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HISTORY 
 
 OF THE TOWN OF 
 
 ROCHESTER 
 
 NEW HAMPSHIRE, 
 
 FROM 1722 TO 1890. 
 
 BY 
 
 FEANKLIN MCDUFFEE, A. M. 
 
 EDITED AND REVISED BY 
 
 SILVANUS HAYWAKD. 
 
 "Threshing Time's neglected sheaves, 
 Gathering up the scattered leaves 
 Which the wrinkled Sibyl cast 
 Careless from her as she passed." 
 
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LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 379 
 
 DR. JOSEPH HAVEi^ SMITH. 
 
 Elias Smith was bora in Epping, but removed in early life to 
 Moultonborough, where the poverty and sacrifices incident to the 
 settlement of a new country served to develop patience, perse- 
 verance, and energy of character. In a time of great scarcity of 
 provision he went on foot to Exeter, where he procured half a 
 bushel of Imiian corn and bore it home on his shoulder, a distance 
 of nearly seventy miles through a dense and almost pathless wil- 
 derness. 
 
 His son, John Smith, was born in Moultonborough and brought 
 up to a mechanical calling. He married Betsey Roberts of the 
 same place and removed to Rochester about 1796, where he reared 
 six sons and three daughters. He was through life an industrious, 
 hard-working mechanic, of strong mental powers, ready for every 
 emergency. Proverbially an honest man, he was endowed with 
 a keen, intuitive sagacity, and manifested great independence of 
 mind in the choice and maintenance of both religious and political 
 principles. He had the confidence of the whole community, and 
 those who knew him the most intimately, yielded him the largest 
 homage and respect. Of an inquiring spirit, and gifted with happy 
 conversational powers, his society was much sought, and he was 
 always listened to with interest and profit. His opinions, formed 
 only after due investigation, became incorporated into his very life. 
 His wife was remarkable for her domestic and stern republican 
 virtues. Caring always for her household with true maternal ten- 
 derness, she cherished to the last a most sacred regard for the 
 memory of the patriots of the Revolution. Remotely of blood kin 
 to the immortal Warren, she partook largely of those strong and 
 sterling qualities which characterized the women as well as the 
 men of the Revolutionary era. 
 
 Joseph Haven Smith, the youngest of the six sons of these pa- 
 rents, was born in Rochester l^ov. 17, 1805. His early life was 
 characterized by a thirst for knowledge, which increased with his 
 advancing years. Many discouragements were in his path, and 
 greatly to his regret he was compelled to relinquish the hope of 
 a collegiate education. His parents did all in their power for his 
 help and encouragement. His eldest sister, Arabella Smith, who 
 earl}^ began teaching, and was for many years principal of the 
 
380 ROCHESTER. 
 
 *' Ontario Female Seminaiy," at Caiiandaigiia, N. Y., rendered Mm 
 much assistance. The village school at Rochester was at that time 
 far in advance of any puhlic school in this part of the State, em- 
 ploying liberally educated teachers, and fitting those who wished 
 to enter college. Making the very best improvement of all the 
 means afforded by the " poor boys' college," he began teaching a 
 district school at the age of eighteen. A year later he commenced 
 the study of medicine under the tuition of James Farrington, M. D., 
 of his own village, and graduated at the Medical College in Bruns- 
 wick, Me., in 1829. He also followed his vocation of schoolmaster 
 during the whole five years of his medical studies. 
 
 After his graduation he practiced for three years in his native 
 town, and in 1832 removed to Dover. A Democrat, who inherited 
 his political ideas from a Democratic father, he early took an 
 active interest in the politics of the town and State. He was a 
 speaker of convincing power, and his abilities were not slow to 
 receive recognition. In 1837 he was elected a member of the 
 Legislature, and in 1848 and 1855 his name appeared on the 
 list of State senators. In 1848 he was chosen a presidential elector, 
 and cast one vote for Lewis Cass. He was appointed by President 
 Pierce inspector of drugs in the custom house at Boston. He 
 was a member of the gubernatorial councils of 1851 and 1852. 
 In 1848 he delivered the annual address at the commencement 
 exercises at Dartmouth, and for many years was president of the 
 Dover bank. He was for several years a member of the school 
 board, and it was through his unceasing efi^brts that the district 
 system was broken up and the high school erected. He was a 
 member of the district and state medical societies, and during 
 his active political career never relinquished his enthusiastic love 
 of his profession. He was largely instrumental in the erection of 
 the Pierce Memorial Church, of which he was a member. 
 
 In 1867 Dr. Smith removed to Lowell, Mass., and for a time 
 devoted his whole attention to the practice of his profession. The 
 exigencies of the Grant and Greeley campaign, 1872, however, 
 aroused the old political fire, and he entered vigorously into the 
 contest. Eecognizing the fact that the local Democracy was 
 without an organ, he started the "Middlesex Democrat," of which 
 he was proprietor and editor. Eleven months later he merged 
 the organ into the " Morning Times," which he soon afterwads 
 
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LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 381 
 
 sold out to the Hunt Brotliers. In 1876, during the Hayes and 
 Tilden campaign, he resumed the responsibilities of editor and 
 manager of the " Times," his assistants being D. W. O'Brien 
 and Frank Wood. In 1880 he sold out to Messrs. Campbell & 
 Hanscom, the present proprietors. He was a member of the 
 school board at Lowell for one term, and was connected with 
 Monomake Encampment, I. 0. 0. F. He was a man of unim- 
 peachable character and inherent attractions, whose word was a 
 guaranty of good faith, and whose friendship was a privilege 
 worthy the highest appreciation. His disposition was of the kind- 
 liest nature. He was scrupulous in his adherence to truth, and 
 never countenanced or gave currency to any statement, however 
 favorable it might be to the party he advocated, unless he was first 
 satisfied of its truth. 
 
 Dr. Smith married, first, Meribah Hanson, and, second, Mrs. 
 "Wiggin of Dover. He died, in a good old age, at Lowell, Mass., 
 Feb. 25, 1886, leaving a widow and three children: — Dr. H. J. 
 Smith of Lowell, Mass., and Mrs. Edwin Hills and Miss Lizzie 
 Smith of Washington, D. C. 
 
 H0:N^. JOHN p. HALE. 
 
 BY HON. JACOB H. ELA. 
 
 John Parker Hale was born in Rochester, N. H., March 31,, 
 1806. His father, John P. Hale, was a lawyer of much ability 
 and influence, and of great personal popularity, who died in 1819, 
 at the age of fortj^-two years, leaving a large family in limited 
 circumstances, the subject of this sketch being then but thirteen 
 years old. As a boy he was popular among his fellows — active, 
 fond of sport, quick to learn, courageous, kind, and free from 
 vindictiveness — qualities which adhered to him through life, 
 making him very popular in the community in which he lived, 
 and in the counties where he practiced at the bar, and com- 
 manding the good will and respect of the men whom his convictions 
 led him to oppose. From the public schools of his native Adllage 
 he went to Phillips Academy at Exeter, and graduated at Bowdoin 
 College in 1827. 
 
 Mr. Hale, on leaving college, entered upon the study of the law 
 
ZS'2 ROCHESTER. 
 
 in the office of J. H. Woodman, Esq., in Rochester, and completed 
 his studies with Daniel M. Christie, Esq., of Dover, where he had 
 the advantage of the instruction of one of the ablest lawyers ever 
 at the bar in the State. lie began to practice in Dover in 1830, 
 and for about forty years was the nearest neighbor of his old 
 instructor, who was always one of his warmest friends, although 
 the two were generally pitted against each other in all the leading 
 cases in court, and diifered much of the time politically. They 
 finally came together, however, the one from the standpoint of au 
 anti-slavery Whig, and the other from that of a Democrat with 
 anti-slavery tendencies, 
 
 Mr. Hale at once took high rank at the bar, and was noted 
 for his tact and skill in handling witnesses, and his great power 
 with a jury. Of all the advocates who practiced at the bar of the 
 old county of Strafford, Ichabod Bartlett of Portsmouth is the 
 only one remembered who equaled him in skill with witnesses, 
 or possessed that wit and humor, burning indignation, and touch- 
 ing pathos which were often brought out in his appeals to the 
 jury. His practice rapidly extended outside his own county into 
 Belknap, Carroll, and Rockingham. In 1S34 Mr. Hale was ap- 
 pointed United States District Attorney by General Jackson, and 
 was re-appointed by President Van Buren. 
 
 In all his ideas Mr. Hale was democratic, and jealous of every 
 encroachment upon popular rights. As a lawyer he contended 
 for the right of the jury to be judges of the law, as well as of 
 the tacts, and protested against their being instructed by the judges 
 how they must construe and apply the law, leaving them only to 
 find a verdict on rhe facts. He won reputation as a lawyer outside 
 the bar of ^ew Hampshire, in the Supreme Court at Washington, 
 and in the celebrated Fugitive Slave rescue cases in Boston. 
 When Shadrach was rescued in 1851 from the court house in 
 Boston by Lewis Hayden and others, and sent to Canada, great 
 excitement arose over the country, and especially in Washington, 
 where the President issued a proclamation commanding " all officers, 
 civil and military, and all well-disposed citizens in the vicinity ot 
 the outrage to assist in capturing the rescuers and quelling all 
 similar combinations." The Senate took up the matter on a res- 
 olution of Mr. Clay's calling on the President for information, 
 and a special message was received in answer, with the tacts and 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 383 
 
 assurance that the law should be executed. The debate that fol- 
 lowed was fierce and exciting, many senators participating. Mr. 
 Hale said he thought "the President felt pretty sure he had made 
 the administration ridiculous by his proclamation, and had sent a 
 labored essay to vindicate what could not be vindicated." Hayden 
 and Scott, the leaders in the rescue, were indicted and tried, but 
 the jury failed to agree, notwithstanding the character of the testi- 
 mony and the strong charge of the judge. Mr. Hale, who was 
 leading counsel for the defense, made one of the most noted ettb rts 
 of the times, addressed to the jury and the country. When the 
 case of Anthony Burns came up in Boston, three years later, 
 there was a still greater excitement. Theodore Parker, accidentally 
 hearing of the arrest, with diiliculty got access to the man, and 
 with the aid of counsel procured a continuance that Burns might 
 make defense. An immense meeting was held in Faneuil Hall 
 to consider what the crisis required. A party who were too impa- 
 tient to wait for the slower plans of the Anti-man-hunting League, 
 battered down with a stick of timber the outer doors where Burns 
 was confined. The garrison inside made a stand in the breach, 
 and one of the marshal's assistants, James Batchelder, was killed. 
 The noise drew the police to the scene, and a military company 
 marching into the court-area as they were returning from target 
 practice, being accidentally mistaken for a company of marines 
 coming to strengthen the garrison, the attacking party did not 
 feel strong enough to follow up their tirst success, and the rescue 
 failed. The President ordered the Adjutant-General of the army 
 to Boston, and the troops in Kew York were kept under orders 
 to march upon call, in addition to other preparations to prevent 
 a rescue. 
 
 Indictments were found against Theodore Parker, Wendell Phil- 
 lips, Martin Stowell, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and others 
 — some for murder, and others for assault and riot — mainly for 
 the speeches they made at Faneuil Hall meeting. Mr. Hale was 
 again secured as leading counsel for the defense, assisted b}' Charles 
 M. Ellis, William L. Burt, John A. Andrew, and Henry F. Du- 
 rant. The indictments broke down, and the parties were never 
 brought to trial. Theodore Parker afterwards published the 
 '' Defense " be had prepared, and dedicated it to his lawyer, John 
 P. Hale. 
 
384 ROCHESTER. 
 
 From the time of his graduation Mr. Hale took great interest 
 in political matters, and in 1832, two years after commencing the 
 practice of law in Dover, was elected to the Legislature, at the 
 age of twenty-six. Having identified himself with the Democratic 
 party, he became one of its most able and eloquent supporters, 
 and in 1843 was elected a representative to Congress on a general 
 ticket with Edmund Burke, Moses !N'orris, Jr., James H. Johnson, 
 and John R. Reding. On the assembling of Congress in December, 
 an exciting debate arose on the report made by John Quincy 
 Adams, chairman of the committee on rules, which left out the 
 famous twenty-first rule, known as the Gag rule, that had been 
 adopted in 1838 by a resolution introduced by Mr. Atherton of 
 New Hampshire, which required that " every petition, memorial, 
 resolution, proposition, or paper, touching, or relating in any way, 
 or to any extent ^vhatever, to slavery or the abolition thereof, 
 shall, on presentation, without any further action thereon, be laid 
 on the table, without being debated, printed, or referred." During 
 the debate Mr. Hale, with Hamlin of Maine, and a few other 
 Democrats, avowed their opposition to the longer suppression of 
 the right of petition. The report was laid on the table, and the 
 rule continued by a small majority. It had originally been adopted 
 by a vote of about two to one. This was the beginning of Mr. 
 Hale's anti-slavery action in Congress, which was destined to bring 
 him so conspicuously before the country. 
 
 In the presidential campaign of 1844, Mr. Hale took an active 
 part. He distinguished himself as a political speaker, and contrib- 
 uted much to the success of his party. The question of the 
 annexation of Texas had exercised a controlling interest in the 
 South, from the necessity of obtaining more slave territory, if they 
 would maintain their power, in view of the growing anti-slavery 
 sentiment in the !N"orth, which was beginning to aftect the action 
 of Democrats. Mr. Clay had lost the State of New York, and 
 with it the election, in consequence of his hesitating position of 
 opposition to the measure, which sent enough Whig anti-slavery 
 votes to Birney to have elected him. Mr. Hale was known to 
 be opposed to annexation, as were many other New Hampshire 
 Democrats ; but no opposition was made to his re- nomination to 
 Congress, as fealty to that measure had not yet become a shiboleth 
 of the party, as it did soon after. On the assembling of Congress 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 385 
 
 in December, 1844, the advocates of annexation at once entered 
 upon the work for its consummation. President Tyler in his 
 message called for immediate action, and during that month several 
 schemes for annexation were submitted. In part to show the 
 pro-slavery character of the movement, and to fix a western limit 
 beyond which slavery should not go, Mr. Hale, on the 10th of 
 January, moved a suspension of the rules to enable him to intro- 
 duce a proposition to divide Texas into two parts by a line be- 
 ginning at a point on the Gulf of Mexico, midway between the 
 northern and southern boundaries, and running in a northwesterly 
 direction. In the territory south and west of that line, it was 
 provided that there should be neither slavery nor involuntary 
 servitude; and that the provision was to remain forever an invi- 
 olable contract. The motion had a majority of eleven, but failed 
 to receive the requisite two thirds. The necessities of the South 
 now made it necessary to suppress all opposition to the scheme of 
 annexation. The election had put the control of the government 
 in the hands of its friends, and all its patronage was to be wielded 
 to secure that result. The Legislature of K"ew Hampshire was in 
 session, as was then the custom every winter of the presidential 
 year, to provide electors in case of failure to elect by the people, 
 and resolutions were at once introduced and pushed through, 
 favoring annexation, and instructing the delegation in Congress 
 from the State to sustain it. " Obey or resign " had long been a 
 Democratic doctrine in the State ; and while most of the members 
 might not have so understood it, the leaders were aiming at Mr. 
 Hale, who had favored that doctrine. He met these resolutions 
 with defiance. He stood by the record he had made against any 
 further strengthening of the slave power, while mortified to see 
 so many of his associates going down before it, among them the 
 editor of the Democratic paper in his own town, who had expressed 
 the desire that an impassable gulf might forever exist to prevent 
 annexation, while another leading Democratic editor declared the 
 whole scheme " black as ink, and bitter as hell." It was a great 
 step to take, and a less daring spirit would not have ventured it. 
 Poor in property, with a family to support — the most popular man 
 in his party — with power to command and ability to adorn any 
 position his ambition might seek, on the one side — with alienation 
 of social and political friends, ostracism in business and politics 
 
386 ROCHESTER. 
 
 by a party which for sixteen years had held unbroken sway and 
 remorselessly cut down everj^ man who dared to oppose its declared 
 will, on the other — were the alternatives. Few men have shown 
 such . greatness of soul and loyalty to convictions under such 
 temptations. While most men would have yielded, Mr. Hale did 
 not falter, but at once wrote his celebrated letter to the people of 
 New Hampshire against the action of the Legislature in its reso- 
 lutions, in which, after setting forth the aims and purposes of 
 annexation, and the reasons given by the advocates and supporters 
 of the measure, he declared them to be " eminently calculated to 
 provoke the scorn of earth and the judgment of heaven." He 
 said he would never consent by any agency of his to place the 
 country in the attitude of annexing a foreign nation for the avowed 
 purpose of sustaining and perpetuating human slavery ; and if they 
 were favorable to such a measure, they must choose another 
 representative to carry^ out their wishes. 
 
 The Democratic State Committee immediately issued a call for 
 the re-assembling of the Democratic Convention at Concord on 
 the 12th of February, 1845, and every Democratic paper which 
 could be prevailed upon to do so, opened its battery of denunci- 
 ation, calling upon the convention to rebuke and silence Mr. Hale. 
 To show what eiforts were made to crush him, it need only be 
 said that such leaders of the party as Franklin Pierce, who had 
 been his warm friend ever since they were- fellow students in col- 
 lege, went forth over the State to organize the opposition. At 
 Dover he called in the leaders of the party, and the editor of the 
 " Dover Gazette," who had taken such strong grounds against 
 annexation, and under their influence the " Gazette " changed 
 sides and went over to Mr. Hale's enemies. He then went to 
 Portsmouth and brought over the leaders there, with the exception 
 of John L. Hayes, then clerk of the United States Court. The 
 same result followed at Exeter, with the exception of Hon. Amos 
 Tuck. In this way the convention was prepared to throw over- 
 board Mr. Hale and put another name on the ticket in place of 
 his. Expecting no other fate when he wrote his letter, Mr. Hale 
 remained at his post in Congress and only assisted his friends 
 from that point, making arrangements at the same time to enter 
 upon the practice of law in New York city upon the close of his 
 term. But resolute friends, who believed with him, rose up in all 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 387 
 
 parts of the State to defeat the election of John Woodbury, who 
 had been nominated in place of Mr. Hale. Prominent among 
 these, in addition to those named above, were ISTathaniel D. Wet- 
 more of Rochester, John Dow of Epping, George G. Fogg, then 
 of Gilmanton, James M. Gates of Claremont, James Peverly of 
 Concord, John Brown of Ossipee, George W. Stevens of Meredith, 
 John A. Rollins of Moultonborongh, James W. James of Deerfield, 
 IsT. P. Cram of Hampton Falls, and Samuel B. Parsons of Cole- 
 brook, with others of like stamp, who organized the first successful 
 revolt against the demands of the slave power, which, until then, 
 had been invincible. Through their efforts, Woodbury, the nom- 
 inee of the convention, failed to secure the majority over all others 
 needed to elect him, and another election was called to fill the 
 vacancy. Great excitement pervaded the State during the canvass, 
 into which Mr. Hale entered with spirit, giving full play to all 
 those characteristics which made him the foremost orator of the 
 State before the people, as he had been before juries. 
 
 The canvass opened in Concord in June, on the week for the 
 assembling of the Legislature, in the old Korth Church. To break 
 the force and effect of Mr. Hale's speech there, the Democratic 
 leaders determined that it should be answered upon the spot, and 
 selected Franklin Pierce for the work. On his way up to the 
 church, Mr. Hale saw no people in the streets, and he began to 
 fear there might be a failure in the expected numbers in attendance, 
 as there had been once before in the same place in 1840, when 
 he and other loaders of the i>arty were to address a mass meeting, 
 but when he reached the old church he saw^ why the streets were 
 vacant; the people had all gone early to be sure of getting in, 
 and the house was full to overflowing. Aware that he was ad- 
 dressing not only the citizens of Concord and adjoining towns, 
 and members of the Legislature, but the religious, benevolent, 
 and other organizations which always met in Concord on election 
 week, he spoke with more than his usual calmness and dignity. 
 He created a profound impression, and made all feel, whether 
 agreeing with him or not, that he had acted from a high sense 
 of public duty and conviction. 
 
 Mr. Pierce, who had few equals as a speaker, saw the marked 
 effect of Mr. Hale's address, and spoke under great excitement. 
 He was bitter and sarcastic in tone and matter, and domineering 
 
388 ROCHESTER. 
 
 and arrogant in his manner, if not personally insulting. The 
 convention was wrought up to the highest pitch of excitement when 
 Mr. Hale rose to reply. He spoke briefly, but effectively, and closed 
 by saying: — 
 
 " I expected to be called ambitious, to have my name cast out 
 as evil, to be traduced and misrepresented. I have not been dis- 
 appointed. But if things have come to this condition, that con- 
 science and a sacred regard for truth and duty are to be publicly 
 held up to ridicule, and scouted without rebuke, as has just been 
 done here, it matters little whether we are annexed to Texas, or 
 Texas is annexed to us. I may be permitted to say that the 
 measure of my ambition will be full, if when my earthly career 
 shall be finished, and my bones be laid beneath the soil of New 
 Hampshire, when my wife and children shall repair to my grave 
 to drop the tear of affection to my memory, they may read on 
 my tombstone, ' He who lies beneath surrendered otfice, place, and 
 power, rather than bow down and worship slavery.' " 
 
 The scene which followed can be imagined, but not described, 
 as round after round of applause greeted this close. At the end 
 of the canvass in September, with three candidates in the field, 
 there was again no election. A second efifort in ITovember ended 
 with a like result. 'No other attempt was made until the annual 
 March election of 1846, when full tickets were placed in the field 
 by the Democrats, "Whigs, Free-Soilers, and Independent Demo- 
 crats. The issue of no more slave territory was distinctly made, 
 and a canvass such as the State had never known before, in which 
 Mr. Hale took the leading part, resulted in a triumphant vindi- 
 cation of his course, and the complete overthrow of the Demo- 
 cratic party, which was beaten at all points. Mr. Hale was elected 
 to the House from Dover, on the Independent ticket, and on the 
 opening of the session was made Speaker of the House of Rep- 
 resentatives, and during the session was elected United States 
 senator for the full term of six years. It was on this occasion 
 that John G. "Whittier wrote that very gem of political squibs, 
 beginning, " 'T is over, Moses ! — all is lost!" During this session 
 of the Legislature an incident took place which exhibited the 
 independent spirit of the man. Dr. Low, a member from Dover, 
 introduced resolutions upon the tariff, slavery, and annexation, 
 taking the ultra- Whig view of the tariff' question, and intended to 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 389 
 
 bring Mr. Hale and his friends to their support as the condition 
 upon which he could have the vote of a considerable portion of 
 the Whig party. But instead of yielding his convictions for the 
 consideration of their support, he and his friends declared they 
 would submit to no shackles ; they had fought successfully against 
 the tyranny of one political organization, and no allurements of a 
 eenatorship should stifle their convictions and bind their judgment 
 to the dictations of another. Much excitement followed, but the 
 counsels of the liberal Whigs prevailed. The resolutions were not 
 called up until after the senatorial election, when Mr. Hale left 
 the speaker's chair, and offered amendments, which were adopted 
 after a strong speech by him in their favor. He was supported 
 by his old friend and instructor, Daniel M. Christie of Dover, also 
 a member of the House, who had done much to quiet the opposition 
 and induce it to vote for Mr. Hale. 
 
 The hearts of the friends of liberty all over the country were 
 filled with joy at the auspicious result of this first victory over 
 the slave power after repeated, prolonged, and excited struggles 
 both before the people and at the polls. Mr. Hale entered the 
 Senate in 1847, and for two years stood alone, with unfaltering 
 courage, battling the aggressive measures of the slave power with 
 surpassing eloquence, keen wit, unfailing good humor, and bound- 
 less resources for any and every, emergency. He drew the attention 
 of the country, during this session, by the telling blows he struck 
 for the great cause of human freedom, to which he dedicated all 
 the noblest powers of his mature manhood. He stood fearless 
 against every threat and all combinations. It was of his debates 
 during his first senatorial term, after his return from Spain, broken 
 in health, that Charles Sumner said to the writer : — " Poor Hale ! 
 It is sad to see his manly form crippled and shrunken. He stood 
 up bravely and alone before the rest of us got there to aid him, 
 and said things on the spur of the moment, that will last and be 
 remembered when the labored efforts of the rest of us are for- 
 gotten." Chase of Ohio, a sturdy son of ISTew Hampshire, came 
 to the Senate in 1849 to stand beside him, and two years later, 
 in 1851, Sumner of Massachusetts. They constituted a trio of 
 great ability, but were treated as interlopers and refused positions 
 on the committees of the Senate for the reason, as alleged by 
 
390 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Bright of Indiana, that " they belonged to no healthy organization 
 known to the country." 
 
 One of the first debates in which Mr. Hale distinguished him- 
 self, after entering the Senate, was on the admission of Oregon, 
 when he proposed to add the ordinance of 1787, excluding slavery, 
 which drew on a fierce debate. When accused of provoking a 
 " useless and pestiferous discussion,''* he told them with his accus- 
 tomed good nature, that he was " willing to stand where the word 
 of God and his conscience placed him, and there bid defiance to 
 consequences." 
 
 Early in April, 1848, the year of popular upheavings and rev- 
 olutions in Europe, President Polk sent a message to Congress 
 announcing, in glowing terms, the uprising of the French people 
 — the peaceful overthrow of the monarchy, and the establishment 
 of a republic. Resolutions were introduced in the House of Rep- 
 resentatives, tendering their warmest sympathy with the struggling 
 patriots, and expressing the hope " that down-trodden humanity 
 may succeed in breaking down all forms of tyranny and oppres- 
 sion." Similar resolutions were introduced in the Senate. Speak- 
 ing on the question in a sad strain Mr. Hale said : — 
 
 " I have sometimes thought, in dwelling upon the history of this 
 republic, that I have seen indications, fearful and fatal, that we were 
 departing from the faith of our fathe'rs ; that instead of living true to 
 the first principles of human liberty which we have proclaimed, we 
 were cutting loose from them ; that the illustration we were about 
 to give of the capability of man for self-government was to be 
 the same as that of all other nations that have gone before us; 
 and that after our failure the hope of freedom would indeed be 
 extinguished forever. But in the dawning of this revolution in 
 France I behold the sun of hope again arise, his beams of golden 
 light streaming along the eastern horizon. I am now inspired 
 by the hope that even if we fail here, if liberty should be driven 
 from this, her chosen asylum, the divine principle would still live 
 and would find a sanctuary among the people of another land; 
 and when our history shall have been written, and our tale told, 
 with its sad moral of our faithlessness to liberty, — boasting of 
 our love of freedom, while we listened unmoved to the clanking 
 of chains and the wail of the bondmen, — even then, in a con- 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 391 
 
 tinent of the old world, light would be seen break! no- out of 
 darkness, life out of death, and hope out of despair." 
 
 There was a municipal celebration of this event in Washington, 
 with torchlight procession and other out-door demonstrations, the 
 houses of the President and heads of the departments being illu- 
 minated. During these demonstrations the schooner Pearl came 
 to Washington loaded with wood, and when she left took away 
 seventy-seven slaves. Such an exodus caused great commotion, 
 and an armed steamer was sent in hot pursuit, which overtook 
 the schooner at the mouth of the Potomac and brought her back 
 with her ill-fated company. The greatest excitement prevailed, 
 and out of it came a mob, which, after partially exhausting its 
 fury, started for the office of the " ]!^ational Era " to destroy it, 
 but were frustrated in their purpose. In Congress the excitement 
 was as fierce and intense as outside. In the House the debate 
 was especially bitter. In the Senate Mr. Hale offered a resolution, 
 copied from the laws of Maryland, providing that any property 
 destroyed by riotous assemblages should " be paid for by any town 
 or county in the district where it occurs." Mr. Calhoun was 
 " amazed that even the senator from ISTew Hampshire should 
 have so little regard for the constitution of the country as to 
 introduce such a bill as this without including in it the severest 
 penalties against the atrocious act which had occasioned this 
 excitement," and said he " would just as soon argue with a maniac 
 from Bedlam, as with the senator from 'New Hampshire on the 
 subject." Foote of Mississippi denounced the bill " as obviously 
 intended to cover and protect negro stealing." Turning to Mr. 
 Hale he said: — "I invite him to visit Mississippi, and will tell 
 him beforehand, in all honesty, that he could not go ten miles 
 into the interior before he would grace one of the tallest trees ot 
 the forest with a rope around his neck, with the approbation o± 
 every honest and patriotic citizen ; and that, if necessary, I should 
 myself assist in the operation." Jefferson Davis, and Butler ot 
 South Carolina, joined in the attack upon him in the same strain, 
 while he stood alone. Mr. Hale explained his purpose in intro- 
 ducing the resolution, and in replying to the assaults said : — 
 " The notes of congratulation sent across the Atlantic to the 
 people of France on their deliverance from thralldom have 
 hardly ceased when the supremacy of law and the freedom ot 
 
392 ROCHESTER. 
 
 the press are threateued in the capital of the nation." Refer- 
 ring to Foote's threatened reception in Mississippi, he invited the 
 senator to visit '' the dark corners of New Hampshire, where 
 the people in that benighted region will be very happy to listen 
 to his arguments and engage in the intellectual conflict with him 
 in which the truth would be elicited." Turning to Calhoun, he 
 said: — "It has long been held by you that your peculiar insti- 
 tution is incompatible with the right of speech ; but if it is also 
 incompatible with the safeguards of the constitution being thrown 
 around the property of the American citizen, let the country know 
 it. If that is to be the principle of your action, let it be pro- 
 claimed throughout the length and breadth of the land, that there 
 is an institution so omnipotent, so almighty, that even the sacred 
 rights of life and property must bow down before it. There could 
 not be a better occasion than this to appeal to the country. Let 
 the tocsin sound; let the word go forth." He further told Calhoun 
 that it was " a novel mode of terminating a controversy by char- 
 itably throwing the mantle of a maniac irresponsibility upon one's 
 antagonist." Adjournment closed the discussion, and the Senate 
 refused to take it up afterwards. 
 
 In December, 1850, Mr. Foote of Mississippi introduced a reso- 
 lution declaring it to be the duty of Congress to pro\ide terri- 
 torial government for California, Deseret, and New Mexico. ^Mr. 
 Hale ottered an amendment, that the ordinance of 1787 should be 
 applied. It was during the debate which followed that Mr. Web- 
 ster made his 7th of March speech. During the discussion Mr. 
 Hale occupied two days in an argument vindicating the measures 
 and acts of the anti-slavery men. Replying to Mr. TVebster, he 
 said: — '-Yet the senator declares he would not re-enact the laws 
 of God. Well, sir, I would. When he tells me that the law of 
 God is against slavery, it is a most potent argument why we 
 should incorporate it in a territorial bill." 
 
 In closing he said : — " And firmly believing in the providence 
 of God, we trust the day will dawn in this country when the 
 word ' slavery " shall be a word without a meaning, when any 
 section of the Union will join hands with another in spreading 
 abroad the principles of humanity, philosophy, and Christianity, 
 which shall elevate every son and daughter of the human race to 
 that libertv for which thev were created, and for which thev were 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 393 
 
 destined by God. These opinions, sir, we entertain, and these 
 hopes we cherish ; and we do not fear to avow them, here, now, 
 always, and forever." 
 
 Mr. Hamlin and Mr. Hale presented petitions for the repeal of 
 the fugitive slave act, one of which was referred to the judiciary 
 committee. A debate sprang up on a motion for reconsideration, 
 which gave rise to a spirited controversy. Butler of South Caro- 
 lina declared he " was tired of casting impediments in the stream 
 of anti-slavery agitation ; thej^ might as well attempt to put a 
 maniac asleep by lullabies." Mr. Hale, in repl}^ said " agitation 
 was the great element of life. It gave birth to the revolution 
 and the constitution, and none but those who hug fatal errors 
 have anything to fear from that life-giving element, which will 
 impart its healing as did the waters at the beautiful gate of the 
 temple, when the angel had gone down and stirred them. As for 
 myself, I glory in the name of agitator." 
 
 The period of greatest interest in Mr. Hale's senatorial career 
 centers around his first term, when he stood alone, or almost 
 alone, in the thick of the conflict, undaunted, and dealing blows 
 to the oppressor on ever}^ side. There were no weak places in 
 his armor, and neither threats, attacks, nor allurements could 
 shake his constancy. When this term expired, the Democratic 
 party had obtained control in 'New Hampshire ; but two years 
 later, in 1855, they lost it, and Mr. Hale was again elected for 
 four years, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the death of Charles 
 G. Atherton. He was again re-elected for a full term in 1858. 
 He was conspicuous in this term for his integrity and fearless 
 independence in exposing the mal-administration and extravagance 
 of the navy department, while acting as chairman of the naval 
 committee of the Senate. 
 
 Mr. Hale was nominated as the Free-Soil candidate for the 
 presidency in 1847, but declined after the nomination of Mr. Van 
 Buren at the Bufialo convention in 1848. He was again nom- 
 inated for president by the Free-Soil convention in 1852, with 
 George W. Julian for vice-president, and received at the Novem- 
 ber election 155,850 votes. 
 
 At the close of his senatorial career in 1865 Mr. Hale was 
 appointed Minister to Spain by President Lincoln, and was absent 
 five years, much of the time in ill health. He came home with 
 
394 ROCHESTER. 
 
 a broken constitution. His health, which had always been perfect 
 up to the time of the well-remembered National Hotel sickness, 
 was never so good afterwards. 
 
 He lived to see the full triumph of his efforts to rid the laud of 
 slavery, and the freedmen, with the ballot, placed as citizens under 
 the protection of the constitution, and died November 19, 1873, 
 bearing with him the blessings of millions who had been raised 
 from the sorrow and degradation of human servitude, and of mil- 
 lions more who had admired his unselfish fidelity to the cause he 
 had espoused, and his unwavering integrity. 
 
 DOMINICUS HANSON. 
 
 DoMiNicus Hanson, son of Joseph and Charity (Dame) Hanson, 
 was born Aug. 23, 1813, in the same house in Eochester where 
 he now (1888) resides. 
 
 His father was born in Dover Dec. 18, 1764, and died at Roch- 
 ester Dec. 19, 1832. He married Charity Dame March 4, 1798. 
 She was born in Rochester Sept. 1, 1775, and died Feb. 3, 1833. 
 They had ten children. 1. Humphrey, deceased, a druggist. 2. 
 Mary Z),, deceased, wife of Dr. James Farrington, deceased, of 
 Rochester, a distinguished phj-sician and member of Congress from 
 New Hampshire (p. 345). 3. Hannah, died in infancy. 4. Joseph 
 S., died at twenty-five; was a druggist. 5. Mcribah, deceased, wife 
 of Dr. Joseph H. Smith, late of Lowell, Mass. (p. 300). 6. Joanna^ 
 deceased, wife of John McDuttee of Rochester (p. 380). 7. An 
 infant, not named. 8. Hester Ann, deceased, wife of Daniel M. 
 Mooney. 9. Dominicus, the subject of this sketch. 10. Asa P., a 
 corn and flour dealer in Newton City, Iowa. 
 
 Joseph Hanson came to Rochester from Dover when a young 
 man, and immediatel}^ engaged in the general grocery and mer- 
 cantile business, which he successfully followed till within a few 
 3'ears of his death. He was a man of excellent judgment, good 
 common sense, shrewd, cautious, industrious, and economical. 
 He built the first brick store ever erected in Strafford county, 
 probably about 1810 or 1812. The roof, doors, and window-shutters 
 were of tin. At a very early day he made a brick vault for the 
 safe deposit of his papers, etc. He inaugurated many useful 
 schemes which have had a tendency for good, and his name is 
 
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LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 395 
 
 held in grateful remembrance by those who knew him. He was 
 justly considered one of the best business men of his day, and the 
 ample fortune left to his family fully attests this estimate of him. 
 He was a Whig in politics, but was averse to holding any office, 
 preferring to attend to his own private matters, hence his great 
 success for one of those days. 
 
 Mrs. Hanson was a member of the Methodist Church, and he 
 was an attendant and supporter of the various churches, though 
 not a member of any, rather leaning towards Universalism. 
 
 DoMiNicus Hanson received the advantages of a common-school 
 education until he was some fifteen years of age, and this was 
 supplemented by an academic education at Rochester Academy, 
 Parsonsfield Seminary, Me., and Hopkinton and Pembroke, N". H. 
 In 1830 he commenced the drug business as an apprentice to his 
 brother-in-law, Dr. Smith, and served him two years, when in 
 1832 he bought Dr. Smith's interest, and continued in the business 
 till the fire of December, 1880, except some two or three years 
 when away at school. Immediately after the fire he built on the 
 same spot a fine store now occupied by Burnham. 
 
 As an evidence of the confidence reposed in Mr. Hanson as an 
 honest and trustworthy gentleman, we may mention that at the 
 earnest solicitation of the business men of his native town, he 
 issued scrip of the respective denominations — 10 cts., 25 cts., and 
 50 cts,, — to the amount of $8,000, which reads as follows : — 
 
 "State op New Hampshire, Rochester, Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 "For value received, I promise to pay on demand, in current 
 
 Bank Bills, in sums of one dollar and upv^ards, at my place of business. 
 
 "DOMINICUS HANSON." 
 
 This scrip was issued when there was a scarcity of circulating 
 money during the great civil war, and before the general govern- 
 ment had issued any money. Circulating throughout JSTew England, 
 it was never refused, and was promptly redeemed when the general 
 government made its issue. " Honest Dominicus," as he has been 
 known by his friends for long years ! Who ever saw the goodly 
 village of Norway Plains but recalls his prim, pressed-brick 
 I two-story apothecary store, with its circular front, once the most 
 1 stylish store in the whole State of Kew Hampshire? its long- 
 remembered and excellent brick sidewalk in front, dating back 
 
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 to time immemorial, before this prospective city knew the luxury 
 of sidewalks ? its broad stone steps, always a delight to the innu- 
 merable patrons of this popular resort, who climbed them with the 
 assurance of safe foothold and excellent reception beyond? 
 
 If Noah could by any means be compelled to refit and re-arrange 
 the ark, and take in all that he considered necessary to stock a 
 new world, he couldn't collect the six or eight million invaluable 
 articles which were here gathered together from the four corners 
 of the earth (or " coming the next day ") unless he had the nearly 
 miraculous experience of our subject, and to acquire such an expe- 
 rience would cost a frightful expenditure of both time and money. 
 
 Mr. Hanson is now (1888) seventy-five years of age, a little less 
 than six feet in height, stands erect, possesses rather a commanding 
 figure, moves quickly like an active young man of twenty-five. 
 His hair, always inclined to brown, is silvered with age. He is 
 of a markedly nervous organization, his thin-cut face bearing its 
 certain evidence. i^othing about his face or general appearance 
 is strongly marked above many other men you may meet in the 
 course of a day's ride in any portion of Yankee land; by that 
 sign you can judge the man. 
 
 K ever wit and drollery overflowed in one person, here it is. I 
 know of no two faces in the country that so nearly resemble each 
 other as that of " Honest Dominicus " and the happy countenance 
 of America's humorist, " Mark Twain." The general impression 
 left by the two faces is the same, — the same mysterious gleam, 
 sure token of the mental flash, occurs in each, and the wit and 
 humor of each are fully recognized among his friends. The par- 
 allel holds good still further : in neither case can the purpose or 
 intent be solved. A matter of the lightest import may be treated 
 with ponderous gravity befitting a funeral oration, and while either 
 of the two is discoursing with lengthened face upon the topic, the 
 bystanders are convulsed with laughter. On the contrary, many 
 things w^hicli bewilder the brains of common people are heartily 
 laughed at by them. Like all puzzling human enigmas both these 
 worthies have become idealized in the aliectionate regard of many 
 friends. But Mr. Hanson is a study. In him lie the gentle graces, 
 geniality, cute Yankee sense, and the subtile and evanescent essence 
 of fun. In him dwells a constant gleam of drollery, always 
 welcome as sunshine in winter, or flowers in Ma}'. The mirth 
 
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LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 397 
 
 which overflows in his happy moments is all the more welcome 
 because of the uncertainty of its aim. It may be gentle invective 
 of society's shams ; perhaps a tinge of sarcasm wittily said lightens 
 his eftbrts. 
 
 In politics he has been a life-long Democrat of the old school. 
 He was an earnest supporter of General Jackson for the presidency 
 for the second term, though not old enough to vote. He cast his 
 first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren, and has voted at 
 every election since. "Without his knowledge he was appointed 
 postmaster of his native village by President Jackson, ere his 
 majority, and he continued to hold the same position under Van 
 Buren's and Harrison's administrations. He has been director of 
 the Norway Plains Savings Bank for many years. 
 
 He married Betsey S., daughter of Simon Chase, a prominent 
 merchant in Rochester, Sept. 19, 1839. She was born in Milton, 
 August 4, 1814. Of this union two sons have been born, — Charles 
 A. C, born in Rochester, August 18, 1844, and George W., born 
 July 6, 1864, and died January 6, 1856. 
 
 JAMES HERYEY EDGERLY. 
 
 BY HON. C. W. FOLSOM. 
 
 The character and prosperity of every community depend largely 
 upon a few leading minds that to a great extent form and mold 
 public opinion. Rochester has been specially fortunate in devel- 
 oping men illustrious for their energy, industry, and integrity. 
 Prominent among these stands James Hervey Edgerly, who for 
 half a century has been thoroughly identified with every step of 
 progress pertaining to the best interests of the town of his adoption. 
 His good sense and wise counsels have had much to do in shaping 
 the destinies of Rochester, in whose activities and advancement he 
 has alwaj^s borne an honorable and conspicuous part. 
 
 James H. Edgerly was born in Farmington, Jan. 28, 1814, of 
 the seventh generation from Thomas Edgerly, an Englishman, who 
 settled in Durham in 1666. On his maternal side his ancestry in 
 the Roberts line contained a mixture of Scotch-Irish blood. At 
 tbe age of ten years he removed with his parents to Great Falls, 
 where they remained nine years, and then returned to Farmington. 
 
S9S K00HE5TER. 
 
 Having aox^mrx?ii a gvxxi ev>mmon school eduoaiioii lie sati<£t\t liis 
 higher aspirations bv aneudiug the academies at TrolfeWr\>i:gii 
 and Koohester. and the Institute at Xew Hampton, supplementing 
 a thoroughly practical education by teaching school winters. His 
 &ther intended him for the law, but his tastess were for mechanics, 
 and he was apprenticed to his uncle, the late Hon. Jodah B. 
 Edgerly, a carriage manu&ctur>er at Farmington. In January, ISSo, 
 he went to Great Falls, where he worked at his trade for one 
 year. The next year he was a journeyman in Boston at gc»od 
 wages. Then came the financial crash of 1SS7. when business was 
 at a stand-still, and workmen all over the country wer^ thrown 
 out of employment. The young man from the granite hills with 
 indomitable will and laudable ambition took up his mareh to the 
 westwanl, and found employment in St. Louis, Mo. After about 
 a year he again migrateti to Burlington, Iowa. After a fow months' 
 labor he was attacked with fever and ague, and, as the only chance 
 of r^eeovery, was finally obliged to return home in the tall of ISSS. 
 In September, 1SS9, he came to Rochester, wher^ he opened a 
 carriage shop, and began also the business of an undertaio'r. Here 
 for nearly fit>y year? he has honoreil an honorable employment 
 by a life of industry and usefulness. In all his business relations, 
 as well as in the various pi>sitions of trust to which he has been 
 called, he has been guideil by that noblest of virtues, b»/<^%. 
 Lixckiag neither the information nor the courage to maintain his 
 principles, his sphere of usefulnesss may have been «^ater than 
 as if he had been a lawyer. 
 
 Possessed of a military spirit even from boyhood, in 1SS4 he 
 was commissioned captain, in 1S40 adjutant of the Thirty-ninth 
 Regiment, and three years later was appointed brigade inspector. 
 In 1S49 he was unanimously chosen captain of the "Rochester 
 Phalanx," an independent comj\any composed of many of the fir?t 
 young men of the town, and continued in command tUl the military 
 system of the StJite was changeii in lSo6. 
 
 He held the office of deputy sheriff from 1S44 to 1S47, and acted 
 as guarvi at the execution of Andrew Howani (p. Sli!). He had 
 been selected by Sherift' Hoyt to assist in the execution, but another 
 deputy askeil Mr. Edgerly to change places with him. ** Certainly," 
 said Mr. Edgv^rly : " while I would not shirk my duty, I have no 
 wish to be particularly prominent in swinging a poor wretch into 
 eternitv." 
 
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LKAPIXG MEN" SINCE THE REVOLITIOX. 399 
 
 In 1S44 Mr. Edgerly was appointed justice of the peace, and 
 acted as such forty years, declining to ag;iin quality in 1S84. In 
 ISoo he was made an associate justice of the Court of Common 
 Pleas, and remained a sound adviser until the system of courts 
 was changed. 
 
 Mr. Edgerly was made a Mason Xov. 1(3, ISoO: was Master of 
 Humane Lodge from 1854 to 1S5S, and again in 18t>l : was treas- 
 urer frv>m 1878 to 1884 : and D. D. G. Master in 18o8-o9. He 
 was a charter member of Temple Chapter of K. A. M., and is a 
 Knight Templar. 
 
 In polities Mr. Edgerly was originally a Democrat, but dissented 
 from his party in regard to the Fugitive Slave Law, the Dred Scott 
 Decision, imd the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, After its 
 repeal, believing that "squatter sovereignty" applied to Kansas, 
 he became a "Douglas Democrat.'' But when rebellion arose 
 he laid aside all party affiliations, and to the fiill extent of his 
 jx>wer and influence supported the administration in its suppression, 
 and advocated the second election of Abraham Lincoln. The pres- 
 ervation of the Fnion. with its flag floating over the whole country, 
 was to him the paramount principle, and no man in the town of 
 Rochester is held in higher esteem by the soldiers of the Grand 
 Army than he. They remember him as one who stood by them 
 and their j^miilies. and in word and deed proved himself the patriot- 
 citizen, the friend who fought for them at home while they were 
 fighting for freeiiom at the fivnt. 
 
 lu 1866 he was appointed judge of probate for Stnvftord county, 
 and held the office till removed for political reasons by the Dem- 
 
 ratic State administration in 1874. 
 
