\8G .N585 Class. Book PkKSK.VTKU I!V Witii tl|p CEomplimptttB of iHljf g>on^tg of (Unlnmal Wavs in tl|e (IIoiuoiJ), N. 1^. Sunt, 1914 Srrrrtarjt-ttlrraBurer gll^e f>omtg of (golomal TOara in tl\t &tat? of Nem i§am|ial|irF 0nx Beceas^eb iMemtiersi 1911=1914 ^feettf)e£( of tijeir ilonoreb Hibesf WITH PORTRAITS Constitution anb pp=1LatoS Higt of (Officers, Committees; anb 0ltmhtv6 Chronicle for ZKtoentp ^ears 1894 to 1914 ^bbresis; Belitiereb at tlje J^incteentij Annual Court tip Jlonorable Jameg ®, l.j>forb **0nt ^mitlj Gift The Socif^t^ articleg of Sncorporation The undersigned, being persons of lawful age, associate under '^'- the provisions of chapter 147 of the Public Statutes of New <> . Hampshire by the following ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. ■^ Article I. The name of this corporation shall be the Society '!i of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire. \4^, Article II. The objects for which this corporation is es- tablished are to perpetuate the names, memory, or deeds of those brave and courageous men who, in military, naval or civil service, by their acts or counsel assisted in the establishment and continuance of the American Colonies from the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, May 13th, 1607, to the Battles of Lex- ington and Concord, April 19th, 1775; to collect and secure for preservation the manuscripts, rolls, records, and other docu- ments relating to that period of colonial history; to inspire among the members and their descendants the fraternal and patriotic spirit of their forefathers, and to inculcate in the com- munity respect and reverence for the acts and principles of those indomitable men which made the freedom and unity of our country a possibility. Article III. The place in which the business of this cor- poration is to be carried on is the City of Concord in the State of New Hampshire. Article IV. No capital stock. Article V. The first meeting of the corporation was held in the City of Concord, State of New Hampshire, on Thursday, September 27th, A. D. 1894. Henry Oakes Kent, George Herbert Gross, Charles Langdon Tappan, Hosea Emery Bowen, Frederick Bacon Philbrook, Frederick Walter Clapp, Franklin Senter Frisbee, George Henry Bowen, William Lithgow Willey, Frederick Lincoln Bangs, George Albert Senter, Charles McClary Bangs, Henry Steadman Jackson, Charles Calhoun Philbrook. STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. Office of Secretary of State, Concord, September 28, 1894. Received and recorded in records of Voluntary Corporations, vol. 8, pages 111-12-13. EZRA S. STEARNS, Secretary of State. 3)of)n Calbin ^Cfjornc Contort!, i2. ?#. IBeput]' (@ot)trnor.(@tnrral Rational ^ocittp ifeccretarp anft JCrcasiirtr ^ocirtp (Colonial Wiats in ttif (fetate of iJeto S^ampsljire Introductory Note. At the adjourned Nineteenth Annual Court of the Society, held at the State House, in Concord, October seventh, 1912, the following named Officers of the Society — John Calvin Thorne, Deputy Governor-General ; also Secre- tary-Treasurer of N. H. Society ; Justin Harvey Smith, Governor of the New Hampshire Society ; Irving Allison Watson, Registrar and Genealogist ; were chosen a committee to prepare and publish a volume — In Memoriam — of our recently deceased members, with their portraits, and containing brief sketches of their lives. Those deceased since have also been added. There appears a list of present Officers, Committees and Members, and a Chronicle of the Society from its organiza- tion, September, 1894, to September, 1913, including the Twentieth Annual Court, held at Dover, September 9, 1913. Also the Constitution and By-Laws. In addition there is presented the address, on the occa- sion of our Nineteenth Annual Court, at Concord, of the Hon. James 0. Lyford, Naval Officer of Customs, Boston; subject, "Our Government, the Evolutio7i of Colonial Ex- perience." This volume is respectfully submitted by the Committee, in the name and in the honor of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire. For the Committee — JOHN CALVIN THORNE, Secretary-Treasurer. Concord, May, 1914. Preamble to the Constitution. Whereas, It is desirable that there should be adequate celebrations commemorative of the events of Colonial history happening from the settlement of Jamestown, Va., May 13, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775 : Therefore, The Society of Colonial Wars has been in- stituted to perpetuate the memory of those events, and of the men who, in military, naval, and civil positions of high trust and responsibility, by their acts or counsel, assisted in the establishment, defense, and preservation of the American Colonies, and were in truth the founders of this nation. With this end in view, it seeks to collect and preserve manuscripts, rolls, relics, and records ; to provide suitable commemorations or memorials relating to the American colonial period, and to inspire in its member^ the fraternal and patriotic spirit of their forefathers, and in the community, respect and reverence for those whose public services made our freedom and unity possible. The Constitution of the General Society of Colonial Wars has been adopted by the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire except where modified by the By-Laws of the State Society. By-Laws. SECTION I. Name. The Society shall be known by the name, style and title of "Society op Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire." Officers. The officers of the Society shall be a Governor, a Deputy- Governor, a Lieutenant-Governor, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Registrar, an Historian, a Genealogist, a Chaplain, and a Chancellor; these shall be ex-officio members and con- stitute the Council, with five other members elected for that purpose and chosen annually. The Deputy-Governor-General, the Society's representa- tive in the General Society, shall also be ex-officio a member of the Council. SECTION III. Fees and Dues. The initiation fee shall be ten (10) dollars; the annual dues shall be three (3) dollars, payable the first day of January of each year. The payment at one time of fifty (50) dollars shall constitute a life membership, and exempt the member so paying from initiation fee and annual dues. Any member, at his election to membership or subse- quently, who may contribute one hundred (100) dollars to the ''permanent fund" of the Society shall be exempt from payment of annual dues, and this exemption shall extend in perpetuity to his lineal successors in membership 10 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS from the same propositus, one at a time, who may be selected for such exemption by the Society, said perpetual membership to be transmitted by the holder, subject to the approval of the Society. The non-payment of an initiation fee within six months of the election of a candidate shall make such election null and void. Any fees of the General Society of a special nature, such as fees for filing applications, shall be borne by the indi- vidual members to whom they may apply, and not by the Society. Any member who shall be in arrears one year in pay- ment of annual dues shall be liable to suspension or ex- pulsion, and his name and ancestry shall be omitted by the Secretary from the Year Book of the Society. SECTION IV. Governor. The Governor, or in his absence the Deputy-Governor, or Lieutenant-Governor, or Chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all Courts of the Society, and shall exercise the duties of a presiding officer under parliamentary rules, subject to an appeal to the Society. The Governor shall be a member ex-officio of all standing committees. He shall have power to convene the Council at his discretion, or upon the written request of two members of the Council, or upon the like request of five members of the Society. SECTION V. Secretary. The Secretary shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society, and keep a record thereof. He shall notify IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 1 1 all elected candidates of their admission, and perform such other duties as the Society or his office may require. He shall have charge of the seal, certificates of incorporation, by-laws, historical, and other documents and records of the Society other than those required to be deposited with the Registrar, and shall affix the seal to all properly authenti- cated certificates of membership, and transmit the same to the members to whom they may be issued. He shall notify the Registrar of all admissions to membership. He shall certify all acts of the Society, and when required authenti- cate them under seal. He shall have charge of printing the publications issued by the Society. He shall give due notice of the time and place of the holding of all Courts of the Society and of the Council. He shall keep fair and accurate records of all the proceedings and orders of the Society and of the CouncU, and shall give notice to each officer who may be affected by them of all votes, resolu- tions, and proceedings of the Society, or of the Council, and at the General Court, or oftener, shall report the names of those candidates who have been admitted to membership, and those whose resignations have been accepted, and of those members whose membership has ceased for other causes. In his absence from any meeting a Secretary pro tempore may be designated therefor. SECTION VI. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall collect and keep the funds and securities of the Society. Out of these funds he shall pay only such sums as may be ordered by the Society or Council, or his office or that of the Secretary may require. He shall keep a true account of his receipts and payments, and at each annual meeting render the same to the Society. For 12 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS the faithful performance of his duty he may be required to give such security as the Society may deem proper. SECTION VII. Registrar. The Registrar shall receive from the Secretary and file all the proofs upon which membership has been granted, with a list of all diplomas countersigned by him, and all documents which the Society may obtain; and he, under the direction of the Council, shall make copies of such papers as the owners may not be willing to leave in the keeping of the Society. SECTION VIII. Historian. The Historian shall keep a detailed record of all his- torical and commemorative celebrations of the Society, and shall edit and prepare for publication such historical addresses, papers, and other documents as the Society may see fit to publish; also a necrological list for each year, with biographies of deceased members. SECTION IX. Genealogist. The Genealogist shall investigate all applications for membership and shaU pass upon all claims for supple- mentals. His approval on all applications shall be re- quired before they are filed with the Registrar of the State or General Society. An appeal from his decision may be taken to the Committee on Membership and at IN THE STA TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 13 their discretion to the Society. He shall be exempt from annual assessment and may receive such compensation as the Council shall decide. SECTION X. Chancellor. The Chancellor shall be a lawyer duly admitted to the bar, and it shall be his duty to give legal opinion on matters affecting the Society when called upon by any officer. SECTION XI. Chaplain. The Chaplain shall be an ordained minister of a Christian church, and it shall be his duty to officiate when called upon by the proper officers. SECTION XII. Council. The Council shall have power to call special Courts of the Society and arrange for celebrations by the Society. They shall have control and management of the affairs and funds of the Society. They shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the Constitution and By-Laws, but they shall at no time be required to take any action or contract any debt for which they shall be liable. They may accept the resignation of any member of the Society. They may meet as often as required or at the call of the Governor. Five members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business ; at the General Court they shall submit to the Society a report of their proceedings during 14 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS the past year. The Council shall have the power to drop from the roll the name of any member of the Society who shall be in arrears at least one year in payment of annual dues, and shall fail on proper notice to pay the same within sixty days, and on being dropped his membership shall cease; but he may be restored to membership at any time by the Council upon his written application and the pay- ment of all such arrears from the date when he was dropped to the date of his restoration. The Council may suspend any officer for cause, which must be reported to the Society, and action taken on the same within thirty days. A careful record of all proceedings shall be kept and these records shall be the property of the Society. SECTION XIII. Vacancies and Terms of Office. Whenever an officer of this Society shall die, resign, or neglect to serve, or be suspended, or be unable to perform his duties by reason of absence, sickness, or other cause, and whenever an office shall be vacant which the Society shall not have filled by an election, the Council shall have power to appoint a member to such office pro tempore, who shall act in such capacity until the Society shall elect a member to the vacant office, or until the inability due to said cause shall cease; provided, however, that the office of Governor shall not be filled by the Council when there shall be a Deputy or Lieutenant-Governor to enter on the duties. The Council may supply vacancies among its members under the same conditions, and should any member, other than an officer, be absent from three consecutive Councils of the same, his place may be declared vacant by the Council and filled by appointment until a successor is elected. IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 15 Subject to these provisions, all officers and gentlemen of the Council shall, from the time of election, continue in their respective offices until the next General Court, or until their successors are chosen. SECTION XIV. Resignation. No resignation of any member shall become effective unless consented to by the Council or by vote of the Society. SECTION XV. Disqualifications. No person who may be enrolled as a member of this Society shall be permitted to continue in membership when his proofs of descent or eligibility shall be found to be defective. The Council, after thirty days' notice to such person to substantiate his claim, and upon his failure satis- factorily to do so, may require the Secretary to erase his name from the membership list. The said person shall have a right to appeal to the Society at its next Court, or at the General Court. If the said appeal be sustained by a two-thirds vote of the members present at such Court, the said person's name shall be restored to said membership list. SECTION XVI. Eligihility to Membership. Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, of good moral character and reputation, shall be eligible to membership in the Society of Colonial Wars who is 16 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS lineally descended in the male or female line from an ancestor : (1). Who served as a military or naval officer, or as a soldier, sailor, or marine, or as a privateersman, under authority of the Colonies, which afterwards formed the United States, or in the forces of Great Britain which participated with those of the said Colonies in any wars in which the said Colonies were engaged, or in which they enrolled men, from the settlement of Jamestown, May 13, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775 ; or (2). Who held office in any of the Colonies between the dates above mentioned, either as (a). Director-General, Vice Director-General, or mem- ber of the Council or legislative body in the Colony of New Netherlands ; (&). Governor, Lieutenant or Deputy-Governor, Lord Proprietor, member of the King's or Governor's Council or legislative body in the Colonies of New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware ; (c). Lord Proprietor, Governor, Deputy-Governor, or member of the Council or of the legislative body in Mary- land and the Carolinas; (d). Governor, Deputy-Governor, Governor's Assistant, or Commissioner to the United Colonies of New England, or member of the Council, body of Assistants or legislative body in any of the New England Colonies; provided that descent from Deputies to the General Assembly who per- formed no military service, shall not be available for entrance into this Society, but may be used for supple- mentary proof of honorable descent. Applicants for membership must first make out a pre- liminary application endorsed by two members of the Society. IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 17 No application for membership will be accepted based only on traditional statements, nor unless such applica- tion be accompanied by a paged reference to public records or recognized authority, authenticating such service or rank, or when proof depends upon private documents, by copies duly authenticated of such documents. The admission fee of ten dollars, and the annual dues of three dollars, must accompany the preliminary appli- cation. SECTION XVII. Committee on Membership. The Committee on Membership shall consist of five members. They shall be chosen by ballot at the General Court of the Society, and shall be elected for the period of one year. They shall pass upon the preliminary applica- tion of all applicants for membership. Three members shall constitute a quorum, and a negative vote of two members shall cause an adverse report to the Council or the Society on the candidate 's application. The proceeding of the Committee shall be secret and confidential; and a candidate who has been rejected by the Council or the Society shall be ineligible for membership for a space of one year from date of rejection, except upon the unanimous vote of the Committee. The Committee shall have power to make By-Laws for its government, and for other purposes not inconsistent with the Constitution or By-Laws of the Society. The Society may at any regularly called meeting resolve itself into a committee of the whole and act as a committee on membership. 