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HISTORICAL ADDRESS 
 
 ONE flUNPEED AKD FIFTIETH AMITERSARY 
 
 OP THE GATHEETNG OF THE 
 
 Congregational Church, Kingston, \ H. 
 
 SEPTEMBEE 28, (17, O. S.) 1875, 
 
 BY REV. J. H. MELLISH, A POKMEE PASTOR. 
 
 TO WHICH la PBEFIXED 
 
 AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXERCISES, 
 
 BY EEV. J. CHAPMAN, THE PRESENT PASTOR. 
 
 AND TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX. 
 
 PROVIDENCE : 
 
 PKINTED BY THE PKOVIDENCE PKESS COMPANY. 
 1876. 
 
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CELEBRATION OF THE TRI-SEMI-CENTENNIAL. 
 
 The ISOth Anniversary of the gathering of the Congregational Church, 
 Kingston, N. H., was observed September 28th, 1875. 
 
 The Introductory services, in the Church, were conducted by Rev. G. W. 
 Thompson, pastor in 1840, and Rev. P. S. Boyd. A letter from Rev. S. By- 
 ington was read by Rev. E. G. Sweet, and the secretary, D. G Bakie, read 
 letters from E. G. Frothingham, Esq. and Calvin Thayer, son of Dr. E. Thay- 
 er, who was ordained here ninety-nine years ago. 
 
 The discourse was by Rev. J. H. Mellish, and Rev. J. C. White made the 
 closing prayer. 
 
 After the collation, at which it is said near five hundred persons sat down, 
 the president, L. D. Peaslee, called the people to order, and under the direc- 
 tion of the marshal. Ora Pearson Patten, a procession was formed and led by 
 the Brass Band to the platform on the spot where the old three- story meeting- 
 house stood for one hundred years. After some introductory remarks, the 
 president called upon the following persons, who made brief and appi'opriate 
 addresses: — S. W. Mason, Esq., of Chelsea, Mass., a son of a former minis- 
 ter; Rev. A. B. Peab6dy, of Stratham ; Rev. George E. Sweet, of Exeter ; 
 Rev. W. A. Patten, a native of the town; Rev. F, A. Warfield, of Greenfield, 
 Mass. ; Rev. W. Thompson; Dr. Eastman, of Hampstead; Deacon J. Dow, of 
 Hampton; Hon. Amos Tucli, of Exeter; and the marshal, O. P. Patten, made 
 the closing address. 
 
 The speeches were interspersed with music by the band and the choir, as- 
 sisted by Mrs. Stevens. One of the hymns (A) was written for the occasion, 
 by F. B. Patten, a student of Harvard College and son of a former member of 
 the Church. 
 
 In addition to the persons named, there were representatives from churches 
 in the vicinity. From the Free Baptist Church in Danville, Rev. J. A. Low- 
 ell, and delegate. From the M. E. Church, Kingston, Rev. James Cairnes • 
 from Atkinson, Rev. Jesse Page;- from PJaistow, Deacon Kimball iind Dr. 
 Kelley ; from West Amesbury, Mass., Rev. L. Gregory and Mr. Sargent; from 
 Hampton, Mr. Hobbs ; and many others. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The reader will observe that matters which could not well be included in a 
 brief address are to be found in an appendix: also that certain biographical 
 statements, contained in the address as delivered, are transferred to this 
 appendix. 
 
 Several dates are given with gi-eater accuracy than was then attained. In 
 respect to Style I have aimed lo follow original authorities — Old Style to 
 September, 1752. But where there is double dating for any teak before this, 
 the latest, or that corresponding to New Style, is given. In a few instances 
 of printed dates consulted, I have not felt certaiil which Style was employed. 
 
 Brevity of narration was necessary, in order to bring within due bounds 
 this part of the exercises of the Tri-Semi-Centennial Celebration. Of course, 
 the earlier portion of the history contemplated, so far as it could be recov- 
 ered, had the first claim to attention on such an occasion. Indeed, no at- 
 tempt is made to portray the ministry of pastors and other preachers who have 
 succeeded Rev. Ora Pearson, a majority of whom are still living. 
 
 I have curbed a strong inclination to draw out the sentiments and reflec- 
 tions which the study of the subject in hand suggested, in tracing various 
 currents of influence and their operation through several generations of a 
 local New England community. 
 
 Without further remark, ii former pastor who affectionately remembers the 
 people of his charge, dedicates to them this contribution to the grateful public 
 recognition of the woi'k, in our behalf, of those wlio have gone before us, with 
 the prayer that there may be a rekindling of that holy faith which takes hold 
 on the hand of God, and warrants the confident hope that a large measure of 
 his favor will be bestowed in the future. 
 
 J. H. M. 
 
 NOKTH SciTUATE, R. I., July, 1876. 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 Beloved Feiends : 
 
 When, in June last, I received an invitation from the Congregational 
 Society in Kingston, to deliver a Historical address ou this one hundred 
 and fiftieth anniversary of the gathering of the Church,, the response of 
 my heart was to go back in this way to the scenes of such dear asso- 
 ciations. 
 
 Then the thought came to me of the necessary limitations which long 
 absence and distant residence would impose upon me in an attempt 
 fittinglj' to perform such a service. 
 
 But I had the kind encouragement of help from your beloved pastor 
 in consulting for me town and church records, also of obtaining access 
 to the valuable manuscript history bj* the late Mr. Colcord Patten. To 
 your pastor, and to the heirs of Mr. Patten, my hearty thanks are due 
 for this assistance. 
 
 I have gleaned from a variety of sources, and if the topics introduced 
 are not treated so much according to tlieir relative importance as accord- 
 ing to my opportunities for research, I am sure of your kind indulgence 
 in view of mj' short-comings in the presentation of the theme. 
 
 Although, in the }'ear 1641, New Hampshire was united to Massachu- 
 setts in colonial jurisdiction, it was never merged Iq Massachusetts, as 
 the Plymouth colony came to be in process of time, but always retained 
 its own distinctive character, and had some separate laws and usages 
 and features of administration applicable to its own special conditions. 
 
 This political union continued for the space of a century, excepting 
 that it was suspended by royal authority for about six years from 1680, 
 and again for about ten years from 1692. 
 
During this last interval, a grant of a township of land, signed by 
 John Usher, Lieutenant-Governor of the Province of New Hampshire, 
 and dated New Castle, August 6, 1694, was made to James Prescott and 
 others, of Hampton. 
 
 The charter for this grant provided that " the same be a town corpo- 
 rate b}- the name Kingstown. " Its territory is now nearly covered by 
 the four towns, Kingston, East Kingston, Danville and Sandown. 
 
 Not long after the date of the grant, the beginning of a settlement 
 was attempted. But about the same time, after a brief interval of peace 
 with the Indians, as respects this and the neighboring parts of New 
 England, there was a fresh outbreak of savage hostilities, which had so 
 discouraging an effect that most of the settlers returned to their former 
 homes. 
 
 In the year 1700 the commonners had a meeting to consult respecting 
 the division of their lands. 
 
 The treaty of Eyswick, between France and Great Britain, was con- 
 cluded in 1G97, and a treaty of the colonists with the Indians in 1699 ; 
 but war with the Indians broke out in a sudden manner in 1703. 
 
 In reality, in these and succeeding years, in this part of the country, 
 the Indian wars that so grievously afflicted these towns were witli the 
 French power, for the Indians who took a part in them were mostly from 
 Canada and Maine, and were instigated by French officials and Jesuit 
 missionaries. 
 
 Some settlements on the river courses suffered most, but this whole 
 region was in a continued state of anxiety and dread. Patrolmen and 
 scouts were employed to be on the watch against savage incursions. At 
 night it was the practice of families to go to ganisons for protection. 
 
 In 1705, some who had left the town, petitioned for leave to return to 
 their lands. This was allowed on condition that a fort should be built 
 in the centre of the town, a parsonage laid out, and a minister settled 
 " within three years," Some cattle were killed by the Indians in 1706. 
 Ensign Tristram Sanborn (E. 4), in one of these years, leaving his fam- 
 ily at Hampton, built a camp of logs. One day, on returning from the 
 Great Meadows, where he had been to cut his grass, he found that the 
 Indians had reduced his camp to ashes. He afterwards built a garrison 
 on his land, which was on Exeter road. Advantage was once taken of 
 the absence of the men for an attack upon this garrison b}' a partj- of 
 savages. The female inmates made a successful defence ; the assailants 
 
retreated, and the next day tlie dead bodj' of an Indian "vras found not 
 far from the garrison. 
 
 Id 1707 eight men left the town contrarj' to the provisions of a stat- 
 ute respecting frontier towhs, were complained of to the government by 
 the inhabitants, and dealt with according to law. 
 
 July 22, Stephen and Jacob Gilman, on the road from Kingston to 
 Exeter, had their horses shot under them, being attacked bj^ a partj' of 
 seven Indians. One of them escaped to a garrison in Exeter, and the 
 other to a garrison in Kingston. 
 
 September 17., Henry Elkins was slain by the Indians, while seeking 
 for a horse in the woods. 
 
 July 10. 1710. The Indians killed Samuel Winslow and Samuel Hun- 
 toon, and captured Jacob Gilman and I'hilip Huntoon, whom the}' took 
 with them to Canada. These last purchased their freedom by building 
 a saw mill. 
 
 In 1712, Stephen Gilman and Ebenezer Stevens were wounded. Gil- 
 man was taken and put to death. 
 
 This war lasted about ten years. 
 
 Jul}', 1713, a treatj' of peace with the Indians was concluded. The 
 same year the treaty of Utrecht was ratified between France and Eng- 
 land. Nine j-ears cessation of Indian hostilities followed. 
 
 Kingston had a share in the sufferings of the next Indian war, which 
 began in 1722, and ended by a treaty with the Penobscots in 1725. 
 This war had a like origin with the preceding ones, although England 
 and France were then nominally at peace. 
 
 In May, 1724, Indians entered the town and captured Peter Coleord, 
 Ephraim Severance, and two children of Ebenezer Stevens, taking them 
 to Canada. The children were ransomed. Coleord, a smart active 
 young man of nineteen, about six months later, made his escape and 
 returned to his friends. 
 
 The last Indian tragedj' which belongs to the historj' of Kingston, 
 occurred on the borders of the beautiful pond in the rear of the church 
 in which we are now assembled. lu September, 1724, Jabez Colman 
 and son, while gathering some corn-stalks, were attacked and killed. 
 
 But the simple mention of occurrences of this kind can give no aide- 
 quate idea of the miseries and solicitude and fears that pressed upon 
 the first settlers in this region. 
 
 The people here had in memory what happened at Oyster Elver, now 
 
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 Durham, in 1694, and shuddered in 1708, at the fate of Haverhill, in 
 Massachusetts, only twelve miles from Kingston Plains. They must be 
 ever on their guard against a cunning and lurking foe. There were 
 forays upon their cattle and depredations upon their crops, and the peo- 
 ple impoverished^by the increased taxes necessarily levied to provide for 
 military expenses, as well as by the large diversion of their means and 
 labor from the pursuits of peace. 
 
 In the month of .June, 1700, there was a town meeting to see about 
 hiring a minister, at which it was voted to have a minister if he could 
 be obtained. 
 
 This was a subject which would receive attention from such a class of 
 settlers as men of Hampton. For Hampton was as distinctively Puri- 
 tan in its origin as were Salem and Dorchester and Eoxburj- in Mssa- 
 chu setts. ' 
 
 Indeed, as early as 1636, the General Court of Massachusetts empow- 
 ered Dummer and Spencer of Newbury to build a house in Hampton at 
 the expense of the colonj-, doubtless with the hope of gaining some 
 advantage in the adjustment of an intricate question of boundary ; and 
 the settlers in 1638 received their act of incorporation from the same 
 authority, and for many j-ears Hampton was considered as belonging to 
 Massachusetts. Its settlers were many of them Puritans from the coun- 
 ty of Norfolk, England. John Sanborn, whose descendents are here 
 very numerous, came to Hampton from Derbyshire, England, in 1G36. 
 
 Besides the Hampton men, grantees of Kingston, those who joined 
 them, chiefly from towns in Essex county, Massachusetts, had like relig- 
 ious sj-mpathies and associations. 
 
 To a community thus constituted it would be a matter of course that 
 as soon as practicable public provision should be made for the regular 
 maintenance of the preaching of the gospel. 
 
 In the town records for 1702, where lots are described, lot fourteen is 
 assigned to the Parsonage. The next year there appears a grant of one 
 hundred acres of land and a house lot to the first minister the town shall 
 call and settle in the work of the ministry ; also, a vote determining the 
 site of a meeting-house. 
 
 At a town meeting at Aaron Sleeper's garrison, December 12, ^705, 
 one object of which was " to consider of some waj' to secure a minister 
 to be with us," a committee was chosen " to look out for and agree with 
 
a minister ; that the men thus chosen shall not exceed £40 a year, but 
 shall agree with hirn as much under £40 as they can." 
 
 Voted, also, to build a meeting-house near the house of Moses Elkins. 
 This was on the Plains, nearlj^ opposite to what is now called Scotland 
 road 
 
 Sometime during the j-ear 1707 the town built its first meeting-house. 
 Ensign Tristram Sanborn, before mentioned, was on the building com- 
 mittee. 
 
 October, 1707, Mr. Benjamin Choate (B. 1), was hired to preach on a 
 salary of £50 a year : — £30 current silver money, and £20 in labor and 
 provision pay. Also, a grant of land was voted to him by the town. 
 