 The life of Judge Edgerly has been long and eventful, full of 
 interesting incidents which illustrated the character of the man. 
 Just after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, a slave fleeing 
 to Canada came one night to the house of the late Hon. J. H. 
 Ela. The United States oflicers were in close pursuit, and as Mr. 
 Ela was a noted abolitionist, he feared they would find their victim 
 without fliil if he kept him in hiding at his own house. So he 
 went to Mr. Edgerly, who being a well-known Democrat would 
 be unsuspected, and stated the case: how the poor fellow had 
 been hunted ftvm the rice swamps of Carolina, chased by blood- 
 hounds, and traveling by night with the Xorth star for his guide. 
 
400 ROCHESTER. 
 
 resting in the woods by day, had now so nearly reached the land 
 of freedom, and what a death blow to his hopes it would be now 
 to be captured and sent back to slavery. Mr. Edgerly had been 
 walking the room with rapid strides, his great heart filled with 
 indignation against the law, and with no hesitation became " a 
 conductor on the underground railroad." By his aid, advice, and 
 money the slave escaped to Canada. This is only one of many 
 incidents showing that his heart was always in the right place, 
 and by which he won a firm hold on the love and respect of his 
 fellow townsmen. 
 
 The writer of this hasty sketch remembers him best when, as 
 a member of the school committee, he made frequent visits to 
 the schools, and became almost a father to hundreds of boys and 
 girls who are now men and women. Though the silver threads 
 are mixed with the dark ones of our heads, and many have left 
 the old home for other States, yet none of those who attended the 
 Main-street school in those days will ever forget honest-hearted, 
 free-spoken, bluff", good-natured Judge Edgerly, who made all their 
 interests his interests. 
 
 SAMUEL JAMESOiT YARNEY. 
 
 Samuel J. Yarney, son of Ccq^t. Fhineas Varney, was born at 
 Gonic in 1814. His father sailed in command of the privateer 
 brig Mars from Portsmouth, and was never heard from. Mr. 
 Yarney left home in 1831, and served an apprenticeship in the 
 " Dover Gazette " office, with John T. Gibbs. In 1835 he purchased 
 "The Iris," at Methuen, Mass., and changed it to the " Methuen 
 Falls Gazette." After four years he sold out, and having spent 
 a short time in the West, he bought the " Yox Populi" at Lowell, 
 Mass., which he published from 1841 to 1850, when he bought 
 the " Lowell Courier and Journal." In 1855 he bought back the 
 "Yox Populi" and published it till his decease, ISTov. 11, 1859. 
 In 1836 he married Mary Jane, daughter of Stephen Place of 
 Rochester. She died in 1850 leaving five children. In 1851 he 
 married Ruth Stewart, who survived him with two children. In 
 1850-51 he was a member of the common council, and of the 
 board of aldermen in 1852 and 1859. The printers of Lowell and 
 other citizens in large numbers attended his funeral. An obituary 
 
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LEADING MEN SINCE THE KEVOLUTION. 401 
 
 notice says : — " All works of benevolence and philanthropy were 
 sure of his co-operation. In social life he was unusually happy 
 and considerate of the comfort of others. The needy never came 
 to him in vain, and the sick and suffering never lacked his ten- 
 derest care. His place is not easily filled. The good he did will 
 long survive him, and there are many of our citizens who will 
 till life's end consecrate a warm corner of their hearts to hia 
 memory." 
 
 KEY. EZEKIEL TRUE. 
 
 Henry True came from England and settled in Salem, Mass., 
 where he married a daughter of Capt. Robert Pike and had two 
 sons, the elder of whom was Capt. Henry True. He married Jane 
 Bradbury and had four children, among whom was Dea. John TriiCy 
 who married Martha Morrell and had five children. Their second 
 son, Ezekiel, married Mary Morrell and settled at Salisbury Plain, 
 Mass. Among their ten children was Jacob, who settled in Salis- 
 bury, iT. H., and married Lydia Dow. The fourth of their six 
 children was Ezekiel, born at Salisbury, Feb. 6, 1780. He married 
 Nancy Nutting, daughter of one of the first settlers of Corinth, 
 Vt., and had eight children. He owned a farm but was a house 
 carpenter by trade, and his four boys did most of the farm work. 
 
 EzEKiEL True, the youngest of the four, was born at Corinth, 
 Yt., June 5, 1814. In his boyhood he had a great liking for 
 books and study, and farming was to him a tiresome drudgery. 
 From twelve years of age he cherished an intense purpose to 
 obtain education enough to teach a common school. His school 
 privileges were limited to about two months each winter, and yet 
 by his persevering energy he passed the examination, obtaining a 
 teacher's certificate at the age of seventeen, and taught a two- 
 months' school with commendable success, receiving eight dollars; 
 a month and board. For the next four years he worked on the 
 farm in the summer, attended the Academy at Bradford, Vt., in 
 the fall, and taught school in the winter. 
 
 From a very early age he was seriously inclined, and deeply 
 anxious in regard to personal religion. He was converted in 1828„ 
 and joined the Free Will Baptist Church in Corinth, March 20',, 
 1830. Impressed with the conviction that the ministry must be 
 his life work, he preached his first sermon July 5, 1835, from 
 
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402 ROCHESTEK. 
 
 Matthew 16 : 26. He continued to preach through the summer, 
 and in the winter traveled, holding meetings in various places 
 through jSTorthern Vermont, but with no marked success. Feeling 
 the need of a better education he went to IlTorth Parsonsfield 
 Seminary in Maine, the only academy then belonging to his 
 denomination. His father gave him twenty dollars, and by the 
 aid of teaching winters, he acquired a common academic education. 
 After leaving school he held meetings in Cornish, Me., resulting 
 in sixty or seventy conversions. 
 
 He was ordained at Corinth, Vt., June 22, 1837, and in Jan- 
 uary, 1838, became pastor of the Free Will Baptist Church in 
 Portsmouth, where he remained three years, adding the labors of 
 a city missionary to the regular pastoral work. During this time 
 about one hundred were added to the church. For thirty-five 
 years he preached without the loss of a single Sabbath, and was 
 in labors abundant for nearly ten years more. Having been pastor 
 in Wells, South Berwick, and Saco, Me., and in Portsmouth, 
 Ashland, Pittsfield, Lake Village, Alton, Gilford, and Farmington, 
 N. H., he spent his last years in Rochester, where he founded the 
 Rochester Village Free Will Baptist Church, and where he died 
 Feb. 18, 1883 (p^ 283-5). 
 
 In ]!^ovember, 1839, he married Sylvia M. Hobbs of Wells, Me., 
 whose natural abilities, education, and rare spiritual gifts qualified 
 her to be a most efiicient helpmeet in all his work. She died April 
 30, 1881. In June, 1882, he married Mrs. Clara D. Smith, who 
 survives him. 
 
 Mr. True was a man of untiring energy, wholly devoted to his 
 work. He served on the school board in most of the towns where 
 he resided. He preached not less than four thousand and five 
 hundred sermons, attended about five hundred funerals, married 
 three hundred and fifty couples, and baptized about three hundred 
 persons. His genial, social disposition won him many friends who 
 still hold his name in affectionate remembrance. 
 
 DR. JASPER H. YORK. 
 
 Jasper Hazen York was born in Lee, Feb. 27, 1816, and died 
 in Dover, April 7, 1874. When he was two years of age his 
 parents moved from Lee to Rochester, which place remained his 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 403 
 
 home till he made one for himself in South Boston. He was 
 the third son of John and Rebecca York. His father was a suc- 
 cessful farmer, retiring in his disposition, hut widely known and 
 respected for his honesty, integrity, and good common sense. His 
 mother was a woman of great strength of character and wonder- 
 fully successful in impressing her own superior mental power upon 
 her children. 
 
 In early hoyhood he was noted for his love of books and stu- 
 dious habits. As he grew older the passion for an education took 
 complete possession of him, and nothing short of a profession 
 would satisfy his ambition. His father used every inducement to 
 have him remain on the farm, but when he became convinced 
 that this was utterly repugnant to the boy's desires, he reluctantly 
 gave his consent that this son should choose his own life work. 
 
 After leaving the public schools he continued his studies at 
 Phillips Exeter Academy. Then for several years he taught school 
 in Kittery, Me., Dover, N". H., and other places. As a teacher he 
 was wonderfully successful, not only in the public schools but in 
 after years when he had a continuous succession of medical students 
 in his office. He always took great interest in educational affiiirs, 
 serving with signal success on the school committee in Boston for 
 many years, proving himself one of the most efficient men that 
 board ever had. 
 
 He graduated from Harvard Medical College with honor in the 
 year 1845. He soon settled in South Boston and immediately 
 acquired a good practice. He was early noted for his surgical skill 
 — in fact he had nearly all the surgery in South Boston — and 
 also for his skill in diagnosis, seeming to arrive at correct conclu- 
 sions almost intuitively. In every way he proved himself an able, 
 skillful physician, winning the confidence of his patients and the 
 respect of other medical men. Soon after he settled in South 
 Boston he entered heartily into the anti-slavery movement, using 
 freely his influence and his money to advance the interest of the 
 cause, and ardently supporting Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Charles 
 Sumner, and Theodore Parker in their warfare upon the great 
 evil of slavery. 
 
 His parents were Free "Will Baptists and he had been brought 
 up in that faith, but about this time his religious thought under- 
 
404 ROCHESTER. 
 
 went a change, so that he connected himself with the society over 
 which Theodore' Parker was pastor. 
 
 When the Know-Nothing party sprang into its ephemeral exist- 
 ence, and the Eoman Catholics of Boston and elsewhere endeav- 
 ored to put it down, Dr. York took strong sides with that party, 
 because he believed in free thought, free speech, and absolutely 
 free government, and did not believe in uneducated, irresponsible 
 men from other countries dominating and ruling native-born 
 citizens. For the active part he took in this he came near being 
 mobbed by the Catholics. He was fearless to the highest degree, 
 a man of decided convictions, and always ready to defend them, 
 with his life if necessary. 
 
 A large number of medical students graduated from his office 
 with honor both to themselves and to him, among whom may be 
 mentioned his nephew. Dr. John Colby York, Dr. W. H. Page 
 of Rochester, Dr. William Sprague, Dr. J. F. Frisbie of Rochester, 
 Dr. S. C. Whittier, Dr. W. H. Westcott, and others. 
 
 When the civil war broke out he was intensely loyal, believing 
 the end of slavery would result. Having offered his services to 
 the United States government, he was stationed at Fairfax Semi- 
 nar}' Hospital, Va., and Armory Square Hospital in Washington, 
 D. C. 
 
 In 1865, following a too close application to his professional 
 work, he was prostrated with disease of the stomach from which 
 he never recovered. Several times he relinquished practice and 
 partly regained his health, but his active disposition would not 
 long allow him to rest, and a return to his work brought back 
 the disease, and after a lingering and painful illness he died in 
 Dover. He had removed to that city several years before, where he 
 purchased a small farm, hoping the out-door life might prove bene- 
 ficial. For a short time his difficulty to some extent abated, but 
 the disease proved too deeply seated to be easily eradicated. In 
 1860 he married Mary Elsie Watts, daughter of Charles S. Watts, 
 Esq., of South Boston, who, with one daughter, survives him. 
 
 FRANCIS ORR. 
 
 Francis Orr was born in Topsham, Me., in 1816. At the age 
 of fourteen he went to Boston to obtain a commercial education. 
 
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LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 405 
 
 and found employment in a dry goods jobbing house. He showed 
 an aptitude for business and soon became an excellent accountant. 
 While book-keeper at the factories in Dudley, Mass., he married 
 the daughter of Col. John Eddy. After this he was clerk and 
 paymaster of the mills at Barre, Mass., and came to Rochester in 
 December, 1847, to take the position of clerk and book-keeper for 
 the Norway Plains Company. Here he continued for just thirty 
 years, when he was stricken with paralysis which confined him 
 to the house. After an illness of more than six years he died 
 I^ov. 16, 1883, leaving a wife and two children. 
 
 ISTotwithstanding the constant pressure of his counting-room 
 duties, he was an active man in the interests of the community. 
 For many years he was an engineer in the fire department, and 
 always took a deep interest in the welfare of the fire companies. 
 He was a director in the old Mechanics' Bank, and afterwards a 
 corporator and director in the Rochester Savings Bank. He was 
 a member of the Legislature in 1871 and 1873. The latter term 
 he was chairman of the committee on incorporations and one of 
 the most valuable members, speaking rarely but always to the point. 
 Mr. Orr was thoroughly identified with the business of Rochester 
 for many years, and was well known as a progressive and ener- 
 getic business man. 
 
 CHARLES MAIN. 
 
 Charles Main, son of David and Esther (Norwood) Main, and 
 great-great-grandson of Rev. Amos Main (p. 83), was born in 1817, 
 orphaned at an early age, and apprenticed to learn the saddlers' 
 trade at Dover, when fifteen years old. He showed at once an 
 ambition to master every detail of the business. With only an 
 ordinary English education, this thoroughness in whatever he 
 undertook was the foundation of his subsequent success. At the 
 age of twenty-one he went to Pittsburg, Penn., and soon after to 
 Nashua, where he worked for several years at his trade. In 1845 
 he formed a partnership with M. S. Mayo in the manufacture of 
 carriages and harnesses at Boston. While in the height of busi- 
 ness success, he was seized with the gold fever, and joined a com- 
 pany of one hundred young men, who purchased the ship Leonora, 
 laded her with merchandise, and started for California, Feb. 4, 1849. 
 
406 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Sailing around Cape Horn they landed at San Francisco, July 5, 
 where they made a handsome profit on the cargo. After one 
 week he went to Benicia, where he built the steamer 'New Eng- 
 land, the parts of which they had brought in their ship. This 
 was the first side-wheel steamer on the Sacramento. After boating 
 provisions and supplies to settlements along the river for a short 
 time, Mr. Main sold the steamer and went to mining with fair 
 success. He, however, preferred a business life and formed a 
 partnership with E. H. "Winchester of Fall River, Mass., which 
 has continued from 1850 to the present time. Both were active, 
 industrious, closely attentive, and courteous to all customers, and 
 were soon compelled to enlarge their business. Their trade em- 
 braces the wholesale and retail business of everything pertaining 
 to saddlery wares, and they carry the heaviest stock of any in 
 America. Thorough workmanship, excellence of material, prompt- 
 itude, and absolute truthfulness have achieved success and carried 
 their goods to every part of the known world. 
 
 Mr. Main married Feb. 8, 1847, Mary A. Norton of Providence, 
 R. I. In 1874 he traveled in Europe. He was several years 
 president, and always director of the Central Railroad Company 
 of San Francisco; also president of the wire-rope Railroad Com- 
 pany; and a founder and one of the first directors of the Cali- 
 fornia Insurance Company. He is an attendant and supporter ot 
 the Unitarian Church, and was conspicuous for his liberality to 
 the Christian Commission in the time of war. He is widely known 
 as a public-spirited citizen, identified with the best interests of 
 California, and active in all enterprises for the public good. He 
 now stands among the very first of the manufacturers and im- 
 porting merchants of San Francisco. 
 
 DR. ISAAC W. LOUGEE. 
 
 John Lougee, born in the island of Jersey in 1695, came to this 
 country in 1713. He settled in that part of Exeter which is now 
 Kewmarket, where he married a Gilman. Their grandson, Joseph 
 Lougee, with his wife and eight children lived to an average age 
 of eighty-three years and three months. The oldest of their eight 
 children, John F., was born at Exeter, and died in Rochester Jan. 
 
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LEADING MEN SINCE THE KEVOLUTION. 407 
 
 16, 1880, aged ninety-three years. He settled on a farm at Gil- 
 manton, where he married a daughter of Dr. William Smith, who 
 had settled there as the first physician in 1767. Dr. Smith was a 
 man of sterling principle and did much for the educational, moral, 
 and religious interests of the town in its early history. He lived 
 to the age of ninety-three years and six months. He had ten sons 
 and seven daughters, who, with the exception of four who died 
 in childhood, lived to an average of eighty-four years, and were 
 all members of the Congregational Church. John F. Lougee had 
 four children : — Josej^h, who died at twenty-five ; Isaac W. ; Wil- 
 liam S., who died at twenty-nine; and Elizabeth M., wife of L. S. 
 i^ute of Alton. 
 
 Isaac W. Lougee, the second son, was born at Gilmanton Aug. 
 1, 1818. Having received a common school education, he attended 
 select schools taught by Rev. C. G. Safibrd and Hon. George G. 
 Fogg, and also the Gilmanton Academy. He began the study of 
 medicine with Dr. Otis French of Gilmanton, and attended lectures 
 at Hanover and at Woodstock, Vt. He graduated from Dartmouth 
 Medical College in 1845, and the following November began the 
 practice of medicine at N'ew Durham. In 1847 he located in Alton, 
 where he continued for twenty-one years, and then bought out 
 Dr. James Farrington of Rochester. Subsequently they formed a 
 partnership, and were in practice together for ten years under the 
 firm name of Farrington & Lougee. 
 
 Dr. Lougee is a member of the Strafibrd District Medical So- 
 ciety, of which he has been president, besides holding minor offices. 
 He is also a member of the State Medical Society, in which he 
 has held responsible positions. In 1862 he was appointed exam- 
 ining surgeon for Belknap county. As a physician Dr. Lougee 
 excels both in diagnosis and the selection of suitable remedies. 
 By close observation he has been able early to learn the type, 
 and successfully to treat epidemics of a severe character. 
 
 He is a Republican in politics. Yery early in life he espoused 
 the cause of freedom, and was always bitterly opposed lo the 
 extension of slavery. He was postmaster at Alton during the 
 administration of Presidents Taylor and Fillmore. In 1866 and 
 1867 he represented Alton in the State Legislature, during w hieh 
 time he had the satisfaction of voting for the fourteenth amend- 
 ment of the United States Constitution. In 1877 and 1878 he 
 
408 ROCHESTER. 
 
 represented Rochester in the Legislature, the last year serving as 
 chairman of the Committee on Asylums for the Insane. In 1885 
 lie purchased the " Rochester Courier," which is still (1888) under 
 Ms management. He is also one of the directors of the JSTorway 
 Plains Savings Bank. 
 
 He has been twice married, — first to Julia A., daughter of 
 Thomas Ross of Gilmanton. Of this union one child, Mary A., 
 was born, who died at Rochester Jan. 8, 1883. Mrs. Lougee died 
 Aug. 8, 1865, and he married for his second wife, Ellen, daughter 
 of Hazen Wheeler of Barnstead. Their children are William W. 
 and Arthur J. The elder graduated from Dartmouth College in 
 the class of '88, and the younger graduated from the high school 
 in Rochester, June, 1888. 
 
 ELA. 
 
 BY MRS. MARY H. ELA. 
 
 The first mention of the name of Ela in America occurs in the 
 town records of Haverhill, Mass., under date of Oct. 19, 1658, as 
 follows : — "It is voted and granted by the town, that Daniel Ela 
 «hall have four and one half acres of land north of Abraham 
 Tyler's land, next to the little pond, in the way of exchange for 
 Abra. Tyler's land, which he, Ela, hath bought by Sanauel Geald 
 at the pond meadow." 
 
 The name of Daniel Ela occurs frequently in the town records 
 from this time, he having been elected many times to offices of 
 trust by his fellow citizens. Daniel Ela and Elizabeth Baxter were 
 married in Haverhill, Aug. 28, 1698. 
 
 That Daniel Ela was the father of Israel Ela, and the progenitor 
 of the Ela family in this country, seems almost certain, as he is 
 the only person of that name mentioned in the records until Israel 
 is made a freeman in 1677. The descendants of Israel were for 
 several generations in possession of lands originally granted to 
 Daniel. From these ancestors can be traced a numerous family, 
 reaching down to the present time, in one branch of which we 
 find Enoch Ela of Rochester, I^. H., who in 1813 married Mary 
 Hart of Rochester. One son was born of this union whose life 
 is the subject of the following biographical sketch, for much of 
 which we are indebted to excellent and appreciative obituary 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 409 
 
 notices wMcli appeared in many of the Kew Hampshire weekly 
 papers. 
 
 Jacob Hart Ela was born in Rochester on the 18th of July, 
 1820. The house in which his parents lived during his infancy, 
 stood on what is now known as the John Roberts place, at the 
 south end of the town. Many of his townsmen can remember 
 the large-hearted, good-natured boy, who was a favorite with his 
 companions at the village school, where he made the most of the 
 few advantages afforded for an education. One says " he was not 
 a brilliant scholar; but all that he knew he knew thoroughly, and 
 he wanted to argue with his teacher about everything that was 
 debatable." His parents were poor, and he had to struggle for 
 the little education he obtained. When only fourteen years old 
 he was apprenticed to a woolen manufacturer, and worked in a 
 factory until he was seventeen, when he went to Concord to 
 learn the printers' trade with his cousin George W. Ela, who then 
 owned and published the " Statesman." Though but a boy in 
 years, he was then a man in stature, with a mind that was broad- 
 ening day by day, and a heart always warm with generous im- 
 pulses. He inherited from his mother not only his large frame 
 and sound mind, but a love for the eternal principles of right, 
 and the strong will which could carry these convictions into effect. 
 He belonged to a juvenile anti-slavery society at this time, and by 
 its earnest debates was making ready for the more serious warfare 
 into which he entered later. The first address he ever wrote he 
 delivered before this society at its annual meeting in the Methodist 
 Church at Concord in the year 1839. That interest in politics 
 which was so strong throughout his life was shown at this early 
 age, when in 1840, with John H. George, Lewis Downing, Jr., 
 Daniel J. Abbott, and other young men of Concord, he was active 
 in forming a " Young Men's Tippecanoe Club," which was of 
 some account in its day. On attaining his majority, he became 
 for a time one of the publishers of the " Statesman," but sold out 
 his interest when it changed hands in 1844. In a letter to In". P. 
 Rogers, published in the " Herald of Freedom," Dec. 6, 1844, he 
 says : — "I have belonged to anti-slavery societies for the last nine 
 or ten years, and have been a member of one with you, I think, 
 for the last five years, and for six years have attended and taken 
 part in the meetings of the State society." This shows his interest 
 
410 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 in anti-slavery to date back to the year 1835, a year memorable 
 for its pro-slavery mobs and attacks upon free speech, when the 
 young advocate for freedom, burning with sympathy for the en- 
 slaved, must have longed to be a man that he might take an active 
 part in the brave work of the Abolitionists. In 1844 he was chosen 
 recording secretary of the New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society, 
 and was also one of the executive committee and secretary of the 
 board of managers. In December of that year he became the pub- 
 lishing agent of the " Herald of Freedom," and held that position 
 until the paper suspended publication July 3, 1846, and the society 
 ceased to exist. In later years, in speaking of his work with the 
 Abolitionists, Mr. Ela said: — "I owe everything to it. A man 
 never fights for great principles without gaining more good for 
 himself than he can give to the cause." 
 
 May 10, 1845, while living in Concord, he married Mrs. Abigail 
 M. Kelley, who had then three children, who were warmly wel- 
 comed to his heart and home. In 1847 he returned with his family 
 to Rochester, and here three sons w-ere born : — Frederic Parker, 
 May 30, 1848 ; Wendell Phillips, August 20, 1849 ; and Charles Sum- 
 ner, May 2, 1853. Mrs. Ela was a woman of rare excellence, and 
 of strong character and intellect. She sympathized heartily with 
 her husband in every philanthropic work, being especially inter- 
 ested in the cause of anti-slavery. 
 
 In the last years of his life, while living in Washington, Mr. 
 Ela was the friend of the freedmen, as he had formerly been the 
 friend of the slaves. They came to him for aid in every enterprise, 
 and the assistance he freely gave was always accompanied with 
 kind words of sympathy and encouragement. Probably no other 
 department office could show upon its roll the names of so many 
 colored men and women as did his; and he would point with 
 pride and pleasure to some of them as among his best clerks. 
 
 Mr. Ela was not only interested in the moral phase of the anti- 
 slavery movement, but he also took an active interest in its political 
 influence. "When John P. Hale was dropped by the Democratic 
 party as a candidate for Congress because of his opposition to the 
 annexation of Texas as a slave State, Mr. Ela was one of his most 
 ardent supporters ; and it was largely due to his efforts in printing 
 and circulating votes throughout the State that the Democratic 
 candidate nominated in place of Mr. Hale was thrice defeated at 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 411 
 
 the polls, and that political revolution took place in JSTew Hampshire 
 which resulted in sending Mr. Hale to the United States Senate 
 instead of to the House of Representatives. Mr. Ela visited several 
 parts of the State in the interest of the movement, and when he 
 reached his old home he was made glad by finding that some of his 
 townsmen had issued the celebrated " Hale Call " for a meeting, 
 and were already organized and aggressive. In his last visit to Roch- 
 ester he recounted these scenes, and said it had always afforded 
 him the greatest pleasure to remember those men of Rochester 
 who stood up so squarely against the encroachments of the slave 
 power. Mr. Ela had printed a prospectus for a campaign paper 
 to be called " The Hale-Storm," in the editorials of which Moses 
 A. Cartland and others had promised assistance; but before the 
 new enterprise was fairly begun the "Independent Democrat" 
 was removed from Manchester to Concord, and it was deemed 
 wiser to abandon the project, and join in strengthening that by 
 making it the campaign paper. Mr. Ela became a partner in its 
 publication, and organized the combination which united with it 
 " The Granite Freeman " and " The Kew Hampshire Courier." 
 He was engaged in this work when it became necessary for him 
 to return to Rochester in 1847. After this, while engaged to some 
 extent in farming, he was employed as station agent on the rail- 
 road. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. Ela was appointed State Bank Commissioner, and 
 was one of the selectmen of Rochester in 1856. He represented 
 the town in the Legislature of 1857-58, and was chairman of the 
 Committee on Retrenchment and Reform, and also of the Com- 
 mittee on Elections. One who was in the Legislature with him 
 says : " Mr. Ela took a very advanced position on the E"orthern 
 side of the great national questions which were then prominent, 
 and was from the first a conspicuous leader in the advance guard 
 of the Republicans. I remember well his bold and forcible speeches, 
 which did much to form and sustain measures in opposition to 
 the dominant ^N'ational party." In common with all other Abo- 
 litionists, Mr. Ela's indignation was greatly excited by the Dred 
 Scott Decision, which, if enforced, would oblige every State to coun- 
 tenance slavery by protecting the slave-holder, and the following 
 resolutions from the Journal of the Kew Hampshire Legislature in 
 1858, introduced by him while a member of the Dred Scott com- 
 
412 ROCHESTER. 
 
 mittee, are interesting, as they recall the moral warfare, now almost 
 forgotten, which was raging thirty years ago : — 
 
 " Whereas, Every person born and living within this State and owing allegi- 
 ance to no other government, is a citizen of the State, and by the National 
 Constitution a citizen of the United States, therefore 
 
 " Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court con- 
 vened, — That the action of the State Department of the United States in refusing 
 to grant passports to persons of African descent contrary to previous practice; 
 and of the Treasury Department in refusing to grant them registers for their 
 own vessels, with the right to navigate them as masters; and of the Interior 
 Department in refusing them the right of entry upon the public domain to be- 
 come purchasers, is an unjust and illegal denial and aa invasion of the rights 
 of citizens of New Hampshire. 
 
 " Resolved — That we are compelled to believe that these invasions of the rights 
 of our citizens, are the result of the Dred Scott decision, coupled with a desire 
 on the part of the National Administration to favor and strengthen the slave- 
 holding interest, which will be continued so long as slavery remains a ruling 
 element in the government of the country. 
 
 " Resolved, That these and other aggressions of the slave power make the 
 prohibition of the future extension of slavery a necessity, and its abolition, where 
 we have the power, a duty. 
 
 " Resolved, That the State Government, so far as it has the power, should 
 secure by its own authority those rights which are denied them by the General 
 Government. 
 
 "Resolved — That our Senators be instructed and our Representatives requested 
 to use all proper efforts to procure such legislation by Congress as shall secure 
 to every citizen of the State the full enjoyment of his rights." 
 
 Mr. Ela made an able speech in support of these resolutions. 
 He also drew up the JS'ational resolutions which were adopted by 
 the Legislature of that year. 
 
 In 1861 Mr. Ela was appointed by President Lincoln United 
 States Marshal for New^ Hampshire, and held the office until he 
 was removed by Andrew Johnson in 1866. The duty of trans- 
 porting prisoners of war from one fortress to another was a trying 
 one to his sympathetic nature ; he saw and heard much of the 
 suffering in both armies, and his heart was stirred with pity for 
 the brave Confederates, as well as for our own boys in blue. 
 
 The glorious Proclamation of Emancipation, by which on the 
 Ist of January, 1863, President Lincoln gave immediate liberty to 
 four million slaves, was the end for which Abolitionists in the 
 ISTorth had suffered, and hoped, and striven so long; but it came 
 in the midst of the horrors of civil war, when their joy was tem- 
 pered by sympathy with mourning hearts and the sight of homes 
 made desolate; and it was not until the smoke of battle had 
 cleared away, and they could look back with quiet hearts to the 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 413 
 
 triumph achieved, that any real satisfaction was felt. Mr. Ela 
 lived to hear the South rejoice in its freedom from the institution 
 which had put chains upon the souls of the masters as heavy as 
 those they had forged for the slave; to see good schools estab- 
 lished for the children of freedmen, and many of them coming 
 forward, with good education, to fill places of usefulness. He was 
 always patient with their faults, and charitable in his judgment 
 of even the vicious among them, remembering that the moral 
 nature which had been so strained and dwarfed by the vice and 
 degradation of generations of servitude must be developed slowly. 
 Mr. Ela was nominated for Congress in the district which then 
 comprised the counties of Rockingham, Strafford, Belknap, and 
 Carroll, by the Republican convention at Dover, in 1867, having 
 a majority of but one vote. When he learned how close the vote 
 I had been, he turned with a smile to a friend and said, " It has 
 always been so in my life; I have had just enough, and nothing 
 \ to spare." He received a majority of one thousand votes over 
 j Daniel Marcy, and was re-elected in 1869 over Ellery A. Hebbard 
 I by a majority of seventeen hundred. After his first election his 
 ! friends from Portsmouth and adjoining towns gave him a com- 
 I plimentary banquet at the hotel in Rochester. Addresses were 
 I made by prominent men of Rockingham county, and Mr. Ela 
 I often referred to it in later years as one of the pleasantest events 
 \ of his life. "While in Congress he served on several committees, 
 ! and took part in some important debates. He was an economist, 
 and his blameless life, sound judgment, and good sense made him 
 respected by all his associates there. 
 
 In January, 1872, Mr. Ela was appointed Fifth Auditor of the 
 Treasury at Washington, and held that position until the summer 
 of 1881 when, during the Star-Route trial, President Garfield re- 
 quested him to take the place of Sixth Auditor, or Auditor of 
 the Treasury for the Post-Office Department. Although loth to 
 exchange light duties for heavy ones, and old friends for new, Mr. 
 Ela cheerfully accepted the burden of increased responsibility and 
 hard work imposed upon him by this change, and here he labored 
 faithfully during the remainder of his life, never sparing himself, 
 and finding little time for rest or recreation. 
 
 A great sorrow came to Mr. and Mrs. Ela in the spring of 1873. 
 Their eldest son, Frederic, a young man of great promise, — sunny- 
 
414 EOCHESTER. 
 
 hearted, affectionate, and brave, — had gone to Japan on his first 
 voyage as Lieutenant in the l^avy. While there a serious illness 
 had attacked him, caused, it was believed, by the effect of the cli- 
 mate and the water of the country. Hoping to save his life, his 
 physicians ordered his return, and he had sailed from Hong Kong 
 for San Francisco ; but he was destined never to reach that harbor. 
 The voyage for him was to the port of Heaven. 
 
 In September, 1879, Mrs. Ela, who had been an invalid for many 
 years, entered into the rest for which she had waited long and pa- 
 tiently. 
 
 In his religion Mr. Ela was not sectarian. Early in life, when 
 he saw churches either upholding slavery, or keeping silence when 
 they should have denounced it, he turned from them and espoused 
 a better and a nobler faith than any he saw there — the religion of 
 Humanity. That high authority which said " pure religion and un- 
 defiled is to visit the widow and the fatherless in their affliction, and 
 to keep himself unspotted from the world," would have found no 
 fault with his. His sympathies were generous and world-wide ; he 
 was independent in all his views, and maintained them with the 
 courage of clear conviction. His only creed was the simple one 
 of " love to God and love to man," and this he lived up to in 
 every hour of his life. His modest charities were bestowed wil- 
 lingly and unceasingly. He was so simple and retiring that the 
 full beauty of his character was revealed only to those who knew 
 him most intimately. He was the children's friend; his winning 
 smile and the kindly glance of his blue eyes from beneath the 
 overhanging eyebrows gained their confidence at once; and no 
 wonder, for at heart he was always a child himself. His nature 
 was too large to harbor any petty feelings of jealousy or revenge. 
 If an offence or slight was intended, he never seemed to see it. 
 And yet beneath his habitual serenity there burned a fire which 
 could on a sudden leap to the surface and blaze hotly for a mo- 
 ment; but these rare surprises only served to deepen one's admi- 
 ration for his usual self-control. His conscience was quick to 
 administer its own rebuke, and his self-judgments were searching 
 and just. He rarely sought to defend himself if the honesty of 
 his motives was questioned, or any slur was cast upon his char- 
 acter, as will sometimes happen to every man in public life. 
 " They hurt themselves more than they can hurt me," he said, 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 415 
 
 when urged to do so; "a man who has done nothing wrong has 
 nothing to fear." Truly, 
 
 " His armor was his honest thought, 
 And simple truth his utmost skill ! " 
 
 Mr. Ela believed in total abstinence, and many will remember 
 how hard he strove to keep the town free from the scourge of 
 intemperance when he lived in Rochester. He was deeply attached 
 to his native town and, in all the years of his enforced absence, 
 would call no other place home. He had the best interests of the 
 tovvn always at heart, and many improvements in and around the 
 village were made through his persistent eflbrts. One of his fellow 
 townsmen said of him : — " The people of Rochester knew Mr. 
 Ela well. He had been an active man all his days ; his neighbors 
 knew him and believed in him, and respected him for his whole- 
 heartedness. His friends were found in the common walks of life; 
 they were men who had known him all his life, and they loved 
 to tell of his success." Mr. Ela had faith in the principles of the 
 Republican party. He took an active part in every political cam- 
 paign in JJ^ew Hampshire for more than thirty years, and often 
 assisted in those of other States. He had not the gift of eloquence, 
 but he seemed always to know upon what points his hearers most 
 needed to be enlightened, and his ripe experience, sound sense, 
 and a simple directness of speech, to which his evident sincerity 
 gave dignity and power, made him a popular and influential 
 speaker. The workingmen always saw in him a true friend who 
 had their best interests at heart, for he had fought their battles 
 and helped to secure the passage of the law which reduced the 
 day's work from twelve hours to ten. When the JS'orth was 
 electrified by the first call for volunteers to march against the 
 Rebels, it was he who wrote the call for Rochester's first war 
 meeting and carried it to other citizens for signatures (p. 196). 
 He drew up the patriotic resolutions which were adopted, including 
 a call for a town meeting to encourage volunteers by providing 
 for their families in their absence. 
 
 Mr. Ela used to recall with pleasure the fact that he secured 
 the services of Anna Dickinson at the outset of her public career, 
 and made arrangements for the first ten political speeches ever 
 made by her. They were made in his own Congressional District 
 
416 ROCHESTER. 
 
 in 1863. The eloquence which a little later gained the admiration 
 of the country, arousing the patriotism and thrilling the hearts of 
 all who heard her, was a revelation of the power of woman which 
 will never be forgotten. 
 
 In the last years of his life Mr. Ela made the right relations 
 between labor and capital a constant study. He deplored the 
 injustice of monopolies and the greed of capitalists, and longed to 
 see laws enacted which should help the workingman. 
 
 The instinctive love of liberty and of justice he showed in other 
 things made him a friend to the cause of woman's suifrage. He 
 believed that the natural and inalienable rights of man and woman 
 were the same, and that she'^could decide for herself whether her 
 happiness and welfare would be helped or hindered by the ballot. 
 
 In each office where Mr. Ela was auditor, he seemed more like 
 a father among his children than like a chief with his subordi- 
 nates. If any w^ere in trouble, he listened patiently to their griefs 
 and gave them good advice. If a man was in debt, with a family 
 to support, he lent him money, and tried to see that he used it 
 wisely. With infinite patience he strove to reform the intemperate, 
 forgiving offences again and again for the sake of the wife and chil- 
 dren who would suffer if the man should lose his position. Often, 
 in such a case, he would oblige the delinquent to allow his wife to 
 come to the office and take his salary when it was due. Such an 
 office is a community in itself, and there was haixlly a man or wo- 
 man there who did not feel sure of a firm friend in the good au- 
 ditor, and try to serve him well. , One who was associated with him 
 there expressed this feeling in^a letter written soon after Mr. Ela's 
 death, as follows : — " From the first day of his coming here I have 
 been attached to him, and my regard has grown with the passing 
 months and years. I early learned to respect his exact justice to 
 all, and to love him for his childlike simplicity, and his tenderness 
 to those in trouble and distress. He was the kindest and best of 
 men, and loved to go out of his way to do good whether appre- 
 ciated or not. Until forced to do so, he never believed evil of any 
 one. I wish all the world knew his real sterling worth, his purity, 
 honesty, simplicity, and love of right and justice, as I knew it. 
 How patient and long-sufifering he was ! And yet with all his 
 loving-kindness, tenderness, and gentleness, he was possessed of 
 a rare discriminating business tact, decision, judgment, and power 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 417 
 
 of mind given to but very few men. He came to the duties of 
 this office unacquainted with its details, precedents, and usages, 
 and yet his decisions of vexed questions stand confirmed and sus- 
 tained by high authority in ahnost every instance." 
 
 Mr. Ela loved all animals. He was a judge of horses, and liked 
 to own a good one. In the last years of his life he kept one in 
 Washington, which he had raised himself, and a pleasant drive 
 was the recreation of every day. He enjoyed " a good brush " 
 on the road, and was not often beaten in a race. As he flew 
 along the road, he would seem to feel the excitement of it in every 
 nerve, and his tine face would glow with pleasure. He loved the 
 beautiful in everything. He knew every drive for miles around 
 the city, and no fine view or picturesque point escaped his notice. 
 He knew, too, where the wild flowers grew, each in its season, 
 and took pleasure in gathering them for his friends. IsTo enjoy- 
 ment of any kind was ever complete to him unless he could share it 
 with some one. In one of the last weeks of his life, when I think 
 he knew the shadow of another world had fallen upon him, he said : 
 " The greatest happiness I have had in life has come from doing 
 good to others." He seemed to walk by a clearer light than is given 
 to most of us, and he was at all times -'a tower of strength" to 
 those about him. 
 
 In October, 1880, Mr. Ela married Miss Mary Handerson o± 
 Keene, N". H., youngest daughter of Hon. Phinehas Handerson, 
 who, many years ago, was a distinguished member of the Cheshire 
 bar. In the winter of 1882-83 Charles S. Ela went to Colorado 
 on some business for his father, and in the hope that the change 
 of climate might also benefit his health, which had for some time 
 been delicate. He gained in health so fast for a time that he 
 wished to live in Colorado for a few years. He became interested 
 in cattle raising, and induced his father to form a company for 
 that business, of which he was to be superintendent. In the sum- 
 mer of 1883 Mr. Ela went to Colorado to visit his son and see 
 for himself how matters looked there. He was a good deal worn 
 by his official work when he started, and the journey was taken 
 too hurriedly. It was many years since he had been much on 
 horseback, and the rough ride of thirty or forty miles from Grand 
 Junction to the cattle-range was too hard for him. He was so ill 
 in the little cabin on the mountain that he feared he should not 
 
418 ROCHESTER. 
 
 live to see home again. He did return, but lie was never well 
 again, for just as he was beginning to seem more like his old 
 self news came that his son was very ill in Denver, and was fol- 
 lowed soon by the terrible tidings of his death. From this time 
 Mr. Ela lost much of his courage and his interest in life. The 
 daily work of his office was more than he was equal to, and with 
 the faithfulness to every duty and the disregard of self which 
 characterized his life, he took no rest, — postponing the summers 
 vacation until the overtaxed system could not resist the insidious 
 disease, facial erysipelas, which at last attacked him. He was at 
 his desk for the last time on the 13th of August, 1884, and on 
 the morning of the 21st the brave soul, for which death had no 
 terrors, passed peacefully away into another life. 
 
 From a brief memorial which accompanied resolutions adopted 
 by his brother officers of the Treasury Department after Mr. Ela's 
 death, we copy the following : — 
 
 "Mr. Ela was appointed Fifth Auditor of the Treasury in January, 1872, and 
 held that office until June 2, 1881, when he was appointed Auditor of the 
 Treasury for the Post-OfRce Department. He brought to these positions a ripe 
 experience in public affairs, both State and National; and throughout his con- 
 tinuance in the Treasury service, extended far beyond the average term allotted 
 to the Head of a Bureau, his conduct of these offices commends him as a con- 
 scientious and faithful official. In some respects he was a man of marked 
 characteristics. His modest demeanor, his honesty of purpose, and his official 
 integrity won for him the confidence of all ; while his kindness of manner 
 secured their high regard. His relations with those immediately connected with 
 and subordinate to him were especially happy. Affable in his intercourse, just 
 in his methods, and quick in his sympathies and appreciation, he was esteemed 
 the fi'iend of each, and none to-day mourn with us his loss more sincerely." 
 
 One of the resolutions adopted by the sorrowing friends in his 
 own office reads as follows : — 
 
 " That we esteem it a privilege, individually and collectively, to have known 
 and been associated with an official of such marked ability, sympathetic nature, 
 and purity of character ; and while we feel that his death is in a peculiar sense 
 our personal loss, we realize that the public service has been deprived of one 
 of its ablest and best servants, whose long service has been distinguished by 
 great simplicity and purity of life." 
 
 The good words which were written and spoken of Mr. Ela in 
 sincerest grief and appreciation by many warm personal friends 
 might fill a volume, but the limits of this sketch will not permit 
 us to print them. 
 
 The news of Mr. Ela's death was heard in Rochester with heart- 
 
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LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 419 
 
 felt sorrow. Her citizens gathered in Hayes Hall on the evening 
 of the 23d and adopted resolutions expressing their affection and 
 respect, the first of which we give here : — 
 
 " Resolved, That it is with deep sorrow we learn of the sudden death of our 
 beloved townsman ; and while in this dispensation we acknowledge the hand of 
 a wise and overruling Providence, we feel that we have lost a kind neighbor, 
 a true friend, and a fellow citizen ever faithful to his convictions of right, and 
 one who has spent the years of an active life with no selfish purpose, but with a 
 paramount desire to relieve the burdens of others, as at all times manifested 
 by his acts in behalf of struggling humanity." 
 
 On the 25th places of business were closed from 12 to 5 o'clock 
 p. M., and at the funeral services the old Congregational Church 
 was filled with mourning friends from Rochester and the neigh- 
 boring towns. Rev. Mr, Mellen of Dover preached an impressive 
 sermon from the simple text " A good man,'" and a long proces- 
 sion, escorted by the Sampson Post, G. A. R., which had asked 
 the privilege of thus showing its respect, moved slowly and sadly 
 to the cemetery. 
 
 " Alike are life and death 
 
 When life in death survives, 
 And the uninterrupted breath 
 Inspires a thousand lives. 
 
 Were a star quenched on high, 
 
 For ages would its light, 
 Still traveling downward from the sky, 
 
 Shine on our mortal sight. 
 
 So, when a good man dies. 
 
 For years beyond our ken 
 The light he leaves behind him lies 
 
 Upon the paths of men." 
 
 GREENFIELD. 
 
 John Torr, the oldest son of Simon and Sarah (Ham) Torr (p. 
 428), born in 1781 on the old Torr farm in Rochester, had his 
 name changed to John Greenfield, because soon after he began 
 business in Rochester his brother, Jonathan Torr, opened a store 
 in the same place, and their goods would get badly mixed. He 
 was reared as a tanner, shoemaker, and farmer, and very early 
 showed signs of great foresight. About 1812 to 1813, he com- 
 
420 ROCHESTER. 
 
 mencecl trading in Rochester, and for nearly or quite fifty years 
 was one of the most successful business men in town. He was 
 full of energy, and possessing a sound judgment was always able 
 to make good investments. He was somewhat advanced in years 
 when he married Phebe Wentworth and had four children : — 
 Charles; Sarah E., wife of E. G. Wallace of Rochester; Ella G., 
 Mrs. Daniel J. Parsons, who died JSTovember, 1886 ; and George, 
 who married Mary F., daughter of John Parshley of Strafford, 
 had five children, and died September, 1871. John Greenfield 
 died at seventy-five years of age, Jan. 18, 1863, leaving his family 
 an ample fortune, and what is much better, a good name. Some 
 of his children are among the most highly educated people of 
 Rochester, and all are good, worthy citizens. 
 
 Charles Greenfield was born in Rochester Feb. 18, 1826, and 
 received a common school and academic education till he was 
 fourteen, when he commenced farming, which has been his prin- 
 cipal employment since. Upon the death of his father in 1863 
 he received his proportion of his father's estate, and this has 
 accumulated till now (1888) he is considered one of the w^ealthy 
 men of the town. He possesses quick perception, clear judgment, 
 and sound reason. He has seldom, if ever, made a financial 
 mistake, and his word is as good as his bond. He owns several 
 hundred acres in Rochester, and though nominally a farmer, yet 
 he makes his money otherwise. In politics he is a Republican. He 
 is a director of the Rochester ]S"ational Bank, trustee in the Nor- 
 way Plains Savings Bank, and stockholder in various railroad and 
 manufacturing interests. He married Aroline B., daughter of 
 Gershom and Sally P. Downs of Rochester, July 6, 1846. She was 
 born in Rochester May 17, 1826. Their children are : — 1. 31iUie A., 
 wife of Horace L. Worcester, a newsdealer in Rochester. 2. John, 
 who fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Exeter, and entered 
 Dartmouth in 1868. In 1876 he was elected a member of the board 
 of selectmen, and has since been four times re-elcctOvl. He has 
 also served the town as tax collector and as chief engineer of the 
 fire department. In 1879 he was elected high sheriff" of the county, 
 and was twice re-elected. 3. Ella S., wife of Justin M. Leavitt 
 of Buxton, Me., who is now register of deeds for York county, 
 Maine. 4. Sarah E., wife of George W. Young of Lowell, Mass., 
 an officer in the Massachusetts Reformatory at Concord, Mass. 
 
