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0.\E Hl'NDKKU AM) riFTIETH

ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT

BOSCAWKN AND WEBSTET{

MERRTAr^VCIv CO.. N. H..

AUGUST 16, 1883,

BIRTHS RECORDED ON THE TOWN RECORDS

I^S.024: 1733 TO leSO.

CONCORD. N. H.:

PRINTED BY THE REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.

1884.

lAiii.i-; ni io\ri;\rs.

Preliminary, and m. - iiiiL;s of the committer . 3-7

Invitations and programme . 9-''

Morning of the day. and meeting on site of Old Fort 1 3

Memorial service at the cemeterv 14

Address of Hon. John Kimball i^>-20

Reply of John C. Pearson, chairman, for the towns ;i

Address of welcome, by Nathaniel S Webster 24

Address of Charles C. Coffin ->-47

Address of Rev Arthur Little, U. I) 1S-5.S

Speech of Rev Samuel C Hartlctt, I). I) . LL. I). 59-^3

Address of Hon. Stephen M. Allen f^-C/)

Address of Hon. Henry P. Roll'- '•'>-7o

Poem, by Rev. Frank Hairs 71

Congratulatory letters ~^-<}0

Report of the treasurei 91

Correction in regard to Thomas .M. and Charles A. Lang 93

Kirths recorded in the town records— 1733-1850 95-1S4

proprietors' records 185

Miographical sketch of Charles Hubbard Amsden 187-189

Samuel Colcord Itartlett . 189, 190

Charles Carleton Coffin . 190-194

•* '• Enoch Gcrrish . 195, 196

Kzra .Sheldon Harris . 196, 197

John Kimball . 197-201

Benjamin Ames Kimball . ::o 1-203

William Smith Kimball . 203, 204

Arthur Little . . . 205, 2c/)

Ephraim Plummer 207

Henry Pearson Rolfe ... 20R-211

Pul)lication of proceedings and agreement 213

LIST OF PORTRAITS.

Charles Hubbard Anisden Samuel Colcord Bartlett Charles Carleton Coffin Enoch Gerrish . Ezra Sheldon Harris John Kimball . Benjamin Ames Kimball William Smith Kimball Arthur Little . Ephraim Plummer Henry Pearson Rolfe

Opposite page 187

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'95 196

16 201 203

48 207

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PRELIM I\ A k\'.

In th(' month of Uecember, 1882, Charles C. Coffin, of Ik)ston. meeting by chance Isaac K. Gage, of Pcnacook. at tlie railroatl cle|)ot. remarked that the year 1SS3 would number the 150th since the settle- ment of the tf»\vn of Hoscawen. It was suggested that a town with a histor)' so marked as that of Hos- cawen. which hat! sent forth so many men of high intellectual attainments and lofty character. shouUl commemorate its 150th anniversar)". The proposi- tion was so hi-artily concurreil in by th(.' citizens, when presented by Mr. Gage, that in lubruary, 1SS3. the following article was inserted in the war- rant for calling the annual town-meeting:

"To see if the town will vote to have a celebration the ensuing )ear, aiul, if so. to see what sum of money the town will raise for th(; purpose, and to choose the necessary rominiltee to carr\" out the same."

At the meeting of the town, the following vote was passed :

"To raise the sum of $300; and the selectmen are instructed to appoint a committee to make all neces- sary arrangements. "

The following committee was appointed :

Nehemiah Butler, Isaac K. Gage, Nathaniel S. Webster, Charles W. Webster, Frank L. Gerrish, Peter Coffin, and Samuel B. Chadwick, of Boscawen ; Sherman Little, William W. Burbank, Moody A. Pillsbury, and Henry H, Gerrish, of Webster.

MEETINGS OF THE COMMITTEE.

April 14, 1883, the members of the committee, excepting H. H. Gerrish, met at the town hall in Boscawen, agreeable to previous notice.

Meeting was called to order by the chairman, N. Butler, Esq., and Isaac K. Gage was chosen secre- tary.

Remarks were made by Butler, Gage, C. W. Web- ster, and Sherman Little.

Letters were read from C. C. Coffin, Esq.

On motion of Peter Coffin, Voted that the cele- bration take place August 23, 1883.

Made choice of Frank L. Gerrish as treasurer for the committee.

Voted that there be a committee of five, — three from Boscawen and two from Webster, — to report the order of exercises for the occasion at an ad- journed meeting.

N. S. Webster. F. L. Gerrish, Isaac K. Gaee. Sherman Little, and W. W. Burbank were appointed said committee.

Voted that a committee of three be chosen to see what can be done by the citizens of the town, and others interested, to assist in furnishing supplies, etc., for the occasion.

Messrs. C. W. Webster. S. B. Chadwick, and M. A. Pillsbur)- were chosen.

Adjourned to May 5, at 2 o'clock i'. >[., to meet at the town hall.

May 5. met according to adjournment.

Pn-scnt. \. .S. Webster. C. W. Webster. Gage Coffin. I*". L. (jerrisii. Little. Burbank. and Chadwick.

In absence of Judge Butler, made choice of C. W. Webster as chairman pro ttm.

After some remarks, voted to adjourn at the call of the chairman.

May 19. 1SS3. met according to notice from the chairman, at the town hall, at 2 i*. m.

IVesirnt. Messrs. lUitler. C. W. Webster. X. S. Webster, IVrtt-r Coffin. I*". L. Gerrish. (iage. and Lit- tle, of the committee, and C. C. Coffin, of Boston — Judge Butler in the chair.

Remarks were made by C. C. Luinn. ami by sev- eral members of the committee.

On motion, voted to change the time from August 23 to October. 1S83. providing suitable speakers for the occasion could be obtained.

The following committees were appointed :

On Invitatioti. Riccpdon, etc., — Isaac K. Gage. N. S. Webster, I b-nr) 11. ( icrrish, and Peter Coffin.

0)i Preparation, Dinner, Music, and Place — Messrs. I'. I.. (;<Trish, W. W. Burbank. .S. B. Chad- wick. C. \\". Webster. Sherman Little, and M. A. Pillsbury.

Voted to adjourn at the call of the chairman.

June 30, 1883, met agreeable to previous no- tice.

Present, Messrs. Gage, F. L, Gerrish, N. S. Web- ster, Pillsbury, H. H. Gerrish, and S. B. Chadwick.

Sherman Little was chosen chairman p7'0 tent.

Being unable to procure the services of Rev. Arthur Little, of Chicago, and C. C. Coffin, Esq., of Boston, as speakers for the occasion at the time before named (October 3, 1883), 3-fter remarks by several members of the committee it was voted to rescind the vote fixing the time at October 3.

On motion, it was voted to hold it August 16, 1883, so as to accommodate Messrs. Little, Coffin, and others, who could be present at that time.

C. W. Webster having resigned as member of the committee, Samuel Choate was appointed by the selectmen to fill the vacancy.

Voted to adjourn at the call of the chair.

August 25, 1883, met according to previous no- tice.

Present, Messrs. N. S. Webster, Gage, F. L. Ger- rish, and Peter Coffin.

In consequence of the death of Judge Butler, N. S. Webster was chosen chairman.

Voted thanks to Mrs. Abial R. Chandler, of Lawrence, Mass., and Enoch P. Corser, of Nashua, for the several amounts given to aid the committee in settling any deficiences there might be in the treasury.

Voted to adjourn to Saturday evening, September I, 1883, ^t town hall.

September i, 1883, met accordino- to adjournment.

Report of the treasurer was called for, after read- ing of which it showed a deficiency of $25.69, and said amount was due the treasurer, which amount was paid into the treasury as follows :

N. S. Webster, I. K. Gage, S. Choate, J. C. Pear- son, S. B. Chadwick, Peter Coffin, and F. L. Gerrish, the sum of $3.67 each.

Voted to adjourn sine die.

I X \' rr AT loxs

The Committee on Invitatif)ns issued the following card :

•' I he one hundred and fiftieth anniversar)' of the s(^ttlement of I^oscawen will be celebrated Au- gust 1 6th. i8S;^, on which occasion all the sons and daughters and their descendants, and former resi- dents, will be welcomed home. A reply is expected from each person receiving this invitation.

ISA.VC K. Ci.u;K, N. S. Wkhstkr. HiNkv \\. Gkrhish, pKTKk Coffin. Committee of Invitation ^

It was discovered that the sons and daughters of the town were widely scattered, some in Maine, more in Massachusetts, some in X'ermont, others in Con- necticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania. Ohio, upon the prairies of Indiana and Illinois, in the far North- West, and around the golden gate of the Pacific shore. Many were the responses expressing the intention to be present on this notable occasion, or sincerely regretting that they could not revisit on that day the dear old towns that gave them birth.

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It was apparent that the church would accommo- date but a small portion of those who signified their intention of being- present, and a spacious tent was provided, of area sufficient to shelter several thou- sand persons. Settees were also obtained, that the audience might enjoy with comfort the exercises of the day.

Citizens of Boscawen and Webster dispensed lib- eral hospitality, welcoming from afar their old-time friends. Housewives and maidens gave willing ser- vice in preparing for the event.

Under the direction of Prof. John Jackman, the singers of both towns rehearsed choice music during the week preceding the celebration.

Nathaniel S. Webster was appointed president of the day, John C. Pearson chief marshal, and Edgar Raymond, George E. Kimball, Roscoe S. Boyce, and Josiah Flanders, assistant marshals.

The following order of exercises was prepared :

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sett]j:mi:x'I' oi- boscawen.

Aur.irsT 16, 1883.

(;RD1:K UF EXICKCISES.

FORK NOON.

Meet at the old Fort near the Messrs. (iill. at 1 1 \. m.

Mlsic hv iHi; Hand.

March to the Cemetery n\ here the tirst Chiirclj was locateil.

Presentation of Memorial hy n«)n. John Kimball, of" Concord.

Response for the town by J. C. Pearson, Esq.

Pkavku.

Hymn hy tiik Aidiknck.

March in procession to the town hall, where a collation will be

served.

.AKTKkNooX.

Music by tiik Ciioiii.

Welcome by N. Hutler. President of the Day.

Misic.

Phayer.

Historical Address by C. C. Coffin, of Boston.

Mrsic.

Address by Rev. Arthur Little. :i. i>.. of Chicago.

Mrsa.

Atldress by President Bartlctt, of Hanover.

Poem by Rev. Frank Halcv. of Boscawen.

Short addresses by other persons.

DOXOI.OGY. BENEr>ICTION'.

1. C Pearson, Chief Marshal.

Tin: DAW

The cLi) \v;is auspicious. The sk\-. which tor main- weeks had glowed wiili summer licat. was overcast with clouds, not wholly obscuring the sun, but tem- pering its burning rays. At an early morning hour the citizens, th(Mr wives, sons, and (.laughters, were at work making the last preparations. In the town hall, the ladies were |)reparing a munificent rei)ast. Around the tent a volunteer committee of gentle- men sliceil baskets full of beef. ham. and tongue. From the steaming cauldrons and k(!ttles came the aroma of l^^iling coffee. ()th<r grnilcmen arranged settees, flung the stars and strijnrs to the breeze, and performed the last duties incident to the occasion.

At an early hour came long processions of car- riages from Salisbury. I'Vanklin. Northfield. Canter- bury. Concord, and Hopkinton. — citizens of all atl- joining towns coming to accept the large! hosjjitality and enjoy the pleasures of a holiday. — stabling their horses by the fences of the highway and in the adjoining fields. The mt^rni ng train on the North- ern Railroad l)rought its complement of visitors from I'Vanklin. Bristol. Lebanon, and intermediate stations. The express train from Boston, lengthened by many cars, brought guests and visitors from Boston, Low-

ell, Nashua, Lawrence, Manchester, and Concord. Through the courtesy of the railroad officials, the train was stopped at the pathway leading down to the railroad from the site of the Old Fort, where the guests were met by the marshals and the Hopkinton Cornet Band, and escorted to the residence of Mr. Gill, the first framed house erected in Boscawen, by Rev. Robie Morrill, the second minister of the town.

MEMORIAL SERVICE AT THE CEMETERY.

The first transaction by the proprietors of the plantation of Contoocook was the selection of a site for their meeting-house, — a knoll in the cemetery on King street. In the historical address, further on, will be seen what the meeting-house was in their esti- mation. It will also be seen that the Boscawen meet- ing-house has ever been a remarkable beacon light, throwing its radiant beams far and wide. That the site of an institution of such far-reaching influence might be forever preserved, several gentlemen, for- mer residents, united, at the suggestion of Mr. Chas. C. Coffin, of Boston, in setting up a fitting memorial stone.

The assembled company, under the escort of the band, proceeded to the cemetery, where a platform had been erected, by the side of which stood a beam (a timber in the first meeting-house), which, upon the demolition of the house, about 1775, was framed into the barn of Mr. Daniel Carter, and which was cut out by its present owner, Mr. Lyssias Emerson, to add to the interest of the occasion.

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The memorial stone, of Concord granite, stands probably upon the spot once occupied by the pul- pit of the meeting-house, beside the grave of Dea. Isaac Pearson, who. according to tradition, expressed the desire in his last hours to be buried where the pulpit once stood, thus giving his testimon\ to the efficiency and inlluence of the first minister.

Upon a brass plate embedded on the southern face is the inscription :

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On this stot 1739 : l'si:i> LNTii. 17^17.

This stoMC cicctctl ix^;^

John Kimball, Enoch Gerrish, Charles C. Coffin. HcMJarnin A. Kimball. Arthur Little. Moses G. Farmer. Charles H. Amsden. Charles 1 1 . Aiucs.

The assembly was called to order by the chief marshal, and prayer was offered by Rev. Arthur Lit- tle, I). i>., of Chicago. In behalf of the donors, Hon. John Kimball, of Concord, presented the memorial to the town.

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ADDRESS OF HON. JOHN KIMBALL.

Gentlemen of the Board of Selectmen, and Citizens of Boscawen :

It is well authenticated by history and tradition, that as early as 1733 the original proprietors of Contoo- cook set apart the lot of land here enclosed as a suit- able place in the plantation for the meeting-house,^

The piece of timber exhibited here on this occa- sion was taken from the log meeting-house built where this large assembly is congregated to-day.^

More than one hundred and fifty years ago the colonies of Massachusetts Bay granted to several persons, inhabitants of the town of Newbury, Massa- chusetts, the tract of land, seven miles square, situate on the west bank of the Merrimack river, adjoining Penny Cook plantation in New Hampshire. One of the conditions of this grant was, that the proprietors should build a convenient meeting-house, and settle a learned and orthodox minister within four years. Before the erection of the meeting-house religious services were held in the town-house, or in private dwellings.^ At a meeting of the proprietors, held at Contoocook (the name given to the "plantation") 6 September, 1738, "It was voted there should be a meeting-house built at the plantation aforesaid of forty feet long, and of the same width of Rumford

1 Prop. Records, p. 19.

^The timber was about ten feet long, twelve inches wide, and six inches thick, of white pine, and neatly hewn. It was furnished by Lysias Emerson, Esq., whose wife is a descendant of Winthrop Carter, an early settler.

^ Prop. Records, p. 18.

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meeting-house, and two feet higher, and said house to be built with logs."

"Joseph (jerrish, Esq., Lieut. Joseph Coffin, Mr. Jacob Inlanders are chosen a committee to agree with a man or men to build said meeting-house."

December 20, 173S. "Voted, That there should be 100 pounds in money raised to enable the com- mittee to go on in building a meeting-house at the plantation aforesaid."

''Voted, Thai the aforesaid Committee should view Rumford meeting-house and proportion Contoocook meeting-house according to their best skill and ludgement. '

It is to be inferred from the above votes that the building committee visited Rumford, "viewed" their house, and their "best skill and juilgtrment " was to make the change as e.xpressetl by the vote of the pro- prietors by adding two feet to its vertical propor- tions. The house at Rumford. as given by Joseph H. Walker at the one hundred and fiftieth anniver- sary of the I'irst Congregational Church in Concord, 1880, was forty feet in length and twenty-five in width, h was one story, and its rough walls were pierced with small square windows, sufficiently high from the ground to protect its occupants from the missiles of Intlian foe. The jjrecise height is not given ; but we find that the inhabitants of Rumford the same \ear decided to enlarge the accommoda- tions by the erection of galleries. This addition would indicate that the height was from fifteen to eighteen feet, and the house at Contoocook was to be two feet higher, or nearly twenty feet. 2

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The meeting-house was completed in the winter of 1739-40. The site selected was near the centre of the cemetery on " the plaine " where we stand to- day. The usual dedication service seems to have been omitted, as we find no mention made of it in the records. It was in this church and on this spot where the Rev. Phineas Stevens,^ their first minister, was ordained October 8, 1740. Rev. Ebenezer Price says, in his annals, " the expense of ordination, as paid by the proprietors, amounted to ^104, old tenor, a rare specimen of the simplicity and economy of that age." (The articles charged in the bill of the committee were 352 pounds of beef, 172 pounds of pork, 60 pounds of butter, 48 pounds of sugar, 8

^Abiel Abbott, in his history of Audover, Mass., gives the following gen- ealogy :

John Stevens^ d. 1662. Children — Jolm, Nathan, Ephraim, Joseph, and Benjamin.

John. " Children — John, Nathan, Ephraim, Ebcnczcr, Joshua, Samuel, David, Abiel, and Benjamin.

Ebenezer.'^ Children — Aaron, Ebenezer, Phineas, Asa, and Jacob.

Phineas^ was b. in Andover, 1715; entered Harvard college, 1730, "at the age of 15;" grad. 1734. Ordained the first minister of Contoo- cook, N. H., Oct. 8, 1740. Married, ist, Jane, daughter of Joseph Gerrish, of Newbury, Mass., Nov. 24, 1741 ; she was b. Oct. 12, 1717. Married, 2d, Sarah Varney. He d. Jan. 19, 1755.

Child by Jane : Jane, b. Jan. 20, 1743.

Children by Sarah: Sarah, b. May 26, 1748; Abigail,\i. Nov. 12, 1749; John, b. March 7, 1752; Phineas, b. April 2, 1754.

Rev. Timothy W'alker wrote in his diary as follows : "Feb. I, 1746. Mr. Stevens came and lodged at our house." " Feb. 2. He preached here and baptized, Abraham ye son of Abraham Col- by, Ebenezer ye son of Sampson Colby, and Abigail ye daughter of James Abbott Junior." " I preached at Contoocook." "March 9, 1746. Preached at Contoocook. Mr. Stevens preached for me, and baptized Peter ye son of Nathaniel Rix."

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turkeys, 8 geese. 4 bushels of malt. 26 pounds of cheese, 49 gallons of molasses, 35 gallons of rum, with other necessary items too numerous to men- tion.) Mr. Price further says, "that the proprie- tors experienced a very interesting and solemn prov- idence in the sudden death of their Rev. and be- loved pastor. Mr. .Stevens, who died Jan. 19. 1755, in the si.xteenth \ear of his ministry." They raised JC90, 17s. old t(.*nor. to meet the expense of his funeral, and his remains lie- buried within this en- closure.

•Mr. Stevens was graduated at 1 huvard college in 1734. "That he was very dear to the people of his charge, and his services satisfactory, are evidenced by their united attachment to his interest amid the trying sc(!nes and sufferings to which both he and they were called." His sons John and I'hineas died in the war of the Revolution. The erection of this house of public worship is an event in the set- tlenvmt of Hoscawen so important in itself, and so inlluential on the subsecpient history and character of the town, as to call for the ailoj)tion of some meth- od of keeping the memor)' of it fresh in the minds of successive generations of its inhabitants in all time to come. What more fitting or enduring than to mark the spot by granite and brass?

Memorial stones have been set up in all ages, to call to mind some great event deemed important to be transmitted from one generation to another in an enduring manner. We have an illustration of this custom when Joshua, the great Hebrew leader, with his host, was about to pass over Jordan to take pos-

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session of the promised land : he caused memorial stones to be set up, "That when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, when it passed over Jor- dan, and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel forever," We meet here to-day to set up this stone as a memorial, with the hope that when your children come here to view the place where their ancestors sleep, they will pause, and ask their fathers, in the language of Scripture, "What mean ye by these stones?" and that their hearts will be inspired with a deeper reverence for the religious spirit of their ancestors when they are told that on this spot they built their first meeting-house, and here they congregated for the worship of God in the wilderness.

Moved by this spirit of reverence for the religious element in the character of our ancestors, the donors of this memorial, having gone out from the home of our youth to do our life work amid other scenes, find gratification in returning to participate in this one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of the town, and in giving this expression of our feel- ings on this consecrated spot. In behalf of my asso- ciates I present this stone to our native town, and bespeak for It the care and preservation which the object of its erection deserves.

John C. Pearson, chairman of the Board of Select- men, accepted the memorial in behalf of the town.

REI'I V <iF I(»IIN < . I i .M.'^i 'N.

Respected Sir :

The citizens ot the old town of Boscawen. which to-day for the pur|3oses of this celebration has as- sumed its original symmetrical proportions, — seven miles long and seven miles broad, — receive from you ami your associates this token of your respect antl aftextion for \-our birthplace, and promise to pro- tect and care for it as best they may: and when our children and children's children shall ask us, What mean ye by these stones? we will say to them, They are for a memorial, set up by men who, born ami reared here in this good old town, have gone forth into " the world's broad field of battle, " and having achiev(ril that success in life they so richly deserve, have, at this home-coming of the chililren of the okl mother. erecli;d this monument to commemorate and perpetuate, so far as they can, those princi|)k;s of morality and religion which have always been so prominent in this town, ami which, more than any other inthR-nces. have made Boscawen and Boscawen men and women what they are and have been. — a power for good in the land.

Sir, we thank nou for this substantial monument, and trust that the inlluences and principles which it commemorates ma\ be as enduring as the granite of these memorial stones.

riie choir, umler the direction of IVof. John Jack- man, sang a hymn written for the occasion by Rev. Frank Hale\ . pastor of the Congregational church.

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ORIGINAL HYMN. TUNE, NETTLETON.

Here where first our fatliers biiilded

For themselves the house of God ; Here where holy hearts have worshipped,

Here where holy feet have trod ; Here where heroes found new courage,

Burdened mothers rest from care, In the message of the preacher.

In the scripture, in the prayer;

Here where youths and maidens cherished

Dreams of swiftly coming days ; Where the children thought of heaven

While the choir sang hymns of praise ; Here we set this sculptured granite.

On this consecrated place. In remembrance of our fathers,

To our children's latest race.

Mav the God who went before them

In the wild Contoocook then. Rule the lives of Boscawen's children.

Make us valiant, faithful men, Worthy of our fathers' purpose.

Worthy of their noble zeal. Worthy of their high endeavor,

Heirs of their enduring weal.

The benediction was pronounced by Dr. Little.

PROCESSION.

A procession was formed, a long line of carriages and people on foot, which proceeded to the meeting- house.

At the residence of Mr. Meader, a transparency gave the information that it was the first law office of Daniel Webster, and the birthplace of John A. Dix.

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In the hands of President Bartlett of Dartmouth col- lege, in the procession, was the favorite gold-headed cane of Daniel Webster. A salute was fired from the premises of C. W. Webster, and the bell upon the academy, the gift of Daniel Webster, rang out its peals.

DINXKK.

In the town hall, which was tastefully festooned with flags, the invited guests sat down to a bountiful dinner, including the choicest delicacies of the pan- try and closet.

The president of the day called the company to order, and the divine blessing was invoked by Rev. Cyrus W. Wallace, d. d., of Manchester.

In the pavilion, dinner was served to an assembly estimated at three th(nisantl.

exp:rcises of thk aitkrn'oon.

The exercises of the afternoon were held in the pavilion, the company being called to order by the marshal, J. C. Pearson, announcing the following list of officers :

J^residciit. Nathaniel S. Webster. ] 'icc-Prcsidc7its. Calvin Gage, Charles W. Webster,

George Little, James H. Gill,

Bliss Corser, Henry Atkinson,

Laban M. Chadwick. Eldad Austin, Jabez Abbott. Luke Corser,

Levi Sweat.

The president, upon taking the chair, said :

24 ADDRESS OF WELCOME.

Ladies and Genflemeji :

It is perhaps proper for me to say, that a wise Providence has seen ht to remove one who was allot- ted to fill the position that I find myself occupying at this time.

We have come together to celebrate the one hun- dred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlemxcnt of the town of Boscawen. The religious, civil, and mili- tar)- record of this town, reaching as it does far back into colonial times, we claim is not surpassed by that of any other town, and her sons may be excused if in our pride on this day we boast of it. But let me leave to abler tongues the recital of its history. In behalf of the citizens of the original town of Bos- cawen, and on the part of the committee for this occasion, we bid you a cordial welcome.

The president called upon Rev. Edward Buxton, who for forty-five years had been pastor of the Con- gregational church in Webster, to ofter prayer.

The president then said, —

" If there were need of more proof that the ' pen is mightier than the sword,' it has been given in a popular New England journal, from off the field of battle, and over the world's wide waters, by a son of Boscawen whom we greet here to-day with the warmth of an early affection.

" I have the pleasure of introducing to you Charles Carleton Coffin, of Boston, a gentleman too well known to need anv introduction."

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It is a tiim.'-worn and tath'd niaj). which you may sec in ilic office of tlu! Massachusetts sccrctar) of tatc. of the Plautatiou of Contoocook. drawn by Kichartl Hazcn, surveyor, in ih(r month ol May. 173 V It inchides a tract of land seven miles scjuare. (^ranteil to John Coffin and othtrr citizens ot New- l)ury by the pnnince of Massachusetts I^ay. then exercisinj^ juristhction over Nt'w Hampshire.

It was in tile wilderness. The question arises. Win did lohn Coffin and eiijhty other citizens of Newbury petition I lis Majesty's provincial govern- ment for such a grant ? Why should they desire to lea\ i; their comfortable homes by the sea to start lite anew on the frontier, making themselves videttes of civilization on the great highway of the Indians between the Atlantic sea-board and the St. Law- rence ?

The reasons were various. Xewbur) had been settled one hundred years. It was an old. well reg- ulatetl, thrift)' town, large in area, including the

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present towns of Newbury, Newburyport, West Newbury, and Byfield. According to the ideas of the time, it was becoming crowded with people,' there being some six hundred tax-payers, and a pop- ulation of between two and three thousand.

At Contoocook the young men could obtain farms, and, accompanied by their true-hearted wives, could establish homes for themselves. They were exercised by the inherited Anglo-Saxon's hunger for land. Why should they not accept what could be had for the askino-? Would not the advancino- wave

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of civilization ere long enhance its value ?

But there was a stronger impelling force than any already mentioned, — the lofty ideal which a century before had brought about the great emigration from Old England to Massachusetts, the Puritan ideal of building a community on the foundations of right- eousness and godliness.

THE THEOCRATIC IDEA.

Although a century had rolled away, the theo- cratic idea had not lost its force. On the contrary, it had become a principle of government. It appears in the order of the general court for the preliminary survey of the tract :

" Ordered : that within the space of four years from the confirmation of this plan they settle and have on the spot eighty-one families, each settler to build a convenient dwelling-house, eighteen feet square at least, and fence and clear and bring to four acres fit for English grass, and also lay out three

shares throughout the town, each sliare to l)e one eighty-fourth part of said tract of land. — one of said shares to be for the first settled minister, one for the minist(!r (for his support |. and one for school, and als(j to buiKl a convenient meetini^-hous(?. and settle a learned and orthodox minister within the time aforesaid. "

The empioNnient of a minister, the establishment of a church and a school, were the controlling itleas. Tht! citizens of Newbury had no thought of emigrat- ing to the wilderness to become heathen, but rather to make it bud and blossom like the rose. t(j fill the land with fragrance, ami make it beautiful in the sight of (iod and man. lieyoml all personal aggran- dizement, the bettering of their material interests was a sense (A moral obligation. It was no hanlship for th<*m to accept th(! conditions. The) would glailly niake the* meeting-h""-'- \ <'"itrolling force: in the building up of society.

We have onl\ to turn to ihr diar\ of (ohn Brown. surve)or. to learn how all-pervading was the itiea that the building f>f a meeting-house and the settle- ment ol a minister would, above all" things else. promote the welfare of the community.

JOHN hkown's note-book.

1 low this little time-stained book, its rus.set cov- ers and yellow leaves, the diar\ and note-book of John Brown, becomes a potent charm to bring before us the little group of men — Moses Gerrish. William Ilsley. Beniamin Petengill. Daniel Fierce, David

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Hale, Benjamin Willet, Edward Emery, the com- mittee appointed by the proprietors to lay out the town !

Thus reads the diary :

"Oct. 23'' 1733. I set out for Contoocook with y'' committee who were to lay out y"" Intervale & home Lotts. This proving a rainy day & setting out late we got no father than Chester.

" 24'*". Being rainy we came to Pennacook.

"25. We came to Contoocook & viewed y*" land in order to find a place to settle y*" Town.

"27. We viewed y"^ place to set y*" Meeting house on & Run out y^ highway to lay lotts."

They viewed the land to find a place to settle the toivji !

Was it to be a mart for trade — a bustling city of the possible future ? Was it such a gorgeous air- castle w^hich quickened the imagination of those plain, practical men of Newbury, as they stood be- neath the stately trees of this terrace of the Merri- mack, and looked down upon the wide intervale and the majestic river ? Not that. This record, written by John Brown one hundred and fifty years ago, car- ries us back beyond that October day, far beyond the settlement of this country, beyond the green fields of Old England, to the oldest England on the shores of the Baltic, to the plains of Germany, where the New England town, unlike any other town in the \vide world, had its origin.

29 ORIGIN OF THK NEW ENGLAND TOWN.

Between the North and the Bahic sea Hes a nar- row strip of land marked on the present maps as Schleswig Holstt.'in and Jutland, the home of the ancient Angles. In the years when Rome was mis- tress of the world, it was a country of pasture- lands, marshes, fields, forests, and rude villages. Each vil- lage! was a tun — a collection of houses. — not of house joined to house, hut each with its garden. — the whole village surrounded by a trench or palisade for defence. Each village was independent ami sovereign, manag- ing its own affairs, each land-holder having a voice in government, the majority electing annually its eldcr-mcn to look alter the welfare of all, and a titli- ins[ or tenth man to he sergeant, or chief oxer the other nine in battle.

Each ///;/ was a commonwealth, jealous ff)r its own intlepenilence, yet ever ready to unite with other tuns for the general defence. I-and-holding gave right of citizenshiji. Each tun hail its moot or meet- ing-place, where all i|ueslions affecting the welfare ol the community were discussed in town-meeting. The moot or meeting-house was the central place — the heart, the life, of the tun. Within its walls each citi/en hatl the right of free speech, and showing of hands in voting.

I'Vom the moots went forth the tithing or tenth men uitli their commands to join Hengist and I lorsa. sea-rovers and pirates, to gain a foothold in liritain. transplanting to the banks of the Thames individual freedom, the' organizing faculty, and obedience to the will of the majority.

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The town as an institution had very slight devel- opment in England. Not under a monarchy, neither under a hierarchy which stifled free thought and action, could there be an evolution of the New Eng- land town. Not till the Mayflower had cut loose from her moorings, not till Bradford and Brewster and their fellow Pilgrims had severed themselves from all old things, could the town-meeting, the new state, the future Republic, begin their development in the election of John Carver as governor. That election was the first Christian town- meeting ever convened.

THE TOWN-MEETING AND MEETING-HOUSE.

It is interesting- to note the words that were in common use a half century ago, but now rarely heard, which had their orio-in in the German moot or meeting-place, — fnoot questions, 7}ioot point, moot case, moot court, — the word meaning- debatable, in its primary sense.

To the moot or meeting-house the Pilgrims of Plymouth and the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay brought all questions. On Sunday it was a place for the discussion of things eternal ; on week-days, in town-meeting, for things temporal, each citizen hav- ing the right of suffrage in electing a minister, the elders who had the seating of the congregation on Sunday, the selectmen to manage the affairs of the town, the tithingmen who were to arrest any who might be travelling too far on Sunday on unneces- sary journeys, and whose special duty was to pre- serve order among the youthful members of the

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congregation, and awaken those who might drop off to sleep during the sermon.

In the town-meeting every citizen had not only the right of voting, but also the right of being heard on every (juestion affecting the welfare of the com- munit) . — in raising m(ine\' for the building of roads, supj)()rting the minister, the maintenance of schools, the payment of bounties on foxes and crows. — in the election of hog-reeves, fence-viewers, cullers of staves, sealers of leather. — or the pro|)riety of yoking geese, or putting wires in the snouts of swin«

The meeting-house was the parlianu m nousc, inc capitol of the miniature commonwi-alth. the one institution ever giving forth its energizing influence. It was like the (lowing of arterial blood, the pulsa- sations of the heart ot the people, the source of all power, the energy. th<- Iif'<-.

A NKW FORCE IN COVKRNMENT.

With the establishment <>! me New ijigland town- meeting there came a new unit of government into the world, a force which has given direction to the course of huin.^n events in this western hemisj)here, antl which is making itself felt in every land.

The men who one huntlred years ago this coming month o( October stood upon this plain and selected a site for th<.r town ami the meeting-house, compre- hended in a marked degree the value of the meeting- house as an element of power: and so we see them, before chocjsing the ground where they would build their own habitations, selecting the site for the meet-

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ing-house. They further compHed with the condi- tions of the grant by calling Rev. Phineas Stevens, a graduate of Harvard, to be their minister.

During all the proprietary period to 1760, when the plantation became an incorporated town, the first business done at the annual meeting was to provide for the salary of the minister.

CHARACTER OF THE FIRST SETTLERS.

We get an insight of the characters of the first set- tlers of Boscawen — their sense of honor, love of jus- tice, their large-heartedness and liberality — in their readiness to tax themselves to make up to Rev. Mr, Stevens the full value of his salary, which had become diminished by the depreciation of the currency. In law they were under no obligation, but they fully comprehended that law is not always equity. Their own property had been affected by the depreciation, they were pinched by the hard times, but though dis- tressed they could not lose sight of the great prin- ciple of moral obligation, without which in their view there could be nothing substantial or enduring.

More than this, the records reveal to us the lofty plane on which they stood — a half century in advance of the community at large in the recognition of indi- vidual rights of conscience — by annually remitting the ministers-tax of Samuel Fowler, a member of the Society of Friends.

They were resolute men. Through the troubled years of the wars between England and France, when the St. Francis Indians from St. Lawrence, stimulated

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by the French and the Jesuits, were harassing the northern frontiers, when the settlers of Hopkinton and Salisbur)- were driven from their homes, they scouted the woods, while their equally resolute wives reaped the harvests. At night they entered the fort, closed the gate, each man taking his turn as sentinel. With every returning Sunday they gathered in the meeting-house for worship. I^Vjr a period of a quar- ter of a ccniiir) the log meeting-house was the farth(;st advanced beacf^i light in the wilderness. Although Canterbury was settled in 1733, no minis- ter was emj)l()yed till 1760, the inhabitants prefer- ring to cross the .Merrimack and attend service in Hoscawen.

Although Nathaniel .Mcioon. Andn-w liohonon, Ik-njamin IV-ttengili. IMiilip Call, and John and Mben- ezer Webster removed from Hoscawen to Salisbury, a portion of them in 1754. that settlement suffered from Inilian ilejjredations, and was not in a condition to support a minister till the year 1773. Through all these years they made their way to the Hoscawen meeting-house on Sunday, to shake hands with their old friends and neighbors, to sit in the radiant light which nirver for a moment grew dim through all that dark and gloomv period.

Tin: IIRST MINISTER.

No written sermon has come down to us penned b\ Rev. Mr. Stevens. We know nothing of his elo- quence or intellectual force. We only know that in every alarm he shouldered his gun and stood with

his congregation at the post of danger ; that his influ- ence was ever for justice and righteousness ; that he had a love for the beautiful, — for, even when the settlers were felling the giants of the forest, he was setting out young elms in front of his house, one of which is to-day throwing its grateful shade upon the spot where he lived.

That he was a man of large and liberal spirit we may infer from the fact that one of his sons bore the name of Charles — the first Charles in the records of the town. We are to remember that it was a name detested by the Puritans and their descendants, who never forgot that Charles I was a usurper of their liberties, that Charles II was a graceless liber- tine. A century had passed since the cutting off of the first Charles's head. During these years parents ransacked the Bible from Genesis to Revelation for names for their children. The antediluvians, the patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, all, or nearly all, may be found in records of the town, together with the Christian graces and virtues — Faith, Hope, Char- ity, Patience, Experience, Prudence, Thankful.

OLD-TIME NAMES.

Through their reverence for the Bible any name to be found therein was regarded as appropriate. So in other records may be found Shadrach, Meshech, Abednego, Lamentations, Balaam, Belial, and Beel- zebub, together with such names as Learn Wisdom, Hate Evil, More Fruit, Dust and Ashes, Sorry for Sin, and Ma-her-sha-lal-hash-baz !

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KAkl.V HAKDMlll^.

The con<:^rc}^ation which attended meetiiiL,^ in Hos- cavven was comi)Osed of men and women wlio had an earnest jnirpose in WU-.. It was a threat battle that they foui^ht — tlie contest with nature — felhng the forest, turninc^ tlieir furrows witli the plou<;h brought by Moses Gerrish. buildinj^^ the saw-mill on yonder brook, openint,^ hii^diways. enclosing their farms, and from 1742 to 1756 living largely in the fort, ever on the watch for Indians. Many their cares, heavy their burdens, gre.-at their an.xieties. Tlu-y had few imple- ments of husbandr)-. and those of rude construction. I recall a plough used in my boyhood on my father's farm, built in th(- |)r(!sent centur\-, from twelve to fif- teen feet in length, its share of in>n plated with steel ; cast-off horse-shoes were nailed to its wooden mould-board. It re(juir<il twelve oxen to draw it. with one man riiling the beam to kt'v.\) its no.se in the ground, a second hand to mend th<- furrows with a " breaking-uj) hoe."

Of the hardships ot those who lived one hundred years ago, I recall the narrative of Dca. Benjamin Knowlton. The ni.'arest plough to be had was in use, a mile and a halt distant across-lots, three miles b\ the then travelled path. Mr. Knowlton's neigh- bors couki loan him their oxen for the afternoon. Eating his dinner at eleven o'clock to reinforce his strength, he shouldered the plough, carried it across- lots. crossing Mill brook, and climbing the ascent to his farm. 1 recall his j)athetic words: "When I was at the steepest part of the hill I thought my heart would break : but I took breath and e^ot there."

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The nearest grist-mill for the settlers was in Con- cord, eighteen miles distant. It was no light day's work for a man to shoulder a bag containing a bushel of corn, make his way to the mill, wait for its grind- ing, and return to his home. Many of the settlers pounded their corn in a rude wooden mortar. Hulled corn, hominy, hasty-pudding and johnny-cake, pork and beans, also the boiled dinner — beef, pork, and vegetables, heaped on a great pewter platter — was their fare.

THE AGE OF HOMESPUN.

It was the age of homespun. All cloth must be spun and woven in the family. First raising, rotting, breaking, swingling the flax ; then the combing, spinning, and weaving by the women. From morn till eve the wheel was ever humming. Old and young must work. Necessity, with whip and thong, was always behind them.

With amazement may we contemplate the expend- iture of physical force and vital energy in clearing the forests, building their homes, constructing roads, bridges, mills, supporting their families, establishing schools, fighting the Indians, securing their indepen- dence, building the nation, developing a civilization commanding the admiration of the world !

RECREATIONS.

Few their recreations. There was never a ring for wrestlino- within the town, nor a race-course to try the mettle and speed of horses. Teachers of dancing found no occupation. In the old kitchens.

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But through all the hardshijjs. then as now, as ever has been and ever shall be, —

•• Bright eyes looked love to eyes which sp.»rv. .ii;.iiii.

There wen- bashful 'Zckiel and waiting Huldah.

•• His heart kep' goin' pity-pat. Hut hiTM went pity 'Zrklt-."

HABITS AND CUSTOMS.

No doubi. in common with the rest of tin: worlil. the citizens t»f Hoscawen. before the temperance reformation, drank lluir lull share of rum : but a dil- igent searching of the j)apers of I ienry Gerrish. Na- thaniel Green, and Benjamin Little, justices, reveals no drunken brawls. During the century and a half, ver)' kw h.ue been the oflences against the public peace or morality.

On Sunda\' the whole p«)pulation. — men, women, children, infants in arms. — made th(Mr wa\' to the meeting-house, not solely to listen to the sermon, but to learn what had l)een going on during the week. At noon, during the first quarter of a century, their conversation is about the Indians, — the killing of Thomas Cook, and Ciesar — Rev. Mr. Stevens's negro

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-man — I think the only slave ever held in Boscawen, In 1754 the theme is the killing of Mrs. Philip Call at Salisbury, and the capture of the Meloon family. In 1759 their conversation is of what is going on in Canada, — of the soldiers of Contoocook servinpf un- •der General Amherst ; of the last struggle between France and England, on the Plains of Abraham, for supremacy in this western world ; of Montcalm, of Wolfe, of Admiral Boscawen commandinof the Brit- ish fleet cooperating with Wolfe, and his annihilation of the French fleet. In their enthusiasm they name the town in honor of his victory.

In town-meeting they discuss the measures pro- posed by the ministers of George III for taxing the colonies against their consent. They are brought face to face with a vital question — the maintenance of their liberties. In pulpit and pew there is an awakening of patriotic fervor.

Whoever would fully and truly comprehend the forces underlying the American Revolution, — the birth of independence and growth of the nation, the rise of the people, the evolution of democratic ideas, — must study the power of the meeting-house and the town-meeting.

The Congregational polity thought out by the Pil- grims, adopted by the Puritans, making every church an independent democracy, united to the Germanic ideal of the town, makine each town a Christian commonwealth, became an energy which swept away, as with a whirlwind, kingly prerogative and hered- itary privilege from this continent, when the contest came between king and people in 1775.

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PATRIOTISM.

In the Revolution the people were patriots. Ev- ery citizen, with one exception, signed the articles of association. He who did not sign was in no sense disloyal to liberty : it was his idiosyncras)' that matle him stand alone. Twenty men of Boscawen stootl unfalterini^ly behiml tlie rail fence at Hiinkrr llill. and th<ir xolleys. fired in the faces of the ailvancing foe. were hut the (laming of ideas which had their origin far back in the centuries.

Ideas are eternal. Nations may rise and fall, but ideas live on. Libert) . truth, justice, right, can never perish. Liberty knows no defeats.

The flag of freedom (lung to tin* br<:e/.cr in the green meatlows of Runnym<'de. its inscrij)ti()n I he Rights of .Man, is the banner of all the agc^. 1 hr May(k)wer bori! it at her mast-head ; IVescott. Put- nam. .Stark, Reid, and the men of Boscawen in com- mon with the eltrven hundred New I lampshire sol- diers, fought beneath it at Bunker Hill in this conflict, which so wi(.l«-n<'d the distance between kingly {pre- rogative and individual right that reconciliation was never again to be thought of, and sf) the Rejniblic became a possibilit\ .

One luindrcd and six years ago this i6thot .August twenty-si.x citizens of Boscawen assisted in planting that banner of the ages upon the heights of Benning- ton, and shared in the victory which must ever be regarded as a decisive hour in the rise of the people to power. It was a victory o\' the meeting-house and the town-meetiuL''.

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PATRIOTISM OF THE PULPIT.

