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THE LOCAL HISTORY
W: OF .«•—

The General.History ofthe Town.
BY HILAND H. GUTTERSON., TC.
With the Autobiography of Alvin Adams,
FOUNDER OF THE ADAMS EXPRESS.
AND
Biographical Sketches
BY
Rev. Wm. S. Balch, D. D.
A. S. Barton, Esq.,
Hon. Austin Adams,
and Others.

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THE LOCAL HISTORY
— : OF : —
ANDOYER, VT,
The General History of the Town,
BY HIIrAND H. GUTTERSON., T. C.
> With the Autobiography of Aftin Adams,
FOUNDER OF THE ADAMS EXPRESS.
AND
Biographical Sketches

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Rev. Wm. S. Balch, D. D.
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Hon. Austin Adams,
and Others.

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ANDOVER,
BY H1LAND H, GUTTRSON, T. C,

Beautiful in her untamed forests,
Brave with her Revolutionary soldiers.
" I ne'er have fonnd a spot so fail-
As that dear forest home of mine."

ANDOVER.
This town is situated in the S. W.
part of Windsor' Co., 20 miles S. W.
from Windsor, 68 S. from Montpelier,
and 37 N. E. from Bennington; lat.
42° 17', long 3° 43', bounded N. by
Ludlow, E. by Chester, S. by Wind
ham and Londanderry, and W. by
Weston, and contains about 18,000
acres. The surface of the township is un
even and the soil and timber similar to
that of the other towns, lying east of
the Green Mountains.
The charter of Andover is dated
Oct. 16, 1761, and was given to
Nathaniel House, and his associates.
Weston was formerly a" part of this
township, and is included in the chart
er. It was set off and constituted a
seperate town by the Legislature, Oct.
26, 1799.
Markham's Mountain, and Mount
Terrible, lie along the western part of
the Township. These mountains oc
casioned the division of the town, and
render the communication between
this town and Weston, somewhat diffi
cult.

There are no considerable streams
in our limits, the town being watered
principally by the head branches of
Williams river. FIRST SETTLERS.
Shubal Geer and Amos Babcock,
came into this township with their
families about theyeev 1768, and made
a beginning but soon abandoned it.
Geer had one son born to him while
here. WILLIAM GEER,
son of Shubal Geer, was the first child
born in town. We have not the date
of his death or any further account of
him. Moses Warner, John Simonds, John
Simonds, Jr., Eli Pease, Jacob Pease,
and James Keyes, made the first per
manent settlement.
THE FIRST SETTLERS COMING TO ANDOVER.
Moses Warner, with a party, (above
named,) came from Emield, Ct., to
Andover, in 1776. The party follow
ed up the Connecticut River, as far
north as Barnet, without finding, as
they thought, any suitable place lo
locate, and so all came to Andover,
Warner selecting a farm on the east
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hase a somewhat singular choice of a j Warner, Ezekiel Pease, John Simons,
farm — the others choosing farms on ' Jr., selectmen ; Frederick Rogers, col-
the west sido of the mountain — now ' lector ; Thomas Adams, grand juror ;
"Weston. They could have had any | Moses Warner, treasurer ; Frederick
part of the Connecticut valley they j Rogers, constable; John Simons Jr.,
came through, at the same price they ' Frederick Rogers, Eli Pease, listers;
paid for their farms here ; but the early Thomas Adams, grand juror ; Fred'k

settlers then regarded river lands as
almost worthless. Warner and his party
saw at Bellows Falls a single log cabin
as they passed up the river, which by
the remnants of game around, appeared
to have been a shelter for hunters,
though no signs fit' life then appeared.
Warner selected his farm in Andover,
because, as he said, it was free from
stones ; but he soon found that there
were plenty underneath the leaves,
and tho farm is to day the most stony
one in town.
Markham mountain was named in ;
honor of a brother and sister of the
name of Markham, who settled in the
vicinity of the mountain, and who
were among the early settlers of the
town. Tlie sister became the wife of
Moses Warner.

TOWN ORGANIZED.
The town was organized in March,
17*1, Moses Warner was first town
clerk, ancl John Simons first represen
tative. the first town Meeting, after being
organized, was holden March 27, A. D.
1780, at the dwelling-house of Fred'k.
Rogers ; Moses Warner, moderator and
town clerk ; James Keyes, Frederick
Rogers, John Simons Jr., selectmen;
Eli Pease, highway surveyor.
Capt. John Simons, first represen
tative.

Rogers and Eli Pease, highway sur
veyors. 3d. annual meeting, Mar. 20, 1782:
Lieut. Brown, moderator; Moses
Warner, town clerk ; Moses Warner,
Samuel Brown, John Simons Jr.,
selectmen; Stephen Burgess, grand
juror j Samuel Brown, treasurer ; Moses
Warner, constable and collector; John
S imons, Jr., Frederick Rogers, Stephen
Burgess, listers ; Thomas Adams, Fred'k
Rogers, highway surveyors ; Samuel
Brown, sealer of weights and treasurer.
first grand list, july 29, 1782 :
Capt. John Simons, £59 10s. ; Lieut.
Samuel Brown, £32 ; Frederick Rogers,
£27; John Simons Jr., £31 ; Ebenezer
Simons £11 ; Moses Warner, £24; John
Chapin, £15; Eli Pease, £20; Tho's
Adams, £20 ; Ezekiel Pease, £28 10s.
Ezek'l Pease, Jr., £9 ; Stephen Burgess,
£12 ; Daniel Wear, £6 ; John Gowdy,
£G ; total, first list, 301 pounds 10s.
4th. annual meeting, Mai-. 17, 1783 :
John Simons, moderator ; John Simons,
Jr., town clerk; John Simons Jr.,
Ezekiel Pease, Stephen Burgess, select
men ; Lieut. Samuel Brown, treasurer :
John Simons, Jr., constable ; Ebenezer
Simons, John Simons, Jr., Thomas
Adams, listers ; John Chapin, grand
juror. 2d. grand list, taken in Andover : Esq.

Simons, £46 10s; Lieut. Brown, £43;
2d. annual meeting, Mar. 12, 1781 : "> Ezekiel Pease, £33 ; Ebenezer Simons,
| £12; Loton Simons, £9; Stephen
I Burgess, Jr., £12; John Simons, Jr.,

for choice of officer
Capt. John Simons, moderator

Moses Warner, town clerk; Moses I £34 10s John Chapin, £17; Ezra;

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Sexton, £6; Thomas Adams, £8 10s;
Eli Pease, £19; John Gowdy, £9,
James Ward, £6) Moses Warner,
£23 ; Frederick Rogers, 16;
5. tii annual meeting, Mar. 1, 1784:
Esq. Simons, moderator ; John Simons,
Jr., town clerk; John Simons, Jr.,
Frederick Rogers, Samuel Brown, se
lectmen ; Samuel Brown, treasurer ;
Ebenezer Simons, constable and col
lector ; Frederick Rogers, Lieut. Brown
and John Stiles, listers.
6th. annual meeting, holden in An
dover, Mar. 30, 1785, for the choice of
officers : John Simons, Jr., moderator;
John Simons, Jr., town clerk ; Lieut.
Brown, Frederick Rogers, John Simons
Jr. , selectmen ; Thomas Adams, Ezekiel
Pease, John Simons, Jr., listers ; Lieut.
Brown, treasurer; Frederick Rogers,
constable and collector.
3d. grand list, taken in Andover,
1785: Moses Warner, £27 10s; Tho's
Adams, £16; John Simons, Jr., £40 ;
Solomon Hayward, £16 10s; Thomas
French, 18 pounds ; John French Jr.,
6 pounds ; Esq. Simons, 44 pounds ;
Samuel Brown, 72 pounds ; Ezekiel
Pease, 48 pounds ; Frederick Rogers,
45 pounds 10s; Ebenezer Simons, 18
pounds ; Joseph Hayward, 12 pounds;
Stephen Dudley, 15 pounds, Augustus
Pease, 10 pounds.
THE FIRST FREEMAN'S MEETING VOTES
FOR MEMBER OE CONGRESS.
The first votes cast for member of
Congress, Dec. 30, 1795 : Nathaniel
Niles, was the candidate ; had 21 votes.
THE EIRST FREEMAN'S MEETING VOTES
FOR GOVERNOR AND LIEUT. GOVERNOR.
Sept. 2, 1794: Thomas Chittenden,
had 2 votes; Isaac Tichenor, had 32
votes.
THE 2D. FREEMAN'S MEETING VOTES FOR
GOVERNOR AND LIEUT. GOVERNOR :

Sept. 7, 1796: Thomas Chittenden,
had 19 votes ; Isaac Tichenor, had 13
votes.
THE SECOND FREEMAN'S MEETING VOTES
FOR MEMBER OF CONGRESS.
At a freeman's meetmg, holden
May 22, 1797, for Representative to
Congress, the following persons had
the number of votes named : Lewis
R. Morris, 9 votes ; Nathaniel Niles, 5
votes ; Lot Hall, 3 votes, Amasa Paine,
1 vote. Attest: Moses Rowell, con
stable. GRAND LIST, 1797.
The following is the grand list for
Andover, in 1797: Polls, 157, whole
amount 2350.75.
The town was divided into two
parishes, or towns, in 1798 ; grand list
for 1799, polls 169, amount 10.152.33.
FIRST FREEMAN'S LIST.
The first men of Andover, who took
the freeman's oa h for the election of
representative to the General Assembly,
(this was before the division of the
town) were:
Ezekiel Pease : Ebenezer Simons ;* Ezra
Sexton: Solomon Howard: Thomas
French: Timothy Nichols: Joshua
Jaquith : William Brown : Dan Simons :
Peter Allen: Alvin Simons; Ezra
Cbapin, Augustus Pease : Dan'l Foster :
Sam'l Smith: David Howard: Capt.
John Simonds: Eli Pease: Frederick
Rogers : Stephen Burgess : Joshua Dale :
Henry Hall; Thomas Adams: Silas
Spaulding : John Gowdy : John Stiles :
John French : Joseph Howard : Phineas
Wheeler, Joseph Howard: Ichobald
Peny: Bunker Clark: Aaron Nichols:
[•This name is spelled in the copies from
records and in the mss., hoth Simons and
Simonds. The same as to Hc-selton, Ilessel-
ton, Hazelton and Hazeltaine ; and generally,
as to all other names spelled variously in the
records, in the town, and sometimes in the
same family. Ed.]

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Thomas Knowlton: Samuel Minard: ! to Abigail Markham, in her 21st year
Obadiah Pease : Joshua Jaquith : Sam'l
Brown: John Simonds, Jr.; Moses
Warner, John Chapin.

THE RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION.
From tlie time the town was divided
till 1819, Andover sent a representative
one year, and Weston one the next year-
In 1818, Joel Balch, representative
from Andover, laid this matter before
the Legislature, and the right to send a
representative from each town was im
mediately grarted. FIRST THINGS.
The first grist-mill in the present
town of Andover, was built by Stephen
Dudley, in the south part of the town,
and before this the first settlers were
compelled to go for their milling to be
done first to Westminster and next to
Rockingham. The first saw-mill was built by Moses
Rowell, at the so called middle of the
town. Tlie first blacksmith was Isaac Allen;
the first shoemaker, Hart Balch ; the
first cloth-dresser, Orrin Hazeltine; the
first tavern-keeper was Frederick Rog
ers : tlie first store was kept by Joseph
Bullard, in the south-west part of the
town ; the first tannery was put in by
Ebenezer Farnsworth ; the first framed
house was probably built by Moses
Warner ; tlie first business of the town j
must have been farming, or rather i
clearing land, and reducing the ashes |

in Enfield, Ct., Nov. 30, 1769.
Children: Abigail, -born Sept. 22,
1770; Asenith, Apr. 30. 1773 ; Lovey,
July 27, 1775; in Enfield. Born in
Andover: Moses, Sept. 12, 1777; Han
nah, June 4, 1780; Aaron, Mar. 6,
1783; Sarah, Mar. 1785; Omri, July
1, 1787; Alfred, Dec. 29, 1789.
The wife of Moses Warner, died Mar.
29, 1810; his daughter, Lovey, Oct, 9,
1811, after a tedious illness of 24 years.
Moses Warner Esq. died, Oct. 8, 1810.
He served as a soldier in the Revolu
tion 6 months, and served his town in
the Legislature for 6 years, was prob
ably a justice of the peace for he was
always called Esq. Warner. He was
chosen proprietors clerk in 1779, and
town clerk in 1 780, and with the ex
ceptions of two years, held the office
till 1809.
R. E. Edson told me that he had
heard "old Mrs. Hutchinson" say, that
when Mr. Warner dug the cellar for
his house on the farm where Warner
! Hutchinson now lives, he dug up a five-
pail iron kettle, which he sold to Nath'l
Fullerton, for old iron. [Query how it
eame there ?]
The men who appear to have figured
most in Moses Warner's time, were
Frederick Rogers, John Simonds, John
Simonds, Jr., Eli Pease, Samuel Bur
ton, Samuel Brown and Tho's Adams.
Their names appear most often on the
records.

to potash ; the first postmaster was j
Samuel Nichols; the first mail-carrier, i the first road,
Abner Felt, who brought his mail from i laid out in t(>wn, ran from Chester over
Bellows Falls, tlie nearest P. O. Dr. tlle hills north of the present traveled

Chauncey Chandler, was the first doctor.
MOSES WARNER, ESQ. ,
was born in Somers, Ct, on Christmas
day, 1748. and married in his 22d year

road on an average of some 100 rods,
striking Andover on a farm, owned by
a Mr. Randall, passing through Joshua
Jaquith's, Samuel Burton's Nathan
Andrews', Thomas Adams', Aaron

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Towns' Nathan Greeley's and Jonathan
Cram's farms.
OTHER EARLY SETTLERS.
Jacob Sheldon, Sam'l Burton, Abner
Gutterson, Edward L. Simonds, Eben
ezer Cummings, Jesse Parkhurst, Jos.
Cram, settled midway, between Simons-
ville, and Peasville.
Jonas Adams, Levi Adams. Peter
Adams, Daniel Knights, settled in the
north part of the town. John Blan.
chard, Joseph Dodge, Cyrus Smith,
Peter Putnam, Samson Walker, and
Joseph Stickney, settled near the so
called middle of the town.
Abner Gutterson was from Milford,
N. H., a^d married Phebe Barker,
from Wilton, N. H. Cyrus Smith,
was alsb from Wilton, lie married
Sybil Whitney, from Hau'cock, N. H.
Joseph Dodge, married Betsey Putnam,
both from Wilton. Peter Adams* mar
ried a Gibson, and Thomas Adams, an
Elliot. EBENEZER CUMMINGS
sold his place between Peaseville, and
Simondsville, to John Mansur, in 1794,
and removed to the north part of the
town, and erected works for dressing
cloth, at what has now long been known
as the Boynton place. He married
Hannah Washer, in 1,769, both were
from Amherst, N. H. They had sons :
Stephen, who was for some years one
ofthe early merchants of Ludlow.
Jacob, Leonara, Fianklin, and two
daughters, Betsey and Bridget. Betsey
married a Cram, and settled in her native
town. She learned, young, the tailor-
ess trade, to both cut ' and make coats
for the men, and pelisses for the farm
ers wives and daughters, and all garm
ents of full-cloth and broad-cloth, as
was worn at that day. This was then
considered a valuable trade for a

woman. She followed it before her
marriage, and perhaps after. She was
a cousin to the Rufus Barton young
folks. Ebenezer Cummings and Rufus
Barton, married sisters; both of which
families removed eventually to Ludlow,
where Ebenezer Cummings and his wife
died, and Franklin and Bridget.
Franklin Cummings died, while yet
a young man, with consumption, leav
ing a young wife and one little daughter,
and his widow afterward married Rufus
N. Barton, a son of Rufus Barton,
from Andover, and is now living the
aged widow of her second husband in
Ludlow, [with whom the compiler of
these histories is well and preciously
acquainted.] Stephen, Jacob and
Leouard, married and raised families
in Ludlow, but finally all removed to
the West. JOHN MANSUR
came with his family to Andover, in
1794; he bought the farm on which
Ebenezer Cummings had made a be
ginning. He used to carry a bushel of
corn on his back to the mills of John
Simons, about 5 miles distant, and
went by marked trees over Marcham's
Mountain, the mills being on what is
now known as Weston Island. The
settlers who were fortunate enough to
own coffee mills, often used them to
grind corn in those days.
MR. mansur, was born iu Dracutt,
Mass., Mar. 16, 1765. He removed
to Temple, N. H., where he married
Polly Kimball, born in Beverley,
Mass., Sept. 19, 1771. Both Mr. M.
and his wife were industrious and
frugal, and accumulated a handsome
property duriug their life-time. He
was a generous, honest and upright
man, a good neighbor and towns-man.
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whom are still living, (1870 ;) the two
eldest on the old homestead. He died
Dec. 25, 1851. She died Oct. 16,1851.
THE GREAT MARCH WIND.
In the early days of the town a fierce
tornado, known as the great March
wind, swept down the east side of
Marcam's mountain, taking a north
east course. It done considerable dam
age to some of the dwellings of the
settlers in its path, and blew down an
immense amount of timber.
Bunker Clark, who had the roof of his
house blown off, and a feather-bed car
ried off, jocosely remarked that he
could see his bed the next morning flap
ping in the wind on the north-east cor
ner of Mt. Monadnock.
Jonathan Putnam hed come here the
year before, and had built a log-house
in his clearing, and a log-barn near the
edge of the timber. All night long he
heard the crashing of failing timber
around him, but dared not go out lest
he should be crushed by some falling
trees. Before morning the gale subsid
ed, and Putnam went out expecting to
find his barn crushed and cattle killed,
but the trees, as if guided by the hand
of Providence, had fallen all around his
barn, but had not touched it. His
house, too, was uninjured.
I do not find any record that this town
took any part in the Revolutionary w ar,
and presume that it did not, as there
were but few settlers here during that
period,. and those who were here, had a
hard struggle to live and support their
families ; but quite a number of Revo
lutionary soldiers settled here after the
war, from New Hampshire and Mas
sachusetts, viz :
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS,
WHO SETTLED IN ANDOVER.
Solomon Howard, Samson Walker,
David Hazelton, Jonas Adams, Levi

Adams, Andrew Bradford, Hart Balch,
Peter Adams, Peter Putnam, Joseph
Stickney, Joseph Abbot, Ebenezer
Farnsworth, William Pierce, Benjamin
Pierce, David Burton, Daniel Knights,
Richard Bradford, Thomas Kezzer,
Jesse Parkhurst, Peter Adams, Peter
Putnam, Luther Adams, John Burton,
Joseph Stickney, and Frederick Rogers.
Peter Adams, Peter Putnam, Joseph
Stickney and Frederick Rogers enlisted
from this town and were out but a few-
mouths. The others , settled here soon
after the war. JESSE PARKHURST,
fought at Bennington and Stillwater ;
he came here from Wilton, N. H.
DAVID HAZELTON,
fought at Stillwater, and was with Gen.
Sullivan, in his expedition against the
Indians. He came here from Wilton,
N. H., name spelled Hesselton on the
records. HART BALCH,
was at Bunker Hill, Stillwater and
Saratoga-, and continued with the army
during the whole war ; he enlisted from
Massachusetts.* LEVI ADAMS,
fought at Stillwater, and saw much
service and hardship. After the battle
at Stillwater and surrender of Bur
goyne, word came to the army, that if
they would march to Albany that
night, they should have warm quarters
and double rations. The army started
at once. It was cool weather in autumn,
and the Mohawk River had to be ford
ed, taking the soldiers in water to their
shoulders. They arrived in Albany
late at night, worn, weary and chilled.
Adams was in the regiment, command
ed by Col. Cilley, a lion-hearted son of

*See accouut of Mr. Balch,
in paper following.

by Mr. Stickney

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New Hampshire. Cilley, at the head I was his exhausted condition, that it did
of his regiment rode up to the nearest j not affect him in the least.
house, arousing the slumbering inmates, i thomas kezzf.r,

and demanded shelter for his troops.
It was refused. "Open your doors,''
thundered the Colonel, and let in my | wheie he enlisted
men, or I will tear down your house
over your head. The owner immedia
tely opened his doors, and Col. Cilley
rode on from house to house, threaten
ing vengeance upon their owners if they
did not open their houses and give
shelter to his troops. In this way he
obtained warm quarters for his men,
and they were the only troops, who had
comfortable sheltei that night. The
rest of the army huddled into sheds and
crouched upon the sidewalks, and
hundreds died before morning from
cold and exposure.
In the morning Col. Cilley dispatch
ed a squad of men to the quarter
master, for the promised double rations.
They were sent back with the word
that it was against Gen. Washington's
orders. Col. Cilley was indignant.
Taking a part of his command, he
marched to the tent of the quarter
master. Sir, said he, addressiug that
officer, my men were promised double
rations if they would come here last
night, and they shall have them. Deal
them out, or I will tear your marque
down. The. double rations were fur
nished, and his regiment were the only
troops, who got them.
At one time, Adams, and a few other
soldiers were away from camp, for
some purpose, aud were attacked by
Indians. They fled towards the camp,
but were all overtaken and killed ex
cept Adams, whose superior endurance
and fleetness of foot, enabled him to
outrun them. Reaching the camp, he
was given a canteen of rum, which he
drained at a single draught, but such

or Keezer, first settled in this town,
then removed to St. Lawrence. Co.,

JEREMIAH ULANCHARD,
a soldier in tlie revolution, enlisted from
Wilton, N. H. He was captured by
the Indians and marched off. They
had one other captive, a white woman.
The Indians decided to burn them, and
stripped them of their clothing prepar
atory to lashing them to a tree. Blan
chard seeing a gap, in the ranks of his
foes, broke away and dashed through,
speeding away like a deer. He soon
heard foot-steps behind, and supposing
it to be the Indians re-doubled his ex
ertions, but soon glancing back, he saw
it was the woman close behind him.
They continued their flght, till they
came to a large log-pile, into which
they secreted themselves. The Indians
came up and walked over the pile, but
failed to discover them. After the In
dians had gone, they crawled out, and
made good their way to a place of
safety. Blanchard settled within the
limits of the present town of Westonr
SAMSON WALKER,
another veteran, was a Lieut, during
the war. He fought at Bunker Hill
and Bennington, where else, I do not
know. He was one of five brothers, who
fought at Bunker Hill, all holding a.
commission, and all over six feet tall.
One of these five brothers, a corporal,.
was taken prisoner by the British, and
died of starvation on board of a prison
ship. Samson died Mar. 23. 1828, aged
77 years. His wife. Thankful, one of
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28, 1851, aged 99 years and-3 months,
tlie oldest person, I think, who ever
died in town.
It was after the battle of Hubbard-
ton. that Levi Adams was chased by
Indians. Defrauded by government, and many
of them disabled by wounds, these old
veterans came here poor, and in com
mon with the other early settlers, saw
hard times for a while. They were all
brave men, true, as steel to the cause
for which they fougilt.
CAl'T. SOLOMON HOWARD,
whose title was conferred by the An
dover militia of an early day, of which
he was Captain, had been before he
settled in town a soldier of the Re
volutionary War. He fonght at Still-
\vater, Princeton, and other battles of
that period.
Howard and a few others, while
away from camp one time, probably on
a scouting expedition, came near starv
ing, — for eight days they had only one
mouldy biscuit each, per day. One of
the party had fits in consequence.
He served throughout the Revolution
ary war, and was when discharged
from service at the close of the war,
many hundred miles from his home in
Douglas, Mass. The journey thither,
he with others of his company, were
compelled to make on foot, and their
route lay through a portion of country
sparsely settled. The party often suf
fered severely from hunger.
At one time the party had traveled
several days without eating scarsely
anything, and as they toiled bn, weak
and exhausted, they came across a dead
horse lying by the road side. Hunger
overcome their uatural repugnance
against eating such food, and kindling
a fire, they cut slices from the carcass

of the dead animal, which they boiled
aud ate with a keen relish. Howard
often related this incident in after life,
always remarking when he did so, that
it was the sweetest meat he ever tasted.
He came here about the close of the
war, and was soon followed by his
brothers : Antcpast, Joseph and David,
all from Douglas, Mass. The How-
wards located in the south-east part of
the town, and commenced clearing up
their farms,- with very little to feed
upon at first, and it is told Solomon and
Antepast, once worked three \veeke,
with no other provisions but strinjj-
beans and milk, at the end of which
time, Solomon declared he could stand
string-beans no longer, and with a back-
load of pot-ash started for Bellows
Falls, the nearest store ; arrived there
and unable to get pork, he exchanged
his pot-ash for what he could get, fish,
flour, rice and salt, and hastened back
to Andover, and arrived at home,
cooked up his neV supplies, and in
vited his few neighbors, in to share the
feast with him.
The Captain was always a generous
man, and was very public-spirited. It
was the custom for all the young men
in the neighborhood, after planting, to
meet at his home for a holy- day, play
ing ball, wrestling, shooting at a mark,
and other athietic sports, and at night,
Mr. Howard w_ould always give them
a supper in his house. And in the win
ter evenings, the young people would
often gather there for a dance and
social enjoyements, and were always
welcome and free to the best his home
afforded. He would gi^e away, it is said, if
he went without himself. It is told,
he worked chopping all one winter
without shoes, that his wife made socks
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his feet, aud in this way used up a
whole quilt during the winter. — That
is the way, it seems, some or the best
and bravest of the first settlers, fared
first in the woods here. About the
way all over the state.
He married Cynthia Peters, of Grand
Isle, and some of his children are still
living. EBENEZER FARNSWORTH,
•our first tanner, married Martha Hale.
He was an old Revolutionary soldier;
served three years in that war. He
died here, Mar. 30, 1844.
HART BALCH
moved from Dublin, N. H., in 1788,
his oldest child, a boy, was 19 years
¦old, and they had 7 children younger,
when he made his stop here. His farm
was three-fourth of a mile from the
•center of the town, on the first road
that was laid out in town. The road
fan from the corner of Rutland coun
ty through Windsor, to the corner of
Windham county, it was called in after
years the old county road. It would
require a volume to recount all the
hardships that he and the other first
settlers had to endure ; many times they
had to go hungry, before the land was
•cleared from the heavy growth of tim
ber, so as to raise their provision. I
will recount one only in this family.
His oldest son, Joel, was sent to mill to
Rockingham. It must have been over
30 miles, as the roads went then, with
an ox-team. The morning, he started,
the meal was nearly all cooked. He
had a little "luncheon" put up: The
roads were so bad, he had to walk be
side his cattle, most of the way. He
got to the mill a little after dark, tired
aud his luncheon eaten up, and had to
Stay over night for his grist. It was
ready early the next morning. He

smelled doughnuts frying before he got
up, and thought he should have a nice
breakfast ; but the scent of the breakfast
was all he got. They told him he
would have little time enough to get
home. It had snowed during the night,
and was still snowing. It Was dark,
when he got to Andover line : There, he
met his father, and he got on the sled,
and his father drove the team home.
The meal he had got, was not double
extra flour, but good, wholesome rye
and Indian meal, and a luxury to the
hungry children.
Hart Balch, was a soldier ofthe Re
volution. He enlisted soon after the
battle at Lexington ; was in the battle at
Bunker Hill, and served during the war.
He was never wounded. He enlisted
again in 1812, arid served six months,
he died on the farm , where he first set
tled, Feb. 1856, in the 95th yearof his
age. His oldest son, Joel, was the
only one, that settled iu Andover. He
was a carpenter by trade. He always
lived on and managed a farm, and
worked at his trade when he could get
the time. He never went to school, but
five weeks in his life. He was bound
out when his father went to war. He
was a man of pretty good education, a
good penman, and understood business
generally . He held a number of offices
in town ; was one of the selectmen for
many years, and represented the town
7 years in the Legislature, — not in suc
cession. He died Oct. 27, 1845, in
his 73d year
[The above contributed by his grand
daughter, Mrs. Derby.]
OF PETER PUTNAM
on the Revolutionary list we have only
one annecdote: In anti-masonic times,
Joseph Dodge was a "red hot" Free-
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bor, a "red bot" Anti-Mason, their
farms joined. Mr. Dodge and Putnam
had formerly been sufficiently friendly
neighbors, to live side by side peaceably,
but times had changed, and Putnam
seeing a hog in his garden, and suppos
ing it to belong to Dodge, set his dog
upon it, and attacking it with clubs
killed it. At night when he called up his
hogs to feed, one was missing. Could
it be possable he had killed his own
hog ? The first, suspicion dawned upon
him. He would see. He went out in
to the orchard where the dead carcase
lay, and found he had killed his own
hog. The Masons and some others passed
it round for a bye- word : long after
when a man to spite another, proposed
to do injury to himself — "Don't kill
your own hog." JOSEPH STICKNEY,
the seventh name on the given list of
Revolutionary soldiers, who settled in
Andover, died Apr. 3, 1848, aged 86
years. His wife, Anna, died, Feb. 19,
1851, aged 77 years. They had four
children, three ofwhomarenow living,
(1871.) Homer, the youngest son, is a well-
to-do farmer, in Wisconsin.
ANDREW BRADFORD.
a Revolutionary soldier, came here soon
after the close of the war, aud settled
in the eastern part of the town, where
he lived with his family for many years.
He was short in stature, broad and
thick set. and a perfect Hercules in
strength. The Captain of the company
in which he belonged at one time, know
ing his immense strength, bet with a
brother officer, that he would carry a
cannon, weighing 700 lbs. on board a
vessel lying near by. Bradford readily
agreed to do it, if the Captain would get

