The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://archive.org/details/cu31924097311967 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 1924 097 311 967 In compliance with current copyright law, Cornell University Library produced this replacement volume on paper that meets the ANSI Standard Z39.48-1992 to replace the irreparably deteriorated original. 2003 (O/vew (pc-es HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM, DEERFIELD, AND N0RTHW00D, COMPRISED WITHIN THE ORIGINAL LIMITS OP NOTTINGHAM, ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N. H., WITH RECOUPS OF THE CENTENNIAL PKOCEEDINGS AT N0ETHW00D, GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES. REV. ELLIOTT C. COGSWELL. MANCHESTER: PRINTED BY JOHN B. CLARKE. 1878. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1878, by ELLIOTT C. COGSWELL, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. PEEFAOE. OUR book is -written, — the labor of five years. Our ambition has been to gratify those who would be able to appreciate its merits and condone its imperfections, cheered with the hope that the next generation will be grateful for it. In its preparation we have taken many an hour from needful rest by day, and sleep by night. Not a few have complained of the delay in completing the work, and others have expressed much anxiety lest we should grow rich from its sale. Our prayer for such has been that of Job, — " O that mine adversary had written a book; " and that book the history of three towns : then the lips of some fools would have been silent. The book goes forth much larger than we at first anticipated, and far too large for our financial comfort ; but we have labored without hope of gain or desire of applause. The town of Northwood appropriated two hundred dollars to aid the work. This sum has been expended on views of the Narrows, Suncook Lake, the Center, Blake's Hill, East Northwood, Saddleback Mountain, and the two Baptist meeting-houses. Ths town of Deerfield appropriated two hundred dollars for the same purpose. This sum has been expended on views of the Parade, Rand's Corner, New Center, Town HalL three meeting-houses, and South Road; that of Pleasant Pond stands charged to the general expense of the work. The cost of the Elm Tree on Clark's Hill was borne by Maurice Knowles, Esq., of Lawrence, Mass., and all the portraits have been gratuitously furnished. \ i T PREFACE. Nottingham, once glorious in statesmen and heroes, declined to aid the work. She gave about fifty subscriptions for the book, while Deerfield subscribed for about two hundred copies, and Northwood for about one hundred and fifty, some one hundred and twenty-five copies being demanded by parties in " regions beyond." We have aimed to incorporate whatever of interest might be gath- ered within the original limits of Nottingham. The family sketches have been prepared with great labor. Family records have been found to be few, and often sadly defective ; and, if errors should be found, those who have attempted to furnish the materials for such, must be held chiefly responsible. Most of the sketches furnished have been so changed- — subtracted from or added to — that they have cost us too much labor to be credited to any one. S. G. Haines, Esq., has furnished several extended sketches of families in Deerfield, to whom, and to all who have in any way rendered us assistance, we hereby render sincere thanks. Eben S. Coe, Esq., of Bangor, Me., whose modesty has forbidden any special allusion to himself, has manifested such interest in the history of his native town, and has so often proffered aid in the work, that we cannot refrain from acknowledging our indebtedness to him and his family. Through his liberality we have views of Coe's Acad- emy and Harvey Lake ; the former, in her educated sons and daugh- ters, shall make him live long in grateful hearts, and the latter shall testify to his appreciation of the beautiful in nature, and shall reflect the smiles of Him who has crowned his life with signal success. ELLIOTT C. COGSWELL. Nobtbwood, September 1, 1878. LIST OF ILLUSTKATIONS. EBEN CoE ......... Frontispiece. Harvey Lake page 3 Edson Hill 19 John C. Tasker 62 Bradbury Bartlett and Wipe 168 Samuel Abbott Haley 177 Joseph Cilley 186 Greenleap C. Nealley 234 New Center 259 Congregational Church 284 Calvin Baptist Church 294 Freewill Baptist Church 296 Parade 298 Band's Corner 301 Pleasant Pond 302 Town Hall 305 South Koad 306 Ira St. Clair 325 Stephen Brown 326 Josiah Butler 336 Mrs. Hannah Butler 338 Horatio Gates Cilley .'.... , 354 Joseph Bradbury Cilley 355 Joseph C. Cram 366 John H. Gilman 388 Peter Sanborn 451 A. G. Whittier 501 Elliott C. Cogswell 511 Calvin Baptist Church 545 Josiah Prentice 549 yi LIST OF ILLUSTRATION'S. Mrs. Mart U. Coe 554 Freewill Baptist Church 557 E. S. Coe 559 Coe's Academy 560 East Northwood 566 Elm Tree 569 The Center 570 S. B. Piper 571 The Narrows 573 Suncook Lake 574 Blake's Hill 577 Chace C. Hill 579 Saddleback Mountain 580 George W. Batchelder 636 Coe House 656 Eben Coe 659 John N. Furber ......... 670 Mrs. Sophia A. Cogswell 673 Woodbury M. Durgin 685 Moses Hill 707 Richard Hoyt 714 Stephen James 724 Jonathan Cate's House 727 Henry Knowlton 735 Levi Knowles 742 Levi Hilton Mead 745 Robert Morrison 758 George Nealley 761 Charles H. Norton 763 Ezra Tasker 775 Henry B. Wiggin 783 William Ballard Wiixey 784 CONTENTS. Proceedings of the Centennial Celebration at Northwood, Page. N. H., 1873 1-72 NOTITNGHAM. CHAPTER I. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Motive to settle new Towns. — Petitioners. — Petition for a Township. — Names of Petitioners. — Act of Council. — First called New Boston. — Action of Proprietors. — Royal Charter. — Names of Proprietors. — Bridge. — Size of Town.— First Settlement. — The Plan. — Block- house. — Mill. — Streets. — Shem Drown's Mill. — Gift of Timber to George H Division of Lots 77-94 CHAPTER II. THE THIRD DIVISION. Committee appointed. — Report. — Surveyors, their Report — Ranges described. — Names of Proprietors. — Lots drawn .... 95-105 CHAPTER III. ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. Mr. Maylem. — Call given him. — Joshua Moody — Call to him. — Stephen Emery. — Call to him. — Salary. — Dismissal. — Samuel McClintock. — Call to him. — Josiah Goodhue. — Call to him. — Benjamin Butler. — Call accepted. — Troubles. — Council called. — Mr. Butler dismissed. — Oliver Dodge. — Call declined. — James Ho- bert invited. — Declined. —Other Efforts 106-116 Ylii CONTENTS. CHAPTER IV. MEETING-HOUSES. First unfinished Pews sold to complete it. — Description of it. — The Second House. — Its Removal. — Congregational Church. — Other Denominations 117-119 CHAPTER V. REVOLUTION. Uneasiness. — Taking Fort William and Mary. — Proclamation of Gov- ernor Wentworth. — Aid for Boston Sufferers. — Procuring Arms. — Delegates. — Province Money withheld. — Pay of Soldiers in the Con- cord Fight. — Declaration of Independence in New Hampshire. — Association Test. — Census of 1775. — Fire-arms. — Dr. Shepard. — Raising Men for Army . — Beef . — Petition for Right of Representa- tion 120-133 CHAPTER VI. INDIAN TROUBLES. Tribe on North River. — Murder of Mrs. Simpson and Others. — Petition for Aid. — Miscellaneous Votes and Incidents.— Chichester Epsom. — Mark How — Premium for Wolves. — James Harvey. — Early Mar- riages. — Appointment of Justice. — Call to Mr. Osborn. — Inocula- tion forbidden — Bounty for Wild Cats and Crows. — Burial Cloths Turnpike District. — School-districts Inventory of 1806 Town Officers. — Votes. — Insane Man's Prayer. — Thirsty Disciple . .134-165 FAMILY SKETCHES. Bartlett. — Butler. — Cilley . — Colcord. — Dearborn. — Demeritt. — Ger- rish. — Gile. — Goodrich. — Gove. — Harvey Harvey. — Kelsey. Langley. —Lucy. — McCIary. — Marsh. — McCrillis. — Nealley. — Norris. — Scales. — Simpson. — Stevens. — Tuttle. — Watson Winslow 166-253 DEBRPIBLD. CHAPTER I. Nottingham consents to set off. — Petition for a Legal Separation. — Sec- ond Vote to set off. — Batchelder's Deer. — Gov. Wentworth. — Origin of Name of Deerfield. — Petition. — Incorporation .... 259-265 CONTENTS. ix CHAPTER II. First Legal Meeting. — Town Officers. — Committee to locate Meeting- house. — Money voted. — Center to be denned. — Meeting-house. — New Lights. — Reconsideration of Vote. — New Location for Meeting- house. — Another Location. — Tet another chosen. — Trouble over . 266-271 CHAPTER III. Mr. Upham's Call to Deerfield. — Proposals. — Clearing of Land. — Apple- trees. — Mr. Upham's Reply. — Preparation for Ordination. — The Council. — Mr. Upham's Parentage. — Marriage. — His Character. — Decease. — Monument. — His Children and his Grandchildren. — Rev. Nathaniel Wells. — Ordination. — His Character. — His Children. — His Successors 272-284 CHAPTER IV. Roads. — Schools. — Revolutionary Spirit. — Deputies chosen. — Soldiers raised. — Bounties voted. — Census. — New-York Tories sent to New Hampshire. — Assigned to Deerfield and Nottingham. — Test Declara- tion. — Distinguished Statesmen. — Baptist Church. — Freewill Bap- tist Church 285-296 CHAPTER V. Parade. — Rand's Corner. — Old Center. — New Center. — South Road. — Coffee Town 297-307 CHAPTER VI. Delegates to Provincial Congress. — Moderators. — Representatives. — Town Clerks. — Selectmen. — Inventory, 1777. — Comparison with 1877-78 308-323 CHAPTER VII. Attorneys. — Physicians Spotted Fever. — The Poor. — First Stove for Congregational Meeting-house. — Price of Labor — Contrast . .324-332 FAMILY SKETCHES. Batchelder. — Bean. — Brown. — Butler. — Cate. — Chadwick. — Chase. — Churchill. — Cilley. — Collins Cram. — Currier. — Dearborn. — East- man. — Freese. — French. — Furnald. — Gerrish. — Gilman — Griffin. — Haines. — Hilton. — Hoag. — James. — James. — Jenness. — Maloon. — Marston. — Marston. — Miller. — Moore. — Page. — Prescott. — Rand — Robinson. — Robinson Sanborn. — Sawyer. — Simpson — Smith. — Smith Stearns. — Stevens. — Thompson. — Tilton. — True. — Vea- sey. — Weare. — Whittier White.— Woodman . . . 333-507 x CONTENTS. NORTHWOOD. HISTORICAL ADDRESS. Early Settlements. — Incorporation. — Revolution. — Association Test. — First Volunteers. — Census. — Sacrifices. — Doings of Northwood dur- ing the Rebellion. — Ecclesiastical History. — Calvin Baptist Church. — Congregational Church. — Freewill Baptist Church. — Education. — Turnpike. — President Monroe. — Lafayette. — Changes . . . 511-541 CHAPTER I. CHURCHES. Calvin Baptist. — Edmund Pillsbury. — Eliphalet Merrill. — Elias Greg- ory. — George W. Ashby and Others. — Congregational. — First Meet- ing-house. — Call to Josiah Prentice. — Pledge of Support. — Ordina- tion. — Meeting-house repaired. — Revivals. — Second Meeting-house erected. — Mr. and Mrs. Coe. — Mr. Prentice's Dismissal. — His Suc- cessors. — Freewill Baptist. — Meeting-house erected. — Pastors . . 542-557 CHAPTER II. SCHOOLS. Coe's Academy. — Seminary. — School-houses. — First Sabbath-school organized 558-565 CHAPTER III. LOCAL SKETCHES. EaBt Northwood. — Clark's Hill. — Center Letter of Hon. S. B. Pi- per. — Narrows. — S. G. Drake. — His Letter. — Blake's Hill. — Chace C. Hill. — The Mountain. — Bennett's Hill. — Richardson's Hill . 566-582. CHAPTER IV. PROFESSIONAL AND MUNICIPAL. Attorneys. — Physicians — Town Officers Fragmentary Records of the Selectmen 583-596 CHAPTER V. MISCELLANEOUS. Agriculture. — Farmers' Association. — Soil Census of Mills of North- wood, Deerfield, and Nottingham. — Farm Census, 1870, for Northwood and Nottingham — Inventories of Northwood and Nottingham, 1878. The Poor. — The Beginning of the New Tear. —Anecdotes of Wild An- imate. — Cemeteries 597-609 CONTENTS. si CHAPTER VI. MILITARY RECORD FOR NOTTINGHAM, DEERFIELD, AND NORTH- WOOD. Revolutionary Soldiers. — Surviving Pensioners in 1840. — Soldiers of 1812. — Soldiers of the Rebellion 610-621 FAMILY SKETCHES. Bar tie tt. — Batchelder. — Bate holder. — Bennett. — Bickford. — Blake. — Brown. — Brown. — Buzell. — Clark. — Coe. — Cogswell. — Crockett. — Demeritt. — Dow. — Durgin. — Durgin. — Furber. — Hanson. — Har- vey. — Hill. — Hill. — Hoitt. — James. — Jenness. — Johnson. — John- son. — Kelley. — Kimball. — Knowlton. — Knowles. — Lancaster. — Mead. — Morrison. — Nealley. — Norton. — Pillsbury. — Prentice. — Prescott. — Sherburne. — Smith. — Tasker. — Tucker. — Tuttle. — Wiggin.— Willey. — Wingate 622-786 Index ..... 787 NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INCOBPOBATION OF THE TOWN OF N0ETHW00D, SEPTEMBER 6, 1873. H < m >< w > 36 NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. grasped the musket and rushed to the rescue of his imper- iled country. And, when the dark clouds of secession, roll- ing up from the southern horizon, spread their muttering thunders over these northern skies and hissed their forked lightnings around the dome of our national capitol ; when the traitor's flag waved upon Arlington Heights, and armed rebels filled the streets of Alexandria, — he it was who heard in his country's call the behest of duty, and, rallying at once around the stars and stripes, drove back the min- ions of slavery until the grave of Washington was no longer desecrated by their presence. It was through the heroic patriotism of Union volunteers, acting as instruments under the direction and power of om- nipotent justice, that their great leader has been made immortal, and the name of Lincoln, as the savior of his country, given to the imperishable records of fame. But for their undying devotion, not only would the United States of America ere this have been blotted out from the catalogue of nations and the last great experiment of self-government have failed forever, but more than four millions of human beings, now rejoicing in their freedom and enjoying all the political rights and privileges of Amer- ican citizenship, would still be chattel slaves and doomed to perpetual bondage under the scourge and lash of their former masters ; for, as will be remembered, it was the openly avowed purpose of the leading rebels of the South " to establish a new confederacy whose corner-stone should be slavery." But the historian is not yet born who can do full justice to those who have " the mighty task performed " of crush- ing out the greatest rebellion the world ever saw, and saving to posterity the best government upon which the sun of heaven ever shone. Time, that proves all things, alone can demonstrate the magnitude and importance of their work. It is only by a retrospective glance from the standpoint NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. 37 of a century hence, that the historian can so clearly perceive as to correctly explain and accurately describe the great work performed by the Union defenders of 1861, and the bearing thereof on the future destiny of our beloved country. We have struggled through the wilderness of trial, come up out of the Red Sea of deliverance from the Egypt of our bondage, and are now climbing the Canaan heights of our national grandeur ; but not until nearer the summit of high- est eminence cau be best seen, far back below, the seemingly impassable gulf that has been bridged over by the dead bodies of more than a quarter of a million of our martyred heroes, nor the greatness and glory that they, by such awful sacrifice, for us have purchased and secured. The liberty of Christian civilization, and the slavery of ignorance and barbarism, were the two antagonistic ideas that for years had stood arrayed against each other in our land, and at last appealed for supremacy to the stern arbit- rament of arms. The terrible crisis had come, and universal Christendom with fearfid horror gazed and trembled. But the retribu- tive vengeance of a just God had already sealed the fate of those who had so long disregarded his laws and scorned his precepts, and the world knows the result. But not until another century has passed, and other generations shall take our places in the great battle-field of life, shall this result he fully appreciated, so vast and far-reaching its conse- quences and effects. But the change, as even now looked upon and compre- hended, seems almost a miracle, and such only as without the propitious smile of approving heaven could never have been effected. But yesterday we stood like Laocoon struggling in the serpent's deadly coils. To-day we stand forth liberated and free. The deadly incubus of slavery, fastening upon the vitals of the commonwealth and threatening inevitable destruction, has been cut off by the sharp sword of vindic- 38 NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. tive justice, and the dark stain upon our national escutcheon washed out by the precious blood shed in willing sacrifice upon the altars of freedom. Henceforth we may expect to stand as the Mount Wash- ington of the Appalachian range of political governments, as free as the winds that play around its snow-capped sum- mit and as enduring as the indestructible granite of its base ; and above which the North Star of liberty shall ever shine, as a beacon-light to the toiling millions of every land and clime. Already Columbia's star is the hope-beaming cynosure of the civilized world. Shining with renewed brilliancy, it has arisen so high above the dark horizon of the past, that they may no longer question, as they upward gaze, whether it's " The meteor's flash, or the sun's bright blaze." Already the influence of our example is giving new life and hope to the down-trodden masses of the old world, and the thunders of our Niagara are shaking the proud king- doms and empires of Europe. " Oh, ever thus, America, be strong ; Like cataract's thunder pour the freeman's song, Till struggling Europe joins the glad refrain, And startled Asia bursts the despot's chain." NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. 39 RESPONSE OF THOMAS J. PINKHAM. " The future of Nortlrwood." Mr. President, — Distinguished and honorable gentle- men have to-day eloquently addressed you upon various subjects pertaining to the past and the present. You have been instructed by the orator of the day upon the early and late history of the town. He has portrayed to you in vivid colors the hardships of your early ancestors, the successes of your fathers, and the virtue and industry of your mothers. He has called your attention to the fact of the early establishment of churches and school-houses in your town ; and from the influence, largely, of these is the town what it is to-day. You have also been eloquently entertained by some of the distinguished sons of the town, who have returned to the home of their youth to greet you upon this happy occasion. They have spoken to you of the beauty of the town, — its landscape, its mountains, hills, valleys, lakes, streams, and forests. In fact, you have been entertained upon all manner of pleasant thoughts, and it now remains for me to give a new direction to your thoughts, and address you upon a very homely subject ; viz., your bread and butter. THE FUTURE OP NORTHWOOD. That means bread and butter ; for without these there is no future to your town. I wish to call your attention to those interests upon which the future prosperity of the town depends. Your town, from its earliest history, has essentially been a farming town. But ordinary farming in New England at the present time does not pay, and no man can afford to do a non-paying business. This is what 40 NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. is ruining our interior towns, and the people have been slow to wake up to the fact. I spent money and much time, years ago, to call the attention of the people to this matter. They are now in the full realization of the situa- tion. I have not time, nor do I propose, to go into a gen- eral discussion of the subject ; but, in as few words as possible, wish to call your attention to those interests which tend to the future prosperity of your town. When I was asked by your committee to speak to you to-day upon the future of Northwood, I instantly said to myself, The future will be what the people make it. Men, to a great extent, make their own future ; so do communi- ties, towns, states, and nations. The boy is the father of the man. If you see a young man idle, vicious, loafing about the streets, visiting low places of resort, indulging in coarse language and filthy practices, disrespectful to his parents and those with whom he comes in contact, perfectly ac- quainted with the various brands of cigars, the quality of to- bacco, and the flavor of " old rye," careless of his expendi- tures, and reluctant to meet his engagements, is it not easy to determine his future ? Then, upon the other hand, if a young man is honest, industrious, anxious to improve his mind, willing to listen to wise counsels, and stands aloof from all vile practices and low indulgences, truthful and faithful, kind to his parents, and respectful to those with whom he comes in contact, is it not also easy to predict his future ? As with individuals, so with communities, because communities, towns, and states are made up of individuals. So you see, Mr. President, that a responsibility rests upon each and every individual in all communities to see to it that the practices and morals of all shall be such as shall commend the community to the confidence of honorable and virtuous men. Moreover, it should be remarked, that every dollar of capital that is created or earned has its influence upon the people, and tends so far to elevate, enrich, and benefit the town. This being so, then it fol- NOBTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. 41 lows that a man who earns more than he spends is a public benefactor, and a man who spends more than he earns r although he may benefit some, cannot be said to be a help to the community generally. Hence it should be the aim of each to so manage his esl^te, in whatever it may consist, as that each year he may have an income exceeding his expenses. However, many fail by mismanagement, first of their WOOD AND TIMBER LOTS. Wood and timber are property and should be treated as such. They have their seasons of growth and decay, like other products of the soil, and require harvesting at a proper time, like other crops. If harvesting the product at a proper time is neglected, it is money lost, as hay or any other crop. It is true, that, in some localities, the ex- pense of getting the crop to market would be greater than the sum realized therefrom ; hence there is no other way than to let it remain. But, in this town, all timber and a large part of the wood can be harvested with profit. The demand is constant and must continue. 1 have no doubt, that, if the surplus wood and timber in this town had been judiciously disposed of thirty years ago and the proceeds put at interest and the interest compounded once in six months, the sum total to-day would be a larger sum than the whole valuation of the town. If this is true, is it not a sufficient solution to the problem of the decline of New- England agricultural towns ? The fact is, farmers are car- rying too much dead property. They cannot afford it. The man who has a good timber-lot has but a faint reali- zation of what he is worth, or might be worth if his busi- ness was conducted upon wise principles. If the mercantile or manufacturing business of the country was done as loosely as the interior farmer does his, nine-tenths of them would fail every five years. Then it must be considered that the manufacturing of this timber into lumber makes 42 NOBTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. business ; and that gives life and thrift to the people. The lumber can be converted into the many useful things that are, in all communities, constantly in demand ; which also makes trade. Probably it requires more lumber to make the boxes that are required by the manufacturers of New England than for all other purposes. And I see no reason why they cannot be made at the mill where the lumber is sawed, at a considerable saving of the cost of transporta- tion. It is true that this requires machinery, and the operation of which requires brains. But, as the country towns, to a large extent, supply these to the cities, why not keep both at home, thereby equalizing things, and save the old homesteads from that desolation that almost seems inevitable ? Some twenty years ago, I purchased a farm in this town. Upon this farm was a small wood-lot, of some ten or twelve acres. It was unfortunate that there was not more, but my friends thought, that, with due care, there would be enough for home consumption. It was said, that it was nearly depleted of the timber that was formerly upon it, as the several previous occupants had sold large quantities. The owner did not regard it of much account. I soon, however, disposed of the pine timber for several hundred dollars, and then the hemlock for more, and a large lot of cord-wood for yet more ; and have been selling annually for twenty years, some years sixty or seventy cords, and there is enough left to supply the neighborhood for many years to come, though the lots sold amounted to more than two thousand dollars, which at interest would have amounted to more than four thousand dollars for a wood-lot consid- ered of so little account in the sale of the farm. Precisely what land is worth an acre to grow wood upon is somewhat difficult to determine. It depends upon so many contingencies. When land is so located that there will be a rise in value, of course it will do to pay a higher price for it to grow wood upon than where there can be NOBTBWOOD CENTENNIAL. 43 no advance in value. It is the wants of the people that give value to property, and it matters but little whether these wants are real or imaginary, so long as they have the means to gratify them. Then it follows, that a people who earn more than they spend are more of a public benefit than those who spend more than they earn. Consequently, it is for every man's interest to have thrifty neighbors. I have sometimes thought that it is money-making men that do about all the good that is done in the world ; but I will not stop here to discuss that question : examine it for yourselves and see how nearly true it is. The people in this town can just as well double their valuation in the next ten years as not. Let them put all their dead property into the market and employ the proceeds thereof as productive capital, and the work is done. Farmers need active brains and to know how to use them. They must learn that success is a duty, and progress the law of their being. SUMMER TRAVEL. The people in all our cities and populous places must go from the stifled air of their homes during the warm season. Where shall they go ? They will go somewhere, and they will go prepared to spend freely of their earnings. The hills and mountains of New Hampshire are their resorts. Why may not the people of Northwood attract their atten- tion and draw crowds of lovers of nature ? They may, by putting their houses in order and building smooth and level roads over which it shall be a pleasure to ride, and let the world learn through the press the improvements. The good people of Northwood cannot afford to trifle with a matter of such vital interest. The next subject to which I wish to direct attention is MANUFACTURES. Home talent, industry, energy, and independence must be cultivated. Had they been so, the town would have 44 NORTEWOOD CENTENNIAL. been like a bee-hive, and Northwood wares would have had a world-wide reputation. A properly conducted boot-and- shoe shop, a harness-shop, a tin-shop, a box-shop, and other industries might here be conducted as well as elsewhere, and thus enhance the business of the town. Now for a RAILROAD. If any party or any interest desires to construct a rail- road through the town, throw no impediments in the way, tell them they are at perfect liberty to do so ; but, when they ask you for money for this object, tell them you prefer to put it where it will do the most good, and keep it where your own brains will control it. UNITED NORTHWOOD. In union there is strength : always remember this. Great things can be done by determined, united effort. Let the people of this town act harmoniously in all matters that relate to future growth and prosperity, and they will surely come, and no one will be more disappointed at the results than the actors themselves. Let each respect the rights and interests of his neighbor, recollecting that his success and prosperity are in no small degree his own advantage. Let the people keep their earnings at home as much as possible, and, in proportion as they prosper, their ideas of human destiny will become enlarged, and humanity and good-will will more generally prevail. Mr. President, let me close these remarks by assuring the gentlemen of Northwood, that their wives and daugh- ters, who are here to-day in all their attractiveness, will be ready to do their part in the effort to make the future of this town glorious, to make her occupy the first rank among the inland towns of the Granite State. To both, ladies and gentlemen, may there be given to see the right path to future greatness, and to seize golden opportunities to make the coming history of this town the pride and glory of the generations of the next century. NOETRWOOB CENTENNIAL. 45 KESPONSE OF GEOEGE W. CATE. "The pioneer fathers of Northwood, — we honor them for their hardihood, perseverance, and integrity." Mr. President, — The pioneer fathers are absent, but their work remains as a monument of their hardihood, per- severance, and integrity. Everywhere and always, the pioneer in civilization leaves behind an ineffaceable impress upon the manners, morals, social and religious institutions, of his time. His life is one of constant toil, self-denial, and anxiety. The pioneer sol- dier, daring danger, volunteers to be a pathfinder, and, ad- vancing, removes the obstructions and prepares the way for the advance of the main army.; the pioneer in literature corrects old errors, coins new words, introduces new phrases and idioms, and thus elevates to a higher plane the literary standard ; while he who first polished the marble surface, or adjusted machinery to warp and to weave, or constructed agricultural implements to sow and to gather, each, is a pio- neer in his way and performs a humanitarian work. Bach experimenter in an untried field guards with a jealous care every act and watches at each advance step the indi- cations of success or failure. So the first settlers of North- wood came, trembling between hope and fear. With distrust and forebodings of danger, but with a strong hope of ulti- mate success, they left the settlement near the " deep- sounding sea " to penetrate the forest northward. "With a courage and fortitude worthy of their enterprise, relying on Him who never forsakes his people, with strong hands and brave hearts, they clasped the implements of civilization — the ax and spade — and marched forth to fell the forests and break up the untried soil. To-day, witness the result. 46 NOBTRWOOD CENTENNIAL. A century has passed, and, with its swift-fleeting years, our fathers, too, have passed from earth ; but, though dead, they speak to us from every field and valley, from every lake and rivulet, with a silent but impressive voice. Their places are vacant forever, but their memories are cherished by dutiful sons who remain. As the result of their labors, to a great extent, we now look forth with unfeigned pleasure upon this beautiful township, formed by the eternal hand, but adorned by man. Here are presented hill and valley, field and forest, lake and rivulet, all forming a scenery unsur- passed in grandeur and beauty. The first rays of the rising sun fall upon her hills, and his departing beams play upon the summits thereof, but they reanimate not the fathers. Beneath the cold sod, they " Sleep the sleep that knows not waking." They were men of sterling worth, full of high aims and noble impulses. They were men of toil. The love of money, even, did not harm them ; neither aristocrats nor peasants, but, like Webster, the great expounder of consti- tutional liberty, they were from the middle stratum of soci- ety. They were not marked as intellectual giants, but in reality were well endowed with that essential qualification, common sense. They were more distinguished for their goodness than their greatness, ever as true to the right as the needle to the north. Among their very first acts after their incorporation, than which none is nobler, was to pro- vide for the maintenance of the public schools. We may say that was their duty. Then let us be thankful that our fathers were willing to make sacrifices to do their duty ; herein have they taught us an important lesson. The source of such action must have been from the heart, nor was it gauged by any narrow or selfish measure. Inured to hardship, separated from friends, they never faltered. To-day in imagination we see them, but not as they really existed. Not only were they separated from the NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. 47 parent colony, but six miles actually intervened between the different settlements of this town. No lust for undue gain, no inordinate desire for place or power, no hope of immedi- ate reward, enticed them hither. They came, as the Puritan fathers came, to find a home. Here a chosen town seems to have been providentially reserved for certain men, who were as peculiarly fitted by nature for this location as were the Spartans for the defense of Thermopylae. From the surrounding hills freely did they imbibe the spirit of freedom. The heroic valor and manliness which they displayed in a seven years' revolution in defense of equal rights will ever be remembered with pride and satisfaction ; and especially is it pleasing for me to remember that my grandfather, John Johnson, and his brother were among those who went forth from Nortkwood to defend the infant colony. Never have the sons of this town been remiss in defending civil liberty. General intelligence, industry, frugality, and integrity have ever marked the lives and character of our citizens. They were peace-makers ; here litigation was never encouraged. If, in the catalogue of her sons, there be none to com- pare with Webster in point of intellect, we need not be discouraged, for, in honor, virtue, excellence, and in true Christian principles, they have ever been as firm and stead- fast as our everlasting hills. Every repnhlic -will 1iv ft_Jiy the virtue_fl£ _the common_p eople. They are the strong bul- wark of defense. To them, our fathers looked for support. To them, in times of trial, every republic must look ; and, so long as they are educated correctly, so long our republic will live ; and what is true of our own is of all, — " as the twig is bent, the tree inclines." Every virtuous life speaks to us potentially; every noble struggle has its influence upon the world. It is ours, not only to preserve, but to improve, all institutions founded in the interest of the peo- ple, and to extirpate all which are destructive to civil liberty. Preserve no institution known to be wrong, for its antiquity ; 48 NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. adopt no measure known to be wrong, to court popular favor; but, rather, let us move forward, enriched by the granaries of the past, each generation developing more than the former the correct line of action. Thus shall we exemplify the lives and characters of our ancestors, even to the third and fourth generations. It was their high privilege to teach the lesson, and ours to profit from it. Young men, it is of the utmost importance how you live. Be true, be right, and see to it personally that your lives are exemplars which shall shed as bright a luster upon others a century hence as those of our illustrious an- cestors do upon us to-day ; and may your lives be as pros- perous and happy as theirs were glorious and honorable. NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. 49 RESPONSE OF REV. GEORGE B. BUZELL. " The pioneer women of Norttrwood, — their children rise up and call them blessed." Mr. President, — It is proper to state, that, in the very brief time allowed for the preparation of this paper, it has been impossible to collect more than a few isolated facts concerning the pioneer women of Northwood, of whom we should be glad to know and to record a much more com- plete history. In the part of the town known as the Nar- rows, the first household established, while the surrounding country was an unbroken forest, was that over which Mrs. Solomon Bickford presided. The nearest neighbors were the Godfreys, who had a short time before commenced a clearing in the eastern part of the town. Mrs. Bickford was a woman of domestic habits, and ordered well her numerous family, which is represented here to-day by many descendants. Of one of those reared in this pioneer home, we would especially make respectful mention, Miss Deborah Bickford. In person unusually tall and strong, she was mentally endowed with a native strength and vigor rarely surpassed. Her religious character was strongly developed. With a vivid imagination, it would seem that she possessed a natural taste for the supernatural and the marvelous, with a strongly retentive memory and extraordinary powers as a narrator, so that her fund of stories was at once the terror and the ©harm of her many youthful listeners. Another of the pioneer homes of the town was situated at the summit of Clark's hill, near the highest point be- tween the Merrimack and Piscataquis waters. Its location was selected by Mr. Clark from the top of one of the high- est trees of the hill, which he had climbed to get a view 4 50 NOETHWOOD CENTENNIAL. of the surrounding forest. In his employ, men came from Stratham to build the first house on the old site, with pro- visions designed to last them until the building was framed and raised. Before the job was completed, the provisions were consumed ; but they kept at their work until the last stick was in its place, and, at the close of the last day's work, marched to Stratham for their supper ; and tradition says that that night their bean-porridge was especially good. The matron who came to preside in this house was Mrs. Susan Clark, a woman worthy of the time and place, a Christian of sterling piety. She guided well the affairs of her large household and contributed an invaluable ele- ment to the wide circle of influences which centered there. Her many descendants, scattered now in perhaps almost every country of the world, should hold her name in rever- ence. The old elm-tree is a monument to her taste and judgment. About ninety-three years ago it was planted where it now stands. Mr. Clark brought the tree on his shoulder to the house-door and called Mrs. Clark to advise where it should be set, her little daughter Susanna, after- ward the wife of Solomon Buzell, standing by. Mrs. Nancy Prentice was emphatically a pioneer in her own department of life, in the peculiar experiences of the first minister's wife, in the days when a freezing congre- gation came to her hearthstone for warmth in the noon intermission ; when her long kitchen, with its chairs and benches, was kitchen, dining-room, and church vestry ; when the parsonage was the minister's hotel, and known as such a hundred miles away ; when garments for her household were wrought by their own hands from the flax-field and the fleece, with cards and spinning-wheels, looms, dyes, scissors, and needles; when the minister's salary of three hundred dollars was paid in money, corn, wood, and prom- ises. Under these circumstances, she reared her numerous family. She was a woman of meek and quiet spirit, of an unusually retiring disposition, but who felt keenly whatever NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. 51 affected the cause of Christ, and whose Christian cheerful- ness often sustained her husband in his ministry. Mrs. Sarah Harvey, the wife of Col. Harvey of Revolutionary fame, was a woman of such strength of character as enabled her to bear the trials and deprivations of those sad days with heroic fortitude. By the light of a pine knot, we are told, she did her household work and taught her sons to cipher. Her children were early taught to reverence the word and worship of God. Mrs. Elizabeth Sherburne, wife of John Sherburne, whose many descendants are among us, was a woman whose Christian influence in her own household and among her associates was beyond price. Of many others equally deserving, perhaps, an honorable mention we cannot now give even the names. Let us at least, however, make a note in memory of a venerable woman, who, in the days when corn was pounded in the old samp mortar, which our townsman Mr. Cate still has or ought to have, and when the few roads were not always passable even to side-saddle or pillion, carried on the prac- tice of medicine, and, on one occasion, at least, came from her home in the Saddleback-mountain district on snow- shoes to make a professional call on Clark's hill ; also, of another, who, carrying all her life the wound of cruel wrong, yet earned and maintained a local reputation as a poetess and humorist ; who, being once accosted by an impertinent young fellow with " Sally, give us some poetry," instantly replied, — " I was not taught at school To make a rhyme for any fool ; " and of another who, in the days of linen-spinning, was an adept in that now lost art, and who, though of very diminu- tive person, carried her wheel before her on horseback when going from place to place, and of whom, an old man, • seeing her pass in this way, said that " Molly went by a 52 NOETHWOOD CENTENNIAL. spin-n-i-n;" and of another of a darker race, whose hus- band was a slave, given as a marriage present to one of the pioneer matrons of the town ; and, collectively, of the lassies and lads, who (as the story is) met at a husking-bee on the old farm where the stalks grew higher than a man's head and twenty hogsheads of cider were yearly rolled into tile cellar, and in one evening husked forty cart-loads of corn ; who were requested to move their after-supper frolic from the second story to the ground floor of one of the stanchest old houses, lest their weight should break the timbers. We would that it were possible to make a competent record of these and many other lives of the pioneer women of Northwood, — lives of which we have almost no history except the quaintly carved inscriptions on the stones which mark the graves where they lie buried, their names in a few old legal documents, and here and there a passage from their experiences, tragical or humor- ous or pathetic, still lingering in fast-vanishing traditions ; -—lives marked by native traits and unsurpassed by those characteristics delineated by Scott or Cooper. But they belong now to the fast-locked treasures of the past. Their true history is written in ourselves, — their descendants, — in what we are, in what we accomplish. Let us be warned by their errors ; let us keep alive in ourselves their vigor ; let us emulate their faith and courage ; and let us rever- ence always their memory. NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. 53 RESPONSE OF REV. D. P. LEAVITT. " The place of our nativity, — ' They shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy ■walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.' " Indifference to one's birthplace is unnatural, and indi- cates either a cold, hard nature or positive depravity. All nations and all times bear witness to the instinctive love of the place of one's nativity. The natives of Northwood have special reason to cherish their birthplace. If the Psalmist's praise of Jerusalem, " The joy of the whole earth," does not apply to it, his words, " Beautiful for situation," may be appropriated with great propriety. Its elevated position, commanding a view of the distant sea ; its noble hills, of which Saddleback is the crowning glory ; its beautiful landscapes ; its groves and brooks and lakes, — give it the palm of all the towns be- tween the state's capital and its only seaport. Other local- ities have higher hills and broader lakes, but few present equal variety or loveliness of scenery. Different elements enter into one's recollections of his native town. First comes the home, the seat of the earliest and most powerful influences of a man's life. Northwood has been favored with innumerable homes which have been both virtuous and pleasant, and to which its scattered sons and daughters owe the most that is good in them. Many of us can trace to these centers of influence the principles which have formed our characters and controlled our lives, which have been a restraint upon us in the hour of tempta- tion, and which, like the ship's anchor in a storm, have held when everything else has broken. From the home the child passes to the school. There the stern battle of life begins. Its commencement is with 54 N0RTH1V00D CENTENNIAL. the alphabet : its end is with the grave. Long in one's memory does the kind and faithful instructor hold a cher- ished place. My earliest teacher was Almira Hutchins of Portsmouth. Of gentle spirit, she made the atmosphere of the school-room that of love. My next remembered in- structor was Hosea C. Knowlton. Almost forty years have passed since he wrote, one June morning, my name in a new Historical Reader, a book which to-day, for memory's sake, is one of the most cherished of my library. To me, he was a helpful and profitable instructor. Nor can I forget the good that Samuel B. Buzell and Chase C. Hill did me, especially when the former feruled, and the latter flogged, me. Their instruction was as profitable as their blows were impressive, and neither ever spoke or struck in vain. John Durgin, who hesitated between the ministry and teaching as a vocation, would have spoiled an excellent educator had he chosen the former calling. Dr. Thomas Tuttle, whose recent and lamented decease casts a shadow over this day, was, with his gentle yet firm wife, my last teacher in North- wood. Patients were as scarce when the doctor began his practice in Northwood as they were plenty when he closed it. But when, perchance, he had a patient, his wife took his place in the school. And it is no disparagement to the husband to say, that the wife filled, as well as occupied, his place in the school-room. She was made for a teacher. Indeed, there was little that was good that she did not seem made for. The memories of Almira Hutchins, my first, and Olive Tuttle, my last, teacher, are among the most pleasant of my life. Pleasant, also, is the recollection of my schoolmates.. Who the best scholar was, I cannot now recall, but I well remember, that Samuel H. Purber was the smartest wrestler, and John Kimball the fleetest runner, and his sister, Mary, the gentlest and sweetest girl, that ever sat in the old school- house of the " lower district." Alas that so much promise should have been buried when that fair girl died at the age of sixteen ! NOETHWOOD CENTENNIAL. 55 I have no words of praise for the old school-house. It was a shabby thing, cold, cheerless, uncomfortable. The benches were placed on an inclined floor, and my feet dangled, like Mahomet's coffin, between the heavens and the earth. I well remember how hard it was to sit still on those horrid benches. But outside all was pleasant. Countless branches of industry were carried on under the old elm-tree, and trials of speed that would rival the races of a modern cattle-show were of daily occurrence. Across the goal-ground was the old meeting-house, whose sounding-board, threatening every moment the preacher's life, was the terror, as the spire was the wonder, of my boy- hood. How that pinnacle was put up was the standing problem of those early days. Bishop Asbury, the early superintendent of the Metho- dist church, used to pray, " Lord, keep the preacher poor.' That prayer has been answered in the experience of North- wood ministers of all denominations. They have been good and able men, but never extravagantly paid for those services to which the town is so much indebted for its moral elements. Somewhat dim is my remembrance of Rev. Eliphalet Merrill in the pulpit. More vivid is that of Rev. Josiah Prentice. A member of his family for a few months, I there for the first time learned that he could smile, — and more than smile ; for there was not a man in North wood who could laugh more heartily, or use a hoe more vigor- ously or a flail more lustily. Mr. Prentice was a type of the ministry that America will never see again. His presence inspired in me a greater awe than that of any other man I ever met. It paid for us boys to form a line by the roadside and bow to him as he passed, for there was so much of sanctity in his de- meanor that we felt our reverence was offered to a being almost superhuman. It is good, also, to recall Mr. Knight, a man who, by his 56 NOBTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. tender and Christian spirit, won the love of all who knew him ; Mr. Gilbert, whose pulpit appeals were among the most solemn and searching to which I ever listened ; Mr. Ashby, whose absence on this occasion was so little antici- pated and is so much regretted, a man who, in a position more delicate than that of the pastorate, so lived and labored as to inspire the respect and confidence of the entire community. " These all died in faith." " Peace be within thy palaces," was the pious wish of the Psalmist. So pray we in behalf of our native town. It has had in the past perhaps no more diversity of senti- ment than falls to the lot of most communities. And yet it is devoutly to be hoped, that the next hundred years may constitute an era emphatically of good feeling ; that, though, in matters of religion, education, and politics, citizens may conscientiously differ, their differences may be held in the spirit of that charity which " never faileth ; which suffereth long and is kind ; which seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil ; which beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." " Happy is that people that is in such a case ; yea, happy is that people whose God is the Lord." NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. 57 RESPONSE OF REV. FRANKLIN FURBER. "The children of Northwood, — 'Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them ; they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.' " Mr. President, — I am happy to participate in the ser- vices of this centennial celebration of my native town. All that affects its growth, prosperity, or honor are deeply interesting to me. Gladly would I be with you and share the joyous occasion did not paramount duties forbid. As a substitute, please accept my cordial greetings and a few words o£ cheer. Northwood is a charming township, health- ful in climate, beautiful in varied scenery of hill and valley, mountain and lake. Its fertile soil, well-cultivated farms, convenient and tasty residences, make it attractive to every appreciative beholder. Commendable progress has marked its history during the last half-century, which is within my recollection. I remember well Increase Batchelder, who was among the first settlers. His erect and noble form and his snowy locks gave him a venerable and patriarchal appearance. Though my residence has been elsewhere for nearly forty years, I have not lost my attachment for the place of my birth and childhood. " Yes, my native land I love, All thy scenes I love them well." But the theme assigned me is, " The Children of North- wood." To avoid trespassing upon ground belonging to others, I will confine myself to my specific topic, though thronging memories incline me to allude to many things. 58 NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. At first, I was in doubt respecting the limits of my field. The term " children " may be understood in a broad or limited sense. The children of Israel included all the descendants of Jacob, whether young or old. So the chil- dren of Northwood may mean all its native and adopted children of the past and present. So I understood it at first, and began to recall a long list of distinguished men and women, whose noble characters and worthy deeds called for special notice. The time allotted me, ten to fifteen minutes, was altogether too brief to enter this wide field, abounding in materials for a huge volume. The second communication relieved my difficulty, by limiting the " chil- dren " to the younger class of the present generation, for whose special benefit I was to speak a few words of encour- agement and counsel. For this purpose, an appropriate Scripture was mentioned, not for a sermon, but as sugges- tive of suitable remarks for the occasion. It is as follows : " Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them ; they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate." What a splendid text! Thanks to the reminder of it. It suggests many valuable lessons of instruction and en- couragement. It reminds them of their noble origin ; they are God's property, his heritage. They trace their origin to him, not to blind chance nor to Darwinian development. Their endowments are such as to prove their creator to be the Lord, whose heritage they are. These exalt them in- finitely above the brute creation. These endowments of the physical system are wonderful, — eyes to see, ears to hear, and hands to handle ; the mind, with powers of thought, reason, judgment, anticipation, hope, enjoyment, with its immortality secured beyond a peradventure ; all prove them to be the product of wisdom and goodness. Let the young reflect, that their privileges greatly exalt them, surrounded, as they are, by grand and beautiful seen- NOBTBWOOD CENTENNIAL. 59 ery, by Christian homes, schools, Christian influences, mo- tives to be pure in heart and upright in character. They are to be congratulated upon the excellency of their public schools and private institutions, that aim to develop wisely the intellect, educate the moral nature, and unfold the elements of manhood into a symmetrical character. The children of Northwood -will not forget, that these advan- tages require them to aim to be intelligent, virtuous, be- nevolent, energetic, lovers of " whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever tilings are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any vir- tue and if there be any praise," let the youth of North- wood "think on these things," and become wiser, better, and stronger, for all that is ennobling in character and in- fluence, than their parents, as their privileges exceed those of a hundred or fifty years ago. We desire, that the youth of our native town may be as conspicuous for intellectual and moral elevation as their locality towers above sur- rounding territory ; so noble, dignified, refined, and honor- able that they shall discard all practices that degrade, all customs that enervate, all associations that shall obstruct their progress in true greatness. In one of the regiments of France, which, under Napo- leon, had fought many a hard battle, and had never been guilty of a cowardly or dishonorable act, but was com- mended after every battle for heroic service, whenever the roll was called .they called the names of those that had fallen, and some survivor answered, " Dead on the field of honorable battle ! " So may the youth of this town act the honorable part in life's battle, as that their names may never be stricken from the roll of the worthy, and thus, though dead, still live in the memory and hearts of sur- vivors through all generations, as those who bravely resisted all tides of evil and struggled manfully for the prize of an honorable life. 60 NOSTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. But my theme justifies me in speaking of children as a blessing to the town in general and to parents in par- ticular. The more sons and daughters the town may have, the greater her importance in comparison with sister com- munities, in respect of numbers, wealth, and influence, pro- Tided they are upright in character, intelligent, and indus- trious. Hence, it is for the interest of the town to provide liberally for the mental training and moral culture of her youth. She should see to it, that ignorance, intemperance, profanity, and idleness, which inevitably degrade, if not ruin, the young, are not tolerated, and that the correspond- ing virtues be in all ways encouraged, and influences be multiplied to retain the young at home amid contentment and competence, that these farms be not untilled, these dwellings untenanted, and these shops unoccupied. Happy is the town that has her quiver full of hardy, intelligent, energetic, high-minded youth. She shall not be ashamed. But let her neglect her young, their education, moral habits, tastes, and pursuits, and decay shall stamp itself on every acre of land and on the windows and doors of every dwell- ing. But, to parents, there is no blessing greater than chil- dren with healthy bodies, sound minds, and pure morals. "Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them." All other losses are light in comparison with the loss of these. Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, had buried her twelve sons, and, being condoled by friends for her misfortune, spiritedly replied, " Call me not unfortunate, who am the mother of the Gracchi!" That Roman mother was right. There can be no cause for grief when children live noble lives, or die in the discharge of duties, private or public. With such children, parents are rich, either in the presence or recollection of their children. But, if parents will be blessed with children that shall bring no shame, on whom they can look, of whom they can speak, with a feeling of satisfaction, they must themselves be noble men and NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. „ 61 women, — noble in character, in influence, in practical life. They must themselves be wise and good, and strive to make their children wiser and better. They must secure to them greater advantages for moral, intellectual, and social culture than they themselves had in youth. The progress- ive spirit of the age demands these. A higher type of manhood and womanhood is at present a necessity. Ere another century shall elapse, those who celebrate this will have passed on to the great future. Others will occupy our places. The character of the coming generation will be shaped and directed largely by this. Our influence is to flow down the stream of time, not only to the end of human probation, but down the unending cycles of eter- nity. What shall we transmit to our posterity ? The best legacy for our children and their long line of descendants is a noble, Christian character. " It shall be well with the righteous " and well with their children, if they heed the voice of wisdom, cherish correct principles of living, and aim to answer the great end of their creation, — to love God and have his favor in life and eternity. 62 NOSTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. KESPONSE OF JOHN C. TASKEE. " The home inheritance, — there is none better." Mr. President, — This fair world has no richer in- heritance than the home of our childhood, the home of our fathers. Other lands may present the glitter of gold in the sands of each streamlet and rill, but here the whole eai'th brightly sparkles in our vision. Other lands may present strata of marble of purest white or of variegated beauty, but, for us, it lacks the beauty of the massive gran- ite of our familiar hills. Throughout the wide borders of this great republic, there are mountains, forests, rivers, and plains thus hallowed by affection and endeared as the homes of mil- lions of our countrymen. May this love of home burn as a vestal flame, and increase in fervor and in magnitude, until, in millions of hearts, it shall become the great glory of a united, homogeneous, and patriotic people. Home ! who can give full utterance to this word with all its volume of significance ? Home ! do you remember what it has been and is ? First, there were loving eyes, beaming as from heaven upon you, — a mother's eyes and an angel's love. Again, a father kind is guiding your foot- steps, sisters and brothers surround you. Again, the blessings of that father as he bids you farewell, and tears from those eyes whose looks were once so joyous. Again, a return to that home to listen for voices that are silent, to seek the glances of eyes that are forever closed. You had heard of all the changes of time, but you could not know that they were real until you had revisited the scenes of childhood and dispelled its deep impressions. Does this thought sadden you ? It would, indeed, sadden you and me NOBTEWOOD CENTENNIAL. 63 beyond all cheering but that we know there is a home in which father, mother, sister, and brother will assem- ble in restored youth, innocence, and the purity of holi- ness. All do not return to this vision of heaven upon earth. Many of our bright-eyed boys and beautiful 'girls have passed over yonder hills to return to this home no more. Like the waters that flow from yonder homestead farm, the way of these youths was soon divergent, never to reunite in the journey of life. Their bodies rest in far-off graves, where their names and lineage are unknown ; but the rugged beauty of each well-remembered home shone upon the dying heart as the spirit fled to the eternal home to realize the final convergence, the happy reunion, of all. If all we once left in this home are not here to-day, the memory of all remains, and teaches, guides, and en- courages us to duty, goodness, and love. Happy is it for us that this sentiment of home love is in us, inspir- ing an honorable pride, and a high and noble apprecia- tion of this goodly, godly inheritance. Dear, dear old home ! Triangular New Hampshire ! Your mountains lift their heads up to the heavens ; your valleys are soft and beautiful ; your lakes will long inspire many artists and poets whose portraitures will delight the world ; your forests, like the people within your borders, look toward the glorious heavens, tall, erect, and strong, and full of conscious grace. What is yotir history ? and who shall repeat your thrilling legends ? Men great and good have honored the fair name of every city, town, and hamlet. We will not attempt to call this proud roll to-day as we meet to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birthday of thy venerable daughter, dear old Northwood, the home of our youth. Around us, we behold men and women whose ancestors have transmitted to them and to all of us, as a rich home inheritance, beneficent institutions, the principles and prac- 64 NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. tice of social and public virtue, and a history unstained by deeds of dishonor. The names and the fame of many of these are inscribed in brief legends in yonder church-yards, names of women and of men, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, the lowly and the great. He who ministered for almost half a century to the people of yonder church, whose devo- tion and fidelity through all that time filled every heart with gratitude and love, lies there among the rest. The pious deacons of that church who aided in introducing and successfully establishing the first sabbath-school in this town are also there. The good deeds of those men, as of all men, live after them. Would it not be well for us, for each one of us, to remember this ? All our deeds, whether good or evil, live after us, are re-enacted throughout the future, wholly or in part, because of the influence of our example or be- cause of certain consequences of our evil acts. We are sometimes told, that there is nothing after death or that there is no proof of a continued existence ; that the assumption of such an existence is unphilosophical and untenable ; that, when man dies, he ceases to exist, and there can be no accountability after death. When Yolney wrote his " Ruins," and Paine his " Age of Reason," and Byron his wicked and degrading poems, they sinned, and, in life or in death, they surely had to render an account of all their guilt ; but the evil of their deeds has been growing in magnitude ever since their death, and will poison thousands of minds throughout future ages. Has this enduring evil been wrought by finite beings ? are perpetual evils to live and prosper after their authors have ceased to exist ? Is the great work of the Almighty to be perverted and distorted by beings whose existence is but as the life of the moth that flits around a candle ? A true philosophy and a true religion agree in rejecting such NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. G5 a proposition. Every rational being is laboring in the cause of good or of evil, and his responsibility will last at least as long as the influence of his deeds shall endure. If there is for us — and you and I well know there is — an existence beyond the present, there can be no happiness there, in the contemplation of the evil we have done, the results of which shall still be flowing as a quickening stream ; and there can be no hope for the guilty, save in the interposed power of Him who can create and who can destroy. The lives of our departed friends reflect a halo upon our future path, teaching us that our God is ever just, rewarding the righteous and punishing the unrepentant transgressor. Our home inheritance is dear to us : may it be dear to our children and to our children's children. Virtuous life demands the asylum of a home. Vice alone can extinguish the light of home. God has made all things wisely, and nowhere are his wisdom and love more manifest than in this. He has made the different races of men with marked characteristics, and each individual to realize affinities with his own race in preference to all others. He has inculcated peace, good-will to all ; this im- plies the absence of force, of constraint, of involuntaiy ser- vitude, and hence does not inculcate the idea of inferiority. It is enough to know, that one race has for centuries re- pelled all ideas of Christian civilization ; that another, with- in our borders, prefers immolation to any civilization ; that still another finds itself in relations not of its original choos- ing, the ultimate results of which Omnipotence alone can determine. The great law that thus separates the races through the instinctive tendencies of the several peoples must be obeyed. The divine mandate, to go forth and teach the nations, does not include an injunction to blend the races into one, but rather to respect the integrity of every race and nation ; and our heavenly Father requires nothing of his creatures beyond their power to perform. 