It is a true, a great, and an honorable thing to say, that the Boscawen pulpit, whether filled by Phineas Stevens, Robie Morrill, Samuel Wood, Ebenezer Price, Edward Buxton, or by whomsoever occupied, has ever been loyal to the highest Christian ideal. It is an equally great and honorable thing to say that the Boscawen town-meeting, whether east or west of the line which now divides the old plantation of Contoocook into two towns, has wielded its influ- ence for liberty, law, order, and righteousness.

Only once during the one hundred and twenty- three years of its existence as a town has there been any lowering of the high standard assumed by those who settled the plantation. For a brief period dur- ing the closing decade of the last century came the demoralization incident to the war of the Revolution, the ferment which preceded the separation of church and state, the change from the confederation to the union ; there were, also, the want of a national cur- rency, the operation of the newly imposed tariff, and, greatest of all, the demoralizing and disorganizing influence of the French Revolution, which, like a tidal wave, swept over the land ; — these, combined, produced momentary disturbance in this staid and sober community.

POWER OF DEMOCRATIC IDEAS.

Were this a monograph upon the power of ideas, instead of a brief historical address, we might follow the outcome of Bunker Hill, Bennington, Yorktown, and the establishment of the Republic, across the

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Atlantic, to the overthrow of the Bastile. the sacking^ of the Tuileries. and the river of blood riinnin*^'^ through the IMace-de-la- Concord ; and from thence westward, again across the Atlantic, the reflex influence exer- cising its [xnver upon society and politics all over this fair land, — the invasion of infidrliiy and disor- der.— the influence being felt in this town in the burning of the school-house and the meeting-house by incendiar\- hands.

I'or a few months only the disorganizing element held sway, aiul th<-n law and onUr rulcil suj)ri'me.

If undrr nature's economies it is impossible for thistles to jjroduce figs, or figs thistles, there must, in the nature of things, hv. a golden harvest from the secd-whcal, — iiu<grii\ . honor, self-denial, patriotism, and moral obligalitin. — sown broadcast by the planters of Contoocook.

The workl has not \et come to a full realization of the ennobling, energizing power of the ideal ; that whatever sacrifice men make for liberty, justice, truth, anil righteousness becomes a reproiluctive ancl eter- nal force, multiplving h\ if< i>\v!i itih<-rfnt. \ ital energy.

As we nia\ never determine just how much each brook, rivulet, rill, antl sf)ring contributes to swell the current of the beautiful riviT sweejiing through these intervales, so we may nt^ver know what the nu-n of Boscawen. intlividually or collectively, accom- plished for libert) : we only know that they gave substance, heart, and soul to the hoi)- cause, and that to-day we revel in the rich inheritance bequeathed bv them to the world.

42 INHERITED FORCE.

By no synthesis, arithmetic, or geometry shall we ever determine the ever-increasing measure of their influence and power ; but would William Wallace Ballard, the timid, shrinking boy, have been one of the first to enlist in the great struggle for the pres- ervation of the Union, fighting a score of battles, — rising from a sick-bed against the protest of the sur- geon at Gettysburg, laying down his life upon that field, — if his grandfather, Eliakim Walker, with soul on fire for freedom, had not stood in the trench at Bunker Hill till his last charge had been fired, never thinking of retreat till all that was possible had been accomplished ?

Would Calvin M. Burbank, bravest of the brave, comrade of Wallace Ballard in the Second New Hampshire, have been the hero that he was, fighting from Bull Run through all the battles to Gettysburg, wounded there at the outset of the struggle, exposed through all the pitiless storm for two days, his clothes riddled with bullets, lying on the field from Thursday noon till Saturday night, carried at last to the hospital, his lofty spirit chafing there at the enforced separation from his regiment, leaving the hospital without permission, to be reported a deserter, making his way once more to the field, to be wounded a second time by a bullet through his face, — would he have been what he was, if his grandfather. Ser- geant David Burbank, had not swept up the heights of Bennington one hundred and six years ago this afternoon, to win that victory for human freedom? More, would he have been all that he was, if his

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spirit had not l)(;<-n stirred 1)\ what he had heard from the lips of his uncle, Benjamin [ackman, soldier of the War of 1S12 ?

If in the years preceding tlic Re\ olution there had been no fireside musings on the question of intli- vidual rights, no patriotic action in town-meetings, no soul-stirring a|>j)eals from platform and pulpit, would Henry \\ . Hakc-r and the sokliers of his com- mand have marched unflinchingly to death beneath the ramparts of Wagner, for the preser\alion of this government of the people ?

If the settlers of Contoocook hail been pusillani- mous when the Indians swooped down upon tnem. if th<\ had lied before the advancing troops of the king on the slope of Hunker Hill, if they had faltered at B<*nnington. if they hatl been wanting in that character which com<'s from self-sacrifice and high resolve, would John Adams I.)ix. son of lioscawen, ever have written that one* sentcMice which thrilled every loyal h<?art and gave new life to the j)aralyzed people of the Northern states ? " If any man at- tempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the sjiot ' I h«' character of a community is the sum of its devotion, achievements, and victories for liberty, justice, truth, and righteousness.

Inherited character. <-\(r reinforct.-d by precept and examj)]*', transniittcJ from father tf) son. successive generations enriching the priceless diadem with princely gifts more beautiful than emerald or ame- thyst, more costly than diamonds. — character, founded on the lofty ideal of patriotism and moral obligation, made the men of Hoscawen what thev were and are.

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SOLDIERS OF THE UNSEEN ARMY.

I fear that sometimes in the battle for right, when the hands hane down throug^h weariness, when defeat seems near and victory far away, we forget that the Past is the ally of the P\iture ; that all who have made sacrifices for the maintaining of eternal verities are still taking part in the conflict ; that they are soldiers evermore of the unseen army of God.

He whose body once dangled upon the gibbet as a murderer, whom we in our charity or ignorance called a lunatic, became the mighty leader of the ar- mies of the Republic. A million men in the smoke and flame, uproar and carnage, of battle sang his apotheosis :

"John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave: His soul is marching on."

" Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet the scaffold sways the future.

And behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow. Keeping watch above His own."

Stimulated by the energizing influence of a godly ancestry, with devout consecration and self-sacrifice, lighting each his torch at the altar reared by the set- tlers of Boscawen, Enoch Corser went forth to illu- mine these surrounding hills of New Hampshire with the light of the gospel, Jacob and Henry Little to the distant West to plant churches, Sunday-schools, educational institutions, kindling new fires on other altars, Henry S. G. French to Siam, and Myron Pinkerton to South Africa. They have all passed on

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to become soldiers of the unseen arm\, •hut the fires kindled by them will never cease to burn.

I doubt not. Reverend Sir [ Rev. Arthur Little, D. 1). j. that there are times, in the Metropolis of the West, when \(>u fintl yourself in th<: thick of the battle and are all but reatly to faint, you hear the voice of Rev. Kbenezcr Price, and an ancestr)- who always stood manfull) U)r the ris^dit. urgin<^ you on to nobler effort.

-And \(>u. Honored .Sir. President of Dartmouth C(jlle}^e, are doubtless familiar with the fact that in the early history of the institution nearly one hun- dred younjT^ men came to the residence of Rev. Samuel Wood to prepare themselves for the college course. It would not be far from the truth to say that the preparatory department of the college was Icjcaleil on yonder hill.

HONOkKI) SONS.

Im-omi his home amid the Salisbury hills came Daniel Webster to pursue his preparatorN' studies. Here, after his grailuation, he began the |)ractice of law. P'or three years he was a citizen of the town, member of the religious society, school committee. The bell which sends out its peal from the Academy was his gift. I'Vom this town he went forth, with the impress of its civilization ujxmi him. to begin his great career.

To the sam(? faithful teacher and pastor came his brother Hzekiel to prejiare for college ; and here, after completing the course, he established his home, be- coming a citizen, identifying himself with all the in- terests of the town, spending the strength of his

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manhood for its welfare, till, in the full viofor of life, without the quivering of an eyelid or the trembling of a nerve, he closed his earthly labors.

By no analysis may we ever determine to what a degree these two lofty spirits were influenced by the great-hearted man who prompted their recitations, to whom they listened on Sunday, who was ever their counsellor and friend ; nor may we ever know how their characters were moulded by contact with their fellow-citizens ; — but of this we may be sure, that if, instead of the meeting-house, the ring for wrestling had been established, — if, instead of Rev. Phineas Stevens, they had employed a professor of what is now styled the manly art of self-defence, — it is mor- ally certain that the argument in the Dartmouth College case by Daniel Webster would have no place in the reports of the Supreme Court of the Republic ; nor would ever have been delivered in the Senate of the United States that speech of his for the Con- stitution and the Union, which cleared away, as the lightning clears the murky air, all the sophistries that made the Union only a compact, — the speech lof- tiest in inception, mightiest in influence, of any ever delivered on this continent, whose outcome was Gettysburg and Appomattox — the redemption and perpetuity of this government of the people.

Like a mother rejoicing in her offspring, Boscawen may point with pride to a multitude of noble sons and worthy daughters who have crowned her with honor in the world's great parliament, — in the pulpit, the forum, in halls of legislation, in diplomacy, states- manship, schools of learning, and science.

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After such an expenditure of vital force, if the alders are growing where once the plough turned the sod. and on some hearth-stones the fire has ceased to burn, we have this abiding joy and consolation, that the Past is secure : that for the Future, not till yon- der fertile intervale shall become a desert, not till the Merrimack shall cease its flowing, not till the moun- tains where it takes its rise have sunk to a level with the sea. will the lioscawen meeting-houst- and town- meeting, and the noble deeds of her illustrious sons, lose their power and influence over the lives, hearts, and consciences of mim : for. under the economies of Almighty God, tlu^y have become an indestructi- ble, energizing, uplifting, eternal force*.

The president said. — We have before us to-day many living illustrations of the powers anti influences which, cradled here in Hoscawen. have reached, like the ri]>ples Irom a pebble thrown into llu- l.ikc, far beyond our sight, to the distant cities of the West. I have tlu; pleasure of introducing Rev. Arthur Lit- tle. 1). I)., pastor of tin- New FngLiiu! (luinh. ("hi cago.

Uv. Little announced as his theme :

THE POWER OF THE NEW ENG- LAND IDEA.

BY REV. ARTHUR LITTLE, D. D.

The dear old mother invites the children home to- day, to unite in the appropriate observance of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of her birth. Here she sits, in matronly dignity, after a century and a half, laving her unwearied feet in the commin- gling waters of the Merrimack and Contoocook, rest- ing her head reposefully upon the manly breast of old Kearsarge, her hair tastefully adorned with the mod- est ribbon of the Blackwater, Long Pond and Great Pond sparkling like diamonds on her bosom, her face radiant with ripening corn, reddening apples, and purpling grapes, while froiPx hill-top and valley the redolent hemlock, murmuring pine, stalwart beech, beautiful maple, and graceful elm wave their cordial welcome — not more hearty in the invitation, than the response.

Gladly do we come from north and south, east and west, to share in the festivities of the hour, to bring some tribute of affection to the mother on this day of her rejoicing. We make no attempt to dis- claim a feeling of honest pride in the place of our nativity.

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It is good to call a momentary lialt in the hurried march of life, and look back. This we are sum- moned to do this hour. W'e are on historic ground, in the midst of great memories. And there is won- drous jjower in great memories to stir the heart. It is fitting, sometimes, to surrender to these potent in- lluences that come from the past, to listen to the voices of those who. though dead, are yet speaking

to us.

" VVe have need of these Clear beacon stars to warn and guide our age : The great traditions of a nation's life. Her children's lustrous deeds with honor rife, Are her most precious jewels — noblest heritage, Time-polisiicd jewels in iicr diadem."

'I'here was real heroism in the lives ol the men and women, who, one huntired and fifl)- years ago, pushed thtrir way up from the sea-board to this then unliroken wilderness, and in the midst of hardshi|)s. e.\|)osures, and sacrifices, sucii as we can now with difficulty imagine, laid deep and strong the founda- tions of this ancient and honorable township. They were under the sway and stress of a great purpose. The) sowetl : we reap. They labored : we enter into their labor. Reward them for their self-sacritic- ing service we never can. It is in our power, how- ever, to remember them, .ind reverently speak their names to-day. This is the very least we can do.

We cannot help congratulating ourselves that our faithful hist(^rian — all honor to his zeal and devotion ill this work — is happily able to reproduce the past, repeople these hills and valleys and homes, and make those whom we love and honor live before us 4

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again to-day. But, in thinking of them, we cannot avoid asking, as to the source of their influence and usefulness, What was the secret of their success ? What was the invisible power that constrained them to come into this wilderness and build their sanct- uary, schools, and home ? And this brings me to the thought which it occurs to me to put before you this afternoon.

The Power of the N'ew Eit gland Idea.

There is such an idea. Its influence is now uni- versal. It can be traced in every zone and clime. What has been the secret of New England's great- ness ? What has given her the proud distinction she enjoys as the home of liberty, learning, virtue, thrift, religion — all that is most to be desired among men ? How does it happen that these townships have been so prolific in great and good men and women, and been furnishing seed-corn for the conti- nent ? How does it happen ? It does not happen at all. There is no chance in the matter. It is the re- sult of causes that can be named and made operative elsewhere.

The New England idea is four-fold. There are four corners on which the solid structure of this re- public stands, and which will support it as long as they continue firm. There are four basilar ideas which have informed, fashioned, and vitalized this nation.

I. Reverence for God.

This is the most important. Here we find the germ of the American nation. The Mayflower was the product of the Reformation. And the great work

ot the Retormalion was to recover Ciod to tlie people. He was lost prior to this. The people could not find Him. rhe church and the priesthood monopolized the way antl rij^ht of access to lliin. A^^ainst this inifjuity Luther thundered out iiis mitj^ht)' protest, and claimetl the ri^lit for himself ami all men to im- mediate access to the living God. without tin- inter- diction or intercession of priest t)r bish(jp. Ihe Pil- grim leathers, who were the fountlers of this mighty enijjire. caught and affirmed this spirit and jjurjjose. They were, first of all, God-fearing men. Man they did not tear ; hiit they did stand in awe of the living God. To them He was very real, ver)- near, very just, very great, and ver)' holy. It never occurreil to them to challenge I lis e.xistence. His sovereignty, and His personal ami pr<>\ idential supervision in human affairs. They e.xalted God in their hearts, in their homes, in their social and political life. He was ever)thing. antl. in one sen.se. they were nothing. They honoreil His word. His day. and His sanctuary. \\i' was th«* great controlling force in their lives, Ihey tlevoted much time to His worship in public. They were not afraid or disinclined to go to meeting. They prayed to Him in the school, in the town-meet- ing, in the court- room, in legislative halls, on Fast days antl Thanksgiving days — always, everywhere. Agnosticism never would have launched the May- flower, never would have built a meeting-house, or a college, or a school ; never would have generated or energized the ideas which have been the supreme glor)' of this town and this nation. Agnosticism would never have endured hardship and poverty on

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the frontier ; would never have wrung a HveHhood from a reluctant soil ; would never have wrested these colonies from the hand of British oppression — never. It would have been lookinor for a place of ease and self-induleence somewhere.

Reverence for God furnishes the key to the char- acter and success of the men and women who set- tled Boscawen one hundred and fifty years 3.^o. This grand sentiment was deepened in their souls by the ^reat revival movements then in progress in the land.

II. Reverence for Man.

A right estimate of man is possible only to those "who have a right estimate of God.

Our fathers and early religious teachers have been charged with an under-estimate of man, with holding and teaching views degrading to man. Not so. They took the Bible conception of him, which puts him a little lower than the angels, endows him with endless possibilities, recognizes the appalling fact of sin, and of redemption through Jesus Christ.

They believed in man's inherent dignity and worth, in his freedom, in his personal accountability, in his right to make the most of himself, in his lib- erty to worship God without the interposition of priest or prelate, in his immortality. They saw the shallowness of those views of man which found cur- rency in the teachings of writers like Voltaire, Ros- seau, and Tom Paine, who spoke great swelling words about freedom, and rights, and manhood, over- flowing with a sickly sentimentalism, pleading for a liberty which meant license and the ultimate degra- dation of man to the level of the brute.

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" Every man must have a fair chance, because he came from God. must return to God. and is answer- able to God." This was the maxim of the Pilfrrim Fatliers. Hver\- man has equal riijht with every other to learn, to enjoy, to think, to rule, to acquire property, to work out his destiny, because all are children of one common Father, and members of one common lirotherhood.

The glory of America, according to the c<jncejjlion of its founders, always has been and is that it fur- nishes the best theatre in the world for the jjerfec- tion of manhood. Nowhere else does manhood mean so much as here.

Schools, colleges, the absence ol prerogatives, class distinctions, titles, ranks, all these are designed to augment the stock of manhooil ; the best possi- ble e-xlernal conditions for the sake of the highest internal development ; the race open to all. the j)rize before all. the condition of its attainment honest merit.

Liberty with the fathers meant opportunity.

" Man is a noble animal, sj)lendid in ashes and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre." This was their creed. Antl. accordingly, the glory of old Boscawen has been, not the gift to the world of a Webster, a Dix, a I'essenden. but of such a splendid average of men — men who. without being preeminent, have acted nobl\ . honorahl)-, courageousl\- tluir ])art in all the varied walks of life. L'ntitled heroes most of them have been, but heroes still. Many of them have been crowned above as kings and priests unto God.

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Of course this reverence for man implied even a higher reverence for woman. Accordingly, it has been the proud distinction of New England to fur- nish the best specimens of womanhood the world has ever seen. The queen of the home realm woman has been. The New England mother! Let her name be spoken with tenderness to-day. Here, after all, is the real secret of New England's great- ness. I dare not trust myself to dwell upon this theme. All honor to-day to the bravery and heroism and quiet endurance and faith of the women who aided in the settlement of this town ! Fragrant are their memories still !

III. Revej^encc for Labor.

The Pilgrim Fathers and their descendants believed in work. This was one of the first and most impor- tant articles in their creed. They were not ashamed of a sunburnt face, a callous hand, a homespun gar- ment. They early learned that character, not clothes, makes the man.

A clean conscience, a clean dwelling, and a clean heart were more to them than all outward show and appearing. Little polish in manners perhaps, not much refinement upon the surface, few of the graces of the drawing-room, slight acquaintance with the shallow conventionalisms and polite lies, but under- neath the exterior, real gentleness and kindliness of heart, — the refinement and cultivation which the gospel always bestows.

Household religion is a good equivalent for a lib- eral education.

One very marked trait of the early settlers of this

country was their thrift. They had an eye to busi- ness. As Dr. Storrs has said, " ' Give me neither poverty nor riches' was their constant prayer, with an emphasis upon ' poverty.'

"They meant to worship God according to their consciences. But they meant, also, to get what of comfort and enjoyment they could, and of physical possession, from the world in which they wor- shipped ; and they felt themselves co-workers with God when the orchard was planted and the wild vine trained ; when the English fruits had been domes- ticated under the shadow of savaofe forests, and the maize lifted its shining ranks upon the fields that had been barren ; when the wheat and rye were rooted in the valley, and the grass was made to grow upon the mountains."

One radical difference between those who settled in Massachusetts and in Jamestown, Va., was just at this point. The latter came over to be gentlemen, the former to do honest, hard work.

This idea needs constant iteration and reiteration in the ears of the young people, that one of the great informing principles in this republic is reverence for labor — honest toil with the hands. There is little hope of a youth who feels himself to be above labor — any kind of honorable labor.

An inquiry was made in Springfield, Mass., awhile ago, among successful business men, as to their early life. It was ascertained that of one hundred such men, eighty received their early education on the farm.

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small pay :" this was the motto of those who founded this town and this republic. They were not waiting for something to turn up. They made things turn up, slowly, perhaps, but surely.

How in contrast with this communistic, socialistic spirit, that clamors for short hours and large pay, and strikes, and burns, and destroys if it cannot dictate terms !

Young men, the highway to fortune and influence is by steady industry, taking the work that comes first to hand, and doing it as well as possible. Then you are in the sure line of promotion. There is no trust- worthy, safe, short cut to wealth, or honor, or man- hood. Toil, struggle, frugality, temperance, honesty, persistency, these are the stepping-stones to place, and influence, and usefulness, and power.

IV. Reverence for Law.

This was another potent idea wrought into the very foundation of this republic. It was the fortu- nate inheritance of our ancestors. The English peo- ple from whom we sprang hold in high reverence the law. To them it appeals with awful sanctions. It is majestic. It must be obeyed.

The Revolutionary war grew out of a disregard on the part of the British of their own laws and their own charters. It was all their loyal, colonial subjects demanded, that they should all abide by their own enactments. This, in a moment of cupidity and lust for money and power, they forgot to do. The Eng- lish blood in their colonial subjects was inflamed, and they demanded the protection extended to them by their charters.

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There is an awful sacredness in law, divine and human, and it is an evil day for a man or nation when it is regarded lightly. The Pilgrims and Puri- tans were severely stern in their enforcement of the law. It must be obeyed. Now the pendulum seems to have swung to the opposite extreme : the spirit of lawlessness, how prevalent, how appalling !

The class of people who want libert\- without the restraints of law seem to be rapidly increasing in this country. Their conception of liberty is to do exactly as they please, regardless of the rights of other people. We need a revival of the Anglo Saxon conception of liberty, which carries with it the sur- render of some rights for the public good. We need to return to the fathers, and from them learn the art of self- government : I mean, first, of our individual selves, then of our families. We need to be taught that liberty is not primary, but laiu. We ought not to boast too much that we are a free people, or that we are a law-abiding people.

But I have already consumed too much time, and must draw my remarks to a close. Reverence for God, reverence for man, reverence for labor, rever- ence for law, these are the ideas that have made a thousand New England towns beautiful and strong. These are the ideas that her sons and daughters have taken with them to other parts of this land, and to foreign lands. They are gradually leavening the world.

Let our children and youth be taught to fear God, honor man, respect labor, and obey law. The highest tribute we can pay an honored ancestry is

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to imitate their virtues. The best monument we can build to the memory of the original proprietors of this town is to carry out, according to our greater light, their beneficent intentions. We ought to do better what our fathers did well, for we have much more than they to do with.

Our thoughts of God, of man, of labor, and of law ought to be much clearer, wiser, better than theirs. Standing this hour by the graves of our sires, under the spell of these tender memories, stirred by these great associations and suggestions from the past, face to face with such a magnificent future, let us recog- nize our indebtedness to these familiar old truths, renew our vows of loyalty to the principles and cus- toms that hallowed the homes and made beautiful the firesides where we first saw the light, and recon- secrate ourselves to their maintenance wherever we go, until the best that has ever been seen and known in dear old Boscawen shall be reproduced in every town and hamlet throughout the land.

The choir, accompanied by the Hopkinton band, sung Eichberg's hymn, —

" To thee, O Country, great and strong."

The president said, —

" Fifty years ago we had a flourishing academy in this town, to which a boy came from the neighbor- ing town of Salisbury. He is with us to-day, the honored president of Dartmouth college. Allow me to introduce President Samuel C. Bartlett, of Han- over."

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I'kESIDKM MARTI.EITS SPEIXH.

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen :

As a native of your sisK-r township. I am licrt- to- day to offer you her congratulations. It is eminent- ly fitting that SaHsbury should say a word of fra- ternal greeting to Hoscawen on this one hundretl and fiftieth anniversar\. Perhaps no two tuwns in all the region have had so much in common, or been bound together in bontls so close. They are very nearly etjuals in age. In actual settlement you are but sixteen years our senior. Benjamin Petten- gill, one of your original proprietors and explorers, was one of our few first settlers. Andrew Bohonon, Philip Call, and Nalhanitrl Melf)on. members of your first colony, movinl northward to become founders of ours. Capl. John Webster, one of your most active proj)rielors and leading spirits, became one of our earliest and best citizens, a worth) asso- ciate, as he was a near relative, of our noble Capt. Ebenezer Webster. We afterward paid the debt by lentling you two of the noblest men of Salisbury and of .America. Kbenezer's great sons. PLzekiel and Daniel Webster. We shared the same early dan- gers and sufferings from the savages. The murder of Josiah Bishop, 1 homas Cook, and the stout slave Carson, here, in 1744. was matched ten years later by the massacre of our Timothy Cook and Mrs. Cole. Your luios Bishop was carried captive to Canada in the same summer with our Nathaniel Meloon and family, and in the same company with our Samuel

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Scribner and John Parker. And when Edward Em- ery in the month of May, and a httle later in the year most of the inhabitants of our old Stevenstown, fled in terror from their homes, we, their descend- ants, have to thank you that your fathers gave them shelter in the old King-street forts. It was your Bowen and Morrill who, whether rightfully or wrong- fully, dispatched the blustering Indians Sabatis and Plansawa, and they were buried at the Indian bridge on the Stirrup-Iron brook, close by the common border of Salisbury and Boscawen, as if in token of the common danger and the mutual help — the alli- ance offensive and defensive. These mutual rela- tions and good offices took many forms. Our set- tlers came to your mills and crossed the Merrimack by your ferry. If I mistake not, the first physician of Salisbury, Joseph Bartlett, used to visit your sick before Dr. Daniel Peterson became a resident of this village ; and after that they both rode through these and the neighboring towns, carrying their medicines in saddlebags, and sometimes, at least, travelling on snow-shoes.

For more than twenty years the men of Salisbury who heard the preaching of the gospel heard it here. This church undoubtedly aided in organizing the church in Salisbury, while, some thirty years later, ours reciprocated at the forming of the church in Webster. When our clergyman was afterward sup- posed to have erred from the faith, your ministers investigated the case and sounded the alarm. Dea. Enoch Gerrish records in his journal, September i6, 1810, — "All to meeting; Mr. Price whipt Mr. Wor-

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cester. " Whipped him, no doiiljt. with the smiting of the righteous.

When the great struggle for independence came, we were still united. Not long before the battle of Hunker Hill. \uur captain, Henry Cierrish, with the men of Hoscawen. was joined at Cambridge b) the men of Salisbur)'. and together they hekl their post at the fence to the very last. The) were together again at Bennington. Capt. I'lbene-zt-r Webster had preceded with the men ol .Salisbur\. aiul on the 24th of July Capt. Peter Kimball, with his comj^any, including twenty-six men ol iioscawen. made their rendezvous in Salisbur) on the march. The two companies fought side by side on that 171)1 of Au- gust, and rejoiced togirther over the signal victory.

Our earl) educational interests have been united. For a long time your venerable Dr. Samuel Wood, whose voic«' still lingcrrs in m\ ears as I heard it from the neighboring j>ulpit more than fifty years ago. was htting both our Ixns antl yours for college. At a later i)eriod. the Salisbury academy was train- ing your Gen. John A. I)ix, Dr. Henry Little, Rev, Hnoch Corscr. and others; and. later still, this Bos- cawen academy, in lh<! palmy days of jarvis Gregg, and afterward of Joseph Lord and Jonathan Tenney, was {preparing some of us. myself and my two broth- ers included, in coinpan\ with your excellent towns- man. Rev. Xehemiah C. Coffin, for Dartmouth col- lege. I iiere are some here to-day with whom it was my privilege to study and to play half a century ago. And as early as 1784 Capt. Henry Gerrish was one of a committee to la\- out what was known as the

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" old Collegfe road," beg-inniriQf from the river road in Boscawen, and leading to " the Connecticut river at or near Dartmouth college.' And over that road or its successors nearly an equal number of the boys from Boscawen and Salisbury — a goodly number from each — have travelled to complete their educa- tion. Some of us have come hither ao^ain to teach in your schools, and I doubt not that some of my own former pupils in the High-street school are here to-day within sound of my voice. I tender them a kindly greeting, and a tender memory for the dead.

We are closely allied by intermarriage also. The same blood flows in many of our veins. The alli- ances have been from the first so abundant as to be difficult adequately to trace. But I find that the daughters of the Meloons, Pettengills, Searles, Beans, Websters, Blaisdells, Calefs, Eastmans, Fi- fields, and Sawyers of Salisbury have found favor with the young men of Boscawen of the Abbott, Atkin- son, Burbank, Fellows, Greenough, Kilburn, Corser, Coffin, Rolfe, Burpee, and Little families; while the Salisbury youth have made gallant reprisals on the daughters of the Corsers, Couches, Kimballs, and others of this town. Indeed, in standing here to-day as the representative of friendly relationship, I also represent in person the alliance of blood. I am a guest to-day in the hospitable home of one — Mr. Charles W. Webster — who is a lineal descendant of the same great-grandfather, Pettengill. And all the many descendants of Capt. Benjamin Little are chil- dren also of Rhoda Bartlett, and Rhoda Bartlett was granddaughter of Dea. Stephen Bartlett, who died

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in Amcsbury in 1773. But TV. Joscj)!! Rartlett, of Salisbui*)', my i^randfather, was also grandson of the same Stephen ; and one of your speakers to-day. Dr. Arthur Little, of Chicago, is the great-grandson of Rhoda Bartlett. Dr. Little is therefore my distant, or, rather, my near, cousin. Your other orator. Mr. Coffin, hatl a narrow escape from being one of my bl(K)d relatives too. for Lieut. Thomas Coffin, his father, married, first. Hannah Kilburn. and for his second wife. Hannah Hartlett. who was no doubt of the same stock with myself. Charles Carlton Coffin was the ninth and last child of Thomas and Hannah Kilburn Coffin. Had he but been the son of his stejj-mother. he would have been m\ rt'lativi-. too. Constructively I shall hold him so to-day. Stantling thus side by side with m\- actual and my constructive cousins. I e.xtend to th<'m and to you all the riijht hand of fellowship from .Salisbury to I^oscawen. Long may this noble old township tlourish in all that is good and great, moral, intellectual, ami material. To wish you all manner of such prosperity is only to wish that the record of the one hundred and fifty years that are j)ast may be repeated in the centuries to come.

The President introduced Hon. Mo(h1\ Currier, of ^L1nchester. a native of Boscawen, who made a brief congratulatory address.

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of the memory of an illustrious man who began his great career in this town. I have the honor to intro- duce Hon. Stephen M. Allen, of Boston, President of the Webster Historical Society."

ADDRESS OF HOIN. STEPHEN M. ALLEN.

Amony the hardy pioneers that first entered upon the clearing of the primitive forests which preceded these beautiful lawns, was, if I have been rightly informed, my great-grandfather on my mother's side. To him, during the first decade of the settlement, was born Elizabeth Johnson, my mother's mother, whose death in 1824 I well remember. Here, so far as I can learn, she was educated, and remained until married to Col. Jeremiah Gilman, who subsequently, as captain, led the troops of this region to the war of the Revolution. He was from Exeter, but I believe quite early removed to Haverhill, Mass., and after the war to Burton, N. H. She was a good type of a native American woman, and in many respects resembled in character her neighbor and associate, Abigail Eastman Webster, the mother of the illustri- ous and world-renowned Daniel of the adjoining town. In their maturer life, when their husbands were at the war, these two women were sympathet- ically associated, and their intercourse lasted during life. One of my sisters was named by my grand- mother for Mrs. Webster and herself. Circumstances have heretofore prevented me from tracing the later history of the Johnson family, or how nearly they were associated with that of Webster, but certain it is

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that Col. Gilman and one of his brothers were in the war together with the father of Daniel, and the latter was also with him in the French war. lonathan Webster enlisted in Capt. (jilman's company in 1777. After peace was declared, and the Gilman brothers removed to lamworth and lUirton. in that part of Carroll county on the head waters of the Saco. which included the adjoining towns of Conway and Sand- wich, the families often met in social intercourse. Elizabeth Johnson Ciilman was a most l)eautiful woman, not onK in form, but in feature, mind, and heart. She was one of that class to whom the state and nation ow(,' much, and that tht? present genera- tion can never fully appreciate. She was symmetri- cally formed, of fine comple.xion, and of most graceful manners. j)ossessing more than ordinary talent, with superior culture for the limes in which she \'\\vx\. It is hardly |)ossible now to assimilate such a character with the jiraclical woman of the present day. Look back for a moment to the log cabins that first dotted the hills ami dales of \ew luigland as places of human habitation. The ground was rough and sterile, the weath(.'r cold and dreary, and the prin- cipal means of existence must be fcnind in the woods and streams, or be extracted from the roughly culti- vated soil. From these cabins often might be seen issuing troops of children, families of ten or twelve, glowing with health and vigor, yet having all the appearance of cultivated Nouth. Cultivated they were, for the\- had refined and pious mothers, who were more than Spartan in the mental and moral training of their children. Such mothers must have 5

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drawn deep from natural fountains, both for physical and mental strength. The hardships they endured were almost incredible, the amount of labor per- formed was enormous, yet their mental and spiritual culture was more advanced than the millions of the present day.

The President introduced General John Eaton, United States Commissioner of Education, a native of the neighboring town of Sutton, who made a felicitous address upon the service rendered to the world by the early settlers of the country in estab- lishing the common school.

The President introduced Henry P. Rolfe, of Concord, as the last speaker, who spoke as follows :

ADDRESS OF HON. HENRY P. ROLFE.

Mr. Presidenty Ladies, a7id Gentlemen :

Last month I received the very polite invitation of the Committee of Arrangements to attend the cele- bration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boscawen. I could not fail to know that this town was meant ; for there is but one place on this green globe of ours that bears this name as a town. There is. somewhere among the isles of the sea, in the Pacific ocean, an island or place recently named for this distinguished English admi- ral, whose honored name this town bears.

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casion. lUit I am here, and it gives me pleasure to mingle with \ou, and renew old acquaintances, and exchange congratulations at a time so auspicious and s(j full of interest to the native born of this illus- trious town and their descendants.

Soon after the close of the old French war. m\ grandfather, Benjamin Rolfe. came to Boscawen from Newbury. Mass.. and built his " bark cabin " in the primeval forests, on the highest swell of land in the township. 1 lis wife. Lydia Fierson Rolfe, accom[)a- nied him <»n horseback to the intervale in Fisherville. Soon to be known as IVnacook. On a single horse both rode, and carried the axe. the shave, the pod- auger, the gouge, the hoe, and several other tools, and certain domestic utensils. 'I'hercr is a peculiar significance to the gouge in this connection. It was an accompanim(!nt of the pod-auger at all times, and tht! auger coulil not be used until the g<»uge had cut out a cavil) for its insertion. These were then what are termed " old pod-auger times ; " but tiie times at length changeel, and the change is due to the sin- gular genius of a citi/en of Bo.scawen, Henry Ger- rish, who invented the screw auger: — and let it always be remembered, that to Henry (ierrish, a citi- ziin of this town, is due the credit of changing the old, dull pod-auger times to the lively and more prosperous times of the screw auger !

M\ grandmother returned alone on horseback, going through Chester to Newbury, and joined her family of five children ; and nn- grandfather took his axe, his camp-kettle, and such other articles as he could carr)- on his back, sought out his future home

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in the lone, dense forests, four miles north-westerly of where we now stand, on what was afterwards called Hip:h street, and was for a time the frontier settler in the town, as Daniel Webster's father was the frontier settler in the town of Salisbury. During the summer and fall he stayed alone, and heard no sound in his "clearing-" save the birds and the wild beasts, his axe, and his own musical voice. His wife and children remained in Newbury.

Late in the fall of the year his wife came up for him alone on horseback, visited him in his cabin, and he returned with her to Newbury, where he worked in a ship-yard, being by trade a ship carpenter. In the spring he returned to his cabin in the woods, his wife accompanying him on horseback, and returning again alone. In course of time he cleared away the forests, built himself a house and barn, the first frame house in the town, dug a well, sowed and planted his land, and made the wilderness smile. Thither he eventually moved his wife and five children, in the spring of 1772.

In this house my father was born, in 1773. In this house I was raised, and all the days of my childhood were passed here. All the first recollections of my youth, after more than half a century, turn back to this spot where I first drew breath, and where the opening buds of life cheered me with their fragrance.

In the little brick school-house on the highlands of Boscawen I drank from the " Pierian spring" some " shallow draughts." I cannot say that my brain was not intoxicated here, but this I will say, that my body was never intoxicated here or elsewhere.

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Noble old town * What a cluster of great names hangs upon thy record of one hundred and fifty years! How familiar and how dear to me to-day are the scenes which "fond recollection presents to my view"! I have roamed through her forests, climbed her hills, traversetl her valleys, wandered upon the banks of h<-r rivers, drank trom her brooks, swam in her waters, buffeted her storms, and l)asked in her sunshine. In 1S40 I could look into the faces of all her citizens, and call them nearly all by name. I knew the fathers and mothers, the men and maidens, the bo\ s and girls, of this dear, delightful town. How much pride we may justK" cherish in her great names, in her honor«'d sons, her l)rave soldiers, her able statesmen ! With what thankfulness and with what gratitude may we not reflect upon the Christian influence which she has shed abroad over all the earth, through the instrumentality of her gifted re- ligious teachers ' What a noble, patriotic record she has made ! — and the air over all the land has been quivering these many years with the sweet strains from the " Fi<"ld of Monterey" and the " P)lue Juni- ata ' "

When we look upon the old flag. " the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star ob- scured." and s(!e standing beneath *• its am[>le folds" the sturdy son of Boscawen, declaring that if any man attempt to tear it down he will shoot him on the spot, — wh.it a scene for a painter I When we

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look on this picture, have we not a right to exult with pride in the great name of John Adams Dix ?

It is true, as Councillor PhilHps declared at a public dinner in Ireland, the lightnings of heaven yielded to the philosophy of Franklin ; for

" While C3'phering over the thing,

He tried to discover a plan To catch the electrical king

And make him the servant of man. He put rods on the meeting-house steeple.

And so when the lightning came round, He kept it from building and people

By running it into the ground."

Yet it really remained to a son of Boscawen, Moses Gerrish Farmer, to subdue the wild, dangerous current to the convenient,harmless,and profitable uses of man. Boscawen ! A century and a half of thy age is past and gone. One hundred and fifty years have flown since the voices of civilized men broke the soli- tude which for many centuries had remained undis- turbed. One hundred and fifty years of valor's story has been told. The glories of thy youth, thy man- hood, and, maybe, thine age, have been counted, and we here, to-day, set up a monument for thee, by which time shall mark its ages ; and may the years that are before thee be illumined by the rays of fame's setting sun, and while night, and sleep, and the darkness, in the economy of nature, must come, may the morn's returning sun bring along for thee new and more resplendent glories !

"O Boscawen ! While life in this bosom is swelling, I will not forget thee, the place of my birth ; On thy hill-tops Til hold with sweet friendship my dwelling, And hymn forth thy praises, thou favorite of earth ! ''

The following poem by Rev. Frank Haley was to have been read, but, owin^" to tlie lateness of the hour, was omitted :

CONT(JOCO()K— BOSCAWEX.

Hail, old Contoocook I Here our fathers planted An outpost of a nation vet to be :

Courageous souls, by savage foe undaunted. Sons of the brave and daughters of the free. Here, in thy wilds, a heritage they sought. Here, in thy wilds, at giant task«» they wrought : Here men, armeil as for war, went forth to toil. Hewed d<»\%n the forests, rooted up the soil. Built strong log houses, built an ample fort. With room for tiny houses in its court. And rearetl, upon the cleared and virgin sod, A temple, «)ut of well-hewn logs, to (iod : A sacred girt, for in each sturdy stroke There beat a heat as true, as strong as oak. Here, in thy wilds, men did what they essayed. And heroes watched, and toiled, and fought, and prayed.

Contoocook, hail I Dear to thy children ever.

Thy storied hills, and vales, and plain, and river!

Hail. Boscawen I Filial, reverent love is burning In all our hearts, as on a thousand shrines;

Thy absent ones, to thee this dav returning.

Knwreathe thv brows with green, perennial vines; Our home, our fathers* home, birthplace of men Could wield all maidv tools, spade, sword, or pen ; Birthplace of women of a noble race, — Women brave-hearted, and of matchless grace. Here valiant preachers in their place have stood, — Stevens and Morrill, and our saintlv Wood,

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Buxton and Price, beloved and revered :

A score of true apostles thou hast reared

And sent abroad throughout this goodly land,

Yea, scores on scores, a large and honored band.

To meet and fill the world's vast, varied need.

Here Dix was born, here played, and learned to read ;

Here Daniel Webster, in that long ago.

Read Virgil, and declaimed great Cicero ;

Here, later, he began his grand career.

Boscawen, all hail ! To all thy children dear.

We pledge thee, now, thy treasured Past to cherish :

Of all thy honors, never one shall perish !

The audience accompanied by the band joined in singing die hymn, —

'•All hail the power of Jesus' name."

The benediction was pronounced by Rev. Mr. Buxton.

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Many congratiilators' letters were received from sons and daughters of Boscawen. and from distin- guished men in the various walks of hfe. regret- ting their inabiht) to he j)resent. a few of which are

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Pc >\ I III •^111: Aiiviist 1 : I SS ;. Gentlemen :

I regret exceedingly that circumstances beyond ni) control will prevent me from participating with the good people of my native state in the forthcom- ing celebration of your good okl town of Boscawen. Hajjpy should I be to visit New Hampshire once more, and there to expntss the gratitude I feel for her early training, and to which, more than to any- thing else. I am indebted for whatever success has attended me in life, or the littl*' which 1 may have done by my eflorts to increase the hapj^iness of my fellow-men. Most liajjj)y should I be to have the privilege, once more, of expressing the j)rof{)und respect I have for the memory of Daniel Webster. who once roamed over and breathed the inspiring air of your fields, ami whose name and fame will be treasured up in the hearts of grateful millions as long as the granite hills, in whose bosom he was born, shall rear their heads toward heaven.

It was m\ privilege to know Mr. Webster, both in j)ul)lic and j)rivate life. We were intimately associ-

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ated in the promotion of American agriculture, and he would have rejoiced exceedingly could he have foreseen the wonderful improvements which we have witnessed since his death. Mr. Webster was great in everything which he undertook, and, although not so great a farmer as a statesman, yet his name as the Farmer of Marshfield will only be second to that of the Expounder and Defender of our Constitu- tion, a name and fame that shall gild the pages of American history in letters of living light, while loy- alty, patriotism, and integrity shall have a place in the heart of man.

MARSHALL P. WILDER.

(Born September 22, 1798.)

Messrs. L K. Gage and others of committee.

from prof. m. g. farmer.

New York, Aug. 12, 1883. Fellow- Tonmsmeii :

I thank you for the kind invitation to be present on this long-to-be-remembered anniversary, and regret exceedingly that circumstances beyond my control render it impossible for me to be with you in person, but you may rest assured of my presence with you in spirit.

It is not every town that can celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its settlement, and it is not every New England town that has sent forth such illustrious worthies as has old Boscawen.

Daniel Webster the statesman, Ezekiel the advo- cate, Rev. Dr. Woods the preacher and teacher, Charles Carleton Coffin the historian, whose name

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and fame are now worltl-wide, Revs. Jacob and Henr)' Little the home missionaries, Rev. Joseph Little, son of Jacob, who. although not born in the town, was yet identified with it by his marriaj^^e with one of its daughters. Hmma Kingsbur)- Little. He was famil- iarly know II as " Chajjlain Joe." and few men did more or better work than he tlnrinj^^ the war of the Rel)el- lion. In this service his faithful wife bore an honor- able part, both greatly endearing themselves to our •■i)()\s ill blue." " Chaplain J<n.*" was a man of clear convictions, unswerving in the discharge of his iluties, and it can truthfully be said of him that " he never sold the truth to serAc the hour." I he sweet songs which h<r sang to our soldiers will long be remem- bered by those who heard him. though his voice on earth is now hushed forevcrmore.

