, flass F-Jl J- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD ESSEX COUNTY, MASS. By SIDNEY PERLEY, AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF BOXFORD, MASS."; "GOODRIDGE MEMORIAL;" "POKTS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASS."; "HISTORIC STORMS OF NEW ENGLAND;" ETC. SALEM, MASS. PUBLISHED IiV Till''. ESSEX INSTITUTE. 1893. IN EXCHANGE OCT 1 S 1914 INTRODUCTION. Many of the facts contained in this volume were ob- tained when material for the History of Boxford was be- ing gathered from 1876 to 1880. Together with additional information gleaned from old people and records during the three years next succeeding, they were published in an order similar to the present in the Georgetown Advocate in 1883 and 1884. The sketches were extensively read by old residents and natives, who corrected errors and fur- nished much additional information. At the request of the late Dr. Henry Wheatland, president of the Essex In- stitute, the sketches have been revised and greatly en- larged, and are now published by the Institute. Sidney Perley. Salem, Mass., March 10, 1893. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. The following pages contain sketches of the history of the houses of Boxford, both of those now standing and of those known only in history. Concerning a number of old cellars to be found in the town little or nothinsr is known. The writer has gathered much information rela- tive to the homes of Boxford and places it in this form that their history may not pass into oblivion. 1. Eobert Gould Cellar. —Robert Gould, who is said to have come from New Jersey and to have been born about 1795, built, about 1846, a small house in the woods about half a mile east of the residence of the late Isaac Hale. After living there about a year, his house was de- stroyed' by tire, and he disappeared from the neighbor- hood. 2. Joseph Holden Cellar. — The old Holden cellar, so called, in the Ridges, was covered by a dwellinga hundred years ago. Joseph Holden was living there in 1791. lie was a brother of James Holden, who lived at No. 204, near the residence of Mr. James A. Elliott. The old house was set on tire and burned down about eighty-live years ago. (l) 2 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 3. Residence of L. S. Howe. — The residence of Mr. Leverett Saltonstall Howe was built by himself, on land bought of Isaac Hale, in 1849. Mr. Howe was from Linebrook Parish, Ipswich. 4. Residence of E. Howe. — Mr. Edward Howe erected his house in 1844, on land bought of Isaac Hale. Mr. Howe is a brother of Mr. L. S. Howe (No. 3) and was also from Linebrook Parish. He married, for his first wife, Mary Ann, daughter of the late Gen. Solomon Lowe, in 1841, and at first resided in the house now owned and oc- cupied by his brother, Mr. William A. Howe, at the vil- lage, opposite the post office (No. 104). Mrs. Howe died in 1842, and he exchanged houses with his brother William who then owned and occupied the present home of Mr. Daniel Bixby (No. 10). Upon his second marriage, in 1844, he erected his present residence and has since lived in it. Mr. Howe began shoe-manufacturing in No. 104 at the village in 1838 and built the factory at his present resi- dence in 1845. His son William Wallace Howe became a partner with him in 1876, and the firm name since that time has been " E. Howe & Son." Prof. James Hamilton Howe, dean of the department of music in De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind., is a son of Mr. Edward Howe, and was born in this house in 1856. 5. Residence of W. W. Howe.— Isaac Hale built his shoe factory in 1859, and manufactured shoes for several years. In 1887, the building was purchased of John Hale, who then owned it, by Mr. William W. Howe (so THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 3 of Mr. Edward Howe of No. 4), who remodelled it into a very pleasant home. Since it was finished in 1888 he has resided in it. 6. Residence of Mrs. Margaret Hale. — The land on which the house of Mrs. Isaac Hale now stands, for a con- siderable distance around, was two hundred years ago in the possession of Thomas Perley. He was a son of Allan and Susanna (Bokenson) Perley, the emigrant ancestors of the Perley family in America, was born in what is now Topstield in 1(341, and lived first in Rowley. Purchasing a large tract of land in Boxford of Richard Dole of New- bury, he built a house on the site now occupied by the residence of Mrs. Hale, about 1684, and afterward lived there. He died Sept. 24, 1709. He was an influential man, being one of the early representatives to the Gen- eral Court and an incumbent of most of the town offices. He was the ancestor of the majority of the Perleys in America. His descendants have been prominently before the world, holding many offices of trust and honor, being teachers of morals, religion and science, practitioners of medicine, the law, etc. His wife was Lydia Peabody, daughter of Lieut. Francis Peabody, the holder of vast tracts of land in this section of New England. Mr. Perley was succeeded on the homestead, by a devise in his will, by his son Thomas, who was born in 1668 and who resided with his father as long as the latter lived. He married, first, Sarah, daughter of Capt. John Osgood of Andover, in 1695. She died in 1724, and Lieutenant Per- ley, as he was then called, married, second, Elizabeth, widow of Joseph Putnam of Salem village and mother of Gen. Israel Putnam, in 1727. The general was :it this time about eight years of age, and as his mother was his guardian it is probable that he spent several years of his 4 TTTF DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. minority in his step-father's home at this place. Boxford was a place he liked to visit, even after he became fa- mous. Mr. Perley was a farmer of large means, a store- keeper and a public man. In the militia company of the town he became a captain, and in his public duties he rep- resented the town in the halls of legislation in 1700, 1702, residence ov Mrs. Margaket Hale. 1703, 1707, 1709, 1718 and 1719. He died in 1745, at the age of seventy-seven, having been the lather of eleven children. Among his descendants was Dr. William Put- nam Richardson. In his will he divided his farm between his sons Thomas and Asa. Thomas had that part now known as the Cleaveland farm, and Asa's portion included the homestead. Asa Perley took up his residence in the house in which THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. O he was horn (in 1716) and had always lived, after his marriage, in 1738, with Susanna Low of Essex. He was afterward married to Mrs. Apphia Porter of D;mvers and to Mrs. ltuth Kimball of Bradford. In 1760, or about that date, he took the old house down and erected the mansion now standing. After completing the house and caring for the surroundings he set out a sapling elm, which has grown to be one of the largest and most beau- tiful elms in the state. Here Asa lived while passing through his distinguished career. For ten years he was a selectman; in 1771, 1772, 1780 and 1781, he was repre- sentative from Boxford to the General Court, and in 1775 — that noted year in the history of the nation — he was a member of the Provincial Congress. The records of this Congress show that in it he held prominent positions, and private papers in the possession of his descendants indi- cate that he was privy to those secret discussions and ma- noeuvres that characterized the opening months of the American Revolution. It is a fact worthy of mention that seven of his sons fought in that struggle for inde- pendence. Major Pei ley, so called from his position in the militia, died at his home in April, 1806, at the age of nearly ninety. His widow survived him but fourteen days, and within a fortnight their aged remains were both laid to rest in mother earth. Among the descendants of Major Asa Perley are Prof. John Perley of the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and College, liev. James E. Clark of Maine, Theodore Ingalls King, professor of music, Wash- ington, D. C, and Hon. Dudley W. Adams, master of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. At Mr. Perley's death, the place came into the posses- sion of his son Samuel. Samuel was bora in 1757, mar- ried Phebe Dresser of Rowley in 1798, and from that time resided with his aged parents and carried on the firm. 6 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Little more than a year passed after the death of his par- ents, when, one day early in June, 1807, he cut himself with a scythe while mowing. From the effects of this wound he died on the eighteenth of the same month at the age of forty-nine. His widow was left in rather strait- ened circumstances, with three young children to provide for, — their ages being seven, four and three years. She did her duty nobly. She cultivated the farm, carried her produce to market, carefully husbanded that which was left to her care, and reared her children to honest and noble manhood. Her first born, the Hon. Ira Perlcy, chief jus- tice of the supreme court of New Hampshire, and the most distinguished of the American Perleys, here at his mother's knee learned his first lessons ; here by the light of the hearth fire pored over his first school books ; here in this home grew in love for honesty and in integrity, de- veloping manly character. Her second child inherited a feeble constitution and died at the age of twenty-live. The youngest child was Dr. Daniel Perley, who practised med- icine in Georgetown and Lynn, and was the author of "Perley's Grammar." The children arc all dead, the last, the doctor, dying in Lynn in 1879 of paralysis. Mrs. Per- ley carried on the farm until 1833, when it was sold to Israel and Isaac Hale. She afterward lived with her son Daniel in Georgetown and Lynn, and died in the latter place in 1850. Her remains lie by the side of those of her husband in Boxford and her epitaph, "All the days of my appointed time will I wait," is very expressive as she was a widow nearly half a century and had reached the age of four score and seven. In 1835, Israel Hale sold his interest in the farm to his partner and brother Isaac Hale. Isaac, then twenty-one years old, lived upon the place from that time, his mother keeping house for him. In 1837, he married and till his THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 7 death in October, 1875, resided there. His widow still lives upon the place. Mr. Isaac Hale was born in the old Hale house (No. 9) in 1814, and was son of Joseph and Martha (Friend) Hale. He had but one child, which was still-born. 7. Old Hale Cellar. — There was an old cellar about two rods southeast of the little Hale house (No. 8), which was tilled up some sixty years ago. A very old house stood there. 8. Little Hale House. — This house was built by Mr. John Hale in 1823 for a store, but was never used for that purpose. It was first occupied by Abraham Howe. The builder lived in it from 1825 to 1830. Mr. Hale then lived in Mrs. Perley's house (No. 6), 1830-1832, and carried on her farm. His house, during this time, was oc- cupied by Jonathan Chapman and John Perley. Mr. Hale then moved back to his house and lived there from 1832 to 1834, when he bought and removed to his last residence (No. 42). The house has since been occupied by John Fegan, William Bly, John Sawyer, Samuel Shep- herd (who used it as a shoe manufactory about a year), John G. Bailey (who resided there over twenty years) , William Gunnison, Jacob Kent, Oliver B. Fogg, Jules Hould and Frank Laporte. It is now in the possession of Mr. Lewis D. Hale of Haverhill, who inherited it from John Hale. 9. Old Hale House. — This house was built by Joseph Hale about the time of his marriage, which occurred in 1749. He was a son of Joseph and Mary (Hovey) Hale, and was born in Boxford Sept. 14, 1727. His wife was 8 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Sarah Jackson of Topsfield. They had six children : Sarah, the oldest, married John Platts of Bradford, and settled in Ilollis, N. II., in the beginning of the Revolution; Mary married Levi Goodridge, who was living at the Daniel Gould place, and settled in Westminster, Vt. ; Joseph died at the age of two years ; Hannah married Caleb Jackson of Rowley, and was the grandmother of Daniel and Luther Jackson of that town ; Joseph (second child of that name) settled on the old place ; and Mehitable married John Merrill of Rowley in 1786. Joseph Hale, jr., married Martha Friend in October, 1796, and settled on his father's homestead. All of his children were born there. Among them were John, born 1801, who lived in Nos. 6, 8 and 42 ; Joseph, born 1805, who lived there and in No. 14; Isaac, born 1814, who lived in No. 6 ; Martha, who married and resided in Row- ley ; and Israel, who lived in Stowe, Vt. Mr. Hale died in 1818, and the houselot and buildings descended to his son Joseph as his share of the estate. Widow Hale lived with her son Isaac at No. 6 from 1835 for several years, and then remarried and settled in New Hampshire. The son Joseph lived on the old place until his removal to No. 14 in 1837, when he sold to his brother Isaac, who owned it as long as he lived (till 1875) and then it came into the possession of his brother John, who died possessed of it in 1888. Mr. Lewis D. Hale of Haverhill now owns it, having inherited it from John Hale, who was his grand- father. It has been a tenement house since 1837. 10. Residence of D. Bixby. — This house was erected by Mr. William A. Howe in 1841. He resided in it until 1843, when he sold it to his brother Mr. Edward Howe and removed to his present residence at the village (No. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. V 104). Mr. Edward Howe sold the place in the same year to Mr. Daniel Bixby, who has since owned and occupied it. Mr. Bixby was a son of Daniel and Sarah (Towue) Bixby, and was born in Topstield in 1815. 11. Residence of J. P. Cleaveland. — What is now the Cleaveland farm was originally included in the Hale place, as it is now called. Capt. Thomas Perley lived in No. 6 and at his death, in 1745, devised this portion of his farm to his son Thomas. This son was born in 1705 and married , in 1731 , his step-sister, Eunice Putnam, sister to General Israel, and probably soon after built his house where James P. Cleave- land, Esq., resides. Mr. Perley died in 1795, aged ninety, having been a widower for eight years. He was a man of property, of prominence and influence. His oldest child, Huldah, married Joshua Cleaves of Beverly and removed to Bridgton,,Me., when the town was first set- tled. Her daughter Huldah was the wife of Rev. Nathan Church, the first minister of Bridgton. Mr. Perley's next child, Rebecca, died, unmarried, in 1813, at the age of seventy-nine. She always lived in the east end of the house. His son Israel, being sent to New Brunswick by the governor of Massachusetts in 1761 on important busi- ness, settled at Maugerville, on the St. John river. He had a family of fourteen children, and among his descend- ants are Col. Charles Strange Perley of Buford, N. B., Hon. James Edwin Perley of Woodbridgc, Cal., Hon. Wil- liam Edward Perley of Blissville, N. B., and other distin- guished men. His daughter Mary married Lieut. John Peabody of North Andovcr, and finally settled in Bridg- ton, Me. His son Oliver settled at Maugerville, N. B., in 1760, and his house is the oldest now standing in tin' town. The Hon. Moses Henry Perley of New Brunswick 2 10 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. was a grandson. His son Thomas lived in No. 24, and Enoch settled in Bridgton in the very earliest period of its history. He was a man of uncommon ability and promi- nence. Gen. John Perley of the Maine militia and Major Thomas Perley were his sons. Among his descendants are also Dr. Thomas F. Perley of Portland, Hon. Samuel Farnsworth Perley of Naples and Dr. George Putnam Per- ley. Aaron, the youngest son of Thomas Perley, resided upon the homestead. Aaron Perley was married in 1786 to Mehitable Wood, who lived where the third-district schoolhouse now stands. He resided in the old house until 1818, when he moved it to where it now stands (see No. 12), and built on the original site the house now the residence of Mr. Clcave- land. Mr. Perley resided in his new house until his death which occurred in the winter of 1831-2. His wife died in 1853, at the age of ninety-one. Mr. Perley was wealthy, influential, and one of the two or three principal men in the town and parish. He had ten children ; of whom Israel died in New Brunswick, leaving a son Augustus of New York city ; John was for many years a shoe-dealer in Salem, where he died a few years since, for whom Per- ley Block was named, his residence having occupied the site; Enoch attended Exeter Phillips Academy in 1812, and died two years later; Rebecca died, unmarried, eight years ago at the homestead ; Harriet married William \. Cleaveland, Esq., of Topsfield ; and Thomas lived at home. Capt. Thomas Perley carried on the farm after his fath- er's death, until 1856, when he died at the age of fifty- eight, having never married. His brother-in-law, Mr. Cleaveland, then moved to the place and there spent the remainder of his days. He died in 1872. His widow survived him about seven years, dy- ing in 187fJ, at the age of seventy-five. Their son, Mr. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 11 James Putnam Cleaveland, the present possessor, lias re- sided on the place since his lather's death. 12. Old Aaron Perley House. — Aaron Perley moved this house to its present site from where the residence of James P. Cleaveland, Esq., stands, in 1818, when Mr. Perley built that house upon the old site. This house has always been owned in connection with the farm, and has been occupied by tenants, generally by those who have been employed upon the farm. See No. 11 for its earlier history. The chamber in this old house, that General Put- nam used to occupy when he visited his sister, has been pointed out with much pride by an aged granddaughter of the builder, now deceased. 13. Residence of W. P. Cleaveland. — The residence of Mr. William Perley Cleaveland was built by Mr. John H. Potter of Topsfield for Mr. Cleaveland in 1858. Warwick Bodwell lived there two years, and Mr. Cleaveland board- ed with him. Then the owner married and has since re- sided upon the place. He carried on the butchering busi- ness there more than a score of years, He was a son of Wm. N. Cleaveland, Esq., who resided in No. 11, and was born in Killingly, Conn. 14. Residence of T. P. Killam. — The old house thai formerly occupied the site of Mr. T. Perley Killam's house was built by Nathaniel Perley about 1759. Mr. Perley was a son of Amos and Margaret (Cogswell) Per- ley and was born in 1735, it is supposed in the old house that once stood in the pasture owned by B. S. Barnes, Esq., situated near the Great Meadows. The house of which we are writing was 24 x 40 feet, with two huge 12 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORP. rooms in front, and a large kitchen and two bedrooms in the rear. It was two stories in height, and had the old- fashioned, long, low hack roof. The barn was quite large, 36 x 50. Here Mr. Perley reared his large family of nine children, and died in July, 1810, at the ago of seventy- live. Here, in 17 63, was born his son Nathaniel Perley, Esq., who was a gifted lawyer and a prominent member of the Kennebec bar in Maine. Here were born also his sons Amos, Jesse and Arte mas Ward, the founders of three families. Lois, another child, married Benjamin Adams of Georgetown in 1798, and became the mother of Mrs. Col. Kimball and George W. Adams of Georgetown, and of the late Benjamin of Topsfield and Charles H. of Dan- vcrs, the deputy sheriff. Mehitable, another daughter of Mr. Perley, who died in 1835, left a legacy in her will toward building the present East Parish church. Mr. Perley was known as "Cooper Nat," being a cooper by trade. His workshop stood over the old cellar in the same lot with the house and was built about 1760. Of this shop we will speak in No. 15. After his death, Mr. Perley's son, Artemas Ward, re- sided upon the place until the buildings were burned to the ground in April, 1832. His son, the late Dea. Haskell Perley of Georgetown, has told the writer of several in- cidents of the house having caught fire. One, relating more particularly to himself, occurred before he was mar- ried, when he was at work for the season on a farm in Topsfield. He said he retired one night, but he could not sleep. A strong presentiment that something was wrong at home came over him. He tried to throw off the disa- greeable feeling, but could not ; and at length, just be- fore midnight, he went to the stable, threw the saddle on one of the horses and seating himself upon it started to- ward home. When he came within sight of the house he saw a light in one of the front rooms and thought some- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 13 thins; must be wrong for the family to be up at that time of the night. He felt convinced that his presentiment was not an illusion. On riding up in front of the windows he saw the room on fire. Jumping from his horse he went to the back room where the pails were kept, caught up two of them, went to the well and filled them with water and entering the burning room threw the water upon the lire. By repeating the application several times he entirely put it out. Doors were not locked in those days, else the fire would have been more serious. The few coals left in the fireplace when the family retired doubtless fell against the wooden fireboard, after a while setting it on fire, and but for the providential appearance of young Haskell the house must have been burned and perhaps the inmates themselves might have found a tomb then and there. With- out disturbing the family, Haskell put up his horse, went into the house and to bed. The next morning the family were surprised to find him at home, but were amazed when he related to them their narrow escape from death. After the house was burned Artemas removed to Tops- field, where he resided, except a short time when he was at Hampstead, N. H., till his death which occurred in 1862. Joseph Hale bought the farm of Mr. Pcrley about 1839, and building a small house (No. 15), where the old cooper shop used to stand, lived in it until he had erected the present house and barn in 1841-2. Hale disposed of the place in 18G2, since which time it has been occupied by Tobias Keed, George T. Savory, William Dow, George B. Merrill, Walter R. Arrington and the present owner, Mr. Thomas P. Killam. 15. Joseph Hale Cellar. — The little house that used to stand on the corner near the site of the old fourth-dis- 14 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. trict schoolhouse was the cooper shop built by Nathaniel Perley about 17G0. After his death in 1810, it was used as a tenement until it was so far decayed as to be unfit for use. The building was low studded, contained two rooms, had one chimney, in the middle, and a cellar. In 1814, Jacob Lofty lived there. He died there the next year. John Woodman, the blacksmith (who as well as Mr. Lofty worked in the shop near by), lived there for about a year. This was about 1822. The building disappeared soon after. In 1840, Joseph Hale, who was born in No. 9 and who had purchased this farm of Artemas W. Per- ley, enlarged the cellar and erected over it a small house, about 12 x 16 feet. It contained but one room in front and a pantry and bedroom in the rear on the ground and was one story in height. Mr. Hale lived in this house about one year, until his new house, No. 14, was finished. After Mr. Hale's removal, the house was occupied by Ja- cob Knight, Hasket Bixby and George Smith. Mr. Smith was living there in 1844, when the house by some means caught on fire and was burned to the ground. The cellar has since remained uncovered. 16. Ezra Wildes Cellar. — The house in which the family of Ezra Wildes lived during his service in the army of the Revolution stood over the old cellar which is situated some twenty-live rods west of the residence of Capt. John Pea- body. Zebulon Wildes, father of Ezra, owned the house lot and probably lived in this house in 1750. A part of the house was taken down about 1776, and the rest re- moved to No. 18, afterward forming part of the old house there. The cellar has been uncovered since that time. Ezra afterward lived for a short time in No. 36. He was a fiddler, and was commonly known as "Fiddler Wildes." THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 15 From him perhaps his descendants in Georgetown inher- ited their musical gifts. 17. Residence of John Peabody. — Capt. John Peabody's house was built by Charles Perley about 1830. Mr. Per- ley was born at No. 18 in 1794, and was son of Amos Per- ley. He resided in his new house until about 1834, when he sold out to Mr. Peabody. Mr. Perley moved to his birthplace, and there died of consumption in October, 1837. His wife joined him the following February. They left » Residence of John Peabody. two young children. Mr. Peabody was born in No. 68 in 1806 ; married Henrietta Baker of South Georgetown in 1831 ; and resided for three years in No. 18, where was born his son John Perley Peabody, the veteran dry and fancy goods dealer of Salem. Mr. Peabody has resided at this place fifty-six years. 18. Residence of Humphrey Perley.— A house wasbuill on the same site as the present residence of Mr. Hum- phrey Perley, probably by Josiah Bridges, a blacksmith, as early as 1710 and perhaps earlier. He was son of Ed- 16 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. mund Bridges, the immigrant from England, and was born about 1650. He married, first, Elizabeth Norton, and second, Ruth Greenslip, in Ipswich, where he at first lived, removing to Boxford just before 1680. For £50 he sold his homestead, consisting of ten acres of land (the same now included in the homestead) and dwelling house, barn, shop, well, etc., to Cornelius Balch of Boxford in 1713, and removed to Wenham. Mr. Balch was from Topslield and was a cooper by trade. He died in Boxford in 1740, and his widow Mary and son Cornelius Balch, jr., conveyed the place to Jacob Easty of Topsfield, to which place they removed. Mr. Easty was a husbandman and resided at this place until 1744, when he sold out to George Start of Topsfield for £87 10s. Mr. Start was a tailor and probably lived there about six or eight years, when the place came into the posses- sion of Capt. Francis Perley, who lived where Mr. De W. C. Mighill now resides (No. 74). Captain Perley's son Capt. William Perley, of Bunker Hill fame, was married March 26, 1761, and commenced housekeeping at this place. Here on Dec. 24 of the same year was born his son Rev. Humphrey Clark Perley, minister at Methuen and Bev- erly. When an old man, he often pointed this out as his birthplace. By the will of Capt. Francis Perley, in 1765, this place came into the possession of his son Jacob. William moved to a house which he had just erected (No. 75), it being the present town almshouse. Jacob was born in 1751 ; mar- ried in 1775 : became the owner of the house which stood over the Ezra Wildes cellar (No. 16) ; took down a part of the house; and, removing the remainder to the present site of this house, added it to it. It was thus made two stories in height, about thiity-two feet in length, with a THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 17 common pitch roof and fronting to the south. Jacob Perley removed to Reading in 1777, and thence to Byfield in 1779. Among his children, born in Byfield, were Hon. Jeremiah Perley, who married Mary Dnmmer, was a legal writer, and for many years a successful lawyer in Maine, and Put- nam Perley, a deacon of the Byfield church. Jacob Per- ley died in 1832, at the age of eighty-one. Mr. Perley sold this place March 28, 1786, for the sum of £220, to Amos Perley, jr., a son of Nathaniel Perley who lived in No. 14. Amos was the first born of nine children, and, marrying two years after the purchase of iim ULD AMOS i'KKLlSV lloL'oE. this place, he settled upon it. Here his nine children were born, and here he resided until his death, which occurred Aug. 3, 1829, at the age of seventy. His widow (who was before his marriage to her the widow of Phineas Knnd- lett, who lived in No. 100, and whose maiden name was Kimball) married Capt. John Kimball of West Boxford three years after Mr. Perley's death, the place being after- ward occupied by Capt. John Peabody till about 1834, and till 1838 by the family of Mr. Perley's son Charles. Of Mr. Perley's other children, Greenleaf died ai Calcutta, when on an East India voyage ; Nathaniel resided in Tops- 18 THE DWELLINGS OF LOXFORD. field and Danvers, and became a general in the state mili- tia ; Frederic was a grocer at Topsfield and a shoe manu- facturer in Danvers, where he died very suddenly in 1879 ; and Amos Proctor, who was for many years a grocer at Danvers, of the firm of Perley & Currier. The farm was sold Nov. 15, 1839, by the heirs of Amos Perley to Alpheus A. W. Lake of Charlestown. Mr. Lake let the house to his father Enos Lake, Avho died here, and to Daniel Boardman, Benjamin Symonds, Daniel lli',S10Jb.Nnc in March 1782 yt lived but a little while. The other died in April 1783, who lived about a fortnight." i 26 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. The loss of these children and of his wife at about the same time, it is said, partially bereft him of his reason, and he was afterwards distinguished for his eccentricity, or what the Scotch would call "daftness." Johnny afterwards resided with his mother. Mrs. Wallingford, a daughter of John Sawyer of New- bury, was quite handsome in her youth, being known as "fair Rosamond." Mr. Wallingford died in 1796, and the family were soon in destitute circumstances. The mother died in 1820 at the age of seventy-two, and Johnny continued to reside in the west part of the house alone, until his tragic end on Saturday evening, Jan. 7, 1832, when he fell into the tire-place, and his remains were found shortly after partially consumed. The place, afterwards known as the " Wallingford," came into the possession of Major Paul Nelson about 1800, and continued to belong to him probably until his death in 1857, since which time it has been owmed by Mr. Thomas B. Masury. In 1878 Mr. Masury demolished the old house and erected his present residence upon the same site. The old house was two stories in height with the old fashioned lean-to, and the old well-sweep in front betokened the days of "auld lang syne." On the window ledge of the living room was the noon sun-mark, which was al- ways in order and a good time-keeper when the sun sJione. During the years the house was possessed by Major Nelson, it w r as occupied by various tenants, Joseph Adams, a man named Darling and others. Miss Mary Ann Friend, daughter of John Friend, and afterwards wife of Prof. George Conant of Coshocton, Ohio, and Alexander, N. Y., was reared here, her parents having removed from Andover. She died at Alexander in 1883, at the age of fifty-three, being a person much loved, and admired for her literary tastes and productions. In 1847, lluldah llarrhnan, the THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 27 centenarian, could recall the names of one hundred faini lies who had made this old house their home. In 1736, when the throat distemper prevailed so fatally among children over a large extent of country, several died in this house. In 1776, the small-pox had come to the inmates, and several were sick with it. One of the residents always expressed a wish that he might never live to see a road past the house, and in this desire he was gratified, for before the Salem thoroughfare was opened he had followed in the train of his predecessors and was no longer numbered with the living. 28. Albert Nelson Cellar. — Cornet Nelson moved a peat house from the meadows to a situation opposite the residence of Mr. T. B. Masury in 1857 and remodeled it into a dwelling. He left his family, who were living in Georgetown, and began a hermit's life in his new quar- ters. He added to the building from time to time, and continued to reside there until 1886, when he went to Rowley and took up his residence in a similar habitation near the marshes. The next year, he was found dead in his house there. In 1888, the house in Boxford came into the possession of Mr. Masury, who removed the build- ings. Mr. Nelson was an eccentric man of considerable natural ability. Ex-mayor Richards of Haverhill is his grandson. 29. Hardy Cellar. — In 1865, after the close of the war of the Rebellion, Chandler 15. Hardy built a small house on the southeast side of the road about half way from the; residence of Mrs. Clara Tidds in Georgetown to Marden's railroad crossing, where the cellar can be seen. Mr. Hardy lived there till the autumn of 1868, when the house 28 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. was destroyed by fire, which was set out of enmity to Mr. Hardy, by a girl living in the family. 30. Perkins Cellar. — Some fifty rods nearly north from the residence of Mr. Francis Marden, in a pleasant clear- ing, are an apple tree and the remains of a well, near which is a slight indentation in the ground which is all that now remains of the cellar over which stood the Perkins house. It was only one story in height, and w:is built ( ?) and occupied by Thomas Hazen, son of Edward Hazen, who was born in Rowley in 1657. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas Howlett, in 1684, and came to Box- ford to live at this place immediately after. Feb. 28, 1711-12, he sold the farm to Timothy Perkins of Tops- field. Mr. Hazen had a family of eleven children, all of whom lived to grow up, and most of them followed their parents to Norwich, Conn., about 1713. Mr. Hazen held quite an honorable position in the town, having served as town clerk one year, and as selectman seven years. His de- scendants are many and of a distinguished character. One of them is Rev. Hervey Crosby Hazen, lately a missionary to India, and now a clergyman in Spencer, N. Y. Oth- ers are Hon. Abraham D. Hazen, the late Third-assistant Postmaster-General, and Gen. William B. Hazen, who distinguished himself under Sherman in the war of the Rebelliou, particularly by his brilliant capture of Fort McAllister, near Savannah, on the "March to the Sea." We could name many others, but space will permit only mention of the following: Rev. Austin Hazen, pastor in Hartford and Berlin, Vt. ; Rev. Allen Hazen, tor many years a missionary in India; Rev. Jasper Hazen, one of the oldest and most honored ministers of the Christian de- nomination ; Rev. Henry A. Hazen, author of the History THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 29 of Billerica, Mass. ; Rev. Timothy Allyn Hazen of Go- shen, Conn. ; and Rev. James King Hazen, Secretary of the Board of Publication of the Presbyterian church (South) at Richmond, Va. Mr. Perkins conveyed the farm to his son Nathaniel Perkins in the spring of 1720. Nathaniel was born in Topsfield in 1689, and married Hephzibah, daughter of Edward Hazen (brother of Thomas, above named), in 1716, and took up his residence here. Mr. Hazen had lived here, we presume from the removal of his brother in 1712, and continued to do so. Dr. David Wood, be- sides being a widely known physician, was a justice of the peace, and, in 1736, he charged Nathaniel Perkins for writing "his father Hazen's will." Mr. Hazen died in 1748. Nathaniel Perkins was a selectman in 1724 and 1745, and an ensign in the militia in 1734, was made a lieuten- ant in 1735, and a captain in 1742. He had nine chil- dren. He died in 1773, at the age of eighty-four. In his will he calls himself a "gentleman." His wife died before 1768. Mr. Perkins' youngest son Jacob succeeded him upon the place, having married Mercy Fowler of Ipswich in 1759. He served eight months in the Cambridge cam- paign in 1776. Shortly after his return late in the au- tumn, the small-pox prevailed in the Walliugford house, and one morning when the wind blew fresh from the south- east, Mr. Perkins informed his family in a manner ex- pressing great alarm, that he was assured the malady would reach them, for the smoke from the chimney of the Hazen house had been driving directly towards them. His fears were shortly fulfilled, and hi; was the first one to be made a victim. It is understood licit his wife was away at the time of his sickness and a young girl had the care of him. One day she went out coasting down the slopes around 30 TIIE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. the place and failed to administer the medicines at the proper times. From this neglect, it has come down by- tradition, Mr. Perkins died. He was buried on a knoll a few rods west of the house, and but a few small frag- ments of a gravestone remain to mark the spot. The in- scription upon it was as follows : — IN MEMORY OF MR. JACOB PERKINS, WHO DIED JANUARY 11, 1777, IN Ye 47th YEAR OF HIS AGE. Mortal man cast an eye, Read your doom, Prepare to die. Trees have grown up over and around his grave, and it is so completely obliterated that the next generation will not know that any human remains find rest beneath the soil of the knoll, or that in this spot a happy family once had their hearthstone. After Mr. Perkins' death this was used as a pest house, and it is a tradition that a beautiful daughter of Deacon Isaac Perley, who lived at the Harden place (No. 31), and also Thomas Wood, who lived where the Third-Dis- trict schoolhouse now stands, were victims to the dread scourge in this house. Mr. Perkins had no children. In his will, which was made two and a half years before his death, he gives all his property to his wife. His estate amounted to £3,597. His widow married, secondly, Col. David Ilobart of Ply- mouth, N. II., in 1779. Colonel Ilobart was a native of Groton, born in 1720, and settled in that part of Hollis, N. II., known as "One Pine Hill," about 1748; being afterwards one of the grantees and first settlers of Ply- mouth, lie was a sergeant in the French war in 1755, and in 1777 was colonel of the Twelfth New Hampshire regiment under General Stark at the battle of Bennington, THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 31 where he greatly distinguished himself for his gallantry and good conduct, for which he received due commenda- tion from General Stark, in his report of the battle. Af- ter the death of his first wife Col. Hobart removed to Ha- verhill, Mass., and lived there the rest of his days, dying in his seventy-ninth year. His widow Mercy died at the same place in 1811. They had but one child, Deborah, who married Nathaniel Hills, an apothecary in Haverhill. 31. Residence of F. Marden. — The old one-story house that formerly stood in the rear of the residence of Mr. Fran- cis Marden was occupied a hundred and twenty years ago, tradition says, by Isaac Perley, who was known as "Dea- con." He had a daughter of about twenty years of age, who was famed for her beauty. When the small-pox came into this neighborhood, and the Perkins house (No. 30) was opened as a pest house, several of those who deemed themselves in danger took up their residence in it willing to run the risk of living or dying, as the laics might determine. It was believed that the disease would prove harmless to persons in perfect health who properly met it when it showed its first symptoms, and they would have but the varioloid at the most. The deaths of num- bers proved how uncertain this theory was. Mr. Perley's daughter was one of those who went there to escape a more dreadful form of the disease, but met it and died. It is said that Mr. Perley very soon after removed to Boston, Me., being succeeded upon the farm by Benjamin Emerson before 1791. He was a stone-mason by trade, and a relative of the Topsfield family of that name, being known as "Brother" Emerson. lie fell from a load of hay and broke his neck in August, 1823, when lie was sixty-eight years old. Shortly after the death of Mr. Emerson, his daughter 32 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Betsey, into whose possession the place came, took down the old house, and built on the same site another small one-story house immediately afterward. She lived in it here until about 1860, when she moved the house to Georgetown, where an addition was made to it. It is the house on Main street now owned by Mr. James Sullivan. The present "Davis" house, as it is called, standing only a few rods from the site of the old house, was built about 1800, presumably by Mr. Emerson. A Mr. Davis owned the farm many years ago. By the side of the "Davis" house stands the residence of Mr. Francis Marden, who came from Maine, married a daughter of Mr. Davis, and built the house in 1850. He now owns and cultivates the farm. In the Davis house resides Mr. Marden's son Alvin. 32. Joseph Killaju Cellar. — The old Killam house, once standing east of Stevens' pond, was erected about 1730 by Jacob Perlcy, son of Jacob, who lived at No. 76. He wa.s born in 1700, and married Sarah Morse of Newbury in 1729. He died in the summer of 1750, leaving a widow, Sarah, and several children : Isaac, who lived at No. 31 ; Jacob, who settled in Chester, N. H. : Benjamin, who lived on the old homestead ; Sarah, who married Jacob Wyman of Bradford; and John who settled in Haverhill. The last-named Jacob Perley was grandfather of Rev. Joshua Perley Eaton of Bangor, Me. Mr. Perley was succeeded on the place by his son Ben- jamin, who was born in 1735, and married, first, in 1759, Hannah Clarke of Boxford ; and, second, in 1773, Ap- phia Andrews of Danvers. In 1783, he sold out to Dan- iel Nurse, and removed to Topsticld, where he remained a few years and then settled in Dunbarton, N. H., where he was burned to death trying to extinguish the flames of his burning house, while the rest of the family were at THE DWELLINGS OF B OXFORD. 33 church. This was in 1816, when he was in his eighty- first year. He had twelve children, all but the young- est having been born in Boxford, and more than sixty- two grandchildren. Mr. Nurse married Eunice Perley of Boxford in 1759, and removed to this house in 1783. He was probably from Danvers. In 1790 he removed to Rowley, where the family own a private cemetery on the road leading from Rowley to Ipswich. He was a private in Capt. William Perley's company of minute men, which marched to the battle of Lexington April 19, 1775, and was sta- tioned two months in the following winter at Winter Hill. Moody Perley, a son of Moses Perley who lived in No. 76, was living here in 1791. Two years later he married a Gould from Topsfield, and had one or two children born here. April 1, 1802, he sold the place to Joseph Killam, and removed to the Adams house (No. 95). The place was then occupied by Mr. Killam until 1815, when he died at the age of thirty-eight. He was born in No. 147, in 1777, and was the father of the late Capt. John Killam and Capt. Hosea Killam, both of George- town, and grandfather of Ubert Killam, cashier of Mer- rimac National Bank, Haverhill. The family resided upon the homestead until 1830, since which time no house has stood there. 33. Home of Hon. Aaron Wood. — On the site of the late residence of Charles C. Stevens an old house once stood. It was doubtless built before 1750. The Hon. Aaron Wood lived at this place from the time of his marriage until his death in 1791. The old house, in which he kept a country store in his early life, was burned, with part of the furniture, October 22, 1774. The following is a copy 5 34 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. of the account of the fire as it appeared in the Essex Ga- zelle of the following week : — "Salem, October 25. " Lafifc Saturday the Dwelling Iloufe of Aaron Wood, Efq : of Box- ford, was con fumed by Fire, together with Fart of his Houfehold Fur- niture." Mr. Wood immediately built a new house upon the same site Mr. Wood married, for his first wife, Jane, the widow of Dr. Eliphalet Kilburn an early physician of Kowley. She was the grandmother of Hon. Charles Kilbourne Wil- liams, governor of Vermont. She died in 1775, and her funeral was held on the day of the battle of Bunker Hi 11. The following obituary notice is copied from the contem- porary Essex Gazette: "Ou Thurfday, June 15th, ultimo, died at Boxford, of an Apoplexy, in the 68th Year of her Age, Mrs. Jane Wood, the virtuous confort of Aaron Wood, Efq: of that Town. In her were happily united the affectionate Wife, tender Parent, indulgent Miftrefs, fincere Friend, and, to crown all, exemplary Chriftian. --- Her Friends are left to mourn their own Lofs, but they rejoice in the Reafon there is to hope that fhe has exchanged a World of Mifery and Trouble for a State of Happinefs and Joy. — - Her Remains were interred on Saturday fol- lowing with every Mark of Refpect, and in a ftrict Conformity to the Method recommended by the Honorable Continental Congrefs." In 1776, Mr. Wood married Mrs. Lydia Barnard, daughter of Phineas Warren of Wall ham, and widow of David Barnard of Watertown. In 1775, the British drove the General Court from Boston, and the following winter Air. Wood and others of the Representatives boarded with Mrs. Barnard in Watertown. Mr. Wood fell in love with his hostess, and married and brought her to Boxford. She was a woman of strong mind and body, weighing «over two hundred pounds. When the British retreated after the Battle of Lexington, they passed by her house. One THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 35 of the privates had stolen a horse, and was making his re- treat in style. He said something to Mrs. Barnard that was not acceptable to her patriotic mind, and she pulled him from the horse and took him prisoner ; and, it is said, this was the first prisoner taken during the Revolution. On the day that Mr. Wood died, his tailor, Thomas Perley (see No. 24), was cutting him a suit of clothes preparatory to returning to the State legislature. Mr. Wood had just brought in a handful of wood, and had sat down in a chair, when he suddenly expired. The follow- ing obituary notice of Mr. Wood is copied from the Salem Gazette, published in the month of his decease : — "Boxfokd, Jan. 21, 1701. " « No man hath power over the fpirit to retain the fpirit. Yet, bleffed are the dead, that die in the Lord: they reft from their labor, and their works follow them.'' " THURSDAY the 20th inftant, the Honorable AARON WOOD, Efq. in the 72d year of his age — being in his ufual health and vigor, fitting in his chair, and his family round him — left this bufy fcene of life, and in an inftant of time, without any apparent diforder, and fcarcely a ftruggle, or a figh, pai'i into the world of fpirits; perhaps in as eafy and Hidden a manner as ever anyone did. Iu juftice to his memory, it maybe truly faid, that through the whole of his life, he was exemplary for virtue, ferioufnefs, piety and devotion ; and a conftant walker with God, in all his ordinances. He was a kind and tender hufband ; cheer- ful, fincere and agreeable to his friends; candid and forgiving to the envious. Integrity and ability graced all the important offices which he for many years held in the Town, County and State. In a word, he was plain and unaffected iu his manners; fteadyand refolute in his con- duct; humane, temperate, juft and bountiful, lie fpent feveral years of the youuger part of his life, as a faithful and int'i.ructivc mailer, in teaching a public fchool; and altho God, in his all-wife Providence, withheld from him the bleffing of Ions and daughters, yet lie was pof- feffed of an uncommon parental affection, and regard for the educa- tion of the rifing generation; which is very amply proved by his laft will and tefcament, which bequeathed all his real eftate to the fupport of a Grammar School, in the town of Boxford, forever — an example worthy of imitation. In his more public character, he was judicious, firm & perfevering, in every public truft which he had the h c to 30 TIIE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. hold. The laft 30 years of his life have been moftly employed as a Member of the General Court, in the nioft critical and trying periods, in the Senate, in the Council, and Conventions: all which important places he has held, and difcharged the feveral duties thereof, with fuch firmnefs, wifdom and juftice, as to approve himfelf to his Country to his Confcience, and to his GOD. In him, the Commonwealth have loft an able Statefman, a generous Patron, and a real Friend ; his Wife, an endearing Hulband; and the World, an honeft Man. " ' The juft man's ways are God's delight, He orders all his fteps aright.' " It is supposed the epitaph upon Mr. Wood's monumental tablet is the widow's lamentation : "Yet my fond hope would hear him speak again Once more at least one gentle word & then Aaron aloud I call in vain I cry Aaron aloud ; for he must ne'er reply In vain I mourn & drop these funeral tears Death & the grave have neither eyes nor ears." She afterwards married Mr. Benjamin Spofford, and died in 1839 at the age of ninety-five. The season after Mr. Wood's death the farm was carried on by Jonas Warren, and a year later it was leased to dif- ferent parties for one thousand years. The main portion of the farm was leased to Dea. Parker Spofford, who re- fitted the old mansion, as far as need be, into a tine country tavern. This was one of the stopping places of the famous stage-driver Pinkham, whose route was over the old An- dover road. The first post-office that existed in the town was kept in this tavern until 1820, and the good old dea- con carried the mail matter with him when he went to church, and distributed it to the respective owners. This tavern flourished till Mr. Spofford's death in 1836. . Josiah Kimball soon after succeeded Mr. Spofford in the possession of the farm as well as the deaconship that his death had rendered vacant. Deacon Kimball removed to Lawrence in 1852, and thence to Boston, where he died THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 37 three or four years ago. His remains lie in Harmony Cem- etery near his old home here, and his heirs have erected over them a fine marble monument. The farm soon after came into the hands of Mr. Charles C. Stevens, and he resided there until he removed to South Framingham some six years since. The place was occu- pied by tenants a year or two and was accidentally ( ?) burnt in 1877. Mr. Israel Herrick then purchased the farm, but the cellar remains as the fire left it. Mr. Ste- vens made it a summer boarding house, its pleasant loca- tion and the proximity of a beautiful pond rendering it attractive to city people. A part of this farm was a portion of old Camp Stanton, where several regiments of volunteer soldiers were quar- tered and drilled in 1862. The muster was also held here in August, 1868. This plain is believed to have been used as a training field as early as 1775. An incident occurred in 1827 which should be given in connection with this house. Flint Tyler, an old man, who then lived at the Adams house (No. 95), was one morning going home from Topsfield way, and when near the Savage house saw that this house was on fire. Mr. Barnes was then living at the Savage house, and Mr. Ty- ler leisurely got out of his wagon, went to the door, and knocked. Capt. John Pcabody, who was there, came to the door, and being informed by Mr. Tyler of the cause of alarm, hastened to the wagon, got in, and hurried Mr. Tyler to follow his example and drive as fast as possible to the fire. But the beast was never known to hurry, nor be hurried, nor Mr. Tyler either. About half-way across the plain, Mr. Peabody jumped from the wagon, being exasperated at the slow jogging of the animal, and ran to the scene of danger. Mr. Spofford's family were at din- ner. Mr. Pcabody burst into the room where they were 38 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. eating, and hurriedly called for an axe stating that the house was on tire. The Deacon was perfectly bewildered, and throwing up his arms, shrieked : "Where ! where ! !" But one of the daughters was more composed, and, getting an axe, she showed Mr. Peabody to the garret, where by a few minutes of quick chopping he cut away the burning boards, and saved the house. As he cut away the last fragment of blazing board, he looked out of the aperture he had made, and saw Mr. Tyler just tying his horse to the garden fence. By prompt and decisive action the house and much other valuable property was saved. A storm had been brewing for several days, and a strong easterly wind carried the cinders from the chimney to the dry, parched roof, which immediately ignited. Mr. Pea- body stopped to help Mr. Sponbrd fix the damaged por- tion, and immediately after this was done the rain began to fall, a long storm ensuing. 