66 NOMTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. The division into nations of men of the same race is another incident in the divine arrangement. Under this arrangement, the blending of families of different nations has everywhere been signally blessed ; and, within each separate nation, there are subdivisions which work for good? unto all. The family relation is the last and the greatest of all. Each home is sacred. The honor of each member of the family is the honor of all. The husband and father is the natural protector of the wife and child, until the son arises to assume the place of his father. Eelations different from this are often apparently necessary, but never desirable. The servant-maid is secure only in the service and under the protection of an honorable household ; and the expo- sures incident to hotel and boarding-house life are always to be regretted. To the honor of New England, it may be said, that the manufactory is generally a safe asylum for woman, and the managers thereof are educated to the con- sciousness of a delicate responsibility with respect to other- wise unprotected women in their service. Yet, after all, there is no place like home. Happy are they who may securely dwell therein ; and thrice happy they who may long cherish a home, adorn and beautify it, and cherish every association connected with it, and cultivate, elevate, and refine the intellect, the taste, the sentiment, the morality, and the piety of every member of the household and every guest who accepts its hospi- tality. Long may you all possess such homes. Bright be the hearth and plentiful the board of every one. Calm be the life and tranquil the death of all who are here to-day and of all whom you severally represent. In all things, my friends, may the blessings of our Father in heaven be with you and folloAV you evermore. NOBTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. 67 RESPONSE OF REV- H. B. WIGGIN. " They that tarry at home, — success is theirs ; ' though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come, it will not tarry.' " Mr. President, — When the patriarch Jacob was com- pelled to leave his native home that he might be secure from the violence of his enraged brother, he stopped for the night at the close of the first day's journey at Bethel. God met him there, and, among other promises, made one, the most welcome to him, one which he never forgot, that he should return to his native country and to his kindred. More than twenty years had passed away, but the family ties which had been formed, the accumulation of large property, the protest of his father-in-law, and the fear of meeting his brother, who threatened his life, were not suffi- cient to prevent him from sighing for and seeking the promised return to his native land. He did return, and again inhaled his native air, and looked upon the scenes familiar to him when a boy, and felt, in all its freshness and fullness, the sentiment of him who, in later time, sang, " Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said # This is my own, my native, land ? " As I stood upon one of the lofty peaks of Colorado and beheld the grandeur and the beauty which the view pre- sented, and then looked down into the rich mines with which Colorado abounds and saw the shining ore which the delving miners were bringing to the light, my pleasure was enhanced by the reflection, that all I saw of beauty, sublimity, and wealth was within the territorial limits of my own native land. And, again, as I have looked upon 68 NORTHWOOD CENTENNIAL. some of the broad prairies of the West, waving with luxu- riant harvests, and then upon the mighty rivers upon whose current are borne these rich and varied products to their appropriate markets, I felt thankful that my birth was in a country so highly favored. But, when I stand, as I now do, within the limits of this small town of the Gran- ite State, and once more look upon its mountains, its rocks, hills, valleys, streams, into the faces of those I knew when a boy, and, last, though not least, its cemeteries, I feel emotions of pleasure such as I do not from any other stand- point. It was here I first looked upon created objects, and learned to call their names. It was here I learned to speak the names of their and my Creator. It was here I was taught to pray. Here I sported, here I toiled ; and it was here that I was subjected to a discipline which has been to me my richest legacy, paying compound interest all through my life till the present hour. And, if I have been success- ful in any small degree, those who remained at home and administered this discipline to me should have much of the credit. Though most of my life lias been spent far from here, I have never forgotten the place of my birth. I have never been ashamed of it. I would not have been born in any other place in this wide world in preference to this. Many a time, when in a climate not as salubrious as this, as I have been the victim of a burning fever, have I turned to the place of my nativity, and thought of and sighed for the privilege of moistening my parched tongue and lips, and quenching my raging thirst, from a spring by which, when a boy, I was accustomed to lie down in the hot summer days, and imbibe from it refreshing draughts. I have often been in sympathy with one of New England's gifted poets when he sang, — " How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view, — The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew ; NOETHWOOB CENTENNIAL. 69 The wide-spreading pond and the parade that is near it, The old oaken bucket that hangs in the -well." The old well-sweep and well-pole as well. " To those who remain at home, success is sure," is the sentiment to which I have been invited to respond. I accept the invitation most cheerfully, with the understand- ing that I have the privilege of denning and qualifying a little the language which expresses the sentiment. Success is a word of frequent use and varied meaning. All should aspire to make life a success. Many young men, and young Women too, enter upon active life with this high aim and noble purpose, but I regret to say, that very many, owing either to a mistake as to the meaning of the word, or a deficiency of the necessary elements of character, fail. It is one of the prevailing mistakes of the age that success consists in the accumulation of a large fortune. Among the saddest failures in life are those who have acquired large wealth at the expense of health or of the Christian virtues. Worldly riches are often made the handmaid to genuine success. This is the use to which they are always put by their possessor who has a higher aim than their mere possession. How frequently is the man who has attained distinction as a scholar or statesman, or in any of the professions, reported as a successful man, but he is very often wrongly reported. Distinction is not always success. It is never so when attained at the expense of justice and truth. Before we decide that a man has been successful in the just sense of the word, we must submit his words and acts to a severe analysis, ascertain as far as possible the motives and principles which have influenced and guided him, then observe his influence upon his family, upon the community in which he moves, upon the country in which he lives, and upon the race to which he belongs. Apply to him the test given by the Great Teacher, — " By their fruits shall ye know them," — and, if, doing tins, we find he has reared and educated a family of children who 70 NORTHWOOB CENTENNIAL. are healthy, temperate, honest, industrious, whose lives are consecrated to truth, justice, and benevolence, we are ready- to pronounce his life a success. For he who has done this has, in almost every instance, done more. He has not only elevated his own family, but has thereby put in motion forces to elevate others, even in a world-wide circle. But his immediate influence is not confined to his own family. If it were, in many instances it would be circum- scribed indeed. But he, like Him from whom he draws his inspiration, goes about doing good. He, like an old king we read about, serves his generation by the will of God. And, when life's battle is about over, he looks back, and, although the conflicts have been many and severe, he has many a conquest to record ; among the first he notes that he was better than the mighty, because he was slow to anger, that he was superior to him that taketh a city, because he ruled his own spirit ; and, after the review of his life, he adopts the language of another who made life emi- nently successful and at its close proclaimed his success as follows : " I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day." There are many men and women who have lived, re- mained at home, and died in Northwood during the last hundred years to whom success has been sure, — surer and more complete even than they were aware of. They sowed sometimes in tears, but their posterity is reaping the har- vest. And, as I survey the assembly before me to-day, I see many testimonials of the assured success of those who, being dead, yet speak, who are resting from their labors, and their works do follow them. I doubt not that those who have come from abroad to participate iii the services of this centennial will cordially unite with me in ascribing to those who remained at home a large share of the credit of the success to which we have attained. NOETSWOOJD CENTENNIAL. 71 But the young people of this place often inquire, no doubt, if they remain at home can they enjoy the comforts of life and secure a competency for old age. Industry, honesty, and economy — these three — will insure success as far as this life is concerned, here and elsewhere. I do not pre- sume to say who should remain at home or who should go abroad. That they who remain have some advantages that those who go have not is very evident. Success in life depends very much upon what a man knows and what is known of him. Knowledge is power ; knowledge is capi- tal, — a very essential part of it, at least. A man knows more of his native town, of its climate, soil, inhabitants, and resources, if he has lived in it twenty years, than he does of any other ; consequently he knows better how to apply his skill and bestow his labor to advan- tage. He is also among those who know him ; and, if his character has in it the elements of success, he is appre- ciated most by those who know him best, and the confi- dence reposed in him by this life-knowledge of him is a necessary part of his capital. Again : those who remain at home are secure from many dangers to which those are exposed who go abroad. Many a lamentable failure is the consequence of one act com- mitted while exposed to some new and untried tempta- tion. But those who go and those who remain, each, have their mission. Those who left their homes a century ago and settled this town, and those who have left it and made the wilderness blossom with their new homes elsewhere, have both contributed to the prosperity of our country, by in- creasing its population and enlarging its habitable boun- daries. The most important question is, not where shall I live, but how shall I live. I leave you with the following sentiment: May the lives and success of those who remain and of those who leave be such that the one shall never have just cause to be ashamed of the other, that our native 72 NOETHWOOD CENTENNIAL. town may be ever honored by those at home and those abroad; and, one hundred years hence, may the success of each one of us here to-day be so assured that we shall each be the possessor of a crown, a fadeless crown, a crown of life. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. THE HISTORY. \ T the centennial celebration in Northwood, September -*--*- 6, 1873, it was frequently remarked, that a history of that event, and something more, ought to be written ; and meetings of the sons who had come from their homes in other places were held for conference on this matter, and it was decided something should be written, but what or how it was difficult to say. The writer was requested to give such shape to the book as he thought best. Northwood was a part of Nottingham from 1722 until 1773, and Deerfield, also, was a part of Nottingham from the date of her charter until 1766. Northwood, since her incorporation, has moved on in a quiet manner, having nothing startling in her history ; and that history would seem incomplete without the history of the mother town, while that of Nottingham and North- wood would be incomplete without a due notice of the other daughter and sister, Deerfield. Therefore, though the task might be more than threefold, it was resolved to give a brief history of " Old Nottingham," as the parent town, to be followed by separate histories of her two daugh- ters, according to their respective births into corporate ex- istences. Nottingham boasts of two worthy children, whom she well cherished so long'as they remained contented un- der the parental roof, and, when they desired a portion of the inheritance, she cheerfully divided, and sent them forth 76 THE HISTORY. with benedictions, even though they coveted and obtained the better portions of the homestead, and left the parent poorer than the children. At the same time, the children claim a share in the honor that adheres to the names of distinguished men and families that made Nottingham prominent among the towns of early origin. The Bart- letts, Cilleys, Butlers, Dearborns, Williams, Harveys, Mc- Clarys, and others are names never to be forgotten, and can never be effaced from the page of New-Hampshire or American history. Will it be a reproach to the descend- ants of these illustrious patriots and statesmen, that in 1872 it did not occur to them, that, after the lapse of one hundred and fifty years, it would be well to bring before the minds of the present generation the names and virtues of their noble ancestors ? A century and a half since they began the history of the town ! And for nearly a century many of them have slept in their quiet graves ! We have sought to rescue some of these names and their noble deeds from oblivion. These are fast fading from the recol- lection of the living and the records of their municipality. The present effort may induce a more thorough research and better development; and we hope that he who per- forms the task will find, within the present limits of Not- tingham and among her absent sons, more than fifty men to encourage the enterprise and desire to possess the re- sults of such effort. We have extended our work far beyond our original pur- pose, but we hope not too far to be read with interest by those into whose hands it may chance to come. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. CHAPTER I. Motive to settle new Towns. — Petitioners. — Petition for a Township. — Names of Petitioners. — Act of Council. — First called New Boston. — Action of Proprie- tors. — Royal Charter. — Names of Proprietors. — Bridge. — Size of Town. — First Settlement. — The Plan. — Block -house. — Mill. — Streets. — Shem Drown's Mill. — Gift of Timber to George Second. — Division of Lots. VARIOUS motives prompted men to engage in the set- tlement of some of our towns. Some were actuated by a spirit of enterprise. They delighted in seeing high- ways cut through the wilderness, smoke ascending from many a hill-top, — sign that the woodman's ax was effecting clearings and rude dwellings were being constructed for those who were willing to dare and endure. It was for the greater safety of the lower towns to have the frontiers ex- tended further from the coast-line, and the towns that were the centers of trade and influence encouraged every attempt to effect a new settlement. Others were influenced by the spirit of speculation. True, most new parishes organized brought little or no gain to the proprietors ; still, to many, there remained the hope of advantage from such schemes. They could obtain titles to lands for a nominal sum and settle on them their sons and relatives, while the enterprise gave them some grateful notoriety and importance among their fellows. But a greater number hoped to derive advantage from 78 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. chartered towns as a partial remuneration for unrequited services done for the province or the crown. Many had rendered aid to officers in the discharge of their duties in the defense of the colonies ; in discovering the savages, whose depredations exhausted and endangered the colonists, and in bringing them to grief. Some led companies far into the forests, and others served under them in long and tedious marches in which they suffered fearful privations, and returned to be forgotten, or to be paid in Continental money, which but impoverished, instead of enriching, the possessor. Now, many of these complained of their hard lot, and the relatives of such as fell in any unrequited mili- tary service united with them and sought to derive some partial compensation through gifts of tracts of uncultivated lands, which the government were glad to give to si- lence complaints and to promote good feelings. Hence, it will be found, that not a few charters were given to the men who served in some disastrous campaign or their relatives, and those that in some way rendered essential aid in the same. This explains why women united with men in ask- ing for charters. They are the widows and daughters of men that perished in such campaigns or had subsequently died. And this also explains why it happened that these charters were given to men so widely separated and in dif- ferent provinces. They had served in the same companies, under the same officers, but gathered from different towns quite remote from each other. The petitioners for a char- ter for the tract of land known as Nottingham seem to have resided chiefly in Boston and Newbury, Mass., and in New Hampshire. While it is apparent that the men whom they afterwards voted into the corporation were mostly such as had fellow-interests with themselves, it is true they make no mention of their grievances, — yet these grievances were well understood, — and they appeal only to the desire to bring new tracts of land under culture, and give no occasion for a discussion of their claims to favor. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 79 The petitioners asked for a tract of land, ■without suggest- ing for it a name. But, after the petition was assented to by the general court at Portsmouth and before the royal charter was received, the proprietors at Boston, at a legal meeting, voted, that that tract of land petitioned for shall be called New Boston, if accepted by the other proprietors ; and, subsequently, the proprietors in Newbury acquiesced in their act and confirmed it. And it does not appear why that name was not given it in the charter instead of Nottingham. Boston, April 28, 1721. We, the dwellers at Boston, being in num- ber a considerable part of the persons entered in a petition late granted by the authority of New Hampshire, April 21, 1721, for settling a town norwestward of Exeter, etc., at a meeting among ourselves duly warned, It is voted, That the tract of land contained and set forth in the said petition shall Be called New Boston, if our brethren at Newbury and elsewhere are of the same mind, and the gentlemen of the prov- ince of New Hampshire approve of y e same to whom we submit the matter.* Newbury, May 3, 1721. At a meeting of the proprietors, dwellers at and near Newbury, duly warned, Col. Henry Somerby chosen mod- erator, It is voted (by us), That the six votes [which included the above] before and above entered shall stand good, and they have our full con- currence. Exeter, December 20, 1721. At a general meeting of the proprie- tors of New Boston, the Hon. Thomas Packer, Esq., chosen moderator, John Calfe chosen clerk to the society and sworn, It is voted, That the foregoing votes [passed at Boston, April 25, 1721] relating to the settlement of New Boston shall stand good and be of full force. PETITION. A Petition exhibited April 21, 1721, as followeth : To His Excellency Samuel Shute, Esq., Capt.-general and Gov- ernor-in-chief in and over His Majestie's Province of the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, and Admiral of the same, and the Honora- * In 1721, Mary Cottle gave to John Calf, for Moses Little, a deed of a right of settlement in land lying westward of Exeter, called New Boston. 80 HISTOBT OF NOTTINGHAM. "ble His Majestie's Council assembled at New Hampshire : The petition of us, the subscribers, most humbly showeth, That, Whereas, there is a certain tract of land lying norwestward from Exeter, lying partly between Cheshire and New Portsmouth, and partly above New Portsmouth, adjoining to Cheshire line, containing the quantity of ten miles square, on which may be settled a compact town. Forasmuch, therefore, as the setling and improving wast lands tends to His Majestie's service in general, and more especially to the interest and advantage of His Majestie's province, and not doubting but Your Excellency and Honors will incourage His Majestie's good subjects in so laudable undertaking, most humbly pray Your Excellency and Honors will be pleased to grant unto us liberty and encouragement to settle a town on the said tract of land, and we will, on our part, fulfill and perform the articles following, or submit ourselves to such further or other regulations as Your Excellency and Honors in your great wisdom shall think meet, and, as in duty bound, shall ever pray, etc. 1. Each person to be obliged to build a dwelling-house, and plow up and fence at least three acres of land, within four years. 2. To settle the town compact and in as defensive a posture as the land will allow. 3. To lay out three lotts, — one for the first minister that shall settle there, one for the ministry, and one for the school. 4. To draw the house lotts of the town indifferantly. 5. To build a meeting-house within five years, etc., etc. 1 Joseph Malem. 19 Ebenezer Burges. 2 Ezekiel Walker. 20 James Stringer. 3 Elisha Story. 21 John Brown. 4 James Pitson. 22 James Wright. 5 Nath 1 . Martin. 23 David Dolbear. 6 John Walker. 24 John Brock, 7 Peregrin White. 25 Stephen Luff. 8 Thomas Mandsly. 26 John Russel. 9 Francis Hatton. 27 Stephen Pearks. 10 Richard Greggory. 28 William Young. 11 William Pitson. 29 Nath 1 . Hasy. 12 John Grainger. 30 John Pratt. 13 Samuel AVhitewell. 31 Jeremiah Haniford. 14 John Warrin. 32 Ebenezer Messenger. 15 Zach. Fitch. 33 Edward Richards. 16 David Chapin. 34 Peter Gibbins. 17 William Pearse. 35 Benjamin Harris. 18 Nich". Belknap. 36 William Briggs. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 81 37 John Goodman. 38 John Allen. 39 Joseph Dodge. 40 Thomas Creese. 41 William Creese. 42 Stephen Cleferton. 43 Richard Heard. 44 Samuel Durant. 45 John Procter. 46 Thomas Clark. 47 James Camming. 48 Robert Auchrnuty. 49 John Steel. 50 Nath 1 . Joslin. 51 Jabez Joslin. 52 Samuel Story. 53 AVTUiam Langdon. 54 Clement Renough. 55 Joseph Calfe. 56 Thorn 8 . Ward. 57 Jeremiah Calfe. 58 Samuel Kindal. 59 William Partridge. 60 Henry Somerby. 61 Edward Sargent. 62 Joseph Chandler. 63 John Calfe. 64 Mary Plumer. 65 Sarah Bradstreet (alias Sargent). 66 Robert Addams. 67 John Tuft. 68 Thomas Arnold. 69 Jonathan Clement. 70 Faun Clement. 71 Daniel Sawyer. 72 Beniah Titcomb. 73 Nathan Hale. 74 John Calfe, jun. 75 John Bayly. 76 Job Gidins. 77 Mary Cottle. 78 Richard Williams. 79 Sarah Boardman. 80 John Wiat. 81 Thomas Atkinson. S2 Joshua Moody. 83 Ann Smith. 84 Benj. Woodbridge. 85 Richard Kent. 86 Jacob Knowl. 87 Samuel Jones. 88 Aaron Morril. 89 Stephen Sawyer, jun. 90 Philips Hodgkins. 91 Cutting Noyes. 92 Abraham Rowel. 93 Mary Somerby. 94 Stephen Ackerman. 95 Mary Wheeler. 96 John Faver. 97 Ostins Boardman. 98 Thomas Dean. 99 Moses Stickney. 100 John Wadleigh. 101 Stephen Coffin. At Portsmouth, April 19, 1721. IN COUNCIL. A petition signed by about one hundred persons was prefered to this board by Messrs. Ezekiel Walker, John Calf, and Elisha Story, praying for liberty and Encouragement to settle a town on a certain tract of land North westward from Exeter, lying partly between Cheshire and New Portsmouth and partly above New Portsmouth, adjoining Cheshire line, containing the Quantity of ten miles Square, upon such condi- 5 32 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. tions as in said petition as is on file is contained. Wherefore it is ordered in Council that the petitioners have liberty To build and Settle upon the said tract upon the Conditions in said petition mentioned, provided it in no -way infringe on or Interfere -with any former grants or possessions or propertys. Eichaed Waldron, Cle. Cou. New Portsmouth was the tract of land now known as Barrington. It was granted to the tax-payers of Ports- mouth, May 10, 1722, upon which they endeavored to set- tle the poor of the town. The proprietors at once proceed to carry out their plan of settlement. Boston, April 25, 1721. It is voted that Mr. John Calfe of New- bury be the Clerk of y" Proprietors. Also, that Major John Gilman, Esq., of Exeter, Benjamin Gambling, Esq., at Portsmouth, Capt. John Wadleigh of Salisbury, Mr. John Calfe of Newbury, Mr. Thomas Mandsly and Mr. Elisha Story of Boston be a Committee to act ac- cording to the best of their discretion for interest of the Proprietors, who are desired to view and give report of the above Said Tract of Land and lay out the Town for Settlement agreeable to the conditions in Said Petition expressed, who have power to call a meeting of the Proprietors when and so often as they shall se needfull. Also the Committee is desired and impowered to notify the Towns adjoining to Run their lines, that we may know our bounds of said Tract of Land. Portsmouth, May 16, 1721. Then Kec d advice from Mr. Gamb- ling as follows : Entered proprietors, — Samuel Penhallow, Esq., Thomas Packer, Esq., Rich d Wilborn, Esq., Shedreck Walton, Esq., Benjamin Gambling, Esq., Capt. Tho" Peirce, Clement Hughes, Capt. Tho B Phipps, Joseph Pdchards, Benjamin Bickford, jun r , Major John Gill- man, Esq., Captain John Gillman ; and thinks it advisable to take in Eight more, so as to make Twenty of y Province to joyn with the Peti- tioners to bring forward a Settlement, &c, to be decided y° next meeting. And thus, at Exeter, December 20, 1721, at a general meeting of the proprietors in New Boston, " It is voted, that the foregoing votes [those of April 25 at Boston] stand good and be of full force, and that Twenty persons of New Hampshire be added to the Proprietors, to have equal Eight with the original Petitioners." HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 83 The royal charter is obtained May 10, 1722, as fol- lows : — George, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all People To whom these presents shall come, Greeting : Know ye that we, of our Special Knowledge and mere motion for the Due incouragement of Setling a New Plantation, by and with the Advice and Consent of our Council, have given and granted, and by these presents, as far as in us lies, Do give and grant, in Equal Shares unto sundry of our beloved Subjects whoes names are entered in a Schedule hereunto annexed, that Inhabit or shall Inhabit within the Said Grant, Within our Province of New Hampshire, all that tract of Land within the following bounds (viz.) : To begin at Dover Westely Corner bounds, Running along Exeter Northerly line, West and by North Two miles, Then along Exeter headline South- West half a point, more South- erly one mile and three-quarters, and from thence upon a West north- west point of the Compass Tenn miles into the Country. Then to begin again at the aforesaid Dover Westly corner bounds and run North-East half a poynt more Eastely four miles and a quarter along Dover head- line, then upon a Northwest poynt half a poynt more Northely Thirteen miles into the Country, and from that Bounds upon a Streight line to the end of the aforesaid Tenn mile line. And that the Same be a Town corporate by the name of Notingham, to the persons aforesaid for ever, To Have and To Hold the Said Land to the Said Grantees and their heirs and assignes forever, and to Such associates as they shall admit, upon the following Conditions : — 1st. That every proprietor build a dwelling-house within three years and settle a Family therein ; and break up Three acres of Ground, and plant and Sow the Same, within four Years ; and pay his proportion of the Town Charge when and so often as occasion Shall Require the Same. 21y. That a meeting house be built for the public worship of God within the s a terme of four years. 31y. That, upon default of any particular proprietor in Complying with the Conditions of this Charter upon his part, such delinquent pro- prietor shall forfeit his Share to y* other Proprietors, which shall be disposed of according to the major vote of the said company at a Legal meeting. 4th. That a Proprietor's Share be reserved for a parsonage, another for the First minister of the Gospel, another for the benefit of a School, Provided nevertheless that the Peace with the Indians continue during the afore sd Term of Three years. But, if it should so happen That a War with the Indians should commence before the expiration of the 84 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. aforesaid Term of Three years, The said Term of Three years shall be allowed to the Proprietors after the Expiration of the war for the per- formance of the afore 8d Conditions. Rendering and paying therefor to us our heirs and Successors or such other officer or officers as shall be appointed to receive the same, the Annual Quit Bent or acknowledg- ment of One Ear of Indian Corn in the Said Town on the twentyeth day of December yearly forever. Reserving also unto us our heirs and successors all masts trees growing on the said Tract of Land according to the acts of Parliament in that case made and provided. And, for the better order, Rule, and Government of the Said Town, We do by these presents for ourselves, our heirs, and Successors, Grant unto the Said men and Inhabitants or those that shall inhabit the Said Town, that yearly and every year upon the last Tuesday of the month of March for ever shall meet to elect and Chuse by the major part of them Con- stables, Selectmen and other Town officers according to the Laws and Usage of our afore sd Province for the year ensuing, with power and privileges and authorities as other Towns and Town officers within our afore Bd Province have and Enjoy. In Testimony whereof We have caused the Seal of Our Said Province to be hereunto annexed. AYitness Samuel Shute, Esq r , our Governour and Commander-in-chief of Our Said Province at our Town of Portsmouth, the Tenth day of May in the Eighth year of Our Reigne Anno Dominii, 1722. By His Excellency's Com d SAM 1 SHUTE. with advice of y e Council. R. W. Cl k Cou'. A schedule of the names of the Proprietors of the Town of Notting- ham (viz.) : — Joseph Maylem. Ezekiel Walker. Elisha Story. James Pitson. Kath 1 Martin. John Walker. Peregrin White. Thomas Mandsly. Francis Hatton. Rich 4 Greggory. Will" 1 Pitson. John Grainger. Sam 1 Whitwell. John Warrin. Zach. Fitch. David Chapin. W m Pearse. Nich° Belknap. Eben r Burgess. James Stringer. John Brown. James Wright. David Dolbeare. John Brock. John Russell. Stephen Perks. Will m Young. Nath 1 Hasy. John Pratt. Jeremiah Staniford. Ebenezer Messenger. Peter Gibbins. Benjamin Gambling. Thomas Phipps. Thomas Peirce. Clement Hughes. John Gilman, Maj r . John Gilman, Cap'. Benj" Harris. Will" 1 Briggs. John Goodman. John Allen. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 85 Joseph Dodge. Thomas Creese. Will m Creese. Will" 1 Cleferton. Richard Heard. Samuel Durant. John Proctor. Thomas Clerk. James Cumming. Robert Auchmuty. John Steel. Nath 1 Joslin. Jabez Joslin. Sam 1 Story. Will m Langdon. Clement Renough. Joseph CaJfe. Thomas Ward. Jeremiah Calfe. .Sam 1 Kindal. Will" 1 Partridge. Henry Somerby. Edw d Sargent. Joseph Chandler. John Calfe. Mary Plummer. Saraah Bradstreet. Robert Addams. John Tufts. Thomas Arnold. Nath 1 . Sargent. Jotham Odiorn. Benning Wentworth. John Newton. Joseph Richards. Benjamin Bickford. Jonath" Clement. Faun Clement. Daniel Sawyer. Beniah Titcomb. Nath 1 Hale. John Calfe, Jun r . John Bayly. Job Giddins. Mary Cottle. Richard Williams. Sarah Boardman. John Wiat. Joshua Moody. Anne Smith. Benj. Woodbridge. Richard Kent. Jacob Knowl. Samuel Jones. Aaron Morril. Steph n Sawyer, Jun r . Philip Hodgkins. Cutting Noyes. Abra m Rowel. Mary Somerby. Stephen Ackerman. Mary Wheeler. John Faver. Ostin Boardman. Thomas Dean. Moses Stickny. John Wadleigh. Stephen Coffin. Edward Hall. Joseph Hall. Peter Gilman. Nath 1 Rodgers. George Smith. Richard Wilborn. Province of N. Hampshire, May 11, 1722. His Excellency the Govemour, The Honourable the Lieut.-GoV, and the Council enter 4 associates with the within named persons (viz.) : — His Excellency, a home Lott and farm of Five Hund d Acres. The Lieut.-Governor, the Same. Sam 1 Penhallow, a Proprietor's Share, Mark Hunking, Ditto. George Jaffrey, Ditto. Shedrech Walton, Ditto. Richard Wiborn, Ditto. Thomas Westbrook, Ditto. Thomas Packer, Ditto. Arch d Maxfedrice, Ditto. gg SISTOBY OF NOTTINGHAM. 1722. 1723. June 13, Admitted proprietors. March 26, Admitted proprietors. Joseph Savel. Joseph Joslin. , — -~, Rob' Pike. Joshua Peirce. ^ „,„„„,. Eleazer Russell. Nathaniel Rodgers. | «*■"—■ John Cutt. Fh'st Minister. > — y — - Joseph Moulton. June 13, 1722, at a meeting of proprietors held at Exe- ter, at the house of Major John Gilman, it was voted, " That Major John Gilman, Capt. John Gilman, and Capt. John Wadleigh be a Committee to agree with men to build a bridge and make good ways to Notingham." Selectmen seem for the first time to have been chosen at the annual meeting of the proprietors at Portsmouth, March 26, 1723. This meeting was held at the house of Mrs. Suzanna Small. " Col. Thomas Packer, Esqr., was chosen moderator, John Calfe, clerk." And the selectmen were " Mr. Elisha Story at Boston, Capt. Edward Sargent at Newbury, and Mr. Benj. Gambling at Portsmouth." This Mrs. Suzanna Small was the widow of Joseph Small, and daughter of Col. Thomas Packer. She kept a public house at Portsmouth, and, hence, some of the meetings of the proprietors were held at her house. She is the one to whom Thomas Packer conveyed by deed, as may be seen oa the records of Rockingham, a " negro girl." The annual meeting of 1724 was held at Hampton, March 31, at the house of Capt. Joshua Wingit. Capt. Ed- ward Sargent was chosen moderator, and John Calfe clerk, while the selectmen were Richard "Waldron, Capt. Edward Sargent, and James Pitson. At this meeting it was voted, " That Mr. Benin Wentworth, Mr. Richard Waldron, Capt. John Gilman, Capt. John Wadleigh, and Mr. Edward Hall be a Committee to take effectual care to Run the lines be- tween Nottingham and the Towns adjoining." It was also voted, " That the Great Bridge across Lamper 1 River which HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 87 is erected by the Proprietors of Nottingham shall be effect- ually finished with convenient dispatch." The petitioners for this tract of land asked for a territory ten miles square, and received by charter one doubtless much larger. When the country was largely covered with forests, and grants were made with crude ideas of exact locations, charters often overlapped each other, or left nar- row strips or irregular spaces between them. This was often the occasion of much perplexity and litigation. One of the earliest things done by the proprietors of Nottingham was to settle their boundaries. The result left them a large and irregular tract of land beginning and extending further in a northerly direction than they had anticipated. Hence, the point they had chosen as the capital of their township was considerably south of the center. This circumstance cost them, eventually, the loss of two tracts of land now included in the towns of Deerfield and Northwood. Being so far from the center, the bonds that held them to the cap- ital were weakened, and they gravitated towards other and new centers. But the position chosen for the compact part of the town was " beautiful for situation." It was upon the height of a large swell of land, gently sloping in every direction. It was twenty-five miles south-east from what is now the state capital, fourteen miles north-west from Exeter, and twenty west from Portsmouth. The blue waters of the Atlantic, and the white canvas of vessels entering the harbor at Portsmouth, could be distinctly seen ; while little lakes spar- kled like gems in the wilderness, and Pawtuckaway Mount- ain gracefully rose in the west, and Saddleback in a more northerly direction, and babbling streams, affording ample water-power, found their way along the valleys. Here, at an elevation of about four hundred and fifty feet above the sea level, they laid out a compact village with great exact- ness in the form of a cross. 88 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. The following is an explanation of the " Plan of Noting- ham laid out and drawn for settlement : " — 1. The Centre Square is laid out Thirty Rods square for the Meeting- house and conveniences thereunto. 2. There are four Lotts of five acres Each laid Round y 8 s d Square, — That at the Southerly corner of Said Square To his Excellency, Samuel Shute, Esq r , Governor; that at the West corner To the Hon. John Wentworth, Esq r , Lieutenant-governor ; that at the North corner for a Parsonage ; and That at the East corner for y* use of the School. 3. There are Eight Lotts Laid out, Each containing precisely Eight acres Lying Round the Said Four Lotts. 4. There are Eight Lotts (Lying Round y e af ores' 1 Eight Lotts), Each containing about Nine acres, which extends to the Outside of the large Square Double lind without Side of which Square. 5. Lotts for settlement, Four streets (vrz.) : King street, which runs southeastly from y e Centre towards Exeter; Fish street, which runs southwestly from y e Centre toward Tuckaway pond ; Bow street Runs Northwestely from the Centre toward Bow pond ; and North Street Runs from the Centre Northeast r ly toward North river. 6. Each particular name is affixed to j* Respective Lott as drawn. 7. The double lines are Highways of Four Rods wide. 8. All the Lotts withoutside y e large Square are Twenty Rods wide, eighty long, — ten acres. This seems to be the plan as completed, with the name of each proprietor, March 31, 1724, the whole number of lots being one hundred and thirty-four ; King Street having fifty, High Street forty-four, Bow Street eighteen, North Street eighteen, and "next y e Centre" four. To these a few were subsequently added, Capt. Henry Shei'bon being the last allowed a proprietor's share. At their annual meeting in 1725, the proprietors voted, " That Capt. Henry Sherbon is admitted an associate to have a full proprietor's Share in Notingham ; " and it is voted, " That, for the future, no person shall be admitted or received or allowed to be a new associate to have a proprietor's share in Notingham." At the same meeting, it was also voted, " That Capt. Henry Sherbon shall be y e Treasurer for Notingham for the year ensuing to received y e money that is now in the hands of HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 89 the collectors or that shall bo gathered for the use of the proprietors. Also all the money y* is in y e hands of any person or persons which doth of right belong to the propri- etors, and y e said treasurer shall pay out the same by the order of the selectmen of Notingham." At the annual meeting, March 29, 1725, at the house of " Capt. Joshua Wingit " at Hampton, " Capt. Archabald Mackfedrise, Bsq r , was chosen moderator, John Calfe clerk, James Pitson, Richard Kent, and Archabald Mackfedrise selectmen." The annual meeting for 1726 was held at the same place, and Benjamin Gambling was chosen moderator, John Calfe clerk, Thomas Pierce, Richard Kent, and James Pitsou selectmen. At a special meeting, October 18 of the same year, and at the same place, the proprietors voted to build a " block-house with a roof, sixty feet long, thirty wide, and ten high," as much alarm was felt in view of the hostility of the Indians in many parts of the country. Capt. Henry Sherbon, Benjamin Gambling, William Clement, and Aaron Morril were appointed to carry this vote into effect. March 28, 1727, " at Hampton, at the house of Capt. Joshua Wingoths," when Richard Kent was chosen moder- ator, and Peter Gilman clerk, and Richard Kent, Thomas Peirce, and James Pitson selectmen, it was voted, " That Maj. Jn° Gilman and Capt. Jn° Gilman view the block- house at Nottingham, and see whether it be finisht accord- ing to Bargain, and likewise to Remove the chips from s d fort at the charge of the Proprietors." It appears, that the next meeting of the proprietors, Octo- ber 12, 1727, ivas held in their block-house, when, Captain Edward Sargent being chosen moderator, it was decided to build a saw-mill on the " Tuckaway River." " Tho 8 Pirce, Benj a Woodbridge, and Jn° Gilman (Capt.) were a com- mite to gitt the mill built with all possible spead, not to excead one hundred Pounds." At the same time, " Edward Hall, Capt. Jn° Gilman, Ephraim Crafts, Joseph Hall, and Peter Gilman were appointed to regulate all the 90 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Streets in Nottingham and clear them and make them fit for transporting lumber ; and, in such places whare thare are Steep hills or other difficult Places in s a Streets that are not fill up for Transporting, they are to Shun y m by Turning the way round y m and coming to s a Streets with the way again. It is also voted, that they clear a way up to the Place whare the mill is to be Built, fitt for Transporting lumber, all to be done at the charge of the Proprietors." At a meeting held November 17, 1727, at the house of Samuel Seddons, in Hampton, after choosing Richard Kent for moderator, the proprietors voted that " the same com- mittee chosen at the last meeting to regulate the streets Be a committee for perfecting out the lots in Nottingham and to complete the same ; " and then gave to the same committee authority " to let the Block House out to be shingled and underpined at the cheapest rate." They also gave authority to the committee for building the mill to expend one hundred and ten pounds for its erection. The annual meeting for 1728 was held March 26, " at the house of Capt. Joshua Wingatts, at Hampton ; " and Col. Richard Kent was chosen moderator, Peter Gilman clerk, Richard Kent, Thomas Peirce, and Thomas Drown select- men. The block-house was the place for holding the meeting March 25, 1729 ; and Thomas Peirce was elected moderator, Peter Gilman clerk, and George Monk, Capt. John Gil- man, Edward Hall, Thomas Peirce, and Col. Kent select- men ; and Joseph Dodge was appointed a surveyor of highways. At a special meeting at the block-house, May 21, 1729, it was voted that " every Proprietor's Share shall pay twenty shilings to support the Minister this year ; " and Capt. Thomas Peirce, Benjamin Woodbridge, and Thomas Drown were chosen a committee " to Hire a minister for Noting- ham this year ; " and there " shall be no fire Kept on the Lord's Day to Disturb the people In the publick Worship in HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 91 the Block house ; " and " Joseph Hall and Andrew Mac- lerey are to Lay a Flore and ntt one End of the block house for a minister to preach in." It was also voted at this meeting, that " Mr. Shem Drown of Boston shall have a priviledge of building a Grise mill upon North River, upon the South Branch near Bow Street, having y" privilege of that fall, and no more, provided He build it in good time by the first of December next." Also it was voted, " that Shem Drown shall have fifty acres of Land adjoyning to y B falls above voted for building the griss mill, provided he Grind all the Inhabitants Corn of Noting- ham." At a special meeting, 1729, it was voted, that " To His Most Exelent Majestie King George the Second, two hun- dred Tons of White Oak Timber, to be cut within the year insuing, upon the undivided Land," against which vote a protest was made by a considerable number of the pro- prietors. The choice of officers for 1730, made March 31, resulted in Capt. Peirce for moderator, Peter Gilman clerk, Capt. Thomas Peirce, Capt. John Gilman, Capt. Edward Hall, Col. Kent, Zach. Heard for selectmen. At the same time, Capt. John Gilman, Edward Hall, Jo- seph Hall, Samuel Goodhew, and Peter Gilman were chosen to " lay out the Land and meadows," the latter having been voted to be divided to " each proprietor according to Quan- tity and Quality." Theodore Atkinson was appointed to draw the lots ; and the lots, having been adjusted by Edward Hall, Joseph Hall, and John Gilman, who had been chosen " lotlayors," were drawn with the following re- sults ; which we lay before our readers, believing that many will be pleased to know the original proprietors of the soil they now possess, though it may have come to them, by inheritance or otherwise, through a long succes- sion of occupants. 92 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. A Schedule of the Names of the Proprietors that have drawn their second division of land, with the N° of their Lott and in what Street it lays. These Lotts drawn Nov. 4, 1730. NAME. Winter Street. Summer Street. West Street. Bow Street. Angle Lots. Number. Number. Number. 5 Number. 10 i 15 6 33 16 28 Number. 1 Henry Somerby 2 43 31 First Minister 29 Mary Cotle 6 Kusells Pike Jn° Rusell 43 25 18 39 Will m Creese 30 O Jn° Pratt 25 30 12 24 22 ~3 32 29 1 16 15 Col Jn° Gihnan .... 26 * Col Rich"" Kent 10 20 30 ' i Will" 1 Brigs Steph" Perks 5 38 28 5 Arch ld Mackfedris .... 7 24 BISTORT OF NOTTINGHAM. 93 Lotts drawn Nov. 4, 1730, — Continued. NAME. Winter Street- Summer Street. West Street. Bow Street. Angle Lots. Ezekell Walker Number. 16 Number. Number. Number. 23 17 1 27 32 Number. Jn° Tufts Tho 8 Crese 28 42 2 Jer ! Calfe 6 31 3 34 21 38 Col Hunkins 33 Cap' Th° Phips 1 Jn° Steel 22 22 27 17 13 13 31 W m Cleferton 15 8 41 40 3 ■ 9 18 35 8 9 ' 7 41 Will" 1 Piree 27 23 Tho fl Ward 21 39 14 33 18 19 11 94 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Lotts Drawn Jan e 6th, 1730-31. Winter Street. Summer Street. West Street. Bow Street. Angle Lots. Wiliam Patrige Wiliam Young Job Gidins . Cutt and Molton Bich d Grigory Nat lG Martyn David Dolbear francis Hatton Cap' Jn° Gilrnan Jer' Stanford David Cliapin James Stringer William Pitson Jon"- Clement Tho s Dean . Sam 1 Jones . John Wiet . Cutting Noyce Aron Morill . Joseph Calfe faun Clem" . Nieh" Belknap Steph" Coffin John Bayley Peter Gibins Sarah Brodstreet Jn° Proctor . Joseph Chanlor Stp" Sawyer . Edward Rich a Mary Wheler Anne Smith . Jn° Waker . Mr. Maylani Bought Rob' Acmutig Elisha Story Benj. Gamblin Will™ Langdon Eben r Mesenger Tho- Mosby . . Jn° Goodman . Sam 1 Kindall . Sam 1 Whitewell Jn° Calfe . . . July 28, Josua Moody Number. 36 40 13 36 17 45 14 12 44 24 32 46 37 35 42 44 23 46 20 8 4 37 45 12 10 25 19 ii 35 47 Number. Number. Number. 14 o 34 9 19 29 26 4 11 21 20 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. % CHAPTER II. THE THIRD DIVISION. Committee appointed. — Report. — Surveyors, their Report. — Ranges described. — Names of Proprietors. — Lots drawn. rrVBEODORE ATKINSON was chosen moderator, Peter -*- Gilman clerk, Samuel Goodwin, Thomas Peirce, Richard Kent, Edward Hall, Captain John Gilman select- men, March 30, 1731. There seems to be no record of an annual meeting of the proprietors for 1732. But a duly notified meeting was held April 19, 1732, at the house of Samuel Gilman, in Ex- eter, when Shem Drown was chosen moderator, and Peter Gilman clerk. At this meeting, a committee of three men was chosen, Samuel Goodhew, Zachariah Heard, and John Calfe, to lay out the undivided lands in Nottingham, and the meadows, with power to employ the services of com- petent surveyors ; also to lay out necessary highways. Said lands and meadows were to be laid out in two divis- ions. This committee report to the proprietors at Exeter, January 31, 1732-3 : " We have laid out the lands and meadows to the best of our judgements, according to the plot exhibited hearwith, and is explained by the surveyor's return." THE SURVEY. The surveyors — John Brown and Stephen Hosmer, jun. — employed by the committee, report February 1, 1732-3, as follows : — Whereas "Wee, The Subscribers, Have Been Imployed By Mr. Jn° Calfe, Mr. Zachariah Heard, and Mr. Samuell Goodhew, they being a Coromitte appointed and Chosen by the Proprietors of Nottingham, at There meeting held The nineteenth day of April, 1732, To Lay out the 96 BISTORT OF NOTTINGHAM. undivided Lands and Meadows of Notingham, We have Laid out The Same as folows : The First Range of Lots Begins at the Northerly Cor- ner of the fifth lot in West Street, from Thence Runing West north west 2 degrees northerly to the Plead Line of the Township. Note the first Lott begins whare the Said Range Begins and is Run out on the High way of Said Range, Then Bounded No. 1, and So on Through S d Range till the whole is numbr d out ; the Last Lot is No. 30. At the Head Line, the Lots in this Range are Laid Out in Length from whare they are numbi 4 South 294 Degrees west to Chester line, and they are in Breadth one hundred Rods Each, Except No. 23 which is 87, and No. 24 which is 103, and No. 26 which is 138, and No. 27 which is 62, and No. 30 which is Sixty-four Rods wide, the first lot In this Range is bounded on the North Easterly End on Petuckaway Pond, and Through the Same Lot is Reserved a High way of Six Rods wide to the Saw mill, and out of the Second Lot of this Range is Reserved the Saw mill thereon Standing together with the Streem, and Ten acres of Laud adjoining Bounded as follows : begining whare the Streem. Croses the Line Between The first and Second Lots, thence Runing on Said line North 294 degrees East Twenty Rods, Thence west Northwest forty rods, Thence S. 294 degrees W. forty rods, Thence E. S. E. forty rods to The Line between the first and Second Lots. Thence on Said Line N. 294 degrees E. to the Streem whare we began, the which is Reserved for the Use of The Proprietors. 2d. The Second Range begins at the Head Line of the Town and Runs from the High way That is Between the first and Second Ranges E. b. N. one mile, Thence Runing E. S. E. to the Southerly Corner of the first of the Second Division Lotts In Bow Street, and Thence run- ing S. E. 4 a point S. to the Back of Fish Street Lotts, and Thence on the back of Said Lots to Petukaway Pond. The First Lot In Said Range begins at the Head Line and is Run out on the South westerly Side of the High way or Street of S d Range, then marked No. 1, and So on Through out the Range till 28 Lotts is Compleated and Each Lot is one Hundred Rods wide Except No. 29, and No. 29 is bounded as follows : begining at y e N. E. corner of No. 28, Runing E. S. E. 10 rods and Thence South E. 4 a point South 220 rods to the back of Fish Street Lotts, thence on Said Lot to Tuckaway Pond, thence on Tucka- way Pond while it Comes to the Street between Range l 8 ' and 2 d , Then on Said Street 40 rods W. S.W. to the Comer of No. 28, thence on No. 28 to the Corner first mentioned. No. 30 bounds S. W. with No. 29, while It comes to a Maple Tree, at the westerly Corner of s d No., then Runing N. E. 3 degrees N. while it Comes to Mr. Drown's mill Lott. Then on Said Mill Lott while it Comes to Land Laid out for amend- ment of Severall Centrel Square Lotts, then on Said amendment while" HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 97 It Conies to Fish Street Lotts, Then on Said Lotts -while It Comes to No. 29 afore mentioned. Note the Lotts In this Range are Laid out In Length from whare They are numbr d S. W. by S. till They Come to y e Highway between The first and Second Ranges. Note the Cross high ways in s d Range are between No. 10 and 11 and 23 and 24. Laid out To His Excellency Sam u Shute, Esq r , 500 acres Includ- ing The burnt medows Begining at a Maple Tree Standing between No. 29 in Range y 6 Second and bow Street Lotts Runing N. W. J point north 575 Rods, Thence Runing S. W. 3 D. S. till it meets with the Second Range, then on Said Range to the maple Tree first mentioned. Laid out between the Governor's Lott and Long Street Three Lotts. The first Lot begins on the westerly Corner of the Governour Lott and runs W. N. W. on the Second Range 110 rods. The Second Lott is 100 rods wide on the Same Range. The Third Lott is 120 rods wide on the Same Range Till it Comes to Long Street and Said Lotts are laid out in Length from the Second Range N. E. 3 D. N. till y c come to bow Street Lots. 3d R. Range the Third begins at The High way or Street between y* Second and Third Ranges and Thence Runs N. E. 3 D. N. on Long Street 254 Rods, and thence runs W. N. W. to the head Line of the Town. Note, y e first Lott In S a Range begins on Long Street, and is Run out on the South westerly Side of the Street of S d Range and Then marked No. 1, and so on Through y e Range; the Last Lot No. 19, is 120 Rods wide, all The Rest are Each 100 rods wide. Note, the Lotts in This Range are Laid out in Length from whare they are nomb d S. W. 3 D. S. to the Street of y c Second Range. The Crose High ways in this Range are Laid between No. 7 and 8, and 14 and 15 in said Range. 4th Range. The fourth Range begins at the Street of Range third and thence Runs N. E. 3 D. N. on long Street one mile and thence W. N. W. to the Head Line of the township. Note, the first Lott in said Range begins on Long Street and is Run out and the Lotts are bounded on the Same Street with Range the third ; the Last Lott No. 20 at the Head Line is 80 rods, the rest are Each one hundred ipds in breadth. The Cross High ways in the S d Range are Between No. 7 and 8 and 14 and 15, and the Lotts in Said range are Laid out in Length from whare they are Nomb d N. E. 3 D. N. to the high way between the fourth and fifth Ranges. oth Range. The Fifth Range begins on y head of the Township and Runs from y* High way of the fourth Range, one mile and Thence runs E. S. E. to Long Street. First Lott in Said Range begins at the head Line and is Run out on the South westerly Side of the High way of S d Range, then markt No. 1 and So on through the Range. The 7 98 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. first Lott No. 1, 95 Rods wide and No. Slat Long Street is fifty two Rods wide, the Rest of the Lotts are 100 rods wide Each, the Lotts In this Range are in Length from, whare they are nomb d S. W. 3 Degrees S. to the Street of The fourth Range The Cross High ways in this Range are between the Lotts No. 7 and 8 and 14 and 15. 6th R. The Sixth Range begins at the head Line and thence runs from the Side of the Street of the fifth range North East and b. north one mile thence East South East to long Street the Lotts the Same Length Same Number of Lotts and bounded on the Same Street with the Lotts on Range the 5th and are in Length from the Street of Range 5th North East three Degrees North to the Street between range Six and Seven except No. 4 bounded 40 rods on Pleasant Pond at the North Easterly end and No. 6 partly on pleasant pond and partly on S d Street the Cross high ways in this range are Lay'd between the Lotts No. 7 and 8, and 14 and 15. 7th R. The Seventh Range begins at high way of the Sixth range and runs North East three Degrees North on Long Street one mile, thence west north west to the head Line, the first Lott Laid out begins on Long Street is run out on the Northerly Side of the High way of Said Range and mark' No. 1 and So on through the range, the Last Lot being No. 24 at the head Line is 103 rods wide No. 23 is 102 rods "Wide No. 22 is 95 rods wide No. 21 is 100 rods wide bounds north Easterly on pleasant pond No. 20 is 253 rods wide bounded Pleasant Pond South westerly No. 4 is 100 rods wide No. 1, is 84 rods wide the rest each 78 rods wide and run in Length from whare they are numbred to the High way of the Sixth range, the Cross ways in this range are Laid between No. 9 and 10, and 18 and 19. Part of No. 20 Lays on the north west Side of pleasant Pond being in width on the High way of the Sixth range about 70 rods thence runing North East 3 Degrees north in Length to Said pond and runing on Said Pond back to the street again. 8th R. The Eighth range begins upon Long Street and runs from Highway of the Seventh range one mile on S d Street thence running west jKbrth west to Bow pond and the Head of the Town. No. 25 is 103 rods Wide No. 24 is 90 rods wide No. 23 is the same No. 22 is 100 No. 21 is 105, No. 20 is 156 rods wide, these six Lots are Laid in length from where they are bounded North East 3 Degrees North to Bow pond No. 19 on the North East end 160 rods wide No. 4th is 100 rods, No. 1 is 84 rods wide, the rest of the Lotts in this range are each 78 rods wide All the Lotts in this range not buting on Bow pond are numbred on the Same High way with the Lotts of the Seventh range and are in Length from the Same North East three Degrees North to the way between the 8th and ninth ranges the Cross high ways in this range are Lay'd between No. 9 and 10, and IS and 19. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 99 9th R. The Ninth Range begins upon Long Street And runs from the High way of the 8th range 140 rods North East three Degrees North to barinton Line and on the Said Line North west i poynt North One Mile and three hundred rods, thence West North West to the head of the Township the first Lott begins on Long Street 160 rods wide No. 2, is 125 rods, No. 3 is 88 rods, No. 4 is 80 rods No. 5 is 72 Rods, No. 6 is 67 rods No. 7 is 60 rods, these Seven Lotts are Bounded upon Barinton Line and are Laid in Length from Said Line South west and by South to the High way between the 8th and 9th ranges. Note that No. 20 and 21 are each 90 rods wide and are bounded South westerly on A Pond No. 22 is 180 rods in bredth Bounded North Easterly on S a Pond No. 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32 Each 92 rods wide and are in Length from where they are Numbred South West 3 Degrees South to Bow pond to geather with No. 25, 26, and 27, the rest of the Lotts in this Range are Each 60 rods wide and are in Length from the High way where they are Numbred South west 3 degrees South to the high way of the 8th range. The Cross High ways of this range are Laid be- tween No. 15, 16 and 26, 27 Note that the Lotts in this Range are Bounded on the South Easterly Side of the High way between this and y e tenth Range. 10th R. The Tenth Range begins on the head line of the Town runs from the High way of the ninth range North East and by North one mile, thence East South East till it Strike Barinton Line, from thence on Said Line South East i poynt south to the High way of the ninth range the first Lott in Said range begins at the head Line and is run out on the High of the tenth range mark* No. 1, and so on to No. 6. Note No. 1, 2, 3 and 4 are 60 rods wide Each and are Laid in Length from Said High way North East and by North to a pond, and from Said way South West and by South to the High way between y° ninth and Tenth Range, Note that No. 5 is 78 rods wide, No. 6 is 145 Rods wide at the Northerly End and 78 and the Southerly End these Two are Laid in Length from the South westerly Side of the High way where they are numbred South west and by South to the High way of the Ninth range. Note No. 7 is 176 rods wide and is laid in Length from the High way of the Ninth Range where it is Numbred North East and by North partly to a pond and partly to the High way between the 10th and Eleventh ranges the Lotts No. 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are 7S rods wide and are Laid in Length from the High way of the 9th Range North East and by North to the High way between the 10 and 11 ranges. Note allso y Lotts No. 13 which is 95 rods wide and No. 14 which is 118 and No. 15 123 rods wide, and No. 16 which a mile in length comes to a poynt at Barinton Line are Laid from where they are Numbred North East and by North to Barinton Line Note the 100 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Cross ways in this range are Lay'd Between the Lotts No. Seven and Eight and 14 and 15. 11th R. The Eleventh range begins on the head Line running on the head Line from a Large pond North East and by North to the Corner bound tree between Barinton and Nottingham. The first and Second Lotts are laid 120 rods in breadth bounded on the Side of the Pond and thence in Length to Barinton Line North East and by North, the third Lott is 114 rods wide y c 4th Lott is 130 rods wide y* 5th Lott is 140 rods wide the Sixth Lott Lyes a mile in breadth coming to a poynt on Barinton Line and are mark'd on the High way between the 10th and 11th Ranges Runing East South East to Barrington Line as afores' 1 and they are Lay'd in Length from where they are numbred and mark'd North East and by North to Barrington Line the Cross way in this range is Laid out between No. 4 and 5. Lay'd out two Ranges on the Back of Bow Street Lotts Between Long Street and the Second Division Having a Street of Six Rods wide from Bow Street Lotts to Barrmgton Line the first range begins at the South west Corner of the first Lott, from thence runing North East three Degrees North To Barington and Said Lotts is 280 Rods Long, and 10 In No., Being 100 rods Wide, Excepting No. 10 which is 84 rods wide, Lay'd out in Length from where they No 11 South East 4 poynt South to the Second Division Lotts in Winter Street, No. 10 is 84 rods wide and is bounded as follows : begins at the west Corner riming on Said Cross Street to Barington Line, thence on Barrington while it comes to y e L' Govenour's. Then riming on Said Lott South west 3 Degrees South 80 rods, then runing 40 rods on Said Lott South East £ poynt South then on the Second Division Lotts while it Comes to No. 9 In the Same range then on Said Lotts To where wee begun, this Range hath a 4 Rod way between No. 6 and 7 Range y° 2d — on the other Side of above S d Cross Street having 10 Lotts No" 1 on the Street, Each Lott Being 100 rods wide Except No. 10 which is 84 rods wide the Lotts runs from where they are No d North west £ a poynt North To Long Street havein a four rod way between No. 6 and 7 and No. 10 is bounded North west on a pond. Lay'd out 60 acres runing from Petukaway Pond East South East 125 rods on west Street thence on fish Street to the home Lotts thence on y e Side of the Last Lott in fish Street to Petukaway pond and thence on the pond to the poynt first Mentioned. Lay'd out Sixty acres on y« North East corner of Nottingham bound on Barrington one mile thence on Summer Street 30 rods thence on the Second Division Lotts one mile to Dover head Line and thence on S d Line to Barrington corner again. Laid out 30 acres of Land for amendment of Lotts in the Centre HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 101 Square Begining at a point on Queen Street about 70 rods from the upper Corner of the Same, and thence runing on the S d Street South East i a poynt South 140 rods and thence South "West 3 Degrees South about 55 rods to the home Lotts, and thence on y e back of the home Lotts to the point first mentioned. Lay'd out 130 Acres, begining on the Lower End of the Thirty Acres Laid out for amendment of Lotts in the center Square, and running from the Same on Queen Street to Dover head line and from thence on Dover head Line to Dover Corner and from thence on Exeter head Line to the home Lotts, and from thence, as the line runs on y 15 back of the home Lotts, to the Said Lott of 30 acres above s d and on the Lower End of the Same to Queen Street, where we begun. Laid out 100 acres, Second Division, for the School Lot at the End of North Street bounded as follows begins at the "Westerly Corner and runs 75 rods on a Lott Laid out for Amendment of center Square Lotts South East 4 a poynt South then running 230 Rods North East, 3 De- grees North on Middle Street then 73 rods on a way North west J a a poynt North from thence to where wee begun on a Street. Lay'd out 100 Acres, Second Division, for the Parsonage at the end of North Street bounded as follows begins at the South Easterly Corner then runing 230 rods on a way North East 3 Degrees North then run- ing on a way 73 rods North West i a poynt North, then runing 230 rods on Second Division South west 3 Degrees South, then 73 rods on a 10 acre Lott (Laid out for amendment of Severall Centre Square Lott) to where wee begun. The High ways between y e Severall Ranges are each Six Rods wide, and y" cross high ways in the Severall ranges are Each 4 rods wide All which will appear in the plan of the Same herewith Exhibited. JOHN BROWN, ) g STEPHEN HOSMER, jun., \ Feb-7 1st, 1732 - 3. 