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DR. WM. B. LAPHAM. 
 
wm. m. brooks. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 WOODSTOCK, MR, 
 
 FAMILY SKETCHES 
 
 AN APPENDIX, 
 
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 BY WJ^L^^M B. LAPHAM. 
 
 V PORTLAND: 
 STEPHEN BERRY, PRINTER. 
 
 1882. 
 

INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 I'AGE. 
 
 Bryant's Pond from Dudley Hill, - - - 123 
 
 Wm. M. Brooks, - - - - - - - 107 
 
 John W. Brooks, - - - - - - - 184 
 
 Alden Chase, -------- 193 
 
 Prof. A. F. Chase, - - - - - - - 153 
 
 Key. E. Dunham, - - - - - - - 211 
 
 EuFUs K. Dunham, - ^ - - - - - 10^ 
 
 Jeff. C. Gallison, ------- 155 
 
 Hon. C. p. Kimball, ------ 231 
 
 H. L Kimball, - - - 157 
 
 Wm. B. Lapham, ------ Frontispiece. 
 
 Geo. F. Leonard, - - - - - - - 237 
 
 Orsamus Nute, ------- 243 
 
 Hon. Sidney Perham, ------ 163 
 
 Joel Perham, Jr., ------- 247 
 
 Capt. E. S. Eandall, - - - - - .- - 251 
 
 Charles 0. Whitman, ------ 265 
 
 Harrison S. Whitman, - - - - - - 1 67 
 
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 The history of the town of Woodstock presents no startling incidents, 
 and few if any circumstances not common to other of the late-settled, 
 interior towns of the State. It was settled long after- the last hostile demon- 
 stration by the Indians was made in Maine, and therefore can contain no 
 thrilling incidents common to Indian warfare in frontier life. The natural 
 facilities for manufacturing were very limited, and from its settlement 
 the inhabitants have mainly been engaged in pastoral pursuits. The his- 
 tory of such a town, except to the people who inhabit it, cannot be es- 
 pecially entertaining, and is valuable in a general sense only as its statistics 
 aid in making up a complete history of the State. But to the inhabitants 
 of Woodstock, and especially to those born there or descended from the 
 pioneers, an account of its first settlement and' its gradual development from 
 an unbroken wilderness, through its plantation life, to a prosperous munici- 
 pality, filled by an industrious, thrifty and intelligent people, should possess 
 some degree of interest. 
 
 It is eighty-four years since the first clearing was made with a view to 
 settling upon the lands within the limits of that town, and it will be eighty- 
 four years in November next, since the first two families moved in. It is 
 sixty-seven years since Plantation Number Three was incorporated and 
 became a town, and all those who participated in organizing the new mu- 
 nicipality have passed away. The last was Gideon Swan, who was born in 
 1784, and was a lad of seventeen or eighteen years when his people came 
 here. He died in 1877. Next to the last was Jacob Whitman, who was one 
 of the first five families ; he died in 1873. But few of the children of the 
 early settlers now survive, and the number grows less year by year. Those 
 who survive are old, and in the course of nature must soon pass away. 
 When one of them goes, the sources of information concerning the early settle- 
 ment of the town are diminished, and it will not be long before the last link that 
 connects the present with that early period will be broken. It was this fact 
 that induced me to undertake the task of collecting and recording, before 
 they had all gone, some of the incidents connected with the first settlement, 
 plantation period and early municipal life of the town of Woodstock. Its 
 
4 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 people are endeared to me in various ways. Though reared elsewhere, it 
 was among them that I first launched my boat upon the sea of life, and my 
 compagnon de voyage was a native-born of the town. My mother, also, first 
 saw the light of day in Woodstock; there she died and there her dust re- 
 poses. Her father was one of the first five settlers. 
 
 I am well aware of the imperfections of this history. One source of diifi- 
 culty and regret is, that it was not begun sooner, when more of the earlier 
 settlers were living, and I «was a resident. It is a too common neglect. I 
 have also labored under the disadvantage of living at a distance from the 
 town while the work was going on, and of being too much cumbered with 
 other cares and labors to be able to make that original research that is 
 desirable in such cases. The most interesting part of a town's history is 
 that which may be denominated unwritten ; it is also much more difficult to 
 obtain. Statistical facts, relating to municipal affairs, if the records are 
 properly kept, are always at hand, can be copied at any time, and at one 
 time as well as another; but the unrecorded incidents in the history of a 
 town can be obtained only from living witnesses, and if not gathered up and 
 preserved during their life-time, they pass into tradition, and facts soon 
 become so distorted as to be wholly unreliable. It was not until most of the 
 early settlers had gone, carrying with them the story of the hardships, priva- 
 tions and perils of their j^ioneer life, and the few who remained had become 
 so aged and infirm as to make communication with them very difficult, that 
 any effort was made to gather up and preserve unrecorded facts ; that portion 
 of this history, therefore, which could have and should have been gleaned 
 from these now extinct sources, will necessarily be brief. 
 
 It may appear to some, that in certain directions I have gone unnecessarily 
 into detail, but such should remember that facts with which they themselves 
 are familiar from personal recollections, will be new to their posterity. 
 John Quincy Adams once said that " Posterity delights in details," and 
 most of us can testify to the truth of the saying. To all who have rendered 
 me assistance in the compilation of this work, I am under great obligation. 
 There are so many of them who have aided me in various ways, and the 
 sources from which information has been derived are so numerous, that to 
 enumerate all would occupy more space than can be given to an introduction 
 which is already too long ; and without further remark, the following pages 
 are respectfully submitted to the charitable and discriminating consideration 
 of my former towns-people. 
 
 WM. B. LAPHAM. 
 
 Augusta, 1882. 
 
^pi^Te^Y 0F W0eDgT9CK.i^ 
 
 The territory comprising the towu of Woodstock is generally 
 hilly or mountainous. Its hills are often high and abrupt, and 
 within the limits of the town are several mountain peaks, 
 though none of them are remarkable for their great height 
 above the sea level. In the west part of the town, abold bluff 
 forms the western boundary of Bryant's Pond, rising abruptly 
 from the water about three hundred feet, and for the first two 
 hundred nearly perpendicularly. The summit of this mountain 
 is in Greenwood. Nearly due north from this is a mountain 
 which forms the easterly barrier to the waters of North Alder 
 Eiver Pond. Besides these, there are nearly twenty distinct 
 peaks, where the primary rocks have broken through and 
 formed elevations of greater or less altitude above the sur- 
 rounding country. Some of these were formerly wooded to 
 their summits, while others show their rock-ribbed structure 
 and are capped with granite or gneiss. Some of these have 
 received distinctive names and others have not. There is very 
 little level land in town. Along the beds of some of the streams, 
 belts of bottom land have been formed, but they are generally 
 narrow. 
 
 The natural bodies of water in Woodstock are situated at the 
 extreme west part and near the north-eastern extremity. Bry- 
 ant's Pond is the most important, as forming the head waters 
 
6 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 of the Little Androscoggin Eiver. North Alder Eiver Pond 
 discharges its waters into South Pond, the latter lying wholly 
 in Greenwood, and thence through Ptound Pond in the same 
 town and Alder River, to the Great Androscoggin River at 
 Bethel. In the north-east part of the town, Great and Little 
 Concord Ponds empty their waters through the Concord River 
 into the Androscoggin in Rumford. Shagg Pond, situated a 
 short distance south of the last two, discharges its waters easterly 
 through the adjoining town of Sumner. We have no very im- 
 portant streams of water. The outlet of Bryant's Pond soon 
 passes into Greenwood ; t'iiat of the North Alder River Pond is 
 all in that town. There are numerous brooks fed by smaller 
 mountain streams, but in most of them the water is reduced to 
 a mere thread in summer. Most of the streams have their 
 origin in the mountain region, which is situated a little to the 
 north and east of the center of the town, and flow away from 
 them, towfird every point of the compass. This fact accounts 
 for their insignificance for manufacturing purposes ; the con- 
 formation of the land is such that they cannot unite and form 
 larger streams until they get beyond the limits of the town, if 
 indeed they do at all. The mountain region here referred to 
 occupies about nine square miles, or one-fourth of the entire 
 surface of the town. There are in the region ten distinct out- 
 croppings of the rocky foundation of the earth, and most of the 
 entire surface is unfit for cultivation. An interesting Kame or 
 horse-back enters Woodstock from Bethel toward the north-west 
 part of the town, and passing south-easterly to Pinhook, bears 
 westerly to near Bryant's Pond, and then passes into Greenwood 
 a mile or two below. This ridge was known as the " Whale's 
 Back," long before Woodstock had a settler. This' was probably 
 the bed of an arctic river, and the effects of glacial action are 
 apparent in many parts of the town. -Huge boulders are scat- 
 tered here and there, and ridges of rounded cobbles are found in 
 many places. These are all interesting from the standpoint of 
 the scientist, but they make agriculture tedious. 
 
HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 7 
 
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 The physical features of Woodstock are not unlike much of 
 the surrounding territory. The same general characteristics 
 are observed as we go northwardly to Canada, easterly to 
 Katahdin, westerly to the White Hills and beyond, and south- 
 erly for a considerable distance toward the sea coast. The only 
 important difference that exists is found in the fact that those 
 towns through which the larger rivers pass have broader belts 
 of interval, and conseqiiently more and better arable land. 
 This is true of all the Androscoggin towns, and some others 
 through which some of its more important tributaries pass, 
 such as the Ellis, Bear, the Swift, the Little Androscoggin, and 
 some others. In its physical aspect, there is a close similarity 
 in the entire region, embracing Franklin and Milton Plantations, 
 Woodstock, Greenwood and Albany, and portions of the ad- 
 joining towns, while a larger portion of the towns which circle 
 around this territory are made up of better agricultural terri- 
 tory. The soil of Woodstock is strong, but hard to work. In 
 part compensation for this, we have a large area of most excel- 
 lent grazing lands, and our facilities for sheep husbandry could 
 not very well be improved. 
 
 The rocky formation of Woodstock is generally granite. In 
 some places, as at Bryant's Pond, are deposits of excellent rift, 
 and valuable for building purposes. There is some resemblance 
 between this and the Quincy granite. It is free from the com- 
 pounds of iron and of other metals, and is therefore durable. 
 The constituents of granite, which are mica, quartz and feldspar, 
 are often found in considerable masses by tliemselves, and in 
 many places they unite and form coarse granite or gneiss. 
 Some small deposits of clay are found in the town, and occa- 
 sionally slaty formations, though not of any great extent. 
 Veins of trap rock are not uncommon. Fine specimens of 
 crystallized quartz are found in some localities, and also other 
 interesting minerals of which quartz forms all but the coloring 
 substances. Mr. Nathan A. Perry, of West Paris, formerly a 
 resident of this town, and who has given much attention to its 
 
8 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 mineralogy, sends iis the following list of "Woodstock minerals, 
 as the result of his personal investigation : Amphibole, Apatite, 
 Arsenopyrite, Beryl, Biotite, Calcite, Canaanite, Chalcopyrite, 
 Columbite, Dove Marble, Epidote, Tibrolite, Galenite, Garnets 
 (Yellow and Ked), Granular Limestone, Graphite, Green Mica, 
 Gypsum, Limonite (Brown Hematite), Muscovite, Orthoclare, 
 Phlogopite, Pyrites, Pyrrhotite, Pyroxene, Rutile, Rhyolite, 
 Scapolite, Tourmaline (Black), Vesuvianite (Idocrase) Radiated, 
 Vesuvianite (Idocrase) Zeolites (in boulder). 
 
 Ores of iron, lead, copper, arsenic, zinc, gold and silver have 
 been found within the limits of this town, in small quantities. 
 Their distribution, in minute particles, in some of our rocky 
 formations, have led some to believe that the precious metals 
 and also lead exists here in paying quantities, and considerable 
 time and money have been expended in prospecting, blasting 
 and sinking shafts, but the supposed treasures yet elude the 
 grasp of the eager seekers, and the realization of their hopes 
 seems to be as far off as ever. If they are there — which is ex- 
 ceedingly doubtful — they are probably so deeply hidden that 
 human eyes will never behold them. 
 
 The Flora of Woodstock differs in no respect from other 
 places in the same latitude all through the State. The forests 
 are made up of the usual mixed growths of rock, white and 
 gray maple, beech, yellow birch, ash in several varieties, spruce, 
 hemlock, fir, cedar and pine, though the original growth of the 
 latter was not as valuable here as in some of the neighboring 
 towns. There were very extensive areas of spruce and hemlock 
 and of hard woods on the sides of the mountains. Pted oak is 
 found in some localities, and poplar and white birch are very 
 common as a second growth. Our hill-sides and valleys pro- 
 duce an abundance of wild flowers in their season, and on some 
 of our highest elevations are found flowers and plants of a semi- 
 arctic character. 
 
 From the character of the rocks, as already described, the 
 nature of the soil will be readily understood. It is generally a 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 9 
 
 gravelly loam, though alluvial soils are found in the bottom of 
 the valleys, and in narrow belts along the margin of the streams. 
 In some localities, also, as from North Woodstock to the outlet 
 of Bryant's Pond, the soil is of that peculiar kind denominated 
 drift. It is thrown into ridges, is full of rounded pebbles and 
 cobbles, and in some places sandy. But this occupies only a 
 small part of the area of the town. The soil generally was hard 
 to subdue, is hard to work, but is strong and retains its pro- 
 ductiveness in a satisfactory degree. 
 
 The mountains of Woodstock, with the intervening forests, 
 have always been the favorite haunts of the bear and some 
 other wild animals, and the first settlers* found them herein 
 great force — much greater than they have been found since. 
 This condition of things developed some quite famous bear 
 hunters, and many of these animals have been killed here since 
 the town was first settled. They have often been very de- 
 structive to the corn fields, but niucli more so to the flocks of 
 sheep. Sable and beaver, and also the otter, were once here. 
 When the town was first settled, several of our ponds abounded 
 in the finest trout. Bryant's Pond, in particular, soon became 
 famous, not only for the quantity of trout it and its tributaries 
 and outlet contained, but for their fine quality. The water is 
 clear and cold, it being fed largely by springs that bubble up 
 beneath its surface ; it is the natural habitat of the trout. But 
 these things are past ; the voracious pike has been introduced 
 into nearly all of our ponds, and the trout are nearly extermin- 
 ated. Other fish in our waters are of the inferior kinds, and of 
 comparatively little value. 
 
 The coast of Maine had been settled for more than a hundred 
 years before the interior lands were even lotted out. There 
 were two principal reasons for this. One was the importance 
 of the food supply of .the ocean, which would not be available 
 in the interior ; and the other, the hostile attitude of the Indians. 
 It was not until the close of the French War, in 1760, which 
 
10 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 resulted in wresting Canada from the French, that new settle- 
 ments could be made away from the coast with any degree of 
 safety. After the close of the year 1760, the great wilderness 
 was pierced by settlers in various directions. There was a general 
 movement all along the line, the lands on the larger rivers being 
 those first selected. Fryeburg, on the Saco, was settled in 1762 
 by emigrants from Concord, N. H., this being the first settle- 
 ment made within the limits of Oxford county. Settlers also 
 came there from Andover and from other points, and Fryeburg 
 soon became a rallying point for new settlements farther back. 
 Bethel was settled, or a settlement was begun there, in 1773, 
 and Waterford in 1775. Brunswick was also a rallying pomt 
 fof settlers farther up the Androscoggin, and New Gloucester 
 and Gray for the central parts of this County. But the break- 
 ing out of the Eevolutionary war called all the able-bodied 
 men of New Sngland into the army, and the farther settlement 
 of the interior of Maine was postponed. Towards the close of 
 the war settling movements were again resumed, though not 
 pushed with much vigor. Paris was settled from Plymouth 
 and Worcester Counties, in Massachusetts, in 1779, Eumford in 
 1780, and Buckfield in 1777, by people from New Gloucester. 
 It was after the war closed, that a great rush was made for 
 eastern lands by those who had been in the service. They were 
 generally poor, government money, in which they had been 
 paid, having become worthless, and they turned to the unsettled 
 wilderness as the only place where they could hope to make 
 homes for themselves and their families. There was a great 
 rush of new settlers to the towns before named, and other set- 
 tlements were begun. Sumner was settled in 1783, Norway in 
 1786 and Peru in 1793. These towns are circled around the 
 territory which now comprises Woodstock, Greenwood, Albany, 
 Milton Plantation and Franklin Plantation, which was still 
 left unsettled. Its rough surface was not inviting to the set- 
 tler, and its situation away from any considerable water course 
 kept settlers away from it. 
 
HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 11 
 
 The first road built through Number Three (Woodstock) was 
 opened for travel before a clearing had been made in town. 
 It was in the year 1795 that the settlers in No. 4 (Paris) and 
 those at New Pennacook (Eumford) petitioned the Court of 
 General Sessions for the location of a road that should connect 
 the two settlements. Previously, and at this time, the distance 
 — about twenty miles — could only be made on foot by the aid 
 of spotted trees. The petitioners prayed that a County road 
 might be laid out, beginning at the southeast corner of No. 4, 
 and ending at the south line of New Pennacook. The petition 
 was duly received by the Court in session at Portland, and 
 received favorable consideration. A committee, consisting of '- 
 John Greenwood, Nathaniel Coit Allen, Isaac Parson3,^^~ ^ 
 IcHABOD BoNNEY and Peleg Chandler, was appointed to view' 
 the route and locate the road. They begun at a hemlock trees •" k 
 in the easterly line of Paris, and laid out a road two rods wide 
 on each side of it. Some of the points named are " Solomon 
 Shaw's House," "Abner Shaw's Barn," " Benjamin Hammond's 
 Barn," to the center of a County road formerly laid out to the 
 center lot in Paris ; thence to " Swift Brook," " Fall Brook," 
 " Biscoe's Falls, at the bank of the Little Amariscoggin Eiver " ; 
 to the " northwest corner of Paris " ; to the " southerly end of a 
 ridge called Whale's Back"; to a "brook at the north end of 
 said Whale's Back ; to a " Norway pine, standing in tlie south- 
 erly line of New Pennacook." They were ten days in locating 
 the road, and the entire expense to the County, including the 
 pay of two assistants, was only ninety-nine dollars. This is the 
 present traveled road which enters Woodstock from Greenwood 
 a short distance above the Bacon place. Some changes have 
 since been made. The old road went nearer the Swan, since 
 called the Gilbert place, than now, and down the hill into the 
 " Common " lot ; then turned quite abruptly toward the east 
 and up the hill to where the present road is. Another change 
 has been made on the Joseph AVhitman, now the Danville J. 
 Libby farm, the road formerly going on the east side of the 
 
12 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 house. During the summer of 1796, the road was cut out and 
 made passable, though still very rough. 
 
 Mention has already been made of the fine fishing afforded 
 by the ponds and streams of this region, and especially of the 
 fine quality of the trout in " Long Pond," as Bryant's Pond was 
 then called. There was also, in addition to bears which have 
 already been mentioned, an abundance of small game in the 
 woods, such as foxes and sable, and around the ponds and on 
 the streams, minks and muskrats. This, then, was a favorite 
 resort for hunters and fishermen from the settled towns, and 
 especially those from Paris, who early found their way up the 
 Little Androscoggin to its source in Long Pond. Among the 
 frequent visitors to this pond, and who were in the habit of 
 spending much of the summer here and then returning to Paris 
 in winter, were the sons of Solomon Bryant, an early settler 
 of Paris. They thus became thoroughly familiar with this en- 
 tire region, and it only required the building of the road just 
 described to induce them to make their homes here. 
 
 The first two settlers of the west part of Woodstock, after- 
 wards granted to Dummer Academy, were Christopher and 
 Solomon Bryant, Jr. The territory was yet owned by Massa- 
 chusetts, and had not even been surveyed and lotted out. These 
 Bryant brothers had another brother not then of age, and sev- 
 eral brothers-in-law living in Paris, and their purpose was 
 to locate ten families upon this territory. They accordingly 
 employed Thomas Joycelin, of Buckfield, a surveyor of land, 
 to run out ten lots of one hundred acres each, five on each side 
 of the new County road, for a family settlement. This was in 
 the spring of 1797. When the town was subsequently lotted 
 out, the survey of Joycelin was not disturbed, and the " thou- 
 sand acres" remained, and has so continued, to trouble sur- 
 veyors and mar the plan of the town to the present time. In 
 the summer of this year the two Bryant brothers cut trees on 
 the two lots they had selected, spending most of the season 
 here in hunting, fishing and cutting trees. Christopher began 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 13 
 
 on the lot now owned by John Day, and Solomon on the one 
 where his son Eli long lived. In the following year (1798), 
 they again came here, burned their trees and built for themselves 
 log huts preparatory to moving in their wives. In October they 
 came with their household goods, and on the twelfth of Novem- 
 ber, the wife of Christopher Bryant gave birth to her first 
 child, a son, who was named Christopher, Jr., and this was the 
 first birth of a child in town. 
 
 In the spring of 1799, Luther Briggs, whose wife was a sis- 
 ter of the Bryants, came into the place and took the lot where 
 Samuel S. Swan now lives. The same summer, Jacob Whit- 
 man, Jr., from Buckfield, who had fallen trees the year before, 
 came and burned them, built a log hut and moved in with his 
 wife. He settled on a part of what is now the Town Farm, 
 where he long lived, and was followed by his youngest son, 
 Elan G., who recently disposed of it to the town. In the sum- 
 mer of 1799, Luke Owens, an Irishman, said to have been a 
 deserter from an English man-of-war, made a clearing on the 
 Morton Curtis farm. He lived there four or five years, and 
 then went to Paris. Levi Berry, from Buckfield, fell an open- 
 ing on the farm since known as the Alexander Day, Jr., farm, 
 it being lot Number Eleven in the west part of Woodstock, 
 according to Greenwood's survey. He was not married, and 
 boarded with his sister's husband, Jacob Whitman. In the fall 
 of 1799, Samuel Bryant built himself a cabin on what has since 
 been known as the " Common " lot, and moved in. There were 
 therefore five families in town during the winter of 1799-80, 
 namely : Christopher, Solomon and Samuel Bryant, Luther 
 Briggs and Jacob Whitman. Luke Owens, who was then 
 unmarried, also remained. In 1800, Levi Berry married a 
 sister of the Bryants, and moved to the lot where he had com- 
 menced a clearing the year before. Luther Whitman, brother 
 of Jacob, also moved to the lot where he afterwards lived, and 
 which has since been occupied by his son. It is probable that 
 during this same year 1800, Asa Thurlo, from Buckfield, 
 
14 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 settled upon the lot which long remained in his family ; that 
 John Nason, from Paris, made a clearing on the farm in the 
 Perham neighborhood and moved there. It is quite probable, 
 therefore, that nine families wintered in No. 3 during the win- 
 ter of 1800-1, not reckoning Owens. 
 
 Massachusetts was always liberal in the support of educa- 
 tion, and large grants of eastern lands were from time to time 
 made to colleges and other educational institutions. In 1797, 
 while the two Bryant brothers were lotting out their home- 
 steads, falling trees and making arrangements to settle upon 
 these government lands, the Legislature of Massachusetts granted 
 to the .Trustees of Dummer Academy a tract of land three by 
 six miles, equal to half a township, to be selected by the Trus- 
 tees from any of the unappropriated lands within the District 
 of Maine, excepting such as were situated within six miles of 
 Penobscot river. The Trustees employed Lothrop Lewis, Esq., 
 a surveyor, under the direction of the committee of the Legis- 
 ture for the sale of eastern lands, to visit the wild lands in the 
 District of Maine, and in 1799, he returned a plan of the west 
 half of township Number 3, in the County of Cumberland, and 
 recommended its acceptance by the Trustees. The circumstances 
 which led him to select land so far in the interior and so far 
 away from Penobscot river would be interesting to know, but 
 there is nothing on record to throw light upon the subject. 
 The object of the Trustees, doubtless, was to obtain land that 
 they could soonest realize money from, and as a new County 
 road had already been located and partly built through this 
 territory, and as settlements were already commencing, it seemed 
 quite probable that the whole township would soon be wanted 
 for settling purposes and the proceeds soon be available for the 
 purposes of the Academy. This may explain the circumstances 
 and it may not. The location was accepted by the Trustees, and 
 on the 5th day of March, 1800, the committee for the sale of 
 eastern lands conveyed the same to the trustees, in terms as 
 follows : 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 15 
 
 "To all to whom these presents shall come : Greeting : 
 
 " Whereas, the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in 
 General Court assembled, by a resolve passecj^n the 27th day of February, 
 A. D. 1707, granted to the Trustees of Dummer Academy, and to their suc- 
 cessors, half a township of laud ^ix miles square for the use of said Academy, 
 to be laid out or assigned by the committee for the sale of eastern lands, in 
 some of the unappropriated lands in the District of Maine, belonging to said 
 Commonwealth, excepting all lands within six miles of Penobscot River, 
 with the reservations and conditions which have been usually made in sim- 
 ilar cases; and whereas, Loturop Lewis, Surveyor, in pursuance of instruc- 
 tions to him given by the committee for the sale of eastern lands, did in the 
 month of November, 1799, return to the said committee a plan of the tract of 
 land hereinafter described for the purpose aforesaid : Now, therefore, know 
 ye that we, the undersigned, whose seals are hereunto affixed, being a major 
 part of the committee for the sale of eastern lands, in conformity to the 
 resolve aforesaid, do by these presents convey and confirm to the Trustees 
 of Dummer Academy, and to their successors, a certain tract of land in the 
 County of Cumberland, being part of township number three and bounded 
 as follows: Beginning at the northwesterly corner of Paris and thence 
 running easterly and bounded by said Paris, three miles and eight rods to a 
 stake ; then turning and running north thirty degrees west, six miles to a 
 rock maple tree marked ; then turning and running south sixty-eight and 
 one-half degrees, three miles and eight rods to township number four (now 
 Greenwood) ; then turning and running south thirty degrees east by town- 
 ship number four, to the first bound, containing eleven thousand, five hundred 
 and twenty acres ; conditioned, however, that the said grantees shall lay 
 out and convey to each settler who settled on said tract before the first day 
 of January, 178-1, one hundred acres of land, to be so laid out as best to 
 include his improvements, and be least injurious to the adjoining land; that 
 they shall settle on said land ten families in six years, including those now 
 settled thereon, and that they shall lay out three lots of one hundred and 
 sixty acres each, for the following uses, viz : one lot for the use of the ministry, 
 one for the first settled minister, his heirs and assigns, and one lot for the 
 use of schools in the said ti'act. To have and to hold, &c. 
 
 " In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals the 5th 
 day of March, a. d. 1800. 
 
 Samuel Phipps, 
 Levi Jarvis, 
 John Read." 
 
 Thus, what is now the west part of Woodstock, passed from 
 the Government of Massachusetts to the Trustees of Dummer 
 Academy, and took the name of " Dummer Academy Grant." 
 The Trustees, however, did not hold it long, but disposed of it 
 
16 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 SO soon as they could realize what they regarded as a fair price 
 for it. On the thirteenth day of October, A. d. 1800, Micaijah 
 Sawyer, for and in behalf of the Trustees, deeded the grant to 
 Michael Little,* of Poland, for and in consideration of the 
 sum of six thousand two hundred and forty dollars. 
 
 In the spring of 1801, Mr. Little took measures to have his 
 half township settled, and to that end, employed Alexander 
 Greenwood, of Hebron, a well-known surveyor of land, to go 
 to Number 3, and run it out into lots. There were no settlers 
 in the half township that could claun the benefit of the condi- 
 tions named in the grant to Dummer Academy, and each squatter 
 was under legal obligation to pay for his land. Mr. Little 
 also might have disregarded the survey of the " thousand acres " 
 in lotting out his half township, but he did not choose to do so. 
 He was under obligations to perform the conditions imposed 
 upon the Trustees of Dummer Academy, with regard to getting 
 a certain number of settlers upon the land within a specified 
 time, aind he probably felt it to be his best policy to conciliate 
 and keep quiet those already there. Mr. Greenwood, accom- 
 panied by Stephen Chase and other assistants, visited the 
 township in March, but found the snow so deep that it was im- 
 possible for them to do the work at that time, and so returned 
 home. But later in the season they came again, and the land 
 was run out into lots, generally of one hundred and sixty acres 
 each. The land being lotted out, Mr. Little began to make 
 efforts to have it settled. In the fall of 1801, Stephen Chase, 
 who had been in Mr. Little's employ in Lewiston, and who 
 had assisted in lotting out the township, accompanied by his 
 
 ♦Michael Little was son of Col. JosiAH and Sarah Tappan Little, of New- 
 bury, Mass., and was born tliere March 14, 1772. He graduated at Dartmouth College 
 in 1792, married Oct. 19, 1800, Sarah Storer. For second wife, he married Elizabeth 
 Kicker, of Somersworth, N. H., who survived him. His only child, and that by his first 
 wife, was Josiah Stover Little, the late President of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence 
 Railroad Company. Michael Little moved to Lewiston, and built a house there, 
 which is still standing on Main Street, a short distance from the bridge. He was a 
 man of enterprise and business capacity, and a large owner of wild lauds. He died 
 March 16, 1830. 
 
HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 17 
 
 brother, Merrill Chase, came to Number 3, with the view of 
 selecting lots for themselves. After spending some time in 
 prospecting, Stephen Chase selected lot number tliirty-three, 
 and Merrill lot number twenty-eight. These were adjoining 
 lots, and situated south-easterly from the one afterwards se- 
 lected by David Ricker and still known as the " Eicker " farm. 
 They felled a piece of trees upon each of their respective lots, in 
 such a manner that their clearhigs were together, and their log 
 houses, which .they put up and partly finished the same fall, 
 were near each other. In March following, they moved in 
 with their families. For five years after he came to town, 
 Stephen Chase kept a journal, copious extracts from which 
 may be found in another part of this book. A perusal of this 
 journal shows us the simple habits, the daily routine and the 
 more important happenings in this plantation up to the year 
 1806. Settlers came in very slowly. In 1803, Tilden Bart- 
 LETT purchased lot numbered fifteen, but he never moved to it. 
 Several years subsequent, he bought land on the Gore and 
 moved, as will be shown in a sketch of the Gore. Noah 
 Curtis, from Norway, purchased lot number ten in 1804, and 
 moved to it that year. This was the lot occupied by his sou 
 Seth, and later by his grandson Adoniram. Noah Curtis had 
 a family of grown-up boys, one of whom, Morton, in 1-805, 
 bought lot number fifteen of Tilden Bartlett ; this was the 
 lot on which Luke Owens first made a clearing, the one which 
 Morton Curtis occupied during his lifetime, and which his 
 son Crosby occupied after him. Consider Fuller moved into 
 Woodstock in 1801 ; he settled on Gore B, afterwards occupied 
 by Charles Curtis and others. 
 
 Soon after a settlement in the west part of Woodstock was 
 effected, a section two lots wide and running the width of the 
 half township on Paris line, was run out on the east half by a 
 surveyor named John K. Smith. These lots were of different 
 sizes, and in number some twelve or fifteen. Abraham and 
 2 
 
18 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Jonathan Walton* settled upon two of these lots, and the 
 former, if not the latter, was here in 1801. Mr. A. Hutchinson 
 and also E. Hutchinson occupied two other lots. Still another 
 was taken up by a man named Eeniff. Benj. Fobes bought 
 lot number seven, according to Smith's survey in 1804, and 
 soon after John Gray and John Starbird bought two adjoin- 
 ing lots; the two last named lots, in 1825, were annexed to 
 Paris. 
 
 On the twenty-third of June, a. d. 1803, the Legislature of 
 Massachusetts granted to the Trustees of Gofham Academy 
 the eastern half of township number three in the County of 
 Cumberland, including the portion already settled. The grant 
 was made with the condition that before its proceeds could be 
 made available to the Academy, the Trustees should raise the 
 sum of three thousand dollars by private subscription, within 
 one year from the date of the passage of the act. The specified 
 amount was raised within the time named, and Lothrop Lewis 
 and Matthew Cobb were a committee for running out the 
 land. The grant was surveyed in 1806 by Gen. James Irish, 
 of Gorham, afterwards Land Agent of Maine. In this, as in 
 the survey of the " Thousand Acres " in the west part, the pre- 
 vious survey of a few lots by Smith was not disturbed, and 
 these lots are still referred to in all conveyances of the same as 
 " according to Smith's survey." Soon after the survey was made, 
 that is in 1807, the entire grant was sold by the Trustees to 
 James H. Chadbourn and twenty others, mostly citizens of 
 Gorham, for the sum of ten thousand dollars. The purchasers 
 divided the land among themselves, and afterwards sold it out 
 to settlers. 
 
 At this time Maine settling lands were very cheap, and there 
 
 * Perhaps a clearing was made on this territory even before the Bryaxts came to 
 the west part, by Waltox and Hi'tchixsox, who built log huts and wintered here, in 
 which case they were really the first settlers in town. If this is true, which is by no 
 means certain, they did not remain long, and the Bryaxts have always been re- 
 garded as the first permanent settlers. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. ■ 19 
 
 was scarcely any difference in the price between a' good and a 
 poor settling lot. The result was that good townships filled up 
 rapidly, while such un«v^en, unattractive townships as number 
 three were overlooked and neglected. In the spring of 1804, 
 Cornelius Perkins came from Paris to lot number six in the 
 east part, and was the first settler in the school district whicli 
 ever since its formation has borne his name. He was an in- 
 dustrious and useful citizen, and raised up a large family of 
 sons, thus adding materially to the population of the town. 
 George Townsend, Lazarus Eand and David Rand, and also 
 Benaiah Dow, settled in the east part. When the western 
 emigration fever broke out, several families from the east part, 
 including the Townsends, Waltons and perhaps others, went 
 to Ohio. About the year 1812, widow Lydia Dunham, whose 
 husband, Asa Dunham, was in the 1812 war, and had died in 
 the hospital at Burlington, Vt., moved from Norway to the 
 Dunham neighborhood, since called. Her two older sons, Asa 
 and Samuel, settled at North Paris, but Sylvanus, Joseph and 
 Daniel remained in Woodstock, and reared up families of 
 industrious sons who made useful citizens. About the same 
 time, the sons and daughters of Luther Dudley, who had 
 recently died in Paris, came into the Dunham neighborhood 
 and settled there. Josiah Dudley, the oldest son, was for 
 many years one of our most valuable citizens. He went from 
 here to Paris. So far as the records show, this embraces about 
 all the settlements in the east part of number three up to 1812, 
 when the two half townships were united for plantation pur- 
 poses. 
 
 David Iticker, Jr., born in Somersworth, N. H., who came 
 to Minot and had been in the employ of Michael Little, 
 whose second wife was his near relative, came to number three 
 in 1803, and settled on lot number twenty-seven, the same 
 since occupied by his son David, Jr. An opening was made 
 on the place the year before. John True bought lot number 
 twenty-one about the year 1801, built a house upon it and 
 
20 HISTOEY OF -WOODSTOCK. 
 
 moved here ; but in 1807, he sold out to Enoch Hammond and 
 returned to Poland, whence he came. In 1802, William Swan, 
 of Paris, two of whose daughters had n^rried Christopher and 
 Solomon Bryant, came here and bought out the farm on which 
 Luther Briggs had settled in the "Thousand Acres." He 
 died prior to 1815. His son William, Jr., came at the same 
 time and settled on number five west,"' Thousand Acres." Mr. 
 Briggs bought half of lot number twelve and part of lot num- 
 ber eleven, and moved there. He lived and died upon this 
 farm. Jotham Perham, son of Lemuel, of Paris, came here 
 in 1808, and settled on lot number fifty-six, in the west 
 part, this lot bordering on the east part of the township. 
 James Nutting, who had been in the employ of Michael 
 Little, as millman, at Lewiston, came into town previous to 
 1812, and settled on a half lot in the Curtis neighborhood. 
 Mr. Little gave him a lot of land, on condition that he would 
 come and settle it. Edward Lothrop, whose wife was a sister 
 of Luther and Jacob Whitman, came here about the year 1810 
 and settled on lot number fifty-nine ; this was afterwards the 
 Packard farm. Asa Thurlow came here in the spring of 1801, 
 and settled on lot number sixteen. Rowse Bisbee, son of 
 Charles, of Sumner, came here probably in 1808, and built a 
 mill on the stream near Abel Bacon's. He afterwards moved 
 to lot number fifty -seven, and was there in 1812. This lot had 
 previously been occupied by John Nason. Levi Drew was 
 here in 1812. The Drew ojDeniug, so called, in the Perham 
 neighborhood was probably made by him. Joshua Felt, a 
 native of Temple, N. H., came here from Rumford in 1810. 
 He settled near Noah Curtis, Jr., who lived on the place since 
 known as the Dudley farm. He died in 1812, but his family 
 remained, and the widow subsequently married Merrill Chase. 
 Edward Pollard was living in Number Three in 1803, some- 
 where between Asa Thurlow's and Stephen Chase's, but he 
 moved to the east part, as seen in Chase's journal, and soon 
 after out of the plantation. Lemuel Perham and Lemuel 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 21 
 
 Perham, Jr., were Loth here in 1812, and they probably came 
 in thr.t year. The former, and probably both of them, lived 
 near the place where Jotham Perham settled four years before. 
 In 1812, Plantation Number Three (for the two half town- 
 ships now about to»be united for municipal purposes will here- 
 after be spoken of as a unit) had been settled fourteen years 
 and contained forty-two families. There is much evidence 
 going to show that these fourteen years, to the pioneer settlers, 
 had been years of toil and privation. They were, without a 
 single exception, poor men, with nothing but their hands with 
 which to wi-est from a rough surface and hard soil, the means 
 of subsistence for themselves and for their families. It was a 
 hand to hand struggle for existence. The town was for the 
 most part covered with a heavy growth of wood, and the cutting 
 down of these great trees and getting rid of their giant trunks, 
 so that the land could be worked and subdued, involved an 
 amount of labor of which only those who have had the personal 
 experience can form any just estimate. The climate of that 
 region has changed materially since that time. Then a crop of 
 Indian corn, which was the chief dependence of the early 
 settlers, was very likely to be destroyed by early frosts, and the 
 loss of this crop to this people meant pinching want for the 
 year following. There were no western granaries then to supply 
 the deficiencies in food-production here, and if there had been, 
 there were no facilities for transportation. The people, so far 
 in the interior, were obliged to subsist on what they could raise, 
 and the loss of a single crop was to them a matter of great 
 moment. I have often conversed with persons who lived in 
 Plantation Number Three during those years, and they all told 
 the same story of hard work, deprivation, and sometimes of 
 pinching hunger. Wheaten flour was found in but few houses, 
 and as an every day diet in none ; it was reserved for company 
 or some such special occasion. Sugar, except maple, was a 
 luxury not often indulged in, and those families that could 
 afford it at all made a single sugar loaf last a year. Up to 
 
22 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. ' 
 
 1808, tliey had no grist mill, and all their milling was done in 
 Paris. They had no stores, and were obliged to go to Paris 
 Hill, over a hard road, for what few groceries they were able to 
 purchase ; they had no physician nearer than Paris Hill, and 
 few religious privileges. As one of them once expressed it in 
 my hearing, " We were too poor to live without suffering for the 
 necessaries of life here, and too poor to'go. anywhere else." And 
 so they tgiled on, year after year, hoping for better days, and their 
 hopes were realized, as will be seen in the course of this history. 
 At the end of these • fourteen years, since the two Bryant 
 brothers became the pioneers of the forty families that followed, 
 let us look over the plantation and see where the settlements 
 are and who have made them. Beginning on the County road, 
 next to Greenwood, first we have the place of Jacob Whitman. 
 Following northwardly, we come to the place of Rowse Bisbee, 
 who still run the mill built by him in 1808. The next place 
 was Luther Whitman's. Farther on, was the place where two 
 Packard brothers from Buckfield, have cut down trees, but 
 they never moved here. John Dacy came here next, and 
 then Alexander Day. Farther on, on the right, was William 
 Swan ; Gideon was also living here at that time. Wliether 
 William Swan, Senior, was then living, the records do not 
 show ; three years later he was dead, and his widow, Lucy, 
 occupied his old place. On the left, Samuel Bryant had made 
 a clearing and built a hut on the Common lot and had lived 
 there ; but ere this he had moved to the south part of the 
 town ; whether his old house was occupied at this time, and if 
 so by whom, cannot be told. Farther on was the home of 
 Solomon Bryant, and the next was that of his brother Christo- 
 pher. Noah Curtis, Jr., was on the Dudley place ; beyond was 
 the home of the widow Felt. Charles Curtis and Consider 
 Fuller lived somewhere on this road, and Edward Lothrop was 
 on the Stephen Packard place. Joseph Whitman was on the 
 place now occupied by D. J. Libby. This was the last house 
 in that direction within the limits of number three. John 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 23 
 
 Billings, who settled farther along, had not yet come. Below 
 the Packard place, a road run easterly south of where the old 
 town house stood, and into the Perhani neighborhood. Upon 
 and near this road lived John Nason, Jotham Perham, Lemuel 
 Perham and Lemuel Perham, Jr., and perhaps Levi Drew. 
 The former roads and buildings have been so changed since, 
 that it is difficult to point out the exact location of these settlers. 
 Commencing again at the road that leads from the Benjamin 
 Bacon place to the Curtis neighborhood, the first was Samuel 
 Bryant's, and perhaps his father, Solomon Bryant, lived with 
 him ; he had the west part of lot twelve. The next was Luther 
 Briggs. Levi Berry had moved to Paris, and his lot number 
 eleven was now occupied by James Nutting. Morton Curtis 
 lived on lot numljer fifteen, formerly occupied by Luke Owens, 
 and Noah Curtis, Sen., and Seth on the adjoining lot. Enoch 
 Hammond lived on number twenty-one, or the True lot, and 
 Asa Thurlow on lot number sixteen adjoining. Going north 
 on this road, Merrill Chase lived on number twenty-eight, and 
 adjoining that was the farm of his brother Steplien, number 
 thirty-three. West of Merrill Chase, on the next lot, was David 
 Bicker, on lot number twenty-seven. These latter houses were 
 situated on a road that formerly went from the Chase places, 
 south-easterly, by way of Enoch Hammond's and Asa Thurlow's, 
 to Paris. 
 
 How the settlers were situated in the east part, is not so 
 easily told. The second County road, located through •Number ♦ 
 Three, started at North Paris and was to extend through Mil- 
 ton Plantation to Kumford. A part of the road was built, but 
 it was never finished through. Upon the line of this road the 
 first settlers in the Dunham neighborhood were located. Here 
 and in the vicinity were Lydia Dunham with her family ; also 
 the family of Luther Dudley, the Bands, Townsends, Waltons, 
 Hutchinsons, etc. Cornehus Perkins was on a settler's road, 
 and Benaiah Dow located far toward Sumner. Benj. Fobes, 
 who was still here in 1812, lived on the first tier of lots run out 
 
24 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK, 
 
 by Smith, and Gray and Starbird had not yet come. This brief 
 sketch, imperfect though it be, will convey some idea of the 
 location of the forty-two families which inhabited Plantation 
 Number Three at the commencement of the year A. D. 1812. 
 
 Up to 1812, the inhabitants of Number Three had not been 
 required to contribute to the burdens of taxation except for 
 local purposes, if indeed they were taxed at all. There is no 
 record extant showing that previous to this, they ever organized 
 for any plantation purposes whatever. Stephen Chase, in his 
 journal, speaks of a caucus to choose a delegate to a convention 
 to " represent the Plantation of Stover," and this is the only hint 
 we have in anything recorded, showing that the plantation was 
 ever organized, and this was for political purposes only. But 
 the time had come when they were called upon to bear their 
 proportional part of the burdens of taxation, as the following 
 warrant will show : 
 
 Oxford, ss. 
 
 To Stephen Chase, a principal inhabitant of the Plantation called Number 
 Three, in said County, Greeting : 
 
 In obedience to a precept from Henry Rust, Jr., Esq., Treasurer of said 
 County, directed to me, the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace 
 within and for the said County of Oxford, dwelling near said plantation, you 
 are hereby required, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to 
 notify and warn the inhabitants of said plantation, by law qualified to vote 
 for the choice of town officers, to meet at the dwelling house of Noah Curtis, 
 in said pl^tation, on Monday, the twenty-third day of March, instant, at ten 
 o'clock in the forenoon, to choose a Moderator, a Clerk and also Assessors 
 and Collectors for assessing and collecting said plantation's proportion of the 
 State and County taxes ordered on said plantation for the current year. 
 Hereof fail not, and make return to me of this warrant, with your doings 
 thereon and the doings of said plantation in consequence thereof, on or 
 before the thirtieth day of March, instant. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal this tenth day of March, in the year of our 
 Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve. 
 
 Levi Hubbard, Justice Peace. 
 
 On the above warrant was the following return : 
 
, HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 25 
 
 Oxford, ss. Plantation Numiseu THREE,.March 23, 1812. 
 
 Pursuant to the within warrant to me directed, I have notified and warned 
 all the inhabitants qualified as within prescribed to meet at the time and 
 place, and for the purposes within mentioned. 
 
 Stephen Chase. 
 
 As this is the first recorded meeting of the plantation, the 
 proceedings are given entire : 
 
 Plantation No. 3, March 23, 1812. 
 
 At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of Plantation Number Three, duly 
 assembled at the dwelling house of Mr. Noah Curtis, in said plantation, on 
 Monday, the twenty-third day of March, instant, at 10 o'clock a. m., the 
 meeting being opened, the inhabitants proceeded to act on the articles con- 
 tained in the warrant, and first made choice of Mr. Stephen Chase for 
 Moderator to govern said meeting. 
 
 2. Made choice of Merrill Chase for Plantation Clerk, who was sworn to 
 
 the faithful discharge of his ofiice by me, 
 
 Stephen Chase, Moderator. 
 
 Voted, To choose three assessors for the year ensuing, and made choice 
 of Messrs. Cornelius Perkins, Merrill Chase and Jotham Perliam. 
 
 Voted, to choose one Collector of taxes for the year ensuing. 
 
 Voted, To' adjourn this meeting for half an hour. 
 
 The adjournment having expired, the inhabitants met and proceeded to 
 make choice of a Collector of taxes for the year ensuing. Made choice of 
 Christopher Bryant as a Collector of taxes for the year ensuiiig, who was 
 duly sworn by Seth Carpenter, Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Voted, To accept of Mr. Luther Briggs and Mr. Oliver Colburn as sureties 
 for Mr. Christopher Bryant, as a Collector of taxes for the ensuing year. 
 
 Voted, To dissolve this meeting. 
 
 A true record. 
 
 Attest : Meeeill Chase, Plantation Clerk. 
 
 The next meeting was held at the same place on the sixth 
 day of April of the same year. The warrant, signed by the 
 Assessors, was directed to Christopher Bryant, Constable, and 
 the meeting was for the purpose of casting the votes of the 
 plantation for Governor, Lieut.-Governor, Senators and Council- 
 lors, " agreeably to the Constitution of the said Commonwealth." 
 The whole number of votes polled was 28. Tor Governor, 
 
26 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 • 
 
 Elbriclge Gerry had 24, and Caleb Strong 4 ; for Lieut.-Gov- 
 ernor, William King had 24, and William Phillips 4 ; for Sen- 
 ators and Councillors, Eleazer W. Eipley and Jonathan Page 
 each had 24, and Ebeuezer Poor and Hon. Matthew Cobb had 
 each 24 votes, and Lewis Lothrop had 4 votes. This was prob- 
 ably the first time that there was voting for State officers in 
 Number Three. 
 
 The third meeting was held at the same place on the 11th 
 day of May following the last meeting, and was held for the 
 purpose of seeing how much money the plantation would raise 
 for the support of schools, for repairing roads and for defraying 
 necessary plantation charges. They voted to raise no money 
 for the support of schools, none for the repair of roads, and 
 twenty-five dollars for plantation charges. 
 
 The fourth meeting of this year was held on the second day 
 of November. The warrant notified " all the male inhabitants 
 of said plantation being twenty-one years of age, and resident 
 in said plantation for the space of one year next preceding, 
 having a freehold estate within said plantation of the annual 
 income of three pounds or any estate to the value of sixty 
 pounds, to assemble at the dwelling house of Merrill Chase, to 
 give in tbeir votes for a representative of the people of said 
 Commonwealth in the Congress of the United States for the 
 Seventh Eastern District." At this meeting eighteen votes 
 were thrown, all for Levi Hubbard. 
 
 The fifth meeting was held at the same place as the last, on 
 the twelfth day of November, and the warrant read the same, 
 only the object of the meeting was to vote for electors for Presi- 
 dent and Vice President. The whole number of votes was 
 twenty-three, all for John Woodman, of Buxton, Theodore 
 Mussey, of Standish, and Henry Rust, Jr., of Norway. 
 
 The next meeting was held on the eighth day of March, 1813. 
 At this meeting all the old officers were re-elected, except the 
 Collector of taxes. This office was set up at auction and struck 
 off to Cornelius Perkins, the lowest bidder. Abraham Walton 
 
HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 27 
 
 and Morton Curtis were accepted as the Collector's sureties. 
 Voted to raise three hundred dollars for the making and repair 
 of roads, and to pay one dollar per day for labor on the road 
 done before the first day of July, and fonr shillings afterwards. 
 Voted not to raise any money for the support of scliools the en- 
 suing year. Voted to raise twenty-five dollars for town cliarges. 
 
 The second meeting for this year was Jield on the fifteenth 
 day of April. At this meeting Cornelius Perkins, Samuel Bry- 
 ant and Luther Whitman were chosen highway surveyors, and 
 the plantation voted " to allow seventy-five cents per day for 
 oxen before the first day of July, and fifty cents per day after- 
 wards, and to allow seventeen cents per day for a cart, and for 
 a plough fifty cents." 
 
 The next meeting was held on the fifth day of April, and for 
 the purpose of voting for Governor and other State officers. 
 The number of votes polled was twenty-four. The fourth 
 meeting for this year was holden on the fourteenth day of 
 September, and the chief business was " to see if the plantation 
 will choose an agent for the purpose of appearing to defend 
 against an action concerning the roads, at the Court of Common 
 Pleas, holden at Paris in November next." At the meeting, 
 Stephen Chase was chosen agent for the purposes aforesaid, and 
 the employment of an attorney was left to his discretion. 
 
 The fifth meeting was held on the twenty-second day of 
 November, the object being to raise money for making and re- 
 pairing roads, and additional for defraying town charges. Four 
 hundred dollars were voted for making and repairing roads, and 
 forty dollars additional for defraying necessary town charges. 
 
 The next meeting was held on the fifteenth day of March, 
 1814. The old officers were all re-elected. Stephen Chase was 
 voted five dollars for attending court two terms. Voted to allow 
 Capt. Perham and others eight dollars for powder expended at 
 muster the eighth day of October last. Voted to raise thirty 
 dollars for defraying town charges, twelve hundred dollars for 
 making and repairing roads, and one hundred dollars for the sup- 
 
28 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 • 
 
 port of schools. Josiah Dudley, Samuel Bryant and Luther Whit- 
 man were chosen highway surveyors. The price per day on the 
 road was fixed at one dollar and twenty -five cents, and the taxes 
 were struck off to Cornelius Perkins at seven cents on the 
 dollar. 
 
 The second meeting for 1814 was held on the fourth day of 
 April, " to see if the ||[antation will petition the General Court 
 for an act of incorporation," and to attend to some minor busi- 
 ness. It was voted to petition the General Court for an act of 
 incorporation. It was also voted to accept the School Districts 
 as made up by the assessors, and Merrill Chase, Alexander Day, 
 John Billings, Cornelius Perkins and John Gray were chosen 
 school agents, the first in the plantation. 
 
 The next meeting was holden on the fourth day of April, and 
 was the annual election for the choice of Governor and other 
 State officers. For Governor, Caleb Strong had one vote and 
 Samuel Dexter twenty-eight ; for Lieut.-Governor, William 
 Phillips had one and William Gray twenty-eight ; for Senators, 
 Daniel Stowell had one and Albion K. Parris had twenty-eight. 
 This was during the war and politics run high, Kowse Bisbee 
 threw the only whig vote. 
 
 The third meeting this year was held on the seventh day of 
 November, and was for the purpose of raising money to pay 
 arrears of town charges, and " to see if the town will allow 
 Capt. Perham and others their accounts for assisting and pro- 
 viding for the militia after being called out to march to Portland." 
 At this meeting ninety dollars were raised for defraying arrears 
 of town charges, and Capt. Perham was allowed five dollars and 
 sixty-seven cents for his account. 
 
 The next meeting was held on the seventh day of November, 
 to vote for representative to CongrQjgs. The " male inhabitants 
 of said plantation, being twenty-one years of age next preced- 
 ing, having a freehold estate within said plantation, of the 
 annual income of ten dollars, or any estate to the value of two 
 hundred dollars, were notified and warned to meet," &c. At this 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 29 
 
 meeting Albion K. Parris had eighteen votes and Samuel A. 
 Bradley one. This was the last plantation meeting. Before 
 the time for the next meeting for the choice of plantation 
 officers, an act of incorporation had been passed, and the next 
 meeting was for the acceptance of the charter, and if accepted, 
 to act under it. 
 
 'The organized plantation life of Woodstock was short — less 
 than three years. A glance at the proceedings of the several 
 meetings will show some of the difficulties under which the in- 
 habitants labored. They were poor, and money for any purpose, 
 except to supply their own wants, could not be raised without 
 great sacrifice. They were obliged now to bear the burdens of 
 taxation for State and County purposes, and when it came to 
 raising money to be expended in the plantation, they reduced it to 
 "the smallest possible amount. At the first meeting nothing was 
 voted for roads or schools and only twenty-five dollars for all 
 purposes. No highway surveyors were chosen. At the first 
 meeting in 1813, it was voted to raise three hundred dollars for 
 roads bilt still nothing for schools. The results of the first 
 year's policy were now beginning to be felt. A suit was brought 
 against the plantation for bad roads and they were obliged to 
 send an agent to Paris to look after it. The next year they 
 raised twelve hundred dollars for making and repairing roads ; 
 this was more than twenty -five dollars for each head of a family 
 in the plantation. But they had a long stretch of road in pro- 
 portion to their numbers, roads that were hilly and liable to 
 wash out and easily get out of repair. For two years they 
 voted not to raise anything for the support of schools. Of, 
 course, there were tliose in the plantation who desired to have 
 public schools, or the question would not have been raised, but 
 the majority were opposed and it was voted down. The ma- 
 jority doubtless felt that bread and clothing for their children 
 were of greater importance than education, and many of them 
 felt that they were not able to have all three. 
 
 A copy of the first tax assessed in the plantation by virtue 
 
30 
 
 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 of orders from the County Treasurer and the warrant of Levi 
 Hubbard, in 1812, the main points of which have already been 
 given, will indicate the financial standing of each of the in- 
 habitants at that time, and is reproduced here. The sum of 
 the State, Town and County tax is set against the name of each 
 person, and this includes two polls, the Town and County 20, 
 and- the State 27 cents. 
 
 Bisbee, Rowse Total, 
 
 $0.98 
 
 Hammond, Enoch Total, 
 
 $0.96 
 
 Bryant, Solomon 
 
 L06 
 
 Lothrop, Edward " 
 
 0.71 
 
 Bryant, Samuel " 
 
 0.79 
 
 Nason, John " 
 
 0.74 
 
 Briggs, Luther " 
 
 0.56 
 
 Nutting, James " 
 
 0.74 
 
 Bryant, Christopher " 
 
 0.63 
 
 Perkins, Cornelius " 
 
 1.27 
 
 Colburn,'Jerathmel " 
 
 0.90 
 
 Perham, Lemuel, Jr. " 
 
 0.71 
 
 Curtis, Seth " 
 
 0.95 
 
 Perham, Jotham " 
 
 0.92 
 
 ■Curtis, Charles " 
 
 0.74 
 
 Perham, Lemuel " 
 
 0.95 
 
 Chase, Stephen " 
 
 0.95 
 
 Band, Lazarus " 
 
 0.90 
 
 Curtis, Noah, Jr; " 
 
 L19 
 
 Rand, David " 
 
 0.47 
 
 Curtis, Morton " 
 
 1.22 
 
 Ricker, David " 
 
 0.96 
 
 Curtis, Noah (no polls) " 
 
 0.64 
 
 Swan, William (2 polls) " 
 
 1.50 
 
 Chase, Merrill " 
 
 1.27 
 
 Swan, Gideon " 
 
 0.95 
 
 Drew, Levi " 
 
 0.58 
 
 Townsend, George " 
 
 1.45 
 
 Dudley, Jos. & Bro. (2 pis.) " 
 
 1.26 
 
 Thurlow, Asa " 
 
 0.47 
 
 Dow, Benaiah " 
 
 1.03 
 
 Thurlow, Amos " 
 
 1.19 
 
 Day, Alexander " 
 
 0.74 
 
 Walton, Jonathan " 
 
 1.19 
 
 Fuller, Consider " 
 
 0.71 
 
 Walton, Abraham " 
 
 1.59 
 
 Felt (Widow) (no poll) 
 
 0.19 
 
 Whitman, Jose'ph " 
 
 1.19 
 
 Fobes, Benj. " 
 
 1.22 
 
 Whitman, Luther " 
 
 1.59 
 
 Hutchinson, Solomon " 
 
 0.97 
 
 W^hitman, Jacob " 
 
 1.54 
 
 The entire tax upon the resident owners (forty-two families) 
 was only forty-one dollars and seventy-eight cents, a trifle less 
 than one dollar on the average to each family. 
 . A glance at this tax list shows that the following persons had 
 moved in during the organized plantation period : Josiah 
 Churchill, from Buckfield, lived on the hill south-east of Chase's ; 
 William Cotton had moved into the east part ; Otis and Thayer 
 Townsend had perhaps become of age ; Daniel Dacy had moved 
 to the east part, Jerathmel Colburn also, and likewise John 
 Lunt ; David Dow, brother of Benaiah, had come in ; Jeremiah 
 Felt had become of age ; Richard Green had come ; John Bil- 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 31 
 
 lings had come to the' Captain Cole place, since called, and 
 Thomas Farrar was in the plantation. James Nutting had 
 moved to Greenwood, and perhaps one or two others had moved 
 out, but there were now forty-two persons in town liable to be 
 taxed, and who were taxed. And now, after less than three 
 years of plantation existence, the inhabitants were ambitious to 
 be incorporated as a town and assume the additional burdens 
 and obligations which such a change would impose upon them. 
 Heretofore they had been exempt from the support of paupers, 
 which, as a town, they would be obliged to assume, all of 
 which they subsequently found out. But there were certain 
 privileges they would enjoy as a town which as a plantation 
 they could not have, and this probably decided them in favor 
 of a town. 
 
 Following is a copy of the petition sent to 'the General Court 
 by the assessors, pursuant to a vote of the plantation : 
 
 " To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in General Court 
 assembled, on the last Wednesday of May, a. d. 181% : 
 "The subscribers, assessors of an unincorporated Plantation called Number 
 Three, in the County of Oxford, in behalf of said plantation, represent that 
 we experience much inconvenience in consequence of being unincorporated. 
 We therefore request that said Plantation Number Three, consisting of one- 
 half of a township granted to Dummer Academy, and one-half a township 
 granted to Gorham Academy, may be incorporated into a town by the name 
 
 of S2)arta, and as in duty bound will ever pray. 
 
 Merrill Chase, 
 
 Cornelius Perkins, 
 
 May 14, 1814. Jotiiam Periiam." 
 
 The petition having been sent to the General Court at Boston, 
 was favorably considered, and in due time the following act was 
 passed and was signed by the Governor : 
 
 "COMMONAVEALTH of MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 IN THE TEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN. 
 
 "An act to establish the toion of Woodstock. 
 
 " Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
 in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the half 
 
32 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 townsliip granted to Dummer Academy and the half township granted to 
 Gorham Academy, said half townships lying within the County of Oxford, 
 be and hereby are established as a town by the name of Woodstock, within 
 the following described boundaries, viz : Beginning at the north-west corner 
 of the town of Paris, thence south 68)^ degrees east on the northerly line 
 of said Paris to the north-west corner of said town ; thence north 14 
 degrees west on the line of the town of Sumner, 360 rods : thence north 7 
 degrees west, on the line of said Sumner, 480 rods, to a beech tree standing 
 in the north-east corner of said Sumner ; thence north 10 degrees west, 320 
 rods, to a tree marked ; thence north 68)^ degrees east, 80 rods, to a tree 
 marked ; thence north 734 rods to a spruce tree marked and standing 
 in the north-east corner of a half township granted to Gorham Academy ; 
 thence south 68)^ degrees west, 1664 rods, to a beech tree standing in 
 the north-west corner of said grant to Gorham Academy ; thence on 
 the same course on the north line of a half township granted to Dummer 
 Academy, 3 miles and 8 rods, to the north-west corner of said half township, 
 near the westerly side of a pond (Bryant's) ; thence south 30 degrees east 
 on the westerly line of said last mentioned half township, 6 miles, to the 
 first mentioned bound. And the inhabitants of the said town of Woodstock 
 are hereby vested with all the powers and privileges and subject to the like 
 duties and requisitions of other towns, according to the Constitution and 
 laws of the Commonwealth. 
 
 "Section 2. Be it further enacted that any Justice of the Peace, for the 
 County of Oxford, is hereby authorized to issue a warrant directed to a free- 
 holder of the said town of Woodstock, requiring of him to notify and 
 warn the inhabitants thereof to meet at such convenient time and place as 
 shall be expressed in said warrant, for the choice of such officers as towns 
 are required to choose at their annual town meetings. 
 
 [Approved Feb. 7, 1815.] " 
 
 It is said that political questions of the day had something 
 to do with the refusal of the committee to report the name of 
 " Sparta," as prayed for by the assessors, but there is nothing 
 on record to show what they were. The reason why they se- 
 lected the name of Woodstock is equally obscure, but the sub- 
 stitution was generally quite satisfactory to the people of the 
 plantation. 
 
 The act having become a law, the inhabitants at once adopted 
 measures for carrying it into effect. In pursuance thereof, the 
 following warrant was obtained and duly posted : 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 33 
 
 COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 Oxford, ss. 
 
 To Seth Curtis, of Woodstock, in the County of Oxford, one of the freeholders 
 and inhabitants of said town, greeting : 
 
 You are hereby required, in the name of said Commonwealth, to notify 
 and warn the inhabitants of said town of Woodstock, qualified by law to 
 vote in the choice of town officers, to meet at the dwelling house of Noah 
 Curtis, in said town of Woodstock, on Monday, the 20th day of March 
 instant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of making choice of all 
 such officers as towns are requii'ed to choose in the months of March or 
 April, annually. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal at Paris, this sixth day of March, in the 
 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. 
 
 Albion K. F arris, Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Upon the reverse side of this warrant, is the following return : 
 
 Oxford, ss. Woodstock, March 20, 1815. 
 
 Pursuant to the within warrant, I have notified and warned the male in- 
 habitants of said town, qualified to vote in town meeting, to meet at the time 
 and place, and for the purposes within mentioned. 
 
 Seth Curtis. 
 
 As this was the first meeting held under the act of incorpora- 
 tion, the full proceedings as recorded upon the records of the 
 town are here given : 
 
 At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Woodstock qualified 
 to vote in the choice of town, officers, held at the dwelling house of Noah 
 Curtis, in said town, on Monday, the 20th day of March, in the year of our 
 Lord 1815, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, the meeting being opened by read- 
 ing the warrant, the inhabitants proceeded, agreeably to said warrant, to 
 make choice of the following officers for the ensuing year, viz : 
 
 1st. Chose Mr. Rowse Bisbee, Moderator, to govern said meeting. 
 
 2d. Chose Stephen Chase, Town Clerk, who was duly sworn to the faithful 
 discharge of the duties of his office as the law directs, by me, 
 
 RowsE Bisbee, Moderator, 
 
 3d. Voted, To choose three Selectmen. 
 
 4th. Chose Messrs. Cornelias Perkins. Alexander Day and John Billings, 
 Selectmen. Each of said Selectmen, on the same day, personally appeared 
 and gave oath to the faithful discharge of the duties of the office of Select- 
 man. 
 
 5th. Voted, To choose the Assessors separate from the Selectmen. 
 3 
 
34 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 6th. Chose Messrs. John Gray, Jr., Richard Green and Josiah Dudley, 
 Assessors, who were duly sworn. 
 
 7th. Chose Mr. Seth Curtis, Treasurer. 
 
 8th. Chose Luther Whitman, Collector of taxes. 
 
 9th. Voted, To accept Solomon Bryant and Seth Curtis, sureties for 
 Luther Whitman, Collector of taxes. Said Whitman agreed to collect the 
 taxes for five per cent. 
 
 10th. Chose Mr. Luther Whitman, Constable. 
 
 11th. Chose Messrs. Jotham Perham, Solomon Bryant, Jacob Whitman, 
 Seth Curtis, Aaron Davis, Jr.; Lazarus Rand and Enoch Hammond, Surveyors 
 of Roads. 
 
 12th. Chose Samuel Bryant, Surveyor of Lumber. 
 
 13th. Chose Messrs. Alexander Day and Cornelius Perkins, Fence Viewers. 
 
 14th. Chose Jacob Whitman and Cornelius Perkins, Tything men. 
 
 15th. Chose Mr. Rowse Bisbee, Sealer of Weights and Measures. 
 
 16th. Chose Messrs. Cornelius^Perkins and David Ricker, Field Drivers. 
 
 17th. Chose Mfessrs. Merrill Chase, John Gray, Jr., Josiah Churchill, 
 Amos Thurlow and Richard Green, Hogreeves. 
 
 18th. Chose Messrs. Luther Whitman, Josiah Churchill and Josiah 
 Dudley, Pound Keepers. 
 
 19th. Chose Messrs. Noah Curtis, Jr., Luther Whitman, Stephen Chase, 
 Enoch Hammond and Josiah Dudley, School Committee. 
 
 20th. Chose Mr. Richard Green, Sealer of Moulds for Brick. 
 
 All the above officers, as the record sliows, were 'duly sworn by the Town 
 Clerk. 
 
 Voted, to dissolve the meeting. 
 
 A true record. 
 
 Attest : Stephen Chase, Toivn Clerk. 
 
 An abstract of the proceedings of a few subsequent meetings 
 is here given, as showing the methods of managing their town 
 affairs. 
 
 At a meeting holden April 3, 1815, at the house of Noah 
 Curtis, which was on the farm in the Curtis neighborhood, after- 
 wards occupied by his son Seth and still later by his grandson 
 Adoniram, Eowse Bisbee acting still as Moderator, it was voted 
 to raise $700 to be expended on roads and $100 for schools ; it 
 was voted not to raise any money to defray town charges. At 
 this meeting, accounts against the town were presented and 
 allowed as follows : Samuel Bryant, $12.01 for powder, rum 
 and whiskey; Seth Curtis, $6.12 for work on the County road 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 35 
 
 and for wliiskey. A committee of accounts, composed of the 
 Selectmen, was chosen, to audit accounts and report on the 
 state of the treasury. The meeting was adjourned to meet 
 again at Josiah Churchill's on the sixteenth of May. At the 
 adjourned meeting no business was transacted. But a meeting 
 was held on the same day, by virtue of a warrant issued May 
 2d, at which several roads laid out by the Selectmen were 
 accepted, and the Selectmen were instructed to protect the 
 public lands from trespass. Solomon Bryant and Cornelius 
 Perkins were appointed agents to superintend the working out 
 of arrears of highway taxes. Voted to raise SI 10 to defray 
 town charges. The assessors were directed to take a new valu- 
 ation. Seth Curtis was directed to procure a chest for keeping 
 the town books and records. 
 
 At a meeting holden September 19th of the same year, Eowse 
 Bisbee, Stephen Chase, Jacob Whitman, Noah Curtis, Jr., Mer- 
 rill Chase, David Eicker, Cornelius Perkins, John Billings, Aaron 
 Davis, Aaron Davis, Jr., Amos Thurlow, Eichard Green, John 
 Gray, Jotham Perham, Josiah Dudley, Consider Fuller and 
 Luther Whitman were confirmed as the list of Jurymen. Cor- 
 nelius Perkins was the first name drawn out to serve in the 
 Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at Paris on the first 
 Tuesday of October, 1816. This ended the meetings for the 
 year 1815. 
 
 The annual meeting for the election of town officers for 1816, 
 was holden at the dwelling house of Josiah Churchill, whose 
 place was between the Chases and the Curtis neighborhood, on 
 the west part of the farm since owned by Aaron M. Irish. The 
 old town officers, with some trifling exceptions, were re-elected. 
 It was voted to accept of the School Districts as laid out by the 
 Selectmen. This revision is given under the head of Education. 
 At this meeting, one hundred and fifty dollars were raised to 
 defray town charges, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars 
 for the support of schools. At an adjourned meeting holden 
 April first, it was voted " to set up the town's poor to the lowest 
 
36 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 bidder." Joseph Clifford and wife were bid off by John Gray 
 for $90. It was voted to petition tlie General Court for per- 
 mission to sell the public land. Several roads were accepted, 
 one " from the town road to Amariah Harrises." Voted to build 
 a brick house for the town ammunition. At a meeting held 
 May 20th, $100 were raised for the support of the poor; this 
 was the first experience of the town in this direction. On the 
 same day the town voted on the question of separation from 
 Massachusetts, and twenty-three votes were thrown in favor 
 and none opposed. In a note the Clerk adds : " The whole 
 number of voters in Woodstock was found to be forty-five." 
 September 2d of the same year, another meeting was held to 
 vote on the question of separation, and thirty-five voted in favor 
 and none against. 
 
 At the March meeting, 1817, Samuel Stephens was chosen a 
 Selectman ; Stephen Packard bid off the Collectorship at two 
 per cent.; $125 were raised to defray town charges, $600 
 for the repair of roads and $125 for schools. At a meeting 
 held April 7th, Stephen Chase, Josiah Dudley and Merrill 
 Chase were chosen a committee to divide the non-resident lands 
 into school districts, the organization ^of districts the year previ- 
 ous having been made without reference to land. Joseph 
 Clifford having died, Luther Whitman bid off his widow at 
 ninety cents per week. Lemuel Perhato bid off Sally Warren 
 and two children at sixty-nine cents per week. On the second day 
 of June, a meeting was held, at which " old Mrs. Lucy Swan " 
 was set up at auction and struck off to Samuel Stephens at 
 $1.09 per week. Dr. Benjamin Chandler, of Paris, was chosen 
 town physician. Voted to sell the personal property of the 
 late Joseph Clifford belonging to the town. Voted to accept a 
 road from Luther Briggs' to Jacob Twitchell's, according to 
 Eowse Bisbee's minutes. Other meetings were held this year, 
 but the proceedings were unimportant. 
 
 In 1818, the annual meeting was holden March 2d, at the 
 house of Seth Curtis. The town officers were nearly the same 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 37 
 
 as the year before. Jonathan Fickett was chosen a tything 
 man, Charles B. Brooks, hogreeve, and Caleb Bessee and Wil- 
 liam Davis were on th^ Board of School Committee. Eaised 
 $100 for town charges, $800 for roads and $150 for schools. 
 Lucy Swan was struck off to Samuel Bryant at $1.50 per week. 
 At a meeting, March 16th, the Selectmen were directed to 
 dispose of the personal effects of Lucy Swan. April 6th, a 
 new list of jurors was accepted, as follows : John Billings, 
 Jotham Perham, Eowse Bisbee, Merrill Chase, Noah Curtis, Jr., 
 Charles Curtis, Luther Whitman, Samuel Stephens, Jacob 
 Whitman, Alexander Day, Eichard Green, Seth Curtis, Amos 
 Thurlow, Aaron Davis, Aaron Davis, Jr., Stephen Chase, David 
 Eicker, Consider Fuller, Jonathan ^Fickett, John Gray, Josiah 
 Dudley, William Davis and Cornelius Perkins. Capt. Samuel 
 Stephens was chosen agent to contract with Jonathan T. Clif- 
 ford for the support of his mother; $150 raised for support of 
 «poor. Voted to suspend the law of the General Court, respect- 
 ing the killing of certain useful birds at certain seasons of the 
 year. September 10 th, $200 was raised to repair the west 
 County road, and Cornelius Perkins empowered to expend the 
 money. Lemuel Perham was allowed one dollar per week for 
 the last five weeks he kept Sally Warren and her two children. 
 On the second day of November, a meeting was called at the 
 house of Stephen Chase to vote for a member of Congress, but 
 no one came to vote. 
 
 The March meeting in 1819 was held at the house of Josiah 
 Churchill. The old town officers were generally re-elected. 
 Stephen Packard again bid off the taxes. Moses Dudley, Joel 
 Perham and Jonathan Cole were chosen hogreeves, and Jere- 
 miah Felt a highway surveyor. Eaised for town charges $100, 
 for schools $180, and for repairs of roads $1000. At a meeting 
 holden April 5th, Cornelius Perkins, Stephen Chase and Samuel 
 Stephens were chosen a committee to revise and re-district the 
 school districts. April 26th, Susannah Clifford was set up at 
 auctioh and bid off by Joel Perham at sixty-nine cents per week. 
 
38 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Voted to accept the road from Consider Fuller's to Charles B. 
 Brook's. May 15th, it was " Voted that the inhabitants of this 
 town consider it expedient that measures be taken by the Legis- 
 lature of the Commonwealth to effect, as soon as may be, a 
 separation of the District of Maine from Massachusetts." At a 
 meeting holden July 26th, it was voted, forty to none, in favor of 
 separation from Massachusetts. On the third Monday in Sep- 
 tember, Cornelius Perkins was chosen a delegate to the conven- 
 tion called to frame a constitution for the new State of Mame. 
 December the 3d, the town of Woodstock voted, twenty-seven 
 against two, in favor of the new Constitution of Maine. 
 
 At the March meeting for 1S20, the old officers were elected, 
 except that Jonathan Cole bid off the taxes and was elected 
 constable. Money raised for town charges $200, schools $180, 
 roads $800. Among the hogreeves chosen this year were John 
 E. Briggs, Daniel Curtis, Artemas Felt, Jonathan Billings an(i 
 Oliver Swan. It is fair to presume that the above were recently 
 married men, as this office was generally bestowed upon such. 
 The vote of the Committee on School Districts was accepted, 
 and it was voted to annul all former votes respecting School 
 Districts. This new districting may be found in the chapter on 
 Education. At a meeting held the 3d day of April, it was 
 voted to set off Lemuel Perliam from the third to the fourth 
 School District. Daniel Dacy was allowed fifty cents per week 
 for the support of Lazarus Warren, son of George Warren. 
 The Selectmen were instructed to petition the Legislature of 
 Maine to abolish the Court of Common Pleas and establish 
 some other Court. October 2 2d, a meeting was held at the 
 house of Stephen Chase, when it was voted to repair the bridge 
 at Capt. Stephens' mill. Widow Clifford was set up at auction 
 and bid off by Josiah Dudley. One hundred dollars additional 
 were raised for the support of the poor. At a meeting holden 
 November 6th, it was voted to repair the damage to roads 
 caused by the late freshet, and Cornelius Perkins, Josiah Dudley, 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 39 
 
 Jotham Perham and Jonathan Cole were chosen agents to 
 superintend the work m their several districts. 
 
 These few extracts will give a good idea of the doings of the 
 town in its corporate capacity, from the date of its incorpora- 
 tion down to and including the year 1820. Maine had now 
 become an independent State, a consummation which the in- 
 habitants of Woodstock had ever wished and unanimously voted 
 for. A glance at these records also shows the peculiar disad- 
 vantages under which the town then labored, and it may be 
 added that it has continued to labor under similar difficulties 
 ever since. The town has, and then had, long stretches of road 
 built over steep hills, which in summer were badly washed by 
 showers and storms, and in the spring still worse by the melt- 
 ing of the snows. The expenses for the repair of roads and for 
 building new up to this time had been more than double that 
 of all other town expenses ; and even then the roads were in- 
 dicted and the inhabitants forced to appear at Paris, through 
 their agents, to defend themselves. To keep the long stretches 
 of road in repair and save litigation was a great expense and a 
 continual source of care and anxiety to the inhabitants. 
 
 The voting population had steadly increased during these six 
 years of town existence, both by new comers from other towns 
 and by young men coming of age. At the commencement of 
 the year 1820, there were sixty-two families in town. Some 
 of the new families are enumerated below. Samuel Stephens 
 had moved here from Paris and bought the Bisbee mill, which 
 was afterwards known as the Capt. Stephens mill. James 
 Nutting, who purchased the mill of Bisbee near the close of 
 1812, had moved to Greenwood, and Bisbee had bought out 
 John Nason and occupied there. George Berry was here only 
 a short time, and then moved to Hartford ; he was with or near 
 the Swans. Thomas R Carman had married a daughter of 
 Solomon Bryant and lived in the vicinity of his wife's father. 
 Wm. Swan, Jr., John E. Briggs and Artemas Felt had become 
 of age and were married. These were in the first School Dis- 
 
40 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 trict, according to the districting of that year. In the second 
 district, the new comers were Abner Dolloff, who remained only 
 a few years, Wm. E. and Charles B. Brooks, sons of Dr. Peter, 
 who had come here from Poland, Jonathan Fickett, who lived 
 on the Nute place, Aaron and Aaron Davis, Jr., and Daniel 
 Curtis, who had become of age. In the third d* trict, there were 
 Seneca Landers, who came here from Norway, Jonathan Cole, 
 John Billings, Caleb Bessee and Cyprian Bowker, all from Paris, 
 and Joel Perham, who had married and lived in the Perham 
 neighborhood. In the fourth district, the only new comers were 
 Samuel Durell and William Davis. Samuel Dunham had be- 
 come of age. In the new fifth district were Josiah and Moses 
 Dudley, Azariah Howard and John Lunt as new names. 
 . Christopher Bryant, one of the two first settlers, had moved into 
 Greenwood. During these six years this town, in common with 
 all the interior towns of the State, suffered many hardships and 
 privations. The year 1816 was exceptionally cold for this lati- 
 tude. There was frost every month in the year, and nothing 
 but the hardier cereal grains were ripened. The corn and 
 potato crops were a total failure, and as these crops had been and 
 still were the main dependence, their total loss fell heavily upon 
 this people. Winter set in early and with unusual severity, 
 and there were fearful forebodings in almost every household. 
 The prudent and thrifty had scarcely enough to supply their 
 own families, and what were the thriftless, which are found in 
 every town, to do ? Of course there was much suffering, but 
 somehow the inhabitants of Woodstock managed to struggle 
 through. Another cause of serious discomfort and great loss 
 this year was the unusual prevalence of fires. The season, 
 though cold, was extremely dry, and much of the wood and 
 nearly all the valuable timber in town were destroyed. Charles 
 Curtis, who was then living on part of what is now the John 
 Day farm, had some " piles " to burn which he set on fire. 
 This fire did a great amount of damage. It swept through woods 
 and fields, and in its course destroyed all of Solomon Bryant's 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 41 
 
 hay, which was stacked near his buildings. The house was 
 saved by great effort. Through the Perham neighborhood and 
 in other parts of the town, during this season, the forest fires 
 raged with terrific violence, the roads being for several days 
 impassable. So extensive were these fires that ordinary print 
 could be read by their light in almost any part of the town at 
 midnight, and the summits of the blazing mountains could be 
 seen far away. These fires not only destroyed the wood and 
 timber, but in many places the surface soil was charred and 
 greatly damaged by the intense heat. Few buildings were 
 burned and no lives lost, but many stories of hair breadth 
 escapes have come down to us from those who were eye-wit- 
 nesses, and who shared in the danger. In 1821, the summer 
 of which was very dry, fires 'again ran through the town, de- 
 str^ing mucii young wood and burning several farm buildings. 
 The town did not recover from these losses for many years, 
 and some portions were seriously and permanently injured for 
 agricultural purposes by the burning off of the soil. The 
 charred remains of the huge trees still tell the story of the 
 great fire, and the large areas which once were covered with 
 valuable forest wood, now produce nothing but an inferior 
 second growth. 
 
 Michael Little, shortly after his purchase of the grant to 
 Dummer Academy (west part of Woodstock), sold a consid- 
 erable portion of it to Ebenezer March, Esq., of Newbury, Mass. 
 The agents of Mr. March to make sales and look after his in- 
 terests in the town, were Jairus Shaw, of Paris, and Stephen 
 Ghase, of Woodstock. As showing the condition of the inhab- 
 itants, or some of them, with reference to their lands in 1819, 
 and two years after, extracts are here made from letters sent by 
 Mr. Chase to Mr. March : 
 
 " Woodstock, February 20, 1819. 
 "Eben. March, Esq. 
 
 "Bear Sir : — Agreeably to your request, we have ascertained your taxes 
 in the town of Woodstock for the year 1818. Non-resident lands stand on 
 the valuation at $2 per acre, without regard to good or bad. * » * * » 
 
42 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Respecting money matters, we have collected but little yet. Seth Curtis has 
 taken up his small note. We believe that C. Curtis, M. Chase and R. Bisbee, 
 and some others, will exert themselves. We receive no encouragement from 
 J. Billings, C. Bessee or S. Bryant, at present, but shall do the best we can. 
 Asa Thurlo wishes to relinquish his land ; he says he has no expecta- 
 tion that he will ever be able to pay for it. We cannot state to you the par- 
 ticulars of what he has done until the snow goes off, but we fear the land 
 will not be much more salable for what he has done. He has put no build- 
 ings on the lot and has never lived on it. We have sold lot No. 23 to John 
 R. Briggs, for |275 ; he is a minor and the writings are made to his father, 
 with an agreement to exchange them when John R. shall become of age, 
 which will be next November. We have also sold the west half of 22 to 
 Abner Dolloff, for $150. No. 34, west half, is engaged to Gideon Swan. We 
 think the situation of 22 and 34 justifies dividing them. Seneca Landers 
 has not made application for writings. We know nothing of his being in 
 toVn since we wrote you last. We believe, however, that he depends on the 
 land, as he made preparations for building last fall. Charles Curtis wishes 
 for a deed of his land ; he says he is certain of paying all except fifty 
 dollars this season. ^ 
 
 " We have exerted ourselves to save your pine timber, and, by reason of 
 our being so near, we think nothing so much has been taken in a clandestine 
 manner as usual. It is frequently found necessary by proprietors and their 
 agents in adjoining towns, to prosecute trespassers on pine timber, and 
 there is a probability that we may be under the necessity of pursuing the 
 
 same course. 
 
 • Stephen Chase et al." 
 
 • 
 
 " Woodstock, February 1, 1821. 
 " Eben. March, Esq. 
 
 "Dear Sir : — We are very sorry that we are not able to forward to you 
 
 any money in this letter, and extremely sorry to state the little prospect we 
 
 have of any large payments this season. Money with us is the most scarce 
 
 it has ever been since the town has been settled. Produce of all kinds is 
 
 plenty, but will command but a very small price in ready cash. It is the 
 
 general cry, ' What can we do ? ' * * * * Mr. Jonathan Eickett has 
 
 sold his lot to a son-in-law by the name of Samuel Nute, who says he can 
 
 pay the money down, but wishes to have the deed when he pays the money. 
 
 Mr. Fickett's lot is number 44. Mr. Billings and Mr. Bessee will quit their 
 
 lands. We are now offering their lots for sale. We believe some others 
 
 must quit if they are driven up. We cannot think it will be for your interest 
 
 to sue all your debtors, and it is a disagreeable task for us to single out 
 
 individuals. If you think it would be proper to be more severe with those 
 
 who have deeds of their lands than others, we should be glad to have your 
 
 mind upon it. . * * * * We have sold lot No. 31 to Simeon Dunn and 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 43 
 
 Zebedee Pralt. We engaged Gore A to Merrill Chase, Jr., for $500 ; writings 
 are not yet made, and there is some prospect that he will not have the whole 
 Gore. We sold last week lot 78 for $275, and lot No. 79 for §250, to Barthol- 
 omew Cushman and Calvin Jackson. 
 
 Stephen Chase." 
 
 "Woodstock, April 17, 1821. 
 
 " Bespected Sir : — We have had a long and tedious winter, and hay is very 
 
 scarce and much corn has been given to cattle. It will follow that bread 
 
 will be scarce with us this season. Money remains very scarce. We have 
 
 recently visited all your debtors and urged the necessity of payment, but 
 
 have obtained not a- single dollar. Every one except Billings and Bessee, 
 
 who do not expect to pay for their lands, express an anxious desire to pay 
 
 you, and we are not out of hopes that they will, but the prospect of present 
 
 payment is small. Bisbee is about exchanging his farm for a smaller; if he 
 
 should, we hope the boot will help you to some pay. Seneca Landers and 
 
 Samuel Bryant have both promised to come to settlement this spring. It 
 
 does not appear that they are making the lots on which they live any worse. 
 