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 o. Hattk A. 6. Franks now in business at the West. 7. A son, 
 who died in infancy. Mre. Greenfield is a member of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church. Mr. Greenfield is very reticent in all 
 matters, modest, not given to show or ostentation, intelligent and 
 prudent, and commands the esteem of all. 
 
 LOTHROP. 
 
 From the parish of Lowthorpe, Yorkshire, England, came Mark 
 Lothrop, the grandson of John Lowthorpe, and settled in Salem, 
 Mass., about 1643. His grandson of the same name married 
 Hannah Alden, great-granddaugher of John and Priscilla. Their 
 great-grandson, Daniel Lothrop, settled in Rochester, where he mar- 
 ried Sophia, daughter of Dea. Jeremiah Home. She was a beau- 
 tiful woman of lofty thoughts and noble aspirations. Her influence 
 had great power in molding and directing the character of her 
 sons. He was loved and respected for his many excellent traits 
 j of character, and repeatedly represented the town in the Legis- 
 i lature. His wise, practical sense did good service in defending 
 the rights of liberty for all men. The home on Haven's Hill was 
 in many respects an ideal one, a center of moral and religious 
 I influence, and of general intelligence. 
 
 James Elbeidge Lothrop, the oldest son of Daniel and Sophia, 
 i was born in Rochester Sox. 30, 1826. The father, adding the 
 trade of a mason to his care of the farm, was frequently absent, 
 j consequently James, as the eldest son, had much responsibility 
 I and care at an early age. He attended school winters, and did 
 j a man's work on the farm summers. At ten years of age he 
 ) would take a load of wood to Dover and sell it before seven 
 I o'clock in the morning. Sturdy and self-reliant, at nine years of 
 I age he walked to Dover and returned bringing a large Latin 
 j lexicon for his own use. From the district school he went to 
 I the academies at Rochester and Strafford. At sixteen years of age 
 he taught the winter school in the upper district in Rochester, 
 following with a private school in the same place. He was then 
 fitted to enter college a year in advance. By the advice of his 
 uncle, Dr. Jeremiah Home of Fall River, Mass., he began the study 
 of medicine in his oflice, where he also learned the drug business. 
 After two vears he returned home with fifteen dollars in his 
 
422 ROCHESTER. 
 
 pocket. Borrowing three hundred dollars from his father he 
 opened a drug store at Dover in the fall of 1845. From that 
 simple beginning at nineteen years of age, has grown a business 
 of nearly a million dollars annually. The Lothrop clothing house 
 now occupies the spot where this drug store then stood. For 
 more than a year he conducted the business entirely alone, doing 
 all the regular work by day, and distributing his own advertise- 
 ments by night to the houses of the citizens. Such energetic 
 industry of course commanded success, and he soon repaid the 
 borrowed money. Desiring to complete the study of medicine, 
 he invited his younger brother Uaniel to take charge of his drug 
 business, holding out the inducement of an equal share in the 
 profits, and that the firm should be known as " D. Lothrop & Co." 
 
 Having attended lectures at Bowdoin Medical College he went 
 also to Philadelphia, where he graduated with the degree of M. D. 
 from the Jefferson Medical College in 1848. Returning to Dover 
 his business increased so rapidly that he gave up all thought of 
 medical practice. It was decided that Daniel should open a drug 
 store at ISTewmarket under the same firm name, and another 
 brother, John C. Lothrop, was received into equal partnership. 
 The drug store at Dover still continues under the name " Lothrops 
 & Pinkham." For forty years these brothers have presented a 
 remarkable instance of family union. There has been an absolute 
 unity of interests, though established in diflferent cities, each having 
 direction of the business best suited to his own tastes and ability. 
 Other stores were subsequently opened at Meredith Bridge, now 
 Laconia, Amesbury Mills, Mass., and at Great Falls, where John 
 C. still remains, who is prominent in church and Sabbath school 
 work, and influential in all matters of public interest. 
 
 About 1855, their father desiring to enter trade, they opened a 
 clothing house in Dover as " D. Lothrop & Sons," and soon estab- 
 lished branches at Rochester and Great Falls. It is not necessary to 
 follow minutely all the changes in their widely extended business. 
 Another brother, M. Henry Lothrop, who has been president of the 
 common council of Dover, after a service of eight years as sales- 
 man took a half interest in the clothing store at Dover. In 1880 he 
 was transferred to the Boston department, and the Dover clothing 
 business is now conducted under the name of " Lothrops, Farn- 
 ham & Co." 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 428 
 
 In 1873 there was added to the Dover business a musical de- 
 partment, which is now the largest of its kind in the State, and 
 perhaps in New England. 
 
 James E. Lothrop, being the senior partner, has always retained 
 a general financial leadership in all the departments of the firm. 
 His business capacity is remarkable, even in these days of mer- 
 chant millionaires. Never disturbed, never hurried, never ruflled 
 in temper, fertile in plans, ready for all emergencies, he never 
 seems in the least burdened with his multiplied cares. He has 
 been constantly sought for to fill places of responsibility, where 
 integrity and business capacity were needed. He has been 
 director in the Cocheco National Bank from 1858, and its presi- 
 dent since 1876. In 1871 he became a director in the Cocheco 
 Aqueduct Association, and its president since 1875. He has also 
 been a director in the Portsmouth & Dover Railroad, in the Eliot 
 Bridge Company, and in the Dover Horse Railroad, and president 
 of the Dover Board of Trade. 
 
 In 1872 Dr. Loihroj) was chosen to the Legislature. In 1883 
 he was elected Mayor of Dover. His uniform business success, 
 due to organization, forethought, energy, and integrity, eminently 
 fitted him for the position. He managed the city affairs precisely 
 as he would his own business, and with such success as to win the 
 highest regard and confidence of the citizens, irrespective of party, 
 who re-elected him with an increased majority. His inflexible 
 determination that the city should not be imposed upon won the 
 victory in the noted valve case, which was tried at Dover prepar- 
 atory to an attack on Boston. The most important measure of 
 his administration as mayor was the establishment of a free public 
 library. He brought forward the subject in his inaugural address, 
 and with determined energy pressed the matter to final success. 
 His name will always be identified with this most valuable public 
 institution. "Foster's Democrat," an intensely partisan sheet, 
 nevertheless spoke of Mayor Lothrop in these words : — " He does 
 not agree with us in politics, but Dover never had a better mayor, 
 in our judgment. A good, practical, energetic, and successful 
 business man, a man of public spirit and enterprise, a man who 
 knows the principles of true economy and how to practice them 
 without being penurious, a man of honor and integrity, who can 
 safely be trusted with the control of all city improvements and 
 
424 ROCHESTER, 
 
 "enterprises without being continually suspected of having a 'job' 
 to feather his own nest, a man who can be trusted in private 
 affairs and is known to be good for his word of honor every time, 
 — a good, fair, and square representative of the intelligence and 
 business of our honorable business people. We know him in a 
 business way like a book, and a squarer and more honorable man 
 does not exist." Dr. Lothrop married Mary E., the daughter of 
 Joseph Morrill of Dover. In politics he is a Republican, in religion 
 a Methodist, and has been a teacher in the Sunday School for 
 more than forty years. 
 
 Daniel Lothrop, son of Daniel and Sophia, was born in Roch- 
 ester Aug. 11, 1831. As a boy he was studious and unusually 
 successful in acquiring knowledge. He had a quick and retentive 
 memory and a remarkable mathematical intuition. He had a natural 
 taste for trade, and when only five years of age played the man of 
 business, having the sign " D. Lothrop & Co." nailed on the door of 
 his playhouse, little dreaming of the renown that coming years 
 would bring to that very name. Fitted for college at the age of 
 fourteen, his somewhat slender physique led his friends to advise 
 him to remain out of college a year. His brother James at this 
 time invited him to take his drug store at Dover, offering the 
 firm name of his boyhood as an inducement. Here his knowledge 
 of Latin was a great help, and from this time began his distin- 
 guished business career. To the varied experience gained in the 
 several drug stores which he conducted, was now added that of 
 a new business. In 1850 a large stock of books was purchased, 
 and thus began the great book trade by which the firm is most 
 extensively known. Enterprise, energ}-, sound judgment, and 
 unwavering integrity characterized all his dealings from the first. 
 In 1856 Daniel Lothrop visited the West. He decided to locate at 
 St. Peter, in Minnesota. Here he established a banking house 
 which proved a great success, his uncle, Jeremiah Home, being 
 the cashier, and a book and drug store in which he gave one of 
 his former clerks an interest. The opening of his store at this 
 place was an illustration of his characteristic energy in the exe- 
 cution of his plans. The early freezing of the Mississippi pre- 
 vented the arrival of his goods at the time expected. Having 
 contracted with the St. Peter Company to erect a building and 
 open his store on the first of December, he went several hun- 
 
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LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 425 
 
 dred miles down the river to the various landings searching for 
 his goods. 'Not finding them, he bought out the entire stock 
 of a drug store at St. Paul, and with several large teams started 
 for St. Peter. A fearful snow storm prolonged the trip of two 
 days to five. Within a mile of their destination it was necessary 
 to cross the Minnesota river on the ice, which was thought to he 
 too thin to bear the heavy teams. Consequently they were all 
 unloaded and the goods transported on light sledges, and the drug 
 store was opened on the very day agreed upon. The financial crisis of 
 1857-58, together with an Indian raid, and the change of the 
 capital from St. Peter to St. Paul, caused the failure of many firms 
 which had represented millions. Great loss came to Mr. Lothrop, 
 but he met every liability in full. On his annual business visit 
 to ISTew England, allowing himself no rest, he was prostrated with 
 congestion of the lungs. A consultation of physicians gave no 
 hope of his recovery. The celebrated Dr. Bowditch having been 
 called, with no knowledge of his patient's history, said, on exam- 
 ination, " He has been doing twenty years' work in ten." 
 He, however, gave encouragement, and under his treatment 
 Mr. Lothrop so far recovered as to be able to take a trip to 
 Florida, where the needed rest restored his health. 
 
 From this time his energies were more and more concentrated 
 upon the book business, to which his mind had long been attracted. 
 This must be regarded as really his life work. Into this he has 
 put the matured forces of his manhood. For this work he was 
 peculiarly fitted by natural abilities, by the foundation of a clas- 
 sical education giving him judgment and literary taste, by his 
 business tact and energy, and a practical experience of the markets 
 and the popular tastes. He entered upon this great work of a 
 publishing house not hastily, but first laying carefully the founda- 
 tions. His aim was not merely financial success, but with broader 
 purpose to help mankind. At the start he laid down as a prin- 
 ciple from which there should be no swerving, ''Never to publish 
 a work purely sensational, no matter lohat chances of money it has 
 in it, and to publish books that will make true, steadfast growth in right 
 living." From this principle he has never departed. He has bent 
 the energies of his mind to this one object, to put good whole- 
 some literature into the hands of the people. Turning naturally 
 to the young as those through whom he could best influence 
 
426 ROCHESTEK. 
 
 society, his publications have been largely of Sunday school books. 
 The Sunday school library was a channel through which he could 
 reach the largest audiences of the young. The family and house- 
 hold library was another practical channel of paramount import- 
 ance. In the spring of 1868 Mr. Lothrop selected three men, 
 whose judgment he deemed worthy of trust, and laid before them 
 his plans and purposes, — Rev. George T. Day, D. D., Prof. Heman 
 Lincoln, D. D., and Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D. While they frankly 
 told him the undertaking was very difficult, his intentions met 
 their cordial approval, and every book since published has been first 
 read and approved by one or more of these men. Establishing 
 his business on Cornhill, the first book published was " Andy 
 Luttrell," which proved a great success. It was well said, " The 
 series of which this is the initiatory volume marks a new era 
 in Sunday school literature." To establish a new publishing 
 house in competition with old and long-known firms, besides new 
 ones ready to contest every inch of ground, required pluck and 
 energy beyond that of most men; but Mr. Lothrop had no 
 thought of failure. He began with a courage that could face the 
 utmost, and a determination that had already won the battle. He 
 had a remarkable instinct to discern real ability in a new writer, 
 and great enthusiasm, which proved a stimulus and encourage- 
 ment to timid beginners. He had a hopeful word for every 
 applicant, and knew how to bring out the best of every one's 
 talent. His before unprecedented ofter of $1,000 and $500 prizes 
 for manuscripts seemed a wild experiment to many; but it proved 
 eminently successful. It would be a surprise to many to read a 
 list of authors, now noted, who brought their first manuscripts to 
 Mr. Lothrop with fear and trembling. 
 
 The great fire of 1872 brought him severe loss. A large quan- 
 tity of paper intended for the first edition of the sixteen $1,000 
 prize books was replaced within two weeks, when it was again 
 lost by another fire; but a third lot was procured and the printing 
 went on with but little delay. It was well remarked in the 
 newspapers that " Mr. Lothrop seems loarmed up to his work." 
 
 We cannot here attempt to give any impression of the number 
 and variety of his publications in history, biography, and general 
 literature. The names of the most distinguished authors are in 
 his catalogue. Visiting Europe he made the acquaintance of 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 427 
 
 George MacDonald, who arranged with him that he should 
 puhhsh the manuscripts of his latest novels before they were 
 issued in England, Thus Mr. Lothrop has published the entire 
 series of his novels. The number of books printed in a single 
 year is upwards of a million and a half About 1885 " The 
 Interstate Publishing Company" was incorporated in Illinois,, 
 with headquarters at Chicago, and a branch in Boston. The 
 object is educational, especially to supply for schools first-class 
 literature supplementary to regular school work. Of this company 
 Mr. Lothrop is president, and to it he has transferred some of his 
 best educational books. 
 
 One of his most important enterprises was the establishment in 
 1874 of the popular magazine for young people, " Wide Awake." 
 After this came "Babyland," a marvel of attractive beauty for the 
 little ones. Then followed " Our Little Men and Women," " The 
 Pansy," for Sunday Schools, and " The Chautauqua Young Folks' 
 Journal." All these are full of pure and noble thought, yielding- 
 great pleasure and amusement, with excellent instruction. They 
 mark a most valuable new departure in the periodical world. 
 
 Hard, unflinching devotion to work, and determination to excel 
 in all that is best, a steady perseverance through discouragement 
 and loss, have brought him well-earned renown and success. 
 
 Daniel Lothrop's first wife was Ellen J., daughter of Joseph 
 Morrill of Dover. She died in 1880 and he afterwards married 
 Harriet Mulford, daughter of Sidney Mason Stone of ITew Haven, 
 Conn. She is widely known and beloved under her pseudonym,. 
 " Margaret Sidney." The author of " Five Little Peppers " will 
 always be a favorite. " The Pettibone ISTame," " A IsTew De- 
 parture for Girls," and many other stories indicate the unusual 
 versatility and attractive power of her genius. She has also writ- 
 ten some fine poetry, and is justly ranked among the very best 
 writers of juvenile literature. She is well known also for her 
 interest and activity in all church and missionary work, and is 
 a prominent contributor to " Life and Light." 
 
 The summer home of Daniel Lothrop is the well-known " Way- 
 side," at Concord, Mass., forever fragrant with tender memories 
 of the gentle Hawthorne, whose " study in the tower " is certainly 
 a fitting workshop for " Margaret Sidney." It is worthy of men- 
 tion that the first child born in this house within a century is 
 
428 ROCHESTER. 
 
 their little daugliter, Margaret Lothrop. Here " host and hostess 
 dispense a wide hospitality, for the genial, sunny nature, and warm, 
 responsive friendliness of heart and manner, so marked in each, 
 creates an atmosphere both attractive and wholesome, one that 
 both the new friend and the old are glad to tarry in." 
 
 TORE. 
 
 Vincent Torr came from England and settled in Dover, on the 
 farm still owned by one of his descendants. His son Simon settled 
 in Rochester in 1775 on the farm still owned by his grandson. 
 A part of the house then built is still standing, and the same old 
 clock which he brought is still in use there. He married Sarah 
 Ham and had four daughters and three sons. The oldest son, 
 John, became John Greenfield (p. 419). The youngest son, Jonathan 
 H., married Sally McDuffee, purchased the Jabez Dame store, 
 where he carried on the dry goods business with Simon Chase 
 and afterwards John McDuffee as partners. He subsequently traded 
 in Dover and in Portsmouth, and then returned to Rochester, 
 where he died Jan. 25, 1881, at the age of eighty-seven. He re- 
 membered being taken by his father and mother on horseback 
 to Dover, and thence by boat to Portsmouth, to see General Wash- 
 ington, who smiled and patted his head. The second son, Simon 
 Torr, Jr., followed farming and tanning, as did his father before 
 him. He married Betsey, daughter of Thomas Davis, and had 
 four children : — Charles and Simon A., both of whom died young; 
 John F. ; and Sarah E., who married Lewis E. Hanson. 
 
 John F. Torr, whose portrait is here given, was born in Roch- 
 ester April 8, 1829, and still occupies the old homestead. With 
 very limited advantages for education, yet inheriting many of the 
 qualities of his ancestors, he is highly respected for his energy, 
 financial ability, and business success. He is a Republican in 
 politics, and though never an ofiice seeker has served the town 
 as selectman. March 17, 1868, he married Mary C. Downes of 
 Farmington. Their children are Charles C, Simon A., and 
 George A. 
 
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LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 429 
 
 CHASE. 
 
 Rev. John Chase was a settled minister at Spruce Creek, Kittery, 
 Me., and had four sons: — Josiah, John, Thomas, and Bradstreet. 
 Josiah settled at York, Me., Thomas and Bradstreet remained on 
 the old homestead, John married Harriet Dennett of Kittery and 
 moved to Berwick, Me., which at that time was a wilderness. 
 He had six sons and two daughters: — Sally, Betsey, Thomas^ 
 John, Josiah, Simon, Mark, and Abraham, 
 
 Thomas and John remained at home, Josiah settled at Liming- 
 ton. Me., Mark at I^ewfield, Me., and Simon at the age of thirteen 
 was bound out to Reuben Tabor, a hatter, where he remained 
 four years. He then went to Portsmouth and worked with a Mr. 
 Kelley as a journeyman hatter. In the winter of 1805 he attended 
 Berwick Academy, and in the spring of 1806 went to Rochester, 
 being recommended to Joseph Hanson by Joshua Meader, and 
 entered Hanson's store as a clerk, receiving ninety-six dollars the 
 first year. He remained with Mr. Hanson four years, and in 1810 
 went into business for himself at Milton. 
 
 Simon Chase was born Sept. 30, 1786, and married Sarah Win- 
 gate, daughter of Enoch Wingate of Milton, Oct. 28, 1813. He 
 removed to Rochester in 1822, and went into business in company 
 with Jonathan Torr. In 1825 he bought Torr's interest in the 
 business, and built a new brick store. The same year he bought 
 the house on Central Square which was his home until his death, 
 which occurred January 31, 1878. His wife died June 14, 1870. 
 Together with Charles Dennett and James C. Cole he was instru- 
 mental in building the first Methodist Church in Rochester, of 
 which he was an active member (p. 263). He had ten children : 
 — Betsey E., Wingate, George W., John D., Mary Y., Harriet L., 
 Charles K., Sarah F., Maria Josephine, and one who died in 
 infancy. 
 
 Charles K. Chase was born in Rochester March 17, 1830. At 
 the age of seventeen he left Warren Academy at Woburn, Mass., 
 and entered his father's store as clerk, and at the end of four 
 years bought the store and business. In April, 1855, he married 
 Ellen M. Burleigh, youngest daughter of John and Phebe Burleigh 
 of Sandwich. He had five children: — Charles S., Grace M. J., 
 Nellie, Jessie, w^ho died in infancy, and Harry W. Dec. 26, 1876, 
 
430 ROCHESTER. 
 
 he married Mrs. Abbie McD. Whitehouse, daughter of John 
 McDufFee (p. 367), and had two children, Sarah McD., who died in 
 childhood, and Maud H. 
 
 During the first year of the war he was elected one of the com- 
 mittee to pay out the funds due the families of soldiers who had 
 enlisted in the service of the United States. He took a decided 
 and unflinching stand for temperance, rumshops and rum drinking 
 having increased to an alarming extent as one of the results of 
 the war. He was appointed by the town one of a committee of five 
 to prosecute all violations of the prohibitory law (p. 315). They 
 were in a great measure successful in their work, having closed 
 all the liquor saloons in town. The credit, however, w^as not due 
 to the committee alone, but to the temperance part of the com- 
 munity, backed by the strong arm of the law and the sympathy 
 of the court, especially Hon. Joshua G. Hall, county solicitor, and 
 Judge Doe. They were threatened many times with violence, and 
 Mr. Chase's store was damaged one Saturday night by being fired 
 into with a gun in the hands of some person employed to do it. 
 The shot went the entire length of the store, which did not take 
 fire, as was probably the intention. A reward of two hundred dol- 
 lars was offered by the selectmen of the town for the conviction of 
 the person who did it, but without success. The friends of temper- 
 ance made up the loss to Mr. Chase. At the call of the first State 
 Temperance Convention Mr. Chase was present in sympathy with 
 the movement. Believing in the ballot box as well as the law to 
 suppress the evil, he voted with that party as long as he lived. 
 
 In August, 1878, the old brick store built by his father was fired 
 by an incendiary and destroyed with its contents. The loss to Mr. 
 Chase was very heavy, but he was not discouraged. As soon as 
 possible the ruins were cleared away, and October 1, 1878, the 
 foundation was laid for a fine new block. The work was pushed 
 rapidly, and the new store was opened with a new stock of dry 
 goods April 29, 1879. 
 
 Mr. Chase soon after retired from business with failing health, 
 and died after a long illness, Feb. 13, 1887. As a trader he excelled 
 in his fine taste in selecting goods, and was widely known for his 
 honest dealing. Many of his customers could never be induced to 
 trade elsewhere. 
 
 In politics he was originally a stanch Whig, casting his first 
 
"S^iy A.SMtxcKLe. 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 431 
 
 vote for James Bell for governor, and while his father and brothers 
 voted with the Free-soilers he continued to vote the Whig ticket 
 till the advent of the Republican party, of which he became an 
 xictive member. He served the town as clerk, and was elected to 
 the Legislature. 
 
 He was a member of Humane Lodge of Masons, and also of 
 the Royal Arch Chapter. He was for fifteen years an earnest and 
 efficient member of the Methodist Church, to whom his death was 
 a great loss. 
 
 PLACE. 
 
 John Place came from Devonshire, England, and settled in iN'ew- 
 ington, jST. H., about 1688. About 1700 he removed to Rochester, 
 and built a log house not far from the old burying ground on 
 Haven's Hill, where he died at a great age. Richard Place, son 
 of John, is supposed to have come from England with his father. 
 He was a man of great strength and athletic proportions, weighing 
 about two hundred and fifty pounds, and over six feet two inches 
 in height. He was a terror to the Indians for miles around, and 
 was much respected by his townsmen. He lived to the age of 
 one hundred and five years. A daughter of Richard Place mar- 
 ried E"oah Thompson of Berwick, Me. John Place, son of Richard, 
 settled on the ^^arrington road, where an old cellar can still be 
 seen near the corner on the Roberts homestead where the old 
 road from Rochester abruptly turns to the west. He was born 
 about 1716, and died in his seventy-first year, leaving five children : 
 — David, Samuel, John, Betty, and Susannah. Samuel went to 
 Newburyport, Mass., and afterwards to Portsmouth, and served his 
 country in the battle of Bunker Hill. John settled in the west 
 part of Rochester, and the Rev. Enoch Place (p. 343), IsToah, and 
 Moses Place were among his, descendants. Betty married Ephraim 
 Ham, grandson of Eleazer, and lived on the old homestead near 
 Gonic. Susannah married the Rev. Jeremiah Wise of Sanford, 
 Me. David Place, known as captain, and afterwards colonel, served 
 as captain in the Revolution (p. 59). He was born February, 
 1741, and married about 1762 his cousin Susannah, daughter of 
 IS'oah Thompson of Berwick, Me. He settled on a farm of three 
 hundred acres given him by his father, now known as the " Went- 
 worth farm," on the north side of the old road from Gonic to 
 
432 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Norway Plains, and then including the " Chesley farm" on Hus- 
 sey Hill. He died May, 1821, and was buried in the old grave- 
 yard just below Rochester village. On this farm his seven children 
 were born and reared : — Mary, James, David, Stephen, Mehitable,, 
 Elizabeth, and Isaac. Mary married Barnabas Palmer and removed 
 to Athens, Me. James and David died at the ages of sixteen and 
 six respectively. Mehitable never married, but lived on the home- 
 stead with her brother Isaac. Elizabeth married a Mr. Evans 
 and lived at Gonic. They had five children, — three daughters, 
 and two sons, Rufus and John. The latter was in trade in Roch- 
 ester for several years. Rufus settled in Macon, Georgia, and. 
 married and raised a family there. His posterity still reside there, 
 Isaac, who was given the homestead by his father. Captain Place,, 
 married and raised a family of four sons and a daughter. His 
 eldest son's name was David, who settled in Dover, and left two 
 sons, — Delmore and Henry. The latter is now teller in the 
 Franklin Savings Bank in Boston, Mass. 
 
 Stephen Place was born March 26, 1770, and married in 1799 Eliz- 
 abeth Chesley, whose father, James Chesley, lived to over one hun- 
 dred years of age. His father gave him the " Chesley farm," where 
 his children were born. He afterwards 'built a house in Gonic,. 
 where he died April 9, 1858. He and his wife lie buried in 
 the graveyard at Gonic. They had seven children: — Ehza F. 
 married William S. Ricker of Rochester; Susan A. married IsT. V. 
 Whitehouse (p. 355); Charles; James H. married Lydia A. 
 Chesley of Rochester; Isaac married Abigail Willey of Durham; 
 David married Caroline Crockett of Dover; and Mary Jane 
 married Samuel J. Varney (p. 400). Charles Place married Maria 
 G., daughter of James Willey of Durham, and had eight children, 
 the third of whom, 
 
 James Franklin Place, was born at Gonic Jan. 16, 1837. At- 
 tending the village school at Gonic till fourteen years of age, he 
 then removed with his father to Lawrence, Mass., where he com- 
 pleted a course of study in the Oliver High School. He then 
 went to Boston and was employed four years in the grocery store 
 of I. S. Trafton on Harvard street, in whose familj^ he lived. Mr. 
 Trafton was deacon in the Christian Church on Kneeland street, a. 
 member of the City Government, and a very prominent and active 
 anti-slavery Republican. Young Place here received his strongest. 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 433 
 
 political impressions, and as an editor years after made use with 
 telling effect of many points remembered from the earnest political 
 discussions in Trafton's store. 
 
 In 1860 Mr. Place returned to Lawrence and formed a co-part- 
 nership with C. A. Dockham in the publication of the " Daily 
 Journal " of that city. This business venture lasted till just before 
 he established the " Rochester Courier " in 1864 (p. 186). In the 
 meantime he spent a year in the army in Louisiana, being assigned 
 to clerical duty in the Brigade Quartermaster's Department of the 
 Third Division under General Banks (p. 227). This position gave him 
 special opportunities for his constant newspaper correspondence. 
 "While before Port Hudson he was captured by a raid of Confed- 
 erate Cavalry, but was soon released. He was among the very 
 first to enter Port Hudson after its surrender, and sent early details 
 of the capture to his paper. 
 
 The "Rochester Courier," which he established on returning 
 from the array, he soon placed on a paying basis, and took an 
 independent and active part in local and State politics. In 1866 
 he was appointed postmaster at Rochester, but resigned in about a 
 year, having purchased a half interest in the " Journal " at Bid- 
 deford, Me. 
 
 In 1868 Mr. Place removed to San Francisco, Cal., where he 
 entered upon a career of great business prosperity, as a member 
 of the firm of " Berry & Place," and afterwards of the house of 
 "Treadwell & Co.," extensive dealers in machinery and agricultural 
 implements. After fifteen years, his partners having died, he dis- 
 posed of his business and returned to ISTew York City, where he 
 has since been engaged in superintending the manufacture and 
 sale of machinery of his own invention. 
 
 While publishing the " Rochester Courier " Mr. Place married 
 Miss Sara Potter, a graduate of the same school he attended, 
 and daughter of George W. Potter. They have two children, a 
 daughter Laura, born in Rochester Sept. 2, 1866, and a son 
 Clarence, born in Oakland, California, N'ov. 2, 1872. Two other 
 children, Ethel, the second child, aged three and a half years, 
 and the youngest, an infant girl, lie buried in "Mountain View" 
 Cemetery at Oakland. 
 
 Mr. Place is a Republican of the old school, and intensely Amer- 
 ican in all his views, — a cardinal principle of his being never to 
 
434 ROCHESTER. 
 
 buy anything not made in his own country ; a believer in a strong 
 federal government, — a J^ation, and a State subordinate thereto ; 
 a tariiF for protection only, a one-term presidency, and an educated 
 ballot. He still frequently contributes to the press, but close ap- 
 plication to his private business prevents his taking that prominent 
 part in public aifairs for which he is eminently qualified. 
 
 OSMAN B. WAREEN. 
 
 OsMAN B. Warren is the present quartermaster of Sampson 
 Post, G. A. R. He was born in Rochester, Sept. 15, 1845. His 
 parents were James and Lydia Warren. His father was well 
 known as a Methodist minister, both in this section and in Maine. 
 As soon as Mr. Warren became old enough he attended the public 
 schools, where he remained until 1860. He then went to work 
 for George Johnson & Co., one of the first of Rochester's shoe 
 firms, who then manufactured in Dodge's building, at the lower 
 end of the village. He afterwards left this firm and went into 
 the employ of E. G. & E. Wallace, the well-known shoe manufac- 
 turers, where he remained until August 1, 1862, when he enlisted 
 as a private for three years in the Ninth New Hampshire Volun- 
 teer Infantry, and was mustered in at Concord, August 11. He 
 left the State August 25th and arrived in Washington the 27th. 
 The regiment encamped on the estate of General Lee, which is 
 situated on Arlington Heights, on the Virginia side of the Poto- 
 mac river. September 1st the Ninth Regiment was assigned to the 
 First Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps. September 
 14, 1862, Mr. Warren took part in the battle of South Mountain, 
 Md., and on the 17th in the terrible slaughter at Antietam. Later 
 on he was in two skirmishes, once at Wheatland and once at 
 White Sulphur Springs, Virginia. He participated in the battle 
 of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. In March, 1863, he went down 
 the Potomac to Fortress Monroe and camped at Newport News, on 
 the James river. From there the regiment was ordered to Coving- 
 ton, Ky. Then they went down on the Kentucky Central Railroad 
 to Lexington and Nicholasville, and drove the famous rebel general, 
 John Morgan, and his raiders from the State of Kentucky. In 
 June, 1863, the Ninth Corps was ordered to re-enforce General 
 Grant at Vicksburg. They landed at Haines's Blufi:', twelve miles 
 
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LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 435 
 
 ill the rear of Yicksburg, facing that part of the Confederate army 
 commanded by General Johnson. Mr. Warren was present at the 
 surrender of Yicksburg July 3, 1863. The Union army then 
 followed Johnson to Big Black river, where a battle took place 
 in which Mr. Warren participated, and he was also present in the 
 battle of Jackson, Miss. In the middle of July they were again 
 ordered to Kentucky, and from thence to Eastern Tennessee for 
 the purpose of relieving General Burnside. At Knoxville Mr. 
 Warren was promoted to orderly sergeant. In the spring of 1864 
 they were ordered to join General Grant's command at Wash- 
 ington. On May 5th and 6th they took part in the terrible battle 
 of the Wilderness, one of the fiercest of the war, in which thirty 
 thousand men were sacrificed. In this battle they were on the 
 left of the line under command of General Burnside. On May 
 12, 1864, at the battle of Spottsjdvania Court House, Mr. Warren 
 was taken prisoner in a charge upon the enemy's intrenchments. 
 He was marched from the battlefield to Gordonsville, Va., where 
 he took the cars to Lynchburg, and from thence he was taken 
 to Danville, Va. At the last named place he, in company with 
 twelve hundred prisoners, was confined in an old tobacco ware- 
 house until May 24. He was taken to Andersonville, Ga., the 
 worst prison pen of ancient or modern times, a name to be re- 
 membered throughout all time with the utmost horror. The 
 sufferings he endured during these long months, and saw others 
 endure, are too horrible to relate. Here he remained until the 
 latter part of September, when he was taken to Charleston, S. C, 
 and, in company with other Union prisoners, was confined in the 
 city under fire of the guns from Morris Island. He was kept at 
 Charleston until the latter part of October, when he was removed 
 to the famous Florence prison. South Carolina, remaining here until 
 February, 1865, when he was sent into the Union lines at Wil- 
 mington, 'N. C, under parole. Mr. Warren was then sent to parole 
 camp, Annapolis, Md. Here he was furloughed and sent home 
 in the latter part of March, 1865. He was discharged from the 
 United States service at Concord, K. H., in June, 1865, and came 
 home with a war record which few men are able to excel. 
 
 Mr. Warren was a charter member of Sampson Post No. 22, 
 and was its first quartermaster. He has been commander three 
 terms. He was a delegate from the Department encampment to 
 
436 ROCHESTER. 
 
 the JSTational encampment when it met at Indianapolis, Ind., in 
 1881. He was elected representative to the Legislature from this 
 town in 1875 and 1876. He served on the committee on military 
 affairs. He was appointed postmaster of Rochester by President 
 Hayes March 25, 1878, and was reappointed by President Arthur 
 March 31, 1882. In this position he served faithfully until Sept. 1, 
 1886, when, under the administration of President Cleveland, he 
 was ordered to " step down and out." 
 
 Mr. Warren is a member of Kennedy Lodge ISTo. 57, I. 0. 0. F., 
 and also belongs to Norway Plains Encampment. He has filled 
 the principal chairs in both orders. He is Master of Humane 
 Lodge N'o. 21, of Masons, and is also a member of Temple Royal 
 Arch Chapter. He is now proprietor of Warren's Rochester, 
 Dover & Boston Express. Mr. Warren has always been one of 
 the old standbys of Sampson Post, and has long been active in 
 the different orders which have been named. 
 
 CLERGYMEN. 
 
 The following lists of professional men and college graduates, 
 though necessarily incomplete, are intended to include not only 
 natives of Rochester but those also who for any considerable 
 period resided in Rochester. For pastors see the history of the 
 several churches. 
 
 Daniel Wentworth was born at Rochester in 1783; was ad- 
 mitted to the New England Conference in 1809 ; ordained elder 
 in the M. E. Church by Bishops Asbury and McKendree at Salem, 
 Conn., June 27, 1813; served on various appointments in Maine; 
 and died at Skowhegan, Me., Oct. 20, 1869. He married, in 1814, 
 EHzabeth Holt of Hampden, Me., who died April 7, 1887. 
 
 John Walker, son of Robert, was born at Rochester in 1785 ; 
 began preaching about 1806, and labored in Alton, Tuftonborough, 
 and neighboring towns for more than twenty years. In 1827 he 
 was ordained by several Free Will Baptist elders at Ossipee, where 
 he was pastor from 1833 till his death, June 1, 1870. He married 
 Betsey Piper in 1807 and Betsey Healey in 1820. 
 
 Enoch Place, (p. 343.) 
 
 John Meader married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Huldah 
 (Case) Hoag of Charlotte, Vt. (p. 258.)^ 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 437 
 
 Luke Waldron was born at Eochester in 1799 ; ordained in 1837; 
 preached in Sanford, Me., and vicinity from 1837 to 1840, M'hen he 
 became pastor of the Second Free Will Baptist Church in Provi- 
 dence, R. I. He afterwards became a Methodist, and died at New- 
 port, R. I., Jan. 10, 1858. 
 
 Jesse Meader, son of Lemuel and Mary (Kimball) Meader, was 
 born in Rochester Dec. 12, 1802; was ordained as a Free Will Bap- 
 tist minister at Barnstead, May, 1830 ; labored in Candia and vari- 
 ous parts of New Hampshire and Maine till 1858, when he retired 
 to Dover, where he died July 11, 1881. He married Hannah D. 
 York, Oct. 8, 1832. 
 
 John C. Holmes, son of Joshua and Polly (Carter) Holmes, was 
 born in Rochester Oct. 1, 1804; ordained a Free Will Baptist evan- 
 gelist at Hiram, Me., Dec. 24, 1840: labored in that vicinity several 
 years, when he removed to Wakefield, and preached in many New 
 Hampshire towns during the remainder of his life. Revivals fol- 
 lowed his labors in many places. He died at Nottingham, Sept. 13, 
 1866, and his wife, Hannah F., died there May 23, the following 
 year. 
 
 Hiram Holmes, brother of the preceding, was born in Rochester, 
 Oct. 3, 1806; ordained at Strafford Feb. 8, 1831; preached in vari- 
 ous parts of New Hampshire ; was clerk of Wolfeborough Free Will 
 Baptist Quarterly Meeting four years ; was delegate to three general 
 conferences ; married Susanna, daughter of Josiah and Lydia (New- 
 ton) Brown of Weare, Oct. 19, 1837; and died at Bradford, May 1, 
 1863. 
 
 George Washington Dame, son of Jabez and Elizabeth Hanson 
 (Cushing) Dame, was born in Rochester July 27, 1812 ; graduated 
 at Hampden Sidney College, 1829, where he remained as tutor and 
 professor till 1840, when he took charge of the Female Academy at 
 Danville, Va. He entered the Medical School and received a 
 diploma, but never practiced. Through his agency an Episcopal 
 Church was organized in Camden Parish, of which he has been 
 rector since 1840, having been ordained as deacon by Bishop R. C. 
 Moore, Jan. 15, 1840, and as priest, Aug. 10, 1841. He was super- 
 intendent of schools for Pittsylvania county, Va., 1870-82. He 
 married, July 22, 1835, Mary Maria, daughter of Maj. Carter and 
 Lucy (Nelson) Page of Cumberland county, Ya. 
 
 John Hanson Twombly, son of Tobias and Lois (Wentworth) 
 
438 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Twombly, was born in Rochester July 19, 1814; was a member of 
 Dartmouth College in 1839-40 ; graduated at "Wesleyan University, 
 1843; was teacher in Wilbraham Academy three years; was or- 
 dained elder in the M. E. Church April 9, 1848; has been stationed 
 in many of the larger places of Massachusetts; is now (1888) at 
 Brookline, Mass.; was president of Wisconsin State University, 
 1871-74 ; chaplain of Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1857- 
 58; superintendent of schools at Charlestown, Mass., 1866-69; 
 received the degree of D. D. from Wesleyan University in 1871 ; 
 married Betsey, daughter of Rev. John G. and Betsey (Lane) Dow 
 of Montpelier, Vt., ^""ov. 26, 1844. 
 
 Charles Munger, son of Rev. Philip and Zipporah Munger, was 
 born in Rochester Oct. 29, 1818. After studying several years at 
 the Maine Wesleyan Seminary he was admitted to the Maine M. E. 
 Conference in 1841 ; was ordained elder by Bishop Janes, at Port- 
 land, Me., July 20, 1845; has served on various appointments 
 from 1841 ; is now (1888) stationed at Cornish, Me. He visited 
 England in 1848 ; has twice been delegate to the General Confer- 
 ence ; and received the honorary degree of A. M. from Bowdoin 
 College in 1868. He married, Aug. 8, 1841, Celia J. Anderson of 
 Fayette, Me., who died July 1, 1885. 
 
 Elihu Hayes Legro. (p. 223.) 
 
 George S. Wentworth, son of Luther, was born at Milton in 
 1836. While preparing for college he enlisted in the service of his 
 country (p. 232). Was in every battle in which his regiment en- 
 gaged, and refused a pension. After the war he entered Wesleyan 
 University, where he graduated in 1871 ; was admitted to the New 
 Hampshire Conference in 1873 ; was ordained elder in the M. E. 
 Church by Bishop Peck, at Dover, in 1877. After filling several 
 appointments in ISTew Hampshire, he located in 1880; graduated 
 from the Boston School of Oratory June, 1888 ; and stumped New 
 York State in the presidential campaign of that year in behalf of a 
 protective tariff. 
 
 Edwin S. Chase, son of William and Harriet Chase, was born in 
 Rochester November, 1838. He is very earnest and enthusiastic in 
 the work of the ministry, and has been instrumental in the estab- 
 lishment of several Methodist churches, (p. 274.) 
 
 Herbert Morton Scruton, son of Hiram W. and Rachel (Rob- 
 erts) Scruton, was born in Rochester Oct. 17, 1846 ; graduated at 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 439 
 
 Andover Theological Seminary, 1878 ; was ordained an evangelist 
 in the Congregational Church at Deansville, N. Y., Aug. 1, 1878; 
 was acting pastor there for two years, and at Copenhagen, N". Y., 
 from 1880 till his death, March 14, 1883. He married, Feb. 26, 
 1877, Susie A., daughter of Francis and Elizabeth A. Turner of 
 Stoneham, Mass. 
 
 Samuel Henry Anderson, eldest son of James and Laura A. 
 Anderson, was born in Rochester April 26, 1847; graduated from 
 Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, K Y., in 1866; en- 
 gaged with his father in manufacturing for a time ; having fitted for 
 college, attended the University of Rochester, iN". Y., about two 
 years; graduated from Rochester Theological Seminary May 17, 
 1876; was ordained at Fairfax, Vt., Feb. 28, 1877, and in the fol- 
 lowing month became pastor of the Baptist Church in East Wash- 
 ington, N. H., where he remained two years. He was subsequently 
 pastor or acting pastor of churches in Middlebury, Montgomery, 
 and East Hardwick, Yt. In 1882 he left the pastorate with somewhat 
 impaired health, and is now residing in Newport, Vt., occasionally 
 supplying churches in the vicinity. He married, June 18, 1877, 
 Miss Josephine Stacy Goodwin, born in N'orth Berwick, Me., April 
 22, 1858, daughter of Daniel L. and Elizabeth A. Stacy, and adopted 
 daughter of Samuel and Sarah A. Goodwin. Their children are 
 Gertrude Laura, born at East Washington, April 30, 1878, and Ethel 
 Daisy, born in Craftsbury, Yt., March 24, 1883. 
 
 Arthur Dorman Kimball, son of Joseph P. and Lucy M. Kim- 
 ball, was born in Marlborough, Mass., Jan. 31, 1862. His parents 
 died when he was an infant, and he was adopted by his great-uncle. 
 Dr. Dorman (who had adopted and brought up his mother and her 
 two sisters), with whom he removed to Rochester about 1865. He 
 graduated from Tufts Divinity School in 1885, and during that 
 summer supplied the pulpit of the Universalist Church at Marlow, 
 where he died Aug. 13, 1885. 
 
 PHYSICIANS. 
 
 In the earliest days the ministers were usually the physicians 
 also, and the people seem to have been well satisfied Avith their 
 medical skill, (p. 85.) 
 
 Samuel Merrow, son of Henry, was born in Reading, Mass., 
 Oct. 9, 1670; was a practicing physician at Oyster River Parish, 
 
440 ROCHESTER. 
 
 now Darliam, in 1720; removed to Rochester about 1734, where he 
 died about 1740. 
 
 James Jackson in 1768 inserted in the "N'ew Hampshire Ga- 
 zette" the first business advertisement from this town, as follows: — 
 
 " The Public is hereby informed that James Jackson, Physician, late of Con 
 necticut, now of Rochester, in this Province, has for a number of Years with 
 great Success, and Ease to the Patient, Killed and drawn out Wens, tho' ever 
 so large, and Cancers, by the Use of a Plaister. Also cures Persons of the 
 Colic &c. &c. Any Person inclining to apply to him in Season, may doubtless 
 have relief." 
 
 This Dr. Jackson asked the town to give him a house lot behind 
 the meeting house to encourage his remaining, but they refused. 
 So he turned his back on their " wens and cancers " and returned 
 to Connecticut. 
 
 James Howe. (p. 121.) 
 
 Samuel Pray was born at South Berwick, Me., July 3, 3 769; 
 studied medicine with Dr. Jacob Kittredge of Dover three j^ears, 
 and settled in practice at Rochester September, 1792, where he died 
 in 1854. He was one of the original members of the Straflbrd 
 County Medical Society in 1811, of which he was secretary for sev- 
 eral years ; was elected Fellow of the ^ew Hampshire Medical So- 
 ciety in 1816 ; in 1821 an honorary member of the Dartmouth 
 College Medical Society. In 1797 he married Frances B. Farnham 
 of Boston, Mass., who died in 1847, leaving six children. 
 
 Jacob Maine, son of Josiah, and grandson of Rev. Amos Main 
 (p. 83), was born in Rochester; graduated from Harvard College in 
 1800 ; studied medicine with Dr. Ammi R. Cutter of Portsmouth, 
 whose daughter, Sarah Ann, he married; began practice in Dover 
 in 1803, where he kept an apothecary store ; died at Dover in 1807. 
 
 Timothy Farrar Preston, son of Dr. John and Rebecca (Farrar) 
 Preston, was born at ISTew Ipswich June 2, 1780. He had ten 
 brothers and sisters, among them a twin brother. He was named 
 for his uncle. Judge Timothy Farrar of the Supreme bench, who 
 lived to his 102d year. Dr. Preston probably studied medicine with 
 his father, practiced in various places, and came to Rochester in 
 1807. After a short stay he returned to 'New Ipswich, where he 
 died Dec. 4, 1857. 
 