102 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. A List of Those Proprietors That Drawed There Third Divisions of Lands In Nottingham att A Meeting of the Proprietors Held on the 1st of Feb r y 1732 - 33 by adjournment, with the Nombers of There Lotts To There Names & what Ranges Each mans Lott Lays in. Note, The First Colom is The names of Those That Drawd. The Second Colom is the Nomber of Their Lotts; & The Third Colom In what Ranges They Lay In. Note, Each Proprietor That Draw d There Third Divisions of Land Have Each Two Lotts for There Draft & are Nombered as follows : — Thomas Arnold drawd Lot John Tufts, Lot .... Nathan Hale Cutting Noyce .... Doct r Natt le Sargent . . Joseph Calfe, Lot . . . David Chapin .... Sarah Bradstreet . . . Zach' Fitch Jn° Warrin The School Lot ... . Jn° Newton Parsonage Lott .... Jn° Calfe Francis Haton .... Eben r Mesenger .... Joseph Hall W m Brigs Joseph Savel Sam le Story Sam lc Durrant .... Richard Wiliams, in Crose Street . Jn° Goodman Peter Gibins, Crose S' Step n Acreman . . Anne Smith . . . W m Peirce .... Moses Stickney . . Jn° Procter . . . Jn° "Walker . . . Beivj. Woodbrige 10 23 3 7 10 8 20 26 16 14 25 14 17 13 21 13 7 10 26 7 15 4 20 5 17 20 6 12 3 4 & 1 & 9 & 2 & 17 4 19 16 9 19 7 2 15 10 3 14 11 13 5 9 15 11 arigton 6 15 In Oob 1 & 4 1 & 11 2 & 3 & 7 & 2 & 2 & 1 & 2 & 8 & 4 & 8 & 2 & 1 & 4 & 10 & &B & & 8 10 2 7 10 6 3 7 10 9 7 4 7 4 7 9 3 o Street. O Str. O St. 1 11 7 8 2 3 11 above The Gov r Lot & the lot between King & Queen 8 fret. In Cros 2 & 9 5 & 6 5 & 18 6 & 3 9 & 28 4 & 14 2 & 4 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 103 NAMES. o la M aj Clement Renough Rich d Waldron . Capt. Edward Hall Eben r burgis . . . George Smith . . James Pitson . . Jn° Alien . . . Jn° Granger . . Mary Plomer . . Arch ble Maxfedrise Jn° Prat . . . Jon a Clements John Broock . . Peter Gilman . . Mch° Belknap . Step n Sawer . . Mary Wheler . . Tho 8 Clark . . . Philip Hodgkins . Jer' Stanford . . Joseph Chandler . Faun Clementt . Ben] Haris . . . James Write . . Tho B Ward . . W m Paterige . . Tho" Creese . . Nat le Rogers . . Step n Loof . . . Mary Cotle . . Sam' e Jones . . Ofin bordman . . Peregrin White . W m Cleferton . . Elisha Story . . Jn° f aver . . . Capt. Jn° Gilman Rob' Auchmody . Tho" Westbrock . Jn° Steel . . . Col. Jn° Gilman . Col. Rich d Kent . 7 18 29 27 12 15 9 5 10 10 18 12 5 7 14 1 29 6 23 1 18 15 25 17 11 13 Rieh a Grigory, Cros Street 30 10 24 a 17 14 7 1 32 23 4 24 7 4 25 19 8 & 4 5 & 22 9 & 1 2 & 1 8 & 12 5 & 6 5 & 17 8 & 8 6 & 2 8 & 10 5 2 22 "o 1 & 6 & 5 & 10 & 5 & 9 1 & 1 Cros 1 & 10 7 & 25 7 & 18 6 & 21 4 & 7 1 & 11 8 & 21 2 & 16 1 & 27 5 & 3 In Crose 9 & 5 3 & 17 1 & 21 2 & 6 9 & 20 9 & 16 5 & 19 4 & 10 9 & 1 2 & 2 4 & 12 9 & 7 6 & 9 6 & 24 9 & 8 4 & 12 Cros 2 & 6 7 3 7 10 Street. 2 10 9 10 9 11 St. 1 1 G 8 6 6 7 7 3 11 3 1 8 7 1 7 St. 1 104 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. NAMES. 11 A J a) > si Jer> Calfe Jabez Joslin Samuel Kindall Tho 8 Deen Aron Morill Jo" Dodge Jacob Rowell John Wiat First Minister Nat le Hasey Joseph Joslin Sary bordman Lots Drawn June 13, 1733. Daniel Sawyer Samuel Whitewell John Calfe, Jun Richard Wibird Ezekiel Walker Hatha 11 Martyn, Crost Street . . . Capt. Thomas Phips Robert Adams, Cros S' Henry Somerby Job Giddings William Langdon above the Governor Lott Thomas Mosley David Dolber James Cumin gs Pike & Russel John Brown Mark Hunking Drawn Oct. 17, 1733. Abraham Rowell William Creese Step" Perks, Crose St Jos. Maylem Mary Somerby Richard Hard Edward Richard, Cros St 11 2 2 18 4 Cros St. 3 22 19 10 3 13 o 24 14 1 20 15 21 3 4 13 1 o 12 6 30 11 10 23 13 10 9 12 16 5 & 23 4 & 10 10 & 12 3 & 16 9 & 13 Cros 2 & 20 & 21 & 3 & 3 & 4 & 4 & 4 & 14 & 27 & 1 & 17 Croa 2 & 1 & 19 Cros 2 & 9 5 & 2 Croa 10 & 2 & 14 6 & 13 1 & 8 5 & 21 1 & 20 3 & 11 5 & 24 9 & 6 2 & 12 1 & 16 2 & 8 9 & 14 8 & 3 Croa 1 & 7 St. q 10 3 7 10 1 5 6 St. 1 9 St. 2 St. 1 7 7 9 7 5 4 1 10 1 10 6 2 St. 2 SISTOMT OF NOTTINGHAM. 105 S3 Lots Drawn Jan. 2, 1733 - 34. William Pitson Lots Drawn Oct. 27, 1742. Joshua Moody James Stringer Lots Drawn Jan. 26, 1742 - 3. Joseph Richards Clement Hughes John Baly Edward Sargent Thomas Packer Will" 1 Young Lots Drawn March 11, 1746-7 Col. Henry Sherburne Stephen Coffin Nathaniel Joslins Thomas Peirce Lots Drawn April 15, 1747. Benjamin Bickford 16 5 19 5 13 30 9 8 22 3 20 19 9 & 18 11 & 15 3 & 31 4 & 13 1 & 5 10 & 4 9 & 15 Cross 2 & 1 4 & 17 4 & 16 9 & 5 4 & 11 28 1 6 Street. i 3 106 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. CHAPTER III. ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. Eev. Mr. Maylem. — Call given him. — Eev. Joshua Moody. — Call to him. — Kev. Stephen Emery. — Call to him. — Salary. — Dismissal. — Eev. Samuel McClintock. — Call to him. — Eev. Josiah Goodhue. — Call to him.— Eev. Benjamin Butler. — Call accepted. — Trouble. — Council called. — Mr. Butler dismissed. — Eev. Oliver Dodge. — Call. — Decline. — Eev. James Hobart. — Invited. — Declined. — Other efforts. EFFORTS for a settled ministry were early made by the town. Rev. Mr. Maylem, it appears, preached at Nottingham in 1729. At a special meeting of proprietors in December, Col. Kent, Col. John Gilman, and Capt. John Gilman were appointed a committee to " treat with him about his Continuance In the ministry at Nottingham and about his being supported Heir In the ministry." And, March 31, 1730, it was voted " to build a house for the ministry upon the Centre Square." And, September 3, 1730, it was voted " that Mr. Maylam shall be allowed for his Service in the ministry at Nottingham since his first year was ended To this day after the Rate as he was alowed the year Past." It was also voted, the same committee that was chosen " to treat with Mr. Maylam about his continu- ance in the ministry have full power to agree with him To Serve hear till next meeting in the ministry, at the charge of the Proprietors, and To Treat with him abDut his further continuance and Settlement In The ministry at Nottingham, and to make return the next meeting to the Proprietors." Nine proprietors entered their protest against this vote. But the action of the proprietors was confirmed November 4, 1730, at a meeting at Exeter, when Capt. Joshua Peirce, Capt. Henry Sherborn, Col. John Gilman, Hugh Rankin, and Samuel Goodhew were instructed to " treat and gree HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 107 with Mr. Malam upon his continuance and Settlement in the ministry at Nottingham, and to make Return This meet- ing." The committee having reported at an adjourned meeting, their report was accepted, and it was voted, that " Mr. Malam be confirmed in the ministry at Nottingham Till next March meeting, and that he give in his answer then as To his further Continuance Their." Again at Exeter in January, 1730-1, Samuel Goodhew, Deacon Woodman, John Harvey, Col. Gilman, andMathew Adams were chosen a committee " to treat with Mr. May- lam about his Settling at Nottingham." And, after hearing from that committee, it was voted, " that y e Rev. Mr. May- lem be continued In y e ministry for the year Insuing, and to have the same Salary as in y e year Past." Again, March 30, 1731, it is " voted Mr. Maylem be continued in the ministry according to the agreement made the Last year, Till The third Wensday in May next." And again, April 19, 1732, the proprietors voted, " That Mr. Maylem be con- tinued in y e ministry at Notingham after the Present year is Expired during the space of one year as the year Past." At a meeting of the proprietors, at Exeter, January 31, 1732-33, the following action was had: " Yoted, that a Committee be Chosen to supply Nottingham with an author- dox minister For the Space of one year Next after the 19th of May, 1733, and, if Mr. Maylem do not Continue to Serve them In The ministry Till The Time above s d , Then Said Committee to Supply That vacancy, Said Committee Nott to give more to s d minister Than after The Rate of 132 Pounds per annum." Deacon Arculus Woodman, Zachariah Chanlor, Capt. John Gilman, were appointed said committee. Here we lose sight of Mr. Maylem. But the proprietors continue to supply the inhabitants with religious instruc- tion. REV. JOSHUA MOODY. At a meeting held at the block-house October 17, 1733-4, Col. John Gilman,^ Dr. Nathan Hale, and James Harvey 108 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. were appointed a committee to " treat with Mr. Joshua Moody, and give him a Call In order to his Settlement in the ministry." And they resolve that the proprietors shall " supply the Inhabitants of Nottingham with a authordox minister to serve there in the ministry during the Space of nine years from the last Tuesday of March next Ensuing the Date hereof." And Israel Bartlet and Nathan Pilsbury were empowered to fit up the block-house so as to be com- fortable for Sabbath services. The selectmen — John Harvey, Moses Norris, and Joseph Ceilly — issue a warrant, dated March 15, 1733-4, for the annual March meeting, to be holden at the block-house the twenty-sixth of the same month, at which meeting James Harvey is chosen moderator. The warrant for this meet- ing was to "warn Proprietors and Inhabitants;" and it was voted, after the choice of a presiding officer, " that all the Inhabitants of Nottingham, Excepting those under age, have Liberty to vote in this meeting." Then they chose " Israel Bartlet town clerk, David Morrison constable, Hugh Ranking, Moses Norris, Edward Bean, John Harvey, and Andrew McClery selectmen." Nathan Pillsbury and Wil- liam Morrison were chosen tithing-men ; and it appears, that these men took the oath of office " before Barth Thyng, justice of the peace," at Exeter, April 1, 1734. The great question with these proprietors relates to the settle- ment of a minister, but nothing is accomplished except to appoint a committee to inquire as to what could be done. REV. STEPHEN EMERY. It appears, that, at a meeting of the proprietors and in- habitants, September 8, 1742, the committee appointed to supply the town with a minister made their report, which was accepted. Whereupon, it was voted, that Mr. Steven Emery shall be called by a committee appointed for that service, To Settle in the ministry at Nottingham. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 109 Voted, that Messrs. Samuel Goodhue, Israel Bartlet, and Joseph Coly be a Committee for the Ends aforesaid. Voted, That, If Mr. Steven Emery will accept of a Call_and Settle in the ministry in said Nottingham-, That he be Paid the money that is due and outstanding for y e two years assessment (as by the late Act for supporting the ministry) after what has been already Expended in the Sarvice of the ministry be deducted ; and that such further Sum be raised by a Tax on the Proprietors according to there Interest in said Town (in y 8 Same method as the twenty Shilingsis raised, and to be col- lected in the same method as in the aforsaid act for y 8 Suporting the ministry) as Shall amount (with what Remains Due of the two years asesment as afors d ) To one hundred Seventy pounds Equell To old Tennor ; and that he have It as a present for his Incouragement To Settle in y 8 ministry in Said Town. Voted, that, Provided Mr. Steven Emery Setle and continue in y 8 ministry at Nottingham, That Each Proprietor for one whole Share in S d Town (and so In Proportion to a greater or Leser Share) Pay an- nually for his Support in the ministry Twenty Shilings Equill To old Tenor During the space of nine years after the act now Subsisting for y 8 suport of the ministry is Ended. Voted, that, provided Mr. Steven Emery Sittle in the ministry at s d Nottingham, that, During his Continuance in the ministry, he be paid By the Inhabitants of Said town So much money Equil to old Tennor Annually as Shall amount to Two hundred Pounds with what is befor alowed By the Proprietors. A rare exhibition of justice was made, which many a society has failed to exhibit, at a legal meeting of the pro- prietors, January 80, 1744-5, when it was " Voted That the Rev. Mr. Stephen Emery be allowed the sum of Ten pounds, old Tenor, on account of his being for some Time kept out of his just Due." It is possible some ill-feeling at length arose, since the proprietors, in 1747, refuse " to mak any addition to the Rev. Mr. Emery's Sallery for Depretiation of money," and decline to furnish him with " a Guard." Subsequently, it was voted " to make some consideration ; " but, when the proprietors " proposed to him If he should have his Salary Equil to Silver at 26s. 8d. per ounce for five years, wether it would Satisfy him, he declared it would not ; Therefore, Voted no addition be made to his Salery." HO HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. No further mention of Mr. Emery is made in the records of the proprietors. It is, however, known, that he was a native of Exeter, and graduated at Harvard College in 1730. It is also believed that he was dismissed in 1748 or 1749, and he died May 24, 1782, aged seventy years. REV. MR. McCLINTOCK. After the dismissal of Rev. Mr. Emery, the town made renewed efforts to settle a minister. In 1754, a call was extended to Mr. Samuel McClintock, afterwards of Green- land, by a committee composed of " Capt. Joseph Ceilley and Capt. Nathaniel Peirce and William Morrison." March 25, 1755, it was voted, " That Mr. Samuel McClin- tock shall have (If he Settle in Nottingham) five Hundred and fifty pounds, old tenor, yearly, and thirty cord of wood hailed to his dwelling-house yearly." A year after this, Richard Sanborn and Robert Kelse were appointed a com- mittee " to wait on the proprietors, at their meeting, to pray their assistance in settling Mr. Samuel McClintock in Nottingham." But it would seem the call was not ac- cepted ; and the town made further efforts ; and, December 11, 1756, we find the following action : — REV. MR. GOODHUE. Voted, that Capt. Joseph Ceilley, Esquire, Jon" Longfellow, Es- quire, John Bartlet, W m Morrison, John Mason, abram true, and Thomas Simpson be a Committee to give a Call to Mr. Josiah Goodhue to Settle in the ministry in Nottingham, and this Committee to make such proposals for his temporal Support and Encouragement as they may think proper, and the town to pay anually Such Sum or Sums of money as this Committee, or the major part of them, may offer to the above Said Mr. Josiah Goodhue. Again their call is refused ; and, in April, 1757, Abram True and Francis Harvey " were to look out for some Suit- able person to Supply the town with preaching as a pro- HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. HI bationer, so far as two Hundred Pounds, old tenor, may extand." REV. BENJAMIN BUTLER. At a meeting of the inhabitants, July 14, 1757, it was voted, " That Capt. Joseph Ceilley be Moderator of this meeting ; that the Inhabitants of Nottingham Do Chuse the Rev. Mr. Benjamin Butler to be their minister ; that the freeholders and Inhabitants of Nottingham will pay the Rev. Mr. Benjamin Butler thirty-five Pounds Sterling, annually, for his temporal Support and Encouragement, supposing he should except of a Call to settle in the ministry in Noting- ham ; it is to be understood by this vote that the Inhabi- tants of Notingham shall have Liberty to pay there Rates yearly in such passable bills of Public Credit as are generally passing in this province to be equal to Sterling ; that Capt. Joseph Ceilley, Ensign Jn° Bartlet, Rich* Sanborn, francis harvey, Jn° M°crelous Ju r , W m Nealy, matthew Nealy, Jo- seph Shepard, Thomas Simpson, be a Committee to present a Call to the Rev. Mr. Benj a Butler." Subsequently to this, instead of providing him with a parsonage, the town voted to " give the Rev. Mr. Benj a Butler two thousand pounds, old tenor, as a Gift, within one year from this time, on Con- dition he answers a Call presented to him by Nottingham Committee, in the affirmative." The call was accepted, and Mr. Butler, a graduate of Harvard College, 1752, was set- tled in the year 1758. For the first time, June 14, 1758, a meeting of proprietors is held at the meeting-house, at which it is recorded that an adjourned meeting of proprie- tors was held, and, at the same place, a meeting is called July 3, 1759, when Peter Gilman, Nathaniel Peirce, and Doctor Daniel Rogers were appointed a committee to obtain permission from the general court to levy a tax of three- pence per acre, " new tenor," upon all the lands in the town except the parsonage and school lots whereby they might pay to Reverend Mr. Butler, minister of Nottingham, H2 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. " to discharge so much of what the town obliged themselves by vote to pay said Mr. Butler on his settlement in said town, the sum of twenty-three hundred pounds, old tenor." This measure was strenuously opposed by an interested minority on the ground, that unoccupied lands were unpro- ductive, and the money, in part, was to sustain a mode of worship in which they had no sympathy. The measure, however, was carried. After this date, few meetings of proprietors seem to have been called, the interests of the town being left in the hands of the inhabitants, and the formal government of the chartered township had, prior to this, been nearly relin- quished. Troubles arose that disturbed the relations between the Rev. Mr. Butler and the town, so that those relations were severed after the lapse of twelve years. A mutual council was called, August 1, 1770, by Mr. But- ler and the church, in which the town was requested to be represented as a party interested. And, at a legal meeting, it was voted " that there be a committee chosen to inform the Counsel how the affair Now Stands between the Rev. Benjamin Butler and the Town. Voted, that Dr. Samuel Shepard, Joseph Cilley, Jr., Benjamin Witcher, Thomas Bartlet, and Abraham Scales be the above Committee." The town, at several legal meetings, had declined to raise the salary of Mr. Butler, and to allow him the use or in- come of the parsonage and ministerial lands. He had many adherents among the most influential families, and was esteemed by all for his scholarship and superior abili- ties as well as for his courtly manners and kind-hearted- ness ; but the belief of many, that his notions on some points in theology and some habits of life were a little too liberal and easy, made the tax-payers uneasy, especially in the remote parts of the town, where his ministry was less influential and new sects were springing up. Meetings of the town in succession took action, the one undoing the HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 113 other, until Mr. Butler, always inclined to measures of peace, requested his church to unite with himself in calling a mutual council to advise in the matter, and assured them that he would accept the decision of it. At a legal meeting of the town, called by the selectmen at the request of the church and Mr. Butler, July 9, 1770, it was voted that the " town join with the Rev. Mr. Butler and his Church in choice of a Mutual Counsel to give him a Dismission from his Ministeral and pastoral office in this Town." And a new committee was raised by the following vote : " That Benjamin Witcher, Joseph Cilley, Jr., Tho s Bartlett, Ben- jamin Watson, Josiah Clark, Esq., be a Committee to join with the Rev. Mr. Butler and his Church in Choice of a Mu- tual Counsel of Regular Churches To give him a Dismission from the Ministeral and Pastoral office in this town, and to Treat with said Counsel when Meet." The council, it is believed, consisted of the most influ- ential pastors and delegates of the churches in the neigh- borhood, and the results of their deliberations met the cordial approval of all parties. A legal meeting of the town was held at the meeting- house on the day of the assembling of the council, at one o'clock in the afternoon, and adjourned until six to hear the report of the doings of that body. And, when informed of the action of the council, the following vote was taken : — Voted that the Town Except of the Counsels Report Concerning the Dismissing the Rev. Mr. Butler from his Ministerial and Pastoral office in this Town ; and the Rev. Mr. Butler appeared and gave his Consent to the Counsels Result in full, and That Excepts of a Dismission, &c. OLIVER DODGE. Long years pass, and Nottingham is blessed with no set- tled ministry. Various efforts are put forth from time to time to have sabbath services, but only occasionally and for a few sabbaths is the sanctuary opened. November 22, 1790, after the lapse of twenty years from the dismis- 114 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. sion of Mr. Butler, it was voted, at a legal meeting, " that the committee appointed to hire preaching he desired to engage Mr. Dodge to preach four Sundays more in this town." For the first time since 1770 has the town been united in a desire to settle any man in the ministry. Now they seem in earnest, and again vote that the " Town will give Mr. Oliver Dodge a Call for to settle in the work of the Ministry in this Town." Voted, that Gen. Joseph Cilley, Maj r John Gile, L' Benjamin Wins- low, Thomas Bartlett, Esq., Maj r Jonathan Cilley, Ensign Asa Gile, Mr. Samuel Dame, 1/ John M c Crellis, Col. Alexander Lucy, Col. Ben- jamin Butler, and Ensign Andrew Simpson be a Committee for to Treat with Mr. Dodge Relative to his Settling in the work of the min- istry in this Town, and Report their Proceedings to this meeting at their ajournment. This committee " communicate the vote to Mr. Dodge, and enquire if he is inclined for to settle in the work of the ministry if matters should be made agreeably." To which Mr. Dodge replied, that, "where the People were agreed and he could have sufficient to Support him, he should think that he had a Call from God to settle." This committee recommend, " that a Parsonage House be built, on the Parsonage or School Lot as shall be most convenient, 32 feet wide and forty feet Long, Two Storey high, with a good Cellar, and be Decently finished ; and a Barn 32 feet wide and 45 feet Long be Built and finished ; that a well be Dugg convenient to Said House, and to be stoned, and Curb and Sweep be fitted to the Same ; and that the Town's Part of the fence around said School and Parsonage lots should be fenced with Stone wall ; and that the Bushes on said Lots should be cutt up and cleared of ; and that Mr. Dodge should have the use and Improvement of Said House, Barn, well, "and Parsonage and School Lots as Long as he continues in the work of the Ministry in Said Town ; and, further, that Mr. Dodge should have yearly and Every year, During his Ministry in Said Town, Twenty Cords of good HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. H5 hard wood fit for firing, Cut and Corded up, and Delivered to him at Said House on the Said School or Parsonage Lots, and also the sum of Fifty Pounds Lawfull Money, equal to coined Silver at Six Shillings and Eight Pence P r ounce, paid him yearly and Every year During his Ministry as above." The committee, though they were among the most influ- ential men in the town and though their recommendation was almost unanimous, failed to bring the majority of the people to adopt their propositions, and it was voted, that the town " will give Mr. Oliver Dodge Seventy-five Pounds Lawful Money," of the value proposed by the committee, and " twenty cords of wood," as in like manner recom- mended, " also the use of the hundred acre Parsonage and School Lots." Thomas Bartlett and Benjamin Butler, Esq., and Major John Gile were appointed to communicate the votes of the town to Mr. Dodge, and report his reply at an adjourned meeting on the third Monday in February next. Mr. Dodge was reported at this adjourned meeting to say that he would not wish to settle when it would be burdensome to the people, and asked for more time to consider the matter. Whereupon it was voted, that Mr. Dodge " be cjesired to Preach next Sunday, and then begin to Preach again on the first Sunday in May next, and Preach each Sunday in May, and the Meeting was then further ajourned to the Last Monday in May, in order to Receive Mr. Doge's answer." Mr. Dodge ultimately declined the call, not because the salary offered was inadequate, but because he discovered a want of union. REV. JAMES HOBEET. Six years later, May 9, 1796, the town voted to secure the services of the Rev. James Hobert. The people became greatly interested in him, and, the following year, the meet- 116 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. ing-house was repaired and money was raised for preaching, and, in March, 1798, the town gave him a call, with a salary of three hundred dollars, twenty cords of good hard wood, and the use and improvement of the hundred-acre school and parsonage lots. Thomas Bartlett, John Eord, Samuel Dame, Benj. Butler, Alexander Lucy, Stoten Tuttle, John Gile, Nathaniel Goodhue, and Henry Butler were author- ized to lay the proposition of the town before Mr. Hobert and obtain his reply. But Mr. Hobert hesitated, and asked for time to consider the matter. His decision idtimately was to decline the call, and, the following year, it is voted to raise no money for preaching. From this time until 1803, but feeble efforts are made to supply the town with preaching. Most of these years no money was raised, and, when raised, it was divided between the north side and south side of the town. March 1, 1803, it was voted " to raise $150 for the support of the gospel ministry the ensu- ing year," and two committees were raised — one for the south side, consisting of Nathan Goodhue, John Ford, and Matthew Nealley, and one for the north side, consisting of Stoten Tuttle, Benjamin Lucy, and Samuel Davis — to ex- pend the money thus raised in their respective parts of the town. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 117 CHAPTER IV. THE MEETING-HOUSES. First unfinished. — Pews sold to complete it. — Description of it. — The second House. — Its removal — Congregational Church. — Other Denominations. A CCORDING to one of the conditions of their charter, -*•■*- the proprietors erected, on a designated lot, a large building, two stories high, with a lofty tower. It appears, that this frame was boarded and shingled, and for some time used for public meetings. But nothing was done respecting individual rights in it or the erection of pews until December, 1755, nearly thirty-two years after the charter was given. "Nathaniel Peirce, Richard Sanborn, and Robert Kellsee" are appointed a committee " to lay out the pew Privileges in the meeting-house in Nottingham, and appoint the Conditions of sale, etc." David Lawrence was appointed "vandue master," and Thomas Simpson "■ clerk of this sale." Among the conditions were these : u The purchaser to give his note of hand to said Committee Immediately after it is struck of to him, and the Clerk Entered his name to pay the S d Committee in Lumber, one half next August, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand and seven hundred and fifty Six, and the other half the next august following, and the pews to be built within two years from this Day ; if not, the notes or the value of them to be forfeited, and the priviledge to be sold again, the Lumber to be Delivered to the Committee att Some publick Landing on the branches of Piscataqua River, or on the Meeting House Square on Notingham Hill, as said Committee shall Judge best. That all the pews Shall be built in the same Manner in fassion and workmanship as they are in Epping meeting House." The meeting-house was an oblong square, and the " pew 113 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. privileges " "were laid out in squares or oblong squares on the two sides and ends of the building, leaving spaces for entrances on the west, east, and front, or south, and for the pulpit on the north. These were twenty-one in number, nineteen of which were sold to the highest bidder on the 8th of December, 1755, together with four in what were termed the "pillar teers " or "body teers," which an aisle separated from the wall pews. At the same time, these " pillar teers," four in number, were separated in the mid- dle by what was termed the broad aisle, at the north end of which was the pulpit, " high and lifted up," and above which was suspended, seemingly like Mahomet's coffin, the mysterious sounding-board. The sums paid for these " privileges " ranged from forty to one hundred and fifty- three pounds, " old tenor." THE SECOND MEETING-HOUSE. The meeting-house has waxed old and gone greatly to decay. It was imperfectly finished, and had been poorly cared for, and was fit neither for public worship nor for the legal meetings of the town for business. Efforts have several times been made to repair or rebuild, hut to no- purpose until March 1, 1803, when it was voted " to build a meeting-house on Nottingham Square as soon as conven- iently can be done, to be done in a decent and suitable manner, convenient for assembling for public worship of God and other public purposes in said town." " Voted Ool. Bradbury Cilley, Majr. William Norris, Lieut. Nathaniel Goodhue, Mr. Stoten Tuttle, and Lieut. Joseph Tuttle be a committee to lay the plan and carry into exe- cution the foregoing vote, in the cheapest and best method they can agree upon according to their discretion and judg- ment." And, later, October 20 of the same year, it is " voted to choose a committee of five to prise the pews in the meeting house in said town." Nathaniel Goodhue, John Ford, Henry Butler, John Simpson, and Thomas HISTOBY OF NOTTINGHAM. 119 Clark were that committee. And then it was voted " to take down the old meeting-house as soon as may be ; " and the committee chosen in March was authorized " to take the old meeting house down in as easy method as they shall think proper, and to make use of such part of said timber in the meeting house as they shall think proper to help build the new one." The committee to estimate the value of the pews in the old building report that " the owners who may or will attempt to call for pay shall receive $2.00 for each pew." We infer that this meeting-house was in clue time erected, since, at the annual meeting in March, 1806, it was voted, that " Edward Lee be chosen Saxson, to take Good Cair the Meeting House and all other Necessary things thereunto belonging." May 9, 1807, three hundred and fifty dollars were raised to be expended in preaching under the direction of Henry Butler, John Ford, and John Simpson for the south side, or square, and Daniel Gate, Samuel Dame, and John Davis for the north side. This second meeting-house was large and after the style of building in those' times, having its square pews, lofty pulpit, and sounding-board. A bell, rich in tones, was ob- tained, and preaching procured, at times, until the building was at length taken down about 1840. When the Congregational Church was organized we can- not tell. A remnant still remains worshiping in connec- tion with the Free-will Baptist Church at the Center, about a mile from the square. The Free-will Baptist Church was long since organized^ and ministered unto by Elders Dyer, Tuttle, and others, while a Christian-Baptist congregation centers at Tuttle's Corner, at present worshiping in a hall. The Universa- lists claim one-third of the meeting-house at the. Center, and sustain worship one-third of the time. Adventists hold meetings in various parts of the town at their conven- ience and as interest may demand. 120 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. CHAPTER V. REVOLUTION. Uneasiness. — Taking Fort "William and Mary. — Proclamation of Gov. "Went- worth. — Aid for Boston Sufferers. — Procuring Arms. — Delegates. — Prov- ince Money withheld. — Pay of Soldiers in the Concord Fight. — Declaration of Independence in New Hampshire. — Association Test. — Census of 1775. — Fire-arms. —Dr. Shepard. — Raising Men for Army. — Beef Petition for Right of Representation. IN 1774, great uneasiness is felt throughout all the Amer- ican colonies. The British Parliament and the troops at Boston do nothing to allay excitement. The lower towns of New Hampshire are often driven almost to overt acts, but are restrained by the prudence of leading patriots. As New Hampshire has the honor of issuing the first Declaration of Independence, so she has the honor of first openly and defiantly commencing the struggle for liberty. Several of the Committee of Safety and Sons of Liberty at Portsmouth publicly avowed their intention of taking pos- session of Fort William and Mary. These men were aided by some two or three hundred men from Durham, Exeter, Greenland, Newmarket, and other towns, headed by Major Sullivan. Nottingham was represented by the brave Cilley, Dearborn, and others, and the result may be learned from the proclamation of Gov. Wentworth : — Whereas several Bodies of Men did, in the day-time of the 14th and in the Night of the loth of this Instant December, in the most daring and rebellions manner, invest, attack, and forcibly enter into his Maj- esty's Castle William and Mary in this Province, and, overpowering and confining the Captain and Garrison, did, besides committing many trea- sonable Insults and Outrages, break open the Magazine of said Castle and plunder it of above One hundred Barrels of Gunpowder, with up- wards of sixty Stand of small Arms, and did also force from the Ram- parts of said Castle and carry off sixteen Pieces of Cannon, and other Military Stores, in open Hostility and direct Oppugnation of his Maj- HISTOBT OF NOTTINGHAM. 121 esty's Government, and in the most atrocious Contempt of his Crown and Dignity, — I Do, by Advice and Consent of his Majesty's Council, issue this Proclamation, ordering and requiring, in his Majesty's name, all Magis- trates and other officers, whether Civil or Military, as they regard their duty to the King and the tenor of the Oaths they have Solemnly taken and subscribed, to exert themselves in detecting, and securing in some of his Majesty's Goals in this Province, the said Offenders, in Order to then- being brought to condign punishment. And, from motives of Duty to the King and Regard to the Welfare of the good People of this Province, I do, in the most earnest and solemn Manner, exhort and enjoin you, his Majesty's liege Subjects of this Government, to beware of suffering yourselves to be seduced by the false Art or Menaces of abandoned Men, to abet, protect, or screen from Justice any of the said high-handed Offenders, or to withhold or secrete his Majesty's Muni- tions forcibly taken from his Castle ; but that each and every one of you will use your utmost Endeavours to detect and discover the Perpe- trators of these Crimes to the civil Magistrate, and assist in Securing and bringing them to Justice, and in recovering the King's Munition. This Injunction it is my bounden Duty to lay strictly upon you, and to require your Obedience thereto, as you value, individually, your Faith and Allegiance to his Majesty ; as you wish to preserve that Reputa- tion to the Province in general; and as you would avert the most dreadful, but most certain, Consequences of a contrary conduct to your, selves and Posterity. Given at the Council-Chamber in Portsmouth, the twenty-sixth day of December, in the 15th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc., and in the year of our Lord Christ, 1774. J. WENTWORTH. By his Excellency's Command, with advice of Council. Theodore Atkinson, Sec?. God Save the King ! The first public action of the town of Nottingham hav- ing reference to the Revolutionary struggle was October 31, 1774, when it was " Voted, that Doct. Henry Dearborn, Lieu' Thomas Bartlett, Joseph Cilley, Jun r , Jn° Guile, and Israel Randall be a Comittee as proposed in the Third of the Warrant," which was " To see if the Town will vote to raise 122 HISTORY OE NOTTINGHAM. any thing for the support of the Industrious Poor Sufferers of the Town of Boston." It was at the same time voted, " that the Town impower the Select Men to procure Two hundred w' of good Gun Powder, 4 Ct. of Lead, and 400 of Flints, and Ten good Firelocks, as a Town Stock." At an adjourned meeting, on the thirtieth of the follow- ing November, it was voted to " raise money to send to the Relief of their poor suffering Bretheren of the Town of Bos- ton ; " " that the Town give to the Relief of the Poor of Bos- ton Twenty pounds Lawfull money, to be taken out of the Town stock by the Select Men and to be forwarded to them as soon as may be." At this same meeting, they chose a committee of " Inspec- tion to inspect into any Person that doth not strictly adhere to the Severall resolves of the Continental Congress." Jo- seph Cilley, jr., Benjamin Butler, Esq., Joseph Morrill, Jo- seph Hodgdon, Vouel Lathers, were the committee. " Any three of them, previous to the knowledge of the other Two, are impowered to act." January 9, 1775, Joseph Cilley, jr., and Benjamin But- ler, Esq., are chosen as " Deputy's to go to Exeter to chuse delegates to Represent this Province in a Continental Con- gress proposed to be held in Philadelphia in May next ; " and " the money raised to pay the Province Rate for 1774 " is appropriated to the use of the town. January 9, 1775. Voted that the Town save harmless the Select men for their not returning the Constable's name until this town vote they Shall return it. Voted that Lieut. Valentine Hill now constable be desired to pay the money that is raised for to pay the Province Rate for the year A. D. 1774, and is ordered as by a' Warrant from under the hands of the Select men to him to be paid by him to the Province Treasury, be not paid to said Treasury, but that it be paid unto the Select men and be converted to the Town's use and the said Select men are hereby impow- ered to give said Constable a full discharge. February 27, 1775. Voted that the Town impower the Select men to pay the sum of Five Pounds seventeen shillings Lawful money to John HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 123 Giddings, Esq. at Exeter for to pay the present Delegates chosen to represent this Province in Continental Congress proposed to be held in Philadelphia in May next and the ballance due to former Delegates at or before the Twentieth Day of March next and to take the said Jn° Giddings Esq", receipt for the same. The town is thoroughly roused, and resolved to show fight if the worst must come. This is apparent from the vote of April 12, 1775, by which Joseph Cilley, jr., Dr. Henry Dearborn, and Lieut. Thomas Bartlett were ap- pointed a committee " To be ready in Case a Law Suite arise or any Person should be arested or Have any of their Goods or Chattells Taken from them on account of the Province Rate not being Paid to the Province Treasurer, and the said agents to be Impowered to take advise and Pursu the Cause to Final Judgment and Execution." May 15, 1775, Joseph Cilley, jr., and Lieut. Thomas Bartlett are chosen deputies " to represent the town in the Provincial Congress to be held at Exeter the 17th Instant with full power to act and adopt every thing according to a letter from the Provincial Committee, &c." The spirit of Nottingham may be learned from the addi- tional actions of the town at this meeting. Voted that this Town allow the several Parsons Something as wages for their good sarvice in going to Cambridge or the Concord Battle so called and Tarryed until they were Fairly Dismisd by the Cap' of said Party. Voted that the town Do not alow any wages to those that came off without a Dismission from the Cap' of said Party. Voted that this town Do give three shillings Lawful Money Per day to all those Soldiers that tarried until their Cap' came off. These votes gave great dissatisfaction to the unpaid sol- diers and their friends ; and, about a year after, they secured a vote by which pay was withheld from all, large numbers entering upon the records their dissent from the last action of the voters, denouncing it as " wrong, and ought to be detested by all Loyall Friends of Liberty." 124 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. The first census of New Hampshire was taken in 1775, after she ceased to be a province and just before she became an independent state. It was taken for the purpose of establishing an adequate representation of the people. An order of the Provincial Congress was sent to the sev- eral towns and places in the province of New Hampshire, as follows, bearing date August 25, 1775 : — Whereas it is necessary that an exact Account of all the Inhabitants of this Colony should be taken, in order to be transmitted to the Con- gress of the United American Colonies ; Therefore Resolved, That it be recommended to the Select Men of the several Towns, Parishes and other Places in this Colony, to take an exact number of the Inhabitants of their respective Districts, including every soul in the same ; indicat- ing the number of Males under 16 years of age ; males from 16 years of age to 50, not in the Army ; All males above 50 ; Persons gone in the Army ; all females ; and Negroes and Slaves for Life. And whereas a. late Requisition of this Congress, that every Town, Parish and other Place within this Colony, return the number of the Pire Arms in their respective Districts fit for use, and the Number want- ing to compleat one for every person capable of using them, has not been complied with ; therefore it is now earnestly recommended that the same be forthwith done, adding these to the Quantity of Powder in each place ; and where there is a public Stock to return a separate ac- count thereof, and that the whole be returned to the Committee of Safety for this Colony. And it is further recommended, that no Part of the aforementioned Business be delayed ; for its being as speedily done as possible, will be of great Utility to the Colony ; and it is further strictly enjoined upon all Selectmen and Committees to endeavor to prevent all persons from burning their Powder in shooting at Birds and other Game. By order of congress, MATTHEW THORNTON, President. NOTTINGHAM CENSUS. Males under 16 years of Age 268 Males from 16 years of age to 50 not in the Army . . . 165 All males above 50 years of Age 26 Persons gone in the Army 22 All Females 502 Negroes and Slaves for Life 16 999 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 125 The Number of Fire arms in the Town of Nottingham is 101 the Number wanting to Compleat one for every parson fit to bear arms 68 Powder in the Inhabitants Hand of their Property 42 Lb. and 3-4 In the Inhabitants Hand of the Colony Stock 30 Lb and 3-4 in the Select- man's Hand of the Colony Stock 22 Lb and 1-2 Town Stock None. Per THO BARTLETT Selectman. Sep r 6th, 1775. Colony of New Hampshire ) Nottingham Sept 11 th 1775. Rockingham ss. > Then Thomas Bartlett personally appearing made Solemn Oath that he had taken the above accompt according to the above Recommend with fidelity and Impartiality sworn before me BENJAMIN BUTLER Justice of Peace. March 5, 1776, Major Thomas Bartlett was elected a rep- resentative to attend a congress at Exeter. March 14, 1776, the Continental Congress resolved, " That it be recommended to the Several Assemblies, Conventions, and Councils, or Committees of Safety of the United Colo- nies, immediately to cause all Persons to be disarmed, with- in their Respective Colonies, who are notoriously disaffected to the cause of America, or who have not associated, and refuse to associate, to defend by Arms, the United Colonies, against the Hostile attempts of the British Fleets and ar- mies." Agreeably to this resolution, the Committee of Safety of New Hampshire issue a Declaration of Independence, known as the " Association Test," to be signed by all males above twenty-one years of age (" Lunaticks, Idiots, and Negroes ex- cepted ") throughout the province, and a return of all such names, together with the names of all such as refused to sign it, to be made to the said Committee of Safety, the chairman of which was M. "Weare. " This declaration," says John Farmer, Esq., " was the Declaration of Independ- ence by the people of New Hampshire, similar to the Na- tional Declaration of July 4, 1776. It preceded that event, and seems to have been a sanction or an encouragement to 126 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. those who contemplated it. It was a bold and hazardous step in subjects thus to resist the authority of one of the most powerful sovereigns in the world. Had the cause in which these men pledged their lives and fortunes failed, it would have subjected every individual who signed it to the pains and penalties of treason, to a cruel and ignominious death." Eight thousand one hundred and ninety-nine men affixed their names to this declaration, while seven hundred and seventy-three refused to sign it. The following is the declaration, called the ASSOCIATION TEST. We, The Subscribers, Do Hereby Solemnly Engage, And Promise, That we Will, To The Utmost Of Our Power, At The Risque Of Our Lives And Fortunes, With Arms, Oppose The Hostile Proceedings Of The British Fleets And Armies Against The United American Colo- SIGNERS IN NOTTINGHAM. J. Mills. Benjamin Butler. Joseph Morrill. Josiah Clark. Thomas Healey ? Francis Kenston. Joseph Cilley. Jonathan Davis. Benjamin Shaw. Ephraim Durgin. Thomas Bartlet. Alexander Lucy. Henry Butler. Vowel Leathers. Abner Clough. Cutten Cilley. William Gill. John Harvey. Rice Rowell. John Wells. Ziphaniah Butler. John Ford. Joseph Jackson. Quick Preast. John Brown. Yolintine Hill. Samuel Gray. Mason Rendel. Daniel Demis. Jacob Burnam. John Bickf ord. William Welch. Thomas Bickford. Robert Davis. John Wille. Samuel Burnam. James Glass. Samuel Daniels. Nathaniel Hale. Jonathan Willey. Samuel Scails ? Abraham Knight. John Giles. Aaron Hayes. Gideon Straw. Israel Randel. Will- Cloys. John M°Crilles. Rob. Evens. Asa Guile. Nathaniel Randel. Samuel Brasa. Charles M c Coy. Frances Trickey. Hezekiah Randel. Edward Foote. Thomas Whitehorn. John Whitehorn. Paul Gerrish. John Shaw, Jr. HISTOBT OF NOTTINGHAM. 127 Thomas George. And w Simpsone. Benjamin Stokes. Charles Furnil. Ham. Libbey. Joseph Robinson. Moses Davis. Daniel Young. Joshua Trickey. Joseph Whittier. Joseph Hodgdon. Simeol Ladd. Jonathan Foss. Enoch Page. Joseph Garman. John Nealley. Jonathan Gove. Abednego Leathers. Benjamin AVinslow. Ichabod Row. John Hutcherson. John Gile. John Chesle. John Nelley, Jr. Joshua Stearns. William Nelley. Thomas Odel. Robert Morrison. James Kelsey. John Shaw. Nicholas Leathers. Jonathan Langley. Abel Leathers. Thomas M e Connelly. Benjamin Jackson. Solmon Davis. Abner Davis. Nicholes Brown. Sawyer Chesle. John Kesear. John Collet. Jonathan Rollings. John Hany. Winthrop Colbath. 104 State of New Hampshire. Pursuant to the within Precept, we have Present this Covenant to the Inhabitants of the Town of Nottingham, and the Parsons that Re- fuse to sign it are on a Seperate Paper. VOAVEL LEATHERS, ) Select THO 8 BARTLET, > August 16th, 1776. Men. A list of the men in the town of Nottingham that refuse to sign the covenant sent to the selectmen by the committee of safety in April last, viz. : — *Abraham Scails. Philip Bartlet. *Nathaniel Goodhu. Noah Barker. John Shepard. *John BanfilL *Joseph Nealley. *John Bartlet. ♦Thomas Hines. Thomas Foss. Prances Harvey. Frances Harvey, Jr. *Eldad Langley. Moses Davis. Edmund Hodgdon. Samuel Gove. *John "Watson. *James Watson. Nathan Watson. Josiah Watson. ♦Benj 1 Watson. Benj" Whitcher. Daniel Rogers, Esq. James Bean. James Thurston. 25 VOWEL LEATHERS, > Select THO 8 BARTLET, > Men. Nottingham, August 16th, 1776. N. B. Them with this marke * Have advanced money for to Hire Men to go to Crown Point. 128 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. CENSUS OP SEPT. 1775. Males under 16 years of Age 268 Males from 16 years of age to 50 not in the Army . . . 165 All males above 50 years of age 26 Persons gone in the Army 22 All Females 502 Negroes and Slaves for Life 16 999 The Number of fire arms in the Town of Nottingham is 101 the Number wanting to Complete one for every parson fit to bear arms 68 Powder in the Inhabitants Hand of theire Property 42 lb & 3-4 In the Inhabitants Hand of the Colony Stock 30 Lb & 3-4 in the Select man's Hand of the Colony Stock, 22 Lb & 1-2 Town Stock None. Per THO BAETLET Selectman. Sept 6th 1775. Nottingham Sept 11th 1775. Colony of New Hampshire Rockingham ss. Then Thomas Bartlet personally appearing made Solemn Oath that he had taken the above accompt according to the above Recommend with Fidelity and Impartiality sworn before me, BENJAMIN BUTLER Justice of Peace. Oct. 14, 1776. Upon a Motion that Doctor Samuel Shepard went about the Country Preaching and Holding forth Doctrines that are Enimical to the Cause of Liberty for which we are Now Contending (Viz.) , that it is contrary to the Gospel to Take up arms in the cause for which we are Now Contending with Great Brittan therefore, Voted that the Said Shepard be Not alowed to Preach or Instruct or other ways Teach in this Town his said Doctrine but be Deamed a common Nusance in said Town. April 4, 1777. Voted that there be a Committee Chosen to agree with a Sufficient Number of Men to Make up the Propotion for the Town for the three Battalions Now Raising in this State for the Con. tinental Sarvice for three years or During the War on the Best and Most Reasonable Terms that they Can and said Committee to be Im- powered to make out an Exact List of what Each Man Has Done towards Carrying on the War with Great Brittan and to Estamate what Shall be Esteamed a Turn in the war and Deliver the said List unto the Select Men and the Select Men are Hereby ordered to Make an ases- ment on the Pools and Estates agreeable to said Estamation so that HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 129 Every Pool and Estate May Pay there Equil Propotion of what is Past and Present Cost of Raising Men in this Town for the Present war and that the said Connnittee be and are Hereby Impowered to Hire Money on the Credit of this Town for the above Said Purpose Raising the above Said Men. Voted that Major Henry Dearborn, Col Joseph Cilley, Capt. Vowel Leathers, Col° Thomas Bartlet, Lt. Israel Randel, Capt. Cutting Cilley and Benjamin Butler, Esq., be a Committee for the above said Purpose. June 19, 1778, the action of the town is decisive and courageous, when it is voted that the " Town will Take up the Matter of Raising the men for the Rhoad Island Sar- vice sent to this Town for to sarve in Col Peabodyes Regi- ment under the command of Major General Sullivan." Voted that Capt. Henry Butler, Capt Vowel Leathers, Lt. John Gile, Benjamin Butler, Esq., and L' Israel Randel be a Committee for to Hire the above Proportion of Men for said Sarvioe on the best Tearms in their Power and as soon as Possible, with power to Hire Money on the Credit of the Town. March 30, 1779. Voted that L' John Gile and Capt. Vowel Leathers be a committee to supply the Soldiers Familyes according to a Lait Resolve of the general assembly. Feb. 20, 1781. Voted that Capt. Henry Butler, L' John Gile and L' Israel Randel be a committee for to Purchase the Beef sent to this Town for the supply of the Continental army for the year 1781 with Power for to Purchase Said Beef on the Best and Cheapest Terms they Can and for to Borrow or hire Money on the Credit of the Town for to Pay for said Beef or Beef Cattel, giving Securyty for to make the Money as good when Paid as it is when the Security is given or to Give Security for hard Money or other Money Equivilent either to the Lend- ers of Money for to Purchase Said Beef or the Parsons who shall Give Credit to the Town for said Beef or beef-Cattel or any Part thereof. Similar votes had been before passed to meet previous demands for beef and corn, which towns were allowed to furnish instead of money for the support of the army at established prices. It was no easy task for the farmers at this period to raise money, yet, to the extent of their ability, they did raise it ; and, when they could raise no more, they freely took from their small store of grain and their smaller X30 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. herds of cattle, and, with great labor, but with cheerful spirits, transported them to Exeter, where officers of the government were ready to receive them. No town could surpass Nottingham in cheerful sacrifice for her country. Like other towns, they found it necessary to regulate domestic trade, and so chose, May 8, 1777, " Capt. Cutting Cilley, L* Alexander Lucy, Thomas Bartlet, L* John M c - Crellis, M r Edward Foax, Capt. Towel Leathers, and Lieut. Jonathan Gove " a committee " to Regulate the Price of Labour and other Necessaryes and Conveniences of Life agreeable to a Laite Law of this State." Care was taken of the families of those in actual service, since they chose a committee, January 19, 1778, "to supply the Families of the Non Commissioned officers and Soldiers in the Con- tinental Sarvice for three years or During the war," and John Gile was chosen that committee. For several years in succession, Thomas Bartlet was chosen to represent the town in various conventions and congresses. But, May 21, 1781, Col. Joseph Cilley was sent to Concord " to Joyn in Convention with other men chosen by the other Towns in this state in Laying a Plan or Sys- tem of Government for the futer Happiness and Well being of this State." No town rendered more cordial and efficient aid for the Revolutionary contest than Nottingham. If men were wanting either to command or serve, she furnished them without hesitation ; if beef or corn were required for the army, she produced them without a murmur ; if money was needed, she laid it ungrudgingly on the altar of her coun- try. No town was more tenacious of her rights or eager to put on the full manhood of an American citizen, as may be seen from the following petition for leave to send a representative to the general assembly. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 181 Province of ) To His Excellency John Wentworth, Esq., New Hampshire >• Governor in Chief in and over His ]\lajesty's Rockingham ss. ) Said Province of New Hampshire. The Humble Petition of the Inhabitants of Nottingham in said County of Rockingham Shews that Said Nottingham is an ancient Settled Town and Does at Present Consist of above three Hundred and Fifty Families. For a long Time Past the Inhabitants thereof have Been Constantly Taxed towards the Support and Maintenance of the Government of this His Majestys Province, and have always fully and Cheerfully Paid the same tho they have Never Enjoyed the Inestimable Darling Privilege and Liberty of Being Represented in the House of Commons here, which other Towns and Parishes Less opulent and Not so Numerous or Ancient have been Indulged with, the Liberty of sending Representatives. Your Petitioners would humbly Submit their Case to Your Excellency s Wise Mature Consideration Whether they Are Not Intitled to the Privileges and Immunitys of the British Constitution with Every Other Subject thereof Whether the Lives, Liberties, and Propertys of Your Peti- tioners under their Present Circumstances may Not Be taken from them without then Consent to the Law by which they may be Judged. Wherefore your Petitioners Pray Your Excellency Would authorize and Impower them for the future to send a Representative to the Gen- eral assembly of said Province, That Your Petitioners May No Longer Be Virtually But Really Represented By a Person of their Own Electa ing. And Your Petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall Ever Pray. Nottingham April 18, 1774. The prayer was readily granted, and Nottingham sent able men to the assembly whose influence was great upon general legislation, and highly valuable in inaugurating a new form of state government, always counseled by an intelligent and patriotic constituency. The men of Not- tingham were a power in the state and nation during the Revolutionary struggle, and the trying period that followed it. November 19, 1781, " voted that Col. Thomas Bartlett be representative for to represent this town in the General Assembly to be holden at Exeter on the third Wednesday of December next, and he is empowered, for the term of one year from their first meeting, to transact such business 132 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. and pursue such measures as they may judge necessary for the public good." " Votes were then brought in for Coun- cilors." When a plan for a government for the state was sent to the several towns for acceptance or rejection, by the general assembly, Nottingham rejected it by a vote of fifty, there being no vote in favor of it. But Thomas Bartlet, Capt. Moses Dame, Col. Joseph Cilley, Benjamin Butler, Esq., Lieut. Samuel Gray, Lieut. John Gile, Capt. Vowel Leathers, Mr. Moses Davis, and Mr. Stoten Tuttle were appointed a committee to consider the plan and suggest alterations ; and with these amendments it was unanimously accepted. October 21, 1782, Thomas Bartlet was chosen a repre- sentative of the town in the general assembly at Ports- mouth, to be holden on the third Wednesday in December next, at three o'clock in the afternoon. " Rice Rowell chosen as Grand Jury Man." The " plan " for a government was again submitted to the towns by the general assembly, which Nottingham, De- cember 23, 1782, rejected by a vote of thirty, to three in favor of it. But a committee, consisting of Thomas Bart- let, Lieut. Israel Randell, Moses Davis, Capt. Vowel Leath- ers, Messrs. Nathaniel Goodhue, Stoten Tuttle, and John Ford, took the plan under consideration and reported amend- ments ; and with those it was adopted December 28, by a vote of ten in favor, and nine against it. The address of the convention adopted on the first Tuesday of June, 1783, was in like manner discussed, and, after amendments proposed to the confederation and per- petual union, as suggested by an able committee, was almost unanimously adopted. March 30, 1784, a vote was taken for president of the state under the new form of government just adopted, and stood 24 votes for Meshech Weare, 48 for Gen. John Sulli- van, and 1 for Col. John Langdon. At the same time, the HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 133 votes for five senators resulted in 44 for Col. John McClary, 44 for John Dudley, Esq., 31 for Josiah Bartlet, Esq., 31 for Gen. Nathaniel Folsom, 41 for Col. John Langdon, 7 for Col. Joseph Cilley, 9 for John Calf, Esq., 6 for Col. Joshua Wentworth, 1 for George Gaines, 7 for Col. Thomas Bartlet, 1 for Woodbury Langdon, Esq. Votes were also cast for county treasurer and recorder of deeds without recording the state of the votes. In 1785, the vote for president stood : Gen. John Sulli- van, 68 ; Col. John Langdon, 36 ; George Atkinson, Esq., 15. The vote for senators stood : Col. John Langdon, 84 ; Col. Joshua Wintworth, 84 ; Joseph Gilman, Esq., 85 ; Col. George Bead, 80 ; Col. Thomas Bartlet, 84 ; George Atkinson, Esq., 2 ; Col. Nathaniel Peabody, 4 ; John Mc- Clary, Esq., 2. 134 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. CHAPTER VI. Indian Troubles. — Tribe on North River. — Murder of Mrs. Simpson and Others. — Petition for Aid. — Miscellaneous Votes and Incidents. — Chichester. — Ep- som. — Mark How. — Premium for Wolves. — James Harvey. — Early Mar- riages. — Appointment of Justice. — Call to Mr. Osborn. — Inoculation forbid- den. — Bounty for Wild Cats and Crows. — Burial Cloths. — Turnpike District. — School Districts. — Inventory of 1800. — Town Officers. — Votes. — Insane Man's Prayer. — The thirsty Disciple. TOURING the French war, the Indians greatly troubled -"-^ the settlements in New Hampshire. Nottingham did not escape. Small parties of the enemy concealed them- selves on or near her borders, and made great havoc among the cattle, horses, sheep, and other domestic animals. There lived a small tribe of Indians near the north part of what is now called North River Pond, near the line which now divides Nottingham from Northwood, and with- in the present limits of the latter. At the head of this tribe was a chief by the name of Swausen. He was gen- erally disposed to be friendly to the settlers, yet sometimes did not restrain his own tribe, nor roving parties from other tribes, from doing mischief. Says Belknap (Vol. II., p. 252), under date July 28, 1747 : " At Penacook, a party of the enemy discovered themselves by firing at some cattle. They were pursued by fifty men, and retreated with such precipitation as to leave their packs and blankets with other things behind. One man had his arm broken in this conflict. About the same time, a man was killed there who had just returned from Cape Breton after an absence of two years. Another was killed at Suncook ; and, at Not- tingham, Robert Beard, John Polsom, and Elizabeth Simp- son suffered the same fate." This Elizabeth Simpson was the wife of Andrew Simp- son. They with others had been living in the garrison, HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 135 but went to their homes, which were hut short distances from the garrison, to perform 1 some work and to care for their dwellings, and were surprised by the subtle enemy. Prior to this, great anxiety had prevailed at Nottingham, and large numbers of the settlers removed from the town in search of safety among friends, so that the cultivation of the land and clearing of the forests were almost aban- doned, and a spirit of discouragement generally prevailed. The government of the state had at different times aided them by stationing armed men for their defense. Still the danger existed, and they make a new and earnest appeal for succor, as may be seen from the following documents : — At a meeting of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Nottingham Deo. 8, 1747, Voted that the Select Men Draw up a Petition to be Pre- fered to the General Court to Pray that there may be Suitable Pro- vision made for our Relief under the Difficulties of the war and that Joshua Pirce, Esq', be Inpowered and he is hereby Desired to Carry in S d Petition and Do what may be needful to obtain Said Relief. PETITION. To His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esq r Govemour and Com- mander in Chief, in and over his Majesties Province of New Hamp- shire and the Hon ble his Majesties Council and House of Represen- tatives for said Province in General Assembly convened The Inhabitants of Nottingham in said Province take this Oppor- tunity thankfully to acknowledge your Goodness in sending and sup- porting a number of men in years past for our safe-guard and Defence in this Time of War. And altho' we might from thence Infer your good Dispositions to Help us for the future, yet in order to your being more fully informed of our Circumstances we would Humbly offer to the consideration of this Honourable Court some of the Difficulties and Dangers we find ourselves exposed to in this Time of War. Our settlements are remote one from another in a mountainous and broken country our Fields are generally encompassed about with Trees and Bushes which continually exposes us to the Danger of being sur- prised by the Enemy while about our Daily Labour our common Roads and High Ways are no less dangerous to pass : We Lie open to a wide wilderness which surrounds us on all sides by which means the Enemy may come undiscovered very near our Garrisons which we have hardly 136 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. men enough to Defend our number being now very small many having already Removed out of the Town, and others seem so much discour- aged that we fear our numbers will be much less in the ensuing Sum- mer than they are at present which has a tendency to make our Burden still the heavier which is already almost insupportable We have never Desired needlessly to be a Burden to the government Neither have we ever before in this manner apply 3 for Belief but being now con- vinced more .than ever of the Danger we are Likely to be Exposed to we cannot but think it needfull for us to be Importunate with your Excellency and Honours to grant us such large Assistance as our neces- sitous circumstances may require without which we fear we shall be obliged to Retreat for the safety of our selves and Families tho' it must be with the greatest Regret that we leave our Settlements which we have cultivated with much Toil and Labour. May it Pleas your Excellency and Honours to take the Premises into your wise consideration and if it be consistent with your pleasure and for the Benefit of the Province in General as well as your Peti- tioners in particular to keep this Town we humbly pray that there may be speedy Provision made for the supporting of Forty or Fifty men to be sent up early in the Spring and kept here for the safe- guard and Defence of the Inhabitants here, and that such Stores as may be needfull for them may be conveyed up by sleading, the Knowl- edge of which as it would be likely to prevent some from moving out of Town, so it would be a means to encourage and strengthen us all who are very sensible that we cannot long support ourselves Here without such assistance from the Government as shall enable us to go about our Labour and Business in some degree of Safety which we Hope you will Freely Provide for and your Petitioners shall as in Duty Bound Ever Pray, &c. ISRAEL BARTLET) Selectmen for Nottingham in behalf ROBERT HARVEY ) and by order of tie Town. Nottingham, Jan? 21 8t 1747. May 21, 1729. Voted that Chichester shall have liberty to cut a way threw Nottingham at Their own Cost and Charge to the Block house. Dec. 10, 1729. Voted That Capt. Edward Hall have power to Gitt a horse way Cutt To Amuskeige as Chepe as he Can Gitt it done and as Low as posible he Can. March SO, 1731. Voted Capt. Edward Hall and Peter Gilman be a comite to Joyn with Chichester Comitte to Run the Head Line of Nottingham. HISTOBY OF NOTTINGHAM. 