 The record of a vote is found from time to time " that the town give 
 Rev. B. Choate forty cords of wood this year." Mr. Choate has in the 
 records the title " Reverend" by courtesy, although it does not appear 
 that he ever sought ordination to the ministry. 
 
 April 16, 1716, a committee was chosen to confer with Mr. Benjamin 
 Choate, " upon terms of continuance with us in the work of the minis- 
 try." Also, a vote to " add £10 to the salarj^, making the whole £60, 
 at the end of two years £5 more, if he continues with us in the work of 
 the ministry." Also, a vote that " £40 shall be presented to him when 
 he builds a house in this town." Five voters entered their dissent from 
 this last vote. Mr. Choate seems to have been the minister of the town 
 for ten years or more. 
 
 February 16, 1721, the town gave a call to be their minister to Mr. 
 William Thompson* (B. 2), with an offer of a salary of £80 a year ;— £40 
 money and £40 provision pay. Also, " a grant of land to Mr. Thompson 
 provided he be our ordained minister, and continue with us in the work 
 of the ministry ten or fifteen years, except God should take him away 
 by death." Also, the use of the Parsonage meadow " during the term 
 of his natural life." There is besides a record of a grant of land to him 
 dated April 5, 1721. 
 
 Mr. Thompson's answer to this call, in the affirmative, is given in full 
 on the town book (B. 2, end), but I have found from no source the least 
 hint of what prevented his ordination and settlement here in the minis- 
 trj"^, nor have I been able to find out how long he preached here. In 
 
 1724, he declined a call to settle as pastor in Wells, Maine. As late as 
 
 1725, the town of Kingston paid him a small sum for preaching. On. 
 
 *Tlie correct orthography is Tompson. 
 
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 the Kingston Church book, October 30, 1728, is the marriage of the 
 " Rev. Mr. William Thompson to Anna Hubbard, by Rev. Ward Clark." 
 
 Coming to the year 1725, let us take a view of the settled part of the 
 Province of New Hampshire. 
 
 It was, perhaps, about two-thirds of what is now Rockingham county ; 
 and, in Stratford county, Dover, and several adjoining towns, and Dur- 
 ham, all belonging to the original grant of that old town — Dover. There 
 were two or three other settlements which a change of the boundary line 
 has brought into New Hampshire, but which were then in Massachusetts. 
 
 Originally the borders of the Merrimac, in Massachusetts, and to 
 some extent in New Hampshire, as far north as the neighborhood of 
 Concord, and points between the Merrimac, in Massachusetts, and the 
 southern part of the boundary between Maine and New Hampshire, 
 were occupied by aflQliated tribes, or, more properly speaking, sub-divis- 
 ions of one tribe of Indians, sometimes called Pawtuckets, the name of 
 that part whose headquarters were at Wamesit, exactly where the city 
 of Lowell now stands, and sometimes, called Pennacooks, the name of 
 those whose headquarters were at Concord. One thousand is believed 
 to be a liberal estimate of the total number of all these Indians twenty 
 years before Kingston was incorporated. From various causes, by re- 
 moval and otherwise, their number diminished rapidly, and in 1725, 
 there could have been but a few scores of them, all told. 
 
 All the northern and all the western part of what now constitutes 
 New Hampshire, excepting one settlement in the south-west corner, was 
 at that time nearly destitute of inhabitants. In Vermont there was a 
 very small isolated tribe of Indians in the north-east corner, and one 
 white settlement, about a year old, in the south-east part. 
 
 Here was a vast tract of solitary wilderness, extending northward 
 many leagues beyond the southern boundary of Canada, unvisited save 
 by the adventurous hunter or when crossed by the savage warrior. 
 
 Prior to the organization of this church, there were ten churches of 
 the Congregational order in Rockingham county, and that of Dover and 
 Stratford county. 
 
 A Presbyterian church was organized in Derry, in 1719, and the 
 Friends had societies in Dover and in Seabrook. 
 
 April 19, 1725, marks the date of the call of the town of Kingston to 
 Mr. Ward Clark (B. 3). He was not only to be the minister of the 
 
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 town, but the first pastor of the church : — £80 salary was voted and £10 
 added before settlement. 
 
 One hundred and fifty years ago to-day — "The Church was gathered 
 September 17, (O. S.) 1725," — this date being equivalent to September 
 28, New Style. Twenty-three members, — twelve males and eleven fe- 
 males, — were united together in Church covenant. (C.) It is known 
 that nine of these brought letters from Hampton, and that on September 
 12, seven persons were dismissed from the Church in Hampton Falls, to 
 become connected with a church to be formed in Kingston. 
 
 Besides the people of Kingston, .according to its ancient boundaries, 
 who were to welcome the new pastor, the early settlers of Chester came 
 ten miles on horseback, to attend meeting here. 
 
 Then, the day of an ordination was a great day not only for the place 
 itself but for all its vicinity. 
 
 Mr. Clark was ordained September 29. The sermon was preached by 
 Rev. John Odlin, of Exeter, the step-father of the candidate. The text 
 was from I. Timothj', 6:11, 12. The subject was — " Cinistian courage 
 necessary for a Gospel Minister. It was afterwards printed at Boston, 
 and " Prefaced by two of the Eeverend Presbyters who assisted at the 
 Ordination." The two members of the Council referred to, were Rev. 
 Caleb Cushing, of Salisbury, Mass., and Rev. Nathaniel Gookin, of 
 Hampton. 
 
 In this preface it is observed that the sermon was preached " not by 
 the youug gentleman who was then ordained, but by one of his fathers 
 in the ministry." 
 
 It is also stated " that the general and grateful acceptance which 
 the sermon met with, when preached," had "provoked many to subscribe 
 for the printing of it."* 
 
 A list of the heads of families in Kingston, when Rev. Ward Clark 
 took charge of the Church, is given in the Church book. There were in 
 all, eighty-one. (D.) Fifty surnames are found in this list. Six heads 
 of tamilies had the name Sleeper. Aaron Sleeper, called here " the 
 aged," had seventeen children by his first wife, and two by his second 
 wife. 
 
 The names Bean, Sanborn, and Webster, are represented by four 
 families each. 
 
 *There is a copy in Brown University Library— Ord. Serm. Vol. 52. 
 
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 Most of these fifty surnames, are now found in the families of this 
 and the neighboring towns. 
 
 One man is described as a Quaker — the solitar};^ exception, it should 
 seem, of anj- householder in this t(>wn, having connection with any re- 
 ligious socictj' not of the Congregational denomination. 
 
 Samuel Welch, in this list, had a son, Samuel, born Fedruarj^ 13, 
 1711,* who died at Bow, April 5, 1823 ; thus attaining the age of more 
 than one hundred and twelve j-ears. 
 
 So far as I am informed the only other native of Kingston, deceased, 
 who has lived more than one hundred j'ears, is Abigail Sanborn, who 
 belonged to the Society of Shakers, and died at Canterbury', at the age 
 of one hundred and one j'ears. 
 
 From this time Kingston received frequent accessions of new families. 
 
 Mr. Clark was an active public-spirited man, beloved as a pastor by 
 his parishioners, and much attached to the people of his charge. Some 
 of the noble elms that beautif}' the spacious green here, are said to have 
 been planted bj- his hand. For several years the amount added to his 
 regular salary by vote of the town, was £20. The town also made to 
 him liberal grants of land. 
 
 During his ministry the town built,'in 1732. its second meeting-house. 
 (F.) A tower, one hundred feet in height, was built for it some years 
 later. A bell is said to have been presented b}' the King of England, of 
 which tradition avers that it came no farther than Boston, from which 
 place an inferior one was sent here as a substitute. 
 
 The first meeting-house stood for many years after the erection of the 
 new one. It was used for holding town meetings as late as 17(34. The 
 bell was used not only during Mr. Clark's ministry, but that of his suc- 
 cessor. In 1768, the town voted " to buy a larger bell for the meet- 
 ing-house." 
 
 In June, 1735, a terrible disease called " the throat distemper," first 
 made its appearance in Kingston. Of the first forty seized with it not 
 one recovered. In about fourteen months one hundred and thirteen 
 died, ninety-six of whom were under ten years of age ; — this included 
 nearly all the youug children in the town. The wife of Rev. Ward Clark 
 and his two children were among the victims of this scourge. 
 
 Note, — in the Church book at the end of the year 1735, — "This mor- 
 tality was by a kanker quinsey, which mostly seized upon young people, 
 
 *riiis date Is from the family list on the Town book. The date given in X. H. Col. 
 His. and Mis. 1S33, (September 1, 1710,) makes his age too great by a few months. 
 
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 and has proved exceeding mortal in several other towns. It is supposed 
 there never was' the lilce before in this country." Prof. William Franli- 
 lin Webster, (K. 31.) once told me, that when he was in Germany, he 
 found in a German medical worlt, the statement that the first recorded 
 instance of tlie appearance of this specific disease in the whole world, 
 was in this town. 
 
 Mr. Clark died in Exeter, after a long sickness. May 6, 1737, thus 
 ending a ministry of more than eleven jears and a half. 
 
 In his will he left a bequest, the same being a considerable portion of 
 his estate, " to the beloved people of his charge," the income of which 
 was applied to the support of the gospel. 
 
 During his pastorate one hundred and thirty persons were received to 
 the church, and four hundred and seventy-one baptized. 
 . June 9, 1737, the month succeeding the death of Mr. Clark, the town 
 gave to Mr. Peter CoflSn, a call to settle in the ministry. Eighteen 
 voters recorded their dissent and the settlement was not effected. 
 
 August 10, 1737, Eev. Joseph Seccombe (B. 4) was invited to preach 
 at Kingston, by a committee appointed by the church. 
 
 A little more than two months after he began, the church voted heart- 
 ily and unanimouslj% October 17, 1737, to invite him to take tlie charge 
 as pastor. This was followed, one week later, October 24, by a unani- 
 mous vote of the town that he should be their minister. 
 
 In a very cordial letter of acceptance, he mentioned, as matters of 
 thank'sgiving, "the universal attendance upon public worship," and 
 " the diligent and serious attention to the word of God.'' 
 
 The daj- appointed for installation services was November 23. Letters 
 were sent to pastors of twelve churches, one of them being Dr. Sewall, 
 of the Old South, Boston, seven of Essex county, Mass., and four of 
 New Hampshire. Mr. Seccombe himself preached the sermon from 
 Mark 7: 37. 
 
 This was a time of rapid increase of population, and soon other 
 churches were colonized from the church here. 
 
 The town of East Kingston was set oflf and incorporated in 1738, and 
 a church organized there, December 19, 1739. The month preceding, 
 November 4, ten persons were dismissed from Kingston to join there, 
 and the next year, thirty-three. Still, there were many who did not like 
 to give up attending worship at Kingston Plains, and in 1740, forty- 
 three persons " requested to still belong to the old Parish." 
 
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 Mr. Peter Coffin, (I. 1,) who preached as candidate at Kingston, after 
 the death of Rev. Ward Clark, was ordained pastor at East Kingston, 
 when the church was organized, and dismissed in 1772, after a pastorate 
 of nearly Lhirt3--three years. 
 
 In 1760, thirty-one persons were dismissed to thre church in Brent- 
 wood. 
 
 In November, 1759, ten were dismissed to organize a church in San- 
 down, of which Eev. Josiah Cotton, (I. 2.) was the first pastor. 
 
 In the settlement of Salisbury, in 1749— then called Stevenstown— a 
 large draft of men was] made from Kingston. It is stated that fifty- 
 four of the fifty-seven grantees, belonged to Kingston ; that is, I presume, 
 from the town as originally bounded. One of the settlers was Ebenezer 
 Webster, who went there in 17G3, grandson of Ebenezer Webster, of 
 Hampton, one of the grantees of Kingston, who came here in 1700. He 
 was the fatlier of Hon. Daniel Webster, the surnames of some of whose 
 ancestors, as Judkins, Bachelder, Eastman, French and Severance, have 
 here a familiar sound. 
 
 Dr. Joseph Bartlett went from Kingston, — where he married Hannah, 
 daughter of Lieut. Samuel Colcord, — to Salisbury, the birth-place of 
 their son, Hon. Ichabod Bartlett. 
 
 Other towns also, as they were opened for settlement, received fami- 
 lies from Kingston. 
 
 Danville, first called Hawke, was set off from Kingston, as a distinct 
 town, February 22, 1760. Mr. Jolm Page, (I. 3,) was ordained pastor 
 at Danville, December 21, 1763, and died there January 29, 1783, thus 
 closing a ministry of more than nineteen years. 
 
 During the ministry of Mr. Seccombe, which continued until his 
 death, September 15, 1760, — a period of nearly twentj'-three years, 
 there were received to the church, three hundred and thirtj'-elght mem- 
 , bers. The number of baptisms was twelve hundred and fifty-seven. 
 There were but seven months of this time in which some did not receive 
 this ordinance. 
 
 By a plan formally indorsed by a Synod which met in 1662, and adop- 
 ted by many New England churches, persons of reputable character 
 owned the church covenant and had their children baptized, without be- 
 ing received into full communion. This practice, known as the " Half- 
 way covenant," (G.) was long in use here. 
 
 We find in the record of baptisms, April 8, 1744, " Coffee, negro ser- 
 
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 vant of Ebenezer Stevens. Esq." Among births on the town book, are 
 recorded those of Dinah Black, November, 1752, and Caesar Black, Au- 
 gust 17, 1754, — servants of Ebenezer Stevens, son of the foregoing. 
 (E. 11.) 
 