18 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS SECTION XVIII. Expulsion or Suspension. Any member for cause or conduct detrimental or an- tagonistic to the interest or purpose of the Society, may be suspended or expelled from the Society. But no member shall be expelled or suspended unless written charges be presented against such member to the Council. The Council shall give reasonable notice of such charges, and afford such member reasonable opportunity to be heard and refute the same. The Council, after hearing such charges, may recommend to the Society the expulsion or suspension of such member, and if the recommendation of the Council be adopted by a majority vote of the members of the Society present at such Court, he shall be so expelled or suspended, and the insignia of said member shall there- upon be returned to the Treasurer of the Society, and his rights therein shall be extinguished or suspended. SECTION XIX. Courts. The General Court of the Society shall be held on the anniversary of the capture of Louisburg, June 17, 1745. Special Courts may be called by the Governor at such times as in his opinion the interests of the Society may demand, and must be called by the Secretary on the written request of five members. All notices of meetings shall be sent out at least six days before the date of the meeting. At all meetings five members shall be necessary to con- stitute a quorum. At each Court of the Society, General or Special, im- mediately after the presiding officer shall have taken the chair, the minutes of the previous meeting shall be read by IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 19 the Secretary, and passed upon by the Society; the next business in order shall be reports of officers and committees ; then new business. SECTION XX. Service of Notice. It shall be the duty of every member to inform the Secretary by written communication of his place of resi- dence and of any change thereof, and of his post-office address. Service of any notice, under the Constitution or By-Laws, on any member, addressed to his last residence or post-office address, forwarded by mail, shall be efficient service of notice. SECTION XXI. Certificate of Membership. Members may receive a certificate of membership, which shall be signed by the Governor, Secretary, and Registrar. SECTION XXIL Alteration or Amendment. No alteration or amendment of the By-Laws shall be made unless notice shall have been duly given in writing, signed by the member proposing the same, at a Court of the Society. The Secretary shall send a printed copy of the proposed amendment to the members of the Society, and state the Court at which the same will be voted upon. No amend- ment or alteration shall be made unless adopted by a two- thirds vote of the members present at the Court voting upon the same. 20 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS SECTION XXIII. Election of Officers. The officers, members of the Council, and Committee on Membership, shall be elected at the General Court by ballot. A plurality of the votes cast for each officer shall determine a choice thereof, and said officers, members of the Council, and Committee on Membership, shall hold office for the period of one year, or until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified. SECTION XXIV. Delegates to the General Society. There shall be chosen at every annual meeting five dele- gates and five alternates to the General Society. SECTION XXV. Flag. The flag shall consist of the red cross of Saint George bearing in the centre the Seal of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire. SECTION XXVI. Seal. The Seal shall be : In the centre the Seal of the Province of New Hampshire as authorized by William III. and Mary II. — The shield of Great Britain as it existed in 1692. — Quarterly, 1st and 4th, France and England ; 2d, or, a lion ramp, within a double tressure flory counter-flory, gu., for Scotland ; 3d, az., a harp or, stringed ar., for Ireland ; with ^f}e (great ^eal ^ocietp of Colonial OTarg in t\)t ^tate of iSeto J^ampgftire JN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 21 an escutcheon of pretense, thereon the arms of Nassau, az. billetty, or, a lion ramp, gold — surrounded by the Garter and crested by the Royal Crowns. Without the shield ; upon either side, the monogram of William and Mary and two capital letters, R, entwined ; beneath, the Royal Motto "Dieu et mon Droit"; the whole within the title scroll ' ' SiG : PrOVIN : N 'r^ : Nov^ : HamPTON : IN : NoV : Anglia, ' ' and this again encircled by a second title scroll bearing the words Society of Colonial Wars in the State op New Hampshire. 22 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Past Deputy Governor-Generals. Henry Oakes Kent, Lancaster. Charles Lathrop Parsons, Durham. Present Deputy governor-General. John Calvin Thorne, Concord, Past Governors. Henry Oakes Kent, Lancaster, 1894-1900. Elisha Rhodes Brown, Dover, 1900-1901. Frank West Rollins, Concord, 1901-1903. John Calvin Thorne, Concord, 1903-1906. Charles Henry Fish, Dover, 1906-1908. Henry Moore Baker, Bow, 1908-1912. Present Governor. Justin Harvey Smith, Boston, 1912 Colonial Cmblcm )Ocietp of Colonial OTars in tije ?)tatf of i^eto ^ampsijire OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1913—1914. OFFICERS. Governor, Justin Harvey Smith. Deputy Governor-General. (General Society.) John Calvin Thorne. Deputy Governor, Arthur Gilman Whittemore. Lieutenant Governor, James Albert Wellman. Secretary-Treasurer, John Calvin Thorne, Concord, Chaplain, Rev. Jesse Murton Durrell, Historian, John Scales. Registrar and Genealogist, Irving Allison Watson. Chancellor, William Dickinson Griswold Smith. Auditor, Granville Priest Conn. Gentlemen of the Council : Fred Winslow Morse. Jared Irving Williams, John Calvin Thorne, Harold Winthrop Brown, Daniel Clark Remich, 24 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Committee on Preservation of Records : Frank "West Rollins, Charles Henry Greenleaf, Harry Wilbur Gilchrist. Committee on Membership: Irving Allison Watson, Dwight Hall, Jesse Murton Durrell, George Oscar Ball, Lucius Waterman. Delegates to General Assembly, 1915 : Dwight Hall, George Bridge Leighton, William Hamilton Foster, Charles Henry Fish, Rosecrans William Pillsbury, Harry Bouton Cilley, Giles Wheeler, Joseph Foster. PRESENT MEMBERSHIP. Ball, George Oscar, Claremont. *Bangs, Charles McClary, Eliot, Maine. Banning, Kendall, New York. Batchelder, Nathaniel Hayward, Keene. Beatty, William Thomason, Boston, Mass. Bissell, Leslie Dayton, Munich, Germany. Brown, Elisha Rhodes, Dover. Brown, Harold Winthrop, Dover. Cilley, Harry Bouton, Manchester. Coit, James Milnor, Munich, Germany. Conn, Granville Priest, Concord. Durrell, Jesse Murton, Tilton. Eastman, Samuel Coffin, Concord. Edgerly, Edwin Lorraine, New York, N. Y. Fish, Charles Henry, Boston, Mass. • Charter member, 1894. IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 25 Fletcher, George Moore, Concord. Flint, Wymau Kneeland, Antrim. Folsom, William Howard, Exeter. Forbes, Harry Kogers, New York, N. Y. Foster, Joseph, Portsmouth. Foster, William Hamilton, Concord. Gilchrist, Donald Bean, Franklin. Gilchrist, Harry Wilbur, Franklin. Gilman, Daniel, Exeter. Goodwin, Arthur Franklin, Boston, Mass. Greenleaf, Charles Henry, Franconia. Hall, Dwight, Dover. Hill, Howard Fremont, Concord. Jones, William Northey, Williamsport, Pa. Knowlton, John Greenleaf Whittier, Exeter. Leighton, George Bridge, Monadnock. Morse, Fred Winslow, Amherst, Mass. Pillsbury, Roseerans William, Londonderry. Plant, Morton Freeman, New York, N. Y. Remich, Daniel Clark, Littleton. Rollins, Frank West, Concord. Scales, John, Dover. Smith, Forrest Starr, Brookline, Mass. Smith, Joshua Ballard, Durham. Smith, Justin Harvey, Boston, Mass. Smith, William Dickinson Griswold, Castleton, Vt. Thorne, John Calvin, Concord. Tilton, George Henry, Laeonia. Waterman, Lucius, Hanover. Watson, Irving Allison, Concord. Wellman, James Albert, Manchester, Wheeler, Giles, Concord. Whittemore, Arthur Gilman, Dover, Williams, Jared Irving, Lancaster, Chronicle of the Society's General Courts For Twenty Years. 1894-1914. 1894. The Society was organized at Concord September 27, incorporated September 28, and chartered by the General Society November 12. The first General Court was held December 11, at the Library of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord. 1895. The second General Court was held September 12, in the Senate chamber of the State Capitol, Con- cord. It was voted — That the Society publish a volume containing the proceedings up to and in- cluding the third Annual Court of June 17, 1896, 1896. The third General or Annual Court was held at the Senate chamber, June 17, the anniversary of the capture of Louisburg, Cape Breton, by the English and Colonial soldiers in 1745. The address of the occasion, written by Hon. Ezra Scollay Stearns, in his absence was read by the Governor, Hon. Henry Oakes Kent, the subject, "Governor John Wentworth." 1897. The fourth General Court was held June 15, at the Rockingham, Portsmouth. The day was observed as a Field Day also, visits being made to numerous historic points about the city. A paper, "In Me- moriam," of Frank Arthur Colby, M. D., of Berlin, y / -V jHarp in 1774 iSoto jFort Consftitution jSeto Castlt. iSeto $)amp£(i]ire JBebitatfli top ttit S'ocittp. fiine 17, 1903 IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 27 N. H., was presented by Governor Kent. The ad- dress of the day was by Capt. George Augustus Gordon, Archivest — "The English and the Indians in New Hampshire." A Special Court was held at the Rockingham, Portsmouth, September 15, when the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society were read and adopted. This was printed to- gether with the papers presented at the General Court in the State Register of 1897. 1898. The fifth General Court and Field Day was held June 17, at Dover. Carriages conveyed the mem- bers to the sites of the most important garrisons, and other points of interest. The meeting was held in the reception room of the City Hall. Dinner was served in the banquet hall, followed by a business meeting with the election of officers. A paper — In Memoriam — written by Captain Gordon in honor of Hon. John Sheldon Treat, was read and entered upon the records. 1899. The sixth General Court and Field Day was held June 20, at The Weirs, Lake Winnipesaukee. En- dicott Rock, marking the northern limits claimed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was the especial object of interest. Several addresses were given, the principal one by Hon. Joseph B. Walker, en- titled ' ' Endicott Rock. ' ' Afterwards a trolley ride was made to Laconia, where a reception was ten- dered to the party by Ex-Governor Charles Albert Busiel and Mrs. Busiel at their home. 1900. The seventh General Court and Field Day was held June 13, at Durham. The Field Dav was held 28 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS jointly with the Society of Colonial Dames. Visits were made to the well preserved Drew garrison, sites of other celebrated garrisons and to the homestead of General John Sullivan. The annual meeting was held at Thompson Hall of the New Hampshire College. At this meeting the first steps were taken toward erecting a memorial at Fort William and Mary. 1901. The eighth General Court was held July 3, at the Manchester House, Manchester. The address was by Hon. Charles R. Corning on "Colonel John Fen- ton." Lunch at the Derryfield Club. The Society paid a visit to the grave of General John Stark. Resolutions in memory of Hon. Person Colby Cheney were offered by the Secretary, adopted and spread upon the records. 1902. The ninth General Court was held July 10, at the Passaconaway Club house on the banks of the Merrimack River at Concord. Address of the day by William P. Whitcher, Esq., Woodsville, sub- ject, ''Col. John Hurd, of Haverhill." Committee appointed on tablet at Fort William and Mary — John Calvin Thorne, Hon. Frank West Rollins, Charles Henry Fish and James Louis Harris. A Council meeting was held December 6 in the directors' room of the Mechanicks National Bank, Concord. Memoirs of Rev. Charles Langdon Tap- pan and Ex-Gov. Charles Albert Busiel, prepared by the former Secretary, Rev. Howard Fremont Hill, were read and approved. John Calvin Thorne, chairman of the Committee on the tablet for Fort William and Mary, submitted a photo- HIS BOULDER FROM THE HILL-SIDE IS SET HERE BY GITirtNS OF CHARLESTOWn WITH THE CO-OPERATION OFTRE UNION HISTORICAL SOCIETY OS CHARLESTOVi^N. N.tt, ANC SPmNGFlELD. VT. AND OF THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. I TO MARK THE SITE OF THE OLD FORT. BUILT IN J 743. DEDICATED. AUGUST 30.1904. BEING THE I5"D^ ANNIVERSARY OF THE INDIAN' RAID. JUron^c tablet Cbarlestoton, Jieto J^ampsfjire ^ite of olb " iSumber jFour " Jfort of tf)t jf rtnttj aiib Jtnbian ISaars Jguilt in 1743. Bcbitateb August 30, 1904 IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 29 graph of the same, which met with the commenda- tion of the members, and its dedication was voted to be observed at the next General Court. 1903. The tenth General Court and Field Day was held June 17, at Portsmouth. A bronze tablet com- memorating the attack and capture of munitions of war at Fort William and Mary, by citizens of the New Hampshire Colony, December 14-15, 1774 (six months before the battle at Concord and Lex- ington), was dedicated at Fort Constitution, New- castle. Appropriate exercises were held at the fort, in the presence of the garrison of the post, officers of the navy yard, members of the Society of Colonial Dames and other friends of the Society. The annual meeting was held in the colonial parlor at the Rockingham Hotel. (A copy of tliis tablet is given in this volume.) 1904. The eleventh General Court was held June 17, in the Senate chamber of the State Capitol, at Con- cord. It was voted that the financial year of the Society extend from June 17 to June 17 of the fol- lowing year. In the afternoon the members and their guests, on invitation of Dr. James Milnor Coit, visited St. Paul's School and were enter- tained at an informal tea at his house. The Soci- ety was invited to the Old Home Day celebration at Charlestown, N. H., on August 30, and to assist in the dedication of a tablet to mark the site of the old Fort "Number Four" of the French and Indian wars. The invitation was accepted. The occasion was a brilliant one, a large concourse of people gathered and a fine program was carried 30 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS out. Hon. John C. Linehan gave the oration upon ''New Hampshire in the Twentieth Century." (A picture of the boulder and tablet is inserted in this book.) 1905. The twelfth General Court and Field Day was held July 12, at Star Island, Isles of Shoals. Pre- vious to boarding the steamer the members were conveyed to the Point of Graves, when a visit was paid to the Vaughan Tomb. The annual meeting was held in the parlor of the Oceanic House, and it was voted to repair the Vaughan Tomb by renewing the broken marble slab, com- memorating Lieut.-Col. William Vaughan, who was the originator of and participant in the expe- dition which captured the strong fortifications of Louisburg from the French, June 17, 1745. (This marble tablet is reproduced in half-tone in this book.) A Council meeting was held at the Strafford Bank, Dover, May 10. It was voted to hold the next annual court at Exeter. The sum of $100 was voted to assist the East- man Family Association in the erection of a memorial to Captain Ebenezer Eastman, at East Concord. He was one of the first settlers of Con- cord and went twice in an expedition to Louis- burg, 1745-6. 1906. The thirteenth General Court and Field Day was held June 15, at Exeter. The party visited the colonial manor of the Society of Colonial Dames, after which carriages conveyed the party to the principal points of interest, and finally to the old i^tre Ipctf) tlje ^obp of llieut.CoI. SSaiUiam "^Jaugfjan. €>riginator anb participant of tf)C Cxpcbition toi)icl) Capturrb ILouisfaurg 1745 l^oiitt of #iabes, ^ortsimoutfj, i^eU) J^ampsifjirc ilirofeen tablet replacrb toitf) original inscription bp tbe ^ocietp of Colonial TOars in tfje ^tatc of i^etn J^ampsijirc, 1906 IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SI Gilman mansion, once the capitol of the colony and now the home of the Nev/ Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati. Here a reception was given by the Cincinnati and an opportunity to inspect the historical treasures on exhibition. Later the Soci- ety of Colonial Wars entertained the members of the other societies at its annual dinner, which was held at the Farragut House, Rye Beach, to which the entire company was transported in a special trolley car. 1907. The fourteenth General Court and Field Day was held July 2, at Hotel Wentworth, Newcastle, N. H, The annual meeting for the election of officers and the transaction of business was held on arrival. Through the courtesy of Mr. John T. Coolidge, owner of the colonial Governor Wentworth es- tate, the party visited this interesting and his- toric mansion. The annual dinner was served at the hotel, at which Governor Fish and others made brief speeches. 1908. The fifteenth General Court convened at the Derryfield Club house, Manchester, September 11, for the election of officers, the hearing of reports and the transaction of business. At 12 o 'clock the Society and guests proceeded to the Riverside Inn, Hooksett, N. H., for the banquet of the day. Short speeches were given upon the work of the Society by Governor Fish, Governor-elect Baker, Historian Walker and Mr. Pillsbury. Afterwards further business was transacted authorizing the erection of a monument in the Old North Ceme- 32 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS tery, Concord, in memory of three men massacred by the Indians, August 11, 1746. 1909, The sixteenth Annual Court met June 17, at Con- cord, and was adjourned to meet September 2, at Riverside Inn, Hooksett. The Governor, Secre- tary and Treasurer were appointed a committee of arrangements. The adjourned General Court was held Sep- tember 2, at Riverside Inn, Hooksett. After the election of officers and listening to reports, the Committee on the Headstone in Old North Cemetery reported and presented a photograph of their work which was unanimously accepted. Historian Walker presented memoirs of George Frederick Ev- ans, Portland, Maine, and Henry Oakes Kent, Lan- caster, deceased members. The same was later published in the New Hampshire Historical and Genealogical Records, Dover, N. H., with their portraits. At the conclusion of the business of the day. Governor Baker delivered an address on "The First Seige of Louisburg, 1745." The paper was particularly interesting and was sub- sequently published in the Granite Monthly. The meeting formally adjourned at one o'clock, when the members and guests sat down to the annual ban- quet in the dining-room of the inn. 1910. The seventeenth General Court was held at the State House (Committee Hall), Concord, October 27. After the opening exercises and the presenta- tion of reports, the Historian, Joseph Burbeen Walker, read a paper in memoriam of Henry Rust Parker, M. D., of Dover, N. H., which was after- IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 33 ward printed in the New Hampshire Genealogical Register, Dover, N. H., with his portrait. Resolu- tions were passed in appreciation of Capt. George Augustus Gordon's faithful service as Genealogist for many years, his declination of re-election being presented on account of advanced age and feeble health. Following the election of officers. Col. George Bridge Leighton delivered an address on "The Responsibilities and Duties of the Individual in our Democracy." This paper was highly com- mended and a copy requested for preservation. On adjournment the members proceeded to the Eagle Hotel for their annual dinner. 