe are truly proud of you, and of our grand old church from\\nwhence you sprang, amd we are thankful to be able to say that never\\nin all her history has she enjoyed a greater measure of prosperity.\\nNearly all of the old disabilities have been removed. Civil and\\nreligious liberty prevails. Peace reigns within our walls and pros-\\nperity within our palaces. When we reflect on the goodness of God\\nto us and our kinsmen across the ocean, we may well say in the\\nlanguage of the ancient poem, Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a\\nfruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall. The\\narchers have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him, but\\nhis bow abode in strength and the arms of his hands were made strong\\nby the hands of the Almighty God of Jacob, even by the God of thy\\nfather who shall keep thee, and by the Almighty who shall bless thee\\nwith blessings of heaven above. The blessings of thy father have\\nprevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost\\nbound of the everlasting hills they shall be on the head of Joseph\\nand on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his\\nbrethren.\\nBrethen, we heartily rejoice in your joy, and unite in wishing you\\nprosperity.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0149.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "108 Letter from John Carr^ Esq.\\nSigned on behalf of the members of Aghadowey Presbyterian\\nchurch.\\nGilbert A. Kjennedy, Minister.\\nJohn Boyd, Clerk of Session.\\nMatthew Macauley, Samuel Perry, Torrens Miller, James A. Mul-\\nlen, Thomas Craig, Robert Wilson, Robert Shirley, Robert Anderson,\\nRobert Rankin, other members of the session.\\nTHE MAYOR OF LONDONDERRY.\\nTown Clerk s Office, Guildhall,\\nLondonderry, Ireland, 26th May, 1892.\\nHonorable Sir I have to thank you for your very kind invita-\\ntion on behalf of the citizens of Windham, to celebrate the 150th\\nannivei sary of its incorporation, and to express my regret at my\\ninability to be present with them on that occasion.\\nBelieve me, yours very truly,\\nJ. AcHEsoN MacCullagh.\\nMayor.\\nTo the Honorable Leonard A. Morrison,\\nWindham, New Hampshire, U. S.\\nJOHN CARR, ESQ., BOSTON, MASS.\\nBoston, Mass., June 7, 1892.\\nGentlemen In response to your kind invitation to be present at\\nthe 150th anniversary of the incorporation of Windham, allow me to\\nexpress my very great regret that I cannot join with you in that cele-\\nbration, so full of interest to the descendants of those early settlers\\nand hardy pioneers. I am detained by other engagements, but my\\nheart will be there, where my ancestors, the Dinsmoors, helped to\\nbuild one of the noted towns in the old commonwealth of New Hamp-\\nshire, the old Granite state. Hoping you will have a good time and a\\nsuccessfid celebration, I remain.\\nRespectfully yours,\\nJohn Carr.\\nTo William C. Harris, Leonard A. Mor-\\nrison, William D. Cochran, A. F.\\nCampbell, Committee on Invitations.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0150.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Letter from Jonathan L. Noyes, Esq. 109\\nTHOMAS DINSMOOR, ESQ., SON OF COL. SILAS DINSMOOR,\\nTHE INDIAN AGENT.\\nKiKKSViLLE, Adair Co., Mo., June 6, 1892.\\nHon. Leonabd A. Morrison,\\nCanobie Lake, N. H.\\nDear Sir I received your kind invitation to the celebration at\\nWindham, and also a Boston paper giving an account of same, for\\nwhich, thanks. I can assure you it would give me great pleasure to\\nbe with you, but circumstances beyond my control render it impos-\\nsible. Hoping you will have a grand success, I remain,\\nYours truly,\\nThomas Dinsmoor.\\nJONATHAN L. NOYES, ESQ., FARIBAULT, MINN.\\nMinnesota School for the Deat,\\nj. l. noyes, supt.\\nFaribault, June 6, 1892.\\nWilliam C. Harris, Esq., Chairman,\\nWindham, Backing ham Co., N. H.\\nDear Sir Yours of the 31st ult. is at hand. I sincerely wish I\\ncould be with you and your feUow-citizens on the 9th inst., and join in\\nthe celebration of the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the\\ntown of Windham, where I was born, and where the days of ray\\nchildhood and youth were passed. Many and very precious are the\\nrecollections I now recall, as I pen these few lines. The town haU,\\nformerly the meeting-house, with the box pews, the high box pulpit,\\nthe horse-sheds in the rear, Robert Bartley s store, the postoffice\\nwithin, the tavern near by, and the church at the fork of the roads,\\nthe long sermons of the faithful pastor and preacher, Rev. C Cutler,\\nthe Sabbath school, where Mrs. Hughes so kindly and faithfully\\ntaught me, and the little foot-stove that I used to carry to Mr. Bart-\\nley s house, to fill with live coals,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the only means of keeping warm\\nin those cold, wintry days, the rumpus that arose, when it was pro-\\nposed to heat the church with stoves, those and many other associa-\\ntions too numerous to mention pass before my mind, as I think of\\nthose early days in Windham. It would delight my heart to be with\\nyou, and take part in the celebration, on the 9th inst. I wish to be\\nremembered to any and all of my acquaintances now living, and I", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0151.