 Slaverj' was at that time tolerated by public opinion in New England, 
 though the original seizure of negroes in Africa was generally condemn- 
 ed. Occasionally contemporaries of Mr. Seccombe among the clergy, ^ 
 were slave owners, as Parsons of Newbury, and Edwards of Northamp- 
 ton, Mass., and Walker of Concord, N. H. Here in Kingston, Peter, a 
 black fellow — servant of Dr. Josiah Bartlett — was credited to the town's 
 quota as a soldier of the Revolution — 1782. 
 
 But, at the time of the Revolution, opposition to the curse of human 
 slaverj', took an earnest and emphatic form, as a most natural sequence 
 of discussion of the principles of human freedom. 
 
 I have not the data for clearly defining the attitude of Mr. Seccombe 
 toward the great revival — 1740, and after. 
 
 I think, however, that it was favorable. Some ministers of that day 
 gave public expression to their sentiments conjointly on either side. So 
 far as I know, Mr. Scccombe's name is not found associated with such 
 manifestoes. 
 
 There was a " Ministers' meeting," partly in Massachusetts and part- 
 ly in New Hampshire, which joined with another contiguous in Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1745, in a letter to the Associated Ministers of Boston and 
 Charlestown, desiring them not to admit Whitefield into their pulpits. 
 Among signatures to this letter are found those of Coffin of East Kings- 
 ton, and Fogg of Kensington. It seems to me that if Mr. Seccombe had 
 been in sympathy with their views he would have united with them. 
 
 It may be mentioned also that the Boston ministers, for whom Mr. 
 Seccombe appears to have had the strongest personal regard, — Dr. Sew- 
 all, and his colleague. Rev. Thomas Prince, and Dr. Colman, — were de- 
 cided and earnest friends of the RevivS,!. 
 
 After the death of Mr. Seccombe, nearly two years intervened before 
 the settlement of his successor, during which time sixty-one persons 
 were baptized. 
 
 February 8, 1762. The town gave a call to Mr. Amos Toppan, (B.o) 
 to be their minister. He was ordained August 18. Great preparations 
 were made for the occasion, and a liberal entertainment furnished at the 
 
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 expense of the town. Mr. Toppan was pastor nearly nine j-ears, until 
 his death, June 23. 1771. 
 
 During his pastorate, twentj--flve were admitted to the church, and 
 sixty-five baptized. 
 
 After Mr. Toppan's death, the church remained vacant about five 
 years and a half, during which time there were fifty-two baptisms. 
 
 About six months after the death of Mr. Toppan, the town voted to 
 hire Mr. Stephen Peabody to preach. A year later, January 18, 1773, 
 voted a call to Mr. Nathaniel Niles. Twenty voters dissented. Same 
 year, April 20, refused a call to Mr. Lancaster, (Rev- Stephen Lancas- 
 ter.) July 15, voted a call to Joslma Noyes. Dec. 30, 1773, voted a 
 call to Moses Everett. Twenty-three dissented and he declined. Octo- 
 ber 6, 1774, voted to give Joseph Appleton (K. 5) a call. Twenty-six 
 dissented and he declined. The chief reason for this dissent was not 
 probably objection to the candidates personally. A change had begun 
 to come over the town. Its original homogeneitj- in attachment to one 
 religious denomination was broken. In the latter part of Mr. Seccombe's 
 pastorate, in 1757, for the first time, a few Baptists and Quakers refused 
 to pay taxes for the minister's support. Still there were but very few 
 belonging to other organizations than the " standing order." There was, 
 however, developed a feeling against raising money by the town for 
 preaching, sufficiently strong to discourage candidates from accepting 
 offers for settlement. 
 
 It may be noted that Mr. Everett was ordained minister of Dorches- 
 ter, Mass., just one hundred and one years ago, to-daj'. 
 
 In 1776, the town gave a call to Mr. Elihu Thayer, (B. 6,) who was 
 ordained December 18, of that year. After he come here the people 
 were not long in discovering that he was a man of extraordinary merit, 
 and he gained at the first a very high place in their respect and confi. 
 dence, which he held to the close of his life. 
 
 His ministry here was attended with difficulties though not such as to 
 disturb the harmony of his personal relations with the people. 
 
 By the demoralizing influence of the war of the Revolution, forms of 
 skepticism, already introduced, acquired a fearful impetus. The anxie- 
 ties, hardships, and moral temptations of this contest also turned many 
 minds aside from attention to divine truth. The general prosperity of 
 this and other towns around, including religious interests, was very 
 much impaired. Other denominations made some attempts to work here 
 
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 but it was a time of religious declension and decay of regard for the or- 
 dinances of the gospel. 
 
 Dr. Thaj-er died April 3, 1812, completing a ministry here of more 
 than thirty-five years. One hundred and twenty-one persons were bap- 
 tized during this time, and thirty-six added to the church. 
 
 Dr. Thayer's friend, Eev'. J. H. Church, D.. D., of Pelham, preached 
 his funeral discourse, in which is presented a statement of tlie leading 
 points in his character and historj'. There is a marked appropriateness 
 in the text which was selected for the occasion. It is from the prophecy 
 of Ezekiel, chap. 33, v. 33 : " Then shall they know that a prophet 
 HATH BEEN AMONG THEM." It is uoteworthy that the public reading from 
 a volume of Dr. Thayer's sermons, published after his death, became to 
 some of his flock a most precious means of grace, who hearing after his 
 decease the words which the devoted pastor spake while he was yet with 
 them, were hopefully converted to Christ, 
 
 Some months after the death of Dr. I'hayer, Mr. Hervey Wilbur, 
 (B. 7,) came to Kingston, not having at that time received ordination. 
 He engaged zealously in the work of the gospel, and initiated some im- 
 portant measures for religious improvement ; among these the establish. 
 ment of a catechetical society. He appears to have been here at least 
 as early as the first part of the year 1813, but I do not know how many 
 months were included in this service. I anticipate the order of time to 
 add that according to a statement in the Minutes of the Eockingham 
 County Conference, 1851, he preached here a year or more before the 
 settlement of Mr. Turner. His son, H. B. Wilbur, M. D., of Sj'racuse, 
 N. Y., writes that he was settled at Wendell, Mass., directly after leav- 
 ing Kingston. The date of his ordination at Wendell, is Jan. 1, 1817. 
 
 In the year 1813, the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowl- 
 edge, turned its attention to towns in Rockingham and Strafford coun- 
 ties, where churches once flourishing had become greatly reduced in 
 numbers and influence. 
 
 Inquiry respecting Kingston, showed that there were eighty-two fami- 
 lies whose preferences were for the Congregational denomination, and 
 forty-seven for the Baptists, Universalists and Methodists. 
 
 The Methodist society was organized in 1801, but at this time had. 
 very little activity. The Baptists and Universalists had here, I think,. 
 no formal organization. a 
 
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 The Congregational Church had twentj' members, the aged Deacon 
 Stevens being the only surviving male member. (E. 13.) 
 
 Still, there was cheering evidence that the good seed sov n by Dr. 
 Thayer, was not lost. 
 
 Under the direction of the societj' which has been named, Rev. Thom- 
 as Holt visited Kingston, and reported, — Sabbath, September 12, 1813, — 
 large audiences, profound and deep solemnity, several admissions to the 
 church, and several baptisms. 
 
 Rev. Ephraim Abbot and Rev. Isaac Jones performed short missions 
 under the same direction. 
 
 In the Spring of 1814, Mr. Federal Burt came here for three months, 
 but was to include in his labors some service in East Kingston, Hawke 
 and Sandown. 
 
 In this time, he preached fifty sermons in Kingston, to attentive, sol- 
 emn and increasing assemblies, besides delivering four funeral discourses ; 
 and conducted expositor}' meetings, eight meetings of a catechetical 
 societj' of thirty members, religious reading meetings, visited schools 
 and sicli persons, and made family visits. 
 
 Rev. Timothj' Flint performed a short mission here in the Autumn, 
 and reported all the audiences in this town as full, attentive and solemn 
 His commission for the early part of the year 1815, also included ser- 
 vice here. Rev. Jonathan Homer also was sent here on a similar mission. 
 
 The next name in this connection is that of Rev. John Turner, (B. 8,) 
 who had been similarly emploj'ed, with great acceptance, in towns in 
 Maine, and in the neighborhood of Lake Winnipiseogee in this State. 
 
 It is recorded in the transactions ol the Society, that he " While at 
 Kingston gave so encouraging an account of his reception, with such 
 grateful expressions of obligation from a committee of the place, that 
 the directors voted a grant of $60 annually for five years, provided he 
 should become settled in the ministry at Kingston, and continue in 
 office that term of time, on condition of his performing six weeks mis- 
 sionary service annually in the vicinity of Kingston under the direction 
 of the Society." 
 
 Up to this time, since the death of Dr. Thayer, there had been thirty- 
 two persons admitted to the church ; twenty-four of whom were received 
 within the first eighteen months. The number of baptisms was thirteen. 
 
 Rev. John Turner, like his predecessors, received a call to settle from 
 the town, and was installed pastor January 1, 1818. Certain voters 
 
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 who were opposed to this proceeding, sent to the Council a written re- 
 monstrance against it. (H.) 
 
 After Mr. Turner's settlement, the authorities of the town refused to 
 pav the whole of the income of the parsonage property for the Congre- 
 gational society. It was contended that other denominations ought to 
 have a share. The same view was at length taken of the use of the 
 meeting-house as a place of public worship. 
 
 A law-suit ensued. The Court decided that the legacy of the first 
 minister, Rev. Ward Clark, left " to the beloved people of his charge," 
 belonged to the whole town. Since then the income of the whole par- 
 sonage property has been divided among the different denominations, 
 according to the will expressed, annually, by the several tax-payers. 
 (H. end.) 
 
 I cannot in a few paragraphs give any adequate account of the strife 
 of those days. 
 
 Tbe principal leaders against the Congregationalists were not mem- 
 bers of any church, but wished to have difl'erent preaching. They ap- 
 pear not to have been very particular about the denomination. 
 
 On one Sunday for which thej' had hired a man not a Congregational- 
 ist who was without a pastoral charge, with the intention of having him 
 take possession of the pulpit, Mr. Turner began the services first from 
 a pew ; and, as no one 'would take the responsibility of putting him 
 down, he concluded before the other minister conducted service. 
 
 A Congregational deacon was fined on a charge Of forcibly entering 
 the house on a Sundaj' morning, and not pa3'ing the fine, was imprison- 
 ed for thirty days. There was great bitterness of party spirit. 
 
 Mr. Turner is said to have been a man of prepossessing personal ap- 
 pearance, an impressive speaker, a man of courage and steadfastness in 
 maintaining his sentiments. He was dismissed May 1, 1823, closing a 
 pastorate of five years and four months. 
 
 Thirteen were received by him to the church here, and forty-seven 
 baptized. 
 
 The Congregational meeting-house, now standing, was built in the 
 year 1825. The present is the semi-centennial year of this edifice. 
 
 A Society was then organized, and the next pastor, Mr. Ora Pear- 
 son, (B. 9,) was settled by the church and society. Rev. Ira Ingra- 
 ham, of Bradford, Mass., preached the sermon at his ordination 
 March 7, 1827. Aid in sustaining the gospel was sought and obtained 
 
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 from the society that had already been so helpful to this church. The 
 observance of the Monthly Concert is reported in 1828. In 1829, the 
 favorable influence of the Sabbath School library and of tracts is men- 
 tioned. Allusion is also made to the organization of a Temperance 
 Society of fifteen members. It is remarked — " This number may seem 
 small, j'et it is considered encouraging as it includes the two physicians 
 of the place. But the evil it is designed to remove is far from being 
 expelled, though somewhat diminished." 
 
 The next year he reports the signatures of nearly a hundred mem- 
 bers ; also monthly distribution of tracts in Kingston and East Kings- 
 ton. In May, 1832, a cheering report is furnished of religious pro- 
 gress, increase in benevolent contributions, new interest in bible study, 
 large accessions to the church, gain in the cause of temperance, &c. 
 
 February, 1832, a unanimous vote of gratitude for seasonable aid 
 granted for the five years past by the Society for the Promotion of 
 Christian Knowledge, was passed. 
 
 In this year 1832, the second meeting-house, having stood for one hun- 
 dred years, was taken down, by order of the town. 
 
 Mr. Pearson labored diligently and prayerfully to promote the moral 
 improvement and the eternal interests of his people. 
 
 He was diffident in conversation ; yet he habitually improved oppor- 
 tunities to speak a word in season to individuals and to families for the 
 religion of the gospel. 
 
 Rev. Jacob Cummings, a most competent judge in such matters, spoke 
 of him to me as an excellent biblical scholar. 
 
 The enterprise of building a parsonage was successfully accomplished 
 while he was here, although he did not remain to occupy it. This home 
 for the pastor and family has been of great service. It ought to be well 
 considered how much such an investment is worth to this relio-ious 
 society. 
 
 A council, called January 9, 1834, very reluctantly acquiesced in Mr- 
 Pearson's request for a dismission, after which he supplied the pulpit till 
 March, or seven years from the time of his settlement. 
 
 The record for this time shows, admissions to the church, eighty-two. 
 Baptisms eightj'-six. 
 
 Rev. D. D. Tappan preached here the summer of 1834, and the Rev. 
 'O. A. Taylor, the summer of 1835. 
 
 Rev. Andrew Goven, (B.,10,) preached here as stated supply about 
 
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 three years — 1835-8. For a part of this period of service aid was furn- 
 ished this church by the New Hampshire Missionary Societj. 
 Rev. James Hobart preached here for a while in the year 1838. 
 Mr. Josiah L. Case, (B. 11,) was ordained pastor here, October 17, 
 1839. He preached one Sabbath after his ordination when the church 
 celebrated the Lord's Supper. He attended one funeral, was taken sick 
 of a fever, and died November 15, aged thirty-one years. He had been 
 in Kingston some months and gained a warm place in the hearts of the 
 people. 
 