 Land is not half as salable with improvements on it as it is in the state of 
 
 nature. We believe that Esquire Little is not more fortunate, either in sales 
 
 or collections, than we are.* We add a list of lots which remain unsold : 
 
 Nos. 4, 6, 7, 8, 18, }i 19, 22, 23, 29, 34, 38, 39, 40, 45, 47, 49>^, 52, G7, 08, 72, 
 
 85, 88, 91, 92. 
 
 Stephen Chase." 
 
 Much more of the same sort might be added, but it would 
 be mainly repetition. One or two of the letters written by 
 Mr. March will show how his agents were pressed : 
 
 • " Newbury, November 27, 1819. 
 
 "Gents : — I must again request you to give me some account of your sales 
 and other circumstances relating to my interest in Woodstock. I have ever 
 felt a reluctance to subjecting my debtors to costs by bringing suits at law 
 against them, but I feel it a duty to my family to require a speedy fulfillment 
 of their contracts. I suppose some of them are better able than others, but 
 as I am not sufficiently acquainted with their disposition and circumstances, 
 I cannot discriminate ; it is, therefore, my request that you engage some 
 respectable attorney at law to bring suits upon all the notes which are be- 
 come payable and due, or will be so before the next sitting of your Court of 
 Common Pleas, excepting where they will give good assurance that they will 
 pay in the month of March next ; you will let my debtors know of the above 
 directions. When you deliver the notes to my Attorney, which need not be 
 long before Court, you will take his receipt for them. I shall expect a letter 
 
 * MerriU Chase was the agent of Mr. Little, but no record of his doings remain. 
 
44 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 from you as soon as you receive this, complying with my request in several 
 previous letters, and I must request you, gentlemen, as my friends, to give 
 me, with the utmost freedom, your opinion of the above proposed meas- 
 ures. Eben. March." 
 
 " Newbury, January 26, 1820. 
 
 " Gentlemen : — I received yours of the twenty-ninth of December last, in- 
 closing |25. This small sum and the statement you make respecting former 
 purchasers, looks very discouraging. *****! fear that a number 
 of our settlers are indolent and improvident, and do not employ their women 
 and children in various little matters which would make great savings. 
 When I saw you last, you mentioned the multitude of bees in your woods ; 
 and having often heard that the land in Woodstock, especially the westerly 
 half, is a good soil and equal to any in the vicinity, I have supposed it lit- 
 erally a " land flowing with milk and honey," but I find that some persons, 
 from what motive I know not, are endeavoring to depreciate the town of 
 Woodstock, I wish you to give me its just character. I requested you, in a 
 former letter, to give me an account of your inhabitants and of your live 
 
 stock ; I should like it. 
 
 "Eben. March." 
 
 "Newbury, July 15, 1824. 
 "Stephen Chase, Esq. 
 
 " I received yours of January 22. 1824, in due time, but you having men- 
 tioned that you contemplated a journey to the eastward — one that may be 
 a long one — I have delayed writing. Looking back to the copies of the letters 
 I have wrote to you, I find that one enclosed a letter to my friend Major 
 Kobinson, and one sent by Josiah Little, Esq., are missing. I do not, how- 
 ever, consider the loss of any great importance. Your last letter gives me 
 such a gloomy prospect respecting my interests in Woodstock, that I have 
 no encouragement to take coercive measures. I am, however, glad that you 
 have put some of their notes to suit. When you write again you will inform 
 me who you have employed as an attorney. I hope you attached enough to 
 pay cost. I think no honest man will object to interest annually. I should 
 be glad if you can obtain something from Samuel Bryant. I don't know 
 what he gave for his land, as it was sold to Briggs. I think it wi'ong that 
 Billings should have been living on me for eight or ten years, when I told 
 him he must quit the lot. I have been negotiating a plan which relieves my 
 real estate in this town from every embarrassment, but requires me to mort- 
 gage all my unsold lots in Woodstock, including the Billings lot 76, to Wm. 
 B. Bannister and others. I want to know how your suits terminate. If 
 coercion by the civil laws has become dangerous, you must be an unhappy 
 people, and fit subjects for some exemplary punishment. I hope, however, 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 45 
 
 there will be found some few righteous persons in the town of Woodstock. 
 
 Could you now feel the infirmities of seventy-nine years, you will permit my 
 
 plea of inability to attend writing any more. 
 
 Eben'r March." 
 i 
 
 Sometime during the year 1821, Mr. March .sold a portion of 
 his Wooodstock lands to William Sawyer, of Boston. Mr. 
 Chase acted as agent for Mr. Sawyer, and a couple of the letters 
 of the latter to Mr. Chase may appropriately come in here. 
 
 "Boston, November 2, 1821. 
 " Mr. Stephen Chase. 
 
 "Dear Sir : — I have received, from E. Mosely, Esq., Mr. March's deed to me, 
 sales recorded. Being in Newbury a few days ago, Judge March informed 
 me that you would remain in Woodstock till next season, when I propose 
 making a journey to that country. In the meantime, my object is to request 
 your attention, during the remainder of your residence, to what has become 
 my property, and to inform me of any proposals that may be made for 
 purchase, and to do in general whatever is needful for the due prevention of 
 trespass, for which service I expect to allow you for your time and trouble, 
 as you have been in the habit of receiving from Judge March. I have a very 
 good copy of the survey of the land from March, and can refer immediately 
 to any lot or number. Some proposal-s I understood had been made for 
 Gore A. If you should leave that country, or if you are fully decided to 
 leave, I wish you to mention to me the names of one or more whom you 
 think would be willing and are suitable persons to act for me in the capacity 
 of agent hereafter, and who resides near the said location. If it is agreeable 
 to you to continue to act as above requested, please inform me by letter at 
 Boston. I am your ob't, 
 
 Wm. Sawyer." 
 
 " Boston, January 13, 1823. 
 " Stephen Chase, Esq. 
 
 "Dear Sir : — I duly received your favor of the 30th November last, and 
 notice the contents. I am very well satisfied as far as you have proceeded, 
 and I hope you will be able to make additional sales of the lots. You know 
 so well how desirous I am to dispose of that landed property that it is un- 
 necessary for me to press you farther on the subject. I am still of the same 
 opinion as when we discussed the subject so fully. If you can but find the 
 right sort of purchasers, ddfc't part with them for a little matter. I am glad 
 to find provision is made, in your agreement with Bisbee, for the taxes next 
 year. I shall always be glad to hear from you when you find it useful and 
 convenient to write. I formed, during my journey in Maine last summer, 
 a much higher idea of that State, as to the cultivation, improvement aud the 
 
46 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 character of the population, than I had ever before conceived. It will cer- 
 * taiuly, at no distant period, be a povrerful, populous and thriving State, 
 although non-resident land holders may find their estates unprofitable. Ac- 
 cept my sincere wishes for your health and the welfare of your family. 
 
 " With esteem, your obt., 
 
 Wm. Sawyer." 
 
 The following letter to Mr. Chase, would indicate that another 
 
 party had become interested in Woodstock lands, perhaps as a 
 
 prospective purchaser. 
 
 " Boston, January 1, 1823. 
 " Stephen Chase, Esq. 
 
 "Sir : — Having occasion for a friend in Woodstock, E. Lincoln, Esq., has 
 favored me with your name. I want to ascertain the quality of the lots of 
 land in Woodstock belonging to Wm. Sawyer, Esq. If you will have the 
 goodness to look at the plan of the township, which you will no doubt find 
 in possession of the Town Clerk, and see the relative situation of those lots, 
 and by enquiry or otherwise, inform me of their quality, growth of wood, 
 situation as to County roads, kinds of soil, hilly or rocky, &c., you will render 
 me the service required, for which trouble I shall be happy to compensate 
 you. If you know of any lots of good quality for sale, you will please men- 
 tion quantity, price, &c. Please let' me hear from you very soon. 
 
 " With esteem, youx's, 
 
 Sam. Tobey." 
 
 » 
 
 Mr. Chase having had the Eastern fever for some time, and 
 having notified Mr. Sawyer of his proposed removal, received 
 the following in reply : 
 
 " Boston, November 5, 1824. 
 "To Stephen Chase, Esq. 
 
 "Dear Sir : — I have received your letter of the 7th ult., and noted the 
 
 contents. I consent that you shall transfer tlie agency for me to Thomas 
 
 Crocker, Esq., of Paris, if Mr. Emery, should he still reside in Paris, agrees 
 
 with you in opinion ; if he is not there, I shall accede to your judgment. I 
 
 shall be ready to allow the usual terms — such a commission on sales as will 
 
 be reasonable and satisfactory to Mr. Crocker, and as is customary in like 
 
 cases. I wish that the land and the sales thereof, and the interest on notes 
 
 due, shall be first applied to expenses thereon, that I shall not be called on 
 
 for cash. It will be perhaps needful that when you leave you should return 
 
 me your power of attorney, and that I shouldlfcive you a new one to Mr. 
 
 Crocker. You will be so good as to furnish him with every information and 
 
 document necessary for his guidance, and above all, impress upon him the 
 
 desire I have to hasten the sales, even at reduced prices, avoiding all dealings 
 
 with doubtful and unsafe characters. It is expensive making journeys, but 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 47 
 
 it is very possible I might meet Mr. Crocker or yourself, if necessary, when 
 his business calls him to Portland, or it may sometimes bring him to Boston. 
 All this you will let me know by letter. If you absolutely decide to leave 
 Woodstock, I suppose the sooner the arrangements are made with Mr. 
 Crocker the better. I am, with regard, your friend, 
 
 Wm. Sawyer." 
 
 November 20, 1824, Mr. March wrote to Mr. Chase that as 
 he (Chase) had determined to leave Woodstock, he (March) 
 must look up another agent, and says : " I am so little ac- 
 quainted with the people of Woodstock and vicinity that I 
 know not who to apply to, and I can think of no one except 
 Edward Little, of Portland, and he writes me that he has so 
 much business to do for his father that he shall not be able to 
 give that attention to mine 'that it requires." It appears, how- 
 ever, that Mr. Little did subsequently act as agent for Mr. 
 March. Judge March and also Mr. Sawyer made journeys to 
 Paris in connection with Woodstock lands, and Mr. Bannister, 
 to whom Mr. March mortgaged tlj^ land, once came to Wood- 
 stock. The wild lands in this town changed hands many 
 tunes before they were finally sold to settlers. In one of his 
 letters to Mr. Chase, Mr. March says that Mr. Alexander Green- 
 wood has gone to th% " eastward," * and wishes his address that 
 he may write him and get his opinion as to the value of a certain 
 seven hundred acres. The taxes on proprietors' lands were not 
 promptly paid, and they were frequently sold by the Collector. 
 In one of his letters Mr. March complains that Gore 37 and west 
 half of lot 12, had been sold by Cornelius Perkins and bid off 
 by Edward Little. Luther, and afterwards his son, A. M. Whit- 
 man, was agent for Thomas and Edward Hale, of Newburyport, 
 into whose hands some of the Woodstock lands had come, through 
 his wife, who was Alice Little, daughter of Josiali, and the last 
 were not sold by him until about the year 1852. These last pro- 
 prietors' lots were situated between Bryant's Pond Village and 
 
 ♦Mr. Greenwood moved to Monson, where he continued his occupation of surveyor 
 of wild lands. While eating his dinner in the woods one day, a dry stub of a tree fell 
 upon him, kUling him instantly. 
 
48 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 North Alder Eiver Pond, along the new road that leads to Locke's 
 Mills. Josiah Little, of Newbury, obtained a few lots of Wood- 
 stock lands, probably from his son Michael, the original proprietor. 
 Edward Little, then of Portland, was his agent, and in a letter 
 to Stephen Chase, dated July 11, 1820, he offered to sell lots 
 number 62 and 71, for $350 each. These are the lots upon 
 which the village of Bryant's Pond is mainly situated. The 
 most part of 71 was purchased about the year 1850, by Charles- 
 T. Chase. The letters here produced may possess no special 
 interest to the average reader, but they go to help make up the 
 early liistory of the town, and convey information with regard 
 to early transactions in our wild lands which at this day could 
 have been obtained from no other source. Mr. March was 
 doubtless deceived as to the character and value of his pur- 
 chase, and perhaps all the early proprietors were. There was 
 much speculation at that time in what Massachusetts people 
 called "Eastern lands," ai^l upon paper all townships ap- 
 peared the same ; as stated by Mr. Chase in one of his letters, 
 there was no difference, in the price asked, between a good 
 settling township and a poor one. For the preservation of the 
 correspondence here referred to, credit 13 due to Mr. Stephen 
 Chase, among whose effects they were found, after his decease 
 at his eastern home in Lincoln, and to his sons, who thought- 
 fully preserved them after their father's death. 
 
 In addition to other burdens whicli the inhabitants of Wood- 
 stock were called upon to bear — and it proved no easy one — was 
 the support of the poor within the town. It was many years 
 before a town farm was provided, and the paupers were gen- 
 erally set up at auction at the time of the March meeting, and 
 struck off to the lowest bidder. Joseph Clifford died in the 
 spring of 1816, and an inventory of his effects was taken 
 April 2d of that year. A copy of this inventory, as then made 
 out, may be of interest to some, after nearly seventy years. 
 The following is a verbatim copy : 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 49 
 
 "A memmarandum of the Goods of Mr. Joseph Clifford, of "Woodstock, 
 aken the second day of April, a. d. 1816 : 
 
 " 1 fether Bead, 6 sheats of a poor Quality, 1 Wolen Bead Blanket, 2 cover- 
 leads, 2 pillers, 1 Bolster, 2 under Beads, 1 New Calico Bead spread, 1 covered 
 trunk, 1 squar chist, 1 meat tub, 1 Bed Stead, 1 cloase basket, 1 amberill, 1 
 Read Cloak, 1 Linen wheel, 1 wool do. do., 1 pair of cards, 2 six squar 
 windows, 1 ax, 1 fro, 1 shave, 1 hay fork, 3 puter Basins, 3 forks, 2 knives, 3 
 spoons, 1 Table, 3 chars, 1 old shovel, 1 tin pan, 1 large flower Box, 1 spider, 
 1 pot, 1 cittell, 1 cive, 1 tea cittell, 1 tin Basin, 3 pales, 3 small shugar boxes, 
 1 flower Barren, 1 corn Basket, 1 Hoe, 1 mortar, 1 scythe, set of irons, 1 Pair 
 stillyards, 2 arthen Platters, 2 Decanters, 1 Bottell, 2 plates, 1 puter plate, 
 1 arthen Poriger, 1 hammer. Pinchers and Nippers, 1 ax." 
 
 Whenever Mrs. Clifford was bid off, the person taking her 
 took her effects as given above, giving a receipt to the town 
 therefor, and promising to account for them at the end of the 
 year, " except the natural wear." The same schedule was copied 
 year after year, and the " new calico bed spread " always re- 
 mained new as long as Mrs. Clifford lived. Her son, Jonathan 
 T. Clifford, who was the first settler on the Gore, took his 
 mother in 1818, to keep for three years, and gave the following 
 bond for her maintenance : 
 
 " Know all men by these presents, that I, Jonathan T. Clifford, of a Gore 
 of Land called Hamlin's Grant, in the County of Oxford and Commonwealth 
 of Massachusetts, am held and firmly bound unto Samuel Stephens, Stephen 
 Chase and Cornelius Perkins, Overseers of the Poor for the town of Wood- 
 stock, or their successors in that ofl&ce, in the sum of one hundred and eighty 
 dollars, to which payment, well and truly to be made, I bind myself, my heirs, 
 executors and administrators finnly by these presents. Sealed with my seal 
 this seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
 and eighteen. 
 
 " Now the condition of this obligation is such that whereas the above 
 named Jonathan T. Clifford hath taken the widow Susanna P. Clifford, a 
 town pauper, to support for bed and board, in health and sickness, for the 
 term of three years, if the said Jonathan T. Clifford does well and truly 
 provide for and support the said Susanna P. Clifford and pay all Doctor's 
 bills for the term of three years from the date thereof, then this obligation 
 to be void and of no effect, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. 
 
 " Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of 
 Luther Whitman, 
 
 Noah Curtis, Jr. Jonathan T. Clifford." 
 
 4 
 
50 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 To aid the Eand family, living in the east part of the town, 
 the overseers of the poor of Woodstock for several years loaned 
 them a lot of land under certain specified conditions; the fol- 
 lowing is the form of lease used : 
 
 " This indenture, made the second day of May, in the year of our Lord 
 one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, witnesseth : that Cornelius Perkins, 
 John Billings and Alexander Day, all of AVoodstock, in the County of Ox- 
 ford, as Selectmen of said town, do hereby lease, demise and let unto Betsey 
 Eand and David Rand, both of said Woodstock, yeomen, a certain lot of 
 land lying in said Woodstock, being lot numbered three in that part of said 
 town which was granted to Gorham Academy, they, the said Betsey Eand 
 and David Eand, agreeing to clear and put into grass all of said lot which 
 they have or may fall on the same, said lot having been drawn to the minis- 
 teri&,l right in said town; to hold for the term of one year from the first day 
 of April last, yielding and paying therefor the rent of one dollar ; and the 
 said the lessees do promise to pay the said rent in cash, to quit and deliver 
 up the premises to the lessors, or their attorney, peaceably and quietly, at 
 the end of the term, in as good order and condition, reasonable use and wear- 
 ing thereof excepted, as the same now are or may be put into by the said 
 lessors, and to pay all taxes and duties levied or to be levied on thereon 
 during the term, and for such further time as the lessees may hold the same, 
 and not make nor suffer any waste thei-eof, and that the lessors may enter 
 to view and make improvements, and to expel the lessees if they shall fail 
 to pay the rent as aforesaid, or make or suffer any strip or waste thereof. 
 " In presence of 
 David Eicker, Cornelius Perkins, [l. s.J 
 
 JosiAH Dudley, Alexander Day, [l. s.] 
 
 Silas Billings, John Billings, [l. s.] 
 
 Thayer Townsend, David Eand, [l. s.] 
 
 Eachel Townsend, Betsey Eand, [l. s.] " 
 
 In 1825, Stephen Chase moved from Woodstock to Lincoln, 
 on the Penobscot Eiver. He had contemplated going for four 
 or five years, but was delayed in his departure from various 
 causes, not the least of which was his connection with the sale 
 of Woodstock lands as agent for various proprietors. Several 
 families moved from Paris to Lincoln about the same time. It 
 • was a much better farming township than Woodstock, and Mr. 
 Chase took up a lot which made an excellent farm. The re- 
 moval of Mr. Cliase from Woodstock was a great loss to the 
 town. From his first arrival in 1802, he had been its foremost 
 
HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 51 
 
 man. He was a leader in spiritual as well as in temporal 
 affairs, and was many years deacon of the Baptist church in 
 Paris. From the date of the first plantation organization in 
 1812, to the time of his removal, he was ever in town business. 
 He was the first Justice of the Peace in town, and the first 
 member of the Legislature from Woodstock. He also held the 
 agencies of most of the proprietors of Woodstock lands. The 
 letters to him show that they had the utmost confidence in his 
 integrity and business^ capacity, and expressed great regret that 
 he should leave town while their affairs were unsettled. His 
 position as agent for the lands occupied by the settlers and un- 
 paid for, was a delicate and in some respects disagreeable one, 
 but it enabled him to assist them, and the fact that, while he 
 performed his duties to the satisfaction of the proprietors, he 
 retained the respect and confidence of his townsmen, attest to 
 the judicious and impartial manner in which he performed his 
 duties. Three of his daughters married and remained in Wood- 
 stock, namely, the wives of Benj. Davis, Simon Picket and Daniel 
 Curtis, but his sons went with him, and none of of his descend- 
 ants in the male line have since lived here. The name of 
 Stephen Chase is so closely connected and interwoven with all 
 the affairs of this town during its first quarter of a century, that 
 now, when he is about to drop out and disappear, some recogni- 
 tion of his faithful services seems to be proper. He lived here 
 during the years when the settlers were struggling for existence, 
 and went away before prosperity had fully come, though the 
 affairs of the town, in many respects, had much improved. He 
 worked hard, and fared hard himself, as the extracts from his 
 journal show ; but, in addition to his own burdens, he took 
 upon himself and assisted in bearing those of the plantation. 
 He has long since finished his earthly career, and left to his 
 posterity the legacy of a well spent life. 
 
 It was in 1825 that John Gray, Jr., and John Starbird, with 
 their estates, lots number six and seven, east part, according to 
 Smith's survey, were set off from this town to Paris. They 
 
52 HISTOKT OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 could be better accommodated in regard to schools, and their 
 business relations were all with Paris. Other changes in the 
 town lines from the original survey may as well be stated here. 
 In 1827, the estate of Daniel Curtis was set off from Paris and 
 annexed to Woodstock. In 1853, James Euss, with his estate, 
 consisting of one and one-half lots, was set off from Milton 
 Plantation and annexed to Woodstock. In 1873, Hamlin's 
 Gore was annexed to Woodstock. In 1880, Caleb Puller, who 
 resided on a portion of the land formerly set off from Paris, was 
 annexed to Paris. Superior school privileges and close business 
 relations with West Paris were the chief reasons assigned. 
 
 The general happenings in Woodstock for a long number of 
 years, from 1825 to 1850, were not of special importance, and 
 the annals of the town, if fully reported, would possess but 
 little interest. The financial condition of the population, as a 
 whole, did not materially improve for a long time. After Mr. 
 Crocker took the agency for the wild lands in the west part of 
 the town, the indebtedness of the inhabitants was gradually 
 transferred from Boston and Newbury to Paris Hill. In this 
 village were many wealthy men, among whom were the Eawsons, 
 Cushmans, Cummingses, Andrews and Kittredges, who had 
 money to loan on real estate, and held mortgages on many 
 farms in Woodstock and the adjoining towns. They charged 
 high rates of interest which must be compounded every year, 
 and security for double, at least, the money loaned. This in- 
 terest was the undying worm to many struggling farmers, and 
 proved the financial ruin of not a few. The curse of strong 
 drink also kept many poor who otherwise would have been able 
 to have emancipated themselves from the thralldom of the 
 usurer. It should not be understood that all the people of 
 Woodstock were given to drink, or badly in debt, for there 
 were prudent farmers in town from the beginning who became 
 thrifty, and subsequently forehanded ; but, on the other hand, 
 there were many, and perhaps a majority, of the farmers in 
 town who, from various causes, including those just mentioned, 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 53 
 
 were poor. It was not until the temperance reform, which 
 began first among the young men and women of the town, who 
 became active workers, and were subsequently re-enforced by ' 
 the great Washingtonian movement, whicli reached another 
 class, that real and substantial financial progress began to be 
 made. A more extended notice of this movement may be found 
 in another place. Suffice it to say here, that the influence of this 
 reform began to be manifest in a short time in improved farm 
 buildings, in better cultivation of the soil, in more and better 
 farm stock, and, best of all, in an emancipation from that evil 
 which, like a bird of ill omen, had brooded over the town for 
 many a year. General prosperity followed in the wake of this 
 movement. Ardent spirits were, after a few years, banished from 
 almost every house ; there was a manifest improvement in morality 
 and in religious feeling and thought. Gradually, long accumu- 
 lating debts were liquidated, and farms which for many years 
 * had been under the ban of a mortgage, became again the prop- 
 erty of the occupants. The statement is no exaggeration, that 
 in the year 1848, fifty years after the first settlement was made, 
 there was no town in the County more independent than the 
 town of Woodstock. There were no very wealthy men, and 
 very few so poor that they could not get a good and comfort- 
 able living by their own unaided efforts. 
 
 In 18.37, near the close of President Jackson's second and 
 last term, there was found to be a considerable sum of money 
 in the United States Treasury, which was not needed for the 
 purpose of government. It was finally determined to divide it 
 among the towns in the United States, according to the popula- 
 tion. There was much controversy in most towns respecting 
 the disposal of this money. Some were in favor of converting 
 it into an educational fund, the income only to be used, while 
 others advocated putting it into the treasury for the general 
 purposes of the town. But there was a strong sentiment in 
 almost every town in favor of dividing it among the families, 
 and in most cases this proposition prevailed. It did here, each 
 
54 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 fiead of a family being required to give a note, with sureties, for 
 the amount received, that the money might be forthcoming in 
 case there should be a demand for it. These notes were placed 
 in the hands of the town treasurer, and in 1839 the town of 
 Woodstock voted that " the treasurer be authorized to destroy 
 the notes given for the surplus revenue," and they were accord- 
 ingly burned. The sum received was one dollar and sixty-six 
 and one-third cents apiece, for men, women and children. 
 
 For many years after the town was settled, the main thorough- 
 fare from Kumford to Paris was by way of the old County road 
 laid out in 1795. While this was the case, the business of 
 Woodstock centered at Stephen's mill. Here was a grist mill, 
 the Post Office, a store and a public house. In 1837, a road 
 was accepted by the town, " beginning at a bridge southerly of 
 Joseph Whitman's house and running to Paris line." This, 
 though expressed in a few words, was a very important move- 
 ment. The proposed road was nearly five miles in length, and 
 would be a new and improved thoroughfare ithrough the town. 
 Samuel H. Houghton came into town that year, and built up a 
 place at the foot of Bryant's Pond, and made strong efforts to 
 have a road located from West Paris, near the present location 
 of the railroad. There was a protracted contest, but Mr. 
 Houghton was defeated, the other route adopted by the County 
 and built. This was a death blow to the hamlet at Stephen's 
 mills, and the business, including the Post Office, was moved to 
 South Woodstock. Subsequently, the little village at North 
 Woodstock, to which somebody applied the name of " Pinhook," 
 sprung up and divided the business of the town with the lower 
 village. In 1851, when Woodstock was connected with Port- 
 land by rail, a village sprung up around the station at Bryant's 
 Pond. The new village at West Paris absorbed the one at 
 South Woodstock, and Pinhook ceased to flourish after business 
 became established at the railway station. Bryant's Pond is a 
 center of trade for a considerable area. It is connected by stage 
 and telegraph with Eumford and Andover, and is the point at 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 55 
 
 which people from these and other back towns take the cars. 
 Its total lack of water power will prevent its ever becoming an 
 important manufacturing center, though this want has in part 
 been overcome by the use of steam. A large spool factory has 
 been established here, which has given a decided impulse to the 
 business of the place. The granite quarries below the village 
 also give constant employment in summer to quite a number 
 of men. 
 
 In the early times, town meetings were held at private 
 houses. Sometimes they were held at Josiah Churchill's, who 
 lived on the old road between Stephen Chase's and Asa Thur- 
 low's ; they were at other times held at the house of ISToah 
 Curtis, Jr., who lived on the Perrin Dudley farm. Subsequently 
 they were held at the Chase school house. In 1849, the town 
 voted to build a town house and chose Simon Fickett, Geo. W. 
 Cushman and Eleazer Ellis a committee to procure plans. It 
 was also voted to accept of a proposal made by Alden Chase, 
 for erecting the town house on his land. The conditions were 
 that the town should keep the lot fenced and remit, his tax 
 assessed on account of the building. The house was built 
 the subsequent year, and was occupied as a town house for over 
 twenty years. In 1872, a new and convenient town hall, with 
 suitable offices, was built for the town by 0. C. & H. F. Hough- 
 ton, at Bryant's Pond, and the old town house was abandoned 
 and removed. It stood on the west side of the County road, 
 near the top of the hill, between the brook, which is southerly 
 of D. J. Libby's, and the road that turns to the Chase school 
 house. 
 
 Woodstock has never furnished many State or County officers. 
 It has never furnished a member of the Executive Council nor 
 a State Senator. Alden Chase has served two terms as Eegister 
 of Deeds ; Sidney Perham was elected Clerk of the Courts, and 
 after his removal to Paris was three times elected to Congress 
 and three times Governor of Maine. Herrick C. Davis is serv- 
 ing his second term as Eegister of Probate. Wm. B. Lapham, 
 
56 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 while a resident of Woodstock, served one term as Trustee of 
 the Insane Hospital, and a second term after he removed from 
 town. The following is a list of representatives to the Legis- 
 lature, which have been sent from this town since the organiza- 
 tion of the State Government : 
 
 1823, Stephen Chase. 1858, Albert H. Estes. 
 
 1827, Samuel Stephens. 1861, Adouiram Curtis. 
 
 1831, Samuel Stephens. •'#1864, Herrick C. Davis. 
 
 1836, Kichard T. Lurvey. 1867, Wm. B. Lapham. 
 
 1841, Geo. W. Cushman. 1870, Alden Chase. 
 
 1845, Edmund Chase. 1874, Orlando C. Houghton. 
 
 1851, Alden Chase. 1879, Benjamin Davis. 
 1855, Sidney Perham, Speaker. 
 
 Three Woodstock young men have graduated from college, 
 namely: George E. Leonard, graduated from Dartmouth, and 
 Charles 0. Whitman and Harrison S. Whitman from Bowdoin. 
 William B. Lapham entered at Colby University but did not 
 graduate. He has since received the degree of Master of Arts 
 from the same institution. 
 
 Of ministers, Woodstock has furnished quite a large number. 
 The list embraces not only the natives born, but those who re- 
 sided here when they began to preach. 
 
 Baptists — Luther Perkins, David Pticker, Charles Perkins, 
 Ziba Andrews and John C. Andrews. 
 
 Methodists — Jesse H. Stephens, Nathan Andrews, A. Fitz 
 Koy Chase and Eugene Whitman. 
 
 Free Baptists — Gideon Perkins, Samuel IST. Brooks. 
 
 Universalist — Harrison S. Whitman. 
 
 Advents — Jared Whitman, Frank Thurlow. 
 
 Of Lawyers — Herrick C. Davis and Peter C,«Fickett. 
 
 Physicians — Orren Stephens and Jeff. C. Gallison. , 
 
 Many young men have gone out from Woodstock, who have 
 been respected and influential citizens in the places of their 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 57 
 
 adoption ; not a few of these have their homes in the far west. 
 For the past thirty years, Woodstock has not materially in- 
 creased in population, due mainly to the western emigration. 
 But they have not all gone west. In Boston, Portland, Law- 
 rence, Lewiston, and in many other New England cities and 
 towns, may be found Woodstock-born men and women who are 
 filling responsible stations, and who are an honor to the town 
 of their birth. Charles 0. Whitman, who has adopted Natural 
 History as his life study and work, has already gained an envi- 
 able name among the savants of Europe. He is now pursuing 
 his studies and investigations in Germany. A. Fitz Eoy Chase is 
 the learned and popular instructor in mathematics at the Wes- 
 ley an Seminary and College at Kent's Hill. Charles P. Kimball, 
 a native of the " Gore," whose business operations in this State 
 are well known, is now one of the foremost men in the great 
 city of Chicago ; his brother, Hannibal I. Kimball, of Atlanta, 
 Georgia, Director General of the recent great International 
 Cotton Exposition, in which he has achieved a national reputa- 
 tion, was also born on the " Gore." He is still m the prime of 
 manhood, and capable of still greater achievements. Other 
 respected names might be added, did the space permit ; in con- 
 clusion of this topic, Woodstock has reason to be proud of her 
 contributions in both men and women she has made to other 
 and various parts of the country. 
 
 It might possess interest to some, could we continue the 
 annals of the town down to the present time, but the original 
 intent has already been exceeded. The beginnings of " Number 
 Three " have been carefully sketched ; its brief plantation life 
 as briefly given, and the salient points in the early history of 
 the town have been gathered up and presented. Special sub- 
 jects, which also contain much historical matter, are treated 
 under separate heads, as in this form they can be more readily 
 and conveniently referred to, while notices of families and 
 individuals are more fully elaborated under the head of " Family 
 Sketches." In closing this division of the general subject, it is 
 
58 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 the sincere wish of the writer that this goodly town, in which 
 he was for several years a resident, and whose early history he 
 has imperfectly sketched, may ever be a thrifty and prosperous 
 municipality ; and to this end may her people ever uphold and 
 cherish those great principles of temperance, morality and virtue 
 which have been the means of accomplishing such great things 
 for them in the past. 
 
 Hamlin's gore. 
 
 The territory formerly comprising Hamlin's Gore or " Hamlin's 
 Grant," as it was sometimes incorrectly called, was a long and 
 narrow strip 249 rods wide at the east end, next to Milton 
 Plantation, and 294 rods wide at the west end, next to Green- 
 wood, and situated between the grant to Dummer Academy and 
 Bethel. The township of Sudbury, Canada, now Bethel, was 
 first lotted out and fixed by metes and bounds, and when the 
 grant was made to Dummer Academy, it was intended that its 
 north line should be the south line of Bethel ; but the surveyor, 
 mistaking a spotted line, made by sable hunters, for Bethel line, 
 fixed the north line of the grant to Dummer Academy here, 
 leaving the strip just described between the two townships. 
 This line was also fixed by metes and bounds, so that Hamlin's 
 Gore was not included in the co^iveyance to the trustees, or 
 from the trustees «to Mr. Little. The original survey of the 
 Gore was by David Noyes, Esq., of Norway, who gave it the 
 following dimensions : On Miiton Plantation line 249 rods ; on 
 Bethel line 936 rods ; on Greenwood line 294 rods ; and on 
 Woodstock line 888 rods, and containing about 1,400 acres. 
 He divided it into thirteen lots of unequal size and of the fol- 
 lowing dimensions : 
 
 Number one, 120 acres. Number six, 100 acres, 
 
 " two, 120 acres, " seven, 80 acres, 
 
 " three, 120 acres, " eight, 50 acres, 
 
 " four, 100 acres, " nine, 145 acres, 
 
 five, 100 acres, " ten, 116 acres. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 59 
 
 Number eleven, 115 acres, Number thirteen, 70 acres. 
 " twelve, 85 acres. 
 
 The surface, like that of most of the town of Woodstock, is 
 uneven, and the soil hard to work, but productive. A large 
 part of the North Alder Eiver Pond is within its borders, the 
 southwest corner of the Gore being in the pond. 
 
 On the 26th day of February, 1816, the Commonwealth of 
 Massachusetts deeded this land to Dr. Cyrus Hamlin, of Paris, 
 for and in consideration of the sum of six hundred dollars. 
 Dr. Hamlin soon afterwards sold an undivided half of the terri- 
 tory to Mr. John Daniels, of Paris. The land was immediately 
 lotted out, with a view to having it settled. The first settler 
 was Jonathan T. Clifford, son of Joseph, of Woodstock. April 
 2, 1816, he purchased part of lot number nine, but had previously 
 built him a log house on the shore of the pond which was then 
 called " Clifford's Pond." In a bond which he gave to the town 
 of Woodstock for the support of his mother, he is called " of a 
 place called Hamlin's Grant." His wife was Widow Hodges, 
 a sister of Benjamin Bacon, of Greenwood. He had left the 
 place prior to 1827, removing to the eastern part of the State. 
 Two other early settlers were Asa and Caleb B. Barrows, who 
 took the triangular-shaped lot numbered ten. _ They built two 
 log houses near Greenwood line ; Asa, father of Caleb, lived 
 here with his daughter Polly, until she became the wife of 
 Morton Curtis, when he went to live with them ; Caleb con- 
 tinued to reside in his log house until about the year 1841, 
 when he moved to Linneus, in the County of Aroostook. He 
 died there a few years ago, quite aged. He was a soldier in 
 the war of 1812, and was in the engagements in northern New 
 York ; he drew a pension during his last few years. Tilden 
 Bartlett moved to the Gore quite early from Paris. He bought 
 lots number seven and eight. After a few years, he moved 
 across the line into Bethel, disposing of his lands in the Gore 
 to his brother Sylvanus. This is now the Pearson place. John 
 Buck of Buckfield, bought lot number eleven and occupied it. 
 
60 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 His daughter's husband, Wm. E. Hemmingway, subsequently 
 lived upon it. Isaac, and his son, Geo. W. Cummings, came here 
 from Greenwood, and had part of lot number nine. Porter and 
 Peter Kimball, sons of Peter of Bridgton, came to the Gore 
 about the year 1815. Porter finally commenced to clear land 
 adjoining the Gore, but within the limits of Bethel. In a 
 couple of years, he sold out to Abijah Lapham, and moved to 
 Eumford. Peter Kimball took up lot number one, which he 
 occupied for more than thirty years. He was probably the 
 second settler on the Gore.. He was a wheelwright and an in- 
 dustrious and enterprising man. His large family of boys, who 
 for ejiergy and business capacity have a wide reputation, are 
 mentioned elsewhere. He had a carriage shop where he carried 
 on business many years, most of his sons getting their primary 
 knowledge of the business, which they afterwards made so 
 successful, in this little shop. Subsequently Jonathan Kimball, 
 brother of Peter, came and settled on lot number two. Josiah 
 Moody, a native of Portland, came to the Gore from Paris and 
 settled on lot number five. A portion of this lot is still owned 
 and occupied by his grandson, Ansel Moody. That part of the 
 farm where the buildings formerly stood was afterwards added 
 to the Bailey farm. The original Bailey farm, lot number four, 
 was owned by a Mr. Low and also by Barney Perry, both of 
 whom cut trees and cleared land, but never lived upon it.. 
 Jacob Eeed built the first buildings and lived upon the lot until 
 he sold out to Bailey. Abram Jordan, of Norway, bought lot 
 number twelve, but never lived upon it. It was afterwards 
 owned by Daniel and Moses Cummings, and has had many 
 occupants since. The westerly lines of lots number one two 
 and three, are crooked, conforming to the direction of the 
 " Whale's Back," a ridge of land thus called. 
 
 Hamlin's Gore was first organized for plantation purposes in 
 1826, the warrant for the first meeting having beeen issued by 
 John Thompson, Esq., by direction of Henry Eust, Esq., Treas- 
 urer of Oxford County. The meeting was held at the dwelling 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 61 
 
 house of Peter Kimball, July 10, 1826, , and the following 
 Plantation officers were chosen : For Moderator, Tilden Bartlett ; 
 Clerk, Geo. W. Cummings ; Assessors, Peter Kimball, Geo. W. 
 Cummings and Tilden Bartlett ; Collector, Josiah Moody, Jr. ; 
 Treasurer, Peter Kimball. On the 17th of April following, a 
 meeting was called by the Assessors, the warrant issued to 
 Josiah Moody, Jr. ; Wm. K. Hemmingway was chosen Mod- 
 erator, G%o. W. Cummings, Clerk ; Tilden Bartlett, Geo. W. 
 Cummings and Caleb B. Barrows, Assessors ; Josiah Moody, 
 Jr., Collector and Treasurer. The following sums were raised : 
 Por plantation purposes, twenty dollars ; for roads, ten dollars ; 
 to be expended on the Locke's Mills road, twelve dollars ; for 
 school purposes, fifteen dollars. Tilden Bartlett was elected 
 School Agent, and Geo. W. Cummings, Highway Surveyor. It 
 was voted to petition the Court of General Sessions for a road 
 to Greenwood line, in the direction of Locke's Mills. Asa 
 Barrows was chosen Agent, to present the matter before the 
 Court. 
 
 On the third day of June, 1827, a committee consisting of 
 Tilden Bartlett, Geo. W. Cummings and Caleb B. Barrows laid 
 out and located the road leading from Greenwood line to the 
 County road between Eumford and Paris. This Eumford and 
 Paris road was the one located in 1795 ; it ran across the Gore. 
 The road laid out by the Gore committee is essentially the one 
 still traveled, the changes having been slight. On the twenty- 
 seventh day of June following, at a plantation meeting, the road 
 was accepted. At the meeting in April, 1828, Peter Kimball 
 and Wm. R Hemmingway were chosen Superintending School 
 Committee — the first board chosen. Twenty dollars were 
 raised for the support of schools, and it was voted to join 
 Bethel district in building a school house, "admitting we 
 can have the privilege of building one-half of the house." 
 At the annual meeting in 1830, it was voted to raise fifty 
 dollars to be expended on the Gore road, and to open the 
 road in two years. At this meeting it was voted that the 
 
62 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 assessors shall be allowed on their highway tax for their 
 services. 
 
 The following tax list, made out and certified by the first 
 assessors in 1827, shows the number of tax payers in the plan- 
 tation, and the amount of taxes each one was assessed : 
 
 Geo. W. Cummings, •• 2.28 Josiah Moody, 0.26 
 
 Tilden Bartlett, 1.48 Peter Kimball, ^ 2.33 
 
 Wm. K. Hemmingway, 2.42 Francis Kimball, 0.70 
 
 Isaac Cummings, 1.52 Barnabas Perry, 1.15 
 
 Caleb B. Barrows, 1.86 Thomas Darmon, 0.50 
 
 Polly Barrows, 0.26 Abijah Lapham, 0.15 
 
 John Buck, 0.30 Cyrus Hamlin and John 
 
 Josiah Moody, Jr., 1.88 Daniels, non-residents, 1.50 
 
 Jonathan Kimball, 1.70 
 
 Francis Kimball was a brother of Peter ; he lived here only 
 a short time and committed suicide. Abijah Lapham was not a 
 resident but was taxed on a small piece of land. Thomas Dar- 
 mon came here from Buckfield and built a small house south of 
 the burying ground, on Whale's Back. He was here about 
 three years and returned to Buckfield. Barnabas Perry was 
 not a resident but owned the Bailey farm. In 1831, thirteen 
 polls were taxed. Simeon Buck had come here, and his sons 
 Stephen and Harrison Buck had become of age ; Abijah and 
 James Lapham had moved here from Bethel. This year thirty 
 scholars were reported. In 1832, there were eleven voters ; the 
 new comers were Sylvanus Bartlett, Eobert Bearce and Jacob 
 Bead. John Buck had died, and T^ilden Bartlett, Abijah and 
 James Lapham, and some others, had gone away. 
 
 In 1833 there was a movement to annex the plantation to 
 Woodstock, and George W. Cummings was chosen a committee 
 to take charge of the matter. This year the plantation voted 
 to build a school house and to locate it as near the center as 
 possible ; Caleb B. Barrows, Josiah Moody and Ptobert Bearce 
 were a committee to find the center of the District. Peter 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 63 
 
 Kimball was chosen an agent to superintend the building of 
 the school house. It was voted to allow gates across the road 
 through the Gore. The scliQol house was built on the road 
 near where th6 pound was afterwards built. It was burned in 
 a few years, and a new one built on the present location. In 
 1834, Isaac Hicks was a resident and was elected Hogreeve. 
 The records show that the plantation had two law suits on its 
 hands, one with " Eustis," and one with "Estes." In 1835, 
 Peter Kimball ofifered to board the school mistress for twenty- 
 five cents per week. It was voted to build a road from Mr. 
 Bearce's to the County road. In 1836, 326 were raised for 
 schools and $125 for roads. Samuel Bailey*was in the planta- 
 tion. It was voted to build a road around " Barrow's Hill," and 
 another to Simeon Buck's place. At an adjourned meeting, it 
 was voted to build a road to Benj. Brooks' land. At the April, 
 1837, meeting, it was voted to receive the surplus revenue, and 
 Peter Kimball was chosen to go and get it ; it was also voted 
 to divide it per capita among the families in the plantation. 
 The following sums were received by each family : George 
 W. Cummings, $18.30; Caleb B. Barrows, $18.30; Hudson 
 Bailey, $11.64 ; Stephen Buck, $8.32; Peter Kimball, $16.64; 
 Jonathan Kimball, $6.65 ; Joseph Cummings, $30.31 ; Syl- 
 vanus Bartlett, $11.64; Eobert Bearce, $6,65; Simeon Buck, 
 $8.32; Benj. Brooks, $4.99; Josiah Moody, $11.65.* The 
 amount 2?er 'ca^ite was $1.66^, which would show the whole 
 number of inhabitants at this time to be 92. In 1838, it was 
 voted to raise $4 for plantation charges, $26 for schools and 
 $100 for roads. It was voted that the expense of assessing 
 taxes be allowed on the highway tax of the assessors. Tliis 
 year the vote for Governor stood, for John Fairfield, 13 ; for 
 Edward Kent, 1. 
 
 In 1839, Andrew Gates and Hiram Day had moved into the 
 plantation. In 1840, Reward Bryant moved into the plantation 
 from Paris ; he married a daughter of Geo. W. Cummings. In 
 1847, the plantation pound was built. Previous to this, the 
 
64 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 plantation, at the annual meeting, had designated some barn 
 yard to be the pound for a year. These little details of planta- 
 tion affairs may have no general interest, but they go to make 
 up plantation life and history. The early settlers of the Gore 
 were simple in their habits and economical in their mode of 
 living, and carried the same economy into plantation affairs that 
 they practiced in their daily lives. 
 
 Nothing came of the effort to annex the Gore to Woodstock 
 in 1833, nor was it any great source of regret to the plantation. 
 They would have some advantages in a town that the planta- 
 tion organization could not afford, but the present organization 
 also .had its advantages. Their public affairs could be managed 
 in a more economical way and the taxes were much less. Four 
 or five dollars in money a year answered for plantation purposes, 
 the accounts of the plantation officers being allowed on their 
 highway taxes. The money raised for the support of schools 
 was often paid in produce from the farm, so that the burdens 
 '.* of taxation were lightly felt and easily borne. In 1847, there 
 was a project started by Phineas Frost and others, of Bethel, 
 for the incorporation of a new town, made up of the east part 
 of Bethel, Milton plantation and the Gore. The plan found 
 much favor in Bethel, but was stoutly resisted by the Gore and 
 defeated. 
 
 Afl,er this, the affairs of the plantation moved on in a, very 
 quiet way. Some changes had been made in the population. 
 Caleb Barrows, with his large family, had gone to Aroostook, and 
 Daniel H. Crockett took his farm. Geo. W. Cummings, with 
 several grown up boys, went west and Hiram Day moved from 
 his hill farm to the place made vacant by Mr. Cummings. Sylva- 
 nus Bartlett moved to Greenwood and was succeeded by Wm. 
 0. Pearson. Simeon Buck moved away and his place was occu- 
 pied by Geo. W. Crockett, who married Esther, daughter of 
 Robert Bearce. John G. Burns occupied the Peter Kimball 
 place, and after living a few years in a new house built nearly 
 opposite the Bailey place, Mr. Kimball moved to Norway, where 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 6o 
 
 several of his sons had gone. A few years later, Hudson and 
 Samuel Bailey sold out to John B. Merrill and went west, 
 where the latter soon died. The old ]\Ioody place, south of 
 Bailey's, afterwards occupied by Andrew Gates, had been dis- 
 mantled some years before, and the land added to the Bailey 
 farm. Josiah Moody built a stand on the hill, near the west 
 part of the lot where Ansel Moody now lives. 
 
 The last census taken of the Gore as a separate municipality 
 was in 1870. There were then in the plantation seventeen 
 dwelling houses, eighteen families and ninety-five inhabitants, 
 only three more than in 1837, when the surplus revenue was 
 divided. The 'inhabitants consisted of forty-four white and 
 one colored males, and fifty white females. The names and 
 ages, by families, as recorded by the census enumerator were 
 as follows : 
 
 1. John G. Burns 58, Eliza G. 21, Josephine 9. 
 
 2. John A. Buck 40, Mary C. 35, Emma E. 16, Solomon C. 
 13, George E. 11, Freddie 9, Mary J. 6, Cora A. 4, Amos A. 2. 
 
 3. Emeline McCrillis 37, Ida F. 14, Georgie E. 12, NelHe 
 A. 9, Lorilla F. 5. 
 
 4. Albert Billings 36, Julia A. 33, Albert 0. 14, Geo. W. 
 12, Charles H. 9, Cora E. 7. 
 
 5. Joseph Cummings 61, Clara 26, Koscoe W. 23. 
 
 6. Hezekiah S. Pingree 41, Eoxana B. 33, Iva A. 3, Isaac 
 H. 1. 
 
 7. Hiram Day 56, Eben E. Beverley 29, Carrie E. Beverley 
 23, Herbert E. 6, Capitola B. 1. 
 
 8. James B. Dudley 38, Ellen 29. 
 
 9. Wm. 0. Pearson 54, Clementine 48, Wm. H. 29, Mary 
 E. 19, Delia S. Moore 15. 
 
 10. Robert Bearce 69, Betsey 68, Leroy D. Morgan 26, 
 Mary E. 26. 
 
 11. Geo. W. Crockett 40, Esther F. 39, Elizabeth F. 15, 
 Robert B. 12, Georgiana 9, Hajrry 7, William 6, Lucy A. 5, 
 
 5 
 
66 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Jonathan 3, James H. Swan 40, Imogene 9, Frank Williams 
 (colored) 23. 
 
 12. Ansel Moody 45, Mary P. 38, Fred. 14, Frank 10, 
 Josiah 6. 
 
 13. John Buck 66, Hannah 68, Jerusha 24. 
 
 14. Arabella Estes 29, John G. 12, Sylvester B. 9, Anna E. 
 5, Irving 3, Emogene 1. 
 
 15. Oliver G. Swan 44, Lois E. 31, Eliza J. 13, Letis A. 11, 
 Sibyl B. 10, Moses A. 8, Arvilla 5, Cora A. 2, Henry E. ^^. 
 
 16. Peter Brooks 47, Arvilla 44, Henrietta 16, Prescott 23, 
 Clarinda 12, Christiana 10, Wm. E. 4. 
 
 1-7. Jonathan Kimball 72, Satina 62, Almeda Newton 31, 
 Anna H. 8. 
 
 18. John B. Merrill 39, Sarah M. 31, Cora J. 6. 
 
 When this census was taken, Jonathan Kimball was the last 
 survivor of the first settlers then living on the Gore,»and he 
 died soon after. John Buck and Joseph Cummings were here 
 early, but they were minors when they came, and the former, 
 when of age, settled in Bethel, where he lived many years and 
 then returned here. In 1873, Hamlin's Grant was annexed to 
 Woodstock, and the circumstances which led to it were briefly 
 these. John B. Merrill, formerly of Pray & Merrill, traders 
 at Bryant's Pond, sold out and bought the Bailey farm on the 
 Gore. He was a man of considerable energy and push, and 
 entered into several business enterprises which proved unsuc- 
 cessful. To retrieve his waning fortunes, he opened a liquor 
 shop at his house, and under the protection of the licensing 
 board of the plantation, of wdiich be was one, he disposed of 
 large quantities of liquor which he purchased of the State Liquor 
 Agent. The report of that official for 1873, showed that Merrill 
 had purchased the year previous over three thousand dollars' 
 worth. It was sold in Woodstock, Milton Plantation and Eum- 
 ford, and in fact, into towns quite remote from the Gore. It 
 was regarded by temperance people as a nuisance, and the 
 prosecuting officer of the County was appealed to, but declared 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 67 
 
 himself powerless to do anything so long as Merrill was pro- 
 tected by a license, and circumstances were such that he could 
 hold the license as long as he pleased. There was only one 
 chance left, and that was to annex the plantation to the staunch 
 temperance town of Woodstock, and measures were at once 
 taken to accomplish this result. The movement was begun on 
 the Gore, in the shape of a petition to the Legislature, which 
 was signed by Ansel Moody, W. 0. and W. 11. Pearson and a 
 few others, and by a large number of voters in Woodstock. 
 At the hearing before the Legislative committee, Merrill 
 appeared and defended, but the committee were practically 
 unanimous in favor of annexation and so reported ; the meas- 
 ure was then carried through the Legislature with but little 
 difficulty, and its approval by the Governor put an end to 
 Hamlin's Gore as separate organization, and to its legalized 
 liquor shop. Merrill soon after moved away, owing the State 
 liquor agent quite a large sum, for which the inhal itants of the 
 Gore were responsible, and the collection of wliich was enforced 
 by legal process. It has been nine years since the Gore lost its 
 identity and became a part of Woodstock ; it was only return- 
 ing to Woodstock that territory whicli belonged to it, and which 
 was left off by a mistake of the surveyor made seventy-five 
 years before. 
 
 CHURCH HISTORY. 
 
 THE BAPTISTS. 
 
 The first settlers of Woodstock were generally church going 
 people and felt seriously the loss of the privileges they had pre- 
 viously enjoyed, when they came into this wilderness. A 
 perusal of Chase's Journal shows that meetings were occasion- 
 ally held at the liouses of the settlers, at some of which they 
 had preaching, at others reading, and at others they had only a 
 social gathering. Mr. Chase himself became a lay preacher, 
 and Jacob Whitman was early in the habit of expounding the 
 
68 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Scriptures in the log houses of the settlers and also in Green- 
 wood. It is stated, on the authority of Jacob Whitman, that 
 the first preaching meeting ever held in town was at the house 
 of Luther Whitman, and that the preacher was Elder John 
 Tripp, of Hebron. This house stood a little south of where 
 the Whitman school house now stands and on the same side of 
 the road. The date of this meeting Mr. Whitman could not 
 remember, but thought it was probably in 1802. In 1802, says 
 David Kicker, Elder Tripp preached liere and two persons were 
 baptized. The ordhiance of the Lord's Supper was also ob- 
 served for the first time in this town, Jacob Whitman and 
 Stephen Chase officiating as deacons. The early Baptists of 
 Woodstock belonged to the church in Paris, some of them 
 having joined there before coming here. David Ricker says 
 that some years later a " branch " of the Baptist church of Paris 
 was organized in this town, but as the early records of the 
 Paris church are lost, the precise date cannot be fixed. This 
 " branch " also included some persons living in the north part 
 of Paris. The names of the early members are William and 
 Deborah Berry, Jacob and Dorcas Whitman, Luther Whitman, 
 Calvin Cole, Christopher Bryant, Stephen Chase, Ephraim Drake, 
 ■ Lydia and Tabitha Briggs, Bethiah Swan, Sally Bryant and 
 Betsey Cole.. Very soon afterwards there was a revival and 
 nineteen were added, making a total of thirty-four members. 
 Chase's journal gives some account of the early meetings. 
 Under date of August 16, 1802, he says: " Went to a lecture 
 at Mr. Becklar's and heard Mr. Grant." This was doubtless the 
 first meeting ever held in Woodstock, and whether it was a 
 religious meeting or not the journal does not specify. It is 
 quite probable, however, that it was a sermon that Mr. Grant 
 delivered. 
 
 On the fourth of September, 1802, Mr. Chase again enters in 
 his journal, as follows : " Went to meeting at Luther Whit- 
 man's," but he does not give us the name of the preacher. It is 
 probable, however, that this was the meeting spoken of by 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 69 
 
 Jacob Whitman, and that there was preaching by Elder Tripp. 
 The next meeting spoken of by Mr. Chase was held on the 
 twenty-seventh of September, when he "went to meeting and 
 heard Mr. Tripp at Luther Briggs'." After this, meetings are of 
 frequent mention, and Mr. Tripp, Mr. Low, Mr. Woodward and 
 Mr. Chase are among the speakers named. He also speaks of 
 hearing " Dea, Berry," " Dea. Willis," " Mr. llicker " and others, 
 who were not preachers, but exhorters. The meetings were 
 held at the different houses in the neighborhood, at the two 
 Swans', the two Chases', Luther Briggs', the two Whitmans' and 
 at Mr. Cole's. This was Consider Cole, who did not live in No. 
 3, but just across the line in Greenwood. Elder Chase was of 
 Buckfield, and Elder Tripp of Hebron ; Elder Hooper, of Paris, 
 also preached occasionally here. These preachers were Baptist 
 missionaries, and the seed thus early sown by them fell upon 
 good ground and bore much fruit, for the Baptist was the leading 
 denomination here for many years, and is one of the strongest 
 now. 
 
 The few scattering entries in Chase's journal give us a very 
 good idea of the state of the cause at the end of seven years 
 from the first settlement. For the first three years, no meetings 
 were had, and the population was not such as to justify the 
 holding of meetings ; but as new families came in, the Baptist 
 churches, which were then strong in Paris and Hebron, began 
 to look after this new field. The small log huts of the settlers 
 were the only places where meetings could be held, and the 
 limited accommodations for keeping the minister, and the always 
 coarse and sometimes scanty fare set before him, were by no 
 means attractive, but such as they had the settlers freely oJBfered, 
 and the ministers of those days were not at all fastidious ; they 
 were true and earnest workers in theu- Master's vineyard, and 
 not only ready and willing, but anxious to make personal sacri- 
 fices for the good of souls. And it would seem that they did 
 not labor without results, for Mr. Chase speaks of two instances 
 where several persons were baptized, including himself and wife. 
 
70 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 and he probably did not make a record of them all. Mr. Chase 
 was subsequently chosen a Deacon of the Baptist church in 
 Paris, and though residing some nine or ten miles away, he 
 frequently went there to meeting. With these early efforts, 
 persistently followed up in after years, it is no wonder that 
 the Baptists took the lead of other denominations from the very 
 beginning, and for many years was the only organized religious 
 body in town. Jacob Whitman was a pillar of strength in the 
 early days. He would labor hard upon the land all the week, 
 and then preach on Sunday to his neighbors. Stephen Chase 
 also became a preacher or exhorter. John Becklar, though his 
 native tongue was Dutch, was a good scholar, and on Sundays, 
 when they had no preacher, he read a sermon or from some 
 religious book, no doubt to the edification of his hearers. 
 
 We have shown that the Calvinist Baptists early occupied 
 this field, and they held a large portion of it for many years. 
 The branch of the Paris church, early organized here, became 
 eventually the Paris a/id Woodstock church, which was organ- 
 ized in 1828, and continues its organization to the present time. 
 This church is made up of Baptists from the south-east part of 
 Woodstock and the north-east part of Paris, and their place of 
 meeting is at Paris Harbor, where they own either part or the 
 whole of a very convenient church edifice. The Paris and Wood- 
 stock church first sent delegates to the association in 1828, and 
 the names of those representing the church for a series of years 
 are given below. The names of ordained ministers are in small 
 capitals, the licensed preachers in italics, and the figures at the 
 end represent the number of members that year. 
 
 1828. Jacob Wliitman, Christopher Bryant, William Berry. 
 —35. 
 
 1829. Jacob Whitman, Thomas E. Carman. — 39. 
 
 1830. Eben. Drake, Luther Perkins.— 27. 
 
 1831. Daniel Macomber, Eben. Drake. — 29. 
 
 1832. William Berry, Luther Perkins.— 34. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 71 
 
 1833. Luther Perkins, William Berry.— 34. 
 
 1834 Luther Perkins, Dea. William Berry, Dea. Cornelius 
 Perkins.^34. 
 
 1835. Same.— 34. 
 
 1836. Luther Perkins, William Berry. — 35. 
 
 1837. Deacons Berry and Perkins. — 39. 
 ' 1838. E. Drake.— 42. 
 
 1839. Dea. William Berry, K. Chandler.— 51. 
 
 1840. Dea. Berry, Z. Andrews.— 51. 
 
 1841. Dea. Perkins, Z. Andrews.-^50. 
 
 1842. E. Drake, Z. Andrews, Chas. Perkins. — 62. 
 
 1843. Same and Dea. Berry. — 63. 
 
 1844. Luther Perkins, Sylvanus Dnnham, Z. Andrews, 
 
 C. Perkins.— 67. 
 
 1845. Reuben Milner, Wm. Berry, J. Benson. — 68. 
 
 1846. Addison Abbott, Gibbs Benson, E. Drake. — 71. 
 
 1847. Addison Abbott, Z. Andrews, Dea, Gibbs Benson, C. 
 Perkins. — 71. 
 
 1848. Addison Abbott, Stillman Berry, Harvey Berry. — 71. 
 
 1849. Same.— 70. 
 
 1850. Same and Dea. Benson and C. Perkins. — 68. 
 
 1851. Same minister and Dea. S. Berry, C. Perkins, L. Wliit- 
 man. — 66. 
 
 1852. Same minister and C. Perkins, L. Wliitman, H. Berry. 
 —63. 
 
 1853. C. Perkins, Dea. S. Berry, H. Berry, L. Whitman. 
 —72. 
 
 1854. Deacons Berry and Benson, H. Berry, L. Whitman, 
 
 D. Perkins. 
 
 1855. C. Perkins, G. Benson, Z. Andrews, H. Berry. — 66. 
 
 1856. C. Perkins, G. Benson, Z. Andrews, H. Berry.— 46. 
 
 The reason of the falling off in membership in 1830, was the 
 formation that year of the Woodstock and Greenwood church, 
 which took away a portion of its strength, and again, in 1856, 
 
72 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 by the formation of the Bryant's Pond church in 1855. The 
 ministers since the above date have been M. Lawrence, R. B. 
 Andrews, 0. Eichardson, Wm. Beavins, H. C. Estes, D. D., and 
 T. G. Lyons. Some of these have been settled and the others 
 have merely supplied. 
 
 The Woodstock and Greenwood church was organized in 
 1830. It took the Baptists from the west part of Woodstock 
 and the east part of Greenwood. The meetings were generally 
 held in the Bryant neighborhood in Greenwood, though some- 
 times in the Whitman school district in Woodstock. This 
 church never owned any church edifice, its meetings being held 
 in school houses. It was disorganized in 1855, and its members 
 became members of the Bryant's Pond church. Its first and 
 subsequent delegates to the association were as follows : 
 
 1830. Dea. Jacob Whitman, Dea. Christopher Bryant, Jr. — 
 41. 
 
 1831. Jacob Whitman and Jonathan Cole. — 40. 
 
 1832. Same. — 40. 
 
 1833. Same.— 40. 
 
 1834. Same.— 38. 
 
 1835. Same.— 37. 
 
 1836. Same.— 33. 
 
 1837. Same.— 29. 
 
 1838. Jacob Whitman, Joseph Whitman, Dea. C. Bryant. — 
 29. 
 
 1839. Dea. Bryant, D. Bicker.— 37. 
 
 1840. Same.— 34. 
 
 1841. Same and L. Whitman.— 34. 
 
 1842. Same and Jacob Whitman. — 30. 
 
 1843. Reuben Milner, C. Bryant, L. Whitman, Cyprian 
 Cole.— 38. 
 
 1844. Reuben Milner, C. Bryant, D. Ricker. 
 
 1845. Same minister and Dea. C. Bryant, Jacob Whitman. — 
 37. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 73 
 
 1846. Jacob Whitman, C. Bryant, Cyprian Cole, D. Richer, 
 Jr.— 35. 
 
 1847. Same.— 34. 
 1843. Same.— 35. 
 
 1849. D. Bicker, C. Bryant.— 34. 
 
 1850. J. Whitman, D. Bicker, C. Bryant, C. Cole.— 34. 
 
 1851. D. Bicker.— 3^. 
 
 1852. Same.— 32. 
 
 1853. Same and C. Bryant. — 31. 
 
 1854. David Kicker, I)ea. C. Bryant, J. Cole, R Whitman. 
 —36. 
 
 1855. D. Kicker, C. Bryant, S. Cole, R. Whitman. — 39. 
 
 . The Hamlin's Gore Baptist Church embraced the Gore, the 
 north part of Woodstock, and a few families in the east part of 
 Bethel. It was organized in 1827, and continued its organiza- 
 tion for twenty-eight years, when it was merged into the church 
 at Bryant's Pond. ll had no church edifice and early held its 
 meetings in private houses, school houses, and sometimes, in 
 summer, in barns. Its numbers were much larger than those of 
 the other churches of which Woodstock formed a part, due 
 largely to the efficient labors of Rev. Ransom Dunham, who was 
 its first pastor, and sustained that relation for many years. 
 Abijah Lapham was the first Deacon, and Calvin Jackson the 
 second. Its representation in the association is given below : 
 
 1828. Abijah Lapham, Josiah Moody, Amos Bryant. — 35. 
 
 1829. Abijah Lapham, Tilden Bartlett— 39. 
 
 1830. Peter Kimball, Stephen Estes. — 41. 
 
 1831. Calvin Jackson, Amos Bryant. — 39. 
 
 1832. Abijah Lapham.— 38. 
 
 1833. Same and George W. Cummings. — 38. 
 
 1834. Calvin Jackson, G. W. Cummings. — 34, 
 
 1835. Calvin Jackson, Amos Bryant. — 33. 
 
 1836. Bansom Dunham, Amos Bryant, Calvin Jackson. — 34. 
 
 1837. Ransom Dunham, Amos Bryant, George W. Cum- 
 mings. — 59. 
 
74 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 1838. Eansom Dunham, Seneca Landers, John Bird. — G5. 
 
 1839. E. Dunham, Peter Kimball, S. Hall.— 66. 
 
 1840. Same.— 67. 
 
 1841. K. Dunham, C. Jackson, John Lapham, John Bird. — 
 67. 
 
 1842. E. Dunham, John Clark, Amos Bryant. — 81. 
 
 1843. E. Dunham, H. Moody.— 97. 
 
 1844. E. Dunham, Nahum P. Moody, Eli H. Cushman. — 94. 
 
 1845. Same, Hezekiah Moody, Stephen Estes. — 87. 
 
 1846. Same, A. Bryant, S. Landers. — 69. 
 
 1847. Same, J. Clark, Silas Billings, Amos Bryant.— 68. 
 
 1848. Same, H. Moody, S. Estes, Caleb Besse. 
 
 1849. Same, J. Lapham, H. Moody, A. Bryant. — 61. 
 
 1850. Same, Dea. John Lapham, A. Bryant. — 54. 
 
 1851. Same, John Lapham, L. Moody, S. Estes. — 50. 
 
 1852. Z. Andrews, J. Lapham, S. Landers, L. P. Cummings. 
 —42. 
 
 1853. Same, J. Lapham, H. Moody, A. Bryant. — 42. 
 
 1854. Same, S. Estes, H. Moody.— 43. 
 
 1855. EoBEKT GoUD, J. Lapham, S. Landers, A. Bryant. 
 —39. 
 
 The Bryant's Pond Baptist Church was organized in 1855-6, 
 its memberships being made up of the Hamlin's Gore, Wood- 
 stock and Greenwood, and part of the Paris and Woodstock 
 churches. A convenient church edifice was built at Bryant's 
 Pond and dedicated in 1856. Its first delegates to the Oxford 
 Baptist Association, and those for a few subsequent years, are 
 here given : 
 
 1856. David Eicker, Eansom Dunham, C. Bryant, S. Estes, 
 S. Landers. — Membership, 91. 
 
 1857. D. Eicker, C. Bryant, John Laphaiji, C. Cole. — 85. 
 
 1858. M. Lawrence, D. Eicker, C. Bryant, J. Lapham. 
 
 1859. M. Lawrence, John Lapham, D. Eicker, Dustin 
 Bryant, Geo. W. Eicker.— 99. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 75 
 
 1860. D. Ricker, J. Lapham, C. Bryant, E. Landers, J. Cum- 
 mings. — 98. 
 
 1861. Z. Morton, D. Ricker, C. Bryant, J. Lapham.— 101. 
 
 1862. W. Beavins, D. Ricker, J. Lapham, C. Bryant, J. 
 Moody, J. Cumraings. — 88. 
 
 1863. Same, G. W. Ricker, D. Bryant.— 95. 
 
 1864. Same, S. Estes, J. Lapham. 
 
 1865. T. J. SwETT, D. Ricker, J. Lapham, S. Estes, J. Moody. 
 —86. 
 
 1866. Same, D. Bryant, J. Moody, R. L. Cole, S. Estes.— 85. 
 
 1867. Same, Dea. D. Bryant, Dea. J. Moody, R. L. Cole, S. 
 Estes. — 85. 
 
 Ministers since 1867, have been A. Morton, J. C. Tucker, A. 
 C. Herrick, T. G. Lyons, and Seth Benson. 
 
 UNIVERSALISTS. 
 
 It is not probable that any of the early settlers of this town 
 were Universalists. Most of them, as already stated, were 
 Baptists, and the second denomination in numbers and influence 
 for many years, was the Methodist. D. T. Stevens, N. C. Hodg- 
 don and Migliill Jewett were among the ministers who quite 
 early came here to preach, and their labors were not without 
 results. Among those who early embraced this belief was the 
 large Perham family, the descendants of Lemuel, who came 
 from Paris. The Day and Dudley families also became Uni- 
 versalists quite early. D. T. Stevens held a three days' meeting 
 here, February 9, 10 and 11, 1843, when he baptized thirteen 
 persons, and the Woodstock Universalist church was organized 
 with the following members : Alexander Day, Joel Perham, 
 Alfred Chase, Kilbon Perham, Perrin Dudley, Joshua Perham, 
 Joel Perham, Jr., Sidney Perham, Azel Perham, Sylvania 
 Perham, Sarah P. Carter, Elvira Chase, Paulina Dudley, Almena 
 J. Perham, Mary Perham and Delphina Whitman. At the first 
 
76 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 meeting, Perrin Dudley was Moderator and Sidney Perham 
 Clerk ; Joel Perham and Alfred Chase were elected Stewards. 
 
 1844. Perrin Dudley Moderator and Kilbon Perham Clerk ; 
 Sidney Perham and Joshua Perham were elected Stewards. 
 
 July 29th, John A. Caswell was dismissed from the church. 
 
 March 22, 1845, Joseph Whitman was dismissed. 
 
 1848., June 17. Perrin Dudley, Moderator and Kilbon Per- 
 ham, Clerk; Sidney Perham and Kilbon Perham, Stewards. 
 
 1850, June 29. Sidney Perham, Jonathan Perham and 
 Kilbon Perham were chosen a committee to take into considera- 
 tion the best method of raising funds to support preaching. 
 
 1857, April 18. Officers elected were Joel Perham, Jr., Mod- 
 erator; Kilbon Perham, Clerk; Sidney Perham and Kilbon 
 Perham, Stewards ; Joshua Perham, Alexander Day and Kilbon 
 Perham, Collectors. July 11. Voted to receive Sophronia Per- 
 ham, Ann M. King, Alexander Day, Thomas B. Carter and A. 
 P. Bowker as members of the church, and on the following day 
 the right hand of fellowship was given by Eev. Zenas Thomp- 
 son to the above named persons, and also to Sarah A. Gallison. 
 September 5th, Sidney Perham, Alexander Day, Kilbon Perham 
 and T. B. Carter were chosen delegates to the Oxford Univer- 
 salist Association, at Bethel. 
 
 1864, June 5. Frances L. Fuller, Henrietta D. Cummings 
 and Martha J. Tuttle were baptized ; sermon by Rev. Z. Thomp- 
 son. 
 
 1865, July 9. The ordinance of baptism was administered 
 to Mrs. Hannah E. Hilton, Mrs. Eliza A. Jacobs and Mrs. Maria 
 G. Day, by Rev. Zenas Thompson. 
 
 1867, April 14. This day Rev. E. W. Coffin began his labors 
 with the church, and for the first time in the history of the 
 church it had a settled pastor, and several members bought a 
 parsonage. 
 
 These few extracts from the records will give some idea of 
 the church. Its numbers were never large and its resources, 
 always limited. Its meetings, up to the time of building the 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 77 
 
 town house, which was somewhere about the year 1850, were 
 held in school houses, and generally in the one in the Chase 
 District. They were then held in the town house until the 
 church was built at Bryant's Pond. The society had long con- 
 templated building a house of worship and had held many 
 meetings in pursuance thereof. It was tinally decided to build 
 and the timber was hauled to the spot. The place selected was 
 on the County road below. 
 
 But now the Grand Trunk Eailway was building through 
 the town, and it soon became apparent that a village would 
 spring up around the station at Bryant's Pond, and so it was 
 wisely determined to locate the house there. A fine lot was 
 given by Mr. Joseph Frye, and the house was located in the 
 Pine grove where it still stands. It was built by ]\Ir. Moses 
 Houghton and was very substantially made. 
 
 Ministers. D. T. Stevens was the first laborer in this field, 
 and was greatly beloved by the early members of this faitli. 
 N. C. Hodgdon was also an occasional preacher here. After 
 the meetings were held at the town house, John L. Stevens, 
 who afterwards entered politics and has been a foreign ministei 
 for the last dozen or more years, preached here a portion of the 
 time. T. J. Tenney, of Norway, preached frequently in Wood- 
 stock and to great acceptance. In 1854, after the church edifice 
 at Bryant's Pond was dedicated, Eey. Zenas Thompson, who 
 was settled over the church in Bethel and resided there, engaged 
 for half the time here. He was an able preacher, and the 
 church was much strengthened under his ministry. Eev, A. G. 
 Gaines, now at the head of the St. Lawrence University at 
 Canton, N. Y., succeeded Mr. Thompson at Bethel, and also for 
 one or two seasons preached a portion of the time at Bryant's 
 Pond. After him came John Dore, 0. II. Johnson, and finally, 
 Ezekiel W. Coffin, a native of Maine, but long a resident of 
 Massachusetts and New Hampshire, his last settlement before 
 coming here being Jaftrey, N. H., came here with his family. 
 Several of the members of the society united with him in the pur- 
 
78 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 chase of a building for a parsonage. The place selected was the 
 one previously occupied by Joseph Moody and Wm. Ackley and 
 others. He commenced his labors here in the spring of 1867, as 
 stated in the records, and the society began to feel that it had taken 
 a new departure and was on the high road to prosperity. But 
 after preaching with us a year, Mr. Coffin became discontented, 
 or at least his family did, and the society were surprised by the 
 announcement that he had received and accepted a call to go to 
 Orange, Mass. He has since deceased. The society was soon 
 after weakened by the removal of quite a number of members 
 from town. J. F. Simmons, who was settled at Bethel, has 
 preached for the society since Mr. Coffin went away, and for 
 some years they were without a regular supply. Quite recently, 
 Eev. L. H. Tabor has moved here with his family, preaches 
 here a portion of the time, and also in the adjoining towns. 
 
 A list of persons who contributed to the support of the 
 society a year previous, and during the ministry of Mr. Coffin, 
 is given below : S. A. Brock, A. P. Bowker, F. A. Barstow, C. 
 P. Berry, K. T. Bryant, J. C. Billings, H. C. Berry, Benj. Bacon, 
 
 F. M. Bartlett, D. P. Bowker, Lawson Bryant, J. Churchill, 
 Perrin Dudley, T. E. Day, Alex. Day, Elijah Day, Daniel Day, 
 John Day, H. F. Cole, N. B. Crockett, Henrietta Cummings, A. 
 T. Cummings, G. Cole, S. B. Doughty, Wm. Day, Caleb Fuller, 
 
 G. G. Fuller, Artemas Felt, Elbridge Fifield, Granville N. Felt, 
 Samuel B. Frost, Hannah Hilton, Levi J. Gilbert, J. C. Gallison, 
 Sarah A. Gallison, Moses Houghton, E. M. Hobbs, J. M. Galli- 
 son, Austin A. Gray, Aaron M. Irish, L. C. Jewell, Thaddeus R 
 Knight, Wm. B. Lapham, Danville J. Libby, Cyrus Millett, 
 Sylvania Perham, Kilbon Perham, Joel Perham, Joel Perham, Jr., 
 Joshua Perham, Joseph Pray, Andrew J. Perham, Eufus S. Ean- 
 dall, Alanson M. Trull, David G. Swan, James Sheran, Mrs. 
 Martha J. Tuttle, Chas. 0. Whitman, Harrison S. Whitman, 
 John C. Warren, Alanson M. Whitman, Geo. W. Whitman, 
 Lyman York, Ansel Dudley, sixty-four in all. 
 
 The plans and specifications for the church edifice at Bryant's 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. .79 
 
 Pond were furnished by Ezra F. Beal, of Norway, October 10, 
 1851 ; it was commenced in the spring of 1852, and was for- 
 mally dedicated February 2, 1853. It was the first church 
 erected in town, and the first one in Oxford County north of 
 Norway, owned exclusively by the Universalist denomination. 
 The services of the dedication were conducted as follows : Head- 
 ing of the Scriptures and invocation by lie v. John L. Stevens, 
 of Norway ; sermon by Rev. M. Goodrich, of Lewiston ; dedi- 
 catory prayer by Rev. D. T. Stevens, of Norway. In the after- 
 noon, a sermon was preached by Rev. John L. Stevens. The 
 meetings were largely attended, and much interest was manifested 
 in the occasion. The building, all finished ready for use, cost 
 about two thousand dollars, and the sale of pews liquidated the 
 debt. 
 
 A social Library was organized in connection with the 
 Universalist Society in Woodstock, Nov. 18, 18-1.3. It was or- 
 ganized by virtue of a warrant issued to Alden Chase from 
 Robinson Parlin, a Justice of the Peace. At the first meeting, 
 holden on the above day, Robinson Parlin was chosen Mod- 
 erator and Sidney Perham, Clerk. Alden Chase, Robinson Parlin 
 and Sidney Perham were appointed a committee to report a 
 constitution. They subsequently made a report which was 
 accepted. Robinson Parlin, Joel Perham and Sidney Perham 
 were chosen managers, Alfred Chase, Librarian, and Sidney 
 Perham, Alden Chase and Robinson Parlin a committee to 
 purchase books. 
 
 The Constitution, which contained twenty-two articles, pro- 
 vided for an annual meeting at the dwelling house of the Libra- 
 rian on the first Saturday in December. Fifty cents were re- 
 quired to be paid by each member on joining, and an annual 
 assessment of not less than ten cents. Books were allowed to 
 be kept twelve weeks, and only one volume could be taken out 
 at a time by the same person. Article 19 provided that no 
 book should be received into the library except such as a ma- 
 j ority of the Universalist members should approve. Article 20 
 
80 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 provided that the library should be kept within the limits of 
 School District Number 3, in Woodstock. The memberships 
 were not confined to Woodstock. Eobinson Parlin was of Paris, 
 and several citizens of that town became members. The library 
 was intended to be sectarian, as a few of the titles from the 
 list of books first purchased will show : Paige's Selections, 
 Titles of Jesus, Life of Murray, Quinby's Exposition, Whitte- 
 more on the Parables, Smith on Divine Government, Ballou's 
 Select Sermons, Treatise on Atonement, Law of Kindness, 
 Universalism vs. Partialism, Radical Hints to Universalists, 
 Universalist Guide, Happy Death Scenes, Ancient and Modern 
 History of Universalism, Compend of Divinity, Crown of Thorns, 
 Paige's Commentaries, etc. 
 
 At a meeting holden July 10, 1858, it was voted to move the 
 library to the Universalist church at Bryant's Pond. Alfred 
 Chase served as Librarian, with the exception of part of the 
 year 1858, from the date of organization in 1843 to 1861, when 
 Joel Perliam, Jr., was chosen to succeed him. He served two 
 years and was succeeded by Delphina Whitman, who served 
 until 1868. The last recorded meeting of the proprietors was 
 holden June 27, 1868. E. W. Coffin was chosen Moderator and 
 Kilbon Perham Clerk. Joshua Perham, Perrin Dudley and E. 
 W. Coffin were chosen managers. Soon after this the organiza- 
 tion was dissolved and the books were divided among the mem- 
 bers. It existed as long as most voluntary organizations of this 
 kind do, and no doubt accomplished much good to the denom- 
 ination, as it brought many valuable denominational books within 
 the reach of those who were not able to own them. 
 
 THE METHODISTS. 
 
 The early Methodists of Woodstock were the families of 
 David Pvicker and Noah Curtis. Later, these were re-enforced 
 by the Davis and Stephens families and others. The four 
 named were strong and infiuential families, and left a numer- 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 81 
 
 ous posterity, most of whom have adopted the religious views 
 of their fathers. Jesse H. Stephens, son of Capt. Samuel, 
 became quite a noted preacher of the Methodist denomination. 
 For more than half a century they had no church edifice, but 
 held their meetings, at first, in private houses, and in summer 
 in barns, and later in the school houses. The first class was 
 formed here about the year 1814, under the ministration of 
 Rev. John Adams, and contained some fifteen members. This 
 was the nucleus of the church and society which, next to the 
 Baptist, became the most numerous religious society in town. 
 The Fickett and Nute families, which came here from 1818 to 
 1820, were Methodists. 
 
 In 1856, a church edifice was erected in the lower part of 
 the town, near Andrews' Mills, by the Methodists and Free 
 Baptists. Subsequently, the Free Baptists built a house of 
 worship at West Paris, and the Methodists became the exclusive 
 owners of the church in Woodstock. The movers in the erec- 
 tion of this church edifice and those who contributed the most 
 liberally, were Adoniram Curtis and Orsamus Nute, both of 
 whom have since left town, Chester D. Fickett, Nathan L. 
 Marshall (a Free Baptist living in Paris), Joseph Davis and 
 Rev. Levi Eldridge, who was at that time pastor of the Meth- 
 odist church in Woodstock, The Methodists also had an in- 
 terest in the church built mostly by the Baptists at Bryant's 
 Pond, and for some years occupied it one-fourth of the time. 
 Rev. George Briggs, who resided at Bryant's Pond, was the first 
 minister under this arrangement. He has since deceased in 
 Paris. 
 
 Woodstock has never been a circuit of itself ; it has been at 
 different periods united with Bethel, Rumford and Paris. The 
 Maine Conference was organized in 1824 The records of the 
 Woodstock church are so incomplete that it is impossible to 
 give a list of all the ministers that have supplied here. In 
 1830, the minister was M. Davis; 1831, J. Downing; 1832, B. 
 Bryant; 1833, J. Stone; 1834, H. W. Latham; 1835, Dan 
 
 6 
 
82 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Perry; 1836, W. Y. Farrington ; 1838, J. C. Perry; 1839, R 
 Mitchell; 1840, D. F. Quinby ; 1843, Jonathan Fairbanks. 
 Since that time the circuit has been supplied, among others, by 
 J. Lull, M. B. Cummings, T. Whittier, Joseph Mooar, J. L. 
 Frazier, A. Turner, Geo. Briggs, L. Eldridge, E. H. Ford, Mr. 
 Fogg, J. Collins and E. Gerry. The present incumbent is Eev. 
 G. B. Hannaford, a native of Winthrop. The church is now 
 in a flourishing condition. 
 
 MILLERISM. 
 
 There is one chapter in the religious history of this town 
 which the historian, if governed by his own wishes, would leave 
 unwritten, but which, as an impartial chronicler of events, he 
 would not be justified in omitting. It may reflect no real dis- 
 credit upon that portion of our population who embraced the 
 delusion about to be described, but it certainly exhibits, in a 
 strong light, the weaknesses of human nature when influenced 
 by emotions of fear, or when under the influence of intense 
 religious excitement. Intelligence has little or nothing to do 
 with it, for among the most fanatical of our town's people on 
 this occasion, were those who had previously borne the highest 
 character for sound judgment and practical common sense. In 
 giving a brief account of the disreputable transactions which 
 took place in this town during the year 1843, names will 'gen- 
 erally be omitted. 
 
 It was the preaching and writings of William Miller, who, 
 from a study of the Book of Daniel and the Apocalypse, and a 
 system of figuring not easily described, worked out and pro- 
 claimed the second advent and the winding up of all things 
 terrestrial in 1843. Miller was born in Pittsfield, Mass., in 
 1780, and died in 1849. He was a farmer, moved to Low 
 Hampton, N. Y., and began to preach his peculiar doctrines in 
 1833. He traveled and preached and wrote, and his followers 
 
HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 83 
 
 at one time were reckoned about fifty thousand. Though pro- 
 claimed for some years, the startHiig doctrines of Miller do not 
 appear to have had any marked effect upon the people of this 
 State until the year prior to the time when, if the doctrines 
 were true, these great events were to take place. In 1842, 
 lecturers who had embraced Miller's views came into this town, 
 and spoke in the school houses, sometimes to quite large audi- 
 ences, drawn out more from curiosity tlian anything else. At 
 these lectures, charts were exhibited, with figures of the monsters 
 described by the prophet Daniel, and intended for effect. 
 Whether sincere or not, these speakers appeared to be terribly 
 in earnest, as the writer can bear witness, wlio attended several 
 of these lectures. To the superficial mind, their reasoning and 
 reckoning appeared plausible, and this was the first class to 
 embrace the delusion. After this, it spread like wildfire, making 
 proselytes in every part of the town, and, as the time drew nigh, 
 the excitement grew more and more intense. The proselytes 
 to the new faith were mostly from the Methodist denomination, 
 but there were many in other denominations who, while taking 
 no active part, felt that the doctrine might be true. The result 
 was that the cause of religion was stimulated in all denomina- 
 tions. The Baptists largely increased their number of com- 
 municants, and a Free Baptist church sprung up on the Gore 
 and at North Woodstock, with nearly a hundred members. 
 The most hardened disbelievers, under the immense pressure 
 brought to bear, became temporarily softened, confessed their 
 sins and joined the church. It may be added (for this Free 
 Baptist church will not again be referred to) that in a little 
 more than a year it began to melt away, and in eighteen months 
 from the date of its organization no vestige of a church was 
 left. Its pastor, during it# ephemeral existence, was a Eev. Mr. 
 Keunerson, a young man who came here from New Hampshire. 
 Rev. Mr. Hazeltine, of Bethel, also preached on the Gore, more 
 or less, about that time. The Universalists, who do not believe 
 in a future second advent, organized a church near the beginning 
 
84 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 of 1843, as a conservative movement, with a view, not so much of 
 staying the progress of the delusion, for this was impossible, but 
 of so influencing it that the town would receive the least possible 
 harm from it. 
 