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "110 Letter from Rev. John IT. Morison, D. D.\\nhope the next 150 years will witness even more and better things\\nin Windham than the past that many more boys and girls wUl\\ncome up to do better, greater, and nobler things than their fathers\\nand mothers have done. That the town may always be as well uni-\\nted, as prosperous, as intelligent, and as well represented, both at\\nhome and abroad, in the future as in the past, is the earnest prayer\\nand heartfelt desire of\\nYours sincerely,\\nJ. L. Notes.\\nORLANDO DAVIDSON, ESQ., ELGIN, ILL.\\nElgin, June 4, 1892.\\nWm. C. Harris, Esq.,\\nChairman of Committee\\nDear Sir I regret exceedingly that I shall not be able to attend\\nthe celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the\\nincorporation of the town of Windham, N. H.\\nI trust you will have a very pleasant and profitable meeting.\\nYours very truly,\\nOrlando Davidson.\\nREV. JOHN HOPKINS MORISON, D. D., PETERBOROUGH, N. H.\\nPeterborough, June 1, 1892.\\nTo Messrs. William C. Harris,\\nLeonard A. Morrison,\\nWilliam D. Cochran,\\nAlphonso F. Campbell,\\nCommittee of Invitation\\nDear Sirs It would give me great pleasure to attend the cele-\\nbration of the 150th anniversary of Windham, the birthplace of my\\ndear mother, and for a time the home of my great-grandfather, and\\nalso, I believe, of his father and grandfather. I have always, from my\\nchildhood up, thought of Windham with a filial reverence. I regret\\nthat, instead of being with you on the 9th inst., I can only join you in\\na silent benediction and a prayer that, as to those who have gone\\nbefore, so even more to those who come after us, God may be present\\nwith even richer benefactions in the life and character of your people.\\nWith sincere regard,\\nJohn H. Morison.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0152.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "Letter from Daniel M. Park^ Esq. Ill\\nHON. JACOB H. GALLINGER, WASHINGTON, D. C.\\nUnited States Senate, Washington, D. C, May 19, 1892.\\nDear Mr. Morrison Your kind favor of May 16th, inclosing\\ninvitation to the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of the town\\nof Windham, is received. It is a matter of much regret to me that I\\ncannot be with you on that eventful day. Be assured that I will think\\nof you, and trust the occasion may be one of much interest and pleas-\\nure.\\nWith sincere good wishes, believe me.\\nYour friend as always,\\nJ. H. Gallingek.\\nHon. L. A. Morrison,\\nCanobie Lake, N. H.\\nDANIEL M. PARK, ESQ., DE SOTO, MO.\\nDe Soto, Mo., May 30, 1892.\\nWilliam C. Harris,\\nLeonard A. Morrison,\\nWilliam D. Cochran,\\nAlphonso F. Campbell,\\nCommittee on Invitations\\nDear Sirs To all of us come times when the heart s impulses\\nand earnest wishes are bound and restrained by circumstances. This\\nis one of those times to me. Though never a resident of Windham,\\nyet to me the old town is dear. Over it, in boyhood days my father\\nroamed in its atmosphere, and from its people he imbibed those ster-\\nling qualities and that rugged nature that he carried with him through\\nlife. He left to me an honored name, and gave to me the best that\\none needs to fit one for life s battle.\\nOf my old Scotch-Irish ancestry, I am proud, and there never will\\ncome a time that I shall not wish to be numbered on the roll when\\nold Windham calls a rally of her sons and daughters, and their de-\\nscendants.\\nThese gatherings bring together the scattered fragments of the old\\nfamilies, and reunite them in a common loyalty, awakening the old\\nties of kindred blood. I wish I could be with you. I hope to visit\\nthe old place this summer, but I cannot at this time. May we not,\\nhowever, in spirit, join hands across the distance that separates, and\\ntogether say Old Windham, we love and honor thee we love", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0153.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "112 Letter from President Harrison.