137 July 28, 1731. Voted Capt. Edward Hall and Mr. Samuel Goodhew be a comitte to Joyn with Ipsom Comitte and Chichester Comitte to Run the Dividing lines between Ipsom and Nottingham and between Chichester and Nottingham Voted a Comitte Shall Be Chosen to Gitt a way from Nottingham to New Market down by Mr. Halls. Capt. Thomas Peirce and Nathaniel Rogers were the committee. April 19, 1732. Voted That Mr Zach r Herd and Mr. Samuel Good- hew and Mr John Calfe be a comette to Joyn with Ipsom and Chi- chester Comitte to Run and Preamble the Lines of y e town of Notting- ham. Voted Mr. Jon Walker & Doct. Nathan Hale and Doct. Nat 11 Rogers be a comette to Examine and adjust all acompts. The committee to lay out the third division of lands and to settle the boundary lines say, in their return to propri- etors at Exeter, January 81, 1732 - 3 : " We notified Ipsom, Barrington and Chichester. Ipsom and Barrington Bun with us, But Chichester did not appear." This was signed by John Calfe, Zachariah Herd, and Samuel Goodhew. August, 1756. Voted That W m Morrison, Ensign Jon a Longfellow and Thomas Simpson be a Committe to look out for A suitable per- son to supply the town of Nottingham with preaching as a probationer. March 23, 1769. Voted that the town allow Doctor Mark How Seven pounds ten Shilling Lawfull Money for Doctring Samuel Sias Wife when She was by Missforting wounded by Gun, his Discharging S d Sias all the rest of his account. Oct. 14, 1776. Joseph Morrel was chosen Grand Jurior Man to sarve on the General Sessions of the Peace to be Held at Portsmouth on the second Tuesday of November Next. March 26, 1782. Voted that the Town will give five Dollars P r head as a Premium for all grone woolves that Shall be Killed within the Bounds of this Town and half that sum for woolves whelps P r head that Shall be Killed within the Bounds of this Town by any Town In- habitant until the Next March Meeting. And one pound, ten shilling were voted April 5, 1784 for Grone Wolves, and fifteen shillings for wolves whelps. JAMBS HARVEY. August 7, 1726. James Harvey and Family now sot sail from port Rush in the North of Ireland for New England and Landed in Boston in October 8 th and from thence come to Haverhill the 26 th where we stayed till April 19 th 1727 and that day come to Derry. James Harvey from Ireland died on the 4 th day of May 1742. 138 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Mr. Matthew Nealy, one of the selectmen, having died in 17.57, a legal meeting was held " Sept. y e 19th," and it was voted, " That thoraas Simpson be Select man in the Room of Mr Matthew Nealy Late of Notingham Deceased, and to Serve till our next anual meeting." EARLIEST MARRIAGES AND DEATHS RECORDED. Thomas Simpson was married to Sarah Morrison of Notingham Feb' y' 4 th 1747 - 8. John Simpson son to Thomas Simpson & Sarah Simpson born in Notingham Decemb r y e l 8 ' 1748, Elizabeth Simpson Daughter to Thomas Simpson & Sarah Simpson born in Notingham Sept. y e 19th 1751, Sa- rah Simpson wife to thomas Simpson Deceased March the 24th 1753. Thomas Simpson was married to Mary Cochran, Relict to David Cochran of Londonderry March y e 5th 1754. William Neely of Notingham was married to Mrs. Mary Parvin December the thirty-first 1755. Mary Neely, Daughter to william Neely and Mary Neelytwas born in Nottingham Jan. 28, 1742 - 3 and Sarah, her sister was b. Sept. 11, 1744. APPOINTMENT OP JUSTICES. March 25, 1777. Voted that it is the Humble Desire of this Town that the Honourable General Court for the State of New Hampshire would allow this Town the Privalage that Has been allowed to a Num- ber .of the Neighboring Towns, viz. the Privilage Recomending by vote of the Town who they Desire to have appointed for a Justice of the Peice in said Town and if the above should be granted Voted Nannimus That it is the Desire of this Town that Col° Thomas Bartlet be appointed a justice of the Peace. CALL TO MR. OSBORN. May 29, 1780. Voted To give M Osborn a Call for to Settle in the work of the Ministry in the Town of Nottingham. (Benjamin Butler, Esqr, and Samuel Huntoon dissented.) Voted that the Town will give Mr. Osborn Something for Preaching in this Town. Voted that Mr. Osborn have the use of the Pew at the Left hand of the pulpit whilst he Preaches in this Town. Voted that the Select Men Repair the Meetinghouse in the Cheep- est and Best Manner they shall think Best. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 139 Voted that Mr Thomas Odel Set the Psalm in the Meeting House when the People assemble for Publick worship. Voted that Cap' Enoch Page Read the Psalm in Publick worship. Oct. 14, 1776. Voted not to give Cap 1 Henry Dearborn Liberty to anoccnlate his Family and any other Persons that apply to be anoccu- lated for the Small Pox. 1809, March 14. Voted one Gill on a Dollar. For Surveyors to be Drunk while at Work on the Roads. 1810 March 13. Voted that Josiah Woodman Receive from the Town $15 Dollars, To Compensate him in part for the loss of his Horse Said to be worth Forty Dollars. 1811 March 12. Voted to give a bounty §3.00 for every Wild Cat killed in Nottingham by inhabitants thereof and 20 cents for old Crows and 10 cents for young Crows until the first day of July. Joseph Randel was chosen Saxon and Ebenezer Butler was voted $20. for ringing the bell the ensuing year. 1807, June 1. Voted those persons Inhabitants of the Town of Nottingham^and killing them in said Town should Receive 20 Cents for Old Crows and 10 Cents for young Crows. 1801 March 3. Voted that the selectmen be directed to purchase two Burial Cloths at the expense of the town to be kept in the town Clerks office [for the use of the inhabitants of the town as soon as may be. TURNPIKE DISTRICT. 1807, April 1, a petition was presented to the selectmen, signed by the following persons, to be set off as a separate district to be known as the Turnpike District, which was granted by a vote of the town June 1 of the same year. Names of the petitioners, and the amount of each man's tax for building their school-house the same year : James Atwood |2.35 Daniel Cate 15.39 James Chesley 9.28 Thomas Furnald Jr. . . . 2.12 Capt. Thomas Furber . . 11.19 Moses Furber 9.49 Simon Garland Jr. ... 2.12 Robert Hill 3.40 Simeon Rand 7.14 Ebenezer Spencer . . • . 4.10 Samuel Whitcherhorn . . 5.65 $2.12 3.26 Thomas Furnald . . . 8.89 4 22 Hutchins AVatson . . . 2.12 2 12 Capt Joseph Priest . . 15.19 Anthomis Pickering . . 3.30 Jonathan Richardson 2.40 2.12 140 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. SCHOOL DISTRICTS. March 30, 1779. Voted that Mr Samuel Gray, Mr Zephemiah Butler, Mr. James Kelse, Mr Aaron Hayes and L' Jonathan Gove be a Committee for to Divide the Town' into Destriek for the Convenience of Schools and to say in How many Places Schools Shall be Keept and to state the Places where the Schools Shall be Keept in this Town. This committee attended to the duty imposed upon them and reported the following : — The first Destriek to Consist of the following Familyes, viz, James George, Jonathan Harvey, Ichabod Row,. Benj" Noyes, W d Susannah Harvey, Benj" Winslow, Samuel Norrise & Jonathan Gass, Second Destriek to consist of all the Familyes Living on the fish Street Lotts. Including Mr. Sweat and all the Familyes on or Near the Square and on the King Street Home Lotts above Mr. Joseph "YVhitchers and all the familyes Living on the North Street Lotts and all that are Settled on the Bow Streets Lotts including Mr Clough, Joshua Stephens and Ensign Gile. The third Destrict to consist of all the Familyes Living on the King Street Lotts below Mr Joseph Whitchers and on the Sum- mer Street Lotts on the South Side of North River. The fourth Des- triek to consist of all the Familyes Living on the Summer Street Lotts on the North Side of North River untill it Comes to L' Israel Randels. The fifth Destrict to consist of all Remainder of the Familyes Living on the Sumer Lotts and all that are settled on the Winter Street Lotts, on the North Road below Abel Leathers's. The sixth Destriek to consist of all the Familyes living on the Winter Street Lotts Not be- fore Included Except Moses Davis, Jr, and John Keniston, The seventh Destriek to consist of all the Familyes living on or near the Jabeague Road on the Cross Street Lotts, including Moses Davis, Jr, and John Kenistone. The eighth Destriek to consist of all the other Familyes living on the Cross Lotts, including John Mason. The School in the first Destrict to be Kept at the W d Harvyes, the Second on the Squair, the third at Mr. Joseph Hodgdon's, the fourth at Thomas Odels, the fifth at Thomas Whitcherns, the sixth at Jona. than Huckings's, the Seventh at Jonathan Davis's, and the Eighth at Charles Furnald's. SAMUEL GRAY, ZEP E BUTLER, JAMES KELSE, AARON HAYES, JONATHAN GO YE, Committee. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 141 N. B. The Inhabitants that live in the Second Destrick are Not to Send theire Children to the School in the third Destrick, Neither are third to Send theire Children to the School in the Second. 1792, March 27. Voted that Mr. Thomas Rogers, Maf Jonathan Cilley Maj r John Gile were appointed a committee to Divid the Town into Destricts for Schools and Point out the Places where a School House Shall be Built in Each Destrict. This committee reported that the Summer Street District shall Include the Famileyes who live on the Sinner Street Lots to the Northeastward of Benjamin Whitcher's, South west Line and to Include Eldad Langley on Winter Street Lots. The Second District to Include all the Famileyes Living on Sumer Street Lots to the Northwestward of Captain Leathers's and all who Live on Winter Street Lots and Cross Street Lots which Lye to the north of North River. The Squaire Destrict to Consist of all the familyes who Live on Sunier Street Lots heretofore Mentioned. King Street Lots, Bow Street Lots, North street Lots, Winter Street Lots which Lye to the South of North River and Fish Street Lots Including West Street Lots. The fourth or Mountain District to Consist of all the Familyes Liv- ing on the first and second Ranges of the Town. A school House to be built in the Sumer-street District at the corner of the Highway which leads from Thomas Odell's to the Road which Leads from Nottingham Squaire to Durham, and said House to be thirty four feet in Length and Twenty Eight in weadth, Ten feet Posts to be finished Gallery wise with Two Windows on Each Side containing Twenty Squaires and one of fifteen Squaires in the End the Glass to be Seven by nine with a walk from the fire Place to the End of the Room of three feet in width. A School House to be built on the Squaire of Same dimensions with the afore mentioned School House to be built at Job Langleys Corner, of the above dimensions. School House in the Mountain District to be built twenty feet in Length fifteen in weadth and finished in Pro- portion to the others, Each House to be shingled and Clap Boarded. Much opposition was made to the adoption of this report. Some desired to have the town divided into seven districts, and others were not pleased with the location of a part of the houses. But " by a Poll it was voted to Receive and Except said Report ; " and Gen. Joseph Cilley, Stoten Tut- tle, and Henry Butler were chosen a committee to superin- tend the erection of the four houses. At a meeting, August 142 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 27, 1792, it was voted " that the school House that was to have been built at Odells Corner be built Somewhare be- tween Thomas Odells and John Nealley House." INVENTORY OF 1806. Acres of mowing. Total tax. Value of unimproved lands and buildings. James Atwood .... James Bean .... Iohabod Bodge .... Henry Butler .... Jacob Burnharn . . . Nehemiah Bartlett . . W d Sarah Bartlett . . John Butler W a Margret Brown . . Israel Bartlett .... Joshua Bean .... Thomas Bartlett . . . Bradbury Bartlett . . . Jonathan Bartlett . . . Joseph Batchelder . . Henry Butler, jr. . . . Buben Brown .... Moses Burnharn . . . Timothy Barker . . . W d Phebe Butler . . . W d Mary Barker . . . Benjamin Cilley . . . Samuel Colcord . . . Cuttin Cilley .... Solomon Carter . . . Josiah Carter .... Greenleaf Cilley . . . Daniel Cate Bradbury Cilley . . . Jacob Cilley Eliphelet Cilley . . Levi Chapman .... John Crawford .... Moses Cilley .... James Chesley .... Christopher li. Carpenter John Chisley .... Philip Cass William Currier . . . 10 3 5 12 10 9 5 1 4 ' i 20 6 9 30 $1.45 10.95 2.80 7.08 12.07 10.54 9.42 S.49 2.75 2.20 3.40 4.63 3.85 1.30 5.12 1.40 1.50 1.30 3.77 1.40 1.25 4.75 7.33 1.30 1.50 1.30 10.25 9.87 43.50 18.07 2.30 3 30 1.30 1.30 4.79 1.80 4.15 2.00 1.30 400 40 230 200 278 400 208 SO 150 150 100 15 50 60 150 400 280 800 900 68 60 HISTOBY OF NOTTINGHAM. Inventort of 1806, — Continued. 143 Acres of mowing. Total tax. Value of unimproved lands and buildings. Israel Davis . . . Josiah Davis . . Solomon Davis . . Nathaniel Davis . John Davis . . . Levi Davis . . . Samuel Dame . . Jacob Davis . . . Moses Dolton . . Samuel Davis . . Stephen Davis . . Euben Davis . . Abram Davis . . Samuel Dyer . . Stephen Durgan . John Dame . . . Nathan Davis . . Jonathan Davis John Demeritt . . Samuel Furnald . Benjamin Follet . Thomas Furnald . Samuel French Andrew Fox . . John Ford . . . John Ford, jr. . . Thomas Ford . . Thomas Furber . Nathan French . . Jonathan Glass Jonathan Gove . . Samuel Gove . . Samuel Gile . . . Paul Gerrish . . Thomas Glass . . Mark Gile . . . Nathaniel Goodhue Simon Garland . . Barnard Goodridge James Goodell . . Samuel Gove, jr. . Nathan Gove . . Joseph Goodhue . Jeremiah Gordon . Simon Garland, jr. 16 25 4 11 4 3 10 34 7 5 5 44 34 3 $1.30 5.30 4.60 3.55 7.45 4.85 9.29 8.11 1.12 5.55 4.45 1.30 7.59 1.20 1.70 1.80 1.30 3.00 1.30 3.40 5.00 1.30 8.70 9.60 4.20 2.45 7.23 1.30 9.70 11.20 5.87 5.90 10.73 4.80 7.61 8.40 7.05 5.85 6.30 1.30 6.72 3.30 1.50 1.30 $50 SO 70 200 80 118 128 4 130 80 158 40 100 100 264 200 100 155 500 240 254 200 466 100 322 300 100 30 254 144 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Inventory op 1806, — Continued. Acres of mowing. Value of unimproved lauds and buildings. Frances Harvey . . Wd. Susannah Harvey Jonathan Harvey . . Robert Harvey . . . Robert Hill .... Solomon Huges . . W d Anna Huntoon . John Hines .... W d Susannah Hayes . Ebenezer Harvey . . Samuel Harvey . . Joseph Hill .... Benjamin Hoit . . . Thomas Hall . . . James Harvey . . . John Hill Joseph Hill, jr. . . . William Hanson . . Richard Hull . . . David Harvey . . . Jonathan Jones . . Willam Kelsey . . . Hugh Kelsey . . . Joseph Keniston . . Jonathan Langley . . Alexander Lucy . . John Lucy .... Vowel Leathers . . Benjamin Lucy. . . Job Langley .... Moses Langley . . . Benjamin Langley Joseph Langley . . Jonathan Langley, jr. Thomas Lucy . . . Joseph Leathers . . Vowel Leathers, jr. . Edward Lee .... John McCrillis . . . John Marston . . . Abner Marston . . . Samuel Manson . . William Morris . . Benjamin Noyes . . Joseph Nealley . . . 10 2 8 2 24 2h 4 11 3 10 6 3 810.15 .84 8.23 10.45 1.50 5.58 2.50 9.09 .40 6.55 2.10 2.60 5.24 1.30 1.30 ■ 1.35 1.40 1.30 3.80 1.30 1.30 8.88 6.30 3.80 1.30 8.15 1.80 8.67 5.62 8.84 4.60 4.75 4.75 6.14 1.80 12.19 2.40 1.30 11.07 5.30 1.60 4.35 11.48 5.25 4.68 1250 9 116 300 260 20 348 150 OS 80 276 160 100 200 40 384 84 268 90 84 84 138 338 334 120 100 220 60 100 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Inventory of 1806, — Continued. 145 Acres of mowing. Value of unimproved lands and buildings. Mathew Nealley . . John .Nealley . . . Benjamin Nealley . . Benjamin Noyes, jr. . David Noyes . . . Edward B. Nealley . Joseph Preast . . . Samuel Preast . . . Nathan Preast . . . George Parker . . . William Page . . . Anthony Pickering . Simeon Pikering . . Maderick Rand . . Rice Rowel .... Ichabod Rowe . . . Joseph Randel . . . Gideon Randel . . . Thomas R. Rogers Nathaniel Rines . . Josiah Rines . . . W d Elizabeth Rowell Samuel Rowe . . . Simeon Ptand . . . Joshua Stevens . . . Thomas Stevens . . Robert Stevens . . . William Simpson . . Samuel Scails . . . Ebenezer Spencer . . John Simpson . . . John Stevens . . . Samuel Spencer . . Garland Smith . . . Peter Thurston . . Nicholas Tuttle . . Stoten Tuttle . . . Joseph Tuttle . . . James Thurston . . Samuel Tuttle . . . Joseph Thurston . . Moses Thurston . . Nathaniel Tuttle . . Stoten Tuttle, jr. . . Thomas Trickey . . 34 3 4 2 12 2 14 4 5 34 5 4 8 14 $6.28 3.0S 6.28 2.90 1.70 1.30 10.72 2.40 1.30 4.65 3.70 1.92 7.00 1.30 8.75 7.25 1.30 5.03 7.28 2.60 1.50 .60 1.30 3.95 6.20 6.30 5.72 2.25 8.10 5.46 10.38 5.20 1.90 1.80 1.30 4.63 6.30 9.02 5.65 5.30 2.00 4.53 4.53 1.30 $200 100 160 60 300 250 160 30 30 300 125 100 300 39 60 200 200 174 200 176 300 160 60 166 300 240 150 80 170 200 10 146 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Inventory of 1806, — Continued. Acres of mowing. Value of unimproved lauds and buildings. Benjamin Willey . . Jonathan Willey, jr. . Benjamin Watson . . Benjamin Winslow . Nathan Watson . . W d Nancy Williams . William Welch . . Pelatiah Witham . . Charles Willey . . . Moses M. Watson . . Elisha Winslow . . Isaac Welch . . . . Jacob Welch . . . Ruben Whieher . . Samuel Waymouth . Samuel Whithorn . . Benjamin Watson, jr. Thomas Watson . . Josiah Watson . . . Nathaniel Wiggin Asa Witham . . . S 4 $1.50 1.30 6.48 2.65 5.05 .95 6.32 3.24 1.95 7.28 4.03 6.88 7.48 11.30 1.55 4.42 1.S0 1.30 1.70 1.30 3.35 150 300 60 In 1806, there were 195 tax-payers in Nottingham ; Brad- bury Oilley paid a tax of 143.50, Jacob Cilley 118.07, Green- leaf Cilley $10.25. There were only two taxes above 112, and only nine above $10. Bradbury Cilley had $2,100 at interest, John Davis $100, James Goodman $200, William Welch $150, and Moses M. Watson $300. Chaises or sulkies were owned by Widow Sarah Bartlett, valued $50 ; Henry Butler, jr., $20 ; Widow Phebe Butler, $50 ; Bradbury Cilley, $100 ; and Jacob Cilley, $20. There were horses of five winters, 117 ; oxen, 187 ; cows,. 267 ; cattle of four winters, 89 ; of three winters, 220 ; of two winters, 205. MUNICIPAL. A list of moderators, clerks, representatives, and select- men from the first meeting under the charter to 1878, with HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 147 the omission of 1734-5-6-7-8-9-40 and 1760 - 1 - 2, while the town was not authorized to send a representative ; 1784, Thomas Bartlett was the first to represent the town in general court. 1723. Col. Thomas Packer, mod.; John Calfe, clerk; Elisha Story of Boston, Capt. Edward Sargent of Newbury, Benj. Gam- bling of Portsmouth, selectmen. 1724. Capt. Edward Sargent, mod. ; John Calfe, clerk ; Richard Waldron, Capt. Edward Sargent, and James Pitsou, select- men. 1725. Archabald Mackf edrise, mod. ; John Calfe, clerk ; James Pit- son of Boston, Richard Kent of Newbury, and Arch d Mack- fedrise of N. H. Province, selectmen. 1726. Benjamin Gambling, mod. ; John Calfe, clerk ; Capt. Thomas Peirce, Col. Richard Kent, and James Pitson, selectmen. 1727. Richard Kent, mod. ; Peter Gilman, clerk ; Col. Richard Kent, Thomas Peirce, and James Pitson, selectmen. 1728. Col. Richard Kent, mod. ; Peter Gilman, clerk ; George Monk, Capt. John Gilman, Edward Hall, Thomas Peirce, and Col. Kent, selectmen ; and Joseph Dodge, surveyor of highways. 1729. Capt. Thomas Peirce, mod. ; Peter Gilman, clerk ; George Monk, Capt. Jn° Gilman, Mr. Edward Hall, Capt. Tho 8 Peirce, and Col. Kent, chosen selectmen ; Joseph Dodge, constable and surveyor of highways. 1730. Capt. Peirce, mod. ; Peter Gilman, clerk ; Capt. Tho" Peirce, Capt. John Gilman, Capt. Edward Hall, Col. Kent, Zach r Heard, selectmen. 1731. Theadore Atkinson, mod. ; Peter Gilman, clerk ; Samuel Good- win, Tho s Peirce, Richard Kent, Edward Hall, Capt. John Gilman, selectmen. 1732. Edward Hall and John Gilman, com. to warn meetings ; Peter Gilman, clerk. 1733-4. James Harvey, mod.; Israel Bartlet, clerk ; Hugh Ranking, Moses Norris, Edward Bean, John Harvey, and Andrew M c Clery, selectmen. 1741. Samuel Goodhue, Joseph Ceilly, and Israel Bartlett were as- sessors ; and Nathan Pillsbury, constable. 1742. Samuel Goodhue, Joseph Ceilly, and Israel Bartlett, selectmen. 1753. Joshua Peirce, mod.; Thomas Simpson, clerk; Jn° Bartlett, AVilliam Neely, and Jn° Rodman, selectmen. 1754. Joshua Peirce, mod. ; Thomas Simpson, clerk ; Abraham Scales, William Morrison, and Jn° M c crelous. 148 insronr of Nottingham. 1755. Nathaniel Peirce, mod. ; Tho s Simpson, clerk ; Jn° Mason, Francis Harvey, and Robert Kelsa, selectmen. 1756. Nathaniel Peirce, mod. ; Tho B Simpson, clerk ; Francis Har- vey, John Mason, and Robert Kelsa, selectmen. 1757. John Mason, mod. ; Tho s Simpson, clerk ; John Mason, Fran- cis Harvey, and John M e crelous, selectmen. It appears that Robert Harvey and Matthew Nealy were added. 1758. Robert Harvey, mod. ; Tho s Simpson, clerk ; Robert Kelsa, Abram True, and Francis Harvey, James Whidden, and Jn° Longfellow, selectmen. 1759. The only record made of a legal meeting, held March 27, 1759, is the following : " Toted Lieut. Rob' Harvey town Clerk for the present year, and sworn the day above mentioned." 1763. Abraham Scales, mod. ; Benj. Shepard, clerk; Benj. Shepard, Samuel Tilton, and Joseph Cilley; selectmen. 1764. Capt. Joseph Ceilley, mod.; Benj a Shepard, clerk; Benjamin Shepard, John Nealy, and Samuel Tilton, selectmen. 1765. Thomas Simpson, mod. ; Benjamin Shepard, clerk; Benjamin Shepard, Samuel Tilton, and Thomas Simpson, selectmen. 1766. John Bartlett, mod. ; Capt. Joseph Cilley, jun r , clerk ; Benjamin Watson, James Glass, and Joseph Cilley, jun r , selectmen. 1707. John Nealley, mod. ; Capt. Jo B Cilley, jr., clerk ; Francis Har- vey, Edmond Hodgdon, and John M°Crilles, selectmen. 17C8. Francis Harvey, mod. ; Capt. Joseph Cilly, jr., clerk ; Edmund Hodgdon, Francis Harvey, John M c Crilles, selectmen. 1769. Josiah Clark, Esq., mod. ; Joseph Cilley, jr., clerk ; Thomas Bartlett, John Batchelder, and Josiah Clark, Esq., selectmen. 1770. Thomas Bartlett, mod. ; Joseph Cilley, jr., clerk ; Joseph Cil- ley, jr., Thomas Bartlett, John Sherburn, selectmen. 1771. Benjamin Whitcher, mod.; Benjamin Butler, clerk ; Edmund Hodgen, Benj. Watson, and Benj. Whitcher, selectmen. 177:2. Beacon John Bartlett, mod.; Capt. Joseph Cilley, jr., clerk ; L' Thos. Bartlett, Edmund Hodgdon, Jo B Cilly, jr., select- men. 1773. Benjamin Whitcher, mod.; Jo* Cilley, clerk; Benj. Whitcher, Benj. Butler, Esq., and Edmund Hodgdon, selectmen. 1774. Doct. Henry Dearborn, mod. ; Joseph Cilly, jr., clerk ; Rice Rowell, Towel Lathers, L' Thomas Bartlett, selectmen. 1775. Dr. Henry Dearborn, mod. ; Joseph Cilley, jr., clerk ; Lieut. Thomas Bartlett, Towel Leathers, and Rice Rowell, select- men. 1776. Benjamin Butler, mod.; Thomas Bartlett, clerk; Thomas Bartlett, Capt. Towel Leathers, and Rice Rowel, selectmen. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 149 1777. Edmund Hodgdon, mod. ; Thomas Bartlett, clerk ; Thomas Bartlett, Rice Rowell, and Vowel Leathers, selectmen. 1778. Edmund Hodgdon, mod. ; Thomas Bartlett, clerk ; Vowel Leathers, Lt. Jonathan Gove, and Thomas Bartlett, select- men. 1779. Capt. Enoch Page, mod. ; Thomas Bartlet, clerk ; Thomas Bartlet, L' John Gile, and Samuel Gray, selectmen. 1780. Edmund Hodgdon, mod. ; Thomas Bartlett, clerk ; Thomas Bartlet, Stoten Tuttel, and John Gile, selectmen. 1781. Moses Dame, mod. ; Thomas Bartlett, clerk ; Thomas Bartlett, Stoten Tuttle, Capt. Henry Butler, selectmen. 1782. Col. Joseph Cilley, mod. ; Thomas Bartlett, clerk ; Nathaniel Goodhue, Aaron Hayes, and John Ford, selectmen. 17S3. Col. Joseph Cilley, mod. ; Thomas Bartlet, clerk ; Thomas Bartlett, Stoten Tuttle, and Nathaniel Goodhue, selectmen. 1784. Stoten Tuttle, mod. ; Thomas Bartlett, clerk ; Thomas Bartlet, Stoten Tuttle, and Nathaniel Goodhue, selectmen; Thos. Bartlett, representative. 1785. Gen. Joseph Cilley, mod. ; Thos. Bartlet, clerk ; Thos. Bart- let, representative to the assembly at Portsmouth ; Thomas Bartlet, Henry Butler, and Stoten Tuttle, selectmen. 1786. Edmund Hodgdon, mod. ; Thos. Bartlett, clerk ; Lt. John Gile, representative ; Tho B Bartlet, Nathaniel Goodhue, and Sto- ten Tuttle, selectmen. 1787. Edmund Hodgdon, mod. ; Thomas Bartlet, clerk ; Tho 8 Bart let, representative ; Thos. Bartlet, Lt. John M c Crellis, and John Harvey, selectmen. 1788. Maj. Bradbury Cilley, mod. ; Thos. Bartlet, clerk; Thos. Bart- let, representative ; Tho s Bartlet, Samuel Gove, John M c Crel- lis, selectmen. 1789. Alexander Lucy, mod. ; Thomas Bartlet, clerk ; Thomas Bart- let, representative ; Tho s Bartlet, Samuel Gove, and Jona- than Cilley, selectmen. 1790. Jonathan Cilley, mod. ; Tho 8 Bartlet, clerk ; Tho 8 Bartlet, rep- resentative ; Tho 8 Bartlet, Samuel Gove, Stoten Tuttle, select- men. 1791. Joseph Neally, mod.; Thomas Bartlet, clerk; Maj. Jonathan Cilley, rep. ; Thomas Bartlett, Joseph Nealley, and Jonathan Cilley, selectmen. 1792. Gen. Joseph Cilly, mod.; Thomas Bartlett, clerk ; Maj. Jona- than Cilley, rep. ; Thomas Bartlett, Maj. Jonathan Cilley, Jo- seph Neally, selectmen. 1793. Maj. Jonathan Cilley, mod. ; Thomas Bartlett, clerk ; Jonathan 150 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Cilley, rep. ; Jonathan Cilley, Thomas Bartlet, and John M c Crellis, selectmen. 1794. Gen. Joseph Cilley, mod. ; Thomas Bartlett, clerk ; Gen. Jo- seph Cilly, rep. ; Jonathan Cilley, Thomas Bartlett, John M c Crellis, selectmen. 1795. Joseph Cilly, Esq., mod. ; Thomas Bartlett, clerk ; Joseph Cil- ley, Esq., rep. ; Thomas Bartlett, Jonathan Cilly, John M c Crellis, selectmen. 1796. Joseph Cilley, Esq., mod.; Thos. Bartlett, clerk; Maj. Brad- bury Cilley, rep. ; Thos. Bartlett, John M c Crellis, Jonathan Cilley, selectmen. 1797. Gen. Joseph Cilley, mod. ; Thos. Bartlett, clerk; Maj. Brad- bury Cilly, rep. ; Thomas Bartlett, Joseph Cilley, William Norris, selectmen. 1798. Bradbury Cilley, mod. ; Thos. Bartlett, clerk; Jonathan Cilley, rep. ; Tho B Bartlett, Jonathan Cilley, William Norris, select- men. 1799. Maj. Jonathan Cilley, mod. ; Tho s Bartlett, clerk ; Jonathan Cilley, rep. ; Tho s Bartlet, AVilliani Norris, Jonathan Cilley ; selectmen. 1800. Jonathan Cilley, mod. ; Tho B Bartlett, clerk ; Jonathan Cilley, rep. ; Jonathan Cilley, Thomas Bartlett, William Norris, selectmen. 1801. Maj. Jonathan Cilley, mod. ; Thos. Bartlett, clerk ; Jonathan Cilley, rep. ; Tho" Bartlett, Jonathan Cilley, William Norris, selectmen. 1802. Bradbury Cilley, mod. ; Nathaniel Williams, clerk ; Jacob Cil- ley, rep. ; Joseph Turtle, John Ford, Neherniah Bartlett, se- lectmen. 1803. Thomas Bartlett, mod. ; Nathaniel Williams, clerk ; Jacob Cil- ley, rep. ; Joseph Turtle, Jacob Cilley, John Ford, selectmen. 1804. Maj. William Norris, mod.; Nathaniel Williams, clerk; Hen- ry Butler, rep. ; Mr. "Williams died, and, May 3, John Ford was elected ; Joseph Tuttle, Jacob Cilley, John Ford, select- men. 1805. William Norris, mod. ; John Ford, clerk ; Henry Butler, rep. ; Joseph Tuttle, Jacob Cilley, John Ford, selectmen. 1806. William Norris, mod.; Henry Butler, clerk; Jacob Cilley, rep. ; Jacob Cilley, Joseph Tuttle, John Ford, selectmen. 1807. jj Bradbury Cilley, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Jacob Cilley, rep. ; Jacob Cilley, John Ford, jr., Joseph Tuttle, selectmen. 1808. Bradbury Cilley, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Jacob Cilley, rep. ; Jacob Cilley, Joseph Tuttle, John Ford, jr., selectmen. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 151 1809. Joseph Tuttle, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Joseph Tuttle, rep. ; Joseph Tuttle, Mathew Neally, Jacob Cilley, selectmen. 1810. Jacob Cilley, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Jacob Cilley, rep. ; Joseph Tuttle, Jacob Cilley, Mathew Nealley, selectmen. 1811. John Ford, jr., mod.; Henry Butler, clerk; Henry Butler, rep. ; John Dame, Joseph Tuttle, John Ford, jr., selectmen. 1812. Bradbury Cilley, mod.; Henry Butler, clerk; Jacob Cilley, rep. ; Miles Morrison, Bradbury Bartlett, Jacob Cilley, seleci> men. 1813. Bradbury Cilley, mod.; Henry Butler, clerk; Jacob Cilley, rep. ; Jacob Cilley, Miles Morrison, Bradbury Bartlett, se- lectmen. 1814. Joseph Tuttle, mod.; Henry Butler, clerk; Joseph Tuttle, rep. ; Joseph Tuttle, Miles Morrison, Ruben Bartlett, select- men. 1815. Josiah Bartlett, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Joseph Tuttle, rep. ; Joseph Tuttle, John Marston, Henry Butler, selectmen. 1816. Israel Bartlett, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Samuel B. Dyer, rep. ; Joseph Tuttle, John Marston, Israel Bartlett, select- men. 1817. Israel Bartlett, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Samuel B. Dyer, rep. ; John Simpson, Bradbury Bartlett, Joseph Tuttle, se- lectmen. 1818. Joseph Tuttle, mod.; Henry Butler, clerk; Samuel B.Dyer, rep. ; Bradbury Bartlett, Jacob Cilley, John Simpson, select men. 1819. Israel Bartlett, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Bradbury Bartlett, rep. ; Bradbury Bartlett, Joseph Tuttle, Ebenezer Butler, selectmen. 1820. Israel Bartlett, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Bradbury Bartlett, rep. ; Joseph Tuttle, Ebenezer Butler, Bradbury Bartlett, se- lectmen. 1821. Bradbury Cilley, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; no representa- tive chosen ; Bradbury Bartlett, Ebenezer Butler, Samuel Glass, selectmen. 1822. Samuel B. Dyer, mod.; Henry Butler, clerk; Henry Butler, rep. ; Bradbury Bartlett, Samuel Glass, Eben Butler, select- men. 1823. Joseph Tuttle, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Henry Butler, rep. ; Samuel Glass, Joseph S. Tuttle, selectmen. 1824. Bradbury Bartlett, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Bradbury Bart- lett, rep. ; Bradbury Bartlet, Joseph S. Tuttle, Ebenezer Ford, selectmen. ^52 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 1825. Bradbury Cilley, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk; Bradbury Bart- lett, rep. ; Joseph Tuttle, Henry Butler, Samuel Glass, select- men. 1S26. Joseph Tuttle, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Samuel Dame, rep. ; Joseph Tuttle, Henry Butler, Joseph Bartlett, selectmen. 13-27. Bradbury Cilley, mod.; Henry Butler, clerk; Samuel Dame, rep. ; Joseph Tuttle, Henry Butler, Joseph Bartlett, select- men. 1828. Bradbury Bartlett, mod. ; Henry Butler, clerk ; Ebenezer But- ler, rep. ; Bradbury Bartlett, Joseph S. Tuttle, Samuel Dame, selectmen. 1829. Joseph S. Tuttle, mod; Bradbury Bartlett, clerk; Ebenezer Butler, rep.; Bradbury Bartlett, Joseph S. Tuttle, Samuel Dame, selectmen. 1830. Samuel Dame, mod. ; Bradbury Bartlett, clerk ; Bradbury Bart- lett, rep. ; Ebenezer Butler, Joseph S. Tuttle, Thomas Bart- lett, selectmen. 1831. Ebenezer Butler, mod. ; Bradbury Bartlett, clerk ; Joseph S. Tuttle, rep.; Ebenezer Butler, Bradbury Bartlett, Joseph Demeritt, selectmen. 1832. Ebenezer Butler, mod. ; Bradbury Bartlett, clerk ; Joseph S. Tuttle, rep. ; Thomas Bartlett, Joseph Demeritt, Eben r But- ler, selectmen. 1833. David Bartlett, mod.; Bradbury Bartlett, clerk; no represen- tative chosen ; Thomas Bartlett, Samuel Gove, Thomas Ste- vens, selectmen. 1834. Daniel Tuttle, mod.; William Furber, clerk; Samuel Dame, rep. ; Alexander Lucy, Levi Chapman, Bradbury Bartlett, selectmen. 1835. Samuel Dame, mod. ; William Furber, clerk ; Joseph Bartlett, rep. ; Joseph Demeritt, Eben Butler, Daniel Tuttle, select- men. 1836. Samuel Dame, mod. ; William Furber, clerk ; Joseph Bartlett, rep. ; Joseph Demeritt, Daniel Tuttle, Eben Butler, select- men. 1837. Samuel Dame, mod. ; William Furber, clerk ; Joseph Demeritt, rep. ; Samuel Dame, Alexander Lucy, Benj a Hoitt, jr., select- men. 1838. Samuel Dame, mod. ; W m Furber, clerk ; Joseph Demeritt, rep. ; Alexander Lucy, Benjamin Hoitt, 2 d , Gilman Batchel- der, selectmen. 1839. Samuel Dame, mod. ; Joseph S. Tuttle, clerk ; Joseph Demeritt, rep. ; Sam 1 Dame, Gilman Batchelder, John H. Marston, selectmen. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 153 1840. Bradbury Bartlett, mod. ; Joseph S. Tuttle, clerk ; John Craw- ford, rep. ; Joseph Demeritt, Bradbury Bartlett, Joseph S. Tuttle, selectmen. 1841. Samuel Scales, mod. ; Joseph S. Tuttle, clerk; John Crawford, rep. ; Joseph Demeritt, Thomas J. Priest, Bradbury Bartlett, selectmen. 1842. Samuel Dame, mod. ; J. S. Tuttle, clerk ; James H. Butler, rep. ; Thomas J. Priest, Daniel Kelsey, Jonathan Gove, selectmen. 1843. Samuel Dame, mod. ; Samuel Dame, clerk ; James H. Butler, rep. ; Daniel Kelsey, Jonathan Gove, Samuel Dame, select- men. 1844. Samuel Scales, mod. ; Samuel S. Dame, clerk ; Alexander Tut- tle, rep. ; Samuel Scales, James H. Butler, Jonathan Gove, selectmen. 1845. Samuel Scales, mod. ; Samuel S. Dame, clerk ; Daniel Demeritt, rep. ; Samuel Scales, James H. Butler, Joseph Bartlett, select- men. 1846. Gideon Batchelder, mod. ; Samuel S. Dame, clerk ; Daniel De- meritt, rep. ; Joseph D. Welch, Bradbury Bartlett, Daniel B. Stevens, selectmen. 1847. Gideon Batchelder, mod. ; Samuel S. Dame, clerk ; Jonathan Gove, rep. ; Joseph D. Welch, Bradbury Bartlett, Daniel B. Stevens, selectmen. 1848. Gideon Batchelder, mod. ; Samuel S. Dame, clerk ; Jonathan Gove, rep. ; James H. Butler, Daniel Tuttle, Daniel Demeritt, selectmen. 1849. Bradbury Bartlett, mod. ; Thomas B. Bartlett, clerk ; Samuel Scales, rep. ; Daniel Tuttle, Daniel Demeritt, James H. But- ler, selectmen. 1850. Bradbury Bartlett, mod. ; Thomas B. Bartlett, clerk ; Samuel Scales, rep. : Joseph Demeritt, Eben S. Tuttle, Joseph Gile, selectmen. 1851. Bradbury Bartlett, mod. ; Thomas B. Bartlett, clerk ; Daniel Tuttle, rep. ; Eben r S. Tuttle, Joseph Gile, Bradbury Bart- lett, selectmen. 1852. Bradbury Bartlett, mod. ; Thomas B. Bartlett, clerk ; Daniel Tuttle, rep. ; Eben S. Tuttle, Joseph Gile, Bradbury Bartlett, selectmen. 1853. Daniel Tuttle, mod. ; N. O. Smith, clerk ; Thomas B. Bartlett, rep. ; Gilman Batchelder, Joseph S. Tuttle, John O. Cilley, selectmen. 1854. Jonathan Gove, mod. ; N. 0. Smith, clerk ; Gilman Batchelder, 154 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. rep. ; John O. Cilley, Gilbert G. Knowlton, Jonathan Gove, selectmen. 1S55. Gideon Batchelder, mod. ; N. O. Smith, clerk ; Gilman Batch- elder, rep. ; Gilbert G. Knowlton, George Smith, Edward F. Gerrish, selectmen. 1856. Gideon Batchelder, mod.; N. O. Smith, clerk; James M. Haines, rep. ; Harrison W. Bartlett, George Smith, Edward F. Gerrish, selectmen. 1857. Gideon Batchelder, mod. ; John H. Chesley, clerk ; Nathan G. T. Goodrich, rep. ; John H. Marston, George "VV. White, W m Norris, selectmen. 1858. George W. Plummer, mod. ; Thomas B. Bartlett, clerk ; Nathan G. T. Goodrich, rep. ; John H. Marston, George W. White, W m Norris, selectmen. 1859. George W. Plummer, mod. ; Thomas B. Bartlett, clerk ; John O. Cilley, rep. ; George W. White, Nathaniel Tuttle, jr., John H. Chesley, selectmen. 1860. Horace Scales, mod. ; Thomas B. Bartlett, clerk ; Noah O. Smith, rep. ; Charles H. Batchelder, Robert Stevens, H. W. Bartlett, selectmen. 1861. Horace Scales, mod. ; Noah O. Smith, clerk ; Noah 0. Smith, rep. ; Charles H. Batchelder, Robert Stevens, H. W. Bartlett, selectmen. 1862. Horace Scales, mod. ; Noah O. Smith, clerk ; Daniel B. Ste- vens, rep. ; Daniel Tnttle, Eben r S. Tivttle, Pike H. Harvey, selectmen. 1S63. Horace Scales, mod. ; Noah O. Smith, clerk ; James M. Haines, rep. ; Daniel Tuttle, Eben r S. Tuttle, Pike H. Harvey, select- men. 1864. H. W. Bartlett, mod. ; Noah O. Smith, clerk ; Charles H. Batch- elder, rep. ; Daniel Tuttle, Thomas Stevens, Henry P. Daniels, selectmen. 1865. H. W. Bartlett, mod.; Charles H. Pike, clerk; Charles H. Batchelder, rep. ; Noah O. Smith, Thomas Stevens, Henry P. Daniels, selectmen. 1866. Samuel A. Colcord, mod. ; H. W. Bartlett, clerk ; H. W. Bart- lett, rep. ; Noah 0. Smith, John H. Chesley, Charles G. Ches- ley, selectmen. 1867. Samuel A. Colcord, mod. ; H. W. Bartlett, clerk; H. W. Bart- lett, rep. ; Charles G. Chesley, James E. Batchelder, Abbott Norris, selectmen. 1868. Charles H. Batchelder, mod.; H. W. Bartlett, clerk; Pike H. Harvey, rep. ; James E. Batchelder, Ira Bennett, Samuel S. Brown, selectmen. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 155 1369. Charles H. Batchelder, mod. ; H. W. Bartlett, clerk ; Pike H. Harvey, rep. ; Ira Bennett, Samuel S. Brown, Addison L. Demeritt, selectmen. 1870. Charles II. Batchelder, mod. ; H. W. Bartlett, clerk ; Thomas Stevens, rep. ; Addison L. Demeritt, Joseph D. Batchelder, W m O. Hills, selectmen. 1871. Charles H. Batchelder, mod. ; H. W. Bartlett, clerk ; Thomas Stevens, rep. ; Joseph D. Batchelder, H. W. Bartlett, David T. Cilley, selectmen. 1872. Samuel A. Colcord, mod.; H. W. Bartlett, clerk; Joseph N. Cilley, rep.; H. W. Bartlett, David T. Cilley, George G. Batchelder, selectmen. 1873. Joseph N. Cilley, mod. ; John H. Chesley, clerk ; Joseph 1ST. Cilley, rep. ; Alonzo F. Tuttle, George 0. Smith, Joseph D. Welch, selectmen. 1S74. Thomas Stevens, mod. ; H. W. Bartlett, clerk ; Samuel S. Brown, rep. ; Joel S. Hall, Thomas Stevens, George G. Batchelder, selectmen. 1875. Thomas Stevens, mod. ; H. W. Bartlett, clerk ; Samuel S. Brown, rep. ; Joel S. Hall, Thomas Stevens, W m J. Holmes, selectmen. 1876. John H. Chesley, mod. ; John H. Chesley, clerk ; James A. Kelsey, rep. ; George E. Smith, Joseph N. Cilley, John E. Eernald, selectmen. 1877. John H. Chesley, mod.; W. F. Watson, clerk; James A. Kel- sey, rep. ; John E. Fernald, Arthur N. Chace, John H. Ches- ley, selectmen. 1878. Charles H. Batchelder, mod. ; Frank H. Butler, clerk ; George W. Lihbey, rep.; W m F. Holmes, Charles H. Batchelder, John E. Cooper, selectmen. SOME OF THE VOTES OF THE TOWN FROM 1786 TO 1811. 1786. Votes for President. General John Sullivan, 119 I John Gile. 3 Col. John Langdon, 6 | Votes for Senators. Joseph Gilman, 87 George Read, Esq., 79 Samuel Haile, Esq., 74 Christopher Toppan, Esq., 74 Col. Joshua Wintworth, 13 Samuel Gilman, Esq., 12 Gen. Joseph Cilley, Peter Green, Esq., Col. Thomas Bartlet, John McClary, Esq., Joseph March, Esq., 156 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 1787. Votes foe President. John Sullivan, 37 Judge Livermore, 8 Col. John Langdon, 5 Votes FOR Senators. Col. Joshua Wintvrorth, 64 Archable McMurphey, Esq., 42 Peter Green, Esq., 51 Thomas Bartlet, Esq., 46 James Gibson, Esq., 42 John Prentice, Esq., 18 Col. James Hill, o Col. John McClary, 4 George Atkinson, Esq., 18 John Ball, Esq., 3 Gen. Joseph Cilley, 19 17S8. Votes tor President. His Excellency John Sullivan, 98 | Hon. John Langdon, Votes eor Senators. Col. Peirce Lang, 65 John Ball, Esq., 63 John Pickering, Esq., 69 Christopher Toppan, Esq., 48 General Joseph Cilley, 35 Thomas Bartlet, Esq., 32 Nathaniel Peabody, Esq., 16 John McClary, Esq., 4 Joseph Gilman, Esq., 3 Joshua Wintworth, Esq., 2 Peter Green, Esq., 2 Col. James Hill, 20 First Representatives to Congress, voted for Dec. 15, 1788. Tho B Bartlet, Esq., 3 Hon. Samuel Livermore, Esq., 82 Benjamin West, Esq., 47 Hon. Abiel Foster, Esq., 3 Peirce Lang, Esq., Votes for Electors. Gen. Joseph Cilley, Nottingham, 43 John Pickering, Esq., Ports- mouth, 43 Moses Chase, Esq., Cornish, 43 Robert Wallis, Esq., Heniker, 43 John Waldron, Esq., Dover, 43 Votes for Representatives to Congress, cast Feb. 2, 1789. Hon. Samuel Livermore, Esq., 64 I Nicholas Gilman, Esq., 61 Benjamin West, Esq., 64 | Abiel Foster, Esq., 1789. Votes for President. Hon. John Sullivan, Esq. 123 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM, 157 Votes foe Senators. Joseph Cilley, Esq., 73 Tho s Bartlet, John Pickering, 73 Peirce Lang, George Read, 73 James Gihnan, Nathaniel Peabody, 73 Christopher Toppan, Peter Green, 72 Nathaniel Rogers, John MoClary, 9 1790. Votes foe President. Joshua Wintworth, 88 | John Pickering, Votes foe Senators. Joseph Cilley, 84 John Pickering, 4 Peter Green, 78 Bradbury Cilley, 4 Nathaniel Peabody, 77 James McGregry, 2 Oliver Peabody, 87 John Bell, 1 John Samuel Sherburn, 75 James Gibson, 1 Nathaniel Rogers, 2 John McClary, 1 Christopher Toppan, 4 August 30, 1790. Votes foe Representatives to Congress. John Samuel Sherburn, 48 Hon. Nicholas Gilman, 10 Nathaniel Peabody, 43 Hon. Abiel Foster, 2 Jeremiah Smith, Esq., 10 Maj. Bradbury Cilley was elected to fill the place of Thomas Bartlet as representative in the state legislature, the latter having been " appointed a Justice of the Superior Court of Common Pleas." 1791. Votes for President of New Hampshire. His Exelency, Josiah Bartlett, 72 | Hon. John Langdon, Gen. Joseph Cilley, Gen. N. Peabody, Nathaniel Rogers, Esq., John Taylor Gilman, Esq., James McGregore, Esq., John S. Sherburn, Esq., Bradbury Cilley, Esq., Votes for 84 60 87 77 27 5 8 Senators. Christopher Toppan, Esq., John McClary, Esq., James Sheafe, Esq., Daniel Ringe, Esq., Daniel Humphreys, Esq., Peter Green, Esq., 25 158 BISTORT OE NOTTINGHAM. Second Monday in August, 1791, Joseph Cilley, Esq., was chosen delegate to the convention to be held at Concord on the first Wednesday in September for the revision of the constitution of New Hampshire. 1792. Votes foe President of New Hampshire. His Exelenoy, Josiah Bartlett, 53 | Hon. John Taylor Gilman, 34 Votes for Senators. General Joseph Cilly, 68 Jonathan Warner, Esq., 62 Nathaniel Peabody, Esq., 67 Nathaniel Gilman, Esq., 67 John Prentice, Esq., 59 William Plumer, Esq., 6 John S. Sherburn, Esq., 3 John Peirce, Esq., 2 James Hill, Esq., 3 Christopher Toppan, Esq., 5 Col. Henry Butter, 1 Nathaniel Rogers, Esq., 1 Bradbury Cilley, Esq., 4 James Sheafe, Esq., 2 Abial Foster, Esq,, 3 1792, August 27. Votes for six Electors of a President and Vice-president op the United States. Gen. Joseph Cilley, 59 Hon. John Dudley, 59 Daniel Rindge, Esq., 53 Hon. Thomas Cogswell, 59 Ebenezer Smith, Esq., 58 John Prentice, Esq., 8 Gen. Benjamin Bellows, 52 Hon. Oliver Peabody, 4 Votes for Four Representatives. Nicholas Gilman, Esq., 51 Joshua Atherton, Esq., 1 Jeremiah Smith, Esq., 51 Abiel Foster, Esq., o Nathaniel Peabody, Esq., 54 James Sheafe, Esq., 1 John S. Sherburn, 55 Pain Wingate, Esq., 1 Phillips White, Esq., 1 1793, March 26. Votes for Governor. John Langdon, Esq., His Exelency, Josiah Bartlett, Esq., 38 34 Votes for a Councilor. Phillips White, Esq., 36 | John Peirce, Esq., 15 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 159 Votes for a Senator for the District. Gen. Joseph Cilley, 100 Votes for County Treasurer. Hon. Oliver Peabody, 80 Votes for Kecorder of Deeds. Josiah Adams, Esq., 76 [ Samuel Brooks, 11 Votes for Governor, March 25, 1794. John Taylor Gilman, Esq., 93 I Ebenezer Thompson, Esq., 1 Nathaniel Peabody, Esq., 1 | John Langdon, Esq., ~i Votes for a Senator for the Fourth District. Gen. Joseph Cilley, 105 Votes for Councilor for Rockingham County. John Pierce, Esq., 90 | Nathaniel Peabody, Esq., 1 Votes for Treasurer of Rockingham County. Oliver Peabody, Esq., 60 Votes for Recorder of Deeds. Joseph S. Gilman, 61 Josiah Adams, Esq., 8 Samnel Brooks, Esq., 8 Votes for Four Representatives, August 25, 1794. John S. Sherburn, Esq., 43 Nicholas Gilman, Esq., 43 Jeremiah Smith, Esq., 16 Timothy Walker, Esq., 14 Ebenezer Thompson, Esq., 27 Joseph Cilley, Esq., 28 Abiel Foster, 1 Votes for Governor, March 31, 1795. His Exellency, John F. Gilman, 79 Votes for Councilor. Christopher Toppan, Esq., 79 Votes for Senator in Fourth District. Joseph Cilley, Esq., 93 160 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Votes for Recorder of Deeds. Samuel Brooks, Esq., 2 | Josiah Adams, Esq., 94 Votes for County Treasurer. Oliver Peabody, Esq., 99 Votes for Governor, March 29, 1796. John Taylor Gilman, Esq., 109 Votes for Councilor. Joseph Cilley, Esq., 112 Votes for Senator. Joseph Cilley, Esq., 92 Votes for Recorder of Deeds. Josiah Adams, Esq., 80 | Samuel Brooks, Esq., 14 Votes for County Treasurer. Oliver Peabody, Esq., 100 Votes for Governor, March 28, 1797. John Taylor Gilman, 88 | John Langdon, Esq., 34 Votes for Councilor. Joseph Cilley, Esq., 108 Votes for Senator. Michel McClary, Esq., 76 I Dr. Edmund Chadwick, 3 Gen. Joseph Cilley, 12 | 1800, March 4. Votes for Governor. His Exellency, John Taylor I Timothy Walker, Esq., 10 Gilman, 95 | Votes for Councilor. Joseph Blanchard, Esq., 58 Col. Bradbury Cilley, 2 Richard Janness, Esq., Votes for Senator. Michal M c Clary, Esq., 52 | Henry Butler, Esq., 1 Richard Janness, Esq., 7 ] Jonathan Cilley, Esq., 1 HISTOBY OF NOTTINGHAM. 161 Votes for Recorder op Deeds. Josiah Adams, Esq., 57 | Samuel Brooks, Esq., 5 Votes for County Treasurer. Oliver Peabody, Esq., 46 Votes for Revision of the Constitution (None against it), 70. 1802, August 30. Votes for Five Representatives to Con- gress. Clement Storer, 38 Samuel Tenny, 18 Thomas Cogswell, 38 Samuel Hunt, 18 Jonathan Smith, 38 Clifton Clagget, 18 Nahum Parker, 38 Silas Betton, IS Moody Bedel, 38 David Hough, 18 1804, November 5. Votes for Presidential Electors. John Goddard, 78 John Prentice, 13 Levi Bartlett, 78 W m Hall, 13 Jon. Steal, 78 Timothy Farrow, 13 Timothy Walker, 78 Robert Willeas, 13 George Aldrege, 78 Benjamin West, 13 William Talton, 7S Charles Thompson, 13 Oliver Peabody, 13 1804, March 12. Votes for Governor. John T. Gilman, 27 I Samuel Plumer, John Langdon, 118 1811, March, 12. Votes for Representatives. George Sullivan, Esq., William Hale, Esq., Daniel Blasdel, Esq., 52 51 50 Roger Vose, Esq., John A. Harper, Esq., Obed Hall, Esq., 1 91 92 Votes for Governor. His Excellency John Langdon, 103 I Nathaniel B. Folsom, 1 Hon. Jeremiah Smith, 50 | Votes for Councilor for Rockingham County. Nathaniel Gilman, Esq., 93 I John Bell, jr., Esq., 14 Nathaniel A. Haven, Esq., 31 | Elijah Hall, Esq., 4 11 162 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Totes for Senator for Second District. William Plumer, Esq., 92 I Samuel Tenney, Esq., 2 Oliver Peabody, Esq., 44 | Votes for County Treasurer. Nathaniel Gilman, Esq., 90 ] Nathaniel. Rogers, Esq., 36 Votes for Recorder of Deeds. Seth Walker, Esq., 99 | Nathaniel Parker, Esq., 37 THE INSANE MAN'S PRAYER. An anecdote has been related to us by an aged friend, which belongs to the Tuttle neighborhood, or to a region not far hence. Much religious interest was sustained here by the early preachers and their adherents, who had a horror of salaried ministers of the " standing order," and boasted that they proclaimed the gospel without pecuniary recompense. These itinerant preachers, however, found the need of bread for themselves and straw for their horses, and so threw themselves and quadrupeds upon the hospitality of any generous sympathizers in their self-denying labors. One of this class was a good widow in no affluent cir- cumstances. Often two or three of the preachers, some- times with their wives, when meetings were to be held in her neighborhood, would call at her door, whose latch- string was always out, and found something to sustain the " outer man." In this neighborhood there lived a partially insane man. He was gifted with good mental faculties, and was, withal, religiously inclined. A poetic element was often displayed during seasons of mental aberration. He had watched the frequency 75'f the visits of the brethren at the widow's, and became anxious for the barrel of meal and the cruise of oil. He cherished the fancy that the good woman was being 1RT OF NOTTINGHAM. 163 impove^ m HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 169 ate ; and was appointed judge of the court of common pleas in 1832. The children of Judge Bradbury Bartlett who lived to maturity were : (1) Benjamin True, who was a merchant in St. Louis, and died in Marion City, Mo., unmarried; (2) Martha Oilley, who became the wife of Levi Scales, son of Samuel S., and lived in the easterly part of Notting- ham, and their children are Elizabeth, Horace, Bradbury B., and Mary True ; (3) Rufus Fingal, who married Eliza. Scofield of Philadelphia, lived in Keokuk, where he died in 1871, highly respected, leaving one daughter, Mary Eliza- beth, now the wife of David Kerr of Keokuk, Iowa ; (4) Enoch, who married Betsey, daughter of Joseph C. Plum- mer of Epping, practiced law in Lawrence, Mass., was mayor of the city, and died in 1855, leaving one daughter, Augusta True ; (5) Sarah, who married George Brainerd of St. Albans, Vt., and has two children, George and Mary ; (6) Rhea Sylvia, who married Charles G. Chesley, and they live on the Bartlett homestead at the Square ; (7) Thomas Bradbury, who married Victoria E. W., daughter of Col. Joseph Cilley, and lives in Haverhill, having six children, Nathaniel Cilley, Annie, Elizabeth, Joseph Brad- bury, Maria Victoria, Jenny Nealley, and Benjamin Thom- as ; (8) Harrison Webster, who married Harriot Porter of Warner, who died May, 1875, is a merchant at the Cen- ter, postmaster, and town clerk ; (9) Jonathan Longfellow, who married Sarah A., daughter of John Simpson, and lives in Nottingham, having two daughters, Blanche Simp- son and Alice True. (5) Joseph, another son of Judge Thomas Bartlett, died at sea, had been a school-teacher for many years. (G) Sarah, daughter of Judge Thomas, died young. (7) Josiah, who married Hannah True, daughter of Ben- jamin T., having, for children, Bradbury Cilley, Israel, Ben- jamin, Alfred, Edward, John, Mary, Sarah, Hannah, and Susan ; Bradbury, Benjamin, and Susan live in Philadel- 170 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. phia, Alfred in South Boston, Sarah and Hannah in Ep- ping, and the rest in Lee. (8) David, son of Judge Thomas Bartlett, married Su- zannah, daughter of Maj. Greenlief Cilley, lived and died in Epping, leaving two sons, Greenlief Cilley, a lawyer in Deny, having, for children, Frederick D., Greenleaf , Charles K., Willie, and Jenny Cilley; David, the second son of David Bartlett, lives on the homestead in Epping, married Laura Towle of Epping, and they have four daughters, Emma, Susan, Elizabeth, and Mary. (9) Enoch, son of Judge Thomas Bartlett, died unmar- ried, December 20, 1818. (10) Betsy died unmarried ; (11) Jacob died unmarried ; (12) Patty Cilley died young. BUTLER FAMILY. Malachi Butler married Jemima Daggett. They came from England about 1720, and settled at "Windham, Conn., where they resided until about 1753, when they moved to Woodbury, Conn. Their children were Benjamin, Silas, Solomon, Zepha- niah, Thankful, Susannah, Margery, Lydia, and Mary. Benjamin, son of Malachi, born April 9, 1729 (died De- cember 26, 1804), married, May, 1753, Dorcas Abbot, bom May 11, 1729 (died April 19, 1789). He graduated at Harvard College, 1752, then he at once went to Andover, Mass., and studied theology with some clergyman there, where he soon became intimate with the Abbot family, and in the spring of 1753 married Dorcas Abbot, whose paternal ancestor, George Abbot, emigrated from York- shire, England, in 1640, and in 1643 was among the first settlers in Andover, where he was a proprietor, lived, and died. In the same vessel from England with George Ab- bot, were William and Annie Chandler, who settled at Roxbury, Mass., and their daughter, Hannah Chandler, whom George Abbot afterwards married. Thomas Chan- HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Ill dler, brother of Hannah Chandler, and a direct ancestor of the Hon. Zachariah Chandler, now Secretary of the Inte- rior, was also among the first settlers of Andover. Benja- min and Dorcas Butler lived at Andover until the spring of 1754, during which time he was constantly engaged in the study of theology, when, with their infant child Henry, they moved to Nottingham, and settled at Nottingham Square upon the same place where now lives Hon. Joseph Cilley ; shortly after, Benjamin Butler bought the proprie- tors' lot set off to Gov. Wentworth, to which new residence he moved. There he lived and died. The same residence since then has been kept by his Butler descendants, and is now owned and occupied by the Hon. James H. Butler. The house was completed in the autumn of 1756, so that now it is quite a venerable structure ; but it presents the same youthful strength as does its present proprietor, Judge Butler. Rev. Benjamin Butler was settled as pastor of the church at Nottingham Square early in 1757, when he re- ceived a settlement of two thousand pounds old tenor, and a salary of thirty-five pounds sterling. He resigned his pastorate August 1, 1770. He was a man of thorough education, of an active yet disciplined nature, and he used every effort of his life to educate in morality and intelli- gence his people and his associates. He is spoken of as " a Christian of perfect sincerity and earnest work, whose moral influence was realized to his church and town." After his resignation, his time was spent chiefly in literature and ag- riculture, though he exercised the duties of state magistrate, which office he held for many years ; but his church and people he never forgot. Mr. Butler's church was first or- ganized in 1742, mention of which I find as follows : " The people of Nottingham, after sundry efforts to secure the privileges of the gospel, first united in church relations in 1742, and at the same time received their first pastor, Rev. Stephen Emery, a graduate of Harvard College in 1730." Silas and Solomon, sons of Malachi, went to New York, 172 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. where Silas married, lived, and died, leaving quite a family. Solomon went South, and settled in South Carolina ; he married and died there, leaving several children. Of the daughters of Malachi, little is now known, as most of the information received was through letters, which are lost. Zephaniah, son of Malachi, came to Nottingham about 1756, where he taught school for many years, and was known as " the school-master," a man of great natural in- tellect and very extended information. He married Abi- gail Cilley, daughter of Gen. Joseph Cilley, and died at Nottingham. He was the grandfather of Hon. Benjamin F. Butler of Lowell, Mass. The children of Benjamin and Dorcas Butler were : Hen- ry, born April 27, 1754, died July 20,1813; Benjamin, born February 23, 1757, died April 30, 1757 ; Benjamin, born June 14, 1758, died August 29, 1759 ; Mary, born March 30, 1760, died August, 1846 ; Elizabeth, born August 30, 1762, died October 3, 1762 ; Dorcas, Jemima, James Platts (triplets), born October 9, 1766 ; Dorcas died October 22, 1857 ; Jemima died October 14, 1766 ; James Platts died October 19, 1766. Henry Butler married, April 11, 1776, Isabella Fisk, born August 2, 1757 (died January 17, 1808). He served in the war of the Revolution, was captain of a volunteer company, and went to West Point. He was afterwards ma- jor-general of the first division of New-Hampshire militia, which office he held for many years ; his immediate prede- cessor was Gen. Thomas Bartlett, who was immediately preceded in this office by Gen. Joseph Cilley, all three of whom lived and died on Nottingham Square, and each, at the time of his death, was in this office. Gen. Henry Butler was the first postmaster in Nottingham, appointed when Gideon Granger was postmaster-general. He was a promi- nent Mason, and for a long time Master of the Sullivan Lodge, which used to hold its meetings in the house of Gen. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 17B Joseph Cilley until 1798, when the meetings were after- wards held at the house of Gen. Butler. Gen. Butler filled many offices of trust in his state and town, and was highly esteemed for his usefulness as a citizen and his integrity as a man. His wife was the daughter of Dr. Ebenezer Fisk of Epping, and granddaughter to Rev. "Ward Cotton, the first settled ordained minister in Hampton. Mrs. Ward Cotton (before marriage, Joanna Rand of Boston, Mass.), after the death of her first husband, married Capt. Jona- than Gilman of Exeter, after whose death she married Dea- con Ezekiel Morrill of Canterbury; then after his death she married Deacon Joseph Baker of Canterbury, where they lived until his death, when she removed to Nottingham and lived with her granddaughter, Isabella Butler ; and, after her death, she continued to live with Gen. Henry Butler until her own death, February 25, 1811, at the age of ninety- three. Rev. Peter Holt of Epping officiated at the funeral services. Mrs. Baker, or " Grandmother Baker," as she was familiarly known, was a lady of remarkable attraction, much personal beauty, and ready wit. She never weighed over one hundred pounds during her life, and, it is said, never suffered from sickness until at the time of her death. Her talent at entertaining friends and her readiness at repartee are proverbial. At one time during the last year of her life a remark of surprise was made that she had never used spectacles of any kind ; her reply was that she " might need them if she lived to be 'old enough." Mary Butler, daughter of Benjamin, married Abraham Brown of Epping. They afterwards moved to Northfield, where they lived and died ; they were blessed with several children and much means. She lived many years a widow, her son Abraham, jr., remaining at home upon the farm. Dorcas Butler married Jonathan Cilley, oldest son of Gen. Joseph Cilley ; after their marriage they lived at the north side of Nottingham. About 1804, they moved to the state of Ohio. Neither of them ever revisited Notting- 174 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. ham. Their descendants in Ohio are among the most influ- ential and respected citizens of that state. The children of Gen. Henry and Elizabeth Butler were as follows : Elizabeth, born July 29, 1777, died July 12, 1808 ; Benjamin, born April 11, 1779, died October 1, 1851 ; Ebenezer, born March 13, 1781, died December 25, 1850 ; Henry, jr., born June 30, 1783 ; Sarah Cotta, born August 12, 1785 ; Dorcas, born April 15, 1787, died November 8, 1855 ; Samuel Abbot, born July 19, 1789, died January 16, 1814 ; twins, son and daughter, not named, born June 16, 1793, died young ; Ward Cotton, born January 22, 1795, died December 2, 1861. Elizabeth Butler married, March, 1799, William Norris, as his second wife. They lived and died at Nottingham, on the farm now owned by Abbot Norris, their grandson, about four miles from Nottingham Square. Their children were : Joanna, born February, 1800, married Joseph Blake of Raymond ; Betsey, born August, 1802, not married ; William, born September, 1804, married Abigail Cartland of Lee. Benjamin married, July 6, 1806, Hannah Hilton, of Deer- field. Shortly after their marriage they moved to Corn- ville, Me., where they lived and died. Their children were : Sally, married John Judkins of Athens, Me. ; Isa- bella, married Bradbury Robinson of Cornville, Me. ; Abi- gail, married Jewell of Solon, Me. ; Mary, married Robert Paine of Skowhegan, Me. ; Hannah, married John Brennan of Detroit, Mich. ; Joanna, married John Warren of New York; Joseph, not married; Henry, married a Bartlett ; Frank, now living in the state of Wisconsin. Ebenezer was married, at Sanbornton, October 19, 1809, by the Rev. John Crockett, to Sarah Hersey, daughter of James Hersey of Sanbomton, born October 24, 1785, died November 27, 1854. Their children were : James Hersey, born October 27, 1811 ; Henrietta, born December 24, 1813 ; Sally Tilton, born November 30, 1818, died November 13, HISTOBY OF NOTTINGHAM. 175 1853 ; -Louisa, born March 30, 1823, died November 11, 1830. Ebenezer and Sarah Butler lived and died upon the old homestead, in the same house occupied by his father and grandfather. Ebenezer was sheriff for many years. James H., born October 27, 1811, married September 9, 1841, Mary Hersey Dearborn, born January 20, 1819, and died June 19, 1850, — a thoroughly delightful Christian lady. Their children were : (1) James Dearborn, born No- vember 9, 1842, graduated at Harvard College in 18 — , practiced law in Portsmouth, married, June 16, 1869, Sarah Hersey, daughter of John 0. Cilley, and died Novem- ber 13, 1877 ; their children are Paul, born October 18, 1870, and Mary, born July 9, 1874 ; (2) Mary Louise, daughter of Hon. James H. Butler, was born November 21, 1844, and married August 19, 1874, Joseph Nealley Cilley, and they have one daughter, Elizabeth Williams, born June 28, 1875. James H. Butler married, for his second wife, Harriet Amsden, August 18, 1851. She was born October 8, 1826. They have one son, Prank Hersey, born November 29, 1852. He married, January 1, 1876, Enlcta Abby Folsom, born February 9, 1852, and they have one daughter, Harriet, born October 17, 1876. James H. Butler has held various offices, and was ap- pointed judge of court of common pleas, and has been ex- tensively engaged in business from early life. Henrietta, daughter of Ebenezer Butler, married, October 23, 1832, John O. Cilley of Nottingham ; and Sally Tilton, daughter of Ebenezer Butler, married, June 23, 1846, Samuel A. Lewis, and died November 13, 1853. Their children were Sarah B. and Charles. Henry Butler, jr., married, October 1, 1806, Abigal Lord of Nottingham ; died at Nottingham, June 7, 1817. Their children were : Isabella Pisk, married William C. Kelley of Northwood ; after his death, married Bryce Hight of New- 176 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. port, Me. ; Elizabeth Norris, married Joseph Ireland of St. Albans, Me. ; Mehitable Ford, died young ; Sarah Ann, married Cyrus Bartlett of Harmony, Me. ; Abigail Ford, married William Folsom, now living at Stratford ; Harriet, died young. After the death of his first wife, Henry Butler, jr., mar- ried, March 12, 1818, Nancy Horsey, born October 22, 1792, daughter of James Hersey of Sanborn ton. Henry and Nancy Butler moved to the state of Maine, and finally settled at Bangor, now living at Hampden, Me., four miles west of Bangor. Their children were : Mary Frances, born February 16, 1819, married, May 25, 1843, Thomas P. Emerson of Lafayette, Ind. ; Henry Abbot, born July 22, 1820, married, September 23, 1847, Sarah C. Cram of Bangor, Me. ; Calvin Luther, born November 6, 1821, died at New York City, October 19, 1847, — a young man of remarkable talent ; Harrison Hersey, born October 30, 1823, died young ; Jacob Tilton, born January 15, 1826, married, July 6, 1850, Hannah M. Young of Chelsea, Mass. ;' James Harrison, born May 24, 1830, married, June 22, 1852, Frances M. Crosby of Hampden, Me. ; one son, not named, born February 16, 1833, died young ; one son, not named, born December- 4, 1834, died young. A remarkable incident in the domestic experience of Henry Butler is the fact that by his two wives he had seven daughters in succession and then seven sons in suc- cession. The " seventh " daughter is still living, and her virtue and talent give her higher prominence than woman's rights could conceive of doing for a " seventh daughter." Henry Butler, jr., has always been a man respected for his Christian living and exemplary conduct. Sarah Cotta Butler married John Haley of Lee, Septem- ber 18, 1808. Mr. Haley was born February 17, 1783. He was the son of Samuel Haley, whose wife was a Nealley of Northwood, and their children were Gordon, John, Mary, Sally, Betsey, Martha, and Samuel ; the last four are now iaiiasigWMiLaiiiiiiPii'iMiiiii»iiiiiii^MftiiiaiJi'Jiiiia «ffii r^v HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 177 living (1 875) . Gordon died when 88 years old, Mary when 69, and John when nearly 92. The ages of the four living are 88, 85, 82, 77, making an average, of the dead and living, of 83 years. This John Haley and Sarah Cotta Butler lived together more than sixty-three years. She died January 17, 1872, aged eighty-six years and five months. He was born Feb- ruary 17, 1783, and died November 28, 1874. Their chil- dren were : (1) George, born February 22, 1810, married Betsey Jane Knowlton, December 1,6, 1840, and, after her death, Alice Smith, January 10, 1860, and lives in North- wood ; (2) Henry, born July 20, 1812, married Jane Ches- ley, April 4, 1844, and lives in Northwood ; (3) Samuel Abbot, born July 24, 1815, married Mary Ann French, August 9, 1838, who died December 8, 1871 ; Mr. Haley resides in Newmarket, is cashier of the Newmarket Na- tional Bank and treasurer of the Newmarket Savings Bank; has been selectman, town treasurer, county treasurer, United-States assessor of internal revenue, and railroad commissioner ; Mr. Haley has three sons, Clinton, Henry, and John, a daughter having died in infancy ; (4) Almira, born February 18, 1818, married Caverly Knowles, Novem- ber 16, 1842, a merchant in Northwood, having one daugh- ter and a son ; (5) John Parkman, born October 24, 1820, married Lydia Ann Gile of Nottingham, June 22, 1843, and lives on the homestead in Lee ; (6) Benjamin Frank- lin, born April 30, 1823, married Abbie L., daughter of Mr. Mark Hill of Northwood, January 10, 1860 ; they have two sons, Charles and Herbert; Mr. Haley is a mer- chant in Newmarket, has served his town as selectman, and representative in the state legislature ; (7) Harrison, born May 30, 1825, married Isabella S., daughter of Judge Hurd of Dover ; after her death he married Jennie Gordon of Lynn, Mass., September 6, 1860 ; Mr. Haley was for many years a merchant in Dover, is now cashier of the Cocheco National Bank, and has been a member of the city government. 