 John Perkins was a native of JafFrey ; studied medicine at Ha- 
 verhill, Mass.; came to Rochester in 1807, and after eight years 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 441 
 
 returned to Jaffrey. He married Susanna Kelley of Methuen, 
 Mass., and died in Slatersville, R. I., leaving a son, Roderick R. 
 Perkins, M. D., and two daughters. 
 
 James Fahrington 1st. (p. 345.) 
 
 Asa Perkins, son of William, was born in Dover April 5, 1793; 
 read medicine with Dr. Jabez Dow of Dover ; began practice in 
 Rochester in 1816 ; returned to Dover in 1818 ; relinquished practice 
 in 1830 on account of poor health, and died in Dover May 3, 1850. 
 He was a Fellow of the Kew Hampshire Medical Society, and a. 
 member of the Strafford County Medical Society. 
 
 Samuel Pray, Jr., was born in Rochester March 4, 1799, and 
 died there Aug. 18, 1874. 
 
 Moses R. Warren was born at Alton in 1804. While securing 
 his education he had to struggle through hardships common to boys 
 of IsTew Hampshire farms. Attending medical lectures at Dartmouth 
 and Bowdoin, he graduated at the latter in 1832, and soon after 
 settled in practice at Middleton. In 1851 he removed to Wolfebor- 
 ough, and after ten years came to Rochester, where he remained in 
 active practice for the rest of his life. He was a member of the 
 Strafford County Medical Society and maintained a lively interest in 
 its meetings. " N'o man in his sphere of life had more or truer 
 friends than Dr. Warren, He was a man of sterling worth and 
 integrity, appreciated not only as a good physician, but as a society 
 man interested in everything that would make the community bet- 
 ter." Dr. Warren married Hannah Scates, a teacher of some note, 
 and died in Rochester June 26, 1881, leaving two children, Susan 
 M. and John Sidney. The latter graduated at Dartmouth College in 
 1862, also at Jefferson Medical College in 1866. He stands high 
 in his profession in l!Tew York City, where he has regular hospital 
 work, in addition to a good general practice. 
 
 Joseph Haven Smith, (p. 379.) 
 
 Calvin Cutter, son of John and Mary (Bachelder) Cutter, was 
 born in Jaffrey May 1, 1807; studied medicine with Dr. Nehemiah 
 Cutter of Pepperell, Mass.; attended lectures at Bowdoin, Harvard, 
 and Dartmouth Medical Colleges ; received his degree from the 
 latter in 1832, and immediately began practice in Rochester. The 
 next year he went to IlTew York University, where he became the 
 private pupil of Dr. Valentine Mott. After practicing a few years 
 at Nashua, he pursued his studies still further with Dr. McClellan of 
 
442 ROCHESTEK. 
 
 Philadelphia. After a few years' practice in Dover, he began lec- 
 turing on physiology for about twelve years in all parts of the United 
 States. In 1847 he published a text-book on physiology, which was 
 extensively used in public schools in this and other countries. He 
 became prominent in the Kansas struggle, emigrating thither with 
 a coifin filled with rifles. In 1861 he became surgeon of the 
 Twenty-first Massachusetts Regiment, and afterwards brigade sur- 
 geon of the i^inth Army Corps ; was wounded at Bull Run and at 
 ♦Fredericksburg. " He was a man of enterprise and skill, who 
 delighted in a life of well-doing." While at Nashua he became 
 personally responsible for building a house of worship for the 
 Baptist Church, of which he was a member, and was thereby 
 reduced to poverty. He married, first, in 1834, Caroline, daughter of 
 IS'athan and Ruth (Waterman) Hall of Milford, a woman of " beau- 
 tiful character," who died in 1842, aged thirty-three. He wrote a 
 very remarkable epitaph, still to be seen in the old cemetery at 
 Milford, stating that she was " murdered " by the church to which 
 she belonged in Nashua. They had two children : Eliza died in 
 infancy ; Carolme Eliza, born July 29, 1842, died March 24, 1862, 
 while accompanying her father on the Burnside expedition to North 
 Carolina, — " young, talented, cultured, patriotic." Dr. Cutter 
 married, second, Dec. 10, 1848, Eunice N., daughter of Chester and 
 Eunice (Hadkell) Powers of Warren, Mass., and had John Clareiiee, 
 born July 10, 1851, a physician highly distinguished for his services 
 to the Empire of Japan, receiving from the Mikado the " Fourth 
 Order of the Rising Sun," and for his revised edition of his father's 
 Physiologies; and Walter Powers, born April 28, 1857, died Aug. 1, 
 1871. He died at Warren, Mass., June 20, 1872. 
 
 Theodore Wells was a practicing physician in Rochester in 
 1832-33. 
 
 Turner, a physician from Massachusetts, came to Roch- 
 ester in 1832, and remained about a year. 
 
 Alfred Upham. (p. 328.) 
 
 Albert Gallatin Upham. (p. 328.) 
 
 Timothy Upham. (p. 328.) 
 
 John M. Berry advertised in March, 1836, that he had again 
 taken an office at Rochester with Dr. A. Upham. In the latter part 
 of 1837 he was a dentist at Dover, and in January, 1838, advertised 
 particular attention to spinal curvature, with use of machinery, etc. 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 443 
 
 Enoch C. Dow was born in Wakeiield in 1813 ; read medicine 
 with Dr. Jeremiah F. Hall of Wolfeborough ; attended seven 
 courses of medical lectures at Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Philadelphia, 
 and Harvard ; came to Rochester in 1859 ; and was United States 
 examining surgeon for Stratford county during the war. His second 
 wife was Lucy Tebbets of Rochester. Dr. Dow was one of the old 
 type of " family physicians " who by years of sympathetic practice 
 in the same families, presiding over the advent of the younger gen- 
 erations, and the departure of the old, won his way into many 
 hearts, and was the coniidential friend of his employers. At his 
 death, in 1876, many tears were shed, and his place was hard to fill. 
 
 Paul Augustine Stackpole was born in Rochester Feb. 12, 1814 ; 
 graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in 1842; settled in 
 Dover; has been president of the New Hampshire Medical Society, 
 and also of the Strafford District Medical Society ; is a member of 
 the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the American Medical 
 Association, He was a delegate from the N'ew Hampshire Medical 
 Society to examine the graduating class of Dartmouth Medical 
 School in 1858, and to deliver the address to the same ; served on 
 the Dover school board for several years ; was also an editor of the 
 " State Press," and a member of the New Hampshire Press Asso- 
 ciation. He married, July 9, 1845, Elizabeth Hills, of Haverhill, 
 Mass. 
 
 John W. Pray, son of Dr. Samuel Pray (p. 440), was born in 
 Rochester, August, 1814 ; studied medicine with his father ; attended 
 lectures at Dartmouth, and began practice at Barrington in 1840. 
 In 1843 he returned to Rochester, where he was in partnership with 
 his father for eleven years. He removed to Alexandria in 1861, but 
 afterwards returned to East Rochester, where he died April, 1871. 
 He married Lizzie, daughter of Stephen Mathes, and had four 
 children. 
 
 Jeremiah Caverno Garland, son of Nathaniel, was born at Straf- 
 ford Sept. 23, 1814. Studied medicine with Drs. Kittredge of New- 
 market, Haj-nes, Chadbourn, and Buck of Concord. Attended two 
 courses of medical lectures at Dartmouth Medical College and Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, graduating from the 
 latter in 1844 ; commenced the practice of medicine at Rochester in 
 August, 1844, and remained there over five years. "Was at Nashua 
 six and a half years; at Plymouth six years, and again in Nashua 
 
444 ROCHESTER. 
 
 since 1868 ; is a member of the Northern District and New Hamp- 
 shire Medical Societies, having been president of the former society ; 
 has been examining surgeon for pensions, city physician of Nashua, 
 assistant surgeon United States army, councilman, alderman, and 
 member of board of health of Nashua. He married Harriet C. 
 Woodman of Rochester, Dec. 5, 1849, and had five children : — Celia 
 Tamer, Willard Parker, George Lincoln, Theodore Woodmcm, and 
 Claudius Webster. 
 
 RuFUS K. Pearl was born in Farmington Feb. 6, 1815 ; attended 
 lectures at Bowdoin and Dartmouth, and studied medicine with Dr. 
 "Wright of Gilmanton. In 1840 he began practice at Rochester, but 
 left his profession on account of ill health and went into trade in 
 this village, where he died. 
 
 Jeremiah Horne, Jr., was born in Rochester Jan. 29, 1816 ; read 
 medicine with Dr. Richard Russell of Great Falls, and Dr. Winslow 
 Lewis of Boston, Mass.; graduated from Bowdoin Medical College 
 in 1840; began practice in Lowell, Mass.; removed to Dover in 
 1846, where he has been alderman, member of the State Legislature, 
 and city physician for many years ; is a member of the Massachu- 
 setts and the New Hampshire Medical Societies, and of the Straflibrd 
 District Medical Society ; is now at Melrose, Mass. 
 
 Jasper Hazen York. (p. 402.) 
 
 Richard Russell resided in Concord a short time prior to 1824 ; 
 was in practice at Rochester about 1841-44, but spent most of his 
 life in Wakefield and Great Falls, and died at the latter place May 
 22, 1855, aged about seventy. 
 
 Isaac W. Lougee. (p. 406.) 
 
 Hiram Gove was the first homeopathic physician in Rochester, 
 about 1846. He removed about 1862, and was afterwards in Salem, 
 Lynn, and East Boston, Mass. 
 
 Ebenezer Jenness followed Dr. Gove as the second homeopathic 
 physician in Rochester. He went from here to Great Falls. 
 
 Charles Trafton came to Rochester from Newfield, Me., and 
 after a short but successful practice died of diphtheria in 1877. 
 
 Thomas J. Sweatt, of French ancestry, was born in that part of 
 Gilmanton which is now Belmont, in 1819. He was remarkably 
 studious as a boy, and grew up highly respected. Having fitted for 
 college at Gilmanton Academy, he entered Dartmouth in 1840, 
 where he remained two vears. He studied medicine with Dr. Enos 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 445 
 
 Hoyt of N'orthfield, whose daughter he married, and commenced 
 practice in Canterbury, but after a few years removed to Sandwich, 
 where he became second to no man in his profession in Carroll 
 county. He was a prominent Odd Fellow, a leader of the Free-Soil 
 party in his section of the State, and in all respects a man of great 
 influence. A man of strong faith in the gospel, his prayers accom- 
 panied his medicines, and he filled the pulpit of the Free Will 
 Baptist Church at Eflingham very creditably for six months. His 
 home was the abode of peace and plenty, where people of culture 
 and refinement delighted to spend an evening in congenial society. 
 He was always dignified, though mirthful, and of a sanguine tem- 
 perament, which made him a favorite with all classes. One morning 
 bidding his usual good-by to his wife and little son, he went to 
 visit a patient. He returned to look on the bloody form of his 
 lovely boy, shot dead by a half-foolish street vagrant. From that 
 sad hour a great change passed over him. His friends feared the 
 loss of reason. He lost his hopeful, joyous nature, and became sub- 
 ject to fits of the deepest melancholy. Under this blow he began 
 to indulge in drink, till the habit gained complete mastery over 
 him, and he was never more than a wreck of his former self. His 
 wife having died, he remarried, and came to Rochester in 1872. He 
 at once secured a large practice, and ranked high in his profession. 
 He died in Rochester Jan. 11, 1884, leaving a widow and several 
 children. 
 
 Abner Ham, son of Benjamin of Farmington, N. H., was born 
 in 1821 ; graduated in 1844 from Bowdoin College ; graduated in 
 1847 from the Medical Department of the University of the City of 
 ^ew York ; settled in practice in Rochester, where he was for a 
 time in partnership with Dr. Farrington, 2d; removed to Dover in 
 1854, practicing there three or four years ; moved to Cambridge, 
 Mass., where he died in 1866. He was a member of the Strafibrd 
 District Medical Society, and a Fellow of the New Hampshire Med- 
 ical Society. 
 
 James Farrington, 2d. (p. 346.) 
 
 Edwin Folsom Hurd, son of Joseph D., obtained his medical 
 education in Boston, Mass., and settled in Gilmanton, where he 
 died in 1856, " greatly lamented." 
 
 George O. Smith, brother of Jacob D. Smith, was a physician 
 at Gonic for a year or two about 1861 ; went West and died there. 
 
446 KOCHESTER. 
 
 James E. Lothrop. (p. 421.) 
 
 Betton W. Sargent was born at Thornton Jan. 3, 1827. His 
 father, Jacob Sargent, was a prominent Democrat of much influence 
 in that part of the State. Dr. Sargent's mother died when he was 
 ten years of age, and his fatlier soon after lost his property. Left 
 mainly to his own exertions he obtained his education by persistent, 
 self-denying industry. From the age of nineteen to twenty-three 
 he pursued his studies at the academy in Franklin, at the same time 
 studying medicine with Dr. Knight of that place. He attended 
 lectures at Woodstock, Yt., and at Jefferson Medical College in 
 Philadelphia, where he received his degree. Having settled in prac- 
 tice at Barnstead, he married, Sept. 16, 1852, Mary, daughter of Dr. 
 James Farrington of Rochester. In 1854 he came to Rochester and 
 practiced with his father-in-law about four years. In the early part 
 of the war he was in St. Louis, Mo., where he enlisted in the Twen- 
 tieth Missouri Regiment, and served with distinction as medical 
 director on the staff of Gen. Lorenzo Thomas, with whom he was 
 a special favorite. After the war he vvas for two years engaged in 
 raising cotton in Mississippi. About 1866 he resumed his profession 
 in Rochester, where he died July 21, 1880, having a high reputation 
 for professional ability among his associates in the Strafford Medical 
 Society, of which he was for a time president. 
 
 William H. Page, son of Benjamin and Huldah, was born in 
 Rochester May 28, 1827, attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and 
 graduated at Harvard Medical School in 1853. After a year's hos- 
 pital experience in Boston, he spent several years in medical studies 
 
 lion, 
 
 abroad. He was a volunteer surgeon in the War of the Rebell 
 
 and was taken prisoner. After the war he returned to Boston, 
 where he was for a time city physician. In 1881 he went to Los 
 Yegas, I:^. M., for his health, where he was president of the New 
 Mexico Medical Society. His health still failing, he removed to 
 Los Angeles, Cal., in 1885, where he died August 22, 1888, leaving 
 five children. His wife was Nancy Jenkins of Boston, who died in 
 1869. He was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery 
 Company of Boston, and of nearly every medical and scientific 
 society in Boston. 
 
 David Foss practiced homeopathy at Gonic about two years, 
 removing to Newburyport, Mass., in the summer of 1866. 
 
 James Bonaparte Farrington, son of Dr. James Farrington, 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE KEVOLUTION. 447 
 
 the elder (p. 345), was born at Eochester, in 1831 ; graduated at 
 Bowdoin College in 1854, and from Rush Medical College at Chi- 
 cago in 1862 ; enlisted as a private in a Wisconsin regiment, and 
 afterwards served as assistant surgeon. He practiced medicine at 
 Jefferson, Wis., and Santa Rita, Cal., where he died March 28, 1883. 
 
 S. E. Root was born at Royalston, Vt., Oct. 1, 1834; graduated 
 at Hillsdale College, Mich., where he received the degree of A. M., 
 in 1872 ; was in the army of the Cumberland a year and a half at 
 the close of the war ; graduated from the Medical College at Bur- 
 lington, Yt, in 1876; studied for a time at Harvard; settled in 
 practice at Saccarappa, Me., in 1876; removed to Lewiston, Me., in 
 1880, and to Rochester in 1885. 
 
 Henry Rust Parker, son of John Tappan Parker, was born at 
 Wolfeborongh Jan. 24, 1836; studied with Dr. Pattee of Man- 
 chester and Dr. King of AYolfeborough ; graduated from Dartmouth 
 Medical College in 1865 ; practiced in Wolfeborongh several years, 
 and came from there to Rochester in April, 1880, where he was in 
 partnership with Dr. Farrington for about a year, when he removed 
 to Dover ; is a member of the Strafford County Medical Society ; 
 married in 1866 Ella M. Thompson, and has several children. 
 
 Arthur C. ISTewell, son of William H., was born at Barn- 
 stead in 1839; entered Dartmouth College in 1860, where he 
 remained two years ; studied medicine with Dr. John Wheeler of 
 Barnstead, and attended lectures at Hanover. He enlisted as a pri 
 vate in the Eleventh New Hampshire Regiment; was employed" 
 principally on detached service in the medical department for two 
 years, when he was appointed medical cadet in the regular army ; 
 was assistant surgeon in the Eighteenth Ohio Regiment for about a 
 year, during which time he attended medical lectures at Cincinnati; 
 was afterwards post surgeon at headquarters of the department of 
 Georgia and Florida. Having been with the army about four years, 
 and his health being somewhat impaired, he settled in practice at 
 Gonic in September, 1866, married Jennie Hayes of that place, and 
 removed to Farmington in July, 1869 ; went West and died there. 
 
 Charles Blazo was born in Parsonsfield, Me., August 3, 1842; 
 attended lectures at Dartmouth, Long Island, and Bowdoin Medical 
 College, where he graduated in 1871 ; settled in practice at East 
 Rochester ; removed|to Rochester Village in 1882 ; was representa- 
 tive to the Ledslature in 1877-78-79. 
 
448 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Alonzo Stuart Wallace, son of David, Jr., and Margaret, was 
 born at Bristol, Me., Feb. 17, 1847; commenced tbe study of medi- 
 cine in 1870, with Dr. S. H. Durgin and Prof. C. P. Frost; attended 
 two courses of medical lectures at Bowdoin and Dartmouth Medical 
 Colleges, graduating from the latter June 24, 1874 ; commenced the 
 practice of medicine in the Northampton Lunatic Asylum in 1874, 
 remaining six months ; he was then appointed assistant port physi- 
 cian of Boston, and in September, 1875, port physician, retaining 
 that position until April, 1879, when he entered into private practice 
 in Brookline, N. H. ; removed to Rochester in 1888 ; is a member of 
 the Massachusetts Medical Society, and of the Congregational 
 Church. He married Mary F. Maynard of Lowell, Mass., ISTov. 2, 
 1876, and has three children: — Arthur Lowell, Edith Maynard, and 
 JEdna June. 
 
 Frank Pierce Virgin was born at Rumford, Me., Oct. 15, 1850; 
 graduated from Bowdoin College in 1875 ; received medical degree 
 from Detroit Medical College ; settled in practice at Rochester in 
 1877; removed to Weymouth, Mass., in 1888 ; married Carrie Cav- 
 erly, and has Harry L. and Charles Lester. 
 
 Eugene French Gage, son of Thomas U., was born at Bedford, 
 Dec. 15,1850; studied with Dr. Currier of Nashua; attended lec- 
 tures at Bowdoin and Dartmouth Medical Colleges, and graduated 
 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City ; 
 settled in practice at Rochester, and died in Nashua, March 20, 
 1885. 
 
 John Sherman Daniels, son of Albert H., was born at Bar- 
 rington, Oct. 12, 1851 ; studied medicine with Dr. George W. Jenks 
 of Woodstock, R. L ; attended medical lectures at Harvard and 
 Long Island Medical College, Brooklyn, N. Y., where he graduated 
 June 25, 1875; settled in practice at Barrington, where he was 
 superintendent of schools and representative to the Legislature; 
 removed to Rochester in 1885 ; is a member of the Straftbrd Dis- 
 trict Medical Society, an officer in Humane Lodge and Temple 
 Chapter, F. & A. M. ; was the first Sachem of Runnaawitt Tribe of 
 Red Men, and is Great Senior Sagamore of the Great Council of 
 New Hampshire. 
 
 Frank Eugene Whitney, son of Nathan, was born at Westmin- 
 ster, Mass., June 9,1853; graduated from Dartmouth College in 
 1878 ; studied medicine with Dr. I. G. Anthoine of Antrim ; at- 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 449 
 
 tended one course of lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, and 
 two at the University of iN'ew York, where he graduated in March, 
 1881 ; settled in practice at Rochester, where he has been town phy- 
 sician four years. He is a Chapter Mason, and member of the Con- 
 gregational Church. Married Grace M. Chase Nov. 27, 1883. 
 
 Edwin Thomas Hubbard, son of Thomas L,, was born at 
 Hiram, Me., Jan. 13, 1854; studied medicine with Drs. W. H. 
 Smith and B. B. Foster ; attended four courses of medical lectures 
 at the University of Michigan ; graduated from Dartmouth Medical 
 College Oct. 30, 1877; commenced the practice of medicine Jan- 
 uary 17, 1878, at Madison, 'N. H., remaining there six months; 
 practiced in Tam worth, N". H., eighteen months, then returned to 
 Madison, but soon after located in Rochester. In 1886 he was ap- 
 pointed a member of the State Board of Health to fill the vacancy 
 occasioned by the resignation of Dr. Carl H. Horsch. 
 
 Stephen Young was born in Strafford Oct. 22, 1854; entered 
 Dartmouth College in 1875 ; entered Medical department in 1877 ; 
 studied medicine with Drs. Sargent and Gage ; after two courses of 
 lectures at Dartmouth entered Long Island College Hospital and 
 received degree there in June, 1881 ; settled in practice at East 
 Rochester; is a member of the 'New Hampshire Medical Society. 
 He married March 1, 1882, Fannie F. Stoddard. 
 
 Herbert Young, son of John F., was born in Rochester; gradu- 
 ated from Bates College in 1876 ; is a practicing physician in Ames- 
 bury, Massachusetts. 
 
 Fred Gustavus Coffin, son of William P., was born at Deering, 
 Me., ISTov. 8, 1855; studied medicine with Dr. Charles A. Cochran; 
 graduated from the Medical Department of Boston University 
 March 6, 1878 ; practiced two years at West Waterville, Me. ; 
 removed to Gonic in 1880, and to Great Falls in 1882. 
 
 Frederick E. Wilcox, son of Chester P., was born at Pomfret, 
 Conn., May 11, 1860 ; graduated from the Kew York Homeopathic 
 Medical College and Hospital March ], 1884; married March 26, 
 1884, Etta M. Kelley of Putnam, Conn., and located at once in 
 Rochester, where he remained till ITovember, 1888. 
 
 Stephen W. Ford, son of Stephen, was born in Boston, Mass., 
 Dec. 19, 1864 ; graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in 
 1888; began practice in company with Dr. Wallace January 1, 
 1889. 
 
450 ROCHESTER. 
 
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 Robert Y. Sweet was born at Port Byron, IN". Y., April 25, 1865 ; 
 graduated from Cornell University in 1885 ; was principal of Eose 
 High School for one year; graduated from 'New York Homeo- 
 pathic Medical College in 1888 ; settled in partnership with Dr. 
 Wilcox, who left him the practice in l^ovember, 1888. 
 
 LAWYERS.* 
 
 Joseph Clark, son of Simeon and Lydia (Mosely) Clark, was 
 born at Columbia, Conn., March 9, 1759; graduated at Dartmouth 
 College in 1785; studied law with John Sullivan, Esq., of Durham; 
 began practice at Rochester in 1788 ; returned to his native town 
 about 1813, and afterwards removed to East Hartford, Conn., 
 where he died Dec, 21, 1828. He married Anna H. Burleigh of 
 Newmarket, and left daughters. He served in the Revolution, 
 was taken prisoner and carried to Halifax and to England. He 
 delivered a Fourth of July oration at Rochester in 1794, and 
 represented the town in the Legislature in 1798 and 1801. 
 
 Thomas Bancroft, son of Dea. I^athaniel and Mary (Taylor) 
 Bancroft, was born at Lynniield, Mass., Nov. 14, 1765; graduated 
 at Harvard College 1788 ; began practice at Rochester about 1794 ; 
 after a year or two removed to Salem, Mass., where he was 
 master of a grammar school; was afterwards clerk of court, then 
 supercargo on ship Hercules. He married Elizabeth Ives of Bev- 
 erly, Mass., and died at Canton, China, Nov. 15, 1807, leaving 
 two children. 
 
 Moses Leavitt Neal, son of John, was born at Hampton in 
 1767; entered Dartmouth College at the age of fourteen, and after 
 two years went to Harvard, where he graduated 1785 ; studied 
 law with John Prentiss, Esq., of Londonderry ; was admitted to 
 the bar in 1793 ; j^racticed at Londonderry about three j^ears ; 
 removed to Rochester about 1796, and to Dover in 1806. He 
 was clerk of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 
 1809, and was re-elected seventeen times; was register of deeds 
 in Strafford county from 1816 till his death. He married, first, 
 Ruth, the daughter of John Prentiss, about 1793, and, second, 
 Sarah Furbush about 1820, and died Nov. 25, 1829, leaving a 
 large fiimily of children. He was a man of pleasing manners, a 
 
 * The material for these sketches has been mostly furnished hj- Henry Kimball, Esct. 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 451 
 
 finished scholar, rather unobtrusive and easj-going, but firm to 
 his principles and highly esteemed by all who knew him. 
 
 Joseph Tilton was born at East Kingston August, 1774 ; grad- 
 uated at Harvard College 1797; studied law with Hon. Jeremiah 
 Smith of Exeter; commenced practice at Wakefield soon after 1800 ; 
 removed to Rochester about 1805 ; in 1809 returned to Exeter, 
 which town he represented in the Legislature from 1815 to 1823. 
 He married a daughter of Col. Samuel Folsom of Exeter, and died 
 March 28, 1856, leaving no family. " A good office lawyer, of 
 good judgment." 
 
 John Parker Hale, son of Samuel, was born at Portsmouth 
 Feb. 19, 1775. With only a common school education he studied 
 law with his kinsman, John Hale, Esq., and was admitted to the 
 bar 1796 or 1797. After practicing a year or two in Portsmouth 
 and a short time in Barrington, he came to Rochester about 1801. 
 He married Lydia Clarkson, only child of William O'Brien of 
 Machias, Me., and died at Rochester Oct. 15, 1819, leaving thirteen 
 children, among whom was the Hon. John P. Hale of Dover 
 (p. 881). Mr. Hale was short, thick, with ruddy countenance, 
 quick of apprehension, affable in manners, and popular with his 
 townsmen. 
 
 Richard Kimball, son of J^athaniel and Mary (Home) Kimball, 
 was born at North Berwick, Me., March 1, 1798; fitted at Phillips 
 Exeter Academy and entered Harvard College, but without com- 
 pleting the academic course there, began the study of law with 
 Hon. Asa Freeman of Dover in 1824. After attending the law 
 schools of Cambridge and JSTorthampton^ he was admitted to Straf- 
 ford County Bar in February, 1829, and settled in practice at 
 Great Falls. In 1836 he removed to Rochester, where, after being 
 for a short time agent of the Mechanics' Manufacturing Company, 
 he resumed the practice of law. In 1848 he removed to Dover, 
 where he added farming to his legal pursuits, retiring from busi- 
 ness about 1874. He was elected representative from Somersworth 
 in 1833, but did not take his seat, probably because it was decided 
 that the town was not entitled to a second representative. He 
 represented Rochester in the Legislatures of 1846 and 1847. He 
 was judge of the police court in Dover from 1857 to 1868. He was 
 the first editor of the " Enquirer " for four months in 1828, and 
 was for many years a member of the Dover school board. He 
 
452 ROCHESTER. 
 
 married, first, Oct. 4, 1832, Margaret Jane Pendexter of Dover; 
 second, N'ovember, 1843, Elizabeth Hale of Rochester ; third, IN'ov. 
 23, 1846, Elizabeth White Hale of Portland, Me., and died at 
 Dover, March 2, 1881, leaving five children. 
 
 Mr. Kimball was a thorough student, a conscientious and earnest 
 seeker after truth. He was a social, companionable man, of 
 strong attachments ; a reverent Christian believer, and an untiring 
 student of the Bible. 
 
 William Gordon Webster, son of William and Sa.rah (Gordon) 
 Webster, was born at Plymouth Aug. 20, 1800; graduated at 
 Dartmouth College 1822 ; read law with Samuel Fletcher of Con- 
 cord; settled in practice at Rochester in 1827; removed to New 
 Hampton about 1830, and afterwards to East Concord. He married 
 June 8, 1829, Susan, daughter of Stephen Ambrose of Concord, 
 and died at Plymouth June 14, 1839. 
 
 John Harvey Smith, sou of John and Betsey Smith, was born 
 at Rochester about 1802 ; after a common school education read 
 law with Judge Jeremiah H. Woodman of Rochester, and Hon. 
 James Bartlett of Dover. He was admitted to the bar in February, 
 1824; commenced practice at Center Harbor; soon went to Con- 
 way; from there returned to Rochester about 1827; and in 1837 
 removed to Dover. He represented Rochester in the Legislatures 
 of 1832-34 ; was clerk of court for Straflbrd county from 1841 
 till his death. He died unmarried, having been killed in a rail- 
 road accident at Meredith Bridge, Oct. 7, 1852. " He was a man 
 of noble and generous heart, incapable of a mean or dishonorable 
 action." 
 
 William Augustus Kimball, son of l^athaniel and Mary (Home) 
 Kimball, was born at Shapleigh, Me., Sept. 12, 1813; educated at 
 Exeter Academy mainly by his own exertions; studied law with 
 his brother, Hon. Increase S. Kimball of Lebanon, Me., and Hon. 
 Daniel M. Christie of Dover ; was admitted to the York County 
 Bar September, 1839; began practice at Milton Mills; removed 
 to Sandwich in 1842, and to Rochester in 1847, where he still 
 resides ; sold his practice to C. K. Sanborn in 1854, and has since 
 been engaged in farming, occasionally teaching the village school ; 
 served eighteen years as superintending school committee. He 
 married Oct. 24, 1841, ISTancy H. ISTutter, and has had three chil- 
 dren : — John W., Elizabeth H. died unmarried, and 3Iary E., now 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 453 
 
 Mrs. John F. Springfield, who graduated from the academical 
 course of Boston University in 1879. 
 
 Cyrus Iv. Sanborn was born at Brookfield, Mass., in 1818; 
 after a common school education he studied law with Josiah H. 
 Hobbs ; graduated from the Cambridge Law School ; was bank 
 commissioner in 1860-61 ; representative to the Legislature in 
 1867-68 ; was director and president of Rochester Savings Bank, 
 and colonel in the militia. In 1851 he married Sarah, daughter 
 of Josiah H. Hobbs, who died leaving three children. In 1881 
 he married the widow of Dr. Sargent (p. 446), and died at Roch- 
 ester Oct. 11, 1886. He was a kind friend and neighbor, always 
 public-spirited and ready to sacrifice time and money to further 
 the interests of the town. He joined the Congregational Church 
 a short time before his death. 
 
 Sanborn Blake Carter, son of Daniel and Betsey Brown (Blake) 
 Carter, was born in Rochester Feb. 20, 1819 ; after attending the 
 academy at Alfred, Me., he read law with Hon. John T. Paine 
 of Sanford, Me., and Hon. Charles W. Woodman of Dover; was 
 admitted to York County Bar May, 1841 ; and settled in practice 
 at Ossipee. He was a prominent man, and highly esteemed, as 
 is shown by the positions he held. He represented Ossipee in the 
 Legislature in 1850-51-69-70; was delegate to the Constitutional 
 Conventions of 1850 and 1876 ; was solicitor for Carroll county 
 from 1846 to 1851 ; register of probate from 1851 to 1856 ; register 
 of deeds from 1873 till his death ; county school commissioner 
 from 1850 to 1854 ; was town clerk for several years ; was mod- 
 erator of town meetings for twelve or fifteen years ; was postmaster 
 eight or twelve years. He died at Ossipee July 8, 1881, and was 
 buried under Masonic honors. His practice was extensive, espe- 
 cially before the probate court, and as solicitor of pensions and 
 bounty claims. He was one of five who established the Episcopal 
 Church at Dover. 
 
 Henry Trowbridge Wiswell, son of Thomas and Sarah (Trow- 
 bridge) Wiswell, was born at Exeter April 26, 1820 ; graduated at 
 Yale College in 1847; studied law with Hon. Daniel M. Christie; 
 was admitted to the bar January, 1850 ; began practice in Roch- 
 ester with William A. Kimball ; after about nine months he 
 removed to Dover, where he was city clerk from 1856 to 1864, 
 and city solicitor from 1857 to 1862. He then removed to Wash- 
 
454 ROCHESTER. 
 
 ington, D. C, as paymaster's clerk, where he has since resided. 
 He married, first, Nov. 28, 1850, Lncretia Perkins of Dover, who 
 died leaving a son ; second, Mrs. Elizabeth Garland (Ayer) 
 Clapp of Washington, who has two daughters. 
 
 Daniel Jacob Parsons, son of Josiah and Judith (Badger) Par- 
 sons, was born at Gilmanton April 15, 1821 ; after attending 
 Gilmanton Academy he read law with Hon. Ira H. Eastman of 
 that place; was admitted to the bar about 1842; commenced 
 practice in Rochester the next year; has served the town many 
 years on the school board, and as representative to the Legislature 
 in 1850; married, 1852, Ella Greenfield of Rochester. Since Au- 
 gust, 1887, he has been disabled by paralysis. 
 
 Elijah Martin Hussey, son of Col. Jonathan, was born at 
 Rochester in 1826; graduated from Dartmouth College in 1852; 
 was principal of Lebanon Academy, Me.; was a lawyer in 'New 
 York City, where he died January, 1887; married Fannie Wood- 
 ward of Hanover. 
 
 Joseph Hilliard Worcester, son of Isaac and Julia (Hilliard) 
 Worcester, was born at Milton Dec. 31, 1830 ; fitted at Pembroke 
 Academy, and entered the class of '54 in Brown University, but 
 left on account of ill health in the middle of his Senior year. 
 After teaching several years he began studying law with C. K. 
 Sanborn in 1861 ; was admitted to Strafibrd County Bar in 1864 ; 
 commenced practice at once in Rochester, and in 1871 formed a 
 partnership with C. B. Gafney, Esq., which still has a successful 
 and extensive business. Mr. Worcester was for ten years a mem- 
 ber of the school board; judge of the Rochester police court from 
 March, 1869, to May, 1875; town clerk in 1865 and 1866; and 
 for some ten months postmaster, commencing April, 1867. " No 
 better-read lawyer practices at Strafford Bar." 
 
 Kingman Fogg Page, son of Benjamin and Huldah, was born at 
 Rochester Oct. 10, 1831 ; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1853 ; 
 read law with Caleb Cushing, in Washington, D. C. ; w^as appointed 
 solicitor in the department of the interior by President Pierce. 
 After 1869 he went to New York, where he became a prominent 
 member of the " County Democracy." He married Grace Marshall 
 of Washington, D. C, and died in New York April 22, 1885. 
 
 George Lafayette Hayes, son of Watson and Joanna (Winkley) 
 Hayes, was born in Barnstead Dec. 5, 1831 ; came with his parents 
 
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 LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 455 
 
 to Rochester when he was about three j^ears old ; graduated at 
 Bowdoin College in 1851 ; was private tutor in the family of Hon. 
 James F. Robinson at Georgetown, Ky. ; then professor of math- 
 ematics in Russellville, Ky., where he also read law, and was 
 admitted to the bar a few weeks before his death, which occurred 
 July 23, 1854. He was a fine scholar, of excellent character, be- 
 loved by all who knew him. 
 
 Hiram Moore Sanborn, son of Solomon and Lepha Sanborn, 
 was born in Tamworth April 11, 1833. He managed to secure 
 an education by working on the farm summers and teaching 
 winters, and entered Dartmouth College in the class of 1859, 
 but did not graduate. After leaving college he taught the High 
 School in Rochester, studying law at the same time in the office 
 of C. K. Sanborn. Having nearly finished his law studies he 
 taught school one year at Hoboken, IST. Y. He then accepted the 
 principalship of a grammar school in JSTew York City at a salary 
 of three thousand dollars, and retained the position till his death. 
 He meanwhile continued his law studies, graduating from Colum- 
 bia Law School about 1873. His residence was in Jersey City, 
 where he was a member of the board of education. He was a 
 devoted and successful teacher, securing thorough discipline by 
 moral rather than physical force. He died at Tamworth Aug. 8, 
 1877, leaving one son, J. L. Sanborn, M. D., of New Marlboro', 
 Mass. 
 
 Henry Kimball, son of Daniel Smith and Lovey (Wilson) Kiin- 
 ball, was born at Shapleigh, Me., Dec, 14, 1833; graduated at 
 Bowdoin College 1863; studied law with Hon. Increase S. Kim- 
 ball of Sanford, Me.; was admitted to York County Bar June, 
 1866; has been in practice at Rochester since 1869; has been 
 connected with the supervision of the public schools of Rochester 
 for more than fifteen years, (pp. 169, 170.) 
 
 Charles Benjamin Gafney, son of John and Sarah (Abbott) 
 Gafney, was born at Ossipee Sept. 17, 1843. His parents died 
 w^hen he was but four years of age, but by the advice and assist- 
 ance of his guardian, Sanborn B. Carter, Esq., of Ossipee, he 
 obtained his education at the academies at Sandwich, and at Leb- 
 anon, Me. He enlisted in the war of the Rebellion Sept. 27, 1862; 
 was promoted from second to first Lieutenant June 1, 1863; was 
 wounded severely at Petersburg, Va., June 15, 1864; promoted to 
 
456 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Captain May 30, 1865 ; served as aid. to Generals Ripley, McCullom, 
 and Roulston, and was mustered out at close of war. 
 
 He read law with his guardian and Hon. Charles W. Wood- 
 man of Dover, and graduated in 1868 from the Law School at 
 Columbia College, Washington, D. C, where he was clerk to the 
 Senate Committee on Naval Affairs for eight years. He was a 
 special friend of Hon. J. H. Ela, and came to Rochester in 1871, 
 forming a partnership with Joseph H. Worcester, Esq., and has 
 since been actively engaged in his profession. He married, first, 
 Mary Ellen Grant of Ossipee, and, second, Ida A. Peavey of 
 Farmington. 
 
 Noah Tebbets, son of Noah and Mary Esther (Woodman) 
 Tebbets (p. 352), was born at Rochester Sept. 11, 1844. After 
 leaving the public schools of Rochester he attended the seminary 
 at Tilton ; read law at the Harvard Law School, and with Hon. 
 George C. Peavey of Straftbrd, and Hon. Charles W. Woodman 
 of Dover ; was admitted to the bar in 1867, and began practice 
 at Rochester ; removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1871, where he has 
 an extensive practice. He married Oct. 27, 1869, Emeline F. 
 Whipple, daughter of Orrin and Emeline Whipple, a direct de- 
 scendant of the celebrated Governor Winslow. 
 
 In 1870 Mr. Tebbets was appointed Bank Commissioner of the 
 State of New Hampshire, and was a member of the Republican 
 State Committee for three years. He was Master of Humane 
 Lodge, F. & A. M., at Rochester in 1871. For his military record 
 see p. 231. 
 
 George Edward Cochrane, son of Alfred E. and Clarinda 
 (Parker) Cochrane, was born in New Boston March 30, 1846 ; 
 after attending the New London Academy, he read law with 
 Cross & Burnham at Manchester; was admitted to the bar Septem- 
 ber, 1876 ; practiced at Farmington from 1877 to 1882, since which 
 he has been in successful practice at Rochester. He served on the 
 school board in New Boston and in Farmington ; represented New 
 Boston in the Legislatures of 1875 and 1876, and Farmington in 
 1881, when he was his party's candidate for speaker ; was a can- 
 didate for State senator in 1882. He married Dec. 29, 1880, Ella 
 L., daughter of William Hayes of Farmington. 
 
 Charles Sumner Ela, son of Hon. J. H. and Abigail Ela, was 
 born at Rochester May 2, 1853; obtained his education in the 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 457 
 
 public schools of Rochester ; read law with Worcester & Gafney; 
 was admitted to the bar in 1875; practiced in Rochester till 1882; 
 was judge of Rochester police court from 1876 till his]^death in 
 Denver, Col., Oct. 21, 1883. He was a young man of much 
 promise (p. 410). 
 
 Fremont Goodwin, son of Josiah and Love C. Goodwin, was 
 borii at Alton May 19, 1856; after a common school education 
 he studied law with Col. Thomas Cogswell of Gilmanton ; was 
 admitted to the bar March, 1883; practiced in Rochester till June, 
 1887, and has since been in the lumber business. He married, 
 Oct. 8, 1884, Bertie E. Trask of Milton. 
 
 Samuel Demerritt Felker, son of "William H. and Deborah A. 
 (Demerritt) Felker, was born at Rochester April 16, 1859; grad- 
 uated at Dartmouth College in 1882; read law with Hon. Joshua 
 G. Hall of Dover; graduated from Boston University Law School, 
 1887; admitted to bar same year in i^ew Hampshire and in Mas- 
 sachusetts; delegate from Rochester to the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion of 1889. 
 
 Edward Ford was the son of John and Johannah (Broderick) 
 Ford; studied law with Fred S. Hutchins of Exeter; admitted to 
 the bar at Concord March, 1886; practiced a few months in Roch- 
 ester, also in Exeter, and is now engaged in law and insurance 
 business in Chicago, 111. 
 
 Elmer Joseph Smart, son of John and Amanda M. (Jackson) 
 Smart, was born at Freedom Sept. 4, 1862; after graduating from 
 the Kewmarket High School, he studied law with Hon. Albert 
 G. Ambrose of Augusta, Me., and with Worcester &^Gafney; was 
 admitted to the bar July, 1887; has since practiced successfully 
 in Rochester; was two years on the school board at Freedom, 
 and was chosen town clerk at Roches'ter in 1888; taught thirty- 
 three terms of common and high schools with great success. '^; He 
 married, Aug. 28, 1885, Gertie M. Heath of Conway. 
 
 COLLEGE GRADUATES. 
 
 Joseph Clark, Dartmouth, 1785 (p. 450). 
 Moses L. Neal, Harvard, 1785 (p. 450). 
 Thomas Bancroft, Harvard, 1788 (p. 450), 
 Joseph Tilton, Harvard, 1797 (p. 451). 
 
 31 
 
458 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Jacob Maine, Harvard, 1800 (p. 440). 
 
 Franklin McDuffee, tliird son of Capt. Joliu and Abio;ail 
 (Torr) McDiiffee, was born at Rochester Feb. 21, 1809. His early 
 years gave tokens of superior talents, and hopes of an eminent 
 future. From the war stories of his great-uncle. Colonel McDuffee 
 (p. 117), he early imbibed a spirit of military patriotism, and after 
 studious preparation eagerly sought an appointment in the military 
 academy at West Point. The first year he was the twenty-sixth 
 in scholarshin in a class of seventy, and forty-ninth in conduct in 
 a list of two hundred and nine. The last year he stood eleventh 
 in scholarship in a class of forty-nine, and thirty-second in conduct 
 in a list of two hundred and eleven. He graduated in June, 1832, 
 £ind was commissioned Lieutenant of Artillery. He was just about 
 returning home after an absence of two years, when he volun- 
 teered to join an expedition under General Scott to defend the 
 Western frontier against the Indians. He reached Fort Chicago, 
 where he died of cholera July 15, 1832. A friend wrote : — "I have 
 never marked the development of such estimable qualities in one 
 so young. His life, short as it was, was filled with noble actions, 
 and his personal courage was above all suspicion. He combined 
 in a high degree the excellences of the warrior with the amiable 
 qualities of the most ardent lover of peace. Had he been per- 
 mitted to live he would have been an ornament to his country, 
 and have encircled his head with the laurels of fame." 
 
 David Barker, Jr., Harvard, 1815 (p. 350). 
 
 Jonathan P. Gushing, Dartmouth, 1817 (p. 347). 
 
 Thomas G. Upham, Dartmouth, 1818 (p. 324). 
 
 :N'athaniel G. Upham, Dartmouth, 1820 (p. 328). 
 
 KoAH Tebbets, Bowdoin, 1822 (p. 456). 
 
 William G. Webster, Dartmouth, 1822 (p. 452). 
 
 John P. Hale, Bowdoin, 1827 (p. 381). 
 
 Charles W. Woodman, Dartmouth, 1829 (p. 333). 
 
 George W. Dame, Hampden Sidney, 1829 (p. 437). 
 
 Theodore C. Woodman, Dartmouth, 1835 (p. 334). 
 
 Jar vis McDuffee was a poor boy who with some assistance 
 managed to graduate at Yale College in 1836. He was appointed 
 teacher of mathematics on United States frigate Brandywine, and, 
 .after a three years' cruise, returned and settled in Exeter. 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 459 
 
 John H. Twombly, Wesleyan, 1843 (p. 437). 
 Theodore Tebbets, Harvard, 1851 (p. 354). 
 George L. Hayes, Bowdoin, 1851 (p. 454). 
 Elijah M. Hussey, Dartmouth, 1852 (p. 454). 
 Franklin McDuffee, Dartmouth, 1853 (p. 373). 
 Kingman F. Page, Bowdoin, 1853 (p. 454). 
 James B. Farrington, Bowdoin, 1854 (p. 446). 
 S. E. Root, Hillsdale, about 1857 (p. 447). 
 John Sidney Warren, Dartmouth, 1862 (p. 441). 
 Henry Kimball, Bowdoin, 1863 (p. 455). 
 
 Charles Edward Lane, son of Winthrop, graduated from Dart- 
 mouth College in 1866, a short time before his father removed 
 from Brentwood to Rochester. He was a teacher in Rochester 
 and elsewhere for several years; was for some time superintendent 
 of public schools in St. Louis, Mo.; is now general manager in 
 that city for D. Appleton & Co. 
 ; John Henry Wardwell, Dartmouth, 1870 (pp. 175, 232). 
 I George S. Wentworth, Wesleyan, 1871 (p. 438). 
 j Frank P. Virgin, Bowdoin, 1875 (p. 448). 
 1 Herbert Young, Bates, 1876 (p. 449). 
 
 I Albert Wallace, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Greenfield) Wal- 
 I lace, was born at Rochester June 6, 1854; graduated from Dart- 
 1 mouth College in 1877; is in business with his father at Rochester; 
 I married Rosalie K. Burr, who died Sept. 23, 1888, leaving an 
 infant son. 
 