■ .\Lajor " Alfred Little, the sweet singer, was an honored son of that section of lioscawen now known as Webster. 1 know of no man who has carried com- fort to a greater number of families, or exertetl a more .salular) intUience upon the Noung peoj)le. than he. His songs were always chaste antl elevating. Many are the hearts that mourn his loss, and miss him troin their firesides and social gatherings. These two men shall surely " walk in white, for they are worthy." The intluence for good which they exerted will be as far reaching as eternity: the work which they did for God ami for the world will ne\er be known until the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed, but maii\ will yet rise up and call them blessed.

The vigorous lives of these worthies, and of many others that might be named, all testifx that Hoscawen was a good town in which to be born, and an e.xcel-

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lent one from which to emigrate. Its rough roads, its rocky hills, all urge the young and ambitious to seek smoother paths and easier routes to fame and fortune.

We live in a wonderful age. The many inventions and improvements which we possess, that render life more comfortable and useful, are indeed astonishing, and most of them have had their birth and develop- ment in the latter half of this town's existence. The reaper, the mower, the steamboat, the railroad, the telegraph, the telephone, the fire-alarm telegraph, the electric light, the electric railway, — all are the produc- tions of the last seventy-five years, and contribute to our comfort and happiness, rendering us better able to work for the good of humanity and for the advance- ment of the Redeemer's kingdom.

To some of these improvements, as well as to oth- ers not alluded to here, it has been my good fortune to contribute a little, having constructed the first pair of roller skates in 1834, the first electrical railway which carried passengers in 1847, the first apparatus for giving alarm of fire by telegraph in 1848, the first duplex repeater in 1856, which subsequently, in the hands of Edison, made his famous quadruplex possi- ble, also having lighted my house by electricity and the incandescent light in 1859, and having built the first self-exciting dynamo in 1866. and the largest thermo-electric battery which the world ever saw in 1868.

We have much to be thankful for, and our bless- ings are manifold. May the sons and daughters of Boscawen and W^ebster in the future, as in the past,

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lahor lor the ailvancement of civilization, and of ihc rclij^ion of our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. \'er\ truly yours.

.\i()Si:S (iKRkl.sli lAkMKR.

FROM MRS. ANN B. EATON.

pAi.MVkA. N. N .. Aug. 13, 1SS3.

IsAy\c K. Ga(;k, Ilscj., Chairman of Commi I tec :

Dear Sir : In ilreams we often revisit Hoscawen. Neighbors and rt^latives come in at the south door, or let fall the knob of the big knocker at the front door. We are young again. We roam the woods, jjhuk the Masllowers, gather the blueberries, stand gaily on the " I*innacle,"' or a.ssemble in happy mood, with a brightl) scoured brass c.fn tile stick in hand, at the singing-school.

When " terrifietl through visions," and nightmare is on us. the scenes of dis(|uiet are ever laid in the same spot. lUirglars are entering the old dwelling, antl we grope blintlly for the stairs, and call faintly for liie help of the strong brother sleeping in the chamber above. ( )r sick immigrants from (Juebec. in- fected with the cholera of 1832. are coming tlown the road, burdent.'d with hugh packs: they have reached Amos Webber's. There is but little philanthrojjy in dreams, and we tremble as we note the door ajar, which we are unable to close. Or it is in the deep- ening twilight, anil we are wandering alone and afraid in tlu,' gravc\ard wlicre the " fortffathcrs of the ham- let sleep."'

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fancy but in fact. "Though absent from you in body, we are present with you in spirit," and greet you one and all. " The dead past" shall not to-day " bury its dead," but we will beckon to our side the shadowy forms of the loved and revered ones, who once called Boscawen their home, but who have passed on to the other shore. Your assembly may be larger than you see.

It was a choice inheritance to have been born and reared amid the scenery of Boscawen. Clark's Hill, upon whose summit we could view New Hampshire o'er, High street. Water street, " where Kearsarge looked wondrous large," the Merrimack, with its oreen and fertile intervales, and a hundred other local- ities of surpassing beauty and grandeur, were uncon- scious but insinuating educators. And surely, could Goldsmith have seen that long and quiet street, over- arched by those majestic elms, he would have sung, not " Sweet Auburn." but " Sweet Boscawen, love- liest village of the plain." How have the wanderers from "the old roof-tree" on dull and leaden prairies sighed for the ragged peak, the mountain afar, the river rushine or serene like the Merrimack !

How precious were the old homesteads of Bos- cawen ! There were open fireplaces in all the rooms. Cranes hung and swung. Thankful are we that the New York millionaire has kindled again the cheerful flame of the New England fireplace in his city home.

There was the kitchen, with its deep, capacious oven, from whence issued, on a Sabbath morning, the baked beans and rye and Indian bread, the som- niferous feeders of devotion for the entire day.

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and unfinished back chamber, lulhng and soothing our youthful spirits. — a very benediction ! These were charmed places, where were kept the loom, the little flax-wheel, and the larger wheel for woollen rolls, vestiges of the "Age of Hoiiicspun." wvn then departing.

Ihere was " the best room. It was onl\ opened when there was a sewing society, a wedding, a funeral, or when 1 )r. WOod came to visit.

Dearest of all was mother's bed-room. True, it was there she " settled " in the most emphatic man- ner with the refractory or runaway chilil. tiealing with nothing so sev(-rely as with the least shade of deception. Hut in that room w<r saw ln-r heart. 'Twas tliere she nursed us in sickness. Twas there we heard her plead for us in j)rayer.

Ihere is a volume and a |)oein in r\iy\ rnom of the old Boscawen homes.

Let us awa\ to the school-house.

" Set on her rocks and on her »and!i And wintry hills, the .school-house stands."

Ours was situated on the north-west corner of the grave\ard, adjoining Mr. I Insmer's hatter's shop. The grass grows green over its site, but w(! have " tak(!n pleasure in her stones, and favored the dust thereof. " A portion ol one of its bricks adorns our parlor cabinet.

"No man ma\ |)ut off the law of (iod,"was the first sentence concjueretl. It was from the master- piece of Noah, — not the one who made the ark, but the spelling-book. Miss Martha Molt was our first teacher. — kindl\- antl learned. Her Suiula\- bonnet was the syphon-shaped leghorn of the jjeriod. with a

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broadly developed frontal periphery. In sermon- time this antique millinery went down with a " nid, nid, noddin/'JList to the front, then to the right of her, then to the left of her. But even in her drowse her ears w^ere open, for on waking she could repeat the whole discourse up to " tenthly."

But how the heart warms and the tear starts as we revert to the old academy ! It was there, with excited mien and stealthy glance, we gazed out of the win- dow upon the " trainers," as they marched by on a May or September afternoon "armed and equipped as the law directed, for inspection and military exer- cise." Little did we then think that the red and white of their plumes foreshadowed the gore and the pallor which should cover the faces of their sons and brothers, as they fell in the deadly strife upon the savannas of the South.

In the seats of the old academy we can place the pupils of the different years ; while in the desk we see again Jarvis Gregg, Sarah Crocker, Charles B. Kittredge, and many other able and faithful instruc- tors. If to canonize be a part of your duty to-day, do n't forofet the far-seeinpf, larg-e-hearted founders of Boscawen academy !

We cast " one longing, lingering look behind," as we leave this shrine of our early devotion, and pass- ing the houses of Joseph Chadwick * and John Cogswell, t we are at the meeting-house " whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord to the testimony of Israel to pfive thanks unto the name of the Lord." In this consecrated place were the hidings of Bos-

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cawen's power. It was a mag-net that drew the peo- ple to it, and mentally and spiritually vitalized them. Heyond her scener\-. beyond her school-houses, her academy, alongside her g'"ll> homes, we place the church of Hoscawen.

It is a I )ecember morning, thfc thermometer be- tween ten and twenty degrees below zero. .Save foot-stoves, there is no fire in the church : but the piety is winter-strained. The snow is deep : the wind is piling it in curling drifts of frightful height. 1 )r. Wood is in the eighties. The last bell has just begun to toll, when his sleigh, with its precious freight, halts before the front entrance, which opens without a jjorch into the church. Some kind parishioner as- sists the aged coujjje to alight, while another cares teniierly for that horstr, more sacred than Alborak, upon which Mohammed rode to the seventh lu^aven. The dear old pastor's locks arc thin and white ; his form is bent, and he leans upon the top of two staves. 1 li- is wrappetl in the ample folds of a rich, dark blue broadcloth cloak, the gift of lh(! ladi('s of his parish. With reverent step he walks up the broad aisle, and carefully, but as though a well learned task, he as- cends the high, steep stairs to the pulpit. He rises to reatl. In changing his two pairs of spectacles, he says. "Children, prize your eye-sight while you have it. It is a gift from God." We look at him with wonder, awe. ami love. We fear lest the sounding- board crush that holy man's head, but somehow be- lieve that ev('n were it hung by a hair, goodness would neutralize gravitation. Still we wish it were out of the way. The venerable man gives out the «;

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hymn. Mr. John Jackman (senior), the chorister, sounds the " faw, sol, law." His right hand is his baton. The orchestra set in. Mr. Caleb Jackman, and the worthy Sabbath-school superintendent, Mr. Joseph Morrill, are next the leader on the left, Misses Fanny Atkinson, Augusta and Charlotte Hosmer, and Anne Atkinson are on the right wing. " Per- haps Dundee's wild, warbling measures rise, or noble Greenville, worthy of the name." If St. Martin's is the lay, a slight look of defiant triumph can be de- tected on the faces of the choir, as they seem to say to the tune, Writhe and twist as you may, singing, we '11 conquer you !

Now comes the prayer. There is no formalism in Dr. Wood's service, but he uniformly begins his prayer thus, " Supremely great, infinitely glorious, and ever blessed God." There is one part of the in- tercession for which we wait with interest. We have watched him too many times ever to suspect he will forget it. He never does. It is always uttered in the fervor and climax of his supplication, and these are the words : " O Lord, regard in mercy the chil- dren and youth of this congregation. May they be ornaments to the church and blessings to the world."

Dear friends, favored as we have been in our Bos- cawen birth and education, let us bear in mind that these impose upon us great obligations. Was the scenery of Boscawen beyond expression beautiful ; — set down amid landscapes " tame and domestic," we cannot create a rill or a crag, but we can plant a tree at least. With a generous public spirit we can

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make even " the wilderness bud and blossom as the rose."

Were the educational ad\ antagres of Boscawen of a high order ; — wherever her sons and daughters wander, let them guartl well the common school for the people, for all the j^eople. for the stranger as well as the home-born. Let them foster and sustain the pristine standards in our higher schools and colleges against the clamor of new-time innovators.

We are debtors to Boscawen homesteads to make our habitations, whether humble or palatial, abodes of industry. |)eace. refinement. 1 he daily incense offered at the family altar will invite one (iuest who can give true prosperity to every home.

By all the blessings that have come to us from that old church, let us pledge ourselves to sup|>ort. by intluence. prayer, treasure, with sacrifice if need be» the worship of the Most Fligh. Let not distance, winter's cold, or summer's heat keep us from the house of God.

The lonely gi.i\'- "I .i nativ<- * of Boscawen in Siam. — another. T but lately made, in the " dark con- tinent."— call U|ioii us to remember the benighted heathen across the sea. while many a home mission- ary from our town, on our southern and western bor- ders, or in our deep interior, summons us to vigilant effort to secure "Our whole broad land for Jesus. "

Judge Ebenezer Webster, when dying, thus ad- dressed his two sons, Ezekiel and Daniel: "Where- in I have obeyed Christ, follow my example ; where- in I have not so done, in no wise imitate me."

• Kcv. Hcnrv Ct. French. t Rev. Mvron I'inkerton.

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Let us honor our noble Boscawen ancestors by shunning their faults, "The times of their igno- rance God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent." The sun itself has spots on its disc.

Let the descendants of Boscawen be total abstain- ers from all that can intoxicate. Let none have com- plicity with the traffic in alcohol. Alcohol was the most malignant foe that ever attacked our dear old town.

On that Saturday evening when Dr. Wood went to rest, he said to a young college student who Avatched by his side, and who, at his request, offered the last prayer in his hearing, " Lm a great sinner. I have n't loved God as I ought." Then, changing his voice, he spoke triumphantly of his hope in the Great Saviour. Some three years ago my aged moth- er, who lived with you long and loved you well, ex- pressed the like sentiments as her end drew near : " I have no righteousness of my own, not any, not any, but I rest entirely on the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I do trust Him." May this vital union with Christ be our strength in life, our support in death, and may we all meet in the Boscawen reunion and jubilee above.

ANNA K. (WEBSTER) EATON.

FROM MR. & MRS. PETER STONE.

Santa Rosa, Cal., Aug. i, 1883. Dear Sir : Nothing but distance prevents our meeting you at the Old Fort, of which so many

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legends were told us in childhood — the death of my great grandmother Call by the Indians, <S:c. As our ancestors were of the early settlers, many of their siiHerings and privations were related to their chil- dren. Time has wrought great changes. What would he said now, if a woman should take a spin- ning-wheel in her lap. on horseback, antl ride on the cr\nter! Such was common then. Great progress anrl rehnement had taken place before our day. almost eighty-four years ago. and still improvement goes on. Although we live in the land t)f the sun. of the vine, and of tropical fruits and flowers, we ch<*rish the remembrance of dear old Hoscawen and the many true and tried friends there, among whom was your honored father. We live more in the past than in the j)resent. Our conversation is where old memories cluster.

We have a [jleasant home, and are tenderly cared for in the City of Roses. Kind regards to all.

MR. \ MRS. IM.ll.k .s|( )X1..

FROM JONATH.VN TEXNEV.

Al.BANV. X. N'.. Aug. 14. iSS_v

Dear Sir : It would delight me to be with \f)U on your one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. ^'our town was the scene of nine years of arduous yet pleasant labor. I had many worthy puj)ils in that Mlmwood. in whose history I continue to feel a deep interest. Tell the living I would be glad to see theni. Tell the friends of the dead. I mourn with them. lell all that ever knew me as a friend.

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that I am still their friend. I never forget ; I am never ungrateful.

I hope I did some good to the boys and girls there, twenty and twenty-five years ago, and that many are better men and women, better citizens, because of Elm wood.

Sacred memories of those school-rooms, of that house, of other homes, and of that once animated dust that now sleeps in your cemetery, come back to me as I write. God bless old Boscawen ! Yours truly,

JONATHAN TENNEY.

FROM T. H. CURRIE, M. D.

Lebanon, Aug. 7, 1883. Ii.espected Friends and Citizens of Boscaiven :

I regret very much not being able to meet with you on this occasion. I shall be absent on my annual vacation at the Adirondacks. I have been •one of Boscawen's adopted sons most of the time since September, 1843. May this, the one hundred and fiftieth year, be the mere beginning of the pros- perity of Boscawen.

Yours very truly,

T. H. CURRIE, M. D.

FROM PROF. FORREST SHEPHERD.

Norwich, Conn., Aug. 14, 1883. Isaac K. Gage :

Dear Sir : My previous engagements will not permit me personally to attend the approaching one

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hundred and fiftieth anniversary of m\- dear native town, the ver\ name of which carries me back to the Brave Admiral, or Lord Boscawen. who in his time was considered the monarch of the ocean, and to his correlative descendants near Falmouth and Truro in western Cornwall. Hngland. whose characters shine with a hrit,ditness worthy of imitation : als(^ to John Coffin, the leading spirit in the early settlement of Boscawen. with his associates, whose enterprise and energy are deserving a monument as lasting as the granite in our native hills. 1 believe his sjjirit will be present on the interesting occasion, together with the sjjirits ot the wortlu tli'j)arted settlers ; and in imagination I IxhoKl Rev. l^hineas .Stevens. I\<*\-. Robie Morrill. \\<\. Dr. Samuel Wood. I\<\. I^hen- ezer IVice. R(;v. |:u'ob Little. Rev. licnrs Little, Daniel Webster, Hon. John Adams Dix. together with the great comjjany of the tieparted. who will all be present in sympathy to witness the celel^ration.

My sanguine hope is that the children of the present, in remtMiibrance of this anniversary, will keep in mind the virtues of their ancestors, and be inllucnced to imitate their example. I'or this |)ur- pose 1 herewith enclose for the clerg)' and .schools some copies of my decimal chart, that the boys in their childhood may have a fixed j>urpose on hand, with a determination to accomplish it.

I*'or this I have changed the golden verses of Pythagoras to suit the occasion, as follows :

Soon as the morn s.ilutes thine eyes. .-\rr.inge thy duties on this wise : What do to-day that's worth the doing ? What can I learn that's worth the knowing ?

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What deeds of kindness to the lowly ? What worship render Spirit Holy ? These self-inquiries mark the road Made bright by Jesus up to God.

While the lines of Pythagoras were for self-exam- ination in the evening as follows :

" Let not soft slumber close thine eyes Before thou recollectest thrice Thy train of actions through the day : What know I more that's worth the knowing ? What have I done that's worth the doing ? What have I sought that I should shun ? What duties have I left undone ? Or, into what new follies run ? These self-inquiries mark the road That leads to virtue and to God."

With thanks for the kind invitation of the com- mittee, and my sincere regards to each individual of the assembled guests, I remain, dear sir, Respectfully yours,

FORREST SHEPHERD.

FROM ENOCH COFFIN.

Beloit, Wisconsin, Aug. 3, 1883. I. K. Gage, Esq. :

Dear Sir : Your card of invitation to be present at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boscawen has been received. Nothing would afford me more real satisfaction than to be with you on the occasion.

Twenty-seven years' absence from my native town and all the associations of my early life have in no way diminished my fondly cherished remem-

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brancc of the scenes of childhood and \oiith, that will stir all \oiir hearts as they pass in review at your gathering. It will be a day in history, that coming generations will repeat, and to which our children will turn in their thoughts and devotions with ihc greatest satisfaction. Such gatherings are the way-marks being set up in our country, from IMymouth Rock to the (iolden Gate, to make this our beloved lanil what we might reasonabK- expect from the seeds that generated from the Mayflower and the peace-offering of William Penn.

We will shar(.' with you in sjjirit what we cannot enjo\ ''^ "I If* personal jjresence.

\'ery cordiallv yours,

i:n()CH coffin.

iK«-M KkKKKku; r. stonk.

San Francisco. Cai... August 2. 1S83.

IsAA( K. Ga(;e, Esrj., Fisherville, N. H. :

/)t'(7r Sir: \'our thoughtful invitation to non- residents to attend the one hundreil and fiftieth aniiivcrsai) of the settlement of Hoscawen has just reached me.

As a son of that oltl town. I apj)reciate the remem- brance, and, were it j)ossible, 1 would highly value being with \c)u nn this occasion. The early edu- cation, the habits of industry and econom\-, the teachings of morality and temperance, have made the sons and daughters of Hoscawen the true pioneers in ever\- portion of our countr\- where they are found. I honor the old town that gave

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me birth, and I owe to her in a large degree the success that has attended me thus far through a busy Hfe.

Born a neighbor to your chief-marshal, Mr. J. C. Pearson, and as a schoolmate of Rev. Arthur Little, with warm attachment for our worthy townsman, C. C. Coffin, Esq., your anniversary would be doubly enjoyed could I be with you.

Should the proceedings be published, please send me about five copies.

Trusting that the day may be one long to be remembered, I am

Yours very truly,

FREDERIC R STONE.

FROM NATHAN J. STONE.

San Francisco, Aug. 6, 1883. Mr. Isaac K. Gage :

Dear Sir : I am in receipt of your invitation to attend the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boscawen. I regret that I shall not be able to be with you on that memorable occasion.

In the course of my life I have had occasion to thank God that I was born in old Boscawen. Some- how I feel that there is something in her rocks and brakes and hardbacks that gives her sons and daughters industry, force of character, and stead- fastness, which are essentials to success in life. With great respect, I remain Yours faithfully,

N. J. STONE.

A pim:\I)I\

REPORT OF COMMITTEi: VOli THE CELEBRA- TK^N OF THE ONi: HINDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF lilK SETTLEMENT OF

bosca\vi:n. Ar(;. i6, 1SS3.

Cash recciveil of the town,

from citizens of Webster.

Enoch P. Couch, of Nashua, Abial R. Chaniller, of Lawrence.

Mass., Edgcrton RaymontI, Ahial Rolfe, of Concoul, R. .S. Morrison, for use of jjround. sale ofn)eat. bread, and cofVcc on

haiul, as follows, to wit : Mrs. Jeremiah Chadwick, Mrs. Judith CotVin. Samuel B. Chaduick. Henry (ictchel. William P. Abbott. E. W. Durnin. N. S. Webster, Addie Flantlcrs.

(). A. Towiie. to make up deficiencN N. S. Webster. Isaac K. Gage, "

Samuel Ch«)ate. *.'

John C. Pearson. Sam'l H. Chadwick. •' Peter Cotlin. Frank L. Gerrish. •'

$410.99

$300.00 50.50 5.00

10.00 3.00

I AK>

2.10

2-55 •55 •25

1.05

•25 1.40

•«5 2.50

3-67 367 3-67 367 367 3 67

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Accounted for as follows, to wit :

Paid Kilbuni, Young & Co., beef, ham, and

tongue, $113.00 Norris & Crockett, for bread, 30.00 C. W. Carter, for sundries, 3i-i^ H. W. Bowman & Co., for use of tents, 97.00 Telegrams, 1.18 Car fare, .60 Hopkinton band, for music, 30.00 M. F. Bickfoi'd, for services, 3-oo Edmund Atkinson, for services, 3.21^ James B. Smith, for services, 4.00 washing dishes, 1.20 for two thousand wooden plates, 11 -50 William A. Huntress, for services, 1.50 Joseph Jackman, for services, 4-50 Independent Press Association, for print- ing, 15-00 O. A. Towne, for printing, 2.50 A. R. Ayers, use of crockery and damage, 21.57 Benjamin Pritchard, for services, 3.00 John E. Rines, for use of team, 8.00 Foot & Morse, for cloth, .33 lamp broken, ^-94 John A. McClure, for butter, 1.75 George Pillsbury, for services, S-OO Mrs. George Carter, for services, 2.00 Fiank L. Gerrish, use of team, y'S*^ Mr. Rawson, for services, 2.00 Gilman Shaw, for team, .3-00 William H. Allen, for cloth, i.oo Isaac K. Gage, postage and postal cards, 5 '24 C. M. & A. W. Rolfe, for lumber, .63 Samuel B. Chadwick, incidentals, 3.70

$410.99

F. L. GERRISH, Treasurer.

Thomas M. Lanor and Charles A. Lang, sons of Charles K. Lang, Kscj., who for more than a third of a centiir)' has been a resident of lioscawen. were among the first who enhsted for three years from Boscawen. Hy some strange oversight they apptrar never to have been credited to the quota of the town, and their names do not appear among those of the volunteers in Coffin's Histor)" of Boscawen. They were good sokliers, and l)oth were discharged, one ff)r " disability." and the other for " wounds received." Thomas .\L I^ang was terril)ly wounded through tlie lungs, anil is now in the receipt of a handsome pension from the government. The committee of jjublicalion of this volume anr glad of this opportu- nity to ilo these brave men tardy justice by publish- ing this and th*- \djutant-( ieneral's certificates of enlistments.

THK STATI-: OF MAV HAMPSHIRl-:

Ai>jitant-Gexerai,'s Oh ic k,

CoNcoKJ), May 31, 18S4.

I certify that tlic official records of this ofHce show that Thomas M. Lai)g enlisted on the 221I day of May. 1S61 ; that he was assigned to Company B. 2d Rejjimcnt N. II. Volun- teers, and was mustered into the service of the United States on the first day of June, 1S61, for tlie period of three years.

Said LanjT was horn in Georgetown, in the State of Massa- chusetts, and was, at the time of enlistment, twenty-six years

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of age, blue eyes, black hair, light complexion, five feet five

inches high, and by occupation when enrolled a clerk.

He is officially reported as having been promoted to corporal

Dec. I, 1861. and on the muster-out rolls of said company and

regiment is reported as "Discharged Dec. 10, 1S63, of wounds

received."

A. D. AYLING, Adjutant- General.

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Adjutant-General's Office,

Concord, May 31, 1884.

I certify that the official records of this office show that Charles A. Lang enlisted on the 13th day of May, i86i ; that he was assigned to Company B, 2d Regiment N. H. Volun- teers, and was mustered into the service of the United States on the first day of June, 1S61, for the period of three years.

Said Lang was born in Georgetown, in the state of Massa- chusetts, and was, at the time of enlistment, twenty-two years of age, blue eyes, brown hair, light complexion, five feet eleven and one half inches high, and on the muster-out rolls of said company and regiment is reported as " Discharged for disabil- ity Aug. I, 1861, at Washington, D. C."

A. D. AYLING, Adjutant- General.

Births Rfcorded in thk Town Rkcords

From 1733 to 1 850.

Abbot, Nath'l, s. Joseph iiiul Molly, b. Aii<j. ii, 1796. Joseph, s. h. Apr. J3. 1798.

Jabcz, s. b. July 3, iScx).

Phcbc, tl. '• b. Feb. 26. 1805.

Ira, s. b. Sept. ID, 1807.

Nathan, s. b. Feb. 7, iSll.

Eliza C, d. John S. and Mary, b. Feb. 18, 1804. Thomas F., s. '* I). Nov. 20, iScS.

Mary F., d. •• b. April 22, 1S05.

Charles, s. Timothy and Rhoda. b. Jnly 29, 1823. Mary K., d. Job and Lydia, b. June I2, 1S20. Abigail, d. '* b. March 29, 1S24.

Kmelinc, tl. •• b. Nov. 19, 1826.

Jiulith. d. b. July 12. 1S29.

Lydia Ann. d. •• b. Nov. 10, iS3t.

Achsaii W.. d. •• 1>. Nov. r:, i-^.>3. d. Oct. 31,

1S54. Augustus, s. h. Dec. 9. 1835.

Horace, s. Nathaniel and Marv, b. Nov. 23. 1S29. Marv ].. d. " b. June 5, 1S31, d. Oct.,

1834. Man.. K., d. " b. March 2S, 1833, d.

Aug 5. 1S51. Julia A.. <1. •• i.. May 22. 1S34.

Mary J., d. •• h. Jan. zy. 1836.

George \V., s. ■' b. March 13, 1837.

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Abbott, Harriet M., d. Jabez and Eunice K., b. Dec. I3, 1829.

Ellen K., d. " b. Dec. 8, 1831.

Levonia, d. " b. March 11, 1S34.

Elvira, d. " b. March 11, 1S34, d.

April 5. 1834.

Charles M.,s. " b. March 6, 1836, d.

April 18, 1852.

Warren, s. " b. March 20, 1838.

Joshua P., s. " b. March 3, 1S40.

Jane, d. " b. April 15, 1S46.

Adams, Dorcas, w. Daniel Woodard, b. July 11, 1796.

John, s. Joseph and Judith, b. May 28, 1800.

Charles Wm., s. William and Hannah, b. Feb. 16, 1801.

Enoch E., s. Abraham B. and Sarah, b. Feb. 17, 1810. Allen, Isaac L., s. Isaac and Mary J., b. April 5, 1847.

Martha J., d. " b. April 5, 1S47. Ambrose, David, s Nathl. , b. , 17S7.

Thomas A., s. David and Susan, b. March 2, 181 2.

Martha S., d. " b. Dec. 5, 181 2.

Samuel A., s. " b. April 15, 1815.

David R., s. " b. Feb. 17, 1818.

Justin S., s. " b. July 4, 1820.

John T., s. " b. Dec. 11, 1S22, d. Mar.

3, 1827.

Mary J., d. " b. Mar. 14, 1S29, d. June

II , 1832.

Mary J., d. Samuel A. and Dorothy, b. March 6, 1840.

Sarah E., d. '^ b. June 23, 1S46.

Charles W., s. " b. March 2, 1848.

Ames, Joseph, s. Samuel and Jane, b. May 31, 1771, d. June

15, 1851.

Hannah, d. " b. Jan. 14, 1776, d. Nov.

18, 1834 — '^^■'^'- °f ^^^" phen Gerrish.

Sarah, d. David and Phebe, b. Dec. 9, 1781, d. Oct. 23,

1848 — wife of Jacob Gerrish.

Myra, d. Joseph and Hannah, b. Jan. 4, 1805, d. June 17,

1869.

Ames, Joseph, s. Joseph and Hannah. b.June 29, 1S06. d. Sept

20, 1S26. Lucy, (1. " b. Sept. 13. iSoS, d. Nov.

30, 1840. David, s. " b. Dec. 20. iSio.

Samuel, s. " b. July 14. 1S13.

Stephen G., s. •• b. June 16, 1S16, d. Oct. i,

KS26. Nathan I*., s. •• b.June 16, 1S16.

Phebc J., b. Dec. 22. I Sly, d. AufT. 6,

1X36. Livonia C, d. Xatlian P. and Elvira, b. April iS, 1S43. Charles IL, s. " b. Feb. >, 1S47.

Amsden, Charles II.. ?^. Henry and Mary, b. July S. 1S4S. Anf^el, Robert, s. Lsek and Susannah, b. ^Llrch 19, 1793. David, s. " b. July 10, 1795.

Thomas, s. " b. Feb. i, 1798.

Mary. d. " b. May 14. 1800.

Phel)e, d. " b. Oct. 13. 1S02.

John, s. '• b. Oct. 14, 1S04.

Sally, d. '• b. ^L^y 14. 1S07.

v\ppliia, d. '• b. July 5, 1S09.

Arlin, Abby A., d. Daniel K. ami NLiry. b. July 28. 1846. Arcy, Lli/abeth B.. d. Nath'l H. and Susan C. b. March 16,

1S45. James H., s. " b. May 6,

1S4S.' Abrani ()., s. " b. June 9.

1850. Ash, IJ.iniard, s. Nath'l and I'21i/abeth. Newton, b. Jan. 24,

i'-j66. John, s. '» b. Oct. 25,

1760. Nath'l, s. " b. July 24,

1771. Dorothy, d. " '• b. April 27,

1768. Atkinson. Joseph, s. Samuel and Sarah, b. Dec. 6, 1777. d.

Feb. 28. 1845.

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Atkinson, Susannah, d. Samuel and Sarah, b. Oct. 30, i779' Anna, d. " b. April 13, 1782, d.

July 39, 1S44. Nath'l P., s. " b. Jan. 15, 17S5.

Jacob, s. ^ " b. Dec. 30, 1790.

Sally, d. Benj. and Jane, b. July 19, 17S5. James V., s. " b. Dec. 9, 1787.

Jane, d. " b. June 30, 1791.

Daniel Clark, s. Simeon and Phebe, b. Sept. 5, 17S5, d.

April 4, 1842. Silas, s. " b. Dec. 27, 1781, d. Sept.

29, 1837, at Northfield. Hannah, d. " b. Julv 10, 1795, d. July 22,

1850. Hale, s. " b. March 3, 1798.

Elizabeth, d. Nath'l, Jr., and Abigail, b. Sept. i, 1784. Isaac, s. " b. Dec. 8, 1786.

Benj., s. " b. Aug. 10, 1792.

Abigail, d. " b. March 2, 1798.

Elvira C, d. Bradley and Hannah, b. Nov. 8, 1839. Mary-L , d. " b. March 7, 1841, d.

Oct. 22, 1853. Edmund W., s. " b. Jan. 10, 1843.

Peter K., s. Theodore and Abiah, b. July 20, 1804, d.

March 20, 1 81 7. Fanny S., d. " b. April 20, 1807.

George W., s. " b. March 20. 1810.

Mary C, d. " b. May 30, 1814.

Ruth K., d. " b. Oct. 7, 18 17, d.

Jan. 1 , 1822. Abiah P., d. * " b. Jan. 24, 1820, d.

Nov. 4, 1S43. Hannah, d. Samuel and Hannah, b. April 20, 1784. Kimball, s. Theodore and Abiah, b. July 20. 1S04; d.

March 20, 1S17. Peabody, s. Joseph and Nancy, b. Dec. 30, 1S04. Hervey, s. " b. July 19, 1806.

Susan, d. " b. March 12, 1808.

Henry, s. " b. July 10, 1S09.

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Atkinson, Ann, d. Joseph and Nancy, b. July 30, 1S12.

Hir:im L., s. Joseph and Sarah, b. Aug. 3, 1S07.

Franklin I*., s. " h. June 6. iSio.

Amanchi M. F., d. •• b, Dec. 12. 1S12.

Isaac B., s. Isaac and Lois, h. May 12, iSii.

Dorothy, d. Silas and Dorotliy, b. Marcli 2S, 181 3.

Atharates H , s. Silas and Sarali. b. Feb 14. iSi:;.

Asenath li., d. " b. March 16. 1S17.

Alexander VV., 8. " b. Feb. i. 1S19.

Frances Maria, d. " b. Oct. 2S, 1849, d. July

10, 1S63.

Lcroy, s. Horatio N. and Susan P., h. Maich 31. iS^2. Austin, John, s. Benj. and Ane, b. Dec. 9, 1789, at Pembroke.

James C, s. " b. Sept. 17, 1790, "

Samuel, s. " b. Jan. 6, 1794.

Bcnjamm, s. " b. Dec. 31. 1795.

John, s. Paid and .Mehitable, b. Oct. 12, 1797; d. Nov. 7,

1S46.

Sally (j., d. '• b. Jan. 14. 1799.

Eldad, s. " b. April 17, 1S02.

William, s. " b. Jidy 24. 1S14.

William W'., s. ICIdad and Naomi, b. July i. 1829.

Maiy 11 , (I. •• b. Dec. 12. 1S36.

Bacon, Ilainiah, d. John and Hannah, b. Jan. 6. 1807.

Samuel, s. *' h. Aug. 9, 1804.

Mary J., d. Henry and Dorcas, h. March 3, 1S32.

Charles H., s. " b. Nov. iS. 1S35.

David F., s. •' b. May 17. 1838.

Balch, Fostei I... s. Dati S. and Dorothy M..l>. ."-^ept. Hj. 1835.

Adaline P., tl. '• b. Jan. 13. 1837.

Henry F., s. " b. Nov. 17, 1S3S.

Martha J., d. " b. Nov. 8, 1842.

Dan W., s. " b. Sept. 28, 1844.

Fred K.. s. '♦ h. March 2, 1847.

Charles J., s. " b. Dec. 8, 1848.

Bailey, Sally, d. Phinehas, b. Feb. 6, 1802.

Sarah E.. d. Samuel C. and Elisabeth, h. Julv ^, 1S27.

Mary ].' <^i " b. Feb. 26, 1829,

d. April 7, 1832.

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Bailey, Judith C, d. Samuel C. and Elisabeth, b. Nov. i, 1S36,

d. Aug lo, 1S50. Joseph F., s. " b. Nov. 20, 1833.

Bartlett, Samuel, s. Joseph G. and Mary, b. Dec. 12, 1782. Barrot, Luman C, s. Thedus and Jerusha, b. June 2, 1806. Hannah, d. * " b. Oct. 13, 1807.

Alvin, s. " b. March 28, 181 1.

Beedle, John, s. Thomas and Jane, b. Feb. 7, 1774. Sarah, d. " b. April 19, 1776.

Hannah, d. Thomas and Mehitable, b. Aug. 15, 1779. Beverly, Moses, s. Samuel and Ruth, b. Sept. 21, 1788. Blanchard, Judith, d. Simeon Blanchard and Dorothy Elliott,

b. Jan. 27, 1784. Carter, s. Amos and Susannah, b. Dec. 31, 1817. Nancy B., d. " b. Nov. 15, 1821, d. Feb.

6, 1845. Caroline S., d. " b. Feb. 6, 1827.

Mary J., d. " b. May 10, 1834.

Pluma A., d. " b. July 28, 1836.

John F., s. Carter F. and Julia A., b. May 2, 1843. Bishop, John, s. Enos and Anna, b. Dec. 10, i757' Elizabeth, d. " b. Jan. 31, 1760.

Sarah, d. " b. Jan. 31, 1762.

Hannah, d. " b. May 17, 1764,

Benjamin, s. " b. Oct. 22, 1766.

Enos, s. " b. Nov. 21, 1769.

Josiah, s. Enos and Elizabeth, b. Oct. 7, 1750. Susanna, d. " b. Dec. 15, 1753.

Bowley, Jacob, s. John and Joanna, b. May 17, 1778. Sarah, d. " b. Sept. 8, 17S3.

Bohonon, Stephen, s. Jacob and Sally, b. Feb. i, 1790- Beverly, Samuel, s. Samuel and Ruth. b. Dec. 9, 1786, d. July

10, 1811. Betty, d. " b. March 3, 1791.

Boyden, Wyatt, s. Eliza Day, b. Dec. 24, 1S35. Bowers, Denison T., s. Denison and Fanny, b. Nov. 12,

1793- Fanny P., d. " b. Nov. 22, 1795.

Francis, s. " b. Aug. 5, 1801.

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Bowers, Eli /a, li. Reuben C. and Betsey. l>. Aug. 19, 1S05, d.

Dec. 31. 1S17.

Benj. s. '^ b. March 6, 1S07.

Grovenor B., s. " b. March 26, 1S09.

Reuben I... -. • b. Oct. zo, iSio.

Altannmt D.. -. '• b. Oct. 27. 1S12.

Sally \V'., d. •• b. April 30. 1S14, d. April

13. 1S39.

Jane, d. " b. Feb. 27, 1S16.

Joel. 8. " b. May 11, iSiS.

Eli/a. a. '' b. Jan. 17, 1S21.

John F., s. " b. Dec. 27. 1S22.

Joseph R., s. " b. Feb. 19, 1825.

Mary A. B., d. - b. Nov. 3. 182S.

Brown, Hannah, d. William and Anne, b. April 5, 1781.

Richard, s. • b. July 27. 1779.

Elizabeth, d. '• b. July 19, 1 7S3.

Joseph, s. " b. May 31, 17S6.

Levi, s. Nathaniel and Hannah, b. Dec. 3, 1794.

Sophia, il. Tlmmas antl Susannah, b. Feb 22, 1802.

Polly G., d. •' b. Jan. 16, 1S06.

Charlotte M.d. John F. and Charlotte F.,b. Aug. 29, 1850.

James 1'., s. Mary Brown, b. Jan. 15, 1S33. Buswell. Helen M., d. Benj. F. and Mary J., b. Jan. 5, 1S49,

d. !>ept. 29, 1S50.

Walter, s. " b. March 15. 1S47.

Burbank. Jonathan, s. Samuel and Eunice, b. Aug. 11, 17S4.

Molly, d. Wells and Meriby, b. Sept. 2. 1784.

Nathaniel, s. Moses and .Sarah, b. Sept. I. 1763.

Jonathan, s. " b. May 29, 1765.

Daniel, s. " b. Jan. 4, 1767.

Joseph, s. Jonathan, b. April 9. 17S6.

Jane. d. •• !>. June 8, 17S7.

Nancy, d. • b. March 11, 1789.

Judith, d. •• b. May 24, 1791.

Samuel, s. •• b. July 11. 1793.

Betsey, d. '• b. June 24, 1795.

Patty, d. '* b. May 12, 1797,

Nathaniel, s. •' b. March 15. 1799.

I02

Burbank, Jonathan, s. Jonathan, b. May 29, 1800. Moses, s. " b. June 26, iSoi.

Paul D., s. " b. June 27, 1S02.

Nathan, s. Samuel and Eunice, b. Feb. 24, 17S6. Elizabeth, d. ^ " b. June 6, 17SS.

Little, s. David and Molly, b. Feb. 2, 17S7. Jesse, s. " b. June 13, 1790.

Enoch, s. " b. July 20, 1793.

Judith, d. " b. July lo, 179S, d. Sept. 29,

1853- Betty, d. Wells and Mary, b. Feb. 26, 17S7.

Eleazer, s. " b. Nov. 13, 17SS.

Horace R., s. Daniel and Sarah, b. May 14, 181 1.

Laura E., d. " b. Nov. 30, 1813.

Eliphalet L., s. " b. Dec. 22, 1S16.

Ebenezer L., s. " b. Dec. 29, 181S.

David P., s. Eleazer and Drusilla, b. Sept. 30, 1816.

Webster F., s. " b. April 10, 181S.

^- Moses, s. Moses and Hannah, b. June 26, 1741.

Samuel, s. Nathaniel, s. Molley, d. David, s. Wells, s. Sarah, d. Betty, d. Josiah, s. Eliezer, s.

b. Aug., 1745. b. Dec. 14, 1747. b. Feb. 20, 1749. b. July 4, 1754. b. Aug. 8, 1756. b. Sept.. 1758. b. Dec. I, 1760. b. June 30, 1 761. b. Jan. 19, 1763.

Joseph, s. Samuel and Eunice, b. Aug. 23, 1771. Sarah, d. " b. Aug. 28, 1773.

Eunice, d. " b. May 2, 1775.

Samuel, s. " b. March 25, 1777.

Moses, s. " b. Oct. 12, 1778.

Judith, d. " b. Sept. 23, 1780.

Josiah, s. " b. July 11, 1782.

Sarah, d. David and Molly, b. Feb. 9, 1779, d. April 7,

1817. Abigail, d. " b. March 28, 1780, d. July 18,

iSii.

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Burbank, Abraham, s. David and Molly, b. Nov. i6. 17S1.

Eliezar, s. '• b. Jan. i. 17S5.

Stephen, s. Moses and Sarah, b. Feb. ^. 176S.

Stephen, s. b. Feb. 3, 1769.

Silas, s. b. March 16, 1771.

Priscilla, d. • b. April S, 1773.

Ilazcn, s. '• b. Oct. iS, 1775.

Hannah, d '• b. April u, 1779.

Moses, s. ♦• b. Jan. 4. 1781.

John, s. Nathaniel and M«jlly, b. Anjj. 20, 177S.

Friend L., s. Abraham and Molly, b. June J9, 1806.

Joanna C, d. '' b. March 5. 1S08, d.

Feb. 19, 1S43.

Mary L., d. '' b. Nov. 16, 1S09.

Sophronia (j., d., " b. Aug. 25, 1S12. d.

Feb. 22, 1S47.

Juditli C d. " b. Nov. 2, 1S15, d.

Nov. 20, 1S47.

M«»ll\. wife of Abraham, d. March 16. 1S16.

G. W., R. Abraham and Folly M.. b. Jinie 29, 1819.

David i:..s. " b. May 16, 1822.

Hittield I'.,s. " b. March I, 1S24.

Abraham 1* , s. '• b. Nov. 2, 1S25.

A/.ro .S.. s. '• b. Aug. 29, 1827.

Ezekiel W'.. s. •' b. June 16, 1829.

Amand.i J., d. ♦* b. June 12, 1831.

Lucretia 1... d. Little and Jmlitli C b. April 13, 1S19, d.

Dec. 12. 183S.

Hatmah F.. d. " b. Sept. 27. 182 i, d.

Feb. 19, 1842.

Emulous \V., s. •• b. Nov. 20, 1S25.

Calvin M.. s. •* b. June 16, 1S32.

Lucreti.i L.. d. Friend L. and Dorothy, b. May 21, 1S40.

William \V.. s. " b. Sept. 13, 1S42.

Joanna C. d. " b. Jan. 22, 1846,

d. Dec. 23, 1S48. Burniiam, L\(lia A., d. Henry and Lucinda. b. Jan. 8. 1850.

Mary J., (I. Lucinda Marsh, b. Jan. 18, 1847, d. Jan. 30, '853. Burpee, Eli/a T., d. Jeremiah J. and Nancy, b. Feb. 20. 1S05.

I04

Burpee, Judith W., d. Jeremiah J. and Nancy, b. Mar. 8, 1807. Joshua W., s. " b. April 28, 1S09,

d. Dec. 23, 1839. Thomas G., s. Nath'l and Catharine, b. Oct. 12, 1805, d.

