J" J-i i.-^n' »» Sir v.'-^ TV ';-H "-.ho '■♦♦WW** ^irx-, (•*--,: Lv ' »• V r t «yj v3 ■m HISTORICAL SKETCH Town of Troy, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND HER INHABITANTS FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE TERRITORY NOW WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE TOWN IN J 764 -1897. BY M. T. STONE, M. D. ircss of STtitinrl ^Prtnling iffompanu, Seme, 0.. 1^. 9665 PREFACE. The history of Troj^ as a distinct corporation covers a period of eighty-two years, but as the first settlements made were on territory which forms a part of this town, it becomes necessary in giving the early history of this region, to speak of men and measures more or less inti- mately connected with the history of the towns from whose territory Troy was taken. Dr. A. M. Caverly collected the knowledge of the inci- dents occurring in the early history of this region, which was given a permanent form in the History of Troy, published in 1859, at the Sentinel ofl^ce in Keene, and which forms the basis of the present work, making such changes as time and later researches have made necessary. Many of those who were the sole possessors of the infor- mation concerning the early history of Troy, passed from the stage of Hfe soon after the publication of this history, which has preserved for future generations the traditions and incidents there given. The work was done at a time when but little attention was given to matters of this kind ; but more interest being taken in local history and ancestral connections, several individuals expressed a desire that the history should be revised and brought down to a later date, and Mr. Edwin Buttrick brought the question before the town at the town meeting in November, 1890, and Dr. M. T. Stone was chosen to compile and revise the history. The knowledge of kindred and the genealogies of the families, both past and present, constitute a part of the IV PREFACE. knowledge and history of the town, and form an interest- ing and instructive chapter, as it shows the enterprise and thrift, the activity and sagacity in business, the zeal in religious, educational and political matters, in moral and spiritual advancement £ind the material prosperity of the community. The histories of Fitzwilliam and Marlborough having been published at a recent date, such extracts have been taken from them as has seemed best in order to make the subject more complete, and especially concerning the early history. Two or three chapters have been given entire as written by Dr. Caverly, namely, upon grants of the land and those containing historical and traditionary matter. Much time and labor has been spent in such fragments as could be spared from professional engagements, in collecting and arranging the additional matter, and it has been the object to make the record as accurate and faithful as possible, but errors will undoubtedly be noticed, and it is submitted to the public hoping that its readers may find much interest and pleasure in its perusal. Thanks are returned to each and all who have so v^illingly assisted in any way in obtaining facts and bringing the ^vork to completion. Troy, N. H., Se]>tcml)ci- 25, 1S97. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. GRANTS OF THE LAND. Iiitrofhiction. — Mason's Claim. — Grant of the Township. — Conditions of the Charter. — Meeting of the Proprietors. — Townships Divided into Lots 1-24 CHAPTER II. EARLY SETTLERS. Early Settlers from 1 764 to 1780. — William Barker. — Silas Fife. — Thomas Tolman. — Phineas Farrar. — Col. Richard Roberts. — James Brewer. — John Farrar. — Caleb Winch. — Jonathan Shaw. — Jonah Harrington. — David Wheeler. — Ezekiel Mixer. — Benjamin Tolman. — Jacob Noiirse. — Mo.ses Kenney. — Henry Morse. — Daniel Lawrence. — Daniel Cutting. — Joseph Cutting. — Reuben Ward. — Ichabod Shaw. — Peter Starkey. — John Starke\\ — Benjamin Starkey. — Joseph Starkey. — Enoch Starkey. Jonathan Lawrence. — Joshua Harrington. — Duncan Cameron. — John Bruce. — Thomas Clark. — Agabus Bishop. — Abner Haskell. — Joseph For- ristall. — Godding Family. — Alexander Parkman. — Joseph Nourse. — Daniel Farrar 25-51 CHAPTER HI. SETTLERS FROM 1780 TO 1800. John Whitnc}'. — Jonathan Whitney. — George Farrar. — Berbv. — Wesson. — Jason Winch. — Joseph Parker. — Jonas Warren.— Daniel Gould. — Na- thaniel Kendall. — Hezekiah Coolidge. — Abraham Coolidge. — Ephraim Root. — Benoni Robbins. — James Dean. — Jonathan Whipple. — Jonathan Ball. — Jonathan Platts. — John Sweetland. — Talmon Knights. — John Garfield. — Elijah Alexander. — Stephen Russell. — Abraham Randall. — Silas Cook. — Isaac Jackson. — William Starkey. — Ichabod Woodward. Jonas Robinson. — Silas Wheeler. — John Rogers. — David Saunders. — Ebenezer Saunders. — Ezekiel White. — Nathaniel Bucklin. — Newton. — William Nurse. — Edward Foster. — Jonathan Capron. — Christo]iher Harris. — Elijah Fuller. — Isaac Fuller. — Asa Brewer. — Zo])her Whit- comb. — John Joy. — Joseph French. — Hugh Thomj^son. — John and David Garev 52-66 VI CONTIiNTS. CHAPTER IV. SETTLERS FROM ISOO TO 1815. Nathan Wheeler. — Thomas Benney. — William Barnard. — Thomas Clark. — Josiah Morse. — Hezekiah Hod^kins. — Reuben Newell. — Edmtind Bemis. — Jonathan Lawrence. — William Lawrence. — Zalmon Howe. — John Lawrence. — Henry Tolman. — Joseph Butler. — Aaron Holt. — Daniel Farrar. — Joshua Harrington. — Samuel Lawrence. — Daniel Cut- ting, Jr. — Levi Maxey. — Easman Alexander. — Robert Fitts. — Josiah Amadon. — Nathan Winch. — Elijah Harrington. — Caleb Perry. — Joseph Alexander. — Elias Mann. — Daniel W^. Farrar. — Luna Starkey. — Isaac Lawrence. — James Godfrey. — Salmon Whittemore. — Luke Harris. — Constant Weaver. — Sylvester P. Flint. — Elnathan Gorham. — Peletiah Hodgkins. — Nathan Newell. — Lyman Wright. — Stephen Farrar. — Cal- vin Bcmis ()7-80 CHAPTER V. REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. An .Vccount of Those Who Took Part in the Revohitionar}- War. — Ben- jamin Tolman. — Ezekiel Mixer. — Jacob Newell, Jr. — Pearson Newell. — James Brewer. — John Farrar, Jr. — Joseph and William Farrar. — James Dean. — Peter Starkey. — The Association Test. — Continental Currency. — Alarm List 81-100 CHAPTER \T. INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN. The People Desire a New Town. — Reasons for the Separation. — Thev Petition to be Voted Off. — Their Request Denied. — A Meeting House Built. — Subject Brought Before the Legislature. — Encounters Opposi- tion. — Committee of Investigation Appointed. — Hearing Before the Committee. — A Charter Obtained and the town organized. 101-112 CHAPTER Vn. ECCLESIAvSTICAL HISTORY. Early Religious History. — Religious Societies. — Churches. — Clergyman. — Congregational Society and Church. — Ba])tist Society and Church. — The Liberal Ihiion or Universalist Societv 113-147 CONTENTS. Vll CHAPTER VIII. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND LOCAL TRADITIONS. Topography. — List of Mills and Shops Thirty Years Ago. — Wild Ani- mals.— Wolf and Bear Hunts 148-161 CHAPTER IX. BURYING GROUNDS. First Burying Ground. — First Public Burying Ground. — Mountain View Cemetery. — List of Those Interred in the Old Cemetery. . 162-173 CHAPTER X. EXTRACTS FROM TOWN RECORDS. First Chair and Table for Meeting House. — Amount Paid for Working on Highway. — By-law^s Against Animals Running at Large. — Action of Town in the Division of the County. — First Map of the State. — Toleration Law. — First Stove in Meeting House. — Stone Bridge. — Dispensing with Superintending School Committee. — Distribution of the Public Surplus. — Temperance Reform. — Miscellaneous Matters. — First Printed School Report. — Finishing Room under Town Hall. — Changing the Name of the Town. — History of the Town Hall. 174-186 CHAPTER XI. TOWN OFFICERS AND APPROPRIATIONS. List of Constables. — Town Officers. — Appropriations. — Votes for Governor. — School Committee and School Boards. — Copy of Early Check List. 187-202 CHAPTER XII. THE REBELLION. Slavery.— Missouri Compromise.— Dred Scott Decision.— Bombardment of Fort Sumter. — Call for Troops. — First Enhstment. — Aid for Soldiers' Families. — Expenses Incurred. — Bounties Offered. — Bounties Paid. — Votes of the Town. — Summary of Expenses Incurred. — Men who Served in the Rebellion and their Record. — List of those Living in Ti-oy but Credited to Other Towns. — Present Residents who Served in Other Towns or vStates 203-226 vni CONTENTS. CHAPTER XIII. HkSTORICAL AND TRADITIONAL. Letter from C. E. Potter, Esq., Respecting the Western Boundary oi' the State.— The Supposed Murder.— The Robbery 227-238 CHAPTER XIV. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. Different Systems of Education.— Interest of School Lots Expended for Schools.— The First School.— The First Teacher.— Division of Town into Sc|uadrons.— Schoolhouses.— New Division of the Town into Districts.— Town System Established.— High School.— Mrs. Louisa B. Wright.— New School Building 239-269 CHAPTER XV. PHYSICIANS AND LAWYER. Dr. Justus Perry.— Dr. Ebenezer Wright. — Dr. Charles W. Whitney. — Dr. Luke Miller.— Dr. A. M. Caverly.— Dr. Mary Ann Harris.— Dr. Daniel Farrar.— Dr. Daniel B. Woodward.— Dr. Benjamin H. Hartwell. — Dr. John Dodge.— Dr. Carl G. Metcalf.— Dr. M. S. Ferguson.— Dr. Benja- min E. Harriman.— Dr. M. T. Stone.— Luther Chapman, Esq. 270-283 CHAPTER XVI. MILLS AND MANUFACTURING. First (irist and Saw Mills.— Manufacture of W' ooden Ware.— Pail Shops. — Scythe Factory.— Pail Handles.— Brown Earthen Ware and Pottery. — Tannery.— Hat Making.— Fulling Mills.— First Horse Blankets Made.— Troy Blanket Mills.— Granite Industry.— Box Making.— Brick Yards^ 286-300 CHAPTER XVII. MISCELLANEOUS. The Old Military Road. — Post Office and Postmasters. — Formation of an Engine Company. — Hamilton Engine and Company. — Monadnock Steamer Co.— Free Masons.— Monadnock Lodge No. 80, F. & A. M. — List of Officers. — Patrons of Husbandry. — Real Estate Development. 301-320 GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. Abarc, 321. Adams, 322-324. Aldrich, 324-327. Alexander, 327-331. Amadou. 331-322. CONTENTS. IX Baker, 322-340. Ball, 340-341. Balhm, 341. Barker, 341. Barnard, 342. Bemis, 342-347. Beers, 347. Bishop, 347. Bigelow, 348. Birtwhistle, 348-350. Blanding, 350. Boyden, 350. Brewer, 351- 352. Brown, 352-356. Brooks, 356. Bruce, 356. Burpee, 357. But- ler. 357-360. Buttrick, 360-362. Ca])ron, 362-364. Carpenter, 364. Carter, 365. Caverly, 365-367. Chase, 367. Clark, 367-372. Clement, 372. Cobb. 373. CooHdge, 373-375. Congdon, 375-376. Corey, 376. Crosby, 376-378. Cum- mings, 378. Cutting, 378-380. Daggett, 381. Damon, 381. Devine, 382. Dexter, 382. Dort, 382-385. Edwards, 385. Emery, 385. Enright, 385-386. Fairbanks, 386. Farrar, 388-404. Farr, 405. Fassett, 405-407. Field, 408. Fife, 408-410. Fitts, 411. Forristall, 411-415. Foster, 415- 418. Freeman, 418. French, 418. Frost, 419. Fuller. 419-422. Garfield. 422-424. Gates. 425. Goddard, 426. (nodding. 427-428. Goodall, 428-430. Gorham, 430. Gove, 431. Greenwood, 431. (irosvenor, 431. Grimes. 432. Hale. 433. Hardy. 433. Harrington. 434-436. Harris, 437-440. Haskell, 441-445. Herrick, 446-449. Hawkins, 450. Heberts. 450. Hodgkins, 451-452. Holt, 453-458. Howe, 459. Hubbard, 460. Hurlbutt, 463. Hutt, 464. Ingalls, 464. Jackson, 464-465. Jones, 466. Jarvis, 467. Kenney, 468. Kendall, 468-469. Kimball, 470-472. Knight, 473. Lahiff, 473. Lang, 473. Lapoint, 473. Lawrence, 473-478. Lawson, 478. Lowe, 479. Maddox, 480. Mahon, 480-481. Mann, 481. Mason, 481-482. Mar- shall, 482. Merrifield. 483-484. Miller, 484. Morse, 484. Mortimer, 485. Newell, 485-486. Newton, 487-491. Nurse, 491-494. Oakes, 494-498. Parkhurst, 498. Perkins, 498. Parker. 499. Piper, 499-502. Porter, 500. Putney. 501. Parmenter, 501. Peck, 502. Pratt, 502. Randall, 503-504. Rice, 504. Ripley, 504-507. Roberts, 507. Robin- son. 507. Rogers. ''508. Ruffle, 508. Riigg, 508. Russell, 509. Saunders. 509. Shaw. 510. Sibley, 510-513. Silcox, 513. Silsby, 513- 514. Smith, 51.5. Spaidding, 515. Spooner, 516. Starke^', 517- 525. Stanley, 526-527. Stone, 528-529. Streeter, 530. Sullivan, 530. Sutton, 531. Thompson, 531. Tolman, 532-539. Townsend, 539. Tumey, 539. Tupjjer, 540. Watson, 540. Ward, 542. Wheeler, 543-546. Whipple, 546. Whitcomb, 546-547. White, 548. Whittemore, 548-554. Whitney, 554-558. Winch. 558-559. Wise. 559. Woodward. 560. Wright, 560-565. List of Illustrations. VIEW OF TROY FROM THE EAST FRONTISPIECE PORTRAITvS. ALDRICH, ISAAC. JR H25 BAKER, ABEL 337 BEMIS, EDMUND 34-5 BEMIS, CALVIN 346 BIRTWHISTLE, THOMAS A 349 BROWN, LEMUEL 353 BROWN, CHARLES W 354 BUTTRICK. EDWIN 362 BUTLER, MARY ANN HARRIS, M. D 278 CAVERLY, A. M., M. D 277 CAVERLV, CHARLES S.. M. D 366 CLARK. ALVAH S 371 CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS OPP. 137 COOLIDGE. CHARLES 375 DORT. ASA C 383 DORT. EDWIN B 384 FAIRBANKS, CYRUS 386 FARRAR, DANIEL, M. D 279 FARRAR, DANIEL W 390 FARRAR, DAVID W 392 FARRAR, HENRY W 399 FARRAR, CHARLES D 400 FASSETT, DAN VERSE C 4.07 FORRISTALL. JOSEPH M 413 FORRISTALL. STEPHEN A. D 414 FOSTER. FRANCIS 416 GOODALL, THOMAS 429 HARRIS, LUKE 437 HARRIS, WILLIAM A 439 HASKELL, CHARLES 445 HERRICK, JONATHAN S., REV 449 HODGKINS, AUGUSTUS 452 HOLT, JOTHAM H 454 HOI-T, LEVI BARTLETT 456 HOLT, JUDGE JOEL 457 HI'BBARD, CHARLES A 461 HUBBARD, HARRY 462 KIMBALL, EDWARD P 471 LAWRENCE, JOHN 475 LAWRENCE, GREGORY 477 LAWRENCE, WILLIAM 478 LOWE, DAVID P 480 NEWTON, DANA 487 NEWTON, CALVIN 488 NEWTON, MARTIN L 489 NEWTON, HIRAM C 490 NURSE, BROWN 493 LIS7' OF ILLUSTRATIONS. XI OAKES, FREDERICK \V.. REV .' 495 PARKER, NATHANIEL 499 RIPLEY, BARRETT 505 RIPLEY, FRANKLIN 506 SIBLEY, AMOS 511 SIBLEY, HARRINGTON.. 512 SILSBY, FISHER 514 STARKEV. GEORGE A 522 STARKLY, WALTER H 524 STANLEY, JAMES R 52 7 STONE, MELVIN T., M. D 2S2 TOLMAN, ELISHA H 535 TOWNSEND, LUTHER, REV 539 WATSON, WILLIAM N 541 WHITTEMORE, LUTHER 553 WHITNEY, CHARLES W., M. D 273 WHITNEY, CHARLES \Y 557 WRIGHT, MRS. LOUISA B 264 WRIGHT, LYMAN 561 WRIGHT, LEONARD 562 WRIGHT, THOMAS 564 MISCELLANEOUS. VIEW OF COMMONS LOOKING SOUTH FROM NEAR TOWN HALL 20 VIEW OF MAIN ST. LOOKING SOUTH FROM NEAR CON. CHURCH 39 VIEW OF COMMONS LOOKING NORTH 93 MAIN STREET LOOKING NORTH FROM RAILROAD BRIDGE 59 MILL STREET 107 RAYMOND AVENUE 319 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 137 CONGREGATIONAL PARSONAGE 13S BAPTIST CHURCH 143 STORE OF C. W. WHITNEY 75 STORE AND RESIDENCE OF E. P. KIMBALL 472 TOWN HALL 186 SCHOOLHOUSE ON WEST HILL 255 MERRIFIELD SCHOOLHOUSE 255 NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOLHOUSE 258 SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOLHOUSE 259 SCHOOLHOUSE ON EAST HILL 260 NEW SCHOOLHOUSE 267 PAIL SHOP OF E. BUTTRICK & CO 286 PAIL SHOP OF CHAS. D. FARRAR 287 TROY BLANKET MILLS — FRONT VIp;W 293 TROY BLANKET MILI-S — REAR VIEW 295 QUARRY OF TROY GRANITE CO 297 OLD FIRE ENGINE 305 HAMILTON FIRE ENGINE 307 MONADNOCK STEAMER AND HOSE WAGON 308 RESIDENCE OF ASA C. DORT 385 RESIDENCE OF C. D. FARRAR 401 RESIDENCE OF H. C. NEWTON AND NEWTON HOMESTEAD, MARL- BOROUGH -. OPP. 489 HARRINGTON PLACE AS OWNED BY SPAULDING 435 RESIDENCE OF MRS. S. E. HARRIS 440 RESIDENCE OF DR. M. T. STONE 529 RESIDENCE OF C. W. WHITNEY 55S History of Troy* CHAPTER I. GRANTS OF THE LAND. INTRODUCTION. — MASON'S CL.MM. — GRANT OF THE TOWNSHIP. — CONDITIONS OF THE CHARTER. — MEETING OF THE PROI'RIETOKS. — TOWNSHIPS DIVIDED INTO LOTS. The arrival of the " A/Taytiower," on the shores of Massachusetts in 1620, was no ordinary event. The Old World, in which society had existed under conditions as varied fis its political divisions, had failed to produce a civil polity upon a basis sufficiently broad to meet the approbation of enlightened and liberal men. The strong" disposition to embrace hereditary sentiments, with the fear of innovations upon established customs, rendered the attempt at the formation there of a new order of things, embracing important reforms, a hopeless task. In the meantime light was gradually breaking in, and a few there were \vho were enabled thereby to see the imperfections in the prevailing social system, and its inability to raise men to that dignity, intellectually and morally, that answered the exalted end of their being. These few were impressed with the importance of a great national reform in religious matters. The religious char- acter of England Avas arbitrary, invested by authority in the Church of England. Their movement was in favor of freedom in thought and worship. These few, so-called fanatics, were truly the nobility of the earth, but what could they hope with the tide of public opinion against 2 HISTORY OF TROY. them ? Institutions congenijil to their feelings, and sueh as in their opinion would promote the highest interest of mankind, could only be formed by a united and devoted people, and that even upon foreign soil. Such being the case, they resolved to forego the com- forts of home, and to brave the hardships incident to distant colonial life, in order to inaugurate a form of government that should be the admiration of the world, and diffuse its blessings upon countless millions. That was a noble resolution and one that converted a gloom V wilderness into a fruitful field, and rendered immortal such consecrated places as Plymouth, Lexington, Bunker Hill and Yorktown, and brought into being one of the most intelligent and powerful nations. The s])irit of the Puritans did not expend itself upon the limited territory a few miles around the point upon which they first set foot upon American soil, but accom- panied with a strong Saxon energy, it has lived on, cumit- lative in its power, until it has permeated the whole country. In its progress it has levelled mountains, filled up valleys, turned the current of rivers, and covered arid wastes with flourishing towns and cities. The history of New^ England is but the record of the influence of that spirit which animated the breasts of such men as Robin- son, Carver, Davenport and Brew^ster, men whose hearts were overflowing ^vith love to God and good will to men. The general outline of this history is familiar to nearly every one, and is found in all our standard works upon this subject ; but there are incidents of a local nature that escape the observation of the general historian, and such as are full of interest to those living in the places where such incidents occurred. An examination of the surface of the region embraced in the limits of the town of Trov, shows unmistakable GRANTS OF THE LAND. S evidences of the existence of people that have long since gone to that bourne from which no traveler returns. As we look upon the excavations which abound in different parts of the town, and which once constituted the cellars of residences which echoed with the busy footsteps of those within whose breasts "the smiles of joy and the tears of woe, alternately triumphed;" as we look down into those neglected wells that once yielded the sparkling element to slake the thirst of the weary laborer, now only a retreat for the lizard and serpent, and as the eye runs along the old thoroughfares, now overgrown with Inishes and almost or quite obliterated, but where a century ago might have been seen the panting steed, moving along, slowly, beneath a ponderous load of perhaps a husband and wnfe, we are forcibly reminded of the unceasing, and never ending change of all things earthly. It is vain to attempt to give a connected and accurate history of any locality a long series of years after the events to be recorded have taken place, and especially is this so when no authentic records have been kept from actual observation. This was emphatically true of Troy forty years ago, wdien Dr. Caverly wrote the history which is the basis of the present w^ork, the early settlement of which was effected beyond the recollection of men then living. Many of the records were entirely wanting, or at best, exceed- ingly meagre, and he was quite often obliged to rely upon uncertain tradition. In this history it is necessary to go back some years previous to the existence of Troy as an incorporated town, and consequently to draw^ upon the history of those towns from whose territory Troy was taken. In November, 1620, King James I. of England, by his sole authority, constituted a council composed of forty "knights, ladies and gentlemen," by the name of "The 4 HISrOKY OF TROY. Council established at Plymouth, in the County of Devon, for the planting, ruling and governing of New England in America." They v^ere a corporation with perpetual suc- cession by election of the majority, and were granted all the territory from the fortieth to the forty-eighth degree of northern latitude. In 1622, two of the most active members of the council, Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason, obtained from their associates jointly, a grant of the territory which included all the land between the Merri- mack and Kennebec rivers, and extending from the ocean back to the great rivers and lakes of Canada. This tract was called Laconia, and it included New Hampshire and all the western part of Maine. Thev formed a company with several merchants of London and other cities, styling themselves "The Com- pany of Laconia," and in the spring of the following year, they sent over two small divisions of emigrants who commenced settlements on the Piscataqua, one at the river's mouth which they called Little Harbor, and the other some eight miles further up the river on a neck of land which the Indians called Winnechannet, or Cocheco, afterwards called Dover. From some unexplained reason the affairs of this council were transacted in a confused manner from the commencement, and the grants which they made were so inaccurately described and interfered so much with each other, as to occasion difficulties and controversies of a serious nature. Hence quarrels frequently arose about this territory, one party claiming it by virtue of a grant from a foreign monarch who held it by right of discovery; the other bv purchase of the original owners and occupants. Nov. 7, 1629, the Ph^mouth Council, "upon mature deliberation, thought fit for the better furnishing and GRANTS OF THE LAND. 5 furtherance of the jilantations in these parts, to appro- ])riate and allot to several and particular persons divers parcels of land within the precincts of the aforesaid granted premises," and deeded to Mason, this very same territory, which was conveyed to Rev. John Wheelwright, bv a deed dated 1629, and signed by four Indian Saga- mores or Chiefs, for the consideration of a few coats, shirts and kettles, and which was afterward found to be a forgery. This grant included the land west of the Piscataqua river and north of the Merrimack and extending back into the country sixty miles, which he, with the consent of the President and Council, named New Hampshire, from the County of Hampshire in England in which he had formerly resided. After his grant had been confirmed to him, Mason was especially active in his efforts to hasten the settlement of his newly acquired possession. Being a mountainous region, it was thought it must abound in the precious metals, and this was one reason for his activity, as he was hoping to realize a ])rincely fortune. He spent years of toil and expended large sums of monev, but his death, which occurred in December, 1635, put an end to all his ])rojects and left his titles to his lands to be a source of litigation to his heirs for several generations. "After this his widow and executrix sent over an agent to manage her interests at the Portsmouth j)lanta- tion ; but finding the expenses far exceeding the income, he abandoned the whole and gave up the improvements to the tenants." The first heir named in Mason's will dying in infancy, the estate descended to Robert Tufton, grandson of Cap- tain John Mason, who was not of age imtil 1650. 6 HISTORY OF TROY. The extension of the jtn-isdietion of Massachusetts over New Ham]3shire eoiikl not fail to com]ilicate matters still more, and no help could be expected unless the govern- ment of England should interfere, but as the family had always been attached to the royal cause, there could be no ho])e of reHef during the protectorate of Cromwell, as the Massachusetts colony had always stood high in the favor of Parliainent and Cromwell. Charles II. was restored to the throne, and immediately Tufton, who now took the name of Mason, ap]ilied to the King for redress, who referred the matter to his attorney general, who decided that Alason's claim to the Province of New Hampshire was good and legal. For several years the cotmtry had been divided among numerous ])roprietors, and the various settlements had been governed separately by agents of the different pro- prietors, or by magistrates elected by the people, but in 164-1 the people placed themselves under the protection of the Massachusetts colony. Commissioners were sent over in 1641, to inquire into this as well as other matters ; but their reception resulted in a report to the King unfavorable to the Massachusetts claims, and after their return, the government took no active measures for the relief of Mason, who became dis- couraged and joined v^ith the heirs of Gorges in proposing an alienation of their respective rights in the Provinces of New Hampshire and Maine to the crown ; but the Dutch wars and other foreign transactions ])revented any deter- mination concerning them till the country vsras involved in all the horrors of a general war Avith the natives. Sept. 18, 1679, a commission passed the Great Seal of England, constituting a President and Council for the Province of New Hampshire to be appointed by the King, and a house of representatives to be chosen by the people. GRANTS OF THE LAND. 7 The iiiakin.t>' of a province of New Hampshire was no dou])t due to the claims of Mason, who could obtain no redress from the Massachusetts courts. Early in the following year, Mason came from England empowered b\' the King to take a seat in the council. He soon endeavored to compel the people to take leases of him, but they had enjoyed possession of their lands for many years and his claims and demands for rent were resisted both by the people and officers of the govern- ment. They put every obstacle in the way and he could get but little satisfaction, and he soon left the council and returned to England. After this he made several unsuc- cessful attempts to compel the inhabitants to take their leases of him, and even commenced suits against several prominent men for holding lands and selling timber, and although judgment was obtained against the defendents, he could find no purchasers of the lands and so they were permitted to enjo_v them as before, and in 1688, Mason died, a disap]3ointed man, leaving tAVO sons, John and Robert, heirs to the claim. They soon sold their claim for seven hundred and fifty pounds, or about forty-five hundred dollars, to Samuel Allen of London, who in attempting to enforce it met with no better success tlum his predecessors. After the death of Allen, his son renewed the suit ; but the court rendered a verdict against him, and he too, died w^ithout realizing his anticipations. After the sale of the Province of New Hampshire to Allen, by John jind Robert Mason, they returned to America. John died childless, but Robert married. He had hopes of invalidating the claim of Allen on account of some informality attending the purchase, but he died at Havana, in 1718, leaving two sons, John Tufton Mason, and Thomas Tufton Mason, as heirs to his claim. 8 HISTORY ol' TROY. Cai)tain John Tomlinson, a merchant of London, and agent of New Hampshire in P>nghind, being informed of the nature of these transactions, entered into negotiations which resulted in his purchasing the Masonian claim in New Hampshire, in behalf of the Assembly of New Hamp- shire, upon the payment of one thousand pounds. New England currency. Governor Wentworth frequently called the attention of the Assemloly to the matter, but that body failed to appropriate the necessary funds to com])lete the purchase, being engaged in what were considered to be weightier matters. Here the matter rested for some two years, when the Assembly, thinking it would be for their interest to ratify the agreement made liy Tomlinson, appointed a com- mittee to complete the purchase. But they were too late, for Mason's heirs, becoming impatient, on the same day, Jan. 30, 1746, made a trade with certain gentlemen to dispose of his whole interest for fifteen hundred pounds currency, and thus Mason's claim, instead of being pur- chased by the Assembly, as would doubtless have been for the interest of the Province, passed into the hands of private individuals, to the no small regret of the people. The purchasers were Theodore Atkinson, Richard Wibird, M. H. Wentworth, Samuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne, Joshua Pierce, Nathaniel Meserve, George Jaffrey, John Wentworth, Thomas Wallingford and Thomas Packer. Their act raised a storm of indignation, and being aware of the prejudices against them, took measures for Cv)nciliating the public mind by prudently filing at the recorder's office, a quitclaim deed to all to\vns which had been granted by New Ham])shire authority, claiming only the unoccupied portions of the territory, which proved highly satisfactory to the people, and terminated the Masonian controversy, which had disturbed the peace of GRANTS OF THE LAND. 9 the Province for twentA'-iive years. The^' freely granted townships to petitioners, often without fees and always without quit-rents. At this time the western boundary of New Hampshire w^as held to extend as far as the Connec- ticut river, and several towns had already been granted upon the river by Massachusetts before the establishment of the line. The territory in the vicinity of Monadnock being still uninhabited except by wandering parties of Indians was included in the claim of Mason's proprietors. They soon found purchasers for the whole of this region, and it was accordingly divided into townships, to each of which w^as given the common name of Monadnock, but distinguished by different numbers. These towaiships were granted to different parties on condition that they should w^ithin a limited time, erect mills and meeting houses, clear out roads and settle ministers. In ever\^ township they reserved one right for the lirst settled minister, another for a parsonage, and the third for a school. They also reserved fifteen rights for them- selves and two for their attorneys, all of which were to be free from taxes until sold or occupied. Their names were as follows: Monadnock No. 1, or South Monad- nock, inchided the greater part of the Massachusetts grant, called Row^ley, Canada, and is now the town of Kindge. Monadnock No. 2, or Middle Monadnock, is now Jaffrey. Monadnock No. 3, or North Monadnock, was incorporated as Dublin, and included the present town of Dublin and more than half of Harrisville. Monadnock No. 4, or Stoddard town, was named Fitz- william at its incorporation, and included about one-half of what is now Troy. Monadnock No. 5, was called Ne\v Marlborough, and incorporated as Marlborough, and included a part of Roxbury, and some less than one-half 10 HISTORY OF TROY. of Troy. Monadiiock No. 6, was named I^ackersiield at its incorporation and changed to Nelson in 1814, and included the i)resent town of Nelson and a part of Harris- ville. Monadnock No. 7, was called Limerick till its incorporation, when it was named Stoddard. Monadnock No. 8, was called Camden, till Dec. 13, 1776, when it was incorporated and named Washington. Perhaps this was the first place to be named for the " Father of his Country." Monadnock No. 4, was granted by the Masonian pro- prietors through their agent, John Blanchard, to Roland Cotton and forty-one others, among whom may be men- tioned Josiah Cotton, Matthew Thornton, Siimpson Stod- dard, Thomas Read, William Lawrence and John Stevens, on January 15, 1752, on conditions similar to those named, but this grant became void because of the non- fulfilment of the conditions. Business had been disturbed by the war betw^een Eng- land and France which ended in 1748, and a new struggle between the same nations was just commencing, which proved to be "the Seven Years War," or the " French and Indian War," as it was called, which was disastrous to the settlement of a new towmship like this. But though they failed to comply with the conditions of their contract. Cotton and his associates did not lose their interest in the township, for an amicable settlement was made and a new grant given early in 1765, and many of the grantees of 1752 \vere grantees under the new contract ; for in this their hardships are alluded to and are treated with due consideration, and the second list doubtless included all of the first who had done any- thing in the way of improvement and wished to be included in the new company, and included the following: Saini)S()n Stoddard, Paid Marcli, Mattliew Thornton, Jonathan Hhmchard. GRANTS OF THE LAND. 11 Nathaniel Brooks, James Reed, John Hone^', Jonathan Willson, WilHam Earl Treadwell, Jacob Treadwell, Jr., Edmund Gronard, Thomas Spanlding, Abel Lawrence, Jonathan Lovewcll, George Libbey, John Woods, Benjamin Edwards, Charles Treadwell, Nathaniel Treadwell, Sampson Stoddard, Jr., Daniel Mellen, Benjamin Bellows, John Stevens, Jeremiah Libbey. The grant was given upon the followmg conditions : To Havk and to Hold to them and to their Several and Respective heirs and assigns in Severalty as the same has been Divided into Separate lots and as the said Lots are Numbered and Set to the Respective Names in Said Schedule on the following Terms, Conditions and Limitations. First that twenty of the Shares as the same are Sever'd allotted and Divided Numbered and fixed to the Several Names in Said Schedule be and hereby is Reserved to the use of the Grantors their heirs and assigns free and Exempted of and from all chai-ges of settlement and all Other charges imtil Improved bj' them their heirs or assigns — and also that two hundred acres Lay'd out for the Grantors at the North East- erly part of said tract of land as appears bj^ Said Schedule and a plan thereof be in like inanner Reserved to them their heirs & assigns. Secondly, that those of the Aforesaid Shares be and hereby a])j)ro- priated one for the first Settled minister one for the use of the Ministry and one for the use of a school on Said Tract of Land when Settled. Thirdly that the Remaining Shares be and hereby are Granted and appropriated to the Several Persons and Sever'd to them Respectiveh' as is mentioned and Ninnbered in Said Schedijle; And Each lot of Land in Said Tract shall be Subject to have Necessary high Ways Lay'd out thro them as there shall be Occasion hereafter free from the charge of jnir- chasing the Land that is the Owners of Said Lots shall not be ])aid for that part thereof which shall be so Necessarially La3''d out in high Ways untill an Incorporation and then to come under the Rides of Law in that Regard. Fourthly that the Grantees aforesaid (subject to the duty of Settle- ment) Build fifty houses on Said Tract of Land Such Shares to have one house on One of the Lots belonging to it Respectiveh' as the Grantees shall determine bv regular Votes according to their Interests within 12 HISTORY OF TROY. three years iVoin tlie Date liereof Eaeh House to ])e Btiilt so as to have one Room Sixteen feet Square or Equal thereto and also to have Twelve acres Land cleared and fitted lor Tillage Pasture and Alowiny within the term of three Years and to add an acre more annually till the Inhab- itants there Shall he IiK'or|)oratcd, (on each Share) the said houses to be Well fitted and made Comfortable habitations and the Said Land to lie cleared in a j^'ood Husbandlike manner and every Particular (Trantee aforesaid sliall ])ay his Due Projjortion of all Taxes and Charges neces- sary to the Making Said Settlement in the articles aforesaid and in what follows on Pfiin of forfeiting his Right in Said Land or so much thereof as shall answer his proportion of such Taxes and Charges to be disposed oi by a Committee chosen b^- a major part of the Grantees appointed for that j)nr]K)se. Fii'TiiLV the said Grantees shall build a Convenient Meeting House for Public Worship within five years from the Date hereof and shall Maintain Constant jireaching there from after the Term of six years from the Date hereof. Sixthly all the white ]iine Trees Growing on any part of said Land tho' sevrd into Lots are hereljy Reserved that are fit for his Majesty's use for that purpose to him his heirs and successors. Seventhly if the Grantees shall fail and make default of Completing the Settlement according to the Terms and Limitations aforesaid it shall be lawful to and for the said Proprietors and their successors to Re-enter into and upon the Said Tract of Land to Resume the same and to be- come Re-seized thereof as in their former Estate and as if this grant had not been made. Copy of Record. Attest: (tEO. Jaffkey, Prop. Cler. Received and Recorded this 22d day of May, 1765. lixam. Sampson Stoddard, Jr. Pros. Clerk. It is not known when or where the first meeting of the proprietors was held, or when the township was surveyed and divided into lots, but was probably done at an early period after the reception of the charter, and the lots drawn according to the common custom of the time. Each lot was supposed to contain one hundred acres, but there was considerable variation in their size, and thev GRANTS OF THE LAND. 13 exceeded one hundred acres on an average. According to the terms of the grant 1)y the Masonian Proprietors, each of them, twenty-one in number, had one share or two lots, though some of these men appear with ])artners at the drawing and selection, as Grantor Tomlinson and Mason. The follo\ving will show the projDrietors of that jiart of the township, now within the limits of Troy, as settled by the draught, with the number and range of the lot of each. Proprietors' Names. Range . No. : Range. No. Sampson Stoddard, 5 21 G 21 Sampson Stoddard, 10 20 6 22 Samjjson Stoddard, 10 21 6 23 Sampson Stoddard, 10 22 11 17 Sampson Stoddard, 10 23 11 21 Sampson Stoddard, 11 22 Heirs of J. Liljbe^', 4 21 Matthew Thornton, 4 22 5 23 Abel Lawrence, 4 23 12 18 John Moftatt, 5 22 John Woods, 7 23 Jonathan Odiorne, 8 19 10 19 Jonathan Willson, 8 21 John Stevens, 9 18 James Reed, 9 19 12 23 Daniel Mellen, 9 22 9 23 Noah Emery, 10 17 (Grantor Tomlinson and Mason, 10 18 Charles Treadwell, 11 16 Richard Wiijird, 11 19 Peine & Moore, 11 23 12 23 Nathaniel Treadwell, 12 17 Paul & March. 12 20 18 8 18 9 20 19 8 20 9 21 20 8 22 12 10 21 22 8 23 12 12 19 22 11 20 11 18 The new owners soon took measures to perfect their organization as a new company and to open up their townshi]) to settlement, and issued the following call for a meeting, signed by sixteen of the grantees who no"w took the name of proprietors. 14 HISTORY OF TKOY. Wherkas the Proprietors of the Lands ,<2:ranted 1)y John Tufton Mason Esfir. eommonly called Mason's I^atent, have lately frranted to lis (with some few others) a Tract of Land about six Miles Square as may ajjpear by the Grant, with the conditions of settlement and in order to the Carrying on the same with Effect it is Necessary some method should be pursued by General Consent by the Grantees for which and it is proposed that thej' shall meet at the dwelling house of Thomas Har- wood, in Dunstable, on Monday the 20th day of Ma^^ Instant at Twelve O'clock at noon, then and there when met to Chuse a Clerk for the Grantees and to act on any other matter or thing that shall then be projected being necessary for Carrying forward and Completing the Set- tlement afoi'csaid. William Earle Treadwell, Benja. Edwards, Paul March, Jacob Treadwell, Jun., Charles Treadwell, Sampson Stoddard, Matthew Thornton, Jacob Treadwell, Jun., for Edmund Grouard, Nathl Treadwell, Jonathan Blanchard, Thomas Spaulding, Sampson Stoddard, Jun., Nathl Brooks, Abel Lawrence, Daniel Mellen, James Reed. A True Cojjy of the Original. Examd per Sampson Stoddard, Jun. They met agreeably to the notice and took action as follows : At a meeting of the Proprs the Grantees of that Tract of Land cjilled Monadnock No. 4 in the Province of New Hampshire Granted by the Purchasers of Mason's right so-called held at the house of Thomas Har- wood in Dunstable on Monday the 20th day of May 1765. 1st. Col. Sampson Stoddard imanimously chosen Moderator. 2. Chose Sampson Stoddard Jun. Clerk for the Grantees. 3. Then the following mcathod for Calling meetings for the future w^as agreed upon and Voted that upon application of the Owners of Ten Original Shares made in writing to the Clerk (for the time being) insert therein the Several matters and things Desired to be acted upon, he shall and is hereby authorized and Impowered to call such a Meeting or meetings Posting proper Notifications at some place in Dunstable in New Hampshire and at some jiublic place in Chelmsford at least fourteen Days Before hand and all meetings so posted and held accordingly shall be good and Valid. Then this meeting was dismissed. Ma3' 20, 1765. Attest Sampson Stoddard Modr. A true co])y of the Original Examd per Sampson Stoddard Jun. Props Clerk. The next meeting of the proprietors was called by GRANTS OF THE LAND. 15 Sampson Stoddard, Junior, Clerk, to be held at the house of Capt. Oliver Barron, Innholder, in Chelinsford, on Mon- day, August 19th, 1765, then and there when met to aet upon the folloAving articles as they shall judge proper. 1st. To see who of the Grantees shall make the Fifty Settlements enjoined b_Y grant and to act thereon as shall Be agreed on. 2d. To raise Money In' a tax for an\' use for carrying forward and comi)leting the settlement of the Township. 8dly. Toseeif the Grantees will give an_v Encouragement Towards Build- ing Mills in said Townsliip and to do and act as they shall deem jjrojier. 4tli. To Chose a Committee to Receive Examine and Allow all .\ccounts of any Person or Persons who have done Service for the Proprs or paid money for Cutting or Clearing Kodes, and to do and act in that regard as they shall think proper. 5th. To Chuse a Treasurer and Collector. Gthly. To Chuse a Committee to kiy out Rodes &c. Dated at Chelmsford the 27th day of July 1 765. A true Copy of the Original Notification made Out by me in Conse(|uence of an application for that Pm-pose on hie, and jjosted the time recpured. Examd per Sampson Stoddard Jun. Props Clerk. The following is a record of the meeting: At a meeting of the Grantees of the Tract of Land Laying in the Province of New Hampre called Monadnock No. foiu- holden at the house of Capt. Oliver Barron, Innholder in Chelmsford on Monday the 19th day of August 1765. Chose Col. Stoddard, Modr. Whereas the Grantees are Injoyncd l)y grant of said Townshi]) to build hfty houses and make them comfortable habitations on said Tract of Land and such shares to build as the Grantees shall determine and also to have twelve acres of Land Cleared and fitted for Tillage Pastur- ing and Mowing and to add an acre more annually (till an Incorjjora- tion) on each subject to the duty of settlement. Therefore Voted that the said settlements be done and performed by the following (irantees and in proportion hereinafter declared, Nanielv Col. Stoddard eighteen, Edmimd (irouard two, Jacob Treadwell junior one, Jonathan Lovewell one, Benjamin Bellows two, Matthew Thornton three, Nathl Brooks one, Thomas Si)aulding one, John Honey one, Nathl Treadwell one, Abel Lawrence three, Paul March one, James Reed four, 16 HISTORY OF TROY. heirs of Georfje Lil)l)fy one. Cli.irles Treadwell one, John Stevens one, Daniel Mellen one, Jonathan Hlanchard one, Jonathan Willson two, John Woods one, Samjison Stoddard jun. one, Benjamin Edwards one, and the heirs of Jereh Lilibey one, Ijy building and Clearing in such way and manner as to fulfill the Grant. 2dlv. Voted that the sum of five Dollars on each share, two lots to a share be assessed and Immediately Collected by the Treasurer of this Property to answer and Pay the Necessary Charges and Expenses already arisen and arising in Bringing forward the settlement of said Township. 3dly. And whereas the speedy settlement of said Township Depends much upon having a CJood saw Mill Built there soon as may be. Voted that in consideration of Col. Stoddard's conveying to Mr. Daniel Millen two lots of Land then having a Mill plase on em for encouragement of his undertaking the arduous Task of Building and Keeping a saw mill in rejjair to be fit to go, within fourteen months that said Stoddard be Intitled to Draw out of the Treasury' Twenty ])ounds Lawful money and that sum to be in full for the said two lots of Land. 4thly. Voted that Col. Stoddard and Mr. Sampson Stoddard Jr. be a Conunittee to Receive, Examine and allow all accounts of any person or Persons who have done service for the Props and that upon their order to the Treasurer he is Directed to jjay the Same accordingh\ Sthly. Voted that Jonathan Blanchard be Treasurer to this Pro- prietv and Collector of the several Rates and Taxes that is or shall be raised untill the Propty order the contrary. 6th. Voted that Messrs. Daniel Millen, James Reed, and Benjamin Bigelow be a Committee or the major Part of them to Mark, Lay out and clere all necessary Rodes in said Township rendering their accounts to acceptance untill the Props order the contrary. Then the Meeting was Dismissed. Attest, Samtson Stodd.vkd Mod : A true copy Examd per S.XMi'so.N STt)ni)AKD, Jun. P. C. Moiiadiiock No. 5, or Marlborough, was granted the 20th day of May 1752, and v^^as estimated to comprise twenty thousand acres. The following is a copy of the Masonian charter. GRANTS OF THE LAND. 17 PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPvSHIRE. Pursuant to the Power and Authority Granted and Vested In me the subseri1)er In- tlie Proprietors of Land, Purehased of Jolm Tufton Mason Esqr. in the Provinee of New Hampe by their Vote Passed at their Meeting held at Portsmouth in said Provinee the 6th day of December 1751. I DO B3' these Presents on the Terms and Liinitation hereinafter Express'd Give and Grant all the right Possession and Pro]3erty of the Propr aforesaid unto James Mcnrison Junr. Archi1)ald Dunla]), Robert Clark, James L\'ons, Robert Allen, Andrew Ai'mer, Halbert Morrison, Samuel Morrison, John Morrison, Thomas Morrison, Willim Gilmer, J(jhn Gilmer, Samuel Allison, Samuel Allison, Junr. James Willson, Junr. John Willson, Robert Willson, Thomas Willson, Samuel Willson, Samuel Steel, James Moore, John Warson, John Cochran, Isaac Cochran, Thomas Cochran, Samuel Cochran, Hugh Montgomery, Henry Neal, John Moore, Samuel Mitchel, Thomas McClary, three Shares Each and to James Will- son Senr one Share — of In and To That Tract of Land or Township call'd Monadnock number five — Situate in the Province of New Hampe Containing by E)stimation twenty thousand Acres Bounded as followeth, — Beginning at the Northwest Corner of the Townshij) Calld North Monadnock No. three and Rims from thence — North Eighty Degrees West three Miles and a half to a Beach Tree on West Line of Mason's Patent and from thence Southerly in that Line Seven Miles three quar- ters & forty Rods To the North West Corner of the Township Calld Monadnock No. four, from thence — South Eighty Degrees East aboxit Four Miles by the North Line of said No. four till it Come to the West Line of Monadnock No. two and No. three To the first Bounds mentioned. To Havk and to Hold to them their heirs and assigns on the fol- lowing Terms Conditions and Limitations that is To Say that within Nine Months from this Date there be One hundred & Twenty three fifty Acre Lotts Lay'd out as Near the Middle tlic Township In tlie Best of the Upland as Conveniency Will Adiuit & Drawn for and that the Remainder of the Townshiii l)c Divided Into One hundred & Twenty three Shares not Exceeding two Lotts to a share In Such Quantity as the Grantees Agree upon each Lott & Drawn for within two Years from this Date. That three of the aforesaid Shares be Granted and appropriated free of all Charge One for the first Settled minister one for the Ministry & one for the School those forever One lott for Each Said Share to be Laid 3 18 HISTORY OF TROY. Out Near the middle of tlic Town X: Lotts Coupled to them So as to Make tliem H(|ual with tiie Rest. That the owners of the Other Rights make Settlement at their Own lixjjense in the following manner Viz. all the Lotts to be Lay'd out at the (irantees lixpense. That all the Lotts in Said Town be Subject to have all Necessary Kodes Lay'd out thro' them as there sludl l)e Ocassion free from Charge for the Land. That £it or Before the L ist Day of December 1754, there be three .\eres Clered Enclosed and fitted for mowing or Tillage on thirty of the aiorenientioned (irantees Shares Viz. on one Share of Each of the afore- named (irantees excepting Hugh Montgomery, James Moore & Stimuel Steel and from thence annually, one more in Like Manner for five years and that Each of the Grantees have a house Built on Some One Lott in said Township of a Room Sixteen feet Sqviare at the Least Besides the Chimney Way with a Chimne\' & Cellar fit for Comfortable Dwelling therein. In Six Vears from the Date hereof and Some Person Inhabit- ing and Resident In Each house and to Continue Iidiabitancy there for four Years then Next Coming and that Within the Term of twelve Years from this Date there be Seventeen Lotts more viz. one of the Rights of James Morrison, Robert Clark, James Lyons, Robert Allen, Andrew .\rmer, Halbert Morrison, David Morrison, Samuel Morrison, John Mor- rison, Thomas Morrison, William CTilmore, John (iilmore, Samuel Allison, James Willson, John Willson, John Willson, Robert Willson, James Willson, Jmi. have In Like manner five Acres of Land Cler'd Enclosed & fitted as aforesaid Over & above What they are to Do as afoi'esaid & Each a house in manner aforesaid & some Person Inhabiting therein and Con- tinuing Inhabitancy for three Years afterwards there. That a Convenient Meeting house be Built In Said Township within ten Years from this Date and P''inishcd as Xear the Center of the town- ship as Convcniency will .Vdmit of to be Determined Ijy a Major Vote of Grantors and Grantees & Ten Acres of Land Reserved there for Public Use. That the aforesaid (irantees or their .\ssigns Grant & .\ssess anv Sum or Sums of Money as they shall think necessary for Carrying for- ward & Completing the Settlemt aforesaid & an\^ of the Grantees Exclu- sive of the three public Lotts aforesaid Who Shall Neglect for the Space of three Months Next After Such Assessment Shall 1)c (iranted & made to pay the Same So much of Said Delinquints Rights Respectively Shall & may be Sold as Will Pay the Tax & all Charges arising thereon by a Committee of the (irantees appointed for that Pur])ose. (GRANTS OF THE LAND. l9 That all White Pino Trees fit for Mastini>- his Majestys Royal Navy i)e & here1)y are Granted to his Majesty his heirs & Siieecssors forever. And in case an}' of the Grantees Shall Neglect & Refuse to Perform anv of the Articles aforementioned 1)3- him Resiieetively to be Done he Shall forfeit his Share and Right In Said Townshiji, & Every p irt & jjareel thereof to those of the Grantees Who are not Dclinc|nint in the Condi- tions on their i)art Resjiectively to be Done and it Shall & mav be Lawful inr them or any Person by tlicir Authority to Enter Into & ujjon Such Delinquints Right & him or them Utterly to Amove, Oust Exi)ell for the Use of them their heirs and as/iigns Providcil they Settle or Cause to be Settled Such Delinquints Right within the Term of one Year at the farthest from Lhe Period that is by this Grant Stipulated as the Conditions thereof and fully Comjjly with the Conditions Such Delin(its Ought to have Done within One Ye ir from the Time after the Res])eetive Periods thereof and in Case the Said Grantees fulfilling as aforesaid of an3' Delinquint Owner nor he himself Perform it that then Such Share or Shares be forfeit Revert & Belong to the Grantors their heirs & Assigns & to be Wholly at their Disjjosal alwavs Provided there be no Indian Warr in any of the Terms Limited as aforesaid for doing- duty Conditional in this Grant to be Done & In Case that should hap])en the same time to be allowed after such ImiK'diment shall be Removed. Lastlv the Grantors Do hereby P^rcmiise To the said (irantees their heirs & Assigns to Defend thro' the Law to King & Council if Need be one Action that Shall & may be Bro't against them by any Person or Persons Whatsoever Claiming the Said Land or Any Part thereof by any Other Title than that of the Said Grantors or that by Which they hold & Derive theirs from Provided the Said Grantors are avouched In to Defend the Same and in Case on final Trycl the Same Shrdl be Recov- ered over Against the Grantors for the Said Lands lin])rovements or Ex]K'nscs in Bringing forward the settlements. To all Which Premises I Joseph Blanchard Agent for & in P>ehalf of the (Trantors have hereunto Set my hand aiul vScal this 2()th Day of May in the 25th Year of his Majestys Reign Aniu)fiue Domiue 1 7r)2. JosHi'ii Blanciiani). [Serd.] Most of the ^.^rantccs, now more ]3ro])erly called Pro- prietors, were residents of other plaees, mostly London- derry and Dunstable, and probably never intended to take up their residenee here, but expected to realize something 20 msroKV of troy. from selling the land to those wishmg to become settlers; but it seems no immediate effort was made to bring forward the settlement of the townshi]), for no record of the proceedings of the Proprietors appears for over nine years. View ok Commons, Lookinc, South from near Town Hall. If any efforts were made they were probably suspended by the French and Indian war which broke out in 1753, and was no doidot the cause of the non-fulfillment of the conditions of the charter. This war caused great conster- nation throughout all the settled portion of New England, and it was the course of the Indians, upon the renewal of a \yar between the French and English, to commence their hostilities upon the frontier settlements. In August, 1754, a party of Indians surprised the family of James Johnson of Charlestown, and captured the whole number consisting of eight persons and led them prisoners to Canada. The yery next day Mrs. Johnson was deliy- ered of a daughter, and the Indians had the humanity to halt on her accoxmt and construct a litter on which the\' carried the mother and daughter through the yast wilder- ness siu'rounding the (ireen Mountains. GRANTS OF THE LAND. 21 In 1755, small parties of Indians repeated their unwel- come visits to this section, and Benjamin Twitchell was captured at Keene, and several persons killed at Walpole and Hinsdale. The accounts of these atrocities s])read with great rapidity throughout the settlements, and often exaggerated, causing a general feeling of insecurity, which prevailed to such an extent that no progress could be made toward settling new townships. In 1761, the grantees transferred their interest in the township to the following individuals residing in the tow^ns of Marlborough and Marlborough, Mass. : David Church, William Eager, Richard Tozer, Charles Biglo, Jacob Felton, Abraham How, Jr., William Barker, Jonathan Green, Jonathan Bond, John Taylor, William Babcock, Silas Gates, Ebenezer Dexter, Benjamin How, Jonathan Blan- chard, Adonijah How, Elezear How, Noah Church, Isaac McAllister, Silas Wheeler, Joseph Biglo, Daniel Harrington, John Woods, Stephen How, Jessie Rice, Manning Sawin, Daniel Goodenow, Ebenezer Joslin. Of this number but four became actual settlers, only one settling wnthin what is now Troy. The others sold their interest to such individuals as would promise to settle thereon. Many of them were men of distinction in the places in which they resided. In the New HRtnpshire Gazette for Friday, Nov. 20th, 1761, appeared the following notice:' PROVINCE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Whereas application hath this Da\' been made to me ye Subscriber by yt owners of more than one 16th part of the shares Rights or Interests of the whole of that tract or Township, called Monadnock No. 5, — in said Province Desireinn' me to Notify & call a Meetinj]^ of the Pro])ts of said Tract of Land. This is therefore to Notify & Warn all Die Proprietors of the common and individual Lands of the sd Tract or Township called Monadnock No. 5, aforesaid, To assemble & meet at yc House of Colo. Williams, 22 IIISTOKV OF TROY. Innlioldoi- In Alarlhorouiili in Uk- County of Middlesex on the Tenth Day of l)eeend)er Next at Ten o'eloek in the Morninii' in order to net and vote on the foHowint; artieles, viz. 1. To Chose /i Propts Clerk. 2dly. A i)ro])ts Treasurer. 3. Assessors. +. A Proprietors Collector. 5thly. To see if the Projjts will a.yree to allot out the said Township or any part thereof and raise Money by a Tax or other wise for that End or any other, to earry on any Public Matter or thinj? necessary to Bring forward the settlement of said Townshi]). Gth. To agree on some Measure for calling Proprietors Meetings for the Future. November 10th, 1761. Joski'h Blanciiard, Jus. Peace. Tlic I*r()])riet()r.s assembled at the time and place a]>pointed, and the following is from the records of the meeting : 1st. Made Choice of Noah Church, Moderator. 2dly. Iibenzr Dexter Pro])ts Clerk. Hdly. Jessie Rice Propts Treasurer, -tthly. Noah Church, Jacob I-'elton, Assessors. Ebenzr Dexter, nthly. Stephen How Projits Collector. The meeting was then adjourned until the 30th day of A])ril, 17(32; then to meet at the honse of Jonathan Warren, innholder in Marlborough, in order to act upon the remainder of the articles in the notification aforesaid. At this adjourned meeting the Proprietors voted to lay ont the whole township into one htmdred acre lots before the 20th day of the next June. Dr. Bond, Capt. Joseph Biglo, Mr. Daniel Harrington and Lieut. Silas Gates were chosen a committee to carry this into effect; proper persons to be employed by them, and a plan thereof retm-ned to the Pro])rietors at the next meeting, the expense to be paid by the ])ropriety, and to meet the cx]5ense it was voted to raise five dollars on each ])roprietor's right. This meeting was then adjourned to the 30th day of Jimc, to meet at the house of Capt. Bezaleel Eager, innholder in Westborough, to hear the GRANTS OF THB LAND. 23 report of the committee and draAv the lots. At this meeting' the committee tor kitting' out the town reported that they were not ready for the drawing the k)ts, "by reason of ye wdiole of the aljove said Tract of Land not being- alotted out;" and the meeting was further adjourned to meet on the second Wednesday in Octoljer at the house of Cob WilHams, innhokkn- in Marlljorough. At this meeting, Dr. Bond, Daniel Harrington, Capt. Rice, Capt. Joseph Biglo, and Noah Brooks were chosen a committee to couple the lots for drawing and fixing upon a method for calling Proprietors' meetings, which was as follows: "Upon applycation of the owners of five original Rights made to the Clerk in writing inserting the articles to be acted upon, he shall thereupon Make out a notify- c£ition Warning all ye ProjDts at such time and place as they shall a])point, and he shall ])ost up Two Notifycations \'iz: t)ne in Westborough £it some Public Place 14 Days before said Meeting, and all Meetings so Posted & Held shall be good & Valid." The drawing of the lots took place on Nov. 22, 1762, at the house of Abraham Williams in Marlborough, wdien each proprietor had a particular part of the township assigned to him. Who were all the proprietors of that portion of the territory wdiich now^ comes wdthin the limits of Troy does not readily appear, but it is known that among the num- ber were William Barker, Jacob Felton, Silas Wheeler anfl Daniel Harrington. It will be perceived in this history of the settlement of these townships, or that part of them which comes wnthin the present limits of this town, that but few^ of the gran- tees became actual settlers in either of them. A majority of them lived either in Massachusetts or the eastern part of New Hampshire, and probably never intended to estab- lish their residence upon land here of which they obtained 24 HISTORY OF TROY. a grant. Many of them were prominent and influential men in the eomnumities in whieh they lived, and oftentimes holding positions of trust and responsibility whieh they did not eare to relinquish. Doubtless they some time expected to realize some adequate return for their outlaj^ and appeared to have well understood what w^ould most enhance their value, for they sought to make them com- fortable and agreeable homes, and took such steps as would be most conducive in very early establishing a permanent Christian ministry, thereby having the influence of religious institutions constantly jjresent. CHAPTER II. EARLY SETTLERS. EARLY v^ETTLERS FROM ITGi TO 1780. — WILLIAM BARKER. — SILAS FIFE. — THOMAS TOLMAN. — PHINEAS FARRAR. — COL. RICHARD ROBERTS. — JAMES BREWER. — JOHN FARRAR. — CALEB WINCH. — JONATHAN SHAW. — JONAH HARRINGTON. — DAVID WHEELER. — EZEKIEL MIXER. — BENJAMIN TOLMAN. — JACOB NOURSE. — MOSES KENNEY. — HENRY MORSE. — DANIEL LAWRENCE. DANIEL CUTTING. — JOSEPH CUTTING. — REUBEN WARD. — ICHABOD SHAW. — PETER STARKEY. — JOHN STARKEY. — BENJAMIN STARKEY. — JOSEPH STARKEY. — ENOCH STARKEY. — JONATHAN LAWRENCE. — JOSHUA HAR- RINGTON. — DUNCAN CAMERON. — JOHN BRUCE. — THOMAS CLARK. — AGABUS BISHOP. — ABNER HASKELL. — JOSEPH FORRISTALL. — GODDING FAMILY. — ALEXANDER PARKMAN. — JOSEPH NOURSE. — DANIEL FARRAR. It will be seen that the first settlements in these town- ships were made at nearly the same time. Monadnock No. 4 was first settled by John Fassett, Daniel Millen, James Reed, Benjamin Bi^elow^ and others, the three latter being the "fathers of the to\vn," for no others probably were equally efficient in labor and sacrifice for promoting its prosperity. The first settlements made in Monadnock No. 5 were made by Isaac McAllester, William Barker, Abel Wood- ward, Benjamin Tucker and Daniel Goodenough. A pecu- liar interest attaches to those who first became settlers in any town or place, in that we naturally desire to know who they were, where they came from, and how they fared. As to the general character of these first settlers, it may be said that they were industrious, ener- getic, frugal, kind, considerate, ready for hard labor, and willing to make large sacrifices for the comfort and wel- fare of their families and of society at large. 26 HISTORY OF TROY. There were doubtless some worthless persons and shiftless families among them, for sueh will always find their wav to a new settlement, bnt the nuijority of the men and women who founded these homes and established the social, civil and religious institutions upon these hills and along these streams, were persons of genuine worth and fit to be the pioneers in so great and important an enterprise. They came expecting hard work, a life of toil wnth many privations, but after all much comfort in laying good foundations and witnessing substantial progress made. In general they were law abiding and ready to frown upon an\' vice, whoever might be guilty of it, for they brought with them not a few of the strongest and best elements of their Puritan character. The home training of their childhood and youth had been passed under the best moral and religious influence, and they aimed to transplant and cherish the same in the place of their adoption, as their history conclusively^ proves. As to the age of the first settlers, the majority of them were young rather than old. A few there Avere \vith gray hairs and showing mark of life's struggle, whose families were alread}' established and their children grown to maturity and fully prepared, both intellectually and physi- cally, to take an active part in maintaining the interests and welfare of their new home, but these were the excep- tions rather than the rule, for the records of deaths of the the pioneers in these settlements show that they were from twenty-five to forty years of age, and of course in the full vigor of their manhood and womanhood, while the fact that some were older served to qualify' the energy with a larger share of wisdom and discretion. In the matter of education and general intelligence, it may be said that they were fully equal to the neighbors they left behind I-ARLY SETTLERS. 27 in the older settlements. At that time the school training was not the best, books were few and not easily obtained, and the newspaper of the jiresent day was almost unknown ; and therefore, jndi^ed by modern standards, the learning of these laborious and hard working families could not be very great. The first settlement to be made on land now within the limits of Troy, was made by William Barker, supposed to have been a native of Westborough, Mass. He was one of the original proprietors of Monadnock No. 5, or Marlborough, and had drawn several lots in the division, and perhaps because of this financial interest he was led to explore this region, which he did in 1761, and selected a location on West Hill with a view of making it his future residence. He made but a short stop and the next year returned, bringing with him tools to make a clearing for his house, and provisions for a limited time, and it is supposed he felled the first trees and built the first camp in this then wnld land, which must have been a lonely experience, but the hope and promise of a new^ land caused him to endure and persevere alone by day and night. His supply of provisions becoming exhausted, he retraced his steps homeward, having made a beginning for a per- manent settlement. He returned in the spring of 1764, enlarged his clearing, constructed a log house, and pre- pared the way for the removal of his family. Early in the following fall, with his wife and three small children, they bid adieu to their many neighbors and friends and started upon their long and trying journey. Their mode of con- veyance was an ox team, which at that time was a first- class method of traveling. Their progress was slow, as the roads were in poor condition, but they easily reached Winchendon, from which there was no road; and they had to get on the best they could through the forest bv 2S HISTORY OF TROY. following the direction of marked trees, and with their load and method of traveling, this part of their journey was extremely difficult ; and just how long it took them to make this distance of less than twenty miles, we have no record to show, but after much toil and many slight acci- dents, they arrived at their new home the 17th day of September, 1764, we must say, thankful their destination w^as reached and showing no disposition to retrace their steps, "the first family that moved into Monadnock No. 5." Their neighbors and companions were now^ the bear, the w^olf, the panther, the hawk and the partridge. Dur- ing the first year they ^vere dependent for most of their provisions upon the neighboring towms, and Mr. Barker consequently had to make several journeys to Northfield and Westborough to obtain the requisite supplies, but after that, his lands being tolerably productive, he was obliged to obtain but little from these towns except gro- ceries, and these being expensive luxuries were only spar- ingly and economically used. For the first few years they must have felt some of the privations incident to a pioneer life, but they may have been of those individuals to whom solitude imparts a most delightful charm. They could but have felt that they w^ere sowing for others to reap. Be this as it may, w^e have no evidence that they w^ere not contented with their lot, or that they did not take as much comfort in their family in this quiet retreat as they could have taken amidst the busy scenes of a populous town. For more than a year they Vk^ere the only family in this section, their nearest neighbors being av^ay some three or four miles ; so that the influence of society beyond the limits of their own family circle could have been but little felt. A road having been built past his residence in 1770, he opened a public house which he kept some eight or ten EAKLV SETTLERS. 29 years, and was the first piiliHc house in the township. His sign was an npright post with an arm projecting from the top, ujjon the end of which was the picture of a heart. In 1765, a settlement was made in the eastern part of the township. Silas Fife came to Monadnock No. 5 from Bolton, Mass. He was a young man, and having heard much of the undeveloped resources of this re^-ion and of its adaptability for farming purposes, he deter- mined to visit it with a view of purchasing a tract for a farm. Consequently in the spring of this year he started, accompanied only 1)y his trusty dog and gun, and with a small quantity of food strapped upon his back. Upon his arrival he purchased a lot of land on East Hill, including most of the Deacon Abel Baker farm, now owned by Oliver P. Whitcom!). Here he constructed a rude hut, or perhaps a cave, as a temporary shelter, near the entrance of which he cooked his food, while within he slept during the night, gun in hand, ready at a momenl's warning to send Bruin howling from his ])resence. Young Fife seemed to be possessed of an adventurous spirit to which this wild region was well adapted. He was an excellent shot and fond of the chase, and the abundance of game in the vicinity of the mountain afforded ample scope for the exercise of his skill. As his supply of food during the first few months of his residence was limited, he was obliged to depend upon his favorite amusement for his daily sustenance, and whenever he felt the pangs of hunger, the sharp crack of his rifle was pretty certain to bring him relief. For several summers he toiled on alone, clearing his ground and bringing it into a state of cultivation ; in the meantime he built a house, and then, thinking, like many others, that he had experienced fully his share of the 30 HISTORY OF TROY. sweets of single blessedness, married Abif^ail Hovighton, a young lady tVoni his native town, and took her to his wilderness home. The}' were married in Boston, Mass., Aug. 15, 1772. Mrs. Fife was but little accustomed to the rude life she had here chosen, and it is therefore no wonder that many perplexing incidents should happen to her in the discharge of her household duties ; one of which she often related in after years with great merriment. A fe\v days after becoming settled in her new home, she undertook to bake some pies which were on pewter plates, and placed in a heated stone oven. Shorth' afterward, on looking into the oven, it is perhaps unnecessary to add, she found the plates a lic(uid mass, rolling about in dif- ferent directions. A few such lessons probably served to correct her judgment and led her to avoid similar unpleas- ant casualties. In 1767, a large number of individuals came to these townships, purchased land, and made preparations for taking up their abode here, and in the following year eleven individuals, and some of them with f^imilies, settled on territory now in Troy, and included the following: Thomas Tolinaii, Caleb Winch, Phineas Farrar, Jonathan Shaw, Richard Roberts, Jonah Harrington, James Brewer, David Wheeler, John Farrar, Joseph Tififany, Ezekiel Mixer. Thomas Tolman came from Dorchester, Mass., and was the son of Henry and Mary Tolman, whose ancestors were reported to have been among the first settlers of Boston and vicinity. He purchased a large tract of land of the heirs of Sampson Stoddard, wdio was proprietor of most of the land in this section. The forest was very heavy here, and he felled with his own hands the first tree to make an opening for the log house into which he EARLY SETTLERS. 31 moved his family as early as 1768. This hut stood on the E. H. Tolman farm, now owned by E. P. Kimball, and was located in the southeast corner of the field in front of the house. After clearing a few acres of ground he built a grist mill, and a few years later he built a saw mill, and as soon as it was in operation, having plentv of lumber at his command, he commenced making prepara- tions for building a better house and soon exchanged the log hut for a good substantial frame house, which he afterwards opened as an inn. This was the first house built and occupied in what is now the village of Troy. This was the house now owned by Mrs. Sarah Brown, formerly occu]Med by Joseph Haskell, and is the oldest house in town. Its position has been changed, as it formerly stood farther back and with the end towards the common, and it has been con- siderably changed by repairs. Being an active, athletic and vigorous man, he made great improvements, and in the forest which then covered the ground now occupied by the village, he cut the first tree that bowed to the woodman's axe; he built the first house and was the first settler. Mr. Tolman was a man of considerable impor- tance in the early history of this region, and he lived to see settled around him many neighbors to whom he was a faithful friend and upright citizen. Phineas Farrar was the sixth generation in descent from Jacob Farrar, who settled in Lancaster, Mass., in 1658, and was the eldest son of Josiah and Hannah Farrar. He came to Monadnock No. 5 in 1768, and purchased several lots of land, and built a small house near where J. M. Foster now lives. About this time he married Lovina Warren, of Marlborough, Mass., and immediately removed to his new house, where he addressed himself to the work of convert- ing a dense forest into a productive farm. In 1773 or 32 HISTORY OF TROY. 1774, he went to Newfane, Vt., where he resided about two years, at the expiration of whieh time he returned and purchased a lot of land coni])rising most of the Elisha H. Tohnan farm upon which he built a house. Here he lived until 1778, when he exchanged farms with Benoni Robbins or sold the same and returned to the location he first purchased. Here he built a new and commodious house and was soon joined by his venerable father and mother from Sudbury, who came to spend the remainder of their days with him. He obtained ])OSsession of nearly all the land comprisini>- the farms formerly owned by Joseph M. Forristall, and those owned by Gregory Law- rence and Farwell (). Cobb. He kept a public house for many 3^ears and was prominent in all town affairs, and was representative from Marlborough for several terms. Col. Richard Roberts came to Monadnock in 1768, from Bolton, Mass., and located where Wilford E. Parker now lives. He afterwards lived in several different places. He was a man of ordinary height, very corpulent, with a stern, commanding appearance, but a benevolent disposi- tion. He was a man of untiring energy, and took a very conspicuous part in all public business of the town, show- ing he was esteemed by those who had the best means of knowing his real merit. He had more wealth than most of his neighbors and often assisted the poor in many ways. During the Revolutionary period he kept a public house on the road leading from the Parker Butler place to Geo. A. Porter's. He died in his chaise, Sept. 10, 1801, while returning from Kcene, and was found by the side of the road near the village of South Keene. James Brewer came from Sudbury, now Wayland, Alass., in 1768 or 1769, being one of a party of eleven who came into the Monadnock region at that time. He purchased a lot of one hundred and twenty acres of land. EARLY SETTLERS. 33 being lot 23 in Monadnock No. 5, drawn by Samuel Coch- ran, building a log hoUvSe which stood near where Abel Garfield formerly lived, to which he removed his family, and like all the early settlers, his time was ])rincipally employed in clearing and tilling the soil. He ]30ssessed naturally a strong mind which was considerably improved by education; and in his intercourse wath his fellow men he was upright, affable, and readily secured their confi- dence and esteem ; consec[uently he was often promoted to stations of honor and responsibility. In 1770, he was one of the town committee in Monad- nock No. 5, to assist in selecting a site and building the first meeting house, and also of the coinmittee to choose the first minister, the Rev. Joseph Cummings. He also served on the committee chosen later to settle the difficul- ties between the church and the minister. It is said that he was one of the party of men, who disguised as Indians, at Boston, Dec. 16, 1773, went to the wharf and emptied into the harbor, some three hun- dred and forty chests of tea, brought to the port by three vessels from India. This protest, known as the "Boston Tea Party," was against the taxation of the colonies. During that early period there were no schools, and he was often employed in teaching the children of the neigh- borhood, and took delight in having them gather round him to "set them copies and give them sums." At the commencement of hostilities with Great Britain, he enlisted in the Patriot cause and w^as an efficient officer in the Revolutionary ariny, and was at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and subsequently at Ticonderoga. Having served his time he returned home. The war was not ended and a meeting was called at Marlborough, Feb. 13, 1781, for the purpose of devising some method to fill their quota, which at that time was no easy task, for the 34 HISTORY OF TROY. town had as yet spent but little in paying bounties to those who had served, as those who had enlisted had done so more from a sense of duty and love of eountry, than for the sake of obtaining bounties. The Continental eurrency had depreciated so in value at this time as to be worth but little or nothing. Mr. Brewer was moderator of this meeting and made the town the following pro- posals. "If I engage for the town for three years, I wall have five hundred dollars, Continental money; one hun- dred dollars, the old way the first year, one-half in four months if I serve six months, and one hundred dollars more for the second year, if I serve six months in the second year, and one hundred more if I serve the third year six months more." These proposals were accepted and the selectmen were instructed to give him security for the above sums in behalf of the towm. He was one of the number who signed the Declaration of the Committee of Safety, and also the agreement by wdiich the inhabitants pledged their faith and honor that they would not import, sell, purchase, or consume any kinds of East India teas, nor suffer the same to be used or consumed in their respective families, until the duties should be taken off. Soon after the Declaration of Independence, the Conti- nental Congress sent out to the various Assemblies of the States, articles signed by all the members of the Congress, which were designed to perpetuate union betw^een the States, and these were sent to the several towns for their a])proval. These articles of confederation w^ere rejected by a majority of the votes in the state. Another convention was called June, 1781, which held nine sessions before a plan was devised that was wholly accepted, not closing until Oct. 1782. This was not accepted by the town of Marlborough, at a meeting in EARLY SETTLERS. 35 Nov. 1782, and James Brewer was one of a committee of seven chosen to draw" up an amendment which was accepted at an adjonrned meeting a week later, and he was also one of the signers of the Constitution of New Hampshire, which was declared to be such June, 1784. John Farrar was a native of Framingham, Mass., and a highly respected and honored citizen before he came to Monadnock No. 4, which was about 1768, as in October of that year he was chosen a member of a committee to locate a meeting house and lay out a burying ground. It is not certain that he removed his family until some years later, as his youngest child is recorded as having been baptised in Framingham in 1771. In 1769, it appears he held the office of deputy sheriff in Middlesex County, Mass., and he held other important offices in Framingham as late as 1774. It is quite probable that for some years after 1768 he retained his residence in Framingham, while he was active in promoting the civil and religious interests of Monad- nock No. 4, going back and forth between the two places as circumstances seem to refpiire. He was twice married, his first wife having been a daughter of Rev. John Swift of Framingham, who left two children, two others having died in infancy, while his second wife, Deborah Winch, had nine children. Caleb Winch came from Framingham, Mass., and settled in the eastern part of the town in 1768, building for himself a log house. He was an intelligent and useful citizen and became a man of note in the township ; he was energetic and enterprising, and deeply interested in all measures concerning the public welfare. He was one of the six original members of the church in Fitzwil- liam, and took a cons]5icuous ])art in all public business of the town, his name frequently appearing upon the 36 . HISTORY OF TROY. records of the town, 1)oth of the proprietors and town in connection with important offices. Although not pos- sessed of a liberal education, he appears to have had more than ordinary talents which left conspicuous "footprints upon the sands of time." His wife's name was Mehitable, and they had ten children born between 1770 and 1788. Mr. Winch died in 1826. Jonathan Shaw and Jonah Harrington were early settlers, but no account can be given of the early life or place of residence of the former. He built a house on Hunt Hill, so-called, west of the place now owned by H. W. Eastman, on an old road which formerly commenced near the foot of the hill and terminated in the present traveled road, west of the place now owned by John Tatro. The latter was the son of Daniel and Mary Har- rington, one of the early grantees of the township. He was born in Marlborough, Mass., in 1748, and married Damaris Warren of Marlborough, in 1769, and soon after his marriage he came to this section and was the first settler on the Lemuel Brown place. He owned most of the land extending eastward from the road by his house to the lots owned by Silas Fife and Richard Robberts. Both Shaw and Harrington lived on their respective places some ten or fifteen years and then removed to Vermont. Harrington sold his place to Daniel Cutting. David Wheeler came from Marlborough, Mass., prob- ably about 1770, and purchased a lot of land and was the first settler on the farm now owned by Samuel A. Mason, his purchase including the farms formerly owned by Amasa Fuller, Artemas Bemis, Asa and Luther Bemis and George Lovering. The low" land in this vicinity was at that time covered with a heavy growth of ash trees, and from these trees young Wheeler split out the timber with which he built quite a substantial house on a small EARLY SETTLERS. 37 swell a little south of the present barn. He lived here alone some foitr or live years, when he married Rebecca Hoar. From what is said of him we learn that he was an honest, hardv^^orking man, and a good farmer, and that he was highly esteemed is fully attested by the numerous offices which he held within the gift of his fel- low citizens. Of James Tiffany and Ezekiel Mixer but little can be said, as there is but little recorded of them, and the most that is known is from traditionary reports. Tiffany came from Attleborough, Mass., and settled on West Hill on the Milan Core}' place, where he lived until about 1772, when he sold his land to Moses Kenney, after which all trace of him is lost. Ezekiel Mixer was the son of John Mixer of Framingham, and made the first improvements on the Daniel Farrar farm. He built a small house and lived there until 1775, clearing the land and bringing it into good condition for the bearing of crops. During the twelve years from 1768 to 1780, but very few settlers came into these townships, being due in part, at least, to the disturbed condition of the country caused by the Revolutionary war and the controversies with Great Britain, \vhich caused a very unsettled state of affairs, the public being more earnestly engaged in seeking their independence from the yoke of the English govern- ment, than in acquiring new homes in the wilderness. The following it is believed are the most of the immi- grants who settled here during this period. Benjamin Tolnian, Joshua Harrington, Jacob Newell, Duncan Cameron, Moses Kenne}', John Bruce, Henry Morse, Thomas Clark, Daniel Lawi'ence, Agabvis Bishop, Dfiniel Cutting, Abner Haskell, Joseph Cutting, Joseph Forristall, 38 HISToh'V OF TKOV. Reii1)ei] Ward, John (Tocldinj^, Ichaliod Shaw, Alexander Parkman, Peter Starkey, Joseph Nonrse, Jonathan Lawrence, Daniel Farrar. Benjamin Tolman was a brother of Thomas, before mentioned, and was born in Dorchester, Mass. He resided some years in Attleborough, from which place he came to Monadnock No. 4, about 1770, and built a log house. He married Hepzibeth, daughter of Jacob Newell, and lived in this house until about 1780, when he removed to a new house which he had built on the opposite side of the road and about one hundred rods west of the present residence of John Tatro and on land now owned by E. P. Kimball. The old well can be found in the wall by the side of the road. At the time of his settlement there was no road in that part of the township, and finding it con- venient to have one to reach his hut and farm, and the Proprietors being slow to furnish one, he proceeded to clear and make one for himself, and this he did without following stake and stones set by a court's committee, or asking leave of the intervening owners of the territory, and if it was not in all respects what is required at the present day, no complaint was ever made against it and no damages ever paid tor injury to horse or carriage. It was considered in keeping with all the other conveniences of life in those times, when to earn their living by the sweat of the brow was the lot of every one. In 1790, he sold his place to one Sweetland, and removed to another lot, building another log house and commencing anew to clear the land. This was the farm afterwards occupied by his son Stephen, and here he spent the remainder of his days. Jacob Newell, was the son of Jacob Newell of Attle- borough, from which place he came in 1769 or 1770, and was the second settler in what is now the village. He EARLY SETTLERS. 39 purchased most probably of William Barker, most of the land comprising the farms formerly owned by William Harris, William Whitcomb, Stillman Newell, Bemis and Clark and Stephen Wheeler. He also obtained a part of a lot in the north part of the village, and built a log house on the spot now occupied by the residence of Mrs. Abel Biu'pee. F r / i 1 jjgt , Vt 's.J^ ff^'- m^ •.^n mM ap:J'"^ Hk-' ' M ^ ^ View of Main St. Looki.ng South from near Congregational Chukch. He lived there man}- years, clearing most of the land in that vicinity. After a time he replaced the log with a frame house, and in the mean time he purchased of Thomas Tolman an interest in the new grist mill, prob- ably one-fourth part, as there was a deed of such a part from Jacob Ne'well to Joshua Harrington, and dated the "27th day of May, 1776, and in the 16th year of the reign of George the 3d." A few years later he sold his house and several acres of land to Ebenezer Tolman and built another on the farm now owned by Franklin Whit- comb, where he resided most of the time till the close of his life. Moses Kenney came from Marlborough, Mass., about the year 1772, and purchased the farm then owned by James Tiffany, where he resided till 177S, when he sold to 40 HISTORY OF TROY. Moses Cuttins^, and iiioved to \'ennont. His residence here was short, and his name seldom appears upon the records. Henry Morse came from Charlestown, Mass., in 1773, and settled in Swanzey on a lot of land which was afterward severed from that township and annexed to TroY, and is what is knowai as the Jonathan Clark farm. Before coming to Swanzey his occupation had been an innkeeper, and undoubtedly he selected this location with the view of pursuing his favorite occupation, as it was a very judicious one, it being on the main road from Swan- zey to Boston, and with no other i)ublic house in the vicinit3^ In those days of transportation by team, the travel must have been considerable, and the situation and good management soon made a lucrative business, for in a few years the house first built was found too small to accommodate the increasing business, and a larger and more commodious one was built in 1778. Mr. Morse kept the house until his death in 1786. Daniel Lawrence was a native of Weston, Mass., where he passed his minority with his parents on a farm. He married Elizabeth Graves of Sudbury, in 1773, and in the following year, leaving his wafe behind him, he came to Marlborough and purchased a lot of hmd of Jonah Har- rington, \vhich included most of the farm now known as the John Lfiwrence place. He built a log house near the site of the present buildings, doubtless intending to remove his family soon, but the breaking out of the Revolutionary war changed his plans, for he entered the army. He arrived at Cambridge about the middle of June, and was among the nuinl^er detached from the main army to fortify Bun- ker Hill, and fought under Prescott in that battle. At the end of eight months he received an honorable dis- charge and returned to Weston, making preparations to move to the selected place for his future residence, w^hich EARLY SETTLERS. 41 he did in the spring of 1776, with his wife and one child, making the toilsome journey with an ox team, the usual mode of conveyance in those days, taking ])ossession of the previoush' abandoned log house. He cleared most of the land coniprising this farm and erected part of the present buildings. He was an industrious farmer, having little to do with public business, as his name but seldom appears upon the town records, and at the time of his death, which occurred in 1832, he had accumulated con- siderable property. Daniel Cutting was the son of Moses and Mary Strat- ton Cutting of Framingham, and came to Marlborough in 1773, and located on the Timothy Fife place. In 1779, he purchased of Jonah Harrington, the farm at the North end now owned by Charles D. Farrar, and formerly owned by Calvin Barnard. He built a saw mill near where C. D. Farrar 's pail shop now stands. He lived there some sixteen years, his time being divided between his farm and mill, and possessing more than ordinary business capacity he managed both to good advantage. He was a man of considerable energy and public spirit, and deserving the confidence of his fellow men. He frequently took an active part in the business transactions of the town, and it appears his services were very acceptable to the people. But having been called to experience severe affliction in the death of his wife, by which his ffimily circle was broken up, he removed back to Framingham in 1795, where he married Mrs. Martha Brown. He resided there until his death in 1812. His first wife was Submit Ball, whom he married in 1771. Joseph Cutting, brother of Daniel, came to Marlborough in 1775. From the manner in which he left Framingham it ap]5ears he had no idea of devoting his life to the ser- vice of his country, and that he possessed but little 42 HISTORY OF TROY. Revolutionary spirit. I^poii receiving intelligence that he had l3een drafted to enter the army, he fled from his native town, and after wandering about some time in disguise, directed his steps towards Monadnock. When he had advanced so far as to be relieved from the fear of being- recognized, he ]3ursued a more open course; and on one occasion, seeing a group of men in the distance, he ventured among them to learn the subject of their deliberations. But what was his surprise to see posted on the walls of a building, a large bill offering a reward of twenty pounds for the arrest of Joseph Cutting. His self-possession did not desert him and he simply remarked that as he was nearl^^ destitute of money, he would like to capture the fugitive and obtain the proffered reward. He did not ex- cite susjncion and was ])ermitted to ])ursue his journey, soon reaching the place of his destination where he was safe from his pursuers. He worked for the settlers as opportunity presented and soon accumulated a little prop- erty. The war ended, he emerged from his retreat and after a time was married, but to whom is not known. He built a house on the farm now owned by Franklin Whitcomb and a little west of the present buildings. After living in this house for a short time, he purchased the farm known as the Jotham H. Holt place on West Hill, building a house west of where the buildings now stand. He afterwards built the present liuildings where he lived until his death in 1823. During his retreat he manufactured a cane from the root of a tree, in which he made a pipe that he might be able to enjoy his habit of smoking. This cane is now owned by one of his descendents. Moses Cutting, another brother of Daniel, came here at an early date, probably before 1775. In 1778, he pur- chased of Moses Kenney the Abel Garfield farm, and moved EARLY SETTLERS. 43 there with his family. After residing tliere aljoiit twelve years, he sold the farm to John Colburn of Lineoln, and bought the Samuel Farrar farm, recently owned by Wil- lard White, and built the present house. He was of a quiet, retiring disposition, seldom taking part in public aftairs, but employed his time mostly in cultivating his farm, although he is said to have possessed great mechani- cal ingenuity and could make anything that had ever been acco7nplished by human skill. He died in 1834, and being a member of the order of Free and Accepted Masons, was buried with Masonic honors. Reuben Ward, son of Phineas and Mary Ward, came here from Marlborough, Mass., his native town, in 1774, and purchased the farm then owned by Richard Robberts, now owned by the heirs of Hamilton Parker. It is said that both himself and wife inherited a large property from their ancestors, so that he had ample means for paying for and improving his farm, conducting the same with strict economy. It is said that he had but little to do with his neighbors ; would seldom borrow or lend, but ^vould contrive to satisfy all his wants from his own resources. His plans were laid after mature deliberation, and he was usually successful in carrying them out ; and at his death, w^hich occurred Jan. 8, 1800, he was consid- ered the wealthiest man in Marlborough. Ichabod Shaw, a brother of Jonathan Shaw before mentioned, came here in 1774, and settled on a lot where H. W. Eastman lives. His history is obscure, but he prob- ably made the first clearing on the land and built a house near the site of the present buildings, where he resided w^ith his family until 1797, when he sold out and moved to Vermont. Peter Starkey w^as the son of John, and the grandson of Andrew, who settled in Attleborough, Mass., in 1754, 44' HISTORY OF TROY. and s])cnt most of the early part of his life in that town. Early in 1776, he came to Monadnock No. 5, with his wife and four brothers, John, Benjamin, Enoch and Joseph. He purchased a lot of land of Joseph Tiffany and built a house near the Milan Corey place on West Hill, now^ owned by J. M. Foster. He resided there until 1787, when he exchanged locations with John Wright, which w^as the place upon \vhich Benjamin Tolman first settled, where he lived until his death in February, 1821. His brother John, married Mary Godding and lived and died here. Benjamin was never married but lived with his brother Jose])h, who married Waitstill Morse and settled in Richmond. Enoch settled in what w^as called the Crocker pasture, a part of F'itzwilliam afterwards annexed to Swanzey. He died in Troy in 1823. Jonathan Lawrence, a brother of Daniel, came here in 1777, and bought of his brother the lot now comprising the farm owned by Charles S. Starkey. He married Lucy Moore of Sudbury, Mass., and lived several years in a log house vmtil he cleared a considerable part of the land and got it in a good condition, when he built a more con- venient house. As his naiue' does not appear upon the record of any public meeting it is supposed he was one who ])referred private life and never took any part in public assemblies. Joshua Harrington was a native of Framingham, where he was born in 1718. He came here about 1774-, and lived a fe^v years in the house with Thomas Tolman. About 1780, he bought the Tiffany mill ])rivilege, and saw and grist mills of Thomas Tolman, which received the most of his attention until his death in 1784. The saw mill was converted to other uses in a few years, but the grist mill was kept in o])eration by his son Joshua, and grandsons Joshua and Elijah, until 1840, when the location was sold EARLY SETTLERS. 