 But the Millerites, as the time drew near, or many of them, 
 seemed to be literally insane with excitement. Most of the 
 farmers put in the seed for a crop in the spring of 1843, but 
 many of them refused to harvest it in the autumn, and the 
 town authorities wisely took the matter in hand and harvested 
 the crops, and thus averted a partial famine. Work was neg- 
 lected or suspended on many farms all through the season ; 
 meetings were constantly held, and ascension robes were pre- 
 pared for many. One of the peculiar tenets of the sect was a 
 literal interpretation of the New Testament, wfiere the multi- 
 tude are told that they must become as little children. A large 
 tent was erected on the land of Benjamin Stephens, on the 
 County road from Paris to Rumford, where their meetings were 
 held, and where the most ludicrous, not to say disgusting proceed- 
 ings were had. The floor was covered with straw, and upon it 
 men and women, boys and girls would roll and tumble promis- 
 cuously, imitating, to the best of their ability, the language and 
 acts of young children. If they were traveling upon the high- 
 way and happened to meet anyone not of their own belief, they 
 would get down on their hands and knees and creep in the 
 sand, imitatuig the sounds and motions of children who were 
 too young to walk. Feet washing was one of the observances 
 in the tent,^the hair being used as a towel. Sometimes a person 
 would wake up in the night, pretending to be impressed with the 
 duty to go and wash somebody's feet in a distant part of the town, 
 and, faithful to the impression, he would immediately go to the 
 place indicated, call the person up, perform the ceremony and 
 return home. One man lost a child by death, and kept the remains 
 in the house several months, with the expectation of being able to 
 raise it from the dead. This man became violently insane and 
 died by his own hand, a sad commentary on the form of faith 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 85 
 
 he had embraced. But while these things were transpiring, 
 there was a strong conservative element developed in town, 
 which at length became aggressive, and determined that these 
 disgusting scenes should be stopped. So strong was the pres- 
 sure brought to bear, that many of their foolish practices were 
 abandoned, and when after several days had been set for the final 
 consummation of all things sublunary, and the world continued 
 to move upon its axis, antl day continued to follow night in the 
 usual way ; and finally when the year had passed away with- 
 out bringing the world's crisis, their faith began to weaken, the 
 excitement to subside, and gradually most of the deluded ones 
 returned to their usual vocations. But the effects of the ex- 
 citement showed themselves in various ways for some years 
 after. Some of the families who had embraced the creed of 
 Miller, returned to the bosom of the church from which they 
 had strayed, but others adopted a modified form of faith, call- 
 ing themselves Second Adventists, and continue to be known as 
 such to the present time. It is but fair to say that they are 
 respectable members of society, and none of them pretend to 
 justify the performances growing out of the insane delusions of 
 1843. 
 
 TEMPERANCE, 
 
 When Woodstock was first settled, and for many years after- 
 wards, the sale of intoxicating liquors was unrestricted, and the 
 use of them was everywhere common. No building could be 
 raised without rum,. and liquor in some form was common in 
 ahnost every household. The man who would furnish a gallon 
 of New England rum for the use of those at work upon the 
 highways, was credited a dollar on his highway taxes. The 
 town furnished rum and whiskey at military trainings and for 
 those employed on the repair of roads. The minister drank it, 
 and it would have been deemed an act of inhospitality for the 
 head of a family to allow the minister or a neighbor who had 
 
86 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 called upon him, to depart without offering him intoxicating 
 beverage to drink. It was an almost universal panacea for all 
 ills ; no one could be born without it, and no one could die 
 without having it provided for his funeral. Of course there 
 were moderate drinkers and those who drank to excess in 
 Woodstock, the same as in other towns, but there were few, if 
 any, jn town who did not make use of more or less of it. It 
 has been said that, as late as 1833, there was but one man in 
 Woodstock who did not use intoxicating drinks, and that the 
 only reason why he did not was because he loathed even 
 the smell of it ; and it is added that he himself regarded this as 
 a great misfortune. This may or may not be true, but all 
 accounts go to show that the early settlers of this town were 
 given to drink, and not a few of them to excessive drinking. 
 Liquors and a few groceries were often kept for sale in private 
 houses long before any store was opened here.. But Paris Hill 
 stores furnished the great bulk of the liquor drank during those 
 years. The first restriction upon the sale of liquors that appears 
 on the records was in 1823, and this could hardly be called a 
 restriction, for it only required those who wished to engage in 
 the retail business to take out a license. In 1823, Eowse 
 Bisbee and John K. Briggs were licensed to retail "strong 
 liquors," and the latter was licensed every year thereafter for 
 seven years. Eleazer C. Shaw was licensed in 1830, and for 
 three years after ; Zephaniah B. Whitman and Learned Whit- 
 man in 1833, William Cotton in 1834, and Welcome Kinsley, 
 Edmund Chase and William Cotton in 1836. Briggs, Shaw 
 and Kinsley were traders at Stephens' Mills, or " Woodstock 
 Corner," as the hamlet was sometimes called, and this was the 
 common resort for a majority of the male population of the 
 town to assemble on Saturday afternoon and wrestle, pitch 
 quoits, play ball, race horses and drink. These were the " good 
 old days " that a few often referred to with regret after a large 
 majority had realized the folly and wickedness of such a mode 
 of life, and had banished intoxicating liquors from their homes. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK, 87 
 
 But Woodstock in its worst days was probably no worse than 
 other towns in respect to its intemperance, and it reformed 
 much earlier than some did. 
 
 As showing the character of the restriction placed upon a re- 
 tailer of strong liquors by the terms of his license, the following 
 is here given : 
 
 " Know all men by these presents, that we, William Cotton and Welcome 
 Kinsley, within the to^vn of Woodstock and County of Oxford and State of 
 Maine, are holden and stand firmly bound and obliged unto E. C. Shaw, 
 Treasurer of said Woodstock, in Jthe full and just sum of three hundred 
 dollars, to be paid to the said E. C. Shaw, or his successors in said office, to 
 the true payment whereof we do bind ourselves, each of us, and our heirs, 
 executors and administrators, jointly and severally, by these presents. Sealed 
 with our seals, dated the twentieth day of September, in the year of our 
 Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. 
 
 The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the above named 
 William Cotton, having been duly licensed as a retailer, in said town of 
 Woodstock, to retail strong liquors, from the above mentioned date till the 
 second Monday of September, 18.37 : now if the said Cotton shall in all re- 
 spects observe and conform himself to such rules and regulations in refer- 
 ence thereto, as may be prescribed by the bond granting said license, and 
 shall in no respect violate any of the provisions of the act for the regula- 
 tion of innholders, retailers and common victualers, then the above written 
 obligation shall be void and of no effect, else shall abide and remain in full 
 lorce and virtue. 
 
 " Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us, 
 
 Melvin Pool, Wm. Cotton, [l. s.] 
 
 Charles Cotton. W. Kinsley, [l. s.] " 
 
 The act here referred to was passed in 1833, and grew out of 
 the efforts of the Maine State Temperance Society to stay the 
 ravages which intemperance was making among all classes of 
 our population. The licenses granted prior to this act were 
 much less stringent, and in fact scarcely amounted to any re- 
 striction at all. Where officers whose duty it is to enforce the 
 law are themselves opposed to the law, and a frequent party to 
 its violation, the law becomes a dead lettei. So the early 
 statutes to regulate the sale of intoxicants, while complied with 
 so far as to require bonds of innholders and common victualers, 
 
88 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 were wholly disregarded in their spirit and execution. Training 
 days generally brought out most of the people in the town, and 
 even an election of officers was often attended by many who had 
 no special interest there beyond that of mere lookers-on. On all 
 these occasions, ardent spirits flowed freely. Newly-elected 
 officers who did not " wet " — nay, " flood " — their commissions, 
 were considered mean, and were bounced the first opportunity. 
 So far was this spirit carried out that it became burdensome, 
 and it was often the case that a person in the line of promotion 
 was obliged to decline it on account of the expense it involved. 
 So the years glided by without any great change in the habits, 
 of the people in this regard, or any apparent apprehension on 
 the part of the many as to what the result might be. There 
 were even at this period, that is, as early as 1825, men and 
 women in some sections of the State and elsewhere, and es- 
 pecially in the larger towns and cities, who had become alarmed 
 at the prevalence of intemperance among the people, and who 
 saw the need of organized effort to stay the progress of the 
 destroyer. In 1827, the American Temperance Society was 
 organized, and in 1832 the State Temperance Society held its 
 first meeting in Augusta, presided over by the Governor of the 
 State. Branches of this organization sprung up in various 
 places ; there was one at North Paris, and Cornelius Perkins, 
 Asa Thurlow, and possibly one or two others, became members. 
 In 1836, Rev. Caleb B. Davis, of Paris, visited Woodstock and 
 probably delivered the first public temperance address ever given 
 in town. A society was formed, and Rev. Ransom Dunham, 
 Sidney Perham, Alden Chase, Henry H. Packard, and other 
 young men and women, became members. Elder Dunham was 
 installed pastor of the Baptist church on Hamlin's Gore that 
 year, and one of the Deacons of the church raised objections to 
 him on the ground of his temperance principles. Indeed, the 
 statistics gathered and reported at the State Temperance meet- 
 ing referred to, showed that the habit of drinking enslaved 
 Christian and worldling alike, and some of the reports went to 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 89 
 
 show that in localities where efforts had been made to dispense 
 with the stronger liquors, the most violent opposition to any^ 
 limitation or restriction in the sale or use of intoxicants came 
 from members of the churches. The same sentiment, to a great 
 extent, prevailed among the church members of this town. It 
 was regarded by the traders as an unwarrantable interference 
 with their inalienable rights, to interfere with the traffic, and by 
 the drinkers as a movement toward a sumptuary law, which 
 should determine what they should and what they should not 
 drink. 
 
 But Woodstock had made some progress in various ways. 
 More was being done for the education of youth, and a class of 
 young people had come up who were much better educated 
 than their parents, young men and women who had decided 
 opinions of their own and who saw and felt the great need of 
 a reform in the life-long, ingrained habits of the older portions 
 of the population. They went into this new movement, and 
 several of the young men became public speakers and lectured 
 to people upon the subject of temperance in the several school 
 districts in town. They found it difficult to combat the preju- 
 dices of the habitual drinker and made but little progress, but 
 they were all prepared to work, and needed only to have the 
 ball set in motion by more experienced hands, to move against 
 that enemy which had been as a blight and a mildew to the 
 prosperity of their town since its earliest settlement. And the 
 opportunity came at last. The Washingtonian movement, 
 which began in a small way in Baltimore, gathered force as it 
 advanced, and finally spread like wildfire through the New 
 England States. It was the first organized movement in favor 
 of total abstinence in this country, and was eminently success- 
 ful. It reached the State of Maine and penetrated into the 
 interior. It enlisted the sympathies and had the warm support 
 of the pulpit and press. In no town in Maine was its work 
 more effective and more lasting than in Woodstock. The 
 young people sprang into the movement as a long wished for 
 
90 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 opportunity, and many of their elders were not. far behind them, 
 probably a majority of the inhabitants took the pledge, and many 
 past middle life, who had been partakers of the intoxicating cup 
 from their youth, kept it sacred to the day of their death. In 
 some towns, after the first excitement was over, many of the 
 older people lapsed into their old ways, but it was not so here. 
 A few may have done so and probably did, but most of them 
 were true to their obligations, of which fact there is abundant 
 proof. Among the early advocates of temperance in this town, 
 none did more or better work than Sidney Perham. Born 
 in 1819, he was hardly more than a boy when he began to 
 talk ' temperance, from the total abstinence standpoint, in the 
 school districts of the town and in the towns adjoining. Since 
 that time he has been connected with every movement for the 
 promotion -oi temperance and the suppression of the traffic in 
 intoxicating liquors that has been made in the State, and as an 
 efficient worker in this cause he has achieved a national reputa- 
 tion. Associated with him in the work in Woodstock were 
 many young men and women, who, in honoring the cause of 
 humanity and progress, honored themselves as well. And these 
 noble reformed men, who kept their plighted faith and worked 
 with all their might to sustain the cause they had espoused, 
 were entitled even to more credit than the others, for they were 
 obliged first to break their shackles, which the young men had 
 never worn. Since that time "Woodstock has been a temperance 
 town, and whenever that issue has come up to be acted upon, 
 the vote of this town has been on the right side. 
 
 Several years before the passage of the first of our prohibitory 
 laws, Woodstock was in favor of prohibition, as the record of 
 one of the town meetings shows. It was in 1845 that an article 
 was inserted in the warrant to the following effect : " To see if 
 the town will instruct the Selectmen, Town Clerk and Treasurer 
 to grant license to any persons to be retailers of rum, brandy, 
 wine and gin, except for medicinal and mechanical purposes." 
 Under this article the town ordered the question to be decided 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 91 
 
 by yes and no, at the call of the Clerk, those in favor of licensing 
 to answer yes, and those opposed, no. Those who were present 
 and did not vote, the Clerk marked " neutral." He also noted 
 the absentees as such, so that the lists which follow embrace 
 every legal voter in the town at that time. This vote was taken 
 during the transition state of public opinion upon tliis subject, 
 and many who voted in favor of license, afterwards became 
 decided prohibitionists. A man's general character, therefore, 
 is not to be judged by the manner in which he voted, though it 
 may be set down for certain that every drinking man voted in 
 favor of a place where he could procure his beverage. 
 
 Those who voted " Yes," or in favor of license, were : John 
 Billings, Edward Bowker, Cyprian Bowker, Piram Bisbee, 
 Luther Briggs, Joseph Bryant, 2d, Mahalon Bryant, Harvey 
 Bowker, Bartholomew Cushman, Thomas C. CifShman, Josiah 
 Churchill, Daniel Curtis, Morton Curtis, Seth Curtis, 2d, Alex- 
 ander Day, Jr., Elijah Day, John Day, Eliphalet Davis, Gilman 
 Farnum, Nathaniel J. Farnum, Ezekiel Fogg, Moses Houghton, 
 Benjamin Jackson, John Lunt, Jr., Stephen Packard, Oliver 
 Bobbins, 2d, John Starbird, Jr., Samuel Stephens, Fessenden 
 Swan, Alanson M. Whitman, David York, D. P. Hannaford 
 and Edmund Curtis, — 33. 
 
 Those who voted " No," or against license, were : Cyrus 
 Andrews, William Brooks, Silas Billings, Charles Billings, Jona- 
 than Billings, Eli Bryant, Cyrus Bryant, Cyprian Bowker, Jr., 
 James Bowker, Thomas G. Clark, John Clark, Geo. W. Cushman, 
 Jonathan Cole, Alfred Chase, Alden-Chase, Merrill Chase, Daniel 
 Curtis, 2d, Thomas B. Carter, Benjamin Davis, Stephen Davis, 
 Joseph Dunham, Daniel Dunham, Benaiah Dow, Jr., Henry 
 Dunham, Gilbert T. Dudley, John M. Dunham, Eleazer Ellis, 
 Simon Fickett, John G. Felt, Lewis Fuller, Calvin Jackson, 
 Isaac F. Knight, Josiah J. Knight, Orsamus Nute, Seth Perkins, 
 Joel Perham, Sidney Perham, Stephen Packard, Jr., Henry H. 
 Packard, Daniel Perkins, Cyrus Perkins, Cornelius Perkins, 
 Joshua Perham, Kilbon Perham, Azel Perham, Simeon Eowe, 
 
92 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Merrill J. Eowe, David Eicker, Jr., Oliver Bobbins, Jr., James 
 Euss, Samuel S. Swan, Jolin Thurlow, Joseph Whitman, Jacob 
 Whitman, Bela Wyman, Seward Wyman, Nathaniel Getchell, 
 Hosea B. Bisbee, Augustus Clark, Samuel DoUoff, Oren Glines, 
 Peter Brooks and Philip Chandler, — 63. 
 
 Those who were present and did not vote, and classed as 
 " Neutral," were : Levi Churchill, Crosby Curtis, Alexander Day, 
 Harvey Fuller, Jotham Perham, Gideon Swan, Eeuben Whit- 
 man and Nathan L. Marshall, — 8. 
 
 Voters in town not present and classed as "Absent," were : 
 Eleazer C. Billings, Alexander Bryant, Joseph Bryant, Abijah 
 Bryant, Samuel Bryant, John M. Bryant, Charles B. Brooks, 
 Eowse Bisbee, Asa Barrows, John Cotton, John A. Caswell, Wm. 
 Chamberlain, Edmund Chase, Adoniram Curtis, Eansom Dun- 
 ham, Aaron D?ivis, Lorenzo Davis, Charles Davis, Joseph Davis, 
 Sam'l Durell, Perrin Dudley, Harrison Doten, Jonathan Pickett, 
 Jr., Samuel Farnum, John S. French, Thomas J. Heath, Joshua 
 Heath, David Hasey, Welcome Kinsley, Solomon Leonard, 
 Seneca Landers, Job Lurvey, John Lunt, Samuel Nute, Jacob 
 Paine, Bartle Perry, Oliver Bobbins, William Eowe, David 
 Eicker, Nathaniel Bobbins, Charles Bobbins, Nathaniel Bob- 
 bins, Jr., Newel F. Eowe, Joseph Eussell, Edmund Swan, Ben- 
 jamin Stephens, Jesse H. Stephens, William Swan, Sylvanus 
 Stubbs, Nathan Stubbs, Asa Thurlow, Samuel Thorn, Oilman 
 Tuell, Albion K. P. Whitman, Joseph Whitman, 2d, Luther 
 Whitman, Luther Whitman, Jr., Zephaniah B. Whitman, 
 Amos Green, Silas Doane and Samuel Adams, — 68. 
 
 The temperance cause was popular and strong in Woodstock 
 at this time, and continued to strengthen and increase. Local 
 temperance societies were formed in neighborhoods and school 
 districts, and a large majority of the young men and women be- 
 came not only interested but active workers in the cause. The 
 first meeting of the order of the Sons of Temperance was held 
 in Teetotaller's Hall, No. 71 Division Street, New York, on 
 Thursday evening, September 29, 1842. It was started as a 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 93 
 
 mutual aid society, that poor reformers, who were dependent on 
 their labor for their support, might be able to provide themselves 
 with sustenance in sickness, by placing a portion of their earn- 
 ings when well, where it would be available. A meeting at the 
 same place was held October 7, 1842, when the first officers 
 were elected. They were : Patriarch, Daniel Sands ; Associate, 
 Ephraim L. Snow ; Eecording Scribe, John W. Oliver ; Finan- 
 cial Scribe, James Bale ; Treasurer, George McKibbin ; Con- 
 ductor, Thomas Edgerley ; Sentinel, Thomas Swenarton. From 
 this small beginning, the order spread very rapidly. Its secret 
 character, and its feature of m^itual aid, gave it a popularity that 
 no temperance organization had ever before enjoyed. 
 
 The first Division in Maine was organized at Foxcroft, De- 
 cember 24, 1844, called Piscataquis Lodge, No. 1. On the 
 fourth of January, 1845, Franklin Division, No. 2, was instituted 
 in Augusta. By the twenty-eighth of March following. Di- 
 visions were organized at Gardiner, Hampden, Hallowell and 
 Dexter, and measures were at once taken to organize a Grand 
 Lodge of the State. This was accomplished at the Hall of 
 Franklin Division in Augusta, April 16, 1845, with the following 
 officers : G. W. Patriarch, Charles Freeman ; G. W. Associate, 
 S. B. Dockham ; Grand Scribe, Ariel Wall ; Grand Treasurer, 
 Alexander Kincaid ; Grand Chaplain, Eev. J. P. Weston ; Grand 
 Conductor, Eev. H. P. Bradbury ; Grand Sentinel, E. M. Smiley. 
 During the year 1845, thirty-six new Divisions were opened in 
 Maine. In 1846, Thomas H. Sanford, of Bangor, was elected 
 G. W." Patriarch, and John E. Godfrey, of Bangor, Grand Scribe. 
 In 1847, Eev. J. P. Weston, of Gardiner, G. W. Patriarch, and 
 John H. Hartford, of Augusta, Grand Scribe. In March, 1848, 
 there were 110 Divisions in Maine, with an active membership 
 of 7,000, and the order was rapidly increasing. 
 
 It was in 1850 that active measures were taken to establish 
 the order in Oxford County. Norway Division was No. 150, 
 Eumford 146, and the first meeting for the establishment of 
 Atlantic Division, No. 159, was held at North Woodstock, on 
 
94 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 the first day of February, 1851. Delegations were present from 
 the Norway and Eumford Divisions, and Wm. Wirt Virgin, as 
 Deputy Grand Worthy Patriarch, was present to initiate the 
 applicants, institute the Division and install the officers. The 
 following were the applicants for this Division : Chauncey C. 
 Whitman, Eufus K. Dunham, John M. Gallison, Horace Cush- 
 man, John G. Felt, Eansom Dunham, Cyrus Goud, Samuel 
 Bailey, Sullivan A. Estes, Eli Bryant, Alden Chase, EUery 
 Eowe, Ansel Moody, Joshua Perham, Joel Perham, Jr., Anson 
 G. Bowker and Geo. W. Cushman. The following officers were 
 duly elected and installed : Worthy Patriarch, Geo. W. Cush- 
 man ; . Worthy Associate, Chauncey C. Whitman ; Eecording 
 Scribe, Alden Chase ; Assistant Eec. Scribe, Ansel Moody ; 
 Financial Scribe, Sullivan A. Estes ; Treasurer, Eli Bryant ; 
 Conductor, Samuel Bailey ; Assistant Conductor, Joshua Per- 
 ham ; Inside Sentinel, John G. Felt ; Outside Sentinel, John M. 
 Gallison. This became a very flourishing Division, and em- 
 braced in its membership many of the leading men of the town. 
 On the fourth day of July, 1852, a grand temperance celebra- 
 tion was held at North Woodstock, which was largely attended. 
 One of the interesting incidents of the occasion was the pre- 
 sentation of a banner and bible to Atlantic Division, by the 
 ladies of Woodstock. The presentation of the banner was 
 made by Miss Martha E. Perham, now Mrs. Stephen C. Davis, 
 who spoke in terms as follows : 
 
 "Brother, you are engaged in a cause of intense interest to our sex ; one 
 that enlists our deepest feelings, and involves the weal or v?oe of thfe whole 
 human race. The fiendish tyrant swayed his dread sceptre over this fertile 
 land, until the thrilling cry of agony was heard from every quarter! Mercy ! 
 mercy ! sprang from the inmost recesses of their hearts ; but the fierce Kmg 
 heeded them not ; for his mission was to devastate this beautiful land. 
 
 "A few strong-minded, noble souls, hearing the cry of anguish, armed them- 
 selves for the contest — whilst thousands of others joined the ranks-.-deter- 
 mined to overthrow King Alcohol, and relieve suffering humanity. 
 
 " Though they toiled manfully in this benevolent cause, though they gained 
 many and powerful victories, yet the fell destroyer had taken such deep 
 root, and held such absolute povk'er over many, that it was years ere the 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 95 
 
 most sanguine dared to indulge the hope of seeing the glorious time that we 
 now enjoy. 
 
 " The majestic tree of temperance has taken deep root in these United 
 States. It is watered by the widow's and orphan's tears ; also doubly 
 watered by the heart's life-blood of the drunkard's wife. Its vigorous growth 
 is ten-fold increased by the invincible ' Sons of Temperance.' 
 
 " It has spread over every part of the Union. Its branches already extend 
 from the lofty mountains of the West to our own New England ; from the 
 tranquil lakes on the North to the expansive gulf on the South ; and may it 
 soon drop its balmy leaves upon every despairing heart. 
 
 " The ' Tree of black Intemperance ' has begun to decay. The noble sons 
 have taken ax in hand and have commenced operations against that tree, 
 slowly, deliberately, fatally ! A little more than a year ago you united your- 
 selves in a little band in our midst, and the rumsellers know full well that 
 where such a band of brave, patriotic, unconquerable sons exist, there they 
 must quit their demonish, unlawful traffic. 
 
 " The glorious Sun has arisen in Maine, and its luminous rays reach even 
 the Old World. Two years since our little State was scarcely known out of 
 New England ; now, for the noble Temperance Law she has enacted, she 
 stands out in bold relief from her sister States ; and her fame extends over 
 the whole world. Some of her sisters have followed in her footsteps ; others 
 are preparing to do the same ; and the time is not far distant when every 
 State will join the band. 
 
 " We are aware that you have engaged the most intellect-withering, moral- 
 degrading and domestic-blighting foe that ever scathed our land. He sets 
 fire to the brain and transforms the eminent man into the basest brute. He 
 will not be moved by reason or compassion, neither will he yield to the en- 
 treaties of an Angel from Heaven. 
 
 " You have a great work to accomplish to drive this cruel monster from 
 our land. If you would gain the victory, you must put forth your whole 
 energy ; never shrink from the contest ; always foremost in the battle : and 
 unflinchingly exterminate that demon of demons. Stand firm to your trust 
 brothers, though all but Heaven forsake you. Onward ye brave sons ! On- 
 ward to victory ! ! You have the tears of orphans, the prayers of widows, the 
 sympathies and smiles of approbation of every true American female, and 
 the blessings of our dearest Father in Heaven ! 
 
 " I now present to your Division this ' Banner ' in behalf of the ladies of 
 Woodstock and vicinity, expressive of their sympathy and deep interest in 
 your future prosperity. May you march steadfastly onward under this 
 Banner, until the throne of Alcohol is crumbled to dust." 
 
 Sidney Perham, Esq., in behalf of the Division, responded as 
 follows : 
 
96 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 " In receiving this beautiful Banner, I can but express to you and your 
 associates the unfeigned and sincere thanks of Atlantic Division, for this 
 token of your confidence and pledge of your sympathy and co-operation. 
 • Coming, as it does, from the hearts of many who, though virtuous them- 
 selves, have felt keenly and bitterly the sting of intemperance, and who, in 
 the midst of joy for the reformation of their husbands and sons, fathers and- 
 brothers, are desirous of presenting some substantial token of their esteem 
 and regard, it is most gratefully and thankfully received. 
 
 "In looking on this happy audience, I cannot prevent the reflection that a 
 happy change has come over this community. Time was when the demon, 
 whose ' mission is to destroy,' made sad ravages among us. The black cloud 
 of intemperance hovered fearfully around us, often bursting with over- 
 whelming influence on the head of some unfortunate human being, blasting 
 all his hopes for the future, and reducing himself, and those dependent on 
 him for protection, to a state of wretchedness, degradation and woe. But 
 the misery of those unfortunate beings, the tears and prayers of broken- 
 hearted females, the cries and wailings of unhappy children, neglected by 
 those whom the ties of nature had bound to counsel and support them, have 
 reached the ears of philanthropic men and the Throne of the Great Eternal. 
 A voice, emanating as we believe from Heaven, has gone forth from the 
 various temperance organizations, proclaiming the glad tidings, 'The drunkard 
 can he saved,' carrying joy and gladness to many despairing hearts. Thou- 
 sands have been rescued from inebriety and restored to their families and 
 society. Men, once degraded, have become happy. Men from whose lips 
 proceeded cursing and blasphemy, withering and blasting the morals of all 
 coming within their influence, have become devoted Christians. Families, 
 once miserable and wretched, have exchanged the spirit of sadness for that 
 of joy. The cup of bitterness, which many an unhappy wife or mother has 
 been compelled to drink to its very dregs, has been filled with gratitude and 
 hope. Children, once surrounded by base and unholy influences, are now 
 protected and cared for by Christian parents. 
 
 "Notwithstanding all this, we muat not lay aside our armor nor think the 
 victory won. Much yet remains to be done. • Prejudice, avarice and appe- 
 tite are yet to be overcome. Willful ignorance, that deadly foe to all human 
 progress, still prevents too many from looking beyond the ' Good old ways of 
 the fathers.' Many men, even in this day of light and knowledge, have no 
 higher views of republican liberty than that it guarantees to them the right 
 to drink and be drunken, to sell and get gain. Such persons are expected to 
 treat with scorn and contempt every movement which restricts, in the least 
 degree, the vilest appetites and passions of man. Such principles, however, 
 are soon to give place to higher and nobler sentiments ; and we look forward 
 confidently to the time when principles, so disgraceful to human nature, shall 
 be numbered among ' the things that were.' 
 
 "Permit me, humbly and reverently, to express the belief that the 'Order 
 
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 of the Sons of Temperance,' to which you have so beautifully referred, has 
 been an instrument, in the hands of God, in establishing the happy, temper- 
 ate state of society which we now enjoy. And, looking confidently to Him 
 who has blessed our humble efforts in times past, we are determined to 
 ' work on and work ever,' until intemperance, with its long black catalogue 
 of misery, destitution and crune shall be known only in the blood-stained 
 chronicles, and the sad memories of the sad past. And while we are per- 
 mitted to rally around this banner i while the pure fountain of living water, 
 there so beautifully portrayed, continues to flow; while our hearts shall be 
 actuated by the principles of ' Love, Purity and Fidelity,' {vhile we are per- 
 mitted to read that sentiment, that prayer, 'Prosperity attend our cause,' 
 ascending to high Heaven from our wives and daughters, our mothers and 
 sisters, we promise yiever to ease our efforts, never to give over the struggle, 
 so long as one unfortunate inebriate remains to be saved, or one unhappy 
 wife or mother implores our aid. 
 
 " In conclusion, respected sisters, we hail you as co-workers in this glorious 
 cause, expressing the hope, the prayer to God, that your generous hearts 
 may never be made sad, that tears of sorrow may never flow from your eyes, 
 in consequence of the drunkenness of a husband or son, a father or brother." 
 
 In presenting the Bible, Mrs. Harriet N. Caswell spoke as 
 follows : 
 
 " I am happy to meet you in behalf of the ladies of Woodstock and vicinity, 
 to express through you to the Atlantic Division of the Sons of Temperance 
 the deep interest we feel in the progress of moral reform, and that we duly 
 appreciate the good results that you and the different Orders of your Fra- 
 ternity are accomplishing by your unceasing labors in the cause of temper- 
 ance. 
 
 " Your labors are arduous ; you are contending with an enemy that has 
 long held almost absolute sway over the minds of the community, upheld by 
 public opinion and universal use ; and though the use of alcohol in all its 
 various forms rendered thousands miserable, blasting, like the poisonous 
 Simoons of the desert, the health, happiness and peace of the people, de- 
 stroying the brightest intellect and crushing the fondest hopes of man by its 
 withering influence ; yet the people were blinded — a darkness that could be 
 felt covered the land, and alcohol reigned triumphant. 
 
 " Nor was man alone the only sufferer ; woman was crushed beneath his 
 despotic rule. His deleterious influence was felt in the family circle, none 
 the less afflicting because silently endured and uncomplainingly borne — de- 
 •stroyiug her fondest hopes of happiness, crusliing her brightest anticipations, 
 sundering the dearest affections of the heart, depriving the fond mother of 
 her choicest treasure by entering her dwelling and tearing that treasure 
 fi'om her bosom whose presence lighted up her countenance with joy, and 
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98 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 piercing her with the keenest anguish at beholding a father, a husband, or 
 brother a groveling worshiper at the shrine of Bacchus, ruined and degraded, 
 morally and intellectually. 
 
 " But the star of temperance has arisen. Its light has illumined the dark- 
 ened minds of countless thousands, who have long been held in abject 
 slavery ; and its mild, invigorating beams have brought life, happiness and 
 peace into families in which those blessings have long been strangers. 
 
 "To your Order, more than to any oflier source, may those blessings be 
 ascribed. By your untiring efforts, energetic zeal and determined persever- 
 ance, you have tnade glad the hearts of thousands, and thousands more are 
 destined to feel the salutary influence of your praiseworthy deeds. May 
 success crown your glorious cause. Our blessings shall attend you for 
 guarding our homes from the intrusions of intemperance, and securing to us 
 unsullied reputations of those we hold most dear. 
 
 " But the warfare is not yet ended ; much yet remains to be done ; for in- 
 temperance is still among us. Let not the strife cease on your part, until 
 the last vestige of alcohol is effaced and our fair laud freed from its contam- 
 inating influence. You have much to encourage you to action. The sympa- 
 thies of the virtuous and good are with you. You are aided by a just en- 
 actment, the more highly prized, as it originated in our own loved State. 
 Show, then, your respect to the Legislature from which it emanated, by 
 strictly enforcing it, and thereby encourage those sister States that have 
 already endorsed it. Shrink not from your whole duty, until suffering 
 humanity ceases to demand your efforts. You have already effected a noble 
 work. Let your past deeds of virtue incite you to still more energetic acts ; 
 and though many may censure and refuse to assist in your works of benevo- 
 lence, yet thousands duly appreciate your worthy motives; and future gen- 
 erations will bless you for your untiring efforts to emancipate the world from 
 the blighting effects of intemperance. Countless thousands are enlisting 
 under your banner to aid in the downfall of the demon alcohol ; proving by 
 their example, that they seek for happiness in a higher sphere than intem- 
 perance affords — in benevolent deeds and philanthropic acts. 
 
 "Brothers, let your course be onward. Continue to walk hand in hand as 
 conscience dictates and virtue directs, till victory proudly triumphs on your 
 unsullied banner of temperance, never to be furled till the dark stains of in- 
 temperance are forever obliterated from the moral and intellectual condition 
 of man. Then be united in this work. Our trust is still with you, to shield 
 us from the insidious foe, intemperance — to keep our delightsome homes un- 
 contaminated and free from its direful influence. Shall we be disappointed ? 
 "We answer no ! Will you cease in your struggles and suffer the demon 
 alcohol to enter our peaceful dwellings and render them dreary, desolate and 
 cheerless ? With all confidence in you we answer decidedly and em- 
 phatically. No ! Never ! ! 
 
 " We cordially greet you as brothers in this noble cause ; and while you, 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 99 
 
 ■with true courage and laudable emulations, fight the battle of temperance, 
 be assured the daughters of temperance will never prove treacherous, nor 
 forsake you in any emergency. 
 
 " With this confidence in you, we present to you this token, the Holy Bible, 
 in approbation of your labors of love. Let this faithful monitor ever remind 
 you to walk uprightly in your high and commendable station — teach you 
 ' love ' and good will to your fellow men — 'purity' of motives in all your 
 acts of life, and ' fidelity ' to your brethren and the cause yau have so honor- 
 ably espoused. As a guide, it will point to Heaven and lead the way — direct 
 you in the paths of virtue — strengthen you in the day of adversity — guard 
 you against the wiles of the enemy — teach you wisdom and prudence in all 
 your undertakings — and lead you to happiness superlative and perfect. 
 
 " Receive it, then, as a token of our esteem for your Order, and may its pre- 
 cepts be so received and cherished that you may ultimately be received into 
 that fraternal circle of which He, whose word this is, will alone be and ever 
 remain Worthy." 
 
 Eev. Eansom Dunham replied as follows : 
 
 "We have assembled here on this, our nation's anniversary, and have en- 
 gaged in promoting the holy cause of temperance, ^nd it becomes my duty, 
 on this occasion, in behalf of Atlantic Division of the Sons of Temperance, 
 to present to you and the ladies of Woodstock, our most cordial thanks for 
 the valuable treasure you have conferred upon us. It is the word of life. 
 It contains a perfect rule for our practice. It is a light to our patli and a 
 lamp to our feet. It is able to make us wise through faith unto salvation. 
 And while we walk in accordance witli its divine precepts, aided by your in- 
 fluence, we are conscious that no weapon formed against us can ever prosper. 
 It is true, amid all the light, the blessings and privileges Heaven has be- 
 stowed on us as a nation, an enemy, that dread monster, intemperance, has 
 invaded our land, and brought down upon us death and degradation. He 
 has entered your domestic circles and driven from your firesides that peace 
 and tranquillity you once enjoyed. He has blighted the fondest hopes of our 
 mothers, wives and daughters. He has entered our lialls of legislation and 
 senate chambers, and threatened to overthrow the liberties we this day 
 enjoy ; and alas ! his perfume has too oft been found in the sacred desk ! 
 Amid all the moral darkness that has covered the earth and the gross dark- 
 ness which has covered the people, beams of light have shone from Heaven 
 upon the understandings of a portion of our fellow men. These good men, 
 devout men, moved forward in the early part of this century ; and amid all 
 the opposition, toiled manfully to expel that dread monster from our land. 
 They were soon aided by the heroes from Baltimore, and more recently by 
 the Watchman Club, and our fraternal band. We are solemnly obligated 
 and stand before you all pledged men ; and you may rest assured that we 
 
^QQ HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 shall never leave the field until that foe is driven from our land. In conclu- 
 sion, may you so move as to meet the approbation of God; and may H.s 
 blessings rest upon you and your posterity." 
 
 After Bryant's Pond Village became an important center of 
 business, and many of the leading members of the Division had 
 moved there, the Lodge itself was moved, and there it contmned 
 to ilonrish for a while, when, in common with many others in . 
 the State, the novelty having worn off and the mutual pecuniary 
 aid feature proving to be impracticable, it began to dechne, and 
 previous to 1860 the charter was surrendered and its name and 
 number dropped from the list of Lodges in the State. 
 
 After this, there were several open temperance organizations 
 formed in different parts of the town, such as branches of the 
 Oxford County League, &c., and the leading men m the cause 
 were always active. Associated effort had declined somewhat, 
 but so strong a public sentiment in favor of total abstinence 
 had been developed, that drinking was very unpopular and m- 
 dul-ed in- only in secret. Whenever temperance or prohibition 
 was^in any way an issue in politics, the vote was always over- 
 whelmingly on the right side. 
 
 A charter' for a Lodge of Good Templars at Bryant's Pond, 
 was granted by Nelson Dingley, Jr., Grand Worthy Chief 
 Templar, and issued by F.G. Eich, Grand Worthy Secretary, 
 Oct 14 1867. Unlike the Order of the Sons of Temperance, 
 this order admitted both males and females, and had superseded 
 . the previous organization in many localities. The petitioners 
 for this Lodge were Kev. E. W. Coffin, W. B. Lapham, Albert 
 Bolster, Alanson M. Trull, Frank W. Lapham, Aldana Whit- 
 man, Willie Small, Henry Berry, Ansel Dudley, Mary E. W. 
 Coffin, Betsey Bolster, Eliza A. Jacobs, Mary Coffin, Augusta 
 Burgess, Lizzie Rowe, Helen Bolster, Areanna Jacobs, Sarah 
 Bowker Elizabeth Richards, Louisa Jordan, Nathaniel W. 
 Corliss and Mrs. M. A. Libby. The Lodge was organized m 
 due form by Joel Perham, Jr., Deputy Grand Worthy Chief 
 Templar, and the following officers were elected and duly in- 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 101 
 
 stalled : Worthy Chief Templar, Wm. B. Lapham ; Worthy 
 Vice Templar, Mary E. W. Coffin ; Worthy Secretary, Albert 
 C. Bolster ; W. F. Secretary, Areanna Jacobs ; W. Treasurer, 
 Alanson M. Trull ; W. Marshal, Frank W. Lapham ; W. Chap- 
 lain, Eev. Ezekiel W. Coffin ; W. I. Guard, Lizzie Eowe ; W. 0. 
 Guard, Ansel Dudley. The following were the appointed officers : 
 W. A. Secretary, Mary Coffin ; W. A. Marshal, Augusta Burgess ; 
 W. E. Supporter, Mrs. Elizabeth Eichards ; W. L. Supporter, 
 Mrs. Sarah Bowker. The Lodge was named Mt. Christopher 
 Lodge, No. 10, taking the number of some defunct Lodge. The 
 Lodge prospered and had a large membership, but after a season, 
 internal disagreements and dissensions began to be developed, 
 the interest began to decline, some of the hard cases, which for 
 a time had been restained from drinking, returned to it, and 
 finally the organization was dislmnded. The last recorded 
 meeting under the old charter was holden March 24, 1871. 
 The meetings of the Lodge were held first in Stephens' Hall, 
 and afterwards in the second story of the school house. After 
 remaining defunct for a few years, the Lodge was revived under 
 a new charter, and had a season of prosperity, when it again 
 became dormant. 
 
 A Eeform Club was organized at Bryant's Pond in 1875, and 
 still continues its organization. In connection with the Ladies' 
 Aid, it has accomplished much good. The ball was set in 
 motion by the Auburn Eeform Club, which visited this place 
 and held a meeting December 12, 1875. The meeting was 
 held hi the Baptist Church, and Jefferson Lodge of Masons and 
 the Ladies' Sewing Circle, whose meetings occurred on the same 
 evening, both adjourned to attend the reform meeting at the 
 church. Sixty signatures to the iron-clad pledge were obtained 
 at this meeting, and it resulted in the organization of the 
 Bryant's Pond Club, with Ezra Jewell, Esq., as President. No 
 regular records of the club have been kept, but its work has 
 been important in. the temperance field, many of its chief 
 workers having been men who had previously been more or 
 
102 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 less intemperate. The ladies have rendered valuable aid, as 
 they always do in temperance movements. 
 
 Probably in no town in Maine is public sentiment educated 
 up to a higher standard upon this question than in Woodstock, 
 but it is the result of persistent, untiring labor on the part of 
 the friends of temperance and morality for more than forty 
 years. At first, and for several years, it was a hand to hand 
 contest, but since the opponents of temperance and prohibition 
 became a minority, and could be easily beaten at the polls 
 whenever an issue was made, it has-not been a contest, but a 
 watch and a work, to see that the cause does not lapse, and 
 public sentiment, with the influx of new citizens, does not 
 receive a set-back. Some of those who were active in promoting 
 temperance have left town and are working in other fields, and 
 many of the early workers in this field have gone the way of 
 all the earth, but the influence of their lives and their labors 
 remain to encourage and cheer on those who are still engaged 
 in the humane endeavor to save men from the results of their 
 own depraved appetites. " These being dead, yet speak." It 
 is the duty of the people of this goodly town, both present and 
 future, to continue the work so nobly begun and so earnestly 
 carried on by their fathers, so long as men are to be saved from 
 the thralldom of this sin — and that will probably be as long as 
 humanity exists. Let each in his day and generation see that 
 the holy cause of temperance receives no detriment through 
 any act or neglect of his or hers. Eeniember the dark clouds 
 of intemperance that once draped these hills and shrouded 
 these valleys, and think of the persistent effort, the untiring 
 labor it costs to free the inebriate from the thralldom of the 
 intoxicating cup. The evil, thanks to the workers both past 
 and present, is as much under subjection here as in any town 
 of its size, population and business in the State ; be it yours to 
 keep it so, and as years of associated work was the price paid 
 for your emancipation from this evil of evils, so is constant vig- 
 ilance the price that must be paid for preserving your freedom. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 103 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 Woodstock had been settled sixteen years before the establish- 
 ment of public schools. For two years after the two half town- 
 ships had united and organized for plantation purposes, while 
 considerable sums were raised for the repair of roads, the in- 
 habitants refused to raise a dollar for the support of schools. 
 There were then forty or more families in the plantation and 
 more than a hundred scholars. The neglect to raise money for 
 educational purposes can be accounted for only'on the score of 
 poverty. They must keep their roads passable or do worse, but 
 they were not obliged to raise money for the support of schools, 
 or, if they were, they did not have the saine reason to fear that 
 the law would be enforced against them. David Eicker says : 
 " The first school in Woodstock was kept by Polly Bird, of Paris 
 or Norway, in 1815 ; I attended this school, and it was the first 
 one I ever attended or heard of." As one hundred dollars were 
 raised for the support of schools at the March meeting in 1814, 
 and at a meeting held on the twenty-ninth of the same month, 
 it was " voted to accept of the school districts as districted by 
 the assessors," it is quite probable that schools were established 
 in the summer of 1814. The'sum raised this year and for the 
 several subsequent years was very small, considering that there 
 were five districts in town, but it was probably all they could 
 afford. In later days, Woodstock has been very liberal in the 
 support of education, and fully made up for the delinquency of 
 their ancestors, if delinquency it can be called. The first 
 division of the plantation into school districts was made in 
 1814, and was made by grouping families, without any reference 
 to unsettled lands. The report of the committee appointed for 
 that purpose is as follows : 
 
 " WTiereas, it is necessary that the Plantation Number Three be divided 
 into districts, for the convenience of schools therein, v?e recommend that 
 districts be fonned in the manner following : 
 
 "The families of Noah Curtis, Morton Curtis, Seth Curtis, Isaac Cummings 
 [he lived just over the line in Greenwood], Luther Briggs, David Ricker, 
 
104 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Stephen Chase, Merrill Chase, Aaron Davis, Asa Thurlow, Amos Thurlow 
 and Enoch Hammond, shall constitute one district, to be called the first 
 western district. 
 
 "The families of Alexander Day, Jacob Whitman, Christopher Bryant, 
 Luther Whitman, Gideon Swan, Solomon Bryant, William Swan and Samuel 
 Bryant, shall constitute one district, to be called the middle western district. 
 
 " The families of Jotham Perham, Rowse Bisbee, Joseph Whitman, Joseph 
 Cole, John Billings, Lucy Felt, Noah Curtis, Jr., Lemuel Perham and Lemuel 
 Perham, Jr., shall constitute one district, to be called the second western 
 district. 
 
 "The families jf William Cotton, Cornelius Perkins, Richard Green, 
 Benaiah Dow, David Dow and Lydia Dunham, shall constitute one district, 
 to be called the first eastern district. 
 
 "The families of John Gray, Jr., Benj. Fobes, Lazarus Rand, George 
 Townsend, George Townsend, Jr., and Josiah Dudley, shall constitute one 
 district, to be called the second eastern district." 
 
 This arrangement was in force for only two years, when, by 
 vote of the town, another districting was made and accepted, as 
 follows : 
 
 FiEST DiSTKiCT. The families of Lemuel Perham, Lemuel 
 Perham, Jr., Eowse Bisbee, Jotham Perham, Thomas Farrow, 
 Joseph Whitman, Joseph' Clifford, John Billings, Edward 
 Lothrop, Merrill Chase and Noah Curtis, Jr., and all who may 
 hereafter come within the limits of said district. 
 
 Second District. The families of Solomon Bryant, Wm. 
 Swan, Gideon Swan, Lucy Swan, Luther "Whitman, Christopher 
 Bryant, Jacob Wliitman, Alexander Day and Solomon Bryant. 
 
 Third District. The families of Noah Curtis, Morton Curtis, 
 Seth Curtis, Asa Thurlow, Amos Thurlow, Aaron Davis, Aaron 
 Davis, Jr., Josiah Churchill, Stephen Chase, David Bicker, 
 Richard Green, Luther Briggs and Consider Fuller. 
 
 Fourth District. The families of Cornelius Perkins, Wm. 
 Cotton, Enoch Hammond, Benaiah Dow, David Dow and Lydia 
 Dunham. 
 
 Fifth District. The families of John Gray, Jr., Benj. Fobes, 
 Lazarus Ptand, Geo. Townsend, Geo. Townsend, Jr., Thayer 
 ■ Townsend, Josiah Dudley, John Starbird, Daniel Dacy and 
 John Lunt. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. * 105 
 
 Tlie town was re-districted again in 1820, not only with re- 
 gard to families but with reference to unsettled lands. The 
 committee, " after establishing the territorial limits of each dis- 
 trict by metes and bounds, reported the several districts by 
 families, as follows " : 
 
 Samuel Bryant, Alexander Day, Jacob Whitman, Samuel 
 Stepliens, Gideon Swan, Luther Whitman, George Berry, Thomas 
 E. Carman, William Swan, Oliver Swan, William Swan, Jr., 
 John R. Briggs, Solomon Bryant and Artemas Felt, with their 
 families, constitute the first district. 
 
 Asa Thurlow, Amos Tlmrlow, Noah Curtis, Morton Curtis, 
 Seth Curtis, Daniel Curtis, Luther Briggs, Abner Dolloff, David 
 Kicker, Stephen Chase, Wm. E. Brooks, Charles B. Brooks, 
 Jonathan Fickett, Consider Fuller, Josiah Churchill, Aaron 
 Davis and Aaron Davis, Jr., and their families, to constitute 
 the second district. 
 
 Charles Curtis, ' Seneca Landers, Noah Curtis, Jr., Stephen 
 Packard, Edward Lothrop, Joseph Whitman, Jonathan Cole, 
 John Billings, Caleb Bessee, Merrill Chase, Eowse Bisbee, 
 Cyprian Bowker, Jeremiah Felt, Joel Perham and Jotham 
 Perham, with their families, to constitute the third district. 
 
 Samuel Dunham, Samuel Durell, Wm. Davis, Cornelius 
 Perkins, Wm. Cotton, Enoch Hammond and Lemuel Perham, 
 and their families, to constitute and be called the fourth dis- 
 trict. 
 
 Josiah Dudley, Moses Dudley, John Gray, John Starbird, 
 Benaiah Dow, Azariah Howard, John Lunt, Betsey Eand and 
 Daniel Dacy, with their families, to constitute and be called the 
 fifth school district in the town of Woodstock. 
 
 For some reason or other this districting was not satisfactory, 
 and another was ordered in 1822, and accepted at a meeting 
 holdeu March 16th of that year. It was as follows : 
 
 " The families of Alexander Day, Jacob Whitman, Samuel Stephens, Luther 
 Whitman, Gideon Swan, William Swan, William Swan, Jr., Solomon Bryant 
 and David Kicker, to constitute the first district. 
 
106 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 " The families of Daniel Dudley, Luther Briggs, Morton Curtis, Seth Curtis, 
 Noah Curtis, Job Lurvey, Amos Thurlow, Asa Thurlow, Aaron Davis, Aaron 
 Davis, Jr., Josiah Churchill, Abner DoUoff, Stephen Chase, Wm. E. Brooks, 
 Jonathan Fickett and Samuel Nute, to constitute the second district. 
 
 "The families of Charles Curtis, David Dudley, Seneca Landers, Stephen 
 Packard, Merrill Chase, Merrill Chase, Jr., Joel Perham, Jeremiah Felt, 
 Jotham Perham, Cyprian Bovv'ker, Joseph Whitman and Jonathan Cole, to 
 constitute the third district. 
 
 " The families of John K. Briggs, Oliver Sv^'an and Samuel Bryant to con- 
 stitute the fourth district. 
 
 "The families of John Billings, Caleb Bessee, RovFse Bisbee and Thomas 
 Farrow to constitute the fifth district. 
 
 " The families of William Davis, Joseph Bryant, Wm. Cotton, Enoch Ham- 
 mond, Cornelius Perkins, Levpis Fuller, John Merrill, Luther Perkins, Jona- 
 than Billings, Lemuel Perham and Luther Whitman, Jr., to constitute the 
 sixth district. 
 
 "The families of John Gray, John Starbird, Benaiah Dow, Moses Dudley, 
 Azariah Howard, Josiah Dudley, Samuel Durell, Antepast Durell and Samuel 
 Dunham, to constitute the seventh district. 
 
 " The families of Daniel Dacy, John Lunt, Sylvanus Dunham, J. Moore 
 and William Rand, to constitute the eighth district." 
 
 The ninth district was made up of a section of territory in 
 the north-east corner of the east part of Woodstock, and at the 
 time of this districting contained no inhabitants. 
 
 The tenth district embraced the territory at the north-west 
 corner of the east part of the town, and had no inhabitants at 
 that time. It has since been divided, and forms the schools in 
 the Billings district and in Sigotch. The committee to re- 
 district on this occasion was made up of Seth Curtis, Josiah 
 Dudley, Jonathan Cole, Luther Whitman and John Merrill, 
 and was the last formal districting that was ever made. 
 
 In 1823, the town voted to unite the 6th and 7th districts. 
 In 1826, the second district was divided and the center district 
 formed. In 1834, William Eowe, Simeon Eowe and Enoch 
 French were set off from district number 3 to district number 
 5. The same year, Cornelius Perkins, Lewis Fuller, William 
 Cotton, Jr., Charles Eobbins and Enoch Hammond were set off 
 from district number 7 to number 6. In 1842, the town voted 
 to set off Eichard T. Lurvey, with his property, from the second 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 107 
 
 school district to form and constitute a school district by him- 
 self. In 1843, the large district in the north-east part of the 
 town was divided, forming the Billings and Sigotch districts. 
 The same year a school district was formed from part of the 
 old 9th, "running from the 78th to the 113th lot, on the north 
 line of the town, and on the south line of said district from lot 
 number 82 to 109." In 1845, the 8th district was divided by 
 taking of lots numbers 92, 85 and 71, and " continuing north- 
 westerly to the district where Edmund Chase now lives." 
 
 The school districts, as to area and outline, remain essentially 
 the same as then, but the center of population and business has 
 changed several times, and the schools in certain districts have 
 undergone corresponding changes. In 1822, at the last general 
 districting, there were only three families in district number 
 four, and these all lived at the head of Bryant's Pond. This is 
 now the Bryant's Pond district, the largest and the only graded 
 school in town. A school house was not built in this district 
 until 1857, thirty-five years after the district was formed. 
 
 Prom the small beginnings toward the establishment of schools 
 in Woodstock, which we have described, there was steady 
 progress, and for the last forty years the cause of education in 
 this town has received every needed attention. The schools 
 have taken high rank, and no town in the County, of the same 
 population, has furnished more or better teachers. Many of 
 these teachers received all their education and training in the 
 common schools of their town and at teachers' institutes. Some 
 of these teachers were the sons and daugliters of those who 
 voted to raise no money for the education of the one hundred 
 children in the plantation, and others were their grandchildren. 
 Among those who were either born in Woodstock or received 
 their common school education here, and who became successful 
 teachers, were Eichard T. Purvey, Sidney Perham, Alden Chase, 
 Henry H. Packard, Orsamus Nute, Geo. Cushman, George F. 
 Leonard, Herrick C. Davis, Charles 0. Whitman, Harrison S. 
 Whitman, Wm. M. Brooks," Oren Stephens, Nehemiah Davis, 
 
108 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 A. Fitzroy Chase, Joel Perham, Jr., Geo. W. Whitman, ¥. 
 Wyman, Chas. P. Knight, Jeff. C. Gallison, Herbert C. 5acon, 
 ' Geo. E. Whitman, Augustus Knight, Cyrus Davis, Marcius 
 Knight, Martha E. Perham, Etta D. Cole, Ella F. Cole, Cynthia 
 A. Perham, Amanda M. Perham, Viana Perham, Lorenda 
 Packard, Clara J. Knight, INIaria G. Farnum, Linda Day, 
 Nancy F. Whitman, Lavina Whitman, Euth Kicker, Corrina 
 Davis, Florence Davis, Lavina Davis and Clata Bryant. There 
 are probably others whose names are not now recalled. Some 
 of these teachers not only taught successfully in Woodstock, 
 but achieved a high reputation in other towns. In some 
 of the districts, the number that attend is greatly reduced from* 
 what it formerly was. In district number 3, the seats were 
 generally crowded summer and winter, but now a majority of 
 them are empty. Tliis is due to the fact that, while the number 
 of families have not much diminished, there are fewer children. 
 The same is true of other districts ill town, notably in the first, 
 second and center districts. The districts generally have con- 
 venient school houses and all needed apparatus. The Bryant's 
 Pond school house, built in 1857, is two stories high and has a 
 primary department. A high school has been successfully 
 taught here, spring and fall, for several years. 
 
 MASONIC. 
 
 The dispensation of Jefferson Lodge, No. 100, is dated Feb- 
 ruary 8, 1860, signed by Hiram Chase, G. M. The petitioners, 
 James B. Currier, John B. Merrill, Joshua Young, Nathaniel F. 
 Jacobs, James Euss, George H. Webber, William B. Lapham 
 and Caleb Bessee, Jr. Under that dispensation the G. M. ap- 
 pomted James B. Currier, W. M. ; John B. Merrill, S. W. ; 
 James Euss, J. W. The first meeting under it was held Feb- 
 ruary 14, 1860, and the W. M., J. B. Currier, appointed W. B. 
 Lapham, T. ; Caleb Bessee, Jr., S. ; N. F. Jacobs, S. D. ; G. H. 
 
RUFUS K. DUNHAM, 
 
HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 109 
 
 Webber, J. D., and Joshua Young, Tyler; and at that meeting 
 the petitions of Eufus K. Dunham, Joel Perham, Jr., and Thomas 
 R. Carman were received, and they were initiated March 13, 
 1860, in the order named above. They were the first three 
 masons made under the dispensation. Rev. David Ricker was 
 the next, being initiated March 27, 1860, Rufus K. Dunham 
 was raised at that meeting and acted as Secretary till the Lodge 
 was chartered. The charter of the Lodge is dated May 8, 
 1860, and the following names appear in the charter : James 
 
 B. Currier, John B. Merrill, Joshua Yioung, Nathaniel F. Jacobs, 
 James Russ, (jreorge H. Webber, William B. Lapham and Caleb 
 Bessee, Jr. 
 
 The first meeting under the charter was held May 17, 1860, 
 when the following officers were elected : J. B. Currier, W. M. ; 
 J. B. Merrill, S. W. ; James Russ, J.W. ; W. B. Lapham, T. ; R. K. 
 Dunham, S. ; N. F. Jacobs, S. D. ; G. H. Webber, J. D. The 
 W. M. appointed Joel Perham, Jr., S. S. ; T. R. Carman, J. S. ; 
 Rev. David Ricker, C. ; Caleb Bessee, Jr., Tyler. These were 
 the first officers of the Lodge under the charter. The officers 
 were installed and the Lodge constituted the same day by R.W. 
 Timothy J. Murray, presiding officer. 
 
 Jan. 8, 1861, elected J. B. Currier, M; R. K. Dunham, Sec. 
 Jan. 13, 1863, J. B. Merrill, M. ; G. W. Bryant, Sec. Jan. 
 10, 1864, J. B. Merrill, M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 10, 
 1865, K F. Jacobs, M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 9, 1866, 
 W. B. Lapham, M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 8, 1867, W. B. 
 Lapham, M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 14, 1868, David 
 Ricker, M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 1.2, 1869, G.W. Bryant, 
 M. ; R. K. Dunham, Sec. Jan. 11, 1870, Ezra Jewell, M. ; 
 Charles R. Houghton, Sec. Jan. 10, 1871, Alden Chase, M. ; 
 
 C. R. Houghton, Sec. Jan. 9, 1872, Alden Chase, M. ; C. R. 
 Houghton, Sec. Jan. 14, 1873, Alden Chase, M.; C. R. Hough- 
 ton, Sec. Jan. 13, 1874, Alden Chase, M. ; C. R. Houghton, 
 Sec. Jan. 19, 1875, Rufus K. Dunham, M. ; A. C. Bolster, 
 Sec. Jan. 11, 1876, R. K. Dunham, M.; A. C. Bolster, Sec. 
 
110 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Jan. 23, 1877, Horace C. Berry, M. ; A. C. Bolster, Sec. Jan. 
 15, 1878, James L. Bowker, M. ; Alden Chase, Sec. Jan. 7, 
 1879, J. L. Bowker, M. ; Alden Chase, Sec. Jan. 27, 1880, 
 Albion P. Bowker, M. ; Alden Chase, Sec. Jan. 11, 1881, 
 Albion P. Bowker, M. ; Alden Chase, Sec. Jan. 3, 1882, Wil- 
 liam Day, M. ; Alden Chase, Sec. 
 
 The Lodge held a few of its first meetings in a hall called 
 Moody's Hall. It then removed to a hall known as the Perham 
 Hall, where it remained until they purchased a hall of 0. C. 
 & H. F. Houghton, which was dedicated October 17, 1872, the 
 M. W. G. M., David Cargill, superintending the ceremonies. 
 The Lodge, since its organization, to January 1, 1882, has raised 
 119 masons. It numbers, January 1, 1882, 90 members ; 145 
 members have belonged to the Lodge. It now owns its hall 
 and one-third of the lot on which it stands ; has no debts and 
 $300 in its treasury. During the last nine years, it has paid 
 from. its funds over $450 for charity. 
 
 MILITARY. 
 
 Even in the early days, the military spirit was strong among 
 the citizens of Woodstock, and grew stronger until the time 
 when, to the intense disgust of many, military drill was no 
 longer required. A person who has been familiar with Wood- 
 stock for sixty years, and who, from being a non-resident, had 
 no reason to be partial, says, " that in proportion to its popula- 
 tion, no town in the County has developed as many efficient 
 military men as Woodstock, and this town was indeed fortunate 
 in the numl^er and merit of its field officers," of whom, more 
 hereafter. When the war of 1812 became imminent, the war- 
 cry of " Free Trade and Sailors' Eights," resounded through these 
 regions, and a company of Infantry was organized April 11, 
 1812. Jotham Perham was Captain, Lemuel Perham, Jr., 
 Lieutenant, and Edward Lothrop, Ensign. Mention is made 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. Ill 
 
 in the plantation records of an allowance being made to Lemuel 
 Perham for expenses incurred at a muster soon after the planta- 
 tion was organized, though where and precisely at what time is 
 not stated, nor what troops, besides those under Capt. Perham, 
 were mustered. It is quite probable, however, that the muster 
 here referred to was at Paris or Norway, where musters of the 
 First Kegiment, First Brigade and Sixth Division were at that 
 period usually held. 
 
 In September, 1814, Capt. Perham's company was ordered to 
 the defense of Portland from an apprehended attack by the 
 British, with whom the United States was then at war. They 
 served in Lieutenant William Eyersou's Eegiment, and, besides 
 the time occupied in traveling to and from Portland, were in 
 the service eleven days, from September 13th to the 24th. The 
 company was made up as follows : 
 
 Jotham Perham, Captain. 
 Lemuel Perham, Jr., Lieutenant. 
 
 SERGEANTS. 
 
 Alexander Day, Seth Curtis, 
 
 Samuel Bryant, Josiah Dudley. 
 
 MUSICIAN. 
 
 Gideon Swan. 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Christopher Bryant, Samuel Dunham, 
 
 Luther Briggs, Consider Fuller, 
 
 Solomon Bryant, Enoch Hammond, 
 
 Morton Curtis, Wilham Swan, 
 
 Noah Curtis, Jr., Amos Thurlow, 
 
 Jonathan T. Clifibrd, Otis Townsend, 
 
 William Cotton, David Ptand, 
 
 Aaron Davis, Jacob Whitman. 
 Moses Dudley, 
 
 It will be noticed that this company included more than half 
 the heads of families in the plantation and many of the lead- 
 
112 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 ing citizens. Besides this company, several citizens of this 
 plantation served in other companies. In Captain Uriah Rip- 
 ley's Paris Company were Charles Curtis, Joseph Cole, Daniel 
 Dacy and Joshua Young, though the last named may not yet 
 have moved into the plantation ; the others certainly had. 
 Then in Capt. Stephen Blake's Paris Company, which served 
 from September 25th to November 9th, same year, were Chris- 
 topher Bryant, Solomon Bryant, Jr., John R. Briggs and Thomas 
 Farrar, and several of Capt. Perham's men also re-enlisted and 
 served in this company ; they were Josiah Dudley, Amos Thur- 
 low and Samuel Bryant. In Capt. Bemis's Company, from the 
 sam6 town, was Thayer Townsend, of number three. This 
 makes thirty-one of the inhabitants of this plantation that 
 served in Portland during the autumn of 1814, a patriotic 
 record, truly. Among those who served and soon after became 
 citizens of Woodstock, or the Gore, were Sylvauus Bartlett, 
 Cyprian Bowker, Asa Barrows, Samuel Durell, Tilden Bartlett, 
 Harvey Fuller and George W. Cummings. These men were 
 not brought in contact with the enemy, but they are entitled 
 to as much honor as though they had seen real service. 
 The city was threatened, and they went expecting to drive 
 away the enemy by force, but it seems their presence was 
 sufficient to protect Portland, and they came home without 
 so much as hearing a single hostile gun. A few persons who 
 subsequently settled in this town, experienced more than this, 
 having served in the army in northern New York, and partic- 
 ipated in the engagements at "Shadague and Plattsburg. Caleb 
 B. Barrows, Geo. W. Cummings and Moses Cummings were of 
 that number. John Packard, one of the two brothers who 
 began on the Day farm, as mentioned elsewhere, was killed in 
 the former engagement, which fact accounts for liis not settling 
 upon his land. 
 
 The trainings in Woodstock, from 1812 to 1828, were 
 held on the farm begun on by Merrill Chase, on the hill east 
 of David Flicker's ; after that they were held on the Joseph 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 113 
 
 Whitman farm. Of the Woodstock infantry company, Jotham 
 Perham was the first Captain, Lemuel Perham, Jr., was Lieu- 
 tenant, and Edward Lothrop, Ensign. He was probably succeeded 
 by Alexander Day, who resigned m 1822, and was followed by 
 Jonathan Cole. The latter resigned or was discharged February 
 10, 1824 ; Josiah Dudley was Lieutenant under him and Eichard 
 T. Lurvey, Ensign; Dudley resigned April 26, 1824 Richard 
 T. Lurvey was the next Captain. He was subsequently pro- 
 moted to Major, and Lieut-Colonel and Colonel of the regiment 
 to which his company belonged. His subordinates were Luther 
 Perkins, Lieutenant, and Jesse H. Stephens, Ensign. Luthei; 
 Perkins was the next Captain, with Jesse H. Stephens, Lieu- 
 tenant, and John R Briggs, Ensign. At the expiration of 
 Perkins' term Stephens resigned his Lieutenancy and John R 
 Briggs was promoted to Captain. From this time to the repeal 
 or modification of the militia law, so that meetings for drill were 
 no longer required, the following were the line officers : 
 
 In 1830, John R. Briggs was Captain, George W. Cushman, 
 Lieutenant, and Learned Whitman, Ensign. 
 
 In 1832, George W. Cushman, Captain, Learned Whitman, 
 Lieutenant, and Perrin Dudley, Ensign. 
 
 In 1835, Perrin Dudley, Captain, Henry H. Packard, Lieu- 
 tenant, and Enoch French, Ensign. 
 
 In 1837, Henry H. Packard, Captain, Thomas C. Cushman, 
 Lieutenant, Joseph Davis, Ensign. 
 
 In 1841, Joseph Davis, Captain, Harrison Whitman, Lieu- 
 tenant, and Joseph Whitman, Jr., Ensign. 
 
 In 1844, Harrison Whitman, Captain, Joseph Whitman, Jr., 
 Lieutenant, and Albion P. Cole, Ensign. 
 
 In 184"), Merrill J. Rowe was Captain, and no other officers of 
 the company are on record in the Military Department at the 
 State House. This was about the time that, by Legislative 
 enactment, the militia of Maine was exempted from military 
 drill. 
 
 The Captains, in the order of their service, were Jotham Per- 
 8 
 
114 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 ham, Alexander Day, Jonathan Cole, Eichard T. Lurvey, Luther 
 Perkins, John E. Briggs, George W, Cushman, Perrin Dudley, 
 Henry H. Packard, Joseph Davis, Harrison Whitman and Mer- 
 rill J. Eowe. Most of these had served in subordinate positions. 
 Those who served as Lieutenant or Ensign and never as Captain, 
 were Lemuel Perham, Jr., Edward Lothrop, Josiah Dudley, 
 Jesse H. Stephens, Learned Whitman, Thomas C. Cushman, 
 Joseph Whitman, Jr., and Albion P. Cole. 
 
 John E. Briggs was Lieut.-Colonel of the First Eegiment, 
 Eirst Brigade and Sixth Division in 1832, and Colonel in 1833. 
 
 > Perrin Dudley was Major of the same regiment in 1837, 
 Lieut-Colonel in 1839, and Colonel in 1840. 
 
 Geo. W. Cushman was Lieut.-Colonel of the same regiment 
 in 1835, Colonel in 1836, and Brigadier General of the First 
 Brigade, Sixth Division, in 1837. 
 
 Eichard T. Lurvey was discharged as Lieut.-Colonel, March 
 8, 1828, to accept the colonelcy of the same regiment. 
 
 Christopher Bryant, Jr., the first child born in Woodstock, 
 but a resident of Greenwood, was Major in 1840, and Cyprian 
 Cole, of Greenwood, brother of Capt. Jonathan, of this town, 
 was Colonel in 1824. It will thus be seen that the little town 
 of Woodstock furnished a field officer for the regiment from 
 1830 to 1840, and among them four Colonels. 
 
 In 1838, Company C of Cavalry, attached to the First Brigade, 
 Sixth Division, was organized, made up of citizens of Paris, 
 Greenwood and Woodstock. The officers in 1838 were : Horatio 
 G. Euss, Captain, Joshua S. Whitman and Jared Young, Lieu- 
 tenants, and John Day, Cornet. In 1842, the officers were: 
 Joshua S. Whitman, Captain, John Day, Lieutenant, and Sid- 
 ney Perham, Ensign. This company sometimes met for drill 
 on the level land between West Paris and Trap Corner. A 
 company of Cavalry, with its grotesque uniform, was a novelty 
 in this region, and the occasion of its drills always drew a large 
 crowd. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 115 
 
 THE WAK OF THE KEBELLION. 
 
 At the election of President in 1860, Woodstock gave a large 
 majority to the Kepublican ticket. The anti-slavery sentiment 
 in this town had been developing for some years. It found 
 expression in the majority the town gave Frdmont in 1856, 
 and in the still larger majority it gave Lincoln in 1860. When 
 the war broke out in 1861, the patriotic feeling in Woodstock 
 speedily hushed what little opposition there was, and during 
 the four years of the contest there was really but one feeling 
 manifested — that of loyalty to the National Government. The 
 town promptly responded to every call that was made for men ; 
 not grudgingly, but with right hearty good will. For the first 
 call of seventy-five thousand men for three months, Maine only 
 furnished one regiment, and while a large number in Woodstock 
 were ready to go, they could not be received, because preference 
 was given to companies already organized, and Woodstock had 
 none. Six of our citizens, however, mostly young men, went 
 and joined the Norway company. Their names were : Charles 
 W. Farnum, Thorndike H. Sawyer, Lewis H. Stephens, Wil- 
 liam F. Jewell and Nathan C. Knapp. The following are the 
 names of Woodstock men that served in other Maine organiza- 
 tions : 
 
 ■ SECOND REGIMENT. 
 
 Anson G. Bowker. 
 
 FIFTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Phillip Abbott, Horace C. Berry, Corp., Caleb Bessee, Jr., Geo. 
 W. Kicker, Ezra Ridlon, Fessenden Swan, Cyrus Thurlow, 
 Enoch Whittemore, Jr., and Alanson M. Whitman. 
 
 EIGHTH REGIMENT, 
 
 Andrew Jackson, William W. Leavitt. 
 
 NINTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Sumner C. Farnum, Charles G. Perkins, Corporal. 
 
116 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 TENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Horace C. Berry, Corp., Luther Briggs, Henry F. Cole, Joseph 
 W. Cummings, Aaron D. Cotton, Amos S. Bryant, Alpheus 
 Fuller, Wm. H. Fuller, Levi D. Jewell, Isaac F. Lapham, 
 Fessenden Swan, Edward K. Young, James L. Perham. 
 
 TWELFTH REGIMENT. 
 
 John H. Abbott, Charles D. Ptowe, James Euss and James 
 P. Euss. 
 
 THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Samuel Bobbins, Leander S. Swan. 
 
 SIXTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Gilbert M. L. Whitman. 
 
 SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Hiram Andrews, Luther B. Farnum, Wm. F. Harding, Charles 
 P. Jackson, Alvan H. Marr, Dustin B. Eicker, Geo. W. Whit- 
 man, Barnet Thorn. 
 
 TWENTIETH REGIMENT. 
 
 Geo. H. York, Caleb Bessee, Jr. 
 
 TWENTT-THIRD REGIMENT. 
 
 John L. Noyes, Galen G. Bowker, Joseph H. Davis, Wm. F. 
 Jewell, Gilman A. Whitman, Consider F. Farrar, Albert Green, 
 Henry Jordan, Jr., Eobert B. Taylor, Thomas J. Whitman, and 
 Wm. B. Lapham, private. Commissary Sergt., 2d Lieut, and 1st 
 Lieut., Co. F. 
 
 TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT. 
 
 Horace C. Berry, Sergt. and Henry F. Cole. 
 
 THIRTIETH REGIMENT. 
 
 Eobert H. Doughty. 
 
 THIRTV-FIRST REGIMENT. 
 
 Oscar F. Whitman, Charles H. Packard. 
 
 THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT. 
 
 Charles H. Chase, Wm. F. Jewell, Sergt., Nathaniel H. Ful- 
 ler, Chas. W. Farnum, Oscar F. Whitman, John E. Lapham. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 117 
 
 FIFTH BATTERY. 
 
 Cyrus A. Andrews, Samuel W. Benson, Wm. H. Proctor. 
 
 SEVENTH BATTERY. 
 
 Wm. B. Laphara, First Lieut., Alfred H. Briggs, John M. 
 Bryant, Lorenzo Billings, Charles M. Bixby, Alpheus Fuller, 
 Levi D. Jewell, James B. Mason, James H. Pratt, Albert Bil- 
 lings, Ezra Ridlon, Jr., Francis F. Stevens, Luther Briggs and 
 Isaac F. Lapham. 
 
 FIRST MAINE SHARP SHOOTERS. 
 
 Charles B. Bessee. 
 
 Besides the above, several men enlisted from Hamlin's Gore, 
 which has since been annexed to Woodstock. Wm. H. Pearson 
 served in the 10th and 29th Maine; Oliver Millett, in the 31st; 
 John A. Buck, in the 10th ; Eben A. Kimball, 10th ; Stephen 
 L. Ethridge, 27th ; Charles H. Buck and George Buck in the 
 15th. 
 
 There were also several Woodstock men wlio were tempora- 
 rily away and served in other regiments. James M. Lapham 
 served three years in the 36th Massachusetts ; George Lucius 
 Berry, son of Leonard, of this town, was in a Massachusetts 
 regiment, and was shot dead in action. Napotem B. Whitman 
 served in a Wisconsin regiment, and died of wounds or disease. 
 
 Great effort has been made to have this list complete, but, 
 after all this care, it will not be strange if it contains errors. 
 Some Woodstock men served on the quotas of other towns, and 
 on the books of the Adjutant General are credited to those towns, 
 thereby rendering it impossible for me, not personally acquainted 
 with them, to determine their place of residence. Woodstock 
 also had credit on the books of the Adjutant General for several 
 soldiers never furnished by the town ; they probably came from 
 Woodstock, New Brunswick. These have been omitted from 
 the lists so far as known. It is sincerely hoped that no Wood- 
 stock soldier has been omitted from this list ; if there has been, 
 it is because he could not be traced. This large number, very 
 
118 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 large in proportion to the adult population of the town, will 
 stand here as an enduring monument of the patriotism and de- 
 votion of the little town of Woodstock during the terrible struggle 
 of 1861-5, wjben our national unity was threatened by rebels 
 in arms. 
 
 POST OFFICES AND POSTMASTERS. 
 
 WOODSTOCK. 
 
 The first Post Office in Woodstock was at Stephens' Mills, 
 and' John E. Briggs was the first Postmaster. This was 
 June 18, A. D. 1824. The mail was then brought from 
 Paris once a week, and on horseback. The carrier had a tin 
 horn, which he sounded before reaching a stopping place, to 
 warn the Postmaster to be in readiness to change the mail. 
 Correspondence was then light, postage high and newspapers 
 few. Mr. Briggs kept the office until 1831, when he was suc- 
 ceeded by Eleazer C. Shaw, who kept it seven years. When the 
 new County road from Paris to Eumford was completed through 
 the town, the office was moved to the lower village. There have 
 been several Postmasters here since the office was moved. 
 Among them have been D. P. Hannaford, Thos. Sampson, Thos. * 
 T. Lurvey, Isaac W. Andrews and Francis F. Stevens. At the 
 present time it is kept by Oliver 0. Fuller. After the village 
 ran down by the building of the railway through the town, the 
 office was moved and kept a long time at Andrews' Mill. 
 
 NORTH WOODSTOCK. 
 
 An office was established at North Woodstock (Pinhook) in 
 1847, and John M. Gallison appointed Postmaster. The peti- 
 tion was seot in February, and in April following the mails 
 were first distributed from the North Woodstock office. Mr. 
 Gallison held the office ten years, when he was succeeded by H. 
 Hall Torrey. After him, in the order named, were James Kuss, 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 119 
 
 Matthias McKenney, Jarvis C. Billings, George Fuller, Eliza- 
 beth Fuller, and in 1872, Mr. Gallison again, who still has it. 
 Until the opening of the Grand Trunk Eailway, in 1855, the 
 mails were left by the stage that ran between Portland and 
 Andover ; they first had the mail once, and subsequently twice 
 a week. Now they have a daily mail, which comes by rail to 
 Bryant's Pond, thence by the Andover stage. A mail is taken 
 from here every morning in season to reach Portland and Boston 
 the same day. 
 
 Bryant's pond. 
 
 A Post Office became necessary at Bryant's Pond on the 
 opening of the Grand Trunk Eailway in 1851, and was estab- 
 lished that year. The first Postmaster was Ezra Jewell, who 
 kept the office at the old yellow store where he traded, on the 
 corner. Rufus K. Dunham afterwards had the office, and 
 moved it to the railway station. Subsequently, Benj. F. Craw- 
 ford was appointed, and kept the office in his shoemaker's shop, 
 a little distance on the Rumford road. With the change of 
 administration in 1857, James H. Farnum was appointed, and 
 moved the office to his son-in-law's, C. P. Knight's, store. Here 
 it was kept until Mr. Farnum's death, when Joseph Pray was 
 appointed and moved the office to his (the Crockett) store. In 
 the spring of 1861, Dr. William B. Lapham was appointed, and 
 fitted up the office, where it has since been kept. This was the 
 first time that a separate room was fitted up for it with lock 
 and other boxes. In 1865, Dr. Lapham sold out the property to 
 Nathaniel F. Jacobs, and resigned the office of Postmaster in 
 his favor, and Mr. Jacobs was at once appointed. He held the 
 position up to the time of his death, when his wife, Mrs. Eliza 
 A. Jacobs, was appointed, and has since continued to hold it. 
 This is much the largest and most important office in town, 
 and is a distributing office for the offices at North Woodstock, 
 Milton Plantation and beyond towards Andover. 
 
 A summary of the Postmasters in town is as follows : 
 
120 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK, 
 
 Woodstock. John E. Briggs, June 18, '24 ; Eleazer C. Shaw, 
 Feb. 22, '31 ; Eichard T. Lurvey, Nov. 19, '41 ; John Bicknell, 
 Mar. 16, '42; David P. Hannaford, Apr. 20, '44; Thomas T. 
 Lurvey, Jan'y 20, '46 ; Thomas Sampson, May 27, '47. Dis- 
 continued Oct. 18, 1855. Ee-established Dec. 14, 1855. Isaac 
 W. Andrews, Dec. 14, '55 ; John E. Briggs, Apr. 9, '60 ; John 
 C. Andrews, May 4, '60; Isaac W. Andrews, June 20, '64. 
 Discontinued Oct. 20, 1873. 
 
 North Woodstock. John M. Gallison, Apr. 5, 1847 ; Heze- 
 kiah H. Torrey, Dec. 23, '56 ; James Euss, Jan. 25, '60 ; Mathias 
 V. McKenney, Dec. 21, '60 ; Jarvis C. Billings, Jan. 3, '65 ; 
 George W. Fuller, Apr. 28, '68 ; Eliza L. Fuller, June 22, '69 ; 
 John M. Gallison, July 26, '72. 
 
 South Woodstock, Francis F. Stevens, Dec. 28, 1874 ; Oli- 
 ver L. Fuller, April 12, '76. 
 
 Bryant's Pond. Ezra Jewell, Jan. 3, 1852 ; Eufus K. Dun- 
 ham, Mar. 29, '53 ; Benjamin F. Crawford, Sept. 27, '55 ; James 
 H. Farnum, Oct. 23, '56 ; Joseph Pray, Oct. 8, '59 ; William B, 
 Lapham, Aug. 3, '61 ; Nathaniel F. Jacobs, May 6, '65 ; Eliza 
 A. Jacobs, Jan, 17, '76, 
 
 hotels. 
 
 Some of the early settlers, after they had advanced far enough 
 to build farm houses — those that lived on the County road — were 
 in the habit of putting up strangers, though their accommoda- 
 tions were necessarily limited. John E. Briggs kept a public 
 house in connection with his store, and perhaps may be regarded 
 as the first hotel keeper in town. Luther Whitman also put up 
 up travele^;s, and so did Joel Perham and Eowse Bisbee, After 
 the new County road was built and the little village of South 
 Woodstock sprung up, a hotel was kept there by John Bicknell, 
 D. P. Hannaford, and afterwards by the Libbys, father and sons, 
 and others. Edmund Bowker also kept a public house near the 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 121 
 
 center of the town for quite a number of years. John E. Briggs 
 was tlie first hotel keeper at North Woodstock, though his house 
 was somewhat contracted for purposes of this kind. The first 
 building put up in this place for a hotel was by Chauncey C. 
 Whitman. He had a dance hall in connection therewith, and 
 for a few years his house was quite well patronized. After Mr. 
 Whitman came J. ]\I. Gallison & Son, Anthony Bennett, and 
 lastly Eichard Smith. In 1865, Mr. Gallison purchased the old 
 tavern stand, and has since occupied it as a dwelling. 
 
 The first hotel at Bryant's Pond was kept by Joseph Frye. 
 He purchased the A. K. Whitman farm, upon which the village 
 is built, and removing a portion of the Houghton House from 
 the foot of the pond, converted it into a hotel. This hotel, with 
 the exception of a few additions and alterations, is the present 
 tavern at Bryant's Pond. Nathaniel Mayberry afterwards occu- 
 pied the house, and afterwards, for short periods, Charles P. 
 Knight and John Q'. Adams. In the latter part of 1856, the 
 hotel property was purchased by James Silver, and his son-in- 
 law, Howe, from Eumford. They ran the house for a year and 
 a half, and sold out to Tuttle and Hobbs, of Norway. These 
 parties bought, in connection therewith, the stage line to Andover 
 and Dixfield. They also kept a livery stable and dealt quite 
 largely in horses. They kept a good hotel, the best ever kept 
 in town, and were enterprising men. In 1865, they sold out 
 and went to Providence, E. I. The new man was Nathaniel B. 
 Crockett, of Andover. He had previously been in trade here. 
 Crockett remained until 1871, when he sold out to Allen and 
 Perham, who were there two years. Joseph H. Carpenter had 
 it in 1874, and then Otis Kaler bought the property, enlarged 
 the house, and made many improvements. He changed the 
 name from the Bryant's Pond to the Glen Mountain House. 
 He ran the house four years. F. T. Stevens, the proprietor of 
 Mt. Zircon Springs, had it in 1878, Orlando C. Houghton in 1879, 
 and E. S. Eussell in 1880. It is now kept by Hiram Perkins. 
 
122 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 VILLAGES. 
 