\\nthy granite rocks, thy pine-clad hills, thy silvery lakes and mossy\\ndeUs.\\nBut dearer still, yet closer to our hearts, are the memories of our old\\nScotch-Irish ancestry. Earnest of purpose, fearing God, and ever\\neager to do the right, and the right alone, having that sterling, rugged\\ncharacter that ever leaves its impress on ages to come.\\nAllow me, then, to express my mother s sincere regrets at her\\ninability to be present, as vrell as those for myself.\\nTruly yours,\\nDaniel M. Park.\\nREV. CARROLL CUTLER, D. D., TALLADEGA, ALA.\\nTalladega, Ala., April 22, 1892.\\nMy Dear Mb. Morrison Yours of the 18th inst. is received. I\\nam sorry to say that I shall not be able to be in Windham in June of\\nthis year. Our term here does not close until the 9th. It would be\\nsome days after that before we could leave home.\\nI am glad to hear of the good spirit of the people which leads them\\nto observe so important an anniversary. I wish the town had been\\nincorporated in August or September. I would like to move to amend\\nthe record, and put it September 9th, instead of June 9th. I am very\\nsorry they made such a mistake 150 years ago. I love old Windham\\nand all its old families. May you have a good and glorious time.\\nVery truly yours,\\nCarroll Cutler.\\nPRESIDENT HARRISON, WASHINGTON, D. C.\\nExecutive Mansion, Washington, D. C, June 2, 1892.\\nRev. William E. Westervelt,\\nWindham, N. H.\\nMy Dear Sir The President directs me to acknowledge the re-\\nceipt of your favor of May 31st, and to express to you his thanks for\\nthe kind invitation to attend the celebration of the 150th anniversary\\nof the town of Windham. He regrets that it will be impossible for\\nhim to be present on that occasion.\\nVery truly yours,\\nE. W. Halford,\\nPrivate Secretary.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0154.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "Letter from Rev. Joseph S. Cogswell. 113\\nHON. WM. E. CHANDLER, WASHINGTON, D. C.\\nUnited States Senate, Washington, D, C, May 24, 1892.\\nHon. L. a. Morrison,\\nCanohie Lake, N. H.\\nMy Dear Sir Yours of the 16th, enclosing invitation to attend the\\nWindham celebration on the 9th of June, is at hand. I very much\\nregret that I shall not be able to attend. I can readily see that you\\nwill have a very interesting ceremonial.\\nYours respectfully,\\nWm. E. Chandler.\\nFRANK E. PARK, ESQ., SOUTH BOSTON, MASS.\\nSouth Boston, May 23, 1892.\\nL. A. Morrison, Esq.\\nDear Sir Please express to the committee on invitations my\\nsincere regret that a previous engagement, involving the participation\\nof many, will utterly prevent me from enjoying the enthusiastic fes-\\ntivities which I know will prevail on the occasion of the 150th anni-\\nversary of the incorporation of the good old town of Windham.\\nWith many thanks for the remembrance,\\nI remain yours truly,\\nFrank E. Park.\\nREV. JOSEPH S. COGSWELL, STANDISH, ME.\\nStandish, Cumberland Co., Maine, Jime 4, 1892.\\nHon. Leonard A. Morrison\\nMy Dear Sir I have received an invitation to be present at the\\n150th anniversary of the incorporation of Windham, New Hampshire.\\nIt is a painful duty to write to you that I cannot be present with you\\non that occasion of so much historic interest. I am now suffering\\nwith many aches and pains, and my physician enjoins upon me rest\\nand quiet. I shall think of you on that day, and wish to be there, as\\nI feel a deep interest in the welfare and prosperity of the excellent\\ntown of Windham, New Hampshire.\\nVery cordially yours,\\nJoseph S. Cogswell.\\n8", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0155.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "114 Letter from D. Wallis Morrison, Esq.\\nGEORGE S. MORISON, ESQ., CHICAGO, ILL.\\nChicago, May 26, 1892.\\nLeonard A. Morrison, Esq.,\\nCanobie Lake, Windham, N. H.\\nDear Sir I thank you for the invitation to the celebration of\\nthe 150th anniversary of the town of Windham. As a descendant of\\none of the early settlers, I take it that this invitation comes to me\\nfrom the committee of which you are a member. It is very improb-\\nable that I shall be able to attend, though I should be very glad to do\\nso. If I cannot go, I wish you would express my thanks to the com-\\nmittee for the invitation, with my best wishes for the success of the\\nday and my thorough sympathy with the celebration and the objects\\nwhich it conmaemorates.\\nYours truly,\\nGeo. S. Morison.\\nHON. GEORGE A. MARDEN, LOWELL, MASS.\\nJune 5, 1892.\\nLeonard A. Morrison, Esq.