1911. The eighteenth General Court was also held at Committee Hall, in the State House, at Concord, September 21. A resolution was submitted by John Calvin Thorne and unanimously adopted : That the Hon. Joseph Burbeen Walker, our Historian, be invited to prepare a paper upon "Concord in the Colonial Days — especially the year of the Indian Massacre, 1746," to be delivered before the Society at some future meeting. After the election of officers, the Rev. Jesse Murton Durrell delivered a most valuable and interesting address upon, "The Supremacy of Popular Liberty in Colonial Days." A copy was requested for publi- cation. Joseph Burbeen Walker, Historian, read biographical sketches of the recently deceased members — Hiram Americus Tuttle, of Pittsfield; Edson Cummings Eastman, and Henry Estes Con- ant, of Concord. It was voted that arrangements be made for publishing these papers. 34 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 1912. A special meeting of the Council was held at Concord, March 15. The Governor announced the death of the Treasurer, James Minot, of Concord, November 15, 1911. Resolutions in memoriam were passed by the Society, Irving Allison "Watson was elected to fill the vacancy. The nineteenth General Court was held at the State House, Concord, June 17. Delegates to the General Assembly, Messrs. Thorne and Leighton, at Providence, R. I., made their report. Owing to the decease of Governor Henry Moore Baker, May 30, 1912, John Calvin Thorne, Ex-Governor of the State Society, was chosen Deputy Governor- General of the National Society. Adjourned Annual Court was held at the State House, Concord, October 7. After the transaction of business, as recorded by the Secretary, Hon. James 0. Lyford, Naval Officer of Customs, Boston, a native and resident of New Hampshire, presented the address of the day — subject, "Our Govern- ment — The Evolution of Colonial Experience." This paper appears in full in this volume. 1913. The twentieth General Court and Field Day was held September 9, at Hilton Hall, Dover Point, N. H., Governor Smith presiding. Reports pre- sented and accepted. Rear Admiral Joseph Foster, of Portsmouth, introduced interesting remarks as to the Liberty Pole Association of his city and financial aid was voted to perpetuate in view of the people this colonial and patriotic enterprise of 1766. Deputy Governor-General Thorne stated that probably the ^regent conbition of Captain HTofjn g)mitf) ifWonumeiit. ^tar SslanU, Sslcs of ^fjoals (Crrttelr 1864. Ss propogeb to rtncto it tfjis pcar bp our ^otietp, bring tlje 300tf) annibersarp of tfjr lanbing of Capt. femitlj in 1614 n S a o HI " ^ SI o « " 3 '^ a CD <-t CD £a CD — r:^mtems--*Mmmss:v CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH , 1579 - 1631 ' AFTER PROVING HIS VALOR IN ' EUROPE AND AMERICA BECAME GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA AND ADMIRAL OF NEW ENGLAND WHILE EXPLORING THIS COAST IN THE SPRING OF 1614 MADE THE FIRST RECORDED VISIT TO THESE ISLANDS. NAMED BY HIM SMITH'S ISLES THIS TABLET IS PLACED THREE HUNDRED YEARS LATER BY THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE '■ • 1914 • h^=^f!^mm% Cap ^tone anb Jgron^e ^Tablet of tlje Captain SJofjn ^mitlj itlonument, ^tar 3lglanb == Ssiles of ^1)oals(. placet! bv tlje feotietp of Colonial ©Hars in tlje g>tatt of ^eto ?& sfjirf anb Betiicatcb bv tfjrm bjitfj inttresiting txtrtiSfS anb a fine fjistorital abbress on Captain 3lo\]n ^mittj. bv tbt (^otocrnor of tfte ^ocittp. fustm i^arbtp ^mitf), IL. Ti. IB., on STuIp 29. 1914.— ^ublisbcb in tijt Prottebings of tfje ©ap bp ttje ^tto Ikyamp&birt l^istorical ^ocietp. IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 35 next Field Day of the Society would be held at Star Island, Isles of Shoals, in 1914, the 300th anni- versary of the landing of Captain John Smith, and to there dedicate a monument to the memory of this famous Colonial Captain. The Committee of Arrangements appointed were John Calvin Thorne, Concord; Elisha Rhodes Brown, Dover; Joseph Foster, Portsmouth; Daniel Oilman, Ex- eter; Justin Harvey Smith, Boston. After a boun- tiful dinner came the election of officers, followed by the historical address of the day by John Scales, Esq., of Dover, on "The First Permanent Settlement in New Hampshire — 1623. ' ' This valu- able paper, with the proceedings of the Court, were published the following day in the principal Dover newspaper, the Dover Democrat. A visit of the members and their ladies in automobiles to several historic points of interest ended a most delightful day. M jMemoriam 1910—1914. Jliram aimericujs atuttle, PiTTSFIELD, N. H. iWoore ^iafeer, Bow, N. H. (Governor of this Society. Born January 11, 1841. Died May 30, 1912.) Jo^epf) ^urbeen OTialker, Concord, N. H. (Historian of this Society. Born June 2, 1822. Died January 9, 1913.) abolpfjusi Skinner ?|ul3batti, San Francisco, Cal. (Born July 7, 1838. Died January 29, 1913.) Cftarlesi Jfranfe pitman, Laconia, N. H. (Born October 6, 1847. Died May 15, 1913.) J^iram ^mericus; Shuttle Pittsfielb, iS. 1^. JBorn ©ctobcr 13. 1827 SBifb Jffbruarp 10. 1911 ^on. Hiram Smericug Cuttle. Hiram Americus Tuttle was of good old Anglo-Ameri- can stock. He was the son of George and Judith Mason (Davis) Tuttle, and was born in the ancient town of Barnstead, in the section called the Centre, on the thirteenth day of October, 1827. His family removed to Pittsfield when he was nine years old, and in its common schools and at the Pittsfield Academy he received a plain education. This proved an important addition to a native mental ability above the average, which was accompanied by courage, integrity, kindness of disposition, good judgment and enterprise. To this happy combination of mental and moral qualities must be attributed a large measure of his eminent success. He entered upon his business career in 1844, as a clerk in the clothing store of Lincoln & Shaw, in Concord, where he remained for several years, at the expiration of which he was sent by his employers to take charge of a branch store of like character wliich they had established in Pittsfield. This he subsequently purchased, and either alone or with one or more partners managed for many years. To the business of this store, he added, in 1888, an extensive trade in lumber, from the profits of which his ample estate was largely derived. But Mr. Tuttle did not restrict his activities to his pri- vate interests. He was in sympathy with all things that were best in his town and state, and a liberal contributor of his time and means to their promotion. To the busi- ness structures of Pittsfield, he added a large and hand- some block, and to its dwelling houses, an attractive resi- 40 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS dence for the occupancy of himself and family. He also erected and presented to the town a handsome school- house. He was an efficient friend of the Pittsfield Aque- duct Company, and a trustee of the Pittsfield Academy. He was also a director of the Pittsfield National Bank, the president of the Pittsfield Savings Bank, and also of the Manchester Savings Bank — one of the largest institutions of this kind in the state. In politics, he was a Republican, and one is not sur- prised to learn that his party sought his services and honored him by repeated elections to important offices of town and state. In 1860 he was chosen town clerk of Pittsfield, an office which had been held by persons of the opposing party back to a time almost immemorial. In 1873 and 1874 his townsmen sent him as one of their representatives to the General Court of the state. Two years later, Governor Cheney made him a member of his staff. In 1878 and 1879 he was elected a member of the Governor's Council by the voters of the Second Councilor District, and in 1891 and 1892 was elevated to the posi- tion of Governor of the State. While never a member of any church, he was for many years an attendant upon the services of the Congrega- tional Church, and later upon those of the Episcopalian. Governor Tuttle was married in 1859 to Miss Mary C. French, only daughter of Mr. John L. French, of Pitts- field, a lady of highest character. He died on the tenth day of February, 1911. From 1844, when he entered upon his business career, down to the time of his decease, his life was one of continuous usefulness to his fellow men. J. B. W. Cbsion Cummings €astman Concorb, iS. i^. JSorn JJobembtr 9, 1832 JBifb iWarcb 9. 19U €bs(on Cummings! Casitman. Mr. Edson Cummings Eastman, a valued member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hamp- shire, died at his residence in Concord on the ninth day of March, 1911. In his veins commingled the blood of two of the foremost original proprietors of the Planta- tion of Penny-Cook — Capt. Ebenezer Eastman and Rev. Enoch Coffin. The former was his great-great-grand- father on his father's side, and the latter his great-great- granduncle on the side of his mother. Capt. Ebenezer Eastman came up from Haverhill, Mass., in May, 1726, with the supervising committee and sur- veyors sent by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay, to lay out this plantation. During this year, he made temporary accommodations for his family, the first to move into the new settlement, consisting of his wife, six stalwart sons and his hired men; also his team of six yoke of oxen. Dr. Bouton, in his History of Concord, calls him **the strong man" of the community. He possessed, in large measure, intelligence, courage, good judgment, and the public confidence. He had been a soldier in the Canada Expedition of 1711, and forty odd years later he served in the two campaigns of 1745 and 1746 at the siege and capture of Louisburg. The Rev. Enoch Coffin, of Newbury, Mass., accom- panied the committee and surveyors, as chaplain, and conducted on Sunday, the fifteenth day of May, 1726, the first religious meeting ever held in the Penny-Cook plan- tation (now Concord, N. H.). As an original proprietor and a minister he was ** employed to preach and perform 42 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS divine service," dying two years later, August 7, 1728, at the early age of thirty-twa years. His name is to be cherished as Concord's first preacher. He was subse- quently represented by his nephew, William Coffin, who lived on the ancient Coffin homestead, where he died on the eighteenth day of October, 1815. Edson Cummings Eastman, born in Concord on the ninth day of November, 1832, was the son of Capt. Seth and Sarah (Coffin) Eastman. His father was for a long period a well and favorably known member of the busi- ness circle of Concord, who devoted the latter part of his life to that of insurance and was the founder of the present firm of Eastman & Merrill. Edson Cummings Eastman was educated in the schools of his native town and at Gilmanton Academy. At the beginning of his business career he was, for a time, a clerk in the railroad office of Hon. Joseph A. Gilmore, and subsequently was a partner with Silas G. Sylvester in the crockery business. From this he retired some fifty odd years ago, and became a publisher, bookseller and stationer, an occupation in which he ever afterwards continued. Among his earlier publications was Eastman's White Mountain Guide; the New Hampshire Register of 1866 and 1867, and the first volume of Hitchcock's Geological Survey of New Hampshire, 1871. Upon the death of Mr. Gardner P. Lyon, who had been for some years the pub- lisher of most of the law books issued in New Hamp- shire, this business naturally gravitated to Mr. East- man and brought him an extensive acquaintance with the members of the New Hampshire Bar. For fifty- one years he was the proprietor and publisher of Leavitt's Farmer's Almanac, a work which, first issued in 1796, has probably had a greater circulation in this state than any IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 43 book except the Bible. Its title page bears his imprint every year from 1860 down to 1911. Simultaneously with his business as a publisher he also conducted that of a bookseller and stationer, and, at the time of his decease, his stock in trade on these lines was the most extensive of any in Concord. But Mr. Eastman found time for the promotion of interests outside those of his regular business. In re- ligion he was a Baptist, and a member of the First Baptist Church and Society in Concord. In politics he was a Democrat. He possessed historical tastes and was a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society and of the Eastman Family Association. As a citizen, he was ever loyal to his city's highest welfare. He was patriotic as well, and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and for the last fifteen years a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire, and for several years held the office of Registrar. He was, moreover, a gentleman, easily accessible, of kindly disposition, and took as much pleasure in conferring a favor as the recipient did in receiving it. Mr. Eastman was twice married, the first time to Miss Mary E. Robinson, daughter of Mr. Cyrus Robinson, of East Concord, who died in 1882; and a second time to Miss Mary Whittemore, who survives him. He is also survived by a daughter of the former, Mrs. Mary Isabel Styll, of Oklahoma City, Okla. J. B. W. ?|enrp CsitejJ Conant. Henry Estes Conant, tenth in descent from Roger Con- ant, an early (1623) settler of Massachusetts, was born in Barre, Mass., on the 24th of May, 1843. He was edu- cated in the schools of his native towm and of Spring- field and Norwich. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in Com- pany K of the 21st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, and served continuously from July, 1861, to July 12, 1865, when he was mustered out. In 1874 he came to Concord and ere long established a laundry, in which occupation he continued until, a few years before his death, he was constrained by ill health to relinquish it. It was carried on with an intelligent industry and honesty which brought him success and the reputation of an honorable business man. While thus engaged, he also found time for useful service in some of the patriotic and benevolent institu- tions of his adopted city. Not long after his advent, he joined the E. E, Sturtevant Post, No. 2, of the Grand Army of the Republic, and thus did good service for a time as Department Commander in New Hampshire. He also became a Mason and a member of various fraternal organizations, in which he manifested his interest in their different efforts by lending his hand for their promotion. In 1894 he was elected to its membership by the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire, and his name stands on its rolls as number 78. He was also a member of the General Society, upon whose rolls it stands J^tnvp Cstes! Conant Contorli, iS. 1^. JBorn iHap 24, 1843 SBieti ^obember 15. 1911 IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 45 as number 1,297, Fidelity to the highest interests of these organizations also characterized his membership. He died at his home in Concord, of which he had been a valued and respected citizen for the previous thirty- two years, on the 20th of July, 1911, survived by his wife and one daughter, A few days later his remains w-ere laid to an honorable repose in Blossom Hill Cemetery by his friends and comrades, beneath the flag to which his loyalty had ever been unbounded and undoubted. J. B. W. IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 47 and on the staffs of various commanders until 1897, when he was elected Commander of the Department of New Hampshire and filled the position with signal ability." He was an active member of the Sons of the American Revolution and joined the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire in 1899 and was elected its treasurer in 1904, an office which he held until his decease. He was a quiet, thoughtful man, possessed of much general intelligence and of strict integrity. He was a member of the South Congregational Church in Concord. His wife was Fanny E. Pickering, daughter of the late Dea- con Hazen Pickering, of this city, to whom he was mar- ried May 13, 1874, and who survives him. J. B. W. Capt (george ^ugusstusi (gottron. Capt. George Augustus Gordon, after a long and busy life, first as a civil engineer, and later as a genealogist and historian, died at his residence in Somerville, Mass., on the 3d day of May, 1912, at the mature age of almost eighty-five years. He vv^as of Scotch descent, and the son of Ebenezer and Sophronia (Anderson) Gordon. He was born in Dover, N. H., on the 17th of July, 1827, and was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1846. After- wards he was for a time a civil engineer and assisted in the erection of the Atlantic Cotton Mills, at Lawrence, Mass., and later in building the Print Works at Man- chester, and of the mills at Lewiston, Me. He was en-^ gaged in work of this kind until 1854. The following year, he entered upon the newspaper business at Law- rence, in which he subsequently continued in Charleston, S. C. He was also for a time, while in the south, the supervising engineer of some gold mines at Dahlondega, in northern Georgia, and still later, in mines in North Carolina. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War he returned to the North and settled with his family at Lowell, Mass., having been married, October 16, 1857, to Miss Ann Farley Gordon, in Lawrence. In 1848 he removed to Somerville, where he continued to reside for the re- mainder of his life, devoted mainly to genealogical and historical work. In 1876 he became a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and was for seventeen years its Recording Secretary. He was also a member of the South Carolina Historical Society, the- (George Augustus (gorbon ^omcrbiUt. idlass. IBorn Julp 17. 1827 JSieb iHap 3, 1912 IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 49 Lowell Historical Society, the Somerville Historical Society, the Dover Historical Society, and of the His- torical Societies of Maine, New Hampshire and Wis- consin. He also became a member of this organization, the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hamp- shire, in 1895, and served for some ten years as its Gene- alogist. He was a prominent Mason and a member of several Masonic organizations. His religious affiliation was with the Episcopal Church. He left at his decease sons and daughters, J. B. W. (general ?