him a good pair of new shoes, to wear
when doing it. The shoes were pro
cured, and Bradford lifted the cannon
up on to his knees, and walked with it
on board the vessel to the river, but lost
his shoes, bursting them both out at the
sides in the feat.
At another time during his service in
the war, while the army was encamped
for several weeks, a picket guard was
mysteriously picked off, every night, at
a certain advanced post, by the bullet
of some unseen foe. Bradford was at
length chosen to do picket duty at that
post. He asked for and obtained per
mission to watch behind a stump near
by. He kept a sharp lookout on all
sides, and late in the night, saw a
suspicious movement in a clump of
bushes, directly in front of him. He
leveled his musket towards the moving
bushes, and without stopping to give the
usual number of calls, shouted "who
goes there three times" and fired, and
then ran back to camp. In the morn
ing, Bradford with the soldiers went
out to accertain the result .of his fire,
and found in the bushes a dead Indian.
No more soldiers were shot off at that
post. He was a genial, kind-hearted and
good man, and among the soldiers was
familiarly called "Cub." After the
war of 1812, in which he also served,
he removed with his family to Spring
field, where he died in advanced life.
FREDERICK ROGERS,
who kept the old Andover tavern and
whom his townsmen liked, tolerably
I well, but thought him to be a rather self-
important man, was very desirous to
"go to the Legislature," as it was call
ed, aud as lie was au old Revolutionary
soldier, the town chose him one year.
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House. His neighbors gave each other
the wink, and on his return from the
Capitol, gathered around to ask how
he got along He doggedly replied : "I
had net been there three days before I
found I was a d — d fool, and before I
came away, they all found it out."
It had the excellant effect to make
Rogers ever after a more unassuming
man. JONAS ADAMS,
the fifth man on our list of Revolution
ary settlers. Settled in the north-east
part of the town. He had three sons,
Jerry, Alvin and Orrisan. When he
died, his son Alvin, was but five years
old, and Orison, his youngest son,
two years old. Mrs. Adams, with the
help of Jerry managed to keep the farm
and to keep the family together, till her
sons became of age. Jerry is now
living in Weston, Alvin, in Boston,
Mass., and Orison in his employ. —
[See sketch, after by Alvin Adams,
son of Jonas.]
Jonas Adams, was Col. Cilley 's
waiter in the war, and Levi Adams, au
orderly Sergeant in Cilley's regiment,
and BENJAMIN PIERCE,
was one of General Washington's Life
Guards, during the war.
JOHN BARTON,
the last on the list of Revolutionary
soldiers, who settled in this town, came
here with his son Rufus Barton, who
came with or soon after Ebenezer Cum
mings. He enlisted from Oxford,
Mass : volunteered and took the place
when between 50 and 60 years of age,
of a young man, who when drafted
turned pale, and intreated to be let off.
At this time John Barton m^ a remark
ably strong, active man, the hardships

of the wrar, first, as he used to say,
made him grow old.
He was very quick and wiry in his
youth, aud often when an old man would
boast of his wrestling exploits when, he-
was a young man : how Deacon Samuel
Davis was physically the most pow er-
ful man in the vicinity of Worcester,
Mass., and could easily throw any man
at wrestling in the county. After a
general squirrel-hunt, the hunters met
in Oxford, in order to count the game ;.
and for the usual amusement on such
occasions, wrestling was proper, and
the Deacon was unrivalled in the athle
tic exercise. After throwing a dozen
or more. I was drawn, he said, to
wrestle with him, and he sarcastically
remarked, that he was not in the habit
of wrestling with boys," but I happened
to throw him, which was attended with
a general shout and prolonged laughter..
He was disappointed and mortified, and
said, "John, my lad, will you wrestle-
again." I said no, I will never wrestle
with you again. He then offered me
five dollars as an inducement to wrestle
again, but I refused to do so on any
consideration. "What, said he, half
angry, refuse to wrestle for a dollar a
minute, and warranted not to be hurt."
I replied, I am resolved to have the
pleasure of saying that I threw Dea.
Samuel Davis the last time I wrestled
with him, and can prove it by witnesses."'
Mr. Barton's wife, Abigail Dana, a
good and pious woman, married at the
age of 14 years, and was the mother of
14 children, 10 boys and 4 girls, who
all lived to man and womanhood.
John Barton aud his wife lived with
their son, Rufus, in their declining
years. He died in Andover Mar. 26,
1810, aged 80 years. His wife died in
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They were buried in the old grave-yard,
at the north-east part of the town.
AMY WALKER HULL,
daughter of Sampson Walker, of An
dover, a revolutionary soldier, married
John Hull, a revolutionary soldier, who
settled, lived and died in Weston. Mrs.
Amy Hull outlived her husband many
years, she resided during the last years
of her life witb her son, John Hull Jr.,
at Ludlow, where she died at the age
of 93 years, and was buried by her
husband at Weston.
Thankful Walker, sister of Amy,
lived to the age of 87£ years.
[Abigail Dana, wife of John Barton,
mother of Rufus, died at the old Bar
ton home-stead in Ludlow, about 1822,
or 23, aged 94. The Compiler of the
Gazetteer, has in possession, a frag
ment of those gold-bead necklaces,
worn when this great grand-mother's
.grand-mother was a girl ; her grand
mother's necklace given to her at her
marriage at fourteen, and whicn we
were told, receiving the beads when a
child, were then over two hundred
years old. Ed.]
ABRAHAM VANDOZER,
an early settler, was a man of pro
digious strength. He could lift up a
full barrel of cider and drink from the
bung-hole, and not unfrequently did
this to show his great strength. He
once offered to carry a barrel of cider
on his back to his home, a distance of
one-half mile, if the owner would give
him the cider, but was refused, the owner
knowing Vandozer could easily do it.
ANTEPAST HOWARD
was a man of education for his day and
taught school here for many years. He
•and his nephew, Joseph Jr., were also

ministers. Ahtepastwas the first preach
er in the town, and Joseph Jr., was
quite a poet in his day, it is said.
[We have asked for, but have not as
yet been able to obtain any specimen of
his poetry.] SAMUEL BURTON
born Apr. 8, 1767, in Wilton, N. H.,
came to Andover in the year 1791;
located and spent his days upon the
farm now occupied by his grand-son,
A. E. Stannard. He worked one year
clearing up his farm; doing his own
cooking. He was married at Wilton,
Jan. 24, 1792, to Hannah Putnam, a
cousin of Gen. Israel Putnam ; he rais
ed a family of 9 children, who arrived
at maturity, six now living. (1871.)
He possessed great physical strength,
and an iron constitution. It is said that
he with six others of the early settlers
would raise the whole side of a 40 feet
barn of hard wood posts.
He represented the town ; held the offioe
of justice ofthe peace for several years7
in succession ; by industry and economy
accumulated a handsome property, and
was quite an extensive land-owner.
During the last years of his life, he
was a great advocate of temperance, and
the anti-slavery movement.
His wife died Jan. 17, 1852, aged
82 years and 9 months, they having
lived together 60 years. He died June
7, 1853, aged 86.
JOHN FRENCH
settled at an early day in the south-east
corner of the town. He used to carry
potash on his back to Westminster, 30
miles distant, and exchange fer corn-
meal. We have the following account
of this old settler from Mr. J. Morgan:
John French moved to Andover, and

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E. Edson. He came to my father's
about 35 years since. He related some
incidents of his trials when the coun
ty was new I very distinctly remem
ber, to use his words. At one time, I
and my wife and two children were al
most in a starving condition, when I
started for Chester, in search of pro
visions. I found a man on the south
street, that would let me have half a
bushel of corn, and heard of a man on the
north street that had beans to sell. I
traveled over 1 here and found he would
let me have only 4 quarts. But he
would let me have them cheap, as they
were frost-bitten, and one-half of them
I would have to throw away. I took
them, and with my corn and beans, I
started for home.
When I was about seven or eight
miles from home, I found another man
that let me have 12 pounds of pork,
which I took very gladly and added to
my load, but when I had got within
about 2 miles of home, I laid down as
I thought to die, twice before reaching
home, but each time after resting for
a while, remembering my hungry fami
ly, and that they were perhaps even
then starving. I arose up and strug
gled on till I reached my door. It was
some time in the night ; the children
who had not had breakfast, dinner or
supper, had cried themselves to sleep.
But my wife was watching for me.
When she heard my steps, she opened
the door, and when I told her, I had
got some meal, she cried. Then she
started a fire and made a cake without
sifting the meal. We could not think
of throwing any of that away. When
the cake was baked, we awoke the
children and gave them some for fear
they would die before morning. We
ate all the meal without sifting, and the
beans were all good ones to us.

One fall, or early winter, he was
without shoes, and there was no way,
that he saw to get any. When Capt.
Soloman Howard killed a fat cow, and
wanted to get the hide to the tanner, the
nearest tannery was in Dummerston,
about 50 miles distant, and the Captain
told him if he would take the skin to the
tannery, he would give him leather
enough for a pair of shoes. He sewed
some rags on to his feet, and took the
hide on a hand-sled down through
Chester, Rockingham, Westminster* and
Putney to Dummerston, when he reached
Westminster, the rags were wore off his
feet, and they were bleeding. Yon could
track me by the blood he said. He stop
ped at a house, and the woman brought
one or two old pair of shoes to give
him one pair, but as they were not large
enough for him, she sewed some stout
cloth again upon his feet and he thank
ed her and proceeded to Dummerston,
where he delivered the hide, and got
the leather for his shoes.
J. Morgan.
ELDER JOEL MANNING,
was born in Townsend, Mass., Aug. 31,
1764, and he and his brother Samuel
with their families came to Andover in
1789, bringing all their effects in an
ox-cart. Joel married Vashti Broad-
street, by whom he had four children :
Dorcas, Joel, John B., and William K.
Samuel Manning, married a Miss
Graham, and was a firm and devout
Baptist, and the first believer of that
faith, who settled in Andover.
After the formation of the Baptist
church in Chester, Joel became con
verted through the preaching of Elder
Aaron Leland, and for a time, he and
Samuel were connected with the chnrch
at Chester. But the somewhat liberal
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was not suited for the stricter notions
¦of the Mannings, and .through their
influence, a Baptist church was organ
ized at Andover, Aug. 31, 1803, of
which Samuel, was chosen deacon, and
soon after Joel, was also made a dea
con, and Oct. 2, 1806, was ordained its
pastor, a position, in which he served
with much zeal, for a long term of
.years. He was a Calvinist of the straightest
order, firm and immovable in his con
victions, as the rocks, which surround-
— ed his mountain home, and honest
•enough, to preach the peculiar doc
trines of his creed, in their most posi
tive sense.
A few years ago, when Mrs. Miller,
a grand-daughter of Elder Manning,
.was visiting the old home in company
with the family of Joel Warner, abroad
ledge of rocks, near the old home was
pointed out to her, where this staunch
old Baptist minister used to resort, and
where he was often seen slowly walk
ing, back and forth , meditating on his
sermons, for the coming Sabbath. Mrs.
Miller had photographs taken of the
old home, and of this ledge of rocks,
as mementoes of her revered grand
father. Possessing an active temperament,
great will and energy, he often said
things, which to those, who differed
from him in religious belief, seemed
.harsh, but he possessed good logical
powers, and was an earnest, effective
speaker, and in his church, always
maintained the strictest dicipline.
His independent and out-spoken
character, and somewhat irascible
temper, often brought him into temta-
tion, and difficulties, and yet it is said,
that perhaps, no man exercised a
stronger influence for a time, on the |

minds of the people of Andover, than
did Elder Manning.
He was Captain of the regiment to
which the Andover militia belonged,
and his prayers on the muster field are
said, never to have been surpassed, for
soul stirring patriotism or eloquence.
Previous to 1806, he was also a mis
sionary to Canada. In ordinary life,
he was a hard-working farmer, and
cooper, and a good citizen.
This is his record ; he was a fearless
Calvinist, a strong Anti- Mason, an
Abolitionist, and was a life member of
the Colonization Society, founded by
Henry Clay.
He finally retired from the ministry;
left his farm, and went to Ludlow, to
live with his son, William K., where
he died, aged 77 years, and down to
this late date, the christian community
speak of Elder Manning, with great
reverence. GENEOLOGY OF JOEL MANNING.

March 15, 1732;
July 14, 1731;

Samuel Manning,
Abigail Avery,
John Manning, Aug. 26, 1753;
Sarah Manning, Jan. 14, 1755;
William Manning, Oct. 15, 1756;
Martha Manning, Dec. 4, 1758;
Abigail Manning, Nov. 25, 1760;
Samuel Manning, Nov. 24, 1762;
Joel Manning, Aug. 31, 1764;
Elizabeth Manning, Sept. 10, 1766;
Levi Manning, July 29, 1768;
Joseph Manning, Jan. 1, 1770.
Benjamin Manning, Jan. 9. 1773;
Edward Manning, Apr. 21, 1775.
Aug. 11,1764:
July 2, 1761 ;
Dorcas Manning, Nov. 21, 1791 ;
Joel Manning, Oct. 9, 1793;
John B. Manning, Feb. 16, 1799.
William K. Manning, Dee. 12, 1800;

Joel Manning,
Vashti Broadstreet,

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Joel Manning, Oct. 9, 1793;
Dira Jenkins, Oct. 15, 1806;
Alexander Manning, Nov. 30. 1824;
John Jaj- Manning, Jan. 2, 1826;
Vashti Manning, Nov. 23, 1827 ;
Mary V. Manning, Oct. 19, 1829;
Cornelia A. Manning, Sept. 15, 1831;
Jane C. Manning, Sept. 28, 1833;
George D. Manning, Aug. 17, 1835;
Henry Fish, Dec. 19, 1819;
Mary V. Manning, Oct. 19, 1829 ;
Goorge M. Fish, Jan. 27, 1855 ;
Jennie C. Fish, March 31, 1857;
Charlie M. Fish, Aug. 1, 1859;
H. Manning Fish, Feb. 12; 1862.
STEPHEN DUDLEY,
with his mother and two younger
brothers, Peter and Jonathan, came
here early from Middletown, Mass.
Stephen built the first grist-mill in the
present town of Andover, on the
south fork of Williams River, which
was a god-send to the .settlers in the
eastern part of the township, who had
before been obliged to go over Mark-
ham's Mountain to the mills of John
Simons, a distant of 5 miles, often car
rying a grist on their backs. Stephen
remained here several years, then re
moved to Cato, N. Y., where he died.
He was born about the year 1767.
peter dudley, soon removed to
Peru, where he became distinguished
as a militia officer; was a large land
owner and a prominent man in that
town many years, and raised a large
and fine family of sons and daughters.
He was born in 1771, and lived to a
good old age. Jonathan, with his
mother, lived here many years. He
was twice married, and raised a large
family of boys and girls. He was
born 1779, and died in Ohio, in 1855,
aged 7G years.
Peter Dudley, died Ang. 18, 1847

aged 73. He and his wife are both
buried in Peru.
THE BARTON FAMILY.
FROM ASA S. BARTON PAPERS.
john barton, an Englishman, born
in England, came to America and set
tled in Oxford, Mass., where he mar
ried Abigail Dana, who was English on
the father's side, and Weleh on the
mother's. John and Abigail had child
ren: Asa, John, Phineas, Caleb, David,
Jeremiah, Edward, Pearly, Asubah,
Abigail, Hannah, Amos, Rufus and
Phebe, twins. Rufus Barton and his
father John, and brother Jerry, were
among the early settlers in Andover.
[Our mother, daughter of Rufus,
used to tell her children their grand
father was the fifth settler in town, she
had heard him say, or perhaps in his
part of the town. "Uncle Daniel
Sawyer, as he was called, father of
Daniel and Leonard Sawyer, who after
ward settled in Ludlow, being his near
est neighbor.] JEREMIAH BARTON.
son of John, brother of Rufus, settled
in Andover soon after the latter. His
oldest son, Jerry, was the founder of
Bartonsville, in Rockingham, or gave
his name to the ville. He was an en
terprising business man; died some
years since.
Ira, another son of Jacob Barton, by
his second wife, born in Andover, re
moved to Ludlow, where he resided at
the village many years, and was an
esteemed citizen, and one of the oldest
members of the Baptist church, at the
the time of his death, about 1882.
RUFUS BARTON,
one among the early settlers of the
town, was born in Oxford, Mass., Aug.
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mother and their effects here on an ox-
sled, and after a tidious journey of 9
days, arrived at the house of John
Burton, in the eastern part of the town,
where he 'left his parents for a short
time. He purchased 100 acres of land
in the north-west part of the town,
where, after clearing a few acres, he
erected a house. In 1798, he married
Lydia Washer, a native of Amherst,
N. H., born in 1770. Here on this
farm they shared the hardships and
privations incident to pioneer life, and
in this house all their children were
born. In 1814, soon after the organization
of the Methodist society, consisting of
members in Andover and Ludlow, to
the number of about 20. Mr. Barton
and wife joined the society. Joseph*
Manning was then class-leader. In
1816, during the month of December,
there was with a severe driving north
east snow storm on a Sabbath day. Mr.
Barton had previously erected and
partly prepared a log-barn but he had
not put the stanchels into the stable,
and his cattle being exposed to the
inclemency of the storm, he staid at
home and drove down stakes in his
barn to which to tie his cattle, and
drove them in for the night, instead of
attending meeting at BrotherManning's,
in the absence of the preacher, con
ducted by Manning.
The following morning, Mr. Man
ning called on Mr. Barton, and de
manded the cause of his absence from
meeting. Mr. Barton said, "he con
sidered it his duty to remain at home
and shelter his cattle from the storm."
Mr. Manning replied, "then you have
more regard for your cattle, than you
have for the worship of God Almighty,
and you shall be expelled from the
society for wilfullly neglecting to at

tend meeting, and for labor on the
Sabbath." Mr. Barton responded, that
he considered it necessary labor, and
would do the same again under similar
circumstances." , Mr. Manning, with
characteristic pertinacity, said : "you
shall be expelled from the society for
your provoking contumely." So the
two contended — Alas ! for poor human
nature. Mr. Manning then appealed
to Mrs. Barton, expecting she would
condemn her husband ; strange enough
to the stout disciplinarian, she, but, jus
tified him. The next Sunday the
young circuit preacher was there, who
always put up at Bro. Manning's, and
the case was brought by him before
the class, and Bro. Barton was called
upon to make his confession, to state
that he was sorry, and that in no case
would he ever work again on the Sab
bath. Mr. Barton explained the mat
ter, stated he was sorry it had happen
ed, and that he would endeavor in
future to avoid labor on the Sabbath,
but to pledge himself farther, could not,
as if the same thing should happen
again, he should drive down his
stanchels, and tie up his cattle, out of
the storm, for he read in his Bible,
that "the merciful man, is merciful to
his beast."
The expostulation Of Manning and
the preacher with Barton grew hot, all
three grew hot. and the firmness of
Barton only increased. The vote was
called to expel Barton, — to be taken
by rising— only Manning arose. Man
ning and the minister chafed, but laid
the discipline over till the next visit of
the preacher, in two week.
The Methodist class numbered about
20 members, in so strong a Baptist
town, had greatly flourished up to
this time.

The Editor's Mother.

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33

Hotter and heavier came on the
church-storm at the ne:t meeting, the
sermon was on the sanctity of the Sab
bath, the exhortation of preacher and
class-leader oa the imperitive duty of
the class to maintain the honor of the
Sabbath ; again the "rising" vote was
called, the preacher stood up, Manning
stood up, two of the sisters stood up.
The hot-headed young preacher en
raged called for all opposed to the ex
pulsion to arise ; every man in the class
except the leader stood np ancl a ma
jority of the women. There was a
bright fire blazing on the hearth, the
preacher turned and threw the class-
paper with their names, into it, and
said : This class is broken up ; and it
seems in fact it v/as, feu: never has the
Methodist church flourished in An
dover since, to this day.
Barton was liked by his townsmen
much better than Manning, and the
sympathy of nearly all was with him
at first, but after a time he grew too
bitter for the relish of many against
both Armenism and Calvinism.
He was a' man of clear and vigorous
mind, was quick of perception, keen in
repartee, and a ready debater ; passion
ately fond of religious disputation ; he
would often argue against his own con
victions of truth, merely to test the
skill and ingenuitj' of his opponent in
debate ; but those, who knew him best,
never doubted his belief in Christiani
ty. In 1818, he removed with his
family to Ludlow, where he died July
31, 1833, aged 59 years. His wife died
May 22, 1851, aged 81 years.
WILLIAM STEVENS
with his family came here early and
settled one mile north of the middle of
the town, on land purchased of Bun
ker Clark. A few acres were cleared

of timber, and a log-house had been
built on it. He made many improve
ments and built one of the first two-
story houses in town. He possessed
fine natural abilities, was one of the
earliest justice of the peace, and a man
of respectability. His wife was Abi
gail Green, daughter of Capt. Green,
who was massacred with other soldiers
by Indians, near Saratoga, a cousin of
General Green of It. I. Their oldest
daughter. Betsey Stevens, taught the
first school in town, in the house of
Timothy Nichols. She married Joel
Balch, the son of Hart, and was mother
of William Stevens Balch. She died
Dec. 31, 1810. Mrs. Stevens died in
1808. Esqr. Stevens married his
second wife in Jeffray, N. H., to
which place he removed, and died
there in 1830.
THE BALCH FAMILY.
From mati'i-iul furnished.
BY REV. WILLIAM S. 1SALCII.*
Among the early settlers of the town
was Hart Balch, a veteran of the Re
volution, having served 7 years from
the Battle of Bunker Hill, to the end
of the war. A man of strong, clear
mind and honest -heart. He raised 14
children ; was always in humble circum
stances, but always respectable. He
was a great lover of liberty, a devout
hater of toryism, a sort of oracle for
Revolutionary incidents, for hours
young people used to listen with gap
ing interest to his descriptions of per
sonal incidents in the war. [One can
imagine the grand-father of the talent
ed Rev. Wm. S. Balch, a good story
teller.] In the war of 1812, when a recruit
ing office was established in Andover,
[*We are prohibited ljy Mr. Bnlcli from ad
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this old soldier of 76. entered earnestly
into the enlistment and discipline of
recruits for the new war, and seemed
in his element rattling a musket in ex
ercise, or going through the evolutions
on parade. A draft being called for
of every seventh man from the militia,
for the defense of the Northern border,
great trepidation, suddenly fell upon
the people. The militia company was
summoned, the order read, and the
lot prepared, and one by one was
drawn out and announced. At length
the lot fell to one Benton, who burst
into weeping expressions of bitterest
grief. Balch, then considerably over
sixty, rallied him on his faint-hearted
patriotism, and told him he would
never do far a soldier, and offered to
take his place for ten dollars. The
terms were quickly accepted, and the
old patriot, slung his knapsack on,
buckled on his cartridge-box and
bayonet, shouldered his musket, and
took his position in the ranks,* ready
for field and fray.
He lived to the age of nearly 95
years, enjoying mostly good health.
Not long previous to his death, he
walked over a mile to hear his grand
son preach. For several years, he suf
fered from partial blindness ; once sub
mitted to some severe treatment, which
did him little good. His sight partial
ly returned to him many years before
his death. He was of that happy
temperament, that takes the world as
it comes without complaint, resolved
to make the best of every thing.
He was inhis religious feelings, close
in his views, firm in his convictions,
without interfering with the opinions
of others. By kindness probity and
manly independence, nemain tained the
esteem of his neighbors and the affec
tion and reverence of his r1.jscendants.

JOEL BALCH,
the oldest son of Hart Balch, acted
a somewhat prominent part for many
years in the town, serving in almost
every position of public affairs. He
represented the town many years in
the Legislature, being first chosen when
Andover and Weston sent a Represen
tative jointly, alternating every 2 years,
by common consent. He procured the
entire separation and representation
from each town.
Esquire Balch, (his common name)
was a man of vigorous mind and po
sitive will and character, but generous
and considerate towards others, so long
as they accorded with his views and sus
tained a good reputation. He always
regreted a deficient education, and was
cautious as a prudent man, not to in
volve himself, where he could not ful
fil what was expected of him.
Above all he held a hatred of shams
and abhorred innovations, and counsel
ed his children to avoid them, His
caution was "not to get on too fast.'"
One of his sons studied through
Adams arithmetic and Murray's gram
mar, before daring to let his father
know of it.
The same son once obtained his
father's consent to attend a ball ; had
engaged his lady ; blacked his boots,
and was ready to start, when his father
learning a somewhat pretensious man,
formerly a merchant in town, was there
from Boston, and taking a prominent
part in it, sternly forbade his going ;
he allowed him to go and notify "his
girl, but required him to return home
immediately, which he did. This phase
in his character, resulted from a strict
regard for honest men, and a stinted
knowledge of what would be proper
under a changed condition of things.

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35

There was a good deal of the Roman
in him.

limbs, as the '-old Doctor." used to
tell long afterwards. It was only his

One of his sons had been sent out to ! strong will and excellent constitution,
hunt cattle, aud induced to go with two i he would say that brought him through.
other boys over the mountain and get ! After this, he studied medicine with
some melons ; until near the bed, he j his brother, Chauncey, and settled in
never dreamed they were to be stolen, j Andover, about 1800, where he com
It was Sunday, at mid-day. He asked J menced his practice, and was the resi
dent physician for about fifty years.
His first stock of medicines, he bought
in Charleston. N. H.. getting trusted
for them, and said he. by the time
these were gone, I had earned enough

"what if Mr. Cram will not give us
any?" "I guess we shall not ask
him," one replied. He hesitated to go
farther, but the others laughed at him.
The others took each a melon, but he

took none. They were seen by the I t0 l^W for them, and to buy another

owner ; their fathers were notified of it.
Esquire Balch wrote a note and sent
his son with it directing him to work
for the man till he wat satisfied, while
the father's of the other boys took no
notice of the matter. Such characters
however exact in justice, do not, for
the time, always win esteem, especially
from those upon, whom the exactions
are laid, but Esquire Balch was more
cautious in his demands upon those
not of his household. He was a man
of good common sense.
He never obtained -too much wealth,
but always enjoyed a competence, by
hard labor and economy, he lived re
spectably among his neighbors. He
died at the age of 73, having been in
jured by a fall from a building.
DR. CHARLES CHANDLER.
A grandson of Judge Tho's Chandler,
was born in Chester, where he spent
his early life. Though his parents
were very poor, young Chandler man
aged to acquire some education, and
arriving at manhood, went into the
state of New York, teaching, where
he contracted the yellow fever, and
before he had fully recovered from
that, had the small-pox. His life
hung by a thread for some time, and
his flesh had to be swathed on to his

small stock. He often suffered severely
from cold and exposure, so .-cant was
his wardrobe. In times of deep snow,
and impassable roads, he often made
long journeys of from 10 to 20 miles
on snow-shoes to visit his patients. At
one of these times, he was sent for to
attend the wife of Jonathan Dudley.
He set out at once upon his snow-
shoes, and calling at the house of Dan'l
Towns, about a -J mile this side of Mr.
Dudley's requested Sirs. Towns to ac
company him. She consented, hut
how could she go? Part of the dis
tance, she went by clinging with her
hands to a pole, carried on the should
ers of two stout men. This sOon be
came fatiguing to the lad}", and Dr.
Chandler directed her to step on to his
snow-shoes and walk behind him. She
did so, moving her feet forward as he
did, and the rest of the journey was
performed in that way. It is need
less for me to add, at that time a new
member was added to the family of
Mr. Dudley.
He had an extensive practice, ex
tending many miles into the neighbor
ing towns around, and was rather tall
and portly, and fine looking. In char
acter, he was firm, resolute aud per-
serving. honest and upright in his deal-

^.

ings with mankind, and a genial kind-
hearted man. He was twice married,
first to Nancy White, of Wc»ton, by
whom he had four children, one of
which died iu infancy.
Second he married Mrs. Mary Larkin,
by whom he had two children. He
died with his daughter, Sirs. Abraham
Adams, in Ludlow, Jan. 9, 1853, aged
82 years. MRS. ESTHER PENTHER ADAMS
and her son, Charles, gives the por
trait of her father, Dr. Charles Chand
ler to the work, from whom we have
the following additional family bio
graphy :
My husband, Abraham Adams, is a
son of Peter Adams, one of the Revo
lutionary soldiers. He enlisted in
Townshend, Mass. He may be the
only one, who never received a pen
sion. Abraham Adams was born in An
dover, June 27,1804, and is now 81
years of age, (Jan. 1886) and quite
feeble. He is the last one living of
Peter Adam's family.
My brother,
DR. WOLCOTT CHARLES CHANDLER,
married Mar. 1830, to Fanny Priest,
a niece of. Mrs. Peter Adams. They
had four children.
Dr. W. C. Chandler, died in Natick,
Mass., of malignent dysentery, Aug.
19, 1848, aged 41.
His youngest daughter of 1 year, and
eldest daughter of 18, both died in less
than 10 days after their father, leaving
beside a vidow, and two children, a
son and daughter. Charles, the son,
went to California, and died young.
The daughter, married and is living in
California, as, also, her widowed
mother.