 Sumner Wallace, brother of the preceding, was born at Roch- 
 ester March 7, 1856; graduated with his brother, with whom he 
 is in business; married Hattie L. Curtis of Farmington. 
 Frank Eugene Whitney, Dartmouth, 1878 (p. 448). 
 Walter Sidney Meader, son of Levi, graduated from Brown 
 University in 1880; is principal and teacher of mathematics in 
 Friends' School at Providence, R. I. 
 R. V. Sweet, Cornell, 1880 (p. 450). 
 Samuel D. Felker, Dartmouth, 1882 (p. 457). 
 Henry Wilson Felker, brother of the preceding, graduated at 
 Dartmouth College in 1883. 
 
 Charles Sherman Felker, brother of the preceding, graduated 
 at Dartmouth College in 1884. 
 
460 ROCHESTER. 
 
 John F. Springfield, son of George W., graduated from Dart- 
 mouth College in 1884, and from the Thayer School of Civil Engi- 
 neering in 1886; is a civil engineer at Portsmouth; married Mary 
 Emily Kimball (p. 452). 
 
 Walter Stephen Scruton, son of Stephen, graduated from 
 Dartmouth College in 1887; is principal of the high school at 
 Hillsborough Bridge. 
 
 Sydney E. Junkins, son of Edwin, graduated at Dartmouth 
 College in 1887; is principal of high school at N'ewport; married 
 Harriette, daughter of Dr. William Page. 
 
 Forest Lincoln Keay, son of Frank, graduated at Dartmouth 
 College in 1888. 
 
 William Wheeler Lougee, son of Dr. I. W. {p. 444), gradu- 
 ated from Dartmouth College in 1888 ; is managing editor of the 
 '•Rochester Courier." 
 
 Fred Allen Walker, son of James, graduated at Dartmouth 
 College in 1888. 
 
 John R. McDuffee, Chandler Scientific Department of Dart- 
 mouth College, 1857 (p. 377). 
 
 George Byron Lane, son of Winthrop, graduated from the 
 Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in 1867; 
 was a teacher and superintendent of schools in St. Louis, Mo.; 
 is now State superintendent of schools in Nebraska. While in 
 college served nine months in the Thirteenth New Hampshire 
 Regiment. 
 
 John B. Hodgdon, son of George W., graduated from the 
 Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College in 1885 ; is 
 civil engineer at Big Stone Gap, Va. 
 
 George Albert Sanborn, son of Nathan, graduated from the 
 Agricultural College at Hanover in 1887. 
 
 Nelson Edwin Baker 31orrill, son of Jedidiah, is in class of '89 
 at Dartmouth College. 
 
 Herbert Davis, son of Rev. J. B., is in class of '90 at Bates 
 College. 
 
 Wilis McDuffee (p. 374), is in class of '90 at Dartmouth College. 
 
 George Sherman Mills, son of Rev. George A., is in class of '90 
 at Dartmouth College. 
 
LEADING MEN SINCE THE REVOLUTION. 461 
 
 Edson J. Gould, son of William and Susan E, Gould, is in 
 of '91 at Harvard University ; studied several years at Tilton 
 Seminary, and has already preached considerable in the M. E. 
 churches. 
 
 John Abbott, son of J. J, and Mary (Hall) Abbott, is in class 
 of '91 at Dartmouth Colleg-e. 
 
 William Wright, son of Wylie, is in class of '91 at Dartmouth 
 College, 
 
 F. L. Pur/sley, son of Frank, is in class of '91 at Bates College. 
 
 Everett Pugsley, brother of preceding, is in class of '91 at Bow- 
 doiu College. 
 
 Wilbur L. Duntley, son of J. Leighton and Augusta (Kimball) 
 Duntley, is in class of '92 at Dartmouth College. 
 
 Alex D. Salinger, son of Isidor and Ida (Feineman) Salinger, is 
 in class of '92 at Dartmouth College. 
 
 Leon Elmonte Scruton, son of Stephen, is in class of '90 of the 
 Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College. 
 
 Ephraim H. White, son of Samuel, was born in Topsham, Vt., 
 and came to Rochester about 1836. By alternating labor with 
 study he fitted at Exeter, and entered Williams College in the 
 Sophomore year of the class of 1848, and died there Nov. 20, 1846, 
 aged twenty-six years. 
 
 Josejyh H. Worcester was in class of '54, Brown (p. 454). 
 
 Hiram Iloore Sanborn was in class of '59, Dartmouth (p. 455). 
 
 John Harrison Roberts, son of Love, was in class of '63 at Bow- 
 doin (p. 228). 
 
 John Greenfield was one year at Dartmouth College in class of 
 '72 (p. 420). 
 
 Herbert Clarence Swasey, son of Joseph P., entered Dartmouth 
 College in class of '79 and remained one year; is in the jewehy 
 business in Boston, Mass. 
 
 William Page Hastings, son of William N. and Mary (Page) 
 Hastings, was about two years in the class of '87 at Dartmouth 
 College; was a printer; died at Rochester July 22, 1888. 
 
462 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Benn Abbott, son of J. J. and Mary (Hall) Abbott, was born 
 March 5, 1867; entered Dartmouth College in class of '89; died 
 at Rochester April 9, 1888. He was a young man of unusual 
 promise whose death was much lamented. 
 
 Charles Henri/ Evans, son of Solomon, was two years in class of 
 '74 of the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College; 
 resides in California. 
 
 John Edgar McDuffee (p. 373) was two years in class of '88 of 
 the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College. 
 
 John Frank Sleeper, son of Wesley, was two years in class of 
 '88 of the Chandler Scientific Department of Dartmouth College ; 
 is on a ranch in Colorado. . 
 
CHAPTER XY. 
 
 BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 
 
 " Freedom, hand in hand with Labor, 
 Walketh strong and brave." 
 
 Next to religion and education, the most important part of the 
 history of any people is their industry, l^ov can there be any 
 true religion without diligence in business; nor can children be 
 properly educated without labor. Religion, education, and in- 
 dustry form a trinity of light and power bringing character, 
 happiness, and prosperity wherever they abide. The three must 
 go together or they all perish. For without the other two, reli- 
 gion becomes superstition, education is reduced to a cipher, and 
 industry turns to drudgery. Together they bring to any people 
 unceasing progress in all that exalts or blesses humanity. Having 
 already presented the religious and educational history of Roch- 
 ester we come to speak more particularly of its industries. 
 
 As "the king himself is served by the field," agriculture lies 
 at the foundation of all industries. So, like other 'New Hamp- 
 shire towns, Rochester was at first almost entirely a farming 
 community. And though this industry has lost its relative im- 
 portance, it has by no means become obsolete. The number of 
 
 i acres of improved land is not far from twenty thousand. Com- 
 bining the United States census with the tax list, and taking the 
 
 I larger number in each case, the farm products for the year 1850 
 were as follows; — 328 horses, 2,098 neat cattle, 1,491 sheep, 586 
 hogs, 123 bushels of wheat, 303 of barley, 767 of rye, 3,086 of 
 oats, 13,789 of Indian corn, 661 of beans and pease, 31,652 of 
 potatoes, 4,335 tons of hay, 2,700 pounds of hops, 49,591 of butter, 
 21,860 of cheese, 4,359 of wool, and 385 of beeswax and honey. 
 The State report for 1876 gives 421 bushels of wheat, 330 of 
 barlej^, 55 of rye, 776 of oats, 7,959 of Indian corn, 533 of beans 
 and pease, 44,371 of potatoes, 3,192 tons of hay, 13,581 pounds 
 
464 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 of butter, and 161,092 quarts of milk. In 1881 are reported 646 
 horses, 1,423 neat cattle, and 522 sheep. In 1888 there were 
 l,400Jpounds of wool, and 171,550 quarts of milk. These figures 
 evidently suggest the gradual decay of the farming interest. The 
 bleak hill-sides and stony soil of 'New England cannot successfully 
 compete with the fertile prairies of the West. The increasing 
 number of horses and the diminishing quantity of butter, point 
 to village growth demanding more teams and a larger supply of 
 milk. 
 
 Other industries sprang up as the growing necessities of the 
 people required. At first they supplied their own wants with 
 many things now produced only by special trades. Thus farmers 
 often did their own carpenter work, and had sets of cooper's or 
 shoemaker's tools, and not unfrequently tan-yards of their own, be- 
 sides making nearly all their own clothing. (Chap. VIII.) Almost 
 every kind of industry has been here represented at some time^ 
 and it is now impossible to even approximate a complete record 
 of the persons by whom, and the places where, the various 
 business of Rochester has been carried on. Only a desultory 
 sketch can be presented. It would be diflScult to trace the history 
 of any kind of business through all its changes from its beginning 
 to the present time. "With brief allusions to the past, and an 
 outline sketch, or condensed summary of the present, the aim of 
 this chapter will be to give some impression, though necessarily 
 inadequate, of the gradual evolution of the business of Rochester. 
 
 A previous chapter has already presented a statement of the 
 business soon after the Revolution. Some idea of the business 
 twenty years later can be gathered from the tax-list of 1806. The 
 whole amount of "Stock in Trade" for that year was: — E'athan- 
 iel Upham, |1,500; Joseph Hanson, and Jonas C. March, |1,300 
 each; David Barker, and Jabez Dame, §500 each; Andrew Pierce, 
 and Haines & Ela, $300 each; Edward S. Moulton, $200; and 
 Joseph Sherburne, $50; making in all, $5,950. Six tanneries were 
 taxed, the three highest of which were Moses Hale's at $650, 
 Simon Torr's at $200, and Anthony Whitehouse's at $50. JSTorway 
 Plains upper saw-mill was taxed for $2,400; and McDufi:ee & 
 Dame's fulling mill. Haven & Smith's grist mill, and Downing & 
 Tebbets's grist mill, $200 each. Capt. John Odiorne was taxed 
 as a saddler, and William Pigeon as a tobacconist. 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 465 
 
 This amount of business seems very small and the figures insig- 
 nificant in presence of the immense sums now invested in trade 
 and manufactures. But they were not small in those days. Nor 
 were these men less enterprising than the traders and manufac- 
 turers of to-day. They were the shrewd, energetic, successful men 
 of their time. 
 
 Coming down to 1820, we have a sketch of the west side of the 
 street, written by Jeremiah Hall Woodman (p. 334), a short time 
 before his death in 1888, from which we take the following items : 
 On the corner of Main street and the Parade, was a store con- 
 nected with the house, both two stories in height, belonging to 
 "William Hurd. JSText on the north was the blacksmith's shop 
 and dwelling of Samuel Demeritt, then the two-story house of 
 Hatevil Knight. Not far from Mr. Knight's was the two-story 
 tailor shop and house of John Roberts. A large vacant lot, on 
 which the academy was afterwards built, was between this and 
 the one-story house of Simon Ross, in close proximity to which 
 was the residence of John Smith, the blacksmith. This was 
 the home of Professor Upham during his pastorate here (p. 240). 
 Next came the two-story brick cabinet-shop of Charles Dennett, 
 with a yard between it and his house, which was also two stories 
 in height and painted white, as were nearly all Rochester houses 
 at that period. On the next lot was a one-story, unpainted 
 house occupied by Paul Harford and his two daughters, Abigail 
 and Charlotte (p. 129). Next stood the village schoolhouse, a 
 long, low, one-story, unpainted building, with a small belfry, and 
 bell of corresponding size, on the middle (p. 165). A vacant 
 lot, soon after built upon by Joseph Warren, led to J. H. Wood- 
 man's, now the Mansion House (p. 333). A broad passage-way 
 was between this and the law oftice, which was a two-roomed, 
 one-story building fronting the street. Next was a building of 
 which the lower story was Mr. Buzzell's store, and the upper his 
 dwelling. James C. Cole's brick store was next, in the lower 
 part of which he manufactured clocks, repaired watches, and sold 
 jewelry. Passing down the lane to the "old Reed Tavern," was 
 the house of Mr. Cole, and farther down the lane on the other 
 side the dwelling of John Richards, afterwards the home of Hon. 
 J. H. Ela, Returning to Main street and passing the stores ot 
 Nathaniel Upham and Jonas C. March, at the corner of the tavern 
 
466 ROCHESTER. 
 
 yard stood the store of Messrs. Home & Cross. The next building 
 was a small storehouse of Moses Hale, from which one lane on 
 the south led to his tanyard, and another by his barn to his house, 
 between which and the street was his garden. Close to his house 
 was the road leading down to the grist-mill and woolen factory 
 of the Barkers, at the lower falls. At the middle falls was a small 
 foundry owned by Home & Cross; also a saw-mill. At the upper 
 falls Caleb Dame had a fulling mill, and above the bridge was 
 another saw-mill. Opposite the lane leading to the Wakefield 
 road was a two-story, unpainted house owned, but not occupied, 
 by Caleb Dame; also the blacksmith shop of James Tebbetts. 
 The traders on the opposite side of the street were Hanson, Green- 
 field, Chase, and Chapman, all near Central Square, and Tristram 
 Heard with his son, Nat, at the lower end of the street. Jonathan 
 H. Torr went into trade the same year (p. 428). On this side also 
 was the "Barker Tavern," and the residence of the Barker family. 
 The ancient one-story "Moses Hurd house," still standing at the 
 lower end of the street, was the residence of "Lawyer Clark." 
 Passing over thirty years, or one generation, we come to the 
 year 1850. The tax list gives $49,600 " Stock in Trade," and 
 126,070 for "Mills and Machinery." In general trade there still 
 remained Hanson, Chase, Torr, and Greenfield who sold the same 
 year to Benjamin Jones & Co. James C. Cole was still in the 
 jewelry business. There had been added the stores of Watson 
 Hayes, Nathaniel Davis, the company of Stephen M. & Eben J. 
 Mathes, and the Barkers who sold the same year to John Folsom. 
 In the shoe trade were Levi W. Allen, and Joseph Varney & 
 Co.; Alfred D. Kelley and Meader & Glidden were in the tin 
 business. Onion & Richards, also Edmund Frye and George W. 
 Hall had tanneries near where Wallace's now is. Thomas C. Davis 
 was taxed as a tailor, and Thomas Brown as a harness maker. 
 There were two blacksmiths and two shoemakers. Day & Stevens 
 had a small marble shop; James M. Fessenden manufactured 
 files; and Isaac Libbey made hair-covered trunks, studded with 
 brass nails, in a little shop towards Great Falls. Under the head 
 of " Mills and Machinery," the Barkers were taxed for $2,600, 
 Simon & Enoch W. Chase for $1,700, K D. Wetmore for $3,000, 
 and the Norway Plains Co. for $12,000, with $15,000 " Stock in 
 Trade." 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 467 
 
 At Gonic, W. H. Y. Burnham had a store, James H. Place 
 was blacksmith, Bean, Canney & Co. had a small factory where 
 they did custom carding, weaving, and fulling. !N". V. Whitehouse 
 & Co. were taxed for $5,000 on " Mills and Machinery," and 
 14,000 on " Stock in Trade.'" 
 
 The business at East Rochester was little besides the chair shop 
 of Stephen Shorey and the store from which he supplied his 
 workmen with dry goods and groceries. 
 
 From about this time may be reckoned the exit of the old 
 " country store," where every conceivable commodity was ready 
 to supply family or individual needs. Very early on the ground, 
 it is now impossible to trace its rise and progress to the numerous 
 successors in every variety of trade which now imperfectly supply 
 its place. The first store is said to have been kept by Capt. Samuel 
 Storer (p. 131) from Portsmouth, who also made potash where 
 Hale's tan-yard was. Capt. Moses Roberts, son of the first settler 
 (p. 43) and grandfather of Dr. M. R. Warren (p. 441), had one of 
 the earliest stores, where the " Factory Store " now is. Stephen 
 Wentworth had a store in a shed connected with the " Wolfe 
 Tavern " on Haven hill. Joseph Hanson traded in his house 
 which stood near where the Norway Plains Savings Bank now is. 
 His first stock was tea, tobacco, a few small articles like pins and 
 needles, and a barrel of rum, of which he sold enough to his first 
 customer to buy another barrel. In 1810 he built the first brick 
 store in the county (p. 394). Upham and March built their rival 
 stores at the beginning of the century, and about this time Andrew 
 Pierce had the largest assortment of dry goods in town, in a store 
 on the site of John P. Trickey's present residence. The second 
 brick store was built by Simon Chase in 1825, and afterwards 
 occupied by his son, C. K. Chase (p. 429). The third brick store, 
 now occupied by the "Rochester Loan and Banking Company," 
 was built in 1835 by Watson Hayes, who came from Barnstead 
 the year before and continued in business here for thirty-five 
 years. 
 
 The present generation knows almost nothing of the " country 
 store" in its pristine perfection. The institution has ceased to 
 exist. Even the general store of the small country town to-day 
 bears small resemblance to that of fifty and seventy-five years ago. 
 To elderly persons the words " country store " suggest a low, narrow 
 
IDS ROCHESTER. 
 
 room, with cob-webbed windows, whose 6X8 panes are dark with 
 many layers of dust, — floors blackened with years of the indus- 
 trious painting of tobacco chewers lounging on boxes, barrels, 
 tubs, broken chairs, and wooden benches notched and carved by 
 the universal Yankee jack-knife, — imbibing inspiration and com- 
 fort out of yellow tumblers supplied from black bottles and brown 
 jugs, — the air sometimes thick with smoke, but generally thicker 
 with profanity, stories of no doubtful propriety, angry political 
 debates, spicy gossip, etc. These stores have really no legitimate 
 successors. To speak of them as containing even the germ of the 
 large and elegant establishments of the present, demands more 
 credulity than Darwin's "Descent of Man." Look, for instance, 
 at the dry goods store built by the Salingers in 1886, — a sales- 
 room 155X45 feet, steam-heated, gas-lighted, furnished with all 
 the modern contrivances for transmitting bundles and cash to all 
 parts of the room, — with ladies' parlor, and offices elegantly fitted 
 up with all desirable and luxurious conveniences, — a wholesale 
 department with traveling salesman, — a mail-order department 
 with special clerk, — and a cemented cellar under the whole, with 
 a special vault for storing furs through the summer. " The mis- 
 sing link " would certainly be hard to find. 
 
 Groceries in the old stores meant cod-fish, molasses, raisins, 
 sugar, and 'New England rum. As habits of living changed, and 
 the wants of the public increased, these supplies increased in 
 quantity and variety till separate grocery stores were established, 
 some now selling $50,000 or $60,000 worth of goods annually, — 
 an extent of business that would have greatly startled even the 
 wealthiest and most successful of the old-time merchants. 
 
 One enterprise is worthy of notice as illustrating the intensity 
 of political feeling a generation since. In February, 1859, a stock 
 company was formed with Major John Walker as president, who 
 built the " Union Democratic Store," now occupied by Frank E. 
 Wallace. The preamble to their articles of agreement began with 
 these words: — "Whereas the Republican party has adopted a 
 narrow and restrictive policy," etc. William Rand was their agent, 
 and Charles W. Brown clerk for two years; then Brown was 
 agent, and Nathaniel Burnham clerk. After two years more, 
 Burnham and Brown bought the stock, and the company disbanded. 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 469 
 
 The " Few England Protective Union " Store, No. 186, was estab- 
 lished about 1850, in the front end of "brick row," but moved 
 in a short time to a building nearly opposite the end of Union 
 street, where is now the junction of Market and Bridge streets. 
 David Legro was agent, soon followed by Levi W. Allen. William 
 C. Fernald, — who with his ever-pleasant smile, kind words, oblig- 
 ing disposition, and strict integrity, won the title of " T^eighbor 
 Fernald," — took charge in 1854, and retired upon the closing of 
 the store May 26, 1876. 
 
 The " Sovereigns of Industry " opened a store in the fall of 1875 
 on Charles street opposite Liberty street. They moved to Rail- 
 road Avenue, and thence to Odd Fellows' Block, and sold to J. Gr. 
 Morrill & Co. January 1, 1885. 
 
 The " Grange " built and opened the store where IS'owell & Me- 
 serve now are in 1876. They employed George D. Nowell as 
 agent, and carried on a large business for ten years. 
 
 The first meat market in Rochester was opened in 1849, in the 
 basement of Dodge's old building, by Daniel McDufi'ee & Emu- 
 lus Gowen. They sold out to J. S. Gilman, who has been prom- 
 inent in the business ever since. The first restaurant was started 
 by !N"ewell J. Bickford, in the spring of 1849, where Wolf's store 
 now is. In the following summer he also started the first bakery. 
 He sold out the next year, and is now confectioner at Great Falls. 
 ( The manufacture of candy was begun in 1877 by C. A. Davis 
 in Wentworth Block. 
 
 In 1807 Edward S. Moulton began clock-making in a small 
 ! wooden building, where is now the corner of Main and Arrow 
 streets (p. 133). Afterwards Thomas Bryant, brother-in-law of 
 Capt. Joseph Dame, followed the same business in a one-story 
 house, which having been remodeled became the residence of the 
 late Moses W. Willey, on Elm street. Still later, James Cross, 
 son of Richard, carried on the same business in his father's house 
 below the common. In 1812 James C. Cole, having served his ap- 
 prenticeship with Mr. Moulton, established the same business, and 
 added that of watch-maker and jeweler. In place of the wooden 
 shop, he erected the brick building now occupied by Miss Warren, in 
 the upper story of which the Free Masons practised their mysteries. 
 
470 ROCHESTER. 
 
 He was an neergetic workman, thorough and conscientious. The 
 silverware stamped with his name was in demand through all the 
 surrounding country, as certain to be what he sold it for. He 
 married Betsey, the daughter of John ISTutter, and had two sons 
 and three daughters. Shubael went into the same business at 
 Great Falls; Elizabeth married C. P. Weeks, and died in 1852; 
 Sarah Jane was an accomplished teacher, and died January 14, 
 1889 ; the other two died young. Mr, Cole was a very prominent 
 member of the Methodist Church (p. 264), one of the first trustees 
 of the Norway Plains Savings Bank, ten years secretary of the 
 Masonic lodge, thirteen years town clerk, and two years in the 
 Legislature. 
 
 The first drug-store was one side of the old Hanson store 
 (p. 394), where Humphrey Hanson kept an assortment of roots and 
 herbs with a few drugs. As the business increased he moved into 
 the adjoining store, which he occupied till his death in 1824. 
 Joseph Hanson, Jr., then took the business till he also died after 
 a few years. It was then sold to Dr. Joseph Smith, who employed 
 Dominicus Hanson as clerk, whose father bought him the business. 
 After two years, feeling the need of more education, Dominicus 
 sold the medicines to the doctors, and let the store to Weeks the 
 hatter. While he was away at school, the store burned down. 
 After graduating from Hopkinton Academy, he returned and re- 
 built in 1837. His new store had the finest front and the largest 
 panes of glass of any in the county, and was packed from cellar 
 to roof with almost everything nameable in the drug line (p. 396). 
 This was all burned in December, 1880. Mr. Hanson rebuilt 
 immediately, and in June, 1884, leased the store to R. Dewitt 
 Burnham, the present occupant. 
 
 The change from the old methods of tailoring began early in 
 the present century. John Roberts, Jr., came to Rochester in 
 1812, and opened a tailor's shop at the lower end of the street, 
 near the present railroad crossing. His business was large, ex- 
 tending to all the neighboring towns. He soon added that of 
 merchant tailor, and after a few years removed to where J. J. 
 Meader now is. He took into partnership his former apprentice, 
 Thomas C. Davis, who carried on the business for many years 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 471 
 
 with James Pirie for assistant and afterwards partner. Perhaps 
 the change in this business, since the century came in, is not so 
 great as in some others, yet Roberts would certainly have been 
 surprised to step into the large clothing stores of to-day, the oldest 
 of which is that of the Feinemans, who began business here 
 nearly forty years ago. They deal in both custom and ready-made 
 goods, making a specialty of the former, and having the largest 
 custom business in this vicinity. 
 
 Blacksmithing must have been nearly coeval with farming, but 
 like other trades its beginning is obscure. One of the early black- 
 smiths of the last century was Jacob Hanson, who lived where 
 his grandson Samuel now resides. From about 1780 to 1800 
 Josiah Wentworth had a blacksmith's shop where is now Dodge's 
 building on Central Square, and lived in a small house opposite. 
 Silas Wentworth came from Rockport, Mass., in 1834, and built 
 a small shop where the townhouse now stands. The next year 
 he bought the old schoolhouse (p. 165), aad moved it to the same 
 spot for a blacksmith's shop. It was afterwards moved to Went- 
 worth street, where it is still occupied by his son. 
 
 Before 1812 Eliphalet Home had a nail shop in part of his 
 mill. He bought old Spanish hoops from hogsheads and casks, 
 cut the nails and headed them by hand. About 1850 James M. 
 Fessenden began the manufacture of files near where the " upper 
 mill " stands, and continued the business for about ten years. The 
 first tin-worker here was Alfred D. Kelley in 1849, followed the 
 next year by Meader & Glidden. 
 
 In 1877 C. E. Clark started a machine shop. In 1888 he built 
 a foundry and established the " Rochester Foundry and Machine 
 Company." They have a large general business, while making a 
 specialty of Mr. Clark's inventions. A foundry for brass and iron 
 was started in 1879 by Harrison Soule. Nine years later he built 
 a much larger shop, where he makes several hundred Hussey 
 plows every year, and does repairing for factories in all the 
 region. J. W. Berry and W. IN". Morrison are connected with 
 this foundry as machinists. In 1883 J. H. Duntley opened a shop 
 for "jobbing and edge-tools." 
 
 T. H. Edgerly started a carriage shop in 1865, where he makes 
 the higher grades of light carriages, and has established a wide 
 
472 ROCHESTER. 
 
 reputation for first-class work. In 1883 Edwin "Welch began the 
 manufacture of heavy carriages. 
 
 Gold, silver, and nickel electro-plating is carried on by E. H. 
 Corson. He also makes a specialty of bicycles; is the author of 
 the "Star Rider's Manual of Bicycling;" publishes the "Star 
 Advocate," a bicycle monthly with a circulation of one thousand, 
 and has made several inventions, especially the " Corson Star 
 saddle," which is coming into general use among " cyclists." 
 
 In 1889 a very important new industry was introduced into 
 Rochester by the Kiesel Fire-Brick Company. They own ledges 
 of mica silex on Blue Job, which will furnish an unlimited supply 
 of suitable material. The rock is first crushed and pulverized, 
 and after molding each brick is subjected to a pressure of two 
 hundred tons before burning. The product is claimed to be the 
 best brick in the world, able to resist the most powerful acids 
 and alkalies, as well as the most intense heat. They manufacture 
 all sizes and shapes of bricks, blocks and slabs, crucibles, cupels, 
 mufiaies, stove-linings, etc. The general manager is G. M. Brown, 
 with H. C. Ingraham as superintendent of the works. When 
 running in full, some two hundred workmen will be employed. 
 
 The gradual development of lights for public and domestic use, 
 from the torch of "fat pine" and the tallow candle, through 
 whale oil, "lard oil," camphene, "burning fluid," gas, gasoline, 
 " rosin oil," and kerosene, to the electric light of the present, is 
 one of the best illustrations of progress in modern civilization. 
 After considerable agitation of the subject, an Exeter company 
 in 1885 put in six street lights, and about three times as many 
 store lights on the Ball electric system. By January, 1887, the 
 street lights had increased to thirty-one. This company sold to 
 the Thomson-Houston company, who put in a new j)lant for 
 incandescent lights in the fall of 1886, and extended the lines to 
 Gonic and East Rochester, now running seventy-five street lights, 
 besides lighting nearly all places of business. 
 
 As already suggested, tanneries, on a small scale, were very 
 numerous in the early days. Seven years were then deemed 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 473 
 
 necessary to produce good leather, and the farmers largely did 
 their own tanning. Now the best leather is produced in a few 
 days, by the power of steam, and no farmer can furnish hides 
 enough to pay for the equipment necessary to tan them. 'No 
 accurate list can now be given of the shoemakers of this period 
 who went from house to house to ply their trade (p. 137), nor 
 of their immediate successors, who labored in more permanent 
 shops. No kind of business has had more changes than this, 
 passing through the time of " poor old Hannah binding shoes," 
 when half-made shoes were distributed from family to family for 
 " stitching and binding," to the immense establishments of to-day 
 where every process from cutting to pegging is rushed through 
 by machinery with almost incredible rapidity. The beginning of 
 what may be called shoe manufacturing in Rochester was early 
 in the year 1843, when Richard Hayes of Natick, Mass., started 
 a small factory here, continuing the business about five years. 
 Abram A. Perley was in a store opposite the bank, about 1848-50, 
 where he cut shoes and had them made up by such as would 
 take them. He was followed by Joseph Varney & Co., and after- 
 wards by Levi W. Allen. James Bodge cut and manufactured 
 shoes in Dodge's building about 1853, and was followed by J. D. 
 & D. J. Evans. Micajah Wentworth began the manufacture of 
 " brogans " in a small shop above the Bridge, in 1854. The next 
 year he went into company with David Hayes, in a shop at the 
 corner of "Wakefield and Summer streets. In 1857 he was in 
 company with W. B. K. Hodgdon in what is now Worcester & 
 Greenfield's store. After one year they built a large double shop 
 near where the railroad station now is. In the fall of 1859 they 
 each built separate shops near by, and in 1860 let the large shop, 
 one half to N. T. & J. B. Kimball, and the other half to Hutchins 
 & Coburn. The same year S. J. & R. B. Wentworth had a shoe 
 factory at the end of Wentworth street. In 1858, before hiring 
 of Hodgdon & Wentworth, N. T. Kimball & Son from Farmington 
 had started a shoe factory in Hall's old tannery, which had been 
 unoccupied for seven years. Charles Johnson continued the business 
 there for some years after. In 1869 sundry citizens built a shop 
 on Elm street, which they let to J. L. Duntley, who carried on 
 an extensive shoe business for thirteen years. A compau}^ of 
 citizens built a shop back of Wakefield-street schoolhouse, which 
 
474 ROCHESTER. 
 
 they leased to F. W. Breed of Lynn, Mass., for five years from 
 January, 1885, with the privilege of then renewing the lease for 
 another five years. 
 
 One of the most important industries of Rochester is the exten- 
 sive leather and shoe business of the Wallaces. Ebenezer G. and 
 Edwin Wallace are twin sons of Rev. Linzey and Abigail (Gowell) 
 Wallace of Berwick, Me., where they were born January 5, 1823. 
 At the age of seventeen Ebenezer was apprenticed to Oliver Hill 
 of Berwick to learn the trade of a tanner and currier, while his 
 brother remained on the farm. His pay was forty dollars a year 
 and his board. But by working extra hours and holidays, he 
 managed to save over a hundred dollars during his apprenticeship. 
 The two brothers then went to Exeter Academy, taking the full 
 course in preparation for college. While here, they met expenses 
 by tanning calf-skins during the hours that could be spared from 
 school duties. Nevertheless, by diligence in study, they found 
 themselves promoted to the first division, when it became neces- 
 sary to divide the class to which they belonged. After leaving 
 Exeter, Edwin returned home and worked on the farm summers, 
 teaching school in the winter. Ebenezer went to Rochester, and 
 worked at his trade in the tannery of Home & Hall, and also at 
 Furber's in Farmington. Seized with the gold fever, he sold his 
 stock to his brother, and joined the " Bay State Company," who 
 went to California in the spring of 1849. He returned after 
 three years of fair success in the mines. In May, 1853, he married 
 Sarah E. Greenfield (p. 420), and after a year in Concord, returned 
 to Rochester. They have two sons, both graduates of Dartmouth 
 (p. 459), and three daughters, graduates of Lasell Seminary, Au- 
 burndale, Mass. Ebenezer G. Wallace served two years as repre- 
 sentative to the Legislature, and was a member of the Constitu- 
 tional Convention of 1876. 
 
 During the absence of E. G. Wallace in California, his brother 
 Edwin had been engaged in the leather business at Rochester, 
 with varying success. One incident indicates his characteristic 
 energy and integrity. Having become financially embarrassed on 
 account of the failure of parties who owed him considerable suras, 
 his principal creditors voluntarily oftered to settle with him for 
 fifty cents on a dollar. But he firmly refused, saying that every 
 man should be paid in full, and so managed that every demand 
 
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BUSINESS OP ROCHESTER. 475 
 
 was met, without a single note going to protest. Mr. Wallace 
 was a member of the House of Representatives in 1870, and of 
 the state Senate the following year. He married, first, Susan R, 
 daughter of William Whitehouse of Rochester, who died leaving 
 one daughter, the late wife of H. D. Jacobs of Brooklyn, N". Y. 
 About 1859 he married Mary E., daughter of Seneca Landers of 
 Woodstock, Me., where she was born January 13, 1836. She 
 died November 10, 1889, leaving one son and two daughters. 
 She was one of the "best known and most universally beloved" 
 of Rochester people. A member of the Congregational church, 
 her life, characterized by " Christian womanliness," was one which 
 was well " worth living." The funeral text, " She hath done what 
 she could," was specially appropriate to her life in all its public 
 and private relations. 
 
 In 1858 the firm of E. G. & E. Wallace was formed. One 
 took charge of the tannery, and the other of the curry-shop, em- 
 ploying six or eight hands. After a few years they bought out 
 the concern which had been owned by Onion & Richards, and 
 gradually enlarged the business. At the beginning of the war 
 they were largely tanning calf-skins, and the market suddenly 
 failed them. They concluded to work up the stock themselves, 
 and thus began boot making. Soon after they also began the 
 shoe business on a small scale, employing Lafayette Wiggin to 
 superintend the work. He was a man of skill and experience, 
 trusted by the firm and popular with the help, and was kept at 
 his post as a tried and successful manager for nearly thirty years. 
 In June, 1883, he retired from business on account of failing 
 health. From small beginnings the business of the Wallaces has 
 become the largest of the kind in the State. Their tannery works 
 occupy five acres of ground, and their boot and shoe business is 
 in two brick factories, one of three stories, 36X179 feet in dimen- 
 sions, with a wing 36X65 feet; the other of four stories, 50X120 
 feet in size. These are supplied with the best modern machinery 
 operated by a steam engine of one hundred and twenty horse 
 power. About four thousand pairs of shoes are turned out daily, 
 and their goods have a high reputation for quality, style, dura- 
 bility, and cheapness. Besides their Rochester business, they have 
 large interests in other corporations in various parts of the country. 
 Thoroughly identified with the best interests of the town, to their 
 
476 ROCHESTER, 
 
 ■ enterprise and energy Rochester owes much of its present growth 
 and prosperity. 
 
 The physical features of the town evidently marked it out as 
 " foreordained " to manufacturing. The extensive water-power of 
 the Cocheco and the Salmon Falls rivers would certainly be utilized. 
 Saw-mills and grist mills were, as everywhere, an early necessity. 
 As no one man in those times was able to build such mills, the 
 farmers of a neighborhood would join together and build one on 
 shares, each share entitling the owner to the use of the mill for 
 one day. Such a twenty-four share saw-mill was built very early 
 where the "Upper Mill" stands. David Barker bought this mill 
 which lie afterwards sold to the " Mechanics Manufacturing Com- 
 pany." It remained standing till the brick mill was built about 
 1862. A grist mill was established lower down on the opposite 
 side of the river, which after many years became dilapidated by 
 neglect and was finally swept away by a freshet. Benjamin Barker 
 built a saw and grist-mill on the same side of the river below the 
 present property of the "ISTorway Plains Company," Hanscam 
 & McDuiFee bought and remodeled these mills, and carried on the 
 business, with a grain store in McDuftee Block a part of the time, 
 from 1876 till 1887, when Fremont Goodwin began the manufac- 
 ture of paper boxes, and a year later established the firm of 
 Goodwin, Trask & Company. The saw and grist mills are still 
 retained, but their principal business is the manufacture of both 
 paper and wooden boxes, house frames, and fittings. Using an- 
 nually one hundred tons of straw-board, and forty tons of paper, 
 and more than six hundred thousand feet of lumber, they supply 
 not only the manufacturers of this town, but largely those of 
 Dover and Great Falls, also of Springvale and Saccarappa, Me. 
 In May, 1887, George E. Yarney built a steam grist mill on Me- 
 chanics' Square, and has built up an extensive grain trade. A sash 
 and blind factory Avith a large business was established in 1876, 
 near the Union Railway Station, by J. H, Meserve, 
 
 About 1788 Jabez Dame and Col. John McDutfee established 
 a fulling mill on the present site of the "Norway Plains Upper 
 Mill." Afterwards Caleb Dame carried on business here for a 
 time and then sold to David Barker, Jr. The real beginning of 
 the modern type of woolen manufacture in Rochester was the 
 introduction of a carding machine by Eliphalet Home in 1811. 
 
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BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER, 477 
 
 His shop, owned by David Barker, was near where the " Middle 
 Mill" now stands, and people came from far and near to see the 
 wonderful process of making rolls by machinery. This building 
 was burned the following year, and Mr. Barker erected a two- 
 story mill on the same spot, where in addition to carding, he 
 introduced the manufacture of cotton yarn. Barker & Chapman 
 carried on business here for many years, and about 1833 began 
 the manufacture of blankets. 
 
 In 1834 the "Mechanics Company" was incorporated, consist- 
 ing of Algernon S. Howard, Richard Kimball, Joseph Anthony, 
 and their associates, all of Great Falls. They built the "Lower 
 Mill," where they made blankets for six or seven years, when 
 they failed, having sunk their whole capital, and paid no debts. 
 
 In 1837 the "Rochester Company" was organized, but never 
 did any business. 
 
 In 1842 George Gledghill took the "Upper Mill" at Rochester 
 Village and advertised that he had twenty years' experience, and 
 would take wool on shares or by the yard, to manufacture into 
 "blanketing, flannels, fulled cloth, cassimere, satinet, gray-mixed, 
 indigo blue, or any other color, — country produce taken for work, 
 — agents at a distance to forward wool or cloth." 
 
 After the failure of the Mechanics Company, the " Gonic Com- 
 pany " was formed, but met with poor success, and in 1846 N. D. 
 Wetmore and J. D. Sturtevant bought a controlling interest in 
 the property. The first year they cleared |20,000, and then sep- 
 arated, Wetmore selling out his share. 
 
 John D. Sturtevant, of German descent, was the fifth of the 
 eight children of Perez and Dorothy (Kimball) Sturtevant, and 
 was born at Center Harbor July 4, 1816, At the age of sixteen 
 he was apprenticed to a cloth dresser at Peacham, Yt. By at- 
 tending school winters he obtained a good common school edu- 
 cation by the time his apprenticeship was ended. For the next 
 ten years he was engaged in woolen manufacture in various places 
 from Vermont to Virginia. In 1840 he was appointed superin- 
 tendent of the Whitney Blanket Mills at Lowell, Mass. In 1842 
 he bought one of the mills and carried on the business for about 
 four years, when he came to Rochester. By honesty, industry, 
 and prompt business habits he acquired a large fortune. He mar- 
 ried October 16, 1841, Adeline, daughter of Joshua and Dorcas 
 
478 ROCHESTER. 
 
 (Jones) Bradley, and died at Boston, Mass., July 5, 1889. They 
 had three children: — Edwin A., who died at the age of twenty; 
 Frances A., wife of Amasa Clarke of Boston, and Ellen B., wife 
 of Edward Steese of the same place. 
 
 The "Norway Plains Company," in which Mr. Sturtevant was 
 the leading spirit, was chartered in 1846. They had a paid-up 
 capital of $60,000, and eight sets of machinery in a group of 
 wooden buildings, running upon blankets. Exposed at that early 
 period to little competition, they were steadily successful. At the 
 World's Fair in New York in 1853, their blankets took the pre- 
 mium over all competitors. They gradually rebuilt and enlarged 
 their plant till, after the lapse of twenty years from the first start, 
 all the old wooden buildings, except the store-house, had been 
 replaced by brick ones; a new mill had been erected upon the 
 upper dam ; the machinery had been increased from eight to thirty 
 sets, and the paid-up capital from $60,000 to $250,000. The stim- 
 ulus imparted to the blanket manufacture by the peremptory 
 wants of the Government during the civil war, gave rise to a very 
 severe competition. From 1883 to the present time the business 
 has afforded a very inadequate return upon invested capital. 
 
 BANKS. 
 
 The growing activity of trade and manufactures soon demanded 
 banking facilities of its own for the thriving village of Norway 
 Plains "(p. 369). 
 
 * Rochester Bank was incorporated by an act of Legislature 
 approved July 5, 1834, and the first meeting of the stockholders 
 was held the 16tli of August following, when by-laws were adopted, 
 and James Farrington, Nehemiah Eastman, Charles Dennett, 
 Moses Hale, John Greenfield, Simon Chase, and John A. Burleigh 
 were elected directors. September 29th John McDuffee, Jr., was 
 chosen cashier and held the office till the closing of the bank, 
 twenty years later. It was voted that the bank business hours 
 be from 9 to 12 a. m., and from 2 to 5 p. m., but in no case to 
 be after sunset. March 2, 1835, James Farrington was chosen 
 president, and the bank began business May 1, with $100,000 
 capital, and ninety stockholders, of whom John McDuftee and 
 
 * The following sketch of the Rochester Banks was mainly furnished by Henry M. Plumer, 
 Cashier. 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 479 
 
 Dominicus Hanson are the only survivors. Februarj' 20, 1850, it 
 was voted to increase the capital stock to $120,000. On the expi- 
 ration of the charter at the end of twenty years, it was voted to 
 close the bank and sell its real estate to the new bank then being 
 organized. The last board of directors consisted of Simon Chase, 
 James Farrington, John Greenfield, Charles Dennett, James C. 
 Cole, Dominicus Hanson, and Jeremy Wingate. The presidents 
 from the beginning were James Farrington four years, John 
 Greenfield three ^^ears, and Simon Chase the last thirteen years. 
 
 The new Rochester Bank was incorporated by an act approved 
 June 30, 1853, and began business April 1, 1854, with a capital of 
 $80,000. The directors were John McDufifee, Jr., Charles Dennett, 
 James C. Cole, Dominicus Hanson, Stephen M. Mathes, Enoch 
 Whitehouse, and Watson Hayes. John McDuftee, Jr., was chosen 
 president, and Franklin McDuifee, cashier; both of whom retained 
 their ofiices through the existence of the bank. 
 
 It is interesting to listen to incidents in the history of the bank, 
 and the early methods of business as now related by the vener- 
 able president whose life has been identified with the banking 
 interests of this town for about sixty years, — a case almost without 
 parallel in the whole country. The deposits for the first twenty 
 years averaged less than $5,000, while the town now carries a 
 business deposit in the banks of this village of about $125,000. 
 At that time about one draft a week was drawn, it being all 
 written out with the greatest formality and painstaking. 
 
 The first visit of the bank commissioner, then newly appointed, 
 will illustrate the difiterence between the past and the present 
 methods of business. It was in the spring when the traveling 
 was very bad, not more than two or three sleighs passing through 
 the day. Mr. McDufiE'ee was somewhat ill, and concluded he would 
 close the bank at noon for the day. Just as he was leaving, a 
 man met him, saying he was the Bank Commissioner, had come 
 from Exeter to examine the bank, that it would n't take long, 
 that he didn't know anything about banks and didn't expect to ; 
 that he had taken the ofiice only for the pay he could get, and 
 the better he was paid the sooner he would get through. So 
 they went back to the bank, and Mr. McDuffee showed him his last 
 statement. The man read it over, saying, "Real estate — where 
 is that?" "This building," was the answer. "Specie — where is 
 
480 ROCHESTER. 
 
 that?" "In those bags," "Notes — where are they?" "In that 
 drawer." The statement was then copied and sworn to, and the 
 examination was over. He then asked about the bank at Wolfe- 
 borough, which was known to be in a precarious condition, and 
 wanted to know if they had money so as to pay him, for the 
 traveling was bad, and he did n't want to go up there, unless he 
 was likely to be paid for it. 
 
 This being the only bank between Dover and Canada received 
 a large share of business from drovers passing through this sec- 
 tion of the State. Counterfeiters were plenty, as their trade was 
 made easy by each bank having a different plate for its bills. 
 They, as well as forgers who were not so rare customers as bank 
 officers might wish, could easily escape, as the present facilities 
 for detection and capture did not then exist. 
 
 One day a man brought several notes for discount, representing 
 himself to be one Nutter who was reputed to be a man of pro- 
 perty. Mr. McDuff'ee asked him to return in an hour, as he must 
 first consult the directors. While they were considering the mat- 
 ter, he happened to observe that the notes, though dated one or 
 two years apart, were all cut from the same piece of paper. Just 
 as he made the discovery, the man came in. Placing the notes 
 together showing that they had been written on the same half 
 sheet of paper, he asked him to explain. The man seemed only 
 amused, saying that he had used the same kind of paper for years, 
 and it must have happened by a wonderful coincidence. It oc- 
 curred to Mr. McDuff'ee that Nutter would be known at Dodge's 
 hotel. Asking the man to stop with the directors, he went over 
 to Dodge's. Just as he was stepping into the hotel, he looked 
 back and saw that the man had sauntered out of the bank, and 
 was standing on the steps. Not finding Mr. Dodge he came out 
 at once, and then saw the man jump over the fence and run. 
 John Greenfield started in pursuit with his little dog, but taking 
 to the nearest woods the man escaped. Mr. McDuffee watched 
 for him with a slierift', near Hayes's crossing, half the night, but 
 without success. It afterwards appeared that the man, whose 
 name was Canney, w-ent over into Maine, where he was soon 
 after sent to the state prison for life for robbery and murder. 
 