May 22, 1807. Thomas, s. " d. April 22, 1807.

"-Joseph E., s. " b. Feb. i, 1S07.

Fanny G., d. "' b. Nov. 17,1808.

Nathaniel, s. " b. April 21, 1812.

Eliphalet, s. " b. Feb. 25, 1814.

Catharine, d. " b. Feb. 23, 1817, d.

Feb. 14, 1819. Sally, d. " b. March 8, 1819, d.

Nov. 5, 1S22. Samuel W., s. " b. April 8, 1821.

Martha T. J., d. " b. Sept. 19, 1823.

Augustus, s. Jeremiah and Nancy, b. July 12, 18 13. Roxy, d. " b. Feb. 3, 1S15.

Mary S., d. " b. Feb. 9, 1817.

Wells, s. Jeremiah and Sally P., b. Dec. 29, 1818, d. Feb.

22, 1819. Ruth, d. " b. July 4, 1820, d. Dec.

8, 1S33. Samuel G., s. " b. Aug. 3, 1822.

Jeremiah, s. " b. July 20, 1824.

John, s. Jilleous H. and Merriam, b. June 17, 1817. Hiram, s. " b. Aug. 28, 1818.

William B., s. Joseph and Zilphia, b. Jan. 3, 1S19. Sardina, d. " b. May 3, 1820.

Almenia, d. " b. May 12, 182 1, d.

Nov. 30, 1S50. Lorena, d. " b. Aug.- 11, 1822, d.

April 17, 1849. Burzill, d. " b. Jan. 24, 1824, d. July

21, 1825. Ruth, d. " b. Oct. 17, 1825, d.

July 13, 1826. Ruth B., d. " b. May 27, 1827.

Joseph, s. " b. Aug. lo, 1829.

I05

Burpee. Zilpliia H., ci. Joseph aiui Zilpliia. b. Oct. 31. 1S30.

ICnuliiie S., (I. '" b. Sept. 19, 1S33.

Barn.n F. S.. s. '' h. Aug. 5, 1S36

Loreiia W.. d •' b. Nov. 13. 1S39.

Clara F., d. Win. H. and Emily S., b. Auj;. 31, 1S49. Buxton, Eiisal)ethMcF.,d. Fdw'datuI Flisabcth. h. Apr 2, 1S39.

Edwanl, s. •• i>. May 25,1841,

il. Dec. 6. 1S44. Calef. Daiiii-l K.. s. Garland and Nancy, b. April 16, 1S35.

F'recmafi W .. s. •• b. Nov. 23, 1S37.

Polly B., d. •• b. March 26. 1842.

Calcf, Garland, s. Daniel and Asenath, b. Jan. 5, 1801. Call, Hannah, d. Moses and Mchetalwl, b. Sept. 6. 1751.

Phcbe, d. *• b. .Sept. 11, 1753.

Moses, s. b. June 12. 1755.

Silas, s. b. March 17. 17^8.

Phebe, d. b. .Sept. 10. 1760.

Timothy, s. '• b. Feb. 13, 1763.

David, s. b. May iS. 1765.

Daniel, s. b. Oct. 13, 1767.

Nathan, s. •• b. Oct. 15, 1 770.

Davi<l. s. David Call and J. me Jackman, b. Nov. 19,

I 7.S6.

Hannah, d. .Silas and Molly, b. Aug. 2t, 17S5.

Polly, d. •' b. July 2, 17S7.

Silas, s. '* b. Oct. 9, 1790.

Lemuel, s. ** b. I»dy 15, 1792.

Betsey, d. *' b. Feb. to, 1795, d* Sept. 7,

1796.

Betsey, d. " b. May 5. 1797.

Royal, s. " b. Jan. 27. iSoo.

Ruth. d. *' b. Dec. 31, 1802.

Moses, s. " b. April 9. 1S05.

Jonas, 9. " b. Jan. 8, 180S.

Phebe, d. " b. Sept. 7. iSii.d. Oct. z^,,

1S34.

Enoch, s. Moses and Sarah. 1>. Oct. 3. 17S0. d. Dec. 1S12.

Moses, s. " b. Jan. 21, 17S2. d. May t,

1S48.

io6

Call, John, s. Moses and Sarah, b. May 15, 1784, d. Sept. 11,

1S44. Sarah, d. " b. Jan. 12, 17S6.

David, s, " b. June 24, 1791.

Nathan, s. " b. Dec. 12, 1792.

Luke, s. * " b. May 5, 1795.

Silas E., s. Silas and Sarah, b. June 7, 1S16, d. Dec. 14,

iSiS. Sarah A., d. " ' b. Sept. 2t, 1821, d. Sept. 20,

1849. Emily, d. " b. Aug. 20, 1S23.

Silas, s. " b. Dec. 10, 1S25.

Nathan, s. " b. Sept. 27, 1S27.

Reuben M., s. Lemuel and Rhoda, b. June 6, 1816. Nancy, d. " b. July 12, 1819.

William W., s., " b. Jan. 13, 1822.

Jonas, s. '• b. April 26, 1826.

Pierce S., s. " b. Jan. 16, 1829.

Phebe, d. " b. Jan. 28, 1836.

George H., s. Luke and Olive, b. Nov. 25, 1822, d. Oct.

29, 1826. Joan, d. " b. July 16, 1825, d. Oct.

6, 1S26. Luke, s. " b. Oct. II, 1827.

James, s. " b. March 12, 1836.

George, s. " b. Feb. 5, 1S40.

Hannah W., d. Lemuel and Rebecah, b. Feb. 10, 1824, d.

Feb. 5, 1825. Sarah E., d. David and Polly, b. July 2, 1821. Alvira, d. " b. Oct. 31, 1823, d. Jan. 15,

1848. Levi, s. " b. March 20, 1S27.

Mary, d. " b. June 29, 1830.

Royal, s. " b. Oct. 7, 1833.

Emily, S., d., " b. Nov. 3, 1S35.

Phebe J., d., " b. March 19, 1841.

Julian, d. John and Dorothy, b. Oct. 23, 1826, d. June 14,

1842. Nathan, s. " b. Nov. 24, 1833.

lo;

Call, Joseph, s. John and Dorothy, b. July ^6. 1S36.

Catharine S.. <1. Enoch antl Ruth. b. June 17. 1S40. Willi;im H., s. \Vm. D. and ICli/a J., h. May 11, 1S45. d.

Sept. iS. 1S51. LoviiKi I). I)., d. •• b, Nov. 15, 1S4S, d.

Oct. 3, 1S5S. Ansel F., s. " b. Oct. 13, 1S50, d.

Oct. 13, 1S51. A<l<lie, d. Ik-njamin V. and Eli/a, b. Nov. 3, 1S46. Ira A., 8. •* b. Nov. 3. 1849.

Eudocia, d. John and Oorothy, b. Nov. 5, 1S21. Car, Hannah, d. Richard and Joanna, b. April 21, 17S1. Carr, Jane, d Thomas and Lois, b. Oct. 11, 1816. James, s •' .Sept. lo. iSiS.

Jona. K.. b. March 31, 1S20.

Carter. Jesse, .>>. 1 iniolhy and .Susannah, b. Aug. 17, i 75S.

Daiiitl. s. W'iiithrup and Susannah, b. Dec. ly, 1759, d.

1840. Jesse 1;., s. Ik-nj. and Juchth, b. N(»v. 26, t^*6, in Con- cord. Jeremiah, s. " b. June 6, 1S30.

Nathan, " b. Dec. 19, 1759, d. 1S40.

Jeremiah, s. '* b. April 26, 1764.

Polly, d. Winthrop and Sarah, b. May 7. 1773. Naomi, «1. '* b. April 9, 1796.

Susannah, d. b. May 25, 1782.

Thomas, s. Davitl and Dorcas, b. Match 5, 1776,(1. Dec. 9,

iS.}4. John. s. •' b. Oct. 1.4. 177S.

Patty, d. " b. Auj;. 25. 17S0.

Judith, d. '' b. Dec. 28. 17S6.

Judith, d. Nathan and Sally, b. Dec. 5, 17S7. Moses, s. ** b. Aug. 6, 1790. d. June,

1 85 1, in Canterbury. Daniel, s. Daniel and Mary. b. March 16. 17S5. Polly, d. •• b. Jan. 26. 17S7.

Sally, d. " b. April 27. 1790.

Jeremiah, s. Nathan anil Sarah, b. Feb. 20, 1S03. Nathan, s. " b. Feb. 4. 1S07.

Ruth, d.
Merrill, s.
Jeremiah,	s.
John,	s.
Clark,	s.
Maria,	d.

1 08

Carter, Elbridge G., s. Daniel, Jr., and Sarah, b. Dec. 4, 1808. Naomi, d. Thomas and Nancy, b. Jan. 8, 1S06. " b, Oct. 10, 1807.

" b. Jan. 6, iSio.

" b. Feb. 2, 1S12.

" b. Feb. 3, 181 2, d. Feb.,

1S12. " b. April 23, 1819.

" b. April 23, 1S19.

Bradbury G., s. John and Lydia, b. Feb. 3, 1S27. Luther G., s. " b. Aug. 25, 1829.

Mary C, d. Elbridge G. and Sarah, b. Dec. 10, 1S36. Cass, Samuel, s. Barnard and Martha, b. Feb. 23, 1798. Clarissa, d. " b. Jan. 15, t8oo.

Sabrina, d. " b.Nov. 15, 1S02, d.Feb.

25, 1803. Charles M., s. " b. Dec. 25, 1805.

Joseph G., s., " b. Aug. 7, 1807.

Jonathan, s. " b. Nov. 10, 1809.

Philena, d. " b. Nov. 15, 181 1.

Chadwick, Joseph, s. Edmund and Susannah, b. July 19, i777- Samuel, s. " b. May 26, 1780.

James, s. " b. Jan. i, 1782.

Folly, d. " b. Oct. 2, 1791,

d. Feb. 10, 1832. Edmund, S., s. Samuel and Sally, b. March 10, 1804. Albert, s. " b. Nov. 8, 1810.

Jeremiah C, s. " b. July 4, 1812.

Peter M., s. " b. April 24, 1815.

Maria C, d. " b. March 4, 1S17, d. Jan.

27' 1S33. Chadwick, Susannah, d. Samuel and Sally, b. May 16, 1804. Caroline, d. " b. Dec. 17, 1805.

Laban M., s. " b. May 13, 1807.

Edmund S., s. " b. March 10, 1809.

Albert, s. " b. Nov. 8, 1810.

Sarah A., d. " b. Feb. 15, 1S21.

Loisa, d. " b. May 3, 1823;

d. Feb. 4, 1848.

I09

Chadwick, Cvrus. s. Edmund and Susannah, b. Oct. 2. iSoi. Alon/.o C. s. Jame^ and Bctscv. h. Feb. 10, iSio. Louise M.. d. •• b. .\pril 12. iSiJ : d.

April 13. I Si 6. Cynthia, d. " b. Dec. 9. 1S13 : d. Oct.

3, 1S14. Charles J., s. " b. Sept. 9, 1S15 ; il. April

5, 1S16. Charles J., s. •• b. Sept. 11. 1S21.

Calvin M.. s. Joseph and Judith, b. Julv 15. 1S13. Eunice, d. * b. July 17, 1S22.

Hale, s. I.aban M. and ILli/a II.. b. Oct. 3, 1S41. John, s. •• b. April 24, 1S43.

Harriet, d. b. April 27, 1S45.

(ieorge, s. Jeremi.di C anil Abby C, b. Julv 7. 1S46. Asa C, s. '* b. .\pril 20, 1S4S.

Cyrus \\'.. s. Ciiarlfs J. and Eliza J., b. Jan. 23, 1S51. Henry, s. Peter M. and Marv, b. April 21. iS:;i. Chandler. Judith, d. Nathan and .Susannah, b. Fel). 16, 177S. Sally, d. •• b. March 30, i 7S0,

John. s. Lieut. luhn and Naomi, b. Oct. 2^, 17S0. Nathan, s •• b. April 14. 17S2.

Ephraim. s. " b. ,^ept. 4, 17S4; d.

March I 2, iH^y. Tollv. d. '• b. Sept. 3, 17S6. '

Susannah, d. '* b. Dec. 7, 17SS.

Juditli. d. '• b. March 19, 1793: d.

Nov. 2. 1S43. Kliod.i, (1. " b. Jidy 10. 1799.

Al)i.il K.. s. N;itli;m and Jane, b. Au^. 25. 1S05. Ju.iith W.. ,i. " b. Aug. 5. 1S07.

Naomi 1'.. il. •» b. Dec. 5, 1S09.

Nathan, s. " h. June 12. 1S12.

Harriet, d. " b. July 10, 1S15.

Sarah IL. d. '• b. Aug. 10, 1817.

W illiam 1'.. >. *' b. Nov. 27. 1S20.

I<o\a, d. John J. ami I•Ii^cilla. b. March 7. 1S07; d. Jan.

3. iSoS. Priscilla K., d. '• b. Sept, 27, 1S09.

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Chadvvick, Sally K., d. John J. and Priscilla, b. April 2,

1811.

Philip T-, s. Ephraim and Tabitha, b. Oct. 3i, 1814.

Henry W., s. Abial R, and Eliza J., b. Aug. 2, 1830.

Catherine F., d. " b. Dec. 4, 1831.

Ann R., d. *• " b. April 11. 1837.

Cheney, Orramel F., s. Elias E. and Lucy, b. Nov. 4, 1836.

Frances K., d. '^ b. Aug. 12, 1828.

Samuel F., s. " b. Dec. i, 1829.

Choate, Chandler, s. Samuel and Betty, b. Aug. 15, 1794.

Samuel, s. " b. March 18, 1769.

Royal, s. Samuel and Nancy, b. June 12, 1796.

Betsey, d. " b. Dec. 19, 1797.

Anna, d. " b. April 13, 1800.

Maria, d. " b. Aug. I3, 1802.

Nancy, d. " b. Oct. 22, 1804.

David, s. Royal and Hannah, b. Nov. 28, 1827; d. Feb.

22, 1833.

Samuel, s. " b. Feb. 34, 1830.

Clark, Mary, d. Daniel and Mehetabel, b. April 9, 1770.

Sarah, d. " b. Aug. 24, 1773.

Mehetabel, d. " b. Aug. 22, 1774; d.

April 17, 1837.

Mary, d. Paul and Phebe, b. Sept. 30, 1800.

Elijah, s. Aaron and Susan, b. Nov. i, 1804, in Barnstead.

Caleb H., s. Sally Morse, b. March 2, 1815.

Timothv. s. Nehemiah and Rebekah, b. Nov. 10, 1820.

Louisa, d. " b. March 31, 1823.

Fanny, d. " b. Jan. 14, 1825.

Nehemiah, s. " b. April 24, 1827.

Ednah P., d. " b. Jan. 19, 1830.

Warren, s. " b. Nov. 18, 1833.

Ann R.,d. " b. May 10, 1838.

Charles T., s. Elijah and Rachel, b. March i, 1834, at

Lowell.

Mary H., d. Timothy and Maria, b. Dec. 30, 1847. Clement, Joseph E., s. John and Lucinda, b. Feb. 19, 1823.

Charles P., s. ' " b. Oct. 10, 1825.

Clough, James, s. Stephen and Betsy, b. Oct. 25, 1799-

1 1 1

Clough, Phinehas, s. Stephen and Betsy, b. Nov. 19, iSoo, d.

March 21, iSi i. Jeremiah, s. " b. June 27, 1S02, d.

Aug. 14, 1S03. Hosea, s. '* b. Marcli 4, 1S05.

Jeremiah, s. " b. Sept. 4, 1S06.

Mary, d. " b. May 7, iSoS.

William, s. " b. June 2. 1810.

Stephen W.. s. " b. Mav 2, 1S12.

Timothy E., s. " b. March 27. 1S14.

Phineas, s. " b. March 24. 1S17.

Stillman, s, '• b. Jan. 9, 1S20.

Almina, d. William and Sophronia A. .\I.. b. Oct. 3. 1S44. Sarah A., d. ** " b. Sept. 5,

1S46. ICnu-lin-- IV, (I. •' ** b. June 16,

1848. Jnli.i K.. d. " " b. Mar. 23,

1850. Coftin, I'ctcr. g. Peter and Rebekah, b. April 20. 1770. Kebekah, *' b. Oct. Z2, 1771.

Joanna, d. '* b. .April 11. 1773.

Abijjail, d. " b. March 26, I77>.

Thomas, s. *' b. Jidy 15. 1777, <1. April

21. 1S53. Moses, 9. *' b. July 22, 177'). d. Scjit.

5. 1854. Apphia. d. '• b. Aug. 8, 17S1, d. Dec.

Polly, d. M 'v.^ ,iiul II.uiM.di. b. Aug. 23. 1794, il. June

14. 1S13.

,]^^^^^- d. " b. Oct. 22, 1795. d. Oct.

14, 1S25.

Rebekali, d. Moses J. and .Susannah, b. March 13, 1S04.

Susannah, d. " b. Nov. 24. 1S18.

Lucy Jane, d. Moses and Susannah, b. July 9, iSov

Peter, s. »• b. March 26, iSo«.

Ju. litli II.. d. " b. May 7, iSio, d.

June 25, 1852.

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Coffin, Ephraim F., s. Moses and Susannah, b. March i6, 1813. Nehemiah C, s. " b. March 24, 1S15.

Esther E., d. " b. May 6, 1821, d.

Oct. 38, 1S43. Joseph H., s. Moses and Anna, b. July 11, 1815. Jeremiah W* s. " b. March 8, 1S17, d. Feb.

20, 1842. Francis B., s. " b. Oct. 27, 1818, d. Oct.

29, 1825. Enoch, s. Thomas and Hannah, b. April 28, 1808, d.

Oct. 13, 1S15.

John, s. Apphia C, s. Mary K., d. Frederick W., s. Enoch, s. Elvira, d. Livonia, d.

Charles Carleton, s.

b. Septi 2, 1S09. b. Dec. 6, 1810. b. Nov. 12, 1812. b. May 28, 1S15. b. March 5, 1817. b. Aug. 8, 1819. b. Aug. 8, 1819, d.

Sept. 6, 1820. b. July 26, 1823. Warren C, s. Frederick W. and Harriet, b. Feb. 25, 1844. Harriet N.,d. " " b. Sept. 26, 1846.

Edwin D., s. Enoch and Emily, b. Sept. 12, 1843. Sarah A., d. " b. Jan. 9, 185 1, d. April

7, 1851. Sarah C, d. Peter and Eunice, b. April 3, 1836, d. Feb.

12, 1837. George, s. " b. Dec. 9, 1S37.

Sarah E., d. " b. Dec. 9, 1S41.

Esther P., d. " b. Dec. 15, 1843.

Francis H., s. Joseph H. and Mary E., b. Jan. 26, 1843. John, s. Farnum and Judith G., b. June 9, 1846. Clara A., d. " b. Jan. 18, 1850.

Cogswell, Rachel, d. Nehemiah and Rachel, b. Oct. 9, 1772, d.

Dec. 29, 1853. Susannah, d. " b. Sept. 17, 1774.

Margarett, d. " b. Dec. 3, 1776.

Nehemiah, s. " b. Nov. 30, 1778,

d. Mar 16,1843.

I I

Cogswell. John. s. Nclicmiali and Raciiel. h. July 25, 17S1.

Polly, d.

Riitii, d. "

Sally, d.

Abigail, d. John C. and ICli/a W.

Charles E.. s.

Harriet P.. d.

Caroline I*., tl.

Mary. d. John and Mary, b. July 24, 1822.

Lvdia C. d. Francis and Elizabeth, b. April 12. 1S19. d.

b. Feb. 28, 17S4.

b. June 19, 17S6.

b. Oct. 8. 1790. b. Aug. 20. 1S22. b. Jan. 29. 1824. b. April 1 8, 1S27. b. Aug. 26. 1S30.

Aug.

1 8 20.

Sophia C d. " b. June 9, 1S22.

Amos C. s. *• b. Sept. 29. 1S24.

Lydia C, d. *• b. Jan. 19, 1S27. d.

Dec. 26, 1829. George W .. -. b. June 3, 1829.

Lydia H.. d. •• b. March 7, 1S32.

Frances A., d. " b. June 5, 1834.

Jtiseph .S.. s. •• b. Oct. 29, 1836.

Corscr, Asa. s. William and Anna, b. Jan. 26, 1754. Jesse, s. " b. April 16. 1756.

Mary. d. b. Aug. 1, 1759, d. Ajiril

14, 1834. Sinui'K, >. b. July lo. 1763.

Judith, b. b. Jan. 29. 1766.

James, s. Thomas and Anna. b. Nov. 12, 1764. Mary, d. •• b. Aug. 24. 1766

Jane. d. " b. Oct. 23, 1768.

Jonathan, s. '• b. Nov. 9, 1770. d. Nov. 30,

1 83 1. Anna. d. •• b. June 15. 1773. <i. June

12. 1816, by lightning. Thomas, s. •• b. Mav 10, 1775.

Sarah. (1. •• b. March 17. 1777.

Tabitha, d. • !>. Sept. 7, 1779.

Moses, s. • 1). .Sept. 28, 17S1, d. April

14, 1830. Mary. d. John and Jane. b. May 24, 1765.

Jonathan, s. Jona. and Lucy, b. Nov. 29, 1771.

8

114

Corser, Thomas, s. Jona. and Lucy, b, Oct. 4, 1773. Lucy, d. " b. June 14, 1776.

Josiah, s. " b. July 2, 1781.

Polly, d. " b. April 11, 17S4.

Benj., s. " b. Oct. 4, 17S7.

Daniel, s. Jotin and Rachel, b. Feb. 28, 1775, ^' J^^J 2^'

1853, at Portland, Me. John, s. " b. May 24, 1777. David, s. " b. March 15, 1779. Rachel, d. " b. April, 9, 17S1, d. Nov. 19,

1854, in Salisbury, N. H. Ryce, s. " b. Sept. 28, 1783, d. May 11,

1852. Joseph, s. " b. Feb. 7, 1786.

Timothy, s. " b. March 9, 178S, d. Sept. 6,

1819. Edward, s. " b. Aug. 18, 1790.

Richard, s. " b. Aug. 16, 1792, d. Aug.

20, 1845. Else, d. Thomas and Mary, b. March 28. 1783, d. Sept.

12, 1843. Caleb, s. " b. Sept. 3, 1785, d. Nov. 15,

1825. David, s. David and Ruth, b. March 22, 1781. Rachel, d. " b. Sept. 21, 1800.

Bernice, d. John, Jr., and Mehetable, b. July 21, 1802. Mehetable C, d. " b. Oct. 18, 1804 ;

d.Oct. 7, 1829. Mary, d. " b. July 23, 1807.

John, s. " b. Oct. 15, 1809.

Phebe, d. " b. April 26, 1816.

Eunice W., d. " b. May 17, 1818.

Daniel B., s. Richard and Rhoda, b. Oct. 18, 1818. Austin G., s. " b. March i, 1820.

Judith P.. d. Joseph and Else, b. Nov. 9, 1S15. Bill, s. '^ b. Jan. 26, 1S18.

Ursula, d. " b. Oct. 25, 1820.

Nancy A., d. " b. Sept. 29, 1823.

Elizabeth B., d. Amos and Betsey, b. Aug. 8, 1820.

1 1

Corser. \c\vlII J., s. Amos :uul Betsey, b. Dec. ^7. 18^4; d.

Jan. 21. 1S29. Rebecca A., tl. •• b. Jul\ 30. 1S27.

Joseph C s. Luke and Mary. b. Nov. 23. 1S24; d. Oct.

13. 1843. Francis H.. s. •• b. Jan. 10. 1827.

David \\'.,s. •• b. Aug. 19. 1829: il. May

25' "S33. David B.. s. '* b. Sept. 21. 1S35.

Bliss W'.. s. Bliss and Hannah, b. May 29. 1826. Ariadna A., d. I'leeman and Harriet.!). Oct. 24, 1S34. Sarepta, d. '• b. Sept. 21. 1836.

Hamilton, s. " b. Aug. 17. 1S38.

Hamlet, s. " b. May 13. 1843.

David S.. s. ♦' b. Aug. 6, 1847.

John C. s *• b. Feb. 9, 1849.

Athertnn I'., s. Kice. .;d. and .'^arah J., b. Nov. 28. 1S44;

d. Mar. 18, 1846. Joseph H.. s. •• li. .May 4. 1S47.

Rebecca, d. James and M.iitha. b. Oct. 24. I 7S7 ; d. Dec.

S. 1S15. John, s. *' b. Jnl\ 13. 1791.

Amos. s. " b. July iv '793-

David S.. s. Davit! Corser and Jane Gerald. 1). Feb. 23,

I 799 : d. Jan. 13, 1S08. Betty, d. David and Kulh. b. March 19, 1777. Rnt!i,d. •• 1). March 10. 1779-

Hannah, d. •• b. I-'eb. 2. 1783: d. 1S29, at

Amesbury. Molly. (1. •• h. Dec. 20. 17S4.

Enoch, s. *• b. Jan. 2, 1787.

Silas, s. '* b. Jan. 14, 1789: d. March 19,

184S. Jane. d. *• b. Jan. 11. 1791.

Lulve, s. '• b. March 10, 1793.

Bliss, s. *• 1). Au<^. 30. 1795.

Betty, d. '' b. June 4. 179S.

Lucy, d. Daniel and Lucy, h. Feb. 13, 1802, in Thetford, Vt. Solomon T., s. " b. Dec. 24. 1806. "

ii6

Corser, Heniy F., s. Daniel and Lucy, b. Jan. 20, 1809, in

Thetford, Vt. Gardner, s. David and Judith, b. Dec. 29, iSoi. Caleb, s. " b, Oct. 14, 1S03.

Ruth, d. ^ " b. Oct. 2, 1805.

Francis S., s. "■ b. June 25, 1808.

Eunice P., d. " b. Nov. 25, 1810.

Elbridge B., s. Silas and Sarah, b. Jan. 18, 1812. Emeline, d. *^' b. July 9, 1814.

Ruth, d. " b. Oct. 13, 1816.

Ruth K., d. David, Jr., and Abigail, b. Dec. iS, 1S17. Anna E., d. Timothy and Abiah, b. April i, 1S16. Louisa, d. " b. Dec. 25, 1818.

Charles H., s. " b. May 19, 1827.

George L., s. " b. May 19, 1S27.

Fitz-Henry, s. Charles H. and Mary [., b. March 20,

1850. Marcia Q., d. Rice and Abigail O., b. Feb. 27, 1827 ; d.

Aug. 18, 1850. Octavia E., d. " b. March 27, 1830;

d. May 9, 1853. Sarah J., d. " b. March 22, 1832;

d. March 24, 1848. Elisabeth J., d. " b. Jan. 6, 1S34; d.

July 13, 1S54. Abby S., d. Rice and Irene, b. May 31, 1838. Edwin G., s. " b. April 17, 1840.

John H., s. " b. May 7, 1S43 ; d. July n,

1S43. Daniel B., s. Richard and Rhoda, b. Oct. 8, 1818. Austin G., s. '' b. March 1, 1S20.

Ann M., d. " b. July 21, 1827.

Charles H., s. " b. June 3, 1829.

Mary J., d. " b. Sept. 20, 1S31.

Lucretia S., d. " b. Oct. 25, 1S33.

Couch, Nath'l Heath, s. Benj. and Rachel, b. Nov. 5, 1777;

d.July 10, 1844. Joseph, s. " b. Jan. 10, 1780;

d. Aug. I, 1S32.

1 1

Couch, Rciijamin. s. Benj. and Rachel, h. March S. 178^; d.

Aug. 9, 1S35. Samuel, s. '• b. Jan. >S. 17S9.

^■'^^h' tl. " b. "Feb. 5. 1796; d.

Mar. 3. 1S27. Enoch, s. Joseph and Sarah, b. Nov. z\. 17S5: d. Au'^.

iS. 17S.,. •'^''">- ^'- •• b. Aucf. 22. 17S7: (I. [unc

7. 1S52. Joseph, s. •• b. May 22, 1 7S9 : d. Sept.

10. 1 85 I. at Nashua. Enoch, s. •• b. April 12. 1793.

Phebe, d. •• b. July 2. 1798: d. Sept.

22. 1S56. Nancy A..d. Nalh'l II. and Eli/abeth, b. Jan. 15. iSoi. Polly <^'' <!• •• b. Dec. S. 1S05, (1.

Dec. 29. 1S23. .f"'"' <' • ^ I). Apr. 26. 1S09.

Sanniel D.. s. Joseph and Mecle, b. Jan. 30, 1S06. Joseph L.. s. «' b. Feb. 19, 1810.

Kli/a. d. '» b. Ja„. 8. 1S14.

Henianiin. s. •' b. .Apr. 3. 1S17.

'"^J";'''. «!• " b. Feb. .|. 1820.

Gcrrish. s. '» b. July 2, 1825. d. N..v.

20. 1S46. Eunice T., d. Joseph and Sarah, b. July 4. iSto. Prcscott. s. nenjamin and .'^ally. b. Ma\ 27. iSixj. d. Apr.

J allies .S., s.

AtiKts A., s.

Plunier, s.

Rachel, d.

Benjamin C. s.

Ilarriman. s.

Caleb K., s.

Ilalc. s. Amos ami II;

EiMiice. d. Ciiarlotte. d.

b. May 7. iSi I . b. June 23. iSl ^. b. Feb. 8. 1818. b. May 22. 1S20. b. ."Nept. 19, 1822. b. May 20. 182^. b. June 1 1, 1S29. mnaii. b. May 26. 1814. d. Aug. 29,

b. March 15. iSiS. b. April I 2. 182^.

ii8

Couch, Enoch P., s. Joseph and Mehetabel, b. Jan. 26, 1819. Henry J., s. Samuel D. and Hannah, b. April 23, 1831. Walter S., s. " b. Sept. 22, 1837.

Clara J., d. " b. Aug. 17, 1844.

Joseph, s. Enoch and Jane O., b. May 22, 1837. Mary S., d.* " b. June 12, 1844.

Nancy E., d. '^ b. Feb. 12, 1835.

George P., s. Prescott and Jane, b. Feb. 10, 1835, d. July

15. 1S37. Infant child of John G. and Eliza, b. May 10, 1844, d. May

1 1, 1844. Nath'l D., s. John G. and Eliza C, b. July 23, 1846. John B., s. '' b. Aug. 26, 1849.

Colby, Ann C, d. Joseph and Hannah, b. April 24, 1S12.

Ann, d. John and Phebe, b. April 3, 1830. Conner, Asa, s. Asa and Ruth, b. March 26, 1803. David, son James and Sukey, b. Nov. 13, 1813. Lucinda, d. " b. June 20, 1816.

Crosby, Josiah B., s. Hale and Mary, b. Jan. 2, 1842. Currier, Sarah M., d. Thomas H. and Sarah A., b. March 22,

1 847, d. Oct. 7, 1849. Sarah L., d. " b. June 12,

1849. Danforth, Mary, d. William and Olive, b. Nov. 22, 1772. Enoch, s. " b. Oct. 19, 1774.

Ruth, d. " b. Feb. 20, 1777.

William, s. " b. Jan, 22, 1780, d.

Sept. 24, 1846. John, s. " b. Dec. 18, 1785, d.

Feb. 18, 1850. Edmund, s. " b. July 8, 1791 , d. Oct.

24, 1854. Stephen, s. Simeon and Jemima, b. Aug. 22, 1792, d.

March 21, 1852. Anna, d. Jedldiah and Sarah, b. May 5, 1772- Peter, s. " b. April 26, 1774.

Jedidiah, s. " b. April 26, 1777, d. Aug.

Aug. 2, 1827.

119

Danforth. Natlian. s. Jedidiah and Sarah, b. Aug. 28. 1779. Sarah, d. '* h. June ^, 17S1, d.

Aug. 20, 1 84 1. Jonathan S.. s. " b. May 11, 17S3.

Polly, d. " b. Jan. iS, 17S7.

Abiah, d. " b. March 21. 17S9.

Rix. 8. " b. Mav 25.

Willis, s. Jedidiah and Lydia. b. June 13. 1794. Amos G., s., •* b. Nov. 30. 1796.

Jeci, s. Jedidiah ami R.icliel. b. M.ty 27. iSa;^.

I 791

b. July I . i8<>^.

b. July 31. 1807. il. Ai)ril

12. 1846. b. Sept. 6. 1809. b. .^ept. 6. 1S09. b. June 23. iSio. b. Dec. 22, 1820. d.

3, 1852. b. Nov. 6, 1S27, d. 1S51

June

Nathan C. s. John M.. s.

Sarah Rix. d. Rachel C. d. Charlotte S.. d. »'

Prentice S, s. »*

Harriet A., d.

John P.. s Willi iijij. and Betsey, b. Oct. 5. iSi i

Polly,.!. •• b. Feb. 3, 1S15. d. June

19. 1853. Taniexin. d. *' b. March 7. 1817.

Albert, s. '• b. Dec. 2t, 1S19.

William, s. •• b. May 22, 1823.

Lucy. d. .Simeon and Judith, b. Jan. 16. 1802, in Rowley. Judith, il. '* h. Julv 22. 1804.

Dcbby. d. " b. Nov. y, 1S06.

Eli/.ai.eth S.. d. •• b. April 30, 1S08.

Sails S.. (I. •• b. Sept. 10, 1809.

Molly S.. d. •• b. Sept. 10. 1S09.

AlmiraJ.,d. '• b. April 8, 181 2.

Emily, d. *• b. July 3, 1814.

Amos. s. *' b. July 3. 1S14. d. Sept. is,

1816. Minerva, d. " b. June 17, 1816.

Betsy C. d. Rix and Abigail, b. Sept. 13. 1819. Timothy C. s. •• b. Feb. 10, 1825.

Josephine B.. d. " b. Oct. 25. 1842.

I20

Danforth, Haman, s. Edmund and Rhoda, b. Dec. 21, 1819.

b. Sept. 3, 1S21, d.

June 21, 1834. b. May 4, 1824. b. May 6, 1827. b. Aug. 17, 1829. b. Nov. 14, 1 83 1, b. Jan. 12, 1S34. b. March 11, 1S43.

Rhoda, d.

Enoch, s.

Geo. S., s. ^

Reuben, s.

Charles S.. s.

Edmund, s.

Rhoda R., d.

Orpha, d. William and Betsy, b. Jan. 23, 1S27, d. Aug.

9, 1848. George H., s. Jedediah and Aurelia, b. Feb. 5, 1830. Aurelia J., d. " b. May 8, 1832.

Ednah E., d. " b. March i, 1S35, d,

June 13, .

Ruth A., d. '' b. Nov. 17, 1837.

Orrin, s. John and Bernice, b. June 5, 1831. Mehetable C.,d. " b. Oct. 16, 1834.

Sarah P., d. Nathan C. and Sophia C, b. June 8, 1836. Sylvester P., s. '' b. Aug. 14, 183S.

Celeste S., d. " b. June 18, 1840.

Horace H., s. " b. March 29, 1842.

Silvanus. s. " b. July 4, 1844.

John P., s. John B. and Dorothy, b. July 24, 1837. Rebecca P., d. " b. Aug 21, 1839.

Charles H., s. " b. June 8, 1841.

Enoch E., d. " b. May 4. 1844.

Nancy A., d. Enoch and Melissa J., b. Jan. 21. 1851. Pitts A., s. Albert and Mary A., b. June 7, 1849. Davis, William, s. Ephraim and Sarah, b. Dec. 7, 1748. Ephraim, s. " b. Oct. 15, 1751.

Hannah, d. " b. July 27, 1755.

John, s. " b. Aug. 25, 1757.

James, s. " b. June 11, 1761.

Tabitha, d. " b. Peb. 10, 1768.

James, s. Nicholas and Mary, b. Aug. 24, 1770- Nane, d. " b. Mar. 12, 1772.

Joseph, s. " b. April 9, 1774.

Isaac, s. " b. Dec. 17, i777*

121

Davis, Sarah, d. Nicholas antl Mary. b. Sept. 5. 1779.

Mary. d. ** l>. Mar. 26. 17S1.

Elisabeth, d. Xatlian and Jane, !>. Jan. 6, 1773.

Tabitha. d. b. Jan. 5, 1775.

Nathan, s. *• b. Feb. i. 1777.

Samuel, s. '* b. Oct. 23. 177S.

lane. d. • b. July S, 17S1.

l*ain, s. .Nathan and Molly, b. Feb. 3, 1795.

Ilermon, s. Oliver and Mary, b. Aii<j. 25, 1796.

JoiiRT J.. ''. Nathan and Molly, b. Mar. 24. 1797. . Orrtey, d. " b. July 4. 1799.

Clarissa, d. Oliver and Polly, b. Jan. 14, 1794.

Harm<»n, s. b. Aii<j. 25. 1797.

Vern(.-y, s. b. Dec. 31, 1799-

s. Charles F. and Ellen, b. Jan. 13, 1S52. Dav, Sarah, d. Benjamin and wife, b. Au«;. 29. 1767, d. 1S17.

KdmiMul, s. n.mltl and J.iml-. b. March 24, 17S9, d. 1S12.

Henjamin, »>. Jane, d. Polly, d. James, s. Elijah, s. Harriet, d. Harrison, s.

b. Jan. 10. 1792. b. Iid\ 20. 1 7«>4. b. June 14. 1 7i><».

b. Jul\ 14. |S<K).

b. March 4, 1S02. b. Dec. 17, 1S04. b. Oct. 6, 1S06, .1. Jan. 16. 1S45.

Wilson, s. ** b. Jan. 2, iSio.

Eliza, d. " b. Sei)l. 3. 1S12.

Dolly, d. Asa and Hannah, b. May 7. 1794. Alonzo, s. Wilson an«l Sarah, b. Feb. 25. i!S33. Melissa, d. ' b. May 4. 1S34.

Willard, s. b. June 2T,, 1S36.

Alonzo. s. b. April 2. 1S3S.

Sarah, il. b. May 24. 1840.

Harriet, d. b. Sept. 25. 1S41.

Sniitli. s. •• b. Jan. 17, 1S44.

Mary E., d. b. Jan. 5. 1S46.

George, s. • b. Aug. 17. 1S4S.

Arabcll. d. H.irrison and Philena, b. March 14. 1S35. LucyH..d. " b. July 3. 1S3S.

122

Day, James H., s. Harrison and Philena, b. April i8, 1840. John T., " b. Apr. 9, 1842.

Martha, d. " b, Jan. 28, 1S44, d.

Feb. 22, 1844. Mary, d. " b. Jan. 28, 1844, d.

*Feb. 22, 1844. Dix, Roger S., s. Timothy and Lucy, b. July 7, 1810. Timothy B., s. " b. Jan. 21, 1812.

Catharine H., d. " b. May 19, 1813.

Abigail, d. Timothy and Abigail, b. Nov. 19, 1792, d.

May 9, 1852. Rachel, d. " b. April 18, 1794.

Timothy, s. " b. Feb. 11, 1796.

Dodge, Mary, d. Paul and Jane, b. Nov. 5, 1800, d. Nov. 16,

1836. Martha, d. " b. Jan. 8, 1S03.

Eliza, d. " b. Jan. 12, 1806.

Henry L., s. " b. July 19, 1814.

Lucy, d. Henry L. and Mary S., b. Feb. 14, 1843. Emma, d. " b. Nov. 18, 1846.

Dow, Betsey A., d. Lorenzo S. and Mary A., b. Dec. 5,

1849. Downer, Sarah, d. Samuel and Sarah, b. July 16, 1809, d.

Oct. 22, 1850. Anna, d. " b. Feb. 15, 181 1.

Mary, d. " b. May 14, 1813, d.

April 26, 1829. Elizabeth, d. " b. Dec. 22, 1819.

Downing, Caleb, s. Jonathan and Nancy, b. Jan 20, 1793-

Elsie, d. " b. Oct. 18, 1794, d.

Sept. 20, 1847. Sally, d. " b. Sept. 22, 1796, d.

June3, 1S47. Mary, d. " b. Nov. 7, 1798.

Nancy, d. " b. Oct. 29, 1800.

Dorothy, d. " b. Aug. 6, 1S03, ^•

Feb. 1 1, 1840. Jonathan, s. " b. Dec. 3, 1807.

Samuel, s. " b. Oct. 25, 1812.

Downiii}^, Dorothy, d. Jona. and Anna, h. Aiifj. 6. 1S03, d

Feb. I 1 . 1 S40. Ruth, d. Jonathan and Ruth. b. Aug. ly. 1S17.

b. Mar. 15, 1S20 .8,3. ■

Joshua, s. Susan, d.

d. Nov.. d. Nov.,

d. Fob.

b. Dec. II, 1S.-2

1S23. b. Dec. 25, 18.13. b. June 25, 1S25 b. May 10, 1S2S. b. Oct. 4, 1830. b. Jan. 12, 1834 20, 1849. shiia ami .'^.ir.di ).. b. Feb. 2.\, 184^. 1>. June 21, 1S4S. s. John ami L\dia. b. July 20, 1 790, in Sanliornton. Horace J., s. Sanuicl M. and Hannali. 1). fune 20, 1S17. Susan P., d. " b. Mav 19. 1S20.

Sarah A., d. »' b. May 14, 1822.

Isaac P., s. " b. June 8, 1S26.

K/ekiel W'.. s. ** b. June 15. 1831.

Eastman, William, s. Joseph and Eli/.nbcth, b. Feb. 12, 1758. .Saraii, d. Timotliv and Hannah, b. J:in. 2. 1760.

Joshua, s. Hiram, s. Daniel, s. Abi-ail, d. Mari. d.

Martha ].. . William" 11., Dui|,'iii. >amui.l

M.

Hannah, d. Friscilla, .1.

Thomas, s. "

Lydia, d. "

Dolly, d. ♦*

Enoch, s. '♦

Pearsons, s. ♦'

Timothy, s. ♦'

Jonathan, s. '*

Jeremiah, s. Benjamin and Susannah, b. July 20. 175S.

Elisabeth, d. '* b. Sept. 19. 1761.

Johnson, s. " b. March 15, 1762.

Susanna, d. ♦» b. Aug. 4, 1766.

Ezra, s. '♦ b. June 4, 1769.

1). May 9, I 761 . b. .May 9, 1763, d. April 17. 1S37. b. Nov. I . I 764. 1). .\u;,'. 25, 1766. b. .May II, 176S. b. Mar. 31, 1770. b. Oct. 6, 1772. b. Dec. 29, I 776. b. .Sept. 17, 1778.

124

Eastman, Enoch, s. Benjamin and Susannah, b. Oct. 26, 1772- Amos, s. " b. Dec. 29, 1774.

Hannah, d. " b. March 18, 1777.

Benjamin, s. " b. June 22, 17S1,

at Newport, Susannah, d. " b. March 6, 1784,

at Newport. Nathan, s. Johnson and Sally, b. Sept. 29, 1791, at New- port. William E., s. Phinehas and Susannah, b. Dec. 24, 1795. Abel, s. Thomas and Lois, b. Aug. 24, 1797, d. May 21,

1828. Lydia, d. " b. April 29, 1800, d. June 15,

1837. Daniel, s. William and Mehitable, b. April 23, 1799. Jane, d. " b. Nov. 9, iSoi.

Bartlett, s. Timothy, Jr., and Dorothy, b. March 24,

iSoo. Hannah R., d. " b. April 5, 1802.