45 to Luke Harris. His son Joshua succeeded to the business. He married Elizabeth Brigham of Shrewsliury, in 1780, and several years after he purchased of Thomas Tolman some fifty-three acres of land, which included most of the farm formerly owned by Eri J. vSpaulding, and built the house which constituted the old ell to the Spaulding house which was torn down in 1887, and in which he lived until his death, Sept. 20, 1834. He was a ver\' industrious man and a good citizen. He was of medium height but very corpulent, which made him so infirm in the later years of his life that he could perform but little labor. Duncan Cameron was a native of Scotland, and being a member of the British army at the commencement of the hostilities with America, he came to this country and served under General Burgoyne. In 1777, he accompanied the expedition of that ofl^cer from Quebec to the Hudson, and was in the battles of Bennington, Vt., and Stillwater, N. Y., and was among the number surrendered to General Gates on the 17th of ()ctol)er. Unlike most of those who were taken prisoners with him, he chose to remain in this country and share the fortune of the people whom he had been hired to crush, and upon being exchanged came here anU located, purchasing the land which Phineas Farrar had commenced to im])rove near where J. M. Foster lives, and made a successful farmer. He lived there until about 1798, when he removed to Vermont. The house in which he resided remained vacant a few years and was then burned. John Bruce was a native of vSudbury, Mass., and came here with his wife, Mary Joslin, and eight children, about 1775, and settled on the premises previously occupied by Ezekiel Mixer. He was killed June 3, 1779, "by logs at saw mill." But little is known about his family or descendents. Thomas Clark came from Wrentham, Mass., and settled 46 HISTORY OF TROY. on land ])nrchased of Thomas Tolman, in the south part of the town. Like most of the early settlers he built a log- house to be the home of himself and family, near the brook that passes through the valley. Unlike the log houses of that time in having a fireplace and chimney at one side or in one corner, this was warmed from a stone fifeplace in the center of it, the smoke escaping through a hole in the roof left uncovered for that purpose. He was industrious as well as ingenious, and in addition to carry- ing on his farm, made various articles of wood for house- hold use, as plates, trays, mortars, bowls and spoons, either entirely by hand or by means of the rudely con- structed lathe of those days. This served to increase his income, for they no doubt found a ready sale, for in fami- lies of moderate means wooden dishes were generally used, as crockery was too expensive and perishable, although pewter plates and cups were used to some extent. At a little later date, brown earthernware was substituted for the wooden and pewter dishes. Mr. Clark was prospered in his business and soon acquired the means for building a more convenient house and of living in more comfortable circumstances. He died in 1818, quite advanced in years, and few men left a better example or were more generally beloved. Agabus Bishop also came from Wrentham, and settled near where Benjamin Tolman first settled. When he moved his family he came in a very unusual manner, for instead of using an ox team, as had nearly all who had preceded him, he came with a horse and \vagon, and for some years this was the only horse in that part of the town. An animal so rare must have been in great demand, and it is quite probable carried to the mill most of the grain raised in the neighborhood for several years. Mr. Bishop built a frame house about the same time as did his neighbor EARLY SETTLERS. 47 Clark, in which he rcvsided until his death about 179S. Abiier Haskell was a native of Harvard, Mass., and came here about 1778, and located on the Howard Clark farm near where James Carpenter now lives. Their first habitation was a log" hut, but in a few years Mr. Haskell built a more commodious house and out-buildings, ^vhich were burned in 1830. The present buildings were built by a grandson of Mr. Haskell. Mrs. Haskell was Martha Ward, a sister of Reuben Ward, previously mentioned. They had a famih- of four children, two sons and two daughters. He served as selectman of Fitzwilliam in 1785. He died in 1809, quite advanced in years, and his son Joseph succeeded to his inheritance. Joseph Forristall was born in HoUiston, Mass., and spent his early life upon a farm. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary war he entered the Continental army and was stationed at Ticonderoga, but after three months' service was discharged and returned to Holliston, where he married Hannah Mellen in 1778. This young couple came here about 1781, and located in the south part of the town near wdiere Nahum Green lives. The one hun- dred and t^venty acres of land upon which they settled were purchased by the father of the bride, who came with Mr. Forristall and aided him in making a clearing and partially building a frame house. This was in the autumn, and early in the following spring, he came with his Avife, taking possession of their dwelling, though the floor was not laid until the succeeding fall. Having been reared in comfortable circumstances it must have been hard to commence life in such a rude manner, but possessing energy, strength and courage they soon made themselves a comfortable home. A neat and commodious house took the place of the rude hut, and abundant crops that of the primeval forest. By industry and economy they soon 48 1 1 IS TORY OF TROY. acquired a coiiiijetence, brin^iiii^ U]) a large family of chil- dren and living to a good old age. Mr. Forristall built two houses on the farm, the first the small one already mentioned which was occupied until about 1809, when he erected a larger and more substantial one. Few men with ec|ual means accomplished more than did Mr. Forristall. He did not amass great wealth, but every dollar he pos- sessed was the result of honest labor. Fraud and specu- lation had no place in his code of life; he rendered to every one an equivalent for all their demands. Without noise or ostentatious display, the example of such a person creates an influence that is sure to be felt. The Godding family, consisting of the widow of John Godding, and eight children, four sons and four daughters, came from Attleborough, Mass., in 1779, and settled on the place now owned by Samuel A. Mason. The eldest son John was a capable and energetic young man, and he made the purchase of the land and arranged all the mat- ters of the removal of his mother and children. He married Polly Robbins of Warwick, Mass., and lived on the farm he first purchased until about 1795, when he sold out and purchased another lot about one-fourth mile southeast of the Franklin Woodward farm. He lived there some four- teen years when he moved to Wallingford, Yt., where he lived some years and then moved to the western part of New York. The eldest child, Mary, was tv^ice married; her first husband was John Starkey, Jr., sixth son of John Starkey of Attleborough, who died in Troy; her second husband was Jacob Newell, who has already been men- tioned. Another daughter married Bethuel Bishop and removed to Shrewsbury, Yt., where they died. The third daughter married Isaac Jackson and lived here several years, when they moved to Wallingford, Yt., where they died. The fourth, married Jesse Bishop and settled near EARLY SETTLERS. 49 the Thomas Clark place. Asa, the youngest child, never married, and died at an early age. William, the next younger, went to Burke, Vt., a single man, where he lived until his death. Timothy married Ruth Robbins, sister of his brother John's wife, in 1790, and lived with him on the farm first purchased until it was sold. He then pur- chased a farm and built a house this side of the Franklin Woodward place where he lived until 1850. He then moved to Winchendon, Mass., and lived with son Alvah, who was a well known physician. Mrs. Godding died in Troy in 1854, and he died in Winchendon in 1856. He was a resident of Troy for more than seventy 3^ears, and but fe\v men have left behind a better influence upon the people. Of the early life of Alexander Parkman but little infor- mation can be given. He probably settled here as early as 1777 or 1778, and located near \vhere the Troy Blanket Mills now stand. He was by trade a clothier and he had a fulling mill nefir by. Here he worked at his trade for several years, and found plenty of material to occupy his time in the usual dressing season, as it was then the custom for families to manufacture their own cloth. He had a share in the ptdDlic business, as he was town clerk of Marlborough in 1784 and 1785, and also occupied other important positions, and probabh^ dis- charged his duties to the satisfaction of the people. About 1788, he removed to Cherry A'alley, N. Y., and employed William Tenney, Sr., who with an ox team conveyed his family and goods as far as Bennington, Vt., where they were overtaken by a severe storm and obliged to halt. Finding it impossible to proceed farther with his load, Mr. Tenney returned, leaving Parkman to find other means of conveyance when the traveling became favorable. Mr. Parkman had several sons, one of whom en- gaged in mercantile business in Boston and acquired a fortune. 50 IIISrORY OF TROV. Joseph Novtrse and family, consisting^ of mother, four sons and two daughters, came from Hopkinton, Mass., in 1779, and settled where Nahum Green now lives. They lived there mitil 1794, when Mr. Nourse died, and his son Ebenezer built a house near the site of the present resi- dence of Moses Abare. Jonathan, the oldest child, lived ■with his parents a few years after they came to F'itzwil- liam and then moved to Ohio. Hannah, the eldest daughter, married Colmon Satuiders, but it is not known where they settled. J()se])h went away while a single uian biit afterwards married. William married Lydia, daughter of John Bruce, and settled on the place now owned b}- H. W. Eastman, but in a few years moved to Warwick. Trudence married Moseman and settled in Newfane, Vt. Ebenezer married Priscilla Poor of Royal- ston, Mass., and settled on the home farm with his father. Reuben, the yoimgest child, married Jerusha Bruce, and settled with his brother, and was to share with him the farm after the decease of their parents. In a few years he sold his interest in the farm to David White and moved to Pelham. Mrs. Nourse, the mother, died in 1788, and Mr. Notu'se in 1808, at the advanced age of ninety-four. Daniel Farrar w^as a descendant of Jacob Farrar who came to this country in 1(358. He came to this vicinitv about 1799, purchasing a lot of land of Samuel Curtis of Marlborough, Mass., upon which he erected a log house to which he removed his faniih' and devoted his time to clearing and cultivating the land. The deed was dated Jan. 15, 1799, and the lot comprised most of the Daniel Cutting farm. He married a daughter of John Bruce. Occasionally he would assist his father Bruce, who was at the same time clearing a part of his land, and was with him at the time he was killed as before mentioned. In EARLY sirrrLi-RS. 51 1783, he removed to the Bruce farm, and the followinj^ year, he sold the lot first ])tirchased to his brother George, who had already lived with him there about one year. To the improveuient of the farm upon which he now^ resided he devoted the most of his energies, and, possessing a strong constitution and great powers of endin-ance, he could perform more labor than usuallv falls to the lot of most men. CHAPTER III. SETTLERS FROM 1780 TO 1800. JOHN WHITNKY.— JONATHAN WIIITNKV.— GEOROK FARRAR.— BERRY.— WES- SON. — JASON WINCH. — JOSEPH PARKER. — JONAS WARREN. — DANIEL GOULD. — NATHANIEL KENDALL. — HEZEKIAH COOLIDGE.— ABRAHAM COOLIDGE.— EPHRAIM ROOT.— BENONI ROBBINS. — JAMES DEAN.— JONATHAN WHIPPLE. — JONATHAN BALL.^JONATHAN PLATTS. — JOHN SWEETLAND. — TALMON KNIGHTS. — JOHN GARFIELD. — ELIJAH ALEXANDER. — STEPHEN RUSSELL. — ABRAHAM RANDALL. — SILAS COOK.— ISAAC JACKSON. — WILLIAM STARKEY. — ICHABOD WOODWARD. — JONAS ROBINSON. — SILAS WHEELER. — JOHN ROGERS. — DAVID SAUNDERS. — EBENEZER SAl'NDERS. — EZEKIEL WHITE. — NATHANIEL BUCKLIN. — NEWTON. — WILLIAM NURSE. — EDWARD FOSTER. — JONATHAN CAPKON. — CHRISTOPHER HARRIS. — EILIJAH FULLE:R. — ISAAC FULLER. — ASA BREWER. — ZOPHER WHITCOMB. — JOHN JOY. — JOSEPH FRENCH.— HUGH THOMPSON. — JOHN AND DAVID GAREY. During- the next twenty years, or from 1780 to 1800, the ])0])ulation of these towns increased (jtiite rapidly from the arrival of new settlers and by birth to the families already settled. John and Jonathan Whitney, two brothers, came from Dunstable, purchasing a tract of land near w^here Nahnm Green now lives, upon ^vhich they built a home, construct- ing the same for a tavern, and was kept as such by them for several years, during which time they did a fair amount of business and acquired considerable property. In 1778, they closed the house to the public and devoted their time to farming. For a few years they managed affairs to- gether, when the property was divided. About the year 1810, Jonathan sold his interest to one Sanford, and moved to Hartland, Vt. John resided on the farm until his death in 1829. He married Mary Jones, a native of SETTLERS FROM 17S0 TO 1800. 53 Framinghani. Jonatliaii settled in 1772, and John in 1779. George Farrar, a brother of Daniel, settled in Marl- borough about 17S3. After residing with his brother about a year he purchased the location and married. He lived here about six 3'ears, when he sold out and moved to Templeton, Mass., where he lived two years, when he returned and purchased a farm on West Hill, where he lived until he died. About this time, two families settled in the vicinity of what is now the village, but about all that is known of them is the family name and place of residence. The name of one was Berby, and the other Wesson. Berby lived near where Hirain C. Newton now lives. It is said he was quite a musician and took great delight in singing songs, and it is stated that on one occasion he let himself to sing at the rate of one potato for a song, and that he sang until he had obtained a peck. Wesson lived a little farther west on the opposite side of the road. Both families left town at an early date. Jason Winch, a native of Framingham, and brother of Caleb, came here about 1782 or 1783, and built a tannery on the site of the one burned in April, 1887. He carried on tanning and currying for a few years, but being unfor- tunate in business, he closed it up and left town, probably about or before 1793. Near the close of 1783, one Joseph Parker built a log house near the present residence of Gregory Lawrence, where he lived about four years, having charge of the grist mill l)uilt by Phineas Farrar. The mill was sold to Daniel Gould and he moved out of town. No history is known of Jonas Warren except that about 1786 he erected a building on the east side of the com- mon, near the house now owned bv Thomas Mitchell, a part of which was used as a store. This was the fourth 54 HISTORY OF TROY. house in the village and the first store in town. After- wards he erected another biiikling- adjoining on the south, which was used as a tavern. Both of these buildings were afterwards remodeled and removed and made into dwellings. In addition to the store and tavern, he built an establishment for making potash, which stood near the roadway leading to the land of E. P. Kimball, on which the picture frame shop stood. He appears to have had considerable business tact, and must have contributed quite a good deal towards the prosperity of the town; but he had more interests than he could successfully man- age, as they failed to pay expenses, and he closed up his business, after a residence of about ten years, and moved to Vermont. Another early settler was Daniel Gould, who came about 1778, and settled near the Willard White place, making the first clearing and building a log house in which he lived until about 1787, when he sold to Moses Cutting, buying the Phineas Farrar grist mill and Joseph Parker house, and for the next few years he earned a comfortable support in taking care of the mill and culti- vating his small lot of land. He had several children, one of whom, Abigail, married William Bruce, who was after- wards killed by a fall in a saw mill. The family left town about 1797. Nathaniel Kendall came in 1786. He was born in Providence, R. I., where he lived until he was about six- teen years of age, when he removed to Lancaster, Mass., and while hci-e he lived in various places, and is said to have changed his place of residence twenty times. Hezekiah and Abraham Coolidge, two brothers from Sherburne, Mass., purchased of Reuben Ward one hundred acres of land on what is now called East Hill. The}' lived together for several 3^ears and then divided the farm. In SETTLERS FROM 17S0 TO ISOO. 55 1791, Aliraham built a house on the place now owned by H. E. Mellen, where he lived until 1818, when he sold his farm and hired the tavern in the village, now known as the xMonadnock Hotel, which he kept until 1824, when he rented the Bailey vStarkey house, where he resided until after the death of his wife in 1836, after which he lived with his daughter, Mrs. Moses Perkins, until his death in 184-3. He was a very active man and traded occasionally in cattle and sheep which he disposed of in Brighton mar- ket. Hezekiah continued to reside on the original place until the lall of 1805, when on his way to vSwanzey, with an ox team, he fell from the cart tongue upon which he was riding, one wheel passing over his head, killing him instantly. In 1788 or 1789, Ephraim Root came from Coventrv, Conn., with his two sons-in-law, Ebenezer and vSamuel Bacon, buying of Jacob Newell a large tract of land which included the farm formerly owned by Stephen Wheeler and Lyman Wright, and a house where the residence of Mrs. A. J. Burpee now stands. He lived here with his son-in- law Samuel. Ebenezer built a house on the opposite side of the road near the house now owned by G. H. Aldrich, which was the fifth house built in the village. Ebenezer was a clothier and built a clothing mill near by. He fulled and colored the cloth in this mill but did the finishing in a part of his dwelling house. Mr. Root, soon after this, with the assistance of his sons-in-law, built a saw mill near where Charles Cari)enter's saw mill stood which was burned about 1802. The land near the mill was cleared the follo^ving year by a "clearing bee" w-hich was a pre- vailing custom at that time, at which the citizens of the town assembled and had a jovial time in removing and burning the brush. For about eight years, Ephraim Root was one of the 56 HISTORY OF TROY. most prominent men in town, and with his sons-in-laAv gave quite an impetus to the l)usiness of the place. But like the business men of today he was not successful in the prosecution of his plans, and becoming" embarrassed in his financial affairs he was obliged to suspend business and his property passed into the hands of his creditors. He removed to another part of the town where he died in indigent circumstances. About 1797, the clothing mill and house were purchased by John Potter, and the Bacons left to\vn. Benoni Robbins, a cooper by trade, came from Attle- borough, Mass., about 1770, and settled in the northerly part of Marlborough. In 1778, he exchanged farms with Phineas Farrar and took up his abode on what is now known as the " Fisk place." Robbins is said to have been possessed of more than ordinary physical vigor, of which he was apt to make a vain dis])la3'. He seemed to sup- pose that a constitution so firm was a sure guarantee of long life; and when in 1801, he contracted the small pox, he at first looked upon the disease as a trivial thing which his vital energies w^ould soon overcome; but as it steadily progressed and he saw his system gradually yielding to its power, he Avas led to see the folly of his reliance, and died in the most heart rending agony. This disease was but little known at that time in this region, and very naturally caused great alarm throughout the towns. People fled from their homes or secluded them- selves in suspense, and all maintained a respectful distance. The excitement was so intense that it was diflicult to get help to administer to the sick from other causes, or to bury the dead. He had several children ; the oldest son Isaac, after the death of his father, bought the farm for- merly owned by Daniel Cutting, where he resided for a number of vears, afterwards moving to Vermont. SETTLERS FROM 1780 TO 1800. 57 Of James Dean l)iit little information can be given. He probably caine to Marlborough previous to \ni, as he was a member of Capt. Jaines Lewis' company in Col. E. Hale's regiment, which marched June 29th of that year, to reinforce the garrison at Ticonderoga. He was sexton in 1791. He married a daughter of William Barker, and about 1794, his father-in-law presented him with fifty acres of land adjoining his ow^n farm, upon wdiich he erected a house, where he lived for three or four years, when he sold this place to Isaac Fuller and moved to Grafton, Yt. In 1790, there was a larger number of new inhabitants who came to the town than in any previous year since 1768. Among them were Jonathan Whipple, Jonathan Hall, Nathan Platts and John Sw^eetland, besides several others wdio remained but a limited period. Jonathan Whijjple w^as a carpenter by trade and built a house wdiere Charles Haskell now lives. This was a one-story building" with the end tow^ards the road, the back part of which was used as a schoolroom. He is represented as being a very erect, portly man, prompt in business and a highly esteemed citizen. This was the sixth house in the village. The family being in humble circumstances most of the children left home at an early age. One son, Edward, learned his father's trade and worked with him most of the time wdiile he lived here. He removed to Concord, Vt., in 1804, and was soon joined by his parents and other members of the family. The house was afterwards removed and remodeled, and is the house now owned by Mrs. Samantha Whitcomb. Jonathan Ball came from Southborough in 1787. He built a tavern on the Flint place, so-called, w^here E. F. Adams now lives. The main building w^fis two stories high and faced the highway, with a one-story ell extending 58 HISTORY OF TROY. back. He kept public house here until 1796, when he sold his location to Christopher Harris and removed to New York. On his way there, Rebecca, one of his daugh- ters, was taken suddenly ill and died before reaching the end of the journey. There is a tradition respecting the large elm tree which now stands near the premises, and which is probably true. At that time there was quite a curve in the road in front of the house, the road passing considerably to the west of the present highway. In the spring of the year, after the winter's wood had been drawn to the dooryard, a sled stake was thoughtlessly stuck into the ground by the side of the road by Henry Tolman, which soon began to show signs of vitality and taking root, sent out branches and became a thrifty tree. At that time there was a bank of earth several feet in height on the east side of it, and the ])lat of ground above was used as a wood yard. And in building the turnpike on the east side of the tree, it was spared and became a stately monarch. Jonathan Platts, soon after coming here, married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Daniel Farrar, and being a tanner and currier by trade, commenced working the old Wright tannery. His father-in-law built a house for him, the seventh in the village, which was near where Mrs. Levi Whittemore lives. Being a man of but little energy, he soon failed in business and left town. The house w^as afterward sold to a Mr. Barnard, a blacksmith, but after exchanging owners several times, it was removed to where Andrew Foster lived. John Sweetland came from Attleborough, Mass., about 1784, purchasing a lot and building a house near the Porter White place. All traces of this as well as of other residences of the individuals of the past generations have long since been obliterated. He had several children, the SETTLBRS FROM 17S0 TO ISOO. 59 oldest, a son, married a daughter of Daniel Gould. In 1798 or 1799, these families moved to Vermont. Main Street T^ookino Noktii from Railroad Hridck. Talmon Knights came from Templeton, Mass., in 1791, and purchased of Phineas Farrar the land now consti- tuting the Cobb farm. He prepared a comfortable habi- tation, to \vhich he removed his family and commenced the arduous labor of clearing the land. At that time the highway' which now leads to that farm extended on Avestward, and terminated in that on West Hill. This was laid out in 1774, by a committee chosen for that purpose by the Proprietors. Mr. Knights resided here until 1843. The following year, 1792, John Garfield came from Lincoln, Mass., and purchased of John Colburn, the farm afterwards owned by his descendants. He was one of the patriots of the Revolution, having entered the army at the commencement of the war, and served his cotmtry through that trying period. After the \var he settled in Lincoln, where he lived nine years, when with his wife and ten children he came here, \vhere he lived during the remainder of his life. He had the reputation of being an 00 HISrOKY OF TROY. industrious man and a o-ood citizen. In 1793, eight persons with their families settled in different parts of the tOAvn. Elijah Alexander was liorn in Uxbridge, Alass., in 174-1, where he married and \vorked at shoemaking- until 1793, when he came to Marlborough and purchased a farm of Benoni Benson. After coming here he devoted most of his time to agriculture, and having a large famih' to support he \vas obliged to practice both industry and economy, ar.d became a highly esteemed citizen, and he lived to sec mo it of hi : children and some of his grandchildren com- fortably settled in life. Of Stephen Russell we know but little except that he came from New Ipswich in 1793, and made the first clear- ing and built tiie first house on the place now owned by Sidney Butler, and known as the Leonardson place. He lived there a few years, and then exchanging farms with Jacob Osborn of Keene, he removed there and died soon after. The first known of Abraham Randall was in 1793, when he was living on a farm on West Hill, although he inight have been settled there previously. He was the first to make a clearing and build a house on the Stephen Harris place, where he lived until about 1800, when he removed to Swanzey, to the Daniel Woodward farm, where he died. All that is known of Silas Cook, or Davenport, is that they lived a few years on the road leading from the Morse tavern to Richmond. Isaac Jackson came here from Attleborough, Mass., prob- ably about 1778, but little is known of him until about 1793, when he was living on the Timothy Fife farm. William Starkey was from Attleborough, Mass., and • settled on the farm now occupied by Matthew Wilson. Ichabod Wood\vard was from Sudburv, where he SETTLER'S EKOM 17S0 TO 1S00. 61 married and where his children were l:)orn. At what time he came here cannot he ascertained, but in 1793 he Hved on a farm immediately south of the Morse tavern, and was considered one of the best farmers in that part of the town. He kept a large stock of cattle, and few men could furnish the market with more saleable beef or produce a better team. But all traces of the once productive farm, like all of those of the first settlers in that part of the towm, have long since passed aw^ay. Jonas Robinson, or Robeson, as he spelled his name after coming to New Hampshire, was born in Lexington, Mass., and came here in 1791 or 1792, opening a store in the house of Reuben Ward, on the place now owned by the heirs of Hamilton Parker, which he occupied for nearly a year. But wishing to be nearer the center of business, he purchased of Joshua Harrington a lot of land near the gristmill and upon the south side of the stream, upon which he erected a building, the eighth in the village. The front part was finished for a store and the rear part for a dwelling. In 1805, he opened a store in the center of Fitzwilliam, placing his brother-in-law^ Reuben Ward, there as clerk. He carried on business in both places imtil 1813, when he sold out his interest to Daniel W. Farrar, his partner. He was one of the most enterprising men of the town. While living here, he superintended the building of the new road or turnpike from F'itzwilliam to Keene, as no one else who was responsible could be found to do it, building log huts for the men he employed. Later he was very active in the erection of the first meet- ing house in Fitzwilliam village, and was much affected w^hen it was burned. When the flames were bursting from the doors and windows, he took from the pulpit the Bible, and before the fire had gone out was arranging with others for rebuilding it at once. For about six vears after 62 HISTORY OF TROY. he opened the store here, he was assisted fin his business by Calvin, the third son of Phineas Farrar, but in 1800, a yoiinoer l)rother, Daniel W., became a (partner. In 1793, Jonas Robinson received a license "to sell Speritus Liquors, subject to such regulations and restrictions as the law of the State of New Hampshire imposes upon rctalcrs." Silas Wheeler came from Holden, Mass., about the year 1800, and settled on West Hill. About six years after, he bought the house and mill formerly owned l)y Daniel Gould. He immediately rebuilt the gristmill, and soon after built a saw mill on 'the opposite side of the stream. When these were in operation, he built a house nearly on the site of the old one and now owned by Gregory La^v- rence. In 1826, the saw mill was carried awa^^ b}^ a freshet, but was afterwards rebuilt and was the one owned later by Joseph M. Forristall. Mr. Wheeler lived here until 1832, when he moved to Swanzey, and lived with his father-in-law, James Brewer. John Rogers was a native of Westborough, Mass., and his descendants claim that he was the twelfth generation froin John Rogers, the martyr, who was burned at the stake in Smithtield, England. At what time he became a settler it is impossible to state, but it was previous to 1773. He is represented as having been a noted hunter, and as having spent a larger part of his time in pursuit of game. After the death of his wife, he went to live' with his son-in-law, Capt. Shubael Stone, where he died. David Saunders came from Billerica, Mass., in the fall of 1780, and settled near the Howard T. Clark place, now owned by James Carpenter. Ebenezer Saunders, a 3'ounger brother of David, came in 1789, and settled on West Hill, near Samuel A. Mason's, where he lived until about 1813, when he sold out. He SETTLERS FROM irso TO 1800. 63 afterwards lived in various places, in Fitzwilliam, in Richmond, N. H., and Dummerston, Yt. Ezekiel White came from Douglass, Mass., quite early, but the precise date is not known. His name first appears in the records of Fitzwilliam in 1782. He settled on the farm formerly owned by Franklin Woodward. All that is known of Nathaniel Bucklin is that he lived a few years on the west side of the road near the Bishop place. He left town about 1800. About this time, or a few years earlier, a man by name of Newton came here and built a house near where Mrs. A. W. Wliitcomb lives. He was a steelyard maker and Iniilt a shop northeast of the house. He lived there but a short time when he was succeeded by William Nurse and Edward Foster. Jonathan Capron came from Marlborough. He was a blacksmith and formerly had a shop near the forks of the road, southeast of the residence of George A. Porter. He built a shop which was situated somewhere between the Congregational church and the residence of Mrs. Sarah E. Harris. He worked there some ten or fifteen years and then moved to Vermont. Christopher Harris was a native of Rhode Island, and when a child, came to Richmond, N. H., wdiere he lived during his minority. In 1787 he married a young lady who also came from Rhode Island, and in 1797 purchased the tavern which had been built and kept some years by Jonathan Ball. This tavern was near the residence of E. F. Adams and opposite the large elm tree. At that time the farm connected with the tavern was a large and very productive one, containing one hundred and thirty acres, and yielded a large income. He lived here until about 1811, when he moved to Rockingham, Vt., where he died. Elijah Fuller was a native of Newton, Mass., and at 64 HISTORY OF TROY. an earh' age was put out to service with Norman Clark, of whom he learned the earj^enter's trade, which he fol- lowed a larger part of the time. In 1797, he located on West Hill. Previous to his coming here in 1795, he married Lucretia Smith, who was a native of Holden, Mass. Soon after her birth her father moved with his family to Wwoming, Pennsylvania, which is on the Sus- quehanna river, where they remained until the famous "Wyoming massacre," when two thousand Tories and nine hundred Indians came upon the place and murdered the inhabitants without discrimination. Lucretia Smith was one of the few who escaped. She was about thirteen years of age and remembered well the distressing scenes which took place at that time, Avhen so many fell a pre^^ to savage \varfare. The family after their escape returned to Holden. Capt. Isaac Fuller, a brother of Elijah, came a few months later from Holden, where he had resided a short time. He first moved into a schoolhouse which then stood near his brothers, but later located on a farm afterwards purchased of the heirs of William Barker. He was a car- penter iind skillful workman, but his farm demanded so much of his time that he devoted but little attention to his trade. On returning home from the village one stormy night in the winter of 1819, he perished in the storm, at the age of forty-four. Asa Brewer became a resident about this time, as he was taxed in Fitzwilliam in 1799. After his marriage he settled in Roxbury, where he lived some time, and then located on the Enoch Garfield farm. In 1828, he removed to the Jonathan Clark farm, and a few years later removed to Barton, Vermont. Zopher Whitcomb came here when but a 3'outh and lived in the family of Joseph Cutting, with whom he staid SETTLERS FROM 17S0 TO 1800. 65 during the larger part of his minority. It is said Cutting gave him the land com])rising the Amasa Aldrieh farm, upon which he erected buildings, and where he lived after his marriage. John Joy came about 1798. He married Sally, eldest daughter of Reuben Ward, and built a house on the Hcnrv A. Porter place, which was owned by his father-in-law, who did not relinquish the title during his life. He lived there but a few years, but long enough to clear consider- able land and erect comfortable buildings, and moved to Glover, Vt. The farm then passed into the possession of Levi Ward, who lived there a few years. Joseph French is supposed to have come from Attle- borough, Mass., where his grandfather settled about 1720. He located on the farm now owned by Joseph Haskell. He resided there until 1808, when he sold his farm and moved to Ludlow, Vt. Hugh Thom])son came here about 1798, but from what place is not known. He married Polly, oldest daughter of Daniel Lawrence, and purchased of Nathan Barker that part of the farm which came into his possession by the will of his father, William Barker. The deed of his pur- chase was in consideration of five hundred dollars, and was dated July 9, 1799. Upon this land he erected build- ings, but after a few years he sold his farm to his brother- in-law, Daniel Lawrence, Jr., and purchased land in the eastern part of the town, but after a few years removed to the state of Maine. John and David Garey, brothers, came from Leomin- ster, Mass., some time prior to 1790, and settled on the Luke C. Clark place. John married Betsey, the eldest daughter of Caleb Winch. In 1800, the two l)rothers rented the Tolman tavern, and for about a year kei)t the public house in the village, when they returned to 66 HISTORY OF TROY. Leominster. In 1807, John, with Joseph, another brother, returned and l30Ught of Edmund Bemis the farm w^hich had been purchased 1)y the latter of James Brewer. The house which was a one-story building was removed to the spot just south of the residence of Franklin Ripley, and after receiving an additional story and undergoing exten- sive repairs, was opened as a tavern, but after a few years they returned to Leominster. The tavern and the farm came into the possession of Robinson and Farrar, who reserved a portion of the land and sold the remainder with the buildings to Timothv Kendall. CHAPTER IV. SETTLERS FROM 1800 TO 1815. NATHAN WHEKLER. — THOMAS I5ENNV. — WILLIAM RARNARD. — THOMAS CLARK. — JOSIAH MORSE. — HEZEKIAH HODGKINS. — REUBEN NEWELL. — EDMUND BEMIS. — JON.iTHAN LAWRENCE. — WILLIAM LAWRENCE. — ZALMON HOWE. — JOHN LAWRENCE. — HENRY TOLMAN. — JOSEPH BUTLER. — AARON HOLT. — DANIEL FARRAR. — JOSHUA HARRINC.TON. — SAMUEL L.VWRENCE. — DANIEL CUTTING, JR. — LEVI MAXEY. — EASMAN .\LEXANDER. — ROBERT FITTS. — JOSIAH AMADON. — NATHAN WINCH. — ELIJAH HARRINGTON. — CALEB PERRY. — JOSEPH ALEXANDER. — ELIAS MANN. — DANIEL W. FARRAR. — LUNA STAR- KEY. — ISAAC LAWRENCE. — JAMES GODFREY. — SALMON WHITTEMORE. — LUKE HARRIS.— CONSTANT WEAYER. — SYLYESTER P. FLINT. — ELNATHAN GORHAM. — PELETIAH HODGKINS. — NATHAN NEWELL. — LYMAN WRIGHT. — STEPHEN FARRAR. — CALYIN BEMIS. Nathan Wheeler was iDorn in Holden, Mass., where he spent the early part of his life. He served in the Ameri- can army during the Revokitionar}^ war, after which he married and settled in his native place. He came to Marl- borough in 1800, but did not become the owner of real estate. He afterwards went to Fitchburg, then to Saco, Me., returning to Fitzwilliam and then moving to Keene. John and William Brown came here from Fitchburg about this time, purchasing the clothing mill, working at their trade as clothiers a short time, but not being as suc- cessful as expected, the}^ sold the mill to Thomas Benney and returned to Fitchburg. Thomas Benney came from another part of Marl- borough, and on coming here married Lucinda, daughter of Richard Roberts, and lived a short tiine in the Bacon house, then in the Warren house and finally in part of his mill. After a few vears he went to Westminster, Vt. 68 HISTORY OF TROY. In ISOl or 1802, William Barnard of Lancaster, Mass., purchased a house of Daniel Farrar, Sen. He was a black- smith by trade, and during his residence in the village he worked at his trade in the shop occupied by Jonathan Capron. In 1808, he sold his location and moved into a house formerly o\vned b^- Reuben Ward. About this time he built a shop near the Ward bridge, so-called, in which he constructed a trip hammer and other machinery, which v^as propelled by \vater. A short time after, he formed a partnership with one Moses Aldrich, and built a scythe factory at the North end, near where the Forristall saw mill was. This was the first scythe factory in town. Al- drich built a house near the shoj), which was the only house in that section. In 1816 the house and shop were sold to Amos Sible^^ and he moved to Cavendish, Vt. Thomas Clark, Jr., son of Thomas, of whom some account has been given, married in 1801 and settled on the home farm, where he lived until 1848. He afterwards purchased the farm formerh- occupied by his son, Alvah S., where he lived until his death. Josiah Morse, a son of Henry Morse, of whom some account has been given, in 1802 bought of Thomas Tol- man a small lot of land and built a tavern, the one now known as the Monadnock Hotel, which has since undergone extensive repairs. But little is known of him previous to his coming here, other than that he lived in Swanzey, and that his wife was a daughter of Levi Maxey, of Attleborough. He kept a public house until about 1812, when he sold his location to Constant Weaver, and removed to Attleborough. During most of the time he resided here there were other public houses in the vicinity, so that on account of the competition he did not have a very lucrative business. Hezekiah Hodgkins was a native of New Ipswich, SETTLERS FROM 1800 TO 1S15. 69 where he spent his early years ; at the breakino^ out of the war of the Revolution, he responded to his country's call, and was in the army several years. Soon after his return from the war he settled in New Ipswich, where he worked at his trade of cabinet makinf?. He came to Marlborough in 178.S and resided in the village for several years. In 1803 he purchased of Simon Piper the farm recently owned b^- Edmund Bemis. About this tiine he built a saw and gristmill, on the site now o\vned by George S. Colburn. In 1808 he sold the farm and mill to Edmund Bemis, Sr., and bought of Joseph French the farm now owned by Joseph Haskell. The next year he built a new house, but continued to live in the old one for some time, using the new one as a sho]) in which to manufac- ture rakes, a business which he followed in his later days. Reuben Ne\vell, the third s,on of Jacob, settled on the farm afterwards owned by William A. Harris. The land was given him by his father, upon which he erected the buildings. He resided here until 1815, wdien he moved into a house built for him by his father, which on account of some peculiarity in its construction, was called the "plank house." Edmund Bemis was born in Westminster, Mass., in 1765, and came here at the period at ^vhich Ave have arrived. After his marriage, at the age of thirt^'-four 3^ears, he lived in Fitehburg a few years, but in 1807 he purchased of James Brewer the Stephen B. Farrar farm. He lived here three years and then sold the farm to Garey, as already mentioned, and moved on to the Ward farm where he lived one year. He soon sold out to Jonas Garey, and bought the one on West Hill, where he lived until his death, now owned by J. M. Foster. Of the descendants of the first settlers, mention should 70 HISTORY OF TROY. be made of Jonathan Lawrence, son of Jonathan, ]ire- viously mentioned. He lived for some years on the Forbes place, in the south part of Marlborough; but about 1804 he purchased of Hugh Thompson the Sidney A. Butler farm, where he lived until near the close of his life when he went to live with his brother William. William Lawrence, fifth son of Jonathan, married and settled on the home farm about this time. In 1856 he moved with his son, Joseph E. Lawrence, to a place purchased of A. B. Gates. Zalmon Howe came from Holden, Mass., and settled in Marlborough in 1803, and bought the Joseph Alexander place. He obtained it of Elijah Alexander, whose son Gideon bought it of one White, wdio was the first settler. He lived there four or five years ; afterwards he resided four years on the Barker farm, two on the " Amasa Fuller place," two on the George Farrar place, and three on the Joseph Alexander, Jr., place, and then moved to Fitzwil- liam, where he died. John La\vrence, son of Daniel, married and settled on the home farm in 1805. Nov. 28, 1805, Henry Tolman, son of Benjamin, formed a co-partnership with his father-in-law, Christopher Har- ris, in conducting the business of the tavern. He lived there one and one-half years, then moved to Derry, Vt., and after three years returned and lived some time where Franklin Whitcomb now lives. After this he kept a public house at the Amasa Fuller place for about two years, and then returned to the Whitcomb place. He worked at brick making in the Thomas Wright yard for three years, and then moved into the Sampson Wheeler house, where he lived for sixteen years ; after moving once or t\vice more he settled in Sterling, Mass., \vhere he died. Joseph Butler was a native of Bolton, Mass., probably. SETTLERS FROM 1800 TO 1815. 71 He lived there about eighteen years after his marriage, coijning here about 1806, buying of Rufus Russell ix farm near Simon Butler's. This was some distance from the public high"way, but formerly on an old road leading from Silas Fife's to Hugh Thom])son's. He lived here some thirty years and moved to Marlborough, where he died. Aaron Holt w^as born in Holden, Mass., where his father, from Andover, settled at an early period. In the fall of 1806, he purchased of Daniel Lawrence, Jr., a farm on West Hill, and in the following spring came with his family and settled on the same, where he lived ten years. After this he lived one year each on the Clark and Whit- comb farms ; he then bought the farm afterwards owned by Hamilton Parker, and resided there three years. In 1822, he lived on the Levi L. Pierce place; in 1823, on the Sidney A. Butler place; in 1824, he moved to the Gove place, so-called, south of the Jonathan Clark place. In the fall of 1826, while passing on the highway, he met a young man riding one horse and leading another. The led horse was a vicious animal, and refused to go, and in attempting to assist the stranger in managing his unruly beast, he was kicked so badly that he died the next day. This year, Daniel Farrar, Jr., second son of Daniel, before mentioned, located w^here Jonathan Capron formerly lived, now owned by Mrs. A. W. Whitcomb. He occupied the old house until after the death of his father, when he biiilt the brick house now on the premises. He was a very industrious man and much esteemed by the people of the town. Joshua Harrington was living with his father in 1807. In 1809, he built the old part of the house now owned by Miss Villa Gates. The year previous, he and his brother Elijah built a carding mill near the pail shop of Charles Coolidge, and they were in business together several years ; 72 HISTORY OF TROY. but ill 1820, Joshua sold his hoiise to Solomon Goddard and his interest in the mill to his brother Elijah, and moved to Alstead, where he resided until 1850, when he moved to Pittstown, New York. Samuel Lawrence, second son of Jonathan, settled here not far from this time. After his marriage he lived a short time in Ro\'alston, Miiss.; on coming here he pur- chased a house of John Rodgers, which was north of No. 1 schoolhouse. He was a carpenter, and most of his time was devoted to his trade. In the great freshet of the winter of 1810, he was employed with others, by the pro- prietors of the turnpike, to remove a large body of ice which was obstructing the passage of the ^vater under the bridge at the north end and threatening its destruc- tion. While standing upon the ice, the obstruction sud- denly gave Avay and he was thrown \vith considerable violence into the stream and carried rapidly do^vn the cin-rent, and before assistance could be rendered him by those on shore, he was carried down the rapids, \vhere he disappeared forever. The following summer a thigh bone of a man Avas found some distance below, which was, no doubt, a part of his body. Daniel Cutting, Jr., eldest son of Daniel, settled on a farm east of the schoolhouse in District No. 3, which he purchased of the heirs of Hezekiah Coolidge, in 1807; now owned by John Lang. He inherited much of his father's business capacity, \vas an upright man, took a deep interest in the affairs of the town and was elected to numerous offices of trust and responsibility. For some years he devoted considerable time to buying cattle and sheep which he sent to Brighton market. About this time, Levi Maxey of Attleborough, bought of Jonas Robeson the house in which he lived previous to his removal to Fitzwilliam village. His grandfather, SETTLER'S FROM 1800 TO 1S15. 73 Alexander Maxev, settled in Attleborongh in 1721. Levi was the second son of Josiah Maxey and married Rnth, daughter of Jacol3 Newell, and settled in his native town, where his children were born. He was well advanced in life \vhen he came here, probably to be with his daughter, Mrs. Josiah Morse. He lived here until Mr. Morse left the tavern, when he returned to Attleborough. Three of his sons, Jonathan, Milton and Virgil, were graduates of Brown University, and eminent in literary and profes- sional life. Levi, another son, who possessed superior talents, though not liberally educated, died in the South. Easman Alexander, son of Elijah, settled on the home farm with his father in 1808. He was emphaticalh'^ a home man, and never was in a car or stage coach, and very seldom going beyond the limits of the town ; but unlike many other home men, he knew the way to the church. In 1809 or 1810, Robert Fitts of Royalston, Mass., came here w^ith his widowed mother and resided in the Whipple house. Soon after coming here he built a shop on the site now occupied by the old blanket mill. He was a mechanic, and is represented as a very ingenious man and given to making new inventions, and constructed several machines which were projielled by water. This shop was burned in 1825. He married Tryphena Farrar, in 1821, and continued to live here until 1827, when he moved to Mason, and afterwards to New Ipswich, N. H. Josiah Amadon of Fitzwilliam came into what is now Troy, and worked at shoemaking; but after several years' residence he returned to Fitzwilliam. Nathan Winch, third son of Caleb, lived on the home- stead several years ; but after the death of his aged father, he sold the farm to one Derby, and bought of Luke Harris the situation in the village now known as the "Winch ])lacc," where he lived until his death. 74 HISTORY OF TROY. Elijah Harrington settled on the homestead with his parents in 1819, and for a few years devoted his time to farming, occasionally assisting his father in the gristmill ; after the death of the latter, having sole charge of it. In 1808, he and his brother Joseph built a carding mill which has already been mentioned, where they carried on business for a few years ; afterwards Elijah bought his brother's share, and carried on the business alone until 1840, when he sold the mill to Charles Coolidge, who took it down, as it interfered with the operation of his pail shop which was on the opposite side of the stream. Caleb Perry purchased the farm formerly owned by Silas Fife, in May, 1810. He was born in Fitchburg, Mass., about 1773, and married Deborah Fairbanks, of Holliston, Mass., in 1798. After a residence of about twenty A^ears, he removed to Alstead, having sold his farm to his son-in-law, Abel Baker. In 1833, the family were attacked with typhoid fever, and all died except Mr. Perr}^ and one son. He subsequently lived in Temple and At hoi, Mass., where he died in October, 1849. Joseph Alexander, son of Gideon, settled upon the farm purchased of Zalmon Howe, where he always lived. Elias Mann, son of Theodore, married Betsey Butler in 1811, and although he frequently changed locations, spent a large proportion of his life in Troy. Daniel W. Farrar, eighth son of Phineas, came here in 1800, and was employed as a clerk in the store of Jonas Robeson seven years. In 1805, Robeson moved to Fitz- william and left him in charge for a time ; he then formed a partnership with him and carried on the business until 1813, when he bought out Mr. Robeson's share and took sole charge of the store. About this time he formed a partnership \vith Curtis Coolidge, which continued for about three vears, when he took the entire business and SETTLERS FROM ISOO TO 1815. 75 conducted the same until abont 1843, when he was suc- ceeded l:)y his son, David W., and John Whittemore, [r., from FitzwilHani. At this time he resided in the Garey tavern. In 1835, he moved the old store, built l^y Robe- son, a little back and built the brick store now owned b^^ C. W. Whitney. Rol)eson estalilished this store in 1793, and there has been a store in operation upon this spot Stokk ok C. W. Whitnev. continuously for over one hundred years. After giving up his store, he devoted most of his time to farming, and lived in the house no\v occupied by C. D. Farrar, which was built in 1836. For more than fifty years he \vas one of the most enterprising men of the town, and prob- ably no one exerted a greater influence. He was very active in the movement which led to the formation of the town of Troy, and it was mainly through his exertions that the act was accomplished, as wnll be seen b}- referring to the account of its incorporation. His name is identified with almost every public act, and although his ]iosition at times may have been violently assailed, yet all seemed willinsr to "five him credit for strict inteeritv and of actintr 76 HISTORY OF TROY. from the best of motives. In some respects he was a remarkable man, and few with the same earh^ advantages would have made so conspicuous a mark in life. He pos- sessed good native talent, an active mind, and was quick of apprehension, but his school advantages were very limited. But he had a mind for improvement and an energy which enabled him to overcome the most formida- ble obstacles, and to make up in good measure the deficiency in his early school advantages. Every da3' was a practical school to him ; he kept his books by his side, but instead -of gathering from them a few theories without a knowledge of their application, like many of our modern scholars, he used them, as w^as once said by a noted divine, as soldiers to assist him in fighting the battle of life. He made his books contribute to his business capacitv, and in all his studies, "en/ honoF'' was his earnest inquiry. Thus his education was highly ])ractical and thus will account for his success in life. Luna Starkey, eighth son of Peter, married Hannah White, in the early part of this 3'ear and lived a short time in the house with his father. In 1813, he bought of Ebenezer Saunders the farm upon which the latter had lived some years, where he lived until his death. This year, also, Isaac Lawrence, fourth son of Jonathan, built the house on the Levi L. Pierce place, and resided there some four or five years, when he moved to Vermont. His wife was Polly Lebourveau of Keene. Capt. James Godfrey, a shoemaker, came here from Lancaster, Mass., but at what time is not known. He married a Goodwin. In 1813, he sold his house to Salmon Whittemore and moved to Fitzwilliam. Salmon Whittemore of Royalston, Mass., came here in 1812 and purchased the farm afterwards owned by A. S., Clark. Levi Haskell had owned the farm some vears SETTLERS FROM ISOO TO 1815. 77 previous, selling the same to Whitteniore and moving; to Fitz- william. The latter lived here about a 3'car, then bought Capt. Godfrey's house and moved to the village. In his earlier years he had learned the clothiers' trade, and April 1, 1815, bought of Jonathan Wood of Fitzwilliam, the fulling mill which had been owned by Thomas Benney. For this he paid $1600, but the mill was old and the tim- bers so decaj^ed that the following year he took the mill down and built a new one on the same spot. Mr. Whitte- niore is said to have been a skillful workman, and that he was much esteemed by his fellow citizens is evident from the various offices to which he was promoted by their suffrages. Ajiril, 1812, Daniel Ball, a native of Holden, Mass., came from Marlborough, \vhcre he settled in 178G, and 1)ought of Simeon Brooks the Abraham Brooks farm on West Hill, afterwards owned by Stephen Harris. He was a farmer and resided there until his death. Luke Harris, son of Christopher, married and moved into the house with his father, about this time, living there a few years when he moved into the Whipple house. He bought the farm on which Josiah Lawrence first settled, in 1818, and lived there about six years, selling out to William Lawrence and moving to the Thomas Tolman house. In 1825, he built a house for Salmon Whittemore. A few 3^ears after he bought the pail mill built by Moses Curtis and commenced making pails. Shortly after this he bought the house built by Jonathan B. French and lived there until 1830, when he sold the pail shop to Charles Coolidge, and his house to Nathan Winch, and built the house now owned by E. P. Kimball. This year he bought of Elijah Harrington the gristmill and water privilege, which is the site now occupied by the old l)lanket mill. The next vear he took the o'ristmill down 78 HISTORY OF TROY. and coininenced immediately to l^iiild a faetorv, which was completed the following year, and used to manufacture woolen cloth. He moved to Sterling, Mass., in 1841, and after residing there five years he went to Richmond ; and in 1858, he moved to Nelson, where he died. Early in the spring of 1812, Constant Weaver came with his family from the state of Rhode Island, and bought the tavern of Josiah Morse. He kept the tavern about two years, when he sold it to Elnathan Gorhara and returned to Rhode Island. During this time he constructed a pottery near the tavern, which was the first establish- ment of the kind in town. Several unsuccessful attempts to find cla3% of a suitable quality for manufacturing ware, were made before the right material was obtained, which was found near what is now the brick yard, and where the requisite supply was obtained. Mr. Weaver did little work himself, but committed the management of the pottery to his son, who did not make a success of it and consequently but little was accomplished. Sylvester P. Flint came here this j^ear from Fitchburg and bought the Ball tavern and farm of one Fuller, who obtained them of Christopher Harris. He did not adver- tise to keep a public house, although he occasionally entertained travelers who had previously been accustomed to stop there. It is quite probable that he was con- siderable of a business man, as he was chosen one of the selectmen of the town in the years 1815, 1816 and 1818, and represented the town in the legislature in 1818. He moved to Keene in 1821. Elnathan Gorham \vas a clothier by trade and was settled in Chesterfield, but being desirous of changing his business he came here and bought the tavern of Weaver, continuing the public house in which he did an active business for several vears. He removed to Ohio in 1820, SETTLERS FROM ISOO TO 1815. 79 where he died Sept. 20, 1824-. He was a very enterprisino- and pubHc spirited man, £ind while here he took a deep interest in the prosperity of the town. In October of this year, Pelatiah Hodtj,"kins, son of Hezekiah, married and settled on the home farm, where he always resided. In 1815, Nathan Newell, son of Jacob Newell, Jr., bnilt part of the house now occupied by E. P. Kimball. He had married and resided some time previous in what was the Warren store. He was a blacksmith by trade, and his shop stood where Mrs. C. W. Brown's stable now stands. In 1818, he sold this house to William Stearns and moved into the house then owned by Solomon Goddard, where he lived about one year, when he moved to Richmond. This year, Lyman Wright bought the Warren stand and the Winch tanyard of David White and Joshua Har- rington, who had obtained them of Warren at the time he left town. He was a native of Fitzwilliam, and learned the trade of tanner and currier in Templeton. He soon built a new tannery, which stood nearly over the stream and a little lower down than the Silsby tannery. Some years after he moved this Ijuilding a few feet up the stream, and towards the north, putting an addition on the east end, which was the one burned a few years since. While he was building his tannery and making the neces- sary arrangements for housekeeping, he boarded with Col. Farrar, but after his marriage he lived in what was the Warren tavern, which wiis not changed much until 18-H, when he covered the frame with brick walls and remod- eled the inside. The store which had been attached to the north end of the tavern he removed around to the south and made it into a dwelling house. In 183G he built the saAvmill, after\vards owned by Charles Carpenter, 80 HISTORY OF TROY. and which stood near the site of the present Troy Blanket Mills, and also the house owned by Carpenter. At this time the only road to the premises was a common footpath ; the road 1)y the mill and across the pond to the Jaffrey road was not laid out until about 1850. Col. Wright was an active and enterprising man, and held various offices, both civil and military, and was much esteemed by his fellow citizens. In December of this year, Stephen Farrar, third son of George, married and settled on the farm now owned by Walter Elliot. The buildings on the farm were constructed for him by his father, and he resided there until March 15, 1831, when he exchanged farms with Timothy Kendall, and came to the village to live, on the farm now owned by Mrs. A. W. Whitcomb. Calvin Davis of Hancock came here this year and built a house on the site now occupied l)y the one owned by the Troy Blanket Mills, and known as the Chapman house. The north room on the first floor was finished for a store ; the remainder of the building was used as a tenement. Mr. Davis traded here until 1820, when having become somewhat end)arassed in his business he sold his location to Holbrook from Kcene, who continued the store. CHAPTER V. REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. AN ACCOUNT OF THOSK WHO TOOK PART IN TIIK KKVOI.ITTIONARV WAR. — BENJAMIN TOLMAN. — EZEKIEL MIXER. — JACOlt NEWELL, |K. — PEARSON NEWELL. — JAMES BREWER. — JOHN KARRAR, JR. — JOSEPH AND WILLIAM FARRAK. — JAMES DEAN. — PETER STARKLY. — THE ASSOCIATION TEST. — CONTINENTAL CURRENCY. — ALARM LIST. The American Revolution is one of the most interesting events in modern history. In this event, feeble colonies, amidst want, poverty and misfortune, without an army or navy, and without the munitions and implements of war, boldly stepped forth and successfully combated the veteran armies of a powerful and oppressive nation, impelled by the spirit of liberty, and directed by an over- shadowing Providence. It is but pro]3er that we should consider how the inhabitants of what is now the town of Troy stood affected in relation to that contest. On the 19th of April, 1775, when the clarion of war first sounded upon the fields of Lexington and Concord, there were probably not more than twenty-five male inhabitants over twenty-one years of age, within these limits, capable of bearing arms. The region was sparsely populated, and most of these were heads of families, who had but recently settled u])on this wild land ; and if they had been ever so much inclined to exchange the field for the camp, they could only have done so at the expense of bringing upon their families almost unendurable suffering, for it was extremely difficult for them to provide food and clothing for themselves and those dependent u])on them. There are no stronger claims, of an earthly nature, upon 82 HISTORY OF TROY. man's services than those of the family. Next to these stand those of his country, and justice and humanity forl)id that the former should be sacrificed to the latter. Hence the small number of enlistments should not be attributed to a want of patriotism, or to indifference in respect to the great interests of the country, for it would be difficult to find men more ardently attached to liberty and to the leading measures of the day than were the early settlers of this town. In most instances in which it was possible to make such an arrangement as to protect the family from extreme suffering, the opportunity was gladly improved, and the father laid aside the hoe and the plow, and hurried to the assistance of his countrymen who were struggling amidst scenes of conflict and blood. The following are the names of those who are supposed to have entered the American army from the limits of this town. Benjamin Tolman, Pearson Newell, Jficob Newell, Jr., Jtunes Brewer, Ezekiel Mixer, John Farrar, Jr., Peter Slarkey. Benjamin Tolman was the first to resjiond, and took an active part in the battle which opened the bloody conflict. On receiving information of the threatened inva- sion, he seized his musket and marched for the scene of war. On the way he was joined b\^ others on a like expedition, arriving in season to dispute the jjrogress of the British forces at Lexington. He joined in the pursuit of the enemy on their retreat, and in the battle of Bunker Hill he was in the thickest of the fight. In a hand-to- hand conflict, his gun was wrenched from him l)y a British soldier; but he stood his ground, defending himself with the weapons Natiirc had furnished him, until his captain, seeing his condition, (juickly brought him another musket,. REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. 83 with which he continued to fight nntil ordered to retreat. Mr. Tohnan was paid Iia' the State for articles lost in the battle, as follows: "For shoes Is.; for stockino-s 2s.; for trousers 2s. 6d.; for shirts 5s.; for stmdrics 2s." He was in the army about two and a half years, being on duty at various stations, and receiving a coni]iensation of £4 10s. per month. The last battle in which he was engaged was that of Bennington, where he passed through one of the most trying scenes of his military life. Ezekiel Mixer, his companion in arms, and the one who had been his most intimate friend for two years, received his death- wound while fighting bv his side. Mr. Tolman bore him from the field and closed his dying eyes. His term of service having expired, Sept. 25, 1777, he retired from the army and resumed his labors on the farm. Ezekiel Mixer has been mentioned as being among the first to break the gloom of the wilderness, and to select a site for a habitation within what are now the limits of Trov. He was also among the first to strike for liberty and the suppression of British rule in America. As soon as he learned of the threatening attitude of the British, in company with his friend, Mr. Tolman, he hastened to Lexington, and both there and at Bunker Hill he fought by his side, exhibiting bravery known only among those who are fighting for their lives and homes. He served in the same company and by the side of his friend over two 3'ears, sharing with him his ])leasures and suft'ering, and between them an ardent attachment was formed. But the time w^as hastening when the ties that imited them were to be severed forever. In the summer of 1777, Gen. Burgoyne, at the head of a large army, advanced southward from Canada, by wa}' of Crown Point and Ticonderoga, with the view of cooperating with Sir Henry 84 HISTORY OF TROY. Clinton, wlio at this time held possession of New York, hoping to eut in two the Ameriean forces in New En<^land and the Middle States. Bnrgoyne had vScarcely reached the valley of the Hudson, when he fonnd his stores of provision failing, and having received information that the Americans had collected provisions, cattle and horses at Bennington, he sent a detachment nnder Lieut. -Col. Baume "to scour the country," to capture these sup]ilies, to test the disposition of the people, and to levy contrilni- tions on the towns. With this detachment ^vas a con- siderable body of Hessians, Tories and Indians. Among other things, Baume was directed to bring back to Burgoyne at least 1300 horses. But the British com- mander entirely misapprehended the temper of the people. Intelligence of this expedition reaching the vigilant Stark, he prepared to give the enemy an un^velcomed reception. On the 13th of August, Baimie was rapidly advancing upon Bennington, but to his surprise found that Stark's command was contesting his advance and preparing for battle; he halted and formed entrenchments upon the borders of the town. The 15th being rainy, neither party was disposed to commence an engagement. But on the morning of the 16th the storm had passed, and the sim shone brightly upon the distant hills, and Stark deter- mined to attack the enemy in his entrenchments. With his keen eye he scanned the ground, formed his plans, and assigned to each subordinate officer a particular part in the bold and daring enterprise. Stark attacked vigorously in front, exhibiting great sagacity and self-possession. When the troops were drawn out ready for the attack. Gen. Stark addressed them in this laconic speech: "There are the red-coats ; we must flog them or Molh' Stark sleeps a widow this night. h^or\vard, men, — march!" The order was executed bv his men, and thev rushed with RUVOLUTIONAKV HISrORV. 85 a Imrrab for the 1:)reastwork, behind which were the Tories, and where was the most desperate resistance. The men rushed to the lireastwork to the very muzzles of the guns, many of them scaHng it, while others went round to join the flanking ])arties who had driven the Germans from their entrenchments, and all joined in a hand-to-hand encounter with the Tories, with bayonets and clubbed muskets. After two hours of hard fighting the battle was practicalh' won. In this desperate struggle, Mixer, who had exhibited his accustomed bravery, was observed to fall, and his friend carried him from the field to a rude shelter, where it was found that a musket ball had penetrated his body, causing a mortal wound. He lingered in great agony until morning, when he expired, and Mr. Tolman was left to convey the sad intelligence to his distant relatives. Jacob Newell, Jr., was the eldest son of Jacob Newell, of whom some account has been given. At what time he entered the army is uncertain. It is quite probable that he was one of the company enlisted in this vicinity by Capt. James Reed of Fitzwilliam, wdio on the 26th of April, 1775, was commissioned a colonel by the Committee of Safety of Massachusetts, with "beating orders." There is no tradition of his having been in the battle of Biniker Hill, but he joined the expedition that was fitted out against Canada, and was stationed several months at Ticonderoga. He was under St. Clair in his retreat to Fort Edward, and from thence he accompanied the main bod_y of the army to the islands at the mouth of the Mohawk. It is quite probable that he was in the two battles of Stillwater, and that he witnessed the surrender of the British army imder Burgoyne. It is said he Avas in the army five years, but as no records were kejit by his family, it is difiicult to trace his military operations. 86 HISTORY OF TROY. Pearson Newell was the second son of Jacob, and joined the army at Cambridge, in May, 1775. The tradition of the family is that he was not a volunteer, but was drafted soon after his brother enlisted. Whether so or not he was a member of Capt. Jonathan Whitcomb's company and fought under that officer at the l)attle of Bunker Hill, where it appears that he sustained the loss of his gun, powderhorn and cartridge box, for which he was after\vards allowed by the State £2 14s. Shortly after this he was joined to a small detachment under the command of Lieut. Elijah Clay, but on the 11th of September following, he was ordered with others to report himself again to Capt. Whitcomb, but sudden death prevented his complying with the order. From the record of the acts of the first settlers of the town it would seem that in every enterprise, calling for an exhibition of pure patriotism, disinterested benevolence and the characteristics of a good citizen, the name of James Brewer stands conspicuous. The records of Marl- borough and Fitzwilliam fulh' attest to the value of his public services as a citizen, but very little is known concerning his inilitary career. He was in the army about three years, during which time he must not only have witnessed, but participated in many of the scenes which form an interesting period in the history of the Qowntry. The battle of Lexington, while it foreshadowed the most fearful results, and spread consternation among the \veak and timid, onh^ served to rouse the patriots to the highest pitch of indignation. Expresses were sent to every town, and the call "to arms," resounded from every hill and valley. At that time, Capt. Benjamin Mann, one of the most devoted patriots of Keene, organized a company' of volunteers, and in a short time, at the head of a respect- able bod}' of soldiers, he took up the line of march for the REVOIJJTIONARY HISTORY. 87 scene of war. James Brewer was chosen 1st Lieutenant of this company. Capt. Mann was able to be on duty 1)ut a small proportion of the time, owing to advanced age jmd feeble health, consequently in his aljsence the command devolved upon Lieut. Brewer. This company reached Charlestown on the 17th of June, and participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill, althoujjh engaged late in the action. Lieut. Brewer was paid 6s lid for the loss of a pair of shoes in the battle. Lieut. Brewer was not an idle man, and his l)est energies were devoted to the service of his country. He was attached to the New Hampshire brigade under Gen. Sullivan, and was stationed at Winter Hill through most of the summer of 1775. After the arrival of Wiishington on the second of July, Lieut. Brewer was employed in various movements plannetl by that illustrious man, and he remained in the vicinity of Boston till some time after its evacuation by the British in March, 1776. He was in Capt. James Lewis' company of Col. Enoch Hale's regiment, which marched from New Hampshire, June 29, 1777, under command of Lieut. Col. Thomas Heald, to reinforce the garrison at Ticonderoga, where he was stationed several months, and it is (piite probable that he was in the battle of Stillwater. John Farrar, Jr., son of Maj. John Farrar, entered the army in 1781, as appears from the following state- ment. To Mr. Thompson, Secretary tor the Honorable Assembly f)t" New Hamp- shire, (ireetins;-: Atjreciible to the order ot Conrt .\])ril 7, 17St Keipiirinn oi us to make a return i)f ovir Soldiers in the Continent[d Army Ijy the loth of" June next, whieh soldiers' names are as follows viz. John I>arker and Josei)h Fassett engat^ed durinj^' the Wiir some 3'ears ngo. The names of those engjii^ed last Mareh for the term of three years next ensnin,!.;- the date are as follows viz. Ste])hen Kiehardson, John I'arrar, Stephen White, Daniel (loidd, Jr., and James Foster whieh have 88 HISTORY OF TROY. been mustered liefore the Siiperiiiteiideiit at Keene soon after their engagements, as will be made to appear to you b_v his returns. Joseph Niehols, Levi Brigham, Josiah Hartwell, Seleetmen For Fitz- william. Fitzwilliam, May the 2Sth, ITHl. FITZWILLIAM. 1 John Barker never joined. 2 Joseph Fassett Deserted 1780. 3 Stephen Rieliardson Must. Feb. 23, 17.S1. 4 Jolm [^""arrar " A])r. 3, " 5 vStephen White " Fel). 27, " 6 Daniel Gould, Jr. " Feb. 23, " 7 James Foster " Feb. 23, S Rufus Patriek July 15, 17.S2. Must, by B. Elhs. Certified Nov. 7, 1775. Those enlisting in 1781 were for three years, or the war, and each received a Ijotmty of twenty pounds which was paid in specie. John Farrar had two younger In'others, Jose]3h and WilHam, who were nieinljers of Capt. Nixon's company of Minute Men, in 1775, and prol)ably entered the army from Framingham, the place of their birth. It is said that John possessed a peculiar combination of mental qualities. In addition to a large share of comnionsense, he had ready wit, a keen perception of the ludicrous, and none better enjoyed a good joke. These characteristics, together with his great mirthfulness, rendered him a particular favorite with the soldiers; and whenever they wished to carry out any particular plot, requiring the agency of a rogue, he was just the man, for his great shrewdness was a pretty sure guaranty of success. And it would not be surprising, if at that period of life he \vould sometimes gratify his love of fun at the expense of moral principle. The good lady, on seeing her best goose chasing the young soldier, who to appearance was vainly striving to REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. 89 escape from the fierce attacks of his enraged antagonist, was (|uite ready to assure him that the fowl was very harmless, and would soon give over the pursuit, but con- tinuing until distance obscured the view, she came to the conclusion that an evil spirit had unfortunately taken possession of the animal. But had she seen the line, to which were attached the hook and bait which the unsus- pecting goose had swallowed, and was thereby involun- tarily pursuing the fugitive, she \vould doubtless have been impressed with the fact that evil spirits, sometimes at least, assume the human form. And could she have looked a little farther and seen the soldiers exulting over their ill-gotten repast, she might have been filled with the greatest indignation, unless perad venture her love of coun- try was paramount to all things else, and she consoled herself with the consciousness of having contributed a mite to the patriot cause. Mr. Farrar resided in Fitzwil- liam some years after the war, but eventually moved to South Hadley, where he died, March 20, 1809. James Dean also served in the war of the Revolution as shown by the following abstracts taken from the Record Index to the Revolutionary War Archives in the office of the Secretar3^ of the CommonAvealth of Massachusetts : Appears with rank of Private on Muster Roll of Capt. Jacob Miller's Co., Col. Ephm. Doolittle's Regt., dated Aug. 1, 1775 — Enlisted April 25 1775 — Service 3 mos. 16 days. Residence, Monadnock, No. 5. Appears with rank of Private on Company Return of Cajjt. Miller's Co., Col. DooHttle's Regt.. dated Winter Hill, Uct. 6, 1775. Api)cars among signatures to an order for Bounty Coat or its equivalent in money, due for the Eight Months Service in 1775, in Capt. Jacol) Miller's Co., Col. Ephraim Doolittle's (24th) Regt., dated Winter Hill, Oct. 31, 1775 — Payable to Lieut. Samuel Burbank — Encamped at Winter Hill. Dr. Caverly states that Caleb Winch served in the Revolutionarv armv, but his name has not been identified in 90 HISTORY OF TROY. the Revohitioiiarv Rolls, and the tradition concerning him is not sufficiently definite to justify placing his name in the foregoing list. Peter Starkey was in the army but a few weeks. He was drafted just before the battle of Bennington. He was in Colonel Nichols' regiment at the battles of Bennington and Stillwater. Soon after this, for some reason, he obtained his discharge and returned home. Toryism had become so rife in the Colonies, that in March, 1776, the Continental Congress took measures to disarm all persons A\dio \vere notoriously opposed to the cause of America. They passed a resolution on the subject, a copy of which was transmitted to all the Colo- nies. The Committee of Safety for New Hampshire, under the leadership of Hon. Meshach Weare, immediateU^ sent to the several towns a copy of this resolution, and also a pledge of loyalty for the citizens of each town to sign. This pledge was called the "Association Test;" all those who refused to sign it were supposed to be Tories, and were looked upon by their neighbors with suspicion. The circular was as follows : COLONY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, &C. COMMrrTEE OF S.\FETY. April 12, 1770. To the Selectmen of Monadnock, No. five: In order to carry the underwritten Resolve of the Honorable Continental Congress into execu- tion, you are reqviested to desire all Males above twenty-one yeivrs of age, (lunatics, idiots, and negroes excepted,) to sign the Declaration on this pai)er, and when done, to make return thereof together with the name, or names of all who shall refuse to sign the same to the General Assembly, or Committee of Safety of this Colony. M. Weare, Chairman. In Congress, March 14th, 1776. Resolved, That it be recommended to the several Assemblies, Conven- tions, and Councils, or Committees of Safety of the United States immediately to cause all persons to be disarmed within their respective REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY 91 Colonies, who are notoriously disafieetcd to the cause of Amkrica, or who have not associated and refused to associate to defend by Akms the United Colonies against the hostile attempts of the British Fleet and Armies. Extract from the minutes, Charles Thompson, Secretary. In consequence of the above Resolution of the Continental Conckkss, and to show our determination in joining our American brethren in defending the lives, liberties and properties of the inhabitants of the United Colonies: We, the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage and promise that we will to the utmost of our power, at the risk of our lives and fortinies, with Arms oppose the hostile proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American Colonies. This was signed by the following persons, and duly returned h\ the selectmen : Benjamin Tucker, Jonathan Frost, Thomas Riggs, Abijah Tucker, Eliphalet Stone, Benoni Robbins, Phineas Park, Silas Fife, Abel Woodard, Benjamin Goodenow, Berodick Webber, Samuel Bishop, John McBride, Daniel Collins, Joseph Cutting, James Lewis, Josejjh Collins, James Field, Isaac McAllester, Timothy Biemies, Ebenezer Hixson, John Tozer, Stephen Woodard, David Wheeler, John Felton, Richard Tozer, Daniel Emerson, Daniel Goodenow, Thaddeas Hastings, Reuben Ward, Elnathan Newton, Jonah Harrington, William Adams, Jedediah Tayntor, William Tenney, Richard Robbards, Ebenezer Rhodes, James Brewer, Solomon Woodward, James Flood, David Dufer, His Abraham X Brooks. Mark. Jonathan Goodenow, Daniel Cutting, David Thurston. Jacob Newell, 92 niSTOKV OF TROY. Moses Tucker, Robert Converse, Oliver Wright, Theodore Mann. Monadnock, No. Five, July, \'e 9th, 1776. In obedience to the within Riten we have ofered the same to all our inhabitants and they have all sined excepting those whose names are heare under Riten: William Barker, Icabard Shaw, Richard Atwell, Daniel Lawrence. Jonathan Sliaw. Benjamin Tucker, j Selectmen of Thom.\s Riggs, / Monadnock Eliphalet Stone, > No. Five. Of this number, Silas Fife, Joseph Cutting, David Wheeler, Reuben Ward, Jonah Harrincrton, Richard Rob- bards, James Brewer, Daniel Cuttine:, Jacob Newell, Theo- dore Mann, William Barker, Jonathan Shaw, Icabard Shaw and Daniel Lawrence, lived on territory now in- cluded in Troy. Tradition tells us that William Barker, although he refused to affix his name to this resolution, was not a Tory at heart, but, holding an office under the king, and not knowing which party would in the end become victo- rious, \vithheld his name rather as a matter of prudence than from any disaffection towards the cause of the colonists. Richard Atwell so far overcome his scruples that he enlisted and joined the army at Rhode Island. Jonathan and Icabard Shaw were probably Tories indeed ; but, knowing that the sharp eye of the Committee of Safety was upon them, they remained quiet and peaceable, and as such were imdisturbed. Daniel Lawrence is said to have been at the Battle of Bunker Hill, but why he refused to sign his name to this resolution is a m3'stery that can- not be solved. A similar circular was sent to the town of Fitzwilliam, but the retiu'n, if ever made, has been lost. RE I 'OL VTIONA K 1 ' HIS TOR I '. 93 Few of the particular accounts and vouchers apper- taining to the expenses of FitzwilHam in the Revolution- ary- War can now be found, and probably most of them View of Commons Looking North. were destroyed b_v fire in 1785. The following are copies of those that have been preserved. State of New Hampshire to the Seleetmen of Fitzwilham Dr. 1779, July. To cash paid Joseph Fassett & Joseph Muzzy, two soldiers inlisted in the Continental Ami}- for one year. State Bounty £60 each. £120. Received an order on the Treasurer for One Hundred and twenty- poiuids. per John Mellen, one of the Selectmen. State of New Hamjjshire to the Selectmen of Fitzwilliam Dr. 1779, July IS. To cash paid Daniel Gould a soldier inlisted in Col. Mooney's Regiment f(ir the defence of Rhode Island, six months. Bounty £30. Travel 90 miles to Providence £9. pr Rect £39-0-0 Received an order on the Treasurer for Thirty Nine pounds. pr John Mellen, one of the Selectmen. An account of Town Bounties paid by the Town of 94 HISTORY OF TROY. Fitzwilliam to the following^ soldiers inlisted in the Conti- nental Armv for three years. Viz.: 1777 Feb. Amos Boynton Capt. Cleaves Co. £24. 0. 0. " Zadock Dodge Do. 30. " John Dodge " 24. " Peter Barbe (Burpee) 14. 8. 0. 1778 1777 Do. Peter Barbe, Jun. 9. 14. 12. 8. 0. 0. 24. 1778 Do. 9. 12. 0. 24. Daniel Squire Capt. Clayes Co. 9. 0. 0. Fitzwilliam, Jan. 1780. The above soldiers inlisted for the town of Fitzwilliam, and were paid the several sums set against their names. Attest John Mellen Selectmen. Sworn to at Exeter March 9, 1780 before James Belton. From the Fitz\villiam town accounts : Amos Boynton £21-16-10 Zadock Dodge 18-12 John Dodge 14-17- 7 Peter Burpee 10-16- 2 Peter Burpee Jr. 10-16-2 £76-18-9 July 16, 1782. Gave a certificate to James RecS per order from the Selectmen. FITZWILI.IAM ACCOUNT. Pay roll to Cambridge in 1775 £32-19 Do. to Rovalton 5-11-6 £38-10-6. Record of town returns : MARLROKOlKiH. Calvin Goodenow Absent July 7, 1777. discharged Timothy Rogers no return Jacob Whittier no return Adino Goodenow discharged Dec. 18, 1778 by Gen. Poor Sheni Kentfield recruit hanged 1782 June (Must. Apr. 16, 81) Ebenezer Goodenow recruit March 21, 1781 John Wilson war Allen Runnels war Samuel Lvon war REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY. 95 State of New Hampshire to the Selectmen of Marlljorough Dr. 1779 July 19th. To paid Elijah Park a soldier inlisted in Col. Hercnles Mooney's Regiment raised for the defence of Rhode Island and mustered by Col. Henoch Hale. Bounty £30. Travel to Providence £10. per rec't 4-0-0-0 Rec'd an order to Discount with the Treasurer for forty pounds in Ijelialf of the Selectmen of Marlborough. Benj. Tucker. State of New Hampshire to the Selectmen of Marlborough Dr. 1779 Julv 27. To paid Oliver Wright a soldier inlisted in one of the New Hampshire Regnments in the Continental Service for one year, mustered by Col. Enoch Hale. Bounty by receipt £60. Rec'd an order on the Treasurer fort\' six pounds, in behalf of the Selectmen of Marlborough. John Mellen. State of New Hampshire to the Selectmen of Marlborough Dr. 1779 July 29. Paid James Lewis a soldier for one year in one of the , New Hampshire Regiments in the Continental service — Mus- tered by Col. Enoch Hale. Bounty per receipt £60. — Rec'd an order for the Trccisurer to Discount sixty jjounds in behalf of the Selectmen of Marlborough. Benj. Tucker. To the Honorable General Court of the State of New Hampshire. Gentlemen the town of Marlborough was called upon for six men to engage for three j^ears which men the town made out to acceptance of our head Colonel as our proportion of Continental men Jabez McBride Reuben McAlester and Timothy Rogers Received no money of the town as a hire. Adino Goodenow Calvin Goodenow and Fradorick freeman have Re- ceived twent}' pounds Each as town Bounty which the town Paid the tenth Day of April A. D. 17 — In July 1779 the town hired two men more for to serve in the Continental army for the term of one year gave to Capt. James Lewis as a hire 130 Bushels of Rie and forty jJOunds of money Russel Oliver Received 120 Bushels of Rie and forty povnids of money this Being the whole that the town of Marlborough hath jiaid to the Continental Soldiers which they had to Raise from January the 1, 1777 to January ye 1, 1780. Marlborough Febuary the 9th 17S(). David Wheeler | Selectmen of Oliver Wright j Marlborough 96 HISrORY OF TROV. To the Secretary of the State of New Hampshire. Sir the followiii,-^ is a Keturii of the Men that tlie Town of Marlbor- ough hath in the field — Calvin Goodenow, Timothy Rogers, Jacob Whitter, and Adino Goodenow was hired By the Town of Marll)orough During the war find was Discharged when he was in good health for Reasons unkone to them and tiie Town think it hard to hire another in his Rome. Jedh Tavntok I Selectmen Oliver Wright / for David Wheeler ' Marlborough May ye 20th 1782 To the Honourable the Committee of Safety of the State of New Hamp- shire. Gentlemen in obedience to a precept Received From the honourable the General Court to procure our Cota of Continental men we have yoused our utmost Endeavors to ])rocure said men ourselves we Enieade- ately Called a town meeting and chose a Committee for that purpose which Committee has m^ide a Return that they cannot procure said men without i)aying such a Large Sum of hard money in hand lo procure said men that it puts the matter beycjud our power to procure said men upon so short Notice we therefore Begg Leave to Inform your honours that it is not in Disobedience to the precejjt hut it is the Extream Scarcity of hard money in this New town has \n\t it out of our ])ower at present to yield that obediance that we should have been glad to have done — N. H. \Vc would inf(jrm your honours that w^e have one man Now in the fiekl that he was not Creadited for Last year viz Calvin Goodenow who was hired in ye year 1777 by this ttjwn to serve for said town dining the war and at the avacation of ticonderoga he was taken jjrisoner and Never joined his Regt till last may and since that he Diserted and was Last march taken up and is Now in the first Regt in the hampshii'e Line ^ James Brewer ] James Flood Selectmen Ebenezer Temple J of Silas Fife Marlborousrh Daniel Cutting It wotild seem that np to 1780, the town had spent l)tit little in payino- bounties to soldiers, and that those who had enlisted, had done so more from a sense of dutv REVOLUTIONAKY HISTORY. 97 and love of countrv than for the sake of obtaining a bounty. But after that time the extreme seareity of hard money rendered it diffieult to proeure men for the serviee. In 1775, Congress had issued bills of credit to the amount of two millions of dollars. This was soon fol- lowed by another of one million. The confederated colo- nies were pledged for their redemption, each to provide means to pay its proportion by the year 1779. Twenty millions were issued in eighteen months, when they began to depreciate in value. At first the depreciation was slight, but they continued to lose in value daily. Congress, desirous of arresting the growing depreciation, resorted to loans and taxes, but it was difiicult to negotiate for the loans, and the taxes could not always be collected. Pressed with the necessities of an army. Congress was obliged to continue to issue bills after they had begun to depreciate, and to pay that depreciation by increasing the sums emitted ; so that in fifteen years, the amount in circulation was about two hundred millions. The progress of this diminution is worthy of notice. At the close of the year 1777, the depreciation was two or three for one; in 1778, five or six for one; in 1779, twenty-seven or twenty-eight for one; in 1780, fifty or sixty for one in the first five months. After this date the circulation of these bills was limited ; but when they passed they soon depreciated to one hundred and fifty for one, and finally several htmdred for one. Several causes contributed to diminish the value of the Continental cur- rency. The excess in quantity at first caused a natural decline in value, which was increased by the enemy who counterfeited the bills and s])read the forgeries through the States. These causes, cooperating with the decline of pub- lic confidence, rai)idly increjised the decline, until bills of credit, or what was commonly called "Continental mone_v," 98 IIISroRY OF 7^ ROY. became of little value. The evils resulting from this sys- tem were immense. From this fact it became extremely difficult to raise an army and provide for its subsistence. At the same time it originated discontent among the offi- cers and soldiers, since their pay in this depreciated cur- rency was inadecpiate to the support of their families. "Four months' jjay of a private would not procure his family a single bushel of wheat, and the pay of a colonel would not ])urchase oats for his horse." After the Declaration of Independence in July, 1776, it was determined to maintain the same at all hazards, and a new militia system became necessary, and in the Septem- 1)er following, an act was passed by the Legislature for forming and regulating the militia within the State of New Hampshire in New England. This provided for two classes of soldiers — a Training Band and an Alarm List. The entire male population, negroes, Indians, and a few of the highest civil and judicial officers excepted, between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five, were to be enrolled. The Training Band included all males between the ages of sixteen and fifty, with the exceptions noted above; and each of these men was recpiired to furnish himself with the following articles, and keep the same at all times ready for use — viz: A good firearm, good ramrod, a worm, priming wire and brush, a bayonet fitted to his gun, a scabbard and belt therefor, and a cutting sword, or a tomahawk or hatchet, a pouch containing a cartridge box that will hold fifteen rounds of cartridges at least, a hun- dred buckshot, a jackknife and to\v for wadding, six flints, one pound of ])owder, forty leaden bullets fitted to his gun. a knapsack, and a blanket, a canteen or wooden bottle sufficient to hold one (piart. Each town was to l)rovide and deposit in some safe place for use in case of an alarm, a specified number of spades or shovels, axes REVOLVTIONARY HISTORV. 99 and jjicks, and to provide arms and equipments for those unable to provide for themselves ; and parents, masters or guardians were to provide for those under their eare. Each company was to muster eight times a year, including the regimental musters. The Alarm List or Minute Men included all males loe- tween sixteen and sixty-five, not included in the Training Band, and who were not exempted 133' this act. The Alarm was to be given by firing three guns, one after the other; by firing the beacon, or the drums beating the alarm. The ofiicers and soldiers, in case of being called forth for an emergency, ^vere each to furnish himself with at least three da^'^s' provisions, and the selectmen of their towns were immediately to cause carriages to attend them, with further necessary provisions, and utensils to cook the same. Military watches, or guards, were to be appointed by the commissioned oflicers of each town, or b^' the com- manding officers, in such numbers and at such times and places as were designated; and all persons in the Training Band or Alarm List, under sixty years of age, \vere required to do watch duty. Penalties were attached for disobedience or neglect, and all fines were to be paid to the selectmen or treasurers of the towns in which the delinquents had their residence. This act continued in operation during the most critical part of the war. Troops were raised by voluntary enlist- ments ; but when these did not furnish the cpiotas, the Coimcil and House of Representatives, or Committee of Safety, ordered a specific number of men to be raised in each regiment. This number was apportioned among the several companies of the regiment, and the companies being paraded, the draft was made under the direction of their commanding officers. 100 IIISTOh'V OF TROY. A census of the inhabitants of FitzwilHam made in 1773, showed the following results : Unmarried men between 16 and 60, .... IS Married men between 16 and 60, 44 Males under 16, 55 Total males 117 Females, married 44 Females, unmarried 53 Total females 97 97 Total po]julation 214 The returns from Marlborough ^vere as follows: Unmarried men from 16 to 60 ^-ears of age, . 9 Married men from 16 to 60 years of age, . . 