\ Gass_f_44L_ Book V NA -2. Vsl 7 7 ^W^ILLEY'S SEMI-CENTENNIAL BOOK OF MANCHESTER 18^6 1890 AND MANCHESTER EDITION OF THE BOOK OF NUTFIELD. Historic Sketches of that Part of New Hampshire Comprised Within the Limits of the Old Tyng Township, Nutfield, Harrytown, Derryfield, and Manchester, From the Earliest Settlements to the Present Time. BY George Franklin Willey ".lOGRAPHICAL, GENEALOGICAL, POLITICAL, ANECDOTAL ILLUSTRATED WITH FIVE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS. 1896: CJKORGE F. WILLKY, I'ulUishci^ MANCHESTER, N. H. ^ li .Ml A'/ CONTENTS. SUBJPXTS. T) ng Township . The Old Church at the Centre Parks and Commons of Manchester Christian Science in Manchester Postotifice of Manchester Suburban Postotfices . Origin of the Nutfield Colony Wedding in the Olden Time Family prayer The English Range in Nutfield Roads and Streets of Manchester Ballou- McGregor Genealogy Titulary Litigations Brown and Burpee First Congregational Church of Manchester Ur. Wallace's Letter of Resignatioi Dr. Wallace's Farewell Sernn n The Aiken Range Plain Speaking . The Hovey Family Nutfield in the Revolution . The First Road Leach Library . Our Home Jubilee Worldly Wisdom Conmiunion Seasons . Diocese of Manchester Sincerity .... Bear and the Sawmill . Records of the Province . I'^jidemic Diseases The Eternal One Graveyard Inscrijjtions Mammoth Road Domestic Animals Founders of Londonderry . Manchester Board of Trade Slavery .... First Church in Nutfield 17 ■> t 35 39 43 46 48 54 58 59 63 69 76 87 88 89 90 93 99 100 103 104 105 io6 108 108 109 1 1 i 1 12 113 114 116 117 118 I 20 123 124 134 136 'Deer, Bears, and Wolves The Eayers Range Grist Mills . Rogers Family . Rogers's Slide . At the Centennial Garrison Houses Richard .Ayer Ready Wit Indians of the Merrimack St. Paul's M. E. Church Funeral Observances of Early Sc tiers .... John McMurphy Genealogy Presbyterian Churcli, Londonderry Londonderry Tories . Bear Hunt of 1807 Three Quarter Mile Range Town Accounts . First Frame House Mrs. Jane M. Wallace One of the Quaint Entries Early Schools and Schoolmasters Pleasant View Cemetery On Holland's Map Raising the First Church . Adams Female Academy John Moore High Range and Moose Hill Thrift and Sorrow Horace Greeley's Visit Deer Keepers Old Tax Receipt A Chapter of Tragedies Manchester Town House, 1841 West Manchester in 1768 . A Relic .... The Longest Courtshi]) First Baptist Church, Mantheste The Spectacular . Making too Much Money . The First School house 148 Boiled Eggs 159 Capt. Thomas Patterson 167 John McNeil 168 Shrievalty of Hillsborough Count 168 The Earthquake Shock 184 The Principal Roads in Ti 187 First Birth in Nutfield 188 Witchcraft 188 Cadwalader Jones 189 First Baptist Church, Derry 196 Nutfield Millerites Stark at Bunker Hill . 199 Stark at Bennington 20J Stark at Home . 204 Stark's Patriotism 208 Molly Stark Cannon . 212 It Ca' No' Sp'ak the Word; 213 Isaac Dodge and the Bear 217 About Libraries . 217 Nutfield Ranges and Boundaries 218 State Industrial School 218 Robert Mark 221 Mrs. Scoby 224 Banks and Banking 226 Manchester Bank 226 Manchester Savings Bank 229 Amoskeag Bank 230 Amoskeag National Bank 233 Amoskeag Savings Bank 237 Merchants Savings Bank 240 City Bank . 240 City Savings Bank 248 Guaranty Savings Bank 249 First National Bank 252 Merrimack River Savings Bank 253 Second National Bank 256 Mechanics Savings Bank 259 The Bank of New England 260 The National Bank of the Com 262 monwealth 263 Derry field Savings Bank 266 A Drunkard's Funeral 267 268 2 7 2 273 274 27s 278 284 287 288 289 293 296 3°3 308 308 315 317 3'9 323 325 329 33° 346 347 347 347 348 348 348 348 349 349 349 35° 350 350 351 35' WILLETS BOOK OF NUTFIBLD. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES Hosley, Hun. John 176 AND PORTRAITS. Parsons, William M., M. D. 176 Dorion, Rev. Thomas A. . 180 Moulton, Hon. Mace 26 Balch, Col. Charles E. 181 Pike, Rufus H. . . . 27 Tardive], Emde H. 184 Maynard, John Hapgood . 28 Wallace, Rev. Cyrus W. . i 87, 188 Locke, Rev. Wm. S. . 29 White. Reuben . 188 Simons, Lewis 32 Hills, Rev. Charles D., D. D. 196 Clough, Hon. L. B. . 32 Thurston, James B. 197 Perkins, David P. :>?> McCrillis, John A. 198 Berry. Mrs. Mary F. . 39 Mara, William H. 198 Leete, Miss N. A. 41 Fairbanks, Henry B. . 199 Roby, Mrs. Mary A. . 41 Danforth, Mary S., M. D. . 200 Clough, Mary E. 41 Couch, Jacob S. 201 Taylor, Ernest . 41 Wadsworth, Capt. David 202 Clark, Rev. Matthew . S3. 55 Hill, Horace A. . 206 Bailey, J. Warren 55 Parker. Hon. Nathan . 21 1 Pinkerton, Elder John 55 For.-aith, Hiram 212 Adams, Ira H., M. D. 56 Wells, Charles, M. D. 218 Parkinson, Henry 56 Jones, Hon. Jacob F. . 223 Perkins, David Lane . 6r Fotsaith, Samuel C. 225 Challis, Major Timothy W. 62 Tinglof, Rev. O. G. . 227 Hazelton, Hon. George C. . 72 Fairbanks, Hon. Alfred G. . 228 Brown, George H. 87 Crawford, Hon. John G. 238 Burpee, W. E. . . . 87 Wallace, Col. A. C. . 239 Clapp, Rev. T. Eaton, D. I). 91 Plumer, John 241 Custer, Dr. Emil 92 Clark, Noah S. . 241 Campbell, Dr. William J. . 97 Kidder, Col. John S. 242 Greeley, Horace . 98 Weston, Alonzo H. 243 Mooar, J. A. . . . 99 Young, D. H. . 243 Bartlett, p;zra W. lOl Heron, William, Jr. . 244 Holland, Denis .\. 102 Wakefield, George L., M. D. 245 Leach, David R. 106 Kimball, Frank P. 247 SuUoway, Hon. Cyrus A. 107 McDonnell, B. F. 247 Clark, William Parker 108 Brien, Augustus .\. E., M. D. 248 Bradley, Rt. Rev. Denis M. 109 Mor.se, William T. 251 Seavey, George E. 1 10 Wallace, Fred L. 256 Baker, Wm. G. . 1 1 2 Cheney, Hon. Person C. 257 Baker, Rev. O. S. 113 Kriggs, Hon. James F. 258 'Joodwin, Henry 114 Dodge, Clarence M., M. D. 259 Currier, Hon. Moody IIS McAllester, Rev. W. C. 260 Clarke, Hon. Wm. C. 119 Elliott, W. H. . . . 262 Bartlett, Hon. Chas. H. 121 Gay, Hon. Alpheus 263 Knowlton, Hon. E. J. 122 Ray, Hon. John C. 264 Hayes, Chas. C. 126 Branch, Hon. Oliver E. 26.S P^astman, Herbert W. 127 Baldwin, Edwin T. 266 Weston, Hon. James A. 12S Temple, Charles W. . 26S Blair, Hon. Henry W. 132 Elliott, Alonzo . 269 McDohald, Rev. William . 145 Gay, R. D. ... 270 Brown, Dr. Wm. Whitter . 148 Carvelle, Henry DeWolfe, M. D. 271 Clarke, Col. John B. . 153 Healy, Col. Daniel F"., and Man Clarke, Col. Arthur E. 157 Chester Deputies 273 Boyd, Alfred 164 McMur[)hy, Alexander 274 Reid, Gen. George 165 Guillet, Noel E., M. D. 27s Wheeler, H. S. . 166 Hale, Arthur H. 276 Rogers, Major Robert 16S Perkins, Wm. 276 Smyth, Hon. Frederick 171 Whittemore, Israel 277 Buck, William D., M. D. 172 Barton, Otis 278 Ferguson, John, M. D. Clark, Samuel Johnson, Edward P. . Nichols, Rev. J. H. . Pillsbury, Ro.secrans W. Fradd, Hon. Horatio Sullivan, Roger G. Herrick, Henry W. Lessard, Rev. Amedee Eaton, Francis B. Baldwin, James . Africa, Walter G. Goodwin, Daniel White, Joseph Lane, Col. George W. Floyd, Charles M. Poor, Wm. M. . Patterson, John D. Kimball, Jason J. Clapp, Allen N. Watts, Horace P. Colburn, Zaccheus Hardy, George H. Johnson, Nathan Colburn, Charles H. . Burnham, Hon. Henry E. Crossett, Elder Charles R., J O'Dowd, Michael Harrington, Patrick Kerwin, John F. Anderson, Carl W. Daniels, Joel Tracy, Alfred Burnham, Edward J. Browne, George Wald Fife, John Doe . Fife, Mary Dorothy McAllister, George Isaac French, AVi'liam Pattee, Dr. Luther Downs, Mrs. Clara L. Daniels, Harriet Eliza Gray, Mary E. . Bragg, Rev. L. D. French, Isabella W. French, Josephine W. Shilvock, Walter H. Herrick, Allan E. Soule, Henry D. Dorion, E. C. E. Cox, I. N. . Potter, John Morrill, Edward P. Quimby, Harry M. Butterfield, William M Lawson, H. J. Cavanaugh Brothers Rogers, John WILLS T'S BOOK OF NUTFJELD. II OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS. Union Refugees . 14 Football .... 14 Checkers up at the Farm 14 Henry Ward Beecher . 14 " Is it so Nominated in the Bond ?" >5 Plan of Tyng Township 18 A Tyng Township Plan 20 Concord Street, Manchester, 1885 25 Merrimack Common, from top of Pembroke Block 35 Plan of Derryfield Park 36 Plan of Stark Park 37 South Main Street Bridge . 38 Birthplace of Horace Greeley Amherst, N. H. 41 Clerks at Manchester Postofifice . 42 Postoffice, Manchester 42 Daniel W. Lane 13 Joseph L. Stevens 44 John R. Willis .... 44 Josiah G. Dearborn 4.S Joel Taylor .... 45 Officials in Manchester Postoffice 46 Carriers at Manchester Postoffice 47 Londonderry, Ireland, from the North 49 Londonderry, Ireland, from the South 49 Walker's Monument, London- derry, Ireland 50 Ship Quay Street 50 The Diamond .... 5t Enniskillen .... 51 I'he First Sermon in Nutfield 52 George W. Kimball's Residence, North I>ondonderry 54 Charles McAllister's Residence, Londonderry 55 Dr. Adams's Residence, Derry Depot 56 W. P. Mack's Residence, London- derry ..... 58 Map of the English Range in Nutfield .... 60 Beaver Pond, or Tsienneto Lake, Derry 61 McGregor Coat of Arms 70 First Framed House in Nutfield . 71 Gun used by Rev. James Mc- gregor 71 Crystal Avenue, Derry Depot, '94 77 Lincoln ..... 80 The Charity Patient . 81 "Why don't )ou speak for your- self, John ?" .... 81 Home of John Rogers, New Ca- naan, Conn. .... Taking the Oath and Drawing Rations ..... Broadway, Derry Depot, looking East, 1894 .... Broadway, Derry Dejjot, looking West, 1894 .... Birch Street, Derry Depot, 1894 . First Congregational Churcl\ erected 1839 .... Map of the Aikens Range . The Crispeen House, Londonderry Residence of Bishop Bradley Mount St. Mary's Academy St. Patrick's Orphanage for Girls St. Joseph's Orphanage for Bo)s St. Joseph's Cathedral George E. Seavey's Residence Home of Mrs. Mary J. Tenney, Gen. Stark's Granddaughter City Hall, Manchester Government Building, Manchester The Weston Residence View of Manchester, looking East from the Top of the Ken- nard Rev. Edward L. Parker View of Derry Village Main Street, East Derry, Winter Scene ..... Kennard Building, Manchester . Mrs. Mary J. Tenney, Gen. Stark's Granddaughter City Library, Manchester . Clark &: Kimball Flats, Chestnut Street Col. Arthur E. Clarke's Residence Map of the Layers Range Potato Field, Derry Henry S. Wheeler's House, Derry Rogers's Slide, Lake George The Waterman Place, East Derry Amoskeag Falls .... Merrimack River, below Amos- keag Falls • . . . Police Station, Manchester . Presbyterian Church, London- derry ■ . . . . County Jail, Manchester Map of the Three Quarter Mile Range ..... Mrs. Betsy (Coburn) Annis Mrs. Sarah (Coburn) Morrison . Elm Street, Manchester, looking South • • . . . McGregor Bridge, Manchester . 81 84 85 86 89 94 96 104 104 104 104 1 10 III 117 120 127 128 '35 137 139 141 143 MS 147 154 158 160 162 166 .69 170 190 192 194 205 206 214 215 215 216 222 Lowell Street, 1885 Proposed Swedish Mission Church Soldiers' Monument, Manchester . Map of portion of the High Range and Moose Hill Schoolhouse in District No i, Londonderry .... Court House, Manchester . Col. .\. C. Wallace and Lumber- men ..... Weston Terrace, corner Lowell and Chestnut Streets Old Ta.x Receipt Elm Street, looking North Old Town House, Manchester Location of Old Ferries and Highways of West Manchester in 1768 ..... Ladies' Parlor, I. O. O. F. Hall, Derry Depot .... Landing of the Norsemen . Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman .... Second Framed House in Nutfield Grave of General Stark The Returned Volunteer Roger G. Sullivan's Residence . First Baptist Church and Parson- age, Derry Depot R. W. Pillsbury's Residence, Lon- donderry .... Plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill Stark at Bunker Hill . Stark at Bennington . Bennington Battle Ground and Vicinity ..... Old Constitution House, Windsor, Vt First Meeting-house in Vermont . Bennington Battle Monument Stark Running the Gauntlet Catamount Tavern, Bennington, Vt Home of Elizabeth B. Stark, Man- chester ..... Hessian Soldiers . . ... Home of Gen. Stark, Manchester John Stark .... Equestrian Statue of Stark . Stark's Birthplace, Derry Statuette of Stark The Molly Stark Cannon . Eim Street, Manchester, next day after the Big Storm, March 12, 1 888 Map of the Nutfield Ranges and Boundaries .... 226 227 23c 230 236 237 239 246 248 250 252 254 255 280 281 281 281 281 286 291 294 295 296 297 297 298 299 300 300 301 302 304 305 306 307 3°7 308 321 324 WILLE7''S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. State Industrial School, Manchester 325 C. M. Floyd's Clothing Store, Manchester .... 326 The Patterson Homestead, Lon- donderry . . . .329 Store of Cushman & Hardy Com- pany 335 Manchester Board of Trade Offi- cers ..... Rev. Francis S. Bacon Carl W. Anderson's Jewelry Store Patrick Harrington's Residence, Manchester .... Harrington Building, Manchester New City Hotel .... 344 340 Fred Cotton .... 344 341 Willey's Historic Chamber . 370 34' Rip Van Winkle at Home . 372 " Fighting Bob " 372 343 Rip Van Winkle and the Gnome 372 343 Rip Van Winkle returned . 372 i:nion rkkugkks. In Mandiester Art Gallery. ■■ ^^L '*' *- '" "^"^^^^^^^^^^^l ^H w % m ^L ^ r FOOTBALL. Ill Manchester Art Gallery. ^■■^d Pp^^ i 1^ j CHECKERS UP AT THE FARM. In Manchester Art Gallery. HENRY WARD BEECHER. In Mandiester Art Gallery. "is ir so NOMINATED IN THE IJOND ? '" 111 Manchester Art Gallery. TYNG TOWNSHIP. EVEN at this not very distant day few compre- hend the difficulties encountered by the early settlers of the Merrimack valley in securing grants for their- townships, and the efforts it often re- quired to carry out the conditions of those con- veyances. The boundary between the provinces of Massachusetts and New Hampshire was a disputed line. This difference had arisen largely from a misconception at the outset of the course followed by the river, it being the current belief that the Merrimack rose in the west and flowed due east its entire length as it does from Dracut to its mouth. Another source of trouble arose from the slack methods of survey. It was the rule rather than the exception for the surveyor " to carry one for every ten rods," which alone, coupled with indifferent measurement, could but cause mistakes and misunderstandings, as the surveys always called for more land than could be held. Another cause of annoyance to the inhabi- tants of New Hampshire was the grasping policy of the Puritans of the lower colony. These last claimed at one time by their charter a strip of New Hampshire territory three miles wide following the east bank of the Merrimack as far as three miles north of the outlet of Lake Winnipesauke. Owing to the value of its fisheries the country about Namaske Falls, as Amoskeag was then called, and that bordering upon the banks of the Merrimack for several miles below, was always eagerly sought for by the early settlers, as it had been by the Indians before them. So it was claimed and counter-claimed, but never properly granted to any one, if we except the title given to him who was its rightful owner, and who had known it as the heart of his wildwood empire at the zenith of his reia:n over the Pennacooks and allied tribes of red men. In 1662 Passaconnaway petitioned to the general court of Massachusetts for a grant of land along the Merrimack for him- self and people, the following being a copy of the document that is still sacredly preserved in the archives of that state : To tlie hon"' John Kndicot Esq' Gov"": together with the rest of the hon"' Generall court now assembled in Boston. the petition of Papisseconnewa in the behalfe of him selfe, as also of many otlier indians who were for a longe time tliemselves and their progenitors seated ii|]on a tract of land named Noticot, and is now in the possession of Mr. William Brenton of Rode Hand marchante ; and is now confirmed to the said Mr. Brenton to him his heirs & assigns according to the lav\es of this Juris- diction, by reason of which tract of land being taken as afore- saide, & throwing your poor ])etitioner with many others in an unsettled condition, & must be forced in a short time to remove to sum other place, the humble request of y' poor petitioner is that this hon"' Court would please to grant unto us a ]3arcel of land for our comfortable situation, to be stated for our enjoyment, as also for the comfort of these after us: as also that this hon"' court would please to take into your serious and l)ious consideration the condition and also the request of your poor suijpliantes, & to appoint two or three persons as a com- mittee to assist the same sum one or two indians to view & determine on some place and to lay out y" same. Not further to trouble this hon"' assembly, humby craving an expected answer this present session, I shall still remain y' Humble Ser- vante whom y*^ shall comande. Papisseconewa. Boston : 9 : 3 mo. 1662. In ans' to this petition the magistrates' judge meele to Graunt unto Papisseconeway and his men or Associates about Natticott above Mr. Brentons land where it is free a mile & a halfe on either side Merrimack river in breadth & 3 miles on either side in length provided he nor they doe not alienate any part of this Graunt without leave and license from this court first obtained if their brethren the deputys consent hereto. 9 may, 1662. Edward Rawson. consented to by the ilei)utyes. William Torrev, clerc. 17 i8 WJLLErs BO OK OF NU7FIEL D. According to the order of the Hon"' Generall Court, ther is laid-out unto the Indians, papisseconeway & his associates, the inhabitance of Naticott, three miles square, or so much (rather) as contains it in the figure of a rhomboide, upon merrimack riv', beginning at the head of Mr. Brintons land at Naticott, on the east side of the riv', & then it joyneth to his line, which lines runnes halfe against North-ward of the East, it lyeth one mile & halfe wide on each side of y" Riv', and some what better, and runnes three miles up the Riv' : the Northern line on the East side of the Riv' is bounded by a brook (called by y" Indians) Suskayquetuck, right against the falls in the riv' Pokechuous. the end lines on both sides of the riv' are paralelle ; the side line on the east side of the riv' runnes halfe a point eastward of the No : No : east, and the side line on the west side of the riv' runnes Northeast and by North, all which is sufficiently bounded and marked with, also ther is two smale islands in the Riv', part of which, the lower end line cutts crosse, one of which Papisseconeway have lived upon & planted a long time & a smale patch of intervaile land, on the west side of the Riv', anent and a little below y Islands, by estemation about forty made to one whose people had held it as their fishing and planting ground for unnumbered years ! Naticott being one of the forms of the Indian name for that land now embraced in Litchfield, the southern boundary of this grant was near the northern line of that town at the present day, and extended three miles up the river. There is no record to show that it was of little if any benefit to the aged sachem. Finding that no satisfactory settlement rela- tive to the line between the provinces could be reached, New Hampshire began to grant territory, portions of which were claimed by Massachusetts, among such grants being those of Bow and Can- terbury in 1727. That very year Major Ephraim Hildreth, Captain John Shepley, and others, who had been soldiers under Capt. William Tyng of U<,^,«s«.'^ accres, which joyneth to their land and to Sauhegon Riv', wliich the Indians have planted (much of it) a long time, & considering there is very little good land in that which is Now laid out unto tliem, the Indians do earnestly request this Hon"' Court to grant these two smale islands & y" patch of intervaile, as it is bounded by y"' Hills. This land was laid out 27. 3 mo. 1663. By John Parks & Jonathan Danforth, Surveyors. This was done by us and at our ch''-"= wholly, at the request of the indians. It was important, and as we are informed by the order of this Hon"' Court, respecting ourselves, hence we humbly request this Hon"' Generall court (if our services be acceptable) that they should take order we may be compensted for the same. So shall we remain your humble servants as Before. The expense bill of the surveyors, amounting to nearly eleven pounds, was allowed, and there closes the record of the first grant of land made in what is now the territory of Manchester, and Scile o^ isOTodij loc-^lixc^ Dunstable, and who, as their petition showed, had "in the year 1703, raised a company of volunteers in the winter season to go in quest of the Indian Enemy, and had performed a difficult march on show shoes as far as Winnipissioke Lake and killed six of the Enemy," asked of the Massachu- setts legislature a grant of land known as Harry- town for the benefit of these soldiers or their heirs. This petition was ignored, but another dated Dec. 13, 1734, received a favorable response, as follows: In the House of Representative, December 13, 1734. Read and Ordered that the P'"' have Leave by a Surveyor and Chainmen on Oath to Survey and lay out between the Township of Litchfield and Suncook or Lovewell's Towne, on the east side of Merrimack River (A) the quantity of six miles square of land. Exclusive of Robert Rand's grant, and the three farms pitched upon by the Honr'ble Sam'l Thaxter, J no. Turner, WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 19 and Will"' Dudley, Esqr., to satisfie their grants and also exclu- sive of Two hundred acres of Land at the most Convenient place at Namaskeeg Falls, which is hereby Reserved for jjublick use and benefit of the Inhabitants of the province, for Taking and curing Fish There, and that they return a plat thereof to this Court within twelve months, for Confirmation to the Pts and Their associates, their heirs and assigns Respectively. Provided the Grantees do settle the above Said Tract with Sixty Families, within Four \ears from the Confirmation of the Plat, each family to have an house of Eighteen feet s(|uare and Seven feet stud at y'-" least and four acres brought to & Plowed or Stocked with English Grass, & fitted for mowing, and also to Lay out three Lots with the others, one for the first Minister, one for the Ministry, and one for the School, and within said term Settle a Learned orthodox Minister and Build a convenient House for the public Worship of God, and whereas Divers of y" Persons for whose merit this Grant is made are Deceased, it is further ordered the Grant shall be and belong to Some of his male Descendants wherein Preference shall be given to the eldest Son (B) and Further it is Ordered that those persons shares in this grant shall revert to the province who shall not perform the condition of s'' Grant as above. Sent up for concurrence, J. QuiNCY, Speaker. In Council, Dec. 14"' 1734. Read & Non concurred. J. Willard, Sec'y. In Council April 17"' 1735, Read & Reconsidered, and Concurred with the amendments (A) To Extend three miles Eastward from the said River conformable to the Settlement of the Divisional Line between this province & the province of New Hampshire, made by order of King Charls the Second in Council in the twenty-ninth Year of his Reign, Anno Dom. 1677. (Bj To be admitted by a Committee of this Court who shall take care that Bonds be given for their Respective per- formance of the Condition of this Grant to the Treasurer of y"^ Province, to the Vallue of Twenty Pounds at Least by each Grantee, as well as by such as personally appear by those Who are the Descendants as above said, who may appear by their Guardian or next Friend, & ordered that Will'" Dudley, Esq., with such others as shall be joyn'd by the Hon'ble House of Representative be the Com'""" for the purposes within mentioned. Sent Down for concurrence. J. Wli,LARD, Sec'y. in the House of Representatives Ajjril 17, 1735. Read & Concurred, & Col Prescott, & Cajit. Thomson are Joyned in the aflair. J. (^uiNCY, Sjieaker. 18"', Consented to J. Belcher. A true copy PLxamined pr, Thau Mason. Captain Joseph Blanchard of Dunstable made the survey, and the court acting favorably upon his return, the cfrant was closed. The new township was named in honor of Ca]itain Tyng, and it will be seen that it embraced much of the territory included in the grant made to Passacon- naway nearly three fourths of a century before. Among the records of the new township we find the following interesting proceedings : Notification is hereby given to the grantees of the tract of land between Suncook and Litchfield on the east side of Merri- mack river that thay assemble at the house of Coll. lonas Clark of Chelmsford on the 20"' of May Next by ten o'clock forenoon in Order that thay make out their title thereto and that thay were in the march under the late Capt. Tyng and come prejiared to Enter into Bond to fullfill the terms of the Grant accordingly. Wm. Dudley by Order of ye Com"". Fourteen days before the day of the meeting above men- tioned whereof fail not and have you this warrant w"' during therein. At the meeting abouerd Given under my hand and Seal. At Groton in P' County the Twenty fifth day of April in the eaight year of his Majesties Reign. Anno Dom. 1735. Benjm Precott Justice of peace. Mid' SS May the 20'", 1735. Pursuant to the within written warrant I the Subscriber have Notified and warned the grantees and prop' within mentioned to meet at the time and place As was therein Directed. Att^ John Shepley. At a meeting of the Grantees and Prop" of a tract of Land Granted for a township to the Souldiers under the Command of the Late Cap W'" Tyng Dec'^' Joyning to the easterly Side mer- rimack River Between Litchfield and Suncook or Levels town (so called) at the house of Coll" Jonas Clark in Chelmsford on the 20"' day of May 1735. Then Voted to chose Joseph Blanchard Prop'" Clerk. Then the following List was Del"' to the Clerk of the Coll" Courts Com'"''^^ viz., the Honr''' Coll" W"" Dudley Benj ' Prescott, Esq., & Cap' Benj" Thompson w'^'' is as Followeth A List of the Soulders that went out under the Command of Cap' \V'" Tyng to Winepiscoebeag the year t 703 Admitted. John Shejtley Joseph Parker Richard Warner Nathaniel Woods Joseph Blanchard John Cumings Thomas Lund William Whitney John Longley Joseph Perham Joseph Butterfield John Spalding John Spalding Jun' Sam' Spalding Henry Sjialding William Longley Eben Spalding Sam' Davis Joseph Lakin Nath' Blood John Holdin Jonathan Page Nathaniel Butterfield Jonathan Butterfield John Hunt Jona"' Hill Jonathan Parker Thomas G. Talbird Peter Talbird Stephen Keyes IVIL LET'S BOOK OF NUFFIELD. Thomas Cumings Eleazer Parker Tho>- Tarble James Blanchard Joseph Guilson Sam' Woods Sam' Chamberlain Timothy Spalding Benony Perham : Sam' Josiah Richardson Jonathan Richardson Henry Farwell John Richardson Ephraim Hildreth Stephen Pierce Paul Fletcher The above Named persons were all admitted and gave Bond (Except William Whitney) into the grant made to the Com- pany under Ca|i' \^■illiam Tyng the 20'" and 25"' of may 1735 The records then show that several meetings were held at Westford, Mass., to consider the matter of making a survey of the territory into lots for the grantees. There were to be sixty- three shares of four lots each, " besides y" Meadow lotts wh''' most needed the same and Had well marked Bounded and Numbered the Same and also a Lott of the contents of one hundred and Seventeen acres on the Brook Called Little Cohass Brook in the Second Range of Lotts & of plans for the Mill Lott Wh^'' is not Completed amongst the rest a plan and table whereof was Exhibited to the Prop" and also had run and marked with Care the east line of the township so as to keep Exact three miles and no more from each and every part of Merrimack River. " Which was voted to be accepted." The expense of this survey to each grantee was ^9-i4s-3d, which several amounts were to be deducted from the sum to be paid by them for the grant. Then voted that the Lotts be jnit into one hatt and the names of the Prop'* into another. And that M' Thomas Kidder & M' Sampson Spalding be desired to draw them one to Draw the Names and the other to Draw the Lott and as thay are Successively drawn the Clerk enter the Same to Such prop"' as are so Drawn. When this had been done and the settlers came to take possession, many of them were dis- satisfied with the land which had fallen to their credit. An area of 1680 acres was fuuntl unlit for profitable cultivation and accordingly a request was made for a grant of other land to that extent. This appeal was not made in vain, for on Aug. 2, 1736, it was "Also voted that Messrs. Benjamin Parker and John Colburn be Directed and Desired with a Surveyor and Chainmen to Lay out the best piece of y" unappropriated Lands of the Province to Satisfy the Grant of 16S0 acres made to this Prop">' thay can find with all Convenient Speed and make return thereof at next Prop" Meeting." At a Proprietors' meeting held in Groton Tuesday, March 28, 1738, the following report was submitted and allowed : Benj. Parker From the Com'" appointed to lay out y° 16S0 acre grant reported that thay had attended that Service & that a plan thereof was Returned to the Gen" Court and accepted and Layd an Account of his Expenses before the Society as Followeth. Nov. 22, 1736. Prop' Dr. for Service running round and taking a plan of 16S0 acres of Land Joying to Piskatoquage River. _;^22-i2S. Joseph Blanchard, Prop. Clerk. It is thus conclusively shown that the Tyng township grant was made to include a tract of land on the west side of the Merrimack river, located according to the plan here given and described in the archives of Massachusetts, as follows : I The Subscriber Together with JdhTi Culliurne & Benjamin Parker as Chainmen have Layd out to the Prop" of Tyngs Township, so Called, or y" grantees of a Tract of Land Between Litchfield and Suncook on y'-' Easterly Side Merrimack River, A Tract of Land Adjoyning to Piscatquag River Containing on Thousand Six Hundred An Sixty Eight Acres Butted and Bounded as by the figure herewith wh"^'" is plan'd by a Scale of one hundred And Sixty perch to an Inch, with a Small Island Containing Twelve Acres Lying in Merrimack River Between Crosby's Brook and Short falls so Called wh''' is in Pursuance of a grant of one thousand Six hundred and Eighty Acres made to S'' Prop'" Sam'l Cummings Surv' October 10''' 1736 — WILLErS BOOK OF NUT-FIELD. Such writers as have mentioned this addition of 1680 acres to the grant of Tyng township have said that it was done to make up a lack of territory as described in the original hounds. The town- ship records, however, which it has been our good fortune to consult, and which we have good reasons to believe that the others had not seen, say that it was asked for on account of the poor quality of a portion of the land, which is spoken of as " too mean for anything ! " The returns made might be construed to indicate a shortage in measurement, but the above appears to be the true cause of complaint. The barrenness of much of the land along the banks of the Merrimack was well known, and Harrytown is claimed to have received its name from the current expression applied to those who had the courage to settle there : " He's gone to the Old Harry ! " An old writer, little dreaming of its future, described it as " a horrid waste of sand which must forever be shunned by man." Assuming that Massachusetts had the power to maintain her jurisdiction over this grant, the grantees had no easy matter to meet their part of the conditions, and it is interesting to study the thrift with which this was attempted. Judge Potter says in his " History of Manchester " that " it is possible that Major Hildreth and others of the grantees were already located upon the granted premises." Certain ones of them did settle about the mouth of Cohas brook, but there is nothing in the records to show that the Major was with the rest. Calculations were at once made to build a sawmill a little above where the Harvey mill has since stood, it being the first mdl raised within the bounds of the future city of manufactures. But this mill was five years in building ! Considering the number of families already settled within the limits of the grant, in this case counting the Scotch-Irish, it was not deemed a doubtful matter to get the required sixty. Neither was it a serious undertaking, with the lumber growing almost on the spot, to construct the log houses of the required size. The cultivation of the four acres within the prescribed time was not so easily done, though there is no reason to believe the Puritan settlers of Tyng township failed to perform this part of their costlv contract. But the o-reat difti- culty came when the matter of building a meeting- house could be no longer postponed. We find in the records under date of Jan. i, 1739, the fourth year of their occupancy of the grant, that it was — Voted to Build a Meeting house in .Said Township of the Following dimensions viz' Forty two feet Long and thirty feet wide twenty feet between Joynts and that the meeting house frame be raised at or before the Last day of August next and that the roof be boarded shingled Weather boards put on the boarding Round well Chamfered the necessary Doors made and Hung and Double floor layd below with all Convenient Sjieed after the s'' l''raim is up so that it be thus finished by the first of Dec. next and that Eleazer Tyng and Benj'^ Thompson and Ca|5tain Jonathan Brewer or any two of them be a Com''" fully emjiowered in behalf of this Porp'" to Lett out the S' work. It can be readily understood that this was an anxious period to the grantees of Tyng township. The Scotch-Irish settlers, whom they had counted to get the required number of families, gave them no assistance nor shared their forebodings. The grant on the West side of the Merrimack river known as Narraganset No. Five, now Bed- ford, had been settled mostly by their kindred people, and it was natural they should assimilate with them both in social and religious matters. Though there had been no long discussion relative to the location of the proposed meeting-house, it was not built as quickly as expected. The time which had been set to have it raised passed, and at a meeting in the following September it was voted the " Com'^^ for Building the meeting house be directed to see that it be raised and inclosed according to the former Vote Respecting the Same At or before the Last day of June next.' Other actions taken by the township show that the failure of the contractor to carry out his agreement was not due to any fault of his, but from a failure to build the sawmill, from which he was expected to get his lumber, as soon as had been expected. Thus we find that the building of the house was allowed to be postponed until finally the contractor was given till Nov. i, 1741. It is interesting to note that in the bill allowed for the expense of raising the meeting-house we find it headed with the item: "To Joseph Blanchard for Rum and Provision ^2-i5s-3d." With this account the records of Tyng township end abruptly. WJLLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. While these troubles at home were occupying the attention of the inhabitants of Tyng township, Maj. Hildreth's colony was threatened with a blow from the head of their government which would not only rob them of their town rights, but place them in the unenviable position of being intruders them- selves among those whom they had been wont to consider interlopers and had never hesitated to contravene at every opportunity. The settlement of the line between the provinces of New Hamp- shire and Massachusetts was approaching an end, and March 5, i 740, the long and perplexing con- troversy was closed by a decision that the latter province should extend three miles north of the Merrimack river, following a similar course, "beginning at the Atlantic ocean and ending at a point due north of Pawtucket falls, and a straight line drawn from thence due west till it meets with his Majesty's other governments." This left the grant of Tyng township, with twenty-seven others, within the limits of New Hampshire, and of course deprived of the powers which had cost them so much and for which they had worked so hard. The grant itself had cost them over $40,000. With commendable courage the Puritan inhabitants of Tyng township tried to finish its meeting-house and settle "a learned or orthodox" minister, to find the last the crowning difficulty. Under the mistaken belief that they could secure assistance from their Presbyterian neighbors a little farther north and east, they had located their meeting-house upon the eastern limits of their settlement. The sturdy Scots, however, had not forgotten the distrust and opposition they had met from the first, and the word " usurper " still rankled in their breasts. This, coupled with their natural dislike of the others' relimous methods, afforded them ample excuse to hold aloof from the church of their rivals. The grantees of Tyng township saw, when it was too late, that they had built their church too far on one side for the benefit of their own people, which with the scarcity of money made it impossible for them to raise the funds for a regular preacher. They did the best they could by having occasional preaching, until their anxiety was changed into another course by the destruction of their meeting- house by a forest fire. The buildinij stood near "Chester corner" upon land belonging to the homestead of James Weston. The outlines of some of the sunken mounds in the old graveyard are still to be seen, though a heavy growth long since covered the sacred precinct. The road from Londonderry to Amoskeag mentioned elsewhere passed a short distance to the northeast. As if the grantees of Tyng township had not met with obstacles and reverses enough to dis- courage less determined settlers, ten years after the loss of their grant the charter of Derryfield took from them their last hope of receiving recog- nition from any source. With this dire extremity threatening them, a meeting of the proprietors was called at the house of Jonas Clark, Chelmsford, Mass., Jan. 21, 1751, when it was decided to appeal to the Massachusetts courts for relief. Accord- ingly a lengthy petition was presented to that body setting forth in detail their grievances, in which it was claimed over two thousand pounds had been spent in public improvements, beside the charges of settlement : That Soon after the arivaU of Goven' Wentworth and Hearing the Defeat of our Petition the Towns of Londonderry and Chester obtained orders from y'= Gov' of N. Hamp' For Running out their Bounds according to their Charters which being Done it was found that the S'' Tyngstown fell all to a trifle into the S'' Towns, their meeting house Sawmill and the Setlers being Included in them, which Towns Immediately Demanded the Possession and Entered Themselves .... That your Petitioners thereupon Advised with many of the principal Gentlemen of this Government as well as the best Councell in the Law they Could Obtain and were Incouraged to Dispute their Property in the Law which they have Done in the most Effectual method they Could and have been Harrased allmost every Court from the year 1742 to this day and the said Towns of Londonderry & Chester has Recovered the Possession & Turned out F,very one who has had a final trial Excepting one who for Some Special Reasons Peculiar to That Case did Obtain The Remainder of the .Sellers Seeing their Distressed Circumstances and no way for Releif have Either deserted their Habitations or Compounded and ])urchased at an unreasonable and Severe Price, have Little for their own Labour, Excepting on who is Yet in the Dispute, which Troubles in the Defence of their Rights has Cost them thousands of pounds Exclusive of their Much greater Charges in Buildings and Improvements and now are Obliged to give over the Expectation of its Ever being any benefit to them April 17, I 75 1, this petition bore its fruit in a grant of the township of Wilton, Me., to the proprietors of Tyng township. THE OLD CHURCH AT THE CENTER. M'^-^-::: ENTION is made in the article on the gstown grant of the church built hy the Puritans of the Merrimack valley at what was known as Chester Corners, but there was another meeting-house that is of greater importance in the early history of Manchester. While there are no official records to show it, preaching, if in a some- what desultory manner, was no doubt maintained all through the trying period of the early coloniza- tion of the territory which later comprised the town of Derrytield. Immediately following its incorporation, Nov. 26, 1751, a special town meet- ing voted twenty-four pounds, old tenor, for preaching. The following year one hundred pounds was raised, which, considering the small amount of available money at that time, was no mconsiderable tax. At a special meeting held July 20. 