Dorothy, d. " b. June 7, 1803.

Sally, d. Jonathan and Svisannah, b. March 8, 1805. Enoch, s. Pearson and Martha, b. Aug. 17, 1790, d. April

16, 181S. Isaac, s. " b. Sept. 17, 1800.

Edmond, s. " b. April 8, 1807.

Sarah, d. " b. March i, 1808.

George K., s. " b. June 19, 1813.

Charlotte, d. Enoch and Betsy, b. Jan. 5, 1805, in New- bury, Mass. William, s. " b. Feb. 28, 1807, in New-

bury, Mass. Enoch, s. Enoch and Judith, b. May 26, 1809, in New- bury, Mass. Betsey, d. " b. July 23, iSio, in New-

bury, Mass. Daniel C, s. " b. July 15, 1812.

Timothy, s. '" b. Nov. 22, 1814.

Judith, d. " b. Sept. 27, 1816.

Moses, s. " b. Sept. 30, 1819.

125

Eastman. Dorcas A., d. Enoch anil Judith, b. June 4. 1S23. d.

Oct. 17. 1S25. Dorcas A.. <i. *' b. April 13, 1S25.

.Sidia, d. Jona. and ."^ally. b. Oct. 15, iSoS. Caleb, s. Thomas and Lois, b. April 27, 1S09. Martha, tl. Jeremiah and Rebecca, b. Feb. 5, iSii. Amos, s. •• b. Feb. 17, 1S13.

Abigail, d. Bradley and S.illy, b. March 20. 1S13. in

New Chester. Dolly, d. •• b. Aug. 26, 1S15. in

New Chester. Enoch F., s. John and Elisabeth, b. Sept. 21. 1S15. William, s. • b. Aug. 14, 1817.

Eli/a H., d. b. July 5, 1S19.

Percy Ann, d. b. July 24, 1821.

John G., s. b. Sept. S, 1S23.

I*hebe A , d. b. April 4, 1S27.

Joseph H., s. *• l>. Aug. 8. 1829.

Wiiixli.u C".. s. Mill iiui I\ .111.1 I)i.II\ . b. Jiujc 3, 1826. d.

April 14, 1S54. Juiui, s. Daniel .lud Cuniluil, b. Jan. 31, 1S28. Elizabeth A., d. " b. May 16, 1829.

Polly, d. William and Lois, b. April 19, 1835. Hiram, s. b. ."^ept. 17, 1S36.

Elbridge (»., b. .'<ept. i. 1837.

Mary E.. d. William and Mary. b. |an. 5, 1S50. Elliot. .Samuel, b. March 13, 1778.

Judith, wife of Samuel, b. April 20, 1785.

Samuel B., s. Samuel and Judith, b. .Sej)t. 7. iSoS, in

Loudon. Marenda, d. " b. Sept. r9. 1810, in

Loud«)M. M'.sis (',. s. *' b. Dec. II. iNij, ill

Loudon. Cluirks 11.. s. •• b. May 17. 1821. in

Louilon. William C, s. '• b. March 27, 1S24.

John N.. s. " b. Nov. 18, 182^.

Mary K.. d. " b. March 14. 1830.

126

Elliot, Ira, s. David and Susannah, b. Jan, ii, 1801. Caroline, d. " b. Aug. 9, 1S03.

Lucinda, d. Joseph and Hannah, b. Aug. 4, 1802. Jeflerson, s. " b. June 16. 1804.

Calvin, s. James Elliot and Widow Eastman, b. Mar, 11,

1806. John, s. of William and Abigail, b. Feb, 23, 176S. Benjamin, s. Nicholas and Betty, b. May 11, 17S0. Nicholas, s. " b. Aug. 20, 1782.

Count L., s, " b. June 14, 1786.

Betty, d. " b. Aug. 24, 1788.

John, s. Samuel and Mary, b. April 3, 1798. Gardner, s, " b. Oct. 2, 1801,

Eliza, d, " b. Aug. 19, 1804,

Harrison, s, Joseph and Hannah, b. Aug. 8, 1806. Sally M,, d. " b. Sept. 12, iSii.

Joseph M. s. " b. March 16, 1816.

Hannah M., d, " b. Feb. 15, 1833.

Caroline, d. Mary Danforth and supposed Samuel Elliott,

b, Dec. 6, 181 1. Catherine S., d. Mary Danforth and supposed Samuel

Elliott, b. May 31, 1818. Benjainin, s, David and Sukey, b. May 25, iSii. Caroline, d. Enoch and Mary, b. Jan. 8, 1814. Miriam, d. " b. Sept, 22, 1S16.

Emily, d. " b. Feb, 6, 1818,

Mary A., d, " b. March 31, 1S20.

Calvin, s. " b, June 26, 1822.

Enoch, s. " b. Aug. 16, 1824,

Bartlett, s. " b. Sept, 28, 1826,

Melinda B,, d, " b. Oct, 18, 1829,

Rhoda, d, Benjamin and Judith, b. Sept, 22, 1813. Parney, d, " b. Aug, 12, 18 15.

Joseph, s, " b. Sept. 11, 1817.

Sarah B., d, " b. July 11, 1819.

Benjamin, s, " b, June 8, 1821.

Phebe J,, d. " b. June 7, 1823.

Dorcas C. d. " b. Aug. 28, 1825.

Freeman, s. " b. Aug. 23, 1827.

127

Elliot. Lucy \\'.. d. Benjamin ami Jiulith. b. Sept. 23, 1S31, d.

May 23, 1S33. Alfred, s. '• b. Sept. 5, 1S34.

John G., 8. Rhoda, b. Dec. 17. 1S37. Malhew P., s. Moses and Sarah, b. Dec. 15. 1S17. Betsey, d. John, 2d, and Betsey, b. Dec. 5, 18 19. Chcllis, s. Luke and Olive, b. Aug. 11. 1S31. Mariah, d. William P. and Amanda, b. Ajiril 14. 1S44. Amanda P., d. William and Amanda, b. Nov. 4, 1S50. Dejjhton B., s. George J. and Marv, b. Aug. 23, 1S47. Abigail S., d. •• b. Nov. 7. 18^2.

Frank 1*., s. Joseph R. and Angelee, b. Nov. 11. 1S52. Ells\v<irtli. \VilIi;iin (t . ^ ^ imucl and Ruth, b. Februarv 14,

1830. Elkins, Abicl, s. Abicl and IClisabcth, b. Dec. 30, 17S2. Sherman T., s. Freeman and Ruth. b. Oct. 29, 1831. Esther A., d. '• b. Sept. 9, 1S35.

Lovilla F., d. ♦» b. Oct. 25, 1837.

Esther Ann, d. ♦♦ b. March 2Z, 1S40.

Emerson, \\ in. II 11. s. Wm. (J. and Betsey, b. Jan. 19, 1808. Thomas P., s. " b. .Sept. 8, 1S14.

Geo. N., s. Ly«ias and Betsey, b. June 14, 1837. tl. Jan.

25- '855. M.uy A., »l. Ly>.i.i> ami Abigail (),. b. Nov. 10, 1842. Farmer, Moses G., s. John and Sally, b. Feb. 9, 1S20.

Pa^i- l'\, s '' b. June 28, 182 I. .!. July

27. 1822. Ji'hn 1'.. s. " b. Sept. 24, 1823.

Sally K., d. ** b. Aug. 30, 1826.

Jeremiah ().. s. •• b. June 7, 1S2S, d. Dec.

6, 1828. Jane G.. d. " b. June 7. 1828, d. June

27, 1867. Fandiani, Patty, d. Stejihcn and Susannah, b. Mav 10, 1797. Lucinda. d. *' b. Oct. 9, 179S.

Fellows, Salome, d. He/ekiah and Pamela F., b. July 26, 1S07,

d. Jan. 23, 1823, Inf.mt. s. ♦' b. July 11,1809,

d. Sept. 30,1809.

128

Fellows, Catharine, d. Hezekiah and Pamela F.,b. Sept. 6, 1810,

d. Mar. S, 1813. Ebenezer S., s. " b. MarchS, 1813,

d. Oct, 21. 1829. John, s. " b. Oct 7, 1S15.

Moses, s. ^ " b.March I i,iSi8,

d.July 14, 1819. Catharine A., d. " b. May 6, 1820.

Lucy Senter, d. " b. May 27, 1822,

d. Oct. 4, 1846. George Riley, s. " b. April 19, 1824.

Salome, d. " b. Aug. 25, 1827.

Abigail T., d. David and Sophila, b. Nov. 12, 1823. Charles R.. s. " b. Oct. 13, 1827, d. July

21, 1846. Sewell W., s. " b. Oct. 30, 1829, d. Oct.

4, 1848. Henry L., s. " b. July 4, 1840, d. March

I, 1 841. Henry L., s. " b. Jan. 25, 1843.

Miriam B., d. Moses and Mehetable, b. March 16, 1S19. Caroline A., d. " b. Aug. 21, 1821.

Charles M., s. " b. Dec. 16, 1S24.

Mary J., d. James S. and Mary, b. June 13, 1822, d. June

20, 1855. James C, s. " b. July 7, 1824.

Augusta A., d. " b. Aug. 5, 1826.

Franklin, s. " b. May 8, 1829, at Hamp-

stead. Harris, s. " b. March 21, 1S35.

Sarah A., d. Moses A. and Augusta, A., b. Oct. 10, 1847. Frank, s. " b. Oct. 16, 1S49.

s. James and Eveline, b. Feb. 19, 1S52. s. Richard and Eliza, b. Feb. 28, 1852. Ferrin, Warren, s. Kezia Shepherd, b. June 6, 1823, Fiske, John, s. Benj. and Lydia, b. Aug. i, 1783, d. March 10,

1836. Abigail, d. " b. Sept. 12, 1785, d. March 15,

1826.

I 29

Fiske, Benjamin, s. Benj. ami Lydia. b. Dec. 22. 17S7.

Betsey, d. " b. June ^1, 1792.

James, s. " b. May 2, 1794.

Epiiraim. s. '' b. June 9. 1795.

Asa. s. •• h. Marcb 15, 1797.

LyJia, <i. David and Lydia, b. Oct. 24. 1792.

Elisabeth, d. " b. May 21. 1796.

Thomas E.. s. Thomas J. and Charlotte, b. Oct. S. 1S36,

Rachel M., d. Benjamin C and Sarah R.. 1). Mav 8, 1S3S.

Jane G.. d. •• b. May 13, 1S40.

Fitts. Charles, s. Cyrus and Elisabeth, b June 25, 1S45.

Amos, s. " b. Dec. 26, 1S47.

Cyrus, s. '• b. June 30, 1S49.

Fit/j^erald, R.ichel. d. lulward and Mehetabel. b. Jidv 9, 1758.

John, s. •• b. Jinie 10, 1 761.

Flanders, Moses, s. Jesse and Ruth, b. Jan. 20, 1749.

Hannah, d. '• b. May 17, 17^2.

Jesse, s. ♦' b. Aug. 13, 1755..

David, s. " b. Jan. 19. 175S, d. 1843.

Sarah, d. *• b. Feb. 21. lytx).

Moses, s. ♦' b. June 2, 1767.

Sarah, d. '• b. Oct. 12. 1769.

Mary, d. Jac(»b and Naomi, b. May 13, 1755.

Onesyphorus, 8. ** b. Dec. 30, 1761.

Daniel, s. John and Eunice, b. Jan. 18. 175S.

Lnis. d. •* b. Feb. 16, 1760, d. Oct.,

1S49.

Euincc. d. '• b. Julv 9, 1765.

Jacob, s. '* b. April 11, 1768.

Jacknian, s. '* b. Aug. 9, 1773. d. Aul,'. i^,

1854.

Apphia, (1. E/ckicl and Sarali. b. March ^ 17^2.

Geminui. tl. " b. April 9, 1754. <I. May

15, 1S12.

Benjamin, s. " b. Aug. 8. 1756.

Patience, d. *' b. Oct. 9, 175S.

Mary. d. Ezckicl and Jerusha, b. Nov. 20, 1766.

Sarah, d. " b. Feb. 15. 1768.

Martha, d. '' b. .'-^ept. 23. 1769.

I30

Flanders, Susannah, d, Ezekiel and Jerusha, b. Aug. i6, 1771. Anna, d. " b. Jan. 3, 1774.

Ezekiel, s. " b. Aug. 16, 1775,

d. Aug. 1, 1845, 4. at Dorchester.

Lydia, d. " b. Jan. 20, 1777.

Betty, d. " b. Dec. 20, 1778.

Israel, s. " b. Nov. 13, 1780.

Benjamin, s. " b. April 11, 1782,

d. Aug. 6, 1825. Enos, s. Enos and Sarah, b. July 17, 1770. Samuel, s. " b. Feb. 7, 1773.

Benjamin, s. " b. Dec. 21, 1775, d. Feb. 14,

1853- John, s. " b. Aug. 21, 1777, d. Oct. 6,

1819. Anne, d. Jesse and Elisabeth, b. March 10, 1774. Ruth, d. Jesse and Eleanor, b. Oct., 1773. Betty, d. " b. Nov. 16, 1775.

Elisabeth, d. " b. Dec. 18, 1777.

Eunice, d. Daniel and Sally, b. Dec. 23, 1786. Betty, d. John and Betty, b. June 17, 17S0. John Stevens, s. John and Elisabeth, b. Nov. 15, 17S1. Phinehas, s. " b. June 5, 1789, d.

Feb. 10, 1853. Elisabeth, d. " b. May 18, 1791.

Samuel C, s. " b. Feb. 28, 1793.

Philip, s. " b. Feb. 29, 1797.

Guy C, s. " b. March 18, 1798.

Joseph, s. " b. July 27, 1800, d.

Sept. 26, 1 841. Eunice, d. " b. Sept. 26, 1802.

Aaron, s. Aaron and Hannah, b. July 15, 1773. Hannah, d. " b. Jan. 3, 1775.

Mehetabel, d. " b. Jan. 11, 1776.

Sophia, d. " b. June 25, 1778, d. Oct.

5' 1799- Jesse, s. " b. July 18, 1779.

John, s. " b. Jan. 13, 17S1.

131

Flanders, Driisilla, tl. Aaron and Hannah, b. Feb. iS. 1782, Moses, s. •' b. Sept. 24, i783»

Jacob, s. " b. Jan. 18, 1785.

Ruth, d. " b. July 19, 1786, d,

Oct. 5, 1799. Webster, s. " b. May 25, 1788.

Rebekali. d. " b. Sept. 12. 1790.

Charlotte, d. " b. March 31, 1792.

Anna Coffin, d. " b. Nov. 7, 1793, d.

July 16. 1846. Zelphia, d. " b. March [9, 1795^

Experience, s. •' b. Nov. 29, 1796.

Anna W., d. Jacob and Margaret, b. Sept. 20. 1799. Samuel R., s. '' b. April 22, 1S02.

Jacob C, s. " b. Nov. 27, iSo^

Freeman R., s. George J. and Polly, b. March 24, 1807. Jerusha, d. Ezekiel and Rachel, b. Aug. 30, 1S08. Susanna, d. " b. Jan. 24, 181 2. d. Jan,

8, 1827. Charlotte, d. Phinehas and Charlotte, b. Jan. 17, iSi^ Hitty, d. " b. May 6, 1816.

Fhinnetta, d. " b. Oct. 21, 1S17.

Phineas, s. " b. July i. 1S20.

David J., s. Jacob and Louise D., b. Oct. 5, 1S3S. Guy C, s. Samuel C. and Anna, b. June i, 18 18, d. Mar.

12, 1837. Plumy A., d. " b. March 25, 1819, d.

Nov. 2, 1841. Elisabeth J., " b. Dec. 11, 1820.

Hannibal, s. " b. April 21, 1822.

John S.. s. " b. Sept. 2, 1826.

Loisa M. S., d. " b. Aug. 2, 1828, d,

Aug. 13, 1841. Samuel S., s. " b. Feb. 25, 1830.

Flint, Alpheus C, s. Daniel and Sally, b. May 13, 1804, i^

Pelham. Sally, d. Alpheus C. and Tamison W., b. Aug. 6, 1826. Daniel, s. " b. Nov. 2, 1829.

Mary, d. " b. March 23, 1840.

132

Flint, Ellen, d. Alpheus C. and Tamison W., b. Aug. 25, 1842. Flood, Esther, d. Richard and Abigail, b. Aug. 14, 1783.

Simon, s. " b. Nov. 26, 1785, d.

May 6, 1S46.

Mary, d. " b. April 16, 17S7.

Abigail, d. * " b. May 18, 1789.

Hannah, d. " b. June 20, 1792.

Fowler, Elizabeth, d. Oliver and Sarah, b. May 17, 1759.

Prudence, d. " b. Jan. i, 1761.

Ruth, d. " b. Jan. 34, 1766.

Oliver, s. " b. April 14, 1768.

Sarah, d. " b. June 14, 1770.

Humphrey, s. " b. March 25, 1772.

Ellison, s. Capt. John and Anna, b. Dec. 2, 1772.

Royal, s. Lemuel J. and Sarah, b. June 23, 1798.

Samuel, s. " b. May 20, 1801.

Benjamin S., s. " b. July 16, 1805.

Milbury, s. " b. Oct. 15, 1S07.

Olty, d. " b. Oct. 13, 1809.

Lemuel s. " b. Jan. 34, 1815.

Cephas, s. Samuel and Eunice, b. Feb. 7, 1802.

Rufus, s. " b. Feb. 20, 1804.

Mary, d. Samuel and Mary, b. April 26, 1S06.

Eunice, d. " b. Aug. 27, 1808.

Staunton P., s. " b. April 11, 181 1.

Sarah K., d. " b. June 20, 1814.

Harriet, d. " b. Feb. 10, 1817.

Elisabeth C.,d. " b. Aug. 2, 1824.

Cephas H.. s. Staunton P. and Jane A., b. Aug. 36, 1S42.

Charles A., s. " b. Oct. 6, 1844,

d.Apr.3, 1845.

Staunton P.^ s. " b. Aug. 20, 1850.

Foss, Abigail, d. Thomas and Abigail, b. Sept. 30, 1761.

Fauna, d. '• b. March 38, 1765.

Thomas, s. '' b. Oct. 4, 1766.

Isaac, s. " b. April 17, 1768.

Folsom, Charles L., s. Ira L. and Hannah M., b. Dec. 10, 1845.

Elvirus F., s. •• b. May 3, 1S47.

French, Mary, d. James and Martha, b. April 28, 1764.

133

French. Ilenrv F.. s. Reuben and Sarah, b. Dec. 26. 1799. in

Hopkinton. Mary G.. d. " b. Oct. 4, 1804, in

Salisbury. Francis H., s. " b. Aug. 10, 1823, d.

Dec. 7, 1S45. Sarah E..d. " b. Dec. 17. 1825. in

Hopkinton. Reuben E., s. "• b. Dec. 28, 1S2S. in

Salisbury. Harrison, s. " b. April 7, 1831. in

Salisbury. Greeley F., s. " b. Feb. 10. 1827. in

Salisbury. Walter, s. " b. Sept. 27. 1S41, in

Salisbury. John S. A., s. Joel and Susannah, b. Feb, 15, 1805. Henry S. G., s. " b. Apr. 27, 1807.

Enoch C. G., s. " b. June 25, 1809.

Isaac S. P., s. " b. Sept. 27, 1S12.

Martha G., d. " b. Dec. 12, 1814.

Samuel W. S.,s. " b. July 28, 1817.

Stephen L. G., s. " b. Nov. 11, 182 1.

George D., s. John and Judith, b. March 23, 1809. *^'- -^"g-

30, 1851. Charles E., s. "• b. Apr. 5. 1816, d. Apr. 4,

1847. Joiin O., s. " b. Nov. 10, 1819, d. Jan.

23, 1848. John, s. " b. Oct. 29, 1824.

Rachel F..d. '' b. June 14, 1827.

Gage, Calvin, s. Richard and Susannah, b. Nov.* 17. 1811.

Luther, s. " b. Aug. 19, 1813, d.

Nov. 27, 1813. JohnCs. " " b. Apr. II, 1814.

Hiram, s. " b. Dec. i, 1815, d.

May 18, 1 816. Hiram, s. " b. July 25. 1816.

Luther, s. " b. June 5, 1820.

134

■Gage, Mary M., d. Hiram and Mirriam, b. Aug. 13, 1822. Infant, " b. and d. July, 1824.

Benj.F.,s. " b. Nov. 7, 1827.

Richard B.,s. " b. Sept. 13, 1831.

Sophronia S.,d. William H. and Polly, b. Jan. 21, 1815, * d. May 23,1844.

Elcandor W.,s. " b. July 1 1, 1816,

d. May 25,

1819.

Isaac Kimball, s. " b. Oct. 27, 1818.

Asa Morrison, s. " b. Nov. 17, 1820.

Phebe Prescott, s. " b. Sept. 23, 1822,

d. Aug. 9, 1853. Rosilla Morrison, d. " b. Aug. 8, 1824,

d. Oct. 23, 1827. Polly Rosilla, d. William H. and Sarah, b. Aug. i, 1838. Susan M.,d. Hiram and Mirriam, b. Apr. 14, 1844. William H. H.,s. " b. Jan. 27, 1845.

•Charles F., s. " b. Nov. 3, 1846, d. Oct.

20, 1848. Caroline A., d. " b. Sept. 9, 1848.

Lucie E.,d. " b. Sept. 21, 1850.

Charles F.,s. " b. March 21, 1855, d.

Oct. 21, i860. Jessie B.,d. " b. Feb. 6, 1857.

Hiram B.,s. " b. June 3, i860, d. Oct.

19, 1865. Frederick J., s. Isaac K. and Susan G., b. Sept. 12, 1843. Georgianna J., d. " b. Jan. 16, 1848.

Mary M., d. " b. Dec. 28, 1849.

Charlotte H., d. " b. March 13, 1852,

d. Jan. 26, 1866. Lucy K., " b. June 11, 1859.

Isaac W., s. " b. Sept. i, i86i,d.

Dec. 17, 1880. Frank H., s. Asa M. and Sophia W., b. Sept. 20, 1844. Helen S., d. " b. Oct. 13, 1847.

Edwin A., s. *' b. Aug. 5, 1848, d.

Sept. 21, 1871.

OD

Gage, Ida M., d. Asa M. and Sophia \V., b. Nov. 8, 1851. Edwin A., s. Frank H. and Lucy A., b. Feb. 8, 1872. Fanny A., d. " b. Feb. 27, 1874.

Lizzie E.,d. B. Franklin and Amanda, b. July 20, 1855. Madella J., d. '' b. April 20. 1859.

Edward E., s. Ricliard and Nancy, b. June 28, 1S52. Julia \V.,d. " b.July 16, 1S54.

George H.,s. " b. Nov. 7, 1856.

Thaddeus O..S. " b. Aug. i, 1858.

Addison F.,s. " b. May, i860.

Herbert C.,s. " b. Aug. 25, 1862.

Hannah P.. d. Calvin and Rebecca P., b. June 13. 1836,

d. July 5, 1852. Martha A., d. " b. May 10, 1840,

d.July 19,1846. George W., s. " b. Jan. 30, 1S47,

d. April 8,1854. Rebecca P., d. Calvin and Elizabeth R., b. May 2, 1S48. Annie B.,d. " b. Feb. iS, 1850.

Harley C.,s. " b. Oct. 24, 185 1.

Hannah P., d. " b. Sept. 5. 1853.

Mary H., d. " b. May 8, 1856.

Nettie A., d. " b. Apr. 21, 1858.

John F., s. '• b. May 3. i860.

George McC, s. " b. Dec. 23, 1863.

Spicer R., s. " b. Oct. 21, 1866.

Martha A., d. John C. and Elisabeth S., b. July 18, 1846. Dan W., s. " b. Sept. 20, 1850,

d. May 24, 1857. Fred v., s. " b. Feb. 14, 1853,

d. Oct. II. i860. Lizzie M., d. John C. and Hannah S., b. Nov. 29, 1855. Mabel C, d. " •• b.July 28. 1858.

Aurther A., s. " b. July 27. 1862.

Kate L., d. " b. Sept. 10, 1865, d.

July 16. 1868. Edwin M.. s. Luther and Sarah J., b. Oct. 18, 1847, d.

Nov. 12, 1848. Sarah P., d. " b. Oct. n, 1849.

136

Gage, Nathan S. M., s. Luther and Sarah J., b. Oct. 2, 1852.

Luther C, s. " b. Aug. 4, 1856.

Maurice P., s. Luther and Priscilla P., b. May 2, 1863, d.

Sept. 27, 1863.

Blanche, d. Frederick J. and Hattie A., b. Nov. 27, 1869.

Lottie H,, d. " b. Feb. 22, 1873.

Fred H., s. " b. Oct. 20, 1874.

George, Phebe K., d. Austin and Elisabeth, b. Sept. 9, 1824.

Elisabeth C, d. " b. Jan. 29, 1827.

Mary B., d. " b. Aug. 5, 1830.

Sarah, d. Christopher C. and Sally, b. Nov. 18, 1823.

Charles, s. " b. May 4, 1827.

George, s. William D. and Submit, b. Feb, 23, 1852. Gerald. Abinezer, d. Edv/ard and Abinezer, b. August 11,

1777.

Sarah, d. " b. Sept. 11, 1778,

d. July, 1842.

Mary, d, " b. May 14, 1779.

Jane, d. " b. Feb. 17. 1781.

Mehetable. d. " b. May 19, 1786.

Ruth, d. « b. May I, 1789.

Edward, s. " b. Nov. 4, 1789.

Enoch, s. " b. Mar. 15, 1791.

David, s. " b. May 19, 1794.

John, s. " b. Mar. 4, 1796.

Samuel, s. " b. April 12, 1798.

Thomas, s. " b. Apr. 29, 1800,

Polly, d. " b. Aug. 31, 1802,

d. Aug. 3, 1841.

Anna, d. John and Mary, b. June 5, 1787.

Polly, d. " b. May 20, 17S9.

James, s. " b. June 5, 1791.

Susannah, d. " b. Sept. 5, 1793.

Challis C, s. Samuel and Hannah, b. Jan. 2, 1820. Gerrish. Jeremiah, s. Henry and Martha, b. Aug. 8, 1764, d.

April 23, 1836.

Sarah, d. " b. April 3, 1766.

Moses, s. " b. Feb. 17, 1768, d.

Nov. 24, 1854.

^37

Gerrish, Stephen, s. Henry and Martha, b. March i6, 1770,

d. Nov. 1 1, 1S15. Henry, s.

Hannah, d. Martha, d. Jacob, s. Susannah, d. Joseph, s.

Thomas, s.

b. May 29, 1772.

b. Aug. 14, 1774.

b. May 15, 1777.

b. Nov. 10, 1779.

b. Feb. 28, 17S2.

b. March 25, 17S4, d. May 25, 1851, at Northfield.

b. Sept. 12, 1786.

Sally, d. Moses and Sarah T., b. Oct. 26, 1790. Jeremiah, s. " b. Jan. i, 1794, d. Oct. 30,

Sally, d. Stephen and Hannah, 1). July 20, 1796. Jane, d'. *• b. July 20, 179S.

Patta, d. '' b. Sept. 14. iSoo.

Sam, s. " b. Nov. 2, 1803.

Hannah, d. " b. April 20, 1S06.

Sewell. s. •• b. Marcli iS, 1S09.

Judith, d. Joseph and Mary, b. July 12, 17S0. Mary, d. •• b. Oct. 17. 17S4.

Sally, d. " b. Au^r. ly, 1786, d. Jan. 17,

1 85 I . Betty, d. " b. Dec. 31, 17S7, d. Oct. 1 1,

1821. Samuel, s. Enoch and Mary. b. July 7. 1773.

Enoch, s.

Stephen, s.

Sarah, d.

Isaac, s. "

Anne, d. '* Sukey, d. Henry and Mary, b. June 15, 1797-

Jacob, s. '' b. Dec. 29. 1801.

Lucy, d. '• b. Sept. 30, 1S03.

Abiel, s. " b. March 7. 1S06.

Mary, d. '• b. Feb. S, 1S08.

b. April 30. 1775, d. Aug.

24, 1834. b. March 5, 1778. b. March, 1780. b. Nov. 27, 1782, d. Aug. 22,

1842. b. Nov. 27. 1782.

138

Gen-ish, Elisabeth, d. Henry and Mary, b, July 24, 1813. Betsey, d. Moses, Jr., and Susannah, b. Nov. 18, 1796. Jeremiah, s. " b. May 18, 1798, d.

April 9, 1830. Sally, d. Moses, Jr., and Sukey, b. May 28, 1800. Mary, d. " b. June 19, 1809.

Joseph S., " b. April 19, 1817, d. Jan.

12, 1843. Stephen, s. Enoch and Elisabeth, b. Jan. 4, 1801, d. Feb.

2, 1840. Elisabeth, d. " ' b. Jan. 14, 1803, d.

Aug. 24, 1824. Mary A., d. Enoch J. and Ruth, b. Feb. 13, 181 1, d. June

30, 1827. Rebekah P., d. " b. Sept. 24, 181 2.

Caroline, d. " b. Aug. 24, 1814.

Aphia, d. Jacob and Sarah, b. April 27, 1804. Martha, d. " b. Nov. 26, 1805.

Joseph, s. " b. June 22, 1807, d. Dec. 7,

1850. Calvin, s. " b. May 31, 1809.

Luther, s. " b.Aug. 30, 1812, d. May i, 1821.

David A., s. " b. Feb. 6, 1815.

Stephen, s. " b. Oct. 17, 1816, d. April 17,

1818. Sarah, d. " b. Feb. i, 1S19.

Emily, d. " b. April 6, 1821.

Lydia, d. Isaac and Caroline? b. June 28, 1818. Enoch, s. " b. July 28, 1822.

Joanna E., d. Thomas and Betsey, b. Aug. 22, 1807. Henry, s. " b. May 30, 1809.

Mary B., d. " b. March 24, 1S15.

Joseph, s. " b. June 6, 1818.

Thomas, s. " b. Sept. 5, 1820.

Betsey, d. " b. Sept. 5, 1S20.

Folly L., d. Jeremiah and Jane, b. June 27, 1823, d. Dec.

26, 1843. Jeremiah E., s. " b. May 19, 1826, d. Nov.

7, 1848.

139

Genish, vSarah J., d. Jeremiah, Jr., and Jane, b. Jan. ii, 1830.

Henry H.. s. '' b. Feb. 21, 1S33.

James L.. s., b. May n. 1838.

Frances E., d. David A. and Elisabeth M., b. Jan. 17,

1S47.

Adaline A., d. " b. Jan. 9,

1S50.

Ann E., d. Abial and Eh'za D., b. Feb. 10, 1847.

Jesse G., s, Harlan P. and Almira, b. Sept. 10, 1S51, d.

Dec. 28, 1852. Getchel, Ciiarles L., s. Ezekiel and Judith, b. Dec. 5, 1832, d.

June 12, 1844.

Sarah E., d. " b. Feb. 21, 1835.

Samuel F., s. *' b. July 17, 1837.

Judith B., d. " b. May 3, 1840.

Mary A., d. " b. Dec. 16, 1842.

Elvira J., d. " b. Jan. 15, 1845.

Charles P., s. " b. May 10, 1848.

Ezekiel F.. s. " b. Dec. 28, 1850.

Gitchcl, Ruth A., d. Ezra B. and Hannah, b. July 9, 1825.

John C, s. '• b. Dec. 22, 1S28.

Ezra B., s. Ezekiel and Huldah, 1). April 9, 1797, in

Weathersfield, Vt.

Geo. H.. s. Ezra and Hannah, b. Feb. 26, 1822, Giddings, Pamela, d. James and Polly, b. Nov. 27, 1802.

Senter M., s. " b. Sept. 12, 1804.

James H.. s. "' b. Aug. 9, 1806.

Hiram B., s. " b. Jan. 8. 1809.

Mary S., d. " b. April 15, 181 1.

Lyman G., s. " b. Aug. 22. 1815.

Gill, Juditli, (1, John and Polly, b. April 29, 1797.

Susannah, d. William and Ruth, b. April 20, 1792.

Ruth, d. " b. Aug. 14, 1793.

Mary^ d. " b. Aug. 24, 1795.

Sally P., d. " b. Dec. 20, 1796.

William, s. " b. Jan. 4, 1800.

Samuel, s. " b. Aug. 10, 1S03.

Hannah, d. " b. July 13, 1805.

Harriet, d- " b. July 13, 1S05.

140

Gill, James H., s. William and Ruth, b. Oct. 12, 1807. John H., s. '• b. Sept, 16, 1809,

Hamilton P., s, Moses and Harriet, b. Oct. 26. 1826. Rebecca S., d. " b. Dec. 27, 1831.

Gilmore, Nathan P., s, John and Susan, b. Oct. 5, 1828. Mitchel, s. " b. July 9, 1S30.

Catherine C, d. William M, and Lucinda, b. July 10,

1837. Glines, Tamison W., d, Jonathan and Fanny, b. July 31, 1803,

in Lyme. s. Dearborn and Elsie, b. Aug. 27, 1S51. Gookin, Nicholas, s. Nathaniel and Mary, b. Jan. 16, 1777, d.

May 29, 184S, Clark, s. Samuel and Rachel, b. Jan. 25, 1796. David C, s. Pelatiah and Martha, b. Nov. 2, 1799. Cyrus, s. '' b. Aug. 22, 1802.

Florence, d. " b. June 22, 181 2.

Mary C, d. Moses and Lydia, b. Feb. 23, 1820. Oliver, H. P., s. " b. Sept. 10, 1821.

Jerome, s. Nathaniel and Sophronia, b. March 17, 1839,

d. Aug. 17, 1840. Livona, d. " b. July 31, 1840.

Jerome, s. " b. May 28, 1842.

Ruth E., d. " b. April 24, 1844.

Octavia, d. " b. March 11, 1846.

Julia, d. " b. Feb. 23, 1849.

Hiram, s. " b. June 3, 185 1.

Greenfield, Sally, d. Thomas and Elisabeth, b. March 2, 1780,

d. July 22, 1854. Samuel, s. " b. Jan. 22, 1782, d.

Feb. 6, 1817. Bethiah, d. " b. April 15, 1785.

Hannah, d. " b. April 20, 1788,

d. May i, 1863.

Greene, Ruth, d. Nathaniel and Ruth, b. Nov. 29, 1787.

Samuel F., s. " b. Nov. 22, 1789.

Gardner, s. " b. Aug. 9. 1791.

Thomas T., s. '' b. Feb. rr, 1795.

Greenough, Miriam, d. Robert and Sally, b. May 20, 1800.

HI

Greenough, John B., s. John and Nancy, b. Feb. S, iSi6.

Ellen X . d. John and Mary. b. Aug. 9. 1821, d. Apr. 2, 18^2.

Ann F., d. '• b. July 19, 1S23.

Lucia M.. d. " b. Oct. 11, 1S26.

Henrv P., s. " b. Dec. 15, 1S31. d. Dec. 15.

1852. Elbridge G., s. John and Ruth. b. April i, 1S23. Hale Joseph, b. Sept. 13, [760.

Royal, s. Joseph and Martha, b. Aug. 24, 1788. Sarah, d. " b. Dec. 29, 1789.

Samuel, s. " b. July 8, 1792, d. March

32, 1808. John, s. " b. July 21, 1797, d. Oct.

19, 1S34. Enoch, s. " b. March 17, i8cx3.

Cyrus, s. " b. Sept. 8, 1805.

Electa J., d. Ebenezer and Jane, b. April 27, 1820. Miriam X.. d. '* b. Marcli 20. 1S24, d.

Aug. 13, 1827. Susanna T., d. " b. Oct. 6, 1828.

Hall, Mary M., d. John B. and Sally, b. Aug. 21, 1S27. Samuel, s. " b. Dec. 13, 1830.

Hanson, Stephen C, s. Dodavah and Phebe, b. Julv 18. 1S13. Hannaford, David, s. David and Judith, b. March 10, 181 2. Harriet, d. '• b. Aug. 29. 1814.

Emela, d. " b. April 17, 1817,

William, s. " b. March 17, 1822.

John, s. " b. Jan. 19, 1S25.

Hiram, s. " b. Sept. 17, 1827.

Elisabeth, d. •• I). Xov. i^. 1S30.

Lucy M.. d. Jabez R. and Ruth, h. Dec. 13, 1822. Charles E., s. Da\id and Susanna, b. Oct. 27, 1850. Hardy, Charles W., s. Abbot and Xancy, b. Jan. 9, 183 1. Harvey. Luther R., s. Horatio N. and Phebe W., b, Feb. 3,

1840, in

Concord.

Henry R.. s. " b. Feb. 25.

1842. in Concord.

142

Harvey, Cyrus A., s. Horatio N. and Phebe W . b. July 4, 1844. Heath, Hannah, d. vSamuel and Dorothy, b. March 4, 1787.

Miriam, d. " b. May 29. 17S9.

John, s. Nathaniel and Sally, b. July 20, 1815.

Thomas P., s. " b. April 3, 1S17.

Sarah A. H., d. " b. Dec. 21, 1818.

ElizaJ. S.,d. " b. Oct. 17, 1S21.

Cordelia M., d. '' ■ b. Sept. 8, 1823.

Isaac H., s. " b. Feb. 24, 1826.

Daniel D., s. " b. July 23, 1828.

Mary S., d. " b. Aug. 20, 1830.

Thorndike P., s. Nathaniel and Sally P., b. Sept. 6, 1832.

Lucy J., d. Alfred W. and Mary G., b. Aug. 16, 1837.

John H., s. Alfred and Mary G., b. March 10, 1839.

Wm. H., s. '• b. Feb. 11, 1841.

Charles H., s. William P. and Clarry, b. April 15, 1846.

Edward L., s. t " b. Oct. 19, 1847.

Frank E.. s. " b. April 13, 1849,

Mellissa, d. Enoch and Hannah, b. Aug. 5, 1841, d. Dec.

13. 1845.

George, s. " b. Feb. 10, 1843.

Ira, s. " b. Jan. 21, 1845.

Melissa, d. " b. Feb. 7, 1847.

Emily J., d. John S. and Fidelia, b. Feb. 26, 1851. Hemingway, Fanny, d. Joseph and Rebekah, b. Nov. to, Hezelton, Timothy M., s. Barnes and Hannah, b. Jan. 9,

d. Mar.,

Rufus B., s. " b. May 7,

Moses M., s. " b. June 2,

Sarah H., d. " b. Oct. 25,

Hidden, Elisabeth, d. Jeremiah and Elisabeth, b. Jan. 17,

Hannah, d. " b. June iS,

Jeremiah, s. " b. June 28,

Sarah, d. " b. Oct. 19,

Lucy, d. " b. Sept. 11,

Hittie, d. " b. Apr. 23,

Eben, s. " b. Aug. 25, Enoch, s. Jeremiah and Rebecca, b. Nov. 8, 1790.

Polly, d. " b. Oct. 26, 1794.

S15.

827, 827 828 832

833

772

773

775 777 779 781

785

143

Hidden, Samuel G., s. Jeremiah and Rebecca, b. Feb. 28, 1797. Hoag, D. Thomas, s. David and Almira. b. April 3, 1S39. Hoit, Joseph, s. Joseph and Susannah, b. July 19, 1761.

Susannah, d. Oliver and Rebecca, b. May 26. 1766.

Moses, s. •• b. March 11. 176S.

Jonathan, s. Jedediah and Hannah, b. Feb. 4, 17S4.

James, s. " b. Nov. 25, 1785.

John, s, " b. Dec. 2. 1787.

Naomi, d. " b. April 14, 17S9.

Miriam, d. " b. May 19, 1791.

Hannah, d. " b. Jan. 27, 1793.

Betsey, d. Moses Hoit and Polly Morrell. b. February,

1800. Holt, Samuel, s. Nathan K. and Roxalania, b. June 24. 1816.

Betsey, d. " b. Sept. 12, 1818.

LydiaM.,d. " b. Jan. 25. 1825.

Mary C, d. " b. May 9. 1S28.

Rebecca O., d. Nathan K. and Rebecca C. b. Aug. 12,

1802.

Sarah A., d. Nathan K. and Betsey, b. Sept. z^, 1S07.

Lucy J., d. " b. Aug. 27, 1809, d. Nov.

4^ 1S15.

Mary, d. " b. Jan. 3, 1812. d. Au-

gust, 1816.

Lydia, d. " b. Oct. 11, 1813.

Hosnier, Lucy A., d. Jacob and Catharine, b. July 16, 1809.

Charlotte ^L, d. " b. June 25, 1812.

William H., s. " b. June 13, 1814.

Leonora W., d. " b. Oct. 11, 1S16.

Jacob E., s. " " b. April 23, 1820.

Nancy P.,d. " b. July 9, 1822.

Mary F., d. " b. Dec. 28, 1824.

Charles F., s. '' b. Mav 29, 1827, d.

1S31.

George F., s. " b. Oct. 23, 1829.

Charles F., s. " b. Jan. i, 1832.

Hunt, George H., s. David and Loisa. b. Oct. 26, 1827.

Harriet, d. '' b. Dec. 16, 1829.

Mary C d. James vS. and ^L'^ry, b. May 23, 1828.

144

Hunt, Judith W., d. James S. and Mary, b. May 19, 1830.

Huntress, , s. William A. and Mary A., b. April i, 1851.

Huntoon, John C, s. Nathaniel and Betsey, b. Aug. 19, 1817,

at Wilmot, d. Oct. 27, 1867. " b. Jan. 23, 1819;

at Wilmot. " b. Nov. 14, 1820,

at Wilmot. " b. Mar. 24, 1822,

at Wilmot. " b. Jan. 1 1, 1824,

at Wilmot. " b. Oct. 29, 1825,

at Wilmot. " b. June 17, 1827,

at Andover. " b. Jan. 14, 1829,

at Andover. " b. Jan. 9, 1831,

at Andover. " b. Nov. 30, 1832,

at Andover, d. Oct. 27, 1834. b. July 3, 1834, at Andover. " b. Feb. 2, 1836,

at Andover. b. July 24, 1837, at Andover. " b. Aug. 8, 1839,

at Andover. " b. Oct. 14, 1841,

at Andover. " b. July 12, 1843,

at Salisbuiy. Ilsley, Anne, d. Richard and Anne, b. Feb. 29. 1768, at New- bury, Vt. William, s. " b. Feb. 21, 1769.

Moses C, s. Betsey, d. Daniel, s. Seth C, s. Enoch C, s. Woodman C, s. David B., s. John C, s. George N., s.

Sarah A., d. George N., s. Harriet R., d. Martin V. B., s. Phinehas R., s. Charles H., s.

145

Ilsley, Jonathan, s. Richard and Anne. b. July 6. 1771. Abigail, d. " b. June 21, 1773.

Jane, d. " b. Jan. 19. 1775.

Nehemiah, s. John and Mary, b. Jul\- 4. 1764. Samuel, s. *• b. Dec. 23, 1766.

Jackman. Marv, d. John and !Mary, b. Aug. i, 1771.

Susannah, d. " b. May 17, 1774. d. May

8, 1S42. Elisabeth, d. " b. Feb. 28. 1779.

Olive., d. " b. Dec. 7, 17S1.

Josiah, s. " b. April 6, 1784.

William, s. " b. April 13. 1787.

George, s. Benjamin and Jane, b. Oct. 13, 1772. Elisabeth, d. " b. March 3, 17S5.

William, s. George and Martha, b. Nov. 16. 1749. d. Aug.

5. 1805. Elisabeth, d. " b. July 4, 1758.