 Stephens' Mills, or Woodstock Corner, was for several years 
 the business center of Woodstock. Here the first general store 
 was established and tlie first Post Office. John E. Briggs began 
 to trade here about the year 1824, and traded until 1830, when 
 he was succeeded by Eleazer Shaw, who kept the store and 
 Post Office until 1837. Welcome Kinsley then took the store 
 and traded for several years. He was the last trader at this 
 place. The Stephens mill was taken down, or tumbled down, 
 about 1835, and afterwards business at this place declined. 
 Ziba Andrews had built a mill at South Woodstock, and, after 
 the new County road was built from Paris to Eumford, the 
 center of business gradually changed to near Andrews' mill. 
 A little village sprang up, a hotel was opened, and after a time 
 the Post Office was moved here. Trade was also carried on 
 here by one or more stores. A strong effort was made to have 
 a County road laid out by way of West Paris, and following 
 the line afterwards occupied by the railroad to the island farm, 
 so called, in Greenwood, and then, after crossing the outlet of 
 the North Alder River Pond, to divide, a branch leading to 
 Bethel and another to Eumford. Believing that such a road 
 would be laid out and built, Samuel H. Houghton put up a 
 large building for a hotel at the foot of Bryant's Pond, thinking 
 this would become a business center or an important thorough- 
 fare. But the road was defeated, and with its defeat fled the 
 hopes of Mr. Hougl^ton, and he soon left town. A part of his 
 buildings were moved to Bryant's Pond and were incorporated 
 into the hotel there. Something of a village also sprang up at 
 North Woodstock, called Pinhook. A store was opened here, 
 and kept by Edmund Chase, Caleb Bessee, Jr., Chauncey C. Whit- 
 man and others, and a hotel was kept by John E. Briggs. A 
 Post Office was subsequently established here, and this little 
 hamlet, with the one at South Woodstock, which was called by 
 various slang names, such as " Slab City," " Tmker Village," 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 123 
 
 ." Punky Pog," &c., continued to be the chief business places in 
 town, until the building of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Eail- 
 road through the town in 1851. 
 
 This was the beginning of Bryant's Pond Village, which 
 sprung up rapidly around the railway station and has since con- 
 tinued to be the center of trade and of business for Woodstock. 
 
 BRYANT S POND FROM DUDLEY HILL. 
 
 It is not only the center of a considerable local trade, but the 
 towns lying to the north and north-east, which come here to 
 take the cars, furnish considerable traffic to the traders at Bry- 
 ant's Pond. There are two church edifices here, several stores 
 and a good hotel. The erection of a large spool factory, to be 
 run by steam, added materially to the business of the place, as 
 there is here no water power. There has been but very little 
 business done either at North or South Woodstock for the last 
 twenty years. The south part of the town does most of its 
 business at West Paris, and a portion of Greenwood comes natu- 
 rally to Bryant's Pond. 
 
124 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 TRADERS. 
 
 It is not an easy task to recall the different persons who have 
 been in trade in this town at different periods. In the early 
 times, there were several of the settlers that kept groceries, in- 
 cluding New England rum, for sale in their dwelling houses. 
 Eowse Bisbee kept such goods both before and after he moved 
 to Pinhook ; Joel Perham, Luther Whitman and John E. Briggs 
 were among those who trafficked in this way. The great bulk 
 of the goods used in town, however, were purchased in Paris. 
 The first regular store of goods 'opened here was by John E. 
 Briggs, and probably about the year 1824. This was at Stephens' 
 Mills. He was succeeded by Eleazer C. Shaw, from Paris, and 
 he, in 1837, by Welcome Kinsley. William Cotton also, per- 
 haps, traded at the same place and these were the last. 
 
 At North Woodstock, the first person to open a general store 
 was Edmund Chase ; after him came in the order named, John 
 E. Briggs, Euss & Adams, Chauncey C. Whitman, Whitman 
 and Bessee, Henry Howe, William Small, Ezra Jewell, McKen- 
 ney Brothers, C. M. Wormwell & Co., Perham & Burk, Charles 
 Dunham, Frank Godwin, Godwin & Perham, and Cole & Look. 
 No heavy stocks of goods have ever been kept there, and goods 
 were largely exchanged with the farmers for country produce. 
 
 The first trader at Bryant's Pond was Ezra Jewell. He was 
 a veteran in trade, having been in business in Bangor, Portland 
 and Norway. His store was the one opposite the hotel, on the 
 Eumford road. Henry Howe came here from North Woodstock 
 and built a store, which was burned in 1860, and stood on the 
 same spot where Joel Perham re-built in 1860. His brother 
 William was in company with him. They sold out to Joel 
 Perham, Jr., who traded a few years and sold out to Davis & 
 Stearns. He bought it back after a year, and sold out again to 
 W. B. Lapham, who ran it a year, and then it went back again . 
 into Perham's hands. Jonathan Jewell built the store at the 
 east end of the village, and did a large business in flour and 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 125 
 
 corn. A. K. Knapp & Son were there after him, and since that 
 time 0. C. & H. Houghton, W. H. Cole, C. P. Berry and others 
 have occupied it. The store north of the hotel was built by 
 Hezekiah Eolfe, and was occupied by him, then by C. P. Knight, 
 Lyman Bolster and F. M. Bartlett. A. B. & N. B. Crockett, 
 from Andover, built a large store on the land belonging to the 
 Railway Company south of the station, where they traded a 
 few years. Afterwards it was occupied by Dunham & Estes, 
 Pray & Merrill, and lastly by F. M. Bartlett & Co. It was 
 burned while occupied by them. The Ezra Jewell store has 
 been occupied by Jewell & Sawyer, D. M. Jacobs, D. P. Bowker, 
 Thomas Pu Day and Ansel Dudley. Several of the above kept . 
 only confectionery, nuts, and tobacco in its different forms. 
 Sylvania Perham has kept a millinery and fancy g(?ods store 
 here for nearly thirty years. She has generally had a large 
 trade. Joseph Churchill, from Norway, kept a stock of 
 Gent's Furnishing Goods here for some years, in the building 
 put up by him. He occupied the upper part as a dwelling. 
 E. K. Knight, with his father, kept tlie first hardware store 
 here. They also manufactured tin ware. They were succeeded 
 by S. A. Brock, who carried on the business very successfully 
 for a few years and then went to Bethel. Mr. Durgin carried 
 on the business in the Knight store awhile, and was succeeded 
 by Charles E. Houghton. Thomas Sampson built and kept a 
 small store at South Woodstock. Others may have traded 
 there previously. Granville Fuller kept a store near the Metho- 
 dist meeting house, in the south part, which he sold to Wm. H. 
 Cole, receiving in payment the farm known as the Gilbert place. 
 
 PHYSICIANS. 
 
 The first regular physician in this town was Dr. Nathan A. 
 Bradbury, who came here in 1827. He was the son of Joseph 
 Bradbury and of Tabitha Cotton, his wife, and was born in 
 Poland, June 20, 1801. His father, with his family, moved to 
 
126 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Norway, where Nathan A. was married to Eliza Millett, Oct. 
 15, 1827. He lived in a house near Stephens' Mills, which 
 was subsequently bought by Kilbon Perham, moved to his 
 present farm and occupied by him until a few years ago, when 
 it was torn down to give place to a better one. Dr. Bradbury 
 was here only a few years when he moved to Sweden, in the 
 west part of the County. He was Superintending School Com- 
 mittee here in 1828 and 1829. One of his daughters became a 
 regular physician, and married Dr. Babb, of Eastport. 
 
 The next one was Dr. Oilman Eowe. He was a native of 
 New Hampsliire, but came here from Canada. He married 
 Cynthia Buck, daughter of Moses, of Sumner, and after re- 
 maining in this town a short time, he moved to North Paris 
 and died there. He was here in 1838. His widow became the 
 second wife of America Bisbee, of Norway. Dr. Eowe did an 
 extensive practice while here, in this and the surrounding towns. 
 
 Dr. Edwin Green was here in 1846. He was a native of 
 Paris, and married a Kendall, of Berlin, N. H. He was a well 
 educated physician, but not a successful practitioner. He after- 
 wards lived on a farm in Sumner, his place being near the road 
 which leads from the Dunham neighborhood to Jackson Village. 
 He died a year or two ago. 
 
 The first physician at the Pond was Dr. W. B. Lapham, who 
 came from Bethel in 1856. He was here until 1871, with the 
 exception of three years and a half in the army. 
 
 While Dr. Lapham was away in the army. Dr. Henry M. 
 Adams moved from Eumford to the Pond. He was a dentist, 
 but went into general practice here. In 1865, he removed to 
 Cedar Falls, Iowa, and from thence to Dakota. 
 
 Dr. Orren Stephens, son of Benjamin, of this town, settled at 
 the Pond in 1870, and after a year or two moved to Oxford. 
 
 Dr. E. Bragdon, Jr., succeeded Dr. Lapham at the Pond, and 
 was here about two years when he moved away. The next one 
 was David Watson, who had served in the United States Navy. 
 He was here a year and a half and then moved to Conway, N. H. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 127 
 
 Dr. Charles D. Bradbury, from Buckfield, moved to a farm in 
 Sigotcb, and did some practice in that section. His wife was 
 Malone Chase, daughter of Thomas, of Buckfield. It was upon 
 his land that gold was discovered, which led to the sinking of a 
 shaft and the expenditure of quite a large sum of money, in 
 efforts to develop what probably never existed. 
 
 Dr. Joseph S. Burns, son of John G., of the " Gore," a gradu- 
 ate of Bowdoin College, studied medicine and was here a short 
 time and then went South. 
 
 Dr. R. P. Sawyer came to the Pond from Portland and is 
 still here. This includes all the regular practitioners. 
 
 Dr. Peter Brooks and Dr. Christopher Bryant were quite 
 famous " root and herb " Doctors in the early time, and the 
 latter, from his habit of digging his remedies from the grouijd, 
 was called " Doctor Digeo." Samuel Bryant, Jr., claimed that 
 the mantle of his uncle fell upon him, and practiced more or 
 less with similar remedies up to near the time of his death. 
 
 Many out of town physicians have been employed. In the 
 early times, Drs. Croswell and Benj. Chandler, of Paris, were 
 in high repute, and later, Drs. Kittredge, Brown, Twitchell and 
 Russell, from the same town, were more or less employed. 
 Drs. Danforth and Millett, of Norway, were well known here, 
 and also Drs. Fuller, Roberts and Russell, of Rumford, Drs. 
 Wiley and Grover of Bethel, and later, Dr. David W. Davis, of 
 Locke's Mills, and Drs. Yates and Packard, of West Paris. 
 
 LAWYERS. 
 
 Woodstock has never been overburdened with lawyers. Thos. 
 S. Bridgham, son of Sydenham and grandson of Dr. William, 
 all of Buckfield, came here and opened an office in 1858. He 
 married Martha, daughter of Hon. James H. Farnum. He re- 
 mained here only two or three years. 
 
 The next and only other one was Herrick C. Davis, son of 
 
128 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Benjamin, of this town. He was at first a carpenter, then went 
 into trade and finally studied law. He was here until he was 
 elected Eegister of Probate in 1872, when he moved to Paris, 
 
 THE PUBLIC LOTS. 
 
 The reservations for ministerial and school purposes have 
 already been referred to ; these constituted the public lots. An 
 Act was passed January 19, 1816, authorizing the sale of these 
 lots, and providing for a Board of Trustees to have charge of 
 the funds. The Board of Trustees provided for in the Act were 
 Stephen Chase, Cornelius Perkins, Alexander. Day, John Bil- 
 lings, Seth Curtis, Merrill Chase and Thomas Parrar. The 
 sale of the public lots did not produce a large sum of money, 
 probably not more than three or four hundred dollars. The 
 records of the trustees not being in existence, the exact sum 
 cannot be stated ; but it furnished a topic for discussion in 
 many a town meeting. In 1840, the town voted to place the 
 ministerial and school funds in the hands of the municipal 
 officers, and to constitute them and their successors in office a 
 Board of Trustees thereof. The money was loaned from time 
 to time to different parties in town, endorsed notes being taken 
 for security, and the result was that the parties became insolvent 
 and the entire amount was lost. There was never any minister 
 settled in town who was entitled to receive benefits from the 
 funds, under the conditions on which the reservations were 
 made. 
 
 POLITICS, 
 
 Like the inhabitants of all hilly or mountainous regions, the 
 people of Woodstock were ever a clannish set. They were in 
 the early days, and they have, in a great measure, been so ever 
 since. In their politics, for more than fifty years after the town 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 129 
 
 was settled, they were practically a unit. Oftentimes there was 
 only one scattering vote, and that thrown by Rowse Bisbee, who 
 for some years was the sole representative of the Whig party in 
 town, and from 1821 to 1828, when the candidates for Governor 
 were old residents of the County, the vote in that town was 
 unanimous.- It continued to be practically so as stated, until 
 the temperance question became an issue, and then, in spite of 
 all her democratic proclivities and traditions, the town voted 
 for temperance as against the democratic opposition, the first 
 time the issue was presented. The first anti-slavery or free soil 
 sentiment cropped out in 1844, when Edward Robinson received 
 six votes for Governor. In 1850, John Hubbard, Democrat, 
 received 155 votes, George F. Talbot, Freesoil, 15, and William 
 G. Crosby, Whig, 8. Governor Hubbard was elected, and signed 
 the Maine Liquor Law which had been passed by the Legisla- 
 ture, and for this act the Democrats undertook to bounce him 
 and voted for Anson G. Chandler. The question of prohibition 
 was here fairly presented, and Woodstock gave Hubbard 129 
 votes, Cliandler 60, and William G. Crosby 4. In 1853, the 
 candidates were Anson P. Morrill, Maine Law, Albert Pillsbury, 
 Democratic, William G. Crosby, Whig, and Ezekiel Holmes, 
 Freesoil. Woodstock gave Morrill 107, Pillsbury 66, and 
 Holmes 29. Crosby received none in this town, but he was 
 a constitutional candidate and was made Governor by the Legis- 
 lature. In 1854, the anti-slavery elements of the country had 
 begun to unite to form the Republican party, and the Freesoil 
 of Woodstock, as well as the temperance votes, were tlirown 
 for Morrill, who had 145 to 84 for Albion K. Parris, the Dem- 
 ocratic candidate. Morrill took his seat as Governor the follow- 
 ing January. In 1855, Morrill received 140 votes, Samuel 
 Wells 91 ; the Democratic ticket in the State prevailed and 
 Wells was elected Governor. In 1856 occurred the first Repub- 
 lican campaign ; Hannibal Hamlin was the Republican candi- 
 date for Governor, and Woodstock gave him 162 votes to 81 for 
 Wells. Hamlin was elected. The relative strength of the two 
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130 ■ HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 parties remained about the same until the next Presidential 
 campaign, when Israel Washburn, Jr., Eepublicau, received 172 
 votes to 73 for Ephraim K. Smart. At the breaking out of the 
 war of the rebellion, Woodstock was intensely loyal to the 
 National Government ; in 1861, Washburn, Republican, received 
 161 votes, Charles D. Jameson, the gallant commander of the 
 Second Maine Regiment, and a war Democrat, received 37, and 
 John W. Dana, who represented those opposed to the prosecu- 
 tion of the war, had only 6 votes. Since that time, the vote of 
 Woodstock has been given to the Republican ticket by a ratio 
 of 3. or 4 to 1. There has probably been as little corruption in 
 conducting the political campaigns, in Woodstock as in any 
 town in the State. The voters here have decided convictions, 
 and such men cannot be easily influenced to vote differently from 
 what they think. It is not a question to be discussed here, 
 whether they have voted intelligently or not, but there is not 
 the least doubt about their voting as they believed, and they 
 are men who can give a reason for their faith and acts. 
 
 MILLS.. 
 
 The first mill in town was built by Rowse Bisbee in 1808, on 
 the brook near Abel Bacon's. In 1812, he sold it to James 
 Nutting, who subsequently sold it to Capt. Samuel Stephens. 
 It could only be operated a portion of the year for lack of 
 water, and after the land was cleared along the stream, the 
 volume of water grew less and less. The old mill was taken 
 down in 1834 or l'835. 
 
 Samuel H. Houghton built a saw mill quite early, at the 
 foot of Bryant's Pond, which was operated by various parties 
 for Uiirty or forty years, and then was allowed to go to decay. 
 Merrill Chase built the first mill and was the first settler in 
 Sigotch. 
 
 Rowse Bisbee, about the year 1820, built a saw mill on the 
 right hand side of the Rumford road, at Pinhook, and afterwards 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 131 
 
 built a grist mill at the foot of the Billings Hill. These, long 
 since, were taken down. A saw mill was built north of Pinhook, 
 perhaps by Oliver Eobbins. It had several owners, among 
 whom was Thomas Crocker, of Paris, before it finally rotted 
 down. Ziba Andrews built a mill in the south part of the 
 town, about the year 1827, and a mill of some kind has been 
 operated there ever since. 
 
 Josiah J. Knight bought the Chase mill in Sigotch about the 
 year 1839, and operated it for quite a number of years, manu- 
 facturing various kinds of lumber. He sold out to Bartle and 
 Nathan Perry, who operated it quite successfully until they 
 sold it, about . the year 1870. Joseph Davis and Scth, his 
 brother, had a saw mill on the brook near their residences, which 
 did considerable business. Alfred D. Bryant, in company with 
 others, has since operated a mill near by the last named. None 
 of these mills have been first class, on account of the limited 
 supply of water. They have only been able to operate during 
 the high water, in spring and fall. 
 
 About the year 1840, a clover mill was built on the brook 
 north of Pinhook, and was operated by Horatio G. Russ. Since 
 1875, a spool factory has been built at Bryant's Pond, the town 
 contributing generously in aid of erecting the buildings. It 
 should also be mentioned, that Jonathan A. Rowe had a grist 
 mill for grinding corn and rye at Pinhook, and also a shingle 
 mill 
 
132 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES. 
 
 ORIGIN OF A FAMILIAR TUNE. 
 
 Capt. Jonathan Cole, as stated elsewhere, married Abigail 
 Whitman, daughter of Jacob, of Buckfield. At the wedding 
 was the well-known musical composer Maxim, whose " Turner," 
 " Hallowell," " Hebron," &c., have been sung at almost every 
 fireside in the land. He had also composed " Buckfield," and 
 on this occasion he told the new-made bride that he would 
 compose a tune representing the town where she was to make 
 her future home. So he sat down and composed " Woodstock," 
 which was subsequently sung with great unction by the wed- 
 ding guests. This is not the "Woodstock" which appears 
 in many collections, but is the one contained in the Northern 
 Harmony, which is perhaps the only book in which it has 
 appeared. 
 
 NEW USE FOR A SKILLET LEg! 
 
 When John Billings lived in a log house, on the farm after- 
 wards occupied by Capt. Jonathan Cole, and had but a small 
 Wearing, one morning his dog began to run and bark through 
 the neighboring woods, and soon becoming stationary, Mr. 
 Billings knew that he had treed his game, whatever it might be 
 So taking down his old " queen's arm," he loaded it heavily 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 133 
 
 with powder and buck shot, and, to make it doubly sure, he 
 dropped a skillet leg into the barrel. Shouldering it^ he went 
 over to Joseph Whitman's, his nearest neighbor, and engaged 
 him to go with him to see what the dog had treed. The direc- 
 tion was on the hill east of Mr. Whitman's house, and when 
 they came near where the dog was, they looked up and saw a large 
 cat-like animal leaping from tree to tree. Mr. Whitman was 
 greatly excited, and axe in hand, jumped over windfalls and 
 tore through the underbrush, exclaiming, " By golly, its a cata- 
 mount." Mr. Billings followed close behind, and soon the 
 monster stopped, turned toward them and prepared to spring. 
 But when lie had drawn himself up to make his leap from the 
 tree, Billings coolly took aim and fired. The animal fell dead 
 at their feet, his heart pierced by the skillet leg, while the recoil 
 of the gun from the overcharge knocked Mr. Billings nearly 
 senseless. The skin of the catamount was shown as a trophy 
 many years afterwards. 
 
 THE FIRST DEATH. 
 
 The first death in town was that of a child of Abram Walton. 
 Mr. Walton settled on one of the lots in the east part, which 
 was run out by Smith. He felled trees and burned them in the 
 
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 autumn. The next spring, he built a log hut and moved 
 in with his family. He junked and piled his piece in early 
 summer, and set fire to it. While it was burning, his little 
 daughter, three years old, wandered away from the house, and 
 was burned so severely that she died. Her name was Ellen 
 Walton. It is said by some that this occurred the year before 
 the Bryant brothers made a settlement in the west part, upon 
 the grant to Dummer Academy. Walton and Hutchinson, 
 who came in with him, did not remain many years, but moved 
 away, the former going west and the latter building a mill at 
 North Paris. 
 
134 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 HUNTING FOR BURIED TREASURE. 
 
 Old Doctor Bryant, one of the first two settlers of Wood- 
 stock, also called, from his root-digging propensity, Dr. " Digeo/ 
 was a firm believer in ghosts and witches. He also believed 
 that Jewell's Island, in Casco Bay, was the place where Capt. 
 Kidd deposited his money, and he often went there and searched 
 for it. His idea was, that Capt. Kidd, after burying his treas- 
 ure, made one of his men swear to guard it, and then killed 
 him and buried him above the iron chest containing the gold. 
 When anyone searching for the gold struck the chest, the sen- 
 tinel ghost would always make some demonstration to frighten 
 him away. If the searcher could only hold his peace and keep 
 on with the work, he would succeed ; but if he was frightened 
 into speaking a word, the charm would be broken and all would 
 be lost. Dr. Bryant once told, in the hearing of the writer, 
 how he and Hector Fuller, a colored man, once went to the 
 Island fully determined to brave everything and bring away 
 the coveted treasure. So, nerving themselves by the free use of 
 elixir vitse and laying in a little store in case of need, they pro- 
 ceeded to the Island. Observing all the required formalities, 
 they commenced to dig, the moon shining brightly the while. 
 After digging down several feet, one of them took the crowbar 
 and striking into the earth at the bottom of the pit, it hit upon 
 something that had a decided metallic ring, when instantly there 
 appeared in the hole they had made, a sow with a family of 
 pigs. They understood this to be a demonstration of the guard, 
 and resolved to stand their ground, but the animal became 
 ferocious and caught one of the diggers by the leg, which brought 
 from him a profane ejaculation, when lo and behold, the animal 
 and her family disappeared, the pit was filled up and they found 
 themselves sitting upon the shingly beach with the tide water 
 almost touching their feet. Listeners to this marvelous story 
 generally believed that it was an hallucination caused by their 
 potations, but nothing would so offend the Doctor as to hint at 
 such a thing. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. . 135 
 
 CLOSE CALCULATION. 
 
 Cases have sometimes occurred where persons who wished to 
 have the nuptial knot tied have tried to beat down the parson's 
 fees, but it is not very often that one who wants to get mar- 
 ried tries the market as he would in selling his farm produce. 
 But such a tiling did occur in this town. Mr. S. had bought 
 and prepared the nest and snared his bird, and now wanted to 
 have the legal formalities gone through with ; so he went to a 
 Justice of the Peace and asked the terms. He was answered 
 that the legal fee was one dollar and twenty-five cents, but 
 applicants for such service generally paid two dollars or more. 
 He said, "A dollar and a quarter is a darned sight too much for 
 ten minutes work," and so he went to another and asked the 
 same question, and was answered in essentially the same way. 
 He asked if the fee could be paid in shingles, and was answered 
 in the affirmative. He considered a moment, scratched his 
 unkempt head, and then suddenly exclaimed : "By gosh, Tve 
 got it ; my cart wheels have got to he repaired, and I can get 
 Elder Richer to do it for a dollar a day, and he can marry us 
 at noontime, and it won't cost me a darned cent," and away he 
 went to put his brilliant project into execution ; whether he 
 succeeded to his mind or not cannot be stated. 
 
 A HARD CASE. 
 
 The above calls to mind a circumstance in which, as in many 
 other cases, " the course of true love did not run smoothly," 
 though it was no fault of the lovers. A man in the east part 
 of the towij paid his respects'to a girl in the same neighborhood, 
 much younger than himself, in fact, one who had advanced but 
 a short way into her " teens." He hauled hay to the Pond and 
 bought dress goods, which he presented her ; the day was ap- 
 pointed for the marriage, and the services of a magistrate be- 
 
136 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 spoken. But he visited the Justice solitary and sober that day, 
 and with the blackest of " black eyes." His story was briefly 
 told. He went to the home of his intended, but was met at 
 the door by her father and big brother, who beat him most 
 unmercifully and drove him away. He wanted either a warrant 
 for the arrest of his assailants, or a writ to recover the clothes 
 he had furnished the girl. He said : " Her father seemed to be 
 well pleased with my attentions while I was clothing her up, 
 but as soon as the gal was clothed up, the old man turned me 
 away like a dog." A little advice served to calm the anger of 
 the disappointed lover, who agreed that it was not best to have 
 the affair made public by carrying it into court, and so it was 
 allowed to subside. 
 
 " SMALL POTATOES. 
 
 Seed potatoes were usually very scarce in Woodstock in the 
 spring, and the settlers often had to bring them from a long dis- 
 tance through the woods, on their backs. One spring, Merrill 
 Chase was short of* potatoes to plant and went to Asa Thurlow's, 
 hoping to obtain some. But Mr. Thurlow only had a few small 
 ones scattered on his cellar bottom, which he offered to give to 
 Mr. Chase if he would scrape them up and take them away, 
 which he gladly did. He got in all about three pecks. They 
 were so small that Mr. Chase, when he planted them, carried 
 them in his planting bag and used a planting hoe, the same that 
 he used in planting corn on burnt land. His hogs broke out of 
 their pen and dug some of the potatoes, but he saved over 
 eighty bushels, the product of three pecks of seed, none of them 
 larger than sparrow's eggs. Many of the potatoes raised 
 weighed two pounds each. This shows the great productive- 
 ness of Woodstock soil. 
 
history of woodstock. 137 
 
 backwoods' life. 
 
 Luther Whitman, Jr., moved into the east part of the town 
 in 1821. The tract of land upon which he settled had been 
 sold for taxes and bid off by his father, to whom it became 
 forfeited. It was situated on a high hill and was covered with 
 a heavy growth of hard wood. It was quite an undertaking for 
 Mr. Whitman to commence life for himself upon such land, but 
 he had just been married, was full of hope and courage, and so 
 was his wife, and neither of thetn thought of shrinking from 
 the trying duties which the situation imposed. When they set 
 out, their household goods were few and simple, and Mrs. 
 Whitman rode on horseback as far as Lemuel Perham's, which 
 was the end of the road. From this point they traveled on 
 foot two miles into the woods, guided only by a- spotted line, to 
 reach their place of destination. Here Mr. Whitman had 
 already erected a log cabin, in which he and his companion set 
 up their household goods and gods. It was some years before 
 they had any neighbor nearer than Mr. Perham. On two occa- 
 sions during those years, the fire went out on the hearthstone, 
 and Mrs. Whitman was obliged to go to Mr. Perham's for a 
 supply. It was no easy matter to carry fire two miles through 
 the woods, but she took a piece of old cotton cloth, rolled it 
 tightly and setting the end on fire, it kept alive until she 
 reached her home. They suffered many privations, but Mr. 
 Whitman was a stalwart worker and well skilled in woodcraft, 
 and in process of time, they had a large and productive farm. 
 They reared a large family of intelligent and interesting children, 
 but all save one died young, most of them in early man and 
 womanhood. The father also sleeps with his fathers, upon this 
 hill-side farm, where he had toiled for more than forty years. 
 Failing health compelled the only surviving son to sell out the 
 farm, and he moved to Paris ; his aged mother still lives with 
 him. 
 
138 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 LOG CABINS. 
 
 Mrs. Lucretia Nutting, who died a year or two ago in Per- 
 ham, Aroostook County, at a great age, came into Woodstock to 
 work when she was quite young and when the settlers were 
 but few. In conversation with tlfe writer a short time before 
 her death, she spoke of her impressions when she first came to 
 this town. It was after dark when she came up by the old, 
 then the new county road, and she said she saw occasionally 
 what appeared to her to be st^acks of hay placed at intervals 
 along the road, but on passing them again in the day time, she 
 found they were the huts of the settlers. They were built of 
 logs and covered with bark, and not much larger than moderate 
 sized stacks of hay, yet it was in these same huts that many of 
 the staunch and representative men of the town were born. 
 
 A POISON ELDER. 
 
 Eowse Bisbee, who built the first mill in town, and was the 
 first settler at Pinhook, was a man of few words, but of very 
 strong feeling. After he moved to Pinhook, he had some dis- 
 agreement with the minister, who was a blacksmith. He had 
 no wordy controversy with him, in which he would stand no 
 chance ; but one day he walked into the shop of the minister, 
 bearing a stick of the poison or stinking elder, which he stood 
 up by the side of the forge, and went away without speaking a 
 word. It was his expressive way of informing the minister the 
 kind of " elder " he considered him. 
 
 NOT A MODEL TEACHER. 
 
 John Annas, who at one time lived in the Whitman neigh- 
 borhood, attended meeting one Sunday at the school house, an.d 
 at noon was asked to hear a class of boys recite their lesson. 
 Annas had some good qualities, but he was so addicted to the 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 139 
 
 use of profane language that the bad words would often escape 
 his lips without his being conscious of it. He heard the class 
 through, and the boys recited so promptly that he thought they 
 deserved to be praised, and he proceeded to address them, in a 
 voice that was audible all over the room, as follows : " Scholars, 
 you have recited a perfect lesson ; you have done well ; you are 
 d — d good hoys." He was not asked to hear another class in 
 that school. 
 
 THE TOLLAWALLAITES. 
 
 It was not always so, but there have been times when the 
 people ir^ the Lunt neighborhood, so called, were a happy-go- 
 lucky set. They had no regular abiding place, but circulated 
 between this town, Eaymond and Auburn. If any one is 
 curious to know more of them than is given here, he is referred 
 to ex-sheriff Littlefield, of Auburn, who, as one of the overseers 
 of the poor, has had some experience with them. They would 
 not work under any circumstances. They could subsist on 
 berries in the summer, but the first hard frost would send them 
 pell mell to the overseers for help. This finally became so 
 common, that the overseers of the poor determined to send them 
 to the town farm. They had a horror of going there, and went 
 home with empty hands, But the way they flanked the town 
 officials was found out afterwards. One head of a family went 
 to the overseers and said if he could be furnished with a barrel 
 of flour and a little salt pork, he would try and get through the 
 winter ; they were furnished him, as being the least expensive 
 course in his case, and he immediately went home and opened 
 a free boarding house. All the neighborhood turned out and 
 lived on the barrel of flour until it was gone, and this thing 
 was repeated until every family had been furnished with the 
 same amount of supplies, which were disposed of in the same 
 way. It was said that during that winter they had a dancing 
 school in the neighborhood and that every person who attended 
 
140 ■ HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 it, including the teacher, was living on the bounty furnished at 
 the expense of the town. This story was probably the inven- 
 tion of some malicious person who held the " Tollawallaites" 
 in low esteem. 
 
 BADLY SOLD. 
 
 During exciting political campaigns, there were a few resi- 
 dents of Woodstock, the same as in other towns, who would 
 sell their votes provided they could find a purchaser. But it 
 sometimes happened that the purchaser was himself badly sold. 
 One year, when the vote in the county promised to be quite 
 close, and votes were in unusual demand, one of those who 
 hoped to avail himsdf of his right of suffrage to turn an honest 
 penny, went to the party leaders of one side and offered to vote 
 that ticket for a barrel of flour ; his offer was promptly accepted 
 and the flour furnished in advance. He then went to the other 
 side and offered his vote on that side for six dollars in goods ; 
 this offer was also accepted and the goods handed over. When 
 election day came both parties were on the lookout for him, 
 but he did not put in an appearance. They then sent teams 
 after him, which arrived at his house about the same time and 
 found him sick in bed, with hot bricks at his feet, and suffering 
 intense pain. They were obliged to go away without him, but 
 as soon as they were gone, he was able to get up and go about 
 his work. 
 
 On another occasion, the vote of an east part of the town 
 resident was challenged, on the ground that he had received aid 
 from the town witliin three months. It seemed that a doctor's 
 bill, for services in his family, had been presented to the Select- 
 men, though it had not been paid. Thereupon, a leading party 
 man advanced the five dollars necessary to liquidate the debt, 
 directing him to go to West Paris, settle with Dr. Eussell, get 
 his receipt and then come back and vote. He started off, but 
 did he carry out the programme arranged for him ? Not he ; 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 141 
 
 he knew a trick worth two of that ; he took the money, went 
 home and staid there, and his friend and benefactor watched 
 for him in vain until the polls were closed. 
 
 CHASED BY A PANTHER. 
 
 The truth of the following story is not avouched for by the 
 writer, though there are strong grounds for believing it authentic. 
 It occurred nearly a hundred years ago — and long before the 
 first settler built his cabin in this town. The descendants of 
 the leading character of the adventure say that the story has 
 come down to them, and they believe it, and the principal 
 details, as related by them, are here given. One of the first 
 settlers in Paris was Lemuel Jackson, of Middleboro, Mass. 
 Eumford and Paris were settled nearly at the same time, though 
 when the Indian raid was made into Bethel in 1781, the settlers 
 in Eumford went away and did not return for over a year. 
 Until the road was built through Woodstock in 1796, there was 
 no communication between the two settlements, except through 
 the wilderness, guided by a line of^spotted trees. It is said that 
 in the spring, Mr. Jackson, being short of potatoes for seed, 
 made the journey alone through the woods to New Pennacook 
 (Rumford) for the purpose of procuring some of the settlers 
 there. He secured the potatoes and started for home late in 
 the afternoon, intending to stop over night on the way. It was 
 not an uncommon thing for the early settlers, when visiting 
 neighboring settlements, to spend the night in the woods. Near 
 the brook which passes through Pinhook at the time of which 
 we are speaking, was a deserted camp which had been used by 
 sable hunters, and which was built after the rude manner 
 of those days. Jackson arrived at this camp about dark, and 
 decided to spend the night here and pursue his homeward 
 journey in the morning. His bag of potatoes was deposited in 
 the camp, and he was arranging for a fire, when he was startled 
 
142 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 by a savage scream which almost froze his blood. He had 
 heard a similar sound before, and knew that it was made by 
 the most dangerous animal of the northern woods, the dreaded 
 American panther. He also knew that if he remained where 
 he was, he would soon be attacked, and that the old and rudely 
 constructed camp would afford him no protection. His only 
 hope, and that, under the circumstances, a forlorn one, was in 
 flight, and this at once he resolved on. Seizing his bag of 
 potatoes, for these were too important to him to give them up 
 without an effort to save them, he bounded off through the 
 woods at a rapid rate. He struck the Little Androscoggin at the 
 foot of Bryant's Pond ; up to this time, he had heard nothing more 
 of the beast, and a glimmer of hope entered his heart that he was 
 not pursued, but as he proceeded along the river bank, this hope 
 was dispelled by the loud cry of the animal, which now seemed 
 quite near. He now felt the necessity of putting forth every 
 effort, and to this end he threw away his bag of potatoes and 
 rushed through the dark woods at an accelerated speed. He heard 
 nothing more of the panther for some time, the animal probably 
 having found the bag of potatoes, and, impelled by curiosity, 
 had stopped to examine it ; hope again brightened, soon to be 
 dispelled by the terrible screams of the beast, which now seemed 
 nearer than at any time before. The case was now desperate, 
 and Jackson felt that the terrible beast might spring down 
 upon him from any of the dark trees which seemed to frown 
 above his head. In running, his hat was knocked off and he 
 sped on without it. It is probable that the panther stopped 
 again to examine the hat, and this gave the fugitive another 
 short respite. He rushed on, tearing his clothes and scratching 
 his face against the brush which he could not see, and guided 
 by the sound of the rapids on the river, along which his course 
 lay. Again he hoped he might escape his pursuer, and again 
 the dreadful cry reached him, showing that the beast was still 
 on his track. Why the panther hesitated about attacking him 
 is hard to be understood. It may be, however, that, governed 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 143 
 
 by his cat-like nature, he was playing with him, feeling it in 
 his power to accomplish his purpose at any time. But Jackson 
 sped on, and now the twelve long miles from the old camp are 
 nearly accomplished ; his clearing appears in view, but the river, 
 which must be forded, runs between him and his cabin. He 
 rushed into the water, and the panther, having come into the 
 clearing, and with tlie instinct of his race taking in tlie situ- 
 ation, and fearful of losing his intended prey, leaped in after 
 him*. Jackson gained a little in the water, and near the opposite 
 bank stood his cabin. Calling to his wife at the top of his 
 voice, he rushed up the bank ; his wife heard and opened wide 
 the door, through wliich Jackson rushed headlong and fell prone 
 on the floor. Eealizing that there must be danger near at hand, 
 Mrs. Jackson at once closed the door and adjusted the strong 
 bar which answered the purpose of a bolt. Hardly had she 
 done this when the animal sprang against the door in a manner 
 that made the cabin tremble. But it was proof against his 
 attacks, and, prowling around in the vicinity the remainder of 
 the night, at daylight he vanished into the forest. 
 
 MRS. NUTTING S DILEMMA. 
 
 After James Nutting moved to Greenwood, his wife, one day, 
 accompanied by her sister Sarah, who afterwards became the 
 wife of Nathaniel Swan, came to Bisbee's mill, both mounted 
 on one horse and also having a grist of corn. The road was 
 but a bridle path, with trees across it, and they were delayed in 
 getting their grist, so that it was dark when they started home. 
 When they came to the fallen timber which obstructed the 
 road, which they could not see for the darkness, their faithful 
 horse leaped, over each one, without unseating the riders or 
 throwing off the bag of meal. When within a mile of home 
 the saddle girth broke, throwing them both off and also the grist. 
 Here was a dilemma, but Mrs. Nutting was equal to it, and 
 
144 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 taking off her garters, she repaired the broken girth, loaded the 
 grist, and mounting, proceeded home, where they arrived in 
 safety. 
 
 BEARS ON A BENDER. 
 
 The following incident took place in Greenwood, though 
 Woodstockers may have had a hand in it: One year the bears 
 were plenty and unusually bold and troublesome to the settlers. 
 John Sanborn, of Greenwood, after baiting them with molasses 
 for a .while, one night mixed with the molasses quite a quantity 
 of New England rum, and the next morning had the satisfaction 
 of finding two bears stupidly drunk. Calling together as many 
 friends as he could to aid him in dispatching his game, a prop- 
 osition was made to have a little fun out of it. So, after a good 
 drink all around, and procuring several ox-chains and some 
 fence rails, they proceeded to securely fasten a rail to each bear. 
 They then commenced to " wake up the animals," and with 
 one or two men at each end of the rails, they could make the 
 bears go in any direction they pleased, and they enjoyed the 
 sport hugely. But they kept it up a little too long, until the 
 men begun to grow drunk while the bears were sobering off. 
 The result was, that some of the men got pretty severely handled, 
 and would have fared worse, had not a new relay of help 
 arrived and killed the now thoroughly aroused animals. 
 
 ELDER DUNHAM'S RACE WITH THE BEAR. 
 
 When Elder Dunham was building the house south of Pin- 
 hook, which he long occupied and which is still standing, he 
 had occasion to go up to the store for some nails. His son, 
 Eufus K. Dunham, remained at the house, and was upon the 
 frame where he could see his father as he returned. He noticed 
 a black animal following in the footsteps of his father and only 
 
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HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 145 
 
 a short distance behind, which at first he supposed to be a large 
 dog, but as his father drew near and the animal kept about the 
 same distance, he began to be suspicious tliat it was not a dog. 
 Finally his father turned up from the road toward the frame 
 and his follower also turned up. Eufus then, in a low voice, 
 told his father to look behind him, -which he did, and at once 
 recognized his pursuer as a moderately-sized bear, and not more 
 than fifteen or twenty feet off. The Elder at once sprang into 
 the frame, dropped his dish of nails, and seized an axe and 
 rushed out. The tables were now turned, and the pursuer be- 
 came the pursued. The bear crossed the road and ran down 
 through the level land toward the place where Newel F. Rowe 
 now lives. Eufus, from his perch on the building, could see the 
 whole affair. Near where Eowe's buildings now stand was a 
 plowed field, and across this the bear pursued his flight, the 
 Elder at no time being more than two rods behind him. But 
 the Elder found the bear's strength too much for him, and, as 
 he crossed the old road on the "Whale's Back " and plunged 
 into the swamp beyond, the pursuit was abandoned. The bear 
 went over through the Bryant neighborhood and passed into 
 Greenwood near the foot of South Pond, being seen at various 
 points on the way. As he passed into " Shadagee," the people 
 turned out and pursued him until he was captured. 
 
 A SEVEN days' BEAR HUNT. 
 
 In the spring of 1838, Andrew Eichardson, a famous hunter 
 of Greenwood, started a large bear, either in that town or Albany, 
 soon after he had come out of his hibernating state and was very 
 fat. He was one of the ranging kind, with ■ long legs, and diffi- 
 cult to capture. Mr. Eichardson followed him with dogs among 
 the Greenwood mountains, for several days, when he struck out 
 towards Woodstock. There was considerable snow on the 
 ground, and tramping through the snow was very hard for both 
 
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146 HISTORY or WOODSTOCK. 
 
 pursuer and pursued. The bear was followed through the day, 
 and was generally found in the morning but a few rods from 
 where the dogs left him at night. His flesh disappeared, and it 
 seemed that the longer he was chased the faster he could travel. 
 The dogs left him one night in Joshua Young's wood lot. Mr. 
 Young then lived on the* place now owned by Daniel Day. 
 The next morning, " Bill " Young, son of Joshua, a well known 
 local character, not overburdened with sense, went into the 
 wood lot to cut some firewood for the house. As he was pass- 
 ing along, he suddenly came upon the bear, which had been 
 resting through the night, and had just got up, and was looking 
 round to see if he could find something for his breakfast. Bill 
 came within a few feet of him before he saw him, and when 
 confronted by this gaunt monster, he was nearly frightened out 
 of what little sense he had. He was so paralyzed with dread, 
 that he could neither advance nor recede, but his most prom- 
 inent faculty, in which he excelled most men, was in full play. 
 He could scream, and that he did scream, no one who at 
 that time lived in that section of country has since doubted. 
 It was such an outburst of agony as has rarely, if ever, 
 escaped from human lips. It echoed through the forest, and 
 was caught up by Berry's Ledge and the Curtis Mountains, 
 repeated by Molly Ockett and other more distant heights, until 
 the country, for a radius of miles, was filled with the hideous 
 and indescribable noise. People heard it at their firesides and 
 rushed out of doors, and were bewildered at the fearful and 
 incoherent sounds that proceeded from the direction of Young's 
 woods. But Bill was really in no danger, for the bear, hungry, 
 tired and footsore though he was, could not stand this outburst, 
 and vanished out of the wood lot and down the hill toward 
 Paris, as fast as his long legs would carry him. A large crowd, 
 with additional dogs, soon assembled to pursue the bear, and he 
 was shot by Asaph Paine before noon of that day. The writer 
 of this, with others, was watching the bear at the moment the 
 fatal bullet struck him. The bear was on the Paris side of the 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 147 
 
 mountain, south of Daniel Curtis' place, and had just come 
 upon a bare spot at the top of a precipice, when Mr. Paine, 
 who was about thirty rods away, Sighted him and fired. The 
 wounded beast fell down the precipice some thirty or forty feet, 
 the fall breaking his back ; but he would still grasp the saplings 
 with his paws and teeth, and drag himself along ; another bullet, 
 fired at short range, put an end to his life and misery. By 
 means of a rope, his body was dragged down the mountain side 
 and through the field to our door. He was a huge monster, 
 and terrible, even in death, to the group of children which 
 looked upon him at a safe distance, of which the writer was 
 one. Mr. Kichardson soon came up, and putting his foot upon 
 the dead beast, exclaimed with an oath, " I told you that you 
 should rest from your labors on the seventh day." He liad 
 been pursued seven days. 
 
 DEACON lander's BEARS. 
 
 In the spring of 1836, as nearly as can be remembered, about 
 the last of March, Deacon Seneca Landers, who was suffering 
 from rheumatism, went into the woods to procure some hem- 
 lock gum to make a plaster for his lame back. He lived east 
 of Piuhook, his road connecting with the Sigotch road half way 
 up Billings' Hill. He went southerly from his house towards 
 the General C ashman neighborhood, where there was a heavy 
 mixed growth bf hard wood and hemlock. There were occa- 
 sional bare spots, but the' ground was mostly covered with frozen 
 snow, more especially in the woods. As he was passing along, 
 axe in hand, looking up at the trees, he was startled by a strange 
 noise, and on looking around he saw a large bear crawling along 
 on the crust directly toward him. At first, he thought that he 
 was the object the bear was making for, and began to consider 
 how he could best defend himself from this sudden and un- 
 expected attack, but before he had time for reflection, the 
 
148 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 bear disappeared out of sight. On examination, Mr. Landers 
 found that the bear had gone into his den, which was under 
 the roots of a lar^e maple tree. This tree had been partly 
 blown down, but had lodged in the top of another. Its broad, 
 spreading roots were lifted up as the tree inclined, leaving a 
 clear space underneath nearly ten feet in diameter and three feet 
 high. The surface of the earth was not broken, save in one place, 
 and this was the hole through which the bear had disappeared. 
 It was capital winter quarters for Bruin, but there was only one 
 place of ingress and egress. Mr. Landers took in the situation at 
 a glance, and cutting a log as large as he could carry, he chucked 
 it into the hole, and then climbing a tree, he halloed for help. 
 William Brooks then lived on the William Kowe place, and 
 his son Mark, a lad some ten years of age, was standing in 
 the yard when he heard Mr. Landers call. He and his father 
 immediately started in the direction of the sound, and on 
 arriving on the spot and learning the particulars, Mark was 
 sent back to Pinhook for more help, while his father and Mr. 
 Landers remained on guard. When Mr. Landers first called 
 for help, Eufus K. Dunham was coming along the " Whale's 
 Back " road towards Pinhook, on horseback, and distinguishing 
 the word " bear," he hurried along to Pinhook, and before young 
 Brooks arrived, the whole neighborhood had been aroused and 
 had started for the woods. Eowse Bisbee seized his old " Queen's 
 arm " and butcher knife, Solomon Leonard a pitchfork and rope 
 halter, while others took axes and clubs. It was not long before 
 nearly fifty persons had assembled and stood around the spot 
 where Bruin was bottled up. Mr. Bisbee found that he, in his 
 haste, had left his bullets, and a boy was dispatched for them. 
 In the meantime, a council of war was held with a view of 
 agreeing upon some plan of attack. The plug was pulled from 
 the mouth of the den, and the bear, becoming uneasy at such' a 
 demonstration, began to march round the enclosure, growling 
 and gnashing her teeth, exposing herself to view every time she 
 passed the place of entrance. Mr. Leonard had a small dog 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 149 
 
 called " Watch," which he tried to send into the den, but before 
 he was fairly inside he received a blow on his head which sent 
 him bounding through the air, and he did not care to return. 
 At one time, as the now infuriated beast was passing the mouth 
 of the den, Chauncey C. Whitman had the temerity to thrust 
 in his arm and catch hold of her hair, when she quickly 
 turned and came out before them all, and such a stampede 
 has rarely been witnessed ; some sprang into trees, others upon 
 high logs, bat most of them ran away at the top of their 
 speed, and the bear, finding herself alone, returned into the den. 
 By this time the bullets had arrived and Mr. Bisbee com- 
 menced to fire at her, but she grew shy and stopped her 
 promenade around the den. They then cut four holes into the 
 den, on opposite sides, into which they inserted as many poles, 
 and getting the ends under tlie bear, and bearing down upon 
 the other ends by a lever purchase, they succeeded in lifting 
 her to the roof of the den. Then, with axes and crow-bars, 
 they made another hole through the earth over the bear, and 
 soon her head was seen through this opening. Henry Packard 
 raised his axe and struck her, but the axe glanced off, and she 
 received only a flesh wound. The bear struggled and got away, 
 and was seen to take dry earth from the side of the den and 
 cover the wound with it to stop the blood. They again rallied, 
 and the next time they raised her up Elder Dunham struck 
 her, cleaving the skull and burying the blade of the axe in her 
 brain. They then took the halter and pulled her out, when 
 she immediately sprang up, and, standing upon her hind legs, 
 uttered a most dismal and unearthly yell, which again caused a 
 stampede, but the poor beast immediately fell dead. On ex- 
 amination, it was found that she had two cubs, which accounted 
 for her returning to the den after she had once driven away her 
 invaders, and of her persistency in defending it. One of the 
 cubs was shot by Mr. Bisbee, and the other was taken out alive 
 by Elder Dunham and kept for several months by Chauncey 
 Whitman, when, it being so mischievous, it was killed. 
 
150 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 PERSONAL MENTION. 
 
 In Family Sketches are given brief notices of quite a large 
 number of the citizens of Woodstock, past and present, to the 
 extent that the space would permit ; and under this heading 
 will be given only some account o'f those whose portraits appear 
 in different parts of the book. Personal notices here, as else- 
 where, are necessarily brief, as* the whole matter of the volume 
 must come into certain prescribed limits. They are not in- 
 tended even as an epitome of the lives of the persons represented, 
 but are simply designed as explanatory of the portraits which, 
 without such notices, would be without interest to persons 
 unacquainted with the people they represent. The value of 
 the volume would have been enhanced by portraits of some of 
 the early settlers, but in most cases this was impossible, as but 
 few left portraits, and the descendants of those who did were 
 not interested enough to furnish them. For dates of birth, &c., 
 of persons named here, see Family Sketches. 
 
 JOHN W. BROOKS. 
 
 John Wesley Brooks, born in this town (see " Brooks " in 
 Family Sketches), was educated in the town schools and at the 
 Academy at Norway. He taught school several terms, and in 
 1862 he went into trade at West Paris. In 1864, he sold out 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 151 
 
 and went to Portland, and was clerk in a wholesale store until 
 the great fire in 1866. He then went to Boston and occupied 
 the same position in a large store, and also traveling for the 
 firm in Maine. In 1868, he went to Chicago and worked for 
 various firms, remaining with one for eight years. Since that 
 time he has been traveling for Warner Brothers, large dealers 
 in millinery goods and corsets, and in that capacity has visited, 
 many times, all the important places in the west and south-west. 
 He is also engaged somewhat in real estate speculation in 
 Chicago. •He married Ada Blanche, daughter of Levi C. Pea- 
 body, formerly of Norlhfield, Vermont, afterwards of Winona, 
 Minn., and now of Chicago. 
 
 WM. M. BROOKS. 
 
 Wm. Mark Brooks, born in Paris, came into this town with 
 his father's family when a lad. He attended the town schools 
 here and a few terms at the Academy, fitting himself for a 
 teacher, in which he has achieved a marked success. He 
 took to learning as a duck to water, and, without taking a col- 
 lege course, he is much better educated in the classics than many 
 who have graduated. He also has a rare faculty of imparting 
 his ideas to others, which has served to make him the popular 
 teacher of youth, which he is. When not engaged in teaching, 
 he has generally employed himself upon the farm, in which 
 occupation he takes great pleasure. 
 
 ALDEN CHASE. 
 
 No man has been more identified with the affairs of the town 
 for many years, than Alden Chase. A good accountant, efficient 
 in business, and of sterling integrity, his townspeople have 
 always appreciated these important qualities and qualifications 
 in a public man, and have given him all the offices he has cared 
 
152 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 to accept. He was a school officer as soon as lie was old enough, 
 and as a teacher of the common school he took high rank. 
 Naturally of a mathematical turn of mind, he has been a regu- 
 lar contributor to that Department of the Maine Farmer's 
 Almanac for the past forty years. A lover of books, he has 
 collected by far the largest and most valuable library in town. 
 He has served several terms in the Maine Legislature, and was 
 always an influential member of that body. In 1856, he was 
 elected Register of Deeds for the Oxford County Registry Dis- 
 trict, which position he held for two terms of five yfears each. 
 He was an excellent recording officer. At the close of his term, 
 he returned to his farm in Woodstock, where he has since re- 
 sided. He is a practical, painstaking farmer, and few, if any, 
 men in town understood the business better. He has long been 
 interested in Freemasonry, and has served as Master of Jeffer- 
 son Lodge for several terms, and as Secretary and Treasurer ; he 
 has also served as District Deputy Grand Master. He was one of 
 the early workers in the temperance field, and has always been 
 an ardent supporter of prohibition as applied to the sale of in- 
 toxicating liquors. He was a member of the Maine Legislature 
 in 1851, when the first prohibitory liquor law was passed, and 
 of the committee that reported the bill, which met his hearty 
 approval and received his ardent support. For this action he 
 was censured by some of his constituents, but time has justified 
 the wisdom of his action. 
 
 PEOF. A. FITZROY CHASE. 
 
 In all probability, Woodstock has never sent out a more pro- 
 found scholar than Alden Fitzroy Chase. In mathematics, 
 when a mere boy, he was regarded as almost a prodigy, and his 
 subsequent achievements in his fully-developed manhood have 
 caused to be realized the hopes entertained of him by his family 
 and friends in his earlier years. Like most New England 
 
PROF. A. FITZROY CHASE. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 153 
 
 youth, he spent much of his minority with his father, upon the 
 farm, attending the town schools in winter. He fitted for 
 college at Kent's Hill and elsewhere, teaching school winters 
 with great success. He excelled not only as a teacher but as a 
 disciplinarian, his order of mind being such that everything 
 must move in harmony. He graduated from Middletown, 
 (Conn.) University with the highest honors, and was soon after 
 elected Professor in the Maine Wesleyan Seminary at Kent's 
 Hill, which place ho still occupies. He is now in the full vigor 
 of manhood, and gives promise of a long and useful career. In 
 the college, he has the chair of mathematics and English Litera- 
 ture. He is also librarian of the college, and has been instru- 
 mental in adding largely to the value and usefulness of the 
 library. No person connected with the college labors with 
 greater zeal to promote its interests than he. He is very popular 
 with the students and with the public, and of the Maine 
 Wesleyan Seminary he is one of the strong supports. He is a 
 member of the Maine Conference, and occasionally preaches, 
 but his time and energies are mainly devoted to the duties of 
 his Professorship. 
 
 REV. RANSOM DUNHAM. 
 
 As the head of one of the Dunham families, of Woodstock, 
 Eev. Eansom Dunham has already been sketched under the 
 head of family sketches. In his 84th year he was a delegate 
 to the Eepablican State Convention, at Portland, in June last, 
 and then had his picture taken, which embellishes this volume. 
 He retains his bodily and mental faculties in a remarkable de- 
 gree. In the summer of 1881, he worked for the Grand Trunk 
 Eailway, sharpening tools for the quarrymen at Bryant's Pond, 
 and during the season was paid two hundred and seventy-seven 
 dollars for his work. He is engaged in the same employment 
 the present season. Eecently, he remarked in our hearing, that 
 never before did the works of Nature appear so grand and 
 
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 154 . HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 beautiful to him as now ; that he never before so fully appre- 
 ciated the adaptation of everything to the necessities of animals 
 and man, and was never before so deeply impressed with the 
 infinite wisdom, power and goodness of the great Creator of the 
 Universe. He further remarked that the plan of salvation, as 
 regarded from the standpoint of his denomination, never looked 
 so plain, simple, and certain to be true, as since he passed his 
 four-score years. His wife, who is two or three years his 
 senior, still lives, and their married lives extend over a period 
 of more than sixty years. 
 
 RUFtJS K. DUNHAM. 
 
 Eufus King Dunham, born in Parkman, came into this town 
 with his father when a lad. He had the misfortune when a 
 young man to have an attack of fever, which, settling in one of 
 his limbs, made him lame for life. He worked with his father 
 in Woodstock, and attended the common schools here, until he 
 entered the store of Thomas Crocker, on Paris Hill. He worked 
 here one season, and then entered the store of J. C. Marble in 
 the same place. . He was afterwards for a year or two in the 
 store of Ebenezer Drake, at Trap Corner, in Paris — then with 
 John Pt. Briggs, Caleb Bessee and C. C. Whitman, at North 
 Woodstock. He was also for several years in trade, in company 
 with Albert H. Estes, at Bryant's Pond. When the Atlantic 
 and St. Lawrence railroad was finished to Bryant's Pond in 
 1851, he was appointed station agent here, a position he has 
 held without interruption since that time, a period of over thirty 
 years, and during all these years, he has scarcely been off duty 
 a day. A more faithful and competent employ^, the Company 
 has never had. In addition to the ordinary duties as station 
 agent, he has been telegraphic operator and express agent. He 
 was the second Postmaster at Bryant's Pond, and has been Sec- 
 retary and Master of Jefferson Lodge of Masons. He has also 
 been a Justice of the Peace for many years. 
 
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 DR. JEFF. C. GALLISON. 
 
 Jefferson Gushing Gallison, son of John M. (see Family 
 Sketches), was born in Sebec, but came to Woodstock with his 
 parents in 1847. He was educated at the common schools, and 
 also attended several terms at high schools and academies. He 
 was a year in the Norway Advertiser office as an apprentice, 
 and afterwards in Noyes' drug store. He then gave his atten- 
 tion to carriage painting, and worked in his father's sliop at 
 Pinhook and also at Bridgton. At times, also, he tried his hand 
 at landscape painting, and with no mean success. In 1868, he 
 commenced the study of medicine with Dr. J. H. Kimball, of 
 Bridgton, and continued with him three years. He also pursued 
 his studies a year in Portland under a private teacher. He 
 attended two full courses of lectures at the Harvard Medical 
 School and one at the Boston University, graduating from the 
 latter in 187"). He practiced three years in Medway, Mass., 
 and then moved to Franklin, where he yet remains. He has 
 succeeded in working up a large practice and has been very 
 successful. He was appointed Instructor in Surgery in the 
 Boston University in 1878. He has successfully surmounted 
 all the difficulties incident to a lack of means during his pre- 
 paratory course, and, by his own unaided efforts, has worked his 
 way up to an honorable position in professional life. He 
 married, January 2, 1864, Ellen S., daughter of Isaiah M. and 
 Abby (Willard) Burnell, of Bridgton, and has one child, Annie 
 Louise, born October 28, 1871. 
 
 CHARLES P. KIMBALL. 
 
 Charles Porter Kimball lived at home, dividing his time 
 between the farm, his father's carriage shop and the district 
 school until he was eighteen years old. Then he bought his 
 time of his father, giving his notes for one hundred fifty dollars 
 per year for three years, and went to work in his brother's 
 
156 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 carriage shop at Bridgton. Here he added to his earnings by 
 working evenings, wooding cast iron ploughs, so that he was 
 able to attend school about four months in each year and still 
 pay his father's notes. In 1847, he commenced business in 
 Norway Village, having but little money of his own. The late 
 Dr. Theodore Ingalls, who had taken an interest in him^ loaned 
 him one thousand dollars to start business with. He remained 
 in Norway, doing a large business, until 1854, when he removed 
 to Portland, where he remained until 1875, when he removed 
 to New York and joined the great carriage house of Brewster 
 & Co. He did an extensive business in Portland and achieved 
 a wide reputation. He was Alderman in 1860, again in 1861, 
 and President of the Board. He was a decided War Democrat, 
 and worked earnestly for the Union cause and for the good of 
 the families of departed soldiers. He was a member of the 
 Democratic State Convention holden in Augusta, in June, 1861, 
 and when the resolution declaring that the war was a failure 
 and ought to stop was passed, he, with thirty or forty others, 
 denounced its action as treasonable, left the hall and organized 
 another convention, which nominated Gen. Charles D. Jameson 
 for Governor, who received a much larger vote than Ex-Gov. 
 Dana, the regular candidate. He was several times candidate 
 for Eepresentative, Senator, Sheriff, &c., but, his party being in 
 a minority, he was not elected to any of these offices. He was 
 Surveyor of the port of Portland in 1866, was long an active 
 member of the Maine Charitable Association, and its President 
 for several years ; was also President of the Board of Manu- 
 factures until he left Portland. At the Democratic Convention 
 in Bangor, in 1869, over which he presided, he received every 
 vote as candidate for Governor, but positively refused to stand, 
 and forced the convention to nominate another candidate ; but 
 in 1871, he received a unanimous nomination for Governor and 
 was a candidate that year, and also in the famous Greeley cam- 
 paign of 1872. 
 
 After the close of the campaign in 1871, Governor Perham 
 
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 • 
 showed his appreciation of his poUtical opponent and life-long 
 
 friend, by appointing him one o'f the United States Centennial 
 Commissioners from Maine. Mr. Kimball removed to New 
 York in 1875, and resigned as Commissioner from Maine; but 
 the United States Centennial Commission requested Governor . 
 Tilden to appoint him to fill a vacancy in the New York Com- 
 mission, which he did, so that he presented his resignation from 
 Maine and his commission from New York to the same meet- 
 ing. He was then and continued to be a member of the Exec- 
 utive Committee, and no one familiar with the Centennial can 
 over-estimate his services. 
 
 His first wife, Mary Porter, was a native of Turner, and a 
 niece of Gov. William King and of Gen. Philo Clark, and an 
 estimable woman ; she died in April, 1870. He was married 
 the second time in 1875, to a daughter of the late Henry F. 
 Getchell, formerly of Anson, but then a wealthy resident of 
 Chicago, and was so pleased with the business prospects of that 
 city that he determined to make it his future home. He at 
 once contracted for an immense carriage factory, and moved to 
 Chicago in the fall of 1876. He is now at the head of one of 
 the largest carriage establishments in the world. He was 
 mainly instrumental in organizing the society of the Sons of 
 Maine, and was chairman of the committee that gave the Grand 
 Maine Banquet in June, 1881. His attachment to his native 
 State, County and town is still unabated. 
 
 HANNIBAL I. KIMBALL. 
 
 Hannibal Ingalls Kimball (see " Kimball" in Family Sketches) 
 was born on the Gore, but when quite young went to live in the 
 family of Hannibal Ingalls, Esq., of Mercer, whose wife was a 
 sister of his mother. He returned to the Gore when seventeen 
 or eighteen years of age, and worked for some years in the 
 
158 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 carriage shop of his father, opposite tfte Bailey place. He be- 
 came an expert workman at the carriage business, for which he 
 had a natural aptitude, and at the same time attended the public 
 schools. He also worked in the establishment of his oldest 
 brother at Bridgton Center. When his brother Charles P. went 
 into the carriage business at Norway Village, Hannibal became 
 his foreman, and proved a very efficient one. Afterwards, in 
 connection with some of his brothers, he went into business in 
 New Haven, Conn. He was at the head of the establishment 
 that turned out more than three thousand carriages a year. 
 Every sort of vehicle on wheels, whether to be used for business 
 or pleasure, was manufactured here, and the establishment had 
 a wide reputation. At the close of the war he traveled quite 
 extensively through the South in pursuit of health, which had 
 become somewhat impaired by long-continued business cares, 
 and he also had in view a place of settlement. After looking 
 the ground carefully over, he selected Atlanta, Georgia, as one 
 of the most promising localities in the whole South, and the 
 result has more than justified his choice. He went to Atlanta, 
 in 1866, and when the people of Georgia voted to establish the 
 seat of government in that city, he bought the unfinished 
 opera house, and reconstructed it into a spacious, substantial 
 and convenient capitol, under contract with the State. In 
 1870 he laid out and graded Oglethorpe Park, and fitted 
 it up with buildings, walks and drives. In this park the State 
 fairs have since l)een held, and here the Exposition is located. 
 The same year he built the H. I. Kimball House, a splendid 
 hotel, six stories high and 210 feet long, and furnished it to 
 accommodate 500 guests, at a cost of $675,000. About that 
 time he constructed 150 miles of a railroad leading into Atlanta. 
 Some three years after, he planned and organized a company, 
 and erected a cotton factory with a capacity of 24,000 spindles, 
 which is now in successful operation. 
 
 The city at once became an important railway center. New 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 159 
 
 lines of railroad were built and old lines diverted from tlieir 
 original location, and Mr. Kimball became connected with 
 several of them, either as President or Director. When a great 
 International Cotton Exposition was determined upon, and 
 Atlanta selected as the place, Mr. Kimball was at once selected 
 by connnon consent as the person to be placed at the head of 
 the enterprise. It was brought to a most successful issue, for 
 which Mr, Kimball is largely credited. A leading Southern 
 paper, during the Exposition, thus spoke of Mr. Kimball's busi- 
 ness capacity and his connection witli it : 
 
 "As a representative of legitimate and enlightened enterprise, and an ex- 
 ponent of modern progress, Mr. H. I. Kimball, of Georgia, is entitled to 
 marked pre-eminence. He was born in Oxford County, Maine, in 1832. In 
 early life lie learned the carriage maker's trade, and at the age of nineteen, 
 took charge of one of the most extensive carriage manufactories in the 
 United States. Immediately on his majority, the firm in whose employ he 
 was, evidenced their appreciation of his executive and financial ability by 
 admitting him to full partnership. Mr. Kimball became interested with Mr. 
 Geo. Pullman in the sleeping car business early in the history of that in- 
 dustry, and immediately after the close of the war he came South to establish 
 their lines. By over-work and exposure his health became much broken, 
 and the severe climate of Chicago, where he at times resided, compelled him 
 to seek a home in the South. After traveling all over the South, he de- 
 termined that Atlanta presented more advantages for business and for a 
 pleasant home than any other point, and he therefore located in Atlanta. 
 Since then Mr. Kimball has been identified with every movement of progress 
 and edification of «Vtlanta. Whatever she has that is worthy of her has been 
 secured through the untiring efforts in her behalf of Mr. Kimball. He was 
 the first to take up the matter of the Exposition, and has pushed it to its 
 present prosperous stage. The splendid success of the exhibition, and the 
 benefits that shall accrue to the city. State and South from it, are, in the 
 main, due to the energy, foresight and superior management of Mr. H. I. 
 Kimball, the efficient Director-General." 
 
 At a meeting of the American Agricultural Association in 
 New York, during the winter of 1881-2, Mr. Kimball was 
 present and read a very able paper upon the resources and con- 
 dition of the Southern States, which was pubhshed entire in 
 the proceedings of the Association. He is yet in the vigor and 
 
160 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 prime of manhood, and has a future of brilliant promise. In 
 politics he is a republican. 
 
 DE. W. B. LAPHAM. 
 
 William Berry Lapham was born in Greenwood, where his 
 parents were temporarily residing, August 21, 1828. When he 
 was only a few weeks old, the family returned to Bethel, which 
 was their home. After reaching ten years of age, he worked 
 out by the month or year upon various farms, during the re- 
 mainder of his minority. His early means of education were 
 very limited, and such as he had neglected, but after becoming 
 of age, he fitted for college at Gould's Academy, in Bethel, and 
 entered Colby University in 1851. He did not remain to grad- 
 uate, but received the complimentary degree of Master of Arts 
 from the college in 1874. He read medicine with Dr. Almon 
 Twitchell, of Bethel, attended medical lectures at the Maine 
 Medical School and Dartmouth College, finished his medical 
 course in New York in 1856, and commenced the practice of 
 medicine at Bryant's Pond the same year. 
 
 When the war broke out in 1861, he offered his services, and 
 received permission to recruit a company, which he did in a 
 short time ; but the Government, thinking it had all the men 
 needed to subdue the rebellion, disbanded this with several 
 other companies raised in various parts of the State. In the 
 winter of 1861-2 he was in Augusta, assisting in the hospitals, 
 and as assistant surgeon to regiments not provided with a full 
 medical staff. In 1862, he enlisted as a private in the 23d 
 Maine Eegiment, and served during its term. He was pro- 
 moted to Commissary Sergeant, then to Second and subse- 
 quently to First Lieutenant of Company F. After his regiment 
 was mustered out, he aided in recruiting the 7th Maine Bat- 
 tery, with which he was mustered into the United States ser- 
 vice, as Senior First Lieutenant. He served with this battery 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 161 
 
 which took part in the subsequent great battles of the Army of 
 the Potomac, down to the surrender of the Confederate armies 
 and close of the war. When the battery was ordered home to 
 be mustered out in June, 1865, he was appointed Assistant 
 Quartermaster, with'the rank of Captain, and ordered to duty in 
 Vermont, where he remained until October 30, 1865, when he 
 was mustered out as Brevet Major. 
 
 Returning to Bryant's Pond, he resumed the practice of his 
 profession. He was elected a member of the Legislature in 
 
 1867, and appointed a Trustee of the Maine Insane Hospital in 
 
 1868. He served in the latter capacity for six years, the last 
 four as President of the Board of Trustees. In June, 1871, he 
 moved to Augusta, and in March, 1872, was tendered by the 
 owners the position of general and news editor of the Maine 
 Farmee, which position he held for upwards of six years, when 
 he was tendered the position of Agricultural Editor of the same 
 paper, which position he still occupies. He was appointed ex- 
 amining Surgeon for invalid pensioners in 1866, and when he 
 moved to Augusta, he was assigned to the Augusta Board of 
 Surgeons, where he has since served, at present and for the past 
 three yeflrs as President of the Board. He was Postmaster at 
 Bryant's Pond, a school officer and collector in Woodstock, one 
 of the charter members. Treasurer and Master of Jefferson 
 Lodge of Masons, District Deputy Grand Master of the Six- 
 teenth Masonic District for two terms, and for the same num- 
 ber of terms of the Eleventh District. He was Commander of 
 the Post of the Grand Army at Bryant's Pond, and also of Seth 
 Williams Post in Augusta ; has also served as Medical Director 
 of the Department of Maine. He has given some attention to 
 Historical and Genealogical subjects, published the Maine Gen- 
 ealogist and Biographer for three years, has compiled and pub- 
 lished the Bisbee, Lapham and Kicker Genealogies, besides mak- 
 ing contributions upon historical and kindred subjects to the New 
 England Historical and Genealogical Register and various other 
 publications. He is a member of the Maine Historical Society 
 
 11 
 
162 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 and of the Standing Committee, member of the New England 
 Historical and Genealogical Society and of the Prince Society, 
 honorary member of the Weymouth (Mass.) Historical Society, 
 and corresponding member of tlie Eoyal Historical Society of 
 Great Britain. He is a member of the Maine Press Association, 
 and at the present time its President; is Secretary of the 
 Augusta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and 
 Secretary and a Director of the Augusta Literary and Library 
 Association. 
 
 GEORGE F. LEONARD, M. A. 
 
 George F. Leonard received his primary education in tlie 
 common schools of Woodstock and Waterford, was fitted for 
 college at Norway and Bethel Academies, and graduated at 
 Dartmouth College in the class of 1859. He adopted teaching 
 as his occupation, and instructed the academies in Norway and 
 Paris, in Maine, and in Northbridge, Mass. He was also teacher 
 in the English High School in Boston, following this occupation 
 for over twenty years. He is now engaged in other business at 
 Newton Highlands, Mass. In 1861, he married Miss Jennie E. 
 Brunell, of Piermont, N. H. He is a profound scholar and 
 succeeded well in teaching. 
 
 ORSAMUS NUTE. 
 
 Orsamus Nute, born in this town, received his education 
 mostly in the common schools. He was naturally a good 
 scholar, and early became an instructor of the schools of his 
 town. He was also a good farmer, and successfully cultivated 
 the old homestead of his father for many years. He filled the 
 office of Selectman and Superintending School Committee, but, 
 being always a Democrat, he could not be elected to any office 
 
HON. SIDNEY PERHAM. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 163 
 
 where party principles were involved. In 1864, he left his 
 farm in Woodstock and moved with his family to Boston, where 
 he was engaged in a contract for sprinkling the streets, and in 
 various other kinds of business, in which he has been successful. 
 He still resides in Boston. 
 
 HON. SIDNEY PERHAM. 
 
 Sidney Perham is an excellent example of a New England 
 self-made man. Born in Woodstock, upon a rocky side-hill 
 farm, he was early inured to the labor which farmers' sons of 
 the period were expected to perform. He developed a vigorous 
 constitution, and his work upon the farm, coupled with strictly 
 temperate habits, insured robust health, which he has found of 
 great benefit in his succeeding years of labor in other capacities. 
 When he became of age, he purchased the old homestead of his 
 father, and made a specialty of sheep-husbandry, in which he 
 was very successful. His flock generally numbered from four 
 to six hundred. Becoming early interested in temperance re- 
 form, even when a minor and at work for his father, he, with a 
 few of his associates, held meetings and addressed them in the 
 school districts of Woodstock and adjoining towns. It was in 
 these early meetings that he first schooled himself in public 
 speaking and in debate. He attended the public schools in 
 Woodstock and a single terra at Gould's Academy in Bethel. 
 For several years he taught schools winters, and with great 
 success. This he continued after he became of age, and until 
 he entered upon a more public career, carrying on his farm in 
 summer and leaving the care of his stock to hired help in 
 winter. He was an interested member of the teachers' insti- 
 tutes, which began to be held in Oxford County about that 
 time. As a disciplinarian in school, he had few equals among 
 his cotemporaries, and his services were in great demand m 
 those districts where trouble might be expected from over-grown 
 
164 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 and unruly boys. He was subsequently employed by the State 
 Temperance Society to travel and lecture in the interest of the 
 cause in various parts of the State. He was a member of the 
 Order of the Sons of Temperance, and at one time at the head 
 of the Order in the State. In later years, he joined the Good 
 Templars, and was here elected to preside over the State organ- 
 ization. He was also delegate from both these organizations to 
 the meeting of the national organization of the same, and an 
 officer in the latter. He was elected a Eepresentative to the 
 Legislature from the district with which Woodstock was classed, 
 in 1855, and was chosen Speaker. A few years later, in 1859, 
 he was elected Clerk of the Courts for Oxford County, and re- 
 elected for the second term. But before the expiration of his 
 second term, he resigned to accept the position of member of 
 Congress from the Second Maine District, to which position he 
 had been elected by a large majority. He served three terms 
 in Congress, his six years covering the most eventful period in 
 our history, that of the war of the rebellion. He took great 
 interest in looking after our Maine soldiers during the war, and 
 was very popular with them. 
 
 In 1871, he was nominated for Governor of Maine by one of 
 the largest conventions that ever assembled in the State, and 
 was triumphantly elected, and was re-elected twice. He served 
 as chief magistrate of the State with great acceptance to all 
 parties, and left the gubernatorial chair at the end of his third 
 term with the highest esteem of his fellow citizens. When 
 Hon. Lot M. Morrill was appointed Collector of the Port of 
 Portland, Mr. Perham was appointed appraiser of merchandise 
 for the same port, which position he still fills. During the 
 years that he has been in public office, his interest in the cause 
 of temperance has been unabated, and he has ever been ready 
 to speak and work for the good of the cause at all times and on 
 all occasions. 
 
 In religious sentiment he is a Universalist, and believes in a 
 faith which shows itself by works. His abilities as a presiding 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 165 
 
 officer were recognized in his choice as President of the United 
 States Convention of Universalists and on various other occa- 
 sions. He has also served as chairman of the executive com- 
 mittee of the same body, and is still a member of the committee. 
 He is President of the Trustees of Westbrook Seminary, and of 
 the Board of Trustees of the Maine Industrial School for Girls. 
 He has also served as President of the Paris Hill Manufacturing 
 Company and been a Director of the Norway National Bank. 
 When he was elected Clerk of the Courts, he moved with his 
 family to Paris, where he has since resided, but he has ever 
 taken a lively interest in his native town and in all that per- 
 tains to its welfare. 9 
 
 CAPT. RUFUS S. RANDALL. 
 
 Capt. Eufus Soule Eandall (see Kandall in Family Sketches), 
 though only a little past the prime of life, has been fifty foreign 
 voyages and several times around the world. His father and 
 older brother were sailors, and when sixteen years of age, Eufus 
 S. shipped in the " James Calder " to New Orleans, thence to 
 Liverpool and back to Charleston, S. C. He became second 
 mate in 1849, and first mate in 1852. Having made seven 
 European voyages and desiring to perfect himself in the study 
 of navigation, he attended a term or two at Gould's Academy, 
 in Bethel. The nrst ship which he commanded was the Bark 
 " New Empire," engaged in the European trade. This was in 
 1856. In 1863, he had command of the Bark " Windward," 
 and engaged in the transportation of government stores. In 
 
 1865, he had the Bark "Acacia," in the West India trade ; in 
 
 1866, the " Ella and Annie," in the Eiver Platte trade ; in 1870, 
 the "Gertrude," in the European trade; in 1871, he took com- 
 mand of the " Oasis," and was engaged for six years in the 
 Peruvian Guano trade; in 1878, after having been at home a 
 year, he took command of the ship " John A. Briggs," built that 
 
166 HISTORY OF WOODSTOOK. 
 
 year by Briggs & Gushing, at Freeport, her measurement being 
 2,150 tons, and one of the finest ships ever launched in Maine. 
 In this he made two voyages around the world, taking on each 
 occasion a cargo of wheat from California to Europe. He has 
 suffered shipwreck on several occasions, but on the whole, has 
 met with a good measure of success ; and a little more than a 
 year ago, at Antwerp, he voluntarily relinquished the command 
 of. the " John A. Briggs," in which he was part owner, to his 
 first mate. Porter, of Freeport, and came home to spend a few 
 years, if not the remainder of his life, with his family, and in 
 the enjoyment of that competency which he gained by his hard 
 and perilous i?ervice upon^he ocean. During the last ten years 
 of his sea-faring life, he was accompanied by his wife ^d 
 children. 
 
 CHARLES 0. WHITMAN, M. A. 
 
 Charles Otis Whitman, son of Joseph, Jr., (see Whitman in 
 Family Sketches) was born and spent his early years in this 
 town. His father subsequently moved to Waterford, and then 
 returned here. Charles attended the town schools here and in 
 Waterford, and fitted for college at Norway and other academies, 
 teaching winters to obtain the means for paying his school 
 expenses. He entered Bowdoin College in 1864, and graduated 
 with honors in 1868. He taught Westford, Mass., and other 
 academies for a few years, and then went to^urope, pursuing 
 his studies for two or more years in Germany. He then went 
 to Japan, and was engaged for a while in teaching there, and 
 then returned to Europe, where he yet remains. 
 
 He early developed a taste for Natural History, and while 
 here and a boy, he procured and mounted a very fine collection 
 of the birds of Maine. So artistically prepared were they, and 
 so naturally mounted, that they attracted much attention among 
 ornithological students. When in Naples, Leipsic and other 
 European cities, he pursued his studies under highly distin- 
 
REV. HARRISON S. WHITMAN. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 167 
 
 guished masters. He also engaged to some extent in original 
 research in several branches of Natural History, notably in 
 embryology, and with such marked success as to give him an 
 honorable position among modern investigators. He has a 
 clear, logical mind, keen perceptive faculties, is enthusiastic and 
 self-reliant, and possessed of great perseverance. He is yet a 
 young man, but he has a future of most brilliant promise. If 
 life and health are spared him, his name will yet be inscribed 
 high on the scroll of fame, for he has all the elements of success 
 in his chosen field of labor. 
 
 REV. HARRISON S. WHITMAN. 
 
 Another good example of a self-made and self-educated man, 
 is that of Eev. Harrison Spofford Whitman. . He was born in 
 this town February 5, 1844. His father died when he was a 
 child, and left his wife with three children and very limited 
 means for their support. This is mentioned elsewhere. All 
 three of the children were natural scholars and early showed re- 
 n^arkable aptitude for composing, both in prose and poetry, but 
 the subject of this little sketch was the only one that pursued a 
 literary course of study. He attended the town schools of 
 Woodstock, and at various academies, entering Bowdoin College 
 in 1865. Before entering college, and while there, he taught 
 ten terms of school in different places, some district and others 
 high schools. Graduating in 1869, he took charge of the 
 Thomaston Academy, where he remained for two years. From 
 there, he went to Dean Academy, in Franklin, Massachusetts, 
 and at first had charge of the Mathematical and Scientific De- 
 partments. Then he was promoted to the charge of the Classical 
 Department at a largely increased salary, where he remained 
 until the fatal fire which destroyed all the buildings of the in- 
 stitution. In 1874, he entered the Divinity School at Tuft's 
 College, from which he graduated in 1877, and was immediately 
 called to the pastorate of the Universalist church at Mechanic 
 
168 
 
 HISTORY. OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Falls, over which he was ordained June 22, 1877, and where 
 he still remains. He is a good pastor and able preacher, and 
 very acceptable to the people of the parish over which he pre- 
 sides. He was married May 5, 1859, to Miss Susie F. Warren 
 of Great Falls, N. H. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 169 
 
 FAMILY SKETCHES. 
 
 The following sketches of Woodstock families, mainly gen- 
 ealogical, though not as complete as was desired, have involved 
 no small amount of care and trouble in their collection. No 
 pains have been spared to have them correct, but " approxi- 
 mately correct " is all that can ever be expected of matter 
 embracing so many dates and derived from so many different 
 sources. Those who have had experience in this branch of 
 history will fully understand all this. We only hope that our 
 errors may not be found more numerous than are usually found 
 in similar sketches. These are not intended as family records; 
 the scope of the work would not admit of our so extending them 
 as to embrace dates of bii'th, &c., of all Woodstock families. 
 We have generally felt obliged to confine the records to two or 
 three generations from the first settlers, and personal sketches 
 have necessarily been very brief. These sketches do not em- 
 brace all the settlers in Woodstock, l?iit they do represent the 
 chief families of the town since its settlement. 
 
 ABBOTT. 
 
 Philip Abbott, son of Philip, of Eumford, and Experience 
 Howe, his wife, born December 11, 1800, was here in 1853, and 
 kept a bowling alley near the shore of Bryant's Pond. His first 
 wife was widow Lucinda White, and he had Lucy T., married 
 
170 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Barnard Marble, of Mexico, Trancilia, Achsa A., Joseph W., 
 Chandler P., Susan and Gurtine M. These were all born before 
 .he came here, and Chandler P. was the only one of the sons 
 who ever lived in this town. Philip Abbott, for second wife, 
 married a Davis, and had other children. Notwithstanding his 
 age, he enlisted in the army and served with credit in the 5th 
 Maine Regiment. After the war, he moved to Mexico. 
 
 "William Abbott was taxed here in 1830, Andrew in 1864, 
 and Alpheus A. in 1871. 
 
 ADAMS. 
 
 John Q. Adams, Jr., came from Lincoln, and was a clerk for 
 Henry Howe, at the Pond. He afterwards traded at Pinhook, 
 and for a short time kept the hotel at the Pond. He married 
 Mary Porter, of Andover, who died, and he went away from 
 town. He re-married in Lincoln, and has a family there. 
 
 MosES Adams, his wife a Ridlon, lived in the east part of 
 the town. His daughter Emily married Thomas J. Whitman, 
 son of Chauncey C, in 18C2. Moses Adams married Susan 
 "Walton, of Canton, in 1872, probably a second wife. Louisa 
 Adams, probably another daughter of Moses, married Eli M. 
 Noyes. Mr. Adams also had sons, one of whom was a soldier 
 in the late war, from "Woodstock. 
 
 Dr. Henry M. Adams, son of Dr. Joseph, came here from 
 Rumford. His first wife was a Hill, from "Waterville, who died, 
 and in 1866 he married Lottie Hill, her sister. He went from 
 here to Cedar Falls, Iowa, after a residence of three or four 
 years. 
 
 ANDREWS. 
 
 Four brothers, namely, Ziba, Cyrus, Jonathan and Nathan 
 Andrews have at different times lived in "Woodstock. They 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 171 
 
 were the sons of David Andrews, who moved from Poland to 
 
 Paris. Ziba came previttus to 1826, and built a mill in the 
 
 south part of the town, which is still operated by his son. He 
 
 was a licensed preacher of the Baptist denomination. He 
 
 married, August 8, 1824, Thankful Washburn, daughter of 
 
 Stephen, of Bridgewater, Mass., Hebron and Paris, and had : 
 
 1 Elvecy, b. January 28, 1828 ; m. Moses W. Bryant. 
 II Rachel, b. December 18, 1830 ; m. Samuel W. Dunham. 
 HI Isaac W., b. July 6, 1833 ; m. 1st, Lucinda Bryant, 2d, Elvira Bryant, 
 daughters of Alexander ; he carries on business where his father 
 did. 
 IV Morton, b. April 10, 1835. 
 
 V Anna F., b. February 25, 1837 ; m. Oscar P. EUingwood. 
 VI John C, b. April 22, 1838 ; married Lorenda C. Packard, daughter 
 
 of Henry H. He is a Baptist preacher, 
 vn Mary E., b. July 6, 1841. 
 VIII Charlotte D., b. December 9, 1844. 
 IX Ziba, married a Bean, and was killed by the cars. 
 
 Cyrus Andrews married, first, Eebecca Eobbins, second, Jane 
 A. Dow, and third. Prudence Abbott. He had a large family, 
 all by the first marriage. He lived in the Perkins neighborhood, 
 and his son Jesse also. 
 
 Nathan married Nancy Cummings, daughter of George W., 
 of the Gore, and is an itinerant Methodist preacher. He never 
 lived much in Woodstock. 
 
 ANNAS. 
 