 Another time a man from Brownfield, Me., claiming to be a 
 drover, came in wanting to borrow $2,500 at once. He said that 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 
 
 481 
 
 Mr. Towle, who was known to be wealthy, was an uncle of his 
 and would sign the note. He was informed that he could have 
 the money if he would get the name of Amasa Copp of Wake- 
 field, or Levi Jones of Milton. A little before bank hours next 
 morning, Mr. McDuifee saw him coming up the street on a 
 sweating horse, as though he had been riding all night. Sus- 
 pecting that all was not right he secured the presence of the 
 sheriff. The man, whose name was Meade, brought his note with 
 the name of Levi Jones, which was at once seen to be a forgery. 
 Denying at first, he finally confessed, and was arrested and lodged 
 in jail. He belonged to a notorious gang of forgers and counter- 
 feiters, who had money enough to almost ensure the escape of any 
 one of their number who should be detected. John P. Hale, his 
 counsel, set up insanity as defence, got him admitted to bail which 
 proved to be worthless, and the man escaped to Canada. 
 
 This with other efforts to bring similar culprits to justice soon 
 taught the bank oflicers that the only gain was the satisfaction 
 of seeing them lie in jail for a time, while they themselves were 
 out of pocket for the expense of putting them there. 
 
 The bank records contain the following account of an attempt 
 at burglary : — 
 
 " On Saturday morning the 18th of November, A. D. 1843, this Bank was 
 entered by Burglars. They broke a square of glass on the south side of the 
 Bank window nearest the road, being the second square from the road in the 
 second row from the sill. They then bored through the shutter with a 1^ inch 
 bit untill they could get in their arm. They then unbarred the window and 
 came in. They then attempted to blow off the lock from the outer door of 
 the vault, with Powder. Two explosions were made ; the first one is supposed 
 to have started one of the straps that holds the lock to the door, so that the 
 door yielded about three inches ; the second discharge is supposed to have 
 effected nothing. They then attempted by the help of the Iron window bars, 
 to pry open the doors but did not succeed. Both explosions were distinctly 
 heard by numerous families in the vicinity. One arose soon after the second 
 report and lighted a lamp. It was then 3 o'clock a. m. Nothing was taken 
 except two of the window bars which were carried back in the field and thrown 
 down, but found and returned on Monday. On Sunday morning at 8 o'clock, 
 the Cashier came in to see that all was right as usual, and made the discovery. 
 The building was filled with smoke and at first sight seemed as if it proceeded 
 from fire. It is supposed that there were at least three of the villains." 
 
 j Two other unsuccessful attempts have been made, only forcing 
 I one door, and once setting the bank on fire, 
 j The old bank lock was made by Charles Dennett, and though 
 I long superseded by modern improvements, is still kept as a me- 
 I mento of early times. 
 
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482 ROCHESTER. 
 
 The last board of directors of this bank consisted of John Mc- 
 Dufiee, William K. Kimball, Charles Greenfield, Dominions Han- 
 son, Thomas C. Davis, E. J. Mathes, and Enoch Whitehouse. 
 
 When the state banks went out of existence in 1866, this bank 
 closed np its alfairs, but the same business was continued by Jolin 
 McDutiee & Co., private bankers, until the national bank was 
 established. 
 
 Rochester ISTational Bank was organized under a national charter 
 January 27, 1874, with a capital of $50,000, and the following 
 directors: — John McDuifee, Charles Greenfield, Thomas C. Davis, 
 Enoch Whitehouse, Joseph H. Worcester, Nathaniel Burnham, 
 and Franklin McDutFee. John McDuflee was chosen president, 
 and Franklin McDuifee cashier. John McDufl:ee has continued 
 in oflice till the present time (p. 370). From first to last his hand 
 has been felt in the careful, conservative management of these 
 banks, as also the Norway Plains Savings Bank, which has made 
 their history a continuous success. On the death of Franklin 
 McDufiee in November, 1880, Henry M. Plumer from Salmon Falls 
 was chosen cashier, and has held the office to the present time. 
 
 The present directors are John McDufiee, Charles Greenfield, 
 Nathaniel Burnham, James Farrington, and Joseph H. Worcester. 
 The bank has a surplus of §10,000, and $3,000 undivided profits. 
 
 Norway Plains Savings Bank was incorporated July 2, 1851, 
 and began business August 5, with the following officers: — 
 Charles Dennett, president; John McDuflee, Jr., secretary and 
 treasurer ; Charles Dennett, J. D. Sturtevant, John Folsom, James 
 C. Cole, N. V. Whitehouse, T. C. Davis, and E. J. Mathes, trus- 
 tees. September 5, 1866, Franklin McDuflee was chosen secretary 
 and treasurer, and March 11, 1867, John McDuflee was chosen 
 president. December 1, 1880, Henry M. Plumer was chosen sec- 
 retary and treasurer in place of the late Franklin McDuflee. By 
 order of the Supreme Court March 25, 1878, the deposits were 
 scaled down one sixth, but April 5, 1881, the entire amount was 
 returned to all who had accounts there at the time of the reduction, 
 whether they had withdrawn their money or not. This result 
 fully justified the confidence which, even during the temporary 
 embarrassment, pervaded the greater part of the community that 
 the bank would come out all right in the end. The deposits at 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTEK. 483 
 
 this time are over $600,000. The trustees are : — John McDuffee, 
 Charles Greenfield, Dominicus Hanson, James Farrington, Na- 
 thaniel Burnham, I. W. Lougee, and James H. Edgerly. 
 
 ROCHESTER SAVINGS BANK. 
 
 BY HON. CHARLES S. WHITEHOUSE. 
 
 The establishment of savings banks in a town is a fair indica- 
 tion of the thrift and frugality of its people. Like the church 
 and the schoolhouse which indicate the moral and intellectual 
 standing of a town, these savings institutions emphasize the indus- 
 try, economy, and prudence which make the former possible, or 
 at least add greatly to their development. The good they do in a 
 community is incalculable. Habits of economy and industry are 
 stimulated and encouraged, and many a young man can date the 
 beginning of his success in life from his first deposit in a savings 
 bank. 
 
 Rochester has been singularly fortunate in its savings banks. 
 They have been managed with prudence and sagacity, ' together 
 with a commendable spirit of liberality towards the business men 
 of the place, until from small beginnings they have become an 
 important factor in the prosperity and growth of the town. 
 
 Rochester Savings Bank was incorporated by the State July 3, 
 1872. From various causes the first meeting of the corporators 
 was not held till August 27, 1874, when they organized by the 
 choice of trustees. The twenty-four corporators were as follows : — 
 E. G. Wallace, C. K. Sanborn*, Enoch C. Dow*, Albert W. Hayes, 
 William Rand, Francis Orr*, and John Hall, trustees; other 
 members, ISTathaniel Burnham, J. D. Evans*, Robert Mcllroy, 
 Larkin Harrington*, S. D. Wentworth, William Wentworth, J. H. 
 Worcester, James Farrington, James Walker, S. H. Feinemann*, 
 Edwin Wallace, John D. Sturtevant*, John Legro*, James Hurd*, 
 Isaac Merrill*, E. J. Mathes, Isaac W. Springfield, and Elbridge 
 W. Fox. Subsequently, Ebenezer G. Wallace was chosen presi- 
 dent; Cyrus K. Sanborn, vice president; and Stephen D. Went- 
 worth, treasurer. The bank, located in the Cole building, began 
 business and received its first deposit November 2, 1874, Capt. A. 
 W. Hayes being the first depositor. Since then the bank has 
 
484 KOCHESTER. 
 
 grown steadily in the confidence of the community, until at the 
 present time, December, 1889, its deposits and accumulations 
 amount to over $400,000. It has paid its depositors semi-annual 
 dividends regularly from the beginning, never less than four, and 
 a part of the time five per cent yearly. E. G. Wallace resigned 
 the ofiice of president in 1878, and was succeeded by C. K. San- 
 born, who served till 1882, when Mr. Wallace took the office 
 again for one year. John Legro next held the position till 1884, 
 then E. J. Mathes filled the place till 1888, when William Eand 
 was chosen and still holds the ofiice. Stephen D. Wentworth has 
 been treasurer from the beginning, — a period of fifteen years. 
 Having all the details attending the loaning, collecting, and safety 
 of nearly half a million dollars belonging to about a thousand 
 depositors, he is fully alive to the responsibilities belonging to the 
 position which he so successfully fills. He is an earnest and 
 faithful oflicial, — energetic, painstaking, and sagacious. 
 
 The present oflicers are: — William Rand, president; J. Thorne 
 Dodge, vice-president; S. D. Wentworth, treasurer; William Rand, 
 J. T. Dodge, Frank E. Wallace, Ezra Standle}^ Augustine S. 
 Parshley, Richardson J. Wallace, and S. D. Wentworth, trustees. 
 
 Shortly after commencing business the bank was moved into 
 the Hayes Block, where it remained till January, 1889, when it 
 took possession of its present tasty and convenient quarters. 
 
 A word of tribute to the sterling worth and faithful devotion 
 to the interests of the depositors on the part of the deceased 
 members of the corporation is not inappropriate. They were all 
 men who in their various callings of life were an honor to the 
 town. The}'^ knew the struggles of early manhood, and appreci- 
 ated the benefits growing out of a conscientious devotion to public 
 and private duties. They were men of prudence, rugged integrity, 
 and unblemished reputation among their neighbors and fellow 
 citizens. Whether as the devoted family physician, the able law- 
 yer, the honest merchant and manufacturer, the sterling farmer, or 
 the public official, they gained and merited and held to the last 
 day of their lives, the unqualified respect and confidence of their 
 townsmen, and left a remembrance of their public and private 
 worth rich in good deeds. 
 
 Some account has already been given of the Farmers and Me- 
 chanics Bank, afterwards the Gonic JS'ational Bank (p. 362). 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 485 
 
 Rochester Loan and Banking Company was organized in 1886, 
 as a private partnership, A charter was granted by the Legis- 
 lature of 1887 under which they reorganized June 1, 1888, with 
 the following officers: — President, Edwin Wallace; vice-president, 
 Sumner Wallace; cashier, John L. Copp; directors, Charles F. 
 Caverly, Charles B. Gafney, Frank Jones of Portsmouth, Isidor 
 Salinger, Edwin and Sumner Wallace, and Gurdon W. Wattles. 
 They have a paid-up capital of $100,000, and transact all kinds 
 of general banking business. 
 
 HOTELS. 
 
 Places for the public entertainment of travelers, in some form, 
 have always held an important position among the conveniences 
 of even a semi-civilization. They have been prominent in Roch- 
 ester from the earliest times. 
 
 The Stephen Wentworth Tavern which stood on Haven's hill, 
 " a short distance from the traveled road in the south-east corner of 
 a three-acre lot, with a small cellar and an ancient well to mark its 
 location," is said to have been the first tavern in Rochester. It 
 was "a one-story double house with a wing at each end, unpainted, 
 and exactly facing the sun at 12 m." This tavern was known 
 also as the " Wolfe Tavern," from the sign which bore a bust por- 
 trait of General Wolfe in full military dress. Under the portrait 
 were the words "GENERAL: WOLFE — . 1770." This was 
 the date of the sign. The tavern had doubtless been open for years 
 before. In the upper corners of the sign were the letters S. W., 
 for the name of the proprietor. This old sign is now owned by 
 Dr. Farrington. Stephen Wentworth was akin to the famous Ports- 
 mouth family, and here old Governor John Wentworth frequently 
 stopped with his accomplished wife, and hence it was often called 
 the " Governor Wentworth Tavern." Here men were recruited 
 for the Revolution, and the scenes of interest here enacted would 
 fill a long chapter of valuable history now passed into oblivion. 
 
 John Cloutman kept tavern as early as 1768 on the farm now 
 owned by his grandson, Charles Willand, 
 
 Moses Hurd had a tavern which was burned not far from 1790. 
 It probably stood where is now the " Moses Hurd house," at the 
 lower end of Main street. 
 
486 ROCHESTER. 
 
 About the time of the Revolution, a small one-story house in 
 which Colonel McDutFee had lived, was moved to where Hayes 
 Block now stands, and became a tavern first kept by Stephen 
 Berry. In the early part of the century it was kept by Major 
 Perkins, and afterwards by Levi Dearborn, known as " Squire 
 Dearborn." After his death it remained unoccupied for some 
 years, when Simon Chase added a story and made it his own 
 residence. It now stands on the rear of the same lot. 
 
 The large two-story house at the lower end of the village known 
 as the Roberts house, was formerly " Furber's Tavern," the old 
 eign of which is still preserved by Mrs. John R. Roberts, being 
 a small oval bearing the words, " M. Furber's Tavern. 1806." 
 
 " Barker's Tavern," where the Methodist church now stands, 
 was well known in the early part of the century, and was burned 
 in 1823 (p. 131). 
 
 The " Old Tavern House " at the corner of Market street and 
 Factory court was built in 1800, by Meshach Robinson, who is 
 also said to have built the first wagon run in Rochester. In 1845 
 this tavern was kept by "William J. Roberts, and was discontinued 
 not long after. 
 
 " Odiorne's Tavern " was an old-fashioned two-story white house 
 where Dodge's Hotel now is. Capt. John Odiorne was a saddler 
 by trade, " a smart man," and a popular military officer. He 
 died in 1811, at the age of forty-eight years. His widow, Mrs. 
 Sarah (Hanson) Odiorne, was a woman of unusual shrewdness 
 and executive ability, and when left with a family of children to 
 provide for, showed herself abundantly able to do so, by keeping 
 the tavern with good success for about thirty years. 
 
 DODGE'S HOTEL. 
 
 BY MRS. DANIEL HALL OF DOVER. 
 
 A historical sketch of Rochester would be very incomplete with- 
 out a notice more or less extended of " Dodge's Hotel," and the 
 active, hard-working family who have lived there for the last half 
 century, and have made it so widely and favorably known. 
 
 The place was first occupied for a private residence by Peter 
 Cushing, who sold it to Mrs. Captain Odiorne, his wife's sister, 
 who kept a public house here for many years. The courts for 
 old Strafltord county, embracing the present counties of Stratford, 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 487 
 
 Belknap, and Carroll, were then held at Rochester, and " Odiorne's 
 Tavern " was the favorite resort of judges, lawyers, and suitors. 
 
 Jonathan T. Dodge was born at Ossipee in 1803. His father 
 was a native of Wenham, Mass., and in company with Judge 
 Quarles kept a store at Ossipee Corner. Jonathan T. Dodge was 
 one of eight children. At the age of eighteen, his health failing, 
 he started for Massachusetts in hope of being benefited by the sea 
 air. On his way he stopped to rest at Odiorne's Tavern, where 
 he was taken sick, and was unable to proceed. Mrs. Odiorne 
 becoming interested in him, persuaded him to remain with her 
 after his recovery, as she was in need of help in the hotel. This 
 was in the year 1821. He lived there in her employ ten years, 
 for eight of which his pay was two shillings per day. He related 
 in subsequent years, that going to bed at eleven o'clock, he was 
 some nights called up as many as nine times to take care of 
 horses, of which they sometimes had seventy in a night. After 
 filling their own stables, they filled the neighbors' barns also. In 
 1831 he returned to Ossipee where his mother resided. Not 
 feeling able to carry on the business without help, Mrs, Odiorne 
 sold to her son-in-law, John B. Buzzel. In 1834 Mr. Dodge 
 bought the stand, and in company with his brother-in-law, Daniel 
 R. Carter, removed the old house and erected a new and larger 
 one. They continued together in the hotel business till Mr. Car- 
 ter's death in 1842. Meantime Mr. Dodge was married in De- 
 cember, 1840, to Miss Sarah Hansen of Great Falls. Five chil- 
 dren were born to them, four of whom are now living, one having 
 died in infancy. The house was set on fire August 21, 1851, by 
 one Ezekiel Tibbetts, an imbecile town pauper. All the hotel 
 buildings, the house on the adjoining lot, with other buildings 
 were consumed. The family were saved, but nearly all the fur- 
 niture was lost. Only a small insurance was realized. 
 
 Six months later, the house having been rebuilt, the family 
 moved into it. The new house was of brick, and is still standing, 
 having been enlarged about twenty years ago. 
 
 During his connection with the hotel Mr. Dodge entered largely 
 into staging, and other enterprises which were more or less suc- 
 cessful (p. 135). He was the proprietor of several stage lines, 
 which were, in those days, the only means of transportation. He 
 owned at one time ninety horses which were employed in this 
 
488 ROCHESTER. 
 
 business. He carried the mail for nineteen years from Conway 
 to Dover and return, frequently driving the great teams himself 
 over the long route. The well-known " whips," Moses Canney, 
 Kirke Pitman, Sinclair, and John L. Hanson drove for Mr. Dodge 
 for many years. He continued his connection with this business 
 to a greater or less extent, till the old stage lines from the sea- 
 board to the mountains were superseded by railroads. 
 
 Mr. Dodge died January 8, 1871, leaving an honored name 
 among all who knew him, as a man of enterprise, of uncommon 
 business ability, and thorough integrity of character. 
 
 For nearly nineteen years after Mr. Dodge's death, his widow, 
 with the assistance of her son, J. Thorne Dodge, carried on the 
 hotel, and under their charge it enjoyed unabated popularity, and 
 served the public with the same satisfaction that Mr. Dodge gave 
 in his lifetime. In fact, " Dodge's Hotel " is one of the " insti- 
 tutions " of Rochester, and has contributed not a little to the credit 
 and prosperity of the town. 
 
 During Mr. Dodge's lifetime, and ever since, this house has been 
 famous for its cleanliness, its excellent beds and furniture, its 
 orderly arrangements of every kind, and above all for a table and 
 cuisine whose reputation has extended far and wide. Many trav- 
 eling people go out of their way and take extraordinary pains to 
 " make in " to this hotel. 
 
 Mrs. Dodge retained her vigor and activity up to advanced 
 years, and conducted the business with the same assiduity, care, 
 personal oversight, and attention to the comfort of her guests as 
 characterized her earlier years. She was in failing health for 
 about a year before her death, though still able to be about and 
 attend to the house and her other affairs with much of the energy 
 of her prime. After a sickness of about two weeks duration, she 
 died November 1, 1889, upwards of eighty years of age, greatly 
 lamented by the people of the town, b}^ hosts of friends all over 
 the country who had enjoyed her hospitality, and especially by 
 many poor people to whom her hand was ever open. 
 
 Since her decease the hotel has been kept under the proprietor- 
 ship of J. Thorne Dodge, and it would be difficult to find any 
 house in the State where better accommodations are furnished, or 
 which is more popular with the traveling public than " Dodge's 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 489 
 
 Hotel." Its appointmeuts have been modernized, keeping pace 
 with the progress of the times, and to this day it enjoys and well 
 deserves a most liberal public patronage and favor. 
 
 Lowell Kenney came from Salem, Mass., and opened "Kenney's 
 Tavern " in 1824. Charles Y. Meserve bought it in 1838, and at 
 a supper which he gave to his friends on the occasion, the Hon. 
 J. H. Woodman proposed the name " Langdon House," by which 
 it was afterwards known. His brother Stephen Meserve followed 
 him, and in 1843 Capt. Ephraim Richardson bought it, and con- 
 ducted the business on strictly temperance principles for seven- 
 teen years. He leased the place for three years, and then in 1863 
 sold it to Mr. Dodge. The Wallaces soon after bought it, and 
 the place is occupied by their business. The "Langdon House" 
 did a large business before the time of railroads, frequently put- 
 ting up from seventy-five to one hundred yoke of cattle, besides 
 twenty to thirty horses in a single night. It was for some years 
 " the head-quarters duriug the sessions of court, of the judges, 
 lawyers, and leading men." The regimental muster was held for 
 many years on the parade back of this hotel. 
 
 In 1867, Silas H. Wentworth bought the Woodman house (p. 132) 
 and opened a hotel which was named " Mansion House " by J. F. 
 Place. Mr. Wentworth was a generous man, and never allowed 
 any one to go away because he had no money. Under his man- 
 agement the " Mansion House " was a place of popular resort, 
 especially for political gatherings. After Mr. Wentworth died in 
 1881, his widow continued the business for two years, when she 
 leased it to B. L. E. Gowan for two years, since which it has fre- 
 quently changed hands. It is now owned by Mrs. Jennie L. 
 Goodwin, a daughter of Mr. Wentworth, and is rented by Na- 
 thaniel Ham. 
 
 The widow of Levi F. Roberts of Rochester built a hotel near 
 the railroad station, and opened it December 5, 1881. She named 
 it "Hotel Wrisley," from her husband's sister, Mrs. Wrisley. 
 After three years she sold it to Buelduc & Thurston, the latter of 
 whom sold out to his partner in 1889. This house is extensively 
 patronized by commercial travelers. 
 
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490 ROCHESTER. 
 
 RAILROADS. 
 
 BY CHARLES W. BROWN 
 
 The contrast between the past and the present is nowhere more 
 marked than in methods of travel and transportation (p. 135). With 
 the advent of railroads into Rochester began the permanent growth 
 of the town, which has been steady and healthful from that day 
 to this. 
 
 The first regular trains run into this town were over the Great 
 Falls & Conway Railroad, commencing March 6, 1849. There 
 was a bitter rivalry between this road and the Cocheco which had 
 been chartered about the same time to run from Dover through 
 Rochester to Alton Bay. Out of this rivalry sprang the famous 
 "railroad riot" of February 21, 1849, the following account of 
 which is condensed from a Great Falls paper : — 
 
 "When the Boston & Maine Raih-oad built a branch to Great Falls, there 
 was a written agreement that it should not be extended further north under 
 certain specified penalties. This served to stifle for a time all railroad exten- 
 sion in this vicinity. The people of Dover learning that Great Falls had thus 
 secured to itself a terminus on the country route, began to agitate the sub- 
 ject of extending a railroad from Dover to Rochester and thence northward. 
 The capitalists of Great Falls saw that if this were permitted, they would be 
 entirely cut off from the country routes. Though appearing to be geographi- 
 cally in the line, they would really be as much out of the line of trade and 
 travel as if in the midst of the Atlantic. Therefore a proposition to establish 
 the Great Falls & Conway Railroad met with much favor. A charter was se- 
 cured, and when it became certain that Dover was about to make an iron grasp 
 upon Rochester, the building of the road was begun at once. The Dover cap- 
 italists who had made every arrangement for building the Cocheco Railroad, 
 considering this a kind of trickery, worked earnestly against the Great Falls 
 & Conway road, and made an unsuccessful attempt to contest the validity of 
 its charter. The Great Falls & Conway road had been surveyed and laid out by 
 its own engineers, and had taken bonds of the land where it crossed the Cocheco 
 road. The Cocheco company employed the Railroad Commissioners to lay out 
 their road, who paid no attention to the claims of the Great Falls & Conway, 
 directing the Cocheco company to pay the owners of the land a specified sum 
 for damages. The owners, however, refused to accept it, though tendered to 
 them in gold and silver coin. It was therefore deposited with the State Treas- 
 urer subject to their order. Subsequently the Great Falls & Conway company 
 paid the land owners a sum which satisfied them for all damages. But the 
 Cocheco road, resting on the authority of the Railroad Commissioners, persisted 
 in its claim, so that the crossing became a special point of battle between the 
 two roads. The track of the Great Falls & Conway having been completed to 
 Rochester Village, preparations were made to commence running trains on 
 Thursday, the 22d of February. Anticipating a fracas, and to prevent tearing 
 up of the track, the Great Falls & Conway had placed a heavily loaded car on 
 the crossing, and trigged it at both ends with ties, besides running rails through 
 the wheels between the spokes. The track had also been doubly spiked, and 
 the whole work done in the most thorough manner. On the morning of the 
 21st a crowd of Rochester people had gathered upon or near the car, determined 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 491 
 
 that it should not be removed, except to admit the passage of the Great Falls 
 & Conway train. During the forenoon a number of persons from Dover, among 
 whom v?ere some of the most influential and wealthy men of Strafford county, 
 appeared on the disputed territory and gave orders for the removal of the car 
 that they might finish up some work on the Cocheco road. The Rochester 
 people informed them that the car could not be moved, whereupon they made 
 several attempts to attach ox-chains and drag it oH. In the squabble that en- 
 sued, several persons were slightly injured, one had a broken arm, and one came 
 near losing his life. A constable was called and the riot act read, and William 
 Hale, Jr., with others from Dover was arrested and required to recognize for par- 
 ticipating in a riot. The result of the melee was that the rioters dragged off the 
 car and pulled up the track." 
 
 The scene of this riot was near where the brick station of the 
 Boston & Maine Railroad was built at Railroad-avenue crossing. 
 It stirred up a great deal of bad blood among the citizens of 
 Rochester, but more especially between Great Falls and Dover, 
 so that for a long time it was not safe for a man living in either 
 city to visit the other. The matter was finally settled by arbitra- 
 tion, the Great Falls & Conway being obliged to move their 
 track, while the Cocheco road was given the right of way over 
 the land which the Great Falls & Conway had purchased. 
 
 February 28, 1849, the Boston & Maine company contracted to 
 operate the Great Falls & Conway road " for one year from Jan- 
 uary 1, 1849, and until one party shall give to the other six months' 
 notice of its intention to terminate the same." Such notice was 
 given by the Great Falls & Conway June 1 of the same year, 
 and the contract was terminated January 1, 1850, 
 
 During the summer this road had built at Rochester two depots 
 for merchandise, one of which was of brick and accommodated 
 all the freight of this line till within a few years; one engine 
 house 43X50 which accommodated three engines, and stood near 
 Portland-street crossing, in front of the dwelling-house of Arthur 
 D. Richardson; and one passenger station, a small wooden build- 
 ing intended for temporary use, but which served the passengers 
 of this road for more than fifteen years. This was then replaced 
 by a neat wooden structure near where the union depot now stands, 
 which was sold in 1884 to the Portland & Rochester Railroad, 
 and moved to Saccarappa, where it is still used as a passenger 
 station. 
 
 The first station agent was a Mr. Quimbj', who served but a 
 short time when he was succeeded by George W. Barker. Mr. 
 Barker resigned in 1852, and entered the employ of the Pennsyl- 
 vania Railroad, where he rose to the position of division super- 
 
492 ROCHESTER. 
 
 intendent, and was considered a model official. The next agent 
 was Deacon Thomas Brown, who faithfully served the company 
 for twenty-three years and a half, until old age and increasing 
 duties compelled him to resign. The position was afterwards filled 
 by W. H. Tucker, C. H. Hayes, and ^^. T. Kimball who, after 
 the consolidation of the Boston & Maine with the Eastern, had 
 charge of all the railroad interests of the village. 
 
 The Cocheco Railroad was chartered in 1847, ground first broken 
 in July, 1848, and was opened to Farmington in September, 1849. 
 The first agent was Jacob H. Ela, who was followed by Henry 
 M. Kelley and J. F. Hoyt. George F. Richardson was appointed 
 in 1864, and was an efficient agent till the consolidation of the 
 Boston & Maine with the Eastern, a period of more than twenty 
 years, when he resigned. The first passenger station of the Co- 
 checo road was a small wooden building near Wentworth street. 
 The freight house was also of wood on the north side of the same 
 street. A commodious brick passenger station was erected in 
 1868 near Railroad Avenue, which after the consolidation was 
 removed and fitted up where it now stands as a union depot. A 
 brick freight house was built about the same time just south of 
 Railroad Avenue. When the two roads united, a large wooden 
 freight house newly built by the Eastern, which had possession 
 of the Great Falls & Conway road, was moved to the south side 
 of the brick freight house, and from these two buildings all the 
 freight business is now done. In 1860 the name Cocheco was 
 changed to Dover & Winnipiseogee, and the road was leased in 
 1862 to the Boston & Maine. 
 
 About the close of the war, the question of new railroads began 
 to be agitated. The old York & Cumberland road, which had 
 been chartered to Great Falls through Saccarappa, Gorham, and 
 Alfred, was completed as far as the Saco river. Prominent busi- 
 ness men in Portland, Rochester, and the intervening towns were 
 very active in having this road re-chartered to Rochester, under 
 the name of Portland & Rochester Railroad Company. At the 
 annual town meeting, March 10, 1868, Rochester voted to take 
 forty thousand dollars' worth of stock in this road, and September 
 7, 1871, the selectmen were authorized and required forthwith to 
 hire that amount and pay it over to the treasurer of the Portland 
 & Rochester road, taking certificates of that amount of stock. The 
 first regular train over this road to Rochester was July 31, 1871. 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 493 
 
 One principal object in securing this road was to open a through 
 line from Portland to New York and the West. The Worcester 
 & Nashua Railroad was specially interested in this matter, and the 
 question of a connecting link from Nashua to Rochester was soon 
 agitated. At a special town meeting, November 29, 1870, it was 
 voted to take fifteen thousand dollars' worth of stock in the Nashua 
 & Rochester road, " if running into the village of Norway Plains 
 within three years." This time was afterwards extended three 
 years more. The road was completed and regular trains running 
 November 24, 1874. 
 
 The Portland & Rochester stock did not prove a profitable in- 
 vestment. No dividends were ever declared, and under an amended 
 charter about 1880, the town was compelled to take eight shares 
 of the new stock in place of the four hundred originally owned. 
 On the Nashua & Rochester stock the town received two dividends 
 of six per cent each, and then sold the stock at ninety dollars a 
 share. 
 
 The business of these two roads in this village was done by a 
 joint agent. A. U. Nason first held the position, and was suc- 
 ceeded in 1876 by Charles W. Brown who continued in that 
 capacity till the railroad interests of this village were united under 
 one management. 
 
 The first Portland & Rochester Railroad station was a small 
 wooden aiFair, with a waiting-room at one end and a freight-house 
 at the other till 187G, when the latter was finished off for a ladies' 
 room. This was used by both roads till the Boston & Maine 
 obtained control of the Worcester & Nashua road. The Nashua 
 & Rochester built a brick engine-house to accommodate six loco- 
 motives, and a car house for six passenger cars. Their freight- 
 house was the wooden building with slate roof now used by the 
 Boston & Maine for a store-house. 
 
 At the time the question of the Portland & Rochester road was 
 agitated, another line was chartered, connecting with the Boston, 
 Concord & Montreal road at Concord. Much interest was excited, 
 and the town voted to take fifteen thousand dollars' worth of 
 stock when it should be completed. But this project has thus far 
 failed. 
 
 At first business was not systematized as at present, consequently 
 it is very difiicult to get at the amount done when the Great Falls 
 
494 ROCHESTER. 
 
 & Conway and the Cocheco commenced operations. At that time 
 but one man was required to do all the business for each road, and 
 the total station expenses for both roads was only sixty-five dollars 
 a month. Now it requires fourteen men with a monthly expense of 
 five hundred and thirty-two dollars. The monthly ticket business 
 now averages about four thousand dollars, and the freight seven 
 thousand. Over two hundred freight cars are handled daily at 
 the station. On the opening of the Great Falls & Conway road, 
 two passenger trains and one freight train each way were amply 
 sufiicient. The Cocheco road run two trains each way, one being 
 a mixed train. IlTow forty regular trains a day are required. This 
 gives some idea of the increase of the railroad business, and is also 
 indicative of the material growth and prosperity of the town. 
 
 The postoifice at Rochester was established March 26, 1812, when 
 President Madison appointed William Barker the first postmaster. 
 He kept the office at the Barker tavern, where the Methodist 
 meeting-house now stands. John B. Buzzell, appointed August 
 5, 1815, lived up stairs in the " Carter building," and kept the 
 postoffice in his variety store below. David Barker, Jr., was 
 appointed October 15, 1818, and kept the office in the Barker 
 store under his law office, near the site of McDufi"ee Block. Hum- 
 phrej' Hanson was appointed July 8, 1823, and kept the office in 
 the old brick drug-store, where Hanson's new block now stands. 
 August 4, 1826, John McDuffee was appointed and kept the office 
 in his store, where is now the north-east corner of McDuftee Block. 
 William S. Ricker was appointed August 14, 1829. He was a 
 painter by trade, and kept the office at his residence in the Went- 
 worth house opposite the town hall. April 11, 1831, John H. 
 Smith, a young lawyer, son of John Smith the blacksmith, re- 
 ceived the appointment and removed the office to the Hanson 
 store. Lowell Kenney was appointed May 10, 1832, and kept the 
 office in the store connected with his tavern at the lower end of 
 the street. Dominicus Hanson, appointed September 16, 1835, re- 
 turned the office to his store. He made great improvements in 
 methods, and introduced the first boxes. The change was much 
 appreciated by the citizens, and he held the position fourteen 
 years. Gilbert Horney was appointed June 15, 1849, and served 
 under Presidents Taylor and Fillmore. He was a native of Ports- 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 495 
 
 moutli and had traded for a time at Farmington before coming 
 to Rochester. He kept the office in his store, where is now the 
 lower end of McDiiffee Block. William Jackson, appointed April 23, 
 1853, brought the office back again to Hanson's drug store, Nicho- 
 las E. Varney, appointed April 13, 1861, removed the office to 
 the Lewis Hanson store, now occupied by Worcester & Greenfield. 
 J. Frank Place, editor of the " Courier," was appointed May 18, 
 1865, and fitted up a room expressly for the postoffice in Dodge's 
 brick building now occupied by M. L. Burr. Joseph H. Worces- 
 ter, appointed April 5, 1867, retained the office in the same place. 
 John G. Davis, appointed Januar}^ 28, 1868, was a watch-maker 
 and jeweler and removed the office to his shop in the Lewis 
 Hanson store. George B. Roberts, appointed April 19, 1869, re- 
 moved the office to its present commodious quarters on Hanson 
 street, Osman B. Warren held the office a little more than seven 
 years from his appointment, March 25, 1878. In July, 1885, 
 Charles W. Howe, formerly a druggist, was appointed and retains 
 the office to the present time. 
 
 The revenue of this office for its first three months in 1812 was 
 $5.07. During the little more than four years since Mr. Howe 
 became postmaster the office has done a business of $240,000. 
 For the year 1889 its business was as follows : — 
 
 Postage stamps, stamped envelopes, and postal cards sold . . ^5,149 73 
 
 Amount received for box rent ....... 845 80 
 
 Amount received from sale of money orders , , . . 17,161 19 
 
 Amount received from sale of postal notes 1,704 00 
 
 The amount paid out for money orders and postal notes was 
 about the same as that received. Twelve hundred and two letters 
 were registered during the year, and one hundred and seventy- 
 eight " special delivery " letters received. This office shows a 
 steady increase of business each year, and will no doubt become a 
 " second-class office " in the near future. 
 
 SQUAMANAGOI^IC. 
 
 Gonic, as it is now called, has always been an important part 
 of Rochester. The following description of this village as it was in 
 1800, and the diagram on the next page, are from the remem- 
 brance of Jonathan H. Henderson, who lived all his life in Gonic. 
 
496 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 GONIC IN 1800. 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 497 
 
 No. 1, at the upper end of the village at the fork of the road 
 leading to Barrington, is the school-house where Mr. Henderson* 
 went to school in 1800, heing then in his fifth year (p. 163). The 
 building made over into a dwelling is still standing. In coming 
 from their home just below Gonic, on the road leading to Roch- 
 ester Neck, the Hendersons passed only four houses : — Nos. 2, 3, 
 4, and 5. No. 2 was the Jonathan Hurd house a few rods this 
 side of Lewis F. Home's, on the opposite side of the road. Many 
 years afterwards it was moved into the village and occupied by 
 Alexander H. Geer who still owns it. No. 3, just below the res- 
 idence of the late N. V. Whitehouse (now occupied by his son), 
 is where Elijah Varney built a house about 1776. Some years 
 before he had bought the farm comprised in part of what is now 
 the Factory Company's mill yard and field, and put up a small 
 house afterwards used for a shoe-shop. He was a shoemaker and 
 tanner, and had his bark mill and tan-vats where is now the Fac- 
 tory wood-yard. He did a good business for some years, but 
 went to keeping tavern, till his business was neglected and finally 
 abandoned. This building was torn down about 1878 and the cellar 
 filled up. No. 4 was a house built by Nicholas Varney on a lot 
 given him by his father-in-law, Reuben Heard. It then stood 
 nearly opposite the Demeritt house, now William H. Felker's, but 
 was afterwards moved a short distance below, next to the Rufus 
 Clark house. His father, Thomas Varney, built a blacksmith's 
 shop at No. 11, where a dwelling house now stands, opposite the 
 brick store occupied by Yeaton & Co. His sons, Silas and Nich- 
 olas, both worked there. " They mended old traps, repaired gun- 
 locks, and cut nails from Spanish hoops, — made tongs, gridirons, 
 toasters, and such light work." Nicholas sold out and moved to 
 Ossipee. Silas afterwards had a shop at No. 10, nearly opposite where 
 the Bank now is. Henry Tebbetts bought the house and carried on 
 blacksmithing there for some years. His widow married Daniel 
 Newell, who was a famous drummer in his day, and the house is 
 still known as the "Newell house." It is now occupied as a factory 
 tenement house. No. 5 was the old Demeritt house, now occupied 
 
 *Jonathan H. Henderson was a man of much note here from 1820 to 18-40. He was a 
 schoolmaster, — (a person of much consequence in those days,) — understood survej'inp, was 
 a militia Captain, in politics an intense AVhig, and in religion a pronounced Universalist at 
 a time when Universalism was very unpopular. His later life was somewhat clouded by the 
 drink habit, but he was altogether a man of mark in his time. He died December 20, 1878, 
 aged 83 years. 
 
498 KOCHESTER. 
 
 by William H. Felker, who married Samuel Demeritt's daughter 
 Deborah. It was then a one-story house owned by Reuben Hurd 
 who farmed and tended grist-mill. He was nicknamed " old By- 
 the-Lord," from the frequency with which he used the expression. 
 He went to Ossipee, and " 'Squire Dearborn, tavern-keeper from 
 the Plains," took the place. After him came Israel Whitehouse 
 father of the late N. V, Whitehouse, Silas Varney, Ezekiel Hussey, 
 and Samuel Demeritt, before the present owner. No. 6 is the 
 Charles Place house now occupied by his widow. It was built by 
 Micajah Hussey before the present century, but has been greatly 
 improved in the last thirty years. In 1800 Ephraim Hammett lived 
 there. He was a cobbler and also sold rum, " thus mending 
 the soles of some customers and poisoning the souls of others." 
 After him came Stephen Whitehouse, Dearborn Jewett who after- 
 wards built the house occupied for many years by Aaron Clarke 
 (now owned by Col. C. S. Whitehouse), and Silas Varney who died 
 there. Nathaniel Hayes had a house at No. 7. His father owned 
 the farm where Benjamin F. Hayes and his mother now live, to- 
 gether with a large part of the Demeritt farm. Nathaniel might 
 have owned it all, but he went to trading on a few groceries, neg- 
 lected his farm, and the groceries too, and soon failing was obliged 
 to leave "between two days," in October, 1802. At No. 8 a house 
 was raised and boarded over as early as 1803-4, by Silas Varney. 
 It stood empty for some years without windows or doors, when 
 James Pickering bought it and fitted up a part of it so that he 
 moved in. He traded in a store at No. 9, where the hay-scales 
 formerly stood, now a part of the village square. He had to leave 
 the State on account of some transaction in connection with a law- 
 suit in which he was engaged, but came back in 1811. He was a 
 Lieutenant under Captain Page, and " at night on muster days 
 would march the Gonic and Neck boys down to the old store, 
 where he treated them to what he called wine drawn from a hogs- 
 head, and drunk from a pint mug and a tin measure." Somewhere 
 about 1825-28 the old store was torn down by a party of citizens in 
 disguise, who had become disgusted and indignant at the perform- 
 ances carried on there. Capt. Phineas Varney bought the house at 
 No. 8, fitted it up, and lived there till about 1814, when he went 
 to sea in the war and never returned. His widow exchanged the 
 place with William Currier for a dwelling and store at North 
 
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BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 499 
 
 Berwick. At N'o. 15 was a small house where Moses Yarney, 
 brother of Elijah, lived. He cobbled shoes, and tended the low^er 
 grist-mill. Anthony Pickering lived there in 1811-12. Afterwards 
 Paul Picker lived there for several years. It is now a tenement 
 house of the Gonic company. At 'No. 13, in rear of where the 
 Bank now is, was a one-story house with only two rooms, owned 
 by one Catliu or Cartland. Thomas Varney bought it, and moved 
 it to the knoll in the McDuffee field near the lower saw-mill. 
 He was lame, one leg being shorter than the other, and was a 
 carpenter, a tailor, and tended grist-mill. After he moved to Alton 
 about 1806, the widow of Samuel Knowles lived here, then Henry 
 Bickford, Jonathan Morrison, and lastly Daniel Haj^es, whose wife 
 tended the grist-mill till he sold out and went to Vermont. About 
 1850-55 the house was burned. Some time before 1804, Edmund 
 Varney, son of Moses and brother of Joel, erected a small building 
 at No. 14, on the spot where the spruce trees now are, in the 
 Whitehouse garden, next to the residence of S. C. Meader, " but 
 afterwards moved it across the path that went to the mill on to the 
 corner above the Evans lot, between the mill-path and the road 
 to the bridge." This last spot was just to the left of the foot-path 
 in the Whitehouse garden. He fitted it up for a store, and put in 
 a hogshead of. rum and a few groceries. He had an Ensign's com- 
 mission under Captain Page. " He failed up and absconded, and 
 was not heard from for years." Benjamin Tuttle had a small 
 house at No. 12, a little in from the willows below the bridge. 
 " He used to go a fishing to the Shoals in warm weather. After 
 he grew old, he went to live with his son." About 1811 William 
 Smith bought the place, and lived there till 1814, when he went 
 privateering and never returned. Job S, Hodgdon married the 
 widow and lived there till they moved " down East." The old 
 house was torn down about 1860 when ]^. V. Whitehouse began 
 enlarging the factory. No. 16 is the old yellow house which stood 
 in the Whitehouse garden, directly in front of George W. Osborne's 
 store, facing towards the bridge, and w^as moved by N. V. White- 
 house about 1860 to the lot between Nos. 4 and 11. It is now a 
 factor}^ tenement house. It was originally of one story but was 
 afterwards enlarged and another story added. Thomas Varney 
 built it on laud given by the saw-mill proprietors that he might 
 build a blacksmith's shop and do their iron-work. His son 
 
500 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Nicholas took the shop after his death. Benjamin Evans bought the 
 house, kept a small grocery, and did job work till he died, about 
 1811. John P. Evans took off the roof, moved the building to 
 the upper part of the lot, put on another story and an addition, 
 and painted it yellow. He afterwards w^ent to Macon, Georgia, 
 and one of his descendants became a prominent officer in the 
 Confederate Army of the Rebellion. The old store which stood 
 near ISTo. 9, before mentioned, was built by Howard Henderson in 
 1792-93. He traded tliere several years, and was succeeded by his 
 son Jonathan about 1803. After him was Samuel Knowles, who 
 lived in the chambers and died there. Then came James Pick- 
 ering in 1811, and then Timothy Hurd, who enlisted and went 
 to the Canadian frontier in 1813. 
 
 A general " country store " was built by one Spaulding, probably 
 as early as 1820-25, and is now occupied as a store and dwelling- 
 house. Downing Varney, who came to Gonic from Merrill's Cor- 
 ner, Farmington, in 1838, and is still living in the village, occupied 
 it for some years, and after him W. H. Y. Burnham had it till about 
 1853, when Enoch "W. Gray took it. Since Gray's death, in 1874, 
 the store has been managed by his widow, Mrs. Maria Gray. The 
 building is now owned by Meshach T. Drew. In 1873 Nahum 
 Yeaton, now Yeaton & Co., came from Rollinsford and went into 
 the brick business, and in a few years took the Whitehouse brick 
 store. Since then he has become a prosperous business man and an 
 influential citizen. He married Helen Sawyer, daughter of Hon. 
 Thomas E. Sawyer of Dover. 
 
 M. A. Hanson, a native of Madbur}-, after having been in busi- 
 ness for a time in Maine, came to Gonic in 1881, and started a 
 shoe manufactory on the Barrington road. He employed about 
 fifty hands with a pay-roll of about $1,000 per month, and an 
 annual production of twelve hundred cases, valued at $50,000. 
 In October, 1888, he sold to K B. Thayer & Co., and removed 
 to Charlottesville, Va., the following April. Thayer remained 
 only a short time and went to Milton. 
 
 Brick-making was one of the earliest as well as most important 
 industries of Rochester. There are signs of brickyards long since 
 disused scattered all over the town, indicating that the early set- 
 tlers opened a yard wherever a clay-bank cropped out, to supply 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 501 
 
 the wants of the immediate neighborhood. Naturally the clay-beds 
 at Squamanagonic (p. 14), were very early utilized for this purpose 
 — how early it is impossible to say. Two yards have certainly 
 been continuously operated for more than a hundred years : — the 
 one near Walker's bridge, and the other near the bridge in Gonic. 
 Seventy-five years ago the former was known as the " Hoyt yard," 
 from the man who worked it; and the other as the " Gonic brick- 
 yard." A man by the name of Hurd carried it on about that 
 time, and among the old-time brick-makers at this yard were also 
 Anthony Pickering, Aaron Clarke, and Israel Varney, Fifty years 
 ago N. V. Whitehouse operated it for a number of years. Since 
 then it has been carried on by various parties, changing almost 
 every year. E. D. & H. H. Elliott, brothers, took the " Hoyt yard " 
 in 1880, and are still doing a large business. Ritchie & Osborne 
 have two brickyards with an annual product of several millions. 
 In 1873 E'ahum Yeaton started a new brickyard near the Boston 
 & Maine Railroad depot, and has been very successful. Anderson 
 & Cochrane have three yards producing annually some ten million 
 brick. The Richardson yard near the Nashua railroad also does 
 a large business. The annual brick product of Rochester is more 
 than thirty millions, which is claimed to be " more than in any 
 other town in New Hampshire, and with one exception, perhaps, 
 than in any other town in New England." 
 
 Mills were early established at Gonic, but there seems to be no 
 data from which to determine when the first mill was built. Mr. 
 Henderson, mentioned above, remembered hearing of a great 
 freshet which carried away the upper saw-mill in 1785. It was 
 soon rebuilt, to be again swept away in 1805. The grist-mill at 
 the upper fall was rebuilt early in the century by Ebenezer Teb- 
 betts and Samuel Downing, and again in 1825 by Tebbetts and 
 Richmond Henderson, who put in a carding machine. Elijah 
 Roberts was the master builder, and Levi Leighton of Farmington 
 built the saw-mill. He put in the first wheel to run the carriage 
 back that was ever known in this vicinity. " Before that they 
 used to tread back with the feet." Mr. Henderson also remem- 
 bered his father's sawing in " an old rickety mill," when he could 
 lie down and take a nap while the saw was cutting a run. 
 