16 Boys of 16 years and under, 25 Men 60 years and above, 1 Females, unmarried - 26 Females, married 16 Slaves, 93 CHAPTER VI. INCORPORATION OF THE TOWN. THE PEOTLE DESIRE A NEW TOWN. — REASONS FOR THE SEPARATION. — THEV PETITION TO HE VOTED OFF. — THEIR REOUEST DENIED. — A MEETING HOUSE ni'ILT. — SUBJECT DROUGHT BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE. — ENCOUN- TERS OPPOSITION. — COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGATION APPOINTED. — HEAR- ING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE. — A CHARTER OBTAINED AND THE TOWN ORGANIZED. The history thus far given has been mostly limited to portions of the territory of Fitzwilliam, Marlborough, Richmond and Swanzey, for Troy, up to this time, had no political existence. But in 1815, these portions of terri- tory, with the inhabitants thereon, were by legislativ^e enactment incorporated into a separate town. It will be necessary to go back several years for a full understand- ing of the matter and notice some of the reasons which made the separation desirable on the part of the people, and the means employed to bring it about. The surface of the territory being so uneven and hilly, and the hills extending in such directions, rendered it in- convenient lor the inhabitants of some parts of it to reach the center of their respective towns. At this time, also, the village had attained a considerable size, and had become a place of considerable business, so that it com- manded the most of the trade within a radius of two or three miles. The people, having become accustomed to do much of their private business here, very naturally con- cluded that it would be for their convenience to transact their public business here also. Then again, the village, having been Iniilt up on the l)()rder of t^vo towns, was 102 IlfSrORY OF TROY. under a divided jurisdiction, and this being the case, the inhal)itants felt that their interests, to a certain extent, were divided, which was neither pleasant nor conducive to the i)r()S])erity oi" the place. These were the main rea- sons urged lor an act of incorporation. The first knowledge we have that the inhabitants of this territory desired a new town was in 1781. In a warrant posted for a town meeting at Marlborough, Feb. (), 17eaceably submit to ye holy Discipline appointed by Christ in his Clih. for offenders, obeying them that rule over us in the Lord. "(7.) We Bind also ourselves to walk in Love toward one another. Endeavoring our mutual Edification; Visiting, Exhorting, Comforting as occasion serveth ; Warning any Brother or Sister that offends ; not Divulging anv Private offences unnecessarilv ; But Heedfullv following ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 119 the several precepts of Christ laid down lor Chh. Dealini;, Matt, xviii: 15, 16, 17, willinj^ly fors^iviiig all that manifest to ye Judgment of Charity that they trnh^ Repent of all their miscarriages. "Now ye God of Peace, that Brought again from ye Dead, ye Lord Jesus Christ, ye great Shepherd of ye Sheep, through ye Blood of ye ever- lasting Covenant, make us all perfect in ever3' good work to Do his will, working in us that which is well ])leasing in his sight, thro' Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever, Amen. "Benjamin Brigham, Pastor elect. " Benjamin Bigelow. "John Fassett. "Nathaniel Wilder. "Caleb Winch. "James Reed. "N. B. As to Discipline, this Chh. is founded upon ye Cambridge Platform, as it is commonly Received and Practised upon in ye New England Churches." This covenant was signed b\' five men in addition to tlie pastor elect, and of the church thus constituted l)ut one member, Calel) Winch, was a resident of what is now Troy. Ten churches, with their pastors, were invited to com- pose the council, but of these only Marlborough, West- borough, Royalston, and Winchendon, Mass., and Keene and Swanze\^ appear to have been represented. The answer of Mr. Brigham to the call he received, was probably characteristic of the man and was consid- ered of sufficient importance to be jjlaced in full upon the proprietors' records, and was as follows: Monadiu)ck No. 4, January 2i), 1771. To the Proprietors and Congregating Society of Monadnock No. 4, in the Province of New Hampshire. (iracc. Mere}' and Peace be midtiplied from (jod our Father and the Loril Jesus Christ. Brethren and Friends. The great God who is Sovereign of universal nature and orders ail things according to the Counsels of his own will, for his own honor and glory and the iiest interests of all who love and fear and obev him, has, 120 HISTORY OF TROY. in his all wise providence, brought me among you to preach the Gospel of his Son Chi'ist Jesus, and also inclined you to make choice of me who am very unworth3- of the honor, to settle among you in the work of the Gospel Ministry. You have laid before me vour proposals, bearing date Nov. the 7th 1770 and January the 29th 1771, which offers I view as generous considering the infancy of the town and circumstances ot this people; and cannot forbear returning you my sincere and hearty thanks for the great respect you have shown me thereby. I have taken VDur invitation into serious and prayerful consideration, and when I reflect how great and arduous the work of a Gospel Minister is, how much grace and wisdom is necessary and how very iinequal 1 am to such an under taking, it makes me to trend^le and to say with the blessed Apostle, "Who is suflicient for these things!" Nevertheless when I consider the sufficiency of God's grace he affords to all thcni that sincerely ask it of him and the promise of Christ that he will l)e witli his Ministers always to the end of this world, and the uncommon unanimit}' of the people in the choice of me for your I'astor it supports nic and I take courage. 1 do therefore, viewing it my duty, and having taken the advice of my fathers and brethren in the Ministry, with dependence, upon grace and strength derived from Christ, the Head of all influences, accept of your invitations and offers, with this reserve that I have two Sabbaths annuallv allowed me during the time of my ministry', that I may have op])ortunity to visit my parents and friends. 1 further entreat that you would remember me daily in your prayers to God, though an unworthy, yet that I may be a faithful Servant and watchman upon this part of Jerusalem's walls, instrumental of advanc- ing the Redeemer's Kingdom in the world and of jiromoting religion, ])ietv, and true Godliness among you, that finally I, who sow and you who reap, may rejoice together in the kingdom of glorv forever and ever. Benjamin Bkigham. Mr. Brighara continued pastor for nearly twenty-nine years, or until his death, which occurred June 13, 1799. His salary was paid according to contract for twenty- seven years, wdien by mutual agreement, it was assumed by the town. Dtiring the ministry of Mr. Brigham there were ad- mitted to the church two hundred and eighty-five members, i ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 121 one hundred and thirty-one males and one hundred and fifty-four females. No doubt many of these were resi- dents of what is now Troy. The following tribute to him is from the records of the church: "He was a good Divine, an able and faithful Pastor, the friend of peace, truth and righteousness. While he lived he was greatly esteemed and beloved by his people and all his acquaintances, and at his death he was greatly lamented." After the death of A'Ir. Brigham there was no pastor of the church until 1802, services being held by candidates or supplies. In June of this year, the church extended a call to Mr. Stephen Williams of Woodstock, Conn., to be- come their pastor, and requested the concurrence of the town in this action. The town voted to comply with this request, and offered Mr. Williams a settlement of three hundred and thirty-four dollars, and an annual salary of three hundred dollars, without the use of the ministerial lot. But unfavorable reports respecting the character and habits of the candidate were put in circulation about that time, and the town took the precaution to vote that if he should become their pastor upon the proposed terms, and within six years should be dismissed because of charges affecting his morals, he should bind himself to restore to the town three-fourths of the amount of his settlement, and a less proportion, or one-half of the same, if, for the same reason, his ministry should close in twelve years, and one-fourth of the same, if within eighteen years. These conditions proved unsatisfactory to Mr. Williams, and a compromise was effected, the settlement of three hundred and thirty-four dollars to be relinquished, and the town adding one hundred dollars to the amoimt of his stipulated salary, making the amount four hundred dol- lars annuallv. 122 HISTORY OF TROY. He was ordained Nov. 4th, 1800, the council reporting that after a careful examination, in which particular atten- tion was paid not only to the religious qualifications, but also the moral character of the candidate, and were happy to find that he possessed an unusually amiable moral character, which had continued from his early youth, and which they did not consider in the least blemished by some injurious reports which Mr. Williams himself candidly came before the council and informed them of; but which upon a full investigation of the evidence appeared to have been originated and industriously propagated with a wicked and malicious design to injure him and to disturb the happy unanimity of the people. The churches represented in the ordination were those in Royalston, Longmeadow and At hoi, Mass., of Wood- stock, Conn., and of Rindge, Keene, Jafifrey and Marl- borough, N. H. Mr. Williams is represented to have been a man of edu- cation, a fluent, pleasing speaker, and of sound doctrinal belief, according to the standard of the times ; but, unhap- pily, he was very penurious, and became so fond of intoxi- cating drinks that he would drink to excess when others stood ready to pay the bill. His bibulous habits soon caused disaffection, and in less than two years the church, the town, and Mr. Williams himself, united in calling a council for his dismission, and proposing to ask for this without setting forth the reasons. This council met Sept. 28, 1802, and declined to comply with the wishes of the parties concerned unless the reasons for the dismission were given, and advised the calling of another council, to v^hich the whole matter should be submitted, which was agreed to. The council met Nov. 19, 1802, and Mr. Wil- liams was dismissed, thus terminating a serious difficulty; blit some of the people, who were the especial friends of ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 123 Mr. Williams, were aggrieved, and did not give a ready welcome to his successor. August 20, 1804, a call was extended to Mr. John Sabin of Pomfret, Conn., and offering as a settlement one hundred and fifty dollars, and an annual salary of three hundred and fift}' dollars, which was accepted. A council was called for his ordination in January, 1805, but before it assembled, a protest against his acceptance of the call and ordination as pastor was presented to Mr. Sabin, signed b}' twenty-one male members of the church, who were chiefly warm personal friends of the late pastor, Mr. Williams. The council assembled and patiently attended and examined all the evidence that was offered, Avith the result that it was decided that the interests of religion, the peace of the town, and the usefulness of Mr. Sabin would not be promoted by his settlement. The ground taken was the want of harmony in the church and town respecting him, and because the candidate had, it was thought, as charged by those opposed to hiin, given occasion for dis- satisfaction by being somewhat non-committal in his probationary preaching touching some of the generally received doctrines of religion. Several days later, thirty male members of the church signed a request for a church meeting to consider and act upon this result, which was held February 14th, 1805, when it was declared that the call given Mr. Sabin remained good, and making provision for another cf)uncil, adopting a long and particular answer to the action of the former council ; but it did little or nothing toward silencing the opposition. The town joined in the request for the second council, which was held March 5th, at which eight churches were I represented, all but one being in Massachusetts. All the 124 HISTORY OF TROY. proceedings of the former council were carefully considered, as well as the new and carefully prepared protest of the twenty-one members of the church and some others, when a committee of the council was raised to confer with both parties and bring about a reconciliation, if possible. The interview proved successful, as the final vote of the council ^vas unanimous, and Mr. Sabin was ordained as a minister and installed as pastor in Fitzwilliam the following day. The circumstances of his settlement quite naturally affected unpleasantly his relations to the neighboring pastors for a time, but after awhile they exchanged pulpits freely with him, and deemed him a faithful and conscientious minister. Rev. Mr. Sabin was born in Pom- fret, Conn., April 17, 1770, and graduated from lirown University in 1797, at the age of twenty-seven years, and was nearly thirty-five years old at the time of his ordina- tion. He continued pastor of the church for nearly forty- one years, or until his death, which occurred October 14, 1845. The pastorate of Mr. Sabin covered a very important and at times exciting period of the history of the town. The meeting house was not large enough for the com- fort and convenience of the congregation, and before the ordination of Mr. Sabin, the matter of erecting a new edi- fice was brought before the town, but it was voted down, and although it was brought up again and again in suc- ceeding years it was always voted down. The location of the new house seemed to be the difficult point to settle, as there were several localities proposed, which caused many warm and protracted disputes, and which was finally settled by the compromise effected between those who lived in this part of the town, who desired the organiza- tion of a new town, and those who were in favor of locating the house where the present FitzAvilliam town ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 125 hall now stands, whose united forces carried both meas- ures at the polls by a large majority. One condition of the charter granted by the Masonian proprietors to the proprietors of Monadnock No. 5, now Marlborough, required the grantees to build a convenient meeting house in the township within ten years from its date, provided they were not prevented by Indian wars. A proprietors' meeting was held January, 1770, when it was voted to build a meeting house, and a building committee of six persons chosen, and a subscription paper circulated for the purpose of raising funds to aid in build- ing the house. There was no difficulty in selecting a loca- tion, which \vas on a spot nearest the center of the town. The frame of the meeting house was put up by Stephen Church, some time previous to Nov. 21, 1770, at which time a meeting was held at the house of Benjamin Tucker, when it was voted to accept of certain accounts for ser- vices done about the meeting house, among them being one of Benjamin Tucker for eight gallons of rum, at three shillings, two pence, and tvv^o farthings per gallon, for the raising of the meeting house. In those days it was customary on all occasions like these to have at least one barrel of rum, which undoubt- edly was provided on this occasion ; but the demand for this indispensable article was so great that this quantity was not sufficient, and Benjamin Tucker, being chairman of the building committee, procured the additional eight gallons, for which he brought in a separate account. The house was not finished completely for nearly fifteen 3'ears, although services were held during the following year when the roof only was covered in. At this time it was voted "to Lay a tax of one farthing on an acre for to hire preaching with." In 1774, provision was made to board the outside, by a tax of one 126 HISTORY OF TROY. and one-half pence per acre. At a meeting in January, 1779, it was "Voted to finish Cleapboording the meeting house and colour it, to hang the Doors to Lay the Lower floor and build the body seats and Git one Box of Glass to Glaize it in part." To meet this expense, a tax of eight pence per acre was assessed. In 1785, the proprietors gave up all claim to the meeting house and it passed into the hands of the town, and in order to get money to finish the building, pe\v grounds were sold at auction at different times. In 1774, the desire to settle a minister seems to have increased, for it was voted to " Chuse a Committee to provide a minister on Probation, in order for a Settlement." It appears that the several committees chosen were not successful in hiring preaching, and for several years services were irregular. But about 1777, the people became more earnest about this matter and several meetings were held. About this time the Rev. Joseph Cummings, a native of Topsfield, Mass., came among them and preached several Sabbaths as a candidate, when a town meeting was cialled August 6, 1778, at which it was voted "to come into some method of Settling a minister in said Town." It was voted to give Mr. Cummings a call to settle with them as a preacher, and a committee was chosen, consisting of Lieut. Benjamin Tucker, Capt. James Lewis, Lieut. Eliphalet Stone, Lieut. James Brewer, and Mr. Samuel Soper, who were to propose a method of settle- ment, and whose proposals were accepted, which were as follows : STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Cheshire ss August ^-e 6, 1778, att a Legal meeting of the Town of niarlborough the sixth Da^v of Avigust inst, made Choise of Mr. Richard Atwell moderator for sd meeting, Voted to give the Rev. mr, Joseph ECCLESIASTICAL mSTORY. 127 Ctimmings of Sea Brook a call to settle in sd marlborough as a gospel minister, Voted b^^ said Town to make the Rev. mr Cunimings the fol- lowing ijroposals for a settlement, to take one share of Land in said marlborough Containing By Estimation one hundred and fifty acres, one hundred acre Lots the Lot on which the meeting house stands on Which we Desire to reserve four acres Round the meeting house For j)ublick use, Voted to Clear Eighteen acres on said Lot Leaving ten trees on each acre in addition to what is already Cleared on said Lot in two Acars, From ordination one half yearly, Voted that the Revd mr Cummings Shall have Liberty to go onto the ministry Land in said town Cut any quantity of timber of an3^ sort that shall Be Necessary for his own Buildings. For his salery to have For the first year Forty pounds, for the Second year Fortv-five pounds, for the third year fifty jjounds and to Continue Fifty pounds yearly, until there becomes one hundred and ten families in said Town then to have Sixt3'-Six pounds thirteen shillings and fore pence yearly so Long as he shall Remain our gospel minister all the above sums to be made equevelent to Ry at three Shillings and fore pence pr Bushel. Lieut. Benja Tucker Lieut. Joseph Collins Mr. Daniel Goodenow Mr. William Barker Lieut. James Brewer David Wheeler, Town Clerk. Committee in behalf of Marlborough. Mr. Cummings returned the following answer under the date of October 12, 1778: To the Inhabitants of the Town of Marlborough. P>iends and Fel- low Christians, — Whereas, it has pleased the great head of the Church to incline your hearts to settle the gospel ministr\^ among you and disposed you to give me (unworthy as I am) an invitation to the im- portant work; after mature deliberation and many anxious thoughts upon a matter of so great moment; having been importunate with God for direction and asked advice of men — I conclude to accept your invitation (provided you will allow me two or three Sabbaths yearly during my ministry to visit my friends as thev live at a distance.) Humbly confiding in Divine goodness for assistance faithfully to discharge the duty of a gosjiel minister, and begging your earnest prayers that a blessing may attend mv ministerial labors. 128 HISTORY OF TROY. Heartily wishing that grace, merc^- and peace may be the stabiHty of otir times — 1 sul)seril)e your affectionate Friend and Servant. Joseph Ci'mmings. Mr. Ciimmings was ordained Nov. 11, 1778, at which time a Congregational church was formed, consisting of eight members. The salary of Mr. Cummings was $133.33, which was soon rendered wholly inadequate by the depreciation of the pa])er money, which began in 1777 and w^ent on so rapidly that in about four years it became nearly worth- less. In 1780, it was voted that his salary be increased forty times, and a few months later it was voted to make it seventy-two for one. Soon after this, difficulties arose between the church and Mr. Cummings, the people charg- ing him with unfaithfulness and the pastor denoimcing the people for not fulfilling their contract in clearing land, and also charging them with unkindness. A council was con- vened Dec. 26, 1780, to take the matter into considera- tion, and as a result of their deliberations, it was voted that the pastoral relations between Mr. Cummings and the church be dissolved, which w^as accepted by the town and all the ])arties concerned. The difficulties growing out of his dismission did not end at that time, but continued for a long time, and for nearly thirteen years there was no settled pastor, and preaching only a part of the time. Mr. Halloway Fish was ordained pastor of the church, Sept. 25, 1793, with a settlement of one hundred and seventy poimds, and an annual salary of seventy pounds. Mr. Fish was a native of Upton, Mass., and a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1790. He was pastor of the church nearly thirty-one years, and during his ministry the church increased greatly in membership. Mr. Fish died Sept. 1, 1824, at the age of sixty-two years and one month. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 129 During the pastorates of the Rev. Messrs. Sabin of Fitzwilliam and Fish of Marlborough, the town of Troy was incorporated. Sept. 14, 1815, at the request of sev- eral residents of the new town, an Ecclesiastical Council was convened, consisting of Rev. Halloway Fish of Marl- borough, Rev. John Sabin of Fitzwilliam, and Rev. Ezekiel Rich, an evangelist, to assist in organizing a Congrega- tional church. The following agreement of fellov^ship w^as subscribed to by ten men and their wives. We do now, before God and these witnesses, severally and niiitnall3' covenant and engage to receive and trust each other as Christian breth- ren and sisters ; to watch over each other with Christian tenderness and fidelity ; to use our best endeavors to reclaim an\' of our number who ma^^ wander from the path of truth and duty ; and that we will use the best means in our power to have the ordinances of the Gospel, and the faithful preaching of the Lord, regularly administered among us, and in testimony of our cordial assent to the above, we hereb}^ subscribe our names. Caleb Winch and Esther Winch. Silas Fife and Abigail Fife. David Saunders and Molly Saunders. Cyrus Fairbanks and Mercy Fiiirbanks. Joshua Harrington and Elizabeth Harrington. Jacob Osborn and Sibel Osborn. Joseph Butler and Pervey Butler. William Barnard and Bathsheba Barnard. Caleb Winch and Lucj' Winch. Joseph Tilden and Salonia Tilden. Articles of faith and a covenant were also adopted and assented to. A meeting of the church was held Sept. 15, 1815, when it was voted to extend an invitation to Rev. Ezekiel Rich to become their pastor, and appointed a com- mittee, consisting of Silas Fife, Jacob Osborn, and Joshua Harrington, to notify the town of the doings of the church and ask the town's concurrence and assistance in his set- tlement, and also to notify Mr. Rich of their choice. The 17 130 HISTORY OF TROY. town concurred, and Mr. Rich accepted the call, and prep- arations were made for calling a council for his ordina- tion. Letters missive were sent to eleven churches, viz : Fitzwilliam, Rindge, Jaffrey, Marlborough, Swanzey, Keene, Sullivan and New Ipswich in New Hampshire, and North- bridge, Athol and Harvard in Massachusetts. The coun- cil met December 19, at the house of Capt. D. W. Farrar, and formed by choosing Rev. Seth Payson, D. D., of Rindge, moderator, and Rev. John Sabin of Fitzwilliam, scribe. After a due examination of Mr. Rich, the council voted unanimoush' to proceed to his installation as pastor over the church the next day, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. The introductory prayer was made by Rev. William Muzzy of Sullivan, and Rev. John Crane, D. D., of North- bridge, Mass., preached the sermon; the installing prayer was offered by Rev. Laban Ainsworth of Jafifrey, Rev. Seth Payson of Rindge gave the charge, and Rev. Warren Joy of Harvard, Mass., the right hand of fellowship, and the concluding prayer -was made by Rev. Richard Hall of New Ipswach. The town voted to pay him eight dollars for each Sabbath he supplied the pulpit from the time of his installation until the first Tuesday of the next February, Avhich should be paid monthl_v, and four hundred dollars as an annual salary after that time, so long as the pas- toral relation existed between him and the town, with an additional sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to be paid February, 1816, and one hundred and fifty dollars more in one year. Should he become unable to supply the pul- pit, one-half the salar^^, or two hundred dollars was to be paid him annuall^^ After a time a number of the residents of the toAvn who contributed to the support of the minister became dissatisfied with Mr. Rich and asked to be exemj^ted from paying a minister tax, and that the connection between ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 131 hitn and the town be dissolved, giving as the reason for such action, that he was devoting most of his time to his own private enterprises for the accumulation of property, and for preaching doctrines which he had previously denied. This the town voted to do, and Mr. Rich united \vith the church in asking that a council be called for his dismission. This was composed of the churches in Fitz- william, Marlborough, and Rindge, who assembled at the house of Joshua Harrington, and after careful deliberation found it expedient that his pastoral duties should termi- nate July 18, 1818. No evidence appeared that he had forfeited his Christian or ministerial character, and in their opinion he had been a faithful minister and had discharged the duties that might reasonably have been expected of him at his settlement. Mr. Rich continued his residence in town, on the farm now owned by E. P. Kimball, until about 184-5. He occasionally supplied the pulpit after his dismission, and also peiTormed some missionary labor in this and other states. He died at Deep River, Conn. November, 1819, a religious society was formed by the name of the First Congregational Society of Troy, which was a party with the church in supplying the pulpit till 1824, when a new constitution was adopted — the society taking the name of the Congregational Society of Troy. The last meeting of the society was recorded in 1846. There was no regular preaching from this time until 1820, when Rev. Seth E. Winslow was employed as a stated supply for three years. Rev. Otis C. Whiton sup- plied the pulpit from September, 1824, until December, 1827. He was invited to become pastor, but for some reason declined. After he closed his labors in Troy, he preached in different places till April 18, 1841, when he began to preach at Harris ville, and was installed Aug. 11, 1842, and remained pastor till his decease, Oct. 17, 1845, 132 HISTORY OF TROY. at the age of fifty-one years. After Mr. Whiton, Rev. Messrs. Peabody, Pitman, and Erwin, were employed for short periods to supply the pulpit. Rev. Stephen Morse, a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1821, was installed as second pastor of the church, Aug. 26, 1829. The following churches w^ere represented in the council, either by pastor or delegate, or both, viz: Jaffrey, Fitzwilliam, Keene first church, Swanzey, and Marlborough. The Rev. Mr. Burnham made the intro- ductory prayer and Rev. Mr. Barstow of Keene preached the sermon ; the installing prayer was made by Rev. Laban Ainsworth of Jaffrey, Rev. John Sabin of Fitzwnlliam gave the charge. Rev. Salmon Bennett of Marlborough pre- sented the right hand of fellowship. Rev. Ebenezer Coleman of Swanzey addressed the people and Rev. Mr. Sabin offered the concluding prayer. Mr. Morse was pastor until Jan. 31, 1833, and although his ministry was short, it was successful, there being some thirty additions to the church during that time, nineteen joining by profession on one occasion. For some reason there was some falling off in the support of Mr. Morse, and it became necessary for his dismission. There were some in town who were in favor of preach- ing certain doctrines which the church did not support, and could not sanction as hearers, which undoubtedly caused some dissension among the people. These parties were opposed to what was called at that day rigid Cal- vinisiu, and were in favor of greater liberality in covenantal belief, and in the matter of ministerial exchanges. As the meeting house was desired and occupied a portion of the time by others, the church negotiated supplies for a time, and when they could not have the meeting house, worshipped at private dwellings or the center school- house. Among the supplies may be mentioned the Rev. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 133 Messrs. Ainsworth, Crosby, Farnsworth, Spaulding and Holm an. When the formation of the new town was first desired, it was thought neeessary as a preparatory act that a meeting- house should be built, and accordingly at a meet- ing of the citizens held during the summer of 1812, a com- mittee was chosen for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements for the building of a meeting house, which consisted of Capt. Isaac Fuller, George Farrar, Sen., Daniel W. Farrar, Daniel Cutting and David White. At a meet- iug of the citizens in 1813, the committee made a report of their proceedings, and it was voted that they should draw a plan of a house they had examined in Templeton, Mass., and sell what pews they could to raise money to pay the expense of building. The committee did not succeed according to their expectations and for a time it seemed they would be obliged to abandon the enterprise, when through the liberality of Elnathan Gorham, who had just moved into the village, who bought pews and rendered such pectmiary aid, the committee ^vere enabled to place the building under contract. The timber for the frame was furnished by the citizens, and hewn according to the dimensions furnished by the committee ; the framing and outside finishing were let for five hundred and fifty dollars, to a man from Sullivan ; the inside finishing w^as let to Samuel Morse of Templeton, for six hundred dollars. The contractors pushed the work" forward with all possible speed, and the frame was raised in June, 1814. The raising was attended v^ith a circumstance that came near proving disastrous. Just as the frame was partially raised and the effort of every man was required to sustain and complete the work, an alarm was given that a boy had fallen into the mill-pond and was drowned. Quick as thought, a large number rushed to the ^vater, leaving their 134 HISTORY OF TROY. companions in labor in a most perilous position. For a little time a few only, thoughtful and brave men, stood at their posts, though they were almost led to tremble lest the weight they had to sustain should prove too much for their strength, and they should be crushed beneath the falling timbers. Fortunately, however, no harm ensued, and the drow^ning boy, who was Aaron, son of Hugh Mason, bj^ great effort was saved. The house was dedicated early the following winter, and the sermon w^as preached b3' Rev. John Sabin of Fitzwilliam. The Rev. Messrs. Ainsworth of Jaffrey, Pay- son of Rindge, Fish of Marlborough and Brown of Swanzey, took part in the exercises. This house was situated upon what is now the north common, and faced the east. It is presumed that the interior arrangement \vas similar to the style then in vogue, being furnished in the central or body part with long slips or seats, while square pews were arranged next to the walls, both below and in the galleries. The house w^as painted on the outside at least, for we find that the town accepted the offer of Daniel W. Farrar to paint it for the unsold pews and two hundred dollars in money. In January, 1816, the proprietors relinquished to the town all their interest in the meeting house, except the pews w^liich had been sold to individuals. The deed Avas as follows : Know All Men by These Presents: That we Isaac Fuller, George Farrar, Daniel W. Farrar, Daniel Cutting and David White of Troy, in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, in consideration of the sum of twenty- dollars paid by the said town of Tro3% the receipt whereof we do hereby acknow^ledge, have remised, released, and forever quitclaimed, and do by these presents remit, release, and forever quit- claim unto the said town of Troy, a certain house lateh- built in said town of Tro}' for public worship, and for a public meeting house, ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 135 situated near the former town line ])et\veen Fitzwilliani and Marlbor- ough, excepting the pews which hcive been sold and £ire the i)ro])crty of individuals as follows, viz: BODY PKWS. Niitiiber. Owner's Name. 18. David White. 19. Henry Tolman. Niiniber. Owner's Name. 1. Joshua Harrington. 2. Daniel W. Farrar. 3. Elnathan Gorham. 4. Daniel Farrar. 5. Elijah Fuller. 7. William Barnard. 8. Caleb Winch. 9. Isaac Fuller. 10. Silas Fife. 11. Samuel Star key. 12. John Lawrence. 13. Daniel W. Farrar. 14. Ebenezer Wright. 15. Jacob Osborn. 16. John Starkey. 17. Samuel Rockwood. 35. George Farrar. 36. Thomas French. 37. Caleb Perry. 88. Daniel W. Farrar. 39. Josiah Lawrence. 40. Peletiah Hodgkins. 41. Easman Alexander. 42. Solomon Alexander. 24. 26. 27. 20. James Godfrey'. 21. Silas Wheeler. 22. Daniel Cutting. 23. Samuel Farrar. Luke Harris. Asa Brewer. Salmon Whittemore. A. Coohdge & L. Ward. 28. H. Jackson & T. Godding 29. Jacob Daggett. 30. Sylvester P. Flint. 31. Daniel W. Farrar. 32. Zopher Whitcomb. WALL PEWS. 43. Talmon Knights. 44. William Farrar. 45. Samuel Morse. 46. Joseph Haskell. 47. Nathan Winch. 48. Joseph Forristall. 49. Edmund Bemis. 50. Ebenezer Nurse. 1. D^miel W. Farrar. 2. Nathan Newell. 3. Joshua Harrington, Jr 4. Thomas French. 5. Joseph Cutting. 6. Stephen Farrar. 7. Aaron Holt. 8. Moses Aldrich. GALLKKV PEWS. 17. Daniel W. Farrjir. 18. Josejih Butler. 19. Joseph Wheeler. 20. Daniel W. Farrar. 21. Joseph Alexander. 22. Daniel Lawrence, Jr. 23. Daniel W. Farrar. 24. Daniel W. Farrar. 136 HISTORY OF TROY. 9. Daniel W. Farrar. 25. Daniel W. Farrar. 10. Daniel W. Farrar. 26. Daniel W. Farrar. 11. Daniel W. Farrar. 27. Daniel W. Farrar. 12. Daniel W. Farrar. 28. Daniel W. Farrar. 13. Levi Starkey. 29. Daniel W. Farrar. 14. Daniel W. Farrar. 30. Daniel W. Farrar. 15. Daniel W. Farrar. 31. Daniel W. Farrar. 16. Daniel W. Farrar. 32. William Lawrence. To have and to hold the same together with all the privileges and api)nrtenances thereunto belonging to the said town of Tro\' forever. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this thirty-first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixteen. In ijresence of us, Isaac Fuller. [L. S.] William Barnard. George Farrar. [L. S.] Sylvester P. Flint. Daniel W. Farrar. [L. S.] Abraham Coolidge. Daniel Cutting. [L. S.] Caleb Perry. David White. [L. S.] A new religious society was formed Dec. 16, 1833, by the name of the Trinitarian Congregational Society of Troy, composed mostly of the members of the church, and a new constitution adopted. The question of a new house of worship for the use of the society soon became a prominent factor, and at a society meeting held Nov. 12, 1834, it was voted to build a new meeting house, and a building committee chosen, consisting of Abel Baker, Solomon Goddard, Charles W. Whitney, Alpheus Crosby, Amos Sibley, Luke Harris, and Moses S. Perkins, who were authorized to obtain a suit- able lot, and make contracts for building, leaving it dis- cretionary with them to build with brick or wood. It was afterward voted that the house should be fifty-six feet long by forty-four wide, with a vestry under the roof. The land was contributed by Daniel W. Farrar, and it is presumed that operations were commenced the follow- ing spring, and the house completed early in the fall, for September 26th, the society voted to accept the report of Rev. Daniel Goophite. Kev. Levi Brigham. ^t^ 4^ Rev. James Marshall. Rev. David W. Goodale. Rev. Josiah Merrill. Rev. Wm. p. Clancy. Rev. Dighton Moses. conCtKkctATional ministers. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 137 the building committee as to the expense of the house, which was $1,994-. The basement of the meeting house was built of gran- ite, by Alpheus Crosby, at his expense, and was fitted up and used as one or two tenements until 1871, when it was purchased by the society, together with some of the adjoining land, of the owner, William A. Harris, and made over into a vestrv for the use of the church. CoNdREOATIONAL ClHKCl The choice of pews was given Daniel W. Farrar, as compensation for the land upon which the house stands, wdiich is the present Congregational church. The society received in 1872, a legacy from the estate of Mrs. Sophronia W. Jones, through which her residence liccame the property of the society for a parsonage, which was used and occupied as such until 1893, when the prop- erty was sold to Herbert A. Marshall, and a lot purchased of George N. Parmenter, on the Jafifrey road, u])on w^hich a new^ parsonage was built during the fall of 1893. A call was extended to Rev. Jeremiah Pomeroy, a grad- uate of Amherst College and Auburn Theological Seminary, 138 HISTOKY OF TROY. to become the first ])astor of the Trinitarian vSociety, and the third of the church, at a salary of four hundred dollars. He was installed Jan. 6, 1836, the introductory prayer being given by Rev. Giles Lyman of Jaffrey; Rev. L. P. Bates of Templeton, Mass., preached the sermon, the installing prayer was by Rev. Vinson Gould of Bernards- ton, Mass., charge by Rev. S. G. Clapp of Enfield, Mass., the right hand of fellowship was by Rev. Moses I. Gros- venor of Marlborough, the charge to the people by Rev. Z. S. Barstow of Keene, and the concluding prayer b}^ CONfiKEGATIONAL PARSONAGE. Rev. Mr. Sal)in of Fitzwilliani. There were several seasons of unusual interest during his ministry which continued until Feb. 27, 1844-, Avhen he was dismissed. He went to Harrisville, on leaving Troy, where he labored successfully for four yeiirs, when he went to Massachusetts. Rev. Luther Townsend was ordained and installed pas- tt)r, March 5, 184-5. He was a native of Fitzwilliam, and was born Aug. 12, 1813. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1839, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 184-2. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 139 Mr. Townsend was pastor for fifteen years, being dis- missed May 22, 1860, after which he returned to F'itzwil- hani in feeble health, where he died of consumption, Feb. 9, 1ecease. Age. 1S37. May 4. 77 1835. May 15. 75 1841. June 19. 22 1839. Oct. 24. 22 1825. Apr. 29. 3 1838. J"iy 31. 45 184-1. Mar. 2. 41 1838. Mar 27. 13 1858. Nov. 6. 64 184-3. Oct. 10. 1858. Sept 17. 63 1853. Oct. 24. 8 m. 1835. Jan. 13. 63 184-1. Sept 24. 38 1838. May 7. 34 1834. Sept 2. 63 1853. Feb. 12. 21 1856. Feb. 10. 59 1848. May 15. 6 1857. Aug. 3. 74 1848. Apr. 12. 90 1849. May '» 85 1808. Jan. 7. 6 1844. May 11. 62 1S47. June 25. 42 1850. Feb. 4. 43 1854. Mar 30. 12 1818. Aug. 24. 1 1851. Dec. 15. 5 1844. Oct. 10. 23 1831. J"'y 9. 24 1819. Feb. 26. 44 1836. Aug. 16. 57 1826. June 19. 25 1825. 1 1833. Dec. 14. 39 1845. Apr. 5. 41 1851. Apr. 11. 24 1854. Dec. 29. 61 BURYING GROUNDS. 169 Name. Garfield, Amos, Gai-tield, Sarah H., Gilmore, Leonard. Goddard, Solomon. Goddard, Edwin, Godding, Ira. Godding, Eliza, Godding, Loney, Godding, Pliilinda, Griffin, Hannah. Hagcr, Edward. Hager, Luc\^ E., Hayward, Irena, Harris, William P., Harris, William. Hfirris, Patty, Hawkins, Sylvia, Harrington, Josh na, Esq. Harrington, Eliztdaeth, Harrington, Mary, Harrington, Prudence, H^irrington, Frances E., Harrington, Arbee Read, Harrington, Edward, Hjirrington, Charles B., Haskell, Eliza Ann, Haskell, Henry, Haskell, Mary Ann, Haskell, Simon, Haskell, Martha Ann, Haskell, Henry George, Hayden, Moses. Hodgkins, Hezekiah. Hodgkins, Lydia, Hotlgkins, Lydia, Hodgkins, Aaron. Hodgkins, Rhoda, Hodgkins, Christoj^her, Holbrook, Diana, Family Connection, son of Enoch and Lncy. dau. of Enoch and Lucv. son of Solomon and Sarah. wife of Ira. dan. of Timothy and Ruth. dan. of Timothv £ind Ruth. dau. of Edward and Mary. wife of Thomas P. son of William and Sarah. wife of Williiim. wife of Earned. wife of Joshua. dau. Joshua and Elizabeth. wife of Elijah. dau. of lilijah. dau. of Elijah. son of A. B. and Betsey. son of A. B. and Betsey. dau. of Abner and Laiu^a. son of Abner and Laura. dau. of Joseph and Ruth. son of Josci)h ;uid Ruth. dau. of Henr\' and Martha. son of Henry and Martha. wife of Hezekiah, dau. Peletiah and Mehitable. wife of Aaron. Sf)n of Aaron rind Rhoda. wife of Elkanah. Time i of Dece ase. Age. 184.5. Feb. 19. 19 182S. Jan. 10. IS-tl. May 30. 25 1854. Jan. 8. 59 184G. .I"iy 18. 21 1849. Dec. 10. 48 1849. Oct. 28. 1833. Feb. 24. 28 1852. Sei3t. 11. 1854. Apr. 3. 58 1844. Apr. 3. 45 1850. J"lv 24. 16 1842. June 23. 32 1852. Sept. 11. 1852. Aug. 15. 29 1852. Sept. 4. 59 1827. Dec. 14. 22 1832. Sept. 20. 79 1823. Feb. 15. 66 1833. May 7. 42 1827. June 3. 27 1837. June 22 5 1833. Aug. 20. 3 1856. Mar. .27. 23 1859. Apr. 19. 22 1845. Oct. 23. 2 1843. June 21. 9 1822. Aug. 27. 2 1829. Mar .27. 6 m. 1843. Aug. 17. 2 1840. Jan. 28. 1 m. 1851. Oct. 4. 60 1821. Oct. 4. 64 1843. Apr. 3. 83 1845. June 20. 27 1856. Apr. 11. 59 1851. Ajjr. 10. 52 1826. Aug. 3. 3 1857. Apr. 6. 69 170 HISTORY OF TROY. Name. Htitchins, George W., Ingalls, Eliza, Ingalls, George W., Jenkins, Helen Maria, Kendall, George. Kendall, Timothy. Kendall, Capt. Timothv Kendall, Charles, Kendall, Caroline, Kendall, Lyman. Kendall, Parkman. Knights, Franees Estella, Lawrence, Irena, Lawrence, Daniel. Lawrence, Kilizabeth, Lawrence, William, Lawrence, Joseph. Lawrence, Patty, Lawrence, Jonathan, Jr. Lawrence, Alfred. Lanipson, Sarah, Lyman, Chester. Lyman, Lvicy, Lyman, Leonard, Lyman, Harriet, Mann, Edwin, Marshall, William. Marshall, Anna, Marshall, William, Jr. Marshall, Daniel. Merrifield, Susannah B., Merrifield, Francis, Newell, Hepzibeth, Newell, Nathan. Newell, Rachel. Newell, Veranns. Newell, Keiihen. Newman, Joseph S. Nnrse, Ebenezer. I'^uiiily Coiiiicctioii. son of William and Lydi;i. wife of Raiis(jm. son of Ransom and Eliza, wife of Rev. Al)rtdiam. son of Timoth_v and Anna, dan. of Timothv and Anna. dan. of Winthroji and Lydia. wife of John. wife of Daniel. son of William and Patty. wife of William. wife of Jonathan. wife of Chester. son of Chester and Lnc^'. dan. of T. L. son of. Elias. wife of William. wife of Simeon B. son of S. B. and Sus;ninah. wife of Jacob. Time 1842. 1857. 1858. 1851. 1854. 1855. 1851. 1837. 1836. 1828. 1850. 1846. 1849. 1832. 1840. 1817. 1820. 1840. 1841. 1848. 1827. 1828. 1849. 1835. 1849. 1856. 1835. 1857. 1855. 1844. 1853. 1853. 1801. 1835. 1831. 1819. 1842. 1847. 1824. of Decease. Feb. 18. Aug. 15. Mar. 19. May 22. vSept. 14. Dec. 16. Feb. 14. Feb. 9. Aug. 24. May 5. Mar. 22. Sept. 20. Feb. 28. July 13. Oct. 29. Jan. 10. Dec. 5. Jan. 5. Oct. 14. Apr. 27. July 26. Feb. 26. Sept. 19. Aug. 4. Sei)t.27. Apr. 29. May 17. Feb. 17. Apr. 11. Sept. 19. Oct. 1. Apr. 16. Oct. 2. May 2. Oct. 1. July 25. Jan. 5. May 13. Dec. 10. Age. 3 39 9 31 29 42 68 16 22 21 2 63 84 101 1 11 51 67 49 96 43 51 4 16 35 50 75 45 27 21 1 73 52 2()m. 75 74 62 BURYINd GROUNDS. 171 Name. Nurse, Priscilla, Nurse, Maria. Nurse, Mary J., Nurse, Edward G., Nurse, Charles, Osljorn, Jaeob. Osborn, Sibel. Parker, Nathaniel. Parker, Eliza, Parker, Minerva, Partridge, Edward. Partridge, Edith, Perry, Caleb. Piper, William (., Putney, Susan M., Rice, Lucy, Rice, Fanny, Rich, Rachel Crane, Saunders, David. Satuiders, Polly, Siblev, Amos, Siblej', Amos Whiton, Spaulding, Mahala, Spaulding, Betsey E., Starkey, Luther, Starkey, Betsey, Starkey, Luna, Starkey, Viana, Starkey, S;irah D., Starkey, L. Diana, Starkey, Maria, Starkey, Ann M., vStarkey, Caleb L., Starkey, Stephen. Stanley, Benjamin B., Stearns, Sarah Ann, Stearns, Jemime, Stowell, Dea. Isaac. Stowell, Betsey, Family Connection, wife of Ebenezer. dan. of Joseph and Nancy, son of Joseph and Nancy, son of Joseph and Nanc3^ wife of Nathaniel. dan. of Nathaniel and Eliza. wife of Edward. son of Rev. A. M. dau. of Jose])h and Mary. wife of Cutler. dau. of Cutler and Mar}-. wife of Rev. Ezekiel. wife of David. son of Amos. son of Amos. wife of Erastus. wife of Eri J. son of Peter and Marj'. wife of Enoch. son of Lima and Hannah. dau. of Lunji and Hannjdi. dau. of Daniel and Sarah. dau. of Daniel and Sarah. dau. of Bailey and Betse^'. dau. of Alanson and Mary. son of Stephen and Polly. son of B. M. and Abitiail. dau. of Amos, wife of Jonathan. wife of Isaac. Time r )f Decease. Age. 1844. Apr. 26. 78 1832. Feb. 10. 24 1837. May 17. 1 1834. Sept. 4. 1 1834. Aug. 30. 8 1845. Apr. 25. 79 1845. May 12. 80 1857. Oct. 30. 51 1848. June 28. 42 1856. June 4. 17 1851. Oct. 21. 65 1845. Dec. 14. 57 1833. Oct. 18. 26 1850. Jan. 6. 6 m. 1851. Feb. 24. 4 1832. 20 1829. May 18. 2 m. 1837. Mar. . 20. 53 1833. June 19. 77 1822. June 25. 71 1849. Sept .22. 18 1826. Jan. 8. 14m. 1847. Nov. 18. 37 1847. Au.ij. S. 28 1827. Nov. 8. 24 1821. June 18. 70 1833. Mar .30. 20 1849. June 30. 19 1842. J"iy 25. 16m. 1845. Sept . 7. 17m. 1847. Feb. 17. 14m. 1851. June 7. 4 m. 1852. Feb. 18. 10m. 1853. Mar .27. 29 1856. Nov. 5. 13 1837. Au.i,^ 8. 16 1843. .I"lv 15. 90 1856. Jan. 63 172 HISTORY OF TROY. Name. Stowcll, Lovina, Stdwell, Harvey L., Stevens, Eliza W., Sticknev, Abiel. Tolman, Benjamin. Tolnian, Hepzilaeth, T(ilman, IJclvvard. Tolman, Henr3'. Tolman, Sarjih A., Tolman, James T., Tenney, Melinda, Wetlierl)ee, Maria, Wetherbee, Edmund H. Ward, David, Whiteoml), Elzina, Whitcomb, Charles, Whiteomb, Luther, Whiteomb, Luey Ann, Whiteomb, Aliigail. Wheeler, Mary, Wheeler, Louisa A., Wheeler, Stephen, Jr. Wheeler, Aaron Y., Wheeler, Nathan. Wheeler, Clari.ssa. Wheeler, Timothv. Wheeler, David B., Wilbur, Catherine. Will)ur, Jonathan. White, David. White, Esther, White, David, Whittemore, Levi. Whittcmore, Mary, Whittemore, Salmon. Whittemore, Sarah, Whittemore, Mary W., Whittemore, Elijah, Whittemore, Srdmon, Family Connection, wife of Isaae. son of Isaae. wife of Rev. Alfred. wife of Beniamin. dau. of Henry and Mary, son of Henr^' and Mar^-. wife of Moses, dau. of Daniel and Luca'. son of Calvin and Clarissa, son of Nahum and Mar^^ dau. of William and Clarissa, son of William and Clarissa, son of William and Clarissa, wife of Luther. wife of Hezekiah. wife of E]5hraim. son of Aaron. son Timothv and Kidiannah. wife of David. son of David and Esther. wife of Levi. son of Salmon and Lydia. dau. of Salmon and Lydia. son of Salmon and Lydia. son of Salmon and Lvdia. Time 3f Decc ase. Ajje. 1S52. Apr. 27. 66 1845. July 25. 25 184-4. Dec. 8. 26 1855. Feb. 4. 85 1840. Mar 9. 85 1842. .I"lv 20. 77 1852. Oct. 26. 41 1851. Mar 6. 68 1844. Nov. 2. 19 1821. June 28. 4 1823. May 24. 30 1837. Dee. 8. 24 1847. Au.ij. 16. 7 m. 1845. Apr. 18. 6 1839. Oct. 9 1855. Nov. 17. 22 1854. Oct. 24. 30 1851. Jan. 25. 21 1827. Nov. 20. 30 1832. June 30. 88 1851. Nov. 14. 25 1837. J"iy 19. 28 1830. Jan. 30. 3 m. 1836. Mar 17. 80 1832. Mar 22. 34 1846. Aug. 14. 60 1839. Nov. 6. 22 1856. Dec. 26. 21 1857. Max- 14. 51 1844. Jan. 3. 81 1839. Sciit 27. 75 1825. Nov. 12. 32 1847. Feb. 8. 61 1858. Jan. 31. 66 1826. May 6. 47 1832. Jan. 21. 23 1S31. Oct. 14. 25 1820. Mar 6. 2 1824. Nov. 26. 5 m. BURYING GROUNDS. 173 Name. Whittcmorc, Whittcniorc, Lncy Ami, Whitney, Edward G., Whitney, Sarah A., Wilder, David. Wilder, Lney, Wilder, Stephen W., Winch, Nathan, Winch, Polly, Winch, Asenath, Winch, Adeline C, Winch, Franklin B., Winch, George B., Wise, Lydia, Wright, Joel. Wright. Tabitha, Wright, Kesiah, Wright, Thomas, Wright, Sallv, Family Connection, son of Salmon and Lydia. wife of Levi. son of S. G. and A. N. dan. of S. G. and A. N. wife of David. son of David and Lnc}-. wife of Nathan. wife of Nathan. dan. Nathan }. and Abigail. son of Nath. J. and Abigail. son of Nath. J. and Abigail. dan.of Asahel and Hannah. wife of Joel. wife of Joel. son of Ahnon and Salh*. wife of Almon. Time ( of Decease. Age. 1816. Mar. 13. 1841. Ang. 10. 24 1S57. Aug. 31. 1 1858. Apr. 11. 15 1848. J"lv 9. 40 1842. J"lv 24. 28 1841. Aug. 21. 3 m. 1851. Aug. 28. 70 1834. Jan. 1. 53 1858. Feb. 11. 72 1842. Ang. 19. 6 1843. Sept. .17. 15 1849. Sept. ,25. 6 1831. Aug. 21. 1 1838. Dec. 29. 79 1838. Aug. 13. 70 1835. Sept, . 9. 70 1851. May 21. 23 1841. Mav 15. 41 CHAl'TER X. EXTRACTS FROM TOWN RECORDS. FIRST CHAIR AND TABLE FOR MEETING HOUSE. — AMOUNT PAID FOR WORK- ING ON HIGHWAY. — BY-LAWS AGAINST ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE. — ACTION OF TOWN IN DIYISION OF THE COUNTY. — FIRST MAP OF THE STATE. — TOLERATION LAW. — FIRST STOVE IN MEETING HOUSE. — STONE BRIDGE.— DISPENSING WITH SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEE. — DIS- TRIBUTION OF THE PUBLIC SURPLUS. — TEMPERANCE REFORM. — MISCEL- LANEOUS MATTERS. — FIRST PRINTED SCHOOL REPORT. — FIRST PRINTED TOWN REPORT. — FINISHING ROOM UNDER TOWN HALL. — CHANGING THE NAME OF THE TOWN. — HISTORY OF THE TOWN HALL. At a town meeting in 1815, it was voted that a chair and table should be furnished b}- the selectmen at the expense of the town for use in the meetino^ house, this action being made necessary from the town having to hold the town meetings in this house. Three hundred dollars were voted to be raised in 1816 for the repair of highways and bridges, which should be paid in labor at the rate of eight cents per hour for a man or yoke of oxen. A committee was chosen to re]3ort by-laws for prevent- ing horses, mules, neat cattle and swine from running at large, and the following were adopted : That the owners, or those havino^ the care of any horse, horses or horse kind, or any mules, who shall allow them to run at large on anA' hiohway or pn1)lic place within the town of TroA-, from and after tlie first daA' of April next, to the last da^' of October next, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar for each and every horse, or horse kind, or mule so found nuining at large, excepting colts uiuler tlie age of six months. Tliat the owners or those having the care of any neat cattle who shall allow them to go at large as aforesaid, within the above siiecified EXTRACTS FROM TOWN RECORDS. 175 tiiiK, shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty cents for each and every creature so found going at large as aforesaid. That the owner or per- son or persons having the care of any swine, who shall allow them to go at large, without being yoked and ringed according to the regula- tions of the laws of this State, shall forfeit and pay the sum ^A' twenly- live cents for each and every swine so found going at large; and each of the above penalities to be recovered by action of debt before any justice of the peace, to and for the use of the person who shall sue for the same with cost of suit. Signed by Sylvester P. Flint, 1 Caleb Perry, 1 Committee. William Barnard, ) The Province of New Hampshire was divided into five counties in 1771, Cheshire being one and receiving its name from a county of the same name in England, and included the territory now in Sttllivan county. Charles- town and Keene were made the shire towns. As the po]julation increased and business interests became more diversified, this arrangement was not a satisfactory one, and the question of the division of the county was dis- cussed and brought up for action for several years. In 1819, the town voted forty-four in favor and four against; the next year the decision was reversed, the vote being two for and sixty-eight against division. The question was finally settled, the northern half taking the name of Sullivan and being incorporated July 5, 1827, the vote of Troy at the annual meeting that year being thirty-three for and twenty-five against. A large map of the State was published in 1815, by Phillip Carrigain, under the patronage of the Legislature. At that time no map of any state had been published comparable with it in simplicity of arrangement and taste of execution. The government furnished each town with a copy, and in 1817 the town voted that this map should be deposited with the clerk for keeping. 176 HISTORY OF TROY. Before 1819, the law required that each citizen should pay his proportion toward the support of the settled min- ister of the town or parish in which he resided, tinless he produced a certificate from some society of another denomi- nation, stating that he attended their worship, and con- tributed to the support of their religious order. But in 1818, the town voted "that the selectmen tax the inhabi- tants of the Congregational Society only for Mr. Rich's salary," meaning that those inhabitants only who be- longed to the society should be taxed for the minister's support. This action was probably taken on account of the o]ii)osition of some of the people to Mr. Rich, who did not wish to be taxed for his support. The following year, the Legislature passed an act, in the face of ]30werful opposition, known as the "Toleration Law," which pro- vided that no person should be compelled to join or sup- port any congregation, church or religious society, without his express consent ; and that any person choosing to separate himself from any society, should, on leaving a written notice with the clerk, be exempted from any future expenses that might be incurred by the society. Whether from the operation of this law or from local causes, the town in 1821, voted "that one-half of all the minister's tax assessed last year, be abated." At this time there was no means of heating the meeting house during the cold weather; what warmth there was being obtained from small foot stoves filled with coals, and no other means had been provided, or action taken for warming the meeting house until 1830, when it was "voted, that a stove might be ])laced in it, if individuals should see fit to put one in at their own expense." In 1835, the town voted "that everA^ society in town have the use of the meeting house belonging to the town, for religious meetings on Sabbath days, according to their EXTRACTS FROM TOWN RECORDS. 177 valuation in making taxes. That the division l^e made b\^ the selectmen, and that no society have the right to shut the house against others unless to occupy it for religious purposes." It w^as found necessary to rebuild the bridge ne^ir the Harrington mill this year, and at a special meeting on the ISth of Jime, Joseph M. Forristall, Daniel W. Farrar and Lyman Wright were chosen a committee to superintend the liuilding of the same. This committee caused an arched stone bridge to be built ; and at a meeting the following January, the town "voted to accept of the doing of the committee in building a stone bridge ; " also voted to raise $4-50 by special tax to defray town charges. In 1833, it was voted "that the visiting of schools by the Superintending Committee be dispensed with this year," and in 1842, it was further voted "to adopt the law ex- cusing Superintending School Committees from examining the primary schools." In 1836, the United States government had a surplus of thirty-six millions of dollars lying in the treasury, which had accumulated from the sale of public lands, and the amount was increasing, as at that time the public debt had all been paid. Congress voted to distribute this among the different states, New Hampshire receiving over eight hundred thousand dollars, which the Legislature voted to divide among the towns according to population. The amount received by Troy cannot be given. The ques- tion of its disposition seems to have been an important one as it was brought before the annual meeting for two or three years. David W. Farrar and Daniel Cutting were the agents chosen to receive the money, which they were to loan to individuals in small sums, but finally the select- men were authorized to approi)riate the money for t(nvn ptn-poses, under an act of the Legislature, passed in 1S38. 178 HISTORY OF TROY. The question of temperance reform received considera- tion by the citizens of the town in 1838, the following article appearing in the warrant for the annual meeting that year: "Is it expedient that a law^ be enacted by the General Court, prohibiting the sale of wine, or other spirituous li((uors, except for chemical, medicinal, or me- chanical pur]30ses." The vote stood fifty -five in favor and twenty-one against. For several years large numbers of men and women had been ardently engaged in the prosecution of this reform, and while great and gratifying success had been gained, it was considered incomplete, and the question of more stringent law^s, prohibiting its sale, was being agitated, and an effort made to have the Legislature pass such an act. Four years later the question again received consideration upon the article, "Is it expedient thiit a law be enacted for the suppression of tippling shops," fifty voting for and thirty-six against. In 1839, it was voted that the road tax should be paid in money, and in 1848, that the Superintending School Committee be allowed three dollars each for their services. Up to 1840, the only approach to the sawmill which stood near where the blanket mill now stands, was ])y a narrow path on private ground ; but in the fall of this year, the selectmen, on petition of Charles Carpenter and others, laid out a new highway from the meeting house to the mill. Several town meetings were held during the year 1844, and the following items are taken from the votes passed : Voted. That the taxes 1)e collected by the iirst of March next, or the collector receive no pay for collecting;. Voted. To discontinue the old Turnpike rcjad, runnin;^ from near EXTRACTS FROM TOWN RECORDS. 179 Amos Stearns' house towards Elijah Rowker's, to the liouiulary line of the town. Voted. That the bell be cast over and made into a new one. Voted. That an agent be a])pointed to get the bell repaired, and that seventy-five dollars be appropriated for that purpose. Voted. That Daniel W. Farrar l)e the said agent. The ChCvShire Railroad was being constructed through the town in the years 1846 and 1847, and consequently a large number of transient laborers \vere employed, and at the annual meeting the latter year, it was voted, "that the Irish laborers be excused from taxation the present year." In 1846, the following regulations were established bv the firewards : Ry virtue of the authority in us vested In' law, we the subscribers, a majority of the firewards in the town of Trov, in the County of Cheshire, do establish the following regulations respecting the kindling, guarding- and safe keeping, and for the prevention and extinguishment of fires to be in force in said town. 1st. All persons are requested to furnish themselves with ladders and Ijuckets according to the State law, as adopted by the said town. 2d. No person shall place and keep any dry ashes in any wooden vessel under the penalty of five dollars for each offence. 3d. No person shall keep a wooden door at an\' fireplace under the penalty of five dollars for each oftence. 4th. No person shall carr3^ any lighted pipe or cigar into any barn, stable, f)r shed, or into any building while finishing, or into anv cabinet or house joiner or wheelwright's sho]i, nor shall any jaersoii carrv ;inv lighted candle or lamp into an3- barn, unless the same be inclosed in a lantern, under the penalty of three dollars for each oftence. nth. The foregoing regulations shall take effect and he in force on and after the 15th of May, A. D. 1S4G. ClIAKLKS COOUIDGK, Olivkk Hawkins, JosKiTi Jones, Roard Thomas Wkkuit, of Salmon Wright, Firewards. David W. Farrak, Edwin Bvttrick, 180 HISTORY OF TROY. The Ward Hill was formerly one of the most difficult in the town, and was for a long time the snliject of com- plaint. Many efforts had been made to avoid this, by constructing a road on diiferent ground, but it was found impossible to lay out a road on an^' ground which should be satisfactory to all parties concerned. But in the fall of 1849, the selectmen, after a careful examination of the whole matter, laid out the present road on the petition of John Lawrence and others, which was completed and opened the following year. They also, in accordance with a vote of the town on the petition of Charles Carpenter and others, laid out a road extending from Mr. Carpen- ter's sa\vmill to the bridge near the foot of the Ward Hill. Previous to the year 1852, and for several years after- wards, all reports of the town officers w^ere written and placed on file with other papers, but this year it w^as voted that the selectmen should get the report of the Superintending School Committee printed, and that every family in towm should be furnished with a copy. It was also voted to allow engine men one dollar and fifty cents each for their services. The amount of highway tax appropriated for winter use was very often insufficient to keep the roads suitably broken out, and individuals would have bills presented for breaking roads, to the payment of which objection was frequently made, and the question of ])aying an extra sum for this service in the winter w^as brought up for discus- sion ; and at the annual meeting in 1857, it w^as voted to raise a highway tax of one hundred and fifty dollars in money, which should be appropriated as other highway taxes to the several surveyors, to be expended in the win- ter, the amoimt unexpended to be reported to the select- men before the first of March. It was voted to procure blinds and a lightning rod for EXTRACTS FROM TOWN RECORDS. 181 the town hall, in 1858. The next year Dr. A. M. Caverly was chosen an a^s^ent to get a lithograph of the to^vn house ])ut into the "History of Troy," w^hich \vas soon to be pnl:>lished, and the sum of sixteen dollars w^as appro- priated for the purpose of defraying the expense of the same. The following resolution was adopted : Wherk.xs: Dr. A. M. Caverly, having' procured at his own expense and arduons labor, a very complete History of the Town of Troy, Rksolvkd. That we as a town tender him a vote of thanks, and as a token of our esteem, we jiay the expense of his lithograjjh which is to appear in said History-. This 3'ear it was voted to have three hundred copies of the selectmen's report printed. Upon the (luestion of the expediency of purchasing a county- poor farm for the support of county paupers, the vote was two in the affirmative and sixty-four in the negative. At this time a contagious disease appeared among the cattle in town, and the selectmen were authorized to take such steps to prevent its spread as they thought best. In 1861, it was voted to have the room under the town hall finished, two hundred dollars being appropriated for that purpose. It was also "Resolved: That if individuals feel disposed to contribute a sufficient sum to finish the lower part of the town hall for a school room, they have the ])rivilcge, provided however, that the said contribu- tions shall be put into the hands of a competent commit- tee a])]3ointed by the town, and expended under their direction." John Grimes, Ira Boyden and David W. Far- rar were chosen for this committee. E. P. Kimball, John Grimes and Edmtmd Bemis were selected to procure a new bell for the town house and to dispose of the old one. Three hundred dollars was raised in 1862, to be put 182 HISTORY OF TROY. with a sum already raised, for the purpose of pnrchasiiio' a fire eno-ine and hose. At a special town meeting held Jime 18, 1864, E. P. Kimball, Stephen B. Farrar and David Wheeler were chosen a committee to finish a room in the lower part of the town hall, for an engine room, three hundred dollars being raised for the purpose. At the election in November, 1864, upon the (luestion : " Is it expedient that a convention be called to revise the constitution." 1st. To enable the qualified voters of the State, ensjai^ed in the mili- tary or naval service of the country, in time of war, insm^rection, or rebellion, to exercise the right of sufilVage while absent from the State; 2d. To abolish all religions tests as qnalifieations for office; 3d. To diminish the number of memljcrs of the House of Repre- sentatives ; 4th. To increase the number of members of the Senate ; 5th. To make provisions for future amendments of the constitution ; the vote stood thirtv-four for and thirty-eight against. An article was inserted in the \varrant for the annual meeting, March, 1866, "To see if the town will vote to instruct their representative to the next Legislature to use his influence to have the name of Troy changed to that of Monadnock." This was doubtless inserted on account of the trouble and inconvenience in postal, express and baggage matters, arising from a confusion and similarity in writing the names Troy, N. H., and Troy, N. Y. The vote was fifteen in favor and fifty-four against. November, 1871, the town voted to discontinue that part of the highway running across the common, beginning near the Chapman house and running in a southerly direc- tion to nearly opposite the "tin shop house," and to lay out a new one beginning near the same point and running easterly to a point nearly opposite the town hall, inter- sectinsf with the road there. EXTRACTS FROM TOWN RECORDS. 183 Barrett Ripley, C. W. Wliitney and William Butler were chosen a committee to fence, grade and beautify the common, four hundred dollars being- appropriated for the purpose. Sometime previous to the year 1872, a brass band had been fcjrmed and had become involved in debt in procuring the necessary equipments, and the town voted to appro- priate two hundred and fifty dollars to relieve them from debt. It was also voted to sell the State bonds at par, as occasion arose, to pay town debts. In 1875, it was voted to redistrict the town for school purposes, and the following persons were chosen for that purpose: District No. 1, Barrett Ripley; District No. 2, Chas. W. Whitney; District No. 3, Edmund Bemis ; District No. 4, William N. Watson; District No. 5, Daniel J. Fife; District No. 6, Alvah S. Clark. In the warrant for the annual meeting for 1878 was an article to see if the town would vote to procure a soldier's monument, l)ut no action was taken. June 4", 1853, the proprietors of the old meeting house met agreeable to a call made by Daniel W. Farrar, Eas- man Alexander and Elijah Harrington, under an act passed 1)y the Legislature in 1848, ])roviding for the sale of meet- ing houses in certain cases. There were present: Stephen Wheeler. Liitlier Chapman. Elijah Harrington. Lyman Wright. Easman .\lexander. I'cktiali Hodgkins. David W. Farrar. Daniel Cutting. Daniel W. Farrar. Artemas Fairl)aidvs. Abel Baker. It was voted to sell the house at auction, and Daniel W. Farrar, Lyman Wright and Artemas Fairbanks were chosen a committee to sell and convey the same, the select- men of JaftVey being a]jpointed to make the division of the 184 HISrOfx'Y OF TROY. proceeds among the proprietors. The house \vas pur- chased by the town. An article was inserted in the warrant for the March meeting, 1855, to see if the town would vote any direc- tions as to what should be done with the old meeting house, and choose an agent or committee, with power to purchase land for the removal of the house if thought ex- pedient, or take any action in relation to the same. A committee of five were chosen, consisting of Joseph M. Forristall, Leonard Farrar, Lyman Wright, Abel Baker and Brown Nurse, to investigate and see what could be done and report at the next town meeting. A special meeting was held April 25, for the purpose of hearing the re])ort of the above committee, and to see if the town would remove the house to any lot that might be purchased ; to choose an agent or committee to pur- chase land and take a deed of the same; to carry the removal of the house into efitect and to submit a plan or plans to finish the same. The committee made a report, but no further action was taken and the matter was brought up again at the annual meeting in 1856, when the ([uestion was referred to a committee consisting of Daniel W. Farrar, Brown Nurse and Ira Boyden, who were to report at a meeting to be held not later than the first of September, following, and at a meeting held on the second day thereof, they submitted the following: We recommend that the town decide first to remove or not to re- move said house. We recommend that the town canse a liall to be finished in the n])i)er part of said house, 4-() by 45 feet, willi a stairway about ,S feet wide in the center of the front part, a1)out four feet from the front door, and occupvini; al)out eleven feet in the ascent. To lower down the windows about three feet and put a j.;()thic head upon the windows; the ])id])it windows to be closed up. The hall to be laid with a new floor and in EXTRACTS FROM TOWN RECORDS. 185 every respect to be well and tlioronghlv finished, and to be furnished with fifty settees. To finish a room njjon each side of said stairs of about fifteen 1)y seventeen feet, and to put up two stacks of chimneys in the partition between the hall and these rooms. All of which your committee think ma^^ be done for the old material and five hundred dollars. That the roof be repaired by ])atchin,iL;, which we think may be done to last eii^ht or ten ^-ears. That the house be well jjainted outside with two coats of fjood paint, which we estimate to cost from $100 to $125. That the pews be taken out and the pew floors placed u])on a level with aisle floors, and we estimate the old pew material will pay the ex])ense. That the town choose an agent or committee to carry the above rejjtjrt into eflect, with such instructions as the town shall give him or them* This report was adopted, and it was voted to move the house, by turning it one cjuarter round, into the north- east corner of the common, within from eight to twelve feet to the north and east Hne of said common. All the sections of the report were adopted, and a committee was chosen bj^ ballot to carry these measures into effect, consisting of David W. Farrar, Edward P. Kimball and Ira Boy den. In addition, this committee was instructed to have a good cellar under the house, provided it would not cost more than one hundred dollars extra. The work having been completed, it was accepted by the town at the annual meeting in 1858, and it was voted to procure blinds for the whole house and to have a new lightning rod. Edwin Buttrick, Brown Nurse, David W. Farrar, Edward P. Kimball and A. M. Caverly were chosen to prepare suitable by-laws for the regulation of the hall, which were in due time reported and ado])ted. The hall having become too small for the needs of the town, especially on occasions of public gatherings or entertainments requiring the use of a stage, the question 186 HISTORY OF TROY. of an enlargement was agitated for several years, but no definite action was taken tnitil the March meeting, 1893, when two thousand dollars was voted to be raised for that purjjose, and Charles W. Whitney, William J. Boyden and Warren W. Kimball were chosen a building committee. B Miiiiisiaiaian If IS- laiaiai i « #fci>- ■ * ■ Town Hai.l. An addition about twenty-five feet in length was built on to the north end of the hall, the land being given by James L. Stanley. The upper part was finished as a large and commodious stage, with suitable dressing rooms and closets, Avith an entrance from the lower floor. The lower part was finished for the use of the fire department, with the addition of a hose tower. The old side seats in the hall were removed, and the interior decorated and furnished with inside blinds, increasing the capacity of the hall very materially. CHAPTER XI. TOWN OFFICERS AND yVPPROPRIATIONS. LIST OF CONSTAI$LE.S. — TOWN OFFICERS. — APPROPRIATIONS. — VOTES FOR GOVERNOR. — SCHOOL COMMITTEES AND SCHOOL BOARDS.— COPV OF EARLY CHECK LIST. In former times the office of town constable was one of considerable importance, and from one to three were usually chosen at each annual meeting. Their jurisdiction did not extend beyond the town, but their duties were similar and of greater scope and the position more impor- tant perhaps, than that of the deputy sheriff' of the pres- ent day, for they represented the majesty of the law, and were charged with the execution of warrants and the ser- vice of summonses. It was usually the custom to appoint the tax collector one of the constables, as in the discharge of his duties it was necessary that he should have author- ity to enforce the law. The following list gives the names of those chosen as constables from the incorporation of the town until 1860 : 1816. John Lawrence. 1817. Calvin Starkey. David White. ISIS. Calvin vStarkey. David White. 1S19. John Lawrence. David White. 1S2(). Edmund Bemis. David White. 1821. Calvin Starkey. David White. 1822. Calvin vStarkey. David White. 1823. Calvin Starkey. 1824.. Luke Harris. lS2rj. Luke Harris. lS2(i. John Lawrence. David White. 1827. John Lawrence. 1828. Calvin vStarkey. 1829. Lemuel Brown. 1830. Lemuel Brown. 188 HISTORY OF TROY. 1831. Thomas Wright. 1 846. 1832. Thomas Wright. 1847. 1S33. WilHam Marshall. Calvin Starker. 1848. 1834. Calvin Starke3'. 1849. 1835. Calvin Starkey. John Lawrence. 1850. 1836. Abel Baker. 1851. Calvin Starke\-. 1852. 1837. Calvin Starke^-. Benjamin F. Grosvenor. 1853. 1838. Charles Coolidge. Ashael S. Wise. 1854. 1840. Ezekiel White. Lnke Harris. 1855. 1841. Ezekiel White. John Whittemore, Jr. 1856. 1842. Hzekiel White. John Whittemore, Jr. 1857. 1843. Nathan Winch. 1858. Brown Nnrse. 1859. 1844. Thomas Wright. Charles Coolidge. 1845. Thomas Wright. 1860. 1846. Thomas Wright. Edward P. Kimball. Isaac Aldrich, Jr. Isaac Aldi'ich, Jr. Edward P. Kimball. James L. Bolster. James L. Bolster. James R. Stanley. James L. Bolster. James R. Stanley. Anstin B. Gates. Stephen B. Farrar. Anstin B. Gates. Stephen B. Farrar. Stephen B. Farrar. ElHott Goddard. James R. Stanley. Leonard Wright. Stephen B. Farrar. Edward P. Kimball. Abel W. Baker. Charles B. Wright. Stephen B. Farrar. Alonzo B. Harrington. Lyman Wright. Isaac Aldrich, Jr. Albert G. Hnrlbutt. Moderators. 1816. Sylvester P. Flint. 1817. Caleb Perry. 1818. Sylvester P. Flint. 1819. Timothy Kendall. 1820. Timothy Kendall. 1821. Timothy Kendall. 1822. Lyman Wright. 1823. Lyman Wright. 1824. Lyman Wright. 1825. Lyman Wright. 1826. Lyman Wright. TOWN OFFICERS. Town Clerks. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Charles W. Whitney Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. I'arrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Representatives. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Sylvester P. Flint. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel Cntting. Daniel Cntting. Daniel Cntting. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel Cutting. Daniel W. Farrar. Ezekiel Rich. TOWN OFFICERS AND APPROPRIATIONS. 189 Moderators. 1S27. Lvman Wrio;lit. 1S2S. Lyman Wrioht. l.S2'J. Lyman Wrij^ht. 1S30. Lyman Wright. 1831. Lyman Wi'ioht. 1532. Lyman Wright. 1533. Lyman Wright. 1834. Lyman Wright. 1835. Lyman Wright. 183G. Timothy Kendall. 1837. Lyman Wright. 1838. Lyman Wright. 1839. Lyman Wright. 1840. Lyman Wright. 184-1. Lyman Wright. 1842. Lyman Wright. 1843. Lyman Wright. 1844. Lyman Wright. 1845. Lyman Wright. 1846. Lyman Wright. 1847. Lyman Wright. 1848. Lyman Wright. 1849. Abel Baker. 1850. Abel Baker. 1851. Edward P. Kimball. 1852. Lyman Wright. 1853. Lyman Wright. 1854. Lyman Wright. 1855. Lyman Wright. 1856. Abel Baker. 1857. Abel Baker. 1858. Abel Baker. 1859. Abel Baker. 1860. Leonard Farrar. 1861. lulwin Bnttriek. 1862. Leonard F.arrar. 1863. Leonard Farrar. 1864. Edwin Biittriek. 1865. Edwin Buttriek. Town Clerks. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Fari'ar. Brown Nnrse. David W. Farrar. David W. Farrar. Brown Nm'se. David W. Farrar. David W. Farrar. David W. Farrar. David W. Farrar. Brown Nnrse. Brown Nurse. Brown Nnrse. Brown Nurse. Luke Miller. Luke Miller. Luke Miller. Luke Miller. Luke Miller. William Marshall. William Marshall. Leonard Wright. Abial M. Caverly. Abial M. Caverly. Abial M. Caverly. George A. Adams, (reorge A. Adams. Jf)hn (ji"imes. (leorge A. Adams. Henry W. I"\-irrar. Henrv W. h'arrar. Representatives. Daniel Cutting. Daniel Cutting. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Lyman Wright. L3'man Wright. Chester Lyman. Chester Lyman. Daniel Cutting. Daniel Cutting. Jonathan Clark. Jonathan Clark. Abel Baker. Abel Baker. Abel Baker. John W. Bellows. John W. Bellows. Jeremiah Pomeroy. Thomas Wright. Thomas Wi'ight. John W. Bellows. John W. Bellows. Brown Nurse. Brown Nurse. Jotham H. Holt. Jotham H. Rolt. Aldin Egleston. Lyman Wright. Lyman Wright. Joseph M. Forristall. Joseph AL Forristall. E^dwin Buttriek. Edwin Buttriek. Abial M. Caverly. Abial M. Caverly. David W. Farrar. David W. Farrar. Edmund Bemis. 190 HISTORY OF TROY Modcrntors. 1S66. Edwin Ruttrick. ISGT. Edwin Bnttrick. ISGS. Edwin Ruttrick. 1S69. Edwin Ruttrick. 1S7(). Edwin Ruttrick. 1571. Edwin Ruttrick. 1572. Edwin Ruttrick. 1873. Edwin Ruttrick. 1S74-. Edwin Ruttrick. 1S75. Edwin Ruttrick. 1S7G. Charles W. Whitney. 1- state officers was held in Novemlier, when the representa- tive and supervisors of the check list were chosen, town officers onh^ being chosen at the annual March meeting. Town Clerks. Moses E. Wright. Moses E. Wright. Charles A. Hubbard. Franklin Riple^^ Franklin Riple3'. Franklin Rijiley. Moderators. 1879. Henr}' W. Farrar. 1880. Henry W. Farrar. 1881. Henry W. Farrar. 1882. Henry W. Farrar. 1883. Edwin Buttrick. 1884. Edwin Buttrick. 1885. Charles W. Brown. Franklin Ri])ley. 1886. Charles W. Brown. Franklin Rijjlc}-. 1887. Charles W. Brown. Franklin Kipkw. 1888. Charles W. Brown. Melvin T. Stone. 1889. Charles W. Brown. Melvin T. Stone. 1890. Charles W. Brown. Melvin T. Stone. 1891. Charles W. Brown. Melvin T. Stone. 1892. Charles W. Brown. Melvin T. vStone. 1893. F'ranklin Ripley. Melvin T. Stone. 1894-. Franklin Ripley. Melvin T. Stone. 1895. Franklin Ripley. Melvin T. Stone. 1896. Franklin Ripley. Melvin T. Stone. TOWN OFFICERS AND APPROPRIATIONS. 191 Commencing with the liiennial election in Novenilier, 1878, the following officers were chosen: Moderators. l.STS. Henry W. Farrar. Keprcscntatives Asii C. Dort. 1880. Henrv W. Farrar. Asa C. Dort 1882. Henrv W. Farrar. Charles \V. Brown. 1884-. Edwin Bnttrick. Edwin Buttriek. 1886. Charles W. Brown. Melvin T. Stone 1888. Charles W. Brown. 1890. Charles W. Brown. John H. Con^s^don 1892. Charles W. Brown. Edwin B. Dort. 1894. Franklin Kiple3^ Supervisors. Edwin Bnttrick. Charles W. Whitney. Charles W. Brown. Charles W. Brown. William G. Silsby. Wilham N. Watson. William G. Silsby. William N. Watson. W^arren W. Kimball. Edwin Buttriek. William N. Watson. Frank S. Harris. Edwin Bnttrick. Henry M.Whittemore. Frank S. Harris. Henry M. Whittemore. Edwin Bnttrick. Henr}' M.Whittemore. Frank S. Harris. Edwin Bnttrick. Henry IM.Whil.lcni ore. Frank S. Harris. Edwin B. Dort. James L. Stanley. Henry M.Whittemore. Daniel F. K. Herrick. Henry M.Whittemore. Edwin B. Dort. 1896. Franklin Ripley, Frank L. Brown. Alvah S. Clark. Harvey E. Gates. Melvin T. Stone. James L. Stanley. SELECTMEN. 18H'). Sylvester I'. Flint, Daniel Cnttin,^-, William Barnard. 1817. Daniel Cnttint;, Caleb Perry, vSalmon Whittemore. 1818. Sylvester P. Fhnt, Daniel W. Farrar, George Farrar. 1819. Daniel Cutting, Salmon Whittemore, Timothy Kendall. 192 HISrOKV OF TKOY. 1820. Daniel W. Farrar, Salmon WhittenKjre, Timothy Kendall. 1821. Daniel Cutting, Timothy (kxlding, Amos Sibley. 1822. Daniel Cutting, Timothy (lodding, Amos Sibley. 1828. Daniel Cutting, George Farrar, Timoth}' Kendall. 1824. Daniel W. Farrar, Amos Sibley, Caleb Perry. 1825. Daniel Cutting, Amos Sil)ley, Calvin Starkey. 1826. Amos Sibley, Salmon Whittemore, Calvin Starkey. 1827. Daniel Cutting, Calvin Starkey, Lyman Wright. 1828. Daniel W. Farrar, Lyman Wright, Timothy Kendall. 1829. Daniel Cutting, Calvin Starkey, Luke Harris. 1830. Daniel Cutting, Luke Harris. Abel Baker. 1881. Abel Baker, Calvin Starkey, John Lawrenee. 1832. Daniel Cutting, Abel Baker, Daniel Buttriek. 1838. Daniel Cutting, Daniel Buttriek, Jonathan Clark. 1834. Daniel Buttriek, Daniel W. Farrar, Calvin Starkey. 1835. Daniel Cutting, Jonathan Clark, Daniel W. Farrar. 1836. Daniel Cutting, Jonathan Clark, Daniel W. Farrar. 1837. Jonathan Clark, Abel Baker, John Colburn. 1888. A1)el Baker, Thomas Wright, John W. Bellows. 1889. Abel Baker, Thomas Wright, John W. Bellows. 1840. John W. Bellows, Joseph M. Forristall, Charles Coolidge. 1841. Abel Baker, Charles Coolidge, Solomon Goddard. 1842. John W. Bellows, Charles Coolidge, Joseph M. Forristall. 1843. Abel Baker, Leonard Farrar, lidwin lUittriek. 1844. Abel Baker, Leonard Farrar, Edwin Buttriek. 1845. .\bel Baker, Lyman Wright, Jonathan Clark. 184(). Abel Baker, Lyman Wright, Jonathan Clark. 1847. John W. Bellows, Moses S. Perkins, Nathan Wineh, Thomas Wright, Jonas Bemis. 1848. Abel Baker, Leonard Farrar, (leorge W. Brown. 1849. Abel Baker, Thomas Wright, Jonas Bemis. 1850. Abel Baker, Thomas Wright, Jonas Bemis. 1851. /Vbel Baker, Thomas Wright, Jonas IJeniis. 1852. John W. Bellows, James R. Stanley', Augustus Hodgkins. 1853. John W. Bellows, Jotham H. Holt, James R. Stanley. 1854. Jotham M. Holt, Augustus Hodgkins, Lyman Harrington. 1855. Augustus Hodgkins, Lyman IIarringt(m, James R. Stanley. 185G. Jotham H. Holt, Ira Boyden, Henry A. Pcjrter. 1857. Jotham H. Holt, Henry A. Porter, Isaae Aldrieh, Jr. TOWN OFFICERS AND APPROPRIATIONS. 193 1858. Jotham H. Holt, Henry A. Porter, Isaac Aldrich, Jr. 1859. Abel Baker, Edmund Bemis, John C. Alexander. ISGO. Edmund Bemis, Stephen B. Farrar, Elliott Whitetnnb. 1861. Stephen B. Farrar, Elliott Whitcomi), John C. Alexander. 1862. John C. Alexander, Edmund Bemis, Augustus Hodgkins. 1863. Edmund Bemis, Augustus Hodgkins, William G. Silsby. 1864. Edmund Bemis, Augustus Hodgkins, William L. Bemis. 1865. Edmund Bemis, Augustus Hodgkins, John IT. Beers. 1866. Augustus Hodgkins, John U. Beers, Jotham H. Holt. 1867. Stephen B. Farrar, Edmund Bemis, Charles W. Brown. 18(58. Edmund Bemis, Charles W. Brown, Hamilton Parker. 1869. Edmund Bemis, Charles W. Brown, Stei)hen B. Farrar. 1870. Stejihen B. Farrar, Robert M. Silsby, Charles A. Farrar. 1871. Edwin Buttrick, William N. Watson, Edmund Bemis. 1872. Edwin Buttrick, William N. Watson, Edmund Bemis. 1873. William N. Watson, Edmund Bemis, Alvah S. Clark. 1874. Wilham N. Watson, Alvah S. Clark, George W. Randall. 1875. Alvah S. Clark, Edmund Bemis, William N. Watson. 1876. Edmund Bemis, William N. Watson, James R. Stanlex'. 1877. Wilham N. Watson, James R. Stanley, Avigustus Hodgkins. 1878. William N. Watson, Charles C. Smith, William A. Harris. 1879. Edmund Bemis, James R. Stanley, Henry W. Farrar. 1880. James R. Stanley, Hcnr}' W. Farrar, Edmund Bemis. 1881. Henry W. Farrar, Edmund Bemis, William A. Harris. 1882. Edmund Bemis, James C. Parker, Alfred G. Lawrence. 1883. Edmund Bemis, James C. Parker, Alfred G. Lawrence. KSS-i. Edmund Bemis, James C. Parker, Alfred G. Lawrence. 1885. James C. Parker, Alfred G. Lawrence, John H. Congdon. 1886. Edmund Bemis, John H. Congdon, Edward F. Adams. 1887. John H. Congdon, Edward F. Adams, George N. Parmenter. 1888. Edward F. Adams, George N. Parmenter, Edmund Bemis. 1889. Edward F. Adams, George N. Parmenter, John H. Congdon. 1890. John H. Congdon, Edmund Bemis, Friink L. Brown. 1891. Edmund Bemis, Edward F. Adams, Elmer E. Haskell. 1892. Edmund Bemis, George A. Starkey, Elmer E. Haskell. 1893. George A. Starkey, Elmer E. Haskell, George N. Parmenter. 1894. Elmer E. Haskell, (icorge N. Parmenter, William J. Boyden. 1895. Elmer E. Haskell, (ieorge A. Starkey, Henry M. Whittemore. 1896. John H. Congdon, Ora C. Mason, Herbert P. Thompson. 1897. Alvah S. Clark, Herbert P. Thompson, Ora C. Mason. 194 HISTORY OF TROY TREASURERS. The following persons have served as treasurers 1816-17. George Farrar. 1818-28. William Farrar. 1824-27. Lyman Wright. 1828. Solomon Goddard. 1829. Abel Baker. 1830-38. Timotli_v Kendall. 1839-4-1. Daniel W. Farrar. 1842-44. Brown Nurse. 1845. David W. Farrar. 1846-49. Charles Coolidge. 1850-51. Alnion Wright. SEXTONS 1852-54. Charles Coolidge. 1855-58. Isaac Aldrich. 1859-62. John Grimes. 1863. George A. Adams. 1864-66. John U. Beers. 1867-68. Barrett Ripley. 1869. Abel Baker. 1870. Edward P. Kiml)all. 1871-73. Barrett Ripley. 1874-97. Asa C. Dort. Since 1 SI 6, the following persons have served as sextons: 1816. Lxdve Harris. 1818. Preston Bishop. 1819-20. Jonathan B. French. 1822. Moses Bush. 1823. Elijah Fuller. 1824. Moses Bush. 1825. Lyman Wright. 1826. David W. Farrar. 1827. Charles Davis. 1828. Oliver Hawkins. 1829. Elijah Harrington. 1830. Oliver Hawkins. 1831. Thomas Wright. 1832-33. Ohver Hawkins. 1834-65. Thomas Wright. 1866-70. Stephen B. Farrar. 1871-74. William A. Harris. 1875. Joseph F. Capron. 1876. Charles Haskell. 1877-78. Alanson Starkey. 1879-80. William A. Harris. 1881. Alanson Starkey. 1882. William A. Harris. 1883-97. James L. Stanley. The following table gives an idea of the amount expended on account of the regular expenses of the town from the time of its incorporation. The number of resi- dent taxpayers in 1816 was one hundred and twenty-two. The appropriations for highways in the early years was the amount raised for repairs alone, and w^as usually paid in labor. Special appropriations were nearly alwa3's made for the building of new highways. Other appropriations for special pin-poses will be mentioned in the account of TOWN OFFICERS AND APPROPRIAriONS. 195 the purposes for which they were made. The amotmt stated to be raised for the support of schools for the past few years does not give the amount expended, for it has been voted to appropriate enough from the savings banks tax, in addition to the literary fund and dog tax, to make the amount from twelve to fifteen hundred dollars. During the years when no amount is recorded as being raised it is supposed it was only that required by law. The amount allowed per hour for labor upon the high- ways was probably the same as that of the other towns in the county ; in 1827 it was eight cents for a man or yoke of oxen; in 1836, ten cents; later it was fifteen cents. For several years previous to the passage of the highway law now in force, the town had raised their highway tax in money, which \vas expended under the direction of one or more agents chosen by the town. APPROPRIATIONS. High- ways. Schools. Town Charges. High- ways. Schools. Town Charges. 1816. $300 $250 $600 1834. $400 $275 $300 1817. 300 200 550 1835. 400 300 250 1818. 300 300 600 1836. 400 300 75 1819. 300 240 300 1837. 350 250 350 1820. 300 250 200 1838. 400 250 600 1821. 300 250 150 1839. 400 1,200 1822. 300 250 180 1840. 600 300 1,200 1823. 400 250 150 1841. 400 300 800 1824. 400 250 200 1842. 600 300 1,000 1825. 400 300 400 1843. 400 300 350 1826. 600 250 150 1844. 400 400 400 1827. 450 250 400 1845. 600 400 1,000 1828. 400 250 400 1846. 600 400 1,000 1829. 400 300 200 1847. 600 400 1,000 1830. 300 250 150 1848. 500 400 1,000 1831. 600 300 80 1849. 500 400 1 ,000 1832. 400 275 300 1850. 500 400 1,000 1833. 400 275 300 1851. 500 400 1,000 196 HISTORY OF TKOY. High- ways. Schools. Town Char^-es. HiKh- \va3'S. Schools. Town Charges 1852. $500 $400 $1,000 1874. $1,500 $800 $2,000 1853. 500 400 1,000 1875. 1,000 800 2,000 1854. 500 400 800 1876. 800 900 1,500 1855. 500 800 1877. 600 900 1,000 1856. 500 1,000 1878. 700 900 1,500 1857. 500 1,000 1879. 600 839 1,500 1858. 500 2,000 1880. 700 1,500 1859. 500 500 1881. 800 1,075 1,500 18(30. 500 1,500 1882. 800 1,075 1,500 1861. 500 1,800 1883. 800 1,075 1.500 1862. 500 1,000 1884. 700 1,075 1.200 1863. 500 1,000 1885. 900 800 1 1864. 800 2,150 1886. 900 800 1 1865. 800 500 3,000 1887. 800 800 400 1866. 700 800 1,500 1888. 1,000 800 800 1867. 700 800 1,500 1889. 1 ,000 800 800 1868. 500 800 1,500 1890. 1,000 1,000 800 1869. 500 800 1,500 1891. 1,200 1,150 800 1870. 500 800 1,500 1892. 1.000 1,150 800 1871. 800 1 ,000 1,500 1893. 1,200 900 500 1872. 1,000 1,000 1,500 1894. 1,250 200 1873. 1,000 800 1,500 VOTES FOR GOVERNOR. In the tbllowing list of votes for governor, the name of the person elected is placed first each year. In the earh' history of the state it is quite probable that party distinctions did not exist. After a time the terms federalist and republican designated part^^ divisions, and from the time of the incorporation of Troy until 1824-, the leading candidates voted for are classed b}" their after-part}- affilia- tion. About 1824 the federal part}- ceased to exist, and the contending political interests rallied about individual men. Jackson and Adams were contestants for the presidential chair, and although not differing materially in principle, these interests espoused the cause of either one or the other TOWN OFFICERS AND APPROPRIATIONS. 197 and were recognized as Jackson men or Adams men, and the contests became intensely bitter at tiines. Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay were the rival candidates in the presidential campaign of 1832, and those supporting Jack- son Avere called democrats, and those supporting Clay were termed whigs. The aljolitionist or free soil party began to develop about 1841, and in the presidential elec- tion of 1856, the whig, free soil and American or Know- Nothing party organizations were abandoned, and a new part}' formed from them, in opposition to the democratic party which took the name of republican. 1816. William Plnninier, r, 4-1 James Sheafe, f, 77 LSI 7. William Pkimmer, r, 44 Jeremiah Mason, f, 66 ISIS. William Phmimer, r. 44 Jeremiah Mason, f, 64 1S19. vSamnel Bell, r, 38 William Hale, f, 52 1820. vSanmel Bell, r, 92 1821. Samuel Bell, r, 89 1822. vSamnel Bell, r, 69 1823. Levi Woodb\iry, r, 33 Samuel Dinsmoor, r, 19 1824. David L. Morrill, a, 19 Jeremiah Smith, 59 Levi Woodbur\', j, 2 1825. David L. Morrill, a, 87 1826. David L. Morrill, a, 78 Benjamin Pierce, j, 5 1827. Benjamin Pierce, j, 58 David L. Morrill, a. 21 1828. John Bell, a, 80 Benjamin Pierce, j, 12 1829. Benjamin Piei'ce, j. 16 John Bell, a, 85 1830. Matthew Harvey, j, 14 Timothy Ujjham, a, 95 1831. Samuel Dinsmoor, j, 30 Ichabod Bartlett, a, 84 1832. Samuel Dinsmoor, j, 28 Ichabod Bartlett, a, 74 1833. Samuel Dinsmoor, j, 54 Arthur Livermore, a, 47 1834. Wilham Badger, d, 10 Andrew Jackson, 1 1835. WilHam Badger, d, 28 Joseph Healy, r, 85 1836. Isaac Hill, d, 29 George Sullivan, 78 1837. Isaac Hill, d, 39 Luther Chajiman, 2 Blank, 2 1838. Isaac Hill, d, 32 J.ames Wilson, Jr., w, 118 1839. John Page, d, 43 James Wilson, Jr., w., 113 1840. John Page, d, 44 Enos Stevens, \v, 95 1841. John Page, d, 45 Enos Stevens, w, 96 1842. Henry Hubbard, d, 39 Enos Stevens, w, 89 John H. White, i d, 4 1843. Henry Huljbard, d, 35 198 HISTORY OF TROY. 1848. 1,S44. 1845. 1846. 1847. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. 1852. 1853. 1854. 1855. Anthony Colb^-, \v, John H. White, i d, Daniel Hoit, f s, ScatterinfT, John H. Steele, d, Anthony Colb\', w, Henry Hidjbard, John H. White, David Hoit, John H. Steele, d, Anthony Colbj', w, Daniel Hoit, f s, Jared W. Williams, d, 36 Anthony Colb^', \v, Nathaniel S. Bern-, f s Jared W. Williams, d, 45 AnthonA^ Colby, w, Nathaniel S. Berry, f s, 19 Jared W. Williams, d, 55 Nathaniel S. Berry, Is, 107 Samuel Dinsmoor, d, 57 Levi Chamberlain, w, 79 Nathaniel S. Berry, f s, 17 Samuel Dinsmoor, d, 69 Levi Chamberlain, w, 68 Nathaniel S. Berry, f s, 20 Samuel Dinsmoor, d, 63 Thomas E. SawA'cr, w, 82 John Atvvood, f s, 21 Noah Martin, d, 58 Thomas E. Sawyer, \v, 77 John Atwood, f s, 23 Noah Martin, d, 51 James Bell, \v, 62 John H. White, f s. 20 Nathaniel B. Baker, d, 51 James Bell, w, 65 Jared Perkins, f s, 29 Ralph Metcalf, a, 102 Nathaniel B. Baker, d, 43 76 1855 9 1856 3 1 40 1857 86 4 2 1858 4 41 83 1859 8 36 1860 94 9 1861 45 95 1862 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. 1867. 1868. 1869. 1870. 1871. 1872. James Bell, v^, 11 Ralph Metcalf, a, 90 John S. Wells, d, 49 Ichabod Goodwin, w, 14 William Haile, r, 97 John S. W^lls, d, 55 Charles B. Haddock, 5 William Haile, r, 92 Asa P. Cate, d, 50 Isaac Riddle, 4 Ichabod Goodwin, r, 102 Asa P. Cate. d, 58 Ichabod Goodwin, r, 94 Asa P. Cate, d, 67 Nathaniel S. Berry, r, 97 George Stark, d, 60 Nathaniel S. Berry, r, 89 George Stark, d, .54 Joseph A. Gilmore, r, 91 Ira A. Eastman, d, 63 Walter Harriman, i d, 3 Joseplt-A. Gilmore, r, 90 Edw. W. Harrington, d, 70 Frederick Smyth, r, 85 Edw. W. Harrington, d, 54 Frederick Smyth, r, 85 John G. Sinclair, d, 63 Walter Harriman, r, 90 John (t. Sinclair, d, 68 Walter Harriman, r, 94 John G. vSinclair, d, 79 Onslow Stearns, r, 85 John Bedel, d, 63 Onslow Stearns, r, 96 John Bedel, d, 70 Samuel Flint, 1 James A. Weston, d, 67 James Pike, r, 104 Lemuel P. Cooi)er, 1 Ezekiel Straw, r, 110 TOWN OFFICERS AND APPROPRIATIONS. 199 1872. James A. Weston, d, 68 1873. Ezekiel Straw, r, 95 James A. Weston, d, 61 1874. James A. Weston, d, 59 L. McCutcliings, r, 120 1875. Person C. Cheney, r, 125 Hiram R. Roberts, d, 59 1876. Person C. Cheney, r, 180 Daniel Marc\', d, 53 1877. Benj. F. Prescott, r, 119 Daniel Marcy, d, 50 1878. Benj. F. Prescott, r, 121 Frank A. McKean, d, 63 1879. Natt Head, r, 121 Frank A. McKean, d, 65 1880. Charles H. Bell, r, 128 Frank Jones, d, 57 1882. Samnel W. Hale, r, 93 M. V. B. Edgerlv, d, 67 1882. Josiah M. Fletcher, t, 2 1884. Moody Currier, r, 120 John M. Hill, d, 63 George Carpenter, g, 1 Larkin D. Mason, t, 1 1886. Charles H. Sawyer, r, 105 Thomas Cogswell, d, 53 1888. David H. Goodell, r, 132 Charles H. Amsden, d, 68 1890. Hiram A. Tnttle, r, 119 Charles H. Amsden, d, 69 1892. John B. Smith, r, 130 Luther F. McKinney, d, 68 William 0. Noyes, 1 Edgar L. Carr, 1 1894.. Charles A. Busiel, r, 135 George D. Epps, 1 Henr^-^ 0. Kent, d, 47 Daniel C. Knowles, 3 SCHOOL COMMITTEE. The following list gives the names of those persons chosen by the town or appointed by the selectmen, to inspect the schools, so far as there is any record : 1816. Ezekiel Rich, Roswell Crosstield, Curtis Coolidge. 1817. Ezekiel Rich, William Farrar, Caleb Perr\'. 1818. Ezekiel Rich, Caleb Perry, Daniel W. Farrar. 1819. Charles W. Whitney, David Holbrook, Caleb Perry. 1823. Seth E. Winslow, Daniel W. Farrar, Lyman Wright. 1825. Otis C. Whiton, Ezekiel Rich. 1826. Otis C. Whiton, Ezekiel Rich, Caleb Perry. 1827. Otis C. Whiton, Ezekiel Rich, Caleb Perry, Charles W. Whitney, Abel Baker. 1854-55. Luther Townsend, Leonard Farrar, Abial M. Caverly. 1857-59. Luther Townsend. 1860-62. Abial M. Caverly, Leonard Farrar, John (irinies. 18(}3. Leonard Farrar, John Grimes, Thomas li. Roberts. 1864. Leonard Farrar. 1865-67. Leonard Farrar, Daniel Goodhue, Jonathan S. Hcrrick. 200 HISrOK'Y OF TROY. 1868-69. Jonathan vS. Herrick. 1870. Jonathan S. Herrick, Leonard Farrar, Levi Bri^yliani. 1871. Levi Brighani, Moses E. Wi'ight. 1873-74. Leonard Farrar, Jonathan S. Herrick. 1875. Jonathan S. Herrick. 1876-78. George H. Aldrich, Asa C. Dort. 1879. David W. Goodale, Daniel R. Herrick. 1880-81. David W. Goodale. 1882-85. Melvin T. Stone. The town system of schools A^as estabHshed by the Legislature of 1885, placing the entire supervision of schools in the school board, consisting of three persons. The following have comprised the school boards since the system was adopted : 1886. Melvin T. Stone. Asa C. Dort. George N. Parmenter. 1887. Asa C. Dort. George N. Parmenter. Josiah Merrill. 1888. Charles W. Brown. Josiah Merrill. Franklin Riple\'. 1889. Josiah Merrill, r^ranklin Kiple^'. Charles W. Brown. 1890. Franklin Ripley. Charles W. Brown. Melvin T. Stone. 1S91. Charles W. Brown. Melvin T. Stone. Franklin Ri])ley. 1892. Melvin T. Stone. Franklin Riple^'. John H. Congdon. 1893. Franklin Ripley. John H. Congdon. Atirilla M. Harris. 1894. John H. Congdon. Anrilla M. Harris. Daniel R. Herrick. 1895. Aurilla M. Harris. Daniel R. Herrick. Franklin Rii)lev. The follo\ving is a copy of the earHest check list that is in existence : A LLST OF VOTERS" NAMES FOR THE YEAR 1818, IN THE TOWN OF TROY. .