 John Gould Annas, son of Solomon, Jr., who came from 
 Warner, N. H., to Bethel, and who married Patience Sanborn, 
 of Standish, lived some years in Woodstock, first in Sigotch and 
 afterwards on the farm below the David Picker place. He 
 married Mary Edgerly, daughter of Isaiah, of Greenwood, pre- 
 viously of Buxton, and had quite a large family, all of whom 
 left town long ago. John G. Annas was a soldier in the 10th 
 Maine Eegiment, and was wounded at the battle of Cedar 
 
172 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Mountain. He subsequently enlisted in the 29th Maine, and 
 died from the effects of exposure before the close of the war. 
 
 AYER. 
 
 Peter Ayer, son of Samuel: of Bethel, and grandson of Joseph, 
 who moved from Standish to Bethel, and whose mother was 
 Alice Kilgore, daughter of John, of Bethel, married Betsey 
 Swan, daughter of Elijah, of Paris, and lived for a few years in 
 Woodstock. He moved from here to Pennsylvania, and died 
 there. His children were Alice K., George B., Nancy E., Eli E. 
 and Alfreda. 
 
 Thomas Ayer, whose wife was a Durgin, moved into town 
 and resided here a few years. Their only daughter, Sarah, mar- 
 ried ^William Day. 
 
 BACON. 
 
 Abel Bacon was born and reared in Greenwood, near Wood- 
 stock line. He was the youngest son of Benjamin Bacon, of 
 Westmoreland, N. H., who came to Paris when a boy and lived 
 with his uncle Timothy Smith. When a young man, he married 
 Eebecca, daughter of Capt. Lemuel Holmes, of Paris, and moved 
 into Greenwood. Abel Bacon was born June 4, 1825, and 
 married Cordelia, daughter of Levi Berry. (See Berry.) He 
 purchased the farm formerly occupied by Capt. Samuel Stephens, 
 and has always lived there. His children are : 
 
 I Herbert C, b. Aug. 19, 1851 ; m. Alice Hathaway, daughter of John, 
 
 of Paris. 
 II Walter L., b. July 11, 1868. 
 
 BAILEY. 
 
 Hudson Bailey, born in Portland, a cooper by trade, who had 
 spent many years in the West Indies and at sea, came to the 
 
HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 173 
 
 Gore about the year 1834. The farm he bought was first 
 bought of the proprie'tors by Morris Low, who made an open- 
 ing and then sold out to Barney Perry and his brother, of 
 Buckfield. They cleared some land, but never settled upon it, 
 and sold out to Jacob Eeed, of Minot, who put up the old build- 
 ings and lived there until he sold out to Bailey. Mr. Bailey 
 purchased adjoining lands sufficient to make a large farm. His 
 wife was Euth Bradbury, of Scarborough, and his children, 
 Samuel, who married Dorcas Maxim, went West and died 
 there ; Susan, who married Dj. Asa Smith, of Paris, and second, 
 Daniel Dunham ; Louisa, who married JefTerson Jackson ; 
 Elizabeth, who married and lives in Cape Elizabeth ; George, 
 Hollis, and Hiram, who married a daughter of Isaac Estes and 
 lives in Lewiston. Hudson Bailey was the son of Joseph, of 
 Portland, who was lost at sea ; his grandfather was also lost at 
 sea during the Erench and Indian wars. He built the brick 
 house on the Gore in 1847. In his old age he was persuaded 
 to sell out and go West, where he lost everything, and came 
 back to die of cancer with his daughter at Cape Elizabeth. He 
 was a genial, kind-hearted man, and had had rough experiences 
 on the sea and in foreign ports. 
 
 BARROWS. 
 
 Asa Barrows, whose wife was Content Benson, came from 
 Middleboro, Mass., to Paris, and was among the very first 
 settlers. His daughter Polly, who became the second wife of 
 Morton Curtis, was the second child born in Paris. He, with 
 his son Caleb B, and his daughter Polly, moved to the Gore, to 
 a farm afterwards occupied by Daniel H. Crockett. Asa sub- 
 sequently went to live with his son-in-law, Curtis, and died 
 there. He had, besides Caleb and Polly, Rachel, who married 
 John Ellingwood, of Bethel, afterwards of Milan, K H., Asa, Jr., 
 and perhaps others. 
 
174 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Caleb B. continued to occupy the farm on the Gore until 
 about 1840, when he moved to Linneifs, in the County of 
 Aroostook. His wife was Abigail Barrows, his cousin, and they 
 had Emily, Abigail, Alden, Mary, Phebe, Samuel, Caleb, Jr., 
 and Hannah. 
 
 BAETLETT. 
 
 TiLDEN and Sylvanus Baktlett, sons of Capt. Josiah, of 
 Plymouth, Mass., afterwards of Norway, were settlers on 
 Hamlin's Gore. Tilden married Elizabeth Buck, daughter of 
 John, lived in Norway and Paris, and in 1816, bought of Dr. 
 Hamlin lots numbered 7 and 8 on the Gore. He built a log 
 house near where the house of W. 0. Pearson stands. In 1830, 
 he sold to his brother Sylvanus and moved a short distance 
 into Bethel. His sons were Tilden, Benjamin, Abijah and 
 Enoch, the second of which was the only one who ever lived 
 on the Gore. He married a Brooks, of Paris, and lived on part 
 of lot number 9. Tilden Bartlett also had a large number of 
 daughters who married out of town. 
 
 Sylvanus Bartlett married a daughter of Bela Noyes, of 
 Norway, and lived on the place he bought of his brother several 
 years, and then went to Greenwood. His sons were Bela, 
 James and Josiah, and perhaps others. His daughter Mary 
 became the wife of Stephen Estes. 
 
 Jeremiah Bartlett, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fitts) 
 Bartlett and grandson of Cutting Bartlett, all of Newburyport, 
 Mass., was born in that town March 28, 1811, and when two 
 years of age, his parents moved to Bangor in this State. Jere- 
 miah remained in Bangor till 1827, when he went to Eastport, 
 and was in the employ of a broker named Samuel K. Tibbetts. 
 Afterwards he was in Portland, in the employ of F. 0. Bradley, 
 a dry goods merchant. He then returned to Bangor, and was 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 175 
 
 for a time, in the employ of James Crosby ; at twenty-four, he 
 went into business for himself. He was subsequently in busi- 
 ness in Freeport, several years in California, at North Yarmouth, 
 at Locke's Mills sixteen years, then two years in Portland, and 
 in 1868 moved to Bryant's Pond, where he has since resided. 
 September 20, 1836, he married Mary, daughter of Capt. David 
 and Zintha Soule, of Freeport, who was born April 9, 1813. 
 The following were their children : Frank, born in Bangor, 
 June 18, 1837, m. Florence, daughter of Hon. A. G. Piddle, of 
 Washington, D. C, in 1866 ; he lives in Chicago ; Frederic H., 
 b. same May 19, 1840, died in Freeport, Sept. 16, 1842 ; Fred- 
 eric M., b. Freeport March 19, 1843, m. Mary P., daughter of 
 Col. John G. Burns, of this town ; he has traded at the Pond 
 since 1868 ; William H., b. same January 30, 1846, died at 
 Locke's Mills, Aug. 13, 1858 ; Walter H., b. North Yarmouth, 
 Sept. 9, 1848, resides in Charlestown, Mass., unmarried. The 
 wife of Jeremiah Bartlett died February 12, 1881. She was a 
 most estimable woman, and her death was deeply mourned by 
 the entire community. Mr. Bartlett married for second wife, 
 February 14, 1882, Miss Mary A. Morton, formerly of Need- 
 ham, Mass., and still lives at the Pond. In a recent note with 
 regard to the public offices he has held, he facetiously says : 
 
 ** During the rebellion I was chosen one of the Selectmen of Greenwood, 
 and though doing my duty as well as I understood it (as a republican), I was 
 not allowed to hold that honorable position but one year, but quite long 
 enough to place guide boards in needed places, and have a railing for 
 ' Johnny's Bridge,' all of which have now disappeared, and only the tongue 
 can supply the place of one, and the instinct of thS animals that draw the 
 carriages can guard their owners from danger." 
 
 BEARCE. • 
 
 Egbert Bearce, from New Gloucester, married Betsey, daugh- 
 ter of Bela Noyes, of Norway. He lived in Greenwood and 
 Bethel, and in 1830 came to the Gore. He bought of William R. 
 
176 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Hemmingway the place formerly owned by John Buck. He and 
 his wife both died here. His children were Esther, who married 
 George Crockett and settled on a farm near by, and Jonathan 
 Millett, who went to New York and kept a hotel. 
 
 BECKLER. 
 
 John Beckler, of Dutch origin, and his wife, of the same 
 nationality, whose maiden name was Miller, were living in 
 Woodstock in 1802. He sold his betterments, in 1810, to Joshua 
 Felf and moved to Greenwood, and subsequently to Albany, 
 where some of his grandchildren still live. He had a son 
 Francis, a daughter Ehoda, who married Asa Young, and 
 another who married James Lebroke, of Paris, afterwards of 
 Greenwood. He may have had other children. 
 
 BERRY. 
 
 Levi Berry, born in Falmouth, April 28, 1777, son of Wil- 
 liam and Joanna Doane, of Falmouth, grandson of George and 
 Sarah Stickney, great-grandson of Major George and Elizabeth 
 Frink, and great-great-grandson of George and Deliverance Haley, 
 of Kittery, was among the early settlers of Woodstock. In 1799, 
 he began a clearing on the lot in the south part of the town 
 which is now known as the Daniel Day farm. The following 
 year, he was marriefl to Lusannah Bryant, daughter of Solomon, 
 and moved to his new farm. He lived here some fourteen 
 years and then moved to Paris. He died in Smyrna, Me., Feb- 
 ruary 8, 1854, and his wife died at the same place October 18, 
 1849. Their children, all except the youngest, born in Wood- 
 stock, were : 
 
 I Levi, Jr., b. June II, 1801, lived in Paris and Wilton, and about the 
 year 1846, moved to Smyrna, where he lived to the time of his 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 177 
 
 death. He married Polly Hammond, of Paris, daughter of Joseph, 
 and reared a large family, most of whom reside in Aroostook 
 County. 
 II Louvisa, b. April 9, 1803, married John Lapham, son of Abijah. 
 (See Lapham.) 
 
 III William, b. April 4, 1805, married Sally Lovejoy, of Norway. He 
 
 lived for a time in Woodstock, on the Gilbert farm. He died in 
 Norway. His children were Levi, died young; Sarah J., married 
 James M. Abbott, of Oxford ; Elvecy, married a Davis, who died, 
 and she re-married and went to Massachusetts ; Frank L., has 
 been twice married. 
 
 IV Leonard, b. February 7, 1807, married Hannah Pool, of Norway, 
 
 daughter of Joshua, lived in Paris and then came to Woodstock 
 and died here. His children, born in Paris, were Edwin R., went 
 to California, thence to Nevada and died there, leaving a family; 
 Julia married Albion P. Cole, of Woodstock ; Albina S. married 
 Wm. H. Cole; Cyrus P. married Lucy Cole, daughter of Col. 
 Cyprian, of Greenwood ; Horace C. married Angelia Cole, daughter 
 of same ; Geo. L. killed in the army ; Flora J. married Henry F. 
 Cole, of Greenwood, and Henry, who is married, and still resides 
 in town. 
 V Aurelia, b. April 29, 1810, married Elijah Swan, Jr., of Paris, and 
 had Leonard B., b. January 8, 1834, who married Mary A. Grover ; 
 P. Dustin, b. Aug. 17, 1837 ; died young ; L. Elphreda, b. July 27, 
 1839, who married J. C. Perry, of Paris ; Elijah C, b. June 17, 
 1842; died young. Aurelia Swan, died April 1, 1864. 
 VI Cordelia, b. Aug. 17, 1829, married Abel Bacon. (See Bacon.) 
 
 George Berry, brother of Levi, born in Buckfield, July 30, 
 1787, lived for a short time in Woodstock. His wife was Sally 
 Swan, daughter of Elijah, of Paris. He died in Brownfield, 
 August 8, 18") 6. His children, born in Paris and Hartford, 
 were : 
 
 Fenno, b. July 2, 1813 ; m. Cynthia Landers. 
 
 Edward L., b. Dec. 9, 1821 ; m. Carrie Case, and lived in New York. 
 
 Abbie L., b. Feb. 2, 1823; m. J. M. Marshall, of Millford, Mass. 
 
 Wheeler F., b. May 19, 1825; d. July 5, 1851. 
 
 Betsey J., b. June 8, 1827 ; m. William Mooney. 
 
 Elijah S., b, Nov. 18, 1829 ; m. Miranda Parlin, of Paris, daughter of Rob- 
 inson P. 
 
 Anna W., b. Aug. 11, 1833 ; m. Lst, N. F. Chapin, of Millford, Mass., and 2A 
 Dr. Gray, of Paris. 
 
 George L., b. July 9, 1836; d. June 22, 1857. 
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178 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Hiram B., b. April 20, 1840 ; m. Fannie Merwin, of New York. He was a 
 telegraphic operator, and was killed by lightning while working at his 
 instrument. All of this large family are dead save two ; five of them 
 died of consumption. 
 
 BESSEE. 
 
 Caleb Bessee, son of John Bessee, of Paris, formerly of Ware- 
 ham, Mass., married Abigail Packard, daughter of Daniel, of 
 Buckfield, and moved into town in 1818. His place was south 
 of Pinhook, and was subsequently occupied by Ptev. Pt. Dunham 
 and others. He moved from here into Bethel, and in 1854 
 back' to Woodstock, where he died in 1867, His children were 
 Satina, married Jonathan Kimball, of the Gore ; Huldah, married 
 Jacob Kimball, of Portland ; Abigail, married first, David God- 
 win, second, Cyrus Goud ; Caleb, Jr., married PJioda J. Buck, and 
 also had a second wife ; Hannah, married an Ordway. Caleb, 
 Jr., was a trader at Pinhook for some years. He had children 
 by both wives. 
 
 BICKNELL. 
 
 John Bigknell came here from Buckfield in 1829. He 
 lived on the place afterwards occupied by Joel Perham, and still 
 later by Allen T. Cummiiigs. He sold out to Joel Perham 
 about the year 1842, and built the public house at South Wood- 
 stock, afterwards occupied by David P Hannaford and others. 
 He afterwards moved to S.outh Paris. He had John, who 
 subsequently kept a livery stable at South and West Paris ;• 
 William, who married Mary S. Whitman, and lived in this town ; 
 one of his daughters married Benjamin C. Lurvey, who lived 
 and died at South Woodstock. 
 
 BILLINGS. 
 
 John Billings came here from Paris. He married Phebe 
 Cole, daughter of Eleazer (see Cole), who was born October 31, 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 179 
 
 1777. He was born April 30, 1771. He moved to the lot 
 afterwards owned and occupied by Capt. Jonathan Cole. Most 
 of his sons settled in the Billings neighborhood, on the Sigotch 
 road, and he died there. His children were : 
 
 1 Jonathan, b. January 7, 1798, m. Betsey Felt. 
 
 II Silas, b. March 24, 1800, m. first, Armina Whitman; second, Rebecca 
 Whitman; third, the widow of Willoughby Russell, of Newry, 
 whose maiden name was Kilgore. 
 
 III Lucy, b. February 22, 1802, m. Asa Thurlow, Jr. 
 
 IV John, b. April 25, 1805, m. Hannah Cooper, daughter of Benjamin, 
 
 and lived in Paris. » 
 V Charles, b. October 20, '1807, lived in the family of his brother Jon- 
 athan; was never married. 
 VI Samuel Dexter, b. December 8, 1811, m. Lucy Swan, daughter of 
 
 Gideon; lived in Paris. 
 VII Eleazer C, b. January 22, 1817, m. Mary J. Nute. 
 
 Jonathan Billings, son of the preceding, was the first set- 
 tler in the Billings neighborhood. He married Betsey Felt, 
 daughter of Jeremiah (see Felt). His children were Lorenzo, 
 b. April 11, 1821, m. Mersylvia Hemmingway; Phebe, b. April 
 25, 1823, m. Wm. G. Bryant ; Augustus, b. November 2, 1827, 
 m. Harriet Ptowe ; Lucinda, b. April 30, 1830, m. Timothy 
 Eowe ; Columbus, b. June 14, 1839, m. out of town ; Jonathan 
 E., b. October 18, 1841, m. Anna Eussell, daughter of Benjamin, 
 of Greenwood, and lives on the old homestead. 
 
 Silas Billings, son of John, lived in Woodstock until late 
 in life, when he moved to Oxford. He had three wives as 
 stated, and several children, of whom Armina, m. John A. 
 Clark, 1845 ; Eebecca, m. Deering F. Jackson, 1850 ; Jarvis 
 C, who m. Sarah F. Kilgore, of Farmington, lives in Bethel ; 
 and a daughter Laura A., who m. Willison Eowe. 
 
 Eleazur C. Billings, youngest son of John, married Sarah J. 
 Nute, daughter of Samuel, of Woodstock. He lives near the 
 homestead of his father. He had several children, Virgil D., who 
 m. Sarah E. Dunn, of Peru, and moved to Boston ; a daughter 
 Eoduska, who m. Elbridge G. Wing, and others. 
 
180 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 BISBEE. 
 
 EowsE BiSBEE, son of Charles and Beiilah (Howland), of 
 Pembroke, Mass., afterwards of Sumner, Me., was b. October 10, 
 1775. He was eight years old when his parents came to Maine. 
 He married Hannah Carrol or Carryl of Buckfield. He came to 
 Woodstock about the year 1808, and built the first mill in town. 
 It stood near Abel Bacon's, He afterwards moved to a farm in 
 the Perham neighborhood, on which John Nason had made a 
 beginning, and then to North Woodstock, being the first settler 
 there. He was a blacksmith and mill-wright, and built a mill 
 at Pinhook in 1820. He was an ingenious man, and a man of 
 ability, though eccentric. In politics he was a whig, and for 
 many years the only one in town. He always represented the 
 whig party of Woodstock in the party conventions of the 
 county. His first wife died, and he married widow Washburn, 
 who survived him, and married first Enoch Knight, and then 
 Poxwell Swan. The children of Kowse Bisbee were : 
 
 I Sophronia, b. April 1, 1801, in. Joel Perham. 
 
 II Suel, b. August 13, 1803, m. Milla Whitman. 
 
 Ill Desire, b. January 31, 1805, m. William Chamberlain. 
 
 IV Piram, b. October 8, 1809, m. Aseneth Swett. 
 
 All these are dead except Piram, who lives in Greenwood, and 
 all left families. 
 
 Eowse Bisbee was the son of Charles, grandson of Moses, 
 great-grandson of John, g.g. grandson of Elisha, and g.g.g. 
 grandson of Thomas Bisbee (Besbedge), who with his wife, six 
 children and three servants, came from Sandwich, England, to 
 Scituate, Mass., in 1634. 
 
 HosEA B. Bisbee, a blacksmith, was here in 1844. He 
 came from Sumner. He was married that year to Elizabeth 
 C. Clark. His residence was at the south part of the town. 
 
 bolster. 
 
 Lyman Bolster came here from Peru, and traded in the 
 Knight store at Bryant's Pond. He was the son of Isaac and 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 181 
 
 Hannah (Cushraan), of Paris, and grandson of Isaac, who came 
 from Sutton, Mass., and was early in Paris. Lyraan Bolster, born 
 March 29, 1809, married Betsey Knight, daughter of Daniel. 
 He died here several years ago. Children : Mary Helen, b. 
 December 23, 1846, m. Charles R Houghton — she died No- 
 vember, 1881 ; Albert A., b. April 13, 1850, m. May Louise 
 Dunham, daughter of Eufus K., and lives at the Pond. 
 
 BOWKER. 
 
 Cyprian, Edmund and Harvey Bowker, sons of James and 
 Judith (Chase) Bowker, of Paris, have lived in Woodstock. 
 Cyprian married Rachel Mayhew, of Buckfield, and had John, 
 married Dolly Starbird; Cyprian married Abigail Eobbins, 
 James married Harriet Whitman, Rachel died young, Anna 
 married Frank York, and there was also a William, who married. 
 For second wife, Cyprian Bowker married the widow of Daniel 
 Cole, a sister of his first wife. 
 
 EDxMUND Bowker, born October 3, 1798, married Mary A. 
 Chase, daughter of Merrill. His son now occupies the homestead 
 where he lived and died. He was a farmer and an inn-keeper. 
 His children were : Esther C, b. June 11, 1827, m. Danville J. 
 Libby ; Anson G., b. June 5, 1828, m. first, Martha J. Silver, 
 second, Melissa Harlow; Albion P., b. May 17, 1830, m. 
 Angeline Dudley, daughter of Perrin; George W., b. September 
 7, 1831, m. first, Sarah F. Carter, second, Francis A. Hilton ; 
 Henry, b. April 29, 1833, d. young ; Calista, b. August 11, 
 1836, m. Ambrose Curtis ; Charles H., b. October 24, 1839, m. 
 Ellen Gilpatrick; Galen G., b. November 1, 1841, died in 
 Maryland during the war ; Chauncey C, b. August 29, 1843, d, 
 young ; James L., b. August 13, 1845, m. Ellen E. Davis. 
 
 Harvey Bowker married first, Phebe Proctor, and second, 
 Diana Curtis, of Buckfield, daughter of Oliver. By first wife 
 he had Levi, who married first, Maria Keen, of Sumner, and 
 
182 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 second a Hasey. By second wife he had Phebe, died young ; 
 William, died, aged 21 ; Edmund, had two wives, the last a 
 daughter of William Brackett ; Delphinas P., married Sarah 
 Hopkins ; Kilbon, who married, and Martha E., who married 
 Charles Gowell, of Sumner. 
 
 BPJGGS. 
 
 LuTHEE Beiggs, SOU of Ephraim, an original Shaker at New 
 Gloucester, was born December IG, 1775. His family was from 
 Plymouth County, Mass. He married Lydia Bryant, daughter 
 of Solomon, lived in Paris, and moved into the town in March, 
 1799, to a lot in the " Thousand Acres." He sold out in a year 
 or two to William Swan, and moved to lot number 12, in the 
 south part of the town, now owned by Eeuben Whitman, and 
 died there January 1, 1840. His wife died February 3, 1861. His 
 cljildren, all except the oldest born in Woodstock, were : 
 
 .1 John R., b. in Paris, November 11, 1798, m. Lucy Swan, daughter of 
 William, Jr., and lived many years in Woodstock; he was a 
 trader at Woodstock Village, then near Abel Bacon's and at Pin- 
 hook, the first Postmaster in town, Colonel in the Maine Militia, 
 a Justice of the Peace, hotel keeper at Stephens' Mills and Pin- 
 hook, and farmer. He moved to Dummer, N. H., and died at 
 West Milan in 1881. His children were: Lydia A., b. April 8, 
 1821, m. Ezra Churchill ; Eliza A., b. November 22, 1825, m. John 
 Lucas ; Cordelia, b. December 8, 1826, m. Levi Seavy ; Columbia, 
 b. October 13, 1828, m. Isaac EUingwood ; David, b. October 22, 
 1830, died, aged 16; Benjamin M., b. Feb. 25, 1833, m. Maria Gor- 
 don; Bethiah S., b. Feb. 8, 1835, m. Anthony Nay; Uriah W., b. 
 June 1, 1837, m. Mary Beal; John F., b. March 4, 1839, m. Mary 
 Marshall ; Lucy F., b. December 5, 1841, m. Nathaniel Gookin ; 
 Alfred II., b. January 22, 1844, m. Amanda Cotton; Luther, b. 
 May 26, 1846, m. Dora Bean. 
 
 II Tabitha, b. October 24, 1800, m. first, Lemuel Dunham, of Hartford ; 
 second, Daniel Coffin, of Greenwood. 
 
 in Louisa, b. December 14, 1802, m. John Swan; lived in Greenwood. 
 
 IV Luther, b. June 14, 1806, m. Bethiah Swan. He lived in the north 
 part of the town, above Bryant's Pond. He had a son George, 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 183 
 
 who was killed while at work sawing laths at Locke's Mills, and 
 Edwin R., who married a Dow, and lives with his father in Mason, 
 Maine. 
 V David, b. July 2G, 1808, left town when a young man. 
 VI George William, b. February 21, 1812, died young. 
 VII Anna N., b. December 2, 1815, m. Benaiah Dow. 
 VIII Joseph H., m. first, Lydia Fuller, daughter of Consider; and second, 
 Sally J. York. lie lived in Albany. 
 
 Three children of Luther Briggs, viz : Calvin and Luther, 
 twins, and Solomon, died in infancy. 
 
 Joseph Briggs, son of Jesse, of Paris, born March 27, 1797, 
 married Susan Cooper, and moved to this town in 1822. 
 
 . BROCK. 
 
 Samuel A. Brock succeeded E. R. Knight in the stove and 
 hardware business, at Bryant's Pond, and was very successful. 
 He married Mandana Cross, daughter of Aaron, of Bethel, and 
 had one child, Florence. He went from here to Bethel Hill. 
 
 brooks. 
 
 Dr. Peter Brooks (not in regular practice) came from 
 Poland to Woodstock, and, after a short residence, moved to 
 Greenwood. He married Betsey Bryant, daughter of Solomon 
 (see Bryant), who survived him and became the wife of Jon- 
 athan Fickett. His children were : Lucinda, born December 
 27, 1778, who became the second wife of Aaron Davis, Jr. ; 
 Charles B., married Christiana Fuller, daughter of Consider, 
 and moved to Greenwood ; William E., who married Mehitable 
 Emery; and Betsey, who never married. 
 
 Charles B. Brooks, who married Christiana Fuller, had 
 Eliza, married Azur Herrick, of Poland ; Peter married first, 
 Arvilla Buck, second, Hannah J. Swan ; Charles B., married 
 Loraina Cole, and lives in Greenwood ; Samuel N., a Free Bap- 
 tist preacher, and William E. 
 
184 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 William Brooks, born in Portland, Me., April 1, 1802, son 
 of William C. Brooks, born in Malone, N. Y., March 27, 1777, 
 and of his wife, Hannah Poland, born in Portland, October 20, 
 1780, married first, Dorcas R. Ptawson, who was born in Graf- 
 ton, Mass., March 20, 1793, and settled in Paris, where his 
 parents came and settled when he was quite young. About 
 the year 1837, he moved to the Gore and settled on the lot on 
 the side hill south of the Ansel Moody farm. Previous to 1841, 
 he moved to Woodstock, living at Pinhook, and afterwards 
 between Pinhook and Bryant's Pond. He died in Harrison, 
 December 26, 1877. His father died in Paris, January 12, 1850, 
 and his mother February 8, 1864. By his first wife, Dorcas E. 
 Rawson, he had : 
 
 I A son, died in infancy, unnamed. 
 
 II William Mark, b. Oct. 11, 1827, m. Mary A. Jordan ; lives Norway. 
 
 III Dorcas H., b. September 3, 1829, m. Hazen F. Barker, Eumford. 
 
 IV Augustus F., b. December 20, 1831. 
 
 For second wife, William Brooks married Lydia M. Russell, 
 of Oxford, and had : 
 
 V Virintha, b. March 12, 1836, d. 1846. 
 The above were all born in Paris. 
 Ti Doran, b. on the Gore, December 20, 1837. 
 VII John Wesley, b. Woodstock, July 25, 1841. 
 
 viii Anna M., b. Woodstock, May 10, 1843, m. Freeman Emery; resides 
 in Caribou, Me. 
 
 Benjamin B. Brooks, brother of the preceding, married 
 Jerusha Buck, daughter of Simeon, and moved from Paris to lot 
 No. 9 (Gore), where he lived a few years, and then to the place 
 formerly occupied by his brother William. He then moved to 
 Grafton and died there. His oldest daughter, Phebe, married 
 Lysander Fuller, son of Harvey, and lives in Grafton. He also 
 had sons, Otis, Aldana, Panama, and probably other children. 
 In Grafton he was a farmer and hotel keeper. 
 
John w. Brooks. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 185 
 
 BRYANT. 
 
 The Bryants were the first settlers in the west part of Wood- 
 stock, and gave their name to our largest sheet of water, and 
 one of them to the mountain on its western side. Solomon 
 Bryant was of that part of Plymouth, Mass., which is now called 
 Plympton, where he was born to Dea. Samuel Bryant, and to 
 Tabitha Ford, his wife, January 4, 1746. 
 
 He was the fourth in descent from John Bryant, mariner, of 
 Plymouth, who married Abigail, daughter of Stephen Bryant, of 
 Duxbury. • Solomon Bryant married Elizabeth Curtis, of Haji- 
 over, Mass., and moved to Gray, then to South Paris, and about 
 the year 1808, to Woodstock, where his three sons and several 
 of his daughters had already settled. He moved from Wood- 
 stock to Oxford, then back to Paris, and died there in 1826, 
 three years after the death of his wife. He was one of the first 
 millers at South Paris, the mill standing on the Little Andro- 
 scoggin Kiver. His children were as follows : 
 
 I Elizabeth, b. 1767, m. Isaac Curainings, of Gray. 
 II Betsey, m. first. Dr. Peter Brooks ; and second, Jonathan Fickett. . 
 Ill Christopher, b. March 26, 1774, m. Susanna Swan. 
 IV Solomon, b. October 30, 1776, m. Sally Swan. 
 V Lydia, b. March 30, 1778, m. Luther Briggs. 
 VI Samuel, b. May 9, 1780, m. Lucy Briggs. 
 VII Lusannah, b. May 31, 1785, m. Levi Berry. 
 
 VIII ^Abigail, b. , m. Milvin Pool. 
 
 IX Joanna, b. September 27, 1791, never married. 
 X Martha, b. June 2, 1794, m. Thomas Winship. She died and was 
 buried near Chesterfield Court House, Va., during the war. She 
 left one child, Elvira, who married Thomas Chase, formerly of 
 Farmington, now of Washington, D. C. 
 
 Christopher Bryant, better known as Dr. Bryant (he was 
 a root and herb doctor), with his brother Solomon, came to 
 Woodstock in 1798, being the first settlers. He married Susanna 
 Swan, daughter of William, and settled on the "Thousand 
 Acres," which had been lotted out for the Bryants and their 
 relatives. He traveled much through the country in practice 
 
186 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 of the healing art, and was well known to many. After a few 
 years he moved to Greenwood and died there. His wife survived 
 him many years. His children were : 
 
 I Christopher, Jr., the first child born in town, m. Sally Felt and reared 
 
 a large family. 
 II Amasa, b. July 11, 1804, m. Polly Felt; he went West. 
 Ill Daniel, b. October 19, 1807, m. Esther Holt. He lived in Greenwood 
 
 and Bethel. His family went West after his death. 
 IV Horace, b. May 9, 1812, m. Jane GrifBn. 
 
 V Belinda, b. May 9, 1812, m. Gilbert Chamberlain, son of William, of 
 Rumford. 
 
 VI Susannah, b. . She was twice married, and never lived in 
 
 . Woodstock. 
 
 Solomon Bryant, Jr., brother of the preceding, settled near 
 his brother, on the lot afterwards occupied by his son Eli, and 
 grandson Alfred D. He also moved into Greenwood, but subse- 
 quently came to live with Allen T. Cummings, and he and his 
 wife died here. His wife was Sally, daughter of William Swan, 
 and his children : 
 
 I Sally, b. January 1, 1797, m. Thomas R. Carman. 
 
 II Eli, b. May 15, 1815, m. Arvilla Dudley. 
 
 III Alexander, b. February 29, 1807, m. Cynthia Davis, daughter of 
 
 Aaron, Jr. 
 
 IV Mahalon, b. July 25, 1810, m. Lydia Chase, daughter of Merrill. 
 
 Samuel Bryant, brother of the preceding, came into town 
 the next year after his brothers, and settled on what was called 
 the Common lot. He afterwards moved to the south part of the 
 town, and then to the head of Bryant's Pond, where he lived 
 many years and died. He was three times married ; first, to 
 Lucy Briggs, of New Gloucester, born September 29, 1776 ; 
 second, to Sarah (Jordan), widow of Abijah Lapham, and third, 
 to widow Grover of Bethel. His children, all by the first 
 marriage, and all, except the oldest, born in Woodstock, were : 
 
 I Rhoda b. October 29, 1798, m. Oliver Swan. 
 
 II Samuel, b. May 9, 1800, m. Rebecca Stevens. 
 
 III Solomon, b. March 11, 1802, died when 16. 
 
 IV Elizabeth, b. November 8, 1803, m. Benjamin Bacon, Jr. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 187 
 
 T Lydia, b. same date, m. Daniel Cummings. 
 Ti Abigail, b. November 7, I8O0, died unmarried, 
 vn Joseph, b. December 8, 1807, never married. 
 
 Joseph Bryant, Jr., was here in 1827. Eeward Bryant, 
 married Mary Cummings, daughter of George W., in 1835. 
 John M. Bryant, of Woodstock, married Abigail Berry, of Ray- 
 mond, in 1837, and his son John M. lived and died in this town. 
 Cyrus S. Bryant, of Woodstock, married Louisa D. Chad- 
 bourne, of Sumner, in 1847. Abijah Bryant lived in the 
 east part. These were not of the descendants of Solomon 
 Bryant. 
 
 BUCK. 
 
 John Buck was one of three brothers who first settled and 
 gave the name to Buckfield. They were originally from New- 
 bury, Mass., but lived in New Gloucester before coming to 
 Buckfield. He married Abigail Irish, of Gorliam, and lived 
 many years in Buckfield. Toward the close of his life, he moved 
 to the Gore, being one of the first settlers. He lived on the farm 
 afterwards owned by Eobert Bearce. He died insane. His 
 children, all born in Buckfield, were : Sarah, m. Enoch Phil- 
 brick, of Buckfield ; Abigail, m. Abijah Lapham, of same ; 
 Simeon, m. Lois Drew, of same ; Esther, m. John Warren, of 
 same ; Eliza, m. Tilden Bartlett, of Norway ; Annis, m. Levi 
 Turner, of Buckfield ; Polly, m. Luther Turner, of same ; and 
 Phebe, m. first, Benjamin Brown, of Buckfield, and second, 
 William R. Hemmingway, of Rumford. 
 
 Simeon' Buck lived in Woodstock several years, on the old 
 County road, south of Stephen Packard. He afterwards lived 
 on the Gore, and died there. His wife was Lois Drew, of Buck- 
 field, daughter of Stephen, and she lived to be ninety-four years 
 of age, and died in Grafton. Their children were : Stephen, m. 
 Ruth Cummings ; John, m. Hannah Cummings ; Eliza, m. Samuel 
 
188 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Mattliews, Jr., of Sumner ; Harrison, went early to Aroostook 
 County, and m. there ; Jerusha, m. Benjamin Brooks, Batlisheba, 
 m. Nathaniel J. Farnham ; Elbridge, m. Parlin, daughter of 
 Eobinson, of Paris ; and Melissa, m. George Berry, of Paris. 
 
 Stephen Buck, son of Simeon, lived on the Gore, and then 
 moved to Greenwood. He had three sons, Franklin, who married 
 Augusta Hobbs ; Lewis A., died of small pox, unmarried ; Cyrus, 
 m. Lydia C. Bryant, a daughter Cordelia, who m. Dudley M. 
 Needham, of Bethel; and another daughter, who m. Joseph 
 Fairbanks. 
 
 John Buck, who married Hannah Cummings,' has lived on 
 the Gore a great part of his life, and reared a large family of 
 children. Arvilla, m. Peter Brooks, Solomon, m. and lives in 
 Canton, John A., m. Mary Lapham, Hannah J., m. Emery Swan, 
 Charles H., m. an Estes, Elbridge G., m, Sarah W. Farnham, 
 Harrison, m. a Bragg, Arabella, m. Josiali Estes, who died in the 
 army, George deserted to Canada, during the war, to escape the 
 draft, Jerusha, m. Joseph La Charite, and Lois, who zn. Oliver 
 G. Swan. 
 
 BURNS. 
 
 CoL. John G. Burns came from Oxford. His second wife 
 was Mary, daughter of Peter Kimball, of Hamlin's Gore, and 
 Mr. Burns bought out the old Kimball homestead, and lived 
 there. His children were : John ; Joseph, who "graduated at 
 Bowdoin College, and went South ; Mary, who became the wife 
 of Fred M. Bartlett, of Woodstock ; Etta ; Eliza, who married 
 Stillman B. Blanchard, and one other. 
 
 CARMAN. 
 
 Thomas R Carman, place of birth not known, was brought 
 up and educated by Capt. Bearce, of Hebron. He was a soldier 
 
HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 189 
 
 in the 1812 war. He had several brothers and sisters, but none 
 of them came here. He married Sally, daughter of Solomon 
 Bryant, Jr., and taught school many terms in Woodstock and 
 the adjoining towns. Also served many years as a school offi- 
 cer, here and in Greenwood, where he removed. After the 
 death of his wife, he lived several years in the family of Dea. 
 Christopher Bryant, at North Woodstock, and died there. His 
 children were : Sylvester, Sarah Jane, Sarah Jane again, who 
 married William Welsh, and moved to Portland ; and Milton. 
 Mrs. Welsh is the only one that survives. 
 
 CARR. 
 
 Lyman Carr came here in 1861, and wns in business with 
 J. J. Cram. He married a daughter of Lawson Hill ; he moved 
 from here to Mechanic Falls. 
 
 CARTER. 
 
 Thomas B. Carter was in town in 1837. He lived in the 
 hollow, east of the Curtis School House. His wife was Sarah 
 P. Green, daughter of Richard, and their children were : James, 
 died unmarried ; Sarah T., who became the wife of Geo. W. 
 Bowker ; and Lemuel B. They mo^ed to Paris after 1860. 
 
 CHAMBERLAIN. 
 
 William Chamberi^lin, Jr., came here from Eumford, and 
 lived many years at North Woodstock. His wife was Desire 
 Bisbee, daughter of Rowse, who died, and he married a second 
 wife, and moved from town. His children, by the first wife, 
 were : Enos C, who married a daughter of Ptuf us Farrar, and 
 lives in Bridgton ; and Austin F., who went to Texas and is a 
 physician. For second wife, Wm. Chamberlain married Tamar 
 Gushing and moved to Biddeford. 
 
190 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 CHASE. 
 
 The family of Chase has always been prominent in Wood- 
 stock. Some member of the family have been almost con- 
 tinuously in town office since the town was incorporated. 
 Edmund Chase, the father of those who early settled in this 
 town, was of Newbury, Mass., and a descendant of Aquila, the 
 emigrant. He married, November 30, 1769, Esther Merrill, and 
 later in life moved to Minot, Me., where he afterwards resided. 
 His children were : 
 
 ,1 Joanna, b. November 5, 1770. 
 
 II Stephen, b. January 14, 1772. 
 
 III Merrill, b. October 17, 1773. 
 
 IV Priscilla, b. January 22, 1776. 
 V Ruth, b. September 3, 1777. 
 
 VI Sally, b. September 5, 1779. 
 
 Tii Abigail, b. April 17, 1781. 
 
 VIII Nathan, b. May 16, 1783. 
 
 IX Edmund, b. December 9, 1785; d. 1878, at Minot, Me., aged over 
 
 ninety-two years, and had been seventy years a Freemason. 
 
 X Polly, b. September 28, 1787. 
 
 XI Charles, b. April 6, 1791. 
 
 XII Abner, b. April 28, 1793. 
 
 Of this family only two, Stephen and Merrill, came to this 
 town. 
 
 Stephen Chase married Euth Tyler, of New Gloucester. He 
 lived in Lewiston, in the employ of Michael Little, and was said 
 to be the first millman there. He also had charge of the ferry 
 across the river at that place. He was Imployed by Little, in 
 assisting Mr. Greenwood, in lotting out the grant to Dummer 
 Academy, and became familiar with the character of the town- 
 ship. He finally purchased a lot, situated on the hill south- 
 east of the Eicker farm, and his brother Merrill an adjoining 
 lot. His journal during the first years of his residence here will 
 be found interesting. He was the first Town Clerk, the first 
 Justice of the Peace in town, and the first Eepresentative to the 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 191 
 
 Legislature. He was also agent of the Proprietors of the town. 
 He was one of the early Deacons of the Baptist Church at Paris 
 Hill, and a licensed preacher. About the year 1825, he moved 
 to Lincoln, Maine, and died there. Children : 
 
 I Clarissa, b. September 22, 1799, m. Daniel Curtis. 
 
 i: Ruhamah, b. June 28, 1801, m. Benjamin Davis. 
 
 III Ruth, b. July 6, 1803, m. Simon Fickctt. 
 
 IV Betsey, b. December 28, 1804, m. Solon Gates. 
 
 V Thomas H., b. December 22, 1806, m. Mary Gates. 
 . VI Peter M., b. December 28, 1808, m. Mary Cole. 
 
 VII Cyrus H., b. November 30, 1810, m. Harriet Bailey. 
 VIII Stephen S., b. May 29, 1813, d. July, 1872. 
 IX Noah C, b. October 29, 1815, unmarried. 
 X Dudley P., b. February 14, 1817, m. Olivia Carpenter. 
 XI Abner B., b. December 12, 1819, m. first, Hannah P. Norton ; second, 
 Frank Butterfield. Resides in Norway, Me. 
 
 None of the sons of Stephen Chase lived in Woodstock, after 
 their father removed. 
 
 Merrill Chase married (i) Sally Tucker, March 3, 1796, and 
 moved from Minot, Maine, to No. 3 Plantation, in 1802, with 
 his brotlier Stephen, and settled on an adjoining lot. He 
 succeeded his brother as Clerk of the town, and was a prom- 
 inent man in town affairs for many years. He died in Paris, 
 January 17, 1860. Children : 
 
 1 Sally, b. February 20, 1797, m. Lemuel Perham. 
 
 II Merrill, b. March 20, 1799, m. Mercy Svi^an. 
 
 III Alfred, b. November 2, 1801, m. Elvira Perham ; no children. 
 
 IV Mary A., b. August 5, 1803, m. Edmund Bowker. 
 
 V Esther M., b. May 26, 1806, m. Galen Gates. 
 
 VI Edmund, b. September 20, 1808, m. Anna Spofford. 
 VII Lydia A., b. October 13, 1810, m. Mahalon Bryant. 
 VIII Eliza, b. December 21, 1812, m. Zephaniah B. Whitman. 
 
 For second wife, Merrill Chase married Mrs. Lucy (Spofford) 
 Felt, widow of Joshua Felt, of Temple, N. H., who died in Wood- 
 stock, Maine, in 1812. Children by second marriage : 
 
 IX Luciuda, b. February 9, 1816, m. Gibbs Benson. 
 X Alden, b. June 5, 1819, m. Lucy Cole. 
 
192 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Merrill Chase, son of the preceding, who married Mercy, 
 daughter of Elijah and Eunice (Barton) Swan, of Paris, has 
 resided in "Woodstock, Sumner and Paris ; now in Woodstock. 
 He was the first settler, and built the first mill in that part of 
 Woodstock known as " Sigotch." Children : 
 
 Eunice, b. December 29, 1820, m. Darius Sessions ; 
 
 Olive, b. November 14, 1823, m. Ephraim K. Andrews ; 
 
 Elvira, b. May 4, 1828, d. young; 
 
 Elijah S., b. June 5, 1830, m. Augusta Nash; 
 
 Merrill, Jr., b. June 5, 1830 ; 
 
 Elvira, b. April 17, 1833, m. Lucius Hackett ; 
 
 Aravesta, b. May 13, 1836 ; 
 
 Thaddeus R., b. June 25, 1840. 
 
 Edmund Chase, brother of the preceding, married Anna 
 Spofford, of Ptumford. He was for several years a resident of 
 Woodstock, and served one term in the Maine Legislature. He 
 moved with his whole family to Wisconsin about 1853. Children 
 born in Woodstock : 
 
 Earl S., b. November 10, 1832 ; 
 Otis F., b. July 14, 1834 ; 
 Florinda, b. August 28, 1836 
 Nicy M., b. September 19, 1838 ; 
 Leroy C, b. May 16, 1840; 
 Anne S., b. July 24, 1842 ; 
 Loanza, b. January 8, 1846, d. young ; 
 Lucinda, b. April 9, 1848. 
 Arthur, b. May 3, 1853. 
 
 Alden Chase, Esq., brother of the preceding, married Lucy 
 Cole, daughter of Capt Jonathan, and his children were : Lucy, 
 M., b. May 10, 1841, died October 11, 1846 ; Alden Fitzroy, b. 
 October 16, 1842, graduate of Middletown, Conn., University, 
 and Professor of Mathematics in Maine Wesleyan Seminary at 
 Kent's Hill, m. Louisa E. Allen, daughter of Eev, Stephen ; 
 Estella Ophelia, b. September 1, 1846, m. Rev. Albert A. Ford; 
 Aquila Montrose, b. June 22, 1854. 
 
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 Alden Chase. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 193 
 
 Charles T. Chase, a descendant of William, of Yarmouth, 
 Mass., born at Tisbury, on Martha's Vineyard, came to Liver- 
 more and then to Dixfield, where he amassed a large fortune in 
 trade. He was the son of Capt. Tristram Chase, who was lost 
 at sea when Charles T. was a small boy, and his widow married 
 Col. Jesse Stone, He had a family born in Dixfield ; losing his 
 wife, he re-married and moved to this town. His house is near 
 the junction of the two roads east of Bryant's Pond. He had 
 owned real estate in this town some years previous, and had 
 improved a cranberry bog near his residence. He died here and 
 his remains were interred in Dixfield. 
 
 CHURCHILL. 
 
 JosiAH Churchill came here from Buckfield, and was living 
 here when the town was incorporated. He was born May 13, 
 1786, and his wife, Eachel Curtis, daughter of Noah, June 18, 
 1784. They lived on the farm now occupied by Aaron M. Irish. 
 Their buildings were formerly on the old road, near the west end ■ 
 of the lot, but when the present road was built they removed 
 their buildings to it. None of their children are recorded on 
 our records, but he had sons, Ezra, m. Lydia Briggs, daughter 
 of John R. ; he was killed by the cars at Berlin Falls ; Levi, m. 
 Lucy (Swan) Billings ; and Daniel C, m. Dorcas E. Curtis ; and 
 daughters, Nancy, m. Demeric Swan, son of Gideon ; Maria B., 
 who m. same, and perhaps others. 
 
 Joseph Churchill, tailor, came here from Norway, and 
 carried on business for several years. He married Viana Per- 
 ham, daughter of Joel, and had one son, Walter. He moved to 
 Norway, and died there in August, 1881. 
 
 CLARK. 
 
 Thomas Clark, wife, Martha (Bumpus), lived in Sigotch, but 
 left town many years ago. His children recorded on our records 
 13 
 
194 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 are: Thomas S., b. December 23, 1832; Martha, b. March 5, 
 1835 ; Granville, b. May 24, 1839 ; William, b. June 12, 1841 ; 
 Charles G., b. October 10, 1847. 
 
 John Clark, brother of the preceding, also lived once on the 
 road between the Billings neighborhood and Sigotch. He mar- 
 ried Susan Ellis, daughter of Dea. Stephen, of Sumner, and 
 had Elizabeth, Augustus, and a son, Stephen E., the latter a 
 very promising young man and popular school teacher, who 
 died in early manhood. Both of these families went to Sparta, 
 Wisconsin. Augustus married Armina Billings, daughter of 
 Silas. 
 
 CLIFFOED. 
 
 Joseph Clifford came here previous to the incorporation of 
 the town, from Buckfield. He was from the Provinces, and his 
 wife was Susannah Trull. He was born June 10, 1751, and his 
 wife November 13, 1748. He died in 1816, and his wife sur- 
 vived him many years, supported by the town ; she was gen- 
 erally sold at auction at the annual meeting, and was struck off 
 to the lowest bidder. They had a son Jonathan T., who married 
 Martha Hodges, who was formerly a Bacon (sister of Benjamin 
 of Greenwood), and was the first settler on the Gore. His house 
 stood on the shore of North Pond, then called Clifford's Pond, 
 just below the old Cummings place, since owned by Hiram Day. 
 He afterwards went to the eastern part of the State. They also 
 had a son Daniel, and a daughter Katie, born April 29, 1791, 
 who became the wife of Gideon Swan. 
 
 COLBURN. 
 
 Jerathmel Colburn, son of Jerathmel, of Dunstable, Mass., 
 and Paris, married Eliza Warren, of Paris, daughter of Abijah, 
 and had Arabella C, Prentiss M., Emerson J., Elizabeth A., and 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 195 
 
 perhaps others. He was here in 1812, and lived in the east 
 part of the town. He was in town only a few years. He was 
 born September 18, 1781, and died in Paris, aged nearly a hun- 
 dred years. He was a man of intemperate habits, and a great 
 wit. 
 
 COLE. 
 
 Eleazer Cole, son of Joseph, of Plympton and BridgeVater, 
 Mass., born April 8, 1747, married in 1769 Lucy Shurtlefi', born 
 October 11, 1751, and came early to Paris. Late in Kfe he 
 came here and lived with his son Jonathan. His children 
 were : Calvin, m. Betsey Swan (see Swan) ; Cyprian, m. first, 
 Lovicy Perham, daughter of Lemuel ; and second, Patty Tuell, 
 of Paris ; Jonathan, m. Abigail Whitman ; Phebe, m. John Bill- 
 ings ; Lucy, m. Lazarus Hathaway, of Paris ; Polly, m. Joseph 
 Whitman, and Tyla, m. Gilbert Shaw. 
 
 Captain Jonathan was the only one of the sons that came 
 to Woodstock. He married Abigail Whitman, daughter of 
 Jacob, of Buckfield, and moved to the place where John Billings 
 had made improvements. Here he lived and died. He was 
 always one of our prominent citizens, and often in town office. 
 He had the following children: Abigail, b. June 15, 1819, m. 
 first, Henry H. Packard, second, Alfred Estes, and third, William 
 Yates ; Lucy, b. August 13, 1820, m. Alden Chase (see Chase) ; 
 Albion P., b. December 30, 1824, m. Julia Berry, daughter of 
 Leonard, and had Henrietta, who married and resides in Massa- 
 chusetts ; Ella P., m. Leonard N. Cummings ; and one or two sons 
 younger; William H., November 9, 1830, m. Albina S. Berry, 
 also daughter of Leonard; Louisa, b. January 9, 1^32 ; Lorenda, 
 b. July 20, 1834, died young ; Diantha, b. February 10, 1837, 
 m. Eben Cole, son of Col. Cyprian, of Greenwood ; and Judson 
 W., b. September 4, 1839, m. Emma Wormwood ; he left town 
 when a young man. 
 
 Joseph Cole, from Buckfield, wife, Lucy Bessee, was quite 
 
196 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 early on the Stephen Packard place in Woodstock, but did not 
 remain here long. Frank M. and Henry C. Cole, sons of Col. 
 Cyprian, have both lived in Woodstock. The former married 
 Cynthia A. Bryant, daughter of Alexander, and still lives here ; 
 and the latter married Flora J. Berry, daughter of Leonard. 
 Southern Cole, son of Calvin, lived several years at the foot of 
 Bryant's Pond. He had a large family, several of whom have 
 been voters here, namely : James, Dennis, Keuben T., Francis 
 and Almon T. His brother, Elbridge Cole, has voted here, 
 and several others of the Greenwood Coles have been in this 
 town at times. 
 
 COTTON. 
 
 William Cotton came here from Portland in 1811. He was 
 born February 4, 1784, and his wife, Margaret Green, sister of 
 Richard, was born June 11, 1785. Their children recorded 
 here, are : 
 
 I William, b. in Portland Nov. 1, 1804, m. Tryphenia Lunt. 
 
 II Eliza, b. August 9, 1806. 
 
 III Mary, b. August 26, 1811. 
 
 IV Abigail, b. November 8, 1813. 
 V Mark F., b. April 17, 1816. 
 
 None of the daughters married here. 
 
 Mark F. Cotton, m. Lois C. Robbins in 1836 ; John S. Cotton, 
 m. Phebe Davis ifi 1840, Margaret Cotton, m. James R. Hasey 
 in 1851 ; Isabelle J. Cotton, m. Edward J. Yerrill in 1855 ; 
 Polly Cotton, m. John L. Noyes in 1862 ; Alice J. Cotton, m. 
 Henry H. Russ in 1872 ; Amanda Cotton, m. Alfred H. Briggs 
 in 1864 ; Aaron D. Cotton, m. Viola Pulsifer, of Sumner, in 
 1866. These were doubtless all sons and grandsons of William 
 Cotton, Jr. 
 
 CRAM. 
 
 Jeremy J. Cram came here in 1861 and carried on the jewel- 
 ry business in Churcliiirs shop. He married Sylvina F. Cas- 
 well, and moved to Mechanic Falls and then back to Paris. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 197 
 
 CRAWFORD. 
 
 Benj. F. Crawford, a native of Worcester Co., Mass., came 
 here from Paris and lived at the Pond. He was a shoemaker 
 and also Postmaster. His wife was Sophia Harris. He and 
 his wife both died here. Their children were, Franklin, who 
 never lived here, was a merchant in Portland and went to Kan- 
 kakee, 111. ; Sophia B., who married Horace Cushman ; Abbie, 
 who married B. Kendall Stearns, and Francis B., who marri'ed 
 Susan Eandall and moved to Colebrook, N. H. 
 
 CROCKETT. 
 
 Daniel H. Crockett was an early settler in the east part of 
 Woodstock. He soon moved out of town, but later in life he 
 lived for several years on the Barrows farm on Hamlin's Gore, 
 now a ' part of Woodstock. He was a son of Morris C. and 
 Olive (Humphrey) Crockett and grandson of Daniel and Molly 
 (Noyes) Crockett, of Portsmouth, N. H., afterwards of Wind- 
 ham, Me. Daniel H. was born December 5, 1797, and spent 
 most of his minority in the family of Isaiah Willis, of Paris. 
 He was a soldier in Col. McCobb's regiment, in the war of 
 1812, and a pensioner. He was a shoemaker. He married 
 Eebecca Bacon, of Greenwood, daughter of Benjamin, of Green- 
 wood, and his children were : 
 
 I Helen, b. April 25, 1822, m. Fessenden Swan. 
 II Benjamin B., b. November 26, 1824, m. Lucy R. Wilbur. 
 
 III Daniel M., b. September 29, 1826, m. Harriet C. Yosmus; died at 
 
 Lewiston 1872. 
 
 IV Cyprian, b. April 29, 1829. 
 
 V Charles T. D. Rev., b. March 15, 1833, m. Clementine Bird, daughter 
 
 of Samuel, of Bethel. 
 VI Amos Y., b. June 25, 1835, d. young. 
 
 VII Avice, b. March 22, 1837, m. Jonas W. Lane, resides at Gorham, N. H. 
 VIII Olive R., b. March 25, 1839, m. Daniel M. Goss, son of Thomas, of 
 Bethel. 
 
198 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 IX Harriet B., b. January 9, 1841, m. David T. Foster, son of Eli, of Bethel. 
 
 X Eveline E., b. July 11, 1843, d. 1862. 
 
 XI Virgil D., b. March 6, 1845, d. 1849. 
 
 XII Aaron H., b. September 4, 1849, m. Maria H. Aldrich. 
 
 The father and mother are both dead. 
 
 CROOKER. 
 
 Charles Crooker, from Plymouth County, Mass., came to 
 Minot, and subsequently married Betsey, daughter of Daniel 
 Packard, of Buckfield. They came to Woodstock in 1823, and 
 he afterwards left his family and went to New Brunswick and 
 did not return for nearly forty years. He died in Hebron. 
 His children are not recorded here, but he had Charles, Jr., 
 m. Sally Lapham, Sophronia, m. Thomas Lapham, Daniel, Joseph, 
 Joshua, John, Attice, and perhaps others. None of them lived 
 in this town after they were married. 
 
 CUMMrNGS. 
 
 Isaac Cummings, his father of Sutton, Mass., was early in 
 Gray, where, in 1781, he married Elizabeth Bryant, daughter 
 of Solomon (see Bryant Famiry), and moved to Norway. From 
 there he moved to Greenwood, and lived a long time on the farm 
 afterwards owned by Asaph Paine. About the year 1820, he 
 moved to Hamlin's Gore, his farm being part of lot number 9. 
 Here he lived until his death. He was an industrious man, and 
 respected in the community. He reared a family of fourteen 
 children, all of whom grew to man and womanhood, and had 
 families of their own. Only a partial record of this family 
 could be obtained. The children of Isaac Cummings and Eliz- 
 abeth his wife were : 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 199 
 
 Elizabeth, m. Consider Fuller. 
 
 Isaac, Jr., m. Orpha Shaw, daughter of Jairus, of Paris, and lived and died 
 there. 
 Abigail, m. Azur Ilerrick, of Poland. 
 George Williams, m. Lucy Pratt. 
 
 Moses, m. Pratt, and died soon after. 
 
 Mary, m. Timothy Wellcome. 
 Solomon, m. Cindy Lapham, and died soon after. 
 Lydia, m. Daniel. Iluzzey, of Windhaui. 
 Hannah, m. John Buck, of Bethel. 
 Lois, ra. Joseph A. Herrick, of Poland. 
 Chloe, m. Dr. James Merrill, of Hebron. 
 Joseph, m. his brother Solomon's widow. 
 Ruth, m. Stephen Buck. 
 
 The above children are not arranged in the order of their 
 ages. 
 
 Geokge Williams, son of the preceding, lived on part of his 
 father's old homestead until he became quite advanced in years, 
 when he sold out to his son-in-law, Day, and went West, where 
 he died at a great age. He was the first plantation clerk of the 
 Gore, and filled the position for several consecutive years. His 
 children, all of whom have long since left the town and most 
 of them the State, were George W., Jabez, Albion, Isaac, Cor- 
 nelius, Caroline, Nancy and Mary. Caroline married Hiram 
 Day ; Mary, Eeward Bryant, and Nancy Kev. Nathan An- 
 drews. 
 
 Daniel Cummings, brother of the preceding, began a clearing 
 on the hill south of North Pond, but subsequently moved to 
 Greenwood. He lived for a while previous to his death at 
 Bryant's Pond. His children were Sibyl, Samuel B., Elizabeth, 
 Ann, who married Lemuel Dunham, Joseph W. and Jabez. 
 
 Joseph Cummings continued to live on part of the old home- 
 stead until his first wife died and he re-married and moved to 
 Oxford. His children were Melissa A., Henry, Phebe, IMoses, 
 Eansom D., Abbie, Clara and Koscoe. The three oldest died 
 unmarried. 
 
200 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Allen T. Cummings, son of Joseph, of Greenwood, whose 
 brother was of Sutton, Mass., married Eliza Bryant, daughter 
 of Dea. Christopher, and moved into Woodstock, to the farm 
 formerly occupied by Joel Perham. He had several sons and 
 daughters. In March, 1882, he moved to Bethel and died a 
 few days after. 
 
 CURTIS. 
 
 N"OAH Curtis came here from Norway in- 1806. He was 
 born in Plymouth, Mass., and had lived in Hebron before coming 
 to Norway. He was born August 17, 1750, and his wife, 
 Deborah Luce, of Cape Cod, May 25, 1757. He settled in the 
 south part of the town on land cultivated by his descendants 
 for three generations. His children were : 
 
 I Morton, b. April 8, 1782, m. first, Dorcas Young, daughter of Job, of 
 
 Gray, and second, Polly Barrows, of the Gore. 
 II Rachel, b. May 13, 1784, m. Josiah Churchill. 
 Ill Noah, Jr., b. November 27, 1786, m. Abigail Tuell, daughter of Abia- 
 
 thar, of Paris. 
 IV Seth, b. March 17, 1790, m. Sally Davis, daughter of Aaron. She was 
 
 living in 1882, in Paris. 
 V Charles, b. October 22, 1792, m. Jane Dearing, daughter of John, of 
 
 Denmark, and Mary Jameson, his wife. She was living in Paris, 
 
 in 1882. 
 Ti Daniel, b. April 23, 1798, m. first, Clarissa Chase ; second, Charlotte 
 
 Estes, widow of Alvah, of Milton Plantation. She was an An- 
 drews, daughter of Jeremiah, of Bethel. 
 
 Morton Curtis lived all his life on part of the old home- 
 stead, it being the farm where Luke Owens first made a clear- 
 ing in 1799. His children, all by first wife, were : Seth, b. 
 July 18, 1806, m. Matilda Lurvey, daughter of Job; Deborah, 
 b. May 29, 1809, m. Amos Doe, of Paris ; Crosby, b. January 
 23, 1811, m. Mary Paine, daughter of Davis Paine ; Daniel, b. 
 July 3, 1814, m. Charlotte Paine; Eansel, b. May 6, 1817, m. 
 Elizabeth Dacy. 
 
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 CUSIIMAN. 
 
 Bartholomew Cushman, son of Job, of Plympton, Mass, and 
 a descendant of Eobert the Pilgrim, was born in Plympton, 
 June 7, 1776. His father subsequently moved to Hebron, 
 Maine. He married, April 3, 1800, Lydia Dunham Fuller. 
 He moved to Paris, and subsequently to Woodstock. His 
 children were: 
 
 I George W., b. February 8, 1801, m. first, Clarissa French; second, 
 Mary French. 
 II Maria C, b. April 29, 1802, m. Ezra G. Fuller, of Paris. 
 
 III Lydia F., b. March 23, 1807, m. Joseph Hammond, of Paris, and 
 
 moved to Patten. 
 
 IV Thomas C, b. June 5, 1816, m. Huldah Jackson, daughter of Nathaniel, 
 
 of Milton Plantation. They had two children, Nancy J., b. Sep- 
 tember 3, 1840, and Nathaniel J., b. August 12, 1845. 
 
 Thomas lived some years at North Woodstock, and then 
 moved to Paris. 
 
 George W. Cushman, son of Bartholomew, ante, was a prom- 
 inent man in Woodstock affairs, often holding town office, Eep- 
 resentative to the Legislature, &c. He was also Brigadier 
 General in the Maiq,e Militia. He reared his family in Wood- 
 stock, and afterwards moved to Paris. His children, by his 
 first wife, Clarissa French, were : 
 
 I Samantha, b. January 27, 1829, d. January 9, 18.32. 
 II Horace, b. February 2.5, 1830, m. Sophia Crawford, and died in Kansas. 
 
 III George, b. July 18, 18-33, m. Isabella Felt. He died in early manhood, 
 
 leaving several young children. 
 
 IV Anna, b. September 2.3, 1834, m. Otis West. 
 V Jane, b. August 11, 1837, m. Benton Russ. 
 
 By second wife, Mary French, he had : 
 
 VI Adna S., b. August, 1844. 
 
 DACY. 
 
 John and Daniel Dagy, sons of John, of Poland, came quite 
 early into town. John was a millman, and before coming here 
 
HISTOHY OF WOODSTOCK. 203 
 
 worked for Michael Lrttle, of Lewiston. He first began on tlie 
 Day farm, but finally settled on the farm near the south line of 
 the town. His children were : Elizabeth, married Eansel Curtis ; 
 John, married and moved early from town ; Sabra, married 
 Samuel S. Swan ; Sarah, married Austin A. Gray ; Sophia, mar- 
 ried J. Sullivan Whitman, of Greenwood, and Eunice, married 
 John Fifield, of same. Daniel lived in the east part of the 
 town. 
 
 DAVIS. 
 
 Moses, Aarox and William Davis, brothers, came from 
 Salem, Mass., and settled in Poland ; from thence Aaron came 
 here in 1816. He settled in the south part of the town, on the 
 lot begun on by John True and afterward occupied by Enoch 
 Hammond. His wife was Thankful Strout, and his children : 
 
 I Hannah, b. 1785, m. William Faunce. 
 
 II Aaron, Jr., b. 1786, in. first, Lucinda Brooks, daughter of Dr. Peter; 
 second, Eliza Dudley, third, widow Nancy Stephens. 
 
 III Thankful, b. 1788, m. Kobert Stockman. 
 
 IV Sally, b. 1791, m. Seth Curtis. 
 V Polly, b. 1792, m. Samuel Nute. 
 
 VI Phebe, b. 1795, d. unmarried. 
 
 VII Benjamin, b. 1797, m. Ruhamah Chase, daughter of Stephen, of 
 
 Woodstock. 
 
 VIII Eliphalet, b. 1798, m. Lydia Lurvey. 
 
 IX Eliza, b. 1801, m. Richard T. Lurvey. 
 
 X Nehemiah, b. 1804, d. unmarried. 
 
 XI Julia, b. 1807, m. Benj. Stephens. 
 
 Aaron Davis, Jr., came to Woodstock before his father, and 
 was here at the time of the incorporation of the town in 1815. 
 He lived on the tarm previously described as occupied by his 
 father. His children were : Cynthia, b. October 5, 1809, m. 
 Alexander Bryant; Joseph, b. August 23, 1811, m. Jane 
 Stephens; Stephen D., b. September 26, 1813, m. first, Abigail 
 C. Fuller, second, Lovicy B. Fuller ; Charles, b. April 16, 1815, 
 
204 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 m. Harriet Nute ; Phebe, b. April 10, 18i7, m. John S. Cotton ; 
 Lorenzo, b. February 9, 1819, m. Eleanor Packard; Betsey, 
 b. September 4, 1821, m. Aaron D. Thurlow; Thankful, b. 
 October 19, 1823 ; Aaron, Jr., b. August 23, 1825, m. Lucy 
 Pickett; Seth C, b. May 17, 1827, m. Almira Herrick, of 
 Poland; Lucinda, b. August 25, 1830, m. Jeremiah Curtis, of 
 Eumford. 
 
 Benjamin Davis, brother of the preceding, lived in the south 
 part of the town a few years and then moved into Sigotch. 
 He was an industrious man and highly esteemed. He was often 
 in town office. When quite an old man, he had a field of burnt- 
 land corn of over fifty acres. His children, all born in Wood- 
 stock, were : Piichard, b. February 21, 1823, died young ; Eme- 
 line, b. March 15, 1824; Herrick C, b. November 5, 1825, m. 
 Lucy M. Eelt, daughter of Jeremiah ; he is an Attorney at Law, 
 has often been in town office, was Representative in the Legis- 
 lature, and is serving his second term as Register of Probate, 
 resides in Paris; Benjamin, Jr., b. August 11, 1827, lived many 
 years in Lincoln, where he married, then returned and lived 
 with his father ; has been Selectman and Representative in the 
 Legislature; Stephen C, b. May 23, 1829, m. Martha E. Per- 
 ham, daughter of Jotham; Ruhamah, b. July 15, 1831, m. 
 John Q. Ellis and went west; Nehemiah, b. November 8, 1833, 
 m. Mary J. Perham, daughter of Joshua ; he died soon after and 
 his widow married Win field S. Ripley and lives in Wakefield, 
 Mass. ; Cyrus C, b. September 26, 1835, died a young man ; 
 Henry, b. May 11, 1838, m. Maria P. Greenleaf, of Milton Plan- 
 tation, daughter of James. 
 
 William Davis was a voter and taxed in town in 1817. 
 Isaac Davis was here in 1824. A Davis, also from Hyde Park, 
 Mass., lived here a short time and then returned. One of his 
 daugliters was the wife of Joseph E. Johnson ; another married 
 Daniel Bryant, of Greenwood, another George Barden, and Ellen 
 E. became the wife of James L. Bowker. 
 
HISTOllY OF WOODSTOCK. 205 
 
 DAY. 
 
 Alexander Day, son of John, of Wells, with his brother 
 James, came to Poland. The latter was killed by a falling tree 
 while they were engaged in making a clearing in Poland, and 
 Alexander then went to Minot, and subsequently to Woodstock. 
 His wife was Mercy Dacy, whose father was of Poland. He 
 first came to the place below Jacob Whitman's, but afterwards 
 swapped farms with his wife's brother John. This was the 
 place on which Elijah Day now lives. The first opening on this 
 place was made by two Packard brothers, of Buckfield, brothers 
 of Stephen, but they never moved here. Mr. Day was an 
 industrious and useful citizen, and at one time Captain of the 
 Woodstock militia. He was a member of the first Board of 
 Selectmen in town, and much in town office. His children 
 were : 
 
 I Paulina, b. June 2, 1806. 
 
 II Alexander, Jr., b. July 27, 1807, m. Eliza Ricker, daughter of David, 
 
 and bad Daniel, b. January 9, 1834, ra. Martha Powers, of Litch- 
 field; Thomas R., b. June 30, 1836, m. first, Maria J. Farnum, 
 daughter of James H., and second, Lizzie (Yates) Gilbert; Charles 
 II., b. December 15, 1838, m. Margaret Robinson ; John, b. August 
 30, 1841, d. August 16, 1864 ; William, b. August 9, 1843, m. Sarah 
 E. Ayer; Lydia C, b. April 29, 1845, m. James W. Powers; 
 Alexander, b. May 13, 1848, rh. Augusta M. Burges, who died soon 
 after. 
 
 III John, b. March 22, 1809, m. first, Charlotte Dudley ; second, Ann 
 
 Dudley (no children.) 
 
 IV William, b. October 19, 1810, d. October 16, 1815. 
 V Eunice, b. August 8, 1812, m. Elbridge Fifield. 
 
 VI Hiram, b. September 17, 1814, m. Caroline Cummings, daughter of 
 George W., of the Gore. He succeeded to the Cummings home- 
 stead, and has since lived there. He had a family of several 
 children, and also a second wife. 
 VII Daniel, b. September 7, 1816, d. young. 
 VIII Mercy, b. December 14, 1818, m. Jared Young. 
 IX Nancy, b. same date, d. an infant. 
 
 X Elijah, b. September 3, 1820, m. Mahala Jackson, daughter of Ben- 
 jamin, of Paris. lie lives on the old Day homestead in Woodstock, 
 and has reared a family, the oldest of whom, Belinda, m. Gavestoa 
 
206 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK, 
 
 Cole, of Greenwood ; and James, who resides with his father, also 
 m. a Cole, daughter of William H., of Woodstock; another 
 daughter m. James H. Farnum. 
 XI Belinda, b. —, d. young. 
 
 DOLLOFF. 
 
 Abner Dolloff, from Gray, was here in 1823, but did not 
 remain long. He lived on tlie place below David Eicker's. He 
 was born January 16, 1784, and his wife, Rebecca, January 25, 
 1784, Their children were: Emma, b. July 11, 1812, m. a 
 Thorn; Sumner, b. October, 15, 1813, never was married; 
 Eosannah, b. October 25, 1814, m. a Foster ; Ephraim, b. 
 February 25, 1816 ; Albert W., b. July 27, 1818 ; Martha, b. 
 March 7, 1820 ; William D., b. August 11, 1821, and Samuel, 
 b. Nov. 14, 1822. 
 
 doughty. 
 
 Samuel B. Doughty came here in 1854 and settled in 
 Sigotch. He was by trade a calker, and after he came here he 
 frequently spent portions of his summers in working at his 
 trade in the ship-yards of Bath. He was born in Topsham, 
 October 16, 1805; was the son of Samuel and Sarah (Mann) 
 Doughty, the former born in Topsham, in 1781, and the latter 
 in Gloucester, Mass., 1785 ; grandson of Stephen and Hannah 
 (Wallis) Doughty, the former born on the " Great Island " in 
 Harpswell, and the latter in Gloucester, Mass. The grandfather 
 of Stephen Doughty is said to have been a Scotchman. Samuel 
 B. Doughty, who came here, was married Nov. 7, 1833, to Mary 
 Willson, who was born in Bowdoin, February 19, 1815. Their 
 children- were as follows : Cassandra, b. in Topsham, October, 
 31, 1834, m. November 27, 1855, William S. Pratt, of North Yar- 
 mouth, she d. October 16, 1863 ; Mary W., b. Topsham, May 
 20, 1837, m. October 21, 1855, to Hatherly Hinkley, of Bow- 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 207 
 
 doinham ; Edwin, b. in Topsham, July 21, 1839, m. March 12, 
 187*1, Albina M. Smith^of Calais, who d. September 6, 1875 ; 
 Nancy G., b. in Bowdomham October 11, 1841, m. June 2, 1860, 
 Charles H. Sessions, of Milton Plantation ; Robert H., b. in 
 
 Topsliam, 23, 1845, d. September 7, 1864 ; James H., 
 
 b. in same, August 3, 1849, m. February 13, 1875, Bertie F. 
 Leighton, of Machiasport, resides in Maiden, Mass. ; Elijah A., 
 b. in Woodstock, February 3, 1856, d. in infancy ; Arthur S., 
 b. in Woodstock, June 28, 1857. 
 
 DOW. 
 
 Benaiah Dow came herefrom Paris in 1810. He was born 
 in Exeter, N. H., July 25, 1770, and his wife, Joanna Mitchell, 
 was born April 5, 1777. Benaiah Dow was a descendant of 
 Jonathan, who was early at Exeterji He died in Woodstock, 
 January 31, 1852, and his wife in 1859. He lived in the south- 
 east part of the town, near Sumner. His children were : 
 
 I Huse, b. January 25, 1801, m. Zilpha Drake. 
 II Eleazer, b. December 24, 1803. 
 Ill Anna, b. September 19, 1807, m. Levi Andrews. 
 IV Benaiah and Ane (twins), b. October 12, 1809 ; he m. Anna N. Briggs, 
 daughter of Luther, and she m. Cyrus Andrews ; Olive, b. 
 December 8, 1811 ; Pamelia, b. July 2, 1814, m. Joseph Dunham ; 
 Dordama, b. April 25, 1815. 
 
 David Dow, brother of the preceding, was living here at the 
 time of taking the first census, but soon moved away. He was 
 born July 12, 1782, and his wife was Elizabeth. Children 
 recorded here: Lydia, b. December 26, 1804; Hannah, b. 
 March 14, 1806 ; John, b. October 2, 1808 ; and Jane, b. No- 
 .Vember 9, 1814. 
 
 DUDLEY. 
 
 Luther Dudley, of Natick, Mass., married Nancy Wellington, 
 of Sudbury, and came to Paris, settUug near the King place, on 
 
208 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 the old road between Paris Hill and the Cape. He died after 
 
 two years, and his widow married Willian Cobb, of Hebron. His 
 
 children came to this town, and were here when the town was 
 
 incorporated. They were: 
 
 I Josiah, b. Jaquary 23, 1792, m. Polly Fuller, of Paris. • 
 
 II Moses, b. October 11, 1794, m. "Welthea Benson. 
 
 III Mary, b. March 3, 1797, m. Joel B. Thayer, of Paris. 
 
 IV Warren, b. July 4, 1800, m. Alvina Barrett, of No. 2, and went west. 
 V Nancy, b. June 26, 1809, m. Johnson Holt, of Paris. 
 
 VI Luther, b. December 10, 1811. 
 VII Martha, (date of birth not known) m. Otis Bicknell, of Buckfield. 
 
 Josiah Dudley lived for several years in the Dunham 
 neighborhood, so called, in Woodstock. He was an enterprising 
 and energetic business man, and during his residence in Wood- 
 stock, was a leading and influential citizen. He was often 
 entrusted with responsible town offices, which he always filled to 
 the acceptance of his townsmen. His wife was Polly, only 
 daughter of Aaron Fuller, who was one of the early settlers of 
 Paris. Mr. Dudley subsequently moved to Paris and died there 
 at an advanced age. He left a large property. His children were : 
 
 Wellington, b. June 8, 1817, m. Ann C. Bent. 
 
 Maria, b. March 11, 1819, m. Eben S. Chapin, of Stafiord, Conn. 
 
 Emily, b. October 5, 1820, d. in 1838. 
 
 Julia A., b. March 20, 1822, m. Edward P. Chase, of Portland. 
 
 Mary, b. August 27, 1825, m. Josiah B. Snow, of Orleans, Mass. 
 
 Smith, b. June 8, 1827, m. Lydia H. Stearns. 
 
 Moses Dudley, brother of the preceding, remained only a 
 few years in Woodstock, when be moved to Paris and died 
 there, and his widow married William 0. Pearson, who moved 
 to the Sylvanus Bartlett place on the Gore. His children were : 
 Charles, Mary A., James B., married Nellie Bryant, daughter of 
 Dea. Christopher, and died on the Gore ; Moses and Euth'. 
 There may have been others, but all left town many years ago. 
 
 David Dudley, as stated elsewhere, exchanged farms with 
 Noah Curtis, Jr., and came here from Paris, in 1820. He was 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 209 
 
 of Sudbury, Mass., and in early manhood came to Hebron. He 
 
 married Eebecka Bucknam for his first wife, and for second. 
 
 Charity Tuell, of Paris. His was the hill farm, still in the 
 
 Dudley family. His children were : 
 
 I Daniel, m. first, Polly Churchill, second, Lovicy Hathaway. 
 
 II Rebecca, m. Eli Washburn, of Hebron. 
 
 III David ; he went to sea and never returned. 
 
 IV Eliza, m. Aaron Davis, Jr. 
 
 V Clarissa, m. Galen Soule, of Oxford. 
 
 Children by second wife : ^ 
 
 VI Perrin, b. February 3, 1803, m. Paulina Dudley. 
 
 VII Laodicea, in. Seth Perkins. 
 
 VIII Arvilla, m. Elia Bryant. 
 
 IX Ann, m. John Day. 
 
 X Charlotte, m. John Day. 
 
 XI Alfred, died young. 
 
 XII Sidney, died young. 
 
 XIII Gilbert, b. November 25, 1819, m. Mahala Curtis; had Perrin, and 
 
 perhaps other children. 
 
 XIV Alsina, b. March 14, 1823, unmarried. 
 
 XV Ansel, b. February 25, 1825, m. Augusta Curtis ; he resides in Paris. 
 XVI Josiah A., died young. 
 
 Daniel Dudley, oldest son of the preceding, lived for several 
 years on the farm in the Curtis neighborhood, afterwards owned 
 by Simon Picket, and since by Simeon Curtis. He was twice 
 married as stated, and had children ; he left town many years 
 ago. 
 
 Perrin Dudley, brother of the preceding, has ever lived in 
 Woodstock since his father moved here about the year 1820, 
 occupying the old homestead. He has been one of our most 
 valuable and esteemed townsmen, occupying positions of trust 
 in town affairs for many years, and always acquitting himself 
 to the satisfaction of his constituents. As a military man, he 
 had marked ability. In the old militia company of this town 
 he filled every grade of office, and subsequently held the posi- 
 tions of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel of the regiment 
 to which his company belonged. When the War of the Ee- 
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210 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 bellion broke out he was too old for active service, but he took 
 command of a volunteer company, organized for drill at Bry- 
 ant's Pond, and nearly every member of his company subse- 
 quently entered the service. He was a prudent and industrious, 
 as well as public-spirited man, and was able to give his children 
 a good start in life, and what is still better, the legacy of a good 
 name. May 30, 1828, he married Paulina Pelt, daughter of 
 Joshua, and had: Otis S., b. January 25, 1829, 'died May 2, 
 1880 ; Jairus, b. October 7, 1831, m. July 3, 1860, Amanda M. 
 Clark, daughter of Norman, of Bethel ; he died in Bethel, in 
 1881 ; Agelina, b. July 20, 1833, m. July 4, 1853, Albion P. 
 Bowker; Clementine, b. May 8, 1835, d. August 15, 1838; 
 Margaret, b. June 2, 1837, d. July 15, 1839 ; Otis S., b. April 
 11, 1839, m. June 21, 1862, Mahala Curtis; Adelia, b. March 
 29, 1841, m. Jeremiah Curtis, December 26, 1861 ; he died 
 August 4, 1876 ; Ansel, b. April 11, 1844, m. March 4, 1868, 
 Josephine E. Childs ; Amanda M., b. March 31, 1846, in. Janu- 
 ary 1, 1868, James Sheran ; Evelyn 0., b. December 20, 1849, 
 m. Preeland Young, November 7, 1869 ; Perrin A., b. December 
 14, 1853, d. September 16, 1855. 
 
 DUNHAM. 
 
 Widow Lydia Dunham was living in the Dunham neighbor- 
 hood at the time the town was incorporated. She was the 
 widow of Asa Dunham, who came from Plymouth County, 
 Mass., to Norway, and who died at Burlington, Yt, during the 
 war of 1812. Widow Dunham was born September 17, 1764, 
 and her maiden name may have been Cobb. The following of 
 her children are recorded on our records : 
 
 1 . Samuel, b. October 30, 1794, m. Maria Conant, of Sumner, and lived 
 
 in Paris. 
 11 Sylvanus, b. July 8, 1797, m. Esther Benson, of Paris, and lived there. 
 
 III Betsey, b. November 2, 1799, m. Lewis Fuller. 
 
 IV Polly, b. November 2, 1799, m. Gideon Perkins; he settled in Wood- 
 
 stock. 
 
Rev. Ransom Dunham 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 211 
 
 V Daniel, b. September 1 9, 1803, m. Mary Durell ; second, Susan (Bailey) 
 
 Smith : also lived in Woodstock. 
 VI Joseph, b. May 13, 1805, m. Pamelia Dow. 
 
 Mrs. Dunham also had a son Asa, and two daughters, who 
 
 were not of her ffimily at the time the first census of Woodstock 
 
 was taken. The son settled in Paris, and the daughters were : 
 
 Susan, in. Alexander Hill, of Paris ; Chloe, m. Antepast Durell. 
 
 PtEV. Eansom Dunham was born to James Dunham and 
 Mary Eansom, at Hebron, Me., in 1798. His father, born in 
 Bridgewater, Mass., February 9, 1754, married Mary Eansom, 
 of Carver, born August 12, 1756. He was in the Eevolutionary 
 battles of Bunker Hill, White Plains and others. He had a 
 large family, but only the one whose name is at the head of 
 this article ever lived in Woodstock. He came to Paris Hill in 
 1816, and there learned the blacksmith's art, after which he set 
 up there in the business for himself. He married Susan Jackson, 
 daughter of Lemuel, Jr., of Paris, find in 1824 moved to Park- 
 man, where he worked at his trade and also began to preach. 
 In 1833, he moved to Bangor, and in 1836 to Woodstock. In 
 1835, he preached to the Baptist Church in Paris, and in 1836, 
 he was ordained to the work of the ministry and installed over 
 the Baptist Church in Hamlin's Gore and North Woodstock. 
 He was the pastor of this church for twenty-five years, and of 
 its original members only one survives. During these years he 
 did much missionary labor, traveling and preaching through a 
 large part of Oxford County, also in Hancock, York and Cum- 
 berland. He administered the rite of baptism to over six 
 hundred persons. He also worked at his trade, and engaged 
 much in horticulture, of which he was very fond. Some thirty 
 years ago he moved to Bryant's Pond and has since resided 
 there. His garden of fruit, flowers and vegetables, in their 
 season, has been visited by many persons. His children are : 
 
 I Mary E., b. 1822, m. Sullivan A. Estes, son of Stephen, and had Helen 
 A., b. 1851, ni. Austin F. Trull, died soon after; Harry M., b. 1860, 
 and Hiram A., b. 186-i. 
 
212 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 11 Eufus K., b. April 11, 1824, m. Abbie B. Estes, daughter of Stephen, 
 and had Emma F., b. March 2, 1853 ; May Louise, b. July 16, 1855, 
 m. Albert C. Bolster ; Charles E., b. December 16, 1857, married and 
 lives at Bryant's Pond ; also Eva. Rufus K. Dunham was the first 
 station agent at Bryant's Pond and has filled the position ever since, 
 besides being telegraphic operator and express agent. The com- 
 pany never had a more faithful and conscientious employe. He 
 •was also in trade in the Crockett store with his brother-in-law, 
 Albert H. Estes, for several years. 
 
 Ill Hiram, b. . He married a daughter of America Farrar, of Buck- 
 field ; went early to California, and died in Arizona. 
 
 Lemuel Dunham, son of Lemuel and Molly (Bisbee) Dun- 
 ham, of Hartford, came to Bryant's Pond and married Lydia A. 
 (Cummings) Clifford, of Woodstock, daughter of Daniel C, and 
 had Jabez W., b. 1859, d. 1862 ; Carrie K, b. February 25, 
 1863; Elvira B., b. September 9, 1873. 
 
 DURELL. 
 