12 178 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. All the children of John Haley and Sarah Cotta Butler are living to-day. There was never a severe sickness in the family, nor did any of the children occasion serious trouble to the parents, but gladdened their hearts to the last. Dorcas married, February 11, 1812, William Furber of Nottingham, where they both lived and died. Their chil- dren were Henry, Ward C, Isabella, and Abigail. Ward Cotton married, September 29, 1820, Margaret Anderson of Philadelphia, Perm., where they lived and died. They had three children. Samuel Abbot, son of General Henry Butler, enlisted as a soldier in his country's cause in the war of 1812, in a cavalry company commanded by Captain John Butler, of Notting- ham, a cousin to General Henry Butler. He was after- wards made first sergeant and clerk of his company, and stationed at Burlington, Yt. While there on duty, he was ordered, with a command of about eighteen men, to detect smugglers, who were feeding the enemy in Canada ; and, when in the town of Highgate, near the lino, January 16, 1814, they met a company of the enemy's infantry from Canada, escorting drovers with a large lot of cattle. The brave, patriotic nature of Sergeant Butler was victorious in the fight which ensued. The British were routed, many cattle taken and driven several miles to a bivouac, where the British infantry, re-enforced with cavalry, came upon them. The result was the killing of four of Sergeant But- ler's men, while he received three mortal wounds and a broken leg ; yet he disdained the summons to surrender, and, with his pistols and sword, killed two of the enemy before they could take him. He never surrendered. Though weak and bleeding, the strength of his intellect and the power of his courage so controlled his enemies that, as was after- wards said by one of them, " We were afraid of him after we had him ; " and another, in speaking of him, said, " We all acted like cowards before him." He refused to receive HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 179 any services from the British surgeon, as was said, and died a few hours after the fight, his intellect all the while being perfectly clear. The body " of Sergeant Butler was afterwards brought to Burlington and buried ; he was much lamented by his officers and soldiers." CILLEY FAMILY. Thomas Cilley came to Hampton about 1694, and mar- ried Ann, a daughter of John Stanyan and Mary Bradbury ; and they had a son Joseph, born October 4, 1691, who went from Hampton to Salisbury, Mass., where he married, in 1724 - 25, Alice Rawlins, born in 1701, died 1801. He had a brother John, born June 7, 1699, who is believed to have settled in Chester ; and another, Thomas, who settled in Andover, where some of his descendants now live. This Joseph, with his wife, removed to Nottingham about 1727, and settled on Rattlesnake Hill, erecting for himself at first a log cabin. He brought with him all his effects of every description upon the back of one horse, himself and family accompanying on foot. A clearing was soon effected ; and, through industry and economy, with blessings on his labors, his means increased, and he built a large house near where the red house stood on the farm now owned by Theodore Edgerly's family. He multiplied his acres, built other houses, and became noted for his possessions among the dwellers of Nottingham. In his old age, his father, Thomas Cilley, came to spend his last days with a son whose filial affections had not grown cold through lapse of time or uninterrupted prosperity, and fell asleep in the arms of that son, and amid the tender ministrations of an affectionate household, whom the old man blessed, " leaning on his staff." Capt. Cilley was of medium height, compact frame, active temperament, with great powers of endurance and quickness of perception. With these he combined great cheerfulness and generous hospitality, as well as remarkable fearlessness in danger and hopefulness 180 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. under discouragements. Such a man seemed indispensable to a new settlement like that of Nottingham. Capt. Cil- ley, born October 6, 1701, died about 1786, aged eighty- five. His wife was a strong, vigorous, healthy woman, of more than ordinary weight, yet quick of step, strong of will, and methodical in her household arrangements. Her home, whether a log cabin or a house two stories high with " gable windows," was a model of neatness and order " from turret to foundation-stone." During life, she drank neither tea nor coffee, nor tasted of the intoxicating bowl, nor smoked the ugly pipe, nor snuffed the yellow poison. Sloe died in 1801, aged one hundred years, fresh in coun- tenance, fair in features, and young in heart. The children of Capt. Cilley and his wife Alice were : (1) Anna, who became the wife of Mr. Mills, the father of the late Joseph Mills, Esq., of Deerfield Parade; (2) Polly, who married Richard Sinclair of Barnstead, one of whose descendants is the present Hon. John G. Sinclair of Littleton ; (3) Alice married a Mr. Enoch Page, and lived in Cornville, Me., died leaving children, one of whom became the wife of Enoch Butler, son of Zephaniah Butler, and afterwards married Capt. Enoch Moore of Loudon ; and the wife of Hon. Jacob H. Ela is her daughter by Mr. Moore. (4) Joseph, known as Gen. Joseph Cilley, was born in 1784, and died August 25, 1799, aged sixty-five. He mar- ried, November 4, 1756, Sarah Longfellow, born November 17, 1739, and died May 23, 1811, aged seventy-five. She was daughter of Jonathan Longfellow, who was born May 23, 1714, married Mercy Clark, October 28, 1731 ; she was born December 26, 1714. Their children were : Stephen, born July 19, 1733 ; Mary, born June 15, 1735 ; Jacob, born November 6, 1737 ; Sarah, born November 17, 1739 ; Eliza- beth, born July 17, 1741; Nathan, born December 30, 1743; Anna, born October 15, 1745; Hannah, born De- cember 1, 1747 ; Daniel, born December 16, 1749 ; David, HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 181 born December 16, 1751 ; Enoch, born August 14, 1753 ; and Jonathan, born April 28, 1756. Gen. Joseph Cilley lived where Thomas B. Bartlett resides, on the Square. He was of medium height and weight, erect, quick in movement as well as in perception, and dauntless in danger. He was engaged in the attack upon Fort William and Mary in 1774. He was leader of that immortal company of men from Nottingham, Deerfield, and Epsom, who, as soon as the news of the battle of Lexington reached them, marched for the scene of action. He was appointed major in Poor's (Second) regiment by the Assem- bly of New Hampshire. He was made lieutenant-colonel in 1776, and, April 2, 1777, was appointed colonel of the First New Hampshire Regiment of three-years men, in the Con- tinental army, in place of Col. Stark, resigned. He fought with his regiment bravely at Bemus Heights, was at the surrender of Burgoyne, storming of Stony Point, Mon- mouth, and other hard-fought battles of the Revolution. The following letter to his friend, Col. Thomas Bartlett, is characteristic : — Camp 4 Miles above White Plaixs, N. Y., July 22, 1778. Dear Sir, — Your favor of the 10th of July came safe to hand by Maj. Titcomb ; am much obliged to you for its contents. I left Valley Forge the 18th of June, with the right -wing of the army under the command of Gen. Lee, in pursuit of the enemy, who left Philadelphia the 10th. The whole of our army pursued with His Excellency Gen. Washington. Crossed the Delaware at a ferry called Corell's, where it was thought best to send out several parties to harass the enemy's rear. Gen. Scott was sent first, with sixteen hundred picked men from the whole army, in order to watch the enemy's mo- tions. I was ordered on this party, soon after it was thought best to give the enemy battle. Gen. Lee was sent on this errand. He called in Gen. Scott ; in short, he had five thousand Continental troops, be- sides a number of militia. On the 28th of June he was ordered to attack the enemy with his party, and that Gen. "Washington with the whole army would support him. We were at a small town called Englishtown, about four miles from Monmouth Court House, where the enemy lay. We begun our march before sunrise ; proceeded toward 182 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. the field of battle ; came to the plain ; the enemy gave way ; seemed to be in great confusion, without making any opposition, except some scattering musketry and a few field-pieces playing on both sides at long shot, when, to my great surprise, I saw the right wing of our party giving way in great confusion. There was a morass in our rear ; I thought whether it was not intended to cross that, in order to take better ground. There was a wood in the rear of the party I was with. We were ordered to cross and form in that wood, where we lay some time. ' The enemy, observing this, halted, came to the right-about, and pursued us about two miles, when Gen. Washington came up, ordered our party to make a stand to check the enemy, whilst the army could form, which was done immediately. The severest cannonading ensued as ever was in America. Our men behaved with great fortitude. The cannonading lasted between two and three hours. I was in the front line of our army, in the left wing. His Excellency ordered me take the battalion that I then commanded, consisting of three hundred and fifty, rank and file, detailed from Poor's, Glover's, Patterson's, Lar- nard's, and Varnum's brigades, with Lieut.-Col. Dearborn and Maj. Thair (who were with me), to go and see what I could do with the enemy's right wing, which was formed in an orchard in our front. Marched on toward them until I came within about forty rods, when I ordered my battalion to form the line of battle, which was done. The enemy began a scattering fire. I ordered my men to advance, which they did in good order. When the enemy saw that we were determined to push close on them, they gave way, and took post in a scout of wood, and gave me a very heavy fire, under the cover of sev- eral pieces of artillery. I advanced within a few rods, gave them a heavy fire, which put them in confusion. They run off. I killed a number on the field. Took between twenty and thirty prisoners. Should have pursued further, but the extreme heat of the weather was such that several of my men died with the heat. We took possession of the field, found, left on the field, about three hundred of the enemy's dead, with several officers. Amongst them was Col. Moncton, who commanded the First Battalion of Grenadiers. They retreated that night about eleven o'clock in great confusion. Left at the Court House five wounded officers and about forty soldiers. We should have pursued, but our army were so overcome with the heat that the gen- eral thought not advisable to pursue. Desertions still continue from the enemy at the least confusion. Their army is weakened two thou- sand five hundred since they left Philadelphia. I think Clinton has brought himself into a fine hobble. He has now a strong French fleet in his front and Gen. Washington in his rear. I think we shall Bur- goyne him in a few weeks, which God grant may be the case. Doubt- HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 183 less the particulars of the strength of the French fleet will come to your hand long before this, or I would give some account of them. This may suffice. They are able to flog all the British sheep in America. My love to your wife and mother. I am, sir, with respect, Your friend and humble servant, (Signed) J. CILLEY. N. B. Gen. Lee's behavior is now on trial for his conduct. How it will turn is uncertain. It is my opinion, that, if he had behaved well, we should have destroyed the major part of Clinton's army. To Colonel Thomas Bartlett. Sir, hurry Mr. Odihorne about my collar. That Gen. Cilley's services were appreciated by New Hampshire is evident from the following action of the Assembly. Saturday, March 19, 1779, the New-Hampshire Assembly voted unanimously " that the worthy Col. Jos. Cilley be presented with a pair of pistols as a token of this state's good intention to reward merit in a brave officer." After the war, he was appointed major-general of the First Division of New-Hampshire militia, June 22, 1786, and, as such, headed the troops that quelled the insurrection of that year, arresting the leader of the rebels, in the midst of his armed followers, with his own hand. He was distin- guished for bravery and patriotism, beloved by his soldiers for his humanity, and trusted by other officers in the army for his integrity, decision of character, and promptness in action. He was repeatedly elected representative, senator, and councilor ; he was successively treasurer, vice-presi- dent, and president of the Order of Cincinnati in New Hampshire. And, when he died, he was sincerely lamented by his family circle, and his associates in arms and in the councils of state. His wife is represented as a lady of high culture for her times and universally beloved, suffering patiently for twenty years prior to her death. 184 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. The children of Gen. Joseph Cilley were : (1) Sarah, born October 16, 1757, who married Judge Thomas Bartlett, whose record may be consulted ; (2) Bradbury, born Feb- ruary 1, 1760, who married, November 19, 1772, Martha, daughter of Gen. Enoch Poor of Exeter, well known for his patriotism in the. Revolutionary war; this Bradbury had no children ; was a member of Congress in 1813, was aid on the staff of Gov. Gilman in 1814, and United-States mar- shal in 1817 ; died December 17, 1831 ; he was wealthy, and a man of sterling integrity, and highly esteemed as a citizen ; he lived on the homestead ; (3) Jonathan, born March 3, 1752, who married Dorcas Butler, daughter of Rev. Benjamin Butler of Nottingham ; he settled first in Nottingham, and subsequently removed to Coleraine, near Cincinnati , where he reared an interesting family of children , — Joseph, Benjamin, Sally, Henry, Jonathan, Bradbury, and Mary ; (4) Joseph, born November 19, 1764, and died young ; (5) Greenleaf , born March 1, 1767, married Jenny Nealley, daughter of Joseph, the son of Mathew, the son of William. This Greenleaf lived near the Square, and his children were : (1) Susannah, born October 8, 1791, who married David Bartlett, son of Judge Thomas B., and died in Epping, leaving two sons, Greenleaf Cilley, now a law- yer in Deny, and David P., living in Epping ; (2) Joseph, born January 4, 1791, who married, December 15, 1824, Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Williams of Nottingham, a merchant at the Square. This Joseph was in the war of 1812, first as an ensign, and then as brevet captain of a company in the Twenty-first Regiment of infantry, com- manded by Col. Eleazar Wheelock Ripley, afterwards by Col. James Miller. Miller's regiment composed a part of the Army of the Center, under Gen. Wilkinson, on the Niagara River, while the Army of the North was under Gen. Hampton, along Lake Champlain, and the Army of the West was under Gen. Harrison, the hero of Tippecanoe, all three being designed in due time to invade Canada, HISTOUY OF NOTTINGHAM. 185 now defended by Proctor, the British general, aided by Tecumseh with his Indian forces. During this year, York, in Upper Canada, was taken ; the British were repulsed with great loss at Sackett's Harbor and Craney Island ; Proctor was routed and Tecumseh killed on the Thames, and Detroit was wrested from the enemy, and Perry achieved his victory on the 10th of September, on Lake Erie. Still all was not accomplished that had been anticipated. But Miller's regi- ment was in constant service at Fort McClarey, at Green- bush, and Sackett's Harbor, where they embarked in boats and went down to Chrysler's Fields, where a battle was fought with success ; and thence they went to French Mills for winter quarters, and, early in the spring, marched to Buf- falo, which had been entirely burnt, except one little build- ing from which an old woman refused to remove, and boldly told the enemy to fire her dwelling if they would, but her gray hair and her enfeebled body should burn with it. The enemy shrank from the deed, and spared the house and the woman, who with joy welcomed our army. From Buffalo this regiment crossed the Niagara River again to invade Canada. Fort Erie having been taken, the battle of Chip- pewa was fought, July 5, and a brilliant victory gained. On the 25th of the same July was fought the bloodiest battle of the war at Lundy's Lane, opposite Niagara Falls and within sound of that mighty cataract. A battery was located by the British on a height, which must be taken before the enemy could be driven from their position. General Brown, who led the advance, calling Colonel Mil- ler to him, asked him if he could take that battery. " I'll try, sir," was the reply of the hero ; then, in a deep tone, he said to his men : " Twenty-first, attention ! Form into column, advance up the hill, storm that battery ! " In an instant that gallant regiment, followed by the Twenty-third, obeyed the order. Not an officer, not a private, wavered. They marched up the height and secured the coveted posi- tion. Three times the British rallied for its recapture, but 186 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. as many times were hurled back. In one of these rallies, Capt. Cilley, who had borne a conspicuous and brave part in all the other engagements, received a compound fracture of the thigh-bone from a musket-ball, the enemy coming close up to our men and discharging their muskets. By this, Cilley was compelled to lie on his bed for five months, and from which he has not yet ceased to suffer, and several large pieces of the bone have, from time to time, been re- moved, together with a part of the leaden ball. In due time, he resigned his position in the army and returned to his quiet home in Nottingham. He was made division in- spector by Maj.-Gen. Timothy Upliam, and, afterwards was appointed governor's aid by Gov. Benjamin Peirce. When Hon. Levi Woodbury resigned his seat in the United-States Senate, during the recess of the New-Hampshire legisla- ture, the governor appointed the Hon. Benning W. Jenness to fill the vacancy until the next session of the legisla- ture in June, 1846. Then, by the legislature, Col. Joseph Cilley was chosen to serve out the unexpired term of Mr. Woodbury in the Senate, where the veteran soldier showed his claim to respect and the gratitude of his country in the absence of an eye, and the distorted limb, — proofs of suf- ferings few have endured. Col. Cilley still lives at the age of eighty-seven years (1878), retaining much of mental vigor and physical endurance, cheerful and happy, surrounded by an affectionate family, and a host of friends who appreciate his worth and know the warmth of his heart and the extent of his hospitality. Col. Cilley' s children are : (1) Nathaniel Williams, born September 10, 1825, died October 4, 1855 ; (2) Martha Ann, born April 2, 1827, married Dr. Charles S. Downs, May 4, 1853, now living in Nottingham, having one son, Joseph Cilley ; (3) Enoch Poor, born June 4, 1829, died July 11, 1873 ; (4) Greenleaf Longfellow, born June 4, 1829, died January 11,1836; (5) Victoria B. W., born September 24, 1831, and married Thomas Bradbury Bart- M ''--iJsK^fa. -"■ ..'■'■ ■ :l-..l WL r M A. -, II El >'j^3 t/erfef-^ -Cje^^ify^ HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 187 lett, son of Judge Bradbury B., April 29, 1857, lives on the Square, having six children (for whom consult Bartlett fam- ily); (6) Joseph Nealley, born February 15, 1834, married, August 19, 1874, Mary L., daughter of Judge James Butler, lives with his father at the homestead, having one daugh- ter, Elizabeth Williams ; (7) Jenny Osborn, born October 28, 1835, at home, nobly filling the position occupied by her venerable grandmother until her death, September 11, 1876 ; (8) Jonathan, born July 19, 1838, died January 15, 1858 ; (9) Frederick Williams, born February 21, 1841, . died April 17, 1861. The wife of Col. Joseph Cilley died January 25, 1843, aged forty-seven, an estimable lady who made her home de- lightful, and herself the center of happiness to those around her. Col. Cilley's mother died March 26, 1866, aged ninety- three years, a pattern of domestic excellence. After the death of Col. Cilley's wife, his mother took charge of the household, caring for tender children in all their various wants, and holding them all bound to her by tenderest affec- tion and unquestioning obedience to the last. With com- plexion fair, voice melodious, intellect vigorous, and affec- tions strong, she lived to be ninety-three years old, with the hearts of all who had known her life, and shared in her del- icate ministrations, still clinging to her as in earlier years. (3) Greenleaf, son of Greenleaf C, and brother of Col. Joseph Cilley, born January 10, 1793, died December 8, 1811. (4) Frederick Augustus, born October 28, 1796, died Oc- tober 6, 1815. (5) Sarah Longfellow, born August 14, 1799, married Abraham Plumer of Epping, and is still living, having, for children : Sarah Jane, who died young ; Greenleaf B. and Bradbury G., twins ; the former died in California, the lat- ter lives in Warsaw, Wis., having been highly successful in the lumber business ; her daughter, Elizabeth Ann, mar- 188 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. ried Caleb F. Edgerly of Epping ; and her next son, Daniel Longfellow, married and lives in Warsaw, Wis., a broker ; has, as well as his brother, represented his town in the state legislature ; and her youngest son living resides with his mother ; her son, James Shrigley, was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg, being in Col. Harriman's Eleventh Regi- ment. (6) Jonathan, brother of Col. Joseph Cilley, was born July 2, 1802, graduated from Bowdoin College, 1825 ; mar- ried Deborah, born July 6, 1808, died August 14, 1844, daughter of Hon. Hezekiah Prince of Thurston, Me., where he settled in business ; was member of the legislature in 18-31, 1833, 1834, 1835 ; and in 1835 and 1836 was elected speaker of the House ; and in 1837 was elected a represent- ative to the Twenty-fifth Congress ; and was killed February 24, 1838, in a duel near Washington, leaving a wife and three children ; viz., (1) Greenleaf, born October 27, 1829, married, in Montevideo, S. A., Malvina, daughter of Gov. Louis Yernet ; entered the navy as midshipman in 1841, sailed in the United-States frigate " Cumberland " and sloop-of-war " Plymouth " on the Mediterranean and Brazil stations ; served during the Mexican war in the United- States ship-of-the-line " Ohio," being present at the capture of Vera Cruz ; graduated at the naval school, Annapolis, in 1848 ; served as passed midshipman in the United-States fri- gates "Raritan," "Lexington," "Jefferson," "Relief," and " Legare," in the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico ; Mediter- ranean, coast-survey, and south-east coast of America. He also was acting master in the " Fredonia " and " Saratoga," Pacific and Havre squadron ; as lieutenant in the " Sara- toga," West Indies, " Hetzel," North Carolina Sounds, " Melacomet," Paraguay expedition. " Dolphin," " Pulas- ki," and " Congress," coast of Brazil and River La Plata ; and as lieutenant-commander during the war of the Rebel- lion in the "Anadilla" and monitor " Catskill," "New Hampshire and Vermont," South-Atlantic squadron, and HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 189 in the " Port Jackson " and " Colorado," North-Atlantic squadron. The children of Captain Cilley are : (1) Maria Prince, born February 17, 1861, in Montevideo, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., December 4, 1862 ; (2) Jonathan Ver- net, born November 17, 1862, in Brooklyn, N. Y. ; (3) Lewis Vernet Prince, born March 7, 1867, in Mercedes, Uraguay ; (4) Joseph Saez, born in the same place, November 24, 1868 ; (5) Deborah M., born June 30, 1870 ; and (6) Mal- vina J., born November 30, 1872, also in the same place. (2) Jonathan Prince, son of Hon. Jonathan Cilley, born December 29, 1835, married, October 10, 1866, Caroline A. Lasell. He graduated at Bowdoin College in 1858, ad- mitted to the bar, Knox County, 1860 ; at the first call for volunteers in 1861, enlisted in the service, commanded a company, was wounded severely and taken prisoner dur- ing the retreat of Gen. Banks from the Shenandoah Valley, May 24, 1862 ; soon after, he was commissioned major and judge-advocate and examining officer at Washington, but soon took the field, and was again wounded, Jxxne 24, 1864 ; yet, in September, took command of the regiment, as lieutenant-colonel. He was subsequently promoted brevet colonel, United-States volunteers, to rank from March 13, 1865, for " distinguished and meritorious service during the war ; " and June 12, 1865, he was made brevet brigadier- general, United-States volunteers, for highly distinguished services at Five Forks, Farmville, and Appomattox Court House. At the close of the war, Gen. Cilley settled in Rockland, was member of the legislature in 1867, deputy-collector of customs at Rockland from 1867 to 1871, and has been adjutant-general of the State of Maine since 1875. His wife died April 7, 1871, and his children are Grace Thur- ber, born November 2, 1868, and Jonathan Prince, born November 3, 1869. (3) Julia Draper, daughter of Hon. Jonathan Cilley, married Ellis D. Lazell of Spencer, Mass., and resides, a 190 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. widow, in Rockland, Me., having three children, James D., Ellis W., and Theodore S. The Hon. Jonathan Cilley hecame a member of Congress from Maine, and unfortunately was drawn into a contro- versy with William Graves of Kentucky and Henry A. Wise of Virginia, on account of an indirect charge, against some member of the House, of corruption, — John Rug- gles of Maine, in a letter written by Matthew L. Davis, the intimate friend of Aaron Burr, to the New York " Courier and Enquirer," which was edited by John Watson Webb. Cilley, in debate, had expressed a want of confidence in the writer, and suggested that an insinuation coming from such source did not deserve the special attention of Congress. Webb endorsed the writer of the article as a gentleman, and claimed that himself was insulted by the remarks of Cilley. But, though Mr. Cilley' s utterances had been mild and gentlemanly in the debate, and though he distinctly disavowed any intention of reflecting upon the character of Webb, yet the latter insisted upon the former's pronouncing him to be a gentleman of high and unimpeachable character. Mr. Cilley declined to be drawn into a controversy with the conductor of a public journal ; and so Graves chal- lenges Cilley, in behalf of Webb ; while Wise, who has sought occasion for a quarrel, becomes his second ; and Cilley chooses, for his second, Col. George W. Jones. The chal- lenge was borne by Wise from Graves to Cilley, February 23, 1838. The duel was fought near Bladensburg, on the following day, about three o'clock p. m., with rifles, distance eighty yards. Three shots were exchanged, and, on the third, Cilley fell. Jones and Wise, on the next day, publish a statement of facts for the purpose of quieting public ex- citement, and arresting intense indignation against them- selves. On the 28th, in the House, by a resolution intro- duced by the Hon. John Fairfield, a committee was appointed, composed of Isaac Toucey, Connecticut ; W. W. Potter, Pennsylvania, Joseph Grinnell, Massachusetts ; F. H. El- HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 191 more, South Carolina ; A. D. W. Bruyn, New York ; S. Grantland, Georgia ; and J. Rariden, Indiana, — to investi- gate the causes of Cilley's death, and to inquire if there had been any breach of the privileges of the House. This com- mittee reported, on the 21st of April, 1838, that " it is a breach of the highest privileges of the House, and of the most sacred rights of the people, in the person of their representative, to demand, in a hostile manner, an explana- tion of words spoken in debate." This report was accom- panied by resolutions for the expulsion of Graves, Wise, and Jones, which, after a long debate, were laid on the table, by a vote of 102 to 76, and the report was ordered to be printed ; here the matter rested. But the excitement and deep indignation growing out of this fearful tragedy could only be quieted by the enactment, in the following year, of the present law against dueling. Party feeling at this time ran high ; but the indignation at the foul deed, and denun- ciation of it, were not confined to one side. " Never," said the editor of the Boston " Post," " was there a more das- tardly murder than that of the unfortunate Cilley. The nation should echo with indignation at this horrible out- rage, — this cold-blooded assassination." Cilley himself believed that the challenge was the fruit of a desire to take his life. The "Review" gives the substance of the views of the matter as expressed by Mr. Cilley to his friends on the morning of the encounter : ".I am driven to this meet- ing by a positive compulsion. I have done all that an hon- orable man could do to avert it. Why should I acknowl- edge that man (Webb) to be a gentleman and man of honor ? In truth and conscience I could not do so ; and still less can I have it so unreasonably extorted from me by force and threat. I have no ill-will nor disrespect toward Mr. Graves. He knows it, and I have repeatedly expressed it. I abhor the idea of taking his life, and will do nothing not forced upon me in self-defense. The pretext of the chal- lenge is absurd. I understand the conspiracy to destroy me 192 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. as a public man. But New England must not be trampled on, my name must not be disgraced ; and I go to this field sustained by as high a motive of patriotism as ever led my grandfather or my brother to battle ; as an unhappy duty, not to be shrunk from, to my honor, my principles, and rny country." Nathaniel Hawthorne said, as published September, 1838 : " A challenge was never given on a more shadowy pretext ; a duel was never pressed to a fatal close in the face of such open kindness as was expressed by Mr. Cilley ; and the con- clusion is inevitable, that Mr. Graves and his principal sec- ond, Mr. Wise, have gone further than their own dreadful code will warrant them, and overstepped the imaginary distinction which, on their own principles, separates man- slaughter from murder." At his death, Mr. Cilley was in the thirty-sixth year of his age. " As a young man," says Hawthorne, " he was of a quick and powerful intellect, endowed with sagacity and tact, yet frank and free in his mode of action ; ambitious of good influence, earnest, active, and persevering, with an elasticity and cheerful strength of mind, which made diffi- culties easy, and the struggle with them a pleasure. He was the kindliest and gentlest of human beings, with a con- stant and happy flow of animal spirits, and the innocence of a child ; while at the same time as independent, courageous, and firm in his purposes as he was clear in his judgments and upright in his every thought." (7) Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Greenleaf Cilley, born July 11, 1804, married Capt. Benjamin Burley of Epping ; has one son, Joseph Cilley, who is married and lives in Ep- ping ; a daughter, Nannie J., died in 1855, aged twenty- four years. Mr. Burley has represented his town in the legislature, been selectman, and filled other offices. Mrs. Burley is still living, exhibiting the graces and beauty of early womanhood. (6) Daniel, son of Gen. Joseph Cilley, married Hannah HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 193 Plumer, sister of the late Gov. William Plumer ; lived in Epsom, and left, for children : Polly, who married Robert Knox of Epsom, whose eldest daughter is the wife of Judge Asa Powler of Concord ; Bradbury, who died recently in East Northwood ; Samuel lived in Chichester ; Joseph died young ; Daniel Plumer, who became a Freewill Baptist clergyman, was chaplain in the army, is now living in Earmington ; William and Jonathan, twins, the former liv- ing in Pembroke, and the latter in Concord ; the youngest two daughters of Mrs. Knox removed to California after the death of their father. (7) Elizabeth Ann, daughter of Gen. Joseph Cilley, born July 11, 1802, married Samuel Plumer, brother of Gov. William Plumer of Epping ; lived in Epping, had four chil- dren : Sally, who died young ; Polly, married William Knox of Pembroke, and has three children ; Nancy, who married John Dow of Epping ; Rebecca, who married Daniel W. Ladd of Epping, where she now resides ; Harriet, who mar- ried John Dow of Epping ; Joseph Cilley, who lived on the homestead, now dead ; Betsey, who married George Plumer, son of Governor Plumer, and lives in Epping ; Alice, who married James Rundlet of Epping. (8) Jacob, son of Gen. Joseph Cilley, married Harriet Poor, daughter of Gen. Enoch Poor of Exeter, lived on the Square, and had, for children : (1) Enoch, who died when about nineteen years old ; (2) Joseph Longfellow, born Oc- tober 27, 1803, married, November 22, 1837, Lavinia B. Kelley ; he died August 18, 1868 ; their son, Bradbury Long- fellow, married, July 3, 1864, Amanda Currier, daughter of John and Harriet Amanda (Currier) Norris ; graduated at Harvard University in 1858, having fitted for college at Phillips Academy, 1851-55 ; was appointed professor of An- cient Languages in Phillips Exeter Academy in 1859 ; (3) John Osgood, who married Henrietta Butler, daughter of Ebenezer Butler, grandson of the Rev. Benjamin Butler ; their children are : Laura 0., who became the wife of Wil- 13 194 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. liam Henry Berry, Esq. , of Pittsfield ; Harriet, who became the wife of William P. Blake of Raymond, and has since died ; Henrietta, who married Dow Mathes of Lee ; John H., who lives on the homestead with his father ; (4) Har- riet P., daughter of Jacob Cilley, married Rev. Timothy Brainerd, and died, leaving children ; (5) Jacob Green, who married, for his first wife, Emma, granddaughter of Gen. Stark, and, for his second wife, Martha, daughter of Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, D. D., lived and died in Manchester, leaving one son, Harry ; this Jacob became wealthy, and a man of much influence ; (6) Martha 0., born January 11, 1819, married, February, 1846, E. B. Berry of Pittsfield ; (7) Bradbury Poor, born January 2, 1824, married, June 30, 1856, Angeline Baldwin; is a lawyer, and lives in Man- chester ; graduated at Dartmouth College, 1843. (9) Anna, daughter of Gen. Joseph Cilley, born May 22, 1775, married, April 17, 1794, Nathaniel Williams of Not- tingham, son of John Pingry Williams, a successful mer- chant of Nottingham. She died May 18, 1810. They had, for children : Alice Osborne, born November 4, 1794, died November 10, 1802 ; Betsey Plumer, born January 7, 1796, became the wife of Col. Joseph Cilley of Nottingham ; Joshua Pingry, jr., born April 27, 1797, married, lived, and died near Fredericksburg, Va., was a teacher ; had children, who died young. (10) Horatio Gates, youngest child of Gen. Joseph Cilley, born December 23, 1777, married, November 17, 1802, Sally, daughter of Thomas and Sally Jenness of Deerfield ; she was born August 4, 1782, died November 11, 1865. He died November 26, 1837. Their children were : a daughter, born January 30, 1804 ; Horatio Gates, born November 25, 1805 ; Sally Jenness, born November 2, 1807, and died ; Elizabeth Ann, born August 30, 1810 ; Martha Osgood, born May 24, 1814 ; Mary Jane, born June 5, 1816 ; Joseph Bradbury, born January 30, 1819, and died February 16, 1823 ; Harriet Newell, born October 7, 1822 ; Joseph Bradbury, born December 26, 1824. BISTORT OF NOTTINGHAM. 195 This Horatio Gates, son of Horatio Gates Cilley, mar- ried, in 1840, Deborah Jenness, and died March 13, 1874. His sister Elizabeth Ann became, February, 1840, the wife of Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, D. D., whose daughter, Sa- rah Cilley, married Gen. J. N. Patterson, whose children are Louis M., Julia N., and Allan Bouton. The second daughter of Mrs. Bouton married J. G. Cilley of Manches- ter ; her third daughter is Jane Louise. Mary Jane, the sixth child of Horatio Gates, married, June 5, 1816, Bphraim Eaton, a lawyer of Concord, whose children were Mary J. and Henry ; and Joseph Bradbury, the ninth child of Horatio G. Cilley, married, November 11, 1847, Elizabeth Jenness, and died November 23, 1872. (5) Abigail, daughter of Capt. Joseph Cilley, married Zephaniah Butler, brother of Rev. Benjamin Butler, and grandfather of the Hon. B. P. Butler of Massachusetts. They had children : Benjamin, who settled at the Pa- rade in Deerfield, where he kept a public house ; was adju- tantrgeneral of New Hampshire for many years ; and was on the staff of Gen. Cilley during the war of the Revolu- tion, being a tall, fleshy man ; Enoch, who married a daugh- ter of Capt. Enoch Page of Cornville, Me., and lived in Pittsfield, where he died, leaving three children ; William, who lived in Nottingham and died unmarried ; Sarah, who became the wife of Israel Bartlett (see Bartlett sketch) ; Susanna, who died unmarried ; John, who married Sally Batchelder of Deerfield for his first wife, and lived in Deer- field near the Parade ; was in the war of 1812, commanded a company of dragoons ; had, for children : (1) Polly, who married a son of Col. Joseph Hilton, and lived in Cornville, Me. ; (2) Sally, who married a Maloon of Deerfield, and had children ; (3) Betsey, who married Daniel B. Stevens of Nottingham, whose children are : Elizabeth B., who married Col. John Badger Batchelder of Chelsea, Mass. ; Thomas, who has represented the town in the legislature ; Amanda, who resides in the city of Washington ; Joanna, 196 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. who died young ; and Walter, who married Martha G. Shute of Deny, and resides, a merchant, in Chelsea, Mass. By his second wife, who was an Ellison, this John But- ler, son of Zephaniah Butler and Abigail Cilley, had, for children : Andrew Jackson, who was with his brother, Gen. B. F. Butler, at New Orleans, and has since died, leaving a widow and one son, George ; Benjamin F., now of Lowell, member of Congress, distinguished for his patriotic exploits at Baltimore, Norfolk, and New Orleans ; he married Miss Sarah Hildredth, and has three children : Blanche, who married Gen. Adelbert Ames governor of Mississippi ; and two sons, Paul and Ben-Israel. Charlotte, another daughter of John Butler by his second wife, married Horace Holton of Vermont ; she died in Illi- nois, leaving one son. (6) Cutting Cilley, son of Capt. Joseph Cilley, born about 1738, married, about 1761, Martha Morrill, and died, 1825, in Northfield. He was a captain in the New-Hamp- shire forces, and served in the war in 1775 ; he held several town offices. His children were : (1) Eliphelet, born Au- gust 30, 1762, married, 1787, Dolly Shaw ; (2) Joseph, born September 24, 1764, and died at sea, unmarried ; (3) John, born September 30, 1766, married, December 21, 1786, Hannah Elliott, and died November 7, 1852 ; (4) Alice, born September 27, 1768, married William Watson, and died March 26, 1853 ; (5) Bradbury, born March, 1771, •married, 1801, Susan Straw, died September 5, 1832 ; (6) Benjamin, born April 19, 1773, married, 1794, Eunice Mea- der ; (7) Moses, born February 8, 1775, married, September 29, 1793, Susanna Barker ; and again, 1831, Olive Blaisdell ; (8) David, born December 26, 1776, married, January 16, 1798, Polly Straw of Epping ; (9) Aaron, born 1781 or 1782, married, April 2, 1838, a Mrs. Randall of Northwood ; (10) Betsey, born 1783, married, April 24, 1805, Aaron Page of Epping, and died April 11, 1870 ; (11) Henry, born Sep- tember 27, 1785, married, November 23, 1809, Sally San- SISTOEY OF NOTTINGHAM. 197 born ; (12) Sally, bom April 24, 1787, married, June 24., 1811, Ebenezer Durgin, and died March 15, 1875. John, son of Cutting, settled in Northfield ; his wife, Hannah Elliott, was born March 4, 1768, and died October, 1852 ; Cutting, the father of John, spent his last years with his son, in Northfield ; John had fourteen children : Polly E., Joseph, Martha B., John, Abraham B., Sewell, Lydia, Jonathan E., Naomi E., Daniel E., James C, Sophro- nia, Hiram, and William P. Abraham B., son of John, son of Cutting, married, May 25, 1814, Rebecca, daughter of Israel Dow, born January 19, 1796, and died March 23, 1873 ; her husband, born March 12, 1795, died April 5, 1875. His children were : (1) Mary Jane, born September 6, 1814, died October 7, 1818; Samuel B., born March 20, 1816, married, May 11, 1843, Sarah C, daughter of Phinehas Dow, and died May 26, 1874 ; Mary J., born November 28, 1818, died May 3, 1842 ; Olive, born September 18, 1820, died January 27, 1823 ; John, born October 15, 1822, married, October 14, 1847, Martha, daughter of J. Elliott Brown ; and they have one son, Henry Albert, who married, June 9, 1870, Emma S., daughter of Ezra Tasker; Naomi, born June 15, 1824, married, September 4, 1843, Nathaniel D. Caswell, and died January 28, 1872, leaving one son, Charles ; Olive, born August 16, 1826, married, April 28, 1845, Clark Bryant ; Martha, born June 3, 1828, married, June 29, 1847, Charles H. Hill ; Abraham B., born April 7, 1830, married, Jan- uary 30, 1849, Julia A. Cilley of Nottingham ; Hannah, born February 7, 1832, married, February 6, 1849, George H. Knowlton, died May 19, 1876, leaving one son, Alvin ; Joseph P., born April 3, 1841, married, June 11, 1875, Jennie Robinson; Rebecca J., born December 23, 1842,, married, September 8, 1862, Isaac H. Foss of Strafford. 198 HISTOBT OF NOTTINGHAM. COLCORD FAMILY. Samuel Colcord came from Newmarket to Nottingham quite early in its history. His wife was Mary Pearson, whom he married September 9, 1772. She died, and he married for his second wife, March 3, 1805, Anna Eobin- son. He settled on the road leading from the Square to Deerfield ; built saw and grist mills. They had seven chil- dren : Samuel, Josiah, Jonathan, and Charles, Jerushia, Nancy, and Mary ; Jerushia married Mark Maloon, and ' lived at the South ; Nancy married Moses Snow, and lived in Maine ; and Mary lived on the homestead, unmarried ; Josiah died in Atkinson, unmarried ; Jonathan lived in Ohio, having several children ; and Charles was a Free- will Baptist preacher, and died in Ohio, leaving children. Mr. Colcord died March 25, 1824. Samuel married Mary Tuxbury of Deerfield, January 23, 1801. His second wife was Hannah, daughter of Simeon Knowles of Northwood, whom he married June 5, 1817. She was a sister of Deacon Levi Knowles. This Samuel died October 25, 1841 ; his first wife died July 1, 1811, and his second died March 19, 1852. His children by Mary Tuxbury were Mary, Bradbury, Samuel, and Nancy ; Mary, born April 28, 1803, married, April 1, 1822, Levi Knowles of Northwood ; Bradbury married and lives in Texas, and has children ; Samuel married and lives in Ken- tucky, having children ; Nancy married Joseph Harvey, and they live in Northwood, having one daughter, Mary Abigail, now the wife of John Knowlton of Deerfield, son of Na- thaniel Knowlton of Northwood. The first Samuel Colcord was an active Christian ; a hundred persons were admitted to his presence the day before his death, with whom he conversed. He died in the act of singing praises to God. The second Samuel Colcord was in like manner an ear- nest Christian, living on the homestead. He fainted, and could not be restored. BISTORT OF NOTTINGHAM. 199 DEARBORN FAMILY. Gen. Henry Dearborn descended from Godfrey Dear- born, who, it is believed, was a native of Exeter, in the south-west part of England, and, with Rev. John Wheel- right, in 1639, founded a settlement in Exeter, Dearborn settling in what is now Stratham. Here he remained some ten years, and then removed to Hampton, where he died. He had three sons and three daughters. Henry, his eldest son, was born in England about 1633, and came with his father to this country about 1639. He, married Elizabeth Marion, January 10, 1666. He had seven children, three sons and four daughters. John, his eldest son, and grandson of Godfrey, was born October 10, 1666, and he married, in 1689, Abigail Batchelder, who died November 14, 1736. This John lived in what is now North Hampton, and was deacon in the church there, and highly esteemed for his uprightness of character and sound judg- ment. He had ten children, four sons and six daughters. One of his sons, named Simon, who inherited the home- stead, had a family of twelve children. One of these, the youngest, was Henry, the subject of this sketch. This Henry was born February 23, 1751. Having studied medicine, he established himself as a physician at Nottingham Square, in 1772. Prom his early youth he was fond of military exercises, and at once interested him- self in teaching such young men as naturally gathered around him the tactics that prevailed at that time. These young men recognized him as their superior, with whose wishes they readily complied. So, when the stirring times near the Revolution approached, military ardor increased, and the conviction, that the time was hastening when their knowledge in military science would be called into requisi- tion, stimulated them to greater sacrifices, and bound them more closely to their leader. And when the news reached Nottingham, that, on the 19th of April, 1775, seven Amer- icans — the first martyrs of the Revolution — had fallen in 200 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. the conflict at Lexington, Dr. Dearborn and his band of men from Nottingham, Deerfield, Epsom, and Northwood started, armed as best they might be, for the scene of action, and, after traveling the whole night, on the follow- ing morning reported themselves as ready for duty, at Med- ford. There they met some twelve hundred men from New Hampshire. Organization must at once be effected, and discipline must be maintained. A company was formed at Cambridge, Dr. Dearborn was chosen their captain, and Michal McClary was chosen ensign. In that company were Andrew Neally of Nottingham, John Simpson of Deer- field, Robert Morrison and William Willey of Northwood, and others. This company, commanded by Dearborn, was in Col. Stark's regiment, which, together with that under James Reid, was present in the " memorable battle on the heights of Charlestown, being posted on the left wing, behind a fence, from which they sorely galled the British as they advanced to the attack, and cut them down by whole ranks at once. In their retreat they lost several men, and among others, the brave Maj. Andrew McClary from Epsom, who was killed by a cannon-shot after he had passed the isthmus of Charlestown." Capt. Dearborn commanded a company in Arnold's expedition against Quebec, in 1775-76. Late in the sum- mer of 1775, Gen. Montgomery led an army by the way of Lake Champlain. He succeeded in taking St. John's and Montreal ; and at Quebec " was joined by Col. Arnold with a crowd of half-clad, half-famished men, who had ascended the Kennebec, and then struck across the wilderness." " It is hard to conceive," says a writer, " the hardships which these men endured. Their way was through tangled thickets and over pathless moun- tains. Worn out, cold, sick, and disheartened, they still pressed forward. The last ox was killed and eaten, the last dog was taken for food, and their only resource against HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 201 starvation was roots and moose-skin moccasins. For two days they ate nothing. Morgan, Greene, Meigs, and Aaron Burr were of this brave band." No braver man was in all that number than Dearborn : none more enduring and ud complaining than the " boys" he commanded. After this campaign, Dearborn was in the battles of Stillwater and Saratoga, in 1777, as major, with the com- mand of a distinct corps. And again, he served as lieuten- ant-colonel at the battle of Monmouth, in 1778. At York- town, and the surrender of Cornwallis, in 1781, he served as deputy-quartermaster-general. After this, Dearborn was commissioned as colonel of the First New-Hampshire Regi- ment from 1781 to the end of the war. After this, in 1784, he left New Hampshire, and removed to Maine, where he was made brigadier-general and marshal of that state, by which he was elected member of Congress in 1795, and was appointed Secretary of War, 1801 ; collector of Boston, in 1809 ; major-general United-States army, in 1812 ; minister to Portugal, in 1822 ; and in every position in which he served his country, he did it to his honor and the advantage of the people. He died at Rox- bury, Mass., June 6, 1829. DEMERITT FAMILY. Joseph Demeritt came from Madbury, settled near where Plumer Bennett resides. His children were: (1) Moses, (2) Paul, (3) Joseph, (4) John, (5) Betsey, (6) Louisa, (7) Hannah, and (8) Lydia. Moses married a Miss Oclell of Durham, whose son Gordon lives in Nottingham ; Paul mar- ried Martha Woodman of Deerfield, one of whose daugh- ters became the wife of the Hon. Alfred Hoitt of Durham ; and another married a Mr. Seward ; another married John Woodman of Newton ; Joseph died in the war of 1812 ; John, the father of Joseph Demeritt, Esq., of Nottingham, was born January 30, 1777, lived in Nottingham, married Abigail, daughter of Robert Hill of Nottingham, born May 202 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 13, 1781 ; they died within ten days of each other ; he was aged about eightj r -seven. Their children were : Jacob, born July 8, 1800 ; Joseph, born November 11, 1801 ; Sophia, born January 8, 1803 ; John, born April 20, 1806 ; Timo- thy, born March 23, 1808; Mehitable P., born March 18, 1810 ; Daniel, born July 12, 1812 ; Samuel D., born May 22, 1814 ; Andrew J., Sally, Mary Ann, and Abigail. Joseph Demeritt married Sally, daughter of Benjamin Colcord of Northwood. She was born March 10, 1799, and died September 27, 1767. Their children were : (1) Ben- jamin Willard, born April 5, 1827, married Eleanor A. Mills of Nova Scotia, having one daughter, Hannah Maria ; (2) Eliza Ann, born August 16, 1832 ; she married Byron D. Hoitt, died April 1, 1861 ; (3) Joseph Edward, born May 9, 1836, married Nancy B. Tuttle, daughter of Ebenezer S. Tuttle of Nottingham, and they have three children, Eliza Ann, Sally A., and John L. ; (4) Jane, born April 11, 1838, died May 28, 1868 ; (5) John Seward, born October 10, 1840, died January 14, 1873. Mr. Demeritt has represented his town three years in the state legislature, been selectman and assistant postmaster for many years, and has been engaged in mercantile busi- ness since 1825. GERRISH FAMILY. Paul Gerrish came from Gerrish Island, near Portsmouth, to Durham, thence to Nottingham in early manhood, and died there in 1817, aged sixty-three. He married Ruth Chesley, daughter of Philip, and she died a few years after her husband. Their children were (1) Paul, (2) Samuel, (3) George, (4) Sally, (5) Polly, (6) Susan, (7) Thomas. Paul married a Miss Gove, and they moved into Madbury, where they died childless. Samuel married Sally Knowlton of Northwood, and died there, they having children, Benjamin, Samuel, David, Eben K., and Betsey. George married a daughter of Capt. John Pord, and their HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 203 children were John, Eliza, and Ruth. His second wife was Lizzie Emerson, by whom he had two children : Daniel Harvey of Madbury, who died, leaving one daughter ; Han- nah, who married Asa Sanborn of Newmarket, and their children are John, Jane, and Prank. Polly married Joseph Langley, and they died, leaving children, Joseph, Ruth, Mary, Samuel, and Freeman, the last two having served in the late war of the Rebellion. Susan died unmarried. Thomas, born October 15, 1788, married Sarah Pox, and died August 3, 1853 ; she was born January 27, 1789, and is still living. Their children: (1) Edward P., born Sep- tember 9, 1809 ; (2) Andrew Guy, born January 25, 1812, died December 21, 1838 ; (3) Permelia Jane, born July 16, 1814 ; (4) Joanna, born November 22, 1816 ; (5) Paul, born December 1, 1818 ; (6) Ruth, born July 29. 1821 ; (7) Charles P., born August 2, 1824; (8) George G.,born August 26, 1827, died May 22, 1858 ; (9) Daniel W., born July 5, 1830 ; (10) Susan, born August 7, 1833. Edward married Fanny L., daughter of Nicholas Tuttle. She was born January 12, 1812, and died October 24, 1844, and they had one son, Aura L., born September 10, 1837 ; and, May 15, 1859, he married Lizzie V. Holbrook, and they had one child, Lizzie V., who died March 12, 1862. This wife dying at the age of twenty-five, he married Lu- cinda A. Rundlett of Exeter, March 14, 1863, and they have one son, Roswell D. Edward married for his second wife Arvilla H. Lucy, July 4, 1845, and their children are : Fanny L., born Octo- ber 23, 1854 ; Luella F., born May 20, 1857, and died March 11, 1864 ; E. Frank, born January 10, 1862. Permelia, daughter of Thomas, married Thomas Johnson of Epping, whose children are Andrew Gilman and Benja- min. Joanna married George O. Davis of Newmarket, who has recently died, and they had one son, George Richmond, 204 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. who married Hattie Ellison of Portsmouth, and died, leav- ing one son, Herbert. Paul married Mary Winslow, and they live in Newmar- ket, having one son, Edwin C. Ruth married Hiram Bryant of Effingham, and they have two children, Sarah and John. George A. married Martha Langley, and he died May 22, 1858 ; she died not long after, leaving one child. Daniel W. married Louisa Demeritt of Lee, and they have one son, Warren M. Susan married Hendrick S. Tuttle, and after his death John A. Randell of Lee, and they live in Madbury, with- out children. This Edward Gerrish has been a deacon in the Freewill Baptist Church in Nottingham thirty-five years. His son, Aura L., is a Baptist preacher, being now president of the trustees of Maine Central Institute. He now resides in Olneyville, P. I. This Deacon Edward has held a justice's commission some twenty years, been justice of quorum for ten years, been captain of militia for a term of years. GILE FAMILY. John Gile came from Haverhill, Mass., settled near Lee line, married Mary, daughter of William Nealley, and had ten children : (1) Anna, (2) John, (3) Mary, (4) Sally, (5) William, (6) Abigail, (7) Betsey, (8) Joanna, (9) Mark, (10) Susanna. Anna married Samuel Gault of Bow, and had thirteen children, the eldest, Mary, married a Bap- tist clergyman, named Thomas Waterman, an Englishman, who died in Woburn, Mass. ; John married Catherine Tut- tle of Lee, who died in Effingham ; Sally married George Tuttle of Lee, one of whose daughters, Abigail, became the wife of Capt. John Sherburn of Northwood ; William mar- ried a Miss Philbrick of Deerfield, and lived in Mount Ver- non, Me., died, leaving children ; Abigail became the wife of John Simpson of Nottingham ; Betsey married Capt. Asa HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 205 Folsom of Stratham ; Joanna married Samuel Weymouth, and lived in Maine ; Mark lived on the homestead in Not- tingham, married Sarah McCrillis of Nottingham, and had three sons, one of •whom, Jacob, lives in Northwood, marry- ing a daughter of the late Oapt. John Sherburn ; Mark had also five daughters ; Susanna married a Dearborn of Ossi- pee, and had daughters, Nancy and Mahala ; the latter became the wife of Maj. W. Ballard Willey of Northwood. GOODRICH FAMILY. The Goodrich families descended from three Welshmen who landed at Newburyport about the year 1640. From one of these, the Goodrich family in Nottingham descended. Barnard Goodrich married Sally Carr ; he lived and died in West Newbury ; Barnard Goodrich, their son, married Eunice Cheney ; he afterward married Sally Gove ; he moved from Newbury to the south-west corner of Notting- ham, in the Pawtuckaway Mountains, where he died ; Bar- nard Goodrich, born February 27, 1769, died February 23, 1834 ; his first wife, Eunice Cheney, born March 4, 1777, died February 17, 1807 ; his second wife, Sally Gove, was born October 8, 1782 ; the children of Barnard and Eunice Goodrich were : Moses C, born May 19, 1793, died January 17, 1858, lived in East Kingston ; Jeremiah, born September 21, 1796, died March 1, 1837 ; he removed to Fundy; Gilman, born December 4, 1798, died October 19, 1874 ; he lived at Corinth, Me., and afterwards at Janes- ville, Wis. ; Barnard, born April 2, 1800, now resides in Gardner, Me. ; Betsey C, born October 20, 1802, died September 23, 1823 ; John, born January 9, 1805 ; now lives at Canaan, Me. The children of Barnard and Sally Goodrich were : Sam- uel G., born March 21, 1808, died April 19, 1839 ; Nathan G. T., born February 27, 1810 ; Perley C, born March 9, 1812, died February 11, 1834 ; Henry O., born August 26, 1814, died March 25, 1834 ; David A., born March 8, 1817, 206 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. died November 3, 1834; Jacob T., born June 13, 1820, died November 3, 1834 ; Delia Jane, born February 5, 1823, died July 81, 1825. The children of Moses 0. are Jackson, Evander A., and Doratha Melissa. The children of Jeremiah are Barnard and Samuel B. The children of Gilman are James Munroe, Lydia, Eliz- abeth, and George W. The children of Barnard are Samuel, George, and Eleanor. The children of John are Eleanor and others. The son of Samuel G. was Arthur D., who married Almira F. Bean of Nottingham, and died July 20, 1861 ; they had two children : Jay M., who now lives in Deerfield ; Mary F., who married Charles G. Harvey ; she died June 13, 1853, aged seventeen years, ten months. Nathan G. T. married Betsey A. Cate of Deerfield, June 17, 1840 ; they have one son, George W., born August 23, 1844 ; Betsey A., his wife, died June 23, 1877. THE GOVE FAMILY. John Gove paid rent to the British crown in 1646 and 1647 ; shortly after the above date he came to New Eng- land and settled in Cambridge, Mass. He was the father of Edward Gove of Hampton (now Seabrook) ; died April 28, 1679. Edward, son of John Gove, born 1635. We find him in Hampton, 1666 ; married Hannah Titcomb ; died July 29, 1691. John, son of Edward, born September 19, 1661. Jonathan, son of John, born May 2, 1695 ; married Mary Lancaster. Jonathan, son of Jonathan and Mary Lancaster, born July 18, 1742, died May 29, 1832 ; married, first, Sarah Sweatt ; second wife, Ruth Philbrick ; settled in Notting- ham about 1765 or 1766. Children by first wife : Jane, born May 28, 1767 ; Hannah, born May 23, 1769 ; Sarah, HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 207 born March 20, 1771, married Gideon Bickford of North- wood, and settled there, having children. Children by second wife : Jonathan, born August 17, 1772, settled in Loudon ; Elijah, born January 25, 1774, settled in Monmouth, Me. ; Elias, born October 21, 1775, married Betsey Johnson, daughter of Moses Johnson of Northwood, settled in Readfield, Me. ; Olive, born May 14, 1777, died April 28, 1781 ; Mary, born February 16, 1779, married Jesse Bickford, settled in Northwood ; Samuel, born Febru- ary 18, 1780, married Sarah Norris, settled on the home- stead in Nottingham, died February 17, 1852 ; Olive, born February 13, 1782, married John Morrill, settled in Win- throp, Me. ; Nancy, born February 18, 1783, married Dudley Fogg, settled in Readfield, Me. ; Bradbury, born October 29, 1785, settled in Monmouth, Me. ; Eleanor, born August 22, 1787, married, first, Blake; second, Brown ; settled in Mon- mouth, Me. ; Dolly, born December 20, 1789, married Brown, settled in Monmouth, Me. ; Caleb Philbrick, born July 12, 1792, settled in Litchfield, Me. ; Sherburn, born January 8, 1795, married Jane Norris in 1819, settled in Northwood, removed to Raymond, 1831, died October 25, 1874. Their children, born in Northwood, are : Julia Ann, born August 14, 1819, died November 5, 1824 ; Samuel B., born May 9, 1822, with whom the mother resides ; Julia Ann, born April 13, 1829. Born in Raymond : James F., born No- vember 23, 1832 ; George S., born January 11, 1841. Samuel, son of Jonathan and Ruth, married Sarah Nor- ris, and settled on the old homestead in Nottingham, their children being as follows : Jonathan, born October 3, 1809 ; Sally Ann, born February 7, 1826, died August 24, 1837. Jonathan married, first, Lydia Norris, who died July 8, 1853 ; second wife, Cena Tucker ; third, Mercy E. Holman ; fourth, Abbie Osgood ; was selectman four years in Nottingham, and representative two years. Children : by first wife, Samuel S., born October 25, 1837 ; by third wife, Frank W., born April 21, 1868. Samuel S. married Sarah E. 208 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Fogg, lives on a part of the old Gove homestead. Their children are : Charles W., born November 30, 1860 ; Clara M-, born August 29, 1864 ; Freddie L., born December 14, 1870. Samuel, son of Jonathan Gove and Mary Lancaster, born September 2, 1746, married Rachel Adams of Londonderry, February 8,1770. He is supposed to have been in Notting- ham in 1767 ; died in Deerfield, September 20, 1825. His farm in Nottingham was about one mile south of the Square, what is now the " Lane farm," where Stephen Locke resides. Mr. Gove's wife was born March 21, 1750, and she died in Deerfield, June 12, 1826. Their children were : (1) Hannah, born September 11, 1770, married Paul Gerrish, September 7, 1800, died March 20, 1801 ; (2) Polly, born October 10, 1772, married, April 11, 1818, Asa Folsom, an officer in Gen. Stark's army, who fought at Bennington ; he lived at Deerfield Parade, and died Sep- tember 12, 1855 ; (3) David A., born February 5, 1775, married, September 29, 1815, Olive Knight of Maine, moved to Trivoli, 111., and died February, 1855; (4) Nathan B., born February 27, 1777, died April 6, 1826 ; (5) Samuel, born March 7, 1789, died June 2, 1789 ; (6) Rachel A., born March 7, 1789, twin with Samuel, married Samuel Badger of Deerfield, September 21, 1822, died September 7, 1862 ; (7) Sally, born October 8, 1782, married Barnard Good- rich, November 16, 1807 ; (8) Isabella, born January 2, 1785, died June 17, 1786 ; (9) Delia, born December 20, 1786, died at Deerfield February 3, 1862. In 1683, Edward Gove of Hampton, son of John, was indicted for high treason, ■ and was tried before Richard Waldron, as judge, with Vaughan and Daniel, assistants. The prisoner had been a member of the Assembly, and was hurried on by his violent opposition to Cranfield into some gross irregularities, which no reasonable man could approve or justify. Waldron probably loved the governor no more than the prisoner ; but as a magistrate he was resolved to HISTOBT OF NOTTINGHAM. 