\\nDear Sir I am greatly obliged for the kind invitation to attend\\nthe 150th anniversary of the incorporation of Windham on the 9th,\\nbut, as I am to go to New York that evening, I can hardly avail my-\\nself of it. But for this, I should be most happy to accept your invi-\\ntation.\\nYours truly,\\nGeorge A. Marden.\\nD. WALLIS MORRISON, ESQ., NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.\\nNew York, June 6, 1892.\\nWilliam C. Harris, Esq., Chairman:\\nDear Sir The committee s invitation to participate in the\\ncelebration of the 150th anniversary of the settlement of your good\\nold town was duly received. I am compelled, with the profoundest\\nregret, to forego the great pleasui*e it would afford me to be pres-\\nent on the occasion. The disappointment is all the more keen from\\nthe fact that, in addition to the enjoyment of the exercises of the day,\\nI would have had the pleasure of meeting kindred and friends whom\\nI have not seen for many years and further, that I am prevented", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0156.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "Poem hy Mrs. D. W. Morrison. 115\\nfrom showing in person my allegiance to tlie home of my ancestors,\\nand joining with those jjresent in honoring their memory and virtues.\\nThe proposed celebration has aroused Mrs. Morrison s Scottish\\nblood. She has inscribed a few lines to kindred and friends, enclosed\\nherewith. Possibly an opj^ortunity may present itself to read them\\nto the gathered company.\\nFervently hoping that the occasion will be full of unalloyed pleas-\\nure to all present, I remain\\nAffectionately yours,\\nD. Wallis Morrison.\\nTO KINDRED AND FRIENDS.\\nJUNE 9, 1892.\\nShould auld acquaintance be forgot\\nAh, no, for here we find\\nOur hearts, with tender mem ries, cling\\nTo days o auld lang syne.\\nNear banks and braes o Bonnie Doon,\\nOur grandsires worshipped God\\nAnd there, in hallowed kirkyard, now.\\nTheir bones lie neath the sod.\\nUpon old Scotia s granite hills.\\nTheir sons breathed Freedom s air\\nAnd learned, for liberty and truth.\\nHeroic deeds to dare.\\nFor Scotia, they with Wallace bled\\nFor freedom, followed Bruce\\nAnd ne er, till right had won the fight.\\nConsented to a truce.\\nTheir weans were taught, at mother s knee.\\nSweet purity to love\\nAnd count a conscience clear within\\nAll other things above.\\nThey brought old Scotland s virtues\\nTheir western homes to grace\\nThe Holy Book, in honored nook,\\nStill knew its welcome place.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0157.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "116 Poem hy Mrs. D. W. Morrison.\\nT was here they raised their hands in prayer,\\nAs their first homes they found\\nAnd, by their sons, this sacred spot\\nIs counted holy ground.\\nWith bonnets doffed, we gather here,\\nLike pilgrims to a shrine,\\nTo feel what we can ne er express\\nFor days o auld lang syne.\\nAiid here, like doves that, homeward bound,\\nTo their loved windows fly.\\nOur kinsmen, drawn by cords of love.\\nWith votive off rings hie.\\nFond mothers to their bosoms press\\nTheir stalwart sons with pride.\\nAnd then, with open arms, receive\\nEach young and trusting bride.\\nWhile here and there, amid the crowd.\\nWe mark the kindling eye\\nOf sweetheart that, to sweetheart dear,\\nBreathes out the tender sigh.\\nAnd oft a touch of kindred blood\\nIn some dear child we trace\\nIn one a father s noble brow,\\nAnd here a mother s grace.\\nWe feel our quick ning pulses thrill\\nAs brothers dear we meet\\nAs hand clasps hand, and eye to eye,\\nLong scattered friends we greet.\\nThe loved and lost in days of yore\\nSeem hov ring round us here;\\nAnd, as to them fond mem ry turns,\\nThis song ne er seemed so dear\\nShould auld acquaintance be forgot,\\nAnd never brought to mind\\nWe 11 tak a cup o kindness here\\nFor days o auld lang syne.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0158.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "Letter from Bufus A. Morrison, Esq. 117\\nFor days o auld lang syne, my friends,\\nFor days o auld lang syne,\\nWe 11 tak a cup o kindness yet\\nFor days o auld lang syne.\\nMrs. Mary Whitnky Morrison.\\nNew Rochelle, New York, June 6, 1892.\\nRUFUS A. MORRISON, ESQ., WASHINGTON, D. C.\\nWashington, D. C, June 7, 1892.\\nWilliam C. Harris, Esq.,\\nChairman of Committee of Invitation\\nDear Sir Indulging the hope that the way might be opened by\\nwhich I could attend the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the\\nincorporation of Windham, my native town, I deferred to the last\\nmoment an expression of my deep regret at my not being able to be\\npresent. Whenever I think of Windham my boyhood life, with all\\nits associations of pleasure and disappointment, passes before my mind,\\nlike a panorama, with its ever changing scenes.