1752, it w^as voted that the " Placieses of Publick Worship be held at Banjamien Stivens and William McClintos the first Sabouth, at Banjamien Stivenes and the ni.xt at William McClintos and so sabouth about till the nixt town meetien." Again, Feb. 2, 1753, at a special meet- ing held in Benjamin Stevens's barn, it was voted that " the above barn and that of William McClin- to's be the places of publick worship till the money voted at last March meeting be expended. Voted that the minister be kept at William McClinto's." At a special meeting, Sept. 5, 1754, it is recorded : " Voted that ye Meeting House for publick wor- ship in Derryfield be built upon the Public Road as is mentioned in ye second artickle of ye warrant." The article referred to stated " by the Side of the Highway that leads from Londonderry to Amoscheeg Falls, some place betwixt William McClintok's and James Murphy's." It imme- diately became apparent that this location was not satisfactory to many of the inhabitants of the town, and under date of Feb. 3, 1755, a petition signed by thirty voters was given the selectmen to call a special meeting " to reconsider the vote of locating the meeting house and raising money for building said house." This the selectmen refused to do, when recourse was obtained by the dissatis- fied party through the court of the province. Constable Benjamin Hadley of Derryfield was enjoined to issue a warrant for a meeting, which was held March i, 1755, and resulted in a repeal of the vote to build and locate a meeting-house. March 30, 1758, at a special meeting held in John Hall's barn, it was voted " to pay Conol John Goffe sixtey poundes old tenor to pay the Revernt Binjimen Buteler for priching. Voted to pay Revernt Samuel McClintock Sevin poundes old tenor for priching in the year 1 756." These are the first ministers whose names are mentioned in the old records as preaching in the town. The ne.xt definite action taken toward securinsf a place of worship was at a special meeting held Sept. 21, 1758, when it was voted to build a meet- ing-house that year. It is further recorded: Voted to build the meetien Houes on John Hall's land joyening the road leading to Thomas Hall's ferry and the Ammacheag Falls. Voted to raise six hundred poundes to carry on the build- ing the said meetien Houes. Voted to raiese said meetien Houes fortey feet in lenth thirtey five feet in Brenth. Voted, Capt. William Perham and Levt Hugh Stirlen and John Hall ye commitey to carey on the builden of above said Meetien Houes. The Presbyterians had carried their point, but while they were able to outvote their Puritan rivals, they found the collecting of taxes for the purpose they designed not so easy a matter. The Puritans were not against building a church, but they excused themselves from helping toward this one by saying that the location did not suit them. Underneath this were other reasons. Many of them had not forgotten that they had received no assistance from the others when they had built a meeting-house, as described in the article on the TyngstowMi grant, and tried to settle a minister. Thus some refused point blank to pay their church taxes ; others did what was even more exasperating by dallying in their pavment, putting off the col- lector from time to time with weak excuses. A part were to pay in labor, others in lumber, and the one was as difficult to obtain as the other. But in some manner the building was framed and raised, for under date of July 15, 1759, we find it recorded : 23 24 WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. Voted to colect five Hundred Poundes toward Borden and Shingelen of our meetien Houes, said souni to be taken out of the six Hundred poundes, new tenor, that was voted in the year 1S58 for builden the above said meetien Houes. Voted Cajit. William Perham and Levt Hugh Stirlin and John Hall a comitey to spend the five Hundred poundes old tenor towards Borden and Shingeling the meetien Houes. Voted that John Hall apply to the Gentlemen that have land not cultivated or improved in Derryfield, for money to help us in builden our meetien Houes in said town. Voted that whoever pays any money to the above said meetien Houes shall have their names and the sums of money they pay recorded in Derryfield town Book of Records. As if the building committee did not have enough to contend with otherwise, it was finally claimed by the opposing party that they had mis- appropriated such funds as they had obtained. Accordingly a committee of investigation was chosen, but no irregularity seems to have been discovered. It was, however, voted at a meeting No\^ 15, 1759, to record the six hundred pounds collected in 1758 and whatever more might be collected. At the same meeting it was voted not to underpin the house that year, and to make one door. It l)eing so difficult to collect the funds, the building committee was empowered to hire the necessary money, until it should be paid by the inhabitants. In that way the debts which had been incurred were paid, Aug, 11, 1760, it was voted that "The Secelet-men are to under pien the sd. meetien-houes and put 2 dowers one ye a forsd. houes cSi. Cloes the windowes and Wan Dorr," Dec, 15, 1760, at a special meeting, a ccjmmittec was chosen to examine John Hall's accounts con- cerning the church money, and there the records end for that year. June 29, 1761, it was " Voted to repir the meetien houes this year sow fare as to shout oupe all the uper windows and the West and east dowers & make a rofe dower one ye sowthe sied and under pin sd houess this cor- rent year." If the finishing of the house progressed but slowly, the quarrel was rapidly growing more personal and bitter. April 2, 1764, the opposition finding themselves with a majority at the meeting, voted not to raise aay money for preaching that year. In October of the same year they went a step farther and voted to apply all money that might be in the hands of the church committee toward paying the town debt. The following year, at the annual meeting, March 4, the other side rallied and voted more money for preaching than ever. This, instead of bringing the factions together, widened the breach between them. Both parties prepared for a stubborn fight at the annual election the next year, and the result, as shown in the chapter on Civil and Political his- tory, was demoralizing in the extreme. It proved, however, that the Presbyterian element was not utterly routed, for at a special meeting, June 27, 1766, it was "Voted to repair the meetien houes in part this year. Voted to lay a good floor in the meetien houes and shout upe the ounder windows and acommadate the meetien houes with forms sutable to sit on," Excitement had now reached its height. The better minds of both elements had begun to see the evil results of their long contention for selfish ends. The last real partisan vote that appears on the records is that at the special meeting held Dec. 22, 1766, when it was voted not to raise any money for preaching. The following annual election showed a compromise in the make-up of the town officers, and a more quiet if not knidlier feeling prevailed in the matter of the church. John Hall, who had been prominent in the long controversy, retired for a time from positions of public trust. It was not found that he had mis- used any of the town's money and that subject was dismissed. In fact, so great a calm had fallen upon the troubled waters that the matter of the meeting-house, which had caused so many special meetings and fills so many pages of the town's records, drops almost entirely out of sight. Then, when their civil rights as well as their religious liberties were assailed by a foreign enemy, those who had been natural rivals became natural allies in a cause that affected them all alike, until the inhabitants of Derryfield became united as mifjht not otherwise have been. Nothinsr was done for the old meeting-house and very little for preaching during the Revolu- tion. The building fell into a sad state of dilapi- dation, until in 1783 the town voted one hundred dollars for repairs, and again the following year fifty dollars more. In 1 790 an effort was made to raise money to finish the building by selling "pew WILLErs BOOK OP NUTFIELD. ^i ground." A sale was made at a public auction June 22, 1790, which netted £-Xib iis. The pews were built at once, and the lower story was at last "finished." Attention then was turned to llie upper part of the house, and on March 5, 1792, it was " \'oted to rase fortey dollars to repair Meeting House. Voted that the Slectmen lay out the Money to Build the Gallery Stares and Lay the Gallery flores." These votes were carried out, and an auction sale of pew ground in the gallcrv was made Nov. 10, but the purchasers never built, and the upper story remained in an unfinished condition. And here the written record virtuallv closes. The meeting-house, which had been the object of manv a bitter discussion, which had kept many a desirable citizen out of Derryfield, and which had been a dark spot on its history, was suffered to remain unfinished, though, as hereto- fore, meetings were held within its walls as often as found convenient, and there the voters were wont to gather at the polls year after year, until finally the settlement near the river had become of so much importance that it was decided to build a hall and hold the town meetings "in the villasfe on the river." Accordingly a building at the latter place was begun in ;84i, and finished two years later, when the old meeting-house was abandoned. After standing empty ten years it was sold at public auction, and moved a short dis- tance and converted into a tenement-house, which is still standing-. CIJNCORD SrREET, MANCHESTER. 1S85, 26 W ILLEl ■' .S B O OK O F XL ^TFIEL D HON. MACE MOULTON, son of Henry and York, but a native of New Hampshire, and many Susan Moulton, was born in East Concord others. Although politically at variance with May 2, 1796. Holding the theory that boys are some of his new found friends, foundations were better throughout life for having learned a trade, laid in Washington for friendships which existed his parents apprenticed him to a house carpenter, during the remainder of his life. During his con- with whom he served six years. To this work he gressional term he ranged himself on the side of applied himself with vigor and attained a profi- economy and conservatism, and voted on questions ciency which would undoubtedly have resulted in which agitated the national legislature in a way which later develop- ments have proved to have been saga- cious and far seeing. He threw his influ- ence in favor of the admission of Texas as a state and the organization of a ter- ritorial government in Oregon, and did his best to have the W i 1 m o t Proviso, against slavery in anv territory which might be acquired by the United States in future time, passed with the three mil- lion loan bill enacted for settling the war with Mexico. It was during his term of office also that a new tariff bill was en- acted, during the dis- cussion of which his judgment counselled him to vote against some of his best per- until 1844, when he resigned and was elected sonal friends on certain questions, it being his representative to congress, serving during the nature to allow nothing to interfere with his con- stirring times of the Mexican War. During his victions as to what was right, and best for his occupancy of this office he gained the personal constituents. In 1847, on his return from Wash- friendship of Webster, Pierce, and Hamlin, and a ington, Mr. Moulton was elected a member of the close acquaintance with many who afterward governor's council and served two years. He also became noted in the history of the nation, notably filled many official positions in the town of Bed- Houston of Texas, Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, ford. In 1849 he moved to Manchester, where Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, James Buch- he lived during the remainder of his life, aaan of Pennsylvania, John A. Dix of New Between 1847 and 1849, on the urgent appeals of numerous monu- ments of his skill had he followed the trade, as, at even this early period of life, he was actuated by the principle of doing well whatever he at- tempted. In 181 7, vv^hen but twenty-one years of age, he was appointed deputy sheriff of Hillsboro' county, and he re- sided for a few months at Pembroke. Six months after his appointment he moved to Piscata- quog, then a part of Bedford. He served as deputy sheriff with honor to himself and usefulness to the business men for a period of twentv- three years, until 1840, when he was elected high sheriff. He held that office HO.N'. MACE MO U Li UN. WILLEY'S BOOK OF NUTJJELD. 27 the prominent men of both political parties, he heart manv men in need had ample proofs, ai^ain became deputy sheriff, and served for several Young men, cramped in their business relations, years. Both as sheriff and as deputy he is seldom appealed to him in vain if he saw that they acknowledged to have had no superior in integrity had the enterprise and ability, with a little aid, to and intelligence. He understood the law and the carry out their plans. As a statesman, Mr. Moul- duties of the office thoroughly, and was prompt, ton was a Jeffersonian Democrat of the old school, humane, and honest in its execution. As a clear- and had the highest reverence for the Constitu- headcd, thinking man, fully abreast if not ahead tion and the Union as established by the fathers. of the times, he early discovered how much time and money were wasted in the old forms of " red tape," and in consequence he originated new forms for the returns on sheriffs' writs and other important im- provements in the transaction of the routine business of that office. He hated duplicity and politi- cal c u n n i n g, and never sought office; in his later years he had a decided dis- taste for it. He was often proposed as a candidate for mayor, and on the death of Hon. Levi Wood- bury during his can- didacy for governor of the Granite State, RUFUS H. PIKE. During his long and happy domestic life there were born to him and his wife, Dol- ly Gould (Stearns) Moulton, whom he married in 1822, one daughter, Eliza Jen- nie, and two sons, Henry DeWitt and Charles L u c i a n Moulton. The last named died March 10, 1858 ; Henry's death occurred Dec. 21, 1893 ; Eliza died Oct. 22, 1895. Mr. Moulton passed away March 5, 1867, at the age of seventy- one, after a short illness, and his wife, who survived him, died Sept. 21, 1879. The only grandchild was Mace Moulton, son of Henry De- Witt Moulton. He was educated in the a committee waited on Mr. Moulton to ascertain if he would accept the nomination for public schools of Manchester, and later graduated governor, but he peremptorily declined. He was at Dartmouth College in the Thayer School of a director of the Amoskeag bank and president of Civil Engineering in 1878. Since then, after the Amoskeag Savings bank, which position he travelling extensively over the L'nited States, he held at the time of his death. His mind was has settled in Springfield, A'Jass., as manager and strong and active, and what his judgment told him chief engineer of one of the largest iron and bridge was right he believed in. He was a model for manufacturing establishments in New Enijland. promptness and reliability and exact integrity in all business relations, and his word was never D UFUS H. PIKE, the fourtii child and eldest (luestioned. He might have been called stern and i^ son of Eber and Mary C. (Dakin) Pike, was severe at times, l)ut of his overflowing kindness of born in Londondcrrv Oct. 25, 1829. Before he WIL LET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. was three years old his mother died, leaving his to its interests. April 9, 1857, he was united in father with a family of five children. In 1833 the marriage to S. Elizabeth Balch. In 1874 and family moved to Mont Vernon and lived there 1875 he was president of the common council, until the spring of 1837, when they moved to At the time of his death, he was treasurer of the Bedford. There the boy attended the district local and the state plumbers' associations, and school until he was sixteen years old, being, in the these organizations, with the exception of the meantime, employed on the farm, toiling early and Amoskeag Veterans, of which he was an honorary late to assist his father in caring for the family, member, were the only ones with which he was That year he left home and worked on a farm for two years, attending school win- ters. During the spring of 1847 he went to Bangor, Me., where he was em- ployed by an uncle on cabinet work foravcar and a half. In the winters of 1848 and 1 849 he went to school in P e m b r o k c. I n March, 1849, he came to Manchester to en- ter the employ of Hartshorn, Darling & Tufts, copper, brass, and iron workers, and in 185S he became a member of the firm, which was changed to Hartshorn t^ Pike. Ut\der this name they did business until Mr. Hartshorn's death, when another change ever identified. Mr. Pike was never an aspirant for political honors and never sought public service. To his own private business he gave his energies and undi- vided attention, and with that he was con- tent, and his life work lirought him ample recompense. He was ever the soul of honor and integrity. His word was never chal- lenged and he lived without an enemy, and left no stain or blot upon his noble record. He is sur- vived by his widow and daughter, Florence M., wife of Willis B. Kendall. The accom- panying portrait is from an ink drawing bv H. W. Herrick. JOHN HAPGOOD MAYNAKD. was made, and Charles N. Heald became the junior partner. In 1891, still another change was JOHN HAPGOOD MAVNARD, son of Asa brought about by the death of Mr. Heald. Later ^ and Mary (Linfield) Maynard, was born in a corporation was formed bearing the name of the Concord, Mass., Jan. 23, 1804. His father, who Pike & Heald Companv, of which Mr. Pike was recollected the days of the Revolution, died in president and treasurer. For forty-six years he May, 1874, at the age of ninety-seven years. In gave his energies to the business, which, under his 1809 his parents removed to Loudon, N. H., and management, steadily increased, new departments here John worked on the farm until he was four- being added from time to time as they were teen years old, when he was apprenticed for seven required, and at the time of his death, which years to learn the carpenter's trade. He was placed occurred Jan. 8, 1895, he was still actively devoted in charge of the erection of several important WIL LEI'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 29 l)uildings in Concord while he was still an appren- tice. Having served his apprenticeship, he soon after went into business on his own account. He foresaw the rapid development of Manches- ter and took up his permanent residence here in 1836, having previously done work for the Amos- kcag company as early as 1833. He built for this corporation mills Nos. 3, 4, and 5, besides numer- ous tenements, etc., and continued in their employ as contractor for more than thirty years, often hav- ing in his service nearly a hundred men at a time. All his affairs prospered, and he was able, while still comparatively young, to amass a competency. In politics Mr. Maynard was a Republican. He was a member of the common council in 1859-60, and of the board of aldermen in 1861-62, and again in 1879, '80, '81, and '82. He also served in tlie general court for one term. Always taking an active interest in lire department matters, lie was chief engineer for several years. Elected a director of the Manchester National bank in 1854, he continued in that capacity until his decease, a period of forty years. Mr. Maynard was chosen the first assessor after the incorporation of the city of Manchester, and his knowledge of real estate values in the city was for many years remarkably thorough and complete. Of a sympa- thetic and benevolent nature, his benefactions were numerous, and no deserving case was ever laid before him in vain. He was plain, frank, and iionest in ail his dealings, he hated shams and humbugs, and he was never proud of being called rich. It was said that at one time he owned land in thirty different towns, but he still lived as simply and as unostentatiously as when he began the struggle of life. In March, 1837, Mr. Maynard married Jane Kimball of East Concord. She died thirty years later, and he married her cousin, Aphia Kimball of Hopkinton, who survives him. He passed quietly away May 6, 1894, at the advanced age of ninety years. In his religious belief Mr. Maynard was a Universalist. DEV. WILLIAM SHERBURN LOCKE, A ^ who for many years has resided in the south- ern part of Manchester, just below the settlement known as Bakersville, was born in Stanstead, Province of Quebec, April 28, 1808. He is still erect in form, and active and alert, although on account of impaired sight he is somewhat restricted in his business and social intercourse. For quite a number of years he has sustained a local relation to the church of his first love, but even now his enthusiasm is contagious as he recounts the early charges and the circuits which he travelled in the saddle as an itinerant, from appointment to appointment, over regions of country many miles in extent. He is of the sixth generation in direct descent from the old Indian fighter, Capt. John Locke of Rye, who paid the penalty of his prowess by being ambushed and killed while reaping his grain on what is now known as Straw's Point, then Locke's Neck. One of the savages sacrificed his nose in the encounter, the old captain cutting it off with his grain sickle, which is now preserved in the rooms of the New Hampshire Historical Society. One of the captain's grandsons, Edward, moved to Kensington, where his son Moses was born. Moses removed to Epsom, from which place he enlisted under Gen. Stark, and took part in the battle of Bunker Hill and other engage- ments, in one of which a bullet pierced his hat ; in another battle his coat was struck by a ball, and his gunstock was siiot off. P^or his services in the Revolutionary War he received a sum of money which he paid out for a pair of yearling heifers after he returned home. His son James, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Epsom, and remained there until he was twenty-one years of age, when he entered the shipping firm of Daven- port Brothers of Newburyport. While in their service he visited England and later went on a vessel which carried the first cargo of shingles to Federal City, as Washington, D. C, was then called. The shingles were for use on the govern- ment buildings, then in process of construction. He remained in \^irginia for some time, but the opinion he formed of the practice of slavery deterred him from settling in that section, and when his mother wrote him of the death of one brother by yellow fever in the W^est Indies, and the departure of another on a cruise, he acceded to her request and returned home, becoming a partner with his brother Jonathan in trade. In 1800 he married Miss Abigail Sherburn, a native of Pt)rtsmouth, and settled in the town of 3° WILLE1"S BOOK OP NUTmELD. Stanstead, Canada, just over the line from Derby, up but a few dollars over and above the cost of Vt. Here he took up a farm, and here his son food, lodging and horse baiting, and as the result William S. was born. of a whole year's labor, Mr. Locke recalls the pair While quite young, Sherburn, as he was of shag mittens — the only thing received except- called, learned the leather dresser's trade, finishing ing $2, which he earned by helping in the hayfield. his apprenticeship in Danvers, Mass., and before The money collected was willingly given to his he was twenty-one he had charge of a shop in senior laborer, a man with a family. Barton, Vt. While there he was converted, Mr. Locke's first experience in Manchester joined the Methodist church, and was led to leave his secular occupation in order to obtain a more ad- vanced education. Entering Browning- ton Academy, he re- mained under Rev. Mr. Twilight's instruc- tion until his health failed, and by the ad- vice of a physician he came near the sea air and entered the acad- emy at H a m p t o n. After the recovery of his health he was intending to return to Vermont, but on the way, stopping to attend a scries of meetings in North- field, he was emplovcd as assistant laborer on the circuit consisting of Northfield, San- bornton, Canterbury, Gilmanton, Meredith, and Franklin, and REV. WILLIAM S. LOCKE. was in 1832, when he was regularly ap- pointed by the con- ference of NewHamp- shire ami \"crmont, then one body, to the circuit comprising Amoskeag, Amherst, and Nashua. He re- members crossing the river on stringers laid from rock to rock, to view the wonderful mechanism of the locks and visit friends on the east side. At this time the Method- ists, Congregational- ists, Baptists, and Uni- versalists held ser- vices altcrnatelv in the corporation hall at Amoskeag and in the schoolhouse. Mr. Locke's first attend- ance at a public meet- ing in Manchester was at the ordination of Rev. Mr. Foster, a Congregationalist, here he spent the first nine months in the ministrv, which was held at the Methodist church at the with Benjamin C. Eastman, preacher in charge. Centre, now known as the First M. E. church. At the close of the ne.xt conference he received a Mr. Foster was allowed to use it half the tune, local preacher's licence at Sanbornton Bridge, the Methodists using it the other half. This was John F. Adams presiding elder. In those days the only church building in Manchester at that the Methodist itinerants were solemnlv adjured to time. During this appointment Mr. Locke suc- frequent no public houses, but to look to the ceeded in obtaining the use of the court house in brethren, as the laity were called, to provide for Amherst for the Sabbath services, which was con- their needs, and simple and inexpensive was the sidered a signal achievement, as hitherto the clergyman's outfit, A year's income would count Methodists had received no greater favor than the WILLErs BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 3» use of a schoolhouse on the outskirts of the town, and in 1S46 ground was broken for the First M. E. church in Nashua. Aug. 27, 1833, he came from Merrimack, across Reed's Ferry, to Manchester Centre, with his intended wife, Miss Caroline D. Tibbetts, and in the parsonage standing on the site of the present reservoir they were united in marriage by a dearly beloved friend, Silas Green, pastor of that charge, and proceeded on their way to the home of the bride's father in Pittsfield, stopping at Head's tavern in Hooksett for their wedding supper. After two years' pastoral work on Epping circuit and at Chichester, Mr. Locke was again summoned to Manchester to fill the appointment where he had begun his married life, and one day in 1835, he drove with his wife and little daughter, si.x weeks old, to the door of Nathan Johnson, who entertained them until the settling arrange- ments could be perfected. Mr. Johnson is still a resident of that section. Mr. Locke's pastoral labors were very successful, there being a large number of accessions to the church the first year. After having labored in Strafford and Harrington, N. H., and Wilmington, Wardsboro' and Brattle- boro', Vt., he returned to this section and preached a year and a half at South Merrimack and Amherst, after which, by request of the presiding elder, he supplied the city church, now St. Paul's, from Jan. i, 1842, until conference. This congre- gation then occupied a chapel which stood on the site of the present government building, and here a series of meetings was held which resulted in a revival of great interest. During this time the foundation of St. Paul's church was laid on Elm street and preparations made for building. The following three years Mr. Locke was employed by the society at the Centre. Many churches at this time were more or less divided by the doctrine of the immediate second advent of Christ, and great excitement prevailed, but with a firm hand, level head, and sympathetic heart, Mr. Locke succeeded in keeping those under his care, and not a mem- ber was lost. Followinsr this charije, he went to Auburn, where he succeeded in putting a weak church on a firm basis, and also in improving his finances by judicious investment. By this time his children were reaching the age where he realized the importance of good schools and elevating surroundings, and hence, after mature deliberation, he decided to establish a home near Manchester. While studying in William Stark's law office, the eldest son, James W^., laid the foun- dation for his successful career as United States district judge in Florida. The second son, Joseph, fitted at Bridgewater for a life of teaching, but on the day of his graduation he enlisted in the Thirty-Third Massachusetts Regiment and served through the Civil War. He is now a manufac- turer in Chicago. The third son, Eugene O., a graduate at Dartmouth in the class of 1870, studied law with J. B. Clark of Manchester, and is now a successful attorney in Jacksonville, Fla. He is widely known throughout the southern part of that state, having made Key West and Tampa his headquarters for the past twenty years. The eldest and youngest of the children were daugh- ters : Mary Frances, now Mrs. Charles H. Bart- lett, whose husband is connected with the Ports- mouth navy yard, resides at Kittery, Me. ; her son, Charles Carroll, has entered the law and settled in Chicago. The youngest daughter, Izetta, has been for many years connected with the public schools of Manchester. The mother of the family was noted among her associates as a woman of superior acquirements. In the midst of her varied duties as mother, pastor's wife, and social leader, she was a constant reader, and the director of her children's studies, and she also wrote much for the local press over the signature of "Aunt Carlie." She died Feb. 14, 1893. Mr. Locke, now nearly eighty-eight years of age, likes to recount the fact that he has preached the gospel in about sixty different places, and that he has been enabled to save to active work ten churches which were unprovided for by the con- ference, succeeding in every case in putting them on a firm working basis for regular pastoral care. WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. I EWIS SIMONS, son of Christopher and L^ Nancy (Locke) Simons, was born Aug. 12, 181 5, and was educated in the district school at Oil Mills and at Henniker Academy, being a class- mate of ex-Gov. Harriman at the latter institution. After leaving the academy he taught school in his own and other districts with marked success for five winters, and also worked at farming, lumber- ing, and in his father's sawmill. In 1842 he went into trade, but not finding it con- genial to his tastes, he sold his store in 1845 to his brother George, and formed a partnership with his brother I liram in the lumber business, which was very suc- cessful. In 1S53 he disposed of his in- terest in the firm and removed to Man- chester, where he profitably conducted the same business with various partners until his death, which occurred Oct. 6, iSq5. He was more than usually successful and fortunate. His judgment in estiniat- inof values, his tlior- ough knowledge of all the details of lewis working and sawing lumber, his executive ability and personal devotion to the management of his business, together with his sagacity and prudence in putting his merchan- dise upon the market at the right time, or in holding it until a better market would insure its full value, won for him an enviable reputation and much wealth. He also engaged extensively in building operations, and Mercantile block, Music Hall block, and Webster block in Manchester, built by himself and others, arc among the best in the city. Mr. Simons was never an ambitious politician or office seeker, but served the city as alderman, and was once the candidate of his party for mayor, failing however, of election because his party was in the minority. For many years he was a prominent member of the Universalist society, but he later attended the Unitarian church, and was president of its board of trustees. Early in life Mr. Simons was a member of the volunteer militia of Weare, and subse- quently he served with distinction in the Goffstown light infantry and in a rifle c o m p a n y. Every year until the dis- banding of the state militia he performed active military duty, serving in every rank of the line, and he was one of the or- ganizers of the Amos- keatj Veterans, be'nsr a valued and efficient member of that or- ganization and hold- ing every o ffi c e within its gift. P"or two years he was its c o m m a n d e r. M r. Simons's first wife was Hannah II., daughter of Charles SIMONS. Gove of Weare, and to them were born six children, Langdon, Almeda, and Minot living to maturity. Mrs. Simons died in January, i86r, and Mr. Simons was married to Mary J. Gilmore. After her death, in 18S6, he married Miss Grace A. Darling, Dec. 7, 1887. H ON. LUCIEN BONAPARTE CLOUGII, son of Joseph and Mehitable A. (Chase) Clou^h, was born in Northfield April 17, 182;; WJLLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 33 His sjreat-grandfather was Thomas Clough, who managed. Judge Clcugh was a lawyer of the old came from Salishiny, Mass., about 1750, and his school. lie disliked sensational or criminal cases, maternal grandfather was Stephen Chase of Haver- l)ut had a very large practice in settling estates hill, Mass. His father was born in Canterbury and in general civil court business. He was a man Feb. I, 1795, and his mother in Northficld April 7, whose word was as good as his bond, and by his 1795. In Noveml)er, 1856, he was united in mar- own sterling integrity and strict attention to the riage with Maria Louise Dole, in Augusta, Me. needs of his clients, he accumulated a handsome Her fathLT, Albert Gallatin Dole, was born at property. In early life he was a member of the Alna, Mc., Sept. 8, 1808, and her mother, Rebecca Freewill Baptist church, but in later years he Cobb Ford, was born at Jefferson, Me., July 20, 18 1 2. On her mother's side Mrs. Clough is a descendant of John and Elizabeth Tilly Howland, both of whiim came over in the Mayflower, and among her paternal ancestors were the Carltons and Doles, ancient families of Cumberland and So- merset counties, Eng- land. The subject of this sketch attended the schools of Can- lcrl)urv until 1841, when he went to a seminary in North Scituate, R. I. In 1845 he entered the New Hampshire Con- ference Seminary at Tilton, and five years later he graduated at Dartmouth College. In 1S50 he went to Troy, N. V., where he remained shunned public life, preferring to enjoy his library, three years, and in 1853 he came to Manchester and his home, and his family. He is survived by his opened a law office, which he conducted up to the wife, and two children, Rebecca Louise, born Dec. time of his death, which occurred July 28, 1895. 