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Doctor Wolcott Chandler, (as he

was usually called), was the idol of
his father's heart. He was a very emin
ent and successful practitioner, and
greatly endeared to his numerous pa
tients. He was cut off in the midst of
his usefulness, and his death is severely
felt ancl deeply lamented, not only by
his family and particular friends, but
by the entire community, said the
obituary at. his death
Esther Penther was my grand
mother's maiden name, my father's
mother, who was a daughter of Capt.
Penther, of New Haven, Ct.
Naney M. Chandler, my sister, two
years younger than myself, resides in
Toccoa, Ga., is now in her 75th
year. My sister Mary Chandler, died in
March 1863, aged 47. [She was a
teacher and considered as remarkably
capable.] My brother Henry, died in Oct. 1839,
aged 21. the old family physician.
( Dr. Chavles Chandler. )
BY AUSTIN ADAMS.
His head was white as driven snow
And trembling was his hand,
His limbs were weak, his steps were slow,
Nor fully at command :
Yet he was sought both far and near,
By night as weU as day ;
In wind or storm however drear,
He bravely rode his way.
Depending from his faithful horse
There hung a single bell ;
From east or west, from north or south,
His coming all could tell.
He came in each supremest hour
When life hung by a thread ;
Where darkest grief began to lower
Was heard his welcome tread.
What though the weight of seventy years
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No other presenee dried our tears,
No other quelled the storm.
We saw his'trembling, learned hand
Laid on the throbbing brow,
Those seenes of distant time and land,
How fresh in -memory now.
The good old Doctor full of years
And learnings sweet accord,
Has passed beyond our hopes and fears
And has his great reward.
THE MEMORIES.
OF AN OLD INHABITANT.
Somewhere between 1 780 and 90, I
remember seeing Polly O'Brien, a girl
just entering her teens, publicly whip
ped at the post, for taking a few pota
toes fiom a field. This scene burned
into my memory, for I pitted her. Her
folks were very poor. She had been
• sent by them to a neighbor for a peck
of potatoes, with a promise of subse
quent payment. She was refused, and
was watched as she would doubtless steal
if she could not buy them. She was
taken before Esq. Brown, and ordered
to pay some two dollars, or be whipped.
A neighbor went forward with the
money, but the court held a third per
son had no business to pay the fine, and
she suffered the ordeal ; the first and the
last, I think, to the honor of the town.
The whipping posts soon began to go
down in the towns around, and An
dover did not keep hers up, after her
neighbors had dropped theirs.
As to my knowledge of militia mat
ters in the early day, I lived at a re
mote corner of the town, and saw little
of the Andover trainings in my boy-
days. In my young-mandays, I was
abroad some years ; hence it is [Jrobable
many of my neighbors have brighter
memories of these than myself.
THE ALARM LIST.
In the war of 1812, there was a com
pany -of men of over 45 years, bound

together by their honor, called "the
alarm list" (our old people used gener
ally to pronounce it "alarnm") their
object was to be ready for any short
term of service, in case of any invasion,
where extra troops might be required.
They were commanded by a Captain
Parker James, I think, I don't feel sure
of any other of their names, but Mr.
John Marsh. But their patriotic air,
and their reverentiallook, — the Steuben
tactics, rather put the soldier in a re
verential attitude, — and the determined
fix of the face, when handling the mus
ket, can not easily be erased from my
memory. They came out in 1815, and
were finally dismissed on July 4th.
A few words respecting my grand
father, MOSES WARNER, ESQ.
He moved into town in 1776 or '77,
according to an old record in my
hands, from Enfield, Ct. There were
only two families in town at the- time.
He took up a place where he spent his
days. He died in 1827. He maintain
ed a respectable standing through his
life, and underwent the hardships inci
dent to his calling, subduing the rough
exterior of nature. He lived to see the
town settled many years, with an in
dustrious and happy people. He was
a well-read man of his age, and had a
smooth, easy, business turn, and was
taken fair notice of through his prime of
life. In his beginning here, he free-
quently met with losses by wild animals
destroying his cattle. At one time, his
only cow was killed by a bear. He
was limited in his circumstances at the
time, and had not the means of sup
plying her place. Dea. John Aiken,
of Windham, hearing of it, sent him
word that he would lend him money
to- buy one, and he borrowed 4 pounds,
which replaced the cow, so indispens-

ible with a family of small children.
In those days every boy did not have
his pocket stuffed with green-backs. In
ray young days, we were taught to hold
Dea. Aiken in a sort of reverence.
THE WARNER BEAR STORY.
At one time about mid-winter as
Esq. Warner was taking a tramp in the
woods, he found by his dog there
might be a bear in a large hemlock
stub, he took his dog and carried him
home. The next morning, he went
around the stub at some distance and.
found the bear had not gone out, and
as his favorite man, Captain Rogers
was off on a journey to be absent some
weeks, and knowing if not disturbed
the bear would lay dorment till the
breaking np of winter, he let him rest
till the Captain's return. When it was
nearly time for the bear to awake to
activity ; taking with them a num
ber of other men, with their dogs,
went ont to disturb the bear, armed
with their guns, bayonets, axes etc.
The dogs first made a great racket
around the stub, anu soon the bear
began to make his way up the tree,
which was broke of some 20 feet from
the gFound, and soon he looked over
the top of his fort to take a survey.
He was fired upon and slid back to the
bottom of his encasement, and sup
posing him killed, they cut a hole to
take him out, having care the mean
while to not injure his hide ; but when
the exavacation was sufficient for the
bear to see out, he bounded among
them like a dart. His first descent was
on Esq. Warner, who met him with
charged bayonet; the bayonet striking
a bone, the Esq. was thrown square on
his back, and the bear pounced upon

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bear whirled with a blow from his fore-
paws, that would have cut the dog in
two, but the dog understood the tack-
ties of a bear-hunt, as well byuin him
self, and was out of the way. The
bear next made a rush toanother man,
when he was again attacked in rear,
and was >hot, greatly to the relief of
this man.
Bears were quite plenty in the early
days of the town. Many were caught
in traps snd man}7 shot, but perhaps
Moses Warner, who lived at the foot
of Markham's Mountain, was more an
noyed by these animals, than an3" man
in town. He would often lie in his
cornfield nights to watch for them,
and shot them, guided in his aim by
the munching noise they made, eating
the corn. He killed a good many
certain, one way and another.
Asa Pierce and Pierce Walker, while
hunting on the mountain one winter,
were crossing over the thick top of a
fallen spruce, when one of them fell
through the branches into a den of
three bears. The bears rushed out
and made off, but the young men went
to the house of Benj. Pierce and got
the dog; went back and captured two
of them ; the other got away.
Joseph Stickney captured two cubs
near his house, and reared them.
After they were gr< >wrs up, a school
boy came one morning to ?ee them, get
ting too near one ni them, tne bear
put his paws around the hoy. and tak
ing his pail of dinner .-v.vay from him,
took off the lid of the pail, and oooly
devoured its content*. The luy was
much frightened, recovered Iii-- pail,
and Mrs. Stickney filled it with dough
nuts, and he left for school, thinking
he had seen enough of bears.
It was the custom then, when a bear

him ; bnt that instant one of the dogs
took the bear by the haunch, and the | was caught in a trap, for all the men,

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Like all the militia in the state, they
trained the first Tuesday in June ;
then again in tlie Fall ; usually in Sept
ember ; mustered usually in September.
The militia was probably organized
between 1790 and 1800.

women, and children in that neighbor
hood to go and see the bear, after
which the bear was killed, but not be
fore. If you glean anything from this, I
am richly paid. I must have a copy
of your work, when it comes out. I
feel interested iu the credit of An
dover. It is possable, I may have
shown that feeling. My children have
taken some pains to tell me that the
people of Andover do not look as well
as the Weston people, whereas, I think,
they look better. Your servant.
E. Hotchinson.
P. S. — I hope you good success.
ANDOVER MILITIA. •
Very little can be accertained in re
gard to this organization. I give a
few names of first offlcers, and the last:
Captains : Frederick Rogers, Solo-
man Howard, James Parker, Thomas
Dodge, Abial Pierce; Lieut., Timothy
Nichols ; Ensign, Samuel Pettengill ;
Majors : Moses Rowell, and Thomas
Dodge. About the year 1820, Lyman Parker
was Captain ofthe Infantry, and Abner
Gutterson, Jr., Captain of the Cavalry,
ancl Orrin Hazcltine, Colonel.
from 1830,
Col., S. L. Marsh ; Capt., Cyrus Bailey ;
First Lieut., G. W. Putnam; Second

EARLY BUSINESS MEN.
Names of some of the early busi
ness men in town ; not the first. :
Merchants : Wm. White, Abner Felt.
Tanners : Stephen Belden, John
Dodge. Blacksmiths : Moses Rowell, Samson
Walker, David Weed.
Sawyers : Joshua Jaquith, came
here in 1798, and erected a saw and
grist-mill in a few years. A few years
later, Archelaus Putnam erected a saw
and grist-mill in Peasville, where there
is still one, and Captain Hazelton has
a saw-mill now, (1871,) making us
two saw-mills. SCHOOL HATTERS.
The first school-house, as far as can
be ascertained, was built in the north
east part ofthe town, about 1805, and
another was buiJt a few years later,
midway between Simonsville and Peas
ville, on the farm now owned by Nathan
Derby. Both were shabby affairs, and
better houses were soon built.
THE FIRST SCHOOL TEACHEW,
Betsey Stevens, taught, when seven-

Lieut., A. A. Batchelder, 7th Batallion; j teen< thc first school, taught in the town,
First Lieut., A. Hutchin.son; Second ! '" t,)e ol(J Abbott house. She married
Lieut., Horace Burton, Rifle Company, j Joel Baleh, Esq., was his first wife, and
, . ^, | the mother of his two oldest sons,
l-'KO.M 1820, I . Til 1 117 -7. • c , .
Aaron Leland, and William S., both
Capt.. Ebenezer Hutchinson; First
Lieut., Horace Burton: Second Lieut.,
Amos Fuller.
The nexl and last Captain
Horace liurion.

was

of whom became ministers. She died,
Dec. 31, 1810, aged 34 years.
The first winter school was taught by
Antepast Howard, who was the first
nchool-master in Andover.

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41

Our schools were kept sometimes in
barns, and sometimes in the meeting
house, in the. early days of the town ;
A rough board, placed upon blocks or
buckets, composed the seats.
This town has always paid due at
tention to its common schools, and its
people have generally aimed to give
their children as good an education as
their means would allow.
Andover has furnished a large num
ber of teachers, though the writer ouly
remembers one young lady graduate,
Mary Larkin, who graduated from Fair
fax Seminary, and was a teacher in
Black River Academy for a time, and
is now (1870,) teaching in Prescott,
Wis. HENRY F. GUTTERSON
is a teacher of instrumental music in
St. Mary's Hall, and the Assylum for
Deaf, Dumb and Blind, Faribault,
Minn. TOWN LIBRARY.
Very early, there was a small town
library formed, which contained one* or
two hundred volumes, of generally
rather sedate and dry reading; and
which was perhaps just as well, for few
had time to read by day-light, and the
people were too tired usually and lights
too scarce to read evenings.
WAR OF 1812.

Sylvanus L. Marsh, John Tyrrell,
Jerry Adams, Cyrus Bailey, Samuel
Dutton, Hart Balch. David Hazelton,
Ebenezer Farnsworth, Ebenezer Bi own,
John Abbot, Jake Abbot, Caleb Cram,
Joseph Cram, David Bradford, Morris
Howard, Antepast Howard, Joseph
Howard, Joseph Bullard, John Burton,
James Burton, Wm. Kimball, Sibrean
Taylor, Samuel Pettengill. Ira Hale, j eerpor
William Felt, enlisted for the war. I until promoted to sergeant

The first four of these excepting
Joseph and Morris Howard, enlisted in
1812, as in militia, and were stationed
three months at Chazy, under Captain
Richardson, and then discharged.
In 1813, there was a call for regulars
and others enlisted, including Joseph
and Morris Howard, S. L. Brown,, aud
Andrew Bradford, re-enlisted. These
men were under Captain Benj. Smeed,
and were stationed at Sackets Harbor,
till the close of the wr.r.
John Abbot and Joseph Cram, died
while there of sickness.
Adolphus Howard went in the mili
tia, in plaee of Antepast Howard.
Most of the regulars enlisted during
the war, but S. L. Marsh and a few
others enlisted for 5 years, and served
out their time. Marsh held the office
of Quartermaster-sergeant, and went
with the army to St. Louis.
COL. SYLVANUS L. MARSH,
born in Worcester, Mass., Dec. 9, 1789.
came at the age of 6 years ; with his
parents to Andover, where they passed
the remainder of their lives. The lad,
Sylvanus, became inured to toil and
hardship early in life, suffering in com
mon with others of that time, many
privations, among which was a lack of
schools, and his education in early life
was consequently limited.
His grand-father had served in the
French and Revolutionary wars, and a
knowledge of his services naturally
awoke in the mind of the lad a love of
militarv life.

At the age of 17 years, he trained in
the company of Captain James Parker,
of the Andover militia, and was elected
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In December 1808, a sergeant and
ten privates were called for, to stand
ready at a moments warning, for 12 or
18 months from the next March, to
march to the frontier, if needed. Serg
eant Marsh voluntered for this service,
but the men were not called for.
In 1809, he worked in a public house
in Troy, N. Y., kept by Platte Titus.
ln 1810, he was in Boston, Mass, and
in 1811, served in the capacity of coach
man, for Stephen Codman, of that city.
In 1812, he returned to Andover, and
enlisted in a cavalry company under
command of Capt. Watkins, of Weston.
June 18, 1812, war with Great Bri
tain was formally declared, and in re
sponse to a call for men from Andover,
Marsh enlisted in Capt. Richardson's
company of the 1st. Vt. militia, under
command of Col. Martindale. This
regiment marched to Burlington, thence
to Plattsburg and camped on the Sar
anac river; marched theuce to Champ
lain on the river, thence above Champ
lain village, and thence back to Bur
lington, where they were discharged.
without pay by Gen. Dearborne. In
March 1813, the regiment was paid off
at Dorset.
In June, 1814, .Marsh enlisted for 5
years, or during the war, in the 11th
regiment, and was appointed Recruiting
sergeant. Ensign Josiah Shield estab
lished a recrniting rendezvous at An
dover, and from which he absented
himself, and the command devolved on
Sergeant Marsh.
Sept. 11, 1814, he was ordered by
Capt. Gorden. superintendent of the re
cruiting rendezvous for the 11th regi
ment, to march his recruits to Rutland.
which he accordingly did, and encamp
ed on East Creek, a short distance west
of the railroad depot.

During their stay at Rutland, a sol
dier from Andover, homesick and weaiy
of the irksome duties of camp-life,
stole away one night from camp, and
went home. He was arrested and tak
en back, and a ball and chain put upon
him. The weather was cool, and the
man suffered considerably from his
irons, and he besought Sargeant Marsh
to use his influence to have them re
moved, promising never to desert again.
Convinced ofthe man's honesty, Marsh
laid the case before his commanding
officer, who after due consideration of
the matter, informed Sergt. Marsh, that
he would leave it with him, whether
to remove his irons or to keep him a
prisoner until he could be tried by court
martial. The irons were taken off, and
the soldier duly grateful for this act of
humanity, never again forsook his post
of duty. [Honor to the humane.]
The recruits rendezvoused at Rutland,
were organized in a company, under
command of Capt. Benjamin Smeed,
and were inarched to Buffalo, to join
the 11th regiment, there awaiting them.
When they arrived there, Gen. Izard
had relieved Gen Brown, and the regi
ment was ordered to march back to
Sackets Harbor, for winter quarters,
where the 1 1 th and 22d regiments were
consolidated. Sergeant Marsh was
here promoted to the office of Quarter
master Sergeant, of the 11th regiment,
and did the duty of the consolidation
unt'l peace came, Feb. 17, 1815.
Marsh decided to serve out his 5
years, instead of returning home. The
regiment in which he belonged, after
the celebration of the 4th of July, was
inarched to Greenbush, N. Y., and
thence to Fort Lewis, Long Island, to
organize a new 6th regiment from five
ofthe remaining war regiments. Hav
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Quartermaster Sergeant. Marsh was
re-appointed in the new 6th regiment,
then commanded by Colonel John E.
Wool, but who was soon after appoint
ed Inspector General, and Henry At
kinson, appointed Colonel of the 6th, in
his stead.
Sept. 9, 1815, the 6th regiment was
marched to Fort Columbus, on Gover
nors Island. Here they remained until
Apr. 16, 1817, when they took sloops
for Greenbush, N. Y. Thence by
way of White Hall and Lake Cham
plain to Plattsburg, for the purpose of
taking down the war barracks and re
ducing the cantonement.
In the formation of the 6th regiment,
many offlcers were necessarily reduced
to the ranks. While stationed at Fort
Columbus, two of these men dissatis
fied with their situation, formed a mu
tinous plan to seize upon and imprison
the officers, and assume command of
the garsison. Believing they could in
duce Quarter-master Marsh to join
them, they laid their plan before him;
but he was too brave and true a soldier
to countenance any such criminal pro
ceedings, and after telling them what
the certain consequeuces of such a step
would be, he warned them against
making the attempt. Fortunately the
plan was abandoned, and the matter
was never mentioned by Marsh, who
was too honest to betray the confidence
of those who confided in him.
The fortifications at Plattsburg con
sisted of FortMareau, then occupied by
Capt. Churchill, with a company of ar
tillery. Fort Brown, Fort Scott, Fort
Gaines and a blockhouse. The soldi
ers found much laborious work to per
form here, but they were treated very
kindly by the citizens of the town, and
the time passed away very pleasantly.

In the spring of 1817, their police
and parade were put in order ; their
mechanics settled in the public shops ;
the military stores inventoried, and all
things set to rights, preparatory to a
visit from President Monroe, which
event occured soon after.
Aug. 28, orders were received from. _
the President to repair the road from.
Plattsburg to French Mills. The 6th
regiment immediately began work on
the road, and on the 18th of Nov. , fol
lowing had completed 7 miles of beau
tiful and substantial road, and returned
to Plattsburg for winter quarters.
The next move of the 6th regiment
was to Rouses Point, to labor on and
about Fort "Montgomery. They re
mained here until after the 4th of July,
1818, when they were visited by Gen.
Brown, who ordered them to resume
labor on the Chateaugay road at Rob
ertson's Fields. Seven miles more of
the road was bui't, and the regiment re
turned again to Plattsburg for winter
quarters, the 18th of Nov. 1818. More
work was anticipated on the road the
next year; but an -order came from the
war department for the 6th regiment,.
and part of the. 5th, to march from
Plattsburg, the 20 of March, 1819, to
Pittsburg, Pa., where boats were then
being built for the military expeditton
to St. Lous, Mo.
At the time fixed upon for their de
parture, the troops left Plattsburg, and
crossed Lake Champlain to Burlington.
There was a new fall of snow, the
weight of which settled the ice on the
Lake, so as to make about 12 inches of
water and snow on the ice, which made
the journey anything but pleasant. They
camped at Burlington for the night, and
next morning started with sleighs for
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warm, and the snow was disappearing
fast. Part of the troops took waggons
at Granville, N. Y., while the remaind
er dragged through on runners to
Greenbush .
As soon as the ice was out of the
river, they took sloops for New York ;
thence up East River to New Bruns
wick, N. J., and thence in waggons 70
miles to Philadelphia city : crossed the
Schuylkill river, about a mile above the
city, where they encamped. They re
mained here three weeks or more, un
til they could procure teams to trans
port their baggage, when they started
with 21 baggage-waggons, and 105
draught horses.
At Carlisle, they halted for a few
days, to wash up, and Test the tired
horses, before crossing the Laurel hills.
After a long and tedious march, they
arrived at Pittsburg, and encamped a
mile above the city, on the Alleghany
river, and discharged the teamsters, at
a cost of $18,000. As soon as the
boats were ready, the troops were em
barked, and with the flag-boat in an-
vance, they proceeded down the river
at the rate of about 4 miles an hour.
They arrived at St. Louis, June 6,
1819. Col. Johnson's provisions were found
to be in a damaged condition, and by
order of Col. Atkinson, Quartermaster
Marsh was appointed Inspector of the
beef and pork, who after performing
his duties as Inspector, returned to his
quarters at Bellefontaine. Having
served out his 5 years, he received his
discharge soon after, but at the solicita
tion of Lieut. Col. Snelling, remained
with the army a few weeks longer for
the purpose of superintending some
work on the river.
Aug. 0, 1819, Marsh took leave of
his army friends, and with a horse and

wagon set out for home. Passing
through the wilderness, and over the 20
mile prairie of Illinois, he struck the
Ohio river at Cincinnati. Crossing the
river at Wheeling Va. , he passed
through Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
to New York city, where he remained
three weeks to recruit his health, and
arrived home Oct. 23, 1819.
Nov. 23d, he started for Platts
burg, where, on the 15th of December,
he was married to Miss Sara D. Thorne,
of that town, and Jan. 24, 1820, re
turned to Andover-, where he has since
lived. They have had 9 children, 4
sons and 5 daughters.
Two of the sons were in the Union
army, during the war of '61 . One was
killed at the battle of the Wilderness,
and the other has died since the war.
The remaining children, with the ex
ception of one daughter, are still living,
(1871.) In 1820, Marsh was elected Lieute
nant of a company of Andover Militia.
He steadily rose in rank until in -1830,
he was elected Colonel of the 26th re-.
giment. This office, he held through
the new organization of the militia of
7 the state, until in 1840, he was dis
charged at his own request, by Adjut
ant Gen. F. W. Hopkins.
When called upon by the Governor
ofthe state, in 1839, to take charge of
the Brigade, he entered upon the. duties
of that office, with his acustomed
promptness and cheerfulness ; gave the
order for an election to be held at Gas-
setts station, to fill the vacancies in the
regiments occasioned by the resignation
of some of the leading officers, among
them Col. Butterfield, and Lieut. Col.
Smiley, ofthe 25th regiment, and Maj.
P. T. Washburn, then commanding the
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In the ensuing fall, a Brigade Gener
al was appointed by the Legislature of
the Stiite, and though well fitted for
and justly entitled to that ofiice. Col.
Marsh made no effort to seeure it, and
of the, two candidates presented, Col.
P. T. Washburn, and Col. Loren
Smith. Smith received the appoint
ment. Since 1820, Col. Marsh has held
various town offices, the duties of which
he always performed faithfully and to
the best of his abilities. He is still liv
ing on the old farm in Andover, where
he expects to pass the remaining years
of his life. Though nearly 82 years of
age, (1872,) 'he is remarkably vigorous
and active for his years, and with the
exception of a- partial deafness, is in
the full possession of all his ripened
faculties, and is an interested and in
telligent observer of passing events.
Honest, genial and kindhearted, he is
respected by those who know him, and
we trust may see many years more of
usefulness and happiness.
SAMUEL L. BURTON.
son of Samuel Burton, born Apr. 20,
1793, entered Vermont University in
1812. During the war with Great
Britain, the operations of the university
were much embarrassed, and finally
suspended. In the summer of 1813,
large quantities of arms, belonging to
the United States, were deposited in
the university building, without the
consent of the faculty, or the corpora
tion, and a guard of soldiers stationed
there, which did much injury to the
building, breaking, open the doors of
student's rooms, and plundering them
of their effects.
He finished his collegiate education
at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.,
graduating in 1816, was principal of

the academy at Ballston Springs ; stu
died law at Seneca Falls, N. Y.
In 1820, he went to Brownsville,
county-seat of Jackson Co. 111., where
he opened a law-office, acquiring a suc
cessful practice.
He died unmarried, June 22, 1825,
aged 32, from fever contracted in New
Orleans, while on business.
COMMUNICATION, FROM A. S. BARTON.
Ludlow, Mar. 13, 1870.
H. H. Gutterson :
Dear Sir : 1 yesterday received
yours of the 11th inst., asking for in
formation. I went to the village yester
day and called on Timothy Heald, and
learned by a record kept by him, that
Moses Warner was born in Enfield,
Ct., 1776, and died in Ludlow, Dec.
6, 1857. aged 81 years. I send you the
song of Benjamin Morse, composed in
1848, and set to the tune of "Yankee
Doodle." It is by no means the first
order of poetry, nor is it much below
mediocrity. The last verse is quite a
complement to John P. Hale, whom I
have considered an able and honest
statesman, and well qualified for the
presidency. When at the village, I saw John
Hull, who said his mother Amy Hull,
would give me the desired information
concerning her father,* but I thought
best to defer a few days, that she might
refresh her memory of by-gone days.
You say you are an invalid, so am I,
and unable to walk to the village. I
have not been there since November
last. Please do not pass my house
without calling, for I wish to see you,
and get better acquainted.
*By this waiting a few days, writes B., 1
lost everything that might have been obtain
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I have just written a short biograph
ical sketch of one of your Andover men,
who removed into my neighborhood
and died here after several years resi
dence, by the name of David Bailey.
Levi and Luther Adams, brothers,
who had fought side by side during the
Revolutionary war, in many a desper
ate and bloody battle, were discharged
and paid of in continental bills, not at
their real, but nominal value for their
priceless servises. These bills had then
depreciated about 90 per cent., which
excited the indignation of the Revolu
tionary soldiers, nor were they ever
redeemed. On leaving for home, a
distance of several hundred miles, Levi
bought two quart bottles, exactly re
sembling each other, the one he filled
with rum, and the other with water,
saying at the same time, "we have
been defrauded by government, and I
am resolved to use a little strategy on
our long journey home. Let me do the
talking and you do the acting. Place
these bottles in my knap-saek, the rum
on the right side, ,and the water on the
¦left, and be careful, and not forget their
respective places, and I will manage so
as to exchange the bottle of water for a
bottle of rum. Do ypu suppose we are
going to travel without rum? When
they came to a rum shop, Levi would
present his empty bottle, and with
much seeming importance call for a
quart of rum ; the shop-keeper would
put it up, and it would be deposited by
Luther, on the right side of his knap
sack. Then Levi would offer a conti
nental bill in payment, which would of
course be rejected at its nominal value,
at whieh Levi with apparent anger
would reply, "Then take it back again,
I paid its nominal value, and will have
it or nothing. At this instant, the
bottle of water would be drawn by