 Some facts in regard to the woolen manufacture at Gonic have 
 already been given (p. 359). 
 
502 ROCHESTER. 
 
 THE GONIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 
 
 BY HON. CHARLES S. WHITEHOUSE. 
 
 Amona; the many industries that give character to the town of 
 Rochester and contribute to its material prosperity and influence, 
 woolen manufacture stands pre-eminent. From small beginnings 
 it has grown and expanded to proportions large and beneficent. 
 Woolen factories as they exist at the present time, especially like 
 the mills in Rochester, are seldom large concerns at the start. 
 They are oftener the product of some modest enterprise, and grow 
 from small beginnings, expanding and widening their power and 
 influences as their projectors gain in experience; and when man- 
 aged with skill, tact, and perseverance become a source of profit 
 to the owners and great benefit to the community. 
 
 The natural water powers of Norway Plains, East Rochester, 
 and Gonic have been greatly developed in the last thirty years. 
 To-day the three corporations in town give direct employment to 
 a thousand operatives, disburse more than a quarter of a million 
 dollars every year for labor alone, use nearly three and a half 
 million pounds of wool, and produce a variety of goods valued 
 not less than two million dollars annually. The indirect benefit 
 to this community derived from such an industry is beyond esti- 
 mate. The employment of so many people and the monthly dis- 
 bursement of so much money naturally draws within the circle of 
 its influence many other industries of great good to the public. 
 It gives employment to hundreds in other vocations, makes a 
 home market for the products of the farm and shop, stimulates 
 other industries, increases the population, and in its train brings 
 improved schools, more churches, greater intelligence, higher civ- 
 ilization, and consequently enlarged facilities for enjoyment and 
 happiness. Their permanency, when once established, is another 
 important consideration in estimating their public value. Unlike 
 many other industries, when once put in operation they must be 
 kept going. They cannot start up and run when business is good, 
 and shut down when depressed to wait for improved times. Once 
 started they must be kept going, or bankruptcy to the immediate 
 owners is the result. The large and expensive buildings and 
 motive power required, the great variety of costl}' machinery 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 503 
 
 used, the innumerable details which a first-class establishment 
 demands, and more than all else the skilled labor which is neces- 
 sary in the diiferent departments and which requires many years 
 to collect and educate, — all this and these contribute to a woolen 
 mill's stability and permanence. Hence large capital is necessary 
 to carry a concern along through dull times, shrewd business 
 capacity and constant familiarity with the daily fluctuation in prices 
 in order to purchase raw materials to advantage, good judgment 
 in forecasting the wants of the market, and above and over all 
 a constant, unwearied vigilance and oversight in all the complicated 
 details of manufacturing is absolutely essential to success. What 
 a debt of obligation does the town owe to the pioneers in this 
 industry, as well as to their successors who have continued this 
 source of prosperity to its people! Such men as Nicholas V. 
 "Whitehouse, John D. Sturtevant, ITathaniel D. Wetmore, Isaac 
 W". Springfield, John Hall, and the firm of Parker, Wilder & Co. 
 of Boston, and men like these, are more than successful business 
 men, they are public benefactors. 
 
 The Gonic Manufacturing Company (an illustration of the prin- 
 cipal buildings of which is shown) was the second in town to 
 develop into a woolen factory, the Norway Plains Company being 
 the first. As a producer of woolen goods for the general market 
 it dates back to 1838. Prior to that time, and in fact up to 1848, 
 the water power was used largely for a saw-mill, grist-mill, and 
 some other industries required by the wants of the immediate 
 neighborhood. From 1840 to 1848 two sets of machinery were 
 run, making satinets and bockhigs, but mainly woolen fiaunels. 
 In 1848 the whole concern was swept away by fire. In the 
 year following, however, a new mill was built and equipped 
 with four sets of machinery to make woolen flannels exclusively. 
 From this date to 1859 it was owned and managed by the late 
 N. V. Whitehouse, but that year an act of incorporation was ob- 
 tained, with a capital of |50,000, the Whitehouse family and the 
 firm of Parker, Wilder & Co, being its stockholders. IST. V. 
 Whitehouse was its first president, and Samuel B. Rindge and 
 Marshall P. Wilder, with himself, were the directors. Mr. White- 
 house was its agent and so continued till 1877, when the whole 
 interest of the concern merged into the possession of Parker, 
 Wilder & Co., its present owners. From 1848 to 1859 there were 
 
504 ROCHESTER. 
 
 many improvements made, and many additions to the buildings and 
 machinery. A great variety of goods were produced, principally 
 flannels. The mill built in 1849, and still standing, was quite a pre- 
 tentious affair for those days. The bricks were made in the present 
 mill yard, and the lumber cut in Strafford and the immediate vicin- 
 ity. It is fifty-one feet wide, eighty-one long, and three stories high, 
 besides basement storj^ and spacious attic. The wool-scouring and 
 finishing was done in the basement, the weaving in the first story, 
 spinning in the second, picking and carding in the third, while the 
 attic was used for storage of wool. Such were its uses when first 
 started up. Since then its uses have been radically changed by 
 reason of building the large mill, and a consequent re-arrangement 
 of the machinery. In the years 1863-65 very extensive improve- 
 ments were projected, such as excavating a canal race-way below 
 the falls, by which the fall of water was increased about three feet, 
 two granite wheel-pits constructed, and the foundation laid for 
 the large mill on the river bank. This foundation is very sub- 
 stantial, commencing nine feet below the surface of the ground, 
 six feet wide at the bottom, and three feet at the top, built of 
 solid granite blocks laid in cement. On the foundation is the 
 granite underpinning on which is the ])rick-work. The main 
 building is fifty-four feet wide, one hundred and twenty long, and 
 four stories high, each story eleven feet six inches high, the whole 
 connected with the old or 1849 mill by a wing thirty-four by 
 sixty-four feet. An octagon stair-tower fourteen feet in diameter 
 gives access to the several stories in the large mill. The brick 
 walls are built with pilasters between the windows, and are of 
 unusual thickness in order to give solidity and strength, the first 
 and second stories being twenty inches thick, the third sixteen, 
 and the fourth twelve. The roof is flat, covered with tar and 
 gravel. It is admirably lighted, having no less than forty-eight 
 windows in each story with twenty-four lights of 10X14 glass to 
 each window, and there being no contiguous buildings or trees, 
 it is " light as out doors." It is safe to say it is as fair a specimen 
 of a woolen mill of its size as exists anywhere, — solid, substantial, 
 light, and convenient. At the end of the wing where it connects 
 with the old mill is the substantial wheel-house, in which are two 
 powerful turbine wheels, thirty-six inches in diameter, under nine- 
 teen feet " head and fall," capable of furnishing about one hundred 
 
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BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 505 
 
 and fifty horse power, sufficient for driving all the machinery. A 
 large steam engine, however, of 175 horse power is provided for 
 times of low water, or in case of any derangement of the water 
 wheels. Within the past ten years, under the present ownership, 
 many important alterations, improvements, and additions have been 
 made, resulting in increased production, better processes of man- 
 ufacture, and consequently a higher standard of excellence in the 
 goods. As at present arranged, the wool-sorting, the scouring and 
 drying of both wool and cloth, the burling, brushing, pressing, 
 and packing, besides the running of forty-four broad looms, is done 
 in the old mill. The picking of the scoured wool is done in the 
 upper story of the wing, by a large Sargent burring machine, and 
 ordinary wool-picker. The card-room is in the third story of the 
 large mill and contains twelve sets of Davis & Furber machines, 
 three cards to a set, and averages from 1,500 to 1,600 pounds of 
 roving a day. The spinning is done in the second and fourth 
 stories in both large mill and wing, on nineteen self-operating 
 mules and jacks with 4,880 spindles, turning off an average of 
 1,450 pounds of fine yarn a day. The spooling and dressing of 
 warps is done on the first and second floor of the wing. The 
 weaving, besides the forty-four looms in the old mill, is by forty- 
 eight looms on the first floor of the large mill, a large part being 
 of the Knowles pattern with drop-box at each end of the lay, and 
 from two to twenty-four harnesses to each. The brick boiler-house, 
 46X56 feet, was built in 1883, and has two six-foot boilers fur- 
 nishing steam for heating the building and for all the various 
 processes of scouring and finishing the goods, and having sufficient 
 capacity to run the engine when required. A dry-house 30X90 
 feet was built in 1886, and a wool and cloth scouring building 
 52X72 feet in 1889, both fully equipped with every facility for 
 doing first class work. A large storehouse, 45X105 feet, two 
 stories high, is used for the storage of stock and supplies. On the 
 opposite side of the river is the machine and repair shop and lum- 
 ber shed, while on the old Currier privilege, a short distance below, 
 is a mill for sawing lumber and making the cases for the goods. 
 A powerful steam pump, and another connected with the water 
 wheels, with stand-pipes, sprinklers, and an ample supply of hose, 
 aflTords the necessary protection against fire. Everything in and 
 about the mills is of the best, — every appliance to increase the 
 
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506 KOCHESTER. 
 
 production or perfect the quality of the goods has been adopted, 
 and everything for the comfort, safety, and convenience of the 
 operatives is provided for. 
 
 The goods made are designed largely for women's wear and 
 comprise an endless variety of shades, colors, and mixes, and have 
 an excellent reputation in the markets of the country. The yearly 
 production is over 900,000 yards, valued at nearly §400,000. The 
 consumption of raw wool is over 700,000 pounds a year, all of fine 
 grade. More than $20,000 worth of drugs and dyes are consumed 
 yearly. The number of names on the pay-roll will average about 
 one hundred and eighty, with $5,000 monthly wages. Payment 
 is made every two weeks. The six or eight different departments 
 are managed by as many different overseers, Stephen C. Meader 
 being the resident agent. Besides the mills, the company have 
 thirty neat and attractive tenements for the use of the operatives 
 and a fine residence for its agent. The grounds about the mills 
 and the agent's house are nicely graded and all the surroundings 
 kept neat and clean. The owners give generously to all local 
 charities and public improvements and show a wise and liberal 
 interest in everything that conduces to the prosperity and welfare 
 of the village and its people. 
 
 The first oflicials of the company were N. V. Whitehouse, Mar- 
 shall P. Wilder, and Samuel B. Rindge, directors; Ezra Farns- 
 worth being treasurer, and Charles S. Whitehouse, clerk. N. V. 
 Whitehouse was also agent, and continued a director till 1877. 
 Benjamin Phipps was made treasurer in November, 1868, and has 
 held the position ever since. Ezra Farnsworth succeeded K V. 
 Whitehouse as a director, and in 1881 the venerable Marshall P. 
 Wilder retired and was succeeded by William H. Sherman. May 3, 
 1883, Samuel B. Rindge died, and Col. Francis J. Parker of Boston 
 succeeded him. The present oflicials are therefore Ezra Farns- 
 worth, William H. Sherman, and Francis J. Parker, directors; 
 Benjamin Phipps, treasurer; and Stephen C. IVIeader, clerk and 
 agent. 
 
 For nearly fifty years the firm of Parker, Wilder & Co. has 
 been an important factor in the town's progress. Their capital 
 has helped make Gonic and East Rochester two thriving villages. 
 Their wise methods and discreet management have established a 
 great industry on a permanent basis. Their business integrity and 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 507 
 
 individual prominence have reflected credit on the town. Rochester 
 may well congratulate itself that such men are identified with its 
 business prosperity. 
 
 This sketch would be incomplete without special mention of 
 one whose whole life has been spent in the employ of the Gonic 
 company, and to whose conscientious faithfulness the present stand- 
 ing of the company is in no small degree indebted. Stephen 
 Chase Meader, the present agent, comes of a family who for four 
 generations have been prominent and worthy citizens of Rochester. 
 
 John Meader, the ancestor of all American Headers, came from 
 England in 1650, and settled at Oyster river, between Portsmouth 
 and Dover, where he had a land grant, in 1656. One of his sons, 
 Nathaniel, who was killed by the Indians in 1704, had a son Daniel 
 among others, and seven at least of Daniel's sons settled in Roch- 
 ester about 1750-60. At first came Benjamin, Nathaniel, Elijah, 
 and Jonathan, and took up lands in that part of the town known 
 ever since as Meaderborough. A few years later they were fol- 
 lowed by Joseph, Lemuel, and Jedediah, who settled in the imme- 
 diate vicinity of the other brothers. Some of the other descend- 
 ants of Nathaniel and his son Daniel about this time (1750-60) 
 went to Nantucket and settled there. Benjamin, the son of Daniel 
 mentioned above, had a son Stephen, who was the grandfather of 
 the subject of this sketch. Stephen was born at Rochester in 1782, 
 and lived on the farm near Meaderborough Corner, which is still 
 in the possession of his son Benjamin. He married Sarah White- 
 house and had a large family of children : — Tobias, Hanson, 
 Jonathan, Levi, Asa, Mehitable, and Benjamin. He died March 
 20, 1858. He was a firm disciple of the Society of Friends or 
 Quakers, as nearly all the Meaders have been, — a kind-hearted, 
 estimable man and neighbor, a worthy, influential citizen, and a 
 true and stanch friend. 
 
 Levi, the fourth son of Stephen, was born in Rochester, February 
 4, 1813, and married Amanda Eastman of Peacham, Vt., in 1837. 
 Their children were Stephen C, Valentine E., Charles H., Sarah 
 F., George E., Julia E., John E., and Walter S. He was a genial- 
 hearted man, full of a sly humor which bubbled over in spite of 
 himself. He enjoyed a joke or witticism keenly, and was quick 
 with a rejoinder. Sturdily built, possessed of an iron constitution 
 and great physical strength, he liked nothing better than to lay 
 
508 ROCHESTER. 
 
 aside for tlie time bis Quaker coat and have a friendly wrestling 
 bout witb wboever bad tbe temerity to " tackle bim/' and seldom 
 came off second. He took great interest in town afi'airs, and was 
 an energetic and influential worker in politics. He was twice 
 elected to represent tbe town in tbe State Legislature. He died 
 September 25, 1885. 
 
 Stephen C, tbe subject of tbis sketcb, was born in Rocbester 
 December 14, 1840, and during boybood lived on tbe farm witb 
 bis parents, attending tbe district scbool and laying tbe foundation 
 of a strong, bealtby pbysique. Wben be was about fourteen years 
 old bis fatber moved to Gonic village, in part to get better edu- 
 cational advantages for bis large family. Here young Stepben, in 
 tbe intervals of tbe village scbools, worked in tbe mill. In 1857 
 be entered tbe Friends' scbool in Providence, Rbode Island, wbere 
 be remained nearly four years. He was a diligent student, excell- 
 ing in matbematics and cbemistry. He bas always bad a strong 
 love for tbe latter, and had be continued in tbis line would bave 
 made a reputation as a practical cbemist. In 1861 be completed 
 his scbool life at Providence, returned to Gonic and entered the 
 mill in the employ of the late IST. V. Whitebouse, working in 
 various parts of the mill, but principally in tbe finishing and dyeing 
 rooms. From tbis time forward bis mastery of tbe details of 
 manufacturing was rapid. His methodical habits and quick insight 
 into the various processes, united to good judgment and faithful- 
 ness, hastened bis promotion to dyer, finisher, superintendent, and 
 finally, to tbe position of agent, to which last place he was for- 
 mally appointed in June, 1881. 
 
 Like bis father and bis brother John, he bas been twice elected 
 to represent the town in tbe State Legislature. The prominent 
 points of bis character are quiet, unobtrusive ways, decision, firm- 
 ness, and a conscientious regard to duty; always seeking for tbe 
 best results and shaping the means at his command witb excellent 
 judgment to obtain them; constantly alive to the requirements of 
 tbe position be holds, and of indefatigable industry and persever- 
 ance. While holding to the ancient faith of a long line of ances- 
 tors as a member of tbe Quaker fraternit}', be is liberal to all 
 religious denominations, and a generous contributor to the support 
 of tbe village church. He is a judicious helper in all educational 
 and moral purposes for the good of the community in which he 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 509 
 
 lives. In the prime of a matured manhood, his future usefuhiess 
 to the town, his associates, and his family, can only be measured 
 by the years he may live. He married Effie Seavey of Rochester, 
 September 20, 1870, and has one child, Gertrude, born June 18, 
 
 1876. 
 
 The Union Hotel at Gonic was originally a small dwelling- 
 house with an addition used as a village store, built perhaps as 
 early as 1840. In 1854, and perhaps before, Enoch W. Gray 
 occupied it as a dwelling and store. He sold it to Downing Varney, 
 who some time prior to 1860 sold it to Moody Cavender. Cavender 
 used it as a boarding-house for factory operatives till 1861, when 
 he enlarged the buildings, and opened the " Union Hotel." After 
 three or four years he sold to his brother-in-law, John W. Varney, 
 who further enlarged and improved it, continuing it as a hotel 
 and boarding-house until his death, October 1, 1877. Varney was 
 a jovial, genial-hearted man, witty and bright, and made the house 
 very popular. After his death it had John E. Header, Frank 
 Drew, and John "W". Foss as landlords at different times. In 
 December, 1881, the Gonic Manufacturing Company bought the 
 property, and have since used it principally as a boarding-house, 
 still keeping it open as a hotel. Since they took the house. Phi- 
 lander Varney has been the landlord, and has a well-earned rep- 
 utation for hospitality. 
 
 A postofiice was established at Gonic, January 28, 1851, with 
 Charles S. Whitehouse as postmaster. His successors in office 
 have been as follows : — Downing Varney, appointed December 
 27, 1856 ; Henry W. Locke, August 2, 1861 ; E. F. Whitehouse, 
 March 13, 1862 ; Charles S. Whitehouse, October 2, 1865 ; Frank 
 H. Gray, July 29, 1885; and Charles M. Home, May 13, 1889. 
 The gross receipts of this office from March 5 to June 30, 1851, 
 were $36.75; from July 1 to September 30, 1889, $148.56. In 
 1889 there were received at this office the following periodicals : — 
 21 dailies; 317 weeklies; 27 monthlies; and 100 transient. 
 
510 ROCHESTER. 
 
 EAST ROCHESTER. 
 
 A saw and grist mill was built here by the early settlers, and 
 owned in twenty-four shares of a day's work each. In 1825 Ste- 
 phen Shorey {p. 282) began running the mill. He had married a 
 Corson, and the Corsons and Shoreys together owned several 
 shares. The mill was a good deal run down, and many of the 
 owners valued it but little. Jeremiah H. Woodman bought up a 
 majority of the shares and compelled the rest to repair. He then 
 sold to the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, and they bought 
 out the other owners. About 1834 they let it to Abram Folsom, 
 who began the manufacture of chairs. Deacon Shorey, who had 
 built a new saw and grist mill in 1836, bought out Folsom's lease 
 in 1845, and continued the chair business for about twenty years, 
 making from three to four thousand chairs a year. In 1855 the 
 mill was burned, and by permission of the Great Falls Company, 
 Deacon Shorey rebuilt, owning the building himself. The new 
 mill was three stories high and one hundred and four feet long. 
 In 1862 it was changed into a cotton mill, of which Shorey owned 
 one half, but sold soon after. The business was carried on by 
 Oren W. Davis, Hatch Downs, and Charles W. Willey. When 
 cotton went up in war time, they sold what they had and began 
 on woolens, but not succeeding, sold out to the Cocheco Company 
 in 1868. Stephen Shorey built another saw-mill further down 
 the river in 1862, which he soon after sold to the same company. 
 
 John Hall and I. W. Springfield built a mill on the Maine side 
 of the river, about 1850, beginning with one set of machinery. 
 After a few years Mr. Hall left, and Mr. Springfield continued 
 the business, increasing the machinery to three sets, and was burnt 
 out in 1857. 
 
 When Stephen Shorey came here in 1825, the only house in 
 East Rochester was that of Elijah Tibbitts. At his death in 1879, 
 it had become a thriving village of six hundred inhabitants. 
 
 Stephen Shorey had a " country store " in his house as early 
 as 1843. In 1864 he built a store which he sold in 1867 to 
 Shackford Hart. He was followed in 1869 by Mr. Swett, who 
 sold after one year to James Walker, from Great Falls, who is 
 doing a large business. Stephen Shorey also opened a grocery 
 store in 1853, and was followed by Charles W. Brown who sold 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 511 
 
 to Herbert T. McCrillis in 1881. George L. Hayes opened a 
 grocery store as agent for F. Ayer & Co. of Boston about 1877. 
 In 1887 Mr. Hayes built a store and has a flourishing business. 
 The old stand is occupied by Abbott & Webber. A drug store 
 was opened in 1877 by Stephen F. Shorey. In 1879 E. L. Faunce 
 began business in dry and fancy goods, which his widow contin- 
 ued till 1885, and then sold to A. L. Richards, Mrs, Annie S. 
 Smith from Farmington opened a millinery shop in 1888. H. 
 Kimball had a fruit and confectionery store which he sold to W, 
 W. Sinclair in 1887. 
 
 A. S. Towle set up the business of carriage and sleigh making 
 in 1880. In 1888 Jennings & Stevens from Epping came to East 
 Rochester and started a box-shop and general lumber business. 
 They use about a thousand feet a day for boxes 
 
 In the fall of 1873 the citizens of East Rochester met at Eben 
 Varney's store, and decided to build a shoe-factory, with shares at 
 one hundred dollars each. Eben Yarney, Stephen Shorey, and 
 Bryant Peavey took five shares each, and John W. Tibbetts three 
 shares. Other subscribers increased the number to fifty-six, fifty- 
 one of which were eventually paid in. The building was erected 
 the following spring, at a cost of |8,688.73. About a year later 
 Manny & All of Boston hired it with the understanding that they 
 should have it rent free for five years, provided they would stay 
 so long, and carry on a certain amount of business. But after 
 running about six months they failed, and the building lay idle 
 for nearly three years. In October, 1878, John D, Fogg of Spring- 
 vale, Me., and Heurj^ J. Vinal of Boston, Mass., bought the concern 
 for $2,500, and began the manufacture of Alaska boots, employing 
 about fifty hands. The pay-roll was then about |2,000 a month, 
 and rose to $8,700 a month in 1888. The business of the first 
 year was $80,000 ; for 1888 it was $260,000. In 1883 the building 
 was enlarged one third, and $20,000 worth of new machinery put 
 in. In ^November, 1888, a business connection was made with 
 E. & A, Mudge of Boston, In the Fall of 1889 the factory was 
 closed, and the business removed to Springvale, Me, 
 
 John D. Fogg was born at Deerfield, March 1, 1842; married, 
 October 19, 1870, Phebe S. Yeazie of Quincy, Mass. He M^as for 
 several years in the shoe business at Springvale, Me., before coming 
 to East Rochester, He has built eight houses in this village, which 
 owes much to his enterprise and energy. 
 
512 ROCHESTER. 
 
 THE COCHECO MILLS, EAST ROCHESTEE, N. H. 
 
 BY EVERETT M. SINCLAIR, ESQ. 
 
 In 1862 John Hall came to this village, and after some talk 
 with Stephen Shorey it was settled that Shorey should build a 
 mill, and Hall would hire the building and put in woolen ma- 
 chinery. Mr. Shorey had long entertained a hope that a woolen 
 mill might be in successful operation here, and had tried to per- 
 suade I. W. Springfield to locate in this place instead of Wolfe- 
 borough. Shortly after the conversation with Mr. Hall he began 
 work on the canal, and having erected the building now known 
 as 'No. 1 Mill, Mr. Hall hired the same for a term of ten years, 
 and placed therein four sets of woolen machinery. In November, 
 1862, the machinery was put into the mill; the first wool was 
 carded in December; the first loom started January 1, 1863, and 
 in February the first finished goods were sent to market. 
 
 At this time Samuel B. Rindge, of the firm of Parker, Wilder 
 & Co., Boston, suggested to Mr. Hall the idea of forming a stock 
 company. After consultation with IST. V. Whitehouse of Gonic, 
 it was decided to carry this suggestion into efiect, and a com- 
 pany was formed, consisting of John Hall, J^. V. Whitehouse, 
 S. B. Rindge, 0. S. Whitehouse, E. F. Whitehouse, Larkin Har- 
 rington, and Jonathan Overand. On petition of the above-named 
 gentlemen, the Legislature granted an act of incorporation to carry 
 on the woolen business under the name of the Cocheco Woolen 
 Manufacturing Company. Their first meeting was held in the 
 little old counting room on July 30, 1863, to accept the act of 
 incorporation, which was passed June 24, and to adopt by-laws, 
 elect oflicers, etc. N. V. AV^hitehouse, John Hall, and S. B. Rindge 
 were chosen directors; Benjamin Phipps, of the firm of Parker, 
 Wilder & Co., treasurer; and Larkin Harrington, clerk. The 
 first annual meeting was held November 19, at which the ofiicers 
 and stockholders were all present. The report showed that dur- 
 ing the year they had purchased of Stephen Shorey the mill and 
 all the stock and fixtures, together with much of the land whereon 
 the i)lant now rests. After the meeting adjourned they repaired 
 to the boarding-house kept by Mrs. Maria Parshley, and sat down 
 to their first annual dinner. Of those present that day, only three 
 
BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 513 
 
 are now living, John Hall, C. S. Whiteliouse, and Benjamin 
 Phipps, the latter of whom has been elected treasurer for twenty- 
 six consecutive years, and has been present at every annual meeting. 
 This can be said of no other officer or stockholder. Col. C. S. 
 Whiteliouse is the only one of the original seven who retains an 
 interest in the mills, Mr. Hall having sold out several 3^ears ago. 
 
 Jonathan Overand and E. F. Whitehouse were both removed 
 by death in the month of August, 1865. Mr. Overand was killed 
 by falling from an open door-way in the attic of the mill, a heavy 
 warp beam, which he was rolling to the door, falling with him. 
 He lived but two hours after being taken to his home, and his 
 was the first grave dug in the new cemetery at Rochester. 
 
 Mr. Whitehouse was drowned near the Isles of Shoals on the 
 28th day of the same month (p. 366). N. Y. Whitehouse died 
 at his home in Gonic, J^ovember 21, 1878 (p. 364). 
 
 Samuel B. Rindge, the principal owner, died at his home in 
 Cambridge, Mass., May 3, 1883, of congestion of the brain. Mr. 
 Rindge was born in that city December 26, 1820, and when but 
 sixteen years of age entered the employ of Parker, Blanchard & 
 Wilder of Boston, and by close application to work, and faithful- 
 ness to the interests of his employers, he was admitted as partner 
 in the concern. At the time of his death he held many important 
 and responsible positions in the business world. He was a man 
 of sterling qualities and untiring industry. His judgment in busi- 
 ness affairs was seldom at fault, and his advice was much sought 
 after by others. He was honest and faithful in the discharge of 
 €very duty which lay before him, and true to every obligation 
 which he assumed. To all men he was ever kind and courteous, 
 and the humblest workman always found in him a friend. He 
 was truly a benefactor to the poor and unfortunate, and no more 
 sincere mourners at his death were found than among the oper- 
 atives in the Cocheco Mills. At the time of his death he had 
 accumulated a property estimated at one and one half millions. 
 
 Larkin Harrington died at his home in Lexington, Mass., August 
 7, 1886. He was born at that place April 17, 1826. November 
 22, 1864, he married Miss Elizabeth L. Chesley of Rochester. 
 Mr. Harrington came to East Rochester in the spring of 1863, 
 and, as already stated, was elected clerk of the company. He took 
 a lively interest in educational, moral, and religious works. He 
 was the postmaster in this village during a part of 1870-71. In 
 
514 ROCHESTER. 
 
 1865 he built the house where J. T>. Fogg now resides. On ac- 
 count of poor health he resigned the position of clerk and pay- 
 master of the Cocheco Woolen Manufacturing Company in No- 
 vember, 1874, and at the annual meeting on the 19th of that 
 month, Sidney B. Hayes was elected to that position, which he 
 still holds. In 1864 the company built ]^o. 2 Mill, of brick, and 
 put in four more sets of machinery, which were put in operation 
 in January, 1865. Prior to this time many of the tenement houses 
 had been built, but owing to an increase of their work it was 
 thought best to build more, and otfer inducements to overseers and 
 help to build houses of their own, as dwelling-houses in the village 
 were very scarce at that time. In 1868 they iitted up the saw-mill 
 and chair-factory which they bought of Stephen Shorey in 1863, 
 and added still another four sets of machinery. This is known 
 as No. 3 Mill, and the work carried on is carding, spinning, and 
 weaving, the finishing being done at No. 2 Mill. At the head 
 of the canal is also situated the box factory and planing-mill, where 
 are made the boxes, or cases, in which the goods are shipped. 
 Since No. 3 Mill was put into operation six more sets of ma- 
 chinery have been placed in Nos. 1 and 2 Mills, making eighteen 
 sets in all. One hundred and six broad looms are employed to 
 do the weaving. On the class of goods now manufactured about 
 nine thousand pounds of the finished product are turned ofiT weekly. 
 
 John Hall held the position of agent from the organization of 
 the company until July, 1875, when he resigned, and C. S. "White- 
 house was appointed in his place. During the time Mr. White- 
 house was agent many improvements were made about the grounds 
 and buildings. The row of fine maples on Front street was set 
 out under his direction, making the street one of the most beau- 
 tiful in the village. Mr. Hall went abroad, and was gone five 
 years. On his return May 5, 1880, he was again appointed agent, 
 Mr. Whitehouse having resigned some time previous. Mr. Hall 
 held the position this time but two years, resigning July 31, 1882, 
 and Charles E. Manson was appointed in his place, having served 
 two years as superintendent. Thomas H. Gotts was superinten- 
 dent under Mr. Manison until January 1, 1884, at which time 
 Everett M. Sinclair was elected to that position, which he still 
 holds. 
 
 In 1884 the company built the new brick counting room which 
 th ey now occupy, and in 1886 the large brick weaving shed was 
 
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BUSINESS OF ROCHESTER. 515 
 
 erected. The roof is self-supported, so that the weave-room pre- 
 sents an uninterrupted view 168X72 feet. 
 
 There are six persons now employed by the company whose 
 names appeared on the first pay-roll, in January, 1863, and are 
 as follows : — Francis Gotts, Richard Bocock, Charles A. Jones, 
 Lavina (Knipe) Smith, Clara Gotts, and Mary J. Rogers. Francis 
 Gotts and Charles A. Jones have never left the employ of the 
 company from that time to this, and the others have only been 
 out for a short time. The first pay-roll contained sixty-seven 
 names and amounted to |1,000 for a month. It now contains 
 two hundred and twenty-five names, and for the same length of 
 time amounts to $6,700. 
 
 The first overseers were as follows : — Carding, Thomas Ingham ; 
 spinning, James G. Jones; weaving, Jonathan Overand; dyeing, 
 Charles F. Parker ; finishing, John Ashworth ; wool-sorting, Fran- 
 cis Gotts. At the present time they are as follows : — Carding, 
 "W. H. Adams and W. H. Loud ; spinning, J. R. Agnew and 
 Corydon Sleeper ; weaving, S. T. Sinclair and G. E. Manson ; 
 finishing, F. R. Bean ; dyeing, J. O'Donnell ; dressing, E. H. 
 Davis ; sorting, Francis Gotts ; picking, Andrew McElroy ; repairs, 
 Joy W. Barker. 
 
 On January 1, 1887, the Rindge Relief Fund was established. 
 This was the generous gift of Frederick H. Rindge, son of S. B. 
 Rindge, who, on the date above mentioned, placed in the hands 
 of trustees elected by the operatives, the sum of $5,000, with a 
 promise to add $1,000 annually, so long as the conditions mentioned 
 in a circular, were adhered to. The conditions were that all opera- 
 tives in the employ of the company at that time, and who from 
 that time should live virtuous, temperate, and industrious lives, 
 and from any cause should be unable to earn the necessities of 
 life, should receive benefits from the fund. The trustees elected at 
 that time were F. W. Corson, S. T. Sinclair, and Thomas Ingham. 
 
 In the summer of 1887 the company fitted up the old counting 
 room for a reading room and library, and gave the free use of 
 same, furnishing fuel for heating, so long as it should be used for 
 the purpose above mentioned. The counting room was built in 
 1866, shortly after IN'o. 2 Mill was completed, and Avhen the new 
 brick oflice was built in 1884 the old one was hauled to Main street, 
 opposite the Glendon House, and contains as fine a reading room 
 
516 ROCHESTER. 
 
 and library as is often found in larger places. It is supported by 
 the public. 
 
 The company have eight single and thirteen double tenements, 
 and two blocks containing eight and four tenements each. 
 
 The Glendon House was opened at East Rochester in July, 1878, 
 by John W. Tibbetts, the present proprietor. Ten years later he 
 enlarged, puttiug in steam and other modern improvements. 
 
 A postoffice was established at East Rochester, June 2, 1863, 
 and Stephen F. Shorey appointed postmaster. His successors in 
 office have been as follows: — Moses S. Hurd, appointed April 13, 
 1865 ; S. S. Hart, July 8, 1867 ; Larkin Harrington, December 22, 
 1870 ; James Walker, May 16, 1871 ; A. H. Deland, September 1, 
 1885 ; Alphonso D. Gerrish, July 2, 1886 ; and Willis W. Sinclair, 
 March 19, 1888. The revenue of this office for the first year was 
 $34.99. In one quarter of 1889, there were sold $229 worth of 
 stamps ; 107 money orders were sent, amounting to $955 ; and 97 
 postal notes were issued. 
 
 GENERAL SUMMARY. 
 
 Besides the many large manufactories, five hotels, four railroads, 
 four banks, and three postoffices, accounts of which have already 
 been given, the following summary, though far from exact, will 
 serve to give a general impression of the business of Rochester 
 in 1890. Including the three villages, there are six dry goods 
 stores ; seven for millinery and fancy goods ; five for merchant 
 tailoring, clothing, and gentlemen's furnishings; five boot and 
 shoe stores; seventeen groceries; six meat markets; one fish 
 market; three bakeries; three restaurants; three fruit and con- 
 fectionery stores ; one candy manufactory ; two carpet stores ; two 
 hardware stores; two tin shops; several variety stores; five drug 
 stores; three jewelers; three dealers in coal, wood, hay, etc.; two 
 ice dealers; three laundries; two photographers; two harness 
 shops; one marble and monument shop; three express compa- 
 nies; and seven livery stables. These various establishments rep- 
 resent an annual business of not less than a million dollars. 
 Add to these the farming, banking, railroad, and various manu- 
 ufacturing interests, and the annual business of the whole town 
 cannot fall short of three or four millions. 
 
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CHAPTER Xyi. 
 
 POLITICAL. 
 
 " The freeman casting with unpurchased hand 
 The vote that shakes the pillars of th« land." 
 
 "The crowning fact. 
 The kingliest act 
 Of Freedom, is the freeman's vote." 
 
 We are told that our fathers came to found " a church without 
 a bishop, a state without a king," but evidently neither church 
 nor state can exist without some supreme authority from which 
 there is no appeal. Under Grod, whom they regarded as king of 
 kings both in church and in state, our fathers considered the 
 people themselves as supreme. They acknowledged no man or 
 body of men as their rulers. They permitted no authority to 
 come between themselves and God. The church was their model 
 for the state. As to them the highest and only human authority 
 in the Church was the local congregation of believers, so the 
 highest and only authority in the State was the Town Meeting. 
 Not Presidents, Governors, Judges, Legislatures, nor Congress, 
 but the People in their local meetings possess the supreme power 
 in our land. The town meeting is the only pure Democracy. 
 It is the fountain head of all law and authority in the I^Tation. 
 So while good citizens look with abhorrence on all attempts to 
 subvert justice in courts of law, or to change state or national 
 legislation by bribery or other corrupt methods, they are more 
 indignant to see the votes of the people in town meeting tam- 
 pered with by purchase, fraud, or intimidation. This is high treason 
 against the sovereignty of the people. As loyal subjects bare the 
 head in presence of their king, so all loyal citizens of our free 
 Republic should reverently recognize the majesty of the people 
 assembled to exercise their kingly rights in the town meeting. 
 
 The design of this chapter is to present the sovereign edicts of 
 the town of Rochester in the election of principal officers, and in 
 
518 ROCHESTEK. 
 
 votes upon subjects of special importance to Town, State, or Nation. 
 The political bias of tlie town from time to time is perhaps best 
 shown by a statement of the votes at each presidential election. 
 In 1788 ^ew Hampshire was entitled to five electors. The people 
 were not yet divided into parties. There were no nominating cau- 
 cuses, and consequently little or no concert of action. The vote 
 of the State was so scattered that there was no choice, and the 
 electors were chosen by the Legislature. Rochester cast thirty 
 votes, all of which were for John Sullivan, General Bellows, Gen- 
 eral Stark, General Reed, and General Cilley. Sullivan and Bel- 
 lows were among those elected by the Legislature, and all the 
 electors voted for Washington and Adams. The small vote of 
 Rochester was not wholly owing to unanimity of feeling for Wash- 
 ington, but to the fact that there were no working political organ- 
 izations. In voting for governor this same year the town had 
 cast 378 votes. It was not until the sixth Presidential election 
 that the vote for electors nearly equalled the Governor vote in 
 this town. There was no political excitement before the elections, 
 and but little allusion to the subject in the newspapers. In 1792 
 'New Hampshire had six electors. The Rochester vote was : — 
 Judge Thompson, 52 ; John McLuffee, 53 ; President Bartlett, 53 ; 
 General Bellows, 52 ; John T. Gilman, 45 ; Col. T. Badger, 28 ; 
 and General Cilley, 23. There was no choice and a second trial 
 took place November 12, when Rochester cast 22 votes each, for 
 President Bartlett, John T. Gilman, Benjamin Bellows, Jonathan 
 Freeman, John Pickering, and Ebenezer Thompson. Again there 
 was no choice, and the Legislature appointed the six just named, 
 all of whom voted for Washington and Adams. In 1796 the 
 "Republican" and "Federal" parties had become somewhat 
 organized although party lines were not strictly observed. The 
 Rochester vote stood as follows: — Ebenezer Thompson, Esq., 63; 
 General Bellows, 26; Governor Gilman, 26; Oliver Peabody, 14; 
 Timothy Farrar, Esq., 21; Joseph Badger, Jun., 16; Christopher 
 Tappan, Esq., 9: Bezaliel Woodward, Esq., 8 ; and John Godard, 
 Esq., 1. The last five of these were elected and voted for John 
 Adams and Oliver Ellsworth. For the Presidential election ot 
 1800 no vote of this town is on record. In 1804 the electors 
 chosen for New Hampshire voted for Thomas Jefiferson and George 
 Clinton, the Republican candidates, and the vote of Rochester was, 
 
POLITICAL, 519 
 
 Republican, 104; Federal, 24. In 1808 the state vote was given 
 to the Federal candidate, Charles E. Pinckney, but Rochester 
 voted 189 RepubHcan, and 61 Federal. In 1812 New Hampshire 
 chose eight electors who voted for De Witt Clinton, the Federal 
 candidate. Rochester cast 218 Republican, and 77 Federal votes. 
 In 1816 the vote of the State was given to the Republican candi- 
 date, James Monroe. Rochester voted 205 Republican, and 56 
 Federal. The time of the ninth Presidential election, in 1820, 
 has been called the "' era of good feeling," the whole electoral 
 vote being cast for James Monroe, except that of Governor Plumer 
 of New Hampshire, who voted for John Quincy Adams. He 
 explained his course by saying it was not from any dislike to 
 Monroe, but because he wished to prevent any other man than 
 Washington having the compliment of a unanimous vote. In 
 Rochester five candidates on the Republican ticket received 69 
 votes each ; William Plumer had 48 ; David Barker had 65 ; while 
 on the Federal ticket, Moses Hale had 20, William Hale 19, and 
 the rest one vote each. In 1824 John Quincy Adams received 
 the vote of New Hampshire, and the 73 votes of Rochester were 
 all cast for the Adams ticket. In 1828 the question was Adams 
 or Jackson, and there was more violent partisanship than ever 
 before. In Rochester the Adams party opened the " glorious 
 Fourth" with a salute of thirteen guns. Then a procession under 
 William G. Webster as marshal, escorted by the Artillery Com- 
 pany under Capt. William Hurd, marched to the old meeting- 
 house on the common, which had been profusely decorated for 
 the occasion. Hon. Nathaniel Upham was president of the day. 
 The exercises were opened with prayer by the Rev. Isaac Willey, 
 and were interspersed with select pieces of music. The "Decla- 
 ration" was read by John P. Hale. Hon. David Barker, Jr., 
 delivered an oration, afterwards published, in which he reviewed 
 the issues of the day, and the past and present condition of polit- 
 ical parties. The celebration closed with a sumptuous dinner at 
 Lowell Kenney's hall, followed by toasts and speeches from almost 
 everybody in Rochester, Barrington, and Farmington. The Adams 
 party carried the State, and though Rochester had voted for the 
 Jackson party by twenty majority in March, the Presidential vote 
 was 227 for Adams and 225 for Jackson. In 1832 the parties 
 had become definitely organized as Whigs and Democrats. The 
 
520 ROCHESTER. 
 
 State went for Jackson, and the Rochester vote was 239 Demo- 
 crat ; 165 Whig. In 1836 .there was very little interest, less than 
 half the voters taking part. Both State and town went Democratic, 
 the Rochester vote standing 175 for Yan Buren, and 22 for Har- 
 rison. In 1840 came the exciting campaign of "log cabin and 
 hard cider " memories, resulting in the usual Democratic victory 
 in the State, hut carrying the town 263 for Harrison against 229 
 for Van Buren. From this time the slavery question began to be 
 a prominent political issue. In 1844 the State went for Polk, 
 and the Rochester vote was Polk, 217; Clay, 215: and Birney, 39. 
 In 1848 the state vote was for Lewis Cass. Rochester voted 
 Democrat, 195; Whig, 147; Free Soil, 37; and Independent Dem- 
 ocrat, 9. In 1852 Franklin Pierce received the vote of the State, 
 and Rochester cast 269 votes for Pierce, 206 for Scott, and 64 
 for Hale. In 1856 the Democrats failed to carry the State for 
 the first time in twenty-five years, and from that time to the present 
 New Hampshire has voted for a Republican President. The 
 Rochester vote was 392 for Fremont, 309 for Buchanan, and 4 
 for Fillmore. Since then the Presidential votes in Rochester have 
 been as follows:— In 1860, Lincohi, 376; Douglas, 268; Breck- 
 inridge, 22; Bell, 2. In 1864, Lincoln, 404; McClellan, 343. In 
 1868, Grant, 479; Seymour, 318. In 1872, Grant, 456; Greeley, 
 340; Black, 20; O^Connor, 1. In 1876, Hayes, 669; Tilden, 556. 
 In 1880, Garfield, 806; Hancock, 583; Weaver, 34; Prohibition, 3. 
 In 1884, Blaine, 864 ; Cleveland, 615 ; St. John, 30 ; Butler, 18. In 
 1888, Harrison, 748 ; Cleveland, 783 ; Fisk, 29 ; Belva Lockwood, 2. 
 The following item from the " Rochester Courier " of October 
 5, 1888, is worthy of preservation in the political history of the 
 town : — 
 
 " Names of persons now residents of Rochester who voted for William H. 
 Harrison for President in 1840: — Elijah Brock, Eli Beede, Joseph Blaisdell, 
 Charles Bragdon, Joshua N. Gate, Jacob Clark, Sylvester Clark, Horatio G. 
 Corson, James H. Corson, Zimri Corson, Michael E. Corson, John Crockett, 
 Amasa Dame, John Estes, Hanson Evans, Solomon Evans, Thomas Fall, John 
 Folsom, Edmund Frye, Charles H. Furbush, John S. Gilman, Wenlworth Good- 
 win, Ephraim Hammett, Joseph M. Hanson, Samuel S. Hart, Charles T. Hart- 
 ford, David Hayes, William Hodsdon, George W. Hodsdon, Charles Hurd, 
 Jonas Hurd, Locke Howard, Lewis F. Home, Joshua R. Howard, George 
 Jenness, Stephen Jeuness, AVilliam A. Kimball, George Leightou, I. W. Lougee, 
 A. W. Mason, John McDuffee, Daniel Header, Asa Header, Tobias Header, 
 Bidfield Heserve, Larkin B. Moulton, James T. Nutter, John L. Nutter, Alphonso 
 J. Nutter, Willard Nutter, Locke Otis, James Page, Francis Plummer [died 
 before the election in 1888], H. N. Plummer, John Price, James Quimby, 
 
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POLITICAL. 521 
 
 Richard Togers, Samuel R., Roberts Ichabod Rowe, David J. Sanborn, Joseph 
 B. Sayward, Hiram W. Soruton, Nathaniel Shorey, John O. Sleeper, John L. 
 Swayne, Israel Tuttle, Eben Varney, Moses Wallingford, Hiram VVallace, John 
 Whipple, Warren Wadleigh. 
 
 "Air. George B. Roberts, who furnishes the above list of names of 1840 vet- 
 erans, although himself active and interested in the campaign at that time, 
 lacked one month of being old enough to vote. jNIr. Daniel Legro, also active 
 in that campaign, lacked sixteen days of being a voter, but both may well be 
 recorded with the veterans. Judge Edgerly and E. J. Mathes voted for Van 
 Buren in 1840, but both wdll vote for General Harrison in 1888. There may 
 be others of the same kind. We doubt if any town in the State can furnish 
 more names of 1840 voters than the above." 
 
 The Congressional elections occasioned little interest and no 
 excitement in the early history of the town. For ten years after 
 the adoption of the Federal Constitution, the highest vote for 
 Members of Congress was 83, and the average vote was rnneh 
 less. As early as 1786, the Governor vote was 378 ; yet as late 
 as 1800, at an election to fill a vacancy, the highest candidate for 
 Member of Congress received only 13 votes. It was not till about 
 1812 that candidates for Congress began to receive the full vote of 
 their respective parties. Owing to the lack of organization there 
 was frequently no election of the full number of Representatives. 
 Resignations were not unusual also, so that the people were often 
 called together for special elections to fill vacancies. 
 