 In intervals, when the church was without a pastor, the venerable 
 Eev. Jonathan Ward, who lived at Brentwood, sometimes rendered gra- 
 tuitous service. 
 
 Mr. George W. W. Thompson, (B. 12,) was ordained pastor of this 
 church, April 29, 1840. "When he had been pastor about two years, he 
 felt that the state of his health required a change of location, and in 
 the summer of 1842 he went to Massachusetts. He was dismissed Au- 
 gust 29, 1843. In the year 1841, the meeting-house was repaired and 
 enlarged. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Mason, (B. 13,) preached here as stated supply three 
 years from July 18, 1843, to July, 1846. 
 
 In 1847, some aid was furnished this church in supporting the gospel, 
 by the New Hampshire Missionary Society, but the following year the 
 church became independent of such assistance. 
 
 Mr. James Fletcher. (B. 14,) afterwards pastor in North Danvers, 
 Mass., served the church a year or more, 1847-8, as stated supply. 
 
 Rev. John Smith, (B. 15,) was installed pastor of this church, July 
 25, 1848. Mr. S. came here from Wilton, Conn. He was for a time 
 pastor of the First Church in Exeter, where, under his ministry, many 
 united with the church. He was a gentleman of u'rbane manners and 
 large experience. He remained here but little more than two years, be- 
 ing dismissed September 18, 1850. 
 
 Rev. Charles Willey, (B. 16,) followed Mr. Smith, being engaged as 
 stated supply. He came in 1851, and remained one year. 
 
 The next settled pastor, (B. 17,) was he who has now the privilege of 
 addressing you. Coming here in the summer of 1854, he was ordained 
 February 14, 1855. 
 
 In July, 1867, about twelve years and four months from the date of 
 his ordination, the pastor relinquished the supply of the pulpit, and 
 
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 subsequently sent in a formal resignation with the view of being regu- 
 larly dismissed when a Council should be called for the settlement of his 
 successor, which was done at that time. 
 
 These years of my abode here, when, for me and mine, I could heart- 
 ily sajr, " I DWELL AMONG MINE OWN PEOPLE,"* are filled with grateful 
 memories. But it was during this time that the dark heavy cloud of the 
 great rebellion, hung for four j-ears over out stricken land, and then by 
 the mercj' of God passed away. 
 
 For the first four of these twelve years the church was self-support- 
 ing, then received aid from tlie New Hampshire Missionary Society for 
 three j-ears, then for the remaining five years was independent. 
 
 Eev. Solomon Bixby, (B. 18,) began his labors here as stated supply 
 February 1, 1868. The church again came on the list of aided churches, 
 but during first year of Mr. Bixby's service here it expended nearly 
 $800 on the meeting-house and parsonage. 
 
 Mr. B. remained here until December 20, 1874. 
 
 Eev. Jacob Chapman, (B. 19,) was installed pastor of the church 
 June 7, 1872. He was formerly well acquainted with the people, 
 preached here the first quarter of the j'ear 1843, and about five j'ears 
 later received a call to settle as pastor, when other engagements preven- 
 ted his acceptance. 
 
 The number is not large, j'et from time to time, men who were either 
 natives of Kingston, or members of the church, have become pastors of 
 Congregational churches. (K. 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 18, 21, 22, 32.) 
 
 Men of the other learned professions have been also members of this 
 church and congregation, besides instructors in colleges, academies, &c., 
 or occupying in the service of the public important civil and military 
 positions. (K. includes some.) 
 
 Some from these classes of men belonging both here and elsewhere, 
 have here found companions in life. (e. g. Three under B., thirteen 
 under K., and others.) 
 
 Reverting to the time while I was yet with you, I remember as the 
 oldest member of the church, Mrs. Elizabeth Sanborn, widow of Deacon 
 John Q. Sanborn. (E. 17.) S.he became hopefully pious at the age of 
 sixteen years, and died in 1859, when she was nearly ninety-five years 
 of age. 
 
 *2King8, 4: 13. 
 
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 Next in age was Deacon Eobert Smith, (E. 18,) long a very active 
 and capable member of the church and society. I have been informed 
 that he was as vigorous at seventy as the most men at fifty. Even in 
 extreme old age his memory was remarkable. He had voted in every 
 election of President, including that of Lincoln, in 1860, excepting that 
 of Washington's first term, which occurred a few months before he be. 
 came of age. He was born April 12, 1768, and died November 30, 
 1861. The daj-s of his pilgrimage were ninety-three j'ears and more 
 than seven months. 
 
 Oct 1, 1862, Deacon Isaac Sanborn, (E. 21,) died, his age being near- 
 ly sixty-nine. Great was his delight in and large his understanding of 
 the divine themes of the gospel of the grace of God. 
 
 Fathers and mothers in Israel passed away, but the harvest of death 
 was not confined to these limits. Some of the younger members left us 
 also. And when the war came, our tears were mingled in the universal 
 mourning. What precious lives from among us were laid on the altar 
 of sacrifice for our country. 
 
 (e. g. E. 20, 21, 23, each, end. K. 33 and 33 end.) 
 
 And since the close of my ministry among you, how often has the 
 messenger come and called away the trusted and the loved. 
 
 Deacon Magoon, (E. 23,) remained with you till last year, when he, 
 having " sekved his own geneeation bt the will of God fell on 
 
 SLEEP."* 
 
 Faithful helpers, both men and women, that were with us, are not 
 here now. 
 
 Honored citizens have left the councils of freemen. Where are some 
 who lifted up their voices in the service of song, in the house of the 
 Lord ? 
 
 Such changes, it is true, are to be expected in the common lot ; yet 
 we would not be unmindful on this rare occasion of the lessons which 
 they are suited to impress upon our minds and hearts. 
 
 One hundred and fifty years are numbered in the past history of this 
 church. God has preserved for it a place and given it a work to do. 
 Thank God and take courage. 
 
 *Aotsl3:36. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 HYMN. 
 
 (Written specially for this occasion by Frank Baktleit Patten.) 
 
 We meet tliat day to honor, Like Israel's latter Temple, 
 Thrice fifty years gone by, Assailed by savage foes, 
 
 In which our pious fathers In hardship and in contiict 
 Their church's need supply. Oar church's walls uprose : 
 
 The day in which the Pastor A two-fold warfare waging 
 First came among us here— With foes without— within— 
 
 To speali in words of warning- The wilderness- the savage- 
 To speak in words of cheer. The banded powers of sin I 
 
 Our fathers knew the blessings 
 'ihe Gospel's light conveys— 
 
 For safety, honor, welfare 
 Abide beneath its rays. 
 
 The Nations that obey not 
 The Prophet's words have doom'd: 
 
 "Those Nations shall be wasted- 
 Tea, utterly consumed." 
 
 We thank Thee for the Pastors, 
 Who, in unbroken line. 
 
 Have led our supplications. 
 And taught Thy word divine I 
 
 Let not that line be broken- 
 Let not that worship end — 
 
 From this. Thy temple, ever 
 Let prayer and praise ascend. 
 
 Notices of Mikistees of the Town and Pastors of the Congregational , 
 Chuech and of Stated Preachers not Installed herb. 
 
 1. Benjamin Choate, A. M., was a son of Sergt. John Choate, of Ipswich, Chebacco Par- 
 ish, Mass., probably the youngest, b. 16S0, grad. Harv. C. 1703. He went to Deerfield, Mass., , 
 garrison,Nov., 1704, and was tliere in 1706. June 12, 1707, m. Abigail Burnum. They had 
 several children, but none of them outlived their parents. After he ceased to be the Town's 
 minister, be was sometimes employed as school-master, and was often Moderator in Town 
 meetings. With the church which was formed in Kingston, he never became connected. He 
 died Nov. 26, 1753, aged 73. Mrs. C. died Jan. 9, 1776, aged 85. 
 
 2. William Tompson. He is here mentioned because he received and accepted a call to 
 be minister of the town,— although, for some unexplained reason, this was not followed by: 
 
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 his settlement— and because he founrl a wife in Kingston. Tlie earliest of the family in New- 
 England, was Rev. William Tompson, a native of Lancashire, England. Matriculated at 
 Brazen nose C, Oxford, 1630; pastor First Church, Braintree, Mass., (now Quincy,) 1639-66. 
 He was a minister eminent among his copemporaries. His son, Samuel, was deacon of the 
 same church, and father of Rev. Edward Tompson— grad. Harv. C, 1684; pastor at Marsh- 
 field, Mass. ; characterized in an elaborate epitaph in verse on a stone in a burial ground there 
 as " A rare synopsis of divinity." He was father of the subject of this notice, who was b. 
 Marshfleld, Mass., 1797; grad. Harv. C. ITIS; ordained at Scarboro', Me., June 26, 1728; was 
 one of the ministers who sent in their attestations in 1743, to the assembled Pastors of New 
 England, met at Boston, to give their testimony in favor of the great Revival. He welcomed 
 Whitefleldto his pulpitat the time of his second visit to America, 1743. He died Feb. 13, 1759. 
 Of his sons, one was Hon. William Tompson, died 1807; another. Rev. John Tompson,— 
 pastor atStandish, Me., also atS. Berwick, Me., where he died 1828, aged 88. 
 
 Mr. William Tomson's Answer io the Town of Kingston. 
 
 To THE People of Kingston :— Christians- 1 chearfully resent your unanimous concur- 
 rence in choosing me to take the charge of your souls in the weighty and solemn work of the 
 ministry, and do withal as chearfully approve of the sense and meaning of the proposals you 
 have made me in order to my taking up my abode amongst you, wherein you have exprest 
 your care for the subsistence I shall need in so awful a Relation as Providence shall fix me in 
 when my employ ment shall be to watch for your souls. 
 
 3. WAKD Claek. first pastor OP THE CHURCH. Nathaniel Clark, a merchant ot 
 Newbury, m. Nov. 25, 1663, Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Somerby, one of the original grantees of 
 the town. Ttieir son. Rev. John Clark, was b. at Newbury, June 24, 1670; grad. Harv. C. 1690; 
 ordained at Exeter, Sept. 21, 1698; m. June 19, 1094, Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Benjamin Wood- 
 ' briilge, and grand dau. of Rev. John Woodbridge, iirst minister of Andover, Mass. ; died sud- 
 denly July 25, 1705, aged 35. 
 
 Pike's Journal, noticing the event, speaks of him as a •' good man, much wanted and much 
 lamented." Of these parents Rev. Ward Clark was the youngest child, b. at Exeter, Dec. 12 
 1703. His mother, being left a widow, was m. to Rev. John Odlin, of Exeter. Mr. C. grad. 
 Harv. C. 1723; m. Miss Mary Frost, Nov. 20, 1737. 
 
 4- JOSEPH Seccombe. second SETTLED pastor. Most of the printed references to 
 him which I have seen, make him a native of Mtdford, Mass., and brother instead of cousin 
 of Rev. John Seccombe, son of Peter Seccombe. This is a mistake, started by some writer 
 and adopted by others successively, including such standard authors as AUibone and Duy- 
 chinck. 
 
 Richard Seccombe and Joanna his wife came from the West of England about 1660. They 
 went first to Casco Bay, Me., and then settled in Lynn, Mass. One of their sons, John, lived 
 in Boston, and m. Mehitable Simmons, Nov. 2, 1702. These were the parents of Joseph Sec- 
 combe, b. in Boston, Mass., June 14, 1706. A portion of a dairy of Jeremiah Bumstead, " a 
 staunch and active member of the Old South Church," Boston, has been preserved and pub- 
 lished, (His. and Gen. Reg. 1861.) This shows that Mr. Seccombe went to Ipswich, Mass., to 
 prepare for college with Rev. Mr. Wigglesworth, June 20, 1726. It appears also that Mr. B- 
 ubscribed annually towards the expense of Mr. S.'s education. [His cousin John, though 
 younger, grad. Harv. C. 1728, and was minister of Harvard, Mass,, 1733-57, and IVom about 1763 
 till his death, 1793, minister at Chester, Nova Scotia. He m, Mary, dau. of Rev. William Wil- 
 liams, of Weston, Mass. He was famous in his day for his extraordinary wit and humor. 
 He was a strong friend and promoter of the great Revival, while in Massachusetts, in opposi- 
 tion to the prevailing sentiment of neighboring pastors.] 
 
 Mr. Seccombe was ordained in company with Stephen Parker and Ebenezer Hinsdell, at 
 Boston, Dec. 12, 1733, Missionaries " chosen by the Commissioners to the Honorable Society 
 for Propagating Christian Kno<,vledge, at Edinburgh, to carry the Gospel to the Aborigiual 
 
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 nations on the Borilers of New England." No ordination of a minister as FvangelM had 
 occurred before this in New England. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Josepli Scwall, 
 D. D., and deWicated to the Society already mentioned by Benjamin Colman, pastor of Brattle 
 Street Church, and Joseph Sewall, pastor of the Old South, the right hand of fellowship being 
 given by Ihomas Prince, junior pastor of the latter church. 
 
 The text was Acta 26: 16 19. Subject—" Christ victorious ovet the Powers of Darkness by 
 the Light of his Preached Gospel." 
 
 The missionaries were, in addition to giving religious instruction to the Indians, to " teach 
 them writing and arithmetic, and to understand and speak the English language." 
 