Luther from the knap-sack, and the
shop-keeper would empty it into the
bung-hole of the cask, from which the
rum had been drawn. By the repeti
tion of this adroit strategy, they ob
tained all the rum which they desired,
on their long journey to their native
place, in the eastern part of Massachu
setts. Mr. Adams related this anecdote
to me but a short time before his death,
and while residing with his son Levi,
in the town of Ludlow, where he died
Jan. 2, 1835, aged 89 years. I have
intended this anecdote for the history of
Ludlow, but as he resided the greater
part of his life in Andover, it of course
belongs tp that town. You will prob
ably notice the sad death of Luther
A.dams, who on a cold winter morning
was found frozen in the road leading
from Andover to Weston, on the
western declivity , and near the summit
of the hill, or mountain, as it was cal
led. This sad event must have occur
red early in the present century.
Timothy Heald says, according to
his recollection Mrs. Burnap was 93
years old, when she died. He claims
a distant relationship to you, says
that you called at his home a short
time since. "Uncle Sam," as he is
usually designated, is now rather feeble
but his mind is young and vigorous,
and he possesses considerable intellig
ence. Yours truly, A. S. Barton.
P. S. — You ask for some of my
poetry, while no man born in Andover,
has ever written so many doggerels, as
myself, probably, and which I could
write with the utmost ease. I make
no claim to the name of a poet ; I think,
I appreciate true poetry, and always
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the attempt, to write anything serious
in verse, feeling, whenever I did, that
I fell far short of what it should be.
You urge the matter so much, — I
would like to please you, but I have
never written anything truly, that I
like better than the following: com
posed during a little walk over my
farm at the vesper, as the poets would
¦call it, which I have always loved best
of any hour of the day.
The hour I hail to pensive stray
Along the flowery vale,
To watch the fading light of day,
The star of eve to hail.
The dusky mountain towering high,
The streams that wind along,
The rolling clouds, the starry sky.
Inspire my evening song.
Two verses are sufficient, though
suitable for a quiet evening meditation,
you .will agree with me, altogether too
simple for the grave page of history.
Not so, however, with the poetry of
my sister, Mrs. Hemenway, 1 think
that she has written some things wor
thy of preservation ; and that were she
living, she would.be pleased with your
request for some of her poems ; that
she would be pleased to be thus re
membered by her native town, for
which she always retained a lively and
pleasant affection, and to see a speci
men of her poetry, preserved in its
records. A. S. B.
[We have given an extract thus
from the several letters of Barton, to
show how faithful Mr. Gutterson was
in inquires by his pen to the task of
gathering material for the history of
his town. It is pleasaut to see two in
valid men assisting each other at a
distance and uniting to build up the re
cord in which both seem equally in
terested among the local history of the

State. "Cub" Bradford and several
other papers past, we recognized as
Mr. Gutterson sent in to us, in the
hand-writing of Mr. Barton.
'Ihe Mrs. Burnap mentioned by Mr.
B.. was one of the first settlers, who
lived in Ludlow, and "Uncle Sam"-
— was Samuel Ross, living near to
Andover, on South Hill, and one of
the early Methodist's in both towns.
Mr. Barton farther says • I was born
in Andover, Sept. 11 1799, and resided
in that town until 1818, when I re
moved to Ludlow, where I shall prob
ably end my days. My sister, Mrs.
Hemenway, was the oldest child of
Rufus Barton, born, March 31, 1798,
and died Oct. 1866, of appolexy.
I will unite my request to yours,
and ask my neice to give her "Slaves
Lament" and I think to please us, she
will do it. — which was written for and
published in the Genius of Liberty at
Ludlow, when I was the editor. It
was afterward copied into many other
papers, and I like it better than any
thing else, that she has written,
[Mr. Barton has since deceased, 1875.
His farther biography and that of the
family will be found with the Ludlow
papers, for which town Mr. Barton
was early selected to write the histoiy ,
and left considerable mss. toward.]
Song for the Fourth of July, 1848.
by benjamin morse.
To, day we meet, each one to greet,
Our cares at home releiving,
Our purpose too, is to undo
The web that slavery's weaving ;
Sing Yankee Doodle, now wake up !
Take a manly stand, Sir;
Show to the world you will break up
Proud slavery's band , Sir.
Our father's though a sturdy folk,
Were sometimes rather skittish,

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And so they would'nt wear the yoke,
Brought over by the British :
Yonder on old Bunker's head
From their necks they shook it,
And there they fired off all their lead,
And then they had to hook it.
Our foes are wakeful, bold and sly;
Cunning as wild toxes,
But without lead we'll make them fly
Before the ballot boxes.
Sing Yankee Doodle &c.
Our sister too, who helped us through
Our struggles sore for freedom,
She's given her slaves their liberty
While we in bondage keep them.
Sing Yankee Doodle, ,te.
t geuss you'll see when all are free
On t'other side the waters,
America will rue the day.
She chained her sons and daughters.
Sing Yankee Doodle, &e.
If Gass or Taylor, win the pri-ze,
T.will freedom's cause depress, Sir,
But still we'll hear the bondman's cries,
And labor none the less, Sir,
Stag Yankee Doodle 
For Calafonvia she has become
A mistress for the locos :
I hope they'll keep her safe at home,
Nov try again to Polk us.
Sing Yankee Doodle, 
We told the whigs some years ago,
They had better come and join us,
And now our foes do plainly show,
Their course will soon combine us,
Sing Yankee Doodle, 
The man who now our votes shall share,
Is Hale in every part, Sir,
He's well-prepared to fill the chair,
Without intrigue or art, Sir.
Sing, Yankee Doodle,  •
\_Mr. Gutterson continues.]
BENJAMIN MORSE,
bom in Dublin, N. H., 1775, came
here in 1802, and located in the north
part of the town. Like all the early
settlers, he had the forest to subdue,
his land to clear, and a small house to
build, seed to put into the ground — the
preparatory work of civilization.

All the early settlers experienced
their share of hardships, but most of
them their arms were strong and their
hearts as strong as thai- arms. Mr.
Morse soon became the owner of 400
acres of land.
He was a strong Anti-mason, an
Abolitionist, and something of a poet..
He had a family of 13 children, only
four of whom are living, ^1871). He
died in 1853, aged 78 years; his wife
died in 1861, aged 81 years.
JUDGE JOEL MANNING.
CONTRIBUTED BY HIS DAUGHTERS.
joel manning, was born Oct. 9,
1793, at Andover, where his early boy
hood was spent. His father, the Rev.
Joel Manning, a Baptist Clergyman,
married Vashti Broadstreet, and came at.
an early date from Townshend, Mass.r
and settled in Andover. Here he
reared his family, consisting of one
daughter, Dorcas, and three sons, Joel,
JohnB., and William K., with such
ideas of industry, energy and persever*
ance, as early developed these charac
teristics, in a marked degree., in the
oldest son, Joel, the subject of this
sketch. He graduated from Union
Collese, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1818,
sharing the. first honors, with such class
mates and friends, as Bishop Potter,
of New York, Bishop Doane, of New
Jersey, and Sidney Breeze, Judge of
the Supreme Court, of Illinois, whe
al ways spoke of Manning, as "the ma
thematician of the class."
After graduation, he returned to
Vermont, and took charge of the
Chester Academy. In the following
year, he left home for the "far west,"
his destination being St. Louis. He
spent the winter in Buffalo, exspect-
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disappointed in these expectations', he As they arrived at manhood, two of
undertook the long wearisome danger- Mrs. Manning's brothers. Soloman Jr.,
ous journey, through the tractless , William Jenkins, returned to the South,
wilderness, alone. After leaving Lake and became identified with it in inter-
i
Erie, he traveled on foot, following an ests and principles. One brother, Alex-
Indian trail a part ofthe time, through ander M., remained in Illinois, and for
the wilderness, from Ft. Wayne, to St. ' years took a prominent part in the
Louis. The frontier settlements and affairs of the State, at one time, being
I
the log-cabins of the pioneers, were speaker ofthe House of Representatives,
few and far between, in those early and in 1834, was elected Lieut. Gover-
days, and night often overtook this bold, ' nor of the State. At the time of his

determined, young traveler, far out iu
the wilderness, miles away from any
white man's home, where he might ex
pect to find food and shelter. But the
Indians proved friendly and hospitable.
and welcomed him to rest at their camp-
fires, and shared with him, at parting
their parched corn and venison.
In after years he loved to tell of the
toils, adventures and even perils of that
long, wearisome tramp, from the shores
of Lake Erie, to the water of Mis
sissippi. On arriving at St. Louis, he entered
the office of Judge Carr, where he re
mained some time, studying law. ln
the mean time, Illinois was admitted
into the Union, and he left St, Louis,
to try his fortune in the new state. He
located in Brownsville, the county seat
of Jackson Co., where he practiced
his profession for a number of years..
Here, in 1823, he married Diza Jenk
ins, (a native of Tennesee) daughter of
Solomon Jenkins, who early emigrated
from North Carolina, where he was
connected with some of the leading
people ofthe state, (the present U. S.
Senator Ransom, being a descendent of
the same family.) Mr. Jenkins so
journed, for a time in Tennessee, and
finally settled in the free state of Illi
nois, realizing, at that early time, the
enervating influences of slavery upon
the men of the South.

death, in 1861, he was Judge of the
Southern District of Illinois. Mrs.
Manning's sister, Elizabeth, Jenkins,
married Dr. John Logan, father of
Gen. John A. Logan, U. S. Senator
from Illinois.
When the Illinois and Michigan
canal was projected, in 1836, Mr. Man
ning was appointed by Governor Dun
can, Secretary of the Board of Com
missioners, and went with his family to
Chicago, where he resided until 1838.
When the canal office was transf'ered to
Lockport, Will Co., he moved to the
latter place, and from that time until
his death, was interested in, and con
nected in an official capacity, with the
public improvement, known as the Illi
nois and Michigan canal. During the
years of discourgement, following the
financial panic of 1840-45, when all
work on public improvements ceased,
he made good use of all the energy
perseverance and economy , early learned
and practiced on the New England
farm, his family consisting of a delicate
wife, and three young daughters, being
entirely dependent on him for support.
His health failed for a time, and the
future looked gloomy. All the old set
tlers, well remember the strinjency of
those days in Illinois, when the "cir
culating medium" was i:i-anal scrip,"
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Mr. Manning was always in favor of
internal improvements, and a determined
thorough-going "canal men." Will Co.,
as well as the entire state, profited large
ly, by his great experience, as a care
ful, paius taking public man. He had
strong faith in the resources of the
state, and in the final completion of
this enterprise, connecting the Lakes
with the Gulf of Mexico. During all
these years of '-hard times," he had
full confidence in the integrity of the
state, and looked forward to the time,
when these pledges of "canal scrip"
would be redeemed. Living quietly,
economically, without ostentation or
display, he laid aside, year by year, a
portion of his salary, (received in
'"these promises to pay") hoping for-
better times. These came at last. The
Legislature passed a relief law, allow
ing all scrip-holders to purchase canal
lands and lots, at the original apprais-
ment, paying for the same, with canal
scrip at par. Many of these lots were
located iu Chicago, where Mr. Man.
ning made some purchases, which fin
ally proved to be very valuable, and
thus laid the foundation for a future
competence. Mr. and Mrs. Manning's children,
seven in number, were born in Browns
ville. Two died iu infancy, before the
family went to Chicago. The young
est son, George Doane, died soon after
their removal to Lockport, in 1843.

The only remaining son, John Jay,
a promising youth of eighteen years,
died suddenly, leaving his stricken
father and mother to mourn his loss,
throughout their after life.
The three daughters grew to woman
hood, and were married as follows :
Mary V., the oldest, to Henry Fish,
of Joliet, Illinois,

Cornelia A., to Edmund Miller, of
Waterloo, Iowa.
Jane C, who died in 1856, to F. G.
Saltonstall, of Chieago.
As a citizeu, Mr. Manning aided to
the extent of his ability, in all educa
tional and benevolent enterpriees, both
of church and state, taking a deep in
terest in whatever would promote the
public good. Although modest and re
tiring, he was an /active, influential
member of society, leaving his impress
on all, with whom he came in contact.
Associating from an early day with the
"old settlers" of worth and influence,
his ability was soon recognized among
them, and by many of these friends, be
was regarded as "one of the leading
minds of the South West.
He was a valued member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, holding
tenaciously its doctrines, and following
the usages prescribed by dicipline.
But in his love for his own, he did not
forget the law of Christ, to love others,
and wherever he saw the image of his
Saviour, there he recognized a brother,
whether in the lowly cabin of the
canal laborer, or among those highly
cultured. Simple in his tastes, frugal
in his habits, he always had wherewith
to relieve the wants of one poorer than
himself, giving systematical!}7-, conscien
tiously and frdm principle, adopting
the old Jewish rule, of giving yearly a
tenth of his income.

After the death of his wife, Nov. 27,
1761, he spent most of his time with
his daughter, Mrs. Fish, of Joliet,
where he died, after a short illness,
Jan. 8, 1869, surrounded by his devot
ed children and grand-children, and
without a known enemy.
The names of Mr. Manning's grand
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Manning and Henry Manning Fish, j longed for the old home and assoeia-
who are in business with their father, ; tions, and felt they could not accom-

as bankers, and barbe-wire manufac
turers in Joliet, 111.
JOHN broadstreet manning,
the second son of Joel Manning, was
also a native of Andover, born Feb.
16, 1799.
Oct. 27, 1825, he was married to
31iss Lucy Stickney.
He was a man of marked character
istics, and was much respected by the
community at large, and they manifest
ed their appreciation of his worth by
-electing him to fill the public offices of
the town and county, such as constable,
dep. sheriff, town clerk, and their re
presentative in the Legislature, of
1836 and 1837.
It was not strange, a man possessed
as he was, of so much ability and
energy, should have an attack of West
ern fever, which came to its hight,
June, 1838, when with his family, a
wife and two children, also his brother-
in law, J. H. Stiekney, he started
West, to try his future.
He came to his brother Joel's, in Il
linois, from there he and Air. Stickney,
with their own conveyance prospected i came West, and staid in Wisconsin for
over the prairies of Illinois, and the ! a short time, when they moved to
lovely and ahnost unexplored territory, ' Iowa, where they lived until the
then, of Wisconsin, resting for the ; spring of 1875, when they moved
winter in Waukesha, which at the j farther West to Valley Springs, Dako-
present time is one of the renowned j 'a, their present home.
health resorts of the West. Nov. 1«85, John was elected a mem-
Mr. J. B. Manning attended the first ' ber of the Legislature, and was pres-
land sale in Wisconsin, held in Mil- j ent at the following session in Decem-
waukee, during the spring of 1839 ;, her, and helped elect the first two U. S.

modate themselves to the little incon
veniences of a life in the West, and
in the fall of 1839, Mr. Manning
yielded to their persuations and re
turned to Vermont, — to the old middle
of the town, of Andover, where, he
went into the merehantile business,
giving up all his high hopes, and pro
jects, formed in the West. He re
mained in Andover, until 1851, when
he moved to Mt. Tabor, and went in
to lumber-business. From Mt. Tabor,
he moved to Weston, where he was
living at the tune of his death, by pa-
ralyzis, which occured July 30, 1872.
Mr. J. B. Manning had three children :
John Randall, born, Aug. 3, 1820;
Lucy Ann, bora, May 22, 1828, and
died July 1862 ;
D. E. Eglantine, born Oct. 25,
1839, and died July 1869.
John Randall, was married to Sarah
E. Colemau, of Chester, Dec. 24, 1851.
In December, 1857, he came West,
his wife following him a few months
later. They returned East, in 1866,
remaining until 1 869, when they again

during the following summer, he in
vested largely in cattle and hogs, and
the prospects were fair for .future
success. His family were very reluctemt to

Senators, for the proposed new state.
Mr. J. R. Manning has one child,
a son, named, John W., born, Feb. 19,
1870. He aud this son. are the only
living male representatives of this

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C. Loveland, who took private pupils.

REV. AARON LELAND BALCH
son of Joel Balch, Esq., was a native
of this town, and a minister ofthe Uni
versalist faith. He first taught school
in the city of New York. [See mention of
in sketch of his brother that follows,
and of his ordination.] He left the
city during the time of the cholera there
in 1832. He studied divinity with his
younger brother, and with the Rev.
Samuel C. Loveland. He was ordaiu-
ed in Newport, N. H., and died in Fall
River, Mass., in Nov. 14, 1839. [The
above from his sister, Mrs. Derby.]
REV. WILLIAM S. BALCH,
the second son of Joel Balch, has prob
ably become as distinguished and wide
ly known as any man born in Andover.
He was early a good scholar, usually
at the head of his class, and the equal
of many older than himself; iu him was
united a strong constitution and active
mind, and his early habits, — shut out
from the world and compelled to con
stant hard labor, with few indulgences,
books and papers or playmates, to ar

He started a cold November day on
foot, the distance was over 20 miles.
Before crossing the border of the townT
he became solemnly impressed, — great
thoughts pressed on his mind. He was
about to leave his native town, and
enter upon the great, open world, of
which he knew but little. He stopped,.
reflected, and hesitated to proceed, but
finally turned to the way-side, knelt by
the fence, and devoutly prayed God,
to watch over, and guide him in the
right way through life. He arose with
a lighter heart and stouter will, resolv
ed to do his duty faithfully at all haz
ards. He never passed that spot after
wards, without feeling the full force of
that event rush back upon him present
ing in full comparison the condition of
his life, for which he was ever greatful
to divine Goodness,
He had not gone another mile be
fore stopping, to warm himself, he
was urged to "take the school" in that
district. He did so at 17.50 per
month. After studying two weeks

rest his attention — made him acquainted ! with Mr. Loveland, he returned to ful

with himself and things about him ;
the woods, the birds, the brooks, the
flowers were his companions, and he
loved to be with them. He early be
came meditative, somewhat taciturn,
and learned to think, and loved to be
alone, that he might think. And he
studied to know for him.self. and not
to be seeoud-hand. though his books
were few : mostly his mother's bible.
At thirteen, he had gone through
Adams' Arithmatie. in a school limit
ed to 8 weeks, in winter, except the
rainy days of the summer school.
which he attended from the age of
eighi years, till he was sixteen, when
his father permitted him to go to
Reading, and study with Rev. Samuel

fil his engagement. His father chided
him for his rashness, in undertaking
what he was not qualified to do. He
succeeded, however, to the entire satis
faction of all the district, and immedi
ately after its close, he was called into
an adjoining district to complete the
term , where the teacher had been dis
missed, at an increased salaiy of fifty
cents a month, which gratified him
more, than any money ever since re
ceived. The next August, he was called to
New York city, to teach with his elder
brother, who had been there some
mouths. He worked at laying stone-wall till
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was to start. Then his father took I purchased for him a second-hand coat
him to the store, gave him a calico ! and hat, which lasted him during his
vest, costing 83 cents, — the first ar- stay in the city. He remained but
tide he ever had, not home-made — j three months, wh'ich seemed as many
and his father added §8. ; ages to him, and his health having
w.,, , , . , , ^ • ^f ! failed, he left, utterlv disgusted with
With an extra shirt and pair of " . ,
... .. , t j r,„„/> i the place, so homesick and disapornted
stockings, tied up in a bandanna hand- if' i
, . - „ , . .. ,, „ „„„„i had he become with what he had seen
kerchief, and two cotton collars, young ,
._, , . , , , .  ., „ and learned of the citv ways.
Balch started on his wa}', mostly a
foot-journey, to New York. ; Where he boarded there was much
show in the parlor, and everjthing
He went the first day to h s aunt's, i slattemly m the kitehen-basement, and
where his sister was working at 7o , everytbing around seemed fictit-0us
cents a week, and the next morning, ! and a cheat> trained ag he had been m
his brother in law, took him on the' • ^ fres^ simp}e manners of rural lifei
wagon to the top of the Green Moun- . the regemblances of spiendor upon the
tain's in Peru, where they parted. • surfaCBi when the real life was s0 dif.
From that high point, after praying de- ferent ffly comported with his notion8
voutly to be keyt in the right way of;of honestv and true worthi As his
duty, having cut himself a cane, he j lodging.house. s0 the whole city ap_
started into tht wide, wide world, of!peiu^ the wide distinctions between
which he knew very little at that time. ! the rich and poor) tbe gaudy ghow and
That night, he stopped at an inn, in ' squaiid wretchedness in such close
Rupert, where he met two families | proximity ; the bustle, confusion,
from Andover, returning from a pleas- el.jme and misery, all combined to dis-
ure trip to Saratoga, with one of the „u5t tiina with the great world, into
young men he slept, or rather spent which he had entered too far, or too
the night, talking about the world and g^iy, anci he confided in nothing as
the prospects of the future. They : reai or reliable," hardly in himself, or
parted after breakfast, one in a carriage , Gori#
toward home, happy and gay with his i During his staJi Lafavette was in
parents, the other with a sad hewt on , tbe city and wag "houored bv a grand
foot, whither, and for what, was all ! digplay of rn.e.engines in the park,
dark to him. which was with all the houses surround-
That afternoon he reached an uncle's \ ing it, filled with people, and as the pro-

in N. Y. but felt too sad to remain. The
third day with blistered feet, he reach
ed another uncle's in Greenbush, N. Y.
After two days here, he went to
Cooksackie, to see some fellow towns
men, working in brick-yards there.
From thence, he went to New York,

cession marched by file of policemen.
was approaching the City Hall, young
Balch was crowded into the procession
hy the policemen, as one of the foreign
cortage, and lead through theGovernors
room out upon the balcony, in front
where he had a grand view of the

by sloop, where he arrived on Sunday I whole scene, all this, however, only
•mornino- looking so green and shab- tended to confirm him in his opinion
by his brother would not allow him of the hollowness of all worldly dis-
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His brother, four years his elder,
still remained in New York, but sev
eral years after, studied a profession
with him.
At the age of 21, Wm. S. Balch.
with not very thorough preparation,
but bringing a fine ready, flow of
native talent, entered the Universalist | turn to the rural scenes of his native

literary lecturer : as a friend of the un
fortunate, an enemy of the gallows.
Worn down with hard labor, and
discouraged at his apparent small suc
cess in trying to stem the tide of evil,
and make Chritianity a moral power
in human conduct, he resolved to re-

ministry -"because at that time it was
more unsectarian than any other de
nomination", he writes, and in which
he has since become widely popular
as a preacher, writer and lecturer.
His extensive labors have at times
brought him near the borders of the
grave, but his strong will, interest
in them, and professional cautious
treatment, has restored him again to
good health, and now at the age of
eighty, he is hale and hearty, as a
man in mid-life, being often taken for
sixty or sixty-five.
His first labors were chiefly in
Windham Co.; Vt., and Cheshire Co.
N. H., and after 2 years, he was
called to Albany, N. Y., where his
health failed after a few months of
extreme hard labor; but he soon ac
cepted a small parish in Watertown,
Mass., where he remained 2 years,
and then removed to Claremont, N.
IL, where he remained 4 years, and
from which place he was called and
urged to Providence, R. I., where he
labored with great success for 6 years,
both in the city and the regions around.
While there he was asked to preach in
New York city as a candidate, but re
fused to do so, when an invitation to
settle was extended to him, which after
a good deal of hesitation, he consented
to accept, and was settled in Bleecker
St., New York city, where he remain
ed 17 years, and won a large reputa
tion as a preacher, temperance, and

state, and procured him a pleasant
home in Ludlow, where he resided 7
years. But he had not been long
there, however, before he found calls
pressing upon him as imperative and
perplexing as ever. He was invited
to settle in various places, in those
where he had been and in many others.
While settled in New York, he pub
lished, edited and managed a religious
paper for 12 years, which he found in
a low and dying condition, but raised
to independence and put it self-paid
for into the hands of his denomina
tion. He also started and was pro
minent in carrying out a plan for a
theological school ; was active in rais
ing the funds; was chairman ofthe
locating and building committee ; drew
the plan of the building ; drew the writ
ings and had the general supervision
of the whole affair. The institution is
now enlarged to the St. Lawrence Uni
versity, located in Canton, N. Y.
During this time, he twice visited
Europe, and once extended his journey
through the East, visiting all the most
interesting places in Greece, Turkey,
and Palestine ; crossing the desert and
ascending the Nile ; having raised a
company and chartered the first regular
passenger steam-boat, that ever went
from Boulak to Assouan. He was an
active and observing traveler, working
harder to see and learn the interesting
and wonderful things of the old world,
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Vermont. In addition to "seeing and
hearing" he wrote regular letters to
two papers at home, which were read
with great interest.
He has written several pamphlets,
orations and addresses, a Sunday
school manuel, the first ever used in
his denomination, having never seen
any till his was written. The manu
script of this was twice rejected, but
soon after publication it was generally
popular. He wrote also, a course of lectures on
"Language," and a "grammar," which
went through four editions, and a'
work on "Ireland as I saw it." In ad
dition to all other duties, he has often
when urged to it, written speeches and
reports for other people, which have
been delivered with some eclat in
places not proper to mention.
Mr. Balch on his removal West,
first settled at Galesburgh, where he
preached 5 years, and lectured in vari
ous places on various subjects. He
resolved to retire from so much con-
tinous public labor, and removed to
Hinsdale, 111., where, however, he con
cluded to preach to such a congrega
tion as he could gather there. The
fact is Mr. Balch out of the pulpit or
lecture room, is about as much out
of his own element, as a fish out of
water. He loves to preach and to
sway great masses of minds, and he
loves his masterful and grand profes
sion. At Hinsdale, 111., Mr. Balch re
mained two years, pastor of a most
independent congregation, all the
people of every religion in the region
round about, attending his services.
But after a little, he was drawn to
Elgin, a thrifty town, 40 miles N. W.
of Chicago. Here he preached for 6
years, when he again resolved to retire.
He surrendered the pastorate, without

removing from Elgin, where he still
continues to reside in a simple white
cottage, under green shade trees in the
summer upon a slight swell of land, a
little way from the busy streets of
the city of Elginwhich at the present
numbers some 16000, (1885.) Before
however, Mr. Balch had secured his
retirement, he was drawn into preach
ing at Dubuque, Towa, where without.
removing from Elgin, his home, he
continued his labors three years.
He has since the close of his labors
at Dubuque, visited California, and
the city of Mexico, and spent two
winters in Florida. During his life,
he has visited all the states, but two,
Oregon and Kansas ; and has passed
through many of them many times, and
preached in most. He has lectured
extensively, and once went 1,700 miles
from Galesburg by way of S. Carolina
by request of a Methodist minister to
preach the funeral sermon of the hus
band of a Quakeress. He has attend
ed 2,662 funerals, and married 1437
couples. The thoughts and labors of Mr.
Balch have never been limited to the
naked duties of his specific calling.
He has regarded Christianity as a great
practical revalation of truth, right and
personal and social duty ; he has always
entered actively into the great refor
matory movements of the age ; some
times at the risk of the approval of
his friends, but brave and fearlessly.
He used to say, he found it more than
he could do to satisfy one, without
submitting to the dictation of others.
In Rhode Island, he was an early
and earnest advocate for a constitu
tion, against the old charter of Charles
II, and probably did as much or more
than any other, to secure a "republi
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had not until he broached the subject
and helped carry it through. He lect-
.ured in most of the towns in the state,
several times in many, and gave the
¦oration on Dexter training ground, on
the 4th of July, when a determined
.stand was taken, which resulted in a
constitution.

Weston to the corner of Windham
county.]
DEDICATION HYMN.
mr. balch : — " Fifty years ago I
wrote this hymn, sung at the dedica
tion of a church in Claremont where I
was then settled.