34. Thomas "Wood Cellar. — Where the present Third- District schoolhouse now stands was an old cellar; and over this cellar a century ago stood an old-fashioned house, with the lean-to and huge chimney. It is said that around tins house and its accompanying farm buildings were fruit trees and shrubbery of all kinds, which rendered the place very inviting. The first owner of this homestead known to the writer was Thomas Wood, brother to Hon. Aaron Wood. They were sons of John Wood, who was born in 1G80, and who may have lived, and his children been born, at this place. Thomas Wood married Margaret Perkins of Topsfield in 1757, and resided here as long as he lived. lie died of the small-pox Feb. 13, 1777, aged forty-nine, lie entered the pest house (No. 30) received inoculation and THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 39 died there. His widow continued to reside here a short time, then sold out to Stephen Peabody, who about 1795 moved the house to where it now stands, removed the leanto and remodeled the chimney. It is now known as the "Butcher Peabody house" (No. 7(3). The widow Wood afterwards built a small house on the Chapman road be- yond the pond, and resided there many years. She at length died in 1830, having attained the age of one hun- dred and one years and ten months. They had eight chil- dren. Their daughter Mehitable married Aaron Perley, and Jenny became the wife of Dr. James Buswell of Dun- barton, N. H. Thomas Wood owned the land now included in the new portion of Harmony Cemetery, which lie sold to a company of proprietors in 1766. 35. Chapman Cellar. — Daniel Chapman of Linebrook Parish, Ipswich, married Hepzibah Howe in 1764, came to Boxford the same year, and built on the Chapman road the house that used to stand over what is now known as the old Chapman cellar. Mr. Chapman resided here un- til his death, which occurred in 1799, at the age of fifty- nine years. His son Daniel then lived upon the plaeo till his death, in 1835. Johnson Savage was the last resident. He died here in 1846. The old house fell down about 1848. It was old-fashioned, with a lean-to, two stories in height, and contained on the first door two front rooms, a backroom and pantry. Mr. Francis Savage, principal of the Amesbury high-school, was born here. 36. Pkggy-Wood Cellar. — About 1780, Margaret, widow of Thomas Wood, who lived at No. 34, and who died in 40 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 1777, built on the west side of the Chapman road near the pond a small house, to which she removed when she sold the farm to Stephen Peabody. The house was 16x20 feet, one story in height and contained but one room. She lived there but a short time, and then the house was in- habited by Ezra Wildes (who had lived at No. 16), his family consisting of his wife and nine boys. The Peggy- Wood house, as it was called, has been gone more than half a century, and a maple tree nearly a foot in diameter now rises from the cellar and shades the whole cavity. 37. Savage House. — This house was probably built about 1773 by Amos Perley, who lived in the residence of B. S. Barnes, Esq., No. 39. A blacksmith's shop stood near the cemetery, in which, we should judge from the town records, John Stiles worked in 1774 and later, and in which bullets were run for the use of the soldiers during the Revolution. About 1786, Mr. Perley sold the place, which consisted of a house and barn and forty acres of land, to Thomas Butman of Marblehead, whose son of the same name took up his residence in this house. Here were born several children to him and his wife Sarah. Mr. Butman, senior, removed to Tyngsborough, Mass., and Dec. IS, 1793, for £180, sold the farm to Thomas Dresser of Boxford, who was born in the Dresser house, No. QG. He was a blacksmith, having learned the trade in his father's shop. lie married Hannah Hazen, the "witch," and about 1800 removed to Andovcr, Maine. The place was then owned by John Dorman of Boxford, who in IN 13 sold out to Phineas Barnes. His son Mr. Phineas \Y . Barnes lived here a number of years, having removed from No. 39, and carried on the butchering busi- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 41 ness. He removed to No. 100, where he continued his calling. The place was then owned for many years by William J. Savage, who sold out and left the town about 1877. The place was then let for a time, and at length purchased by Samuel Clark, who, after residing here a few years, sold out to B. S. Barnes, and removed to George- town, where he now resides. Mr. William P. Keyes bought and refitted the house, seven years ago, making it much more convenient and pleasant. 38, Amos Stevens' House. — The late Amos Stevens built his residence in 1840. He died in 1877, at the age of sixty-four, and his widow has since resided upon the place. His epitaph : "He put his trust in God." 39. Residence of B. S. Barnes. — The residence of Benja- min S. Barnes, Esq., was built by Paul Prichard, a house- wright, about 1749, when he came to Boxford and married Hannah, sister of Cooper Nat Perley. They resided in this house until the beginning of the Revolution, when they removed to New Ipswich, N. H. In Boxford Mr. Prich- ard held several offices of honor and trust, and was one of the substantial and influential citizens of his day. He contributed liberally of his means to support the war of the Revolution, and had two sons in actual service. In New Ipswich, he was a selectman three years and a rep- resentative of the General Court in 1779. He died in 1787, aged sixty-four years. Mrs. Prichard was a woman of uncommon energy of body and mind, and could accom- plish the ordinary labor of three persons. She had made the subject of midwifery a study, and had considerable 42 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. practice in Boxford. In curing scrofula, salt rheum, liver complaint, etc., her fame was quite extensive. She also gained a successful practice in her adopted town. She was always ready to answer calls, and allowed no weather to detain her; and, though unusually corpulent, when the roads were blocked up with snow and others would quail at the undertaking, she would mount her snow-shoes and breast the storm over hill and dale. This she continued to do until very far advanced in life, to the great annoy- ance of the accredited physician. She was a widow RESIDENCE OF B. S. BARNES. twenty-three years, dying in 1810, at the age of eighty- one. Jeremiah Prichard, for many years the American Consul at Porto Rico, was their great grandson. Among their descendants was also Moses Prichard, of Concord, for many years sheriff of Middlesex county, Mass. This place then came into the possession of Amos Per- ley, who removed to Buxton, Me., at the beginning of this century. It was then owned by Benjamin Spofford, who died in 1830, and Phineas Barnes who married his daughter moved to this place from No. 37. He resided THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 43 here until his death, in 1856, since which time his son B. S. Barnes has been in possession. Mr. Phineas Barnes, jr., resided here a short time, and continued his butcher- ing business, until he removed to No. 37. Mr. Phineas Barnes, senior, was born in Waltham in 1780, and died at the age of seventy-five. His epitaph: " He has left this world, his toils are o'er, In sweetest songs of praise adore, Where parting friends shall meet again, Free from all sorrow, grief and pain." Mrs. Barnes died in October, 1850, five years before her husband, at the age of sixty-four. Her epitaph : "Mother, thou hast gone to rest, We no more will weep for thee, For thou art now among the blest ; Where thy spirit longed to be." On another stone in the same lot is the following in- scription : WILLIE Was with us 5 yrs. 2 mo. But is not for God took him. 40. Black Cellar.— Near the residence of B. S. Barnes, Esq., on the side of the hill in his field, about halfway from his house to Mrs. Killam's, was an old cellar, of which most signs are now gone. Cooper Nat Perley, who was born in 1735 and died in 1810, said a Black family lived there, and that when he was young he "used to go up and see their girls." Later investigation has shed more light upon the his- tory of this old place. James Black, whose wife Abigail died in 1720, he having married her about 1700, doubtless lived there from the latter date. He had sons, Edmund, James, John, Josiah and Daniel, and a daughter Abigail, 44 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. who married Timothy Sessions of Andovcr. The son Daniel was bom in 1715, and married Sarah Symonds of Boxibrd in 1740. Daniel owned and lived on this place. He had several children, Sarah, Jane, Lydia, Hannah, Daniel, Daniel, Jacob and Samuel. Both himself and wife were members of the church, and as long as Rev. Mr. Rogers remained here their children were baptized in the First Church ; after his departure the next two new mem- bers of the Black race were baptized in West Boxford, the next one in Linebrook Parish, and the last one, of whom we have any record, in West Boxford. It was these four ons gave up their lives in the service of their country during the late Re- bellion. Mr. Hale, for a few years, manufactured shoe.-- 46 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. here, .and built a large factory building, which was trans- formed into a summer hotel by his son John in 1889. See No. 43. 43. Hotel Placidia. — This summer resort was a portion of the John Hale farm, and the hotel building was the shoe factory mentioned in No. 42. The owner, Mr. John Hale, inherited this building and the land under and ad- joining from his father, the late John Hale, in 1888. Mr. Hale fitted up the factory into the capacious three- story structure as it now exists. Situated on the shore of a beautiful lake, and near cool, shady groves, the resort is attractive. Mr. Hale resides in the hotel the year round. 44. Residence of W. M. Andrews. — Mr. William M. Andrews built his house in 1874, on land purchased of the late Amos Stevens. 45. Residence of A. H. Towne. — Mr. Albert H. Towne built his residence on land purchased of Mr. Eben N. Price of Salem, in 1888. 46. Residence of J. Leavitt. — Mr. Joseph Leavitt of Boston moved to Boxford and built his present residence in 1888 upon land purchased of Mr. Leverett S. Howe. 47. Railroad Station. — The railroad station was built by the Danvcrs & New bury port Railroad Company in 1853. It came into the possession of the Boston & Maine Rail- road in 1859. The house portion of the depot has been THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 4 7 occupied by the several station agents, viz. : S. Page Lake, John Hale, jr., Samuel McKenzie, William J. Badger, Charles W. Gardner and Albert G. Hurlbntt. These gentlemen are all living, except Messrs. Lake and Badger. In January, 1889, the East Boxford post-office was es- tablished, and located in the station, Mr. Hurlbutt being postmaster. 48. Gen. Lowe Cellar. — The General Solomon Lowe mansion was built about 1740 by John Hale, who was born in Boxford in 1717, being a son of Joseph and Mary (Watson) Hale. He married in 1738 Priscilla, who was a daughter of Stephen Peabody, and was born in 1719 in No. 68. Mr. Hale died in 1771, leaving a will, in which he devised the farm to his son Eliphalet, who was then but eight 3'ears of age. The next spring the widow's dower was set off. A part of this dower consisted of one- third part of the mill. Mr. Hale's children were six in number, three daughters and three sons. In 1774, his widow married Thomas Hammond of Swanzey, N. II. It is probable that the young son, Eliphalet Hale, died before coming of age, and that his brother John, who was born in 1745, became possessed of the place. John mar- ried Sarah Lord of Ipswich in 1765, and resided here. A very short time after his marriage he went to the Brit- ish Provinces, it is said, to escape some corporal punish- ment that he anticipated. This Miss Lord was doubtless a sister of Lucy Lord, the wife of Nathan Lowe, who, in 17(57, came from Ipswich and hired this farm. Mrs. Hale may have resided with them as long as she lived. Mr. Lowe had nine sons, all but the oldest having been born here. The eighth son was Solomon, who was famous as a military general. He was born April !•, 17M2, and held the office of General from 1S20 to 1840. He was a 48 THE DWELLINGS OF BOX FORD. member of the General Court in 1823, 1827, 1828 and 1841. He resided upon this place until about 1857, when he removed to West Newbury, where he died April 3, 1861, lacking six days of being eighty years old. The remains of General Lowe repose in his tomb in Harmony Cemetery. Upon the face of the tomb are illustrations of himself and his four wives engraved on marble tablets. The tomb has attracted many visitors. His spirited mil- itary funeral will long be remembered by those who were present. The General's son, Major William Lowe, was born here and from 1857 lived upon the place. He died in 1870, from injuries caused by a bull which attacked him in his eowyard. His family continued to reside upon the home- stead until the buildings were completely destroyed by fire early on the morning of June 21, 1874. The cellar remains uncovered. The saw-mill was built about 1770, as it was called a new mill in 1772. 49. N. Lowe Cellar. — Between Mr. Eben N. Price's barn and the railroad station, stood a house a hundred and twenty years ago. When Nathan Lowe came to Boxford from Ipswich in 17G7, he is said to have bought this place, which he lived upon. A short time afterward lie removed to the Lowe house, No. 48. Gen. Lowe's brother, Jeremiah, carried on the tanning business here near the brook. In 180G, Mr. Lowe sold the tannery, adjoining land, etc., to his brother Solomon Lowe and Moses Dorman, lor *t;23.50. 50. Residence of J. H. Janes. — John Smith lived at the .lanes place on the .lanes road, probably from the time of THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 49 his marriage in 1733. He had six children, one of whom, John, settled on the St. John river in New Brunswick about 1770. The first-mentioned John married Hannah, daughter of Stephen Peabody, who resided in No. 68. The place came into the possession of Nathaniel Perley, who lived in No. 14, and he gave it to his son Jose Perley about 1789. Jesse immediately built a new house, the one now standing, which was raised on the first day of September, 1790. It was a severe task, for the timber was wet and heavy, there having been the week previous one of the greatest rains known for many years. Jesse lived here until his death, which occurred in 1840, at the age of eighty-four. His wife had died six years before, at the age of eighty-eight. Mr. Henry Janes then purchased the place and lived upon it until 1886, when he died, being very aged. His son, Joseph H. Janes, who had for several years occupied a portion of the house, has since resided upon the place. 51. Residence of Benjamin Hood. — The old Hood house is quite ancient. It is a long, one-story building, and appears to be at least one hundred and fifty years old. Benjamin Hood of Topsfield married Sarah Cross of Box- lord in 1777, and probably lived in this house. Francis Hood lived here from about L804, and here his children were born. His son Benjamin and daughter Sarah have resided upon the place all their lives. In 1874 they built a large, new house in front of the old house, the latter now being used for a woodshed. 52. Gunnison Cellar. — The old Gunnison house was in the possession of the Smith family a century ago. Jacob 7 50 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Smith lived there in 1791, and it was probably his daugh- ter Hannah that William Gunnison married aboul 1820. Mr. Gunnison's children were born there, and the house was occupied by his family until 1880. it remained with- out a tenant during the remaining days of its existence. It was purchased in 1887 by Mr. Benjamin Hood, who took it down. A part of the chimney and the oven and fireplace still remain on the site, showing with what gi gantic proportions those things were constructed in the early days. It is said that a Perkins family lived there before the Smiths. 53. Solomon Pekley House. — The ancient house, once the residence of Mr. Parker Brown Perley, and in which he was horn, has nol been occupied since he elected his new house about 1870. Although but a lew rods apart, the old house is situated in Boxford and the new one in Tops- field. Samuel Brown married Olive Gage in 177.'), and resided in this old house. They had eleven children. The youngest child Clarissa married Solomon Perley, grandson of Maj. Asa Perley of Boxford, in ISM, and settled on this place. They had but one child, Parker Brown, who is above mentioned. Solomon Perley died of old age in 18(>u\ His widow survived him, and with her bachelor son, lived in the old house until 1, and died at this place a few years prior to 1800. Samuel's brother Elijah, a wheelwright by trade, who died in Boxford in 1791 or 1792, without children, lived with Samuel at this place awhile. Elijah was horn in 1714. After Samuel's decease the house immediately went to decay, being gone before 1800. 58. Ephraim Dorman Cellar. — Across the road in front of the East Parish parsonage, in the field belonging to Mr. John Averill, was an old cellar. On this spot Ephraim Dorman settled in 1710. lie was a cousin of Timothy Dorman, who lived at No. 119, and a son of Ephraim and Mary Dorman, and was born at Topsfield in 1677. By his wife Martha, he had six children. He died in 1724, leaving quite a large estate. No division of the property took place until 1741, when it was made by the widow and heirs. The six children were : Capt. Ephraim, who was one of the first settlers of Keenc, N. II., and whose death occurred there in 1795, when he was eighty-five years old ; Mary, who married Joseph Matthews and lived in No. 5(5; Eli- jah, who resided at this place and at No. 57 ; Samuel, who lived at No. 57 ; John, who fell a victim to the throat dis- temper of 1787, at the age of eighteen : and Sarah, who died two days after her brother John, at the age of thirteen. The house has probably been gone a century, and the cel- lar is filled up. 59. East Parish Parsonage. — The parsonage in the East Paiish was built by subscription in 1870. It was occupied by Rev. Sereno D. Gammell from L870 to 1880; by Rev. William P. Alcott from 1881 to 1**;; ; and by Rev. Robert R. Kendall from 1884 to the present time (1891). (55) 56 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOKI). 60. Residence of F. A. Howe. — This house was ;i purl of the Stickney house (No. (57), ;m 2 7 2 , and settled at this place. Whether or not he built the house is not known, but it. is presumed that he did. He married Sarah Keies in 1656, and they brought their six children with them. They had two more born to them in Boxford. His son Samuel settled in Bradford, and Robert in Andover. Mi - . Buswell was succeeded on the homestead by his son John, who was born in Salisbury in 1659. lie mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Stiles. lie was the first grave digger chosen in Boxford, having been elected to that office by the town in 1716. John Buswell was succeeded on the farm by his son John, who was born there in 170.'). He married Abi- gail Cummings in 1743, and died in 1751. His widow married Jonathan Whipple of Danvers six years later. Mr. Buswell had two children, Ruth, born in 1746, and John, born in 1748. John settled in Rindge, N. H., and THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 57 Ruth resided on the old place. At the age of twenty-eight the publishment of her intention of marriage with .John Love appears on the Boxford records, but she preferred being an old maid to marrying him and so she forbade the granting of a certificate. Her remonstrance was as fol- lows : "Whereas one John Love, a Trantient Person, did di- rect the Clerk of this Town to publifh an Intention of Mar- riage betwen himfelf and me the subscriber which was accordingly done by the said Town Clerk upon the 30th of January, A. D. 1775, in the ufual way of publifhing intentions of Marriages : — I do hereby strictly forbid the said Town Clerk to give out a Certificate of such publica- tion — Uy, becaufe the said John Love is a Trantient Per- fon and not Much Known in this Place : 21y, becaufe I never had any conjugal Converfation with him the said John : and 3dly Becaufe I never gave any consent to the said John for such Publication — "Boxford, January 31, 1775. Ruth Buswell." And so poor John was forced to become a "transient" person in some other place, and he is not heard of again in Boxford. Perhaps Ruth would have done well if she had yielded to his charms, for the husband she did get was "no 'count," as her old neighbor Phillis would have said. In 1778, she married David Butman of Dan vers, and remained on her father's place. Her husband was known as "King David." He was by trade a cooper, was short of stature, and had curly hair. lie was as lazy as she was smart. She cultivated the farm, doing the plowing, hoeing, hay- ing and harvesting herself. One day in May, 1810, she had been plowing all day with oxen hired of Joseph S. Peabody, who lived at. the old Spiller place (No. 68) and just after dark drove them home. She ran back to do her chores, was taken sick that night, probably from over-ex- 58 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOKD. ertion, and survived l)iit a few days. If any woman was ever entitled to suffrage, we have her here. Her husband left this mundane sphere in 181(5, at the age of sixty- eight. They had four children, Joseph, Esther, Hitty and John. The old house was taken down about 1822, and the barn was moved to the Sayward place (No. 99) by Capt. Davis, where it is still standing. 62. Residence of Mary A. Perley. — Miss Mary A. Per- ley of Brooklyn, N. Y., erected her residence in 1888, and has since made it her permanent home. 63. Residence of F. J. Stevens. — The farm belonging to the late Daniel Gould contained originally eighty-five acres, and before 1723 was in the possession of Ebenezer Kim- ball. April 10th of that year he sells the farm with the buildings thereon to Samuel Goodridge of Newbury. Mr. Goodridge was a son of Benjamin Goodridge, who, together with his wife and two children, were slain by the Indians while at family prayer in their house at Georgetown, Oct. 23, 161)2. Samuel Goodridge had settled upon this farm three years before he obtained his deed of it. The old house which was then standing occupied the corner of the garden on the left hand as one enters the yard when com - ing from the church. It stood very near the wall. It was probably taken down about 1745, and the cellar was filled up about 1790 by Daniel Gould, a later owner. Samuel Goodridge had the care of the first meeting- house in the town for awhile. He was living in 1759, but when he or his wife died is not known, and no sell lenient of his estate is on record. He married Hannah Frazier of THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 59 Newbury in 1710, and had ten children, live of whom were born at this place. Among his descendants are Rev. Charles G. Porter of Bangor, Me. ; Ambrose H. Good- ridge, publisher of the old Boston Atlas; Gov. Caleb D. Randall of Michigan ; Hon. Allen Goodridge of Washing- ton, D. C, and Rev. Edward Goodridge, rector of the American Episcopal Church at Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Goodridge sold the farm to his son Benjamin in 1742. Benjamin erected, about that time, the present residence of Dr. Stevens, where it now stands. The reason Mr. Goodridge was accustomed to give, for build- ing his house so far from the road, was to escape the nu- merous calls for cider from travellers. Benjamin owned the place until May 3, 1784, when he sold to Daniel Gould for £540. Mr. Goodridge then removed to Bald Hill (No. 135), where he lived but a few months and then re- moved to Middleton. In 1789, he settled in Westminster, Vt., where he died in 1805, at the age of eighty-four. He had a number of children, who settled in Vermont. The family is noted for the longevity of its members. Daniel Gould, the successor of Mr. Goodridge, was a native of Topsfield, and resided upon this farm from 1784 till his death, which occurred in 1826, at the age of sev- enty. Mr. Gould's son Daniel succeeded him upon the place and continued to reside in the house until 1843, when he removed to his new house (No. 64). The old house was then occupied by Mr. Albert Brown until about twelve years ago, since which time Dr. Stevens has resided there. 64. Residence of Mary A. B. Gould. — The home of Miss Mary A. B. Gould was erected by her father, the late venerable Daniel Gould, iu 1812. He moved into it, fr 60 TIIF. DWELLINGS OF BOXFOKD. his old house (No. 63) Jan. 1, 1843, and resided here, until his death in 1888, at the age of eighty-nine. 65. Residence of Israel Hehrick. — The old house that once occupied the site of the residence of Mr. Israel Her- rick was early in the possession of the Bixby family. A part of the present house is probably a portion of the early dwelling of the Bixbys. Probably Joseph Bixby settled here in 1660, having at that time built the house. He came from Ipswich. He married Sarah, widow of Luke Heard of Salisbury (having previously lived in Ipswich) in 1647. Her maiden name was Wyatt. At the time of her marriage with Mr. Bixby her parents were living, and her mother was the owner of land in Asington, County of Suffolk, England. Mr. Bixby died April 19, 1700, "be- ing aged," and his widow survived him four years, dying at the age of eighty-four. They had nine children. Mr. Bixby's son George succeeded him on the home- stead. He had two sons, one of whom died young. Mr. Bixby probably died in 1729, as that was the last year in which he was taxed. He was succeeded on the farm by his son Gideon, who was born in 1699. He married Rebecca Foster in 1751, and died about three years later, leaving one child. His widow married Solomon Gould of Topsfield in 1756, who lived but a few years. Her son, Gideon Bixby, sold the place in April, 1774, for £436, to John Herrick of Boxford, and his mother released her right of dower in it. The farm then consisted of one hundred and eight acres. Mr. Herrick was a cooper, and came from Wenham ten years before. He lived at No. 163, until he removed to this place, and Gideon Bixby removed to No. 163, an ex- change of places having been effected. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 61 Mr. Herrick was succeeded on the farm by his son Is- rael, who remodelled the house about 1800 anddiedabout 1815. Israel Herrick's son William Hale Herrick was the next possessor of the place. He was born in 1806, and died in 1858. He married Lois Killam, and had three sons : Israel, who has lived upon the farm since his father's de- cease, being an extensive farmer and mill owner ; William Augustus, who was a prominent lawyer in Boston, com- piler of the standard Town Officer, and editor of several legal works, having been born in this house in 1831 ; and Samuel Killam, who lives in Georgetown. 66. The Dresser Cellars. — Nathan Dresser, son of Dan- iel Dresser of Rowley, came to Boxford in 1728, and erected the house in which he resided. It stood on the old Dresser road, not far from Mr. Israel Herrick's, the cellar being plainly visible at this time. He was a black- smith by trade, and he erected a shop near his house. He did considerable business. It is probable that his father Daniel lived here with Nathan. Daniel was quite an ex- tensive farmer. Dr. David Wood calls him " Neighbor Daniel Dresser." He was there in 1735 and as late as 1740. On Dr. Wood's account book is the following item against Mr. Dresser: "Jan: 1737-8 to my son and six cattle to fech a load of hay from Rowley marshes 14s." We do not know when Nathan died. By his wife Lydia, he had four children born in Boxford, one of whom was John, who was born in 1735. He learned the blacksmith's trade with his father, and alter his father's death carried on the business until after 1800. By his two wives, Jane ilarriman and Mehitable Dickinson, Mr. Dresser became the father of sixteen children. One of these was Thomas, 62 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. who learned his father's trade and established a black- smith's shop at No. 37. Another son, Nathan, also learned the trade and became his father's successor at the old place. The old house soon became untenantable, and the cellar alone remains to mark the spot about which so many recollections must have clung. Nathan was born in 1790. He built a new house a short distance south of the old one on the same side of the road, in which he resided till his death in September, 1829. He also continued to work at his trade in the old shop until his decease. His widow Susanna, who was daughter of Nathaniel Long, who lived at No. 205, the fol- lowing year married Elijah Wilson of Salem, N. H., and continued to reside here. Mr. Wilson demolished the shop about 1835. Mr. Dresser's son, James M. Dresser of Georgetown, sold his interest in the place to Augustus Hayward in 1843. The place was conveyed by Stephen Cook of Box- ford to Gamaliel Harris in 1860, and also in 1863. The house was hauled to Georgetown about fifteen years ago, and is still used as a dwelling. The barn was pur- chased and removed to their farm by Henry and Charles Perley and is still used for the purpose originally intended. 67. Stickney Ckllars. — Northwest of Cedar Pond, and about a quarter of a mile west of the old Dresser cellars (No. 66), once stood the old Stickney house. Joseph Stickney, son of Benjamin and Mary (Palmer) Stickney, born on Long Hill, in Georgetown, in 1705, settled here in 1728 on one hundred acres of land, which he purchased the next year of his father-in-law, Capt. Samuel Pickard of Rowley, who owned large tracts of real estate in this neighborhood, which had been used for pasturage. Mr. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 63 Stickney married, first, Jane Pickard of Rowley, and second, Hannah, daughter of Samuel Goodridge who lived at No. 63. Mr. Stickney was deputy sheriff of the county of Essex in 1737. He died in 1756. His widow mar- ried James Barker of Rowley, and died in 1806, at the age of ninety-four. In his will he gives one-third of the farm to his son Joseph and the other two-thirds to his son Samuel. His interest in the saw-mill owned in connection with Jonathan Wood he gives to his son Jedediah, who became his successor on the place. They had sixteen chil- dren : 1. Moses, who having received his portion of his father's estate and being a man of great enterprise, in 1752, attempted, with Richard Peabody and seven others, the settlement of Rowley, Canada, now Jaffrey, N. H. But the settlement was soon abandoned in consequence of in- cursions of the Indians, and he returned to Boxford. He soon after settled in Holden, in Worcester county, Mass., and afterward lived in Temple, N. H., and at Springfield, Vt., where he died in 1819, at the age of ninety. Moses, his eldest son, who was born in Boxford in 1751, died in Jaffrey, N. H., at the age of one hundred years and three months. 2. Elizabeth, who died at the age of sixteen. 3. Jane, who married Thomas Carleton. 4. Joseph, who resided in Boxford until about 1774, when he removed to New Ipswich, N. H., where he died in 1818. 5. Jede- diah, who resided on the old place. 6. Hannah (a twin), who married Dea. Joseph Emery, jr., and died at Pem- broke, N. II., at the age of ninety-seven. 7. Abigail (twin with Hannah), who married Abraham Tyler of Box- ford. 8. Susanna, who married Phineas Carlton of An- dover. 9. Samuel, who lived in Boxford, Danvers, Wen- ham and at Beverly, where he died in 1802 at the age of sixty. 10. Anna, who married Daniel Peabody of Box- ford. 11. Lemuel, who died in Berlin, Vt., in 1824, at 64 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 1 ho age of seventy -nine. 12. Eliphalet, who lived in Ben- nington, Vt., and at Hartwick, N. Y., where he died in 1s- fiekl, the immigrant ancestor. When the house was taken down, we do not know. His son Stephen built No. 68. His son Oliver, born here in 1698, was distinguished for his labors among the Indians, and as pastor of the 68 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. church at Natick. Other descendants of this William Peabody are Hon. Oliver Peabody of Exeter, N. H., pres- ident of senate, treasurer of state, etc. ; Rev. Stephen Peabody of Atkinson, N. H. ; Rev. Ephraim Peabody, pastor of King's Chapel, Boston ; and others. The "Butcher Peabody" house was moved from the site it occupied at No. 34, which was where the third-district schoolhouse now stands. (See that number.) The house was removed to its present site by Stephen Peabody, Esq., its owner, about 1795, the lean-to being taken off, and the main part of the house raised up. Mr. Peabody re- sided in it until 1830, when he died at the age of sixty- nine. On the day of his death he was in the best of health, and at work in his field. It was a hot day, and being very thirsty he drank cold water freely, after which he dropped to the ground and expired almost immediately. He was a justice of the peace and a prominent citizen. Of his three children, who were born to him of his wife Anna Killam, from the south part of the town, only Sam- uel had children. He resided upon the place after his father's death and carried on the trade of a butcher, which gave to the place the name it now bears. Samuel died in September, 1862, having been prosperous in his business. Of his children, Samuel Porter lives in No. 193. Ste- phen, a school teacher for twenty-tive years or more, now lives in Newburyport where he has been a member of the city council ; Mary Ann gave to the First church the "Mary Ann Peabody Sunday-school Library," and died in 1865, at the age of forty-one ; Melissa married the late John Q. Batchelder, and resides in No. 79; and the youngest child, Albert Bradstreet, born here in 1828, was a Congregational clergyman at Stratham and Caudia, N. II. Rev. Albert B. Peabody, the last named son, now owns and resides upon the old homestead. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. (>9 For a score of years the house was let to various ten- ants, among them being Joseph Peabody, Caleb Mortimer, Leander Russell and Scidinore Gurley. Mr. Gurley lived there until the fall of 1890, when Rev. Mr. Peabody re- paired the house, and took up his abode therein. 70. Hannah Wood Cellar. — Near the willow tree which stood by the ice houses at Stevens pond is an old cellar. In 1761, Joseph Simmons conveyed the house which stood over this cellar and the lot to Solomon Wood. In 1770, Hannah Wood of Boxford, singlewoman, sells the lot of two and three-fourths acres, with the house, to Aaron Wood, Esq. It was standing a few years later, but was probably gone before 1800. The widow of Squire Wood, who died in 1835 at the age of ninety-five, said that a family of Hessian soldiers lived there in Revolutionary times. 71. Old Wood Cellar. — On the right-hand side of the road leading from the camp ground to West Boxford, op- posite Stevens pond, is an old cellar. It was undoubtedly an old Wood homestead, perhaps where the first Daniel, and also his son John lived. 72. Residence of Henry Perley. — The residence of Mr. Henry Perley was built about 1745 by Solomon Wood, son of John Wood, who was born in 1722. Mr. Wood was a man of much learning for his time, a surveyor of note and a blacksmith. I lis shop stood near the house. Mr. Wood died in 1766, and by his wives, Hannah Jewel I. and Mehitable Peabody, he had six children. One of them, Solomon, jr., resided on the place. 70 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Solomon Wood, jr., was born in 1763; married Phebe Perleyin 1784, and had several children born here. Mr. Wood died in 1829, and his widow followed him three years later. Their epitaph is : — "May we meet in Heaven." Of their children, Phebe, who married Samuel Hood, died at Georgetown in 1884 at the age of ninety-two ; Oliver lived in Groveland and died unmarried in 1803, at the age of seventy-five ; Betsey married Samuel Dale and resided in No. 175; Sally married George H. A. Batchcl- der, and lived in Haverhill ; and Hannah, the oldest child, was the mother of the late Albert Perley, into whose pos- session the farm came. Mr. Perley died in February, 1876. His widow resided upon the place, together with her two youngest sons, until her death in 1889, and her son Henry Perley has since lived here. 73. Dollof Cellar. — "Deacon" Rufus Burnham, who then lived at No. 78, built the Dollof house about 1822. His carpenters were Phineas Barnes and Josiah Woodbury. He had just before lost his wife, and had become per- manently blind. He was a Revolutionary pensioner, and was much esteemed by his neighbors, who gave him money enough to build this house (as he did not own the Batchelder Place, where he lived), which might be to him a home where he could quietly pass the rest of his days. He died in 1836 at the age of eighty-seven. He had three children : Sarah, who married, as his second wife, Joseph Stickney Tyler, who had lived in No. 94 ; Seth, who resided in the Davis house (No. 251); and Hannah, who died unmar- ried in 1834, at the age of forty-nine. Mr Burnham was succeeded upon the place by Mr. Ty- ler, who married his daughter Sarah. Sarah died here in THE DWELLINGS OF EOXFORD. 71 1858, aged seventy-eight. Mr. Tyler married, thirdly, widow Surah (Stuart) Esney of Georgetown, whose daugh- ter married his son Ira S. Tyler, who lately died in George- town. This third wife hung herself in this house in 1860. Mr. Tyler died in 1864, at the age of eighty-eight, and the heirs sold the old homestead to Mr. Sylvester Dollof. Mr. Dollof was a carpenter, and resided here until 1867, when he removed to Bradford where he now resides. He subsequently let the house to various tenants until it \v:ts burned down in the spring of 1876. 74. Kesidence of David DeW. C. Mighill. — The house that formerly occupied the site of Mr. David DeWitt Clin- ton Mighill's residence was built by Capt. Francis Perley about 1734. He was born at No. 76, in 1706, and was son of Lieut. Jacob Perley. Capt. Perley was a promi- nent man in the town, quite wealthy and did an extensive business in tanning. He boarded a number of the French Neutrals that were here from 1756 to 1760. He died in 1765. His wife was Huldah, sister to Gen. Israel Putnam, who after his decease married Timothy Fletcher of Wes<- ford, and removed thither. His eldest child, William, a commander at battle of Bunker Hill, resided in No. 75 ; Huldah married Col. John Robinson of Westford, a com- mander at battle of Concord, and distinguished for his un- flinching patriotism ; Francis succeeded his father on the place ; Amos lived at No. 39 ; and Jacob lived awhile at No. 18, removed to Reading and finally settled in Byfield, where he died at a good old age, a deacon of the church. Capt. Perley was succeeded on the homestead by his son Francis, who was born in 171.*), and married, first, in 1771, Ruth Putnam of Danvers, and second, in 1786, Hannah Payson, 2d, of Rowley. He also became a captaiu 72 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOKD. in the militia. He removed to Rowley about 1800, and died there suddenly in a tit in 1810 at the age of sixty- tive. Capt. Perley had thirteen children, of whom Fanny married Dr. Dennison Bowers of Boscawen, N. H., in 1791, and resided in this house for a few years after her marriage ; Nancy died in Boscawen at the age of twenty- seven : Francis died at sea ; Ebenezer Putnam lived in Rowley ; James lived in Rowley and Boston ; and Edward Payson died abroad. The writer has been told that a Chapman family lived upon the place about 1805. Daniel Bodwell, from Me- thuen, was living there in 1812. He was a blacksmith, and worked in a part of the barn. The old house, being then very dilapidated, was taken down and the present one erected, presumably by Samuel Perley, who bought the farm at auction in 1812, it being sold by Capt. Francis Per- ley's widow, who was administratrix, to settle the estate. The advertisement of this auction, as it appeared in the Salem Gazette, was as follows : — BY ORDER OF COURT, Will be sold at Public Auction, on the premises, on Tuesday the 10th day of March next, at one o'clock P. M. A FA KM in Boxford, belonging to the estate of Capt. Francis Pbk- ley, late of Rowley, deceased. Said farm consists of about 70 acres of wood, tillage, and pasture Land, with the buildings thereon. For further information inquire of JAMES PERLEY, of Rowley, or DANIEL IK (DWELL, ou the premises, where the conditions will be made known. HANNAH PERLEY, admx. Rowley, Feb. 7. 1812. Samuel Perley was from Rowley. He settled upon the farm immediately, having married withLydia Perkins, and lived there until his death, which occurred in 1848. He was born in 1770, being a son of John Perley of Rowley and brother of John Perley, who gave a fund wherewith THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 73 to found a free school in Georgetown. He had two sons and one daughter, neither of whom was ever married. The children lived upon the place,— Lydia till her decease in 1857, Samuel till his death in 1869, and Stephen Perkins until 1873, when he sold out to Mr. Jophanus Adams of Georgetown. In 1875 Mr. Adams sold the place to Mr. Samuel Clark. Mr. Clark lived here a short time and then bought the Savage house (No. 37), to which he removed. He sold this place to Mr. Sewall T. Johnson of Newburyport, in 1876. Mr. Johnson repaired the house extensively and resided here until the next year, when he sold to Mr. Mijrhill, who has since lived here. 75. The Town Almshouse. — The almshouse was erected by Capt. William Perley in 1763. He moved here from the Amos Perley house (No. 18). He was a son of Capt. Francis Perley and a nephew of Gen. Israel Putnam, and was born in No. 74 in 1735. Capt. Perley was a promi- nent citizen of the town. He was the captain of the min- ute men here atthe beginning of the Revolutionary struggle, and led his men in the battle of Bunker Hill, when eight of them fell, their bodies, as far as we have learned, being never brought home. Capt. Perley died in 1812, aged seventy-seven. By his first wife, Sarah, daughter of Jacob Clark of Topsfield, he had twelve children, of whom, Rev. Humphrey Clark Perley, who graduated at Dartmouth College in 1791, was a clergyman in Methuen and Beverly, and died in Georgetown in 1838 ; William resided in Georgetown and Haverhill ; Phineas lived at No. 42 ; and Oliver in Georgetown. Capt. Perley married, secondly, the widow of Dr. William Hale, who resided in X<>. 99. Capt. Pei ley's youngest son Abraham succeeded him np- 10 74 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. on the place. There his six children were born. About 1825, the farm was sold to Capt. Jacob Tovvne, formerly of Salem, and, in 1847, he sold it to the town of Boxford for a town farm. The town repaired the buildings and have continued to use the place as a town farm ever since. Mr. Towne died in 1853 at the age of seventy-three. The first master of the almshouse, or superintendent of the town farm, was Jonathan Martin, who remained three years, removing to Byfield, where he died in 1880 at the age of eighty-four. His successors have been David Wes- ley de la Fletcher Hood, 1850-1852 -, 1 Joseph N. Jaques, 1852-1854 ; Parker P. Pingree, 1854-1857 ; William J. Savage, 1857-1863; Peter Strout, 1863-1870; Charles E. Morse, 1870-1880; Rufus W. Emerson, 1880-1883; Henry K. Kennett, 1883-1885 ; and Charles Perley, 2d, 1885-1891. 76. Jacob Perley Cellar. — About 1697, Thomas Perley erected a house near Lake Reynor for his son Jacob, to whom he deeded the house and land about it in 1704. The house stood a few rods northeast of the barn belonging to the farm of Messrs. Patten and Metcalf, on the south side of the road. The exact location of the cellar is now almost unknown, as it has been filled up and ploughed over for many years. The house was large and had a leanto. The chimney was constructed on the outside of the house, and the oven opened outward. From the oven, it is said, on Saturday nights the contents were sometimes purloined, leaving the family without their usual Sunday beans, pud- ding and brown bread. Mr. Perley removed to Bradford about 1737, and died there in 1751. He had seven children, probably all born 1 Mr. Hood died there Marcb 22, 1852, THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOKD. 75 in this old house. He married, first, Lydia Peabody ; sec- ond, her cousin Lydia Peabody ; and third, widow Mehita- ble Brown of Rowley. Of his sons, Jacob and Nathan lived inBoxford (Jacob at No. 32) ; Francis lived at No. 74; and Moses settled on the old place. Moses Perley, who succeeded his father on the home- stead, was born in 1709, and married Hannah Frye of An- dover in 1740. Col. Peter Frye was her own cousin. Colonel Frye was a loyalist, and his daughter Love married for her first husband, Dr. Peter Oliver, another loyalist, and secondly, Admiral Sir John Knight of the British navy. Lady Knight died ather seat near London in 1839. Gen. Joseph Frye was another first cousin. Moses Per- \ay died in October, 1793, at the age of eighty-four, and his widow followed him nine days later, at the age of sev- enty. Their bodies repose in Harmony cemetery. Of their thirteen children, Moses was a soldier and died in the Revolution ; Hannah married Lieut. Daniel Clarke of Topsfield, who removed to Georgetown and for several years kept a tavern on Central street, dying in 1799 at the age of sixty -three ; Stephen and Jeremiah settled in Topsfield ; Nathan built the Tidd house on Nelson street, Georgetown, and resided there : Jeremiah lived in Boxford ; Sarah was the grandmother of the prominent Topsfield Balches ; Moody married, and lived in Nos. 32 and 95 ; Phebe married Solomon Wood, who lived in No. 72 ami Eliphalet, the youngest child, resided on the old place. It is singular that of these seven sons there are no living male descendants bearing the name of Perley. Eliphalet was born in 1765, and resided in the old house until 1817, when he built the present residence of Messrs. Patten and Metcalf farther up the slope of old Baldpate, to which he removed, and then demolished the old house. 76 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOliD. 77. Residence of Messrs. Patten and Metcalf. — Eliph- alet Perley, having come into the possession of No. 76 (which see), built this house and took down the old one. He never married, and lived in his new house for sev- eral years, presumably until the death of his maiden sis- ter Betty in 1822. He afterward lived in Georgetown, where he died of old-fashioned consumption at the age of eighty, in 1846. When in his prime Mr. Perley was a large, strong, athletic man, who often mowed all night when there w r as a moon, and worked as hard at other kinds of farm labor. In 1825, the farm was sold to Moses Bradstreet of Row- ley. He died here shortly after buying the place, and in 1829, the heirs, Matta Bradstreet, widow, Abigail Wildes, widow, and Samuel Bradstreet, all of Topsfield, conveyed it to Sylvester Cummings for two thousand dollars. Mr. Cummings resided here, and upon his death the farm descended to his daughter Judith, wife of Erastus Smith. She sold it to Augustus M. Perley in 1868. Mr. Perley lived here several years, and in 1876 con- veyed the place to Dea. Jacob Symonds Potter. Mr. Potter resided here several years and his heirs sold out to Mr. Junius D. Hayes of Clinton, Mass., in the spring of 1884. He resided here about a year, and then removed to Georgetown, selling this place to the present owners, Messrs. Patten and Metcalf. Mr. El bridge Perkins, of Topsfield, occupied the place from 1880 to 1882. 78. Residence of Murray R. Ballou. — Mr. Ballou's house was erected by Dr. David Wood about 1701. He was THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 77 son of Daniel Wood and was born in Boxford in 1677. He was a physician with a large practice, a justice of the peace, a mill owner and an extensive farmer. He was one of three to build the saw-mill in front of his residence in 1710. He was a leader in the social life of his time and region, and died Aug. 30, 1744. By his wife Mary he had eleven children, of whom Daniel resided at No. 284 ; Sarah married Aaron Kimball ; David lived at No. 289 ; Hannah married Josiah Johnson of Woburn ; Jon- athan succeeded his father on the homestead ; Mary married Rev. Jacob Bacon of Plymouth ; Mercy married Isaac Adams, who lived in No. 84 ; and Samuel gradu- ated at Harvard College in 1745, settled in Windham, Conn., where he was a Congregationalist clergyman, and later a chaplain in the Revolution, being taken prisoner at the capture of Fort Washington in 1776, and dying on board the prison-ship Asia the following winter, at the age of fifty-two. Hon. Bradford Ripley Wood, LL.D., member of the Twenty-ninth Congress, and United States minister to Denmark from 1861 to 1865, was Samuel's grandson. Dr. Wood's son Jonathan succeeded him on the home- stead. He did considerable farming, and among his an- imals was a line bay horse, which he valued very highly as a saddle horse. On the night of February 21, 1775, his barn was entered and this horse together with an ex- cellent saddle and a bridle was stolen. lie advertised for their return in several issues of the Essex Gazette, but as far as the writer has learned never heard from them again. The following is a copy of his advertisement : — "QTOLEN out of the Barn of the Subfcriber, in the Night of ^the 21ft Inftant, a large bright bay HORSE, with a ruffet limiting Saddle and bridle, about 7 Years old, with a final! Star In his Forehead, about 15 Hands high, is a natural Pacer and ran trot (bine. Who- 78 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. ever takes up faid Horfe, Saddle and Bridle, and returns them fafe to me, fhall have Three Dollars Reward, and all neceffary Charges paid by me. "Boxford, February 22, 1775. JONATHAN WOOD." Mr. Wood married twice ; first, Sarah Redington, and second, Sarah, widow of Dea. Abner Spofford of Rowley. Mr. Wood died in 1781, at the age of sixty-four. He had eight children, of whom David was a revolutionary soldier, and lived at No. 97 ; Jonathan livedon the home- stead ; Eliphalet was a revolutionary soldier, and resided in Loudon, N. H. ; Sarah married Gideon Bixby ; Enoch resided in Loudon, N. H. ; and Abner lived in Loudon, N. H., and Newburyport, Mass. The following is the inscription on his gravestone in Harmony Cemetery : — IN Memory of M r Jonathan Wood who departed this Life June y e 19"' 1781, In the 65 th year of his age, I yet dofpeak though I am dead. A Sovereign God made this my bed. And what 1 have to fay to thee Prepare for Death to follow me. Mr. Wood was succeeded on the farm by his son Jon- athan, who was born in this house in 1751. He married Abigail Hale of Brookfield in 1787, and became a deacon of the First Church and captain of the militia. He died Jan. 3, 1797, at the age of forty-five, from an accident. The following obituary notice appeared in the Salem Gazette a week after his decease : ■• Boxford, J"». 