|enrj> iHoore JJaker. Gen. Henry Moore Baker, the youngest son of Aaron W. and Nancy D. Baker, was born in Bow, N. H., on the eleventh of January, 1841. He received his early education in the schools of his native town and preparatory to entering college at the academies of the neighboring towns of Pembroke, Hop- kinton and Tilton, and was graduated at Dartmouth in 1863. He chose for his profession that of the law, which he pursued for a time in Concord, and later, in Wash- ington, D. C, where, in 1866, he was admitted to practice in the District Courts, and six years later, in the Supreme Court of the United States. He was ever loyal to New Hampshire and its institu- tions, and, although during much of his life resident else- where, he ever retained his residence in his native town. To his alma mater his attachment was marked and rec- ognized by the members of its Alumni Association, of which he served for four years as President. Nor did he decline when called upon to serve his state and town. In 1891-1892 he represented the ninth district in the Senate of New Hampshire and in 1895-7, his town in the House of Representatives. He was also an active member of the New Hampshire Constitutional Conven- tion in 1902, and between 1902 and 1906 he represented his district in the National House of Representatives at Washington. General Baker possessed a marked literary taste, par- ticularly 8 ^ historical and patriotic lines, and was a valued and honored member of the New Hampshire His- J^tnvp Jtloore leaker iSotu. iS. ^. ?8orn Januarp II. 1841 IBifl) iWng 30, 1912 IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 5 1 torical Society, the Society of Sons of the American Revo- lution, and, at the time of his death, was the Governor of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hamp- shire. The fact of General Baker being a relative of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy naturally led her to avail herself of liis legal and business knowledge and to choose him as the executor of her will. To these facts is largely due the recent prominence of his name before the public in the legal controversies which have arisen in the settle- ment of her estate. In the course of his life the General accumulated a very considerable estate which he used with discreet liber- ality for the promotion of worthy objects. One of the last of these was the foundation of a library in his native town, accompanied by a gift of ten thousand dollars for its maintenance. General Baker's decease, which occurred at Washing- ton, after a brief illness, on the thirtieth day of May, 1912, was as unexpected as it was sad. Up to this time, his natural vigor had but little abated, and his activity seemed likely to continue for some years to come. Those who knew him hardly suspected that he had attained the mature age of seventy-one years and some months. Indeed, most aptly descriptive of his sudden decease are the words of Baron Curier in relation to that of Count Rumford, 'L'avis de ses obseques, arrive presque en meme temps que la nouvelle de sa maladie. ' ' J. B. W. 3|on. ^ogepfj purbeen OTalfeer. One of Concord's most honored and most valued cit- izens died at his ancestral home Wednesday afternoon, January 9, 1913, in the ninety-first year of his age. Mr. Walker was born in Concord, N. H., June 2, 1822, the son of Captain Timothy Walker and great-grandson of the first settled minister of Concord, who served as its only pastor from 1730 to 1782, the date of his death. Joseph Burbeen Walker was fitted for college at Phillips-Exeter Academy, graduated from Yale College in 1844, studied at the Harvard Law School and admitted to the New Hampshire bar in 1847, and opened an office in the former New Hampshire Historical Society's build- ing. In a few years he retired from the practice of law and assumed the active duties of the management of the interests of his large inherited farm, which came to him from his great-grandfather, one of the first settlers of the town. He was for many years President of the State Board of Agriculture ; a member of the Forestry Com- mission; and Trustee, also Secretary, of the New Hamp- shire Asylum for the Insane for sixty years, 1847-1907 ; Director of the Merrimack County Bank, 1845-1866 ; Presi- dent New Hampshire Savings Bank, 1865-1874; for some thirty years, from 1880, he was on the Board of Directors of the Mechanicks National Bank, also was a member of Concord's first Board of Education, serving for thirteen years. Mr. Walker was an active and valuable member of the New Hampshire Historical Society, joining in 1845, Li- brarian for the next five years. Recording Secretary 1849- f osiepij JSurtjeen OTalfeer ConcorD. M- 1^- JBorn func 2, 1822 JBitb 3Januarp 9, 1913 IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 53 1853, Vice-President 1860-1866, President 1866-1868, mem- ber of the State Legislature 1866-1867, and member of the State Senate in 1893. A member and Vice-President from New Hampshire for sixteen years of the New Eng- land Historic Genealogical Society of Boston. Also an esteemed member and the Historian of our Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire. Mr. "Walker was a strong and consistent member of the First Congregational Church in Concord for sixty-two years, from the date of his admission in 1851 until his decease. A regular attendant at the services where his great-grandfather was its first minister and who served his parish faithfully for fifty-two years. His position in the city was unique ; he was a connect- ing link in the chain which bound together the old and the new; he knew better than any other its first century of existence and lived long in its second ; he read, observed and wrote much of its early and later life. He had the genuine historic sense and enjoyed greatly the writings and the tradition of the olden time, while he was keenly alive to the thoughts and acts of the present and was prominent and helpful in all its affairs. His many pub- lished papers and pamphlets on many subjects were al- ways interesting and valuable. Hon. Joseph Burbeen Walker was for several years intimately connected with our Society of Colonial Wars and was its Historian at the time of his decease. He loved history and the patriotic work of the Society in preserving ancient records, in placing tablets and erect- ing monuments to perpetuate the noble deeds of our colonial ancestry. J. C. T. Colonel abolpfjus! ^feinner Jlubbarb. Born in Du Page County near Chicago, Illinois, July 7, 1838; died at San Francisco, California, January 29, 1913. Colonel Hubbard's line of descent was as follows: 1. Edmond, 2. Thomas, 3. Caleb, 4. Benjamin, 5. Peter, Senior, 6. Peter, Junior, 7. Theodore, Senior, 8. Theodore, Junior, 9. Adolphus Skinner. He was in the eleventh genera- tion from Mary Chilton of the Mayflower, and ninth in descent from Edmond Hubbard, who came from Hing- ham, England, settled at Charlestow^n, Massachusetts, in 1633, and moved to Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1635, be- ing thus the founder of the family in America ; and his ancestry includes also members of many well known families of early New England. Colonel Hubbard 's father was born in Putney, Vermont, October 19, 1803, but removed to Jordan, New York, and in 1836 went by boat with his wife to Chicago, where he arrived in May. From that time he lived in Chicago or the vicinity as a practising physician. He was also a county official of Du Page County and postmaster at Babcock's Grove, 1844. He died in Chicago, February 1, 1872. His wife, Anne "Ward Ballon, daughter of Eben- ezer Ballou and Marana Ward, was of French Huguenot descent, the family having been established in America in 1710. She was born at Deerfield, New York, December 29, 1809, and died at Chicago, September 5, 1895. Colonel Hubbard attended the public schools in Chicago until April 25, 1853, when he entered the telegraph service and qualified as an operator. This experience led to his becoming in later years a member of the Old Times ^bolpljiis ;^kinner J^ufabarb ^an jfrancisco. California JSorn Julp 7. 1838 JBitli a^anuarp 29. 1913 IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 55 Telegraphers' and Historical Association. In 1860 he took up the express business. Leaving Chicago five years later he settled in New Mexico, where he was appointed Colonel on the staff of Governor Mitchell. At the close of the civil war he moved to California as quarter- master's clerk with the last detachment of California volunteers to be mustered out, riding on horseback from Santa Fe and arriving in* San Francisco, December 31, 1866. There he went into the warehouse business and also was superintendent of a local express company. From 1880 to 1886 he was connected with the United States Mint of San Francisco, and for a number of years was Deputy County Clerk of that city. From 1886 to 1888 he served as Deputy Superintendent of Streets at San Francisco. In 1893 he became the Clerk for the Dental Department of the University of California, which position he held until 1901. Outside of business he was equally active. In 1867 he identified himself with St. Luke's Episcopal Church of San Francisco, being one of its lay founders, its first Clerk and the Superintendent of its Sunday School ; and he acted as Recording and Corresponding Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association for some ten years. In our Centennial year, 1876, he helped organize the patriotic body known as the "Sons of the Revolutionary Sires," which became in 1889 the national organization of the Sons of the American Revolution. He was recog- nized as the founder of the California Society, S. A. R., served as President a number of years, and during the last twenty years of his life was its Registrar. He was one of the incorporators of the national Society, S. A. R., January 17, 1890. September 3, 1892, the California. 56 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Society, S. A. R., passed the following resolutions unanimously : First. That the Society places on record, that its ex- istence to-day is due to the zeal, untiring devotion, and unceasing labors of Past President, Colonel A. S. Hub- bard, who aided in its inception, and has almost single- handed brought the Society through trials and discourage- ments which beset all new societies to its present pros- perous condition ; therefore it recognizes him as the Founder of the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and therefore the Founder of the Society at large. Second. That the National Society, S. A. R., is earnestly requested in its proceedings and publications to recognize Colonel A. S. Hubbard as the Founder of the California Society and therefore Founder of the Society at large, an honor which by his patriotic labors he has merited, and to which he is justly entitled. Third. That a copy of these resolutions, also a copy of said report as finally engrossed [the report of the committee appointed to investigate the history of the Society] be transmitted to General Horace Porter, Presi- dent General, also to the Secretary, with the request that they be incorporated in a supplementary form in the Pro- ceedings of the Third Annual Congress. Fourth. That the Honorable Lucius P. Deming, the Society's Delegate at Large, is respectfully requested to use his official and personal influence to bring the above properly before the National Society, and that he deposit a copy of the action of the Society taken this day in the National Archives. Finally, that in appreciation of the long-continued and valuable services rendered to the California Society by Past President Hubbard there be appropriated from its Treasury a sum sufficient to purchase a badge of the first class Avith the following words engraved thereon: "Pre- sented to Colonel A. S. Hubbard, Founder of the California Societv, S. A. R., by his Compatriots of the Society, July 4, 1892." IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 57 At the Louisville Congress of the S. A. R., May 1, 1890, in recognition of his services Colonel Hubbard was by resolution made a Past President General, and was awarded the credit of having been Founder of the Society. He married at San Francisco, February 29, 1872, Sarah Isabelle, daughter of John and Hannah Goodrich (Holt) Sylvester, who was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, and traced her ancestry to the prominent families of early New England. Mrs. Hubbard was the founder of the first Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution in California and on the Pacific coast, and was its Regent and Honorary State Regent. She was also a charter member of the National Society, D. A. R. She organized and was for ten years the President of the Valentine Holt Society, Children of the American Revo- lution. Like her husband, she was an influential and valued worker in St. Luke's Episcopal Church. She sur- vives her husband and now (1914) resides at San Fran- cisco. Colonel Hubbard left one son, Theodore Worthington Hubbard, born April 18, 1874, and now practising law at San Francisco, who kindly furnished the data upon w^hich this sketch is based. J. H. S. Cf)arlefiJ jFranfe pitman. Charles Frank Pitman died at his home in Laconia, May 15, 1913. He was born in Laconia, October 6, 1847, the son of Joseph Prescott and Charlotte A. (Parker) Pitman. He was descended from the early Puritan settlers of Essex County, Massachusetts. Among his an- cestors were men who served with distinction in the Colonial Wars and in the Revolution. He was for several years a member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Hampshire, respected and loved by all. He was educated at New Hampton Institution, and Phillips Academy at Andover. After leaving school, he turned his attention to the hosiery manufacturing in- dustry, thoroughly mastering all the details of the busi- ness. He was in company with his father from 1870 to 1874. In 1874 the Pitman Manufacturing Company was incorporated and he was its general manager from its incorporation until the day of his death and its president from his father's death. Mr. Pitman devoted himself very closely to the management of the business, was thoroughly familiar with eveiy detail and was acknowl- edged to be one of the best and most successful hosiery manufacturers in this section of the country. He was a true friend to the many people in his employ and the happy relations between employer and employed were always noticeable in his factory. He was for many years a director in the Laconia National Bank and was its vice-president at the time of his death. He served for years as a trustee of the public library and, as a trustee of the Major Gale fund for a Cijarleg jFranfe pitman ILatonta, jS. J^. JSorn ©ttobcr 6. 1847 IBitt) map 15. 1913 IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 59 city library and park, he was one of the committee having in charge the erection of the fine Gale Memorial Library building. He was a trustee of the Laconia Hospital Asso- ciation and a member of the committee in charge of the construction of the hospital building. He was always interested in everything which contributed to the wel- fare and prosperity of his native city. He was a consistent and faithful member of the Con- gregational Church, president of the Congregational Society, senior deacon of the church and was chairman of the building committee which erected the beautiful stone edifice. Altliough Mr. Pitman took a keen interest in public affairs he never cared for public office or political hon- ors. He was strongly attached to his home life and chose to pass his leisure hours with his family where he was a most devoted husband and father. Mr. Pitman was a man of much refinement and culture, a lover of books and art. He took a great interest in flowers and his beautiful garden and grounds were a joy to many. He was very genial and thoughtful for others with a quick eye to see the best in them. He was a rare neighbor, very benevolent and ready to help others. He married, October 15, 1890, Grace Anna, daughter of the late Hon. 0. A. J. Vaughan. They have had two children, Ruth Marion, who died in infancy, and Charles Joseph, born January 22, 1895. Mr. Pitman had been in failing health for a number of years, but with the courage and persistency which were so characteristic of him, he continued to apply himself to his manufacturing interests as long as he was able to make the journey from his residence to his office. Mr. Pitman was widely known as a strong business man of undoubted integrity and great sagacity, punctual 60 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS in meeting every engagement, and faithful in performing every duty and combining energy with prudence to a rare degree. In the death of Mr. Pitman, Laconia lost a very im- portant citizen, not only in business and manufacturing circles, literary circles, churches and charities, but in the inspiration which comes from a noble personal character. (By Judge Charles Upham Bell, And over, Mass.) Our Government—The Evolution of Colonial Experience. Hon. James Otis Lyford. As there is a tendency to-day to incorporate in con- stitutions, both state and national, provisions that are properly legislative enactments, and as there is a demand that the restraints of the organic lav/ upon popular im- pulse be removed, and that a more speedy method of its amendment be provided, such societies as yours, having for their object the promotion of patriotic endeavor by keeping alive the achievements of the past, are in duty bound to inquire whether such movements are the natural evolution of government by the people or are a growth inimicable to the perpetuity of republican institutions. I, therefore, invite your attention to conditions prevailing in the colonial and constructive period of our history, that you may assist in determining whether we have outgrown the constitutions of the fathers and are in need of the radical changes now advocated. At the present time we are apt to lose sight of the fact that representative government as established in the United States was not the immediate conception of a people who had won their independence of arbitrary con- trol, but merely an advanced step in the progress of self government. The aspirations that led the American col- onies to throw off the yoke of Great Britain and seek to establish a government of the people were centuries old. Their ancestors of the English race had continual strug- gle for a larger participation of the governed in the affairs 62 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS of state. Other peoples had sought for liberty of thought and action with varied success since the dawn of civiliza- tion. There had been temporary triumphs followed by lamentable defeats with their striking lessons for future generations. Republics had been born, had flourished and had passed out of existence. The advance of mankind from the rule of the savage chief to government by con- stitutional limitation had everywhere been marked by tears and blood. The desire for stability of government after a reign of disorder, begotten by mistaking license for liberty, had ever made welcome the strong arm of individual rule, even though it abridged the liberties of the people. History was full of sign posts of warning pointing to the rocks and quicksands that had wrecked previous endeavors. It was, therefore, merely another experiment that the American colonies were to make when they grappled with the question of self government. Separated as they were from the mother country by a wide expanse of ocean, then requiring weeks to cross, the colonies were especially fortunate in that they were left largely to their own initiative in interpreting the charters under which settlements had been made. These charters were of three kinds, the royal, as it existed in Virginia and New Hampshire, where the crown was in direct control; the proprietory, where the grant of ter- ritory was made to an individual or individuals as pro- prietors, as prevailed in most of the