 For three years or more before coming to Kingston, Mr. Seccombe was engaged in this 
 work. Hem. Jan. 17, 1738, Mary Thuriel. A younger brother of his, Simmons,— one of the 
 subscribers to Prince's chronology, b. May 17, 1711, m. Elizabeth Eand, Jan. 11, 173-3, who settled 
 in what was then called Derrytleld,— had a eon of the same name. This sou lived with his 
 uncle. Rev. J. Seccombe, in Kingston, and became his principal heir. He was an honored 
 and beloved citizen, and tilled the office of Town clerk thirty-one years, and was many years 
 Justice of the Peace. He m. Mary Toppan, sister of Rev. Amos Toppan. Of the children, 
 one was a son : Elizabeth, a daughter, was m. to Daniel Peaslee, who had a large family. But 
 no descendants of 'Squire Seccombe with the surname Seccombe are now living. 
 
 Tlie extant printed productions of Rev. Joseph Seccombe are as follows :— Discourses— 
 
 (1.) Plain and brief Rehearsal of the Operations of (ihrist as God, 1740. 
 
 (2.) Business and Diversion inoffensive to God, 1743. 
 
 (3.J The Ways of Pleasure and the Paths of Peace. 
 
 (4.) To the foregoing should be added another — noted as a literary curiosity, printed with- 
 out the author's name — A Discourse uttered in part at Ammauskeag Falls, in the Fishing 
 season, 1739. Upou a copy of this is Rev. Joseph Dunster's written mem. ;— " The author 
 of this discourse was the Rev. Joseph Secome, who was settled not far from Merrymack 
 river." 
 
 5. AMOS TOPPAN. THIRD SETTLED PASTOR. This surname is variously spelled The 
 most common orthography at the present time is Tappan. The original spelling, it is said, 
 was Topham. The most remote ancestor of the family in New England was Abraham Toppan 
 who came from Yarmouth, Eng., to Newbury, Mass., 1637. Mr. Toppan was b. in Newbury, 
 Feb. 7, 173C; grad. Harv. C. 1758. March 24, 1770, he m. Margaret, dau. of 'Squire Sanborn, of 
 Kingston. Their dau. Mary died Feb. 16, 1793. 
 
 In the address as printed I have omitted a paragraph in which was incorrectly attributed to 
 him the authorship of an ordination sermon published without date. 
 
 6. Elihu Thayer, D. D. FOURTH SETTLED PASTOR. Richard Thayer of England, 
 who d. 1695, in Braintree, Mass., was his earliest ancester in this countiy. [R. T. was also an 
 ancestor of the tenth settled pastor.] His parents were Nathaniel and Mary [Faxon] Thayer 
 of Braintree, (.where he was b. March 18, 1747. It was emphatically true of him that of a 
 child he had known the Scriptures. At the age of nineteen he entered college one 
 year in advance, but the application to study required for this seems to have been at 
 the expense of permanent injury to his physical constitution. He graduated at the 
 college of New Jersey, 1769. He studied theology with Rev. Mr. Weld, of Braintree, Mass. 
 He was not in haste to settle as pastor, but preached in several places— nearly a year in New- 
 buryport, for the church of which Rev. Dr. Spring was afterwards pastor. He had at once 
 the most solid and engaging traits of character j a rare depth of judgment and discretion, and 
 a kind and courteous manner wholly unaffected, which made him socially easy of access. 
 Most interesting and improving was the conversation of a man of his lullness of knowledge 
 and wisdom Referring to this, Dea., Smith said to me — "You could not exhaust him." 
 Among his mental characteristics were accuracy and thoroughness. He would be the last of 
 aU men to lift a finger for advancing his own promotion; but honors, so to speak, were forced 
 upon him . In the year 1801 he was elected first President of the New Hampshire Missionary- 
 Society. In 1807 he received the degree of S. T. D. Irom Dartmouth College. The same year 
 
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 the General Association of New Hampshire considered the matter of establishing a bi-month. 
 ly periodical called the Religious Repository, and appointed Dr. Thayer, chairman of a board 
 of editors. 
 
 He fltteil a number of students for college, and sometimes received into his family yonng 
 men who pursued under his instruction classical studies away from the colleges of which they 
 were members. Students in theology were also instructed by him. 
 
 Dr. Thayer was often invited to take part in ecclesiastical councils, where his advice in 
 ca$es of difficulty was esteemed or the highest value. 
 
 The volume of his sermons published after his death was a valuable worR, but did not in- 
 clude, as I have been informed, some of hie best discourses . The bulk of his manuscripts, it 
 is said, were in the care of a gentlemah who became insane, by which means they were un- 
 fortunately lost. 
 
 Among discourses, delivered on public occasions, which were printed during his life-time, 
 were, 1790— Ordination of Peter Sanborn, (K 9) . 1795— Discourse, with Eulogy, at the grave 
 on the death of his neighbor and friend, .Tosiah Bartlett, M. D. (K. 1). 1801— Discourse at For- 
 mation of New Hampshire Missionary Society— &c. 
 
 Dr. Thayer wrote at the request of the N. H. M. Society, 1807, a small work entitled—" A 
 Summary of Christian Doctrines and Duties." 
 
 Dr. Thayer m. Dec. 28, 1780, Hannah, dau. of Col. John Calef, (E. 16). They had six sons 
 and live daughters, of whom the youngest son only, Calvin Thayer Esq , is now living. Mrs. 
 Thayer died March 26, 1841, aged 81 years. 
 
 7. Heevet Wileuk. His labors here, as has been stated, were before he became an or- 
 dained minister. He was born in \Vorthington, Mass., 1785. Received honorary degree of 
 A. M. from Dart. C. 1812. He was six years pastor of a church in Wendell, Mass., being dis 
 missed in 1823. His published works are — 
 
 (1. ) New Testament with Key— stereotyped in 1823. 
 
 (2.) Bible-class Text-book. Of these there were some twenty editions. 
 
 (3.) Reference Bible— Boston, 1328. This had a very large sale. 
 
 (4.) Reference Testament for Bible-classes. London, 1831. 
 
 (5.) Elements of Astronomy. New Haven, 1829. 
 
 He was the author of several other works. A number of his discourses were printed. He 
 was also well known to the New England public as Lecturer on Astronomy, &c. He died at 
 Newburyport, Mass., Jan. 1853. 
 
 8. Jons TUEKEE. FIFTH SETTLED PASTOR. Youngest son of Col. Seth and Rebecca 
 ^Vinton] Turner, b. Randolph, Mass., (then New South Precinct of Braintree,) Nov. 4, 1768; 
 m. Sept. 30, 1792, Lucy, a dau. of Paul Dudley Sargent, b. Sept. 27, 1773; Grad. Brown U. 17S8. 
 Studied divinity with Rev. Ephraim Judson of Taunton, Mass. ; ordained at Alfred, Me., Sept. 
 ■9, 1791 ; pastor Second Church, Biddeford, Me., 1805-1817 ; obliged to leave because his preach- 
 ing was too orthodox to suit Judge Thatcher and other leading men in the Society. From 
 Kingston he went to Boston, Jlass., and lived there about ten years, of which he was city mis- 
 sionary t\vo years. He also preached at Lynnfield, Orleans and Canton, Mass., &c. Rev. 
 John A. Vinton (in Vinton Memorial) says of him that he was " a very companionable guest; 
 strictly orthodox in his sentiments ; in good spirits, having a fund of anecdote and <an easy 
 flow of conversation." He died at Dorchester, Mass., Sept. 29, 1839. Mrs. T. died Feb. 13, 1853. 
 They had two sons and seven daughters. Only the youngest, Catharine Winthrop, was born 
 in Kingston. She died at the age of twenty. The eldest, Lucy Sargent, b. Juno 28, 1795, was 
 m. to David Hale, Esq., Aug. 22, 1825, whose father was Rev. David Halo of Lisbon, Conn. 
 Mr. H. in his connection with the New York Journal of Commerce, *' proved himself to be one 
 of the ablest editors on this continent." He was the leading founder of the Broadway Taber- 
 nacle Church, New York City. He d. 1849. The second dau. Mary Sophia, b. Aug. 30, 1797, 
 was m. Oct. 14, 1829, to Rev. Joseph Searle of Stoneham, Mass., who grad. Dart. C 1815, and 
 d. 1841. 
 
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 9. Ora Peaesoit. sixth settled PASTOR. Mr- Pearson was b. in Chlttendon, Vt., 
 Oct. 6, 1797; grad. Middlebury C. 1820; Audover 1824. Licensed to preach by the Haverhill 
 Association July 20, 1824, or more than two years and a hall' before he received ordination; m. 
 Mary, da,u. of Hon. John Kimball of Barton, Vt., June 15, 1827. After his dismissal from K., 
 he preaclied in Canada. He was pastor of clinrches in Barton and Glover, Vt., nearly five 
 years, 184044, when a serious affection of the eye made it necessary for him to relinquish this 
 eharge, but he labored afterwards as colporteur for the American Tract Society five or six 
 years. The latter years of his life he lived at Peat'ham, Vc, being in Infirm health and almost 
 totally blind. In this period and remarlsably in his last sicljness, he lUrnished a bright exam- 
 ple of the sustaining power of the religion of the gospel. He d . July 5, 1858. His oldest son, 
 Thomas Scott, a native of K. grad. Middlebury C, a young man of much character and prom- 
 ise, d. 1856. 
 
 10. Andrew GOVAN. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, March 5, 1794; grad. Glasgow U. 1821 ; 
 ordained at Barnet, Vt., Oct. 22, 1829; pastor in Lancaster, N. H., nearly three years, 1832-35. 
 After leaving Kingston he went to Rowe, Mass. For the last tnirty years he has lived In 
 Brandon, Michigan. His son, William Govau M. D., grad. Dart. C. 1839. 
 
 11. JosiAH LEONARD Case. SEVENTH settled RASTOE. Born in Johnston, N". T., 
 March 5, 1808 ; grad. Union C. 1836 ; Andover 1839. A brief memoir of Mr, C. containing twelve 
 pages, was prepared by Rev. John A. Vinton, IB. U. Lib. FuneralDis.] Rev. L. Woods. D.D., 
 preached the ordination sermon from 1. Tim. 4 : 15. Mr. Case's text for the funeral service 
 which he attended on the Tuesday after the Sabbath succeeding his ordination was— Ps. 17 : 5. 
 The discourse at his own funeral was preached by Rev. Edward A. Lawrence. 
 
 12. GEORGE William Weeks Thompson. EIGHTH SETTLED PASTOR. Grandson 
 of Judge Ebenczer Thompson and son of Ebenezer Thompson of Portsmouth, and Mary 
 [Weeks] Thompson, a native of Greenland. He was born ;in Portsmouth, March 29, 1808; 
 grad. Gilmantou Seminary, 1839; m. April 18, 1833, Mary, a dau. of Dea. John and Sally Win- 
 gate, b. Stratham, Nov. 2, ISIO. 
 
 Mr, T., after leaving K., preached in Dracut, Mass. He has for many years lived in Strat- 
 ham. 
 
 13. Samuel Mason. Born in Cavendish, Vt., Sept. 9, 1797. Apprenticed at the age of 
 seventeen to a manufacturer of woolen cloth. When of age carried on the business in com- 
 pany with Calvio French, now a lawyer and judge. After some years learned the black- 
 smith's trade. Read and studied much, and was an earnest Christian worker, and a leader in 
 the village lyceum. Held meetings in school-houses which were blessed as means of religious 
 awakening. Pastors of churches were glad of his help in seasons of revival. He was licensed 
 to preach by the Block River Association. Ordained pastor of the church in Rockingham, Vt., 
 Jan. 5, 1837. Leaving Vermont he preached in Washington, N. H,, 1840-42, and for a shorter 
 time at Lempster, from thence coming to Kingston. Completing his three years service at K. 
 in the summer of 1846 his health failed rapidly, and in the autumn he removed to Newbury- 
 port, Mass., where he died in peace and triumph April 9, 1847. Of his children, his son Sam- 
 uel W. Mason, A. M., of Chelsea, Mass., grad. Dart. C. 1849, has long held the position of 
 head-master of one of the Boston public schools. 
 
 14. James Fletcher. Born In Acton, Mass,, Sept. 5, 1824; grad. Dart. C, 1843; Andover, 
 1846, Ordained June 20, 1849, at Danvers, Mass.; pastor about sixteen years, and then becam 
 principal of a literary institution. 
 
 15. John Smith. NINTH SETTLED PASTOR. Born in Wethersfleld, Conn., Sept. 2, 
 1796; grad. YaleC.1821;studied at Princeton 1821-2,Andover 1823-4. Ordained at Trenton, N. J., 
 
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 J. March 8, 18-36. Pastor at Exeter nearly nine years, 1829-38; Wilton, Conn., Feb., 1839..Tune, 
 1848; then at Kingston ; York, Me, Oct., 18.50-March, 1855. Preached at Long Ridge and Stam- 
 ford, Conn., 1855-8; d. Stamfordf Conn., Feb. 20, 1874. Was twice married, and left a family. 
 
 16. Chari.es WiLLEr— Son of Jeese and Hannah [Perkins! Willey. Born in Derby, Vt., 
 Sept. 9, 1815; studied theology with S. E. Hall, LL. D. ; ordained pastor at Chichester, N". H., 
 Sept. 15, 1845. Sinceleaving Kingston be has ministered to churches in (his State as follows— 
 In Loudon, four years; Epsom, three; Barrington, six; Centre Harbor, three ; Greenfield, one; 
 Nelson, one; Swanzey, two. From Swanzey he went July, 1873, to Bloomington, Wisconsin. 
 