7, 1 7H7. "On Tuefday laft departed this life, Capt. Jonathan Wood, in the 4(ith year of his age. The circumftances which occafioned his death arc really melancholy, <>n Saturday morning, 31fi id' December lad, THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 79 about day break, he went into his Barn, and afcended a Scaffold about 14 feet, from which he accidentally fell on the top of a Sleigh -which ftood on the floor, whereby his head and neck were injured to fuch a degree as to prove fatal; however he arofe from the fpot, and went into his Houfe alone. Laft Friday his remains were interred. On the folemn occafion was delivered a well adapted difcourfe by the Rev.' Peter Eaton, from thefe words, ' For man alfo knoweth not his time. The funeral proceffion confiftecl of his difconfolate Widow and Chil- dren, a large train of bereaved Friends, the Officers of the regiment to which he belonged, and the company of militia recently at his com- mand, under arms, a numerous retinue compofed of feveral claffes of people from this and the adjacent towns. He was a moft benevolent, faithful & conftaut bofom friend; a kind, tender and affectionate Parent of five young Children ; a feeling and affable brother; A ufeful member of the Society in which he lived, both in a public and private capacity. In him were united both the Christian and military Soldier ; he was a ftrict obferver both of the laws of his God and of his coun- try; and his death is greatly lamented." Capt. Wood was the father of the late Capt. Enoch Wood, who resided at No. #9, and grandfather of Judge Charles A. Peabody of New York. Rufus Burnhain, son of Nathan, born in Boxford in 1748, married Sarah Chapman in 1777, and resided upon this farm until he built the Dollof house (No. 73) about 1822, to which he removed. The heirs of Deacon Wood sold the farm in 1825 to Capt. Jacob Batchelder of Danvers, who opened a tavern here which flourished for many years. He died in 1853, at the age of seventy-three. His wife was Mary, daugh- ter of Joseph Cummings of Topsfield, where she was born in 1779. She survived her husband and died of old age in 1873, at the age of ninety-one. Her epitaph is, — "The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my sal- vation." Among the children of Capt. Batchelder were Lydia, who married Daniel Gould ; John Quincy, who died in the Rebellion; Edward G., who lived upon the place; Samuel II., who lived across the road, and lately died at Methueu, having been lor two sessions a mem- 80 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. ber of the State Legislature ; Dr. Joseph of Templeton ; and Jacob for many years a teacher at Lynn, where he was highly esteemed as an educator and citizen, and where he was for some years librarian of the public library. After the death of Capt. Batchelder, his son Edward G. resided on the place. He served in the war of the Rebel- lion, and after the decease of his wife lived here alone. On Sunday, May 11, 1879, he was found dead in his gar- ret having committed suicide by hanging the Wednesday previous. The house then remained unoccupied, and in the possession of Mr. Batchelder's nephew, Samuel P. Batchelder, until 1884, when he sold the place to Mr. Murray R. Ballou of Boston, who resides in the old tav- ern, which he has greatly improved. 79. Residence of Mrs. J. Q. Batchelder. — This house was built about 1844 by John Quiucy Batchelder and Samuel H. Batchelder brothers, sons of Capt. Jacob Batchelder, who resided in No. 78. One-half of it has since been oc- cupied by John Q. Batchelder and his family, he having died of typhoid fever on board the hospital-ship Euterpe in October, 1862, and buried in the Soldiers' cemetery, near Mill-creek hospital. The other half of the house was occupied by Samuel until 1875, when he removed to Methueu where he lately died. Since his removal his part of the house has remained unoccupied. 80. Fred SroFFORD House. — Ebenezer Kimball probably resided upon this farm about 1725. He was succeeded by his only child Jonathan Kimball, who died in 174b", leaving a daughter Hepzibah. She married Rev. Hezekiah THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 81 Smith of Haverhill, in 1771. The next year Mr. Smith sold the farm, consisting of seventy-one acres, and the house, barn, etc., to Bradstreet Tyler of Boxford for £455 15s. Mr. Smith was a Baptist clergyman, and preached in Georgetown and Haverhill. Stephen Spofford lived there about 1800. He was born in the next house on the same road (No. 82) in 1753, and was the son of Samuel and Mary (Poor) Spofford. He married Sarah Chadwick of Boxford in 1782, and had two children : Frederick, who lived on the homestead, and Polly, who became the wife of Samuel Peabody. Capt. Frederick Spofford married, first, Mary, daugh- ter of Amos Kimball, who lived at No. 214. She died in 1810, at the age of twenty-three ; and he married, second, in 1812, Deborah Wilkins. He died there in 1854, and since that time some portion of his family have resided upon the place until within six or seven years. His young- est sou, Mighill Wellington Spofford, was the last of the family to live there. Captain Spofford had eleven chil- dren, the oldest of whom was Charles A. who resided at No. 82. Another son, Augustus F., settled in Platteville, Wis., and a daughter is the widow of John Preston of Georgetown. 81. Residence of Jeremiah Dacey. — This place on "Old Shaven-crown hill" was probably originally settled by Abraham Tyler, son of Jo I) and Elizabeth (Parker) Tyler, born in Boxford in 1735. He married, first, in 1756, Abigail Stickney, by whom he had fifteen children ; and second, in 1780, Jerusha Mersay, by whom he had one child. Of his children, Joseph S. lived at Nos. 73 and 94, and William on the homestead. Mr. Tyler was succeeded on the farm by his son Wil- li 82 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Ham, who was horn there in 1774. He married Abigail Barker of Haverhill in 1799, and had a son William, and a daughter Salenda, both of whom resided upon the place. The children obtained the title to the property, and forced their parents in their old age to seek a home at the almshouse, where they soon after died. The son William married Mary S. Donnan and had two daughters both of whom died young. He lived only a few years after his marriage, and during that time resided here, replacing the old buildings by those now standing about 1850. The daughter Salenda married Nelson Bodwell in 1826, and after living in Simmiersworth, N. H., Methuen, Mass., and in New York state, settled on this place after William's death. They continued to live here until 1868, w h they sold the place to Mr. Jeremiah Dacey, from Ireland, the present owner and occupant. Mr. Bodwell removed to Georgetown, where he lived until the decease of his wife about 1882, when he removed to Andover. They had three children, the eldest being Leonard War- wick, who lived in No. 13. Abraham Tyler's third son was Jacob, a twin with Eliz- abeth, who was born at this house February 17, 1770. He married Lavinia , and after the birth of his first child in 1795, removed to Concord, N. II., where he re- mained until about 1847, when he settled in the West parish of Rowley, Mass., which was afterward taken from Rowley and incorporated as the town of Georgetown. He died there September 11, 1865, at the age of ninety-five. The present Tyler families of Georgetown are his de- scendants, through his son Caleb Greeuleaf Tyler, who died there June 8, I860, at the age of fifty-four, having been a prominent manufacturer. Other children of Abraham Tyler were Molly, who mar- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 83 ried John Peabody in 1788, Priscilla, Avho married Ben- jamin Robinson in 1794, Isaac, who married Dorcas Good- ridge in 1794, and Elizabeth (the second child of that name, and not the twin with Jacob), who married David Colbnrn, jr., in 1797. 82. Residence of H. Merritt Spofford. — This house was built by Samuel Spofford about 1717. He was a son of Samuel Spofford who resided on the rt old farm " on Spofford's Hill, in what is now Georgetown, was born in 1690, and married Sarah Stickney of Bradford in 1717. The house was originally built in the style that then pre- vailed, and so remained until a few years ago, when it was extensively repaired and modernized. They had five children, the oldest of whom was Bethiah, who was blind many years. They had, also, Sarah, who died of the throat distemper in 1736, aged fifteen years; Thomas, who settled in Andover ; Amos, who settled at No. 83 ; and Samuel, who lived on his father's place. Samuel Spofford, jr., was born in 1722, and married Mary Poor of Newbury in 1752. They had six children : two by the name of Moses, who died each at the age of one month, the last one of canker ; Molly, who died at the age of three years ; Samuel, who resided on this place ; Parker, who lived at No. 33 ; and Stephen, the eldest son, who resided at No. 80. Mr. Spofford was succeeded on the homestead by his son Samuel, who died there, Feb. 12, 1846, at the age of eighty-six. He never married, but hired housekeepers, one maiden lady, Nancy Springer, serving him in that capacity many years. In 1841, he conveyed the farm to Moses Dorman, jr., to dispose of for the payment of his debts, and Mr. Dorman sold it to John Tyler of Boxford in 1844. 84 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Mr. Spofford's nephew, Charles Arlington Spofford (son of Capt. Frederick Spofford), born at No. 80 in 1812, moved to this place about three years before Samuel's de- cease, and afterward lived there, buying the farm of Mr. Tyler in 1849. Mr. Spofford married Sarah Hardy, and had two children. He died in 1883, and since that time his son H. Merritt has carried on the farm. 83. , Residence of Israel F. Spofford. — The house that originally stood where Mr. Israel F. Spofford lives was doubtless built by Amos Spofford about 1754. In that year he married Abigail Pearl, from No. 259. He was born in No. 82 in 1729. They had nine children, of whom Benjamin settled in Fryebnrg, Me. ; Amos in Me- tlnien : Samuel in Portland, Me., and at No. 252; Daniel in Bine Hill, Me. ; and Thomas, the youngest son, on his father's place. Thomas Spofford was born in 1767, and married Eliza- beth Foster in 1791. He built the present house in 1805, on, or nearly on, the site of the old house. They had seven children, of whom Phineas settled in Beverly ; Eliza was the first wife of the late Ephraim Cole, and the old- est child Aaron became his father's successor on the old place. Capt. Aaron Spofford was born in 1793, and married Betsey Foster in 1822. Mr. Spofford was a soldier in the war of 1812, for which he received a pension. He had ten children : Mrs. Samuel Killam; Phineas, who was a captain in the Confederate army during the Rebellion, and later high sheriff of Cheraw county, S. C. ; Mrs. John Hale; Aaron, who was killed in the battle of Groveton, Va., Aug. 30, 18(52, while lighting in the Union army; Daniel Webster, who served in the Union Army, and THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 85 now resides in Georgetown ; Israel F., who resides on his father's place ; and others. Captain Spofford died in 1879, at the advanced age of eighty-six. He was suc- ceeded on the homestead by his son Israel F., who has since resided there. 84. The Old Adams House. — The house in which Mr. Charles A. Thwing recently died was erected by Thomas THE OLD ADAMS HOUSE. Spofford about 1702. He was a son of Samuel and Sarah (Burkbee) Spofford of Rowley, where he was born in 1679, and was the firsl of the name to settle in Boxford. By his wife, Bethiah Haseltine, whom he married in 1702, he had ten children. \\\ 1716, he sold the place to his brother-in-law, Isaac Adams of Rowley, and removed to Lebanon, Conn. lie is the ancestor of the numerous 86 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Spafards, Rev. Henry A. Spafard of Brooklyn, N. Y., being one of his descendants. Mr. Adams probably never lived here. He died in Row- ley in 1738, and in his will devised this farm to his son Isaac, who was born in Rowley in 1713. He came here to live with his mother, who died in 1775, at the age of nine- ty-one. At the age of twenty-nine, Mr. Adams married a daugh- terof Dr. David Wood, and had ten oreleven children. Mr. Adams was commissioned captain of the Second company of militia in Boxford Sept. 1, 1762. The original commis- sion is in the possession of his great-granddaughter, Miss Rebecca T. Wood of West Boxford. He served on the committees chosen to build the second meeting-house in West Boxford ; and in 1780, was one of a committee of live chosen to examine the state constitution agreeably to a resolve of the General Court June 15, 1779. He was in his day one of the principal men of Boxford. lie served as a selectman for fourteen years ; and was the representative to the legislature from 1783 to 1786, in- clusive, and in 1788, live years in all. He had the good of the country at heart, and even when he had reached the age of eighty he took great interest in the affairs of Con- gress. Dr. Jeremiah Spofford remembered being at Mr. Adams' house about 1795, a year or two before the old gentleman's death. He described him as a man of short stature, and as wearing a small red cap, which fitted close to his head. Mr. Adams died in 1797, aged eighty-three. His wife survived him six years. His epitaph is as fol- lows : — "Affectionate as a husband, tender as a parent, Useful in lite, resigned in death, render his memory dear to surviving friends. His God sustains liini in his linal hour! His 1 1 ii : 1 1 hour brings glory to his God!" THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 87 Four of Mr. Adams' sons served in the army of the Revolution, his son Isaac being one of the victims of the battle of Bunker Hill. Several of his sons settled in Rindge, N. H. Two great-grandsons are Edwin Spofford Adams, principal of a school in Brooklyn, N. Y., and Moses Sawin Adams, Esq., a prosperous attorney in Wichita, Kansas. Mr. Adams' daughter Mary married John Tyler, and was the mother of the late Mrs. Enoch Wood. Mr. Adams' youngest son Israel, born in 1761, mar- ried Lucinda Baxter in 1808 and resided here the remain- der of his life. He died in May, 1834, and his widow went to Rindge, N. H., where she died in 1864, at the age of ninety. Mr. Adams was a selectman in 1799, 1800 and 1803. In 1811, he w r as one of a committee of three chosen by the town to superintend inoculation to prevent the prevalence of small-pox. The next occupant was Isaac, a grandson of Capt. Isaac Adams and son of David. He was here as early as 1822. He was the father of Chandler Braman Adams, U. C. 1855, and of Charles Israel Adams, D. C. 1852, a law- yer in Boston, who were both born in this old mansion. Mr. Adams also bore the title of his grandfather, that of captain. In November, 1869, he sold this place to Perry M. Jefferson of Andover, who sold to Charles H. Mears and John F. Baldwin, co-partners, of Lowell, the follow- ing month. They sold to Charles F. Winch of Wilming- ton in 1870, and he conveyed it to Anna E. Thwing in 1872. Mr. Thwing came from Lexington, and resided upon the farm until his death in 1889. 85. The Samuel B. Carleton IIousk. — The farm which was in the possession of the late Samuel B. Carleton has 88 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. been in the Carleton family for several generations. Jo- soph Carleton, a grandson of George Carleton (who was the first settlor in Boxford of that name, having come from Bradford in 1727, probably settling on this place), was born in Boxford in 1754 or 1755, married Sarah Wood in 1780, and settled on this homestead. They had a Large family. Joseph Carleton's third child was named Leonard. He was born in 1786, married Sally Barker of Andover in LSI 7, and settled on this place. Here was born his son and the recent owner and occupant of this farm, the late Samuel Barker Carleton, who always resided' upon the homestead. A Carleton from this place was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill June 17, 1775. 86. The Gragg House. — The small house occupied by Lawrence Fagan was the old Gragg place, having been built probably about 1771 by Reuben Gragg, who came from Rowley, his wife being Betty Carlton of Boxford. He probably resided here when he died in 17SJ6, at the age of fifty-one. George Porter, a resident of Boston, inherited this place from his aunts Misses Xabby and Rebecca Gragg. He sold it to John McCabe, who after living here nine or ten years sold out to Stephen Perkins in 1870. Mr. Perkins lived here till his death, when his daughter-in- law, Mrs. Kate Perkins, the present owner, bought out the other heirs, and has since made it her home. Mr. Fagan married Mrs. Perkins' sister. 87. Residence of William Wright. — Mr. William Wright came from Lawrence, bought a piece of very un- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 89 even sprout land near the old Fowler place, and cleared it up, building upon it a residence for himself and family in 1879. By his assiduous labor, he made the land very productive. The Fowler House. — The old Fowler house was owned and occupied by Nathan Kimball, son of John and Elizabeth (Chapman) Kimball, who lived at No. 90. He was born in 1706, married Sarah Goodridge (from No. 63), and died in 1784, at the age of seventy-eight. On one of the oaken posts of this house is engraved "1712." Probably this was the date of the erection of the house, but we do not know who built it, or who occupied it before Nathan Kimball took up his residence there. Mr. Kimball had eight children, one of whom, Nathan, jr., born in 1749, married Mary Poor of Newbury in 1770, and settled on this place. They had three children : Asa, who graduated at Brown University in 1796, and died in 1801 ; Stephen ; and Mary (or Polly) who married Jona- than Foster, and lived at No. 92. Mrs. Kimball spent the last of her days with her daughter, Mrs. Foster. Mr. Kimball was succeeded on the homestead by his son Stephen, who married Elizabeth Hasselton of Haver- hill iu 1795, and died in 1813. They had several chil- dren, one of whom, Harriet, married Samuel Fowler, who Mas born in Salisbury in 1792. After Mr. and Mrs. Fowl- er's marriage, they lived tirst in Bradford, then moved to this place, and made many repairs and alterations. He did quite a business here in the manufacture of shoes. He was a youthful acquaintance of lion. Caleb Cushing, and always his fast friend. He died in 1881, at the great age of eighty-nine. His wife had preceded him to the grave about four years and a half. Among the children of Mr. 90 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Fowler are Nathan K., who resides at No. 291, and Ste- phen K., who has returned to the old homestead after many years' residence in Rome. 89. Residence of John T. Wood. — A few feet east of the residence of the late Capt. Enoch Wood was an old cellar, where stood the most ancient house in this neighborhood. It was doubtless built by Moses Tyler about 1(366. He was born in Andover, probably in 1642, and Avas son of Job and Mary of that place, and it is thought that his father lived here in the house with Moses. Quartermaster Moses Tyler married Prudence, a daughter of George Blake (who lived at No. 242), by whom he had eight children. She died in 1689, and he afterward married Martha , who died in 1735, at the age of eighty-six. His son Moses lived in Andover. Mr. Tyler was living in 1712, but it is not known just when his death occurred. His son .John was his successor on the old place. He was born here in 166!), married Anna Messenger of Boston, and was a sea-captain a long term of years. His wife died in 1746, aged sixty-nine, and he followed her suddenly in 1756, at the age of eighty-seven. They had ten children. Capt. John Tyler built a new house where the present house stands, some little time before his death, but he al- ways lived in the old house. He may have built this house for his son Gideon when he was married in 1748. We know no more of the old house. Gideon Tyler lived in the new house, and, about 1775, built an addition to it, again adding to it a short time be- fore his death. He was born in 1712, and married Mehit- able Tyler in 1748, being quite a prominent man, ensign in the militia, etc. They had eight children. His wife died in 1777, and his death occurred in 1800, at the age of eighty-seven. BJfi'^/.'/i'H Hi: Pi ■Mr 92 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. He was succeeded on the old place by his son John Tyler, who was bom in 1751, a twin, and married in 1791 Mercy, a daughter of Isaac Adams, who lived in No. 84. His daughter Mehitable married Capt. Enoch Wood, and after Mr. Tyler's death, Captain Wood retired from the sea and settled on the place, which has since been known by the Wood name. Mrs. Wood's sister, Miss Mercy Tyler, died there in 1880, at the age of eighty-seven. Captain Wood died in 1882 at the age of eighty-four, a gentleman honored, revered and loved. His widow has recently followed him. Here was born his son Enoch Frank, a teacher, whose lovely traits of character embalm his memory. The present occupants of the place are Captain Wood's children, John T. Wood and Rebecca T. Wood. 90. Residence of Lucy S. Kimball. — The farm on which the late Moses Kimball resided was settled in the seven- teenth century. Near his house, a little to the southeast, the foundation of an old chimney was unearthed several years ago. There stood the residence of John Kimball, who settled in Boxford as early as 1669. He made his will in 1718, and it was proved in 1721. In it he gave this place to his son John, entailed to John's children. Corporal Kimball, by his wife Sarah, had seven children, two sons and live daughters. Miss Lucy S. Kimball, the present owner, writes that the next house that was built on this place stood on the opposite side of the road, a little to the southwest. Mr. Kimball's son John took up his residence on this farm. He was born in 1685, married Elizabeth Chapman in 1705, and had one son and six daughters. He died in 1763, aged seventy-eight. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 93 He was succeeded on the place by his only son Nathan, who was born in 1706, married Sarah Goodridge, from No. 63, in 1730, and had four sons and four daughters. Removing to No. 88, which house he may have built, he died in 1784, aged seventy-eight. Two of the sons died in infancy; another, Nathan, settled at No. 88. The other son, Moses Kimball, succeeded his father on this farm. He was born in 1740, married Rebecca Poor of Newbury, and in 1766 built this house. He had two sons and two daughters. He served in the Revolution, and when away on an expedition his boys were engaged in making a sled fur their steers. The large elm tree now standing in the dooryard was then small, and the boys be- gan to cut it down, thinking it would make a fine neb for their sled. But they were discovered by their mother and the chopping was stopped just in season to save the life of the tree. Mr. Kimball died in 1795, and his widow mar- ried, secondly, John Runnells of Bradford, and died in 1821. Mr. Kimball's son Samuel, the first child born in this house, his birth occurring Jan. 18, 1767, built a house at No. 92 in 1794, lived there a few years, then removed to that part of Bradford which is now Groveland, and as long as his brother John lived always spent his birthday at the old place. The other son, John Kimball, born in 1769, settled on the old place, which his father deeded to him in 1792. lie married Ruth Eastman of Haverhill, N. H., in 1792, and died in 1850, at the age of eighty. He had two sons and six daughters. The eldest son Moses, born in 1798, succeeded his father on the homestead and married Mary Stone, daughter of Rev. Peter Eaton in 1833. She died in L846, and he in 1879, at the age of eighty-one. Their only child, Miss Lucy Stone Kimball, has since resided upon the place. 94 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 91. Jonathan Foster Cellar. — An old cellar was un- earthed ;i few years ago a short distance west of the resi- dence of Mrs. J. Edwards Foster (No. 92). The house that stood here ^vas built in 1730 by Jonathan Foster on his return from Haverhill, wbere he had been living. He w:is a son of Jonathan Foster, and was born in Boxford in 1 his only surviving son Moses. He had eight children : Moses ; Sarah ; Dolly, who married Jacob Perley ; Phebe, who married John Barker, 3d, of Andover ; Jacob ; Lydia, who married Amos Gould ; Betty ; and Hannah, who married Jacob Hazen of Bridgton, Me. Moses Wood, who succeeded his father on the place, was born here in 1748, and married, in 1778, Sarah Bar- ker of Andover. Mr. Wood became depressed in mind, and at length hung himself in his house in 1810, at the age of sixty-two. The fact that his parents were cousins was fixed upon as the cause of his suicidal end. His fam- ily continued to reside upon the place. He had ten chil- dren, two sons and eight daughters, and of them, Sally married Col. Joseph L. Lowe; Dolly married his brother Gen. Solomon Lowe ; Betsey and Pamely never married and lived in Danvers ; and Lucy married Benjamin Abbott and lived in Providence, R. I. The old house Avas blown down in the terrific gale of September 23, 1815, and the family immediately erected the. present house. About 1830, they removed to Danvers, and tenants occupied the house, John Brown being the only one we have heard of who lived here for a considerable length of time. He moved to this place from No. 205, and carried on the butchering business several years. The heirs sold the farm April 1, 1837, to Seth Stetson, a blacksmith of Danvers, for $1(500, and John Brown immediately removed to No. 242. Widow Wood died in Danvers the next year, at the age of eighty-four. Mr. Stetson moved here and carried on the farm as long as he lived. He was born in Hanover in 1773, and died here of dropsy in 1851, at the age of seventy-eight. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 101 After Mr. Stetson's death, his son George lived on the place, where his children were born. He died in 1869, aged forty-eight. His family have since resided upon the farm, his son Charles A. Stetson being the present owner and occupier. 99. Residence of Rev. William P. Alcott. — This house was erected by Dr. William Hale about 1770. In that year, he married Anna Porter of Danvers, and commenced the practice of physic in Boxford, where he was born in 1741, being son of Thomas Hale. He died in 1785, in his forty-fourth year, leaving two young daughters. The following obituary notice of Mr. Haie is found in the Salon Gazette for August 16, 1785 : — "On the Gth Inftant died at Boxford, after a long indifpofition, Dr. William Hale, in the 44th year of his age ; who, foralmoft twenty years, was a fkilful, faithful and fucceisful phyfician. His lofs is already re- gretted, and it is apprehended will be more senfibly felt in the circle of his late practice, which was not confined." Doctor Hale's widow married Capt. William Perley who lived at No. 75. Captain Perley sold the place to Samuel Holyoke in 1801, and in 1814 he sold out to Tobias Davis, a sea-captain of Salem. In 1826, Captain Davis re- turned to Salem, and sold the place to Col. Charles Peabody. Colonel Peabody at that date obtained the com- mission of postmaster, and, buying of James Whittemore his store at the Holyoke place, moved it to his residence, where he opened his store and post-office. Colonel Peabody removed to Barre, Illinois, in 1837. While Rev. John Whitney preached here he boarded with Mr. Peabody. In the year mentioned Mr. Peabody sold to Elisha G. Bunker, who for a year had kept a tavern at No. 242 in West Boxford. Here he continued the store and post-office until about, 18G6, when he removed to Sa- 102 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. lem. One of his successors in the government office thus wrote of him about ten years ago : "He came to this place to live some forty-three years ago, and the familiar sign that hung upon his store, which read 'E. G. Bunker, W. I. Goods,' is, I doubt not, well re- membered by all who used to journey through our town in the stages which were run in those clays, either by Pink- ham, or Ililliard, or Pickett. Mr. Bunker served in the war of 1812, and received a pension. " We desire to speak more especially of Mr. Bunker's qualities as a townsman and a neighbor. During his thii ty years residence in Boxford, the humble individual now writing was his nearest neighbor, and we always found him to be a quiet, peaceable man, content to mind his own bus- iness, kind and obliging. . . He was postmaster here over fourteen years, and then, as now, in this town a man's tenure of office did not depend upon his political views. Mr. Bunker was a thorough Democrat in politics. Our town was decidedly Whig in those days, but the majority were so magnanimous that Mr. Bunker was removed from office but twice, we believe, — once in General Har- rison's term and once in General Taylor's. But in both cases Mr. Bunker managed to keep a foothold or gain a position, so that in a short time he easily ' routed the ene- my.' And as in those days our town was decidedly Whig, so now it is Republican. Notwithstanding this, we have one of the most unyielding, defiant Democrats for post- master." The next owner and occupant of the place was John B. Twisden, who conveyed it to John S. Sayward of Augusta, Maine, in 1869. Mr. Sayward came here to pass the remainder of his days. He died in 1875, at the age of seventy. Mr. Sayward was born in Ncwbun port, but removed to THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 103 Bangor, Me., about 1830, and was one of the founders of the Bang or Whig. For about twenty years he was editor of that paper, an excellent journal in every way. About the year 1856, the old firm of Smith and Say ward having been broken up, Mr. Sayward bought the interest of the Hon. J. G. Blaine in the Kennebec Journal, and removed to Augusta. His connection with that journal continued about twelve years, until his removal to Boxford. He set a very high estimate upon the power of the public press, and was governed in all that he wrote by a deep and real sense of his responsibility. What he was as an editor he was in private — faithful, loyal and genial, with quick per- ception of what was true and beautiful, and with an extra- ordinary love for the young and a never-failing fund of sympathy and charity for them. No man was ever more respected and loved by those whom he employed, or made them more his companions and friends without laying aside his dignity, and his sparkling good humor and beautifully even temper were proverbial in the society of the two cit- ies of Maine, where the greater part of his life was spent. Mr. Sayward embraced the doctrines of the New Church, or Swedenborgians, and held to them with characteristic enthusiasm. But his heart was light and liberal, and there was not a tinge of narrowness or sectarianism in his com- position. The family of Mr. Sayward continued to reside upon the place until about 1880, when Col. Fred Galbraith, Mr. Say ward's son-in-law, removed to San Diego, Cal. After that time the house remained unoccupied until the home- stead was sold to Rev. William F. Alcott in 1883. lie now resides here. As is usual with most old places, there is more or less romance attached to this, from a tale that has come down through the many decades that this old house is haunted. It is said that after Dr. Hale's death, at the weird hour of 104 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. midnight, his pestle could be heard grinding imaginative herbs and drugs in the mortar. 100. Residence ofF. D. Allen. — Josiah Woodbury bought the land on which this house stands of John Butman in October, 1816, and erected the house the next year, taking ii}) his abode therein. We have been informed that the widow of Phineas Rundlett also lived in this house at the time of her mar- riage with Amos Perley in 1823. Mr. Woodbury died at his son-in-law Captain Davis' (No. 99) in 1843, at the age of eighty-nine. While the place was in the possession of the heirs of Mr. Woodbury, the house was occupied by Daniel Wells who lived there several years before 1847, and died in 1855, at the age of fifty-two, and by the late Ancill Dor- man, Esq., from 1847 to 1850. Isaiah Woodbury of Salem, master mariner, left two children Nathaniel A. and Isaiah. Their mother and guar- dian, Susan A. Woodbury, sold her and their interest in the place in 1845 to Francis A. Fabens, Esq., of Boston. Mr. Fabens sold out to John Clifton of Salem in 1847, and Mr. Clifton sold to Phineas W. Barnes of Boxford in 1849. Mr. Barnes was then living at No. 37, and he moved to this place, where he continued his business of butchering, building the present barn for a slaughterhouse. In 1858, being afflicted with rheumatism he discontinued the busi- ness of a butcher and from that time till 1^65 kept a gro- cery store where Mr. F. A. Howe now carries on the same business. Mr. Barnes then opened a grocery in North Andover, where he continued in the trade until 1872-73, when he removed to Denver, Col. He has been engaged in business there since that time. In 1866, Mr. Barnes conveyed the house and lot to THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 105 Asher C. Palmer of Boston, who resided here until 1883, when the place was sold to Mr. Frederic D. Allen, profes- sor of philology in Harvard college, who has since spent his summers here. 101. Residence of S. A. Bixby. — The late Deacon Samuel Bixby built this house in 1828. Before that date he, with his parents, had resided at the Holyoke place, having removed there from No. 163. They all removed to this new house as soon as it was ready for occupancy. Mr. Bixby was married in 1830 to Eleanor E. Johnson of Andover, and eleven days later his father(Gideon Bixby) died. His mother died in 1837. Here Deacon Bixby lived till his death, which occurred in 1881, at the age of eighty-two. His wife had died a short time previous. His son Stephen A. Bixby succeeded him on the place, and still resides there. 102. Residence of Mrs. Sally Rea. — This house was erected by the late Jeremiah Rea, being raised June 28, 1840, on land purchased of Richard K. Foster in the fall of 1838. He resided in it until his death in 1890, and his widow until her death in 1891, at the age of eighty- three. 103. The Todd House. — The new town hall was erected in 1890 over the cellar of the old academy which was built about 1825, as a place for holding meetings, by the Third religious society, which had just been established. In 182(!, Major Jacob Peabody, a merchant of Boston and a native of Boxford, was instrumental in incorporating the 14 106 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. building into a school-house. The school was private, and of an academical grade. Through Major Peabody's in- fluence, the academy flourished for two or three years. On Sundays, preaching was carried on in the interest of the disaffected members of the church. The preaching was sometimes by the professors of the academy, and by "reverend" gentlemen, among whom was one Robertson. Their doctrines were veiy liberal. The iirst professor in the academy was Mr. Leavenworth. From a section of one of the early printed catalogues, the date of which is none, we learn that the examining committee were Rev. Brown Emerson of Salem, Rev. Jared Reid of Reading, and Mr. Levi Pratt, Mr. Giles Lyman and Mr. Lucian Farnham of the Andover Theological Seminary. The prudential committee were Major Jacob Peabody and Col. Charles Peabody. T. I. Farnham was preceptor. About fifty students (of both sexes — the young gentlemen being but a small number in the majority) are catalogued. The building was afterward remodelled into a dwelling- house, and was first occupied by Rev. William S. Coggin upon his settlement over the church here in 1838. In 1842 he built his present residence (No. 107) and removed to it the same year. The house was afterward occupied by Maj. William Lowe and Mr. William G. Todd and Roscoe W. Gage respectively, until it was burned on the night of December 26, 1867, the last two named families then living there. The cellar remained uncovered until L890, when the town hall was erected. 104. Residence of W. A. Howe. — This house was erected by Mr. Edward Howe in 1841. The next year Mr. Howe's wife died, and in 1843 he exchanged this house for the THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 107 present residence of Mr. Daniel Bixby (No. 10), where Mr. Howe's brother, Mr. William Appleton Howe, resided. Mr. Edward Howe vacated the premises and his said brother moved in the same year and has since lived upon the place. Mr. Edward Howe began his shoe business here. In the north part of the house two or more families have resided. Two of them were those of Solomon W. Lowe and Benjamin Kenney. 105. The Abbie Bacon House. — The present public library building in the East parish was built as a dwelling house by Mrs. Abigail Bacon, widow of Dr. Josiah Bacon, thirty- five years ago. The carpenters were the late Samuel N. and Deacon Joshua Ayers ; the mason, Nicholas Tuttle ; the hod-carrier, Andrew Berry ; and the late Amos Stevens was the one employed to bank up the house. The shed used to stand, roofless, near the old church, and it is said had been originally annexed to the church of the "dissenters" across the street. In this shed the youth of the neighborhood played at "hide and seek" until it was moved to Mrs. Bacon's house, on rollers, by Elisha G. Bunker. Mrs. Bacon died in 1868, and then her daughter Abbie resided in the house till her decease in 1878. The house was bought by the library association soon after, and fitted up for its present use. 106. Kesidence of I. W. Norwood. — This house was erected by Jefferson Kimball in 1810. He came from North An- dover, and boughl tie- bouse lot of Daniel and Dean An- drews, with the shop thereon, lie settled here, and worked 108 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. in the shop blacksmithing. He served the town as rep- resentative in the legislature, and was a prominent man in town affairs, until he sold the place to Mr. William H. Kimball of Boxford in 1871, when he removed to Fitch- burg, where he died in 1879. The purchaser resided here until 1879, when he removed to Danvers Centre, where he has since lived. He sold the place in 1878 to Mr. Wil- liam B. Howe, who shortly after disposed of it to Miss Mary Perley of Salem. In 1888 it came into the posses- sion of Mr. I. Walter Norwood, who now resides here. See No 110. 107. Residence of Eev. W. S. Coggin. — Rev. William Symmes Coggin of Tewksbury was settled over the First church in Boxford in 1838. He resided first in No. 103, and in 1842 built the house in which he has since lived. He resigned his pastorate in 1868. 108. Residence of S. F. Ayers. — This house was built by Samuel N. Ayers for himself in 1844. Mr. Ayers was a native of Wolfsboro', N. H., and his wife, who was Miss Lucy P. Fuller, was born in Salem, N. H. It was occu- pied by him until his death in 1873, at the age of fifty-four. Since that time his son, S. Frank, has resided here. Mr. Ayers was a carpenter, and several of the modern houses in this vicinity were erected under his supervision. Several families have resided in the northwestern part of the house, among them being those of Solomon W. Lowe and Rufus W. Emerson. 109. Residence of P. Strout. — The house that formerly stood upon the site of Mr. Strout's new house was erected THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 109 by a company of proprietors in 1852, and after it was fin- ished was sold at auction, being bid off by Alfred Brown. Mr. Brown manufactured shoes and lived here some years. Daniel Russell removed here from Bald hill (No. 117), and was the first occupant of the northern half of the house, living here from the fall of 1852. He removed to No. 118 about 1855, when Mr. Brown sold the place to Messrs. Nathaniel Grant Spiller and Peter Strout, and went to New Hampshire. Upon partition Mr. Strout took the northern half and Mr. Spiller the southern half. Mr. Spiller died here in August, 1883, at the age of eighty- two and his widow continued to reside here. With the ex- ception of a few years, when he was superintendent of the town farms of Boxford and North Andover, Mr. Strout resided in his half of the house. When Mr. Strout was away, his part of the house was occupied by Mr. William W. Dresser. The house was burned on the night of April 6, 1890. Mr. Strout immediately erected the present house upon the same site. 110. Residence of H. Newhall. — Mr. Henry Newhall built his house in 1872, and has since resided in it. His blacksmith's shop was built by Thomas Dewksbury, who died, unmarried, in 1832, at the age of twenty-five. It stood originally between the residences of Messrs. I. W. Norwood and S. Frank Ayers, and was used there by Jefferson Kimball for many years (see No. 106). It was moved to its present site June 1, 1874, by Mr. Newhall. 111. The Holyoke Mansion. — The old Ilolyoke house oc- cupies the site of the parsonage built by the town for the first minister of Boxford, Rev. Thomas Symmes. In April, 1701, the town voted to build him a house 48 x 20 feet, 110 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. two stories in height, with a hack-room of 16 or 18 feet square. The house was finished and taken possession of* by Mr. Symmes in July, 1702. Here he lived until his dismissal in 1708, and four of his children were born here. Rev. John Rogers, the successor of Mr. Symmes, settled here immediately after Mr. Symmes went away, and con- tinued to reside in this house until his removal from Box- ford in 1743. He afterward resided with his son, Rev. John Rogers, who was settled at Leominster, and died there in 1755. Mr. Rogers had nine children, all born here, and all baptized in the little ancient church that stood on the hill north of his residence. Mr. Rogers' son Benjamin lived in this house after him. Benjamin married, first, Mrs. Alice (Perley) Foster, widow of Thomas Foster, by whom he had eight children. She died, and he married, second, Lois Perue in 1751. By her he became the father of two children. He died in March, 1761, and his widow married, in December of the same year, Ephraim Houghton of Lancaster, to which place she doubtless removed. Some say that Mr. Houghton be- longed in Harvard, the publishment on the Boxford town records calls him of Lancaster, and his marriage record in Harvard calls him of that town. However, nothing more is known of her and little of her children, who doubtless removed with her wherever she went. In 1759, two years before his death, Mr. Rogers (the rest of the heirs having quitclaimed to him their interest in the estate) sold the house and lot to Rev. Elizur Hol- yoke, who was settled over the church here in that year. The next year the old house was taken down and the pres- ent one erected by Mr. Ilolvoke's father, Samuel Ilolyoke, a merchant of Boston. Rev. Mr. Ilolyoke afterward re- sided in the new house. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Ill Rev. Elizur Holyoke was born in Boston in 1731, and was a nephew of Edward Holyoke, president of Harvard college, and a great-grandson of Eliznr Holyoke of Spring- field, for whom Mount Holyoke was named. 1 Rev. Mr. Holyoke died after a paralytic illness of thirteen years, in 1806, at the age of seventy-four. His widow, who was Hannah, daughter of Rev. Oliver Peabody of Natick, sur- vived him two years. Stephen Gould moved Mrs. Holyoke from Natick to Boxford upon her marriage in 1759, and he was the only person she knew in church the next Sabbath except her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Holyoke had eight children, namely, Sam- uel, Samuel, Elizur, Elizabeth, Oliver Peabody, Edward, Hannah and Charles. The second Samuel was the dis- tinguished musical composer and publisher. He produced *' TJarmonia Americana," "The Instrumental Assistant" "The Columbian Repository of Sacred Harmony." Like most of those who have become deservedly distinguished he died poor and without a home. After the other chil- dren had all gone Hannah continued to reside in the old house until 1865, when she died at the age of ninety-one. She was never married, and during her lifetime a part of the house was occupied by different tenants, among whom was Benjamin French. In 1866, Miss Holyoke's executors sold the place to Mr. Elvin French, the well-known musician, then residing in Lowell but who was horn in this house, being son of Ben- jamin French above named. Mr. French has now lived here several years. Decay was fast creeping upon the old mansion, and but for the reviving hand of Mr. French, it must have soon beennumbered with the things that are gone. Mr. French has put in new timbers, new windows and doors, and re- 1 See Holland's Bay Path. 112 THE DWELLINGS OE BOXFOKD. paired it all through, but in such a manner as to allow all that is interesting in it to remain. Strangers desire to frequent the old house, and examine its passages, halls, and numerous rooms, each containing some curious work of antiquity. Of this mansion, Mrs. Martha L. Emerson wrote several years ago : " 'Neath sheltering elms the ancient dwelling stands Where several highways socially clasp hands; Its general air speaks of the 'auld lang syne,' And years have left their marks in many a line. "The moss-grown shingles, broken and decayed; The loosened clapboards, where the winds have played ; The shattered window-panes, the door-stone low, — All tell the story of the long ago. "Within, what tales those mouldering walls could tell, If they could break their silence' mighty spell, — Of childhood, age, of happiness and tears, Of life and death, through all these hundred years ! "Old sunken floors, by many footsteps worn; Paper once gay, but mildewed now and torn : The embellished doorways, and the panelled hall, The generations of the past recall. "Two antique portraits, older than we know, — Perchance were old a century ago, — Hang in the upper hall; faint shadows they Of faces long since passed from earth away. "Up narrow winding attic stairs we climb, To see the only gleam a bygone time Has left of horror in this lonely place, Which soon will crumble, and will leave no trace. "From a high beam there still suspends a rope, Where, years ago, some one bereft of hope Essayed to end her life ; but all in vain : Life's rugged pathway she must walk again." 112. Eesidence of D. W. Conant. — Mr. Daniel W. Con- ant's house was erected in 1835 by Dea. Putnam Perley, who lived here about a year, and then went to the West, THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. H 3 settling in Pecatonica, 111. He was a son of Artemas W. Perley, and was born at No. 14 in 1810. Deacon Perley sold the place in 1836 to Frederic Per- ley of Danvers, who conveyed it in 1840 to Leonard Per- ley of Boxford, a son of Henry Perley, having been born in No. 56 in 1800. In 1851, the house was struck by lightning, and the following account of it appeared in the Salem Gazette at the time : — "In Boxford, 9 o'clock Friday evening August 22, 1851, the house of Leonard Perley was struck with lightning and slightly injured The fluid descended the kitchen chimney, and struck Mr. Perley who was sitting near the lire-place. His arm and leg were scorched andhewas stunned, but was speedily restored by the application of cold water The lightning passed over the bell pull to the front door, which it shat- tered. Two girls who were in the entry were much affected by the electricity." Mr Perley died there in 1857, "respected and lament- ed." By his wife Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Wells, he had six children, none of whom now live in Boxford. His daughter Julia Ann married Samuel A. Cummings, the well-known shoe-knife manufacturer. In 1857, Mr. Conant purchased the place and has since occupied it. 1 113. Residence of S. W. Howe.-A little farther east from where the house of Mr. Solomon W. Howe now stands was the residence of William Foster, one of the earliest settlers of Boxford. He was a son of Reginald Foster ot Ipswich, an emigrant from England, where William was born in 1633. The house was built about 1660. In 1587, Mr Foster was licensed to keep an ordinary, and the town meetings were held here until the meeting house was built in 1702 Mr. Foster was an important man in the town and doubtless there was much of interest that rim.- around this early settlement. Mr. Foster died in 1713, at the age 114 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. of eighty. By his wife, Mary, daughter of "William Jackson of Rowley, he had nine children. His son Samuel Foster, who was born at this place in 1682, succeeded him on the homestead. He married Mary Macoon of Cambridge in 1703, and died in 1747. They had six children, the fourth of whom was William. William Foster, the sou, was born in 1713, and resided here. He married, first, , who was the mother of his son William and, second, Mary Clark of York, Me., in 1747, by whom he had two children, Hannah and Sam- uel. In March, 1756, he sold the place to Jonathan Bix- by of Boxford, and removed to Newbury. Jonathan Bixby was son of Jonathan and Sarah (Smith) Bixby and was born in 1696. He married Ruth Fuller ofMiddleton in 1735, and they had fourteen children: 1. Nathaniel, who at the age of twenty was a private in the company of Capt. Israel Davis in the expedition against the fort at Crown Point in the French war in 1756. Na- thaniel was taken sick at Fort Edward, and brought to the hospital at Albany. His uncle, Elias Bixby, was liv- ing at Sheffield, Mass., and hearing of Nathaniel's condi- tion went to see him, and found him almost beyond hope of recovery. His uncle took him to his home in Sheffield, where by careful nursing and good doctoring, after a stay of five weeks, he was able to come home (in October of the above mentioned year), his uncle attending him the one hundred and sixty miles of the journey. 2. Elizabeth. 3. Sarah. 4. Huldah. 5. Eunice, who died in 1759, at the age of sixteen. 6. Annah. 7. Lucy, who died at the age of two years. 8. Nancy, who died young. 9. Lucy. 10. Apphia and 11. Mary (twins, Apphia married John Powers of Salem, and Mary, Daniel Perkins of Topsfield). 12. Ruth, who married Nehemiah Fuller. 13. David. 14. Jonathan. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 115 Mr. Bixby sold this place to Asa Peabody of Boxford in 1771, and removed to Middleton, where he died in the winter of 1780-81. Asa Peabody was a son of John Peabody, and was born in Boxford in 1741. He was the treasurer of the town for a long period. He died in 1807, and was the giver of, and first interred in, the cemetery near the church. The inscription upon his gravestone is as follows : In memory of Mr. Asa Peabody, Obt. Oct. 19, 1807, Aet. 67. Lived respected &died lamented. First interred & giver of this ground. Mr. Peabody married Susannah, the only daughter among the eleven children of Maj. Asa Perley, who lived in No. 6. Mr. Peabody had nine children. Artemas Peabody (Asa's son j then lived here until 1816, when the place was purchased by Joshua French, a truck- man of Salem, who had two daughters, the oldest of whom, Hannah, became the wife of Charles Bixby of Boxford. The old house was struck by lightning June 25, 1820, and the following account of it was published in the Salem Gazette on the same week : — "At Boxford, about 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the houfe of Mr. Jofhua French, formerly of this town was ftrucls by lightning. It flrft ftrack the chimney, when it apparently feparated, one branch entering the chimney, and the other paffing out fide the houfe, tearing otr the fhingles, &c. in its progrefs. The brafs top of a pair of i in the fire-place, was melted. Mr. French was fitting at a front win- dow; the lightning ("hatter, d the cafing againft which his head was refting; he was thrown by the fhock fenfeless on the floor, and re- mained fpeechlefs for about 15 minutes, every one fuppofing him to be dead, and his hair was confiderably burnt. But he gradually recovered, and is now doing well. Several other perfons in the houfe were (tunned by the fhock, but not feverely injured." Mr. French sold the farm in 1825 to Daniel and Dean 116 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Andrews, who lived here together nearly to the time of Daniel's marriage in 1844, their maiden sister, Mehitable, keeping house for them until Dean's marriage in 1838, after which time she moved hometo her father's house, where she died in 1870. Dean Andrews erected the present house in 1843, Samuel N. Ayers being the carpenter. Mr. Andrews died in 1869, and since that time his widow and son-in-law Mr. Howe, have resided there. 