16, 1863, now the wife of S. L. Whipple of Brook- llc was judge of probate of Hillsborough county line, Mass., and Albert Lucien, born June 24, 1869, from 1874 to 1876, and he served as trustee of the now a well known electrical engineer of Manchester, city lil)rary for many years. In his long career as a lawyer of more tiian forty years he was exceedingly r^AVID P. PERKINS was born in Meredith, exact and conscientious in all his dealings. Many of Ly now Laconia, Jan. 29, 18 10, a son of Deacon his clients placed in his care important trusts and Josiah Perkins, a native of Newmarket, and Lydia estates, which were always carefully and successfully (Sanborn) Perkins, born in Exeter Feb. 17, 1773. LUCIEN B. CLOUGH. attended Grace Epis- copal church. He was a member of Wash- ington Lodge of Ma- sons, a director in the Amoskeag National bank, a trustee of the Amoskeag Savings bank, and a charter member of the Board of Trade. Charitable enterprises al ways found in him a liberal friend and valued ad- viser. Judge Clough was a man of broad cul- ture, of rare literary ability, possessing an unusual acquaintance with the classics and the standard works of several languages. He had a strong taste for historical study, and had spent considerable time in gathering val- uable data for a history of Canterbury. He 34 WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIBLD. He was descended from John Perkins, Sr., who came to this country from Bristol, England, in 1631, in the same ship with Roger Williams, and settled in what is now Ipswich, Mass. His mother's emigrant ancestor was Rev. Stephen Bacheler, who came to America in 1632 and settled near what is now Hampton. In his boy- hood he recited to Dudley Leavitt, the founder of Leavitt's Farmers' Almanac. In the spring of 1826 he entered the New Hampton Academy as a student, where he remained two terms. He then sought employment in Boston to secure means "t Ifc. ^^ **iWV ■ DAVID P. PERKINS. for further instruction, where he was introduced to Dr. Francis Wayland, who was about to enter upon the presidency of Brown University. He accompanied Dr. Wayland to Providence, lived in his familv, and recited to him daily for six months. He then returned to New Hampton in June, 1827, teaching school during the winter months, and graduated in the fall of 1830. Subsequently he taueht school in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, and finally settled in Manchester in June, 1 84 1. He was the first male teacher in town. Owing to impaired health, he finally gave up teaching and purchased a bookstore, in connection with which he established a small circulating library. Meanwhile he studied law with Hon. George W. Morrison, and was admitted to the bar in 1849. He was special justice of the police court in 1848, and assistant clerk of the house of representatives in 184Q, '50, and '51. He was a law partner in Manchester with Hon. Moses Norris, then United States senator from this state, from 1849 to 1853; was appointed to a clerkship in the pension office in W^ashington in the latter year, and remained in the government service ten years. He was for several terms Master of B. B. French Lodge of Masons. On leaving Washington he resided in Hen- niker until 1869, when he returned to Manchester and practiced law in company with his son until 1885, when he retired from active work. In Henniker he was Master of Aurora Lodge of Masons, and was a charter member and an officer of the Woods Chapter of that town. He won great favor in the government service by the skilful detection of forged bounty land claims, involving a large number of cases. He travelled extensively as a government agent through the south and southwest, as well as the northern and middle states, attending sessions of the United States court, in which, from first to last, he obtained thirty-six convictions and saved to the government about $3,000,000. Mr. Perkins was one of the original members of the first lodge of Odd Fellows organized in Manchester, Hills- borough Lodge No. 2, instituted Dec. 21, 1843. He was a pioneer in the matter of introducing vocal and instrumental music mto the public schools. He married Lydia C, daughter of Ebenezer and Betsey (Green) Lane of Pittsfield, June 26, 1836, who died Oct. 13, 1838, leaving one son, David L. Perkins, born March 2, 1838. His second marriage was, April 16, 1839, to Mary Melissa, daughter of Col. Imri and Hannah (Patterson) Woods of Henniker, who died in this citv several years ago. His children by his second wife were : Lydia Melissa, born Feb. 16, 1840, who died at the age of five years, and Mary Eliza, born May 24, 1841, who died in this city June 13, 1889. Mr. Perkins is a member of the People's Baptist church. PARKS AND COMMONS OF MANCHESTER, WHILE Manchester may well feel proud of her regular system of streets and her twin rows of shade and ornamental trees, she has even greater reason to rejoice over her liberal allotment of parks and commons. The wisdom of the early architects of the citv in providing against a crowded condition of the dwellings outside of the central portions can now be seen, while in no respect did thev show wiser forethought than in keag Manufacturing Company in 1839, before the first land sale, and deeded to the city in 1848, wnth the consideration that it should be surrounded by an iron fence within three vears. The fence has never been built, but it is presumed that the con- tract has been fulfilled in intent bv the laying of a granite curbing as a substitute. This common is well shaded, has beautiful walks, is provided with seats, and is a most delightful spot. Formerly MHRKl.MACK. LCJMMiJN, IKOM IDI' il. 1'.. Ml;. 'IGF ^^^^I 1 ^^^^^H |ft-';T'r!ij#t»^<^n ^l^^l ^^^1 JOEL TAYLOR. discontinued. Many old citizens remember well the time when all the mails were carried between the olTice and the railway station in a small cart drawn by Curtis K. Kendall. 46 WILLET'S BOOK OF XUTFIELD. SUBURBAN rOSTOFFICES. The first oflfice near Manchester was at Pis- cataquog, or Piscataquogville, as it was called in the early commissions, and sometimes abbreviated to " Squog." This office, established in 1816, with James Parker as the first postmaster, was then in the town of Bedford. Before this time the inhabi- tants of that locality r e - c c i \' e d their mail from the mounted post- man and from private individ- uals returning from Concord and Amherst, the nearest of- fices. In those days the post- age on letters was six and one fourth cents for the first thirty miles, twelve and one half cents for si.xty miles, eighteen three fourths cents for one hundred miles, and twenty-five cents for three hundred miles and over. In 1829 Jonas B. Bowman suc- ceeded Mr. Parker as postmaster, and in 1830 James McKeen Wilkins was appointed. He resigned in 1834, and Col. John S. Kidder was appointed May 31 of that year. He is still living in this city, and is vigorous in mind and body at the age of eighty-six years. Leonard Rundlett followed Col. Kidder as postmaster, and the office was discontinued about 1840 on account of the rapid growth of Manchester. There are three postoflices, Amoskeag, Massa- A. J. jlemiell, j.iiiilor. S. K. Slearns, EnRineer. J. E. lilaDcliartl, Transfer Clerk. besic, and Goffe's Falls, within the citv limits, but all are separate and distinct from the main office. The Amoskeag office was established in 1828, with Samuel Kimball as postmaster. He was suc- ceeded in 1830 by Dr. Oliver Dean, the agent of the Amoskeag Company, and the other incum- bents have been : Richard Kimball, W. H. Kim- liall, Hugh Moore, A. B. Smith, Walter B. Jones, Joseph Jones, Thos. S. Mont- gomery, Harris J. Poor, George H. Colby, S. L. Flanders, Miss S. A. Stearns, and S. L. Flan- ders, who was appointed for the second time in April, 1S93. The increase of summer visi- tors at Lake Massabesic and the growth of the city in that direction made an office neces- sary at that place, and one was established there in 1881, mainlv througii the inlluencc of Gen. Charles Williams. Jas. Benson was ap- pointed post- master, and he has smce held the office, his wife, Mrs. Sarah Benson, being his assistant. A post- office was opened at Goffe's Falls, on the west side of the river, in Bedford, soon after the building of the railway in 1842. Capt. Nathaniel Moore was made postmaster, and he continued in office until his death, Feb. 7, 1884, when his nephew, L. P. Moore, was appointed. He was the incumbent until his death in 1894. In October of that year A. N. Nettle, the present postmaster, was appointed. K. M. Sniiili, Messenger. F. G. Nelson, Ass't Engineer. H 'IL LEV S /.' n OK OF NUTFIE I. D ■47 CARRIERS AT MANCHESTER POSTOFFICK. ,.M.a,a„.,er. W... Sanford. O. W. EHi.,. M.J. F.Connor. J. Lari«.. ^ aV.H,K^ \']:l^''' AO. Dolfoff. G.N. Manning. W.E.Dunbar. J. W. Downer. W. H. Heath. A. Wacner. C. H. Rnwe. W. H. Carpenler. J.J. Dnscoll. J.J. Kelley. A. Giistafson. J. J. .Sulliva W. K. Stockdale. 1. L. Campbel A. i. Maniii. ORIGIN OF THE NUTFIELD COLONY. IT has been said of the emigrants of 1710, who founded the colony of Nutheld, that in the assured hope of securing freedom of conscience and rchgious Hbert)', they were willing to take their chances in worldly matters, whereas the emigrants of today would, if necessary, reverse that order, and imperil their religious rather than their material interests. However that may be, certain it is that in these piping times of religious toleration no Protestant ever leaves Catholic Ireland, and no Catholic ever leaves Protestant England, in order to obtain freedom of conscience. It is rather the freedom which money will buy that he seeks upon these shores. So it is often difficult now to realize that less than two centuries ago the founders of Nutfield colony preferred the hardships and dan- gers of the wilderness in an inhospitable clime to the comforts of established homes in a beautiful land. It would, however, be erroneous to suppose that those high-minded men, with their lofty ideals and noble characters, were guided wholly by reli- gious motives in their determination to emigrate. There were material as well as spiritual reasons for leaving their native land. Although the Protest- ant cause had been firmly established in Ireland, and they were permitted to maintain their own forms of worship unmolested, still, as Presbyterians and dissenters from the Church of England, they were hampered in many ways. They were com- pelled to give up a tenth part of their income for the support of the established religion, and they held their lands and tenements bv lease from the crown, and not as proprietors of the soil. This taxation was not only burdensome, but it was gall- ing in the extreme. Nor was this trammelling of their civil and religious rights the only cause of their dissatisfaction with the conditions at home. Surrounded as they were by the native Irish Cath- olics, with whom it was impossible for them to affiliate, and breathing the subtle atmosphere of hostility, their position was most uncomfortable. The hundred years of residence in Ireland had only served to accentuate the differences between the Scotch and Irish characters, asMacaulay has so well shown in his summing up of the state of affairs existing at that time. He says : " On the same soil dwelt two populations, locally intermixed, morally and politically sundered. The difference of religion was by no means the only difference, and was per- haps not the chief difference, which existed between them. They sprang from different stocks. They spoke different languages. They had different national characters, as strongly opposed as any two national characters in Europe. They were in widely different stages of civilization. There could, there- fore, l)e little sympathy between them, and centuries of calamities and wrongs had generated a strong antipathy. The relation in which the minority stood to the majority resembled the relation in which the followers of William the Conqueror stood to the Saxon churls, or the relation in which the followers of .Cortez stood to the Indians of Mexico. The appellation of Irish was given exclusively to the Celts, and to those families which, though not of Celtic origin, had in the course of ages degen- erated into Celtic manners. These people, proba- bly somewhat under a million in number, had, with few exceptions, adhered to the Church of Rome. Among them resided about two hundred thousand colonists, proud of their Saxon blood and of their Protestant faith. The great pre])onderance of numbers on one side was more than compensated by a great superiority of intelligence, vigor, and orsanization on the other. The EnfjUsh settlers 48 W/LLErs HOOK' OF NUTFIELD. 49 seem 1(1 have been, in knowledLi'e, iMieru'v, and per- severance, rather above than lielow the a\erayc le\-el of the iiopuhition of the mother eountr\-. The ahorioinal peasantrv, on the contiarv, were in an ahnost savaije state." al\va\s he a iaseinatiny' one, for those dark and traiiic years between 1640 and 1689 in the north of Irehmd are memorable in the world's historv. Some of the bitterest conflicts were wag-ed there tiiat have exer been fonyht for iuiman Hl)ert\', and Small wonder then that the Nuffield settlers the biax-e defence of Lon(h)nderrv marks a threat were not loth to esca|)e all these embarrassments, anti that the\- were wilHnii' to foretjo manv material comforts for the sake of a larger ei\'il libertv. The stnrdv ohl James MacGregor, one of tlie four ])as- lors who accompanied theii* Hocks to America, and the first minister of Londonderrv, preached a ser- mcin to his people just before their embarkation, and it is interestins; to note his reasons for their i lemoval to this countrv. He was no hvpocrite, ; but frank and honest, and it is siirjnificant that he puts the worldly reason first, and the spiritual rea- ^ iT^ •-, "^sIWb son last : " 1. To avoid oppi'ession and cruel bond- \ "^ aoe. 2. To shun persecutie(;'innino- of the lamous sieye of Lon- Eno-land to attem])! a revolution and ascend the dondeny, which lasted from December 7, 16S8, thrcjne. Fie accordingly landed in Enijland in No- until July 28, 16S9. During- those seven or eio:ht vcmhcr, 1688, and was soon joined by the principal mcnitiis the sufferings of the besie2:ed were such as lords. James escaped to France, where Louis can be onl\- imaijined, not described. So often has the harrowiny- tale been told that its repetition here is unnecessarv. All the horrors of bombard- ment, starvation, sickness, pestilence, dansjers with- out and treacherous foes within the walls, ho])e of relief deferred ayain and aj^ain, imtil the verv last extremity was reached, — all this, and more, was en- dured by the brave men and women who held out for principle. In Juh', so reduced was the supplv of ]iro\-isions that a rat sold for a shilliny-, and a mouse for sixpence, while a cat brouy'ht four shil- ft I I F--^ R linys and sixpence. Tallow and salted hides were a luxurv. One corpulent man, tearinir that the soldiers miyht kill and eat him, concealed himself for several davs. Despair had beyun to settle down on nearly everv heart. But deliverance was soon at hand, and the sieo-e was at an end. it had cost nearh- \\\k: thousand lives of the beleasfucred and nine thousand of the Catholic forces. WALKERS MrtNUMF.NI', I.ONDI )N1)KRRV, IRELAND. XIV. advised him to attempt recainino- his throne, 'rhouii'h William of Oranti'c had been elected kino-, Ireland still maintained its allea^iance to James, and 'r\rconnel, the lord lieutenant, beuan raising new levies of troops. James resolved to cross over to Ireland, subdue the places which offered resistance, proceed to Scotlantl, and then meet William's forces in Knoland. Had not his plans been spoiled bv the bold defence of Londonderrv, there is little doubt that he would have been successful, and that Catholicism wouUl have lu-en re-established in Great Britain. So this small citv of Londonderry Itecamc the arena on which the iate ot religious freedcjm was decided. Londonderrv, situated one huntlretl and iiftv miles northwest of Dublin, was the Protestant stronjijhold of the north of Ireland, and was the only place, excepting Enniskillen, which offered effectual resistance to the arms of James. Tyrcon- nel determined to seize the citv and hold it for the deposed kinii', but the inhabitants, learniny- that a regiment of Papal troops was on the wa\- to the citv, refused to desert the cause of Protestantism. SHIP QUAY STREET, LONDONDERRY, IRELAND. Some of these brave defenders of London- derrv, or their descendants, were the settlers of Nutlield, and such men were well preixu'ed to en- counter the hardships of founding a colon\- in the wilderness. So important tlid the king and j)arlia- WILLETS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. SI returned from Haverhill by way of Dracut, in or- der to hx\x\^ with them Rev. Mr. McGrejjor, who had spent the winter there in teachino;, and the two parties met, aecording to tradition, at a spot which has ever since been known as Horse hill, on the farm now occupied bv James M. Bachelder. Here ment consider the defence of Londonderry, that an act was passed exempting from taxation throu-e oak, on the ; ; east siile of Bea\-er pond, and Mr. MacGregor's text was from Isaiah xxxii. 2: "Andaman shall be as a hilling |)laee from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place; as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." After standing more than a hundred and twenty- five years the oak tree fell through deca\-, and the owner of the field |)!anted an apple tree on the spot as a memorial, which also fell through decay some bmteinut tiees. Ilert- they determineil, after an years ago. Some time in May following the ar- mvestigation, to take up the grant which they had rival of the settlers, Mr. MacGregor removed with obtained lioni Massachust-tts of a township twehe his family from Dracut to Nutfield and assumed miles square, .\fter i)uilding a few temporary huts the pastoral charge of the society. Thus was the they returnid to Ha\i'rhill for their families, house- first Presbyterian church in New England formally hold goods, and i)rovisions. Some (jf the company organized, and to that church most of the other TIIF, DIAMON'U, I.ON'DON'DERRV, IRKI.AND. 52 WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. RST SERMON h\ NUTKIELD. \\'i/.j.j-:}"s HOOK OF xi"j'in:/.i). S3 churches of this dcnominatidn in New En<>land, directlv or incHrccllv, owe tlieir existence. Mr. MacCircijor, wlio was then t()rt\-lwo \ears of uije, had received a tliorouuii classical and t lieoloo^ical education, and was a man of rineiinil bank- ers and money lenders (jf the town, and they were particularly careful in making loans to haye the yery best of security. They gencralh' wanted more than two names on a note, and if onl\' one indorser was presented, the elder would insist on another, saying, "A threefold cord is not easily broken ; you may give me another name." I ■ ^S^'* ^IfT^^.: -t-ij, --'«^ >aVV _ " ..":_■ Ji- ''■'•""' ■-•'■ "^•' '^. UEAVER rONU, OR 'I'SIENNF. 10 LAKE, UERRV. completely down to the firm shores were selected for the more noted persons of the community. The map will show the plan of arrangement. (See Jjaying Out of Lots — Descriiition of a Homestead — Governors — Resolution Passed 1719 — French and Indian Wars — James Hunter of Boston — The limits of the Range — Record of the Road — Present Owners — Births Prior to Settle- ment — Capt David Cargill — Sawmill and Fulling-mill — The Second Homestead — Town Meeting, 1720 — Pages 61-63, Derry edition, Book of Nuffield.) DAVID L. PERKINS. piAVID LANE PERKINS was born at Pitts- L-^ field March 2, 1S38, and was the son of David P. and Lydia C. (Lane) Perkins. His father is at present a resident of this city. His mother died in 1839. He received his education in the public schools of Manchester, including the high school, and at the New Hampton Institute. He studied law with the firm of Morrison, Stanley ^ n'/L LET'S book: of nutfield. 75 (if DLTr\-, Roberts of Massachusetts, and, in 1855, while under the instruction of John W. Rav, Har- riet Prescott Spofford, who has attained jironii- nence in American hterature, and many others. Mr. Hazelton early beyan to participate in the debates in the lyceum, and with Woodbury, Poore, Roberts, and others, is still remembered as one of its leadinor spirits. He often recurs to this expe- rience as among- the most valuable of his educa- tional advantaoes, to which his success in his profession and in public life is larijely indebted. Few of the sons of Pinkerton Academy have been more devoted to their alma mater than he. He returned to take part in the dedication of the new buildino;, erected upon the foundation of the old, around which man\- of his tenderest memories clustered, and was at that time elected president of the Alumni Association of the Academv. His life has been a most successful one. He was sjraduated at Union Colleo^e, was admitted to the bar in the state of New York, practised his jirofession in Schenectady for a time, and in 1863 moved to Wisconsin, tt) enter upon its practice there, which state was his residence until 1884, when he made his permanent home in Washington. While a citizen of Wisconsin, her people honored him with such public trusts as district attorney of ( irant county, as state senator for four years, and a^ member of the national Congress for six years. Since his residence in Washington he has held the office of attorney for the District of Columbia, under an api)ointment conferred by President Harrison. Mr. Hazelton's political career has been so well described in the Encyclopa,»dia of Eminent and Representative Men of Virginia and the District of Columbia, a volume of rare merit, l)ul)lished in 1893, that permission has been sought and obtained to reproduce herewith an extract from that work. It is as follows : Mr. Hazelton was elected to the Wisconsin state senate in 1867, and was chosen president pro tempore of that body. He was again elected to the senate in 1869. At the e.xpiration of his last terra in the state senate he gave five years of close and diligent attention to the practice of law in the United States and state courts. Here he soon became known as one of the leading lawyers of Wisconsin. His success as a jury lawyer was most marked, and soon gave him an extensive practice and a wide experience. If he was anything he was an active and ajdent republican. Kach recurring canvass found him vigorously engaged. The result was that he was again called upon to represent his fellow-citizens, this time in the national legislature, lieing elected to the Forty-Fifth Congress in November, 1876. He entered Congress at a time when he found himself numbered among the republican minority, wlien the democratic majority controlled legislation, and when their speaker denied the new mem- bers of the house a just and fair recognition u])on the floor in de- bate upon pending measures. But he was not thus to be repressed. Wherever opportunity offered, his readiness and ability to state a point with rare terseness and force soon began to command the attention of the house. Such was the state of affairs when he was renominated in 1878, and at once took the stump on the republican financial platform. Both greenbackers and democrats united to beat him, and it was only by the most persuasive speeches and untiring labor that he overcame the majority and was re-elected to the Forty-Sixth Congress. In the first session of this Congress he had the first opportunity to show the real quality of his intellect. April 24. 1879, when the majority were threatening the immeiliate rejjeal of the reconstruction measures, he delivered a speech in the house of representatives on the ■' Powers of Government," in which he not only exhibited a thorough knowledge of the legal and political jihases of the ques- tion, but a boldness of thought in a])plying ])rinciples, that clearly showed that he had been a close student of our political history. And when the majority were attempting to impede the resumj)- tion of specie payments, at the same session, on Feb. 22, he spoke on the subject of the national banks and their resum])tion of specie payments. This speech, made in favor of honest money and national good faith, was one of his best efforts. It attracted much attention at the time and was widely jniblished and commented upon in the daily press. His efibrts during this session ranked him among the best orators in the house, and in the autumn of that year he was invited to go to California and assist in the canvass in that state. The election was for members of Congress, and it was regarded as a test election of the coming national campaign of 1880. The repub- licans carried the state, and it was conceded that no man from outside of it contributed more to that success than Mr. Hazelton. He dehvered an oration at the famous Arlington cemetery on Decoration day. May 29, 1880. This speech was also published in the daily press and in pamphlet form, and the Union soldiers all over the land spoke of it in the warmest terms. He has ever been their energetic and faithful friend. In 1880 he was renom- inated for the third time and was most triumphantly re-elected, his majority ranking among the highest ever given in his con- gressional district for any man since the close of the Rebellion. .... In December, 1890, he was appointed attorney for the District of Columbia, of which office he is still the incumbent. He is admitted to jiractice in all the New York court.s, the United States Supreme court, and the courts of Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. There is, therefore, no doubt that Mr. Hazel- ton, as a representative, student, graduate, and alumnus of Pinkerton Academy, is fairly entitled to the place that has been assigned to him in the present work. TITULARY LITIGATIONS. PRIOR to the arrival of the colony that settled in Nutfield, various grants of land in New England had been issued bv the Crown covering the period of a centurv. In addition t(i the owner- shij) of lands obtained bv the possession of royal charters, as some of the settlers were particulaidy conscientious about depriving the peaceable In- dians of their natural heritage without reasonable compensation, numerous deeds were obtained from the Indian chiefs, so that it became extremelv difficult to ascertain the extent of occupied terri- tories, and consequentlv impossible to assign new territories tliat should be entirely free from former owners or claimants. There were these two sources of titulary possession and ownership, royal grants and Indian grants, and those who emigrated to New England on account of alleged persecutions and dis- criminations in the old country, generallv preferred to obtain their lands in the new country without seeking farther than was absolutelv necessary the assistance of that royal government whose author- ity to them had appeared partial and oppressive. Before arrangements were made for embarking with all their possessions to New England, a large number of men in the north of Ireland signed and forwarded a petition to the governor of these colonies asking preliminary questions relative to the plan of emigration and a portion of unoccu- pied land on which to settle with their families. As this petition may be of interest hereafter in tracing families who came to Londonderry and other parts of New England or this country, a copy is here inserted ; To His Excellency the Right Honorable Colonel Samuel Shute, (Governor of New England. We, whose names are underwritten, inhabitants of the North of Ireland, do in our own names, and in the names of many others our neighbors, gentlemen, ministers, farmers, and tradesmen, com- missionate anil appoint our trusty and well beloved friend, the Rev. William Boyd of Macasky, to His Excellency the Right Honor- able Colonel Samuel Shute, Governor of New England, and to assure His Excellency of our sincere and hearty inclination to transport ourselves to that very excellent and renowned planta- tion upon our obtaining from His Excellency suitable encourage- ment. And further to act and do in our names as his ])rudence shall direct. Given under our hands th s 26th day of March, Annoque Domini 1718. Jaines Tratte, V. 1). M. : Thomas Cob- bam, V. I). M. : Robert Houston, V. I). M. : William Leech, V. D. M. ; Robert Higginbotham. V. 1). M. : John Porter. V. I). M, : Hen. Neille, V. L). U. -. Tho. Elder, V. I). M. : James Thomson, V. I). M. ; William ICer, Will. McAlben. [ahon Anderson. George Greye, Andrew Dean, Alexander Dun- lop, M. A. : Arch. M. Cook, M. A. ; Alex'r Blair, B. Ccc'iran. William (ialt, Peter Thompson, Richard McLoughlin, John Muar, William Jeameson, Wm. Agnevv, Jeremiah Thomjuon, John Mitchell, James Paterson, Josej^h Curry, David WlUson, Patrick Anderson, John Gray, James Grey, Alexander McBride. Bart., Samuel McGivorn, John Hurdock, Geo. Campbell, James Shorswood, John McEoughlin, George McLoughlin, James Hune, Thomas Ramsay, Francis Ritchie, lames (rregg, Robert Boyd, Hugh Tarbel, David 'I'arbel, John i">- X '"a^ Robb, Jeatles FuUtone, Robert Wear, Alexander Donnaldson, Arch'd Duglass, Robert Stivin, Robert Henry, James Pettey, 1 )avid Bigger, David Patterson, David (illegible), John Wight. Joseph Wight. Robt. Willson, James Ball, Andrew Cord, James Nesmith, John Black, John Thompson, Samuel Boyd, Lawrence McLaughlin, John Heslet, George McAlester, Thomas Ramadge, James Campbell, David Lindsay, Robert Givern, James Laidlay, Ben- jamin Gait, Daniel Todd, Robert Barr, Hugh Hollmes, Robert King, John Black, l-'eter Christy, James Smith, James Smith, Patrick Smith, Samuel Ceverelle, James Craig, Samuel Wilson, M. A, (iawen Jirwen, Robert Miller, Thomas Wilson, William Wilson, James Brice, Ninian Pattison, James Thompson, John Thompson, Robert Thompson, Adam Thompson, Alexander Pattison, Thomas Dunloii, John Willson, David Willson, John Moor, James McKeen, John Lamont, John Smith, Patrick Orr, Boriill OiT, William Orr, John Orr. Jeams Lenox, John Leslie. John Lason, John Calvil, Samuel Wat, James Crawford, David Henderson, Mathew Storah {?), David Widborn, Luk A\'at. Robert Hendee, William Walas, Thomas Walas, Thomas Cecoch (?), William Boyd, William Christy, John Boyd, William Boyd, 76 BALLOU- McGregor, EDWARD BALLOU, the son of Jonathan and Fel). 6, 1 841, married Georsjc A. Seavey of Wind- Janet (McGregor) Ballon, was ht)rn in Deer- ham, whose sketch is given elsewhere ; (9) Nancy field, Nov. 5, 1799, and was employed in his father's R., horn May 21, 1843, married to Caleb Clark of store until he came to Lt)ndonderry and settled at Windham, Sept. 6, 1865, by Rev. L. S. Parker of Derry, and had three children : Lilly, died young ; Edward B., born 1872 ; Mary Louise, born 1874, a popular teacher in Windham ; (10) Samuel E., born Aug. 29, 1845, unmarried; (11) E.Louisa, born June 25, 1848, took care of her mother's aunt in Boston many years and inherited her fortune, mar- ried Thomas Chapman, and with her husband lives in Windham ; (12) Edwin L. Parker, born April 25, 185 1, married Mrs. Sarah Josephine Clay Johnson and lives on the John Bell place at the upper end of the Aiken Range in Derrv. Edward Ballon, the father, was a justice of the peace, served as selectman in Derrv several years, was representative in the legislature two vears, and died Sept. 19, 1863. James MacGregor Ballou is living (1895). EDWARD 1;ALL0U. ' the upper end of the Aikens Range, where tlie familv has since lived. Nov. 13, 1823, he married Isabella D. MacGregor, daughter of James and Rosanna (Aiken) MacGregor, who lixed on the Major John Pinkerton place, lately occupied by Alexander MacGregor, and now in the possession (if Deacon T. T. Moore. This marriage was sol- emnized bv Rev. Daniel Dana of Londonderrv, and twelve children blessed the union : (1) George W., born Jan. iq, 1825, who was never married and carries on the farm ; (2) Samuel A., born March 3, 1827, died Sept. 16, 1843 ; (3) Jennette McG., born April 19, 1829; (4) Rosanna A., born Maieh 8, 1831, died Feb. 20, 1833 ; (5) Nancy McG., born Aug. 31, 1833, died Feb. 10, 1837 ; (6) Sarah W., born Dec. 21, 1835, a school teacher, married to William S. Baker of Portsmouth Sej)!. 14, 1858, by The father of Mrs. Ballou was l)orn in Lon- Rev. E. N. Hidden of Derrv; no children; she donderry March 28, 1777, and married Rosanna died Sept. 11, 1S65 ; (7) Isabella McD., born Sept. Aiken of Chester, Dec. 22, 1803. She was born 26, 1838, died Jid)- 31, 1855; (8) Mary B., born March 2, 1784, the daughter of Samuel and Isa- 69 ISABKIJ.A D. (MACGREGOR) BALLOU. 70 WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. bella (McDole) Aiken. The marriacje was per- formed by Rev. Mr. Colby (jf Chester, now a part of Auburn. Their ehildren were : (i) Agnes, born Oct. lo, 1804, died July 15, iSii ; (2) Isabella D., married Edward Ballou ; (3) Alexander, born Nov. 6, 1809, married Sarah Wyse ; (4) Lewis A., born Aug. 12, 18 12, married a Whittier and Au- gusta Bhxlgett ; (5) Eliza Jane, born July 14, 1820 ; (6) John A., born Oct. 14, 1822. After the death of Mr. MacGregor the widow married Dearborn Whittier of Hooksett, Jan. 3, 1827. She died Nov. 23, 1867; he was killed by the cars at Wilson's Crossing, Jan. 26, 1850. Mrs. Ballou had her first child in her arms when she shook hands with Lafayette at East Derrv in 1824. James MacGregor, the second of the name in Londonderrv, and father of James 3rd, married Agnes Cochran. Their children were : (i) Jennet, who married Jonathan Ballou of Deerfield and had a family of children ; (2) Marv Ann, who never married ; (3) Rev. David, of whom a portrait is herewith given ; he graduated at Dartmouth, studied theology, became a Presbyterian clergyman and was the first settled pastor of the society in Bedford. He married Mary Butterfield of Hano- ver, and after her death he married Mary Orr of Bedford ; she died, and his third wife was Rebecca Merrill of Londonderry. He left children. (4) Alexander, who married Polly Pinkerton and lived in Londonderry, and he had one son, John P., adopted by Major John Pinkerton. (5) Susan, who married Thomas Bassett, a storekeeper in Londonderry, who had previously kept a store i Deerfield ; they had a son, Thomas, who became physician and settled in Kingston. (6) Rober who married Polly Hovens of Rhode Island an lived there some years, until the death of Joh MacGregor, when he returned to Londonderry an REV. DAVID MACGREi;OR. settled at the Upper Village. He afterward bough the farm where Reed P. Clark lately lived in Lor donderr\', and lived there, raising a large famil}^ c cliildren, and some of the descendants remain ther still. (7) Betsey, never married. (8) Polly, mai rietl Jonatlian Emerson, lived on the Pinkerto ])lace on the turnpike, and had one son. (9) Jame; of whom an account is given elsewhere. Mrs. Ballou remembers this elopement stor of the MacGregors : Rev. James MacGregoi first ])astor of the church in Londonderry, had did and his son. Rev. David, was then pastor of th East Parish church. Alexander, another son, livei on some of the MacGregor lands where the Moi risons recently lived, and where the old MacGrego house, the first framed house in Londonderry, wa still standing a few years ago. James, anothe brother, had a pew in the meeting-house. Susan a daughter of Alexander MacGregor, fell in lov^ with one Burnside, who kept a store in the Eas WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIBLD. 77 Hugh Orr, Robert Johnston, Thomas Black. Peter Murray, John Jameson, John Cochran, Samuel (ionston, Thomas Shadey, William Ker, Thomas Moore, .\ndrew Watson, John Thonson, lames McKerrall. Hugh Stockman, Andrew Cochran, James Carkley, Lawrence Dod, Sandes Mear, John Jackson. James Curry, James Elder, James Acton, Samuel Smith, Andrew Dody, lames Forsaith. Andrew Fleming. Ciorge Thomson, James Brouster, Thomas (illegible). James Beverlan. Peter Simpson, Thomas McLoughlin, Robert Boyd. Andrew Agnew. James King. Thomas Elder, Daniel Johnston, Robert Walker, David (onston, lames Steuart, John Murray. Thomas Blackwel. Thomas Wilson, John Ross, William Johnston. John King, Andrew Curry, John (illegible). Samuel Code. |ames Blak. Thomas Gro, '{"homas Ouston, Jame Gro, John Clark. Thomas McFader. David Hanson. Richard Acton. James Claire, Jacob Clark, Abram Baberley, Steven Murdock, Robert Murdock, John Mur- dock, William Jennson, James Rodger, John Buy- ers, Robert Smith, Adam Dean, Randall Alexander, Thomas Boyd, Hugh Rogers, John Craig, Wm. Boyle, Benj. Boyle, Ja. Kenedy, M. Stirling, Samuel Ross, John Ram- say, John McKeen, James Willsone, Robert McKeen, John Boyd, Andrew Dun- la];, James Ramsay, William Park, John Blair, James Thompson, Lawrence McLoughhn, Will. Campibell, James Bankhead. Andrew Pat- rick. James McFee, James Tonson (?), George Anton, George Kairy, Thomas Freeland, Thomas Hunter, Daniel i.i»Xm«tk McKer- rell, Horgos hu X "ark Ken- edey, John ws X mark Suene, Adam i>i. X m.rk Ditkoy, Alexander Kid, Thomas Lorie, Thomas Hines, Will im X -"k Holkins, George Anton, John Colbreath, Wil- liam Caird, John Gray, John Woodman (?), AndrewWatson, Wil- liam Bleair, Joseph Bleair, Hugh i.i. X ■■'art Blare, William Blare, Samuel Anton, James Knox, Robert Hendry, John Knox, William Hendry, William 1 )unkan, David Duncan, John Muree, James (iill- mor, Samuel Gillmor, Alexander Cochran, Edward McKane, John Morduck, Samuel ^ X ".rk McMun, Henry Calual, Thomas Mc- Loughlin, Robert Huoy, John Millar, Hugh Calwell, William Boyd, John Stirling, Samuel Smith, John Lamond, Robert Lamond, Robert Knox, William Wilson, Wm. Patterson. James Alexander, James Nesmith, David Craig, Weall. McNeall. 