 17. JOHN H. Mei-USH. tenth settled PASTOE. Oldest son of John Mellish, 
 Esq., a native of Dorchester, Mass., and Gyrene [Smith] Mellish, a native of Walpole, Mass. 
 Born in Oxford, Mass., Aug. 30, 1834; grad. Amherst C. 1851, Andover 1854; m. Jan. 1, 1856, 
 Sarah A. dau. of Capt. David W. and Eliza .S. (Witt) Lane, b. N. Brookfleld, Mass., Aug. 24, 
 1828. Their dau. Florence was b. in Kingston Dec. 5, 1856. Mrs. M.'s descent is from Job 
 Lane who m. Hannah dau. of Eev. John Eeyner, Sen., pastor at Plymouth, Mass, 1636-54, and 
 Dover, N, H. 165.5-69. 
 
 After leaving K. Mr. M. preached at Killingly, (Dayville,) Conn., Jan. 'eS-April, '71. Began 
 preaching at N. Scituate, E. I., Junej *71. 
 
 18. Solomon Bixby. Born in Norridgework, Me., Deo. 9, 1821; grad. Colby U. 1849. Ban- 
 gor Sem. 1852 ; m. Mary Herrick Peet of Xorridgework. Preached at Kendtiskeag, Me., from 
 June, 18.52, to May, 1856, where he was ordained June 30, 1S53. Preached at Halifax, Vt., one 
 year, and at FaycttevjUe, Vt., June '.57-Jan., '64; Westmoreland, N. H., Feb. '64-Feb. '68. After 
 leaving Kingston was at Buxton, Me., Deo. '71-May, '75, when he went to Petersham, Mass. 
 
 19. Jacob CnArMAN. ELEVENTH SETTLED PASTOR. Son of Samuel and Elizabeth 
 S. [Folsom] Chapman; born in Tamworth.N. H., March 11, 1810; grad. Dart. C. 1835, Andover 
 1839; m. (1) May 27, 1840, Mary C. dau. of Hon. Nathaniel Howe of Bridgton, Me., who died 
 April 6, 1869; m. (2) Sept. 14, 1871, Mary B. dau. ot Charles Lane of Stratham, N. H. Principal 
 Lyndon Academy, Vt., one year; Bridgton, Me., two years; Myerstown, Pa. '43-46. Ordained 
 Evangelist at Pryeburg, Mc., June 23d, 1845. Though engaged as teacher preached much for 
 churches. Professor in Franklin C. (now Franklin Marshall) '46-'50; principal Harrisburg 
 Academy '50-'.52; iDastor Marshall, 111. '52-'64; acting pastor Onarga, 111. '64-'65. While pastor at 
 Marshall was appointed chaplain and professor of languages in Terra Haute Female C. ; was 
 there one year. Pastor Deerfleld, N. H. May 30, '66-April 10, '72. Next settled in Kingston. 
 
 Several ministers whose terms of service were very short, not installed in Kingston, are not 
 included in above notices. 
 
 Agreeably to a unanimous vote of the toMTi of Kingston, in 1850, a monument was erected 
 to the first four ministers, who were settled by the town and died in office. 
 
 c. 
 
 A List of the Communicants at the First Gathering of the Church at Kingston at 
 the Fast lefore the Ordination of the Rev'''. Mr. Ward Clark. 
 
 Ward Clark, past'r, Samuel Easeman Esq'r, Aaron Sleeper, Ichabod Eobie, James Prescot, 
 Thomas Webster, Moses Elkins, Moses Sleeper, Jeremiah Hubbard, Jonathan Sanborn Juu'r, 
 Ebenezer Sleeper, Capt. Jonathan Sanborn. 
 
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 Mary Colcord, Hannah Huntoon, Jane Hubbard, Hannah Elkinfl, Sarah FifleM, Elizabeth 
 Sanborn, Mehitabel Sanborn, Deborah Clifford, Margaret Sleeper, Mary Sanborn— Capt. San- 
 bprn's wife. 
 
 Families belonging to Kingston when the Rev^. Mr. Ward Clark took charge of the 
 
 Church, Sept. 29, 1725. 
 
 Sam'U Baseman Esq'r, Capt. Jonathan Sanborn, Lieut. John Sweat, Lieut. Sam'U Colcord, 
 Ensign John Filleld, Ensign Tristram Sanborn, Serg't Cornelius Clough, Serg't Joseph Young, 
 Serg't Moses Sleeper, Serg't Ebenezer Stevens, Daniel Ladd, Eben'r Sleeper, Widow Mary 
 Sleeper, Richard Clifford, Phillip Moody, John Magoon, Isaac ClilTord, Benjamin Judkins, 
 James Prescot, Joshua Prescott, Benjamin Wadleigh, Robert Stockman, Sam'U Stevens 
 Sam'U Judkins, Nathaniel French, Jedijab Philbrick, John Ladil, Will'm Long, Simon 
 French, Sam'U Baseman Jun'r, Daniel Bean, Sam'U Bean, Jonathan Sanborn, Jacob Oilman, 
 Phillip Huntoon, PhiUip Huntoon Jun'r, John Huntoon, Widow Newton, Joseph Bean, Widow 
 Coiemau, Jeremiah Hubbard, Widow Hubbard, Moses Elkins, Widow Elizabeth Sleeper, Jo- 
 seph Fifield, Sam'U Tucker, Aaron Sleeper the aged, Mr. Benjamin Choate, Thomas Webster, 
 James Bean, Sam'U Winslow, Old Goodman Severns, Ephi'aun Severns, Sam'U Welch, 
 — Abraham Watson, Joseph Sleeper, Thomas Dent, John Webster, Thomas Webster Jun'r, 
 Richard Hubbard, Jacob Flanders, Ralph Blazdel, Thomas George, Jeremiah Quiinby, Theo- 
 philuB Griffln, Moses Rowell, Ichabod Eobie, Sam'U Sanborn, Joseph Clough, Widow Sanborn, 
 James Healet, William Buzzel, John Sweat Jun'r, Eben'r Webster, Nathan'l Batchelor, Icha- 
 bod Clough, Eben'r FeUows, Joseph Greely, Widow Muzzey , Jonathan ColUngs a Quaker, Da- 
 vid Quimbey. In all Eighty and One. 
 
 Deacons of the Church, 
 
 1. Moses Elkins. Chosen Nov. 1, 1725 ; d. May 10, 1737; m. Nov. 17, 1701, Anna Shaw, and 
 had eleven children. He died suddenly in Exeter, after attending the funeral of Key. Ward 
 Clark. 
 
 2. Jekemiah HUBEAKD. Chosen Nov. 172.5 ; d. Sept. 22, 1762; b. March, 1692. "Avery 
 valuable and useful man." Mrs. H. died in Hawke, Jan. 30, 1783, aged 90. 
 
 3. Simon French. Chosen June 26, 1735; m. Nov. 24, 1709, Sarah Heard. Two sons, Jacob' 
 and David, survived him. 
 
 4. Teisteam Sanbokn. ChosenDec. 26, 1737; born 1683; m. April 2, 1711, Margaret Tay- 
 lor ; had six children ; was caUed Ensign Sanborn ; fOled the ofiice of deacon forty years.* 
 
 5. Joseph Elkins. Chosen Dec. 26, 1737. Lived on or near Beech Plain. He is supposed 
 to have joined the church in Hawke. 
 
 6. SIMEON Beown. Chosen Dec. 26, 1737. Had a son Simeon baptized 1738. 
 
 7. JEDIDIAH Philbkick. Chosen May 1, 1742; bom at Hampton 1700; m. 1721, Mary Tay. 
 lor; had sons, Jeremiah, Samuel and Joseph. He was " Representative of the Town in the 
 Gen'l Assembly of the Province, Captain of the Town, Town Clerk, and in many respects a 
 very useful and worthy leader of this Society-" He d. March 20, 1754. 
 
 8. LIEUT. Elisha Swett. Chosen July 1765; born 1705; d. 1788, 
 
 *The earliest New England ancester of the Sanborna -was John, who m. a daughter of Rev. Stephen Bachiler, the first 
 m inister of Hampton ; but he died in England. 
 
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 9. Benjamin Sweat. ChoBenllarch, 1763; m. Feb. 20, 1729, Abi. Darling; had seven chil- 
 dren; d. Nov. 2, 1787. " Dea. Swett sustained a great reputation in his ecclesiastical office." 
 
 10. Capt. Samuel FiFIELD. Chosen about 1763. 
 
 11. Col. Beenezer Stevens. (Son of Major Ebenezer and Elizabeth [Colcord] Stevens.) 
 Chosen 1770; b. June 19, 1715; m. (1) Mary Colcord; (2) Miss Daley Stevens. He was taken 
 when seven years old by the Indians and carried into captivity, but was redeemed by his fa- 
 ther. He was an active and successful business man, and held office many years. He had 
 four sons — Ebenezer Jr., -John, Moses and Paul. Stevenstown, now Salisbury, was named for 
 him. Hed. July 19, 1800. 
 
 12. William Sleeper. Chosen 1780; b. 1722; d. Jan. 16, 1792. 
 
 13. Capt. Ebenezer Stevens. (Son of Col. Ebenezer Stevens.) Chosen 1787; b. 1739. 
 He m. (1) 1760, Sarah Emerson ; (2) Sarah Stevens. Had twelve children ; the youngest b. in 
 1805. 
 
 14. Jacob Hook, Esq. Chosen 1792; b. 1724; m. Mary Bachelder, 1749; d. 1804. "A use- 
 ful man in whom the church lost a main pillar." 
 
 15. Jonathan Saneokn. Chosen 1793; b. 1740; m. Lydia Severance; d. May 27, 1809. Their 
 dau. Catharine, became wife of Capt. Nicholas Nichols, whose father Nicholas Nichols, a na- 
 tive of the Isle of Guernsey, m. Mary Becket of Exeter. 
 
 16. COL. John Calee. Chosen 1799; b. 1731 ; m. Judith Chalice. Children — .Joseph, Mary, 
 b. 1758; Hannah, John, Samuel, Amos, and Robert b. 1772. who m. M. Sleeper. Dea. C d. 
 1806. 
 
 17. John QuiMBT Sanbokn. Chosen 1813; b. 1766; m. 1785, Eliz. Kimball; d. June 1840. 
 Children — Timothy and Polly. 
 
 18. Egbert Smith. Chosen Aug, 4, 1817; b.EastKingston April 12, 1768; son of Dr. Wil- 
 liam and Betty [Bachelderj Smith; ra. (1) 1794, Lois French, by whom be had two sons and 
 three daughters ; m. (2) 1838, Mrs. Nancy Clark. He resigned Oct. 14, 1851, but served till near 
 his death, or forty-four years; d. Nov. 30, 1861. Several of his ancestors on both sides were 
 of great longevity. 
 
 19. Charles TiTCOMB. Chosen 1844; b. Newburyport, Mass., 1796; m. a dau. of Dea. R. 
 Smith; d. Feb. 21, 1858. Left two sons and two daughters. 
 
 20. Dr. Ezra B. Gale. Chosen April 1, 1844; son of Dr. Amos Jr. and Sally [Bartlett] 
 Gale; b. Oct. 13, 1797; m. (1) Kuth White, by whom he had four sous and three daughters. Of 
 these sons, Josiah Bartlett, fell bravely fightiug in a Massachusetts Regiment at the battle of 
 Middleton Heights, 1862. Married (2) Emily Atwood, by whom he had two sons and four 
 daughters. He was a '* beloved physician." 
 
 21. Isaac Sanborn. Chosen Oct. 1851; b. Nov. 29, 1793; m. 1834, Ploomy P. Stevens; d. 
 Oct. 1, 1862, leaving two sons, Abraham and John H. Mrs. S. d. Feb. 2, 1861, aged 60. Of the 
 sons, Abraham, b. March 5, 1837, enlisted in response to President Lincoln's call for three hun. 
 dred thousand men, in 1862, in a company commanded by his friend Capt. Pillsbury. When 
 too ill for duty, he refused to be excused from service, and went through the terribly severe 
 battle at Fredericksburg. But his earnestness and thorough fidelity did not avail to ward o4 
 the power of sickness, and he d. near Fredericksburg, Va., Jan. 26, 1863. 
 
 22. Simon Brown Judkins. Chosen March, 1855; b. July 25, 1812; m. Jan. 11, 1844, Catha- 
 rine Hoyt of West Amesbury, Mass. Has one son and four daughters. 
 
 23. JOSEPH Emerson Magoon. Chosen Dec. 1868: b. 1799; m. Betsey Fitts : d. Aug. 28, 
 1874. Of his children, two sons and three (laughters survive him. His son, Serg't Calvin 
 Barstow Magoon, b. East Kingston, June 23, 1839, enlisted in Co. I., 11th N, H Vol. He was 
 a remarkably athletic and active young man. As he was physically he became morally and 
 religiously able and willing to " endure hardness as a good soldier." Wounded at the battle 
 of Fredericksburg, Dec. 1862; also at battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864; of which he died 
 May 21, in Fredericksburg. Christ's presence he felt very near, and his trust was unbounded 
 in the Captain of his salvation. 
 
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 At the date of the incorporation of Kingston, we were in the midst of a war between France 
 and England, and three other Uke wars are included in the first seventy years of the town's 
 
 6XlSr6IlC6> 
 
 Practically the last of this series on this side of the ocean was closed in 1761, although the 
 treaty of Paris was not signed till 1763. 
 
 Perhaps it would be nearly accurate to say that for one-third part of these seventy years 
 there was a state of hostility between the two nations, embroiling their American colonies. 
 