114. W. Foster Cellar. — About one-fourth of a mile easter- ly from No. 113, on land now belonging to the Dean An- drews estate, stood an old house. The cellar and well may still be seen. The house has probably been gone more than a century. The old people sixty years ago appeared to know nothing about it, or who lived here. The late Ancill Dorman once wrote : " Possibly William Foster (See No. 113) might have built herein the first place, and got burnt out." 115. - T. Dorman Cellar. — There is an old cellar and well some eighty or a hundred rods northeasterly of the resi- dence of Mrs. Eunice A. Howe (No. 121), and about mid- way between Mrs. Howe's and the Dunnell cellar (No. 122). It has been said that Timothy Dorman lived here a short time after his marriage with Eunice Burnham in 1754, and that his eldest child Eunice was born here. The writer knows nothing more of the place. (See No. 120.) 116. Old Conant House. — The old Conant house was owned by Jacob Andrews in 1777, when he sold it to John Stiles of Boxford, blacksmith. It was afterward owned by THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. H 7 Samuel Peabody, who was also a blacksmith, and who died in 1824. He was a large muscular man, having great strength, which the practice of his trade helped to promote. William Gurley was living there at the time of Mr. Pea- body's decease, Mr. Gurley's son Samuel Peabody having been born there. The late Ancill Dorman thought that the house of Jo- seph Peabody stood here or a few feet east of Ms residence (No. 117). This Joseph Peabody was a son of Lt. Fran- cis Peabody, and was born in Topsfield in 1644, settling in Boxford in 1671. In 1823, Samuel Peabody sold the place to Samuel An- drews, who conveyed it in 1835 to the late Maj. William Lowe. The house was occupied most of the time that Mr. Andrews owned it by William Gurley and Ste- phen Hammond (who was, before and after his living here, of Topsfield) and his mother, who came here in 1828. They removed to the Nat Dorman house (No. 120). Jesse Perley, jr., son of Jesse Perley who resided at No. 50, lived here from 1838 until his death which oc- curred in 1851, at the age of fifty-six. His widow, who was Sally, daughter of Simon Gould of Topsfield, survived him six years." The whole family had the small-pox there in 1841. Mrs. Perley's mother was Sally White, a lineal descendantofPeregrineWhite^vhoenjoyedtheprerogativ*^ of being the first white person born in New England, and she possessed a silver spoon that belonged to her distin- guished ancestor. = After the decease of Major Lowe in 1870 (who owned the property), it was sold at auction to Mr. Daniel W. Conant, who has since owned the place. It has recently been occupied by various families, among whom we re- member those of Dexter Kenney, George Goodwin and Charles B. Tibbetts. 118 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 117. Eesidence of J. S. Dorman. —This house, the resi- dence of the late Ancill Dorman, Esq., was built in 1835 by Daniel and Dean Andrews, and was first occupied by Capt. William Lowe and Edward A. Chapman, both fam- ilies living there several years. Mr. Dorman bought the premises in March, 1850, and took up his residence here early in the following month. Mrs. Sarah S. Hale also lived in this house for several years. Daniel Russell lived in one part of the house for a short time before the fall of 1852, when he removed to No. 109. Mr. Dorman was a selectman of the town for nearly a score of years, and town clerk for ten years. He was a son of the late Moses Dorman, Esq., and was born at No. 119. He died here in 1886, and his widow followed him in 1889, since which time their adopted son Mr. John S. Dorman has resided on the place. 118. Residence of A. L. Russell. — This house was built by Dean Andrews about 1830. Charles Perley, son of Henry Perley, who was born at No. 56 in 1811, lived here from about the time of his marriage in 1835. After several years he removed to Georgetown, where he died in 1877. William Tufts purchased the place of Daniel and Dean Andrews, who then owned it together, soon after Mr. Perley moved away, and resided here from the time of bis marriage with Lucy B. Towne in 1842. After two years his poor health rendering him unable to work longer at his trade of shoemaking, he conveyed the place back (in 1844) to the Messrs. Andrews and removed down East to try farming. He died in 1846, at the age of twenty- ei<;ht : then followed the deaths of his two children, and THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 119 his widow was gathered to the rest of the family in 1850, at the age of thirty. The house was subsequently occupied by Isaac Frye, Joseph W. Moulton, William Reynolds, and perhaps oth- ers until 1853, when Daniel Russell moved here from No. 109, and continued to reside here until his death in 1878. He was a son of Peabody Russell, and was born on Bald hill in No. 135. Since his death the house has been owned and occupied by his son Mr. Arthur L. Russell. Mr. Russell was a well-known agent of a Lowell marble com- pany for several years before his decease. 119. The Moses Dorman House. — This house was built originally by Timothy Dorman, a son of Thomas Dorman of Topsfield, where he was born in 1663. He married in 1688, and built this house immediately afterward. The present house bears very little resemblance to the original. Mr. Dorman died about 1740, at the age of seventy-six. By his wife Elizabeth Knowlton of Ipswich he had six children. His son John settled on the homestead. He was born in 1696, and married in 1730. The year before his mar- riage he built on what is now the westerly portion of the house, in which he resided as long as his father lived. He died in 1775, at the age of seventy-nine. By his wife Rebecca Smith, who died in 1794 at the age of eighty-six, he had live children, one of whom, Rebecca, married Capt. Jonathan Foster and lived at No. 93. His youngest son John, who was a deacon of the church, married and settled on the old place. He was born in 1738, and married Hannah Jackson of Rowley in 1762. He Berved in the Revolutionary war, and in the winter of 1777-78 was stationed at Winter Hill. 120 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOTU). Following are copies of two letters he sent home to his wife. It seems that his mother was then alive unci living with him. "Winter Hill January the 2 : 1778. " my Dear "these Lines Come with my Love to you and to our Children and duty to our mother hopeing they will find you well as they Leave me at this time Send me if you Can a blanket that mother offered me to Cary to the Lake or Some other for we have not Covering a nouf and Send me that Pillow that I laid upon at home if you Can Send my other Shirt and you may Send me Some Butter if you Can as well as not Send nic word how you ail are By Na- than Sticknee make your Selves as Comfortable as you Can and I have time to Rite no more at this time But I Remain your most affectionate husband "John Dorman "PS give your Self no uneasiness if you cannot Send me these things" "February the 2 : 1778 my Dear these LinesCome With my tenderest Reguard to you and our family I have Sent two Shirts to l>e Washed By Seth Burnara and you may Send them by him Send me five or Six dollars by Serjent Andrew Peabody when he Comes for it and So No more at present 1 am in health." (No signature.) Deacon Dorman died in 1792, at the age of fifty-three. The following is a transcript from the death column in the /Salem Gazette for April 10, 1792 : — "At Boxford, Deacon John Dorman, aged 55: he fuftained the town offices of Clerk, Treasurer, and Selectman, and was a very ufefnl and •worthy man." And thefollowing obituary notice of Deacon Dorman is from the Salem Gazette for April 17, 1792: — THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 121 "Boxfonl, April 10, 1792. "Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? "Died, in this town, the 2d inft. aged 53, Deacon John Dorman ; occafioned by a hurt he received the Saturday preceding : while load- ing fome plank into a waggon, he unfortunately fell, which brought one of the plank with fuch force upon his body, as brought on a fpeedy dilTolution. In this man, independence & impartiality were con- fpicuous— teftified by his conftitnents in placing him in offices impor- tant in the town. The tears fhed at his interment, & the gloom which hung on the countenances of the multitude who paid their refpccts to his remains, emphatically announce his worth. — Fearing God as a man, and loving him as a chriftian, he met death, with dignity and comfort; not only knowing, but declaring, in whom he trufted." THE MOSE8 UOllMAN inn. E. His widow survived him thirty years, and died at the age of eighty-seven. They had six children, the second of whom was Moses, who became prominent in the town, as a member of the General Court, town clerk, selectman, etc., residing upon the homestead. He was horn in 1765, married Huldah, daughter of Jacob Gould (who lived at 1G 122 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. No. 138), in 1801, and died in 1850 at the age of eighty- four, leaving four children : Moses, who was prominent in town business and in the settlement of estates ; Mrs. Ben- jamin Pike of Topsfield ; Mrs. Benjamin French of Box- ford ; and Ancill, who resided in No. 117. The late Moses Dorman, Esq., lived on the old place. He was born in 1803 and died in 1877. His widow, a third wife, survived him and died in 1880. Since her death the house has been occupied by summer tenants. Air. Dorman's children were Mrs. J. H. Janes of Boxford ; Moses H. of Brooklyn, N. Y., a merchant in New York city and a deacon of the Baptist church in Brooklyn ; Mrs. John E. Herrick of Peabody ; Franklin W. of New York city; and the late Thomas P. of Boxford. 120. The Nat Dorman' House. — This house was built about 1757 by Timothy Dorman, who was a son of John and Rebecca (Smith) Dorman, and who was born at No. 119 in 1730. Nathan Andrews (father of the late Dean, Daniel and Samuel Andrews), who was born in 1754, re- membered seeing the frame up and partly boarded. Timothy Dorman married Eunice Buraham of Lunen- burgh in 1754. She was born in Boxford in 1735, and was a daughter of Nathaniel Burnham. Mr. Burnham removed with his family to Lunenburgh about 1750; and in 1771 he was living in Bolton. His son Reuben Burn- ham lived first at Lunenburgh; in 1758, removed to Ips- wich; in 17(54, toTVinchendon : in 17(>7, back to Ipswich ; in 1769, to Boxford ; and a few years afterward settled in Bridgton, Me., where he died. Mr. Dorman became the father of but two children, who bore the names of their parents, Eunice and Timothy. Eunice, the daughter, is said to have been born in the old house that used to stand THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOItl). 123 in Widgen pond pasture (No. 115) where the cellar may yet be seen. Mr. Dorman died in 1764, and his widow married Joshua Jackson of Rowley the next year. Mr. Jackson afterward removed to Boxford, and lived in No. 55. Timothy Dorman, the son, who was born while this house was being built in 1757, probably spent his early life with his step-father. He came into possession of this place, and married Deborah, daughter of Allen Perley of Line- brook parish, Ipswich, in 1782. Mr. Dorman served in the Revolution, and many years afterward was wont to speak of being present at the taking of Burgoyne, though it appeared that he did not get there until after the sur- render had actually taken place. He served with Caleb Jackson, his step-brother, who on a visit to Mr. Dorman in his old age reminded him of the following incident. On one occasion, being near the enemy's quarters, a British bullet struck his canteen and spilled most of its contents. "There, faith," exclaimed Timothy, "I've lost my grog !" "But," added Caleb, "you managed to save us one £Ood drink from what remained." "Uncle Tim" professed to have forgotten all about it until Caleb's reminder. Mr. Dorman drew a pension a few of the last years of his life. He was deaf and blind for many years before his death, which occurred in 1835, at the age of seventy-eight. His widow survived him about four years. They had several children. Timothy's son Nathaniel settled upon the place. He was born in 17U0, and married in 1825, about which time he built an extension on the east end of the house, and at- tached to it an old one-story building used by his brother Timothy sonic seventy-live years ago as a shoemaker's shop and small grocery store. The carpenter work was done by Johnson Savage and an old man known as "Boss 124 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOKD. Chandler." Mr. Dormun spent his days in this house, and died in 1868, at the age of seventy-eight. By his two wives, the last of which survives, he had three children, one of whom was the wife of Daniel Wilkins, and another is the wife of John B. Lake of Tops field. Dean Andrews bought the place of Mr. Dorraan in 1860, and the next year raised the store part to two stories, the whole being newly clapboarded and painted. Matthew Hale performed the carpenter work. The barn, which was built about 1810, Thomas Peabody of Topsfield being the carpenter, was taken down about ten years ago. After Mr. Dorman's death the house became a tenement, and was occupied by various families. Mr. William Good- win, a native of England, lived in the house a number of years, and in 1891 bought it. 121. Residence of Mrs. Eunice Howe.— The land where this house stands belonged in the seventeenth century to Abel Langley of Rowley. In 1718, John Andrews, who had come into possession of it, conveyed it to Capt. John Andrews, and two years later Capt. Andrews sold the place to his son Robert, whose dwelling-house and out-buildings, which he had probably erected between 1718 and 1720, were situated where Mrs. Howe's house now stands. Robert Andrews was born in 169—, and married Debo- rah Frye of Andover. He died in 1751, having had live children, the third of whom was Nathan, who was born in 1726. Nathan Andrews succeeded his lather on this place. He married, first, Mehitable Foster of Andover the same year his fattier died. She died in 1760, and he married, second, Widow Sarah Symonds in 1764. She died in 1801, and he followed her five years later at the age of seventy-nine. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 125 He had four children, three daughters and one son, all by his first wife. Mr. Andrews' only son was Nathan, who was born in 1754, married Esther Kimball in 1783, and lived here. His wife died in 1791, and he married, second, Eunice Kimball the next year. He was the father of the late Sam- uel, Daniel and Dean Andrews , Mrs. Eunice Howe and others. In 1851, Samuel Andrews built the present house on the site of the old one, which was taken down to make room for it. Asa P. Towne was the carpenter. Samuel Andrews died unmarried in 1879, at the age of eighty-five. His sister Eunice, who had lived with him, married Abra- ham P. Howe in 1871, and has since resided on the place, which she now owns. Mr. Howe died a few years after the marriage. 122. T. Dwinnell Cellar. — Quite a little distance east of the house of Mrs. Eunice Howe (No. 121) was the resi- dence of Thomas Dunnell, the father of Jacob Dunnell who lived in No. 179. Thomas Dunnell was a son of Thomas and Dinah (Brims- dell) Dwinnell of Topsfield, where he was born in 1711. He married Hannah Towne there in 1738, came to Box- ford about 1762, and settled on this place. He stole something from a neighbor, and to emphasize his denial of the theft said, "If I stole it, I hope to rot alive," and the tradition is that such a judgment came up- on him, and he died of slow mortification. We believe his death occurred about 1778. 123. Residence of W. II. Shirley. — This house wasowned and occupied by Solomon Gould from about 17(35 to 1795, 126 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. when he removed to Middleton, dying there in 1806 or 1807. lie was son of Solomon Gould of Topsfield, where he was born in 1738, and married Mehitable Perkins in 1761. They had four children, two sons and two daugh- ters, the daughters dying of consumption. On his removal to Middleton, Mr. Gould sold the place toPhineas Foster of Salem, who was a son of Richard Foster of Boxford, where Phineas was born in 1704, and removed to Salem in early life. In 1795 he married Priscilla Killam, and for his second wife a Flint. He came here to live, and died in 1846, at the age of eighty-one. His son Charles sold one undivided half of the place to Moody Perley, who with his sister Abigail, both of whom never married, re- sided there until the decease of Moody in 1886. In 1890, the place was purchased by Mr. William H. Shirley of Marblehead, who has improved it. 124. Ricker Cellar. — There is an old cellar about equidis- tant in an air line between Mr. William H. Shirley's and Mr. George W. Twitchell's residences. It is said to have been occupied more than a hundred years ago by a family bear- ing the name of Ricker. 125. Residence of W. Smith. — The site on which this house stands was occupied until 1879 by the ancient Smith house which was probably erected by Robert Smith about 1665. lie was the ancestor of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet. The Smith that the oldest residents of Boxford remem- ber to have resided there was Nathaniel, grandfather of the late Nathaniel. He was born in 1724, probably in the old house, being a son of Jacob and Rebecca (Symonds) Smith. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 127 He died there in 1802, at the age of seventy-eight, and the following is a copy of his obituary notice found in the death column of the Salem Gazette for January 19, 1802 : "At Boxford, Mr. Nathaniel Smith, aged 78. In his death, the pub- lic are deprived of a good member of fociety. He was an affectionate hufband, an indulgent parent, and a fincere chriftian. He has left a large number of relatives to bemoan his lofs. Being fenfible he was near the approach of his diffolution, he refigned himself with calm- nefs and tranquility, and was ready to fay, '■not my will, Lord, but thine be done.' He exercifed great patience in his laft licknefs, and a cheerful refignation to the divine will. The intereft of religion appeared to lie near his heart; and for the falvation of finners his prayers were affecting. He expired rejoicing Hn hope of the glory of God!' " Mr. Smith married Sarah Burpee of Rowley in 1751, and resided here, where his twelve children were born. The youngest of them was Joseph Smith, who was born in 1771, and married, first, Hepzibah Chapman of Ipswich, and, second, Kezia Gould. He died in 1826, and his wife survived him. Two of his sons, Nathaniel and Calvin, re- sided on this place. The latter died in 1870 and the former in 1879. Calvin Smith's son Walter built the present house in 1885, and lives in it. 126. Residence of W. I. Smith. — Mr. Whipple I. Smith built his house about 1870, and has since resided in it. 127. R. Andrews Cellar. — A few rods south of the resi- dence of Mr. Whipple I. Smith is an old cellar, over which probably stood the house in which Robert Andrews the emigrant lived. He is said to have been born in one of the Boxfords of England, and he settled here about 1656, his family then consisting of himself and wife and six children. The writer thinks that Mr. Andrews lived at first nearer Pye brook, and that he built this house a short time before his death, which occurred in 1668. His widow 128 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Grace survived him thirty-one years. He requested in his will (which was made but thirteen days before his death) to be buried in Topsfield, and doubtless he and his widow were interred in the old cemetery there. They had ten children, and among their descendants is John Albion An- drew, Massachusetts' loved war governor. Two or three generations of Mr. Andrews' descendants probably lived on this place ; but very little is known of it, the house hav- ing probably been gone much more than a century. 128. "Aunt Ginny House." — The house that once occupied the site of the present "Aunt Ginny house" was burned a hundred years ago. The present house was erected im- mediately afterward by Jacob Andrews. He was married in 1761 and his nine children were probably born in the house that was burned. The oldest child, Jacob, born in 1762, married Jane, daughter of Simon Gould of Topsfield in 1792, and lived in the present house for many years but , we believe, had no children. She was called "Aunt Jen- nie" or" Ginny" by all. The place has been occupied for several years by Mr. Bert Tyler. "A few brief years, ami the old house no more Will stand a way-mark on Time's stormy shore; And few will mourn, as lew will ever prize This relic of the past with all its teachings wise." 129. Residence of G. W. Twitcuell. — Where Mr. George W. Twitchell resides formerly stood an ancient house oc- cupied by Stephen Gould. He was a son of John Gould of Topsfield, and a brother of Capt. Jacob Gould, who re- sided at No. 138. He bought the farm in 1762 of John Symonds, who had probably lived here and had removed to Worcester county. Stephen Gould removed to Hills- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 129 boro', N. H., and John Gould (brother of Cornelius Gould, who resided in No. 153), then lived here. At length he removed to Springfield, N. H., where he died. Shortly afterward the place came into the possession of Moses Gould of Topsfield, a son of Daniel and Lucy (Tarbox) Gould, and brother of Rev. Daniel Gould. Ho tore the old house down and erected the present one nearly on the same site in 1824. Mr. Gould was born in 1766, and in 1798 married Anne Mectun, who had been brought up by Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield. They had three children, Moses, who lived on this place awhile, Daniel Tarbox, who died unmarried, and Nancy, who married Daniel An- drews and lived at No. 131. Moses Gould, the son, was born in 1800, married Ly- dia Abbot Russell, and resided a number of years in Balti- more, Md. While he was at the south, the place was oc- cupied awhile by Samuel Towle, and for about eleven years from 1838, when his house became uninhabitable, by Joseph Symonds who about 1^49 removed to his daughter's in Augusta, Me., where he died. Mr. Gould returned to his old home, and died here in 1843, at the age of forty- three. His family continued to reside here. Most of the time since 1873 his son-in-law, Mr. Twitchell, has lived on the place. Mr. Gould's widow, who married for her second husband Deacon Leonard Grover of Bethel, Me., resided here from 1880 to 1884. 130. Symonds Cellar. — Near the First-district school-house is the old Symonds cellar. This is the site of the house in which lived Samuel Symonds, who settled in Boxford in 1663, having married Elizabeth, a daughter of Robert An- drews, by whom he had eleven children. He died in 1722, at the age of eighty-four, and his widow survived him 17 130 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. nearly three years. He was the grandfather of Rev. Dr. Andrew Eliot of Boston, who was chosen president of Harvard college, but who declined the honored position on account of church ties. Through Dr. Eliot Mr. Sy- monds was an ancestor of a long line of distinguished men. Oct. 2, 1716, Mr. Symonds deeded this farm to his son Joseph on condition that he would support his parents during the remainder of their lives, reserving the east part of the house for his and his wife's use. Joseph was born in 1(585, married Mary Peabody in 1710, and died here' in 1755, his widow surviving him six years. They had seven children, three sons and four daughters. Mr. Symonds' son Stephen settled on the old place. He was born in 1728, and married, first, Mary , who died in childbirth in 1758, and, second, Mary Nurse of Dan- vers in 1764. lie first belonged to the church in Tops- field, and was dismissed to the First church in Boxforu in 1759, being chosen deacon in 1765. lie died in 1808, at the age of eighty, having had six children, five daughters and one son. The son was Joseph, who succeeded his father on the homestead. lie was born in 1770 and resided here until 1838, when the old house was so dilapidated that it was uncomfortable to live in, and two of his children being sick, at the invitation of his neighbor, he removed to the Gould house, No. 129, where his sick children died and the family resided for about eleven years. His wife died here in 1835. lie removed from the Gould house to his daughter's in Augusta, Me., where he died. Mr. Symonds was rather shiftless, and let his house go to ruin. After it was down, he had an idea of building a new one, and to that end hauled many massive rocks to the old cellar, where they still remain. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 131 The present highway runs between the cellar and well, but the old road ran south of the well. This gave quite a space between the house and road. 131. Residence of A. G. Huntoon. — The residence of the late Daniel Andrews was raised June 14, 1842, being built by himself. He lived in it until his death in 1879, and his widow until she died in 1884. From 1880 to 1884, Mr. George W. Twitchell resided there, and then removed to No. 129. In 1889, Mr. Albert G. Huntoon of Danvers purchased the farm, and has since lived there. 132. Samuel Gould Cellar. — In the left-hand corner pas- ture as one turns down the road to Mrs. Daniel Andrews', in going from Howe's mills, there was a house in 1800. This was land belonging to Capt. John Gould, the brave old patriot during Governor Andros' sway. He probably obtained it from his father, Zaccheus Gould, the emigrant. The land and probably the house that stood here were owned and used by the proprietors of the Iron Works, which were in progress here from 1668 to 1680. The old smelting furnace was situated in the same lot, the remains being plainly recognized to-day. Capt. Gould sold the place in 1695 to his son Samuel Gould. Capt. Gould was a resident of Topsfield, and his son Samuel lived there also until 1699, when he moved to this place. He was born in 1670, and married Margaret Stone in 1697. In 1714, his house was destroyed by fire, and for that reason the town abated his taxes for that year. lie erect- ed a new house and continued to reside here. Mr. Gould died in 1724, at the age of fifty-four. His 132 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. children were: Sarah, who died in 178(5, at the age of eiffhtv-eiffht, unmarried ; Samuel, who resided on the homestead ; Moses, who settled in Lunenburg; Jonathan, who settled in Shirley ; Patience, who married Edmund Towne of Oxford ; Margaret ; Zaccheus, who went to Lunenburg; and Hubbard, who went to Brookfield. Among his descendants is Sylvanus Owen Gould, Esq., of Buffalo, N. Y. Samuel Gould, the son, was born here in 1701, and married Mehitable Stiles of Boxford in 1726. They re- sided here until 1746, when they removed to Brooktield, where they died. Their children were : Samuel, who re- sided in Brookfield, Amherst, Charlemont and Heath, and died in 1791 ; Mehitable, who married Peter Lamson and moved to New Hampshire ; Jeremiah, who died in Charle- mont in 1809 ; Nathan, who went to Virginia, where he died in 1816; Jonathan, who probably died young ; Eli, who lived in Amherst ; and Deliverance, who married Reuben Nims of Shelburne. When Mr. Gould left town, he sold out to Samuel Fisk of Boxford, May 23, 1746, for £918. Mr. Fisk was son of Samuel and Sarah Fisk, and was born in Boxford in 1716. He married Judith Noyes of Newbury in 1738, and lived in Boxford for twenty years afterward. He owned this farm, however, but two years. In 1748, for £1620, he sells the farm, then consisting of seventy-six and one half acres, to Ebenezer Curtis of Boxford. Mr. Curtis married Elizabeth , and first belonged to the Second church in Bradford, but in 1759, upon Mr. Holyoke's settlement over the church here, was dismissed to the First church in Boxford. They had three sons and five daughters. He sold the place in 1790 to Stephen Perley of Tops- field, who the next year conveyed it to Cornelius Gould. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 133 Mr. Gould was a son of Joseph and Ruth (Emerson) Gould, and grandson of Rev. John Emerson of Topsfield, having been born in Topsfield in 1767. He wasa brother of Daniel Gould, who lived at No. 63. In 1797, Mr. Gould sold to Jacob Andrews, a farmer of Boxford (who lived at No. 128, and removed to Dan vers. The next year Mr. Gould came back and lived at No. 153. The buildings were standing in 1797 and the farm then consisted of fifty-five acres. Mr. Andrews took the old house down before 1805. 133. Residence of A. Frame. — A few rods east of the res- idence of Mr. Andrew Frame once stood an old house, the east end of which was two stories, and the west end one and a half stories in height, being built in the most an- cient square form. The barn stood near the present high- way. This old house was occupied a hundred and fifty years ago by Nathaniel Symonds, who was a builder and lived here alone. He was the eleventh and youngest child of Samuel Symonds, and was born in 1687, probably at No. 130. His father conveyed this place to him October 2, 1716, with the buildings thereon, Nathaniel having probably built the house about 1710. He removed to Middleton about 1745, and built a small house near Thomas' mills, in which neighborhood his brother Samuel Symonds resided. He died there, unmarried, in 1769, at the age of eighty-two. It is a tradition that Nathaniel Symonds was in the habit of walking to Simon Gould's in Topsfield, Sundays, for the purpose of getting shaved. Mr. Symonds reared one ol'liis nephews, Stephen Symonds, and Mr. Gould advised old Mr. Symonds to persuade the young man to marry sonic "likely" young woman, and bring her home there that their domestic affairs inierht be better managed. The 134 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. old gentleman did so, the young man followed the advice, and Mr. Symonds gave him the farm. This seems to be true as Stephen Symonds owned the place in 1777, when he sold it to Abraham Smith of Boxford for £320. The next year, Mr. Smith sold out to John Williams of Salem, mariner, for £400. In 1798, Mr. Williams hav- ing died, his widow Anna and the other heirs sold the farm to Oliver Peabody. Mr. Peabody was a son of Bimsley and Ruth (Marston) Peabody, and was born in Middleton about 1775. lie moved to this place from No. 149, where his father lived. He married, first, Sarah Estey of Topsh'eld in 1800, and, second, Lois Chapman of Boxford, who was born in No. 35. Mr. Peabody built the present house between 1835 and 1840. The carpenter was his son-in-law Charles Bracket of Topsfield and the mason work was done by a Mr. Brown of Danvers. Mr. Frame, the present owner, came from Maine to Middleton in 1850, and settled on this place in 185G, hav- ing lived here since that time. 134. Gallof Cellar. — At the foot of Bald hill, and at the west end of Crooked pond is an old cellar. Here, Zach- ariah Curtis built his house upon land belonging to his father Zaccheus Curtis, it having been devised to him in his father's will, which was dated in 1710 and proved in 1712. Zaehariah Curtis was born in 1688, probably in No. 136. His wife was Love , and their children were Love, who married Joseph Beal and lived in Sudbury, Zaehariah, and Abiel, the last two being of Salem and minors in 1732. Mr. Curtis died in the winter of 17 15—1 <>. The widow of Mr. Curtis married Thomas Gallop in 1719. Mr. Gallop was born in Stonington, Conn., in 1683, removed to Plainfield, Conn., in 1G95, and after- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 135 ward removed to Newbury, Mass., where be was living when he became acquainted with the widow Curtis, whom he married there. He was the eldest son of John Gallop and Elizabeth Wheeler, and a grandson of Capt. John Gallop, who was slain in the great "swamp fight" Decem- ber 19, 1675. His great grandfather was Capt. John Gal- lop, who was educated at a military school in Holland, and, coming to New England in 1630, died in Boston in 1649. The Gallop genealogist carries the ancestry back twenty generations, as follows : — 1. Malcolm Canmore, king of Scotland, and Lady Margaret Athe- ling ; 2. Henry I (Beauclere) and Matilda; 3. Geoffrey Plantagenet and Matilda; 4. Henry II and Eleanora of Aquitaiue; 5. John and Isabella of Angouleme; 6. Henry III and Eleanor of Provence ; 7. Edward I and Marguerite, daughter of Phillip le Hardi, king of France ; 8. Prince Thomas Plantagenet ; 9. Sir Thomas Mowbray and Margaret Plantagenet; 10. Thomas Mowbray and Elizabeth Fitzalan; 11. Sir Pobert Howard and Lady Margaret Mowbray ; 12. Sir John Howard; 13. Thomas Howard and Agnes Tylney; 14. Lord William Howard and Catherine of Broughton. 15. Sir William Paulet and Agnes Howard; 16. Thomas Gallop and Frances Paulet; 17. John Gallop and Chrestabel (?) ; 18. John Gallop and Hannah Lake; 19. John Gallop and Elizabeth Wheeler; 20. Thomas Gallop and Love Curtis. Upon Mr. Gallop's marriage with Mrs. Curtis, he camo to Boxford and lived at Mrs. Curtis' home, and probably both died here. They had six children, Abigail, William, George, Jeremiah, Sarah and Mary, bora between 1720 and 17.')!>. Mis. Gallop was admitted to the First church in L745. 136 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. In March, 1730, the town of Box ford voted that "In-as- much as Thomas Gallop is returned back again into our town after he was warned to depart out of said town and carried out by the constable by virtue of a warrant from a justice of the peace as the law directs, the town have chosen Cornet Stephen Peabody to prosecute the said Thomas Gallop as a vaggebon or to prosecute the affair in any other method as he shall think proper to prevent the charge of the said Gallop's support for the future being laid on our town." In March, 1733, the town "allowed Joseph Symonds, John Wood, James Curtis and John Bixby four shillings to each of them for service done at Salem to prevent Thomas Gallop from coming to a town charge. " After this he was let alone. Mr. Gallop was a most confirmed smoker. He had a leather bag, in which he carried his tobacco and pipe, sus- pended from his neck by a string. A slight search among the ruins of this old dwelling has brought to light many fragments of old clay pipes, thus conclusively proving the tradition of Mr. Gallop's principal failing. The Gallops were here as late as 1777. This Thomas Gallop is the ancestor of the Essex county family of that name. The place was next in the possession of Thomas Gould, who came from Topstield, and died here in 1778. We know no more of this old homestead. It was prob- ably decayed and gone before 1800. No one would now recognize the place as the site of a house, as only a few stones remain to mark its position. 135. Residence of E. L. Hooper. — The Hooper place on Bald hill was owned by Joseph Gould of Topstield in 1778. The next year he sold it to his son Daniel Gould of Topstield. The farm then contained fifty acres, with THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 137 house, barn, etc. Daniel Gould was born in Topsfield in 175G, married Sarah Bradstreet of his native town in 1778, and resided on this farm until 1784, when he sold it to James Russell, a farmer of Middleton, and removed to No. 63, where he afterward lived and died. Benjamin Goodridge, from No. 63, came here on Mr. Gould's removal, and lived for a few months in 1784, re- moving to Middleton, and afterward to Vermont. In the latter part of the year, Mr. Russell moved from Middleton, and resided here as long as he lived. By his wife Rebecca he had nine children, Joseph (who was born in Middleton), Rebecca, James, Perkins and Peabody (twins), Poll}', Almody (son), Daniel and Samuel. Polly married a Mr. Peabody of Reading, and was the survivor of the family, living to be almost a century old. Mr. Russell conveyed the farm in 1824 to his sons Pea- body Russell and Perkins Russell. The latter, who resided in Salem, sold his interest in the place to his brother Pea- body in 1846. Peabody Russell, born here in 1789, always lived on the homestead. He had several children, among whom was Daniel, who resided in No. 131 and other houses. Mrs. Russell died in 1845, at the age of fifty-nine; and Mr. Russell followed her the next year at the age of fifty-six. Peabody Russell's son Daniel came into the possession of the estate, and in 1847 sold it to Capt. Ebenezer L. Hooper and John B. Graves, jr., both of Marblehcad. The place was sold the next year to Joseph Russell of Marblehead. In 1855 he conveyed it to Mr. Hooper, who, after having been a sea-captain for many years, retired, and has since resided upon this farm. 136. Curtis Cellar. — There is an old cellar about a quarter is 138 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. of a mile west of Mr. George W. Curtis' residence, where, it is said, stood the original Curtis house. Zaceheus Cur- tis, from Gloucester, erected his house here, when he set- tled iu Boxford about 1661. By his wife Joanna he had half a dozen children, of whom Zaceheus, jr., became the ancestor of the late Francis Curtis, and Ephraim, under his father's will, which was made upon his death-bed in 1682, became possessed of the old place, which he resided upon. This is all we know of this old cellar. The following lines were written years ago, but the writer is unknown : " O little house lost in the heart of the cedars, What would I not give to behold you once more! To inhale once again the sweet breath of your roses, And the starry clematis that climbed round your door — " To see (he neat windows thrown wide to the sunshine; The porch where we sat at the close of the day, Where the weary foot traveler was welcome to rest him, And the beggar was never sent empty away; "The wainscoted walls, and the low-raftered ceilings; To hear the loud tick of the clock on the stair ; And to kiss the dear face bending over the Bible, That, always was laid by my grand father's chair! " O bright little garden beside the plantation. Where the tall lleurs-de-lis their blue banners unfurled, And the lawn was alive with the thrushes and blackbird-. I would you were all I had known of the world ! " My sweet pink pea-clusters ! My rare honeysuckle ! My prim polyanthuses all of a row! In a garden of dreams I still pass and caress you, But your beautiful selves are forever laid low. " For your Avails, little house, long ago have been levelled; Alien feet your smooth borders, O garden, have trod; And those whom I loved are at rest from their labors, Reposing in peace on the bosom of God !" THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 139 '137. E. S. Gould House. — The small house in which Mr. Justin Curtis resided a few years ago was built by Eben S. Gould about 1873. A Mrs. Johnson also lived here awhile. 138. Jacob Gould House. — The house in which Capt. Ja- cob Gould resided during the Revolutionary period is quite old. Captain Gould was born in Topsfield in 1729, and was a son of John Gould. He married Elizabeth Towne of his native place in 1751, came toBoxford and it is believed built this house three years later. Mr. John H. Gould of Topsfield, the genealogist of the Gould family, thinks that Captain Gould's father, John Gould, moved to Boxford from Topsfield and built this house about 1725, and that Capt. Jacob was born in it. There is evidence to show that he is right. There used to be an old house here, and perhaps the father built the old one, and the son the present one. In the old house about seventy years ago lived Molly Smith. She was quite aged, and the house was also very old. She had one room, in which she kept a loom and used to weave as lone: as she was able. The house was a mere shell. Mis. Eliza G. Lane, a lady who was born at this place in 1804, writes : — "The room was ceiled, and looked very black, the en- try and upper part being nothing but boards. I think grandmother told me that her lather Gould built it for one of his children, but which I cannot tell, though I am in- clined to think for a daughter. One of his children lived in it. The house has been down as many as sixty years. This Molly Smith lived with her mother over in the woods 140 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. south of Stoney field. Molly was quite aged. She prob- ably looked older to us when we were children than she really was. " I well remember many pleasant chats I heard between my grandmother and her, and also visiting her, or running in as we called it. Many pleasant recollections come to my mind of bygone days, and some painful ones also." Jacob Gould was chosen captain of the military com- pany of this parish, and marched with them under his com- mand when the news of the battle of Lexington came. He died in 1809, at the age of eighty. He had twelve children, one of whom was Huldah, mother of the late An- cill Dorman, Esq. His son Jacob settled at No. 142, and John in this place. John Gould was born at this place in 1778, and married Polly Prince of Dan vers, who died in 1847. Mr. Gould followed her in 1864, having passed his life of eighty-five years on his birth-place. He left three children, Mrs. Lane, who has already been mentioned, Olive, who always lived at home, and died at the age of seventy, having never married, and Polly. Mr. Gould took down the oldest part of the house about 1824, and built the eastern end. The chimney being in a bad condition he erected the present one at that time. Benjamin Herrick of Topsfield was the carpenter and Porter Bradstreet of the same place was the mason em- ployed in making these changes in the house. Of the present house Mrs. Lane writes as follows : — 'I think the westerly partof the house is some over two hundred years old according to the information I received from my grand- mother, and that the easterly or more ancient part was built forty or fifty years before. There were three windows in that part of the house, one decent sized one and two smaller ones. One had only four squares in it. Upstairs, THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 141 the room was only a shell, and had one small window, with diamond-shaped glass set in lead as a sash. There was a door on the easterly end of the house that opened outside. That room was quite large and ceiled with dark looking boards. "Mr. Joseph Gould ofTopsfield Avent up into the woods with his team and was some distance above the house, when, by some means, the tackling that held the horse gave way and the chains fell on his heels. This frightened him so that he ran down the road past the house very furiously with the chains striking his heels. He began to descend the hill, a few rods beyond the house, when he turned a somersault. When he got up, his head was toward the house and the open door. There was no fence around the house, and he came rushing in at the door. He ran fu- riously into the fire-place, hit his head pretty hard and per- haps burned himself a little. There were eight persons in the room. My grandfather, then almost four score years of age, was sitting with myself and baby-brother in a chair on the left side of the fireplace when the horse ran down by. Grandfather got up to look out, with us in his arms, thus saving his own and our lives, as the horse, not satisfied with his place in the chimney, kicked up, I think three times, and then turned to the door that led in- to the front entry. He stopped, after breaking up the chair that my grandfather had been sitting in and some other things. [This was about 1*07.] Grandma stepped up behind the bed in the southeast corner of the room. A granddaughter of hers fourteen years of age was there, and also the daughter of a neighbor of about the same age. Father was out not far from the house, and he ran to the window very much alarmed (as well he might be !), ask- ing, 'Where are the children?' Grandfather said, 'In here,' and father rushed to the back window, taking us as 142 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOHI). we wore handed out to him. He then came in and led the horse out. It was very providential that no one was hurt. "Respecting the west room that we lived in, the fireplace was so high and wide that we used to sit, on what they called forms, in the corners, and look out at the top of the chimney. "My grandmother used to tell us that her mother Gould said when she first came there to live, it was a wilderness and the wolves would come in the night, sit on the hill in front of the house, and howl. She also told us that her husband and one of his sisters, when children, were sent to the field some distance from the house, and when turn- ing; to come home thev saw a large hear on the hill a little distance off. Having heard folks say, if you face a bear he will turn away, they stopped a minute or two, and the bear turned away. The next day he was killed, and carried down past the house on a load of wood." The next year after Mr. Gould's decease, the adminis- trator sold the farm at auction, to Eliezer Lake of Tops tie Id and Mrs. Nancy Andrews of Boxford. The latter bought the house and land adjoining. The daughter Olive had the easterly room, and passed her life there, dying in 1871. After the house was repaired, the westerly part was rented at different times to a number of small families, and some time after the death of Olive the place was sold to Mrs. Alice G rover of Salem, who came and lived here per- haps two years. She then sold it, in 1878, to Mr. John C. McLaughlin of Salem, who now owns and resides upon it. 139. Residence of G. W. Curtis. — The residence of the late Francis Curtis was probably built by his father who bore the same name. Mr. Curtis was born ill 1805, mar- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 143 ricd in 1836, and lived in this house until his death in 1878. Since that time his son George W. Curtis has re- sided upon and carried on the place. 140. S. Stevens Cellar. — Two or three rods north of the residence of the late Zaccheus Gould stood the house of Samuel Stevens in 1761. He lived here several years. The house has probably been gone three-quarters of a cen- tury, and the old cellar was visible as late as 1830. 141. Z. Gould House. — The residence of the lale Zaccheus Gould was erected by Mr. Andrew Gould of Topsfield in 1835. He built the barn in 1840. He lived in the house until 1847, when he sold to Amos Fiske, and Mr. Fiske conveyed the place to Zaccheus Gould in 1868. Mr. Gould died here a few years since, and his family have continued to reside upon the farm. See No. 142. 142 Gould Cellar. — Across the road from the residence of the late Zaccheus Gould stood a very old house, endwise to the road. It was one story high, and had two rooms in it, one of which was plastered. There was also a back room on the end next the road. James Curtis, the great-grandfather of the late Francis Curtis, lived here. July 26, 1785, he conveyed all his real estate in Boxford to his grandson John Curtis. There were about one hundred acres of land and the buildings. ''Jeames" Curtis, as he was popularly called, married Sarah Buswell in 1731, and had. seven children, Sarah, Daniel, Eleanor, John, Asa, Moses, and Hannah. John Curtis, who succeeded his grandfather on the place, 144 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. was born in Boxford in 176G, married Eunice Harris of Ipswich in 1785, and had two children born here, who were named John and Eunice, respectively. In 1788 he sold out to Eleazer Flint, a Reading gentleman. The next year, 1789, Mr. Flint sold to Capt. Jacob Gould and Ruth Curtis (mother of the above-named John Curtis). In 1795 (Jacob Gould, jr., having meantime occupied the house) Mrs. Curtis conveyed her half to Jacob Gould, son of hey associate purchaser. Jacob Gould, son of Capt. Jacob Gould, who lived in No. 138, was born in 17(34, married Ruth, daughter of Thomas Pcabody of Middletou in 1789, and lived in this house until 1830, when he sold the place to Mr. Andrew Gould of Topstield. He removed to Brighton, N. Y., where he lived with his son Samuel P. Gould till his death in 1850. His youngest child was the first wife of the late Moses Dorman, Esq. Mr. Gould's second child was Gen. Jacob Gould of Rochester, N. Y., who was born in this house in 1794. A sketch of General Gould by Dr. Joseph E. Bartlett of Boston, who was born in the neigh- borhood, has been furnished these pages as follows : — "Until his majority he attended the district school — worked upon his father's farm and the farms of his neighbors — made shoes — taught school — and took an active interest in military affairs. On reaching his majority he set out for the West on a horse lent him by his father. When he reached Schenectady, N. Y., concluding to stop there, the horse was sold and the proceeds sent back to the lender. He engaged in the shoe trade and was successful there ; but in a few years moved on to Rochester, N. Y., where he resided the rest of his life. '•In business, financial, masonic, military, social and political circles, he was always conspicuous in the front rank. At an early age he be- came mayor of the city, major-general of the militia, filled the highest offices in the masonic order, and was U. S. marshal for his district for many years. All these successes and honors seemed naturally to come to hi in, as if by right. '•General Gould was of a majestic presence. His temperament san- guine, hopeful, courageous, and he possessed that marvelous power THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 145 of magnetism which never failed to impart to every one who came within the sphere of his influence a bountiful share of those qualities. When his own success and business standing had become assured, he induced his younger brothers— Samuel and George— to follow and locate near him, where both achieved success and became marked men in their re- spective neighborhoods. " Another remarkable characteristic of General Gould was his love of kindred and abiding attachment for his old native home — seldom failing to make an annual visit thither— calling upon all the old neighbors and still living companions of his youth, and Anally persuading his aged parents to dispose of their little patrimony, and go with him to a new home near by his own, where, cheered and sustained by filial love, they spent the remainder of their days in plenty and in peace." For several years before 1790, the school for that portion of the town was kept in this house. In 1789, Daniel Gould of Topsfield, who was afterward a clergyman in Bethel, Maine, taught here. A panel from the old house, on which Daniel Gould carved his name, is preserved by Mr. John H. Gould of Topsfield. When the school-house in this district was burned about 1815, the school was again kept in this house until a new school-house could be built. Mr. Andrew Gould of Topsfield at last bought the place in 1830, and after living in the old house five years took it down in 1835, building the present one across the road. The old barn stood several rods northeast of the residence of the late Z iccheus Gould, and it was taken down by Mr. An- drew Gould when he built the new one in 1840. See No. 141. 