Humphrey, s. " b. July 16, 1761.

Hannah, d. " b. March 13, 1763.

Martha, d. " b. June 10, 1765.

George., s. " b. Apr. 14. 1767, d. Feb.

6, 1S23. Rutli, d. '* b. Mar. 7, 1769.

Nathan, " b. Feb. 21, 1771.

Jolin, s. '' b. March 30, 1773.

Susannah, d. •• b. March 19, 1775.

Stephen, s. " b. April 30, 1777, d.July

16. 1829. Sally, d. " b. Jan. 14, 1779.

Mehetable, d. " b. Sept. 11, 1780, d.

Sept. 18. 1780. Mehetable. d. " b. May 31, 1782.

Richard, s. Rich'd and Ruth, b. Aug. 16, 1 764, in Canterbury. Henry, s. " b. Jan. 23, 1766, d. Oct.

18, 1S45. -=- Abigail, d. Samuel and Anne, b. Aug. 7. 1773.

Anna, d. '* b. Feb. 5, 1775, d. July 22,

1809; wife of Samuel Choate. 10

146

Jackman, Mary, d. Samuel and Anne, b. Oct. 4, 1776. Rhoda, d. Samuel and Submit, b. May 32, 1774. Samuel, s. " b. April 26, 1776.

Martha, d. " b. Jan. 3. 177S.

Samuel, s. " b. Feb. 15, 17S0.

Molly, d. " b. March i, 1782.

George, s. John F. and Elisabeth, b. Aug. 10, 17S3. Benjamin, s. Benjamin and Jane, b. Sept. 8, 1764, d. Dec.

29, 1S48.

Joshua, s.

Jane, d. William, s.

George, s. Anne, d. Hannah, d.

Mehetable, d.

Jonathan, s. Mehetable, d. Polly, d.

Ruth, d. Moses and Martha, b. May 1, 1774.

b. Jan. II, 1766, d. Oct. II, 1839.

b. Dec. 20, 1767.

b. April 6, 1770, d. Au- gust, 1825.

b. Oct. 13, 1772.

b. Oct. 23, 1774.

b. Oct. 31 , 1776, d. Aug. 25, 1824 ; wife of John Plumer.

b. Feb. 14, 1779 April 7, 1779.

b. Sept. I, 1780. b. Oct. 16, 17S2. b. March 26, 1787.

d.

Moses, s. David, s. Sarah, d. Martha, d. Caleb, s. Enoch, s.

b. Jan. 14, 1776. b. March 25, 1779. b. Nov. 6, 1781. b. Nov. 12, 17S6.

b. July 5. 1794-

b. July 1 1 , 1 797 ; d. in 1825.

Anna, d. William and Elisabeth, b. Sept. 6, 1782. tVilliam, s. " b. May 19, 17S4.

Joseph, s. " b. March 30, 1786.

Martha, d. " b. Aug. 16, 1788.

Stephen, s. " b. Sept. 17, 1790.

Jane, d. " b. July 12, 1796.

Reuben, s. " b. May 23, 1800.

Humphrey, s. Humphrey and Eunice, b. Aug. 30, 17S2.

147

Jackman, Phillippi, d. Humphrey and Judith, b. Aug. 30, 1784 Samuel, s. " b. Aug. 6, 17S6

Bettey, d. " b. Sept. 3, 17S8

John, s. " b. Nov. 21. 1790

Nathan, s. " b. Oct. 15, 1792

Hannah, d. " b. Dec. iS, 1794

Stephen, s. " b. Sept. 13, 1799,

at Bradford. Benjamin, s. Joshua and Sally, b. Aug. 14, 17S9. Jeremiah, s. " b. March 20, 1791.

Judith C, d. " b. Nov. 10, 1793.

Samuel S., s. Joshua and Dorothy, b. Sept. 28, 179S. Judith, d. Stephen and Sally, b. March 21, 1798. Ezra, s. Nehemiah and Ruth, b. June 16, 1798. Joanna F., d. '* b. Aug. 10, 1800.

Mary, d. " b. Nov. 12, 1802.

Ruth, d. " b. July 8, 1805.

James F., s. '' b. Oct. 20, 1807.

Benjamin F., s. Nehemiah and Sally, b. Jan, 19, 181 2. Susanna VV., d. '' b. Dec. 21, 1814.

Ruth, d. John and Hannah, b. March 7, 1794. Matilda, d. '' b. July 30, 1798.

Nathan, s. Thomas and Dorothy, b. Dec. 24, 1797. Samuel, s. '' b. Oct. 20, 1799.

Cyrus C, s. Thomas and Mary, b Oct. 18, 1802. Dimmis, s. " b. Sept. 10, 1S07.

Hannah, d. " b. Dec. 13, 1809.

Polly, d. " b. March i, 181 2.

Irene, d. " b. May 12, 1S14..

Joshua W., s. Joshua and Dorothy, b. Feb. i, iSoi. Hollis, s. " b. June 2, 1803.

Sally C, d. " b. Sept. 12, 1807.

Nancy, d. " b. June 2, 1810.

Joseph W., s " b. Jan. 22, 1S12.

Dorothy, d. " b. Nov. 21, 18 15.

Adaline, d. Samuel and Hannah, b. July 4, 1804, Hannah K., d. " b. March 4, 1S06 ; d

Nov. 28, 1814. Jeremiah C, s. Benjamin and Betsy, b. April 27, 1819.

148

Jackman, Jehial B., s. Benjamin and Betsy, b. July 22, 1826. Daniel, s. Stephen and Sally, b. July 9, 1800. Matilda, d. John, Jr., and Hannah, b. Aug. 26, iSoo. Ira, s. Moses J. and Hannah, b. Nov. i, 1802. Hannah, d. " b. March 17, 1805 ; d. Feb.

21, 1845. Perley, s " b. Sept. i, iSoS.

Alva True, s. " b. May 6, 1817; d. Sept. 27,

1S43. Laura, d. " b. Feb. 9, 1S21.

Jonathan, s. George and Hannah, b. June 6, 1803. Elizabeth, d. George. 3d. and Hannah, b. Oct. 16, 1805. Miriam, d. " b. Oct. 2, 1807.

Jenny, d. " b. July 19, 1S13.

Isaac G., s. Samuel, Jr., and Hannah, b. Jan. 3, 180S ; d.

Nov. 29, 1814. Walter H., s. " b. Sept. 20, 1809.

Nancy, d. " b. Nov. 17, iSii;

d. Dec. 25, 1814. David F.,s. " b. Feb. 23, 1813 ;

d. Dec. 24, 1814. Emeline, d. " b. Nov. 23, 1814.

Caroline, d. " b. Dec. 9, 1815.

John, s. John and Esther, b. July 21, 1823. Emily, d. Caleb and Martha, b. May 13, 1814. Enoch, s. " b. May 7, 1828.

Mary A., d. Thomas W. and Rachel, b. Nov. 5, 1826. Samuel M., s " b. March 5, 1828.

Eliza J., " b. March 18, 1832;

d. Sept. 19, 1S36. Sarah J., d. " b. March 23, 1838.

Martha T., d. " b. Feb. 20, 1842.

George B., s. Joseph W. and Judith C, b. May 7, 1S46. William W., s. " b. June 25, 1851.

William W., s. Joseph W. and Tameser, b, June 25, 1851. Sarah C, d. Jeremiah and Mary, b. Jan. 26, 1845. Jehiel T. D., s. " b. Sept. 25, 1850.

Ellen M., d. Jeremiah C. and Mary. b. March 18, 1S53. Rose A., d. Hollis and Ruth, b. Aug. 8, 1832.

149

Jackman, Dianthia, d. Hollis and Ruth, b. Feb. I3, 1S34. d.

March 30, 1S54. Hollis W., s. " b. April 2, 1835, d.

Aug. 12. 1S49. Sarah J., d. " b. June 17, 1S37.

Samuel S., s. " b. Sept. 13, 1S39, ^•

Sept. 13. 1839. Phirilla, d. " b. July 2, 1S40.

George \V., s. " b. Jan. 26, 1S44.

Hollis W., s. " b. Feb. 15. 1S50.

Jameson, Josiah W., b. Sept. 4, 1825.

Nancy C, wife Josiah, b. Nov. iS, 1S23 ; d. Sept. 185 1. Mary H., d. Josiah and Nancy, b. Oct. 6, 1S43. Ella C, d. " b. Aug. 25, 1S45.

Edward C, s. " b. Oct. 30, 1847.

Johnson, Jonathan, s. John and Eleanor, b. Dec. 29, i753- Timothy, s. " b. Feb. 20, 1755.

Catherine C. d. John and Sophie, b. Dec. 9, 1820. Lorenzo C. s. '* b. Nov. i6, 1822.

Lucretia, d. " 1^. May 9, 1825.

Francis, s. *' b. June 24. 1S27.

Lucy J., d. Reuben and Judith, b. Aug. 31, 1S12. Luther G., s. " b. Nov. 13, 1S15.

Clarissa, d. " b. Dec. 3. 1817.

Susan G., d. " b. July 5, 1S20.

John C, s. " b. Sept. 3, 1827.

Charlotte, d. '• b. Nov. 2, 1S29.

Martha F., d. Warren and Sarah A., b. Aug. 15. 1843, Jonathan S., s. Warren and Mercy, b. Jan. 11. 1S30. Jones, Jacob, s. Jonathan and Judith, b. Nov. 19, 17S1, in

Southampton. David, s. " b. Aug. 20, 1784, in

Warner ; d. Nov. 30, 1S28. Dorothv, d. " b. April 23, 1787, in

Warner. Daniel, s. " b. April 17, 1789, in

Warner ; d. June 28, 183S.

ISO

Jones, Jonathan, s. Jonathan and Judith, b. Oct, lo, 1791.

Nathaniel, s. " b. Feb. 6, 1795, d.

Aug. 22, 1837. Joseph, s. " b. Aug, 19, 1797.

Folly, d. " b. Sept, 20, 1S04, d.

July 3, 1825. David, s. Jacob and Mehitable, Nov, 10, 1805. Judith, d. " b. Oct, 29, 1810,

Daniel, s, " b. July 19, 1813 ; d. April

7, 1816. Nathaniel, s. " b. March 24, 1816 ; d. Jan.

17, 1821. Charles, s, " b. July 3, 1S19.

George, s. " b. Aug. 16, 1823.

David K,, s, Ebenezer and Betsey, b. Jan. 26, 181 3. Jonathan, s. David and Rebeckah, b. Feb, 3, 18 10, Enoch, s, " b. April 3, 1813.

Nancy, d. " b. June 29, 1818; d.

Nov. 14, 1S39. Theodore, s. Joseph and Abigail, b. March 19, 1821 ; d.

Sept, 8, 1822. Theodore W., s, " b. May 20, 1823,

Willard W., s, " b. May 20, 1S23,

Mary, d, Nathaniel and Rhoda, b, Dec. 13, 1824. Benjamin F., s, " b. Sept, 10, 1829,

Polly, d. " b. March 8, 1827, d. Feb.

II, 1829. Kelly, Phebe, d. Timothy and Jane, b. Sept, 23, 1812.

John M., s. " b, June 4, 1819, d, Jan. i,

Rowland B., s. " b. Dec. 8, 1823,

Andrew J., s. " b. Jan. 22, 1S35,

Kilburn, Eliphalet, b. Dec. 13, 1752, in Rowley, Mass., d.

Dec. II. 1844. Eunice, d, Eliphalet and Mary, b. April 4, 1781. Geo, T,, 3, ^' b, Jan, 17, 1784.

Enoch, s, " b. Feb. i, 1786.

Hannah, d. " . b. Feb. i, 1786, d. Aug.

16, 1833.

151

Kilburn, Mary, d. Eliphalet and Mary, b. Dec. 9, 17S7, d. Sept.

7, 1826. b. Feb. 16, 1789.

Susan, d. Betsey, d. Sally, d. Clarisa, d. Phebe, d. Eliphalet, s. Moodv A., s.

b. Oct. 4, 1792. b. March iS, 1798. b. March 9. 1800. b. Sept. 26, iSoi. b. March 16, 1S04. b. April 12, 1807.

Kilbourn, Sally, d. John P. and Hannah, b. Aug. 10, 1800.

Mary, d. *' b. Sept. 4, 1802.

Kilborn. Elisabeth, d. James and Elisabeth, b. Sept. 9, iSoS, d

Oct. 20, 1839. Judith T., d. " b. March 14, 1810.

d. April, 1 83 1. Ednah D., d. " b. Jan. 18, 181 2, d.

Sept. I, 1838. Nathan, s. " b. March 2, 1814.

Eunice, d. " b. July 13. 1816.

Judith F., d. " b. Sept. 28, 1832.

Albert P.. s. Daniel and Anna, b. Nov. i, 1810. Charles, s. *' b. Jan. 18, 1814, d. March

12, 1S39. William W., s. John and Mary. b. Sept. 6. 1S20. Thomas, s. *■' b. Feb. 26. 1826.

Daniel, s. " b. Dec. 11, 1830.

John. s. " b. Sept. 2, 1837.

Galen F., s. Eliphalet J. and Mehetable, b. May 7, 1S34. Sarah J., d. " b. April 5. 1S36.

Lucian, s. " b. Jan. 20, 1842.

Charles H., s. " b. Dec. 14, 1847.

Albert, s. Nathan and Polly, b. Aug. 15, 1840. Mary B., d. William W. and Louise L., b. July 31, 1S46. Martha B.. d. " b. July 28, 1850.

Samuel N., s. George T. and Abigail, b. Oct. 6, 1819. d.

Nov. 19, 1826. Harriet N., d. " b. Dec. 16, 1820.

Elliot W., s.. " b. Feb. 21, 1822.

Enoch G., s. " b. May 18, 1823.

152

Kilboni, Francis W,, s. George T. and Abigail, b. Dec. 25, 1824. John A., s. " b. Sept. 6, 1826.

Nancy A., d. Albert P. and Abigail B., b. March 20, 183S,

at Danbury. Charles P., s. " b. Jan. 21, 1840,

at Danbury, d. Aug 9, 1842. Daniel P., s. " b. March 15, 1845,

at Danbury. Albert T., s. " b. March 3, 1849.

Flora E., d. " b. March 10, 1851.

Kimball, Hannah, d. Peter and Betty, b. Aug. 2, 1763.

Molly, d. " b. Aug. 31, 1765,. d

Feb., 1846. Abiah, d. " b. May 20, 1774.

Joseph, s. " b. Nov. 24, 1767.

Judith, d. " b. Nov. 23, 1769, d.

Oct. 7, 1850. Betty, d. " b. April 24, 1772, d.

Sept. 25, 1794, wife of Samuel Choate. Frances, d. " b. Aug. 9, 1776.

Sally, d. " b. Dec. 31, 1778.

Priscilla, d. " b. Aug. 7, 1781.

Benjamin T., s. " b. May5, 1784, d. July 3,

1852. Peter, s. Joseph and Eunice, b. March 5, 1793. Betsey, d.. " b. Sept i, 1796.

Milton, s. " b. Feb. 20, 1799.

Phila, d. " b. June 16, 1801.

Jesse W,, s. Joseph and Polly, b. Jan. 16, 1805. Eunice, d. " b. Dec. 26, 1807.

Solon, s. " b. Oct. 6, 1809.

Sophronia, d. " b. Dec. 12, 1811.

Lycurgus, s. " b. April 14, 1814.

Abiah, d. Benj. T. and Mary, b. Oct. 6, 1806, d. Oct. 8,

1843. Roxy Ann, d. " b. Dec. 22, 1809.

David F., s. " b. Dec. 24, 1811.

153

Kimball, Peter, s. Benj. T. and Mary, b. March 25. 1817. Caroline, d. '• b. Oct. 30, 1S19.

Austin G.. s. " b. Feb. 24, 1821.

John, s. Benjamin and Ruth, b. April 13, 1821. Elisabeth J., d. •• b. April 12, 1825, d. Sept. 20,

1840. Joseph A., s. '' b. Oct. 8, 1826, d. Feb. 20,

1S27. Lucy Ann, d. '' b. Aug. 8, 1829. d. Aug. 25,

1832. Benjamin A., s. " b. Aug. 22, 1833.

Wm. S., s. William M. and Lucy Jane, b. March 30, 1837. Mary E., d. '• " ' b. Dec. 28, 183S.

Knight, Eunice, d. Caleb and Sarah, b. Dec. 31 , 1792, d. March

10, 1S28. Margaret, d. " b. Jan. 2, 1795, d. Sept. 19,

1S45. Catharine, d. " b. April 21, 1797.

Phebe, d. " b. Aug. 25, ) 799, d. June

8, 1821. Betsey, d. " b. April 12, 1802.

Knowiton, Philip, s. John and Hannah, b. April 9, 1769. Benjamin, s. •• b. Feb. 12, 1771.

Joseph, s. *' b. June 4, 1773, d.

Feb. 10. 1839. Mary. d. Benjamin and Molly, b. Feb. 12, 1794. Enoch, s. •• b. April 14, 1796.

John, s. Joseph and Lois, b. Dec. 11, 1801, d. .Sept. i,

1838. Eunice, d. *' b. March 6, 1804, d. May 29,

1813. Joseph B., s. John and Eliza, b. Oct. 8, 1825. Henry \V., s. " b. Aug. 9, 1827.

Emily, d. •• b. June 26, 1828.

Charles G., s. *' b. March 9, 1831.

Alonzo, s. " b.

Lang, Esther J., d. Samuel W.and ^L'^ry, b. May 12. 1810. Jonathan E., s. " b. Aug. 27, 181 1.

Mary, d. " b. June 26, 1S16.

154

Lang, Thomas M., s. Chas. E. and Rebecca H., b. Jan 13, 1835.

Charles A., s. " b. July 6, 1838.

Abigail B., d. " b. March 24,

1S40.

Huldah S., d. " b. Aug. 27, 1842.

Lewis, Amma, d. Eben and Sally, b. Oct. 4, 1826. Little, Friend, s. Enoch and Sarah, b. Jan. 19, 1756.

Mary, d. " b. Sept. 19, 1757.

Benjamin, s. Enoch and Hannah, b. April 3, 1760, d. Aug.

30, 1846.

Joseph, s. " b. May 30, 1761.

Enoch, s. " b. Jan. 17, 1763.

Hannah, d. " b. Sept. 3, 1764, d. Oct.

17, 1764. Noah, s. " b. Nov. i, 1765. Jesse, s. " b. July 30, 1767, d. Aug.

18, 1840.

Phebe, d. " b. Feb. 19, 1769, d. June

7, 1769. Sarah J,, d. " b. April 20, 1770.

John, s. " b. March 12, 1772, d.

Aug. 24, 1773. Hannah, d. " b. April 10, 1775.

Samuel, s. Friend and Mary C, b. Dec. 7, 17S1. Moses, s. " b. Nov. 5, 1783.

Sally, d. " b. Sept. 12, 1785.

Joseph, s. " b. Aug. i, 1787, d. Oct.

28, 1847. Judith, d. " b. April 4, 1789.

Mary, d. " b. Sept. 19, 1791.

Hannah, d. " b. April 24, 1798.

Sarah Miles, d. Eliphalet and Dorothy, b. Nov. 20, 1793. Eliphalet, s. " b. Aug. 10, 1798.

Richard, s. Benjamin and Rhoda, b. Nov. 27, 1791, d.

Oct. 29, 1849. John, s. " b. June 30, 1794.

Simeon B., s. " b. Dec. 16, 1797.

Rhoda, d. " b. April 14, 1801, d.

Aug. 15, 1852.

155

Little, Charles H., s. Benjamin and Rhoda. b. Dec. 5, 1804, d.

Jan. I, 1S36. Elisabeth, d. Joseph and Anna. b. April 7, 17S7, d. Feb.

i7i 1S35. Phebe. d. " b. Jan. 26. 17S9.

Jane, d. " b. Aug. 23. 1791.

Jeremiah, s. " b. Sept. i. 1794.

Sarah, d. " b. April iS, iSoo.

Caroline, d. " b. Jan. S, 1S03.

John, s. Noaii and Asenath, b. March 14, 17S8. Elsey, d. '• b. Oct. 9, 17S9.

Silas, s. " b. Jan. 29, 1791.

Enoch, s. " b. Sept 11, 1796.

Louise, d. '' b, June 23, 1799, d. Aug. 25,

1S3S. David, s. " b. Oct. 11, iSoi.

"Luca H., d. " b. Aug. 25, 1S03.

Harriett, d. •* b. May 25, 1S06.

Jacob, s. Jesse and Martha, b. May i, 1795. John. s. " b. Nov. 25. 1796, d. Feb. 15,

1S29. Sukey, d. " b. March z^. 179S.

Henry, s. " b. March 23, iSoo.

Thomas, s. '' b. Jan. 3, 1S02.

Martha, d. " b. June 22, JS03.

Leavitt C s. *' b. Feb. 24, 1S05, d. March

23, 1S54. Emma. d. •'• b. May 4, iSoS, d. Aug. 30,

1830. Sarah G., d. '• b. Aug. 7, 1810.

Henry, s. Enoch and Polly, b.Jan. !, 1 792, d. Apr. 29, 1S38. Jane, d. " b. June i, 1796, d. Oct. 27,

1796. Polly, d. " b. Nov. 11, 1797, d. Feb. 3,

1820. Jane, d. " b. Feb. 2, iSoo.

Enoch, s. " b. Nov. 8, 1802.

James, s. " b. Aug. 3, 1804, d. Sept. 8,

1836.

156

Little, Hiram, s. Samuel and Sarah, b. Feb. 19, 1813.

Rhoda, d. ••' d. July 21, 1S22, aged 7 y'rs.

Samuel, s. " b. Nov. 29, 181 7.

Sarah P., d. " b. June 2, 1820.

Joseph C, s. " b. April 21, 1822, d. Dec.

29, 1850. Mary, d. " b. Aug. 8, 1S26, d. June 21,

1853. Enoch C, s. " b. July 16, 1829.

Rhoda B., d. Richard and Priscilla, b. July 9, 1816. Bitfield P., s. '' b. Aug. 15, 1818.

Ephraim, s. " b. April 14, 1820.

Susana C, d. " b. June 30, 1822, d.

Nov. 15, 1S43. Charles, s. " b. Jan. 13, 1825, d.

Oct. 9, 1835. Calvin, s. Richard and Mary C, b. Feb. 29, 1828. Levi, s. " b. July 18, 1830.

Horace, s. " b. Sept. 17, 1832.

Emily, d. " b. Jan. 10, 1835, d. Dec.

3. 1847- Charles, s. " b. Feb. 14, 1S37.

Priscilla, d. " b. Jan. 30, 1S39.

Adaline T., d. Joseph and Sarah B,, b. Jan. 19, 1813.

Mary B., d. " b. Feb. 6, 1814, d.

Feb. 23, 1814. Joshua P., s. " b. May 31, 1815, d.

April 10, 1818. Joshua P., s. " b. June 23, 1819, d.

Nov. 21, 1850. Charles B., s. " b. June 26, 1823.

Joshua P., s. Jeremiah and Elisabeth, b Nov. 19, 181 7, d.

Feb. 5, 1840. Mary C, d. Moses and Sally, b. Dec. 9, 1S19, d. Oct. 3,

1851. Moses C, s. " b. June 11, 1824.

Albert G., s. Henry and Sukey, b. Sept. 27, 1S17. Polly, d. " b. May 7, 1820, d. March

6, 1821.

157

Little, Alfred, s. Henry and Sukey, b. June 3, 1S23.

Emma K., d. " b. Sept. 27, 1S30.

Joseph A., s. Thomas and Myra A., b. May 24, 1830.

Sarah H., d. " b. Aug. 29, 1833.

Lucy Jane, d. " b. March 30, 1837.

George, s. Simeon B. and Harriett, b. Aug, 23, 1825,

Alice, d. " b. Dec. 30, 1829, d.

Oct. 31, 1835.

Narcessa, d. " b. Dec. 25, 1S31, d.

Feb. S. 1832.

Evaline, d. " b. Dec. 13, 1S32.

Sherman, s. " b. Feb. 6, 1835.

Arthur, s. " b. May 24, 1S37.

Luther, s. " b. May 24, 1S27.

Mary F., d. Enoch and Apphia, b. Jan. 28, 1831. d. June

15, 1849.

Ellen, d. '' b. Feb. 27, 1833.

Henry L., s. " b. March 28, 1835, d.

March 26, 1836.

Louise, d. '• b. Dec. i, 1S36.

Caleb P., s. Charles H. and Susan J., b. April 14, iS^;!. LittleHeld, Jacob, s. Nathaniel and Sarah, b. June 18, 1S13.

Jeremiah, s. " b. July 21, 1S16.

Mary C. d. " b. Sept. i, 1821, d.

Feb. 27, 183S.

Nathaniel C, s. " b. June 13, 1823.

Eli/.a, d. George and Sarah, b June 26, 1801.

Sophia C, d. " b. March 20, 1803.

George, s. " b. June 11, 1805.

Ozro, s. '' b. A])ril i, 1807.

Sarah, d. "■ b. April 15. 1S09.

Theodore, s. "■ b. April 15, iSii.

Richard, s. " b. July 26, 1813.

Sarah E., d. Jacob and Sarah, b. March 17, 1835, Bethel,

Alaine.

Hannali. d. " b. Sept. 27, 1836.

Lomis, John. s. Ebenezer and Elisabeth, b. AL-irch 13, 17S7. Long, Sylvester, s. Stephen and Hannah, b. June 19, 1S27. Lougee, Susan, d. James and Phebe, b. Oct. 5, 1823.

158

Lougee, Catherine, d. James and Phebe, b. Oct. 29, 1825. James, s. " b. Feb. 10, 1827.

Lunde, John Q., s. Noah and Mehetable, b. Feb. 15, 1828. Lunt, Mehetable, d. Joseph and Phebe, b. Dec. 15, 1783.

Joseph, s. " b. Sept. 23, 1786.

Samuel, s. Amos and Jane, b. Sept. 7, 1797.

Mehitable, d. " b. Nov. 20, 1799.

Lull, George W., s. Jesse and Mary, b. March 4, 1839.

Squire H., s. " b. Nov. 8, 1841.

Manuel, Amos, s. Joel and Phebe, b. Nov. 10, 1763.

Mary, d. " b. Sept. 15, 1765.

Dorothy, d. Samuel and Bethiah, b. June 8, 1770, at New- ton, N. H.

Charles, s. " b. June 16, 1772.

Molly, d. " b. May 7, 1774, d. Feb.

27, 1852.

Tabitha, d. John and Mehetable, b. July 29, 1769, d. June

23, 1849.

Hannah, d. " b. Feb 19, 1771.

Jenny, d. " b. Feb. 19, 1771.

Molly, d. " b. Dec. 22, 1774, d. Sept-

6, 1845.

Mehetabel, d. " b. March 30, 1777.

Moses, s. " b. May 6, 1779.

Sarah, d. Moses and Hannah, b. Jan. 8, 1764.

Sarah A., d. Moses and Nancy, b. Aug. 15, 1816.

Betsey H., d. " b. Sept. 6. 1818.

Rufus A., s. " b. June 24, 1820.

Asaph E., s. " b. Jan. 26, 1823.

William J., s. " b. Feb. 2, 1825.

March, Mary, d. Joseph and Betsy, b. Oct. 27, 1792.

John, s. " b. Jan. 27, i795-

Pelatiah, s. " b. Oct. 13, 1797.

Finette, d. " b. June 2, 1801.

Marsh, , d. James H. and Nancy B., b. Nov. 7, 1851.

McCurdy,Danl, s. Mathew S. and Elisabeth, b. Sept. 16, 1798, in

Dunbarton.

Betsey C, wife Daniel, above, b. Feb. 28. 1805, in Dun- barton.

159

McCurdy, John, s. Daniel and Betsey C, b. Apr. 27, 1831, in

Dunbarton. David A., s. " b. June 23, 1S32, in

Dunbarton. Martha J., d. " b. Feb. 2. 1S34, in

Dunbarton. David L., s. " b. Dec. 27, 1835, in

Dunbarton. Elisabeth, d. " b. June 29. 1837, '"

Dunbarton. Mary Ann, d. '• b. Dec. 24, 1S3S, in

Dunbarton. Mathevv, s. " b. Nov. 4. 1840, in

Dunbarton. Oscar D., s. " b. Dec. 21, 1842. in

Dunbarton, d. Jan.

31,1843. Lurandus, s. Robert and Mary S., b. May 4, 1841. Mathew, s. '' b. July 15, 1842.

Mary E., d. " b. Sept. 26, 1S44.

Lyra, d. " b. Sept. 15, 1846.

Theresa, d. " b. Sept. 15, 1S49.

McClure, Louisa L., d. John and Sally, b. March 12, 1S20. John A., s. " b. Oct. 22, 1822.

Mary E., d. " b. Dec. 16, 1825.

Edwin P., s. John A., and Phebe C, b. July 13, 1850. McDonald, John, s. James and Lois, b. Dec. 11, 1S08.

Lois, s. James and Ruth, b. June 11, 1810. Meloon, Nathaniel, s. Nathaniel and Rachel, b. March 27, 1741. Mary, d. "• b. May 29, 1743.

Rachel, d. " b. June 29, 1744.

John, s. " b. Oct. 24, 1748.

Sarah, d. " b. April 6. 1753.

Joseph, s. " b. Nov. 20, 1755,

in Canada. Merrill, Nathaniel, s. Rev. Nathaniel and Hannah, b. April 10,

1769. Moses, s. '' b. Feb. 13, 1771.

John, s. " b. Jan. 9, 1773.

i6o

Merrill, John, s. Caleb and Mary, b. July 25, 1774. Peter, s. '* b. Dec. 39, 1777.

Sarah, d. " b. July 4, 17S0.

Mills, Helen M., d. Jonathan and wife, b. Dec. 31, 1850. Morey, Thomas P., s. Ephraim N. and Susan, b. July 15, 1847. Mary S., d. " b. March 25,

1850. Moody, Moses, s. Ebenezer and Molly, b. May 31, 17S6.

Samuel, s. " b. Jan. 29, 1789, d.

Dec. 19, 1834. Polly, d. " b. Nov. II, 1794.

John, s. " b. Dec. 24, 1809.

William, s. Ebenezer, Jr., and Lucy, b. Aug. 29, iSio. Ebenezer, s. " b. June 8, 1812.

Abigail, d. " b. April 27, 1814.

George, s. " b. July 5, 1816.

Mary P., d. Ebenezer and Betsey, b. Sept. 30, 1830.

Montgomery, s. Robert and Eliza, b. May 19, 1851.

Morell, Mary, d. John and Elisabeth, b. Dec. i, 1764, at Not- tingham. Joseph, s. " b. Oct. 10, 1766, at Not-

tingham. Betty, d. " b. Nov. 28, 1768, at Not-

tingham. Noah, s. " b. Sept. 16, 1770, at Not-

tingham. John, s. " b. Jan. 20, 1773, at Not-

tingham. Benjamin, s. " b. May 10, i775,atNot-

tingliam. Hannah, d. " b. May 3, 1778, at Bos-

cavven. Henry D., s. " b. June 10, 1780.

Jeremiah, s. " b. Sept. 27, 1782.

Moses, s. " b. Oct. 9, 1784.

Sarah, d. " b. May 26, 17SS.

Morrill, Elisabeth, d. Sam'l and Sarah, b. Mar. S. 17S7, d. Nov.

17, 1851. Eunice, d. ' b. Apr. 4, 1788, d. Feb.

19, 1S28.

i6i

Morrill, Nathaniel, s. Sam'l and Sarah, b. Sept. S, 17S9, d. Feb.

4, 1 S3 7, in Canterbury. Judith, d. " b. Dec. 13, 1792.

Benjamin, s. " b. Jan. 16, 1794.

Nancy, d. " b. Sept. 11, 1797.

Judith, d. Joseph H. and Judith, b. Oct. 31, 1790, d. Nov.

17, 1790. Joseph, s. " b. May 23, 1793, d. Jan.

5, 1S44. Second son, " b. Aug. 16, 1795, d. Aug.

iS, 1795. Judith, d. " b. Nov. 29, 1797, d. Nov.

19, 1S40.

Samuel, s. Robie and Elizabeth, b. Jan. 15, 1761, d. 1S46.

Elizabeth, d. " b. July 31, 1762.

Anna, d. '' b. Oct. 20, 1763, d. Nov.

17, 1S39.

Joseph Hobson, s. '' b. June 14, 1765.

Jenny, d. '' b. Dec. 26, 176S.

Jeremiah, s. " b. Jan. iS, 1775.

Sally, d. " b. May 30, 1777.

Hannah, d. Noah and Sally, b. Aug. 17, 1802.

Calvin, s. Joseph and Lydia, b. Dec. 6, 1S05.

Mary W., d. " b. May. 27, iSiS.

Enoch L., s. " b. Oct. 9, 1S20.

Joseph, s. '' b. June 15, 1S2S.

Lucretia, d. Benjamin and ^Mehetable, b. Jan. 23, 1S22, d.

Aug., 1S25.

Franklin E., s. " b. March 6, 1824, d.

Aug., 1825.

Anna, d. Jeremiah and Polly, b. Oct. 9, 1800.

Emely P., d. Jeremiah and Mary, b. Nov. 3, 1S04.

Reuben, s. " b. April 23, iSoS.

Harrison O., s. " b. May 20, iSio.

Henry O., s. " b. May 20, 1810.

Mary, d. " b. Dec. 11, 181 2.

Sherman, s. " b. Dec. 25, 1S16.

Charles H., s. Francis and Mary, b. June 28, 1823.

Mary Ann, d, *' b. March 20, 1826.

11

l62

Morrill, Mary F., d. Benjamin and Mary C, b. Aug. 24, 1843. Morrison, Mary Ann, d. Abraham L. and Hannah, b. Oct. 8,

1811. Abigail P., d. " b. June 24,

1813. David L., s. " b. July 8,

1815. John, s. " b. Jan. 14,

1S17. Charles E., s. Leonard and Sally, b. Jan. 8, 1836. John C, s. " b. July 18, 1837.

Maria L., d. " b. Feb. 9, 1839.

Benjamin C, s. " b. Jan. 2, 1841.

Joseph L., s. " b. March 15, 1843, d.

Oct. 18, 1843. Morse, Ruth, d. of Moses and Sarah, b. Oct. 2, 1766. Daniel, s. " b. Jan. 28, 1777.

Molly, d. " b. Sept. 2, 1779, d. June

28, 1844. Betty, d. " b. Dec. 19, 1781.

Emma, d. " b. Nov. 19, 1783, d. Dec.

26, 1831. Ruth, d. " b. Sept. 2, 1788.

Moses, s. " b. Oct. II, 1790, d. May

26, 1842. Sarah, d. " b. Sept. 24, 1793.

Sally, d. Samuel and Rachel, b. April 3, 1783, d. April

4, 1852. Rachel, d. " b. Jan. 12, 1785.

Jane, d. " b. June 17, 17S7.

Polly, d. " b. May 17, 1790.

Samuel, s. " b. Oct. 10, 1797.

Joseph C, s. Ezekiel and Mary, b. Aug. 16, 1796. Mary, d. " b. Aug. 20, 1799.

Judith, d. " b. Aug. 20, 1799.

Caleb K., s. " b. Feb. 18, 1S02, d. June

22, 1821. Joshua, s. Joshua and Phebe, b. July 5, 1804. Aaron, s. " b. Jan. i, 1806, d. Aug. 4,

1849.

1 63

Morse, Judith, d. Joshua and Phebe, b. May 28, 1810.

Robert C, s. Moses and Phebe, b. Jan. 6, 18 17.

Phebe Ann, d. " b. March 9, 1820.

Harriet N., d. Moses and Ruth, b. July 4, 1S15.

Lucy J., d. " b. March 20, 181 7.

Maria, d. " b. Feb. 4, 1S19, d. Sept.

28, 1843.

Harrison, s. " b. July 26. 1824.

Moses S., s. Samuel, 3d, and Sall\-, b. Nov. 17, 1821.

Betsey O., d. " b. June, 1S29, d. May

26, 1852.

Lydia M., d. •• b. Jan. 15, 1831.

Samuel, s. Samuel, 3d, and Betsev, b. July 15, 1S41.

Charlotte E., d. " b. March 20, 1846.

Lucretia E., d. Joseph C. and Nancy, b. Nov. 19, 1822.

Phebe A., d. " b. Nov. 2, 1825.

Caleb A., s. '' b. Aug. 4, 1828.

Sarah H.. d. " b. Dec. 2. 1830, d.

March i, 1833.

Sarah H.. d. " b. Dec. 19, 1833.

Eilith, d. Eastman C. and Mary P., b. May 16, 185 1. Muzzy, Joseph, s. John anil Hannah, b. Sept. 20, i77i,d.

Jan., 1839.

Hannah, d. " b. Sept. 13, 1773.

John, s. " b. Oct. 5. 1775.

Moses, s. " b. Oct. 10, 1777.

Lydia, d. John and Betty, b. Feb. 18, 17S5.

Mary, d. " b. June 12, 17S6.

Benjamin, s. " b. Aug. 30, 1787.

Samuel, s. John and Elisabeth, b. April 21, 17S9.

Elisabeth, d. " b. Dec. 28, 1791.

Mehetable, d. " b. Oct. i, 1792.

Daniel, s. " b. Nov. 22, 1795.

Hannah, d. Joseph and Jane, b. Feb. 9. 1805.

Susannah B., d. " b. Sept. 27, 1807.

Samuel, s. " b. Jan. 29, 1810.

Jane, d. " b. Sept. 4, 181 1.

Ann A., d. Samuel J. and Caroline, b. Aug. 13, 1851. Newcomb, Samuel C, s. Calvin and Polly, b. March 19, 1818.

164

Noyes, Betty, d. Benjamin and Tameson, b. Feb. 7, 1781, d.

Dec. 15, 1851.

James, s. Isaac J. and Phebe, b. July 11, 1785.

Tristram, s. Tristram and Sarah, b. Oct. 17, 1785.

Polly, d. Tristram and Mirriam, b. Aug. 20, 1786.

Jeremiah, s. " b. March 38, 1788.

Jane, d. " b. Jan. 26, 1790.

Chase, s. " b. Feb. 8, 1792.

Anna, d. " b. March 14, 1794.

Ruth, d. " b. Aug. 25, 1796.

Isaac, s. Cutting and Molly, b. Aug. 15, 1772.

Moses, s. " b. Dec. 21, 1774.

Sarah, d. " b. Oct. 8, 1776.

Samuel Muzzy, s. " b. Aug. 21, 1778.

Judith, d. " b. May 16, 1780.

Dorcas, d. " b. Feb. 17, 1782.

Amos, d. " b. Dec. 19, 17S3.

Enoch, s. " b. Nov. 16, 1785.

Benjamin, s. " b. June 9, 1787.

Abigail, d. " b. Jan. 20, 1793.

James, s. Ephraim and Molly, b. Aug. 28, 1794.

Jane P., d. " b. Oct. 5, 1796, d. Sept.

20, 1819.

Elisabeth W., d. " b. Aug. 9, 1798.

Edna A., d. '• b. May 13, 1801.

Judith S., d. " b. Aug. 20, 1803.

Nicholas M., s. " b. Oct. 24, 1806.

Salome, d. Timothy and Dolly, b. May 31, 1809.

Timothy, Jr., s. " b. Nov. 22, '181 1.

Benjamin A., s. " b. Feb. 15, 1814.

Martha L., d. Jeremiah and Martha, b. June 6, 1812, d.

Sept. 15, 1836.

Sarah J., d. " b. Sept. i, 1S15.

Mary R., d. " b. Sept. 22, 1817.

Enoch R., s. " b. April 27. 1820.

Esther J., d. " b. Jan. 6, 1S23.

Samuel G., s. " b. Oct. 13, 1827.

Norris, Polly C, d. Ruth Norris, b. March 9. 1798.

Melindia, d. James and Sally, b. Jan. 23. 1800.

1 65

Norris, James W., s. James and Sally, b. Sept, 30, 1S04. Nourse, Lucian H., s. William and Mary. b. Jnly iS, 1S30.

Osborn, Abigail S., d. John and Mary, b. June 19, 1S19.

Parker, Charles O., s. John J. and Mary, b. Aug. 25, 1823.

Samuel T., s. " b. Sept. 14, 1825.

John M., s. " b. July 21. 1829.

Peach, Henry G., s. Thomas and Sukey, b. Dec. 5, 1816.

Susan, d. " b. March 2, 1S26.

Elisabeth, d. " b. June 3, 1S2S.

George 11., s. Henry G. and Esther E., b. June 10, 1841.

Mary E., d. Henry G. and Betsey C, b. Oct. 22, 1845.

Ann E., d. '• b. March 18, 1S50.

Emma S., d. "• b. Jan. 12. 1S53.

Pearson, Isaac, s. Joseph and Hannah, b. March 19. 1779.

Hannah, d. " b. Jan. i. 17S7. in

Haverhill.

John. S.James and Hannah, b. Dec. 7. 1797.

Anna, d. Samuel and Mary, b. Sept. 6, 1797, d. Jan. 27,

1800.

Lydia, d. '• h. July 24, 1799, d. Dec. 11,

iSoo.

Ann4i d. •' b. March 14, 1802, d. April

9, 1804.

Mary, d. " b. Nov. 23, 1S05.

Nancy, d. •' b. Jan. 2^, 1808.

Isaac, s. Somersby and Judith, b. Mav 14, 1792. d. March

I, 1824.

Mary, d. " b. April 7, 1794.

Rebecca, d. " b. Feb. 11, 1799, d. May

4. 1812.

John C, s. Nathan, Jr., and Eliza, b. May 25, 1S35.

William, s. Paul and Sarah, b. March 5, 1827.

Charles, s. •• b. Aug. 17, 1S29.

Sarah J., d. " b. Dec. 22, 1835.

Henry F., s. " b. July 23, 1839.

David F., s. Elisabeth Flanders, b. May 17, 1818. Perkins, George W., s. George and Polly, b. Aug. 28, 1802.

Thomas J., s. " b. Nov. 25, 1805.

i66

Pettengill, Mary, d. Benjamin C. and Rachel, b. May 8, 1782. Peterson, Daniel, s. Daniel and Sarah, b. Jan. i, 1776, d. Jan.

25, 1S13. John, s. " b. June 11, 1778.

Samuel, s. " b. May 10, 17S2.

Ezra C, s. " b. Sept. 10, 1785.

Billy, s. " b. Jan. 9, 1788.

Judith G , d. " b. May 16, 1790.

Pillsbury, Daniel, s. Daniel and Eunice, b. March 20, 1789. Enoch, s. " b. Aug. 14, 1790.

George T., s. " b. Feb. 7, 1792, d.

May 16, 1836. Moody A., s. " b. May 4, 1794.

Rebekah, d. " b. April 29, 1796.

Paul P., s. " b. Nov. 8, 1797.

Joseph, s. " b. Aug. 7, 1799, d.

May 14, 1861. Eunice, d. " b. Aug. 22, 1S03, d.

Nov. 2, 1843. Mary, d. " b. Feb. 6, 1S05, ^'

April 7, 1843. Sarah, d. " b. Nov. 4, 1S06.

William, s. " b. Aug. 2^^ 1809, d.

Aug. 27, 1845. Moody A., s. Moody A. and Abigail, b. Sept. 20, 1820. George, s. " b. Oct. 17, 1823.

Charles W., s. " b. June 7, 1826, d.

May 17, 1828. Charles S., s. " b. April 14, 1S28.