'Hiomas Orr, Wm. Caldwall, James Moore, Jr., Sam. Gunion, Matthew Lord, Robert Knox, ,\lex. McGregore, James Trotter. Robert Roo, Joseph Watson. Robert Miller, John Smeally, James Morieson, James Walker, Robert Walker, William la.X ""'"k CaUvall, William Walker, Samuel iii» X nwrk Young. Alexander Richey, James Morieson, Jo- seph liis X ■■'"* Burrlan, Robert i.is X m„rk Crage, John Thompson, Hugh Tomson, James Still, James i.is X ■"«,* Hoog, Thomas Han- son, Richard Etone. James Etone, Thomas Etone.Samuell Hanson, James Cochran. James Hulton (?), Thomas Hasetone (?). John Cochran. William Cochran, Samuel ws X ■■..-.rk Huntor, John Huntor. The accuracy of this list cannot be fully and clearly established, as it is the copy of a copy. The manuscript is very old and illegible in many places, but the value of the document lies largely in the proof it affords of the original spelling of proper names in the signatures, and in this respect it is superior to the authority of the public records where the clerk is responsible for the orthography and is'Jnot always correctly informed. The encourage- ment offered by the governor was so fa- v^orable that the col- ony of Nuffield was informally organized on the I ith of April, 1719, under the belief that the territory had not been appropri- ated. As the party arrived, full of hope and ambition, and began to cut timber and erect log cabins along Westrunning brook, it was soon discovered that other civilized white people were scattered through the wilderness, and claim- ing lands by reason of certain deeds and papers. Claims were challenged. The controversy aroused opposition and investigations that led to the find- ing of several Indian deeds, or claims founded on such deeds, in the possession of earlier settlers. Some of these settlers were easily induced to part with their lands for small sums of money, being persuaded that these titles were conflicting and doubtful. There was one deed dated March 13, 1 701, covering so exactly the territory desired by the new colony, that it was deemed expedient to investigate no further, but proceed immediately to CRYSTAL AVENUE, DERRV DEPOT (1894). WIL LET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. find the party to whom the ori,<)-inal arrant had been issued, ox his living representative with the largest claim, and come to some agreement with him whereby the people of Nutfield might be allowed to remain, and occupy and acquire legal possession of the land. The largest owner was located, and the town records, commonly called the Fro|)rietors' Book, furnish the following particulars of the Wheelwright purchase : September 23. 17 19. The town ordered James Gregg and Robert \\'ear to present a petition to the court of New Hamp- shire to obtain a power of government and town privileges. The said petition was presented and the answer of it delayed until the next spring session. The town understanding that it was need- ful to make an agreement with Col. John Wheelwright of Wells about the sale of Nutfield, ordered October, 17 19. Rev. James MacGregor and Samuel CJraves to wait upon Col. Wheelwright for that end ; they accordingly obtained a deed from Col. Wheel- wright and came to an agreement with him. The copy of the Deed is as foUoweth : 'I'liese presents wilnesseth that I, John Wheelwright, of Wells, in the rounty of Yorl<, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, do for me myself, my heirs, csecutors, administrators, and assigns, by virtue of a deed or grant made to my grandfather, a minister of the Gospel, and others named in said giant, liy sundry Indian Sageniores, with the consent of the whole tribe of Indians between the rivers of Mcnimck and Piscataqua, to them and their heirs, for- ever, full power for the laying out, bounding and granting these lands into suitable tracts for townships, unto such numbers of people as may from time to lime offer to settle and improve the same, which deed beareth date May the seventeenth, one thousaml six hundred twenty-andnine, and is well executed, acknowledged, and approved by the authority, on the day, as may at large moie fully appear; pursuant thereunto I do by these presents give and grant all my right, title, and interest therein contained unto Mr. James MacGregor, Samuel Graves, David Cargill, James MacKeen, James Gregg, and one hundred more mentioned in a list, to them and their heirs, forever, a certain tract of land bounded as fob loweth ; not exceeding the quantity of ten miles square, beginning at a pine tree marked which is the southwest corner of Chester, and running to the northwest corner of said Chestei", and from the northwest corner running upon a due west line unto the river Merrimack, and down the river Merrimack until it meet with the line of Dunstable, and then turning eastward upon said Dun- stable line until it meet with the line of Dracut, and continuing eastward upon Dracut line until it meet with the line of Haverhill, and extending northward upon Haverhill line until it meet with the line of Chester, and then turning westward upon the said line of Chester unto the pine tree first mentioned, where it began. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentieth day of ( Jctober, one thousand .seven hundred and nineteen. JOHN WHKEl.WRIGHT. [u s.] Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of Daniel Dupee, John Hirst. Suffolk, ss., Boston, Oct. 20, 1719. John Wheelwright, Esq., personally appearing, acknowledged the above instrument to be his voluntary act and deed. Coram W,\I. Wf.i.s I EIID, Just. Ptace. In the meanwhile a new discovery was made of more serious import to the little colony at Nut- field, tliat the grant of ten mdes square so much desired by reason of its situation and fertilitv, was not within the limits of the province of Massa- chusetts Bav, but included in the boundaries of the province of New Hampshire. While attacked on everv side bv the indignant possessors of other and older claims, and hustled about, and having their goods damaged in ejectments from the more fierce claimants, the town had informallv organized and appointed officers and committees to attend to the very important matters of title and occupancy. The town had not been incorporated, nor even the right to occupv fullv or legally established. The officers applied to the general court of New Hampshire in the expectation of securing an act of incorporation, Sept. 23, 1719. The petition represents the people of Nutfield, at that time humbled b\- the accumulation of obstacles, and quite willing to accept some assistance from King George in furtherance of their plan for permanent settlement, and especially set forth the claim, that they were descended from, and professed the faith and principles of the established church, and were loyal subjects of the British crown. George, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc., was graciouslv pleased to grant to his beloved subjects the ten miles square tract of land on certain con- ditions. But the name of Nutfield was sacrificed, and the township really and truly incorporated by the name of Londonderrv. The date of this roval document was June 21, 1722, and attached to it was the schedule of the names and shares of the proprietors of the township of Londonderry. Nutfield existed in hypothetical anticipation of being legally incorporated either in the province of Massachusetts Bay or the province (jf New Hampshire, under some delusive titulary conveyance from Indian, adventurer, immigration agent, or picmeer, for three years, and during those three years all the business of town meetings, and actions of officers and committees were anticipatory of legal justification. After more than three years of struggling against misfortunes and much importunate be- seeching, through the intervention of influential officers of the crown, the precious document was brought to town, not to Nutfield, but to London- derry, and not in the province of Massachusetts, but in the province of New Hampshire. The copy LINCOLN. From (he Statue by John Rogers. — In Manchester Public Library. THE CHARITY PATIENT. In Manchester Art Gallery. HOME OF JOHN ROGERS, NEW CANAAN, CONN. 'WHY don't you Sl'EAK FOR VOUUSELI', JOHN ? ' In Manchester Art Gallery. TAKING THE OATH AND DRAWING RATIONS. In Manchester Art Gallery. U'/LLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 83 of the ro3'al grant and schcduk- is herewith pre- sented to the reader : George by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith, etc. To all peojile to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Know ye that we of our especial knowledge and mere mo- tion for the due encouragement of settling new plantations, by and with the advice and consent of our council, have given and granted by these presents, as far as in us lies do give and grant, in equal shares unto sundry of our beloved subjects, whose names are entered unto a schedule hereunto annexed, that inhabit, or shall inhabit, within the said grant within our province of New Hampshire, all that tract of land, within the following bounds, being ten miles square, or so much as amounts to ten miles square, and no more, bearing on the northeast angle at a beach tree marked, which is the southeast angle of Chester, and run- ning from thence due south on Kingstown line four miles and a half and from thence on a west line one mile and three quarters, and from thence south six miles and a half and from thence west-north-west nine miles and a half and from thence north eleven miles and a half and from thence north-north-east three miles, from thence east-south-east one mile, and from thence south-south-west to the southwest angle of Chester, and from thence on an east-south-east line bounding on Chester ten miles unto the l)each tree first mentioned, and that the same be a town corporate by the name of Londonderry, to the persons aforesaid, forever, provided nevertheless, and the true intent and mean- ing of these presents is. anything to the contrary notwithstanding, that nothing in this said grant shall extend to, or be understood to extend, to defeat, prejudice, or make null and void any claim, title or pretence, which our province of the Massachusetts Bay may have to all, or any part (jf the premises granted as aforesaid, or the right to claim [iroperty, or demand of any private person or persons, by reason and means of all or any part of the said granted premises falling within the line or boundaries of our said province of the Massachusetts Bay, to have and to hold the said land to the grantees, their heirs, and assigns, forever, uj)on the following conditions, viz : ist. That the proprietors of every share build a dwelling house within three years, and settle a family therein, and break up three acres of ground, and plant or sow the same within four years, and pay his or their proportion of the town charges, when and so often as occasion shall require the same. 2nd. That upon default of any particular proprietor in com- plying with the conditions of this charter, or his part, such delin- quent proprietor shall forfeit his share to the other proprietors, to be disjiosed of by vote of the major part of the pro|)rietors, and in case of an Indian war withm the said four years, the said grantees shall have four years more, after the said war is ended, for the performance of those conditions. The said men and inhaljitants also rendering and paying for the same to us and our successors, or to such officer or officers as shall be ajjpointed to receive the same, the annual quit-rent or acknowledgement of one peck of l)otatoes, on the first day of October yearly forever, reserving also unto us, and our heirs and successors, all mast trees growing on said tract of land, and according to the acts of Parliament in that behalf made and provided, and for the better order, rule and government of the said town, we do by these presents grant, for us and our heirs and successors, unto the said grantees, that yearly and every year, upon the fifth day of March forever, ex- cept the Lord's Day, and then on the Monday next following, they shall meet and elect and choose, by the major part of the electors present, all town officers, according to the laws and usage of the other towns within our said province, for the year ensuing, with such powers, privileges and authorities, as other town officers in our province aforesaid do enjoy, as also that on every Wednesday in the week forever, they may hold, keep and enjoy a market, for the selling and buying of goods, wares, merchandise and all kinds of creatures, endowed with the usual privileges, profits and immunities, as other market towns usually hold, possess and enjoy, and two fairs annually forever the first to be held, or kept, within the said town on the eighth day of October next, and so de anno in annum forever, and the other on the eighth day of May in like manner, provided that it should so happen, that if at any time, either of those days fall on the Lord's Day, then the said fair shall be held and kept the day following, and that the said fair shall have, hold and possess the liberties, privileges and immun t;es, that other fairs in other towns usually possess, hold and enjoy. In witness whereof we have caused the seal of our said province to be hereunto affixed. Witness Samuel Shute, Esq., our Governor and [l. s.] Commander in Chief of our said province the twent}-- first of June, Anno Domini, seventeen hundred twenty-two, and in the eighth year of our Reign. By advice of the Council, .SAMUEL SHUTE. Richard Waldron, Clir. Con. A schedule of the names of proprietors of Londonderry : John Moore, Robert W illson, James Moore, John Archibald, James and lohn Doak, Henry Green, Abel Merrill, Randall Ale.xander, Robert Doak, Alexander Walker, John Clark, James Anderson, James Alexander, James Morrison, John Mitchell, Archibald Clendennen, John Barnard, James MacKeen and sons (2 shares). Jonathan Tyler, Alexander Nichols. James Nichols, William Nichols, William Humphrey, John Barr and sons (2 shares), David Craig and William (iillmore (2 shares), John Stewart, Thomas Steele, Samuel AUison, John Morrison, Robert Wear, Allen Anderson, Mr. MacGregor and sons (3 shares), James Nesmith, James Clark, William Gregg, John Gregg, John CJregg and sons (2 shares), William Willson and John Ritchey, David Cargill, Jr., William Thompson, Hugh Mont- gomery, Robert Morrison, .\lexander MacNeal, Roliert Boyes, John MacMurphy. John .\lacNeal, William Cam|)ljell, Ca])t. David Cargill, John Archibald, Jr., James MacNeal, Daniel McDuffee (it share)- Samuel Houston, Col. John Wheelwright, Edward Proc- tor, Benjamin Kidder, John Gray, Jose|)h Kidder, John Cioffe, Sam- uel Gro\er. lohn Crombie. Matthew Clark, James Lindsay, James Leslie, John Anderson, James Blair, John Blair, James Moore, John Shields (1^ share), James Rodgers {^ share), Jose])h Simonds, Elias Keyes, John Robey, John Senter, Robert MacKeen, Janet. Samuel and John MacKeen, William Coghran, John, Peter, and Andrew Coghran, David Boyle, James Gregg, 84 WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. Samuel Grover and Robert Boyes, James Aiken, William Aiken, Edward Aiken, John Wallace, Benjamin Willson. Andrew Todd, John Bell, David Morrison, Samuel Morrison, Al^ram Holmes, lohn Given, William Ea\Tes, Thomas Boyle, Elizabeth Willson and Mary her daughter (^ share), Samuel Graves, Jr., John Gofte, Jr., Stephen Pierce, Andrew Spalding, Alexander Mac- Murphy and James Liggitt {\ share), James MacGregor for ser- vants {\ share), Capt. Cargill for two servants, George Clark {\ share), Thomas Clark {\ share), Nehemiah Giffin {\ share), James MacGloughlan {\ share). Parsonage lot, John Barnard, Jr., John MacConoghy, John MacClury {\ share), John A\'oodburn, Benning Wentworth, Richard Waldron, Jr., Lt. Gov. Wentworth, Robert Armstrong, Robert Auchmuty, making a total of 12 2|- shares. The full number of proprietors in our charter is one hun- dred and twenty-four and a half, parsonage and all. The memo- randum over and above what is already given in this schedule is added to Mr. MacGregor, 250 acres: Mr. MacKeen. 250 acres ; Mr. David Cargill, 100 acres ; Mr. James Gregg, 150 acres : John Goffe, 100 acres : total, 850 acres. And to the two last mentioned, viz, Gregg and Goffe, a mill stream within the said town for their good service in iiromoting the settlement of the town, Richard \\'aldron, CUr. Con. New Hampshire, June 22, 1722. Admitted pro- ])rietors and commoners in the town of London- derry with the persons mentioned in this schedule: His Excellency Governor Shute a home lot and 500 acres ; His Honor Lieut. Gov. Went- worth a home lot and 500 acres : Samuel Fenhallow, Mark Hun- kins, George Jaffrey, Shadrack Waldron. Richard Wibbard, Thomas Westbrook, Thomas Parker, Archie MacPheadin, one share each. Richard Waldron, Cii-rk of CoiincH. It mioht have been tlioti^lit the rights and interests of everv person in the new cohmv of Londonderry had been thorousjhlv secured at the end of three such vexatious years in this Hberal charter and kinsjly favor, but unfortunately there were clauses in the royal ^rant that left the title to the land no clearer than before, as it was not per- mitted to make void the claim of the province of BROADWAY, DERRY DEPOT. LOOKING EAST (1S94). Massachusetts, to any or all of this tract, nor could it be enforced against the rights of any private person, and interminable disputes occurred all alono; the boundaries, especially on the east and south. In some instances the claimants, despairing of receiving justice at the hands of public officers, attem})ted to settle the question of occupancy by physical force. There was so little currency in the countrv at that period, and very few of the settlers had anv means of defraying the expenses of a law- suit in defence of their homesteads, the suffering was so great, the redress so remote, and delays so disastrous in the cases of ejectment, that the town was obliged to have a warrant article al- most annually to see what next should be done for protection, and determine how the cost of suits should be raised. The deeds that have been mentioned hitherto and the charter have been given in this ar- ticle, although thev may be found in other histories of towns eml)raced in part in the original boundary of London- derry. There is no doubt about the va- lidity of another deed of \yhich little has been written in former histories, and a careful examination of the records will con- vince the reader that much moreprofitahlesales were made under the provisions of the Mason grant, than under that of Wheelwrigrht, and it was found practical Iv impossible to expel those who held land under the Mason grant. Ejectments came by the grant, but the people who could be disturbed by reason of the Mason grant finally took measures to forever clear their titles of any claim under it. The deed will give a fair understanding of the situa- tion in this and neighboring towns twenty-five years after the arrixal of the Nuffield colony. It is said these twelve men of Portsmouth named in WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 85 flu- deed below quit claimed to seventeen old towns l)et\veen the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers already settled without exactin^Sj more than a nom- inal consideration : To all People to whom these presents shall come. John Tufton Mason of Portsmouth within the Province of New Hamp- shire in New England, Esquire, sendeth greeting : Know ye that Captain John Mason heretofore of London, Esquire, now deceased, by virtue of several grants to him made by and under the Crown and several confirmations and ratifica- tions thereof by the Crown, claimed and held a certain tract of land situated in New England in America, lying upon the sea coast between the river Merrimack and the river of Piscataqua, and running \\\\ Piscataqua river to the farthest head thereof, and from thence northwestward until sixty miles are completed, and so running up the river Merrimack sixty miles, and thence across the main land to the end of the sixty miles aforesaid, commonly called and known by the name of New Hampshire, which grants and the right, title and inheritance of, in and unto the same, which did belong to the said Ca|it. [ohn Mason, is now become the estate in fee of the said John Tufton Mason, as he is heir at la.v of John Tufton Mason, deceased, who was the son and heir of Robert Tufton Mason, deceased, who wa^ grandson and heir at law of the said Capt. John Mason, deceased. And for and in consideration of the sum of fifteen hundred jjounds of good and lawful money of the province of New Hamp- shire, aforesaid, to me the said John Tufton Mason in hand well and truly paid by Theodore Atkinson, Richard Wibird, John Moffatt, Mark HunTiing Wentworth, Samuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne Junr., and Joshua Pierce, Escjuire, Nathaniel Meserve, (leorge Jaffrey, Junr., and John Wentworth, Junr., gentlemen, all of Portsmouth aforesaid, and Thomas Wallingford of Sommers- worth in said Province, Esquire, and Thomas Packer of (ireen- land in the Province aforesaid, the receipt whereof, to full content and satisfaction, I hereby acknowledge, and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof. I do exonerate, acquit and discharge them, the said Theodore Atkinson, Richard Wibird. John Moffatt, Mark Hunking Wentworth, Samuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne, Junr., Joshua Pierce, Nathaniel Meserve, George Jaffrey. Junr.. John Wentworth, Junr., Thomas Wallingford, and Thomas Packer, and all and every of their several and respective heirs, executors and administrators, forever. Have given, granted, bargained and sold, and by these presents do give, giant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, make over, convey, and forever confirm, unto them, the said Theo- dore Atkinson, Richard Wibird, John Moffatt, Mark Hunking Wentworth. Samuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne, Junr., Joshua Pierce, Nathaniel Meserve, (ieorge Jaffrey, Junr., John Wentworth, Junr., Thomas Wallingford. and Thomas Packer, their heirs and assigns forever, in the manner and ]3roportion hereafter in these presents mentioned, all that my right, title, interest, estate, inheritance, jiroperty, possession, claim or demand whatsoever, which I now have, of in and unto all that tract or parcel of land situated in the Province aforesaid, containing Two Hundred Thousand Acres, more or less, bounded as follows, viz : Beginning at the mouth of the Piscataqua river, thence up the same to the farthest head of Newickewannick river, so called, and to the farthest head thereof, and thence northwestward until sixty miles be completed from the mouth of said Piscataqua river, the place where it began, and then from Pis- cataqua river aforesaid along the sea coast towards Merrimack river until it comes to the boundary hue between the saul Province of New Hamp- shire and the Province of Massachusetts Bay, thence running as the said bound- ary line runs until sixty miles be completed from the sea, then running from the westerly end of the sixty miles last mentioned across the land to the northerly end of the sixty miles first mentioned, to- gether with the southeast half of the Isle of Shoals, with all my right, title, in- terest, estate, inheritance, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, I have of in and unto all and every of the towns, parishes, precincts, distiicts, villages, buildings, woods, rivers, ponds, waters and water courses, stones, mines, quarries and minerals, and all timber trees within the said boundaries with all and every of the privileges and api)urtenances, profits, commodities and accommodations to the same and any and every part and parcel thereof, in any manner belonging, with the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits, to the same and to any and every part and parcel thereof in any manner belonging, and appurtaining. To have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises, with the privileges and appurtenances as aforesaid, in manner and form following, viz : to the said Theodore Atkinson three fif- teenths parts thereof, to him, his heirs and assigns. And to the said Mark Hunking Wentworth his heirs and assigns two fif- teenths parts thereof, and to the said Richard Wibird, John Moffatt, Sairiuel Moore, Jotham Odiorne, Junr., Joshua Pierce, liROADW^\Y, DKRRY DEPOT. LOOKING WEST (le, and the farm at the Baptist church (the Cornino; settlement). Tie moved to Marietta, ()., in iSj;q and died there in 1S51. His wife ilied in that i)lace in 1SS4. Light ehiUlren were bt)rn to them : Jt)hn D. (who was a teacher in western Ohio), iVlbert C. (who went to Oregon in 1S50), Milton (architt'ct and builder, deceased. Marietta, Ohio), James 15. (merchant in Marietta), Frank S. (nuaehant and accountant, died in Oregon), George '1". (architect and builder in Marietta), Abbie D., the youngest (Mrs. Sprague of Marietta), antl Mary W. (the oldest of the children, married Rev. Dr. Mather of Delaware, O.). Isaac Hovey was a physician at Atkinson, N. H. He left one son, Isaac. James, who died in Boston, left one son, James, deceased in ilbnois. Sallie married E. Dan- forth. Lueretia and Charlotte remained unmar- ried. Eunice married a Mr. Gouch of Boston, and Betsey was also married. Robert and Charles left families in New England. .Albert (i., son of John and Abigail (Dustin) Hovey, was born in Londonderry in 18 — . tfis father, who was a farmer, carpenter, contractor and buildi'r, was a verv able and energetic man. lie constructed several of the principal buildings in Londonderr\', including the Baptist church, and had a wide reputation as a master at his trade and a man of scrupulous integrity. His wife, Abigail Dustin. who was a highlv educated woman for her time, died at the age of ncarh' ninety at Marietta, O. Albert Ct. Hovey attended the common schools of his native town, and among his companions at the Eakin scht)olhouse, near Derrv \'illage, he well remembers the names of Eakin, Ealev, Carr, Carl- ton, Chent'w Belloa, Perkins, Page, McMurpln, and others. .\t the Barclay school his school- mates included Atlams, Dickey, Boise, Watts. McGregor, Perkins, Annis, Anderson, Crowell, and Brickett, ami at the Corning school there were Corning, Pillsburv, Jackson, Nesmith, Davis, Mor- rison, Annis, and Richardson. Mr. Hovey went with his parents to Ohio in 1839, and in 1850 he went to the Pacific coast, locating in Oregon, where he has since resided. Although he has never sought honors or office, he has held many places of public trust in his adopted state. He has been clerk of the courts, mavor of the citv of luigene, state senator, three times a delegate to Republican national conventions, and in 1892 was appointed bv President Harrison on the Board of \"isitors to the L^nited States Military Academy at West Point. Mr. Hovey is a member of the Board of Regents and treasurer of the State Universitv of Oregon. He is president and chief owner of the Lane Countv Bank, established at Eugene, Oregon, in 1S82. Mr. Hovey is married and has two sons and one daughter. Although warmlv attached to his adopted state, he retains a lOnd remembrance of his native town and the highest regard for all her people, both earlv and later acquaintances. In a recent letter to the publisher of this work he savs : " I beg to sav that so far as the soil of Lon- donderrv is concerned, it is the poorest country I have ever known inhabited bv such a noble people," EZRA W. BARTLETT. 102 WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. DENIS A. HOLLAND was born in St. John, N. B., June 17, 1863, and when but a child with his parents removed to this city, where he was educated in the public and parochial schools, including the old high school, corner of Lowell and Chestnut streets. After concluding school life he became bookkeeper for McQuade Brothers and afterward entered the employ of Wilson & Rand as book- keeper, where he continued under ex- Councilman Cox, who succeeded Wil- son & Rand. In 1887 he embarked in the coal business with J. H. DeCourcy, sell- ina: his interest to Mr. DeCourcy in April, 1894. He is now conducting a general business agency, including fire and life insurance, real estate brokerage and business inci- dental thereto. His offices are at 30 and 32 Opera Block. Mr. Holland served as a director in the Man- chester Board of Trade in 1892 and 1893, for five years was secretary of the Democratic Granite State Club, and is now its vice presi- dent. He is a member of St. Joseph's Cathedral, Knights of Columbus, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Amoskeag Veterans, and Derrvfield Club. May 12, 1887, he married Nellie S., daugh- ter of John DeCourcy of North Weare, N. H. Three children have been born to them : Gertrude DeCourcy, Mary Isabella, and Theodore Vincent. Mr. Holland is considered one of the most reliable and capable of Manchester young busi^ ness men, DENIS A. HOLLAND. T^HE NEW CITV HOTEL is a magnificent 1 four-story brick structure, located on Elm street, Nos. 11 28 to 11 38. Electric cars to and from the depot, Massabesic lake, and all other parts of the citv, pass the door every few minutes. The central location of the hotel makes it one of the most desirable and convenient stopping places in the city. The house was opened about four years ago by Charles H. Perkins, who was succeeded by Fred Cotton in 1895. Un- der the new manage- ment many improve- ments have been in- augurated, a score of new rooms having been added. The house has practically been refitted and re- furnished, and there is no modern im- provement for the convenience, com- fort, and pleasure of guests that it does not possess. The house has upwards of seventy-five sleep- ing rooms, single and en suite. The par- lors, sleeping rooms, halls, and corridors are large and ele- gantly furnished, and cleanliness is one of their chief virtues. The handsome din- ing room, located on the first floor, has a seating capacity for one hundred. Mr. Cotton has equipped the dining room with electric fans, and aside from being cool and comfortable, it presents an inviting and attractive appearance. The New City Hotel has become widely and popularly known for its first class service and excellent accommodations. It is in all respects up to date, and has a very large patronage. (See cut of hotel &n.d portrait of proprietor, page 344.) NUTFIELD IN THE REVOLUTION, SPRUNG from a hardv nice of warriors who for Inglis, tifer. The j^rivatcs in the company were: generations had battled for civil or religious Matthew Anderson, Robert Adams, Samuel Ayres, rio-hts, and in whom the love of liberty amounted Hugh Alexander, John Anderson, Alexander to a passion, the descendants of the Nutfield Hrown, William Boyd, John Campbell, Thomas settlers could not have been otherwise than in- Campbell, Peter Christie, Solomon Collins, Ste- tensely patriotic in the Revolution. Indeed, the phen Chase, William Dickey, James Duncan, first act of open resistance to British authority and Samuel Dickey, John Ferguson, John Head, Asa arms in the colonies was committed by a little Senter, Samuel Houston, Jonathan Holmes, Peter band of Londonderry men. Long before the battle Jenkins, John Livingstone, Hugh Montgomery, at Lexington, while the British troops were sta- John Morrison, James Morrison, Joseph Mack, tioncd in Boston, four soldiers deserted and joined Martin Montgomery, Robert McMurphy, William friends in Londonderry. Their hiding place having McMurjihy, William Moore, Robert Mack, David been revealed bv a Tory, an English officer with a McClary, Archibald Mack, James Nesmith, James detachment of soldiers was sent to arrest them. Nesmith, Jr., William Parker, Joshua Reid, William The deserters were soon fouml and marched back Rowrll, Thomas Roach, Abel Senter, Samuel toward Boston, but the fact quickly became known Thompson, John Vance, Hugh Watts, Thomas in the town, and a party of young men, led by Wilson, John Patterson, Henry Parkinson, Samuel Captain James Aiken, pursued and overtook them Stinson, John Smith, Richard Cressey, James a few miles from Haverhill. Passing the British Moore, and six men from Windham. soldiers on the road, the captain suddenly drew up In August, 1776, a company, commanded by his men in front of them and commanded the offi- Captain John Nesmith, was raised in which were cer to deliver his prisoners. The order was obeyed, thirty-nine men from Londonderry. Of these the and the four soldiers returned with their liberators new enlistments were : Samuel Cherry, ensign ; to Londonderrv and became residents of the town, Solomon Todd, sergeant; Michael George, drum- no further attempts being made for their arrest, mer; Timothv Dustin, fifer, and John McClurg, That was the spirit manifested by the men of Nut- William Rogers, Robert McCluer, James Ewins, field before the outbreak of hostilities, and the Robert Boyes, Jr., John Orr, Samuel Rowell, John warlike frenzy that seized the town when the news Humphrey, John Cox, Edward Cox, John Ander- came from Lexington in April, 1775, can easilv be son, Jr., Thomas White, Ephraim White, James imagined. Men stopped their work instantlv to Moor, Samuel Layers, John Ramsey, David George, carry the word from one section of the town to Jonathan Gregg, Abner Andrews, Alexander another, and in a few hours all wiio could bear Craige, W^illiam Colby, Patrick Fling, William arms were assembled on the common, near the Adams, James Boyes, Jr., Jonathan George, meeting-house. A large volunteer companv was Charity Killicut, and John Lancaster, privates; formed from the two companies of militia and with these additional enlistments in December, started at once to join the American troops near 1776: Jonathan Wallace, William Lvon, Moses Boston, their accoutrements, ammunition, and pro- Watts, Thomas McClary, Jesse Jones, Arthur visions being forwarded to them afterward. Of Nesmith, John Todd, Benjamin Nesmith, James tills company George Reid, who subsequently be- Hobbs, Nathan Whiting, Benjamin Robinson, came distinguished, was chosen captain ; Abraham David Marshall, William Burroughs. Reid, first lieutenant ; James Anderson, ensign and In 1777 and 1778 about fifty men enlisted, second lieutenant ; John Patten, quartermaster ser- many of whom had previously seen service ; in 1779 geant ; Daniel Miltimore, John Nesmith, Robert there were seventeen enlistments; in 1780, thir- Barnet, John Mackey, sergeants; James McCluer, teen ; in 1781, thirty. The town voted, in March, Robert Boyes, Jt)shua Thompson, George McMur- 1777, to "raise a bounty of eighteen pounds ster- phy, corporals; Robert Burke, drummer; Thomas ling for each man that is now wanting to make up 103 104 WrLT.ET'S T^nOK OF Nr^TPJFI.D. our coin|)Knu'nt of niL-n," ami in April tiic bounty was increased to thirty pounds sterling'. In Jan- uary, 1778, the selectmen were authorized to ])ro- vide for the families of soldiers belono^ino; to the town. During the entire struyyle of eio'ht years, Londonderrv not onlv linnished her lull propor- tion of retjular troops, but the repi'ated emcriren- cies which called for special aid were met with readiness. According to the census taken in 177S, there were in the town of Londonderry four hun- dred and four males between the ages of sixteen and fifty, and si.xty-si.x of these were in the army, — a larger number than from any other town in the county. Portsmouth sent onl\- lift\' men, and there was but one town in the state which contril)- uted more soldiers than Londonderry; that town was Amherst, which sent eighty-one. London- derry paitl lor bountii's a larger sum than anv other town, and it is belux'ed that, including volun- teers and recruits for the continental line, she ac- tualh' furnished a greater number of soldiers than any other town. Her list of distinguished officers, headed by Generals Stark and Reid, includes Colonel William Gregg, Captain Daniel Reynolds, and Lieutenants McClary and Adam Taylor. Lieutenant McClary, who was killed at Benning- ton, was the only man from Londonderrv who lost his life in battle during the war. npHE FIRST ROAD in Nutfield, joining the ■* two \'illages, is thus referred to in the records of Feb. 13, 1720: "A by-way laid out from the bridge below the sawmill, from thence running sou-easterly by Mr. Gregg's hous, from thence turning more easterly, along by James Clark's new hous, & so up b}^ James Neasmath's & so along as the old way as far as the east corner of Robert Wear's fence." Dec. 16, 1725, the selectmen in- dorsed the road as laid out, and voted that it be "two rods wide cS: to be open (S; common without SU.ME CATHOLIC IXSTITUTlOXS IN MAN'CHIOSTER. RESIDENCE OK BISHOP BRADLEY. ST. PATRICK'S ORPHANAC.E H)R C.IRI.S. MOUNr ST. MARV"S ACADEMY. ST. JOSEPH'S ORPHANAGE I'OR KUVS. WIL LET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 105 crates & bars." About the same time the En.tjiish Ranitje road was laid out, and in 1 724 the road to " Ammasceegg Falls" was laid out hv Captain [ames Gregg and William Aiken. The roads from the East Church in Derry to the pond, and that running south bv the cemetery, and also the high- way across the Double Range south of Westrun- ning brook were all laid out b\' the selectmen June 1, 1723. The Aikens Range road, four rods wide across the Aiken lots and two rods wide through the village to the mill, was laid out Nov. 172 the Chester road, N ov. I 1723 ; the higlnva\' between Derrv village and the Depot, in 1737; the Londonderry turnpike, in 1806; the road in Londonderry running east to meet the Aikens Range road, June 19, 1730; and the main road across Londonderry, east and west to Litch- field, in 1744; and from Dissmore's Corner north to the Baptist Church, in 1745. Stjme of the highways that were laid out were never built, and for years they were nothing more than bridle-paths. [AMES WEBSTER was born in Atkinson, "J N. H., Sept. 22, 1799. He was descended from sturdy New England stock that had inhabited that part of the country for many years. His father with his family, including the subject of this sketch, moved to Derry in 18 16, and purchased the farm in the southeastern part of the town known as the " Wood place," which still remains in the possession of a grandson. James Webster was married Jan. 22, 1829, to Maria Eavrs of Dun- stable (now Nashua) at Newburvport, Mass., where the bride then lived. The newlv married eoujtle ri'lurncd to the paternal home in Derry and con- tinued to reside there ever afterward. One half the pi'o|)erlv was deeded to James, who carried on tile farm, sharing the house with iiis [larents and one brotlier until their death. Nine children were born to him : James Henry, H. Maria, Charles P., Sarah A., George A., Ellen A., Mary P., Julia S., and John E. Two have died ; the others are mar- rit'd. The mother was born \\W\\ 4, 1808, and died May 14, 1875. The father died Aug. 19, 1881. Such is the record of a most worthy and happy family lite, uneventful though it was in great or strik- ing deeds. He was captain of a military company, and the title always clung to him. He never sought for office. He was a man of sturdy integ- rity, of genial manner, of dignified bearing, and sympathetic heart. He and his wife were mem- bers of the Congregational church for many years. Both were best known and appreciated in their happy home, but when they passed away there was a meat void in neighborhood and town, recognized by a host of loving friends. His home was one of generous hospitality, from which no stranger was '^ \ ^ «\^ ^ ^ V 1 1^ \\l 1 \v ^ I JAMES WEBSTER. ever turned away hungry, and where the call of suffering was never unheeded. The loss of his wife, a devoted companion for more than forty-six years, was a blow from which Mr. Webster never recovered ; but with a fortitude born of true Chris- tian faith his nati\e sunnv temperament still lighted up his househoKI. At a ripe old age he passed away, with loving hands to minister to his wants, yielding up a life rich in the fruitage of the good and true. T^HE LEACH LIBRARY in Londonderry 1 owes its origin to a fund of three thousand dollars bequeathed by David Rollins Leach, who was born in Londonderry, Aug. 8, 1806, and died at Manchester, April i, 1878. At its next annual \ io6 WILLET'S BOOK OF NirTFIELD. meeting the town voted to accept the bequest, chose a board of nine trustees and authorized the selectmen to build an addition to the town hall for a library room. About one thousand books were on the shelves when the library was thrown open for use, F"eb. 25, 1880, and since then about one thousand more have been added, making a very creditable and useful collection. There was a DAVID ROLLINS LEACH. social library of several hundred volumes, kept first at the store of William Anderson, in 1830, and transferred in 1834 to the house of Robert Mack. A few years later the books were sold at auction and the proceeds divided among the stockholders. In 1858, forty residents of the town purchased a small lil)rary of about two hundred \'olumes, which were later donated to the Leach library. r^UR HOME JUBILEE.