Though a democrat in principles, he
was always an abolitionist, and never
acted as a politician, when principles
were at stake. He was many times
asked to allow his name to be put in
nomination for political office, but he
-would never suffer it to be done. How
ever, he was elected to tlie Legislature
from Ludlow twice, and how distin-
guishedly he fulfilled its duties, those
who remember him can testify.
While in Galesburg, 111., he was
urgently pressed to accept the nomina
tion for Congress from the fifth district,
which the late distinguished Lovejoy
had represented, as an independant re
publican, which he utterly refused to
accept, whereupon the republicans, who
could not agree upon another candi
date, split, and a democrat who had
agreed to sustain Mr. Balch, was nom
inated, and was ejected by 1,500
majori'y. [We will add for Hart Balch in this
connection with the account of his
grandson, that he not only fought at
Bunker Hill, but also at Stillwater and
Saratoga, and suffered at Valley Forge,
which latter facts did not. come in for
our notice of him, until we had passed
page 25, back, in print, where may be
found his general biography, — and
on that same page, on the first column
the statement, that the old county road
ran "from the corner of Rutland coun
ty through Windsor, to the corner of
Windham county," should read jthrough

To Thee, O' God! who hearest prayer,
An earthly temple here we raise :
May we Thy choicest blessings share,
And dedicate it to Thy praise.
Here may Thy humble offspring bend
And worship Thee, Thou great Unknown ;
O! may Thy quenchless love deecend
And seal and fit us for Thy own.
May we the higher truth dispense,
Thy sacred will proclaim ;
The faith once given to the saints ;
The hope that's found in Jesus' name.
May we the holy Sabbath spend
Within these consecrated walls,
And at thy altar bend,
While Thy good Spirit on us falls.
Here, Lord, we'll sing and preach and pray
While we Thy sanctuary throng ;
An4 when from earth we're called away,
In Heaven we'll raise a nobler song.
"One little thing you might, as a vari'
ty, work in under my grand-father
Balch. His first wife's names was Holt.
Her mother was married when 84 years
old, to a Mr. Thompson For a wed
ding tour they rode on horse-back from
Crown Point, N. Y., 64 miles to An
dover, stopping in Chittenden, to visit
a grandson, who had 14 children, and
to visit her son-in-law, grand and great-
grand-children . She died in Crown
Point, at the age of 104 years. The
descendants of her first husband, are
now living in that neighborhood.
Peter Adams, was the only merchant
who ever succeeded in Andover, but
now the store, two large dwelling-
houses, potash, blacksmith shop, etc. —
all dilapidated, are tumbling down. — B.

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TESTIMONIAL BANQUET
To Rev. William S. Balch,
By the Universalist Minister's Association
upon the Eightieth Anniversary of His Birth.
From ihe Inter Ocean.
At the Tremont House, Apr. 12,
1886, gathered a notable party around
the hanquet-board, to do honor to a
leading man of the past and present,
one who has been a conspicious figure
in the pulpit and literature of Universa-
lism, and those gathered there, had
deep delight, in doing honor to the
man, who has thus so auspiciously
reached the shining, golden milestone
marking so nearly tlie close of a cen
tury of life. At 5 o'clock a reception
was tendered to the aged pastor in the
parlors of the hotel, and at 6 :30 o'clock
t' -> banquet was served, about 175
friends sitting down. — Grace by Rev.
Mr. Boyntont of Minneapolis-.; and
after the banquet Dr. J. S. Cantwell,
editor ofthe "Universalist", introduced
Rev. Dr. Ryder, as the presiding offi
cer of the evening. Dr. Ryder paid a
high and glowing tribute to Dr. Balch,
giving interesting incidents as to his life.
They rejoiced with this man, because
he had reached 80 years of a»e —
might he reach 180. And Dr. Ryder
introduced Dr. Cantwell, as toast-
master, who read congratulatory letters
from the pastors of the Universalist
churches in the East, were Dr. Balch
had preached ; letters from Ludlow, Vt.
Providence, R. I. ; the old Bleecker
Street Church, of New York city, from
President Atwood, of Canton Theolog
ical Seminary, New York; from Pro
fessor J. S. Lee, of St. Lawrence
University, New York, the institution
which conferred the honorary degree
upon Dr. Balch; from Rev. Dr. Thos.
¦J- Sawyer, of Massachusetts, a Uni

versalist minister, 82 years of age, who
was in early days a pupil of Dr. Balch ;
poem from Mrs. Caroline A. Soule, of
New York city, under the title, "A
(Tender and Reverent Memory," de
lightfully recited by Miss Mae Dodson ;
letters from President White, of Lom
bard University; Rev. H. W. Thomas,
of this city, Chicago, and Rev. G- E.
Demarest. Rev. Charles Conklin was the first
speaker, announced as a "specimen
student" of the Canton Theological
School. The first edifice in which he
ever heard Universalim preached, was
built by converts of Dr. Baleh. These
people were honored, trusted, and wide
awake — moving in the first society.
Personal reminiscences were given full
of deep interest. He had wondered
why Dr. Balch left New York, but
when he took the advice, "Go West,
young man," he was delightfully sur
prised. Dr. Balch had largely shaped
and molded the thought of the denomi
nation. [The consequene'e] for him
self and for scores of young men in the
ministry they meant to build upon the
broad foundation of Jesus Christ and
His' righteousness.
"Our Early Theological Schools,"'
responded to by Rev. Amos Crum, of
Dubuque, Iowa. It was a tradition of
Dr. Balch, that sixteen had followed
him — Mr. Crum — in the theological
teaching Dr. Balch had given to the
young men, who were candidates for
the ministry, in the "moving theologic
al seminary" of Dr. Balch. High
compliment was paid to Dr. Balch, for
his work as a theological teacher, and
for his kindness as a friend.
Rev. E L. Conger, of Lombard Uni
versity, responded tc the toast : "Gales
burg," the city where the Lombard Uni
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An extract from "Voices of the
Faith, a sentiment from the pen of Dr.
Balch, was the topic from which the
next speaker, Rev. J. H. Tuttle, of
Minnesota, made his remarks. It was
a rare privilege to speak at this ban
quet. It was forty years since he first
met Dr. Balch. He made some telling
points, giving reminiscences ofthe past
history of the guest of the evening,
evoking rounds of laughter with it,
all his remarks full of meat, strongly
presented. The next sentiment — the papers of
the denomination, was spoken to by
Mr. Charles Caverly, of Boston, who
made a witty speech, causing much
merriment. When Dr. Balch was introduced to
the audience, rising to their feet to re
ceive him. he said : "When first asked
to give a day to the brethren, to do with
him as they pleased, he objected, but
he was glad he had accepted. He felt
he had been honored by this occasion.
He referred to the church of his choice,
and thanked God that we lived in a
world where the greatest and grandest
changes were those in the world of
thought and the world of religion. In
an interesting way, he referred to the
time wheu he was a boy in his eastern
home. Graphic word pictures were
given of incidents in his youth and
earlier manhood showing how he came
to enter the ministry. There was an
inspiration in the cause. He had been
toiling for fifty-nine years to-morrow iu
this cause. He thanked them all. He
didn'tknow he had so many friends in
the West. He urged them to follow
the lead of Universalism— one human
ity — labor for that." The announce
ment being made to Dr. Balch that the
bus was waiting for the Elgin train, in
his pat way he said: "The bus is wait

ing to take me home, and by and by
the bus will be waiting to take us all to-
that home where we shall gather at the
higher banquet table of heaven," and
with these words upon his lips he de
parted. Rev. Dr. Balch has been twice offered
the title of "D. D." and it has been
once conferred : but both times he re
fused it, and has never accepted it as
"savoring" he says "of the vanity of
earth and not becoming the humble
preacher of the Nazarine."
In another letter Mr. Balch says my
grandmother was a Green, in some way
related to General Greene of Revolu
tionary fame. The -Green's lived in.
Cavendish; I knew some of them ; not
much. An aunt married a Styles. I
saw my grandmother once, I remem
ber, not then four years old. She was-
married at 84, and rode from Crown,
Point ta Andover, 64 miles, for a wed
ding tour. I saw them, grandmother
and her husband, coming down the hili
above my father's ; two persons ont
horseback. We all stood gazing at the
windows ; as they passed by the wood
shed, we all ran to the bedroom -win
dow to see who they were. As they
reined up to the horste-block my moth
er said : "It is Grandmother Holt,"
and rushed to meet her. We all fol
lowed. Mother said: "Why, grand
mother; how came you here?" She
sprang from the saddle to the horse
block, embraced all of us, saying: "I
am spry as a girl." She died at 104."
Grandmother was first introduced on
page 56.
Mr. Balch has also recently written
another book, entitled: "A Peculiar-
People, or Reality in Romance."
He has been twice married; has
married and buried his oldest daugh
ter, and has one son now married.

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JONAS ADAMS.
Contributed by the Adams Family.
Jonas Adams, the. revolutionary sol
dier and settler, mentioned on page 27,
had four sons, Jerry, Phineas, Alvin
and Orison. When he died his son
Alvin, was but nine years old, and
Orison 4 years old. Jerry remained
upon the farm and kept the family to
gether. Jonas Adams was wounded in the
battle of Stillwater. At one time, he
was Col. Cilley's waiter in the war,
and Levi Adams, a brother, was an
orderly Sergeant in Col. Cilley's regi
ment. Jonas died in 1813.
ALVIN ADAMS.
Founder of Adams & Co. Express.
Andover and Boston.
LETTER OP MR. ADAMS.
Boston, May 4, 1870.
MR. H. H. GUTTERSON,
Dear Sir :
Your kind favor of the 27th April,
came duly to hand, but an excess of
busmess has prevented an earlier re
ply. I will try and give you a brief
sketch of my life, and will give you
facts ; but they will have to be arrang
ed, according to the wishes of the
author of the history to be published.
Insert what may be proper, and of in
terest, and leave out the rest. [We
have found it interesting to give the
paper verbatim. — Ed. ]
I was born on the 16 th day of
June, 1804, in the town of Andover,
Windsor Co., Vt. My parents names
were Jonas and Phebe Adams ; they
were born in Ipswich, N. H.; there
were eleven children in all, six sons
and five daughters, two sons died
very young.

My father and mother died of spot
ted fever: father on the 19th of Feb.,
1813, mother on the 26th of the same
month, although she was well, and
went to the grave with my father's re
mains, just a week previous.
My oldest sister, Lucy, Mrs. Dicken
son, of Westminster, Vt., died Feb.
4, 1813, aged 28 years1.
M3r father's mother, Rebecca Adams,
died Sept. 29, 1813, aged 98 years
and 6 months.
The year after the death of my
parents, my brother, Phineas, married
and moved to Grafton, Vt., and I
lived with him until I -was fourteen,
and then returned to my brother
Jerry, on the homestead at Andover.
In the meantime, Deacon Sam'l
Manning had been appointed my
guardian. At fourteen, I had the
right to choose my own guardian, I
decided to retain the Deacon.
AH the schooling I ever received,
was at the common schools, at An
dover and Grafton until I was fifteen.
At sixteen I became dissatisfied with
the slow, plodding farm-life, and pre
vailed on my brother to let me go off,
and seek employment for myself. This
was in November 1 820.
I first went to Woodstock, Vt., where
I met the late Robert Barker, who
then kept the hotel, owned a line of
stages, etc. I made known my busi
ness. His reply was, "I have no place
for you at this time." He looked me
over, made inquiries about my parents,
1 told him I had none, I was an or
phan. This seemed to touch his sym
pathy. He said, young man go home,
get your clothes, come back and stay
through the winter, and perhaps longer.
I did so, and finally remained four
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Here I engaged as an assistant in
the Marlboro hotel, where I remained
about a year. After this, I engaged
in traffic and trade, of various kinds,
and finally settled down in the pro
duce business, and continued in it un
til 1837, when I failed, as did almost
every trader at that time.
In 1838, I moved to New York,
and went into my old business, (pro
duce,) but not having sufficient capital,
I closed up, and in March 1840, re
turned to Boston.
About that time the Boston & Nor
wich Railroad was about being opened
to New York, and I applied for the
privilege to run an express over it, as
a man by the name of* Harnden, had
been doing this business on the Ston-
nington route about a year, (the first
express ever started,) but Harnden
having been in this new business, and
he and his friend feeling, there would
never be business enough to sustain
two expresses, brought such influence
to bear, he got the contract on the
new route, Boston and Norwich. De
termined, however, not to be thwarted
in my undertaking, 1 went to the
agent of the Stonnington route and pur
chased two season tickets, between
New York and Boston. I gave one
to my partner, and with trunks and
valises, we went back and forth daily,
one leaving Boston, the other New
York, every P. M.. My first express
left the office, No. 9 Court St., Boston,
May 4, just thirty years ago, this very
day. My flrst way-bill amounted to
83.75. I continued in this way, (my
own messenger) until September, when
I was intormed'by my friend, the late
Addison Gilmore, (family of Weston,
Vt.,) that Harnden had been notified
to quit the Norwich route, and for me
to make amplication at once for a con-

X

tract; Gilmore at this time was a
rector. I made application, got the
contract, and have run over that route
to this day.
In four years I was ahead of Harn
den, and about that time, he died, in
solvent, and Adams & Co- purchased
his interest in the business, and for
twenty -five years Adams & Co. have
owned all the express lines between
New York and Boston, although the
Harnden and Kinsley were ran in their
original name for a certain purpose.
In 1842, we made arrangement to
run between New York and Philadel
phia, soon after to Baltimore and
Washington, thence to Pittsburg, Cin
cinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, the West
generally, and as far south as New
Orleans, and intermediate places.
In 1849, we extended our business
California, at the time the gold was
discovered, and in 1852, established a
banking house in Melbourne, Australia
and a branch at Sidney.
In 1855, we closed up our business,
both in California and Australia, as we
found it impossible to do business at
these distant places, to make the pro
fits, guarantee the risk. For six years,
we had 35 offices in California, one in
Oregon. The business in all, mostly
in gold, for drafts to remit home, or tc
be kept on deposite. Since 1855, we
have confined our business to the At
lantic States.
DuriDg the late war, the business of
Adams & Co. Avas irnmence, as they
were employed, not only by govern
ment, but to transport arms and amu-
nition, but by families to transmit
thousands of small packages to the sol
diers, in the field, and thousands of
parcels of money from the soldiers,
home to their families.

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61

To show the magnitude of a busi
ness, that started in the smallest pos
sible way, there is no name and never
was in this country, that has ever em
ployed so many men, and horses, trans
ported so many packages, (great aud
small) so much treasure, run over so
many miles of railroad, no name sp often
in print, as Adams & Co., or I should
say, (since 1854) "The Adams Express
Co.," for at that time a charter was
obtained, and all the business since m\s
been done in the latter name.
The institution has been similar to a
corporation, stock issued in shares. It
is a "Joint Stock Company," with a
capital of "ten millions." One other
thing may seem strange, and that is for
the three years we did business in
Australia, the sun never set on my
name, or the business of Adams & Co.
My principal partner has been Wm.
B. Dinsmore, (a Boston boy,) he came
with me in 1842, and has been the Pre
sident <and Treasurer of the Express
Co., since 1856. Up to the present
time, there has never been an ill word
ken, or written between us.

and experiencing a world of trials, not
to be mentioned here.
1 have given facts, and you may se
lect what you please, and as much as
you please, to answer your purpose.
Respectfully, yours,. Alvin Adams.
hon. austin adams,
one of the judges of the Supreme Ceurt
of Iowa, was born May 24, i 826, in
that part of Andover, called East Hill.
The farm is the one, on which stood
for many years the Baptist meeting
house. Jonas Adams, the grand-father
of Austin, came from Jaffrey, N, H.
in 1794. He purchased the old East
Hill farm, and resided upon it, until
his death.
Among his sons, tfto are wwthy of
ntention. Alvin Adams, the founder.
of the Adams Express Co., and Jerry
Adams, who was the father of Austin..
Jerry succeeded to> his father's farm,
and resided there until he removed to
Weston, in 1842. He held several
minor offices in both towns, and repre
sented both in the Legislature.
Austin, from his boyhood manifest
ed strong inclination toward the pro
fession of the law. At fourteen years
of age, he was sent to Black River Aca
demy, at Ludlow. There with some
interruptions, he fitted for college, and
a dollar of capital. I was owing ten ! at the age of nineteen, he entered the
thousand dollars, on my old failure in | sophomore class of Dartmouth college,
1837, but I am happy to feel it has |

Three years next fall, Mr. Dinsmore's
eldest son, Wm. B. Jr.; married my
eldest daughter, which shows' the har
mony, in which we have lived, while
doing this extensive business, which
30 years ago to day was began without

since been paid. When my partner,
Mr. Dinsmore ^ame in with me, he
was not worth a dollar, but was ---mart,
with a fine business education.
I have given these detail, that you
or any one, may know what, a poor or
phan Vermont boy has gone through-
say nothing of loosing several fortunes,

where he graduated in 1848.
He returned to Black River Acade-
nry, and taught a short time as assist
ant principal.*
Afterward, he became the principal
of West Randolph Academy, where he
remained four years.
* Where the Editor of the Vt. Hist. Gaz.,
was. one ol his pupils.

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His professional education he re
ceived in part at the law-school of Har
vard college, and in part at the law
office, of Ex. Gov. Coolidge, at Wind
sor. He was admitted to the bar at
Woodstock, in 1854.
At that time, there were, probably
few abler bars in New England, out
side of the large cities. Indeed, there
were few abler lawyers anywhere than
Andrew Tracy, Julius Converse, James
Barrett and Peter T. Washburn. Jacob
Collamer, "the noblest Roman of them
all," was then on the bench. The
older legal celebrities, like Titus Hutch,
jnson, Carlos Coolidge, and Reuben
Washburn, were fast passing away.
Horace Everett, for fourteen years re
presentative in Congress, had just died.
But the legal talent left was dispro
portionately large for the legal business.
The tide of emigration was setting
westward, more strongly, just at that
time than before, or since. States of
p respectively the first magnitude, were
rapidly rising west of the lakes. It was
in 1854, that the iron horse for the
first time reached the upper Mississippi.
In that year, the Chicago, Rock Island
<fe Pacific Railroad, was completed to
Rock Island. Across the river, lay
the state of Iowa; though admitted, but
nine years before it was already put.
ting on the tokens of its coming great
ness. There had then commenced that
marvellous growth, by which while yet
in its infancy, it has attained to a popu
lation of nearly 2,000,000, and has in
operation more than 8,000 miles of rail
road. Its leading commercial city then,
as now, was Dubuque. Austin Adams
settled in that city in 1854, and com
menced the practice of the law.

ty which was overwhelmingly demo-
j cratic, and which has always remained
' so. Without expectation or desire of
political preferment, he gave his best
efforts for some years in aid of the re
publican party. In 1856, he accepted
the nomination for representative in the
lower house of the legislature, and in
1861, the nomination for county judge.
Each time the whole ticket was defeat
ed. Afterward when the state became
overwhelmingly republican, he retired
from politics, and devoted himself ex
clusively to his profession. For many
years he held no office, except of a non
political character.
In 1865 he was elected president of
the board of education in Dubuque,
and in 1870 a regent of the State Uni
versity. About the same time he was
made one of the trustees of Humboldt
College, and one of the curator's of the
State Historical Society. In 1875, he
was eleeted judge of the supreme court.
and in 1880 he became chief justice.
In 1881 he was elected to a second term.
The opinions of the court, since he be
came judge, already (in 1886,) fill 27
volumes. These constitute the record
of his judicial labors, and by these he
must be judged.
In business, he is a stockholder in
three Dubuque corporations, but an
officer in only one. He is a lecturer
on the law of corporations, and of
domestic relations, in the law depart
ment of the Iowa State University. He
has delivered a few public addresses,
but only one has been published. That
was on "Classical Learning as an Ele
ment of Modern Scholarship, delivered
before the students and alumni of Lom-

j bard University; an argument in be-
Though a republican in politics, he! half of classical studies in our colleges.
eleeted to settle in what was supposed j in 1883, Dartmouth college conferred
to be a democratic state, and in a coun. ' uPon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.

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63

His wife was the daughter of Rev.
Samuel Newbury, to whom he was
married in Dubuque, in 1857. He has
four children, two sons and two daugh
ters.
JUDGE JOSEPH DODGE.
was born in this town, May 20, 1800;
son of Joseph and Betzy Dodge. He
received a common school education
was well-read in law, understood bu
siness generally , was honest and just
in all its transactions. He was a man
also, of large stature and portly appear
ance, as well as of intellectual capacity ;
and was largely esteemed by all ac
quainted with him. He held nearly all
the offices in the gift of the town ; was
elected twice to the Legislature, aud
served two years as side Judge in
Windsor county. He was again for
the third time sent to the Legislature,
but while at Montpelier was stricken
with paralyzis, from the effects of
which he never recovered, but died
a few years after, Dec. 9, 1806, aged
65. He married Selinda Hazeltine by
'whom he had four sons.
SOLOMON BLOOD, M. D.
RECORD OF THE STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY.
Dr. Blood was born in Hollis, N. H.,
Feb. 16, 1810. In 1813, his father
Isaac Blood, removed with his family
to Andover, where he was educated in
the common schools, and at the Chester
academy, and at the Wesleyan acade
my, at Wilbraham, Mass. and at the
Bloomfield academy, New Jersey, and
graduated from Vermont Medical Col
lege, at Woodstock, Vt.
His diploma is dated June 6, 1838,
and the names ofthe professors attach
ed thereto are: H. A. Childs, president;
Norman Williams, secretary; David
Palmer; Gilman Kimball, Elisha Bart
lett, and R. Watts.

His preceptor was Dr. Henry Grey
of Cambridge, N. Y. Previous to his
studies at the Vermont College, he in
1836, was a member of the class of
that year in the New Hampshire Medi
cal Institute, (Dartmouth College). He
also, later in life, attended lectures in
Rush Medicnl College, Chicago. He
married Azenath M. Jordan, of Chester,
Aug. 1., 1839, and in the same year
removed to Rochester, Wis. His wife
died in 1849 ; children : two daughters
living ; one deceased in early life. In-
1851, ,he married AlmiraS. Spaulding,
of New Ipswich, N. H., who. still sur
vives him.

The Doctor was actively engaged in
his professional practice in Wisconsin,
up to 1865, when he removed to Owa-
tonna, Minn., where he resumed prac
tice, and died Dec 3, 1881.
During the civil war, he was assist
ant surgeon of the 32d Reg. Wis. Vol.
but in the course of service, his health
failing; he resigned, and afterwards re
gaining his health, entered the service
as surgeon ofthe 39th Reg. Wis. Vol.
He was a member of the Wisconsin
State Medical Society, and was elected
its President in 1861 ; was a member
ofthe Minnesota State Medical Societ}',
from its organization in 1869, and its
Vice President in 1870, besides serving
actively on several important com
mittees. At the time of his death, he was
chairman of the committee on Necrolo
gy, and had the appointment, by the
president of the society of delagate to the
American Mecical Association, at its
annual meetmg, held in June, at St.
Paul, Minn., of which association, he
was a member since 1870.
He died of cancer of the stomach.
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during the months of September and
October, had chills every third day,
but attended to business until into No
vember. For the last two weeks, he
took no nourishment into his stomach,
but was supported by other means. He
only kept his bed five days, and bore
his sufferings without a murmur.
He did not call in a physician, until
about a week before his death, when
Drs. Staples, of Winona, and J. Pal
mer Johnson, of Blooming Prairie,
met in consultation.
Dr. Johnson continuing to attend
him, until his death, Dec. 3, 1881. His
mind was perfectly clear to the last,
recognizing and greeting friends, who
came in but a few moments before he
passed away.
In recording this loss to our Asso
ciation, your committe necessarily feel
more than ordinarily impressed with
the sad duties of the position. The
chief member of its organization has
passed away, and. not only this, but an
old and true friend, we shall see no
more forever.
A studied eulogy is impossible, be
cause we could indite no words that
would fill the measure of our deceased
friend's merits. All of us, who knew
him, were cognizant of his professional
ability. The active interest he ma
nifested in every thing, pertaining to
medicine and its advancement, an in
terest, which no weight of years ap
peared to lessen, is evidenced by over
forty years of active professional ser
vice, by his attention to tlie require
ments of medical ethics, both in private
practice, and in the councils of our
associations, and by tbe ready perform
ance, of those duties, entrusted to him
by the state society. As a citizen, com
panion, and friend, hewn? ail implied

in the best sense of the terms. He
could not well be other, than we knew
him — the basis element of his char
acter was born with him — God made
him an honest man, and the superstruc
ture of his life, was formed on ihat
found tion.
Children : Julia Asenath, born, May
24, 1841 ; died, Oct. 8, 1842.
Mary Elizabeth, born Jan. 7, 1844.
Josephine Jordan, born March 20,
1848. REV. ISAAC BUTTERFIELD.
BY HON. AUSTIN ADAMS, DUBUQUE, IOWA.
There are some still living who will
remember the subject of this sketch,
when a boy upon his father's farm sit
uated upon the road leading from An
dover East Hill to Ludlow and about
one mile north of the East Hill school
house. His early advantages do not
appear to have been great, but he was
animated by a strong desire to make
the most of himself, aud become useful
to his fellow men.
He was born Oct. 16, 1812. At the
age of 21 , he left home and resided for
a time at New Ipswich, N. H. It was
there that he resolved to enter the min
istry; and he became licensed to preach
in the spring of 1836. What he lacked
in opportunity for methodical study, he
made up largely by his great industry
and continued zeal in his profession.
His work has been a labor of love and
he has the rich consolation that it has
not been in vain.
His first settled charge was in Cicero,
N. Y., where he was ordained pastor of '
the Baptist church in 1839. Since that
he has had a pastoral charge at El-

-idge

Oswego

and Watertown, N.

Y., Davenport, Iowa, Jackson and
v_»rand Rapids, Mich., at which last
place he now lives. He married Miss

<J¥c

£2^22^2?

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GS

L. A. Templeton, of Northfield, Mass.
He has two children living, one a
prominent lawyer at Grand Rapids,
Mich. In all the different places of his set
tlement he has displayed more than
usual pulpit ability, and the various
people among whom he has lived have
become his devoted friends. It has of
ten been his to lay the spirit of discord,
speaking both with love and authority,
and as one not unacquainted with the
counsels of the Most High.