\\nThe first object which memory brings into view is the little red\\nschool-house standing at the cross roads. It is characteristic of New\\nEngland. At least, in all my travels, I have never seen one outside\\nof that section, nor do I think that history accords it a larger habita-\\ntion. There I was faithfully instructed in what has been termed,\\neither wittily or ignorantly, the three R s reading, riting, and rlth-\\nmetic. To-day I can see that little school-house standing where the\\nroadways meet, and I could call by name for many a term the larger\\nnumber of the boys and girls who filled its seats. I well remember\\nwhen I was one of the big boys, and for this reason had the honor of\\nsitting in the back seat, that another larger boy came in late one\\nmorning and whispered to me that gold had been discovered in a\\nplace called California. It lay right on top of the groimd, and people\\ngathered it as they would apples. Many were the schemes we formed\\nfor obtaining our share of the precious metal. We examined our\\ngeographies to locate the place and ascertain the best route by which\\nit could be reached. Well, California has yielded a vast amount of\\ngold, but, could the values of the gold and the little red school-house\\nbe correctly estimated, the balance would be largely in favor of the\\nschool-house.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0159.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "118 Letter from Rufus A. Morrison, Esq.\\nThen there is the old militia drill which took place in front of the\\nold meeting-house. It was the height of my ambition to carry an old\\nflint-lock gun, and receive fifty cents for the half day s work. Each\\nman must appear, fully equipped, with his gun in clean and working\\ncondition, with a flint in the hammer that would strike fire, and sev-\\neral more equally as good-looking ones in his pocket. The captain,\\nwith his high military hat and still higher feather, the evolutions of\\nthe militiamen as they practised the drill to the music of the drum\\nand fife, inspired us boys with a patriotism as intense as that of 76.\\nBut the legislature abolished those drills when I was seventeen years\\nof age, and I never received the coveted fifty cents, nor had my name\\nplaced on the muster rolls of the state.\\nThe little red school-house and the militia drill have disappeared,\\nbut town-meeting day is left in all its original simplicity. This was\\none of the play days of the year, and enjoyed alike by the small boys\\nand the large boys also who did the voting. This is something pecu-\\nliar to New England, the scope and meaning of which, people from\\nother states find it difficult to understand. I well remember the pride\\nI felt when I deposited my first ballot. I voted for Ichabod Good-\\nwin for governor, but was not on the winning side, Ralph Metcalf\\nbeing the successful candidate. At that same meeting the question\\nof printing the common-school reports came up for decision, and I\\nvoted in the affirmative. My old Sabbath-school teacher reproach-\\nfully looked at me through his spectacles, and said, Dry reading,\\nRufus, dry reading. I responded that we would try it one year.\\nI think those rej^orts have been printed ever since, thereby vindicat-\\ning the young man.\\nBut the day for Thanksgiving was the richest of all the holidays.\\nThis day of thanks and feasts has since become national in its charac-\\nter. In my boyhood it was faithfully and religiously observed. In\\nthe forenoon, service was held in the church, at which the choir\\nusually chanted the first psalm and closed the exercises with the\\nrendition of some more elaborate anthem.\\nThis takes us into the house of worship, the place where memory\\ndelights to linger. Turn back the hands on the dial plate of time one\\nthird of a century, and I see the old congregation which worshipped\\nwithin her sacred walls. I see and know the occupants of almost\\nevery pew. The minister, the Sabbath-school superintendent, the\\nteachers, the scholars, and the choir, one and all, are indelibly stamped\\nupon memory s tablet. I cannot speak too highly of the church choir.\\nI have listened to the great singers of our own and foreign lands, but", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0160.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "Letter from Alhro A. Osgood^ Esq. 119\\nnever have I been soothed or stirred with sweeter and more elevating^\\nmusic than that furnished by the church choir of my native town.