middle and southern colonies ; and the elective, where the people had a voice in their government, as in New England. The variety of these charters and the isolation of the colonies from im- mediate supervisory control of the mother country af- forded peculiar opportunities for experiment. In some of the proprietory colonies the proprietors tried to intro- duce systems of government original in many respects, IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 63 but visionary rather than practical. "In all these col- onies," says Professor Green in his work, The Provincial Governor, "the elaborate machinery passed away, the paper constitution died a natural death, but the popular tendencies embodied in some of the earlier documents left their impress on the later constitutional govern- ments." It was largely from New England, however, that the other colonies formed their ideas of self government. Here the elective system was early established, and in spite of revocation of charters and attempts at arbitrary rule by the Stuarts, it was maintained. Here, as else- where, occurred the gradual evolution that finally resulted in the federal and state constitutions that succeeded the Revolutionary War. These constitutions were, therefore, born of the experience of the people who framed them. They were not of mushroom growth, hastily put together to meet an emergency, but in all the colonies they were the result of a gradual development of crude beginnings. It had required more than a century of trial, interrupted by continual interference with the crown, constant con- flict with royal governors and repeated failures, to evolve the system of representative government that the cen- tury succeeding the Revolutionary War has made so successful in the United States. There is hardly a con- dition at the present time that did not find in some form its counterpart during the colonial and constructive periods, while some of the modern proposals for chang- ing our form of government are but the discarded ex- periences of the fathers. Reviewing, therefore, our colonial history, we more readily understand why there are restraints in the fun- damental law of our federal and state constitutions, why it is necessary to protect minorities from the summary or 64 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS arbitrary action of majorities, why the sphere of the executive, legislative and judicial departments is clearly defined, why the judiciary is made independent of popular clamor, and why any changes of tlie general principles of government are to represent the deliberate thought of the people. In providing the safeguard of written con- stitutions the people of the colonies were in part guided by the history of the remote past, but they vrere more greatly influenced by their own experiences as the^^ were gradually developing among themselves a government of the people. They had felt the tyranny of executives appointed by the crown. They had experienced injustice from judges appointed by ro^^al governors. They had seen the inef- fectiveness of legislative assemblies with indefinite powers, and some of them had known what it v.'as to have executive, legislative and judicial authority all vested in one man sent from England to govern them. At first the governors of Virginia, Maryland, New York, the Carolinas and New Hampshire made, executed and in- terpreted the laws. Legislative assemblies after estab- lishment were often precarious. The governors frequently attempted to pass upon the election and qualification of the members, and, if the presiding officer was not ac- ceptable, vetoed his election. If the assembly refused to grant supplies, that body was prorogued to make its members more amenable, or dissolved altogether. In answer to Governor Andros, who recommended that a legis- lature be granted to the colony of New York, James the Second replied that assemblies were destructive of the peace of governments -udiere they were allowed. Where the governor of a colony dared, he legislated by procla- mation when the legislature was not in session. When the governor had been forced to give up the power of legislating, he still claimed the right of initiating it. IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 65 While the colonies had a bicameral system of legisla- tures, the upper branch was not at any time, outside of New England, the choice of the people. This second branch was a council, whose members were appointed by royal or proprietary governors, and it had a negative upon the assembly. "In some of the colonies," says Prof. Green, "the governor and council sat and voted with the assembly. After the division of assemblies into two houses, the governor at first generally sat either as a member of the upper house or as its presiding officer. In Massachusetts and New York, although the right was disputed, the governor appears to have taken part in the deliberations of the council. In Pennsylvania the gov- ernor was himself a species of upper house, though the council was called upon for advice, while in North and South Carolina conflict over the right of the governor to take part in the deliberations of the council occurred. When he was finally forced out of the council, the gov- ernor still exerted an influence over that body by reason of his appointment of its members. ' ' Thus it will be seen that it was step by step that the colonies established the independent prerogatives of the assembly whose members they elected, and that in most of them the election of members of the upper branch of the legislature was not secured until they began to frame their state constitu- tions. In contending for the independence of the assembly, however, the colonies went to the other extreme and by their control of the purse they had succeeded at the time of the War of Independence in reducing the powers of the governor to almost nothing. He was dependent upon the assembly for his own salary and that of his appointees, for supplies to carry on the government, and upon its vote to raise troops for the French and Indian wars. 66 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Even at the peril of the colony from Indian raids the assemblies haggled in appropriating money until the gov- ernor consented to concede to them authority that by their charters and the instructions of the crown were vested in him. They nominated civil officers in their ap- propriation bills, and, when the governor protested that these appointments belonged to him, they stubbornly refused to amend these measures. They even followed their enactments to the executive chamber to see that they were approved before they presented the regular supply bills that carried appropriations for salaries. The encroachment of the legislature upon the prerog- atives of the executive were not more clearly seen than in the conduct of military affairs. If there is any fmiction which especially requires the concentration of authority in a single head it is certainly the command of military affairs and the conduct of military operations. In the frequent French and Indian wars the urgent need of action enabled the assembly to impose upon the governor the most arduous conditions. In various colonies com- mittees of the legislature took virtual charge of military campaigns, appointing and even attempting to remove officers. In Massachusetts a committee was appointed by the General Court to consider projects for carrying on the war with instructions to report to the assembly. Another committee was named to take charge of provisions and supplies. A committee of war consisting of five members was also chosen to sit at or near Albany and to follow instructions from the General Court "for the more effec- tual carrying into execution the intended expedition against Crown Point." (Mass. Prov. Laws III 940-963.) Similar action was taken in New Hampshire, when agents were appointed in 1756 to repair to Albany and to trans- IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 67 act there any affairs relating to the expedition, following "such instructions as they received from time to time from the general assembly." (N. II. Prov. Papers VI 368-371, 506-520.) It will thus be seen why in the early state constitutions the power of the governor was so limited. Accustomed as the colonies were to encroachments by the royal gov- ernor, contending as they had for the independence of the legislature, they were suspicious of dangers to their liberties in fully clothing the executive branch of their state governments with independent authority. In New Hampshire under its first constitution, that of 1776, there was no provision for an executive. The legislature con- sisted of a house of representatives and a council of twelve members uniting the powers of legislation, ad- ministration and appointment. The election of the coun- cil or second branch of the legislature was vested in the house of representatives. It was not until eight years later, when the constitution of 1784 was ratified, that provision was made for an executive department to con- sist of a president of the state and an advisory council. Even then this co-ordinate branch of the executive depart- ment consisted of two members of the senate and three members of the house chosen by joint ballot of the legis- lature, the people not yet being ready to make the ex- ecutive entirely independent of the legislative branch. In the constitution of 1792 provision was made for electing the council by the people and the governor was given the veto power. With all their colonial experience, it took sixteen years of trial as an independent state before the people of New Hampshire secured a constitution satis- factory to themselves. Three different drafts were sub- mitted to the people before that of 1784 was ratified, and this in turn was superseded by the constitution of 1792. 68 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Without any change of its fundamental principles, this constitution of 1792 has answered our purpose for one hundred and twenty years. The present judicial system of the states and of the United States was also built upon colonial experience. The creation of courts and the appointment of judges were generally the prerogatives of the colonial governors. The authority of the governor to appoint the judges appears to have been conceded, but not so his power to establish courts and define their jurisdiction. According to Governor Thomas Pownall of Massachusetts Bay, this right of the governor to create courts was universally disputed on the ground that no court could be erected except by act of the legislature. Beginning with this contention, there was a constant struggle between the governor and the colonial assembly for the control of the judiciary. In many of the colonies the terms of the judges were fixed during good behavior, but this practice was dis- couraged and finally forbidden by the crown on the ground that life tenure made the judges too independent of the crown. The governors were, therefore, instructed to grant judicial commissions during pleasure only, and in 1761 the king notified the governors that a violation of this instruction would be a cause for their removal. To further control the judges, the assemblies insisted upon paying their salaries by annual grants, while the crown demanded permanent salaries. The judicial authority originally vested in the governor was much limited by the organization of the courts, but in most of the colonies the governor and council continued until the Revolutionary War to be the highest court of appeal within the province. Thus the governor and the council, the latter being a branch of the legislature, were IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE gg called upon to interpret the laws they had had a hand in making. In addition, these appeals to them were from decisions of judges appointed by the governor with or without the consent of his council. The absence of a court of equity within the colonies led to the practice of the legislature granting relief upon petition by resolution or order, and this power was ex- tended to the suspension of public laws. Every colony adopted so much of the common law of England as its courts thought to be applicable to the colony, and the laws passed by assemblies varied in the different provinces. The arbitrary rulings of the judges contributed to the defective administration of the law and the absence of appellate courts gave no opportunity for redress. "These general apprehensions and reason- ings upon experience," says Governor Pownall, "have led many very knowing and dispassionate men in the colonies into a conviction of the necessity of some es- tablished and constitutional court of appeal and redress, and the following measure has not only been suggested but even taken up as a matter of consideration by some of the ablest lawyers in that country, namely, the estab- lishment of a supreme court of appeal and equity, not confined to any one government, but circuiting through a certain district of governments, perhaps as follows : one to Nova Scotia and New England, one to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, one to Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. It has been imagined that this court should be established by a commission issued to two or more persons for each district, learned in the law not only of the mother country but of the several governments in its said district, that this commission should be given full powers of a court of chancery, with powers also of judging of matters of law to be brought before this 70 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS court by writ of error from the several superior courts of the district which this extended to." Here we have foreshadowed the Supreme Court of the United States as it was later provided in the federal constitution, while from their colonial experiences the builders of state constitutions saw the necessity for guard- ing in the organic law of the states the independence and the permanency of the judiciary. These constitutions provided for both trial and appellate courts. It was no longer necessary to petition the legislature for relief in equity. The executive could ai)point but he could not remove judges. During good behavior or for a definite period the judges were to serve subject only to removal by impeachment or by address of the legislature. Where the judges were elected by pojiuiar vote, they had a def- inite term of service. The courts were thus protected from the arbitrary interference of the executive on the one hand and from the coercion of popular clamor on the other. The first provision for the tenure of judges in New Hampshire is found in the constitution of 1784. This pro- vision is that, "All judicial officers * * * shall hold their offices during good behavior," and the identical language is repeated in the constitution of 1792 and continues to this day. Two methods of removal were also provided. The judges could be impeached by the house of representatives for bribery, corruption, malpractice or maladministration in office, tried by the senate and removed upon conviction, or they could be removed by the governor upon address of botli houses of the legis- lature. In the present agitation for the recall by popular vote of judges whose decisions do not conform to popular conceptions, it has not occurred to these advocates to IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE ^l examine the present method of recall provided by the earlier state constitutions. It is a fact that the New Hampshire methods of removal, both by impeachment and address by the legislature, were embodied in nearly all the constitutions of the original thirteen states and remain in nearly all of them to the present day. This recall, however, is not that of popular clamor incited by demagogues, but is a removal by representatives of the people in a deliberate assembly. The provision for removal by address of the legislature, where the cause was not sufficient ground for impeachment, has sometimes been used by partisans to secure for them- selves the full fruits of a political victory at the polls, but public sentiment has at least discouraged, if it has not entirely stopped, this practice of dragging the courts into politics. This method of removal of judges, however, still remains in the earlier state constitutions as a last resort if judges become arbitrary, even though not guilty of briber}^, corruption, malpractice or maladministration in office. In their wisdom the fathers foresaw that occa- sion might arise when it would be impossible to impeach judges for misconduct and yet their days of usefulness be over. But their own experience in the formative period of our government taught them that this power of recall would not inure to the independence of the judiciary if exercised at the hustings by appeals to the passions and prejudices of the people. Therefore, they put this power in their deliberate assemblies, firmly believing that, if the people were indifferent in the selection of suitable repre- sentatives to their legislatures, they would be equally in- different if directly called upon to pass or approve measures. It was in the midst of colonial conditions that the people began their plan of self government. Rich and varied 72 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS as had been their experiences as dependencies, where, jealous of their chartered rights, they were continually reaching out for more power, they were now to have their confidence in themselves put to a severer test in their attempts to set up independent state and national govern- ments. The menace of war had held them together under the general declarations first put forth as constitutions, but, when peace was declared and the foreign foe had been removed, they faced a more insidious enemy in the license that new bom liberty promotes. It was one thing to fight for freedom. It was quite another to endure control after freedom was won. They must now build for permanency or anarchy would follow independence. Life and property must be protected; revenue must be raised to pay debts that had been incurred by the war and to support the instrumentalities of government; courts must be established to dispense justice ; and there must be regulations for the well ordering of society, that its individuals might attain their highest usefulness. The story of this period of construction is vividly told by McMaster, Fiske and other historians, and it is the most instructive period of our history. The people were burdened by both private and public debts; they were without a currency; business had been paralyzed by the war ; the soldiers of the continental armies had been dis- charged with arrears of pay, which the Congress under the Articles of Confederation was powerless to meet, and on all sides went up cries for relief to the state governments that had been temporarily set up. Cred- itors sought payment of their debts. The people de- manded of their assemblies the issue of paper money as a stimulus of trade and stay laws to prevent the enforce- ment of executions issued by the courts. The enforce- IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 73 ment of law for the payment