Mr. Qutterson's papers resumed.
I wish to have our native talent and
prominent citizens, both well repre
sented, and shall mention all I may
remember, or whose names have been
sent into me for this history of the
town, and will give the following lists :
NATIVE COLI.EGIATE8.
Samuel L. Burton, Joel Manning,
jr., Wm. R. Chase, graduated from
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y.
Mr. Chase is now (1870) editor of the
Waco Register. Waco, Texas.
Austin Adams, graduated at Dart-'
mouth College, N. H. (has other no
tice.) D. Clinton Hutchinson, graduated
from college in the state of Indiana.
NATIVE LAWYERS. — RECORD IN 1876.
Ira S. Hazeltine for several years
a successful lecturer through the South
and West, on education, phrenology
and mesmerism, now a large land pro
prietor ; founder of Richland Centre,
Wis. ; attorney and solicitor, and is a
native of this town.
Hascal Hazeleine, attorney and
counsellor at law, Rockbridge, Wis.
J. H. Dodge graduated at the law
school Albany, N, J., in Nov., 1869;

admitted to the bar at Woodstock, Vt.,
Dec, 1869 ; died Jan. 24, 1870; aged
26. Austin Adams (see biography, pre
ceding) now a judge at Dubuque, Iowa.
Spencer Leonard, now Superin
tendent of Chester boot-shop.
Samuel L. Burton, biography fur
nished [given preceding.]
Joel Manning, Jr., biography fur
nished [givej preceding.]
Thaddeus Stevens and Mr. E.
Morse are native lawyers. Morse in
Cincinnati, O. Stevens, dead. Stev
ens was a soldier in the war of 1812.
native physicians — record in 1870.
Richard Lee Howard died in Ohio ;
was a successful surgeon.
Elias Howard now practicing at
Akron, Ohio.
Putnam Burton now practicing at
Ludlow, Vt. , [ Since deceased for
further account see physicians of Lud
low.] Solomon Blood. [See sketch just
given.] Marquis F. Edson now practicing
at Brandon, Vt.
Chandler Howard died in Ohio.
Wolcott Chandler, son of Dr.
Charles Chandler.
Byron Chase now practicing at
Akron, Ohio.
S. W. Hazeltine, author of "The
Traveler's Rest" and other poems, now
teaching at Ellicott's Mills, Md.,(1870. )
David H. Chase now practicing at
Clay City, 111.
Wm. Tyrell, who resides in Ohio.
Chas. D. Marsh, graduated at a
Medical College at New York City;
was a surgeon during the rebellion,
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the spotted fever
Made havoc here in 1812. In one
neighborhood in the northeast part of
the town when it first appeared in eight
days it carried off eight persons.
DR. WOLCOTT C CHANDLER,
Son of Dr. Charles Wesley Chand
ler, was born in Andover and choose
the same profession as his father. He
was a promising young physician. The
•old doctor would say with a sigh and a
father's pride: "A.ndover is wide
enough for 'Old Charles.' " Andover
is not wide enough for young Dr. Wol
cott. He early removed from the
town. He died in mid-life. [See al
so page 3 7.] NATIVE MINISTERS.
John Dudley, an eminent Baptist
divine, died in Wisconsin.
A. Leland Balch, Universalist.
[See page 53. J
Isaac Butterfield, Baptist, is pas
tor of a, church in Oswego, N. Y.
Burton Peabody, Episcopalian, is
rector of s church in Prescott, Wis.
Rodney Manning and Philander
Taylor, Baptist.
Lorenzo Pettengill, Methodist, is
",ow (1870) a farmer in Weston.
William S. Balch. (See pages
53-54.) the first baptist minister
who preached in this town was
JOSEPH ELLIOT.
The church was organized Aug. 31,
1806. JOEL MANNING
was the first ordained minister over
this church, Oct., 1806.
The following clergymen have since
been pastors over this church : Revs.
Rodney Manning, Calvin Monroe,
Elias Hurlburt, John Pierce, Calvin

Baker, D. W. Burrows, Harvey Crow
ley, Alfred A. Constantine, Lyman
Culver, E. F. Smith, Calvin Fisher
and A. J. Walker. SAMUEL MANNING
was the first Baptist in town before the
organization of the church.
Revs. Elliot, Higbee, Choate, Bailey,
Coombs and McCollins preached here
in school houses, barns and in the open
woods. One communion season was
held in the woods.
SABBATH SCHOOLS 1879.
The Baptist Sabbath schools have
250 volumes in their library and 24
Sunday school papers ; scholars, 130 ;
teachers, 12.
The Sabbath school at Simonsville
have 112 books in their library.
THE FIRST BAPTIST MEETING-HOUSE
was built in the northeast part of the
town, 30 by 40 feet; erected in 1809.
THE NEW BAPTIST CHURCH
At Peaseville was built in 1868, and is
35 by 41 feet.
FREE WILL BAPTISTS.
Eld. H. R. Crain organized a Free
Will Baptist church in Simonsville
about the year 1848, and a Sabbath
school, but both soon became extinct.
METHODISTS IN ANDOVER.
No Methodist church has ever throve
here. In 1814 or 15 there was a class
of about 20, composed of members
mostly, in what is now the Boynton
district, adjoining Ludlow, and from
South Hill, Ludlow. The members in
Andover, were Joseph Manning and
wife, Rufus Barton, wife, and oldest
daughter and the mother of Rufus
Barton, Ebenezer Cummings, Annie
and Polly Derby and others. Asa S.
Barton, son of Rufus, was also a pro
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Joseph Manning was the class-leader,
and their meetings were held at his
house. The little band, not then two,
if one year old, was in a thriving con
dition, when that unfortunate snow
storm, already spoken of in the account
of Settler Rufus Barton, fell upon the
mountains of Andover, which caused
Barton to stay at home and break Sun
day by putting down stanchels in his
barn to tie up his cattle out of the
storm, — page 32. The Conference
took up the matter, as said, the next
year, and suspended the young preach
er for a time from the care of a cir
cuit, and sent another preacher to build
up the class. Rufus Barton's wife and
daughter joined the class, but never
he; never his son. The Methodists
never prospered much in Andover,
and the old members used to lay the
"blame at "Joe Manning's door" — the
inexorable diciplinarian. [His brother,
the Rev. Joel Manning, says Asa S.
Barton in a paper for Ludlow where
Rev. Mr. Manning lived for some years
and often preached, wrote a book in
defense of the tenets of Calvinism and
.Joseph, the Methodist convert, follow
ed by one presenting Armenian views ;
strong was the argument in the house
when those two brothers met. Where
are those old books now ?]
THE UNIVERSALIS! CHURCH
was constituted in 1807. Rev.
Cornelius Persons preached to this
church four or five years.

THE CONGREGATIONALIST UNION CHURCH
so named, was at7 the middle of the
town, and was erected in 1820 — 44 by
52 feet. THE UNION CHURCH
In Simonsville was built in 1848, and
is 30 by 40 feet.

MORMONISM IN ANDOVER.
Somewhere between the years of
1830 and 1838, two Mormon ministers
came into the south part of the ..town
and began holding meetings in private
houses. They professed to work mir
acles ; to heal the sick ; to cause the
lame to walk, and the blind to see-
Their new and peculiar doctrines nat
urally awoke the curiosity of the peo
ple and their meetings were well at
tended. Several were converted to
the new faith and closing up their af
fairs here went to Ohio (probably to
Kirkland) where the converts were
rendezvoued. Those who left here were William
Sheldon, wife and two daughters,
Hannah and Sophronia ; Isaac Blood,
wife and daughter ; Elizabeth, and Mrs.
Hannah Ward and her daughter, Han
nah. NMrs. Ward had been an invalid for
several year> and scarcely able to leave
her bed, but under the excitement
consequent upon her conversion, she
rose from her bed and walked, or was
carried to the river one night and was
baptised. But little is known by the
writer of these people after they went
to Ohio, except that they suffered se
verely from want and privation.
RICHARD WARD,
born in Chester, June 26, 1800. In
1820, with his parents, removed to
Andover and settled in the south part
of the town. In 1823, he married
Miss Sophia Dudley, by whom he had
4 children. She died July 16, 1831 ;
March 16, 1832,- he married, second,
Mary Hull, by whom he had 9 chil
dren. In 1859 he removed to Chester
and thence to Westminister in 1860,
where he lived until his demise, Mar.
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ABIGAIL DANA BARTON,
horn in Andover [page 47,] was the
namesake of her father's mother, whose
maiden name was Abigail Dana, and
between this grand-mother and her
grand-daughter there was ever a deep
attachment. The grand-mother lies
buried by the side of her old revolu
tionary soldier husband in the Andover
burial ground — to which the Compiler
of the Gazetteer looks back to the
graves of her maternal ancestors, thus
far, with a certain knowledge, so many
and bright are the pictures of these ven
erable great-grand-parents that her
own mother impressed in youth upon
her mind.
Abigail Barton tells us on a fly-leaf
of a copy of the New Testament pre
sented to one of her daughters, in her
own clean, Httle, round, copper-plate
like haDd-writing : Daniel Sheffield
Hemenway and Abigail Dana Barton
were married Dec. 4, 1825. They
were married Thanksgiving day morn
ing by Rev. Benjamin Shaw, after
wards of Mt. Tabor. I do not know
without looking up, whether he was
then or not. After the ceremony all
present sat down to a thanksgiving
breakfast. Grand-mother Lydia Wash
er Barton had a standard thanksgiving
breakfast — hot, wheat-bread, butter-
toast, that was butter-toast ; served on a
certain long, white, meat-platter; chick
ens stewed deliriously in butter; and an
oblong, plum-stuffed, huge mince-pie —
such as only grandmother ever made,
on another, large meat-platter, white,
blue-bordered ; such was grandmother
B.'s standard thanksgiving breakfasts.
There may have been some additions
that bridal morningof her eldest daugh
ter. I have been told the breakfast was
fine — Grandmother B. prided herself on
cookery. When she had first come up

into the New State of Vermont before
her marriage — she had lived with her
sister, whose husband — a Greene —
"kept tavern" at Chester, where she
had cooked for balls — those fine, old
style balls, to which the yourtg elite for
forty miles around came.
After breakfast and an interim all
went to meeting at the school-house,
where Rev. Mr. Shaw, preached the
thanksgiving sermon for the District.
Abigail Dana [Barton] Hemenway
was the mother of ten children, seven
of whom survived her, and six of
whom at this writing, Sept. 1886, are
still living. Her oldest, named for
her father and brother Rufus Nelson,
was one of the selectmen of Ludlow in
the days of the war; not being drafted,
paid and sent a man ; and was the first
native of . the town a representative at
the legislature. He is now dead.
Second, infant. ; third, first daughter,.
named for the venerated grand-mother,
Abigail Dana ; died at 2£ years ; whose
cherub head where flaxen water-curls
stood thick the children who came after
seem to remember, so the fond mother ¦
had impressed upon them the image of
her favorite child — " too, pretty for this
world," we heard the neighboring wo
men say. She died six weeks before our
birth, fourth child, — Abby Maria.
Fifth child, Lydia' Washer;
Sixth, ,, Charles Wesley;
Seventh, Carrie Elizabeth;
Eighth, Horace Cushman;
Ninth, infant;
Tenth, Daniel Dana, named for fa
ther and mother ; soldier in- the Second
Vermont ; in 42 pitched battles.
All, born at Ludlow, in the sense a
woman's children are her chief biogra
phy belong with the mother. Andover
is the grand mother bf the Gazetteer.

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MY FOREST HOME.
Br Mrs. A. D. Hemejtway.
My birth and early home was whefre
The wild flowers sweetly bloomed
And through the opening forest glade,
The radiant morn perfumed.
No glittering1 spires or lofty domes
E'er met my youthful eye,
But the Green Mountain's archy brow
And blue transparent sky.
Each flowery bed and hill and stream,
All wore a charm for me :
And shadowing o'er the mossy turf,
There stood my favorite tree.
Beneath its branches oft I've knelt
And breathed a vesper prayer,
WhUe evening shades were gathering round
And none but God was there.
But like the morning's fragrant rose,
That sips the early dew,
Those sunny days of life's young morn
In quick succession flew.
I ne'er have found a ho.ne so sweet,
So free from anxious care,
. As that dear forest home of mine,
So lovely and so fair
THE SLAVE'S LAMENT.
The silent eve, the rosy luurn
Are witness to my grief,
WhUe from my friends and kindred torn,
In vain I seek relief
For, Oh ! my Master's cruel hand
Has made my tetters strong,
Here in this free and happy land.
Fve been a captive long,
Without one cheering ray of hope
To ease my aching heart,
Or bear my fainting spirits up
Beneath the painful smart.
From morn till night I toll severe
Beneath the scorching heat,
And when the eveniug shades appear,
2(6 frientBy hand I greet.
Far, far beyond the ocean-wave.
There lies my distant home,
And he to whom my vows Ijgave
Cold in the silent tomb.
And I forever doomed to wear
The galling captive's chain ;
Life's sweet delights no more to share,
Or hope for bliss again

Keen anguish shook my every limb.
Despair sat on my brow,
When torn from A trio's coast by him
Who is my tyrant now.
Alas ! alas ! my children , dear,
The thought distracts my brain,
Calls forth the bitter scalding tear
And rends my heart with pain-
When memory paints the scene anew,
The horrors of tbat day
When all the joys on earth t knew,
From me were swept away.
T' was the same vile and murderous hands
That laid my partner low.
Around me threw these captive bands,
This badge of human woe.
I thought of my poor babes and plead
With all a mother's grief;
But stern tbe inhuman monster said
For you there's no relief,
I care not for your orphan's crigs.
My slave you sure shall be,
Now dry at once your weeping eyes,
Tour babes no more you'll see.
Full many a bleeding wound I've borne,
Inflicted by his bands,
But time with me wUl soon be o'er,
Few aye life's ebbing sands.
Welcome thou cold and dreary grave,
I long for thy repose ;
Death. s chilling blast I'd calmly brave,
These weeping eyes to close.
The hope's of bliss beyond the tomb,
This aching heart to cheer,
Dispel the shades of death's dark gloom
And dry the falling tear.
This sacred boon ot glorious hope
To captive man is given,
To bear his fainting spirits up.
There are no slaves in Heaven. A. D. H.
 : O : 
THE CONTBAST.
Bv A. 8. Barton.
I saw a man, withered and old.
Who'd toUed , hut not for fame ;
He knew no love but that of gold,
And friendship, but by name.
He paid the priest and thus assayed,
High Heaven to secure ;
But stUl the liberal price he paid
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He talked of moral wrongs and then,
Ofequaljustice too,
He bought and sold his fellow men,
And mocked at human woe.
Worn out with toil at last he dies,
By all but foes forgot .-
The marble tells us where he lies,
No friend to mark the spot.
I saw another man in tears. ,
Who sang in mournful lays,
Of blighter! hopes in early years,
And friends of by -gone days.
Blest with a pure and noble mind,
He felt another's woe ;
He lived the friend of human kind,
And died without a foe.
His grave is near his humble cot. \
Down by the silent glen,
Without a stone to tell us what
His life had — never been.
Had he not hopes beyond the tomb,
Unmoved by doubts or fears,
His life had been a cheerless gloom,—
A gloom of four-score years.
CYRUS SMITH.
Cyrus Smith, who came here early,
was a man possessing great physical
strength, sound judgment, and rare
common sense. Once, when traveling,
he called at a tavern and asked for a
glass of sling. Seating himself before
the broad fire-place, he sat down his
glass of sling by the fire to warm. A
bully, sitting near by, spit in it.
Smith, without a word, coolly threw
it out of the window, and calle." for
another glass and set this down to
warm. This was spit in by the bully
and quietly emptied by Smith, who
called for another glass. As he set
this down, he said to the fellow, "Sir,
don't you spit into that sling." The
words were scarcely spoken before he
again spit in it. Smith jumped from
his chair, and seizing the bully threw
him with no gentle force upon a table
in the room, where he administered a.

him by the collar he led him to the
door, and giving him a tremendous
kick, sent him sprawling into the street.
Walking back into the bar room, he
cooly said, "Landlord, I want another
glass of sling." It was produced, and
drank this time in peace. After7 eat
ing his dinner, Smith asked of the
landlord the amount of his bill,
"Nothing," was the reply, "You have
done a good job for me by clearing
that fellow out of my house, and you
are welcome to all you have had."
Mr. Gutterson resumes.
CYRUS SMITH,
died Jan. 2, 1822, aged 60 years. He
was an exeellent shoemaker and a food
farmer, though well fitted to hold town
offices, never would do so, preferring
to attend to his own affairs, and let
others who cared more for office and
its honors have it. He had a family of
9 children, two of his children, Lowell
and Jesse are in Wisconsin ; Lowell a
retired merchant; Jesse a thrifty
farmer. [ Mr. Gutterson says, moreover, of
RICHARD WARD,
He was aman of strong will, and of
much energy and decision of character.
He possessed good business capacity,
and was very successful as a farmer.
While here he was justice of the
peace and selectman, and his business
tact and decision made him a very
efficient town officer. [See p. 67. J
ORRIN HAZELTINE
came here from Rockingham about
the year 1812, and erected a carding-
machine — the first in town, and had
cloth-dressing works. He remained
here many years ; was once elected to
the legislature, and was Colonel of
the Militia for a time. He removed

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volved in lawsuits and difficulties.
died in advanced life.

He

GEO. W. STICKNEY, ESQ.,
oldest son of Joseph and Anna Stick
ney, was born in New Ipswich, N. H.>
in 1804. In 1806 his parents removed
to this town, where they spent the
rest of their days. Mr. Stickney re
ceived a common school education,
and in his class always maintained an
advanced 'position.
He early espoused the anti-slavery
cause, and upon the organization of a
temperance society here, became an ac
tive 'working member and vice-
president. At the age of 25, he first held town
office, and from that time thenceforth,
he has held all or nearly every civil
office in town, with honor and trust;
has been six times elected to the legis
lature, and was a member of that body
when called together by Governor
Smith to ratify the 14th amendment.
Mr. Stickney resides upon the farm
on which his father settled, and is a
genial, honest and capable business
man, and a good farmer. He had the
first raising in town where liquor was
not furnished.
Mr. Stickney to Rev. Mr. Baleh,
Andover, Vt., Dec. 11, 1885.
Dear Friend Balch: I received
your welcome letter last night, and
reading it called up many scenes of
bye-gone days, and in a moment, I
seemed to be there, bnt recollection
soon reminds me of old age. I am
glad you have concluded to give a pa
per to our history, that those who come
after us may know some of the thoughts
and doings of one of the sous of An- j

children the ablest and most talented of
any ever raised in Andover. I think
Leland Balch and his brother, William,
and Joel and John B. Manning, four
of the smartest boys ever raised in An
dover ; I will not except the Stiekneys,
Geo. W. and Joseph H. Now, as you
have got your hand in you will say a
good word for the Smith's, who are all
dead, but the three youngest girls, and
the Dodges who are both dead. There
are four graves in our old yard on the
slabs which mark the grave is Joseph
Dodge, who came here in an early day,
81 ; his son, Joseph, married a Putnam
and his oldest son was Joseph, the
grandson, and his son the great-grand
son. The grandson was our representa
tive to the legislature, town clerk and
justice of the peace and judge of our
countj- court, and his son named Joseph,
the great-grandson, was fitted for and
admitted to the bar. We considered
him a young man of much promise, bnt
he was gathered to his fathers, caused
as the death of many others by much
study. He wrote quite freely for the
press. Johnathan Putnam ought also to be
remembered in the forthcoming his
tory ; he was a man of few words, but
he was many years in public life, town
clerk, justice of the peace, an able
thinker, and like all the fathers of An
dover, education poor; but he was al
ways ready* as a draftsman, where any
one wanted a paper drafted ; tell what
yon wanted and he would do it satis
factorily and it would be brief ancl
good grammar. He was a much strong
er minded person than his brother.
Samuel ; and Aray N. Burton was id-
ways ready to lend a helping hand to
dover, but you must not forget your j those in need; and the Putnam children
brothers and sisters as I think your i were most of them good thinkers, but
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sho»e They are all dead butthe three
youngest.
We have another, a soldier of the
the Revolution, Sampson Walker, who
was with four brothers in the battle of
Bnnker Hill, all five brothers over six
feet tall — all officers, and Sampson was
i»t the capture of Burgoyne. And you
remember the old lady who lacked a
few months of lOOyears at her death.
You remember Joel Warner, he was
an Andover boy and a grand-son of
Moses Warner, and a very useful man
and very much thought of in Ludlow,
and much missed when he died.
Benjamin Pierce was one of Wash
ington's Life Guard, who began here
in an early day and raised a large fam-
ly of children — really nice and useful
people, most of them ; but they are all
dead, many years now.
I hope you will mention all in our
school district that you think will add
to the interest of the history.
I think you remember the Howards,
four brothel's, that settled in the South
East part of the town. Solomon went
through the War of the Revolution
with Washington. I have heard him
tell how he suffered on his way home.
One brother was a notad school-teacher.
They were well represented in the war
of 1812, by five young men in the
war. But one of the family is now
living in town, a grandson of Solomon
who has been many years constable
and town clerk and justice ofthe peace.
Peter Putnam, a brother of Jona
than, is another early settler worthy
of remembrance. He was many years
a deacon of the Baptist church, and
father of a large family. Most of
them, however, died young ; but one
son and one daughter lived to have
families.

Geo. W. was many years town clerk
and postmaster, and deacon of the
church. The Putnam's were all of
them pioneers iu the temperance refor
mation and anti-slavery movement.
I will now say something about the
beginning of my house.
MOODY STICKNEY,
assisted by his brother William bought,
fell and cleared five acres where -the
house now stands. It was the same
year that your grandfather [Hart
Balch] began, before or about 1790,
as Moody was here 11 years with his
wife, and he moved away in 1806.
Once when he was felling trees he got
caught by his clothes under a tree.
William got him out from under the
tree and called him dead, and ran by
the marked trees to Esq. Warner's for
help. Your grandfather was there
when William came in and said his
brother was dead and turned and ran
back. All left their dinner, to which
they were seated around the table, and
ran after him. Hart Balch was the
first one that got to Moody, who lay
still and covered with flies, bnt Balch
found a beating ai bis heart, and he
was earned to Esq. Warner's and one
of the men sent to New Hampshire
for a doctor. This was pionner life in
Andover. My father settled on the old place in
New Hampshire; bat he swapped
places with my uncle Moody here in
February, 1806. My father was born
Oct. 8, 1811, ana was christened Joseph
Hosmer. My mother was a Hosmer.
Joseph Hosmer learned a trade and
worked in Boston some years at house
building, and anally located in Vernon,
20 miles west from Milwaukee, in Wis
consin, and went to farming, and now
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cinity, and has accumulated a hand
some property. Nine of his ten chil
dren are living.
The Alden Gutterson family, too, I
would like well remembered. Mrs. G.
( Sophia Hall ) was an old schoolmate.
They had 11 children ; A. C, Mrs. P.
R. Carlton, Mrs. A. P. Fuller, C. M.,
and G. L. are living; A. N., W. J.,
Hilaud H., H. F., »Mrs. W. Feltt and
Mary are dead. *Emma.
Now this, Friend Balch, is not to be
made public, until you have given it a
new dress, fit to appear. The town is
being canvassed for the history of An
dover, bat we have but few of the
original stock now living in town, some
15 or 20, all told; so that our field is
rather small. More that were raised
here are out of town than in.
G. W. Stickney.
[Rev Mr. Balch gave the letter no
thing diminished, nothing additional.
As to a new dress, we happen to like
it as it is, simple and full of nuts. J
Extracts From A Letter Of
MK. STICKNEY TO THE GAZETTEER.
John Hull was a small boy when his
father died. His mother came and Hved
with Mr. Gutterson, the father of our
town clerks, H. H. and C. M.
My brother in Vernon, Wis., and
Horace Burton in Black Earth, Wis.
I should think, would like a history of
their native town. And Otis and Lewis
Lord, too, were Andover hoys, now
prosperous men in Owatonna, Minn.
Their sisters, Mrs. H. W. Hutchinson
and Mrs. Dexter Carlton live, also, in
and near Owatonna, and their husbands
were from Andover.
My wife (Roxcea Burton Stickney)
died in 1871, and four of my children
are dead: NaDcy, Warren, Jane and
Cassius M. The latter a Vermont sol

dier, died in Libby prison ; those living
are: Byron, living on the home farm ;
Eliza, Mrs. W. Beard, resides in Ches
ter ; Preston L. in Warren, Minn, and
Eva J., Sioux Falls, Dacota.
My oldest sister, Lucy, married
John B. Manning for her first hus
band, and after his death John Adams
for her second husband. She died in
Weston at an advanced age.
My other sister, Eliza, married Bar
nard Carlton. She died about 1842.
The statement that my father enlist
ed from Andover — in the war of the
Revolution, page 22, is a mistake. He
enlisted from New Hampshire.
KITTIE.
( Inscribed to Mr. ami Mrs, J. C- Ellis,
Minneapolis, Minn. )
BY EVA J. STICKNEY.
We laid on her pulseless bosom
The flowers most fresh and fair,
And we placed one pure, white blossom
'Mid her waves of midnight hair,
And thought she is safe with the angels,
And free from all pain and care.
Oh! bright was the day we bore her
To rest near her childhood' s home ;
Below flows the sparkling brooklet,
And the shadows go and come.
As the leaves are stirred by tbe breczj-s,
And bees 'mid the blossoms bam.
We lined the grave of your darling
Witb nature's loveliest bloom ;
It lightened the burden of sorrow,
Foe it scarce suggested a tomb;
But the portal to rest and quiet,
Just opened to give her room.
She stood on her youth's glad threshold,
Behind was ber chUdhood gay;
Before her a realm of promise,
Where the sweetest dreams have play;
Where the web Of life seems golden,
With never a thread of gray.
She is saved from many a heartache,
For the brightest of dreams will fade :
The sky that ia clearest at dawning,
Ere noon may be dimmed by shade;
And oft on the heart of a woman,
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'She has gone to that other country,"
The home of the angels fair;
Where never can come a parting,
And never a pain we bear;
The treasures our hearts so cherished,
God's love will keep for U9 there.
Like a rose will her life immortal,
In beauty and grace expand,
While her love like a cord of silver,
Binds yours to the spirit-land,
iVhere she, when you cross the river,
Will reach you her waiting hand.
Howard Family Notes.
from rev. r. h. howard.
One hundred years ago, (1885) my
great-grand-father, David Howard,
emigrated from my present, immediate
viciuity (Millbury) viz :, Uxbridge, or
Douglass, Mass., and settled in An
dover, Vt. His son, Elias, was my
grandfather, who settled in Grand Isle,
Vt., in 1804, when my father. Holland,
was about two years old.
[HOLLAND H. HOWARD,
born in Andover, Apr. 4, 1802, now
lives in Burlington, where he has lived
for some 30 years. He resides in a
pleasant old, cream-colored, two-story
house on the corner of St. Paul and
Cherry streets. He went to California
when the gold fever broke out. While
there he wrote several, long, descriptive
letters on the country for the papers
that were peculiarly graphic, and" well
written. Had he cultivated his talent
for writing, this old son of Andover,
would have made an able journalist.
He married Lucinda Peters, who was
also, born in Andover, I think, — a
daughter of Priscella Howard, sister of
Elias Howard, and his first cousin.
Both are still living, — Mr. Howard at
the age of 83. They have two children,
a daughter, Charlotte, who married
John Carpenter of Burlington, with
whom they reside ; and Rodney Holland

now, (1886) a Methodist clergyman ut
Townshend, Mass.
[Notes Resumed.]
"I was born in 1832, on Willsboro
Mountain, N. Y., opposite Burlington,
now a complete wilderness, where in
the family of a widowed mother my
parents were temporarily stopping. —
When.1 was about five years old our
folks moved to Dorset Street, Burling
ton, where I resided until I was sixteen
when my parents moved to their pres
ent residence. One summer, when in
college, at Burlington, I visited the
old Willsboro Mountain and searched
for the spot where I was boru. The
old farm-house had been burned a score
of years before, and the whole of the
mountain farm had been abandoned
again to the wilderness. Alas ! how
much work done in this world, is left
to be again done.
Father had a brother Lucius, a phy
sician who had fine literary talent,
and one of the most graceful penmen
of the old quill-writer school, I ever
saw. None of the other children , of
whom there was a large family, evinced
any talent in this direction. I do not
think there was much of it in the How
ard family.
It is an interesting fact that my
mother's mother was Priscella How
ard, and my own great-aunt, — own
aunt of my father, he alwavs calling
her Aunt Priscella. She was own sis
ter of my father's father and daughter,
as I understand it, of David Howard,
the emigrant from Uxbridge, Mass.
to Andover. So I am descended
from David doubly — through his son,
Elias and his daughter, Priscella. I
ought to be Howard pretty thoroughly
and I guess 1 am. Still, there may
be something besides ; for my father's
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relative of the late Dr. Holland, who
was a correspondent and most delight
ful friend of mine. If there be any
thing in hereditary I may have inheri
ted my literary gift from him, and he
may have got his from his Holland
mother. [Rev. R. H. Howard is a
well-known writer for M. E. publica
tions of sermons, small tracts, essays,
etc.] "You properly represent my father,
he had a great deal of the native cour
tesy of a gentleman, especially consid
ering he had seen so little of society,
having been a sailor and mechanic all
his days.
"My sister, Mrs. Carpenter, of Bur
lington, has two daughters, Lottie and
Belle, and one son, John. Lottie mar
ried a Conner, and has two children.
Belle, once a widow, lives with her sec
ond husband now in Haydenville this
state, [Mass. J John is a successful
clerk at Waterbury, Ct."
\Mr. Gutterson Resumes.]
May 16, 1880.
Yesterday I got hold of an old
sketch of Andover, found among some
old papers of the late Solomon Howard,
Jr., in which are the names of three
more soldiers who enlisted in the army
in 1814 — namely, Nathan Walker,
Willard Lund and Joel Howard. The
latter in a night skirmish with the In
dians received a blow from a tomahawk
which came near proving fatal.
DAVID HOWARD
was a hard-working, shrewd, money-
making farmer. He once carried some
quarters of veal to Chester street to
sell. While disposing of his veal, a