\\nThe church in all its appointments is the crown, the glory, and the\\nsafety of Windham and every other community, May the day be far\\ndistant when her citizens fail to recognize her importance and the\\nduty, nay the greatest privilege, of sustaining her in all her work.\\nSincerely yours,\\nRuFus A. Morrison.\\nJOHN MORRISON, ESQ., WASHINGTON, D. C.\\nWashington, D. C, June 7, 1892.\\nWilliam C. Harris, Esq.,\\nChairman of the Committee of Invitation\\nDear Sir: It is with feelings of regret mingled with pleasure\\nthat I am obliged to decline an invitation to be present at the 150th\\nanniversary of the incorporation of the town of Windham. Regret,\\nthat I can not be present to renew old friendships, still fresh in mem-\\nory, and greet the sons and daughters since grown up to manliood and\\nwomanhood to take the places of those who have ripened and gone.\\nPleasure, that I can claim Windham as my native town.\\nAfter an absence of a considerable mmiber of years, I look back\\nwith just pride upon the sterling, conscientious qualities which seemed\\nto predominate in all actions relating to matters of both church and\\nstate. The memories, the faces, the voices of those we were wont to\\nmeet and hear in church and in public gatherings, and the words of coun-\\nsel, spoken with so much earnestness and faithfulness, though in boy-\\nhood days, are as fresh and vivid in memory as though but yesterday.\\nWith heartiest wishes for a happy and profitable gathering, and\\nagain expressing regret at my inability to be with you, I remain\\nSincerely yours,\\nJohn Morrison.\\nALBRO A. OSGOOD, ESQ., BOSTON, MASS.\\nBoston, June 7, 1892.\\nMr. Alphonso F. Campbell,\\nAnd the Committee on Invitations\\nGentlemen Please accept my thanks for your kind remembrance\\nof me, to attend the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of your\\ndear old town dear to me, not only as the birthplace of my mother,", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0161.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "120 Letter from Ex-Ciov. Charles H. Bell.\\nbut also for the many pleasant associations connected with the years\\nof my childhood, when it was my privilege to call it my home.\\nThere are times in the histories of men and towns when they are\\ncalled upon to pause from their usual vocations, and look back and\\ncontemplate the circumstances that have brought them to their pres-\\nent positions. Such, it seems to me, is the position in which you find\\nyourselves to-day. And when your historian has read the pages of\\nyour history for the last 150 years, what has he found A history\\nof men and women, whose early training in your public schools has\\nmade them noted for their sterling character, integrity, and deeds of\\ngenerosity, whether at home or abroad.\\nGentlemen of the committee, I again thank you for your courtesy,\\nbut owing to business engagements, am obliged to decline your kind\\ninvitation, but you have my best wishes for the success of this anni-\\nversary, and I hope the object-lesson taught by the exercises of this\\ncelebration may ever be a reminder to the coming generations to\\ncontinue the good example set them by their ancestors. I remain,\\nYours very respectfully,\\nAlbro a. Osgood.\\nEX-GOVERNOR CHARLES H. BELL, EXETER, N. H.\\nExeter, N. H., June 8, 1892.\\nTo the Committee of Arrangements for the Observance of the Wind-\\nham Anniversary\\nGentlemen: I regret that it is out of my power to be present at\\nyour celebration to-morrow, and I send a few pages, to show you how\\nmuch interest I feel in it, though absent in person.\\nYoiu s truly,\\nCharles H. Bell.\\nAt the celebration, twenty-three years ago, of the 150th anniversary\\nof the foundation of Londonderry, the mother town, I heard a lady?\\nwho had listened to the eulogies pronoiuiced upon the Scotch-Irish\\nsettlers and their descendants, exclaim I feel as if I were nobody,\\nto-day, because I am not Scotch-Irish\\nI am more fortunate than she was, for I can boast my descent from\\nthat worthy stock, on both sides of the house, my paternal ancestors\\nhaving been among the early settlers of Londonderry, and my mater-\\nnal among those of Windham. Indeed, the only English blood in\\nmy veins came through the marriage of my Windham grandfather", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0162.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "Letter from Ex-Crov. Charles H. Bell. 121\\nwith the daughter of the Rev. Christopher Sargent, of Methuen.