 Samuel Durell, son of Peter, of Newton, Mass., born 
 December 8, 1767, married Ann, daughter of Samuel Jackson, of 
 Newton, and came to Hebron, thence to Paris and finally to 
 Woodstock, settling in the Dunham neighborhood. His father, 
 Peter Durell, of French descent, came to Newton from St. John, 
 N. B., and lived in the family of Dr. Allen. He married 
 Euth Fuller, daughter of Isaac. Peter, Jr., came to Hebron, 
 and has descendants in Oxford. For second wife, Samuel 
 Durell married, in 1830, Mrs. Jemima Randall, of Poland. His 
 children, all by the first marriage, were : Antepast, b. May 21, 
 1794, m. Chloe Dunham ; Lois, b. January 7, 1796 ; Nancy, b. 
 June 13, 1797, m. Abel Bisbee, of Sumner; Sally, m. Luther 
 Perkins ; Samuel J., m. Elmira Bent, of Paris ; Mary, m. Daniel 
 Dunham ; Flavel, Isaac and Tristram. The Durell family was 
 strong and influential in the east part of the town, but they 
 went away many years ago. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 213 
 
 EDGERLEY. 
 
 Samuel and John Edgerley, sons of Isaiah and Jennie 
 (Libby) Edgerley, formerly of Buxton, and grandsons of John, of 
 the same town, bought the Wm. Swan place in 1846. Samuel 
 married a Gilbert, of Lawrence, Mass., and John a widow Ben- 
 nett (formerly Fifield), of Greenwood. They carried on the 
 farm a few years, and sold out to L. J. Gilbert. Samuel moved 
 to Waterford, and thence to West Paris ; John went to Green- 
 wood, and died there. Isaiah Edgerley, the father, moved from 
 Buxton to Greenwood ; he was a long time miller at Locke's 
 Mills. 
 
 ELLIS. 
 
 Eleazer Ellis, b. July 19, 1815, and Lucy Gary, his wife, of 
 Hartford, b. May 13, 1818, came here from Canton or Peru. 
 They lived in Sigotch, but remained here only a few years. 
 Their children recorded here are : Lucy A., b. July 29, 1836, 
 Abigail C, b. September 10, 1838, and Bethuel C, b. May 16, 
 1842. John Q. Ellis married Ptuhamah Davis, daughter of 
 Benjamin, in 1864, and went west. 
 
 estes. 
 
 Several persons by the name of Estes have resided tempora- 
 rily in this town, all belonging to Bethel families. 
 
 Alfred Estes voted here in 1841, and has lived here at 
 various times since. He married Abigail (Cole) Packard, from 
 whom he was divorced, and married again. He was the son of 
 Enoch, of Bethel, and grandson of Stephen, who married Eelief 
 Bartlett. 
 
 Stephen Estes, son of Benjamin, of Bethel, came here in 
 1856, and he and his son bought the Gibson house at the Pond. 
 His first wife was Nancy Packard, daughter of Daniel, of Buck- 
 field, and his children were Stephen, Jr., Eunice, Albert H., Abbie 
 Louisa, Horace, Mary and Ebenezer. None of them were born 
 
214 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 here. For second wife, Mr. Estes married the widow of Stephen 
 Packard, and lived at Pinhook, where he died, soon followed by 
 his second wife. 
 
 Albert H. Estes, son of the preceding, married Charlotte 
 G-. Goodrich, of Naples, and came here perhaps in 1855. He 
 traded in the Crockett store, in company with E. K. Dunham. 
 While here, he was Kepresentative to the Legislature. From 
 here he went to Portland, where he engaged in the commission 
 business. His wife died, and he went to New York, where he 
 married again, and went to Colorado. 
 
 Sullivan A. Estes, brother of the preceding, married Mary, 
 daughter of Kev. Pt. Dunham, and has been freight master at 
 the Grand Trunk Eailway station here most of the time since 
 the road was opened. His oldest daughter, Helen A., married 
 Austin A. Trull, and soon after died. He also has two or more 
 sons. 
 
 Horace S. Estes, brother of the preceding, lived here several 
 years after returning from sea. He lived near the Universalist 
 Church, and died there. He was married, but left no children. 
 
 John Estes, son of Stephen, of Bethel, was a voter here in 
 1864. He was then quite aged, and had previously lived in 
 Bethel. His wife was Sarah Andrews, daughter of Jeremiah, of 
 Bethel, and he was the father of Eev. Dr. Hiram C. Estes, who 
 married Sophia B. Foster, and is now the pastor of the Baptist 
 Church at Paris. He graduated at Waterville College, and from 
 Colby University, its successor, received the degree of D. D. 
 John Estes also had James H., who lives on the Island Farm in 
 Greenwood, and Charles F., who died in California. 
 
 Samuel K. Estes, son of Alvah and grandson of Eichard, of 
 Bethel,. was here in 1865. He was a brick mason; his first 
 wife a Spofford, daughter of Isaac G., of Milton Plantation ; his 
 second, a Whitman, daughter of Elhanan, formerly of this town. 
 He moved from here to Bethel. .. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 215 
 
 FARNUM. 
 
 James H. Farnum came here from Eumford in 1855, and 
 lived in the Gibson house at the Pond. He had been Kepre- 
 sentative and State Senator. He was the son of David Farnum, 
 who came from Concord, N. H., to Eumford, and of Dorcas 
 Wheeler, his wife. He married Clarissa Hoyt, daughter of 
 Ezra, who came from Concord, N. H., and settled in Andover, 
 North Surplus. Mr. Farnum was a dealer in neat stock, and 
 also engaged in trade with C. P. Knight. He died here of typhoid 
 fever. His children, born in Rumford, were: Juliette, m. 
 Charles P. Knight ; Martha H., m. Thomas S. Bridgham ; 
 Charles W., who married a Wardwell, daughter of Joseph, of 
 Ptumford, and who died in the army ; Maria G-., who married 
 Thomas R Day ; Laura A., who married and lives in Ports- 
 mouth, N. H. ; Abbie, married Edmund M. Hobbs and moved 
 to Providence, R. I. ; and James H., Jr., who married a daughter 
 of Elijah Day. *" 
 
 Samuel Farnum, of Concord, N. H., was a voter here in 
 1843. He lived in the Billings neighborhood. He had sons, 
 Nathaniel J. and Gilman, and a daughter Laura, who became 
 the wife of Richard Estes. 
 
 Nathaniel J. Farnum, son of the preceding, married Basheba 
 Buck, daughter of Simeon, and lived in the Billings neighbor- 
 hood. He had Nathaniel, who married Deborah A. Tracy, 
 David A., who married Frances E. Swan, Richard E., and 
 daughters, Melissa J., married Charles J. Tracy, Sarah W. mar- 
 ried Elbridge G. Buck, and others. 
 
 Gilman W. Farnum, brother of the preceding, whose wife 
 was Amy Bean, daughter of Luther, has the following children 
 recorded here : Lewis E., b. September 20, 1841 ; Sumner C, 
 b. January 14, 1843 ; Luther B., b. September 25, 1845. 
 
 Gilman Farnum, brother of the preceding, married a daughter 
 of Luther Bean, of Rumford. He has lived in this town and in 
 
216 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Milton Plantation, and had several sons and perhaps daughters. 
 One or more of his sons were in the Union Army in the late 
 war. 
 
 FARRAR,. 
 
 Thomas Farear, Jr., born in Scituate, Mass., September 6, 
 1775, married March 25, 1798, Desire Curtis, of Hanover, born 
 February 1, 1778. He first moved to Townsend, then to Buck- 
 field, Me., subsequently to Paris, and in 1815 to this town. 
 He first lived in the house with Eowse Bisbee. Subsequently, 
 he went back to Paris, and in 1818 returned here and com- 
 menced on the farm on Billings' Hill, afterwards owned by 
 Henry H. Packard. Then he moved to the place north of 
 Pinhook, where he died. His children were : 
 
 I Freeman, b. May 2, 1799, m. first, Hannah P. Curtis, of Hanover, 
 Mass., and second, Edna Johnson, of Jefferson. He spent most 
 of his days in eastern Maine, but in old age he returned here and 
 died on the old homestead of his father. He had George, b. 1825, 
 and Allen B., b. in 1829. 
 
 II Judith, b. September 4, 1801, m. Calvin Jackson. 
 Ill Abigail, b. February 18, 1804, never married. 
 
 IV Thomas, Jr., b. May 22, 1806, m. Betsey Moody, daughter of Josiah. 
 He has lived mostly away from this town. He had a large family, 
 among whom were George H., Edwin, who married widow Dorcas 
 (Bartlett) Haines, of Bethel, and was killed in the battle of 
 Fredericksburg, and Thomas, Jr. 
 V Rufus, b. December 18, 1608, m. Chloe Fuller, daughter of Consider. 
 He has spent most of his life in town. His first wife died in 1881, 
 • and he married Lovicy (Whitman) Spofford, widow of Isaac G. 
 Spofford. His children, all by the first wife, were : Lois, b. Au- 
 gust 2.3, 1832, m. Sidney Farnum, of Paris, son of Simeon; Na- 
 thaniel G., b. February 5, 1834, m. Martha Brown, of Paris ; Rufus, 
 Jr., b. February 20, 1836, m. Angelia Whitman ; Algernon S., b. 
 June 9, 1840, m. Helen M. Judkins ; Consider F., b. March 3, 1842, 
 m. Mary Felt; Almon J., b. September 2, 1843, m. Henrietta 
 Bishop, daughter of Cyrus, of Peru ; Leroy, b. July 22, 1845, m. 
 Lucy Robinson, of Paris ; Elizabeth C, b. December 28, 1846, m. 
 Enos C. Chamberlain, son of William, Jr. ; Francis R., b. Septem- 
 ber 11, 1849. 
 
 VI Julia, b. May 18, 1813. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 217 
 
 VII Joseph, b. September 25, 1815. 
 viii Benj. F., b. September 8, 1822, m., first, Semantha Rowe, daughter of 
 "William, and second, Dorcas W. Hanson. He has lived more or 
 less in Woodstock, but has no children on record here. 
 
 FELT. 
 
 Joshua Felt, son of Peter and Lucy Andrews Felt, of Lynn, 
 
 Mass., afterwards of Temple, N. H., born in Temple, March 4, 
 
 1773, married Lucy Spofford, and previously to 1800 moved to 
 
 Eumford, Me. His place was about two miles below Eumford 
 
 Corner. In 1810, he came into this town and settled on a lot 
 
 where John Beckler had made improvements. He died May 1, 
 
 1812, and his widow married Merrill Chase (see Chase). Their 
 
 children were : 
 
 I Lucy, b. May 11, 1795, m. Jotham Perham. 
 
 II Jeremiah, b. February 20, 1797, m. Eliza Perkins. 
 
 III Artemas, b. October 15, 1800, m. Desire Stephens. 
 
 IV Sally, b. December 21, 1802, m. Christopher Biyant. 
 
 V Elizabeth, b. December 11, 1804, m. Jonathan Billings. 
 
 VI Polly E., b. March 4, 1807, m. Amasa Bryant. 
 
 VII John G., b. August 22, 1809, m. Ayer Lawrence, of Jaffrey, N. H. 
 
 VIII Paulina, b. August 7, 1811, m. Perrin Dudley. 
 
 Jeremiah Felt, son of the preceding, married Eliza Perkins. 
 He was a worthy member of the Society of Friends, the only 
 one in town, and he lived up to the principles of the sect. He 
 was much respected by his fellow townsmen. His children 
 were: Alonzo, b. December 18, 1819, d. young; Samuel P., 
 b. December 18, 1821, d. young; Earl, b. March 22, 1824, d. 
 young ; EHza A., b. March 22, 1827, m. Chester D. Fickett ; 
 Lucy, M., b. April 29, 1829, m. Herrick C. Davis ; Mehitable, m. 
 John Hathaway, son of Lazarus, of Paris ; Alonzo, b. Septem- 
 ber 11, 1833, m. Emily Bryant, daughter of Dustin, of Green- 
 wood; Isabella, b. July 16, 1836, m. George Cushman ; Mary 
 P., b. December 20, 1838, m. Consider Farrar ; Sibyl J., b. Octo- 
 ber 14, 1841, m. Samuel Euss, son of James. 
 
 Artemas Felt, brother of the preceding, married Desire 
 
218 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Stephens, daughter of Capt. Samuel. He early moved to Green- 
 wood. He had a large family. His sons were Jesse, Samuel 
 and Artemas, and his daughters. Desire, Lucy, m. Abner C. 
 Libby, Betsey, m. Dr. 0. K. Yates, and Eliza, m. Van Buren 
 Stephens. 
 
 John G. Felt, brother of the preceding, lived on a farm south 
 of Jeremiah's. He married Ayer Lawrence, of Jaffrey, N. H., 
 and had : Albert L., b. September 26, 1831, m. a Davis, of 
 Massachusetts ; Amelia, b. June 7, 1833, m. Wm. H. Hemraing- 
 way ; Granville, b. June 14, 1835, m. Clara Whitman, daughter 
 of Jacob, Jr. ; Adeline, b. November 17, 1837, m. Wm. H. 
 Proctor; Christina C, b. January 12, 1840, m. Frank Proctor; 
 Eliza J., b. October 16, 1841, m. Francis P. Putnam ; Jeremiah, 
 b. August 11, 1843, d. unmarried; Gracie, b. April 8, 1845, m. 
 Jeremiah Verrill. 
 
 FICKETT. 
 
 Jonathan Figkett came here from Poland in 1818, and 
 settled on what has since been known as the Nute farm. His 
 first wife was Sarah Cox, and he had : 
 
 I Simon, m. Ruth Cbase, daughter of Stephen. 
 
 II Woodbury, m. Sarah Smith, and went to western New York. 
 
 Ill Charlotte, m. Zenas Briggs. 
 
 IV Betsey, m. Samuel Nute. 
 
 V Judith, m. Thomas J. Dunbar, resides in Springfield, Mass. 
 
 By second wife, who was Betsey Bryant, daughter of Sol- 
 omon, and widow of Dr. Peter Brooks, he had : 
 
 VI Jonathan, Jr., m. Betsey B. Fuller. 
 VII Joanna, m. John Herrick, of Poland. 
 
 Simon Figkett was an enterprising and industrious citizen. 
 He lived in the Curtis neighborhood until near the close of his 
 life, when he moved across the line into Paris. He was drowned 
 in the Little Androscoggin River, at West Paris. By his wife, 
 Ruth Chase, he had : Chester D., b. March 31, 1826, m. Eliza 
 J. Felt; Charlotte, b. January 13, 1828, m. Levi T. Lurvey; 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 219 
 
 Betsey G., b. December 9, 1830, m. Simeon B. Curtis ; Peter C, 
 b. November 9, 1834, is an Attorney at Law at West Paris ; 
 Mary J., b. February 19, 1840, died young; Juliette, b. June 
 
 12, 1850, m. Hannibal Curtis. 
 
 Jonathan Fickett, half brother of the preceding, married 
 Betsey B. Fuller, daughter of Consider, and had : Lucy, b. 
 April 4, 1839, m. Aaron Davis, Jr.; William H., b. November 
 
 13, 1844, died young. 
 
 FOBES. 
 
 Benjamin Forbes born August 29, 1776, wife, Bethiah, born 
 
 September 15, 1779, were in the east part of the town in 1815, 
 
 but did not long remain. Their children were : • 
 
 I Ann, b. August 4, 1801. 
 
 II Arno, or Arzo, b. April 22, 1804. 
 
 III William, b. July 31, 1806. 
 
 IV Bethiah, b. January 18, 1812. 
 V Xelson, b. March 23, 1814. 
 
 FRENCH. 
 
 John S. French, from New Hampshire, whose wife was 
 Polly Libby, was at Norway in 1825, and moved that year to 
 Oxford. In 1843, he moved to North Woodstock, to the small 
 house built by Joel Perham, near where the Woodstock town 
 house once stood, and moved from there to North Woodstock 
 by Gen. George W. Cushman. He died April 8, 1858, and his 
 wife, April 16, 1857. Their children were ; Abigail, b. January 
 1802, m. Nathaniel Millett, of Norway, afterwards of Greenwood ; 
 Enoch, b. February 15, 1804, m. Harriet Eowe, of Norway; 
 Clarissa L., b. December 16, 1806, m. George W. Cushman; 
 Joseph, b. December 12, 1809, m. Lorania Edwards, of Poland ; 
 Mary, b. September 10, 1812, m. George W. Cushman ; John S. 
 Jr., b. October 8, 1814; Sarah A., b. October 30, 1817, m. John 
 
220 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 M. Gallison, of Norway; Hannah L., b. June 4, 1820, m. 
 Thaddeus E. Knight. 
 
 FEYE. 
 
 Joseph Frye, a native of Durham, in 1854, or earlier, bought 
 of A. K. P. Whitman most of the real estate where the Pond 
 village now is. He was the first hotel keeper there. He after- 
 wards built him a house, which was burned, and he built 
 another. He was a mechanical genius, and spent some 'time m 
 trying to perfect a wind-mill, but did not succeed. He had a 
 son. Oren, who was taxed here in 1855, but his house was burned 
 and he moved away. Joseph Prye, for second wife, married 
 widow Ptandall, of Preeport, whose maiden name was Lydia 
 Mitchell, and several of her children came here with her. 
 John and Eufus Randall were master mariners ; Mary E., mar- 
 ried Geo. E. Gibson and moved to Norway ; Susan J., married 
 Francis B. Crawford and moved to Colebrook, N. H. ; Sarah, 
 unmarried. Mr. Prye's youngest son George, half brother to 
 the preceding, went to Colebrook, N. H. Mr. Prye moved to 
 Yarmouth and died there. 
 
 FULLER. 
 
 Consider Puller was among the early settlers here. About 
 the year 1801, he built a log hut on Gore B, on the old County 
 road, north of Solomon Bryant's, and moved there. He was 
 born in Plympton, Mass., May 31, 1780. His father was 
 Consider Puller and his mother Lydia Bryant, daughter of 
 Samuel and sister of Solomon, Senior. His father died, and his' 
 mother came with her family and joined the Shakers at New 
 Gloucester. When Consider was of age, he left them and came 
 to Paris, where he married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Cum- 
 mings. He lived in Woodstock only a few years, and then 
 moved to Greenwood. He died at West Paris in 1872. His 
 children were : 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 221 
 
 I Christiana, b. January 2, 1802, m. Charles B. Brooks. 
 
 II Chloe, b. February 23, 1807, m. Rufus Farrar. 
 
 Ill Lucy B., b. January 20, 1813, m. Eli II. Cusbman. 
 
 IV Consider, Jr., b. January 2-5, 1815. m. Sally 0. Greely. 
 
 V Betsey, b. August 19, 1820, m. Jonathan Fickett, Jr. 
 
 VI Abigail, m. Stephen" Davis. 
 
 VII Lovicy, b. , m. Stephen Davis. 
 
 VIII Lydia Jane, m. Joseph H. Briggs, son of Luther. 
 
 Lewis and Harvey Fuller, sons of Caleb, of Paris, who 
 married Hannah Perkins, sister of Cornelius, came into town 
 and settled in the Perkins neighborhood. Lewis died there. 
 
 Lewis Fuller, married November 25, 1822, Betsey Dunham, 
 daughter of widow Lydia, and his children were : Elizabeth, 
 b. September 21, 1822, ni. Oliver L. Pratt, of Paris, son of 
 Calvin ; Lewis, Jr., b. October 22, 1825 ; George G., b. March 
 2, 1828, m. Lovina F. Chandler; Caleb, b. August 16, 1830, m. 
 first, Martha A. Curtis, daughter of Daniel ; second. Marietta 
 Curtis, daughter of William, of Paris ; Cornelius P., b. Xovember 
 24, 1832 ; Angeline R., b. April 1, 1834, m. first, Eobert 0. 
 Hayes, of Greenwood, second, Jacob Annas, of Bethel, son of 
 Benjamin; Mary P., b. March 22, 1837, m. 'James H. Barrows; 
 Nathaniel, b. July 30, 1838, d. July 30, 1864 ; Oliver L., b. 
 April 2, 1842, m. Jeannette Foss, of Paris. 
 
 Harvey Fuller lived on the farm now owned by Mrs. Ben- 
 jamin Kimball, and on a farm near Andrews' Mills. His first wife 
 was Temperance, daughter of Azariah Howard, his second, Sally 
 Eoberts, of Waterford, and third, Hannah Holmes, of Newry. 
 His children, all by the first wife, were : Tempe, m. John W. 
 Dunham ; Charlotte, m. Bcnj. D. Thurlow ; Pauline, m. Joseph 
 B. Ptice, of Waterford ; Lysander, m. Phebe Brooks, of Grafton ; 
 Almira P., m. Henry Whitman, son of Jacob, Jr. ; Martha, m. 
 America Andrews, of Paris; Alpheus, b, 1835^ went west; and 
 William H., b. 1839, was a soldier in the late war — died at the 
 Eelay House in Maryland. 
 
 Ezra Fuller, probably of Paris, was here in 1832, and Ezra 
 
222 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 P. in 1839. Levi Fuller was taxed a resident here in 1842, 
 and Ezekiel in 1845. 
 
 GALLISON. 
 
 John M. Gallison came here in 1847, and settled at North 
 Woodstock. He was the son of Joseph and Hannah (Atwood) 
 Gallison, and his father spent his last days here in his family. 
 His father was born in 1777, and came quite early to Norway. 
 He had ten children, namely : Henry, died in cljildhood ; Han- 
 nah A., married Cyrus Coy ; Abby W., married Kichard Lom- 
 bard.; Sophia, married Jefferson Cushing ; William, married 
 Elvira Young ; Joseph H., married Lavina Hammond ; Char- 
 lotte L., married Eichard Biizzell ; John M., married Sarah A. 
 French ; Edward A., married Belinda Pierce, and Amanda M., 
 married George E. Tourtillott. 
 
 John M. was the only one who ever lived in this town ; his 
 brother William will be remembered by our older citizens as 
 the stage driver between Paris and Eumford. John M. was a 
 blacksmith and carriage maker, and has carried on business in 
 that Hne much of the time since he came here. He was the 
 first Postmaster, and at one time kept the hotel. His children 
 were: 
 
 Fannie L., b. November 12, 1838. 
 
 Jefferson C, b. August 8, 1841. 
 
 Abbie E., b. February 3, 1847, m. Samuel B. Frost. 
 
 Joseph H., b. December 1, 1851. 
 
 Hannah S., b. February 5, 1853. 
 
 John A., b. August 9, 1850, m. Mabel M. Eastman. 
 
 GIBSON. 
 
 Samuel Gibson, formerly Sheriff of Oxford County, came 
 here from Denmark in 1853, and built a house at the Pond, 
 where he lived five or six years, and went to Norway. His wife 
 was a Howard, of Brownfield, sister of the late Judge Joseph 
 Howard, of Portland. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 223 
 
 George E. Gibson, son of the preceding, came here with him, 
 and married ]\Iary E. Randall. He was in trade here, but went 
 to Norway with his father. 
 
 GRAY. 
 
 John Gray, jR.,b. April 10, 1791, wife, Susan, b. August 19, 
 1793, was here at the time of the incorporation, and lived here 
 until his estate was set off to Paris. The only birth in his 
 family recorded here is that of Austin A., b. August 29, 1815. 
 He married Sarah Dacy, daughter of John, and lived on the 
 farm between Abel Bacon's and Kilbon Perham, since occupied 
 by Henry Whitman. He had Charles W., who married Augusta 
 M. Tribou, of Auburn, and one or two other children. He 
 (Austin A.) was divorced from his first wife, married again, and 
 was again divorced. He died in July, 1882. 
 
 GREEN. 
 
 « 
 
 EiCHARD Green, said to be of Plymouth County, Mass., born 
 March 1, 1782, came here in 1812. He lived near the road 
 from Paris to Rumford and near Paris line. His wife, Judith 
 Thurlow, daughter of Asa, was born March 1, 1786. Their 
 children were : 
 
 I Richard, Jr., b. December 25, 1804. 
 
 II William, b. January 17, 1806. 
 
 Ill Sarah P., b. November 18. 1812, m. Thomas B. Carter. 
 
 IV Asa, b. May 1, 1815. 
 
 V Amos, b. , m. Julia A. Heath. 
 
 VI Albert. 
 VII Eunice, b. , m. Thomas Sampson. 
 
 Dr. Edwin Green, from Paris, practiced medicine in this 
 town for some years. He married a Kendall, of Milan, N. H. 
 Afterwards he left practice, and went to a farm m the south- 
 east part of the town. 
 
 HALEY. 
 
 James Haley was here in 1848 ; Wm. E. Haley was a voter 
 
224 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK, 
 
 here in 1858. Harriet N. Haley married Albert Perkins; 
 Eunice E. Haley married Hiram Andrews ; Tristram Haley, a 
 deaf mate, was killed on the railroad near Paris in 1882. The 
 Haleys lived in the east part of the town. 
 
 HAMMOND. 
 
 Enoch Hammond, said to have been born in Nova Scotia, 
 October 15, 1777, was a sailor on board a coaster before he 
 came here. In 1807, he bought of John True his right to lot 
 No. 21, in the east part of Woodstock (Dummer Academy 
 Grant), and moved there. His wife, born August 30, 1789, 
 was Polly, the daughter of John Nason, who came here from 
 Paris. The children of Enoch Hammond were : Sena, b. Jan- 
 uary 25, 1803 ; Jason, b. September 17, 1804, m, Burry 
 Churchill, and always lived in the Dunham neighborhood in this 
 town ; Achsa, b. December 5, 1806, m. 1830, Samuel W. 
 Benson; Martha, b. December 19, 1808; Enoch, Jr., b. March 
 28, 1811, d. young; Mary, b. January 23, 1814, m. James C. 
 Noyes. 
 
 hannaford. 
 
 David P. Hannaford, born in New Gloucester, his wife, a 
 Monk, was here in 1844, and kept the hoteh built by John Bick- 
 nell at South Woodstock. He had previously been a clock 
 peddler, and was quite well known through this county. He 
 had two sons and two daughters. He was in Woodstock only 
 a short time. 
 
 HEATH. 
 
 Joshua Heath lived and died in the east part of the town. 
 He married a Bobbins, sister of Oliver, second, and had Julia 
 A., married Amos Green, Thomas J., Columbia and Isaac. 
 Joshua Heath probably came here from Sumner. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 225 
 
 HOBBS. 
 
 Edmund M. Hobbs, son of Eben, of Norway, his mother a 
 March, came here from Norway, and was in the hotel and stage 
 business with Joseph Tuttle. .In 1865, he sold out and went 
 to Providence, E. I. He married Abbie Farnum, daughter of 
 James H. of this town ; they had no children. 
 
 Joseph N. Hobbs, brother of the preceding, a jeweler by 
 trade, came here in 1860 and boarded at the hotel. He was 
 unmarried, and died here a year or two after. 
 
 HOPKINS. 
 
 Peter Hopkins, a Baptist minister, came into Sigotch about 
 1865, and lived on a farm. His daughter Sarah was the wife 
 of Delphinus P. Bowker, who traded at the Pond. Albert W. 
 married Emma xildrich ; Horace L. married Mary A. Hemming- 
 way. Mr. Hopkins had other children. 
 
 HOUGHTON. 
 
 Samuel H. Houghton, born July 20, 1809, son of Moses of 
 Harvard, Mass., and Norway, married Betsey G. Tuell, of 
 Paris, born April 28, 1810, daughter of Ebenezer and grand- 
 daughter of John, and came to this town about the year 1840. 
 He lived at the foot of Bryant's Pond, where he built a large 
 establishment intended as a hotel. But the County road was 
 not located so as to favor the enterprise, and he moved back to 
 Paris. He subsequently traded for several years at Locke's 
 Mills, and afterwards moved to Worcester, Mass., and died there. 
 His children, only the two oldest of whom ever lived in Wood- 
 stock, were: Orlando C, b. May 31, 1831, m. Abiah T. Hobbs, 
 daughter of Alvah, of Greenwood; Horatio F., b. April 14, 
 15 
 
226 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 1832, m. Mary E. Lamplier (widow), daughter of Eli Howe, of 
 Hanover; Eosalia B., b. November 24, 1833, m. Charles H. 
 Dwinell, of Mechanic Falls ; Anstis S., b. Aug. 5, 1845, m. Han- 
 nibal H. Houghton, her cousin, son of Eichard; Diana, b. 
 September 6, 1837, m. Osgood Plummer, of Worcester; Samuel 
 D, b. 1839, d. 1841 ; Samuel Dana, b. November 26, 1842, m. 
 Emma Kelley, of Worcester ; Ella J., b. August 31, 1846, was 
 accidently shot, and died April 14, 1852 ; Samuel H. Houghton 
 died December 14, 1868, and his wife survives him, residing in 
 Worcester. Orlando 0. and Horatio F., were in trade at the 
 Pond several years and the former served in the Legislature. 
 
 Moses Houghton, brother of the preceding, was in Wood- 
 stock in 1840, and was married here, December 16th of that 
 year, to Lucy A. Swift; of Sumner. He was born October 16, 
 1820, and his wife April 19, 1819. He was a carpenter and a 
 superior workman. He built the Universalist Church at the 
 Pond. He lived many years at Locke's Mills, and was at one 
 time owner of the mills there. He moved to Norway and died 
 there. His children were : Charles K., b. October 17, 1841, m. 
 Mary Helen Bolster; he is a stove, hardware and tinware 
 dealer at the Pond ; Mary E., b. January 23, 1844, m. Geo. W. 
 Bryant; Moses Henry, b. March 17, 1846, m. Aggie Abbott; is 
 a Universalist preacher at New Haven, Conn. ; Hannibal H., b. 
 February 16, 1848, m. Laura Willis ; Etta Jane, b. January 17, 
 1854, m. Geo. Brooks ; Fred. M., b. October 20, 1855, graduated 
 at Tufts College and Divinity School, and is a Universalist 
 preacher at Middletown, Conn. ; Emma L., b. May 28, 1858 ; 
 Nina H., b. September 14, 1861. 
 
 IRISH. 
 
 Aaron M. Irish, son of Joseph and Miriam (Marshall) Irish, 
 born in Hebron, September 29, 1820, was married at Wells, 
 Me., November 8, 1844, to Hannah A. Penney, born in Wells, 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 227 
 
 September 17, 1824. He came to Woodstock in 1846 and 
 bought the Churchill farm, where he has since lived. His 
 children were: Joseph, b. in Wells, October 8, 1845, died 
 young; Juliette, b. in Woodstock, August 22, 1845, m. Joseph 
 H. Davis, November 24, 1864, resides in Woodstock ; Georgie 
 A., b. November 2, 1850, m. November 26, 1868, Wm. S. Davis, 
 lives in Woodstock ; Hannah A., b. May 12, 1856, m. July, 
 1876, Edwin E. Perham, son of Kilbon, resides in Soraerville, 
 Mass. ; Miriam M., b. September 15, 1860 ; Kuth M., b. October 
 8, 1862 ; Almon M., b. April 2, 1867. 
 
 Ebenezer Irish was a voter here in 1851. If he had a 
 family, it is not recorded here. 
 
 Mary Irish, sister of Aaron M., was married to Nathan L. 
 Marshall, of this town, in March, 1844. 
 
 JACKMAN. 
 
 Alfred Jackman was here in 1847. He lived on the Harvey 
 Fuller farm, now occupied by Benj. Kimball, and afterwards on 
 the hill east of Joseph Davis. He had a large family, but none 
 of them are recorded here. 
 
 JACKSON. 
 
 Dea. Calvin Jackson, son of Levi and grandson of Lemuel, 
 of Paris, lived some years and died here. His farm was east of 
 the Geo. W. Cushman lot. His first wife was Sally Whitten, 
 and her two children were Emeline, married Seranus Shaw, of 
 Paris, and Calvin A., for many years our well known house 
 carpenter, who married Achsa McKenney. For second wife 
 Dea. Jackson married a Matthews, and had four children ; for 
 third, he married Judith, daughter of Thomas Farrar, and had : 
 Deering F., b. December 20, 1826, m. Eebecca Billings and 
 
228 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 went west; Abigail, b. August 2, 1828; Cordelia, b. March 1, 
 1830; Freeman, b. March 7, 1832; Alonzo, b, January 25, 
 1834 ; Lydia, b. July 1, 1836, and Sarah J, b. July 12, 1838. 
 
 Benjamin Jackson, son of Lemuel, came here from Paris and 
 lived on the farm east of Elon G. Whitman. He had several 
 sons and daughters. Caroline C, m. John Cummings, Mahala, 
 m. Elijah Day. His son William married Lucinda Coffin, of 
 Greenwood ; he also had a son Charles. 
 
 Geokge Jackson was a voter here in 1822, and Levi in 1840. 
 Ezekiel C. Jackson, afterwards of Norway, was a] tax-payer here 
 in 1846. Probably all these Jacksons descended from Lemuel, 
 who came from Middleboro, Mass., to Paris. 
 
 JACOBS. 
 
 Nathaniel F. Jacobs, son of James and Annie (Morrill) 
 Jacobs, born in Phillips, Me., January 12, 1838, married at 
 Auburn, November 26, 1850, Eliza A. Bryant. In 1853, he 
 moved to the Pond and built the house above the school house, 
 now owned by Alanson M. Whitman. He was a stone mason 
 and worked many years on the quarry below the village. He 
 was an enterprising and useful citizen, but much out of health 
 in his latter years, and died in middle life. He was postmaster 
 from 1865 to the time of his death, in 1875, and his widow 
 succeeds him. His cliildren were : Areanna S., b. November 
 26, 1851, married Fred Soule and lives in Freeport; Charles A., 
 b. January 31, 1855, died young; Delia M., b. November 2, 
 1862, m. Eugene Cole and died soon after ; Lizzie F., b. May 9, 
 1864; Eobert E., b. September 14, 1869. 
 
 Charles V. Jacobs, brother of the preceding, was here sev- 
 eral years and worked on the quarry. He married Emeline W. 
 Blake, of Paris, and had several children, but none of them are 
 recorded here, and he left town many years ago. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 229 
 
 Daniel M. Jacobs, brother of the preceding, was first taxed 
 here in 1858. He kept, for several years, the confectionery store 
 on the corner where Ansel Dudley now trades. His wife was 
 Allura Sanborn, of Etna, Maine, and they have had no children. 
 Mr. Jacobs has for several years kept the leading public house 
 at Damariscotta. 
 
 JEWELL. 
 
 Ezra Jewell, a native of Waterford, came here in 1851, and 
 was the first trader at Bryant's Pond. He afterwards was in 
 trade at Pinhook. His first wife was a Sawyer, of Portland, 
 and he had one son, William Frederick, who was here with him 
 and enlisted twice during the war, and after it was over went 
 to Canada. Mr. Jewell married for second wife, the former 
 wife of Henry Kimball, son of Porter, and moved to Andover, 
 where he was accidentally drowned by the upsetting of a boat. 
 
 Jonathan Jewell, brother of the preceding, came here from 
 Bangor and traded at the east end of Bryant's Pond Village, 
 dealing largely in flour and corn. He went from here to Gorham, 
 N. H. He had sons, William and Levi, by his first wife, and by 
 the second, Charles, Frances, Fred and Thomas. Levi served 
 through the war. 
 
 JORDAN. 
 
 Henry Jordan, Jr., came here from Bethel, 1861. He 
 married Louisa • York, daughter of David, of this town. He 
 enlisted in the army and died while in the service, leaving two 
 daughters. His widow subsequently married J. E. Barrows, of 
 Stowe, Mass., afterwards of Sumner. He was killed by an 
 accident, and she married a Martin, of Eumford. 
 
230 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 KIMBALL. 
 
 Porter and Peter Kimball, Jr., twins and sons of Peter,* of 
 Bradford Mass., and Bridgton, Me,, came into this section quite 
 early. Porter began on a lot in Bethel, which he subsequently 
 sold to Abijah Lapham and moved to Eumford. Peter, born in 
 Bradford, May 19, 1793, began on a lot adjoining his brother's, on 
 the south, which was lot number one of the Gore. It is said 
 thai he began on this lot in 1815. He married March 16, 1816, 
 Betsey Emerson, daughter of James f and Eunice (Berry) 
 Emerson, born April 3, 1796. 
 
 Peter Kimball was by trade a carpenter, and a very indus- 
 trious and useful man. He was also a wheelwright, at first 
 manufacturing cart wheels, and subsequently building a shop, 
 where he carried on the manufacture of carriages and sleighs 
 for many years. His boys, several of whom became famous 
 carriage manufacturers, got their rudimentary instructions iu 
 the art in this little shop, which stood under the west side of 
 the Whale's Back, nearly opposite the Bailey place. Mr. 
 Kimball moved from here to Norway, where he died May 14, 
 1871. His wife died in Eochester, N. H., June 6, 1879. Their 
 children, all except the third, born on the Gore (she in Bridgton) 
 were as follows : 
 
 I James Myrick, b. March 10, 1817, m. August 29, 1839, Arvilla, 
 
 daughter of Cotton Elliot, of Rumford. He has carried on the 
 
 carriage business in Bridgton and Portland. 
 
 II Eliza Ann, b. December 9, 1818, m. April 5, 1842, Richard Gage, son 
 
 of Richard and Martha Wheelock. She is the mother of H. W. 
 
 * Peter Kimball, son of Francis, of Bradford, Mass., his mother, Mary- 
 Head, was born in Bradford, in 1768. He married Lucy Barker, daughter of 
 Asa, of Haverhill, whose wife was Mehitable Porter, and in 1796, moved to 
 Bridgton, Me., where his wife's father had already preceded him. Here he 
 spent the remainder of his days. 
 
 t James Emerson was the son of William Emerson, and of his wife Eliza 
 Myrick ; his wife, Eunice Berry, was the daughter of Stephen Berry, whose 
 wife was Ann Bixby. 
 
HON. CHARLES P. KIMBALL. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 231 
 
 Gage, of Strout & Gage, attorneys at law in Portland, and resides 
 with her son. 
 
 III Mary, b. November 20, 1820, m. December 31, 1837, Col. John G. 
 
 Burns, of Oxford, subsequently of the Gore. 
 
 IV Julia Emerson, b. June 6, 1823, m. September, 1844, Martin L. Burr, 
 
 now of Rochester, N. H. 
 V Charles Porter, b. August 6, 1825. 
 VI George Franklin, b. July 25, 1827, m. August 5, 1851, Lucretia J. 
 
 Morton, of South Paris; he resides in Boston. 
 VII John Calvin, b. May 14, 1830, m. April 18, 1854, Ellen T. Cushman, 
 
 daughter of Joseph, of New Gloucester ; resides in Atlanta, Ga. 
 VIII Hannibal Ingalls, b. May 16, 1832, m. August 30, 1853, Rosalia D. 
 Brown, daughter of Titus O., of Norway. He cartried on an exten- 
 sive carriage business in connection with others of the family, in 
 New Haven, Conn. Since then, he has been largely engaged in 
 business in the South, his residence being Atlanta. He was Di- 
 rector General of the Great International Cotton Exposition, held 
 in that city, in 1881, and it was mainly through his efforts that it 
 was so great a success. 
 IX Eunice Berry, b. June 9, 1835, m. June G, 185G, Geo. H. Story, of 
 
 New Haven, Conn. Resides in New Haven. 
 X Edwin Nelson, b. February 28, 1840, m. September 25, 1867, Emily 
 Cook, daughter of George, of New Haven. He resides in Boston. 
 
 Jonathan Kimball, brother of Peter, came to the Gore and 
 lived and died there. He married Satina Besse, daughter of 
 Caleb, of Bethel. His children were Stephen D., married a 
 Young and lives in Paris, Eben D., and one or more daughters. 
 Eben D. died in the army. 
 
 Francis, another brother, came to the Gore and learned the 
 trade of his brother Peter. ■ He returned to Bridgton and sub- 
 sequently committed suicide. 
 
 Seth, Kimball, of another family, came from Milan, K H., 
 and settled on the Harvey Fuller farm, in the Perkins district. 
 His son Benjamin lived with him, and one of his daughters, 
 Catherine, was the second wife of Columbus Perham. He had 
 other children married and residing in Milan. 
 
232 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 KINSLEY. 
 
 Wellcome Kinsley married Lucy A. Hathaway, daughter 
 of Lazarus, of Paris, in 1838. He traded at Stephens' Mills, 
 succeeding Eleazer C. Shaw. He moved a couple of miles to a 
 farm in Greenwood, where his wife died, when he sold out to 
 his son and went to Hebron. His children were : George and 
 Anna, both of whom live on their father's old place in Green- 
 wood and are unmarried. 
 
 KNAPP. 
 
 Albion K. Knapp moved here from Hanover and was in 
 trade with his son in the Jewell store a short time, and then 
 returned to Hanover. His son, Nathan C, married a Hutchins, 
 daughter of Hezekiah, of Eumford, and his only daughter mar- 
 ried Winfield S. Howe and lives in Hanover. Nathan C. Knapp 
 died very suddenly of diphtheria, several years ago. 
 
 knight. 
 
 Enoch Knight was one of the five sons of Daniel Knight, 
 of Falmouth, and an early settler in Norway. Enoch married 
 the widow of Kowse Bisbee in 1853, and lived at Pinhook until 
 the time of his death in 1861. His first wife was Lydia Eipley, 
 of Paris. He had ten children, only one of whom ever lived in 
 this town, namely, Thaddeus R, who was born in Norway, 
 April 8, 1818, and married Hannah French, of Norway, daughter 
 of John S., born June 4, 1820. He came to Woodstock in 
 1852, and lived in various places, the last of which was the 
 French house at Pinhook. They had three children, all of 
 whom died in February, 1861, of diphtheria. They were Lizzie 
 A., b. March 9, 1853 ; Nellie J., b. December 10, 1855 ; Abbie 
 D., b. February 25, 1857. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 233 
 
 Isaac F. Knight, son of Isaac, of Paris, whose wife was 
 Betsey Twitchell, was here in 1839, and lived at Pinhook. His 
 wife was a daughter of Moses Cummings, and he had the follow- 
 ing children: Daniel, b. January 9, 1836 ; Sarah J., b. Febru- 
 ary 6, 1837 ; Chas. H., b. February 6, 1839 ; Azubah, b. August 
 23, 1840 ; Ann M., b. April 11, 1842 ; Adelbert, b. September 
 4, 1843 ; and Wesley C, b. February 23, 1845. He afterwards 
 lived in Greenwood and Lewiston, and finally went west. 
 
 JosiAH J. Knight, whose wife was Sally Eyerson, daughter 
 of Luke, of Paris, and whose father was Isaac, of Poland, who 
 married a Jordan, daughter of Josiah, came here from Paris 
 about the year 1839, and bought the mill in Sigotch. He was 
 an active man, and carried on this mill, besides doing much 
 farming, for twenty or more years, when he moved to Eumford. 
 He had three sons, Charles P., who traded here several years, 
 married Juliette, daughter of Hon. Jas. H. Farnum, afterwards 
 moved to Bethel ; Augustus J., who married Philadelphia Gra- 
 ham and moved to the General Bolster Farm in Eumford ; and 
 Marcius, who lived with his father. 
 
 Edwin E. Knight, from Dixfield, was here several years. 
 He was a tin and sheet iron worker, and kept hardware and 
 stoves. He returned to Dixfield and died of consumption. 
 
 LANDERS. 
 
 Seneca Landers, born in Minot, came here in 1818. He 
 lived at first on the old County road, on Gore B, in the Charles 
 Curtis house, and for many years lived on Billings' Hill. His 
 wife was Polly, daughter of Gilbert Shaw, of Paris, and died in 
 1869. Mr. Landers was for many years Deacon of the Baptist 
 Church here. He had Hannah, Silence, Gilbert S., Edmund E., 
 m. Celia Ann Eowe, daughter of Joseph, Jane C, m. Ephraim H. 
 
234 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Brown, of Norway, Mary, and another, Cynthia S., m. Oliver F. 
 Berry and moved to New York. When quite old, Mr. Landers 
 moved to Paris and died there. 
 
 LAPHAM. 
 
 Abijah Lapham, with his son James, lived on the Gore in 
 1827. He was born in Scituate, Mass., August 15, 1769, and 
 in 1793, with his family consisting of wife Sarah (Hartwell), 
 his father John, and his mother Bathsheba (Eames), he came 
 to Buckfield. Here he lived till 1823, when he moved to 
 Bethel, thence to the Gore, afterwards to Bethel again, where he 
 died March 1, 1847. He was the fifth in descent from Thomas 
 Lapham, who married Mary, daughter of Elder Nathaniel 
 Tilden, at Scituate, March 13, 1637. Abijah Lapham's first 
 wife died soon after he came to Buckfield, and he married 
 Abigail, daughter of John Buck. For third wife, he married 
 widow Sarah Davy, who was a widow Maxim. His children by 
 first marriage were : 
 
 I Betsey, b. July 17, 1792, d. unmarried in Buckfield. 
 
 II Sylvia, b. December 8, 1794, m. John Mayhew, of Buckfield. 
 
 III John, b. February 28, 1797, d. April 23, 1800. 
 
 IV Nathan, b. June 17, 1799, d. September 21, 1801. 
 V Abijah, b. March 7, 1801, d. an infant. 
 
 Children of the second marriage, all born in Buckfield : 
 
 VI John, b. May 6, 1803, m. first, Louvisa Berry, December, 1824 ; sec- 
 ond, Kebecca Phinney, 1872. 
 VII Thomas, b. May 6, 1803, m. Sophronia Crooker, 1824. 
 VIII Sally, b. November 13, 1804, m. Charles Crooker, 1825. 
 IX Cinderella, b. August 8, 1806, m. first, Solomon Cummings ; second, 
 
 Joseph Cummings. 
 X Phebe, b. March 31, 1809, never married. 
 XI James, b. February 8, 1811, m. Sally Moody. 
 
 Children of the third marriage : 
 
 XII Abijah, b. September 9, 1826, d. October 25, 1880. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 235 
 
 John Lapham moved into Woodstock, to the Briggs place, 
 near Greenwood line, about the year 1851, and lived there and 
 at the place east of it some twenty years. He then moved to 
 Weld, his first wife having died. Children : 
 
 1 Lusanna A., b. February 4, 1826, m. Jonas W. Bartlett, of Bethel, 
 and had Louvisa E., b. July 18, 1851 ; William B., b. June 11, 
 1853; Lucetta A., b. October 18, 1855; Gardiner W., b. April 17, 
 1857 ; Elias R., b. February 15, 1860 ; Aurelia Abbie, b. December 
 18, 1864. She d. February 2, 1869. 
 II James M., b. ^lay 19, 1827; unmarried. 
 
 III William B., b. August 21, 1828, m. November 27, 1866, Cynthia A., 
 
 daughter of Joel Perham, of Woodstock, and has Mary Cynthia, 
 b. March 7, 1868 ; Ben William, b. December 10, 1869, and Fanny 
 Beulah, b. in Augusta November 25, 1875. 
 
 IV Betsey J., b. September 12, 1830, m. Alonzo B. Swan, of Woodstock, 
 
 and has Rhoda J., Edith V., Lillian A., Alonzo F., Frank, Florence 
 and James M., and oihers who died young. 
 V Isaac F., b. March 31, 1832, m. August 13, 1854, Eliza R., daughter 
 of Rev. David Ricker, of Woodstock, and has Ida, b. April 10, 
 1855, d. December 24, 1855 ; Louis Adelaide, b. October 30, 1856 ; 
 Ernest M., b. September 4, 1867. 
 VI Aurelia, b. December 17, 1834, unmarried. 
 VII Eli F., b. May 24, 1840, d. August 4, 1841. 
 VIII John B., b. April 27, 1842, drowned September 20, 1844. 
 IX John E., b. March 1, 1846, m. Martha Tenney, of Grafton, Me., and 
 
 has Carrie, b. January 15, 1869, and Arthur P., b. April 11, 1871. 
 X Frank W., b. May 29, 1849, m. Jennie H. Deane, of West Gardiner. 
 XI Martha A., b. May 15, 1851, m. Dennis Swan. 
 
 The only other of Abijah Lapham's sons who ever lived in 
 Woodstock, was James. He lived on the Gore for a year or 
 two, and then moved to Greenwood and Bethel. He has, since 
 the death of his first wife, married Lucy Churchill, widow of 
 Levi, and daughter of Gideon Swan, and moved to her place in 
 the south part of Woodstock. Children : James 0., b. Septem- 
 ber 25, 1831, m. Mary Turner, and died some years since at 
 West Medway, Mass., leaving children ; Abijah, b. March 25, 
 1833, d. young; Hezekiah M., b. March 3, 1834, m. Harriet 
 Chase ; Amos E., b. August 8, 1836. He was a wagoner in the 
 5th Maine Eegiment, and died from injuries received in the line 
 
236 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 of duty; Charles, b. April 20, 1838, m. Katie Haynes; Joseph 
 J., b. January 20, 1840, m. a Gates, of Berlin, N. H. ; Harriet 
 K., b. February 3, 1842, m. first, Marriner Davis, second, Charles 
 Barker ; Dorcas M., b. December 8, 1843, m. Marquis F. Eich- 
 ardson ; Thomas E., b. September 30, 1845, d. December 19, 
 1865 ; William, b. August 18, 1850, d. young; Levi K, b. June 
 21, 1853, m. Jennie Swan, 1873. • 
 
 LEONARD. 
 
 Solomon Leonard, son of Micah, of Middleborough, Mass., 
 and Theodora Dean, his wife, was born there September 5, 1793. 
 He learned his trade, that of an iron founder, of Caleb Lapham, 
 of Pembroke, and came to Maine in 1821. His wife was Esther 
 French, of Norway. In 1828, he came to Woodstock and put 
 up a foundry at Pinhook. At that time Eowse Bisbee was the 
 only resident there. His peddlers, carrying andirons, sadirons, 
 pots, kettles, the products of his foundry, traveled all over the 
 county, and the name of Solomon Leonard Was known in every 
 household. He made good, honest ware. He afterwards moved 
 to Waterford and carried on the business there, but losing his 
 wife in 1865, he returned to Woodstock. He put up a small 
 furnace near Bryant's Pond, where he made a few small castings 
 to pass away the time. He was a great reader and an original 
 thinker, and much given to theological discussion. He early 
 embraced the views of Miller, the Adventist, and warmly cher- 
 ished those views ever after. His children were : Theodore, b. 
 July 21, 1822, died February 20, 1823 ; Marcia, b. December 
 12, 1823, m. Joseph Whitman, Jr., of Woodstock; she died very 
 suddenly at Bryant's Pond in 1880 ; George, b. August 7, 1827, 
 died young; George F., b. in Woodstock, May 4, 1832; Mary 
 J., b. July 9, 1837 ; she married a Cole and lived in Waterford. 
 
George F. Leonard, M. a. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 237 
 
 LIRBY. 
 
 Elijah Libby, son of Joel and Mehitable (Nash), b. August 
 20, 1794, was here in 1823, and lived near Pinhook. He was 
 by trade a carpenter. He married Lydia, daughter of Isaac 
 Howe, of Greenwood, and subsequently moved to that town. 
 He had a large family, but none of their births are recorded here. 
 
 David N. Libby, son of the preceding, b. November 15, 1825, 
 appears to have been a voter here in 1852, though he did not 
 remain here long. He married a daughter of Joseph ]\loody. 
 He died previous to 1856, and is buried in the cemetery at the 
 Pond. 
 
 Danville J. Libby, brother of the preceding, b. September 
 6, 1826, learned the carpenter's trade of Elijah Swan, of Paris. 
 He married Esther C. Bowker, daughter of Edmund, and his 
 name first appears on our records in 1853. He first occupied 
 part of the Bowker homestead and afterwards bought the Joseph 
 Whitman farm, where he still resides. He worked some years 
 at his trade, and some of the best buildings at Bryant's Pond 
 were erected by him. Latterly, he has given his attention solely 
 to farming, in which he has been very successful. He has two 
 surviving children, a son, Herbert J., b. April 3, 1856, who is 
 unmarried and resides with him, and a daughter, Mary L., b. 
 April 12, 1860, who is married and resides in Abbott, Me. Mr. 
 Libby is one of our most substantial farmers and citizens. 
 Mrs. Libby died July 28, 1882. 
 
 Alexander Libby, born in Buxton, October 21, 1795, was 
 taxed here in 1849. He lived at the lower part of the town, 
 and kept the hotel there. He died here March 1, 1851. His 
 wife was Nancy Loring, of Gorham, and he had several sons 
 and daughters here. They were not much identified with this 
 town. 
 
 Hiram L. Libby, son of Elliot, of Gorham, born November 
 27, 1834, a carriage smith, came here from Portland and was 
 
238 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 in the carriage business with Joseph Whitman. His wife was 
 Margaret A. Kimball, of Waterford, and he had one daughter, 
 Minnie. He returned to Portland, and came thence to Norway. 
 
 LOTHKOP. 
 
 Edward Lothrop lived for a few years on lot number 59 in 
 the west part, the same afterwards owned by Stephen Packard. 
 He married Eebecca, daughter of Jacob Whitman, of Buckfield, 
 and came here from that town. He was born January 16, 1790, 
 and his wife March 31, 1791. He returned to Buckfield after 
 a few years' residence here. His children recorded on our records 
 are, Jane, b. December 9, 1810, and Edward W., b. October 20, 
 1813. . 
 
 LUNT. 
 
 John Lunt, born in Scarborough, came to the east part of 
 the town from Windham in 1813. Wm. Cotton, Jr., married 
 Tryphenia Lunt, his daughter ; John Lunt, Jr., married Irene 
 Dunham in 1835 ; Alex. E. Lunt married Francis A. Thurlow, 
 of Poland, in 1858 ; Sally Lunt married David Hasey in 1823 ; 
 Rhoda Lunt married Edward Noyes, of Paris, in 1828, Hannah 
 Lunt married Samuel W. Jackson in 1840 ; Clara L. Lunt married 
 Wm. B. Hasey in 1861. 
 
 The wife of John Lunt, Senior, was Lydia Eand, of Scar- 
 borough, sister of Lazarus Eand, named elsewhere. 
 
 LURVEY. 
 
 Job Lurvey, son of David, of Gloucester, Mass., and Lydia 
 (Holland) his wife, losing his mother when he was an infant, 
 and his father being soon after lost at sea, was taken in charge 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 239 
 
 by his uncle-in-law, Daniel Jackson, who joined the Shakers at 
 New Gloucester. Job grew up with them until he became of 
 age, when he left them, married Betsey Tobey, of New Glou- 
 cester, daughter of liichard and Dolly (Haskell), and came to 
 Paris ; in 1820, he moved to Woodstock, and became a citizen 
 of this town. He moved first to lot No. 5 and then to No. 9. 
 His eleven children were born in Paris or New Gloucester. 
 
 . I Lydia, b. January 22, 1799, m. Eliphalet Davis. 
 II Richard T., b. August 10, 1800, m. first, Eliza Davis; second, Emma 
 Stephens. 
 
 III Matilda, m. Seth Curtis, 2d. 
 
 IV Elvecy, m. John Butterfield. 
 V JobH. 
 
 VI Thomas T., m. first, Olive Tuell ; second, Mary H. Curts, of Rumford. 
 
 VII Abigail, m. Jesse H. Stephens. 
 
 VIII Levi T., m. Charlotte Fickett; lived in Paris. . 
 
 IX David, m. Jane F. Bemis. 
 
 X Benj. C, m. Emily Bicknell. 
 
 XI Samuel F. 
 
 Job Lurvey died February 5, 1851, aged 83 years. Up to 
 his last sickness he had never known a sick day, and when 
 over eighty years of age he could perform as much labor as he 
 ever could. 
 
 EiCHARD Tobey Lurvey, son of the preceding, was a much 
 respected citizen and much in town office. He also represented 
 Woodstock in the Legislature. He spent his later years in 
 Paris. His children were: Delania, b. October 28, 1829; 
 Samuel S., b. December 12, 1832 ; Emma A., b. September 26, 
 1835 ; Eichard L., b. January 30, 1838. 
 
 Thomas T. Lurvey, brother of the preceding, has always 
 lived in the south part of this town. He has been very lame 
 for many years, the result of an injury received in early man- 
 hood. His children, Elvecy, m. Bradford B. Dennen, and 
 Thomas T., Jr., m. Matilda Curtis. 
 
 Benjamin Chandler Lurvey, brother of the preceding, who 
 married Emily Bicknell, daughter of John, lived in Woodstock 
 
240 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 and died here. His last place was west of tlie Methodist meet- 
 ing house, at the lower part of the town. He had children, but 
 none appear on our records. 
 
 MARSHALL. 
 
 Nathan L. Marshall, son of Nathan, of Paris, whose wife 
 was a daughter of Eleazer and Jane (Bryant) Dunham, also of 
 Paris, was for several years a blacksmith at South Woodstock. 
 His wife was Mary Irish, and his one child recorded here, is 
 Mary Ellen, b. September 7, 1846. Mr. Marshall moved from 
 here into Paris. 
 
 MERRILL. 
 
 Samuel Merrill, Jr., was a voter here in 1842. He was 
 the son of Samuel Merrill, of Milton Plantation, his mother a 
 Godwin. He married Mary A. Dunham, formerly Mary A. 
 Swan, daughter of Foxwell, and lived in Milton Plantation. 
 
 John B. Merrill came here from Parsonsfield in 1858, and 
 was in trade at the Pond with Joseph Pray. He married in 
 1859, Sarah Caldwell, of Greenwood, artd moved to the Bailey 
 farm on the Gore. He removed from the State several years 
 ago. 
 
 John Merrill was a voter here in 1821, and a town officer, 
 but he left no other record. 
 
 MOODY. 
 
 JosiAH Moody, born in Portland, son of Houchin, married 
 first, Humility Proctor, and second, Mehitable Houston. He 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 241 
 
 lived many years in Danville and subsequently moved to the Gore. 
 His place was part of the Bailey homestead. His children 
 were : Sophia, married James Jordan, of Lewiston ; Jeremiah, 
 married Hannah Peterson, of Brunswick; Hezekiah, married 
 Hannah Estes, of Bethel ; Benaiah, married Thankful Briggs, 
 of Paris; Eebecca, married Isaac Estes, of Bethel; Josiah, 
 married first, Lucy Faunce, of Paris, and second, widow Eebecca 
 Martin, of Eumford ; Mary B., married first, Joseph Jordan, 
 and second, Enoch Penley, of Danville ; Betsey, married Eufus 
 Earrar, of Woodstock, and Sally, married James Lapham, of 
 Bethel. 
 
 Josiah Moody, Jr., was the only one of the sons who re- 
 mained on the Gore. He had by his first wife Ansel, who 
 married Mary Estes, daughter of Stephen, Laura A., married 
 Alvah Judkins, Milla and Lucy, who died unmarried. Towards 
 the close of his life, Josiah moved mto Bethel and died there. 
 
 AsHBY Moody, son of William, of Danville, whose wife was 
 Polly Lapham, came here in 1853, and lived at the Pond. 
 He was a carpenter, and was tax collector several years. He 
 moved from here to Auburn. He had one son, John, who 
 married a Hicks, and lives in Auburn, and a daughter, who 
 married Lot Sampson, of Hartford. 
 
 Joseph Moody, brother of the preceding, also a carpenter, 
 came here about the same time as his brother and lived at the 
 Pond. He had a large family, but none of them remained in 
 town. 
 
 Levi Moody, from Eumford, who married Wm. Ackley's 
 daughter, was here in 1859, but soon went back to Eumford. 
 
 NUTE. 
 
 Samuel Nute, son of Joel and Eebecca (Wentworth) Nute, 
 born in New Hampshire in November, 1792, married first, 1816, 
 16 
 
242 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Betsey Fickett, daughter of Jonathan, of Poland, and came to 
 Woodstock about the year 1820. His children were : Harriet, 
 b. April 30, 1818, m. Charles Davis, of this town ; Orsamus, b. 
 April 14, 1820 ; Phebe W., b. May 9, 1822, m. Asa Smith, of 
 Poland, in 1841 ; she died in 1875 and he in 1871. Mary Jane, 
 b. October, 1824, m. Eleazer C. Billings, of Woodstock. 
 
 Samuel Nute married for second wife, in 1827, Polly Davis, 
 daughter of Aaron. He died January 2, 1855, and his second 
 wife in 1873. 
 
 Orsamus Nute, son of the preceding, married first, Emma 
 Stevens, born April 13, 1822, daughter of Joseph, of Norway, 
 April 13, 1843, and had Samuel A., b. March 24, 1844, d. 
 June 17, 1864; Mary E., b. July 22, 1845, m. September 9, 
 1875, Willie T. Emery, of Sanford ; Ellen M., b. March 29, 
 1849, m. Geo. Leavitt, of Boston ; Euth A., b. October 25, 
 1852, d. December 14, 1880 ; Emma F., b. April 27, 1856, d. 
 December 6, 1857. 
 
 Mrs. Nute, the mother, died July 2, 1860, and Mr. Nute 
 married for second wife, July 2, 1861, Lovina D. Davis, b. 
 October 1, 1835, daughter of Joseph, of Woodstock, who had 
 Henry 0., b. March 14, 1862 ; Joseph Edson, b. September 3, 
 1863 ; Edith E., b. April 8, 1865 ; Ernest, b. September 5, 
 1867, d. May 4, 1868 ; Frankie E., b. January 29, 1869, d. 
 January 5, 1870 ; Mabel Lovina, b. March 26, 1871. Lovina, 
 second wife, died December 27, 1880. 
 
 PACKARD. 
 
 Strphen Packard came here from Buckfield in 1815. He 
 bought lot No. 59, west part, of Joseph Cole, and lived there 
 until his death. His father was Daniel, of Bridgewater, Mass., 
 a soldier in the war for independence, came to Buckfield, and 
 late in life to Woodstock, and died here ; his mother, Betsey 
 Connery, of Bridgewater. Stephen Packard was born January 
 
ORSAMUS NUTE. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 243 
 
 21, 1788, and in 1813 he married Eleanor M. Eobinson, of 
 Monmouth, who survived him and married Stephen Estes. 
 Children : 
 
 I Henry H., b. November 28, 1813, m. Abigail Cole. He was a school 
 teacher and often a school officer in town. He died in middle 
 life, and his wife survived and re-married. 
 II Joseph H., b. April 1, 1815, d. young. 
 
 III Stephen, Jr., b. April 1, 1815, m. Louisa Penley, daughter of Joseph, 
 
 of Paris. He resides in Paris, and is the father of Dr. Packard, 
 of West Paris. 
 
 IV Eleanor, b. April 18, 1820, m. Lorenzo Davis, son of Aaron ; she 
 
 died soon after. 
 V John R., b. March 24, 1822, d. young. 
 VI Frederick R., b. December 17, 1823, d. young. 
 VII Sarah H., b. September 25, 1825, m. Aaron Ricker. 
 vni Martha, b. June 2, 1827, m. Zebulon R. Wright, of Lewiston. 
 IX Joseph H., b. April 11, 1831, d. young. 
 X Abbie B., b. November 25, 1833, d. young. 
 XI John R., b. November 17, 1834, d. young. 
 
 XII Frederick R., b. November 17, 1834 ; he went to Australia and never 
 returned. 
 
 Most of this large family died of consumption. 
 
 . Elijah and John Packard, brothers of Stephen, came into 
 Woodstock and felled trees and cleared land, on the place now 
 occupied by Elijah Day, but they never moved here. John 
 was killed in the war of 1812. Three of Daniel Packard's 
 daughters came to Woodstock, namely: Betsey, the wife of 
 Charles Crocker, Abigail, wife of Caleb Besse, and Nancy, wife 
 of Stephen Estes. 
 
 PEARSON. 
 
 Wm. 0. Pearson, sou of Wm. Pearson and Susan Walker, 
 of Yarmouth and Buckfield, grandson of Jonathan, of Portland 
 and Yarmouth, born in Buckfield September 24, 1815, married 
 in 1839, Wealthy (Benson) Dudley, widow of Moses (see 
 Dudley family), and in 1842, moved from Paris to the Gore, 
 
244 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 to the farm previously occupied by Sylvanus Bartlett. His 
 wife died March 3, 1859. Their only child was William H., 
 born December 23, 1840. For second wife, Mr. Pearson 
 married Clementine (Jacobs) Moore. He still resides on the 
 Bartlett farm, and has made a success of farming. 
 
 Wm. H. Pearson, ante, was a soldier in the 10th Maine 
 Eegiment in the late war. He lives with his father, and married, 
 November 3, 1867, Mary Ella Moore, daughter of his step- 
 mother. 
 
 PERHAM. 
 
 Lemuel Perham, born in Upton, Mass., December 29, 1760, 
 son of Lemuel and Mary Butterfield, grandson of Benjamin and 
 Esther, and the fifth in descent from John, of Chelmsford, Mass., 
 who married Sarah Shepley in 1664, was early at Paris, occupy- 
 ing the " Centre " lot on Paris Hill. His wife was Betsey Gurney, 
 of Bridgewater, He subsequently moved to " High Street " in 
 Paris, and in 1813 to Woodstock, where one or more of his sous 
 had preceded him. Jotham Perham came into town in 1808, 
 and began on a farm in what has since been known as the 
 " Perham Neighborhood." When his father came here he settled 
 on adjoining land. Lemuel Perham was an only son, but his 
 father had several daughters, who married and settled in Ver- 
 mont, where their descendants now live. The children of 
 Lemuel Perham, born in Upton and Paris, were : Patty, b. 
 April 6, 1781, m. Ebenezer Tuell, of Paris; Jotham,. b. March 
 22, 1784, m. Lucy Felt ; Bettjf G., b. August 28, 1797, d. June 
 7, 1798 ; Lemuel, b. November 10, 1788, m. Sally T. Chase ; 
 Lovicy, b. February 20, 1794, m. Cyprian Cole, of Greenwood ; 
 Joel, b. March 31, 1797, m. Sophronia Bisbee ; Azel, b. July 4, 
 1805, m. Elvira Bowker. 
 
 Jotham Perham, son of the preceding, as already stated, 
 came into town in 1808 and spent many years here, and was a 
 valuable citizen. He was much in town office, and was Captain 
 
HISTOllY OF WOODSTOCK. 245 
 
 of a militia company that went to Portland during the 1812 
 war. His children were : 
 
 I Elvira b. July 6, 1812, m. Alfred Chase; they had no children. 
 II Joshua, b. June 9, 1814, m. Polly Whitman, daughter of Joseph. He 
 cultivated Woodstock land many years, and vyas one of our 
 most industrious citizens. lie finally sold out and moved to 
 Wakefield, Mass., where his wife died and he married again. 
 He had children : Mary J., married first, Nehemiah Davis, 
 second, Winfield S. Ripley, and lives in Wakefield ; Andrew J., 
 married Ann King, and lives in Wakefield; Amanda M., un- 
 married ; Jerome, killed by the cars at Wakefield, and Jessie, 
 who married and lives in Wakefield. 
 Ill Columbus, b. May 16, 1816, m. first, Clementine Nutting, daughter 
 of James; second, Catherine Kimball, daughter of Seth, and 
 third, widow Mary A. Washburn, of Paris. He lived in the east 
 part of the town and died there. 
 IV Delphina, b. March 20, 1818, m. Harriscm Whitman, who died, leav- 
 ing her with three small children, whom she brought up and 
 educated. Geo. W., b. February 14, 1839, m. Eliza Davis, 
 daughter of Joseph, and lives in Paris ; Angel ia, m. Rufus Farrar, 
 Jr., lives in Grafton, and Harrison S. (See Personal Mention.) 
 V Lucy A., b. June 13, 1821, m. first, Chauncy C. Whitman, and second, 
 
 a Lombard, of Paris, and resides there. 
 VI Sylvania, b. May 7, 1825, unmarried, a dressmaker and dealer in 
 
 millinery and fancy goods, at Bryant's Pond. 
 VII Lovicy, b. October 4, 1826, died young. 
 
 VIII Martha E., b. June 29, 1830, m. Stephen C. Davis, son of Benjamin. 
 They have always lived in town ; have had several children ; their 
 daughter, Corinna, a very promising scholar, died while a student 
 at Bates College. 
 IX Amanda M., b. December 1, 1832, died young. 
 
 Lemuel Perham, Jr., brother of the preceding, married Sally- 
 Chase, daughter of Merrill, and went to- Wapello, Iowa, many 
 years ago where he died June 23, 1865, and where his descendants 
 now are. He was a Lieutenant in the company that went to Port- 
 laud, m 1814. His children were : Sarah T., b. October 27, 1815, 
 m. Andrew Grimes; Joel, b. April 15, 1817; Lemuel Poss, b. 
 March 19, 1819, m. Mary Nichols ; Lovicy C, b. May 12, 
 1823, m. Alexander Moore ; Amanda M., b. March 16, 1826, 
 m. J. Harvey ; Nancy, b. April 15, 1828, d. February 29, 1838 ; 
 
246 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Almira, b. May 12, 1832, d. May 16, 1834 ; Sarah, h. July 30, 
 1834, d. July 20, 1836 ; John, b. April 15, 1830, d. April 15, 
 1837. 
 
 For second wife, Lemuel Perham married in 1843, Clarissa 
 B. Perkins, of Clyde, Michigan, and had William and Laura. 
 
 Joel Perham, brother of the preceding, born in Paris, came 
 to Woodstock with his father when he was fifteen years of age. 
 When he became of age he was married and lived at first in the 
 Perham neighborhood, then built a house below the Stephen 
 Packard place, where he lived a few years, and next moved to 
 Perham neighborhood, to the farm he bought of Eowse Bisbee, 
 and on which John Nason made the first opening. He after- 
 wards moved to the south part of the town, to the farm 
 previously owned by John Bicknell. In 1856, he sold his farm 
 and moved to Bryant's Pond. He was a good farmer and very 
 successful in sheep husbandry. At one time he was keeping 
 six hundred sheep and wintered them. Near the close of his 
 life, he went to live with his son Kilbon and died there. His 
 wife died in 1865 and he in 1876. His children were : 
 
 I Sidney, born March 27, 1819, m. Almena J., daughter of Lazarus 
 Hathaway, of Paris, and his children are : Aurestus S., m. Delia 
 Haskell, of New Gloucester, lives in Washington, D. C. ; Fannie L., 
 Georgie S., Herbert M., died young, and Willie L. 
 
 II Betsey Gurney, b. March 13, 1821, m. Merrill J. Rowe. (See Eowe). 
 
 Ill Kilbon, b. August 8, 1822, m. Sarah J. Bryant, daughter of Christopher, 
 and had Edwin R., m. Anna Irish, lives in Somerville, Mass. ; Clara, 
 m. Henry Rollins, lives west; Sarah B., died young; Mabel L. and 
 Quinby. 
 
 IV Joel, b. May 10, 182G. He was brought up on the farm, attended the 
 town schools and at Hebron Academy, taught school winters, was 
 in trade at Bryant's Pond several years; was a member of the 
 Enrolling Board, for the 2d Maine District, during the war; was 
 subsequently government inspector ; has dealt lai'gely in real estate 
 in Boston and Washington, D. C. ; now resides in Boston ; un- 
 married. 
 V Viana, b. April 10, 18.32, m. Joseph Churchill, son of William, of Paris. 
 He died in August, 1881. They had one son, Walter A. 
 
 vr Cynthia A., b. June 27, 1839, m. Wm. B. Lapham ; resides in Augusta. 
 
I 
 
Joel Perham. Jr. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 247 
 
 AzEL Perham, brother of the last, has always lived in Wood- 
 stock. His wife was Elvira Bowker, daughter of James, of 
 Paris. His children, all born in Woodstock, were : Laura B., b. 
 March 31, 1831, d. June 19, 1838 ; Lovicy, b. February 4, 1831, 
 m. Adelbert Hicks, son of Isaac, of Greenwood, and went west ; 
 Kingman G., b. January 13, 1832, m., and has lived in Naples 
 and other places ; Jeanette L., b. June 23, 1836, m. Amos 
 S. Bryant, son of Samuel, Jr., of Greenwood ; Alonzo, b. August 
 31, 1839, d. April 13, 1845 ; James L., b. October 3, 1842, 
 never was married ; he died from the effects of exposure while 
 in the army ; Charles H., b. September 3, 1850, married and 
 resides with his parents. 
 
 PERKINS. 
 
 Cornelius Perkins, of Carver, Mass., born December 25, 
 1775, married Mercy Barrows, of Middleboro, born January 5, 
 1775, and was among the early settlers of Paris. In 1803, he 
 came to Woodstock and settled on lot number six, of Smith's 
 survey, in the east part of Woodstock, the grant to Gorham 
 Academy. His father was Gideon, whose wife was Desire 
 Dunham, and his grandfather Joshua, all of Carver. He was 
 a useful citizen, and in town office for thirty or more years. 
 He was the delegate from Woodstock to the convention which 
 framed the Constitution of Maine. After the death of his wife 
 he went to Paris and died there. His children, the three older 
 born in Paris and the others in Woodstock, were : 
 
 I Luther, b. December 10, 1797, m. Sally Durell. He was a Baptist 
 clergyman and had several settlemenis. He died in Weld, where 
 he had married a second wife, named Brown. His children were 
 Ephraim, Samuel, Joshua, Albert, Lois and Austin. 
 II Cornelius, b. November i, 1799,-d. young. 
 
 Ill Gideon, b. November 22, 1801, m. Polly Dunham. He was a Free 
 Baptist minister ; he had a family, and among his sons were John 
 W. and Joseph, well known merchants in Lewiston. 
 
248 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 IV Seth, b. September 2, 1803, m. Laodicea Dudley, daughter of David, 
 
 and moved to Penobscot County. 
 V Mercy, b. August 8, 1805, m. Isaac Davis. 
 VI Desire, b. December 28, 1807, m. Harvey Berry, son of William, of 
 
 Paris. 
 VII Daniel, b. April 23, 1810, m. Drusilla Fuller, daughter of Caleb, of 
 
 Paris. He has always lived in town. 
 VIII Cyrus, b. January 14, 1812, m. Harriet Dunham; he died at Paris, 
 1880. 
 IX Charles, b. January 24, 1814, ra. Amazina Cushman, daughter of 
 John, of Bethel. He went west. 
 X Cornelius, b. July 19, 1879, d. 1833. 
 
 PERRY. 
 
 Job Perry, of Norway, died in Belfast in October, 1830. 
 His wife, Eleanor Allen, of Hartford, survived him and came 
 to this town with her family, and died here April 3, 1871. 
 Tiieir children were: Bartle, b. in Paris Feb. 2, 1819, was a 
 voter here in 1843 ; Judith T., b. September 15, 1820, m. Oliver 
 Eobbins ; Nathaniel H., b. June 3, 1822, died quite young in 
 Belfast ; Job T., b. in Belfast June 15, 1825, m. Catherine A. 
 Bigelow, of Framingham, Mass. ; Franklin W., b. May 14, 
 1829, m. Miranda Buck, of Norway ; Francis W., b. May 14, 
 1829, m. Miriam Barrows, of Norway ; Nathan H., b, Septem- 
 ber 30, 1830, m. Estella Eobbins. 
 
 The two brothers, Bartle and Nathan H., long operated the 
 saw mill in Sigotch, purchasing the property of Josiah J. 
 Knight ; Bartle married first, in 1866, Lucretia Barker, of Eum- 
 ford, second, in 1875, Mrs. Sophronia Carter, of Eumford, and 
 third, in 1877, Mrs. Mary A. Silver, of Eumford ; he resides in 
 Eumford. Nathan H. married as stated above, and resides at 
 West Paris. He is much interested in mineralogy, and has a 
 large collection found in and around Woodstock ; he has also 
 supplied other collectors with the rare minerals of this region. 
 He is now devoting his time mainly to this pursuit. 
 
HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 249 
 
 PRAY. 
 
 Joseph Pray came here from- Parsonsfield in 1858, and traded 
 in the Crockett stand, since burned, at the Pond. He was an 
 elderly man and a bachelor; his sister kept his house. He 
 was Postmaster from 1859 to 1861 ; he was a kind hearted, 
 genial man, and highly respected, but not successful in business 
 here. He was partially blind, and often the victim of petty 
 peculations and frauds ; he died here in 1866. 
 
 PUTNAM. 
 
 Prentiss M. Putnam, son of Jesse, of Paimford, his wife 
 Esther Howe, daughter of Joel, of Hanover, came here in 1858, 
 and worked in the store for Jonathan Jewell. He afterwards 
 returned to the homestead of his father at East Eumford, and 
 died there. He had two children, Marcella, who married and 
 resides in Milan, N. H., and one son. 
 
 POOL. 
 
 Melvin Pool, son of Joshua, of Norway, married Abigail 
 Bryant, daughter of Solomon, and once lived in this town. He 
 was first taxed here in 1827. He moved from here to Green- 
 wood. His son Calvin was taxed here in 1837, and Thomas 
 in 1839. Besides these, he had William, Joshua, George, 
 Francis and Frederick, and perhaps others. He also had sev- 
 eral daughters. They all left town many years ago. 
 
 RAND. 
 
 Lazarus Band, born July 29, 1755, died in 1816, was Hving 
 in the east part of the town in 1815. His wife, Betsey, was 
 born October 9, 1757. Their children recorded on our records. 
 
250 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 are ; David, b. June 21, 1787, m. Eachel Townsend, he emigrated 
 to Ohio ; Eunice, b. May 31, 1702, m. Daniel Cox, of Sumner ; 
 Lydia, b. April 24, 1794; William, b. October 24, 1800, m. 
 Eebecca Crockett ; Christania, b. May 16, 1802, m. Jacob Hasey. 
 
 RANDALL. 
 
 John and Eufus S. Eandall, both master mariners, were 
 here occasionally with their mother, who married Joseph Frye. 
 They were the sons of Eobert Eandall, grandsons of Eobert, and 
 great-israndsons of Nathaniel, who came from Scituate, Mass., 
 and settled in North Yarmouth ; their mother was Lydia 
 Mitchell, daughter of Jonathan, of Cape Elizabeth. Both of 
 these sons commenced before the mast and worked their way 
 up to command large ships. John is now in California, and 
 Eufus in Freeport. Eufus married Annie Townsend, of Free- 
 port, daughter of Earl and Sarah (Hoy t) Townsend, and has six ' 
 children. Mrs. Eandall has spent most of her married life on 
 the ocean with her husband, having made voyages with him to 
 several countries of Europe, to South America, the West Indies 
 and to Hong Kong. Captain Eufus has been an energetic and 
 successful shipmaster, and has retired on a competency to the 
 quiet town of Freeport, to spend the remainder of h'is days in 
 pursuits of agriculture. 
 
 RIGKER. 
 
 David Eicker, son of David and Lydia (Noble), of Somers- 
 worth, N. H., born August 18, 1776, married Lydia Chase, 
 daughter of Enoch, of Dover, born October 16, 1777, and came 
 to Minot, where he was in the employ of Michael Little, and 
 thence came here in 1805. He began on the farm where he 
 died, and where his son David now lives. His children, all 
 except the oldest, born in Woodstock, were : 
 
Capt. rufus s. Randall. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 251 
 
 I Mary, b. July 11, 1804 ; never married. 
 
 II Eliza, b. August 31, 1805; m. Alexander Day, Jr. 
 
 III Lucy, b. March 7, 1806; never married. 
 
 IV David, b. June 19, 1809 ; m. first, Eunice Estes ; second, Lois Bryant. 
 V Thomas N., b. September 26, 181^ ; m. Mary Wood, of Hebron. 
 
 VI Harriet, b. April 11, 1817; m. John Wyman. 
 
 David, son of the preceding, was born in and has always 
 resided in Woodstock. His first wife was Eunice A. Estes, and 
 the second Lois Bryant. He is a farmer, brick mason and car- 
 penter, and has also b6en an occasional preacher in the Baptist 
 denomination for many years. He had no children by his first 
 wife, but by his second wife he had : 
 
 George W., b. September 23, 1834 ; m. Etta, daughter of Rev. M. Lawrence, 
 of Sumner. He was a soldier in the late war, and 'died a few years 
 after his discharge, of consumption. 
 
 Eunice, b. September 6, 1835 ; m. Ephraim M. Lawrence ; resides in Wood- 
 stock. 
 
 Eliza R., b. June 14, 1837; m. Isaac F. Lapham, and has Lois A., b. Octo- 
 ber 30, 1856, m. Edward T. Packard ; and Ernest M., b. September 4, 
 1867. All reside in Litchfield. 
 
 Dustin B., b. June 28, 1841 ; m. Elizabeth Lawrence. 
 
 Ruth, b. February 4, 1843 ; unmarried. 
 
 Lois A., b. August 3, 1845; d. March 6, 1846. 
 
 David I., b. September 9, 1850 ; d. September 3, 1854. 
 
 Thomas N., son of David Eicker, Senior, is a blacksmith, and 
 resides at Bryant's Pond, but formerly at Rumford. His wife 
 was Mary Wood, of Hebron. Children : 
 
 Rozina E., b. August 1, 1841 ; m. Charles A. Young. She died April 11, 1865. 
 
 Augusta M., b. April 26, 1843; unmarried. 
 
 Charles H., b. November 27, 1844 ; d. August 21, 1851. 
 
 Delia A., b. July 23, 1847 ; m. George Davis and resides in Auburn. 
 
 Charles 11., b. December 16, 1852 ; m. and lives in Auburn. 
 
 T. Willard, b. October 9, 1856. 
 
 Arthur C, b. December 21, 1858. 
 
 ROBBINS. 
 
 Several families of Bobbins have lived in this town, but few 
 of them are upon the town records, and only a small number 
 bearing this name now remain here. 
 
 "1^ 
 
252 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Nathaniel Robbins, originally of Plymouth County, Mass., 
 came here from Sumner about the year 1835. His wife was 
 Euth Robbins, daughter of Eleazer, also of Plymouth County, 
 Mass., and Sumner, and he had sous, Charles, Nathaniel, Jr., 
 Oliver, Thomas A. and Samuel, and perhaps others. Charles 
 Robbins m. Mary A. Cotton, and was living here in 1835 ; 
 Oliver, m. in 1829, Ann S. Thurlow, and in 1846, was living 
 near the saw mill north of Pinhook. He also had daughters, 
 Rebecca, m. Cyrus Andrews, and Lois C, m. Mark F. Cotton, 
 and perhaps others. Harriet H. Robbins, daughter of Nathaniel, 
 Jr., married Francis E. .Hammond ; Emily R. Robbins married 
 Isaac Dunham ; Eliza Robbins married Samuel Hammond. 
 
 Oliver Robbins, son of Eleazer, of Sumner, his wife a Tripp, 
 came from Sumner to this town in 1837, and settled on a lot 
 between Sigotch and West Sumner, on the County road. He 
 had Susannah, died unmarried ; Oliver, Jr., and Elvira, who 
 married Lyman R. Durell, adopted son of Antepast. Oliver, 
 Jr., was three times married : first, to Calista Knight, of Peru, 
 second to Eliza Dunn, of Sumner, and third, to Judith T. Perry, 
 of Woodstock. He lives on the old homestead of his father, 
 and is an intelligent and thrifty farmer. His daughter Estella 
 married Nathan H. Perry, formerly of Woodstock. 
 
 KOWE. 
 
 Benjamin Rowe, born February 8, 1767, in Gloucester, Mass., 
 came to New Gloucester and thence to Norway, being one of 
 the early settlers in the latter town. He married first, February 
 2, 1790, Judith Rowe, of New Gloucester, and had : 
 I Judith, b. November 7, 1790. 
 
 His wife died December 17, 1790, and for second wife, he 
 married February 20, 1792, Elizabeth Jordan, and had : 
 
 II Simeon, b. November 21, 1792, died March 2, 1864. 
 Ill Timothy, b. May 19, 1794, d. July 8, 1800. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 253 
 
 IV Solomon, b. Julj- 29, 179G, m. Hannah Millett. 
 
 V William, b. March 20, 1800. 
 
 VI Willison, b. March 10, 1802. 
 
 VII Joseph, b. February 15, 1805. 
 
 VIII Harriet, b. May 21, 1807. 
 
 Benjamin Eowe died January 13, 1859, and hi.s second wife 
 October 17, 1852 ; both died and are buried in Norway. 
 
 Simeon Eowe, eldest son of the preceding, married December 
 
 28, 1818, Eebecca Merrill, born in Andover, Mass, He lived 
 
 in that part of Hebron that is now Oxford, and came to this 
 
 town in 1833, and settled on half of wild lot number 67, in the 
 
 west part. Here he lived twenty-four years, and then moved, 
 
 with his son, to the Bartholomew Cushman farm, where he died 
 
 as above. His wife died July 9, 1860. Children : 
 
 1 Merrill Jordan, b. October 18, 1819, m. December 22, 1824, Betsey G. 
 Perham, daughter of Joel, and had Edwin Merrill, b. September 6, 
 1844, d. March 7, 1861 ; Ellen E., b. November 26, 1849, d. March 
 10, 1861 ; Edwin M., b. May 2, 1858, m. June 1, 1879, Annie C. Burn- 
 ham, and has two children. Merrill Rowe now resides in Norway. 
 II Judith, b. June 22, 1822, m. Atwood Rowe; no children. 
 