of debts brought many hard- ships, and the people, under the influence of misguided leaders, began to complain of the courts, the judges, the sheriffs and the lawyers as unnecessary evils. They de- manded the abolition of the courts, the limiting of the number of lawyers and the repudiation of debts. Conventions were held and resolutions passed denounc- ing both the legislatures and the courts. ]\Iobs assembled in the shire towns of Massachusetts to prevent the sitting of the courts, and Shay's Rebellion followed the efforts of the authorities to protect the judiciary. The inflamed populace marched in an armed band to Exeter, New Hampshire, to overawe the legislature then in session and to compel that body to issue a paper currency. In Rhode Island, the legislature, giving heed to the popular demand for paper money, provided for its issue and at- tempted to fortify it against depreciation by the passage of a forcing act compelling the merchants to accept this money at its face value. When it was refused in pay- ment of goods, except at a discount, a case was brought before the court. After hearing, that tribunal decided the forcing act to be unconstitutional. Immediately the legislature was reassembled and four of the judges of the court were summarily removed, or, as we would state the case at this time, recalled, because their decision was unpopular. There was no national feeling in the country. Patriot- ism was bounded by state lines. Each state regulated its trade with its neighbors and with foreign nations and discriminated against both. Vessels from Connecticut and New Jersey bound with produce for New York were obliged to enter and clear, paying duties the same as vessels from Europe. Wherever states bordered on com- mon waters there was commercial warfare between them. 74 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS There was no tribunal to settle boundary disputes, no national control and but little subordination to authority anywhere. In the five years from 1783 to 1788 the nev/- born republic was rapidly drifting towards anarchy. It was amid these conditions and with these experiences that the preliminary state constitutions were revised and strengthened and the federal constitution was born. The constructive statesmen of that day saw the neces- sity for a strong and stable government and for a funda- mental law that should be a guide to executive, legis- lative and judicial action. In this fundamental law, which they called the constitution, they laid down certain general principles and fixed certain restraints which, while enabling the majority to rule, also protected the minority in its rights. Realizing from their experience both as colonies and as states that the immediate impulse of the people is not always safe and sane and that passion and prejudice can be excited by demagogues, they provided for the deliberation of representative government, and then, as a check upon their deliberative assemblies, they provided power in their courts to decide whether legis- lation came within the provisions of their constitutions. To secure from the courts just and unbiased decisions, they guarded the independence of the .judiciary from both the interference of other departments of the government and from the menace of popular disapproval. Before their eyes were not only the contests they had made with the representatives of the crown when they were colonies but also the dangers incurred from weak state and na- tional governments in the formative period of the republic. The constructors of government in this country were familiar with English history. "The Agreement of the People" and the "Instrument of Government," docu- ments made famous by Cromwell, while containing much IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 75 that was not put into practice by the mother country, offered suggestions for the written guaranties that the people of the new workl were now to incorporate into their state and federal constitutions. By following Article XXIV of the text of the "Instrument of Government" we find the paternity of the provisions in our federal constitution and those of Massachusetts and New Hamp- shire as to "bills being signed or not signed" after a certain number of days, and we might go on little by little to discover that our American principles have proto- types in these two remarkable English documents, but differing most emphatically in the judiciary and the power of the executive. While drawing from English precedents, the builders of our organic law were not unmindful of the causes that in the mother country frequently checked the growth of representative government. There had been many breaks from the winning of the great charter at Runnymede to the establishment of parliamentary control in Great Britain. Although King John was humiliated by his nobles, and popular freedom advanced still further under his weak successor, Henry the Third, this did not prevent the acclaim of the English people for the strong rule of Edward the First, who arrogated power to himself while pleasing his subjects by humiliating the barons through the extension of parliamentary government. The Wars of the Roses with their bloodshed and disorder paved the way for a king of Henry the Seventh's despotic character and for the still more arbitrary reign of Henry the Eighth, Revolt against the tyranny of the Stuarts carried Charles the First to the scaffold and abolished the monarchy. Par- liamentary rule followed. Its incapacity made welcome the usurpation of autocratic authority by Oliver Crom- 76 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS well because it brought order out of disorder. The an- archy that followed Cromwell's death invited again the rule of the Stuarts. The story of English government was the most perfect example of the rise and fall of consti- tutional limitations. Hence the builders of constitutions in America were careful to guard against their subversion by strong and popular leaders. The legislature and the courts were to prevent encroachments upon the constitu- tions by the executive, and the deliberate processes of amendment were to secure them against sudden or violent change at the behest of some idol of the people impatient at their restraints. But their own experiences and failures were the im- portant factors in their guidance. More than a century of conflict with the crown, ending in revolution, had secured to the people of the United States the right to govern themselves, but, when faced with this problem, their colonial and early state experiences taught them that there could be tyranny of majorities as well as of individuals and that liberty could easily become license unless it conformed to established rules and regulations. The craze for paper money, the popular demand for governmental relief from conditions that followed an exhaustive war, the ready ear that was turned to remedies suggested by the visionary and the demagogue during the period of construction, all foreshadowed to the architects of our constitutions what the result would be of a govern- ment by impulse. To this experience was added the knowledge of what had overtaken the pure democracies of ancient times. It was, therefore, with settled convic- tions that the fathers laid deep the foundations for rep- resentative government an.d safeguarded its permanency by those provisions in our constitutions that are checks, IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 77 balances and restraints at one and the same time upon the intrusions of individual ambition and upon the up- heavals of collective passion and discontent. When constitutions are born of such experiences and have stood the test of all the changeable conditions of a century of growth and expansion, including a war to destroy the Union, when in all this period of time there has arisen no crisis, foreign or domestic, that we have not been able to overcome through adherence to our constitu- tional requirements, is it wise to now^ undermine the organic structure by the introduction of innovations that the builders rejected? There are no evils of the present in the body politic exceeding in their menace those of the past. The latter were eradicated by the methods prescribed in our funda- mental law. There is no short cut or royal road in the evolution of mankind. The progress of the governments of civilization has never been by leaps and bounds but by plodding persistence following repeated failures. No changes in systems of government can eliminate the human element in those who govern and those who are governed. So long as man falls short of the infinite, just so long will there be wrongs to redress and just so long will any method of rule fall short of perfection. It is not to-day the system of government that is at fault, but the indifference of individuals to the opportunities afforded them under our constitutions and laws. "When the voter as instinctively and readily performs his civic duties as he discharges his moral obligations, there wall be no doubt of the wisdom of the fathers in establishing a represent- ative government. From the colonial charter to acceptable state and federal constitutions was a period of more than a hundred and fifty years' experience in construction, witli a background of 78 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS centuries of precedent to draw from. The structure thus grounded has stood the test of more than a century of practical operation. Are the present prophets of change wiser than all the ages that we should blindly follow their lead? Are our grievances to-day so great and the con- stitutional restraints so irksome that we must needs substi- tute theory for practice? Our own history for the nine- teenth century has its warnings of the danger of yielding to impulsive demands. The burdens following the Civil "War made repudiation of public debts as popidar as a like course was in the dark days that succeeded the War of the Revolution. The free and unlimited coinage of silver at a later day had a charm that readily caught the unwary. That we did not yield to these seductive appeals was due largely to the opportunity offered for deliberation under a representative government. A system of control of our- selves, that has so effectually protected us in more than a hundred years of trial, should not be lightly set aside because the main army of the people is not moving as rapidly as its advance scouts or because the present and the future present WTongs to be redressed. List of Members, WITH Lines of Descent. [The names of former members and deceased members, with ancestral records, may be found in the volumes previously issued by the New Hampshire Society. Also in the Annual Registers of the General Society.] 42. Ball, George Oscar, Claremont, N. H. Eighth in descent from Gov. Simon Bradstreet. Ninth in descent from Gov. Thomas Dudley. 14. Bangs, Charles McClary, Cambridge, Mass. Fourth in descent from Capt. John McClary. 74. Banning, Kendall, Walpole, N. H. Eighth in descent from Capt. Joseph Sill. 101. Batchelder, Nathaniel Haywood, Keene, N. H. Eighth in descent from Lieut. John Willey. 18. Beatty, Franklin Thomason, M. D., Boston, Illass. Fourth in descent from Thomas Beatty. Seventh in descent from Gov. Jean Paul Jaquett. Sixth in descent from Capt. Andreas Bengsten. 86. Bissell, Leslie Dayton, Ph. D., Concord, N. H. Fifth in descent from Lieut. Ozias Bissell. 52. Brown, Elisha Rhodes, Dover, N. H. Eighth in descent from Rev. Chad Brown. Seventh in descent from Dep.-Gov. John Brown. Sixth tn descent from Rev. James Brown. Fifth in descent from Dep.-Gov. Elisha Brown. Tenth in descent from Col. Richard Waterman. go THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Tenth in descent from Christopher Peake. Tenth in descent from William Almy. Tenth in descent from Dr. John Greene. Ninth in descent from Dep.-Gov. John Greene. Seventh in descent from Peter Green. Ninth in descent from Gov. Roger Williams. Ninth in descent from Zachary Rhodes. Eighth in descent from John Rhodes. Seventh in descent from Maj. John Rhodes. Ninth in descent from Capt. Randall Holden. Eighth in descent from Lieut. Charles Holden. Eighth in descent from William Harris. Seventh in descent from Lieut. Andrew Harris. Eighth in descent from Rev. Obadiah Holmes. Eighth in descent from Richard Tew. 90. Brown, Harold Winthrop, Dover, N. H. Seventh in descent from Rev. Chad BroM'n. Sixth in descent from Dep.-Gen. John Brown. Fifth in descent from Rev. James Brown. Fourth in descent from Dep.-Gov. Elisha Brown. Ninth in descent from Col. Richard Waterman. Ninth in descent from Christopher Peake. Ninth in descent from William Almy. Ninth in descent from Dr. John Greene. Eighth in descent from Dep.-Gov. John Greene. Sixth in descent from Peter Green. Eighth in descent from Gov. Roger Williams. Eighth in descent from Zachary Rhodes. Seventh in descent from John Rhodes. Sixth in descent from Maj. John Rhodes. Eighth in descent from Capt. Randall Holden. Seventh in descent from Lieut. Charles Holden. Eighth in descent from William Harris. Sixth in descent from Lieut. Andrew Harris. 7^ THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Ql Seventh in descent from Rev. Obadiah Holmes. Seventh in descent from Richard Tew. Fifth in descent from Capt. Joseph Bickford. Fifth in descent from Maj. Joseph Smith. Sixth in descent from Col. Samuel Smith. Seventh in descent from Jeremiah Burnham. Eighth in descent from Lieut. George Smith. 97. Cilley, Gen. Harry Bouton, Manchester, N. H. Eighth in descent from Capt. Stephen Greenleaf, Sr. 43. Colt, James Milnor, Ph. D., Concord, N. H. Sixth in descent from John Rowland. 21. Conn, Granville Priest, M. D., Concord, N. H. Third in descent from John Conn. 67. Durrell, Rev. Jesse Murton, Tilton, N. H. Fifth in descent from Capt. Benjamin Durrell. 22. Eastman, Hon. Samuel Coffin, Concord, N. H. Fourth in descent from Capt. Ebenezer Eastman. 55. Edgerly, Edwin Lorraine, New York City. Fourth in descent from David Edgerly. 63. Pish, Charles Henry, Dover, N. H. Eighth in descent from Lieut. Timothy Tileston. 99. Fletcher, Hon. Georg^e Moore, Concord, N. H. Seventh in descent from Ensign William Fletcher. 95. Flint, Wyman Kneeland, Antrim, N. H. Ninth in descent from Capt. Matthew Fuller. 71. Folsom, William Howard, Exeter. Seventh in descent from Lieut, John Oilman. 87. Forbes, Harry Rogers, New York City, Sixth in descent from Capt. Peter Powers. 82 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 35. Foster, Joseph, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy, Retired, Portsmouth, N. H. Fourth in descent from Capt. Jeremiah Foster. Seventh in descent from Thomas Boreman. Seventh in descent from William Goodhue. Seventh in descent from George Giddinge (Gid- dings). Fourth in descent from Lieut. Daniel Giddings. Sixth in descent from John Spalding. Sixth in descent from John Jackson. Sixth in descent from Lieut. George Ingersoll. Fifth in descent from Samuel Ingersoll. Sixth in descent from Thomas Riggs. Sixth in descent from Lieut. Samuel Ingalls. Sixth in descent from Q. M. Nathaniel Rust. Sixth in descent from Q. M. Robert Kinsman. Fifth in descent from Lieut. William Butler. 85. Foster, William Kamilton, Concord, N. H. Sixth in descent from Abraham Foster. 100. Gilchrist, Donald Bean, Franklin, N. H. Sixth in descent from James Dunlap. 36. Gilchrist, Harry Wilbur, Franklin, N. H. Fifth in descent from James Dunlap. 92. Gilman, Daniel, Exeter, N. H. Sixth in descent from John Gilman. 80. Goodwin, Augustus Franklin, Boston, Mass. Eighth in descent from Gov. Robert Treat. 61. Greenleaf, Hon. Charles Henry, Profile House, N. H. Eighth in descent from Lieut. Thomas Burnham. 75. HaU, Dwight, Dover, N. H. Descended from Gov. Simon Bradstreet. IN THE ST A TE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 33 33. Hill, Rev. Howard Fremont, Concord, N. H. Fourth in descent from Abraham Hill. Fifth in descent from Thomas Adams. Ninth in descent from Thomas Fames. 98. Jones, Rev. William Northy, Williamsport, Penn. Ninth in descent from Gov. Nicholas Easton. Seventh in descent from Lieut. Job Winslow. Ninth in descent from Thomas Dustin, Jr. Ninth in descent from Samuel Watts, Sr. Eighth in descent from Kenelm Winslow. Eighth in descent from Gov. Caleb Carr. Sixth in descent from Otto Stevens, Jr. Eighth in descent from Benjamin Emerson, Jr. Ninth in descent from Capt. Peter Coffin. Ninth in descent from Edward Starbuck. Eighth in descent from John Coggeshall. Ninth in descent from Capt. Edmund Greenleaf. Eighth in descent from Lieut. Tristram Coffin, Jr. Ninth in descent from Tristram Coffin, Sr. Knowlton, John Greenleaf Whittier, M. D., Dover, N. H. Fifth in descent from Capt. James MeCobb. 122. Leighton, Col. George Bridge, IMonadnock, N. H. Sixth in descent from Capt. John Leighton. 53. Morse, Prof. Fred Winslow, Amherst, Mass. Seventh in descent from Capt. John Jacob. Seventh in descent from Daniel Gushing. 83. Pillsbury, Hon. Rosecrans William, Derry, N. H. Fifth in descent from Capt. Caleb Pillsbury. 40. Plant, Morton Freeman, New York City. Sixth in descent from John Plant. Seventh in descent from John Frisbee. Ninth in descent from Hon. Thomas Greyson. 84 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 62. Remich, Hon. Daniel Clark, Littleton, N. H. Fourth in descent from Lieut. David Remick. 58. Rollins, Hon. Frank West, Concord, N. H. Fifth in descent from Capt. Ebenezer Eastman. 47. Scales, John, Dover, N. H. Seventh in descent from Capt. John Woodman. Fifth in descent from Col. Mark Hunking. Fifth in descent from Nathan Longfellow. Sixth in descent from Ensign William Longfellow. Sixth in descent from Capt. Jacob Green. Seventh in descent from Judge Henry Green. Fifth in descent from Stephen Batchelder. Sixth in descent from Capt. Henry True. 77. Smith, Forrest Starr, Brookline, Mass. Sixth in descent from Col. Samuel Smith. 76. Smith, Hon. Joshua Ballard, Durham, N. H. Ninth in descent from Gov. John Winthrop. Ninth in descent from Gov. Thomas Dudley. Eighth in descent from Rev. Samuel Dudley. 88. Smith, Prof. Justin Harvey, Boston, Mass. Ninth in descent from Gov. William Bradford. Eighth in descent from Maj. William Bradford. 76. Smith, William Dickinson Griswold, Castleton, Vt. Eleventh in descent from Gov. John Winthrop. Tenth in descent from George Calvert. Tenth in descent from Gov. Thomas Dudley. Ninth in descent from Gov. Leonard Calvert. Ninth in descent from Gov. Edward Digges. Ninth in descent from Gov. Robert Brooke. Ninth in descent from William Collier. Ninth in descent from Capt. James Neale. Ninth in descent from Rev. Samuel Dudley. IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 85 Ninth in descent from Thomas Ford. Ninth in descent from John Gallop. Ninth in descent from Thomas Judd. Ninth in descent from Joseph Loomis. Ninth in descent from John Peabody. Ninth in descent from Gov. Roger Conant. Ninth in descent from Maj. Edward Dale. Eighth in descent from Hon. John Alden. Eighth in descent from Dep.-Gov. Henry Darnall. Eighth in descent from Dep.-Gov. "William Burgess. Eighth in descent from Dep.