209 discharge his duty with impartiality and firmness. It was a painful duty, for Gove was convicted, and Waldron wept while pronouncing the sentence, that " he should be carried back to the place from whence he came, and from thence be drawn to the place of execution, and be there hanged by the neck and cut down alive, and that his entrails be taken out^and burnt before his face, and his head cut off, and his body divided into four quarters, and his head and quarters disposed of at the king's pleasure." It is gratifying to know that this sentence was not car- ried into execution. After several years imprisonment, here and in London, Gove was pardoned, and returned home with an order for the restoration of his estate, which had been seized, as forfeited to the crown.* HARVEY FAMILY. Tradition says that all the Harveys in the United States descended from the Earl of Bristol in England, whose name was Harvey. His son came to this country, with other young noblemen, and purchased a tract of land embracing Taunton and Rehoboth, in Massachusetts. This young Harvey married an American girl, and so was disinherited by his aristocratic father in England. It is also said that French and Scotch blood has been infused into the English stock. It is said that the Harveys have, generally, blue eyes, but occasionally the black eye of the French may be met with. Thomas Harvey came to this country between 1640 and 1650. It is easy to trace the branch of the Harvey family to which Jonathan belonged to South Hampton, thence to Amesbury and Newburyport, Mass. Jonathan Harvey was born in Newburyport, about 1734. He married Susan George of South Hampton, and, a few years after, settled in Nottingham, on a sixteen-acre lot in the mountain district, where he built a log house, and died in 1764, the first * See Collections of the New-Hampshire Historical Society, Vol. II., p. 44. 14 210 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. person that died in that district, and was buried in a corner of the Maloon field. He had been a soldier in the French war, and was at Ticonderoga, N. Y. The children of Jona- than Harvey and Susan George were : (1) Levi, who settled in Sutton ; (2) Matthew, who also lived in Sutton, became- wealthy and influential as a business man and a politician, frequently representing his town in the House, and after- wards became a member of the Senate ; (3) Joseph moved into one of the Western States ; (4) Jonathan settled in the same district with his father ; (5) James settled in Deering, and was in the war of 1812, and died in Western New York ; (6) Susan married Thomas Robinson of Deer- field ; (7) Gertrude became the wife of Nathan Philbrick of Deerfield ; (8) Miriam married Benjamin Critchett, and settled in Deering ; he was a soldier of the Revolution ; (9) Dolly died about 1834, on the homestead, unmarried. Jonathan, the fourth child of Jonathan the first settler, married Susan Hedlock of South Hanrpton, and settled farther up between the mountains, where he built a log house with a stone chimney, and there he died, April, 1845 ; his children were : (1) James, who married Lois Ladd, and lived in Epping, moving there in 1810, and died in Jan- uary, 1854, leaving three children, Dudley L., Nathaniel G., and Matthew J., who lives on the old Ladd place, while Nathaniel resides in Illinois, and Dudley L. in Epping, near the homestead ; (2) Jonathan married Betsey Burnham, and removed to Atkinson, Me., about 180T, and there died, leaving one son, Sargent L., and perhaps others ; (3) Na- thaniel married Sally Burnham of Nottingham, and moved into Maine, and afterwards into Wisconsin, where he died a Baptist preacher, leaving several children, one of whom was the late Dr. William Harvey of Chicago ; (4) David went to Dover, Me., and married a Miss Snow, and died about 1855, leaving children ; (5) Thomas married a Miss Giles of Deerfield, and moved into the western country some sixty years ago ; (6) John married Polly Brown of HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 211 Deerfield, and was burned in a coal-camp in Nottingham, about 1815, leaving two children : one, the wife of John Rowe of Deerfield, who moved to Pittsfield ; (7) Levi first married Hannah Young of Deerfield, who died, leaving three children : John S., who lives near Janesville, Wis. ; Mary, who is widow of Dr. Sanborn of South Berwick, Me. ; and Hannah, who married B. Goodrich, and resides in Brentwood ; the second wife of Levi Harvey was Huldah Maloon of Deerfield, who had one son, Moses B., living near Manchester; (8) Nathan was a lieutenant-colonel in the militia, married Polly Weeks, and died at St. Josephs, Mich., leaving one son ; (9) Matthew married Linda Noyes of Nottingham, and died in Deerfield, in 1854, leaving two sons and one daughter : Paul Ladd was killed in the battle of Predricksburg, Va. ; and the other son lives in Deer- field. Besides these sons of Jonathan Harvey, there were sev- eral daughters : Sally, who married and died in 1847 ; Betsey, who married Jesse Burnham of Maine, and moved into Wisconsin ; Hannah married Asa Burnham, lived in Maine, and then at the West ; Judith married a Mr. Gree- ley, in Maine ; Susan became the wife of William Chase, and died some years since, leaving one son, E. H. Chase, residing in Nottingham, and one daughter, Sabrina, the wife of Jacob Harvey of Nottingham ; Lydia married Gilman Goodrich of Nottingham, and is now living in Janesville, Wis. ; Miriam married Colcord Winslow, and resides on the old Harvey homestead, having two sons, John H., who resides in Deerfield, and Jonathan, who resides in Dover ; Mary, who married Paul Gerrish of Newmarket ; one lives in Deerfield ; another married a Rollins of Nottingham ; and another, a Savage of Manchester. This Jonathan Harvey, first named, was a cousin to the father of the late Hon. John Harvey of North woodf 212 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. HARVEY FAMILY, SECOND BRANCH. The following record is authentic : — " August 7, 1726, James Harvey and Family now sot sail from port Rush in the North of Ireland for New England, and Landed in Boston in October 8th, from thence came to Haverhill the 26th, where we stayed till April 19th, 1727, and, that day, came to Derry. " James Harvey, from Ireland, died on the 4th day of May, 1742." The children of this James Harvey were : (1) Robert, born July 10, 1709 ; (2) Rachel, born July 15, 1710 ; (3) Thomas, born October 17, 1713 ; (4) Margaret, born Octo- ber 9, 1716 ; (5) Grezel, born June 26, 1717 ; (6) Rose, born July 22, 1719 ; (7) Mary L., born July 9, 1721 ; (8) Elizabeth, born December 27, 1722. This Robert married Ann, the daughter of William Max- well, who, with his family, came in the same vessel that brought over James Harvey and his family, also Andrew McClary and his family, who were among the early families of Nottingham. And it was McClary's son that married Elizabeth Harvey, to the great disgust of the Harvey family ; because the McClai-y's occupied in Ireland a position in society inferior to that of the Harvey's. Hence a pro- tracted alienation between the two, which accounts for the removal of Andrew McClary from Nottingham to Epsom. The children of Robert Harvey, son of James and Ann Maxwell, were : (1) Elizabeth, born December 9, 1738, who married James Kelsey of Nottingham ; (2) Rachel, born March 13, 1739, married Andrew Black of Boston ; (3) Ann, born August 12, 1741, who married Joshua Stevens of Stratham ; (4) James, born January 27, 1742, who mar- ried Miss Scribner of Waterborough, Me. ; (5) John, born October 15, 1744, and married Hannah Hilton ; (6) Mary, born March, 1746, and married Philip Yeaton of Ports- mouth ; (7) William Maxwell, born October 8, 1749 ; (8) Abigail, born July 4, 1751, and married Daniel McNeill of HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 213 Boston ; (9) Rosanna, born January 29, 1754, and married Levi Dame ; (10) Thomas, born January 27, 1756. The above John, the fifth child of Robert Harvey and Ann Maxwell, married Hannah Hilton, and their children were : (1) Robert, born August 4, 1773, and married Nancy Stevens ; (2) Anna, born November 30, 1775 ; (3) Han- nah, born. January 26, 1778 ; (4) John, born December 26, 1780 ; (5) Mary, born March 17, 1783 ; (6) Abigail, born July 17, 1785 ; (7) James, born August 28, 1787 ; (8) Daniel, born December 12, 1789 ; (9) Elizabeth, born June 4, 1793. The children of Robert, the son of John Harvey and Hannah Hilton, who married Nancy Stevens, were : John, born September 6, 1805 ; Mary Ann, born November 20, 1807; and Hannah, born March 28, 1812; and the chil- dren of John are Lavina, Emily, and Charlotte ; of James, are Nathan, Lavina, Hannah, Charles, and Maria. The children of Daniel are Pike, Abigail, John, William, and Albert ; of Nathan, are Hannah, Luella, Mary Abba, and Ida ; of Charles, are James, Anna, and Ernest. The chil- dren of Pike, son of Daniel, are Hannah, Rebecca, David, and Idella; of John, son of Daniel, are Willie and Ada Belle ; of Albert, son of Daniel, Kate, Clara, Ellen, Han- nah, John, Ada Belle, Prank Ben, and William. KELSEY FAMILY. The Kelsey family are of Scotch-Irish origin. The name is in some places spelled Kelse, in others Kelso, as in Deny and New Boston. The Kelsey families in Nottingham are doubtless allied to the Kelsos of Derry. James settled where James Albert Kelsey resides, build- ing the main part of his house about a half-mile west of Lee line, in the Kelsey district, on the road from Deer- field Parade to Lee Hill. This James died April 23, 1795. His wife's name was 214 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Elizabeth Harvey, sister of John Harvey of Nottingham. Their children were : (1) Margaret, born November 3, 1762; (2) William, born October 1, 1764; (3) James, jr., born May 6, 1766 ; (4) Jane, born March 10, 1768 ; (5) Moses, born February 17, 1770 ; (6) John, born October 5, 1771 ; (7) Hugh, born September 19, 1773. Margaret married Miles Reynolds, and they lived in Lee, but died in New Durham. Their children were Betsey, Lois, John, and Olive. William married Hannah, daughter of John Harvey, and they lived where James Albert Kelsey resides, and their children were Daniel, Elizabeth, William, John H., Jane (born April 5, 1814), and James Albert. Daniel, son of William, born June 27, 1805, married La- vina Harvey, daughter of James Harvey, and they have children : William, Alvin, Medora, Hannah Jane, Maria, James, Charles, Jesse, John M., and Elmo. Elizabeth, born October 16, 1806, died unmarried ; and William, born March 14, 1809, married Maria, daughter of James Harvey, and they have one son, Elmo ; John H., born May 15, 1811, died aged about twenty-four ; and Jane, born April 5, 1814J married David Chesley of Northwood, whose children are William, George, and Edith. James Albert, son of William, and brother of the above, born April 5, 1816, married Abbie A., daughter of John Glass of Nottingham, and they live on the old homestead, having no children. He was a member of the convention to revise the Constitution. James, the son of James and Elizabeth, married Sally Rendal of Durham, and they lived and died in Danville, Yt., having, for children, Harvey, James, John, Robert, Moses, Sally, Hiram, and Hugh. Jane married Jonathan Thompson of Lee, and their chil- dren are James, Susan, Noah, Hugh, and Mary. Moses died unmarried. John married Mary Roberts of Waterborough, Me., and BISTORT OF NOTTINGHAM. 215 lived where John Kelsey resides, and their children were James H., Susan, Eliza, John, Mary, Ichabod, and Hiram. This James was a merchant in Boston, where he died, leav- ing children, Louise and Kate. He had accumulated a large estate. Hugh married, July 27, 1798, Ann, daughter of John Harvey, and they lived where his son Hugh resides. She was born October 30, 1775, and died February 7, 1857, aged eighty-two ; he died June 4, 1848, aged seventy-four ; their children were James, Hannah, Ann, Abigail, and Hugh. This James died January 3, 1867, unmarried, aged sixty-seven ; Hannah died March 15, 1873, aged sixty- eight ; Ann resides with her brother ; Abigail died October 21, 1835, unmarried, aged twenty-nine ; and Hugh, born Oc- tober 4, 1811, married, 1841, Catherine, daughter of Enoch Emery of Canterbury ; she is a sister of the widow of the late Dr. John Sanborn of Newmarket, and of Dr. Stephen Emery of Fisherville. They have had three children : Abbie Ann, born September 19, 1841, who married, Octo- ber 18, 1860, George W. Stevens, and died April 24, 1862 ; their children were a son, that died early, and Mary Emery, born November 1, 1845, and died June 9, 1863. This Ste- vens was a lawyer in Missouri, and died of consumption on his way to Nottingham in 1866. He was born June 21, 1836. LANGLET FAMILY. Little can be gathered of Adalad Langley. He came to Nottingham among the first settlers, was fond of fishing and hunting, and so lived much abroad, and shared largely in the society of the Indians that were found near North Pond and along North River, flowing from it through Tut- tle's Corner. Tradition has it, that he became enamored of a beautiful Indian girl, and made her the mistress of his humble dwelling, and that she proved an excellent wife and mother. They had a son named Benjamin, who settled on Peavey Hill, near Langley Pond. He married, and the issue 2\Q HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. was two sons, Thomas and Joseph, and four daughters, Sally, Lovey, Judith, and one other. Thomas died in 1854, aged sixty. His wife was Lois, born January 9, 1797, daughter of Samuel Emerson, and their children are : Mary Jane, born April 8, 1817 ; Josiah ; and Joseph Longfellow, who resides at the Center. (1) This Mary Jane married Joseph E. Tilton, who died in 1862, in the army, and their children are : Frank, who died in the war, before his father, near Benton Roads ; George, who married Dulcine French of Newmarket ; and Sarah, who married Albert Smith, and they have one daughter, Effie. (2) Josiah, son of Thomas and Lois, born October 18, 1818, married Susan, daughter of William Small of North- wood, and their children are John and Mary S. This Jo- siah was for fourteen years connected with the Boston and Maine Railroad. He now resides on his farm in Notting- ham. (3) Joseph Longfellow, born August 20, 1834, married August 9, 1856, Elizabeth Templeton of Lawrence, Mass. She was born March 12, 1831. This Josiah L. has been connected with railroads, in all, sixteen years ; ten of those years he was on the Boston and Maine. He now resides at the Center. At his house the passengers on the coach from Newmarket to Northwood dine, and here the stranger may find rest by day and slumber by night, undisturbed. LUCY FAMILY. Alexander Lucy lived where John H. Chesley resides. He married Eunice Dame, and their children were (1) Ben- jamin, (2) Sally, (3) Hannah, (4) John, (5) Polly, '(6) Eunice, (7) Rachel, (8) Thomas, and (9) Fanny. This Benjamin lived near the late Rev. Alexander Tuttle ; he married Lydia, daughter of the first Stoten Tuttle. Their children were Alexander, John, Sally T., Hannah, Mary J., Mark Sherburn, Eunice, and Lydia 0. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 217 Alexander married, August 3, 1814, Fanny Hatch of Wells, Me., and lived in Jackson, where his children were born ; viz., Angelina Dame, born August 29, 1816 ; Arvilla Hatch, born May 28, 1820. This Angelina married Andrew G. Gerrish, and lived in Nottingham ; he died, and she married James L. Clark, and had, for children, Andrew James and Albion Gray ; the former married Lydia Kennard, and lived near Alexander Tuttle ; and the latter married Emma Gregg of North Weare, where they now reside. This Angelina died August 24, 1876. Arvilla married, July 4, 1845, Edward P. Gerrish, and they live in Nottingham. The first Lucy was colonel of militia. His (Benja- min's) son, born September 22, 1790, died in Nottingham, 1873. McCLABY FAMILY. Andrew McClary is believed to have settled in Notting- ham at an early date. We find him chosen, March 26, 1733 - 34, selectman. He was of Scotch origin, his ancestors having settled, with many other Presbyterians, in Ireland. Hence he emigrated into this country from Ireland, in com- pany with a Harvey family and others. He had a numer- ous family, and in 1738 removed from Nottingham into Epsom, on a beautiful high swell of land of fertile soil, where he reared his family to habits of industry, cultivat- ing the land and entertaining strangers as a taverner. His son John was born in Ireland, January 1, 1720, and died June 16, 1801. He came over with his father when six years old. He married, January 22, 1746, Elizabeth Harvey, born December 27, 1722, of Nottingham. She came to this country in the same ship with himself, and their children were : (1) Agnes, born December 4, 1746 ; (2) Mary, born October 29, 1748 ; (3) Elizabeth, born December 17, 1750 ; (4) Michael, born December 26, 1752 ; (5) John, born Oc- tober 31, 1754 ; (6) Andrew, born August 6, 1759, and 218 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. died at Medford December 11, 1775 ; (7) Elizabeth Harvey, born January 17, 1780, died March 23, 1782 ; (8) Nancy Dearborn, born November 27, 1781, died August 20, 1789 ; (9) John, born January 6, 1784, died June 24, 1784 ; (10) John, born April 24, 1785 ; (11) Andrew, born September 26, 1787 ; (12) Nancy Dearborn, born September 25, 1789. John was killed in the battle of Saratoga in 1787, while serving as lieutenant in Gen. Whipple's brigade. Michael was born in Epsom in 1753. He entered the army at the age of twenty-three, and was appointed ensign in Capt. Henry Dearborn's company in Stark's regiment, and ren- dered noble service at the battle of Bunker Hill. He was appointed captain in Col. Scammel's regiment, in 1777. He was in the army four years, and in some of the severest engagements. On leaving the army, he aided in the organ- ization of the state government, and was appointed adju- tant-general, and retained the office twenty-one years. He was elected senator in 1796, and served in that capacity for seven years. He was United-States marshal for many years, including those in which we were at war with Eng- land the second time. He was the favorite son of Epsom, serving her in some capacity for more than fifty years. It was to a great extent through his influence that the New- Hampshire branch of the Society of the Cincinnati was organized, of which he was treasurer for twenty-five years. These Revolutionary officers met annually on the Fourth of July, and three times at his house, where his tall and manly form, his affable and engaging manners, his wit and varied knowledge, rendered him the object of great interest. He married, in 1779, Sally, daughter Dr. Dearborn, then of North Hampton, and they reared five children : (1) John, born in 1785, and was killed, aged thirty-six, by the falling of a building ; (2) Andrew, born 1787, served as captain in the war of 1812, married Mehitable Duncan of Concord in 1813, sailed to Calcutta, and was lost at sea ; (3) Nancy Dearborn, born in 1789, married Samuel Lord of Ports- HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 219 mouth, whose son Augustus now owns much of the McClaiy estate in Epsom ; (4) Elizabeth Harvey, born in 1791, mar- ried Jonathan Steele, a lawyer, and resided on the home- stead ; (5) Mary, born in 1794, married Amos A. Parker, and lived in Fitzwilliam. Mary, daughter of Esquire John, and sister of Michael, married Daniel Page of Deerfield. (See sketch of Daniel Page.) Esquire John McClary was for many years an exemplary Christian, and a deacon of the Congregational Church. He died June 16, 1801, aged eighty-one years, five months, and fifteen days. This John McClary had three sisters who settled in Ep- som, besides his parents and brother Andrew. The eldest, Margaret, married Deacon Samuel Wallace ; the second, Jane, married John McGaffy ; and the third, Ann, married Richard Tripp. Maj. Andrew McClary, son of Andrew, the first settler of the name in Nottingham, and afterwards in Epsom, and brother of the above-named Esquire John, in early life mar- ried Elizabeth McCrillis, by whom he had seven children. His eldest son, James Harvey, was born in 1762, succeeded to his father's business as a merchant, farmer, and taverner. He was highly respected ; had great influence in the organ- ization of the Eighteenth Regiment, and was one of its first commanders, and was, in time, promoted to a brigadier- general of the militia. He married Betsey Dearborn of North Hampton, by whom he had six children. The second son of Maj. Andrew, Andrew, jr., was born in 1765, entered the regular army, was promoted to the rank of captain, served for a time on the frontier, was several years clerk in the war department at Washington, where he died in mid- dle life. The major's third son, John^ born in 1767, also entered the regular army, was made captain, and died at Fort Gibson. He married Abigail Pearson of Epsom, in 1791, by whom he had one son, Charles, who removed to 220 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Sanstead, Can. The major's fourth son, William, mar- ried Isabel Dickey, in 1791, and followed his brother into Sanstead. The major's daughter Elizabeth became the wife of Capt. Simon Heath ; and another, Margaret, mar- ried Rev. Mr. Haseltine, pastor of the Congregational Church in Epsom for thirty years ; while a third, Nancy, became the wife of John Stevens. The widow of Maj. Andrew McClary married Col. Samuel Osgood, in 1794, and died in 1800, aged sixty- seven. This Maj. Andrew McClary was fond of military tactics, and shared largely in the warlike, spirit of the times. The long-continued French and Indian wars had proved a trying yet valued school, in which the hardy yeomanry had a varied discipline. Their rough scouting-life had rendered them bold and reckless of the perils of war, and made them familiar with all localities, and skillful as marksmen. Rogers had a famous battalion of rangers, and other organizations kept alive the martial spirit be- tween 1760, when " the seven-years war " closed, and the capture of Port William and Mary, December 14, 1774, which occurred four months prior to the fights at Lexing- ton and Concord. Nottingham, Deerfield, Epsom, North- wood, Chichester, and Pittsfield were organized into a new regiment, called the Twelfth. McClary's tavern was the resort of military characters, where the all-absorbing sub- ject which was agitating the whole country was freely dis- cussed, and the warlike spirit was kindled into a devouring passion. They were anticipating war, and were ready for it. The signal need only be given, and heroes, amid forest homes, would leap to the contest. The battle of Lexington was fought April 19, 177-5. This was the signal that started into activity every patriot. Fires were lighted on a thousand hill-tops. A thousand messengers rode with the speed of the wind through every town, calling to arms. As soon as the news readied Exeter of the fray at Lexing- HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 221 ton, one of these messengers started for Nottingham, thence to Deerfield Parade, and thence to Epsom. Young McClary was plowing in the well-known muster-field, when he heard the blowing of horn, and was roused by that tocsin to arms. Like Rome's Cincinnatus, McClary left the plow in the furrow, hastily armed himself, and dashed off to Deer- field, accompanied by a few daring spirits. At the Parade, patriots were waiting for him, and on they go to Notting- ham. Dr. Dearborn and others gave them a cordial and rousing cheer. A company of some eighty heroes — such as none but Sparta ever gave to the world — here assembled by about one o'clock, from Nottingham, Deerfield, Epsom, Chichester, and Northwood, and they leave the Square about four o'clock the same day, traveling all night, and reach Medford early the next morning. That company was composed of men, many of whom became distinguished in the Revolution at the first, espe- cially for the best march ever recorded in history. It held the post of honor in that glorious engagement at Bunker Hill, and its leading spirits were afterwards always to be found where dangers were thickest and responsibilities greatest. • McClary quickly perceived the absence of appropriate organization, and knew that without it little would be done. Hence he wrote from Cambridge, April 23, 1775, to the Clerk of Provincial Congress, then sitting at Exeter, the following characteristic letter : — Pray Read the following Letter to the Congress now sitting at Exeter : — Honorable Gentlemen, — Being in great haste, but beg leave to give you some broken Intelligence relating to the Army that is now assembled here ; the Number is unknown at present, and as there is a Council of War now siting, their Results is still kept a profound secret, the Army has already provided a Number of Canon, there is still more coming, and is providing a great plenty of war-like Stores, Implements and utensils, there's now about Two thousand Brave and hearty resolute New Hampshire men, full of vigor and Blood from the Interior parts of the Province, which labour under a great disadvan- tage, for not being under proper Regulation, for want of Field officers. 222 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. In our present Situation we have no voice in the Council of War which makes a great difficulty. Pray, Gent., take these important matters under your Mature consideration, and I doubt not but your Wisdom will dictate and point out such measures as will be most con- ducive to extricate us from our present difficidties. The Conduct of a certain person Belonging to New Hampshire will have a vast tendency to Stigmatize the Province most Ignominiously ; yesterday it was re- ported throughout New Hampshire Troops that one Mr. Esq r who appeared in the character of a Capt. at the Head of a Company, had been to the General & rec d a verbal express from him that all New Hampshire men were dismissed and that they might return home, and by the Insinuation of him and his busy Emissaries, about five or six hundred of our men Inconsiderately march'd off for Home. Capt. Cilley and I was three miles from Cambridge when we rec'd the Intel- ligence which was to our unspeakable Surprise, for to return before the work was done. We immediately repair'd to the General to know the certainty of the Report, and on making application to him he told us that it was an absolute false-hood, for he never had any such thought. Whereas he very highly valued New Hamp r men always understand- ing them to be the Best of soldiers, and that he would not have any of them to depart for Home on any consideration whatever, till matters were further compromised, and strictly enquir'd for the man in order to have him confronted. We reply'd the man was departed and there- fore we could not conform with his request. But since we understand that his conduct hath stopp'd a number of men from coming in, and some officers that Tarried has sent for their men to return back. Pray Gent : don't let it always be Reported that New Hampshire men were always Brave Soldiers, but never no Commander : the disser- tion of those men causes much uneasiness among the remaining Troops, for we are oblig'd to use our utmost Influence to persuade them to Tarry. Gentlemen, I am with all imaginable Respect, your's & the Country's most obedient Humble servant, ANDREW McCLARY. N. B. — Take notice, I never told you that Squire Samuel Dudley was the man who propagated this groundless report. To The Clerk of the Provincial Congress now sitting at Exeter. At Medford, two regiments were organized, composed of New-Hampshire boys. John Stark was chosen to command the first, as colonel, and Andrew McClary, as major. The company that left Nottingham on the 29th of April was HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 223 commanded by Henry Dearborn of Nottingham, as captain, Amos Morrill of Epsom, as lieutenant, and Michael McClary of Epsom, as ensign. Of the troops stationed around Boston on the 17th of June, about fifteen hundred were actually engaged in the fight at Bunker Hill, of which the larger number were from New Hampshire, connected with the two regiments under Col. John Stark and Col. Joseph Reid. The former regi- ment, under Stark, formed a line behind the rail fence, and heroically defended it, doing fearful execution to the enemy, and were the last to retreat. A commander of one of the companies in this regiment was Henry Dearborn of Nottingham, who was promoted for meritorious conduct to the rank of colonel, in the Revolution ; then United-States marshal, member of Congress, Secretary of War, and, in the war of 1812, commander-in-chief of the American army. The following account of the battle of Bunker Hill was written by his own hand, which cannot fail to interest every son of New Hampshire, especially the descendants of those who marched with him from Nottingham Square : — Colonel Stark's regiment was quartered at Medf ord, distant about four miles from trie point of anticipated attack. It consisted of thir- teen companies, and was the largest regiment in the army. About ten o'clock in the morning, he received orders to march. The regiment, being destitute of ammunition, formed in front of a house occupied as an arsenal, where each man received a gill cup full of powder, fifteen balls, and one flint. The several captains were then ordered to march their companies to their respective quarters, and to make up their powder and balls into cartridges, with the greatest possible dispatch. As there were scarcely two muskets in a company, of equal calibre, it was necessary to reduce the size of the balls for many of them ; and, as but a small proportion of the men had cartridge-boxes, the remainder made use of powder-horns and ball-pouches. After completing the necessary preparations for action, the regiment formed and marched about one o'clock. When it reached Charlestown Neck, we found two regiments halted in consequence of a heavy enfi- lading fire thrown across it, of round, bar, and chain shot, from the lively frigate and floating batteries anchored in Charles River and a 224 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. floating battery lying in the River Mystic. Maj. McClary went forward and observed to the commanders, if they did not intend to move on, he wished them to open and let our regiment pass ; the latter was im- mediately done. My company being in front, I marched by the side of Col. Stark, who, moving with a very deliberate pace, I suggested the propriety of quickening the march of the regiment, that it might sooner be relieved from the galling cross-fire of the enemy. With a look peculiar to hirnself, he fixed his eyes upon me, and observed, with great composure, " Dearborn, one fresh man in action is worth ten fatigued ones," and continued to advance in the same cool and collected man- ner. When we had reached Bunker Hill, where Gen. Putnam had taken his station, the regiment halted for a few minutes for the rear to come up. Soon after, the enemy were discovered to have landed on the shore at Morton's Point, in front of Breed's Hill, under cover of a tremendous fire of shot and shell from a battery on Copp's Hill, in Bos- ton, which had opened on the redoubt at daybreak. Maj.-Gen. Howe and Brig.-Gen. Pigot were the commanders of the British forces which first landed, consisting of four battalions of in- fantry, ten companies of grenadiers, and ten of light infantry, with a train of artillery. They formed as they disembarked, but remained -in that position until they were reinforced. At this moment, the vet- eran and gallant Stark harangued his regiment in a short but animated address, then directed them to give three cheers, and made a rapid movement to the rail fence which ran from the left, and about forty yards in the rear of the redoubt, toward the Mystic River. Part of the grass, having been recently cut, lay in windrows and cocks on the field. Another fence was taken up, the rails' run through the one in front, and the hay mown in the vicinity suspended upon them, from the bottom to the top, which had the appearance of a breast- work, but was, in fact, no real cover to the men ; it, however, served as a deception to the enemy. This was done by the direction of the Committee of Safety, of which James Winthrop, Esq., who then and now lives in Cambridge, was one, as he has within a few years in- formed me. Mr. Winthrop himself acted as a volunteer on that day, and was wounded in the battle. At this moment, our regiment was formed in the rear of the rail fence, with one other small regiment from New Hampshire, under the command of Col. Reid ; the fire commenced between the left wing of the -British army, commanded by Gen. Howe, and the troops in the redoubt, under Col. Prescott, while a column of the enemy was advan- cing on our left, on the shore of Mystic River, with an evident intention of turning our left wing ; and that veteran and most excellent regiment of Welsh fusileers, so distinguished for its gallant conduct in the bat- MISTOUY OF NOTTINGHAM. 225 tie of Minden, advanced in column directly on the rail fence ; when within eighty or a hundred yards, it displayed into line with the precis- ion and firmness of troops on parade, and opened a brisk but regular fire by platoons, which was returned by a well-directed, rapid, and fatal discharge from our whole line. The action soon became general, and very heavy from right to left. In ten or fifteen minutes the enemy gave way at all points, and re- treated in great disorder, leaving a large number of dead and wounded on the field. The firing ceased for a short time, when the enemy formed, advanced, and recommenced a spirited fire from his whole line. Several attempts were again made to turn oar left, But the troops, hav- ing thrown up a slight stone wall on the bank of the river, and lying down behind it, gave such a deadly fire as cut down almost every man of the party opposed to them ; while the fire from the redoubt and the rail fence was so well-directed and so fatal, especially to the British officers, that the whole army was compelled, a second time, to retreat with precipitation and great confusion. At this time the ground was covered with the dead and wounded. Only a few small, detached par- ties again advanced, which kept up a distant, ineffectual, scattering- fire, until a strong reinforcement arrived from Boston, which advanced on the southern declivity of the hill, in the rear of Charlestown ; it wheeled by platoons to the right and advanced directly on the redoubt without firing a gun. By this time our ammunition was exhausted : a few only had a charge left. The advancing column made an attempt to carry the redoubt by assault ; but, at the first onset, every man that mounted the parapet was cut down by the troops within, who had formed on the opposite side, not being prepared with bayonets to meet a charge. The column wavered for a moment, but soon formed again, when a forward move- ment was made with such spirit and intrepidity as to render the feeble efforts of a handful of men, without the means of defence, unavailing ; and they fled through an open space in the rear of the redoubt, which had been left for a gateway. At this moment, the rear of the British column advanced round the angle of the redoubt, and threw in a gall- ing flank-fire upon our troops, as they rushed from it, which killed and wounded a greater number than had fallen before during the action. The whole of our line immediately gave way and retreated with ra- pidity towards Bunker Hill, carrying off as many of the wounded as possible, so that only thirty-six or seven fell into the hands of the ene- my ; among whom were Lieut.-Col. Parker and two or three other offi- cers, who fell in or near the redoubt. When the troops arrived at the summit of Bunker Hill, we found Gen. Putnam, with nearly as many men as had been engaged in the 15 226 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. battle ; notwithstanding which, no measures had been taken for rein- forcing us, nor was there a shot fired to cover our retreat, or any move- ment made to check the advance of the enemy to this height ; but, on the contrary, Gen. Putnam rode off with a number of spades and pick- axes in his hands, and the troops that had remained with him, inactive, during the whole of the action, although within a few hundred yards of the battle-ground, and no obstacle to impede their movement but musket-balls. The whole of our troops now descended the north-west declivity of Bunker HilL and recrossed the neck, the New-Hampshire line towards Winter Hill, and the others on to Prospect Hill. Some slight works were thrown up in the course of the evening ; strong advance pickets were posted on the roads leading to Charlestown, and the troops, antici- pating an attack, rested on their arms. It is a most extraordinary fact, that the British did not make a sin- gle charge during the battle, which, if attempted, would have proved fatal and decisive, as the Americans did not carry fifty bayonets into the field; in my company, there was but one. Soon after the com- mencement of the action, a detachment from the British force in Bos- ton landed in Charlestown, and within a few moments the whole town was in a blaze. A dense column rose to a great height, and, there being a gentle breeze from the south-west, it hung like a thunder-cloud over the contending armies. A very few houses escaped the dreadful conflagration of this devoted town. From similar mistakes, the field ammunition furnished for the field- pieces was calculated for guns of larger caliber, which prevented the use of field-artillery on both sides. There was no cavalry in either army. From the ships of war, and a large battery on Copp's Hill, a heavy cannonade was kept up upon our line and redoubt, from the commence- ment to the close of the action, and during the retreat ; but with little effect, except killing the brave Maj. Andrew McClary, of Col. Stark's regiment, soon after we retreated from Bunker Hill. He was among the first officers of the army ; possessing a sound judgment, of undaunted bravery, enterprising, ardent, and zealous, both as a patriot and soldier. His loss was severely felt by his com- patriots in arms, while his country was deprived of the services of one of her most promising and distinguished champions of liberty. After leaving the field of battle, I met him and drank some spirit and water with him. He was animated and sanguine in the result of the conflict for independence, from the glorious display of valor which had distinguished his countrymen on that memorable day. He soon observed that the British troops on Bunker Hill appeared , BISTORT OF NOTTINGHAM.'' 227 in motion, and said he would go and reconnoiter them, to see whether they were coming out over the Neck, at the same time directed me to march my company down the road towards Charlestown. We were then at Tufts's house, near Ploughed Hill. I immediately made a for- ward movement to the position he directed me to take, and halted, while he proceeded to the old pound, which stood on the site now occupied as a tavern-house, not far from the entrance to the Neck. After having satisfied himself that the enemy did not intend to leave their strong posts on the heights, he was returning towards me, and, within twelve or fifteen rods of where I stood with my company, a random shot from one of the frigates lying near where the center of Craigie's Bridge now is, passed directly through his body, and put to flight one of the most heroic souls that ever animated man. He leaped two or three feet from the ground, pitched forward, and fell dead upon his face. I had him carried to Medford, where he was interred with all the respect and honors we could exhibit to the manes of a great and good man. He was my bosom friend ; we had grown up together on terms of the greatest intimacy, and I loved him as a brother. My position in the battle, more the result of accident than any regu- larity of formation, was on the right of the line, at the rail fence, which afforded me a fair view of the whole scene of action. Our men were intent on cutting down every officer they could dis- tinguish in the British line. When any of them discovered one, he would instantly exclaim, " There ! see that officer ! let us have a shot at him ! " Then two or three would fire at the same moment ; and, as our soldiers were excellent marksmen, and rested their muskets over the fence, they were sure of their object. An officer was discovered to mount near the position of Gen. Howe, on the left of the British line, and ride towards our left, which a column was endeavoring to turn ; this was the only officer on horseback during the day, and, as he ap- proached the rail fence, I heard a number of our men observe, " There ! there ! see that officer on horseback ; let us fire." " No ; not yet ; wait until he gets to that little knoll — now! " when they fired and he in- stantly fell dead from his horse. It proved to be Maj. Pitcairn, a dis- tinguished officer. The fire of the enemy was so badly directed I should presume that forty-nine balls out of fifty passed from one to six feet over our heads ; for I noticed an apple-tree, some paces in the rear, which had scarcely a ball in it from the trunk and ground as high as a man's head, while the trunk and branches above were literally cut to pieces. I commanded a full company in action, and had only one man killed and five wounded, which was a full average of the loss we sustained, 228 * HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. w excepting those who fell while sallying from the redoubt when it was stormed by the British column. Our total loss in killed was eighty-eight, and, as well as I can recol- lect, upward of two hundred wounded. Our platoon officers carried fusees. In the course of the action, after firing away what ammunition I had, I walked to the higher ground on the right, in rear of the redoubt, in expectation of procuring from some of the dead or wounded men who lay there a supply. While in that situation, I saw at some dis- tance a dead man lying near a small locust-tree. As he appeared to be much better dressed than our men generally were, I asked a man who was passing me if he knew who it was. He replied, " It is Dr. Warren." I did not personally know Dr. Warren, but was acquainted with his public character. He had been recently appointed a general in our service, but had not taken command. He was president of the Provin- cial Congress, then sitting at Watertown, and, having heard that there would probably be an action, had come to share in whatever might happen, in the character of a volunteer, and was unfortunately killed early in the action. His death was a severe misfortune to his friends and country. Posterity will appreciate his worth and do honor to his memory. He is immortalized as a patriot who gloriously fell in the cause of freedom. The number of our troops in action, as near as I was able to ascer- tain, did not exceed fifteen hundred. The force of the British at the commencement of the action was estimated at about the same num- ber, but they were frequently reinforced. Had our ammunition held out, or had we been supplied with only fifteen or twenty rounds, I have no doubt that we should have killed and wounded the greatest part of their army, and compelled the remainder to have laid down their arms ; for it was with the greatest difficulty that they were brought up the last time. Our fire was so deadly, particularly to the officers, that it would have been impossible to have resisted it but for a short time longer. I did not see a man quit his post during the action, and do not be- lieve a single soldier who was brought into the field fled, until the whole army was obliged to retreat for want of powder and ball. The total loss of the British was about twelve hundred : upward of five hundred killed, and between six and seven hundred wounded. The Welsh Fusileers suffered most severely ; they came into action five hundred strong, and all were killed or wounded but eighty-three. It is mortifying to reflect, that neither the friends nor HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 229 the state have reared a monument to distinguish the resting- place of Maj. Andrew McClary from those of other un- honored dead around him. Generous, brave, and patriotic, he nobly hazarded his own life, and encouraged others to forget self, for the life of his country. His example was a power for good in the cause of freedom, and stimulated many to rush into the bloody strife. Hence the gratitude of the nation should in some way show itself, so that, in coming exigencies of the country, patriotism shall not be repressed through fear of unrewarded services. -He who shall write a complete history of Dearborn and McClary will deserve much praise, and do a service much needed ; while he who shall constrain the state of McClary's nativity to rear some appropriate memorial-stone to denote his resting-place, and perpetuate the memory of so gallant an officer and generous a patriot, will deserve well of pos- terity. All that New Hampshire has done to repay Maj. McClary's services has been to compensate for certain losses, to pay for his rude coffin and for digging his grave, as indicated by the following, copied from provincial papers : — To the Hon'ble Congress now Sitting at Exeter for the Colony of New Hampshire : — An acct of sundry losses sustained by Major Andrew McClary, in a Battle fought between the regular Troops and. the American forces on Charles-Town Neck on the 17th June last past, and sundry other ser- vices done toward his Burying. To one new Bridle lost on said day . To one pair Silver knee-buckles lost . To one pair stone sleeve-buttons To Horse-keeping six weeks at Colon 1 Royall's, lings per week To a Coffin for the deceas'd To digging a grave for do. To 1 pair Pistols lost in the Engagem' To 1 large Powder-Horn shott to pieces . To 1 pair of Holdsters lost in Battle at six Shil- £0 1 1 0: 6 2: 8 0: 8 1:16 16:0 0:0 6:0 8:0 8:0 £8 : 18 : 230 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. To Cash advanced John Casey at Haverhill to buy neces- sarys with, for the use of the Companys that were on their inarch towards Lexington 1 : 10 : £10: 8:0 Is this all the monument New Hampshire is willing to rear the brave and gallant officer who fought in the battle of Bunker Hill on the 17th of June, 1775, and, having escaped its perils, was killed as he was returning from examining the position of the enemy, by a chance shot from a British man-of-war ? McCRILLIS FAMILY. John McCrillis settled in the Kelsey neighborhood, and his son David succeeded him; and this David was suc- ceeded by his son John. John McCrillis, the first settler, had, for children : (1) Susan, who married a Burnhain of New Durham ; (2) Sally, who married Mark Gile ; (3) John ; (4) Mary ; (5) Jane ; (6) David T., who married Abigail, daughter of John Ches- ley of Northwood, and they had two children : John, who lives on the homestead and married Mary Emerson of Dur- ham, and they have one son, John ; and Mary, who mar- ried Eben Gerrish of Northwood. MARSH FAMILY. Samuel Marsh, born April 23, 1762, died August 27, 1827 ; the name of his wife was . They had one daughter, Olive, born March 3, 1794, died May 10, 1872. The second wife of Samuel Marsh was Catharine Eurber, born December 22, 1769, died August 25, 1840, and their children we~e : (1) James, born October 15, 1797 ; (2) David, born February 19, 1801, died July 3, 1877 ; (3) Nancy, born August 22, 1803, died August 25, 1840; (4) Samuel, born April 30, 1808, died July 5, 1824. This David Marsh married, July 4, 1827, Betsey Burn- ham, born April 19, 1801, died September 25, 1876; she HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 231 was daughter of Jacob Burnham, born October 20, 1748, and Lydia, his wife, who died May 19, 1784 ; and their children were Anna, Drusilla, Sarah, Susanna, and Lydia. This Jacob B. married, for his second wife, Mary McDaniels, born July 3, 1768, died October 30, 1818 ; and their chil- dren were Jacob, Asa, Nathan, Miles, Noah, Daniel, Betsey, Sabra, Irena, and Permelia ; this Asa, born December 8, 1787, married Lois , born April 27, 1786 ; and their children were Olive, Nancy R., Abigail Jane, Mary Eliza- beth, Ann Adelaid, Charles W., and Sherborn K. The children of David Marsh and Betsey Burnham were : Elizabeth, born July 21, 1828 ; Caroline B., born December 23, 1830, died March 29, 1874 ; Franklin, born January 28, 1833, died August 16, 1871 ; Jane, born May 17, 1835, died February 5, 1859 ; Daniel B., born February 2, 1838, died November 25, 1839 ; Washington, born January 12, 1840, died April 10, 1869; and Harrison, born July 6, 1842, who resides on the homestead, with his sister Eliza- beth, who, until the death of her parents, devoted herself to teaching for several years, and afterwards to portrait painting, in Hartford, Conn. Jane married A. S. Lindsey of St. Stephens, N. B., Au- gust, 1855, and died there, leaving two children : Annie, born November 17, 1856 ; and Bobart, born January 30, 1858. Caroline B., the second daughter of Mr. David Marsh, married Dr. G. A. Grace, dentist, and left one son, Wil- lie H. NEALLEY FAMILY. William Nealley, the projenitor of all the Nealleys about Nottingham, Northwood, and Lee, was one of the first set- tlers in Nottingham. He owned and lived on the " Ledge Farm," so called, about a mile from Nottingham Square, on the road leading towards Epping, and built the first house upon it. He settled in Nottingham about the year 1725. He was of Scotch descent, born in Ireland, and was 232 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. one of those Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, or Puritans, as they were called, who emigrated from the north of Ireland to Boston, Mass., about the time of the first settlement in Londonderry. He died suddenly, while sitting in his chair. He had four sons and one daughter, William, jr., Mathew, John, , and . Mathew Nealley, second son of William, was born and lived in Nottingham, and was a large landholder in the town of Nottingham. He had two sons, Joseph and An- drew ; and four daughters : Sarah, who married a Gile ; Jenny, who married a Sanborn ; Peggy, who married a Norris ; and Molly, who married a Mason for her first hus- band and a Hodgdon for her second husband. Andrew Nealley was married and had children ; one of his daughters married a Wheelock and lived in Montpe- lier, Vt. Joseph Nealley, eldest son of Mathew, was born and lived in Nottingham all his life. He married Susannah Bowdoin, and had six children, Jane, Mathew, John, Joseph, Benjamin, and Edward B. Jane Nealley, only daughter of Joseph, was born in Not- tingham, September 22, 1772, and married, May 22, 1787, Greenleaf Cilley of Nottingham. She died in Nottingham March 26, 1866, aged ninety-three years. She was the mother of Hon. Joseph Cilley, formerly United-States senator from New Hampshire, who now resides on Not- tingham Square ; and also of the late Hon. Jonathan Cil- ley, member of Congress from Maine, who was killed at Washington in the celebrated Cilley duel. She had other children, among whom was Sally, who married Abraham Plummer of Epping, and Elizabeth, who married Benjamin Burleigh of Epping. Mathew Nealley, eldest son of Joseph, was born, lived, and raised his family in Nottingham. He married Polly, daughter of Ezra True of Deerfield, and they had eleven children, who were all born in Nottingham. In his old HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 233 age, after the death of his wife and after his children had grown up, he lived with some of his children in McHenry County, 111., and died in Illinois. One of his sons, Bow- doin Nealley, still resides in Nottingham. John Nealley, son of Joseph, was born in Nottingham, married a Betsey True, removed to Monroe, Me., and died there, having several children. Joseph Nealley, jr., son of Joseph, was born in Notting- ham, married Cynthia Putnam, and removed to Monroe, Me., where he afterwards resided. He had several chil- dren, among whom was Joseph Nealley, who now resides in Oquawka, 111. Benjamin Nealley, son of Joseph, was born, lived, and raised his family in Nottingham. He married Sally Ford of Nottingham. They had a large family of children, who were all born in Nottingham. Later in life, he and his wife removed to South Berwick, Me., where they both sub- sequently died. One of their sons, John B. Nealley, has been state senator in Maine, and is one of the prominent men in South Berwick ; another, Jackson Nealley, also resides in South Berwick ; and another, George Nealley, was a merchant in Dover. One of the daughters, Sarah Nealley, married John H. Hill of Northwood, and they now reside in Concord. Edward B. Nealley, youngest son of Joseph, was born in Nottingham, December 15, 1784. He commenced business as a merchant on Nottingham Square. He removed after- wards to Lee, where he continued business as a merchant, and held various public offices for many years. He died in Lee, June 27, 1837. He married, in 1809, Sally True, a daughter of Benjamin True of Deerfield. She was born in , Deerfield, October 25, 1789, and died in Burlington, la., December 28, 1850. After the death of her husband, she and the family removed to Northwood, and resided in Northwood until October, 1844, when they finally removed to Burlington, la. They had ten children: Greenleaf C, 234 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. Edward S. J., Prances Mary A., Benjamin F., Jane, Joseph B., Susan J., Elizabeth S., Sarah E., and Margaret J. Greenleaf C. Nealley, eldest son of Edward B., was born in Nottingham, January 7, 1810. He commenced business as a merchant, in Lowell, Mass. He removed afterwards to St. Louis, Mo., where he continued business as a mer- chant. " Some forty years ago Mr. Nealley established himself in Burlington, la., in the nursery business, remov- ing thither his widowed mother, one brother, and five sis- ters, of whom he took tender care as long as that care was needed. Through his skill and industry, the unattractive prairie became fruitful in shrubs and flowers of every variety, trees of the forest and of the orchard without number, and of brilliant exotics of every clime. While these enriched the landscape around him with elegance and fruitage, thou- sands of homes and gardens and fields throughout that re- gion, and over Iowa and the North-West, shared in the be- neficent results of his assiduous labor and care. He was methodical in business, and a lover of nature, and a friend of man. Having endeared himself to his family and a large circle of friends, he died June 5, 1878, and his body was laid by the side of the dust of his kindred, in the lot which, with the accustomed forethought and strong family feeling of his nature, he had prepared for them in Aspen- grove cemetery." He married, October 16, 1849, Martha H. Adams, a daughter of Deacon Thomas Adams of Gilman- ton, N. H. She was born in Gilmanton, August 19, 1825. They have one adopted daughter, Frances A. Nealley, who is now the wife of Col. George H. Higbee, Burlington, la. Edward S. J. Nealley, second son of Edward B., was born in Lee, December 16, 1811. He studied law in the office of his cousin, Jonathan Cilley, in Thomaston, Me. He is now United-States collector of customs, at Bath, Me. He resides in Bath, where he has long been one of the chief United-States-government officials of the custom-house. He married, July 5, 1836, Lucy Prince, a sister of Mrs. 're e^^zcz^ S- yst^a^^ HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 235 Jonathan Cilley of Thomaston, Me., for his first wife. She died in Bath, Me., January 17, 1853. He afterwards mar- ried, December 1, 1859, Sarah A. Pope of Spencer, Mass., for his second wife. He has six children ; his eldest son, the Hon. Edward B. Nealley, of Bangor, Me., was the first United-States attorney for Montana, and subsequently speaker of the House of Representatives of the Maine legis- lature, and is now state senator. Frances Mary A. Nealley, eldest daughter of Edward B., was born in Lee, February 26, 1814, and married, January 13, 1846, George Nealley of Burlington, la. He was born in Northwood. She died in Burlington, la., December 9, 1851. They had four children. Their eldest son, George T. Nealley, is now chief-engineer of the city of Burlington, and their eldest daughter, Mary Nealley, is now the wife of Hon. William B. Allison, United-States senator from Iowa. Benjamin F. Nealley, son of Edward B., was born in Lee, July 14, 1816. He was a merchant in Lowell, Mass., and died in Lowell, November 26, 1857. He married, February 16, 1840, Susan E. Bartlett of Lee. They had one daughter, Frances A. Nealley, who is now the wife of Nathaniel Hill of Lowell, Mass. Jane Nealley, daughter of Edward B., was born in Lee, April 8, 1819, and died in Lee, September 11, 1822. Joseph B. Nealley, son of Edward B., was born in Lee, April 17, 1822. He now resides in Burlington, la., where he is interested in the nursery business, as one of the firm of Nealley Brothers and Bock. He married, January 5, 1859, Margaret E. Hill, a daughter of Dr. Moses Hill of Burlington, la. She was born in Northwood. They have had five children, two of whom, Moses and Lillie, are now living. Susan J. Nealley, daughter of Edward B., was born in Lee, April 17, 1822, and died in Burlington, la., October 15, 1845. Elizabeth S. Nealley, daughter of Edward B., was born 236 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. in Loe, May 31, 1825. She married. November 9, 1846, James W. Grimes, who was then a prominent lawyer in Burlington, la. He was afterwards Governor of Iowa, from 1854 to 1858, and subsequently United-States senator from Iowa, from 1859 to 1869. He was born in Deering, N. H., October 20, 1816, and died in Burlington, la., Feb- ruary 7, 1872. They had two adopted daughters : Lavinia Noble Grimes, who married Byron Nichols ; and Mary Nealley, who married Hop. William B. Allison, United- States senator from Iowa. Mrs. Grimes still resides in Burlington, la. Sarah B. Nealley, daughter of Edward B., was born in Lee, May 31, 1825. She married, April 25, 1849, Hon. Cyrus Olney of Fairfield, la., who was then judge of one of the Iowa district courts. He subsequently removed to Oregon, where he was one of the judges of the United-States su- preme court. He was born in Ohio, and died in Oregon. She died in Astoria', Or., January 7, 1864. They had three children, all now deceased. Margaret J. Nealley, youngest daughter of Edward B., was born in Lee, June 4, 1828, and died in Burlington, la., October 17, 1845. NORRIS FAMILY. Maj. William Norris was born June 4, 1762, in Epping, son of Josiah Norris, married, October, 1785, Eleanor Blake, daughter of Joseph Blake of Epping, born January 30, 1764, and died August 28, 1797. He came to Nottingham about 1785. His second wife was Betsey Butler of Not- tingham, born July 30, 1777. This marriage was con- sumated March, 1799, and she died July 12, 1808. He married, February 22, 1813, Nancy Hilton for his third wife, who was born October 14, 1770, and died and was buried in South Newmarket. He died in 1839, aged sev- enty-seven. William's children by his first wife were : (1) Joseph HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 237 Blake ; (2) Eleanor, born March 20, 1789, married Daniel Tilton, and died August 1, 1822 ; (3) Abigail, born June 2, 1793, married Reuben Bartlett of Nottingham, and died May 13, 1825 ; (4) Eunice, born August 3, 1797, married Lawrence Brown of Epping, died January 19, 1837. By his second marriage he had : (1) Joanna, born Feb- ruary 24, 1800, married Joseph Blake of Raymond ; (2) Elizabeth, born August 23, 1802 ; (3) William, married Abigail Cartland of Lee, and they resided on the home- stead until 1874, when he removed to Hampton, leaving the homestead to his son, Abbott Norris. The children of Maj. William Norris by his third wife are Laura A. of Hampton, Sias L. and Abbott of Notting- ham, William B. and James W. of Galveston, Tex. Joseph Blake Norris was son of the foregoing William, who came from Epping and settled on a high ridge of land near the line between Deerfield and Nottingham. Joseph Blake was there born, but settled on the Deerfield side of the line, near his father's. He married Betsey, daughter of Daniel Tilton, and died May 14, 1858, aged seventy-two, and his wife died April 12, 1869, aged eighty. Their children were : (1) Ella B., born September 14, 1810, became the wife of William H. H. Knowlton of Northwood, and has two daugh- ters : Martha A., who married J. M. P. Batchelder, and they < live in Lyman, having three children, Viella, Blanche, Bart ; and Susan P., who married Dr. Nelson Clark of New Bos- ton, and they have one daughter, Dell ; Mrs. Knowlton had also one son, Blake Norris, who died in 1863, aged about thirty-two, leaving a widow, but no children ; (2) Daniel T., born December 27, 1811, who married Maria Sleeper of Epping, and died in Richmond, March 27, 1867 ; their chil- dren were : Mary E., who married Robert Emerson ; Joseph B., who was drowned in Manchester, June 28, 1858, aged nineteen ; Nellie M., who married William Blake of Ray- mond, and they have one child, William P., who married a Miss Colcord, and they reside in Michigan ; Clara, who 238 HISTOBT OF NOTTINGHAM. married Harry McLean of "Washington, in the government service, having one son, Charles G., who resides, unmarried, in Brentwood; (3) William, born September 20, 1813, married Sally, daughter of Judge Dudley Freese of Deer- field, died October 14, 1866, and they lived in Lowell, Mass., and had one son, William, living in New York ; (4) Jo- seph Blake, born June 26, 1815, married Caroline Viles of Boston, and she died September 9, 1868, and he lives in Boston ; (5) Sherburn B., born May 31, 1817, died in California, October 14, 1866 ; (6) George W., born August 9, 1819, married the widow of his brother William, she died in 1865 ; they had three children, Sarah Marriatt, who married Edwin Reader of Lowell, Georgianna, and Ardell ; (7) Lawrence B., born August 18, 1821, married Adaline Butterfield of Lowell, and they have one daughter, now the wife of Lemuel Barker of Maiden, Mass. ; his sec- ond wife was Widow- Richardson of Lowell ; they now re- side in Woburn, Mass. ; (8) Benjamin P., born August 13, 1825, died August 25, 1847. SCALES FAMILY. Abraham Scales was one of the first settlers in Notting- ham. His ancestors came from England to Massachusetts about 1640. He was born September 1, 1718, and died in 1796. He was a house-carpenter, and learned his trade in Boston, and was famous for his skill in the business. About 1740 he bought lots Nos. 39 and 41 on Summer Street, which lie in the south-east corner of Nottingham, and adjoining Lee line, four miles from Nottingham Square, and one and one-half miles from Lee Hill. In 1747, July 8, he manned Miss Sarah Thompson of Durham, and com- menced housekeeping in a log house on the farm. In 1754 he built the house which is at present (1878) standing on the farm. It is twenty-eight by thirty-eight feet, and two stories high, and was the first two-story framed house built in the town, and is, without doubt, the oldest dwelling- BISTORT OF NOTTINGHAM. 