\niadon, Josiah .\rnol(l, Nathan Alexander, Jose])h Alexander, Easnian Alexander, Ezra Alexander, lilijah Buckstf)n, David Bolster, Artemas Barnard, Wni. Brewer, Asa Bn;ce, John TOllW OFFICERS AND APPKOPRIATIONS. 201 Bishop, Wm. Bishop, Preston Buxton, Ehjah Bah, Daniel Ball, Daniel, Jr. Bnttor, Joseph Buttor, Joseph, Jr. Bemis, Ednunul Bnttor, Simon Bush, Moses Cor1)in, Joseph Coolidge, Abraham Coolidge, Orlando Cutting, Daniel Cutting, Joseph Cutting, Moses Clark, Thomas, Jr. Clark, Thomas Chase, Wm. Cree, Moses Coolidge, Asher Corbin, Nathaniel Daggett, Levi Davis, Charles Farrar, Daniel W Farrar, Wm. Farrar, Wm., 2d Farrar, Daniel Farrtir, Daniel, Jr. Farrar, Samuel Forristall, Josejjh Fairbanks, Cyrus, Ji Flint, Sylvester P Fife, vSilas Fife, Timothy Farrar, George Farrar, Stephen Newell, Reuben Fuller, Isaac Newell, Nathan Fuller, Elijah Norton, Asa Farrar, George, Jr. Nurse, Ebenezer Fuller, Isaac, 2d Nurse, Luther Fitts, Robert Forristall, Joseph M.,Jr. Osborn, Jacob Gartield, Isaac Gerry, Benjamin Gray, Joseph Gove, Nathaniel Godding, Timothy Griffin, Wm. Harrington, Joshua, Esq. Harrington, Joshua, Jr. Harrington, Elijah Holt, Aaron Harris, Luke Hodgkins, Hezekiah Hodgkins, Peletiah How, Zalmon Harris, Stephen Jackson, Henry Jackson, Henry, Jr. Jackson, Silas Knights, Talmon Kendall, Timtjthy Lawrence, Daniel Lawrence, John Lawrence, Jonathan Lawrence, Josiah Lawrence, Wm. Law^rence, Daniel, Jr. Perry, Calel) Perkins, Moses Perkins, John Perkins, Moses, Jr. Rich, Ezekiel, Rev. Roswood, Lyman Spears, Joseph Starkey, Samuel Starkey, George Starkey, Levi Starke3\ Peter Starkey, Peter, Jr. Starkey, Nathan Starkey, Calvin Starkey, Benjamin Starkey, Enoch Sherman, Andrew Sibley, Amos Stearns, William Saunders, David Saunders, Levi Starkey, John Starkey, Lun:i Sergents, John Tolman, Benjamin Tolman, David Tinney, Abel Tolman, Thomas 202 HISTORY OF TROY. Tolmaii, Henry Whitney, John Wheeler, Silas Whitney, Charles W Wright, Lyman Winch, Caleb White, David Whittemore, Salmon Winch, Caleb, Jr. Ward, Levi Wheeler, Josiah Winch, Nathan Willard, Aaron Wheeler, Jonathan Whitney, John, Jr. Wliitcond), Zo])har CHAPTER XII. THE REBELLION. SLAYKRY. — MISSOURI COMPROMISE. — DRED SCOTT DECISION. — HOMIJARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER. — CALL FOR TROOPS. — FIRST ENLISTMENT. — AID FOR soldiers' FAMILIES. — EXPENSES INCURRED. — ROUNTIES OFFERED. — ItOUN- TIES PAID. — YOTES OF THE TOWN. — SUMMARY OF EXPENSES INCURRED. — MEN WHO SERYED IN THE REDELLION AND THEIR RECORD. — LIST OF THOSE LIYING IN TROY lU'T CREDITED TO OTHER TOWNS. — PRESENT RESIDENTS WHO SERYED IN OTHER TOWNS OR STATES. The causes which led to the great American conflict are undou1)tedly more or less familiar to all ; but it may be well to briefly mention some of the most important factors. The constitution of a free government is stich that there ever will be opposing political parties. That it should be so, perhaps, is better for the human race, for in the free discussion of the principles underlying republican government lies the liberty of the nation. The history of the world proves that there has always been an antagonism between freedom and slavery. In America, the conflict was started in its incipient stages at the formation of the government. As it existed in this country, slavery was not a general system, such as might be applied equally to all persons in like conditions, but might be called a personal S3'stem, it being a relation between people of dift'erent color — the white inan and those of African descent. The spirit of our laws, brought about by the liberty of indc])endence, was that all mankind should be equal and shotdd stand together in civil socict}- under laws affecting all alike who were in like conditions, 3'et for a long time 204 HISTORY OF TROY. the ne^ro race \vas excepted from the benefits of such a system and held as slaves, no satisfactory reason beino^ given for the exception, only as a profitable investment of money in a cheap instrument of labor. It was not the fact of a difference in race and color, for other races differing in these respects were not excluded from the benefits of such a system of laws. It w^as not their unde- veloped condition, for other races equally undeveloped were adiuitted to the privileges of our laws. It was not because the3' had thrust themselves into our societ}' unfitted for association with us, and thereby to be isolated, because they had been brought here against their will and a price paid for so doing. As an object of trafiic and a cheap instrument of labor, the slave was considered not only a convenience but a necessity, loy the people of the South, and the slave power, prompted b}- their economic ideas, and the people of the North, controlled by the force of humane ideas, were arrayed against each other in a prolonged dual contest ; on the one hand for the extension of slavery in the terri- tories, in order to seciu-e popular interest and favor, and on the other to eliminate it from the system of the country. When Missouri was admitted as one of the States of the Union in 1821, there w^as a long-continued struggle between the parties seeking the admission as a slave State and those who sought to exclude from her limits that institution, w^hich ended in Congress passing a measure, which has become famous as the "Missouri com- promise," by which slavery was forever inhibited north of the line of 36° 30^ This measure was recognized Iw the North as a solemn compact never to be broken. But the great mass of the Southern people always regarded its terms with disfavor, THE REBELLION. 205 and seemed readj' to set it aside if possible when the first opportunity should present itself. Sueh an occasion seemed to present itself upon the organization of Kansas and Nebraska as territories in 1S54. For thirty years the "Missouri compromise" had deferred the inevitable conflict between the opposing parties, but at this time the measure was disregarded, Stephen A. Douglass making the proposition that the subject of establishing or excluding slavery be left to the decision of the people of these territories. The struggle to colonize Kansas was a desperate conflict which assumed the character of a partisan warfare, when the most inhuman means were resorted to for the purpose of giving slavery a permanent foothold there, and those bloody scenes had not been forgotten by the liberty-loving people of the country when the Territory of Nebraska adopted a constitution and asked to be admitted to the Union. The North was now thoroughh' aroused and made determined opposition to the repeal in any measure or degree of the compromise in question, and the measure was defeated and Nebraska came into the Union a free State. Thus matters stood until 1856-57, at the beginning of Buchanan's administration, when the Dred Scott decision was given out, in which the Supreme Court attacked the validity of the "Missouri compromise," saying that one of the constitutional functions of Congress was the pro- tection of property ; that slaves had been recognized as property by the Constitution ; and that Congress was bound to protect, not to prohibit, slavery in the territories. The mass of the Northern people held that slaves were looked on by the Constitution, not as property, but as persons held to service or labor, by State laws ; that the constitutional function of Congress was the protection of liberty as well as property ; and that Congress was thus 206 HISTORY OF TROY. bound to prohibit, not to protect slavery in the territories. Thus the North dissented from the decision of the Supreme Cotu't, and the storm of anger it aroused added one more step on the road to disunion. | The tmders^round fires were burning briskly when the ' election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency in 1860, and his inauguration, March 4th, 1861, caused them to burst forth, and was the culminating point in the con- troversy. This event was interpreted by the slaveholding States as meaning a change in the balance of power that would secure to the free States a controlling influence in the public affairs of the nation. A little more than a month after the inauguration of President Lincoln, on April 12th, 1861, the signal of war was given by that act which sent consternation to the hearts of all loyal people, the bombardment of Fort Sumter, a United States fortress in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. Three days after, the President of the United States issued a proclamation, calling for seventy- five thousand soldiers to enlist for the space of three months, it being the opinion of those in authority and loyal to the government, that this time would be sufiicicnt for putting an end to the Rebellion. The citizens of Troy were not behind their fellow-citizens in manifesting their patriotism when the hostile cannon boomed upon Fort Sumter, but gave their supi)ort to the government. Under this call New Hampshire was retiucsted to I'ur- nish one regiment of infantry for three months, and Troy furnished one person: "First Regiment N. H. Volunteers. Three months. Charles H. Strecter. enlisted May 3, 1861 ; mustered out Aug. 9, 1861. Co. G." A town meeting was held May 8, 1861. The town voted to guarantee to those who enlisted that their wages THE REBELLION. 207 should be made up to them so that the amount should equal twenty dollars per month, and tlKit ten dollars should be paid at the time of enlisting, which sum should be taken from their wages. It was also voted that a committee be chosen and authorized to look after the families of those who should enlist and see that they were provided for. This committee consisted of David W. Farrar, Edwin Buttrick and Gregory Lawrence, and the selectmen were authorized to borrow a sum of money, not to exceed five hundred dollars, for the purpose of carrying the votes into effect. At the session of the Legislature in June, an act was passed authorizing cities and towns to aid the families of volunteers and for other purposes. At a town meeting held Oct. 21, 1861, the selectmen were instructed to use any money not otherwise appropriated, for this purpose, or to borrow money if necessary to carry out the provis- ions of the act. In the selectmen's report to the town at the annual meeting, March 11, 1862, the following account was given of expenses incurred on account of the war : BOUNTY PxVID TO vSOLDIERS. Charles H. Streeter, J. F. Capron, Frederick P. Cutler, Houghton Lawrence, Silas Stickney, Oren S. .\(lams, $87 00 AID TO THE FAAHIJEvS OF VOLUNTEERS. Henry T. Smith's family, $;}C) 00 Silas Stickney 's family, U.) OO Warren L. lirown's family, 36 OO |<)hn .\ma(l()n's family, 20 57 $37 00 10 00 10 00 10 00 10 00 10 00 208 HISTORY OF TROY Robert Wheeler's family, George Derby's famih-, $36 00 24 00 $171 57 July 30, 1862, the following communication was made to the Adjutant General at Concord : The number of male citizens in the town of Troj', of the age of eigh- teen years and under forty-five years, liable to do military duty, is eighty-two. The number who are or have been in the service of the United States, is twenty-eight. Two have enlisted wdio have not 3'et been mustered into the United States service, and are not included in the above return. John Grimes, Town Clerk. The following named persons are those who have enlisted in the United States service, from the town of Troy, since April 1, 1S61. Joseph F. Capron. Oren S. Adams. Robert Wheeler. Samuel Thompson. Silas S. Stickney. Robert Cosgrove. Frank Fierce. Henry Amadou. James Amadon. Frederick Lang. Charles H. Streeter. John Amadon. Nelson Haskell. Ezekiel Haskell. Houghton Lawrence. Albert G. Roby. James Kaven. Lorenzo B. Tolman. William H. Tenney. Center H. Lawrence. Frederic Cutler. Patrick McCaffrey. Edward Harvey. George Derb}-. Henr^' T. Smith. Frederic Lawrence. Daniel Fiske. Lemuel W. Brown. John C. Alexander, ] Edmund Bemis, / [OUGKINS, ' Augustus H( Selectmen of Trov. At a town meeting held Aug. 27, 1862, it was voted that each recruit or volunteer for the war who was ac- cepted and mustered into the United States service, for the term, unless sooner discharged, be paid the sum of one hun- dred dollars, and that if the town was called upon to furnish men to fill up the old regiments, the sum of fifty THE REBELLION. 209 dollars be paid in addition, making a total of one hundred and fifty dollars. It was also voted to pixy to those enlisting for three months, a bounty of one hundred dollars, and that their wages be made up to twenty dollars per month for the time they serve ; and the selectmen were authorized to borrow a sum of money sufficient to meet these calls, not to exceed three thousand dollars. The bomity was limited to the number required to fill the quota of the town, and was not to be paid until the men were mustered into service, and no man was to receive a bounty that received a commission before leaving the state. Accordingly the following volunteers for three years received the bounty : William Barnes, Charles H. Barrett, Sidney E. Tolnian, Edward F. Fuller, Simeon Merrifield, Frank Shattuck, Frank Burress, Frank Laraby, Daniel Harris, Daniel L. Barnard, Charles Lang, Curtis A. Whittemore, BOUNTIES PAID TO NINE MONTHS MEN. Lorenzo Dexter, $100 00 John Lang, 100 00 Patrick Shehan, 100 00 Joseph H. Hill. 100 00 Francis S. Piper, 100 00 $500 00 During the year ending March 1, 1863, the families (jf volunteers reported as receiving pecuniary assistance, were : $100 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 100 00 100 (^0 100 00 100 00 100 00 $1,200 00 $146 15 96 28 146 15 98 15 28 28 107 26 72 00 6 00 12 00 36 00 48 00 60 00 40 00 51 00 48 00 20 00 $1,015 27 210 HISTORY OF TROY. Robert Wheeler's family, George W. Derby's family, Lemuel W. Brown's family, Silas Stickney's family, Henry Smith's family, James Kavaimugli's family, Frederiek Lawrence's family, Daniel L. Barnard's famih^ Frank Sluittuck's family, Frank Bnrress' famih', Patrick Shehan's famih', Siraieon Merrifield's family, Charles H. Barrett's family, Lorenzo Dexter's famih', John Lang's family, John Amadon's family. The return made to the Adjutant General, April 27, 1863, gives the number of men who were or had been in the United States serviee, as forty-eight. Of this number, one had entered the service in another state, three had died and nine had been discharged. A draft was made in September, 1863 ; sixty-eight names were in the box and the following twenty drawn out : George Brown. Edward S. Foster. Joel O. Blanding. Franklin Whitcomb. William J. Boyden. Hervey J. Brown. Levi Merrifield. Charles W. Whitney. Frederick Lang. Daniel B. Silsliy. Ira G. Starkey. Jonas Foster. Robert F. Boyce. William Butler. Daniel P. Thompson. Hezekiah Hodgkins. Francis L. Clark. Joseph Tuppcr. George L Ripley. Hdward W. Sutton. Either because the quota of the town was already filled, or for other reasons, these men were not required to serve, and we have a record of only one sending a substitute. THE REBELLION. 211 Sept. 21, 1863. — "Voted, That the town pay the dratted men, who are or may hereafter be drafted for three 3^ears, or their substitutes, on or after being mustered into the United States service ten days, three hundred dollars." The selectmen were instructed to borrow a sum for the purpose of carrying the foregoing vote into effect, not to exceed four thousand dollars, and were given authority to raise an additional sum, if necessary, not to exceed five thousand dollars. Another meeting was held Dec. 5, 1863, when it was voted that the selectmen pay the citizens of the town who shall enlist for three years (until the quota is filled), three hundred dollars, on being accepted and mustered into service. It was also voted that the town assume the responsibility of paying the United States and State bounties to those citizens who should enlist, on being mustered into service, and the selectmen were instructed to borrow ten thousand dollars for the purpose. It was also voted that the selectmen hire recruits out of town, if it could be done satisfactorily, to help make up the quota of the town. The selectmen's report for the A'ear ending March 1, 1864, sliOAvs that the following volunteers for three years were paid bounties : Jesse Hiscock, $700 00 Lyman Spooner, 700 00 John Mahoney, 570 00 Peter Morel, 570 00 John Johnson, 570 00 John Douglass, 570 00 Charles Anderson, 570 00 John Collin, 570 00 John Daniels, 570 00 Evan Crook, 570 00 George W. Clark, 100 00 $0,000 00 $63 00 63 00 70 00 70 00 70 00 212 HISTORY OF TROY. The folloAviiig nine months volnnteers were paid boun- ties in accordance AA'ith the vote passed in 1862, to make their waj^^es equal twenty dollars per month for the time they served : Joseph H. Hill, Francis S. Piper, Patrick Shehan, John Lang, Lorenzo Dexter, $266 OO Bounties paid to drafted men or their substitutes : Jolm Esintrant, as a sulistitute for Daniel P. Thompson, three hundred dollars. The soldiers' families aided during the ^-ear were as follows : Simeon Merrifield's famil_v, Charles H. Barrett's family, James Kavananj^h's family, John Amadon's family, Frank Shattuck's family, Samnel Th(>m])son's family, Patrick Shehan's famih-, Lorenzo Dexter's family, Levi Streeter's family, Daniel L. Barnard's family, Silas Stickney's family, Lemuel W. Brown's family, John Lang's famil\', Robert Wheeler's faniil_v, Lyman Spooner's family. May 7, 1864. The town voted : To pay the men that have already enlisted into the United States service under the present call for two hundred thousand men, three hundred dollars. July 30, 1864. The town voted : That we pay volunteers, or enrolled men, or their substitutes, one $144 00 96 00 120 00 8 00 40 00 72 00 70 00 67 00 96 00 40 00 96 00 144 00 70 00 144 00 8 00 $1,215 00 THE KEBELLION. 213 luindred dollars for one j'ear, and a corresponding sum for the nnmber of years the^' ma\' enlist, not exeeeding three, if thcA' are accepted and nuistered into service, to fill up the quota of the town nnder the present call for five hnndrcd thousand men, to be paid when mustered into service. That wc ]iay the drafted men or their sulistitutes, two hundred dollars, to be paid as soon as mustered into service. That the selectmen borrow a sum not exceeding six thousand five lunidred dollars for the jiurpose. To choose an agent to procure siibstitutes, and chose Edmund Bemis as said agent. September 5, 1864. The town voted: To pay any that may volunteer from this town, to fill the quota under the late call for five hundred thousand men, the sum of three hundred dollars in currency for one j-ear. The following volunteers were paid bounties for one year's enlistment : Nelson E. Haskell, $300 00 Albert Cobl), 300 00 George H. Kinsman, 300 00 Robert M. Silsby, 300 00 George W. Tupper, 300 00 Jonas R. Foster, 300 00 George J. Kipley, 300 00 John H. P.urrill, 300 00 Danvers C. Fassett, 300 00 Joel Holt, 2d, 300 00 Oren vS. Adams, 300 00 Frank E. Amadou, 300 00 Lorenzo Dexter, bounty as a nine months man for 1862, 70 01 $3,070 01 The following men were drafted : Nathan Carter, Alvah S. Clark, Henry W. Farrar, Thomas Goodall, F. B. For- ristall, William O. Silsby, Leonard Wright. The^' furnished substitutes who were paid bounties as follows : 214 HISTORY OF TROY. Thomas Bruce, $300 00 George Wallace, 300 00 Daniel vSmith, 300 00 Ernest Beard, 300 00 Allen McLeod, 300 00 Francis Page, 300 00 George Harris, 300 00 $2,100 00 The soldiers' families aided during the year closing March 1, 1865, were as follows: Simeon Merrificld's family, $14-4 00 Charles H. Barrett's family, 96 00 James Kavanangh's famih-, 40 00 Lemuel W. Brown's famil3% 108 00 Levi Streeter's family, 96 00 Frank Shattuck's family, 48 00 Daniel L. Barnard's famih-, 48 00 Lyman Sjjooner's family, 48 00 John Amadou's family, 8 00 Danvers C. Fassett's family, 72 00 George J. Ripley's family, 66 80 Robert Wheeler's family, 108 00 William Barnes' family, 88 00 William Barnes' family, for 1863, 78 00 $1,048 80 The selectmen's report for the year ending March 3, 1866, gives the following list of bounties paid to volun- teers for one vear : Samuel M. Thompson, $300 00 Sidney B. Boweu, 300 00 Lucius H. Clement, 300 00 Ezekiel Haskell, 300 00 Town of Rindge, for Frank Pierce, 300 00 $1,500 00 The soldiers' families aided during the year were : George J. Ripley's family. $44 00 Levi Streeter's family, 32 00 Oren S. Adams' familv. 40 39 THE REBELLION. 215 Daniel L. Barnard's family, Frank Shattuck's family, Simeon Merrifield's family, Danvers C. Fassett's family-, Lyman Spooner's family, Samuel AI. Thompson's famiK-, Betsey' B. Amadon, William Barnes' family, Charles H. Barrett's family, $346 73 The disbursements on account of the Avar, during each year, were as follows : 1862. Bounty paid to soldiers, $87 00 Aid to families of volunteers, 171 57 $258 57 $8 00 17 00 30 40 42 00 17 07 48 00 19 87 32 00 16 00 1868. Bounties paid volunteers, $1,200 00 Bounties paid nine months men, 500 00 Aid to soldiers' families, 1,015 27 1864. Bounties paid volunteers, $6,060 00 Boimties paid nine months men, 266 00 Bounties paid drafted men or sub- stitutes, 300 00 Aid to soldiers' families, 1,215 00 Expense, selectmen to Concord, 15 35 1865. Bounties paid volunteers for one year, $3,760 01 Bounties paid drafted men and substitutes, 2,100 00 Aid to soldiers' families, 1,048 80 Edmund Bemis, for car fare and expense paid Ija' him for his ex- jiense and the expense tiiid car fare of volunteers to Concord to enlist, 84 91 Edmund Bemis, expense to Leba- non and Concord, j^ettinji volun- teers and substitutes, 42 31 lix])cnsc sinidry persons to Lebanon, 21 (><) $2,715 27 $7,856 35 $7,057 03 216 HISTORY OF TROY. 1866. Bounties paid volunteers, $1,500 00 Aid to soldiers' families, 3-t6 73 Exjjense of men to Lebanon for enlistment, 13 94- $1,.S60 67 $19,7-17 S9 Thus we see the total expense of the town to have been $19,74-7 89 Of this sum, bounties reimbursed by the State and the United States, $8,912 00 Received from State, aid to famiHes, 2,655 52 $6,567 52 Total expenditure of the town, $13,180 37 The selectmen's re])ort for the year ending March 1, 1894, gives the amount due from the United States Gov- ernment for bounties advanced as $1,380.00. The original papers relating to the mustering in and assignment of bounties of those who went from this town, were unfortunately lost many years since, but the follow- ing record gives the names and history so far as it could be obtained, of the citizens of Troy who served during the four years' War of the Rebellion, and is believed to be nearly an accurate and authentic list: Adams, Oren S., Company A, Seeond Regiment. Enlisted Sept. 11, 1861; mustered in Sept. 17, 1861, as a private; discharged, disaljled, May 30, 1863, Concord; reenlisted, and mustered in for one year, Jan. 31, 1865; assigned to Company C; appointed sergeant. May 1, 1865; discharged, Dec. -I, 1865. Also served in Company E, First Vermont Infantry ; enlisted April 19, 1861, for three months; mustered out Aug. 15, 1861. Amadou, John, Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 7, 1861 ; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861 ; died of disease, Jan. 15, 18()2, on board steamer " Louisian;i," Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina. Amadou, Frank li., Company I, liightcenth Regiment. Enlisted and mustered in March 1, 1865, for one year; mustered out July 29, 1865. THE REBELLION. 217 Anderson, Charles, Company K, Ninth Re,y;iment. Mustered in Dec. 23, 1S63; supposed to have deserted en route to the regiment. Barnard, Daniel L., Comi)any I, Ninth Kej^iment. Enlisted July 22, 1862 ; mustered in Aug. 15, 1862; discharged June 15, 1865, to date June 10, 1865: Concord. Died Dec. 2-i, 1889, Woburn, Mass. Barrett, Charles H., Company C, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 30, 1862; mustered in Sept. 22, 1862, as a musician; mustered out July 8, 1865. Killed at Stoddard. Barnes, William, Company C, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Sept. 1, 1862; mustered in Sept. 22, 1862; discharged Aug. 18, 1865, at Concord. Barnes, Frank, Company C, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 25, 1862; mustered in Sept. 22, 1862; deserted Jan. 14, 1863, Pooles- ville, Md. Bowen, Sidne3' B., Company I, Third Regiment. Enlisted March 20, 1865, for one year; mustered in March 20, 1865; mustered out July 20, 1865. Brown, Lemuel W., Company' F, Second Regiment United States Shai'p- shooters. Enlisted Oct. 9, 1861; mustered in Nov. 26, 1861; transferred to Invalid Corps July 1, 1863; discharged Nov. 26, 1864, Washington, D. C. Died at Troy, Aug. 30, 1890. Bruce, Thomas, Company I, Ninth Regiment. Enlisted and mustered in July 9, 1864; deserted Feb. 10, 1865, City Point, Va., en route to regiment. Substitute for Nathan Carter. Burde, Ernest, Company K, Eleventh Regiment. Enlisted July 22, 1864; substitute for Thomas Goodall ; missing at Poplar Spring Church, Va., Sept. 30, 1864. Burrill, John H, C(jmi)any C, Second Regiment. Reenlisted and mustered in for one year, Feb. 1, 1865; mustered out Dec. 19, 1865. lUirress, Frank. Capron, J(^seph F., Com])any A, Second Regiment. Enlisted April 25, 1861, for three months; not mustered in; paid b^' the State; reen- listed May 22, 1861, for three years; mustered in May 31, 1861; discharged, disabled, Oct. 22, 1861, Washington, D. C; reenlisted in Dec, 1863, into the First Regiment Connecticut Cavalry. Died at Troy, Feb. 13, 1892. Clark, George W., Com])any A, Second Regiment. Enlisted Ai)ril 17, 1863; mustered in April 18, 1863; discharged, disabled, Sept. 22, 1863, Fred- erick City. Md. Died at Troy, Jan. 1, 1864. 218 HISTORY OF TROY. Clement, Lucius H., Company I, Third Re.a^iment. Enlisted and mustered in March 2U, 1865, for one year. Died of disease, July 4-, 1865, Golds- borough, N. C. Cobb, Albert, Compaiij^ E, First Regiment, Heavy Artillery. Enlisted Sept. 1, 1864, for one year; mustered in Sept. 5, 1864; mustered out June 15, 1865. Collins, John, Com])any D, Ninth Regiment. Enlisted and mustered in Dec. 23, 1863; killed May 12. 1864, Spottsylvania, Va. Cosgrove, Robert, Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 14, 1861 ; mustered in Dec. 3, 1861; wounded Aug. 30, 1862, Bull Run, Va. ; discharged, disabled, Jan. 5, 1863, Alexandria, Va. ; also served in Company F, Third Battalion, Fifteenth Infantry, U. S. A. ; enlisted Dec. 20, 1864, for three years; appointed corporal; discharged, dis- abled, June 14, 1867, Atlanta, Ga. Died Feb. 16, 1892, at National Military- Home, Indiana. Crook, Evan, Company D, Ninth Regiment. Enlisted and mustered in Dec. 23, 1863; deserted April 24, 1864, Harrisburg, Pa. Cutler, Frederick P., Company H, Second Regiment. Enlisted Sept. 6, 1861; mustered in Sept. 17, 1861; discharged, disabled, March 26, 1863, Philadelphia, Pa. Died at Troy, April 12, 1892. Daniels, John, Company D, Ninth Regiment. Enlisted and mustered in Dec. 23, 1863; v^rounded and missing. May 12, 1864, Spottsylvania, Va. ; gained from missing; deserted Jan. 10, 1865, Philadelphia, Pa. Derby, George W., Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 14, 1861; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861; ap])ointed corporal, Felx 21, 1862; ser- geant; drowned Aug. 13, 1862, by foundering of steamer "West Point," in Potomac river. Dexter, Lorenzo, Company I, Sixteenth Regiment. Enlisted Sept. 5, 1862; mustered in Oct. 23, 1862; mustered out Aug. 20, 1863. Died at Troy, vSept. 21, 1892. Douglass, John, Company F, Ninth Regiment. Enlisted and mustered in Dec. 23, 1863; transferred to Department of Northwest, 1864; tem- porarily assigned to Company F, Twenty-Third Veteran Reserve Corps, Dec. 16, 1864; died of disease, Peb. 15, 1865, at Milwaukee, Wis. Esintrant, John, Company E, Fifth Regiment. Enlisted and mustered in Oct. 1, 1863, as substitute for Daniel P. Thompson; wounded June 18, 1864, Petersburg, Va.; entered Mower General Hospital, Phila- delphia, Pa., Oct. 19, 1864; transferred to Trenton, N. J., Feb. 16, 1865. No further record. THE REBELLION. 219 Fassett, Danvers C, Company' E, First Regiment, Heavj- Artillery. En- listed Sept. 1, 1S64, for one year; mustered in Sept. 5, 1864; mus- tered otit June 15, 1865. Fisk, Daniel M., Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 18, 1861; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861; killed Sept. 17, 1862, Antietam, Va. Foster, Jonas R., Company E, First Regiment HeavA- Artillerw Enlisted Sept. 1, 1864, for one j-ear; mustered in Sept. 5, 1864; mustered out June 15, 1865. Fuller, Edward F., Company' C, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 14, 1862; mustered in Sept. 22, 1862; mustered out July 8, 1865. Died Aug. 5, 1889, Lynn, Mass. Harris, Daniel, Company C, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 21, 1862; mustered in Sept. 23, 1862; wounded Oct. 19, 1864, Cedar Creek, Va.; mustered out July 8, 1865. Died June 6, 1872, Winchen- don, Mass. Harris, George, Eleventh Re^ment. Enlisted Juh- 22, 1864; mustered in July 23, 1864 ; substitute for Leonard Wright. Deserted en route to regiment. Harvey, Edward W., Compan}- A, Second Regiment. Enlisted Sept. 2, 1861 ; mustered in Sept. 8, 1861 ; discharged by civil authority Nov. 12, 1861, Bladensburg, Md. Haskell, Ezekiel, Company F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 1, 1861; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861 ; transferred to Company G, Seventh In- valid Corps, Dec. 19, 1863; discharged Nov. 28, 1864, Washington, D. C; enhsted in Company I, Third Regiment, March 20, 1865, for one _vear; mustered out July 20, 1865. Died at Troy, Sept. 23, 1884. Haskell, Nelson E., Company F, Fifth Re.giment. Enlisted and mustered in Oct. 23, 1861; wounded Jime 1, 1862, Fair Oaks, Va.; discharged, disabled, Dec. 27, 1862, Alexandria, Va.; eidisted in Trooj) B, First Regiment, New Hampshire Cavalry; mustered in March 24, 1864; deserted Aug. 12, 1864; returned under president's ])r()clanmtion. Mar. 31, 1865; mustered out July 15, 1865. Hill, Joseph H., Company I, Sixteenth Regiment. Enlisted Oct. 9, 1862; mustered in Oct. 23, 1862; mustered out Aug. 20, 1863. Hiseock, Jesse, Co. F, Sixth Regiment. Enlisted and mustered in Dec. 25, 1863; mustered out July 17, 1865. Died at Troy, Oct. 13, 1895. Holt, Joel, 2d, Troop (i. First Regiment, New Hampshire Cavalry. En- listed and mustered in Aug. 16, 1864, for one year; discharged Jime 5, 1865, Washington. D. C. Died at (kithrie, 0. T., April 27, 1892. 220 HISTORY OF TROY. Johnson, John, Company F, Ninth Rc.2;iment. Enhsted and mustered in Dec. 23, 1863; deserted May 30, 1865, Milwaukee, Wis. Kavanau^h, James. Kavan, James, Company C, Third Regiment. EnHsted and mustered in March 25, 1862; discharged, disaljled, May 9, 1S63, Hilton Head, S. C. Kingsman, George H., Com])any E, First Regiment, Heavy Artillery'. Enlisted Sept. 1, 1864, for one \'ear; mustered in Sept. 5, 1864; mustered out June 15, 1865. Lang, John F., Company I, Sixteenth Regiment. Enlisted Sept. 19, 1862; mustered in Oct. 23, 1862; mustered out Aug. 20, 1863. Lang, Chai-les, Company 1, Ninth Regiment. Enlisted July 22, 1862; mustered in Aug. 15,1862; transferred to Company- E, Second Artil- lery, United States Army, Oct. 14, 1862; re-transferred May 26, 1865; mustered out June 10, 1865. Larabv, Frank, Company C, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 25, 1862; mustered in Sept. 22, 1862; deserted Feb. 3, 1863, Pooles- ville, Md. Lawrence, Center H., Company A, Second Regiment. EnHsted May 2, 1861, for three months; not mustered in; reenlisted May 22, 1861, for three years; mustered in May 31, 1861, as sergeant; ajjpointed sergeant major Aug. 21, 1861; adjutant Oct. 26, 1861; discharged Oct. 31, 1861, to accept promotion. Subsequent service, captain; assistant adjutant general. United States Volunteei's; brevet major United States Volunteers, to date March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war. Lawrence, Houghton, Company D, Second Regiment. Enlisted Sept. 6, 1861 ; mustered in Sept. 17, 1861 ; discharged, disabled, July 11, 1862. Died at Troy, April 10, 1884. McCaffrey, Patrick, Comjjany F, Second Regiment. Enlisted May 6, 1861, for three months; not mustered in; reenlisted May 22, 1861, for three years; mustered in June 4, 1861; died of disease, July 8, 1862, Bladensburg, Md. McLeod, Allan, Company L Fifth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 24, 1864; substitute for F. B. Forristall ; discharge to date Dec. 14, 1864. Morel, Peter, Company D, Ninth Regiment. Enlisted and mustered in Dec. 23, 1863; deserted Feb. 18, 1864, Camp Burnside. Ky. Mahoney, John, Company D, Ninth Regiment. Enlisted and mustered in Dec. 23, 1863; wounded May 18, 1864, vSpottsylvania, Va. ; trans- ferred to Company D, Sixth Regiment, June 1, 1865; mustered out July 17, 1865. THE REBELLION. 221 Mcrrifiekl, Simeon, Compain- A, Fourteenth Regiment. Enlisted Aug. 14, 1862; mustered in Sept. 22, l'. 29, 1861 ; reenlisted Se])t. 1862, into Coni])any K, Fourth United States Artil- lery. Keenlisted 1864, at Brandy Station, Va. ; disehari^ed at Fort Delaware, Del., Feb. 11, 1867. Sebastian Charles N., Company A, Second Regiment. Enlisted May 31, 18(51. Enlisted Aiij^. 1862, in Comi)any H, Twent_v-third Massachu- setts Volunteers; reenlisted in same company and retiiment, Dec. 1863; discharged July 31, 1865. Was in Libby prison. Old Parish ])rison. New Orleans, and Salisbury jirison, N. C, for about a year. Thompson, Charles E., Seventeenth Massachusetts Volunteers. Whitcomb, Oliver P., Company F, Fifth Regiment. Enlisted as sul)sti- tnte Aug. 11, 1864- ; assigned to Company D; credited to (iroton; discharged June 28, 1865. CHAPTER XIII. HIST(1RICAL AND TRADITIONAL. LETTKK KR(1M C. K. I'OTTKK, ESO., KKSPECTINC, THE WESTEKN' ItOl'NDAKV OF THE STATE. — THE Sl'I"I'( )SEI) ^^•KI)EK. — THE UORIiEKV. It has been previously stated that Sir Ferdinando Goro^es and Capt. John Mason obtained from the Council of Plymouth, in 1622, a grant of the territory extending from the Merrimack to the Sagadahock, and back to the great lakes and river of Canada — the St. Lawrence; also, that Rev. John Wheelwright and others, in 1629, pur- chased of the Indians a considerable tract of land between the Piscataqiui and Merrimack; and further, that Mason alone, shortly after, obtained a new grant of this very same territory. Some account has been given of the efforts of Alason and his heirs to maintain their title to the ter- ritory. On the 30th of January, 1746, John Tufton Mason, who was then considered to be the legal heir to the soil, sold his interest to a company of twelve men, in Portsmouth, denominated the " Masonian Pro])rietors." It is also shown that the townships in the vicinity of Monadnock were granted by these Masonian Proprietors. It may not be well understood how the original grant to Mason could be made to include the territory so far west as the Monadnock, and the subject not being perfectly clear to the mind of Dr. Caverly, he addressed a letter of inquiry to C. E. Potter, Esq., of Hillsborough, at that time one of the best historians in the state, who furnished the following communication which may hel]) explain the matter. 228 HISTORY OF TROY. HlLLSHOKOt'CH, Sc])t. f), 1^50. My Dear Sir: On pa,2:e 235 of the "History of Manchester" (Ante and Post) you will find a history of the sale to the Masonian Proprietors. The purchase by them was a bit of sharp iiractiee on the part of speculators and huck- sterins>- ])oliticians, that would not be tolerated at the present day, as corrupt as the croakers say we have become. Their western and north- ern line was claimed to be a curve or arc parallel to the seacoast of New Ham])shire, lyin»- betwixt the Piscata(|ua and a point three miles north of the Merrimack. This claim was undoubtedly an aftertlumj^ht made for the purpose of takino- in a much larger amount of land than was intended in the original grant. This line, which was called the "Masonian curve," and the "Masonian curved line," was surveyed and run out at various times, — and down to the time of the Revolution, was a fruitful source of vexation. The bounds of New Hampshire as granted to Mason, on the south and southwest, were a line three miles north of the Merrimack and parallel to that river to the "fartherest head thereof" till sixty miles were made, and then the head line extended east till it reached a ijoint sixty miles from the mouth of the Piscataqua and on a line running up that I'iver. This grant was made b^- the Council of Ply- minith, sui)posing that the Merrimack river had its source in the West, as placed on Smith's and the maps of that time. After the Massachu- setts people discovered that the Merrimack made an elbow at Draeut, and there came from the north, they claimed that the "crotch of the river" at Franklin was the "fartherest head of the Merrimack," and that a large ])ine three miles north of there, (and called the " Endicott tree," because marked as the line tree under Endicott's administration) was a bound or line tree on their northern line, which passed east and west through the tree from the coast of Main to the "South Sea." In 1652, they placed the farthest head of the Merrimack still farther north, at the "Endicott rock," at the outlet of Lake Winne]jesaukee, and thence running three miles north, established a point through which their north line extended east and west. This claim covered Mason's grunt and was in controversy down to 1740. In that year the board of "The Lords of Trade" decided "that the northern boundary of the j^rovincc of Massachusetts be a similar curve pursuing the course of the Merrimack river, at three miles distance on the north side thereof, beginning at the Atlantic ocean and ending at a point due north of Pawtueket Falls, and a straight line drawn from HISTORICAL AND TRADITIONAL. 229 tliciice fine west till it meets with his Majesty's other .government." Tliis determination was made on the ,yronnd that when Massaehnsetts and New Hampshire were granted, the Merrimaek was sn])|)osed and laid down as eominy- from the west. As Mason's grant ran ni)on the Merrimaek ]iarallel, at three miles north of the river, whieh was tlie north line of Massfielnisetts — when the Lords of Trade determined the north line of Massaehnsetts in 174-0, to 1)e as above described, and where it is at i:)resent — the heirs of Mason and afterwards the Masonian Proprietors claimed that their line on the sonth shonld conform to that line, and the State Legislatnre accpiiesccd in that claim. It commenced on the line of Massaehnsetts, at a point sixty miles north from the seashore (three miles north of the month of the Merri- mack,) at the sonthwest corner of Fitzwilliam. P""itzwilliam was granted by the Masonian Projjrietors as "Nnmber Fonr" of the townshijjs granted in the Monadnock country. There were eight of these town- ships. Of these, Nos. IV, V, VI, VII and VIII were bounded westerly by the "Masonian cnrve." No. IV niclnded what is now Fitzwilliam and a ])art of Troy. No. V. inclnded what was formerly Oxford, but now Marlborough and Koxbnry. No. VI was Packersfield, now Nelson and Snllivan, in i)art. No. VII was Limerick, now Stoddard. No. VIII was first New Concord, then Camden, now Washington. These towns were all originally bonnded on the west by the "Masonian cnrve." No. I of the Monadnock grants was what is now Kindge, No. II is now Jaffrev, No. Ill is now Dnblin. These were called Monadnock No. I, II, III, etc., and Canada No. I, II, etc. Candida No. I is now Mason, No. II was what is n()V\' Wilton, and No. Ill was what is now Lyndcborongh. These townships were granted by Massachusetts to the soldiers in the expedition against Canada iind their heirs — bnt the real object was to give the i)eo])le of Massaehnsetts the soil, as the government was abont to ])ass out of their hands. So of the Narragansett Townshi]is, No. Ill was what is now Andierst, No. IV was what is now (loffstown, mainly. No. \' was what is now Bedford, and No. VI was what is now I)nid);irton nnd Ho])kinton, or nearly so. Nos. I .and II were located in Maine and Massaehnsetts. These were granted to soldiers and their descendants, that had been in the Narragansett war. Charleston was also called No. IV, being the fourth of a nnmber of frontier towns granted as security against the incursions of the Indians. 230 HISrORY OF TROY. Tliese t()\vnslii]is are laid down niul named and nnnd)ered, as I have mentioned a1)()ve, in Klaneliard and LanLjdon's Majj of 17(51, and in Holland's Maj) of 1784. Thus yon will see that Troy was within the grant of Mason as elainied by the Masonian Projjrietors. This enrve | line of the Masonian r'r()])rietors was surveyed soon after the settlement ' of vour town, hv Robert h^leteher in 1 7(5S and aj^ain in 1 7()'.). The two surveys differed, but the diiferenee did not alTeet the line in Cheshire County. This line of 1708 erossed the Pemigewassett betwixt the towns (jf IMymouth and Urid^ewater, (then a i)art of Alexandria,) ])assed through Holderness and the north ])art of S(|uam Lake and interseeted the State line betwixt Freedom and liaton, that now are, l)ut at the north Jingle of what was then " Leavittstown." This line of 17(59, eonimeneed to divide from that of 1 7(>S, at the south eorner of (irafton and on the line of what was then e.alled Alex- andria, overplus now I)anl)inw, iind ])assing a little north, erossed the Pemigewassett at the bend of the river above the Livermore Farm in Holderness, and interseeted the State line where the Saeo erosses the same in Conw.ay. After the Revolution the eontroversy as to the Masonian enrve was settled by the Legislature. Jan. (>, 17S7, they ajjpointed John MeDuffie, Josiah Rartlett and Arehibald MeMin^phv, a eommittee to rini and deter- mine the line. They determined upon a straight line as the head line of Mason's Patent. Their report was aeeepted by the Legislature. This cut off a large segment from their claim, and the Masonian Proprietors then came forward and i)urehased it of the State, for forty thousand dollars in State securities and eight hundred dollars in specie. The State's title was passed to them June 18, 1788, by a Committee con- sisting of Thomas Bartlett, Dudley Odlin and Archibald MeMurphy. Thus ended the Masonian controversy, and leaving Troy still within the Masonian claim. (See "History of Manchester," jiages 520 and 521.) Yoiirs respectfully, C. E. Potti-:k. On the third of March, 1811, a roliberv was committed in what is now Troy, and this occasioned no Httle excite- ment at that time. The circumstances were substantially as follows : Luke Harris and a young lad by the name of Charles Tolman, were traveling in a sleigh from Marl- borough to Fitzwilliam, on the turnpike road leading from HISTORICAL AM) TRADITIONAL. 2,S1 Keene to the latter place. Just before sunset they passed Carter's tavern, where Harris saw a stranger mounting his horse, and soon after observed that he was following him. The pursuit was continued about one hundred rods to a wood, where the stranger rode on and passed Harris and kept a little forward of him some distance, then halted and let Harris pass him. Harris rode on and the stranger followed him almost to the falls, and then passed him again. As they came to a curve in the road Harris saw the stranger take out a pistol and prime it. Near the road that led to Talmon Knights' the stranger stopped and Harris passed him. The stranger then followed Harris a few rods and then passed him, keeping forward till he arrived at a wood path, into which he turned and stopped. When Harris came up, the stranger rode out, presented a pistol towards him and said, " deliver up your money." Harris replied that "he had none of conse- (|uence." The man then said, "d n you, deliver up your money or you are a dead man." Harris then gave him his pocketbook. The man ordered him to go back to Keene or he wotild blow him through. Harris then turned back and the stranger rode off towards Fitzwil- liam. Harris intended to go back and turn up the road to Talmon Knights'. He drove fast and his horse got a little past the road, and in attempting to turn him the sleigh struck a log and was almost u})set and Harris fell out. When he got up he saw the stran_ger coming back. He came up and told Harris he was a rascal, and had deceived him, that he had more money, holding a dirk at Harris's breast while he searched his pockets, then told him to go on to Keene and if he turned l)ack that night, he would be the death of him. The man then rode off and Harris rode back towards Keene until the stran^rer 232 HISTORY OF TROY. was out of sight, when he turned hack and went up the road to Knights', tehing' him of the robbery and request- ing him to turn out in pursuit of the robber. The robber went towards FitzwilHam, and when he had got to a dry bridge aljout a mile south of the place where he robbed Harris, he met a Mr. Willard driving a team, and a Mr. Powers near him. The robber demanded Willard's money. Willard told him he had none. Robber dismounted and coming up to him with his pistol in his hand, said, "d n you, why do you dally? Deliver up your money or you are a dead man." Willard took out all he had, only a few cents, and the robber said, "march on, d n you, march on or I will be the death of you." Willard took Mr. Powers' horse and rode on to Harris' tavern — called to the people to turn out and pursue the robber. He then turned back and stopped at Morse's, called to them to turn out and catch the robber ; rode on to Osgood's, called to the people in the house — asked if they had seen any person ride by upon the run. Just at that time the robber stepped out and said, "yes, he has just gone by." Willard saw him and knew him and jumped from his horse; at the same time the robber dre\v his pistol. Wilhird seized the pistol, at the same time clinch- ing the man who drew his dirk. The prisoner finally got off and mounting his horse rode away bareheaded, having lost his hat in the scuffle. Willard started in pursuit of the robber, who took the old Turnpike road, but when within about a mile of FitzwilHam village, being closely pursued, he dismounted and ran into the woods. Intelligence of the robbery soon spread, and in a short time several individuals were on the ground. The first to discover the robber in the woods was Dr. Samuel Lane of FitzwilHam. Seeing him coming out of the woods about twenty rods distant, he galloped his horse after him, and HISTORICAL AND TKADiriONAL. 233 when within a few rods of him called and avsked who he was ? Turning and coming towards Lane, the robber said, "I am the man," or "I am the man pursued." When thtw met, the robber said, "you are a rascal and are in my power," at the same time pulling on his pistol which missed fire. Lane struck the man with his whip and dis- mounted on the off side (the robber being on the near side). Lane's horse started while he had one foot in the stirrup, dragging him some distance before he got free, when he saw the robber pursuing him with the dirk in his right hand and the pistol in the left. Lane struck off the pistol and closed in with the robber, who attempted to stab him with the dirk, first in the side and then in the shoulder. Lane called out "murder," threw the robber, who immediately turned him under, and made repeated attempts to stab him, but having bent the point of the dirk against his shoulder bone, could not penetrate his clothes after. Lane continued to hold the rol^ber by the hair, crying "murder." Jonas Robinson and a Mr. Starkey soon came up and secured the robber. He was taken be- fore E. Wright, Esq., of FitzwilHam, and duly committed for trial. The prisoner's name was found to be George Ryan, and was from St. John's, Canada. On the 10th of the follow- ing ALiy, the prisoner was arraigned before the Superior Court then in session at Charlestown, the defendant plead- ing ''not guilty."' The trial was set for Thursday, the 16th, when the Court opened at nine o'clock. There were present Hon. Arthur Livermore, Chief Justice; Hon. John Steele, Justice; William K. Atkinson, Esq., Attorney General for the State; J. C. Chamberlain, J. H. Hubbard and Roger Vose, Esqs., for the prisoner. The case was ably conducted on both sides, and the follo^ving abridgment of the charge of the Chief Justice to the jury will show 234 HISTORY OF TROY. the ground of defence and the principal points brought to bear upon the case. Gentlemen of the Jury : By a Statute of this State, the crime of robliery is made a capital offence. The words of the act arc: " Tliat if any ])erson shall felonioush^ assault, rob and take from another person, any nu)ney, goods, chattels or other property, that may be the sulyeet of theft, such jjcrson lieing thereof convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and suffer death." George Ryan is indicted for a breach of this law. To this indictment the defendant has pleaded not guilty, and you are to determine this impor- tant issue. The extreme severity of the law rerpiires the fullest evidence before you slioidd convict. It is yovn" dutv to try this issue on the evidence in the case. An awful responsibility rests on you. You will first consider, gentlemen, whether the prisoner did the deed. If you believe he did it, you will then consider whether he had his reason at the time, and you are to ])resumc he had unless the contrary is shown. If vou liclieve the prisoner deriingcd at the time, you will then determine whether this proceeded from intoxication or from the visitation of Provi- dence. Intemiierance is itself a crime and one crime cannot excuse another. His Honor then stated the evidence on the part of the government, and also the evidence of Bingham, Hogan and Capt. Dunham, in favor of the prisoner, and then proceeded : It may be important in this case to consider whether the defendant, previous to the 3d of last March, was a person of good character; whether it does not ajjpear from the evidence that he has Ijcen engaged in the North West Companv's service, and if so whether this may not account for his being armed in the manner he was. It may be im|)or- tant also to consider wdiether the prisoner brought back the dirk for the ]iuri)ose of using it, or whether it was merely accidental. His Honor then noticed the testimony of the other witnesses, on the part of the prisoner, and proceeded : Your first incpiiry is, whether the ])risoner did rob LidvC Harris. If you believe Harris, and his testimony is confirmed by other evidence, you must believe that the defendant did that deed. You will then in(|uire whether he did it feloniouslv. To determine this, vou must also HISTORICAL AND TRADITIONAL. 235 cletcrniine whether he had at that time the use of his reason. Stiles and Shaw testify, that in their opinion he had not the use of his reason. If yon are of tliis 0])inion, the sin of his transgression is not to lie laid on him, miless he was tlie voinntary eanse of his own derangement. Intoxi- eation is no exense for the eomniissioii of a erime. This is trne as a general rnle. Btit all general rules are snl)jeet to exeeptions. Suijjiose a man tuiae(|uainted with the eft'eets of S])iritnous liqnor should be ])re- sented with it and shoxdd, 1)y drinking it, ))e thrown into n fit of madness ; he would not be aeeonntable for his actions during his delirium ; and the I'eason is beeausc his intoxieation is involuntary' and unintended. The efteets of ardent s]Mrits are very different ujion difterent persons. A large (|uantity will have no effeet ujion some men, while a small ([uantity will intoxieate others. In this ease yoti kno^v nothing" of the ])risoner before this time. He might have been unaccustomed to the use of ardent spirits. You will therefore consider whether he was jjrobably intoxi- cated; and if so whether he might not have drunk more than he was aware of. It will l)e your duty to examine all the evidence in the case. I rejieat, gentlemen, the whole res])onsibility of this trial rests upon the jury. You must not convict until all reasonable doubts arc removed. If thev are not, you will acipiit the ])risoner; if they are, whatever may be the eonscfpienccs to him, it is your duty to find him guiltv. The jury, after licinfi' out al)Oiit half an hour, returned with the verdict of ''not guilty.''' There was considerable excitement in Troy in the win- ter of 1818, in consequence of the discovery of what were supposed to be human bones, under a barn formerly owned by Levi Haskell. The circumstances were substantially as follows : A son of Aaron Holt, who at that time lived on the Haskell farm, v\ras sick, and Dea. Griffin rode down to Mr. Holt's in the evening of the 3d of January, for the ])urpose of watching with the sick lad during the night. On arriving there, Joel, another son of Mr. Holt, took a lantern and accompanied Mr. Griffin to the barn to put up his horse. While there, the lantern w^as accidentally held too near some combustible material which took fire, and the whole building was quickly enveloped in flaines. 236 HISTORY OF TKOY. Alter the barn had been burnt, a small mound of earth \vas observed immediately under \vhere the floor of the haymow was ; upon diggins^ into it there were found what were supposed to be himian bones. It appeared as though a small excavation had been made, into which a human body had been deposited upon a board and the whole covered with earth. But time and the fire had so aflected the few bones remaining, that their real character was not easily made out. It was the public opinion, however, that a murder had been committed, and that these bones were the remains of a man who had mysteriously disappeared from the town some years before. Suspicion was fixed upon various individuals ; and the excitement ran so high that the selectmen of the town published the following advertisement : A vSUPPOSED MURDER. We the undersigned Seleetmen of the town of Troy, county of Cheshire, State of New Hampshire, hereby certify, tliat on the 3d of January ISIS, a 1)arn in this town was accidentally burnt; — that a few days after there was discovered the evident appearance of the remains of a full grown human body, laying on a board, slightly covered with sand, under the ])lace of the floor of the haymow. This ajjpcaranee was ex- amined, and bones found, which were by those present judged to be hnm;in; though they were so aflected by time, and the intense heat of the fire, that their original form was not entire, nor were they capable of being arranged in due order bv the anatomist. It is the current opinion of the ]icople of this town and vicinity, that these are the remains of a man whose death was occasioned by inilawful means, and whose body was concealed in that ])laee; and many circumstances are called to mind which go far towards strenglhening this opinion. About fourteen vears ago, it is very generally recollected that inquiry was made after a stranger of whom it was said, that the last wdiieh was seen or heard of him was in this town; but his name and place of residence, aiul those of his friends who were in search of him, are not recollected. The undersigned rec(uest that the jn-inters of newspapers throughout the United States would be so good as to publish this, as soon as con- venient ; and also that any people who can give any information respecting HISTORICAL AND TRADITIONAL. 237 a person, wlio w;is missiiio', or sn]ii)ose(l to lie nmrdcrcMl, in f)r near this town, ])rcvious to the time said barn was Iiiu'iit, wotild, witliont delay, forward ns siieli information, tliat all jiossible means to detect, and brinji to justice the perpetrators of the supjjosed horrid deed may be speedily employed. Sylvester P. Flint. Daniel W. Farrar. George Farrar. N. B. — Troy is a newly incorporated town, taken jirincipally from Marlboronoh and Fitzwilliam, nine miles southwardly from Keene, (N. H.) through which passes a great road from Keene to Boston, (Mass.) Troy, March IS, IS 18. Early in the following- winter, Joseph Nimblet of Wood- stock, Vt., appeared and stated, that fourteen years be- fore, his brother-in-law, Seth Lucns, started from Province- town, Mass., to go to Woodstock with a large sum of money; and that he was traced as far as the hotel of Christopher Harris in Troy (then Marlborough), and that nothing farther Avas ever heard of him. It was stated that he was in pursuit of a farm ; and the report was that a stranger, answering the description of Lucus, was seen to leave the hotel, in compauA^ with Levi Haskell and Jonathan Lawrence, Jr., for the purpose of examining the farm which Haskell proposed to sell to him, and was the farm upon which the barn was burnt. It appears that the opinion had long prevailed, to some extent, that human blood had been shed upon those premises ; and it had been currently reported that there had been seen, in and about the barn, many marvellous phenomenas which were considered indicative of the commission of a horrid crime. Many of those phenomenas were substantiated by men whose veracity we should hardly dare question ; but we have a very imperfect idea of the various phantoms to which the imagination under certain circumstances will give birth. 238 HISTORY OF TROY. In thivS case, the evidence ^vas such, and the excitement ran so high, that it seemed necessary that something should be done to satisfy the pubhc mind. Consequently, i the persons suspected, Levi Haskell and Jonatluan Law- rence, Jr., were arrested, and, on the 11th of January, 1819, were examined in the town house before Elijah Dun- bar, Esq., of Keene. James Wilson, Sen., was employed as cotmcil for the State, and Joel Parker for the ]:)risoners. It appeared in the evidence that Lucus was missed some fourteen or fifteen years before, that search was made for him, that he was traced as far as the Harris tavern, and that nothing" farther could be heard of him. It also ap- peared that Haskell, about that time, had in his posses- sion more money than he could reasonably account for; and there were other circumstances which led some people to suj^pose that he had something to do with the disap- pearance of Lucus. In the result of the examination, Has- kell was committed, and Lawrence was ordered to recog- nize for his appearance at the next Superior Court, to give his testimony in behalf of the State. Haskell had to lay in jail until the next May, when his case was brought be- fore the grand jury at Charlestown ; and upon examina- tion of the testimony, the Attorney General thought it was, not sufficient to convict the prisoner of the crime w^ith which he was charged, and as the jury did not find a bill against him, he was discharged. CHATTER XIV. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF KDfC.VTION. — INTEREST OF SCHOOL LOTS EXPENDED FOR SCHOOLS. — THE FIRST SCHOOL. — THE FIRST TE.VCHER. — DIVISION OF TOWN INTO SOU.VDKONS. — SCHOOLHOl'SES. — NEW DIVISION OF THE TOWN INTO DISTRICTS. — TOWN SYSTEM ESTABLISHED. — IIIC.II SCHOOL. — MRS. LOUISA B. WRIGHT. — NEW SCHOOL BUILDING. Intelligence lies at the foundation of true greatness. It places man at the head of the animal kingdom, and prop- erly exercised, iinparts a grandeur to his whole being. This makes the man, and we judge of him, not so much from his external form as from the lustre of that "spark ethereal" that shines through its clayey walls. This spark is an emanation from the Eternal Source of life, but receives its lustre from contact with the wings of earth. It is in itself indestructi1)le and must continue to exist co-eternal with God, and it will forever bear upon its disk the various tints it has received in its gradual develop- ment from an embryotic state. With its original structure man has nothing to do, much less has he the ability to make in it the slightest change, but its develoijment is the great wrork of life, and for this he alone is responsible. This is a work that reaches to the very depths of man's nature, and its effects stretch on even beyond the bounds of his mortal existence. That a work of such magnitude should be treated with indifference, or receive so small a share of public attention, is enough to fill every reflecting mind with the deepest sorrow. That the mind will be developed is as certain as that mind exists, but whether 240 HISTORY OF TROY. for good or for evil must depend upon the influences brought to bear upon it. But the end attained depends upon the niejins employed and the object to be acquired. The fame of Sparta, one of the most powerful and important of the Greek states, rested mainly upon her soldiers and her military discipline. The Spartans regarding war as the great business of life, by their system of education inculcated the heroic virtues, such as patriotism, public spirit, courage, fortitude, and contempt of danger, suffering and death. Her eminent men were almost all eminent as soldiers, and fev^^ of them had any pretensions to rank as able or enlightened statesmen. The Cretans having similar views of life, adopted a like course of instruction, adding thereto a slight smattering of poetry and music. The Persian system was somewhat in advance of these, as 1)eing prescribed by law, everything about it was made subservient to the interests of the state, but in one of its features it has probably not been surpassed by more modern systems. The Persians regarded the education of their youth as the most important duty and essential ])art of their government. They believed that the most of the evils that had disturbed the tranquility of the surrounding nations, arose from defects in the education of their children. Hence, they arranged their system with a special view to the prevention of crime. The boys were sent to school to learn justice and virtue, and it is said the crime most severely punished amongst them was ingratitude. And instead of building prisons and almshouses for the punishment of criminals and the maintenance of the vagrant, they endeavored so to order it as to have no criminals nor vagrants amongst them. The system of the Greeks was better adapted to the EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 241 development of national resources, although less calculated to prevent crime. Here the arts and sciences were es- teemed and cultivated, and industry and economy enforced. This system was well calculated to produce eminent men, and the ancient city of Athens, once illustrious as the seat of learning, boasted of many persons who have excelled in the arts of war and government, in philosophy, elocjuence, poesy, painting, sculpture and architecture. But there was running through all these systems a vital defect, and one growing out of a corrupt religion. Taking into consideration the times when they existed, and remembering that the light of revelation had scarcely dawned upon the world, the wonder is not that they were defective, but that they approached so near the most approved modern systems. These nations have given us a noble example of zeal and energy, temperance and fru- gality, chastity and self-sacrificing devotion to countr^^ which is rarely found in modern history. Had they possessed a sound religion they might have wrought out for the world the problem of which the last eighteen hundred years have only disclosed the first princi- ples. The formation of a system of education that should give a right direction, and develop in harmonious propor- tions all the faculties of the soul, a system that should inculcate truth and patriotism, and cultivate the social and domestic affections, love to God and good will to men, was reserved to modern time. Such a system we may well conceive to have had its birth in the minds of those illustrious subjects of whom the sovereigns of Europe were not ^vorthy, and who following the guidance of the star of hope were directed to the western wilderness, where they laid the foundation of such institutioifs as the world before had never seen. These ])ioneers seem to have been raised up for the express 242 HISTORY OF TROY. purpose of demonstrating to the world man's capacity for self government. Their plans were laid after mature deliberation, and every step in their development exhibited almost superhuman wisdom and foresight. And in no one thing is their sagacity more clearly seen than in the estab- lishment of the free public schools of New England, which are based upon the principle that virtue and intelligence of the people are the foundation of the Republic. Without these principles the best constitution and laws that could be formed would be but a dead letter upon the statute books of the State. Laws to be effective in a republican form of government, must be tmderstood and appreciated by the people. This requires a certain amount of intelli- gence, of intellectual and moral culture which the free public schools of our country are well calculated to pro- mote. A republican form of government like ours could not be sustained were it not for the influence exerted hy our free schools. This was perhaps foreseen by the foun- ders of our republic, for they not only gave us the best government on the earth, but they also established the best means for perpetuating and perfecting it. The history of our common school system is interest- ing, from the fact that by it we have a clue to the intelli- gence of the people at every period from the early settle- ment of the country. But it is not necessary for us here to give a detailed account of its rise and gradual develoji- ment. It is for us to notice the progess of edttcation and the means employed for its ])romotion in this territory within the limits of Troy. It will Ije remembered that in the grant of these town- shijjs, one share of land was reserved for the benefit of the schools. At an early period these lands were disposed of by lease for a long term of years and the interest expended for the benefit of the schools. EDUCATIONAL IIISroRY. 243 There is no record of public schools in Monadnock No. 5, previous to the year 1770, when it was voted that William Barker, Isaac McAllester and Richard Roberts be a committee to expend the interest of the school lot in schooling; the children. During the winter of 1770-71, several schools were kept in the town, one of which was in the house of Phineas Farrar, under the direction of William Barker, as committee. Who the teacher w^as is not certainly known, but it is supposed to have been James Brewer, as he was one of the early settlers who took great interest in the education of youth. He had a good education himself and was anxious that the children should not grow up in ignorance. Another school was ke]3t in the neighborhood of Dea. Silas Fife's, but in whose house or by whom taught is not known. For several years the income of the school lot was committed to the care of the selectmen, and it is supposed to have been expended under their direction, in different parts of the township, as fast as it accumulated. As there were no schoolhouses until some time after this, the schools were kept in private rooms and were but of few weeks' dura- tion, and even these few weeks' schooling could not be afforded only once in two or three years. The school books were few, and the instruction was confined to what we term the rudiments of school knowl- edge. The New England Primer, the Psalter, the Testa- ment and the Spelling Book were about the only books used; there w^as no book on Arithmetic; the teachers "set sums," on birch bark or paper, and explained the rules as best they could. Arithmetic was the popular study, but not much proficiency was made as compared with that in our common schools now. To learn to figure by the "rule of three" was considered quite an accom- plishment. Soon after the Revolutionarv war, English 244 HISTORY OF TROY. grammar was introduced, and at a little later ]ieriod, geography-. At a meeting of the proprietors, April 10, 1777, it was voted to divide the town into fom" equal squadrons for schooling, and Jedediah Taintor, Silas Fife, David Wheeler and Theodore Mann were chosen a committee for this purpose. On the 23d of June this committee submitted the following report, which was accepted : BcsiTiiiiin^ at the Centre Line at the East Side ()f the town, tlienee runnin<> through the town ; then Bcs'innino; on said Line Between the Sixth and Seventh Lots; tlienee Running on said Line to Fitzwilliani ior the North End Beginning at the South East Corner of Lot No. Sixty- nine, thence Running Westerly to the North East Corner of Lot No. 53; thence tin'ning South to the South East Corner of Lot No. 53, thence Running West to the town Line. In 1778, an additional stun of one hinidred poimds was raised for schooling. This sum was dealt out very s])ar- ingiy, for the treasurer, James Brewer, reports two years later that only twenty-five pounds had been expended. It may seem strange that so small a sum should have been expended, l)tit it must be remembered that the war of the Revolution had principally engrossed the ])ublic mind, in addition to the building of the meeting house, the su])i)ort of the ministry, and the making and repairing of high- ways, consequently but little provision was made for the schools. It seems that the town hardly fulfilled the requirements of the law, for an article was inserted in the \varrant for the annual meeting in April, 1781, "To see if town will ]3rovide a school or schools the present year, and raise money for that pur])ose, in order to keep the town from being presented." No action w^as taken upon the article. From this time until 1787, small sums were raised at different times for schooling, and probabl}^ expended xuider the direction of the selectmen. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 245 In 1778, it wHvS voted to sqtiadron out the town anew for schoolino-, and Oliver Wrio^ht, Reuben Ward, Phineas Farrar, E1)enezer Temple and Moses Tucker were chosen to make this division. It is evident the committee attended to their duties, lout no report ot" their proceedings has been preserved . On December 15th of the same year, the town voted that : Each S(|ii,-ulr(ni slionUl build thereon school ho.nses as near the Centre as possi1)ly could he convenient. Voted that the Selectmen shall a])])oint the Place to Imild in case of Disagreement in any S(|uadron in Town. Voted that the Selectmen Shall make the Rate for each Squadron. Voted that every School House shall be bnilt In' the first of December next. It would seem that some of the squadrons neo^lected to comply with this vote, and it is quite certain that no schoolhouse was built within the limits of Trov during: this period, for four years afterwards an article was inserted in the warrant "to see what method the Town will Take with those squadrons that have not provided their schoolhouses sufficient to keep school in." In rela- tion to this article, the town voted "that the school squadron which Daniel Cuttinf^ and others belong to, have until the first Day of May next to finish their School House, and if not Done by that time, the Selectmen are to build their school house and assess them to pay for the same." At the annual meeting in March, 1789, the town voted to raise thirty pounds for schooling, and at a meeting in the following May, it was voted that each squadron should have their proportion of the money and expend it as they thought proper. About this time a few indi- viduals made an effort to establish a (Trammar school, prob- ably in accordance with a law passed in 1719, requiring 246 HISTORY OF TROY. towns of one hundred house-holders to support a grammar school, but when the town was asked to raise mone}- to aid the cause, it met with an unfavorable response and nothing further was done in relation to the matter. During the next few years the population increased so much by the arrival of new settlers, that it became neces- sary to re-district the town, as those living in the outskirts could receive but little benefit from the schools as then arranged. At a meeting held April 21, 1794-, the folio wing- committee were chosen for that purpose: Lieut. Oliver Wright, Lieut. Reuben Ward, Deacon Stone, (yidcon New- ton, Robert Worsley, Hugh Mason, Theopilus Howard, Moses Tucker and David Wheeler. This committee divided the town into eight districts, three of Avhich were within the limits of Troy, namely, the southwest, southeast and south. The Southwest District comprised the territory on West Hill, and the following is a list of persons included in that district in 1794-: Joseph Tolman. Isaac Robljins. Benjamin Tolman. William Barker. Joseph Cuttinj^-. Mr. Alexander. Warren W^arner. John Barker. John Garfield. James Dean. Benoni Robbins. Gideon Alexander. Talmon Knights. David Wheeler. The Southeast District com])rised the territorv on East Hill, and included the following: Lient. Reuben Ward. Hezekiah toolidge. Daniel Lawrence. Aljraham Coolidge. Jonathan Lawrence. Jonathan Whipple. Hugh Thompson. Capt. Joseph Frost. Dilling-ton Phillips. Jose])h Freneii. Simon Piper. Silas Fife. George Farrar. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 247 The South District included the north part of the vilhi*i,"e and what is now called the North end, whose list comjirised the following persons : Icha1)o(l Shaw. Josej)!! (t()u1(1. Esc|uire Root. Jacolj NcwcU. Ebcnezer Bacon. Keiiljen Newell. Jonathan Ball. Hugh Mason. John Rogers. James Newell. Lawson More. Theodore Mann. Isaac Gonld. John Parkhnrst. Daniel Cutting. Calvin Goodenongh. Daniel Gould. William Bruce. Daniel Gould, Jr. Eli Gould. The Southwest District immediately made preparations for building a schoolhouse. A meeting was called, an appropriation made, and Warren Warner, a resident of the district, was employed to build it, and by the first of January was so nearly completed that it was used for the winter's school. The building was very small, being only al)out eighteen feet square, and the walls of the room were wainscotted with rough pine boards. There was no ceiling, consequently the timbers in the upper part were left bare. There were two long benches on one side of the room for the larger scholars, with low seats in front for the smaller ones. About two years afterwards the house was clapboarded, but it was never painted. This was the second schoolhouse built within the limits of the town and stood in a corner of the orchard of Jonas Bemis. The South District, in March, 1796, raised forty-six dollars and sixty-six cents for the purpose of building a house. Whether this small amount covered the whole ex])ense does not appcjir from the records, but it is certain that a house was soon built which was located on the west side of the road and nearly opposite the residence of Lemuel Brown. This was never clapl)oarded or painted. 248 HISTORY OF TROY. and was finished on the inside similar to the house last deseril)ed, only in addition to the two long benches at the end of the room opposite the fireplace, there was one on either side and a common table took the place of the teacher's desk. This was used for a schoolhonse until 1806, when it was sold, the district uniting with the con- tiguous one in the north part of Fitzwilliam, and sent their children to the schoolhonse Avhich stood several years a few rods w^est of the Marshall barn, now owned by C. D. Farrar. This district raised one hundred and forty- three dollars towards building the new schoolhonse, which is supposed to have been about one-half the expense of the building. The house first built, after exchanging owners several times, was purchased by Jabez Butler, who converted it into a dwelling house, and now constitutes a part of that owned and occupied by Winthrop Knight. A schoolhonse was built in the Southeast District in 1796, which was located near the residence of Daniel Cutting, now owned by John Lang. This house was burned in the winter of 1806, and a new one Avas built the following spring, one hundred dollars being raised for the purpose, which ^vas not sufficient, for the next year an additional sum of fifty-seven dollars was raised to complete the work. This was built on the north side of the road and near the residence of Henry A. Porter. As many of the early records of the town of Fitzwil- liam were destroyed, and es])ecially those relating to the schools, it is impossible to give an accurate account of the first efforts of the people in establishing their schools. The town was divided into stptadrons, which in 1792 \vere nine in number, of which three were wholly or in part within the limits of Troy. In 1778, a committee was chosen who leased the school lots, the interest of which was expended for the EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 249 schools. Whether a school was maintained in Fitzwilliam previous to 1773 cannot be determined. In 1774 and 1775, seven pounds were raised each year for the use of a school, which indicates that up to that time but a single school was maintained. There was no appropriation made in 1776, for the reason that the previous appropria- tion had not been expended. An act was passed by the Legislature in 17S9 for regulating the schools in the State, by Avhich each town was required to raise five pounds on every twenty shil- lings, in the " Proportion Act," to be expended for the support of schools. Two years later an act was passed making it obliga- tory upon the towns to raise seven pounds, ten shillings, on every twenty shillings, in the " Proportion Act," instead of five pounds. It is quite probable that from this time Fitzwilliam raised fully the amount required by these acts, as the records show that she was liberal in her appropri- ations, raising annually from four to six hundred dollars for schools. The hrst schoolhouse on land now in Troy was built by FitzwilHam in 1790, in the North Squadron, and it stood on the east side of the road, between the place now owned by Mrs. A. W. Whitcomb and the late residence of Willard White. This was a small house wath a hipped roof, and was never clapboarded. The chimney and fire- phice were built of stone, and there was a large stone hearth which formed nearly half the flooring. There was a long bench at one end of the room and one on each of the two sides, for the use of the large scholars, with smaller seats in front for the smaller scholars. In 1800, by a vote of the town, this squadron was divided "at the Brook between Mr. David White's and Mr.JonathanCapron's House." This schoolhouse remained 250 HISTORY OF TROY. tinocciipied from this time until 1806, when it was sold to David White, ^vho removed and attached it to the west end of his house. Soon after the district was divided, the house near the Marshall barn was commenced, but it was not completed in season for the winter school, which was kept in the house of Walter Capron. The new house was built by Elijah and Isaac Fuller, and was finished early in 1803, at a cost of about two hundred and fiftN^ dollars. Another schoolhouse was built very soon after by the south division, which was located on a road which at that time led from Joseph Forristall's to Aaron Wright's. The floor of this house was elevated at one end of the room, making an inclined plane, upon which were placed the benches, of which there were four tiers, separated by aisles. These were quite an improvement upon the long benches of the first schoolhouses, as they were only of sufiicient length to accommodate two scholars. The Northeast Squadron built a house about 1790, which stood near the residence of Samuel Griflin, which site is now within the limits of Fitzwilliam. This house was burned in the winter of 1806, and at a district meet- ing on the 19th of the next June, one hundred and seventy- five dollars were voted to be raised for building a new^ one. This was built on the south side of the road between the residence of Jonathan B. Clark and the Grifllin farm. After the first house was burned and before the new one was completed, two terms of school were kept in the dwelling house of Ivers Emerson. The new hoitse was completed in 1807, and from that time the district was well accommodated until after the division of the town in 1815. The schools in the Northwest Squadron, were kept for some years in a log house wliich stood a few rods east of the Bishop house. The house was built by Agabus EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 251 Bishop, and was occupied hy him until he built the frame house in which he afterwards lived and died. In 1804, the town voted to district the town anew, and the selectmen, consisting of Oliver Damon, Arunah Allen and John White were the committee chosen for the purpose. Their report was adopted, and the new arrange- ment called the North Squadron, District No. 10; the Northeast, District No. 6; the Northwest, District No. 13; and the squadron near Porristall's, District No. 9, and these ninnbers were retained until most of the territory com])rising these districts ]3assed from the jurisdiction of Fitzwilliam. At the first annual meeting after the incorporation of Troy, a committee of seven were chosen to regulate the school districts, consisting of Caleb Perry, D. W. Farrar, David White, William Farrar, Samuel Starkey, Elijah Ful- ler and Thomas Clark, Jr. At an adjourned meeting on the 25th of the same month, this committee reported as follows, viz: "That the following persons should be included in the several districts : DLSTRICT NO. Kev. Mr. Rich. Moses Aldrich. Silas Wheeler. Joab Da.sjgett (Farm). Sylvester P. Flint. Joseph Barrett (Farm). Luke Hai-ris. Aniolcl & Thompson. Lyman Wright. Nathan Newell. Salmon Wliittcmore. Joshna Harrinii;ton. Elijah Harrington. 1. George Farrar, Jr. Henry Tolmnn (Farm). Curtis Coolidge. Roswell Crossfield. Josejih Forristall. John Whitney. Luther Niirse. John Whitne\', Jr. Ehenezer Nurse. Josiah Amadou. David White. Daniel Farrar. Daniel Farrar, Jr. 252 HISTORY OF TROY. Jfihn Brnce. Widow Bruce. Timothy' Godding. Asa Brewer. Thomas Tolman. Andrew Sherman. Samuel Farrar. Daniel W. Farrar. Timothy Kendall. Preston Bishop. Joshua Harrington, Jr. DISTRICT NO. 2. Cyrus Fairbanks. William Barnard. Cyrus Fairbanks, Jr. John Lawrence. Moses Perkins. William Lawrence. Calel) Perry. Joseph Butler. Peletiah Hodgkins. Josiah Lawrence. Levi Ward. Jonathan Lawrence. Abraham Coolidge. Jacob Osborn. Daniel Cutting. Benjamin Tolman. Josiah Wheeler. Isaac Garfield. Elijah Fuller. Edmund Bemis. George Farrar. Silas Fife. Zopher Whitcomb. Henr\' Jackson. Benjamin Starkey, Peter vStarkey, Jr. William Chase. Willi.'im Bishop. DLSTRICT NO. 3. Joseph Ctitting. Easman Alexander. Joseph Alexander. Talmon Knights. Aaron Holt. Isaac Fuller. Stephen Farrar. DLSTRICT NO. 4. Calvin Starkey. Nathan Starkey. Peter Starkey. Luna Starkey. John Starkey. Widow StarkcA' (Farm). Thomas Clark, Jr. DISTRICT NO. 5. David vSaundcrs. Nathan Winch. Joseph Haskell (Farm). Caleb Winch, Jr. John Sargent. William Farrar. Caleb Winch. EUas Evans. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 253 DISTRICT NO. 6. Elijah Bnxton. Daniel Ball. David Wiley. Levi Starkey. Samuel Starkey. Thomas French. Enoch Starkej'. Joseph Til den. All the property taxed for the support of schools, to be paid into the district where the owner resides, if residing within the limits of said tOAvn ; all polls and non-resident lands to pay their school tax to the district where they are contained, reference being had to boundaries, to the real estate of individuals whose names are set to their respective districts." District No. 6, being destitute of a schoolhouse, raised one hundred dollars for the ]3urpose of building one, which was located on a lot of land afterward owned by Stephen Harris. The district was so small that a school could be maintained only a very few weeks each year, and conse- ffuently but little benefit to the scholars. For this reason it was thought best to unite the district with No. 3, which was done by vote of the town in March, 1831. Having no further use for their house it was sold to Jona- than Clark, who removed it near his buildings. The schoolhouse in District No. 1, was soon found too small to accommodate the large number of pupils, and in 1828, the district voted to build a larger one, raising five hundred dollars for that purpose. The old schoolhouse Avas sold to Charles M. Tolman, who removed it to the west side of the mill pond and converted it into a dwelling house. The contract for building the new hovise Avas given to Josei:)h M. Forristall, and the work was com])leted in 1828, in season for the winter school. This was used until the division of the district in 1838, when it was sold for three hundred and seventv-five dollars. 254 HISTORY OF TROY. The purchasers formed a stock company, and the par vahie of the shares was twenty-five dollars. The proprie- tors were: Daniel W. Farrar, who had four shares; Ste- phen Wheeler, who had two shares ; Solomon Goddard, who had two shares ; Alijheus Crosb\% who had two shares ; Nathan Winch, who had two shares ; Lyman Wright, who had one share; Lnke Harris, who had one share; Josejih M. Forristall, who had one share; Charles W. Whitney, who had one share; D. Farrar and E. Harring- ton, who had one share. The house was thoroughly repaired, individuals sub- scribing about ninety-two dollars towards the expense. This, in addition to the excess of the stock funds above the cost of the building, made the expense of the repairs two hundred and thirty-four dollars. The object of the proprietors in this outlay, was to retain the building for the use of a high school, and it was occupied a part of the time for several years for this purpose. After a time, David W. Farrar purchased the building of the proprietors and converted it into a dwelling house. This is the brick building next to the Congregational church, known as the " old academy." District No. 2 expended but little on her schoolhouse for several ^-ears. The first accovmt for repairs was in 1833, when twenty-five dollars was raised for that purpose. District No. 3, was destitute of a schoolhouse at the incorporation of the town, the old one having been burned in 1814. For two winters the school was ke]3t in the house of William Barker, but in 1817, the district voted to build a new house and raised one hundred dollars towards the expense. This was built by Isaac and Elijah Fuller, but whether the one hundred dollars was the whole cost, does not appear from the records. In 1834, forty- four dollars was expended in repairing the house. Enr^CATIONAL HISTORY. 255 Until 1823, District Xo. 4 had only a log house, when it was voted to build a house in accordance with the improvements of that period, and affording more com- fortable quarters for the children. The site selected was SciiooLiiofSE OX West Hill. near the jimction of the two roads between the residence of Peter Starkey and William Bishop. The house was MERRIFIELD SCHOOLHUl-SE. finished in 1824, and cost one hundred and twenty dollars. The schoolhouse in District Xo. 5, being located some 256 HISTORY OF TROY. distance from the center, was removed nearer, and repaired in 1823 at a cost of forty-five dollars. In 1834, thirty dollars was expended for a like purpose. At the annual meeting in March, 1838, the town voted to make some alterations in the school districts, and chose a committee to make investigations and report what alterations they considered necessary. This committee consisted of the following persons, viz: District No. 1, Stephen Wheeler, Amos Sibley, Daniel Farrar. District No. 2, Daniel Cutting, William Lawrence. District No. 3, John W. Bellows, Amasa Aldrich. District No. 4, Joseph Putney. District No. 5, Chester Lyman. On the 19th of the same month the committee made their report, whereupon the town voted "that the altera- tions be made as reported by the committee." But this division only included the inhabitants of the town, no reference being made to a division of the real estate, and consequently was found not to answer the purpose intended. Another meeting w£is called April 9, when it was voted to reconsider the vote of accepting the report of the committee, and that they be authorized to amend their report so as to include all the real estate in the same district, except what was by law taxable in other districts. The committee reported the following amendment, viz: "Every person living in the several school districts in the town of Troy shall be taxed in the district in which he lives, for all the real estate he holds in the town of Troy under his own actual improvement, and all other of his real estate in the town of Troy sliall be taxed in the district in which it is included; and all real estate owned by persons living out of the town shall be taxed in such district or districts as the selectmen shall determine." The town voted to accept the report of the committee. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 257 made on the 19th of March, with this amendment. But it was soon discovered that this amended report was defective, and it did not meet the requirements of the law, for the boimdaries of the districts were Hable to be changed with every change in the ownership of real estate. Another meeting was called on the 2d of June, wdien it was "voted to divide the town into school districts according to law." And to be sure of its legality, a law- yer was placed at the head of the committee, which was as follows: Luther Chapman, J. M. Forristall, Abel Baker, John W. Bellows, Chester Lyman, Calvin Starkey, Daniel Farrar. One week later the committee submitted their report, which was adopted by the town. District No. 1, or the village district, \vas divided, the northern half being called No. 1 ; the southern half. No. 2. The other districts were nearly the same with some slight alterations and a change in numbers; No. 2 was changed to No. 3, and so on. At this time Districts Nos. 1 and 2 were each destitute of a school house, and a meeting warned by the selectmen, was held June 1st, 1839, when No. 1 voted to raise three hundred dollars for building a schoolhouse. This house was built by Mr. Forristall, and finished in season for the winter school. In 1853, two hundred dollars was expended in repairing the house which was newU^ painted, the lot upon which it stood well fenced and ornamented w^ith small trees. During the 3^ear 1862, this house was repaired at con- siderable expense, several hundred dollars being expended, and the following winter was burned. A special meeting of the district was called Jan. 24, 1863, when it was voted to build a new house on the site of the old one, one thousand dollars being raised for the purpose. The new house was to be larger than the old 258 HISTORY OF TROY. one — fifty feet long and thirty -two wide — to be constructed of brick or wood, as thought best Ijy the committee chosen to build the same, consisting of Jacob Boyce, A. B. Gates and Calvin Alexander. The old lot not lacing large enough for the enlarged house, a narrow^ strip of land on the north side, twenty feet in width and the length of the lot, was purchased of Thomas Wright. The Ijuilding was made of l)rick and completed in >f^ Pi ^'^''^liMf^tJR^ North Primary Schoolhouse. season for the winter school, the expense being a little over two thousand dollars. This building known as the North Primary schoolhouse, has recently been made into tene- ments. District No. 2 made preparations for building a house, but not agreeing upon a location, an application was made to the selectmen, who appointed a committee to fix the location agreeably to the provisions of the statute at that time. The committee consisted of Djinicl Cutting, Brown Nurse, Daniel Buttrick, Luke Harris, Thomas Wright £ind John Lawrence. ii EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 259 They reported "that the site for the schoolhotise should be on land of Elijah Harrington, at the southeast corner, adjoining- land of Moses Ballou's heirs." This report was dated the 8th of June, 1840, and the contract for building the house was given to Mr. Forristall for two hundred and eighty dollars. After seven years it was found neces- sary to make repairs and one hundred and forty-seven dollars were raised for the purpose, and two years later about fifty dollars more were expended upon it, but after South Pkimaky ScnooLiioiisE. all the repairs it was an old house and did not meet the requirements of the district. In 1834 the district voted to Imild a new house and made a liberal appropriation for the purpose. This was let out in portions to different individuals, but the most of the work was done by Ira Boyden, and it \vas finished in January, 1855, at a cost of thirteen hundred dollars. This was the South Primary schoolhouse, now occupied as a residence by Moses Abare. The schoolhouse in District No. 3 was burnt in the winter of 1838, and early the next spring preparations were made for building a new one, but a contention arose 260 HISTORY OF TROY. about its site, and it became necessary to petition the selectmen to appoint a committee to settle the question. This committee consisted of Luther Chapman, Joseph M. Forristall, Chester Lyman, Brown Nurse and Alpheus Crosby, who reported that "the site for the schoolhouse shall be on land, called and known b}^ the name of the Boyden pasture, a few rods east of an old cellar, on the road leading from Nathaniel Parker's to Daniel Cutting's, at a stake and stones in the center erected by your com- mittee." This question being settled, the new house was Sciiooi.iKjnsE ON East Hill. finished in a few months from that time, at a cost ot about two hundred and fifty dollars. This is the present schoolhouse site on East Hill. The inhaliitants of District No. 4 had expended about seventy-five dollars for repairs up to 1858. The schoolhouse in No. 5 was first located nearly a third of a mile from the inhabited part of the district, and in 184-0, in accordance with a vote of the district, it was removed to near the barn of Albert Pratt, and repaired at a cost of about sixty dollars. This house was burnt in EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 261 1841, and the next A'ear a new one was Iniilt which cost one hundred and seventeen dollars. The schoolhotise in District No. 6, becoming consider- ably dilapidated, was entirely enlarged in 1849, and thor- oughly repaired, at an expense of one hundred and eighty dollars. In 1861, the selectmen were chosen a committee to make alterations in the school districts. They enlarged and defined the boundaries of District No. 1, and made slight alterations in No. 4, the others remaining as before given. In 1861, the sum of two hundred dollars was raised to finish the room under the town hall, which was to be done by laying new floors and repairing the walls and ceiling, and painting. In 1864, part of this room was finished to use as an engine room, and in 1866, it was voted that the south room be fitted in a manner suitable to be used for educational piu'poses, and furnished with seats, tables, benches, and all articles necessary for such purpose, four hundred and fifty dollars iDeing raised for the expense, Edward P. Kimball being chosen the agent to carry this vote into effect. It was also voted that the two south rooms in the lo\ver part of the hall be used for a graded or high school. A special town meeting was called May 25, 1878, for the ])urpose of voting upon the cpiestion of redistricting the town anew, and the selectmen and school committee were chosen a committee for that purpose viz : William N. Watson, Charles C. Smith, William A. Harris, Asa C. Dort and George H. Aldrich, who made the following report which was adopted. After a very careful examination of the seliool interests of Troy, your eomniittee ])resent the foilowinji^ re])ort. We find tliat something mnst he done with District No. 5. It lias money a))portioned hut is in no situ.ation to school it out, and we are o1)li"ed to do something: in order to receive the State funds. 262 HISTORY OF TROY. We also find the several distriets lines in very bad shape, so that the same piece of land has been taxed in one district at one time, and at other times in another. After a very careful examination, we recommend that the town be made into three districts, constitutinof a village district, and two out- side disti'icts, said village district to consist of Nos. 1 and 2, together with a larger part of Nos. 5 and 6 ; adding a part of No. 5 to No. -i, and part of No. 6 to No. 3, making a total valuation in the village dis- trict of $l-t4,4.S().