-Gov. William Digges. Eighth in descent from Hon. Baker Brooke. Eighth in descent from Hon. Henry Sewall. Eighth in descent from Gen. Constant Southworth. Eighth in descent from Col. Nicholas Guyther. Eighth in descent from Lieut. Ralph Hall. Eighth in descent from Lieut. Samuel Loomis. Eighth in descent from Lieut. Anthony Neale. Eighth in descent from Nathaniel Dickinson. Eighth in descent from Elder John Strong. Eighth in descent from William Beardsley. Eighth in descent from John Bronson. Eighth in descent from Edward Griswold. Eighth in descent from Thomas Joy. Eighth in descent from William Peabody. Eighth in descent from Capt. Thomas Carter, Sr. Seventh in descent from Dep.-Gov. Nicholas Sewall. Seventh in descent from Col. John Bradford. Seventh in descent from Maj. Thomas Brooke. Seventh in descent from Thomas Chesley. Seventh in descent from Lieut. Francis Griswold. Seventh in descent from Cornet Andrew Burley. Seventh in descent from Sergt. Obadiah Dickinson. Seventh in descent from Dr. Samuel Seabury. Seventh in descent from David Alden. 86 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Seventh in descent from Thomas Burnham, Seventh in descent from Michael Humphrey. Seventh in descent from Samuel Joy. Seventh in descent from Fearnot King. Seventh in descent from Gary Latham. Seventh in descent from Capt. Thomas Carter, Jr. Sixth in descent from Capt. John Smith. Sixth in descent from Samuel Griswold. Sixth in descent from Capt. Charles Ellis. Sixth in descent from Abel Bingham. Sixth in descent from Richard Burnham. Fifth in descent from Hon. Thomas IMillet. 20. Thome, John Calvin, Concord, N. H. Third in descent from Quartermaster John Thorne. 48. Tilton, George Henry, Laconia, N. H. Sixth in descent from Daniel Tilton. 57. Waterman, Rev. Lucius, Hanover, N. H. Sixth in descent from Gov. Joseph Jenckes. Seventh in descent from Asst.-Gov. Thomas Harris. Eighth in descent from Asst.-Gov. Samuel Gorton. Seventh in descent from Asst.-Gov. James Greene. Seventh in descent from John Wilkinson. Eighth in descent from Tristram Coffin. 93. Watson, Irving Allison, M. D., Concord, N. H. Fifth in descent from Jonathan "Watson. Seventh in descent from Samuel Ladd. Sixth in descent from Daniel Thurston. Fifth in descent from Sergt. Thomas Howlet. Sixth in descent from Matthew Harriman. Seventh in descent from Gov. Thomas Hinckley Seventh in descent from Gov. Edward Tyng. Eighth in descent from Edward Tyng. Sixth in descent from Ensign Moses Chase. IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 87 Ninth in descent from Capt. Edmund Greenleaf. Eighth in descent from Sergt. Thomas Hale. Eighth in descent from Sergt. John Emery. Seventh in descent from Henry Bodwell. Seventh in descent from Samuel Ward. Eighth in descent from "William Ward. Fifth in descent from Edmund Cheney. Eighth in descent from John Cheney. Eighth in descent from Robert Swan. Eighth in descent from James Chute. Sixth in descent from Sergt. Thomas Bartlett. Eighth in descent from Nicholas Noyce. Fifth in descent from Jabez Rice. Sixth in descent from Caleb Rice. Seventh in descent from Joseph Rice. Eighth in descent from Edmund Rice. Seventh in descent from Abraham Howe. Seventh in descent from John Howe, Sr. Sixth in descent from Nathan Brigham. Seventh in descent from Thomas Brigham. Seventh in descent from John Colby. Eighth in descent from John Whipple. Seventh in descent from Simon (2) Stone. Eighth in descent from Simon (1) Stone. Ninth in descent from Sergt. John Hoyt. 60. Wellman, James Albert, Manchester, N. H. Tenth in descent from Gov. William Bradford. 96. Wheeler, Giles, Concord, N. H. Fourth in descent from Daniel Wheeler. Fifth in descent from James Wheeler. 64. Whittemore, Hon. Arthur Oilman, Dover, N. H. Fifth in descent from Rev. Aaron Whittemore. 50. Williams, Capt. Jared Irving", Lancaster, N. H. Fifth in descent from Chap. Stephen Williams, D. D. Index of Ancestors and Descendants. [ancestors in small caps, descendants in italics.] Adams, Captain Thomas, 1713- 1802. French and Indian War, Cambridge Company, which returned in autumn of 1758. Hill, Howard Fremont. Alden, David, 1646-1719, Dux- bury, Plymouth Colony, Mass. Deputy, 1690. Smith, WilliaTn D. G. Alden, John, 1599-1687. Last surviving signer of the "Mayflower Compact." In Captain Miles Standish's Duxbury Company, 1643. Governor's Assistant, 1632- '40, '50, '86. Deputy, 1641- '42, '44, '49. Council of War, '46, et seq., Plymouth Colony. Acting Deputy- Governor, 1664, '77. Smith, William D. G. Almy, William, 1601-1676. As- sembly, R. I., 1656-'57-'63. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Broivn, Harold Winthrop. Barrett, Sergt. Thomas, 1600- 1665. Sergeant in the Lou- don County, Va., Guards. Watson, Irving Allison. Batchelder, Stephen, 1676- 1748, Hampton, N. H. Sol- dier in King William's War. Scales, John. Beardsley, William, 1605-1661, Stratford, Conn. Deputy to General Court, 1645, et seq. Assistant, 1651. Smith, William, D. G. Beatty, Thomas, 1700-1768. Justice of Prince George County, Maryland, 1739-'48. Justice of Frederick County, 1748-'60. Justice of Quo- rum, 1749-'60. Burgess from Frederick County, 1757-'58. Beatty, Franklin Thomason. Bengsten, Andreas, 1640-1706. Member of Pennsylvania Assembly in the years 1683, 1686, 1698. Beatty, Franklin Thomason. BicKFORD, Captain Joseph, 1696 . Captain of a company in Durham, 1754. Served in French and Indi- an War. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Bingham, Abel, 1669-1745, Windham, Conn. Deputy to General Assembly, 1721- 1724. Smith, WilliaTn D. G. Bissell,Ozias, 1729-1822. Served six years in French and In- dian War. In Lake George engagement, 1755. Taken prisoner at Havana, 1762. Bissell, Leslie Dayton. Bodwell, Henry, 1654 . Bloody Brook, in Captain Lathrop's Company, King Philip's War. Watson, Irving Allison. Boreman, Thomas, 1673, Ipswich, Mass. Represent- ative, General Court, 1636. Foster, Joseph. 90 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Bradford, Colonel John, 1726, Prince George's Coun- ty, Md. Captain, 1711. Colo- nel, 1726. Delegate to Ses- sion of 1711, Maryland As- sembly. Smith, William D. G. Bradford, Governor William, 1704. Deputy-Governor Ply- mouth Colony, 1682-'86-'89- '92. Deputy, 1657. Assistant, 1658, '68, '82. Commanded Plymouth Forces, Great Swamp Fight. Commis- sioner of the United Col- onies. Council of Massa- chusetts, 1691. Smith, Justin H. Bradford, Governor V/illiam, 1589-1651. Governor of Ply- mouth Colony, 1621, et seq. Assistant, 1634, et seq. Smith, Justin H. Wellman, James Albert. Bradstreet, Governor Simon, 1603-1697. First Secretary of Massachusetts Bay Col- ony. Assistant Commis- sioner of the United Col- onies, 1643. Deputy-Gov- ernor, 1672-1679. Governor, 1676-1686. Ball, George Oscar. Hall, Divight. Brigham, Nathan, 1671-1747, Marlborough, Mass. Was Captain of a Garrison House in Marlborough, Mass., in King Philip's War. Deputy to the General Court, 1726, '30. Watson, Irving Allison. Brigham, Thomas, 1641-1717, Marlborough, Mass. Com- manded a Garrison House, in Marlborough, Mass., in King Philip's War. Watson, Irving Allison. Bronson, John, 1600-1680. In the Pequot War. Deputy from Farmington, Colony of Connecticut, 1651, et seq. Smith, William D. G. Brooke, Hon. Baker, 1628- 1679. Member of the Coun- cil and Surveyor General of the Province of Maryland. Smith, William D. G. Brooke, Governor Robert, 1602-1665. Commissioned by Lord Baltimore as Com- mander-in-Chief of a new county in Maryland, and a member of the Council. Commander of Charles Com- pany, 1650. Appointed, 1652, by Cromwell's Com- missioners, President of the Council and Acting Gov- ernor. Smith, William D. G. Brooke. Major Thomas, 1632- 1676. Major, Maryland Forces, 1660. Served in Expedition against Indians, 1667. Member of Assembly for Calvert County, 1663- 1676. Smith, William D. G. Brown, Rev. Chad, 1650. One of the 13 signers of the compact. Providence Plantations, R. I. Broivn, Elisha Rhodes. Broivn, Harold Winthrop. Brown, Deputy-Governor Eli- sha, 1717-1802, Providence, R.I. Deputy-Governor Rhode Island, 1765-'67. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Wi^ithrop. Brown, Rev. James, 1666-1732. Providence, R. I. Deputy, 1709-'15. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 91 Brown, John, 1630-1706, Prov- idence, R. I. Governor's Assistant, Rhode Island, 1665-1666. Broivn, EUsha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Burgess, Colonel William, 1622-1686. Burgess for Anne Arundel County, Md., 1659-1660, 1669-1682. Mem- ber of Council, 1682-1686, and Deputy-Governor, 1684- 1686. Lieutenant, 1659. Cap- tain, 1661. Major, 1675. Colonel, 1676. Militia of Anne Arundel County. Commander-in-Chief, 1677, of Maryland Forces against Eastern Shore Indians. Smith, Willia7n D. G. BuRLEY, Cornet Andrew, 1657 , Ipswich, Mass. Soldier in King Philip's War. Smith, William D. G. BuRNHAM, Jeremiah, Durham, N. H. Served as a Scout in Captain James Davis' Company of Oyster River Men. Also in the French and Indian War. Brown, Harold Winthrop. BuRNHAM, Richard, 1654-1731, Hartford, Conn. Soldier in the Narragansett Expedi- tion, 1675. Sinith, William D. G. Burnham, Thomas, 1617-16S8, Hartford, Conn. Soldier in King Philip's War. Smith, William D. G. Burnham, Lieutenant Thomas, Jr., 1623-1694. Ensign and Lieutenant, Ipswich, Mass., Company Deputy, 1683- 1685. Greenleaf, Charles H. Butler, Lieutenant William, 1653-1730, Ipswich, Mass. Lieutenant in Captain Francis Wainwright's Com- pany, 1696. Foster, Joseph. Calvert, Sir George, 1580-1632, Secretary of State of Eng- land, 1619-'25. First Baron Baltimore, to whom the Province of Maryland was granted, 1632. In 1622 he was one of the 18 Council- lors of the New England County. Smith, William D. G. Calvert, Governor Leonard, 1606-1647. First Governor of Maryland, 1634-1647. Smith, William, D. G. Carr, Governor Caleb, 1624- 1695. Commissioner from Newport to General Court, 1654-'58-'59-'62. General Treasurer of the Colony, 1661-'62. Deputy from Newport, 1679-'86-'90-'91. Governor, 1695. Jones, Rev. William Northy. Carter, Captain Thomas, Jr. Captain in Virginia Militia. Commissioned by Governor Spotswood, April 7, 1711. Justice of the Peace for Lancaster County, Va., con- tinuously for 24 years. Smith, William D. G. Carter, Captain Thomas, Sr., Lancaster County Va. Cap- tain in Virginia Militia. Member of House of Bur- gesses. S^nith, William D. G. Chase, Ensign Moses, 1663 , Newbury, Mass. Cap- tain Hugh March's Com- 92 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS pany, "Snowshoe Men," Es- sex North Regiment, 1710. Watson, Irving Allison. Cheney, Edmund (5), 1719 , Newbui-y, Mass. Served as a soldier in Major Joseph Gerrish's Company in Crown Point Expeditions, 1754-5. Watson, Irving Allison. Cheney, John (3), 1666-1750, Newbury, Mass. Served as a soldier in Captain Thomas Noyes' Company of "Snow- shoe Men," North Regiment of Essex, 1710-'12. Watson, Irving Allison. Chesley, Thomas, 1644-1667, Dover, N. H. Killed by In- dians at Oyster River, No- vember 15, 1667. Smith, William D. G. Chute, James, 1613-1691, Ips- wich, Mass. A soldier in King Philip's War under Captain Jonathan Poole, and was a claimant of Nar- ragansett Township, No. 1. Watson, Irving Allison. Coffin, Captain Peter, 1631- 1715, Newbury. Deputy, Massachusetts, 1672, 1673 and 1679. Member Gov- ernor's Council, New Hamp- shire, 1692-1714. Presi- dent of Council, 1705. Coun- cillor and Governor, pro tem- pore, 1708. Lieutenant, Mas- sachusetts Militia, 1695 and 1672. Jones, Rev. William Northy. Coffin, Lieutenant Tristram, 1632-1704. Lieutenant at Newbury, 1683. Deputy, 1695-1700-'02. Colony of Massachusetts Bay. Jones, Rev. William Northy. Coffin, Tristram, 1609-1681. Commissioner at Salisbury, 1655. Chief Magistrate for Nantucket under Governor Lovelace, of New York, 1671. Waterman, Lucius. Jones, Rev. William Northy. COGGESHALL, PRESIDENT JOHN, 1591-1647, Rhode Island. President Colony and Prov- ince Plantations, 1647. Gov- ernor's Assistant, 1640- 1644. Moderator, 1647. Deputy, Massachusetts, 1634-1637. Jones, Rev. William Northy. Colby, John, 1656-1719, Ames- bury, Mass. Soldier in King Philip's War, in the Falls Fight, under Captain William Turner, 1676. In "Amesbury Training Band," 1680. Watson, Irving Allison. Collier, William, 1670. Governor's Assistant, 1634- 1665, Plymouth Colony. Commissioner to United Col- onies, 1643. Representa- tive, Member Council of War, 1642, et seq. Smith, William D. G. CoNANT, Governor Roger, 1592- 1679, Beverly, Mass. Gov- ernor, Colony at Cape Ann, 1625-1626, and Salem, 1627- 1629. Deputy, 1634. Smith, William D. G. Conn, Sergeant, John, Har- vard, Mass. Soldier in Colonel Timothy Ruggles' Regiment, summer cam- paign against Ticonderoga, 1758. Also in company of Captain Aaron Willard in campaign of 1759. In 1760 IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 93 was Sergeant of a com- pany in campaign against Crown Point. Co7in, Granville Priest. Gushing, Daniel, 1619-1700, Hingham, Mass. Delegate to General Court of Massa- chusetts, 1680, 1682, 1695. Morse, Fred Winslow. Dale, Major Edward, 1694, Lancaster County, Va. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses. Major in Vir- ginia Militia. Smith, William D. G. Darnall, Deputy - Governor Henry, 1711. Colonel of Horse. Deputy-Governor of Maryland, 1684, et seq. Smith, William D. G. Dickinson, Nathaniel, 1615- 1676, Connecticut. In Hamp- shire Guard under Captain John Pynchon, 1663, against the Indians. Deputy, 1642. Smith, William D. G. Dickinson, Sergeant Obadiah, 1641-1698. Hatfield. In Hampshire Troop, 1663. Captured by the Indians, 1677. Smith, William D. G. Digges, Governor Edward, 1621- 1675. Member of Council, 1654. Governor of Virginia, 1656-'58. Smith, William D. G. Digges, Colonel William, 1698. Member Maryland Council, 1681-'89. Deputy- Governor of Maryland, 1684. Smith, William, D. G. Dudley, Samuel, 1610-1682, Salisbury, Mass. Deputy, 1641-1645. Associate Judge at Salisbury, N. H. Lieuten- ant there under Captain John Underbill, 1631-'32. Chaplain, King Philip's War, under Winslow. Smith, Joshua D. Smith, William D. G. Dudley, Governor Thomas, 1576-1653. Second Govern- or of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1634, '40, '45, '50. Deputy-Governor, 1630, et seq. Assistant, 1635-6, '41- 4. In office continuously twenty-two years. Commis- sioner, 1643, '47, '49, for, and twice President of, the United Colonies. Major- General, 1646. Signed Char- ter of Harvard College, 1650. Ball, George Oscar. Smith, Joshua B. Smith, William D. G. DuNLAP, James. Private in Captain Alexander Mc- Nutt's Company, French and Indian War. Gilchrist, Harry Wilbur. Gilchrist, Donald Bean. DuRRELL, Captain Benjamin, 1710-1784, Arundel (Kenne- bunkport) , Me. In Cap- tain Jona,than Bean's Com- pany, Saco, 1750. Captain, Upper Company, 1775. Durrell, Jesse Murton. DusTON, Thomas. In Captain Benjamin Swett's Company, King Philip's War. Jones, Rev. William Northy. 94 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Evans, Thomas, 1618-1680, Framingham, Mass. In Pe- quot War. In King Philip's War. Hill, Howard Fremont. Eastman, Captain Ebenezer, 1689-1748. At the age of nineteen joined the Expedi- tion against Port Royal. At twenty-one commanded a Company of Infantry in the attack on Canada, in 1711, under Admiral Walker. Commander of a Company at the reduction and sur- i-ender of Louisburg, 1745. He was the first settler of Concord, N. H. He built a fort, and, in 1746, his house was a garrison for defense against the Indians. Eastman, Samuel Coffin. Rollms, Frank West. Easton, Governor Nicholas, 1593-1675. President of Rhode Island, 1650. Dep- uty-Governor, 1666, six years. Governor, 1672-'73- '74. Governor's Assistant, 1640. Deputy, 1655-1666. Jones, Rev. William Northy. Edgerly, Daniel, 1741-1785, Brentwood, N. II. Soldier, French and Indian War. Member Captain Alexander Todd's Company, 1758. Member Captain Tilton's Company, 1760. Edgeriy, Ediv'in Lorraine. Ellis, Captain Charles, 1719- 1759, Albermarle County, Va. In service on Frontier, 1755-'56. Smith, William D. G. Emerson, Benjamin, Jr., 1716 . Trooper in Captain Peter Pattee's Command, 1745. Jones, Rev. William Northy. Emery, Sergeant John, 1629- 1693, Newbury, Mass. Un- der Major Samuel Apple- ton, in Great Swamp Fight. Watson, Irving Allison. Fletcher, William, 1622-1677. Ensign in Chelmsford, Mass., Militia, Middlesex Regiment, King Philip's War. Fletcher, George Moore. Ford, Thomas, 1676, Wind- sor, Conn. Deputy, 1638, et seq. Smith, William D. G. Foster, Abraham, 1703 Reading, Mass. Private in Captain Green's Company for relief of Fort William Henry, 1757. Foster, Williain H. Foster, Captain Jeremiah, 1691-1796, Chebacco (Ips- wich) . Captain of the Sixth Company, Fifth Mas- sachusetts Regiment, in the Louisburg Expedition. Foster, Joseph. Frisbee, John, 1650-1694. Dep- uty from Branford, Conn., 1690-'92. Plant, Morton Freeman. Fuller. Captain Matthew, 1610-1678. Sergeant under Myles Standish, 1643. Lieu- tenant at Barnstable, 1652. Lieutenant, Captain Stan- dish's Expedition against Manhattoes Colony, 1654. Chairman, Council of War. IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 95 Lieutenant of the Forces against the Saconet Indi- ans, 1671. Surgeon-Gen- eral, 1673. Captain, King Philip's War. Flint, Wyman Kneeiand. Gallop (Gallup), John, 1650, Boston. In a fight with the Pequot Indians oft" Block Island, 1636, called the first naval engagement in New England waters. Smith, William D. G. GiDDiNGS, Lieutenant Daniel, 1704-1771, of Chebacco (Ips- wich). Lieutenant, Captain Jeremiah Foster's Com- pany, 5th Massachusetts Regiment, Louisburg Expe- dition. Representative, Mas- sachusetts General Court, 1758. Foster, Joseph. Giddinge, George, 1608-1676, Ipswich, Mass. Deputy to General Court of Massa- chusetts, 1641, et seq. Foster-, Joseph. Gilman, Captain John, 1624- 1708, Exeter, N. H. Lieu- tenant, 1669. Member Coun- cil Province New Hamp- shire, 1680. Assembly, 1693-1697. Speaker, 1695. Folsom, William H. Gilman, Daniel, Goodhue, William, 1613-1699, Ipswich, Mass. Deputy to the General Court, 1666, et seq., eight years. Foster, Joseph. Gorton, Samuel, 1592 - 1677. Assistant, 1649. President of Providence & Warwick, 1651-'52. Commissioner to the Narragansett Indians. Deputy, 1652-'66, Rhode Is- land. Waterman, Lucius. Green, Judge Henry, 1620- 1709, Hampton, N. H. Com- missioner for Hampton, 1689. Councilor, 1692-'97. Scales, John. Green, Captain Jacob, 1654- 1726, Hampton, N. H. Cap- tain of Hampton Militia from 1699 to 1720, and did valuable service under Ma- jor Winthrop Hilton in guarding the frontiers. Scales, Jolin. Greene, Assistant-Governor James, 16zO-16S8, Warwick, R. I. Governor's Assistant Rhode Island Colony, 1670- '71. Waterman, Lucius. Greene, John, 1597-1658. Com- missioner, Rhode Island, 1654-'57. Deputy, 1654. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Greene, Deputy - Governor John, 1620-1708. Commis- sioner to the General Court, 1652-'63. Attorney-General, 1657-'60. Assistant, 1660- '90. Colonial Agent to Eng- land, 1670. Member of Gov- ernor Andros' Council, 1686. Deputy, 1664-'80. "Major for the Main," 1696. Dep- uty - Governor, 1690 - 1700. Captain, 1676. Major, 1683. Colony of Rhode Island. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Broivn, Harold Winthrop. Greene, Peter, Warwick, R. I. Deputy, Rhode Island, 1737, et seq. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Broivn, Harold Winthrop. 