 This may help to explain the prominence that we find on the town and church books given 
 to military titles, and the fact that for so many years the deacons were generally military 
 officers. o J J 
 
 Among the most noted actors of Kingston in the contest which issued in breaking the power 
 of France in Korth America, were Ladd, Huntoon and Webster. 
 
 F. 
 
 Second Meeting House. 
 
 At a Town Meeting, March 27, 1732, Capt. Jonathan Sanborn, moderator, a vote was taken to 
 build a new meeting-house, and 'Squire Ebenezer Stevens, Tristram Sanborn and Simon 
 Brown, chosen Building Committee. 
 
 It was " voted that the meeting-house shall Be built fifty five foots Long and forty-five foots 
 wide, and high anough for two ters of gallerys," &o. 
 
 G. 
 Half- Way Covenant. 
 
 The Church records seem to show that often persons guilty of immoralities, by publicly 
 confessing the same, being baptized (if they had not been) and owning the Covenant, express- 
 ed their repentance or purpose of retormation. 
 
 One of the evils of the practice of the Half- Way Covenant , was that it tended to foster erro- 
 neous notions on religious responsibility. In a paper read at a Cliurch Fast, April 19, 1753, was 
 the following : "We sincerely resolve by the help of God, as a Christian congregation to walk 
 together in the ways .of Divine worship according to the rules of the gospel and the degrees of 
 communion to which we have attained." — i. c. Full or partial communion. 
 
 H. 
 
 Comparison of the Town's action with State Legislation on ihe support of Ministers . 
 
 The " Toleration Act," passed in July, 1819, provides that " No person shall be compelled to 
 join or support any congregation, church or religious society, without his express consent 
 first had and obtained." "And any person may, (if connected with a society,) by leaving a 
 written notice with the Clerk of the Society, be exempted from any future expenses," &c. 
 
 This prevented Towns from settling any more ministers, and led to the formation of religious 
 societies whose members taxed themselves. 
 
 But it was two years before this legislation that a party in Kingston at an adjourned meet- 
 ing reconsidtred a vote passed March, 1817, and voted to " appropriate the parsonage money as 
 the different denominations think proper," where each man's proportion should be paid being 
 asceriained when his inventory was taken. 
 
 I am informed that a comparison of the two, indicates that the State law was shaped after 
 the Kingston Bye-Law, as found in Town Records, Vol. 23. 
 
 The dates show conclusively that Mr. Turner did not cause the agitation of this subject, but 
 found it already existing. 
 
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 At a Town Meeting held March, ]876, a vote was paEsed, three to one, to the effect that $50 
 of the i ncome of the donation of Rev. Ward Clark, he paid annually to the church he organiz. 
 ed, before division of other funds. 
 
 The Town sold the part of the parsonage property left by Mr. C, for $900, and holds other 
 parsonage property to the amount of more than $4,000. 
 
 Ministers of other Towns formerly included in Kingston. 
 
 1. East Kisqston. Peter GoSin ; h. Exeter .Dec. 9; 1713 ; m. Dorothy Gookin of Hampton ; 
 d. in Exeter, Dec. 19, 1777. 
 
 3. Sandown. (1) Rev. .Josiah Cotton — one of six New Hampshire ministers with the sur- 
 name Cotton, descended from Rev. John Cotton of Boston, who was b. Derby, Eng,, Dec. 4, 
 1585.— Born, Sandwich, Mass., June .5, 1703; grad. Harv. C. 1722; ord. Providence, R. I., Oct. 23, 
 1728; installed VVoburn, Mass., July 15, 1747, and Sandown.K. H., Nov. 28,1759; d. May 27, 1780. 
 
 (2) Samuel Collins— b. Lebanon, Conn., 1747; grad. Dart. C. 1775; ord. Dec. 27, 1780; die. 
 April 30, 1788. Pastor Hanover Centre, 1788-173.3 ; afterwards in Craftsbury, Vt. ; d. Jan. 7, 1807. 
 
 (3) John Webber— b. Newbury, Mass., May 5,1762; grad. Dart, C. 1793; ord. March 34, 1795; 
 disc. Sept. 15, 1800. One of his subsequent settlements was at Campton, N. H., 1812-15. He d. 
 Oct. 9, 18.52. 
 
 3. DAKVILLE— FORMEKLY Hawke. John Page— b. Salem. N. H., Oct 19, 1738; grad. Harv. 
 C. 1761; licensed to preach by Bradford Ministers' Meeting, Oct. 13, 1762; ord. Dec, 21, 1763; d. 
 Jan. 29, 1783. 
 
 K. 
 
 Persons belonging to the Learned Professions, natives of Kingston, or who have 
 been connected with the Congregational Church or Congregation, or whose wives 
 were of Kirigstnn, not already noticed. 
 
 1. Hon. Josiah Baetlett, M. D.— Son of Stephen Bartlett—b. Amesbury, Mass., Nov.21, 
 1727; m. Jan. 15, 1754, his cousin, Mary Bartlett of Newton, by whom he had t^'elve children. 
 He was a member of the Committee of Public Satety of the Continental Congress, a Signer of 
 the Declaration of Independence, President— as the office was first called — then Governor ot 
 the State of New Hampshire, and was called to occupy other both civil and military offices of 
 trust. He d. May 19, 1795. 
 
 Of his sons, Levi Bartlett, M. D., succeeded him in practice in Iv., who m. (1) Sarah, dan. of 
 Jacob Hook, Esq. (E. 14); m. (2) Miss Abi Stevens. Of children by the latter, a son, Levi 
 Stevens Bartlett, M. D., lived here. Born in K., Dec. 3,1811; m. Dec. 3, 1844, Aroline Elizabeth, 
 dan. of Moses Sanborn, Esq., h. Kingston, Aug. 15, 1825. Dr. B. d. Feb. 19, 1865, leaving a son 
 and three daughters. The time included in the practice of these three physicians in K. was 
 more than a century. 
 
 2. Gale. Three generations of this family practiced physic in K. Drs. Amos, Sen. and 
 Jun., and Ezra Bartlett Gale (see E. 20) and others. 
 
 The Bartlett and Gale families wex-e closely connected by intermarriages. Others of this 
 stock, besidi'S those here mentioned of both surnames, some of them natives of K. liave fol- 
 lowed the practice of medicine. A writer remarks : — " It is believed that no two families in 
 our country have furnished more physicians than the Bartlett and Gale families of Kingston." 
 
 [See Am. His. and Gen. Reg., Vol. I., p. 97.] 
 
 3. Rev. Nathaniel Webstee— grad. Harv. C. 17G9; d. 1830. For many years pastor of the 
 First church in Biddeford, Me. 
 
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 f^iEjiV. Zacchetjs Colet— b. Newton, May 21, 1749; grad. Harv. C. 1777; m. Deo. 11, 1786, 
 ary, eldeet dau. of Col.Calef (E. 16); ordained at Pembroke, March 23, 1780 ; dis. Maylli 
 ^afi Pastor Aubnrn. Oct. 13, 1803-1809; d. Aug. 10, 1822. 
 
 ^fc "Bev. Joseph AppLETON—h. Ipswich Mass., 17.51; grad'. Brown U. ; m. Mary, dau. of 
 w^^EHook, Esq., (E. U) June 15, 1777; ordained N. Brookfleld, Mass., Oct. 30, 1776, "where he 
 d. WB%' 25, 1795. Of Mrs. A. Dr. Snell writes (Cent. t)is. April, 1852) that she is " spoken of as 
 a person of strong, sprightly mind and ready wit ... of enterprise and character .... esteem, 
 ed . . . .aperson of no ordinary piety." Youngest son, the late Hon. William Appleton of Bos- 
 ton, .SJ1786; merchant and member of Conaress; m. Mary Ann Cutler. Mrs. A. was m. (2) 
 Nov. 15, 1798, to Maj. Daniel Gould cf Lyndeboro'. She d. aged 85. 
 
 6. Eev. Moses Sweat— son of Dea. B. Sweat (E. 9)— b. 1754; m. Oct. 21, 1783, Hannah East- 
 man. Keceived Hon. degree A. M., Harv. C. 1790; died 1822. 
 
 7. Eev. Jonathan CALEP—b. 1762; grad. Dart. C. 1787; ordained pastor, Bloomfleld, Me., 
 1794. Was pastor thirty years in Lyman, Me,, where he d. April 25, 1845. 
 
 8. JOHN Calef, a. B.— son of Col. C. (E. 16)— b. Sept. 1763; grad. Dart. C. 1786; d. Uoshen 
 1841. 
 
 9. Eev. Peter Sanbokn— b. Aug. 13, 1767; grad. Dart. C. 1786; pastor Reading, Mass., 179i), 
 1820; d. 1857. He was a son of Lieut. William S., b. May 1, 1723, who was son of Ensign Tris- 
 tram S. (E. 4.) Two sons ot Rev. P. S. became ministers. 
 
 10. Jonathan Fipield Sleeper, A. M.— b. 1768; grad. Dart. C. 1786; teacher in 
 Tyngsboro', Boston and Lynn, Mass.; d, in Kingston, 1804. His son, John Sherburne Sleeper, 
 was long Ed. Boston Journal. 
 
 11. Rev. Nathan Tilton— (I am not certain that he belonged to the Church here)— b. E. 
 Kingston, July 2, 1772; grad. Harv. C 1796; pastor Second parish, Scarboro', Me., Dec. 10,1800,. 
 t04lS27; d. 1851 — '*In a good old age, full of piety and peace." 
 
 12. JosiAH Bartlett Calef— grandson of Gov. Bartlett— b. 1783. Teacher in Boston ; af- 
 terwards in Saco, Me. 
 
 13. Rev. Francis P. Smith— son of Rev. Isaac Sraith—b. Gilmanton, Aug. 22, 1795; grad. 
 Dart. C. 1816. Begun practice of Law 1822; was at Medway, Mass., before he came to K., and 
 after at Ossippee. Entered the ministry and was ordained Sept. 12, 1838; was settled pastor at 
 Guildhall, Vermont; has preached in this State and in Maine. Now lives in N. Wolfeboro'. 
 
 14. Thomas Basset, M. D.— b. Deerfleld, Aug. 12, 1797 ; received degree of M. D. from Dart. 
 C. 1824; m. Dec. 30, 1828, Miranda Spofford, b. Kingston. 
 
 15. Samuel Hubbard Stevens, Esq.— son of John, who was son of Col. E. (E. 11), son of 
 Maj. E., an original settler— b. E. Kingston, Nov. 20, 1802; grad. Dart. C. 1830; m. July 27, 1840, 
 Seraphina S., dau. Moses Sanborn, Esq. ; d. March 19, 1876. He left one daughter. 
 
 16. Rev. William Patten Gale. Born, Gilmanton, Feb. 24, 1806; m. Louisa, dau. Aaron 
 and Sarah [Chase] Patten of K; ordained Thornton, Jan. 1, 1845; dis. Feb. '61. Preached also 
 at Nelson two years. Has lived many years In Western States; d. Minnesota, 1872. 
 
 17. A0RIN Moody Payson, A. M. Was mem. of tliis church ; b. Brentwood. 1809 ; grad. 
 Dart. C. 1840. Teacher, Portsmouth. 
 
 18. Bev. Elihu Thayer Rowe. Was mem. of this church— (grandson of Dr. Thayer)— 
 b.B. Kingston, Aug. 10, 1813; grad. Dart. C. 1840; ordained May 29, 1845, Hillsboro"; dis. Nov. 
 30, 1847. Was many years classical teacher at Kimball Union Academy, Merlden. Removed 
 with his family from N. H. to Auburnaale, Mass., where he died March 21, 1867. 
 
 19. Samuel Badger, M. D. Son of Benjamin and Sarah [WadleighJ ; B., Kingston, March 
 13, 1814; grad. Dart. (;. 1840; studied theology at Andover one year; studied medicine at Uni- 
 versity of Va.; d. June 14, 1848, in Kingston. 
 
 20. HENRY French, A. B. Son of Peter French; b. Kingston, Oct. 14, 1814; grad. Dart, C. 
 
 1836; m. Blake,, who afterwards became second w. of Rev. L. S. Parker, now of Ashburn- 
 
 ham, Mass. Was Prof, of Languages, Phillips Academy, Exeter; d. July 21, 1840. His father 
 left a liberal bequest to Kingston Academy. 
 
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 21. Eev. Ezekiel Hale Baestow. (Was mem. of this ch.); b- Hanover, MasB., May 17, 
 1816; grad.Dart. 0.1839; ordained Walpole, Aug. 6, 1845; dls. Dec. 30, 1859. Hem. Aug. 3, 
 1842, Euuice G. Clark of Brattleboro', Vt; d. April 10, 1862. 
 
 22. Eev. William Aaron Patten. Sou of Aaron and Sarah [Chase] P.; b. Kingston, 
 June 28, 1816; grad.Dart. C. 1843, Andover, 1816; ordained Deerfleld, .July 18, 1850; dis. July 
 21, 1862. Has preached both in JSew England and Western States. In the late war, serred for 
 a time as chaplain in the army. 
 
 23. Abel Wood, A. M. Born Westminster, Mass. ; grad. Dart. C. 1843. A licensed preach- 
 er, but has pursued academical teaching; m. July 29, 1842, Sarah Ann, dau. of A. and S. [C] 
 Patten, b. Kingston. Mr. W. was long In Kimball Union Academy , Meriden ; is now at Gil- 
 bertsville, N, T. 
 