143. Iles Cellar. — The lies house, which stood a few rods south of the residence of the late Zaccheus Gould, was quite ancient. It was gambrel-roofed, one story in height, and contained two rooms. Seventy-five years ago the inside was unfinished. William Iles, who is said to have come from England, married Elizabeth Curtis in L719and prob- ably lived in this house. They had live children : Elizabeth, l'j 146 TILE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. who married Benjamin Curtis of Middleton, William, who resided on this place, John, Jacob, and Mary. William lies, jr., was born in 1723, married Martha Booth of Middleton in 1744, and had four children : John, Jacob, Mary and Martha. The father removed to Rindge, N. H., where he went by the name of Earl. The son Jacob lies lived here after his father's departure till near the close of the century. He was born in 1748, and, by his wife Relief, had three children born here, Jon- athan, who died young, Relief and Jonathan. A Booth family, relatives of Mrs. lies above, also lived here for a time. One of the daughters, Mary, married Rev. Daniel Gould of Topsfield, who was afterward a clergyman in Maine. William Booth, the father, went to Hillsborough, N. H. James Curtis (the old folks used to call him Jeames) bought half of this house of William lies in 1761. He was the great-grandfather of the late Francis Curtis. Here James' children were perhaps born. During the war of 1812, the house was occupied a part of the time by two families from Salem, who were among those who thought the British would burn the seaport towns, and so fled to the country for security. A Brown and also a Bligh family lived here at some pe- riod. At the beginning of this century Ezra Wildes was living here, and soon after John Perkins, who was called "John Enoch." The house was bought by Cooper Henry Perkins of Salem about 1821, and he removed it to Topsfield, living in it during the rest of his life. The house is now occu- pied by his grandson, Mr. William Andrews. 144. Residence of T. Fuller. — The William Henry Mun- day house was built by Dr. George W. Sawyer, on land THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 147 formerly owned by Oliver Peabody, in 1847 or 1848. The place came into the possession of Mr. Munday, who lived here several years. About 1880, the property was sold to Mrs. Charles Collyer of Lynn, who lived here. The house was then occupied by different tenants until 18 ( J0, when Mr. Thomas Fuller, who lived at No. 145, pur- chased it, and has since resided in it. 145. Fuller House. — Mr. Thomas Fuller, a native of Dan- vers, and a veteran of the war of the Rebellion, who ex- perienced more than his share of the vicissitudes of the service, built a small house for himself near Fish brook in 1874. He lived in it alone, having never married, un- til he bought and moved to No. 144 in 1890, where he has since resided. 146. Residence of T. Sawyer. — The farm of Mr. Thomas Sawyer belonged about 1800 to Thomas Killam of Mid- dleton. Dr. George Whitfield Sawyer of Ipswich, a brother of John Sawyer (see No. 154), father of the late John Sawyer, married Mr. Ki Ham's daughter Polly in 1801. In 1803, Dr. Sawyer came here to live, his father-in-law having given him the place. Dr. Sawyer was born in Ipswich in 1770. After hon- oring his profession of medicine for many years by a life of integrity and trust, he died in 1855, at the age of eighty- five. He had several children, one of whom, Thomas, succeeded him upon the farm, which he has since carried on. Mr. James B. Sawyer, a son of Thomas, also resides here. 147. Residence of S. Killam. — The farm now in the pos- session of Messrs. George B. and Samuel Killam, brothers, 148 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. was a part of the five hundred and fifty acres granted by the General Court to Governor John Endieott in 1639. The land then came into the possession of his son Zerub- babel, who built the present house about 1682, and died in 1684, willing the place to his son Joseph Endieott. It soon came into the possession of Joseph's brother Zerub- babel Endieott, Avho conveyed the farm, which then con- tained one hundred acres, with the house and barn, to Thomas Killam of Wenham, Jan. 15, 1701-02, for £180. Mr. Killam removed to the farm, and afterward resided there. He was a son of Daniel and Sarah (Safford) Killam of Wenham, and was born about 1653. He married Martha Solart of Wenham about 1680, and had several sons, one of whom, Samuel, married Grace, daughter of Zerubbabel Endieott, from whom Mr. Killam purchased the farm. Mr. Killam's son John succeeded him on the place. lie was born in Wenham in 1695, married, in 1725, Abigail, daughter of Samuel Symonds, one of the neighbors, and had three children, one of whom became the wife of Capt. Israel Herrick, of French war and revolutionary fame, and Mary married Benjamin Thompson of Wilmington. Mr. Killam's other child John settled on the farm. Mr. Killam died in 1738, when John was but nine years of age. The widow resided upon the place and reared her children. John, at the age of thirty-four, married Priscilla Bradstreet of Topsfield, a descendant of Governor Bradstreet, and had a family of ten children: — Anna mar- ried Stephen Peabody, who resided at No. 69; Priscilla married Phineas Foster, who lived in No. 123 ; John died at sea, unmarried ; Abigail married Benjamin Upton of Reading; Elizabeth married Billy Bradstreet of Boxford; Molly married John Curtis of Boxford ; Joseph resided in No. 32 ; Samuel lived on his father's place ; Oliver THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 149 settled at No. 153; and Asa, born in 1785, served in the army in the war of 1812, came home and helped his father in haying, and left home to go to Boston, being never heard from again by any of his relatives or friends. Samuel Killam, the successor of his father on the home- stead, was born in 1779, married Lois Holt of Reading in 1807, and had ten children. Two of their sons, Samuel and George B., have since resided on the farm. Two other sons became physicians, and upon beginning their practice bad their names changed to Bartlett. One of these, Joseph Elbridge, practised for many years in Boston and Charles- town, and was for several years president of the Mystic river association. The other, Cyrus, is the superintendent of the State asylum for the insane at St. Peter, Minn. 148. G. B. Killam Cellar. — On the southeast side of the road leading from Mr. Thomas Fuller's to the late Joseph N. Pope's house in the rear of the residence of Messrs. Samuel and George B. Killam was an old cellar. No one remembers the house. The well was on the northwest side of the road. The land now belongs to Mr. George B. Killam, and was a part of the old Killam homestead, No. 147. 149. Bimsley Peabody Cellar. — Near the residence of Messrs. George B. and Samuel Killam, at the junction of the roads to the west of the house, is a cellar over which stood an ancient dwelling, two stories in height, about twenty-five feet long and eighteen feet wide, with the end toward the road. The first family that lived here, of which we have learned, was that of Amos Gould, who married Iluldah Foster in 1759. lie died in 1772, and in 1782 the heirs, Iluldah 150 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Gould, weaver, Ezra Gould and Amos Gould, yeomen, and Phebe Gould, spinster, all of Boxford, sold the place to Bimsley Peabody. The farm then consisted of twenty- five acres. The widow Gould married Capt. Benjamin Kimball two years later, and removed to Bridgton, Maine. How long Mr. Peabody lived here is not known. He was succeeded upon the place by his son Oliver Peabody, and he was followed by Joseph Averill of North Andover, and by Charles Smith, respectively. About 1865, the place was purchased by Mr. Samuel Killam, who, after let- ting it to transient tenants for several years, took it down iii 1878. 150. S. Killam Cellar. — Between the B. Peabody cellar, No. 149, and the residence of Messrs. George B. and Samuel Killam is an old cellar on land of Mr. Samuel Killam. No one remembers the house that stood there. 151. Elliot Cellar. — In the pasture near the river, south of the house of Messrs. George B. and Samuel Killam, is an old cellar. No one remembers the house that stood over it. It is probable that in 1782 Stephen Elliot owned and lived upon the place. The land now belongs to Mr. Samuel Killam. 152. Pope House. — The residence of the late Joseph N. Pope was the armory that was built by the town in 1840 for the accommodation of the Boxford Washington Guards, at an expense of $370. It was built by David Dwinnell, and stood in the corner of Eev. Mr. Alcott's field north- erly of Rev. Mr. Coggin's. A few years later it was sold to Mr. Pope, who removed it to its present site and fitting it up into a dwelling house occupied it until his death, THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 151 ■which occurred about 1880. His widow died two years later, and since that time her sister lies occupied the house. Mr. Pope was from Salem. He died without issue. lie was noted for his modesty and patriotism, never failing as each succeeding Independence day dawned to float from the gable of his house the loved stars and stripes. 153. O. Killam House. — The Oliver Killam place was a part of the eight hundred acres that Zaccheus Gould owned. Thomas Newmarch of Ipswich came into possession of a part of it, at least, and in 1701 he sold one-fourth of it to Thomas Cummings of Topsfield. Mr. Cummings prob- ably resided on a portion of this two hundred acres. The farm of Mr. Killam came into the possession of Jacob Cummings, a son of Thomas, and in 1788 he sold it to Edmund Herrick ofMiddleton, with the buildings thereon. He was a son of John Herrick, who lived at Nos. 65 and 163. Mr. Herrick lived here ten years. By his wife Hitty Curtis of Middleton he had six children : Hitty, who married Dodge of Wenham, Artemas, who lived m Methuen, Lucy, Almira, Pamela, and Caroline, who mar- ried Seth Burnham and lived at No. 251. In 1798, Mr. Herrick sold the farm to Cornelius Gould of Danvers for $1250, and returned to Middleton. (See No. 170.) The farm then consisted of one hundred and fifteen acres. Mr. Gould had removed to Danvers the year before from No. 132. He had, by his two wives, Pbebe Porter and Lydia Jenkins of Andover, eight chil- dren, one of whom, Joseph Porter, died in Middleton in 1881, being upward of eighty years of age. One of the daughters, Betsey, married Oliver Killam, who was born in No. 147 in 1781. To him Mr. Gould conveyed the place in 1820. 152 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Mr. Killam resided here, and was the father of the late William E., and of Oliver P. and Leonard beside others. After his death in 1865, the place remained in the posses- sion of the heirs for several years, and was finally sold to Mr. Henry K. Kennett in 1876. He lived here a short time, and then conveyed the farm, in the same year, to Messrs. Henry A. Putnam and E. Paysou Trask of Dan- vers. The house is now and has been for several years past occupied by Mr. John Gould. 154. Residence of Mrs. John Sawyer. — The residence of the late John Sawyer was undoubtedly built by Stephen Gould about 1750. Mr. Gould was a son of John and Hannah (Curtis) Gould, who lived at No. 138, and was born in 1724. He married Hannah Perkins of Topsfield in 1748. They had eight children, one of whom, Elijah, was in the army of the Revolution and died at the age of twenty-three, two others died young, and the rest of them settled in Mont Vernon and Hillsboro', N. H. March 26, 1762, Mr. Gould sold out to Ebenezer Killam of Box- ford, for £313, "the farm on which I now live," there being about sixty-eight acres, and the only incumbrance "the highway lately laid out by the court of general ses- sions of the peace." This was doubtless the road by Howe's mills. Mr. Gould then bought and removed to No. 121). Mr. Killam was a son of Thomas and Sarah Killam, and was born in Boxford in 1714. Thomas* lather Thomas Killam was from Wenham, and the father of the heads of the three Killam families that settled here in the begin- ning of the eighteenth century, Samuel, Thomas and John. Ebenezer Killam married Hannah Lummus (then spelled " Lummux") of Ipswich Hamlet, in 1738. He married, for his second wife, in 1767, widow Mary Peabody. He had several children. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 153 June 10, 1771, ho conveyed the farm to his son Thomas for £200. The place is described as follows: — "A certain farm situate and lying- in Boxford aforesaid, with a dwell- ing house and a barn thereon standing and containing by estimation about one hundred acres be the same more or less and is bounded as followcth, beginning at a stake and stones at the southwesterly corner thence running easterly by land of Jacob Cummings as Cummings' land goes across both the town and county road to a stake and stones near the Fishing brook, so called, thence running northerly by said brook to land of Richard Foster to a stake and stones by said brook, thence running and turn- ing by said Foster's land till it comes to a stake and stones at a corner, thence southerly still by said Fosters land to a stake and stones by land of Elijah Porter, thence south- erly by land of said Porter to the last mentioned bounds, with all the appurtenances ; and also another lot of meadow land lying in Boxford aforesaid in Long meadow, so called, and contains about live acres more or less, and is bounded on the easterly and southerly sides by meadow of John Stiles and heirs of Abraham Redington, deceased, and on all other sides by meadow and upland of Jacob Cummings." Mr. Killam may have removed from town. He was succeeded on the place by his son Thomas, who was born in Boxford in 1744. He married Sarah Fuller of Middleton in 1771, and died about 1782. His widow married, secondly, in 1785, Samuel Wilkins, jr., of Mid- dleton, whither the family removed. Mr. Killam had sev- eral children, one of whom, Polly, married Dr. George W. Sawyer, and another, Sarah, who was born herein 1778, married the Doctor's brother, John Sawyer, a native of Ipswich. The farm came into the possession of this John Sawyer about 1800, when bis marriage occurred. Mr. Sawyer resided here as long as he lived, and both 20 154 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOKD. his wife and himself died here at a good old age. After his death the farm came into the possession of his son John, who owned and carried it on until his death in 1891, at the age of eighty-seven. His widow and daughter Mary still reside there. 155. R. K. Foster House. — The residence of the late Rich- ard K. Foster was built by himself in 1841. lie was horn in No. 156, and died here in 1889. Since his death his son Richard Allen Foster and son-in-law Leander II. Cheney have resided on the farm. 156. R. Foster Cellar. — The old Foster house that re- cently stood over the cellar across the road from the res- idence of the late Richard K. Foster was very ancient, being called "the old dwelling house" in 1762. This was an old Stiles place. In 1762, John Stiles of Boxford, for £200, conveyed it with half of his right in the saw -mill to his grandson Edmund Stiles. In 1764, Abraham Redington sold to Richard Foster of Boxford one-half of the corn mill and one-half of the saw mill for £173, and on the same day Mr. Foster purchased the farm of Mr. Stiles for £260 13s. 4d. Richard Foster was son of Jonathan and Hannah (Pea- body) Foster and was horn in No. 1)1, in 1733. He mar- ried Elizabeth Kimball of Andover in 1761, and had seven children. One of them was Phineas, who lived at No. 123, and another was Asa, who was horn in 1766. Asa married Dolly Morrill of Salisbury in 1802, and succeeded his father on this place, dying here in 1831 at the age of sixty-live. Their three children were sons, the youngest of whom, horn in ISO!), was Richard Kimball Foster, who took the old house down about 1875. He THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 155 built a new house across the street, No. 155, and resided there from 1841 to his death in 1889. Otis Atherton lived in this old house about 1835, and died here. He came from Mansfield. His widow died at Oniville, near Providence, R. I. Mr. Atherton was father of Mr. William H. Atherton and of Hiram Atherton, father of George W. Atherton, president of the Pennsyl- vania State College, who was born in Boxford. 157. J. K. Cole House. — Between the road and the house where the late Dea. John Kimball Cole resided was an old house owned by John Stiles in 1768. Mr. Stiles married Phebe Merassir, and in 1769 sold the place to Simeon Stiles for £133 6s. 8d. Simeon was a son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Foster) Stiles, and was bora in Boxford in 1744. He was a grandson of John and Elea- nor (Pearl) Stiles, of Boxford. He had five children bom here, and his wife Mary died here in 1826, at the age of eighty-live. Mr. Stiles survived her until the spring of 1831, when he died at the age of eighty-six. The old willow in the yard was brought from Danvers as a walking stick by Simeon Stiles in the revolutionary era. He placed one end of it in the ground, and it took rool , being to-day sixteen feet in circumference. The mid- dle of the 1 ree ha n decayed and fallen out, so that its trunk is divided into two parts, a fence [>assing between them. Mr. Stiles' youngest son Asa resided upon the place and look care of it during his father's declining years. In 1850, Asa sold to Mr. Cole, who removed here from Topsfield. Asa Stiles removed to the old Foster house, No. 156, and subsequently died, at the age of eighty-two, at Moses Gould's, No. 129, where he was boarding. He was born in March, 1779, and died in March, 1861. 156 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Mr. Colo was born at No. 209, in 1814, was a member of the Slate legislature in 1862, and deacon of the First church from 1852 to 1889, and died in 1891. His family continue to reside upon the place. Among his four chil- dren is Mr. Jefferson K. Cole, a school teacher in Pea- body. Deacon Cole took the old house down and erected the present edifice in 1856. 158. Stiles Cellar. — There is an old cellar a few rods south of the residence of Mr. Samuel A. Frye. In 1769, this was called in a deed "an old cellar.' 1 A Stiles family is supposed to have lived there. 159. Residence of S. A. Frye.— Where Mr. Samuel A. Frye's house stands, William Harrison Harriman of Grove- land erected a two-story dwelling house in the summer of 1838. He resided in it until 1845, when he sold the place to Augustus A. Hay ward of Boxford, and then removed to Georgetown, where he kept a store for many years. Mr. Ilayward lived here until 1849, when he sold to Nathan Towne of Boxford, and built the house No. 162, to which he removed. In 1872, Mr. Towne sold out to Theophilus and Samuel A. Frye and, three years later, Theophilus sold his interest in the place to Samuel, who has since owned and occupied it. The buildings were burned on the night of June 17, 1882, and the next fall Mr. Frye erected his present residence on the same site. 160. Emery Cellar. — A number of rods east of the resi- dence of Mr. Samuel A. Frye, on the same side ofthest rcet was an old cellar. The lot in which it is located has been known for three-quarters of a century as the "Briggs' Or- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 157 chard," it having been a portion of Parson Briggs' farm. The oldest inhabitants do not remember to have ever seen the house. Stephen Emery, from Newbury, married Deliverance Stiles in 1743, and resided on this place. He died be- tween 1755 and 1760, and his widow married in 1764 ElishaTowne, father of John Towne, who lived at Nos. 176 and 177. This John Towne was the grandfather of Mr. Henry A. Towne. Mr. Emery had six children: David, Stephen (who died in infancy), Stephen, John, Jesse and Rebecca. John was born in 1750, married Elizabeth Perkins in 1769, and probably lived here. He had only two children baptized here, Francis and David, in 1 7 7 1 and 1772. In the latter year he removed to Rindge , N. H., where he founded an extensive family. Two or more of the Emerys served in the Revolutionary army. Deliverance Stiles' sister Abigail married John Emery of Newbury, doubtless a brother of Stephen Emery. Stephen Emery had a gate at his end of the road that now leads from Mr. Frye's house to the late Deacon Cole's house. It was called "Emery's gate" in 1753, and as late as 1823. 161. Residence of W. French. — May 10, 1852, Lurena R., wife of Abraham T. Pierce of Boxford, bought a house lot of Augustus Hay ward, who then owned the (iillis place. No. 163, and built the present residence of Mr. Walter French upon it. Her heir-at-law, Miss Sarah Cordelia Pierce of Danvers, sold the place to Mi 1 . French in 1874, and he has since lived there. 162. IIayward House. — Augustus Hay ward lived with his grandfather Nat Lone; at No. 205. lie married, and for 158 TIIK DWELLINGS OF BOXFOHD. a while resided where Mr. S. Porter Peabody lives. No. 193. In 1848, he bought of Dean Andrews the mills now in the possession of Mr. Solomon W. Howe, and built this house the next year, moving here from No. 159. He ran the saw- and grist-mill and did considerable in the ship-timber business. He died in 1872, childless, and the place came into the possession of his sister, Mrs. Albert Perley, being occupied by tenants, Mr. John Cass living there for several years prior to 1891, when he moved into his new house, No. 298. 163. Hotel Redington. — This house was probably built by Thomas Redington at the beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury. He was a son of Thomas and Mary (Kimball) Redington, married in 1723, Hepzibah, daughter of Thom- as and Sarah (Osgood) Perley, who lived at No. 0, and resided on this place. In 1751, he sold the farm and half the corn-mill to Thomas Andrews, who was a son of John and Patience (Andrews) Andrews. He was born in Boxford in 1717, married Margaret Bradstreet of Topsfield in 1739, and had children, David, Jonathan, Elizabeth and Mary, born in Boxford. Mr. Andrews sold the place to Jacob Kimball of Tops- field, blacksmith, in 1704, and the next year Mr. Kimball sold out to John Herrick of Topsfield for £453 6s. 8d. Mr. Herrick removed to the farm, and lived there for several years. He was a cooper by trade. In 1774, Mr. Herrick exchanged farms with Gideon Bixby, who owned the farm now in the possession of Mr. Israel Herrick, No. 65. This farm then contained one hundred acres. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 159 Mr. Bixby's mother moved to this house with him, and died here in 1795. The Salem Gazelle, in its issue of Feb. 10, 1795, contained the following obituary notice of her : — "Monday morning, January 19th, departed this life Mrs. Rebeccah Gould of Boxford, in the 75th year of her age— A fincere chriftian, who through life adorned the doctrine of God her faviour, ever kept up an equanimity of mind through all the changing fcenes, and 'pa- tience pofleffedher foul.' 'As Ave are all journeying to our 'long home,' let us be followers of them, 'who through faith and patience, inherit the promifes.' The regret expreffed by her furviving children and friends, fenfibly fpeaks her worth. Her remains were decently in- terred the Wednefday folloAvhig, a large number of people collected, and a well adapted difcourfe was delivered by Francis Quarles A. M. from Pfalm xvi. 'J. 'Myflefhfhall reft in hope.' " In 1816, Mr. Bixby sold the place to Abner Wood, a merchant of Newbury port, and he sold it to Samuel Pea- body, jr., of Boxford, in 1818. In 1842, Mr. Peabody sold the place to John K. Cole, who, in 1850, conveyed it to Augustus I lay ward, who owned it until 1855, when he sold out to Osgood Dale, jr., of Boxford. In 1859, Mr. Dale conveyed the place to his father Osgood Dale, sr., and in 1868 Mr. Dale's heirs, Osgood Dale of Groton, Mass., and David T. Dale and Henry W. Dale, both of Chester, N. II. sold to Dan- iel S. Gillis, who had come from Maine five years pre- viously. Mr. Gillis resided upon (he place until his death in 1891. He dropped dead while lifting a trunk into a carriage in front of his residence which he had conducted as a public house for several years, under the name of Hotel Redington. 164. Residence of J. Aveeill. — Mr. John Averill's house waserected byJamesM. Peabody in 1844. Mr. Averill has lived here many years. 160 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 165. Residence of II. Moulton. — Capt. Henry Moulton, formerly of Wenham, on retiring from the sea, came to Boxford and built a bouse in 1874, and has since resided in it. 166. James Andrews Cellar. — There was an old cellar on the southwest side of the road about one-fourth of the way between the residence of Mr. Samuel A. Frye and the Second-district school-house. Over this cellar stood a house long gone and almost forgotten, the cellar having been filled many years ago. The first occupant of this old house that we have learned of was James Andrews, who moved to this place from the Twisden house, No. 175, in 1769. He had lost a very promising son, nineteen years old, the year before, and in the summer of 177o, another son, eighteen years of age, ran away, probably going to sea. Mr. Andrews inserted the following notice in the Essex Gazette, at the time, hoping that he might find him : "Whereas my Son, James Andrews, a little upwards of eighteen Years old, without any Leave or Licence from me, abfented himfelf from my Bufinei's one Week fince, and I am appreheniive that he intends to flap himfelf to go to Sea. as he faid he would : Therefore I hereby caution all Maiiers of Veffels not to f hip him on board any of their Veffels, aor make any Bargain or Bargains with him, and alto all other Perfons from making any Bargains with him. as they may exped to anfwer the Penalties of the Law. "July L9, 177.'.. "JAMES ANDREWS, of Boxford." Probably the same year the family removed to Bridg- fon, Maine, which was then being settled. This James Andrews was an uncle to "Sir" Nathan, father of the late Samuel, Daniel and Dean Andrews. The next owner was Elijah Dwinnell, a tailor by trade. He was a son of Thomas and Hannah (Towne) Dwin- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 161 nell, and was born in Topsfield in 1739. lie married Sarah, daughter of Elisha Towne, and after living al this place resided at the Towne farm, No. 17(5. In the spring of 1774, he sold this place to John Smith of Boxford for £102 15s. The barn then stood across the street, and the well was southeast of the house. Before 1813, this real estate probably became a part of the adjoining Symonds farm, the buildings being none. 167. Residence of Cornelius Pearson. — Mr. Cornelius Pearson's house was built probably by Abraham Redington about 1763. He was a son of Thomas and Hepzibah(Per- iey) Redington, and probably born at No. 163 in 1721). lie married Sarah Kimball in 1757, and moved here from No. 173. He was a housewright by trade. He sold out to his wife's brother-in-law Moses Putnam in 1766, but prob- ably continued to live here until 1770, when he removed to Waterville, Maine, whore he died in L805, being one of the first settler--. He had seven children, one of whom Samuel lived in Hampden, Maine, and was a member of ihc Maine legislature in 1850, his .-on being adjutant-general of the state and mayor of Augusta. Mr. Redington had made potash at this place, and when he sold out to Mr. Putnam the potash works were except- ed. They are mentioned in 1775, but in a da-d of the place in 1777, they are not referred to. Moses Putnam was from Darners. He married, in 1771 , Rebecca Kimball, a sister of hi- grantor's wife. They had two children born here, Stephen and Sarah. Mr. Putnam sold this place to Jacob Perley of Boxford in 1775, and probably removed from low n. Jacob Perley was a son of ('apt. Francis and Huldah (Putnam) Perley, and was born in No. 75 in 1751. lie 21 162 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. married Dolly Wood in 177;"), and lived the lirsl two years of his married life on this place, where their firsl child, Jacob, was horn. In 1777, Mr. Perley sold out to Daniel Adams, of Beverly, and removed to Reading, lie died in Byfield parish, Newbury, in 1832, at the aire of eighty. His son, Jeremiah, born in Byfield in 1784, was a promi- nent lawyer in Maine. Daniel Adams, the next owner, probably never lived here. He was a mariner. In 1781, he sold out to Joseph Symonds of Boxford, who had probably hired the place, and lived upon it, while Mr. Adams owned it. Mr. Symonds was a son of Joseph and Sarah (Gould) Symonds, and was born in 1754. He married Susanna Hale in 177(), before which time he had lived a while in Bradford. He was a blacksmith by trade. Miss Lucy Peabody (who was born in 1784) said that she attended school in the east chamber of this house , and that the scholars would slide down the back roof of the blacksmith shop of Mr. Symonds, which stood near the house. Mr. Symonds had a large family of children. His son Samuel, on a Saturday afternoon in October. 1804, went to West Boxford on a cavalry parade. When his mother was putting the brown bread, pudding and beans into the oven to be baked thai afternoon, she saw what appeared to her to be spots of blood on the bricks. Some two hours afterward the lifeless body other son was brought home. While riding down the hill near Dr. Eaton's residence he had fallen from his horse and been instantly killed. Captain Symonds sold the farm in 1813 to Jeremiah Young of Newburyport, and removed to Bradford, where he was killed by lightning June 18, 1823. His wife sur- vived him. In tin- conveyance the blacksmith shop was excepted, and was to be removed within six months. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 163 While hero on a visit, Captain Young's mother, Mrs. Rebecca Young of Wellfleet, died in 181D, at the age of ninety-four. Captain Young took a number of the students of the academy to board, and among them was Gen. Fred Lander, who met his fate on the western frontier. General Lander's brother Edward, a western judge, and now of Washington, D. C, also lived here while he attended the academy. Captain Young resided here until 1840, when the place was sold at auction to Daniel Wells, who lived here a few years. By the foreclosure of a mortgage the place came into Mr. Young's hands again. The heirs of Captain Young sold the farm to Jonathan Pearson of Newburyport in 1845, and upon his decease it passed to his son Mr. Cornelius Pearson, who is the pres- ent owner and occupier. 168. W. Gukley House. — William Gurley built a small one-story house near the residence of Mr. Cornelius Pear- son at the close of the war of the Rebellion, and lived in it until his death, which occurred in 1873, at the age of seventy-eight. His widow then occupied it until she died about 1888. Since then the house has been moved up the street to the Towne road. 169. Residence of W. G. Matthews. — The house in which Mr. William G. Matthews resides was buili by Maj. Sam- uel Perley in 1840. He sold it in 1870 to Mr. Augustus E. Bachelder of Boston, who has since owned it. The west end was occupied by Miss Lucy Peabody, who died in 1869; then by Whittemore ; then by William Twis- den : and lor the last \\>w years Prof. Geo. II. Palmer made it his residence. Theeasl end svasfirsl occupied by 104 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Samuel Horace Towne, now of Beverly; then by Orrin Stone; then by the late George Perley, Esq., son of the builder, from his marriage in 1845 to 1848; then by Na- than Towne; then by Stephen Pen body, late ofNewbury- porl : then by William While : then by AlbeH Brown from 1857 to 1870; and since the latter date by Mr. Matthews. 170. Briggs House. — This house belonged to John Willet, a weaver, in 1774. lie came from Newbury, where he married Mary Noyes in 175!). In 1766, the land belonged to the Peabody farm, No. 172, and probably Mr. Willet built the house in or just before 1774. In 1781, the farm consisted of fifty-seven acres. The barn stood in the latter year about live rods east of the house. Mr. Willet had two children baptized in Box ford : Moses, in 1776, and Silas Noyes, in 1780. He sold the farm to Elisha Gould of Middleton in 1781. Mr. Gould was a son of Daniel and Lucy (Tarbox) (ioidd of Topsfield, and was born in 1755. He married Elizabeth Peabody of Middleton in 1779. They bad three children, all daughters. Mr. Gould sold the place to Ed- mund Herrick of Middleton in 1799. Mr. Herrick had lived in No. 153, which see. Mr. Herrick divided the farm, selling most of the land to Richard Foster and Asa Foster in 1801, and the house and house-lot of one acre to Enoch Foster of Salem, a cordwainer, in I.S02. Mr. Herrick removed to Chester, N. H., having married, first, Mehitable Curtis of Middleton in 1786 ; and, second, Rachel White. By his first wife he had eight children: Mehitable, who married Benjamin Dodge of Wenhain ; Artemas, who resided in Methuen : Lucy, who married E. Stevens of Danvers; Almira, who married Timothy J. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 165 Stevens : Pamela ; Caroline, who married Seth Burnham of Boxford; John, who resided in Salem; and Israel. In 1809, Mr. Foster, still of Salem, sold the place to Rev. Isaac Briggs, from York, Maine, who had been set- tled over the first church here the year before. In 1833, Mr. Briggs removed to Chatham on ('ape Cod, and in 1835 sold out to Messrs. George Harriman and William Peabody, both of Boxford. Mr. Peabody con- veyed his interest in the place to Mr. Harriman in 1839. Mr. Harriman was from Groveland, and resided here while he owned the place. Samuel Adams removed here from No. 193 about 1839. His wife died here in February, 1841. Then Mr. Adams hoarded out in Middleton, where he died about 1845. He had three daughters, one of whom died when only thirteen days old. Samuel's father, Dea. John Adams, spent a consider- able portion of the time with his son here. He went about attending to the spiritual, and also to the temporal wants of the sick and suffering of the neighborhood for miles around. He was born in Hamilton, and settled in Salem, where he was a deacon of the Tabernacle church. His last days were spent in his native town, where he died in a good, old age, leaving a memory sweet with Christian influences. William E. Kil lam bought the place of Mr. Harriman in 1847, and lived here until 1865, when he sold the farm to Mr. William G. Todd, and moved to No. 24. .Mr. Todd sold out to Lucy M., wife of Dea. Julius A. Palmer, in the same year, and she conveyed it to Mr. Augustus E. Bachelder in 1869. In L881, Mr. Bachelder sold it to Mr. Erving Winslow of Boston, who resided here one or two summers, and then conveyed the place (in 1884) to Prof. Geo. 11. Palmer, who has recently married 166 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOBD. Miss Alice Freeman, president of Wellesley college, and now resides here. 171. Palmer House. — The Deacon Palmer house was built in 1826 by Maj. Jacob Peabody. Dea. Julius A. Pal- mer of Boston married a daughter of Major Peabody, and the place came into his possession. Deacon Palmer spent his summers here until his death in 1872. The place still remains in the possession of the family. Mr. Palmer was an original proprietor of the widely- known firm of Palmer, Baehelder & Co., jewellers, Bos- ton, and was a state senator from Essex county in 1869. 172. J. Peabody Cellar. — (apt. John Peabody, one of the earliest settlers of Boxford, built his residence, about 1660, where the barn of the late Deacon Palmer now stands. Mr. Peabody was a son of Lt. Francis Peabody, an emi- grant from England, and was the first Peabody born in America. He was born in 1642, and in 1665 married Hannah, a daughter of Robert Andrews of the village. She became the mother of his eleven children, ami died in 1702, being buried in Maiden. The next year he mar- ried Sarah Mosely of Dorchester, and died 5 July, 1720, at the age of seventy-eight. He was the first school- master of Boxford ; was town clerk for twenty-four years : was captain in the militia; was for many years a select- man, mid several times represented the town in the early sessions of the General Court. Of his children, John died in Spain when about thirty years of age ; Francis died in France, ;it the age of t wenty-six ; Moses died ill Cocheco, now Dover, NT. II., when about twenty years old: and Ruth was the mother of the Hon. Aaron Wood. Captain Peabody's son David — Ensign David, as he was THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 167 called — settled on the homestead. He married Sarah Pope of Dartmouth in 1704, and died in 172(5 at the age of forty-eight. She married, secondly, Joseph Kinsman of Ipswich ten years later and removed thither, taking the younger children with her. One died there of the throat distemper the same year, at the age often years. The son named David was the grandfather of George Peabody, (he London banker, and the son named Thomas resided in West Boxford, we believe in the house of his grandson, the late Benjamin Peabody (No. 260). Ensign David's son John Peabody was his successor on this homestead. He was born in 1714, married Mary Chadwiek in 1736, a month before his mother married Mr. Kinsman and removed, and died in 1765. Two years later his widow married EbeDezer Killam. John had ten children, among whom were Moses, who resided upon the place, Asa, who resided in No. 113, and Jedediah, who in 1780 settled in Warner, N. H., where he lived tor a short time in a house that stood in the "Peabody pasture," so (-ailed, now owned by Joshua Sanborn, and removed to and settled in Henniker, X. H. Dr. Leonard W. Pea- body of Henniker was Jedediah's grandson. Moses Peabody who succeeded his father on the place was born in 1744, and married Hannah Foster in 1767, both being admitted to the First church the next year. Moses had ten children, among them being Jacob, the father-in- law of Deacon Palmer, Lucy, who taught in our schools, and who is mentioned in connection with No. 1<">7, Charles, who resided in No. 09, and Nancy, who was the wife of the late Maj. Samuel Perley. The old house stood until the spring oi 1*63, when Dea- con Palmer took it down. For several years it had served as a tenement house. It was a large two-story square man- sion, and. some think, originally a garrison house, be- 168 THE DWELLINGS OF KOXFORD. cause one end was lined with bricks. The chimney was very largo, measuring forty -five feet in circumference at its base. There were three fireplaces in it on the ground floor, and another in one of the chambers. While in the last days of its existence it presented a most forlorn and OLD PEABODK MANSION. dreary appearance. It stood in an open field, and in front, near the road, was an old tumble- down wall over which the blackberry and other vines grew luxuriantly. In connection with the picture of the old house is given a cut of the ancient beaufet that occupied a corner of one THE DWELLIXGS OF BOXFOED. 169 of the front rooms in the first story. When the old man- sion was taken down the beaufet was brought to Salem and is now in the studio of Mr. Edwin N. Peabody on Summer street. It is the most artistic closet of this kind that we have ever seen. Moses Peabody by his will, dated Jan. 16, 1815, £uve this place to The in March, 1826, and the same month Charles sold it to his brother Jacob of Boston. In the same year, Jacob built the ]h house now standing, No. $A 111, and moved into cv^ his son Charles, will was proved l J i it. i% In 1837, the barn V£ here stood street. across the THE OLD BEAUFET. 173. G. Perley House. — The George Perley place was owned years ago by Nathan Kimball. In 1763, it was sold by Abraham Redington to Nicholas Dodge of Beverly, a cooper, with the buildings (hereon, and removed to the Pearson house. No. 167. Mr. Dodge turned farmer, and resided here Tor twelve years. By his wife Experience, he had at least two chil- dren, Lydia and Isaac. In the fall of 1775, for £240, he sold out to Elijah A.verill of Middleton, shoemaker. 22 170 TITK DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Mr. Averill removed here where he resided for the rest of his life, lie died in 1809 or before, leaving a widow Hannah. He had a daughter Hannah horn here who sur- vived him. The widow married, second, a Mr. Peabody, and resided in Middleton, where she died in 1825, leaving a will in which she gave all her real estate in Boxford with the buildings thereon to Jonathan Kenney, "the be- loved friend and intended husband of my daughter Hannah Averill." The will was disapproved. The next year Maj. Samuel Perley bought the farm (with (he barn on the south side of the road) of the heirs who were as follows, viz. : — Edmund Perkins, Esq., of Lyndsboro, N. II., Timothy Berry of Beverly ; Bill Russell, Esq., and wife Phebeof Wo- burn ; widow Rhoda Symonds, widow Lucy Lang, .Jonathan Berry, Nathaniel Gerry and wife Nancy all of Salem ; Jo- seph Berry of East Andover, Me., Joseph Lathrop and wife Betsy of Boston, .Joseph B. Thownes and wife Harriet, Jonathan B. Perkins, William Berry and wife Caroline, Hamilton L. Perkins, Hamlet II. Perkins, Tarrant Aug. Perkins, Bimsley Perkins, Dw Elvenezer Lamed and wife Catherines., all of Hopkinton, N. H. ; Joshua Lovejoy and wife Sarah of Sanbornton, N". II. ; Nehemiah Perkins of Stowe, Vt. ; Josiah Boynton and wife Lydia of Westford ; Andrew Perkins of Philadelphia, Pa. ; Timothy Perkins, Warren Perkins, Andrew Perkins, Elliot Perkins and Jonathan Perkins, all of Reading, and Betsy Perkins of Reading, single- woman. Of Mrs. Peabody, the place was hired by Mr. Peabody, father of the wife of Maj. Samuel Perley, who lived in the old house. He bought the place and built the; present house on the site of the old house in 1830, afterward living and dying here. His son George Perley also passed most of his life here, and his family and sister still keep possession. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 171 174. Residence of R. W. Emerson. — Mr. Rufus W. Emer- son erected his house, on land bought of Misses Sarah P. and Lucy A. Perley in 1884, and lias since resided in it. 175. Residence of S. Twisden. — Mr. Samuel Twisden's farm was owned by James Andrews in 17(58. lie was a son of Robert and Deborah Andrews, and was born, per- haps on this place, in 1721. He married, first, Ruth Wood in 1746-47. She died in 1764, and he married, second, Elizabeth Bryant in 1765. In 1769, he removed to No. 166, selling this place, with the buildings thereon, to his brothei* Nathan Andrews. The farm consisted of one hun- dred and ten acres. The year before his removal from this farm, James An- drews' son John died here. The Essex Gazelle, in its issue of Sept. 13, 1768, contains the following obituary notice of him : "Danvers, September 12, 1768. We hear from Boxford, that onTuef- day, the 6th Inftant, died there, Mr. John Andrews, a Youth of exem- plary Virtue, the eldeft Son of Lieut. James Andrews, of that Town, in the 20th Year of his Age. He had been fome Years In the Study of Phyfick, in the Theory of which he was a very confiderabie Proficient; and, had he lived, was likely to have made a fhining Practitioner in thai Profeffion. Hewas employed by the Selectmen of this Town to keep a School the laft Winter, which he performed to general Acceptance; and from hence, at the Bequeft of the Selectmen of Boxford, he re- moved there on the fame Bufinefs, where he alfo performed to general Satisfaction; but by his intenfe and too clofe Application to his Bufi- nefs, and Study, he broke his ( 'on ft i tut ion, and fell into a < 'on linn pi ion , of which he died, to the great Grief of his Parents, and much lamented by all who knew him." The farm was nexl owned by Thomas Gould, who came from Topslield. He was a son of Thomas and Mary (Gould) Gould, was born in Topslield in 17.'>2, and mar- ried Anne Perkins of Topsfield in 1757. They had ten 172 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. children. He died in 1 778, and his widow married, second, Andrew Foster of Andoverin 1786. This farm continued in the possession of the family until 1800, when Mr. Gould's youngest son Andrew Gould, who was born here in 1 777, having got five-sevenths ol the farm into his hands, sold out to John Towne, jr., of Box ford, and removed to Middleton. lie was a shoemaker by trade. Mr. Towne sold the place in 1809 to his brother Solo- mon Towne, who was a sea-captain, and a resident of Sa- lem. The present house was an old building, that Captain Towne made into a house about 1826, taking the old house down. The place then came into a broker's hands, and was bought by Samuel Dale in 1830. Mr. Dale resided here until he was drowned in Rowley river, while boating suit hay, Sept. 10, 1836, at the age of thirty-six. His epitaph is as follows : — "Entwined by all the tender tics of life, To a dear child, and a beloved wife, I strove in vain my precious life to sa\ . But sunk in death beneath the briny wave. ■•Farewell! farewell! a sad, a long farewell! With my dear friends on earth no longer can I dwell; Friends and companions all. a sad a last adieu. Prepare to follow me, I cannot conic to you." The heirs of Mr. Dale, namely, his widow Betsey P. Dale and son Herbert A. Dale, both of Georgetown, sold the place to Mr. Samuel Twisden of Lynn in the spring of 1855, and he has since lived here. 176. Towne Cellar. — On the south side of the road about twenty-live rods east of the residence of Mr. Henry A. Towne, stood an old house a hundred years ago. This was the residence of Elias Smith previous to 17(!7. Mr. Smith married Ruth Stiles about 17 1 7, and had three sons, THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 173 John, Nathaniel and Elias. Elias sold his undivided half to John in 1767, and removed, we think, to No. 52. John Smith was horn here in 1724, and married, first, Mary Foster in 1751, and, second, Martha Towne of Tops- field in 17G0. He had two children, Abraham and Amos, one by each wife. Mr. Smith resided here until he sold out to Elijah Dwinnell of Boxford in 1777, and then prob- ably removed from the town. Elijah Dwinnell was a son of Thomas and Hannah (Towne) Dwinnell, of Topsfield, where he was born in 1739. He married, in 1762, Sarah, sister of John Towne, who afterward owned this place. He settled on this farm in the spring of 1777. He was a tailor by trade. The next day after his purchase he sold to his brother-in- law John Towne an undivided half of the farm, buildings, vie. Mr. Dwinnell sold out his interest in the place in 1783, to Elisha Qiiimhy of Londonderry, N. H., and removed from the farm. Mr. Quimby, and John Dwinnell with him, both of Londonderry, sold in 1789 to Thomas Emer- son of Topsfield, who sold in April, 1790, to Asa Towne, the eldest son of John Towne, the owner of the other half of the place. Asa was then of Andover. He was a car- penter by trade, and in 1790 built the residence of Mr. Henry A. Towne for his father, who removed to it, and in 1808 bought out Asa's interest in the farm. Asa was then of Charlestown, and a trader. The old house was taken down shortly after the new one was built. Sec No. 177 John Towne the first mentioned above was a son of Elisha and Sarah (Rhodes) Towne, and was Lorn in Topsfield in 1710. His father came to Boxford, married widow Emery, and resided at No. l- was a son of Rev. Caleb Cushing of Salisbury, where he was born in 1709. He was a grandson of the Rev. John Cot- ton, and a brother of Caleb Cushing, state counsellor, and of Rev. James Cushing of Phiistow, N. H. His grand- father Cushing was John, one of the governor's assistants in 1688. Mr. Cushing graduated at Harvard college in 1729, and settled in the ministry here in 1736. He prob- ably built this house about the same time. Mr. Cushins married Elizabeth Martin of Boston in 1740, and they had but one child, John, who was born the year succeeding their marriage. The father died in 1772, in his sixty- third year, continuing the pastor of this church till his death. John, the son, graduated al Harvard college in 1761s and marrying Elizabeth Bagley in 1766, lived with his father, alter whose death he came into possession of the 194 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. place. With his wife and five children, in 1780, he removed to North Yarmouth, Me., and afterward to Waterford, Me., where he died in 1815. He was a justice of the peace, and a very prominent man in the town. In the year of Mr. Cushing's removal (1780) he sold the place to Paul Spofford, who lived in that part of Rowley which is now Georgetown, for £13,000. The farm then contained eighty acres. Mr. Spofford was a son of Capt. Abel Spofford, who lived in what is now Georgetown on the west side of Baldpate, on the farm now in the posses- sion of Mrs. William P. Perley, and was thirty-one years of age when he bought this place. Mr. Spofford had a bondservant named Adam Simson, who ran away in the summer of 1781, and he advertised for him in the Salem Gazette, as follows: — "DUN-AWAY/wm the fubfcriber on the 20th of July -L^- laft, a bond fervant, named ADAM 8EMS0N, an Mfh fellow, about 18 years of age, of a middle ftature : Had on when he ran-away a brown wooling coat, blue wooling waiftcoat, checked Unning shirt, and striped linning and wool trowfers. Whoever will take upfaidfellow, or give informa- tion to his mafter fhall have one paper dollar (old emiffion) reward paid by PA VL SPOFFOBD. "N. B. Allperfons whatever are hereby forbid harboring, concealing, or employing f aid run-away , as they would avoid the penalty of the law. "Boxford, Auguft 1, 1781." Mr. Spofford never married. In 1784, he sold the farm to his father, and soon after died of palsy. His father conveyed the farm in 1785 to Jeremiah Harriman of Row- ley, who afterward lived at No. 216, selling this farm with the buildings thereon to Amos Kimball, who lived across the street (at No. 214). Of the house after this date the writer knows nothing. 214. Residence of Rev. S. Rovve.— The farm owned and THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 195 occupied by Rev. Samuel Rowe and Mr. Isaac Wyatt was formerly in the possession of Zebediah Foster, son of Jona- than and Abigail (Kimball) Foster, who was born in 1702. He married Margaret Tyler in 1723-24, and settled here, where he died in 1772, at the age of sixty-nine. They had nine children, one of whom, Dudley, resided upon the place with his mother, who died in 1784, at the age of eighty-one. Dudley Foster was born in 1737, and married Rachel Steel of Andover in 1767. They had four children at least, Phebe, Mary, Mehitable and Rachel. Dudley and his mother sold the place in 1777, to Amos Kimball of Andover, blacksmith. Mr. Foster probably removed to Andover. The present house was built by Mr. Kimball about 1780. He was a son of Amos Kimball, who lived at No. 207, where he was born in 1 752. His early years were spent in Andover, where he learned the trade of a blacksmith. He came to this place and established a home and a shop. He married Mary Stiles of Andover in 1779, and she died in 1791, at the age of about thirty-eight. His children were Elizabeth, who died in 1821, at the age of forty, un- married ; Polly, who died in 1783, at theage of five months ; Amos, who succeeded his father on the place ; Mary, who married Frederic Spofford, and lived in No. 80; Charles; and Lucy who died at the age of sixteen. Mr. Kimball died in 1824, at the age of seventy-one. Messrs. Rowe and Wyatt, who were from New Glouces- ter, Me., in 1870, purchased the farm of John F. Kimball of Andover, who then owned it. Mr. Kimball was a son of Amos and grandson of the above named Amos Kim- ball who died in 1*24. Messrs. Rowe and Wyatt moved here April 29, 1870. They are deaf mutes, and Mr. Rowe is an evangelist of the Congregational church to the deaf 196 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. mutes of Maine. He was the first Congregational minister thus ordained in the United States. His ordination took place in the church at West Box ford in 1878. 