<)(). Valuation of No. 3, $187.05, and of No. 4-, $231.38. The other districts having the benefit of grammar school b3'pa3'ing tuition. We recommend that the village district be divided for the primary dei)artment ; the noi'th half of the district occu])ying the No. 1 house, and the south half the No. 2 house; the grammar school going into the high school room, which entireh- obviates the building of a new house, and gives the scholars the full and in our opinion the best use of the money we raise for school purposes. Asa C. Dokt. Wm. N. Watson. C. C. Smith. Wm. a. Harris. This arrangement continued until all districts were abolished by an act of the Legislature in 1885, establish- ing the town system. By this act the district system of common schools, which had prevailed for nearh' two generations, was abolished, and the town became one entire district. The entire supervision of the schools was vested in boards of education, who are chosen by the towns, each member being elected for three years. They have authority "to provide schools at such places and times as in their judgment shall * * " give all the scholars of the town as nearly ec|ual advantages as may be ]5ractica1)le." The chief reason for establishing this law was to place all pupils, so far as may be, on the same footing. In the remote and outside districts the number of scholars was frequently ver\- small, and complaint was often made that EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 263 under the former system these small schools fared poorly in respect to facilities for instruction. A special meeting of the town held Feb. IG, ISGI, the use of the town hall was voted to be given Mr. Carroll D. Wright, for the purpose of holding a high school. Mr. Wright was hired by the district and taught two or more terms, when the interest in the school abated and the project was abandoned. In 1866, several of the citizens petitioned the selectmen for a special meeting, \vhich was held JuU^ 5, \vhen it was voted to adopt the provisions of Chajjter LXXIX of the Compiled Statutes, relating to the establishing of a high school. This petition was signed by E. P. Kimball, A. G. Hurlbutt, Geo. A. Adams, E. fkittrick, Thos. Goodall, James O. Aniadon, Stephen B. Farrar, G. W. Randall, Andrew J. Aldrich and John Wheeler. In order to carry these provisions into effect it was voted that the south rooms in the lower part of the hall should be fitted up and used for this ])iu"pose. The school was opened in the spring of the following year and was taught by William Moore. There were two terms in each year, spring and fall. In 1868, Mrs. Louisa B. Wright, then teaching at West Swanzey, was cm])loyed as tciicher. The services of Mrs. Wright were secured the following- year and she became a resident of the town. She also taught the summer and winter terms in the North or District No. 1 school. Under the able and efiicient instruction of Mrs. Wright, the school attained a high degree of perfection and accjuired more than a local reputation, a large number of jjupils from neighboring towns availing themselves of its l^rivileges. This arrangement continued for ten years, or until 1878, when the village district was constituted and the 264 HISTORY OF TROY. schools o^raded ; the grammar department being put in the town hall room, when no more pupils were admitted from adjoining towns. It is fitting that more than a ])assing notice should be taken of the labors of Mrs. Wright, whose services as a teacher in Troy covered a period of sixteen years, fifteen Mrs. L(juisa B. Wright. of which were continuous. Her labors commenced in March, 1868, as teacher of the high school. The follow- ing year she became a resident of the town, and for nine years taught the high school and that in District No. 1, EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 265 or until the change was made in the arrangement of the schools, and the high school changed to the grammar department in 1878. She taught the latter until the summer of 1883, when she went to West Swanzey for one year, returning in the fall of 1884, teaching until the close of the summer term in 1885. Mrs. Wright completed her one hundredth term of teaching at the close of the summer term in 1880, and her forty-fourth in Troy, which was celebrated b_v suitable exercises at the town hall on July 3d. Mr. William Butler was chairman of the committee of arrangements, and in his introductory remarks, spoke of the occasion as no ordinary one, for he knew of no one, not advanced in years, who had taught one hundred terms of school. David W. Farrar was president of the day, and spoke of the importance of one hundred terms of school in a community like this, and of its salutary influence and the liability not to give it that consideration commensurate with its importance. Rev. S. H. McCollester, of Marl- borough, delivered an address upon "Education," and at the close. Rev. J. S. Herrick presented Mrs. Wright with one hundred dollars in gold, consisting of twenty five- dollar coins, and former pupils from Swanzey presented an additional sum. Numerous toasts were given, which were responded to by H. W. Farrar, M. E. Wright, A. C. Dort, Rev. D. W. Goodale, C. C. Smith and Rev. S. H. Mc- Collester. After leaving Troy, Mrs. Wright went to Marlborough, where she taught for aljout three years, when she went to Kansas. With increasing 3a*ars has come increased knowl- edge from continuous study, and she has until recently been actively engaged in educational work, having been ])rinci|)al of the high school in Seneca, until the summer of 1897. 266 HISTORY OF TROY. The old schoolhouses not being sufficient to accomnio- date the increasing number of scholars in the village, the town at the annual meeting in March, 1893, voted to build a new house, and chose a committee to procure estimates for a four-room schoolhouse, either wood or brick, and secure a location. This committee consisted of John H. Congdon, Henry M. Whittemore and J. H. Bige- low. The^^ reported at the next annual meeting, their report being adopted. The matter was then taken up in the town district meeting. At the meeting, March 13, 1894", Charles D. Farrar, Augustus Hodgkins and George A. Starkey were chosen a committee with authority to locate and purchase a lot. The committee made a report at an adjourned meeting held April 7th, when it was voted to purchase of Joseph W. Raymond the north lot on the muster field. At a meeting one week later, E. P. Kimball, Asa C. Dort, Franklin Ripley, Geo. A. Starkey and Wm. J. Boyden were chosen a building committee, who were to procure plans and estimates and report at a future meet- ing, when the sum of ten thousand dollars was voted to be raised. At a meeting September 29, an additional sum of two thousand dollars was voted to be raised. The plans were drawn by Barker & Nourse, architects, of Worcester, Mass., and the contract for building was let to W. E. Austin of Jefferson, Mass. The building is situated at the head of the new street on the muster field, and is seventy-six by forty-seven feet, two stories, with basement, built of brick with granite trimmings. The entrances are on the east and west ends, the halls and corridor occupying the entire north side of the building; the four school rooms are on the south side of the building, exposed to the sunlight and well lighted and ventilated. The floors are of hard pine and the walls are sheathed with the same, with natural slate blackboards. EDUCA TIONA L HISTORY. 267 The rooms are twenty-eight by thirty-fonr feet, con- taining Ijook closets, and the two rooms on each floor being connected by a teacher's room, with suitable ward- robe rooms outside. The building is heated with steam, and the basement besides containing the heating appa- ratus, has two large playrooms, each twenty-eight by thirtv-three feet, with concrete bottom. The entrance b b k b I'f^l^'t 1 " 111 11 it "W^" New Schoolikjuse. doors are made to swing both ways and wide stairways give easy access to the basement and second story. The building will accommodate two hundred and twenty-five pupils, and was appropriately dedicated Thurs- day afternoon,. April 18, 1895, addresses being delivered by PVed Gowing, state superintendent of public instruc- tion, and Rev. S. H. McCollester of Marlborough. 268 HISTORY OF TROY. There lieiiig no further use for the two primary school- houses, the committee sold the same at auction; the north one was purchased by Samuel Mortimer for five hundred and two dollars, and the south one by Moses Abare for four hundred and twenty-seven dollars, and they have since been converted into tenements. We have attempted to give a brief sketch of the efforts of the ])eople to promote the cause of popular education, and which, like all great enterprises, had a small begin- ning; but by the persistent efforts of a few individuals, the work has been gradually carried forw^ard vmtil the present time, wdien nearh' all the citizens are interested in the work. The town has always done, by Avay of appropriation, all that could reasonably have been expected. For several years after its incorporation, the amoimt annually raised for the support of schools was two hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to the literary fund, and this siun has gradually been increased until the present time. In 1896, the sum raised was nineteen himdred and seventy-five dollars, and the whole amount expended w^as over twenty-four hundred dollars. The whole number of different pupils registered was two hundred and eighty, of which two hundred and fourteen were in the village. But the question wnll probably arise, has this increased expenditure yielded an adequate return? The answer is best given by the schools in comparison with those of the earlier period. How^ different the schools and method of teaching of the present day ! Then teachers were paid eight or ten dollars a month. Now three or four times that amount is paid, and w^e have reason to feel that the money is well expended. Then the government of a school w^as often conducted by force, and the most essential qualifi- cation of a teacher was bone and muscle to wield the rod. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 269 It is said that Jupiter on one occasion made a procla- mation that he wonld crown the person with immortaUty who had done the most good, and been the greatest blessing to his fellow-men. The competitors were numer- ous; the \varrior, the statesman, the sculptor and ])ainter, the musician and benevolent, all pressed their claims. But Jupiter, seeing an old gray-headed, sage-looking man standing far behind the rest and apparently taking no active part in the matter, asked him what made him look so smiling? The old man replied that all these competi- tors were once his pupils. "Crown him," says Jupiter, "and seat him at mv rig-ht hand." CHAPTER XV. PHYSICIANS AND LAWYER. DR. JUSTUS PERRV. — DR. KliKNKZKR WRK.HT. — DR. CHARLES \Y. WHITNEY. — DR. Ll'KE .MII.I.KR. — DR. .\. M. C.WKKEV. — DR. MARY ANN HARRIS. — DR. DANIEL FARRAR. — DR. DANIEL R. WOODWARD. — DR. BENJAMIN H. HART- WELL. — DR. JOHN DODGE. — DR. CARL G. METCALF. — DR. M.S. FERGUSON. — DR. BENJAMIN Ii. HARRIM AN.— DR. M. T. STONE. — LUTHER CHAPMAN, ESQ. For some years tlie inhabitants of what is now Troy, residing upon the borders of Marll^oronoh and Fitzwilliam, were dependent for medical assistance upon the physicians located near the center of these towns, for the population was too small to support a resident physician. But after the formation of the new town was seriously contem- plated, efforts were made to obtain one, and Dr. Justus Perry of Marlborough was selected. Of his early life but little is known beyond the fact that he was a native of Barre, Mass., and studied medicine with Dr. Stephen Batcheller, vSr., of Royalston. He settled in Marlborough in 1786, and possessing great natural and acquired ability, he gained the reputation of a skillful physician, and for a few years did an extensive business. But unfor- tunately he acquired the habit of using strong drinks, a habit which so increased as to discpialify him for the practice of his profession. He located in what is now Troy, in 1796, and an effort was made to reform him, that his usefulness should not be lost to his fellow-men. He was induced to sign a temperance pledge, obligating himself to abstain from the use of all intoxicating drinks for one year, in consideration of which the citizens bound themselves to furnish him with a horse and all medicines PHYSICIANS AND LAWYER. 271 free of charge during the year. This pledge he faithfully kept, btit as soon as the time expired he relapsed into his former dissipated habits, and losing his practice, returned the following year to the center of Marlborough, where he died in 1800. The next physician who located here was Dr. Ebenezer Wright. He was the son of Capt. Ebenezer Wright and was born in Templeton, Mass., Nov. 3, 1761. He ac- quired a good English education and entered upon the study of medicine at Rutland, Yt. He settled in Fitzwil- liam in 1785. He is said to have possessed the rudiments of a great mind, applied himself closely to business, became noted for his sound judgment and soon gained the confi- dence of the community. In compliance with the recjuest of individuals he removed to this village in 1811. He was here during the excitement attending the efforts to obtain the charter of Troy, and took an active part in those measures which resulted in the organization of the new town. He returned to Fitzwilliam in 1814, continuing the practice of his profession until his death, March 16, 1829. Dr. Wright was succeeded by Dr. Charles W. Whitney, who located here in 1815. He was the son of Dr. Isaiah Whitney and was born in Kindge in 1791. Dr. Isaiah Whitney was born in Harvard, Mass., Dec. 13, 1765; married Dorcas, a daughter of Dr. Charles Whitman of Stowe, in August, 1787. The Whitman family are descend- ants of the first settlers of New England. Dr. Charles Whitman was the son of a physician, and whose grand- father, also a physician, came from England, one of the band of Pilgrims on the Mayflower, in 1620. Dr. Whitman of Stowe, was surgeon in the army during the Revolutionary war, and his wife was a Stevens, and it is asserted that she was a descendant of the celebrated Indian princess, Pocahontas. 272 HISTORY OF TROY. Dr. Isaiah Whitney, soon after his marriage, settled in Rindge and continued in the practice of his profession until his death, Nov. 30, 1839. Dorcas, his wife, died in Rindge, July 11, 1844. They had ten children, five sons and five daughters. Charles W. was the second son, and he gave the follow- ing account of his history: "My youth \vas spent like that of most children at that time ; I was very fond of fishing; nothing suited me better than to be angling for the spotted trout in the various streams of my native town, and this was a great detriment to my future knowledge. In the fall and winter of 1809, I roomed with Philip Payson and recited to his father, Seth Payson, D. D. In 1810, I was sent to New Ipswich Academy, and in the spring of 1811 commenced the study of medicine under the tutelage of my father. In the spring of 1813 I was sent to Boston to study and practice with John Randall, M. D., six months, and in December of the same year I commenced the practice of my profession in Alarl- borough, Mass. It was thought by many at that time that experimental knowledge formed the most important part of a yoimg medical student's education." He left Marlborough in the spring of 1815, and assisted his father in Rindge a few months, but, the narrative con- tinues : "In October, I started for Vermont to look me n\) a place to practice my profession, got up among the Green Mountains where the sun would shine a few minutes, and then there would be a snow squall, and above all, I did not like the looks ol the land or the people; I became homesick and thought I would much rather winter among my native hills, so made tracks back much faster than I went on, and on arriving at Capt. Gorham's hotel in Troy, the Captain invited me to locate here. I told him I would take the matter into consideration and decide in PHYSTCTANS AND LAWYER. 273 a fe\v days. My father advised nie not to come, on account of the smalhiess of the place; l)nt having no place in view, I concluded to make the trial. I came, engaged l)oard at D. W. Farrar's, boarded there three years, built my house in 1818, married Mary, daughter of Dea. Samuel Griffin of Fitzwilliam, in Novemljcr of the same vear." ,,K' Charles W. Wiiitnkv. M. D. He l)ccame a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, and was licensed May 8, 1828, and he was also a member of the Western New Ham])shire Medical Associa- tion. He was an excellent citizen, a judicious, careful 274 HISTORY OF TROY. practitioner, and enjoyed the confidence of the people. He continued in practice until advanced age, feeble health and serious loss of hearing obliged him to relinquish it. He said: "I can truly say what few of my age can, I never called for a glass of spirit of any kind for myself, at either of the taverns or stores, since I established myself in town." Although disabled by these infirmities, he enjoyed the society of his friends and retained his intellect until the end. In consequence of the impaired health and partial deaf- ness of Dr. Whitney, who found it difiicult to perform all the labor required of the physican of the town, it was thought advisable to obtain a younger man to take a part of the professional business. Consequently, Dr. Luke Miller located here in 1847. But little is known of his early life, except that he first saw light in the town of I'eterborough, and practiced dentistry some years in his native town. He studied medicine with Dr. Albert Smith of Peterborough, and commenced practice \vith Dr. Hitch- cock of Ashby, Mass., remaining a few months, coming to Troy, where he did a fair amount of business. He removed to Winchendon, Mass., in the fall of 1853, remaining al)()ut a year, when he came to Fitzwilliam, and entered into partnership with Dr. Silas Cummings. In 1857, he removed to Chatfield, Minn. His wife was Aljby Ann Lovell. Dr. A. M. Caverly located in Troy, vSept. 1, 1853. He was a descendant of Moses Caverly, who was born about the year 1715, in Croydon, a town which lies about ten miles south of London Bridge, England, and who, in com- pany with two younger brothers, Nathaniel and Thomas, immigrated to this country about the year 1740, and settled in Portsmouth. Moses married a Johnson of Ports- mouth, about the 3'ear 1743, and resided there till about 1770, when with his brother Thomas, he removed to that i PHYSICIANS AND LAWYER. 275 part of Barrin^ton now included in Strafford. Nathaniel afterwards resided in Barrington a short time, but eventu- ally moved to Township No. 4 (now Charlestown), where he died. Moses had five sons: Phillip, Charles 1st, John, William and Charles 2d; and one daughter, Abigail, all of whom were born in Portsmouth. Phillip, the oldest, was born March 23, 1745; removed with his father and the rest of the family to Barrington ; married Bridget Pendergast, who was born Feb. 24, 174v5, and resided in Barrington till his death, April 1, 1813. During the time of the Revolutionary war he took an active part in opposing the arbitrary acts of the British ; his name occurs upon the "Test Papers" from his adopted town, as one who joined the "American Association," and in 1777, he entered the army, and was on dutv several months in the state of Rhode Island. After the war his time was devoted to farming, and he owned one of the best farms in Barrington, and had considerably projierty invested in wild lands in different parts of the state. He had nine children, eight sons and one daughter. Moses, the eldest son, was born April 3, 1771 ; married Judith, daughter of John Caverno, Aug. 4, 1793, and the follow- ing year removed to Loudon and located on a lot of land given him by his father. He died June 25, 1821. Mrs. Judith Caverly died Feb. 1, 1824, aged forty-nine years. They had two sons, Solomon and Moses, the former was born Feb. 21, 1795, the latter, A])ril 13, 1797. Solomon married Sarah, daughter of John Moore of Canterbury, Nov. 14, 1816, and settled on a farm given to him by his father, and adjoining the homestead. The}' had two chil- dren, a son and daughter. The son, Abial Moore Caverly, was born Nov. 28, 1817, and after having i)ursued a pre])aratory course of study, became the \m\n\ of R. P. J. Tenney, M. D., of Loudon, under 276 HISroKY OF TROY. whose instruction he remained one year. The kist two years of his medical course were spent under the tutelage of Dr. William W. Brown of Manchester. He attended lectures at Dartmouth Medical College and the Phila- delphia College of Medicine, graduating from the latter institution, after which he spent several months in the Pennsylvania Hospital. He married Caroline, daughter of Thomas Ames, Escj., of Canterlnu-y, March 25, 1845, and the following year was elected principal of the South Grammar School in Manchester, and he entered u]5on the duties of the position the next spring. Mrs. Caroline Caverly died Feb. 2, 1851, and the following year he resigned his position as teacher, and again resumed the study and practice of medicine with Dr. Brown. On com- ing to Troy he purchased the location owned by Dr. Mil- ler, near the railroad l^ridge, now owned by Mrs. F. S. Schnell, and resided there until the 30th of November, 1854, when he married Sarah L., daughter of Solomon Goddard, and afterwards resided on the Goddard place. Dr. Caverly was a skillful and successful practitioner and had a large practice, and was honored with several town offices. He was Superintending School Committee for several years, Representative to the Legislature in 1861 -62, town clerk, 1857-59. He possessed a love for anti- quarian and historical researches, and while engaged in riding over these hills, as duty called, he collected infor- mation concerning the early settlement of this region and the early settlers^ which was incoqwrated in a 'History of Troy," pid)lished in 1859. The possessors of this infor- mation long since passed from the stage of life, and the facts here presented have been valuable in giving a more complete history of the towns from which this town was formed. In the spring of 1863, he removed to Pittsford, Yt., where he continued in practice until his death. Being PHYSICIANS AND LAWYER. 277 actuated by the same love for historical research, he col- lected material and wrote a "History of Pittsford," which was published in 1872. AniAi- M. Cavkkly, M. D. Mary Ann Harris, daughter of Luke Harris, entered n])on the study of medicine at the time when the subject of the medical education of women was first brought forward. The first women's medical college was estab- lished in Philadelphia, although there had ]3reviously been formed in Boston a "Female Medical Educational Society," which was chartered in 1852, for the education of mid- wives, nurses and female physicians, and in 185() was chartered as the "New England Female Medical College." From this institution Miss Harris graduated in 1851), and after graduation settled in Abington, Mass., remaining for three years. Not being in robust health she returned to her native town and practiced her profession during the 278 HISTORY OF TROY. Slimmer season for about three years. She married Jahez Butler in ISGO and removed from town, giving up the practice of medicine. The following resolution was adopted at the annual meeting in 1S94-: Maky a. Harris Butlkr, M. D. Resolved, That the thanks of the Town of Troy are hereby presenter! to Mrs. Mary A. Harris Butler, for her gift, free of all ex])ense to the town, of the tower clock which now adorns the town house. Resolved, That the town clerk 1)e reciuested to transmit to Mrs. But- ler, an attested copy of this resolution. Daniel Farrar, M. D., was born in Troy and was the sixth physician to locate in the town. He graduated from PHYSICIANS AND LA]VYER. 279 the Harvard Medical School in the spring of 1SG2. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon ot the Third New Hampshire Regiment, Aug. 13, 1862, and arrived at the regiment about the middle of September, 18G2. His posi- tion at this time was an anomalous one, as in his ajjjjoint- ment a vacancy was anticipated in the medical staft' and I Daniel Fakrak, M. I). soon after occurred. He began his duties at once and performed them well. In the spring of 1863, the regiment was scattered, two com])anies being at Hiltf)n Head, S. C, seven companies were at Pickney Island and one company 280 HISrORY OF TROY. at Pope's. Dr. Farrar remained with the two companies at Hilton Head. On A])ril 15, 1863, after the regiment had gone to Edisto Ishmd, Dr. Farrar was ordered to special duty, taking charge of the sick at the outposts of Hilton Head (Seabrook, Fort Alitchel, Fope's, Jenkin's Island and Spanish Wells), with headquarters at Pope's. He had scarcely entered upon these duties \yhen he was relieved by an order relieying everybody in the brigade of which the Third New Hampshire was a part. He rejoined the regiment at Edisto River, and not being in good health very soon after sent in his resignation, which was not accepted. He repeated the act at once and was honorably discharged, on surgeon's certificate of disability, at Botany Hay Island, on May 4, 1863. U])on his return home he commenced practice here. Not being physically strong he could not endure the rides over this hilly country, and he gave up his practice sometime in 1865, and afterwards removed to Leominster, Mass., where he continued in ])ractice till his death, June 3, 1875. Dr. Farrar was succeeded by Daniel B. Woodward, M. D., who ])racticed until about 1868, when he removed to Ellenburgh, N. Y., where he now resides. The next physician was Dr. Benjamin H. Hart well, who was born in Acton, Mass., Feb. 27, 1845; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, March, 1868. He commenced practice here the following May, and renudned until March, 1869. He removed to Ayer, Mass., where he has since resided, a highly respected and successful physician. Dr. John Dodge came next from Springfield, Vt., but remained only a few months. Dr. Carl G. Metcalf was the tenth physician. Born in East Unity, N. H., April 21, 1846; studied medicine with Drs. Butler of Lempster and Swett of Newport, graduating at AlbauA' Medical College in December, 1869. Commenced PHYSICIANS AND LAWYER. 281 practice in Troy in Feliruary, 1870, remaining until April, 1872, when he removed to Middleton, Mass., where he was located three years. Failing health required a year's rest, and in 1876 he located in Marlborough, Mass., where he resided until his death, Nov. 1, 1884. He married, in August, 1872, Abbie A., daughter of Rev. Levi Brigham. The next physician to settle here was Dr. M. S. Fer- guson, but he remained only a short tiine. The twelfth physician to locate here was Dr. Benjamin E. Harriman. He was born in Concord, Oct. 20, 1854, while his family were temporarily residing at the capital, his father, Ex-Governor Walter Harriman of Warner, fill- ing at that time the responsible ofiice of state treasurer. He commenced the study of medicine in 1874, with A. H. Crosby, M. D., of Concord. He attended one course of lectures at the University of Vermont, two at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and three at Dartmouth Medical College, graduating from the latter institution in November, 1877. He commenced the practice of medicine at Manchester in the December lollowing and almost im- mediately acquired a good practice, and met with a success most flattering to a beginner. He had not been in robust health for several years, and in June, 1878, he broke down and gave up his practice, going to Florida for the winter, without much apparent benefit. In October, 1879, he established himself in Troy, and once more at- tempted to practice, meeting Avith encouraging success, but the labors of a country practice so wore upon him, that he again succumbed and he returned home the last of the fol- lowing February, and now, really for the last time. Even then he would not admit that his life's work was done, but combatted his disease as best he was able and looked forward to the time when he should be strong enough to renew the practice of his profession. These hopes were 282 HISTORY OF TROY. not destined to end in frnition, for he continued to grow worse, and finally passed peacefully away, on the morn- ing of May 23, 1880. In April, 1879, Dr. Harriman married Miss Jessie B., daughter of Isaac W. Farmer of Manchester. Melvin T. Stone, M. D. Dr. M. T. Stone settled in Troy, Feb. 20, 1880. Studied medicine with Dr. F. A. Stillings of Concord, N. H., and graduated from Dartmouth Medical College, November, 1879. PHYSICIANS AND LA WYER. 283 The legal profession has never had but one representa- tive who became a resident of Troy. Whether this should be attributed to the peaceful disposition of the citizens, or to some other cause, we will not attempt to state. The fact is but one lawyer ever resided in Troy. Luther Chap- man, Ksq., was born in Keene, Dec. 28, 1788, and was the son of Samuel Chapman, a farmer of that town. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1803, studying law with John C. Chamberlain, Esq., of Charlestown, and commenced the practice of his profession in Swanzey in 1806. He married Salh^ daughter of Samuel King of Chesterfield, Feb. 9, 1808, and removed to Fitzwilliam, where he resided until 1836, when he came to Troy and located in the house which formerly stood on the site of the double tenement house now owned by the Troy Blan- ket Mills. He was for tnany years a conspicuous member of the Cheshire bar, and although not regarded by many of his associates as a very brilliant lawyer, was considered as one of the "best read" lawyers in the state. The fol- lowing anecdote is related of him : It is said that at one time he was defendant in a suit brought against him by Cyrus Merrifield, which, though very small in magnitude, maintained its place upon the court docket through many successive terms, and afforded some amusement among his professional brethren. Whenever a term of court com- menced and he appeared, their first inquiry would be con- cerning the progress of the Merrifield suit. On one of these occasions he was asked how he got along wnth Merrifield; to which he replied, "I guess the suit is about done ; I told Merrifield the other day that he might take fifteen dollars and go to h 1, and I guess he will do it." Mr. Chapman returned to Fitzwilliam, where he died Aug. 15, 1856, aged seventy-seven. His wife died there Aug. 1, 1869, aged eighty-seven. CHAPTER XVI. MILLS AND MANUFACTURING. FIRST GRIST AND SAWMILI.S. — MANUFACTURE OF WOODEN WARE. — PAIL SHOPS. — SCVTHE FACTORY. — PAIL HANDLES. — BROWN EARTHERN WARE AND POTTERY. — TANNERY. — IL\T MAKING. — FULLING MILLS. — FIRST HORSE BLANKETS MADE. — TROY BLANKET MILLS. — GRANITE INDl'STRY. — BOX MAKING. — BRICK YARDS. At a meeting of the proprietors of the township Alonad- nock No. 4, held at the inn of Capt. Thomas Cowdin, in Fitchbnrg, Oct. 11, 1768, it was voted that the sum of twenty pounds, lawful money, be \)aid to Col. Sampson Stoddard in consideration of his conveying to Doctor Gideon Tiffany two lots of land to build a gristmill on, which sum was to be in full for the same. For some reason the mill built by Tiffany was not accepted by the proprietors, and at a meeting held March 4, 1772, a com- mittee w- as chosen to put in execution the bond given by Tiffany, to build and keep in good repair a gristmill, or to make some proper settlement with him regarding the mill. Soon after this, the mill was completed and put in order by Thomas Tolman. This mill, wdiich stood near where the old blanket mill stands, answered the purpose of the proprietors. A little later he erected near it a good sawmill, which was close by the spot where the highway crosses the stream. Joshua Harrington purchased the property about 1780. The sawmill was not long used, but the gristmill for a long time was known far and wide as the "Harrington mill," and was continued in operation by Mr. Harrington and his sons imtil al^out 1834, or more than Mtj years. MILLS AND MANUFACTURING. 285 About 1779, Daniel Cutting built a sawmill near the present mill of C. D. Farrar, and Phineas Farrar built a gristmill at the North end in 1784. A sawmill was built near the present site of the Troy Blanket Mills about 1789, by Ephraim Root, which was burned some years later. In 1803, Hezekiah Hodgkins built a sawmill on the location now owned by Geo. S. Colburn on East Hill. At one time Luke Parkhurst had a sawmill near the Porter White place, so-called, on West Hill. The manufacture of wooden ware is one of the most important industries of the town, having been carried on for more than one hundred years. Thomas Clark, in 1779, commenced the making of mor- tars, spools, plates, bowls and trays, which he carried away and exchanged for food and clothing, thus materi- ally adding to his income. The first shop erected for the manufacture of pails was Imilt by Moses Curtis and was situated on the stream below the old tannery. At what time this shop was built we are unable to state, but about 1826, or a little later, the shop was purchased by Luke Harris, and soon after he formed a partnership with Charles Coolidge. This part- nership continued for a few years, when the shop was purchased by Mr. Coolidge who carried on the business alone until 1859, when he sold the shop to Thomas Goodall and retired from the business. In the spring of 1845, Capt. Solomon Goddard and Edwin Buttrick formed a partnership for the manufacture of pails, and built the brick pail shop now in use. This partnership continued until the death of Capt. Goddard, which occurred in 1854, when Mr. Buttrick bought his ]3artner's share of the business which he carried on alone until 1866, when his son-in-law, Asa C. Dort, became a 286 HISTORY OF TROY partner. In June, 1878, the larger part of the shop was destro^^ed by fire, the sawmill and the interior of the brick louilding being burnt, entailing a loss of several thousand dollars. The present wooden buildings were built soon after. After the death of Mr. Buttrick in 1891, the latter Patl Shot of E. Bi'TTkick & Co. succeeded to the business -which is still carried on under the name of E. Buttrick & Co. Some twenty or twenty- five hands are employed in the manufacture of tubs and pails, consuming about twelve hundred cords of pine. About 1826, Amos Sibley built a new shop at the North end, wdiich was for several years used as a peg mill and was afterwards converted into a pail shop. This mill remained vacant for a number of years and became the property of David W. Farrar. This is the mill now owned by his son, Charles D. Farrar, in which he commenced the manufacture of pails and buckets in 1873. Since 1880, Mr. Farrar has had his dr\' houses destroyed i MILLS AND ALANUFACTURLXG. 287 by fire several times, either wholly or in part, with more or less loss each time, aggregating a large sum. He employs eighteen or twenty men, and uses about a thon- sand cords of pine yearly, making principally pails and buckets. P.viL Shop of Ciias. D. Fakkak. George Brown built a mill at the North end in 1S37, in which he made wash boards, mop hjindles, clothespins, turned bed posts, mortars and fancy dishes. About 1878, Coolidge & Whittemore commenced the manufacture of wooden ware at Bowkcrville, in the shop formerly owned Ijy Elijah Bowker of P'itzwilliam. Both partners, Elbridge Coolidge and Henry M. Whittemore, are residents of Troy, but the mill is located just over the line in Fitzwilliam. This firm continued in business until 1895 when Mr. Coolidge retired, and the business was conducted by Henry M. Whittemore for a short time. About 1801, William Barnard and Moses Aldrich l)uilt 288 HISTORY OF TROY. a scythe factory at the North end, the first one in town, and commenced making scythes, continuing in business until 1816, when they sold out to Amos Sibley, who carried on the business until 184-4. At that time it was considered a good day's work for a person to make six scythes, which were \vorth ten dollars per dozen. He sold the scythe shop to Whitcomb cv Forristall in 1856, who converted it into a pail shop. This is the building near the railroad crossing, Avhich was last used as a pottery and is now owned by the Troy Blanket Mills. For several years Webster Corey made pail handles at his shop on West Hill, turning them by hand, and at one time did quite an extensive business, but the invention of luachinery, so that the whole work is done automaticalh^ has made it unprofitable to do business by hand turning. Winthrop Knight carried on the wheelwright business at his shop at the North end, and forty or fifty years ago manufactured sash and blinds. The manufacture of earthen ware and pottery was carried on more or less constantly for a period of sixty- five or seventy years. In 1821, Constant Weaver built a pottery, the first in town, which stood in the back part of what was recently the hotel garden. Mr. Weaver did but little in the pottery himself, devoting his tiiue to the tavern, but committed the management of it to his son, who proved incompetent to the task, and it not proving profitable was soon given vip. About 1812, Col. Daniel W. Farrar built a pottery which stood in the forks of the road near the place owned by Mrs. Gilbert C. Bemis, and which was rented in 1817 or 1818 to Solomon Goddard and Jonathan B. French, who carried on a partnership business for about three years, when their business relations were dissolved. Capt. MILLS AND MANUFACTURING. 289 Goddard was a potter by trade, having served an appren- tieeship in his father's shop. Some time previous to the dissolving of the partnership, he had purchased of Joshua Harrington, Jr., about two acres of land with the build- ings thereon, which was part of the place now owned by Hiram W. Hutt, and upon which he built a new pottery in which he carried on business until 1843, when he sold it to Eri J. Spaulding, and after about two years entered into business with Edwin Buttrick in the manufacture of wooden ware. The old pottery in which Goddard and French worked was afterwards removed and formed part of the dwelling house now owned by Nicholas Grimes. After quitting the pottery, French, in company with Moses Ballou, rented Col. Farrar's store and was engaged in trade for a. short time but soon relinquished it and moved to the West. At one time there was a pottery on the brow of the hill just beyond the residence of John McCarley. This originally belonged to Rev. Ezekiel Rich and afterwards became the property of Elisha H. Tolman. Who carried on business in this estalDlishment cannot be ascertained. About 1878, C. M. Silsby & Co. made pottery at the North end in the old Whitcomb & Forristall pail sho]3, and a year or two later by W. G. & R. M. Silsby for a short time, and afterwards by Henry McCormac. About the same time Charles A. Farrar was engaged in making pottery in the brick shop now owned by him. The l)usiness could not be made profitable in competi- tion with the larger establishments which turned out the cheaper grades of ware b\^ machinery, and gradually fell into decay, and no manufacturing has been done for some twelve or fourteen years. Frank A. Aldrich carried on the North end ]5ottery for a short time previous to Henry McCormac. 290 HISTORY OF TROY. Harvey Blanding built the shop now owned by C. A. Farrar, in 1849, in which he manufactured pails for about ten years, or until his death. After his death the shop was purchased by E. P. Kimball and Daniel M. Farrar, and for a time Avas rented to one Perley for the manu- facture of chair stock. After a time Mr. Farrar purchased the interest of his partner and engaged in the manufacture of pails until his death in 1870. He also built the saw- mill which is now a part of the shop of Marcus V. Damon. Jason Winch, a native of Framingham, Mass., came here in 1782 or 1783, and built a tannery on the site of the one burned a few years since. He carried on tanning and currving for a few years, but being unfortunate in business he closed it up and left town. It is quite prob- able that the property remained idle until 1815, when the tanyard and the Warren stand was purchased by Lyman Wright, of David White and Joshua Harrington, who obtained them of Warren at the time he left town. He came here from Templeton, Mass., where he learned the tanner's trade. Soon after acquiring the property, he built a new tannery wdiich stood nearly over the stream and a little lower down than the old one. Some 5^ears after he moved it farther up the stream and toward the north, putting an addition upon the east end, and this formed the principal part of the tannery as long as it stood. Moses Bush, a native of Templeton and a tanner by trade, came here in 1824, and formed a partnership with Col. Wright, which continued until the death of Mr. Bush in 1826. At a later period a partnership was formed with Francis Foster, and the tirm of Wright & Foster con- tinued in business until the death of Mr. Wright. Mr. Foster carried on the btisiness alone for several years, but in 1869 the tannery passed into the hands of W. G. & R. MILLS AND MANUFACTURING. 291 M. Silsby. The firm consisted of William G. Silsby and Robert M. Silsby, tanners by trade, who came here from Alstead. They carried on the business for about fifteen \^ears, when the former retired from the firm. R. M. Silsb}' carried on business for a short time until the destruction of the tannery by fire, which occurred April 13, 1887. The tannery site and water privilege is now owned by the Troy Blanket Mills. Charles Davis, a native of Han- cock, came here in 1819, and purchased an old house which stood on the farm formerly owned by John Flagg and moved it to the village. Mr. Davis was a hatter b\^ trade, and a part of his house was finished for a hat shop, and was probabh' the first establishment of the kind in Troy. He carried on the business for about ten years and then moved to Holden, Mass. Benjamin F. Grosvenor, a hatter, came here about 1831, and commenced hat making in what is now called the tinshop house. On coming here he formed a partner- ship Avith Edward Tolman, and the following year he sold his interest to Tolman and moved to New Boston, where he resided one A^ear, and then went to Hillsborough Bridge, but returned to Troy in 1836, and resumed the business of hat making. The following year he built a shop which stood near what is now the stable of C. \V. Brown's heirs, which was removed in 1856 and converted into a dwelling house. He removed from here to Me- thuen, Mass. The business was afterwards carried on by E. P. Kim- ball, who served an apprenticeship under Grosvenor. Mr. Kimball carried on the business of tinsmith in the same house for a number of years, the tinshop house, so-called, and at one time had ten peddlers on the road. Alexander Parkman, a clothier by trade, had a fulling mill near the present site of the Troy Blanket Mills, about 292 HISTORY OF TROY. 1778. He lived here for about ten 3'ears, and it is pre- sumed found plenty of work to keep him busy in the sea- son for dressing cloth, for at that time all families spun their yarn and wove their cloth. He removed to Ne^v York about 1788. About 1790, a fulling mill was built in the village. By whom built or operated cannot be stated. About 1800, two brothers, John and William Browm, came here from Fitchburg and purchased the mill and worked at their trade as clothiers a short time, but not succeeding accord- ing to their expectations, they sold the mill to Thomas Benney and moved back to Fitchburg. The mill was burnt soon after and Mr. Benney rebuilt it. He remained for three or four years and then left the place. Salmon Whittemore bought of Jonathan Wood of Fitz- william, the Benney mill, April, 1815, paying sixteen hun- dred dollars for the same, but the mill was old and the timbers so decayed that the following year he took the mill down and built a new one on the same spot, and this building was the one that formed that part of the tannery \vhich was used for finishing leather. Mr. Whit- temore carried on the mill for several \'ears and was succeeded by Oliver Hawkins, who used the mill only for a short time. After this the Ijuilding was used by a Mr. Coolidge for the manufacture of rakes, and later by one Danforth for the manufacture of pitchforks, etc., and still later by William Jackson, w^ho made axes. Joshua Harrington, Jr., and his brother, Elijah Har- rington, built a carding mill about 1808, which stood on the opposite side of the stream from what is now called the "middle mill" of the Troy Blanket Mills. They car- ried on business until 1808, when Joshua sold his interest in the mill to his brother Elijah. He continued the business alone in the season for carding wool until 1840, MILLS AND MANUFACTURING. 293 when he sold it to Charles Coolido;e, who took it down, as it interfered Avith the operation of his pail mill. Luke Harris bought the gristmill and water ])rivilege of Elijah Harrington, in 1836. He took the gristmill down and commenced immediately to build a factory, which was completed the following year and used to manufacture woolen cloth. The most important and chief branch of industry, and one that has added much to the growth and prosperit\^ ^jS* ■><«!!»■ •*>*» oii^^infey'^" "^ ti lip »V. lii^j^'-^. -■^ iiriiMiniiTii'ii '■■■faiiigiilBilllin till' llillW.' .11' — *7^m|[ iiiiijrnhiii'' "' ' Troy Blanket Mii-ls — Front View. of the town, is the manufacture of horse blankets. Tro^' is the birthplace of this branch of industry, for previous to the time when the first blanket was made by Thomas Goodall, in 1857, there was none made in America, all blankets used being the English scjuare blanket, imported and expensive. From a very small beginning, this branch of manufacturing has become an extensive one throusfhout 294 HISTORY OF TROY. the country, and is an important one in many towns in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Thomas Goodall was a native of De\vsbury, England, and served an apprenticeship with a large manufacturing establishment in his native town for eleven years. He came to America in 1846 and settled in Troy in 1851. On coming to Tro^- he hired the Harris mill, then owned by Stephen Wheeler and Brown Nurse, and in company with a Mr. Turner, commenced the manufacture of a cheap grade of beavers and satinets, or "nigger cloth," as it was called on account of its color. The weaving was done in the Harris mill, but the material was prepared at the mill of Winthrop Knight, at the North end. After a few years, Goodall & Turner sold out to Bur- nett & Risley, Mr. Goodall going to Ashuelot, where he engaged in getting out shodd}- ; from there going to Marlborough. The latter firm did not possess sufficient capital to conduct a successful business, and Mr. Goodall returned to Troy, bu^-ing out the interest of Burnett, the firm becoming Goodall & Risley. The business did not pay and Risley disposed of his interest to Mr. Goodall. This was just preceding the financial panic of 1857; business was getting dull and money scarce, and horse blankets were imported and expensive. Mr. Goodall con- ceived the idea of making blankets from the cheap cloth which he was manufacturing, with straps and buckles attached. This cloth was three-fourths of a yard in width, and the first blanket was made by taking two strips of suitable length, joining them together, a narrow strip of red flannel being used to cover the seam and for funding. As all the imported blankets were square, an improvement was made in those for stable use in having them cut out so as to fit the neck without wrinkling. As a blanket made from this cloth was not quite wide enough, the MILLS AND MANUFACTURING. 295 width was increased to one yard, and for a long time the lilankets were made in this manner, being sewed together Ijy hand by the people of the village, the cloth being cut into suitable lengths and shaped and distributed at their residences. The blankets did not sell very readily at first, Ijut the hard times and the war of the Rebellion soon created a demand for a cheap blanket and thc}^ then found a ready sale, and for several years the business proved highly profitable. Troy Blanket Mills — Rear View. After a time, Mr. Goodall purchased the mill and also the building known as the middle mill, and continued in business until November, 1865, when the Troy Blanket Mills was formed by J. H. Elliot, R. H. Porter and Bar- rett Ripley of Keene, who purchased of Goodall the mills and machinery and all the other real estate and ]irivileges owned bv him. At that time the mill contained two sets w 296 HISTORY OF TROY. of cards, two hand jacks, nine looms and but one or two sewing machines, as most of the blankets were made by hand. The present brick mill was erected in 18G9 and contained three sets of cards, jacks and looms. It was enlarged in 1877, and the machinery of the old mill moved to it and the old mill abandoned. The mill was enlarged in 1880, at that time containing ten sets of cards, seven self-operating jacks, with fourteen hundred spindles and sixty looms, besides printing machin- ery and sewing machines. It was further enlarged in 1887, when the office was built; in 1889, by the addition of the engine house, storehouse and west wing, and again in 1890 and 1892. The capacity of the mill has been increased from five hundred blankets dail}^ in 1880, to twelve hundred at the present time, and two hundred and fifty hands are employed. Barrett Ripley was superintendent until 1887. The Troy Blanket Mills was incorporated Jan. 1, 1887, with a capital stock of eighty thousand dollars. Franklin Rip- ley is the present superintendent. The growth of the town has been commensurate with the growth of this industry. Mr. Goodall located in Sanford, Maine, after leaving Troy, where he has been very sviccessful, building up a large and prosperous business, having six or seven large mills used in the manufacture of blankets, plushes . and plush goods of various descriptions, and about which has developed a large and flourishing village. But little was done in the granite industry until within a very few years, although Troy contains granite of a superior quality, wliich has been found to be very valu- able for building and monumental purposes, having good color and evenness and firmness of conijjosition which enables it to withstand exposure, holding its color well MILLS AND MANUFACTURING. 297 after long exposure to air and moisture. As examples, the residences of Mrs. Sarah E. Harris and Hiram C. New- ton may be cited, both having been built more than fifty years ago from stone taken from the quarry now owned by the Troy Granite Co. Quite a good many years ago, a Mr. Bates opened a quarry near the present farm of Michael Enright, 2d. The stone was used in the construction of a bank build- ing in Fitchburg. This quarry w^as afterwards owned by David Woodw^ard, but little stone was ever taken from it, and it has remained idle for twenty years or more. Alpheus Crosby owned the Falls quarry, now owned by the Troy Granite Co., and got out the stone from QvARKY OF Troy Granite Co. which the basement to the Congregational church and the house of Mrs. Harris was built, the latter in 1837. Later one Frye becjime the owner and built the house now owned by H. C. Newton. After changing hands several times, it became the property of Luther Whittemore, but 298 HISTORY OF TROY. it was not worked much, nearly if not all the stone taken out being used for local purposes only. About 1890-91, the quarry became the property of Pellett Bros, of Wor- cester, Mass., who quarried considerable stone which they used for building purposes. After a year or two they sold out to other Worcester parties, who operate it vmder the name of the Troy Granite Co. The present officers are, L. A. Taylor, president; O. W. Norcross, vice president; A. O. Knights, treasurer. In 1895 the firm of Norcross Bros, secured the contract for building the approaches to the new Congressional Library at Washington, which they built of the Troy granite, erecting a large shed, two hun- dred feet in length, and several other buildings for the purpose, and for a time over a hundred men were em- ployed. Previous to this all stone had been shipped in the rough state. William Y. Woodbury is the present super- intendent. Marcus V. Damon commenced the manufacture of pails in 1893, on the site of the Mellen Farrar sawmill. Austin B. Gates mjinufactured clothespins in the mill now owned by Arthur Edwards. This mill was built b}' Mr. Gates and was afterwards owned by John Woods and later, by George Brown and A. W. Stockwell, who sold it to Edwards. In 1883, Oliver C. Whitcomb came here from Swanzey and commenced the manufacture of locked corner packing boxes in the old mill formerly occupied by the Troy Blan- ket Mills. A few years after, Frank S. Harris entered into partnership with Mr. Whitcomb, the firm name being O. C. Whitcomb & Co. Some twent^^ to thirty hands were constantly employed, and it became necessary to procure larger and more commodious quarters. Accordingly the old "picture frame shop" was leased and was being fitted up for the business, when it was destroyed hy the fire MILLS AND MANUFACTURINd. 299 which occurred in April, 1887. They remained in their former quarters until 1891, when they moved to Harris- ville. The making of brick was an industry that has been carried on quite successfully at different times. The first brickyard was near the present residence of Elijah H. Adams, and was owned and conducted by Rev. Ezekiel Rich for a short time, when it was abandoned. The brick used in building the Congregational church were made in this yard. Mr. Rich also owned another yard, which is that part east of the railroad, now owned by the Troy Brick Co. This became the property of Elisha H. Tolnian, who manufactured brick for a few years. After this it passed into the hands of E. P. Kimball, who sold it to W. P. Chamberlain of Keene, and the clay was used in the manufacture of pottery at Keene. It then became the property of George W. Ball of Keene, who made brick for some years, when the business was abandoned, and it remained idle. About 1888 or 1889, the property was sold at auction for one hundred dollars, and was pur- chased by a company, of whom C. C. Abbey of Chicopee, Mass., and M. J. Sherman of Keene were the principal owners, and known as the Troj^ Brick Co. Considerable money v^as expended in erecting new buildings and sheds and putting in modern machinery and implements, and for several years a large number of bricks were made. About 1836, Capt. Thomas Wright opened a yard near where George A. Starkey's trout ponds are situated, and carried on a successful business for twenty-five or thirty years. He did considerable business as a contractor, and made the brick for and built all the brick structures in the village with the single exception of the Congregational church. In 1870, Moses E. Wright, Henry J. Brown and E. P. 300 HISTORY OF TROY. Kimball formed a partnership under the name of Wright, Brown & Co., for the manufacture of picture frames and moulding. The frames were made in the brick shop now owned by C. A. Farrar, and the finishing done in part of Mr. Kimball's store. In 1873, a building was erected on the opposite side of the stream from the tannery, eighth' by forty feet, two stories high with basement, and the business moved into it. The enterprise proved profitable for several years, but finally the firm was dissolved, and later H. J. Brown & Co. carried on the manufacture of brooms for some three or four years. This firm was com- posed of Henry J. Brown, Charles C. Smith and E. P. Kimball. For several years after this the building remained empty, until the spring of 1887, when it was leased by O. C. Whitcomb & Co. for the manufacture of boxes, and was being fitted up for that purpose when it was destroyed by fire, April 13, 1887. About fifty years ago, James R., Alvah and Abner Stan- ley purchased the Hodgkins mill on East Hill, and making- some additions and improvements, carried on business for many years, first in getting out chair posts, wdiich were carried to Gardner by team, and later in the manufacture of clothespins and office chairs. They also operated a grist- mill during the time, and did the grinding for the sur- rounding country in Jafifrey, Marlborough, Fitzwilliam and Troy. This mill was afterwards purchased by George S. Colburn, and operated by him at different times, until it was burned a few vears since. CHAPITER XVII. MISCELLANEOUS. THE OLD MILITARY KOAD. — POST OFFICE AND POSTMASTERS. — FORMATION OF AN ENGINE COMPANY. — HAMILTON ENGINE AND COMPANY. — MONAD- NOCK STEAMER CO. — FREE MASONS. — MONADNOCK LODGE, NO. SO, F. &: A. M. — LIST OF OFFICERS. — PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY. — REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT. During the years 1735 to 1760, the ahnost constant wars with the Indians made it a matter of importance that some direct way of communication should be estab- Hshed Ijetween Massachusetts and the frontier towns towards Canada. During this time Massachusetts claimed nearly all of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont as part of her territor^^ and sustained garrisons along the Con- necticut river, in townships that had been granted by that Province, to protect their frontier. These forts were at Number Four, or Charlestown ; Great Meadow, or West- moreland ; Great Falls, or Walpole; Fort Dummer, or Hinsdale; Upper Ashuelot, or Keene; and Lower Ashuelot, or Swanzey. In order to transport the munitions of war with the troops through the wilderness to these frontier forts, it would seem that roads for wheeled vehicles w^ould be necessary and constructed. That such a road was made through this section of territory is undoubtedly true, although there is no record of it, only what has been handed down b^^ tradition, therefore it is impossible to state the time it was built or the exact location, although its general direction can be given. It is quite probable that this road, or that portion of it in Massachusetts, 302 HISTORY OF TROY. was l3uilt about 1735, starting from the vicinity of Fitch- burg, Mass., passing through Ashburnham, into Winchen- don. As the first settlement in this region was made about 1760, this part of the road must have been made at a later date, or else the first settler must have taken the trail from what had been the road some fifteen or twenty years previously. The uncertainty of the location is due to the reason that, in succeeding years, wherever the road did not meet the wants of the people as a public highway-, it soon ^vent out of use, and wherever it did it was maintained like all other town roads, and soon its history became lost. From Winchendon, it is believed that a branch extended in a westerly direction, passing through the southwestern corner of Fitzwilliam into Richmond, and continuing on to Fort Dummer. The other branch, and most important one, taking a northwesterly direction, passing through the entire length of Fitzwilliam, proceeded onward to Number Four, or Charlestown. The Fitzwilliam historian says that in 1871 he easily traced the road for a considerable distance through the northwest section of the town, and that it was located a short distance west of the former residence of Gilbert C. Bemis, burned a few^ years since, and proceeding northerly, passed east of Rockwood pond and west of the present traveled highway. The track was grown up with trees, and some of them of very large size, l)ut the sluices made across the water courses were standing as they were built, one hundred and fifty years ago. From the point above named it proceeded in a northerly course to Troy village, and taking a northeasterly direction, passed near the jircsent residence of John Tatro, and on over the hill near the old Clark place into Swanzey. It is highly probable that this road \vas continued on MISCELLANEOUS. 303 throiis4"h Vermont, and was used for the transportation of troops and supplies from Massachusetts and New Hamp- shire during the Revolutionary War for the military oper- ations that took place in the Lake Champlain region. One of the older inhabitants of the town once remarked to the writer that undoubtedly some of the powder used in fighting the battle of Bennington was transported over this road. POST OFFICE. The records of the Post Office Department show that a jiost office was not established in Troy until about nine years after the incorporation of the town, the majority of the inhabitants receiving their mail through the post office at Fitzwilliam, which was established in 1805. The Marlborough post office was not established until 1823, or a little more than a year previous to Troy, the people of that town getting their mail through the office at Keene. A post office was established in Troy, March 10, 1824-, and Daniel W. Farrar was appointed postmaster. The following is a list of the persons who have held the office of postmaster, up to the present time, with the date of their commissions : Daniel W. Farrar, Mar. 10, 1,S24-. vStephen Wheeler, Ai)ril 9, 1825. Otis C. Whiton, Jan. 9, 1827. Brown Nurse, Feb. 27. 1836. David W. Farrar, Mar. 19, 1850. Edward P. Kimball, April 2, 1855. Charles W. Whitney, Jtdy 23, 1861. David W. Farrar, Dec. 17, 1864-. Charles W. Whitney, Oet. 18, 1865. WilHani G. Silsby, April 24, 1871. Charles W. Whitney, April 27. 1874. Warren W. Kiniljall, Autr. 25, 1885. Herbert P. Thompson, July 12, 1897. 304 HISTORY OF TROY. FORMATION OF AN ENGINE COMPANY. A fire engine eonipany was incorporated in 1839, according to the following notice: Be It Known, That Charles CooHdge, N. B. RolHns, Benj. F. Grosve- nor and fifteen others, inhaliitants of Troy, have associated themselves into a Conipaii}' to be known In' the name of Fire Engine Company, No. 1, in said Tro}', agreeable to the Laws of the State of New Hamp- shire. Troy, N. H., Feb'y 20, 1S39. Wm. S. Hutchins, Clerk. • The names of the other members of the company can- not be given, because of the deficiency in the records. In 1843, the company was composed of Edward Far- rar, D. D. Foster, Edwin Buttrick, J. F. Craig, Stephen Starkey, William Marshall, Charles Coolidge, John Wheeler, Samuel G. Whitney, Charles Carpenter, Milton Frost, J. How, Isaac Aldrich, George Fairbanks, N. F. Newell, A. R. Ballon and Charles Patch. The anniml meeting was held at the engine hall, Jan. 2, 1843. After the roll had been called the company voted to adjourn to the tavern of Capt. Stephen Wheeler for thirty minutes, probably for refreshments, after which the following list of ofiiccrs were chosen: William Marshall, Clerk ; Charles Coolidge, Captain ; D. D. Foster, First Steward ; John Wheeler, Second Steward ; S. G. Whitne}-, Charles Carpenter and Milton Frost, Standing Committee. George Fairbanks, A. R. Ballou, Stephen Starkey, Charles Patch and J. F. Craig were new members appointed at this meeting. The by-laws required the members to meet once a month, and for failure to be present at the meeting, each absentee was subject to a fine of twenty-five cents, or twelve and one-half cents each roll call, and fifty cents when absent from a fire. MISCELLANEOUS. 305 At the next annual meeting, Eri J. Spaulding, E. P. Kiniljall, N. Whitcomb and E. Wheeler became members. The records do not show at what time the first engine was purchased, but it was probably soon after the forma- tion of the company. This machine is one of the oldest fire engines in the United States. The date of its manu- facture is unknown, but at the time it was purchased was considered a great improvement over anything used for such purposes. The machine can still be used for throwing water. It was made by the National Hydraulic Company of Proctors ville, Vt., a company which was organized in Old Fire Engine. 1829. The body of the machine is about six and one-half feet in length and two and one-fourth feet wide. The tank which holds the water is at the back end of the apparatus iind is about four and one-half feet in length, two feet wide, and fourteen inches deep. The pump is of the rotary pattern and is operated by two cranks a little over four feet in length, there being room for four or five men on each crank. There is no suction hose attached, ^md the water was drawn from wells, cisterns or other sources, and carried to the machine in buckets or pails ; a double 306 HISTORY OF TROY. row of men, women and children passing these from hand to hand to the engine ; the empty buckets being returned to the water supply in the same manner. There is a reel on the front of the machine for carrying the hose to be attached to the pipe, and in the front part is a compart- ment for carrying such articles as desired. For years this engine was kept in a place prepared for it in the north end of the shed attached to the store of C. W. Whitney. The old engine having been in use for twenty years or more, had become nearly obsolete, and a more modern machine was necessary for the suitable protection of ])ro]3- ertv against fire, and the company took measures to pro- cure one. They held a levee, or fair, Feb. 19, 1862, for the ])urpose of raising money to go toward purchasing a new engine, the proceeds of which amounted to one hun- dred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-four cents, individual members of the company subscribing in addition the sum of twenty-two dollars, making the total amount one hun- dred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-four cents. At the town meeting the following month, the town voted to raise a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, to be i)ut with the sum already raised for the purchase of a fire engine and hose, and Henry A. Porter was chosen the agent of the town for this purpose, to act in conjunction with C. B. Wright, agent of the fire company. An engine was purchased of the city of Chelsea, Mass., as per the following report made by Agent Wright : raid City of Chelsea, for Hamilton. No. 4-. $150 00 . Fare to Boston and Ijack, Hotel bill and incidental expenses, Daniel \V. Farrar, towartis freii;lit on euiiine, Troy, May lOtli, 1S62. The number of members originally required for a full company was about twenty, but in 1863 the number was 5 00 9 30 lO 00 $174- ;-!0 M ISC EL LA NLOUS. 307 increased to forty. Soon after the purchase of the new engine, the company adopted the name of Hamilton P'ire Engine Company No. 1. With increased memljcrshi]) and a larger machine, new quarters became imperative, and in 1864 the company petitioned the selectmen to call a meet- ing, to see if the town would vote to build a new engine house. The town voted to take the north part of the lower portion of the town house for an engine room, appropriating three hundred dollars to defray the expense I ■■■■>■■■ HHI 1 Hamilton Fire Engine. of putting the same in proper condition, luider the direc- tion of a committee com])osed of E. P. Kimball, Ste])hen H. h^arrar and David Wheeler. During the past fifteen years, the town suffered consid- erably from freciuent fires, the largest and most severe of which occurred April 13, 1887, when the tannery of R. M. Silsby, the picture frame shop and a house and barn belonging to the Troy Blanket Mills, were destroyed, and other adjacent property saved only after a desperate fight by the fire department. The engine company did excellent work with the old Hamilton machine, and the escape of the village from 308 HISTORY OF TROY. serious destruction, led to a discussion of better protection against fires, and in 1891 the town appropriated eighteen hundred dollars for the purchase of a steam fire engine. The matter was put in the hands of a committee, consist- ing of the three first mem1)ers of the board of firewards, John H. Bigelow, Asa C. Dort and Franklin Ripley. A modern steam fire engine was purchased and the succeed- ing year a suitable hose wagon was procured. The pur- chase of the steamer necessitated the formation of a new MoNADNOCK Steamer and Hose Wagon. company and Monadnock Steamer Company was organ- ized. With the advent of the modern appliances for extin- guishing fires the necessity for Hamilton Engine Company ceased to exist and the company was disbanded after a continuous existence of more than fifty years. In the fall of 1893, a hydrant was put in near the town hall, and a line of pipe laid connecting with the pipe system of the Troy Blanket Mills. The water supply is obtained from the stream which passes through the center of the village and from numerous large reservoirs in different parts of the village. With the modern apparatus and an efficient company MISCELLANEOUS. 309 of firemen for the proper handling of the same, and an aliimdant snpply of water which can be carried to all parts of the village, bnt few towns of the size of Troy have as good protection against conflagration. FREEMASONS. Freemasonry was established for the purpose of fraternal deeds of charity and benevolence, and has been cherished and perpetuated by a united brotherhood through centu- ries, until it has spread over the whole world. When the pioneers of our country emigrated to America and established their colonies on our shores, there were laid the foundations of a great nation which was to insure social, religious and political freedom. Through all the vicissitudes and adverse circumstances of social and political revolutions the fraternity survived. Churches and schools were in turn followed by Masonic lodges and halls set apart for their accommodation duly consecrated. Some of these lodges were chartered by the Grand Lodge of England, and others hy the Mother Kil- winning Grand Lodge of Scotland. When independence was declared, a large number of citizens were Freemasons, and the order flourished in a land where there was liberty of thought and freedom of conscience ; where the happiness of the human race was to be perpetuated through the tenets of "brotherly love, relief and truth." After independence w^as secured, grand lodges were formed in all the original states and the order grew and prospered. In the sparsely settled regions, the membershi]) in a lodge of Freemasons was a tie that was highly appreciated, and the history of the public men of those early times show that the mutual claims of "brother Alasons" had a ])rominent part in ])olitics. The assertion that one William Morgan had 1)een abducted and drowned 310 HISTORY OF TROY. because he had revealed tlie secrets of the order, raised a storm of anti-masonry in 1S26 that swept over the country. For poHtical purposes, outrageous falsehoods and the most absurd statements regarding Freemasonry were cir- culated, and members of the order of the highest respecta- bility declared in vain that they had taken no obligation conflicting with their duties to God, their country, to societv or themselves; but were obliged to succumb before the storm of political persecution and hundreds of lodges were temporarily closed. But after a few years had elapsed, Freemasonry, true to itself and its ]M-inci])lcs, arose purified and regenerated, and resumed the discharge of its duties. Anti-masonry as a separate political force came to an end after the presidential election of 1832. The Grand Lodge of New Hampshire chartered July 23, 18()(), Charity Lodge No. IS, F. & A. M., which was located at Fitzwilliam, and at the institution of the lodge the following officers were installed : Josliua Harriii.<;toii, \V()rslii])tul M.-ister. Joseph Winch, Senior Warden. David (Daniel, pro1)a1)ly) Farrar, Junior W.irden. Benjamin Bemis, Jr., Treasiu'er. Joseph Carter, Secretary. Benoni Shnrtleft', Senior Deacon. Edward Perkins, Junior Deacon. Alexander Foster, Steward. Josiah Goldsmith, Tyler. Benjamin Bemis, Kei)rcsentative to Grand Lod^e. Joseph Carter, Proxy. Of these persons, Joshua Harrington and Daniel Farrar were residents of Troy. Joshua Harrington was Master of the lodge in 1808 and X812-13. The lodge was located in Swanzey in 1817-18, then moved to Troy, where it remained until 1826, when it was returned to Fitzwilliam. It remained in Fitzwilliam M MISCELLANEOUS. 311 until 1S47, when it was removed to Jaffrey. It is now loeated at East Jaftrey. William Barnard, a resident of Troy, was one of the first Masons made in Charity Lodge. Members were admitted from these and adjoining towns and the lodge had about sixty members. Quite a large numl)er of the residents of Troy were made Masons in Charity Lodge after it was loeated in Jafifrey, and finding it inconvenient to go so far to attend the meetings, a petition was presented to the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire for the formation of a lodge in Troy, and a charter was granted to Monadnock Lodge No. cSO, f\ & A. M., June 13, 1866. The petitioners, who became the charter members, wxre John Clement, E. P. Kimljall, A. O. Hurlbutt, Elliott Whitcond), Amos J. Blake, D. M. Farrar, Silas Cummings, Abner Gage, J. J. Allen, Robert McDonald, Amos Gurnsey, A. B. Gates, A. J. Aldrich, Daniel B. Woodward, A. F. Boyce, Wm. G. Silsby and Lemuel W. Brown. The lodge was constituted, consecrated, and its officers installed, Aug. 23, 1866, by the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, under the direction and super- vision of District Deputy Grand Master Edward Gustine of Keene, Bro. R. H. Porter of Keene performing the duties of Grand Master. The following are the names of those installed as officers : John Clement, Worshipful Master. Silas Cinnniinsi;s, Senior Warden. .-Vnios J. Blake, Junior Warden. Elliott Whiteomb, Treasurer. .Xlbert (t. Hurlbutt, Secretary. William Butler, Senior Ueaeon. Enoch S. Aldrich, Junior Deacon. \. B. Gates, Senior Steward. Abner (iage. Junior Steward. Lemuel W. Brown, Tyler. J. T. Collins, Marshal. 312 HISTORY OF TROY MAY, 1S67. Elected. John Ck'iiR'nt. W. M. Amos J. Hlake, S. W. Keul)eii Pratt, J. W. Elliott Whitconib, T. A. (i. Hiu-lbutt, S. C. W. Whitney, Rep. to G. L. i,s(;!s. Elected. John Clement, W. M. Amos J. Blake, S. W. Reuben Pratt, J. D. Elliott Whitcomb, T. A. (;. Hurlbutt, S. lcS69. Elected. John Clement, W. AI. C. W. Whitney, vS. W. William Hutler, J. W. Abner (ias^e, T. A. (t. Hurlbutt. S. A. J. Hlake, Rep. to G. L. 1870. Elected. Charles W. Whitney. W. M. Wm. Butler, S. W. Reuben Pratt, J. W. Abner Gas;"e, T. Wm. G. vSilsby, S. John Clement, Rep. to G. L. 1S71. Hlectcd. C. W. Whitney, W. M. Wm. Butler, S. W. R. Pratt, J. W. A. Ga-e, T. W. G. Silsby, S. J. Clement, Rep. to G. L. Appointed. C. W. Whitney, vS. I). E. S. Aldrieh, J. D. Rev. Ira Bailey, Chaplain. Amos Gurnsey, Tyler. A. B. Gates, S. S. Abner Gage, J. S. .\ppointcd. Rev. Ira Bailey, Chaplain. Gustavtis Lueke, S. D. L. D. Pease, J. D. L. W. Brown, Marshal. A. J. Aldrieh, S. S. Abner Gage, J. S. A. B. Gates, Tyler. Appointed. Rev. Ira Bailey, Chaplain. L. D. Pease, vS. I). Elbridge Ctunmings, J. L). Wyman vS. White, Marshal (). S. Adams, S. S. R. M. Silsby, J. S. D. C. Fassett, Tyler. Appointed. E. S. Aldrieh, S. D. R. M. Silsby. J. D. W. S. White. Marshal. A. J. Aldrieh, S. S. I). C. Fassett, J. S. Elliott Whitetmib, Tyler. Appointed. R. M. Silsby, S. D. Chas. D. Farrar, J. D. W. S. White, Marshal. A. J. Aldrieh, S. S. Lueian K. Warden, J. S. E. H. Streeter, Tyler. MISCELLANEOUS. 313 1872. Elected. Wm. Butler, W. M. George A. Wliitteniore, S. W. R. M. Silsljy, J. W. A. Gtige, T. A. G. Hurlbutt, S. C. W. Whitney, Rep. to G. L. 1S73. Elected. Wm. Butler, W. M. R. M. Silsby. S. W. A. G. Hurlbutt, j. W. A. Gage, T. G. A. Adams, S. Geo. A. Wliitteniore, Rep. to G. L 1874-. Elected. R. M. Silsby, W. M. A. G. Hurlbutt, S. W. W. J. Boyden, J. W. A. Gage, T. Chas. E. Kimball, S. Wm. Butler, Rep. to G. L. 1875. Elected. R. M. Silsby, W. M. A. G. Hurlbutt, S. W. Wm. J. Boyden, J. W. C. E. Kimball, S. A. Gage, T. R. Pratt, Rej). to G. L. Elected. C. W. Whitney, W. M. W. J. Boyden, S. W. 1876. Appointed. J. J. Allen, Chaplain. C. U. Farrar, S. D. Wm. J. Boyden, J. D. W. S. White, M. Wm. H. Blanehard, S. S. Thomas H. Lewis, J. S. E. H. Streeter, Tyler. Appointed. J. J. Allen, Chaplain. W. J. Boyden, S. D. E. H. Streeter, J. D. Chas. B. Wright, M. A. B. Gates, S. S. Stephen A. Wright, J. S. J. A. Tupper, Tyler. Appointed. Wm. (t. Silsby, S. D. James E. Louby, J. D. Anson G. Beebe, Chaplain. Albert E. Ingalls, S. S. Lester K. Stiles, J. S. D. C. Fassett, M. Benj. F. Clark, Tyler. Appointed. W. G. Silsby, S. D. James E. Louby, J. D. A. G. Beebe, Chaplain. A. E. Ingalls, S. S. L. K. Stiles, J. S. D. C. Fassett, M. B. F. Clark, Tyler. Appointed. Wm. Butler, S. D. Geo. W. Willis, J. D. 314 HISTORY OF TROY. Elected. W. G. Silshy, J. W. A. Gage T. Henry W. Farrar, S. A. G. Hurlhutt, Rep. to G. Elected. Wm. J. Bovden. W. M. W. G. Silsbv, S. W. G. W. Willis, J. W. L. W. Brown. T. H. W. Farrar, S. C. W. Whitney, Rep. to G Elected. W. G. vSilsby, W. M. G. W. Willis, S. W. A. E. Iiigalls, J. W. L. W. Brown, T. H. W. Farrar, S. W. J. Boyden, Rep. to the G. L. 1S77, L. 1878. 1879. Elected. G. Silsby, W. M. W. WilHs, S. W. D. Farrar, J. W. W. Brown, T. W. Farrar, S. J. Boyden, Rep. to G. L. Appointed. A. E. Ingalls, S. S. B. F. Clark, J. S. L. W. Brown, Chaplain. A. J. Tnpper, Tyler. Appointed. Wm. Butler, S. D. Solon H. Lane, J. D. D. C. Fassett, M. A. B. Gates, Tvler. Appointed. Wm. Butler, vS. D. S. H. Lane, J. D. R. M. Silsby, Chaplain. L. K. Stiles, S. S. W. H. Blanchard, J. S. C. D. Farrar, M. A. B. Gates, Tyler. Appointed. Solon H. Lane, S. D. A. B. Gates, Tvler. 1880. Elected. W. Willis, W. M. D. Farrar, S. W. W. Farrar, J. W. W. Brown, T. G. Hurlbutt, S. G. Silsl)y, Rep. to G. L. Appointed. Wm. Butler, Chaplain. Chester L. Lane, S. D. Walter F. Page, J. D. D. C. Fassett, M. B. F. Clark, S. S. Geo. E. Lane, J. S. A. B. Gates, Tvler. MISCELLANEO US. 315 1881. Elected. G. W. Willis, W. M. C. D. Farrar, S. W. H. W. Farrar, J. W. A. G. Hiirlbutt, S. L. W. Brown, T. R. M. Silsby, Rep. to G. L. 1882. Elected. C. D. Farrar, W. M. H. W. Farrar, S. W. C. L. Lane, J. W. L. W. Brown, T. A. G. Hurlbutt, S. G. W. Willis, Rep. to G. L. Elected. C. D. Farrar, W. M. C. L. Lane, S. W. G. E. Lane, J. W. W. J. Boytlen, T. Wm. Butler, Rep. to G. L. 188c 1884-. Elected. C. L. Lane, W. M. G. E. Lane, S. W. M. T. Stone, J. W. W. J. Boyden, T. A. G. Hurlbutt, S. C. I). Farrar, Rep. to G. L. 1885. Elected. G. E. Lane, W. M. M. T. Stone, S. W. C. M. Lane, J. W. W. J. Boyden, T. A. G. Hurlbutt, S. C. L. Lane, Rep. to G. L. Appointed. C. L. Lane, S. D. G. E. Lane, J. D. B. F. Clark, S. S. J. M. Ramsdell, J. S. R. M. Silsby, Chaplain. Don C. Taft, M. D. C. Fassett, Tyler. Appointed. G. E. Lane, S. D. M. T. Stone, J. D. B. F. Clark, S. S. J. M. Ramsdell, J. S. R. M. vSilsby, Chaplain. D. C. Fassett, Tyler. Appointed. M. T. Stone, S. D. Henry L. Barnard, J. D. R. M. Silsby, Chaplain. Wm. Butler, M. D. C. Fassett, Tyler. Appointed. C. Marcellus Lane, S. D. C. W. Whitney, Jr., J. D. R. M. Silsby, Chaplain. A. C. Dort, M. Fred C. Lincoln, S. S. Arthur A. Woodward, j. S. A. S. Mahon, Tyler. Appointed. C. W. Whitney, Jr., S. I). A. A. Woodward, J. D. A. C. Dort, Chaplain. L. H. Burnham, S. S. Geo. W. Mason, J. S. Wm. Butler, M. A. S. Mahon, Tyler. 316 HISTORY OF TROY. 1S86. Elected. M. T. Stone, W. M. C. M. Lane, S. W. C. W. Whitney, Jr., J. W. W. J. Boyden, T. A. S. Mahon, vS. G. E. Lane, Rep. to G. L. Elected. M. T. Stone, W. M. C. M. Lane, S. W. C. W. Whitney, Jr., J. W. W. J. Boyden, T. A. S. Mahon, S. A. S. Mahon, Rep. to G. Elected. M. T. Stone, W. M. C. M. Lane, S. W. C. W. Whitney, Jr., J. W. W. J. Boyden, T. A. S. Mahon, vS. G. W. Mason, Rej). to G. Elected. C. M. Lane, W. M. C. W. Whitney, Jr., S. D F. S. vSchnell, J. W. W. J. Boyden, T. A. S. Mahon, S. M. T. vStone, Rep. to G. 1S,S7. 1888. 1889. L. 1890. Elected. C. M. Lane, W. M. F. S. Sdinell, S. W. J. M. Kamsdell, J. W. Appointed. Fred S. Sehnell, S. D. J. M. Ramsdell, J. D. A. C. Dort, Chaplain. C. D. Farrar, M. Geo. W. Mason, S. S. C. H. Applin, J. S. D. C. Fassett, Tyler. Appointed. F. S. Sehnell, S. D. J. M. Ramsdell, J. D. A. C. Dort, Chaplain. G. W. Mason, S. S. C. H. Apphn, J. S. C. D. Farrar, M. L. W. Brown, Tyler. Appointed. F. S. vSchnell, S. D. J. M. Ramsdell, J. D. A. C. Dort, Chaplain. G. W. Mason, S. S. C. H. Applin, J. S. C. D. Farrar, M. C. W. Whitney, Tyler. Appointed. J. M. Ramsdell, S. D. Frank S. Harris, J. D. A. C. Dort, Chaplain. Geo. A. Starkey, S. S. Herbert A. Marshall, J. S. H. M. Whittemore, M. G. W. Mason, Tyler. Appointed. F. S. Harris, S. D. Geo. A. Starkey, J. D. A. C. Dort, Chajjlain. MISCELLANEOUS. 317 Elected. W. J. Boyden, T. A. S. Mahon, S. M. T. Stone, Rep. to G. L. 1S91. Elected. F. S. Schiiell, W. M. J. M. Ramsdell. S. W. F. S. Harris, J. W. W. J. Boyden, T. A.. S. Mahon, S. C. M. Lane, Rep. to (t. L. 1892. Elected. F. S. Schnell, W. M. J. M. Ramsdell, vS. W. H. L. Barnard, J. W. W. J. Boyden, T. A. S. Mahon, S. M. T. Stone, Rep. to G. L. 1893. Elected. J. M. Ramsdell, W. M. H. L. Barnard, S. W. G. W. Mason, J. W. W. J. Boyden. T. E. B. Dort, S. F. S. Schnell, Rep. to G. L. 1894-. Elected. J. M. Ramsdell, W. M. H. L. Barnard, S. W. (t. W. Mason, J. W. W. J. Boyden, T. E. B. Dort, S. A. A. Woodward, Rep. to G. L. Appointed. H. A. Marshall, S. S. Heri)ert D. Gee, J. S. H. M. Whittemoi-e, M. Edgar M. Thom])s-. 4, 1829, at Hartford, Vt ; married ALary, daughter of William and Sarah White Haskell; resides in Win- chcndon, Mass. II. (tEORGE .\., Ijorn Nov. 24, 1831; married, Oct. 5, 1852, Josephine Maria, l)orn Oct. 10, 1836, daughter of Luther and Caroline Cutter of Jaffre^^ III. OscAK N., born Dec. 15, 1833; married, Oct. 31, 1855, Lucy Jane Johnson. He died in Troy, Oct. 5, 1860. IV. Isaac Milton, born April 20, 1835; married Charlotte S. Allen, June 2, 1858; died in Cavendish, Vt., June 28, 1860. Had one son, George Augustus, born June 3, 1859; died March 15, 1880. v. Helen L., born Nov. 5, 1838; married, 1st, George E. .\ldrieh, June 11, 1858; married, 2d, Edward S. Foster, Nov. 1, 1878. VI. Oren S., Ijorn April 1, 1840; married Anna M. Starkey, Feb. 2, 1865. VII. Charles W., Ijorn March 11, 1843. Served in Co. A, Second Regt., N. H. v.; resides in Salina, Kansas. VIII. AnBiE: Frances, born April 25, 1845; married Charles H. Strecter ; died Dec. 13, 1868. George A. Adams, son of Nehemiah and L\^dia C. (Benja- min) Adams, born in Jaffrey, Nov. 24, 1831 ; married, 1st, Oct. 5, 1852, Josephine Maria, born Oct. 5, 1836, daughter of Luther and Caroline Cutter of Jatfrey ; GENEALOGICAL KEGLSTEK. 323 she died March 23, 1890; married, 2d, Mrs. Mary A. Brown, May 15, 1892. I. MiNNETT.\ P., born Sept. 16, 1855; married James L. Stanley, June 20, 1876. II. C.VKRiH A., born Jan. 30, 1859; married, Dec. 21, 1885, Fred F. Page, born July 24', 1860; resides in Keene. One eliild, Harry A. Page, born in Troy, Nov. 25, 1886. III. Ann.\ L., born March 26, 1865; married, June 2, 1890, Murray J. Bliss, 1)orn Nov. 30, 1865; resides in Keene. IV. Alice J., born in Sanford, Me., Nov. 21, 1867; married, Dec. 25, 1889, F. Eugene Bowen, born Oct. 28, 1865; resides in Keene. One child, Richard A. Bowen, born Nov. 2, 1891. Augustus A. Adams, son of Nehemiah, l)orn Au^. 4, 1829; married, Sept. 25, 1855, Mary, daughter of William and Sarah (White) Haskell; resides in Winchendon, Mass. I. Charlks, born Oct. 29, 1856; married, 1st, Oct. 29, 1877, Hattie Chandler of Winchendon, who died ; and he married, 2(1, Jan. 4, 1892, Josie Hartwell of Gardner; resides in Gardner. One child, Bernicc, born March 16, 1878. Oren S. Adams, son of Nehemiah and Lydia C. (Benjamin) Adams, was born A])ril 1, 1841; he married, Feb. 2, 1865, Anna M., danghter of Bailey and Betsey (Clark) Starkey, born May 21, 1848. Mrs. Adams died Jan. 14, 1897. I. Minnie Gektrude, born March 22, 1868. II. WiLRUR Clement, born July 25, 1872; married, Feb. 14, 1895, Flora B. Tenney of Marlboi'ough, born .Vug. 19, 1872. III. Walter Bailey, boi-n Nov. 29, 1876; died Dee. 2(>, 1878. Edward F. Adams, son of Isaac and Adela (Perkins) Adams of Jaffrey, born May 25, 1825, came to Troy Dec, 1881; he married, 1st, Feb. 28, 1853, Sarah h", danghter of George and Louisa (Jones) Harve\^ of Marlborough; she died Aug. 17, 1859; married, 2d, Dec. 25, 1860, Rel^ecca J., daughter of Jonathan and Melinda Hill of Swanzcy. I. John Ouincv, born in Marlborough, June 18, 1858. II. Eugene Elmer, born in Chittenden, Vt., Oct. 27. 18(55; died March 21, 1867. III. WiNFiELD Scott, born in Swanzcy, May 1, 1868; married. May 10, 1887, Katie Isabell, daughter of John H. and Ann (Robertson) Kimball of Marlboroutih. 324 HISTORY OF TROY. IV. Eva Jennie, bom in Bellows Falls, June 15, 1870; died July 2S, 1S78. V. Orville Edward, born in Bellows Falls, March 17, 1S72; died Aug. 12, 1.S72. VI. (jEktkude May, born in Brattleboro, June 30, 1873. VII. Morris E., born April I'J, 1S77. Elijah H. Adajms, son of Elijah, was born in Keene, Nov. 26, 1826; married, Sept. 19,1848, Luthera, born Aug. 18, 1827, daughter of Silas Howe of Swanzey. I. Marion A., born Feb. 18, 1850; married, June 2, 1869, Marvin D. Lewis. II. Charles L., born Dee. 15, 1851 ; married, Dec. 15, 1880, Julia E. Caldwell of Ryegate, Vt., where they now live. III. Lvdia a., born March 25, 1854.; married, Oct. 30, 1877, William S. Blair of Si)ring"field , Mass. IV. Sarah M., born March 27, 1856; married, March 21, 1883, Horace W. Baker of Warwick, Mass., where they now reside. V. Ueeyetta C, born April 2, 1858. VI. John, born Oct. 19, 1860; died in Troy, March 14, 1862. VII. Susan E., born Jan. 6, 1863; married. Dee. 24, 1889, Fred E. Whit- comb. Isaac Aldrich came to Troy in 1830 and settled on the farm south of the Morse tavern, formerh' the residence of Peter Starkey, Jr. He was the son of Ananias Aldrich, a native of Mendon, Mass., who settled in Richmond at an early period, where most of his chil- dren were born. He was born April 9, 1777, and married Abigail, daughter of I^evi Aldrich of Richmond, March 12, 1801, and resided a short time in Rich- mond, then moved to New York, and from there to Pennsylvania, in each of which places he stopped one or two years, then returned to l^ichmond, from which town he came to Troy. After residing on five or six different farms, he came to the village in 1844 and resided with his son Isaac. Mrs. Aldrich died Aug. 21, 1858; he died Nov. 24, 1863. I. David, born Aug. 10, 1801 ; married Phebe Decker; lived in Penn- sylvania where he died. II. Ananias, born April 2, 1803; married M;iry Davis; was killed in Pennsylvania by blasting stone. III. Joel, born Jan. 9, 1805; married Jtdia King; died in New York. IV. Louisa, born Feb. 1, 1807; married William Marshall, Sept. 23, 1834; died in October. V. Levi, born Feb. 23, 1809; married Marv McCarty. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 325 \ VI. Soi'HRONiA, horn Feb. 25, l.Sll ; married, Nov. 1, 1SH2, James Cai)ron ; died Ajtril 3, 1871. VII. AniGAiL, horn Jan. 30, ISl-l; died March 25, 1838. Yiii. Isaac, horn March 11, 1817; married, Aug. 29, 1839, Alngnil Ann, daughter of Pelatiah M. and A1)igail (Carter) Everett of Fitzwil- ham; died July 30, 1882. ix. Judith E., horn Mav 22, 1819; married, Dec. 10, 1848, Benjamin F. Perr}' of Keene; died Jan. 24, 1884. Mr. I'erry (hed July 1(5, 1887. X. Julius C, l^orn June 6, 1822; married Catherine Wood; died July 21, 1855. XI. Joseph E., horn Jan. 29, 1828. Isaac Aldrich, Jr., son of Isaac, born March 11, 1817; married, Aug. 29, 1839, Abigail Ann, born March 17, 1821, danghter of Pela- tiah M. and Abigail (Carter) Everett of Fitz- william. Mr. Aldrich was a blacksmith and carriage maker, and for a few years after his marriage he lived in Fitzwilliam and worked at carriage making. Af- terwards he returned to Troy and occupied the Bush house, now owned by C. H. Gove, a short time ; then in company with his brother, Julius C, he built the brick hotise now owned by Mrs. Polly Bemis and Simeon Mcrrifield. He was at one time deput3^ sheriff. Mrs. Aldrich died July 30, 1882. I. GiiOKGE E., horn June 11, 1840; married, June 11, 1858, Helen L., daughter of Nehemiah and L3'dia C. (Benjamin) Adams; married, 2d, ; died Jan. 21. 1895. Children: 1. George M., horn June 11, 18 — ; 2. Ilnny .1., horn Oct. 25, 18—; 3. Arthur TT'., horn Feh. 21, 18—. Isaac Aldrich, Jr. Feb. 11, 1878; he died 326 HISTORY OF TROY. Amasa Aldrich, son of Nahtini, of Richmond, boti^^ht the Whitcomb farm of Abel Baker, in 1828, and located here with his family. He was born in 1799; married, 1st, Aug. 25, 1816, Susanna, daughter of Samuel Thompson of Swanzey; married, 2d, April 24-, 1825, Anna, daughter of Benjamin Tolman. I. Angeline, born Feb. 2G, 1827; died April 11, 1851. II. Andrew J., Ijorn Nov. 13, 1829. Andrew J. Aldrich, son of Amasa, was born Nov. 13, 1829; married, Oct. 15, 1851, Sarah W., daughter of Abel and Martha (Fuller) Garfield, who died Jan. 21, 1891. In April, 1874, he moved to Keene, ])uying out the restatu'ant at the depot, which he conducted until about 1892 or 1893, when he retired froin business and went to Bellows Falls to live with his son. He was overseer of the poor for Ward 5, Keene, for two years, and also held the office of justice of the peace. I. Frank W., Ijorn in Marlboron,s:h, Jan. 31, 1853. II. Hkrhert D., born Mareli 4-, 1857. III. Anc.kline a., born Jnnc 1, 18(50; died April 25, 1862. IV. Carroll, born Oct. 8, 1862; married, Oct. 19, 1887, Helena S. L)i- vanl of Nelson, who was born Nov. 21, 1861. Frank W. Aldrich, son of Andrew J., was born Jan. 31, 1853; married, 1st, Dec. 25, 1872, Emma J. Clement, born in Royalston, Mass., July 20, 1851; died in Troy, June 24, 1881 ; married, 2d, Cora F. Town, born in Rindge, Jan. 24, 1866; died May 12, 1885; married, 3d, Aug. 16, 1887, Margaret A. Becker, born in Port Dover, Ont., July 26, 1861; resides in Athol, Mass. I. BiKNiCE C, born Oct. 14, 1873; died Oct. 5, 1886. II. , born May 24-, 1877; died Jnne 18, 1877. III. Carrie C>., born vSept. 21, 1880. Herbert D. Aldrich, son of Andrew J., born March 4, 1857; married, Nov. 3, 1880, Mina J., daughter of Anderson and Almira (Ballou) Aldrich of Swanzey, born Nov. 8, 1860. Mr. Aldrich has been the proprie- tor of the depot restaurant at Bellows Falls since 1887. \. Lottie E., born Nov. 1, 1883. George Herman Aldrich, son of Amasa, of Swanze3', born in Swanzey, May 30, 1833; married, Oct. 3, GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. • 327 1853, Hannah, born Jan. 20, 1832, daughter of Alvah Thompson of Swanzey. For a few years £ifter his marriage he Uvecl in Wisconsin, Hving a pioneer's Hfe, engaged in farming and teaching. He came to Troy and settled on West Hill, farming for a few years, when he moved to the village, purchasing the A. W. Baker place where he lived, having an office and doing an extensive business in Keene as an insurance agent, t6 which place he removed in 1889. I. Walton Herman, l)orii July 2, 1S54; married. Oct. 3, 1S7'.), Eliza J. Wilder of Peterborough. Is a ])racticinj>' jjliysician in Marl- borough. II. Hkki!Kkt Cvkhl, Ijorn Aui;-. 28, 1S55; married, Aug. 6, ISTS, Clara J. Cook. III. Edwin Tiiomi'son, born Aul;. 2-i, 1S58; married. IV. Edith Layinia, born Aug. 24, l,S(i2. V. John Langdon, born Aug. 23, lfS()4; died April 2, 1S65. VI. Eugene Langdon, Ijorn March 30, 1S66; married, 1st, Oct. 3, 1888, S. Florence Hannaford; she died May 22, 1891, aged 26 years; he married, 2d, July 17, 18'J4-, Harriette M. Metcalf of Keene. VII. EvMMA Maria, born Nov. 30, I8(i8; married, March 10, 1890, A. M. DooHttle. viii. Sidney Cook, bom May 3, 1872. Elijah Alexander, born in Uxbridge, Mass., 1741 ; mar- ried, 1765, Elizabeth Taft of Mendon ; died in 1822; Mrs. Alexander died in 1838. I. Gideon, born Aug. 13, 1767; settled in Canada, \Yhcrc he died. II. Amasa, born Nov. 30, 1769; died in New York. III. Elizabeth, born Sept. 13, 1771; died in Mendon, aged 30. IV. Luther, born Sept. 19, 1773; graduated at Harvard College and studied theology with Dr. Crane of Northbridge ; but as he was about to enter the ministry, he went to Canada to visit his brother. Dr. Alexander, and while there he took the smallpox and died, v. Calvin, born June 20, 1775; studied medicine with Dr. Willard of Uxbridge, and settled in Montreal, where after achieving an hon- orable fame and doing an extensive business, he died. VI. Elijah, born March 25, 1777; died in Vermont. VII. Jkmlma, born March 15, 1779; married James Cheever; died in Troy. VIII. Timothy, born Nov. 27, 1780; learned the hatter's trade; died in New York. IX. Phineas, born Aug. 20, 1782; lived in Canute, Ohio. X. Joseph, born Oct. 20, 1784-; married Lueretia Howe. 328 • HISTORY OF TROY. XI. Easman, Ijorii April 28, 1786; married Liic\' Garfield; lived on the homestead. XII. Eunice, born Jan. 29, 1788; married |ame.s Davis of Jaffrey. XIII. Lois, born Dee. 16, 1790; married James Hieks and settled in Wis- eonsin. XIV. SritMiT, Ijorn Ang. 1, 1791; married Isaae Garfield; lived in vSe- dana, N. Y. XV. liZKA, born April 16, 1794'; married Lueretia Ftdler; lived in Fitz- william. Joseph Alexander, son of Elijah; married, 1811, Lncretia, daughter of Zalmon Howe, who was born in Holden, Mass., July 11, 1788; Mrs. Alexander died in Troy, Aug. 28, 1861 ; Mr. Alexander died May 6, 1868. I. [osKi'ii, born Feb. 7, 1812; married Prndenee (Blanding) Bowen. II. Elijah, 1)orn Fel). 14, 1814- ; died Mareh 20, 1822. III. Calvin, boim A]n-il 23, 1816. IV. Li'CKHTiA, l)orn Sej^t. 11, 1818; married David Woodward of Svvan- 7,e_v, who died June, 1856. V. Louisa, born Oct. 13, 1820; died Oct. 20, 1826. VI. Elijah, 2d, born March 14, 1823; died vSept. 29, 1826. VII. Luther, bom May 1, 1825. viii. Caroline, born May 3, 1827; died Aug. 23, 1880. IX. Charles, liorn March 5, 1831. Joseph Alexander, Jr., son of Joseph, born Feb. 7, 1812; married, Oct. 2, 1839, Prudence (Blanding) Bowen, born Jan. 24, 1814; died Nov. 13, 1878; Mrs. Alex- ander resides in Templeton, Mass. I. Caroline L., born Maj- 26, 1840; married, Feb. 3, 1864, Levi Merrifield. II. Louisa A., born March 24, 1842; married, Nov. 13, 1862, Edward S. Foster; died May 13, 1876. III. Marv E., born Jan. 20, 1847; married, Jan. 20, 1872, William W. Koss of Didjlin, who died Mareh, 1873. One child, Viola L. Ross, born July 1, 1872; married, Harry J. Nash, Nov. 15, 1890. She married, 2d, April 7, 1876, Walter F. Elliott. Children: Cora L. F:iliott, born Nov. 6, 1878; died Jan. 18, 1879. Mal)el J. F:iliott, born May 4, 1886. IV. Emma M., born April 28, 1849; died March 20, 1859. V. Ellen E., born Nov. 18, died Nov. 26, 1852. VI. Viola A., l)orn Nov. 26, died Nov. 29, 1853. VII. Joskimiine M., born May 3, 1859; married, Jan. 6, 1882, Daniel F. Richards; resides in Gardner. Calvin Alexander, son of Joseph, born April 23, 1816; married, Feb. 19, 1843, Abbie Ann, daughter of Geo. GENEALOGICAL KEGL'iTER. 329 W. Mnrphy of New Ipswich, who was born Dec. 5, 1823, and located on the home place, now known as the Stillman Taylor place on West Hill. The house now standing- was built 1)y him about 1858. He lived there eight or nine years, then moved to Marlborough ; but he returned in 1858. He followed the occupation of shoemaker, carpenter and farmer, and alwa^^s found employment in one of them. He removed to East Swanzey in October, 1871, and engaged in the manu- facture of wooden ware, and continued in the business until within two or three years of his death, which occurred Dec. 18, 1888. I. (iEOKGE D., Ijoni July 3, IS-iT; died March 18, 1866. II. AnniE Frances, born Nov. 27, 1854; married, June 26, 1877, Her- l)ert W. Mason; died Jan. 15, 1897. III. II.VTTiE Rebecca, born Aug. 21, 1859; married, March 24, 1881, James M. Ramsdell. Luther Alexander, son of Joseph, born May 1, 1825; married, Sept. 7, 1848, Lydia S. Harris, daughter of Stephen Harris ; born Sept. 9, 1832. He resides in East SwanzcA' at the present time, and has lived in Marlborough and Swanzey most of the time. I. Walter Scott, born May 9, 1849. II. Martha A., born Dec. 24, 1853; married, Jan. 24, 1872, (leorjie E. FuHer of Marll)oroiiL;h. III. Lillian M., born Oct. 2, 1856; married, July 18, 1877, Jasper E. Lovering-. IV. LoKA E., born April 29. 1860; married, Sej)!. 