\\nBut, he was so excellent a minister, and so worthy a man, that he\\nmay be accounted almost as good as if he had been Scotch-Irish, too\\nThe town of Windham is fortunate in its historian. A native, a\\ndescendant of one of the original families, familiar with the traditions\\nand associations of the place, he has taken pride and pleasm*e in his\\ntask. His work contains much that is interesting, and characteristic\\nof the people he describes, but hardly anything more characteristic, as\\nit seems to me, than the first vote passed by the town, after its organ-\\nization by the election of officers under the charter, March 8, 1741\u00e2\u0080\u00942.\\nIt was in these words Voted, That the selectmen provide two staves,\\none for the constable and one for the tithing-man, and a town-book.\\nThen, having made this apparently meagre preparation for assuming\\nthe duties and responsibilities of townhood, the meeting was dissolved.\\nBut, if we analyze this modest resolve of the town, I think we shall\\nfind that it contains the germs of those principles which have ennobled\\nits history in contributing to the country so large a number of men\\nof character and influence. In the first place, the very poverty of the\\nvote indicates the few and simple wants, the narrow means, and the\\nfrugality of the people who passed it. They had little money, and\\nnone to spend unnecessarily. They brought up their families to like\\nhabits of prudence and economy. In entering upon their municipal\\nduties, they evidently considered with care what was absolutely neces-\\nsary, and meant to provide nothing beyond that. What, then, did\\nthey deem the indispensable necessities of their situation First, a\\nstaff for the constable. This was simply a black rod with a brazen\\ncrown at the top, but it was the symbol of civil authority. The con-\\nstable was the collector of the rates and taxes, the conservator of the\\npeace, the representative of the law of the land. In furnishing the\\nconstable s staff the town virtually pledged itself to respect and obe-\\ndience of the law, as one of the main pillars of the future prosperity\\nwhich they hoped to enjoy.\\nThe staff for the tithing-man used to have a heavy knob at one end,\\nto rap the hard heads of men and boys, and a fox tail at the other,\\nto tickle the faces of drowsy women. One of the chief duties of the\\ntithing-man was to awaken sleepers and preserve order and decorum\\nduring divine service on the Lord s day. He was the representative\\nof the spiritual, as the constable was of the civil, authority. When the\\nfathers of Windham voted him his badge of office, they bound them-\\nselves, in effect, to support the observances of religion, and the public\\nworship of God.", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0163.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "122 Letter from Ux-Gov. Charles H. Bell.\\nThe town-book was the third article of prime necessity provided\\nfor in the town s fii st vote, and it was scarcely inferior in its influence\\nupon the peace and harmony of the inhabitants to the articles already\\nmentioned. The book was designed to contain the records of town\\nmeetings, of the proceedings of town officers, and the like. It was\\nthe common property of all the citizens, open to the inspection of all.\\nIt was of unimpeachable authority whatever appeared on its pages\\nadmitted of no question. It was a great regulator of official action\\na wholesome check upon loose and careless statement, and a final\\numpire in all disputes and differences respecting town affairs. In these\\nrespects it fuUy justified the foresight and expectation of the voters\\nof 1742.\\nBut, in process of time, the town-book acquired a value which\\nthe early inhabitants could never have anticipated. It supplied to\\nthe historian essential and priceless materials for presenting to our\\ngeneration an accurate picture of the doings, the habits, and the ideas\\nof the several generations which preceded us. The early inhabitants,\\nin their modest estimate of themselves, could not have dreamed that\\nthey were ever to be of sufficient interest to their successors to be\\nmade the subjects of a liistory, in all the publicity of print, a century\\nafter their earthly work was over. When they authorized the pur-\\nchase of the town book, they builded even better than they knew\\nand, for that, they are entitled to oui special gratitude and acknowl-\\nedgment.\\nA community which had the wisdom and foresight, 150 years ago,\\nto manifest their allegiance to human and divine authority, and to\\nrecognize the need of making important transactions matters of per-\\nmanent record, might be expected to thrive, and to raise up successors\\nwho should be obedient to the laws, and make honest men and good\\ncitizens. Accordingly, the history of Windham affords numerous\\nexamples of those reared under such influences, who have been chosen\\nfrom the ranks to become leaders in the great march of progress.