215. Old Palmer Cellar. — A short distance west of the residence ot Rev. Samuel Rowe (No. 214) is an old cel- lar, over which stood a house wherein John Palmer lived from 17 06 to 1780. He came from Rowley, where he had married Mary Creasey. Here was horn his distin- guished son Timothy Palmer, the famous bridge builder. How long the house stood after 1780 is not known. 216. Old Porter Cellar. — In West Boxford, near the North Andover town line, on the south side of the high- way leading from the residence of the late Capt. Enoch Wood to North Andover, is an old cellar. Near this cellar stood the old house in which George Blake lived. He came from Gloucester in or about 1675, having been born in 1611, and made a freeman in 1651. He died in 1698, at the age of eight}^-seven. His wife Dorothy sur- vived him till 1702, when she died. They had six daugh- ters and one son, the latter surviving but sixteen days. The daughters were Rebecca, born in 1641, who married Robert Eames, lived near her father's and became the witch of 1692; Deborah; Prudence, who married Moses Tyler, and lived near her father; Elizabeth, who married Matthew Perry, and lived in Boxford and Bradford ; Mary, who married Zaccheus Curtis; and Ruth. In 1709, an old record reads, "On the south side of said road near where George Blake's old house stood." So his residence survived him but a few years. John Ames, or Eames, as the name was then commonly THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 197 spelled, probably bought this place after the decease of Mr. Blake, as in 1709 he was living in the house which stood over the cellar named at the beginning of this sketch, and in which he lived several years previously. He was a son of Robert Eames, and grandson of Mr. Blake, and was born at No. 212 in 1670. He married Priscilla Kimball and had seven children. In 1716, Mr. Ames sold the place, then containing one hundred acres of land, to Benjamin Porter of Wenham, for £350, and probably removed from town. He was a son of John and Lydia (Herrick) Porter, and was born in Wenham in 1692. He probably built the house himself, as he was a carpenter, a trade characteristic of this branch of the Porter family. Mr. Porter married Sarah, daughter of Moses and Ruth (Perley) Tyler, who may have lived at the Captain Wood place (No. 89). She was born in 1696, and died here in 1767, at the age of seventy-one. Mr. Porter died in 1778, at the age of eighty-six. Their remains lie' in the ancient cemetery near their dwelling. Their children were Mary, who married Dea. Thomas Chadwick; Moses, who settled, we believe, where Edward E. Pearl, Esq., resides (No. 221) ; Benjamin who was his father's successor on the homestead ; Sarah ; Tyler ; and Lucy, Avho died in 1755, at the age of nineteen. Benjamin Porter, his father's successor on the farm, was born here in 1721. Before his marriage it seems that he resided in Exeter, N. II., and had become a member of the church there. He married, first, Ruth Foster of An- dover, in 1744. She, after becoming the mother of nine children, died in 1760, at the age of thirty-seven. He married, second, Mary Sherwin, in 1763, by whom he had four more children. Mr. Porter died in 1784, at the ago of sixty-two. In his will he bequeathed four pounds to the Second church. His children were: Lydia, who 2G 198 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. married Daniel Farnham of Andover; Mehitable, who married Asa Sherwin ; David Foster, who married Susan- na Towne of Londonderry ''formerly of Boxford) in 1771, and removed to Denmark, Me., afterward settling in Dixmont, Me. (it is said that his six children were born in Boxford) ; Lucy, who married Asa Barker of Andover at the age of fifteen ; Sarah, who married Samuel Kimball ; Benjamin, bom in 1754, married Polly Sargent and re- moved to Winthrop, Me., in 1780, and in 1788 to Vienna, Me., where he died in 1837 ; being father of Dr. Byron Porter of Bangor and Waterville, Me., and grandfather of John C. Porter, professor of mathematics in New York Central college; of Col. Thomas W. Porter, Boston, Mass., a lawyer, and colonel of the 14th Mass. regiment; of Dr. Byron Porter of Newport, Me. ; and of Dr. Parker Cleveland Porter, a surgeon in the Army of the Potomac ; Ruth, who died at the age of twenty-two in 1779 ; Tyler, into whose hands the homestead came ; Jonathan, who died in infancy; Susanna, who died in 1799, at the age of twenty-six; Jonathan, who died in 1782, at the age of sixteen; Mary, who died in 1824, unmarried, at the age of fifty-seven; and Mehitable, who married Stephen Pea- body in 1791. Tyler Porter, who succeeded his father on the farm, was born here in 1758, and married Abigail Johnson of An- dover in 1779. He lived on this old place until 1800, when he sold out and removed to Sebago, Me., where he died in 1842, at the age of eighty-four. Their children, all born in Boxford, were as follows: Ruth, who married Jonathan Poor of Sebago ; Jonathan, who lived in Boxford and was the father of Capt. J. J. Porter ; Tyler, who re- sided in Weston, N. Y. ; Stephen, who resided in Portland, Me. ; Benjamin, who lived in Merrimac, N. H., and Seba- go and Buxton, Me. ; Rufus, born at this place in 1792, died THE DWELLINCxS OF BOXFORD. 199 in New Haven, Conn., in 1884, at the age of ninety- two ; and Henry, who died in Portland, Me., in 1870. The son Rufus was proficient in his youth as an artist, as some of the houses in the parish, whose walls he ornamented, bear proof. Having removed to Maine with his parents, he settled first at Portland, and served in the 1812 war with the Portland light infantry, being its last survivor. He afterwards lived at New Haven, Conn. He became an inventor, and was the founder of the Scientific Amer- ican, a journal of world-wide fame. The number of his inventions were legion, and many of them were of great utility. It may be interesting to know that this house was the home of quite a number of Africans in early times. Mr. Benjamin Porter, first named, owned more slaves than any one else in the town. Candace, a negro woman, was baptized in 1758. Ammy married John, who belonged to Joseph Noyes of Newbury, in 1734. Tamsin had a hus- band, probably, somewhere, and her three children, Caesar, Pompey and Phillis, were baptized in 1737, together with herself. She, however, was not much benefited by the baptism, for she would still get drunk. These were only a part of Mr. Porter's slaves. He had quite a family in all. Tyler Porter sold this farm in 1800 to Simeon Foster of Andover, and in 1804 Mr. Foster conveyed it back to Mr. Porter, who, two days later, conveyed it to Jeremiah Har- riman and Jeremiah Harriman, jr., of Boxford. Mr. Porter had already removed to Pleasant mountain gore, York county, Maine. Mr. Harriman was from Rowley, and had been living in town for several years. He and his wife died on the same day, February 25, 1824, he, at the age of eighty- four, and she, who was a second wife, at seventy-one. Mr. Harriman was the grandfather of the late D. F. Harriman. 200 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. The old house was taken down by Jeremiah's son Dan- iel Harriman and converted into the "Ocean house," No. 223, in 1836. 217. Residence of L. G. Whittier. — Mr. Levi G. Whit- tier built his new house in the West parish, on the road leading from the sand pit to the Hubbard place in North Andover, in 1883. 218. Peter Pearl House. — The Peter Pearl farm was origi- nally in the possession of Job Tyler, a son of Job Tyler, who lived at No. 213. He was born in 1705, and married Elizabeth Parker of Bradford in 1730. He had a negro woman servant, who was called "Notur." Mr. Tyler was the father of Abraham Tyler, who lived in No. 81. His son Phineas, born in 1736, was the first baptized in the first West-parish church, the service occurring Dec. 12, 1736. After living in Boxford many years, Phineas re- moved to Leominster. Bradstreet Tyler was another son. There were twelve children in all — eight sons and four daughters. Mr. Tyler probably moved to No. 286. Bradstreet Tyler lived here after his father. In 1802, Stephen Tyler, who had owned the place some years, sold to James Fletcher of Ashby. The farm con- sisted of a hundred and twenty acres. Mr. Tyler's wife was named Patty. Mr. Fletcher resided here, and died about 1805. In 1807, his widow Rebecca Fletcher, and children Jonas Fletcher, a cooper, Betsey Fletcher, Susanna Fletcher, single-woman, and Abel Fletcher, carpenter, all of Box- ford, sold the place to Billy Bradstreet of Rowley. The present house was probably built by Mr. Bradstreet about 1810. He occupied it a few years; and after his THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 201 death it came into the possession of widow Nabby Killam, who sold it in 1819 to Jacob Perley of Boxford. ]\Ir. Perley was a son of Benjamin Perley, who lived in No. 32, and was born in Topsfield in 1783. He married Sarah Perley of Boxford in 1814, and they had two children, daughters, Harriet Newell and Apphia Ann. Mr. Per- ley died in 1821, aged thirty-seven. His administrator then sold the place in the spring of that year to Peter Pearl, who was the eleventh and youngest child of John and Elizabeth (Kimball) Pearl of Boxford, where he was born in 1791. Mr. Pearl was a prominent man in the town. His two daughters Misses Eunice and Hattie Pearl reside upon the place. Mr. John T. Wood also lived there a few years ago. The Rev. Charles M. Pierce resided in this house during his ministry in the parish at the beginning of the war of the Rebellion. 219. Job Tyler Cellar. — On the same farm and a short distance in the rear of the Peter Pearl house (No. 218), is what is known as the "Job Tyler cellar." This is the site of the house in which Job Tyler resided early in the eighteenth century. Sketch No. 218 gives an account of him. How long the house was standing has not been de- termined. 220. Greenleaf Cellar. — Near the sand-pit in West Box- ford, on the north side of the road stood the Greenleaf house, which was moved about 1871 to South Groveland, near Johnson's pond, where it now stands. 221. Residence of E. E. Pearl. — The farm of Edward E. 202 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Pearl, Esq., was originally an old Porter homestead. Moses Porter, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Tyler) Porter, was horn in No. 216 in 1719. In 1741 he married Mary, daughter of Edmund Chadwick of Bradford, and built this house at about that time, it is supposed. He died here in 1811, at the age of ninety-one years and eleven months. He had two other wives, Sarah Ayers of Haverhill and Mary Low of Wenham, both widows, the last being his cousin. He had eight children, all by his first wife : Asa, the oldest, graduated at Harvard college, 1762, and set- tled in Newburyport, as a merchant. He was a gentleman of the old school ; during the Revolutionary war he was a devoted loyalist; and removed to Haverhill, N. H., before 1780, where he was a large landholder. Sabine's History of the Loyalists says of him : "He suffered in person and property, in consequence of his adherence to the royal cause, and was compensated by grants of crown land in Canada. He was on terms of intimacy with Governor Wentworth, and other gentlemen of rank, and was him- self a person of highly respectable character." He died in 1818 at the age of seventy-six. He had two sons who graduated at Dartmouth college. William resided on the homestead. Mary died at the age of four years. Moses was a wild young man, and is said to have married Ann Kay. Fie lived here for many years. Aaron, born here in 1752, was a physician of eminence in his profession, first at Biddeford, and afterward at Portland, Me., where he died in 1837, at the age of eighty-five. He married Paulina, daughter of Richard King of Scarborough, Me., and sister of Hon. Rufus King, the first United States Senator from New York, minister to England, etc., and half-sister of Hon. William King, the first governor of Maine. His granddaughter, Sarah Leland Coffin, mar- ried Rev. Charles Beecher of Georgetown ; another grand- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 203 daughter, Isabella Porter Jones, married Rev. Edward Beecher ; and his daughter Harriet was the second wife of Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher and the mother of Rev. Thomas K. Beecher of Elmira, N. Y. This shows how the Beechers and this family have such complicated re- lationships. Mary married Joseph Hovey of Boxford. Lucy married Col. Benjamin Towne ofMethuen, and died in Belfast, Me., at the age of eighty-one. James, the youngest child, died at the age of three. Among the de- scendants, not already named, of this Moses Porter, first mentioned, are the wife ofjRev. Charles E. Blood of Man- hattan, Kas., and Wataga, III. ; Prof. William Coffin of Illinois college; the wife of Rev. John W. Bradshaw of Batavia, 111. ; the wife of Rev. Edwin E. Bliss, mission- ary near Constantinople, Turkey ; Rev. Frederick William Beecher of Wellsville, N. Y. ; Eugene Francis Beecher, editor of the Brooklyn Monthly; Rev. William B. Jones of St. Louis, Mo. ; Rev. Francis Jones ; Henry A. Jones of Albany, N. Y., state librarian ; Rev. George Wash- burn of Constantinople, Turkey ; the wife of John Hooker, Esq., an attorney of Hartford, Conn. ; Rev. James C. Beecher ; Dr. John Tyler Goddard of New York City ; and the wife of Rev. Samuel Phillips of Groton, Mass. William Porter, born here in 1744, married, in 1767, Mary, daughter of Isaac Adams, who lived at No. 84. He always resided here, and died in 1822, at the age of seventy-eight. He had nine children, one of whom, Mary, married Amos Carleton at Haverhill about 1805, and settled upon her father's place. Among Mr. Porter's descendants are the wife of Rev. Peter MeVieker of To- peka, Kas. ; the wife of Henry H. Markman, Esq., of Mil- waukee, Wis; Gen. Charles Porter Mattocks, now a law- yer of Portland, Me., having been several years attorney for Cumberland county ; the wife of Hon. Isaac Dyer of 204 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Baldwin, Me.; Hon. Charles William Porter of Platts- burg, Mo.; Rnfns King Porter, Esq., of Machias, Me.; and Dr. George Thatcher Porter of Calais, Me. In 1860, Amos Carleton sold out to James Carleton, who resided here until 1876, when he sold to Mrs. Pamela AV . Tyler. He then removed to Georgetown, where he afterward resided. Mr. Pearl came into possession of the some fourteen years since, and shortly afterward erected his large and convenient barn. 222. Residence of C. R. Anderson. — The late Capt. Jon- athan Janus Porter built his mill-dam in 1836, splitting the stone and doing the work generally himself, and erected the mill the following year, Oscar G. Ingalls being associ- ated with him in the conduct of the mill. Mr. Porter built his late residence in 1837, and his barn in 1845. After the decease of his wife, he conveyed the farm in 1878 to Mr. Charles R. Anderson the present owner, with whom he resided, and died in 1891, at the age of eighty. 223. "Ocean House." — The house near the late D. Francis Harriman's, known as the "Ocean house," was built for "Aunt Polly Foster" and D. F. Hairiman out of the old Porter house, No. 216, with the addition of new lum- ber, in 1836, a four-tenement house being constructed. Joseph Brown lived here for six or eight years, and Thomas B. Parker eight or ten years. It has also been occupied by Samuel Jenkins, Charles R. Anderson, Mrs. Lucy Harris, William Newhall, J. B. Frost, Warren Noyes, George Hudson, John Baker, William Merrill, Frank W. Chase and many others. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 205 224. Residence of G. A. Harriman. — The residence of the late D. Francis Harriman was built by his father, Daniel Harriman, about 1816. Mr. Harriman was born in Row- ley in 1783, and his father (Jeremiah) removed to Boxford when Daniel was less than ten years of age. Daniel mar- ried Jane Dole of Methuen, and died of dropsy in 1863, at the age of eighty years. His son, Daniel Francis, afterward possessed and carried on the farm until his death in 1884, since which time his son Mr. George A. Harri- man has lived there. 225. Residence of J. Horace Nason. — The house of Mr. John Horace Nason was early occupied by a family bear- ing the name of Willard, and was afterward owned by Greenleaf Dole, who lived here. About 1850, Mr. Dole sold the place to the late D. Francis Harriman, and on the death of Mr. Harriman in 1884 it came into the possession of Mr. Nason and his wife, who was Mr. Harriman's daughter. They have lived there many years. 226. Residence of Spoffordand Rokes. — This house was built by Henry C. Sullivan in 1830, on land he bought of Greenleaf Dole the year before. The timber for this house was hewn near Fish Brook on the Towne road by Capt. J. J. Porter, William Henry and Mr. Sullivan. In 1831, he sold it to William Henry, who had lived at No. 242. In 1836, Mr. Henry sold to Francis Perley Robinson of Boxford, cordwainer, who in 1842 conveyed itto Solomon Wildes, a tavern keeper of Boston, and then removed to Boston. Mr. Wildes was originally of Topsfield. In 1850, 27 206 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. he sold out to Aaron L. Parker of Boxford, who removed from No. 234, and resided here until his death in 1875. It is now owned by his widow. Mr. Benjamin French resided here awhile, removing to the Foster house, No. 93. On the same day that Capt. Porter was married in one part of this house, a daughter of Mr. French was buried from the other part. The house is now occupied by Messrs. Alden Spofford and Meander Rokes. 227. Morse's Store. — The country store kept by Mr. G. S. Morse near the West Boxford church is located in a build- ing erected for that purpose about ten years ago by E. E. Pearl, Esq. The second story is finished into a tenement in which has resided Mr. Frank Jaques. 228. West Parish Parsonage. — The parsonage in the West parish was built by the parish in 1875, at a cost of about $5,000. It has been occupied by but two clergymen, Rev. James McLean, from 1876 to 1878, and Rev. Charles Lawrence Hubbard trom 1879 to the present time. 229. Residence of W. R. Kimball. — The house of William R. Kimball, Esq., was built by Mr. James Carleton in 1840. Mr. Carleton lived in it for some time, renting half of it to Mr. Samuel W. Jenkins and afterward to Mr. Franklin Jaques. Mr. Carleton sold to Robert Carleton and John William Brown. Mr. Brown was son of John Brown, who lived at No. 242, and was born in Methuen in 1815. He married, in 1836, Mary C. Ayer of Ando- ver, by whom he had five children, the oldest two of whom served in the war of the Rebellion ; one of them dying at THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 207 the front. Mr. Brown bought out Mr. Carleton, and in 1871 sold the place to Mr. Kimball, the present owner and occupier, who is a native of Bradford. 230. Timon's Cellar. — Where the barn of Mr. Eobert B. Anderson stands, once stood the house which, was occupied and owned by Timon, a negro. The following note concerning Timon and his wife is of value and inter- est : "Timon Freeman & Flora his Wife came to Boxford to live the 5th of November 1788, and were taken into Town by wee the Subscribers. They came last from Andover. "Thomas & Samll Chadwick. "Boxford Novr 19th 1788." He was sometimes called Timon Chadwick. He lived and died in this house, his death occurring July 10, 1805, at the age of eighty-four. His wife died on New Year's day, 1815, at the age of eighty. 231. R. B. Anderson House.— This house was owned, May 8, 1804, by Willard Lane. He was a blacksmith and his shop stood on Moses Porter's land. On the day above mentioned, he sold out to Benjamin Ames, jr., of An- dover, an innkeeper. A year later Mr. Ames sold to Joseph Damon Woodworth and Gardiner Ames, both of Boxford. In 1825, it was occupied by a Mr. Stiles, who married a sister of Amos Carlton. It was owned by Thomas Chadwick and descended from him to Samuel and Mary Chadwick. When Mr. Anderson came from Salem N. II., he lived here, and boarded Miss Mary Chadwick as long as she lived. The place was purchased by Mr. 208 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Anderson's son William, and thence came into Mr. Ander- son's possession. Mr. Anderson came to Boxford in 1829, to teach his trade' of a blacksmith to the late Moses Kimball who had bought out Thomas W. Durant on his removal to Canada. Mr. Anderson worked for Mr. Kimball until about 1845, when he built a shop for himself near his residence, and continued to work at his trade in this new locality till about 1874. He married, first, Irene Cluff of Salem, N. II. , and, second, widow Harriet Chase of North Andover. Mr. Anderson and his wife both died a year ago. He had eleven children, one of whom, Charles R., lives in No. 222 ; and another, David Mighill, was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion. 232.. Residence of J. A. M. Spofford. — In 1804, the Sam- uel Clement house was called a "new" house, having been erected just before that date by Phineas Cole, who kept a tavern in it, and soon afterward removed to Pelham, N. II., where he instituted another public house. Mr. Cole was a son of Samuel Cole, and was born in No. 236 in 1744. In 1811, Mr. Cole sold the place to Samuel W. Cle- ment of Boxford who lived in this house for many years. After the decease of his widow in 1877, at the age of ninety, the place was occupied by Fred Thomas. In 1881, it was sold to Mr. Patrick Duffy of Groveland, but as his wife would not come here to live, he sold out the next year to the late Edwin S. Adams, who had formerly lived at No. 238. Mr. Adams moved here in the fall of 1882, and remained until his death, which occurred in 1887. His widow, a second wife, survived him but six days. The estate was inherited by Mr. Adams' sister, Mrs. Julia A. M. Spofford, who has since resided upon it. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 209 233. Residence of A. P. Hovey. — The residence of Mr. Albert Parker Hovey was erected by Franklin Jaqnes about 1848, and he resided in it until about 1889, when he died, the place being sold to Mr. Hovey, who now re- sides there. 234. Residence of G. S. Morse. — The residence of Mr. Gardner S. Morse was built by his grandfather Jacob C. MORSE HOUSE. Parker in 1799. Mr. Parker, who had been living in No. 239, removed to this house as soon as it was ready, and resided there until his death, which occurred in 1 , at the age of fifty-three. His widow died there in 1850, at the age of eighty-four. The three children born to them 210 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. have all died within a few years at advanced ages, leaving a numerous posterity. After Mr. Parker's death, the house was occupied by his son Aaron L. Parker and his son-in-law Samuel Morse. These two men had nine sons, all of whom enlisted into the service of their country, one of them being starved to death in the rebel Libby prison. In 1850, Mr. Parker removed to No. 22G, where he died in 1.875. Mr. Morse continued to reside here until his death, in 1872 ; and his widow died here in 1881. Among the children of Aaron L. Parker are Chandler L. Parker, the musician, formerly leader of the Groveland brass band, Thomas B. Parker of Georgetown, and Gil- man P. Parker of Bradford. Anions; the children of Mr. Morse are Mrs. Charlotte N. S. Horner of Georgetown, and Gardner S. Morse, who has lived upon the old place since the death of his parents. 235. Dowen Cellar. — Robert Do wen married MarySnelling in Haverhill Nov. 13, 1719. They had several children, and after the husband died the widow came to Boxford and lived in a pasture, on the hills near Mare pond, a short distance east of the residence of Mr. Gardner S. Morse. Sixty years ago, there were here three cellars, and an old well partly filled up. These can still be defined, though time has brought them nearly to a level with the surround- ing surface. Her house is said to have been a sort of cave, an excavation made in the side of a hill, stoned up at the sides, and the top covered with boards or similar material. Around these cellars was what was known in the early days of this century, as Dowen's orchard. No trace of it now remains. Among their children was Mary, who was admitted to the Second church in 1744, and in 1751 married Amos Foster of Upper Ashuelot, now Keene, THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 211 N. H. Another child, John, born about 1727, was bound out by the selectmen, June 21, 1739, to Ebenezer Web- ster, a farmer of Haverhill, for nine years and six months. Mrs. Dowen was known as "Mother Dowen," and was also known to live principally by stealing. Sheep and other animals were her general prey. To hide her thefts, she threw the refuse into Mare pond, having done her slaughtering in the hollow of a large buttonwood tree, which stood near. Dr. David Wood supplied her with rye, wheat, corn, etc., at different times, as his account book shows, which was paid for by her brother Mark Snelling's labor. She was living in August, 1736, but probably died very soon afterward. This Mark Snelling was a mulatto, born about 1720, and lived most of his time with Dr. Wood, though he probably made "his home with Mrs. Dowen. At length he took to himself a wife, and became the father of Asa Snel- ling, whom our old residents remember as living at Phineas Perley's and dying there in 1823, at the age of eighty-six. Mrs. Horner adds : "The very little that is known of that little settlement hardly saves it from oblivion, but with charity we may conclude that they had some of the virtues as well as the vices of humanity." 236. Residence of George Doherty. — The house of Mr. George Doherty was probably built by Samuel Cole about a century ago. The house that formerly stood on the same site was occupied by Ebenezer Burbank, who in 1717 sold the farm to John Cole of Lynn, formerly of Maiden, who was a cooper by trade. This tract of land was the sixty-seven acres laid out to Thomas Leaver in 1666. Mr. Cole settled here with his children, Samuel 212 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOKD. and Anna. Samuel was born in 1687. The father died in 1737, very suddenly, at the aire of sixty-eight. Samuel Cole inherited the place from his father and set- tled upon it. lie died in 1765, and his widow Susanna in 1785, at the age of ninety-five. Samuel hadfive children, one of whom, John, settled in Amherst, N. H., and Samuel, the first-born, resided on the old homestead. Samuel Cole, the last named, was born in 1716, and married Bethiah Hardy of Bradford in 1738. By her he had fifteen children, and she died in child-birth in 1764, at the age of forty-one. He married a second wife, Abi- gail Currier of Haverhill. She died in 1795, aged eighty years, and he in 1805, at the age of eighty-eight. Four of his sons, Daniel, Benjamin, Solomon and Simeon, settled in Boxford. Simeon Cole, the youngest son of Samuel, lived on his father's place. He was born in 1762, and married Polly Smith of Rowley in 1785. One of his sons was Manly Cole, who settled on the homestead. He was the father of David Mighill Cole and Caleb M. Cole who reside in the West parish. In 1878, the farm was sold by Caleb M. Cole, who then owned it, to Mr. Doherty, the present owner and occupier. 237. Residence of Daniel With am. — Mr. Daniel Witham built his house, on land given him by Edwin S. Adams, in 1877, and has since resided in it. 238. Residence of Michael Murphy. — Mr. Michael Mur- phy resides upon the Adams farm, which was probably the land of Theophilus Binder of Ipswich, whose daughter Martha married William Knowlton of Ipswich in 1729, THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 213 and they settled on this place. Among their children was Thomas, who was a lieutenant-colonel in the Revolu- tionary war, and the friend of Putnam, Reed and Wash- ington, of whom the latter said "He would he an honor to any country." He was born here in 1740. Mr. Knowl- ton was a housewright. In 1748, he sold out to Stephen Merrill of Boxford, and removed to Ash ford, Conn. Mr. Merrill lived here until his death, which occurred in 1785, at the age of seventy-eight. His son Jesse doubt- less succeeded him on the place. In 1823, the place was purchased by Daniel Adams, who had been living in No. 291. Here, Mr. Adams re- sided until his death, which occurred in 1828, at the age of fifty-two. He was a small and an active man, and quite musical in his tastes, having taught a singing school in his neighborhood several winters. Mrs. Adams survived un- til 18G8, when she died at the age of eighty-eight. They had two children, one daughter, the widow of the late Leverett W. Spofford of Georgetown ; and one son Edwin Strong, who was born in 1806, and who married his cousin Miss Elvira Chase in Troy, N. Y., in 1843. She was a native of Groveland. The son settled on his father's place, and here the couple passed all their married life. The separation came at last, in the summer of 1879, and Mrs. Adams crossed the bounds of life at the age of seventy. She was a lady of taste and benevolence and was esteemed by all who knew her. Mr. Adams sold the farm to Mr. Murphy three years later ; and marrying, secondly, Amanda Davis in 1882 he purchased the Clement place (No. 232), where he after- ward lived. 239. Old Ross Cellar. — Opposite the residence of Mr. 28 214 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Isaac C. Day is an old cellar. We do not know when, or by whom, the house that once stood over it was built. Toward the close of the eighteenth century, the house was occupied by Jacob C. Parker, son of Aaron and Lydia (Chandler) Parker of Andover, where he was born in 1772. He married Sally, daughter of John and Rachel (Lufkin) Smith in 1793, and began housekeeping in this house. In 1799, he built the Morse house, No. 234, and removed thither. Moses Davis then lived here. He married Sarah . In 1805, he sold out to Daniel Adams of Boxford, who be- gan housekeeping here immediately. He was born in North Andover, Mass., in 1775, and was the son of David Adams of that place. When Daniel was very young his father removed from North Andover to Deny, N. H., and while yet in his teens Daniel came to Boxford, and worked out as a farm-laborer. At the age of twenty-nine, he married Sophia Kimball of Brad- ford, she having removed from Boxford with her step- father and mother a few months before. The couple lived in this house until 1815, Avhen Mr. Adams sold out to William Ross of Boxford, who resided here until about 1835, when he built the Day house (No. 241), and removed there. The work on the new house was done by James Carleton, to whom Mr. Ross conveyed the old house as part pay for his labor on the new edifice, and it was torn down. Mr. Ross married, first, Martha Carleton in 1818. She died in 1833, having been the mother of Harriet A., Harri- son O., Martha Elvira, William Warren and Julia Ann. He married, second, Mary F. Tyler, in 1834, and she be- came the mother of Mary Jane, Caroline Maria, and Char- lotte Frances. Mr. Adams, who was the father of the late Edwin S. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 215 Adams, then removed to the house now occupied by Mr. Nathan K. Fowler (No. 291). 240. Residence of B. P. Hale. — Mr. Benjamin P. Hale built his fine residence in 1889, and has since lived in it. He is a principal owner of the Groveland mills. 241. Residence of I. C. Day. — The residence of Mr. Isaac C. Day was built by William Ross, who lived on the op- posite side of the road at No. 239. This was about 1835. The carpentry work was done by James Carleton. Mr. Ross moved to this place, where he continued to reside un- til his death. It was then occupied by his son Harrison O. Ross, who devised it in his will to his wife, Martha Ann Ross. In 1877, she sold the place to John T. Day, who died a few years ago, after making great improvements. 242. Residence of John I. Ladd. — The timber for the house of Mr. John I. Ladd was cut in the summer of 1830, and it was immediately framed and erected. The builder of the main part of was a carpenter named Henry C. Sullivan. He had an apprentice at that time named William Henry, who the next year completed the house. He put on the ell, and the next year sold the place to Ephraim Foster of Boxford, who settled here. Mr. Foster's father was Simeon Foster, a native of the lower part of North Andover, called Pilfershire. Ephraim's mother was Polly Harriman, aunt to the late D. F. Har- riman. Mr. Foster married Orrissa, daughter of Parson Wilmarth of Georgetown. Mr. Foster died here in 1835, leaving a fund to the THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 217 schools of his parish, and the house and laud to his widow, who married Dr. John T. G. Leach of Lowell the follow- ing winter. The next year, she conveyed the place to EHsha G. Bunker of Barnstead, N. H. Mr. Bunker kept a tavern here for about a year, and, in 1837, having sold the homestead to John Brown, removed to No. 99. Mr. Brown was a son of Joshua and Rachel (Buck- minster) Brown (see No. 25(3). He continued the tavern business for a short time only, but resided here until his death, which occurred in 1855. Mr. Brown was born in New Hampshire, and was reared at the Hubbard place in North Andover, near the Boxford line. He married Alice Jennings, and removed here from No. 98. He was a butcher, and had six children. By foreclosure of a mortgage the place next came into the possession of John Tyler, and the next year, in 1857, he sold it to Orville L. Hovey who resided here till his death, which occurred in 1872. He willed this place to his wife who still retains it. She married Mr. John I. Ladd of Groveland in 1875, and they have passed their married life at this place. In 1873, Mrs. Hovey took down the large barn and four sheds, which stood back of the present barn. These sheds were standing there fifty years ago, and had been used, probably, in connection with the church. In 1878, Mr. Ladd made some alteration in the house and place. Ephraim Foster, while he owned it, put some paper on the walls of three of the rooms, representing Bonaparte's campaign in Egypt. It was considered a great curiosity, and many came to see it. It was in sheets and very hard to match, costing, it is said, seventy-five dollars. A part of it remained on the walls until 187(5. It is thought by Mr. Ladd thatEzekiel Ladd, who died in 1714, resided on this corner. 218 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 243. Eesidence of Albert Morris. — A Mr. Mears built a house in a clearing in the pine woods on the Uptack road near the late Mr. Timing's about 1879. The authorities required him to take up his abode elsewhere, and the own- ers of the materials, of which the house was built, sold it in 1881 to Mr. Albert Morris, who removed it to near Harriman's hall, and finished it. Mr. Morris has since that time resided in it. 244. Residence of Mrs. W. R. Cole. — The residence of Mrs. William R. Cole was built by Simeon (?) Pearl about 1814, the carpenter being Samuel W. Clement. Mr. Pearl was a son of John Pearl, and was born at No. 259, in 1774. He lived here until his death which occurred in 18 — , and then his widow owned it, renting it a number of years, and finally selling it to Richard Smith, who afterward sold it to Miss Charlotte Barker. She made extensive repairs upon it, and resided in it about ten years, from 1865 to 1874. The next year (1875) she sold out to Mrs. Cole, who has since lived in it. Mrs. Cole had lived first at the Ephraim F. Cole place (No. 209), and after her husband's death removed to No. 271, where she remained but a short time, moving to this house. This, with a number of houses in the neighborhood, had the walls of the best room decorated with landscapes of various descriptions, containing figures of men, horses, trees, etc. In two houses in the village the walls remain as thus originally decorated. The artist was Rufus Porter, who died in New Haven, Conn., in 1884, at the age of ninety-two. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 219 245. Residence of W. F. Harriman. — The residence of Mr. William F. Harriman was erected by Samuel Kim- ball and son for Thomas Wendell Durant, a blacksmith, in 1824. Mr. Durant's shop stood in what is now the yard in front of the house of Mr. William E. Perley. He was an exceptionally fine workman. His father lived in Georgetown. He sold out to Joseph Pike of Bradford in 1829. Mr. Durant was a typical New Englander. He is said to have been born in Boxford in 1790, and to have spent his boyhood in that town and at Topsfield, beginning to do blacksmithing in Boxford on his own account in 1812. After selling out in 1829, he went to Canada, but about a year later returned, settling in Boston, where he became a trader, and soon afterward a note broker. About 1845, he returned to Canada, living at Stanstead. In 1865, his wife died, and he brought her remains to Haverhill, Mass., in his carriage, which was a combination of runners and wheels. He then lived with his wife's relatives in Haver- hill. The assessors learned that he had wealth, and taxed him two thousand dollars, which they collected. Being averse to paying taxes, he gave the Massachusetts bible society fifty thousand dollars, which was all his property, upon condition that they pay to him ten per cent annually. He was then seventy-seven years of age. He died in 1889, at the age of ninety-nine, bequeathing to the same society all his estate which amounted to about one hundred and thirty-live thousand dollars more than his previous gifts. In the same year that Mr. Pike bought out Mr. Durant he sold to Elbridge Little of Bradford. Mr. Little kept a store ; and, in 1830, he sold the blacksmith's shop to Moses Kimball. The shop stood in what is now the front 220 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. yard to the house of Mr. William E. Perley. When Mr. Little bought the plaee he mortgaged it back to Mr. Pike for all it was worth. In less than a year Mr. Pike re- sumed possession. He was a shoe-manufacturer. Upon his death in 1830, the place Avas sold by auction to Capt. William Farnham of Boxford for $840. Mr. Pike always lived in Bradford. Mr. Farnham lived here and at the Crowninshield place in Topstield. When he died in 1844, the place descended to his wife's brother and sister, Moses Kimball and Mrs. Capt. George Pearl. While they owned it, the house was occupied by A. P. Hovey and E. E. Bean. Mr. Kimball and Mrs. Pearl, in 1875, sold out to D. F. and William F. Harriman. The latter has resided here since that time, and now owns the place. 246. Residence of W. E. Perley. — Mr. William Elbridge Perley's house was built by Benjamin Woodbury about 1860. He was a blacksmith, and worked in the shop here, mentioned in No. 245. He died in 1862, and his adminis- trator sold the place to John G. Harriman of North An- dover. Mr. Harriman resided here until 1865, when he sold out to Sarah E., wife of Augustus Williams of North Andover. In 1871, she sold the place to Mr. Perley, who has since resided there. 247. Residence of A. J. Henly. — Mr. Alonzo J. Henry built his house in 1867, and his barn the year before. He built his blacksmith's shop about the same time, hired a man to teach him the trade, and carried on an :ictive and lucrative business until his health failed, nearly a score of years ago. Since then, he has devoted most of his time to agricultural pursuits. THE DWELLINGS *0F BOXFORD. 221 248. Eesidence of I. W. Andrew. — The residence of Mr. Isaac W. Andrew was built by Thomas Chadwick shortly after he bought the land here of Samuel Chadwick in 1788. In 1808, he sold the farm to Edmund Kimball a merchant of Newburyport. Mr. Chadwick was son of Dea. Thomas and Mary (Porter) Chadwick, and was born in Boxford in 1751. He married Susanna Porter in 1796, and resided here until he sold out. Among his children were Mary P. and Thomas R. Chadwick. Mr. Kimball conveyed the farm to Abijah Northey, jr., a merchant of Salem, in 1814. Mr. Northey resided here until 1835, when he sold out to Samuel Groce, another mer- chant of Salem, who lived here till 1837. He then sold the place to Jonathan Andrew of Boxford. Mr. Andrew was a native of Maine, and a lineal descendant of Robert An- drews, one of the first settlers of Boxford. One of his sons was John Albion Andrew, the loved war-governor of Massachusetts, who was reared on this farm. After the decease of Mr. Andrew, his son, the present owner and occupant, came into the possession of the place and has since retained it, having been for many years an official in the Boston custom house. 249. Dr. Eaton House. — Rev. Peter Eaton was born in Haverhill in 1765, graduated at Harvard college in 1787, and was ordained over the church in West Boxford in Oc- tober, 1789. The next spring he bought of Moses Porter for two hundred pounds, about forty acres of land a quarter of a mile west of the church, and on it erected his resi- dence, lie married, first, in 1792, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Eliab Stone of Reading. An infant daughter, Mary, 2*J 222 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. died :it the age of fourteen months in 1797, and the follow- ing is her epitaph : — "Early, bright, transient as the morning dew- She sparkled was exhal'd and went to heaven." Mrs. Eaton died in the winter of 1823-24, and the fol- lowing obituary notice appeared in the column of deaths of the Salem Gazette, in its issue of January 20, 1824 : — "In Boxford, on Thursday evening, Mrs. Sarah Eaton, wile of Rev. Dr. Eaton. She appeared as well during the day as usual, rode out to visit a sick friend, and in the evening, while sitting with the family, her work was ob- served to fall from her hands ; she was speechless, and ev- idently deprived of her reason. She continued to breathe until 12 o'clock, when the lamp of life was extinguished." He married, secondly, the widow Sarah Swett of Ando- ver. In this house he resided through his ministry of filly-seven years, and died in 1848, at the age of eighty- three. He was distinguished for his generous spirit and moral worth, and was loved by the flock over which he had the spiritual charge. Among Dr. Eaton's children were Pe- ter Sidney, born here in 1798, a clergyman at Amesbury, now Merrimac ; John Hubbard, born here in 1806, a min- ister, and connected with the American Tract society ; and Mary Stone, who married the late Moses Kimball of Box- lord. Dr. Eaton sold his farm to Jonathan T. Barker of An- dover in 1847, the year before his death. In 1864, Mr. Barker sold out to Henry Barker of Boxford, who resided upon it till 1880, when he conveyed the place to Lawrence Carey of Lawrence, who afterward resided here. Mr. Barker removed to Peabody, where he died three or four years later, upward of eighty years of age. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 223 250. Residence of J. Henry Nason. — The farm of Mr. James Henry Nason was in the possession of Joseph Eames before 1730. In that year he sold it to his brother Nathan Eames. The farm then consisted of a hundred acres, with house, barn, etc. Joseph Eames was a son of Robert and Rebecca (Blake) Eames and was born in Boxford in 1681. He married Jemima , and had nine children born here, viz. : Abner, who died in 1745, at the age of thirty-four, unmarried ; Jonathan, who lived at No 212 ; Joseph ; Na- than ; Jacob, who married Anne Wallis of Salem in 1744 ; Moses, who married Rebecca Johnson of Andover in 1752, and died in 1754; Mary, who died in 1749, aged twenty-eight; Jemima, who died in 1745-6, aged twenty- one; and Hannah, who married Jacob Buck of Haverhill in 1752. Nathan Eames (or Nathaniel, as he was at first called) was born in 1685. He married, and lived on this farm from the time of his purchase of it in 1730 to 1762, when he sold to Joseph Robinson, a yeoman of Andover, for £800. The farm then consisted of one hundred and thirty- one acres, with the house, barn, etc. Nathan married Mary , who survived him. He died suddenly Jan. 11, 1765, aged eighty years. His widow died July 17, 1765, at the age of seventy-eight. They are not known to have had any children. Joseph Robinson was son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Ste- vens) Robinson of Andover, where he was born in 1710— 11. He married Mehitable Eames of Boxford in 1733. In the spring of 1770, he advertised this farm for sale in the Essex Gazette in its issue of March 13-20, 1770. The following is a copy of the advertisement : — "To bo fold, by the Subfcriber, in the North Parifh in Boxford, a FARM of about one hundred Acres of good Land, confisting of good 224 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Mowing, Tillage, Pa (luring and Orchard, with a large Dwelling-Houfe, with throe Cellars under it, two of which are pointed with good white Lime; alio ;i large Barn, a Cyder Houfe, Mill, and Prefs under it. — Said Farm is well wooded and watered, and chiefly well fenced with good Stone Wall, and is one Mile and a Quarter from the Meetiug-Houfe in faidPariih. Joseph Robinson." Probably Mr. Robinson did not find a purchaser for his place as he continued to reside here until his death, which occurred in 1777, at the age of sixty-seven. His wife died in 1783, at the iige of seventy. Their six children were born in what is now North Andover, and were as follows : Nathan, who died in infancy ; Mary, who married Henry Bodwell of Andover; John, who succeeded his father on the homestead : Mehitable, who was the wife of James JOSKPH KOBINSON HOUSE. Frye of Andover; Elizabeth, who died in 1777, at the age of thirty-one, unmarried ; and Jeremiah, who died un- married in 1780, at the age of twenty-six. John Robinson was a major in the militia, served in the French war, and also in the Revolution, and was a justice of the peace. He was instrumental in preventing a mutiny THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 2 25 among the soldiers during the terrible winter they spent at Valley Forge, and for this and other valuable services General Washington presented him with a sword, which is now in the possession of his great-grandson Prof. John Robinson of Salem. Mr. Robinson was born in Andover in 1739, and married Rebecca, daughter of Daniel Wood of Boxford in 1763. He was also a deacon of the Sec- ond church ten years. About 1790 he built on his own land the house now in the possession of Mr. Paul C. Davis (No. 251), to which he removed. He died there in 1810. Mr. Robinson's daughter, Rebecca, married Isaac Bar- ker of Andover in 1790. To Mr. Barker, Mr. Robinson conveyed this farm in 1804. Mr. Barker lived here until after 1820, and then removed. He sold the place to his brother-in-law Nathan Robinson of Salem in 1827. The place was next occupied, but not owned, by Oliver Foster who was son of Israel Foster, and was born in No. 93 in 1799. He married Rebecca Foster, his cousin, in 1823, and resided here. He had but one child, Charles Oliver Foster, born in 1824, who resided upon the place with his mother and died unmarried in 1875. Mr. Foster died a year after his marriage, and when his son was only eighteen days old. In 1828, his widow married her old lover Benjamin Robinson, jr., who wasason of Benjamin, and a grandson of Major John Robinson, who formerly owned this place, and was probably born here in 1797. In 1831, Mr. Robinson bought this farm of the owner, Nathan Robinson of Salem, having resided here since his marriage. About 1845, he took the old house down, and erected, from rocks taken from the south shore of Mitchell's pond, the present stone edifice. Over the front door are two parts of a stone in which are imperfections having the appearance of a fossil butterfly. An old stage-driver has told us that he often stopped his horses here, and let his 226 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. passengers take :i look at the curious stone. Mr. Robin- son died here in 1855, having been the father of Eliza Ann, Rebecca Jane Foster, John Vose, Charlotte Priscilla, and Enoch Kimball. The sons now reside in Peabody. Mr. Nason has owned and occupied the place several years. 251. Residence of Paul C. Davis. — The residence of Mr. Pan! C. Davis was erected by Maj. John Robinson (who lived at No. 250) about 1790. He died here in 1810, at the age of seventy. The following obituary notices of him are copied from the Salem Gazette, the first from the death column of its issue of Feb. 2, 1810, and the second from the issue of Feb. 9, 1810. "At Boxford, on the 22d alt. Joiin Robinson, Esq , aged 70. He had been to a neighbour's, and complained of feeling a little unwell, but being better, set out for home with a Mr. Carlton ; they rode together about half a mile, and parted; Mr. R. rode about fifty rods further, when it is supposed he got off his horse, fell on his face, and instantly expired. He was seen by a woman, who alarmed Mr. C. when he re- turned and found him a little out of the path, dead : this was not more than five minutes from the time they had parted. He was subject to fainting fits; and when on horseback, he felt one coming on, he us- ually got oft' and sat down. He was a good man. Blessed ai-e the dead that die in the Lord." "■Tribute to departed worth — We lately mentioned the sudden death of John Robinson, Esq., of Boxford. We have since received the following notice of his character: — Few characters have been more endeared to the circle of their acquaintance than the deceased. His disposition was mild and amiable; his manner modest and unassuming. Through life, he was the open, undeviating friend of morals, religion and good government. Endowed with a sound understanding and discerning mind, his conduct was regulated by the maxims of wisdom and experience. The offices which he sustained, both civil and mili- tary, were discharged in a manner honorable to himself. In the com- mencement of the revolutionary contest, he discovered himself the firm and inflexible patriot. Taking an active part in the Held, his bravery in the hour of peril secured to him the confidence of his associates in danger. Since the establishment of independence, he has regarded the THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 227 fortunes of his country with anxious solicitude. Pure in his morals, rational in his religion, the beauties of each were exemplified in his life. In his death, his family have lost a tender friend, society a val- uable member, religion an ornament, and his country a useful citizen." Major Robinson's widow died about three months after himself, at the age of sixty-seven. His large family of eleven children were born at No. 250, and were as follows, viz. : Israel ; John, who became a physician, and died in 1790, at the age of twenty-five; Rebecca, who married Isaac Barker of Andover, and lived at No. 250 from 1804 ; Benjamin, who also probably lived at No. 250 before his brother-in-law 7 Isaac Barker died ; Nathan, who settled at Salem, and who was the father of Dr. Horatio Robinson of that place; Aaron, who lived in Andover, Danvers and Salem, and who was the grandfather of Prof. John Robin- son of Salem; Deborah, who married Samuel Spofford, and lived at No. 252 ; Elizabeth ; Joseph ; Sarah ; and Jeremiah. The next year after Mr. Robinson's death, his adminis- trator, Charles Foster, sold the farm to the deceased's son Aaron Robinson. In 1813, he sold it to Joshua Emery of Newbury, a housewright. Mr. Emery lived here four years, till 1817, when he sold out to John Bacon, Esq., of Boxford. The Rev. Samuel Hopkins Emery of Taunton was a son of Joshua, and was born here in 1815. In 1818, Mr. Bacon sold the farm to SethBurnham, son of Rufus Burnham, who lived at No. 63. On the after- noon of Saturday, August 8, 1829, there was a thunder shower, during which Mr. Burnham's barn was burned. The tol lowing account of it is copied from the Salem Ga- zette of August 11, 1829:— "The; storm commenced at Dr. Eaton's parish, West: Boxford, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, . . . attended with very severe thunder and lightning. The wind veered from South West to North Eastand Mew 228 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. almost a hurricane. The rain fell in torrents, accompanied with hail about the size of walnuts, prostrating the corn and grain in every di- rection, and destroying more or less glass. A barn, belonging to Mr. Burnham, was struck by the lightning and burnt to the ground, with its contents, — hay, grain, farming tools, chaise and wagon, &c. The dwelling house of Mr. Burnham was saved by the active exertions of his neighbors. The wind blew so violently atone period of the storm, that the people hastened to the parts of their houses most remote from their chimneys, in the expectation that they would be blown over." Mr. Burnham lived here until 1857, when he soM out to Rev. Gabriel H. DeBevoise of Andover. Mr. Burn- ham married, in 1818, Caroline, daughter of Edmund Herrick, who lived at Nos. 153 and 170, and had one child, Charlotte. Mrs. Burnham is still living, and, we believe, resides in Waltham. Mr. DeBevoise sold out to Hon. William A. Russell of Lawrence in 1867, having removed to Walpole, N. H. We believe he is now residing in western Massachusetts. In 18(38, Mr. Russell sold the place to Mr. John Barker of North Andover. Mr. Barker lived here until 1873, when he sold to Mr. Davis, the present owner and oc- cupier. 