96 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS Greenleap, Captain Edmund, 1600-1671, Newbury, Mass. Ensign, 1639. Lieutenant, 1642. Captain, 1645. Jones, Rev. William Northy. Watson, Irving Allison. Greenleaf, Captain Stephen, 1630-1690. Drowned dur- ing Expedition against Port Royal, 1690. Ensign, 1670. Lieutenant, 1685. alley, Harry Bouton. Greyson, Thomas, 1646, New Haven. One of the founders and the first treas- urer of the New Haven Col- ony. One of the Commis- sioners who formed a union of New England Colonies, 1643. Commissioner to Eng- land, 1646, but the ship in which he sailed was lost at sea. Plant, Morton Freeman. Griswold, Samuel, 1665-1740, Norwich, Conn. Deputy, October, 1707. Smith, William D. G. Griswold, Edward, 1607-1691, Connecticut. Built "Old Fort," Springfield. Deputy, Windsor and Killingsworth, Conn. Deputy, 1656-'63, 1667-'89. Smith, William D. G. Griswold, Lieutenant Francis, 1635-1671, Norwich, Conn. Lieutenant, Train Band, 1665-'66. Deputy, 1664-'68- '71. Smith, William D. G. Guyther, Colonel Nicholas, 1625-1680, St. Mary's Coun- ty, Md. Lieutenant, . Captain, 1652. Colonel, 1680. Sheriff of St. Mary's County, 1650, et seq. Mem- ber Lower House of Bur- gesses, 1664. Smith, William D. G. Hale, Sergeant Thomas, 1638- 1688, Nev/bury, Mass. Ser- geant of Militia, 1652-1657. Watson, Irving AUiso7i. Hall, Lieutenant Ralph, 1619- 1701, Exeter, N. H. Lieu- tenant, Dover Company, 1656. Deputy, 1680. Smith, William D. G. Harriman, Matthew, 1673- 1743, Haverhill, Mass. Served as a soldier in Lieu- tenant-Colonel Saltonstall's "Snowshoe Company," in Haverhill, Mass., 1710-1712. Watson, Irving Allison. Harris, Lieutenant Andrew, 1635-1686, Providence, R. L Deputy, Rhode Island Gen- eral Asembly, 1669, '70-'76. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Harris, Assistant - Governor Thomas, 1686, Provi- dence, R. L Governor's As- sistant, Rhode Island Col- ony, 1666-'69, 1671-'75. Lucius Waterman. Harris, William, 1610-16-31. Commissioner to Court of Commissioners, 1660-'62. Deputy, Rhode Island, 1665- '66, '72-'73. Governor's As- sistant, '66-'70, '73-'76. Gen- eral Solicitor, 1671. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Hill, Abraham, 1734-1812. Sol- dier in French and Indian War. Hill, Howard Fremont. IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 97 Hinckley, Governor Thomas, 1618-1706, Barnstable, Ply- mouth Colony. Deputy to the General Court, 1646, -48-'49, '54-'55. Assistant, 1658-'80. Commissioner for the United Colonies, 1678- '92. Deputy-Governor, 1680. Governor, 1681-'92. Coun- cillor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1686. Member of the Council un- der Andros, 1687. Commis- sioner from Plymouth Col- ony for the management of the Military Forces against King Philip, 1675-6. Pres- ent at the Great Swamp Fight. Watson, Irving Allison. HoLDEN, Lieutenant Charles, 1666-1717. Rhode Island Deputy, 1710-'16. Lieuten- ant. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. HoLDEN, Captain Randall, 1612-1692. Marshall and Corporal at Portsmouth, R. I., 1638. Assistant, 1647, et seq. Cantain, 1664. Dep- uty, 1666-'86. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Holmes, Obadiah, 1607-1682. Member Special Governor's Council, King Philip's War. Representative, Rhode Is- land, at Newport and Ports- mouth, 1656. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. How (e), John, Sr., 1687, Com- HowE, Abraham, 1695, Marlborough and Sudbury, Mass. In garrison there, King Philip's War. Watson, Irving Allison. Marlborough, Mass. manded a Garrison House at Marlborough, King PhiHp's War, 1675-'76. Watson, Irving Allison. HowLAND, John, 1592-1673. Signer of the Compact on Mayflower, 1620. In the "First Encounter," Great Meadow Creek, December 6, 1620. Assistant to Gov- ernor, 1633-'35. In com- mand of Kennebec Trading Post, 1634. Deputy to Gen- eral Court, 1641, et seq. The "beloved Pilgrim." Coit, James Milnor. HowLET, Sergeant Thomas, 1599-1678, Ipswich, Mass. Deputy to the General Court, 1635. Ensign of the Ipswich Military Company under Captain Daniel Den- nison. Third Regiment un- der Colonel John Endicott, 1636. Watson, Irving Allison. Hoyt, Sergeant John, 1610- 1696, Salisbury, Mass. Ser- geant, Salisbury Company, 1658. Watson, Irving Allison. Humphrey, Michael, 1695. In Windsor Dragoons, 1667. Deputy from Simsbury, Conn., 1670. In service at Windsor, 1675-'76. Smith, William D. G. Hunking, Colonel Mark, 1670- 1729, Portsmouth, N. H. Delegate to the General Assembly, 1693-1710. Coun- cillor, 1710-1729. Judge of Superior Court, 1712-1729. He first appeared on the Provincial Record as Colonel on August 21, 1716. Scales, John. 98 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS INGALLS, Lieutenant Samuel, 1714, Ipswich, Mass. Served under Majors Wil- lard and Appleton, King Philip's War. Lieutenant in Captain Thomas Wade's Troop,MassachusettsForces, 1691. Representative, 1690. Foster, Joseph. Ingersoll, Lieutenant George, 1618-1694, Salem, Mass., and of Casco (Falmouth) now Portland, Me. Lieu- tenant and Military Of- " ficer of Falmouth, 1668. Lieutenant, York Regiment, King Philip's War, 1675- 1676. Representative, Prov- ince of Maine, 1683-1685. Foster, Joseph. Ingersoll, Samuel, 1657-1734, Casco and Gloucester. Sol- dier in King Philip's War, 1675-1676. Foster, Joseph. Jackson, John, 1635 - 1722, Portsmouth, N. H. Soldier in King William's War, 1696. In Garrison at Oyster River, N. H., 1696. Foster, Joseph. Jacob, Captain John, 1693, Hingham, Mass. Cap- tain in King Philip's War. Commanded a Company of foot in defense of Medfield, Mass., February 21, 1677. On death of Captain John- son, succeeded to the com- mand of his Company in Narragansett Campaign. Member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- pany. Morse, Fred Winslow. Jaquett, Governor Jean Paul, Newcastle, Delaware. Gov- ernor of New Sweden, 1655- '57. Justice of Newcastle, 1676-'82. Beatty, Franklin Thomason. Jenckes, Governor Joseph, Providence, R. I., 1656-1740. Assistant Governor Rhode Island Colony, 1708-'12. Deputy-Governor, 1715-'27. Governor, 1727-'32. Watc7'nian, Lucius. Joy, Samuel, 1639-1671, Boston, Mass. Member Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- pany, 1665. Smith, William D. G. Joy, Thomas, 1611-1678, Hing- ham, Mass. Member An- cient and Honorable Artil- lery Company, 1658. Smith, William D. G. JuDD, Thomas, circ. 1608-1688, Farmington, Conn. Deputy from Hartford to General Assembly, 1646, et seq.; from Waterbury, 1662, et seq.; from Farmington, 1667, et seq. Smith, William D. G. King, Fearnot, 1655-1703, West- field, Mass. Soldier in King Philip's War. Smith, William D. G. Kinsman, Quartermaster Rob- ert, 1629 - 1712, Ipswich, Mass. Soldier in Captain Nicholas Manning's Com- pany, King Philip's War. Quartermaster, 1684, and in 1691. Imprisoned by An- dros for his prominent part IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 99 in the refusal of Ipswich to pay taxes levied without consent of the General Court, 1687. Representa- tive, 1692. Foster, Joseph. Ladd, Samuel, 1649-1698, Hav- erhill, Mass. Member of Captain John Whipple's Company, King Philip's War. Killed by Indians, February 22, 1698. Watson, Irving Allison. Latham, Cary, 1613-1685, Gro- ton. Conn. Deputy to Gen- eral Court, 1664-1670. Smith, William D. G. Leighton, Captain John, 1661- 1724. Ensign and Captain, Queen Anne's War, 1704. Deputy, Massachusetts, 1704-1717. Leighton, George B. Longfellow, Nathan, 1690- 1730, Hampton, N. H. Mem- ber of Captain Joseph Swett's Hampton Company. This company was engaged against the Indians at Saco, , 1707. Scales, John. Longfellov/, Ensign William, 1651-1690. Ensign in the Newbury Company in Sir William Phipp's expedition against Quebec, and in re- turning was shipwrecked and drowned on coast of Antecosta, October 31, 1690. Scales, John. Loomis, Joseph, 1590-1658, Windsor, Conn. Deputy, 1643-'44. Smith, William D. G. Loomis, Lieutenant Samuel, 1689, Westfield, Mass. Ensign, 1674. Lieutenant, Smith, William D. G. McCoBB, Captain James, 1710- 1792, Londonderry, N. H. Obtained men for garrison duty, 1746. Appointed to discharge muster rolls, 1748- '49. Justice of the Peace, 1771. Justice of the Supe- rior Court of Common Pleas, 1774. Knowltoyi, John Greenleaf Whittier. McClary, Captain John, 1719- 1801, Epsom. Soldier in Captain Joseph Thomas' Company of Scouts at the relief of Epsom, N. H., 1747, under orders from Governor Benning Went- worth. Subsequently Cap- tain of New Hampshire Provincial Militia. Bangs, Charles McClary. Millet, Hon. Thomas, 1689- 1761, Dover, N. H. Repre- sentative from Dover, 1731, et seq. Speaker of the' House, 1755. Judge of the Superior Court, 1740-'42. Captain. Smith, William D, G. Neale, Lieutenant Anthony 1659-1723. Lieutenant in Captain Brandt's Militia Company, Charles County, Md., 1686. Smith, William D. G. Neale, Captain James, 1615- 1684. Provincial Council, 1643, et seq. Member House 100 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS of Burgesses, 1666. Com- missioner of the Treasury. Captain, 1661, to raise troops against the Dutch. Smith, William D. G. NoYEs, Nicholas, 1614-1701. Deputy, 1660, et seq.. Col- ony of Massachusetts Bay. Watso7i, Irving Allison. Peabody, John, 1590-1667. In Duxbury Military Company, under Captain Myles Stan- dish, 1643. Smith, William D. G. Peabody, William. Pabodie (or Peabody, or Peabodie), William, 1620-1707, Dux- bury, Mass., Little Compton, R. I. In Captain Myles Standish's Company, 1643. Deputy, 1654, et seq. Smith, William D. G. Peake, Christopher, 1666, Roxbury, Mass. Member of Roxbury Military Company, 1647. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Pillsbury, Captain Caleb, 1717- 1778, Amesbury, Mass. Cap- tain, 2d Regiment, Essex County Militia, 1771. Pillsbury, Rosecrans W. Plant, John. Soldier in King Philip's War. Was one of the English Volunteers to whom the Connecticut Gen- eral Court awarded a plan- tation on petition of Lieu- tenant Thomas Leffingwell. Riant, Morton Freeman. Powers, Captain Peter, 1757. Captain of the 3d Company, Colonel Joseph Blanchard's Regiment, Crown Point Expedition, 1755. Forbes, Harry R. Remick, Lieutenant David, 1732-1793, Haverhill, Mass. Lieutenant in Captain Gid- eon Parker's Company,Colo- nel Abijah William's Regi- ment, 1759. At Louisburg, Ticonderoga and Quebec. Remich, Daniel C. Rhoades, Attorney - General John, 1658-1716. Rhode Island Deputy. Clerk of Assembly. Bro'wn, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthy-op. Rhodes, Major John, 1691- 1776, Warwick, R. I. Dep- uty, Rhode Island, 1742- 1753. Major. Broivn, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Rhodes, Zachariah, 1603-1665. Providence, R. I. Commis- sioner, 1658-'63. Deputy, 1663-'65. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Rice, Caleb, 1666-1739, Marl- borough, Mass. Deputy of the General Court, 1723-'25, '27. Watson, Irving Allison. Rice, Edmund, 1594-1663, Sud- bury, Mass. Deputy, 1640, '43, '52-'54. Watson, Irving Allison. Rice, Jabez, 1702-1783, Marl- borough, Mass. Soldier in Lieutenant Maynard's Com- pany for the relief of Fort William Henry, 1757. Watson, Irving Allison. IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 101 Rice, Joseph, 1637-1685, Marl- borough, Mass. Owned a Garrison House, King Philip's War, 1675 - 1676. Deputy, 1683. Watson, Irving Allison. RiGGS, Thomas, 1632-1722, Glou- cester, Mass. Town Clerk fifty-one years. Selectman, twenty years. Representa- tive, 1700. Foster, Joseph. Rust, Quartermaster Nathan- iel, 1639-1713, Ipswich, Mass. Quartermaster, Ex- pedition to Canada, 1690. Deputy, 1690-1691. Foster, Joseph. Seabury, Samuel, 1640-1681, Duxbury, Mass. Deputy, 1676. Ensign, 1678. Smith, William D. G. Sewall, Henry, 1620 - 1665. Principal Secretary of Maryland, 1661-1665. Dep- uty, 1661, et seq. Governor's Council, 1661. Smith, William D. G. Sewall, Deputy - Governor Nicholas, 1655-1737. Mem- ber and Secretary, Province Council, Maryland, 1686. Deputy-Governor, 1689. Ma- jor of Militia. Smith, William D. G. Sill (Syll), Captain Joseph, 1636-1696, Lyme, Conn. In King Philip's War, and Ex- peditions against Indians in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire. Banning, Kendall. Smith, Lieutenant George, Dover, N. H. Lieutenant in a Military Company in Dover, 1645. Associate Jus- tice of the County Court. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Smith, Captain John, 1669- 1744, Oyster River, Dover, N. H. Captain of Com- pany at Oyster River. Held his Garrison against the French and Indians at the Oyster River Massacre, 1694. Smith, William D. G. Smith, Major Joseph, 1724- 1765, Durham, N. H. Lieu- tenant in Colonel Oilman's Company in Expedition against Crown Point, at Seige of Louisburg, and promoted to Major. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Smith, Colonel Samuel, 1687- 1760, Durham, N. H. Royal Councillor, 1742-1760. On important committees dur- ing French and Indian War, including Committee on Louisburg Expedition. Many years in Militia, at- taining rank of Colonel. Smith, Forrest S. Brown, Harold Wurth. SOUTHWORTH, GENERAL CON- STANT, 1615-1679, Duxbury. In Pequot War, 1637. En- sign, Duxbury Company, 1646. Deputy twenty-two years. Lieutenant, 1653. Deputy-Treasurer of Ply- mouth Colony. Member Council of War, 1658. Com- missioner for United Col- onies, 1668. Commissary- General, King Philip's War. Smith, William D. G. Spalding, John, 1633-1721, Chelmsford, Mass. Served, 1676, in King Philip's War 102 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS under Captain Nicholas Manning. Foster, Joseph. Starbuck, Edward, 1604-1690, Dover, N. H., and Nantuck- et, Mass. Representative, Dover, 1643-'46. Jones, Rev. William Northy. Stevens, Otto, Jr., 1726-1759. Soldier in Captain Jacob Bayley's Company at the storming of Quebec. A fall w^hile climbing the Heights of Abraham resulted in his death. Jones, Rev. Willia7n Northy. Stone, Simon\ 1585-1665, Wa- tertown, Mass. Deputy, 1636-'56. Watson, Irving Allison. Stone, SIM0N^ 1631-1708, Wa- tertown, Mass. Deputy, 1678-'90. Watson, Irving Allison. Strong, Elder John, 1605-1699. Deputy, 1641, et seq., Ply- mouth Colony. Smith, William D. G. Swan, Robert, 1628-1698. Hav- erhill, Mass. In Great Swamp Fight, Lieutenant Benjamin Swett's Company. Watson, Irving Allison. Tew, Richard, 1673. Dep- uty, Rhode Island, 1654, et seq. Assistant, 1657. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Thorne, Quartermaster John, Kingston, N. H. Was in Captain Marston's Com- pany, of Exeter, Colonel John Goflf, and served in the Expedition to Crown Point. Enrolled September 30,1762. Thorne, John Calvin. Thurston, Daniel, 1693, Newbury, Mass. Trooper, under Captain Samuel Ap- pleton, King Philip's War. Watson, Irving Allison. TiLESTON, Lieutenant Timothy, 1637-1697, Dorchester, Mass. Deputy, 1689-'92. In Cap- tain Wadsworth's Company, under Major-General Wins- low, King Philip's War. En- sign, 1689. Lieutenant,' 1694. Fish, Charles H. TiLTON, Daniel, Hampton, N. H., 1646-1715. Representa- tive to General Assembly of New Hampshire from Hamp- ton, 1693, 1695, 1702, 1709- '14. Speaker of the Assem- bly, 1702. In charge of Gar- rison House at Hampton, and called "Ensign" on Hampton Records. Tilton, George Henry. Treat, Governor Robert, 1622- 1710, Milford, Conn. Lieu- tenant, 1654. Captain, 1661. Commanding at Great Swamp Fight. Major com- manding Connecticut Troops, Hadley and Springfield, 1673. Deputy - Governor, 1676-'82. Appointed Gov- ernor, 1683. In the en- counter with the Indians at Bloody Brook, September 18, 1675, his arrival on the scene of action with the Connecticut Forces turned the tide. Colonel, 1687. Goodwin, Augustus F. True, Captain Henry, 1645- 1735, Salisbury, Mass. Cap- IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 103 tain of Salisbury Company, 1696 to 1722. Representa- tive to General Court from Salisbury, 1689, 1695. Scales, John. Tyng, Edward, 1600-1681, Bos- ton. Deputy, General Court, 1661-1662. Assistant, 1668- 1681. Watson, Irving Allison. Tyng, Governor Edward, 1649 . Commander of Fort Loyal, 1680-1681. Member of the Council, Province of Maine, 1686. Lieutenant- Colonel and Commander of the Province of Laganeduck, 1681-1689. Governor of Nova Scotia, 1690. Watso7i, Irving Allison. Ward, Samuel, 1664-1729, Marl- borough, Mass. Soldier in King Philip's War. Deputy at the General Court, 1679- 1680. Watson, Irving Allison. Ward, William, 1597-1687, Sud- bury, Mass. In Garrison at Marlborough, October, 1675, King Philip's War. Deputy to the General Court, 1644, 1646. Watson, Irving Allison. Waterman, Richard, 1590-1673. Deputy, Rhode Island, 1655- '56-'58. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Watson, Jonathan, 1696-1777, Amesbury, Mass., and South Hampton, N. H. Soldier in Captain Samuel Wheel- wright's Company, 1724. Soldier in Captain Daniel Ladd's Company, Colonel Samuel Moore's Regiment, in Expedition against Louis- burg, 1745. Watson, Irving Allison. Watts, Samuel, Sr. A soldier in Lieutenant Benjamin Swett's Company in King Philip's War. Jones, Rev. William Northy. Wheeler, Daniel, 1736-1775. Soldier in Captain Peter Powers' Company in the French War, 1755. Wheeler, Giles. Wheeler, James, 1702 Soldier in Captain Peter Powers' Company in the French War, 1755. Wheeler, Giles. Whipple, John, 1605-1669, Ips- wich, Mass. Deputy to the General Court, 1640, et seq. Watson, Irving Allison. Whittemore, Rev. Aaron, 1711- 1767, Pembroke, N. H. Lieu- tenant in command of Gar- rison at Pembroke. Lieu- tenant in Captain Moses Foster's Company ; scout- ing, 1748. Whittemore, Arthur Gilman. Wilkinson, John, 1654-1708, Providence, R. I. Soldier in King Philip's War. Deputy to General Assembly, 1700, 1706. Waterman, Lucius. Willey, John, 1645-1722, New York, Soldier in the Nar- ragansett Campaign, King Philip's War, 1675-6. Batchelder, Nathaniel Hay- wood. 104 THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS "Williams, Governor Roger, 1599-1683. Captain, Provi- dence, R. I., King Philip's War. Governor, 1654. As- sistant, 1647. Deputy, 1667. Brown, Elisha Rhodes. Brown, Harold Winthrop. Williams, Rev. Stephen, D. D. Chaplain of General Pep- perell, Louisburg, 1745. Chaplain of Sir William Johnson, Lake Champlain, 1755. Chaplain of Gen. John Winslow, Crown Point, 1756. Williams, Jared Irving. Winslow, Lieutenant Job, 1641-1720, Freetown, Mass. Served in the fight at Swan- sea, 1675. Deputy, General Court, 1692, Charter of William and Mary. Jones, Rev. William Northy. WiNSLOVir, Kenelm, 1599-1672. Deputy to the Plymouth General Court, 1642-1653. Jones, Rev. William Northy. Winthrop, Governor John, 1587-1649. First Governor of Massachusetts Bay Col- ony, 1629, et seq. Assistant 1635 and 1641. Deputy- Governor, 1636 and 1644. Commissioner for United Colonies, 1643 and 1645. Colonel, Suffolk Regiment, 1636. Smith, Joshua B. Smith, William D. G. Woodman, Captain John. Cap- tain in charge of Wood- man's Garrison, Durham, N. H. Captain before 1690, but his commission was renewed in that year by Governor Phipps. Successfully de- fended his Garrison at the time of the Oyster River Massacre, and although he sustained several other at- tacks his Garrison was never captured. Scales, John. r LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 011 696 255 A