239 house at present standing in the town. It is constructed of very large pine timbers, and put together in the most substantial manner. It is as good as the average of farm- houses now, and it must have been the wonder of the town when it was built, in those days when the war-hoop of the Indians was yet heard by him and his family. In front of the house, and a few rods from it, is a very large apple-tree, which is known to have borne apples during more than a century, and so late as 1876 it bore more than forty bushels of excellent fruit ; and it has been known to bear sixty bushels of apples in a year. Six generations of the Scales family have eaten its fruit. In 1756, he bought lot No. 37 on Summer Street, and paid eight hundred pounds, old tenor, for it, thus making his farm to consist of three hun- dred acres, nearly all of which remained in the possession of the Scales family until 1854, and a small part of it is still in their possession. He was an active man in town and church affairs ; was moderator in town meetings at various times ; chairman of the board of selectmen in 1754 - 55 ; and one of the com- mittee to meet with the " council " in reference to dismiss- ing the Rev. Benjamin Butler. After 1770, he appears to have changed his views somewhat, and joined the Baptists, and attended church at Lee Hill, and owned a pew in the church there. In 1776, he refused to sign the " Associa- tion Test," — promising to take up arms to resist England, — but he furnished money to send others, although he would not obligate himself to go in person. He was probably influenced somewhat by his Baptist friends, many of whom refused to sign on account of their religious scruples. His oldest son, Samuel, however, did sign. His children were : (1) John, born September 9, 1748, died 1754 ; (2) Sarah, born August 8, 1750, died Septem- ber, 1754 ; (3) Abraham, born August 17, 1752, died Sep- tember, 1754 ; these three children died of a disease now called diphtheria ; (4) Samuel, born September 9, 1754, mar- 240 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. ried Hannah, daughter of Samuel Langley of Lee, in 1775, died March, 1778 ; (5) James, born May 1, 1757, died Sep- tember, 1760 ; (6) Mary, born October 19, 1759, died Sep- tember, 1760 ; (7) Hannah, born August 2, 1761, married Nathan Clough of Loudon, December 30, 1784 ; (8) Abi- gail, born January 29, 1764, married Elijah Cartland of Lee, July 13, 1786 ; (9) Ebenezer, born November 6, 1766, died February 18, 1855, married Anna, daughter of Gideon Mathes of Lee, February 17, 1789 ; (10) Lois,born Decem- ber 20, 1769, died in Lee, March 2, 1849, married Gideon Mathes of Lee. The children of Samuel Scales, born September 9, 1754, were : (1) Mary, born 1776, died 1782 ; (2) Samuel, born April 20, 1778, died September 21, 1840, married Hannah, daughter of Moses Dame of Lee, in April, 1799. He always lived with his grandfather, Abraham, and when the latter died he came into possession of the Scales farm, and re- tained it till 1840, when it fell to his oldest son, Samuel, who retained it till 1854. The children of Samuel, 2d, were : (1) Samuel, born July 18, 1800, died January 12, 1877, married Betsey, daughter of Benjamin True of Deerfield, December 28, 1828 ;" (2) Mary, born February 22, 1802, died 1874, married Hugh Thompson of Lee ; resided in Lee, afterwards in San Fran- cisco, Cal., where she died; (3) Nancy, born August 18, 1803, died 1872, married Daniel Tuttle of Nottingham; resided in Nottingham. Her husband was one of the active business men of the town ; held all the important town offices ; was famous as a land-surveyor ; and was a skillful and energetic manager of whatever he took hold of. They had four children, Levi Woodbury, Anna, Leonora, and Jay. The oldest son, Levi, was graduated from Bowdoin Medical College, and is now a practicing physician in Sa- tartia, Yazoo County, Miss. ; (4) Levi, born February 13, 1811, died August 4, 1847, married, November 28, 1835, Martha Cilley, daughter of Hon. Bradbury Bartlett of Not- HISTOBY OF NOTTINGHAM. 241 tingham ; resided in Nottingham. Their children were Horace, Elizabeth Ann, Mary True, and Bradbury Bartlett. The widow resides on Nottingham Square, with her son Bradbury. Samuel Scales, 3d, born July 18, 1800, was captain in the New-Hampshire militia; chairman of the board of selectmen of Nottingham in 1844-45; represented Not- tingham in the legislature in 1849-50 ; was justice of the peace a great many years, and did considerable business in that office. From 1851 to 1870 he resided on the Judge- Hale farm in Barrington ; from 1870 till his death he resided in Lee. He was a man of the strictest honesty and integrity, of superior ability and sound judgment, and always active and energetic throughout his whole life. His children were : (1) True, born January 20, 1830, married Mary Bird Shattuck in 1853 ; resides in Cambridgeport, Mass. ; (2) Israel, born September 6, 1832, died August 8, 1833 ; (3) John, born October 6, 1835, married, October 22, 1865, Ellen A., daughter of Deacon Alfred Tasker of Strafford; he fitted for college at the New London Lite- rary and Scientific School, at New London ; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1863 ; received the degree of A. M. in 1866; he was principal of Strafford Seminary, Center Strafford, 1863 - 64 ; principal of Wolfeborough Academy, 1864-65 ; principal of Gilmanton Academy, 1866 - 67 ; and has been principal of Franklin Academy, Dover, since May, 1869, which position he now (1878) holds; his children are Burton True and Marianna Lilian ; (4) George, born October 20, 1840, graduated from the New London Literary and Scientific School in 1861 ; entered the First Company New-Hampshire Sharpshooters, Septem- ber, 1861 ; and served in the Union army under McClellan till he was killed at the battle of Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, 1*62 ; he was in battles for six successive days, and fell at the final repulse of the rebel army. He was a young 16 242 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. man of superior ability, excellent character, and fine schol- arship, loved and respected by all who knew him. Rev. Bbenezer, son of Abraham Scales, born November 6, 1766, resided in Nottingham, on the Scales farm, till 1796 ; then he moved to Kearsarge, and resided till 1801 ; then he moved to Wilton, Me., where he resided till his death, February 18, 1855. He was ordained as minister of the gospel at the Anson (Me.) quarterly meeting of the Freewill Baptist denomination, October 21, 1804. He pos- sessed a strong constitution and a resolute mind, and was enabled to accumulate property sufficient to support and educate a family of eleven children, and to assist each one respectably when they became of age. He was always deeply interested in the cause of truth ; he possessed good, native talents, and spoke with boldness and energy, and threw his whole soul into his sermons, so that he carried conviction to the minds of his hearers. Besides attending to his farm and local pastorate, he traveled and preached extensively, and was eminently useful in promoting revivals and establishing churches. He was a progressive man, always prompt in the march of benevolent and Christian effort, but decided and uncompromising with what he deemed wrong or sinful. He was one of the founders of the Freewill Baptist Biblical School, which has been such a power for good in advancing the usefulness of the de- nomination. He married Anna, daughter of Gideon Mathes of Lee, February 17, 1789 ; their children were : (1) Han- nah, (2) Abigail, (3) John, (4) Anna, which four were born in Nottingham, on the Scales farm ; (5) Abraham, (6) Gideon, (7) Sarah, who were born in Kearsarge ; (8) James B., (9) Enoch, (10) Lois, (11) Lorinda, who were born in Wilton, Me. These all lived to grow up and be- came prosperous and successful in their various callings. One of the sons became a minister of the gospel of Christ, Rev. James B. Scales, who was born February 4, 1804, and now resides in Milan. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 243 SIMPSON FAMILY. Andrew Simpson first settled on Fish Street, so named because this was the street or road on which the early set- tlers started for the Merrimack to obtain salmon and shad, which then abounded in that noble river, especially in the region of what is now Manchester. Mr. Simpson's lot on this street was not far from the Square, upon which is now living one of his granddaughters at the advanced age of eighty-five years. Mr. Simpson married Elizabeth Patton of Candia, who was murdered by the Indians in 1753. She was a large, fleshy woman, and withal quite lame. The In- dians were prowling about Nottingham and other towns, giving much alarm, and occasionally committing violence. Most of the inhabitants of Nottingham had taken refuge in their block-houses. On the day of her death, Mrs. Simpson went home to churn and bake, intending to return before night to the place of refuge. Here, thus employed, two Indians fell upon her in their usual manner and inhumanly put her to death. The same day they killed Mr. Beard, and Polsome. It is believed that these two Indians were Sabatis and Plausawa. Tradition has it, that these In- dians went to Boscawen, to a place known as Indian Bridge, where they boasted, under the influence of rum, that they had killed three persons, two men and one woman, in Not- tingham; that the latter was " big," and, when they killed her, " she blatted like a calf." They spent the night at the house of one Peter Bowen. They drank freely and be- came communicative, and Bowen, fearing trouble from them, contrived to draw the charges from their guns. The next morning, Bowen, at their request, started to cany the packs of the Indians on his horse, when Sabatis proposed to run a race with Bowen's horse. Bowen consented, but allowed Sabatis to outrun him. At length, as they went along towards the river, Sabatis proposed a second race ; and, as soon as Bowen had a little outrun Sabatis, a gun was heard to snap behind him, and Bowen at once saw the 244 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. smoke of the powder and a gun aimed at his head ; leaping from his horse, he plunged his tomahawk into the head of Sabatis. Plausawa took aim with his gun at Bowen, but, by the latter's precaution, the gun flashed without doing harm, and Plausawa shared the fate of Sabatis. This was done in the road on the bank of Merrimack River, near the northerly line of Boscawen. Bowen, aided by one Morril, hid the dead bodies under a bridge, where they were de- voured by beasts of prey, and their bones lay on the ground. Dr. Belknap says a bill was found against Bowen and Mor- ril by the grand jury at Portsmouth, but a crowd, on the night before the trial, armed with axes and crows, led by men of influence from Nottingham, forced the prison in which they were confined in irons, and carried them off in triumph, to the evident satisfaction of all, as it was believed they had suffered death deservedly, though in violation of law. The bodies of Mrs. Simpson, Beard, and Folsome were buried on the Square. This Andrew Simpson had, for children, (1) Josiah, (2) William, (3) Nancy, (4) John, (5) Joseph, (6) Andrew, (7) Betsey, and (8) Robert. Josiah was eight years in the French, Indian, and Revo- lutionary wars. He was in the fearful conflict at Fort Hamnar, Ohio ; he was a courageous soldier, and shrank from no labor or peril. He ultimately removed to Maine, where he married, and became the father of ten children, most of whom moved to Ohio, and one of whom became a judge. William moved to Machias, Me., engaged in lumber trade, married a Miss Hanson of Durham, and had children, two of whom are merchants in New York. Nancy married and lived in Machias, Me. John settled on the homestead ; married Abigail, daugh- ter of John Gile, who was a major in the Revolution, and held important offices in the town. This John Simpson had ten children, (1) Nancy, (2) Joseph, (3) Betsey (4) HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 245 Mary, (5) Sally, (6) John, (7) Sarah, (8) Andrew, (9) William, and (10) Albert. Nancy lives on the homestead unmarried ; born in 1792. Joseph died in St. Ann, Mich. ; married and had six children, some of them now living. Betsey died at Lawrence, being the wife of Thomas Parsons, leaving three children, Thomas, Mary, and Abbie. Mary, born February 18, 1798, married Nathaniel Rand- let of Lee, who died in 1868. She now lives at the Square, having no children. A son of her husband by his first wife, named Jasper Ran diet, an extensive manufacturer of carriages, in Dover, married Mary Ann, daughter of the late Maj. "William B. Willey of Northwood. John married Comfort Stevens of Chichester, lived on the homestead, had, for children, Sarah, Samuel (who died in the late war, in Mississippi, in a company commanded by Capt. Tilton of Raymond), Susan, Mary, and Willie. John's widow lives on the homestead. Sarah married Peter Lane of Chester, and has two chil- dren, John Albert and Lizzie. Andrew married for his first wife Lizzie, daughter of John Harvey of Northwood ; for his second, Almira Gage of Concord, where he now resides. William married and lives in Sandusky, 0. Albert married Jane Sleeper of Bristol, lives in Epping, having two daughters, Loversia and Carrie. This Andrew, the first settler in Nottingham, had two brothers, Thomas and Patton. Andrew and Thomas were agents of the towns of Nottingham and what is now Deer- field, when the latter was incorporated into a separate par- ish, in dividing the line between the two towns. The Gen- eral Court was in session at Exeter ; these brothers were to be there to see that a line, doing justice to both parties, should be established when the act of incorporation might be agreed upon. Thomas went early from Deerfield, not 046 HISTOBT OF NOTTINGHAM. calling on his brother in Nottingham, met the appropriate committee of the General Court, and arranged the line to suit himself, taking in the rich agricultural districts and leaving out the mountainous and barren lands wherever it could be done, making the line irregular and greatly to the advantage of Deerfield ; started for home and met Andrew on his way to the General Court. " "Well, brother," said Thomas to Andrew, " I have been down to Exeter, and am going home. It is not worth while for you to go farther ; nothing can be done now ; we must wait until another time ; the court is full of business." And so Andrew and Thomas go home, only to learn, in a few days, that the General Court had set off Deerfield on a line that made Nottingham poor and Deerfield rich ; and the unjust landmarks have not been changed to this day. STEVENS FAMILY. Joshua Stevens, born 1737, died September 16, 1816, aged seventy-nine years, was the first of the name to settle- in Nottingham. He came from Stratham, and settled where his grandson, Daniel Stevens, resides. He married Anna, daughter of Robert Harvey, born August 12, 1741. They had children : (1) Molly, (2) Thomas, (3) John, (4) Robert, and (5) Nancy. Joshua married for his second wife Anna "Watson ; their children were (1) Hannah and (2) Harvey. Molly married Elijah Mathes of Lee, and lived in Canter- bury, having children, Joshua, Nancy, Mary, Betsey, and John. This Joshua Mathes lived in Columbia, and repre- sented his town in the state legislature, and was highly esteemed ; while his brother John lived in Canterbury, and in like manner represented his town, and held various other offices within the gift of his town. Thomas, born February 2, 1764, died September 24, 1847, married Betsey, daughter of Daniel Barber of Epping,. and lived on the homestead. Their only son was Daniel HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 247 Barber, born March 14, 1803, married, March 2, 1827, Betsey M., daughter of Capt. John Butler, and their chil- dren are : (1) Elizabeth Barker, born August 5, 1828 ; (2) Thomas, born February 16, 1830 ; (3) Amanda, born April 16, 1833 ; (4) Joshua Butler, born October 19, 1837 ; (5) Charlotte Butler, born March 9, 1840; (6) Joanne Mary, born February 17, 1842 ; (7) Walter Daniel, born November 10, 1849. Elizabeth married, November 2, 1854, Col. John Badger Batchelder, and they reside in Chelsea, Mass. ; and their only child, Charlotte Butler, born May 16, 1861, died June 2, 1874, aged thirteen years. Col. Batchelder is an author and publisher, and, by his rare descriptive powers and ar- tistic skill, has done much towards illustrating some of the battle-scenes of the war of the Rebellion ; among these are Gettysburg and others. Thomas married Sarah Jane Sanborn of Deerfield, and they live near the homestead, having four children : Blanche, born January 11, 1851 ; Edward S., bora December 16, 1855 ; Alice B., born February 22, 1863 ; and Andrew B., bom, January 21, 1867. This Thomas Stevens has been largely in town business. Amanda resides with her parents. John B., married Jennie, daughter of Thomas Lucy, and they live in San Jos6, Cal. ; he was in the Second Regiment, and was wounded, in the second battle of Bull Run. Charlotte B. has been a successful teacher, is now in Washington, D. C. Joanne Mary taught school, and died in Pennsylvania, April 11, 1869. Walter Daniel married Martha Gault Shute of Derry, November 16, 1871, and they reside in Chelsea, Mass., and have two children : Mabel B., born July 29, 1874 ; and Bessie Butler, born February 15, 1876. John, son of Joshua, married Mary Avery of Deerfield, and they had, for children, John, Hendrick, Nathaniel, 248 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. and Robert. This John married Lydia Sanborn of Epping, and died in Chester. Robert, son of Joshua, married Mary, daughter of Mark Gile of Nottingham, and their children were : George W., who was a lawyer, and married a daughter of Hugh Kelsey ; Sally A., who married Melancthon Chase of Deerfield ; Laura J., who married Hobart Stevens of Deerfield ; Row- land M., who married G. W. Demerritt. This Hendrick and Nathaniel, sons of John, died unmarried. Nancy, daughter of Joshua, married Robert Harvey, and they had three children, who died unmarried. TUTTLE FAMILY. Stoten Tuttle was born September 30, 1739 ; his father's name was Nicholas, and settled in Nottingham, after much hard service in boyhood. He enlisted in the " Old French War " when sixteen years old. He bought, January 29, 1759, a book, in which he recorded incidents that might be of interest to him. And herein we find it recorded, that " he sailed from Boston May 6, arrived at Halifax the 10th ; he sailed from Halifax the 22d, arrived at Lewisburg the 26th ; sailed from Lewisburg June 4th, arrived at Quebec the 24th of June, and landed the 27th." He served five years. He lived a while at Lee-Hook, where his brother George lived. He married Lydia Ste- vens of Lee, and subsequently settled in Nottingham, where the late Elder Tuttle died. Afterwards he lived on the old Mast Road, so called, where Alexander Tuttle resides. Subsequently he built the house in which the present Stoten Tuttle lives. He owned the gristmill near his house, which was originally owned by Nathaniel Chesley of Durham. Here he died in September, 1812. His first wife died September 20, 1807, and their children were : (1) Oily, born October 12, 1761 ; (2) Deborah, born February 7, 1764 ; (3) Joseph, born July 26, 1766 ; (4) Hope, born June 10, 1769 ; (5) Samuel, born June 17, 1771 ; (6) John, HISTOBT OF NOTTINGHAM. 249 born January 7, 1773 ; (7) Lydia, born February 28, 1775 ; (8) Nicholas, born January 25, 1778 ; (9) Stoten, born March 20, 1780 ; (10) Nathaniel, born July 30, 1782. (1) This Oily married Samuel Dame of Nottingham, and lived where Joseph Colcord resides. Their children were : John, who lived where Samuel Dame resides ; Samuel, who traded many years with Joseph Demerritt, and died in Auburn ; Louis, who married Asa Burnham ; Abigail, who married Nathan Knowlton of Northwood ; and Mary, who married Joseph Colcord. (2) Deborah married Jacob Davis, and died in Vermont, rearing his family where James Thompson lives. Their children were Nathan, Drusilla, Betsey, Lydia, Jacob, Susan, Hannah, Deborah, Thompson, John, and Ira. This Jacob was one of the original founders of the " Morning Star," a paper having the special patronage of the Freewill Bap- tists ; he died in Waterville, Me. Ira lives in Laconia. (3) Joseph married Hannah Lucy, and their children were Joseph S., Jacob H., Benjamin L., Daniel, Alexander, David, and Hannah. This Joseph, son of Joseph, was a man of influence, and died where David Alley resides. Daniel, who died October 26, 1874, was a surveyor of land, a justice of the peace, and did much business, and was highly esteemed as a citizen. His son Levi is a physician in Mississippi, and another, Jay, lives in California, as well as his daughter Ann, who married Perry Harvey. Alex- ander, another son of Esquire Daniel Tuttle, was a Baptist minister. (5) Samuel married Eunice Lucy, daughter of Col. Alex- ander Lucy, lived on the old Mast Road, was a mechanic, and their children were John, Sally, Thomas, Noah, Samuel S., Stoten, William, and Emily. This Samuel lives in Charlestown, Mass., an extensive building-contractor. (7) Lydia married Benjamin Lucy, and their children were Alexander, John T., Sally, Noah S., Hannah, Mary, Eunice, and Lydia. 250 HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. (8) Nicholas married Rachael Lucy. Their children were Mary, Ebenezer, James, Lydia, Jeremiah, Fanny H., Wil- liam, Japheth, Ezra, and Aura S. This Ezra is a Freewill Baptist minister of West Lebanon, Me. (9) Stoten married a Miss Stokes for his first wife, their children being Lydia, Hannah, Benjamin, Mary, and Brad- bury Cilley. His second wife was Sarah Bean, and their children were : John, who built Booth Mills in Hamilton, Mass., dying in Boston in 1877, leaving a large estate ; Gil- man ; and Samuel. (10) Nathaniel married Joanna Davis, and lived where his son Stoten resides ; he died January 22, 1863 ; she died January 14, 1867. Their children were Oliver, Miles, Nancy B., Esther Y., Nathaniel, Lydia S., Stephen S., George W., Stoten D., and Francis E. Oliver married Sarah Ham of Dover, and lives near Freeman Hall. Their children are Melissa A., Alonzo F., Oliver B., Sarah J., Esther Y., Lydia P., Nathaniel H., Henry B., and Walter S. Miles married Lucinda Davis, and lives on the Paul-Davis farm on the Gee-big Road. Their children are Lorenzo D., George W., Shephard F., Ambrose J., Joseph E., Orman B., Lorenzo J., and Granville. Nancy B. married Moses Davis, September 18, 1832, and their children are Amanda J., Eliza A., and Sarah E. Nathaniel married Martha A. Ham of Dover, June 19, 1836, lives on the Gee-big Road; and their children are Albert H., Lucy C, Mary F., Joseph E., Charles I. Lydia S. married James M. Haines, December 3, 1834 ; she died November 22, 1807, in Auburn; their children being George K., Lydia J., John E., Charles E., and Emma A. Stephen S. married Mary G. Watson, October 17, 1841, lives in Portsmouth; children: William R., Charles C, Vienna H., Mary A., Frank, Emma, Charles F., Stephen B., and Elmer E. HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 251 Stoten D., born April 26, 1823, married, May 12, 1846, Elizabeth J. Taylor, born March 18, 1821, daughter of Jo- seph Taylor of Northwood ; they live on the homestead ; have one son, Henry 0., born September 28, 1847, married, November 18, 1869, Nettie T. Cummings of Dover, born August 3, 1848 ; resides on the homestead -with his father ; have one son, Louis A., born September 2, 1873. Frances E., born November 11, 1825, married David H. Watson, and they have three children, Harriet A., Alvinza, and Abbie J. The Tuttles mostly settled in the neighborhood of what is known as Tuttle's Corner, where they have a store, a pleasant hall, erected a few years since, known as Free- man's Hall, used for a place of worship for the Freewill Baptists on the sabbath, and for the meetings of a lodge of Odd Fellows. Gee-big Boad is here, over which much ship timber was drawn in the early period of the town's history. The neighborhood called " Chebucto "is so called from the name of an Indian, once a chief of a tribe in this vicinity. There was a mill here near Charles Batchelder's mill, known as the Chebucto Mill. WATSON FAMILY. William Watson was the son of Benjamin, who settled in the north-east part of Nottingham, and was a Calvin Baptist clergyman ; he was of medium stature, a strong, muscular man ; had several children. William, one of his sons, settled near the Center, and married Elsie, daughter of Col. Cutting Cilley. Their children were : Betsey, born June, 1789 ; Sewell, born July 19, 1791 ; Elsie, born May 14, 1793 ; William, born Decem- ber 1, 1798 ; Hannah, born January 30, 1800 ; Sally, born March 11, 1802 ; and Martha M., born October 30, 1809. Betsey married Henry Dow of Northwood, the sketch of whose family may be consulted. Sewell married Mary Baizin for his first wife, and, for his second, Lydia Daniels, 252 BISTORT OF NOTTINGHAM. whose children are Frank, Sewell, Albert, and Lydia Ann ; and this Frank is a merchant at Nottingham Center ; he married Jane, daughter of Frank Harvey, and they have three children. Elsie married John Godfrey of Epsom, who died in Northwood ; she died, December 25, 1857, leaving two daughters, Mary, who became the wife of David Bicker of Manchester, and died, leaving a son and a daughter ; and Sarah, who married James P. Godfrey, now living in North Reading, Mass., having one son, Walter James. William married Lydia Small of Northwood, lived in Nottingham, and died October, 1873, leaving three children : David, who married, and died ; Mary, who married Stephen Tuttle, and lives in Portsmouth, having children. Martha married Albert Burnham of Epping, who was in in the war of the Rebellion, and died recently in Epping. Hannah married David Ela of Nottingham, moved to Newmarket, and was killed in blasting a ledge when the Newmarket mills were being erected ; he left two daughters, Alice, who married David Bicker of Manchester, and Mary, who married an Eastman. Sally died unmarried. Martha died July 29, 1876, in Nottingham, unmarried. WINSLOW FAMILY. Benjamin Winslow's father was killed in Kingston by the Indians. Benjamin came from Kingston to Nottingham prior to the Revolutionary war. He had a brother, Jona- than, who settled in Epping about 1760 ; another, Ephraim, who settled in Loudon ; and another, Samuel, who settled in Deerfield on what was known as the Meloon Hill, his family removing to Ohio. Benjamin's children were : (1) Elisha, who married Lydia Winslow, his cousin, and they had seven children, three sons and four daughters ; viz., Hannah, who married James Young of Deerfield, and is still living ; Mary, unmarried ; Josiah, who married Ruth HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 253 Tucker of Pittsfield ; Colcord, who married Miriam Harvey, now living ; Rosaile and Asenatli, twins, the latter dying young, and the former married, first, Eben Harvey, and, afterwards, James Wiggin of Epsom ; Ephraim, who mar- ried Mary Tucker of Pittsfield, and died in Northwood ; (2) Abiah, daughter of Benjamin Winslow, married E. Brown of Loudon, having two daughters and one son ; (3) Mary, who died unmarried. 254 BISTOBT OF NOTTINGHAM. ATTOKNEYS-AT-LAW. JONATHAN RAWSON, a native of Massachusetts, com- ** menced practice in 178-, removed to Dover, died 1794, aged thirty-six. Jonathan Steele, a native of Peterborough, practiced law for a while in Nottingham ; his wife was a daughter of Gen. Sullivan ; was appointed judge of the superior court of judi- cature in 1810, and served until 1812. Thomas Bartlett was appointed a judge of the court of common pleas, a county court, in 1790, and continued until 1805. Bradbury Bartlett was appointed judge of the court of common pleas, 1832. He was son of Judge Thomas Bart- lett. James H. Butler was appointed to the same office, 18 — . HISTORY OF NOTTINGHAM. 255 PHYSICIANS. ^AMUEL SHBPARD seems to have practiced for a ^ number of years. He became very unpopular during the Revolutionary struggle, by teaching that it was wrong to resist the British crown by force, and mostly withdrew from Nottingham and nestled in Brentwood, where he served as pastor of a Baptist Church, having been licensed to preach by that denomination. Henry Dearborn, a young man, established himself in Nottingham, to the great satisfaction of the people ; but his patriotism drew him into the field of strife. Other men have, at different times, for a little while, taken up their abode here ; but so short was their stay, and so little is known of them, that they require no particular notice here. Nottingham has distributed her patronage to the physi- cians of neighboring towns, instead of supporting (me. Charles P. Downs has been here for a few years, but, be- cause of impaired health, has declined most calls ; while G. A. Grace serves as a dentist. HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. 17 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. CHAPTER I. Nottingham consents to set off. — Petition for a legal Separation. — Second Vote to set off. — Batchelder's Deer. — Gov. Wentworth. — Origin of the Name of Deer- field. — Second Petition. — Incorporation. f I^HE tract of land now known as Deerfield was, for many ■*- years, a part of Nottingham, being included in the charter given in 1722. A glance at the map of the two towns of Nottingham and Deerfield will show that the centers were some ten miles apart. As early as 1750, com- plaints arose of neglect of this part of Nottingham, in respect to educational and religious advantages. The town, at its annual meeting in 1750, voted to set off what is now Deerfield as a new parish, deeming itself a sort of province, as it was frequently denominated, and yielding somewhat to the demands of those inhabiting that part of the town. But this served only to quiet the discontent for a season. Jealousies sprung up afresh, and, under excitement, efforts were made to effect a legal separation from the mother parish. The following petition was presented to Gov. Wentworth in 1756, though the object was not gained. Opposition was made to it by the town, on the ground that the families in the " South West Parish " were not many, and that they were not entitled to a separate organization, neither by numbers nor wealth. The petition, however, shows the spirit of the people. 260 HISTOBY OF DEERFIELD. Province of New Hampshire PETITION. To his Excellency Benin g Wentworth, Esq r , Governor in Chief in and over the Province aforesaid (in Counsel). The Petition of the Inhabitance and freeholders of the Sow west part of Nottingham Humbly Sheweth that Your Petitioners wear set of by a vote of the Town of Nottingham as a Parish in the year 1750 at their annual Meeting and were Bounded as followeth Viz. Begin- ning at a Certain tree between the fifth and sixth Ranges in third Division of Lotts in S d Town N° 21 at the Lower end of Said Ranges then Running S. West to Chester Line being about five Miles, thence Running on S d Chester Line West North west to a Pitch Pine tree which is the south westerly Corner of Nottingham, thence Running North East and by North on the Head of Nottingham about five Miles to the Line Between the fifth and sixth Range, then Running East South East on S d Line to the Bounds first mentioned : The aforesaid tract of Land being about six Miles square was voted of as a Parish to the inhabitance and freeholders of Said Land with all Previledges belong- ing to a Parish as much as in them Lyes. And in March 1751 Their was money Raised on all the inhebitence of Nottingham Except the Church men and it was then Voted that what was paid by those men that Lived in the South West Parish (so call d ) should be expended in supporting a minister to Preach the Gos- pel among them. Now in March 1752 at the annual meeting there was a Large sum of Money Rais d and your Petitioners were to have the money that was paid by your Petitioners to be expended among us : And money hath been rais d Yearly ever since and we have Received nothing for our money Except one Days Preaching and about three weeks schooling for six years, for Your Petitioners not being incorporated into a Parish only by the Votes of the Town were not able to chuse any Parish offi- cers to Receive the money and to lay it out altho the Town are willing we should have it as soon as we are incorporated and as Preaching the Gospel and teaching the Children are matters of Great importance to all his Majesties Good Subjects and for many other Reasons which You in Your wisdom are sensible of that will forward the Settling and Promote Good order in a Place.' We Your Petitioners Earnestly Pray You would be pleas d to incorporate Us and grant Us Parish Priviledges. Nottingham Febry 23 d 1756. Jonathan Longfellow. Nathaniel Batchelder. Thomas Brown. Levi Dearborn. Nathaniel Batchelder, jr. Ephraim Pettingell. HISTORY OF DEERF1ELD. 261 Isaac Mason. John Batchelder. Nath a Healey, jr. Daniel Kelley. Nathan Tilton. Daniel Marston. Reuben Masteen. David Tilton. Jeremiah Dearborn. Theophilus Griffin. Timothy Sanborn. Steven Batchelder. Green Longfellow. Coffin Sanborn. Benj m Batchelder. Eliphelet Grif een. Samuel Page. Abraham Drake. Isaac Shepherd. Failing to obtain an act of incorporation, they resolved to abide their time, as it was clearly seen by all parties that it was simply a question of time. Those whose center was the Square, foresaw what shortly would be the result, and, in a spirit of magnanimity, bade them depart in peace, voting, at a legal meeting on the third Thursday of April, 1765, to set off the south-west portion of the town as a separate parish, and denning the boundaries thereof. Acting upon this, the following petition was laid before the Governor and General Assembly, couched in respectful terms, and giving rational reasons for a separate organization. While this petition was pending, as tradition has it, a Mr. Batch- elder killed a large, fat deer, and presented it to Gov. Went- worth, with which his Excellency was highly pleased, and was thereby disposed to favor the act of incorporation, and suggested the name of " Deer-field," as that by which this township should be known. To His Excellency Bening Wentworth Esq' Captain, General Govern- our Commander and Chief in and over His Majestys province of New Hampshire And Vice Admiral of the Same. The Honorable His Majestys Counsil and House of Representatives for S d Province Convened — The Humble petition of us the Subscribers being Freeholders and Inhabitants of the South West Parish in Nottingham (So call d ) Hum- bly Shews That Whereas Your petitioners Lives many of them to the Distance of eight and Some ten miles from the Meeting house which makes it verry Difficult for us or our families to attend the publick worship of God att that place and as Your petitioners apprehend their Number is equal or above Many Parishes that have been Sett off in this province we therefore Humbly pray that You would please to Sett us off A Dis- 262 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. tinot Parish invested with all the Priviledges of other parishes within this province according to the followin boundaries (which boundaries is Agreeable to A Vote of the Town of Nottingham. Held att the Meet- ing House in S d Nottingham on the third thursday of april 1765) Viz beginning att the bounds between the 9 th and 10 tk Lotts in the first Range of the 3 d Division and to Extend to the head Line of Notting- ham Joining to Allenstown (So Call d ) then to begin att the bounds between the 21 st and 22 d Lotts in the Second Range and to Extend to the S d head Line, and Likewise including the whole of the 3 d 4 th 5 th and Sixth, Ranges of the S d 3 d Division, with all the Lands on the westerly side of pleasant pond including the whole of the farms in the 7 lh & 8 th Range that Joins to the road that Leads from Nottingham Meetting House to Epsom Line. Also the whole of the Hundred Acre Lotts in Bow Street on the Southwesterly Side including Josiah Sawyers Lott being the original Lott of Archbald Macf adrix from thence to the head of S d bow Street. Your Petitioners therefore Hum- bly prays that in Your Great Wisdom and Goodness you would please to take this our prayer under your wise Consideration, and act on it as you may think proper and Your petetioners as in Dutybound Shall Ever pray &c. Nottingham June y 17 th 1765. Sam" Leavitt. Obadiah Marston. Tho» Simpson. Eliphelet Griff een. Abraham True. Isaac Shepard. Samuel Tilton. Peter Batchelder. Robert Cram. Patten Simpson. Nathaniel Batchelder,jr Thomas Brown. John Batchelder. Moses Thomson. Sam" Hoyt. Peter Leavitt. Ephraim Pettingell. Eliphelet Marston. The Griffin. Reuben Marston. Benjamin Cotton. Sam" Leavit Jun r . Samuel Marston. Reuben Brown. Nathan Griffeen. Reuben Marston. Theophilus Griffin Jun r . Samuel Winslow. Nathaniel Meloon. Benjamin Page. Daniel Page. Samuel Perkins. Josiah Chase. Moses Chase. John Gile. nemiah cram. Joseph Graves. Jedediah Prescutt. David Batchelder. Josiah Prescutt. Samuel pulsfer. Josiah Sanbon. Daniel West. Benjamin hilyard. Benjamin Beachelder. israel Clifford. John Robinson. Joseph Roberd. Joshua Young. Jeremiah Glidden. Joseph pidkins. Richard Gliden. Andrew Glidden. John Young. Jonathan Glidden. Jonathan Hill. Daniel Lad. John Lad. Nathaniel Smith. Benjamin Folsom. Moss Thirston. Jeremiah Foslom. Moses Clouarh. HISTORY OF BEERFIELD. 263 Josiah Smith. Thomas Robie. Increse Batcheler. Samuel Elkins. William Sanbon. Benjamin Batchelder. Jude Allen. Joseph Mason. nathan Batcheler. John cram. John mason. Josiah Sawyer. Samuel kelley. i JTeremiah Easman".' Samuel marston. Wadleigh cram. Owen Runnels. In Council, June 28, 1765. Read & Ordered to be sent down to the Hon bIe Assembly. T. ATKINSON, Jun', Sec. Province of > In the House of Representatives, New Hampshire- i June 28, 1765. This Petition being Read, Voted That they be heard thereon the Second Day of the Sitting of the General assembly after the first Day of Sept. Next That they Give Notice of the substance of the Petition in the Public News Papers of the Government three weeks Successively and that any Person or Per- sons may appear against the Prayer thereof that are so disposed. H. SHERBUONE, Speaker. Read and Concurred. In Council Convened. T. ATKINSON, Jun., Sect". Province of } In the House of Representatives, New Hampshire. I Nov r 22 d 1765. The Petitioners being heard on the within Petition and no Person appearing to make objections and the Prayer of said Petition appear- ing to be reasonable, Voted That the Prayer of Said Petition be Granted and that the Petitioners have liberty to bring in a Bill accordingly. M. WEARE, CI'. In Council, Nov. 22 4 1765. The above Vote read & concurr'd. T. ATKINSON, Jun., Sect". 264 HISTORY OF DEEBFIELD. The act of incorporation bears date January 8, 1766. ACT OF INCORPORATION. Anno Regni Regis Georgii Tertii Magnse Brittannise, Franceae, and Heberniae, Sexto. An Act for erecting and Incorporating a New Parish in the South "Westerly part of the town of Notingham in this Province. Whereas a Petition has been Exhibited to the General Assembly by a Number of the Inhabitants of Notingham afore Said, Setting forth that many of the petitioners Lived att the Distance of Eight or ten miles from the Meeting house which rendered it very Difficult for them and their Families to attend the publick worship of God there and that they were Sufficient in Number to make a New Parish and the town has Consented thereto of which due Notice having been Given and No Objection made and the Petitioners praying to be In- corporated by the bounds and Limits agreed to by the town, — It is therefore Enacted by the Governor and Assembly that there be and hereby is a new Parish Erected and Incorporated in the Said Town of Notingham by the following boundaries, Viz. Begining att the bounds between the ninth and tenth Lotts in the first Range and to Extend to the head Line in S a Notingham. Then to begin att the Bounds between the Twenty first and twenty Second Lotts in the Second Range and to Extend to the S d Head Line in Notingham and likewise to include the whole of the Third fourth fifth and Sixth Ranges of the Third Division in Said Notingham with the Lands and Settlers on the Westerly Side of Pleasant Pond So far as the Road Extends to Epsom line including all the Farms and Settlers on Said Epsom Road to the head line of Notingham Afore Said Also the whole of the Hundred acre Lotts in Bow Street (So Called) on the South- westerly Side of Said Street including Josiah Sawyer's Lott being Originally the Lott of Archabald M'acfaderis to the head of Bow Street And all the Inhabitants dwelling or that Shall dwell within that Said Boundaries and their Estates are hereby made a Parish by the name of Deerfield and Erected into a Body Politic and Corporate to have Continuance and Succession forever and hereby Invested with all the Powers and Enfranchised with all the Priviledges of any other Parish in this province and are Chargeable with the Duty of Maintain- ing the poor that do or Shall Inhabit within Said Parish repairing all Highways within the Same and Maintaining and Supporting the Min- istry and Preaching the Gospel with full Powers to Manage and tran- sact all Parochial affairs as fully to all Intents and Purposes as any Parish in S a Province may Legally do and the Said Inhabitants are HISTORY OF DEEBFIELD. 265 hereby Exonerated from- paying any Taxas that Shall hereafter be assessed in the Said Town with Kegard to the Support of the Matters and thing's afore said but shall Continue to pay their Province Tax in the Same Manner as before the Passing of this act until a New Pro- portion thereof Shall be made amongst the Several Towns and Parishes within the Same — And Samuel Leavit Gent n is hereby appointed and Authorised to Call the first meeting of Said Inhabitants Giving fourteen Days Pub- lick Notice of the time Place and Design of the Meeting And they the Said Inhabitants att Such Meeting are Authorised to Chuse all neces- sary Parish officers as att the anual Meeting is done in other Parishes and Such officers shall hereby be invested with the Same Powers of other Parish officers in this Province and the anual Meeting of Said Parishoners Shall be att all times hereafter on the third Tuesday of March forever. Province of > In the House of Representatives, New Hampshire. ) Jan r 7th, 1766. The foregoing Bill having been three times read Voted that it pass to be Enacted. PETER GILMAN, Speaker Pro Tempore. Province of New Hampshire. In Council, Jan 1 ? 8th, 1766. The foregoing bill read a Third time and Passed to be Enacted. T. ATKINSON, Ju r , Secratary. Consented to. B. WENTWORTH. True Coppy. Attest : T. ATKINSON, Ju r , Secratary. 266 HISTORY OF DEEEFIELD. CHAPTEE II. First legal Meeting. — Town Officers. — Committee to locate Meeting-house. — Money voted. — Center to be defined. — Meeting-house. — New Lights. — Re- consideration of Yotes New Location for Meeting-house. — Another Loca- tion. — Yet Another chosen. — Trouble over. THE first legal meeting was held at the house of Samuel Leavitt on Thursday, the thirtieth day of January, 1766 ; Wadleigh Cram was chosen moderator ; Thomas Simpson, Esq., parish clerk; Samuel Leavitt, John Robin- son, Eliphalet Griffin, selectmen ; Benjamin Batchelder, constable ; John Gile, Jacob Longfellow, Daniel Ladd, Obe- diah Marston, and Nathaniel Maloon, surveyors of high- ways ; Jonathan Glidden- and Samuel Tilton, assessors ; Abram True and Jeremiah Eastman"; auditors ; Jedediah Prescott, (Jeremiah Eastman,, Samuel Tilton, Benjamin Polsom, Thomas Burleigh, Capt. Samuel Leavitt, Thomas -Simpson, were chosen " a Committee to look out for a Suit- able Place to Sett a meeting house upon and a Return att the next anual Meeting from under the major part of their hands and the Same to be received or Rejected by the Parish as they Shall think proper." Fifteen pounds lawful money were voted to be " assessed to defray parish charges." The first annual meeting was held " at the house of Wadleigh Crams," March 18, 1766, when John Robinson was chosen moderator, Thomas Simpson, parish clerk, and the same men for selectmen as last year ; Dr. Jonathan Hill and Jeremiah Eastman were chosen auditors. A new committee was raised for locating the meeting- house. " Voted Jn° Robinson, Abram True, Eliphalet East- man, Samuel Winslow, Nehemiah Cram, be a Committee to Look out a Suitable place for to Sett a meeting house on and Look out where the Roads will best accommodate to Come to Said Meeting house." HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. 267 The first money voted to be raised for preaching the gos- pel was fifteen pounds, on the fifteenth day of December, 1766. At the same time it was voted, " That Oapt. John Dudley bo the Person to Look out for Some Suitable to sup- ply the Parish of Deerfield with Preaching So far as the money above voted shall Extend." The annual meeting for 1767 was held on the 17th of March, at the house of Capt. Samuel Leavit, when Capt. Jacob Longfellow was chosen moderator ; Thomas Simpson, clerk ; Daniel Ladd, Jonathan Gliddin, Capt. Jacob Long- fellow, selectmen. At a legal meeting, June 2, 1767, it was voted to raise twenty-five pounds for supporting preaching for the present year, and Lieut. Samuel Tilton was appointed a committee " to agree with a man to preach the Gospel in S d Parish till the above Sum voted be Expended." In a warrant for a meeting on the first Monday of March, 1766, there was an article to see if the parish would choose " a committee of Indifferent men not residing in the Parish of Deerfield to make the Center of the Parish ; " and also another " to build a meeting house of Such a bigness as the Parish Shall think proper and to board and Shingle S d house and lay the under floor." But these were not favor- ably entertained. And yet in the warrant for a meeting, June 2, 1767, there was an article " To See if the Parish will board and Shingle the Meeting house and Clabboard the Gable ends and Lay the under floors of the Meeting house frame where it now stands and Likewise to Chuse a Committee to accomplish S d work if voted and Likewise that the S d work may be Done this Summer and fall ensuing." But when this frame was erected, does not appear. The article, however, was " Passd in the negative." In 1768, Jedediah Prescott served as moderator, Thomas Simpson, clerk, Jonathan Gliddin, Stephen Gilman, and Thomas Simpson as selectmen. The meeting at which these officers were chosen was followed by another at the 268 HISTORY OF BEERFIELB. " house of Henry Tuckers," on the 18th of April, to see if " the Parish will agree on a Plan to Sett a Meeting house on ; and what Bigness will build said house ; to chuse a committee to build the frame of S a house att the expense of the Parish, but the meaning is that the people of the Parish are to Carry on the building of s a frame in Such materials as is wanted for Said frame." This effort was also unsuc- cessful. On the 12th of January, 1768, a renewed effort to build a meeting-house was made ; and by the " notification " of the meeting it appears that the great obstacle to build- ing, and the cause of division, was a class of persons that had no sympathy with orthodox Congregational preaching, as the following article shows : " 2 dIy To See if the inhabi- tants will vote that all those persons that are called new- lights which it appear att this meeting that they have bound their Estates to Mr. Eliphalet Smith for his temporal Sup- port or any other Lay teacher (So call*) shall be Exempted from paying and any Charge to any other Minister or for the building a meeting house or any other Denomination, but to be two Distinct Societys in all ministerial affairs." The town " Voted that the Second article " (the above) " in this warrant be not acted uppon by reason that those persons Call a Newlights did not produce any bond to Shew the Parish that they had bound their Estates to any Lay teachers ; " but did vote to build a house fifty-five feet in length and forty in width. A committee was raised to carry this vote into effect, and one hundred and twenty-five pounds lawful money were voted to be assessed upon the inhabitants for this purpose ; and it was also voted, " that the Meet- ing house be built where the frame now Stands on the 7th Lott in the 4th Range." On the 24th of this same Jan- uary this action was confirmed, and a new committee was appointed, consisting of Thomas Brown, Stephen Gilman, Lieut. Jedediah Prescot, Lieut. Samuel Tilton, Ensign Peter Batchelder, Capt. Jacob Longfellow, and Nathaniel Maloon, HILTORT OF DEERFIELD. 269 " to carry on the building a meeting house." At the same time it was voted, that " the Parish are willing that all those persons that are Call* new lights as make it appear att any Legal meeting that they have signed the newlight Plat- form (So call") Shall be Exempted from paying any other Minister ; " that is, than the one whose ministrations they may constantly and " conscientiously " attend. It was also voted, that " their be a meeting house built on the 12th Lott in the Second Range ; " and Josiah Sanborn, Nehemiah Cram, David Batchelder, Simon Marston, Jacob Brown, were appointed a committee to carry this vote into effect. But, at the annual meeting on the third Tuesday of March, 1769, — when Jonathan Glidden was chosen moderator; Thomas Simpson, clerk; John Robinson, constable ; Simon Marston, Jonathan Glidden, and Thomas Sawyer, select- men ; and William Sanborn, Edward Smith, Deacon Abram True, and"Jeremiah Easman, tything-men, — it was voted, " That all"tlTe~votes"wat"was"Passed the twelfth of January Last and 24th of Peb ry Last att the house of Mr. Henry Tuckers was Reconsidered and Intirely Disanulled and Re- voked and are of no force no more than if it never had been voted." " Capt. Jacob Longfellow and Enoch Page enters their Decent against the Proceeding of this meeting." Nowise disheartened, another meeting is called July 13, 1769, " at the house of Wadleigh Crams," and it is voted, that " twenty-five pounds Lawful money shall be assessed on the freeholders and Inhabitants of Deerfield, to Support the ministry," and " Stephen Batchalar and Thomas Simpson and Simon Marston be a Committee to Look out for preach- ing," and " that Mr. Stephen Batchalar's House be the Place to meet in on the Lord's Day." A very liberal spirit pervaded the action of this meeting. Hence it was voted, that " all those persons in the parish of Deerfield who makes it appear to the Select men of Said Deerfield within one month from this Day, that they Chuse that their proportion 270 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. of money that is Raised this Day Shall be ordered by the Selectmen to the Constable to be paid to a Lay teacher in this Parish Shall have that Liberty." November 16, 1769, the town voted, " That a certain place on Suncook road (So call d ) and on the Lott N° 9, in the 4 th Range the nearest place that is convenient to Chases Lott Being known by the name of a Beach Knowl is the Place to build a meeting house on." The dimensions of the house were to be " Sixty- five feet in Length, and forty-five feet in width and twenty- six foot Post," and " one hundred and fifty pounds Lawful money were assessed to Carry on Said house." Stephen Gilman, James Page, Samuel Tilton, David Batchalar, and Thomas Simpson were appointed a building-committee. At this meeting the town refused " to purchase the Meeting house frame on the 7 th Lott," but authorized the exchang- ing or selling the " Parsonage Lott in S d Parish for Lands more convenient," the Parsonage lot being number seven- teen in the fourth range. This duty was assigned to " D-eaeon -.- Abram True, Nathaniel Meloon, and fJeremiarP) Easman." """ The location of the meeting-house has been many times set- tled, and as often unsettled ; and the end is not yet, though it is near. July 2, 1770, at a legal meeting, it is voted to " Except of an Acre of Land of Mr. Stephen Bachalar to Sett the Meeting house on that is now framed on the Lott number nine in the 4 th Range agreeable to the warrant that notified this meeting." Benjamin Folsom, Capt. Jacob Longfellow, Nathaniel Meloon, Samuel Leavitt, Daniel Cur- rier, and Thomas Brown were chosen to join with Thomas Simpson, Esq., Lieut. Samuel Tilton, Stephen Gilman, James Page, and David Batchalar, " to carry on the building the meeting house on some part of the Acre of Land before mentioned." March 19, 1771, Jonathan Gliddin was chosen moderator ; Thomas Simpson, clerk; Jonathan Gliddin, Stephen Gil- man, and James Page, selectmen ; and " twenty-five pounds HISTORY OF BEEMFIELD. 271 Lawful money to supply the Parrish with preaching " was voted. Down comes the house once more ! Agreeably to war- rant, May 30, 1771, it was voted, that " The meeting house frame that is Raised on a Peice of Land Given by Stephen Batchalar to the Parrish be taken down and moved to Josiah Chases." Capt Samuel Leavitt, Capt. John Dudly, Thomas Brown, Patton Simpson, and Josiah Sawyer were appointed to perform this task. Power had before been given to a committee to sell pew privileges ; but this is revoked, and on the 24th of September a new committee is authorized to sell all the lower tier of pews not disposed of by the former committee. For five years there has been unceasing contention about the erection of a meeting-house, and almost no other busi- ness has received attention. New roads had been occa- sionally built, and old ones repaired ; but where and hour build a place of worship, have been the all-absorbing ques- tions. The annual meeting, March 17, 1772, when Samuel Leavitt was chosen moderator ; Thomas Simpson, clerk ; (^Jeremiah Easman, Simon Marston, and Richard Jenniss, selectmen, — was almost the first since the incorporation that had not this perplexing subject under consideration. The meeting of September 24, 1771, was the first held at the meeting-house, and so many frames had been erected, and at such different places, that for some time it was necessary in the warrant to notify the people to assemble at the meet- ing-house (" on Chase's Hill So called)." May 19, 1772, it was voted, " to raise thirty pounds L. M. to be Laid out Intirely for preaching," and John Pearson and James Page were to " Look out for some Suitable person to supply the parrish with preaching." 272 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. CHAPTER III. Mr. Upham's Call to Deerfleld. — Proposals. —Clearing of Land. — Apple-trees. — Mr. Upham's Reply. — Preparations for Ordination. — The Council. — Mr. Upham's Parentage. — Marriage. — His Character. — Decease. — Monument. — His Children and Grandchildren. — Rev. Nathaniel Wells. — Ordination. — His Children. — His Successors. SEPTEMBER 17, 1772, in answer to a legal warrant, the town voted, " That the Parrish Give a Call to Mr. Timothy Upham to Settle in the work of the Ministry in Deerfield ; " " Voted Thomas Simpson, Esq., Deacon Abram True, James Page, Stephen Batchalar, Richard Jenness, Cagt.. Samuel Leavitt, Capt. Jacob Longfellow, 1 Jeremiah Easman, Benj a Sanborn, David Batchalar, and John Bart- let be A Committee to Draw up proposals for Mr. Timothy Upham." This meeting then adjourned to the first day of October, 1772, when it was voted to make to Mr. Upham proposals agreeably to the report of the committee, as follows : — The Parrish agrees to allow Mr. Timothy Upharn, if he Should Settle in the Ministry in Deerfield for Salary Sixty pounds Lawful money for the 1st year y« Salary to begin the first day of March next and to Add five pounds Lawful money yearly till it amounts to Seventy five pounds and to Continue the Same Salary So long as he Continues a Regular Minister and Likewise to build A House on the Parsonage Lott where the meeting house was framed forty two by thirty two two Story high with A Commodious Celler and Well the out Side to be Inclosed so as to be Comfortable and two rooms finished according to Country mode within one year from Date meaning to Consult with our Elected Pastor the other part of the House to be finished in four years from this Date A Barn to be built thirty-two by thirty within one year from this Date likewise to keep his horse for one year from the said first Day of March, the Second year one Horse and one Cow the third year one horse and two Cows and After that time wee Engage that there Shall be Land Enough Cleared on the Parsonage to Keep two Cows one horse and ten Sheep Summer and Winter in A Middling Season and to be well fenced and wee must Keep S 4 fence in Repair HISTORY OF DEEEFIELD. 273 but the true meaning is that the S d Mr. Upham Shall have the Whole Proffitts of the Parsonage Except wood and timber so long as he Con- tinues to be A Regular minister of the Gospel according to the Congre- gational Constitution, and also twenty five Cord of Wood att his house yearly and his Salary to begin from the time of his Settlement accord- ing to the proposal for the first year till the Said first Day of March Commences. Voted Lastly that this meeting Stands Adjourned till the Last Thursday of this instant October. SAMUEL LEAVITT, Moderator. Pr Jacob Longfellow, Clerk, Protempore. At the adjourned meeting it was resolved, that the " Par- rish Clear two or three acres of Land on the Parsonage and Sett out one Hundred Apple trees on the Parsonage for the use of Mr. Upham." It was also " Voted the Parrish Ex- cuse Mr. Upham one Sabbath yearly to visit his Relations." At the same time, " Voted the Parrish Receive Mr. Tim- othy Upham's answer and Excepts in the Affirmative which is as Folio weth : " — To the Inhabitants of Deeefield. Christian Friends, — Having taken your Invitation you have given me to Settle with you in the Sacred office of the Gospel Ministry into the most Serious Consideration and Seeing that you are United in it and have made Such provision for my temporal Support as may be Sufficient relying uppon the Grace and Goodness of God for that As- sistance I Stand in need of in So Great and Important a Work I Com- ply with your Request and that with a Greatful Sense of the Respect you have Shown me and Intreating your prayers att the throne of Grace for me I subscribe my Self yours to serve in the Important work of the Gospel ministry. TIMOTHY UPHAM. Deerfield Octob r y 8 29 th 1772. "Voted the Day for ordination the first Wednesday in Dec next Ex- cept it Should be thanksgiving Day which it was, and it was performed the Second Wednesday in Dec r 1772. Voted Deacon Abram True Capt. Samuel Leavitt and Mr. James Page are A Committe to Send Letters to the Counsil whose names are these ministers Mr Robie Mr Fogg Mr Odlin Mr Trask Mr Stearns Mr Cotton Mr Tuck Mr Noyce Mr Thair Mr Jewitt Mr Hastins Mr Thatcher. 18 274 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. Voted the Select men Provide for the Counsil. And Capt. John Dudlys house for Entertainment for the above ministers and Deligates. RET. TIMOTHY UPHAM. Mr. Upham was of the fifth generation of the descendants of Mr. John Upham, who was born in England in 1597, and settled in Weymouth, Mass., 1635. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1768, when twenty years old, having sustained a creditable rank in scholarship. He studied theology with the Rev. Mr Trask of Brentwood, and re- ceived calls from the church in Portsmouth and other towns, but was touched by the liberality and tender regards of the people of Deerfield, resolved to be their pastor, and so was ordained as such at the age of twenty-four years, in 1772. May 18, 1773, he married Miss Hannah Gookin, whose twin sister, Elizabeth, became the wife of Dr. Edmund Chadwick, the first physician of Deerfield. These were the descend- ants of Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gookin, and daughters of the Rev. Nathaniel Gookin of North Hampton, and of Love Wingate, his wife. They were born at North Hampton, April 22, 1754. Their father died when they were twelve years of age ; but they were greatly aided in subsequent education by their uncle, Mr. John Wingate of Stratham, and by their aunt, Mrs. Col. Pickering of Salem. Mrs. Upham was an estimable lady. Her personal appearance was indicative of great physical and mental activity. Her tastes were refined, and her disposition gen- tle and lovely. Her piety was a pure, fervent, and self-con- suming flame. A simple stone marks the place of her rest, bearing this inscription, written by Miss Elizabeth Champ- ney Williams : — Hannah, Consort of the Rev. Timothy Upham, Who departed this life Aug. 4, 1797, in the 44th year of her age. If truth, love, virtue, each attractive grace, That warms the heart or animates the face ; If tears, or sighs, or ardent prayers could save The kind, the generous, from the silent grave, — HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. 275 Then death, relentless, must have lost his prey ; And with it lost his cruel power to slay One who shall rise and shine in realms above, Forever happy in her Savior's love. In October, 1799, Mr. Upham married for his second wife Miss Hephzibah Neal of Stratham, whose tombstone bears the following inscription : — Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Hephzibah Upham, relict of the Rev. Timothy Upham, who, after a long and painful sickness, which she bore with Christian fortitude and resignation, departed this life May 15, 1811, aged 57. Mr. Upham was six feet tall, rather spare, but perfectly erect. His voice was melodious and powerful ; his enun- ciation was clear and distinct. He possessed a well-bal- anced mind and excellent judgment. Distinguished for the rectitude of his character, for quiet dignity, and constant self-possession, he won the admiration of his people ; while his hospitality and benevolence, extending to the verge of his means, awakened their love and esteem. Mr. Upham died February 21, 1811, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, after a faithful ministry in Deerfield of nearly forty years. The people to whom Mr. Upham so long and so faithfully ministered had become an intelligent and spirited community, capable of appreciating the worth of their pastor, and hastened to manifest an appropriate regard for him and sense of their own loss in his death, by rearing a monument at his grave bearing this inscription : — Sacred to the Memory of the Rev. Timothy Upham, first pastor of the Congregational Church in this town, over which he was ordained November, 1772, and was continued to them, to mutual satisfaction, for 39 years ; then this mortal put on immortality. In a joyful hope of a glorious resurrection, he departed this life Feb. 21 8t , 1811, aged 63. As a testimony of their grateful remembrance of his long and affec- tionate services, the Congregational Society to whom he ministered have erected this monument. Mr. Upham had two sons and one daughter ; Timothy the younger settled in Portsmouth as a merchant ; and was 276 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. a brave and efficient officer in the war of 1812 with Eng- land. Nathaniel the elder lived and died in Rochester. He was a man of marked ability and success in business. He represented the town of Rochester in the state legisla- ture three years ; was a member of the governor's council two years, and a representative of the state in the National Congress from 1817 to 1823. He married, in 1798, Judith Cogswell, daughter of Hon. Thomas Cogswell of Gilmanton, an officer in the Revolutionary war, and for many years a judge of the court of common pleas. By this marriage were eleven children : — Thomas Cogswell, born in Deerfield, January 30, 1799, graduated with distinguished honors at Dartmouth Col- lege in 1818 ; studied theology at Andover Seminary when Leonard Woods and Prof. Stuart were in their high- est repute for scholarship. Completing his course here, he was settled as pastor of the Congregational Church in Rochester, having already become favorably known as a scholar, by having assisted Prof. Stuart in Greek and He- brew instruction in the seminary, and for having trans- lated from the Latin, Jahn's Archaeology with additions and corrections, published in 1823. His settlement in Rochester was in July, 1823, to which place his father had removed his family when Thomas was a child. In 1824, he was elected professor of Moral Philosophy and Meta- physics in Bowdoin College, and was inducted into that office February, 1825. This was to be his life work ; here he was to spend the years of his manhood, and chiefly to bless the world through minds molded by his influence. Mr. Upham has long been known for his " Elements of Mental and Moral Philosophy," a work that has passed through many editions and been translated into other lan- guages as a text-book for schools ; also for his " Treatise on the Will," " Ratio Disciplinae," " Manuel of Peace," " The Life of Faith," " The Interior or Hidden Life," " Di- vine Union," "Lives and Opinions of Mad. Guyon and HISTORY OF DEERTIELD. 