252. Residence of Miss R. W. Cakleton. — Where Miss Re- becca W. Carleton resides stood the Samuel Spotford house, which was probably built, about 1805, by Isaac Barker, who owned No. 250. Mr. Spotford was living here in 1808, and probably hired the house of Mr. Barker, their wives being sisters. Mr. Barker sold out to Mrs. Spoflord in 1817. Mr. Spotford was born at No 83, in 1764, being son of Amos Spotford, married Deborah Robinson in 1793, and was drowned in Great pond in Andover, in January, 1833. He had lived a short time in Portland, Me., before going to Andover, and came from Andover to Boxford in 1817. They had nine children: Rebecca, who married THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 229 Peter Pearl ; John, who was drowned in the Merrimac river; Joseph, who died in Haverhill; Amos, who was drowned in the pond near the house in 1814, when in his seventh year; Sarah, the mother of Hiram N. Harriman, Esq., of the Georgetown Advocate; Harriet, the mother of Mr. George B. Austin, now residing in No. 280; Na- than, who was lost at sea; and two others. The house was burned some years ago. Miss Carleton's residence was a shop that was moved there, we believe. The place is now owned by Mr. James H. Nason, who bought it of Robert E. Carleton of Lawrence in 1877. 253. Sargent Cellar. — There is an old cellar in Mr. D. M. Cole's orchard, between the late John Pearl's and Miss Carleton's houses, over which stood a house once occupied by a family named Sargent. The orchard is now known as the Sargent orchard. The head of the family was Mo- ses Sargent, who came from Methuen, and married, in 1767, Esther, daughter of Stephen Runnells. The house has been gone nearly a century. 254. Residence of J. M. Pearl. — The residence of the late John Pearl was probably built by Daniel Mitchell about the time he purchased this land, and the old Ilovey place across the street, of the heirs of Luke Ilovey in 1812, as stated in No. 255. Mr. Mitchell lived here until about 1860, when John Pearl bought the place. He lived here until his death in 1890, since which time his widow and son John M. Pearl have resided on the place. 30 230 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 255. Luke Hovey Cellar. — There is an old cellar across the road from the residence of the late John Pearl known as the Luke Hovey cellar. This land, bounded on the northwest and northeast by the roads and on the south by Mitchell's, or Rush pond, and containing about forty-five acres, was owned in the seventeenth century by John Hovey of Topsfield. His son Luke, born in Topsfield in 1676, married Susanna, daughter of Moses Pillsbury, probably of Newbury, in 1698, and on this land of his father built himself a house in 1700. Aug. 28, 1706, his father deeded the land to him. Old Mr. Hovey had a "great English bible," which he gave in his will to his son Luke, to be bequeathed by him to his son, and so down pos- terity. In the will of the son, who died in 1787, he ear- ned out the wishes of his father, and the bible is probably still in existence. Mr. Hovey died here in 1751, at the age of seventy-five, and his widow in 1767, at the age of ninety. They had nine children, viz. : — Susanna, who was born in 1699, and married, first, Aaron Brown, and, second, William Lake man of Ipswich ; Dorcas, who married John Foster of Andover; Hannah; Elizabeth, who married Benjamin Kimball of Wenham ; Luke, who lived here and at No. 254 ; Abigail ; Joseph, who lived at No. 283 ; Mary, who married William Woster of Newbury ; and Abijah, who married Lydia Graves of Haverhill, und re- moved to Lunenburg about 1750. In his will, Mr. Hovey devised this place to his son Luke. Mr. Hovey had built a house near the brook at the south- east end of his lot in which he lived the last few years of his life. The latter house came into the possession of bis son Joseph, who resided there. The old place was occu- pied by Luke Hovey, jr., who was born here in 1708, and THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 231 who married, first, Dorcas Kimball of Bradford, second, widow Esther Runnells, and, third, Mehitable English, having by the three marriages eleven children, whose names were Thomas (died at the age of three), Thomas (married Sarah Carlton), Elizabeth (married Brown), Abi- gail (married Baker), Olive (married Gage), Phineas, Luke (died in infancy), Luke (resided on the homestead), Washington, and Mehitable. Mr. Hovey's barn was struck by lightning in a thunder shower, July 14, 1772, and burned. The following is a copy of the notice of the fire which appeared in the Essex Gazette the next week : — "SALEM, July 21. "A large Barn, belonging to Mr. Luke Hovey, of Boxford, was fet on Fire, laft Tuefday, by a Flafh of Lightning, and entirely confutned, ■with four Tons of Englifh Hay." Mr. Hovey died in 1787, and his widow continued to reside in the west end of the house. His son Luke was given the farm, and he resided on it. He was born in 1749, married Hannah Kimball of Bradford in 1775, and died here in 1798. His heirs conveyed it, December 17, 1812, with the buildings thereon, to Daniel Mitchell, a cordwainer of Bradford. There were forty-six acres, of land, and the consideration was twelve hundred dollars. The heirs were Hannah Hovey of Boxford, widow, Isaac Hovey and Luke Hovey, both of Boxford, cordwain- ers, Celinda Hovey of Boxford, singlewoman, Leonard Hovey of Bradford, cordwainer, Dorcas Hovey of New- buryport, Guy Carleton of Roxbury, and his wife Abigail, and John Barnes of Deerfield, N. H., and his wife Susanna. The house was probably taken down about that time. 25 fi. Residence of D. M.Cole. — A short distance southeast of Mr. David Mi-dull Cole',^ residence once stood a house 232 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. built by a Mr. Sherwin, who resided here until near the close of the last century. This was a part of "Mr. Nelson's Great Farm" of two thousand acres, which was laid out to him in 1667. This particular portion of it was owned in 1708 by Capt. John Peabody of Boxford. Then, the line between this and the Pearl farm, was one rod east of this house. In 1708, Mr. Peabody let the place to Jabez Dorman of Topsfield, who married Hephzibah Perley of Boxford in 1715, had a son Jabez, born the next year, and both mother and son died before the year was out. In fact before the year had ex- pired he had married Abial Foster, and the next year had another son born, who was called by the same name. He immediately removed to Arundel, Me., where he was liv- ing in 1728. John Buckminster, or Buckmaster, as the name was of- ten spelt, also resided here in 1788, having come from Es- sex. His father probably lived here with John and John's sister Rachel, who married Joshua Brown in 1788, and lived in New Hampshire. (See No. 242.) John married Deb- orah, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Varnum) Wood of Boxford Nov. 29, 1788. She was born in No. 284 July 2, 1763. Mr. Buckminster was a seaman, and about all of his married life was spent on the ocean. In 171)1, when he was at Martinique, in the West Indies, his wife received from him the following letter : — "Martinique, Feby 28th 1791 "Ever Pear and Loving Wife once More I take this opportunity to inform yon that I am Well at Present and hoping these fe"\v lines Will find you the Same by the blessing of God I have Nothing New to Write you only We are in hopes to Sail in 25 Days — I Should have Wrote to Joseph but have Not time So beg to be Excused Likewise to fanny "Give My Duty to father and Mother and kind Love to all Enquir- ing friends "I Remain your Loving husband "John Buckminster." THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOKD. 233 He came home after the writing of this letter, and went away for the last time early in 1794. While at the port of Charleston, S. C, he sent the following letterto his wife : "Charleston March 8th, 1794 "My Dear — '•I Take this opportunity to Inform you that I am very well and Hope these few Lines will find you and the Children the Same. We had seventeen Days passage to Charleston We are now Lying Wait- ing for a freight and Expect to go to some part of Holland And Ex- pect to be back in about Seven Months. I Should be Glad the joiner would go on with the House as fast as possible. I wish you to Speak to your Uncle about a Deed of the Land. I was there the Day before I sailed, but He being Gone from Home I Could not see Him. If Ba- ker does not Get the boards as soon as the Joiner wants them, Send for them. If Carleton Does not take the leather of Baker Let him wait till I Come Home — If the Clapboards are not sentdowneto Chad- docks from Derry Let the Joiner Try and Get them. Get somebody to plough a Garden spot In the Spring "Remember me to Your father & mother &c And so I remain your Dear and Loving Husband "John Buckminster. "I send you something more than twenty pounds of Indigo which you may sell for what you Can or keep it till I come home The Indigo is to be left at Mr. Abel Greeuleafs in Newburyport." He brought from sea at one time a red silk umbrella, the first umbrella ever seen in this parish. His wife's moth- er, Granny Wood, called it a "brillio." His wife never heard from him again after she received this last letter. He sailed for Holland, as intimated in his correspondence, and when near there a shot from an armed vessel, engaged in the French revolution, took off his head. This was the first and only shot tired upon them. His age was only twenty-five. The young bride was thus left a widow with three children, the oldest of whom was only four years of age. She became insane, and afterward lived in a part of her mother's house, No. 284. Their chil- dren were as follows: Elizabeth, born Nov. 11, 1789, John Blake, Sept. 8, 1791 ; and Mary, April 20, 1793. 234 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Mrs. Buckminster died in October, 1804, at the age of forty-one. Of the children, Mary died Aug. 29, 1797, aged four years. Elizabeth, or Betsey, as she was com- monly called, was unmarried in 1813, when she was living in New Rowley (now Georgetown), and when visiting her brother John in Danbnry, N. H., became acquainted with Dea. John Taylor, whom she married. John B. was a member of the West Boxford company of foot in 1812, and married Charlotte Crombie of Georgetown (then a part of Rowley) in 1813. In the spring of 1815, he moved from Georgetown, where he had lived since his marriage, to Dan- bury, N. H. He stayed there until 1822, when he returned to Georgetown. In 1832, he built the house afterward belonging to his son, the late G. N. Buckminster, in which he resided during the remainder of his life, dying from the effects of a frozen toe, at four-score years of age, leaving a memory sweet with kindnesses, benevolence and Chris- tian fortitude. Probably from his marriage in 1792 with Hannah Por- ter this old house was occupied by Zachariah Bacon, who came from Bradford. The house was also occupied, at the beginning of this century, by William Porter and James Cobnrn. Mr. Coburn was living here in 1820. He was a son of David Coburn, who lived at No. 263, and was born in Nottingham-west, N. H., in 1783. The last occupant was Theodore Reynolds. The house was taken down in 1836 by its owner, Joshua T. Day. Mr. Cole built his residence in 1853, and has since re- sided in it. He is a son of Manly Cole, and was born in No. 236. 257. Doctor Bacon House. — The residence of the late EI- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 235 bridge Perley was erected by Dr. Josiah Bacon. He was a son of William Bacon, who is said to have moved here from Boston, and who is claimed to have been a descendant of Lord Francis Bacon, the distinguished philosopher and scholar of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Doctor Bacon bought this land in 1814 of his brother John Bacon, and probably built the house the same year. Doctor Bacon was born about 1785, and married Abi- gail Ayer about 1813. They had three children, Edward, Sally Ayer, who was born in 1816, and died, unmarried, in 1854, and Abigail. He practised medicine here from about 1813 to about 1840, when the influence of intoxicating liquor drove his patients from him, and shortly after led him to the town almshouse, where he died in 1855, at the age of seventy. His widow was for several years the housekeeper of General Lowe, and after his marriage with Mrs. Merriam, Mrs. Bacon built what is now the public library building in the East parish, and lived there until her death. Her daughter Abbie, born in 1821, lived there after her mother's decease until death released her from her loneliness in 1878. Edward Bacon, born in 1814, was found drowned in a pond in Groveland, Dec. 23, 1881, hav- ing evidently committed suicide. He was the last of the Doctor's children. John Bacon, Esq., the author of Ba- con's Town Officer, was the Doctor's brother. Squire Bacon lived in that part of Boxford, which is now in Groveland. The farm was quit- claimed to Elbridge Perley by Brad- street Tyler in 1841. Elbridge was a son of Benjamin Perley, and was born in Dunbarton, N. H., in 1810. Mr. Perley died here in 1876, and his widow and son John E. have since resided upon the place. Mr. William E. Per- ley, who resides in No. 246, is another son. Three of his sons served in the war of the Rebellion, and two died from the effects of the service. 236 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 258. Residence of M. P. Whittier. — The residence of Mr. Marshall P. Whittier was erected by his father Francis C. Whittier about 1850. He removed here from No. 278, and died some two or three years ago, since which time his son has resided upon the place. 259. Residence of J. H. Webster. — The old Pearl place was the tract of two hundred acres laid out to John Sandys, in right of his father Henry Sandys, in 1667. It was bound- ed on the southwest by "Mr. Nelson's Great Farm" of two thousand acres, and came into the possession of Joseph Dowding, a merchant of Boston, who sold it to Cornelius Browne, a farmer of Reading, for £70, Sept. 10, 1703. Mr. Browne probably came here the following spring and built the present house. His wife Susanna died here in 1734, at the age of seventy-four. In 1738, the place was sold by Mr. Browne to Richard Pearl of Bradford, housewright. Mr. Browne retained half of the house and barn. The farm then consisted of one hundred and forty acres. Mr. Pearl's father was John Pearl, from Skidby, Yorkshire, England, a miller by trade ; and his mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Holmes of Rowley. Richard was born in what is now Groveland in 1702. He built the original mill, in connection with another man, that occupied the site of the first factory of E. J. M. Hale in South Groveland. Richard lived first in Andover, and came to Boxford as above. About that time he erected in the rear of his house the first grist-mill that existed in the 'West parish. Richard died in 1793, at the age of ninety-one, his wife Sarah having died seven years previously. His daughter Elizabeth married Lt. Ebenezer THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 237 Peabody, who resided in No. 260, and his son Richard died of the small-pox in 1760, at twenty years of age. Mr. Pearl's son John succeeded him on the place. He was born in 1738, and married Eunice Kimball in 1765. He had a family of eleven children, the youngest of whom was Peter Pearl, who resided in No. 218, and another of them was Simeon Pearl, the grandfather of Mr. J. M. Pearl, who resides in No. 254. After Mr. Pearl's death his son John came into the pos- session of the place. He was born in 1768, and in 1794, married Mehitable Hall. He died in 18—. Their son Ru- fus died in the summer of 1797, aged but one year. The following is his epitaph : — "Fresh in the morn, the summer rose Hangs withering ere 'tis noon We scarce enjoy the balmy gift But mourn the pleasure gone." His son, George Pearl, was the next proprietor of the ancient homestead. He was born in 1798, and always re- sided there. When the old meeting-house in this parish was taken down in 1843, Mr. Pearl purchased the porch, and annexed it to the east end of his house where it still remains. He died in 1878, and his widow survived him several years. His family still reside upon the place. This is also the home of James H. Webster, Esq., a son-in-law of Mr. Pearl. Mr. Pearl was a prominent man, being the representative of the town to the state legislature in 1857. 260. Benjamin Peabody House. — The residence of the late Benjamin Peabody was built by his father, Lt. Ebenezer Peabody, about 17 — . Ebenezer was born in 1742, and served through the Revolutionary war, his special service being prosecuted with Col. Alden in his New York expe- dition in 1778 against the Indians, lie married, first, Eliz- 31 238 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. abeth Pearl in 17(54. She died in 1776, at the age of thirty- two, and he married, secondly, in 1780, her sister Sarah. He died in 1829, at the age of eighty-three. Mr. Peabody had twelve children, one of whom, Benja- min, horn in 1789, settled on the place in 1819. His wife was Rachel Hunting of Boston, whom he married in 1815. He went to Boston when quite young to live, and continued to reside there four years after his marriage. Mr. Peabody was a man of large size, and of an iron constitution. Mrs. Peabody was quite diminutive in stature, and was distin- guished for her kind and motherly qualities. He died in 1879, and she followed him three years later. Of their family of eight children, the oldest is the widow of Jonathan Edwards Foster, and resides in No. 92. The next married John P. Foster of North Andover. The next, Thomas Isaac, was a teacher of the Farm school in Boston harbor, and, in 1842, went out sailing with the boatman and twenty of his pupils, when the boat was upset and all were drowned. He was twenty-two years old. Caroline A. is the widow of the late Samuel H. Batchelder of Methuen. Eliza O. is the wife of Mr. Isaac W. Andrew, who resides in No. 248. Ada B. is the wife of Mr. William P. Cleave- land, who resides in No. 13. Benjamin Franklin, the youngest son, was the last of the family to reside on the old place. He died a few years ago, and the homestead is now owned and occupied during the summer months by a Mr. Wilmarth of Boston. 261. Residence of V. V. Moulton. — Mr. Valorus Valentine Moulton built his house in 1849, and has since lived in it. 262. ODGI Dodge built his residence about 1870. Residence of G. S. Dodge. — Mr. George Stanwood THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 239 263. Residence of Charles Stiles.— The house of the late Elijah Stiles was occupied in 1820 by David Coburn, who came from Nottingham-west, N. H. , about 1788. By his wife Sarah he had at least three children : David, who married here in 1797 ; James, who lived in No. 256 ; and William Merrill, who was born here in 1790. Dr. Jere- miah Spofford of Groveland, as guardian of Sarah Coburn, of Boxford, a person non compos mentis, sold this place to Benjamin Robinson of Boxford, yeoman, in 1840. The farm then consisted of twenty acres. Upon Mr. Robinson's death, his administrator sold it to Elijah Stiles of Boxford in 1842. Mr. Stiles died here in 1881, and his son Charles resides upon the farm, which lies on the northwest border of Johnson's pond, on a part of which he has fitted up a pleasure resort known as Stiles' grove. 264. Enos Reynolds House.— The old house that stood where the residence of Miss Harriet Reynolds stands, was built quite early in the eighteenth century, as in 1799 it was very old and dilapidated. In the old house, from the time of his marriage probably in 1754, lived Stephen Rnn- nells, as the name was then spelled and pronounced. His wife was Hannah Pearl. He was a cooper by trade, and died young in 1771, having had seven children. His widow continued to live here, and died in 1822, at the age of eighty-six. One of Stephen Rnnnells' children was Enos, who was born in 1757. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and was at the battle of Bunker hill, and went with Arnold to Quebec, where he was taken prisoner by the British, and afterwards escaping, swam across Lake Champlain on a 240 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORB. board and returned to his family who had given him up as dead. He was so disguised by small pox, from which he had suffered at Quebec, that his mother at first supposed him a stranger while drinking at the family well in the door-yard on his return. He was also with General Sul- livan in 1777 in his expedition against the Indians in the state of New York, — at Cherry Valley, Saratoga and other places. He was also one of the personal guard of Major Andre in his cell on the night before his execution, and was much touched by the demeanor of the condemned. In 1782, Mr. Reynolds married Sarah Simmons, and settled on the old place, which he carried on during the rest of his long life. He erected the presenthouse, raising the frame Sept. 11, 1799. Mr. Reynold* was a carpenter and did the work himself. It has been shingled twice and clapboarded once since it was built. Some of the timber and some of the finishing of the old house were used in the new. The panelling at the end of the dining-room and one side of the sitting-room was old when it was used again. Mr. Reynolds died in 1845, at the age of eighty-nine. He was a prominent man in the town, and possessed excel- lent qualities of mind, body and heart. He had twelve children, eight of whom we would specially mention as follows : — 1. Stephen, who became a sailor and ship owner, and about 1825 sailed to the Hawaiian Islands where he sold his vessel to King Kamehameha, w r ho sailed to England in it. The king died in England, thereby causing so long a de- lay in the payment for the vessel that Mr. Reynolds became firmly established in business at Honolulu, and remained there until 185(5, when he came home and died the next year, at the age of seventy-four. It is said that the natives tried to persuade him to become their king. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 241 2. Eliphalet, who was a shoemaker, and died in New York in 1838. 3. Samuel, who was a morocco dresser, and died in West Boxford in 1855. 4. Frederick, who was a carpenter, and died at the homestead in 1867, at the age of eighty-two. 5. Matilda, who married Jedediah Barker of Boston. Her husband died in 1868, and she returned to the old homestead where she died in 1884, at the age of ninety-six. 6. William, who was a sailor, being drowned in Bos- ton harbor in 1818. 7. Rebecca Eveline, who visited the Sandwich Islands alone at different times, going around Cape Horn the first time in 1851-52 and crossingthe Isthmus of Panama the sec- ond time in 1856-57, when her brother Stephen returned with her. She was a teacher distinguished for force of character, remarkable intellect, energy of will, integrity of conscience, and a spirit of self-sacrifice. She died in 1865, at the age of sixty-one. 8. Harriet, who was born in 1799, was the survivor of the family. In early life she taught school for ten years in her own district, and afterwards elsewhere. She was very pleasant and graceful in her manners. She died at the homestead in 1891, at the age of ninety-two. Miss Harriet Reynolds had a blue platter, brought from Delfthaven, presumably by the first Pearls who came over. It is of Delft ware, and used to stand on the dresser in the old Pearl house, No. 259. The groove of the dresser was not deep enough to secure it, so a nail was driven in, and the constant wear against the nail wore the edge of the platter to the depth of nearly an inch, so long had it been there. 265. Sessions Cellaij.— A hundred and twenty years ago 242 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Josiah Sessions lived on Sessions hill near the Reynolds place (No. 264) in West Boxford. Mr. Sessions was born in Bradford April 14, 1721, being son of Josiah and Anna Sessions of that town, lie mar- ried Martha , by whom he had a son Stephen born in Boxford, December 2(3, 1775, who married, in 1 7 i) 7 , Polly Adams of Epping, N. II. The family possessed but little character, and obtained their living mostly by stealing. The cellar of his house yet remains. The house was torn down in a search for stolen goods, some fifty years ago. The barn was taken down in 1840 or 1841, and part of the timber used in building on the kitchen part of the Reynolds house, No. 264. Joseph Sessions, who died "in ye strong-house" in 1779, was probably a member of this family. 266. Runnells Cellar. — Beside the Sessions house, No. 264, another one used to stand on the top of Sessions hill in the West parish, on the same side of the road as the res- idence of Mr. Daniel Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds lived there when he built his house. 267. Thomas Peabody Cellar. — On the opposite side of the road from the residence of Miss Harriet Reynolds, near the brook, is the site of an old house. It was probably built by Ensign David Peabody (from Xo. 140). He died in 1726, at the age of forty-eight, and his widow, in 1736, married Joseph Kinsman of Ipswich, whither she removed. She died here, very suddenly, in 1756, at the age of sev- enty-two, and was buried in the old cemetery in this parish. Mr. Pea body's son Thomas, born in 1705, lived here after his mother's marriage. He married Ruth Osgood of Ando- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 243 ver in 1738, and died here in 1758, at the age of fifty-two. His widow continued to reside here until she married Ben- jamin Milliken of Bradford in 1763. Mr. Peabody had nine children— four sons and five daughters. His son Ebenezer, who was born in 1742, married in 1764 and resided here until about 1790, when he built the house lately owned and occupied by his son Benjamin Peabody. See No. 260. Mrs. Barker, who was born and reared in the immediate neighborhood and who died at her residence in Boxford in 1884 at the age of ninety-seven years, said the house was destroyed before her remembrance. But the old-fashioned dark red roses, that used to grow in the garden, still spring up and bloom in the hay- field. 268. Kesidence of George Reynolds.— Mr. George Rey- nolds built his house in 187-, and has since resided in it. 269. Residence of D. L. Reynolds. — Mr. Daniel Lakeman Reynolds' farm was the Sherwin place. Ebenezer Sherwin from Linebrook parish, Ipswich, came to Boxford about 1695, probably with his parents. He died in 1712. By his wife Susanna, he had children, Hannah, Jonathan and Ebenezer. Ebenezer Sherwin, jr., was born in 1705-6, and married Hephzibah Cole in 1726. They had eight children born here, Ebenezer, John, Susanna, Elnathan, Samson, Mar- tha, Silas, and Hephzibah. In 1747, he sold the farm to Samuel Runnells of Bradford, and removed to Dunstable. Samuel Runnells resided here. He was born about 1674 at Port Royal, Nova Scotia, and came to Bradford, where he married Abigail Middleton about 1700. 244 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. Mr. D:miel L. Reynolds built his residence about 18-. He was a son of Theodore Reynolds, who lived in No. 256. 270. Micajah Kimball Cellar. — Near the Perry house in "West Boxford on the Bradford line, stood the Kimball house. It is said that on this place lived Thomas Kimball, who was slain by the Indians May 3, 1676, and his wife and five children, Joannah, Thomas, Joseph, Priscilla and John, carried away into captivity. The wife and children returned home on the thirteenth of the following month. The age of John, the youngest of these children, was but six months. The well to this house was rilled up by the owner of the lot, Mr. George W. Chadwick, about 1845. The house has been gone for a century, probably. 271. Kimball Cellar. — On the town line near Little pond was an old Kimball house. It stood about three rods from house No. 270. It is supposed by some people to have been built by the grandfather of the late Micajah Kimball, who lived in it. It was a long one-story house at first, but raised to two stories by David Kimball, father of the late Micajah, about 1780. In making this change, tradition says that the first cut nails used in this vicinity were driven. Another tradition is, that, in 1796, or the next year, Micajah Kimball, who then owned the place, raised the house to two stories. Mr. Kimball was a carpenter, and, it is said, worked in the erection of the Bradford and Haverhill bridge at that time, and carried home enough of cut nails, that had just come into use, to remodel his house with. Micajah was a son of David and Abigail Kimball and was born in Bradford Nov. 14, 1765. He had two brothers, THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 245 Benjamin, born Aug. 28, 1765( ?) , and Nicholas, bora Sept. 28, 1763. Micajah's father died early in this century, and the house continued to be occupied by Micajah and his wife until they became a charge to the town, about 1842, when it came into the possession of Mr. Chadwick's family. Micajah's sister Hannah and her daughter Sarah, who were both born here, remained some time after the removal of Micajah, and they too became town charges about 1847 or 1848. The house was then occupied by Francis C. Whittier (who moved from No. 276) for some years, until he re- moved to the Peabody house (No. 278) about 1849. It was taken down by Mr. George W. Chadwick in 1882. 272. The Perry Cellar. — The Perry house was built by Benjamin Kimball in 1821. Mr. Kimball married Betsey Pritchard of Bradford in 1819, and had two children born here, Elizabeth and Benjamin. John W. Perry lived here a number of years, and the family then removed to Bradford, where one of the sons, Benjamin G., was town clerk, and treasurer and collector. The place was latterly occupied for three years by Eu- nice, widow of the late Capt. Jonathan Chadwick of Brad- ford. Mrs. Chadwick died in 1879 at Mr. D. M. Cole's, whose wife was her daughter, and with whom she lived the last few months of her life. The house was then taken down. 273. Residence of G. W. Chadwick. — In Mr. George W. Chadwick's front yard stood a house, built by his mother in 1830. She was Eunice, a daughter of Dea. John Day (see No. 274). She was born in Bradford in 1799, and 32 246 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. married Jonathan Chadwick, a sea-captain, who was a son of Joseph Chadwick, Esq., in whose house he resided at the time of his death in 1830. George W. Chadwick and his brothers were born there. His sister Eunice was born in 1830 in Mr. Charles Perley's house (No. 274), in which her mother's father lived, and to which her mother removed after her husband's death, and lived until she built the house mentioned at the beginning of this article. She moved into it in December, ]830. Mrs. Chadwick lived here until 1856, then two years at North Andover with her sister Mrs. Harriet D. Brown, then came back to Box ford and lived at the Perry house, No. 272, which see. Mr. G. W. Chadwick built his house in 1856, and h:is occupied it ever since, all his children having been born there. 274. Residence of Charles Perley. — The farm of Mr. Charles Perley of West Box ford belonged to Samuel Kim- ball about 1790. Mr. Kimball was a son of Ephraim and Hannah (Potter) Kimball, and was born in Boxford in 1744. His parents removed to Shrewsbury, when Samuel was about eighteen. He stayed behind, and marrying Anna Webster of Haverhill, in 1768, settled on this place. His wife died here May 6, 1778, leaving one child, Anna, who died in 1794, unmarried, at the age of twenty-three. Mr. Kimball married, secondly, Elizabeth (Gage), widow of Benjamin Cole of Boxford in September, 1778. Mr. Kimball and his wife first belonged to the Bradford church, and in the spring of 1779, were dismissed from that tot lie Second church in Boxford. Mr. Kimball died Sept. 7, 1 71)0, at the age of forty-rive. By his second wife, he was the father of another child, Elizabeth, who was born in 1779. This daughter married Dr. William Gage, and con- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 247 tinned to reside here with the mother until 1805, when they sold the farm to John Day, jr., of Bradford. The family removed from town. Dr. Gage has descendants now oc- cupying important stations. One of them, Dr. William H. Gage, a grandson, was assistant physician at the Taunton insane asylum, and another is a superintendent of schools in the District of Columbia. The old house stood a little to the left of the lane lead- ing up to the west end of Mr. Perley's barn. Mr. Chadwick says he cannot remember the old house, but some of the out-buildings were standing in his younger days, about 1833-35. Mr. Day removed to this farm, where he lived during the remainder of his long life, and most of his children were born in this old house. His wife was Mary, daughter of Bradstreet Tyler, who lived at No. 279. Their first living child was Eunice, who was the mother of Mr. George W. Chadwick, and she was born at Ward hill, in Bradford, where her father then lived, in 1799. Mr. Day erected Mr. Perley's house in 1830, or shortly before. He was a deacon of the Second church from 1814 to 1848, and died in 1868, at the great age of ninety-one years and seven months. He was a son of John and Elizabeth (Ingersol) Day, and was born in Bradford in 1776. After Deacon Day's death, his son John became the owner of the place. He was born and always resided here, and was accidentally killed in his mill in 1879. He was dis- tinguished for his modesty, ingenuity and good farming. Since Mr. Day's death, his son-in-law, Mr. Pcrley, has been in possession of the farm. 275. John Hovey Cellar. — Toward the North Andover line from Mr. Charles Perley's residence (No. 274), in a 248 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. pleasant, picturesque valley, some distance in at the right hand side of the road, is an old cellar where a family of Hoveys lived. The house was probably built by John Hovey, nephew to Luke Hovey, the first of the name to settle in Box ford (see No. 255) , and son of John and Mary Hovey. He was born in Topsfield Aug. 27, 1699, married Mary in 1725, and probably immediately settled on this farm. They had six children, four daughters and two sons, John and Richard. The father died in 1778, aged seventy-eight, and the mother in the same year, six months later, at the age of seventy-seven. The son Richard, born in 1733, resided on this place. He was a great beekeeper. His brother John probably erected the Parker house (No. 276). Richard married Sarah Wood of Andover in 1757, and had eight children. His son John Hovey was born in 1770, and was a twin with Betty. Twins are apt to bepindling, but this case was a great exception. Mr. Hovey was a strong man of great endurance. He would carry a grist of two bushels of corn on his back to the mill at North Andover, a good two miles away. He would also bring his peat from the meadow in the same way in two-bushel creels. Of his great peach orchard, two ancient trees yet remain. John Hovey married Hannah Weed of Haverhill in 1796, and became the father of Richard, Moses, and other children. He was living here in 1820, but probably survived but a short time after that date. The house was gone shortly after 1820. It was two stories in height, about 32 x 24 feet, and had one of the large old-fashioned chimneys. The place is now owned by Dea. Nathaniel Gage of North Andover. His grandfather Gage first spread plaster in this vicinity, on this place as a fertilizer. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 249 276. Parker Cellar. — Towards the North Andover line from No. 275, and on the same side of the road in Mr. Nathaniel Gage's field, stood the Parker house, which was doubtless built by John, son of John and Mary Hovey, who was born in No. 275, in 1727. He married, first, Marcy Jackson of Rowley in 1753 ; she died in childbirth, probably in 1755, at the age of twenty-four. He married, sec- ondly, Mary Cole in 1757, by whom he probably had no children. His only child was Marcy, born in 1755. She married William Parker of Andover in 1781, and they re- sided on the place. They had eight children, the first seven of them being baptized at their house on one day, Aug. 15, 1797. The parents had been admitted to the church here the June before. William, the oldest child, on the day of his baptism, "was admitted to ye ordinance of the chh, upon condition of considering himself under the watch and subject to the discipline of the church." He was but fifteen years of age ; very young indeed to become connected with the church in those times. They had three sons and five daughters — William, Abigail, Hannah, Es- ther, Mary, Susanna, John and Benjamin. Mr. Parker either died or removed from the town in 1826, as he is taxed for the place and not for his poll that year. His sons Benjamin and John were taxed here for the last time in 1825. Mr. Parker had a remarkable dream, which, unlike most, came to pass to the letter. A man seemed to appear to him near the barn (which is yet standing) and told him that he would lose his whole family, naming them in the order they would die, the family then consisting of his wife and the four youngest children. The dream was fulfilled soon after. 250 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. In 1827, Aaron Henry came hereto live. He was away 1831-1833, here the next year, and from 1835 to 1843, inclusive, was taxed for the farm. He removed in 1844 to Bradford. He went to Springfield soon after, and was in trade there, then to Holyoke, and afterward to Charlton, Mass., where he died in 1858. His widow died at Chic- opee, in July, 1883. Their three sons, William, Parker and John C, lived here probably, during the interval when Mr. Henry was away, 1831-1833. John Thompson lived herein 1845, andFrancis C. Whit- tier soon after, subsequently moving to the Kimball house, No. 270. The house was taken down about 1853, and a part of the lumber was used in building a house on Ward hill, in Bradford, now owned by John Richardson. The house was two stories in height and measured about 32x28 feet, being finished with dado boards. It faced the west, and the chimney was in the middle. The well was about three rods south of the house. John Day bought the farm about 1853, and took the house down. About four years later he sold to Dea. Daniel K. Gage. It is now owned by Dea. Nathaniel Gage. 277. Warren Perley Cellar. — About 1850, John Day, jr., built a house for Warren Perley near No. 276. Mr. Per- ley lived in it two or three years, and then removed to Bradford, where he now resides. After his removal, it was sold by Mr. Day to Joshua Ellis of Ward hill, Brad- ford, whence it was removed by twenty-eight yoke of oxen. It measured 32x16 feet, and had an ell. 278. The Hanson Cellar.— The old black house that lately THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 251 stood near the residence of Mr. Geo. B. Austin, was known as the Hanson house ; why, we do not know. This house was probably built by a Mr. Hovey. Esther Hovey married Peabody, which gave it the name of the Peabody house. It came to Mr. Peabody's son Daniel, after the death of his parents, and he died while dressing to be married to Sally, daughter of Abraham Tyler. Francis C. Whittier moved from No. 270 to this house about 1849 ; and after living here two or three years moved to his new house No. 258. THE RUINED HOUSE. "Gloom is around thy lonely hearth, silent house, once filled with mirth." Mrs. Hemans. "0 lonely ruin, that erewhile didst lift Thy time-worn frame against the tempest's shock, But met it firmly, e'en as breasts the wave In its wild wrath, the surge-repelling rock,— "Lonely and silent,— silent ! no, a voice Comes from the wakened echoes of the past, Through the dim vista of departed years, I see their lengthened shadows broadly cast. "Gay sounds of mirth were in those dim, old walls, In those bright days when time went lightly by, There were glad voices round the pleasant hearth, And love beamed kindly from th' approving eye. "Then childhood's careless glee in merry shout, And pleasant song in joyous strain were poured, Old age was tended with endearing care, And friends were bidden to the welcome board. "They parted, and all desolate and lone Thou stood'st awhile, like them to pass away, And I a moment muse beside the spot That saw thee slowly yielding to decay." 252 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 279. B. Tyler House.— The house near Mr. George B. Aus- tin's residence was formerly owned by Bradstreet Tyler. It descended to his daughter, and her heirs sold it many years ago to Mr. Austin, who still owns it. It is a tene- ment house. 280. Residence of G. B. Austin. — The house of Mr. George B. Austin was built by Bradstreet Tyler about 1800. He died in 185-, and the farm descended to his daughter Charlotte, who had married Charles Pearl. After Mr. Pearl's death, his widow married Mr. Austin, who bought the farm in 1879, and ha since resided upon it. 281. Residence of Mrs. J. P. Cole.— The residence of Mrs. Joseph P. Cole was built by Mr. Caleb M. Cole in the winter of 1854-55. Mr. Cole bought the land, one half acre, of Bradstreet Tyler in October, 1854, and sold it with the house thereon in March, 1855, to Joseph P. Cole, whose widow has owned it since his death. 282. Residence of J. W. Chadwick.— Dea. Joshua T. Day bought the place now in the possession of Mr. James War- ren Chadwick in 18—, and died in 1875. Shortly after- ward the place was purchased by Mr. Chadwick, who has made the farm one of the most productive in New Eng- land. 283. Ivory Hovey Cellar.— Near the brook, on the west side of the road between the houses of Mr. J. Warren Chad, wick and the late Asa Kimball, stood an old Hovey house. THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 253 It was erected by Luke Hovey, who settled at No 255, and he and his wife spent the last few years of their lives here. Mr. Hovey died in 1751, and this place then came into the possession of his son Joseph Hovey, who was horn at No. 255, in 1712. He married Rebecca Stickney of Bradford in 1744, and resided here. He was a deacon of the church in thisparish from 1759 till his death, which occurred in 1785, when he was seventy-three years of age. His wife died in 1788. Their children were, Dolly, who married Samuel Clark of Danvers. Joseph, who lived here awhile, and then settled at No. 289. Lucy, who married Thomas Cross of Bradford. Ivory, who lived on the homestead. Lois, who died at the age of six years. Rebecca, who married Amos Perley. Amos. Lois, who married Amos Gage. Thomas. Joseph Hovey was succeeded on the place by his two sons, Joseph and Ivory. Joseph was born in 1746 ; and he married Mary Porter in 1773. In November, 1790, he was the lucky owner of ticket Mo. 760 in the fifth-class of the state lottery, which drew a prize of a thousand dollars. With this money he wisely purchased farm No. 289, to which he removed. Ivory Hovey, the other son, continued to reside on the homestead. He was born in 1750 ; married Lucy Peabody in 1772, and lived here until his death. He became a cap- tain in the militia, and was also an officer in the war of the Revolution. He died in 1832, at the age of eighty-two, and in the death column of the Salem Gazette of the next week appeared the following obituary notice: — "In Boxford, August 27, Capt. Ivory Hovey, aged 82 Aii ardent patriot and revolutionary soldier — who was in the hottest of the bat- tle of Bunker Hill — sustained theofficeof orderly Sergeant under ('apt. Robinson in the trying scenes in New Jersey and Long Island— was in the battle of Trenton and distinguished himself at sundry times by many fearless and heroic deeds — was a man of noble and generous heart — an obliging personal friend, and an active friend of humanity." 33 254 THE DWELLING8 OF BOXrORD. Captain Hovey had several children, one of whom, Charles, removed to Warren, Me., in 1803, and established the tanning business there, being joined two years later by his brother Ivory. A few years after Captain Hovey 's death, there remained no vestige of this home, but the narcissus of the old gar- den, which still springs up near the brook. 284. Joseph Wood Cellar. — Between the houses of Mr. J. Warren Chadwick and the late Asa Kimball on the same side of the road, and reached by a lane, was the dwelling of "Granny Wood." This was probably the home of Daniel Wood, son of Dr. David Wood, who willed to Daniel in 1744 a farm bought of Nathaniel Peabody. Daniel was born in 1706, and married Sarah Peabody in 1731. They had three sons and four daughters. The eldest son and second child was Joseph, who was born in 1734. He married, in 1753, Mary, or Molly (as she was generally called), Var- num of what is now North Andover, and from the district called Pilferville. Joseph Wood died in 1801. His wife had the notoriety of being the first to bring tomatoes into this neighborhood, about 1809. She called them Jacobins, from the political opinions of the person of whom she obtained them. She used to go to Salem to market on horse-buck, and it is said she, through her horse, first brought to this place that farmer's pest known as white- weed, or by whatever name it may be called. Granny Wood was a good neighbor, and beloved by all for her kind disposition. Her nick-name vvas"for-ti-knavv," a favorite expression of hers, and a contraction possibly of ''far as I know." She used to relate with glee how, once when she was riding to Salem horseback, she saw a bird fly from its nest. She dismounted, took the nest, which had THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 255 three young birds in it, and on getting to Salem sold nest and birdlings for three coppers. The children of Mr. Wood were as follows : — 1. Josiah, horn in 1754, was a revolutionary soldier, and at last lived in New York state. 2. Sarah, born in 1757, married Joseph Carleton, who lived in No. 85. 3. Judith, born in 1759, lived in North Andover. 4. Joseph died at the age of thirteen months. 5. Deborah married John Buckminster, who lived in No. 256, and died here in 1804. 6. Daniel was born in 1765. 7. Nathan, born in 1767, was a shoe-maker, and lived in Salem. He had several daughters and one son, the latter having deformed hands. 8. Joseph lived on the place with his parents. 9. Fanny, born new year's day, 1774, married George Underwood of Salem in 1799, and lived in that town. Their children were, Sally, who was the originator of the expression, com- mon in this neighborhood, "too tough to die," because granny was seventy-five years old and still alive ; Joseph ; and Fanny. Mr. Wood's son Joseph always lived at home. He was born in 1770, and married Polly, daughter of Runnells Foster in 1796. She was a pretty woman. Of their children, Mary died of a fever, at the age ot ten; Isaac disappeared, and at last turned up at Saybrook, Conn. ; and Deborah, who was brought up by her aunt Judith Wood in North Andover, still resides in Boxford, at the age of nearly ninety. Joseph Wood had a rosebush, which bore white double blossoms. This was the original of several in the neigh- borhood. He used to train his that he might gather the flowers from the second-story window. The barn here stood in the field for some years after the house was gone; and there were quince bushes near the cellar. 256 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 285. Asa Kimball House. — The residence of the late Asa Kimball was built by James Carleton in 1846. Mr. Kim- ball lived here many years, and died about 1885. His widow has since resided here. 286. Moses Hale Cellar. — Across the street from the res- idence of the late Daniel Wood was an old cellar. The house that stood here was built by Pelatiah Lakeman, probably about 1767, the time of Mi-. Lakeman's marriage with Eunice Barker of Andover. He was a son of William and Susannah Lakeman, and was born in Boxford in 1742. His father came from Ipswich about 1731. Pelatiah had six children born here, Nathan, Daniel, Jedediah, Isaac, Stephen and Betty. The family moved out of the West parish in 1780-81, and in 1793 were dismissed from the church here to the Second church in Exeter, N. H. His father William Lakeman lived until 1739 in the old Pearl house, No. 259. Jan. 3, 1777, this place was owned by Job Tyler (whose wife was Elizabeth), who had probably lived in No. 218. On the date named, he sold this place to the Rev. Moses Hale, for £240, and removed to Rindge, N. H. There were then thirty-two acres of land, a house, barn and shop. Mr. Hale lived here. He was born in Rowley, Feb. 19, 1749. He was a son of Rev. Moses Hale of Newbury, a graduate of Harvard college in 1771, and was settled over the Second church in 1774. Mr. Hale married Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Stephen Emery of Newbury (now West Newbury), about a year after his ordination, and his father thus records the event in his diary : "Dec. 28, 1775. Fair ; moderate and pleasant for ye season. We were at THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 257 Col. Emery's p. m., married my son Moses," etc. They had five children. Mrs. Hale died in April, 1785, and Mr. Hale followed her in May of the following year. Mr. Hale's epitaph is as follows : — "In the dark caverns of the fflent Tomb, The old, the young, the gay, all ages come. Here lies inter r'd the Prieft in fable urn ; Here meet his flock & each to duft return. Thefe iron gates no more fhall e'er be burft, Till heav'ns command fhall wake the fleeping duft, And then Creations vaft, immenfe fhall rise, And men with Angels throng th' etherial fkies. The God of Nature thus from heav'n hath fpoke, Nor Men nor Angels can his word revoke. It muft be fo ! then let my foul refign, And be prepared for his will divine." The following is Mrs. Hale's epitaph :— "Daughters of Eve of every age draw near Drop o'er this hallow'd urn the friendly tear Here lies Y e Pious Prudent cheerful Kind An active, vigorous Yet a Gentle Mind How Bright her virtues in Domeftic life The Careful Parent & the faithful Wife But what Sacred Peace what joy Serene Graced & Perfumed her dying words & mien With all Y e Chriftian Speaking in her Eyes She bids this World adiue & Gains her native Skies." After Mr. Hale's death the place came into the posses- sion of Lemuel Wood, father of the late venerable Daniel Wood. Mr. Wood died in 1819, at the age of seventy- seven. He had seven children, the sixth of whom was Daniel, who was born here Feb. 10, 1793. The house was afterward used as a school-house, from about 1836, by Miss Eveline Reynolds, who titled young ladies for teach- ing. She generally had about twenty-five scholars. The house was taken down about 1845. 