Jonathan K., s. Enoch, Jr., and Margaret, b. Feb. 22,

1817. Sarah E., d. " b. Mar. 21,

1819. Mary A., d. Daniel and Betsey, b. Sept. 10, 1821. Benjamin, s. " b. Oct. 26, 1824.

Enoch H., s. Enoch and Martha, b. May 5, 1824. Martha A., d. " b. Jan. 26, 1836.

Elvira, d. Daniel, Jr., and Dorothy, b. June 25, 1815, d.

Aug. 3, 1824.

167

Pillsbury, Melvin, s. Daniel, Jr., and Dorothy, b. July 1 1, iSiS. Joseph B., s. Daniel, Jr., and Betsey, b. June 19, 1S23. Henry W., s. Joseph and ^Martha L., b. June 27, 1827, d.

Dec. 12, 1S57. Joseph L., s. " b. Feb. 10, 1S29, d.

Jan. 10, 1S73. Martha S., d. •• b. Feb. 15. 1S36.

George L., s. •• b. May 17, 1S39.

Lucretia A., d. John and Sarali, b. March 31, 1S27. Elvira, d. William T. and Eunice, b. April 26, 1S39, in

Salisbury. Elencttc. d. " b. June 4, 1842.

Sarah A., d. Paul and Sarah G., b. Nov. 20, 1S51. Finkerton, John A., s. John M. and Rebekah, b. Aug. 28, 1823. George W., s. '• b. Aug. 10, 1825.

Franklin, s. " b. March 5, 1S27.

Josiah R., s. " b. Feb. 19, 1829.

Myron W., s. Moody M. and Jane C. b. Julv 18. 1S43. Samuel C, s. '' wife, b. Jan. 2, 1S46.

Charles VV., s. " SarahN.,1). Sept. 12, 1850.

Wallace, s. " " b. June 10; d.

yoinig. Plumer, Nathan, s. Nathan and Elisabeth, b. April 2, 1774,

d. Api il 7, 184S. John, s. Bitfield and Priscilla, b. Aug. 10. 1774, d. Feb.

21, 1827. Priscilla, d. •• b. Jan. 12, 1786, d. Feb.

26, 1S25. Ephraim, s. Ephraim and Rachel, b. Aug. 29, 1793. Bitfield, s. John and Hannah, b. Nov. 9, 1799. Anna, d. '■ b. Sept. 7, 1801.

Jeremiah, s. " b. Oct. 8, 1803.

Polly, d. " b. Aug. 25, 1S05.

Frederick P., s. " b. Sept. 15, 1809, d. Mar.

23, 1S15. George W., s. " b. July 29, 1S14, d. June,

1842. Frederick P., s. " b. July 26, 1817, d. Nov.

28, 1853. Nathan, s. " b. July 21, 1821.

1 68

Plumer, Mary A., d. Nathan and Sarah, b. Jan. i6, iSio.

Elisa J., d. " b. Oct. 31, 1814.

Polly L., d. Ephraim and Lucy, b. Nov. 23, 1S21.

Abial G., s. " b. May 24, 1824.

Priscilla P., d. " b. May 28, 1826.

Helen E., d. " b. March 26, 1834.

Frances A., d. " b. Nov. 18, 1838.

Frank J., s. Bitfield and Susan, b. Feb. 16, 1847. Price, Mary F., d. Ebenezer and Lucy, b. Dec. 26, 1804.

Lucy E., d. " b. Jan. 17, 1808.

Emily P., d. " b. Oct. 25, 1809.

Ebenezer S., s. " b. Feb. i, 1812.

Frederick, s. " b. Aug. 6, 1815.

Pritchard, Benj., s. Dexter and Cintha, b. Nov. 12, 1830. Putney, Alexander H., s. Caleb and Naomi, b. Feb. 26, 1804.

Sarah, d. Stephen and Susanna, b. Feb. 9, 1S07.

Clarissa, d. " b. Aug. 22, 1810, d.

April 16, 1S21.

David E., s. " b. Aug. 5, 1812.

Lucy E., d. " b. July 2, 1S14.

Chas. E., s. Stephen and Sally, b. June 10, 1827.

Samantha S., d. " b. Aug. 3, 1829.

Francis, s. Enoch and Sally, b. Oct. 20, 1818.

Moses, s. " b. Nov. 14, 1820, d. Nov.

18, 1841.

Clarissa, d. " b. Sept. 21, 1824, d. June 3,

1846.

Richards, Sarah, d. Daniel and Eunice, b. Feb. 9, 1776.

Joseph, s. " b. June 21, 1784.

John M., s. " b. Sept. 10, 1788.

Daniel, s. " b. Jan. 20, 1793.

Nabby, d. " b. Aug. 28, 1795.

Polly, d. " b. March 5, 17S0, d.

March 16, 17S0.

Betty, d. " b. July 23, 17S2, d.

Aug. 31, 1782. Rolfe, Benja., s. Benja. and Lydia, b. Jan. 29, 1773.

John, s. John and Anna, b. May 9, 1785.

169

Rolfe, Amos, s.Johii and Anna,b. Apr. 12, 1787, d. Jan. 27, 1S41. Lvdia, d. •• b. Sept. 25, 1791.

Michael, s. " b. Feb. 10, 1793, d. Jan. 82, iSio.

Elisabeth, d. " b. July 29, 1797.

Judith, d. " b. Feb. 13, 1799.

Paul, s. " b. Oct. 27, 1802, d. Sept., 1824.

Nancy, d. John and Nancy, b. Sept. 25, 1806, d. March

27, 1S30. Jeremiah, s. '' b. Jan. 8, 181 2.

Sally, d. Silas and Nancy, b. April 5, 1794. Amos, s. '• b. July 7, 1795.

Pearson, s. " b. Sept. 20, 1798.

Benja., s. '' b. March 15, iSoo.

David, s. Amos and Fanny, b. Feb. 17, 181 5. Eliza, d. ^ b. Sept. 5, 1816, d. Nov. 11,

1848. William, s. '• b. Aug. 8, 1819, d. Feb. 13,

1843. Rosannah. s. "• b. Nov. 7, 1821.

Albert, s. '' b. Jan. 3, 1824.

Hiram, s. •• b. Mav 10, 1827, d. Aug. 24,

1854. Harriet, d. ** b. Feb. i. 1S29. d. Jul\- 11,

1849. John S., s. Jeremiah and Lucy A., b. Feb. 11, 1850. Roberts, Daniel VV., s. Asa and Hannah, b. June 22, 1828, in

Salisbury. Robey, Mary A., d. Stephen M. and Sarah K., b. Aug. 10,

1849. Frank A., s. James W. and Eliza, b. Dec. 10. 1850. Robinson, James, s. James and Elisabeth, b. Oct. 2, i773*

James, s. " b. April 20, i775'

in Allenstown. Horatio Gates, s. "■ b. Oct. 4, 1778, in

Pembroke. Betsa, d. " b. Oct. 4, 1778, in

Pembroke. Olive, d. James and Elisabeth B., b. June 13, 1783. Polly, d. James and Judith, b. Jan. 19, 1786.

Robinson, Judith, d. James and Judith, b. Oct. 7, 1788.

John, s. " b. May 29, 1792.

Royce, George H., s. George S. and Eunice W., b. April 11,

1848. Daniel D., s. " b. Sept. 28,

1850. Runnels, Jeremiah F., s. Farnum and Jerusha, b. Oct. 14, 1824. Mary A. J., d. '' h. April 12,

1827. Jerusha A., d. " b. June 19,

1S31. Osyman, s. '" b. June 12,

1S35. Helen C, d. " b. May 18, 1839.

Edward G., s. " , b. Dec. 6, 1843.

Albert, s. Samuel and Elisabeth, b. Dec. 23, 1810. Mary C, d. Albert and Ann M., b. June 10, 1836. Marshal, d. " b. July 14, 1838.

Nelson I,, s. Jeremiah and Harriet M., b. July 28, 1850.

Sargent, Isaac, b. April 21, 1786, d. Dec. 3, 1825.

Rebeckah, wife of Isaac, b. Dec. 10, 1796.

Sarah, d. Isaac and Rebeckah, b. Dec. 14, 1816.

Ezekiel C, s. '^ b. Nov. 21, 1818.

George J., s. " b. Oct. 20, 1820.

Mary Ann, d. " . b. Sept. 2, 1S22.

Walter H., s. " b. March 6, 1825.

Louis, s. Michael and Lydia, b. June 19, 1772.

Molly, d. " b. Aug. 26, 1773.

Edward, s. " b. Dec. 27, 1774.

Sarah, d. " b. May 9, 1777.

Joseph, s. " b. Jan. 20, 1779.

William, s. " b. Aug. 28, 1781.

John, s. " b. May 14, 1783.

Dorothy, d. " b. Feb. 28, 1785.

Michael, s. " b. Oct. 16, 1786.

Sanborn, Jesse, s. Tristram and Abigail, b. Nov. 12, 1797, d.

May 12, 179S.

Abidan, s. " b. July 26, 1799.

171

Sanborn, Jos. K., s. Tristram and Abigail, b. Nov. 4, iSoo. Henian, s. " b. Dec. 13, 1803.

Sarah, d. " b. March 10, 1S06.

Nancy E., d. " b. March i, 180S.

Joshua, s. " b. March 25, iSio, d.

July 26, 1815. Daniel, s. " b. Oct. 22, 1S12.

Jesse D., s. " b. Nov. 2, 1S14.

Hannah, d. " b. June 29, 1S17, d.

Sept. 25, 1822. Lois. d. " b. Aug. 22, 1820, d.

Sept. 8, 1822. Tappan, b. Jan. 24, 1800.

Mary, b. Aug. 23, 1801, wife of Tappan. d. Dec. 14, 1827. Hannah K., d. Tappan and Mary, b. May S. 1825. Walter, s. '• b. April 4, 1827.

James F., s. James and Lydia, b. July 21, 1810, at San-

bornton. Abigail C, d. Abidan and Rcheckah,b. Oct. 22, 1826. Moses C, s. •• b. May 19, 1S29.

Susanna C. d. " b. Oct. 20. 1S30.

Emily, d. John aiul Rehcckah, b. Dec. 30, 1S32. John, s. '• b. March 15, 1834.

Ellen, d. " b. July 12, 1835.

Charles, s. " b. Nov. 22, 1839.

Sarah, d. " b. May 4, 1842.

Hannah, d. " b. Feb. 3, 1844.

Harvey P., s. •' b. Jan. 15, 1846.

Hannah vS., wife Joseph K., b. July 30, 1798. George T., s. Joseph K. and Ilannali, b. jMay 24, 182S. Heman B., s. •• b. Feb. 26, 1830.

Adelia A., d. " b. Sept. 4, 1834.

Hannah L., d. " b. Jan. 16, 1839.

Joseph H. K., s. Jesse D. and Arvilla, b. June 7, 1842. Mary J., d. " b. June 10, 1844.

Tristram, s. " b. June 7, 1846.

Martha A., d. " b. May 16, 1848.

Clara F., d. '' b. June 5, 1850.

Georgianna E . d. Geo. T. and Hannah E., b. March 2, 1850.

172

Sanborn, Flora A., d. Geo. T. and Hannah E., b.Mar. 5, 1852,

d. Feb. 26,

1853- Betsey A., d. James F. and Betsey, b. Feb. 11, 1S41, d.

Sept. 16, 1848.

James O., s. " b. Nov. 4, 1S43.

Sarah E., d. " b. Nov. 7, 1845.

Lydia D., d. " b. Nov. 7, 1845.

EHsabeth A., d. " b. Aug. 24, 1847.

John E., s. " b. March i, 1849.

Jeremoh F., s. " b. Feb. 30, 1851.

.MyraJ.,d. " b. April 3, 1853.

Savory, Caroline P., d. Thomas W. and Martha, b. Dec. 24,

1847.

Sawyer, Elenor N., d. John and Phebe, b. June 8, 1827.

Senter, Ebenezer P., s. Ebenezer and Polly, b. June 26, 1804.

Severance, Jemima, d. Nicholas Severance and Molly Danforth,

b. Dec. 12, 1790, d. in 1S33.

Polly, d. Benjamin and Rebekah, b. April 5, 1790.

Sally, d. " b. April 5, 1791.

Benjamin, s. " b. April 2, 1794.

Rodney, s. " b. Dec, 1795.

Silas, s. " b. July 29, 1797.

Shackford, Charles F., s. George W. and Mary A., b. Jan. 24,

1844.

George W., s. " b. May 11,

1846, d.

Jan. 4,

1S49.

Shattuck, Richard, b. in New Ipswich, Feb. 15, 1791.

Abigail, d. Timothy Farnsworth, b. March 29, 1793, in

Peterborough, wife of Richard above.

Jane W., d. Richard and Abigail, b. Sept. 5, 1812.

Sally, d. Richard P. and Abigail, b. July 11, 1817.

Mary, d. " b. June 25, 1820.

Timothy F., s. " b. Nov. 23, 1822.

William E., s. " b. Sept. 3, 1824.

Ricliard P., s. William E. and Nancy A., b. May 2, 1846.

Franklin P., s. Timothy F. and Parmelia, b. Apr. 17, 1848.

/J

Shattuck, David H.. s. Farnsworth and Permelia, b. Jan. 30,

I S50. ^ Shepard, Peter R.. s. John and Frances, b. Sept. 19, 1838.

Ann F., d. •' b. Nov. i, 1S42.

Shepherd, Mary, d. Israel and Sally, b. March 13, 1S16.

Jona. C, s. " b. March 22. 1818.

Sally, d. " b. Aug. 15, 1S20.

Chestina, d. " b. Dec. 6. 1S24.

Nancy, d. " b. Aug. 23. 1S26.

Jedidiah S., s. " b. May i, 1S29.

Charles P., s. " b.

Elisabeth, d. Daniel and Elisabeth, b. Jan. S, 1776.

Sarah, d. '' b. Aug. S, 1777.

Elisha, s. Daniel and Mary, b. Dec. 4, 1759.

Phillip, s. " b. April i, 1761.

Charles, s. " b. May 31, 1768, at Canter-

bury.

!Mirriain, d. " b. Feb. iS, 1773.

Clarissa, d. Sarah Danforth, b. Nov. 20, 1S02.

Franklin A., s. Luke and Mary, b. Nov. 4, 1827.

James C, s. " b. Oct. 29, 1S29.

Mary, d. " b.

Jane, d. John and Catherine, b. Sept. 8. 1S51. Simpson, John G., s. Benjamin and Ruth, b. April 9, iSoS.

Mary J., d. John G. and Jane, b. Aug. 19, 1S39.

Charles P., s. '' b. March 28, 1841.

Walter J., s. Horace and Jane W., b. Aug. 9, 1849.

Susan M., d. '• b. May 16, 1S52.

George L., s. Amos J. and Elisabeth, b. March 19. iS^i. Smith, Benjamin, b. July 20, 1787, in Salisbury.

Abigail Call, wife Benjamin, b. Jan. 29, 1796, in Salis-

burv.

Jeremiah, s. Moses and Sally, b. Feb. 14, 1802.

Silas, s. " b. Dec. 15, 1S04.

Mary L., d. " b. Sept. 5, 1S07.

Caleb P.. s. '^ b Oct. 5, iSio.

Samuel, s. '• b. Aug. 25, 1813.

Mary G., d. Joseph B. and Anna. b. Feb. 8, 1S13.

Martha A., d. " b. July 12, 181S.

174

Smith, Emeline, d. Benj. and Abigail, b. Oct. 28, 1818.

John F., s. " b. Feb. 15, 1821, d.

July 9, 1843. Leonard N., s. " • b. Jan. 22, 1823, d.

April 23, 1842. Emeline, d. " b. April 2, 1827, Salis-

bury. Mary J. P., d. " b. Feb. 16, 1841.

Julian, d. Joseph and Julian, b. June 25, 1850.

s. James V. and Mary A., b. March 9, 1851.

Stackpole, Charles H., s. John D. and Mary J.,b. Sept. 9, 1835. John P., s. " b. July 8, 1840.

George D., s. " b. June 17,1842.

Ellen M., d. " b. April 30,

1845. Emily I., d. " b. July 19, 1847.

Stanley, David S., s. Sumner and Ruth, b. Maixh 15, 1829, in

Hopkinton. Stanwood, Jane, d. Cornelius D. and Mary, b. June 12, 1817. Eliza A., d. " b. Sept. 20, 1820,

d. March 24, 1851. Catharine, d. " b. Oct. 8, 1822.

Charles H., s. " b. July 7, 1827.

Daniel C, s. " b. May 3, 1829.

Stevens, Phinehas, s. John and Elisabeth, b. Dec, 9, 1774, d.

April II, 1788. Jane, d. " b. Dec. 16, 1776.

David, s. John and Submit, b. Jan. 19, 181 1. Bradford N., s. " b. Jan. 3, 1813.

Adeline, d " b. Feb. 17, 1815.

Calvin, s. " b. March 15, 1817.

Cate, s. George W. and Martha C, b. May 5, 1851, d.

March 31, 1852. Stone, Sarah, d. George and Hannah, b. Dec. 28, 1789. John, s. " b. Feb. 28, 1791.

Amos, s. " b. June 20, 1794.

Polly, d. " b. May 27, 1797.

Peter, s. " b. Dec. 11, 1799.

175

Stone, Geo. W., s. George and Hannah, b. Sept. 5, 1S02.

Hannah, d. " b. Feb. 14, 1S04.

Royal, s. " b. July 27, 1S07.

Liberty, s. Charles and Nancy, b. Feb. 13, 1S05.

Benjamin S., s. Jolin and Submit, b. June 16, 1815.

Hiram G., s. " b. May 24. 1S22.

Mary, d. Amos and Nancy A., b. Aug. i, 1S19.

Eliza, d. " b. Oct. 14, 1S20.

Oilman C, s. " b. March 11, 1S23.

Ira A., s. " b. June 13, 1S25. d. Oct.

15, 1S46.

Joseph W., s. " b. Oct. 10, 1827.

Hannah A., d. " b. April, 1830.

Henry F., s. " b. Aug, 20, 1S33.

Royal H., s. " b. June 15, 1S37. d- March

9, 1S42.

Nancy J., d. " b. Oct. 13, 1839, d. March

13, 1S42.

Myron, s. " b. March iS, 1843.

Phebe C, d. Peter and Ruth, b. Sept. 24, 1S25.

Charles J,, s. " b. April 21, 1S27.

Hannah E., d. " b. Dec. 12, 1S2S.

Silas C, s. " b. Nov. 14, 1830.

Caroline, d. George W. and Julia, b. March 4, 1834, ^^'

Sept. 17. 1842.

Katherine, d. George W. and Julia A., b. Oct. 20, 1S38.

Cyrus A., s. " b. Jan. 10, 1S42.

Maria, d. " b. April 4, 1844.

Ella F., d. " b. Nov. 26, 1846.

George H., s. '' b. Feb. 17, iS^o.

Story, Albert S., s. Joseph and Lucie H., b. Feb. 17, 1828.

Julia A., d. "■ b. Dec. 22, 1830, d.

March 31, 1846. Sweatt, Edward, s. John P. and Susannah, b. Dec. 15, 1774.

Susannah, d. " b. Dec. 23, 1776.

Rhoda, d. " b. Sept. 9, 1793.

Samuel P., s. Abraham T. and Priscilla, b. June 11, 1783.

Martha, d. Benjamin and Sarah, b. March 5, 1775, d. March

6, 1819.

176

Sweatt, Sarah, d. Benjamin and Sarah, b. May 20, 1777, d. Aug

II, 1S47, in Ohio. Benjamin, &. Benjamin, Jr., and Sarah, b. July 19, 1782.

b. Nov. 4, 1784.

b. Sept. 16, 17S7.

b. March 14, 1790, d. Dec.

1 1, 185 1, at Pittsfield. b. Dec. 12, 1792, d. April

23, 1852. b. June 16, 1795.

David, s. Stephen, s. Stephen, s.

Samuel, s.

Submit, d.

Mary E., d. Moses and Sally, b. July 13, 1796.

Jesse, s. Edward and Mirriam, b. Oct. 10, 1796.

Asenath, d. " b. June 30, 1798, d. Oct.

II, 1821. Pierce, s. " b. Sept. 18, 1800, d. March

3, 1844. b. Nov. 4, 1802. b. April 6, 1805. b. Oct. 12, 1807, d. April

13, 1825. b. April I, 1809. b. June 25, 1812. b. Jan. 17, 1816.

David, s. "

Silas, s. "

Sally, d.

Jeremiah, s. "

Ruth, d.

Edward, s. "

Martha, d. David and Judith, b. Aug. 12, 1805.

Levi, s. Benjamin, Jr., and Eunice, b. July 9, 1806.

Lemuel, " b. April 25. 1S08, d.

June 5, 1S16. Polly, d. John P., Jr., and Eunice, b. Feb. 8, 1802. Nicolas, s. " b. July 9, 1803.

James, s. " b. Aug. 8, 1S05.

Hannah, d. " b. Sept. 2, 1S08.

Eunice, d. " b. May 16, i8ii.

Angelina, " b. Dec. 8, 1814.

Submit, d. Isaac and Mary, b. March 24, 1805, d. March

23, 1803. Orrella, d. " b. Nov. 14, 1806.

Betsey, d. " b. April 13, 1S08.

William M., s. '' b. Feb. 20, 181 2.

Mary Ann, d. " b. April 6, 1814, d. Sept. 20,

1825.

177

Sweatt. Emeline, d. Isaac and Mary, b. March 6, iSi6. d. Aug.

13, 1830. Atherton, s. Isaac and Polly, b. Aug. 2, 1S18. Charles, s. " b. June 29, 1820, d. Oct. S.

1834. George, s. " b. April 2, 1S23.

Flora A., d. Isaac T. and Polly, b. May i, 1824. Martha C, d. '• b. Feb. 3, 1826.

Mirriam G., d. " b. Sept. 16, 1S29.

Emily, d. •' b. Sept. 23. 1S31.

Lucinda, d. Silas and Polly, b. March 12, 1806. Ira, s. . " b. Dec. 14, 1S07.

Lois, d. " b. Feb. 21, 1810.

Hiram, s. " b. May 22, 1S12.

Savalla, d. " b. June 5, 1814.

Cyrus G., s. '' b. July 13, 1816.

Abraham T., s. Samuel P. and Abigail, b. Feb. 8, 1S07. Priscilla C, d. " b. March 2, 1809.

Sophronia C, d. " b. April 25, 181 1.

Simeon H., s. " b. April 27, 1S13.

Elvira, d. " b. May 20, 1S15.

Carter C.,s. " b. May 7, 1817,

d. Aug. 12, 1825. Moses, s. '• b. Sept. II, 1S20.

Abigail, d. " b. Oct. 29, 1S21.

Samuel, s, " b. May 8, 1824.

Carter G., s. " b. Sept. 2, 1827.

Livonie, d. " b. Sept. i, 1829.

Sarah, d. Samuel and Susannah, b. Nov. 30, 1816. Sophia, d. •• b. Feb. 22, 1819.

Phebe L., d. Stephen and Judith, b. April 15, 1S15. Sally L., d. '^ b. Feb. 19, 1818.

Daniel. C, s. " b. March 19, 1820.

Ira C, s. " b. June 19, 1822.

Albe C, s. " b. April 24, 1824.

Mary L., d. " b. Jan. 26, 1827.

Taylor G., s. '- b. Oct. 26, 1829.

Leavitt L., s. ' " b. Sept. 10, 1832.

178

Sweatt, Charles L., s. Stephen and Judith, b. June 4, 1836. Sumner J., s. Henry and Elvh-a, b. Dec. 16, 1840. Nancy C, d. Silas and Dolly, b. July 6, 1S18. Enoch, s. " b. Feb. 24, 1835.

Maria G., d. Jesse and Sally, b. Nov. 22, 1S22. Mary Ann, d. " b. Dec. 5, 1824.

Harriet G., d. David and Judith, b. March i, 1824. Pamela, d. '' b. April 30, 1826.

Silvester, s. Levi and Adeline, b. April 20, 1835. Washington, s. " b. July 22, 1837.

Mary A., d. Ira and Mary, b. April 6, 1833. Henretta O., d. '' b. Nov. 24, 1834.

Eliza J., d. " b. Dec. 19, 1836.

Joseph S., s. " b. Nov. 28, 1843.

Walter E., s. " b. Jan. 29, 1846.

Sarah A., d. Simeon H. and Abigail A., b. March 16,

1841. Joseph S. G., s. " b Oct. 23,1843.

Warren"^ s. Henry and Elvira, b. July 29, 1845. Abby, d. " b. Feb. 8, 1848. .

Anetta C, d. George and Francis C, b. April 6, 1850. Edwin L., s. Albe C. and Mary, b. May 12, 1850. Ella M., d. Atherton and Harriet, b. May 5, 1852.

Tewksbury, Olive, d. Ezekiel F., b. July 3, 1850. Therlo, Ruth, d. Silas and Susannah, b. April 4, 1796. Thorla, John, s. Thomas and Deliverance, b. Oct. 27, 1791. Marv, d. Amos and Alice, b. Aug. 11, 1805, d. May 20,

1854. Betsey, d. " b. Aug. 17, 1810.

Fanny, d. " b. July 12, 1813.

Jeremiah S., s. " b. April 13, 181 6.

Rosamond, d. " b. Jan. 14, 1819, d. Jan. 2,

1843. Alice, d. " b. June 3, 1822.

Fidelia, d. " b. Sept. 20, 1824.

Thurlow, Mary, wife Eliphalet Kilbourn, b. July 19, 1762, in

Newbury, Mass., d. June 12, 1842.

179

Thurston. Polly J., d. Natli'l and Susannah, b. Nov. 20. 1792.

Moses, s. " b. Feb. 2, 1795,

d. Nov. 9. 179S.

Abel, s. " b. April 5. 1797.

Moses, s. " b. Oct. 20. 1799,

d. Oct. 22, 1S49.

Apphia C. d. " b. June 15. 1S02.

Ruth, d. " b. Oct. 7. 1804.

Enoch, s. " b. Mch. 24, 1S07.

Molly B., d. " b. Sept. 19. 1S09.

John J., s. '* b. April 3, 1S13.

Susannah, J., d. " b. Oct. iS, 1S15.

Nath'l, s. '' b. April 6. 1S20.

Phebe, d. Jonathan and Elizabeth. 1>. May 30. 177S.

Nancy, d. Enoch and Caroline, b. June 12, 1S51.

John P., s. John J. and Eunice R., b. June 25, IVS43.

Samuel U., s. " • b. Sept. 29, 1S45.

Phebc J., d. " b. Jan. iS, 1S4S.

Susan W., d. " b. March i, 1S50.

, s. John J. and Eunice, b. Dec. 29. iS^i.

Titcomb, Isaac, s. lienj. vS.. Jr.. and Sarah, b. Feb. 16. 1780.

Samuel T.. s. Jeremiah and Rebecca, b. Sept. 10. 1S24.

Jeremiah G., s. '• h. Sept. 10. 1S24.

Mary E., d. '' b. Dec. 28, 1S25.

Eliza A., d. '' b. July 12, 1S27, d.

Oct. 22, 1S43.

Luther C, s. " b. March 7, 1S30.

Joseph P., s. " b. March 13, 1834.

Rebeckah F.. d. " b. July 17, 1836.

George P., s. " b. Sept. 8. 1838.

Ann E., d. " b. Jan. 17, 1S43.

Trumlndl, Lydia, d. Samuel and Mary, b. June 3. 1791, in

Warner.

Gardner, s. Simon and Sally, b. May 8, 1S03, d. Sept. 3,

1825.

Eliza, d. " b. May 14. 1S05.

Rosvvell, s. " b. March 26, 1807.

Rachel, d. " b. Sept. 29, 1809.

Abial, s. " b. Jan. 19, i8ii.

i8o

Trumbull, Sam'l, s, Simon and Sally, b. July 36, 1813, d. Dec,

1S19.

Richard, s. " b. July 26, 1S15, d. July

26, 1823.

Sarah, A., d. " b. Jan. 6, 1819.

Ezra, s. " b. May 10, 1S22.

Betsey J., d. " b. April 26, 1829.

Trussell, John, s. Moses and Judith, b. Jan. 31, 1788.

Judith, d. Moses and Martha, b. May 14, 1794.

Martha, d. " b. July 11, 1796, d. May

26, 1842.

Molly, d. " b. July 27, 179S.

David, s. '* , b. Aug. 30, 1800.

Seth, s. "- b. Sept. 24, 1802, d. Oct.

7, 1S49.

David, s. " b. Sept. 6, 1804, d. March

II, 1845.

Mary, d. " b. Dec. 6, 1807.

William, s. " b. Feb. 19, 181 1.

Benj. F., s. Amos and Mary, b. Sept. 23, 181 1.

Otis G., S.Amos and Laura, b. Feb. 11. 1818.

Mary W., d. " b. Oct. 5, 1819.

James, s. " b. Aug. 25, 1821.

Hannah S., d. '• b. Sept. 20, 1823.

Jasper S., s. " b. July 23, 1825.

Hambleton J., s. " b. May 27, 1828.

Amos D., s. " b. Aug. 22, 1830.

Irene, d. Moses, Jr., and Jane, b. Nov. 21, 1810.

AlmenaD., d. " b. Oct. 9. 1813.

Sarah F., d. " b. Dec. 24, 1818.

HezekiahF., s. " b. May 17, 1823.

Abigail J., d. " b. Aug. 10, 1829.

Moses, s. William and Louisa, b. Nov. 28, 1S37.

Martha F., d. " b. Nov. 23, 1843.

Samuel D., s. David and Hannah, b. Feb. i, 1833.

Mary, d. " b. Nov. 26, 1835.

David, s. " b. Feb. 17. 1845.

Moses W., s. Hezekiah and Susan, b. October 3, 1850.

I8I

Tuttle, Almira, d. Jotham T. and Abigail, b. Feb. 17, 1S05, in

Essex, Mass. Maria, d. " b. Nov. 14, 1S06.

John B., s. " b. June i, iSoS.

Elbi-idge G., s. " b. Aug. 13, iSio.

Erastus, s. " h. July 17, i8i3.

William, s. " b. June 23, 1814, d.

July 17, 1833. Abigail, d. " b. Feb. 4, 181S.

Mary A., d. " b. Jan. 30, 1830, d.

August, 1835. Eliza, d., " b. Oct. 34, 1833, d.

August, 1S35. Daniel K., s. " b. April 17, 1824,

d. August, 1825. Eliza A., d. " b. March 29, 1837,

d. Dec. 33, 1837. Judith K.. d. " b. April 15, 1829.

Lucy A., d. Elbridge and Sarah, b. March 19. 1S37. Mary A., d. " b. Nov. 14, 1842.

Sarah J., d. " b. Feb. 14, 1845.

Uran, Ilaiuiah, d. James and Mary. b. Dec. 4, 1779, d. Sept.

16. 1853. Samuel, s. " b. July 16, 17S1. d. June

33, 1 838. Anna, d. *' b. Jan. 16, 17S7. d. Aug.

3, 1S31. Molly, d. " b. June 13, 17S9. d. Apr.

8, 181S.

Walker, Alvan. s. Israel and Phebe, b. April 4, iS[0.

Sarah, d. '' b. Sept. 9, iSii.

Betsey P.. d. " b. Sept. 13, 1814.

Hannah, d. ^' b. July 4, 1S18.

John R., s. " b. Jan. 3, 1833.

Martin L., s. " b. March 8, 1835.

Roxy A. K., d. " b. March 2, 1828.

Silas C s. William and Hannah, b. Aug, 10, 1806.

I«2

Walker, Morrill, s. Lon and Sally, b. Jan. 24, 1S05.

Willard, s. " b. Oct. 3, 1S06.

Elvira, d. " b. Jan. 12, 1809.

Emily G., d. Benjamin and Thankful, b. Oct. i, 1833, d.

Nov. 19, 1850. Waldron, Thomas B., s. Jacob and Judith, b. Feb. 25, 1817,

d. Apr. 26, 1845.

Anna Mariah, d. " b. May 21, 1819,

d. Feb. 20, 1837.

Ezra, s. • " b. May 12, 1822.

Isaac C, s. " b. Oct. 21. 1825.

Judith, d. " b. June 26, 1S29.

Warde, Samuel, s. Enoch and Mary, b. July 22, 1778.

Mary, d. " b. Dec. 6, 1779.

Watts, John, s. Thomas H. and Elisabeth, b. May 14, 1783. Watson, Samuel W., s. James and Hannah, b. July 3, 1816.

Willard, s. " b. Aug. 4, 1818.

Betsey, d. "■ b. Sept. 5, 1819.

Cyrus W., s. " b. Oct. 9, 1824.

Ellen M., d. Samuel W. and Abigail, b. Oct. 29, 1841.

Ann E., d. " b. April 14, 1845.

Mary F., d. " b. Jan. 29, 1847.

Abby J., d. " b. March 11, 1849.

Charles, s. Cyrus W. and Phebe A., b. Oct. 13, 1851. Webber, Amos, s. Edmund and Betsey, b, Nov. 11, 1800.

Elmira, d. " b. Sept. 29, 1802.

Eliza, d. " b. Feb. 28, 1808.

Mary A., d. Amos and Nancy, b. June 21, 1829.

Luther P., s. Luther and Joan, b. March 7, 1821^.

Richard A., s. " b. May 12, 1839.

Horatio, s. Richard and Harriet, b. Sept. 24, 1830.

Brooks R., s. Maxamilian J. and Clarissa, b. Aug. 17,

1837.

Cyril T., s. Jeremiah S. and Roxanna D., b. April 12,

1841. Webster, Stephen, s. Benjamin and Elisabeth, b. Dec. 30,

Alice, d. Ezekiel and Alice, b. March 8, 1814. Mary A., d. ,, b. Aug. 27, 1816.

1775-

i83

Webster, Charles \V., s. Worcester and Polly, b. Sept. 14,

1S26.

George, s. " b. .

Nathaniel S., s. Nathaniel and Betsey, b. May 11, 1818.

Ann R., d. " b. Nov. 26, 1S23.

Mercy, d. Ebenezer and Betsey, b. Aug. 11, 1S20.

Susan W., d. E. R. Webster, b. April 30, 1S51. d. Jan.

20, 1S54. West, Hannah, d. Jonathan and Hannah, b. Sept. 4, 1770.

James A., s. James and Isabella, b. Aug. 26, 1S27.

Cynthia E., d. '• b. Jan. 20, 1S30.

Whittier. Phinehas W., s. Enoch and Lucinda, b. Aug. 7,

1S19.

Amos H., s. " b. Feb. 25,

1S25.

Albert, s. " b. Aug. 18,

1830.

William W., s. Joseph and Victoria, b. Jan. 22, 1S30, d.

April 16, 1849.

Warren W., s. " b Oct. 3, 1832.

Ellen, d. '' b. Nov. i, 1S35.

George, s. Mark and Betsey, b. June 2, 1S08.

Betsey, d. " b. Sept. 10, iSio.

Olive, d. " b. March zG, 1813.

Moses, s. " b. Aug. 4, 1S15.

True P., s. Phinehas and Iluldah, b. May 23, 1822.

Wyatt B., s. " b. Oct. 9, 1824.

David J., s. " b. Nov. 16, 1829.

John S., s. Moses and Olive, b. Oct. 14, 1S47.

Mary E., d. " b. June 19. 1S50.

Wilson, Abigail E., d. Thomas B. and Abigail, b. July 8, 1843.

Mary B., d. " b. Oct. 16,

Wood, Mariaime, d. Enoch G. and Martha G., b. Nov. t8,

1848. Woodbury, Elizabeth, 'd. Ephraim and Lucy, b. Oct. 10, 1763.

Martha, d. " b. Sept. 27, 1765,

Deliverance, d. " b. April 1 1, 1768.

Woodman, Mary J., d. Samuel and Sarah, b. Dec. 6, 1808.

Ruth, d. " b. Oct. 16, 1814.

1 84

Woodman, Harriet J., d. Samuel, Jr., and Dorcas, b. Jan. lo,

1813. Lovry, " b. July 24,

1S16. Mirriam, d. " b. July 16,

iS"i8. George L., s. " b. Feb. 17,

1S24. George, s. Eben and Apphia, b. May 21, 1816. William R., s. Ruth Woodman, b. Dec. 29, 1S37. John P., s. Andrew and Hannah, b. June 13, 1824. Henretta C, d. " b. Aug. 31, 1826.

Louisa I., d. " b. July 22, 1828.

Lovilla E., d. " b. July 22, 1828.

Frances A., d. " b. May 23, 1830.

Woodward, Daniel S., b. June 17, 1804, in Springfield.

Elisabeth A., d. Daniel S. and Dorcas A., b. Sept. 22, 1828. Hannah S., d. " b. Nov. i, 1830.

Phebe L., d. " b. Jan. 7, 1832.

Daniel R., s. " b. Apr. 10, 1833

Stephen, s. " b. Aug. 22, 1834

Albin A., s. " b. May 22, 1836

Dorcas A., d. " b. Feb. 22, 1S38

Diana, d. " b. Sept. 22, 1S39

Perlena, d. " b. Sept. 7, 1842

d. Oct. 8, J 844 Frances R., d. " b. Feb. 9, 1845

18:;

The following Names were not on the regular

Town Record, but on the Proprietors'

Record, and were omitted.

Batchelder, Sarah, d. Abraham and Sarah, b. July 12, 1750.

Abigail, d. '• b. Oct. 5, 1751.

Bishop, Josiah. s. Enos and Elizabeth, b. Oct. 7, 1750.

Mercy, d. '' b. March 12, 1752.

Bohonon, .Sarah, d. Andrew and Tabitha, b. Jan. 22, 1736.

Andrew, s. •• b. Aug. iS, 173S.

John, s. " b. Feb. 29, 1740.

Jacob, s. " b. Nov. 22, 1741.

Annaniah, s. " b. July 22, 1743.

Burbank, Moses, s. Moses and Sarah, b. June 26, 1741.

David, s. " b. Aug. iS, 1743.

Molly E.,d. " b. Feb. 20, 1749.

Sarah, d. '' b. June 6, 1752.

Call, Hannah, d. Moses and Mehetable, b. Sept. 6, 1751. Carter, Jesse, s. Thomas and Judith, b. Oct. 29, 1750.

David, s. " b. Jan. 5, 17^3-

Danford, Abigail, d. Nathaniel and Pricilla, b. Jan. 7, 1735.

Sarah, d. " b. May 16, 1738.

Digodon, William, s. William and Jane, b. Julv 3, 1736.

Peggee, d. •• 1). May 4. 1740.

Anne, d. " b. Apr. 28, 1741.

Nathaniel, s. " b. May 3, 1743.

Sarah, d. " b. Oct. 6, 1745.

Easman, Jeremiah, s. Joseph and Dorothy, b. Feb. 9, 1740- Emery, Edward, s. Edward and Sarah, b. Mar. 10, 1739. *Emey, William, s. William and Mary, b. 175 1. Fitz Gerald, Jane, d. Edward and Mehetable, b. Jan. 12, 174^.^

Mary, d. " b. Jan. 24, 1744

Sarah, d. " b. Feb. 14, 1746

James, s. " b. Aug. 10, 1748

Rebecca, d. " b. Aug. 10, 1748

Edward, s. " b. Oct. 24, 1751

Susanna, d. " b. Oct. 24, 1753

Dorcas, d. " b. May 15, 1756

13

i86

Flanders, Enos, s. Ezekiel and Sarah, b. Feb. 8, 1745.

Sarah, d. " b. Dec. 2, 1747.

Sussana, d. " b. Nov. 21, 1749.

Aaron, s. John and Eunice, b. Aug. 5, 1750.

John, s. " b. Oct. 13, 1752.

Betty', d. " b. June 13, 1755.

Fowler, Samuel, s. John and Elizabeth, b. May 14, 1743.

Lucy, d. " b. Apr. 13, 1745.

Abigail, d. " b. June 10, 174S.'

Gerrish, Henry, s. Stephen and Joanna, b. May 2, 1742, d. May

16, 1806.

Jane, " b. Apr. 20, 1745.

Samuel, " b. Apr. 20, 174S.

Enoc, s. " b. Jan. 16, 1750.

Jackman, Richard, s. Richard and Martha, b. Oct. 6, 1740.

John, s. " b. Aug. 24, 1743.

Moses, s. " b. Apr. 26, 1746.

_- Samuel, s. " b. Mar. 17, 1749.

Sarah, d. " b. Sept. 11, 1751.

Sarah, d. " b. Sept. 29, 1755.

Benjamin, s. George and Hannah, b. May 7, 1743, d. Nov.

26, 1836. Manwell, Joel, s. Joel and Tabitha, b. Nov. 20, 1736.

Moses, s. " b. Sept. 13, 1738.

Elisabeth, d. " b. Aug. 14, 1748.

Meloon, Sarah, d. Nathaniel and Rachell,b. 1739.

Nathaniel, s. " b. Mar. 27, 1741.

Mary, d. " b. May 29, 1743.

Rachell, d. " b. Jan. 29, 1744.

John, s. " b. Oct. 24, 1748.

Sarah, d. " b. Apr. 6, 1753.

Daniel, s. " b. Mar. 3, 1751.

Stevens, Jane, d. Rev. Phineas and Jane, b. Jan. 20, 1743.

Sarah, d. " b. May 26, 1748.

Abigail, d. Rev. Phineas and Sarah, b. Nov. 12, 1749.

John, s. " b. Mar. 7, 1752.

Phineas, " b. Apr. 2, 1754.

Rev. Phineas died Jan. 19, 1755-

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

CHARLES HUBBARD AMSDEN.

Isaac Amsden, the first of the Amsden name who is recorded in this country, appears in Cambridge, Mass.. where he was married 8 June. 1654. to Frances Peniman. He is supposed to have come from Enghmd. and died in Cambridge, 7 April, 1659, leaving two children.

Isaac, ^ their son, was born at Cambridge in 16^5, and mar- ried Jane Rutter 17 May, 1677. He died 3 May, 1727. She died 22 November, 1739. leaving six children.

John,' third son of Isaac,* born at Marlboro', Mass., 28 December, 1683. died at vSouthboro', Mass., 12 November, 1 761. He married Hannah, daughter of Isaac and Frances (Woods) Howe, of Marlboro', Mass., who was born 17 June, l688, and had twelve children.

Jesse,* son of John.' was born at Southboro'. Mass., 31 Mav, 1729. He married Bettie Ball, of Southboro'. 10 November,

1748, and had twelve children.

Jonas,'' son of Jesse,* was born at Southboro' 24 April,

1749, and married Hannah Rice 9 August, 1770. He died at Mason, N. H.. 20 March. 1S02. She died at Mason 27 Feb- ruary, 1809. They had nine children.

Hubbard,® son of Jonas,* was born in 1790, and died 16 September, 1S17. He married Annie Saunders, of Mason, 8 March, 1814. and had two children.

Henrv Hubbard," son of Hubbard,'' was born 14 Septem- ber, 1816, and married Mary Muzzey, of New Ipswich, 6 Au- gust, 1840. He died at Fenacook, 6 December, 1869.

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1. George Henry, b. 7 July, 1841, d. 16 January, 1872.