— A poem written ^-^ \\\ Lucinda J. Gregy- and read by Rev. J. T. McCoUom at the Londonderry celebration, 1869: Let Nutfield today sound its merriest notes ! Let the hills and the vales catch the strain as it floats ! Ring out the loud echoes from mountain to sea, And rejoice in the day of our glad Jubilee ! From the Kast. from the North, from the prairies afar. From the Pine Tree domains to the southern Lone Star, We wanderers come to the cherished home-fold, To unite in one song for the bright days of old. A song for the true, and a song for the brave, Who came from afar o'er the easterly wave ; One song for the lake on whose beautiful shore, Their wanderings ended, they worshipped of yore. Today we will sing of the brown homes they made. Where earnest hands toiled, and where loving hearts prayed : And the home for the .Sabbath, just over the way. The sacred old church, that's one hundred today. In our jubilant song conies a sadder refrain ; — For the forms of the fathers we see not again. Ill their green-covered houses on yonder white lull, \\ ith the marble doors locked, they are sleeping so still ! In that glorious day when the sleepers arise, W hen together we go to our home in the skies. It is then we shall know — but, oh ! never till then — • How much we all owe to those brave, faithful men. Adown the long years comes a noble array : Ah ! many are found on Fame's roll-call today. From these valle)S and hills has an army of worth. Of talent and trust, gone to bless the wide earth. Of those left at home, there is many a name, All heroic, all noble, unspoken by Fame : — One sigh for the dead, — for the living, one song ! God bless the loved homeland that claims all the throng ! Then hail to old Deny ! its lake and its lea. Its beautiful stream winding down to the sea, Its wondrous old trees with the evergreen crest. Its fine, fertile fields, sloping green to the west ! k\\ hail to old Nutfield ! whose broader expanse Our forefathers claimed as the years did advance ; We always shall love thee, wherever we roam, .\nd breathe out a prayer for our earliest home. But Time's speeding onward ; how soon in its flight Will it bear us afar and away out of sight ! How few, on another centennial day, ^Vill return and talk over the years sped away ! But we hope, oh ! we hope, when our earth-day is done, When our tent 's taken down at life's last setting sun, On the Plains all immortal, with glory untold. We shall sing of the days that can never grow old. HON. CYRUS A. SULLOWAY. HON. CYRUS A. SULLOWAY, son of Greeley and Betsey L. Sulloway, was horn in Grafton, June 8, 1839. His youth was spent upon his father's farm, and his opportunities for acquirino; a hheral education were of that restricted character common to New Hampshire farmer boys of that period. Bv his enterprise and zeal, how- ever, he succeeded in sup[)lementing- his dis- trict school education hy an academic course at Colby Academv in New Lon d on. In 1 86 1 he heoan the study of law with Pike (& Barnard of Frank- lin, the senior mem- ber of which firm died while holding the of- fice of LTnited States senator, and thejunior that of attorncv-gen- eral of the state. Mr. Sulloway was admit- ted to the bar at Ply- mouth in November, 1863, and soon there- after removed to Man- chester and entered into copart n ers h i p with Samuel D. Lord, under the firm name of Lord (Sl Sullowav. This business copart- nership continued for ten years and was eminently successful, securintr a wide client- age and a lucrative practice. Upon its dissolution Mr. Sulloway associated with himself Mr. E. M. Topliff, under the firm name of Sulloway & Topliff. The practice of this firm has been very extensive, and among the largest in the state. From 1873 to 1878 Mr. Sulloway was deputy collector of in- ternal revenue. He was a member of the legisla- ture in 1872, '73, '79, '91, and '93, serving as chair- HON. CYRUS A. SULLOWAY. man of the committee on elections during his first term and twice subsequently as chairman of the judiciary committee. Upon his first entry into legislative life he at once took commanding posi- tion as leader, which position he maintained with consummate ability during his entire career of legis- lative experience. His conspicuous service in this capacity gave hi m wide fame and great popularity throughout the state. Always an active partisan in whatever he espoused, he entered into the heated controversies that agitated the legis- lature during his mem- bership, with zeal and enthusiasm and al- ways as the central figure of the most ex- cited controversy. In the fall of 1894 Mr. Sulloway received the unanimous Republi- can nomination for congress in the first district, and at once entered upon the can- vass with his charac- teristic ardor and im- ]ietuositv, and the re- sult was his trium- phant election by more than 6000 plurality. This was the first test of his personal and political popularity be- fore so large a constituency, embracing one half of the state, and the outcome justified the high expectations which his friends have long enter- tained as to his strong hold upon the favor and good will of the people of the state. As a lawyer, and especially as a jury advocate, Mr. Sulloway has achieved a most pronounced success, and his future prospects, both political and professional. 107 io8 WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. oujjht tu satisfy the most exacting ambition. Mr. initials of llie ciiurclies, were distributed to prevent Sulloway was married May 31, 1864, to Helen M., intruders. Long, narrow tables were spread in the daughter of Jonathan W. and Theodorah D. Fifield aisles, and sometimes three or four sittings, ar- of Franklin. One daughter, Belle H., was born July ranged according to age, would be necessary, pro- ^i, 1868. Mrs. Sullowav having deceased July 20, tracting the services until sunset. These seasons 1S92, Mr. Sullowav, on Mav 31, 1894, married were often attended with many conversions. Miss Martha J. Webster of Haverhill, Mass. WORLDLY WISDOM and practical sagacity were i)roniinent traits in the character ot the Scotch Irishmen who settled Nuttield. Dealers in mythical corner lots and nebulous west- ern real estate and confidence men of every species would have earned but a precarious livelihood among those alert, long-headed men. The advice of one of the elders to a young man who was about journeying into a new country is worthy to go with the celebrated counsels of Polonius to Laertes. The young man was to carry considerable silver money, and the elder said to him : " When ye come into a strange hoose, don't set doun your saddle-bags as if there was eggs in 'em, nor yet fling them doun so as to chink the coin ; but put them doun indiffcrentlv, in a corner where you can sec 'em, but never look at 'em." /^-^OMMUNION SEASONS in the early davs V_> of the Nutfield settlement were held only twice a year and were occasions of great impor- tance to the church. In 1734 Mr. Thompson had seven hundred communicants present at one sea- son, the number including members of the church residing; in other settlements and members of other churches. Communion seasons were pre- ceded by preaching on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Thursday was observed with great strictness as a sacramental fast-day, and any viola- tion of it was a serious matter. One church mem- ber was disciplined for spreading out hay to dry on a Thursday. The Monday following communion was a day of thanksgiving. These extra services gave rise to much preaching, requiring the aid of other ministers. Communicants from several churches, with their ministers and elders, often united in the sacrament on the Sabbath. Small pieces of metal called tokens, stamped with the ^^"■ A ^ WILLIAM PARKER CLARK, son of Dea- con William Danforth and Almira Eliza- beth (Dodge) Clark, was born in Derrv, April 30, 1845. He was educated in the pulilic and in select schools in the adjoining town of Auburn, after- ward taking a commercial course at Comers' Col- lege in Boston. In the spring of 1863 Mr. Clark went to Nashua, and worked on a farm the three following summers for Mr. George McQuesten, who took a kindly and salutary interest in his welfare, and whose influence upon him was as good as that of a parent. In October, 1865, he entered the ser- vice of Holt &. McQuesten, flour and grain dealers, in the Laton build- ing, Railroad square, and by con- stant attention to business he gainetl the confidence ot his employers and became a member of the firm. In lateryears the busi- ness was trans- ferred to the store under the First Baptist Church, Main street, where it is still carried on under the firm name of McOuesten & Co., the firm consisting of Ezra P. Howard, William P. Clark, and Joshua W. Hunt. In 1868 Mr. Clark married Miss Elizabeth S. Davis of Dover, N. H. Three daughters have been added to the family : Lillian, Yennie Ethel, and Evangelyn May Clark. Mr. Clark has always taken a deep interest in political affairs, being a Republican. Fie is also an active member of the First Congregational Church. WILLIAM PARKER CLARK. DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER. RT. REV. DENIS M. BRADLKW Ihst Catho- ship with great cxccutivL- ahiHty and personal traits lie bishop of Manchester, was born in Ire- that have endeared him to hosts of non-Catholics, land I-\'b 2^, 1846. When he was eight years of and he has thus been able to allay much of the age his mother came to America and with her five children settled in Manchester. After attending the Catholic schools of the town, the boy was sent to the College of the lIol\- Cross, Worcester, and upon graduating from that institution he entered upon the study of theologv in St. Joseph's Pro- vincial Seminarv at Trov, N. \'., and was there onlained to the priesthood June 3, 1871, by Rt. Rc\-. Bishop MeOuaid of Rochester. Manchester at that time belonged to the diocese of Portland, and Bishop Bacon ap- pointed the young |)riest to the cathedral in the latter citv, where he remained during the lifetime of that prelate, serving during the last two vears as rector of the cathedral and chan- cellor of the diocese. He continued to dis- charge tiie same duties under Bishop Healey until June 16, 1880, when he was appointed pastor of St. Joseph's C h u re h, Manchester. Upon the erection of RT. REV. DENIS U. BRADLEY. prejudice that has always existed in New Hamp- shire against his religion. The first Catholic church in the state was built in i8:>3 by Rev. Virgil H. Barber, a convert. Ten years later another church was erected at Dover, and for twent\' vears these were the onlv Catholic churches in New Hampshire. In 1847 Rev. John B. Daly, a Franciscan father, began a church in Manchester. The Sisters of Mercy, the first religious commu- nitv established in New Hampshire, came to Manchester u n d e r Mother Francis Wardc, at the request of Rev. Wm. McDonald, in i860. At the time of Bishop Bradley's con- secration in St. Joseph's Church, which is now his cathedral, there were thirty-seven churches and chapels in the state, and thirtv-cight priests. The Catholic popula- tion of New Hamp- shire was about 50,000, and there were 3,300 pujiils in the Catholic schools. In the eleven the state of New Hampshire into a separate dio- years of Bishop Bradley's administration the num- cese in 1884, Father Bradley was recommended ber of Catholics in the state has increased to for the new see by the bishops of New England nearly 90,000, and there are about 10,000 pupils in on account of his zeal and services in parochial the Catholic schools. The diocese contains thirty- duties and his experience in diocesan affairs, gained two parochial schools for boys and the same num- in Portland. He was accordingly appointed by ber for girls ; there are five high schools for l)oys, I'ope Leo XIII and consecrated June 11, 1884. six academies for young ladies, one college and five Under his wise administration the cause of Catho- orphan asylums. The other Catholic institutions licit)- has prospered wonderfully in New Hamp- in the state include six convents of brothers, shire. He combines the rare (lualities of leader- twenty convents of sisters, three hospitals, four s 109 }\'rT LEV'S nooK or xrTFn:i.n. lidiiK'S for am'd woim'n ,nul thriT honii's l(ir woik- ing girls, 'riicrc arc eighty Catholic priests in the state, fiftv churches with resident priests, si'\ en- teiMi missions connt'CtiMl with the church, two new In thi- spring ot iJ^S^ he nio\'.-d with his pari'iits to Windham and opcratt'd a sawmill and cider press for thirteen A'cars. The mill was on the turnpike near a placi' of historic interest known as tiie Bessells Camp. In the winter of 1S65 Mr. Seavcy, in partnership with John S. Brown and Nathaniel IT. Clark, erected a steam sawmill at Windham Junction, the first sawmill operated 1)\- steam in the town. The addition of cider presses and tanks complete'd the tomidation of an indListr\' lor Wintlham that has brought prosperity t(j the l)artners and materially enhanced the value of real estate in the \icinit\ and continues to encourage in- crease of |H)pulation. Ordinarih" tiom six to eight Sr. lOSKPH S CATHKDRAr. ^^■\NCHESTER. churches building, seyentcen chapels and twcnt\'- seven stations. It is doubtful if any other religious S ilenomination can show such a rajiiil growth within so short a time. GEORGE ED\V.\RD SE.WF.Y. GEORCtE EDWARD SEAVEV, the son of Benjamin and Sarah (Coburn) Scavey, was born in Pelham June 20, 1839, and from his ear- liest years has bein engaged in the operation of sawmills and cider presses. He parents had not the means of giying him any educational ad- men are empk)yed in the mill yard, but at times the vantages, but he early learned by experience the number is greatly increased. In the winter of principles of business and the yalue of money, juu"- 1893-94 hfty horses were required lor the trans- chasing his first jackknife with money earned in portation of lumber ; at present twenty-four are in saying the wages of an assistant about the mills, constant use. The chief articles of manufacture WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. are unplancd liox boards, the amount of lumber converted into l)oards averagin aged So yrs ; James (a child) no dates ; Elizabeth (a child) no dates ; Capt James died Dec 14, 1792, aged 71 yrs: John (son of James and Mary Wallace) died Nov :5, 1754, aged 10 dys; John (husband of Annas Wal- lace) died March 29, 1777, aged 82 yrs; (The stone bears the legend that John and Annas Wallace were the first couple married in Londonderry, May 18, 1721.) Mary (dau of James and Mary Wallace) died Oct 10, 1760, aged 8 yrs ; Naomi (wife of Capt Rol ert Wallace) died May 10. 179I, aged 80 yrs; Capt Robert Wallace died Oct 10, 1782, aged 73 yrs; Thomas (husband of Barbara Wallnce) died Aug 22, 1754, aged 82 yrs ; William, M. A. (son of Ihomas and Barbara Wallace) died March 27, 1733, aged 26 yrs (see cut on page 33) ; Thomas died May 7, 1789, aged 73 yrs ; Thomas (son of John and Annas Wallace) died Sept 22, 1734, aged 4 yrs I mo 12 dys ; Mrs Rebecca died Sept 22, 1804, aged 8l yrs ; Thomas died Jan 26, 1790, aged 46 yrs ; his wife died April 4, 1785, aged 31 yrs; .Samuel died July 2g, 1778, aged 41 yrs ; William (a child) no dates. Waits, Peggy (wife of Moses Walls) died May 3, 1795, aged 64 yrs. Wiear, David (son of Adam and Margaret Wiear) died Feb 15, 1765, *ged 25 yrs. Wilson, Joseph ; Rebecca (wife of Joseph Wilson) died May 25, 1770, aged 66 yrs. W^OODIiURN, David died Oct 9, 1S23, aged 85 yrs ; Margaret (wife of David Woodburn) died Oct 17, 1792, aged 39 yrs. The complete inscription on the monument of Major John Pinkerton is appended as a tribute to the memory of his fjenerosity and a reminder of the locality where his dust reposes : In memory of John Pinkerton, Esq., who died May i. 1816, aged 81 years. He was born in the county of Antrim, North of Ireland, and came with his parents when a child to this country. He was a man of strict integrity, active benevolence and ex- emplary piety. For many years he was a useful member and officer of the Church of Christ and a distinguished benefactor of the town. By prudence and industry he acquired an ample for- tune which he chiefly devoted to objects of public utility. He was the principal founder of the Pinkerton Academy in London- derry, and endowed each of the two religious societies in the place with a fund for the su])port of the (rospel Ministry. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. Also in memory of Mrs. Rachel, first wife of John Pinkerton. Esq., who died Sept. 13, 1781, aged 36 years. Note. — The income of the Pinkerton fund given to the West Parish is to be appropriated to the sole purpose of sup- porting an orthodo.x Presbyterian ininister of the Gospel in said parish agreeable to the constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. THE MAMMOTH ROAD, so named in deri- sion by those who opposed its construction, was built in the summer of 1831, and at once became a p()|)ular route between Concord and Boston. Large numbers of passengers were carried by the three lines of daily stages that travelled over the road, and the other traffic was also heavy. Great quantities of country produce were taken to Lowell and Boston over the Mammoth road, and the highway continued to be thronged with vehicles until the opening of the Concord & Nashua railroad in 1838. In 1832, the year after the Mammoth road was built, President Jackson and his cabinet passed over it on their w^ay from Boston to Concord, and dined at White's hotel in the northern part of Lon- donderry, HON. WILLIAM C. CLARKE, HON. WILLIAM COGSWELL CLARKE, life. At the academy and in colletre lie was prom- youngest son of Col. John B. and Susan inent in athletics, serving for two years as captain (Moulton) Clarke, was born in Manchester March of the Dartmouth ball team and holding the cham- 17, 1856. Excepting the late e.\-Gov. Weston, he pionship of the ball throwing contest, with a is the only native of Manchester who was ever record of 358 feet 11 inches. He was also winner elected mayor of the city. He was chosen to that of other athletic contests, including the 100-yard office in 1894 by the largest vote ever given to a Republi- can candidate in the citv and by a major- ity of 913, the caucus which nominated him having been the hu'gcst ever held in the state to name a mayoralty candidate. After graduating from the Manchester hi> of United Workmen, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Patrons of Husbandry, and various other organizations. He was married, Nov. 2, 1880, to Miss Genevieve I. Blanchard of Nicholville, N. Y., and has two daughters: Bessie Genevieve, born April 2, 1885, and Belle Frances, born Oct. 3, 1887. BELLE FRANCES KNOWLTON. T^IIE FOUNDERS OF LONDONDERRY, 1 remarkable themselves for thrift and energy, were not slow in transplanting their young and vigorous saplings to the fertile and promising soil of adjoining counties and states, as subsequent years have shown stalwart trees and powerful in- fluences for good, matured from developed saplings of the Scotch-Irish stock thus sent out. Perhaps no more valuable illustration of the vitality and true worth of such transplanted stock has been found than in a sketch of the life of Rev. Charles E. Brown, a lineal descendant of the early Dickey importation from the north of Ireland. His mother was Betsey Dickey, whose father, Joseph Dickev, settled early in Weathersfield, Yt. Betsey married a Baptist minister, Rev. Philip Perry Brown, and Charles E. was a son born Feb. 23, 1813. Probably from an inherited disposition and an anxious desire to do good, he early entered the ministry and after spending a few years in New York state, in his chosen profession, he asked to be sent by the Baptist Missionary Society to the territory of Iowa. 'Hiis was in 1841, and he thus enjoys the distinctiim of being the pioneer Baptist minister in the now great state of Iowa, and with the help of his noble young wife, Frances Lyon, he was largely instrumental in laying broad and deep in Iowa and the new country west of the Mississippi river the foundation of one of the great branches of the Christian Church, and now, in the sunset of life, at eighty-three years of age, he is waiting, with a cheerful heart and sunny smile, for the boatman to ferry him over the river. He is living with his son, Mr. W. C. Brown of St. Joseph, Mo., who is one of the most prominent and capable railroad managers in the West, an d who, with his excellent companion, spares no pains to make bright and pleasant the pathway of his honored sire adown the hill of life. MANCHESTER BOARD OF TRADE IN the 6o's Manchester had a board of trade. It Grenier, Ch^rence M. Edgerlv, and R. D. W. held meetings for several years, was incor- McKav. The preliminary meeting was largely porated Jul}* 14, 1877, and occupied for a time attended. Hon. George B. Chandler was chosen chairman, and C M. Edgerlv secretarv. Enthusi- astic remarks in favor of a live board of trade were made bv Mr. Chandler, Hon. Charles H. Bartlett, Col. John B. Clarke, Hon. Uavid Cross, George A. Leighton, John C. French, Hon. P. C. Cheney, Col. B. C. Dean, Hon. James F. Briggs, and others. A second meeting was held Feb. 5, when a com- mittee, of which James F. Briggs was chairman, reported a constitution and by-laws, which were adopted. A committee to nominate officers re- ported the following list, which was elected : President, George B. Chandler ; vice presidents, Herman F. Straw, P. C. Cheney; treasurer, Henrv Chandler; secretary, Edgar J. Knowlton ; direc- CHARLES C. HAYES. headijuarters in Riddle block. Hon. Daniel Clark was president and Hon. H. K. Slayton, secretary. After accomplishing some good in the way of securing lower rates on coal freighted from the seaboard, and in some other ilirections, the or- ganization declined. A balance of $142 in its treasury was, by unanimous vote of surviving mem- bers, turned over to the present board of trade on Sept. 16, 1893. In 1890 the need of a business organization resulted in a call for a public meeting to be held in City Hall Jan. 22, " for the purpose of organizing an association designed to aid and encourage new industries antl the commercial interests of the city of Manchester." The call was signed by George tors, G. B. Chandler, Frank Dowst, John B. B. Chandler, Hiram D. Upton, John C. French, Varick, H. D. Upton, John C. French, Andrew Charles T. Means, George A. Leighton. William Bunton, Frank M. Gerrish, E. M. Slayton, and Corey, Alonzo Elliott. Frank P. Kimball, A. G. Frank P. Carpenter. Over sixty business men 124 HERBERT W. EASTMAN. IVILLE7"S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. I2S signed the constitution at the first meeting. The board was particuhirly fortunate in the selection of its first officers. Hon. George B. Chandler was an enthusiastic believ^er in the advantages to be de- rived from a live organization of business men. He was possessed of a strong faith in the future of Manchester. He made an ideal presiding offi- cer, drew into his directory some able associates, and the new organization at once sprang into pop- ularity and immediately became a power for good in the Oueen City. The chief object of the board, as defined in the constitution, is to " promote the prosperity of the Queen City of New Hampshire," or in other words, " to secure a union of the ener- gies, influence, and action of citizens in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the city of Manches- ter ; to encourage all legitimate business enter- prises ; to collect and disseminate through the press and otherwise information respecting Manchester as a manufacturing city and a place of residence." Anv person a resident of or having a place of business or owning real estate in Manchester may become a member. The board has standing com- mittees on finance, manufacturing and mercantile affairs, municipal affairs, insurance, railroads and transportation, statistics, and new industries and enterprises. As the first secretary, Edorar T. Knowlton began the work with a zeal which characterizes all his endeavors. He was an old newspaper worker, thoroughly acquainted with the citizens and the needs of the city. The membership the first year was brought up to 275, and by the concerted efforts of the officers, much good was accom- plished. The advantages of the city were dis- played through industrial and other papers and by the publication of 5,000 copies of a handy little volume entitled "Statistics of the Queen City." .The board collected and published information concerning the wholesale and retail trade of the city ; it took an active part in securing lanil for Stark park, and in the effort to get an equestrian statue of Gen. John Stark; it established mer- chants' weeks ; it has encouraged people to pa- tronize home industries; it distributed 25,000 letter sliL'ets containing valuable facts about the city ; it has advocated the establishment of a new county with Manchester as its centre; it secured a postal route between Manchester and North Weare ; it procured an earlier mail delivery in the city; it in- sured the doubling of capacity of the East Man- chester shoeshop ; it created the West Side com- pany, capital $35,000, which built a brick shoeshop 200x45, occupied by Crafts & Green, who em- ploy over 300 hands. The board of trade, in its early existence, agi- tated the relaying of rails from North Weare to Henniker, which after long legal complications, was finally brought about in 1893. The board has continually urged the need of a first class electric railway system in the city. During the session of the legislature of 1895, the board took active preparations to secure a charter for an electric railway, but the present management expressly pledging the installation of a first class system im- mediately, the proposed charter was not obtained. As a result of this movement, Manchester is now supplied with as good an electric street railway system as is in operation in the entire country. The board of trade has also been especially active in the endeavor to secure a charter for a railroad from Milford to Manchester. Through the efforts of the board, directly or indirectly, numerous successful industries have been added to the city. The one single shoeshop fostered by the board has grown to seven large shops, employing at least 2,000 hands and turning out over 10,000 pairs of shoes every day, and dis- tributing nearly a million dollars yearly in wages. The Manchester board of trade was the first in New England to establish a merchants' week. As a result, the retail trade is greatly stimulated each October, and thousands of people from all over the state, and even beyond New Hamjishire, have become acquainted with the enterprise of our live business men. During the merchants' week of 1894 nearly 13,000 people came to Manchester on round trip tickets. Secretary Knowlton, who iiad been elected mayor of the city, resigned his position with the board in May, 1891, and the directors unanimously elected Herbert W. Eastman his successor, who has been re-elected by each board of directt)rs since. After serving two years, the first board of officers was succeeded by Edward M. Slayton as president ; Henry E. Burnham and Charles D. 126 WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. McDuffie, vice presidents; and E. M. Slayton, James W. Hill, Henry B. P^iirhanks, Charles M. Floyd, Frank W. Fitts, Horace Marshall, Charles C. Hayes, L. H. Josselyn, and Denis A. Holland, directors. Treasurer Henry Chandler has been continually re-elected. At the annual meeting in Januarv, 1894, the following oflicers were elected: President, Charles C. Hayes; vice presidents, H. E. Burnham, James W. Hill ; directors, C. C. Hayes, William Marcotte, Fred B. Ellis, O. D. Kno.x, James P. Slattery, Charles E. Co.v, Walter G. Africa, Edward F. Schcer, and Charles F. Green. The headquarters of the hoard were first in the rear of A. J. Lane's real estate office in City Hall building. Meetings of the board were held in City Hall. The need of larger and better quar- ters was apparent, and in September, 1891, two large rooms in Merchants Exchange were secured, where the office of the secretary was established and meetings of the board were held. In Mav, 1894, headquarters were obtained on the sixth fioor of the magnificent Kennard building, the finest business block north of Boston. A large room seating one hundred is handsomely fu'/nished with tables, chairs, desks, and pictures, and several desks are rented to business men who only need desk room. Sliding doors open into a carpeted and finely furnished room for the use of directors, committees, etc. The headquarters are supplied with telephone, writing materials, daily, weekly, and trade papers, stock reports, etc., and are open to members and the public every day and three evenings each week. The board has a membership of over three hundred, comprising nearly every prominent business concern in the city. Secretary Eastman i)ul)lishes quarterly the Board of Trade Journal, which has a large circulation and is hantl- somelv jirinted and illustrated. The Manchester board is connected with the New Hampshire Board of Trade, of which Mr. Eastman is secretary and treasurer. Charles C. Hayes, president of the board and one of the most acti\ e and successful young busi- ness men in the city, was born in New London, N. H., May 31, 1855. He is the son of John M. and Susan E. (Carr) Hayes, both of whom were natives of that town, his father iuuing been a merchant in New London and Salisbury for many years and a jirominent citizen and a real estate owner in Manchester. Mr. Haves received his early education in the common schools of his native town and of Salisbury, and upon coming to Manchester, in 1869, attended the high school, graduating in 1875. After three years of mercan- tile experience he bought the store of the Co- operative Trade Association, which he conducted successfully for several } ears. In 1882 he began a general real estate, mortgage, loan, and fire insur- ance business, which has grown and prospered and which he has managed ever since. He is regarded as one of the best judges of real estate values in the city, and he is often called ujion to appraise pro|)ert\- of that kind. He does an extensive busi- ness hi buying and selling real estate and has assisted greatly in the development of suburban real estate. His business connections are numer- ous. He is vice president and director of the New Hami)shne Trust Company, president of the Thomas A. Lane Company, president of the Oiange Mica Mining Company, treasurer and director of the Kennedy Land Company, treasurer and director of the Rinimon Manufacturing Com- pany, and clerk of the Manchester Shoe Manufac- turing Company. He was a director of the board of trade in 1892, vice president in 1893, and was unanimously elected its president in 1894, and re-elected in 1895. Under his management the board has grown rapidly in membership and in- fluence, ranking today as one of the largest and most nourishing business .organizations in New England. • He is also president'of the Manchester Fire Underwriters' Association. In Masonry Mr. Hayes has an honorable and exalted record. He is Past Worshipful Master of Washington Lodge, A. F. and A. M., member of Mt. Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, has been thrice Illustrious Master of Adoniram Council, Eminent Commander of Trinity Commandery, K. T., all of Manchester, and Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of New Hampshire. He is now in his second term as Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons in New Hampshire. He is also a thirty-second degree Mason, being a member of E. A. Raymond Con- sistory of Nashua. In politics Mr. Hayes is an earnest Democrat. He has been president of the W'lLLET'S BOOK^OF NUTFJELD I 27 Granite State Club and an active party worker for several vears. In 1H94, as Democratic candidate for ma\or of Manchester, he received a flattering vt)te, including the support nt numerous members of the opposing- party. He is an eloquent and pleasing public speaker and presents his thoughts with force and clearness. As president of the First Baptist Society, he wields an influence in religious circles. Mr. I:Ia\es was married, Jan. i, 1885, to Belle J., daughtrr of J(jhn and Hannah B. (Tewksbury) Kennard, who died Aug. i, 1890, leaving three children; John Carroll, now nine years old ; Louise K., aged seven, and Annie Belle, aged five. Herbert Walter Eastman, secretary of the Manchester board of trade, was born in Lowell, Mass., Nov. 3, 1857. He attended the public schools of that citv until 1870, when he went to Boston and was employed in a large wholesale and retail store. In 1873 he came to Manchester and went to the Lincoln grammar school, graduating in the class of 1874, taking the highest honors in pen- mans'nip and tlrawing. Soon afteiwaid he went to work iu the Dailv Mirror office, in spare hours studying wood engraving and making numerous illustrations for the dailv and weekly editions. In 1875 he entered the empluv of Cam|)l)ell t^c Ilan- scom, of the Daily Union, and worked in every department irom the pressroom to reportorial and editorial work and proof reading. When the Union was made a morning paper he was assistant local reporter, and in June, 18S0, he was promoted to the city editorship, which he resigned in Jan- uary, 1 88 1, because of ill health. Aug. i, 1884, he became city editor of the Weekly Budget, writing also numerous articles on industrial and historical subjects. In 1886, with F. H. Challis, he pur- ehasi-(l the Budget, anil with him started the pub- lication of the Daih" Press and was its city editor. In 1889 he sold his interest to Mr. Challis, but continued in charge of the local department till early in 1891, when he accepted a position as assistant secretary of the board of trade, the secretary, E. J. Knowlton, having been elected mayor of the cit\-. In Ma\', 1891, Mr. Knowlton resigned and Mr. Flastman was unanimousl\- elect j(l secretary of the board, and has been re- elected each year since. During his term as secretary the board has gained nearly a hundred members and now has the largest membership and occupies the finest headquarters of any such organization in New England (uitside of Boston. By a system of renting desk room, originating with Secretary Eastman, the expenses of the board are very much reduced. He is a Past Grand of Wildey Lodge, and a member of Mount Washington En- cami)ment, I. O. O. Y ., United Order of Friends, United American Mechanics, and Amoskeag Grange, P. of H., president of the Manchester Press Club, treasurer of the Coon Club, an organ- ization of newspaper men of the state, and presi- dent of the Manchester Cadet Veteran Associa- tion. He married, Jan. 9, 1890, Nellie Clough Eatnn, daughter of George E. and Lucinda (French) Eaton of Candia, N. H. GOVERt*-MENT liUILDINi;, MANX H KM hK HON. JAMES A. WESTON, HON. JAMES A. WESTON was born in what is now Manchester, Aucj. 27, 1827. He was the lineal descendant of a family promi- nent and influential in the colonization of New England, his ancestors coming originally from Buckinghamshire, England, early in the seven- teenth century. In 1622 John Weston and his brother-in-law, Richard Green, came to Wey- mouth, then called Wiscasset, and aided in the formation of a colony. In 1644 a son of John Weston, whose name also was John, concealing himself in an emigrant ship until well out at sea, obtained a passage to America and joined his relatives in Massachusetts. He finally settled in Reading, Mass., and became distinguished for his services in the administration of the colonial go\^- crnment. From him sprang the lineage to which the subject of this sketcii belongs. Amos Weston, father of James A. Weston, was born in Reading, Mass., in 1791. He moved to New Hampshire in 1803 and settled in a section of Manchester which was formerlv a part of Londonderry. He was a farmer, and was promment in the management of the town's business and affairs. In 18 14 he mar- ried Miss Betsey Wilson, a daughter of Colonel Robert Wilson of Londonderry, and granddaughter of James Wilson, who came from Londonderry, Ireland, and was one of those indomitable Scotch- Irish whose courage, thrift, and persistency became such a factor in the growth of the new colony. The childhood and youth of James A. Weston were spent on his father's farm, and his education was obtained in the district schools and academies of Manchester. He mastered thoroughly the profession of civil engineering while engaged in teaching school in Londonderry and Manchester. In 1846, while only nineteen years of age, he was appointed assistant engineer of the Concord Rail- ro.id, and in 1849 he was made chief engineer of that road. As chief engineer he superintended the construction of the Manchester & Candia and the Suncook Valley railroads. In 1854 he married Anna S. Gilmore of Concord, by whom he had six children : Herman, Grace Helen, James Henry, Edwin Bell, Annie Mabel, and Charles Albert Weston, all of whom survive except Herman. In politics he was always a Democrat. In 1862 he was a candidate for mayor, but was de- feated. In the following year he was again a can- didate and was again defeated by only a few votes, but in 1867 he was elected mayor over Hon. Joseph B. Clark. In 1868 he was again the un- successful candidate, but was elected in 1870 and in 1 87 1. While mayor he conferred lasting benefit upon the city bv the establishment of a system of water-works. As ex-officio member of the board of water commissioners he was untiring in his efforts to hasten to completion the important un- dertaking. He continued until his death a mem- ber of the board, giving to that body the best results of his foresight and experience. In 1870, by the almost unanimous choice of his party, Mr. THE WESTON RESIDENCE. Weston became the nominee for governor. There was no election by the people, although he received a plurality of votes. He was chosen governor by the legislature, however, and in 1872 he was again the gubernatorial candidate against 128 rayv^v^AJ) iJT FyMtta-vU WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 131 Hon. E/ckicl A. Straw, luit was defeated. In 1873 he was also defeated hy the same candidate. He ran the fourth time, and was far ahead of his opponent. Gen. Luther McCutchins. There was no ehoiee by the ])eople, however, and Gov. Weston was again eleeted by the legishiture. He served as chairman of the New Hampsliire Cen- tennial Commission, and was appointed by con- gress a member of the board of finance. He was also chairman of the buildino; committee of the soldiers' monument. Upon the establishment of the state board of health he was elected a member as sanitary engineer, holding that position until his death. Mr. Weston was actively interested in the financial and charitable institutions of Man- chester. He was trustee of the Amoskeag Savings bank, and in 1S77 he was elected preside'nt of the Citv National bank, which has since been changed to the Merchants' National bank. He was ti'eas- urer and one of the trustees of the Guarant\- Savings bank from its incorporation; treasurer of the Suneook Valle}* railroad and one of the prc;- motcrs and director of the Manchester Street railroad ; one of the incorporators of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company and has always, with the exception of a few years, been its president. In 1880 the supreme court appointed him cliairman of the board of trustees for the bondholders of the Manchester & Keene railroad. In 1864 he was eleeted treasurer of Trinitv Com- manderv, a position which he thereafter held, and he was treasurer of the Elliot hospital for many vears. In 1871 Dartmouth College conferred on him the degree of master of arts. Gov. Weston died May 8, 1895, beloved and mourned by the entire community. June 1 1, the Manchester board of trade took appropriate action upon his death, a committee consisting of Mavor Clarke and e.x- Mavors Bartlett and Knowlton reporting a series of highlv eulogistic resolutions which were unani- mouslv adopted. Upon this occasion also Gen. Bartlett delivered an eloquent and beautiful tribute to the memorv of the deceased, concluding as follows : Like the great maPK of our native poinilation. born in the first half of the present century. Governor Weston tirst saw the light upon a New Hampshire farm. It was there that his life habits were formed — there that the generous and noble impulses which he inherited from an honorable ancestry found full and free development — there that the characteristics of the tyjjical American citizen found that safe and secure anchorage which no subsequent contact with adverse influences in after life could shake or disturb. New Hampshire owes much to her farm-born boys and her farm-nurtured youth. They have largely molded her character and given to her the honored name she bears and her broad and enviable fame which is the pride of every citizen, but few among them all have made larger individual donations to her prosperity and renown than he whose name we honor tonight. During all his long connection with most important and diversified business aftaiis and his mcst notable career n public life, no man has ever said that he ever bowed to tempta- tion — was ever swerved by opportunity or ever looked on duty with an interrogation pomt in his eye. His dollars, were they few or many, were honest dollars — not a soiled one, not a dishonest one among them. His liberal fortune represents the honest earnings of a busy life, and the legitimate appreciation of wise and conservative investments. He never sought riches by any attempt to turn other men's wealth into his own p-ocket by any cunning, craft, or over-reaching. If any illustration of the truism that honesty is the best policy was needed, James K. Weston supyjlied it. The ])rop:-!c'.:cs of this occasion admit of only general allu- sions to his ))rominent characteristics. A recital of the business enterprises alone, with which from first to last he has been asso- ciated, would involve the compilation of a very respectable busi- ness catalogue and it would not be confined to Manchester alone, but other sections of the state have been largely benefitted and their prosperity and development substantially enhanced by his enterprise and foresight.' His broad comprehension and excellent judgment poise enabled him to participate in a large number of business concerns, widely diverse in character, with great profit to himself and his associates. Success smiled upon all his undertakings — failure knew him not. To everything of private or jniblic concern in which he enlisted, his hand was helpful — his judgment an anchor of safety and his name a pillar of strength. Manchester, his home as a boy and man — ever loyal and generous to her favored son — often summoning him to the helm in her own affairs — repeatedly jjressing him to the front in the broader arena of the state — trusting and con- fiding in him always and everywhere — never disappointed, never deceived, — Manchester comes to the front and joins hands with his kin of blood in this great sorrow ; a sorrow that falls upon every home and hearthstone within her borders with the force of a personal bereavement. These few, words of tribute are ill suited to a life so full of good works, so rich in noble example and so fruitful in inspira- tion to the busy world it touched in so many relations. But Governor Weston will live in the things he did and the results he accomplished, and not in what we say of him. In these he will live on though the closed eye and the sealed lip may never more respond to the solicitation of human fellowship. Not only to us, Init to those who will succeed us, his noble life work will remain the proudest memorial to the memory of James .A, Weston, HON. HENRY W. BLAIR, ^^, HON. IIENRV NV. Bl.AlU, liorn in C.inii.- Campion fai hut. He attrmlrd thr district schi.ol ton Dt-c. 6, 1S34, is tlu' son ot William winters, and in 1S5 1 , when sixteen vcars old, t)eu,an llenrv and Lois (Baker) Hiair. heino" a direct de- attendinti' Holmes' PKmoulli Aeademv, where he scendnnt o{ lanu'S Hlair, one ol the orio'inal sctlK'rs was Inst ilrawn into poliiiial alTairs, in schooll)o\- ot NnttieUI. ianions as an i-iu,ht-loot hii^h yiant lasiiion, t here luMn^ warm contention amoni; the whose suj>remc continii)! lor the red nun and their students in those davs of sprouting; abolitionism. After two terms at Phni o n t h he a t- t eiuletl t he New 1 lampshire C'onler- cnce Scminarv one term. I'^or a \'car lies^in- iiinii" in i 853, tin- am- bitious voting" student worked at making picture frames at Sanbornton Bridge (now Tillon) to earn mone\" to put him- self through colk-ge. 'Idle man he worked f o r fail ed, o w i ng Hlair his year's wages. The voung man caught tiic measles and was sick a long time, almost unto death. Meanwhile he had kept up his connections at the I SL-minarx b\' aeti\"e I soeietN membership. and in the fall o{ HON. HENRY w. HLAIR. 1^54 attcudcd that institution another ook another term at iipporting himsell hv warfare went a great wav toward protect- ing the people and propi'rt\' ot Londoii- d c r r \ . 1 1 i s I o vc- 1, It hers were prom- inent in the sii-ge ot old London d er r\'. Mr. Bhiii's mother was the graiuKlaugh- ter of Moses Baker of C'.nidi.i. who was a king's surve\or in ihc earb ^l.^\ s ,md I. Her ,1 memlu'r ol liie famous commit- tee of safet\ ol the Societ\ oi the C'in- cinn.ui. and w,is ,i cipiain ,11 tiie b.illlc of Bennington ,ind t he sii'gc id Boston. It is pl.iin. theielorc. th.it New I lamp- shire's honored Blair is descended lioni Revolutionar\' stock on both sitles of the family, as well as )^ from the solid Scotch- Irish pioneers who m.ide the w holesiune bi'ginning ti'ini. The next \i-.ir he that li.is mcint so much to this section o( the I'bmouth. all the time country. teaching and in other wa\s. William llenrv Blair met with a fatal accident In iSqohc began reading kiw with William when the son. llenr\, was but two vears oKI. and Leverell at Pbinouth, and was admitted to the the mother was left with .several small children, bar in 1850, remaining with Mr. Levcrett as part- She put them out among the farmers of that sec- ner. He was appointed solicitor for Grafton tion, but kept a home with the youngest, a babe in count\ in 1800 and served two years with unusual arms, at I'h mouth, until she ilied a few vears later, efficiency, handling several formidable murder Henry made his home with Richard Bartlett, a cases like a veteran lawver. Durinsi these years WILLHT'S book of Ni'TFIELr>. '..5 of preparation for a prominent put)lic life he liad ihc intellectual assistance of Samuel A. Burns of Plvmouth, a retired teacher who had moulded inanv young minds before and lent such aid to tiiis voung New Ham|)shire i)oy as only a scholar of leisure and deep learning could. When the War of the Rebellion i)i()ke out Mr. Ulairlried to enlist in I lu- fifth and twelfth regi- ments, but |)oor heallh had left him in such a bad condition ])livsically that he was not accepted, until the hfteenth regiment was formed. For this he raised a company, enlisted as a |)ri\'ate, was elected captain, and later appointed major bv the gov- ernor and council. He had about a year's service at the front, when his regiment was discharged in 1863, he then having the rank of lieutenant- colonel. Col. Blair's first battle service was at the siege of Fort Hudson, and he was severely wounded twice during that siege. He was in command of his regiment most of the time. After the discharge of his regiment Lieut. Col. Blair was a|)pointed deputy provost marshal, held the posi- tion about a year, but rendered little active service on account of wounds and sickness. He was unable through ill health, caused by his wounds and diseases contracted in the war, to do much at his profession for six years. Col. Blair was elected to the New Hampshire legislature from Plymouth in 1866, and was prom- inent in the hot [)olitical battle that resulted in the ileclion of J. W. Patterson to the United States senate. In 1867 and 1868 Mr. Blair represented the old eleventh district in the state senate. Then began for lawyer Blair a season of prosperity. He had j)ractically regained his health and with it the ambitions of youth were revived. Between the thirty-third and the fortieth years of life he built up what was considered as large and lucrative a practice as that of any country lawyer in the state. Political conditions drew the soldier and lawyer into the service of his party, his state, and his country. New Hampshire had fallen into the habit of electing Democratic governors and con- gressmen with an ease that filled the Republican camp with apprehension. A national election was due m 1876, and prospects were good for Dem- ocratic success unless New Hampshire could be recovered by the RepubHcans in the spring of 1875. This opinion seemed to prevail among leaders of the party throughout the country, and strong candidates must therefore be nominated in the Granite state to stem the tide as far as pos- sible. Accordingly Col. Blair was nominated for congress in the old third district against Col. Henry O. Kent, and after a hard fought campaign was elected m spite (jf the fact that ])arty leaders had considered it a hopeless struggle. Hon. P. C. Cheney was chosen governor by a narrow margin, his election being made possible by the success of Col. Blair in the third congressional district. Mr. Blair had only 164 majoritv, but it was the begin- ning of many phenomenal political victories. Democrats were elected in both the other districts. Col. Blair had lost his law practice and had spent his money in the cam]iaign, but the Repul)licans secured the next president after a contest over the Hayes-Tilden election. Mr. Blair was elected to congress again in 1877, after another hard struggle; w^as elected United States senator in 1879, and again in 1885. He was then tendered the United States district judgeship for New Hampshire, but declined for reasons plain to him as a man of highest honor. In 1 89 1 ex-senator Blair was appointed minister to China by President Harrison, but was rejected by the Chinese government because of the em- phatic opposition the senator had shown to Chinese immigration. Elected to the national house in 1892 from the first New Hampshire dis- trict, and declining a renomination, Mr. Blair retired after two years of hard service in the fifty- third congress, and is now in private life practising law in Manchester. It is seldom given to one son of any state to serve so well and so long her interests in national affairs. Full of the courage of his convictions from the beginning to the end, Mr. Blair came out of the political wars bearing an unblemished record. His head and hands were always active in the cause of right and of progress. He was a close student and a deep thinker at all times, and gfave all the best of his talents to his official life, and the measure was never stinted. The congressional history of his time is full of his work. Some of the principal measures 134 WIL LET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. which Mr. Blair originated and advocated are the proposed amendment to the national constitution prohibiting the manufacture of and traffic in alco- holic beveraofes ; the amendment of the constitu- tion providing for non-sectarian public schools ; the Common School or the Education bill; the Sunday Rest bill ; the Dependent Pension bill, and other public and private legislation providing for the soldiers of the country and their relatives ; the establishment of the department of labor and much of the labor and industrial legislation of the past twenty years, including the law providing for rebates upon foreign materials manufactured here for exportation ; the joint resolution first proposing political union with Canada, and legislation for tlie promotion of the interests of agriculture through- out the country. The amendment giving the right of suffrage to women was introduced by him and was under his special charge in the senate. Some of Senator Blair's speeches and reports, which have been most widely circulated, are upon finance and the nature and uses of money, temper- ance, woman suffrage, education, Chinese immigra- tion, foreign trade and relations, reconstruction, suffrage, social and political conditions of the countrv, the tariff, the relations between labor and capital, and all the more important and funda- mental questions, some of which have been con- sidered of an advanced and radical nature. Bishop Newman said of him : " The only just criticism upon Mr. Blair is that he is fifty years ahead of his tmies." No public servant can point with more honest pride to an active career during which he has cared better for the interests of his constituents than can Mr. Blair. He is more widely known than any other New Hampshire man, and hon- ored everywhere. His speeches on the stump at home and in various parts of the country have been numerous and diversified. In 1888 Mr. Blair published a book on " The Temperance Move- ment ; or, the Conflict of Man with Alcohol," of which Bishop Hurst of the Methodist Episcopal Church said : " It is probably the most important contribution to temperance literature that has been made by any author." His hand has been felt in many public benefits. He was leading fac- tor in the establishment of the State Normal School at Plymouth, and the Holderness School for Bovs, in securing the beautiful public building for Man- chester, and in the movement for a national monu- ment for Gen. John Stark to be placed in Stark Park, Manchester. Mr. Blair was married in 1859 to Eliza Nel- son, daughter of Rev. William Nelson of Ply- mouth, N. H., and to her owes much of the sus- taming power that has made his public life a credit to him. Thev have one son, Henry P. Blair, now practising law in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Blair has l)een widely connected with literary societies, particularly in Washington and New Hampshire. She was a trustee of the New Hampshire State Normal School, and is a trustee of the Garfield National Hospital, Washington, D. C, and Blair tower on the building was named in her honor. She is connected with the Woman's Relief Corps, has done much work on the ladies' auxiliarv board of Elliot Hospital. Mrs. Blair is the author of the novel "'Lisbeth Wilson, a Daughter of the New Hampshire Hills," published in 1S94 bv Lee »& Shepard, which has been widely read. SLAVERY was not unknown in Londonderrv before the Revolution. According to the census of 1773 there were twelve male and thir- teen female slaves in the town, and they seem to have been regarded as chattels, not as human beings, although they were humanely treated. Rev. William Davidson, minister of the East Parish, owned two, a mother and a daughter, named Poll and Moll. In the West Parish, Thomas Wallace and Deacon James Thomj)- son, both very devout men, were slave owners. It is related of a negro boy named Toney, who was the property of Mr. Wallace and who had cost his master one hundred dollars, that he was very proud of his money value. Once in the spring freshet he built a raft and went to ride on the flowed meadow of the fourteen-acre meadow brook. His frail craft, not being solidly made, began to go to pieces, and Tonev, having in view both his own life and his master's property, shouted to Mr. Wallace: "Come and save your hundred dollars." Soon after the Revolution slavery ceased in most of the northern states, and there is no record of slaves being owned in Londonderry after the beginning of the present centurv. WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIBLD. 135 Q 'J. y. w o < o w o THE FIRST CHURCH IN NUTFIELD. T HE oUlcst oroanization with an unbroken pointed out, no movement seems to have been histoi\' in what may be termed the Nutfield made bv the colonists to build a house of worship, section of New Hampshire, — older even than the At a public meeting, however, iield June 3, 1720, civil government itself — is the First Church in it was voted that a small house should be built Derry. Before the first settlers had secured the " convenient for the inhabitants to meet in for the incorporation of their town, or had decided what worship of God," and that it should be placed " as name to give it, or had even obtained a satisfac- near the senter of the one hundred and hve lots as tory title to the land they had selected, and prob- can be with conveniance." The location of the ably within six weeks of the day when the first log meeting-house was definitely determined at another cabin was built, thev took measures for the per- general meeting, held on the 29th of the same manent establishment of religious ordinances. In month, the site chosen being a little north of the the month of May, 1719, thev organized them- present house of worship. Six months later, or selves mto a Christian church and called the Rev. on Jan. 11, 1721, it was voted that "a meeting- James MacGregor to become their pastor and house shall be built in this town as speedily as religious teacher. The exact date of his installa- may be," and that " it shall be fifty feet in length, tion is unknown, but it was in the nn)nth of May, fortv-five feet broad, and as high as may be con- and could therefore have been but a few weeks venient for one set of galleryes." For some rea- after the preaching of the first sermon on the son, however, probably from lack of means to shore of the lake, an account of which is given on meet the cost, or because they had not yet ob- page 52. There being no presbytery in New tained an altogether satisfactorv title to the land England at that time, and it being impossible for selected for their town, the work of building was them to instal their minister in the regular wav, not begun until the following year. In June, those Scotchmen, who were accustomed to dealing 1722, a charter was obtained, and the town incor- with emergencies, took the matter into their own porated. It was thus about three years after the hands and appointed a dav for the solemn service, first log house had been erected that the church Where this service was held, whether in some log was completed and dedicated. During these first house or barn on Westrunning brook, or in the three years, however, the settlers faithfully main- open air, we do not know, but Mr. MacGregor tained religious ordinances, holding their services himself conducted the services, offering the in- either in one of their log dwellings or in the open stallation prayer and preaching the installation air, as the season of the year and the weather sermon. His text was from Ezekiel xxxvii. 26 : might permit. This first house of worship was " Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with not built without great sacrifice on the part of the them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; settlers, nor without some pecuniary aid from and I will place them andmultiply them, and will set abroad, but it is significant of their conscientious- my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore." ncss and devotion that in their straitened cir- During the first year, as Rev. Dr. Wellman has cumstances they built a framed house of worship^ 136 W/LLE2-'.S BOOK OF NC^TFIELD. 137 " convenient and well fniished," while they con- structed their own dwellinsjs of lot^s and covered them with bark. For nearly fifty years the peoj^le worshipped in this first sanctuary, and in 1769, duriny- the ministry of Rev. William Davidson, a larger and more imposing edifice was erected. Its dimen- sions were sixty-one by forty-five feet, and it was high enough for the introduction of gal- leries and a lofty sound- ing board suspended over the high pulpit. It was also ornamented with a steeple more slender and towering higher than the present one. This house, we are told, was well finished, and equalled, if it did not surpass, in its appearance, most of the church edifices of that period. The "raising" of the building was a great event. A large multitude of people as- sembled, and the parts of the huge, heavy-tim- bered frame were lilted into position by hun- dreds of strong arms amidst the thundering of commands and the mighty shoutings of the people. According to the custom of the time, a custom which to our modern ideas seems hardlv consistent with earnest piety, intoxicating liquors were dispensed on the occasion with lavish hand. How our forefathers reconciled drunken- ness with religion we do not know, but they did it succcssfulh'. This second hcjuse of God, built in i 769, en- larged in 1822. remodelled in 1845, and renovated, adorned and rededicated in 1884, is still the home of the First Church in Derry. In this house Rev. Edward L. Parker preached foi" forty years. REV. EDWARD L. PARKER. and during the first twelve years of his ministry it stood unchanged as it had been built in i 769. He has left on record a description of the interior, which is as follows : As you approached the pulpit jou tirst came to the deacons' seat, elevated like the pews, about six inches from the tloor of the aisles. In the deacons' narrow slip usually sat two venerable men, one at each end. Back of the deacons' seat, and elevated ten or twelve inches higher, was the pew of the ruling elders, larger than that of the elders and about square. Back of the elders' pew, and two or three feet higher, and against the wall, was the pulpit. There was appended to the pulpit an iron frame for the hour glass that was turned by the minis- ter at the commencement of his discourse, which was ex- jjected to continue during the running of the sands. Some- times, when the preacher deemed his subject not suffi- ciently exhausted, the glass would be turned again, and another hour in whole or in i)art occupied In many of the meeting-houses of that day there were, on each side of the centre aisle and in front of the pulpit, two or three seats of sufficient length to accommodate eight or ten persons. These were designed for the elderly portion of the congregation and for such as had no i)ews. In these the men and women were seated separately, on oijposite sides. On these ]>lain seats our grave and de- vout forefathers would content- edly sit during a service of two hours, without the luxury of cushions or carjjets, and in the colder seasons of the year without stoves, and in houses not so thoroughly guarded against the iienetration of the cold as those of the present day. The enlargement of the church in 1822 was effected by cutting the house into two parts and then inserting between the two parts twenty-four feet of new structure, thus making the building, as it is today, eighty-five feet in length. In this first change the general internal arrangement was re- tained. The pulpit remained on the north side, 138 WILLETS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. and hiy^h galleries on the other three sides, but the old sounding board over the pulpit disappeared. Two new front doors, about twenty-four feet apart, were inserted on the south side, nearly op- posite the pulpit, each opening into an aisle, whereas previously there had been but one door on that side, opening into one central aisle; and there was also a door at each end of the edifice as before. The new seats in the gallery facing the pulpit were reserved for the singers. But the old square pews on either side of the new ones re- mained, so that from 1822 until 1845 there were the old square pews on each end of the church, and between them the new straight and narrow slips, like a piece of new cloth on an old garment. The old and unusually lofty and slender steeple was taken down and a stronger one erected in its place ; and in this new steeple was hung the first church bell ever heard in Derrv. It was the gift by legacv of Jacob Adams, who founded Adams Female Academv. In December, 1821, stoves were used in the church for the first time. A vear after the en- largement thev were placed in the improved edi- fice, for the record savs that on Oct. 27, 1823, it was voted that " one stove should be located near Capt. Redfield's pew, and the other near Dr. Farrar's pew; and that the stove pipes should extend out of the windows north and south." Thus, for a whole century, lacking one year, the people of Derry worshipped, through the long cold winters, in an unwarmed meeting-house. The women sometimes used foot-stoves and heated hand-stones, but these were scorned by most of the people, even though the church was colder than their barns. In 1845, or twentv-three years after the en- largement of the house, another change was made. This time the interior was entirely reconstructed, by which a town hall and a vestry were provided below, and a spacious audience room above. The pulpit was transferred from the north side to the west end of the house, and the high galleries on three sides disappeared, one gallery on the east end, designed for the choir, taking their place. Instead (jf the two great front doors on the south side, two were placed at the east end of the house. All the old square pews, with their hinged and rattling seats, were replaced by the straight and narrow slips. The audience room was painted and frescoed in most excellent taste, and the general appearance of the interior was modernized. Thus the church stood until 1884, when, after being thoroughly repaired, renovated, and beauti- fied, it was rededicated. On that occasion Rev. Dr. J. W. Wellman, who had been pastor of the church from 1 85 1 until 1856, preached a notable sermon, in which he paid these tributes to the benefactors and prominent members of the church : First of all. it is becoming that we should gratefully remem- ber him through whose generous legacy, aided by gifts which his own benevolence prompted, this church edifice has been re- stored to more than its pristine beauty. Mr. David Bassett was the son of Thomas and Susannah (MacGregor) Bassett. He was born in Deerfield, N. H., in the year 1800. His mother was a descendant of the Rev. James MacGregor. With such blood flowing through his veins, it is not strange that he cared for the Lord's house. It was worthy of his noble lineage that he should make that bequest, by means of which the exterior of this sanctuary has been thoroughly repaired and the interior elegantly renovated. As I remember Mr. Bassett, he was a man of few words, quiet in his dis]iosition. living an unobtrusive life, but was not unthoughtful of divine and eternal things. For a time he was the sexton of this church, and the interest he then came to take in the church edifice seems never to have died out. And in his advanced years, when he observed the sad wear of time upon the ancient building, it was not unnatural that he should raise the question of his own duty to repair the house of the Lord. In his early life, if I am correctly informed, he had some reli- gious experience which made an ineftaceable impression upon his mind, but he never made any public [jrofession of Christian faith until the year 1876, when he united with this church by con- fession of Christ. And may we not hope that his gift by will for the repairing and adorning of the Lord's house was designed to be an offering expressive of his own love and gratitude to his redeemer. Mr. Bassett's name is not inscribed upon these walls, but this communion table and this externally and internally reno- vated sanctuary are his fitting memorial. The three men, James C. Taylor, Charles H. Day, and Frank W. Parker, whom lie made trustees of his legacy and on whom he placed the responsibility of deciding what repairs should be made, have had a delicate and diflicult task to per- form. With what fidelity and wisdom they have performed their trust, this transformed and beautifully adorned house of worship testifies today. These gentlemen deserve, and, I am sure, will receive, your sincere and grateful acknowledgements. But others have supplemented Mr. Bassett's legacy by timely and noble gifts. This new and tasteful pulpit furniture, presented by the family of Deacon Daniel J. Day, tenderly reminds us of one who loved and faithfully served this church, but has now entered into the communion and service of the church triumphant. WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. '39 These memorial windows, so ricii in artistic beauty, and tasteful, suggestive symbols, are richer still in the names they bear. To give any just account of the characters and lives which these names represent would re([uire a vohmie. I can only allude to them. Nothing can be more appropriate than that the memory of the first pastor of this church, the Rev. James MacGregor, and of his devoted wife, Marion Cargill, should be honored in this house of worship. Tradition represents him as every way a noble man. Tall, erect, athletic, he swayed people by his commanding personal presence. Distinguished for his mental ability and self-control, for wisdom and goodness, manly energy and courage, for sagacity and prudence in secular and civil affairs ; a man of sincere and humble piety ; thoroughly evan- gelical in his faith ; an able and eloquent preacher of the gospel : a devoted pastor, loving his people as he loved his own family, and interested in all that concerned his flock, he was eminently fitted to be the father of this church, and the acknowledged leader of that noble band of men who founded this town. The members of this church rejoice today that his name and minis- try are commemorated in this house of worship. But the same radiant window is rich in other historic names. The Rev. David MacGregor, a son of the first pastor of this church, was himself the first pastor of the church in the West Parish, now the Presbyterian church in the modern town of Lon- donderry. He was or- dained in 1737. The son inherited largely the commanding abilities and noble spirit of his filher. His ministry was eminently evangelistic. He preached and labored for the salvation of his people. Sympathizing with the great evangelist, George Whitefield, he invited him to his pulpit : and his own fervid preaching and prayers were rewarded with re\ivals of religion. He laliored with the church in the West Parish until his death, which occurred in 1777. The length of his able and faithful pastorate was forty years. It is fitting that the name of this distinguished son of the first pastor of this church, and also that of his accomplished wife, Mary Boyd, should have an honorable place in this Christian sanctuary. On this same window is the name of Gen. George Reid who with Gen. John Stark, both of I,ondonderry, attained high lame in the Revolutionary war. He was the son of James Reid. The father was a native of Scotland and a. graduate of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh. He was one of the first settlers of Derry, VIEW OF DERRY VILLAOE, a member of the First Chuich. and of its session. Afterward, for many years, he was an elder of the church in the \\'est Parish. His famous son. Gen. Reid. was himself a Christian man, and through all the years of his miUtary service under Gen. Washington, evinced a firm faith in the efficacy of prayer, as in the potency of arms. His wife, Mary Woodburn, was in every way worthy of her noble husband. She is described as a woman of rare endowments. Gen. Stark, who knew her well, once remarked : "If there is a woman in New Hampshire fit for gov- ernor, 'tis Molly Reid." This church honors itself in receiving her name, with the historic name of her husband, ujjon one of its memorial windows. There is likewise recorded up'on this window the name of Col. Robert MacGregor. He was the son of Rev. David Mac- Gregor. In the war of the Revolution he was on the staff of Gen. John Stark. His wife, Elizabeth Reid. whose name is placed with his on this roll of honor, was the daugh- ter of Gen. George Reid. On the lower part of this same window — so brilliant in both its beauty and its names — we find commemorated the Rev. John Ripley Adams, D. D., and his wife, Mary Ann MacGregor; also Mrs. Adams's two sisters, Maria MacGregor Cogswell, and Elizabeth MacGregor Hall. Dr. Adams, born 1802, in Plainfield, Conn., graduat- ing from Yale College in 182 1 and from Andover Seminary