287. Daniel Wood House.— The late venerable Daniel Wood 258 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXPORD. built his residence in the summer of 1820, hut it was not occupied till the following April. In 1835, he built on the back part. In 1849, he made some repairs, and in 185G shingled, clapboarded and painted the house, and added the pediment. In 1880, he put in the modern windows of four panes each, and the next year painted both outside and inside of the house. Mr. Wood was a son of Lemuel Wood, who lived across the street, in No. 286. He died in 1888 at the age of ninety-six, being until a few months before his decease as hale and hearty as in his prime. His son, William Hale Wood, always lived at home, and died in 1891 at the age of sixty-seven, leaving a widow. He was town clerk during the years of the Rebellion, and tilled other public offices. 288. A. P. Hovey House. — The house lately occupied by Mr. Albert P. Hovey was built by himself in 1885. He moved from this house to No. 233. 289. Barker Free School. — Where the residence of the principal of the Barker free school stands, was formerly the Clark house. William Clark, who was probably its builder, came from Reading, and bought the land in 1705. lie married Jean and had a son John born here in 1712, who died at two years of age. Mr. Clark was a weaver by trade. About 1730, he sold the place to Dr. David Wood. Shortly after, he became a pauper, and was boarded out in different families until he died at the house of Benjamin Porter, Feb. 8, 1742-43, being treated by Dr. Benjamin Foster. The place was occupied from 1733 by Dr. Wood's son David, to whom he gave the farm in his will which was proved in 1744. David Wood was born in 1709, married Matey Pea- THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 259 body ( ?) in 1733, and died in 1785, at the age of seventy- five. His widow was living in 1791. His children were, Huldah, who was of Box ford and unmarried in 1791 ; Mary, who married James Boynton, and lived across the street; Mercy, who died in 1753, at the age of* twelve; Irene, who died in 1753, at the age of four; and David, who died in 1762 at the age of eight. Irene died the next day after Mercy. In 1791, the heirs sold this place to Joseph Hovey, and removed to Methnen. Joseph Hovey was a son of Joseph and Rebecca (Stick- ney) Hovey, and was born at No. 255 in 1746. He mar- ried, in 1773, Mary Porter, who died in 1819. They had eight children, the youngest of whom, Thomas Stickney Hovey, born here in 1792, resided on the place. He was the father of Mr. Albert P. Hovey, and the last resident of this farm. Mr. Hovey's widow still resides in town. The house has been down for some ten years. The Barker free school buildings were erected in 1888, and the two principals who have lived in the house have been Stephen Cutter Clark and N. B. Sargent. 290. J. Boynton Cellar. — On the opposite side of the road from Xo. 289 was an old cellar, over which stood the house in which resided dames Boynton, who was killed at the bat- tle of Blinker Hill in 1775. He was a son of Nathan Boyn- ton of what is now Georgetown, and was born there in 1739. He married Mary, daughter of David Wood of Box- ford in 1763. They had live children. It is said that the musket he used on the dayof his death is preserved in some museum. Of the house we know nothing more. Mr. Boyutou's family removed to Methuen about 1780. 291. Residence of N. K. Fowler. — The house of Mr. Na- 260 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. than K. Fowler was erected by a man named Chadwick about 17 — . Before 1817 this place belonged to Moses Chadwick. The land, three acres, and buildings were set off to George H. Ingersoll of Charlestown, N. H., on an execution against Chadwick. He sold it to Daniel Adams, who lived at No. 239, in 1817. In 1823, Mr. Adams sold to Hannah Dale of Boxford, single woman. William R. Kimball, Esq., owned and occupied this house many years previous to the death of his first wife, and made extensive repairs on it about 1850. Mr. Fow- ler has lived here many years. 292. Dr. Foster Cellar. — A short distance north of the late residence of Mr. Albert P. Hovey is the site of the house of Dr. Benjamin Foster. Dr. Foster was born in Ipswich in 1700, being son of Benjamin and Ann Foster. His father was born in Ipswich in 1670, removed to Boxford from Topsfield in 1720, and had two children born here. Mr. Foster was a weaver by trade, and probably lived on this place. He removed to Billenca about 1729, and died at Lunenburg in 1735. Dr. Foster, the son, married Lydia Burbank in 1730, and by her he had several children, Caleb, Benjamin, Asa (these three, all they then had, died of the throat distemper in the fall of 1736, within a space of thirty-seven days, being aged five, three and one year re- spectively), Lydia, who married Jonathan Woodbury of Salem, N. H., in 1758, and Hannah, who died at the age of ten years. Jan. 17, 17(50, his wife died of the small- pox : and he married, the following year, widow Sarah Low of Ipswich. He died, of the asthma, Dec. 19, 1775, at the age of seventy-rive. Felt, in his History of Ipswich, says of him: "He had been in the practice of his profes- sion over fifty years, was a distinguished botanist, and a successful and skillful physician." THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 261 The following obituary notice of Doctor Foster appeared in the Essex Gazette, in its issue of Jan. 18-25, 1776 :— "Ipfwich, Dec. 23, 1775. Laft Tuefday evening died fuddenly of an afthmatic complaint, and yefterday were decently interred the remains of, Dr. Benjamin Fostkr. He feemed to be one of thofe genmfes defigned by nature for the practice of the medical art. In this em- ployment he fignalized himfelf by his uncommon fuccefs, for upwards of fifty years. In confequence of his extenfive fkill in Botany he made ufe chiefly of the Materia Medica of our own climate. He had a com- prehenfive undemanding of the animal economy; and had not only a thorough knowledge of the caufe diagnofticks, and prognofticks of a diftemper; and could accurately diftinguifh one difeafe from another; but was alfo moft ready in his application of the moft fuitable and proper remedies ; fo that he was at once a moft fkillful, able, and fuc- cefsful phyfician; and the many feeble and infirm fubjects in this and the neighbouring towns muft fincerely lament his lofs. He was up- wards of 70 years of age." Dr. Foster must have had a second son by the name of Benjamin, who survived him; as, April 21, 1777, Benja- min Foster of Boxford (who in his deed mentions no occu- pation), conveyed the homestead to Samuel Porter of Boxford, cordwainer, for £20. The description of the property, as given in the deed, is as follows : "bounded beginning at the northeaft corner of the Rev d M r Hales land thence running up the hill as the fence now ftands on the fide of the road to Deacon Chadwicks land, thence northwefterly on s d Chadwicks line to the pond, thence northeafterly on the pond to M r Hale's land & fo on f 1 Hales line as the fence now ftands to the first mentioned bounds together with the houfe & barn now ftanding on s d land containing about two acres & an half." Mr. Porter sold the place the following year, for £60, to John Barker, 3d, of Andover, yeoman. In 1781, Mr. Barker sold out to Rev. Moses Hale who owned the ad- joining homestead. The house and barn had probably been taken down by Mr. Barker, as they are mentioned in the deed to him, but in the deed he gives to Mr. Hale 34 2G2 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. no mention is made of them, and the consideration paid by Mr. Hale was only £13, 10s. The lot was afterward identified as a part of the homelot of Mr. Hale, who lived at No. 280. 293. M. Chadwick House. — The house vacated six years ago by Mr. Albert P. Hovey, near Mr. N. K. Fowler's, was a building used as a store by Benjamin Pearl, which stood where Mrs. William P. Cole's house now stands. It was eventually purchased by Moses Chadwick, then living at Mr. Fowler's house, who moved it to its present site, and modeled it into a house. Mr. Chadwick's widow afterward married Turner, and died about 1853. Samuel Green- wood, who afterward lived there, made additions to the barn. Mr. N. K. Fowler and others, beside Mr. Hovey, also lived there. 294. N. K. Fowler's Tenement House. — The building in which the free school was at first located was finished oil" for a house by Mr. N. K. Fowler, some eleven years ago, and we believe it had been used as a house in some stage of its existence. 295. Residence of C. E. Park. — The residence of Rev. Cal- vin Emmonds Park was built by Mr. James Carleton for the Second parish in 1845. The L was afterward built by Cle- ment & Abbott of Andover. The house was purchased the following year, and has since been occupied, by Mr. Park. He was a son of Rev. Calvin Park of Providence, U. I., where he was born in 1811, and was settled as colleague with Dr. Eaton in 184(>, coming from a pastorate of six years at Waterville, Me. His son Charles is a clergyman, THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFORD. 263 and was for several years a missionary in India, being now settled in the ministry in Connecticut. Mr. Park resigned in 1859, but continued his residence here, teaching a pri- vate school. He is a brother of Professor Park of the Andover Theological Seminary. 296. T. W. Dunn Cellar. — About where the West-parish public library building stands were two buildings, one a dwelling-house, the other a blacksmith's shop. Moses Chad- wick lived in the house, and worked at the trade of a black- smith in the shop. He was a son of David and Sarah Chad- wick, and was born in 1767. He married Sarah Sargent in 1789, and had five children, Mary, Sally, Dane, Permelia and Moses, who died in 1806. He sold his land, house, blacksmith's shop and his "trading shop," which stood on land of Moses Porter, in 1797, to Phineas Cole of Brad- ford. There was one acre of land. This afterward came into the possession of Benjamin Pearl, who built the resi- dence of Mrs. Wm. R. Cole. Subsequently, the place was owned by Thomas W. Dunn. At last, some one set fire to the buildings, and they, with their contents, were totally destroyed. 297. M. Chadwick Cellar. — At the east end of Mr. John I. Ladd's residence, near the highway, stood a two-story building, which was owned and occupied by Moses Chad- wick, who had lived at No. 296. In a part of the house Mr. Chadwick kept a store. The store was afterward kept by Albert Hervey, and later by Stephen Peabody. It was subsequently owned by Ephraim Foster, who, at his death in 1835, gave the Foster school fund to the parish ; and eventually came into the possession of Mis. Hovey, the owner of Xo. 242, who took the building down in 187.'). 264 THE DWELLINGS OF BOXFOED. 298. Residence of John Cass. — Mr. John Cuss, who had been living at No. 162, built his present home in 1891. He is a son of Mr. Thomas Cass of Topsfield, and a farmer. INDEX. Abbott. 100, 262. Academy, 105, 163. Accident-, 6.31. 53, 78, 121, 162, 172, 23s, 247. Adams, 5, 12, 25, 26, 33, 37, 73, 77, S5-87, 92, 97, 99, 162,165, 183,203,208,212- 215,242,260. Daniel, 97, 213, 214, 260. D. Lewis, 97. Edwin S., 208, 213. Isaac, 85. Israel, 87. Dea. John, 165. Joseph, 26. Joseph I! , 97. Sam'l, 165, 183. Advertisements, 72. 77, 160, 194, 223. Albany, N. Y.. 114. 203. Alcott', 54, 101, 103, 150. Rev. Win. P., 51, 10!. Alden, 207. Alexander, N T . Y., 26. Allen, Prof. Frederic D., 104, in:,. Almshouse, L6. 73.82, 179. Ambrose, David, 97. America, 166. Ames, l'.io-lit:;, 196, 197, 207, 223. Sec Karnes. John, 196. Jonathan, 191. Joseph, 191. Rebecca, 191. Robert, mi. Amesbury, Mass., 39, 222. Amherst, Mass., 132. N. II., 64, 65, 212. A in in ii, 199. Anderson, 204, 207, 208 Chas. R., 204. Roberl B., 207. Andover, Me., 20, 10. Mass., 3,20, 2K, 36, I!, 53, r,r,, 63, 75, 82, 83. '.111. in, 100, lor,, 106, 124. 151, 154, 172, IT:;. 177. JTs, 180, 1,-1. 186-189, 195, 197-199, -Jo,, 207, 211, 222-22;.. -221. 22S, 230. 236, 212, 2is, 249, 250, 201-20:;, Andre, 240. Andrew, l-aac W., 221, 238. Gov. John A., 128,221. Jonathan, 221. Andrews, 32, 46, 50-52, 09, 107, 116-118, 122, 121, 125, 127-1-2!). 131. 133, 142. 146, 15S. 160, 100, 171, ISO, 187,221. Asa. 52. Daniel, 115, 131. Dean, 115. Jacob, 116, 128. 133. James, 160, 171. John, 50, 124. Dr. John, 171. Joseph, 50. Mehitable, 187. Nathan, 124. 125, 171. Robert, 121, 127,221. Sam'l, 125. Tims.. 158. \Vm. M., 46. Andros, 131. Anecdotes, 12, 37, 12:;, 125, 111, 102. Angouleme, 135. Aquitaine, 135. Arnold, 239. Arrington, Walter 11., 13. Artist'; I'H'. 218. Arundel, Me., 232. Ashby, Mass., 200. Ashford, Conn.. '.19, 21:;. A sington, Bng., 00. Atheling, 135. Atherton, 155, 176, ITS, 187. Prof. Ceo. W., 155, 178. Otis, 155. Win. II., 170. Alkius N. II., 68. Auburn, X. Y., 01 Auctions, ;.' 109, 117, 10:;. Augusta, Me., 102, 103, 129, L30, 101. Austin, 229, 251, 252. Geo. B., 252. Averill, 54, 150, 159, 169, 170. Elijah, 109. John, 54, I .9. Joseph, ir.o. Aver, 201 107-109, II':, 189,202. s Prank, L08. Sam'l N., n>;. bis, no, L89. Bacon, ', ;, L07.227, 234, 235. Abigail, io7. John, 227, 235. Bacon, Dr. Josiah.234,235. Zachariah, 234. Badger, Wm. J„ 47. Bagley, l»:i. Bailey, John G., 7. Baker, 15.22,201, 231, 233. John, 201. Balch, 10, 75. Cornelius, 16. P.ald hill, 136. Baldpate hill, 75, 194. P.ald win. 23, 87. Eben S., 23. P.ald win, .Me., 204. Ballon, Murray R., 76, 80. Baltimore, Md., 129. Bansror, .Me., 32, 59, 103, 198. Barbers, 53, 133. Barker, 03, 82, 88, 100, 187, 198 2IS, 222, 225. 227, 22S, 211, 213, 250, 25S. 259, 261. Charlotte. 21S. Henry, 222. Isaac, 225, 228. John, 22s. 2oi. Jonathan T., 222. Barker Free School, 258, 259. 2^2. Barnard, 31 35 Panics. 11, 19, 21. 37, 10, 41. 43.44, 70. 101,231. Benj. s., u. Phineas, 10, 11. Phincas W.. 40, ! 1 Barnstead, N. II., 217. Barre, Ml . 101. Bartlett, Dr. Cyrus K., 149. Dr. Joseph K , 113. 149. B itavia, III.. 203. l'. itchelder, 68, 70, 79, so, 163, 105. 100, 238. Edward G., 80. Jacob, 79. John Q.. 80. Sam'l II., so. Baxter. 87. 134. . I ■:. E., 220. Bears, 142. Beam Beaufet, An old, 169. 203. Belfast, Me., 203. Bennington, \ I . SO, 64. Bentley, Jas., 179. (265) 266 INDEX. Bentlev, John, 177, 179. Berlin, Vt., 28, 63. Berry, 107, 170, 186, 187. Amos, 187. Horace, 187. Bethel, Me., 129, 145. Bevcrlv, Mass.,!), 111. 24, 03. 73, 84. 162, 164, 169, 170, 177, 18!). Bible, An old, 230 Biddeford, Me., 202. Billerica, Mass., 29, 260. Bixhv, 2. 8,9, 14, (JO. 7S. 105, 107, 114, 115, 136, 158, 159, 183. Daniel, 2, 8, 9. George, 60. Gideon, 00,158. Hasket, 14. Jonathan. 114. Joseph, 60. Sam'l, 105. Stephen A., 105. Black, 43, 44, 188. Daniel, 44. James, 43, 188. Blackburn, Geo., 177-179. Blacksmiths, 14, 15, 40, 51, 61,62, 69, 72, 107-109, 116, 117, 162, 195, 207, 208, 219, 220, 263. Blaine, 103. Blaisdell, 25. John S., 25. Blake, 90, 193, 196, 197, 223. Geo.. L96. Bligh, ,146. Blindness, 70, 83, 123. Bliss, 203. Blissville, N.B., 9. Blood. 203. Blue Hill, Me., 84. Bly, Win., 7. 00. Boardman, is, id. Daniel, 18, 19. Bod well, II, 72,82, 224. Daniel, 72. L. Warwick, 11. Nelson, 82. Bokenson, 3. Bolton, Mass., 51,122. Bonaparte, 217. Booth, 146. Win., 146. Boscawen, N. II., 72. Boston, Me. 31. Mass., 23.34,36, 45,46,61, 00, os, 72, so, s;, 88, '.'0. 94,104, 105, 110,111,130, 111, 119. 163, 165, loo, L69, 170, 174, ITS, 193, 198, 205, 219. 221, 235, 2:;o, ^;;>, 211. Bound out, 211. Bowers. 72. Boxford, Eng., 127. Mass., 1-201. Washington Guards, 150. Boynton, 170, 259. Jas.. 259. Braekett, 131. Bradford, Mass., 8, 32, 50, 71. 71. S3, ss, 89. 93. 97, 132, 102, 170, 185, lot;. 200, 202, 207. 210, 21.', 211. 210, 220, 231. 234. 230, 242-245, 217. 250, 253, 263. P.radshaw, 203. Bradstreet, 25, 70, 137, 110, lis, i.-,s, 200. Billy, 200. Moses, 70. Bremner, Rev. David, L83, 184. Bridge builder, 196. Bridges. 1."., 10. Josiah, 1"). Bridgton, Me., 9. 10, 20, 100, 122, 150, 100. Briggs, Rev. Isaac, 156, 157, 104. 105. Orchard, 150. Brighton. N. V., 144. British Provinces, 17. Brookfleld. Mass.. 78, 132. Brooklvn, N. Y.. 58, 86, 87, 122." Broughton, 135. Brown, 50, 59. 75, 100, 109, 134, lid, 186, 2oi. 2n ;. 207, 217, 230-232, 230. 246. , 146. Albert, 58, 104. Allied, 109. Cornelius, 236. John, 100.180,217. John W.. 200. Joseph, 204. Sam'l, 50. Bryant. 171. Buck, 223. Buekmaster. See Buckmin- Buckminster, 217, 232-211, 255. John, 232-234. Buffalo, N. Y.. 132. Buford, X. B., 9. Bunker, Klisha G., 101. 102, 107, 217. Biirbank,2U, 260. Ebenezer, 211. Burgoyne, 123. Burkbee, 85. Burn ham, 51, 70, 7'.), no. 120, 122, 105,227, 228. Nath'l, 51. Rufus, 70, 79. .sell), 227. Burpee, 12, . Buswell, 3:1,50. 57. no John. 56. .Sam'l. 50. Butchers, 11,40. 43. 68, loo, 104,217. Butler, is;, Butman, 21, 40, 56, 57, 104 David. 57. John, 24. Matthew, 24. Butman, Thos.. in. Buxton, Me., 42, 198. Byam, 179. Byfield Parish, Ma>s., 17. 22, 25. 71, 71, 102. Caesar, 199. Calais, Ale., 204. Calcutta. India. 17. Calligan, . 185. Cambridge, Ms., 19.29, lit. Camp Stanton, 23. 37. Canada, 97,202. 208, 21'.). Candace, 199. Candia, X. II.. 21. 68. Cane, An old. 177. Canmore, 135. Canterbury, X. II., 190. Cape Ami, 52. Cape Horn, 241. ( larey, Lawrence, 222. Caiieton, 63, 87,88, 179, 203, 204, 200, 207, 214. 215, 226, 22s, 229, 231, 230, 255, 250, 202. Amos, 201. James, 204, 200. Joseph, 88. Leonard, 88. Kebecca W., 229. Robert, 200. Sam'l |l. , 88. Carpenters, n, 51. 70, 71, 107, 108, 110, 123-125, 13:;, 134. 140, 101, 173, 174, 170, 189, 197, 200, 204, 213, 215. 218, 2 01.241. Carriage building. 18. Cass, 158, 2oi. John. 158, 204. Cemeteries. 30. Ate dent. Ot. Harmony, 19. 24. 37. 3!). 40, 48, 75. 78. Centenarians, 20. 39, 03. Chadwick. si, 167, 197. 202, 207, 221. 233, 244-247, 252, 251, 260-263. Mrs. Eunice, 215. 246. Geo. W.. 215, 210. Jas. W.,252. Mo>es. 200. 202, 203. Thos., 221. Chan, Her, 121,211. Chapman. 7. 39. 40, 72. 79. 69, 92, 118, 127, 134. Daniel 39. Edward A., 118. lonathan, 7. Charlemont, Ms., 132. Charleston, S.C., 233. Charlestown, Ms., 18, 15, 119, 173, 179. \. 11., 260. Chase, 204, 208, 213. I- rank W., 204. Chatham, Ms., 105. Cheese. 23. INDEX. 267 Chelmsford, Ms., 25, ITS. Cheney, Leander II.. 154. Cheraw Co., S. C, 84. Cherry Valley, N. V., 240. Chester, N. i'l.. 32,44, 159, 164. Chicopee, Ms., 250. Church, 9. Churches, First, 12, 23, 44,58, 65, OS, 78, 106. 108-110, 113,119, 130, 132, 156, 167. Second, 44. 86, 197, 200, 221, 225, 237, 247. 249, ■J.-)!;. 262. Third, 105-107. Chute, 21. 22. Jas. ,21. Cider, 59, 99. Clark, 5, 32.41, 73. 75, 114, 183, 253. 258. 259. Sam'l, 41. 73. Stephen C, 259. Win., 258. Cleaveland, 4, 9, 11. 238. Jas. P., 4, 9-11. Win. N., 10. Wm. P., 11, 238. Cleaves, 9. Clement, 208,213, 218,262. Sam'l W., 208, 213, 218. Clergymen, 16, 21, 54, 07, 68, 73, 77, 93, 103, 100, 108-111, 145,140,105, 184. 190, 193. 195, 201, 206, 221, 222, 227, 228, 256, 257, 202, 263. Clifton, 104. Clinton, Ms., 76. Clothing, 21. 23, 86. Clough. 24. Daniel, 21. Chill'. 208. Cobum. 178,234,239. David, 234, -239. Jas., 234, 239. Justus, 177, 178. Cocheco, N. 11., 166. Collin, 202,203. Coggin, Hev. Win. S., 106, 108, 150. Cogswell, 11. Col burn. 83. Cole. 84, 155-157, 159, 180, 1S9, 208. 211, 212, 218, 2211, 231, 234. 213. 215, 246,249, 252, 202, 203. Caleb M., 212, 252. David M., 231. Ephraim !•'., L89. .John, 211. John K ., 155. Joseph i'., 252. Manly, 212. Phineas, 208. Sam'l, 211,212. Simeon, 212. Win. K., 189. Mrs. U in. K , 218. "Colleges," "The," 175. Collyer, Mrs. Chas., 147. 1 olutan, 22. Conant, 26,112,113,116, 117 Conant, Daniel W.. 112. Concord. Ms., 42, 71. N. II., 82. Condon, Thos., 184. Congress, Provincial, 5, 34. Connecticut, 203. Constantinople, Turkey, •20:;. Cook, 62. Coopers, 12, 14, 16. 57, 60, 158, 169, 177, 200. 211, 239. Corinth, Me.. 66. Coshocton, O., 26. Cotton, 193. Crane, 22. Creasey, 196. Creels, 248. Crombie, 234. Crooked pond, 134. Cross, 49,253. Crowninshield, 220. Crown Point, 114. Cumberland Co., Me., 203. Cummings, 56, 76, 79, 113, 151, 153, 174, 175, 178. Jacob, 151, 174. Sylvester, 76. Thos., 151. Cunningham, Joshua W., 179, 185. Curious Stone, 225. Currier, 18, 212. Curtis, 132, 134-139, 142-146, 148, 151, 152, 164, 189, 196. Ebenezer, 132. Francis, 142. Geo. W., 143. Jas., 143, 146. John, 143. Justin, 139. Zaccheus, 137. Zachariah, 134. Cushing, 89. 193, 194. Rev. John, 193. John, 193, 194. Dacey, Jeremiah, 81, 82. Dado boards, 250. Dale, 70, 159, 172, 260. Osgood, 159. Sam'l, 172. Danbury, N. II., 234. Danvers, Ms., 12, 18,32,33, 16, 50, 57. 63, 64, 71, 79. 100, 101, 108, 113, 130, 131, 133, 131. 110, 147, 151. 152, 157, 161, 104, 171, 182, 183,227,253. Darling, , 20. Dai I mouth, Ma . 167. Davis, 32, 58, 70, 101, 104 114, 213. 2M. 225, 220 '22S Moses, 21 1. Paul ('., 70 lol. lol. Day, 214, 215, 234, 245,247 "250. Day. Isaac C, 214, 215. John, 245, 247. John T., 215. Joshua T., 231, 252. Deal mutes, 195. Deaths, accidental. etc., 6, 20. 31. 32, 35.45. 48,53, 68, 72, 73,78,84,88, 121, 159, 162, 172, 174, 220, ■»'>S, 229. 233-235, 238, 241,247,251,259. De Bevoise, Kev. Gabriel H., 228. Deerlield, N. H., 231. Delft ware, 241. Delfthaven. 241. Denmark, 77. Me., 198. Denver, Col., 104. Deny, N. II., 214, 233. Dewksbury, 109. Dickinson, 61, 182. Diseases, etc., 27, 29,31,38, 54, 83, 87, 95, 117, 167, 179, 237,260. District ol Columbia, 247. Dixmont, Me., 198. Dodge, 151, 104, 169, 188, 238. Geo. S., 238. Nicholas, 169. Doherty, Geo., 211, 212. Dole, 3, 205. Greenleaf, 205. Dollot, Sylvester, 70, 71. 79. Dorchester, Ms., 166. Dorman, 40, 48, 51-54, 82, 83, 94, 104, 116-120, 122- 124, 140, 114, 176, 186, 187, 232. Ancill, 104, 118. Elijah, 54. Ephraim, 54. Jabez, 232. John, 40, 119. John S., 118. Moses, 121. Nath'l, 122. Sam'l, 53. Timothy, 116, 119, 122. 123. Dover, N. H., 166. Dow, Win.. 13. Doweling, 236. Dowen, 210, 211. Mrs. Mary, 210. Dream, A, 249. Dresser, ■">. 20, 21. 40, 61, 62, 109, 170. 182, 180. Daniel, 01. John, 01. Nathan, 62. Tlln.s,, 40. Win W., 109, 170. Duffy, Patrick, 208. Dummer, 17. Dunbarton, N. H., 82, 39. 235. Dunn, Thos. W.. 20:;. Dunnell. See Dtvinntlls. mm table, Ms., 213. Durant, Thoa. W., 208,219, 268 INDEX. Dwinnells, 51, 116, 125, 150. 160. 173, L75-177. Elijah. 160, 173. Jacob. 51, 175, Thos.. 125. Dyer, 203. Eames. See Ames. Joseph, 223. Nathan, 223. Earl, 146. East An. lover. Me., 17(1. Eastman, 93. Easty, 16, 134. Jacob, Hi. Eaton, 32, 70. 93, 162, 221, ■2-22. 227, 262. Rev. Peter, 221, 262. Edward I., 1:15. Egypt, 217. Elliott, 1, 130, 150, 185, L86. Jas. A., 185. Stephen, 150. Ellis. 250. Elmira, N. V , 203. Emerson. 31, 32, 74, 100, 108, 112, 133, 171, 17M. Benj., 31. Rufus W., 74, 108, 171. Emery, 0."., 156, 157, 17:;. 227, 256, 257. John, 157. Joshua, 227. Stephen, 157. "Emery's Gate," 157. Endico'tt, 148. Joseuh, 148. Zerubbabel, lis. England, 16, 145. li English, 231, 210. Epitaphs. <;, 24, 30, 30, 41, 43. 70, 78, 79, 86, 94, 115, 172, 180, 222, 2:;7, 257. Epping, N. II.. 242. Esney, 71. Essex Co., Ms., 136,166, 223. 231. Exeter, N. 11., 10, 256. Fabens, 101. Factory, ( otton, 177-17'.*. Match, 170. Pagan, Law rence, 88. Fairfax, Vt., 64. "Fair Rosamond," 26. Farley, 07. Farnham, 106, 198, 220. Will., 220. Faulkner, 181. Fegan, John, 7. Felt, 260. Felton, 182. Fires, l, 12, 14,22,27. :;2. :;:;. 37,48. 71,95, 99, 106, 109, 128, 131, 145, 156, 227, 229, 231, 203. Fish Brook, 1 17, 205. Fisk, 132, 143, 185. Amos, 143. Joseph li., 185. i- isk, sam'l, 132. Fitzalan, 135 Fletcher, 71, 174,200. Jas.. 200. Hint, 126, 114, Is.!. Flora, 207. Fogg. Oliver!;.. 7. Foi i 1 dward, 114. Washington, 77. Fort Wayne, Ind., 22. Foster, 51, 60, 81, 89, 94, 95 98, 105, 110,113, 110, 119 124, 126,*48, 149. I53-155 104. 105, 167, 172, 173 178-182, 186, 195, 197 T.iO, 204, 2i 0,21(i. 215, 21 7 225,227,230,232,238.255 25s, 260, 261, 203. Benj., 200. Dr. Benj., 200. David, 51. Dudley. 195. Ephraim, 215. Geo. W., 182. Israel. 05. J. Edwards, 95, Jeremiah. 180. J. dm, 180. John F.. 105. Jonathan, 04, 95. Joseph. Iso. Oliver, 225. Peres, 178. Phineas, 126. Polly, 204. Richard, 154. Richaid A.. 154. Richard K., 154. Sum'l, in. Simeon, 199. Timothy, 186. Wm.. li:;, in;. Zebediah, 195. Fowler, 20. 80, 00. 215, 250, 200, 262. Nathan K., 259, 260, 262. Sam'l, 89. Stephen K.. 00. Foxboro', Ms., 178. Frame, Andrew, 133, 134. Fiance. 135, 100. Frankfort. Me., 66. Frazier, 58. Freeman. Miss Alice, 166. Tiinon. 207. French, Benj., 95, ill, 122, 200. Elvin, 111. Joshua 115. Walter. 157. French Neutrals, 71. Friend, 7. 8, 20. John, 21;. Frost, J. B., 204. Five, 75, 110, 124, 156, 157. ' It 0, 224. [saac, 119. Sam'l A , 150. Fi yeburg, Me., 84. Fuller, 108, ill, 140. 147,140, 153. Thos., 147. Funerals, 48, 52, 159. Gape, 50, 106,231, 246-250, 253. Roscoe W.. 100. Dr. Wm.. 210. Galbraith, 10:;. Gallop, 134-136. Thos., 131130. Galloway. 21. Gammell, Kev. Sereno D.. 54. Gardens, Old. 213, 254,255. Gardner, Chas. W., 47. General < ourt, 3-5, 2:;. 34- 36, 41, 45. 47, 08, 70. 86, 05, 1(18. 121,150, 161, 100, 237. Geneva, Switzerland, 50. Georgetown, Ms., 6, 12. 15, 10, 20. 22. 24, 27, 32, 33, 41, 5:;. 56, 5s, i.l, 62, 66, 70. 71, 73. 75, 70. 81-83, 85. 96, 08, 118. 156, 172. 101. 202, 204, 210. 213, 215. 219, 220, 234, 259. Gerry, 170. <;iit>', 2:,. 08. 115. Cillis. Daniel S.. 157, 159. Gilman. 64. Gloucester, Ms., 138, loo. Goddard, 203. Goodale, sam'l, 10. LGoodridge. 8, 58. 59, 03. 83, 89, 03. 137. Benj., 59, 137. Sam'l, 58. Goodwin, Geo., 117. Wm., 124. Goshen, Conn.. 29. Gould, 1,8, 33,52,68-60,100, 111, 117, 121, 125-133, 136, 137, 130-140,140-152, 155, 15:i, 162, 164, 171. 172. 186, 188. Amos, lio. Andrews 143. Cornelius, 132. 151. Daniel, 50, 136. Eben s., 139. Elisha, loi. Jacob, 130, 144. Gen. Jacob, 144. John. 120, 130, 140, 152. Joseph, 130. Mary A. B., 59. Mosee, 129. .Mrs. Rebecca, 159. Robert, 1. Samuel, 131, 132. Solomon, 125. Stephen, 128, 152. Thos., 130. 171. Zaccbeus, 143. Gragg, 88. Reuben, 88. Grave-diggers, 52, 56. (■raves, 137, 230. (.lay. 177. 178. Greencastle, Ind.. 2. Greenleaf, 201, 233. , 201. Greenslip, 10. Greenwood. Sam'l, 202, Groce, Sam'l, 221. INDEX. 269 Groton, Ms., 30, 159, 203. Groveland, Ms., 93, 96, 156, 165,2(1,208,210,213,215, 217, 235, 230. 239. Grover, 129, 142. Leonard. 129. Groveton, Va., 84. Gunnison, Win., 7, 49, 50. Gurley, 67, 09, 117, 163. 170, ISO, 181. E.Choate, 170. E. Scidmore, 69. Richard F., 181. Sam'l 1'.. 180. Win.. 117, 163. Hale, 1-3,6-9, 13,14, 44-47, 65, 73, 78, 84, 101, 103, 118, 124, 102, 178, 183, 188, 215, 236, 250, 257, 261, 202. Benj.P., 215. Isaac, 6. John, 7, 44-47. Joseph, 7, 13, 14, 45. itev. Moses, 256. Sarah S., 118. Dr. Win,, 101. Hall, 237. Ham. Mrs. Laura. 96. Hamilton, Ms., 165. Hammond, 47, 117. Stephen, 117. Hampden, Me.. 161. Hampstead, N. II.. 13. Hanover, Ms., 100. Hanson, . 250, 251. Hardi, 135. Hardy, 27. 28. 84,97, 212. Chandler B., 27. Harriman, 26, 61, 150. 165, 194, 199,200,204,205,215, 218-22H, 229. Daniel, 205. Daniel F.. 204, 205. Geo., 105. Geo. A., 205. Jeremiah, 194, 199. John G., 220. U 111. F.. 220. Wm. II.. 156. Hani.-. 02. 144. 170. 182,204. Gilnian, 170. Lucy, -Jot. Harrison, 102. Hartford, Conn., 203. Vt..28. Hartland, Conn., 64, Hartwick, N. Y.. 64. Harvard, Ms.. L10. Haunted houses, etc. I ().">, 162. Havanali. Annv of the, 26. Haverhill. M>.,"7. 8, 27, 31- :;:;, 70, 7:;, 81, 82, B9 94 96, 99, 181 202, 203, 210- 212,219,221,223,229,230, 244, 210, 248. N. 11., 93, Ml. Hawaii, 240. Hayes, Junius D., 76. Hayward, 02, 156, 157, 159, 178, 187. Aug. A., 150, 157,187. Jabez, 17^. Hazeltine, 85. 89. Hazen, 20. 21. 25, 28, 29. 40, 100. Edward, 29. Israel, 25. Jacob, 20. John, 25. Thos., 28. Heard. Oil. Heath. Ms., 132. Hemans, 251. Henly, Alonzo J., 220. Henniker, N. H., 107, 190. I Henry, 20:.. 215, 250. Aaron, 250. Win.. 205, 215. Henrv I, II, III, 135. Hermits, 1. 27. Herrick, 37, 00, 61,64, 60, 94, 122. 140,148. 151,158. 104, 175. 197, 228. Edmund, 151, 104, 175. Israel, 01. John, 00, 158. Wm. A., Esq., 01;. Wm. H., 01. Hervcy. 263. Hessians, 09. Hill, Abraham, 185. Hilliard, 102. Hills, 31. Hillsboro', N. II , 64, 128, 146, 152. Hilton, (has. (.. 96. Hobart, 30, 31. Holden, .las., 185, 186. Josenh, 1, 186. Holden, .Ms., 14 63. Holland (surname), 111. (place), 135,233. Hollis, N. H., 8, 30. Holmes, 230. Holt, 149. Holyoke, 95, Ml. 105, 109- 111, 132. Rev. Elizur, llo. Sam'l, 111. Holyoke, Ms., 250. Honolulu, S. I., 240. Hood, 49, 50, 53, 70, 74. Bern'., 49. David w. de la F.. 71. Hooker, 203. Hooper, Ebenezer I... 136, 137. Hopkinton, N. ll., 170 190. Homer. 210, -II. Hotel Landei Placidia, 46. Redington, 168, 169. Houghton, 110. HouTd, Jules, 7. Hovev. 7, 203,209, 217, 220, 229-231, 217 249 J51 254, 268 260, 262, 203. , 261. Alheri P., 209, 220, 268, 262. Ivorv, 253,251. Hovey, John, 248, 249. Joseph, 253, 259. Luke, 230,231, 252.253. Orvdle L., 217. Richard, 248. Thos. S., 259. Howard, 135. Howe, 2. 3, 7-9. 20, 39, 40, 56, 65, 95, 104, 106-108, 113, 110, 124, 125, 131, 158, 179. Abraham P., 7, 125. Edward, 2, loo. Fred A., 50. Leverett S., 2. Solomon W.. 110. WillardP., 179. Wm. A., 8, 107. Wm. P. , 108. Wm. W.,2. Ilowlett, 28. Hubbard, Rev. Chas. I... 200. Hudson, Geo., 204. Hunting, 238. Huntoon, Albert G., 131. Hurlbutt, Albert G., 47. HllBSey, Franklin, 182. lies, 145, 140. Jacob. 140. Wm., 145. Illustrations, 4, 15, 17, 18 42. 55. 85, 91, 121, 10,s 109. 209, 210, 224. Ilslev, 98. India, 17.28,263. Indiana, 22. Indians, 18. 22, 58, 0:;, 07 190, 237, 240, 214, Ingalls, 204. Ingersol, 247, 200. Inventors, 65, 199. [pswich, Ms., 2, 10, is, 20 21, 29, 3.3, 39, 44. 45, 47 48, oo. 119, 122, 123, 127 144. 147, 151-153, 107 174, ls2, 212, 230, 242 243, -'50,200, 261. Ireland (surname), 186. (place), 82. Iron works, 131, 177. Jackman, 96. Jackson. 8, 51, 52, 111. 119, 123, 210. Joshua, 51. Jacksonville, Fla.. 64. Jaffrey, N. II. 68. Jail, 242. I 18 49, oo, 122. Hem \, p.i. Joseph H., Jaque . Fran i. in, 200. 209. Jo 'ph N , 71. Jay, v v., oi. Jeffersoi Jenkins, 161,204, 206. Sam'l, 204. 8am'] w.,200. 270 INDEX. Jennings, 217. Jewett, 20, 21, -24, 69. Ezekiel,21. Thos., 21. John, I:!;"), 109. Johnson, 7:5. 77, 105. L39, L81, 198, 201, 223, 239. , 139. Sewall T., 73. Jones, 20;!. Kalcr, Cornelius, 184. Edmund, 185. Kamehameha, 240. Kay, 202. Keene, X. II., 54. 210. Kendall, Rev. Robert It., 54. Kennett, Henry K., 74, 152 John T., 19. Kenney, 107, 117, 170,180. Benj., loT. Dexter, 117, 180. Kent, Jacob, 7. Keyes, 41, 56. Wm. P., 41. Kilbourn, 34, ls2. Kilhun, 11. 13,20,22,23,32, 33, 43, 61, 68, si. 97, L26, 147-153, 165, 107, 188-190, 201. , 149, 150. Chester. 20, 22. 2.'!. Ebeuezer, 152. Geo. B., 149. John, 1 is. Joseph, 32. Oliver, 151. Oliver 1'., lss. Sam'l, 119. Thos., 147, 148. 153. Thos. 1'., 11. 13. Win. E., 22,23, 105. Killingly . Conn., 11. Kimball,5, 12, 17, :J0, 58, 77, 80, si, 89, 92, 93, 95-97, 107-109, 125. 150, [54, 158, 161, 109, 170-17S, L82 Is.",, ls7, 1S8, 190, 191, 194. 195, 197, 198, 201, 200-208. 214.219-222. 230, 231, 2:!7, 241-210, 250.252. 254, 250. 200. , 190. Aaron. 170, 183. Amos, L95 Asa, 1ST, 256. Benj., 245. Chas. P., 96. I taniel, 97. David, 182,244. Bbenezer, 5s, 80. Edmund, 221. Enoch, L88. Bphraim, 177. Jacob, 158. Jefferson, 107. John, 92, 187. Jonathan, so. Josiah. 36, is::. Lucy S., 93. Micajab, 244. Kimball, Moody, 188. Moses, 93. Nathan, 89, 9.;. L69. Richard. 187. Samuel, 9:., 184, 210. Stephen, 89. Thos., 241. Win. 11., 10S. Win. II.. 200, 200. King, 5. 202. "King David," 57. Kin. sm a 11, 107, 242. Knapp, , 2:;. Knight, 14, 75. Jacob, it. Knowlt 119, 212. 213. Col. Thos. 213. Wm.. 212. La. Id, 215,217. 263. Ezekiel, 217. John I., 217. Lake, 18,47, 121. 135, 142. Earns, 18. S. Page, 47. Lake Champlain. 2.'!'.). George, 00. Reynor, 74. Lakeman, 230, 250. I'elatiah, 256. Wm., 230, 250. Lambert, 45. Lamson, 132. Lan ;aster, Ms., 1 10. Lander, 103. Lane. 139, 140,207. Willard, 207. Lang. 170. Langley, 121. Lapeer, Mich.. 04. Laporte, Frank. 7. Lamed, 1 .0. Lathrop, 170. Lawrence, .Ms., 30, 88, 97. 222, 228, 229. Lawyers, 0. 12, 17, 01, 66, 87, 10.2. Leach, 179, 217. Leaded panes. 94, 140. Leavenworth, 106. Leaver, 211. Leavitt, Joseph, 40. Lebanon, Conn.. 85. Legacies, 12. 65, 68, 73. Lelian. Dennis, 1S4, 185. Thos., 185. Leighton, John J., 97. Leominster. Ms., i Letters, Old, 120, 139, 140, 232. Lexington, Ms., 33, 31, 52, 87, 140. Libraries, etc., 68, 107,235. Lightning, 22, 113. 115, L62. Linebrook Parish. Ip- swich, Ms., 2. 3:1. 11. 96, ISO, 191,243. Liquor, 18, 235. Literary people, 17, 20, 01. 103. Little, Elbridge, 219,220. Lofty, Jacob. 1 1. London, Eng., 75, 107. Londonderry, X. II., 52. 173. 198.* Long. 02, LSI, ISO. Nath'l, 02. iso. Long 1-l.ind. N. V.,253. Lord, 17. Lottery ticket, 253. London, X. H.,78, 98. Louisiana, 00. Love, 57. l.ovejov. 170. Lowe, '2, 5, 44, 47, 48, 100, 100-108, 117, 118, 202. 235. 200. Nathan, 47, 48. Solomon, 47. Solomon \\\, 107, 108. William, 48, 106, 118. Lowell, Ms.. 87. Ill, 119, 217. Lufkin,214. Ltiminus, 152. Lunenburg, Ms., (JO, 122, 132, 230, 200. Lyman, 100. Lyme, Conn., 25. Lyndsboro', N.H., 170. Lynn, Ms., 0. 45. 80, 90, 97, 117, 172, 211. Machias, Me. ,204. Macoon, 114. Madison, Ind.. 22. Maine, 5, in, 12, 17,32, 45, 46,118, 134, 140. 159, loo. 162, 179, 190, 199, 202. 221. Maiden, Ms.. 100. Manhattan, Kas., 203. Mansfield, .Ms., 1.55. Marblehead, Ms., 40, 126, 137, L84. Maiden, Alvin, 32. Francis, 27, 28, 30-32. Mare pond, 210. Market woman, 0, 254. Markman, 203. Mai ston, 134. Martin, 74, 193. Jonathan, 74. Martinique, W. I.. 232. Masons. 19.31, 107, 134,110. Massachusetts, it, 45, 00, 12S, 219. 221. 228. Masurv. Thos. 1;.. 25-27. Matthews, 52. 54, 163, 104. Joseph, 52. Wm. C . 163. Mattocks, 203. Maugerville, X. B., 9, 65. McCiibe, John, 88. Mclntire, its. McKenzie, Sam'l, 47. McLaughlin, Benj., 96. John C, 112. Mei.. .hi. Rev. Jas., 201;. McVicker, 203. Meacham, 129. Mears, 87, 21s. Meraassir, 155. Merchants, 202, 221, 236. INDEX. 271 Merriam, 235. Morrill, 8, 13, 204, 213, "239. Geo. B., 13. Jesse, 213. Stephen, '213. Win., 204. Merrimac, Ms., 222. X. II., 198. Mersay, 81. Messenger, 90. Metcalf, Greenleaf W., 74- 76. Methnen, Ms., 16, 72, 73,7!), 80, 82, 94, 151. 104, 18(5, 189, 203, 205, 200, 229, 23S, 259. Michigan, 59. .Middleton. 243. Middleton, Ms., 54, 114, 115, 126, 133, 131, 137, 144, 146, 151, 153, 164, 165, 169-171, 174. 177. X. II., 97. Mighill. 16,71,73, David DeW. C, 73. Militia, 2, 4, 5, 10, 18,29, 37, 45, 47, 52. 72. 73, 78, 86. 87, 90, 140, 144, 162, 166, 184, 198, 199. 203, 210, 224, 234, 253. Miller's Corners, X. Y., 4.5. Milliken, 243. Mills, 47, 4s, 61, 63, 66, 77, 131, 154, 158, 177-179, 236. Milwaukee, Wis., 203. Ministers, Foreign, 202. Mitchell, 225. 229-231. Daniel, 229, 231. Mitchell's pond, 225. 230. Mont Vernon, X. H., 65, 152. Moore, Prof. Chas. H Dennison, 181. Morrill, 154. Morris, Albert, 218. Morse, 32, 74, 206, 209, 210, 214. Chas. E., 74. Gardner 8., 209. Samuel, 210. Mortimer, Caleb, 69. Caleb E.. 185. Moseley, 166. Moulton, Henry, l':0. Joseph W.. 119. Valorus V.', 238. Mowbray, 135. Mugford, 184. Mulatto, 210. Munday, U'nt. 11., 1 lo, 117. Murder, 191. Murphy, Michael, 212, 213 Musicians, 2, 14, 53, 111 210, 213. Nails, First cut, 244. Naples, Me., 10. Xason, .las., 97. Jas. II., 223, 226,229. John II., 205. Natick, Ms., 68, 96, 111. L9. Negroes, 199, 200, 207. Nelson, 26, 27, 96, 182, 232, 236. Albert, 27. "Nelson's Great Farm," 232, 236. New Brunswick, 9, 10, 49, 65. Newbury, Ms., 3, 22, 25, 26, 32, 45, 58, 59, 83, 89, 93, 97, 114, 132, 135, 157, 162, 164, 187, 199, 227, 230, 256. Newburvport, Ms., 46,73, 78, 102, 159, 162-164, 178, 202, 221, 231, 233. New England, 3, 117, 135. Xew Gloucester, Me., 195. Newhall, Henry, 109. Wm., 204. New Hampshire, 6, 8, 19, 21, 30, 66, 109, 132, 217, 232. Xew Haven, Conn., 179, 199, 2 is. New Ipswich, N. H., 41, 63. New Jersey, 1, 253. Newmarch, 151, 174. New Orleans, La., 66. Newport, Me., 198. New Portland, Me., 66. New York, 82, 237, 240, 241, 255. X. Y., 10, 79, 122, 203. Nims, 132. Norcross, 45. North Atidover, Ms., 9, 97, 107, 109, 150, 196, 200, 20S, 214, 215, 217, 220, 224, 228, 238, 246-249, 254, 255. Northev, Abijah, 221. North Yarmouth, Me., 194. Norton, 16. Norton, Ms., ITS. Norwalk, O., 64. Norwich, Conn., 25, 28. Norwood, I. Walter, 107- 109. Nottingham-west, N. H., 234, 2;;'). Notur, 200. . is, 132, 164, 199,204. Daniel. Is. Warren, 201. Nurse, 32. 33, 130. Daniel, 32. Obituaries. 34, 35, 78, 101, 120, 121, 127, 150. 171, 171, 222, 220, 25:;, 261. '•Ocean h him-," 200, 204. Oliver, 75. Oniville, B. I., 155. Osgood, 3, 158, 242. < )m ii. An old, 74. Oxford, Ms., 132. Palmer, 62, 105, 168, 165- 107, 100. Asher C. 104. Palmer, Prof. Geo. H., 163, 165. John, 196. Julius A., 166. Panama, Isthmus of, 241. Park, 202, 263. Hev. Calvin E., 202. Parker, 81, 200, 204, 206, 209, 210, 214, 248, 249. Aaron L., 206, 210. Jacob C, 209, 214. Thos. B , 204. Wm., '240. Parkhurst, Frank L., 176. John. 176, 179, 180. J. Wm., ISO. Parsonages, East parish, 54, 109, 110. West parish, 206. Parsons, B. Ford, 96. Patten, Geo. M., 74-76. Paulet, 135. Payson, 71, 152. Peabody, 3, 9, 14, 15, 17, 37- 40, 47, 49, 53, 57, 63, 65- 69, 75, 79, 81, 83,194, 95, 101, 105, 106, 111, 115, 117, 120, 124, 130, 134, 136, 137, 144, 147-150, 152,1 154, 15S, 159, 102- 170, 177-180, 182, ISO, 186, 193, 198, 232, 237, 238, 212, 243, 245, 251, 253, 254, 258, 203. , 251. Rev. Albert B., 68. Artemas, 115. Asa. 115. Benj , 238. Benj. F., 238. Bimsley, 150. Chas., ioi, loo. Daniel, 251. David, 100, 212. Ebenezer, 237, 243. Elisha B..1S2. Jacob, 166, 169. Jas. M., 150. John, 1.5. 17, 166, 167. Joseph, 69, 117. Lucy, 163. .Moses, 107. Oliver, 134, 150. Oliver T.. 65. Richard, 66. Samuel, 66, 68, 117, 159, 183. Samuel I'., 182. Stephen, oo, os, 104. Thomas, 242. William, 07. loo. Peabody, Ms., 122, 156,222, 226. Pearl, 84, 155, 197, 200-202, 201, 206, 218, 220, 229, 200, 20.!. 200-230, 241, 252, 250, 202, 263. Benjamin, 263, Edward K.,201. George, 237. John, 220, 287. John M.. 220. 1 Peter, 201. 272 INDEX. Pear), Richard, 236. ■Simeon, 218. Pearsons.101, 163, 169, 1ST. i ornelius, 161, 163. Jonathan. 163. Peat, 2-48. Pecatonica, 111., 113. Pelliam, N. 11., 208. Pemberton, 99. 186. Pembroke, N. 11.. 63. Pennsylvania, 155, ITS. Perkins, 25,28-31,38,50, 72. 76, 88,114, 1-26, 146, 152, 157, 170, 171. Elbridge, 76. Jacob, 2!). John, I 16. Nathaniel, 29. Stephen. 88. Perley, 3-7, 9-20. 22, 23, .lo- ss, 35, 39-45, 49, 50, 52, 53, 58, 62, 64. 611-76, 07. 100, 101, 104, 10S, 110, 112, 113. 115, 117, 118, 123, 126, 132, 158, 161- 164, Ki7, 169-171, L80, 188, 101, 104, 197, 201, 219. 22(1, 212, 2;;:.. 246, 247, 250, 253. Aaron, 10. 11. Abraham, 73. Albeit. 70. Amos, 17,20,40. 42. Artemas W., 12. Asa, 4, 5. Augustus M., 70. Benjamin, 32. Charles, 15, 17, 74, 118, 246. 247. Elbridge, L9, 235. Eliphalet, 75, ,0. Francis, 71. Frederic, 113. George, L64, L70. Benry, 52, 70. Humphrey, 15. Hon. Ira, 6. Isaac, 31 . Jacob, 16,32,74, 161, 201. Jesse, 19, 117. John, 7, 19. John ]■:.. 235. Leonard, 1 13. Mary A., 58, 108. Moody, 33. 97. 126. Moses, 75. Nathaniel, 11. Parker B.,50. Phinea , I'. Putnam. 112. Samuel, 5, 72, L70, 180, 188. Solomon, 5il. Stephen. 132. Stephen P., 73. 'Hi,, mas,:;, 9-11, 20,22. Warren, 250. William, 16, 73. William B„ 220. Perry, 196, 214 -246. John W., 215. Peine, 110. Pest-house, 30, 31, 38. Philadelphia, Pa., 170. Phillips, 10, 177-179, 203. Samuel 177. J'hillis, 57, 199. Physicians, 6, 29, II. 15. 61, 66, 73, 76, 77, 80, 86, L01, 103, 107, 144, 147, 149, 153, 171, 202, 211, 227, 234, 235. 246, 247. Piekard, 53, 62, 63, 182, 1S3. James, 182. Otis, 5.3. Samuel. Is:;. Thomas. 182. Pickett, 102. Pierce, 157.201. Abraham T , 157. Key. Charles M., 201. Pike. 122, 219, 220. Pillershire (or Pilferville) , North Andover, Ms.. 215, 251. Pillsbuiy, 23t». Pinder, 212 Pingree, Parker P., 74. Pinkham, 36, 102. Pitts, Warren B., 96. 1'lainlield. Conn.. 134. Plaisiow, N. H.. 193. Plantagenet, 135. Plaster, 248. Platteville, Wis., 81. Plaits. 8. Plattsburg, Mo., 204. Pleasant Mountain Gore, York Co., Me., 199. Plymouth, Ms., 77. X. II., 30. Politics, lii2. Pompey, 199. Poor, 81, 83, 89, 93, 19S. Pope, 149-151. 167. Joseph N\. 150. Porter. 5. 59, 88, 101, 151, 153, 196-199,202-207,218, 221, 231, 253, 25s, 25:), 261, 26 :. Asa. 202. Benjamin, 197. Jonathan J.. 201. Moses, 202. Rllfus, 198, 218. Tyler, 198. William. 203. 234. Porter's Mill-. 204. Fort Hudson, La., 97. Portland. Me.. 10. 84, 198, 199. 202, 203, 22s. Porto Kico, 42. Porl Royal, N. s., 243. POSt-OfficeS, etc., 30, 47, 56, 101. Potash works, i ,; i • Potter, 11. Ttj, 216. Jacob s., 76. Powder-horns, 174, L77. Powers, ill. Pratt, loc Preston, 81. Price, 46, is. Frichard, 41. 42. 245. Paul, 41. Prince, 140. Professors, 2, 19, 106. 163, 105. Provence, France, 135. Providence, R. I., 100, 155, 262. Public bouses, 23, 36, 46, 79, 113, 158, 159, 205, 207, 208, 217. Publishment of Ruth Bus- well. 57. Putnam, 3, 9, 11, 71, 73, 152, 161, 213. Gen. Israel, 3, 9, 11. Moses, 161. Pye brook, 127. Qn aides. 159. Quebec, Can.. 239. 240. Quimby, 1.3. Railroad. 46. Randall. 59. Rea. 105, 176, 177. Jeremiah, 105. Jonathan Fryc. 177. Joshua, 177. William, 177. Reading, Ms., 17, 71, 106. 137. 144. 148, 149, 162. 170. 221. 236, 258. Redington. 78, 153,151. 15s. 101, 169. Abraham, 161, 169. Thomas, 158. Reed, 13, 213. Tobias, 13. Reid. 106. Removal id' Houses, 14. 16, 32. 62, 65. 6S, 107, 163, ISO. 182, 201, 21S. 251'. Reynolds, 93, no, 189,228, 231, 234, 239-244, 257. ■_>!_>. Daniel L.,243, 211. Enos, 239. George, 213. Harriet, 241. R. Eveline, 241, 257. Sara'l, 213. Stephen, 239. Theodore, 234. Wm„ 119. Rhodes, 173. Richards, 27. Richardson, 4. 250. Richmond, Va., 29. Kicker, . 126. '•Ridges," The, I, 186. Rifle, Peabody, 65. Kludge, N. II'., 56. 87, 146, 157. 256. Roads, 27, 131, 152. Roads, old, 27, 131,152. Robertson, 106. Robinson, 71, S3, 205, 223- 228, 239, 253. Aaron, 227. Benjamin, 225, 239. Francis P., 205. John, 224-227. [NDEX. 273 Robinson, Joseph, 22 '>. Rochester, N. v., in. Rogers, 110 Benj., 110. Rev. John, 110. Rokes, Meander, 205, 200. Rome, Italy, 90. Roof-ladder, 99. Room-paper, etc., 217, 218. Ross, 213-215. Harrison <>.. 215. Wm.,214, 215. Rowe, Rev. Sam'l, 194-196. Rowley, .Ms.. 3, 8. 20-23,25, ■21,'-:*, 33, 34, 51, 52, 61- 63, 71, 72, 75, 76, 78, 82, 85. 86. 88, 96, 98, 99, 114, 119, 123, 124, 1-27, 172, 182, 183, 189, 194, 196, 199, 200, 212, '234, 236, 249, 256. Rowley-Canada, 63. Roxbiirv. Ms., 52, 178, 179. 231. Runaways, 160, 194. Run (1 let f, 17, 104. Mrs. Abigail, 17. 104. Runnells. sec Reynolds. Rush pond, 230. Russ, Moses 1.".. 52, 53. Russell. 69. 109, 118. 119. 129, 137, 170, 179,228. Arthur L., 119. Daniel. 109, 118,119. Jas., 137. Leander, 69. Peabody, 137, Sabine, 202. Safford, 148. .Sailor-, 17, 23, 72, 00, 92, 101, 134, 137, 148, 160, 232, 233, 240, 241. Salem, Ms., 3, 10, 23, 24. 27. 34, 35, 51, 71, lol, 104, 106, 108, 114, 115, 120, 120. 127. 137, 142, 146, 151. 159, 164, 165, 169, 170, 174, 183, 191, 192, 104, 221-223, 225-227. 231, 25:;-255. N. II.. 02. 108, 207, 208, 260. N. V., oi. Salisbury, Ms., 56, 60, 89, 151, 193 Sanborn, 107. nton, N. II., 170. San Diego, 1 al., 103. Sand\ 3, Saratoga, \. Y., 240. Sargent, L98, 229, 250. 263. Moses, 220. N. B., 259. Savage.37,39 11,51,74, 123. Johnson, 39. Win.. J . 41, 71. Savannah. Ga., 28. Savory, 1 leo. T., L3. Sawyer, 7, 26, 146, 147, L52, 153. 175, 184, 185 !> . Geo. w .. 117. Jas. B., 117. Sawyer, John, 7, 153. Thos., 147. Will., 185. Saybrook, Conn., 255. Sayward, .John S., 58. 102, " 103. Scales, 180, 10O. Jas., 181). Scarborough, Me., 202. Schenectady, N. Y., 144. Scl Is, etc., 30, 35, 38, 68, 10 , 145, 162, 166, 107, 171, 184,257-259,262,263. Scientific Imerican, 199. Scotland, 135. Sebago, Me., L98. Sessions, 14, 188, 211, 242. Josiah, 241. Settlements, New, 63, 65. •'Shaven-crown" hill, 81. Sheep, 211. Sheffield, Ms., 114. Shelburne, Ms., 132. shepherd, 7. Sheriff, 63. Sherman, 28. Sherwin, 107, 108, 232, 243. Ebenezer, 24.!. Shirley, Wm. II., 125, 126. Shirley, .Ms., 132. Shoe-manufacturing, 2, 7, 45, 46, K), 107, 109. Shrewsbury. Ms., 246. Sias, John, 00. Saml., 05. Simmons, 51, 60. 210. Joseph, 00. Mrs. Lydia, 51. Simson, 194. Sin, David Wood's, 98. Singing school, 21.'!. Skidby, Yorkshire, Eng.. 236. Sleigh, A, 70. Smith, 11. 48-50, 70. 81, 103, 114, 110. 122, 126, 127, 134, 139, 150, Hil, 172, 173. 175, 212, 211, 218. Abraham, 134. Calvin. 127. Chas., 150. Elias, 172. Geo., 11. Jacob, 49, 121;. John, is, 11,1, 17:!. Molly, 139, no. 175. Nath'l, L26. Richard, 218. Walter, 127. Whipple I.. 127. Smoker, \. 110. Snelling. 210, .-11. Mark. Jin. Solart, ville. Ms., 170. South bYamingham, Ms., :;7. Spafard, so. Spain, 166. Spencer, N. 5 spill, t, Nath'l G., 57,65 67, 109 Spofford, 20, 36-38, 12, 00, 78, so, si, s:;-s7. 00, 08, 00, Is:;. 194, 195, 205,206, 208. 21;:, 227, 228,230. A a n 01, 84. Alden, 200. Amos, 81. Renj., 4 2. Chas. A.. 81. Frederick, 81. II. Merritt, 84. Israel F., 85. Mrs. Julia A. M., 20s. Parker. 36. Paul, 104. Richard. 0s. Sam'l, 8.3,22s. Stephen, 81. Thus., s4. 85. Spoon, White's, 117. Springer, 83. Springfield, Ms., 45, 111, 250. N. II.. 121). Vt., 63. States, etc., 36, M2, 225. Stanstead, Can., 219. Stanton. 37. Stark, 30,31. Start, Ceo., 16. Steel, 105. Stetson, Chas. A., 09, 101. Geo., 101. Seth, loo. 101. Stevens, 32. 33,37.41. 10.5s, 5:1, 69, 107, 113, 104. 105. 223. Amos, 41, 10, 107. Chas. C, 32, 33, 37. Dr. Francis J., 58, 59. Sam'l, 113. Stevens' pond, 00. Stevenson. Burpy, 179. Stewart, 71. Stickney, 56, 62-65, si. 83, 00. 120. 253, 250. Ancil, 01. Jedediah, 64. Jo ('I'll- 01. Sam'l. 01. Stile-. 40, 51, 50, 65. IP;. 132, 153-157. 172, 18(1, 181, 186, 105. 207, 230. , I5C, 207. Asa. 51 155. (Ims., 2311. Edmund. 151. Elijah, 239. Ezra, 181. 111. 181. John, 40, 51, no. 151, 155, Simeon, 155. Timothy, 181. Mile.' K ri ve 8t. Louis, Mo., 203. Stone, 151. 164, 221. Orrln, 164. Stone house. 225. Stonington, ( lonn , 13 1 . Stores, I, 7. 33, 56, 101, 104, 123, 176, 206,219, 21 18, 19, 67, 10". 227. 274 INDEX. Stowe. Yt., 8, 170. St. Peter, Minn., 149. Stratham, N. n . 68. Strout, Peter, 71, 108, ioo. Sudbury, Ms.. 134. Suicides, 71, 80, 100, 175, •2:;.-). Sullivan, 32, 205, 215, 240. Henry C, 205. Summers'^ orth, N. II.. 82. Suncook, N. II., 99. Sun-mark, 20. Surveyor, 69. Swan, 21. Swanzey, N. II , 17. Swett. 222. Sword-, Old, 177, 225. Symmes, Rev. Tlios., 109, 110. Symonds, Is. 41, 05, 124, 120, 128 i.;o, 133.134, 130, lis, lid. 162, 170, 187. Benj., IS. John, 128. Joseph, 1-29, 130, 162. Nath'l, 133. Sam'l, 129. Stephen, 130, 133. Tailors, 16,35, 160,173. Tamsiu. 199. Tanneries, 48, 71. Tarbow 129, 1(11. Taungeiul. Fng., 179. Taunton. Ms.. 56, 227, 217. Taylor, 102, 234. Temple, N. II ., 63. Templeton, M<., 80. Tennessee, 64. Tewksbury, Ms., 108. Theft, 71, 77, 125, 211, 242. Thomas, 133, 208. Fred, 208. Thompson, 148, 250. John, 250. Thownes, 170. Thunder showers, 227. 231. Thurston, 22. Thwing, 85, 87, 218. Chas. A., 87. Tibbetts, ('has. V, , 117. Ticonderoga, N. Y., 52, 00. Tidds, 27, 75. Tim on (Freeman), 207. Todd, 23, 1(15, 106, 165. Win. (i.. 23. 106, 105. Tomatoes, 254. Tomb, Gen. Lowe's, is. Topeka, Kas., 203. Topsfield, Ms , :;. 9, 10, 12. 13, 16-18, 20, 21. 25. 28, 29, 31-3:. :;7, 38, 49. 50, 5:;, 54, 59. ci), 67, 7:;, 75, 70. 79, 111, 117, 119, 122, 12 1 120, 128 134, 136, 137, 139 lio. lis, 151, 152, i;,.-), 158, I id, 101, 171. 17.".. 174, iso. is;;, is;,, iss.201, 205, 219, 220, 230. 232, 200, 201. Tories, 05, 75, 202. Towle. Sam'l, 129. Towne, 9. 16, 50, 05, 74, 96, 118, 125, 132, 139, 150, 157, 100,10,1. lo:'.,104,170, 172470,178, ISO, 198,203, 205. Albert II., 46. Asa. 17.:. Ezra, 9i;. Henry A., 174. Jacob, 71. John, 17.",, 171. John N., 56. Nathan. 156, 104. Sam'l, 174 Sam'l II.. 163. Solomon, 172. Town hall. 105, 106. Town meetings, 113. Trask, 152. Trees, 5, 52, 67, 93, 155, 211. Trenton, N. J.. 253. Troy, N. Y., 213. Tufts, 118. Wm., I Is. Turner, 202. Tuttle, 107. Twisden, John B.. 102. J. Thos.. 172. Sam'l, 100, 171, 172. Win., 163. Twitohell, Geo. W., 126,1128, 129, 131. Twombly, 45. Tyler, 37, 38, 03, 04, 70, 71, 81-81, 87, 90, 92, 90-99, 128, 193, 195JL97, 200-202. 204, 214, 217, 235, 247. 251, 252, 250. Abraham, 81. Asa, 98. Bert, 128. Bradstreet, 96, 97, 200, 235, 252. Flint, 97. Gideon, 90. Job, 193, 200, 201, 250. John, 90, 92. Joseph s., 70, 90. Moses, 90 Stephen, 200. Wm., 81. Tylney, 135. Tyngsborough, Ms., 40. Umbrella, First, 233. Underwood, 2.",;,. United Mates, 196. Upper Ashuelot, N. II., 210. Uptack road. 218. Upton, lis. Valley Forjye, Pa., 225. Varnum, 232, 254. Verden, III., 65. Vermont, 34, 59, 137. Vienna, Me., 198. Vinegar, 23. Virginia, 132. Waehila. Kas., 87. Wallingford, 25, 26, 29, 90. Benj., 25. Wallis, 223. Walpole, N. II., 228. Waltham, Ms., 31. 13, 228. Warner, N. II., 107. Warning oul of Town, 13G. Warren. 31, 30, 181. donas. 3'',. Warren, Me., 251. Wars, 233. King Philip's, 135. French and Indian, 94, 114. 14s. 171. French, 30, 224. Revolution, .-), 14, 10, 29, 30, 33, 34, 40,41, 52,64, r,0, 69 71. 73. 75, 77,78, 87. 88. 03, 119. 123, 139, 110, US, 152, 157, 174, 202, 213. 221, 237, 239, 240. 253. 255. 250. War of 1812, SI. 102,146, 149. Rebellion, 2s, 37, 45, 79, so. 84, 97, 117, 198, 206, 210.235. Washburn, 203. Washington, 150, 213, 225. Washington, D. C, 5, 59, 103. Wataga, 111., 203. Waterford, Me., 194. Watertown, Ms., 34. Waterville, Me., 161, 198, 202. Watson, 14, 45, 47. Wm., 44. Weare, N. H., 94. \\ ebster, 1ST, 188. 211,236, 237, 240. Jas. II., 237. John R., 188. Weed, 24s. Wellfleet, Ms., 103. Wells, 101. 11:;, 10:;. Daniel, 104, [63. Wellsville, \. v.. 203. Wenham, Ms., 10, 00, 03, lis, 151, 152, 160, 164, 197, 202. 230. Wentworth, 202. Westford, Ms., 71, 170. Westminster, Yt., 8, 59. Wesl Newbury, Ms., 10. IS. 250. Weston, X. Y., 198. Wheeler, 135. Whipple, 56. White, 05, 117. 101. Wm., n;4. Whiteweed, 254. Whitney, lid. Whittemore, 101, 103. , 103. Jas., 101. Whittier, Francis C, 230,, 215,250. 251. Levi <;., 2eii. Marshall P.. 236. "Widgen pond," 123. Wildes, 14, 10, 40, 76, 146, 205. INDEX. 275 Wildes. Ezra, 14,40, 146. Zebulon, 14. Wilkin s, 81, 124, 153. Willard, . 205. Willet, 1(14. John, 134. Williams, 34, 134, 220. John, 134. Willis, Joseph, 177. 17'.'. Willis' woods, 17.">. Wilmarlh. 215, 238. Wilmington, Ms., 87, 14S. Wilson, 62, '.i7. Elijah, 62. Wilton. Me., 44. Winch, Chas. P., 87. Winchendon, Ms., 52, 122. Windham, Conn., 77. Winslow, Erving, 165. Winter Hill, 52, 119, 120. Winthrop, Me., L98. Witcher, 20, 40, 191. Witham, Daniel, 212. Woburn,Ms.,77, 170. Wolfsboro'. N. H., 108. j Wolves, 14-.'. Wood. Ki, 22, 29, 30, 33 36, 3840, 61, 63, 69, 70, 75- 79, 80-90, 92, 98-10(1, 136, 159, 162, 106, 171, 176, 184, 186, 187, 190, 193, 196, 197, -201, 211, 225, •-!;;•-•. 233,248,254-259. Hon. Aaron, 'V.UiG. Daniel. 09, 254,257. David. 78, 258. Dr. David, 29, 01, 76, 25S. Enoch, 92. Hannah, 69. Jacob, 99. John, 69. John T., 92, 201. Jonathan, 77. Joseph, 254, 255. Lemuel, 257. Mrs. Lydia, :?4. Mrs. Margaret, 39. Moses, 100. Nathan, 99. Wood, Solomon, 09. Thos., :18. Win. II., 258. Woodbridge, Cal., 9. Woodbury, 70, 104, 222, 200. Benj , 220. Josiab, 104. Woodman, John, 14. Woods, Timothy, 185. Woodwovth, 207. Worcester Co., Ms., 128. Woster, 230. Wright, 24, 88. Win.. 88. Wyatt, oo, 195. Isaac, 195. Wyman, 32. Wyoming, 111., 64. York, Me., 114, 105. Yorkshire, Eng., 179. Young, 162, 103. Jeremiah, 102.