 III Benjamin E., b. August 16, 1824, d. March 13, 1825. 
 
 IV Harriet S., b. November 29, 1827, m. Augustus Billings, son of Jon- 
 
 athan, and has always lived in Woodstock, 
 V Infant, b. February 10, 1833, died February 12, 1833. 
 
 William Eowe, brother of the preceding, came to Woodstock 
 and settled on the other half of the same lot as his brother. 
 His wife was Sarah Merrill, sister of Simeon's wife. They had 
 Newell F., m. Sarah A. Bryant, daughter of Abram, of Bethel, 
 and had six children, all of whom died of diphtheria in 1861 ; 
 Semantha, m. Benj. F. Farrar and died in Woodstock ; Ellery, 
 m. Mary A. Hathaway, daughter of Lazarus, of Paris, and has 
 resided many 'years in Portland ; Daniel, m. and moved to Saco ; 
 Willison, m. Laura A. Billings, daughter of Silas, and moved to 
 Oxford. 
 
 Joseph Eowe, brother of the preceding, married Katherine 
 Virgin, of Eumford, and has Lived more or less iu this town. 
 
254 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 His children are Celia A., m. Edmund E. Landers, son of Seneca ; 
 Henry, m. and lives in Boston ; Mary, m. Wallace Besse and 
 died in Buckfield ; Sarah J., m. Benj. D. Thurlo ; and Charles. 
 
 Haeeiet Eowe, sister of preceding, married Enoch French ; 
 they lived in this town, on a lot adjoining Simeon Eowe's on 
 the east. Subsequently, they lived in Greenwood, Oxford and 
 Paris. They had one son, Harrison, who married and lives in 
 Bethel. Harriet died in Paris. 
 
 Stephen P. Eowe, distantly related to the families already 
 mentioned, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Whittemore) and grand- 
 son of John, who was brother of Benjamin, of Norway, came 
 here from Greenwood and built a house at Bryant's Pond. He 
 was born July 4, 1815, and married first, Elizabeth P. Mixer, 
 of Oxford, and second, Euth B. Stevens, of Norway. His 
 children by the first wife, were : Augustus L., b. January 26, 
 1841, m. Lucinda Pray, and by second, Lizzie, b^ September 8, 
 1849, m. Eli B. Whitman, son of Zeri, of Hebron. 
 
 Isaac A. Eowe, brother of the preceding, also came here from 
 Greenwood and repaired up the mill at North Woodstock, which 
 he operated until he died. He married Judith Eowe, daughter 
 of Simeon, ante, who survived him and became the wife of 
 Cyrus Millett. 
 
 EUSS. 
 
 Hoeatio G. Euss, born in New Sharon, Franklin County, 
 whose first wife was a Houghton, daughter of Moses, and second 
 wife, a Eust, from South Paris, was here in 1843, and carried 
 on the clover mill above Pinhook. He was not here long. He 
 died in Livermore several years ago. 
 
 James Euss, brother of the preceding, was here in 1843. 
 His wife was an Adams, of Boothbay. He was a clothier and 
 cloth dresser by trade, but carried on a farm here. He was a 
 soldier in the late war, and died from disease contracted in the 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. , 255 
 
 service. He had several sons ; Benton, m. Jpfne Cushman, 
 daughter of Geo. W. ; Samuel, m. Sibyl J. Felt, daughter of 
 Jeremiah ; Henry H., m. Alice J. Cotton. His daughter, Nettie 
 r., m. James F. Bragg. 
 
 RUSSELL. 
 
 Moses M. Russell came here from Newry, and lived in 
 the Billings neighborhood ; he afterwards moved to Pinhook. 
 He had a family, and one of his sons once kept the Bryant's 
 Pond House 
 
 SESStPNS. 
 
 Darius Sessions, whose parents lived in Newry and after- 
 wards in Milton Plantation, lived a while in this town, and the 
 births of three of his children are here recorded, namely : 
 Francis C, b. July 13, 1844 ; Asa 0., b. January 1, 1846, and 
 Betsey K, b. August 1, 1847. His wife was Eunice Chase, 
 daughter of Merrill, Jr. They had other children after leaving 
 this town. 
 
 SIIAW, 
 
 Eleazer C. Shaw came here in March, 1830, and suceeded 
 John E. Briggs, in the store at Stephens' Mills. He was the 
 son of Gilbert and Silence (Cole) Shaw, of Paris, and was born 
 May 10, 1807. His wife was Polly Kinsley, daughter of Azel, 
 of Minot, born October 26, 1809. He moved from here to 
 Paris and thence to Portland. While here, he was Town Clerk 
 aaid Postmaster. He moved from here to Paris, in December, 
 1837. . His children were : Charles H., b. December 16, 1830, 
 and George Pt., b. May 5, 1844. 
 
256 , HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 STAEBIED. 
 
 John Staebied was here at the time the town was incorpor- 
 ated. In 1825, his farm was set off to Paris. He was born 
 October 3, 1767, and his wife, Sally Tobey, September 20, 1772. 
 His children were : Hannah, b. November 6, 1796, m. Thayer 
 Townsend; Sally, b. September 9, 1798; John, b. August 11, 
 1800, m. Betsey Benson, of Sumner; Jemima T., b. February 3, 
 1802 ; Louisa, b. September 9, 1803, m. Jacob Brown ; Levi H., 
 b. August 20, 1806; Richard T., b. March 31, 1808; Martha 
 M., b. May 29, 1810 ; Stephen R, b. May 16, 1812 ; Dorothy, 
 b. September 11, 1815, m. John M. Bowker. 
 
 Claeendon Staebied, probably son of John, Jr., came to 
 Woodstock and married Eliza, daughter of Eli Bryant, and re- 
 mained here some years. He died here several years ago. 
 
 STEPHENS. 
 
 Capt. Samuel Stephens, whose first wife was a Howard, is 
 said to have come from Plymouth County, Mass., to Paris. He 
 moved from there into Woodstock, and was here at the time of 
 taking the first town census in 1815. He bought the mill built 
 by Eowse Bisbee, near Abel Bacon's, and owned also the farm on 
 which Bacon lives. He was a highly respected citizen, holding 
 town office frequently, and serving two terms in the State 
 Legislature. His second wife was Emma Swan, daughter of 
 William. The children by first wife, were Samuel, married 
 Betsey Doten ; he was killed while working in Locke's Mill, in 
 Greenwood, and his widow married Capt. Barrett, of Sumner ; 
 Eleazer married and lived in Paris ; Desire married Artemas 
 Felt. By second wife he had: Jesse, b. December 12, 1802, 
 m. Abigail T. Lurvey ; he was a Methodist preacher, and 
 became insane and committed suicide, under the influence of 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 257 
 
 Miller's doctrine of the Second Advent, in 1843 ; Emma, b. 
 December 30, 1804, m. Eichard T. Lurvey ; Benjamin, b. March 
 28, 1807, m. Julia M. Davis ; she has daughters Esther and 
 Emma, and a son Oren, who is a physician in Oxford ; Oren, b. 
 October 6, 1809, died young ; Jane, b. April 29, 1812, m. Joseph 
 Davis, and Mary, b. April 9, 1815. 
 
 Ezra Stephens came here from West Paris. His father, 
 Benjamin Stephens, whose wife was a Sampson, occupied a farm 
 near Trap Corner, in that town. Ezra married an Andrews, of 
 North Paris ; he was for a long time an itinerant peddler and 
 watch and clock repairer, but when he came to Bryant's Pond, 
 he went into general trade. He has several children, the oldest 
 of whom, Cora M., is the wife of E. C. Allen, of Norway. 
 
 STEVENS. 
 
 Francis E. Stevens came here from Bethel in 1851, and 
 married Charlotte, daughter of Eli Bryant. His father was 
 Joseph, of Norway. Francis F. lived on a farm near the old 
 Hannaford hotel afterwards occupied as a dwelling by Jacob 
 Whitman. He moved to Norway several years ago. 
 
 Benjamin Stevens, son of John and Lucy (Mugford), of 
 Bethel, formerly of Gorham, for a year or two kept a livery 
 stable at Bryant's Pond. He went back to Bethel. He married 
 first, Harriet Swift, of Lewiston, and second, Lydia Ptobertson, 
 of Bethel. 
 
 SWAN. 
 
 William Swan, an early settler in Paris, and among the first 
 families in Woodstock, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Septem- 
 ber 4, 1737. He was the son of John and Elizabeth, his wife, 
 
258 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 grandson of Gersliom and Sarah Holden, and .great-grandson of 
 John Swan, who came from England as a servant in the family 
 of Mr. Thomas Bittlestone, in whose recorded will it is provided 
 that his wife, Elizabeth, shall have the services of his boy, John 
 Swan, and shall pay him five pounds. John Swan, the emigrant, 
 married Eebecca Palfrey, and had a grant of land in Cambridge, 
 of twenty acres. Many of his descendants settled in Woburn, 
 and among them was William. He was a soldier in the war 
 for independence and a pensioner. He came to Paris with a 
 large family, and lived there several years. About the year 1802 
 he moved to Woodstock, accompanied by his son William, Jr., 
 who was then married, and his grandson Gideon, who was then 
 fifteen years old. They settled on the " Thousand Acres, " so 
 called, on the west side of the old County road. They built the 
 first framed barn in the plantation, which is still standing on the 
 old farm sometimes called the Gilbert place. William Swan, 
 Senior, bought the improvements made by Luther Briggs, on the 
 opposite side of the road, on the place now occupied by Samuel 
 S. Swan. The frame house on this place is the oldest in town. 
 The children of William Swan and Lucy Eobbins, were : 
 
 I Lydia, b. November 16, 1761, never married. 
 II William, b. July 3, 1763, m. Bethiah Pratt. 
 
 m Betsey, m. Calvin Cole, of Paris. 
 
 IV Emma, b. September 2, 1767, m. Samuel Stepheus. 
 
 V Sally, b. August 21, 1774, m. Solomon Bryant, Jr. 
 
 VI Susannah, b. March 24, 1777, m. Christopher Bryant. 
 
 William Swan, Jr., was married October 15, 1790, by Ichabod 
 Bonney, Esq., of Turner, to Bethiah Pratt, of Paris. He lived 
 to an advanced age, and died in Woodstock, we believe of 
 measles. His children, born in Paris and Woodstock, were : 
 
 1 William, Jr., b. May 18, 1792, m. first, Hannah, daughter of Samuel 
 B. Locke, of Bethel, and second, widow Twitchell, of Norway, 
 whose maiden name was Bird, daughter of John, of Norway. He 
 lived in Paris the last years of his life, and died in 1880. He had 
 a large family residing in Paris and elsewhere. 
 
 II Oliver, b. January 15, 1797, m. Jlhoda Bryant, daughter of Samuel, 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 259 
 
 of Woodstock, and reared a large family. He also moved to Paris, 
 and died there many years ago. 
 
 III John, b. June 8, 1799, m. Louisa Briggs, daughter of Luther. He 
 
 moved to Greenwood, where he left children. 
 
 IV Moses, b. December 1, 1801, m. Mary Locke, sister of his brother 
 
 William's wife. He was a car^Denter, and he and his wife went to 
 California and both died there. They left two daughters, Lucetta, 
 who is married in Chicago, and Mary, who resides in California. 
 V Aaron, b. December 1, 1801, d. February 16, 1815. 
 VI Lucy, b. May 3, 1804, m. John R. Briggs. 
 VI Bethiah, b. May 3, 1804, m. Luther Briggs. 
 VII Emma, b. April 6, 1807, d. young. 
 
 VIII Samuel S., b. April 10, 1811, m. Sabra Dacy. He also married a 
 second time. 
 IX Edmund, b. February 14, 1814, m. Elmira Morgan, of Greenwood. 
 He died in Greenwood. 
 
 Gideon Swan, son of Lucy and grandson of William, Senior, 
 as stated, came to Woodstock when fifteen years of age, and 
 died here, aged about ninety years. He was the last survivor 
 of the early settlers. He was a carpenter and farmer. His 
 wife was Katie, daughter of Joseph and Susanna (Trull) Clifford 
 (see Clifford), and they had six children. A daughter Lucy, m. 
 first. Dexter Billings, second, Levi Churchill, and third, James 
 Lapham. 
 
 FoxwELL Swan (no connection of the William Swan family) 
 came here from Paris and married widow Knight, of North 
 Woodstock. He was the son of James, of Bethel, grandson of 
 James, who came from Methuen to Fryeburg, and then to 
 Bethel, and a descendant of Eichard, who was early at Boston, 
 and moved thence to Eowley. Foxwell Swan lived at North 
 Paris many years, and raised up a family there. He died at 
 North Woodstock, at an advanced age. 
 
 THORN. 
 
 Samuel Thorn came to Sigotch from Phillips. He lived in 
 a log house on the shore of Concord Pond, on land now owned 
 
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 260 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 by Benjamin Davis. By his first wife he had Hannah, Abbie, 
 Louisa, married George S. Webster, Barnet, married Julia F. 
 Farrar, of Milton Plantation, and Edmund. For second wife, 
 Samuel Thorn married Amy Dolloff, daughter of Abner, and 
 had Samuel, Abby, Sarah, Eosannah and William D., who mar- 
 ried Violetta D. Wing. Edmund and Samuel both died in the 
 army. 
 
 THUKLO. 
 
 Asa Thurlo, or Thurlow, as his descendants write the name, 
 born June 3, 1760, with wife Abigail, came early into Wood- 
 stock from Buckfield, and settled on the line of the road which 
 afterwards led from the David Richer place south-easterly to 
 North Paris. His children were : 
 
 I Amos, b. May 3, 1784, m. Sarah Keene. 
 
 II Judith, b. March 1, 1786, m. Richard Green. 
 
 III Mercy, b. December 7, 1793, m. Jeremiah Foster, of Norway. 
 
 IV Bethiah, b. February 10, 1796. 
 
 V Asa, b. August 25, 1798, m. Lucy Billings. 
 
 VI Abigail, b. April 8, 1801, m. Asa Dunham. 
 
 VII John, b. April 16, 1804, m. Charity Bessee. 
 
 VIII Sally, b. April 27, 1807, m. Jason Hammond. 
 
 Amos Thurlo, son of preceding, his wife a Keene, had 
 Leonard B., b. March 22, 1815 ; Benjamin D., b. March 30, 1819, 
 m. first, Charlotte Fuller, daughter of Harvey, second, Melissa 
 J. Young, daughter of Atwood M., and third, Sarah J. Eowe, 
 daughter of Joseph ; Arvilla, b. September 24, 1821, m. William 
 F. Harvey; Aaron, b. July 28, 1825, m. Betsey Davis, daughter 
 of Aaron ; Amos, b. Jannary 8, 1828, m. Sylvina Whitman, 
 daughter of Zephaniah B. ; they went west and she died there ; 
 Andrew, b. November 4, 1831, died young ; Andrew T., died 
 young. 
 
 Asa Thurlo, brother of the preceding, had : Miranda, b. 
 October 4, 1823; Cyrus, b. December 15, 1815; he married a 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 261 
 
 daughter of Ezra Eidlon, and was killed at the battle of Spott- 
 sylvania Court House; Mary, b. December 8, 1828; Eliza, J., 
 b. December 8, 1830, m. Ezra Eidlon, Jr. ; Jeremiah, b. August 
 18, 1835 ; Isaac, b. June 25, 1838 ; Albion, b. November 29, 
 1841, and Alpheus, b. February 28, 1845. 
 
 John Thurlo, brother of the preceding, had : Eranklin H., b. 
 September 20, 1830, m. Phebe A. Lane, of New Gloucester; 
 Nehemiah D., b. June 28, 1832, m. Mrs. Emma C. .Thurlo ; 
 Nancy C, b. June 27, 1835, m. Eli M. Benson; Emily J., b. 
 March 28, 1837, m. Wm. H. Severance ; Clarinda, b. March 2, 
 1841, and Arvilla A., b. May 12, 1845, m. James A. Thompson. 
 
 Several families of Thurlow, of a different family than the 
 last, have lived in the east part of the town, in the Lunt neigh- 
 borhood. They came here periodically from Eaymond and 
 Auburn, and returned. Some of the names of these were : 
 Abraham, Davis, Emerson, James and Eichard, and their fam- 
 ilies. They first began to come here in 1853, and were con- 
 nected by marriage with the Lunts and Youngs, of the same 
 part of the town. They were generally a shiftless lot and often 
 helped by the town. 
 
 TOWNSEND. 
 
 George Townsend, born December 6, 1765, with his wife 
 Eachel, born September 20, 1767, was here at the time of the 
 incorporation of the town in 1815. Most of the family went 
 to Ohio. Their children recorded here are : Thayer, b. Decem- 
 ber 17, 1790, m. Hannah Starbird ; Eachel, b. April 29, 1792, 
 m. David Eand; William, b. July 22, 1799; Melansa, b. Sep- 
 tember 15, 1802 ; Edward T., b. January 21, 1805 ; Susanna, b. 
 May 6, 1807 ; John, b. January 3, 1810 ; Polly, b. October 10, 
 1812, and Mercy B., b. August 13, 1814. 
 
262 HISTOEY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 TRUE. 
 
 John True, from Poland, son of Jabez, began on the lot in 
 the Curtis neighborhood, which he subsequently sold to Enoch 
 Hammond. He remained in town only a short time and re- 
 turned to Poland ; perhaps he never moved his family here, 
 though some things go to show that he did. 
 
 TUTTLE. 
 
 Joseph Tuttle, son of John and Polly (Snell) Tuttle, came 
 here from Norway in 1858, and, with E. M. Hobbs, bought out 
 the Bryant's Pond House and the stage route to Andover and 
 Dixfield. His father, John Tuttle, was of Turner, and his 
 ancestors from the western part of the State or New Hampshire ; 
 his mother from Poland. He married Martha J. Stevens, 
 daughter of Ethiol, of Greenwood ; they had no children. He 
 sold out in 1865, and moved to a farm on the Ptumford road, in 
 Bethel. From there he removed to Providence, E. I. 
 
 twitchell. 
 
 Jacob Twitchell, whose wife's name was Betsey, lived in 
 the south part of the town in 1816, and the birth of one child 
 is on our records, namely, Polly, b. April 14, 1816. 
 
 whitman. 
 
 Jacob Whitman, the first of the name here, was the son of 
 Jacob, of Buckfield, who came there from Bridgewater, Mass., 
 when his son Jacob, Jr., was two years and a half old. He 
 was born October 11, 1779, and married Dorcas Berry, daughter 
 of Deacon William, of Buckfield, born June 16, 1779. In 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 263 
 
 1799, in the spring, he came into Woodstock, being the fourth 
 family. He settled on a piece of land which he subsequently 
 bought of Michael Little, being lots numbered 24, 58 and 64' 
 according to Greenwood's survey. He built a log house and 
 planted corn, but his house was burned during his absence, and 
 also his young corn, but he replanted it and raised a good crop. 
 He lived here many years, and was a hard-working and prudent 
 man. He was a lay preacher, and often held meetings in his 
 own and the adjoining towns. His wife died in Woodstock, 
 May 24, 1867, and he in Hebron, September 6, 1873. His 
 children, all born in Woodstock, were : 
 
 I Zilpha, b. July 4, 1801, m. Luther Whitman, Jr. 
 II Abigail, b. February 15, 1803, d. unmarried. 
 Ill Jacob, b. December 31, 1805, m. Polly Benson. 
 IV Zeri, b. August 4, 1807, m. Mary Dale ; he died in Hebron, leaving 
 several children. 
 V Joshua S., b. May 9, 1809, m. Sophia Dacy, daughter of John. He 
 
 settled in Greenwood. 
 VI Reuben, b. May 25, 1811, m. Lucy Hodsdon, of Bethel, and moved 
 to the Luther Briggs farm, in the south part of the town. 
 VII Remember B., b. November 28, 1813, m. Daniel P. Bennett, of Green- 
 wood. 
 VIII Dorcas, b. March 11, 1816, m. Dustin Bryant, son of Deacon Christo- 
 pher, of Greenwood. 
 IX Irene, b. May 15, 1818, died unmarried. 
 
 X Elon G., b. July 31, 1823, m. Lucy Swan, daughter of Oliver, and 
 lived many years on the old homestead of his father, where he 
 reared a large family of sons and daughters. A few years ago he 
 sold his farm to the town for a town farm, and moved to Greenwood. 
 
 Luther Whitman, formerly better known in this town as 
 Doctor Whitman, elder brother of the preceding, born in Bridge- 
 water, May 5, 1778, married Polly, oldest child of Deacon 
 William Berry, of Buckfield, born February 22, 1775, came to 
 Woodstock in 1800, and settled on land which the following 
 year he bought of Michael Little, it being lot numbered 37, 
 according to Greenwood's survey. Here he spent his days, and 
 died July 20, 1849. His wife died December 28, 1837, and 
 Mr. Whitman, for second wife, married Mrs. Fanny Wight, of 
 
264 ' HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Bethel. The children of Luther Whitman, all by the first wife, 
 
 were: 
 
 I Luther, Jr., b. February 11, 1798 ; he married Zilpha Whitman, 
 daughter of Jacob, and moved to a hill farm in the east part of 
 the town. Here he toiled hard and reared a large family, all but 
 one of whom, as they neared man or womanhood, died of con-, 
 sumption. His son Leonard married Ellen F. Bryant, daughter of 
 Eli, and lives in Paris. 
 II Armina, b. October 28, 1801, m. Silas Billings. 
 
 III Rebecca, b. December, 180.3, m. Silas Billings. 
 
 IV Winchester, b. February 14, 1806, m. Hannah M. Paine. He died in 
 
 Bethel. 
 V Learned, b. February 17, 1808, m. Deborah Twitchell, daughter of 
 Joseph, of Bethel, who died, and he married a Stiles ; he lives in 
 Bethel. 
 
 VI Zephaniah B., b. September 27, 1810, m. Eliza Chase, daughter of 
 
 Merrill. He lives on the old homestead of his father, and had, 
 Sylvinia E., b. October 5, 18.3.3, m. Amos Thurlow; Vesta L., b. 
 August 1, 1836, m. first; Mark F. Rawson, second, Charles Bes^e ; 
 Gilman A., b. March 24, 1838, m. Evelina A. Jackson ; Napoleon 
 B., b. December 28, 1839, d. from effects of wounds received at the 
 battle of Shiloh ; Alanson Mellen, b. April 17, 1841, d. August 2, 
 1864, at Andersonville Prison, Georgia; a brave soldier in the 
 Union army ; Gilbert M. L., b. April 28, 1844, m. Adelaide Dudley ; 
 lives in Wisconsin; M. JoseiDhine, b. June 25, 1845, m. Charles 
 M. Bryant ; lives in Wisconsin ; Eugene Z., b. December 6, 1850, 
 m. Dora V. Whitman, daughter of Learned, of Bethel. 
 
 VII Alanson M., b. May 17, 1814, m. Eleanor Bryant, daughter of Samuel, 
 
 Jr. They had one child, who died. He lives at the Pond. 
 VIII Clarissa, b. September 11, 1818, died October 11, 1859. 
 IX Albion K. P., b. October 9, 1820, m. Elvina S. Bryant, daughter of 
 Samuel, Jr. He lived at Bryant's Pond, was a carpenter and Deputy 
 Sheriff, but died before 1860. He had Eva R., and Alice E., who 
 died, Austis A., who married and lives in Portland, Aldana, who 
 is a carriage smith, married the daughter of Orlando C. Houghton, 
 and has lived in Woodstock, and Ida M., who married Malcolm 
 Enearl, and lives at Bryant's Pond. 
 
 Joseph Whitman, brother of the preceding, born March 26, 
 1781, married Polly Cole, daughter of Eleazer, born September 
 30, 1783. He came quite early into town and settled on the 
 farm since owned by D. J. Libby. His children were : 
 
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HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 265 
 
 I Cyprian, b. February 10, 1808, m. Eliza J. Benson. His only children 
 
 recorded here are : Jonathan, b. June 4, 1828, and Esther, b. 
 
 March 8, 1831. He had oth^f children born elsewhere. 
 n Milla, b. February 27, 1809, m. Suel Bisbee. 
 in Lovicy, b. January 17, 1811, m. Isaac G. Spofford. 
 IV Harrison, b. May 16, 1813, m. Delphina Perham, daughter of Jotham. 
 
 (See Perham.) 
 V Chauncy C, b. February 12, 1815, m. Lucy A. Perham, daughter of 
 
 Jotham. They had Thomas J., b. December 28, 1840 ; Oscar F., 
 
 b. November 13, 1847, and one other. 
 VI Elhanan, b. February 26, 1817 ; he married Sally Curtis and moved 
 
 to Waterford, where he died, and his widow married Suel Bisbee. 
 
 He had children, Sarah J., b. April 7, 1839; Joan C, b. February 
 
 22, 1841 ; Mary, b. February 28, 1846, and Edgar and Edson, b. 
 
 August 26, 1851. 
 VII Polly, b. February 22, 1819, m. Joshua Perham. 
 VIII Joseph, b. February 19, 1821. He married Marcia Leonard, daughter 
 
 of Solomon, and had Charles O., who graduated at Bowdoin 
 
 College, studied in Germany, and was a teacher in Japan, and 
 
 other children. 
 IX Harriet, b. April 3, 1823, m. first, John A. Caswell, and second, 
 
 Lawson Hill. Her daughter Sylvina married Jeremy J. Cram. 
 X Tyla, or Silence, b. February 7, 1826, m. Oren Glines. Their daughter 
 
 Mary M., b. March 7, 1844, married Jared W. Whitman, son of 
 
 Jacob, Jr., an Advent preacher. They also had Emily Etta, b. 
 
 March 26, 1848. Mr. Glines moved to Paris and died there. 
 
 WHITTEMORE. 
 
 Isaac Whistemore, born in Hebron, in 1785, came to this 
 town in 1829. He was married in 1807, to Polly Dean. He 
 was edncated at Hebron Academy and a school teacher. He 
 was frequently in town office in Hebron, and for several terms 
 a member of the Legislature. During his four years' residence 
 here, he was a selectman for three years and superintending 
 school committee for the same period. He resided in the south 
 part of the town and taught school in winter. He moved from 
 here to Eumford, and died there September 12, 1842. His wife 
 died December 8, 1889. His children were : Enoch, m. Sarah 
 
266 HISTOKY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 Cole ; Mary, and Deborah, died in infancy ; Mary, again, married 
 Orin Green, lives in Iowa ; Sarah, m. Samuel Knapp ; Isaac, m. 
 Mfvry E. Eay ; Deborah, again, married Benjamin F. Hutchins, 
 second, Samuel Newhall, lives in Rumford ; William W., m. 
 Julia A. Green ; Eebecca ; Lucy C, m. George A. Eay, lives in 
 Eumford ; Thomas C. ; Nathaniel (Eev.) m. Frances Abbott, 
 resides in Acton, Me. ; Josiah, died young ; Josiah D., married 
 and resides in Iowa. 
 
 Enoch Whittemore, son of the preceding, born in Hebron, 
 December 28, 1808, married, May 15, 1836, Sarah Cole, born 
 in Greenwood, April 15, 1816. Children : Enoch, b. May 27, 
 1838, m. Nancy J. Cushman, daughter of Thomas C, of this 
 town ; he lives in Fayette ; Josiah D., b. November 23, 1840, d. 
 young; Abby Jane, b. April 4, 1842, d. 1858; Josiah D., b. 
 October 16, 1844, d. 1869; Sarah E., b. July 29, 1846 ; Mary 
 D., b. July 24, 1850, m. Joseph F. Child, of Paris; Lucinda, 
 b. August 22, 1854; Lucy Jane, b. September 21, 1857, m. 
 Leroy F. Everett, of Norway ; Nellie Abby, b. October 27, 1860, 
 m. Simon Fickett, son of Chester D., of this town. Enoch 
 Whittemore died in Paris, January 4, 1877. 
 
 WYMAN. • 
 
 • 
 
 Bela Wyman came here from Paris about 1828. His wife was 
 Hepsibath Drink water ; both were born in North Yarmouth. 
 They lived in a house, in the Perham neighborhood, which has 
 long since been torn down. They had sons, William, Joseph, 
 Seward and Eichmond, and daughters, Eliza, Mercy and Sophro- 
 nia. Seward had a son Freeman, who married a daughter of 
 Daniel Perkins, and is perhaps the only descendant of Bela 
 Wyman left in town. Eliza never married, and resides at South 
 Paris ; Sophronia married William Young, son of Joshua. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 267 
 
 YORK. 
 
 David York was in this town in 1839. He lived in the 
 Bilhngs neighborhood. His wife was Basmuth Swett, daugh- 
 ter of Benjamin, of Bethel. Their children were : Uriah P., 
 m. 1850, Laura Sophia Glines ; George H., b. April 3, 1834, m. 
 first, Susan M. Stevens, second, Amanda M. Porter ;■ Louisa, b. 
 November 11, 1837, m. fil-st, Henry Jordan, second, a Mr. 
 Barrows, of Sumner, third, a Martin, of Eumford ; Cynthia, b. 
 September 25, 1840, m. G. A. Bucknam, of Sumner ; Eachel, b. 
 December 28, 1842, m. 1863, Geo. H. Barrows, of Sumner. 
 They may have had other children. 
 
 Stephen York, Jr., was here in 1831 ; he came from Pdley 
 Plantation, and originally from Standish. He married Nancy 
 Young, daughter of Joshua, and moved to Albany, where his 
 wife died, and he married again. 
 
 Daniel G. York, a shoemaker, son of Peter, of Newry, was 
 here in 1864. He moved from here to the William G. Bryant 
 farm in Milton Plantation. His wife was a Bean, of Bethel, 
 and he had a son Lyman, who was also a shoemaker, a daughter 
 Albina, and other children. While living on the Bryant place, 
 his house was struck by lightning, and one entire side broken 
 into fragments. No one was seriously injured, but his wife, 
 who had long been confined to the house from paralysis, was 
 temporarily improved by the shock. 
 
 YOUNG. 
 
 Joshua Young, son of Job, of Gray, moved to Paris and 
 from there came into Woodstock. He lived on the place on 
 which Levi Berry formerly lived, and which is now occupied by 
 Daniel Day. His wife was Mary Tenney, and his children, all 
 born before he came to Woodstock, were : Moses Humphrey, 
 
268 HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 
 
 m, Eachel Howe and moved to Albany ; William, m. Sophronia 
 Wyman and died in Paris ; Sally, m. Oren Gray, of Paris ; 
 Nancy, m. Stephen York, Jr., of Eiley, and moved to Albany ; 
 Mary A., m. E. Eastman and moved to Sweden. 
 
 Joshua Young, son of Caleb (no relation to the preceding), 
 was born in Buckfield. He was ti stone-cutter, and came to 
 Woodstock to work on the quarry near Bryant's Pond, and died 
 here. His wife was Nancy Huzzey, of Buckfield, daughter of 
 James, and they had one son and three daughters, who, with 
 their mother, left Woodstock soon after their father's death. 
 
 Atwood and Frank Young came to the east part of the town. 
 They came from Eaymond, and were connected with the 
 Thurlow family. The former enlisted and died in the service. 
 
 Charles A. Young, son of William, and grandson of Amos, 
 of Norway, came here and married Eosina, daughter of Thomas 
 N. Eicker. (See Eicker). He was a painter. His wife died 
 young and he moved away, leaving one child with the mother's 
 family. 
 
HISTORY OF WOODSTOCK. 269 
 
 CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. 
 
 No attempt has been made to correct errors in Family 
 Sketches. They are claimed to be only approximately correct. 
 Many of the marriages and births were taken from the town 
 records, and tliese are not always correct. It frequently happens 
 that the younger children in a family have not been recorded, 
 as for instance in the case of Dea. Calvin Jackson : his younger 
 children, Randall and Ellen, were not on the town records, and 
 so are omitted in the re(i|)rds of the family in this book. Almon 
 T. Billings, son of Silas, was left out of the family ; he resides 
 in northern New York. 
 
 On page 131, the saw mill referred to as run by Joseph and 
 Seth Davis, was built by Simon Fickett. Samuel Stephens 
 built a grist mill near Andrew's mill, in South Woodstock, after 
 the mill near Abel Bacon's went to ruin. Geo. E. Gibson 
 should have been placed among the traders. He traded in com- 
 pany with Wm. R. Howe in the Rolfe store, north of the hotel, 
 two years. Page 199, Daniel Cummings should be given among 
 the children of Isaac. Page 209, Paulina " Dudley " should 
 read Paulina " Felt." On same page, for Elia Bryant, read 
 Eli. Page 215, Oilman Farnum, son of Samuel, is twice re- 
 corded ; the last should have been omitted. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
APPENDIX. 273 
 
 EXTRACTS 
 
 FROM 
 
 Stephen Chase's Diary 
 
 1801-1 806. 
 
 1801. 
 
 Lewiston, March 2d. Agreed with Esq. Little to go and help lot out his 
 part of Township No. 3. 8th. Left Lewiston for the purpose of going to 
 Township No. 3, to lay it out in lots. Arrived at Esq. Little's in the even- 
 ing; he informed me that he had let the business out by the job. 9th. Pro- 
 ceeded on as far as Capt. Bolster's^ in Paris, when we met Mr. Alexander 
 Greenwood, tlie surveyor, and two other hands ; proceeded on to Mr. Jacob 
 Whitman's, on the laud aforesaid. 10th. We found the most south- 
 westerly corner and run up 100 rods, then run across said grant, then found 
 the most easterly comer, then run about one mile and camped on a large 
 beach hill. 11th. We run a little more than a mile and was beat off by 
 a rain storm, which continued for several days. We quit the line and 
 traveled three hours to gain the road, which was about two miles ; the snow 
 was very slumpy, and exceding bad traveling. We arrived at Mr. Whitman's 
 about one o'clock. 12th. It being rainy, we repaired our snow shoes. 
 13th. It being rainy in the fore part of the day, we went up to the Bryant's 
 opening and measured the road from Luther Briggs' to Jacob Whitman's 
 house, distance one mile and a half and seventy-eight rods. 14th. We left 
 Mr. Whitman's with our baggage for the purpose of going into the woods to 
 find our line, but the snow proved soft, we returned to Mr. Whitman's, and 
 determined to set away for home. Mr. Greenwood and myself went into 
 the woods to find some provision which we left there on Tuesday last. We 
 traveled on the south side of Mount Vernon two and a half miles — pretty 
 clear hard wood. loth. We left Mr. Whitman's for home — we came on as 
 far as Capt. Bolster's, in Paris, and there parted. I arrived at my father's 
 (in Poland) about sunset. * * » ♦ » 
 
 18 
 
274 APPENDIX. 
 
 23d. Left Lewiston for the purpose of going to Little's plantation — arrived 
 at my father's and spent the night. 24th. Went to Hebron, and was in- 
 formed that Mr. Greenwood was gone to Little's plantation. I stopped at 
 Esq. Greenwood's house to hear an examination on complanit of Capt. Bridg- 
 ham, against sundry persons, fqr breaking his mill-stone ; the complaint was 
 not supported by evidence and the persons were discharged. I returned to 
 Esq. Little's and agreed to proceed to No. 3. Eeceived of Esq. Little cash, 
 6s. 25th. I went on and arrived at Jacob Whitman's, and there was in- 
 formed that Mr. Greenwood had gone up with his third range line, to return 
 with the fourth the next day. 26th. I took the lot above Mr. Whitman's 
 house and traveled' eastward over Mount Vernon, the growth of wood was 
 mixed, chiefly hemlock, till I reached the easterly side of the hill, when [it 
 was] chiefly hardwood. Spent the day in looking around the lots on Mount 
 Vernon. I put up at Mr. Owen's and the surveyors did not arrive. 27th. 
 Went to Mr. Whitman's and could not get any information of the surveyors, 
 and proceeded on the Bryant's opening and could get any [no] information 
 there. I spent the day in making observations on the land and returned to 
 Mr. Whitman's. There got information that the surveyors had been in and 
 that they staid the preceding night at Mr. Thurloe's. They were then gone 
 up with their fifth range line, to return with the last the next day. 27th. I 
 took a tour into the woods and spent the forenoon in making observations 
 on the land — in the afternoon the surveyors returned. 29th. We run the 
 5th and 6th cross lines. 30th. Set out for home. I came by the way of 
 Hebron — took dinner at Mr. Greenwood'* * * * 
 
 April 19th. Left Lewiston for the purpose of going to Little's plantation 
 to fix on a lot of laud for myself. Spent the night at my father's in Poland. 
 20th. Proceeded in company with Esq. Little, John Carr, S. Andros and my 
 brother. We arrived at Jacob Whitman's. In the afternoon we divided 
 our company, and a part of us went to Luther Briggs.' 21st. We spent the 
 day in traveling through the woods and taking a view of the land. 22d. I 
 made choice of Lot No. 33 to make me a farm ; my brother made choice of 
 Lot No. 28; John True, of Lot No. 21. 23d. Returned to Lewiston. 
 #*» * ** **» 
 
 May 11th. Agreed with my brother to go to Little's plantation, to falling 
 trees, the first week In June. « * * 
 
 June 1st. Left Lewiston with Daniel Welch, my hired hand, for the purpose 
 of going to Little's plantation to falling trees ; arrived at my father's and 
 was joined by Sergeant Tyler. 2d. Proceeded to Mr. Owen's, on said 
 plantation, and spent the night. 3d. I sent my horse back to John Rob- 
 inson's, and proceeded with my baggage to Lot No. 3 [33], and began falling 
 trees on the line, Lot No. 3 [33] and Lot No. 28, purchased by Merrill Chase. 
 4th. Being good weather, continued falling. 5th. Being rainy, which beat 
 us off from work the chief of the day. 6th. Fair weather, but very cool. 
 7th. Took a walk to take a view of the laud. 8th. Mr. [Messrs.] Trafton, 
 
APPENDIX. 275 
 
 Davis, Nevens and Thaddeus Hildreth arrived here and spent the night with 
 us. 9th. Mr. Trafton and company set away for home. 10th. Sergeant 
 Tyler set out for home. 12th. John Tyler, John Chase and Samuel Haskell 
 arrived here and spent the night with us. 1.3th. I took a walk with Tyler 
 and company to take a view of the land. 14th. Set away for home and 
 arrived at Lewiston at night. 8th. Left Lewiston for the purpose of going 
 to No. 3 to pu€ up my log house — had Mr. Jepson's mare. I arrived at my 
 father's in Poland, and spent the night. I proceeded with my brothers, 
 Merrill and Edmund, and arrived at Mr. Thurlo's and spent the night. Sent 
 the mare back to my father's by Edmund, and proceeded to our lots ; built 
 our camp and began to cut logs. 11th. A stormy day — we finished cutting 
 our logs and began to cut our roads. 12th. Finished cutting out the road 
 from our lots to Mr. Thurlo's, and went to Mr. Renniff's to borrow chains for 
 hauling our logs. 13th. Mr. Thurlo came in with his oxen and we hauled 
 the logs for Merrill's house and began mine, and laid the foundation of 
 Merrill's house. 14th.' Mr. Thurlo came in again with his oxen, and finished 
 hauling the logs for my house and laid the foundation. 15th. Did sundry 
 errands among the neighbors. 16th. Stormy. We went to work on our 
 walls. 18th. Very rainy — finished laying up the walls of my house. 19th. 
 We- went to work for Mr. Thurlo. 20th. We went to work for Mr. Thurlo, 
 and Edmund arrived with father's mare. 21st. We collected the small 
 timbers for the roof of buildings and set away for home, and arrived at 
 my father's, in Poland and spent the night. 22d. Arrived home at Lewis- 
 ton, accompanied by John Carr. ***** 
 
 1802. 
 
 January 2Gth. Took my steers from Mr. Reed's and drove them to Esq. 
 Little's; went to my father's on my way to No. 3. 27th. Proceeded on to 
 Ebenezer Hutchinson's, and staid that night. 28th. Agreed with Mr. Hutch- 
 inson for some boards at four dollars per thousand and paid cash §8, and 
 •went on to my lot; made preparation for going to work and returned to Mr. 
 Thurlo's to sleep. 29th. Went to work, and returned to Mr. Thurlo's to 
 sleep. oOth. Mr. Thurlo hauled the first load of boards, and I slept in my 
 house for the first time. 31st. Went to Mr. Nason's to see about some 
 corn. 
 
 February 1st. Mr. Thurlo hauled the second load of boards, and I put on 
 the roof of my house. 2d. Mr. Thurlo hauled the third load of boards, 
 which made 700 feet, and I boarded the roof of my house. 3d. To work on 
 my house and falling trees. 4th. Peeled basswood bark for battens and 
 fell trees. . 6th. Set away for home and staid at father's the night. 6th. 
 Agreed with William Bray and John Carr to go to Lewiston for my goods 
 on Tuesday, to haul them to my father's at 25 cents per hundred, and re- 
 turned home. * * * 9th. Fixing for moving. William Bray arrived ; 
 
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 John Carr did not come. Agreed with Abner Harris to haul me a load with 
 his oxen. 10th. Set away from Lewiston with my goods and arrived at 
 my father's in Poland. * * * I5th. Agreed with Mr. William Pottle 
 for a pair of oxen to go with Capt. Pottle's, which I had on my father's 
 account, to haul a load of goods to No. 3. IGth. Set away from my father's 
 for No. 3, and put up at Caleb Fuller's. 17th. Left my loom, two wheels, 
 1 bedstead and cord, 1 chair, at Mr. Fuller's, and proceeded on to Edward 
 Pollard's and left my load, and returned to Mr. Fuller's and put up. 18th. 
 Keturned to Poland. 19th. Spent the night at Mr. Carr's. 20th. Went to 
 New Gloucester; spent the night at Peter Merrill's. 21st. Went to meeting 
 and heard Mr. Barnes ; spent the night at Uncle Chase's. 22d. Brought 
 my wife and children to Poland. ***** 
 
 March 8th. Agreed with John Carr to carry a load of goods to No. 3. 9th. 
 Set away with John Carr with a single sleigh and a load of goods for No. 3 ; 
 carried them to John Robinson's on account of the weather. 10th. Mr. 
 Nason hauled my goods from Robinson's to Thurlo's. 11th. Went in to my 
 house and made preparations for going to work. 12th. To work on my house. 
 13th. Met Mr. Nason at Owen's and purchased twenty bushels of corn. 
 14th. Went to Thurlo's and Pollard's. 15th. To work on my house. 16th, 
 Merrill Chase arrived and moved into my house. 17th. Set away in cpm- 
 pany with my father for home, and arrived at my father's house. * * * 
 21st. Went to Esq. Little's, and agreed for his horse to go to No. 3. 22d. 
 Set out with my family on horse-back for No. 3. Proceeded as far as Caleb 
 Fuller's, in Paris, and hired his lumber box and proceeded as far as Edward 
 Pollard's in No. 3, then put up for the night. 2-3d. Arrived with my family 
 at my house in No. 3. Hauled two loads of goods from Edward Pollard's, and 
 returned to Minot. 24th. Set out from Minot with my two hogs, and put up 
 at Capt. Bolster's. 2.5th. Arrived at my house, and Merrill Chase moved 
 from my house to his own. 26th. Went to Owen's and brought away 2^^ 
 bushels of corn — sent % bushel to mill by Thurlo. 27th. To work on my 
 house— sent % bushel of corn to mill by Thurlo. 28th. Sunday — Windy 
 and very cold for the season. 29th. Built a hog pen. 30th. Made 22 sap 
 troughs. 31st. Made plank to finish out my floor. 
 
 Aijril 1st. Set one glass window. Shut up my hogs and began to catch 
 sap. 2d. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought % bushel of corn. 3d. Set 
 one glass window. 4th. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought ^ bushel of 
 corn. 5th. Bought of E. Pollard one peck of wheat and borrowed one 
 peck of rye and carried to mill. 6th. Began junking my fell trees. Re- 
 ceived the first visit from women of Mrs. Thurlo and Mrs. Pollard. 7th. 
 Junking. 8th. Fast day. 9th. Junking. 10th. A snow storm — fell about 
 11 inches deep. 11th. Windy and cold. r2th. Continues to be cold, and 
 the snow lies on the ground. 13th. Lopping limbs among my burnt 
 trees. 14th. Junking and piling the remainder of the week. 18th. Went 
 to Mr. Owen's and brouglit away 3>^ bushels of corn. 19th. Junking and 
 
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 piling. 20th. Borrowed of Mr. Pollard % bushel of corn and 3^ bushel of 
 rye and went to mill, and went to Mr. Renniff's and agreed to fall one acre 
 of trees for 12 s. — to have rye at 4-G per bushel. 21st. Rainy in the morn- 
 ing — went to junking and piling. Two Mr. Bryants made a visit here. 22d. 
 Burned the brush around the house. 23d. Clearing. 24th. Settled with 
 Mr. Thurlo and agreed to give him four day's work, two to be done the week 
 after next and two to be done in rye harvest, which is the balance of account 
 between Mr. Thurlo and myself. 25th. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought 
 % bushel of corn. 2Gth. Went to Mr. Thurlo's and brought % bushel of 
 potatoes. 27th. Went to Mr. Renniff's to falling trees. 28th. Falling trees. 
 Took % bushel of rye to mill and came home. 29th. Work at home. 30th. 
 To work at Mr. Thurlo's. 
 
 May 1st. Work at home. 2d. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought ^4 bushel 
 of corn. 3d. Set fire to our opening, and had a tolei-able good burn.' 4th. 
 piling brands. 5th. Work for Mr. Thurlo. 6th, 7th, 8th. Work at home. 
 9th. Went to Mr. Owen's and took % bushels of corn and carried it to mill. 
 10th, 11th. Work at home. 12th. Went to Mr. Owen's and took ^ bushels 
 of corn and carried it to mill. 13th. Rainstorm. The weather had been very 
 dry before. Made a table. 14th. Storm continued. 15th. Went to Mr. 
 Owen's and brought % bushels of corn. Storm continued. 16th. Went to 
 Minot and settled with Wm. Bray, and gave my note for 3 dollars and 33 
 cents, payable 15th of February next. 18th. Very, rainy, which prevented 
 my return home. 19th. Returned home. 20th. Junking and piling. 21st. 
 Went to Caleb Fuller's for articles which I left there on the 19th. 22d. 
 Finished piling. 23d. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought away ^ bushels of 
 corn. 24th. Went to Nason's and got 1 bushel of seed corn. 25th. 
 Building hog yard. 26th. Merrill Chase arrived from Minot with his hogs 
 and a pig for me. He agreed to keep my pig until I bring my cow, and have 
 his pay in corn. 27th. To work for Luther Briggs. 28th. To work for 
 Jacob Whitman, and spoke to him for a i)lg — to give him one days' work, or 
 4s. cost, or one bushel of corn next winter, as I shall think best. The pigs 
 came this morning. 29th. Rainy weather. 30th. Went to Mr. Owen's and 
 brought 1 bushel of corn. 31st. Very rainy. Very wet season, which 
 causes people to be very late at planting. 
 
 June 1. Went to Mr. Owen's and took one bushel of corn, and went to 
 mill. Returned and went to planting. 2d. Planting. William Pottle here 
 from Minot. I went with Mr. Pottle to Abraham Walton's — rainy day. 
 4th. Planting. 5th. To work for Mr. Thnrlo. 6th. Went to Mr. Owen's 
 and brought one bushel of corn. 7th. Burned my piles. 8th. Rainy. 9th, 
 10th, 11th. Planting. 12th. Finished planting corn. 13th. Went to Mr. 
 Owen's and brought 1 bushel of corn. 14th. Finished my hog yard and put 
 my hogs into the yard. loth. Fencing the opening. 16th. To work for 
 Jacob Whitman for a pig. 17th. Began falling trees. 18th. Falling trees. 
 IBth. Set away to Minot and arrived at my father's. 20th. At my father's. 
 
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 21st. Eeturned home and drove my cow and calf. 22d. Making cow yard 
 and pig pen. 23d. Took my pig from Merrill Chase's. 24th. Brought my 
 pig from Jacob Whitman's. 25th. Went to Mr. Renniff's to falling trees. 
 26th. Took % bushel of corn and y^ bushel of rye, and returned home. 
 27th. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought 1 bushel of corn. 28th. Rainy. 
 29th. Falling trees. 30th. Falling trees. 
 
 July 1st. Falling trees. 2d. Falling trees. 3d. Went to Mr. Owen's 
 and took 1 bushel of corn and went to mill. 4th. Went to Mr. Owen's and 
 brought \].2 bushels of corn. 5th. Had Mr. Pollard to help me fall trees; 
 paid him in pork. 6th. Setting plants. Had Mr. Pollard to help me fall 
 trees. 8th. Helping Mr. Pollard fall trees. 9th. Falling trees. 10th. 
 Went to Mr. Owen's and took 1 bushel corn, and paid Mr. Pollard % bushel 
 of which I borrowed of him, and carried the remainder to mill, and had 3^ 
 bushel of rye of Mr. Reniff. 11th. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought away 
 1 bushel of corn. 12th. Hoeing corn. 13th. Falling trees. 14th. Finished 
 falling trees. 15th. Hoeing corn. 16th. Hoeing com. 17th. Finished 
 hoeing corn. 18th. Went to Owen's and brought 3^ bushel of corn and 
 went to Minot. 19th. Went to work for Michael Little and continued to 
 work for him the whole of the week. 25th. Went to New Gloucester and 
 returned to Mr. Little's. 26th. To work for Mr. Little. 27th. To work 
 for Mr. Little awhile in the morning, and set away for home ; put up at Caleb 
 Fuller's. 28th. Returned home. 29th. Digging a water spring. 30th, 31st. 
 Unwell. 
 
 August 1st. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought away ^^ bushel of corn. 
 2d. Digging a cellar. 3d. Digging a cellar. 4th. Went to Solomon 
 Bryant's and bought one bushel of corn. 5th. Laid my foundation for my 
 chimney. 6th. Peeled bark for a chamber floor. 7th, 8th. Rainy. 9th. 
 Peeling bark and covering corn crib. 10th. Went to a lecture at Mr. 
 Hutchinson's. 11th. Spent the afternoon at Merrill Chase's, where they 
 had .a company of quilters. 12th. A very severe gale of wind passed 
 through the opening in a northerly direction and did but little damage, as it 
 struck but one corner of the standing corn. 13th. Lopping limbs. 14th. 
 Work for Mr. Thurlo. 15th. Went to meeting at Caleb Fuller's in Paris, 
 and heard Mr. Hooper. 16th. Went to a lecture at Mr. Becklar's and heard 
 Mr. Grant. 17th. To work at Mr. Thurlo's. 18th. To work for Mr. Nason. 
 19th. Went to mill. 20th, 21st. To work for Mr. Nason. 22d. Sunday. 23d, 
 24th. To work for Mr. Nason — a very severe thunder storm in the evening. 
 25th, 26th. Work for Mr. Nason, and finished reaping for him. 27th. Owen 
 and Mr. Thurlo here. 28th. Rainy. 29th. Sunday. 30th. Went to mill. 
 31st. To work for Jacob Whitman. 
 
 Septembei* 1st. Weeding my corn. 2d. Reaping for Mr. Pollard. 3d. 
 Reaping for Mr. Pollard in the forenoon — tying up and shocking grain in the 
 afternoon. 4th. Weeding corn. 5th. Went to meeting at Luther Whit- 
 man's. 6th. Began falling trees to lay over the season. 7th. Went to 
 
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 Solomon Bryant's and got a bushel of corn. 8th. Went to mill. 9th. Went 
 to Levi Berry's to reaping, and was beat off by the rain. 10th. Falling trees. 
 11th. Ditto. 12th. Sunday. 13th. My wife went to Thurlo's visiting. 
 I4th. Falling trees. 15th. My father and mother arrived here from Minot. 
 16th. Looking land with my father. 17th. Ditto. 18th. Ditto. 19th. 
 My father and mother returned home. 20th. Building corn crib. 21st. 
 Began cutting stalks. 22d. Went to mill and had the first new corn ground. 
 23d. Stormy. 24th. Very stormy. 25th. Cutting stalks. 26th. Sunday. 
 27th. Cutting stalks. 28th. Went to Nason's and Becklar's, and brought 
 home two kittens. The first frost. 29th. Second frost. 30th. Frost con- 
 tinued. 
 
 October 1st. Frost continued ; finished cutting stalks. 2d. Went to mill. 
 3d. Sunday. 4th. To work for Mr. Tlmrlo. 5th. Digging cellar drain. 
 6th. Covering cellar drain. 7th. Digging potatoes. 8th. Finished digging 
 potatoes ; put them in the cellar — about 40 bushels. 9th. Banking house. 
 10th. Sunday. 11th. To work for Mr. Nason. 12th. Gathering corn. 
 13th, 14th, 15th. Ditto. 16th. Went to mill. Rainy ; left my grist. 17th. 
 Sunday — Christopher Bryant brought along my grist which I left at the mill 
 the other day. 18th. To work in cellar. 19th. Gathering pumpkins. 20th, 
 21st, 22d, 23d. Finished gathering pumpkins. 24th. Sunday. 25th, 26th. 
 gathering corn. 27th. Went to meeting, . and heard Mr. Tripp, at Luther 
 Briggs'. The first snow of the season fell. 28th. To work in cellar. 29th. 
 Gathering corn. 30th. Went to mill. 31st. Snow storm. 
 
 November 1. Severe rain storm. 2d. Finished gathering corn — raised 
 about sixty bushels. 3d. Snow storm. 4th. To work in cellar. 5th. 
 Ditto. 6th. Finished digging cellar. 7th. Sunday. 8th. Began cutting 
 butt stocks. 9th. Building oven. 10th. Finished oven. 11th. Baked in 
 oven. 12th. Stacking fodder. 13th. Finished stacking fodder. 14th. 
 Sunday, loth. To work on chimney. 16th. Went to mill. Michael Little, 
 Esq., came here, and Simeon Deering with him. 17th. Went to mill. 18th. 
 Got sundry roots and trees at Packard's, and set them out. 19th. Set away 
 for Minot, and arrived at my father's. * * * 22d. Returned home and 
 drove an ox. Edmund accompanied me. 23d. Killed my ox. 24th. Sold 
 3^ to Edward Pollard, and went to the County road to work on the same, 
 and nobody to work. Agreed with Luther Whitman to go to work Friday 
 next, and returned home. 25th. Thanksgiving day. 26th. To work on 
 chimney. 27th. To work on road. 28th. Sunday. 29th to work on road. 
 30th. Ditto. 
 
 December 1st. To work on road in the forenoon. In the afternoon, driven 
 off by the rain. 2d, 3d, 4th. To work on the County road. 5th. Sunday. 
 6th. Killed my hogs ; weight— sow, 259)^ ; barrow, 204)^. 7th. Went to 
 mill. 8th. To work on the road. 9th. To work on my chimney. 10th. 
 Esq. Little and William Pottle came here. We went to Abraham Walton's. 
 11th. To work on my chimney. 12th. Sunday. 13th. Topped out my 
 
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 chimney. 14th. "Went to mill. loth. To work for Merrill Chase. 16th. 
 Hauling barn logs. 17th. Severe cold morning. 18th. Weather moderated. 
 19th. Sunday. 20th. To work on barn. 21st. Laying up barn. 22d, 23d, 
 24th. Ditto. 25th. Collecting bills of work on County road for Esq. Little. 
 26th. Sunday. 27th. Mr. Thurlo hauled in my loom. I agreed to allow 
 him one day's work. 28th. Took Solomon Bryant's horse and set away to 
 Minot, and arrived at my father's. 29th. Went to Esq. Little's and delivered 
 him the bills of work done on the County road in No. 3 ; got a bushel of salt 
 and went to William Pottle's in the evening, and returned to my father's. 
 30th. Returned home. 31st. To work on the road betwixt my house and 
 the Bryant opening. 
 
 1803. 
 
 January 1st. Went to mill. 2d. Sunday. 3d. To work on looms. 5th, 
 6th. Ditto. 7th, 8th. Ditto. 9th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's and heard 
 Mr. Whitman. 10th. Made warping bars. 11th. Got the loom a going. 
 12th. Went to mill. 13th. Weaving. 14th. Junking. 15th. Weaving. 
 16th. Sunday. 17th. Ruhamah very sick with dysentery. 18th. Went 
 for Dr. Croswell. 19th. Dr. Croswell returned home. Ruhamah better. 
 20th. Weaving. 22d. Cutting wood. 23d. Sunday. 24th. Got some 
 basket stuff and began making baskets. 25th. Hunted after wood for basket 
 stuff. 26th. Went to mill. 27th. Got barks for dyeing cloth. 28th. 
 Cutting wood. 29th. Weaving. 30th. Went with Esq. Little to Solomon 
 Bryant's. 31st. Went to Christopher Bryant's for my hogs. 
 
 February 1st, 2d, 3d. Weaving. Very rainy, with thunder. 4th. Weaving. 
 5th. Went to mill. 6th. Mr. Pollard spent the day here. 7th. Tapped some 
 maple trees. 8th. Sundry jobs. 9th. Weaving. 10th. Went to mill. 11th, 
 12th. Junking. 13th. Very rainy. 14th. To work on barn. 15th. To work 
 on hog pen. 16th. Junking. 17th. Went to Mr. Pollard's, and he was moving 
 his family to the other part of the town. 18th, 19th. Junking. 20th. Went 
 to Mr. Hutchinson's, expecting there was a meeting, and there was not any. 
 21st, 22d. Junking. 23d. Settled with Merrill Chase, and passed receipts 
 in full of all accounts. 24th. Chopping. 25th. Went to mill. 26th. Went 
 to Jacob Whitman's, and got a bushel of rye due for reaf)ing. 27th. Went 
 to meeting at Mr. Cole's, and heard Mr. Whitman. 28th. To work in barn. 
 
 March 1. Making bedstead. 2d. Finished the same. 3d. Mending up 
 hog yard. 4th. Went to mill and bought y^ bushel of salt for ^ bushel of 
 corn. 5th. Cutting wood. 6th. Went to meeting at Mr. Fuller's, and 
 heard Mr. Whitman. 7th. Went to mill. 8th. Went to mill with Mr. 
 Bryant. 9th. Carried my hides to Mr. Bryant's. 10th. Making sap 
 troughs. 11th. Ditto. 12th. Cutting wood. 13th. Went to Bryant's. 
 15th. Went to New Gloucester. 16th. Went to Lewiston, 17th. Went 
 to Pejepscutt. 18th. Returned to Minot. 19th. Returned home. 20th. 
 
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 Went to S. Bi-yant's to meeeting. 21st. Tapping maple trees. 22d. Help- 
 ing C. Bryant hunt for his cattle. 2.3d. Went to Caleb Fuller's for my 
 barrel. 2.5th. Drove my cow to Levi Berry's. 26th. Snow storm. 27th. 
 Sunday. 28th. Went to Abraham Walton's, and bought ten bushels of 
 corn, and carried one bushel to mill. 29th. Junking— rainy. 30th. Began 
 to boil sap for sugar. 31st. Junking; caught 100 gallons of sap from 50 trees. 
 
 April 1st. Junking. 2d. Ditto. 3d. Sunday. 4th. Junking. 5th. Fin- 
 ished junking. 6th. Began lopping my fell trees. 7th. Very rainy. 8th. 
 Snowstorm. 9th. Picked over my potatoes. 10th. Sunday. 11th. Went 
 to Abraham Walton's and gave him my note of hand, seven dollars and fifty 
 cents, to be paid the first of March next. Took one bushel of corn and went 
 to mill. 12th. Lopping limbs. 13th, 14th. Ditto. 15th. ^Snow storm. 
 16th. Snow storm increases, the snow falls very fast, with the wind at N. E. 
 17th. Storm continues — the snow has fallen about one foot deep, which is 
 the greatest quantity of snow we have at any on@, time the winter past. 
 18th. Fair weather. 19th. A great run of sap. 21st. Lopping limbs. 
 24th. Sunday. 25th. Brought my cow from Levi Berry's. 2Gth. Fenced 
 a garden. 27th. Piling. 30th. Went to mill; got a bushel of corn at 
 Walton's. 
 
 May 1. Went to meeting at Samuel Bryant's and heard Mr. Whitman. 
 2d. To work for Solomon Bryant. 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. Ditto. 8th. 
 Went to meeting at William Swan's, and heard Mr. Whitman. There fell 
 about 10 inches of snow this day. 9th. Getting out my seed corn. 10th, 
 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th. Piling. 15th. Meeting at our house. 16th. To 
 work for Solomon Bryant. 17th. To work for Samuel Bryant on Solomon 
 Bryant's account. 18th. Burned my fell trees, and had a pi-etty good burn. 
 19th. Sowed my hay seed. 30th. Went to Nason's and got half a bushel 
 of seed corn. 21st. Had Solomon Bryant's horse and went to Abraham 
 Walton's and got two bushels of corn, and went to mill. 22d. Sunday. 
 24th. Burned the old ground. 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th. Junking the new 
 ground. 29th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Becklar read. 
 30th. Finished piling my new ground. 
 
 June 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th. Planting. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and read 
 a discourse of Bunyan's works. 6th. Mr. Ricker, of Somersworth, came 
 here. 7th. Spent the day with Mr. Ricker looking of land. 8th, 9th, 10th, 
 11th. Planting. 12th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's and heard Mr. Beck- 
 lar read. 13th. Finished planting corn. 14th. To work for Solomon 
 Bryant. 15th. Planting potatoes. 16th. Went to Abraham AValton's, and 
 took one bushel of corn and went to mill. 17th. Finished planting potatoes. 
 18tb. Planting. 19th. Went to C. Bryant's. 20th. Fencing. 21st. Ditto. 
 22d. Falling trees. 23d. Ditto. 24th. Christopher Bryant to work here. 
 25th. Falling trees. 26th. Sunday. 27th. Falling trees. 28th. Solomon 
 Bryant to work here. 29th. Went to Mr. Becklar's falling frolick. 30th. 
 Went to a lecture at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Tripp. 
 
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 July 1st. Falling trees. 2d. Finished falling trees. 3d. Spent the day 
 hunting for my cow. 4th. Went to Abraham Walton's, and took 2 bushels 
 of corn and went to mill. 5th. Went to Minot. 6th. Went to New 
 Gloucester. My wife got to bed with a daughter. 7th. Eeturned home 
 with my sister Sally, and had Mr. Bryant's horse home. 9th. Began weed- 
 ing corn. 10th. Sunday. 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th. Weeding corn. 15th. 
 Hoeing grass seed. 16th. Ditto. 18th. Weeding corn. 19th. Sticking 
 beans. 20th. Weeding potatoes. 21st. Went to Minot with Sally Chase. 
 22d. Got Mr. Bryant's horse shod. 28th, 29th, 30th, Hedging for my cow. 
 31st. Sunday. 
 
 August 1st. Had Mr. Bryant's horse, went to Abraham Walton's and got 
 2 bushels of corn and went to mill. 2d. Peeling bark for crib. 3d. 
 Peeled bark *id covered my hovel. 4th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's 
 and, heard Mr. Tripp. 5th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 6th. Ditto. 
 7th. Sunday. 8th. Lopping limbs. 9th. To work for Solomon Bryant % 
 the day. 10th. Lopping limbs. 11th. Ditto. 12th. To work for Solo- 
 mon Bryant. 13th. Ditto. 14th. Mr. Thurlow and wife here. 15th. 
 Lopping limbs. 16th. My wife and children went to Thurlo's. 17th. Lop- 
 ping limbs. 18th, 19th, 20th. Ditto. 21st. Sunday. 22d, 23d. Finished 
 lopping limbs. 24th. Began to fall trees to lay over. 25th, 26th. Ditto. 
 27th. Burned my fell trees ; got a good burn. 28th. Had seven men here 
 stopping fire among my corn. 29th. Watching fires. 30th. Ditto. 31st. 
 Fencing. 
 
 September 1st. Fencing. 2d, 3d. Ditto. 4th. Went to meeting at Mr. 
 Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 5th. Falling trees. 6tli. Hunting my 
 cow. 7th. Worked for Christopher Bryant. Esq. Little and Capt. Tyler 
 came here. 8th. Capt. Tyler went home. Went to Mr. Bryant's expecting 
 a meeting, but the preacher did not come. 9th. To work for Mr. C. Bryant. 
 10th. Ditto. 11th. Sunday. 12th. Falling trees. 13th, 14th. Ditto. 
 15th. Began cutting stalks. 16th, 17th. Ditto. 18th. Sunday. 19th. 
 First frost. Cutting stalks. 20th. Ditto. 21st. Beat out my flax seed 
 and had my flax out rotting. 22d. Cutting stalks. 23d, 24th. Ditto. 25th. 
 Sunday. 26th. Went to mill and carried new corn. 27th. Went to Paris 
 and got 5 gallons of rum, for the men to work on the road in No. 3. 28th. 
 Went to the Bryant's. 29th. Cut up my corn where I did not cut the stalks. 
 30th. Falling trees. 
 
 October 1st. Shucking up my corn. 2d. Sunday. 3d. Went to mill. 4th, 
 5th. To work on the road. 6th. Went to the raising of Seth Benson's 
 barn. 7th. Went to Solomon Bryant's, and agreed with him to come 
 Monday and haul my crib posts. 8th. To work on the road. 9th. Sunday. 
 10th. Hauling crib posts. 11th. Making crib. 12th. Ditto, loth. Began 
 digging potatoes and gathering corn. 14th. Ditto. 15th. Went to mill. 
 16th. Sunday. 17th. Digging potatoes. 18th. Gathering corn. 19th. 
 Snow. 20th. Digging potatoes and gathering corn. 21st. Ditto. 22d. 
 
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 Finished digging potatoes — had ninety bushels. 23d. Sunday. 24th. Went 
 to mill. 25th. Gathering corn. 26th, 27th, 28th. Ditto. 29th. Rainy. 
 30th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's, and heard Mr. Whitman. 31st. Went 
 to meeting with Mr. Bryant's horse, and went to Mr. Swan's raising. 
 
 November 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th. Gathering corn. 6th. Sunday. 7th, 8th, 
 9th, 10th, 11th. Finished gathering corn ; had 190 bushels. 12th. Prepared 
 to put my cow up. 13th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's and heard Mr. , 
 Whitman. 14th. Had Mr. Bryant to haul logs for fence. 15th. To work 
 for Solomon Bryant. 16th. To work for Mr. True. 17th. Severe snow 
 storm. 18th. Went to mill. 19th. Very cold. 20th. Went to meeting at 
 Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 21st.' Threshing my wheat. 22d. 
 Cleansed my wheat. 2.3d. Went to mill with Mr. Bryant's horse. 24th. 
 To work in my hovel. 25th. To work for Mr. True. 2Gth. Went to Minot. 
 27th. Went to Esq. Little's. 28th. Returned home. 29th. Swapped my 
 steer for a heifer, with Merrill Chase. 30th. Worked for Solomon Bryant. 
 
 December 1st. Thanksgiving Day. 2d. Cold. 3d. Very cold. 4th. 
 Sunday. 5th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 6th. Preparing for putting 
 up fence between myself and Merrill Chase. 7th. Had Mr. Fuller to help 
 lay up fence. 8th. Had Mr. True, and finished laying up fence betwixt 
 myself and Merrill Chase. Begun stacking fodder. 9th. Rainy. 10th. 
 Went to husking for Samuel Bryant. 12th. Rainy, loth. Ditto. 14th. 
 Stacking fodder. 15th. Ditto. 16th. Finished ditto. 17th. Went to a 
 plantation meeting, and was appointed a delegate to go to Paris on Wednes- 
 day next. 18th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's, and heard Mr. Whitman, 
 who came home with me and spent the night. 19th. Fencing stack-yard. 
 20th. Set up the loom. 21st. Went to the convention at Paris. 22d. Re- 
 turned home. 23d. Weaving. 24th. Went to mill with Mr. Bryant's horse. 
 25th. Sunday. 26th. Weaving. 27th. Ditto. 28th. Went to Mr. Nason's. 
 29th. My hogs ran away to the County road. 30th. Preparing to weave a 
 piece for Mr. Bryant. 31st. Had Frank Becklar and 1 pair oxen hauling 
 wood. 
 
 1804. 
 
 January 1. Kept Mr. Becklar's oxen. 2d. Hauling wood with Frank 
 Becklar and oxen. 3d. Ditto. 4th. Weaving. 5th. Killed the old sow. 
 6th. Weaving. 7th. Went to Mr. Nason's. 8th. Went to meeting at Mr. 
 Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 9th. Pounding out corn. 10th. Ditto. 
 Went to Mr. Bryant's and got his horses to carry corn to the County road, 
 12th. Ditto. 13th. Went to Paris, carried 11)^ bushels of corn to Mr. 
 Woodbury, and returned to Mr. Bryant's. 14th. Returned home. 15th. 
 Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 16th. Cutting 
 wood for Mr. Bryant. 17th. Pounding out corn. 18th. Severe storm. 
 19th. Helped Mr. True in from Mr. Thurlo's. 20th. Went to mill. 21st. 
 Severe cold.. 22d. Sunday. 23d. Killed my hogs. 24th. Went to Mr. 
 
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 Bryant's. 25th. Pounding out corn. 26th. Ditto. 27th. Carrying corn 
 to Mr. Bryant's. Esq. Little and John Carr here. 28th. Went to Paris 
 with corn, and 29th. Sunday. 30th. To work at home. 31st. Went to 
 mill. 
 
 February 1st. Went to Paris and bought a horse. 2d. Returned home. 
 3d. Returned my horse to the man I had him of. 4th. Returned home. 
 5th. Carried Sally Becklar home. 6th. Got out 43^0 bushels of corn for 
 Esq. Little. 7th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 8th. Got out some corn 
 for John True. 9th, 10th, 11th. Weaving. 12th. Sunday. 13th. Weav- 
 ing. 14th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 15th. Went to mill. 10th. To 
 work for Solomon Bryant. 17th. Went before Daniel Stowell, Esq., to give 
 evidence in a case between Luther Whitman, plaintiff, and David Becklar, 
 defendant. 18th. Took a pair of steers coming in three years of age, to 
 keep them for their work, until three years from next June, then to be de- 
 livered to John Robinson. 19th. Sunday. 20th. Yoked my steers. 21st, 
 22d. Ditto. 23d. Went to Abraham Walton's and promised him 12 
 bushels of corn at 3s. per bushel — took the money and went to Paris and 
 settled with Mr. Woodbury and Mr. Hooper, and left the money which I 
 owed Dr. Croswell with Mr. Woodbury, and took his receipt for the same. 
 24th. Severe storm. 25th. Very cold and windy. 26th. Sunday. 27th. 
 Continues windy. 28th. Hauling wood with my steers. 2Pth. Began 
 making my sled. 
 
 March 1st. To work on sled. 2d. To work for Solomon Bryant. Sd. 
 Stormy. 4th. Sunday. 5th. Work on sled. 6th. To work for Solomon 
 Bryant. 7th. Preparing to go to Minot. 8th. Went to Minot. 9th. Re- 
 turned as far as Seth Benson's, and spent the niglit. 10th. Returned home 
 and went to the County road. 11th. Sunday. 12th. Went to Benjamin 
 Bacon's. 13th. Finished my sled. 14th. Making sap troughs. 15th. 
 Ditto. 16th. To work on a bridge in Paris. 17th. Ditto. 18th. Sunday. 
 19th. Went to Bacon's and Bryant's. 20th. Making sap troughs. 21st. 
 Ditto. 22d. Went to Bryant's and Brigg's. 23d. Went to Christopher 
 Bryant's and got a bushel of rye. 24th. Making a large trough for sap. 
 25th. Sunday. 26th. Tapping trees. 27th. Began boiling sap. 28th. 
 Delivered John Starbird 9 bushels of corn for Mr. Abraham Walton. 29th. 
 Went to mill. 30th. Boiling sap. 31st. Very stormy. 
 
 April 1st. Very cold. 2d. Went to Mr. Bacon's to have a pair of shoes 
 mended. 4th. Went to Nason's for flax seed. 5th. Fast Day. 6th. 
 Making sugar. 7th. Snow storm. 8th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's 
 and heard Mr. Whitman. 9th. Went to mill. 10th. Ground my new axe. 
 11th. Begun to junk my timber. 12th. Good weather for sugaring. 13th. 
 Ditto. 14th. Went with Solomon Bryant to look land. 15th. Went to 
 meeting at Samuel Bryant's and heard Mr. Whitman. 16th. Went to Paris 
 for grass seed ; gave my note to Capt. Rawson for live dollars and forty-five 
 cents, to be paid in the mouth of March next. 17th. Junking and piling. 
 
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 18tli, 19th, 20th. Ditto. 21st. Went to mill. 22d. Rain-storm, which is 
 the first rain of any consequence since the middle of December last. 23d. 
 Storm continues. Went to Luther Whitman's and got 1 bushel of rye. 24th. 
 Ditto. 25th. Sowing rye. 26th, 27th, 28th. Ditto. 29th. Sunday. .30th. 
 Went mill. 
 
 May 1st. Sowing lye. 2d. Ditto. 3d. Sowing wheat. 4th. Ditto. 
 5th. Junking. Gth. Sunday. 7th. Sowing flax. 8th. Went to a planta- 
 tion meeting and was appointed a delegate to meet in convention at Paris. 
 9th. Built my cow yard. 10th. Piling, lltli. Junking. 12th. Ditto. 
 13th. Sunday. 14th. Piling. 15th. Went to Paris to represent the 
 plantation of Stover in convention. 16th. Returned home. 17th, 18th. 
 Piling. 19th. Set fire to the piles in my old ground. 20th. Sunday. 21st. 
 Came on rainy. 22d. Piling. 2.3d, 'z4th, 25th. Ditto. 26th. Finished piling 
 and went to mill. 27th. Went to meeting at Mr, Swan's and heard Elder 
 Chase. 28th. To work for Luther Whitman. 29th. Ditto. 30th. Burning 
 piles. 31st. Planting. 
 
 June 1st. Planting. 2d. Ditto. Had Consider Fuller and Frank Becklar 
 at planting. -Sd. Sunday. 4th. Planting. 5th. Ditto. Gth. Finished 
 planting corn and went to mill. 7th. Fencing. 8th. Ditto. 9th. To work 
 for Mr. True. 10th. Sunday. 11th. Carried Mr. Whitman's potatoes to 
 Solomon Bryant's, and went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Hooper. 
 12th. Falling a hedge fence. 13th. Planting potatoes. .14th. Went to 
 Minot. 15th. Returned home. 16th. Went to mill. 19th. Falling trees 
 for Esq. Little on Mr. Bicker's lot. 20th. Ditto. 21st, 2'^.d, 23d. Ditto. 
 24th. Sunday. 25th. Falling trees for Esq. Little on Mr. Ricker's lot. 26th. 
 Ditto. 27th. Rainy. 28th. Falling trees. 29th. Finished falling trees 
 on Mr. Ricker's lot. 30th. Weeding corn. 
 
 July 1st. Sunday. 2d. Went to Paris and agreed with Mr. Lurvey to 
 keep my steers and heifer. 3d. Drove my steers and heifer to Mr. Lurvey's. 
 4th. To work for Asa Hutchinson. 5th. Weeding corn. 6th, 7th. Ditto. 
 8th. Went to meeting at Mr. Tripp's and heard Elder Tripp. 9th. Weed- 
 ing corn. 10th, 11th. Ditto. 12th. Went to mill. 13th. Falling trees. 
 14th. Ditto. 15th. Sunday. 16th. Went to the raising of Abner Benson's 
 barn. 17th. Went to Norway and got 10 pounds of wool carded. 18th. 
 Cut some grass. 19th. Ditto. 20th. Rainy. 21st. Went to mill. 22d. 
 Went to Christopher Bryant's. 23d. Got in some hay. 24th. Making hay 
 at Mr. Benson's. 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th. Ditto. 29th. Returned home. 
 30th. Weeding corn. 31st. Went to mill. 
 
 August 1st. Cut a little rye and pulled some flax. 2d. Getting in some 
 hay. 3d. Weeding corn. 4th. Ditto. 5th. Sunday. 6th. Peeliftg bark. 
 7th, 8th. Ditto. 9th. Pulling flax. 10th. Went to mill. 11th. Same. 
 12th. Went to Mr. Bryant's, expecting a meeting. 13th. Pulling flax. 14th. 
 Reaping rye. 15th. Carried some new rye to mill.' 16th, 17th, 18th. 13itto. 
 19th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's and heard Deacon Berry. 20th. 
 
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 Cutting rye. 21st. Ditto. 22d. Went to Mr. Bacon's to have some shoes 
 mended. 23d. Cutting rye. 24th. Ditto. 25th. Threshing rye. 26th. 
 Went to meeting at Paris, and heard Mr. Hooper. 28th, 29th, 30th. Reap- 
 ing wheat. 31st. Mr. Ricker here. 
 
 September 1st. Went to Paris. 2d. Went to Mr. Bryant's. 3d, 4th, 5th. 
 Fencing. 6th. Spreading out ray flax. 7th. Ditto. 8th. Burned Mr. 
 Ricker's felled trees. 9th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder 
 Chase. He and Mr. Whitman came here after meeting. 10th. My wife set 
 away for New Gloucester. 11th. Very rainy. 12th. Abigail Bryant 8ame 
 here. 1.3th. Lucy Swan went home after sleeping three days. 14th. Cut- 
 ting stalks. 15th. Ditto. 16th. Sunday. 17th. My wife came home. 
 18th. Rainy. Brought my steers and heifer from Mr. Lurvey's ; had some 
 ne^y corn ground. 20th. Stocking up my apple trees. 21st. Cutting stocks. 
 22d. Ditto. 23d. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 24th, 25th, 26th, 
 27th, 28th, 29th. Ditto. 30th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 
 
 October 1st. Cutting corn. 2d, 3d. Ditto. 4th. Drove my cow to 
 Rumford. 5th. Went to mill. 6th. Cutting up corn. 7th. Went to 
 meeting at Luther Whitman's. 8th. Set a gun for a bear ; he fired the gun 
 the same night, and got wounded and made off. 9th. Snow storm and a 
 severe wind. 10th. Storm continues. 11th. Began gathering com and 
 digging potatoes. 12th. Ditto. 13th. Digging potatoes. 14th. Went to 
 meeting at Mr. Whitman's and heard Deacon Berry. 16th. Setting up corn. 
 17th. Went to a lecture at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder Low. Went to 
 mill, and to a husking at Curtises. 18th. Digging potatoes. 19th, 20th. 
 Ditto. 21st. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder Tripp, and 
 to a conference meeting at William Swan, Jr.'s. 22d. Went to meeting at 
 Luther Whitman's, and was baptized, together with three others. 23d, 24th, 
 25th. Digging potatoes. 26th. Finished digging potatoes. 27th. Went to 
 mill. 28th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's and heard Mr. Ricker. 
 29th, 30th, 31st. Harvesting corn. 
 
 November 1st. Ditto. 2d, 3d. Ditto. 4th. Went to meeting at Mr. 
 Whitman's and heard Mr. Drake. 5th. Went to mill. 6th. Went to a 
 funeral at Christopher Bryant's. 7th. Went with Mr. Ricker and Mr. 
 Wentworth to look land. 8th. Harvesting corn. 9th. Ditto. 11th. Snow 
 storm. Went to Mr. Swan's to meeting, and heard Elder Low. 12th. 
 Harvesting corn. 13th. Went to mill. 14th. Husking corn. 15th. Severe 
 snow storm. 16th, 17th. Splitting rails. 18th. Went to meeting at Mr. 
 Whitman's. 19th. Hauling rails. 20th. Stacking fodder. 21st. Ditto. 
 22d. F(#icing stack yard. 23d. Finished husking corn. 24th. Finished 
 fencing my fodder. 25th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder 
 Woodward. 26th. Went to Minot, and carried Clarissa. 27th. Returned 
 home. 28th. Went to mill. 29th. Thanksgiving day. Went to meeting 
 at Luther Whitman's. 30th. Banked up my cellar. 
 
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 December 1st. Hauling wood ; Mr. Kicker came here. 2d. Went to 
 meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Ricker. 3d. Mr. Ricker preached 
 here. 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th. To work on the road. 9th. Went to meeting 
 at Luther Whitman's. lOtli. Sundry jobs. 11th. Ditto. 12th. Went to 
 Benjamin Bacon's to get shoes mended. 13th, 14th, 15th. Sundry jobs. 
 16th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Deacon Willis, and to a 
 conference meeting at William Swan's. 17th. Sundry jobs. 18th. Mr. 
 Whitman and others here. 19th. My wife went to Mr. True's. 20th, 21st, 
 22d. Sundry jobs. 23d. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's and heard 
 Deacon Willis. 25th. Threshing. 2Cth. Went to mill and to Paris. 27th. 
 Very rainy. 28th. My wife got to bed with a daughter. 29tli. Elder Chase 
 called here. 30th. Stayed from meeting on account of my wife being sick. 
 31st. Hauling wood ; broke the road to Mr. True's. » 
 
 1805. 
 
 January 1st. Hauling wood. 2d. At Mr. Cole's. 3d. Sundry jobs. 
 4th. Went to Paris. Very blustering weather. 5th. Hauling wood. 6th. 
 Went to meeting at Mr. Luther Whitman's. 7th. Sundry jobs. 8th. Killed 
 my hogs. 9th. Ditto. 10th. Sundry jobs, lltli. Broke the road to the 
 County road. 12th. Went to a conference meeting at Luther Whitman's. 
 13th. Went to meeting at William Swan's. 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 
 19th. Ditto. 20th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's and heard 
 Deacon Willis. 21st. Sundry jobs. 22d, 23d, 24th, 25tli, 26th. Ditto. 
 27th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. My father and Paul Tenney went 
 home from here. 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st. Sundry jobs. 
 
 February 1st, 2d. Getting out corn. 3d. Went to meeting at Luther 
 Whitman's. 4th. Getting corn. 5th, 6th. Ditto. 7th. Hauled some corn 
 to Solomon Bryant to send to Portland. 8th. Hauling wood. 9th. Went 
 to confei-ence meeting at Jacob Whitman's. 10th. Went to meeting at Mr. 
 Swan's. 11th. Hauled Merrill's hay to Solomon Bryant's. 12th. Built a 
 back to my chimney. 13th. Hauling wood. 14th. Ditto. 15th. Stormy. 
 16th. Breaking roads. 17th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 18th. 
 Making flax brake. 19th. Breaking road. 20th. Hauled 1}4 bushels of 
 corn to S. Bryant's for D. Whitney. 21st. Hauling corn for Esq. Little to 
 the mill. 22cf, 23d. Ditto. 24th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 25th. 
 Making threshing floor. 26th, 27th. Ditto. 28th. Began threshing. 
 
 March 1st, 2d. Threshing. 3d. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 
 4th. Mr. Berry here. 5th. Ditto. 6th. Went to mill. 7th. Hauling 
 wood. 8th. Ditto. 9th. Went to a conference meeting at Consider Cole's. 
 10th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 11th. Shut up my hogs. 12th. 
 Went to Paris and settled with Hubbard and Crosswell. 13th. Hauled a 
 load of hay from Mr. Steams'. 14th. Hauling wood. 15th. Ditto. 16th. 
 Went to Mr. Stearns' and hauled a load of hay. 17th. Went to meeting at 
 
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 Luther Whitman's ; carried my Wife with my steers and sled. 18th. Tap- 
 pmg sap trees. 19th. Ditto. 20th. Rainy. 21st. Carried my turkey to 
 Mr. Thurlo's. 22d. Went to mill. Jacob Whitman and wife here. 23d. 
 Went to mill. 24th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Deacon 
 Willis. 25th. Settled with Solomon Bryant. 26th. Went to mill. 27th. 
 Dressing flax. 28th. Ditto. 29th. Finished dressing flax. 30th. Made 
 a harrow. 31st. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 
 
 April 1st. Went to Luther Briggs'. 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th. Threshing. 6th. 
 Finished cleaning grain. 7th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 8th. Laid 
 my chamber floor. Went to Christopher Bryant's and got a part of a chain, 
 weighing 10^4 pounds. 9th. Rainy. 10th. Ditto. 11th. Frank Becklar 
 to work here. 12th. Ditto, half the day. 13th. Went to conference meet- 
 ing at Mr. J. Whituian's. 14th. Went to meeting at L. Whitman's. 15th, 
 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th. Piling. 20th. Rainy. 21st. Went to meeting at 
 Mr. Swan's. 22d. Went to mill. 23d. Went to Mr. Willises. 24th. Went 
 to Mr. Walton's barn raising. 25th. Piling' 26th. Rainy. 27th. Piling. 
 28th. Went to meeting at L. Whitman's and heard Mr. Tripp. 29th. Rainy. 
 80th. Sowing rye and wheat. 
 