2. Charles Hubbard, b. 20 May, 1846, d. 29 October, 1847.

3. Charles Hubbard, b. 8 July, 1848.

4. Edward, b. 10 December, 1853, d. 9 June, 1858.

Charles Hubbard^ (Henry Hubbard, '^ Hubbard," Jonas, ^ Jesse,* John,^ Isaac," Isaac ^) was born in Boscawen 8 July, 1848. In early life he attended the public schools, and in Au- gust, 1S63, went to New Ipswich, where he attended Appleton Academy, remaining there until the spring of 1865. On return- ing home, he entered the employ of Caldwell & Amsden, fur- niture manufacturers, and continued with them until December, 1868, when the firm of H. H. Amsden & Sons succeeded Cald- well & Amsden, the same being composed of Henry H. and his two sons (George H. and Charles H.), and Charles H. Allen, of Boston. The senior member of the firm died 6 December, 1S69, and the surviving partners continued the business until the death of George H., which occurred 16 January, 1872. The remaining partners conducted the business until i Jan- uary, 1880, when Charles H. bought his partner's interest, and since has carried on the business under the same firm name.

Mr. Amsden is also associated with John Whitaker in the lumber business, having one of the best mills in the central part of the state, the product of which is used by Mr. Amsden in the manufacture of furniture.

Believing that New Hampshire is a good state for manufact- uring, it has been Mr. Amsden's aim to encourage and aid it all he could, and to this end has engaged with associates in other branches of business, being at the present time the president of the Concord Axle Company, a director in the Contoocook Man- ufacturing and Mechanic Company of Penacook, and of the Me- chanicks National Bank of Concord. He is also state director of the Portland & Ogdensburgh Railroad. Everything of a deserving public nature has his encouragement and assistance, so far as possible. He is a liberal contributor to benevolent objects. In religious views he is a Baptist, having become a member of that church and society at an early age, and is one of the liberal supporters of the church and society with which he is connected.

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On 29 October. 1S70, he married Helen A., daughter of David A. and Martha A. (Daggett) Brown, of Penacook. Of this union there was born to them, 15 July, 1S72, a son, Henry Hubbard, who is now living; also, 31 January, 1S78, a daughter, Mary Ardclle, who died 20 October, 1S83.

Being of a retiring disposition, and having his time so much taken up by business cares, he has never sought public honors to any great extent. He represented his ward in the board of aldermen in the city of Concord in 1S74, and was unanimously returned in 1S75. He was also a member of the state senate in 1 883.

Mr. Amsden is now in the prime of life. and. owing to force of circumstances, his business career has already been more extended than the average of men at his age. Filling various positions of trust and responsibility with commendable accept- abilitv. it has been his aim to merit and receive the esteem and confidence of his associates and constituents.

SAMUEL COLCORD BARTLETT.

Samuel Colcord Bartlett, d. d. (Dartmouth college, 1S61), LL. D. (College of New Jersey, 187S), Congregationalist ; born at Salisbury, N. H., 25 Nov., 1S17; graduated at Dartmouth college, 1836, and at Andover Theological Seminar}', 1842 ; became successively pastor at Monson, Mass., 1843 ; professor of intellectual philosophy in the Western Reserve college, Hud- son, O., 1846; pastor at Manchester, N. H., 1852; pastor in Chicago, 111., and professor of bibical literature in the Congre- gational Theological Seminary, Chicago, 111., 1857; resigned pastorate, but retained professorship, 1859; pi'esident of Dart- mouth college, Hanover, N. H., 1877. He is " in substantial accord with the modified Calvinism of New England, as repre- sented by Andover Seminary in the time of Woods, Stuart, B. B. Edwards, and Park ; welcoming all new light, from whatever source, upon the text, composition, or interpretation of the scriptures, or the doctrines thence legitimately resulting; but resisting all baseless theories and rash speculations, and, in gen-

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eral, declining to surrender tlie matured and well established convictions of the great mass of intelligent evangelical Chris- tians, except on valid evidence." He was the first on the ground to open and organize the Chicago Congregational Theological Seminary, and raised the funds for endowing the chair he occu- pied. He aided also in the organization of numerous churches in Illinois. He crossed the desert of Et Tih to Palestine (1874) with a view to compare in detail all the circumstances and con- ditions of the region with the narrative of the journey of the children of Israel. Besides numerous articles in the Bibliotheca Sacra, The Ne-iv-E7igIa7ider, The North American Review^ orations at the centennial of the battle of Bennington, the quar- ter-millennial celebration of Newburyport, and at literary anni- versaries, he has written "Life and Death Eternal, a Refuta- tion of the Doctrine of Annihilation," Boston, 1S66, 2d ed. 1S7S ; "Sketches of the Missions of the A. B. C. F. M.," 1872 ; "Future Punishment," 1S75 ; " From Egypt to Palestine, Ob- servations of a Journey," New York, 1879 ; "Sources of His- tory in the Pentateuch," 1883. During the eight years of his college presidency, the institution has received cash additions to its funds amounting to $400,000, and has undergone impor- tant expansions and improvements, including the endowment of five professorships and the erection of a fii-e-proof library building and the Rollins chapel.

CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.

Charles Carleton Cofiin, journalist, correspondent, author, historian, son of Thomas Coffin, was born 26 July, 1823. His early years were spent on the farm. His education, be- yond the advantages of a public school, were a few terms at the academy in the town, and a single term at Pembroke acad- emy. Sickness debarred him from a collegiate course. Inca- pacitated for a short time for physical labor, more for pastime than from any plan for the future he studied land-surveying and the rudiments of civil engineering. The time came, how- ever, when he could turn his slight knowledge thus gained to account by accepting a position on the engineering corps

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engaged in the construction of the Northern (New Hamp- shire), the Concord & Portsmouth, and Concord & Clare- mont raihoads. He early began to write articles for the local press, some of which were copied into LitteWs Living Age and other magazines. He became a contributor to The Knick- erbocker^ then recognized as the leading literary magazine of the country. His studies in engineering led him also toward scientific culture, and he became a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, contributing pa- pers at its meeting in Montreal, 1S53, and Newport and Spring- field in subsequent years. In 1S49 '^^ constructed the telegraph line between Harvard Observatory and Boston, by which uni- form time was first given to the railroads leading from Boston. He also had charge of the construction of the telegraphic fire alarm in Boston, and gave the first alarm ever given by that system, 29 April, 1S52.

Although engaged in such labor, he found time to make fre- quent contributions to the daily and weekly press of Boston, and in 1S52 decided to devote himself to journalism. For a short time he was assistant editor of The Practical Farmer^ an agricultural and literary weekly. In 1S54 he was employed on the Boston yournal^ and was subsequently assistant editor of the Atlas, which was merged into the Bee, from which he returned to the yoiirnaK employed as editor of the morning edition during the winter of iS6o-'6i.

Upon the breaking out of the war, Mr. Coffin became a correspondent of the Journah writing over the signature of ''Carleton," was present at the first battle of Bull Run, reached Washington during the niglit, and sent a full account of the action on the following morning. In the fall he joined the Army of the West, and sent an account of the taking of Fort Henry, which was republished in the papers of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore before any other account was pub- lished. Mr. Coffin was at the surrender of Fort Donelson, reported the movements of the Army of the West from Pitts- burg landing to Corinth, the operations of Island No. 10, New Madrid, Fort Pillow, and the battle of the gunboats at Mem- phis, viewing it from the deck of one of Admiral Davis's ves- sels. Returning to the Army of the Potomac, he witnessed the

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battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg. Knowing that a powerful fleet of monitors was on its way to attack Fort Sum- ter, he visited the Department of the South, and witnessed the attack and repulse, and also the failure, at Fort McAllister.

During the twelve days of the Gettysburg campaign, Mr. Coffin rode between two hundred and fifty and three hundred miles in the saddle, more than nine hundred in the cars, was on the battle-field three days and nights, and wrote a full and elaborate account, which was republished in many papers throughout the countr}', and was translated and copied by the press of Berlin and Paris. When Gen. Sherman reached the sea-coast, he hastened south, and the information that the flag of the Union was once more floating over Sumter was first given to the world through the yotirnal^ and was telegraphed over the country before any paper in New York had possession of the intelligence. In the campaign of 1864, the Journal cor- respondent was an eye-witness of every engagement from the Wilderness to Petersburg, and of nearly all the battles around Petersburg and Richmond, which city he entered upon its occupation by the Union troops. The correspondence of Mr. Coffin was accepted by the public as authentic, and gave the Boston Jojirnal ?^ wide circulation. His letters were regularly read by inore than a quarter of a million of people.

Upon the breaking out of the war between Austria on the one side, and Prussia and Italy on the other, in 1866, Mr. Cof- fin, accompanied by Mrs. Coffin, sailed for Europe ; but Aus- tria having been crippled by the single battle of Konnigratz, a truce was declared. Mr. Coffin remained abroad, however, writing a series of letters on current events. He visited Italy ; saw the occupation of Venice by the Italians ; reported the Paris exhibition of 1S67 ; reported the scenes in the house of parliament in England on the reform bill ; was present at the coronation of the emperor of Austria as king of Hungary ; made the acquaintance of many of the public men of Europe; visited Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt ; embarked at Suez for Bombay ; travelled across India before the comple- tion of the railroad ; visited Malacca, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai ; sailed up the Yang-tze six hundred miles ; vis- ited Japan ; crossed the Pacific to California, and the plains

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before the completion of the Pacific Raihoad, having been absent two years and five months. His correspondence during these years was widely read.

Mr. Coffin was at once in request in the lecture-field, and for several years was one of the popular lecturers before Ivceums. The first volume from his pen was "My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field," issued 1S63 ; the second was "Following the Flag," followed by the widely read books, " Winning His Way," "Our New Way Round the World," "The Seat of Empire," "Caleb Krinkle" (a story), "Boys of '76," ''Stories of Lib- erty," "Old Times in the Colonies," "Building the Nation," and "Life of Garfield," besides a history of his native town.

Mr. Coffin has ever taken a lively interest in educational matters, especially in history for the young people. His his- torical series was projected to bring before the boys and girls the meaning of our country's history ; the philosophy of the government of the people, — its development and end. This series has been received witli remarkable favor, and is to be found in nearly every libiary in the country and in many public schools.

Mr. Coffin has given several addresses before teachers' asso- ciations. At the St. Albans meeting of the American Institute of Instruction his theme was " The Future of Our Country, as Foreshadowed by its Physical Conditions." During the winter of iS78-'79 a movement was made by Western and Southern grangers to bring about a radical change in the patent laws of the country. Air. Coffin appeared before the committee of congress, and presented an argument abounding in historical research, and so convincing that the committee ordered its pub- lication. He also appeared before the Committee on Labor, and made an argument on the "Complaint of Labor, or The Forces of Nature as afiecting Society," which won the highest encomiums, and which was also printed. During the winter of iSSo he gave a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute on " Discovery and Invention as afiecting Society." The honor- ary degree of xV. M. was conferred upon him bv Amherst col- lege in 1S70. He is an active member of the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, and also a member of the American Geographical Society. He was selected by the citi-

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zens of his native town to give the centennial address. 4th of July, 1876, and also the address at the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its settlement.

Mr. Coffin was elected to the Massachusetts legislature by the citizens of Boston in 1884 and 1885. As a member of the Committee on Education, he reported and carried through a bill making text-books free to all scholars of the public schools. — the first of the kind in the world. He was also a member of the Committee on Civil Service, and it was largely through his ertorts that the enactment of the civil service law for the state was secured. In 1SS5 he was made chairman of a Special Com- mittee on the Police S\stem of Boston, which had become no- toriously inefficient, and under the influence largely of the liquor traffic. A large majority of the committee i^eported "In- expedient to legislate." Mr. Coffin made a minority report, with a bill taking the appointing power from the mayor and investing it in the governor and council. The combined liquor interest of Boston, aggregating seventy-five millions of capital, was arrayed against the bill. The contest for its passage lasted many weeks, and was fought on the part of the opponents of the bill by a resort to every kno.wn parliamentary device to pre- vent its passage. The struggle was one of the most notable ever had in the Massachusetts legislature, resulting in the tri- umphant passage of the bill. Mr. Coffin also reported and se- cured the passage of a bill closing all liquor saloons on election days. In recognition of his public services a banquet was held in his honor and in that of his coadjutor in the senate, Mr. Frank Ames, given at the Hotel Vendome by the citizens of Boston. Mr. Coffin declined a reelection in 1886, to give his attention to private aftairs.

In September, 1885, on the anniversary of the battle of Win- chester, Va., he gave an oration in that city upon the causes of the war of the Rebellion and the place of that war in history, which won high praise alike from the people of that city and from the veterans of the Union army for its freedom from bit- terness, for its patriotic sentiment, and for its far-reaching survey of the meaning of the mighty struggle.

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ENOCH GERRISH.

The name of Genish has been prominently identified with the town ofBoscavven. Captain Stephen Genish was one of the original proprietors ofBoscawen, and one of the leading spirits in the new settlement. His eldest son. Colonel Henry Gerrish, was a distinguished citizen, and held many positions of trust and responsibility. He was chosen the first grand juror to '' His Majesty's Superior Court," 1773, delegate to the convention for the choice of members to the first continental congress in 1774, the same in 1775. represented the towns of Boscawen and Salisbury in the general court in i779' •^"'^ Bos- cawen in 1790. He was captain in the militia at the breaking out of the Revolution, and marched with the minute men to Medford upon the receipt of the news of the battle of Lexing- ton. He was lieutenant-colonel of Stickney's regiment at the time of the Bennington campaign, but, having been detailed to other duty, was not in the battle. He was present at the sur- render of Burgoyne, being on the left flank of Burgoyne at Bat- tenkill, where he acted as clerk at the sale of some of the plun- der taken from the British. The mess-book used on that occa- sion is still in existence. He often acted as town's agent during the Revolution, performing the duties assigned him with the same care and energy that characterized the management of his private affairs.

Major Enoch Gerrish, third son of Captain Stephen, was born in Boscawen, 23 June, 1750. When eighteen years of age he built his log cabin on the east side of the road now called High street, where he cleared five acres of land, being part of the homestead where he and his posterity have since resided. He had a love for military parade, as his title indi- cates. During his life he was chosen to fill the offices of mod- erator, selectman, and representative to the general court nine years. A man strictly religious, he joined Dr. Wood's church in i77i» <*'^d was elected deacon in 1783, an office which he held until his death, i May, 1S21.

His son, Isaac Gerrish, father of Colonel Enoch, was born in Boscawen, 27 November, 1782. He was an honored citi- zen, and a leading member of the church in that town.

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Colonel Enoch Gerrish, the subject of this sketch, only son of Isaac and Caroline (Lawrence) Gerrish, was born at the old homestead on High street, 28 July, 1S22. He obtained his education at the academies in Boscawen, Franklin, and Meri- den. On the death of his father he inherited a large portion of his estate, and with it at the age of twenty came the care and management of an extensive farm. An addition of more than one hundred acres made it one of the largest in Merrimack county. For twenty years he devoted his time to the cultiva- tion and improvement of his soil, successfully developing its resources by raising live-stock, hay, and wool, when its heavy growth of wood and timber attracted the attention of the lumber manufacturer, to whom it was sold in 1S65.

Possessing a love for military parade and drill, he was pro- moted from the lowest rank to that of colonel of the Twenty- first regiment New Hampshire militia. He was often elected to fill the various offices in town, the duties of which were well performed. A friend to the church where his ancestors wor- shipped, and to religious institutions generally, he manifested an interest in all measures that contributed to their usefulness.

He moved to Concord after the sale of his farm, where his sound judgment, particularly in matters of finance, was duly appreciated, as is shown by his appointment as one of the trus- tees of the New Hampshire Savings Bank in Concord, and of the Rolfe and Rumford asylum.

He represented ward four of Concord in the legislature of i88i-'82. He married Miranda O., daughter of Joseph S. and Harriet N. Lawrence, 23 May, 1854. Their children are Frank Lawrence, born 19 May, 1855, and Lizzie Miranda, born 14 June, i860.

EZRA SHELDON HARRIS.

Ezra Sheldon,^ Almon,^ Bethuel,^ of Scottish origin, son of Almon and Phebe Harris, born 27 November, 1827, married (i) Cassandra Andromache, daughter of Nathan B. and Lucy C. Greene, 20 June, i860. She died 5 November, 1865. He married (2) Sarah Amelia, sister of Cassandra, 12 October, 1867.

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Children of Sarah. Harry Sheldon, b. 24 August, 1868. Almon Green, b. 24 January, 1870. Lucy Cassandra, b. 3 November, 1874.

Ezra S. and Almon, his brother, settled in Boscawen (Pena- cook), and continued the business established by their father and themselves under the name and style of E. S. Harris & Co. In 1SS2 Ezra S. purchased the interest of his brother. Almon A., in the firm of E. S. Harris & Co., and continued the busi- ness founded by Almon Harris in 1S47, which has been in- creased five fold by enlarging the capacity for manufactming woollen goods since that date.

Mr. Harris manages his business matters very carefully, mak- ing his own purchases, keeping his books, and attending to his correspondence ; is thoroughly skilled in all its various depart- ments, having been in the business most of his life ; refusing to take any office (save one year he was one of the selectmen), preferring to take care of his own matters rather than trust them to others; contributing largely to the support of religious and educational institutions, his influence ever on the side of right. He has manv friends, and is much respected by all.

JOHN KIMBALL.

John Kimball, son of Benjamin Kimball and Ruth Ames, was born in Canterbury, 13 April, 1821. When he was tliir- teen years of age his father died, leaving, also, a daughter (Elizabeth) nine years old, and another son (Benjamin A.) less than a year old. The widowed mother had already buried two children in infancy, and six years later lost the daughter ; but she lived forty years longer, and enjoyed the highest felicity of a mother, seeing her two stalwart sons grow prosperously to man's estate, achieving riches and honors, unblemished in life and character. The early home duties and experiences of the

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elder son naturally aroused in him tender devotion to a mother and brother so dependent upon him, animated him to earnest and persistent eftbrt, developed in him strong self-reliance, and laid broad and deep the foundations of those qualities of heart and mind which now distinguish him.

He attended the town schools of Boscawen, and during the year 1837 the Concord academy. In 1838 he was apprenticed as a machinist to William Moody Kimball, his father's cousin, then engaged in constructing mills and machinery at Boscawen, and in four years he mastered his trade. His first work after coming of age was, in 1842, to rebuild the grist-mills in the valley near the north end of Boscawen Plain, which are still in use ; and he worked at his trade in Suncook, Manchester, Lowell, and Lawrence.

In 184S he took charge of the new machine- and car-shops of the Concord Railroad, then building at Concord, and in 1850 became master mechanic of that corporation, continuing in the position until 1S58. Twenty years of unremitting work in me- chanical construction had brought him to the summit of his vocation, possessing thorough, practical skill, having acquired an unusual share of common-sense in human affairs, and, with habits of industry, temperance, and self-reliance, sure to give him a fair measure of success in any new calling which he might choose. Henceforth his life's work was to be indifferent fields. His neighbors and friends had discovered his integrity and capacity, and they commenced to utilize them in public employment.

In 1856 Mr. Kimball had been elected a member of the com- mon council of the city of Concord, and reelected in 1857, and chosen president of the council. In 1858 he was elected to the state legislature, was reelected in 1S59, '*"'^ served as chairman of the Committee on the State Prison. In 1859 he relinquished other employment to serve as city marshal of Concord and col- lector of taxes, from which office he was, in 1862, appointed by President Lincoln to the post of collector of internal revenue for the second district of New Hampshire, consisting of the coun- ties of Merrimack and Hillsborough, and served until he re- signed in 1869. His collections, which included the tax on manufactures from the mills of Manchester, were very heavy

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for a country district, and amounted in the seven years to nearly seven millions of dollars. No revenue district in the country established a better rej^utation. His methods of collection, while thorough, were quiet, and gave no offence, and his ad- ministration was in all respects faultless. In the office of the commissioner of internal revenue at Washington his record has always been referred to as one of the very highest.

In 1S70 Mr. Kimball was elected treasurer of the Merrimack County Savings Bank, then first organized. He has held the office ever since, and now conducts its business, for which he has been largely responsible, the bank being a profitable and successful institution.

Mr. Kimball was elected mayor of the city of Concord in 1872, and reelected in 1873, 1874, and 1S75. The duties of this honorable, responsible, but perplexing office he discharged with zeal and firmness, and to the satisfaction of the citizens. It fell to his lot to construct an unusual number of public works, which will long endure to testify to his capacity and fidelity. A freshet having carried away or rendered impassable five of the seven wooden bridges spanning the Merrimack and Contoocook riv- ers, the work of rebuilding devolved on him as the superinten- dent of roads and bridges. The new structures are of the most substantial character, — two, the Federal bridge and that atPen- acook, being of iron, of modern design. The central fire sta- tion, built by him, is also an edifice attractive as well as com- modious and convenient. Complaints of the cost of Mr. Kim- ball's constructions as mayor have long since ceased, in view of the universally admitted integrity of all expenditures upon them, and their solidity and permanency, as well as of the credit which they have brought to our beautiful city. During his adminis- tration the Long Pond water-works were constructed, bringing to the centime of Concord a copious supply of the purest water, at a cost of $425,000, economically and skilfully expended. He became ex officio one of the water commissioners, and in 1878 president of the board, in which position he has ever smce been kept. Blossom Hill cemetery was doubled in size ; the streets of the city were improved in accordance with modern requirements ; the system of sewerage was enlarged ; new and attractive school-houses were constructed ; and, without any

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discredit to other mayors, it may be claimed that it happened to him to render more important and Uisting service than any other official from the adoption of the city charter in 1S53 to the present time. For his success he must have been largely in- debted to the skill acquired during his long and laborious expe- rience in the practical business of his youth and early manhood.

In 1877, unexpectedly, and without solicitation or suggestion from any one. Governor Benjamin F. Prescott and his council appointed Mr. Kimball as chairman of the board of commis- sioners to build the new state prison at Concord, with Messrs. Albert M. Shaw and Alpha J. Pillsbury as his associates. In 1880 the edifice was completed v\ithin the limits of the moder- ate appropriation of $235,000, a model in its design and con- struction, remarkable for the honesty and cheapness which had characterized the establishment of a penitentiary superior, all things considered, to any prison of other states.

Repeated nominations and elections of any citizen by his friends and neighbors to local offices, not in any way improp- ei'ly procured, but conferred solely from popular esteem and desire, must be taken to indicate ability and true excellence. Mr. Kimball not only held the elective offices already men- tioned, but was, for eleven successive years from 1861, moder- ator of ward 5, Concord, and was elected a member of the con- stitutional convention of 1876, in which he was chairman of the committee on finance. He was, in November, iSSo, chosen state senator by the larger constituency comprised within the principal wards in Concord ; and at the meeting of the legisla- ture, in June, 1881, he was, by general consent of his party as- sociates, selected for president of the senate, in rank the second officer in the state. The duties of this high position he per- formed creditably, with courtesy and dignity, and to the satis- faction of his fellow-members, as indicated by their unanimous resolution and their speeches of approval of the i8th of August, which were accompanied by an appropriate testimonial of their good-will.

Additional trusts i^eposed in him have been the presidency of the Concord Gas-Light Company ; his appointment, by Mr. Chief-Justice Doe, as one of the trustees of the Manchester & Keene Railroad ; the treasurerships of the New Hampshire

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In person Mr. Kimball is tall, erect, and of commanding presence ; well preserved at the age of sixty-four, in good health, and with good prospects for longevity. His modes of life are regular, and he is a total abstainer through conviction and habit. While firm and decided in his views, he is genial and courteous in personal intercourse. His mind has been well cultivated. He is a careful reader, \\ ith an inclination for gen- ealogical and historical research, and he writes and speaks with precision and etlect. He is faithful in every relation of life, public and domestic, and is valued ami beloved by his neigh- bors and friends.

In 1S43 he joined the Congregational church in Boscawen, has continued his connection with that denomination, and is now a member of the South Congregational church in Concord. He is free from bigotry, pretence, and intolerance, is a just and good man, serving his God faitlifully according to the light he possesses, performing his every duty, and bearing his every burden without complaint.

May 27, 1S46, at the age of twenty-five, Mr. Kimball mar- ried Maria H. Phillips, of Rupert, Vt. Their only chikU Clara Maria, born 20 March, 1S48, married. 14 June, 1S73, Mr. Augustine R. Ayers, a successt'ul mercliant in Concord. Six children — Ruth Ames, John Kimball, Helen McGregor, Joseph Sherburne, Josiah Phillips, and Augustine Haines — have been born to them. All are now living except Joseph Sherburne and Josiah Phillips.

BENJAMIN AMES KIMBALL,

The son of Benjamin and Ruth (Ames) Kimball, was born in Boscawen, 22 August, 1S33. He received his preparatory ed- ucation at the high school in Concord, and at Prof. Hildreth's 14

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school in Derry. He entered the Chandler Scientific Depart- ment of Dartmouth college at the opening of that department of the college in 185 1, to fit himself for his chosen profession of mechanical engineer. He acquitted himself with credit in all the branches prescribed in the course of study, and was es- pecially excellent in mathematics and draughting. His class was small, but it was composed of men who entered college with the purpose of making the most of themselves, and they worked with a will. He graduated with honor, 27 July, 1854, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science i Aug., 1854.

Mr. Kimball entered the employ of the Concord Railroad as draughtsman and machinist, and was promoted i April, 1856, to be foreman of the locomotive department. January i, 1858, he succeeded his brother as master mechanic at the age of twentv-six years. He continued in this position until i April, 1865, when he resigned to become a member of the firm of Ford & Kimball, manufacturers of brass and iron castings, a business still successfully carried on by them. In 1870 he was elected a member of the house of representatives from ward 6, Concord, but declined a reelection in 187 1.

He was a member of a special committee appointed by the city council of Concord, in 1871, to procure plans and specifi- cations for an aqueduct to bring a supply of water from Long Pond ; and in January following he was appointed a member of the board of water commissioners, to construct the works, sub- stantially upon the plan and under the ordinance submitted by that committee. He continued an active member of the board for six years, and was its president for three years. In 1876 he was elected a member of the constitutional convention to revise the constitution of the state, and proved an efficient and valu- able member of that assembly.

He has been connected with the banking interests of the city for many years. He was trustee and president of the Concord Savings Bank until compelled to resign by ill-health, and is trustee of the Merrimack County Savings Bank at this time. He has been a director of the Mechanicks National Bank from its organization, and is now its president. January 11, 1879, he was elected to fill the vacancy in the board of directors of the Concord Railroad, caused by the death of Ouslow Stearns,

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and has since been closely connected with its system of roads. In November, 1SS4, he was chosen councillor for the second district, and is now (1SS6) in otfice.

This is a brief but honorable record of one whose life has been devoted to industries and enterprises which are the source of general prosperity. He married Myra Tilton, daughter of Ira Elliott, of Sanbornton. 19 January. 1S61. A son, Henry Ames, was born 19 October, 1S64.

WILLIAM SMITH KIMBALL.

William Smith Kimball, of Rochester. N. Y., was born in Boscawen, 30 March, 1S37. His father. Colonel William M. Kimball, was born in Canterbury. 4 Dec. iSoS. and tlied in ^Minneapolis, Mitin., 5 Oct., 1SS4. The father was for many years successfully connected with manufacturing interests in New Hampshire and Massachusetts ; was a quartermaster in the United States army in the civil war, serving in General Sibley's expedition against the Sioux Indians, and afterwards was an agent of the treasury department of the general govern- ment for superintending the erection and repair of public build- ings. The mother of the subject of this sketch was, before mar- riage. Miss Lucy Jane, daughter of Reuben and Judith (Hall) Johnson; was married S Jan., 1S35, and '^ living in Minne- apolis.

From his parents the son inherited strength of mind, active and industrious habits, and valuable Xew England traits of character, that go far in laying the foundation for success and usefulness in after-life. He was educated in the public schools of Lawrence. Mass., Prof. Hildreth's academy in Derrv. and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N. Y.. qualifying himself in the latter for the profession of mechanical engineer. 7 Oct., 1S5S, he was married to Miss Marion Elizabeth, daugh- ter of the late Hon. Rufus Keeler, of Rochester, which citv has since been his home. In iS62-'63 he was master mechanic of the United States naval machine works at Port Royal, S. C. Subsequently he entered into business in Rochester as the head of the firm of W. S. Kimball «& Co., tobacco manufacturers.

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His energy, enterprise, and marked executive ability soon made the establishment one of the most extensive of the kind in the United .States. It now employs more than a thousand per- sons, v^^hile its productions are widely celebrated in America and foreign countries. The firm had a contract for supplying tobacco and cigarettes for the French government.

Mr. Kimball's business capacity has gained him large wealth, which he dispenses with a most liberal hand. His home is one of the finest in the state, no expense having been spared to ren- der it beautiful with embellishments, rare books, paintings, and other works of art. Mr. Kimball's elder son, Harold Chand- ler, possessing preeminent talent for music, the father has placed in his residence an organ of great power and brilliancy, built by the celebrated Roosevelt of New York city, having 2,350 pipes. Some of the stops were made in Paris. Connected with Mr. Kimball's mansion are extensive grounds and floral gar- dens, whose fame is known throughout the country. His col- lection of orchids is the third largest in America, while in the rarity and great value of some of the specimens it is second to none in the United States.

In financial circles he has an eminent and well deserved rank. He is an oflScer in numerous corporations, including that of di- rector in the Commercial National Bank, and trustee in the Rochester Savings-Bank.

In civil affairs he has no aspiration for preferment, and has many times refused the use of his name as a candidate for political offices. In religious belief, he is a Presbyterian. As a citizen, he is public-spirited, generous, and exceedingly popular, while in social life he has a host of true and appreciative friends. Of commanding figure and fine personal presence, his frank and manly countenance reflects the virtues and powers that have enabled him to achieve so great a measure of success.

His first wife having died, he married, second. Miss Laura Page, daughter of the late David Mitchell, of Rochester, by whom he has had two children, Cecilia and Ernest. Mr. Kim- ball is a second cousin of Hon. John Kimball, ex-mayor of Con- cord, and of Hon. Benjamin A. Kimball, of that city, a member of the governor's council, and has many other relatives and friends in New Hampshire.

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ARTHUR LITTLE.

Arthur Little, son of Simeon B. Little, was born in the house now occupied by Sherman Little, in Webster, 24 May, 1837. His early years were passed on the farm, with attendance at the district school during the brief terms of summer and winter. He became a student at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, where he fitted for college, graduating from that institution in 1856. He entered Dartmouth the same year, and graduated from that institution in 1861. His twin brother Luther fitted for college at the same institution, entering college a year later, but died 19 July, 1858.

While in college, Arthur Little manifested qualities of char- acter which won the respect of his fellow-students, and the high esteem of the officers of the institution. The training of his early years, the sterling integrity, the geniality of his disposi- tion, made him a universal favorite. While in college, he de- cided to prepare for the ministry. Possibly the death of his brother may have given direction to his choice of a profession, and intensified his purpose.

He engaged in academical work in 1861, in Thetford and Black River academies, Vermont, entering Andover Theologi- cal Seminary the following winter, and Princeton, N. J., 1862. He was ordained as a minister of the gospel 16 March, 1863, in the Congregational meeting-house, Webster, and three days later received his commission as chaplain of the First Vermont heavy artillery. The regiment was detached for garrison duty at Washington. He was married to Laura Elizabeth Frost, of Thetford, Vt., 15 August, 1863, in the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D. C. The regiment performed garrison duty till May, 1864, when it joined the army of the Potomac at Spottsylvania, becoming engaged soon after its arrival upon the ground. From Spottsylvania to Petersburg, through the Shen- andoah valley campaign, in 1865, to the final scene at Appo- mattox, where the rebel army surrendered, the chaplain was with the regiment, performing arduous service as nurse, preach- er, minister, and consolator. This service brought him in con- tact with men from every walk in life.

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He was mustered out 4 July, 1S65, returning at once to Ando- ver seminary to continue his theological studies. On 3 January, 1S66, he was installed pastor of the Presbyterian church in Bedford, N. H., and accepted the pastorate of the Congrega- tional church in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 3 November, 1S68, where he remained ten years, till called to the pastorate of the New England church, Chicago, 26 December, 1S77. It was a ministry marked with preeminent success, attended by large additions to the church.

During the years of his pastorates he has been called upon to occupy responsible and honorable positions, — as moderator of the Wisconsin Congregational and Presbyterian Convention, the Illinois State Association, and the National Council of Con- gregational churches held in Concord, N. H., 1SS3. With a commanding presence, a clear, resonant voice, an intimate ac- quaintance with parliamentary rules, and that keen tact wliich waits an opportunity in the despatch of business, he has but few equals as a presiding officer.

On Sunday, 21 January, 1SS3, he suffered a bereavement in the sudden and unexpected death of Mrs. Little. The following summer was spent in Europe. He was present at the meeting of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, as repre- sentative of the Congregational church of the United States. He has delivered many addresses before colleges, universities, and conventions. He is deeply interested in the New West commission, which has in view the education of the people of the territories, and has been elected president of the Chicago Congregational Club for 18S6. He has one child — a daughter, May Brant Little, born 19 June, 1S67. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth college, iSSo.

Occupying one of the prominent pulpits of the country, he is called upon for much service outside of his pastoral work, which is ever freely rendered, with no expectation of reward except that which comes from a consciousness of duty per- formed. He finds pleasure in expressing his high sense of ob- ligation, especially to the long line of ancestr}- which has al- ways been on the side of righteousness. His life-work is ever before him, and to its accomplishment he directs every faculty.

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EPHRAIM PLUMMER.

The ancestors ofEphraim Plummer came from England in 1663, and settled in Newbury, Mass. His grandfather, Bit- field Plummer, one of the early settlers of Boscawen, married Priscilla Richardson, of Chester, October, 1769. He was a signer of the people's declaration of independence before that of the continental congress was issued, and upon the evacuation of Long Island by General Washington responded to the call for additional troops, and served for a time in the Continental army. His son Ephraim was born 1771, married Rachel Choate Cogswell, 31 May, 1792, lived on the homestead in Bos- cawen, and died 6 May, 1793, three months before the birth of his son Ephraim, the subject of the present sketch, who was born 29 August, 1793.

The mother ofEphraim was a native of Essex, Mass., rela- tive of Rufus Choate, a woman of rare qualities of character, of discriminating mind, and marked ability. To the future of her only child she bent all her energies. With the heritage of toil, the son had the benefit of a better education than sometimes falls to the lot of boys in his contfition. The years of his child- hood were uneventful, so too the earlier years of manhood, only as the external influences and processes of thought devel- oped the man of a logical turn of mind, a sincere respecter of law, loyal to his convictions, and of undoubted integritv. He was a person of quick sensibilities, frank and hospitable. lie gave with liberal lianil for school and church. Unassuming, he never desired place or influence in public aflairs. His time was devoted to the cultivation of the farm.

He married Lucy, daughter of Henry Gerrish, of Boscawen, n Jan., 1S21, who was the etiicient coimterpart to whatever of success that came to him. He died 20 July, 1S72.

Children .

Polly Little, b. 23 November, 1821, m. Henry L. Dodge, 17 June, 1 84 1 . Abiel Gerrish, b. 24 May, 1S24, m. Kate Baughman, 5 June, 1855. Prisfilla Parsons, b. 28 May, 1826, m. Luther Gage, 2 March, 1859. Helen Elizabeth, b. 26 March, 1834. Frances Ann, b. iS November, 1837, m. Albert Reed, 5 June, 1864.

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HENRY PEARSON ROLFE.

Henry Pearson Rolfe was born in Boscawen, February 13, 1S31. His father, Benjamin Rolfe, was also a native of Bos- cawen. His grandparents on his father's side, Benjamin and Lydia Pierson Rolfe, came from Newbury, Mass., immediate- ly after the close of the French war, and settled on the frontier in Boscawen, near the Salisbury line.

His mother, Margaret Searle Rolfe. was the daughter of Rev. Jonathan Searle, the lirst settled minister of Salisbury. His grandmother, on the maternal side, was the daughter of Jethro Sanborn, a sea-captain, of Sandown, who, to feed our suflering soldiers at Valley Forge, gave a large share of his fortune in exchange for depreciated Continental money, which became worthless, and for which the government never made any re- turn to him or to his heirs. Several thousand dollars of this irredeemable scrip came into the possession of the mother of the subject of this sketch, Margaret Searle.

The mother of Mr. Rolfe and Daniel Webster were both pupils of Master Tappan, and for a time were schoolmates. She graduated from Atkinson academy when it was in charge of the then famous Prof. Vose, and after that was a teacher for nine years. She was teaching in Mr. Webster's school-district when he leturned from his school in Fryeburg. A friendship sprang up between them, and she loved to rehearse, in later years, to her children, how Webster unfolded to her all his struggles and ambitions, and his fixed purpose never to be guil- ty of an unworthy act.

Mr. Rolfe was raised on a farm, and his parents being poor, his education, till his tenth year, was limited to six months yearly in the district school. From ten to sixteen he was al- lowed only three months of schooling, during the winter terms. The winter of his sixteenth and seventeenth year he spent in the woods with his father, driving a lumber team. From that time till he was twenty years of age, he enjoyed only nineteen weeks of schooling, — five at Franklin and fourteen at Salisbury academy.

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teaching his first district school, an employment which he fol- lowed for nine successive winters with unvarying and ever- growing success.

When nineteen, the family moved to Hill, in this state. In 1S41, when twenty years of age, he began his preparation for college at New Hampton. He spent three years in the pre- paratory course, and entered Dartmouth college in 1S44. Being obliged to depend upon his own efforts to secure the necessary means to defray the expense of his education, he taught school during the winters of his preparatory and collegiate courses. For several successive seasons he was employed upon Cape Cod, but during his sophomore and junior years he taught for five months each year at Dartmouth, Mass., and three months of his senior year in the same school.

When in attendance upon the college, !Mr. Rolfe was excep- tionally punctual in the discharge of all his duties. During his senior year he was never absent from a recitation, lecture, or other exercise. He asked for no excuse, and met every requi- sition. Such a record is unusual in college classes, and perhaps stood alone in his own. Mr. Rolfe's student-life was eminently successful, both in the acquisition of mental discipline and scholarly attainments. In 1S4S he graduated from Dartmouth with the highest respect of the faculty and the warmest attach- ment of his classmates.

Although compelled to be absent, teaching, five months dur- ing the first three years of his collegiate course, upon his gradu- ation he received this special commendation from the president of the institution :

" Dartmouth College, July 25, 1848.

" This may certify that Mr. Henry P. Rolfe is a graduate of the present year at this college. He is a highly respected student. His course has been re- markably correct and e.xemplary. It gives me pleasure to commend him as a good scholar and an upright man. He is a well qualified teacher, and worthy of the confidence and patronage of any who may have occasion for his ser- vices."

After a few weeks of rest he entered the law-oftice of Hon. Asa Fowler, of Concord, on the 21st of September, and. after two years and a half of study, was admitted to the bar in May, 185 1. On admission to the bar he immediately opened an office

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in Concord, and step by step advanced in professional strength and standing, till, in 1869, he was appointed United States attorney for the district of New Hampshire by President Grant, and discharged the responsible and exacting duties of the office vigorously, ably, and conscientiously for five years.

During the years 1852 and 1S53 he was a member of the board of education for Concord, and served as chairman of the board the last year. He was also elected as a Democrat to rep- resent the town in the legislature of 1853. He was again sent to the legislature, as a Republican, to represent Ward 5 in the city of Concord, during the stormy years of 1863 and 1864. This was during the period of war, when the government called for the services of its ablest and most trusted citizens.

In 1S59 and 1S60 he was the Democratic candidate for state senator from his district, and during the latter was candidate for presidential elector for the same party on the Douglas ticket. In 1 866 he was appointed postmaster of Concord by Andrew Johnson, but his commission was withheld because he refused to assist in electing Democrats to congress.

In 1878, Gov. Prescott made Mr. Rolfe a member of the com- mission to take testimony, and report to the legislature what legislation was necessary to protect the citizens in the vicinity of Lake Winnipiseogee against the encroachments of the Lake Company. An investigation was had, and a report made by the commission ; and where constant complaint had been made, not a murmur of dissatisfaction has since been heard.

This is no ordinary record, and is the evidence of solid merit. Mr. Rolfe has been a patient student, a sound lawyer, and a strong advocate. A good cause is safe in his hands, if a suit at law can be said to be safe in any hands. He has often been called to speak before assemblies of his fellow-citizens, political and otherwise. On such occasions he always impresses his hearers with the extent and accuracy of his information, and with his strong and sterling good sense. Mr. Rolfe believes what he says, and says what he believes. His friendships are strong, and he is slow to see fiuilts in those whom he loves.

On the 22d of November, 1853. he married Mary Rebecca Sherburn, daughter of Robert H. Sherburn, of Concord, by whom he has had five children, as follows :

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1. Marshall Potter Rolfe, b. 29 September, 1854; d. 6 August, 1862.

2. Margarett Florence, b. 12 January, 1S5S ; d. 2 May, 185S.

3. Henrietta Maria, b. 17 January, 1861 ; d. 22 September, 1862.

4. Robert Henry, b. 16 October, 1S63.

5. George Hamilton, b. 24 December, 1866.

The fourth child, Robert Henry, is now a graduate of Dart- mouth college, class of 1SS4; and George Hamilton, a lad of eighteen, is pursuing his studies at the Holderness School for Boys, in Holderness, N. H.

In the spring of 1SS2, Mr. Rolfe nearly lost his life from the kick of a vicious horse. The result of this terrible accident has been the loss of his right eye and a complete prostration of his nervous system, from which he has been slowly recovering. He has not yet regained his former vigor and elasticity, but the original force of his constitution and the sleepless care of his most estimable wife are gradually bringing him back to his pro- fessional duties and power. He is resuming his practice, which at the time of his injury was quite lucrative.

This brief sketch of life and character has been drawn by an impartial though friendly hand, and it gives us no ordinary man. Mr. Rolfe is a man of large frame and unusual gifts of mind. He has led an active, successful life, but, in the judg- ment of the writer, has never yet brought the full strength of his faculties into action. He has a reserve of power which it is hoped the future may give him an opportunity to use.

PUBLICATION OF PROCEEDINGS.

The committee appointed to prepare and publish the pro- ceedings of the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anni- versary of the settlement of the town of Boscavven, met at the call of the president, Isaac K. Gage, Esq., at his office in Pena- cook, in Boscawen, Nov. 30, 1SS3. There were present Messrs. Isaac K. Gage, John Kimball, Benj. A. Kimball, Nathaniel S. Webster, Charles H. Amsden, Charles C. Coffin, Henry H. Gerrish, Dr. E. E. Graves, and J. C Pearson.

J. C. Pearson was cliosen secretary.

Voted, To publish as soon as may be a full and complete record of the proceedings at the anniversary, adding such other matter as may be necessary to complete the history of the town to the present time. Charles C. Coffin was selected to edit the work.

Voted. That Benjamin A. Kimball be a committee on illus- trations for the book.

I'oted, That John Kimball and Isaac K. Gage be a commit- tee to see to the printing and binding of the book.

Agreed, To mutually share any deficiency, should such occur, which may be found to exist after all the copies of the book are sold that can be.

Voted, To meet again at the call of the chair.

Adjourned.

J. C. PEARSON, Secretary. Boscawen, Nov. 30. 1SS3.

AGREEMENT.

Whereas, a history of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of the town of Boscawen, in the state of New Hampshire, is about to be pubHshed by Isaac K. Gage and others, a committee selected for that purpose ; and

Whereas^ there may be a deficiency after the published vol- umes shall be disposed of; —

Therefore the undersigned hereby agree to pay any sum or sums that may be unprovided for after the aforesaid published volumes shall be sold or disposed of; and to this agi'eement the undersigned pledge themselves, each to the other. (Signed)

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