Howard, "if we have a calf die of the
murrain, we dress it and bring it down
here and you are glad to buy it."
SOLOMON HOWARD, JR.
Who died Mar. 12, 1870, was aman
of sound judgment and considerable
ability. He represented the town in
the legislature and held various civil
offices.
PETER PUTNAM.
BY SARAH WARD.*
Jonathan and Peter Putnam, with
their families came to this town in
1897, from Hancock, N. H.
Jonathan had seven sons and two
daughters. Two of the sons died
about the age of 20. The others all
married and had families. One daugh
ter went to Ohio and died there, and
the rest of the family went to Wis
consin. Jonathan was a capable man, al
though he had but little school educa
tion. He was one of the prominent
business men , was town clerk and jus
tice ofthe peace for a good many years.
Peter Putnam married Rachel Hills.
They had one daughter and two sons.
One son died at the age of 12 or 14.
The other two children lived and had
families. Peter was deacon of the Baptist
church in Andover for a good many
years. He was a Revolutionary soldier
and lived to the age of 92 years. He
buried his first wife, in 1 830 and subse
quently married the second, Sally
Fuller. He was connected by nar-
riage with many of the early settlers of
this place. The Putnam's claim to be
descendants of Israel Putnam of 'he

citizen of that village, who held rather
high notions of the place, said to him, j wolf notoriety.
"Well, Chester is quite a Boston for , George Washington Putnam, son ot
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rents moved to Andover. The country
was new and but little cleared at the
time, with the stumps of the trees still
standing, although some of them were
hollow where the fire had burned them
out. At one time when he was a little
fellow, his mother missed him ; search
was made, but he was nowhere to be
found till after along time, he was dis
covered fast asleep in a big, black
stump where he had laid down to rest.
This little boy that took his nap in
the stump grew up and married Lucin
da Hills, of Hancock, N. H., and
raised a family of two sons and three
daughters. He, with G. W. Stickney,
were the. pioneers of the temperance
cause, also of the anti-slavery move
ment in this town.
When he married, he settled on the
farm his father first moved on to,
where he lived till his death at the a-^e
of 76, and was never off from the farm
over six weeks at a time and then Only
once. He professed religion in early
manhood and united with the Baptist
chnrch of which he was deacon for
many years. He was alsp town clerk
for some time, and postmaster for a
number of years.
His oldest son, George W., Jr.
early manifested a deep desire for an
education, more than he could obtain
at the district school. He attended the
academy at Ludlow till his health
failed and he was obliged to abandon
his desire to fit himself for tbe minis
try. He married Martha Brewer, and
went to Wisconsin. He has a family of
five sons, and is now living (1885) in
Wis. He has taught school nearly ev
ery winter for about 30 years ; has
represent ed his town in the legislature
been County Superintendent of Schools,
is deacon of the Baptist church, and

sometimes supplies the pulpit in the
absence of the pastor. Has been Clerk
of Richland County, salary $800.
Henry E., the other son, went to
Lowell, Mass., and bought a milk-
route which he drove for some time,
but is now in Los Angelos, Cal., where
he is in a large lumber yard as overT
seer. The daughters are all married,
the youngest still living on the old
homestead. JOSEPH DODGE
with his family came to this tpwn from
N> H. about the same time as the Put
nam's. He had a family of five sons,
Thomas, Joseph, Moses, Daniel aDd
Ezra. Thomas, after arriving at manhood,
went to New York state and settled on
the St. Lawrence River.
Joseph married Betsy Putnam (sis
ter of Jonathan and Peter) and settled
with his father. He had a large fam
ily of daughters and two sons, Joseph
and Nathaniel.
Nathaniel went to Massachusetts to
live, near Boston, I think.
Joseph settled on the homestead and
was quite a prominent business man in
town. He was town clerk for a long
time; also one ofthe side judges of
Windsor county. He was justice of
the peace for many years, and also rep
resented town in tbe legislature for a
long time. He had a family of four
sons. The youngest, Joseph H., was al
ways fond of study and his books, and
studied to be a lawyer, but his health
failed, and he died while young. There
are four Joseph Dodge's buried in our
cemetery. Moses,' after some years, went West.
Daniel and Ezra both settled in
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Ezra marrying Rachel Putnam (a
daughter of Peter) ; had four sons and
one daughter. Mrs. Ezra Dodge was
thrown from a wagon and killed.
Mary Putnam (a sister of Jonathan
and Peter) also lived and died in this
t»wn. •Granddaughter of Peter Putnam.
CHASE FAMILY.
BY H. H. CHASE, HURON, IND.
Brazalial Chase, our grandfather,
was born on the day of the battle of
'Bunker Hill," and if I remember cor
rectly his father was in that engage
ment. Balis Chase, father of onr family,
was born in Townshend or Jamacia,
Vt. When a young man, he went to
Andover and hired as a farm laborer to
David Howard, living on a farm on
"Howard Hill," of that town, and he
married one of David Howard's daugh
ters, Sarah. She was very small, but
the little woman, weighing less than 100
pounds, was possessed of more than or
dinary business capacity, and of' quite
a literary talent, though never known as
a writer. If there is any. literary taste
or ability in our family, I think, to
her, it is largely due. My parents
first settled in the town of Chester,
but they moved to Andover about
1840 ; and bought what was called the
Lord farm, near Simondsville, where
they have since continued to live. To
them were born : .
Albert B. Ghase (died in child
hood.) David H., born Sept. 17, 1833.
Hollis H., born Oct. 11, 1836.
Elizabeth S., born April 7, 1840.
Clement B., born Oct. 1, 1844.
Laurin W., born April 28, 1851:
died at the age of seventeen

He was

a boy of fine • promise, being a good
writer and speaker and quite scholarly
for one of his years and opportunities.
David H. Chase came West about
1855, and engaged in teaching. Hollis
H. joined him in Illinois in 1858.
They traveled over the West together,
and finally landed in Washington,
Davies county, Ind., and again en
gaged in teaching in this and other ad
joining counties till the war came on.'
In 1861 Hollis H. enlisted in Co. K.
49th Reg. Ind. Vol. Infantry, serving
a little less than 3 years, when he was
discharged by reason of surgeon's- cer
tificate of total disability.
In the same year, or early in 1862,
David enlisted in the 17th Ind. Vol.,
under Gen. Wilder, and served till the
close of the war. He enlisted from
Lawrence county, Ind.. which was then
our home. He was hospital steward*
and promoted to assistant surgeon.
He studied medicine with Dr. G.
W. Burton, and finished his studies at
the Ann Arbor, Mich., edicaL Col
lege, and commenced practice in Hu
ron, Ind
In 1867, he married Rebecca A.
Burton, of Georgia, Ind., a very esti
mable and intelligent young woman,
and soon moved to Illinois, where he
located on Hoosier Prairie, Clay coun
ty, where they lived till 1881, 1 think,
when, both being invalids, his wife
came to her father's in Indiana, and
on Christmas died of consumption.
Closing out his business soon after,
and hoping to recover his own health,
Dr. Chase took his two children, —
Sallie and Daisy — (they had one other
child, Katy, which died in babyhood)
and sought his old Vermont home.
Failing in health still, in about two
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children, and made his home with our
only sister, Elizabeth — the wife of C.
P., Williams, a prosperous farmer near
Huron, Ind. All treatment failed and
in Aug. 1884, he died of enlargement
of the spleen. His two children of 7
and 8 years are still living. Sallie is a
great reader, a good writer, and has
fine intellectual ability. She is now at
HanOver college, this state, and Dai
sy is at in school at Mitchell, Ind.
On my first trip to the West (1855)
I remained about 18 months, when I
returned home on a visit. Then en
gaged with A. J. Johnson, of New
York, to introduce his large "World
Atlas" in the state of Delaware, and
correct some surveys of that state for
the work. After getting the work in
troduced I made a short visit home,
and then to Indiana for settlement of
my affairs, for the purpose of giving
my attention to the atlas work in Dela
ware, but strife between the North apd
South comiug on, and Northern men
and women being driven from Dela
ware, I chose to labor in other fields,
I had a call to teach near Stanford,
Ky., aud accepted the situation, and
was there when Lincoln was first chos
en president.
When the war broke out, I ""enlisted
from this county, as before stated, and
after leaving the field on account of
sickness, I was at Jefferson Barracks,
Mo., for a long time. There I became
acquainted with Dr. Hemenway, of
whom I enquired of you. He was my
ward surgeon. From Jefferson Bar
racks I was transferred to Indianapo
lis, where, learning that I was of Yan
kee blood, they assigned me to duty in
the Military Commander's office (Col.
Simonson, a regular army officer) of
that city.

While on leave of absenee from office
work there (July 15, 1863) I married
Susan Williams, daughter of Richard
Williams, a "well to do" farmer of this
county. My wife returned with me to
Indianapolis, and I continued on duty
till my health failing I was discharged
and recommended to return to my na
tive climate, and taking my wife with
me went there and remained a year
and a half. Here our first child was
born, — a girl, Abbie S. My health
improving, we returned to my wife's
father, and I bought land and settled
here, where we now live in the enjoy
ment of our farm-life, and of our four
children — one boy and three girls, and
we have one child of "immortal youth."
It died when but six months old.
With all the years that have come and
gone and brought its changes to the
living, this one never grows old to us.
We see it still, fresh and fair and beau
tiful and are striving to meet it in the
home where it lives forever.
My father was an old-time Whig,
and latterly has been a Republican. I
have never voted any ticket but a Re
publican one, neither has any of our
family. So much for politics.
One more incident in our family-
life — saddest of all. We made a visit
to our old home. As father and moth
er were old, we thought best for them
to come home with us and be rid of
the cares of life. They came, and
within one week my mother died. I
took the body back, and she sleeps be
side her boy she loved so well. On
the morning we left Vermont I took
her to the burial-ground, and as she
kissed the carved head on the loved
boy's grave-stone, she said: "Good
bye, Laurin ; it will not be long till I
lie by your side." She spoke wiser
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so. Old as I am this comes upon me
like a child. I linger upon it, sad as
it is — and think of her more than when
living. Oh, why do we cling to our
friends so when they are gone ?
Dr. B. S. Chase and Wm. R. Chase
were cousins of mine. Wm. R. is in
Texas. Byron became a very promin
ent physician in the city of Akron,
Ohio.
Over The River.
D. H. CHASE.
Over the Kiver is a beautiful land,
With its pearly gates and castles fair ;
And "Waters of Life" o'er its golden sand,
Retresh the lips from this world of care.
Many a mourner from the Realms of Time,
Has trodden in peace its starry streets;
And found in the light of that land sublime
All treasured joys in its calm retreats.
Over the River is a glorious sun,
Whose light shines ever and ever on;
And so, "there is no night there," for one
The light of the wortd to that realm has gone
The River of Time with its freight of souls
Nearer still— ever and evermore,
Bears the wreath ofiife to this unseen bourne,
Resting at last on that blessed shore.
Over the River is the silent land
With never the sound of labor and pain.
The "Dear Departed" are that happy band
Whose Angel symphonies, again and again
We have heard in childhood's mystic dreams;
And the longing look and upturning eye,
Earnest with faith and love's softest beams
Bespeak a rest in that home bye and bye.
Over the River is a shadowy band
Who love us still— at the gates of day,
With soft-toned harps exultant stand
Aud e'er are beckoning us away
To the better shore of that spirit land.
O, joyfnl sweet shall the meeting be
With the T'ansomed and angels on the strand
Who watch and beckon aud wait for thee.
The wirter, himself has gone " over
the river." He was an early friend and
subscriber to the Gazetteer. Twenty
-years ago he gave this poem for it.

REV. A. A. CONSTANTINE
was born in Wallingford, Rutland
county, this state, and was educated
for the Baptist ministry. He went to
Africa as a missionary, where he came
nigh losing his life with fever. Here-
turned to Vermont, broken in health
and constitution, and in 1848 was hired
by the Baptist church in Andover,
where he labored some eight years.
During his residenee here he wras
twice elected to the legislature, where
he served with ability.
A few years before the war of 1861.
a society was organized in New York
City, known as the African Coloniza
tion Society, in which Elder Constan
tine took a deep interest. He canvassed
every town in Vermont for the pur
pose of raising money to enable, the so
ciety to carry out their plans, which
were to introdnce the raising of cotton
in the colony for one thing. In this
poor little town he raised more money
for the society than any other town in
the state. The war put an end to the
operations of this society. Mr. Con
stantine is now a resident of New York
City (1870.) He was esteemed here
by all no matter what their creed.
THE CAT IN THE POT.
Before the building of the Congre
gational (Union) church at the middle
of the town, meetings were occasional
ly held in private houses at the south
part of the town. One Sunday a well-
attended meeting was held at Esq.
Brown's. The young people sat iu the
kitchen with its wide fire-place, and
the minister and older people occupied
an adjoining room. In the kitchen
was an old-fashioned sinque, under
which were various cooking utensils,
and among them a pot of stew, which
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ister's supper. The house-cat obeying
the instincts of hunger, and of a cat,
steathily approached the pot, and push
ing aside the lid, thrust in a paw, draw
ing out adroitly7 apiece of meat ate it.
Jesse Carleton and another wicked
young man, watching the cat instead of
listening to the sermon, saw a chance
for some fun ; crowding close to the
sinque. by which they sat, they con
trived to catch the cat and unobserved,
except by some young eyes, all the old
er folks listening to the minister as peo
ple ought to — they put her into the pot
and putting on the pot-lid Carleton
held it on with his foot to the end of
the services — pussy at length quietly
settling down by the meat to a very
good meal. Services being over, Mrs.
Brown made her appearance for the
purpose of preparing supper. Pom
pously swinging out the crane from the
great fire-place, she placed upon it the
pot of stew, when, to her utmost
amazement and the mirth of all pres
ent, out jumped the cat from the pot to
the floor, dripping with gravy, and how
ever seriously impressed by the sermon
any of the audience may have before
been, they could no longer restrain
their risibles.
SAMUEL AND IASIAH MORGAN,
brothers, and natives of this town,
removed to Vergennes. Samuel was a
merchant and Iasiah a physician, and
both very successful in their respective
business. Iasiah removed to Selma, Geo.,
where he had an extensive practice.
On the breaking out of the war of '61,
he wrote to his two sons, who were at
school in New York, to come home
and enlist, Morgan having become a
rank Southerner. His sons replied,
"That they could not fight against his
native state, and' should not go." Mor

gan refused to do anything more for
them, but wrote a relative hem to look
after them.
A. C. GUTTERSON- -MUSICIAN,
was born on a farm in Andover, Mar.
10, 1830, and received his education at
the district school in Simonsville, with
one term (the fall of 1849) at Black
River Academy, Ludlow. He worked
on the farm until he was 21 ; was mar
ried Feb. 18, 1855, and moved to Wis
consin in Oct. 1858. He returned to
Vermont in 1860, and again removed
to Wisconsin in 1864, and to Minne
sota in 1866.
His musical studies began with Na
than Holt, of Weston, in the winter ot
1846-47 — vocalization and harmony.
He continued with B. F. Baker, of
Barton; Dr. H. R. Palmer, W. F.
Ludden and A. Baunbeck, of Chicago,
in the years 1865-6-7, and graduated
from the Northwestern Musical Acad
emy in 1866, since which his. musical
hours . have been devoted to teaching,
directing the rehearsals and concert bf
musical societies and orchestras, with
occasionally an effort at composition.
He has written three cantatas that
hpve been published. The first, "The
Months and Seasons," was written
while a student iu the Northwestern
Musical Academy, in the year 1866.
The representation of this cantata re
quires one solo voice for each month of
the year — appropriately costumed —
followed by a chorus and a tableaux
at the close of each season- As the
plot of this is quite interesting, and the
music easy and pleasing, the book has
met quite a large sale.
"The House of Rechab"— a temper
ance work was written with Dr. Rob
Morris, of Kentucky, who furnished
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1875, and published in 1878. This
work is a decided temperance lecture.
The scene is laid in Jerusalem about
588 year? before Christ at the time of a
seige of Jerusalem by the Assyrians.
The representation requires a chorus
of Rechabites, and one of Jews, with
solo voices in each. Closes with the
return of the exiled Jews and Recha
bites from Babylon.
The Cantata — "Christmas" — was
written with Prof. C. W. Clinton, who
furnished the Libretto, in the year
1879, and published in 1880. This
work is designed as a Christmas song-
service, and is sung with the book in
hand. ELI BURKE
settled in the northeast part of the town.
When a boy he lived in Westminster.
There he saw Ethan Allen, who had
charge of some Tory prisoners. One
of them used very insulting language
to Allen, who instantly assumed a ter
rific look and drawing his long sword
from the scabbard swung it over the
man's head, with one zip cutting his
hat in twain, exclaiming in a thunder
ing voice : "Silence, you rag-muffin,
or by the Great Jehovah, I'll make
you ahead shorter!" So fierce was
Allen's indignant look, Burke really be
lieved had the Tory uttered another
word he would have lost his head in
stantly. WILLIAM WARNER
was another man who did considerable
town business bere some thirty years
ago, or more. He died here.
SAMUEL CLARK
was another man of good business ca-
capacity. He was ,a substantial farmer
and one of the most respected Method
ists of his day in town ; meetings were
often held at his house.

JOHN ANDREWS
married Rebecca Webber, both came
from Taunton, Mass., and settled in
Andover. JAMES ANDREWS,
one of their sons, is known here and
in Michigan, as a highly respectable
and successful merchant. He now re
sides (1879) in Pontiac, Mich., and is
president of the First National Bank
in that city. JOHN MANSFIELD,
a native of Andover, was engaged for
several years writing a history of Ver
mont which has never been published
(1871) I think for alack of funds. He
is now in Baltimore, Md., editing a
paper. Also, among those born here who
have shown good business talents, are :
SYLVESTER BURKE,
a well-known and successful merchant
in Springfield, this county.
PHINEAS PARKER,
superintendent and one of the firm of
a large brick-yard in Cambridge, Mass.
ASA PARKER,
an extensive lumber dealer in St.
Louis, Mo.
SEWELL AND JESSE SMITH
are in Wisconsin. Sewell in East Troy.
Jesse in Vernon. Both are men of
ability, which Andover is pleased to
remember and count among her sons in
the West. SEWELL ANDREWS,
another of the sons of Andover, is al
so a successful business man, and re
sides in Wisconsin. He is a large
owner in railroad stock, and reported
very wealthy. CUKTIS HAZELTINE,
a native of this town, is an extensive
farmer and wool-grower, living now
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Military

RECORD OF SOLDIERS OF 1861.
On the commencement of the war
of 1861, Andover promptly furnished
its quota of three months volunteers,
and in June following, a town meeting
was holden, when it was voted to pay
every volunteer $6 at the start and $2
a month for the time he served, and
resolutions of a loyal and patriotic na
ture were passed. They soon began
paj'ing large bounties, and at every
call for volunteers promptly furnished
their full quota.
FIRST REGIMENT, CO. E.
Chase, Isaac T., musician.
Larkin, James W., private.
Larkin, Charles W., private.
Chase, Ira E., private.
All mustered out of service, Aug.
15, 1861. SECOND REGIMENT.
Butterfield, Byron C, private, I,
Feb. 24, '62; discharged Mar. 12, '63.
Lovejoy, Henry A., private, I, Oct.
1, '61; died Dec. 4, *61.
Marsh, Vernon A., private, I, June
17, '61 ; discharged Oct. 17, '62.
Peabody, Harland O., Corp. I., May
11, '61 ; discharged May 1,'62.
Perkins, Daniel P., private, I, Sept.
12, '61 ; transferred to Infantry Corps
Sept. 1.'63.
Comstock, Henry A., private, I,
May 7, '61 ; re-enlisted Dec. 21, '63-
Parkhurst, Simeon S., private. I,
May 7, '61 ; re-enhsted Dec. 21, '63.
THIRD REGIMENT.
Pettingill, Olin A,, musician, A, June
1, '61; died Feb. 5, '63.

Chace, Ira C, private, A, Oct. 9,
'61 ; re-enlisted Dec. 21, '63.
FOURTH REGIMENT.
Farnsworth, Ebenezer, private, K,
Sept. 7, '61; wagoner, re-enlisted Dec.
15, '63.
Gould, Ashbel K., private K, Sept.
2, '61 ; transferred to Infantry Corps,
Sept. 1 , '63 ; discharged from Infantry
Corps Jan. 17, '64.
Hutchins, Henry, private, F, Aug.
21, '61 ; discharged Jan. 14, '63.
Sheldon, Hollis, private, F. Aug. 30,
'61 ; promoted Corporal, Mar. 18, '62.
FIFTH REGIMENT.
Fuller^ Philo Y, Corporal, E, Aug.
26, '61 ; discharged May 11, '63.
SIXTH REGIMENT.
Cleavland Henry C, Gorp,,E, Sept.
24, '61, promoted Sergeant; re-enlist
ed Dec. 15, '64.
Pier, Orris, private, E, Sept. 24,
'61 ; promoted ; re-enlisted Dec. 15,
'63. Dwinell, Benjamin F., musician, E,
Sept. 29, '61 ; re-enlisted Dec. 15, '63.
SEVENTH REGIMENT.
Baldwin, George W., private, G,
Dec. 19, '61 ; died Aug. 1, '62.
Dodge, George O., private, G, Dec.
7, '61; promoted Corporal; re-enlisted
Eeb. 16, '64.
Dodge, Wesley M., private, G, Dec.
12, '61 ; re-enlisted Feb. 19, '64.
Larkin, James W., Corporal, G,
Nov. 30, '61 ;re-enlisted Feb. 25, '64 ;
promoted Ser., June 25, '64.
Larkin, Charles H., Corporal, G,
Nov. 30, '61; re-enlisted Feb. 19, '64.
Larkin, James H., private, G, Dec.
,'61: died Oct. 15, '62.

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NINTH REGIMENT.
Diggins, Azro B., private, D, June
21, '62; sick in Gen. Hos., Aug. 31,
'61. French, Johu, private, D, June 6,
'62 ; discharged Dec. 5, '62.
Hesselton, Homer D., private, D,
May 31, '62 ; died April 12, '63.
Taylor, Charles B., corporal, D,
June 5, '72; discharged June 14, '63.
TENTH REGIMENT.
Sargent, Erastus, private, H, July
21, '62; deserted Sept. 3, '62.
Hall Samuel F., private, H, Dec. 24,
'63 ; transferred to Sur. Corps, April
17, '64. ELEVENTH REGIMENT.
Marsh, Henry M., private, G, Dec.
5. '63. FIRST CAVALRY REGIMENT.
Howard, Roselvo A., private, F,
Sept. 17, '61 ; re-enlisted Jan. 28, '64 ;
died' of starvation in Andersonville
prison. Cunningham, Julius, private, F,
Dec. 24, '63 ; missing in action Mar. 1,
'61. Hesselton, Julius, private, F, Dec.
24, '63; died Feb. 19, '64.
Spaulding, Warren K., private, F,
Dec. 24, '63.
Tuttle, Cyrus S., Dec. 24, '93;
wounded and missed in action May 5,
'64 ; died of starvation in Anderson
ville prison.
Tuttle, Norman E., private, F, Dec.
24, '63.
Bishop, Charles W., private, E, Nov.
6, '61 ¦ promoted sergeant; re-enlisted
Dec. 22,. '63 ; died July 22, '64, of
wounds received in action.
Gould, Hiram, Sept. 30, '61 ; re-en
listed Dec. 28„ '63, N. H. Cav.

Crosby, George R., private, E, Sept.
14, '61 ; re-enlisted Dec. 30, '63 ; pro
moted corporal Jan. 18, '64.
Thwing, John A., private, E, Sept.
11, '61 ; re-enlisted Dec. 30, '63.
Witt, Theodore, private, F, Sept.
24, '61 ; re-enlisted Dec. 30, '63; missed
in action, Jan. 1, '64.
Gould, Major, private, E, Oct. 1,
'61 ; re-enlisted Dec. 28, '63.
Haskell, George W., private, F,
Nov. 6, '61 ; re-enlisted Dee. 30, '63 ;
wounded, June 30, '64.
Joyce, William C, Sergeant, F,
Sept. 15, '61 ; reduced to ranks; re-en
listed Dec. 30, '63.
Miscellaneous — Not credited by
name, two men.
SIXTEENTH REGIMENT.
(Volunteers for nine months.)
Carlton, Edward O., private, C,
Aug. 29, '62.
Corlidge, Lorenzo G., Corporal, C,
Aug. 29, '62.
Dodge, Nathaniel P., private, C,
Aug. 29, '62.
Gould, Daniel C, private, C, Aug.
29, '62.
Green, Richard C, private, C, Aug. •
29, '62.
Hesselton, George C, private, C,
Aug. 28, '62.
Marsh, Henry M., private, C, Aug.
29, '62.
Peabody, Harland O., Sergeant, C,
Aug. 29, 62,
Rowell, Abram, private, C, Aug.
29, '62.
Spaulding, Joel R., private, C, Aug.
29, '62 ; killed at Gettysburg, May 3,
'63.

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FURNISHED UNDER DRAFT.
(Paid Commutation.)
Lincoln, George P.
Stickney, Byron.
PROCURED STBSTITUTE.
Pettingill, William W.
THIRD REGIMENT.
Marsh, John S., private, F, July 22,
'63 ; killed at the Wilderness, May 5,
64. ANDOVER POLITICS.
For political soundness, loyalty and
patriotism, liberality of ideas and gen
erous hospitality, Andover is unsur
passed, if equaled, by no other town
in the state. For a long period not a
democratic vote was cast here until the
fall of 1869, when a democratic vote
was again cast. in 1824
The town was divided into eight
school districts, with a school-house in
each. There were at that time 3 grist
mills, 8 saw-mills, 1 carding-machine,
1 fulling mill, 2 stores, 2 taverns and 1
tannery. STATISTICS OF 1840.
Horses, 198; cattle, 1,623; sheep,
5.165; swine, 323 ; wheat, bushels,
1,159 ; barley, 779; oats, 6,319; rye,
1,348; buck-wheat, 420; corn, 882 ; po
tatoes, 5,050; hay, tons, 988; sugar,
pounds, 1,252 ; wool, 9,000 ; popula
tion, 878. in 1870.
Present population of the town, 607.
At present (1870) the town has lit
tle to boast of: Saw and gristmill, re
pairing shop and blacksmith-shop make
up the business of the town. There
are two post-offices — one at Simons
ville, which has a daily mail, the other
at Peas ville, which has a tri- weekly
mail. This is essentially a farming

town, and some fine cattle and excel
lent dairies are found here.
The mineral springs below Peas-
ville are somewhat celebrated for their
efficacy in cutaneous diseases. The
water of the spring is highly impreg
nated with iron.
MAJOR EDWARD SIMONDS
for awhile made considerable stir in the
town as a public man. He built the
hotel or store at Simonsville, and for
a time gave business an impetus in that
part of the town ; represented his town
in the legislature ; held various civil of
fices; was prominent for a time ; but at
length, by too fast living and misman
agement, 'died in reduced circumstan
ces, some years since in Chester.
william ray, perhaps, the first Bard
of our town, resided here for a time on
the Richmond farm, so called, with his
young wife, some forty years younger
than himself, but at length removed to
the neighborhood of Daniel Church in
Chester. At one time, after he re
moved to Chester, — we follow our
sons and citizens abroad, he was at the
mill at Proctersville, and bringing two
bushels of corn on a wheel-barrow, re
turning with his grist, he rolled his
wheel-barrow rather unsteadily on till
he came to a sudden abrupt turn in the
road. At the right hand as you go
from Proctersville to Chester, close to
the roadside', off the bank there is a
precipice of some 25 feet. To use the
poets description, he admitted after
ward, he had refreshed himself a little ;
the wheel-barrow, as he drew near this
fearful spot seemed to have a will of
its own, and despite of all resistance he
could make, rolled to the edge of the
precipice and down the steep sides 25
feet and landed on a bed of rocks ; and
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under nis bags (a jug of rum) clung to
and accompanied the barrow in its de
scent. After some confused moments, he
stated that he found himself in a
lone and solitary place with his shins
bruised and bleeding his life blood
away for naught. And in his condi
tion, wounded, bruised and off a preci
pice, he could not think of ascending
that night with two bushels of meal
and a wheel-barrow, his next outlook
was for the most comfort he could get
out of the circumstances. The jug,
under the two bags of meal, he found
safe and drawing it forth resolved to
make himself as happy as the contin
gency of the case would admit : the
first traveller in the morning, he re
flected, being in full sight from the
road, would find him, so he sat ou his
bags and drank and the muses began
to work, and he sang and drank, and
drank and sang :
Ye flaming ghosts .'now flame, away!
Ye cannot scare old WUliam Ray,
Whose proof against all earthly fear :
Ye cannot harm him,
Nor yet alarm him.
However horrid ye appear.
On the dismal rocks of Cavendish,
Without bread or fish,
There he sat and poured his song
All the dark night long,
And when the morn appeared,
Fair and bright
To his delight,
He loudly cheered.
IN THE EARLY DAYS :
Solomon Howard, while clearing
his farm, often worked into the dusk of
the evening ; once when he had worked
thus returning to his home he was con
fronted by two catamounts. He had
no weapon but his axe, and, though a
"brave man, he thought discretion the
better part of valor, and made a quick

retreat back to his fires, followed by
the cats. They approached within a
short distance of the fires and com
menced a fierce growling, they were
bent for the man but afraid of tht fires.
Howard set himself to make the fires
bright. The catamounts kept around
all night ; sometimes on the trees and
sometimes on the ground, keeping up
their growling ; and Howard hastened
to roll the logs on to his fires and pile
on the brush, and then quickly grab
bing his axe stood ready for an attack
till his fire again needed replenishing.
Morning dawned at last, and the cata
mounts stole off and Howard went
gladly to his home.
ENOUGH FISH FOR TWO POTATOES.
In the day's of which we write hotel-
keeping was in a very primitive condi
tion. Nearly every settler, however^
kept a sort of traveler's home, furn
ishing the best accommodations' they
could for man or beast. Such arrange-'
ments had Aaron Towns, at whos&
house a traveler stopped one day and
called for dinner, and a meal of fi6h
and potatoes was provided. Towns,
who had an eye for profit, watched the
stranger as he commenced to eat, and
observing he helped himself liberally
to fish, said to him: "Seems to me,
stranger, you have got fish enough for
two potatoes," and it became a by
word after in town, if any one helped
themselves liberally to anything, "You
have got enough fish for two potatoes.'
The clearings of the first settlers in
many places have grown up again to
woods. The town has been hard drain
ed by the emigration of its young men.
Andover is poor enough in many re
spects, but if you want to find whole
hearted hospitality eome to Andover.
One more sketch and I am done.