21, 1881. Fred A. Carter. V. Nellie M., Iiorn March 8, 18(55; married, Dec. 31, 1883, Charles A. Harden of Richmond. Ciiarle;s Alexander, son of Joseph, born March 5, 1831; married, March 27, 185G, Ellen C, born July 19, 1837, daughter of Philo Applin. He moved from Troy to Westport, Swanzey, aliout 1862 or 1863, and after- wards lived in Keene, East Swanzey, Winchcndon and Eitchburg, where he died Aug. 31, 1889. I. Charles Warren, born Oct. 28, 1857; married, .\pril, LS83, Ilattie M. Stoddcird of Oardner, Mass. II. Julian Ecisert, Ijorn April 14, 1859. III. Frank Philo, horn July 27, 1860; died in Swanzey, Mav 6. 1883. 330 HISTORY OF TROY. IV. Willie Edward, born March, l.S()2; died Oct. 31, 1863. V. Willie Wesson, born Sept. 8, 1863; married, Dec. 31, 1890, Lizzie Hartnett of Gardner, Mass. VI. Eakl Evans, born March 20, 1865; died in Fitchljuri^, June 4, 1887. Walter Scott Alexander, son of Luther, born May 9, 1849; married, June 16, 1880, Nellie Adaline, born Jan. 1, 1862, daughter of Hermon L. Lincoln. 1. Roland Luthek, born April 21, 1884. Easman Alexander, son of Elijah, born April 20, 17S6; married. 1808, Lucy, dauohter of John Garfield, and settled on the home farm with his father. He was emphatically a home man, and never was in a stage- coach or railroad car, and very seldom going beyond the limits of the town ; but unlike many other home men he knew the w^ay to church. He died June 9, 1863; his wife died April 23, 1866. I. Makv, born May 18, 1805; died in 1885; nuirried Russell Waters; resided in Fitchburg; he died Oct., 1890. Children: 1. Silns Wat- ers, married Eveline Saw^^er; resides in Leicester, Mass.; 2. S^irah Waters, married William Baldwin; resides in Fiteh])ur<> ; 3. A';/.s- sell R. Waters, resides in Fitchburg. II. Elizabeth, born Dec. 20, 1808; died March 8, 1830. III. Elinor, born July 25, 1810; died Fel). 21, 1838. IV. Annls, born June 12, 1812; died March 12, 1834. V. Hannah, born Jtdy 10, 1814; died Dee. 22, 1833. VI. LrCY, born April 12, 1817; married, April 15, 1842, Levi Whitte- more, Jr., of Troy; died Aug. 10, 1843. VII. Easman, born Sept. 5, 1819. VIII. John C, born March 17, 1822. IX. AiiiGAiL, born Feb. 26, 1824; married. Dee. 31, 1846. Luther Whit- temore; died May 20, 1890. X. Sarah L., born Oct. 4, 1825; married, Oct. 10, 1848, Levi Merri- field ; died March 4, 1863. Easman Alexander, son of Easman, born Sept. 5, 1819; married, 1st, Jime 9, 1842, Dorothy Ann, daughter of Jonathtm and Dorothy (Cutting) Lawrence; resides in Gardner, Mass., where he was engaged in the under- taking business for many years; Mrs. Alexander died Aug. 25, 1890; married, 2d, Jan. 2, 1894, Mrs. L. Sleeper of Annapolis, N. S. I. Lrcv Ann, born Aug. 18, 1843; married Walter E. Stuart; resides in Worcester,' Mass. I GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 331 II. Clinton H., l)orn May 1, 1S4-6; married Florence Jolinson, who died ill 1hter of Elijah Lane; died Nov. 27, 1867. One child, Fanny M. Ballon, born Jtme 19, 1855; married Eugene E. Applin. III. Albert R., born in Troy, Dec. 26, 1824; married, Dec. 26, 1849, MarN' M., daughter of Benjamin Mason; died Nov. 20, 1865. Children: 1. Frank Albert Ballou, born March 4, 1850; died Nov. 20, 1890; 2. Eninm M. Ballon, born Nov. 23, 1855; died March 28, 1856; 3. Ehvin M. Ballou, born July 24, 1857; died April 28, 1859; 4. Ella M. Ballou, Ijorn Feb. 22, 1859; died Nov. 3, 1865; 5. Maiy Deziab, born June 22, 1862; married Charles Eveleth of Swanzey. WitLCOME Ballou married, June 2, 1852, Lucy, daughter of Stephen Harris and settled on the place where A. B. Harrington afterwards lived. He was a painter and had the reputation of being a very skillful workman. His health failing, he sold his farm in 1856, and went to the West, but soon returned to Troy, where he died Nov. 3, 1857. I. Frank W., born July 22, 1856. William Barker is supposed to have been a native of Concord, Mass. He married Jane, daughter of William and Keziah (Clo\'es) Goddard, born March 12, 1739; 342 HISTORY OF TROY. Mr. Barker was the finst person to settle in what is now the town of Troy ; he died Oct. 5, 1798, aged 62. I. AmcAiL, born Au^. 20, 1760; married James Dean. II. William, bom June 5, 1762; died Ai)ril 12, 1790. III. Mary, Ijorn Dec. IS, 1763. IV. Ruth, born April 2, 1766; died April 7, 1790. V. John, born Dec. 1, 1767; died 1820. VI. ElizaiuiTH, born Feb. 5, 1770; married, March 20, ISOO, Abijali Cadwell of Fair Haven, Vt. VII. Li'KE, born Oct. 12, 1771 ; died March 3, 1786. VIII. Nathan, born Sept. 28, 1773; married, Jan. 6, 1804-, Lncy Law- rence; settled in Vermont. IX. Pelec, born Aug. 6, 1776; died March 1, 1786. X. Lrcv, born July l-l, 1780; married James Wheelock. XL Olive, born Sept. 18, 1783; was scalded to death, Jan. 7, 1786. Calvin Barnard came from Marlborough to Troy in 1872, and settled on the Lemuel Brown place at the North end. He was born in Schenectady, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1816; married, Sept. 29, 1846, Mary Miranda Perkins, born in Unity, N. H., Aug. 28, 1823. Mr. Barnard died Nov. 24, 1891. His widow died July 17, 1895. I. Josephine C, born in Marlow, Sept. 30, 1817; married, Jan. 2, 1872, Hudson D. Hale of Rindge. He died June 5, 1873; and she married, 2d, Sept. 27, 1876, Charles H. vStanford. Children: 1. George M. Stanford, born Oct. 19, 1877; 2. Willis C, born May 10, 1881; 3. Mary A., born Sept. 16, 1883. II. Adelaide M., born in Unity, N. H., vSept. 28, 1849; died Feb. 17, 1867. III. Carlos Melvin, born in Unity, N. H.,JuW 24, 1851; married. May 17, 1877, Harriet R., daughter of Gregory and Emily (Brown) Lawrence. Children: 1. Lumen Downing Barnard, born Jan. 18, 1884; 2. Walter Melvin Barnard, born Aug. 26, 1891. IV. Alice B., born in Unity, N. H., June 26, 1853; married, Jan. 4, 1882, Charles W. Brown; died July 30, 1884. V. Homer C, born in Ashby, Mass., Oct. 17, 1855; married, 1879, Addie E. Ta^-lor. One child /ess/c A^., born April 25, 1881. , VI. Henry Lym.\n, born in Marlborough, Jan. 23, 1861. VII. Idella Frances, born in Marlborough, March 10, 1863. VIII. Emily Lucy, bom in Marlborough, July 10, 1865. Philip Bemis, perhaps grandson of Joseph, who settled in Watertown, Mass., in 1640, was in Cambridge in 1723, and married, Nov. 21, 1723, Elizabeth Lawrence. In 1738 he moved to Westminster, Mass., being the third settler in that township. He had six children, all born GENEALOGICAL REGLSTER. 343 in Cambridge. The date of their birth is not recorded, but the church records give the date of baptism as follows : I. Philip, Nov. 13, 1726. II. William, Nov. 13, 1726. III. Uavii), July 30, 1727. IV. AinoAiL, July 25, 1731. V. Edmund, Oct. 22, 1732. VI. Zaciieus, July 25, 1736; married Elizabeth Lyon, and settled in Westminster. Edmund Bemis, son of Capt. Edmund and Elizabeth (Rand) Bemis, and grandson of Philip and Elizabeth (Lawrence) Bemis, born in Westminster, Mass., in 17G5; married Susjinnah Graves, and settled first in Fitchburg, but came to what is now Troy in 1807, and purchased a farm. Mr. Bemis died Feb. 11, 1857; his wife died Jan. 5, 1848. I. Clarissa, married William Whitcomb. II. Elijah, died in infancy. III. Elijah, married Lucy Bntler; died Nov. 5, 1S52. IV. Susannah, married William Jackson of Wallingford, Vt. ; died Dec. 5, 1826. V. Jonas, born Feb. 14, 1809. VI. Mary, bom June 7, 1814; married, 1835, George W. Brown; lives in Troy. VII. Sumner, born 1815; married R. Ann Thompson; died April 19, 1877; killed by an accident in E. Buttrick & Co.'s mill. Jonas Bemis, son of Edmund, born Feb. 14, 1809; married, Aug. 25, 1831, Fanny, daughter of William Lawrence of Marlborough, and resided a few years on the farm formerly owned by Levi L. Pierce, but eventually sold the place and went to live with his father, on the farm now owned by J. M. Foster, and became one of the most successful fanners in the westerly part of the town. Mrs. Bemis died April 26, 1870; he died March 21, 1874. William L., born Nov. 2, 1834; married, A])ril 3, 18(51, Mary J. Holt of Troy; resides in Pawtuckct, R. I. Children: 1. Nellie A., born Dec. 10, 1861; 2. Henry Leslie, born Jan. 21, 1873. Warren B., born March 12, 1839; married. May 20, 18(57. Sarah Frances Holt of Alabama, born .\pnl 21, 1848. No children; resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. 344 HISTORY OF TROY. III. Mary E., born Oct. 20, 1S40; married, Jan. 11, 1866, Henry C. Almy of South Portsmouth, R. I. Children: 1. Frederic Warren Ahny, born Oct. 29, 1866; 2. Fanny Ocrtrncle Almy, I)orn April 28, 1873. IV. Frederick W., born April 28, 1852; died Oct. 18, 1862. V. Frank H., born May 3, 1857; married, July 20, 1887, Juliette C. Miller; resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. One child, Mary Adeline, born July 1, 1888. Elijah Bemis, son of Edmund, married, March 11, 1824, Lucy Butler, and located on the farm formerly owned by Hugh Thompson, Ijut afterwards by Jonathan Law- rence, Jr., where he resided until his death, Nov. 1, 1852. I. Edmund, born Sept. 19, 1824-. II. Caroline, born Jan. 13, 1826; married David Rob1)ins of Winchen- don; died May 17, 184-9. III. LoRiNG, born April 6, 1827; married, March 2, 1854, Ellen Hall of Plymouth, Vt. IV. liujAii, born March 2, 1829; married, June 2, 1852, Susan H. Kim- ball of Rindge. V. (iiLHERT C, born June 23, 1830; married, Oct. 10, 1854, Ellen Metcalf of Rindge. VI. Susannah, born March 30, 1832; married, .April 1, 1850, Simeon Merrifield; died Oct. 1, 1853. VII. Lucv Ann, born Sept. 22, 1835; married, July 4, 1859, Derby of Fitzwilliam. Edmund Bemis, son of EHjah, born Sept. 19, 1824; married, 1st, Aug. 13, 1846, Mary M. Kimball of Rindge. Mrs. Bemis died June 20, 1885, aged 58; and he married, 2d, May 18, 1886, Polly A. Bowen of Richmond. He died June 10, 1892. A few years after his marriage he purchased the Perkins place on East Hill where he lived until about 1887, wdien he moved to the village and purchased one-half of the brick house formerly owned by Isaac Aldrich. Mr. Bemis was a shrewd business man and a successful farmer, and by industry and economy secured quite a competence. He served as selectman of the town at different times for t-wenty- five vears, and in 1865 and 1866 represented the town in the legislature. He was frequently called upon to act in the settlement of estates and other probate business. Children: GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 345 George Warren, born Jan. 2, 1852; married, November, 1883, Cecelia Sweezer of New Rrnnswick; resides in Tenipleton, Mass. M.XKiANNA, born June 1(5, 18.53; married, Sept. 14-, 1S71, Henr_v P. Howe of Fitzwilliam. Children: 1. Altii May Howe, born March 14, 1873; died Sept. 1, 1873; 2. Edmund Beinis Howe, born July 7, 1878; 3. Perley Clifton Howe, born Jan. 1, 1882. Emma Jane, born Juh- 21, 1860; married, June 29, 1886, Alfred F. Haskins. Children: 1. R(), IMfiG; died .\])ril IS, 1S.S4-. II. Akthur Hekmon, l)orn July IS, 1S()(). Thomas Clark came from Wrentham, Mass., in 1778 and settled on land which he bought of Thomas Tolman, 368 HISTORY OF TROY. and where he died in 1818. His children were prob- ably all Ijorn here. I. William ; went West. II. Marth.\, niiirried Wiiii^, and lived in the state of New York. in. Thomas, 1>oni Jan. 18, 177U. IV. Betsey; killed by lightninii, Anyust, 1795, aged 17 years. Y. Polly. VI. Sally, married *^*' '^^ ' Sargent and lived in Vermont. Yii. Jonathan. Thomas Clark, Jr., son of Thomas, married, March 2, 1802, Roena Phillips of Richmond, born Feb. 15, 1784, and settled on the home farm formerly belonging to his son, Al'vah S., where he died Oct. 14, 1856. Mrs. Clark died Jmie 7, 1857. I. Howard, born Jtm. 1-t, 1S03. n. FuLLKK, born Oct. 26, 1804. III. Louisa, born May 7, 1807; died Dec. 2, 1832. IV. Luke C, born Aug. 22, 1809. Y. Loyina, born Nov. 8, 1812; died Atig. 2, 1816. Yi. Lyman T., born April 29, 1817; was burned to death Dec. -t, 183-t. vii. William, born May 5, 1822; died April 2, 1823. VIII. Alvaii S., born Aug. 29, 1824. Jonathan Clark, son of Thomas, born Jnne 3, 1788; married Mary, daughter of James and Mary Brewer, and resided in Keene until near the close of 1824, when he returned to Troy and purchased the farm upon which his father-in-kiw Brewer had lived, where he resided until his death, Aug. 20, 1850. I. Asa, born Sept. 4, 1814; married, 1837, Martha Howe of Fitzwil- liam ; resides in Oregon. II. Jonathan, born April 10, 1816; married, Oct. 22, 1840, Hannah Lovina, daughter of Luna and Hannah (White) Starkcy ; died in South Orange, Mass., Oct. 14, 1852. Children: 1. Hiunnih 1'., born April 9, 1842; died Jan. 19, 1843; 2. licnjnwin F., born Jan. 21, 1844; married, Oct. 18, 1882, Susan A., born Jan. 25, 1850, daughter of Daniel and Lucy May of Winchendon, Mass. One child, Grace E., born in Rindge, Nov. 21, 1883; 3. Martha A., born June 3, 1845; died A])V\\ 9, 1846. III. Betsey, born Sept. 20, 1820; manned Bailev Starkcy. lY. William, born Jvine 8, 1825; married, 1851, Martha Bowles. v. Daniel W., born Feb. 25, 1831 ; married Maria Whitney of Swanzey. VI. Henry C, born March 8, 1838. /-> ^-^^^.ytA~ 'Cn 'rr^L ii^ GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 369 Howard Clark, son of Thomas, Jr., born Jan. 14, 1803, married, Dec. 23, 1827, Dolly, born June 13, 1805, daughter of Jonathan and Delila (Rhodes) Bemis of Marlborough. They first located in Bethlehem, N. H., removed to Swanzey in March, 1830, and in 184-1 came to Troy, purchasing of Abner Haskell the farm, which he afterward sold to his son Howard T., and moved to the village. He died April 16, 1874; his widow died March 2, 1888. I. Jonathan B., bo^n Aug. 22, 1828; married,, March, 1855, Amanda Derby. II. Betsev L., born Sept. 19, 1830; married, 1st, Sept. 19, 1862, Appleton B. Hubbard; he died Sept. 29, 1862; and she married, 2d, Feb. 2, 1868, Houghton Lawrence. III. Howard T., born Jan. 12, 1834; married, Oct. 20, 1855. Sarah E. Nott of Barnett, Vt. Divorced; married, 2d, March 7, 1884, Mary Ann, daughter of James and Jane (Wilson) Mitchell. IV. Harvey A., born Aug. 7, 1838; married, Feb. 4, 1862, Sophronia A., daughter of William and Caroline Perham; resides in Fitzwil- liam. Children: 1. William Perham, born Aug. 24, 1866; 2. Emily D., born Aug. 13, 1871 ; died Aug. 26, 1871. V. Harriet A., born Aug. 7, 1838; married, Jid\' 11, 1876, Philip Boyce, born Feb. 9, 1827. VI. Mary, born Dec. 25, 1841; married, Sept. 3, 1863, George F. Sar- gent of Rutland, Vt. ; resides in Iowa. Children: 1. Arthur H. Sargent; 2. Grace E. Sargent. Fuller Clark, son of Thomas, born Oct. 26, 1804; married, February, 1830, Adaline, daughter of Asa and Eunice (Williams) Porter of Marlborough. I. Asa Lovell, born Aug. 2, 1831; died Dec. 27, 1854. II. Josephine L., born Dec. 25, 1834; unmarried. III. Charles L., born Feb. 9, 1839; married, 1st, Dec. 2, 1863, Mary E. Farnum ; she died April 17, 1864; and he married, 2(1, lillen L. Whitney of Westminster, Mass. IV. Alfred L., born May 9, 1845; married, June 8, 1882, Marietta I., daughter of Algernon Sidney and Harriet (Goddard) Butler; resides in Jafifrey. Children: 1. Josephine Ellen, born June 1, 1884; 2. Estella Minetta, born Feb. 7, 1888; 3. Harold ChtTord, born June 17, 1891. Luke C. Clark, son of Thomas, Jr., born Aug. 22, 1809; married, Feb. 21, 1839, Abigail S., born July 20, 1814, daughter of David and Betsey (Damon) Lowe. 370 HISTORY OF TROY. I. Lyman T., born Oct. 22, 1839; married, 1st, May 6, 1863, Mary L., born Dec. 25, 1838, daughter of Isaac and Betsey (Andrews) Briggs. He died Ang. 10, 1870; and his widow married, 2d, March 16, 1880, Orrin H. Peck. Children: 1. Ada Loin'sa, born March 10, 1864; married, Dec. 13, 1885, William H. Briggs of Stoneham, Mass. ; 2. George Hubert, born Feb. 14, 1867; married, Sei)t. 28, 1892, Jessie Morej^; resides in Worcester, Mass.; 3. Annie Laura, born Dec. 18, 1870; married Artemus O. Peck; 4. Lyman P., born Sept. 25, 1872; died Sept. 10, 1873; 5. Bessie M. A., born Jmie 1, 1874; 6. Adelaide Estella, born Aug. 26, 1876. II. George W., born Jan. 16, 1844; died Jan. 1, 1864. ni. Francis L., born April 16, 1843; married, Jan. 22, 1871, Susan, born Jan. 22, 1844, daughter of Herman and Bathsheba (Col)- leigh) Fisher; resides in Fitzwilliam. Children: 1. Martin Luke, born March 6, 1873; 2. Grace Alice, born Oct. 24, 1877. IV. Charles David, born Dec. 29, 1845; married, Oct. 6, 1869, Fanin- Rozell, 1)orn in Wendell, Mass., May 26, 1844, daughter of Amos and Fanny (Tenney) Baker; she died July 22, 1893; resides in Fitzwilliam. Children: 1. Edward Charles, born July 20,1872; 2. Winford Samuel, born Nov. 25, 1876; 3. Lolie Rozcll, born Oct. 9, 1879; 4. Floyd Elmore, born Nov. 26, 1886. V. Abbie E., born Aug. 8, 1851; married, Aug. 8, 1889, Charles R. Applin. Children: 1. Philo Cass, born Aug. 3, 1891; 2. Archie Waldo, born Jan. 23, 1895. VI. Warren N., born May 7, 1858; married, July 14, 1883, Etta A., daughter of Orrin H. and Hattie (Cheney-) Peek. Children: 1. Chester Warren, born April 24, 1884; 2. Flora Augusta, born April 28, 1885; 3. Florence Abigail, born April 28, 1885; 4. Bertha Mabel, born March 15, 1887; 5. Ada Loretta, born July 12, 1889. Alvah S. Clark is the sixth son of Thomas, and soon after his marriage settled on the John Farrar farm which was purchased of Oren Brooks, exchanging therefor the original farm in the southwestern part of the town. He has devoted his time principally to farming and lived upon this farm until 1883, when he moved to the village, purchasing the location and building the house where he now resides. Mr. Clark l)ecame a member of the Baptist church early in life and has been one of its most active and influential members, having served the church as deacon for nearly thirty-eight years. He was selectman in 1873, 1874 and 1875, and also in 1897, and was collector of taxes GENEALOGICAL REGLSTER. 371 for several years. He was a member of the Legisla- ture in 1897, serving upon the committee on roads, bridges and canals. He was born Aug. 29, 1824; I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. Alvah S. Clark. married, March 19, 1850, Serepta A., born in Fram- ingham, Mass., Jan. 4, 1829, daughter of Oren and Julia Ann (Wright) Brooks. Louisa J., born April 23, 1851 ; died A])ril 22, ISGO. Harriet M., born Maj' 15, 1852; died Ana;. 17, 1870. Son, born May 29, 1853; died May 30, 1853. Daughter, born May 29, 1853; died June 30, 1853. Mary E., born June 26, 1855; died July 27, 1870. Clara A., born vSept. 10. 1850; died July 23, 1870. Sarah E., born Sept. 17, 1859; died Aug. 30, 1886. 372 HISTORY OF TROY. vin. Ida M., born June 18, 1861; died July 25, 1876. IX. Olive J., born Nov. 28, 1SG2; died Aug. 4, 1876. X. Henry, born April 14, 1864; died May 11, 1864. XI. William T., born Dec. 11, 1865; died Aug. 12, 1876. XII. Martha A., born Oct. 11, 1867; died July 29, 1876. Earle Clark was born in Roxbury, N. H., Nov. 12, 1814; married, June 25, 1854, Eliza W., born in Oakham, Mass., Nov. 14, 1817, daughter of Elnathan and Eliza (Wheeler) Gorham. He settled in Troy soon after his marriage, where he died Dec. 26, 1882. I. Jennie Gorham, born Oct. 16, 1856; married Henry M. Whittcmore. John Clement, born Aug. 7, 1821; married. May 1, 1844, Mary Woodbury, born Aug. 13, 1826, daughter of John and Betsey (Crosby) Cutter of Jaffrey, and resided in Campton two years, in Charlestown, Mass., one year, returning to Campton in 1847, from which place he came here. He was a grandson of John Clement, who was born in 1775, married and settled in Center Harbor, and had seven children. William, the third son, married Sally Beetle of that town and had three children, George, John and Sally Ann. He was a black- smith by trade and became a citizen of Troy in 1850, working at his trade until 1858, when he leased the tavern in the village, now known as the Monadnock Hotel, which he kept for some fifteen years or more, during the later years making extensive repairs and improvements upon the same, but failing health and financial embarrassments compelled him to retire from the same soon after. Mr. Clement was one of the charter members of Monadnock Lodge, F. &. A. M., and was its first worshipful master, which position he held for four years, and was one of its most active, influential and prominent members. Mrs. Clement died in Keene, Dec. 26, 1882; he died in Troy, June 8, 1884. I. Lucius Howe, born March 14, 1845; died at Goldsborough, N. C, July 5, 1865; a soldier in the Union armj'. II. Anna M., adopted daughter; married, Nov. 15, 1876, Frank Dame; died 18 . I GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 373 Leonard Cobb, born July 21, 1800; married, May 22, 1823, Nancy Osborne, who was born Nov. 12, 1798. They located on the farm which had long been owned by Talmon Knights. Mr. Cobb resided there until his death, April 18, 1856. Mrs. Cobb died March 15, 1862. I. Farwell O., born March 10, 1824; married, March 14, 1850, Louisa M., daughter of FrankHn and Louisa (Dyer) Woodward. Mr. Cobb died March 26, 1890. Children: 1. Henry C, born Jan. 2, 1851; 2. Charles Frederick, born Nov. 9, 1852; 3. George Wallace, born Nov. 10, 1854; married, Nov. 28, 1892, Mary J. Keeler; resides in St. Louis, Mo.; 4. Frank Eugene; 5. Emma Jane, born Feb. 22, 1863; married, Nov. 26, 1893, Ezekiel Porter; resides in West Parish, Me. ; 6. Lizzie Maria, born April 16, 1865; married, July 1, 1892, William J. Hammond; resides in Portland, Me.; 7. Wilder D., born May 11, 1867; 8. Walter Lester, born April 9, 1869; 9. Mary Ahhie, born Aug. 31, 1872; married, Juh' 12, 1893, Guv Haveji ; resides in Chicago, Ills. II. Sybil, born May 23, 1826; married, 1st, Harvey Lawrence; married, 2d, Jan. 1, 1849, Theodore J. Dyer; married, 3d, Bryant. Is a widow and resides in Fitchburg. III. Albert, born Aug. 11, 1829. IV. Alvin, born Aug. 11, 1829. V. Leonard Davis, born May 14, 1832; married, Oct. 11, 1853, Mary Ann Chase; resides in Chesterfield. CooLiDGE. The ancestor of the Coolidge family in this country was John Coolidge, who was one of the earliest proprietors of Watertown, Mass., in 1636-37. His eldest son, John, who was probably born in England, married, Nov. 14, 1665, Hannah Livermore. His third son, John, born Feb. 19, 1662, settled in Sherburne. He was a carpenter by trade, and was a soldier in King Philip's war. Isaac, eldest son of John last named, born April 21, 1685; married, April 26, 1710, Hannah, daughter of Capt. Joseph Morse of Sherburne. Joseph, son of Isaac, born April 22, 1726; married, Jan. 26, 1746, Elizabeth Frost. They had twelve children, among whom were Abraham and Hezekiah, who settled in this region. Abraham Coolidge, son of Joseph, was born in Sherburne, 374 HISTORY OF TROY. Jan. 1. 1764; he died July 26, 1843. His wife, whose name is unknown, died Oct. 8, 1836. I. Barak, born Dec. 30, 17S9; married Nanev Harris; died March, 1851. II. AsHKR, liorn Aug. 8, 1791; married Olive StarkcA' ; died Nov. 15, 18:57. III. Dorcas, 1)orn Ma3' 24, 1794- ; married Charles Farrar; removed to the West, where she died May 29, 1855. IV. Orlando, born Jan. 14, 1796; married, 1st, C. Rockwood ; she died and he married, 2d, Mrs. Louisa (Woodward) Eaton; removed to Kcene. V. OsCAK, born July 22, 1798; married Lovina Rockwood; removed to Chesterfield. VI. CosBV, born June 11, 1800; niai'ried Moses S. Perkins; removed to Jaffrey. VII. Charles, born March 28, 1804. Hezekiah Coolidge, brother of Abraham, was born in Sherlmrne, Feb. 13, 1766. His wife was Esther . He died in the fall of 1805, and his widow married Jonathan Frost of Marlborough. I. Harrikt, born Jan. 6, 1792; married Asa Frost of Marlborough; died April 12, 1863. II. Elliot, born Dec. 8, 1794; married, Jan. 22, 1818, Nancy Oates; removed to Canada. III.. Harlow, born Oct. 21, 1798; died young. AsHER Coolidge, son of Abraham, born Aug. 8, 1791; married, April 7, 1822, Olive, daughter of William Starkey and resided about one year with his father-in- law. After changing his residence several times he died in the Ward house, Nov. 15, 1837. Mrs. Coolidge died at Keene, September, 1848. I. William, born November, 1824; died May 11, 1826. II. Elbridge, born May 15, 1826; married, 1st, May 25, 1854, Sarah M., daughter of Levi and Mary (Blodgett) Whittemore; she died Feb. 7, 1859; and he married, 2d, July 7, 1860, Caroline M. Whittemore, sister of his first wife; she died June 8, 1888; married, 3d, April 8, 1891, Mrs. Anna L. Brown. One child, Ella M., born Api'il 8, 1S57 ; died Oct. 12, 1876. III. Olive Ann, born 1828; died 1841. IV. William E., born Jime 17, 1830. Y. George, born Feb. 6, 1833. VI. Sarah, born Januar3', 1835; ni;irricd, October, 1855, George W. Billings ; died in 1858. genealoCjICal register. 375 Charles Coolidge, son of Abraham, born March 28, 1804.; married, Dec. 22, 1833, Sarah Carpenter, born May 17, 1806. Mr. Coolidge died Jnne 13, 1881; Mrs. Coolidge died April 7, 1891. v Charles Coolidge. I. vSarah p., born Nov. 2, 184.2; died vSept. 5, 184.5. II. Charles K., born Jnly 28, 1846; married, Nov. 18, 187v'i, juk-tta A. R. Stone, born April 25, 1851. Children: 1. Sadie J., born Sept. 9, 1856; died March 1, 1889; 2. Charles P., born Ani>-. 5, 1877; 3. Henry E., born March 30, 1883; 4. Annie M., born Dec. 23, 1887; died Jan. 22, 1889; 5. Bertha S., born May 7, 1890; 6. Bessie .4., born May 9, 1891; died Aii,!4. 17, 1891. loHN H. CoNGDON was bom in Wallingford, Vt., July 1, 1837. He became a resident of Troy in February, 376 HISTORY OF TROY. 1883, when he came here from Lowell, Mass., and purchased of William Morse the farm upon which he now resides. Married, 1st, Nov. 21, 1861, Mrs. Jane Peck, daughter of David and Lydia Stevens of Cam- bridge, N. Y., born March 22, 1826; died April 20, 1896. He married, 2d, July 1, 1897, Mrs. Lydia Marshall. One adopted child, Charles H., born Ma^' 16, 1883. George H. Congdon was born in Sutton, Mass., Dec. 18, 1854; married, Sept. 27, 1877, Margaret Mahon, born in Wallingford, Vt., April 18, 1858. I. Stephen Andrew, born Dec. 16, 1879. II. Robert Harvey, born Nov. 17, 1887. Webster Corey was born in Dublin, Aug. 28, 1827; married, 1st, Feb. 22, 1855, Amanda C, daughter of Beriah Oakes ; she died Feb. 22, 1856. Mr. Corey married, 2d, Dec. 30, 1859, Mary Abbie, sister of his first wife. Mr. Corey came from Marlborough, in 1866, and located on the farm he now occupies on West Hill. He carried on the business of manufac- turing pail handles on the Chancy N. Garfield farm for many years. I. Amanda M., born Dec. 19, 1855; married Hadley ; resides in Jaffrey. II. Charles W., born Fel). 12, 1862; married, Sept. 20, 1886, Eva M.. daughter of Joseph and Harriet (Fuller) Lawrence; resides in Keene. III. Jennie M., born Jan. 29, 1864. IV. Gertrude N., born Dec. 30, 1869; married Henry E. Brown. V. Belle, born Aug. 10, 1871. Crosby. The origin of the New England portion of the Crosby family has been traced to Simon de Crosby, of Lancashire, England, 1220. Simon the emigrant, at the age of 26, with his wife Ann, and son Thomas, came to this country and settled in Cambridge in 1635. He died in 1639, and his widow married Rev. William Thompson of Braintree, Mass. They had three sons, Thomas, Simon and Joseph. Simon, born in 1637; settled in Billerica, Mass. ; became GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 377 freeman in 1668; representative in 1692-7-8; married in 1659, Rachel Brackett, and had a family of nine children. Josiah, son of Simon Crosby, born in Billerica in 1677; married Mary Manning and had eleven children. Josiah, his eldest son, born 1730; married Sarah Fitch of Bed- ford; settled in Milford, N. H., and had ten children. Two of his sons, Joseph and Alpheus settled in Jaffrey. Alpheus was born Nov. 16, 1762, at Milford, and came to Jaffrey in 1786, and was warned from the town the same year. He married, 1st, Elizabeth Gilmore, Nov. 18, 1788, and carried on the business of farming and teaming to Boston and other places. His wife died (3ct. 26, 1839, aged 70; he died Oct. 4, 1845, aged 83 ; he married, 2d, Mary Fos- ter of Amherst, who survived him, and after his decease returned to her native town. He had ten children by his first wife; Betsey, Esther, Mary, Nancy Ann, Sarah, Alpheus, Asa, Franklin, Porter and Josiah. Alpheus Crosby, son of Alpheus, born in Jaftrey, April 13, 1798; married Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Sibyl (Jackson) Fox, and located in Troy in 1821, pursuing his trade of blacksmith. He resided a short time in a house owned by E. P. Kimball and worked in a shop formerly occupied by Nathan Wheeler. Afterwards he lived in a tenement under the Congre- gational church, but in 1837 he built the stone house owned by Mrs. S. E. Harris, and resided in this until just before he removed to Illinois in 1854. His wife died Oct. 19, 1868; he died Dec. 16, 1873. I. Infant, 1)orn in Jaffrey ; died. II. Makv Louisa, Ijorn in Jaffrey; died yonng. ni. JosKi'ii Fox, born in Troy, Dec. 25, 1827; married Priscilla Bal)- eock of Rockford, 1850, and died there. IV. CiE, 183(5; married Daniel Farrar. 388 HISTORY OF TROY. Farrar. Jacob Farrar and his brother Jonathan were among the original proprietors of Lancaster, Mass., and were there as early as 1653, and tradition says they came from Lancashire, England, and Jacob was probably between thirty and thirty-five years of age when he came to this country. His wife and children remained in Eng- land imtil 1658, when he had a residence prepared for them to live in. During King Philip's War he had two sons killed. He died in Wobnrn, Mass., Aug. 14, 1677. His eldest son, Jacob, was born in England, probably about 1642 ; married Hannah, daughter of George Ha}-- ward, in 1668. He was killed by Indians, Aug. 22, 1675. His second son, George, born Aug. 16, 1670; married Mary Howe, Sept. 9, 1692, and settled in that part of Concord, Mass., now Lincoln. He is said to have been a man of great energy and thrift. His second son, Daniel, born Nov. 30, 1696 ; married Hannah Fletcher, and settled in Sudbury, Mass., where he died about 1755. His eldest son, Josiah, born September, 1722; married, 1745, Hannah, daughter of John Taylor of Northborough, Mass., a man of considerable note and a Tory of the Revolution, whose name was borne by a former governor of New Hampshire, John Taylor Gilman. He died in Marlborough, Nov. 24, 1808; his widow died there Feb. 10, 1810. Daniel, a brother of Josiah, born 1724; married, 1748, Mary , and resides in Lincoln, Mass. Phineas Farrar, son of Josiah and Hannah (Taylor) Farrar, born in Sudbury, Aug. 20, 1747; married Lovina Warren of Marlborough, Mass. He came to this region in 1768, purchasing several lots of land. He died April 1, 1841; his widow died Feb. 17, 1845. I. PuiNKAS, l)oi-n Nov. 12, 1771; married. May, 1794, A1)igail, daugh- ter of Elii^halet and L.vdia (Goddard) Stone. He went to Miehi.iiau, wliere he died Sept. 24-, lcS5v5. II. John, born Aug. 24, 1773; married Cynthia Stone. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 389 III. Betsey, born fan. IS, 177fi ; married Elijah Frost of Marll)oroujili ; she died 1830. IV. C.XLVix, l)orn Jan. 11, 1778; married Bathsheba B. Bates of Brim- field, and resided in Waterford, Me., where he died Feb. 19, 1819. His eldest daughter, Caroline E., inarried Levi Brown of the same town, and who was the mother of Charles Farrar Brown, whose nom cle phime was Artemus Ward. V. Luther, twin to Calvin, born Jan. 11, 1778; married Alary Whit- ing of New Ipswich; was a lawyer and settled in Norway, Me., where he died April 28, 1812. VI. JosiAii, born April, 1780; married Betsey Prince of Waterford, Me., where he lived and died. VII. BiLDAD (who on becoming of age took the name of William), l)orn Oct. 21, 1782; married, Nov. 12, 1812, Nancy Whilcomb. He died Dec. 28, 1863; his wife died Sept. 3, 1861. VIII. Daniel W., born Feb. 22, 1786. IX. David, born July 5, 1788; died in Waterford, Me., May, 1817. X. Nancy, born March 16, 1792; died May 14, 1795. XI. James, born March 16, 1792; married, Feb. 22, 1816, Koxanna Frost; died Nov. 3, 1861. Daniel W. Farrar was the eighth son of Phineas Farrar of Alarlboroiioh, and he became a resident of Troy in 1800, when he came here and was employed as a clerk in the store of Jonas Roljeson, seven years. In 1805, Robeson moved to Fitzwilliam and left him in charge for a time ; he then formed a copartnership with him and carried on the company business until 1813, when he bought out Mr. Robeson's share and took sole charge of the store. About this time he formed a partnership with Curtis Coolidge, which continued for about three A^ears, when he took the entire business and conducted the same until about 1843, when he was succeeded by his son, David W. Farrar and John Whittemore, Jr., of Fitzwilliam. At this time he resided in the Garey tavern, but in 1835, he moved the old store built by Robeson, a little back and built the brick store now owned b^- C. W. Whitney. After giving up his store, he devoted the most of his time to farming, and lived in the house now owned by C. D. Farrar, and which was built in 183G. 390 HISTORY OF TROY. For more than fifty years lie was one of the most enterprising- men of the town, and probably no one exerted a greater influence. He was ver_v active in the move- ment which led to the for- mation of the town of Troy, and it was mainly through his exertions that the act was accomplished, as will be seen by referrino- to the account of its incor- poration. His name is iden- tified with almost every public act, and although his position at times may have been violently as- sailed, yet all seemed will- ing to give him credit for strict integrity and of act- ing from the best of mo- tives. In some respects he was a remarkable man, and few with the same early advantages would have made so conspicuous a mark in life. He possessed good native talent, an active mind, and was quick of apprehension, but his school advantages ^vere very limited. But he had a mind for improvement and an energy which enabled him to overcome the most formidable obstacles and to make up in good measure the deficiency of his early school advantages. Every day was a practical school to him; he kept his books by his side, but instead of gathering from them a few theories without a knowledge of their application, like many more modern scholars, he used them, as was once said by a noted divine, as soldiers to assist him in fighting the battle of life. He made his Daniel W. Farrar. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 391 ])ooks contribute to his Inisiness capacity, and in all his studies, "cuj bono?''' was his earnest inquiry. Thus his education was highly practical and this will account for his success in life. Daniel W. Farrar, son of Phineas, born Feb. 22, 1786; married, 1st, May 24, 1812, Eliza, born Dec. 11, 1791, daughter of Dr. Ebenezer and Betsey (Bates) Wright; she died April 15, 1814; and he married, 2d, Aug. 17, 1815, Betsey, born Sept. 21, 1794, daughter of Deacon Samuel and Hannah (Bowker) (iriffin. He died March 7, 1860; his wife died Rov. 6, 1858. All his children were by his 2d marriage. I. D.wii) W.\RKEN, l)orn Jan. 30, 1817. II. Kijz.\ Wright, Ijoni Se])t. 26, ISlS; married, .\u,l;. 17, 1S44, Rev. Alfred Stevens; died Dee. S, IS-tl-. III. Helen M.\ri.\. Ijorn June 15, 1S2(», married, Jmie 7, IMS, Kev. A1)raliam Jenkins, Jr. ; died May 22, 1851. IV. Iii)\v.\Rn, born Nov. 14-, 1822. V. S.\K.\n, born May 28, 1824- ; died Mareh 27, 1838. VI. U.W'iEL. born May 29, 1836; married, Nov. 24, 1863, Caroline A., daughter of Cyrus and Betsey (Jaekson) Fairbanks; dieil June3, 1875; resides in Leominster, Mass. Children born in Leominster: 1. Echvnrd Hinl, born Oet. 24, 18(56; 2. Gertrude Elixn, born Oet. 7, 1870. David W. F.vrrar was the son of Daniel W. and Bet- sey ((iriffin) Farrar, and was born in Troy, Jan. 30, 1817. His fiither was a merchant of the town for thirty-six years, and has been spoken of as a "man of strict integ- rity and acting from the best of motives." It will be seen that Mr. Farrar's l)usiness education began in early child- hood and he grew up to Ijusiness life with an cxam])le before him of uprightness and honesty, and received instruction in the accurate and careful management of business affairs. Thus we see that the superior business ability he mani- fested, was in part, the result of long trjiining in the work which he afterwards carried along so successfully alone. He inherited good native talent from his father, and having an active mind, quick of apprehension, and alert 392 HISTORY OF TROY. to discern advantageous openings, with a desire for improvement and progress, he succeeded. His educational advantages were only those such as the town furnished, except a short time spent at an acad- emy in an adjoining town. As was said of the father, that to him every day was a practical school, so we may infer that the son received more instruction than the ! David \V. Fakkak. schools alone afforded him. We find him growing u]) to manhood under wise instruction in business, and with the practical duties of life placed before him in a practical manner. His time was occupied in his father's store, out GENEALOGICAL KEGISTEK. 393 of and after school hours and school days, until 184-3, in the service of his father. At this time he took charge of the store and conducted the business for twenty years, paying for the same and enlarging it quite extensively. This Avas before the railroad came as a factor in the trans- action of business. This store was the center of trade for all this region iind presented a lively appearance all day long iind sometimes far into the night. The main cause of this great £ictivity was the making of palmleaf hats, which was commenced at first by Mr. Farrar's father, with some degree of fear and timidity, who purchased fifty leaf at one time and thought it a great venture. The business proved profitable, and instead of buying so many of the leaf, jjurchases were made by the numlicr of tons. The business assumed its greatest magnitude under the management of Mr. Farrar. The store would be encircled all day with teams that came from all about within a circle of twenty miles, getting the leaf to take home to make into hats, and taking ])ay for the work done in goods from the store. But this business was injured by the advent of the railroads, and the center of trade for dry goods and groceries was taken from Troy. He sold out his store to Thomas Goodall, Dec. 1, 1860, but loought it back again Jan. 1, 1863, taking his son, Henry W., into partnership, who conducted the business for two years, when the business was purchased by Messrs. C. W. Whit- ney and W. G. Silsby. In his business as a merchant, Mr. Farrar was highly successful and acquired the means of purchasing real estate and of building the residence, in 184-8, which was occupied by him as long as he lived in Troy. Soon after taking the store he engaged in the manufacture of wooden ware in addition to that of the l^almleaf hat business. After relinquishing his mercantile pursuits he devoted his time to his real estate and the 394 HISTORY OF TROY. manufacture of wooden ware at the North end, w^here the business is now conducted by his son, Charles D. Farrar. He also, for about two years, about 1860, had a manu- factory at Swanzey. These facts serve to show the activity of Mr. Farrar in his business career. A man so prominently connected with the business of the town, could not, of course, escape public duties. Turning to his public life he is found to have been much interested in town affairs. Having" large interests in the town and paying large taxes, it would naturally be expected that he would be more or less inter- ested in its welfare and development. As soon as he had attained his majority he was elected town clerk; an office which his father had held from the organization of the town, until the year ])revious to the election of Mr. Farrar. This office he held for some six or seven 3'ears. Mr. Farrar was never selectman of the town becavisc he ^vas so busy with his own affairs that he always declined to allow his name to be used for that position. He always manifested an interest in educational matters cind served upon the board of superintending school committee. He was also one of those who took an active part in securing the remodeling of the room in the town house, recently used for school purposes, so that there might be high school privileges for the older children. After the establishment of the high school, he with others became responsible for the expenses of the school, guaranteeing to the teacher her pay. In 1863, he was chosen representative to the state legislature. He was an active member, taking part in the work of the cominittees, as also in the general work of the house. Through him the town secured a reduction of the county tax, for when the apportionment was made he became convinced that the amount required from Troy was GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 395 in excess of its valuation, and appeared before the commit- tee of apportionment, stating that they had not made the percentage of taxation equal, it being excessive in regard to Troy as compared with some other places. The com- mittee at first v^ere unwilling to change the rate, l)vit Mr. Farrar was so positive in his statements that he secured a reduction which made a saving to the town of about five hvindred dollars. In 1856, he purchased some soldier land claiius of the war of 1812, and in consequence of which he was several times obliged to go to the West to look them up and locate thein. Some of them were found to l)e of value, others worthless. In the wild scenes in which this western country then abounded he took part and searched out and located his claims, and in doing so was led into scenes in which his courageous nature and active spirit found full scope. It is probable that others of a less adventurous spirit would have been deterred from so arduous a task and have lost all they had invested in these lands. During one of these western trips, in the spring of 1878, he came to the place now known as Britt, Iowa, in which vicinity he owned lands. Here tw^o rail- roads crossed, and the promise of a large town was good, and, believing in the future of the place, purchased largely of its lands, and having obtained a business interest in the place, Mr. Farrar left Troy in the fall of 1880, and took .up his residence in Britt, and began to labor for its advancement; his first effort for the public benefit of the town was the agitation of the building of a public school- house, which, through his influence largely, was built from designs made by him, it Ijeing a two-story frame structure about thirty feet by seventy feet, finished very neatly and making an ornament to the town. Soon after the erection of the schoolhouse, a local preacher of the Methodist church commenced holding 396 HISTORY OF TROY. service there and Air. Farrar urged the organization of a Sabbath school. The pastor of the Congregational church at Britt, at the time of his death, in speaking of him, says : "Sometime in May of that year, I met him and he urged me to come and spend a Sabbath and afterwards wrote to the same effect, and on the first Sabbath in the June following, I commenced to preach there and have continued to until the present, the result of which is a church of fifteen memliers and an edifice thirty feet by forty-five feet, finished except the belfry, and with a del)t of only two hundred dollars. In all these enterprises he has interested himself and promoted. His last public w^ork was to meet the church officials to devise means for the payment of the minister's salary, and other indebtedness of the church. He had been quite sick, but getting better, on Satur- day, Sept. 30 (1882), anxious for the success of a county fair held at Britt, he went to that during the day and at night attended a church meeting in the church when there was no fire, taking cold. The next day he was worse and continued to fail until his death." He further wrote of him: "for two terms he was elected a member of the town council, and his Avise counsel did much to shape the action of the board, and economically use the public monies in laying sidewalks, planting trees around the schoolhouse lot, and other public improvement, works that will bear his impress in time to come. There are but few men \vhose loss will be more seriously felt for years to come in the church and by the community than D. W. Farrar. During the past summer I have had many private inter- views in which he manifested an unusual anxiety to thrown off the affairs of business scattered over seven states, and rest. What he was so anxious to accomplish was done for him in his removal from them all, and a rest w^e hope in the paradise of God." GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 397 The church in Britt adopted resolutions in reference to Mr. Farrar, and speaking" of him as "an active worker in the Lord's vineyard, one intelligent to plan and cpiick to execute, as well as a sympathetic brother." He was a man of great energy, good business qualifications, genial in personal intercourse, and a warm friend to his friends. Mr. Farrar made a public profession of religion and became a member of the Congregational church in 1869, under the pastoral care of Rev. Levi Brigham, and after uniting with the church was called upon frequently for service. He was upon the Sabbath school committee for six years; was several times delegate to the county con- ference of churches ; was temporary church clerk ; and served four years upon the chiuxh committee. After he went to Iowa we see that his interest in religious matters was prominent, and he thought it well to look after the educational and religious interests of his adopted town, and took a prominent part in securing it. It was said of him, "that he was a man of great activity in business, yet in it all endeavoring to show himself a man ; of whom one who knew him all through life testifies that he always regarded his word as equal to his bond ; though of great energy and of a nervous tem- jjerament, yet usually holding it in restraint to that which was just ; having a mind wdiich w^as argumentative and judicial, and w^hich looked to the superiority of right in the end, however he might differ in opinion from others; a man of strong friendship to his friends ; with public spirit \vhich considered not alone his own good, but also that of his fellow citizens ; a man of progressive thought and improvement, and who, making progress himself, desired others to share it wnth him, thus seeking to give the young larger intellectual advantages; a man attentive to the worship of God in the sanctuary during all his life, 398 HISTORY OF TROY. becoming at length impressed with the duty owed to God and having the force of will to take up that duty after the habits of life had long been fixed, without attention to this duty as a personal matter; a man, who, in start- ing a new town after this period of his life, gives promi- nence to his estimate of the value of the religious element in the welfare of a town, asserting by his action that the mature judgment of his later years made the service of God a i)rime essential to personal, social and jiublic life." David W. Farrar, son of Daniel, born Jan. 30, 1817; married, June 29, 1S4-1, Hannah, daughter of Stephen and Polly (Wright) Wheeler; died in Britt, Iowa, Oct. 7, 1882. I. Henry W., 1)orn April 21, 1S42. II. Hannah M., l)oni Sept. 27, 1.S48; died Oet. 10, ISl-?. ni. Charles David, horn Oct. ?., 1.S4-7. IV. Helen M., born .\ng'. 13, 185+; married Oeoroe W. Baker; died at Bradford, Vt., Aug-. IS, 18S4. Henry W. Farrar, son of David, born April 21, 1842; married, May 30, 1865, Leila B., daughter of Jerry and Ann Waterhouse. He received his education in the common schools and at Vermont Academy. For a time he was engaged in business with his father. Later was in business in New York city for some time. Upon the completion of his business there, he returned to Troy and was engaged in looking after his father's business, and held various to\vn offices. Was town clerk and selectman in 1879, 1880 and 1881. After the death of his father he inherited real estate interests in Iowa and adjoining states and removed to Britt. He was mayor of the town one year and filled the office with credit, and was a leader in all matters of public interest. In his business relations he was prompt, rendering to every man his due and expected the same in return. Failing, health compelled him to give up business, and he died at Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 13, 1885. His widow resides, and is vice GENE A LOnrCA L REGISTER. 399 president of the State Bank at Monte Vista, Colo- riido. Henrv \V. Fakrar. Charles D. Farrar, son of David, born Oct. 3, 1S47; married, Sept. 6, 1877, Elizabeth A., daughter of Thomas and Susanna (Stocks) Birtwhistle. He at- tended the common schools of the town and took a course of instruction at Highland Military Academy, Worcester, Mass. He was a clerk for about two years in the dry goods store of L. J. Brown in F'itchburg. He returned to Troy, and in 1873 commenced the manufacture of wooden ware in the Sibley peg mill at 400 HISTORY OF TROY the North end, and is a successful l)usiness man and the largest real estate owner in town. He was town Charles D. Farrar. clerk in 1872 and 1873, but aside from this has ahvays declined accepting any town office. Daughter, l)oni Nov. 5, 1878; died Nov. 8, 1878. David Warken, born Oct. 13, 1882. Thp:oi)okk BiRTWHiSTLE, bom Sept. 2, 1884 ; tlicd Oct. 1(>, 18S4-. linwAKi) Hknrv, born May 12, 1886. Edward Farrar, a younger brother of David W., was born in Troy, Nov. 14, 1822, and after pursuing a preparatory course of study entered Dartmouth Col- lege, but on account of physical inability, he did not I. II. III. IV. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 401 finish the usual college course, but left without his degree. Soon after he commenced the study of law with Levi Chamberlain, Esq., of Keene, and entered Harvard Law School from which he graduated in 184-7, and entered upon the practice of his profession in Keene, being admitted to the Cheshire County Bar in December of the same year. He held the office of Clerk of the Supreme Court for the County of Cheshire from December, 1857, until the time of his death. He also served as Mayor of Keene, and held many places of trust and responsibility. He married, Aug. 23, 1858, Caroline, daughter of Charles H. Brainard of Keene. He died Feb. 11, 1888. Children: Caroline Frances, born Aug. 3, 1860. Sarah Brainard, born Aug. 13, 1869; died Nov. 11, 1888. Residence of C. D. Farrar. Majou John Fakkar was a native of Framingham, Mass. ; married, 1st, Oct. 13, 1740, Martha, daughter of Rev. John and Sarah (Tileson) Swift of F'ramingham. His wife died 1749, and he married, 2d, Oct. 4, 1750, Deborah, born Jan. 27, 1728-29; died Nov. 2, 1793, daughter of Thomas and Deljorah (Gleason) Winch of Framingham. I. Makv, l)orn Jan. 8, 1742; married (len. James Reed. II. Martha, born Dec. 15, 174-t; died .\pril 3, 1775. 402 HISTORY OF TROY. III. John, Ixumi and died May 5, 1749. lY. Marth.\, Ijorn June 7, 1749. V. John, born Aug. 11, 1751; married, May 8, 178(3, Ruth Davis; died March 20, 1809. VI. Deborah, born Dec. 26, 1753; married, Sept. 12, 1770, Caleb Le- land ; resides in Leominster, Mass. VII. Nelly, born Nov. 4, 1755; married, Capt. John Brown of Fitchburg. vm. Joseph, l)orn April 3, 1758; married, 1st, Hannah Kimball of Fitchburg; married, 2d, Martha Nutting of Pepperell; married, 3d, Elizabeth Fletcher of Dunstable. IX. William, born June 30, 1760; married, July 6, 1780, Ircna Boyn- ton; he died May 4, 1837; his wife died May 15, 1835. .\. Daniel, born Feb. 19, 1763 ; died in Troy, Sept. 5, 1832, unmarried. XI. Anne, born Oct. 27, 1765; married Benoni Shurtleft'. XII. Samuel, born Jan. 22, 1769; married Mary Nutting of Pepperell. XIII. Hetty, Ijorn Oct. 14, 1771; married Joseph Haskell. Daniel Farrar, born in Lincoln, Mass., March 25, 1755; married Lucy, daughter of John and Mary (Joslin) Bruce of Sudbury, Mass. He died Nov. 13, 1S37; his wife died Aug. 20, 1838. I. Elizabeth, born Jan. 23, 1776; married, 1st, Nathan Platts; married, 2d, Samuel Rockwood ; died Jan. 10, 1836. II. Daniel, born March 24, 1778; died April 29, 1781. III. Lucy, born Oct. 31, 1780; married, Dec. 31, 1805, Caleb Winch. IV. Daniel, born Nov. 10, 1782. V. Samuel, born April 15, 1785; married, Nov. 17, 1808, Lydia Cut- ting; settled in Vermont. Yi. John B., born Dee. 17, 1787; married, Aug. 15, 1810, Anna Harvey of Marlborough; died Oct. 14, 1854. Yii. Mary, born April 14, 1790; married William Winch. Yiii. Sally, born Feb. 16, 1792; married Abishai Collins; died vSejit. 25, 1843. IX. William, born Feb. 18, 1794; married, March 20, 1816, Betsey, born Sept. 26, 1793; died Dec. 2, 1881, daughter of Josiah and Lucy (Snow) Whittemore of Phillijjston, Mass.; died Jan. 7, 1870. Removed to Monroe County, N. Y., and from there to Hadley, Lapeer County, Mich., where both died. They had four- teen children, of whom twelve lived to maturitv and eleven married. X. Nancy, born Jan. 5, 1797; married A. Kawson ; removed to Vermont. XI. Tryphena, born Oct. 21, 1799; married Robert Fitz of New Ipswich, where she died in 1842. George Farrar, brother of Daniel, born in Lincoln, Feb. 1, 1760; married Bruce of Sudbury, Mass.; died Nov. 1, 1824; his widow died March 26, 1825. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 4-03 I. George, born Dec. 8, 1784; married, 1st, Naomi Starker, who died Sept. 2, 1842; married, 2d, Sally, daughter of John Whitney. Died Oet. 3, 1860. II. Nahitm, born Nov. 7, 1786; died 1812. HI. Stephen, born Jan. 1, 1789. IV. Patty, born April 21, 1798; died 1810. V. Saeey, born Sept. 11, 1797; married Luther Bemis; died March 24, 1845. George Farrar, son of George, born Dec. 8, 1784; married, 1st, 1817, Naomi Starkey and settled on the farm formerh' owned by Ichabod Shaw. He bonght the farm of one Piper, who had it of Thayer, and the latter had it of Moses Kenney, who had it of Shaw. Mr. Farrar lived on this place until his death. Mrs. Farrar died in 184-2, and he married, 2d, Sally, daughter of John Whitney. I. Naomi E., born 1818; died 1829. II. Martha, born 1820; married Henry Haskell. in. Harriet Newell, born 1822; died 1825. IV. Nancy, born 1824; died 1825. V. George Elliott, born 1826; died 1829. VI. George E., born 1830, and died same year. Stephen Farrar, son of George, born Jan. 1, 1789; married, Dec. 17, 1815, Delila, daughter of Jonathan and Delila (Rhodes) Bemis; died March 2, 1841. I. Charles, born April 6, 1817; died 1838. II. John, born Feb. 3, 1819; died July 24, 1831. III. Stephen Bemis, born Ma^' 18, 1821; died June, 1826. IV. Stephen Bemis, 2d, born Aug. 23, 1826. Stephen Bemis Farrar, son of Stephen, born Aug. 23, 1826; married, June 2, 1846, Persis Twitchell of North- field, Mass., born Sept. 16, 1827; died April 15, 1874. He located on the home farm, the place now occupied bv Carlos M. Barnard, where he lived until his death, Nov. 15, 1870, which was caused by falling from a building. I. John S., born May 23, 1848; died Nov. 28, 1860. II. Charles, born Aug. 10, 1850; died Nov. 28, 1860. Both drowned. III. Julia Cora, born Jan. 24, 1862; married, April 9. 1884, Fred S. Schnell, born April 8, 1859. Daniel Farrar, son of Daniel, born Nov. 10, 1782; married, Dec. 30, 1806, Lucena, born April 11, 1780, 404 HISTORY OF TROY. daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Goodrich) Mellen. He died Nov. 26, 1867. I. Hannah Goodrich, bom Oct. 11, 1807; died Sept. 14, 1S24-. II. LrCENA. born May 15, 1810; died Dec. 12, 1855. III. Betsky, 1)oni April 22, 1813; died Jan. G, 1892, unmarried. IV. Daniel M., born Nov. 7, 1815. V. Leonard, born Sept. 20, 1817; died June 1, 1876. VI. James, l)orn June 29, 1820; married Clara Brown of Warwick, Mass.; died in Adrian, Mich., Dec. 8, 1890. VII. Hannah, born April 25, 1825; died Jan. 30, 1826. Daniel Mellen Farrar, son of Daniel, born Nov. 7, 1815; married, Feb. 15, 1838, Sophronia Keith, born Dec. 10, 1810; died April 3, 1872; he died March 28, 1870. I. Daniel Warren, born Nov. 7, 1839. II. John Lyman, born Oct. 6, 1841. III. Charles Adelbert, born April 24, 1844. IV. AiiiiiE Lucena, born Dec. 10, 1848; married Charles E. Kimball; died Sept. 20, 1893. Daniel W. Farrar, son of Daniel M., born Nov. 7, 1839; married, Nov. 7, 1860, Nancy A., born April 9, 1842, daughter of Luther F., and Harriet Piper; died July 14, 1881. Children born in Fitzwilliam. I. LuLA Estella, born Dec. 4, 1866; married, Jan. 19, 1887, Henry H. Buckwold. II. Edith May, born July 24, 1871; married Perle^- A. Hale. III. Adelhert Warren, born May 29, 1876. John Lyman Farrar, son of Daniel M., born Oct. 6, 1841; married Ellen Josephine Piper, born May 10, 1845; died April 1, 1875. His widow married, 2d, Feb. 3, 1879, William W. Webster. I. Walter Daniel, born April 20, 1867. II. Stephen Mellen, born Feb. 6, 1869. III. James Henry, born Jan. 30, 1871. IV. Frank Warren, born May 4, 1878. Charles Adelbert Farrar, son of Daniel M., born April 24, 1844; married, April 3, 1865, Charlotte E. Bemis. I. Mary Adhie, born March 11, 1866; married, Dec. 18, 1888, Fred W. Fidler of Westmoreland. n. Leonard Adelbert, born Se|)t. 28, 18()9; married, Se])lember, 1894, Mary Bennett. One child, Leonard Cliarles, born Nov. 13, 1895. Resides in Maiden, Mass. GENEALOGICAL REGL'^TEK. 405 III. Frkd Jones, born Jul_v 28, 1871; married, Nov. 12, 1896, Ida E., daughter of Levi A. and Emily L. (.\dams) Fuller of Marlborougli. IV. Nellie Ida, born Oct. 28, 1875. V. Charlotte Bemis, born June 10, 1877. Elias French Farr, was born in Windham, Vt., June 30, 1831; married, 1st, Nov. 24, 1857, Janette Weir, born in Victor, Nova Scotia, Jan. 17, 1833, who died Aug. 9, 1892; killed by the cars on the railroad bridge at the North end. Mr. Farr, married, 2d, Nov. 24, 1896, Mrs. Angelia Burpee. L George Henry, born Oct. 22, 1858; married, June 11, 1881, Ella M., daughter of William N. Watson. One child, Willinm Henry, born in Troy, Oct. 30, 1885. II. John Thomas, born Oct. 12, 1860; married. June 17, 1885, Flora G. Coburn of Jafifrey. Children: 1. Ghulys ; 2. Ralph. III. Etta, born Jan. 17, 1862; married, June 4, 1884, Edwin Ray of West Gardner, Mass. Children: 1. Vurwill Mnynnrd Rny ; 2. Ethel Iclell Ray. IV. James, born Dec. 30, 1864; married, June 17, 1891, Martha M. Emery of Jafifrey. One child, Leila. V. Florinda, born Dec. 8, 1867; married, Aug. 1, 1892, Earl H. Whit- ney of Athol, Mass. One child, Harold Francis Whitney. Fassett. Patrick Fassett and his wife Sarah, came from Rock Fassett Castle, Ireland, and settled in Lexing- ton, Mass. There is a tradition that the ancestors of the family were refugees who fled from Scotland to escape religious })ersecution, and that the name Fassett was assumed to conceal their identity, the original name being Macpherson. The proper English pronunciation of the name Fassett gives the broad sound to the a, and in England as well as in this country, some branches of the family spell the name Fawcett or Fossett, as being less liable to mispronunciation. The final consonant is often written single. The oldest children of Patrick and Sarah were : Joseph, born Oct. 2, 1672; died June, 1754; resided in Lexington. By wife Mary had a son, Joseph, born Dec. 6, 1701; died Aug. 14, 1755; married Amity Willard, whose father was from Wales. Had six children of whom the fourth, 406 HISTORY OF TROY. John, born Dec. 7, 1739; married Isabel Bogle of Natick, Mass. They came to Fitzwilliam about 1768, their third child, Joseph, being the first white male child born in that town. They had eight children, Willard, John, Joseph, Obil, Thomas, Isabel, Benjamin and Lucy. Obil, born Aug. 25, 1771; married, Sept. 2" thrown from a carriage on Ward Hill; married, 2d, Nov. 5, 1874, Mrs. Emily L. (White) Dunn of Sullivan, who died April 7, 1888; married, 3d, Mrs. Eliza N. Powers. Mr. Fassett died July 23, 1891, caused from 408 HISTORY OF TROY. having his neck broken l)y being thrown from a mow- ing machine while at work in a field near his house. After his first marriage, Mr. Fassett lived for a few years in this town and in Boston, Mass. ; but in 1854, he returned to Jafifrey and bought the old homestead farm, on which he resided until his death. He was chosen and appointed to many offices of honor, trust and responsibility. Children born, i and iii in Troy, ii in Boston. I. Ch.\kles Wright, bom Dec. 3. 1S48; married, Oct. 5, 1S76, Adelia P., born Jan. 14, 1847, daughter of Thomas and Marietta (Cut- ter) Upton of Jafifrey, where he resides. One child, Fred Wright. II. Abbie Ann, born Jan. 14, 1851; married, Oct. 10, 1878, Alvin H. Simonds of Fitchburg, Mass. ; died Nov. 22, 1879. One child, Susan Ethel Simonds, born Oct. 22, 1879. III. Fk.vnk p., born March 2, 1853; died Dec. 19, 1863. IV. Henkv J., born Dec. 19, 1863, in Fitzwilliam. (Adoi)ted). Daniel A. Field, son of Dexter Field, born in Leverett, Mass., July 17, 1839; married, August, 1866, Mary E., daughter of George W. and Mary (Bemis) Brown. Children born, i, ii, in, iv, v, and viii in Troy, vi, vii in Jaftrey. I. Lizzie Idella, born Dec. 1, 18C)(;; married, Alay 30, 1889. Charles H. Cornell. II. C.EoKGE Hi)\v.\Ki), born July 21, 1889. III. Wynn.\ Mabel, born Jan. 6, 1873. IV. Wakken Dexter, born April 13, 1875. V. Freu Brown, born Aug. 31, 1876. VI. Charles Arthur, born Aug. 9, 1879. VM. Johnnie Washington, born Nov. 9, 1881. VUL Clifford Ennis, born July 2, 1883. Fife. "The surname Fife claims to be descended from a younger son of Fife Macduf, Earl of Fife, from which title they have the name and carry the arms." — (Lowers' Family Names of the United Kingdom.) "It is not doubted that those of the name of Fife are descendants of Fife Macduf They have the paternal arms of Macduff." —(Old Manuscript furnished 1)y Joseph Bainbridge Fife, M. D.) While it is true that the name had its origin in the foregoing manner, it is believed to have also been I GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 409 assumed b^'- natives of the county of Fife, Scotland, other than descendants of Fife Macduff, and, as appHed to their descendants, is a local surname. The county is spelled Fife, but in Scotland the surname is most often spelled Fyfe. This is one of the oldest families in Scotland, as is shown b\^ its frequent and honorable mention in Scotland'^ history from the very commencement of the use of sur- names, and by traditions handed down in the family from generation to generation. James and William were the ancestors of the P'ife family in this country. They were natives of Fifeshire, Scotland, and were among the early settlers of Bolton, Mass. James married Patience Butler, a native of Bolton. They had twelve children, among whom were Silas and Robert. Dea. Silas Fife, son of James and Patience (Butler) Fife, born in Bolton, Mass., Oct. 4, 1743; married, Aug. 15, 1772, iVbigail Hotighton, a native of Bolton. He was one of the earliest settlers in this region. He united with the Congregational church in Marlborough in 1779, and was made one of the deacons, June 22, 1791, and continued to hold the office until Sept. 3, 1815, when he withdrew from the Marlborough church in order to unite with the church here, on account of its lacing nearer his residence. He held various positions of honor and trust in town with credit to himself and advantage to his fellow citizens. I. Samuel, Ijorn June 27, 1773. II. Betsey, born May 3, 1775; married William Tenney ; died June 22, 1821. III. Silas, born April 21, 1777; married Abigail Johnson; removed to Halifax, Vt., where he died April 12, 1834. One child: Otis, l)orn July 17, 1810; married, Oct. 15, 1832, Temperance Pearce; died in Oswego, N. Y., May 2, 1843. IV. John, born Feb. 6, 1779. V. James, born Nov. 14, 1780; married Mrs. Coy; died in Troy, 1S4(). VL Akigail, born Dec. 2, 1782; died in childhood. vn. Benjamin, born March 24, 1786; married Betsey Newton; died in Troy, Nov. 24, 1842. 410 HISTORY OF TROY. viii. Amos, bom Oct. 14, 1790; married Nancy, daughter of Reuben Ward; he died in Boston, Dec. 18, 1830. IX. Timothy, born April 24, 1792. X. Nathan, born Feb. 22, 1795; married Margtiret Bird; died at Isle- au-Haute, Me.. October, 1834. Samuel Fife, son of Deacon Silas, born June 27, 1773; married, 1st, Sept. 6, 1806, Anna, daughter of Daniel and Lucy (Collins) Emerson of Marlborough, born May 27, 1782, and died in Jaffrey, July 28, 1818; married, 2d, April 1, 1819, Sarah Thayer, born in Richmond, Aug. 15, 1776, and died in Elmore, Vt., June 20, 1847. He died in Elmore, Oct. 15, 1851. Children: i, ii, iii by first wife; iv and v by second wife. I. Almond, born March 4, 1811; married, Jan. 5, 1841, Marinda Peck; died Sept. 3, 1868. II. Abba, born July 5, 1814; married, Jan. 28, 1836, Charlotte Courser; resides in Iowa. III. MiRA, born April 19, 1818; married Jason M. Kendrick of Wilming- ton, N. Y. ; died April 5, 1848. IV. Emerson, born Nov. 13, 1819; died November, 1853, unmarried. Y. Silas, born April 20, 1825; married, Jan. 1, 1857, Sarah Allen; resides in Chicago. John Fife, son of Deacon Silas, born Feb. 6, 1779; married Sarah Seward, born March 27, 1774; died in Peterborough, Aug. 24, 1858; he died there Ma^^ 7, 1843. I. Abigail, born July 29, 1800; married, Oct. 12, 1823, Samuel Strat- ton ; resided in Jaftrey. n. William, born Nov. 23, 1803; married, 1st, April 27, 1833, Ruth Gott; married, 2d, Dec. 22, 1847, Sarah Sellers; died at Ells- worth, Me., June 2, 1857. III. John, born Jan. 31, 1807; married, Nov. 4, 1830, Caroline Stone; resides in Charlotte, N. Y. IV. Mary, born June 27, 1808; died 1828, unmarried. V. Elmira, born Aug. 11, 1811; died March 16, 1895. VI. Elvira, iwrn Aug. 11, 1811; died Dec. 8, 1894. Both lived and died in Peterborough, unmarried. Timothy Fife, son of Deacon Silas, born April 24, 1782; married, 1821, Mary Jones of Framingham, and located on the farm with his father, and resided there till the death of the latter, when he came into possession of the farm. In 1848, he sold this place to William A. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 411 Harris, and purchased of George Bemis the farm now owned by John Tatro, where he lived until his death, Dec. 12. 1871. Mrs. Fife died Feb. 10, 1856. I. Daniel Jones, horn Aug. 11, 1823; married, 1st, Sept. 23, 1S51, Loiiy Alzina, born July 8, 1833; died Dec. 1, 1862, daughter of Enoch and Luc3' (Hodgkins) (yarfield; married, 2d, March 2-1, 1864, Lizzie H., born Jan. 27, 1840, daughter of Ja))ez, Jr., and Mary Jane (Perkins) Morse. Chikh-en: 1. Arthur Frederick, born Feb. 27, 1866; 2. Grnce Frances, Ijorn April 24, 1872; died Oct. 16, 1884. II. Betsey T., born Dec. 24, 1824; married Jacob N. Harrington; died May 29, 1868. III. Sarah E., born May 23, 1826; married William A. Harris; died July 28, 1897. IV. Mary M., born Aug. 18, 1827; died Aug. 19, 1847. V. Raciiael, born Oct. 30, 1828; married, January, 1862, Joseph Bailey, who died June 26, 1888; died March 14, 1892. Robert Fitts was a native of Royalston, Mass., and came here in 1809 or 1810 with his widowed mother, and resided several years in the Whipple house. Married, 1825, Tryphena Farrar. He was a mechanic and was represented as being a very ingenious man and given to new inventions. Soon after coming here he built a shop which stood near the old blanket mill, and in this he constructed several machines which were pro- pelled by water. This shop was burned in 1825. He lived here until about 1827, when he went to Mason and afterwards to New Ipswich. I. Robert, lived in Ashburnham. II. Mary, married White of New Ipswich. III. Keziah, married Kenyon; lived in Ashburnham. IV. Samue:l, lived in Ash])urnham. v. Lucy, lived with her father. VI. Georgianna, died in infancy. FoRRisTALL. Jcsse and Joseph Forristall, sons of John and Thankful (Jones) Forristall of Holliston, Mass., came to this region in the spring of 1781. Joseph settled on land now within the limits of Troy, Joseph Forristall, born 1758; died April 12, 1848; married, 1778, Hannah, born 1764; died May 2, 1849; 412 HISTORY OF TROY. daughter of Joseph and Mary (Parker) Mellen of Hol- liston, Mass. I. Betsey, born Dec. 31, 17S0; married Samuel Hemenway of Fitz- william. u. Keziah, born Sept. 17, 1782; married, Felx 2, 1S09, Thomas Gould of Swanze_v; died MaA- 11, 184-1. III. John, born Feb. 23, 1786; married MarA' Parker; resided in Win- cliendon. IV. Hannah, born Sept. 9, 1789; married Samuel Stone of Fitzwilliam ; resided in Swanzey. Y. PoLly, born March 6, 1792; married Kufus Govdd; resided in Cavendish, Vt. VI. Joseph Mellen, born Oct. 18, 1794. VII. Jonas, born Oct. 18, 1794; married Lucy Klandin;.^'; resided in Sutton, Mass. VIII. Dexter, born July 22. 1797. IX. Ezra, born Sept. 20, 1799; married, A])ril 12, 1825, Betsey, dauj^hter of Georni Aug. 5, 1856. II. William Hknrv, born April 4, 1858; married Mary Ann McGuire of Claremont. Children: 1. Francis Ellen, born April 12, 1883; 2. William Xiclif>lfis, liorn finie 15, 1884. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 433 III. John Nicholas, lioni Sept. 17, ISGl. IV. K.\TiiEKiNE Eliz.\hkth, boni Sept. 22, ISGG; married, June 19, 1895, Thomas J. Wimi of H;irrisville. V. Fr.vncis Supple, born Oet. 21, 18(58. OzRO J. Hale was born in Winchendon, Auo-. 20, 1841 ; married, Dec. 9, 1865, Lucy A., daughter of Joseph and Miiry Ann (Thurston) Kendall, born in Swanzey, March 5, 1843. Children born, i, in Winchendon, ii, in Rindge, iii, iv, vii, in Troy, v, vi, in Royalston. I. Peklev a., born Oct. 19, 1866; married, Aug. 20, 1890, Edith M., daughter of D. Warren and Nancy Ann (Piper) Farrar. Children: 1. Dorothy Ilnzvl, Ijorn March 24-, 1892; 2. CnrI Victor, born Feb. 4, 1894-. II. Ev.v M.\KV, l)orn Jan. 25, 1869; married, Sejjt. 28, 1892, Elmer E. Ward; died March 18, 1893. One child, Evn Hnic Ward, Ijorn March 4, 1893. III. Id.v Fk.\nces, born June 24, 1870; married, Sept. 25, 1895, William K. Gordon Carson. One child. Inn Cnrsoii, born March 23, 1896. IV. Susie Cl.\ka, born Sept. 5, 1872; married, July 16, 1895, Eldridge N. Dow. V. JuNiE Etta, born June 1, 1874; married, Nov. 19, 1894, Elliot L. Baker. VI. Harry Norma.x, 1)orn Aug. 12, 1875. VII. Florence Mabel, 1)orn Aug. 17, 1883. JOHN F. Hale, son of John D. and Abigail (Wright) Hale, born in Swanzey, Sept. 5, 1857; married, Sept. 3, 1885, Chloe E., daughter of Nelson W. and Jennie M. (Brooks) Rice. I. Elmer Franklin, born April 13, 1886. II. Jennie Ella, born Aug. 30, 1887. III. Melvin, born Jan. 5, 1890. IV. LoRETTA, bom Dec. 31, 1893. V. Edwin Ellsworth, born March 27, 189(5. PvDWARD L. Hardy, born in Harrisville, June 28, 1854; married, April 17, 1878, Adah F., born Sept. 28, 1858, daughter of Alvin B. and Sarah (Bennett) Chase. Came to Troy in 1883, in the employ of E. Buttrick & Co., and later, Troy Blanket Mills, where he has been employed for the last eight or nine years cis engineer. He purchased of Joseph W. Raymond a lot on the old "muster field" in 1889 and built his present residence. I. Florence Anice, born May 4, 1882. II. Efeie Estella, liorn Aug. 22, 1889. 434 HISTORY OF TROY. Harrington. Robert Harrington, probably the emi- grant ancestor, was one of the early proprietors of Water- town, Mass., where he died May 17, 1707. He married, Oct. 1, 1649, Susannah George, born 1632; died July 6, 1694. They had thirteen children of whom was Thomas, born April 22, 1665; married, April 1, 1686, Rebecca, daughter of John Bemis and widow of John White; resided in Watertown. They had six children of whom the eldest was Ebenezer, born June 27, 1687; died 1753; settled in Waltham, Mass., and from thence removed to Framing- ham about 1709; married. Fell. 3, 170S, Hepzibah, daughter of Peter Clayes of Framingham. They had nine children of whom the fifth was Joshua, born Oct. 11, 1718; married, 1st, Jan. 11, 1743, Sarah, daughter of John and Bathsheba (Rugg) Nurse. She died without issue, and he married, 2d, Oct. 3, 1751, Betty (Reed), widow of John Bent of Framing- ham; she died March 18, 1784; he died Nov. 24, 1784. They had four children, John, Sarah, Joshua and Hannah. Joshua Harrington, son of Joshua, born Se])t. 13, 1755; married, Nov. 21, 1780, Elizabeth, diiughter of Asa and Mary (Newton) Brigham, who died Feb. 15, 1823, aged 66 years; he died Sept. 20, 1834. I. Anna, born June 29, 1781; married William Marshall; died Fell. 16, 1857. II. Daniel, born Dec. 15, 1782; married, Jan. 24-, 1809, Mary, born April 11, 1786, daughter of Jesse and Martha F'orristall of Fitz- william; removed to Vermont where he died, and the widow returned to Fitzwilliam, where she died Jime 23, 1819. III. Betsey, born April 18, 1784'; married, Jan. 10, 1805, Asa Slowed, son of Abijah ; removed to the West. IV. Joshua, born Sept. 29, 1785. V. F^LijAH, born April 23, 1787. VI. Sally, born Jime 17, 1789; died Feb. 1, 1800. VII. Polly, baptized June 12, 1791; died May 7, 1833, unmarried, VIII. Lyman, baptized March 2, 1794-; died Feb. 1, 1800. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 43 { Joshua Harrington, son of Joshua, born Sept. 29, 1785; married, 1st, June 2, 1808, Nelly Gates of Dublin ; married, 2d, Ruth Hall, sister of his first wife. In 1820, he removed to Alstead and in 1850 from thence to Pittstown, N. Y. I. Sally, born May 6, 1809; died unmarried. IL Lym.\n, born May 5, 1811; married Mary Wilbur, wlio died Feb. 21, 1873, aged 63; he died Aug. 20, 1866. One ehild, Nellie Jane, adopted daughter; died April 20, 1861, aged 5. in. Ele.\nor, born May 23, 1813; married Josiah Bridge of Lowell, Massachusetts. IV. Joshua, born Aug. 26, 1815; married R. M. Wright of Winchendon; he died in California, Sejjt. 4, 184'9. V. L?:oNARD B., born March 7, 1818; married Eunice Grant of Lyme, New Hampshire. Yi. Charles, born May 9, 1820; married Kachael Evans; lived in Ohio, vu. Lucy Ann, Ijorn July 22, 1822; married Nathaniel Adams of Marlow. Yiii. Georc.e p., born Jan. 10, 1824-; married the widow of his brother Joshua. IX. Mary Jane, born Aug. 27, 1826; married Stejjhen Adams. Elijah Harrington, son of Joshua, born April 23, 1787; married, 1st, Feb. 1, 1810, Prudence Newell; she died June 3, 1827, and he married, 2d, Mrs. Tabitha Tol- man. He died May 15, 1870. Harrington Place as Owned by Spauldinc. I. Nelson F., born Jan. 4, 1811; died at sea. II. John, born March 5, 1812; married Emily Cajiron of Jaffrey. III. Alonzo Brigham, born April 9, 1815. IV. Daniel, born Jan. 20, 1817. V. Patty, born March 31, 1819. 436 HISTORY OF TROY. VI. Elizareth, born A])ril 16, 1823 ; married Ford of Concord ; died in 1857. VII. Jacob Newei.l, born Jan. 4, 1827. VIII. Arbee Read, died Aug. 20, 1833, aged three years. IX. Frances E., died Jnne 22, 1837, aged five years. Alonzo B. Harrington, son of Elijah, horn April 9, 1815; married Betsey, daughter of John and Irene (Newell) Lawrence, In 1857, he bought a part of the Ichabod Shaw" farm of Welcome Ballon, and afterwards resided on that place. He died July 9, 1866. After his death the family went to Marlborough to reside. I. Edward, born March 15, 1833; died March 27, 185G; unmarried. II. Charles B., born April 23, 1837; died April 20, 1859; unmarried. III. Eliza Jane, born Oct. 13, 1839; died June 13, 1840. IV. Adliza, born June 17, 1841; died Jul}' 21, 1842. V. Sarah A., born Jan. 23, 1843; married Monroe Dickey; resides in Worcester, Mass. VI. Di'ANE C, born July 6, 1846; married, March, 1876, Marietta, daughter of Frederick and Sarah Hannaford of Cape Elizabeth, Me.; resided in Fitchburg; died Dec. 14, 1895. VII. NovES (t., born Oct. 13, 1848; married, 1877, Ellen L., daughter of Artemas and Lovina (Bemis) Richardson; resides in Worcester, Mass. Children: 1. Anna Lovina, born in Leominster, April 17, 1878; died in Marlborough, July 25, 1878; 2. Charles Brighaw, born in Marlborough, Aug. 14, 1879; 3. Noyes E., l)orn in Leom- inster, March 24, 1882; died in Troy, Aug." 25, 1882. VIII. Okorge, born July 8, 1851; married, Oct. 24, 1883. Adaliza H. Chase, born in Newport, N. H., Dec. 31, 1849. One child, Marion Irene, l)orn Jan. 13, 1891. Is engaged in trade in Antrim, N. H., under the naine of Harrington & Kibbey, general merchandise. IX. Irene L., born Oct. 13, 1855; married, Oct. 13, 1880, Rev. Millard F. Hardy; resides in Townshend, Vt. Jacob N. Harrington, son of Elijah, born Jan. 4, 1827; married, Oct. 25, 1849, Betsey T., daughter of Timo- thy and Mary (Jones) Eife. She died May 29. 1868. I. Addie, born Oct. 23, 1850; died. II. Edgar H., born Aug. 5, 1852; nuirried Iris E. Nash. One child, liertlia L., boril April 2, 1879. III. Charles, 1)orn Dec. 13, 1854. IV. Mary J., born July 25, 1857; died July 23, 1862. V. Martha M., born Sept. 10, 1859; married Currier; resides in Andover, N. H. VI. Frank W., born Aug. 15, 1861; died in Passaic, N. J., Feb. 22, 1890. VII. Lizzie V., Ijorn July 3, 1865; died Nov. 15, 1895; burned to death caused liy clothing taking fire from a lamp. GENEALOGICAL REGLSTEK. 437 Christopher Harris was a native of Rhode Island. He s])ent his minority in the town of Richmond. In 1787, he married a young hidy also from Rhode Island, and continued to reside in Richmond until 179(1, when he came here and purchased the tavern formerly owned by Jonathan Ball. About 1811, he removed to Rocking- ham, Vt., where died in 1828. I. Polly; married Henry Tolman. iL Luke. in. J.\MEs; married Eunice Foster. He was killed by the ears at the depot in Tro^', 1856. IV. Daniel, settled in Cortland, N. Y. V. Oliver, settled in Plymouth, Mass. VI. Nancy; married Barak Coolidge; died in Sterling, Mass. VII. Joseph; married Mary Wheeler; removed to Michigan. Luke Harris, son of Christopher, married, 1st, 1812, Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Jones) Whitney. After his marriage he lived with his father a few years and then moved into the Whipple house, where Charles Haskell now lives. Mrs. Harris died in 1816 ; and he married, 2d, 1817, Betsey Whitney, a sister of his first wife ; she died 1858-59; and he married, 3d, July 9, 18()1, Hannah Blood of Nelson ; he died in Nel- son, Feb. 3, 1872, aged 81 years, 2 months. In 1818, he bought the farm on which Josiah Lawrence first settled, and lived there five and one-half years, then sold the farm to William Lawrence, and moved into the Thomas Tolman house, now owned by O. H. Aldrich, in 1824-. The following vear he built for Salmon Ll'KK IlAKKI 438 HISTORY OF TROY. Whittemore the house now owned by E. P. Kimball, and a few years later bought the pail shop built by Moses Curtis, which stood below the old tannery, and commenced making pails. In 1828-29, he bought of Jonathan B. French the house now known as the Winch house, where he lived until 1836, when he sold his pail shop to Charles Coolidge, and his house to Nathan Winch, and moved into the house he built for Whittemore. He bought the Harrington gristmill and water privilege. He took the gristmill do\vn and commenced immediately to build a factory, which was completed the following year, and used to manufacture woolen cloth. The business did not prove successful and he moved to Sterling, Mass., in 1841, where he resided five years, then went to Richmond, where he lived until 1858, when he went to Nelson. Children, I to III, by first marriage, iv to xi, by second marriage. I. James Madison, bom May 24', 1812; died Fd)riiar\', 181(5. II. Marv Ann, born Oct. 30, 1813; married Jabez Butler. III. Martha, born March 25, 1816; married, Jnne 16, 1844, Heman Kendall, son of Heman and Submit (Tuttle) Kendall of Sterling-, Mass.; and died there Aug. 7, 1881. Children: 1. Nathan Henry Kendall, born Sept. 15, 1846; died Ajiril 15, 1860; 2. Heman Prentice Kendall, born May 28, 1856; married (Trace E. Shattuck of Sterling. IV. Susan, born March 20, 1818; died 1839. V. Sakaii W., born Oct. 23, 1819; married Isnric W. Holbrook. VI. Nathan W., born March 5, 1821. vu. Fkrdinani), born March 28, 1824; died 1825. VIII. IsAHKLLA, born March 28, 1824; died 1825. IX. John W., born Sept. 15, 1828. X. Isaiah, born Jan. 13, 1831 ; resides in Missouri. XI. Caroline Elizabeth, born Feb. 14, 1833; married Minot R. Fhil- lijjs of Nelson. Stephen Harris was the son of Stephen Harris who came from Gloucester, R. I., and settled in Richmond; mar- ried Charlotte, daughter of Jesse Ballon. He was born Sept. 25, 1790; married, 1st, March, 1816, Patty, daughter of Daniel Ball, born March 4, 1793; died Sept. 24, 1852; married, 2d, Sally, widow of Joseph Whitcomb of Swanzey, who died Jan. 7, 1875. He came to Troy in April, 1819, and resided a short time I GENEALOGICA L REGIS TER. 489 I. It. III. with his father-ill-law, Daniel Ball. He moved to Swanzey in 1820, residing there for about eighteen years when he returned to Troy. After the death of his first wife he lived in Richmond for a time but finally returned to Troy, where he died July 17, 1861. Elisha, born Sept. 29, 1817; died 1846. Stephen, born Oct. 24, 1820; married, July 16, 1S46, Ahnira Puller. WiLLARD, born June 3, 1823. William A., born Aug. 29, 1825. Lucy, born Feb. 16, 1829; married, June 2, 1852, Welcome Ballon. Lydia, born Sept. 9, 1832; married Luther Alexander. \Vn,i,iAM A. Harris. William A. Harris, son of Stephen, born Aug. 29, 1825; married, Oct. 25, 1849, Sarah E., daughter of Timothy Fife. After his marriage he resided a short time on his 440 HISTORY OF TROY. father's farm, but afterwards ])urchased and lived for several years on the farm now owned by Arthur J. Edwards, and later purehased the Crosby place in the village, where he lived until his death, July 10, 1885. Mrs. Harris died July 28, 1897. William F., born Sept. 11, 1852; died same day. Fkhi) a., bom May 13, 1856; married. Oct. 2, 1878, Ida E., daiii^hter of James S. and Betse}' (Atherton) Bliss, who was born in Whitingham, Vt., Aug. 11, 1858. Children: 1. Berthn M., born in Jacksonville, Vt., Dec. 16, 1878; 2. Leon A., born in Troy, July 31, 1880; 3. Robert E., born in Keene, April 3, 1889. Residence of Mrs. S. E. Harris. HI. Wii.LLVM H., born Sept. 18, 1857; married, vSept. 23, 1882, Lizzie M., daughter of .Asa and Sophronia L. ((lould) Davis of Stod- dard, who was boni March, 1858. Children; 1. Lil'.hni .1., honi in Sullivan, Dec. 20, 1885; 2. Osciir (•., born in Sulli\aii, Jinie 16, 1895. lY. AuKiLLA M., born Oct. 2, 1859. V. Fkank S., l)orn March 16, 1862; married, 1st, May 16, 1S,S;), Josie H., daughter of Thomas B. and Fannie Burns of I'itzwil- liam; married, 2d, Oct. 11, 1893, .\ddie E., daughter of Zoi)har and Betsey H. (Culver) Willard of Hjirrisville, who was born Jan. 1, 1857. One child, Myrtle F., born Aug. 28, 1890. Benjamin F. Harris is the son of Joseph Harris of Fitz- william, formerly of Saugus, Mass., where he was born 1838; married, 1st, March 31, 1863, Abbie J., daugh- ter of Nathan and Julia (Martin) Whipple of Fitzwnl- liam. Mr. Harris lived for some vears on the farm GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 441 now owned by Nahum Green. Mrs. Harris died Octo- ber, 1885, and he married, 2d, May 25, 1887, H. Maria, daughter of Bowman and Cynthia (Whitcomi)) Howe. I. Cora A., born Jan. 5, 1864; married, Nov. 25, 1884-, ]o\\n M. Farnham of Lancaster, N. H. II. Charles H., Iwrn Nov. 10, 1865; married, 1st, May 8, 1888, Olive S. Eaton of Worcester, Mass.; she died Aug. 24', 1892, and he married, 2d, Dec. 17, 1893, Ida Brownhill of Worcester. III. Herdert F., born July 28, 1868; died June 14, 1885. Drowned in Bowkerville pond. IV. Mabelle G., boi-n Oct. 15, 1873; married, Oct. 21, 1891, Fred Clough of Lancaster. V. Lester F., born Sept. 22, 1876. VI. Florence G., born Mav 15, 1881. AiJNER Haskell, a native of Harvard, Mass., came here a1)otit 1778, and located near where James Carpenter Hves; married, Feb. 21, 1759, Martha, born April 18, 1739; died Feb. 8, 1817, daughter of Phineas and Mary Ward of Marlborough, Mass. ; Mr. Haskell died April 4, 1809, aged 73 years. I. M.\RTHA, married Joseph Farwell of Lancaster, Mass. II. Joseph. III. Levi, born July 20, 1769; died Nov. 22, 1830. IV. Sally, married Benjamin Brigham of Fitzwilliam. Joseph Haskell, son of Abner, came to Marlborough, about the year 1803, and located a little southwest of Monadnock Mountain, on the third New Hampshire turnpike. A stage from Keene to Boston passed over this road daily, Sundays excepted, and Mr. Haskell opened a public house. He also became an extensive landholder. He married. May 10, 1787, Mehitable, baptized, Oct. 14, 1771 ; died Oct. 29, 1824, daughter of Major John and Deborah (Winch) Farrar; he died Jan. 7, 1825, aged 62, from injuries received b}' being thrown from his wagon the previous fall. I.- Patty, born Aug. 26, 1778; died Jan. 5, 1840; married William Lawrence. II. Nancy, born Aug. 21, 1791; died June 20, 1824; married Josiah Wheeler. III. Joseph, l)orn IVLirch 24, 1794. IV. William, born June 28, 1796. 442 HISTORY OF TROY. V. Ei^EANOK Bkuwn, bofii Nov. IH, 17'.)S; married, Jan. 14. IcSlT, Peter Tarbell of Grafton, Yt.; died 1.S77. VI. AisNER, born March 11, 1801. VII. AbPHEUS, born July 30. 1804; died Oct. 21, 1805. VIII. John, liorn March 19, 1807. IX. Harriet, born Nov. 15, 1809; married Alanson Barber. X. Henry, born Jnly 20, 1812. Joseph Haskell, son of Joseph, born March 24. 1794; married, April 2, 1818, Ruth, born Oct. 28, 179(3, daughter of David and Esther (Bruce) White, and settled first in Troy. In 1828 he bought his father's ■ farm and tavern stand, and lived in Marlborough till 1845-46, when he returned to Troy, where he died April 18, 1865; his widow died Aug. 21, 1879. I. Mary Ann, born in Troy, May 21, 1820; died in 1822. II. Eliza Ann, born in Troy, Nov. 14, 1822; married Cyrus Thompson; died Aug. 8. 1896. III. Eleanor, born in Troy, Jan. 12, 1824; married, Sept. 28, 184;:5, George A., son of Abel Nutting, born Feb. 19, 1817; resided in Marlborough; died Dec. 4, 1895. Children: 1. George Henry Nutting, born Nov. 15, 1857; 2. Sarah Jane Nutting, born April 29, 1859; married Geoi-ge Howe; 3. David Wheeler, born Se])t. 30, 1862. IV. Mary, born in Troy, May 21, 1826; married .\bel W. Baker. V. Lyman, born in Marlborough, Sept. 21, 1828; died March 27, 1829. VI. Harriet, born in Marll)orough, Nov. 11, 1830; married William Jackson, vii. Joseph, born in Marlborough, Aug. 6, 1832. VIII. Maria, born in Marlborough, Aug. 4, 1834; married David Wheeler. IX. Sarah, born in Marlborough, June 12, 1839; married, 1st, June 19, 1867, Alhson G. Howe of Peterborough, who died March 3, 1872; married, 2d, Oct. 19. 1881, Lemuel W. Brown, who died Aug. 30, 1890. One child, Nelhe Ada, born in Peterborough, Aug. 28, 1871; died Feb. 18, 1888. X. LrcY Jane, born in Marlborough, Feb. 9, 1841; married, Oct. 27, 1869, John E., son of Stillman and Eunice (Buttrick) Woodward of Marlborough; resides in Fitchburg. Children: 1. WiUie S. Woodward, born March 20, 1874; died Sept. 1, 1878; 2. Gerty May Woodward, born Jan. 25, 1877. William Haskell, son of Joseph, Senior, married, Oct. 20, 1818, Sarah, daughter of David and Esther (Bruce) White of Pi tz William. He resided on the homestead for several years and then came to Troy, where he died Jan. 26, 1841; his widow died in 1892. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 443 I. EzEKiEL, born Feb. 6, 1S20. II. Joseph, born Oct. 16, 1822. III. Alonzo, born Feb. 16, 1824; married, Sept. 10, 1852, Betse_v Mar- shall of Jafifrey. IV. Albert, born March 10. 1826; died Ang. 6, 1846. V. Sarah Ann, born Feb. 26, 1830; married, 1st, Corbett Fosgate; he died and she married, 2d, Horace Knapp; resides in Win- chendon. VI. LvDiA, born March 6, 1832; married, 1st, Addison A. Marshall; mar- ried, 2d, John H. Congdon. VII. Mary, born June 29, 1834; married Augustus A. Adams; resides in Winchendon. VIII. Charles, born May 14, 1841. AiiNER Haskell, son of Joseph, Senior, born March 11, 1801; married, May 3, 1823, Laura Lawrence. After his marriage he resided in Marlborough some three or four years, and then came to Troy, where he died Sei^t. 1, 1847; his widow died I. Orrick L., born in Marlborough, Nov. 18, 1825. II. Mary Ann, born in Troy, Sept. 12, 1829; married, Sci>t. 10, 1847, Jose])h N. Forristall. III. Henry A., born in Troy, July 8, 1834; died June 21, 1843. IV. Klizemann M., born in Troy, Nov. 14, 1838; died Oct. 30, 1840. Orrick L. Haskell, son of Abner, born Nov. 18, 1825; mai-ried, March, 1850, EHzalieth W., daughter of Nahum and Mary Ward ; resides in South Keene. I. Andrew L., born in Troy, March 11, 1851; married, Dec. 15, 1874, Annie M. Lord, born Feb. 21, 1848. II. Lizzie A., born June 30, 1854; married, Nov. 24, 1874, James Biggs of Lowell, Mass. III. George H., born April 6, 1856; married, Oct. 2, 1878, Nellie An- drews of Chesterfield. IV. Maria A., born Oct. 21, 1857: married, Nov. 8, 1880, Frank H. Strickland of Winchendon. V. Eva M., born June 28, 1860. Henry Haskell, youngest son of Joseph, Senior, born July 20, 1812; married, Feb. 14, 1838, Martha, daughter of George and Naomi (Starkey) Farrar, and settled in Troy, but removed to Marlborough, March 1, 1841, and located in the southeast part of the town, where he lived until 1859, when he removed to Winchendon. He served eighteen months in the War 444 HISTORY OF TROY. of the Rebellion. Children, all but the first born in Marlborough; died 1891. I. Henry George, born Jan. 15, 1839; died Jan. 28, 1840. II. AI.\KTHA Ann, born March 18, 1841; died Aug. 17, 1843. III. Albert H., born June 4, 1849; killed Jan. 29, 1877, while engaged in running a circular saw in Merriam's mill in Westminster, Mass. He left a wife and one child. lY. Tarbel p., born March 19, 1854. V. Frank E., born March 20, 1856; died Oct. 27, 1875. Joseph Haskell, son of Joseph, Jr., born Ang. 6, 1S82; married, Sept. 25, 1858, Mary Jane, daughter of Bailey and Betsey (Clark) Starkey. Children born, i to hi, in Marlborough, iv to vi, in Tro3\ I. Elmer Ellsworth, born June 20, 1862; married, (^ct. 28, 1893, Angle A., daughter of Edward C. and Caroline A. (Sjiooner) Sutton. II. Walter Josetii, born Oct. 12, 1804. III. Arthur Herbert, born Sept. 2, 1866; married, Sept. 9, 1895, Mary M., born July 21, 1872, daughter of Elijah T. and Ella A. (Bennett) Platts of Jaftrey. One child, Rijlph PLitts, born May 27, 1896. lY. Etta Vina, born Jan. 29, 1868; married, Nov. 21. 1895, Elliott W. Aldrich. Y. Nellie Jane, born Nov. 18, 1872; married, Jan. 16, 1895, Ernest F. Dean. VL Bessie Anna, born Feb. 2, 187S; married, May 28, 1S97, Fred E. Whitcomb of FitzwilHam. EzEKiEL Haskell, son of William, born Feb. G, 1820; married, 1st, Mirantha Demary of Rindge; married, 2d, Mrs. Jane Lawrence of Troy; died Sept. 23, 1834. Children born, i to iii, by 1st marriage, iv, v, by 2d marriage. I. Flora E., born ; married E. Locke of .-Vthol, Mass. II. Nelson W., born . III. Abbie N., born ; married (liles. IV. Fred E., ))orn Aug. 20, 18()(). Y. Hattie a., born May 13, 1808; married Bert Hale; resides in , I Athol. Joseph Haskell, son of William, born Oct. 16, 1822; married, 1st, Anna Bemis of Southborough, Mass. ; married, 2d, Teresta T. Ray of Shutesbury, Mass.; married, 3d, Mrs. Ermina S. Rice of Jafifrey. Air. Haskell is a regular ordained minister of the Baptist GENEALOGICAL REGLSTER. 445 denomination and during the early part oi his Hfe held several pastorates. Charles Haskell, son of William, born May 14, 1840; married, Jan. 1, 1868, Mary Alice, born in Peter- borough, April 10, 1844, daughter of John A. and Chaki.ks Haskkll. Charlotte D. P. (Richardson) Allen. Mr. Haskell is quite well known as a dealer in horses, having followed the business, more or less for twenty years, and has also done something in training and driving horses upon the track. He has also followed the business of auctioneer, having commenced in Boston when about 446 HISTORY OF TROY. eighteen 3'ears of age. He was proprietor of the Kim- ball House for seven years, but about ten years ago he purchased the B. F. Perry place in the village where he has since resided. I. Mary Alice, Ijorn Nov. 6, 1868; married, May 17, 1892, Herbert D. Gee; resides in Winchester. Children. 1. Retta May Gee, Ijorn Dec. 23, 1893; 2. Marion Louise Gee, liorn April 15, 1897. Herrick. The traditions of this very ancient family claim their descent from Ericke, a Danish Chief, who invaded Britain about the year 911, during the reign of Alfred, and, having been vanquished by that prince, was compelled, with his followers, to re-people the wasted districts of East Anglia, the government of which he held as a fief of the English crown. In an attempt to unite the Danish ])owcr in Britain against the Englishmen, Ericke was defeated by Edward, the son and successor of Alfred, and was subsequently slain by his own subjects for alleged severalties in his government. The Norman invasion found this name represented by Eric, the forester, who resided in Leicestershire, and was an extensive landholder. Eric raised an army to repel the invaders ; and in the subsequent efforts of the English earls and ])rinces to dispossess the Normans of their recent conquest, and drive them out of the coimtry, he bore a prominent part. But he shared also in the unfortunate issue of all these patriotic efforts. His followers and allies were stripped of their estate, and the sources of his own power were dried u]) ; and being no longer in a condition formidable to the new government, Eric w^as taken into favor by William, the Conqueror, who intrusted him with important offices about his person and in the command of his armies. In his old age, he was ]3ermitted to retire to his house in Leicestershire, where he closed his stormy and eventful life. The estate was given him bv William, the GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 447 Coiuiiieror, for military services, about the year 1080. His descendants occupied the estate withovit interru])tion for nearly eight hundred years. Henry Eyryk, a lineal descendant from Eric, the fores- ter, was seated at Great Strctton, in the county of Lei- cester, England, at a very remote period. His grandson, Robert Eyryk of Stretton, by his w^ife Joanna and William, who bore the title of Sir William Eyryk, Knight of Stret- ton. He was commissioned to attend the Prince of Wales on his expedition into Gascony, 1355. From him descended Robert Eyrick of Houghton, who was living in 1450. Thomas Eyrick of Houghton settled in Leicester, and died in 1517. His second son, John Eyrik, or Heyrick, born 1513, married Mary, daughter of John Bond, Esq., of Ward End in Warwickshire. He died April 2, 1589, leav- ing a large family, among whom was William, born 1557. He was a member of Parliament from 1601 to 1630, Knighted 1605, and was known as Sir William Herrick of Leicester, London, and Beau Manor Park. He married, 1596, Joan, daughter of Richard May, Esq., of London; died March 2, 1652-53, aged 96. Henry, the fifth son of Sir William, was born at Beau Manor in 1604, and was named by command of the unfortunate Prince Henry, eldest son of James L His sponsors were Sir David Murry, Sir John Spillinan and Lady Aston. He came to this country and settled in Salem, Mass., in 1629. He married Editha, daughter of Mr. Hugh Laskin of Salem, and became the ancestor of the numerous race by that name in this country. He died 1571, leaving seven sons and a daugh- ter, who are named in his will. Of these, Thomas and Benjamin, the eldest and the youngest of the sons, and the daughter, Elizabeth, died childless. The other five sons are regarded as the patriarchs of their respective branches of the posterity of Henry and Editha Herrick. They are 448 HISTORY OF TROY. known in history as Zacharie of Beverly, Ephraim of Bev- erly, Joseph of Salem, John of Beverly, and George of Salem. Joseph of Salem, baptized, Aug. 6, 164v5; died Feb. 4, 1717-18; married, 1st, Sarah Leach, who died about 1764; married, 2d, Mary Endicott about 1677. Joseph, son of Joseph and Sarah (Leach) Herrick, born April 2, 1667; married Elizabeth ; died Sept. 11, 1749. Benjamin the second son of Joseph, was born April 14, 1700; married, Nov. 27, 1720, Lydia Hay ward ; died 1778, at Methuen, Mass. He had a large family of whom the tenth was Nathaniel, baptized, Oct. 31, 1736; married Susannah Messer of Methuen, who died Nov. 7, 1807, aged 74; he died 1807. He had Nehemiah, born Sept. 16, 1775; married. 