 May 1st, 2d and 3d. Harrowing. 4th. Piling. 5th. Went to meeting 
 at Mr. Swan's. 6th, 7th. Piling. 8th. Carried Clarissa to school ; finished 
 sowing grain. 9th. Harrowing. 10th. Ditto. 11th. Finished harrowing ; 
 went to conference meeting at Merrill Chase's. 12th. Went to meeting at 
 Mr. Chase's. 13th. Went to Mr. Swan's. 14th. Began lopping limbs. 
 15th. Ditto. 16th. Went to Minot. 17th. Tarried at Minot on account 
 of the rain. 18th. Returned home. 19th. Went to meeting at L. Whit- 
 man's. 21st. Went to Paris. 22d. Went to Mr. Bacon's. 23d. Lopping 
 limbs. 24th, 25th. Ditto. 26th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard 
 Mr. Woodward. 27th. Lopping limbs. 28th. Burned my fell trees. 29th. 
 Junking and piling. 30th, 31st. Ditto. 
 
 June 1st. Junking and piling. 2d. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's. 
 Mr. Ricker came here. 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th. Junking and piling. 
 9th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder Hooper. Went to 
 the water, saw my wife, Merrill Chase's wife and Calvin Cole baptized. 
 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th. Planting corn. 16th. Went to meeting 
 at Mr. Whitman's. 17th. Went to mill, and to Croswell's store. 18th, 19th, 
 20th, 21st. Planting potatoes. 22d. Went to conference at Consider 
 Cole's. 23d. Went to Meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Hooper. 
 24th. Falling trees. 25th. Went to Minot. 26th. Went to Mr. Brown's 
 and got a sheep and two lambs, and returned home in company with Polly. 
 27th, 28th, 29th. Falling trees. 30th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's 
 and heard Mr. Sewall. 
 
 July 1st. Falling trees. 2d, 3d. 4th. 5th. Ditto. 7th. Went to meeting 
 at Mr. Swan's. 8th. Went to mill. 9th, 10, 11th, 12th. Falling trees 
 13th. Went to conference at Jacob Whitman's. 14th. Went to meeting at 
 
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 Mr. Whitman's. IGth. Went to mill. 17lh, 18th. Falling trees. 19th. 
 Set Mr. Kicker's piles a-fire. 20th. Finished falling trees. 21st. Went to 
 meeting at Merrill Chase's. 22d. Began haying. 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th. 
 Ditto. 28th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 29th. Haying. 30th. 
 Hoeing potatoes. Went to a church meeting at Mr. Swan's. 
 
 August 1st. Went to Norway and got the rolls. 2d. Went to mill. 3d. 
 Weeding potatoes. 4th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's. 5th, 6th. 
 Mowing. 7th. Went to Willises and went to Mr. Swan's to a lecture, and 
 heard Elder Low. 8th. Stacking hay, and went to Mr. Bacon's. 9th. 
 Helped cut a road from our opening to Mr. Curtises. 10th. Mowing. Went 
 to conference at Consider Cole's. 11th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's 
 and heard Elder (1) Kicker. 12th. My wife went to meeting at Mr. Hutch- 
 inson's. 13th. Finished stacking hay. . 14th. Went to a falling at Chris- 
 topher Bryant's. 15th, 16th, 17th. Reaping. Went to meeting at Mr. 
 Chase's and heard Deacon Packard and old Mr. Whitman. 19th, 20th, 21st. 
 Reaping. 22d. Went to a funeral at Luther Briggs'. 23d, 24th. Reaping. 
 25th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's. 26th, 27th. Reaping. 28th. 
 Threshing some wheat. 2Uth. Went to Mr. Bacon's to have shoes mended. 
 30th, 31st. Reaping. 
 
 September 1st. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 2d. Reaping. 3d. 
 Went to mill. 4th. Ditto. 5th, 6th. Reaping. 7th. Went to Paris. 8th. 
 Returned. 9th, 10, 11th. Reaping. 12th. Went to Norway, brought my 
 cattle from Esq. Bisco's, and changed my heifer for a cow with Capt. Shaw. 
 13th. Drove them home, and drove the oxen to Solomon Bryant's. 14th. 
 Heavy rain, which damaged my grain very much. 15th. Went to meeting 
 at Merrill Chase's. 16th. Began to take care of my grain. 17th. Brought 
 my oxen from Solomon Bryant's, and began fencing. 18th. Began stacking 
 my grain. 19th. Had Mr. True and Merrill Chase, and stacked my grain. 
 20th, 21st. Fencing. 22d. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 23d. 
 Rainy. 24th. Went to mill and carried some new corn. 25th. Threshing. 
 26th. Stacked my seed hay. 27th. Fencing my apple trees. 28th. AYent 
 to mill. 29th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 30th. Took in my Hax. 
 
 October 1st. To work for Mr. True. 2d. Cutting up corn. 3d, 4th. 
 Ditto. 5th. Went to conference meeting at Mr. Cole's. 6th. Went to 
 meeting at Mr. Swan's. 7th. Got some basket stuff. 8th. Went to a 
 funeral at Mr. Benson's. 9th. Dug my potatoes. 10th. To work for Mr. 
 True. 11th. Helped Mr. Berry lay up log house. 12th. Husking. 13th. 
 Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's. 14th. Preparing for my wife to go to 
 Minot. 15th. Went to Paris and settled with Dr. Crosswell. 16th. Rainy. 
 17th, 18th, 19th. Husking. 20th. Went to meeting at Merrill Chase's. 
 23d. Went to Mr. Briggses. 27th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 31st. 
 Finished husking. 
 
 November 1st. Went to husking. 2d. Went to mill. 3d. Went to 
 meeting. 4th. Went to husking in the evening to Mr. Curtis'. 6th. Haul- 
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 ing grain for Mr. Ricker. 7th. Began to cut timber and laid the foundation. 
 8th. Mr. Ricker came to build his house. 9th. Went to conference meet- 
 ing at Brother Whitman's. 10th. Went to meeting at L. Whitman's. 11th. 
 To work for Mr. Ricker. 12th. Ditto. 13th. Killed Mr. Thurlo's heifer.. 
 14th, 15th, 16th. Cutting road. 17th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cliase's. 
 18th. Helped lay Mr. Curtis's house. 19th, 20th. Hauling logs. 21st. 
 Hauling wood for Merrill Chase. 22d, 23d. Hauling logs. 24:th. Went to 
 meeting at Mr. Swan's. 25th. Went to Minot. 26th. Returned home. 
 27th. Went to Mr. Berry's. 28th. Thanksgiving. Went to meeting at L. 
 Whitman's. 29th. To work on the county road. 30th. Ditto. 
 
 December 1st. Went to meeting at L. Whitman's. 2d. Looking land 
 with Mr. Millett. 3d. To work on county road. 4th. Looking land with 
 Bearce and Randall. 5th. Went to mill. 6th. Rainy. 7th. Hauling 
 wood. 8th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 9th. Fixing for laying up 
 my house. 10th. Laid up my log house. 11th. Very cold. 12th. Went 
 to church meeting at Paris. 13th. Returned home. 14th. Went to con- 
 ference meeting at Consider Cole's, loth. Went to meeting at M. Chase's. 
 16th, 17th, ISth, 19th, 20th, 21st. To work on house. 22d. Went to meet- 
 ing at Luther Briggs'. 23d. Killing hogs for M. Chase. 24th. Killed hogs 
 for myself. 25th. Laid my threshing floor. 20t,li. Threshing. 27th. 
 Cleaned up my grain. 28th. Went to mill. 2!)th. Went to meeting at L. 
 Whitman's. 30th. Hauling logs for Mr. True. 31st. Brought home a meat 
 tub and salted over my pork. 
 
 1806. 
 
 January 1st. Went to Mr. Briggs' with my wife. 2d. Killed a hog and 
 started for market. 3d. To work for Christopher Bryant. 4th. Work on 
 road. 5th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 6th. Piling. 7th. Stormy 
 8th. Getting timber. 9th, 10th. Ditto, lltli. Went to conference. 12th. 
 Went to meeting at L. Whitman's. 14th. To work on entry floor. 15th. 
 Threshing. 18th. Went for Dr. Stevens ; my wife very sick. 20th. Judith 
 Thurlo came here to take care of my wife. 21st. Went to mill. 26th. 
 Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 27th. Getting wood. 28th. Set out for 
 Minot; met Mr. Millet and Edmund Chase and returned. 29th. Went to 
 Minot. 30th. Went to Mr. Ixicker's. 31st. Returned home with my sheep. 
 
 February 1st. Hxing brush round my apple trees. 2d. Went to meeting 
 at L. Whitman's. 3d. Stormy. 4th. Fixing sheep pen. 5th. Threshing. 
 6th, 7th. Ditto. 8th. Went to conference at Luther Briggs'. 9th. Went 
 tQ meeting at Mr. Swan's. 10th. Carried Judith Thurlo home, lltli. Fix- 
 ing a covering over looms. 12th. Covering my sheep pen. 13th. Weaving. 
 14th. Went to mill. 16th. Breaking roads. IGth. Meeting at my house. 
 
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 17th, 18th, 19th. Threshing. 20th. Mr. Hooper came here. 21st. Went 
 to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard a lecture from Mr. Hooper. 22d. 
 Cleaning gi-ain. 23d. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 24th. Went to a 
 church meeting at Paris. 25th. Went to Paris. 27th. Threshing. 
 
 March 1st. Threshing. 2d. Went to meeting at L. Whitman's. 3d. 
 Went to Paris, and attended their town meeting. 4th, 5th. Threshing. 
 6th. Went to Minot. 7th. Returned home. 8th. Went to conference at 
 Mr. Cole's. 9th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's. 10th. Hauling wood. 
 11th. Went to mill. 
 
 (I have neglected writing from the 11th of March to the 8th of May, when 
 I begin to sow my grain.) 9th. Harrowing. 10th. Went to conference at 
 Mr. Bryant's. 11th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's. 12th. Harrow- 
 ing. 13th. Ditto. 14th. Went to mill. 15th. Harrowing. 16th. Fin- 
 ished harrowing. 17th. Junking. 18th. Elder Hooper preached here. 
 19th. Set some piles; the fire ran into the woods and got into Merrill 
 Chase's fell trees and grain. 20th. Piling. 21st, 22d, 23d, 24th. Ditto. 
 
292 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 CENSUS OF 1S70 
 
 Davis, Herrick C. 
 
 44 
 
 Small, Joseph P. 
 
 64 
 
 Lucy M. 
 
 40 
 
 Phebe E. 
 
 50 
 
 Sam'l r. 
 
 15 
 
 Willie E. 
 
 17 
 
 Carrie L. 
 
 ■ 2 
 
 Nancy W. 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 Abbie D. 
 
 10 
 
 Crockett, Nath'l B. 
 
 48 
 
 
 
 Lydia J. 
 
 35 
 
 Whitman, Joseph 
 
 49 
 
 Kate H. 
 
 17 
 
 Martin A. 
 
 47 
 
 George L. 
 
 4 
 
 Adrianna 
 
 15 
 
 Edward S. 
 
 11-12 
 
 Myra 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Francis E. 
 
 3 
 
 Whitman, Leonard 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 Ellen F. 
 
 28 
 
 Leonard, Solomon 
 
 76 
 
 Luther 
 
 72 
 
 
 
 Gertie E. 
 
 7 
 
 Currier, Oliver C. 
 
 27 
 
 Zilpha 
 
 69 
 
 Delia L. 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 Minnie M. 
 
 3 
 
 Curtis, Jeremiah H. 
 
 33 
 
 
 
 Adelia 
 
 30 
 
 Berry, Horace C 
 
 33 
 
 Mary P. 
 
 2 
 
 Angle M. 
 
 24 
 
 Kine, Mary 
 
 20 
 
 Stephens, Ezra 
 
 39 
 
 
 
 Laura B. 
 
 38 
 
 Burgess, Augusta 
 
 18 
 
 Cora L. 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 John E. 
 
 11 
 
 Whitman, Gilman A. 
 
 32 
 
 Anna L. 
 
 9 
 
 Evelina 
 
 28 
 
 Phebe 
 
 7 
 
 Clara M. 
 
 5 
 
 Lydia, 
 
 5 
 
 Gerald B. 
 
 1 
 
 Infant, 
 
 3-12 
 
 Pi-ay, Sarah 
 
 58 
 
 Irvin, James H. 
 
 22 
 
 Lucinda 
 
 33 
 
 
 
 
 
 Gorman, William 
 
 21 
 
 Estes, Horace S. 
 
 41 
 
 
 
 Harriet B. 
 
 31 
 
 Morgan, Charles 
 
 20 
 
 Farnum, Clarissa 
 
 63 
 
 Akers, Mary B. 
 
 45 
 
 
 
 Lizzie A. 
 
 21 
 
 Day, Thos. R. 
 
 33 
 
 Chas. S. 
 
 6 
 
 Maria G. 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 
 
 Trull, Alanson M. 
 
 38 
 
 Farnum, Joseph \V. 
 
 14 
 
 Laura A. 
 
 31 
 

 APPENDIX. 
 
 29 
 
 Trull, Ernest C. 
 
 4 
 
 Bowker, Delphinus P. 
 
 29 
 
 Flora M. 
 
 2 
 
 Sarah P. 
 
 26 
 
 Herbert 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bryant, Albion 
 
 23 
 
 Cole, Lucinda A. 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cole, Henry F. 
 
 28 
 
 Bowker, 'Winfield S. 
 
 16 
 
 Flora J. 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 Mira L. 
 
 4 
 
 Br3'ant, George W. 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 Mary E. 
 
 26 
 
 Berry, Leonard B. 
 
 63 
 
 
 
 Hannah 
 
 62 
 
 Durgin, Henry F. 
 
 64 
 
 
 
 Dorotha E. 
 
 61 
 
 Glines, Orin 
 
 47 
 
 Angle H. 
 
 40 
 
 Tila 
 
 44 
 
 Nancy M. 
 
 36 
 
 Josephine W. 
 
 13 
 
 Conant, Joseph 
 
 40 
 
 Houghton, Horatio F. 
 
 38 
 
 
 
 Mary E. 
 
 39 
 
 Brock, Sam'l A. 
 
 34 
 
 George D. 
 
 16 
 
 Mandana, 
 
 36 
 
 Lena I. 
 
 7-12 
 
 Florence E. 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 
 
 Swan, Moses 
 
 32 
 
 Sheeran, James 
 
 26 
 
 Viola E. 
 
 35 
 
 Amanda M. 
 
 23 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tucker, Sarah F. 
 
 12 
 
 Crawford, Benjamin 
 
 69 
 
 
 
 Sophia 
 
 69 
 
 Fletcher, Michael 
 
 22 
 
 Cushman, Sophia 
 
 37 
 
 Berry, Cyrus P. 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 Lucy H. 
 
 30 
 
 Mixer, Horace 
 
 22 
 
 George W. 
 
 6 
 
 Ayer, Thomas 
 
 64 
 
 Mountfort, Albert 
 
 43 
 
 Hannah 
 
 48 
 
 Caroline 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 Ella H. 
 
 16 
 
 Day, William 
 
 27 
 
 
 
 Sarah E. 
 
 24 
 
 Cole, Frank M. 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 Cynthia A. 
 
 30 
 
 Young, Herbert A. 
 
 6 
 
 Eugene 
 
 11 
 
 Mountfort, Augustus I. 
 
 37 
 
 Bryant, Cynthia 
 
 60 
 
 Loanza 
 
 35 
 
 
 
 
 
 Loveitt, Frederick 
 
 35 
 
 Dolloff, Clarence D. 
 
 15 
 
 Ella 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 William F. 
 
 11 
 
 Perham, Joel 
 
 73 
 
 Caroline II. 
 
 7 
 
 Susan 
 
 65 
 
 Nettie S. 
 
 5 
 
 Joel, Jr. 
 
 44 
 
 John F. 
 
 2 
 
 Libby, Hiram L. 
 
 35 
 
 Whitman, Alanson M. 
 
 56 
 
 Margaret A. 
 
 33 
 
 Eleanor 
 
 40 
 
 Minnie F. 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 
 
 Woods, James 
 
 9 
 
 Perham, Sylvauia 
 
 44 
 
 
 
 
 
 Billings, Lorenzo 
 
 49 
 
 Burns, Etta 
 
 18 
 
 IVIirsilva 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 Frederick 
 
 19 
 
 Swan, David G. 
 
 33 
 
 Orietta E. 
 
 9 
 
 Sarah 
 
 31 
 
 
 
 Minnie M. 
 
 7 
 
 Lapham, William B. 
 
 41 
 
294 
 
 Lapham, Cynthia A. P. 
 Mary C. 
 Ben W. 
 
 Bartlett, Lucetta 
 
 Dunham, Rufus K. 
 Abbie B. 
 Emma F. 
 Mary S. 
 Charles R. 
 Eva A. 
 
 Dunham, Ransom 
 Susan 
 
 Ricker, Thomas N. 
 Mary E. 
 
 Young, Lizzie R. 
 
 Snow, Hannah 
 
 Ricker, Lucy 
 Arthur 
 
 Cole, Diantha 
 Melrose 
 
 Rowe, Stephen 
 Elvira 
 Augustus L. 
 Lizzie 
 
 Chase, Alfred 
 Elvira 
 
 Bolster, Lyman 
 
 Betsey F. 
 Albert C. 
 
 West, Myrtilla 
 
 Houghton, Charles R. 
 Mary E. 
 Jennie M. 
 
 Aldrich, Emma 
 
 Whitman, Elvina S. 
 Anstice A. 
 Aldana C. 
 IdaM. 
 
 Jacobs, Nath'l F. 
 Eliza A. 
 Areanna S. 
 Delia M. 
 Lizzie F. 
 Lifant 
 
 APPEN 
 29 
 
 DIX. 
 
 Bartlett, Jeremiah 
 
 2 
 
 Mary S. 
 
 5-12 
 
 Frederick M. 
 
 
 Walter H. 
 
 15 
 
 Mary P. 
 
 46 
 
 Soule, Frederick 
 
 46 
 
 
 17 
 
 Grant, James 
 
 15 
 
 Lottie R. 
 
 12 
 
 Minnie E. 
 
 10 
 
 Hattie W. 
 
 72 
 
 Malcolm, En. Earl 
 
 74 
 
 
 
 Jackson, Calvin A. 
 
 55 
 
 Achsa D. 
 
 53 
 
 
 
 Whitman, George W. 
 
 5 
 
 Eliza J. 
 
 
 Infant 
 
 78 
 
 
 
 Davis, Charles 
 
 63 
 
 Harriet 
 
 11 
 
 
 
 Whitman, Delphina 
 
 31 
 
 
 9 
 
 Swan, Alonzo B. 
 
 
 Betsey J. 
 
 54 
 
 Rhoda J. 
 
 55 
 
 Edith V. 
 
 29 
 
 Lillian D. 
 
 21 
 
 Alonzo F. 
 
 
 Frank W. 
 
 68 
 
 Florence M. 
 
 57 
 
 
 
 Lapham, John E. 
 
 61 
 
 Martha C. 
 
 61 
 
 Carrie M. 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 Morgan, Jacob 
 
 19 
 
 Marrietta 
 
 27 
 
 Swan, Chas. W. 
 
 23 
 
 Mary W. 
 
 7-12 
 
 Emma R. 
 
 18 
 
 Bryant, Lawson C. 
 
 
 Harriet N. 
 
 42 
 
 Hattie M. 
 
 22 
 
 
 18 
 
 Estes, Sullivan A. 
 
 15 
 
 Mary R. 
 
 
 Harry M. 
 
 41 
 
 Hiram A. 
 
 37 
 
 
 18 
 
 Trull, Helen A. 
 
 8 
 
 
 6 
 
 Tenney, Samuel 
 
 8-12 
 
 Sarah A. 
 
 59 
 57 
 27 
 21 
 22 
 
 16 
 
 37 
 
 30 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 
 24 
 
 57 
 53 
 
 31 
 
 21 
 
 11-12 
 
 55 
 53 
 
 52 
 
 38 
 
 40 
 
 16 
 
 15 
 
 11 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 23 
 
 19 
 
 1 
 
 26 
 19 
 
 28 
 
 20 
 
 3 
 
 27 
 
 27 
 
 2 
 
 43 
 
 48 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 41 
 41 
 

 APPENDIX. 
 
 29 
 
 Tenney, Laella F. 
 
 10 
 
 Frost, Elvira A. 
 
 23 
 
 Warren N. 
 
 15 
 
 Dolly S. 
 
 1 
 
 Clara J. 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 Emma S. 
 
 8 
 
 Yates, William 
 
 70 
 
 Anna E. 
 
 8 
 
 Abigail 
 
 51 
 
 Swan, Gains C. 
 
 36 
 
 Perham, Azel 
 
 65 
 
 p:sther A. 
 
 26 
 
 Elvira 
 
 64 
 
 Alaric A. 
 
 11 
 
 Charles 
 
 19 
 
 Louis N. 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 Marilla M. 
 
 1 
 
 Estes, Stephen 
 
 72 
 
 
 
 Eleanor 
 
 75 
 
 Bryant, Amos S. 
 
 34 
 
 
 
 Jenette 
 
 33 
 
 Rowe, Joseph 
 
 65 
 
 Lizzie M. 
 
 12 
 
 Catherine 
 
 65 
 
 Georijie E. 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 Ada A. 
 
 3 
 
 Halket, David 
 
 41 
 
 Joseph 
 
 60 
 
 Fanny 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 Effie 
 
 11 
 
 Foster, Alden 
 
 18 
 
 Henry 
 
 9 
 
 Powers, James W. 
 
 33 
 
 Chamberlain, Enos C. 
 
 31 
 
 Lydia C. 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 John D. 
 
 2 
 
 Swan, Foxwell 
 
 82 
 
 
 
 Mary 
 
 83 
 
 Rowe, Charles 
 
 31 
 
 
 
 Margaret A . 
 
 24 
 
 Allen, Elliot C. 
 
 29 
 
 Mordant 
 
 4 
 
 Anna E. 
 
 24 
 
 Angle E. 
 
 2 
 
 Ada W. 
 
 2 
 
 Susan M. 
 
 1 
 
 Elmer C. 
 
 1 
 
 Millett, Oliver 
 
 32 
 
 Millet, Cyrus 
 
 42 
 
 Nancy 
 
 26 
 
 Judith 
 
 40 
 
 Hiram F. 
 
 9 
 
 Frank M. 
 
 17 
 
 Elmer A. 
 
 7 
 
 Ada W. 
 
 16 
 
 Walter S. 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 Eugene 
 
 2-12 
 
 Fuller, Charles 
 
 66 
 
 
 
 Hannah 
 
 65 
 
 Lapham, John 
 
 60 
 
 Mary J. 
 
 35 
 
 Aurelia 
 
 35 
 
 Hannah E. 
 
 32 
 
 Frank M. 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 
 
 Rowe, Merrill J. 
 
 50 
 
 Rowe, Newell F. 
 
 48 
 
 Petsey G. 
 
 49 
 
 Sarah A. 
 
 50 
 
 Edwin M. 
 
 13 
 
 Jewell, Ezra 
 
 60 
 
 Flagg, Abel M. 
 
 34 
 
 
 
 Lucy 
 
 36 
 
 Russ, James 
 
 60 
 
 
 
 Mary A. 
 
 60 
 
 Day, Alexander 
 
 • 63 
 
 Henry 
 
 21 
 
 Eliza 
 
 64 
 
 Antoinette 
 
 16 
 
 Alexander, Jr. 
 
 22 
 
 Harden, Mark 
 
 28 
 
 Ricker, Mary 
 
 65 
 
 Gallison, John M. 
 
 53 
 
 Wyman, Harriet 
 
 55 
 
 Sarah A. 
 
 53 
 
 
 
 John A. 
 
 15 
 
 Aldrich, James H. 
 
 22 
 
 Perham, James L. 
 
 27 
 
 Cole, Southern 
 
 64 
 
 
 
 Polly 
 
 55 
 
 Frost, Samuel 
 
 29 
 
 Walter 
 
 4 
 
J96 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 t 
 
 Cole, Dennis W. 
 
 33 
 
 Cole, Julietta 
 
 15 
 
 Loanna 
 
 27 
 
 Lalia 
 
 13 
 
 Elmer D. 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 Fred. H. 
 
 5 
 
 Libby, Danville J. 
 
 43 
 
 La Mont 
 
 2 
 
 Esther C. 
 
 42 
 
 
 
 Herbert 
 
 14 
 
 Cole, James T. 
 
 30 
 
 Mary L. 
 
 10 
 
 Harriet N. 
 
 IG 
 
 
 
 Alverden L. 
 
 6 
 
 Brooks, Alpheus 
 
 20 
 
 Walter E. 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 Infant 
 
 1-12 
 
 Felt, Alonzo 
 
 36 
 
 
 
 Emily J. 
 
 27 
 
 Bobbins, David 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 Anna L. 
 
 15 
 
 Bryant, Alice 
 
 20 
 
 Knight, Thaddeus R. 
 
 52 
 
 Ricker, Willard, 
 
 13 
 
 Hannah 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 Billings, Christopher 
 
 30 
 
 West, Otis 
 
 48 
 
 
 
 Ann 
 
 84 
 
 Felt, Jeremiah 
 
 73 
 
 George 
 
 9 
 
 Eliza 
 
 72 
 
 Ludell 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Linden 
 
 3 
 
 Davis, Stephen C. 
 
 41 
 
 
 
 Martha E. 
 
 39 
 
 Bessee, Caleb 
 
 56 
 
 Corinna 0. 
 
 13 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 38 
 
 Florence E. 
 
 6 
 
 Hattie 
 
 12 
 
 Ronello C. 
 
 3 
 
 Arthur L. 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 Albert 0. 
 
 8 
 
 Perham, Andrew J. 
 
 33 
 
 
 
 Ann H. 
 
 30 
 
 Bessee, Hannah 
 
 40 
 
 Fremont 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 Herbert A. 
 
 6 
 
 Farrar, Almon J. 
 
 27 
 
 
 
 Henrietta 
 
 19 
 
 Brown, Georgie 
 
 15 
 
 Henry H. 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 Felt, John 
 
 19 
 
 Small, Christopher 
 
 23 
 
 
 
 Betsey F. 
 
 18 
 
 Billings, Albert 
 
 15 
 
 Aldrich, Asa 
 
 16 
 
 Cushman, Frederic 
 
 16 
 
 Cushman, Isabella P. 
 
 33 
 
 Ridlon, Ezra 
 
 42 
 
 Hanno H. 
 
 12 
 
 Eliza J. 
 
 39 
 
 George L. 
 
 10 
 
 George 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 Ellen F. 
 
 7 
 
 Russ, Sam'l L. 
 
 30 
 
 Infant 
 
 1 
 
 Sibyl J.. 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 Mabel 
 
 2 
 
 Perham, Columbus 
 
 54 
 
 
 
 Mary F. 
 
 35 
 
 Cole, Albion P. 
 
 45 
 
 Alfred C. 
 
 3 
 
 Julia 
 
 43 
 
 
 
 Deloraine 
 
 10 
 
 Washburn, Lawrence 
 
 11 
 
 Lura 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 Abigail 
 
 76 
 
 Lang, Ida 
 
 17 
 
 Louisa M. 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 
 
 Chase, Alden 
 
 51 
 
 Jordan, Stilman 
 
 20 
 
 Lucy C. 
 
 49 
 
 
 
 Estella 0. 
 
 23 
 
 Cole, Wm. H. 
 
 39 
 
 Aquila M. 
 
 15 
 
 Albina 
 
 39 
 
 
 
 Edwin 
 
 17 
 
 Benson, Abbie 
 
 19 
 

 APPENDIX. 
 
 29 
 
 Maxim, Luther 
 
 26 
 
 Whitman, Emilv 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 CoraM. 
 
 7 
 
 Bowker, Albion P. 
 
 40 
 
 Oscar F. 
 
 5 
 
 Angeline 
 
 36 
 
 Chas. A. 
 
 2 
 
 Oscar r. 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 Stella M. 
 
 2 
 
 Noyes, Eli M. 
 
 
 Bowker, George "W. 
 
 38 
 
 Stephens, Benjamin 
 
 63 
 
 Anna F. 
 
 30 
 
 Julia M. 
 
 62 
 
 Johnson, Joseph E. 
 
 36 
 
 Harper, Julia 
 
 23 
 
 Lovina 
 
 39 
 
 
 
 Nathan A. 
 
 10 
 
 Stevens, Emerson 
 
 7 
 
 Hannah 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 
 Taylor, William 
 
 18 
 
 Gray, Frank 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lurvey, Thos. T. 
 
 54 
 
 Bowker, James L. 
 
 24 
 
 Mary A. 
 
 38 
 
 Ellen E. 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 Irvin L. 
 
 3 
 
 Curtis, Margaret 
 
 11 
 
 Percy 
 
 1 
 
 Wm. F. 
 
 9 
 
 Mary A. 
 
 66 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tucll, Alonzo 
 
 62 
 
 Perham, Kilbon 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 Sarah J. 
 
 43 
 
 Churchill, Levi 
 
 49 
 
 Clara W. 
 
 21 
 
 Lucy 
 
 59 
 
 Edwin 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 Mabel L. 
 
 6 
 
 Swan, Gideon 
 
 83 
 
 George Q. . 
 
 4 
 
 Catharine 
 
 79 
 
 Leavitt, Lovernam 
 
 18 
 
 Davis, Lucinda 
 
 30 
 
 Whitman, George 
 
 14 
 
 Curtis, Benj. C. 
 
 34 
 
 
 
 Ellen 
 
 33 
 
 Lawrence, Ephraim 
 
 33 
 
 William II. 
 
 10 
 
 Eunice E. 
 
 34 
 
 Seth L. 
 
 8 
 
 Izella F. 
 
 9 
 
 Curtis, John C. 
 
 6 
 
 Georgie E. 
 
 4f 
 
 Mabel L. 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 Ernest B. 
 
 1 
 
 Ricker, David 
 
 59 
 
 
 
 Lois 
 
 60 
 
 Irish, Aaron M. 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 Hannah 
 
 47 
 
 Cummings, Allen T. 
 
 
 Hannah A. 
 
 14 
 
 Eliza 
 
 
 Miriam 
 
 12 
 
 Maurice 
 
 
 Ruih 
 
 9 
 
 Francella 
 
 
 Almon 
 
 3 
 
 Franklin D. 
 
 
 
 
 Melroy E. 
 
 
 Penney, Llewella 
 
 11 
 
 Rinaldo L. 
 
 
 
 
 Arthur A. 
 
 
 Andrews, Ziba, Jr. 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 Mary A. 
 
 21 
 
 Gray, Herbert 
 
 
 Wilfie A. 
 
 2 
 
 Merrifield, George L. 
 
 
 Cotton, George 
 
 11 
 
 Gray. Austin A. 
 
 63 
 
 Andrews, Ziba 
 
 63 
 
 
 
 Thankful 
 
 64 
 
 Thomas, James 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 Sarah F. 
 
 16 
 
 Andrews, Isaac W. 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 Elvira 
 
 34 
 
 Whitman, Thomas J. 
 
 29 
 
 EvaL. 
 
 16 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
298 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Andrews, Frank R. 
 Alva M. 
 
 Hasey, Sarah A. 
 
 Fuller, George G. 
 Lozina 
 
 Robinson, Carrie' A. 
 
 Davis, Charles 
 Harriet 
 
 Thurlow, Franklin H. 
 Phebe A. 
 Mary 
 Hattie A. 
 Nellie A. 
 Angeline 
 Freddie 
 Anna 
 
 Bicknell, William 
 Mary 
 Viola 
 Vietta 
 Virginia 
 Victor 
 
 Stevens, Francis F. 
 Charlotte 
 Fred. 
 Frank 
 Ada F. 
 Charlie E. 
 Miunie 
 
 Bryant, Arvilla 
 
 Merri field, George P. 
 Eineline 
 Frances E. 
 Franklin H. 
 Mary A. 
 Eugene G. 
 Charles W. 
 
 Fuller, Oliver L. 
 Betsey 
 
 Carver, Lewis 
 
 Starbjrd, Clarendon 
 Eliza A. 
 Mertie 
 
 Bryant, Mahlon 
 Lydia 
 Clara G. 
 
 Farrar, Consider 
 
 13 
 9 
 
 25 
 
 42 
 
 39 
 
 Farrar, Mary P. 
 
 Jeremiah B. 
 Francis E. 
 
 Dudley, Otis 
 
 Mahala 
 Jeremiah E. 
 
 31 
 
 11-12 
 
 12 
 
 31 
 
 25 
 
 5 
 
 14 Cole, Frank 
 
 38 
 34 
 
 39 
 
 38 
 
 12 
 
 10 
 
 7 
 
 5 
 
 1 
 
 1-12 
 
 40 
 
 40 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 
 40 
 37 
 12 
 12 
 10 
 6 
 8-12 
 
 62 
 
 45 
 40 
 15 
 13 
 11 
 9 
 
 29 
 70 
 
 16 
 
 44 
 44 
 
 59 
 59 
 16 
 
 28 
 
 Dudley, Perrin 
 Paulina 
 Charity 
 
 Young, Freeland 
 Evelyn 0. 
 
 Day, John 
 Ann 
 
 Dudley, Alzina 
 
 Robie, Osborn 
 
 Bryant, Alfred D. 
 Jennie L. 
 Minnie E. 
 Althea L. 
 
 Davis, Abbie 
 
 Estes, Ida 
 
 Swan, Sam'l S. 
 Catherine 
 Sam'l G. 
 Ella S. 
 
 Day, Elijah 
 Mahala 
 James M. 
 Linda 
 Emogene C. 
 
 Ballard, Orin 
 Mary 
 
 Cobb, Ivory 
 
 Whitman, Zephaniah B. 
 Eliza 
 Eugene Z. 
 
 Rawson, Zephania B. 
 
 Whitman, Fannie 
 
 Hathaway, Mehitable 
 
 Alice 
 
 Mellen 
 
 John 
 
 19 
 
 67 
 58 
 90 
 
 26 
 20 
 
 69 
 
 68 
 
 42 
 
 19 
 
 34 
 28 
 
 6 
 
 4 
 
 15 
 
 14 
 
 58 
 46 
 15 
 10 
 
 49 
 47 
 18 
 22 
 15 
 
 22 
 21 
 
 24 
 
 60 
 56 
 19 
 
 12 
 
 81 
 
 38 
 15 
 11 
 

 APPENDIX. 
 
 29 
 
 Bacon, Abel 
 
 44 
 
 Mitchel, Julia J. 
 
 20 
 
 Cordelia 
 
 40 
 
 Florence E. 
 
 7 
 
 Herbert 
 
 19 
 
 Delia B. 
 
 5 
 
 Walter 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 Curtis, Isaac S. 
 
 46 
 
 Whitman, Elon G. 
 
 47 
 
 Abby B. 
 
 43 
 
 Lncy B. 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 Oliver G. 
 
 18 
 
 Curtis, Daniel 
 
 72 
 
 Reuben M. 
 
 16 
 
 Charlotte 
 
 62 
 
 Edson L. 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 Charles W. 
 
 12 
 
 Fuller, Caleb 
 
 39 
 
 Almond M. 
 
 8 
 
 Marietta 
 
 30 
 
 Lucy E. 
 
 4 
 
 Herman 
 
 15 
 
 Ronello B. 
 
 2 
 
 Wyunie E. 
 
 1 
 
 Whitman, Charles H. 
 
 39 
 
 Fickett, Chester D. 
 
 44 
 
 Eimira P. 
 
 34 
 
 Charles A. 
 
 21 
 
 Albert L. 
 
 12 
 
 Lucy E. 
 
 17 
 
 Martha A. 
 
 10 
 
 Simon A. 
 
 11 
 
 William H. 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 Le Forest W. 
 
 6 
 
 Curtis, Simeon B. 
 
 37 
 
 Frank N. 
 
 4 
 
 Betsey G. 
 
 40 
 
 Burton 
 
 2 
 
 Ruth 
 
 67 
 
 
 
 Julia F. 
 
 20 
 
 Ilowe, Isaac 
 
 38 
 
 
 
 Sarah 
 
 39 
 
 Tribone, Frederick 
 
 20 
 
 George 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 Augustine 
 
 10 
 
 Lurvcy, Thos. T. 
 
 27 
 
 Charles 
 
 8 
 
 Matilda 
 
 23 
 
 Willie 
 
 5 
 
 Anvaletta 
 
 10-12 
 
 Etta 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 Henry 
 
 9-12 
 
 Curtis, Fred. 
 
 4 
 
 Farrar, Benj. F. 
 
 47 
 
 Curtis, Crosby 
 
 59 
 
 Dorcas W. 
 
 49 
 
 Mary 
 
 59 
 
 Mary J. 
 
 8 
 
 Polly 
 
 73 
 
 Farrar, Joseph 
 
 52 
 
 Whitman, Reuben 
 
 58 
 
 Abigail 
 
 66 
 
 Abby 
 
 28 
 
 Des 
 
 92 
 
 John 
 
 22 
 
 Edgar 
 
 23 
 
 
 
 
 
 Day, Daniel 
 
 35 
 
 Doughty, Sam'l B. 
 
 64 
 
 Martha 
 
 30 
 
 Mary S. 
 
 64 
 
 Martha L. 
 
 12 
 
 Edwin 
 
 30 
 
 Daniel L. 
 
 10 
 
 Arthur 
 
 13 
 
 Quincy A. 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 Alden E. 
 
 8 
 
 Wyman, Freeman 
 
 29 
 
 Bertie 
 
 1 
 
 Mary A. 
 
 34 
 
 
 
 Cora D. 
 
 2 
 
 Curtis, Stephen B. 
 
 22 
 
 Bryant, Lizzie A. 
 
 11 
 
 Curtis, James P. 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 Daniel 
 
 66 
 
 Curtis, Holland 
 
 40 
 
 Charlotte 
 
 54 
 
 Eliza 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 Solon 
 
 9 
 
 Swift, Linneus 
 
 14 
 
 Lillian E. 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 Vesta»M. 
 
 6 
 
 Ellingwood, Oscar P. 
 
 38 
 
 Nellie M. 
 
 4 
 
 Ann 
 
 34 
 
 
 
 Edith M. 
 
 12 
 
 Mitchel, William W. 
 
 34 
 
 George E. 
 
 8 
 
300 
 
 Ellingwood, Chas. H. 
 
 Curtis, Asbury C. 
 Jennie 
 Frank A. 
 Socrates C. 
 Adna J. 
 Adoniram 
 Genett 
 
 Davis, Seth C. 
 Almina 
 Alice E. 
 Ella A. 
 Arthur 
 
 Davis, Joseph H. 
 Juliette 
 Elmer B. 
 Marietta 
 Antoinette 
 
 Ford, Herbert 
 
 Davis, William S. 
 
 Georgie A. 
 
 ■ George W. 
 
 Davis, Lorenzo 
 Laura W. 
 Abbie E. 
 Charlie H. 
 
 Thurlow, Aaron 
 Betsey 
 
 Davis, Nancy 
 Lucy 
 Lizzie 
 George C. 
 Lovina T. 
 
 Bryant, Cyrus S. 
 
 Healey, Lydia 
 
 William 
 
 Kidlon, Ezra 
 
 Rebecca 
 
 Benson, Eli M. 
 
 Nancy C. 
 Eli M., Jr. 
 Nettie J. 
 Josephine 
 Infant 
 
 Harmon, Marceno 
 
 Noyes, James C. 
 Mary 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 3 
 
 Andrews, Jesse 
 
 
 Rachel 
 
 27 
 
 Genett R. 
 
 22 
 
 Willie C. 
 
 3 
 
 Edwin 
 
 22 
 
 Nellie 
 
 17 
 
 
 53 
 
 Perkins, Daniel 
 
 49 
 
 Druzilla 
 
 
 Hannah F. 
 
 42 
 
 
 32 
 
 Perkins, Freelon 
 
 7 
 
 Isabella 
 
 6 
 
 
 1 
 
 Cotton, William 
 
 
 Trlphena 
 
 33 
 
 Clara 
 
 23 
 
 
 4 
 
 Hammond, Jason 
 
 3 
 
 Sarah 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 Cotton, Ellis 
 
 14 
 
 John 
 
 23 
 
 Hammond, Francis 
 
 19 
 
 Hannah 
 
 9-12 
 
 
 
 Robbins, Anna 
 
 51 
 
 
 50 
 
 Robbins, Richard 
 
 15 
 
 Oriett H. 
 
 15 
 
 Orlandon W. 
 
 
 Daniel E. 
 
 44 
 
 Agnes 
 
 48 
 
 Infant 
 
 75 
 
 Dunham, William S. 
 
 30 
 
 Nancy L. 
 
 7 
 
 George E. 
 
 6 
 
 Albertus A. 
 
 4 
 
 Joseph 
 
 
 Mary 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 Beck, Lyman 
 
 37 
 
 Augusta A. 
 
 9 
 
 Lizzie E. 
 
 
 Frank N. 
 
 83 
 
 Freddie 
 
 84 
 
 
 
 Kendall, Joshua 
 
 40 
 
 Emily N. 
 
 35 
 
 Anna E. 
 
 11 
 
 Nellie F. 
 
 8 
 
 Clara E. 
 
 6 
 
 
 1-12 
 
 Dunham, Melville 
 
 
 Calista 
 
 66 
 
 Daniel, Jf . 
 
 
 Orisa 
 
 59 
 
 
 53 
 
 Dunham, Daniel 
 
 39 
 40 
 16 
 13 
 7 
 3 
 
 59 
 
 59 
 
 28 
 
 32 
 
 28 
 
 66 
 
 65 
 63 
 
 16 
 10 
 
 42 
 44 
 
 35 
 
 11 
 
 8 
 
 3 
 
 3-12 
 
 36 
 27 
 7 
 2 
 63 
 56 
 
 30 
 
 28 
 6 
 4 
 2 
 
 41 
 
 30 
 
 13 
 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 ' 34 
 33 
 25 
 
 21 
 

 APPENDIX. 
 
 30 
 
 Dunham, Mary 
 
 CO 
 
 Whitman, Carrie E. 
 
 5 
 
 Floville 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 
 
 Proctor, Levi 
 
 31 
 
 Curtis, Ambrose 
 
 30 
 
 Sarah 
 
 23 
 
 Calista 
 
 33 
 
 Lizzie 
 
 1 
 
 Galon 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Ernest 
 
 3 
 
 Verrill, P'rank N. 
 
 33 
 
 
 
 Abby 
 
 33 
 
 Stephens, Mary 
 
 55 
 
 Frank E. 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 Emma 
 
 8 
 
 Tristram, Haley 
 
 47 
 
 Lizzie E. 
 
 6 
 
 
 
 Freddie 
 
 4 
 
 Bowker, Cyprian 
 
 78 
 
 Charles 
 
 3 
 
 Curtis, Levi L. 
 
 35 
 
 Wyman, Charles 
 
 12 
 
 Perkins, Frank 
 
 14 
 
 Verrill, Edward 
 
 37 
 
 
 
 Isabell 
 
 31 
 
 Curtis, Davis P. 
 
 30 
 
 Edward 
 
 10 
 
 Daniel H. 
 
 27 
 
 Edna 
 
 4 
 
 Fanny 
 
 19 
 
 Etta 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 Infant 
 
 312 
 
 Pratt, James II. 
 
 36 
 
 
 
 Caroline H. 
 
 33 
 
 Proctor, Chas. F. 
 
 35 
 
 Ella F. 
 
 14 
 
 Christina 
 
 33 
 
 William H. 
 
 11 
 
 Mary A. 
 
 12 
 
 Herbert E. 
 
 7 
 
 "» 
 
 
 Rebecca R. 
 
 4 
 
 May, Jeremiah 
 
 32 
 
 
 
 Anna F. 
 
 30 
 
 Benson, Sam'l W. 
 
 36 
 
 Sarah 
 
 5 
 
 Rebecca 
 
 36 
 
 Alice 
 
 3 
 
 Adams, Moses 
 
 50 
 
 Hasey, James R. 
 
 40 
 
 Loisa 
 
 18 
 
 Margaret 
 
 35 
 
 George 
 
 5 
 
 James 
 
 6 
 
 Cotton, John H. 
 
 42 
 
 Pratt, Webster 
 
 12 
 
 Christiana 
 
 41 
 
 
 
 Laura A. 
 
 16 
 
 Hasey, David 
 
 70 
 
 William F. 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 George E. 
 
 10 
 
 Proctor, William 
 
 40 
 
 Llewellyn 
 
 8 
 
 Adaline 
 
 32 
 
 Lydia E. 
 
 2 
 
 Henry L. 
 
 13 
 
 
 
 AdaF. 
 
 11 
 
 Kimball, Benjamin 
 
 40 
 
 John W. 
 
 9 
 
 Narcissa 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 Columbus 
 
 8 
 
 Whitman, Jacob 
 
 62 
 
 ]\lary E. 
 
 2 
 
 Mary 
 
 63 
 
 Rich, John F. 
 
 38 
 
 Felt, Granville N. 
 
 36 
 
 Diana 
 
 27 
 
 Clara 
 
 31 
 
 Isabella A. 
 
 16 
 
 Eliza A. 
 
 2 
 
 AdaL. 
 
 14 
 
 Infant 
 
 1-12 
 
 Rubv W. 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 Walter F. 
 
 4 
 
 AVhitman, Eliza B. 
 
 22 
 
 Winnie 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 Felt, John G. 
 
 60 
 
 Whitman, George L. 
 
 :^7 
 
 Ager 
 
 60 
 
 Mary S. 
 
 31 
 
 Lucy F. 
 
 14 
 
 Lorana M. 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 Mabel I. 
 
 9 
 
 Trull, Uriah 
 
 17 
 
302 
 
 Brown, Joseph 
 
 Elizabeth 
 George E. 
 Ermina 
 
 Whitman, George 
 
 Brown, Benjamin 
 
 Rowe, Willison 
 Laura A. 
 Eugene E. 
 
 Billings, Silas 
 Abby 
 
 Rowe, William 
 
 Billings, Eleazer 
 Mary J. 
 Orsamus 
 
 Wing, Elbridge G. 
 Roduska 
 Effie 
 Perley 
 
 Billings, Charles 
 
 Russell, Moses M. 
 Eveline 
 Elwyu S. 
 
 Cushman, Frank 
 
 York, George H. 
 Amanda 
 
 Howard, Esther 
 
 York, David 
 
 Ilarding, William 
 Mary E. 
 E-rank A. 
 John F. 
 Charles A. 
 
 Russell, Orlando 
 
 Harris, Henry S. 
 Pernielia 
 
 Buck, Hiram H. 
 Georgietta 
 Carrie E. 
 Erastus 
 
 Tucker, Cyrus A. 
 Caroline 
 Lillie 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 51 
 
 Tucker, Amy 
 
 48 
 
 John 
 
 16 
 
 Amasa 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 Jacobs, Charles 
 
 21 
 
 
 
 Bobbins, Oliver 
 
 &4 
 
 Judith 
 
 
 Eva A. 
 
 32 
 
 Estella 
 
 24 
 
 Elmer 
 
 7 
 
 Irvin 
 
 
 Mary 
 
 70 
 
 
 63 
 
 Perry, Eleanor 
 
 73 
 
 Thorn, Samuel 
 
 
 Amy 
 
 53 
 
 William 
 
 48 
 
 
 14 
 
 Rowe, Daniel 
 
 
 Ellen 
 
 30 
 
 Alphonso 
 
 24 
 
 
 4 
 
 Perry, Bartlet H. 
 
 2 
 
 Lucretia 
 
 62 
 
 Gowell, Elmer 
 
 45 
 
 Billings, Emerson 
 
 49 
 
 Anna 
 
 12 
 
 Betsey 
 
 14 
 
 Bryant, Chauncy 
 
 
 Loring 
 
 36 
 
 
 32 
 
 Parlin, William 
 
 
 Sarah 
 
 61 
 
 Albert R. 
 
 
 John C. 
 
 66 
 
 Edith M. 
 
 31 
 
 Davis, Benjamin 
 
 34 
 
 Melissa 
 
 9 
 
 Elroy 
 
 4 
 
 Elmer 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 Billings, Augustus 
 
 28 
 
 Harriet 
 
 
 Washington 
 
 55 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 55 
 
 Rosalinda 
 
 
 Leora 
 
 38 
 
 Arabel 
 
 32 
 
 Nellie 
 
 13 
 
 Lorenzo 
 
 9 
 
 Simeon 
 
 
 Merrill J. 
 
 36 
 
 Elmer 
 
 32 
 
 
 13 
 
 Abbott, Alpheus 
 
 11 
 
 6 
 1 
 
 13 
 
 50 
 
 49 
 
 17 
 
 15 
 
 9 
 
 5 
 
 2 
 
 78 
 
 70 
 60 
 19 
 
 26 
 
 21 
 
 51 
 51 
 
 12 
 
 28 
 22 
 63 
 
 19 
 
 40 
 26 
 14 
 
 42 
 
 41 
 
 13 
 
 2 
 
 42 
 42 
 
 22 
 20 
 18 
 16 
 14 
 12 
 10 
 
 1 
 
 00 
 

 APPENDIX. 
 
 30 
 
 Abbott, Betsey 
 
 20 
 
 Farnum, Natli'l J. 
 
 60 
 
 Susan 
 
 6-12 
 
 Bathsheba 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 Simeon 
 
 14 
 
 Davis, Benjamin 
 
 73 
 
 Horatio 
 
 13 
 
 Emma J. 
 
 29 
 
 Charles 
 
 17 
 
 Hopkins, Peter 
 
 55 
 
 Sessions, Charles 
 
 37 
 
 Experience 
 
 53 
 
 Nancy 
 
 28 
 
 Albert W. 
 
 20 
 
 Charles I. 
 
 8 
 
 Josephine 
 
 19 
 
 Sam'l D. 
 
 3 
 
 Lorenzo I). 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 Sheloa E. 
 
 14 
 
 Farrar, Rufus 
 
 62 
 
 
 
 Chloe 
 
 63 
 
 Farnum, Natlianiel 
 
 28 
 
 Francis 
 
 20 
 
 Deborah 
 
 25 
 
 Lovica 
 
 11 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 305 
 
 INDEX OF NAMES 
 
 Adams 4,81,92, 121, 124, 120 
 
 Family, 170, 254 
 
 Allen 11, 121, 192, 212, 248, 257 
 
 Andrews, 52, 56, 71, 72, 91, 116, 117 
 118,120,122,131. Family, 170, 
 192, 199, 200, 207, 214, 217, 221, 
 224, 252, 257. 
 
 Ackley, 78, 241 
 
 Abbott, 115, 116. Family, 169, 177, 
 226, 260. 
 
 Annas,. 138. Family, 171,221 
 
 Ayer Family, 172 
 
 Aldrich, 198, 225 
 
 Ayer, 205 
 
 Atwood, 222 
 
 Bonney, 11,258 
 
 Bryant, 12-14, 20, 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 
 30, 34, 35, 39, 40, 42-44, 63, 68, 
 70, 72-75, 78, 81, 91, 92, 94, 104- 
 106, 108, 109, 111, 112, 114, 116, 
 117,127,131,134,171, 179,182, 
 183. Family, 185-189, 191 , 196, 
 198-200, 203, 204, 208, 209, 217, 
 218, 220, 226, 228, 240, 246, 247, 
 249-251, 253, 256-259, 263, 264. 
 IJriggs, 13, 20, 23, 25, 30, 30, 38, 39, 
 42, 44, 68, 69, 81, 82,-86, 91, 103- 
 106, 111-114, 116-118, 120-122, 
 ' 124, 154. Family, 182, 183, 185, 
 186, 193, 196, 207, 218, 221, 241, 
 255, 258, 259. 
 
 Berry, 13, 23, 39, 68-71, 78, 100, 105, 
 110,115-117,125. Family, 172, 
 170, 177, 185, 187, 195, 196,230, 
 234, 247, 262, 263, 267. 
 
 Bartlett, 17, 59, 61-64, 73, 78, 112, 
 
 125. Family, 174, 187, 188, 208, 
 213, 216, 235, 244. 
 
 Bisbee, 20, 22, 28, 30, 33-37, 39, 42, 
 86, 91, 92, 104-106, 120, 124. 
 
 126, 129, 130, 138, 143, 148, 149. 
 Family, 180, 189, 212,216, 232, 
 236, 244, 246, 256, 265. 
 
 Bacon, 20, 23, 59, 78, 130, 132. Fam- 
 ily, 172, 177,180, 182, 186, 194. 
 197, 223. 
 
 •Names in the Appendix are not indexed. 
 21 
 
306 
 
 INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 Billings, 23, 28, 30, 33, 35, 37, 33, 40, 
 
 42-44, 50, 65, 74, 91, 92, 104- 
 
 106, 1L7, 119, 120, 128, 133, 134. 
 
 Family, 178, 193-195, 217, 227, 
 
 242, 253, 259, 260, 204. 
 
 Bradley, 29, 174 
 
 Brooks, 37, 38, 40, 56, 63, 66, 91, 92, 
 
 105-107, 127, 148, 150, 151. 
 
 Family, 183, 185, 188, 203, 218, 
 
 221, 226. 
 Bessee, 37, 40, 42, 43, 74, 105, 106, 
 
 108, 109, 115-117, 122, 124, 154. 
 
 Family, 178, 195, 231, 243, 254, 
 ' 260, 264. 
 Bowker, 40, 76, 78, 91, 94, 100, 101, 
 
 105, 106,110,112, 115,116,120, 
 
 125. Family, 181, 189, 191, 
 
 204, 210, 225, 237, 244, 246, 256. 
 
 Bannister, 44, 47 
 
 Barrows, 59, 61-64, 92, 1 12. Family, 
 
 173, 200,221,220,247,218,267. 
 Buck, 59, 62-66, 117, 126, 174, 178, 
 
 183, 184. Family, 187, 188, 
 
 199,215,234,248. 
 Bailey, 60, 63, 65, 94. Family, 172, 
 
 191,211. 
 Bearce, 62-65. Family, 175, 187, 188. 
 Burns, 64, 65, 127, 175. Family, 188, 
 
 231. 
 Becklar, 68, 70. Family 176, 217 
 Benson, 71, 75, 110, 173, 191, 208, 
 
 210, 224, 243, 256, 261, 263,265. 
 
 Beavins, 72,75 
 
 Bemis, 1 12, 201, 239 
 
 Bird, 74, 103, 197,258 
 
 Brock, 78, 125. Family, 183 
 
 Barstow, 78 
 
 Beal, , 79, 182 
 
 Bale, 93 
 
 Bradbury, 93, 125-127, 173, 
 
 Bolster, 100, 101, 109. 110, 125. Fam- 
 ily, 180,181,212,226. 
 
 Burgess, 100, 101, 205 
 
 Blake, 112, 228 
 
 Bixby, 117, 230 
 
 Bicknell, 120. Family, 178, 181, 208. 
 224, 239, 246. 
 
 Bennett, 121, 263 
 
 Burk, ^ 124 
 
 Babb 126 
 
 Bragdon, 126 
 
 Brown, 127, 187, 216, 231, 234, 247. 
 256. 
 
 Bridgham 127, 201,215 
 
 Burnell, 155 
 
 Brunell, 162 
 
 Brackett, 182 
 
 Bean 182, 215, 267 
 
 Barker, 184, 230, 236, 248 
 
 Bragg, 188, 255 
 
 Blanchard 188 
 
 Butterfield, 191, 239, 244 
 
 Bumpus, 193 
 
 Barden, 204 
 
 Barrett, :..208 
 
 Bent 208, 212 
 
 Bucknam, 209, 267 
 
 Bennett, 213 
 
 Bishop, 216 
 
 Buzzell, 222 
 
 Burr,. 231 
 
 Bigelow, 248 
 
 Burnham, 253 
 
 Barrett, 256 
 
 Bittlestone, 258 
 
 C. 
 
 Chandler 11, 36, 71, 92, 127, 129 
 
 Curtis, 13, 17, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 30, 
 
 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 42, 4«. 
 
 51, 52, 55, 56, 59, 80, 81, 91, 92, 
 
 104-106, 111, 112, 116, 128, 
 147, 173, 181, 185, 191, 193. 
 
 Family, 200, 201, 203, 204, 
 208-210, 216, 219, 221, 239, 265. 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 307 
 
 Chase, 16, 17, 20. 23-28, 30, 31, 33-38, 
 41-51, 5&-57, 67-70. 75. 76. 79. 
 80, 86,88,91,92.94, 10:^110, 
 112, 122, 124. 127, 128. 130, 1.36, 
 151.152,181,185.186. Family, 
 190, 193. 195.200,203,208,217, 
 218, 235, 244, 245, 250, 255, 
 264. 
 
 Cobb, ....18, 26. 208 
 
 Chadbourne 1 8, 187 
 
 Carpenter, 25. 191 
 
 Colburii, 25. .30. Family. 194 
 
 Churchill, 30, 34. 35, 37, 55, 78. 91. 92. 
 104-106. 125, 182. Family, 
 193, 200, 209, 224, 235, 246, 
 259. 
 Cotton, 30, 86, 87, 92, 104-106, 111, 
 116, 124, 125. Family, 196, 
 
 204, 2.38, 252, 255. 
 
 Cole, 31, 37-40. 68. 69, 72, 73, 75, 
 78, 91, 104-106, 108, 112-114, 
 116, 124, 125, 132, 177-179, 
 181-183, 191, 192. Family, 
 195, 196, 206, 213, 228, 236, 
 242-244, 255, 258, 264, 266. 
 Clifford, 36-38,48,49, 59, 104, 111. 
 
 Family, 194, 212, 259. 
 Carman,. . . .39, 70, 105, 109, 186, 188 
 Cushman, 43, 52, 55, 56, 74, 91, 94, 
 107, 113, 114, 147. 181, 197. 
 Family, 202, 217, 219, 221, 231, 
 248, 255, 266. 
 
 Crocker, 46, 47, 52, 131, 154 
 
 Cummings, 52, 60-66, 7;^»-76, 78, 82. 
 103, 112. 116. 171, 178, 185- 
 188, 195. Family, 198-200, 
 
 205, 212, 220, 228, 233, 2.34. 
 
 Cates 63, 65, 236 
 
 Crockett. 64, 65, 78, 121, 125, 173, 
 
 197, 198, 201,250. 
 Clark, 74, 91, 92, 157. 179, 180. Fam- 
 ily, 193, 194, 210. 
 Caswell, ........76,92, 97,196,265 
 
 Carter 76,91. 181, 189,22.3,248 
 
 Coffin,... 76-78, 80, 100, 101, 182, 228 
 Chamberlain, 92. 180, 186. Family, 
 189,216. 
 
 Corliss 100 
 
 Currier ■ 108, 109 
 
 Cargill 110 
 
 Crawford, 119, 120. Family, 197, 
 202, 220. 
 
 Carpenter, 121 
 
 Croswell 127 
 
 Crosby, 129 
 
 Case, 177 
 
 Chapin, 177,208 
 
 Cooper, 179, 183 
 
 Carryll 180 
 
 Cross, 183 
 
 Carr. 189 
 
 Cram 189. Family, 196, 265 
 
 Cushing, 189, 222 
 
 Crooker, Family, 198, 234, 243 
 
 Childs 210,266 
 
 Conant, 210 
 
 Cary 213 
 
 Cox, 218,250 
 
 Chandler, 221 
 
 Coy 222 
 
 Cook, 231 
 
 Caldwell 240 
 
 Connery 242 
 
 D. 
 
 Day, 13, 22, 28, 30. 33. 34, 37, 40, .50, 
 6.3-65, 75, 76, 78, 81, 92, 104. 
 105, 108, 110, 111, 113, 114, 
 125, 128, 146, 172, 194, 199. 
 
 Family, 205, 209, 215, 228, 243, 
 250, -.^67. 
 Dow, 19, 23, 30, 91, 104-106, 171. 
 183. Family, 207, 211. 
 
308 
 
 INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 Dunham, 19, 23, 40, 71, 73, 74, 88, 
 91, 92, 94, 99, 104-106, 109, 
 111, 119, 120, 124, 125, 144, 
 148, 153, 154, 171, 178, 181, 
 182, 199, 201, 207. Family, 
 210, 211, ,212, 214, 221, 238, 
 240, 247, 252, 260. 
 
 Dudley, 19, 23, 28, 30, 34-38, 40, 50, 
 55,65, 75, 70, 78, 80, 91,92, 
 100, 101, 104-106, 111-114, 125, 
 181, 186, 201, 203, 205. Fam- 
 ily, 207-209, 217, 229, 243, 247, 
 248, 264. 
 
 Drew, 20, 23, 30, 187 
 
 Daicy, 22, 30, 38, 104-100, 112, 200. 
 Family, 202, 203, 206, 222, 259, 263. 
 
 Dexter, 28 
 
 Davis, 34, 35, 37, 40, 51, 55, 56, 80, 
 81,88,91,92,94,104-108, 111, 
 113, 114, 116, 124, 127, 131, 
 181, 183, 186, 191, 196, 200, 
 201. Family, 203, 204, 209, 
 213, 217, 218, 219, 221, 227, 
 236, 239, 242, 243, 245, 248, 
 251, 257, 260. 
 
 Dolloff, 40, 42, 92, 105, 106. Family, 
 206, 260. 
 
 Durell, 40, 92, 105, 106, 112, 211, 
 Family, 212, 247, 252. 
 
 Dunn, 42, 252 
 
 Daniels, 59, 62 
 
 Darmon 62 
 
 Dingley, 100 
 
 Drake, 68, 70, 71, 154, 207 
 
 Dore, 77 
 
 Doughty, 78, 116. Family, 206, 207 
 
 Downing, 81 
 
 Doten, 92, 256 
 
 Doane, 92, 176 
 
 Dockham, , 93 
 
 Durgin 125 
 
 Danforth 127 
 
 Dana, 130, 156 
 
 Dearing, 200 
 
 Doe, 200 
 
 Dunbar, 218 
 
 Dwinell, 226 
 
 Davy, 234 
 
 Dean, 235, 236, 265 
 
 Dennen, 239 
 
 Dale, 263 
 
 Drinkwater, 266 
 
 Ellis, 55, 91, 194, 204. Family,. .213 
 Estes,56, 66, 72, 73-75, 94, 125, 154, 
 188, 195, 200, 211, 212. Fam- 
 ily, 213-215,241, 243, 251. 
 
 Eldridge, 81,82 
 
 Edgerly, 93, 171. Family, 213 
 
 Ethridge, : 117 
 
 Ellingwood, 171, 173, 182 
 
 Emery, 182, 184, 242 
 
 Edwards, 219 
 
 Emerson, 230 
 
 Elliott, 2.30 
 
 Eames, 234 
 
 Enearl, 264 
 
 Everett, 266 
 
 Eastman, 268 
 
 Fuller, 17, 22, 30, 35, 37, 38, 52, 76, 
 78, 91, 92, 104-106, 111, 112, 
 116-120, 125, 127, 134, 183, 184, 
 199,201-203, 208, 210, 212, 216, 
 
 218, 219. Family, 220-222, 
 248, 260. 
 Fobes, 18, 23, 30, 104. Family, 219 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 509 
 
 Felt, 20, 22, .".0, ?>7-39, 78, 91, 94, 104, 
 105, 17G, 179, 185, 191,202, 204, 
 209, 210, 216. Family, 217, 
 218, 244, 255, 250. 
 Farrar,31, 104, lOG, 112, IIG, 128, 189, 
 212. Family, 216, 217, 221, 
 227,241,245,253,260. 
 Fickett, :J7, 40, 42, 51, 55, 50, 81, 91, 
 92, 105, 106, 183, 185, 191,204, 
 20.), 217. Family, 218, 219, 
 221, 239, 242, 206. 
 
 Fairfield, 63 
 
 Frost, 04, 78,222 
 
 Frye, 77, 121 . Family, 220, 250 
 
 Fifield, 78, 203, 205, 213 
 
 Greenwood, 11, 13, 10, 47, 190 
 
 (Jray, 18, 24, 28, 34-37, 51, 78, 104- 
 
 100, 177, 203. Family, 223, 
 
 208. 
 
 Gerry, 20, 82 
 
 Green, 30, 34, -35, 37, 92, 104, 110, 120, 
 
 189, 196. Family, 22-3, 224, 
 
 260, 266. 
 Gallison, 56, 76, 78, 94, 108, 118-121, 
 
 155, 220. Family, 222. 
 
 Grant, 68 
 
 Goud, 74,91,178 
 
 Gaines, .* 77 
 
 Gilbert, 78,205,213 
 
 Goodricli, 79, 214 
 
 Getchell, 92 
 
 Glincs 92. 265, 267 
 
 Farrington 82 
 
 Fairbanks, 82, 188 
 
 Frazier, 82 
 
 Ford 82, 185, 192 
 
 Fogg, : 82, 91 
 
 Farnum, '91, 92, 108, 115, 116,119. 
 
 120, 127, 188, 205. Family, 
 
 215, 210, 225, 23.3. 
 French, 92, 100, 202. Family, 219, 
 
 222, 2.32, 230, 254. 
 
 Freeman, 93 
 
 Frink, 176 
 
 Foster, 198, 200, 214, 200 
 
 Faunce, 203, 241 
 
 Foss, 221 
 
 G. 
 
 Godfrey, 93 
 
 Godwin, 124, 1 78, 240 
 
 Grover, 127, 177, 186 
 
 Gilpatrick 181 
 
 Gowell, 182 
 
 Gordon, 182 
 
 Gookin, 182 
 
 Griffin, 180 
 
 Gates, 191 
 
 Goss, 197 
 
 Greenleaf , 204 
 
 Gibson, 220. Family, 222, 223 
 
 Greeley, 221 
 
 Gage, 230 
 
 Graham, 233 
 
 Gurney, 244 
 
 Grimes, 245 
 
 H. 
 
 Hammond, 11, 20, 2-3, 34, 104-100, 
 111, 177, 202, 203, 222. Fam- 
 ily, 224, 252, 260, 262. 
 
 Hutchinson, 18, 23, .30, 134 
 
 Hubbard, 24, 26, 30, 129 
 
 Harris, 36,197 
 
 Howard, 40, 105, 221, 222 
 
 Hale, 47 
 
 Houghton, 54-56, 77, 78, 91, 109, 110, 
 121, 122, 125, 130, 181. Fam- 
 ily, 225, 226, 254, 264. 
 
 Hamlin 59, 62 
 
 Hodges, 59, 194 
 
 Hemmingway, 60-62, 179, 187, 218, 
 
 225. 
 Hicks, 63, 241,247 
 
310 
 
 INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 Hooper, 69 
 
 Hall, 74 
 
 Herrick, 75, 183, 199, 204, 218 
 
 Hodgdon, 75 
 
 Hilton 76,7.S,181 
 
 Hobbs,....78, 121, 188, 215. Fam- 
 ily, 225, 262. 
 Hannaford, 82, 91, 118, 120, 178. 
 Family, 224. 
 
 Hazeltine, 83, 201 
 
 Heath, 92, 223. Family, 224 
 
 Hasey, 92, 182, 196, 238, 250 
 
 Hartford, 93 
 
 Harding, 116 
 
 Howe, 121, 124, 170, 225, 232, 237, 
 249, 268. 
 
 Holmes, 129, 172,221 
 
 Hamlin, 129 
 
 Hill, 170, 189,211,265 
 
 Hathaway, 172, 195, 217, 232, 246, 
 
 253. 
 Haley, 176, 223, 224 
 
 Irish, 18, 35, 78, 187, 193. Family, 
 226, 227, 240, 246. 
 
 Howland, '.179 
 
 Harlow, 181 
 
 Hopkins, 182. Family, 225 
 
 Holt 186, 208 
 
 Hackett, 192 
 
 Humphrey, 1U7, 267 
 
 Hnzzoy 199, 268 
 
 Hinkley, 206 
 
 Hoyt, 215, 250 
 
 Hanson, '. 217 
 
 Hayes, 221 
 
 Head, 230 
 
 Hutchins, 232, 266 
 
 Hartwell, 234 
 
 Haynes, 236 
 
 Holland,.... 238 
 
 Haskell, 239, 246 
 
 Houston, 240 
 
 Harvey, 245, 260 
 
 Holden, 257 
 
 Hodsdon, 263 
 
 Ingalls, 156,157 
 
 Joycelin, 12 
 
 Jarvis, 15 
 
 Jackson, 43, 53, 73, 74, 91, 116, 141- 
 143, 173, 179, 202, 205, 211, 
 212, 216. Family, 227, 228, 
 238, 239, 264. 
 
 Jordan, 60, 100, 116, 184, 186. Fam- 
 .ily, 229, 233, 241, 252, 267. 
 
 Jewett, 75 
 
 K 
 
 King, 26, 76, 157,245 
 
 Kittredge, 52, 127 
 
 Kimball, 57, 60-64, 66, 73, 74, 117. 
 155, 167-159, 178, 188 221, 
 
 Jacobs, 76, 100, 101, 108, 109, 119, 
 120, 125. Family, 228, 229, 
 244. 
 
 Johnson, 77, 204, 216 
 
 Jewell, 78, 101, 109, 115-117, 119, 
 120, 124, 125. Family, 229, 249 
 
 Jameson, 130, 156, 200 
 
 Judkins, 216,241 
 
 Jackman, Family 227 
 
 227, 229. Family, 230, 231, 
 238, 245. 
 Kent, 63 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 311 
 
 Knight, 78, 91, lOS, 110, 121, 125, 131, 
 180, 181, 183, 215, 220. Fam- 
 ily, 232, 233, 248, 252, 250. 
 
 Kennerson, 83 
 
 Kinsley, 86, 87, 92, 122, 124. Fam- 
 ily, 232, 255. 
 
 Kincaid, 03 
 
 Knapp, . . 115, 125. Family, 2.32, 268 
 
 Kalcr, 121 
 
 Kendall, ....126,223 
 
 Kidd 134 
 
 Kiigore, 179 
 
 Kecne, 181, 260 
 
 Kclley, 226 
 
 Lapham, 3, 56, 56, 60, 62, 73-75, 78, 
 100, 101, 108, 109, 116, 117, 
 
 119, 120, 124, 126, 160, 177, 
 186-188, 108, 100, 230. Fam- 
 ily, 2.34-2.36,241, 246, 251, 250. 
 
 Litby, 11, 22, 55, 78, 100, 120, 181, 
 
 21.3, 218, 219. Family, 237, 
 
 264. 
 
 LewLs, 14, 15, 18 
 
 Little, 16, 1% 20, 41, 43, 44, 47, 48, 58, 
 
 100, 203, 250, 263. 
 Lothrop, 20, 22, 20, 104, 105, 110, 113, 
 
 114. Family, 238. 
 Lunt, 30, 40, 91, 92, 104-100, 196. 
 
 Family, 238. 
 Landers, 40, 42, 43, 74, 75, 02, 105, 
 
 106, 147, 148, 177. Family, 
 
 233, 234, 254. 
 
 Lincoln, 46 
 
 Lurvey, 56, 92, 106, 107, 113, 114, 118, 
 
 120, 178, 200, 203, 218. Fam- 
 ily, 238, 230, 2.50, 257. 
 
 Mussey, 26 
 
 March, 41-45, 47, 48, 225 
 
 Mostly, 45 
 
 Moody, 60-62, 05-67, 73-75, 78, 94, 
 
 216, 234, 237. Family, 240, 
 
 241. 
 Merrill, 65-67, 100, 108, 109, 125, 190, 
 
 100. Family, 240, 253. 
 
 McCrillis, 65 
 
 Moore, 65, 106, 244, 245 
 
 Morgan, 05, 250 
 
 Leonard, .56, 92, 107, 148, 162. Fam 
 ily, 236, 265. 
 
 Low, 60, 69, 173 
 
 Lawrence, 72, 74, 217, 218, 251 
 
 Lyons, 72, 76 
 
 Latham, 81 
 
 Lull, 82 
 
 Leavitt, 115, 242 
 
 Look 124 
 
 Littlefield, 1.30 
 
 Lebroke, 176 
 
 Lovejoy, 177 
 
 Lucas, 182 
 
 LaCharite, 188 
 
 Lane, 107,261 
 
 Luce, 200 
 
 Leighton, 207 
 
 Lombard, 222, 245 
 
 Lampher, 226 
 
 Loriug, 237 
 
 Locke, 258, 250 
 
 M. 
 
 Macomber, 70 
 
 Milner, 71, 72 
 
 Morton, 75, 175, 231 
 
 Miilett,....78, 117, 126, 219, 253, 254 
 Marshall, 81, f2, 177, 182, 226, 227. 
 Family, 240. 
 
 Mitchell 82, 207, 220, 250 
 
 Mooar, 82 
 
 Miller 82, 83,85 
 
 McKibbin, 93 
 
 Murray, 109 
 
312 
 
 INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 Marr, 116 
 
 Mason, 117 
 
 McKenney, 119, 120, 124,227 
 
 Mayberry, 121 
 
 Morrill, 129, 1G4, 228 
 
 Maxim, 132, 173, 234 
 
 Marble, 154, 170 
 
 Mooney, 177 
 
 Merwin, 178 
 
 Mayhew, 181, 234 
 
 Matthews, 188, 227 
 
 McCobb, 197 
 
 Mann, 206 
 
 Monk 224 
 
 Martin, 229, 241, 267 
 
 Myrick, 230 
 
 Mixer, 254 
 
 Mugford, 257 
 
 N. 
 
 Nason,. . .14, 20, 23, 39, 180, 224, 246 
 Nutting, 20, 23, 31, 39, 130, 138, 143. 
 
 245. 
 Nute, 42, 81, 91, 92, 100, 107, 162, 
 
 179, 203, 204, 218. Family, 
 
 241,242. 
 Noyes, 58, 116, 170, 174, 175, 196, 197, 
 
 224, 238. 
 
 Newton, 66 
 
 Nay, 182 
 
 Needham, 188 
 
 Norton, 191 
 
 Nash, 192,237 
 
 Noble 250 
 
 Newhall, 266 
 
 Owens, 13, 14, 17, 23, 200 Ordway, . 
 
 Oliver 93 
 
 .178 
 
 Perry, 7, 60, 62, 82, 92, 131, 173, 177. 
 Family, 248, 252. 
 
 Peabody, 151 
 
 Phipps, 15 
 
 Perkins, 19, 23, 25-28, 31, 33-35, 37, 
 38,47,49,50,50,70,71,88,91, 
 104-106, 11.3-115, 121, 128, 209, 
 210, 212, 217, 221, 224, 246. 
 Family, 247, 266. 
 
 Perham, 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28, 31, 34- 
 40, 55, 56, 75. 76, 78-80, 88, 90- 
 92, 94, 95, 100, 104-114, 116, 
 120, 121, 124-126, 137, 156, 163, 
 178, 180, 191, 193, 195, 200, 204, 
 217, 219, 223, 227, 231, 235. 
 Family, 244-246, 25-3, 265. 
 
 Pollard, 20 
 
 Packard, 22, 36,37, 88, 91, 105-108, 
 112-114,116,127,171,178,187, 
 
 195, 198, 204, 205, 213, 214, 
 216, 238, 242, 243, 251. 
 
 Phillips, 26, 28 
 
 Page 26 
 
 Poor, 26 
 
 Parris, 28, 29, 33, 129 
 
 Pratt 43, 117, 199, 206, 221, 258 
 
 Pearson, 64, 65, 67, 117, 174, 208 
 
 Family, 243. 
 
 Pingree, 65 
 
 Peverly '. . 65 
 
 Pray, 66, 78, 119, 120, 125, 240. Fam- 
 ily, 249, 254. 
 
 Parlin 79,80, 177, 188 
 
 Pool, 87, 177, 185. Family, 249 
 
 Paine, 92, 146, 198, 200, 264 
 
 Proctor 116, 181, 218, 240 
 
 Pillsbury, 129 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 3i; 
 
 Porter, 157, 170, 267 
 
 Poland, 184 
 
 Philbrick, 187 
 
 Prentiss, IfW 
 
 Pulsifer, 196 
 
 Powers, 205 
 
 Putnam, 218. Family, 249 
 
 Pierce, 222 
 
 Plummer, 220 
 
 Penney, 226 
 
 Porter, 230 
 
 Phinney,* 234 
 
 Peterson, 24 1 
 
 Penley, 243 
 
 Palfrey, 258 
 
 Q. 
 Quinby, 82 
 
 R. 
 
 Read, 15, CO 
 
 Ricker, 16, 17, 19, 23, 34, 35, 37, 50, 
 
 56, 68, 69, 72-75, 80, 91, 92, 
 
 103-105, 108, 109, 112, 115, 116, 
 
 135, 205, 206, 235, 243. Family, 
 
 250,251,268. 
 
 Reniff, 18 
 
 Rand, 19, 23, 34, 50, 104-106, 112, 238. 
 
 Family, 249, 261. 
 
 Rust, 24, 26, 60, 254 
 
 Ripley, 26, 112, 204, 232, 245 
 
 Robinson, 44, 129, 205, 216, 243 
 
 Russ, 52, 92, 108, 109, 114, 116, 118, 
 
 120, 124, 131, 196, 202, 217. 
 
 Family, 254, 255. 
 
 Rawson, 52, 184, 264 
 
 Reed, 60 
 
 Richardson 72, 145, 236 
 
 Randall, 78, 165, 197, 212. Family, 
 
 250. 
 Robbins, 91, 92, 106, 116, 131, 171, 
 
 181, 196, 224, 248. Family, 
 
 251,252,258. 
 
 Richards, 100, 101 
 
 Rowe, 91, 92, 94, 100, 101, 106, 113, 
 
 114, 116, 126, 131, 145, 148, 179, 
 
 217, 219, 233, 246. Family, 
 
 252, 253, 260. 
 Russell, 92, 121, 127, 140, 179, 184. 
 
 Family, 255. 
 
 Rich, 100 
 
 Ryerson, Ill, 233 
 
 Ridlon, 115, 117,261 
 
 Rolfe, 125 
 
 Roberts, 127, 221 
 
 Riddle, 175 
 
 Ransom, • 211 
 
 Randall, ...220,223 
 
 Rice, 221 
 
 Rollins, 246 
 
 Robertson 257 
 
 Ray, 266 
 
 Swan, 3, 1-3, 20, 22, 36-^39,42, 66, 68, 
 69, 78, 91, 92, 104-106, 111, 115, 
 116, 143, 172, 177, 179, 180, 182, 
 183. 185, 186, 188, 191-195, 197, 
 203, 215, 235, 236, 237, 240, 256. 
 Family, 257-2-59, 263 
 
 Shaw, 11, 41, 86, 87, 118, 120, 122, 
 22 
 
 124, 195, 199, 227, 231, 233. 
 
 Family, 255. 
 
 Sawyer, 16, 45-47, 115, 125, 229 
 
 Storer, 16 
 
 Smith, 17, 18, 24, 51, 121, 134, 173, 
 
 207,211,218,242. 
 Starbird, 18, 24, 51, 91, 104-106, 181. 
 
314 
 
 INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 Family, 256, 261. 
 
 Strong, 26, 28 
 
 Stowell, 28 
 
 Stephens, 36-39. 49, 56, 80, 84, 91, 92, 
 105, 107, 113, 114, 115, 126, 
 130, 203, 217, 218, 239. Fam- 
 ily, 256-258 
 
 Swett, 75, 180, 267 
 
 Simmons, 78 
 
 Sheran, 78, 210 
 
 Stone, 81, 193 
 
 Stubbs, 92 
 
 Sands, 93 
 
 Snow, 93, 208 
 
 Swenarton, 93 
 
 Sanf ord, 93 
 
 Smiley, 93 
 
 Small, 100, 124 
 
 Stevens, 75, 77, 79, 117, 118, 120, 121, 
 186, 242, 257, 262, 267. 
 
 Sampson, 118, 120, 125, 223, 257 
 
 Silver, 121,181,248 
 
 Stearns, 124,197, 208 
 
 Sawyer, 127 
 
 Smart, 130 
 
 Sanborn 144, 229 
 
 Soule, 175, 209, 228 
 
 Seavy, 182 
 
 Spofford, 191, 192, 214, 216, 217, 265 
 
 Sessions, 192, 207. Family, 255 
 
 Shurtleff, 195,201 
 
 Swift , 201,226,257 
 
 Strout, 203 
 
 Stockman, 203 
 
 Story, 231 
 
 Shepley, 244 
 
 Severance. 261 
 
 Snell, 262 
 
 Stiles, 264 
 
 Thurlow, 13, 20, 23, 34, 35, 37, 42, 55, 
 56, 88, 92, 104-106, 111, 112, 
 115, 136, 179, 221, 223, 238, 252,. 
 254. Family, 260, 261, 264. 
 Townsend, 19, 23, 30, 50, 104, 111, 
 112, 250, 256. Family, 261. 
 
 True, 19, 203, 224. Family, 262 
 
 Twitchell, 36, 127, 160, 233, 2-58. 
 Family, 262, 264. 
 
 Tobey 46, 2.39, 256 
 
 Thompson, 60, 76, 77, 261 
 
 Tripp, 68, 69, 252 
 
 Tucker 75, 191 
 
 Tuttle, 76, 78, 121, 225. Family, 262 
 
 Tenney, 77, 235, 267 
 
 Tabor, 78 
 
 V. 
 
 Verrlll, 196,218 
 
 Vosmus, 197 
 
 Trull, 78, 100, 101, 194, 211, 214, 259 
 
 Turner, 82, 187, 235 
 
 Thorn, 92, 116, 206. Family, 259, 
 
 260. 
 Tuell, 92, 195, 200, 209, 225, 239, 244 
 
 Taylor, 116 
 
 Torrey, 118, 120 
 
 Talbot, 129 
 
 Tibbetts 174 
 
 Tyler, 190 
 
 Thayer 208 
 
 Tracy, 215 
 
 Tourtillott, 222 
 
 Tribou, 223 
 
 Tilden, 2-34 
 
 Virgin, 253 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 315 
 
 W. 
 
 Whitinan, 8, 11, 13, 20, 22, 27, 34-37, 
 47, 49, 54, 66, 57, 67-73, 75, 76, 
 78, 80, 86, 91, 92, 94, 100, 104- 
 108, 111, 11:3-117, 120-122,124, 
 132, 133, 137, 149, 166, 165, 
 170, 178-182, 191. 195,203,205, 
 214, 216, 218, 220, 221,- 223, 
 228, 236, 238, 245, 254, 257, 
 260. Family, 262-266. 
 
 Walton, 18, 19, 23, 26, 134, 170 
 
 Woodman, 26 
 
 Warren, 36-38, 78. 187, 194 
 
 Williams,.. 66 
 
 Woodward, 69 
 
 Willis 69, 197,226 
 
 Whittier 82 
 
 Wyman, 92, 108, 251. Family, 266, 
 268. 
 
 Wall 93 
 
 Weston, 93 
 
 Webber, 108, 109 
 
 Whitteraore, 115, 254. Family, 265 
 
 Wormwell, 1^ 
 
 Watson, 126 
 
 Wiley, 127 
 
 Wells, 129 
 
 Washburn,. ...130, 171, 180, 209, 245 
 
 White, 169 
 
 Wing, 179, 260 
 
 Winship, 185 
 
 Welsh 189 
 
 Wormwood, 195 
 
 Wilbur, 197 
 
 Wellcome 199 
 
 West, 202 
 
 Wallis, 206 
 
 Wilson, 206 
 
 Wellington, 207 
 
 Wheeler, 215 
 
 Wardwell, 215 
 
 Whitten, 227 
 
 Wheelock, 230 
 
 Wright, ... 243 
 
 Walker 243 
 
 Wood, 251 
 
 Webster, 260 
 
 Wight, 263 
 
 York, 78, 91, 116, 181, 229. Family, 
 
 267, 268. 
 Young, 108, 109, 112, 114, 116, 146, 
 
 176, 200, 201, 205, 210, 222, 231, 
 
 251, 260, 266, 267. Family, 
 267, 268. 
 Yates, 127, 195, 205, 218 
 
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