277 Fenelon." Prof. Upham in 1852 visited England and Scotland ; Prance, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy ; Egypt and the Holy Land, — in company "with Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D. D., then of the Broadway Tabernacle, New York City. A result of his travels was a volume of letters, written with great care, the fruit of a mind highly poetic and trained to nice discrimination. Several other works have been written by him, of much merit, while his contributions to periodicals and journals are quite numerous. To a ripe scholarship Mr. Upham added a fervent piety that shone conspicuously in all his life, and in the peace he enjoyed at death, when, though he could say nothing more, he could articulate, " My soul is with God." He died in New York City April 2, 1872, aged seventy-three years. He resigned his professorship in Bowdoin five years before his decease, having filled that office for the period of forty-three years. Prof. Upham married, about the time of his appointment to his professorship, Miss Phebe Lord of Kennebunkport, Me. Nathan Gookin, son of Nathaniel, son of Rev. Timothy Upham, born in Deerfield, January 8, 1801, fitted for col- lege at Exeter Academy, then under the charge of Dr. Abbott, graduated from Dartmouth College with honor in 1820, read law in the office of Hon. David Barker, jr., of Rochester, practiced law in Bristol, removed to Concord in 1829, was appointed one of the associate justices of the superior court of New Hampshire at the age of thirty-two, the youngest man that had been placed on the bench in the state, with the exception of the Hon. Levi "Woodbury. At the time of Judge Upham' s appointment, Hon. William M. Richardson was chief-justice ; and Hon. Joel Parker, afterwards chief-justice, the man in whom New Hampshire has always felt great pride, came to the bench at the same time with Mr. Upham. In 1843, Mr. Upham resigned his position upon the bench and became connected with the interests of the railroad, which, in 1843, was opened from 278 HISTORY OF DEEUFIELB. Lowell to Concord, being an extension of the one from Boston to Lowell which was opened in 1833. He at first was superintendent, afterward president, and retained that position until 1866. In 1853, Judge Upham was appointed commissioner to settle claims of the United States against England, and claims of England against the United States. The commissioner on the part of England was Ednmnd Hornby, Esq. Their decision was to be regarded as final, and in accordance with it all the claims between the two countries were to be adjusted. Judge Upham was also appointed to a similar duty in 1862, on a commission between the United States and New Granada for the settlement of claims between the two coun- tries. Judge Upham married, October 28, 1829, Betsey Watts, daughter of Nathaniel Lord of Kennebunkport, Me. She was born March 23, 1810, and died August 17, 1833, aged twenty-three, leaving two children, Elizabeth Lord and Nathaniel Lord ; the former became the wife of Joseph B. Walker, Esq., of Concord; the latter is a Congregational clergyman in New Jersey. Judge Upham's second wife was the daughter of Rev. Abraham Burnham, for more than forty years pastor of the Congregational Church in Pembroke. By this mar- riage there were two children ; the first a daughter, died in infancy; the second a son, Francis A., died in Altoona, Penn., April 3, 1867, aged twenty-nine. Judge Upham died December 11, 1869, aged sixty-eight years, universally loved and respected by those who knew him. The influence of a life like his can never cease to be felt for good. His was a life of uncompromising integ- rity, purity, and usefulness. Two sons of Hon. Nathaniel Upham, Alfred, M. D., and Francis W., LL. D., resided in New York ; and Joseph B., for many years a merchant and subsequently collector of the port, resided in Portsmouth. His wife was Sarah C. HISTORY OF DEEBFIELD. 279 Currier of Dover, granddaughter of Col. Amos Cogswell of that city. Their son, Joseph B. Upham, jr., is a grad- uate of Brunswick College, studied law for a while in Ports- mouth, then entered the navy as third engineer, rose to be first. During the Rebellion he was for some time on our iron-clad steamers, subsequently sent to Mediterranean on the flag-ship, visited Russia and the neighboring countries with Admiral Farragut, passing through the Suez Canal, and visiting the Pyramids. Subsequently he was sent to China, spending two years in Yokahama, again passing through the canal in going, and returning by San Fran- cisco across the continent to Portsmouth, his home. Timothy Upham, M. D., of Waterford, N. Y., and Prof. Albert G. Upham, M. D., of Boston, who died some years since, were sons of Hon. Nathaniel Upham. The daugh- ters of Nathaniel Upham were : Hannah Elizabeth, who died in infancy ; Mary, who married Hon. David Barker, jr., of Rochester, member of Congress, and is now the widow of Eben Coe, Esq., of Bangor, Me. ; Judith, who married Hon. James Bell of Exeter, senator of the United States, whose children are : Mary Anne, now the wife of Nathaniel G. White, Esq., of Lawrence, Mass. ; Eliza Up- ham, Lucy, James Dana, and Charles Upham. Ruth C, the youngest daughter of Nathaniel Upham, married Dr. J. Berry, and died May, 1869, at the residence of her only daughter, Julia, who married Rev. J. C. Thomp- son of Pottstown, Penn. Hannah, daughter of Rev. Timothy Upham, was born in Deerfield, July, 1789, and was left motherless when at a very early age, and was mostly indebted to her father's instruction and influence in the development of those intel- lectual traits, which, in later years, made her so successful as a teacher. She attended school for a while at Bradford, Mass., taught at Belleville, now a part of Newburyport, Mass. Not satisfied with being an ordinary teacher she passed a year in a French family in New York, studying 280 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD the French, Italian, and German languages. The Ontario Female Seminary at Canandaigua, N. Y., had for some time been declining, so that, in 1830, few sought instruction there. It was at this time, and while Miss Upham was in New York, that the late Hon. Francis Granger whose death followed that of Miss Upham by a single week, visited New York to secure a teacher, to whom Miss Upham was recom- mended, and to whom the situation was offered. At her boarding-house, in the morning before entering the semi- nary, one of the trustees called upon her, whom she re- quested to invite some one of the clergymen to open the school that day with prayer. The trustee replied that they thought it better not to allow the ministers to have any thing to do with the school, and it would not be wise to attempt to make the school subject to any special religious influence. To whom Miss Upham replied, " Well, if the school is to have nothing to do with the Christian religion, nor the teachers of it, then Jam to have nothing to do with Ihe school." It is needless to say that a clergyman was invited ; and she whose intellectual attainments and moral qualities fitted her to adorn the highest position, and whose loving piety diffused the sweet incense of sanctity wherever she was, in a short time, by her judicious management and skillful instruction, raised the institution to its highest position of character, usefulness, and prosperity. Miss Upham resigned her charge in ls48, and died at Canan- daigua, August 20, 1868, leaving the luster of her character as a legacy to the country, while her private virtues are embalmed in the hearts of those that best knew her. Of these children and grandchildren, as the descendants of the beloved pastor of their fathers, the present genera- tion of Deerfield are justly proud. They cheerfully admit the extent and permanency of the influence of a learned and Christian minister, and that to-day they are feeling the influence of their first pastor and the noble mother of his children. HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. 281 RET. NATHANIEL WELLS. Mr. Wells was born in Wells, Me., July 13, 1774. He was the son of Hon. Nathaniel Wells, a distinguished jurist, whose father was Deacon Nathaniel, who removed to Wells, Me., from Ipswich, and there died, October 26, 1666. Mr. Nathaniel Wells graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1795, and taught for a while in his native town, and subsequently engaged in mercantile business, in which he continued for a number of years ; and abandoning that, he commenced the study of theology with the Rev. Moses Hemmenway, D. D., of Wells, under whose instruction he had fitted for college, and whose daughter Eunice he had married in 1797. He was employed to preach in Deerfield as a candidate, in 1812. After the death of Rev. Mr. Up- ham, February 21, 1811, a call was given to Rev. Ebenezer S. Sperry, with the offer of three hundred dollars and in- come of parsonage, and twenty-five cords of wood, and the keeping the fence in repair. This call was declined. A call was extended to Mr. Wells, with the offef of a salary of four hundred dollars, with income of the parsonage, and buildings to be kept in repair. This being accepted, Mr. Wells was ordained July 1, 1812. Before the ordination took place, the people of Deerfield made arrangements to move his family from Wells to the parsonage. The car- riages that were sent for this purpose were met, at Notting- ham Square on their return with the pastor and his family, by a procession of about forty carriages, and escorted to the parsonage. And when arrived at the parsonage, the company formed themselves into lines, extending from the street several rods to the entrance of the house, between which the pastor and his family passed to his future home, to meet with such an entertainment as his parishioners knew so well how to provide. In the midst of a united and happy people, Mr. Wells passed twenty-nine years, in stimulating his hearers to strive for a higher life, in win- ning them into paths of godliness by a faithful holding up oy2 HISTORY OF DEEBFIELD. of Christ crucified, and by his own example, even to the end of life. He consulted for all the interests of the peo- ple, looking well to the education of the young, being him- self an excellent scholar ; and had the satisfaction of seeing grow up around him a generation of intelligent men and women, who, in the various departments of literature and business, have reflected honor upon the pastor and the town. The Congregational Church was greatly blessed by his ministry, enjoying precious revivals in 1831, 1835, and lb38. Mr. Wells was dismissed in 1841, retaining the affection and confidence of his people to the last, and con- tinued a blessing to them as a citizen until his death, which occurred December 31, 1858, at the advanced age of nearly eighty-five. There were born to Mr. Wells twelve children, four of whom died young. Of those who survived were : Maria, born July, 1798, married T. M. White of South Deerfield, and has one son, Nathaniel, residing in Lawrence, Mass. ; David born in November, 1803, and died in February 22, 1876 ; he was a practicing physician in Lowell, Mass., thirty-six years ; his death was occasioned by a rupture of the walls of the heart. A meeting of the members of the medical profession was called immediately after his death was known, and passed the following resolve : — Whereas, Dr. David Wells, one of the oldest and most respected members of the medical profession in this city, has suddenly departed this life, after a residence of thirty-six years in our midst, — Resolved, That his studious habits, his singleness of devotion to professional duties, his discriminating treatment of disease, and his uniform gentlemanly conduct, commend themselves as worthy of re- spect and imitation among his brethren of the profession. Rev. Eden Foster, D. D., his pastor, bore the following testimony of the worth of Dr. Wells : — Dr. Wells was extremely retiring and self-distrusting, and few knew his worth. He was a lover of Christ and of his fellow-men. In the higher department of books and thought he cultivated the domain of HISTORY OF DEERFIEL1). 283 reading as the sailor follows the sea, as the native Swiss loves the mountains. I never met him, exchanging with him occasional greet- ings, taking him by the hand, receiving from him a word of personal encouragement, without lifting up my heart to God that his rare intel- lectual culture, the wealth of his affection, the powers of his Christian principle, might be better known His mind had a surpassing strength and refinement. In his life were the living and springing roots of all nobleness. His heart had an overflowing love. Alluding to his having never married, his pastor adds : — How sad that some happy explorer had not traced those rivulets of kindness, through ever-deepening currents to the Albert Nyansa Lake, and built a house on its bordor, so that its blessed exhalations might not have been lost in the unknown airs, and its outflowing streams in sur- rounding sands. I mourn for him as for a brother. Nathaniel, born February, 1805, a lawyer in Great Falls, marrying, for his first wife, N. A. Wyman of Woburn, Mass., having one son, who has recently deceased ; for his second wife, Eliza Thorn of Derry, having four surviv- ing children, William, Christopher, Harriet, and Lizzie ; Theodore, born February, 1807, practiced as a physician several years ; afterwards studied theology ; ordained at Bar- rington June 11, 1845 ; died July, 1862 ; his wife being Sarah E. Peabody of Westford, Mass. ; Moses Hemmenway, born August, 1814, graduated from Dartmouth College, 1839 ; studied for the ministry at Andover ; ordained over the Congregational Church in Pittsfield November 19, 1845 ; dismissed December 5, 1853 ; settled again at Hinsdale ; now at Lower "Waterford, Vt. ; having taught at different times at Canandaigua, N. Y., Grafton, Mass., and South Berwick, Me. ; his first wife being A. R. Vatie of New York, having two surviving children, Annie M., now a teacher in South Africa, and Charles V. ; his second wife being Emily M. Taylor of Hinsdale, having one daughter, Ellen; Elizabeth J., born October, 1816, educated and taught at Canandaigua, N. Y., became the wife of Rev. J. P. Humphrey, now of East St. Johnsbury, Vt. ; Abby T., born 284 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. June, 1819, graduated and taught at Canandaigua, N. Y., teaching for the last seventeen years in Packer Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Alexander, born September, 1821, mar- ried R. A. Beach, Augusta, N. Y., having one daughter, Maria T. Rev. Mr. Wells was succeeded by Rev. Bphraim Nelson Hidden, who was ordained pastor September, 1841, and dismissed October, 1849 ; to be followed by Rev. William A. Patten, who was ordained July 18, 1850, and was dismissed July 21, 1852. Rev. U. W. Condit was installed pastor July 10, 1855, the pulpit having been supplied the three years by Rev. W. A. Forbes and E. F. Abbott. Mr. Condit was dismissed March 15, 1864. Rev. Lyman White succeeded the second ministry of Mr. Patten, commencing his labors in the autumn of 1874. Mr. White was born in Roxbury, N. EL, July 23, 1818, son of John, the son of John. The latter was a soldier in the Revolution, was present when Charlestown was burnt by the British. Rev. L. White graduated from Dartmouth in 1846, at Andover in 1849 ; preached at Epping five years, at Easton, Mass., seven years, at Phillipston, Mass., eight years, at Pembroke, N. H., four years and a half. Mr. White, June 3, 1850, married Pamelia Graham, daughter of Maj. Nathaniel Warren, and their children were : Mary, who died at the age of three ; and Carrie, now a member of the Stevens High School of Claremont. His wife died August 22, 1858, and he married, November 30, 1859, Mary Chase, daughter of Rev. Carlton Hurd, D. D., of Fry- burg, Me., granddaughter of Rev. Abijah Wines, D. D., for many years pastor of the church at Newport. Their chil- dren are Frank L., who died young, Mary Agnes, Alice Augusta, John Carlton, and Winifred. HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. 285 CHAPTER IV. Roads. — School-houses. — Revolutionary Spirit. — Deputies chosen. — Soldiers raised. — Bounties voted Census, 1775.— New-York Tories. — Assigned to Nottingham and Deerfield. — Test Declaration. — Distinguished Statesmen. — Baptist Church. — Freewill Baptist Church. f"TP to the time of the settlement of Mr. Upham, we find ^-' no action of the town worthy of particular notice, aside from the location and building of a meeting-house and the se- curing that settlement. In these matters the people are at rest, and from that day Deerfield rapidly advanced in efforts at development of its resources. Timber abundant and lands fertile, the town occupies' henceforth no unenviable position among her sister towns. Some attention from the first had been given to highways ; now more. At the an- nual meeting, March 17, 1773, Samuel^Leavitt was -chosen moderator; Thomas Simpson, clerk ;-' Jeremiah Easman, N Richard Jeness, Deacon Abram True, Select men ; " and im- portant action was had respecting roads ; and on the 9th of June, 1774, at a special meeting we find attention given to education : " Agreed upon that, the gramor Schoole is to be kept this term at the North Sid of the parish the South part to be att their proportion of the Extraordirnery Cost." We are led to infer from this, that prior efforts had been made in some way to instruct the children of the town. June 19, 1775, it was voted, " that the Parish dismiss School keeping for the present." March 19, 1776, the par- ish voted to raise seven hundred pounds for schooling, but the " conflict " prevented the execution of the vote. For some reason the inhabitants in the southern part of the town were uneasy, and made an effort to be set off as a dis- tinct parish ; and at the meeting, June 9, 1774, it was voted, that " Benemian Sanborn and Jeremiah Easman be a Com- mittee to Vindicate and Shew Cause Why a pertition, that 286 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. a Number of the Inhabitants of the parish of Deerfield Have Laid before the Jeneral Court, shall not be answered." But stirring times are at hand. There is a growing discontent throughout the colonies against the mother country ; and here as elsewhere minor differences are held in abeyance. January 2, 1774, the town chose " Capt. Daniel More and Moses Marshel Deputies " to " a Congress to be Held at Philadelphia on the tenth Day of may Next," and "Daniel More, Simon marston Patton Simpson Daniel Batchelder John Mcrilles Richard Jenness as a Committee " to " See that the Parish Conforms to the Rules proposed by the gen- eral Congress & &." And again, January 30, 1775, " Vo- ted one Hundred Dollars to be Raised to purchase a Stock of ammunition." On the eighth day of May, 1775, " Voted Simon Marston and Mr. Upham Debuities to Joyn the Con- gress at Exeter, the 17 day of this present may 1775 if Mr timothy upham Refuses to go the Saide Marston is to Et- tend." On the 12th of December of this year, the inhabi- tants of Deerfield and Northwood were called together, at Deerfield, to choose a person to represent both towns on the twenty-first day of the same month at Exeter in congress. This was done by order of " the late Congress." Jeremiah Easman was elected. March 19, 1776, Daniel Page, John " M c rillis," Daniel " Currer," David Batchelder, Capt. Na- than Sanborn, were a Committee of Safety. CENSUS OF DEERFIELD, 1785. The Provisional Congress ordered a census to be taken in all the towns of the Province of New Hampshire. That of Deerfield is as follows : — Males under 16 years of age 250 Males from 16 to 50, not in the army 204 All males above 50 years of age 26 Persons gone in the army 30 All Females 418 Negroes and Slaves for life 1 929 BISTOBT OF DEERFIELD. 287 In compliance with the above Request [of the Provincial Congress] we have vud fire arms and find 120 fit for use, and 68 wanting and 51 pounds of Powder. DANIEL LAD, ) BENJAMIN PAGE, [ Selectmen. ROBERT PAGE, ) Deerfield, September 19, 1775. Then the above Signers Personally appeared & made oath to the above Inventory before me SAM LL LEAVITT, Just, of Peace. The confidence reposed in the patriotism of New Hamp- shire may be seen in the fact that other states not able to restrain the Tories within their limits, transported them into New Hampshire. The Hon. John Jay of New York wrote to the Honorable the General Court of the State of New Hampshire, thus : — Gents, — The Committee appointed by the Convention of this State for the Purpose of inquiring into, detecting and defeating all conspiracies which may be formed therein against the Liberties of America, find it indispensably necessary to remove a Number of dan- gerous and disarficted Persons, some of whom have been taken in Arms against America, to one of the neighboring States. On confer- ring with Lieut.-Coll. "Welch relative to sending them to New Hamp- shire, he was of opinion, that the zeal which your Hon ble Body have uniformly manifested for the American Cause, would induce you cheerfully to receive and dispose of them in such Manner as to prevent the further execution of their wicked and malicious Designs. The Committee desire that all such of Prisoners as are not directed to be confined and not in circumstances to maintain themselves, be put to labour and compelled to earn their subsistance ; and they have di- rected the Bearer Egbert Benson, Esq. Chairman of the Committee of this County to pay you five hundred dollars on account of the expences you may be put to by complying with their request. The Committee beg leave to recommend this Gentleman to your Notice and confidence, he will communicate to you the Instructions given him by the Committee and readily give any information that may be necessary to enable you to form a judgment of the characters of the several Prisoners and the Degrees proper to enjoin them. By order Committee. I am, Gent" : Your most ob' hum serv* JOHN JAY, Chairman. 288 HISTORY OF DEERFIELB. Sir, — You are hereby ordered to march with the Prisoners, whose names are in the inclosed annexed List with all despatch to Exeter in the State of New Hampshire. You are to have a particular Eye upon those marked with an Astrism & to confine those in Irons who appear to be dangerous. I am, Sir, Yours, ROB T X s RENSILAER. To Capt. Fuuda, Head Quarters, Nov. 1"', 1776. The action of the Committee of Safety in New Hamp- shire respecting these tories of New York may be seen from the letter of the chairman, M. Weare : — State of ) Lsr Committee of Safety, New Hampshire. ) November 14 th 1776. The Committee, taking into consideration what is necessary to be done with a number of persons sent into this State by order of the State of New York, and enquiring of the officers who conducted them and receiving such information as they could give relating to the Crimes charged against them (the Convention of New York not hav- ing as yet transmitted any thing relative thereto) Have determined that at present and until information arrives from the State of New York, That Silvester Stone, Daniel Doughty, George Doughty, Adam Weaver, Daniel Hoffman, James Parker, Thomas Bullis, George Blan- chard & Timothy Doughty be committed to the Prison in Exeter, hav- ing the Liberty of the yard in the day time only ; and that all the other persons may provide their own lodgings any where within six miles of the State House in the Town of Exeter, except in the Town of New Market, at no time going beyond those limits, and that they strictly observe their conduct relative to political affairs & by no means endeavor to use words or arguments to people they may converse with tending to hurt the Interest of the States of America, or in opposition to the present contest with Great Britain on pain of immediate im- prisonment. Any of the above persons being of the society called Quakers (not of the number ordered to prison) observing the above caution may go to the Towns of Dover, Hampton Falls, Seabrook & Kensington, if they think fit and take quarters with People there of that Society Every per- son when he has provided himself with lodgings is to take care to return his name & the name of his Landlord, & in what Town he resides, to General Folsom at Exeter. M. WEARE, Chairman. HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. 289 The whole number of tories conducted into the state by Capt. A. Funda was seventy-four, and the Committee of Safety showed their confidence in the patriotism of Notting- ham and Deerfield in entrusting most of those committed to prison to their guardianship. State of N. Hampshire, in Committee of Safety, Novem r 23, 1776. Ordered, That Sylvester Stone, Daniel Doughty, George Doughty & Adam Weaver, persons sent to this State from New York Convention as enemies to the rights of America, be sent to the Town of Notting- ham, and David Hoffman, James Parker, Timothy Doughty and George Blanchard be sent to the Parish of Deerfield, to be put out in such Families (by the respective Selectmen) as will take them to Board, or hire them to labour. Said persons observing on pain of imprisonment not to use words or arguments to people they converse with, tending against the measures carrying on by the American States. DECLARATION BY THE INHABITANTS OF NEW HAMP- SHIRE. Colony of New Hampshire, in Committee of Safety, April, 12 1776. To the Selectmen of Deerfield : In order to carry the underwritten Resolution of the honorable Continental Congress into execution, you are requested to desire all males, above twenty years of age (Luna- ticks, Idiots and Negroes excepted), to sign the Declaration on this paper ; and when so done, to make return thereof, together with the the name or names of all who shall refuse to sign the same, to the General Assembly, or Committee of Safety of this Colony. M. WEARE, Chairman. In Congress, March 14, 1776. Resolved, That it be recommended to the several Assemblies, Con- ventions, and Councils or Committees of Safety of the United Colonies, immediately to cause all persons to be disarmed within then- respect- ive Colonies, who are notoriously disaffected to the Cause of America; or who have not associated, and refuse to associate, to defend by arms the United Colonies against the hostile attempts of the British Fleets and Arms. (Extract from the minutes.) CHARLES THOMPSON, Secretary. 19 290 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. In consequence of the above Resolution of the Continental Congress, and to show our determination in joining our American brethren in defending the lives, liberties, and properties of the Inhabitants of the United Colonies, We, the Subscribei-s, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise, that we will to the utmost of our power at the risk of our lives and fortunes, with arms oppose the hostile proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American Colonies. SIGNERS IN DEERFIELD. Timothy Upham. Eliphalet Smith. Stephen Batchelder. Simon Marston. John McCrillis. John Dam. Thomas Rand. Abraham True. Benjamin Sanborn. James Page. Isaac Shepherd. Adonijah Fellows. Samuel Cate. Thomas Moulton. Richard Jenness. Jacob Longfellow. Jeremiah Easman.^ John Avery. George TVallis. Aaron Rawlins. Increase Batchelder. Nathan Green. John Lucy. Benjamin Batchelder. Levi Dame. Peter Mason. Thomas Robie. Jonathan Blue. Theophilus Griffin. Joseph March. Eliphalet Farffom Joshua Nosey. George Seavey. James Langley. Dominick Griffin. Robert Merrill. Francis Batchelder. Abiel Bartlett. Samuel Hardy. Nathaniel Osgood. David Robinson. Levi Harvey. Joseph Young. James Young. Jonathan Robinson. John Robinson. John Merrill. John Jones. Sanborn Cram. David Batchelder. Jedediah Prescott. Jonah Prescott. John Meade. Samuel Pulsifer. Joshua Leavitt. Ezekiel Gilman. William Mos. Benjamin Bere. Thomas Jenness. Joseph Currier. David Hindwick. Robert Helese. Dalton Simpson. Stephen Chase. Moses Chase. John Simpson. Josiah Chase. Daniel Currier. Benjamin Stevens. Benjamin French. Wadleigh Ham. Samuel Gilman. Henry Tucker. Eleph. Grefeen, jr. Daniel Page. H. Thompson. John Goodhue. James Mason. Andrew Freese. Thomas Leavitt. Enoch Robie. Samuel Perkins. Joseph Kinnison. James Griffin. Jn° Batchelder, jr. Edward Dearborn. S. Batchelder, jr. Gideon Ham. Nathan Grefeens. Samuel Hobbs. Andrew Nealey. John Cram. John Grefeens. Joseph Grooes. Enoch French. Peter Sanborn. Ebenezer Tilton. William Smith. Nathan Batchelder. HISTOBY OF DEERFIELD. 291 John Matton. James Brown. David Jewett. Zebulon Ring. Joseph Hilton. Samuel Hoit. Joseph Hoit. John Thurstin. Benjamin Folsom. Tristram Sanborn. Joseph Cram. Joel Cram. Jesse Prescott. Josiah Smith. Joseph Judkins. Joshua French. Benjamin JudMns. Daniel Ladd. Joshua Young. Nathaniel Philbrick. Jonathan Watson. Jonathan Philbrick. Simon Batchelder. Ephraim Batchelder. Moses Barnard. Jonathan Judkins. Abraham Prescott. Samuel Prescott. Joshua McClure. Samuel McClure. Jedo Webster. Thomas Blasdell. Cotton Haines John Pearson. Nat. Batchelder, 3d. Joseph Wallis. Phineas Tilton. Timothy Gowing. John Philbrick. Nathan Philbrick. To the Honorable General Assembly or a Committee of Safety for this Colony. Gentlemen, — We hare complied with your request in desiring all males to sign the Declaration on this paper, excepting a few who were gone out of the Parish. The men who refuse to sign are those whose names are here under- written : — Capt. John Robinson. Lieut. Nath. Meloon/" Moses Marshal. Joseph MerrilL Doct. Jonathan Hill. Josiah Sanborn. William Turrell. Nehemiah Cram. John Easmah. Ephraim Brown. John Bartlett. Ebenezer Allison. Jeremiah Glidden. Daniel Marston. Nathaniel Folsome. John Prescott. Samuel Windslo. Aseph Morrel. Benjamin Ladd. Nathaniel Robinson. to NATHAN SANBORN, BENJAMIN PAGE, ROBERTPAGE, Selectmen. Deerfield, June 20, 1776. At a meeting called April 10, 1777, " to see what means the Parish will adopt to assist Capt. Nathan Sanborn to raise his proportion of men, according to orders," it was voted, that " each company — the North company and the South company — shall furnish their proportion of men agreeable to orders from Col. Nicholas Gilman ; Said com- panies to be to their own separate expense, and raise the 292 HISTORY OF BEEEFIELD. separate proportion of men ; and the men wanted shall be paid by a Parish rate, and whatever any may have already paid either in money or by service, shall be allowed, and deducted from his Parish tax. Voted, that Capt. Nathan Sanborn, Richard Jenness, and Peter Sanborn be a Com- mittee to raise the required proportion for the South Com- pany." This committee does not seem to be successful ; so, Jan- uary 29, 1778, a meeting was called " to see what method the Parish will take to raise the Men wanted for the South Company," and a committee was raised to report a plan whereby the required men might be procured, and to report at an adjourned meeting. Accordingly, the same day, the report is given as follows : — We the subscribers recommend that every man who went to Cam- bridge at the time of the Concord Battle be allowed by the day for their service ; and that every man be allowed out of his taxes for every year, month and day that he may have already searved since the War, at the same rate of wages that it cost to hire the remainder part of the Continental Soldiers ; and if any hath done more than his proportion it is to stand to his credit against another time. And the Commander of each company shall keep a proper Roll of what time each man in his company hath served, and give it to the Committee or Selectmen who may be appointed to receive and examine the same; and each soldir that hath enlisted into the Continental Service without hire shall receive some consideration from the Parish. This Report was read and accepted. THOMAS RAND, JOHN MORRILL, MOSES CHASE, SAMUEL HOYT, J- Committee. JAMES BARNARD, JOSEPH MARCH, RICHARD JENNESS, Voted, also, that the Selectmen be empowered to examine the Rolls and see what each man hath done heretofore in the War. Voted that each man that went to Cambridge at the time of Lex- ington Battle have one dollar a day for that service, and to give each HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. 293 man who enlisted into the Continental Service, the present campaign without hire, a bonus of $50. Also that Capt Nathan Sanborn, Rich- ard Jenness and John Merrill be a committee to hire the Continental Soldiers now wanting in Deerfield, and this committee are empowered to borrow Money sufficient to secure said Soldiers, at the cost of the Parish. Vigorous efforts were cheerfully' made to raise the requi- site number of men for the war, and liberal aid was offered to such as might serve. Among other efforts to meet the calls for men at different times are votes to secure twenty- nine " Continental men," or men to be paid by the General Government, and twenty-nine " Parish men," at the cost of the town ; also seven men " for the New-Hampshire bat- talions, until December next," meaning from June 3, 1780, until the next December. It appears that men from Deer- field gallantly fought at Lexington and in Rhode Island, and wherever New-England men were found struggling for liberty. The names of eighteen persons from this town who died in the Revolution are preserved. It is believed that Maj. John Simpson fired the first gun upon the British with fatal result in that immortal battle at Bunker Hill. It was a premature discharge of his musket, but one that was immediately followed by a general engagement. Maj. Simpson died October 28, 1825. Joseph Mills, an officer in Col. Cilley's regiment during the Revolution, was after- wards an efficient magistrate and a worthy representative. He died in June, 1809, aged sixty years. Hon. Richard Jenness, who acted so important a part in the early history of this town, died July 4, 1819, aged seventy-three years, greatly respected as a magistrate, representative, senator, and judge of the common-pleas court. ) During the Indian wars the inhabitants of Deerfield suffered much from fear, and frequently fled with much , precipitation to garrisons ; not a few for a considerable I time entirely deserting their homes and subjecting them- selves to privations that they might be near some refuge. 294: HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. Yet the savages took no lives, nor made any serious incur sion into their boundaries. Amid the stirring scenes of war, Deerfield was active in all efforts to establish a permanent government, and re- sponded to every call for men or instruction. January 29, 1778, it was voted that Simon Marston, Thomas Rand, Richard Jenness, James Page, and Capt. Daniel More be a committee to draw up instructions to our representative respecting the confederation. May 28, 1778, Maj. Simon Marston and Richard Jenness were chosen delegates " to join in a Convention to be holden on the tenth of June next for the purpose of Fram- ing and Laying a permanent form of Government for the future happiness of the good people of this State." And, in May 7, 1779, at a meeting called for the purpose, sev- enty-two legal voters being present, it was unanimously voted " to accept the Declaration of Rights and plan of Government " recommended by the convention to which Marston and Jenness had been sent. Again, May 13, 1782, Joseph March, Esq., and Dr. Edmund Chadwick were chosen delegates " to join in Convention at Concord on the first Tuesday of June next to Frame and arrange a perma- nent Government." BAPTIST CHURCH. This church was organized in 1770, consisting of four- teen members. Elifelet Smith, a layman of inferior natural talents, with little mental culture, was recognized as pastor, though no formal action seems to have been had by the church in respect to his pastoral relation to it. At the first meeting of the church, Smith was chosen clerk, and, July 24 of the same year, Wadly Cram was chosen deacon. This church was disbanded June 29, 1787, Mr. Smith having removed from the town some years prior. Soon after this, a branch church was organized as part of the Brentwood church, then under the pastoral care of Rev. Mr. HILTOBY OF DEERFIELD. 295 Shepherd. A revival was enjoyed in 1792 and 1793, and one hundred and four persons were added to the church, John Peak preaching for them about this time for the space of one year. It would seem that this church became independent about 1801 ; but when it became extinct, does not appear. But in 1816, September 12, thirteen men and women, at the house of Theophilus Stevens, formed a church to be known as the " First Baptist Church in Deerfield." Benjamin Sanborn was chosen clerk, and Samuel Hoyt, deacon. For more than. thirty years there seems to have been no regularly settled pastor over this church, — a period of struggle for existence, with brief periods of limited pros- perity. October 13, 1825, Rev. James Barnaby became pastor, and continued until Aixgust 27, 1828. Rev. Isaac Merriam succeeded him April 26, 1829, and was dismissed February 25, 1831. Rev. Bela Wilcox was settled April 8, 1832, and was dismissed April 2, 1837. From May, 1838, to January, 1843, Rev. Isaac Sawyer was pastor, by whom more than one hundred persons were added to the church, making the whole membership two hundred and two. 0. 0. Stearns was settled November, 1843, and dismissed April, 1845. Noah Hooper began to preach to this church in July, 1845, and was dismissed February, 1848, to be fol- lowed by James N. Chase, ordained July, 1849, and removed in the autumn of 1855. In 1856, L. C. Stevens became pastor, and closed that relation July, 1858. September of the same year, Mr. Barnaby, after an absence of more than thirty years, returned and remained until April 21, 1861, followed by Edward T. Lyford, settled May 6, 1862. He was soon after drafted into the service of his country, and was commissioned as chaplain, resigning his pastoral rela- tion, September, 1863. December 30, 1864, Oliver Ayer was settled, and dismissed April 1, 1866. September 29, 1867, Rev. Henry 0. Walker, the present pastor, was settled. Mr. Walker was born October 15, 1835, in Whiting, Vt. ; graduated at New Hampton Liter- 296 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. ary Institution, 1860, and at Newton Theological Seminary in 1863 ; married, November 26, 1863, Mary A. Coburn of Lowell, Mass. Mr. Walker was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church in East Weare June 20, 1864, whence he came to Deerfield. MEETING-HOUSES. The first house of worship occupied by the Baptists was built, 1770, and located about one mile and a half south- east of the center of the town. In 1822, it was removed to the center, and occupied in connection with the Freewill Baptists, and was called the " Union Meeting-house." The Baptists completed and dedicated their present sanc- tuary October, 1834, where they worship God in peace, encouraged by constant tokens of divine favor. Thanks are due to Rev. Mr. Walker for many of the foregoing facts which he has cheerfully furnished. FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH. This church was organized in 1799. They worshiped many years in the Union meeting-house, which was burned in 1839, and rebuilt in 1840 by the Freewill Baptist people alone, and is occupied by them now. This house is pleas- antly located at the center of the town, midway between the Congregational and Calvin Baptist churches. The sabbath assemblies are quite respectable in number, and the ministry is well sustained, and several interesting revivals have been enjoyed. A convenient parsonage, having a valuable tract of land connected with it, was secured about 1850. Among those who have labored as pastors of this church are John Kimball, S. B. Dyer, I. S. Davis, G. D. Garland, P. S. Burbank, C. S. Smith, Aaron Ayer, Ezra Tuttle, G. S. Hill, and Ira Emery. Mr. Emery came here in 1871. He studied theology at Bangor Seminary, and was ordained at Industry, Me., September 9, 1868. He was dismissed from Deerfield in 1876, and was followed by E. Blake, the present pastor. m n 1 2 T> -I o c. o 298 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. and " Master James Husey " were the most prominent suc- cessors of Mr. Howe. This academy-building was ultimately sold to the Parade school-district, and destroyed by fire about 1842. It was here that the young received a higher education than was common in those days; and this accounts for so. many being sent out from Deerfield who have reflected honor upon the town in which they were born ; who, to-day, are adorning every department of literature and of honorable activity, showing intellects quickened by the discipline of the academy, and the rivalry of struggling minds. Never do those men seem so great as when establishing a tuition- school, and giving it their patronage and encouragement. They sowed generously, and they reaped abundantly. Money never yields, better interest than when employed in educating the intellect of the young. When not generously invested, generations grow up with narrow and unworthy views of human life, each generation growing less in stature and. real manhood, until greatness is despised, enterprise is laughed at, and there is glorying in their shame. If the present generation of Deerfield shall fail to equal former in efforts to educate the young, then let her know that her de- cline in all that is honorable and glorious is inevitable. Nobly does it speak for Deerfield, that one of her sons, ben- efited by this school, donated to the town for the benefit of the youth the annual income of five thousand dollars ; and that another has built a school-house for the district in which he was born, — a model for taste and convenience, — and annually contributes liberally to supplement the efforts of the district to prolong the terms of instruction. Let Richard Jenness, for his five thousand dollars, and Frederick Plummer James, for his elegant school-house and generous appropriations, be models of manhood, and there be some from every town that shall do likewise. The Parade of to-day has not the business activity of " ye olden times," but it is great in memories of the past ; while m n > o c o HISTORY OF DEEBF1ELV. 297 CHAPTER V. Parade. — Rand's Comer. — Old Center — New Center. — South Eoad. — Coffee Town. PARADE. T^VEERFIELD Parade was well chosen by the early settlers, -"-^ because of its elevated position on the main road from Portsmouth to Concord, and so into Vermont. It was the seat of no inconsiderable trade. Boards, shingles, staves, hoop-poles, were brought here in great quantities, and ex- changed for articles that were always to be found at coun- try stores in those days. The Parade, for many years prior to the turnpike road through Northwood and railroads, was a scene of liveliness. Several stores were here ; among them was that kept by Daniel Williams, near Shephard's tavern, and that kept by the Jennesses. Here were taverns of much notoriety. Gen. Benjamin Butler, a soldier in the Revolution, and afterwards adjutant-general in New Hamp- shire, who died May 12, 1828, aged sixty-eight, kept a pub- lic house in " ye olden times," where Judge St. Clair died ; and Maj. Joseph Shephard, a man of no mean reputation, kept a hotel where Dr. Stephen Brown lived. Lawyers and doctors found business here, and the school-master was not omitted. The families that settled here, and on lands con- tiguous, were, to an unusual degree, possessed of wealth and intellectual culture ; and, besides caring for the district school, they supported a high school, which for many years was known as the academy, founded about 1798 by Joseph Mills, Esq., Col. Joseph Hilton, Gen. Benjamin Butler, Maj. Isaac Shepard, and Andrew Freeze, Esq. It was a flourishing school in its day. Phineas Howe, a young law- yer at the Parade, was its first preceptor, and continued at its head until about 1812. Mr. Jewett, Nathan T. Hilton, 298 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. and " Master James Husey " were the most prominent suc- cessors of Mr. Howe. This academy-building was ultimately sold to the Parade school-district, and destroyed by fire about 1842. It was here that the young received a higher education than was common in those days; and this accounts for so. many being sent out from Deerfield who have reflected honor upon the town in which they were horn ; who, to-day, are adorning every department of literature and of honorable activity, showing intellects quickened by the discipline of the academy, and the rivalry of struggling minds. Never do those men seem so great as when establishing a tuition- school, and giving it their patronage and encouragement. They sowed generously, and they reaped abundantly. Money never yields, better interest than when employed in educating the intellect of the young. When not generously invested, generations grow up with narrow and unworthy views of human life, each generation growing less in stature and. real manhood, until greatness is despised, enterprise is laughed at, and there is glorying in their shame. If the present generation of Deerfield shall fail to equal former in efforts to educate the young, then let her know that her de- cline in all that is honorable and glorious is inevitable. Nobly does it speak for Deerfield, that one of her sons, ben- efited by this school, donated to the town for the benefit of the youth the annual income of five thousand dollars ; and that another has built a school-house for the district in which he was born, — a model for taste and convenience, — and annually contributes liberally to supplement the efforts of the district to prolong the terms of instruction. Let Richard Jenness, for his five thousand dollars, and Frederick Plummer James, for his elegant school-house and generous appropriations, be models of manhood, and there be some from every town that shall do likewise. The Parade of to-day has not the business activity of " ye olden times," but it is great in memories of the past ; while HISTORY OF DEEBFIELD. 299 the present shows what the past must have been, and pleas- ant dwellings, broad streets, green commons, ample stores, and charming scenery render it a place of much attraction to the dwellers in the town, and of greater interest to the stranger. The mansions of the late Dr. Brown and the Hon. Ira St. Clair look like abodes of plenty and comfort, where the great and good men of past generations found rest when wearied with toiling over long, steep hills, and were greeted by gentlemanly landlords and treated to warm toddy, while landladies spread bountiful tables, and prepared for them large chambers with beds clean and warm. The generals and captains of Revolutionary fame, and soldiers who " shouldered their crutch and showed how fields were won," and the noble statesmen whom all de- lighted to honor, were alike made to feel at home in the presence of those who took pride in ministering to the com- forts of their guests. True, the flowing bowl was often filled, and merry times were the order of the day, and some- times of the night ; yet quietness generally reigned, and those once here entertained resolved to come again. The stores of to-day present a more attractive assortment of merchandise than those of yore, which, though they please the eye and flatter the vanity, do not inflame the appetite nor bewilder the intellect. The lawyers grasp fewer fees than their predecessors, doctors give less nau- seating drugs, and school-masters apply the birch more ten- derly. The people in this district have shown good taste, and an appreciation of education for their children, in the erection of a commodious and well-finished school-house, which they opened in 1877, furnished with modern appliances. With the presence of a deputy-sheriff, in the person of B. A. J. Sawyer, and of Justices Sawyer and Hazen, and of a physi- cian, in the person of G. H. Towle, the community may abide in safety, assured of length of days, not only from medical skill, but from the life-giving currents of air from .300 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. regions so high as to be purified from all noxious elements. Nor can the dwellers here be lonely, since they are the cen- ter of a world stretching in beauty in every direction ; em- bracing the White Mountains of the north ; the rich valley of the Merrimack on the west, with its wealthy towns ; the vast Atlantic on the south, with the pleasant towns in Mas- sachusetts ; and the picturesque regions of Maine in the east. Mountains rise gracefully at appropriate distances, and lakes sparkle in many a valley around this favorite locality. May the Parade exist a thousand years, — a place of bea*uty and a joy always. The like of old Capt. Daniel Moore, whose tavern was where Mr. Sawyer resides ; of Capt. McCrillis, whose strong liquors were sold where Dr. Stephen Brown lately died ; of Gen. Benjamin Butler, whose hotel was where Judge St. Clair lived; and of Maj. Shepherd, whose public house was where J. T. Brown resides, — may never be reproduced. All honor to such patriots ! Yet may men strong for the right, and women mighty in virtue, walk these streets and adorn these homes ; cultivate these farms and beautify these dwellings. Such merchants as Daniel Moore, Goss and Carlton, Todd and Pierce, Shepard, Runlet, Upham, and the Jen- nesses, may not make the place lively by their activities ; yet S. C. Danforth and others may prove as advantageous to society as those whose stores were odorous with the va- pors of alcoholic beverages. May the days never return when merchants who keep intoxicating drinks for sale shall find a customer on this historic Parade, where men were adapted to the demands of the times in which they lived, but not for later generations made wiser by their knowledge of the past. rand's corner. This location is a few miles north-west of the Parade, on the great highway towards Concord from Exeter and Ports- HISTOBT OF DEERFIELD. 301 mouth. Like all other centers of business in early times, it is situated on a large, high swell of land, surrounded by a fertile tract of farming country, whereon men can live and rear families amid all that is essential to their highest well-being, but not in the elegance and extravagance of affluence. Industry and economy are necessary, but penuri- ousness and illiberality are not required. The strong arm and generous soul, absence of injurious habits, industry and forecast in business, with needful education, make the till- ers of the soil monarchs of their broad acres, and princes in all sources of rational enjoyment appropriate to countrv life. * A succession of Rands has taverned and traded here. Large teams of oxen and horses have found straw and provender ; nor was the elevation so high, nor the apex so pointed, as that oxen and horses, and teams of them, need fear rolling off, to the ruin of life and property. But here was a broad plateau where there was room enough, which was not always found where early villages were located. There were ample spaces for storage of piles of boards, staves, hoop-poles, and pine shingles. Rum, molasses, and salt fish were prime articles of merchandise, and the exciting cup made many a teamster and many a traveler forget toil and weariness for a time, though it not unfrequently enhanced both, and always, in the end, replied to the interrogatories, " Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath conten- tions ? who hath babbling ? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? " — " They that tarry here long and quaff much of strong drinks ; for a serpent that bites and an adder that stings are in them." Men at length heard the reply, and were afraid, and dashed the poisoned cup from their lips, and the serpent and adder were exiled, and there came assurance, quietness, and plenty. The Rands lived long, and others desired to live as long as they, but could not. The strongest ultimately yield. 302 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. So have the Rands. One maiden lady of the name, almost a century old, survives ; and G. P. Rand manufactures doors, sash, and blinds, with an integrity and cheapness that greatly help sustain the good reputation of his an- cestors. Rand's Corner is a delightful locality, and its water and land scenery are rarely equaled. Pleasant Pond lies at the base of this swell of land. THE OLD CENTER. This is south-westerly from the Parade and Rand's Cor- ner. Some of the earliest settlements were in this neigh- borhood. The tra'ct of land designed for the first settled minister was near. It is the highest point of land in Deer- field susceptible of comfortable cultivation, and was long known as Chace's Hill. Immediately after the incorpora- tion of the town, efforts were made by the people to supply themselves with a comfortable house for sabbath worship. Several localities were selected, but with no unanimity. One frame was erected, and another ; but there could be no harmony until the second frame was, with great toil, taken down and tugged up the steep acclivity, where the wor- shiper could overlook all the little kingdoms of the world. Some one, speaking of the house upon this eminence, said that the Lord created two great mountains in Deerfield, and upon those two placed a third ; but Deerfield thought that not sufficient, and erected upon the top of this third mountain their high-posted meeting-house, and this satisfied them. But it was here and in this sanctuary three generations worshiped. To them this was the mountain of God's holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth was this Mount Zion. About this hallowed structure those good men and women walked devoutly, and to them the very stones on which their holy temple stood were precious, and the dust on the beams and carved work was sacred. HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. 303 Here the Rev. Timothy Upham led the people in their de- votions, and expounded the Scriptures during his protracted ministry ; and the Rev. Nathaniel Wells, with no less fidel- ity, did the same until a ripe old age came upon him. Both pastors were men of profound intellects, discriminating in judgment, quick in perception, ripe in scholarship, tender in sensibilities, and sincere in piety. They had no cant in their speech ; there was no distortion of countenance ; no violation of the laws of language or rhetoric ; no put-on sanctimonious airs to please the illiterate or amaze " the groundlings ; " no lowering of the law or the gospel to gain proselytes. They stood forth in the dignity of noble am- bassadors of Christ, to lift the people up, to educate their minds and improve their morals. They taught the people, believing education to be an aid to the minister in preach- ing and to the hearer in understanding ; solid, substantial men, not needing to change in doctrine or style of present- ing it with every varying tide in the community. Such men were benefactors to the' town ; they molded the char- acter of the people, and their influence was potent even where it was affectedly despised and never acknowledged. It was their joy in age and in death, that they had laid the foundations of society wisely, and that God had blessed their labors, and the people to whom they ministered were capable of appreciating their labors. Those good men are removed to higher services ; the house in which the people worshiped has been withdrawn from its lofty eminence, and other sanctuaries invite worshipers to praise and prayer ; but the old hill remains. Men and things on it and around it change and disappear through waxing old ; but the hill is as high and strong as of yore. The tall pine and the strong oak have disappeared ; but the grass and grain wave luxuriantly. And, though the tabernacle has been removed, the dust of the men who reared it, and of the people who worshiped in it, and of the pastors who minis- tered in it, reposes on its spacious breast : God's care, until 304 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. the morning of the resurrection. Good taste and a correct judgment have led the people to gather up the remains of those beloved pastors, and to sepulcher them close by the place where the altar stood at which they so long ministered. Let the earliest rays of the morning sun fall on the graves of Timothy Upham and Nathaniel Wells, and on those of their noble wives, who so effectually aided them in doing the work of the Master ; and it is well that the lingering rays of the setting sun should make that place luminous longest. For many years the capital of New Hampshire was migra- tory. The question of establishing a permanent seat of government was agitated as early as 1800. Several towns were urged as being most favorably located ; among these was Deerfield, and not a few were sanguine that Chace's Hill, or what is now called the Old Center, would be the choice of the state for its capitol. It was urged, that the location was elevated, commanding a view of no small por- tion of the country ; was on the great highway from Ports- mouth to Vermont ; was near the center of the state, approached by good roads in several directions; had an intelligent and virtuous population ; and was the center of much wealth, ample stores, well-kept hotels, and a well- built meeting-house of ample dimensions. But Concord, incorporated in 1765, one year prior to the separation of Deerfield from Nottingham, presented stronger claims, and was made the capital of the state in 1805. But the Old Center long retained its reputation for beauty of location, for the wealth of its business men, and the intelligence and virtue of its families. The old muster-field was the scene of grand military displays for many years ; the gun-house, with its cannon, was gazed at with awe by boys ; and every Fourth of July the " big gun " made the old hill tremble, and startled the community for miles around. The robin and the thrush make sweeter music for the inhabitants of 1878. < I o HISTORY OF DEEBFIELD. 305 NEW CENTER. This is located nearly equidistant from the Parade and Old Center, but south of a straight line between the two. Formerly, the more elevated the locations, the more desir- able they seemed for villages and public buildings. Now the hills are avoided and the valleys preferred. The New Center is low, however, only in comparison with higher localities. Here are located three churches ; the one be- longing to the Congregational society is ample in its accom- modations, and has a lofty spire, and in its dome is a heavy, rich-toned bell, the generous gift of the late Dr. Stephen Brown of the Parade; and the worshiper within is aided in praise by an excellent organ, the gift of the estimable wife of the donor of the bell. A little removed from this is that belonging to the Free- will Baptist society, pleasantly located, and inviting to wor- ship. Farther on, and in a line with the other two, is that of the Calvin Baptist society, affording ample sittings, and presenting attractions within and without. While the Free- will Baptist has an appropriate spire, and no bell, that of the Calvin Baptist has a rich-toned bell and no spire. In these three sanctuaries, every sabbath, devout congre- gations assemble, respectable for numbers and orderly in worship. At the New Center, the town erected a large hall, two stories high, well proportioned, affording ample spaces in both stories for transacting the private and public business of the town, as well as for accommodating town fairs and social gatherings. Here, too, is a hotel owned and kept by George Page, a descendant of Capt. Andrew McClary, first of Notting- ham, afterwards of Epsom, whose son, Maj. Andrew, was killed at the time of the battle of Bunker Hill, and another of whose sons was John, who acted so prominent a part in the days of the Revolution, and for a long period after- 20 306 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. wards as a statesman. In the same line of descent from McClary was the Hon. John M. Page of Tamworth, who was counselor for three years, beginning with 1817, and who died in May, 1826, aged forty-eight. I. M. Ballou has here a store, abounding with goods new and old ; and the neighborhood offers strong inducements to such as desire rest and freedom from the noise and strife of the city ; and the invalid who longs for pure air can safely consult Dr. G. H. Towle, whose office is not remote. SOUTH ROAD. That portion of Deerfield indicated by the above caption lies in the southerly part on the highway from Portsmouth through Epping, Raymond, and Allenstown to Concord and Vermont. The street is broad and over a gentle swell of land, on which a large business was transacted, from early times until recently. Here the Jennesses, father and sons in succession, traded in the well-known " Red Store," and acquired wealth by great industry and indefatigable devotion to business. Their economy was great, not allied to meaiiness, and their acquisitiveness never, led to dis- honesty. And the habits here acquired caused them to be trusted and respected in other places, and burdened with greater responsibilities. A large business in lumber of all forms and for many purposes was carried on here, while much activity prevailed for many years in the potash manu- facture. The Jennesses were men to keep business lively, and to make every traffic turn to advantage to themselves and others. The White families added much to the good reputation of the neighborhood ; and the Sanborn families not less. Here the Hon. Judge Butler for many years resided, and, by his urbanity, the high' positions he occu- pied, and the influence he exerted in Congress and in court, reflected honor upon the town of his adoption, and espe- cially upon the neighborhood in which he lived. On this road a large business in the- shoe-and-boot manu- facture for many years was done by Joseph J. Dearborn, HISTORY OF DEEBFIEL1). 307 •who by marriage was allied to the Jenness family, and, by a second marriage, to the family of the late Dr. Chadwick. B. J. Sanborn is store-keeper, and F. J. White is postmaster. Prom the South Road many have gone forth, good and use- ful men, of whom other communities have made their boast, and for whose business talents, Christian virtues, and philanthropic spirit, they have been grateful to the town that gave such men birth. Perhaps no man in Deerfield was more widely or favor- ably known than the Hon. Horatio Gates Oilley, descend- ing from the illustrious warriors and statesmen of the name in Nottingham. He was esteemed for his legal acumen and great moral worth, as well as for his generous hospi- tality and love of humanity. He was widely known as a man of wealth, energy, and influence. COFFEE TOWN. This part of Deerfield lies in the northern district, through which runs a highway leading from Epsom to Not- tingham, near the foot of the southern slope of Saddleback Mountain, between this mountain and the Parade. Among the early settlers of this neighborhood were the Dearborns, John Batchelder, James Griffin (living where Henry White resided), Trueworthy Taylor, Michael Dalton, Samuel Wedg- wood, David Sawyer, and Joseph Palmer. This part of the town took its name, it is believed, from the circumstance, that a man by the name of Godfrey lived here, who, with his family, made an extravagant use of coffee, as was thought by his fellow-townsmen. May it not be that by this Godfrey an attempt was made to raise this berry, as has been often done since elsewhere, and hence the name ? This seems the more probable. Surely the name is agreeable and seems to emit an aroma that is quite exhilarating, and may have contributed much to- wards the peace and quietness of the good families residing in this quarter, in their successive generations. There is much in a name. 308 HISTORY OF DEERFIELD. CHAPTER VI. Delegates to Provincial Congress. — Moderators. — Representatives. — Town Clerks Selectmen. — Inventor}', 1777- — Comparison with 1877 - 78. A LIST of delegates to Provincial Congress from 1774 to 1788 inclusive : — 1774, January 25. Capt. Daniel Moore, Moses Marshal, deputies to' meet at Exeter to choose delegates to represent the province at Philadelphia. 1775, May 8. Simon Marston, Timothy Upham, delegates to Provin- cial Congress at E;xater.__ _ 1775, December 12. Osrerniah Eastman) representative for parishes of Deerfield and Northwood to a Congress to be held at Exeter, December 21, 1775. 1776, December 2. Jeremiah Eastman, representative for Deerfield and Northwood at Exeter, third Wednesday, December. 1777, December 11. Jeremiah Eastman, representative for Deerfield and Northwood, at Exeter, 1778, May 28. Simon Marston, Richard Jenness, delegates at con- vention to be holden at Concord, June 10 next, to frame and lay a permanent form of government. 1778, December 1( Jeremiah Eastman, representative to Congress at at Exeter, for one year. 1779, November 30. Jeremiah Eastman, representative to Congress at Exeter, for one year. 1780, December 5. Simon Marston, representative to Congress at Exeter, for one year. 1781, December 4.., Jeremiah Eastman^ .representative for Deerfield and Northwood. 1782, May 13. Joseph , Doct. Edmund Chadwick, delegates to Convention at Concord on the first Wednesday in June to frame a constitution. 1783, December 1. Jeremiah Eastman, representative to General Assembly, Concord, first Wednesday in December next. 1784, - J_eremiah Eastman, representative to General Assembly, Con- cordj'fEii-d'Wedhesday in June. 1785, Moses Barnard, representative to General Assembly, Concord. 1786, Moses Barnard, representative to General Assembly, Concord. 1787, Voted not to send. HISTORY OF BEEBFIELD. 309 1788, January 14. Doct. Edmund Chadwick, delegate to Exeter, February 13, agreeably to request of General Assembly. 1788, March 18. Richard Jenness, representative General Assembly at Concord. MODERATORS, TOWN CLERKS, AND SELECTMEN FROM 1766-89. 1766. John Robinson, mod. ; Thomas Simpson, clerk ; Samuel Leav- itt, John Robinson, Eliphalet Griffin, selectmen. 1767. Jacob Longfellow, mod. ; Thomas Simpson, clerk ; Daniel Ladd, Jonathan Glidden, Jacob Longfellow, selectmen. 1768. Jedediah Prescott, mod. ; Thomas Simpson, clerk ; Jonathan Glidden, Thomas Simpson, Stephen Gilman, selectmen. 1769. Jonathan Glidden, mod. ; Thomas Simpson, clerk ; Jonathan Glidden, Thomas Simpson, Simon Marston, selectmen. 1770. John Robinson, mod. ; Thomas Simpson, clerk ; Jonathan Glidden, Stephen Gilman, James Page, selectmen. 1771. Jonathan Glidden, mod. ; Thomas Simpson, clerk ; Jonathan Glidden, Stephen Gilman, James Page, selectmen. 1772. Capt. Samuel Leavitt, mod. ; Thomas Simpson, clerk ; Simon Marston,- Jeremiah Eastman^Richard Jenness, selectmen. 1773. Capt. Samuel Leavitt, mod. ; Thomas Simpson, clerk ; Simon Marston^ Jeremiah Eastman, Richard Jenness, selectmen. 1774. Samuel Lunt, mod. ; Thomas Simpson, elerk