1st, Sarah Day, who died; married, 2d, Nov. 29, 1832, Abigail Hall. Inherited an estate in Methuen from his uncle, Thomas Herrick ; died 1844. He had six children of whom the third was Jonathan S. Jonathan Symonds Herrick, son of Nehemiah and Sarah (Day) Herrick, was born in Derry, N. H., April 20, 1810; married, 1st, Jan. 3, 1843, Maria S. Whitier, who died 1845; married, 2d, March 4, 1846, Martha K. Richardson, who died in 1852; married, 3d, April 20, 1853, Sarah Richardson ; he died Dec. 8, 1895. At an early age his parents moved to Methuen, Mass., settling upon a farm which his father inherited from his uncle, Thomas Herrick. This farm now forms a part of the city of Lawrence. Here he passed his boy- hood and youth. At the age of seventeen he became converted and united with the Baptist church in Me- thuen. On coming of age, he became desirous of fitting himself for the ministry, and took measures to secure an education. He attended the high school in Haver- hill, Phillips Academy, Andover and Dartmouth College. He supported himself while studying by teaching com- mon schools and singing schools, and, at times, working at shoemaking. He left college in his junior year, to GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 449 take charge of the Ba])tist church at West Norwich, Vt., where he was ordained September, 184-0. He held pastorates in Hudson, N. H., TA^igsborough, Mass., Warner, Rumney and Hanover, and came to Troy in December, 1864, as pastor of the Baptist church, which he lield for about fourteen years, or until late in the Rev. Jonathan S. Herkick. winter of 1879, when feeble health compelled him to resign. Mr. Herrick was always interested in educa- tional matters, and especially in the schools of Troy, serving as superintendent of schools for a good many years. He was a Christian gentleman in the truest sense of the word and was honored and respected by the entire communitv. 450 HISTORY OF TROY. I. AiniHK S., (lied 1S45. II. Maria E., bom in Warner, N. H., Dec. 19, 1S4(5. III. James D., born in Warner, N. H., June 4, 1S4-S. IV. Martha J., born in Warner, N. H., Feb. 11, iMoO; married, Sep- tember, 1876, Rev. Fred A. Thayer, a Congrejiational minister, who died in Quincy, Ills., March, 1883. V. Daniel F. R., born in Rnmney, N. H., Jan. 10, 1852. Oliver Hawkins, born in Winchester, Feb. 6, 1801 ; mar- ried, Sept. 1, 1824. Johannah H. F'oster, and resided two years in his native town. He became a citizen of Troy in Sept., 1826. Soon after coming here he bought the location now owned by Mrs. Aljel J. Burpee, and resided there until March, 1851, when he removed to Rindge, and later to Fitzwilliam. The last few years of his residence here he was one of the firm of Goddard, Buttrick & Co., in the manufacture of tubs and pails. I. Lucy F., born July 3, 1826. II. Johannah, born April 15, 1828; married, 1st, Aug., 1847, Willard Holt, who died; married, 2d, June, 1857, Jesse Pike. III. Ann Lanv, born Oct. 18, 1830; married, Nov., 1852, Alfred K. Harris. IV. Fannv, born Sept. 9, 1832; married. May, 1854, Alfred T. Colony. V. Nancy E., born June 10, 1834; married, Nov., 1858, Nathan P.. Boutwell. VI. Oliver P., born July 21, 1836. Yii. Marshall P., born March 8, 1839; served in the Third Regiment, N. H. v., in the War of the Rebellion; resides in Minneai)olis, Minn. VIII. SrsAN A., born Feb. 22, 1845. IX. John H., born July 14, 1846. Andrew Heberts, born in Canada, June 20, 1847; mar- ried, Aug. 28, 1868, Josephine Freeman, born in Vermont, Aug. 12, 1849. I. Bh;rtha L., born in Canada, Dec. 7, 1871; married, Aug. 21, 1886, Daniel Enright, born Aug. 1, 1865. Children: 1. Corn Mabel Enright, born June 2, 1887; 2. Norman Edward Enright, born Aug. 1, 1895. II. Oscar L., born July 28, 1873; married, Scjjt. 10, 1894, Katherinc Shehan. One child, Elfrida Sybil, born Feb. 28, 1896. III. Minnie E., born Aug. 20, 1875; married, Oct. 1, 1894, Edward McOuade of Marlborough. IV. D)A M., born Sejit. 12, 1878; married, June 18, 1895, Edmund H. Tenncy. One child, Ellsworth Edwin Tenney, born Aug. 4, 1896. V. Ahhie E., born Oct. 12, 1880. VI. IsABELLE P., bom March 2, 1882. VII. Wilfred J., horn Ajiril 30, 1884. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 451 VIII. Melvin S., born Feb. 25, 1887. IX. Clifford D., born Nov. 8, 1889. X. Olive E., born Sept. 4, 1893. Hezekiah Hodgkins was born in New Ipswich ; married Lydia, daughter of Pelatiah Ciimmings. He died Oct. 4, 1821, aged 64. His widow died April 3, 1843, aged 83. I. Stephen, born 1782; married Aretluisa Corbin, March 2(\, ISO?; died in Albanjs N. Y., 1827. II. Pelatiah, born 1784. III. Sarah, born 1786; died 1817. IV. Lydia, born May 21, 1790; died the same 3-ear. V. Amos, born July 25, 1792; died the same year. VI. Lucy, born Nov. 15, 1793; married Enoch Garfield; died Dec. 29, 1854. VII. Lydia, born 1796; married, Oct. 5, 1815, Joseph Corbin of Rochester, N. Y. ; died 1817. VIII. Aaron, born April 25, 1797. IX. Elizabeth, born June 7, 1804; died 1812. X. Sarah, born 1810; married Almon Wright. Pelatiah Hodgkins, son of Hezekiah, born 1784; married, Oct., 1814, Mehitable Adams of Jaffrey, and settled on the homestead farm, now owned by Joseph Haskell, where he lived until his death, July 11, 1860. His wife died July 29, 1860, aged 72. I. Augustus, born Nov. 12, 1815; died Oct. 29, 1817. II. Lydia, born Aug. 30, 1818; died June 20. LS45. III. Augustus, 2d, born June 29, 1820. IV. Sarah C, born July 19, 1823; died March 8, 1826. V. Hezekiah, born Jan. 8, 1829; married. Died Sept. 14, 1875. One child, Angle Marin, born Oct. 6, 1867. Augustus Hodgkins, the second son of Pelatiah, was born June 29, 1820; married, 1st, 1858, Hannah J. Rose- brook, who died Feb., 1883; and he married, 2d, April 14, 1883, Mrs. Elvira M. Leavitt of Twin Mountain, N. H.; died Dec. 15, 1894. Mr. Hodgkins lived on the home farm until about 1865, when he purchased of Leonard Wright the place in the village where he resided until his death. He was one of the selectmen from March, 1862, until March, 1867; represented the town in 1869 and 1870, and was town clerk in 1873, 452 HISTORY OF TROY. 1874 and 1875. He was a man of conservative prin- ciples and somid judgment, and held the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens. I Augustus Hodgkins. Aaron Hodgkins, son of Hezekiah, born April 25, 1797; married, 1st, Dec. 30, 1821, Rhoda Perkins, who died in 1851 ; and he married, 2d, Jan. 15, 1852, Mrs. Alfreda T. Brown, widow of Erastus Brown, and daughter of Ezekiel Thompson of Swanzey. He died April 11, 1856; Mrs. Hodgkins died Feb. 4, 1873. After his marriage he located in a house near the mill formerly owned by James R. Stanley. After residing there some years he bought the farm now owned b}^ H. E. Mellen, where he resided tmtil his death. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 453 I. Harriet A., born July 10, 1S25. II. Christopher, Ijorn Jan. 6, 1829; married, Nov. 14, 1854, Mrs. Mellisa (Gurnse}-) Temi}- ; resides in Marlhoronoh. Children: 1. Leila E., born May 20, 1856; married Henry Metealf; 2. Arthur C, born Aug. 31, 1857; 3. Eva A/., 1)orn Aug. 4, 1859; died Aug. 24, 1864. III. Ambrose, 1)oni Jan. 20, 1831. IV. Mary, born Dec. 25, 1832. V. Frederick, born March 4, 1835. VI. Cyrus, born Jan. 24, 1837. VII. Ermina B., born March 19, 1839. Aaron Holt, born in Holden, Mass., Oct. 27, 1776; settled in Troy in 1807; died in 1826, from the effects of a kick from a vicious horse. I. Aaron, born Jan. 25, 1801; died Jan. 6, 1818. II. Joel, born March 30, 1803. III. Jotham H., born Feb. 22, 1805. IV. Dorothy, born Sept. 8, 1807; died 1812. V. Moses Wheeler, born July 6, 1810; died Sept. 21, 1813. VI. William, born Oct. 13, 1812; married, and went West; died in Newport, Ky. vii. Amos, born Dec. 20, 1814. At the age of nineteen he left home and joined the regular army, and served with credit to himself and country during the Florida war, under Gen. Winfield Scott, as one of his body guard. He carried to his death an honorable scar from a wound received during this campaign. After his discharge from the army, he moved to Somerset, Ky., where he taught school and married in 1844. In 1849, he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and entered into mei'cantile pursuits, and for maiw j-ears was one of the leading merchants of the city. He died Ma\', 1895. Children : 1. Lucy; married T. J. Collins; 2. Sarah Frances; married W. B. Bemis ; 3. Lizzie. VIII. Dorothy, born Feb. 28, 1816; married John Pool of Jaffrey; died April 18, 1840. IX. Betsey, born March 16,1819; married Fri J. S])aulding; died Aug. 8, 1849. X. Aaron, born July 15, 1821. XL Lydia, born Nov. 16, 1825; married Henry Maynard of Holden, Mass. Joel Holt, son of Aaron, Ijorn March 30, 1803; married, 1st, Nov. 20, 1828, Thirza, daughter of Bezaleel and Abigail (Woods) Baker of Marlborough, and located in Troy. In 1835 he moved to Princeton, Mass., and resided there until 1858, \vhen he bought the Baker place and again located in Troy. Mrs. Holt died May 454 HISTORY OF TROY. 17, 1861, and he married, 2d, Bathsheba . Mr. Holt died June 19, 1873. I. Marv B., born Sept. 8, 1829; died July S, 1833. II. Thikza Maria, born March 8, 1832; died Jan. 16, 1851. III. Eunice Abigail, born Nov. 11, 183+ ; married Alvin S. \Ybite of Shirley, Mass. IV. Marv Jane, born Oct. 16, 1839; married William L. Bemis. JoTHAM H. Holt, son of Aaron, born Feb. 22, 1805; married, April 19, 1831, Miriam Bartlett of Berlin, JOTHAiM H. HOI.T. Mass., who was born Nov. 26, 1804; he died July 2, 1881. Mr. Holt resided about two and a half years on the Luther Whittemore farm, but in 1834, he purchased of Zopher Whitcomb and heirs the Joseph GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 455 Cutting farm, which he owned £ind cultivated for many years, but finally disposed of it and came to the village to live. He was one of the prominent men of the town and had the confidence of his fellow citizens and was chosen to numerous ])Ositions of trust and respon- sibility. I. EIllen p., horn Miirch S, 1832; married, June 22, 1S53, Charles Lewis of Cincinnati, Ohio; resides in Topeka, Kans. II. Milton J., 1)orn April 7, 1884; married, Dec. 27, lS(i4-, Lodenia Giddin^s of Cincinnati, Ohio. Children: 1. (jCoi\^c E., born July 27, 1866; 2. Julian II., born April 28, 1870 ; died March 6, 1897; 3. Alice M., born Ant--. 30, 1878. Went to New York city in 1868 and has been engaged in the produce commission bnsiness; resides in Hoboken, N. J. III. Levi B., born Nov. 9, 1835. IV. S.\KAH D., born Oct. 7, 1838; unmarried. V. Frederick A., born June 23, 1841 ; died March 19, 1842. VI. Joel, born Oct. 27, 1843. VII. Frederick, born Oct. 29, 1845; died Aug. 10, 1846. VIII. Edwin F., born July 27, 1848. Levi Bartlett Holt, son of Jotham H., was born Nov. 9, 1835; married, June 13, 1869, Cecelia Fish of Stockton, California. He went to California when young, and June 12, 1863, was enrolled as sergeant of Capt. Cook's Co. G, Sixth Regiment California Infantry, serving until Oct. 31, 1865, when he was discharged. The following spring he secured employment on the west side of the San Joacjuin river, twenty miles south of Stockton, and later was engaged to tend the ferry near by. In December, 1868, in company with H. Fish, an uncle of his wife, he purchased the ferry. In 1873 he also engaged in farming and stock raising near San Joaquin cit3\ In 1875 he sold his interest in the ferry and devoted his time exclusively to farming, stock raising and buying grain on commission. By energy and industry he soon became a leader in the commission business. In 1886 he rented his farm and moved to Stockton, devoting his time wholly to the grain business. After residing in Stockton a short time he was elected councilman, which office he held for tw^o vears. He died Mav 16, 1889, from concussion 456 HISTORY OF TROY. of the brain, caused by beiii<4' tlirown from his carriage while returning from his farm a few da\'s previously. His sudden death caused widespread sorrow in the community in which he resided. Lkvi Baktlett Holt. Joel Holt was the fourth son of Jotham H. Holt and was born on the "Holt place," on West Hill, Oct. 27, 1843. He attended the district school, and for a time was a private pupil of Dr. Caverly who found him to be an apt scholar. Later he attended Appleton Academy at New Ipswich, from which he graduated in 1864, the valedictorian of his class. Soon after he enlisted in the First New Hampshire Cavalr3% serving in Troop GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 457 G, from August, 1864, until June, 1865. After his dis- charge he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied law with Judge Storer of that city and was admitted to the bar. He soon jifter went to Kansas, his first set- tlement being made at Wathena, Doniphan county, JuiMiE Jdku Holt. whence he migrated to Mitchell, then a new county. He was early chosen to the l)ench, where he served to great acceptance. For two terms of four years each he served as judge of the fifteenth judicial district of Kansas, the second term being held by the unanimous cf^isent of the voters of that district. Afterwards he was 458 HISTORY OF TROY. appointed one of the associate justices of the supreme court of that state, the duties of which arduous and exalted position he discharged with impartiality and singular ability. He was at one time a prominent candidate for Congress in the northwestern section of the state, and although he made a strong fight was defeated. He was a thorough and profound lawyer and a model man, and was a leading citizen in that section of the country, assisting in laying solidly the foundations of lawful government and the institutions of society and religion. In all his public career he was revered as a man above reproach and of great ability. A kind and devoted husband and father and a Christian gentleman, always kind and gentle as a child and pure-minded ; no one who ever associated with him in business affairs or the social circles but felt better for the contact, and greater admiration for the strong but simple character of the man. His home was at Beloit, but he joined the great movement from Kansas to Oklahoma and had established himself at Guthrie, and had attained a fine standing at the bar in his new home when he was stricken down before reaching the prime of life. Although a sufferer for some time from chronic stomach trouble, his death was sudden and unexpected, and occurred at Guthrie, O. T., April 27, 1892. On being congratulated after the delivery of an address on the previous Memorial Day, at his home, he remarked that he was gratified, not on his own account, but because he wanted his wife should hear him in such an address before she died, as Mrs. Holt at that time was not expected to livelong; but we know not the uncertainty of life, for at the next Memorial Day observance his comrades were called upon to decorate his grave. He received the honorary degree of A. M. from Dartmouth College in 1887. He was for a great many years an active and consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church of Beloit. Married, 1870, Kate A. Blanchard, born Oct. 6, 1846; died Aug. 18, 1894. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 459 I. JoEi, S., born Sept. 20, 1871. II. K.\TE M., born April 7, 1873. III. Milton, born Sept. 22, 1875. IV. Alick Wells, born Feb. 28, 1876. V. Anna Hayes, born May 8, 1877. Zalmon Howe came from Holden, Mass., about 1803. About 1837, he removed to Fitzwilliam, where he died Sept. 13, 1855, aged 87 years ; he married Phebe Holt of Holden, who died April 10, 1867, aged 87 years, 9 months. I. AsENATH, born ; married John Simonds of Brattleborongh. II. Nklson, born May 7,1807; married, 1st, Dec. 24, 1831, Eliza, born March 14, 1815; died Jnne 3, 1850, daughter of Caleb and Mary (Whittemore) Sweetser; married, 2d, Dec. 5, 1850, Angeline, daughter of David Piatt of Troy. For many years Mr. Howe, either alone or in connection with his brother, did a large amount of business in manufacturing wooden ware at Howeville, in Fitz- william ; removed to Boston, and later to Maine. III. Sarah, born Aug. 10, 1810; married, April 14, 1831, Thomas Sweetser of Fitzwilliam ; died June 19, 1847. IV. Mary, born ; married Harvey Blanding. v. Martha, born ; married Asa B. Clark. VI. Harriet N., born June 6, 1816; married, June 5, 1809, Gideon G. Willis of Swanzey; died May 12, 1878. VII. Joel, born ; married, March 6, 1844, Nancy, daughter of George Richardson ; died in Keene. Bowman Howe, born Aug. 30, 1814; married, Jan. 1st, 1838, Hannah, born June 25, 1815, daughter of Jacob and Phillis (Sweet Grant) Whitcomb ; she died Dec. 18, 1854, and he married, 2d, Oct. 2, 1855, Cynthia, born Sept. 21, 1825, a sister of his first wife, who died in Troy, Feb. 20, 1890 ; Mr. Howe died Jan. 20, 1877. I. Charles, born Sept. 14, 1838; married, March 1, 1866, Sarah J., daughter of Jason and Sally Knights of Phillipston. II. Isaac Whitcomb, born May 8, 1840; died July 3, 1842. III. Elizabeth, born June 10, 1843; married Henry Handy, June 29, 1865. IV. Orrin Bowman, born Aug. 2, 1847; married, March 17, 1872, Emma, born July 16, 1852, daughter of Amos A. and Catherine (Carter) FHnt of Richmond. Children: 1. Edna, born in Rich- mond, Jan. 2, 1876; 2. Carl E., born in Winchester, Aug. 31, 1878. v. Cora M., born April 20, 1859; died Dec. 6, 1861. VI. Emily S., born Nov. 6, 1861 ; married, July 8, 1896, Walter N. Gay. 460 HISTORY OF TROY. Yii. Ei.itKiDGE, born Jan. 5, 1864-. VIII. HrriKAiM W., 1)orn Sept. 13, 1S67; married, Jnne IS, ISOl, Sadie E., daughter of A. F. Hannaford. Hubbard. George and Mar^' (Bisho])) Htilibard came to America from England about 1733, and first settled in Watertown, Mass. They had John, who married Mary Merriam and lived in Concord, Mass. They had Jonathan, who married Hannah Rice and lived in Concord. They had Thomas, who married Mary Fletcher and lived in Con- cord. They had Nathan, v^ho married Mary Patterson and lived in Groton, Mass. They had Hezekiah, who married Rebecca Hntchinson, and who went from Groton to Rindge, N. H., in 17Sv3. They had Harry, who married, June 8, 1823, Clarissa Fay and lived in Southborough and Shrewsbury, Mass. Appleton Burnham Hubbard, son of Harr^-, married, Sept. 19, 1854, Betsey L., daughter of Howard and Dolly (Bemis) Clark; died vSept. 29, 1802, aged 33 3'ears. I. Charles A., l)orn June 7, 1857. II. Hakkv, l)()rn Oet. 19, 1S59. Charles Appletox Hubbard, son of Appleton B., was born in Troy, June 7, 1857; married, Oct. 15, 1884, Maryanna, daughter of Julius Augustus and Mary Ann (Wood) Stearns of Rindge. He attended the schools of Troy and the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts at Hanover, graduating from the latter in 1877; returned to Troy and was employed as a clerk in the store of E. P. Kimball & Son for about two 3^ears. In 1882 he removed to Boston, Mass., with his mother and brother. Mr. Hubbard was for several years in the accounting department of the Union Pacific Railwa\^ Com])any at its Boston ofiice. He has recently been appointed com])troller of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company with head- quarters in Boston. This railway is about fourteen lumdred and fifty miles in length, located in Utah, GENEALOGICAL RE(USTER. 461 Wyoming, Idaho and Oregon. He resides in Newton, Massachusetts. Harry Api'LETON, born May 5, 1895. Charles A. Hithisard. Harry Hubkard, second son of Appleton Rnrnhani Hub- bard and Betsey Louisa (Clark), was born in Troy, N. H., Oct. 19, 1859. When he was about three years old his father died. He lived in Troy with his mother and brother, Charles A. Hubbard, until the summer of 1882, when they all moved to Boston. As a boy he attended the ]5ublic schools of the town, for several vears under Mrs. L. B. Wright, and afterwards received 462 HISTORY OF TROY. private iiistriiction from her, and later from Franklin Ripley, who had then just graduated from Amherst College. At the age of nineteen (187cS), he entered Harry Hubbard. Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H., and grad- uated from that Academy in 1880 with the highest rank ; and in the fall of that year entered Harvard College, where he remained the full four years and graduated in 1884-, with the highest degree {summa cum laude) and with the highest honors in political science. In the fall of 1884, he entered the Harvard La^v School, where he remained until about Jan. 1,1885, when troul)le with one of his e^^es compelled him to rest from study for several months, after which he GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 463 entered the law office of Gaston & Whitney, Boston (of which firm ex-Governor Gaston was the senior nieml^er), and remained there until the opening of the Harvard Law School in the fall of that year, and continued his course in the school until December, 1885, when the return of the e\^e trouble again compelled him to suspend study. Fearing that this trouble would compel him to abandon the law as a profession, he applied to Charles Francis Adams and obtained a situation in the service of the Union Pacific Railway Company, in May, 1886, and remained with that company in Boston until 1888. During this time and after the eye trouble ceased, he resumed the study of law and was admitted to the Suffolk County Bar, in Boston, Jan. 17, 1888. In August, 1888, he removed to New York city and entered the law office of Dillon & Swayne, where he continued until the dissolution of that firm. In January, 1893, he formed a copartner- ship with ex-Judge John F. Dillon and his son John M. Dillon, under the style of Dillon & Hubbard, and is now practicing law as a member of that firm at No. 195 Broadway, New York city. Resides at No. 45 West 95th street in same city. Member of Madison Avenue Baptist church ; of Bar Association of the city of New York ; of Bar Association of state of New York ; and of Harvard Club, New York city. Married, Oct. 15, 1891, Maria Louise Clancy, daughter of Edward Clancy and Maria Louise (Gilborne). William Galatin Hurlbutt was born in Williamstown, Vt., Sept. 23, 1831; married, Feb. 7, 1860, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and Elvira (Wads worth) Carpenter. Mr. Hurlbutt was for several years, or until May, 1881, station agent at Troy. After that he was at North Ashburnham for a short time, but at ])resent is station agent and postmaster at East Boxford, Mass. I. Alick Maria, born Jan. 2, 1.S62. II. Annik Wadswokth, born Ajjril 17, 1S65; married, Oct. l,s, 1893, Charles C. Read of South (yardiier, Mass. Chikb-eii: 1. Kath- erine Elizabeth Rend, born Sept. IS, 1894; 2. AJicc Gertrude Read, born July 15, 1896. 464 HISTORY OF TROY. III. Charlotte Emzaukth, 1)<)ni Oct. 5, 1878. IV. Bessie Gertrude, l)()ni Aug. 13, liSSO. Hiram W. Hutt was born in Nova Scotia, Dec. 15, lcS61 ; married, March 31, 18S8, Ida M. Snyder, born in Nova Scotia, April 3(3, 1867. Mr. Hutt came to Troy soon after his marriage, and a few years since pur- chased of Mrs. Sarah Brown the phice on the Jaffrey road formerly belonging to Eri J. Spaulding. I. Cora May, liorn June 21, 1892. II. Murray Eugene, lioni Jan. 24, 1S95. Ransom Ingalls, son of Zimri of Richmond, born Oct. 9, 1811; married, 1st, Sept. 30, 1837, Sylphina, born Aug. 18, 1817; died 1844, daughter of Timothy and Nellie (Keith) B. Pickering of Richmond; married, 2d, May 21, 1844, Eliza, born March 22, 1818; died Aug. 15, 1857, daughter of Cyrus and Betsey (Jackson) Fairbanks; married, 3d, Abigail ; died Nov. 3, 1880; he died Dec. 2, 1882. I. Charles F., born June 15, 1838; married, June 8, 1859, Mary E., Ijorn March 21, 1838, daughter of Abijah and Betsej^ (Sweetser) SpofFord of Fitzwilliam ; resides in Hillsborough Bridge, N. H. Children: 1. George Elwell, born in Troy, March 5, 1862; married, Oct. G, 1883, Flora R., born Aug. 23, 1861, in Sullivan, N. H., (hiughter of John S. and Jane E. (Jennings) Currier. One child, Charles Onley, born March 5, 1885. 2. WHliam Henry Spuflord, l)orn in Marlborough, Feb. 15, 1875. n. Alhert E., born 1846; married, Ella Loomis of Win- chcndon. One child, Leon E., born in Troy, Dec. 1, 1874. III. George, born ; died. IV. Sarah, 1)orn 1853; married Herbert Woods. V. AnniE Eliza, born July 12, 1855; married Eugene Woods. Amos H. Ingalls, son of Zimri, was a carpenter and builder; lived in Troy several years; married Polly, daughter of Nicholas Cook. Built the house now owned by Ira G. Starkey, the one owned by George A. Stark ey, where he lived for a time, and also built the residence of Mrs. S]30oner. He died in Gardner in Feb- ruary, 1883. I. Arthur. II. Emma. Isaac Jackson, with wife Ruth and children, among whom were Henry and Isaac, came from Attleborough, Mass., GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 465 in 1778, or before, and settled on land now comprising the farm owned by John Tatro, where they cleared up the land, raising a few potatoes and making maple sugar. He died July 16, 1796. His v^ddow was taxed in Fitzwilliam till 1802. The list of his children as given in the old history is not correct in some of the items. The list given here is as correct as it is possible to make it. There was also recorded in Fitzwilliam, infant of Isaac Jackson, died June 29, 1789; daughter, died Oct. 16, 1793. I. Henry. II. Isaac, married Dea. Godding's sister; went to Walliiifjtbrd, Vt. ill. John, married Lueretia Milliii of Westminster, and settled in Swanzey. IV. Amos, moved to Vermont. V. Samuel. VI. Anna. VII. Sarah. VIII. Bebe, born Dee. 16, 177S; married, 1st, Joel Alellen ; married, 2d, Russell Ballon, son of James and Tamasin (Cook) Ballon of Rich- mond; his 2d wife; he was born July 11, 1763, in Cumberland, R. I.; died in Swanzey, Nov. 10, 1S47. IX. PoELv, born Jan. 16, 1781; married, March 16, 1802, Laban Star- key, son of Peter; died 1844. X. Lucy, married Fisher and settled in Fitzwilliam. Henry Jackson, son of Isaac, was born in Attleborough, and came to Troy with his father and brother Isaac. He married Sally Childs of Alstead, N. H., and settled on West Hill, and afterwards bought of Otis Stark ey the farm known as the Porter White place. They had eleven children, six boys and five girls. The girls all died young. He left Troy in 1833, and went to Berlin, Vt., where he died at the age of 93. The fol- lowing list is not complete and most of the items given are from a letter written by Isaac, son of Henry, when he was 86 years of age. I. Henry, born Oct. 25, 17*J3; married Abigail Bruce; went to Yer- mont ; died in Williamstown. II. Silas Whitcomb, born Aug. 22, 1795; married Isabel Phillips; removed to Berlin, Vt. III. Susannah, born June 13, 1799; married Herman Fisher; died (vSept.?) 1822. IV. Samuel, born June 13, 1799; married Laura Lovell ; died abput 1881. Opened a store in Troy, afterwards removed to Rocking- ham, Vt., and was in trade there for many years and died there. 466 HISTORY OF TROY. V. Sally, Ijorn Dec. 24, 1800. YL Erastus, born ; died in Michii^an. viL Isaac, born 1805; married Mary, daughter of Henry Tolnian. They were itinerant jireaehers and held meetings in Maine, New Hamj)- shire, Vermont and Massachusetts, and tliroughout the Western states for thirty years, but finally returned to Harrison, Maine, where they died at a good old age. YiiL Charles. Jones. Benjamin Jones was born in Ipswich, Mass., Aug. 18, 1751; married, May, 1773, Elizabeth Cleaves, who was born in Beverly, Oct. 20, 1752. After his mar- riage, he settled in Lyndeborough as a physician and gained considerable celebrity in his profession. They had ten children and all but one became professedly pious. The grandfather of Benjamin was born in Wales. Joseph Jones, son of Ben- jamin, married, 1st, Sept. 11, 1811, Ann Richardson, who was born in Billerica, Mass., Aug. 19, 1788; she died in Lyndeborough, May 19, 1827; and he mar- ried, 2d, Mrs. Clarissa Page of Burlington, Vt., daughter of Dr. Isaiah Whitney of Rindge ; she died Feb. 16, 1844; and he married, 3d, Sept. 28, 1844, Sophronia, another daughter of the aforesaid Dr. Whitney, and resided in Lynde- borough one year. He became a citizen of Troy, in April, 1845, residing in the house built by Lucius Bryant, and now owned by H. A. Marshall. Mrs. Sophronia Jones died in Troy, Jan. 10, 1872; Mr. Jones died June 19, 1872, aged 87. Joseph Jonks. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 467 I. John, born Sept. 12, 1812; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1833; studied theology at Andover, and was settled over a Con- gregational church at Chittenden, Vt., but in a few years was dismissed at his own request, after which he was emplo_ved two years by the Home Missionary Society to preach as a missionar3' in Indiana, at the expiration of which time he removed to San- dusky, Ohio, and from thence to Earlville, Illinois. He labored as an evangelist for many years, but finally gave it up and entered the drug business, which he was in at the time of his death, which occurred at Colorado Springs in 1890. II. Joseph, born Sept. 2, 1818; entered the College Institute at Ober- lin, Ohio, but after two years studj' was obliged to leave on account of ill health, and was a commission merchant in Chicago ; was president of the Lackawanna Coal Companv for several years ; died at Chicago in 1884. III. Benj.\min Cleaves, born March 31, 1824; died at Chicago in 1884; was in the hardware business. IV. Clarissa Ann, born Nov. 9, 1828; married, Nov. 8, 1849, William R. Hurlbutt. He was a dry goods merchant in Boston ; died Jan. 22, 1882. Mrs. Hurlbutt resides in Cambridge, Mass. Children : 1. Mary Clara, born in Troy, Oct. 16, 1850; married, Oct. 4, 1878, George Edward Shaw of Dorchester, Mass., who died Nov. 30, 1881; 2. William Scollay, born in Cambridge, Oct. 14, 1854; unmarried. Is a dry goods merchant in Boston. John Jarvis, born in Ireland, Oct. 16, 1840; married, May 16, 1853, Mary Given, born in Ireland, August, 1830. Came from Ireland to Troj^ in 1879, and located on the farm he now occupies. I. Lizzie, born March, 1855; died 1878. II. James, born Nov. 27, 1857; died in Concord, N. H., February, 1887. III. John, Jr., born Jan. 7, 1859. IV. Andrew, born April 9, 1861. v. Joseph, born September, 1864; married, June 2, 1888, Emma L., daughter of Henry S. and Mar\' Brown. Children: 1. Roy Henry, born May 8, 1889; 2. Alice Lillian, born Sept. 21, 1890; 3. Bernice, born Nov. 11, 1894; died Aug. 25, 1895; 4. Theodore Stafford, born Sept. 5, 1896. VI. Arthi'R, born April 13, 1870; died in Troy, Aug. 19, 1882; killed by being run over by cars. VII. Marv, born Feb. 28, 1872. VIII. Annie, born Oct. 24, 1873. Arthur Jarvis, a brother of John, was born in Ireland; married, Dec. 11, 1880, Johanna Enright, born in Ireland, March 17, 1856. He came to Troy al)out the same time as his brother. 468 HISTORY OF TROY. I. Maky E., born in Akron, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1881. II. Letitia, born Nov. 27, 1882. III. Teresa E., born Aug. 29, 1884. IV. Lillian P., born Dec. 28, 1894-. Moses Kenney came from Marlborough, Mass., about the year 1772, and purchased the farm then owned by James Tiffany, where he resided imtil 1778, when he sold to Moses Cutting and moved to Vermont. He had one son. I. John, baptised Oct. 31, 1773. Nathaniel Kendall was born in Providence, R. I., where he resided until he was sixteen years of age, when he removed to Lancaster, Mass. He came here in 1786, and lived in various places. It is said he changed his residence twenty times. I. Nathaniel, born March 2, 1783; married Mar^- Annis; died at Springfield, Mass., August, 1846. II. John, born Dec. 11, 1784; died at sea. III. Rebecca, born Feb. 15, 1786; married Thomas Dival of Lancaster, Mass.; died 1831. IV. Abigail, born Sept. 6, 1787; married Jonathan Martin of Rich- mond ; died 1856. V. Samuel, born Dec. 17, 1788; married Hannah, daughter of Kimber Harvey of Marlborough ; died in Canada, 1829. VI. Thomas, born Dec. 28, 1789; married Onda Tiftany of Northfield. VII. Henry, born April 2, 1795; married Dorotln- Parker; removed to Canada. VIII. Hannah, born March 18, 1796; married Jonathan Martin of Richmond. IX. Nancy, born June 30, 1798; married Hosea Bowen of Richmond. x.' Joseph, born September, 1800. XL Sally, born Dec. 18, 1802; died 1832. ^Timothy Kendall, born Aug. 25, 1782; married, Sept. 26, 1804, Anna, born April 26, 1782; died April 1, 1860, daughter of Levi and Tabitha (Hardy) Brigham ; died Feb. 14, 1851. Mr. Kendall came here about 1815, and in 1819 he built the Stephen B. Farrar house, and resided there until 1831, when he exchanged farms with Stephen Farrar. He reserved several house lots and built the house afterward owned by Earle Clark, and lived there two years. In 1833, he built the house afterwards occupied by A. W. Baker, where GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 469 he lived until 1845, when he returned to Fitzwilliam. Children born, i to iv, in Fitzwilliam, v to ix, in Troy. I. LvMAN, born July 9, 1S05; died May 5, 182S. II. Caroline, born June 22, 1S07; died Nov. 11, 1812. III. Clarissa, born Sept. 29, 1809; died March 15, 1812. IV. TiMOTHv B., born Dec. 14, 1811; died Oct. 2-t, 1812. V. Timothy, born Oct. 9, 1813; married. May 10, 1839, Catherine, daughter of Stephen and Polly (Wright) Wheeler; died Dec. 16, 1855. Children: 1. Charles /?., 1)orn Aug. 15, 1842; 2. Lucy Ann, born Jan. 17, 1844. VI. Carolink, born Jan. 30, 1816; died Aug. 24, 1836. VII. Parkman, born Sept. 13, 1818; died March 24, 18.50. VIII. Charles, born Jan. 10, 1821 ; died Feb. 9, 1837. IX. George, born Oct. 24, 1824; died Sept. 14, 1854. Joseph Kendall, son of Nathaniel, bom September, 1803; married Mary Ann Thurston of Marlborough, and located on the Rhan farm, which had before been occu- pied by his father. He resided there a few years, then moyed to the farm then owned by Col. D. W. Farrar, situated south of the S. B. Farrar place. In 1852, he bought of Mrs. Sarah Haskell, a farm upon which he liyed for several years. Mr. Kendall died March 30, 1877; Mrs. Kendall died Sept. 17, 1886, aged 78. I. John, born Dec. 7, 1827; died June, 1842. II. Rehecca, born Sept. 12, 1829; married, 1st, Hayward Bigelow of Princeton, Mass. ; married, 2d, Leonard Spaulding of Aver, Mass. ; died April, 1892. III. Mary Ann, born Dec. 23, 1831 ; married Moses Cudworth of Rindge; died Nov. 6, 1895. IV. Helen M., born Jan. 7, 1834; married John Hosley of Springfield, Massachusetts. V. Joseph W., born Aug. 4, 1838; married, ; resides in Princeton, Massachusetts. VI. Cornelia J., ])orn Oct. 31, 1840; married, 1st, Frank Colburn; married, 2d, Anderson; died 1883. VII. Lucy A., born March 5, 1843; married Ozro J. Hale, viii. John A., born Aug. 13, 1845; married, Hattie Ward. IX. Caroline E., born Oct. 30, 1848; married Alex PVazer of Nova Scotia. X. Edwin Francis, born Ajiril 20, 1851; married, 1st, ■; married, 2d, Lucy A. Hubbard of Watertown, Mass. XI. EnwiNA Frances, born April 20, 1851; married Horatio Hastings; resides in lilast Temjileton, Mass. 470 HISTORY OF TROY. Edward P. Kimball is the son of Col. Retyre Kimball of Hillsborough, where he was born Feb. 23, 1820. His mother was Mary Bell of Tewksbury, Mass. His father died Dec. 10, 1830, and at the age of eleven years he was left dependent upon himself to earn his living, which he did doing chores and clerking in stores for different persons. Later he became apprenticed to Benjamin F. Grosvenor, a hatter, and came to Troy in 1836, when a little more than sixteen years of age, and worked at hat making and as salesman until 1841, when he went into business for himself in the shop formerly occupied by Grosvenor, which stood near what is now the stable of C. W. Brown's heirs. The following year he commenced the grocery business. In 1844, he opened a livery stable which he carried on in connection with his numerous other enterprises for thirty years or more. In 1848, he bought of David W. Farrar the store which is now occupied by E. P. Kimball & Son, and which was built a few years before by S. G. Whitney. Ten years later he added the tin business which he carried on in the house now o^vned by Troy Blanket Mills and known as the "tinshop house." At one time he had ten pedlars on the road. He conducted this business for a few years when he gave it up. In 1859 he bought out the store of Brown Nurse, which w^as in what is now the tenement part of the Monadnock Hotel, and two years later bought out Thomas Goodall in the D. W. Farrar store. In addition to these he has at different tiines been con- nected with or interested in numerous other enterprises which have been carried on here, the picture frame business, the broom business and the brick business, besides holding various offices and serving as post- master, town clerk, tax collector, auctioneer and deputy sheriff. He was appointed deputy" sheriff in 1844, and was appointed sheriff in 1874, and has held the office of deputy sheriff from his first appointment until the present time except under sheriffs B. Lovell, Geo. W. Holbrook and E. F. Lane and while he was sheriff. In 1870, he bought of Elisha H. Tolman, the farm he GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 471 now owns, w^hich he has improved and brought into a good state of cultivation, devoting his interests in this direction more particularly to dairying. He is a mem- ber of Monadnock Lodge, No. 80, F. & A. M., and was a member of the old Fitz-Trojan lodge of Odd Fellows, which was located in Fitzwilliam from 1849 K;i)\vaki) p. Kimkall. to 1854. In politics he has always been a Democrat. Thus it is seen that for sixty years he has been inti- mately associated with most of the local industries, and his knowledge of the town and the history of its people is interesting and varied. He has always been deeply interested in the welfare and prosperity of the 472 HISTORY OF TROY. town and favorable to all measures that would conduce to its rise and progress, always ready to assist with labor and money in any undertaking promising any advancement. Having been deprived of securing only a meagre education, he has alwa3^s been desirous that others should receive all the advantages possible, and has been interested in the public schools and an advo- cate of all improvements, and was one of the first to take measures for the establishment of a high school Stoke and Rksiiienck ok li. F. Kimuai.i,. department, which flourished for several years under the tuition of Mrs. L. B. Wright. July 9, 1S44-, he married Mary Ann, daughter of Cyrus and Betsey (Jackson) Fairbanks, and in 1853, liought the house in which he now resides. Three sons have been born to them of whom two survive and are engaged in the business of E. P. Kimball & Son. Col. Retyre Kimball was a native of Hillsborough, where he was born Feb. 4-, 1789, and he married, March 28, 1818, Mary Bell of Tewksbury, Mass. He died Dec. 10, 1830, and his widoNV lived with her son, in Troy, until her death, which occurred Oct. 14, 1873. Charles E., l^oni July 10, 1847; married, May 25, 1870, Abbie L., daughter of Daniel and Sophronia (Keith) Farrar, who died Sept. 20, 1893. One child. Bessie A., born Aug. 3, 1872. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 473 II. George Fred, born April 1, 1851; married Aug. 21, 1877, Ella P., daughter of Charles W. and Frances S. (Taylor) Whitney ; died April 25, 1881. Children: 1. Edward Whitney, born Jidy 11, 1878; 2. Mary Frances, born July 28, 1879; died Aug. 19, 1880. III. Warren W., born March 1, 1857. WiNTHROP Knight, son of Joel and Betsey Knight of Sudbury, Mass., born Sept. 9, 1816 ; married, 1st, April 6, 1S43, Lydia, daughter of Isaac and Temperance (Hinck- ley) Fuller, and settled on the place formerly owned by Jabez Butler, and now owned by him. A few years after, he erected, upon the stream near his house, a shop in which he has manufactured sashes, blinds, has a grist mill and has carried on a wheelwright business. He is the youngest son in a family of fourteen children, eight sons and six daughters, w^hich included three pairs of twins. Mrs. Knight died Nov. 12, 1866, and he married, 2d, July 21, 1867, Mrs. Betsey Starkey, widow of Bailey Starkey. I. Daughter, died in infancy. II. Son, died yoinig. III. Arthur Pearl, born Sept. 1, 1858; married Sept. 8, 1880, Ella M., born in Charlestown, Mass., Dec. 17, 1858, daughter of Moses E. and Ellen M.. (Parker) Wright. Resides in Marlborough. Child- ren: 1. Edwin Winthroj), born Oct. 13, 1881; died Sept. 23, 1882; 2. Ralph Lewis, born June 27, 1890; 3. Mildred Alice, born Dec. 6, 1895. Thomas J. Lahiff was born in County Clare, Ireland, Aug. 21, 1834; married, Feb. 17, 1863, Bridget Mac- namara, who was born in County Clare. He became a citizen of Troy in 1888, coming from Nelson, and settled at the North end on the place he purchased of E. S. Foster. I. Henry T., born in Keene, Jan. 23, 1864; died July 1, 1865. II. Margaret, born in Keene, Dec. 2-1, 1865; married, Nov. 13, 1889, James McGinness of Hillsborough. III. Honora, born in Keene, Dec. 1, 1867; died Oct. 19, 1882. IV. John, born in Keene, Jan. 8, 1870. V. Bridget, born in Nelson, May 9, 1872. VI. Mary, born in Nelson, April 18, 1873; died May 16, 1875. VII. Thomas M., born in Nelson, Jul\' 25, 1875. John F. Lang, born in Germany, March 29, 1818; married, 1st, Christine Young; married, 2d, 1836, Minnie Fetler, 474 HISTORY OF TROY. born Nov. 29, 1814. He came to Troy in 1859, and worked in the iDlanket mills for several years, but pur- chased the Cutting place in 1873, where he has since resided. I. Paulina, born 1840; married, 1st, Buckwold ; married, 2d, Josiab Ruffle. II. Gottlieb, born 1842. HI. Augusta, born 1847; married D. Alden Starkey. IV. Charles, born 1854. V. John, born 1856. Louis LaPoint, born June 1, 1847; married, March, 1867, Julia Freeman, born Nov. 21, 1846. I. Mary Alice (Eliza), Ijorii June S, 1870. II. Emily, born Dec. 21, 1874. III. Ered, born July 16, 1876. IV. Arthur, born Oct. 1, 1877. V. Cecelia, born Dee. 8, 1880. VI. Josephine, Ijorn Feb. 17, 1882. VII. Emma, Ijorn Feb. 10, 1885. viii. Walter, I)orn May 17, 1888. IX. Theodore, born June 7, 1894. Lawrence. George Lawrence, an early settler of Watertown, Mass., born 1637; married, 1st, Sept. 29, 1657, Elizabeth Crisp, who died May 28, 1681; and he married, 2d, Aug. 16, 1691. Elizabeth Holland; he died March 21, 1708-9. His son Cxcorge, born June 4, 1688; married Mary , and died March 5, 1735-36. William, son of George, born March 20, 1711 ; married, Nov. 28, 1734, Mary Perry, and settled in Weston, Mass. Daniel Lawrence, son of William and Mary (Perry) Lawrence, born in Weston, Mass., Sept. 29, 1747; married Elizabeth Graves of Sudbury, their "marriage intention" being published Dec. 5, 1772. He died July 13, 1832; his widow died Oct. 29, 1840, aged 101. I. Polly, born 1774; married Hugh Thompson; died in Maine. II. Betsey, born 1777; married, Get. 7, 1800, George Starkey of Swanzey; died Sept. 13. 1813. III. Daniel, born 1779; married. Nov. 25, 1802, Lucy Moore; removed to Alljany, N. Y. IV. Lucy, born 1781; married, July 29, 1802. Cyrus Coolidge. V. John, born Feb. 2, 1784. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 475 '■*«*i»* John Lawrence, son of Daniel, born Fe1). 2, married, 1st, March 4, 1806, Irena, daughter of Newell, Jr., and settled on the home farm. Mrs. Lawrence died 18 49, and he married, 2d, Mrs. Eliza Hayden,who died Aug. 18, 1868; he died Jan. 16, 1864. I. Louis.\, liorn 1806; died at an early age. II. Anna, born 18()7; removed to .'\ttleborough, Mass. III. Cl.\kiss.\, born 1809; died aged 18 months. IV. Ikkn.\, l)orn 1810; died 18-1.2. V. Simon, born 1812; marrierl Eliza Buffnm ; removed to Fitch bnrg. VI. Betskv, born 181-1; married A. B. Harrington. VII. John, born 181 G; married Adaline Goodenow of Win- chendon. VIII. HorcHToN, born 1818; mar- ried, Feb. 2, 1868, Mrs. Betsey L. Hnbbard ; died April 10, 1884. IX. Cynthia, born 1820; died 1840. X. Sarah, born 1822; died 1849. Hakvey, born 1823; removed to Illinois. Almira, born 1826; removed to Illinois. 1784; Jacob John Lawrence. XI. XII. Jonathan Lawrence, a brother of Daniel, born Feb. 1, 1750; married, 1773, Lucy Moore of Sudbury, Mass. I. Jonathan. II. SaMI'EI.. III. CvKi'S, died in Massaehnsetts. IV. LrcY, removed to Vermont. V. Isaac, removed to Vermont ; married Polly Lebourvean of Kcene. VI. William. VII. Auk; AIL, married Newton. VIII. Sarah L., born June 4, 1787; married Daniel Cutting; died \\n-\\ 30, 1847. IX. Eunice, removed to Vermont. X. Betsey, married Kiee. 476 HISTORY OF TROY. Jonathan Lawrence, son of Jonathan, married, 1798, Dorothy, born Aug. 26, 1774; died Feb. 21, 1860, daughter of Moses Cutting. He lived some years on the Forbes place in the south part of Marlborough. About 1804, he purchased of Hugh Thompson the farm afterwards owned by Sidney A. Butler, where he lived till near the close of his life, when he went to live with his brother William. He died October, 1841. I. Alfred, born June 2, 1799; died A]M-il, 1S48. II. Belinda, born July 12, lcS02; married James Dowiiiii.ij of Dedliani, Mass.; died Nov. 25, 1.S73. Children: \. James Lafayette Down- ing; 1)orn Oet. 2, 1.S24-; died April 13, 1826; 2. Marietta Ange- line Downing-, l)orn April 22, 1841; died An"-. 14, 1842; 3. Be- linda L. Downing, 1)orn Feb. 25, 1826; died Dee. 1. 1873; 4. Alfretl Downing; born .Vjiril 29, 1829; ~^. Jolin II. Downing; born Dec. 7, 1838. lu. SoPHRONL\, I)orn Jan. 29, 1804; died Dee. 8, 1885; unmarried. IV. HoKATio, born May 11, 1807; married Mary, danjihter of Reuben and Polly (Wheeler) Newell; died in Londonderry, Vt., Dec. 8, 1898; Mrs. Lawrence died July 31, 1897. Children: 1. Mary Jane, born Nov. 28, 1839; 2. Eliza Ann, born May 29, 1841; married Horace Hay ward ; Children: Lizzie L. Hay ward, born Jan. 14, 1863; married Charles W. Whitney, Jr.; Charles Hay- ward, l)orn July 10, 1865; Gertrude Hayward. born Fel). 25, 1877; 3. Horatio L., Jr., born June 16, 1844. V. Austin, l)orn Dec. 25, 1809; died in Arkansas, Janu.-iry, 1877. Had four children, John, Milton, Mollie, George. VI. DoKOTHV, born Nov. 26, 1812; married Easman Alexander; died Aug. 19, 1890. vn. (iREGORV, born Feb. 23, 1816. Samuel Lawrence, son of Jonathan, married Anna Pratt, and lived a few years in Royalston, Mass. He came here in 1807. Was drowned in the Branch in the winter of 1810. His widow married Aaron Willard, March 11, 1813. She was born in Royalston, March 3, 1777, and died Aug. 21, 1871. I. William, born Feb. 23, 1800; married Sarah E. Hiscock; died Jan. 8, 1852. II. Almon, l)()rn 1802; married, 1st, Eliza Lawrence, who died 1835; and he married, 2d, Mary Ramfield ; removed to Cambridoe, Massachusetts. III. Danforth, born 1804; married Mary Newman ; settled in Medford. IV. loNAS, born 1806; married Lvdia Coburn ; settled in Hillsborough. GENEALOGICAL RE(USTER. 477 Gregory Lawrence, son of Jonatlian, Jr., born Fcl). 23, 1816; married. June 15, 184-5, K^mily, datighter of Lemuel Brown, and located on the Silas Wheeler farm. Gregory Lawrhnce. He has been a ver\' industrious man, a successful farmer, and a person who has attended strictly to his own business. Alfrku (i., ])<)ni A])ril 24, 1S41); married, March 1+, 1.S72, Sarah F., daughter of Kt-uhcii and Mehnda (Lane) Morse, wlio died Aug. 3, 1878. One child, Frank G., 1)orn April 28, 1877. Harrikt Kosi-;, horn April (5, ISf)."); married Carlos M. Barnard. 478 HISTORY OF TROY. WlI.I.IAM U.WVKKNCK. William Lawrence, son of Jonathan, married, 1st, Nov. 15, 1804, Patty, daughter of Joseph Haskell, and settled on the homestead. Mrs. Haskell died Jan. 5, 1840, and he married, 2d, April 5, 1842, Mrs. Temperance Fuller. He lived on the homestead until about 1856, when he moved with his son, "^^i^iL?^ «r^ '^? \ Joseph E., to the place purchased of A. B. Gates. He died Nov. 25, 1861. I. Calvin, born A])ril 10, ISO.^); married, Nov. .S, l.s;5S, Mary Ann, daui^hter of Simeon Merrifield ; (Hed Nov. 22, 1866. Mrs. Law- rence died Septemljer, 1S92. Children: 1. Frederick A., born 1841 ; married Jane Fisk; died Jan. 25, 1863. One child, Mary R., born Feb. 14, 1S61; 2. Helen, married Henry C. Allen ; 3. Louise, married Asa B. Fisk. II. Mary, born Aug. 14, 1806; married, 1st, E. Perkins, who died; married, 2d, Asa Boyden of Rhode Island; died June, 1873. III. Joseph, born Dec. 22, 1809; died Dec. 25, 1820. IV. Fanny, born Sept. 25, 1812; married Jonas Bemis; died Aiiril 26, 1869. v. William H., born Sept. 29, 1815; died Jan. 10, 1817. VI. William, born July 15, 1817. VII. Li'KK, Ixn-n July 2, 1819; married Mary Boyden; died at Ports- mouth, R. I., Jan. 17, 1890. VIII. Martha Ann, born Nov. 24, 1829; married Benjamin F. Forristall ; died Oct. 8, 1890. IX. Joseph E., born Dec. 9, 1829; married, Nov. 12, 1851, Harriet E., daughter of Isaac and Temperance (Hinckley) Fuller. One child, Harriet Era, born Sept. 18, 1865; married Charles W. Corey. X. 7\lfrei), born Jan. 24, 1834; married Caroline M. Streeter; died June 19, 1864. One child, Nellie, bom July 21, 1859. Christopher F. Lawson, born in Denmark, Jan. 10, 1836; married, 1st, Adaliza F'ox. Mrs. Lawson died and he GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 479 married, 2d, November 15, 1874, Mrs. Caroline A. Sutton. I. James Alfred. II. Ch.^kles E., born Nov. 27, 1S65; died April S, 1S(>7. III. Benj.\min F., born Jan. 5, lcS69. IV. LoRA Elsie, born Oct. 28, 1875. V. John Herrick, born Oct. 24, 1878. Lowe. David Lowe was born in Lnnenl)urg, Mass., July 17, 1785, and died in Amherst. N. H., Jan. 9, 1867. His wife was Betsey Damon, born in Lancaster, Mass., Sept. 11, 1789, and died in Amherst, Nov. 24, 1881. He settled in Fitzwilliam, on the place now owned b}^ Ethan Blodgett, in 1821, where he lived for about seventeen years, when he sold out and removed to Amherst. Previous to this he lived in Fitchburg, where five of his seven chil- dren were born. 1. George, born Feb. 7, 1812; 2. Abi- gail Sweetzer, born July 20, 1814, who married Luke C. Clark; 3. David P.; 4. Cyrus, born Oct. 18, 1818; 5. Sumner, born April 21, 1821; died June 15, 1821; 6. Newton, born Aug. 21, 1823; 7. Mar}^ Elizabeth, born Feb. 13, 1826. David Perkins Lowe, the second son of David, was born March 31, 1816; married, 1st, Oct. 12, 1843, Lucy Ann Damon of Amherst, N. H., who was born June 1, 1818, and died June 14, 1853; married, 2d, June 14, 1855, Susan Upham of Amherst, born April 14, 1832. He died July 20, 1894. Mr. Lowe was a carpenter by trade and followed the business previous to coming here. He came to Troy, in April, 1861, and located on the Levi Whittemore place which he had previously purchased of Luke C. Clark. He tore down the house then on the premises and erected the present house. I. William P., Ijorn May 25, 1845. II. Alphonso D., born Sept. 3, 1849; died Aug. 22, 1850. III. Amhkv Delia, born Aug. 21, 1857. IV. Da VII) Brainard, Ijorn April 16, 1861 ; married, April 9, 1890, Flor- ence Belle Burnham of Roxbury, Mass., born Sept. 5, 1864. One child, Florence Crystal Brnhiard, born May 27, 1891 ; resides in Somerville, Mass. 480 HISTORY OF TROY. V. JASi'KU, Ijoni March 20, 1869; died same day VI. SrsAX Patline, born Feb. 21, 1S78. 1 lET: .^ David P. LowK. George F. Maduox was born in Ellsworth, Me., June 4-, 1858; married, Oct. 13, 18S8, Ida E., daughter of Oliver W., and Hannah (Harris) Smith, born Dec. 17, 1869. I. Lessie Ida, born July 23, 1889. II. Ethel Augusta, born Fel). 3, 1891. III. Rena Florence, born July 12, 1892. IV. Carl Fulton, born June 30, 1894. V. Bertha Laura, born Aug. 4, 1895; died Sej)!.. K), 1895. Andrew S. Mahon, born in Mt. Holly, Vt., Feb. 14, 1853; married, Oct. 31, 1876, Flora C. Pratt; died June 17, 1892. I. Jessie E., born Jan. 10, 1879. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 481 Henry C. Mahon, born in Mt. Holly, Vt., March 28, 1855 ; married, June 24, 1882, Myra L. Hale of Win- chendon, Mass., born Nov. 2, 1861. I. Myrtina Elizaheth, born May 8, 1883. II. Grace Rebecca, born Jan. 7, 1892. Elias Mann, son of Theodore, married, Jan. 1, 1811, Bet- sey, daughter of Joseph and Parna (Temple) Butler, and although he frequently changed locations, spent a large portion of his life in Troy. He died in Jafifrey, March 11, 1858. I. Lauren A., born July 15, 1813; died aged 8 months. II. Elias W., born Oct. 15, 1815; died Oct. 20, 1829. III. Edward, born Feb. 16, 1817; died Oct. 15, 1819. IV. Lauren, 2d, born Jan. 15, 1819; died P'eb. 5, 1819. V. Edwin, Ijorn Sept. 20, 1821; died April 29, 1856. VI. .\lmon, born Sept. 15, 1823. VII. Eliza, born July 15, 1825; died June 27, 1826. VIII. L. Jason, born July 1, 1827; died Jan. 1, 1831. IX. John W., born Dec. 8, 1830. William C. Mason, son of Clark, born Dec. 8, 1817; married, Oct. 19, 1841, Susan W., daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Warren) Page. He became a citizen of Troy in August, 1854, and resided here until 1865, when he returned to Marlborough. He descended from Nehemiah Mason, who was born in Watertown, Mass., June 14, 1721, and married, 1st, Elizabeth Stone, in 1754, who died April 24, 1755; married, 2d, Martha Clark in 1756. They had born to them. Dee. 23, 1758, a son, Hugh, who became a soldier in the Revolu- tionary war, after which he married Elizabeth Clark, and settled in Watertown, where he resided till 1794, when he moved to Marlborough. His wife, Elizabeth, died Feb. 26, 1819, and he married, 2d, Jan. 19, 1820, Lydia Moore, and lived in Marlborough, until his death, Aug. 25, 1838. Clark Mason, son of Hugh, was born April 16, 1794; married Eunice Adams, Jan. 1, 1817, and moved to Richland, Oswego County, N. Y., where their son was born. Mr. Mason died ; his widow died . I. Warren W., born Julv 5,1845; married Ella Parks of Winchendon. 482 HISTORY OF TROY. Ora C. Mason, son of Amos A., born in Marlborough, Jinie 13, 18G0; married, Sept. 30, 1880, Carrie Louisa, born March 15, 1850, daughter of George and EHza- beth V. (Hartshorn) Lovering. Children born, i and in, in Marlborough, ii, in Northfield, Mass., iv, in Troy. I. Hakry Wilbur, l^orn Au,<>. 10, 1881. II. Charles Richard, born Feb. 23, 1883. in. Clifford Lovering, Ijorn July 30, 1885. IV. Carl Adams, born Aug. 30, 1891. Samuel A. Mason, son of Amos A., born Feb. 6, 1856; married, Aug. 25, 1884, Myra S. Howe of Dublin. L Elwin H., born Oct. 26, 1886. II. Inez E., born May 23, 1889. III. Lucy A., born May 6, 1893. Warren C. Mason, son of Elijah W., born in Dublin, Jan. 17, 1851; married in 1872, Azubah M. Whitney of Keene. He is at present time assistant superintendent of the Troy Blanket Mills. I. Waldo J., born March 25, 1877; died Nov. 19, 1877. II. Edith M., born Nov. 7, 1878; died May 6, 1879. III. Edith, adopted daughter. George W. Mason, born in Albany, N. Y.,'Oet. 26, 1852; married, July 14, 1879, Lizzie M. Howard of Gilsum, born June 7, 1857. I. IxA Mabel, born Nov. 3, 1882. II. Mary, born Sept. 2, 1884; died Dec. 27, 1892. III. Lee Howard, born .\pril 22, 1890. William Marshall, was the son of William and Anna (Harrington) Marshall; married, Sept. 23, 1834, Louisa, daughter of Isaac Aldrich, and located on the premises before occupied by his father, now known as the "Marshall house." He was a shoemaker and worked at his trade in the shop now owned b\^ Mrs. Sarah E. Capron, until his death, April 11, 1855. I. Emeline Louisa, born June 19, 1837; married Milton Putney. II. Abby' Ann, born March 29, 1840; married Lyman Putney. Herbert A. Marshall, son of Addison A., born in Fitz- william. May 12, 1856; married, Jan. 13, 1880, Edna M., born Aug. 28, 1860, daughter of James and Mary J. (Lebourveau) Holman. I. Orrie Louise, born Aug. 31, 1890. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 483 Simeon Merrifield, came from Newfane, Vt., settled in Fitzwilliam, about 1811. He was born Aug. 21, 1783, and died Nov. 9, 1869, in New Salem, Mass., where he was living \vith a daughter; married, 1st, Maria Con- nor, who died, and he married, 2d, Lois, born Sept. 26, 1787; died Sept. 29, 1859, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Haven) Stone. Children, i, by 1st mar- riage ; II to XIII, by 2d marriage ; all by 2d marriage born in Fitzwilliam. I. James Allen, died in Jaffrey, Nov. 17, 1886. II. Maria F., baptized Ma_Y 24, 1812; married, 1st, March 29, 1845, Benjamin F. Merrill; married, 2d, Lewis Wyman; died May, 1897. III. WiLLAKD, baptized Sept. 5, 1813. IV. Elizabeth, baptized April 9, 1815; married William Parkhurst; resides in New Salem, Mass. V. SuiiMiT, baptized April 20, 1817; died about 1870; married, 1st, Solomon Tupper; married, 2d, B. Quimby; married, 3d, Reuben Gibson. VI. Mary Ann, baptized Oct. 11, 1818; maiTied Calvin Lawrence. VII. AmoAiL Stone, born May 3, 1821 ; married, Ma}' 3, 1840, Amos Wallingford ; died Feb. 12, 1885. VIII. Lois Haven, born Aug. 17, 1822; married Erastus Tupper; died Aug-. 21, 1887. IX. Simeon, born March 29, 1825. X. Levi, born Dec. 28, 1826. XI. Anstriss, born Oct. 8, 1832; died March 2, 1886, unmarried. XII. Sarah S., born April 3, 1833; married, Sept. 17, 1850, Emerson E. Bissell ; resides in Keene. xui. SoiMiRONiA, liorn April 3, 1833, twin, died in infanc3\ Simeon Merrifield, son of Simeon, born March 29, 1825; married, 1st, April 1, 1850, Susannah, daughter of Elijah and Lucy (Btitler) Bemis. She died Oct. 1, 1853, and he married, 2d, April 4, 1855, Nancy M., daughter of Erastus and Mehitable Tupper. Children born, I, in Fitzwilliam, by 1st marriage; ii to x, in Troy, by 2d marriage. Mrs. Merrifield died May 17, 1882. I. Francis, born May 2, 1851; died Ajiril 16, 1853. II. Susannah, born May 2, 1856; died Oct. 20, 1876. III. Walter S., born Nov. 2, 1857; died March 24, 1881. IV. Ella, born vSept. 2, 1859; died Dec. 13, 1877. V. Etta J, born Jan. 18, 1862; married, July 1, 1890, Herbert C. Moulton, born October, LS62, in Pawtucket, R. L One child, Walter Simeon Moulton, born in Keene, April 21, 1891. 484 HISTORY OF TROY. VI. Ida L., born Aug. S, 1866; died Oct. 28, 1876. VII. Rosa M., Ijorn Dec. 9, 1870; died March 28, 1886. VIII. Lulu A., born June 16, 1874; married Henry J. Brown; died May 22, 1895. IX. Lena S., born Sept. 17, 1876. X. Annie, born Sept. 6, 1878; died Jan. 4, 1879. Levi Merrifield, son of Simeon, born Dec. 28, 1826 ; married, 1st, Oct. 10, 1848, Sarah S., daughter of Easman and Lucy (Garfield) Alexander. She died March 4, 1863, and he married, 2d, Feb. 3, 1864, Caroline L., daughter of Joseph and Prudence (Bowen) Alexander. Children born, i, in Fitzwilliam, ii to vi, in Troy. I. Charles C, born June 19, 1852; married Belle Gibson, died Aug. 29, 1877. II. Flora E., born April 6, 1858. III. Elmer U., born July 21, 1867. IV. Elwin D., born Oct. 6. 1868. V. K.A.TIE E., born April 18, 1872. VI. Effie L., born Sept. 28, 1874. Leonard H. Merrifield, son of Horace, was born in Rich- mond, Oct. 12, 1856; married, July 24, 1876, Mary A. Coulter, born in Leominster, Jan. 27, 1860. I. James, born Dec. 21, 1877. II. Clara L., born July 24, 1880. III. Anna Maria, born June 16, 1882. IV. Mary Jane, born A])ril 7, 1884. V. Alice Elizabeth, born Dec. 17, 1885. VI. Lena Delia, born May 23, 1889. VII. Laura Dylla, (twin), born May 23, 1889. VIII. Ellen Frances, born Jan. 12, 1893. IX. Bessie Elmira, born Oct. 8, 1894. X. Eva LvniA, born March 15, 1897. Luke Miller, born in Peterborough; married Abby Ann Lovell. I. Luke. II. AnnY Jane. Reuben Morse, son of Reuben and Betsey (Ha3'\vard) Morse, was born in Sullivan, March 23, 1805. His great-grandfather, Thomas Morse, was born in Sher- born, Dec. 5, 1709; married Mary Treadway of Fram- ingham. He moved to Dublin about 1762, and was GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 485 the first permanent settler in that town. Reuben Morse married and settled in Stillivan. His \vife died and he married, 2d, Nov. 24, 1840, Melinda A., born Dec. 16, 1815, daughter of Capt. John and Marj^ (Livingstone) Lane, and after residing a short time in Sullivan, removed to Marlborough, and later came to Troy. He died March 18, 1881; his widow still resides in Troy. I. Rose U., 1)orn Sept. 9, IS-t'J; married, April 29, 1869, Ira W. Ellis. Children: 1. Leslie E. Ellis, l)orn Sept. 24-, 1S72; 2. Etlitli M. Ellis, born July 7, 1874. II. Ellen M., born Jan. IS, 1845; married George N. Parmenter. III. Mary L., born April 17, 1847; married, March 29, 1872, Charles P. Ellis. One child, Georj^e S. Ellis, born December, 1873. IV. Sarah P., born Ma_v 13, 1849; married Alfred G. Lawi'ence ; died Aug. 3, 1878. V. George R., born Dec. 31, 1851 ; killed l)v the accidental discharge of a gun, April 6, 1863. Samuel Mortimer, born in England, June 13, 1827; married, 1847, Harriet Dallimore, born Sept. 6, 1822. Came to America in 1872, and became a resident of Troy the following 3'ear, purchasing a lot of land of Calvin Allen, and 1)uilding the house now owned by his son, near the residence of E. F. Adams. I. Ellen, born April 8, 1848; married Stephen P. Silcox. II. Prank, born Jan. 14, 1850. III. Lois, born Dec. 14, 1851 ; married John Frances ; resides in England. IV. Eunice, born Nov. 21, 1855. V. Lydia, born Juh^ 13, 1859. VI. Leah, born Dec. 15, 1860; married, March 25, 1891, John Butler. One child. Hazel Butler, born in Winchendon, Dec. 29, 1891. VII. Roland, born Sept. 11, 1SG2; died March 16, 1863. Frank Mortimer, son of Samuel, born Jan. 14, 1850; married, 1st, July 13, 1879, Lizzie H. Sargent of Marl- borough, who died Sept. 14, 1879; married, 2d, July 5, 1882, Elizabeth Armitage, who died March 30, 1890. I. Lois, born June 4, 1883. Jacob Ne;well, came from Attleborough, Mass., about 1769, and located here. He married Hepzibeth Hart of Lynn, Mass., by whom he had six children. I. Jacoh. II. Pearson ; died in the armv. 486 HISTORV OF TROY. III. James; removed to Vermont. IV. Rkuhen. V. Sarah; married Boyee; removed to the West. VI. Hepzibeth; died in Troy. Jacob Newell, eldest son of Jacob, married, Jan. 17, 1782, Anna Finney of Richmond. Settled in Penns3'l- vania, where he died. Children all born in Marl- borough. I. Nathan, born Nov. 4, 1783; married Adelia Whiteomb. II. Pearson, born June 29, 1785. III. Irena, born Aug. 28, 1786; married, Mareh 4, 180G, John Law- renee; died 1849. IV. Martha, born Aug. 18, 17S8. v. Prudence, liorn July 29, 1790; married Ehjah Harrington; died June 3, 1827. VI. Hoeton. Reuben Newell, son of Jacob, married, 1804, Polly, daughter of Nathan Wheeler. He died in Troy, Ma^' 30, 1847. I. Stieeman, l)orn Mareh 7, 180G: married Luey Clark; lived in Northbridge. II. Miranda, born 1807; married, Feb. 18, 1841, Sampson Wheeler; died . III. Pearson, born 1808; perished with eold on board the sehooner "Hudson" in returning from New York in 1832. IV. Harlow, born 1810; married Mar}- E. Simmons; removed to Wisconsin, v. Mary, born 1811; married Horatio Lawrence; died July 31, 1897. VI. Eliza, born 1817; mai-ried William Whitman of TroA', N. Y. VII. Sarah, born 1822; married Sumner Taylor of Richmond. Nathan Newell, son of Jacol) Newell, Jr., born Nov. 4, 1783; married Adelia, daughter of Nathan Wheeler. He resided for some time in the Warren store, but about 1815, built part of the house that was after- wards owned by E. P. Kimball. He was a blacksmith and worked in a shop which stood near where the stable of C. W. Brown's heirs now stands. In 1818, he sold his house to William Stearns and moved into the house then owned by Solomon Goddard, where he resided about one year, then moved to Richmond. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 487 Dana Newton. I. Amos, married Sarah Lai-kin; lived in Richmond. II. Anna F., married Aaron Wheeler of Richmond. III. Finney, married Emily Harris; removed to the West. Luther Newton, a son of Seth Newton of Soiith- borongh, Mass., married Miriam, d aughter of Ezra Newton of South- borough, and came to Marlborough in 1788. He resided for a short time on the farm now owned Ijv the Rufus S. Frost heirs. He pur- chased land and erected a log house near what has since l^een known as the "Newton meadow." He soon after purchased another lot of land, where he began to clear the forest, and built a house which is the one now known as the George Thatcher place, into which he moved in 1797. He died Nov. 19, 1829; his widow died Sept. 22, 1852. They had five children. His grandmother lived to be 106, and his great-grandmother, 112 years of age. I. Artemas, born Jnne 18, 1785. II. Catherine, born Oct. 10, 1786; married Luke Blodgett. III. Calvin, born Feb. 1, 1791. IV. Dana, born Jime 17, 1795; died at Freeport, Ills., Sept. 20, 1875. It is said that he resembled his father somewhat in looks, and his portrait is here presented for this reason, as there is no por- trait of Luther Newton in existence. V. Nancy, born Feb. 16, 1801 ; died in Troy, July 7, 1887. Calvin Newton was born Feb. 1, 1791; married, 1st, Sally, daughter of Reuben Newton of Southborough, Mass.; she died May 25, 1S32, and he married, 2d, Feb. 24, 1833, Lucrctia Le1)ourveau of Keene, who died July 25, 1840; married, 3d, April 6, 1841, vSally Elmina, daughter of Benjamin and Phebe (Norcross) 488 HISTORY OF TROY. I. Emily. 11. Maktin L. III. John C. IV. Cn.\KLKS. V. Emily E. Mason of Dublin; she died March 24, 1843, and he married, 4th, Oct. 1, 1844, Sally Hart of Hancock, who died March 28, 1849; married, 5th, May 13, 1857, Sabra Worster of Swanzey. She died Oct. 16, 1871, and hesoldhis place in Swanzey, where he had resided for four- teen years, and came to Troy to live with his son. He died Dec. 16, 1873. He had five child- ren, two by his first marriage, two by his second marriage, and one by his third mar- riase. Thev were : C.\LVLN NEWTOX. Martin L. Newton was the son of Calvin and Sally New- ton of Marlborough, where he was born July 21, 1820, where he lived until he came to Troy. His grandfather, Luther Newton, was an early settler, coming to Marl- borough, in 1788, and building a log house, settled on what afterward became known as the Newton place. He was a man of great physical endurance, and possess- ing a good mind, acted a conspicuous j^art in the settle- ment of the town. In selecting land for his farm he manifested wise judgment, it being rich in soil and afterwards became famous for its ])roductiveness. A conspicuous landmark is now on the place, it being an elm tree which stands over the house, and which he brought some distance on his shoulder and set out. His son Calvin, the father of Martin, was a man of much ability and dignity of character. He was for many years one of the foremost citizens of the town, respected for his general knowledge and sound judgment. Kksidexce IIP II. C. Xe\vt(jn and Formek Residence of THE Late M. L. Newton. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 489 and his farm became a model one for the times. He enjoyed the good opinion of his townsmen as an honest and enterprising- man. The son, Martin L., Martin L. Nkwton. inherited the old homestead and worked hard to im])rove its condition, and resided there until 1869. He came to Troy, in 1870, purchasing of Ira G. Starkey the place where he afterwards resided. He was much like his father in looks and methods, being straightforward, open-hearted and industrious, attending strictly to his own business. He was con- sidered a square man in his dealings and paid his honest debts, his financial motto being " Pay as vou 62 490 HISTORY OF TROY. J go." He was just what he seemed, despising hypocris^^ and false pretense. While he believed in having the comforts and necessaries of life as much as possible, he ,jT. -„. -«s.^. Hiram C. Newton. v^as opposed to extravagance, and it troul3led him to see others living beyond their means for the purpose of making a show^ before the world. He worked upon the principle of "doing unto others as you would have others do unto you," and it is believed his record will bear no testimony of dishonesty, extravagance, duplicity or unkindness to friends or neighbors. He married, 1st, Feb. 14, 1845, Mary Ann Crombie of Hancock, and settled on the home farm in Marlborough, where GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 491 he lived until 1870, when he came to Troy. Mrs. Newton died April 12, 1847, and he married, 2d, May 14, 1848, Sarah M., daughter of Richard and Sally Strong of Dublin, born Nov. 19, 1823; he died Dec. 26, 1895. I. HiKAM C, born Dec. S, 1845; unmarried. Is pnl^lisher of a monthb' literary paper, the "Home Companion," which he started in April, 1872, and is a dealer in periodicals and 3'ankee notions. II. Jennie, born Sept. 3, 1855; married, Jan. 17, 1883, Fred C. Gow- ing of Dnljlin. Children: 1. Alice Mary Gowing, born Nov. 28, 1884.; 2. Henry Newton Gowing, born Oct. 17, 1886; 3. Albert Charles Gowing, born Jvme 2, 1889. III. ()k.\ \V., l)orn Jnl}- 22, 1857; married, Feb. 5, 1878, Lonie E. Leaden of East Berkshire, Vt. Died May 20, 1893. Children: 1. Warren Orel, born Nov. 22, 1879; 2. Walter Mnrtin, born 1881; 3. Lnvern Eva, born May 26, 1889. Joseph Nurse, born Jan. 26, 1724; married, Feb. 27, 1746, Sarah Walkup. It is not definitely known when they first came here, but as early as 1776, and perhaps earlier. The history of Fitzwilliam says that Mr. and Mrs. Nurse were recommended by the church in Framingham, April 21, 1776, and received by the church in Fitzwilliam, July 14, 1776. Mr. Nurse died Feb. 8, 1812, and Mrs. Nurse died Aug. 27, 1784. They had ten children, i to vi, recorded in Hop- kinton, Mass., vii to ix, baptized in Framingham, x, added from the old history. Sarah, Molly and Bath- sheba appear to have married and settled in Massa- chusetts before the remainder of the family came here. I. Sarah, born Fel). 11, 1747. II. MouLV, born Sept. 15, 1749. III. Jonathan, born Feb. 9, 1751; married Thankful . He left town about 1790. The old history says in one ])lacc, "moved to Ohio," in another, ".settled in Pntnev." Had children born and recorded in Fitzwilliam. Children: 1. Nahby, born July 15, 1782; 2. David, born Nov. 16, 1784; 3. Jonathan, liorn March 10, 1787; 4. Stephen, born Aug. 4, 1789. IV. Bathshkha, born Nov. 9, 1752. v. JosHiMi, born Jnne 13, 1755; married, Feb. 24, 1785, Mary Hrnce and settled in Dnmmerston, Vt. VI. Hannah, born March 15, 1757; married, Dec. 19, 1782, Colman Sanderson. The old history says Sanders, and states that they moved to Leverett, Mass. 492 HISTORY OF TROY. VII. Rp;uBEN, baptized June 7, 1761; married Jerusha Bruce, who died March 3, 1791. He was recommended to the church in Leverett, Mass., Aug. 26, 1796, and he probably left town two or three years earlier. Had children recorded in Fitzwilliani. The 4-th child was doubtless by a 2d marriage after he left the town. Children: 1. Sally, born Oct. 6, 1786; died March 13, 17S9; 2. Wniinm Bruce, born Aug. 3, 1788; died May 14, 1791; 3. Sally, baptized Aug. 1, 1790; died Ajiril 6, 1791; 4: Jcraslia Bruce, l)apti/ced Oct. 5, 1794. VIII. Ebknezer, baptized June 19, 1763. IX. Katv, baptized Dec. 28, 1766; married, April 17, 1783, Reuben Graves. X. Prudknce, married Moseman, and moved to Ohio. Ebenezer Nurse, born June 9, 1763; married Priscilla Poor of Royalston, Mass., born Jan. 29, 1766; died April 26, 1844; lived on the home place and died Dec. 10, 1824. I. JosiAH, born Oct. 18, 1785; married, Fel). 6, 1811, Rhoda, daugh- ter of Samuel and Rhoda (Johnson) Rockwood. II. Luther, born July 16, 1787; married, Nov. 12, 1811, Lucy, born June 21, 1789, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Davis. Chil- dren: 1. Eliza, born Aug. 13, 1812; 2. Josiah, born Oct. 1, 1813. m. Lucv, born June 30, 1789; married, July 3, 1810, Moses Drury of Fitzwilliam; died April 2, 1827. IV. WiLOAM, born July 6, 1791; died Dec. 14, 1791. V. Sarah, born Nov. 25, 1792; married Solomon Goddard. VI. Selectv, born March 25, 1795 ; married, Feb. 2, 1819, John Morse, vn. Joseph, born Sept. 10, 1797; married, March 11, 1825, Nancy Starkey. VIII. Asa, born May 9, 1801; married, 1835, Olive Cummings. IX. Jerusha, born Sept. 10, 1804; died 1834. X. Wileiam, born June 3, 1807; married, 1827, Charlotte Kimball. XI. Maria, (twin), born June 3, 1807; died Feb. 10, 1832, unmarried. Brown Nurse was born at Harvard, Mass., Jime 24, 1804; married Mary, daughter of Stephen Wheeler, Dec. 15, 1831. He was a descendant of Dea. David Nurse, who married Rachael Barrett of Concord, Mass., and who was a recruitino^ officer for the Ameri- can army, in the Revolutionary war, and the captain of a company of minute men which he called out on the alarm being given that the British were at Con- cord ; but having some twelve or fourteen miles to march, he arrived too late for action, the British having retired. The eldest son of Dea. David was GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 493 David Nurse, born Oct. 1, 1762; married, Dec. 14, 1793, Lois Brown and located in Harvard as a farmer. He was called out in the Shay's insurrection, and was offered the post of aid to the commanding officer. Brown Nurse. which he declined, preferring that of the soldier. He endured some hardships on account of the severe cold, while in pursuit of Capt. Shay and his party, but came to no engagement. Brown Nurse was the fourth son of David. He came to Troy in August, 1829, stojiped about ten months, taught school in District No. Three, went to Richmond in June, 1830, and engaged in trade. He resided there until November, 494 HISTORY OF TROY. 1835, when he came to Troy, purchasing a stock of goods of his father-in-law, and resumed trade. He was a man of al3ilit\^ and took a great interest in the wel- fare and prosperity of the town. He served the town as postmaster for nearly fourteen years, and was a representative in the Legislature in the years 1850 and 1851. He died suddenly in church at Fitchburg, Feb. 21, 1869; Mrs. Nurse died Oct. 16, 1865. I. Mary Jane, born Aug. 2, 1833 ; married Walter A. Fairl)anks. Beriah Oakes was born in Sudbury, Mass., Jan. 28, 1797; married, Dec. 3, 1821, Polly Hayden, born July 10, 1793; died Nov. 15, 1863; his widow died Nov. 13, 1872. I. John, lioni vScpt. 29, 1S22; died Feb. 21, 1874. II. Rebecca, born March 25, 1824'; married Robbiiis; died July 10, 1859. III. Olive Goodnow, born Aug. 20, 1825. IV. Appleton, born Feb. 24, 1827. V. Joel Stearns, born Dee. 4, 1829; died May 17, 1831. VI. Joel Hayden, born Aug. 5, 1831 ; died. VII. Mary A., born Feb. 15, 1835; married Webster Corey. VIII. Charlotte Amanda, born Feb. 25, 1837; married Webster Corey; died Feb. 22, 1855. Appleton Oakes, son of Beriah, born Feb. 24, 1827; married, Nov. 10, 1852, Lucy Jane, born , daugh- ter of Henry Stickncy ; died Aug. 24, 1874. His widow married, 2d, June 3, 1875, Stephen M. Follansbee, born in Weare, Aug. 18, 1834; died June 22, 1896. I. William Edmund, born in Fiteliburg, Nov. 26, 1853; married Lizzie 5. Leonard of Lawrence, Mass., Nov. 9, 1876. Children: 1. Lizzie Gertrude, born March 15, 1879; 2. George Edmund, born Nov. 28, 1883; died Nov. 28, 1887; 3. Jennie May, born March 6, 1886; died Dec. 5, 1887; 4. Fred Edmund, born Nov. 28, 1889; died Jan. 1, 1890; 5. Lucy Jane, born Sept. 21, 1891; died Nov. 10, 1891; 6. Blnncbe G., born June 30, 1893. II. George Webster, born in Troy, April 1, 1856; married, 1st, Nov. 24, 1888, Sadie Clapp; married, 2d, May 9, 1889, Lizzie E. Tuttle of Winchester. III. Frederick Warren, born in Troy, Sept. 28, 1860. IV. Lizzie E., born in Marlborough, Sept. 9, 1863; married, June 26, 1884, George W. Putnam. Children: 1. Fred Melvin Putnam, born March 28. 1885 ; 2. Lottie Mav Putnam, born Aug. 12, 1888. GENEALOGICAL REGLSTER. 495 Frederick Warren Oakes, is the son of Appleton and Lucy Jane (Stickney) Oakes, and was Ijorn in Troy, Sept. 28, 1860. When about eight ^x^ars of age he was sent to Jaffrey, where he Hved in the family of Rev. Frederick W. Oakes. Jonathan Coburn for one and one-half years, for his board, clothes and schooling. Later he lived in the families of John Lawrence and a Mr. Ray for about six vears. After this he was put to learn the black- smiths' trade in Dublin, but one day's experience was enough. He returned to Troy, and for one year was employed in the Troy Blanket Mills, and for two years 496 HISTORY OF TROY. watched the ledge in Marlborough, for the Cheshire railroad, under the direction of S. M. Follansbee. He was then about seventeen years of age, and while alone with the rocks and trees he began to hear a voice calling him to a larger sphere of life, and he once more left home for Lawrence, Mass., where he found employment with the Street Railway Company, using pick and shovel. The superintendent, seeing that this young man was determined to earn his own living soon found him a position as car driver, and in two weeks advanced him to conductor, at ten dollars per week, which seemed to him a fabulous sum. Later he entered a machine shop at North Andover, for the purpose of learning the machinists' trade. He one evening attended the Baptist church in Lawrence, where a young theological student was preaching for the summer vacation. It was then that the restless- ness and real purposes of life took form, the word was spoken which enabled him to catch a glimpse of life in its reality. He tmited with this church, and after once passing through the uncertainty which always sur- rounds a new life, and getting a glimpse of its possi- bilities, he began to fit for college, receiving financial assistance during his first year, from a Christian lady who was desirious of helping him. He attended the Nichols Latin school, Lewiston, Me., where for four years he maintained himself by canvassing, teaching, working in the machine shop through the first vaca- tion, and waiting on the table in the summer hotels. He graduated from the Latin school in June, 1884-, and the following September entered Bates College, receiving the degree of B. A. in 1888. During his college course he worked constantly, teaching winters and in hotels in summers. During his Junior year he received first honors in oratory. His one purpose and duty seemed to be the Christian ministry, and in the fall of 1888, he entered Yale Theological Seminary, much against the wish of many friends. But the narrower views of religion were giving way to the wider knowledge. He GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 497 left the Baptist church and united with the Center Congregational church of New Haven, Conn., in 1889. He graduated from the Theological Seminary in May, 1891, receiving the degree of B. D. He soon received a pressing call to become pastor of the Congregational church at Jeffersonville, Vt., which was excepted. He remained there until September, 1892, when he accepted an urgent call to the Congregational church in Lead- ville, Colorado, where he remained for seven months. The dissatisfaction with church views, and unrest of mind which had been at work for some time finally led him to make a change and become a member of the Episcopal church, and he was confirmed by Right Reverend F. J. Spalding, Bishop of Colorado, and v^as placed rector in charge of All Saints church in Denver. And here he seemed to find his real place of usefulness. As rector of the church, he within two years relieved it from a debt of ten thousand dollars, trippled its membership, and placed the church on a strong basis spiritually and financially. Denver being the Mecca for consumptives, where there are thirty thousand seeking health, and many of them without friends and with limited means, made it seem that a great opportunity was there opened for a place where such persons could have the general comforts of home, at an expense within their limited means and still not be a charity ; and after much thought and care, Mr. and Mrs. Oakes decided to take measures for the building of a Christian home where men and women needing the refinements of life might secure them. So with this end in view he has been successful in equipping and giving to the world the largest and most beautiful philanthropic work of America. This noble work was made possible by the wealth of such people as the Vanderbilts, Auchumutys, Sloans, Lows, Jessups, and Hoffmans of New York, and others, who contributed the necessary funds for the successful completion of the enterprise, and who entrusted $150,000 to Mr. Oakes with whicli to do the work for others. "The Home" comprises 63 498 HISTORY OF TROY. three buildings: St. Andrews House for men, Grace House for mother and son or husband and wife, and the Emily House for women, covering an entire block of land and connected by a glass-covered porch. There is a music room, a library containing two thousand volumes, a well equipped gymnasium, with bath rooms, lavatories and closets in abundance. "The Home" is situated about fifteen minutes' ride by three car lines from the Denver postofiice, and is so situated that one gets a commanding view of the entire city, the plains for hundreds of miles and the Rockies for one hundred and fifty miles. "The Home" is a Christian home under the direct ownership and management of the Episcopal Church of Colorado, but seeks to draw lines only at unworthiness of character. Mr. Oakes is super- intendent and has built a residence and intends to make Denver his permanent home. He married, June 16, 1891, Mabel Underbill, of Yonkers, N. Y. I. Frederick Warren, l)orn July 2, 1892. II. Elizabeth Riddle, bom May 16, 1894-. Luke Parkhurst, born Dec. 25, 1806; married, 1831, Laurana F. Priest, born April 2, 1811. Mrs. Parkhurst died Oct. 13, 1852. Mr. Parkhurst died August, 1872. I. Daniel J., bom Sept. 1, 1832; died April S, 1883. II. JosiAH, liorn March 2-i, 1834. III. Nancy M., born Jan. 16, 1836. IV. Luther C, born Feb. 21, 1839. V. Laura A., bom May 10, 1841. VI. Martha J., bom Sept. 17, 1843. VII. Luke, born Aug. 9, 1845; married, 1st, April 20, 1872, Luella E. Roundy, who died Jan. 30, 1873; and he married, 2d, MaA' 5, 1875, Ella H., daughter of Algernon S. Butler. VIII. Elmira, born Aug. 9, 1847. Moses S. Perkins, son of Moses, married, Nov. 15, 1820, Cosby, daughter of Abraham Coolidge, and located on the Edmund Bemis farm, where he lived until 1850, when he removed to Jaffrey, where he died Feb. 27, 1875. I. Sarah, born vSept. 7, 1822; married, Sept. 12, 1848, Merrill P. Far- rar of Romeo, Mich.; died Jan. 19, 1854. II. Phebe, born Nov. 17, 1824; mai-ried, Nov. 2, 1847, James L. Bolster. GENEALOniCAL REGISTER. 499 III. Hart, born Sept. 20, 1828; married, July 25, 1854, Pliebe P. Flowers. IV. Cn.\RLES, born Oct. 27, 1833; married Sarah R. Eveleth. V. Dorcas, born June 24, 1835; married, Juh' 24, 1855, James S. Lacy. VI. CoziUE, Ijorn June- 28, 1838; married John V. Tenne}'. VII. Mary, 1)orn May 24, 1840; married Fred W. Bailey; died Dec. 8, 1867. Nathaniel Parker married, IvSt, Nov. 27, 1834, Eliza, daughter of Zopher Whitcomb, and located on tlie Ward place, which he purchased of Col. D.W. Farrar. Mrs. Parker died June 4, 1854, and he married, 2d, 1849, Nancv^ sister of his for- mer wife. He died Oct. 30, 1857, aged fifty- one years. His ^vido^v died Sept. 6, 1882. He was an honest, upright man and an excellent citizen. I. Hamilton, born Feb. 2, 1836. II. Minerva, born Aug. 4, 1838 ; died June 4, 1854. ni. Ellen, born Dec. 24, 1846 ; married Oliver P. Whit- comb. Hamilton Parker, son of Nathaniel, born Feb. 2, 1836; married, December, 1857, Eunice A., daughter of Caleb and Polly (White) Sweetser. born May 7, 1835; died June 20, 1886. I. Wilford E., born April 8, 1860; married, April 6, 1886, Hattie J. Collins of Keenc. One child, Arthur Hnwilton, born March 11, 1887. Benjamin F. Piper, born in Jaffrey, Nov. 27, 1847; mar- ried, Oct. 4, 1870, Georgianna Shannon of Moulton- borough, born Jan. 1, 1850; died March 7, 1895. I. (iEORCE L., lK)rn vSc])t. 13, 1874; married, Oct. 16, 181)5, Mary Carpenter. One child, Ainin Eliznbcth, born Nov. 18, 1896. Nathaniel Parker. 500 HISTORY OF TROY. II. Everett Edwin, born Aug. IS, 1877. III. Winifred, born June 22, 1880. lY. Anna Viola, born Nov. 13, 1881; died Oet. 13, 1883. Asa Porter was the sixth child of Asa and Eunice W. Porter of Marlborough, born July 5, 1788; married Sybil Osborne of Troy, and settled in Weathersfield, Vt., where he resided until he came to Troy in 1832, when he purchased the mills formerly owned by Silas Wheeler. The following year he sold his real estate to Joseph M. Forristall and moved to Marlborough. He soon afterwards returned and resided one year on the Flint place, two yeans' on the Daniel Stark ey farm, and then moved to Waltham, Mass., where he resided ten years; in 1853 he went to Oregon, where he died. I. Henry A., born Oct. 12, 1817. II. Leonard W., born Sept. 14, 1820; married Mary Howard of Hop- kinton, Mass.; removed to Boston. III. Almira, Ijorn Jan. 1, 1823; married Luke Bemis of Waltham, Mass. lY. LoRiNDA, born Dec. 25, 1828; married Amos W. Buttrick of Win- chendon. V. Louisa, born March 14, 1831 ; married OHver Smith of Winchendon. Henry A. Porter, son of Asa, born Oct. 12, 1817; mar- ried, April 7, 1842, Czarina, daughter of Joseph M. Forristall, and located in Waltham, and later in Boston. He came to Troy in 1853 and purchased a farm of Isaac Stowell, the one now owned by Fred Whitcomb, and resided there until 1862 or 1863, when he left town. He was a successful farmer, and served several ^^ears as one of the selectmen ; resides in Ayer, Mass. I. Henrietta J., born Nov. 2, 1850. II. Charles Henry, born Oct. 17, 1855. NoAH Porter, son of Joel of Marlborough, born July 6, 1794- ; married, March 5, 1820, Abigail Hobert of Groton, Mass., born Aug. 17, 1797. He lived in Jafifrey and Marlborough, where his wife died July 30, 1875. He then came to Troy, where he died Dec. 10, 1880. I. LoRiNDA H., born Dec. 29, 1820; married Jonathan Page of Jaffrey. II. RoANCY A., born in Jafifrey, July 16, 1822; married, 1st, Joseph J. Piper; married, 2d, Abel J. Burpee. GENEALOGICAL REGL'^TER. 501 III. Sarah L., born in Jaffre_v, Sept. 15, 1824; married, 1st, William Ward; married, 2d, Alvan W. Lewis of Leominster, Mass. IV. Charles W., horn in Marlborough, March 26, 1S26; married Sabra Wheeler of Acworth. V. Catiierink' H., born in Marlborongh, Feb. 4, 1S28; married, 1st, Josiah Newell of Jaftrey ; married, 2d, L Wheeler of Acworth. VI. George W., born in Marlborough, Dec. 29, 1829; married Elizabeth Wheeler of Acworth. VII. Harriet W., born in Marlliorough, July 9, 1833; married Asa C. Hemenway. vm. Francis J., born in Mai-lborough, Fel). 10, 1836; married Ellen Higgins of Hinsdale; died Oct. 27, 1862. IX. Eliza A., born in Marlborough, May 20, 1840; died Nov. 23, 1856. Jededl\h Putney was born in Ashlield, Mass., 1777; married, 1st, June 3, 1801, Abigail, daughter of Jonas and Abigail (Maynard) Knights, born Aug. 26, 1776; died Sept. 8, 1832; married, 2d, Jan. 24, 1833, Mrs. Hannah, widow of Martin Rockwood, and daughter of Jacob and Mercy (Totnian) Woodward of Marl- borough. Settled in Fitzwilliam about 1808, and came to Troy in 1837, buying the Calvin Starkey farm, where he resided seven years, and in 1844 1:)ought a farm of Horatio Lawrence. He died Feb. 21, 1861, and Mrs. Putney died Sept. 16, 1880. I. Jonas K., married Phebe Flagg. II. Joseph M., married, A])ril 23, 1829, Mary, born Jan. 14, 1S09, daughter of Nathan and Polly (Davidson) Winch. No record of children Ijut a daughter. One child, Susan AL, died in Troy, Feb. 24, 1851, aged 4 years. III. Leonard, married Woodworth. IV. Manasskii, born Jan. 30, 1808. V. Nathan, born April 28, 1810; died May 16, 1891, unmarried. VI. MosES, born May 12, 1812; married, Feb. 17, 1841, Mary, born May 25, 1808, daughter of Moses and Patty (Ranks) Pratt of Marlborough. VII. Nahum, born Jime 3, 1815; married Julia Chase; died June 12, 1863, in Algiers, La. ; resides in Richmond. VIII. Sewell, born Feb. 1, 1817. IX. SrsAN, died June 14, 1820, aged 1 year, 6 months. X. Charles. George N. Parmentp:r, son of Warren and Sally (Haines) Parmenter was born in Sudbury, Mass., June 4, 1844; 502 HISTORY OF TROY. married, April 5, 1878, Ellen M., daughter of Reuben and Melinda A. (Lane) Morse; died May 5, 1895. I. George Livincston, Ijorn Jvih' 21, 1883. Orren H. Peck, born in Weston, Vt., Feb. 14, 1833; married, 1st, June 6, 1861, Hattie A. Cheney, born in Chesterfield, March 16, 1844; married, 2d, March 16, 1880, Mrs. Mary L. Clark, widow of Geo. W. Clark, born Dec. 25, 1838. Children, by 1st marriage. I. Etta C, born in Richmond, March 11, 1863; married Warren N. Clark. II. William C, born in Swanzey, Sept. 1, 1865; married, June 11, 1892, Addie M., daughter of Barton and Jenettie C. (Stone) Grant of FitzwilHam. III. Artemas O., born in Troy, Feb. 22, 1868; married, June 2, 1885, Annie L., daughter of George W. and Mary F. (Briggs) Clark. Children: 1. Ethel, born Dec. 31, 18^6 ; 2. Irwin Herbert, born Feb. 24, 1889 ; 3. Bessie Miriam, born Nov. 22, 1891 ; died Aug. 29, 1892 ; 4. Ernest Daniel, born Jan. 26, 1893 ; 5. Merton, born Sept. 24, 1894; died Aug. 12, 1895; 6. Gordon Benjamin, born Nov. 2, 1895; 7. Lyman Juclson, born Nov. 27, 1896. Joseph J. Piper, born Aug. 31, 1818; married, April 12, 1842, Ronancy A., daughter of Noah Porter; died Oct. 5, 1857. His widow married Abel J. Burpee. Children born, I, in Troy, ii to v, in Jafifrey, vi to vii, in Marl- borough, VIII, in Swanzey. I. AiUiY J., born Oct. 9, 1842; died March 27, 1846. II. Eloesa S., born Nov. 24, 1844; married, June 5, 1867, Cornelius P. Harding; died JaiL 6, 1876. III. George W., born March 28, 1846; married, Jan. 25, 1879, Lizzie S. Smith. IV. Charles O., born Dec. 2, 1847; died April 6, 1850. V. Emma J., born Aug. 23, 1850; married, June 27, 1872, Charles Shumwa}'. VI. Willie O., born Nov. 21, 1852; married, July 1, 1874, Hester Pollard. VII. Charles L., born Aug. 10, 1854; married, July, 1874, Kate Mor- rison. VIM. Fred F., born Feb. 21, 1859. Albert Pratt, adopted son of Moses IVatt, was born in Marlborough, July 20, 1830; married, April 30, 1861, Nancy W., daughter of John W. and Nanc^^ B. (Foster) Wheeler. Mr. Pratt was for many years a respected citizen of Trov, and is still living in North Dana, Mass., GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 503 with his daughter. Mrs. Pratt died May 13, 1875. Children born in Tro3\ I. Fannik M., born Sept. 20, 1S65 ; married, Jan. 23, 1889, Willie A. Towne ; resides in North Dana, Mass. II. Edith M., born 1869; died July 9, 1871. III. A son, born and died Dee. 18, 1873. Abraham Randall, born Nov. 24, 1731 ; married Sarah Lyon ; died 1804. Lived in the western part of the town a few j^ears and then removed to Swanzey. I. Fkeelove, born Jan. 11, 1754; married Jonathan Wheeler. II. M.VKV, born Oct. 22, 1756; married Ananias Aldrich. III. Reuijen, born Jan. 27, 1760. IV. Levi, born Dec. 22, 1761 ; married Huldah Newell of Richmond ; died July 3, 1843. V. Wait, born April 10, 1763. VI. Sarah, born Aug. 20, 1765; married David Twitchell. VII. RuFus, born Dec. 5, 1768. VIII. AsAHEL, born April 30, 1770; married Damaris Whitcomb. IX. Stephen, born Feb. 15, 1774; married Esther Hammond. X. AnRAHAM, born Oct. 7, 1778. XI. William, born Sept. 26, 1780; married, 1st, Sarah Parmenter; married, 2d, Mrs. Mahala Kelton ; died April 11, 1859. Levi Randall, son of Abraham, born Dec. 22, 1761; married Huldah, daughter of Joseph Newell, 1st, of Richmond ; died July 3, 1843. He was the first person to locate on the farm occupied by Luther Whittemore, and after living there some years he sold out and went to Richmond. I. Marv, born Jan. 3, 1793. II. Benjamin, born July 28, 1794. III. Joseph, born Aug. 24, 1796. IV. Levi, born Aug. 31, 1798. V. Htldah, born Aug. 31, 1798. VI. Abraham, born Aug. 16, 1800; died Sept. 29, 1873. VII. Lucy, born July 15, 1802 ; died April 12, 1803. VIII. Reuben, born July 15, 1804; died July 8, 1818. IX. Elisha, born Aug. 2, 1806; died Nov. 10, 1809. X. Stephen, born March 9, 1808. XI. LvMAN, born April 17, 1810. XII. Jonas, born Nov. 14, 1811. XIII. John, l)orn April 15, 1814. XIV. Silence, Ijorn April 18, 1816 ; married Edson Starkey of Richmond. XV. Davh), born Feb. 14, 1819. 504 HISTORY OF TROY. Walter G. Randall, son of George W., born in Richmond, Aug. 20, 1856; married, Sept. 24, 1885, Annie F., daughter of John Lahifif of Keene, born Jan. 7, 1865. He has been employed for several years in the spinning department of Troy Blanket Mills. During 1894, he purchased of J. W. Raymond a lot on the muster field and erected a house where he now resides. George W. Randall was the son of Willard Randall, born Sept. 6, 1830; married, Oct. 18, 1854, Hannah, daughter of Nicholas Cook; died in Richmond. I. Don Walter, l)orii in Gardner, Jan. 18, 1888. II. Ralph Aldkich, born Nov. 20, 1889. III. Doris Imogene, born Feb. 9, 1895; died Aiig. 18, 1895. IV. Freda Grace, born Jnne 26, 1896. Nelson W. Rice, son of Luke, of Winchendon, born April, 1840; married, June 5, 1867, Jennie M. Brooks, born Feb. 17, 1852. Came to Troy in and purchased the farm on West Hill, where he no\v resides. I. Chlok Eliza, born Dec. 14, 1870; married Jolin F. Hale. II. Ella Jane, l)orn Nov. 6, 1871 ; died Jidy 17, 1880. Barrett Ripley was the son of Franklin and Charlotte (Barrett) Ripley of Greenfield, Mass., where he was born Sept. 26, 1827. He was educated in Greenfield and vicinity, and when a young man he went to Springfield, Mass., where he was employed in the hard- ware store of Homer Foote & Co. He went to Keene about 1850, and became a member of the firm of Elliot & Ripley, hardware dealers, where he remained in busi- ness until 1864 or 1865, when he sold out. Mr. Ripley then went to Waterbury, Conn., for a year, where he held a position in a manufactor^^ He became a resident of Troy in November, 1865, when he pur- chased, in company with John Henry Elliot and others of Keene, the blanket business of Thomas Goodall, now known as the Troy Blanket Mills, of which he was superintendent until a short time before his death. He resided in Troy for ten j^ears, wdien he moved to Keene, where he became a prominent citizen and business man. He was a director in the Cheshire National GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 505 Bank for several years, taking a prominent part in the management of its affairs. He also served as one of the trustees of the Cheshire Provident Institution, being also a member of the board of investment. He Barrett Riplev. had the reputation of being a successful business man- ager, and his counsel and advice were sought and valued by his associates, fellow citizens and employees. He married, Sept. 2, 1852, Mary Colton, born in Springfield, Mass., Jan. 6, 1832, daughter of Zimri f^nd Sophia (Van Horn) Richmond. Mr. Riple3^ resided where Mrs. C. W. Brown now lives, but removed to Keene in November, 1875; he died Jan. 10, 1888. 506 HISTORY OF TROY. I. F"kanklin, ))()rn Oct. 12, liS5H. u. Martha Hakkktt, honi Marcli 1(), ISoG; married Francis C. Faulkner. III. Mary Richmond, born May 22, liS5S. IV. Harriet Buckminstkr, 1)orn Aug. 6, 1860. V. Sophia Van Horn, 1)orn Dec. 23, 1862; died Dec. 11, 1865. VI. John Barrett, born July 4-, 1868; died Jan. 28, 1874. VII. Loi'iSA Allen, born Jan. 20, 187,^; died May 4, 1876. Franklin Ripley, son of Barrett, born Oct. 12, 1853; married, Sept. 8, 1880, Clara I., born June 20, 1854, Franki,in KirLEY. daughter of Charles and Elizabeth E. (Richardson) Keyes of Keene. He graduated from Phillips Aeadem\^ Andover, in 1872, and from Amherst College in 1876. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 507 After gracUiating he entered the emplo\" of Troy BLanket Mills as bookkeeper, serving in that capacity and as assistant to his father until 1888, when he was appointed superintendent, v^hich position he has held until the present time. He has been a member of the Board of Education for several years. Has served as one of the firewards for a number of years, and also as moderator. In 1881, purchased of Moses E. Wright, the place where he now resides. I. John Barrktt, born Sept. 13, 1881. II. Franki.in, born Dec. 5, 1882. III. liLiz.viiETii, l)orn Fel). 16, 1884. IV. M.\RY Sophia, born June 23, 1886. V. (iKORGE, born May 8, 1893. Col. Richard Roberts was from Bolton, Mass. He married, Feb. 9, 1705, Sybil Goodenough, born May 31, 1747. He died in his chaise, vSept. 10, 1801, while returning from Keene. I. ZiLPH.v ; married Col. Jose])li: Frost of Marll)orou,yh ; died April 5, 1822. II. Phebe, born April 25, 1772; married, 1st, 1789, Benjamin Frost of Maidborougli ; he died and she married, 2d, Jan. 4, 1803, Henry Morse of Swanzey; died April 28, 1835. m. LuciNDA, born Dee. 4, 1776; married. March 7, 1796, Thomas Binney of Westminster, Vt. IV. An infant son, who died in 1777. Jonas Robinson, or Robeson as the name was first written, was a native of Lexington, Mass. He married, 1st, Sept. 3, 1796, Betsey, born July 10, 1777; died March 2, 1807, daughter of Reuben and Sarah (Kendall) Ward; married, 2d, 1815, Susan Bellows of Wal])ole, who survived him. He died Aug. 24-, 1819, aged 49 years. I. Eeiza Ann, born \\n-\\ 27, 1798; married, Dec. 7, 1820, Dr. Thomas Wells of Columbia, S. C, and died there. II. Jonas, born Mav 10, 1800; married Mi.ss Farrell of M;iine; resides in Louisiana. III. Maria, born Nov. 23, 1802; married D. I'. Clark of New York; removed to New Milford, Ct., where she died. IV. John Ward, born Jan. 30, 1805; was a pliysici.