\\nSo many of her sons have distinguished themselves in various callings\\nand walks of life, that the list of their names would swell a letter to\\nundue length, and it would be invidious to name a part, and keep\\nsilence respecting others of equal deserts.\\nLong may the old town continue true to the principles of its found-\\ners faithful to the laws, human and divine, and keep its future\\nrecord worthy of the past. I am.\\nVery respectfully yours,\\nCharles H. Bell.", "height": "3482", "width": "2050", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0164.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "Letter from Samuel M. JVesmith, Esq. 123\\nCHARLES H. MILNER, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.\\nSai^^ Francisco, May 20, 1892.\\nTo the Committee on Invitations\\nGentlemen I have just received an invitation from your com-\\nmittee for June 9th, and although unahle to cross the continent to\\nattend, I will be with you in spirit on that day. It is vmnecessary to\\nassure you of the great pleasure it would give me to be in Windham\\nat any time, and this is particularly true of such an occasion as the\\none at hand, which will call together, not only all of the present pop-\\nulation of the town, but as many of its former residents as are able to\\nget there, and will afPord such a favorable opportunity to greet old\\nfriends, that I am very sorry not to be able to take advantage of it\\nand once more meet the many friends that I left there five years ago,\\nand although I cannot do that, still I can send you all kindly regards\\nand hearty good wishes, and, with the best of anticipations for the\\nsuccess of the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary\\nof the incorporation of the good old town of Windham,\\nI am.\\nSincerely Yours,\\nCharles H. Milnek.\\nLETTER OF CONGRATULATION.\\nSAMUEL M. NESMITH, ESQ., BOSTON, MASS.\\nBoston, June 16, 1892.\\nHon. Leonard A. Morrison,\\nWindham, N. H.\\nMy Dear Sir I write to congratulate you on the success of the\\nWindham celebration. I think it was one of the pleasantest occa-\\nsions of my life, to meet with the sons and daughters of good old\\nWindham in celebrating its 150th anniversary. It is well that occa-\\nsions like these arise, to bring together those long separated from rela-\\ntives and friends. It was my good fortune to meet with men and women\\nwho were my schoolmates more than fifty j^ears ago. This was a privi-\\nlege which I greatly appreciated. I was much pleased that the gov-\\nernor of our state, with his estimable lady, honored us with their pres-\\nence, and that sitting by his side was a lady guest 101 years of age.\\nThe address of Hon. James Dinsmoor, a son of Windham, was able\\nand scholarly, and I hope soon to see it published. The speeches", "height": "3466", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "historyproceedin00wind_0165.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "124 Letter from Samuel M. Hesmtth, Esq.\\nmade by those who took part were of a high order, and reflected\\ncredit upon themselves, and honor upon the town.\\nThere was one feature of the celebration which impressed me\\ngreatly, and of which I desire to write, viz the charming music of\\nthe Windham glee club, introduced by yourself as having been organ-\\nized nearly forty years ago. This club was composed of some of the\\nbest singers of the town, who have continued its organization unbroken\\nby death, to the present time. It was a great pleasure to listen to\\nthese substantial men of Windham singing the songs they sang in\\ndays long gone by. May their lives long be spared to the good peo-\\nple of their native town.\\nThe celebration was very enjoyable to all, notwithstanding the rain\\nwhich fell during a portion of the afternoon. The arrangements for\\nthe celebration were admirably and substantially carried out. Great\\ncredit is due to yourself and the other members of the committee for\\nthe organization and completion of this grand celebration. As a son\\nof Windham, I take great pride in the enterprise and public spirit of\\nthe men and women of my native town, and I am satisfied that her\\nbest interests and welfare are in safe hands to-day.\\nWith much regard, and with many regrets that, on the day of the\\ncelebration, I could not say to you in the language of your invitation^\\nGive me your hand, old friend of youth,\\nSincerely yours,\\nSamuel M. 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