in 1826, was for seven years — from 1831 to 1838 — ])astor of the Presbyterian church in Londonderry. He was afterward pastor of churches in Great Falls, Brighton, Mass., Gorham, Me. In the War of the Rebellion he was chaplain for three years of the Fifth Maine Regiment, and for one year of the One Hundred and Twenty-first New York Regiment. He died at Northampton, Mass., in i866. He was an accomplished man, genial and S3m- pathetic, an able preacher, and much beloved. Mrs. Adams and her two sisters. Mrs. Cogswell and Mrs. Hall, were daughters of Col. Robert MacCkegor and Elizabeth Reid. Their grandfather on their father's side was Rev. David Macgregor, son of Rev. James MacGregor, and their grandfather on their mother's side was Gen. George Reid. Noble and cultured women were these, and worthy of the honored name they bore. All the grand memories of this town and of this church of their fathers were dear to them, and they themselves are tenderly remembered by many now li\ing. The new memorial windows are five in number. All of them are costly and beautiful. It is believed that there are no 140 WIL LEY'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. such windows in any church outside the cities in New England : and probably those in the cities that excel them in magnificence are not numerous. The MacGregor window was given by Mr. James Mac- Gregor Adams of Chicago, 111. On the upper half of it, at the left, is seen the family coat of arms, with the Scotch motto : " E'en do bait spair nocht." Beneath this are the names, Rev. James McGregor : his wife, Marion Cargil. And below these are the names, Rev. David MacGregor; his wife, Mary Boyd. On the lower half, at the left, are first a dove as an emblem, and then the names, Maria MacGregor Cogswell, Elizabeth Mac- Gregor Hall. On the upper half of the window, at the right, are seen as emblems the Stars and .Stripes and a sword. Beneath these are the names. Gen. George Reid : his wife, Mary Wood- burn. And below these are the names. Col. Robert Mac- Gregor ; his wife, Elizabeth Reid. On the lower half, at the right, is, first, the emblem of an open Bible with two swords crossed ; and then below the emblem are the names. Rev. John Ripley Adams, I). I).: his wife, Mary Ann MacGregor. A resplendent window has also been placed in these walls, " In loving memory of James and Persis Taylor." These names are too familiar and dear to us all to need any words of praise from me. But permit me to say, that Deacon James Taylor was a member of the church session when I assumed the pas- torate of this church in 185 1. I knew him well. He was a good man and true. He had in his character the old-fashioned Scotch honesty and steadfjF:tneis. He always made himself understood, and everybody knew where to find him. A man of sound, practical judgment, he was often appointed arbiter in the settlement of disputes. Always calm and self-possessed, he was yet a man of deep feeling and had a large and kind heart. He was beloved in his own family, a true friend, public-spirited, greatly respected and honored in the town, and always faithful to his trust as an office-bearer in the Church of Christ. He loved this church, and to the promotion of its interests he was thoroughly devoted. His beloved wife, Mrs. Persis Taylor, while like her husband possessed of strong and sterling traits of character, was also a woman of tender heart and far-reaching sympathies. The chief arena of her power and life work was her home. There she reigned supreme. And as her reward, she had every right to glory in her children, and her '' children rise up and called her blessed." Though the mother of a large family, she was also a mother in Israel. Ardently loving her own household and kin- dred, and always laboring and praying for their highest welfare, she yet took an affectionate interest in her neighbors, in the church of which she was a member, in her pastor, in all Chris- tian institutions and service, and in every person to whom she could be hel])fal. She never seemed despondent. She carried good cheer with her wherever she went. Never shall I forget the motherly and encouraging words she repeatedly s|)oke to me during the first years of my pastorate. Many of the noblest traits of Deacon and Mrs, James Taylor were reproduced in the character of their distinguished son, Samuel Harvey Taylor, LL.D., so long the principal of Phillips Academy, Andover. How pleasant it is to see these two names honored in this house of prayer, wheie they together for so many years, and with such regularity and devoutness, worshipped God. # This window was the gift of Mrs. Mary K. (Taylor) Fair- banks of St. Johnsbury, Vt. The symbols in the upjier part are, at the left, flowers, and, at the right, the cross and crown. Beneath these, but far down on the window is the inscription : " In loving memory of James and Persis Taylor, by their children." We read upon another of these memorial windows the name of Deacon Henry Taylor, by the side of the name of one of his own dear kindred. He was a John-like man. It is diffi- cult to believe that he ever had an enemy in the world, so sweet, gentle, and loving was his disposition. Having no family of his own to care for, he took everybody into his capacious heart. All the people in the town fondly called him " Uncle Henry." He greatly loved Christ, and was the true friend of the church and of his pastor. Very tender is the memory of his benignant face and of his reverent, trustful prayers. The donor of this memorial window is Mr. James Calvin Taylor. For placing it in the house of the Lord, in honor of his beloved uncle, he will receive the gratitude of all his kindred and of the many friends of Deacon Henry Taylor. The window bears upon its upper part simply the Greek, symbolic letters. Alpha, Omega. In the lower portion, at the left, we read the name, Deacon Henry Taylor, and at the right. Family of James Calvin Taylor. Two sisters, maiden ladies, Jennette and Sarah Humjjhrey, sisters of the venerated and beloved Deacon John Humphrey, dwelt together for many years quietly and lovingly in their little cottage in this Upper Village. Like Mary and Martha of Bethany, the one silent and thoughtful, the other not less thoughtful but more energetic and demonstrative, they were well mated, each supplying the lack of the other. Little had they to do with the great and wide world. They lived alone in their own loved home, and yet not alone, for the Lord Jesus was with them as with the sisters in Bethany, speaking his words in thc'r ears and breathing his spirit into their- hearts. They were ac- customed to speak evil of no one, but abounded in kind words and deeds, ready always to minister to the sick and needy, the bereaved and troubled. They were frugal, yet saved not for themselves, but for Christ and his Kingdom. Their names were never sounded abroad in the public prints, but their Christian benevolence has reached round the globe. Now these two humble disciples, living apart from the world, so contentedly and lovingly, hardly known beyond the limits of this church and parish, were about the last persons to have ever dreamed that their names would be emblazoned at some future day in the midst of indescribable splendors of color in the house of God. And had some prophet told them that this honor awaited them, they would have been as much surprised as they will be when Christ at the last day shall recount before the universe all their little deeds of kind ministration and love, and they shall reply : " When did we do all these things ? " But this glory which has come to them, as well as that which will be the spiritual and eternal halo of their names in heaven, is explained by those words of Jesus : " Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me." This window was presented by Mrs. James Calvin Taylor. On the toil, 'i-t t'le left, .s the emblem of the dove, and at the right, of the harp. At the bottom of the window are simply the two WlLLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 141 names, Jennette Humphrey, Sarah Humphrey. Deacon John Humphrey, the brother of tliose two Christian women, was the father of Rev. John P. Humphrey of Winchendon, Ma«s., and of Rev. Simon J. Humphrey, D. D., of Chicago, 111. Since leaving the pastorate of this church I have known many good jieople, God's saints on earth, the prospect of meet- window are the two names, Charles C. Parker, Sarah Taylor Parker. With all these appropriate memorials, now making this place of worship so beautiful, there would still be a sad lack here, were one more name not honorably inscribed upon these walls. True, many are the departed worthies who might fittingly be whom beyond this life helps to a better understanding of commemorated in the house of God. I should wish, for heaven. But none have I met, who, so far as I can judge, sur- passed in unselfishness and kindness, in sincerity and honorable- ne.ss, in unfailing geniality and good will, in Christian simplicity and trustworthiness, in genuine goodness, in unaffected piety, and in all real worth of character, Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. I'arker. Living in their happy home five years, I yet have no recollection of hearing either of them speak a single angry or impro])er word. If compelled to listen to hard or uncharitable speech, they either gently demurred or were silent. They knew the worth and sacredness of friendsliip, and how to be them- selves true friends. They made advances cautiously, but having once given their friendship they would sooner have cut off a right hand than have proved false. Mr. Parker had lived so long in a minister's family, and was so familiar with all the labors and anxieties of a pastor for his people, that he seemed to take the entire care of this church and parish upon his own mind and heart. And his wife had learned to bear her full share of the same burden. They were never tired of thinking, talking, and planning for the good of this people. And had they been my own brother and sister, it is difiicult to see how they could have been more anxious for the success of my ministry MAIN STREET, EAST DERRY WINTER SCENE. instance, as doubtless you all would, to see illumined upon some of these windows, instead of the names of two, the names of all the members of that church session which I found here in 1851. They were rare men, and eminently worthy of such honor. Still every one of you will agree with me in saying that no name has any clearer right to have honorable place in this sanctuary than that of Rev. Edward L. Parker. I need not speak of him in this preser ce. Words better than any that I can utter you can read from the tablet of marble placed upon the wall at the right of the pulpit, and which now so appropriately com- memorates his character and his ministry of forty years with this church. The inscription upon the laljlet is as follows : " In memoriam. The Reverend luhvard L. Parker, born July -'8, 1785, graduated at Dart- mouth 1S07, died July 14, 1S50. For forty years the faithful and beloved paslo'- of this church. He ])ossessed in a high degree sound judg- ment and discretion, remark- able wisdom and piudence, shrewdness and tact, com- bined with kindness of man- ner, humility, perseverance and untiring industry. Plain, practical preaching, crowned by ardent piety, and devo- tion to his work, made him a man fif mark and great use- Wholly unacquainted as I was fulness. ' They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of with the parish, and utterly inexperienced in the ministry, their the firmament, and they that turn many to righteousness, as the counsels, so kindly and courteously expressed, were invaluable. stars for ever and ever.' " From whatever mistakes I was saved, and if there was any wis- dom or worth in my pastoral service here, the people were in- debted for it more to them than to me. Their house was a house of prayer. Christ had long made his abode there, and all the rooms seemed to be the realms of gentleness and love. It is well that the names of these two friends of Christ and of his church should be made conspicuous in this house of God, that those who worship here may often look upon them, and receive the inspiration that must come from Dr. Wellman narrates an incident of his or- dination which IJnely illustrates the sturd)' charac- ter of the board of deacons in TS51. He says: Deacon James Taylor and his brother, Deacon Henry Taylor, were for many years members of the church session. Associated with them in office were Deacons Matthew Clark, Robert Morse, John Humphrey, Joseph Jenness, the two the sweet memory of their Christian kindness and fidelity, their brothers, James and Humphrey Choate, William Ela, Robert friendship and piety. This memorial window was placed in the Montgomery, and William Cogswell, eleven in all. When full church by their son, Frank W. Parker. ,\t the top of the win- the session consisted of twelve elders or deacons. In 1851, all dow, on the left, is the representation of an open Bible, and on the above named men were living, and enrolled as members of the right the symbol is the anchor. At the bottom of the the session. Two of them, however, Deacons Morse and Clark, 142 WIL LET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. by reason of age and infirmity, were not active members. Prac- tically, at that time, the session consisted of nine members. A few years later Deacon Cogswell removed to Manchester, and Mr. George Shiite was elected a member of the session. All these deacons, save Deacon Cogswell and Deacon Shute, have now entered into the goodly fellowship of the church triumph- ant. They were noble and godly men. Sturdy in character and honorable in life, wise in counsel and of grave and devout spirit, they were much respected in both the church and the town. Of positive convictions, strong will, and of great decision of character, they were yet remarkable for their Chris- tian gentleness and courtesy. Very beautiful was their treat- ment of one another. Their mutual love and Christian fellow- ship were not demonstrative, but were real and aliiding. It is pleasant to bear this testimony, that in all the numerous and often protracted meetings of the session during five years, to the best of my recollection, the deacons were never, in a single instance, divided in voting, and not a single unkind or bitier word was ever spoken. They were not always of the same mind at llie outset, and not unfrequently a long debate, or rather C'lilerence, i^receded their final decision; but when they came to the vote and to action, their harmony was per- fect. They were not timid or vacillating men. When med required they acted with great boldness and energy. This was illustrated by an incident which occurred at the meeting of the ecclesiastical council on the day of my O'dination. Some of the good Presbyterian brethren on the council erroneously supposed that the church was a strictly Presbyterian church, and under the care of the Londonderry prcsbytcrv. They therefore made a formal remonstrance against the action of the church in calling a council instead of the pres- bytery, and against the proposed examination and ordination of the ]iasior elect by the council assembled. Rev. .'\mos Blan- chard, D. D. , of Lowell, was moderator. A large congregation filled the clmrch. The excitement was intense. .Ml the acti\e members of the session were present, and sitting together in pews at the left of the moderator. When the remonstrants had fullv presented their case the moderator turned to the deacons and said : "You hear the objection which has been made to the action of your church and to the proposed action of this council. What is the desire of the session ? " The deacons, without leav- ing their seats, consulted together for a moment. Listantly they appointed Deacon John Humjihrey their spokesman. Deacon Humphrey, a man of great weight of character, of perfect self- command and of imposing presence, being over six feet in height, rising slowly and with solemnity from his seat, and stretching himself up to his full length, with a calm, firm voice and great courtesy of manner, said, as nearly as his words can be remem- bered : "Mr. Moderator, — This is not a strictly Presbyterian church. Though governed by a session, it is not under the government of any presbytery. This council has been called in exact accordance with certain 'Articles of Agreement ' l)y wliich this church in a few important particulars is governed. Our lale pastor, the late Rev. Edward L. Parker, was ordained forty years ago by a council, and not by the jiresbytery. We have taken the same course that was taken then. A council was called then, a council has been called now. And, Mr. Moder- ator, the desire of the session is, that this council proceed at once to examine the young man whom we have called to be our pastor ; and if he shall be found fitted for the office, we desire that he be ordained and installed. And if this council does not do this, we shall call a council that will." Slowly Deacon Humphrey resumed his seat. Some of the members of the council smiled. The deacons did not smile. They meant business. They knew their rights and liberties, and that such things were sacred, and not to be trifled with by any- body. Nothing more was said upon the question raised by tiie remonstrants. The council proceeded at once to its appointed work, according to the directions given by the nine venerable men who sat in tlie corner of the church. This incident discloses, in several particulars, the character of that board of deacons. They had the Scotch staunchness, decision, and energy. It was sometimes said of them that they were slow men, but in emergencies they moved swifily and with irresistible force. They were not educated in the higher school-, but they were intelligent. The Bible was their study. Some of ihem were versed in theology, and could define sharply the variances of the New England theology from other systems. The New England theology was accepted by them because they believed it to be scriptural, and also because they believed it to be substantially that interpretation of the Scriptures which through the ages has stood the test of being jndged by its fruits. The Bible they accepted as the Word of God. The modern glib talk about the mistakes of Moses and the prophets, and ihe blunders of Paul and the Evangelists, would have shocked them beyond measure. The statement now made with such nonchalance m limited circles, that Christ was either in error in some of his religious teachings, or was incorrectly reported by the Evan- gelists, would have been regarded by them as blasphemous. If even a theological professor had said to them. You must accept my view of the utter untrustworthiness of the Bible in some of its religious teachings, or you must stand convicted of being bent on ignorance, he probably would not have said that to them a second time. But while they were bold and persistent in maintaining the truth, and in standing for what they knew to be right, they were yet men of rare tenderness and kindness of heart. They were also reverent before God. Sincere humility was a prominent ele- ment in their piety. Their prayers abounded in confessions. They had profound convictions of sin. In their view, dis- obedience to God was appalling wickedness. They were always solemn and afraid at the thought of sin. They believed that " God is love," but they also believed that " Our God is a con- suming fire." They accepted without a doubt the scri|)iural teaching that the just punishment of sin is the abiding wrath of God, death everlasting. These profound views of sin and of its demerit determined their personal relation to Christ. With great joy and gratitude, and with a deep sense of their inex- pressible obligations to him, they believed on the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sins and for the life everlasting. They hun- gered and tlnrsted after righteousness, and therefore attached the highest value to all means of grace, especially to the Sabbath and the sanctuary as appointed of God to aid men in the attain- ment of holiness. . . . The farthest possible were they from A^ILLE2-'S L'OOK OP NUTFIELD. t4^ i' 144 WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. being stern and gloomy men. They were delightfully social in disposition and habits. Their words were often playful, and they told and relished good stories. Of despondency they knew little. Their hearts were full of courage. In earlier years they may have had spiritual conflicts ; but now their kindly, cheerful faces, and all their external bearing told of the peace of God that reigned within. They were thoroughly possessed of the spirit of rt'orship. One of them at least seldom or never entered the house of God without pausing for a moment, after passing the door of the auditorium, and lifting his eye heavenward, as if he were saying : "This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven." And immediately upon entering his pew he bowed his head in silent ]irayer. The devoutness of those aged and venerable deacons was not official, not assumed nor formal ; it was in the heart, and therefore in the life. They were men of lordly will, but in the presence of God they had the spirit of little children. . . . Those members of that church session did not seek i)ersonaI influence, it was theirs before they knew it. But they shrunk from no obligation, were faithful to every trust, and lived in humble but joyful hope of the promised inheritance of the saints in heaven. The First Church has been one of the strong- est in the denomination. At a sacrament in 1734, fifteen years after the settlement of the town, 700 communicants were present. This number, how- ever, must iiave included many non-resident mem- bers and friends. Several other congregations have been formed from the parent ciuirch. In 1 739 a company was dismissed to constitute the West Parish (Presbyterian) in Londonderry. In 1797 the Third Society (Congregational) was or- ganized in the East Parish, and in 1837 forty more were dismissed to form the First Congregational Church in Derry Village. In 1809, however, the Third Society re-united with the mother church, forming what is now known as the First Church in Derry. June 8, 18 10, the joint society formally adopted articles of faith, which, in spite of all theological upheavals of the last half-century, are still the creed of the church. Their reproduction here, in view of the current discussion of creeds, may not be without interest : I. We believe that there is but one God, the sole creator, preserver, and moral governor of the universe ; a being of infinite power, knowledge, wisdom, justice, goodness, and truth ; the self- existent, independent and unchangeable fountain of good ; that there are in the unity of the Godhead a trinity of persons, Father, .Son, and Holy Ghost; that these three persons are in essence one, and in all divine attributes equal. II. We believe that the scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given by inspiration of God ; that they are profitable for doctrine, contain a complete and harmonious s\s- tem of divine truth, and are our only perfect rule of doctrinal belief and religious practice. III. We believe that the first parents of our race were orig- inally holy in the image of God ; that they fell from their original state by voluntarily transgressing the divine command ; and that in consequence of this first apostacy the heart of man in his natural state is enmity against God, fully set to do evil, dead in trespasses and sins. IV. We believe that Christ the Son of God, equal with the Father, has by his obedience, suffering, and blood, made infinite atonement for sin ; that he is the only redeemer of sinners, and that all who are saved will be indebted altogether to the sovereign grace of God through this atonement. V. We believe that those who embrace the gospel were chosen in Christ to salvation before the world began ; and that they are saved not by works of righteousness which they have done, but according to the distinguishing mercy of God, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. VI. We believe that for those who once believe in Christ there is no condemnation, but they will be kept by the mighty power of God through faith unto salvation. VII. We believe that there will be a general resurrection of the bodies both of the just and of the unjust ; that all mankind must one day stand before the judgment seat of Christ, to receive a sentence of just and final retribution, according to their respective works. VIII. We believe that Christ has a visible church in the world into which believers and their seed are introduced by baptism. During the forty years' pastorate of Rev. Edward L. Parker (a sketch of whose life is given in this work), the church was unusually prosper- ous. At the January communion in 1825, thirty- six were added to the church; in October, 1831, thirty-three were received, and in May, 1838, ninety-six. Since the death of Mr. Parker, in 1850, the pastorates have been brief, compared with his. Six of the pastors repose in the old graveyard near the meeting-house, surrounded by most of their flocks. The chronological record of pastorates of the first church is as follows: James MacGregor, began May, 1719; died March 5, 1729. Matthew Clark, began 1729; closed 1732. Thomas Thompson, ordained October, i ']2,}, ; died Sept. 22, 1738. William Davidson, ordained 1739; died Feb. 15, 1791. Jonathan Brown, ordained 1795; dismissed September, 1804. Edward L. Parker, ordained Sept. 12, 1810; died July 14, 1850. Joshua W. Wellman, ordained June 18, 1851 ; dis- missed May 26, 1856. Ephraim N. Hidden (acting pastor), Sept. i, 1857, till Dec. i, 1859. Leonard S. Parker, iiistalled Feb. 20, 1861 ; dismissed June WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 145 JO, 1S69. David Bremner, installed April 27, 1871 ; dismissed Sept. 10, 1873. Edward S. Hunt- ress, installed Feb. 25, 1875; dismissed Feb. 21, 1877. J. L. Harris, installed July 8, 1880; dis- missed July 8, 1882. H. M. Penniman, settled April 8, 1884; dismissed June 19, 1889. R. C. Drisko (aetino; pastor), Feb. i, 1891, till April i, 1894. The present membership of the ehureh is 132 ; Sabbath school, sixty-five; Christian Endeavor, thirty-five. MRS. .\1ARY J. TENNEY, OEN. S'1'ARK.'S CRANDDAUGHTER. Photographed at lier home in Londouderry, I»9^. REV. WILLIAM McDonald, the pioneer Catholic priest of Manchester, who laid well the foundations of the present prosperity of Cath- olicity in the Queen City, and whose memory is held in lovino; regard by thousands, was born in county Leitrim, Ireland, in June, 1813. He was the youngest son of John and Winifred (Reynolds) McDonakl, and the first twenty-three years of his life were spent with his parents. In 1836 he went to Quebec, beginning at once his studies at the Laval University. He took the academic and theological courses. He was ordained in 1843 and assigned as assistant to the parish priest at St. John, N. B., having charge subsequently of the [parishes at Eastport and Calais, Me. In 1847 he went to Boston, and in the following year was assigned to Manchester by Bishop Fitzpatrick of Boston, to which diocese New Hampshire then belonged. Father McDonald found on his arrival about five hundred Catholics, almost all of whom were Irish, but lately arrived in the country. They were very poor, but they extended to their "sog- garth " an Irish welcome, sincere and hearty, and pastor and people with a united purpose began their arduous task of building up the Catholic Cliurch of Manchester. Withm a year he had begun the erection of St. Anne's church, on the Mte it now occupies, and from that time to his death there was scarcely a year that he did not inaugurate some improvement of lasting benefit to the church. He was a man of remarkable fore- sight, and had unlimited confidence in the future (.rManchester — so much so that he early began to buy land intended for future use as church property, and to this is due the fact that the church is now possessed of so much valuable real estate. In 185^, he purchased St. Joseph's cemetery, and in 1855 he bought the land where the convent stands, Uuilt the beautiful Mt. St. Marv's. and, two years later, installed therein a small band of Sisters of Mercy. In 1859 he secured the property at the northwest corner of Laurel and Union streets, for a parochial school for girls, and established in the same vear a school for boys in the church base- ment, 'over 'which he placed Prof. Thomas Cor- coran as principal and the Sisters of Mercy as teachers. A few years later he procured the use of the old " south grammar " of the city, and to 146 WJLLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. this huilclina: the boys' school was removed nnd became known as the Park-street grammar school. This was one of the first parochial schools in New England. Father McDonald bought the present site of St. Joseph's Cathedral, established a new parish and built St. Joseph's church in 1869. The next year witnessed the purchase of the Harris estate, at the corner of Pine and Hanover streets, and the establishment of St. Patrick's Orphan REV. WILLIAM MCDONALD. Asylum for Girls. A little later he secured tlie ad- joining property and founded the Old Ladies' Home. He also built St. Agnes school, at the corner of Cedar and Union streets. He was the founder and promoter of the St. John's Temperance Society (since merged in the St. Paul's C. T. A. and M. B. Society), of St. Patrick's M. B. and P. Society, and of numerous church sodalities and associations. In Father McDonald were combined the elements of which the most successful professional and business men are made, and there is little doubt that, had he chosen a mercantile or profes- sional life, he would have become a very wealthy man. As it was, he died poor. He did not care for the wealth he gathered except as it was a means of doing good. He was stricken with apoplexy early Monday morning, Aug. 24, 1885, and died Aug. 26. The mourning at his death was genuine and universal. Protestants and Catholics alike, rich and poor, high and low, recognized that Manchester had lost one whom she could ill afford to lose. Saturday, Aug. 29, the day of his funeral, was a day of public mourning. The mills were closed, and business generally was suspended. The funeral was at- tended by the mayor and city government, judges of the supreme court of New Hampshire and of the United States district court, Protestant minis- ters, bishops and priests from all parts of New England, and business men of every creed and race. Pontifical requiem mass was celebrated by Rt. Rev. Bishop Bradley, assisted by a host of priests in sanctuary and choir. In the course of his sermon Bishop Bradley said : " I have lost one who has been to me from my childhood a father, a model, a wise counsellor," and he echoed the thoughts and feelings of everv Catholic born or bred in Manchester. Father McDonald was buried in the churchyard of old St. Anne's, the church he Icjved, and wherein he ministered for nearly forty years. Over his grave has been erected a little chapel, and here one may find at any hour of the day some of his people kneeling in silent praver. His life work was a success. He lived to see the city of his adoption grow from scarcely more than a hamlet to be the first municipality of north- ern New England. From the poor, struggling little parish of St. Anne's he saw the church in- crease until it had more communicants and main- tained more charitable institutions tlian all the other churches of the city combined ; and, to crown it all, made a diocesan see, and one of " his own boys" chosen its first bishop. He was the friend and confidant of his whole parish. No undertak- ing was entered into without the advice of Father " Mac," and no case was too trivial to enlist his earnest attention and secure his wholesome advice. He was judge, jury, and advocate in the trial of many a cause, and never was a judgment given with more binding force, or one where the parties WILLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 147 were not satisfied as to the absolute impartiality of the tribunal. His charity was not " — scrimjjed and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Clirist," hut was the natural outpouring of a srencrous, sympathetic heart that knew no creed or race. He saw only iieedy suffering, and suffered himself if he could not alleviate. Father McDonald is best remembered as a man in declining years, about medium height, slightly stooped, with white hair and a kindly, benevolent face that at once inspired confidence. Through his old-fashioned bowed spectacles gazed a pair of eyes, anxious, one would say, to see nought of sin and misery in the world, and yet they saw and appreciated everything within their range, while an occasional twinkle in the corners would indicate that " though a priest, he was an Irishman too," and had all the Irishman's love for bright repartee or good story. The best evidence of his universal acquaintance and popu- larity was to be seen by accompanying him on one of his daily strolls through his parish. With the regulation clerical coat and collar he always wore a soft broad-brimmed hat and carried a cane or umbrella. He walked along with a slow, deliber- ate stride, and scarcely a person would be met but Father " Mac " had a word with him. His intimate acquaintance with the personal affairs of nearly everv family made these little talks pertinent and to the point, relative to some matter or other of importance. And all in the sweetest of English, that is, slightly tinctured with the Irish brogue. Father McDonald's memory will ever be dear to the Catholics of Manchester. James A. Bk(;i)Erici<.. Cri'Y I.IIiRARV, .MANCHESTER. DR. WILLIAM WHITTIER BROWN. WILLIAM WHITTIER BROWN, M. D., for which he mi^ht easily have obtained a per- was born in Vershire, Vt., in 1805. manent pension, but he never applied for it. He His education was obtained at the academies of was appointed pension surgeon, a position which Bradford and Randolph in his native state and at he held only a short time. Dartmouth College Hudson, N. Y. He taught school for two years conferred upon him the honorary degree of A. M. in the latter state, and at the age of twenty-three in recognition of his professional ability. He was began the study of medicine with Dr. John Poole a member of the Franklin-Street Congregational at Bradford, Vt. After attending lectures at church, and always contributed liberally to the Hanover he was graduated from the New Hamp- support of religion. Dr. Brown was elected a shire Medical Institution in 1830, and at once went fellow of the New Hampshire Medical Society in in Poplin (now Fremont), N. H., remaining there 1836, and was chosen its president in 1869. He until 1835, when he removed to Chester, where was a director of the First National bank, a trustee during his ten years' residence he built up an ex- of the Merrimack River Savings bank, a member tensive practice and enjoyed the confidence of the of the Washington Lodge of Masons and of Louis people. Desirous of supplementing his early ad- Bell Post No. 3, G. A. R. He survived all his vantages by further study, he went to New York children, leaving onlv a widow, Mrs. Martha W. in 1S45 and attended a course of lectures and dili- Brown. His death occurred Jan. 6, 1874, at the gently followed the best clinical teachers through age of sixty-eight years. He was a man of few the hospitals. His fifteen years' practice had words, easily approached, yet retiring ; ready to im- revealed to him his deficiencies, and he labored jxut information, yet never volunteering it; modest, zealously to remove them, finally returning to New vet self-possessed ; dignified in bearing, vet utterly Hampshire with his mind well stored with new devoid of ostentation in dress or mode of living, ideas and all the recent improvements in surgery He was remarkably even-tempered, never hilarious and practice. In 1846 he moved to Manchester and never much depressed; always hopeful and and soon had all he could do, manv of his former cheerful. His temperament was no doubt sacklenecl jiatients in Chester and the neighboring towns by the severe domestic afflictions through whicli he having gone to the city before him, and many passed. His memory is cherished in affectionate more still insisting that he should be their reliance regard hv all who knew him, for he left behind in distress. To meet these demands of iiis old him the exanii)le of a true Christian jihvsician and friends he was obliged to start very early in the upright man. morning in order to be l)ack in time for his dav's work in the city. Very few men could have F^EER, BEARS, AND WOLVES were aiiun- entiured these long journeys in all kinds of weather L/ dant in the forests of Nutfield. A large as he did, uneom])laininglv even in advanced life, moose killed in 1720 in the West Parish gave During portions of 1849 and 1850 he was in name to a hill there five hundred feet high. Game California for one vear practising his profession, wardens were elected by the town for more than He returned with a handsome amount of money, sixty years, " to prevent the killing of deer out of which he invested in Manchester real estate, erect- season." Until after the Revolution, farmers ing the brick block on Elm street, known as brought their sheep every night to the told to Brown's building. In 1861 he was appointed sur- guard against the depredations of wolves, and boun- geon of the Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers tics were paid on wolves' heads. Tradition says and served until the autumn of 1864, when he was that the last bear seen was in 1807, when there obliged to resign on account of ill health. He was a great bear hunt, engaged in by fifty men for was exceedingly popular with officers and men and three days, until the animal was finally killed. He a camp was named in his honor. He never fully is said to have weighed two hundred pounds recovered his health, and he also received an injury dressed, and the capture was duly celebrated. 