 24. Eev. Ezra Newton. Son of Ezra and Lucy N.; b. Princeton, Mass., 1818; grad. Dart. 
 C. 1843; m. Aug. 20, 1846, Martha Thayer, dau. A. and S. [C] Patten; ordained Shutesbury, 
 Mass., 1848. Lives now in Minnesota. 
 
 25. Hon. William Colcokd Patten. Son of Colcord and Maria E. [Fletcher] P.; b. 
 Kingston, June 24, 1819; admitted to the Bar 1857; m. (1) 1842, Laura E. Prescofct of Kingston; 
 nj. (2) Sarah Ann Weare of Kensington. He filled many civil offices; was strongly attached 
 to his nalive town, whose educational and other interests he actively and efficiently promoted* 
 Died Jan. 5, 1873. 
 
 26. Nathanael- Gordon, Esq. Born Exeter Nov. 20, 1820; grad. Dart. C. 1841; m. (l)])ec. 
 26, 1853, Alcina E , dau. Moses Sanborn, Esq., b. Kingston, Feb. 1833. 
 
 27. Ezra W. Gale. Son of Dea. E.B. Gale (E. 20J; b. South Hampton, May 9, 1824 : grad. 
 Dart. C. 1843. Academical teacher; studied Law. 
 
 28. Warren T. Webster, A.M. Sonof Samuel and Mary Webster; b. June 6, 1830; grad. 
 Brown U. 1851; m. Hattie A. French of Lewiston, Me. Academical teacher, Brooklyn, X. Y, 
 
 29. Hon. Edward F. Notes. Son of Theodore and Hannah [Stevens] Greely Noyes ; b. 
 Haverhill, Mass., Oct. 3, 1832; grad. Dart. C. 1857; m. Feb. 15, 1863, Margarette W. Proctor— a 
 member of this church— who was b. Derry, 1833. Pracliccd Law, Cincinnati, Ohio. In the war 
 was Col. 39th O. Vol. A wound received in battle necessitated amputation of left leg above 
 the ankle. Near the close of the war was appointed General. Has filled important civil offi- 
 ces, among these that of Governor of the State of Ohio for two years. 
 
 30. John A. Follette, M.D. Son of Joseph W. and Mary B. [Towle] Follette; b. Centre 
 Harbor, Feb. 17, 1834; gi-ad. Dart. C. 1S57. Studied medicine with Dr. L. S. Bartlett, ami prac- 
 ticed in Kingston; m. Martha E. Goodwin, Feb. 17, 1862, who was b. Southampton, Feb. 12, 
 1838. Dr. F. was surgeon in the war; is settled as physician in Boston, Mass. 
 
 31. William Franklin Webster, M. D. Son of Samuel and Mary Webster; b. Kingston 
 Sept, 13,1834; grad. Brown U. 1852; Tutor '52-'54. Studied medicine and natural science lii 
 European schools more than a year; joined Cong. Church, Pawtucket, E. I., 1859; m. Ellen F. 
 Pervere of PawtucKer, Dec. 1858. Failure of his heaith dated from Feb., 1868, when he was 
 attending lectures at Harv. Med. School. Appointed Prof, chemistry, Washington C, Penn., 
 1860. Went there but was unable to enter upon the duties of his professorship. Died at Wash, 
 ington, Penn., Nov. 13, 1860. His last words were " Heaven to me is as bright as noon-day." 
 
 32. Henry P. C. Nichols, A. M. Son of Nicholas and Mary J. fBarstowl Nichols, and 
 grandson of Capt: N. (see E. 15) ; b. Kingston, Jan. 1836 ; grad. Williams C. 1869, Andover, 1864. 
 Preached several years in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y.; then went into mercantile business. Lives 
 in Michigan. His sifter, Mary E., b. Kingston, 1830, is wile of David H. Nutting, M. D., mis- 
 sionary of A. B. C. F. M. ; returned to this'country. 
 
 33 . Henry Lyman Pattes, A. M. Youngest son of Colcord and Maria E . [Fletcher] Pat 
 ten; b. in K. April 4, 1836; grad. Harv. C. 1858, with high honors; teacher in several situations; 
 studied law a year, then became teacher in the academical department of Washington U., St. 
 Louis, Mo., but resigned to study law. Entered the army; was successively 2d and 1st Lieut., 
 Capt. and Maj. 20th Mass. Tols. Was a very skillful officer. Wounded at Nelson's Farm, 
 
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 July 30, 1862; also, in the battle of Gettysburg, and in the Wilderness. Yet, again Aug. 17, '64, 
 at Deep Bottom, Va., when amputation of the left leg above the knee became necessary, and 
 he died in Philadelphia, Sept. 10, 1864. Shortly before his death, commissions were issued, 
 which did not reach him, appointing him Colonel, and then Brigadier General by Brevet. " He 
 was earnest and devout and cheerful and aifectionate and conscientious and brave."— -fV«8. 
 Walker. A much beloved member of this Church, with which he united at the age of fifteen 
 years. 
 
 He was, I believe, the last soldier either of whose parents were members of this Church, 
 who died in the progress of the Great Conflict— the first being George Edward Schelling, son 
 of John and Lucy Schelling, who died of a fever, in hope of a better life, at I'ort Eoyal, Dec. 
 12, 1861, aged eighteen years. 
 
 Completeness of enumeration is by no means claimed for the above list. Omissions may be 
 referred to my lack of definite information. 
 
Ellll A.T A.. 
 
 Page 3, line 13 from bottom, for Rev. W. read Eev. G. W. 
 " 5, line 9 from bottom, for my read any. 
 " 8, line 5 from top, insert were before impoverished. 
 " 9, line 6 from bottom, for Thompson's read Tompson'e. 
 " 9, lines 11 and 13 irom bottom, for Thompson read Tonison. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Page. 
 
 Academy, Bequest to 35 
 
 Answer, Mr. Tompeon's 26 
 
 Apijleton, Rev. J 16, 35 
 
 ** Mrs. Mary 35 
 
 Badger, SamnelM. D 35 
 
 Barstow, Eev. E. H 36 
 
 Bartlett, Hon. I. and Joseph M. D 14 
 
 " Hon. Josiah 15, 28, 3i 
 
 " L.,M.D., L. S.M. D 34 
 
 Bassett, Thomas, M-D-.l 35 
 
 Bixby, Eev. S 22,30 
 
 Brown. Dea.S , 31 
 
 Calef, Col. John 28,32,35 
 
 " John, A. B 35 
 
 " Rev. Jonathan 35 
 
 Candidates 13,16 
 
 •Case, Rev, J. L 21, 29 
 
 Centenarians 12 
 
 Chapman, Rev. Jacob 22, 30 
 
 Chester, Eai'ly Settlers of 11 
 
 Choate, B., A. M 9,25 
 
 Church, Fasts of. 30, 33 
 
 " Firstmemhers 11,30, 31 
 
 " Gathering of 11, 30 
 
 Church, Eev. J.H.,D.D 17 
 
 Clark, Eev. Ward 10, 12,16 
 
 Coffin, Eev. Peter 13, 14,34 
 
 Coffin and Fogg, Eev. Messrs 15 
 
 Colcord, Lieut. S 14 
 
 Collins, Rev. S 34 
 
 Cotton, Rev. Josiah 14, 34 
 
 Covenant, Half-way 14, 33 
 
 Cummings, Eev. Jacob 20 
 
 Cushing and Gookin, Eev. Messrs 11 
 
 Danville 6,14,18,34 
 
 Deacons, Account of. 31, 32 
 
 Page. 
 
 East Kingston 6, 13,18,20, 34 
 
 Elkins, Dea. Joseph 31 
 
 " Dea. Moses 9, 31 
 
 FiHeld, Capt. S 32 
 
 Fletcher, Rev. James 21,29 
 
 Follette. John A., M. D 36 
 
 French, Dea. S 31 
 
 " Henry, A. B 35 
 
 Gale, Amos, M. D., Amos, Jr., M. D 34 
 
 " E. B., M.D,, and J.B 32 
 
 " E. W., A. M 36 
 
 " Eev. W. P 35 
 
 Garrison, Defended by Females 6 
 
 Gordon, Nartianael, Esq 36 
 
 Govan. Eev. Andrew 20, 29 
 
 Great Eevival, Differences on 15, 26 
 
 Hale, David, Esq 28 
 
 Hampton, Men of 8 
 
 History, C. Patten's MS 5 
 
 Hobart, Rev. James 21 
 
 Hook, Jacob, Esq 32, 34, '35 
 
 Hubbard, Dea. J ». .31 
 
 Hymn, by F. B. Patten 25 
 
 Indians, Captures by 7 
 
 " Persons slain by 7 
 
 '* Missionaries to 26 
 
 " Pawtuckets, Penacooks 10 
 
 Ingraham, Rev. Ira 19 
 
 Judkins, Dea. S. B 32 
 
 Kingston, Heads of Families, 1725 11, 31 
 
 ** Incorporation, Area 6 
 
 Ladd, Huntoon and Webster 33 
 
 Land Grants to Ministers 8, 9,12 
 
 Lawrence, Rev. E, A 29 
 
 Lawsuit 19 
 
40 
 
 Page. 
 
 Magoon, Dea. Joseph B 23,32 
 
 " Sergt. Calvin B 32 
 
 Mason EeT. Samuel 21,29 
 
 Mellish, Eev. J. H 21,30 
 
 Meetinghouses 9,12,19,20,21,33 
 
 Missions by Kev. T. Holt and others ....18 
 Monument to Ministers 30 
 
 Negro Servants 14, 15 
 
 New Hampshire in 1725 10 
 
 Newton, Rev. Ezra 36 
 
 Nichols, H. r. C, A. M 36 
 
 Noyes, Hon. B. F., Mrs.M.T 36 
 
 Nutting, D.H., M. D., Mrs. M. E 36 
 
 Odlin, Eev. John 11 
 
 Page, Eev. John 14, 34 
 
 Parsonage, Funds 19, 34 
 
 " House built 20 
 
 " Lot 8 
 
 Pastors, and other Mioisters 25, 30 
 
 Patten, Maj. Henry L 36 
 
 Hon. W.C 36 
 
 '■ Eev. W. A ,. 36 
 
 Payson, Aurin M., A. M 36 
 
 Pearson, Eev. O 19,20,29 
 
 T. S., A. M 29 
 
 PhilbriclJ, Dea. J 31 
 
 Prel'erences, Eeligious 12,16,17 
 
 Professional Men, &c 34-37 
 
 Pi-escott, J.— Grantee of K 6 
 
 Eowe, Eev.ElihuT 35 
 
 Salisbury, &c., Settlers of. 14 
 
 Sanborn, Abraham '. 32 
 
 " Dea. Isaac 23, 32 
 
 " Dea. Jonathan 32 
 
 " Dea. John Q 19,22,32 
 
 " John 8,31 
 
 " Mrs. Elizabeth 22,32 
 
 " Eev. Peter 28, 35 
 
 " Ensign Tristram 6, 9, 31, 33, 35 
 
 San'down 6, 14, 18, 34 
 
 Schelling, George E 37 
 
 Seccombe, Eev. John 26 
 
 '■ Eev. Joseph 13-15,26,27 
 
 '* Simmons, Esq 27 
 
 Sermons, Dr. Thayer's 17, 28 
 
 Sewall, Prince and Colman, Eev. Drs. 15, 27 
 Sleeper, Aarou 8, 11 
 
 Page. 
 
 Sleeper, Dea. William 32 
 
 " John Sherburne 35 
 
 " JonathanP., A. M 35 
 
 Smith, Dea. Robert 23, 27, .32 
 
 " Eev. F. P 35 
 
 " Eev. John 21,29,30 
 
 Societies, Legislation on 33 
 
 Society, Catechetical 17, 18 
 
 " For the Promotion, &c 17-20 
 
 " Hon. &c., at Edinburgh 26 
 
 " Methodist 17 
 
 N.H. M 21,22,27,28 
 
 " Temperance 20 
 
 Stevens, Capt. E 18,32 
 
 " Col.E 15,32,35 
 
 " Maj. E., Esq 7, 15, 33 
 
 " S. H., Esq 35 
 
 Support, of Ministers 9, 11,33 
 
 Surnames 11, 14 
 
 Sweat, Dea. B 32 
 
 " Eev. M 35 
 
 Swett, Lieut. E... 31 
 
 Tappan and Taylor, Eev. Messrs .20 
 
 Thayer, Rev. E., D. D 16, 27, 28 
 
 Thompson, Eev. G. W 21, 29 
 
 Throat Distemper, of 1735 12 
 
 Tilton, Eev. Nathan 35 
 
 Titcomb, Dea. C 32 
 
 Tompson, Eev. W 9, 10, 25, 26 
 
 Toppan, Eev. Amos.... 1.5, 16, 27 
 
 Tri-semi-centennia! 3 
 
 Turner, Eev. John 18, 19, 28 
 
 Vinton, Eev. J. A 28, 29 
 
 War, Late— Deaths in 23 
 
 " Eevolutionary 15,16 
 
 Ward, Eev. Jonathan 21 
 
 Ware, French 6, 7, 33 
 
 Webber, Rev. John 34 
 
 Webster, Col. E., father of Hon. D 14 
 
 " E., Grantee of K 14 
 
 " Eev. N 34 
 
 " W.F., M.D 13,36 
 
 " W. T., A.M 36 
 
 Whitefleld, Kev. G 15,26 
 
 Wilbur, Eev. H 17, 28 
 
 Will, of Eev. W. Clark .' 13, 19 
 
 Willey, Eev. C 21, 30 
 
 Wood, Abel, A. M 38 
 
 Woods, Eev. L., D. D 29