-m; died in South Carolina, a_a:ed twent^'-two years. V. Marv Ann Louisa, born April 22, 1816; died March 2S, 1822. 508 HISTORY OF TROY. VI. Abel Bellows, born April 10, 1817; married Susan Taylor of New Haven, Ct. He was a physician in New York City. He died in 1855 ; she died in 1857. John Rogers was born in Westboro, Mass., Nov. 13, 1747; married, 1769, Esther Ball, born in Grafton, Mass., Dec. 9, 1745. His descendants claim that he was the twelfth generation from John Rogers, the martyr, who was burned at the stake in Smithfield, England. He w^as a settler here probably before 1773. His wife died Dec. 13, 1811, and he then went to reside with his son- in-law, Capt. Shnbael Stone, where he died June 4, 1827. He is represented as being a strong, active man, and withal a great hunter, spending a large proportion of his time in pursuit of game. I. Polly, born Jan. 31, 1770; married Shubael Stone. II. John, born April 1, 1772; died May 18, 1796. III. Eli, born April 25, 1774; died in Watertown, N. Y., in 1817. IV. Thomas, born June 15, 1776; died Nov. 17, 1778. V. JosiAH, born Aug. 22, 1778; removed to Scio, N. Y. VI. Esther, born Aug. 12, 1780; married Ephraim Keyes ; removed to Ohio. VII. Elizabeth, born Nov. 26, 1782; married, Aug. 17, 1800, George Goodenough ; removed to Pisa, N. Y. viii. Abijah, born March 9, 1785. IX. Sally, born March 12, 1789; married Silas Coffin; removed to Rindge. JosiAH Ruffle, born Oct. 14, 1842; married, Jan. 8, 1868, Mrs. Pauline Buckwold, born in 1840. Mr. Ruffle has been employed as teamster for Troy Blanket Mills sev- eral years and a few years since purchased a lot and erected his present residence. I. Edward Samuel, born Dec. 15, 1877. LovELL RuGG became a resident of Troy in 1845, when he purchased a part of the Samuel Farrar farm of Howard, the place afterward owned by Willard White. He had previously lived in Royalston from which place he removed to Fitzwilliam in 1842. He married Mary Bradley. I. Albert Williams, born June 22, 1837. II. Jane Adelia, born Aug. 1, 1841. III. Laura Maria, born May 19, 1843. IV. Martha Eliza, born Feb. 22, 1845. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 509 V. Gkorge N., born July 29, 1846. VI. Margarkt B., born May 19, 1848. VII. M.\KV Ann, born March 11, 1854. VIII. Wright L., born Aug. 3, 1855. IX. Chloe Augu,sta, born July 25 and died Oct. 21, 1857. Edward Russell was born in Dunkirk, Scotland, 1831; married Ann Conboy, who was born in Sli^o, Ireland, 1841. He died in Troy, Dec. 15, 1867. His widow married, 2d, Daniel Casey. I. Gkorge Perry, born in Otis, Mass., Feb. 11, 1862. II. Edward Jones, born in Troy, April 22, 1867; died at Asheville, N. C, April 15, 1897. David Saunders, from Billerica, Mass., came to this region probably in the fall of 1780 ; married Molly Living- stone, who died Jtme 25, 1822, aged seventy-one years. He died June 19, 1823, aged seventy-seven years. I. Charles, married, Dec. 22, 1796, Sally, daughter of Silas and EHz- abeth Angier of Fitzwilliam. II. Isaac. III. Ezra, married Polly, daughter of Abijah and Mary Stowell. IV. Polly, married, Feb. 24, 1799, Amos Locke. V. Sarah, baptized June 24, 1781; married, Jan. 26, 1801, Luther Knight. VI. Joshua, born June 30, 1782; died March 4, 1790. VII. John, born Aug. 11, 1784; married, Jan. 26, 1807, Mary, daughter of Nahum and Mary (Taylor) Howe. VIII. Jesse, born June 1, 1786. IX. Levi, born Aug. 23, 1789. X. Lovina, born Aug. 23, 1789 (twin); married, Jan. 19, 1807, Jesse Livingstone of Unity, N. H., who died, and she married, 2d, Elisha Drurv. XI. Joshua, born Nov. 1, 1792; died Nov. 13, 1792. XII. Joseph, born Jan. 30, 1794. Ebenezer Saunders, a brother of the preceding, was born in Billerica, Jan. 11, 1754, and came to this region about 1789, and located on the farm afterwards owned by Luna Starkey. He lived here until 1813, when he removed to Fitzwnlliam. He died in Fitzwilliam, Dec. 7, 1834. Married, Feb. 10, 1786, Martha, daughter of Elezear Stickney of Billerica, who died Oct. 29, 1853. I. Ehenezer, born Dec. 10, 1786. II. Asa, born July 4, 1788; died February, 1854, in Moline, Ills. III. Anna, born May 23, 1790; married, Feb. 8, 1810, Silas Hallou. 510 HISTORY OF TROY. IV. HosEA, born March 9, 1792; died Auj^mst, 179ri. v. Joshua Stickney, born March 9, 1794; died in 1795. VI. RoxANA, boi-n in 1796; died in 1799. VII. Eeisiia, Ijorn in 1798; died Nov. 10, 1800. VIII. Joel, born March 14,1801; married Mary Biselow ; died March 5, 1870 ; resided in Keene. IX. Fanny, born Sept. 15, 1803. X. Jeremy S., born July 18, 1805; died Ant?. 11, 1884. XI. Arunah Allen, born Sept. 9,. 1809. ICHABOD Shaw, a brother of Jonathan Shaw, settled a Httle northeast of the village, on the road to West Hill. He resided here with his family till 1797, when he sold his farm and removed to Vermont. I. ZiLi'Aii, ))orn Marcli 2, 1775; married, Aug. 24, 1797, Thomas Bruce of Fitzwilliam. II. Nancy, born April 12, 1777. III. Sally, born Oct. 15, 1799. IV. DANiiiL, born April 20, 1781. V. Benjamin, born Nov. 2, 1783. Amos Sibley, born Oct. 19, 1783; married Prudence Har- ward, who was born July 27, 1793. He was a sc\'the- maker and learned his trade of his brother in Athol, where he married and settled. Soon after he left Athol, and after residing a short time at Oxford, Sutton and Dudley, successively, he came to Troy in 1816, and bought the scythe shop built by Aldrich and Barnard, and which was located near C. D. Farrar's pail shop, and commenced the making of scythes. In 1826, he built a new shop in which he carried on business until 1841. At the time he commenced scythe-making here, it was considered a good day's work for one man to make six scythes, and these were worth ten dollars per dozen, but when he closed, b\^ the improvements in machinery, one man could make nine quite as easily in the same time, but they were w^orth only seven dol- lars and a half per dozen. Mr. Sibley lived in a small house near the shop till 1832, when he built the large house afterward owned 1)3^ Elliot Whitcomb, now by Charles Goldthwait. In 1856, he sold his scythe shop to Whitcomb and Forristall, who converted it into a pail shop. The next year Capt. Sibley sold his house GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 511 to Elliot Whitcomb £ind moved to the village into a house which he bought of John J. Wrisley. He died Nov. 22, 1863. "H AMDS SlIil.KV. VI. VII. VIII. Wii.L.vRi), Ijorn Sept. I'D, ISIO; died March 2S, 1,S12. Lrcv, 1)01-11 May G, ISIL'; died Pel). 2, 1S32. H.\KKINGTUN, born Jiine 4, 1.S14. .\i!iG.\iL, born Feb. 3, 1S18; married. Pel). 5, 1S39, Benjamin M. Stanlev- Emilv, born Mareh 13, 1S2(); married, Oct. 1, iS-tO, (k-or^e A. Kendall. P:lvira, born Mareh \\), 1S22. Amo.s W., born Nov. 13. 1,S24-; died Jnne N, 1S2G. Carolinp: M., born Sept. 3, 1S27; married, September, 1,S4-."), iMlwin M. Mann, who was drowned .\])ril 29, 1.S46. 12 HISTORY OF TROY. IX. Amos W., born April 13. 1831; died Sept. 22. 1849. X. Delano H., born June 22, 1834; married, Dec. 23, 1857, Martha L. Garfield; died March 4, 1897. Killed by gas explosion in Boston. One child, Leonora, born Jtdy 1, 1860. XI. Gideon, born Sept. 3, 1839. Harrington Sibley is the son of Amos Sibley and was born in Troy, June 4, 1814. He married Maria R. Harrington Siulev. Buttrick, a sister of Edwin Buttriek, Feb. 16, 1837, and has been a resident and influential citizen of Fitch- burg, Mass., for a good many years. His father was a scythe-maker, and he learned the business in the old shop at the North end, now owned by Troy Blanket Mills. After he settled in Fitchburg, he carried on the GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 513 business of scythe-making at West Fitchburg for a time, but later liecame connected with the firm of Hey- wood, Wilson & Co., in the foundry and machine business, and is at the present time the oldest surviving partner. He has held numerous offices of trust and responsibility, and when once chosen has been continu- ously reelected. Fitchburg was made a city in 1878, and he was elected a member of its first Common Council, and again chosen in 1875. He served on the Board of Aldermen in 1877, 1878 and 1879. He was elected a director of the Fitchburg Co-operative Bank in 1878, and a director of the Wachusett Na- tional Bank in 1879, both of which offices he holds at the present time, having been reelected each year since the first. He is one of the trustees of the Burbank Hospital, a position which he has held for several years. He is a member of the First Universalist Society of Fitchburg, in which he has held various offices at different times. I. Fkhd H., born Jan. 16, 1S3.S; married, Sept. 27, 1S62, Florence F. Smith; died Aug. 17, lcS63. II. Makth,\ M., born Sept. 17, 1839; married, Nov. 26, 1857, Clark S. Simonds, who died Sept. 17, 1862. Children: 1. Maria B. Sinionds, born June 20, 1859; 2. Louise S. Simonds, born Oct. 7, 1861; died Sept. 20, 1863. III. Mary P., born Jime 20, 1842; married, June l-i, 1866, William G. Silsby; died Jan. 16, 1871. IV. Amos W., born Sept. 6, 1851; died Sept. 8, 1853. Stephen F. Silcox, born in England, March 25, 1847; married, Oct. 19, 1872, Ellen, daughter of Samuel Mortimer. I. Edith, born Feb. 4-, 1874-; died Nov. 30, 1876. II. Florence Hallett, born Aug. 6, 1876. III. Grace Eloise, born Oct. 5, 1886; died Aug. 19, 1891. Fisher Silsby, born in Acworth, March 21, 1805; mar- ried, Oct. 13, 1835, Drusilla F. McKean, born in Salem. Mass., Jan. 7, 1811 ; died in Troy, June 6, 1888. Mr. Silsby came to Tro3^ from Langdon, N. H., in the spring of 1857 and commenced work in the tannery of Francis Foster. He continued to be employed in the tannery until feeble health compelled him to give it up. 514 HISTORY OF TROY. Franci.s Foster sold out to Leonard Wright, and he to Putnam & Phelps of Leominster, Mass. His sons. FiSlIEK SiLSIiV. William G. and Robert M., bought the tannery in the spring of 1869. Children all born in Langdon. Air. Silsby died in Rochester, N. Y., May 26, 1891. William Gilson, born May 11, 1838; married, 1st, June 14-, 1866, Mary Prudence, daughter of Harrington and Maria K. Sibley ; she died Jan. 16, 1871; and he married, 2d, March 12, 1874, Ada J., born in Charlestown, N. H., Oct. 12, 1846, daughter of David W. and Jane Parks. Children: 1. Nellie Alary, born Aug. 24, 1868; 2. Bertha McKcan, born July 7, 1875. David B., born Oct. 3, 1841; married. May 30, 1865, Frances M. French, who was born May 16, 1842. Is a salesman; resides in Fitchburg, Mass. One child, Florence L., born Aug. 2, 1877. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 515 III. RoiiERT M., 1)orn April 24, 1844; married, Oct. 29, ISGS, Melissa S. Buckliii, 1)oni in Grafton, N. H., Dec. 7, 1850; resides in Rochester, N. Y. One child: A'/2e LVcT/jc/jc, adoi^ted daus^hter, horn Jan. 11, 1878. IV. Charles M., Iiorn Jan. 16, 1849; died Jan. 11, 1879. Oliver W. Smith, son of Royal T., was horn Dec. 25, 1831 ; married, 1st, July 13, 1853, Eunice, born Oct. 29, 1831; died May 7, 1861, daughter of Levi and Nancy Ann (Byam) Harris; married, 2d, Feh. 14, 1862, Hannah, born June 12, 1838, a sister of his former wife. I. Abel H., horn Ang. 11, 1854; married, May 27, 1878, Alice M., born Feh. 2, 1859, daughter of Elisha and Sarah (Richardson) Bolles of Richmond. II. Leslie E., born June 8, 1857; man-icd, Feb. 11, 1879, Ada M., Iiorn July 21, 1862; died June 4, 1884, daughter of Nathan and Rosetta (Whitcomb) Smith of Rindge. III. Sidney E., born April 7, 1861; married, Nov. 2, 1885, Etta E., born Oct. 28, 1867, daughter of George B. and Eliza Jane (Bolles) Handy of Richmond. Children: 1. Carrie Louise, born May 9, 1886; 2. Walter Arlon, born June 22, 1887; 3. Eva May, born Feb. 7, 1892; 4. Flossie Geneva, born Nov. 19, 1893; 5. Royal Truman, born May 29, 1896. IV. Eunice H., born April 26, 1868; married, Jan. 17, 1887, George T. Lovewell. Children: 1. Mary A. Lovewcll, born July 19, 1890; died Dec. 10, 1890; 2. Henrietta F. Lovewell, born Dec. 16, 1891; 3. Ralph H. Lovewell, born Nov. 18, 1895; died Feb. 8, 1896. V. Ida L., born Dec. 17, 1869; married (icorge F. Maddox. VI. Herbert O., born June 5, 1871. VII. Charles S., born May 20, 1877; died June 18, 1893. VIII. Elwin, born Dec. 18, 1879. IX. Edwin, born Dec. 18, 1879. X. Nellie, born April 10, 1883. Eri J. Spaulding, son of Abel Spaulding-, born in Jaffrev, Oct. 17,. 1821; married, 1st, Sept. 3, 1844, Betsey F., daughter of Aaron and Dorothy (Howe) Holt, who died Aug. 8, 1847; married, 2d, May 14, 1848, Lucy Ann, daughter of Capt. John Jones of Dublin, who died Feb. 14, 1861 ; married, 3d, Jan. 22, 1868, Maria R. Ellis of Springfield, Vt. Mr. Spaulding became a citi- zen of Troy in March, 1841, and was employed in Charles Coolidge's pail shop for two years. He then bought the pottery of Capt. Solomon (loddard and 516 HISTORY OF TROY. was engaged in the manufacture of earthern ware for five 3^ears. He resided in the house with his brother, Erastus, a short time, afterwards occupied the Winch house, and in 1850 built the house now owned by H. W. Hutt, which he occupied for several years, until he purchased the Harrington farm, upon which he resided until his death. He was a carpenter by trade and worked at that business when not engaged in farming. He died Jan. 17, 1886. His widow died in Rutland, Vt., March 8, 1889. Children: i and ii by first mar- riage; III to VII by second marriage, and viii by third marriage. I. DiANTHA R., born Sept. 1, 1845 ; married, Sept. 25, 1866, George A. Merrifield. Children: 1. Alice B.; 2. Eva S.; 3. Arthur H. Re- sides in Athol, Mass. II. Medora Frances, born April 19, 1847. III. Lucy Ann, born March 19, 1849; died in AscutncAville, Vt., June 12, 1862. IV. Lorenzo C, born Sept. 25, 1850; died Sept. 30, 1850. V. Ellen C, born Aug. IG, 1851, in Dn1)lin ; married. May 1, 1877, William L. Morse; resides in Marlborough, Mass. One child, Pauline H. Mr. Morse is of the firm of Morse & Bigelow. VI. Albert Eri, born May 9, 1853; married, 1874 or 1875, Carrie L., daughter of Ambrose W. and Elizabeth (Robinson) Spaulding of JaftVey. Removed to Princeville, Ills., \vherc he was princijjal of the high school ; died there Oct. 5, 1875. VII. Abbie C, born Aug. 21, 1857; married, Aug. 24, 1878, E)udley S. Philbrick of Auburn, Me.; resides in Cullison, Pratt County-, Kansas. One child, Jessie C. vm. Emma, born Sept. 22, 1870, in Milford, Mass.; died April 8, 1892, in Colorado Springs, Col. Lyman Spooner was a native of Vermont, born Nov. 26, 1814; married, April 27, 1842, Almira, daughter of Lemuel and Leaty (Knight) Brown. He located in Brookline, where he remained a few weeks only ; after- wards he resided a short time in Barre and Sudbury, Mass. He returned to Troy in the fall of 1842, and resided here until he enlisted in the War of the Rebel- lion. He w^as a house painter and devoted most of his time to that occupation. In 1853, he bought the Cutting sawmill of Warren McClenathan, but sold it the following year to Edwin Mann. He died at GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 517 Savannah, Ga., July 7, 1865, of disease contracted in the service. 1. Caroline A., born Sept. 9, 1843; mari-ied, 1st, Edward C. Sutton, who died; married, 2d, Christopher F. Lawson. Starkey. The earliest records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony give, of this surname, first, Robert Starkey of Concord, Mass.; second, George Starkey, or Starke, whom Savage says may have been of Lynn, or Maiden; third, Robert Starkey, a mariner, whose house stood on land belonging to Rev. Increase Mather and near his own house. His will was made in 1705, and his only son, Robert, Jr., was a printer and bookseller of Fleet street, Boston ; his will was made in 1727, and with him the male line became extinct. Fourth, John Starkey of Boston, 1667. A lineal descendant states that this John Starkey came from Standish, county Lancaster, England, and, though the connection has not yet been established, yet it is rendered probable from the fact that there have been large numbers of this family in Lancaster County for gen- erations, in which the names of John, Thomas, William and George prevail. It is from this John Starkey that those who inhabited this region descended. John Starkey, by wife Sarah, had, born in Boston: John, Jr., born Sept. 23, 1667; Mary; Sarah, born April 1, 1671; Experience, born Feb. 3, 1672; Martha, born March 25, 1674; Andrew. The records show he was a landholder in Maiden and Charlestown, Mass., in 1674 and later, and in 1689 that he was an inhabitant of Pemaquid, Me. One authority states that on Aug. 2, 1689, the Penobscot Indians, one htmdred in number, headed by Moxas, landed at New Harbor, on the opposite side of the Point from the fort. There they seized an Englishman by the name of John Starkey, who was alone, and compelled him to give them information in regard to the condition of affairs at 518 HISTORY OF TROY. the fort. They surprised the garrison at broad noonday, "no scouts out," and foreed Lieut. Weems to surrender; terms of capitulation were made and kept, as, several years later, Lieut. Weems, then living in New York, presents repeated petitions for pay due himself and to his men for their services at his fort. What John Starkey's fate was, cannot be learned ; no record has, as yet, yielded to long and exhaustive search. Of his family, it is probable that, as his lands lay near the fort, they were among those who w^ere embarked "in Mr. Pateshall's sloop" and were carried to Boston. The son, Andrew, was the first of the family to settle in Attleborough, Mass., to which town he moved from Maiden, Mass., where he married, 1st, in 1708, Mehitable, daughter of Samuel and Mehitalsle Waite of Maiden, who was born Dec. 22, 1686; died in 1717; he married, 2d, Feb. 2, 1717-18, Katherine, daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Woodcock) Balcom, who was born Feb. 7, 1694. Their children were: Mehitable, John, Jason, Jemima, Andrew, Thomas.* John Starkey, born July, 1712; married, Feb. 2, 1734, at Attleborough, Amy, daughter of Capt. Joseph and Judith (Peck) Capron, who was born July 15, 1715. Their children Avere: i, John, Jr., born March 6, 1736-7; died Oct. 29, 1739; ii, Loes ; iii, Nathan (or Nathaniel) v^ho remained at Attleborough; iv, William, born in 1742; V, Mehitable; vi, John, Jr., born March 13, 1745-6; vii, Enoch; viii, Peter; ix, Chloe; x, Benjamin, who died in Troy, unmarried ; xi, Joseph. About 1776, Peter, with his brothers, John, Benjamin, Enoch and Joseph, came to this region and settled. Peter Starkey died in February, 1821. His oldest child was born in Attleborough ; all the others in New Hampshire. *"Thc Starkeys of New Enplanrl," by Emily Wilder Leavitt, Boston, 1892. GENEALOGICAL KEGLSTER. 519 I. Otis, born Feb. 23, 1114: ; married Desire Peters. Had children recorded: 1. Otis, born Nov. 27, 1797; 2. Lewis, born Jul\^ 28, 1801. II. Peter, born Sept. 25, 1777; married Mary, born April 13, 1769, daughter of Jonathan and Amy (Brown) Sweet of Richmond. II!. N.\THAN, born March 12, 1779; married Esther Briggs. One child, Briggs, born June 23, 1804. IV. Lahan, born Jan. 30, 1782; married, March 16, 1802, Polly, born Jan. 6, 1781, daughter of Isaac and Ruth Jackson. V. Benjamin, born June 14, 1785; married Sally Smith. Children: 1. Benjamin Proctor, Ijorn Jtily 31, 1807; 2. George Wiisliingtou, born April 30, 1809. VI. John, born April 3, 1788; married, Aug. 20, 1812, Sarah, born Jan. 6, 1789, daughter of John and Lydia (Taft) Cass of Richmond. Had ten children. VII. Calvin, born March 17, 1790; married Marv, born June 8, 1793, daughter of Asa and Eunice (Williams) Porter of Marll^orough ; removed to Townsend, Vt. VIII. LoNA, born April 25, 1792 ; died aged 2 years, 6 months. IX. Luna, born Sept. 11, 1794. John Starkey, son of John, born March 13, 1745-46 ; married Mary, daughter of John, Sr., and Rebecca (Sweetland) Godding. No family. Enoch Starkey, son of John, born July 29, 1748; married, Oct. 15, 1774, Elizabeth (or Betsey) Blackinton of Attleborough, Mass., who was born Jan. 3, 1751 ; died Jan. 18, 1823. He Hved in that part of Troy, now included in Swanzey, and where he died in 1823. I. David, born ; married, March 23, 1797, Lavinia Woodcock. II. (iEORGE, born 1775. III. Samuel, born Nov. 30, 1786; married, March 20, 1811, Thankful, daughter of Nathaniel and Thankful Bolles. IV. Levi, born March 2, 1790; married Hannah Holman of F'itzwil- liam; she died Dec. 23, 1846; he died June 17, 1848. V. PoLLV, born June 15, 1793; married, June 27, 1819, John Tildcn of Keene. She died in Westmoreland, June 10, 1854. Joseph Starkey, son of John, born in Attleborough, Mass.; married, July 23, 1778, Waitstill, daughter of Henry Morse, and lived in Richmond. He served in Capt. Oliver Capron's company. Col. William Doo- little's regiment, at Winter Hill, Somerville, Mass., Oct. 6, 1775." I. Martha, born March 13, 1779; married, March 4, 1798, Joseph Clark. 520 HISTORY OF TROY. II. Esther, born June 3, 17S3; married Elijah Davenport. III. Waitstill, born Jan. 17, 1787; married, Maj' 15, 1811, Noah Aldrich. IV. Josp:ph, liorn Sept. 27, 1790; married, Felx 20, 1812, Lydia Akh-ich. V. Henry, born Sept. 1, 1795; married, Feb. 17, 1818, Lucy Woodward. VI. Betsey, born May, 1803; married, June 26, 1820, WilHam Wood- ward. William Stark ey came from Attleborottgh, Mass., and was doubtless a relative of Peter, and came to this region probably before 1793. He died about 1808. I. Sar.\h, born Sejit. 5, 1794; married Tyler Tenney ; died at the homestead. II. Hannah, born Oct. 17, 1795. III. Naomi, born Sept. 29, 1796; married George Farrar; died Sept. 2, 1842. IV. William, died in childhood. V. Olive, Ijorn Oct. 25, 1801; married Asher Coolidge. VI. Ebenezer, born Nov. 20, 1803. VII. RiiODA, born Nov. 12, 1805. VIII. Lydia, born JuW 26, 1807; married L. Martin; resides in Keene. LuNA Starkly, son of Peter, born Sept. 11, 1794- ; married early in 1812, Hannah, daitghter of Stephen White, born May 1, 1793; died Feb. 18, 1866. For a short time he lived in the house with his father, but in 1813, he purchased the Ebenezer Saunders farm, where he lived until his death, Sept. 17, 1850. I. Luna, born May 28, 1812; died March 30, 1833. II. Daniel, l)orn Feli. 12, 1815. III. Bailey, born Jan. 20, 1816. IV. Hannah L., born Jan. 19, 1820; married, 1st, Jonathan Clark, Jr.; married, 2d, Daniel G. Carter; died Sept. 9, 1878. V. Stephen, born July 20, 1823. VI. Ezekiel, born Nov. 24, 1824. VII. Alanson, born Oct. 12, 1826. vni. Vienna, born May 15, 1829; died Jan. 30, 1848. IX. Edward F., born Oct. 14, 1831; married, Nov. 14, 1850, Mary Jane, daughter of Simon and Ohve Butler; died April 28, 1859. One child, Edward Eugene, born Feb. 1, 1857; died April 22, 1858. X. Ira G., born March 4, 1834. Daniel Starkly, son of Luna, born Feb. 12, 1813; married, Oct. 26, 1836, Sarah O. Holbrook ; died March 1, 1865; his widow died Dec. 21, 1870. He GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 521 resided a few years in the Bush house and worked at shoemaking; afterwards he Hved on the Whitney place and on the Nurse farm, where he died. I. Daniel Aldkn, born Juh' 10, 1838. II. Sak.\ii Diana, born March 20, 1841; died Jnly 25, 184-2. III. Laura Diana, born Feb. 27, 1844; died Sept. 7, 1845. IV. Vienna O., born April 19, 1848; married Charles Lang; died March 23, 1879. Bailey Stakkey, son of Luna, born Jan. 20, 1816; married, November, 1838, Betsey, daughter of Jona- than Clark. He died Jan. 1, 1866, and his widow married, 2d, Winthrop Knight. I. Mary Jane, born Feb. 12, 1840; married Joseph Haskell. II. Ellen, born March 13, 1842; married George J. Ripley; died Sept. 24, 1870. Children: 1. Frank L. Ripley, born Oct. 17, 1860; died Nov. 14, 1874; 2. Flora B. Ripley, born Jan. 21, 1864; 3. Wiilter G. Ripley, Ijorn Nov. 28, 1866; died April 18, 1879. III. Maria, born Nov. 21, 1845; died Feb. 17, 1847. IV. Anna M., born May 21, 1849; married Oren S. Adams; died Jan. 14, 1897. V. Vienna, born Dec. 14, 1851; married Jonas Foster. VI. Warren B., born Oct. 8, 1853. VII. Walter J., born Dec. 23, 1858; died in 1862. Stephen Starkey, son of Luna, born July 20, 1823 ; married, Jan. 2, 1849, Polly Sweetser of Fitzwilliam ; died March 27, 1853. Mrs. Starkey married, 2d, Oct. 5, 1858, John T. Leonardson, who died Dec. 6, 1890, aged seventy-five. She died Oct. 11, 1892. I. Charles Steven, born June 13, 1843; married, 1st, Adelaide R. Howard of Richmond, who died July 27, 1885, aged twenty-nine; married, 2d, Nov. 2, 1891, Mrs. Delia Luce. II. Caleb Luna, born March 29, 1851 ; died Feb. 10, 1852. Alanson Starkey, son of Luna, born Oct. 12, 1826; mar- ried, April 28, 1850, Mary Rice, born April 26, 1830. After his marriage he located in the Jacob Boyce house, but in 1855 he built the house now owned by Daniel Sullivan, and worked in the pail shops for several years. After a time he sold this place and went to live with Thomas Wright in the house he now occupies. L Ann Maria, born Jan. 27, 1851; died June 7, 1851. II. George Alanson, born Sept. 23, 1852. III. Thomas Wright, born Dec. 7, 1857. 522 HISTORY OF TROY. IV. Fred Siblev, born Jan. 12, 1866; married, Sept. 24, 1890, Hattie M. Matthews of Fitzwilliam. Children: 1. Harry Matthews, born Sept. 1, 1891; 2. Ervin Fred, born Nov. 6, 1894. V. Frank Herbert, born April 16, 1873; married, Jnne 16, 1894, Eva L. Shippe}'. VI. Lii.lace May, born March 1, 1877; died April 15, 1877. George A. Starkey, son of Alanson, born Sept. 22, 1852; married, 1st, Aug. 31, 1881, Jennie A., daughter of George A. Starkey. I vers L. and Almira W. (Gates) Richardson of Marl- borough. She died May 30, 1890, and he married, 2d, July 20, 1890, Mrs. Alice Diana Cole. Soon after his marriage he bought the Amos Ingalls place, where he GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 523 has since resided and for several \^ears has been engaged in the meat and provision business and occupies a market building which he built, situated near the railroad and a short distance north of the depot. Some twenty years ago he established the Monadnock Trout Ponds for the artificial propagation of the brook trout, in which business he has been very successful. He was one of the selectmen in 1892, 1893 and 1895. I. Mary Lillian, born Ma^- 16. 1882. II. Nellie Gertrude, born Aug. 23, 1883. III. Henry Ivers, born Aug. 20, 1886; died Dec. 11, 1891. IV. Minnie Jennie, born Jan. 21, 1889. Thomas W. Starkey, son of Alanson, born Dec. 7, 1857; married, June 17, 1879, Emma May Walker, born Aug. 11, 1855. I. Charles H., born Jan. 5, 1880. II. Bertie G., born Sept. 25, 1881. III. Myrtie Blanche, born Aug. 14, 1884. IV. Mary Gertrude, born Feb. 4, 1887. V. Lela Belle, liorn Juh' 14, 1889. VI. Bernice Emma, born Nov. 5, 1893. Ira G. Starkey, son of Luna, ])orn March 4, 1834; married, Nov. 19, 1862, Augusta, daughter of Dexter Warren of Swanzey, born April 27, 1839. After his marriage, Mr. Starkey lived for several years on the place now owned by H. C. Newton; he then went to Winchendon, where he lived for a short time, returning to Troy, and purchasing of George Tupper, the Porter place on East Hill, where he resided until 1889, when he left the farm and went to Kansas. He returned to Troy in 1891, and purchased the Ezekiel Peck place in the village, where he has since lived, selling his farm to Charles Freeman. I. Walter H., born Oct. 12, 1863. II. Charles E., born Jan. 16, 1865; died Oct. 7, 1870. III. LuLA A., born Feb. 23, 1867; died Oct. 13, 1870. IV. LuLA A., born Jan. 28, 1871; died Se\^t. 2, 1871. V. Wehster T., born April 1, 1872; died Sept. 26, 1872. VL Lester D., l)orn Aug. 8, 1875. Walter H. Starkey, son of Ira G. and Augusta (Warren) Starkey, was born in Troy, Oct. 12, 18G3. He was 524 HISTORY OF TROY. born and reared upon the farm, attended the common schools of the town, and was for several terms under the instruction of Mrs. L. B. Wright, and was a close student and desirous of obtaining a good education. Walter H. Stakkey. Later he entered Ashburnham Academy, at Ashburn- ham, Mass., from which he graduated, but close attention to his studies had impaired his health. He was ambitious to l^ecome a Greek professor, but the failing health interfered with his plans, and seeking a change of climate with a view to warding off the disease, he went to Kansas in the fall of 1883, first locating in Nehema Count v, and for two winters GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 525 taught school near Seneca in that state. During the next four years he was deputy county clerk of Nehema County, and in the fall of 1888 he entered the law department of the State University, from which he graduated in 1891. After leaving the tmi versify, he went to Holland, Jackson County, and entered a law office, but only remained there a short time. In Octo- ber, 1891, he went to Osage City and entered into partnership with J. P. McLaughlin, who had been his roommate at the tmiversity, under the firm name of Starkey & McLaughlin. He was an estimable young man, of good ability and very popular where he w^as known, and had his life been spared he would undoubt- edly have made his mark in his profession. He married, July 12, 1894, Miss Clara Niles of Osage City, who died one year later. For twelve years the climate held his disease in check, but after the death of his wife the disease took hold of him again and made rapid progress to the end, which occurred March 16, 1896. Daniel A. Starkey, son of Daniel, born ]x\\y 10, 1838; married, 1st, who died ; married, 2d, Jan. 15, 1866, Augusta C, daughter of John Lang, who was born in Germany, Sept. 11, 1848. He died March 1, 1892. I. Daniel Alden, Jr., bom July 10, 1866; married, .\pril 15, 1890, Ellen Rock. Children: 1. Charles Henry, born Nov. 6, 1890; 2. Herbert Samuel, born Sept. 10, 1892; died 3'oung. II. Ai.M.\ L., born May 31, 1867; married, June 7, 1891, Walter C. Carroll of Winchendon. III. S.VKAH Pauline, born Oet. 8, 1871; died May 8, 1873. lY. Lena May, born April 29, 1874; married, Nov. 9, 1892, Edj^ar H. Blossom. Children: 1. ; 2. Son, born May 7, 1894. V. John J., born April 4, 1876. Yi. Charles Herhert, born May 15, 1877; died Sept. 11, 1886. VII. Cora C, born Sept. 20, 1878; married, May 29, 1895, Curtis M. Huckins of Ashby, Mass. VIII. Leonard W., born Sept. 27, 1879. IX. Herisert L., born Aug. 2, 1881 ; died Aug. 9, 1882. X. Anna A., born Dec. 14, 1885. XI. Lillian B., born Feb. 18, 1888. Ezekiel Starkey, son of Luna, born Nov. 24, 1824; married, July 3, 1850, Lucy M. Drury, who was born 526 HISTORY OF TROY. in Weston, Vt., May 13, 1831. Mr. Starkey worked in the pail shops in Troy, and in Ohio and St. Louis, for several years, but finally returned to Troy jind engaged in the livery business, which he carried on until a few years since, and was well known to the traveling public all over the country, as for a long time he carried the passengers from the depot to Monadnock mountain. I. H.\TTiE M., born April 25, 1856; died Dec. 30, 1856. II. Minnie L., born March 22, 1859; died Aug. 30, 1860. III. Harry L., born Jan. 9, 1861 ; died Feb. 9, 1861. IV. Cora L., born April 1, 1866; died Oct. 14, 1878. V. Effie Blanche, born April 12, 1873. Stanley. Jonathan Stanley, was originally from Acton, Mass., settling first in Rindge and then in Jafifrey. He married Louise, probably a daughter of Benjamin Moors of Rindge. He was a soldier in the Revolution. He died July 12, 1789, aged forty-one; his wife died Dec. 9, 1828, aged eight3'-one. He had nine children: Jonathan, John, Benjamin Moors, Jedediah, Nathan, Sarah, Abiah, Keziah and Abner. Jonathan Stanley, the first son, married Betsey Ross, daughter of Abraham Ross of Jafifrey. He died Nov. 4, 1852, aged sevent\^-eight ; his wife died Feb. 10, 1842, aged sixty -seven. I. Abraham, married L^'dia Eveleth. II. Abner. III. Benjamin Moors, born June 12, 1806. IV. Alvah, born 1807; married, 1st, Luca^ B. Cutting, who died March 14, 1875; married, 2d, Jane Danforth. Children: 1. Warren; 2. Henry; 3. Liiella, adopted daughter. V. James Ross, born Aug. 5, 1810. VI. Persis. VII. Jonathan. Benjamin Moors Stanley, son of Jonathan, born in Jafifrey, June 12, 1806; married, Feb. 7, 1839, Abigail, daughter of Amos Sibley. He resided in Jafifrey until 1851, when he came to Troy, but returned to Jafifrey in 1855, and returned to Troy the following year. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 527 His wife died May 14, 1862; he died in Newport, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1879. Benjamin Bradley, born May 1, 184.3; died Nov. 5, 1856. Killed in the house of Elijah Harrington, by the discharge of a gun in the hands of a young lad, who playfully pointed the fatal weapon at him, not knowing it was loaded. Betsey Ross, born Feb. 26, 1845; died in Fitchburg, Nov. 1, 1883. Eva Henrietta, born July 20, 1847; married Rev. Randall Aldrich. James R. Stanley, son of Jonathan, born Aug. 5, 1810; married, Feb. 7, 1850, Abigail, daughter of Daniel II. III. James R. Stanley. Cutting, Jr., who died Sept. 5, 1873. He died June 21, 1888. He lived with a Mr. Warren of Jaffre_v for several years until he became of age, where he learned 528 HISTORY OF TROY. the trade of a stone mason, wliieli business he followed for a larger part of his life. In 1837, he purchased the mill on East Hill, afterwards owned by George S. Col- burn, manufacturing clothespins and chairs, and also run a grist mill for several years. He lived on the " Stan- ley" place in Jaffrey for several years, later on the Cutting place, and finally came to the village about 1885, purchasing of Edmund Bemis the Wright place, where his son now resides. Was town constable for several years and selectman at different times for nine terms. I. James Lyford, born Dec. 1, 1853; married, June 20, 1876, Minnetta F., daughter of George A., and Josephine M. (Cutting) Adams. Stone. Capt. George Stone, was born in Lexington, Mass., March 21, 1760; married, 1st, Hannah Lovering, of Kingston, about 1788, who died Dec. 27, 1826, aged sixty-five; married, 2d, Abigail Currier, of Canterbury, in 1830, who died April 18, 1849, aged sixty -six. He was a soldier of the Revolution, enlisting at the age of fifteen, and served five years ; participated in the battles of Brandywine and Stillwater, and other engagements ; wit- nessed the surrender of Burgoyne ; endured the sufi'ering and privation of the winter encampment at Valley Forge ; and was wounded at the battle of Monmouth. On the return of peace, he settled in Boscawen, N. H., but the depreciation of Continental money left him so poor that he had only twent}^ cents to begin life with. By industry he was soon able to purchase t^venty acres of land, upon which he commenced farming, and in time acquired land sufiicient to give each of his eight children a homestead. He died at West Boscawen, Dec. 8, 1834. His second child was John, born Feb. 28, 1792; married Submit Sweatt of West Boscawen; died Jan. 25, 1870. They had two sons, the second, Hiram George, was born May 24, 1822; married, 1st, Jan. 26, 1847, Mary Ann C. Ticknor of Lebanon, w^ho died Nov. 10, 1856; married. GENEALOGICAL REGLSTER. 529 2d, Dec. 5, 1857, Liicinda Lane of Epsom. Mrs. Stone died Dec. 21, 1891; he died Dec. 26, 1891. Melvin T. Stone, son of Hiram G., was born in West Boscawen, July 28, 1854; married. Jan. 26, 1882, Cora M., daughter of Charles W. and Sarah Frances (Taylor) Whitne\'. His early life was spent upon the farm and in attendins: the common schools of his Residence of Dr. AI. T. Stone. native town, and New Hampton Literary Institution. Studied medicine with Dr. F. S. Stillings of Concord, N. H., and fittended lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, from which he graduated in November, 1879. Came to Troy, Feb. 20, 1880, and entered upon the practice of medicine as successor to Dr. lienjamin E. Harriman. In 1887, purchased the Elijah Harrington house, previously owned by Ei'i J. Spaulding, which was considerably enlarged and improved, and where he has since resided. Was superintending school com- mittee and a member of the school board from 1883 until 1887; was chosen representative to the General Court in 1887, and has been town clerk from 1887, besides holding other offices of trust and res])onsibilit3'. Was a member of the Board of Pension Examining Surgeons, at Keene, during President Harrison's 530 HISTORY OF TROY. administration. Is a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society ; of the Cheshire County Medical Society, and Connecticut River Medical Society, having been president of the two last named societies. I. Mary Frances, born April 29, 1886; died April 15, 1891. II. Mildred Ticknor, born March 17, 1889. III. Dorothy Cora, born April 25, 1896; died Aug. 20, 1896. Levi Streeter was born in Rindge, Jan. 12, 1797; mar- ried, 1st, Sarah Packard, Jan. 17, 1822. Mrs. Streeter died August, 1835, aged thirty-eight years; and he married, 2d, Dec. 17, 1835, Sophia Stanford, who was born in Dublin, Oct. 10, 1808. I. Charles, died aged one year, six months. II. Elvira, died aged three years. HI. Caroline, died aged three years. IV. Katherine, born in 1831 ; married .\mos Lawrence of Fitchbnrg. V. Sarah Jane, born in 1833; married Charles Brown of Winchcndon, Mass. VI. Elizabeth, born Aug. 18, 1836; married Barton Grant of Fitzwil- liam. VII. Caroline, born Nov. -t, 1837; married Alfred Lawrence of Troy. VIII. Sophia, born Feb. -l, 1839; married George Brooks of Fitchbnrg. IX. Italy, born in Swanzey, Jan. 4-, 1841 ; married John F. Whitcomb of Richmond. X. Charles H., born Sept. 5, 184-3; married, 1st, A1)bie Frances, daughter of Nehemiah Adams; married, 2d, ALiry Powers of Winchendon. XL PvLViRA, born April 15, 1845; married .\lbert Ames of Fitchbnrg. XII. AiiHiE, born Nov. 1, 1847; married Henry H. Daisey ; died August, 1892. XIII. Daniel L., Ijorn Juh' 21, 1850; married, 1st, Nov. 6, 1877, Mrs. Nettie E. Grant, daughter of David C. Stone of Fitzwilliam, born Dec. 21, 1854; died Feb. 7, 1895; married, 2d, Feb. 2, 1896, Mrs. Flora C. Bourn. Children: 1. Stephen Daniel, born Dec. 2, 1878; 2. Albert Perley, born Sept. 5, 1884; 3. Leila Florence, born March 10, 1897. John Sullivan was born in Ireland, and on coming to Troy, purchased the John Lawrence farm. He died April 30, 1880, aged 45 years. Married, 1st, Mary O'Brien, who died; married, 2d, Ellen Dunn. I. Daniel, l)orn Jan. 31, 1861. II. John, born 1865; died. III. Thomas, born Jan. 25, 1869. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 531 IV. Nellie Agnes, born Jan. 1, 1870; married, July 26, 1893, Edward dishing. V. Maky Elizabeth, born April 1, 1871; married, Sejit. 24, 1889, Michael Enright, 2d. Daniel Suluvan, son of John, born Jan. 31, 1, 177(5; was a physieian; settled in New Jersey. II. Phkhh, born Nov. (i, 1777; married, Oet. 2, 179S, Al)el Hriiiliam of Jaffrey; settled in New York. III. Dolly, born Sept. 2, 1779; married John Cheever. 544 HISTORY OF TROY. IV. JusiAii, born Feb. 5, 17S1; itiiirricd Xancv Hiiskcll ; died on the home fiirm. V. Kehkcca, 1)oni April IS, 1782; married Solomon Kiee of Fitzwilliam. VI. Eunice, l^orn June 19, 1783; married Jeremiah Frost. VII. Sallv, born Feb. 26, 1785; married Jonathan Frost. VIII. Lrcv, born Mav 7, 1787; married Joseph Frost. IX. Joseph, born Dec. 7, 1788; married Wilder; removed to Utica, New York. X. Jonathan, born April 28, 1791; removed to Newton, Mass. XI. Charlotte, born Nov. 18, 1792; married Kufns Smith. XII. Billy, born May 24, 1794; died Nov. 30, 1812. XIII. John, born April 30, 1796; died May 8, 1796. XIV. Curtis, born July 17, 1797. XV. KoxANN.\, born Aug. 24, 1799; married Jeremiah Wilkins. XVI. Benjamin Franklin, born Sept. 9, 1805; married Mary Evans; died in Keene, September, 1872. XVII. Sumner, born March 8, 1807; married, May 15, 1832, Catherine Vose of Boston. XVIII. OuiNCv, born March 17, 1809; died in Keene, Jan. 13, 1839. XIX. Virgil, baptized, June 23, 1811; died Oct. 10, 1813. Silas Wheeler came from Holden, Mass., to Fitzwilliam about the year 1800. In 1806, he moved to Marl- borough, living on the place now owned by Gregory Lawrence. He moved to Swanzey in 1832. He married, Aug. 12, 1789, Persis, daughter of James Brewer. I. Silas, born April 17, 1790; died young. II. Peksis, born Sept. 30, 1791. III. James, born July 26, 1794. IV. Silas, born Dec. 25, 1796. V. Vashti, born March 29, 1802. VI. Asa, born June 12, 1805. vii. Aaron, born April 3, 1807. VIII. Simon, born March 16, 1810. Nathan Wheeler, possibly a brother of Silas, came from Holden, Mass., in 1798. He died 1836. I. PoLLV, married Reuben Newell. II. Adelia, married Nathan Newell. III. Jonathan, married Lucy Whipple; settled in F'itchbvtrg. IV. Eliza, married, 1st, Elnathan Gorham. He died 1821, and she married, 2d, Moses Hayden, who died in 1851, and she married, 3d, John Lawrence. V. Clarissa, died aged 36. VI. Nathan. • Stephen Wheeler was born in Boxborough, Mass., Sept. 5, 1786; married, 1808, Polly Wright of Fitzwilliam, GENEALOGICAL REGISl'EK. 545 Avho was l)orn Jan. 30, 1788. He resided in his native town, wnth the exception of two years, during which he was in Troy, N. Y., until he came to this town. In March, 1827, he bought the hotel built hy Josiah Morse, and about seventy acres of land adjoining, and commenced keeping a public house. Soon after opening the public house he commenced trade in the old Chap- man house, and engaged in the staging business also, carrying on at the same time, the public house, trade in the store, staging and farming. He built a house and store south and adjoining the hotel, the Jacob Boyce house and other buildings in the vicinity. He removed to Momence, Ills., in January, 1855, where he died Jan. 15, 1861 ; his widow died Oct. 7, 1862. I. Stephen, born Sept. 1, 1809; married, Dec. 10, 1829, Harriet Gor- ham ; died in Richmond, July 19, 1838. II. Makv, Ijorn Feb. 26, 1812; married Brown Nurse; died. III. Lucv, Ijorn fan. 22, 1814; married David Wilder; died July l^, 1842, at Manchester. IV. Catherine, born June 22, 1816; married Timothy Kendall. V. Hannah, born March 17, 1819; married David W. Fiirrar; resides in Troy. VI. Harriet, born July 3, 1821 ; died March 26, 1823. vn. Aitnv T., born Jan. 22, 1824; married David Frost. vin. Ephraim, born April 23, 1826; married, Aug. 29, 1842, Louisa A. Nutting-. Resides in Momence, Ills. IX. Nancv, born March 7, 1829; married George P. Makinstry. X. David, born July 24, 1832; married, Oct. 12, 1856, Maria, daugh- ter of Joseph Haskell; died in Momence, Ills., Sept. 2, 1865. His widow married, 2d, Edwin Ruttrick. One child, Walter //., born Dec. 13, 1862. Sampson Wheeler, a brother of Stephen, married, Feb. 18, 1841, Miranda, daughter of Reuben Newell, and commenced keeping the public house in the village. Afterwards he resided on the Flint place, but later pur- chased the Stillman Newell place, where Elijah H. Adams now lives. He died Aug. 29, 1876; his widow died Aug. 2, 1881, aged 74. I. Aevin. John Whe:eler was the son of Preston Wheeler, and was born in Westmoreland, in 1812; married, 1st, August, 1841, Roxana Clark of Clarendon, Vt., who died Feb. 546 HISrOKY OF TROY. 6, 1867, aged 47; married, 2d, Mrs. . He died Jan. 13, 1892. I. John Harris, liorn Jnh' 1, 1851. Walter H. Wheeler, son of David, l)orn Dee. 13, 1862; married, Sept. 9, 1883, Mary G., daughter of Harve}^ S. and Adeline B. (Read) Gates. I. Blanche, born July 25, ISJSl. II. Gladys May, born .\ug. 19, 1894. Jonathan Whipple, a carpenter by trade, was said to have been in town previous to 1777. He removed to Concord, Vt., in 1804, and died March, 1839, aged 87; his wife died January, 1830. I. Edwards, born Nov. 6, 1777; was a carpenter b}- trade. II. Edmund Rice, born March 19, 1779. III. Hannah, born April 22, 1780; married, July 17, 1803, Josiah Roj^ers. lY. Joel Green, born Dec. 2, 1781; removed to Vermont. V. Sarah, born July 27, 1783; married Walker. VI. Kizpah, 1)orn March 13, 1785. VII. Lucy, born May 15, 1787. VIII. Jonathan, born July 23, 1789. Zopher Whitcomb was born in Framingham, Mass., in 1781. He married. May 7, 1797, Mehitable, daughter of WilHam and Mehitable (Jones) Tenney, who died 1832; he died 1847. I. Asa, removed to Vermont. II. Abigail, died aged 30. III. William, born Feb. 20, 1801. IV. Eliza, married Nathaniel Parker; died June 28, 184-8. V. Luke, died 1838. VI. Nancy, married Nathaniel Parker; died Sept. G, 1882. William Whitcomb, son of Zopher, born Feb. 20, 1801 ; married, July 18, 1821, Clarissa, daughter of Edmund Bemis, and resided one year on the Josiah Wheeler farm. In 1822, he moved to the Simon Butler place, and lived there until 1824, and then rented the Jotham H. Holt place. In 1826, he went to Londonderry, Vt., where he resided until 1829, when he returned to Troy and bought the Newell farm of Russell W'aters. He died Jan. 8, 1860; his wife died July 8, 1876. I. Elliot, born Atig-. 19, 1822; married, April, 1851, Elizabeth P. Darling of Jaftrey; died Aug. 30, 1879. One child, Fred E., born GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 547 Ma3^ 25, 1865; married, Dec. 24, 1889, Susie E., daughter of Elijah H. and Luthera P. (Howes) Adams. In 1895, he built a house on a lot purchased of A. G. Lawrence. II. Luther, born Julj- 31, 1824; married, 1st, Febi-uary, XS49, Lucy Ann May of Winchendon, who died Jan. 25, 1851; married, 2d, January, 1853, Caroline Wright. He died Oct. 24, 1854. III. Elsina, born Dec. 25, 1880; died Oct. 18, 1839. IV. Ch.\rles, born July 7, 1833; died Nov. 17, 1855. V. Franklin, born Dec. 19, 1836. Franklin Whitcomb, son of William, born Dec. 19, 1836; married, June 6, 1860, Eliza P., daughter of Oren and Julia A. (Wright) Brooks of Fitzwilliam, born April 1, 1839. I. Charles, born May 5, 1861; married, Nov. 23, 1881, Lulu L., daughter of Henry Grimes. Children: 1. Mary Alice, born Dec. 2, 1883; 2. Julia Eliza, born July 19,1885; 3. William Franklin, born Nov. 8, 1887; 4. Luther Elliot, born March 29, LS90 ; 5. Vera R., born Jan. 5, 1895. II. Etta, born Jan. 27, 1865; married Alonzo B. Abbott. III. Marv, born June 10, 1867; died Aug. 15, 1869. IV. Katie, born July 2, 1875; died March 31. 1878. V. (trace Elliot, born Aug. 3, 1880. Jacob Whitcomb, son of Jacob, of Richmond, married Samantha, daughter of William Chase, and lived in Richmond until his death, which occurred Nov. 29, 1855, aged 42. His widows resides in Troy. I. Sarah E., born June 10, 1837. II. Jane E., born Aug. 29, 1839. III. John A., born Jan. 9, 1843; died A])ril 8, 1844. IV. Judith A., born March 25, 1845. V. Oliver P., born Nov. 10, 1847. Oliver P. Whitcomb, son of Jacob, married, Nov. 18, 1867, Ellen, daughter of Nathan and Nancy (Whit- comb) Parker. Has lived on the Dea. Abel Baker farm for several years. I. Frank Albert, born Aug. 13, 1868; married, Oct. 2, 1891, Mary E. Campliell of Sudbury, Mass., born Aug. 27, 1875. One child, Frank Earle, born Sept. 15, 1894. II. Nettie Isabel, born Nov. 25, 1875. III. Emma Ji'dith, born Nov. 5, 1877; m.-irricd, July 22, 189(>, Henry ]. Brown. IV. Jennie Estella, born Nov. 10, 1880. v. James Edwin, born Oct. 5, 1888. 548 HISTORY OF TROY. EzEKiEL White came from Douglas, Mass., quite early, but the precise date is not known, probably about 1782. He married Ruth Cree of Douglas. He settled on the farm which has been mentioned as the residence of Timothy Godding. His wife died April 12, 1790. Children proliably all born in Douglas. The list here given may not be complete. The father and mother both died on the Godding farm. I. Sarah, married and died in Keene. II. Stephen, liorn abont 1760; married Molly ; died June 12, 1841, aged SO _vears. III. David, born about 1763; married Esther Bruce and settled on the Porter White place; after living there soine years he bought the Reuben Nurse farm where he resided until after the death of his wife, when he went to Vei'mont. IV. EzEKiEL, married, Sept. 28, 1791, Alice, ])robably daughter of Oliver Ormsb}' of Richmond; removed to Vermont. V. Daniel, married, y\pril 23, 1795, Patty Crane; removed to Vermont. VI. HosEA, left town about 1794; resided in Mount Holly, Vt. VII. LvDiA, married, Jtine 14, 1791, Samuel Stickney ; i-emoved to Vermont. VIII. Hannah, married Tobey, and died in Burlington, Vt. WiLLARD White was the tenth child of Stephen White; married, Nov. 18, 1835, Mary Chase of Richmond, born Feb. 11, 1820. Was for several years, in the early fifties, an engineer on the Cheshire railroad. He died' July 12, 1894, aged 83. Porter White was a native of Warren, Mass., born Jan. 21, 1795; at the age of twelve years moved to Peters- ham with his parents, where he resided seven years, then moved to Alstead. He married, 1st, June 3, 1813, Betsey Pratt, who died Dec. 3, 1831 ; married, 2d, 1850, Lois Goodale and became a resident of Troy. He died Feb. 20, 1875. Whittemore. Thomas Whittemore of Charlestown, Mass., is generally looked upon as the emigrant ancestor of the entire Whittemore family in the United States. While this has not been positively proved, and perhaps cannot be, it is yet extremely probable. It is certain that no other emiorant ancestor bearino" the name has been GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 549 discovered, though quite extended investigations have been made by various persons in different branches of the family for the express purpose of looking up the family pedigree. Thomas, the emigrant, was from Hitchin, in the county of Hertford, England, about thirty miles north of London. From the parish record of the town, it is understood that his grandfather was William Whittemore; his father, Thomas, and his mother, Mar^^ William was born about 1540, and married in 1566. Thomas and Mary were married in 1591. She died in December, 1604, and he in April, 1617. Thomas was one of the earliest settlers in Charlestown, and located in that part which was subse- quently in Maiden, and is now a part of Everett. His son John was baptized in Hitchin, Feb. 11, 1639, and in 1645 he bought a piece of meadow adjoining his farm in Charles- town, which shows that he came to this country between the dates given. It is probable that he came over in 1640 or 1641. He was married three times, and had one child by his first wife, two by the second wife, and ten by the third wnfe. Of the children, i, Sarah ; ii, Mary ; iii, Thomas ; iv, Daniel; v, John, died young; vi, Nathaniel; vii, John, were born in Hitchin; and viii, Elizabeth; ix, Benjamin; x, Thomas; xi, Samuel; xii, Pelatiah ; xiii, Abraham, were born in Charlestown. Thomas, the father, died in Charles- town (Maiden), May 25, 1661. We see in this family the uncommon circumstance of tw^o persons bearing the same name and alive at the same time. By the terms of Thomas Whittemore's will, dated May 5, 1613, the two sons named Thomas were both living, one in England and one in this country. It will be noticed that the older Thf)mas was by the second wife, and the younger one by the third wife. The homestead remained in possession of the family until May 1, 1845, over two hundred years. John, son of Thomas, baptized in Hitchin, Feb. 11, 550 HISTORY OF TROY. 1639; died in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 8, 1694; married, 1st, Mary, daughter of Dea. John and EHzabeth Upham, and had children, i, John; ii, Thomas; iii, Joseph; iv, Ben- jamin; V, EHzaloeth ; vi, Nathaniel; vii, Joel, died young; married, 2d, Mary Miller, by whom he had children, viii, Joel; ix, Mary, died young; x, Pelatiah ; xi, Amos; xii, Mary; xiii, Daniel; xiv, Rebecca; xv, Hannah. John, son ot John, born 1662; owned covenant, April 4, 1687; died in Cambridge, April 16, 1702; married, 1st, Elizabeth Anabel, by whom he had i, John; she died Oct. 27, 1686, and he married, 2d, Sarah Hall, by whom he had children, ii, Jonathan ; iii, Richard ; iv, Joseph ; v, Sarah; vi. Experience, died young; vii, Thomas; viii. Expe- rience; ix, Jonathan; x, Abigail; xi, Anna; xii, Josiah. John, son of John, born Feb. 28, 1685; died April 21, 1748, in Boston, Mass.; a mariner; married, Nov. 8, 1711, Elizabeth Lloyd, who died Aug. 13, 1746, aged 57 years. Their children were, i, John, baptized May 16, 1714; ii, Elizabeth ; iii, Edward ; iv, Sarah. John, son of John, baptized in the Second church, Bos- ton, May 16, 1764; married, June 3, 1742, Lydia Clough, who died Jan. 15, 1750, aged 31 years. One child, Wil- liam, born about 1744; resided in Lynn, Mass., where he died June 5, 1782; married, April 30, 1767, Bethia Collins; died March 29, 1809. They had one child, WilHam, born Feb. 17, 1768; married, Nov. 17, 1791, Anna Burrill. Thc}^ had children, i, William, born June 26, 1792; ii, John ; iii, Josiah. Josiah, son of John, born 1748 or 1749 in Boston; died April 11, 1814, in Phillipston, Mass., aged 65 years; married, 1st, Aug. 9, 1773, Lucy, daughter of John and (Clough) Snow of Lunenl)urgh, Mass.; married, 2d, Martha (Parkhurst) Rider. He had by first wife, i, Wil- liam; ii, John ; iii, Salmon ; iv, Mary ; v, Luc}-; vi, Josiah; GENEALOGICAL REGLSTER. 551 vii, Levi; viii, Cephas; ix, Otis ; x, Betsey-; by second wife, xi, Cephtis ; xii, Zenas ; xiii, Martha; xiv, Sylvanus. Salmon Whittemore, son of Josiah, born July 17, 1778, in Lunenburg, Mass.; married, Aug. 28, 1805, Lydia, born June 18, 1784, daughter of Hezekiah and Mary Wheeler of Acton, Mass. He resided for a time in Ro3^alston, but in 1812 came here and bought the farm since OMrned by Alvah S. Clark. Levi Haskell had owned the farm some years previous, but at this time he sold to Whittemore and moved to Fitzwilliam. Mr. Whittemore lived there one year, then bought the Capt. Godfrey house and moved to the village. He had learned the clothiers' trade, and April 1, 1815, bought of Jonathan Wood of Fitzwilliam, the fulling mill built Ida^ Thomas Benney, paying $1600, but the mill w^as old and the timbers so decayed that the following year he took the mill dowm and built a new one. Mr. Wliittemore is said to have been a skilful workman, and that he was much esteemed by his fellows-citizens is evident from the various offices to which he was promoted by their suffrages. He died May 6, 1826. I. M.\RY W., born Oct. 11, 1806; died Oct. 1-1, 1831. II. Sarah S., born June 28, 1808; died Jan. 21, 1832. III. .\bigail F., born Oct. 3, 1809; died Feb. 27, 1814. IV. LvDiA Louisa, born Sept. 20, 1811 ; married, Dec. 20, 1832, William S. Hutchins, born Dec. 16, 1809; died Nov. 1, 1856, in Keene ; son of Elisha and Sarah of Winchester, N. H. Mrs. Hutchins resides in Monticello, Iowa. Children born, 1-3 in Troy, 4 in Keene. Children: 1. George William Hutchins, horn ]u\x 9, 1838; died Feb. 18, 1842; 2. Mary Louisa Hutcliins, born July 27, 1840; died March 4, 1859; 3. Helen Eliza Hutchins, born Jan. 2, 1844; died Aug. 21, 1856; 4. Martha Sophia Hutchins, born Jan. 8, 1847; married, April 14, 1870, Douglass H. Smith, born Feb. 17, 1843, son of Henry D. and Harriet (Campbell) of Bowens Prairie, la. Four children. Resides in Monticello, la. V. CvKUS, born March 0, 1813; married, March 23, 1836, Mary D., born April 21, 1817, daughter of Jacob and Sarah (Lewis) Rich- ardson of Greenfield, N. H. Seven children. Resides in Aurora, Neb. VI. Son, born and died March 13, 1816. VII. Elijah N., born April 27, 1817; died March 6, 1842. VIII. Abigail N., born Mav 29, 1820; married Samuel (jrifiin Whitney; died Feb. 18, 1894". 552 HISTORY OF TROY. IX. (jKokch, boni Aiijj. 18, 1S22; married, June IS, 184-i, Emily, 1)()ni June 11, l!S2(), daughter of Benjamin and A1)igail (Habl)itt) Bar- ker of Westmoreland, N. H. Resides in Milford, Mass. Children born, 1-4 in Keene, 5-8 in Milford: 1. Frederick Benjamin, born July 20, 1845; died April 20, 1850; 2. Sarah Eliza, born March 9, 1847; died April 17, 1883, in West Springfield, Mass.; married, Nov. 22, 1876, Rev. Julius B. Robinson, a Baptist clergyman; 3. Abby Ann, l)orn April 5, 1849; died May 30, 1852; 4. Charles Frederick, born May 2, 1851; died Jan. 21, 1853; 5. George Harrison, born Oct. 17, 1853; 6. Anna Mabel, born Sept. 3, 1856; died Feb. 13, 1858; 7. Jennie Carpenter, born Dec. 15, 1858; died Jan. 11. 1860; 8. Arby Clifford, born March 31, 1861. X. Salmon, born June 29, 1826; died Nov. 20, 1826. Levi Whittemore was bom in Templeton, Mass., June 12, 1786; married, May 1, 1811, Polly, born Nov. 1. 1790, daughter of Jonathan and Susan (Tenney) Blodgett, then of Marlborough. He resided in Marl- borough and Jafifrey, coming to Tro^- about 1821, and after changing locations several times finally located upon the farm afterwards owned by his son, Luther, where he died Feb. 8, 1847, and his wife died Jan. 31, 1858. Children born, i, iii and iv in Marlborough; ii in Templeton, Mass.; v in Jafifrey; vi-xii in Troy. I. Mary Ann, born Nov. 13, 1811; married, Api-il 10, 1832, Lockhart Willard Brockway, born March 24, 1805, son of John and Clar- issa ; died April 7, 1846. Thev had seven children, of whom the second, Clara Ann, married Lyman W. Bowker. Resides in Hinsdale. II. Maria, born Aug. 30, 1813; died March 20, 1888. III. Lkvi, born Nov. 14, 1815. IV. Luther, born Sept. 17, 1817. V. RoANCY, born Feb. 6, 1820; married, Jan. 13, 1854, Sylvester Drury of Fitzwilliam. VI. John, born Nov, 13, 1822; married, 1st, Nov. 18, 1845, Lucy R., born June 22, 1827; died Dec. 5, 1860; daughter of Simon and Lucy (Fitch) Gre\^ ; married, 2d, Dec. 13, 1864, Mary Ann, born May 29, 1830, daughter of Anthoiw and Catherine (Hawkes) Phelps ; resides in Templeton. VII. Susan, born Sept. 27, 1824; married, Sept. 27, 1848, Thomas Perry of Fitzwilliam. VIII. Martha, born March 27, 1826; died Dec. 8, 1832. IX. Caroline Matilda, born Feb. 25, 1828; married Elbridge Coolidge ; died June 8, 1888. GENEALOGICAL KEGLSTER. 558 X. Sakah Malvina, Ijorn May 30, 1S3(); married Elbridge Co()lids>t' ; died Feb. 7. 1859. XI. Cyrus Snow, born Aug. 20, 1832; married, Oct. 20, 1853, Eliza Ann W., born Jan. 6, 1833, daughter of William and Sarah E. (Hiscock) Lawrence of Marlborough; resides in Mansfield, Mass. Children: 1. Addie Eliza, born Feb. 26, 1858, in Trov ; 2. Effic Lawrence, born Jan. 12, 1870, in Fitchburg. XII. Lucy Ann, Ijorn March 30, 1835; died. Luther Whittemore, son of Levi, born Sept. 17, 1817; married, Dec. 31, 1846, Abbv G., daughter of Easman Ivl'TllKK WlIITTKMORE. and Lucy (Garfield) Alexander; died Dec. 5, 1890. His wife died March 2(3, 1890. He settled on the home farm, dividing his time between work upon the farm 554 HISTORY OF TROY. and his trade as a stone mason. Failing health com- pelled him to give up farm labor, and a fe\v years before his death he purchased a place in the village, to which he moved and where he died. I. Curtis A., l)orn Nov. 6, 184-4- ; died at Fitchbiirg, Mass.. Dec. 11, 1867. Levi Whittemore, son of Levi, born Nov. 14, 1815; mar- ried, 1st, April 15, 1841, Lucy Ann, daughter of Easman and Lucy (Garfield) Alexander; she died Aug. 10, 1841; married, 2d, Feb. 23, 1844, Mary M., born May 15, 1819, daughter of Martin and Hannah (Woodward) Rockwood; died Feb. 7, 1864. In 1846 he bought the Caleb Winch farm, upon which he resided till 1857, after which he resided in the village until his death, where he w^orked as a stone mason. I. Emm.\ Maria, 1)orn Dec. 11, 1845. II. Henry Martin, horn May 30, 1849; married, 1st, Nov. 6, 1877, Sarah L., bom June 8, 1850; died Sept. 11, 1878, datijihter of Horatio and Sarah (Bemis) Lewis of Whitefield, N. H.; married, 2d, Oct. 25, 1882, Jennie G.. daughter of Earl and Eliza W. (Gorham) Clark. Was engaged for several years in the manufacture of pails and buckets at Bowkerville, in the firm of Coolidge & Whittemore till 1894, when he purchased Mr. Coolidge's interest. Children: 1. Caspar Martin, born May 26, 1885; 2. Eark Clark, born Nov. 24, 1889. John Whitney was born in Dunstable, Mass., April 15, 1745; married, at Westminster. Mass., February, 1781, Mary Jones, born, Framingham, Mass., 1757; died April 19, 1836. He was a descendant of John Whitney, a Puritan emigrant, who settled in Watertown, Mass., in June, 1635. He was the son of John Whitney of Dunstable, and with a brother, Jonathan, came here about 1780 and purchased a tract of land near where Nahtim Green now resides. He resided on his farm until his death, Nov. 3, 1829. He was in the battle of Bunker Hill, in Capt. Whitcomb's company, of Col. James Reed's regiment. In 1776, in Capt. Abijah Smith's company for New York, mustered Sept. 21. He was one of the men returned for Fitzwilliam for three years of the war. In 1777 he marched to reen- force the garrison at Ticonderoga, on the alarm, in GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 555 Capt. John Mellen's company. Was for a time in Col. Timothy Bigelow's regiment for Worcester. Mass. I. Nath.\n, born Jnue IS, 17S1; died in ISll, in Slierbtirne, Vt., ol spotted fever. II. Mary, born March 2, 1783; married, Feb. 16, 1S12, Lnke Harris; died Sept. 19, 1816. III. Lucy, bom Jan. 22, 1785; died May 18, 1794. IV. Sally, liorn May 30, 1787; married George Farrar; died. V. John, born Dec. 10, 1789; married Mrs. Angnsta (Fisk) Brooks. VI. Betsey, ))orn Jnh' 12, 1792; married Lnke Harris. VII. Sophia, Ijorn Jan. 20, 1795; married Eseck Dexter; died in 1866. VIII. Luke, born Dec. 25, 1798; married Lonisa White. Jonathan Whitney, a brother of John, was born in Dun- stable, Mass., Aug. 15, 1745; married, (the first mar- riage recorded in Fitzwilliam), May 7, 1772, Abigail, born April 26, 1749, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Adams) Hemenway. About 1810, he disposed of his interest to one Sanford, and moved to Hartland, Vt. I. James, born Nov. 3, 1772; he married, went west and died. II. Joseph, born June 7, 1774; married Sophia OHver. III. Francis, born Sept. 17, 1776; died June 1, 1842, and left two daughters; one is Mrs. Abigail Collins; resides in Lisbon, N. Y. IV. Benjamin, born April 6, 1781 ; he was killed when a young man ; was at work on a railroad, blasting rock, and killed l)y a ]jiece from the blast. V. Jonathan, born April 6, 1783; married Miranda Marvin. VI. Charles, born June 17, 1786; he had three sons and three daugh- ters; one, James, resides in Bristol, Vt., and Charles, resides in Brookfield, Vt. VII. Calvin, born May 25, 1788; married Eliza Everton. VIII. Haynes, born December, 1789; married Jane Robinson. Charles W. Whitney was the son of Isaiah Whitney, and was born in Rindge, Nov. 15, 1791 ; married, Nov. 10, 1818, Mary, daughter of Dea. Samuel and Hannah (Bowker) Griffin, born Aug. 16, 1793; died Aug. 27, 1861; he died Oct. 31, 1861. I. Samuel Griff~in, born Sept. 20, 1819. II. Charles, born July 27, 1824; died July 10, 1827. III. Henry N., born Oct. 5, 1825; died Feb. 17, 1827. IV. Charles Whitman, born Nov. 26, 1827. V. Mary J., born Aug. 13, 1830; married, Dec. IS, 1856, Samuel A. Richardson, M. D., born in Dublin, N. H., Dec. 23, 1830; died in Marlborough. He settled in Marlborough as a physician in 1855. His skill and good judgment were soon recognized, and he was 556 HISTORY OF TROY. called to practice more or less in all the adjoining towns. In September, 1862, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Thirteenth Regiinent, N. H. V., and in A])ril, 1S63, snrgeon. One child, Mary Belle, born A])ri] 12, ISGI ; died Dec. 16, 1872. Samuel G. Whitney, son of Charles W., born Sept. 20, 1819; married. May 24, 1842, Abbie N., daughter of Sahnon and Lydia (Wheeler) Whittemore, born May 29, 1820; died in Monticello, Iowa. Feb. 25, 1894. He located in the house then owned by Mrs. Lydia Whitte- more, and engaged in trade a short time in company with David Frost, afterwards built the store now owned by E. P. Kimball, and traded in this until 1846, when he became a clerk in the store of David W. Farrar, where he remained luitil 1858, when he went west, and for many years was a farmer in Iowa ; resides in Monticello, Iowa. I. S.\KAii A., 1)orn Ai)ril 7, 1843; died A])ril 11, 1858. II. CiiAKLES H., born Sept. 30, 184.5; died June 20, 1863. He was a soldier in the Rebellion, serving in the Thirty-first Regiment of Iowa Vols., and died from disease contracted in the service. III. CtKorge S., born Oct. 16, 1847; married, Oct. 17, 18G9, Cclia C. Hines; resides in Sylvania, Ohio. Has four children. IV. William H., Ijorn July 9, 1850; married, Sejit. 17, 1876, Lncy L. McAllaster; died Jnlv 9, 1877. Resided in Edgewater, Ills. V. Lkmi'EL p., Ijorn Aug. 23, 1851; died Oct. 29, 1872. VI. Edward G., born Aug. 17, 1856; died Aug. 31, 1857. VII. Makv a., l)orn Feb. 10, 1860; died Sept. 16, 1866. Charles W. Whitney, son of Dr. Charles W. and Mary (Griffin) Whitney, was born in Troy, Nov. 27, 1827. His boyhood and youth were spent in attendance upon the common schools of the town, and a short time at Francestown Academy. Later he entered upon the duties of a clerk in a country store, working three and one-half years for John Wliittemore, and about one year for Dexter Whittemore, in the old Whittemore store at Fitzwilliam, and later worked several years for a wholesale dry goods firm in Boston. He served nine months as commissary clerk on the James River, during the War of the Rebellion, returning home in 1865. Soon after his return he purchased, in company with William G. Silsby, the stock of goods in the brick store, GENEALOGICAL REGL^TER. 557 of David W. Farrar, and carried on business under the name of Whitne^v & Silsby for some three years, when he ])nrchased his partner's interest and also the store Chaki.ks W. Whit.nkv. building of Mr. Farrar, and has been engaged in trade ever since. This store is the old Robinson stand and there has been a store upon the spot for iriore than one hundred years. Mr. Whitney has held numerous town offices and represented the town in 1871 and 1872, and held the office of postmaster for twent3^-five years. He has always been deeply interested in all enterprises for the public good, and an earnest worker for and a liberal contributor to all such enterprises. 558 HISTORY OF TROY. He has been for many years a prominent member of the various Masonic bodies, receiving his first degrees in and was a charter member of Monadnock Residence of C. W. Whitney. Lodge. He was district deputy grand lecturer for the Third Masonic District in 1877 and 1878, and district deputy grand master in 1879 and 1880. Married, Sept. 2, 1850, Sarah Frances Taylor, born in Frances- town, Oct. 23, 1829. I. Ella Frances, born September, 185S; married George F. Kimliall. iL Cora Mabel, born May 29, 1858; married Melviii T. Stone. in. Charles W., born March 14, 1861; married, March 24, 1886, Lizzie L. Hayward ; for several years was employed as a clerk in his father's store, but of late has 1)een in the employ of the Gen- eral Electric Co., Boston, Mass. One child, Dorris Belle, born Sept. 20, 1888. Jason Winch, baptized September, 1751 ; married Abigail . He carried on a tanning business for a few years, but being unfortunate in his business, closed it up and left town probably before 1793. L Nabbv, baptized June 3, 1787; died Dec. 27, 1787. Caleb Winch was the son of Thomas, Jr., and was born in Framingham, Mass., Sept. 26, 1744; married Mehit- able Maynard and settled here in 1768 ; died in 1826. L Joseph, born June 5, 1770. n. Nabbe, born March 26, 1772; died July 24, 1700. GENEALOGICAL REGLSTBR. 559 in. Betsey, Ijorn Feb. 21, 1774; married John Gary. IV. Thomas, born Feb. 12, 1776; died Sept. 19. 1777. V. John, born March 10, 1778; married Gary. VI. Hetty, born Juh^ 8, 1779; died January, 1792. VII. N.\THAN, born March 1, 1781; married Polly Davidson; diofl Aut;-. 28, 1851. VIII. Caleb, born April 24, 1788; married Lucy Farrar; died in NcjrLh- field. IX. Ebenezek, born Dec. 19, 1785. X. William, born Aug. 14, 1788. Nathan Winch, son of Nathan, born April 7, 1807; mar- ried, 1st, Oct. 20, 1833, Abigail Bucklin of Wallingford, Vt., and removed to Swanzey where he was engaged in manufacturing pails for six years. Selling his pail factory, he was for several years engaged in farming, after which he resumed the pail business. During a portion of this time he lived in Troy, but about 1852 he went to Marlborough and purchased a factory. In 1868 he sold out and returned to Swanzey, engaging in the same business ; but having the misfortune to lose his pail shop by fire, he returned to Marlborough and purchased an interest in his former business, and subsequently became sole proprietor. Mrs. Winch died April 23, 1867; and he married, 2d, Dec. 12, 1867, Mrs. Nancy Winzel of Framingham, Mass., who died Jan. 28, 1872; and he married, 3d, Aug. 6, 1872, Mrs. Lucinda (Stone) Scovell of Woodstock, Vt. Children by first wife. I. P'kanklin B., born in Swanzey, Aug. 17, 1833; died Sept. 17, 1849. II. Adelia C, born in Swanzey, Oct. 24, 1835; died Aug. 19. 1842. in. DoKOTiiA A., born in Troy, Nov. 7, 1840; married, 1st, Jan. 1, 1864, Fred E. Ward, who died March 7, 1864; married, 2(1, George Hammond of Mechanicsville, Vt. ; she died July 31, 1872. IV. (iEORGE B., born in Troy, June 12, 1843; died Sept. 25, 1849. V. Infant son, born August, 1848; died same day. VI. (iEORGE F., born in Swanzey, Nov. 20, 1850; married, Nov. 6, 187;'>, Laura L, daughter of Gilman and Harriet (Atwood) Grifhn. ( )ir- child, Ahljic Amelia, born June 12, 1877. AsAHEL Wise, married Hannah, daughter of David White of Fitzwilliam, in 1826, and bought the house and lot which had long been occu])icd by Thomas Tolnian. lie was a native of Winchester, where he learned his trade 560 HISTORY OF TROY. as a 1)lacksniith. He was a man of consiclera1)le energy and perseverance, and took great delight in training vicious horses, and possessing great muscular strength, could hold the foot of the most powerful horse and shoe him with ease; he died in 184-0. 1. Marv Ann, married George Boiitelle of Bellows Falls. u. ■ Lydia, died at an early age. ICHAHOi) Woodward came here from Sudbury, Mass., ])rol)£d)ly before 1793, and was considered one of the best farmers in town. He was born 1734- ; nuirried Parmenter; died March 9, 1814. I. Josiah, born 1761; married Betsey Follet ; died Oct. 6, 1.S33 ; resided in Swanzey. u. Isaac, born 17(32; married, 1st, I'oUy Brtieket ; married, 2il, Lucy Whitcomb; died Aug. 12, 1S19. HI. PoLKV, married Ona Aldrich of Richmond. IV. IciiAiioi), settled in Dmnmerston, Vt. Pkanklix Woodward, son of Jacob, was born in Marl- borough, May 7, 1809; married, May 26, 1830, Louisa Dyer of Athol, Mass., and settled in his native town; afterwards removed to Rindge, from which towm he came to Troy in 1848, and located on the Bruce farm, where he resided. His wife died Oct. 24, 1881, aged seventy-three; he died April 24, 1882. 1. Louisa Makia, born I-\'l). 4-, l,s;^l ; married Parwell Col)b. n. CiiAKLKS Franklin, liorn Jan. 14-, 1,S33. HI. Makv SorniA, born Jidy 29, 1S37 ; married, Oct. 2S, l,So7, .Vmbrose S. Wilder. IV. Sarah Abigail, born Sei)t. 29, 1.S8S. V. Jamks W.\kkhn, born Dec. 17, 1.S49; married . Children: 1. Leon ir., born June 25, 1870; died Nov. 24-, 1M.S4-; 2. Ocrtriule A., born Feb. 12, 1!S73; married, March 9, 1>S89, Fred AL Mnr- dongli. Col. Lyman Wright, born May 8, 1793; married, April 16, 1817, Betsey, born Aug. 29, 1794: died June 21, 1880; daughter of Charles and Beulah (Stone) Bowker of Fitzwilliam. He died Dec. 1, 1866. He was the son of Thomas Wright and learned the tanner and curriers' trade in Templeton and came to Troy in 1815, ])urchasing the Warren stand and Winch tan yard of David White and Joshua Harrington. He resided in GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 561 ,<" what was the Warren tavern, and in 1841 he covered the frame with brick walls and remodelled the inside. This is the house now owned by Thomas Birt- whistle. The store which had been attached to the north end of the tavern he also removed around to the south and made it into a dwelling house, now- owned b^^ Thomas Mitchell. In 1836 he built the saw- mill, and shortly after, the Charles Carpenter house. At that time the only road to the premi- ses was a common foot- path ; the highway by there and past the blan- ket mills -was not laid out until 1850. He carried on the tanning business for several years, selling out to Francis Foster, his partner. Col. Wright was an active, enterprising man and held various offices, both civil and military, and was much esteemed by his fellow citizens. I. Harriet Mellen, born June S, 1821 ; married, Nov. 2, 1848, Edwin Hill; died Feb. 2, 1861; resided in Gardner, Mass. II. Faustina Miles, born Feb. 12, 1823; married, Nov. 5, 184-1, Leonard W. Gilmore; he died May 30, 1844, aged twenty-five years; and she married, 2d, Lorenzo V. Mnnroe; resides in Gardner. III. Melancia Bowker, born .Xjjril (>, 1828; married, Feb. 17, 1855, Lemuel C. Pratt; resides in Kalamazoo, Mich. IV. Leonard, born June 28, 1832. Leonard Wright, son of Lyman, born June 28, 1832; married, Oct. 23, 1855, Mary Jane, born April 9, 1835, daughter of Calvin and Deborah (Brewer) Bemis. Mr. Wright learned the tanning business of his father and LvMAN Wright. 71 562 HISTORY OF TROY. conducted the business for a short time ])revious to 1865, when the property was purchased by Putnam & Phelps of Leominster, Mass., who sold it to W. G. & R. M. Silsby, and Mr. Wright moved to Keene, buying ^^' Leonard Wkic.ht, an interest in the store of Gates & Randall, dealers in boots, shoes, hats, caps and clothing, the firm being Randall & Wright. This store was in the building now known as Wright's block. Later he formed a copart- nership wnth Solon S. Wilkinson, the firm being Wright & Wilkinson, and dealing in boots, shoes, harnesses, trunks, etc. After six years Mr. Wilkinson withdrew from the firm, and taking the harness department, GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 563 established the business in Lamson block. Mr. Wright continued the business alone for some time, but after- wards took his son, Frank H., into partnership. The firm of F. H. Wright & Co. have been one of the largest dealers in their line in Keene, carrying on both a wholesale and retail business. He was town clerk of Troj^ in 1856 and councilman from ward five in Keene in 1883. He was adverse to accepting public positions, and, as a rule, declined to be a candidate for any political office. He w^as for many years one of the leading Republicans of his adopted city. Mr. Wright was a successful business man, being enterprising and diligent in conducting his business, and was interested in the grow^th and prosperity of Keene. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, entering the Lodge of the Temple in Keene in 1872, and also being a member of Cheshire R. A. Chapter and Hugh de Payens commandery of Knights Templar. He died Aug. 10, 1897. I. Frank H., born Oct. 10, 1858; married, June 18, 1885, Mary E., born Jan. 27, 1860, daughter of Eli and Caroline (Cunimings) Dort. Children: 1. Bertha Carolyn, born Aug. 1, 1886; 2. Willard Lyman, born Aug. 27, 1888; 3. Mildred Z^ort, born April 23, 1890. Thomas Wright was the third son and sixth child of Joel Wright of Fitzwnlliam, where he w^as born Aug. 28, 1796. Soon after his marriage, he settled in Jaffrey, but in 1826 he bought the Davis house in Troy, but did not move here with his family until two years later. In 1833 he sold this house to Stephen Wheeler, and with his cousin. Col. layman Wright, bought the Barrett farm, and divided it between them, he taking the w^esterly and his cousin the easterly half. Soon after this he built the brick house in which he resided until his death, and now owned by Alanson Starkey. The first service of Capt. Wright in town was in driv- ing a line of stages from Troy to Keene. Before this, the line of stages on the third New Hampshire Turn- pike had undisputed sway of all the travel from Keene to Boston, and they did not give up any part of it to 564 HISTORY OP TROY. the rival line without a contest. The fare was put down to two dollars a passage, and Capt. Wright and the Branch Company proved equal to the contest and secured their share of the travel. Honesty in all busi- ness transactions ]jrocured for him the good will and ^-^"*'/^. ^ ^^ X Thomas Wkight. approbation of all the citizens. He represented the town in the Legislature in 1846 and 1847, and was selectman for several years. He served the town as sexton for nearly thirty-four years, during which period he buried some four hundred people. He married, April 8, 1824, Sarah Coan of Wrentham, Mass. ; died Mav 22, 1876; his wife died March 2, 1892. GENEALOGICAL REGISTER. 565 Joel Wright, bom Nov. 4, 1759; married, 1st, Tabitha ; lived for a time in Fitzwilliam, then moved to Jaffrey, and then to Troy. His wife died Aug. 13, 1828, aged 70 years, and he married, 2d, Kesiah . w^ho died Sept. 9, 1835, aged 70 years; married, 3d, Rispah, who died July 11, 1863, aged 83; he died in Troy, Dec. 29, 1838. I. Lucy, born Oct. 24, 1785; married, June 14., ISIO, John Work. u. Polly, born Jan. 30, 1788. III. Joel, born April 6, 1790; died April 20, 1790. IV. Tabitha, born Sept. 12, 1791; married Joseph Fassett ; died Sept. 6, 1871. V. Joel, born July 7, 1793. VI. Thomas, born Aug. 28, 1796. VII. Edward Gardner, born Aug. 4, 179S. Yin. Almon, born April 5, 1801 ; married Sarah, daughter of Hezekiah and Lydia (Cummings) Hodgkins, died. Almon Wright, son of Joel, born April 5, 1801 ; married Sarah, born 1810, daughter of Hezekiah and Lydia (Cummings) Hodgkins. Mrs. Wright died May 15, 1843; he died in Sanford, Me., Aug. 10, 1884. I. Charles Brown, born Aug. 5, 1833; married, 1st, Oct. 31, 1854, Rose Damon Perham, born July 16, 1833, of Fitzwilliam ; died Feb. 22, 1870; married, 2d, Oct. 1, 1872, Mrs. Lorenzie Ann Shattuck; died Sept. 15, 1876. Children: 1. Estella Rose, born Feb. 25, 1856; died June 30, 1876; 2. Charles Ehvin, born Aug. 9, 1859; resides in St. Paul, Minn.; 3. Willard Almon, horn Aug. 29, 1861 ; resides in Sanford, Me. ; 4. Etta Frances, born March 14, 1864; 5. Hattie Maria, born Sept. 22, 1865; 6. Minnie Belle, born July 4, 1868; married W. S. Garfield; 7. George Fred, born July 16, 1869; died Dec. 26, 1869. n. Thomas, born 1828; died May 24, 1851. III. Stephen, born ; married, Dec. 17, 1863, Louisa A. Miller. Children: 1. Arthur L., born Jan. 1, 1867; died Nov. 12, 1872; 2. Ada Winfred, born May 2, 1869; 3. Don Adolphiis, born July 2, 1871; 4. Elroy, born Aug. 16, 1873; died Sept. 27, 1873; 5. Anna E., born Aug. 16, 1873; died March 31, 1889. Additions and Corrections. William Barker died in 1788, according to the invScription as given on his tombstone. It is quite probable that William Barker presented his son-in-law, James Dean, with the fifty acres of land in 1784, instead of 1794, as men- tioned on page 57. David W. Goodale, born in Douglass, Mass., Dec. 28, 1847; married, July 9, 1878, Mar^^ Lydia Reed. Children: I. HuHEKT Dana, l)orn in Troy, June 5, 1879. II. Ray Coit, 1)<)rii in Troy, Ang. 3, 1884. Children of Charles J. and Ellen (Birtwhistle) Shaw. Page 349. I. Walter Jefferson, born Aug. 19. 1883. II. livELYN Elizabeth, 1)orn Sept. 9, 1885; died Ang-. 3, 1886. III. Louis Ethelbert, born March 16, 1888. IV. Franklin Aked, born Sept. 12, 1891. V. Charlf;s Leonard, born Se])t. 4, 1896. Children of John H. and Lillian Genevieve (Gates) Wentworth. Page 425. I. Harold Ernest, born Juh' 9, 1885. II. Helen Adaline, born March 3, 1887. Silas H., son of Cyrus Fairbanks, born Dec. 7, 1819; married Catherine (Woods) Aldrich. Page 887. I. Artih'r Walter, born Aug. 24, 1857. Children of George Fairbanks. Page 387. II. Delos Eugene, born April 3, 1861; married, Dec. 9, 1886, Lilla Florence, daughter of Lyman H. and Hannah L. (Simonds) Goodnow of Fitchbiirg, who was born in Worcester, Mass., March 6, 1866. HI. Jennie S., bom March 24, 1864; married, Aug. 5, 1891, Fred W. Lynch, son of Wallace and Mary Wilson Lynch, born in New Ips- wich, N. H., 1856. One child, Juno F. Lynch, born April 21, 1892. Mr. Fairbanks married, 2d, Nancy Watkins, July, 1850. He married, 3d, Oct. 26, 1859, Mrs. Marriete P. (Stebbins) French, who was born in Swanzev, Oct. 25, 1827. ADDITIONS AND COKKECTIONS. 567 Benjamin F. Fox was born in Enfield, N. H., Nov. 12, 1803 ; married Hannah S. Cole, who was iDorn in Rowley, Mass., Oct. 5, 1807. He came to Troy from Marlborough, Mass., about 1865, and ])vn'chased of John Flagg the farm where he resided until his death Jan. 23, 1889. Children born, i to v in Enfield, N. H., VI, in Manchester, and vii, in Nashua. I. Charles Edwin, boi-n Sept. 12, 1832. II. Sarah A., born May 27, 1835. III. Rosamond F., Iiorn Jan. 30, 1838. IV. Anna Loretta, born March 17, 184<(); married Blbri(1_!.;v Coolidge. V. James C. born Feb. 13, 184-2. VI. Addie, 1)orn Nov. 3, 1848; married Christ(jpher F. Lawson. VII. Fransena M., born Dee. 25, 1849; died Aug. 25, 1851. Index of Names. This Index does not contain the names in the Genealogi- cal Register nor those in the lists on pages 91, 92, 95, 96, 135, 136, 165 to 173, 187 to 202. 251, 252, 253, 311 to 318. ABBOTT, Freeman 319 Abare, Moses 50, 259, 267 Alil ey. C. C 299 Adams, J. S 148 E. F 57, 63 George A 263 Elijah H 299 Ainsworth, Laban Rev. ...130, 132, 134- Alilrich, (korge H 55, 165, 261 Amasa 65, 256 Moses 68, 287 Joseph 141 Isaac 147, 304 George E 165 Andrew J 263, 311 Frank A 289 Alexander. Elijah. .60, 70, 73, 152, 246 J oseph 70, 74 Joseph. Jr 70. 152 E:asman 73. 140, 183 Charles 149 Gideon 246 Calvin 258 Allen , Samuel 7 Robert 17, 18 Armiah 141, 250 J.J ^11 AUison, Samuel 17, 18 Samuel , J r 17 Amadou , J osiah 73 James 263 Armer, Andrew 17, 18 Atkinson , Theodore 8 William K 233 Atwell, Richard 92 Austin, W. E 266 BABCOCK, William 21 Bacon, Eljenezer 55. 247 Samuel 55 Bailey, E. K 143 Baker, Abel. .29, 74, 136. 140. 183, 184, 257 Ball, Jonathan 57, 63, 247 Daniel 77 George W 299 Ballon, A. R 304 Moses 259, 289 Barron, Oliver Capt 15 Barker, William. .2 1, 23, 25, 27, 39, 57, 64, 65, 92, 127, 163, 164, 243, 246. 254 Nathan 65 John 246 Barnard, Calvin 41 William. .68, 112, 129, 175. 287 Barstow, Z. S. Rev 132, 138 Barrett. Ernest F 320 Batcheller, Stephen 270 Bates, L. P. Rev 138 Bellows, Benjamin 11, 15 John W 256, 257 Belows, Jesse 103 Bemis, Artemas 36 Asa 36 Luther 36 Edmund. .66, 69, 103, 181,183 Gilbert C 116, 307 Jonas 149, 248 Bennett. Salmon 132 INDEX OF NAMES. 569 Kenney, TlionKis...67, 77, 292, 300 Benson, Benoni 60 Berb\' 53 Bigelow, John H 266, 308 Benjamin 16, 25, 119, 120 Bigio, Charles 21 Joseph 21, 22, 23 Bills, J. B. Rev 144 Birtwhistle, Thomas A. ...140, 318 Bishop, Agabiis...37, 46, 103, 141, 251 Bethnel 48 Jesse 48, 141 William 255 Blake, Amos J 310 Blanding, Harvey 290 Blanchard, Joseph 19, 22 John 10 Jonathan 10, 14 Bond, Jonathan 21 Bowker, Elijah 287 Boyce, Jacob 164, 257 A. F 311 Boyden, Ira 181, 184, 185 William J 165, 186, 266 Brewer, James. .30, 32, 35, 62, 66, 69, 82, 86, 92, 96, 126, 127, 243, 244 Asa 64 Asa, Jr 103 Brigham, Levi Rev. ...88, 139, 281 Benjamin 116, 119 Briggs, P. P. Rev 144 Brown, Lemuel. .36, 143, 145, 247 John 67, 292 William 67, 292 O. E. Rev 143 Charles W 145, 146, 291 Frank L 145 Lemuel W 164, 311 William W., M. I) 276 (George 287, 298 Henry J 299, 300 Sarah Mrs 31 Brooks, Nathaniel 11, 14, 15 Xoah 23 Simeon 77 Abraham 77 Bruce, John 37, 45, 50 William 54, 247 Thomas 103 Bucklin, Nathaniel 63, 103 Burpee, Abel J. Mrs 39, 55 Bui-nham, Rev 132 Bush, Moses 290 Butler, Sidney 60 Sidney A 70, 71^ Joseph 90, 129 Simon 71 Jabez 248 Wilham 183, 265 Buttrick, Daniel .^25 Edwin. .140, 149, 179, 263, 285, 289, 304 CAMERON, Duncan 37, 45 Capron, Jonathan. .63, 68, 71, 154, 249 Walter 249 Carjjenter, James 47, 62 Charles. .55, 79, 147, 149, 178, 180, 304 Carrigain, Philli]j 175 Caverly, Abial M 148, 152, 181, 185, 227, 274, 275, 276, 277 Chamberlain, John C. 108,233,283 W. H 143 W. P 299 Chapman, Luther.. ..183, 257, 260, 283 Church, David 21 Noah 21, 22 Clark, Thomas.. 37, 45, 49, 68, 145, 251, 285 Jonathan 40, 64, 71, 253 Howard 47, 145 Howard T 62 Luke C 65, 143, 145 Alvah S...68, 76, 143, 145, 183 Jonathan B 250 Robert 17, 18 Clancy, W. P. Rev. 140 Clap]), S. G. Rev 138 Clay, Elijah Lieut 86 Clement, John 311 Cobb, Farwell 32 570 INDEX OF NAMES. Coelnaii, luliii 17 I Sciiic 17 Thomas 17 Samuel 17, 33 Colburn, John 43, 59 (Teortje S 69, 285, 300 Daiitorth, Jr 140 Colem an , Ebenezer 132 CoiiCTflon, John H 266 Coohdge, Hezekiah..54, 55, 72, 246 Abraham 54, 55, 112, 246 Charles. ...71, 74, 77, 179, 285, 295, 304 Curtis 74 Elbridge 287 292 Cook, Silas 60 Corey, Webster 150, 288 Milan 37, 44 Cotton, Roland 10 Josiah 10 Cowdin, Thomas Capt 284 Craig, J. F 304 Crane, John Rev 130 Crosby, Alpheus, 136, 137, 254, 260, 297 A. H. M. D 280 Cumminiis. vSilas. AI. I). ...274, 311 Joseph Rev 33, 126, 128 Cutting, Daniel. .36, 37, 41, 50, 56, 92, 96 Daniel, Jr 72, 104, 133, 134, 177, 183, 245, 247, 248, 256, 258, 260, 285 Joseph 37, 41, 64, 92, 246 Moses 40, 42, v54, 77. 285 Curtis, Samuel 50 Moses, 77, 285 DAMON, George 149 Ohver 251 Mareus V 290, 298, 319 Danforth 292 Davenport, Joseph C 112 Davis, Calvin 80 Charles 291 Dean, James 57, 89, 246 Dexter, Ebenezer 21, 22 Dodge, John, M. D 28() Dort, Asa C 140, 2(51, 2(52, 265, 266, 285, 308 Dow, E. W. Rev 145 Dunla]:), Arehibald 17 Dunbar, Elijah 238 EAGER, William Eastman, H. W 36, 43 Edwards, Benjamin 11 Arthur 149, Eggleston, A. B. Rev ElHot, Walter J. H Emerson , 1 vers Emer\- , Noah Enrig:ht, Miehael 2d Erwin ..21 , 50 , 14 298 ,144 ...80 295 ,250 ,..13 ,297 232 FAIRBANKS, George 304 Cyrus 129 Artemas 183 Fairman, John Rev 143 Farrar, John 30, 35 Daniel. ..37, 38, 50, 58, 61, 68, 103, 104, 256, 257, 309 Daniel W....62,71, 74, 104, 105, 106, 110, 111, 112, 130, 133, 134, 136, 137, 177, 179, 183, 184, 235, 251, 254, 273, 287, 303 Samuel 43 Phineas...30, 31, 45, 53, 54, 56, 59, 62, 243, 245, 285 (;eorge...53, 70, 104, 112, 133, 134, 235, 246 Calvin....: 62 Stephen B 69, 147, 182, 263, 307 David W 75,103, 165, 177, 179. 181, 185, 254, 265, 286, 303 Stephen 80 John, Jr 82, 87, 88 Joseph 88 WilHam 88, 103, 255 Leonard 147, 184 Henrv W 265 IXDEX OF NAMES. 571 Farrar. Charles D 41, 75, 149, 248, 266, 285, 286 Daniel. M. D 278, 279. 280 Daniel M 290, 310 Charles A 289, 290. 300 Edward 304 Fassett, John 25, 119 Joseph 93 Felton, Jacob 21, 22. 23 Ferguson, M. S., M. D 280 Fife, Silas. ..29. 36, 70, 74, 92, 96. 128. 129. 156. 159. 243. 244, 246 Timothy 41, 60 Daniel J 149,, 183 Fish, Halloway, Rev. 128, 129, 134 Fisher, Darius, Rev 142 Fitts, Robert 73 Flint, Sylvester P. 78,112,175, 237 Flood, James 96 Forristall, Joseph M....32, 62, 149, 177, 184, 253, 251, 257, 260 Forristall, Joseph. ..37, 47, 250 Foster, Joseph M....31, 44, 45, 69 Andrew 58 Edward 63, 103 Jonas 87 Francis 147. 290 D. D 304 French. Joseph 65. 69, 246 Jonathan B 77, 288 Freeman, Rnfus 140 Frost, J osei)h 246 Milton 304 Fuller, Amasa 36, 70 Isaac 57,64,104.133. 134, 250, 254 Elijah 63, 250, 251, 2.54 C. D. Rev 144 (\ACAi, Ai)ner - 311 Ciartield, Al:)el 33, 42 John 59, 246 linoch 64 Chancey N 150 Carey, John 65, 66 David 65 Jose])h G() Garey, Jonas 69 Gates, Silas 21, 22 Austin B 70, 258, 298, 311 Villa, Miss 71 Gilmer, William 17. IS John 17. IS (jodfrey. James 76. 112 Godding", John 38, 48, 103, 145 Asa 49 William 49 Timothy. .49, 103,141, 145, 157 Alvah 49 Solomon. .72, 79, 136, 254, 276, 285, 288 Gorges, Ferdinando, Sir 4, 227 Gorham. Elnathan 78, 104, 133 Gould, Daniel. ...53, 54, 59, 62, 87, 93, 247 Vinson, Rev 138 Isaac 247 Joseph 247 Eh 247 Go wing, Fred 267 Goodenongh, Daniel. ..21, 25, 127, 158 Calvin 247 Goodhue, Daniel, Rev 139 Goodale, David W., Rev. ...139, 265 Goodall, Thomas 263, 293, 294, 295 Grant, W. F., Rev 145 (ireen, Jonathan 21 Samuel 108 Nahum 47, 50, 52 (Triffin, Samuel Deacon ....235. 250, 273 Grimes, John 181 Nicholas 289 Grouard, KIdmund 11, 14, 15 (irosvenor, Moses 1 138 Benjamin F 291, 304 (yurnsey, Amos 311 Gustine, Edward 31 1 HACKETT, W. W. Rev 145 Hale, E. Col 57. 87 H.mII. Richard 130 Jonathan 57 572 INDEX OF NAMES. Harrington, Daniel 21, 22, 23 Joshua 37, 39, 44, Gl, 71, 72, 79, 110, 111, 112, 129, 131, 284 Joshua, Jr.. .289, 290, 292, 309 Jonah 30. 36, 40, 41, 92 EHjah..71, 72, 74, 77, 183, 254, 259 Joseph 74 Harriman, Benjamin E., M. D...281 Walter 281 Harris, Frank S 298 William 39 Luke. .45, 73, 77, 112, 136, 230, 254, 258, 285, 293 Christopher..58, 63, 70, 78, 237 Stephen 60, 253 Sarah E., Mrs 63, 297 William \ 69, 137, 261, 262 Mary Ann, M. D 277. 278 Hartwell, Josiali 88 Benjamin H., M. D 280 Harwood, Thomas 14 Haskell, Joseph 31, 65, 69 Levi 70, 235, 237, 238 Abner 37. 46 Charles 57 Hawkins. Abraham 103 OHver 179. 292 Heald, Thomas 87 Herrick, J. S. Rev. ...143, 146, 265 Daniel K. Rev 143, 145 Hitchcock, Dr 274 Hodgkins, Hezekiah 68, 79, 285 Peletiah 79, 183 Augustus 266 Holt, Jotham H 42 Aaron 71, 235 Honey, John 11, 15 Howard, Theopilus 246 How, Abraham. Jr 21 Benj amin 21 Adonijah 21 Eleziar 21 Stephen 21, 22 J 304 Howe, Elbridge 320 Zalmon 70, .74 Howe, Phineas 142 Hubbard, J. H 233 Hurlbutt, A. G 263, 310 Hutchins, Wilham S 304 Hutt. Hiram W 289 JACKSON, Isaac. .48, 60, 103, 141 John 103 William 292 Jaffrey, George 8. 12 Johnson, James 20 Jones, Sophronia W. Mrs 137 J oseph 179 J oslin , Ebenezer 21 Joy, John 65 Warren 130 KENDALL, Nathaniel 54 Timothy 66, 80 Nathan 164 Kenney, Moses 37, 39, 42 Kimball, E. P.. .38, 54. 77, 79, 131, 184, 185. 261. 263. 266, 290. 291. 299, 300, 303, 305, 307, 310, 320 Warren W 186, 303 King, Samuel 283 Knights, Talmon 59, 231, 246 A. O 297 Knight. Winthrop 288, 294 LANE, Samuel, Dr 232 Lang, John 72. 248 Lawrence, Abel 11, 13, 14, 15 Wilham 10, 70, 77, 256 Daniel. .37, 40. 65, 92. 155, 246 Johnathan 38, 44, 70, 237, 238, 246 John 40. 70. 180. 258 Gregory 32, 53, 62 Daniel, Jr 65, 75 Joseph E 70 Samuel 72 Isaac 76 Josiah 77 Lewis, James Capt 57, 87, 126 Libbey, Jeremiah 11, 13, 16 George 11,16 INDEX OF NAMES. 578 Livermore, Arthur 233 Lovering, (leoroe 36 Lovewell, fonatlum ....11, 15 Lncns, Seth 237 Lyman, Giles Rev 138 Lyman, Chester 256, 257, 260 Lyons, James 17, 18 Lyon, E 143, 145 A'lann, EHas 74 Benjamin, Cai)t 86 Theodore 92. 244, 247 March, Paul 14, 15, 16 Marshall, Herbert A 137 James, Rev 139 WilHam 304 Mason, John, Capt 42. 27 Robert Tufton 5 John 7 Robert 7 J ohn Tufton 7 Thomas Tufton 7 Samuel .\ 36, 48. 62 Ebenezer 103 Hugh 134, 246, 247 C 143 Eleazor 145 Maxey, Levi 68, 72, 73 J onathan 73 Milton 73 Virgil 73 Mellen, Daniel ...11, 13, 14, 16, 25 John 93, 117 H. E 55 Merrill, Josiah, Rev 139 Merrifield, Leonard H 163 Cyrus 283 Meserve, Nathaniel 8 Metcalf, Carl G., M. D 280 Miller, Luke. M. D 274 Mitchell, Thomas 53 J osejih 1 43 Samuel 17 Mixer, Ezekiel ...30, 37, 45. 82. 83 Moffatt, John 13 Montgomery, Hugh 17, 18 Alortimer, Samuel 267 Morse, Henry 37, 40, 68 Morse, Josiah 68, 73, 78 vSamuel 105, 133 Stephen 132 M orrison , Halbert 17 Samuel 17 John 17 Thomas 17 David 18 James, Jr 17, 18 Moses, Dighton, Rev 140 Moore, Jfimes 17 John 17 Samuel 8 William 263 More, Lav^son 247 Muzzy, Joseph 93 William. Rev 130 McAllister, Isaac 21, 25, 243 McClar\% Thomas 17 McCollester, S. H., Rev. ...265, 267 McCormac, Henry 289 McCarley, John 289 McDonald, Robert 311 NEAL, Henry 17 Newell, Jacob ...37, 38, 39, 48, 55, 73, 79, 82, 85. 92, 152, 156, 164, 247 Stillman 39 Reuben 69, 247 Nathan 79 Pearson 82, 86 James 247 N. F 304 Newton 63 Hiram C 50, 297 Nichols, Joseph 88 Nimblet, Joseph 237 Norcross, O. W 297 Nourse, Joseph 38, 50 Nurse, Joseph 50 Jonathan 50 William 50, 63 Ebenezer 50, 103 Reuben 50 Rrown 184, 185, 258,260, 294, 303 i74 INDEX OF NAMES. ODIORNE, Jotham 8 Jonatlian 13 ()niisl)y, Eljeii 145 Elijah 14.5 ()sl)()ni, Jacob GO, 103, 129 PACKER, Thomas Patch , Charles Parker, Wilford E Hamilton 43, 61 Joseph 53 Nahum Nehemiah , Rev James C Joel Nathaniel , Parkhurst, John Luke Parmenter, George N Parkinan, Alexander 38, 49, Payson, Seth, Rev 130. 134, Phillip Peabody, Rev Peacock, John 142, Pellett Pennock, Benjamin W. Rev Perkins, Moses S Perley, A. P Perry, Caleb 74, 175, Justus, M. D Phillips, Darlington Pierce, J osh u a Levi L 71 Piper, Simon 69, A. M. Rev Pitman, Rev Platts, Nathan Jonathan Pomeroy, Jeremiali, Rev Porter, (ieorge A Henry A 65, 248, R. H 295, Potter, C. E 227, John Pratt, Albert Putney, Josei)h ....8 304 ..32 , 71 , 54 112 116 140 238 260 247 ,285 137 291 272 272 132 143 298 140 136 149 251 270 246 ....8 . 76 246 142 132 ..57 ...58 137 ..63 306 311 230 ..16 260 256 RANDALL, Abraham 60 Randall, Levi 152 George W 263 John, M. D 272 Raymond, Joseph W 266. 318 Read, Thomas 10 Reed, James 11, 13, 14, 15, 25, 116, 116, 119 Rice, Jesse 21, 22, 23 Richardson, Stephen 87 Rich, Ezekiel, Rev.. ..128. 129, 176, 289, 299 Ripley, Barrett. .140, 183, 295, 296 Franklin 66, 266, 296, 308 Robberts, Richard. ..30, 32, 36, 43, 92, 243 Robbins, Benoni 31, 56,206 Isaac 246 Robinson, Jonas 61. 62, 72, 74, 103, 153, 233 Rogers, John 62, 72, 247 Rolhns, N. B 304 Root, Ephraim...55, 103, 247, 285 Russell , Ste]3hen 60 Rufus 71 Ryan, George 233 SABEN, John Rev. ..123, 124, 129, 130, 132, 134, 138 Sanderson, P. P., Rev 142 Saunders, Coleman 50 Saunders, David 62, 128 Saunders, Ebenezer 62, 76 Sawin , Manning 21 Scharf, L. E. Rev 145 Schnell, F. S. Mrs 276 Shaw, Jonathan 30, 36. 92, 162 Ichabod 38, 43, 92. 247 Sherman, Andrew 152 M. J 299 Sibley. Amos. ..136, 149, 256. 286. 288 Silsby, William G. ...165, 289, 291, 303, 311 Robert M 289, 291, 307 Charles M 289 Smith, John 105 Oliver W 140 Charles C....261, 262, 265,300 tXDHX OF NAMHS. 57: Sniilli, Albert, M. 1) 274- Sopcr, Saimifl 12(> SiJciuldinji, Tlionias 11, 14-, 15 Eri j 15, 2cS9, 305 SptM-ry, Obed Kev 14-1, 142 Stanley, James K 14-9, 300 Alvah 149, 800 Abner 800 James L ISB, 81S Starker, Peter.. 88, 43, 82, 90, 112, 255 John 44, 48 Benj amin 44 Enoch 44, 108 J oseph 44 Charles S 44 Bailey 55 William 66. 168 Lnna 76 Samuel 251 Calvin 257 George A 266, 299 Stephen 804 Stearns, William 79 Steel, Samuel 17. 18 John 233 Stevens, John 10, 11, 13,16 Stoddard, Sam])S()n..lO. 18, 14,284 Sampson, Jr 11. 12. 14 Stone, Shubael, Capt 62, 246 Eliphalet 126 A 126 M. T., M. D 282 Stockwell, A. W 298 vStowell, 1 145 Sweetland, John. ..57, 58. 108. 153 TATKO. John. ..86, 38. 44, 46, 82, 157, 246 Taintor, Jedediah 9(5, 244 Tax'lor, John 21 L. A 297 Teni])le, Eljenezer 96, 245 T]iom])son, Hugh. ..65, 70, 75, 246 Herbert P 803, 320 Thornton. Matthew 10, 18, 14 Tiffany, Joseph 30, 44 James 37, 39 Tiffan\-, (iidcon 284- Tilden, Joseph 129 Tolman, Thomas ...80, 89, 44, 45, 46, 68, 77. 103. 141. 155, 157. 284 E. H 31. 32,289, 299 Benjamin 87, 88, 44, 46, 82, 157, 246 Ebenezer 39 Henry 58, 70 Charles 230 Joseph 246 Charles M 253 Edward 295 Tomlinson, John, Capt 8 Townsend, Luther Kev 188 Tozer. Richard 21 Treadwell, William Earle 11 Nathaniel 11. 13, 14, 15 Jacob, Jr 11, 14 Charles 11, 13, 14, 16 Tucker. Benjamin 25. 125, 126 Moses 245, 246 Twitchell. Benjamin 21 Vose. Roger 238 Wallingford, Thomas 8 Ward, Reuben. ..38, 43, 54. 61, 65, 68, 92, 245. 246 Levi 65 Wa rren .Jonathan 22 Jonas 58, 103 Warner 246, 247 Warson, John 17 Watson. William N. 165.183.261, 262 Weaver. Constant (>8, 78. 288 Weare, Mesach 90 Went worth. John 8 M. H 8 Wesson 58 Wheeh-ight. John Rev 5, 227 Wheeler, David 30, 36, 92, 96, 127, 182, 244, 246, 249, 307 Silas 21, 23, 62 vSte])hen 89, 55, 183, 254, 256, 294, 803, 304 576 INDEX OF NAMES. Wheeler, Nathan . 67 Sam pson 70 John 263, 304 E 305 Wliipple, Jonathan 57, 24-6 Ed ward 57 Whitcomb, Ohver P 29 WilHam 39 Frankhn 39, 70, 152 Samantha, Mrs 57, 163 A. W., Mrs 63, 71, 80, 249 Zopher 64 Jonathan, Capt 86 Elliott 149, 310 Fred E 164 Oliver C 298 X 305 White, Willard 43, 54, 249 David ...50, 79, 103, 104, 133, 134. 250, 251, 290 Porter 58, 285 Ezekiel 63. 103 Stephen 87 John 251 Whitney, John 52, 103 Jonathan 52, 103 Charles W., M. D. 75. 136, 271, 273. 274 Charles W. 183, 186, 254, 303, 306, 320 Isaiah, M. D 272 Samuel G 304 Whitman, Charles, M. D 271 Whiton, Otis C, Rev 131, 303 Whittemore, Levi 58 John, Jr 75 Salmon 76, 77, 292 Luther 140, 150. 297 Henry M 266. 287 Wibird. Kiehard 8, 13 Wilder, Nathaniel 119 Williams. Stephen Rev 121. 122 Willson. James 17. 18 James. Jr 17 R obert 17 J ohn 17 Thomas 17 Samuel 17 Jonathan 11, 13, 16 Wilson, James 238 Matthew 60 Willard, Lockhart 105 Winch, Jason 53, 290 Caleb. ..30. 35,65, 73, 89, 119, 128, 140 Nathan 73, 77, 254 Winslow, Seth E., Re^, 131 Woods, John 11, 1."., 16, 21 Jonathan 77, 292 Woodbur\', John 142 William Y 298 Woodward, Abel 25 FrankHn 48. 49 Daniel 60 Ichabod 60 David 297 Daniel B.. M. D 280, 311 Worsley , Robert 246 Wright, John 44, 103 Lyman. ..55, 79, 149, 177, 183, 184, 254, 295. Thomas 70, 179, 258,299 Oliver 96, 245, 246 Ebenezer, M. D....103. 104, 271 Salmon 179 Aaron 250 Louisa B. Mrs.... 263, 264, 265 Moses E 265, 299 C. B 306 O A "7