1 48 "t/'^yyvffjr/)'U^v-i^-i^ r^-^^U^ COL. JOHN B. CLARKE, lOllN BADCilCR CLARKE was born in J Atkinson Jan. 30, 1820, and was one of a family that has been illustrious in New Hampshire. His parents were intellitjent and successful farmers, and from them he inherited the robust constitu- tion, the ycnial disposition, and the capacity for brain work wliich carried him to the head of his profession in New Hampshire. They also fur- nished him with the small amount of money necessary to give a boy an education in those days, and in due course he graduated with high honors at Dartmouth College in the class of 1843. Then he became principal of the Meredith Bridge Academy, which position he held three years, reading law meanwhile. In 1848 he was admitted to the Hillsborough county bar from the office of his brother, at Manchester, Hon. William C. Clarke, attorney general of New Hampshire, and the next year went to California, roughing it in the mines and prospecting for a permanent liusi- ness and location in California, Central America, and Mexico. In 185 I he returned to Manchester and estab- lished himself as a lawyer, gaining in a few months a practice which gave him a living ; but in October of the next year the sale of The Mirror offered an opening more suited to his talents and ambition, and having bought the property he thenceforth devoted himself to its development. He had no newspaper experience and little money, but he had confidence in himself, enthusiasm, energy, good judgment, and a willingness to work early and late for the success he was determined to achieve. For months he was editor, reporter, business manager, solicitor, collector, and bookkeeper for The Mirror establishment, and in these capacities he did a vast amount of work, which was so well directed that it carried him steadily along toward the goal he had resolved to reach. Every year added to the number of his patrons and the \t)lume and profit of his business, until The Mirror had a larger circulation and exerted a wider influence than any other paper of its class in New England, and was l)y far the most valuable newspaper property in New Hampshire. When he bought it, for less than a thousand dollars, in 1852, the circulation of the weekly and daily combined was only nine hundred copies. When he died, forty years later, it was sent regularly to more than forty thousand subscribers, and its gross income was more than twice as much every week as the original purchase price. The Mirror, as he left it, was entirely his. From the first he had been its owner, manager, and controlling spirit. It always reflected his views; it moved as his judgment dictated; and in spite of sharp rivalry, business depressions, and other obstacles, it made advances every season and reflected more and more strikingly the pluck, push, and perseverance, the courage, sagacity and industry of John B. Clarke. He succeeded by keeping abreast of the times, by being steadfastly loyal to his state, his city, and his friends, and by responding to every reasonable demand of his patrons. His motto was " One Better," and every volume of The Mirror was evidence that he was true to it. In making the paper successful al)ove all competitors, he made more money than any other Manchester man of his time who was engaged in a private business and had only his own capital to use; but if he gathered like one born to be a mil- lionaire, he scattered like one whom only rare capacity for getting would save from being a prodigal. He was a free giver and a good liver. He valued money only for what it would bring. He turned no one away who asked help for a cause that commended itself to him. He bought what- ever he wanted, as he thought his family or friends needed. His home was the home of luxury and comfort. His farm was the place where costly experiments were tried. He was passionately fond of horses and dogs, and his stables and kennels were always filled with choice and costly specimens. He attended closely to business and always declined to be a candidate for |nd)lic office ; but the Republican party, of which he was a stalwart member after the fall of Sumter, elected him a delegate to the Baltimore convention that nomi- nated Abraham Lincoln for the second time to the presidency, and he was one one of the national committee of seven (including ex-Gov. Claflin of Massachusetts, ex-Gov. Marcus L, Ward of New '53 154 WILLETS BOOK OF NUTFIBLD. Jersey, and Hon. Henry J. Raymond of the New York Times) who managed that campaign. The Franklin Street Congregational church, with which he worshipped, the community whose welfare he always had at heart, and the wide circle of friends to whom he was devoted, looked to him for coun- sel and generally followed his advice. He sought neither governorships nor senatorships. He was satisfied with selecting governors and senators and shaping and defending policies. He never wearied of working to promote the interests of Manchester, and its rapid and healthy growth during his active life was largely due to him. He was a devoted friend of education. The Clarke prizes for excellence in elocution at Dart- mouth College and in the public schools of Man- chester were established by him, and in manv other ways he contributed freely to the usefulness of these and similar institutions. He was a sturdy and zealous champion of the farmers, who were in turn his stoutest friends, and he lost no opportunity to advance their inter- ests, especially in the line of breeding fine stock. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and a believer in the policy of protecting the fish and game of the state, and propagating in our lakes and rivers such valuable food fish as would thrive there. With this in mind he organized the State Fish and Game League, of which he was the president. Physically Colonel Clarke was a fine specimen of robust manhood. He was tall, erect, portly, broad-shouldered, and enjoyed excellent health. He was the best of companions and the truest of friends, a brilliant conversationalist, a good story teller and a patient and intelligent listener, a gentleman everywhere, and one of the people always. He died Oct. 29, 1891, after an illness of a few days, deeplv and widely mourned and univer- sally respected. Mr. Clarke married, July 29, 1852, Susan Greeley Moulton of Gilmanton, who died in 1S85. Subsequently he married Olive Rand, who survives him. His sons, Arthur E. (see page 157) and William C. (see page 121), and his widow suc- ceeded to the ownership and management of The Mirror, which they still retain. CLARK & KIMBALL FLATS, CHESTNUT STREET. i . ,-r**^'*?!?? V COL. ARTHUR EASTMAN CLARKE. COL. ARTHUR EASTMvYN CLARKE, the board of trade, and a director of the Northern son of John B. and Susan (Moulton) Chirke, Telegraph Company. From his school days Col. was horn in Manchester May 13, 1854. Graduat- Clarke has been an enthusiastic student of elocu- ino- from Dartmouth in 1875, he entered the tion, and has attained conspicuous distinction in Mirror office in the fall of that year to familiarize reading and reciting, carrying off high honors at himself with all branches of newspaper work. Phillips Academy and at Dartmouth College. After mastering the details of the composing and He has gratuitously drilled a number of pupils of press rooms he acquired further experience in the the Manchester public schools who have won first job department and in reading proof. He then prizes in the annual speaking contests. He gives became city editor of the Mirror, and for a number prizes yearly for excellence in elocution to the of years did all the local work alone, subsequently schools of Hooksett, and is often invited to judge with an assistant. Later he assumed the duties of prize speaking contests at educational institutions, general, state news, and review editor, remaining Ever since becoming associated with the Mirror in this position several years, and then taking he has had charge of its dramatic and musical charge of the agricultural department and other departments, and enjoys a wide personal acquaint- features of the Mirror and Farmer, assisting at the ance with noted actors and actresses. He has same time in the editorial, rcportorial, and business written some most interesting and valuable inter- departments of the Daily Mirror. For four years views with many distinguished players wiiich have lie was the legislative reporter of the paper at been extensively copied by the press of the country. Concord, and for one year he served as telegraph Denman Thompson received from Col. Clarke's editor. In these various capacities he acquired an pen the first noticeably long, analytical, and com- all-Kiund experience such as few newspaper men i>limentary criticism of his work that was ever possess, and it has stood him in good stead, for vouchsafed to this eminent actor. It was given ujion his father's death he became the manager of when Mr. Thompson was an obscure member of i>oth papers and of the job printing and book- a variety company. binthng liusiness connected with the establishment, Mr. Clarke has always been fond of athletic and has since conducted most successfullv the sports, and has won distinction in many lines. He extensive concerns of the office, besides doing organized and captained a picked team of ball almost daily work with his pen for both papers, players in Manchester that defeated the best club Mr. Clarke has inherited his father's energy, great in the State for a prize of $100. The longest hit capacity for work, and executive ability. He has made on the old West Manchester baseball been a member of the Manchester common coun- grounds was made bv Mr. Clarke, the ball going cil : has represented Ward 3 in the legislature ; was over the left field fence. In a game at the North adjutant of the Fust Regiment, N. H. N. Ci., for a End fair grounds he made three home runs. He number of years ; was agricultural statistician for is one of the finest skaters, both roller and ice, in New Hampshire during Garlield's ailministration ; New Hampshire. With a shot gun, rifle, and was colonel on (iov. Tuttle's staff' ; is president of revolver he is quite an expert, and holds a record the New Hampshire Press Association and the New of thirty-eight clay pigeons broken t)Ut of forty in Hami)shire member of the executive committee of the days of the Manchester Shot)ting Cluli, a score the National Press Association; is a member of that was not equalled by Manchester marksmen, the Boston Press Club, of the Algon(|uin Club llehcklthc billiard championshij) of Dartmouth (Boston),of the Manchester Press Club, of the Coon College, and upon his return to Manchester in Club, of the Calumet Club of Manchester, and of 187.5 .defeated the best players in the city, winning the Amoskeag Grange. He is Past Exalted Ruler of substantial prizes. He is a devotee of hunting and the Manchester Lodge of Elks, ex-president of the 'fishing, lias jnnsued manv piiases of the sport with Derryfield Club, a member of the Manchester great success, and no angler in Manchester 157 158 WlLLBrS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. has probably taken so many large trout as he has during the past ten years. He owns four hunting dogs, in the company of which in fall and winter he maintains the superb health and robustness that have always characterized him. Col. Clarke conducts the Mirror farm, located just outside the city limits, and here experiments in man)^ directions are tried under his supervision. The largest strawberries ever raised in Manchester have been grown at the Mirror farm, and on one field there in the season of 1895 over four and one half tons of hay were cut to the acre on the first crop. The whole management of the Mirror office and its immense responsibilities rest upon him, and his personal attention covers every detail. He disposes of work with great ease and rapidity, and no obstacle ever daunts him. Col. Clarke has travelled abroad extensivelv, and has embodied his i mpressions of foreign lands in a most interesting book entitled: "European Travels." Jan. 25, I 893, he was married to Mrs. Jacob G. Cilley of Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Clarke is a member of the Franklin- Street Societv (Congregational), and is rarely absent from the Sunday morning service. He was chairman of the committee that selected the present pastor, Rev. B. W. Lockhart. He is a member of the committee that has charge of the choir singmg, and is one of the gentle- men who have so successfully managed the ves- per services at this church, which have proved so popular. He liberally supports the work of the church. He is a member of the Franklin- Street Young Men's Association. COL. ARTHUR E. CLARKE S RESIDENCE, THE EAYERS RANGE, BY REV. JESSE G. McMURPHY. THE prominence of the range feature in the two ranges were called the Double Range on the original settlement of the nut country was west side of Beaver river, thus distinguished from largely due to the clannish character of the people, the Double Range on the east side of Beaver Families connected by marriages and common river. sentiments and opinions found it convenient and The headlines of these farms extended north agreeable to dwell together along some fertile of northwest and south of southeast, and the slope or stream, and to facilitate communication longest or side lines extended east of northeast adopted the plan of parallel homesteads, long and and west of southwest. The ranges are never narrow, with a highway only across the common described as touching each other and in many residence ends, while the opposite ends remained places unappropriated land was left to raise inter- uncultivated and covered with forests and swamps minable disputes and claims of ownership. This is still occupied by bears and wolves. notable on the westerly side of the Eayers Range, The Double Range, the English Range, and where there was much swamp, and the next range the Aikens Range were not more prominent than began beyond the swamp. The change of direc- the Eayers Range in respect to the dates of their tion in the westerly headline is the source of end- settlement or the character of the people who less complications in surveying lots, as also the formed and named them. An examination of the merging of the Aikens Range and Eayers Range old Proprietors' Book will convince the reader on the north, their side lines having different that families occupied these lands before any name directions. had been given, or any steps taken to build a town- As this range eventually became known as ship here, and even the name of Nutfield cannot the Eayers Range by reason of the prominence of be claimed as the earliest applied title to any por- William Eayers and his familv here and in other tion ot the territory. Dunstable is an older name parts of this township, a copv of the record of the that was applied to many thousand acres including la\'ing out of his homestead is herewith given: all that was afterward known as Nutfield, and only relinquished when the boundary between the Nutfield October u-" 1720. Laid out to William Eayers a r -NT TT 1 • 1 Tv/r 1 ^.^ 'ot of land in the west ranare in the said town containinc; sixty provmces 01 New Hampshne and Massachusetts r , . j • , > , r n < , • • . ' , . '^ . acres of land and is bounded as followeth: beginning at a pine was hnally established. The transcript of the tree at the northeast corner and a heap of stones, from thence laying out of these homesteads shows the process running a due west-south-west line three hundred and twenty of naming the ranges was less rapid than the rods and bounding all the way upon John Givean's lot, from settlement Nearlv all of the Eavers Rano'C thence running south-south-east thirty rods and so running two 1 1. A 1' -1 J 1 • ■ ^i -«x7 ^ i3arallel lines to these lines first mentioned bounding upon homesteads were described as ivino- in the West ' , _, ,_, ,,., , ., .''. . - ■ .1 homas Boyle and hdward Aiken, together with an interest in Range, m reference to the fact that the Aikens j],^ common or undivided lands within the said township eipial Range joined it on the east, and for a time these to other lots in said town. David Cargill, James McKeen, 159 MAP OK THE EAVERS RANGE. M'/L LET'S BOOK OF NUTFTELD. [allies Gregg, Robert Wear, John Morrison. John Goffe, Com- mittee. Recorded this ii"' of ( )<-tohor 1720. I'r. John Goffe, Toiun Clcik. The identification of this man's homestead and residence may be of interest to the reader and especially to a numerous line of descendants who have ijiven their names to many important enter- prises since the settlement of the Eayers Ran_a:e. Therefore some further comments are made upon the e.xact location of William Eayers and the house in which he lived. In passing to the means of identification it is also to be noted that the orthography of the surname is original and has since been changed into Ayers. The roads leading bv the dwellings of this range were private for several vears under the constructive era while the township was still known as Nutfield ; but soon after the charter was granted and the name of Londonderry therein established, corporate action laid out the highways. The following will serve as an example and be recognized as a present thoroughfare : Londonderry November 6"' 1723. Laid out by the select- men a straight road beginning at the northwest side of David Morrison's homestead lot and running southeast across the brook on the south side of said Morrison's field between two great rocks and by marked trees across Samuel Morrison's lot and .^bram Holmes' lot and on the west of Jolin Woodburn's field, across the said Woodburn's lot, and then turning a little more easterly over a little run and so to the highway that comes from Edward Aikens, and then turning over the bridge and taking the line between William Eayers and James Craig's lots to the cross road that turns by Mr. Eayer's house and David Boyle's and to the east of John McClurg's cellar and through the second divisions, the said straight road to be four rods wide where it crosses their lots and where it runs along lots two rods wide. Samuel Moore, John Blair, Benjamin Wilson, Robert Boyes, Selectmen. Recorded this 13"' day of December 1723. Pr. John MacMurphv, 'I'cnvn Ckik. This direct road here recorded began on the north side of the farm lately occupied by James McMurphy and passed by his house and over the Aiken brook, and now over the railroad bridge and across the farm of Alexander McMurphy and over the spring brook between the lots of Daniel Owens and John Duffy into the road that comes from John Folsom's house, and then turning west- ward passes again over the Aiken brook on the line between John Duffy and the Corthells to a cross road that o'nce passed along near the Aiken brook through the Morrisons', Holmes' and Wood- burn's lots, to accommodate several families that lived by the brook, their old cellar walls and cool, clear well springs being still visible. At William Eayers's house the road leads southerly, that is, by Mrs. Corthell's present home, and then by George Ripley's house, the old Boyles lot, and continuing liy the late homes of Peter Home and Robert Jeffers. Abram Holmes very early sold his original homestead and settled on other lands where the family continued to occupy without interruption until the present generation. John Woodburn also complained of his land and was granted the privilege of taking a homestead in some other sec- tion of the township, and after several trials located in the western part of the town near Dunstable line with others, forming a new range. A reference to the brief genealogical history of the early settlers contained in the work of Rev. Edward L. Parker will show these families along the Aiken brook to have been closely related by marriages. The Woodburn lot was never fenced off, but came to be common with the Craig lot on the south, and the two lots are united loneitudi- nally to be divided transversely into three or more portions owned by Daniel Owens, John Duffy, James Madden, and Alexander McMurphy. James Smith was not one of the scheduled proprietors of the town of Londonderry, but records of births in his family are given and they are previous to the time of alleged settlement, before the date of the royal charter or even the deed of Col. John Wheelwright. The James Smith lot came into the possession of the Pinkerton family; tiiere the worthy founder of Pinkerton Academy and liberal benefactor of the two religious societies of his gen- eration lived and died. Thirty-one thousand dollarr in those days meant persistent industry and habitual economy, and those endowments signified mature convictions and determination to sacrifice himself and consecrate the fruits of his labors to the highest good of his countrymen. Robert McKeen's lot of forty acres was laid out bounding upon land of James Smith, and men- WiLLErS BOOK OF NUTFIELD. tion is also made in tlie record of a highway lead- ing from the Aikens Range to Canada and passing through his land. The Robert McKeen lot was not granted for a homestead, but a second division was made, the same in amount that was laid out to every proprietor of one full homestead of sixty acres. The stream of water that runs southward throuarh Robert McKeen's second division had together with a piece of meadow in Pole meadow bounded by stakes between the lots of John Woodburn and WiUiam Aiken : also a pond lying by the six acre meadow. David Cargill, John Bell, Allen Anderson, John Mitchell, Committee. Recorded this 28"' of February 1723-24. Pr. John MacMurphy, Tuwn Clerk. This transcript fullv illustrates the custom of been reserved for the use of a sawmill. The granting meadows independentlv of homestead privilege of the stream extended upwards upon the bounds or any right given by the plan of allot- banks as far as a spruce swamp. In this descrip- tion the reader may readily lo- cate the Aiken sawmill at a [loint recently occupied by Washington Perkins and des- ignated as the Whittier sawmill, and earlier still as the Wilson saw- mill. 'l"he forty acres laid out to the Rev. James McGregor as a second division were granted in part for a want of wood upon the lot assigned to him as a home- stead. This is and alwavs has been a wooded tract of land, but in the years when the Pages and by blazing trees by the roadside. And as in those the Spinneys lived there mucli of the land was in days the meeting with bears was a common occur- a good state of cultivation and there were flourish- rence, many traditions of such meetings arc found ing orchards and gardens. in the mcinories of old people. The Morrisons In order to show the manner of describing remained in possession of their lands in the Eayers meadows granted to the early settlers, the tran- Range for several generations, but finally sold the POTAI'O FIELD, DERRY. ment. The mea- dow at Bear hill is still cut annual- ly and why the space remains free from other growths and re- s i s t s the en- croach ment of bushes and trees is not easily ex- plained. When David Morrison cut these mea- dows the whole count r )' w a s denselv covered with forests and even the high- ways that led from one part of the town to the other parts were through the wil- dcrness, where it was necessary to mark the course script of one is here presented : Londonderry July 23'' 1723. Laid out to David Morrison one acre and sixty rods of meadow, be it more or less, which lieth at Bear hill and is bounded on Samuel Morrison's lot by stakes and running down the creek to the meadow bounds ; homesteads, and either removed to other towns or occupied their second divisions and amendment lands. For a more particular history of these move- ments the reader is referred to the History of the Morrison Family, published by Leonard Morrison. WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. 163 John McClursi's cellar wall is said to have They appear to have selected lots with reference hecn recently visible near the house of Warren to possibilities of constructing dams or raising P. Home, a little to the northwest by the upper mill privileges on secondary streams where all the road. In other parts of the town John McClurg's really available streams had already been taken, name will be found associated with the possession The lands were not suitable for agricultural pur- of large tracts of land. James Alexander's home- poses by reason of the swamps and stones, and the stead was in the Double Range east of Beaver streams had not sufficient water to supply a pond, river and had a second division allowed to his right All of that swamp at the westerly end of the on the southerly side of the Eayers Range. It Eayers Range was watered by the Boyles brook shortlv became a homestead, as n e ar 1 \^ all the second divisions were needed to satisfy the de- mands for more land. Sons of pioneers reaching the ages of twen- tv-one required homesteads. In reference to the Wilson lot, originally laid out to James Wilson, there is a mar- ginal reading in the Town Rec- ords showing that James Wil- son died and one half of the lot was sold to John M c C 1 u r g and that became his projier half share according to the schedule. Oni HENRY S. WHEELER S BARN, DERRY. hal the re- vard. and meanderint that crosses the road west of George Crispen's house and crosses another road west of the Elas house, at that point beyond and out of the range. However, the Boyles brook car- ried a wheel to operate a fulling mill right above the road at the Elas. About a mile west of this Bovles brook is another section of countr\- marked with similar con- ditions, and a Boyles brook runs throuofh it just west of the Shiplev or Lon- donderry grave, through Boyles mea- mainder was granted to Elizabeth Wilson, the dows and numerous other claims, crosses the widow of James, and the other fourth to her road west of Charles McAllester's place and so daughter, Mary Wilson. At this time the Aiken on to join the waters of the more favored Beaver brook, as it passed through the Wilson and Mc- river. Clurg lands, was merely a small stream that over- Samuel Aiken now owns the second division llowed some meadows above in the spring of each laid out to Uavid Morrison, or that portion of it year. The building of a dam and mills upon this upon which the buildings were placed. It must stream at this place occurred many years after the be borne in mind that forty acres were granted settlement of the Eayers Range. exclusive of the meadows, and consequently many David and Thomas Boyle left their surname more are now included in the boundary since upon many swamps, meadows, brooks, and places, the meadows have been purchased. Daniel Owens 164 WILLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. purchased the western half of this lot from the heirs of the late Abram McKenney. The Rankine meadow was originally granted for about four acres and bounded on this lot. Sydney Burbank occupies the easterly ends of two lots originally laid out to William Eayers and Thomas Boyle. It is not fifty years since the last Robert Craig and sisters lived on the lot granted for a homestead to John Givean and passed over to James Craig within three years, or before 1723. The Craig farm of one hundred and twenty acres, for it embraced the Woodburn lot, was rather distinguished from others by the many peculiar traits of the family and consequently the singular products raised upon the land. It is within the memory of some aged people to describe the habits of the old maids and unmarried brother, and the peculiar speech of these last scions of a venerable stock. The old maple trees of a large orchard that produced many thousand pounds of sugar were but recently cut down, and even now there are some remnants of hardy appearance. How many trips the old maids executed in the thawing spring months along those pasture paths among the maples to fetch home the buckets of sap ! The slope of that old orchard was favorable to the observations of those who lived to the north and eastward. The tending of sheep was another occupation of the maiden sisters, and it is reported that they were quite as timid as their flock, and were seldom seen at close range, but at the ap- proach of a man they vanished behind the rocks and trees and shyly came forth after the stranger nad disappeared. But ' Sue Loves Me and I Loves Sue ' is nather gud nor bad." A LFRED BOYD, the only son of William and Margaret (Holmes) Boyd, was horn in An- trim, Feb. 12, 181 7. His parents moved to Derry in 182 1, when his father bought what was then "THREE KINDS OF SONGS.— Rev. James •* McGregor had a fine sense of propriety, whether he had an ear for music or not. In con- versation one day with one of his parishioners on the subject of songs he remarked : " There is just three kinds of songs. There is the very gud^song, the very bad song, and the song that is nather bad nor gud. ' While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks by Night ' is a very gud song. ' Janic Stoops Down to Buckle Her Shoe ' is a very bad song. ALFRED BOYD. the Cheney farm, comprising most of the land where the Depot village now stands. Jan. 28, 1S58, the son Alfred married Emma C. Corwin, daughter of John and Clarissa (Thompson) Corwin of Tunbridge, Vt. They had five children : John A., Fannie E., Sarah C, Clara M., and Everett W. Boyd. Mr. Boyd remained on the old farm until his death, which occurred Oct. 9, 1874. GEN. GEORGE REID. GEN. GEORGE REID, who aftrr Cxcn. Stark tions, to avenge the massacres of Wyoming and is the nK)St distinguished military son of Cherry Valley. During the summer of 1782 he was Nuffield, was born in Londonderry in 1733. His in command at Albany. In 1786 Gen. Reid was father was James Reid, who was one of the early appointed by Gen. Sullivan, then president of the settlers and selectmen of the town in that year, state, to command the military forces called out Of George Reid's earlv life but little is known, to suppress the rebellion which arose from the except that in 1757 he married Marv Woodburn, popular clamor for the issuance of paper money (laughter of John Woodburn by his first wife, Mary Boyd, and that he settled in Lon- (Kmderry. When the news of the battle of Lexington came, Reid was in commantl ol a companv of minute men. He immediatelv placed himself at the head of his company and marched to join the left wing of the American forces, un- der Gen. Stark, near Boston, and took part in the battle of Bun- ker Hill. His services in that engagement were recognized by the Continental Ct)n- gress, and on Jan. i, 1776, he was commis- sioned to be captain of a company in the Fifth Resfiment of GEN. GEORGE REID. which should be re- ceivable as legal ten- der in payment of taxes and debts. Gen. Reid was in Exeter at the time, where the legislature was in ses- sion, and he led the troops against the in- surgents, who had re- tired a little out of the village. The insur- rection was suppressed without the loss of life, and the forty prisoners taken were discharged, " on their profession of sincere repentance," says the record. Londonderry liatl votetl in favor of a paper currency, yet those who took part in the insurrection and who were church members in the town were required by the infantry. From that time on his rise was rapid, churches to make a public acknowledgment of In 1777 he was appointed lieutenant-colonel; in the error into which they had been drawn. It 1778, colonel; in 1783, colonel by brevet in the would be something of an anachronism nowadays army of the United States, and in 1 785, brigadier- to discipline a church member for being a green- general of the New Hampshire forces. He served backer or a bimetallist. Gen. Reid was appointed with valor and distinction in the battles of Long justice of the peace for Rockingham county in Island.White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, German- 1786, an office of dignity and consequence in town, Saratoga, and Stillwater, enjoying the fullest those days, and in 1791 he was appointed sheriff of confidence of Washington. He shared with the the county. He was a man of great courage and army all the hardships of the encampment at Valley sagacity. So intense was the feeling against him Forgein the winterof 1777, and was with Gen. Sulli- in his own county for the part he had taken in van on his famous expedition against the Six Na- suppressing the insurrection that his life and 165 i66 U'TLLET'S BOOK OF NUTFIELD. property were threatened. On one occasion, when five chihlren : Caroline M., Sarah E., Mary A., an antjry crowd surrounded his house at niyht, he EHzalieth W., and Henrietta O. Mr. Wheeler appeared at the window fully armed and addressed was educated in the common schools and at Pep- the rioters who had come to take his life. His perell Academy and Pinkerton Academy. He coolness and the force of his words alone induced was formerly a school teacher in New Hampshire them to disperse without doing him harm. Gen. and in the West, and subsequently was clerk and Reid died in September, 1815, at the age of eighty- salesman in different places. In 1865 he was re- two years. His wife, a woman of rare endow- ceiving and shipping clerk in the commissary ments and of most interesting character, was well depot at Richmond, \'a., and the following year adapted to the circle in which she moved. With a strong and vig- orous intellect, a retentive m e m - ory, a cheerful disposition and great equanimity of temper, she exerted a power- ful and happ\' in- Huence over the more excitable and strong pas- sions of her hus- band, whose mili- t a r y life had served to give prom i n e n ce to those traits of character b v which he was dis- tinguished. Gen. Stark once said of her: " If there is a woman in New Hampshire fit to be governor, 'tis Mollv and has since been engaged in farming in Derry. Reid." Her half-brother, David Woodburn, was His official life may be summed up as follows: the maternal grandfather of Horace Greeley. Clerk in the commissary depot in Richmond, Va., Mrs. Reid died April 7, 1823, at the age of eighty- about one year; official in the treasury depart- eight years. ment, ten years; selectman in Derry, seven years ; representative in the legislature from Derry, four years, making twenty-two years in all. While in ITENRV SPAULDING WHEELER, son of the legislature he was one of the most earnest A -l Thaddeus and Caroline (Farrar) Wheeler, advocates of the bill to establish the town system was born in Pepperell, Mass., Oct. 9, 1S35. He of schools, and aided by his speech and vote in married, in 1877, Hannah Maria, daughter of securing its enactment. Mr. Wheeler has had a Joseph and Sarah A. (Stickney) White, and has pronounced talent for music from early boyhood. HENRY S. WHEELERS HOUSE. DERRY. Unce ilie home of Gen. George Reid. he received an appointment in the treasurv de- p a r t m e n t at Washington. He was detailed at different times to examine the of- fices of internal re ve n ue collec- tors in various states, including Massac h u setts, Vermont, New York, Pennsyl- vania, Maryland, Ohio, West Vir- ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ar- kansas, Mississip- pi, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Vir- ginia. Having overtaxed his strength, he re- signed in 1876 WILLETS BOOK OF NUTFJELD. 167 lie tauoht siiiijino: school in the West, and has Manchester, N. H. In 1876 she united witli the sung tenor in ciiurcli choirs for nearly forty years, First Baptist Church of the last named place, including the First Methodist, the First Church, and in 1880, having received a letter of recom- the First Congregational, and the Baptist Church of Derry, and a Methodist church in Nashua, and was connected with the choir of the Calvarv Bap- tist Church of Washington, D. C, as tenor singer for ten 3'ears, being its chorister a part of the time. Having a sympathetic voice of ample volume, he has made himself useful in the praise service in church and Sundav school where\-er he has been located. Mr. Wheeler joined the Baptist Church in Orange, N. J., in 1863, since which time he has been active in church and Sundav school work while living in Oranoe, Washinyton, and Derrv. MRS. HENRY S. WHEELER. mendation fiom that church, she anil her hus- band united with twelve others to form the Baptist Church at Derry Depot, and they are amono; its most interested and loval members. /^RlS'i'MI ^ of the ILLS were built in the Inst months Nutlicld settlement. The hrst one was probably that of Captain David Cargill, at the eastern extremity of Beaver pond, wdiich must have been built before the colonists had been a year in their new home. There is a reference to this mill in the town records, dated Feb. 13, 1720, when in speaking of the road on the north of the pond, running from Samuel Marshall's house to George McMurphy's, it says the road crosses the brook " below Captain Cargill's grist mill." In 1722 Captain James Gregg built a gristmill in what is now Derry Village, possibly on the spot Mrs. Wheeler was born Jan. 9, 1853, in Derry. where W. W. Poor's mill now stands. In 1731 a mill Her education was received in the common privilege in Londonderry was granted to Benjamin schools and at Pinkerton Academy. She has Wilson, who built the first mill, since known at resided in Methuen and Haverhill. Mass., and in various times as Moor's, Goss's, and Kendall's mills, HENRY SPAULDING WHEELER. THE JAMES ROGERS FAMILY. TAMES ROGERS was born in Gloucester,