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ABNER GUTTERSON
cam e^ here from Milford, N. H., about
1794. He bought a farm (new) ad-
joinining Mansur's. He was born
March 27, 1768. Jan. 25, 1795, he
married Phebe Barker, born May 27,
1767. Though poor, they were hard
working and frugal, and consequently
prosperous. SThey had three children,
two ot who mare now living, the young
est on the old homestead. Mr. Gutter-
son possessed an active, nervous tem
perament, and was an honest, kind-
hearted man and a good townsman.
Mrs. Gutterson possessed rare, good
judgment, a kind, generous nature, and
Was a fine singer for her time. He
died May 2, 1818. She died July 18,
1842. H. H. Gutterson.

ADDITIONAL PAPERS
For the History of Andover.
by charles m. gutterson,
who succeded his brother, after his death
as town clerk.]
HILAND H, GUTTERSON
was born in Andover Sept. 3, 1836,
and was the fourth son of Alden and
Sophia (Hall) Gutterson.
Born with a fra.il yet highly sensi
tive organization, coupled with a se
vere impediment }n his speech, he con
sequently enjoyed less of life than the
average youth of his time. Owing to
the limited pecuniary means of his
parents, his educational advantages
were confined to the district schools of
his town. He, however, perused al
most every book and periodical he
could obtain, and for his opportunities,
became a deep thinker, an able writer
and was local correspondent for several
newspapers.

The advent of Spiritualism in the
community in which he lived, he ar
gued ably against, denouncing the
sophistries of the so-called mediums.
In 1869, he undertook and success
fully carried out the gathering of ma
terial for the History of Andover for
Miss Hemenway's Gazetteer, writing
out, also, much of it, [and the Gazet
teer has seldom found a more faithful
and prudent local historian.]
He died June 29, 1878, after a brief
but severe illness of inflammation of
the lungs. ALBERT EDWIN STANNARD
was born at CrownPoint, New York
Jan. 2, 1830; his father, Joel Stannard,
in Newport, N. H., Mar 9, 1802; his
mother, Sophia Burton, in Andover,
Oct. 27, 1801. His father, iu Feb.,
1840, removed to Andover, to the
homestead of his grandfather Burton,
which made Albert a resident of the
town, where the rest of his minority
was spent.
His education was obtained at the
district school and Chester academy.
In 1852, he left home and worked at
carpenter-work, and in the fall of 1853,
in company with several others went to
Richland county, Wis., where they
bought a tract of land, built a shanty,
and remained in it during the winter,
cooked their board and cleared some of
the land.
In the spring and summer of 1854,
he worked at carpenter-work in Sexton-
ville, Wis., visiting at times Madison,
Waukesha, and other towns in the
state. In Oct., 1845, he returned to Ver
mont, and April 25, 1855, married
Amanda N. Fuller, of Andover, and
settled on the old homestead of his
father's where he remained 17 years.

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In 1871, he and Ora Abbott, of
Londonderry, built the steam mill at
Simonsville. In 1877, he bought Mr.
Abbott's interest in the mill, and con
tinued the business until it was burned
Oct. 10, 1879.
He held various offices of trust in
town. Was lister and justice of the
peace several years ; selectman 9 years ;
represented the town in the legislature
in 1870, '72 and '76.
In the summer of 1884, his health
began to fail, and medical skill revealed
the fact that he had an internal cancer.
After a long and painful illness, he
died Nov. 29, 1884, in the midst of his
nsef ulness, and the vigor of his man
hood.

OLD PEOPLE IN ANDOVER —

1885.

Daniel French,

90

years

Joel Stannard,

83

a

Geo. W. Stickney,

80

a

F. P. Fuller,

78

tl

Putnam D. Peabody,

72

u

Benjamin Austin,

82.

u

Mrs. Calista Howard,

83

tt

Mrs. Sophia Gutterson,

80

tt

Mrs. Sallie Hanson,

78

t<

Mrs. Lucinda Peabody

,77

a

Mrs. Cyntha Chase,

78

ii

Mrs. Polly Baldwin,

81

u

Mrs. Lois Pettingill,

77

41

Benjamin Austin,

82

U

TOWN OFFICERS— 1878.
Moderator, A. D. L. Herrick ; clerk
and treasurer, C. M. Gutterson; select
men, A. D. L. Herrick, R. E. Edson,
Iasiah Lovejoy; overseer of poor, R.
E. Edson ; constable, H. A. Gould ;
lister, B. G. Thompson, P. T. Mark,
D. A. Benson ; auditors, Parkman
Davis, H. J. Parker, P. R. Carlton;
grand juror, Benj. Davis; town agent,
H.J.Parker ; superintendent of schools,
W. A. Feltt.

1879.
Moderator, A. D. L. Herrick ; clerk
and treasurer, C. M. Gutterson ;
selectmen, A. E. Stannard, Iasiah
Lovejoy, W. F. Feltt ; overseer of poor,
R. E. Edson; constable and collector,
H. A. Gould ; listers, B. G. Thompson,
Lucius Jacquith, Lewis Howard ;
auditors, P. R. Carlton, H. J. Parker,
Parkman Davis ; town agent, Beni.
Davis ; grand juror, Benj. Davis ; su
perintendent of schools, W. A. Feltt.
1880.
Moderator, H. J. Parker ; clerk and
treasurer, C. M. Gutterson ; selectmen,
A. E. Stannard, Iasiah Lovejoy, W.
F. Feltt ; overseer of poor, R. E.
Edson ; first constable and collector,
H. A. Austin ; second constable, Lewis,
Howard ; listers, P. R. Carlton,' J. H.
Heald, H. J. Parker ; auditors, Parkman
Davis, Alden Jaquith, Chas. S.
Leonard ; grand juror, F. A. Way ;
town agent, H. J. Parker; superintend
ent of schools, H. J. Parker.
1881.
Moderator, H. J. Parker ; clerk and
treasurer, C. M. Gutterson ; selectmen,
A. E. Stannard, Iasiah Lovejoy, F..A.
Way; constable and collector, H. A.
Austin ; listers, P. R. Carlton, J; H.
Heald, H. J. Parker ; auditors, W. A.
Feltt, C. S. Leonard, Lucius Jaquith ;
overseer of poor, R. E. Edson; agent,
H. J. Parker; grand juror, F. A. Way ;
supt. of schools, H. J. Parker.
1882.
Moderator, H. A. Austin; clerk and
treasurer, C. M. Gutterson ; selectmen,
P. R. Carlton, R. E. Edson, B. G.
Thompson ; overseer of poor, R. E.
Edson ; constable and collector, II. A.
Austin ; listers, H. J. Parker, H. A.
Gould, E. P. Farnsworth; auditors, O.
W. Leonard, W. A. Feltt, Lucius

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Jaquith ; grand juror, Alden Jaquith ;
town agent, E. A. Way;" supt. of
schools, H. J. Parker! 1883.
Moderator, H. A. Austin ; clerk and
treasurer, C. M. Gutterson ; selectmen,
P. R. Carlton,. R. E. Edson, B. G.
Thompson ; overseer of poor, R. E.
Edson ; constable and collector, H. A.
Austin; listers, Ira Merrill, C. A.
Osborn; auditors, H. A. Gould, W. A.
Feltt, C. S. Leonard ; grand juror, A.
Jaquith ; agent, O. W. Leonard; supt.
of schools, H. J. Parker.
H. A. Austin, constable, died May
1, 1883. Byron Stickney chosen to
fill vacancy. ITEMS AND CORRIGENDA.
Page 18, Under date July 29, 1682
our first town clerk, Mr. H. H. Gutter-
son gives the first grand list, our sec
ond Mr. G., town clerk, under the fol
lowing I lead :
,,The following is ye invoice or List
of the inhabitants .of the town of An
dover for the year 1781,"
The names and tax of each one is
the same in both : the last date is evi
dently the year for which the list was
taken, and the firsts that of the time of
completion and record.
Page 19 : in relation to the first votes
cast for member of Congress, Mr. C.
M. Gutterson adds to the statement 21
votes, Dec. 30, 1795, were cast foi
Niles, as no choice was made on that
day, as appears by the return of ' ' the
Clerks of ye County Courts : and hav
ing order to bring in our votes for a
Member of Congress on the 10th day
of Feb. 1795 are as follows, Nath'l
Niles Esq, 12.
Attest. Moses Warner Town Clerk.

MR. GUTTERSONS PAPERS CONTINUED.
I find no names of those who have be
come freemen, but: " The names
of those who have taken the freeman's
oath belonging to Andover viz :
John Simons, Samuel Brown, Eli
Pease, John Simons Jr., Frederick
Rogers, Moses Warner, Stephen Bur-
gis, John Chapin, Ezekiel Pease,
Thomas Adams, Silas Spaulding,
Ebenezer Simons, John Gowdey, Ez
ra Sexton, John Stiles John French,
Solomon Howard, Joseph Howard,
Thomas French, Temote Nichols,
Phineas Wheeler, Joshua Jaquith,
Joseph Howard, William Brown,
Ichabod Perry, Dan Simons, Peter
Allen, Alvan Simons, Ezra Chapin,
Augustin Peas, Daniel Foster, Josh
ua Dale, Henry Dale, Bunker Clark,
Aaron Nichols, Thos. Knowlton.
THE DRAFT OF FIRST LOTS
in the town was to Nathaniel Dunham,
Asahel Clark, Timothy Washburn,
John Demman, Jonathan Brown,
James Wright, Jonathan Swetland,
Thomas Perkins, Nathan Demman,
William Swetland, John Gibs Jun.,
Elisha Bill, Rufus Rood, William
Hunt, Nathaniel White, James Sims,
Joseph Loomis, Simeon Curtis, Chas.
Lyman, William Downer, Freeman
Ellis, Orlando Mack, Orlando Mack
Jr. Jesse Townshend, John Nelson,
David Townshend, Constant Wood-
worth, Robert Benit, Samuel Sprage,
Israel Woodward Jun., John Sprague,
William Sims, John Lasson, Aaron
Clark, Benjamin Atwell, Nathaniel
Hous, Benajah Hous, Solomn Tabor,
Dennison Kingsbury, Eliphalet Hous,
Benony Clark, Stephen Hutchinson,
Phillip Bill, Thomas Lyman Jun.,
Ezekiel Thomas, Stephen Hunt Jun.,
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Hibberd, Bennoni Loomis, David
Strong, Gam Miller, Robert Hunter,
Israel Woodward, Joseph Wright,
Mark Wentworth, Theodore Atkinson,
Peter Eastman, John Miller, Benja
min Emerson, Simond .Stephens, John
Bond, Jacob Sawyer, Peter Morse,
Stephen Emerson, Benjamin Leister,
Presbyterian Minister, Church Min
ister, School Lot, Propagation of
Gospel. The names only differ in the second
draft or lotting, by Timothy Washburn
in the 1st. draft record and Thomas
Washburn in the 2d. ; Rufus Rood in
the 1st. and Rufus Reed in the 2d.;
John Lawson, in the 2d. is Lasson in
the 1st., and in other instances the same
name is Spelled differently in the two.*
Shares were drawn at this 2d. lot
ting for glebe, parsonage, first minister
and school In a third lotting the same
parties drew thirdly, and Benjamiu
Atwell, the first settled minister a lot.
In a 4th. division to the same, we find
no Rood, in two divisions, no Rufus
Reed one, in but Rufus Pade , also the
name of John Rand appears first as a
lottee. C. M. G.
* I have spelled the names as I found them
in the records says the Clerk :1 "I do not sup
pose it is possable for anyone to write a histo-
tory and have all the names in town spelled
right." He who thinks otherwise let him try
where even the records have been kept the
best.
SILAS WOOD HAZELTINE.
M. D.
was born in Andover, Vt., Sept. 23,
1836. Was educated in the public
schools of that town and at Chester
Academy. He studied medicine with
Dr. Walter Bunaham, pf Lowell,
Mass., and graduated in 1857, but nev
er practiced the healing art. In the

where he engaged in teaching and giv
ing instruction in music. He was
married in 1866, to Lizzie A. Rutledge,
of Baltimore county, Md., by whom
he has had a family of 10 children, 5 of
whom are now living. He began at
the age of sixteen to contribute short
poems to the principal weekly and
monthly publications of the country,
and published a small volume of poems
in I860.* A busy life and the care of a
large family have caused him to cease
almost entirely from writing for the
press. "DYING, PERCHANCE."
O'er the long space that parts us, mothei ,
Would I could fly to-day,
To soothe thy fond and gentle heart,
And drive thy pain away.
For thou art on a suffering bed,
Disease has bleached thy brow,
And while I roam so far away
Perchance thou'rt dying now!
Dying, perchance— oh ! maddening thought—
I must fly unto thee !
What il tbe lips that taught mine own
Should speak no more to me !
The robin on my window-bough
His blithsomc matin sings ;
He knows not how he pains my heart-
Hush, bird I lend me your wings!
Nay, fly thou! for some swifter way
My maddening heart must find;
O ! give me wings to fly like light,
Or thought across tho mind !
Nay, swifter! these are all too slow !
As prayer speeds up above,
So, mother ! would I fly to thee,
And heal thee with my love !
ONE LOVE.
Unto the heart that once hath loved,
Truly, but oh! in vain,
A jo;7 so sweet— a love so pure —
Can never come again !
But o'er life's sky, like a midnight cloud,
The years shall darkly pass,
And love's warm rays shall shine no more
On the ruined heart— alas !
*"The youthful efforts of the author ." a pret.

i u ,*• 1«H7 he removed to Maryland ty 12 mo. 152 pp., printed by Rand&Avery, Bos-
fall Ot 1857, he removed to iViaryiana, Travellers Dream and Other Pofima.

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The wreck within may be hid with smiles
That are ever bright and bland,
But 'tis like the ivy's verdancy
That covers a ruin grand !
And think not, though the eyes are bright.
Though the cheeks may wear no stain,
That the love-lorn heart is all restored,—
It can never love again !
There is a love which is not love,
But something far more base ;
Which feeds on wealth or station high,
Fair i'orm, or charming face ;
But where two souls together ran
Like fallen drops of rain,
Woe, woe is theirs, if they must part, —
They can never love again !
S. W. Hazeltine.
HISTORICAL CARD
Of H. H. Gutterson.
I am much indebted to A. S. Barton,
Esq. of Ludlow, to H. B. Stannard,
P. M. in Simondsville, and to Ebenez
er Hutchinson, of Weston, for kindly
furnishing me with necessary informa
tion for the history of Andover.
[Few of our historians have gathered
their material from every source so as -
siduously. We regret this history he so
desired to see in print, that would, have
given him so much pleasure, he should
not live to see, that he and two helpers
he remembered here are now with him
in their graves. We have asked and
obtained from his brother a biographi
cal sketch of him to give with his la
bor of love for Andover, —page 88. —
He was so modest, he gave but a brief
notice of his grandfather, Abner Gut
terson and the briefer mention of, Hen
ry F., his brother, then living. We
have the additional notes of our Ando
ver historian's family from others ; and
mostly, from Miss Eva J. Stickney,
whqse sister married into the family]
alden gutterson, son of Abner,
married7 Sophia Hall ; to whom were
born 1 1 children, nine of whom lived to
be men and women, and five of whom
are now living :
A. C, Bank Cashier in Owatonna,
Minn. He married Nancy Stickney,

daughter of Geo. W. Stickney. They
had six children. The oldest son is
married and recently gone with his fam
ily to Oakland, Cal. Tho second daugh
ter is at a school, in New York,
and a son of nineteen, it is said inherits
his father's musical talent. [See notice
of Prof, Gutterson page 82.]
Maranda S., wife of P. R. Carlton,
resides iu Andover ; Maria C, wife of
A. P. Fuller, resides in Rutland ; Geo.
L., dentist, resides in Fairhaven, Vt.
Charley M. married Rozzie Lovejoy.
Alden Gutterson died, Jan, 11, 1876.
his widow lives on the home-farm with
her son C. M., at the age of 81,-1886.
Henry F., several years Professor of
Music at Faribault, died in Boston, in
1873, while further pursuing his musi
cal studies there.
[ In the notice of Prof A. C. Gutter-
son, page 82, for he continued [musical
studies] at Barton, read at Boston ; for
Baunbeck Chicago, read Baumbeck, for
graduated in 1866, read in 1867, line
26, concerts for concert, and page 83,
line 4, read the for a before time. —
Page 57, line 35, read where for were.
P. 38. lines 1, 5, read presence, scenes.
2d. col. line 3, "alarum" ; p. 39, line 57,
and; 43 cantonment; p. 42, line 35, n
for u in recruiting. These and other ty
pographical errors, mostly on pages 34
to 49 occur from the printer's singular
ly printing that form before the correc
tions were sent in. Page 80, the daugh
ters of Dr. Chase 17 and 9, Sallie is in
Franklin college; Mrs. Balis Chase died
in 1885. For carved head read carved
hand. Dr. Byron Chase, page 81, died
several years since. Page 77, lines 4, 5,
in hereditary read inherited; him, father.
There has never been a murder in the
town; and but one accidental death: of
Abby Merrill, thrown from a carriage.

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CARD OF THANKS
TO THE DONORS OF ENGRAVINGS.
To the Hon. Austin Adams, Du
buque, Iowa, for a portrait to thi3 his
tory, for the leading order for Andover
pamphlets, and most of all for interest
ing others to help.
To Waldo Adams of Boston, for the
portrait of Alvin, Adams, Founder of
the Adams & Co. Express.
To Mrs. Esther P. Adams and Chas.
Adams for portrait of Dr. Chandler.
To Rev. Wm. S. Balch of Elgin for
portrait, interesting others to help, and
the largest individual subscription for
the Andover pamphlet history.
To Mrs. Cornelia A. Miller for por
trait of her father, Hon. Joel Manning,
and an engraving of her grandfather's
old house in Andover ; also to Mrs.
Miller and her sister, Mrs. Fish of Joli
et, 111., for the largest order from any
family for the pamphlets.
To C. M. Gutterson, Town Clerk for
a subscription from the citizens of the
town for their Pamphlet History.
INDEX OF NAMES.
Abbott, Jake, John, 41 ; Joseph,
22. Adams, Abraham and wife. 37 ;
Alvin, 59, 60, 61 ; Austin, Hon., 37,
61, 62, 63,65; Jerry, 27, 41, 59;
Jonas, 21, 22, 27,59; Levi, 21, 22,
24, '46, 59; Luther, 22, 46; Orison,
24, 59; Peter, 21, 22, 56; Phineas,
19; Thomas, 18,19,20, 21.
Aiken, Dea. John, 83.
Andrews, James, John, 83 ; Nathan,
20 ; Sewell, 85.
Babcock, Amos, 17.
Bailey, Cyrus, 41, Capt. 40, Rev. 66.
Baker, B. F., 82 ; Rev. D. W, 66.
Rev. Calvin, 66.
Balch, Aaron Leland, Rev., 40, 52,
66,73;74; Hart, 20, 22, 25, 34, 41;
Joel, 20,33, 40, 52; Rev. Wm. S. 25,
33,40,52,58,73,75.

Barton, Abigail Dana,68, 69 ; A. S.
Esq., 45, 46, 71, 72; Ira. Jacob, Jere
miah, 31 ; John, 22, 27, 31, Rufus 31,
66,68,69; Bartlett, Elisha,. 63.
Batchelder, Lieut. A. A. 40.
Blanchard, Jeremian, 23.
Blood, Isaac, 67 ;Dr. Solomon. i!3,6o.
Bradford. Andrew, 22,26; David
and Richard, 22,41, 47.
Brown 81, 82 ; Ebenezer 41, Sam'l 30
Bullard, Joseph, 20, 41.
Burke, Eli, 83; Srtvester, 83
Burrows, Rev. D. W., 66.
Burton, Horace. 75; Putnam, Dr.,
65,Samuel20. 21,28,45, Sam'l 45 ,65.
Butterfield, Rev, Is^ac, 60.
Carpenter, John, 75,76..
Carleton, Jessie, 82.
Chandler, Dr. Charles, W. 35, 36,
37, 65 ; Dr. Chauncey, 20 : Dr. Wol-
cott,37, 65, 66.
Chapin, John, 18, 20.
Chase, Albert K.,-79; Balis, 79;
Brazalial, 79 ; Bradford, 79; Byron
H. 65; Dr. David H., 65' 79,81; Hollis
65, 80,81 ; Wm. R. 65, 81.
Childs, Dr. H. A. 63, 82.
Choate. Rev., 66; Rev. Cyrus, 66.
Clark, Bunker, 22, 33 ; Samuel, 83.
Coombs, Rev., 66.
Constantine, Rev. A. A., 66, 81.
Cram, Caleb, 41 • Jona. Joseph, 21.
Crowley, Rev. Henry, 66.
Culver, Rev. Lyman, 66.
Cummings, Ebenezer 21 ; Franklin,
Jacob, Leonard, Stephen, 21.
Dodge, Daniel, 78 ; Ezra, 78, 79 ;
J. H., 65; Joseph, 21, 25, 73, 78, 79;
Judge Joseph, 73 ; Nathaniel, 78 ;
Capt. Thomas, 40 ; John 40.
Dudley, Jonathan, Peter. Stephen,
19, 20, 31. Rev. John 66.
Edson, E., 29 ; Marquis F., 65.
Elliot, Rev. Joseph, 66.
Farnsworth, Ebenezer, 20,22, 25,41.
Felt, Abner, 20, 40; Wm., 41.
Fisher, Rev. Calvin, 66
Foster, Daniel, 19.
French, John, 19; John, Jr., 27;
Thomas,- 19.
Fuller, Lt. Amos, 40,
Geer, Shubal; Wm., 17
Gowdy, John, 18, 19.

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French, John, 28, 29.
Geer, Shubal and Wm., 17.
Greeley, Nathan, 21.
Gutterson, Abner, 21» 75, 84, 92;
Alden, 92; A.C., 82,92-;Capt. 45; C.
M. 83-92 ; G. L. 92, H. F 41. II. H, 92.
Hazeltine, Hazelton, Hezelton, Hes
selton, Capt. 40, 41 ; David 22 ; Has-
cal, Ira S. 65 ; Orrin 20, 72, 73; Col.
Orrin, 20, 40, 72 ; Dr. S. W. 91.
Higbee, Rev., 66
Howard, Adolphus, Antepast, 40,41,
David, 22, 23, 76, 77 ; Elias,76 ; Hol
land H., 75, 76; Lucius, 76; Morris, 41,
Rev.R, H. 75, 77; Rich'd L. 65; Solo
mon, Sr. 19, 22, 40, 74, 8-, Jr., 77, 87.
House, Nathaniel, 17.
Hull, Amy, John, 28,75;
Hurlburt, Rev. Elias, 66.
Hutchinson, Lt. A., Capt. Ebenezer,
40, D. Clinton 65. E., 38-40. Warner.
Jaquith, Joshua, 20, 40.
Kezzer, Thomas, 22, 23.
Keyes, James, 17, 18.
Knights, Daniel, 21, 22.
Larkin, Mary, 41,
Leland, Elder Aaron, 29.
Leonard, Spencer, 65.
Lord, Otis and Lewis, 75.
Manning, Rev., Joel and fam. 29, 30,
31,67, 73; Hon. Joel and fam. 48, 49,
51, 65: John B., 51, 73 ; John R. 51,
John W. ; Joseph, 32 ; Rodney 66 ;
Samuel, Dea. Samuel 29, 66 ; Wm. K.
Mansur, John, 21.
Marsh, Charles D.. 65 ; Chas. John,
38, Col. Sylvanus L., 40 to 45.
McCollins, Rev. 66.
Miller, Mrs. C. A., 30, 50, 51,
Minard Samuel, 20.
Monroe, Rev. Calvin, 66.
Morgan, J., 28; Iasiah, Sam'1,82.
Morse, Capt. Benj. 45, 47,48, E. 65.
Nichols, Samuel, 20, Timothy, 33.
Palmer, David, 63. Parke, Asa, 83.
Parkhurst, Jesse, 21, 22.
Parker, Capts. James, Lyman 38, 40
Peabody, Rev. Burton, 66.
Pease, Augustus, Eli, Ezekiel 19, 20 ;
Jacob, James 17 ; Obadiah 20.
Peney, Ichabod, 19,
Pettingill, Cp't. Sam'l, 40 Lorenzo 66.
Pierce, Capt. Abial, 40 ; Asa, Benja

min, Wm. 22, 27 ,38, Rev. John, 66.
Putnam, Archelaus, 40; Geo. W.,
Sen. and Jr., and fam. 74, 77; Lt. 40;
Jonathan and Peter, and fam. 21, 22,
25, 73, 74, 77, 78, Samuel, 75.
Rodgers, Frederick, 20, 22, 26, 40.
Ross, Samuel, 47.
Rowell, Moses, 20, 40.
Sheldon, Jacob, 21, Wm. 67.
Simonds, Alvin, 19, Dan 18, 19, Eb
enezer, Esq., 18, 19, Edward L., 21,
John, John, Jr., Capt., 17, 18, 19,20,
Sewell83. Smeed, Capt. Benjamin, 41, 42.
Smith, Cyrus, 21, 72; Rev. E. F. 66,
Jesse 83, Col. Loren 45, Samuel. 19,
Stannard, A. E., 82. Lowell 66.
Stevens, Betsey, 33; 40, Thaddeus,.
65, William 33.
Sticknev, Eva J., 75 ; Geo. W. and
fam. 73,75. 78; Joseph 21, 26, 39, Jo
seph Hosmer, 26, 74, Moody 74.
Taylor, Rey. Philander, 66.
Templeton, L. H. 65.
Towns, Aaron ; Dan'l, 35, 8-.
Tyrell, John, 41, Wm. 65.
Vandouzer, Abraham, 28.
Walker, Rev. A. J. 66 ; Pierce 39 ;
Sampson 21, 22, 23,40, 74.
Ward, James, 19, Richard, 72.
Warner, Joel 30,74; Moses, Esq.
17 to 21,38,39, 45,74.
Washburn, Col. P T. ,44, 45, 67.
Weed, David, 40, White, Wm„ 40.
Williams, Norman, 63.
List of Grantees 90. List of Town
Officers 88, 89. List of Revolutionary
Soldiers 22 s Soldiers of 1812 p. 41 ; of
1861 86, 87.
First Freemen 18, 19, 20, 90,
Allen, Isaae, 20. Belden, Stephen, 40.
Bartlett, Elisha, 63. Col. Butterfield 44.
Col. Cilley, 22,27. Crain, Eld. H. R. 66.
Collamer, Jacob; Converse, Julius, 66.
Coolidge, Carlos ; Everett, Horace, 66.
Edson, R. E. 29. Fullerton, Nath'l, 20.
Gray, Dr. Henry, 63. Howard, Docts.
Chandler and Elias, 65. Holt Thomp
son, centenarian, 56. Richardson,
Capt. 71. Rowell, Capt. Moses, 19,20.
Sexton, Ezra, 19. Smiley, Lt. Col. 44,
Tracey,Andrew, 62. Watts, R., 63.
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