 The general trend of political feeling in Rochester is seen in 
 the Presidential votes already given. It was only as the anti-slavery 
 conflict began to take form, gradually rousing the stolid and the 
 iuditferent to earnestness and activity, that political interest largely 
 centered on the Congressional elections. In 1843 John P. Hale, a 
 son of Rochester, was one of the Representatives elected to Con- 
 gress by the Democrats. But when that party gave their support to 
 the annexation of Texas and the extension of slavery, he refused to 
 vote with them. Consequently at the next election in 1845, they 
 threw him overboard and nominated John Woodbur}^ in his place. 
 Hale became the candidate of the Liberty party, but after three 
 trials the State was unable to elect any of the candidates, and the 
 seat remained vacant through the next Congress. In 1843, when 
 Mr. Hale was the regular Democratic candidate, he received 141 
 votes in Rochester, being eighteen less than the others on the same 
 ticket. At the regular election in March, 1845, the highest Whig 
 candidate received 175 votes, the highest Democratic candidate 211, 
 and Hale 177, mostly Democratic votes, which were divided be- 
 
 35 
 
522 ROCHESTER. 
 
 tween Hale and Woodbury. Owing to the split in the Democratic 
 party there was no election for this district. Three special elec- 
 tions were held with the same result, the Rochester vote being as 
 follows : — Sept. 13, 1845, Ichabod Goodwin, Whig, had 98 votes, 
 John Woodbury, Democrat, 114, and John P. Hale, Independent 
 Democrat, 74; Nov. 29, 1845, Goodwin 147, Woodbury 114, Hale 
 86; March 10, 1846, Goodwin 190, AVoodbury 183, Hale 81. 
 
 Under the aggressions of the slave power the growing anti-slav- 
 ery sentiment was gradually crystallizing into the Republican party. 
 In 1848 a public indignation meeting was held in Rochester, at 
 which resolutions were passed denouncing the annexation of Texas 
 and the Mexican war as unnecessarj' and unjust, and declaring that 
 Congress ought to grant no further supplies except for the safe with- 
 drawal of our troops. These resolutions were published and sent 
 to the New Hampshire members of Congress. 
 
 Until 1847 all the members of Congress to which the State was 
 entitled were voted for on one general ticket. Since then each Rep- 
 resentative District elects its own member. In 1788 New Hamp- 
 shire was entitled to three members of Congress; in 1792 the num- 
 ber was increased to four; in 1802, to five; in 1812, to six; in 1833 
 it was reduced to five; in 1843, to four; in 1853, to three; and in 
 1883, to two. Since the voting has been by Districts, the political 
 complexion of Rochester's Congressional vote is shown in the fol- 
 io win s^ table : — 
 
POLITICAL. 
 
 523 
 
 Year. 
 
 i 
 i 
 
 £? 
 
 ^ 
 P 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 1 
 1 
 
 •2 
 
 § 
 5 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 i 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1847 
 
 218 
 219 
 238 
 2C2 
 240 
 76 
 317 
 322 
 376 
 308 
 348 
 311 
 466 
 393 
 492 
 581 
 313 
 585 
 473 
 618 
 787 
 796 
 
 213 86 
 
 1 232 
 
 ! 293 
 
 278 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1849 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1851 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1853 
 
 
 
 
 
 , 
 
 1855 
 
 377 
 339 
 341 
 346 
 333 
 330 
 475 
 440 
 366 
 464 
 604 
 590 
 587 
 805 
 719 
 857 
 582 
 739 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1857 
 
 
 
 . . .. 
 
 
 
 
 3 
 
 1859 
 
 1 
 ! 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1801 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1863 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 18G5 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 53 
 
 
 1867 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1869 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1871 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 39 
 
 43 
 
 44 
 
 6 
 
 
 2 
 
 1873 
 
 
 
 1875 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 1877 
 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 263 
 29 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 1880 
 
 1 
 
 18 
 
 5 
 41 
 34 
 32 
 23 
 
 
 
 1882 
 
 
 
 
 
 1884 
 
 
 
 
 
 1886 
 
 
 
 
 
 1888 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Until 1793 the chief magistrate of New Hampshire was styled 
 "President." The first state election occurred March 29, 1784, 
 and the record of the Rochester vote is in the following* words : — 
 
 "It was unanimously voted that the Hon. Meshack Weare, Esq. is chosen 
 President of the State to the number of 209 votes." 
 
 Yv^'eare is said to have heen unanimously elected hy the State. No 
 
 distinct separation into organized parties occurred till 1794, when 
 
 the votes were classed as' Federal and Republican, the Republicans 
 
 •^y being known as Democrats a few years later, and the Federals 
 
524 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 becoming Whigs. The Eochester vote for Governor in subsequent 
 years, with the party names of the several candidates so far as they 
 can easily be given, is as follows : — 
 
 1785. 
 
 1786. 
 1787. 
 
 1788. 
 
 1789. 
 
 1790. 
 
 1791. 
 1792. 
 
 1793. 
 
 1794. 
 
 1795. 
 1796. 
 1797. 
 
 1798. 
 
 1799. 
 
 1800. 
 
 1801. 
 
 1802. 
 
 1803. 
 
 1804. 
 
 1805. 
 
 1806. 
 1807. 
 
 1808. 
 1809. 
 
 r George Atkinson, 86. 
 
 } Col. John Langdon, 66. 
 
 (Geu. John Sullivan, 27. 
 
 5 Gen. John Sullivan, 376. Elected 
 
 l George Atkinson, Esq., 2. 
 
 (John Sullivan, 249. 
 
 ( Judge Livermore, 23. 
 
 ^ John Sullivan, 211. 
 
 { Josiah Bartlett, 1. 
 
 (John Sullivan, 131. 
 
 ^Mohn Pickering, 131. 
 
 (Josiah Bartlett, 1. 
 
 (John Pickering, 189. 
 
 ( Col. Joshua Wentworth, 67 
 
 Josiah Bartlett, 183. Elected. 
 
 Josiah Bartlett, 177. Elected. 
 (Josiah Bartlett, 261. Elected. 
 ( John Langdon, 1. 
 (John T. Gilman, Fed., 197. 
 ) Elected. 
 
 ( Ebenezer Thompson, Rep., 99. 
 
 John T. Gilman, 295. Elected. 
 
 John T. Gilman, 324. Elected. 
 
 John T. Gilman, 267. Elected. 
 ( John T. Gilman, 302. Elected. 
 I Oliver Peabody, Rep., 27. 
 
 John T. Gilman, 318. Elected. 
 ^ John T. Gilman, 165. Elected. 
 I Timothy Walker, Rep., 185. 
 I John T. Gilman, 62. Elected. 
 } Timothy Walker, 278. 
 I John T. Gilman, 86. Elected. 
 I John Langdon, Rep., 189. 
 (John T. Gilman, 51. Elected. 
 \ John Langdon, 186. 
 ( John T. Gilman, 51. Elected. 
 I John Langdon, 200. 
 ^ John Langdon, 256. Elected. 
 I John T. Gilman, 35. 
 
 John Langdon, 213. Elected. 
 
 John Langdon, 198. Elected. 
 (John Langdon, 148. Elected. 
 \ Scattering, 3. 
 
 Jeremiah Smith, Fed., 78. 
 
 Elected. 
 
 John Langdon, 225. 
 
 No election by popular vote. Langdon 
 was chosen by the Senate. 
 
 No election by the people. Sullivan 
 was chosen by the Senate. 
 
 John Langdon was elected by two 
 votes. 
 
 No election by the people. Sullivan 
 was chosen by the Senate. 
 
 No election by the people. Bartlett 
 was chosen by the Senate. 
 
 (John Langdon, 221. Elected. 
 
 I Jeremiah Smith, 82. 
 
 \ John Langdon, 260. Elected. 
 
 (Jeremiah Smith, 71. 
 
 ( William Plumer, Rep., 222. 
 
 "( John T. Gilman, 76. 
 
 election by the people. Plumer 
 was chosen by the Legislature. 
 
 ^ John T. Gilman, 82. Elected. 
 
 } William Plumer, 261. 
 
 ( John T. Gilman, 99. Elected. 
 
 ( William Plumer, 234. 
 
 (John T. Gilman, 91. Elected. 
 
 } William Plumer, 229. 
 
 ( John Goddard, 1. 
 
 (William Plumer, 279. Elected. 
 
 -^ James Sheafe, Fed., 74. 
 
 ( Scattering, 2. 
 
 f William Plumer, 255. Elected. 
 IQi,, J James Sheafe, 51. 
 ■ j Jeremiah Mason, 8. 
 
 [Scattering, 1. 
 
 ( William Plumer, 255. Elected. 
 
 1818. ) William Hale, 40. 
 (^Scattering, 7. 
 
 (Samuel Bell, 154. Elected. 
 
 1819. ^Samuel Hale, 13. 
 (Scattering, 1. 
 
 1820. Samuel Bell, 321. Elected. 
 (Samuel Bell, 298. Elected. 
 
 1821. } Nathaniel Upham, 15. 
 (Jeremiah Mason, 1. 
 
 1822. Samuel Bell, 295. Elected. 
 
 1810. 
 1811. 
 
 1812. 
 
 No 
 
 1813. 
 
 1814. 
 
 1815. 
 
 1816. 
 
POLITICAL. 
 
 525 
 
 -.^^^ j Levi Woodbury, 2G9. Elected. 
 '"'" ■ [Samuel Dinsmoor, 43. 
 
 (David L. Morrill. 0. 
 1824. - Levi Woodbury, 318. 
 
 (Scattering. 1. 
 No election by the people. Morrill was 
 chosen by the Legislature. 
 ,Qo- S I^avid L. Morrill, 291. Elected. 
 ^^^^- ( Scattering, 8. 
 
 \ David L. Morrill, 170. Elected. 
 
 I Benjamin Pierce, Rep., 83. 
 
 1826. 
 
 -.ncyj ] Benjamin Pierce, 286. Elected. 
 'I Scattering, "several." 
 
 1828. 
 
 S John Bell, Fed., 188. Elected. 
 
 I Benjamin Pierce, 208. 
 icon i Benjamin Pierce, 261. Elected. 
 -^^^^'- } John Bell, 180. 
 
 < Matthew Harvey, Pvep., 241. 
 
 1830. ] Elected. 
 (Timothy Upham, Fed., 201. 
 (Samuel Dinsmoor, Rep., 238. 
 
 1831. ^ Elected. 
 (Ichabod Bartlett, Fed., 183. 
 ("Samuel Dinsmoor, Dem., 242. 
 
 1832. I Elected. 
 (Ichabod Bartlett. Whig, 103. 
 
 -iQOQ \ Samuel Dinsmoor, 216. Elect. 
 ^^'"^' I Arthur Livermore, Whig, 29. 
 
 ( William Badger, Dem., 270. 
 
 J Elected. 
 
 ( Scattering, 3. 
 ,o„= n^'iliiam Badger, 219. Elected. 
 '■^'^^- 'I Joseph Healey, Whig, 112. 
 ,oo« ( Isaac Hill, Dem., 189. Elected. 
 ^^^^- I Scattering, 8. 
 
 Isaac Hill, 213. Elected. 
 Scattering, 14. 
 
 (Isaac Hill, 174. Elected. 
 1838. ] James Wilson, Whig, 272. 
 
 ( Scattering, 2. 
 -. Qon S John Page, Dem. , 226. Elected. 
 ^^^■^- I James Wilson, 281. 
 
 John Page, 223. Elected. 
 
 1834. 
 
 1837 
 
 1840. 
 
 Enos Stevens, Whig, 249. 
 
 1SA1 f -Tohn Page, 219. Elected. 
 ^^"*^- ( Enos Stevens, 235. 
 
 f Henry Hubbard, Dem. ,192. El, 
 
 1842. ■{ Enos Stevens, 154. 
 (Daniel Hoit, Abolitionist, 49. 
 
 4 Henry Hubbard, 154. Elected. 
 
 1843. J Anthony Colby, Whig, 106. 
 ( Daniel Hoit, 52. 
 
 f John H. Steele, Dem., 216. 
 1844 J Elected. 
 
 I Anthony Colby, 176. 
 [Daniel lloit, 65. 
 (John H. Steele, 176. Elected. 
 
 1845. } Anthony Colby, 176. 
 (Daniel Hoit, 71. 
 
 ( Anthony Colby, 198. 
 
 1846. ] Jared W. Williams, Dem., 189. 
 (Nath'l S. Berry, Free Soil, 70. 
 
 No election by the people. Colby was 
 chosen by the Legislature. 
 
 (Jared W. Williams, 219. Elect. 
 
 1847. ] Anthony Colby, 222. 
 
 ( Nathaniel S. Berry, 86. 
 
 ( Jared W. Williams, 242. Elect. 
 
 1848. } Nathaniel S. Berry, 277. 
 ( Scattering, 2. 
 
 r Samuel Dinsmoor, 2^, Dem., 
 jg^g ! 220. Elected. 
 
 I Levi Chamberlain, Whig, 177. 
 [_ Nathaniel S. Berry, 54. 
 
 ! Samuel Dinsmoor, 230. Elect. 
 Levi Chamberlain, 177. 
 Nathaniel S. Berry, 46. 
 5 Samuel Dinsmoor, 239. 
 Thomas E. Sawyer, Whig, 203. 
 John Atwood, Independent, 86. 
 No election by the people. Dinsmoor 
 was chosen by the Legislature. 
 
 ( Noah Martin, Dem. ,218. Elect. 
 
 1852. ) Thomas E. Sawyer, 208. 
 (John Atwood, iOl. 
 
 ( Noah Martin, 274. Elected. 
 
 1853. ^ James Bell, Whig, 198. 
 (John H. White, Ind., 79. 
 
 f Nathaniel B. Baker, Dem., 299. 
 ,nc4 J Elected. 
 
 ^^^*- ) James Bell, 156. 
 
 l^ Jared Perkins, Ind., 110. 
 
 ( Ralph Metcalf , Know Nothing, 
 
 1855. J 358. Elected. 
 ( Nathaniel B. Baker, 239. 
 (Ralph Metcalf, 306. 
 
 1856. ^ John S. Wells, Dem., 296. 
 (Ichabod Goodwin, Whig, 21. 
 
 No election by the people. ]\Ietcalf 
 was chosen by the Legislature. 
 
 ( William Haile, Republican, 
 
 1857. ■{ 340. Elected. 
 (John S. Wells, 281. 
 ^William Haile, 360. Elected. 
 
 1858. 
 
 Asa P. Cate, Dem., 266. 
 
526 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 1850. 
 
 (Ichabod Goodwin, Rep., 363. 
 
 Elected. 18 
 
 Asa P. Gate, 304. 
 
 1868. 
 
 iQAn ( Ichabod Goodwin, 386. Elect. 
 -^^^"- I Asa P. Gate, 308. 
 
 (Nathaniel S. Berry, Rep., 340. 
 
 1861. } Elected. 
 (George Stark, Dem., 322. 
 (Nathaniel S. Berry, 308. Elect. 
 
 1862. } George Stark, 305. 
 ( Scattering, 8. 
 
 (Joseph A. Gilmore, Rep., 334. 
 
 1863. ■] Ira A. Eastman, Dem., 378. 
 (Walter Harriman, Ind., 8. 
 
 No election by the people. Gilmore 
 was chosen by the Legislature. 
 ifiAA S 'Toseph A. Gilmore, 417. Elect. 
 i»04. -j Edw'dW.Harrington,Dem..339. 
 
 (Frederick Smyth, Rep.. 383. 
 1865. ] Elected. 
 
 ( Edward W. Harrington, 307. 
 ,Q^^ ( Frederick Smyth, 384. Elected. 
 ^^^^- i John G. Sinclair, Dem., 372. 
 (Walter Harriman, Rep., 475. 
 1867. ] Elected. 
 
 (John G. Sinclair, 354. 
 Walter Harriman, 501. Elect. 
 John G. Sinclair, 410. 
 
 ! Onslow Stearns, Rep., 429. 
 Elected. 
 John Bedell, Dem., 322. 
 r Onslow Stearns, 356. Elected. 
 I John Bedell, 154. 
 
 1870. \ Samuel Flint, Labor, 241. 
 
 I Lorenzo D. Barrows, Prohib., 74. 
 l^ Simon G. Griffin, 1. 
 f James A. Weston, Dem., 454. 
 i Elected. 
 
 1871. ■{ James Pike, Rep., 358. 
 
 I Albert G. Cummings, Pro., 39. 
 1^ Lemuel P. Gooper, Labor, 18. 
 f Ezekiel A. Straw, Rep., 508. 
 I Elected. 
 
 1872. \ James A. Weston, 466. 
 
 I John Blackmar, Prohib., 22. 
 
 ^^ Lemuel P. Cooper, 9. 
 
 r Ezekiel A. Straw, 470. Elect. 
 
 1875. 
 
 1876. 
 
 1873. <! 
 
 I James A. Weston, 379. 
 
 187- 
 
 1878. 
 
 1879. 
 
 ] John Blackmar, 47. 
 (^Samuel K. Mason, Labor, 8. 
 
 (James A. Weston, 402. 
 4. ■< Luther AlcCutchins, Rep., 468. 
 
 (John Blackmar, 84. 
 No election by the people. Weston 
 was chosen by the Legislature. 
 
 f Person C. Gheney, Rep., 592. 
 \ ' Elected. 
 
 I Hiram R. Roberts, Dem., 520. 
 (^ Nathaniel White, Prohib., 38. 
 (Person G. Cheney, 631. Elect. 
 } Daniel Marcy, Dem., 529. 
 (Asa S. Kendall, Prohib., 6. 
 f Benjamin F. Prescott, Rep., 
 ] 657. Elected. 
 
 1 Daniel Marcy, 529. 
 l^ Asa S. Kendall, 6. 
 Benjamin F. Prescott, 657. 
 
 Elected. 
 Frank A. McKean, Dem., 496. 
 Asa S. Kendall, 1. 
 (Natt Head, Rep., 637. Elect. 
 ] Frank A. McKean, 297. 
 ( Warren G. Brown, Gr'nb'k, 284. 
 f Charles H. Bell, Rep., 791. 
 I Elected. 
 
 1880. <; Frank Jones, Dem., 590. 
 I Warren G. Brown, 28. 
 l^ George D. Dodge, Prohib., 28. 
 Samuel W. Haile, Rep., 702. 
 
 Elected. 
 M. V. B. Edgerly, Dem., 479. 
 John F. Woodbury, Gr'nb'k, 28. 
 Josiah M. Fletcher, Prohib., 47. 
 l^ Martin A. Haynes, 1. 
 f Moody Currier, Rep., 852. 
 I " Elected. 
 
 1884. <; John M. Hill, Dem., 620. 
 
 I George Carpenter, Gr'nb'k, 18. 
 '^Larkin D. Mason, Prohib., 39. 
 f Charles H. Sawyer, Rep., 586. 
 I Thomas 11. Cogswell. Dem., 784. 
 1886. { Joseph Wentworth, Prohib., 36. 
 I George Carpenter, 4. 
 [Eben Hilton, 1. 
 No election by the people. Sawyer 
 was chosen by theLegislature. 
 
 ( David II. Goodell, Rep., 733. 
 1888. ) Charles H. Amsden, Dem., 791. 
 ( Edgar S. Carr, Prohib., 29. 
 No election bj' the people. Goodell 
 was chosen by the Legislature. 
 
 1882. 
 
POLITICAL. 527 
 
 One great cause of complaint against the royal government, and 
 which with other causes hastened the Revolution, was the une(][ual 
 representation throughout the Provinces. Some small and newly 
 incorporated townships were represented, while many of the older 
 and more populous places were refused representation. This im- 
 portant privilege depended entirely upon the will of the royal 
 Governor, by whom writs were issued at his own pleasure. In 
 1758 the people of Rochester petitioned for representation, but 
 were refused. Four years later the privilege was granted, as shown 
 by the following record : — 
 
 " Pursuant to a presept from the high sheriff of the Province on March 9, 1762, 
 a town meeting was held at which Lieut, [afterwards Col.] John McDuffee was 
 chosen to represent the town in Geneial Assembly to be convened at Portsmouth 
 on Wednesday the 10"' of March instant, and so from time to time during the 
 sessions of said house.'" 
 
 He was chosen not for a single year, but according to English 
 custom, to retain the otHce until the election of a new Assembly 
 might be ordered by the Governor, and was regular in his attend- 
 ance for several years. 
 
 The last Provincial Assembly convened at Portsmouth, February 
 23, 1775, but proving refractory, Governor Wentworth abandoned 
 the Province and retired to the Isles of Shoals. James Knowles 
 was the Representative from Rochester. To the first Provincial 
 Coi]gress, which met at Exeter May 17, 1775, James Knowles and 
 Lieut. John McDutfee were Delegates. James Knowles was also 
 Delegate to the second Provincial Congress which met December 
 21, 1775, and established the first independent government in the Colonics. 
 The Constitution adopted by them remained in force till 1784, 
 when the new State Constitution took its place. 
 
 In 1792 Rochester first chose two Representatives. In the same 
 year Portsmouth had three Representatives. Londonderry and 
 Rochester had two each, and no other town in the State had more 
 than one. After the incorporation of Milton in 1802 Rochester had 
 but one Representative for thirteen years. It then had two again 
 from 1816 to 1853. The number was then increased to three for 
 ten years. Then four Representatives were chosen from 1865 
 until 1872. In 1873 the number was increased to five. In 1874 
 town meeting was continued three days, there being no choice of 
 Representatives or Selectmen the first day.- The second day one 
 
528 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Representative and one Selectman were elected, and it was then 
 voted to indefinitely postpone the election of the other four Eep- 
 resentatives. In March, 1878, live were elected to the Legislature 
 of that year, and in jN'ovember of the same year, under the revised 
 Constitution, three w^ere chosen to serve two years. Since then 
 the number has been five, although six were elected in 1884, but 
 only five were allow^ed to take their seats. 
 
 The following is a complete list of the Rochester Representatives 
 to Assemblies and Legislatures from the settlement of the town 
 to the present time. 
 
 PROVINCIAL. 
 
 Lieut. John McDuffee, 1762, May 1775, '82. 
 
 James Kiiowles, February 1775, May 1775, December 1775, '78, '79. 
 
 Jabez Dame, 1781. 
 
 UNDER THE STATE CONSTITUTION. 
 
 James Knowles, 1784 to '87. 
 Barnabas Palmer, 1788 to '90. 
 James Howe, 1791 to '93, '96, '97. 
 Aaron Wingate, 1792 to '95. 
 William Palmer. 1794 to 1800. 
 Joseph Clark, 1798 to 1801. 
 Levi Dearborn, 1799. 1802. 
 Richard Dame, 1800, '01, '03. 
 Beard Plumer, 1802. 
 David Barker, 1804 to '06. 
 Nathaniel Upham, 1807 to '09. 
 John McDuffee, Jr., 1810 to '13, '17. 
 James Tebbetts, 1814 to '16, '38, '39. 
 Moses Hale, 1816 to '18, '20 to '22. 
 Hatevil Knight, 1818, '19. 
 William Barker, 1819 to '22. 
 Jeremiah H. Woodman, 1823, '24. 
 David Barker, Jr., 1823, '25. '26. 
 John Greenfield, 1824. 
 Joseph Cross, 1825 to '29. 
 Jonas C. March, 1827. 
 James Farrington, 1828 to '31, '36. 
 Moses Young, 1830, '31. 
 John II. Smith, 1832 to "34. 
 Benjamin Hayes, 1832, -33. 
 Jonathan Hussey, 1834, '35. 
 Charles Dennett. 1835, '36. 
 William S. Pucker, 1837. 
 Louis McDuffee, 1837. 
 N. V. Whitehouse, 1838, '39. 
 John Witham, 1840, "4] . 
 A. S. Howard, 1840, '44. 
 Jonathan H. Torr, 1841. '42. 
 
 Noah Tebbetts, 1842. 
 Stephen M. Mathes, 1843. 
 Jacob Smart, 1843. 
 Jabez Dame, Jr., 1844, '45. 
 Daniel Lothrop, 1845, '46. 
 Richard Kimball, 1846, '47. 
 N. D. Wetmore, 1847 to '49. 
 William Evans, 1848, '49. 
 Daniel J. Parsons, 1850. 
 Benjamin H. Jones, 1850. 
 James C. Cole, 1851, '52. 
 Stephen Shorey, 1851, '52. 
 James Brown, 1853, '54, 
 L. D. Day, 1853, '54. 
 J. F. McDuffee, 1854. 
 George B. Roberts, 1855, '56. 
 Jacob B. Wallingford, 1855, '50. 
 Daniel W. Dame, 1855, '56. 
 Jacob II. Ela, 1857, '58. 
 R. T. Rogers, 1857, '58. 
 James Tebbetts, 1857, '58. 
 Isaac W. Springfield, 1859, '60. 
 John Legro, 1859, '60. 
 George W. Flagg, 1859. 
 Levi Meader, 1860, '01. 
 Micajah H. Wentworth, 1861, '62. 
 Franklin McDuffee, 1861, '62. 
 Charles S. Whitehouse, 1862. 
 James Farrington, 2'^, 1863. 
 Elihu H. Watson, 1863. '71. 
 William Wentworth, 1863. 
 John Hall. 1861. 
 Benjamin Home, 1864. 
 
 1 
 
POLITICAL. 
 
 529 
 
 Dudley W. Hayes, 18G4, 'G5. 
 Charles K. Chase, 1865. 
 Joshua Vickery, 18G5, '66. 
 S. D. Wentworlh, 1865, '66. 
 Alvah M. Kimball, 1866. 
 William Whilehouse, Jr., 1866, '6/ 
 Cyrus K. Sanborn, 1867, '68. 
 Ebenezer G. Wallace, 1867, '68. 
 AVilliam Flagg, 1867, '68. 
 Larkin Harrington, 1868, 
 Joseph N. Hayes, 1869. 
 John Crockett. 1869. 
 S. Hussey, Jr.; 1869. 
 None sent in 1870. 
 Nathan Nutter, 1871. 
 Kussell K. Wentworlh 
 William Hand, 1871. 
 
 '69. 
 
 1871. 
 
 Edwin Wallace, 1872. 
 Charles W. Folsom, 1872, '73. 
 Charles W. Brown, 1872, '73. 
 Arthur D. Whitehouse, 1872, '73. 
 Francis Orr, 1873, 75. 
 John W. Tebbetts, 1873, '75. 
 Charle.s F. Caverly, 1874 to '76. 
 Osman B. Warren, 1875, '76. 
 Larkin B. Moulton, 1875, '76. 
 Stephen C. Meader, 1876, '77. 
 Sidney 15. Hayes, 1876, '77. 
 Isaac W. Lougee, 1877, '78. 
 Joseph M. Hanson, 1877, '78. 
 Daniel McDuffee, 1877, '78. 
 Noah A. Jenness, 1878. 
 Charles Blazo, 1878. 
 
 UNDER THE REVISED CONSTITUTION. 
 
 Noah A. Jenness, 1878. 
 Walter S. Standley, 1878. 
 Charles Blazo, 1878. 
 Wilbur F. Warren, 1880. 
 John D. Fogg. 1880. 
 Nahum Yeaton, 1880. 
 John Young, 1880. '86. 
 John B. Kelley, 1880. 
 Edwin Wallace, 1882. 
 Charles S. Whitehouse, 1882. 
 Augustine S. Parshley, 1882. 
 James O. Haves, 1882. 
 John E. Meader, 1882. 
 
 John McDuffee, 1884. 
 Sumner Wallace, 1884. 
 Edward L. Kimball, 1884, '86. 
 Charles E. Manson, 1884. 
 Mesheck T. Drew, 1884. 
 Frank W. Corson. 1886. 
 Henry L. Home, 1886. 
 Nicholas Brock, 1886. 
 Benjamin M. Flanders, 1888. 
 Charles M. Abbott, 1888. 
 Charles II. Seavey, 1888. 
 Patrick H. Hartigan. 1888. 
 Joseph S. Norris, 1888. 
 
 The first Provincial Convention met at Exeter July 21, 1774. 
 Its principal business was to choose Delegates to the Continental 
 Congress at Philadelphia. The second Convention met at the 
 same place January 25, 1775, chose Delegates to Philadelphia and 
 issued an address to the people. Immediatel}^ after the battle of 
 Lexington another Convention was held at Exeter in April, 1775. 
 In June, 1778 a Convention was held at Concord to prepare a 
 State Constitution. This was rejected by the people, and another 
 Convention held its sessions in Concord from 1781 until October, 
 1783, when the new Constitution w^as adopted. In 1788 a Con- 
 vention was held at Exeter to consider the Constitution of the 
 United States. Conventions to revise the State Constitution have 
 been held at Concord in 1791, 1850, 1876, and 1889. The fol- 
 lowing have been the Rochester Delegates to the several Conven- 
 tions : — 
 
530 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 James Kuowles, July 1774, January 1775, '7S, '81 to '83. 
 
 Ebeuezer Tebbetts, January, 1775. 
 John Plumer, April, 1775, 78. 
 Barnabas Palmer, 1788, ^91. 
 James Howe, 1791. 
 Benjamin II. Jones, 1850. 
 L. 1). Day. 1850. 
 Nicholas V. Whitehouse, 187G. 
 Ebenezer G- Wallace, 1876. 
 
 James II. Edgerlv, 1876. 
 Franklin :\IcDuffee, 1876. 
 Charles E. Jenkins, 1876. 
 James Farrington, 1889. 
 Josiah H. Whittier, 1889. 
 Cyrille Pageot, 1889. 
 Samuel D. Felker, 1889. 
 Frank B. Preston, 1889. 
 
 The following is a complete list of Proprietors' and Town Clerks 
 in Rochester. Beginning in 1784 the Town Clerks were Propri- 
 etors' Clerks also : — 
 
 PROPRIETORS' CLERKS. 
 
 Paul Gerrish, 1722 to 1743. 
 John Gage, 1744 to 1750. 
 
 John Wentworth, 1751 to 1783. 
 
 TOWN CLERKS. 
 
 Rev. Amos Main. 1737. 
 John I5ickford, 1738 to '43, '46, '47. 
 William Chamberlain, 1744, '45. 
 Isaac r>ibbev, 1748, '49, '51 to '55. 
 Edward Tebbets, 1750. 
 Jonathan Dame, 1756 to '70. 
 Josiah Main, 1771 to 1802. 
 Josiah Sherborne, 1803 to '14. 
 Joseph Cross, 1815 to '29. 
 Charles Dennett, 1830 to '37. 
 James C. Cole, 1838 to '50. 
 Jabez Dame, Jr., 1851, '52. 
 George H. Dennett, ( -.^-o ,rA 
 Charles Dennett,* \ ^"^'*' '^*- 
 Eben J. Mathes, 1855, '56. 
 Charles K. Chase, 1857, '58. 
 Jeremiah D. Evans, 1859, '60. 
 
 Stephen D. Wentworth, 1861", '62. 
 Natlianiel Burnham, 1863. 
 Ephraim II. Whitehouse, f ,q,.. 
 Stephen D. Wentworth,* f ^°""*- 
 Joseph H. Worcester, 1865, '66. 
 George Fox Guppy > 18^. ,gg_ 
 James J. Meader,* \ ' 
 
 James J. Meader, 1869. 
 Charles AV. Bickford. 1870, '71. 
 George S. Lindsey, 1872 to '75. 
 Albert T. Colton, 1876 to '80. 
 Horace L. Worcester, 1881 to '85. 
 George D. Lamos, 1886, '87. 
 B. Frank Grover, > ioqq 
 Elmer J. Smart,* \ ^^^"• 
 Fred L. Chesley, 1889, '90. 
 
 Before the beginning of this century the annual town meetings 
 were almost invariably held on the last Monday of March. In 
 1801 the town debated the question of petitioning the Legislature 
 to establish the first Monday as the day for the annual meetings, 
 and from 1801 to 1804 they were held on the second Monday. 
 Since 1804 they have always been held on the second Tuesday 
 of March in each year. 
 
 At the annual town meeting in March the Moderators have been 
 as follows : — 
 
 ■Appointed by Selectmen to fill unexpired term. 
 
POLITICAL. 
 
 531 
 
 Timothy Roberts, 1737. '40 to '42, 
 
 '46, '49, '50. '53, '54. 
 James Place, 1738, '58, '62. 
 John Jeuiiess, 1739. '43. 
 John Bickford, 1745, '52, '55. 
 Edward Tebbets, 1747, '56. 
 William Chamberlain, 1748, '59, '63. 
 Isaac Libbey, 1751, '57, '60. 
 John McDuffee, 1761, '66, 73, 1806 to 
 John Plnmmer, 1764, '70, 72, '74 to 
 
 '79, '82 to '84, '87 '90 to '94. 
 James Knowles, 1765, '67 to '69, '71, 
 
 '^•5, '86. '88, "89. 
 John Cook, 1778, '81. 
 Jabez Dame, 1795 to '97, 1800. 
 Levi Dearborn, 1798, '99, 1802. 
 Moses L. Neal, 1801, '03 to '05. 
 John McDuffee, Jr., 1812 to '18. 
 Hatevil Knight, 1819. 
 Moses Hale 1820, '21, '28. 
 Jeremiah H. Woodman, 1822. 
 Walter B. Knight, 1823 to '27. 
 James Farrington, 1829 to '36. 
 Lewis McDuffee, 1837, '42. 
 John McDuffee, 3*1, 1839 to '41. 
 
 44, 
 
 Nicholas V. Whitehouse, 1838, '50 to '52, 
 '56. 
 
 Nathaniel D.Wetmore, 1843, '45, '48, '49. 
 
 Stephen M. Mathes, 1844, '55. 
 
 A. S. Howard, 1846, '47. 
 
 James H. Edgerly, 1853, '54, '65. 
 
 John Legro, 1857, '58. 
 
 Richard T. Rogers, 1859, '60. 
 11. Nathaniel T. Kimball, 1861. 
 77, Charles W. Edgerly, 1862, '63. 
 
 Ebenezer G. Wallace, 1864, '68. 
 '80, Noah Tebbetts, 1866. 
 
 Edwin Wallace, 1867. 
 
 Charles S. Whitehouse, 1869, '82, '83. 
 
 James Farrington, 2^, 1870. 
 
 JohnF. McDuffee, 1871. 
 
 Isaac W. Springfield, 1872 to 74. 
 
 Ezra Pray, 1875 to '77. 
 
 Charles B. Gafney, 1878. 
 
 John D. Parshley, 1879. 
 
 Ru.sseH B. Wentworth, 1880. 
 
 Henry M. Kellev, 1881, '84, '85. 
 
 Osman 8. Warren, 1886, '88, '89. 
 
 Frank B. Preston, 1887. 
 
 Frank H. Orr, 1890. 
 
 Prior to 1878 both state and town elections throughout Few 
 Hampshire were held together on the second Tuesday of March 
 of every year. But since the revision of the Constitution the 
 State elections have been held separately and biennially on the first 
 Tuesday of JS'ovember. The Moderators at these State elections 
 have been as follows : — 
 
 Henry :\L Kelley, 1878, '84. 
 Charles S. Whitehouse, 1880, '82. 
 
 John D. Parshley, 1886. 
 Frank B. Preston, 1888. 
 
 Assessors were first chosen in 1738. In 1818 it was voted not 
 to choose assessors, and in 1819 Jonathan Dame and James Teb- 
 bets were chosen, but afterwards excused from serving. Since that 
 time to the present the selectmen have been the assessors, except 
 in 1844, when Nathaniel D. Wetmore and Thomas McDuifee were 
 appointed. The following is a complete list of assessors in Roch- 
 ester : — 
 
 Benjamin Forst, 1738. 
 
 Samuel Twombly, 1738, '40, '42, '78. 
 
 John Macfee, 1739, '42, '44, '56. 
 
 John Allen, 1739. 
 
 Jonathan Copps, 1739. 
 
 John Jenness, 1740, '45, '48. 
 
 Paul Tebbets, 1741. 
 
 Benjamin Hayes, 1741. 
 
 Edward Tebbets, 1743. 
 
 Richard Wentworth, 1743, '48, '54, '57 
 
 John Lay ton, 1744, '54. 
 
 James Place, 1745, '46. 
 
532 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Joseph Tebbetts, 1746, '47. 
 
 Alexander Ilodgdon, 1747. 
 
 Richard Wiiiford. 1749. 
 
 Thomas Brown, 1749. 
 
 Ichabod Horn, 1750. 
 
 Richard Bickford, 1750, '53, '60. 
 
 Daniel Wingate, 1751. '52, '67 to '72. 
 
 Mark Jenness, 1751, '53. 
 
 John Trickey, 17 52, '55. 
 
 William Jenness, 1755. 
 
 William Allen, 1756, '61. 
 
 Richard Nulter, 1757. 
 
 Moses Hayes, 1758. 
 
 Jonathan Ham, 1758, "65. 
 
 Isaac Miller, 1759. 
 
 James Knowles, 1759. 
 
 James Rogers, Jr., 1760. 
 
 Ebenezer Chamberlain, 1761, '62. 
 
 Eleazar C'olman, 1762. 
 
 William Chamberlain, 1763, '68. 
 
 Isaac Libbey, 1763. 
 
 David Copps, 1764. 
 
 Wentworth Hayes, 1764. 
 
 Jabez Dame, 1765, '73, 74, '81. 
 
 John Witherell, 1766. 
 
 Samuel Leighton, 1766, '67, '69 to '72. 
 
 Moses Brown, 1773, '74. 
 
 Barnabas Palmer, 1775. 
 
 William McNeal, 1775. 
 
 Richard Place, 1776, '80, '89. 
 
 Tobias Twombly, 1776. 
 
 Alexander Hodgdon, Jr., 1777, '80. 
 
 Joseph Pearl, 1778. 
 
 William McDuffee. 1779, '80, '82 to '84. 
 
 Ichabod Corson, 1779, '83 to '86, '90. 
 
 Samuel Nute, 1781, '88. 
 
 John Brewster, 1782. 
 
 James Howe, 1785, '86, '94. 
 
 Jacob Hanson, 1787, 95, '98, 1804, '07. 
 
 David Place, 1787. 
 
 Richard Furber, 1788, '91, '92. 
 
 Samuel Plumer. 1789. 
 
 Daniel Rogers, 1790. 
 
 Aaron Wingate, 1791. 
 
 Paul Libbey, 1792, '93. 
 
 Edward Rollins, 1793. 
 
 Ephraim Kimball. 1794. 
 
 Daniel Dame, 1795 to '99, 1801, '02, '06 
 
 to '10. 
 Joseph Plumer, 1796. 
 Anthony Peavey, 1796. 
 James Haves, 1797. 
 John Murray, 1797, '98. 
 Daniel Hayes, 1798. 
 Joseph Clark, 1799. 
 William Palmer, 1800. 
 Richard Hayes, 1800. 
 Tobias Twombly, Jr., 1801, '08. 
 Jacob McDuffee, 1802 to '04. 
 David Barker, 1803. 
 Hezekiah Cloutman, 1805. 
 Tobias Twombly, 1805. 
 Joshua Allen, 1806. 
 John Barker, 1809. 
 Nathaniel Upham, 1810, '16. 
 Jonas C. March, 1811, '13, '17. 
 Joseph Sherburne, 1811. 
 James Tebbets, 1812, '14, '17. 
 John Smith, 1812. 
 Hatevil Knight, 1813. 
 Moses Hale, 1814 to '16. 
 Richard Dame, 1815, '16. 
 
 In addition to the regular assessors as given above, the following 
 were chosen to take inventories of ratable polls and estates. In 
 1767 pasture lands are specially mentioned, and it was voted 
 " that the pasture land should be taxed as the law directs, and 
 what will pasture a cow be four acres." 
 
 Mark Jenness, 1745. 
 Joseph AValker, 1747. 
 John Leighton, 1747. 
 Isaac Libbey, 1749, '67 
 
 Ichabod Corson, 1767. 
 Samuel Leighton, 1767. 
 James ^IcDuffee. 1767. 
 Barnabas Palmer, 1773 to 
 
 (6. 
 
 In 1859 Richard T. Eogers, John F. McDuffee, and Stephen 
 Shorey were chosen to make a new valuation of all real estate 
 in town. 
 
 From 1727 to 1751 selectmen were chosen by the proprietors. 
 
POLITICAL. 533 
 
 Afterwards their meetings were called by their clerk " per order 
 of committee," or on petition of proprietors. The town first chose 
 selectmen in 1737. The following is a partial list of the selectmen 
 of Rochester from the incorporation of the town to the present 
 time. In 1740, '44, '62 there were five chosen. The names are 
 missing for the years 1782, '84, '96, 1800, '01, '03, '04, '07, '08, 
 '09, '24, '26, '27, '29, '36 and '44. 
 
 PROPRIETORS' SELJX'TMEN. 
 
 Francis Matthews, 1727 to '29. John Bickford, 1732, '42 to '50. 
 
 John Knight, 1727 to '2U. Paul Wentworth, 1733 to '41. 
 
 Paul Gerrish, 1727 to '31. Thomas Millet, 1733 to '41, '51. 
 
 John Downing, 1730, '31. John Wingate, 1733 to '41, '51. 
 
 Joseph Jones, 1730, '31. John Gage, 1742 to '50. 
 
 Timothy Roberts. 1732. Joseph Adams, 1742 to '50. 
 
 Benjamin Foss, 1732. John Laighton, 1751. 
 
 TOWN SELECTMEN. 
 
 Timothy Roberts, 1737, '40 to '42, '44, John Plumer, 1760 to '63, '66, '67, '70, 
 
 '45, '54. '79. 
 
 Stephen Berry, 1737, '64. '68, '69. Jonathan Ham, 1762. 
 
 John Bickford, 1737, '39, '43, '45, '50, John McDuffee, 1764, '66, '74, '75. 
 
 '52, '53, '55, '59. Moses Hayes, 1764. 
 
 John Jenness, 1738 '39, '41, '43, '46, '47, James Knowles, 1765, '67, '71. 
 
 '49. Jabez Dame, 1770, '71, '75, '76, '78, '79, 
 
 Benjamin Hayes, 1738. '83, '85 to '87, '90, '91. 
 
 John Allen, 1738. John Cook, 1771, '72, '78. 
 
 Paul Tebbets, 1739, '40. Samuel Twombly, 1771. 
 
 EdwardTebbets, 1740, '41,'44, '46, '47, Ebenezer Tebbets, 1773. '74, '77, '78, 
 
 '50, '52 to '54. ^81. 
 
 James Place, 1740, '59. '60. Samuel Leighton, 1773, '85. 
 
 Richard Wentworth, 1740, '46, '51, '55, Paul Libbey, 1773, '74. 
 
 '62. Barnabas Palmer, 1775,* '76, '77, '80. 
 
 William Chamberlain, 1742, '44, '48, '50. Richard Place, 1779. 
 
 '56 to '58, '72. James Adams, 1780, '86 to '89. 
 
 John Downing, 1742. Samuel Nute, 1780. 
 
 Joseph Tebbets, 1743, '44, '60. Jacob Hanson, 1781, '85, '88, '89. 
 
 Benjamin Forst, 1744. Ebenezer Wentworth, 1781. 
 
 William Jenness. 1745. Aaron Wingate, 1783. 
 
 Isaac Libbey, 1747 to '49, '51, '53 to '55, John Brewster, 1783. 
 
 '61, '65. John Cloutman, 1786, '87. 
 
 John Laighton, 1748, '49. Ichabod Hayes, 1788. 
 
 Jonathan Dame, 1751, '62, '63, '66 to '71. Simon Torr, 1789. '90, '92 to '94. 
 William Allen, 1752, '53, '62, '63, '68, Edward Rollins, 1790 to '92. 
 
 '69, '72, '75 to '77. William Palmer, 1791 to '95. 
 
 Charles Rogers, 1753, '61. Richard Furber, 1793 to '95, '97. 
 
 Daniel Wingate, 1756 to '58, '65. Richard Dame, 1795, '97 to '99, 1802, 
 
 James Rogers, Jr., 1756 to '58. '05, '14, '20. 
 
 John Trickey, 1759. Beard Plumer, 1797 to '99. 
 
 To till out term of John McDuffee, he having gone to the army. 
 
534 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Jonas C. March, 1798. 
 
 Joshua Allen, 1799, 18(12. 
 
 John Odionie, 1802, '10. 
 
 John Adisone, 180). 
 
 John Allen, 1805. 
 
 Jacob McDuffee, 1806, '10, '11, '13. 
 
 James Tebbets, 1806, '13 to '16. 
 
 Moses Tvoberts. Jr., 1806, '11, '12. 
 
 Joseph Sherburne, 1810. 
 
 Moses Hale, 1811 to '13. 
 
 Lemuel Meader, 1812. 
 
 Hatevil Knight, 1814, "20. 
 
 David C. Page, 1815. 
 
 Thomas McDuffee, 1815 to '21, '23, '25 
 
 '28, '32. 
 John Smith, 1816. '17. 
 Jonathan Dame, 2^ 1817, '18, '21, '22. 
 John Plumer, 3^ 1818, '19. 
 Hai-vev Morev, 1819. 
 Samuel Kooers, 1821 to '23, '38. 
 Charles Dennett, 1822, '25, '28. 
 William Ilurd, 1823, '25. 
 Jonathan llus.sey, 1828, '33, '37. 
 Daniel Waldron, 1830. 
 William S. Ricker, 1830, '31, '33 to '35, 
 
 '42. 
 Otis Stackpole, 1830 to '32. 
 Heurv Tebbets, 1831, '32. 
 John'lianson, 1833, "34. 
 Edward Tebbets, 2'i, 1834, '35. 
 John Meader, 1835, '37, '43, '50. 
 John F. McDuffee, 1837, '43, '47, '50, 
 
 '61, '62, '70, '71. 
 John Witham, 1838, '39, '41, '42. 
 William Twomblv, 1838, '39. 
 Moses Page, 1839, '40. 
 Aaron Flagg, 1840, '41. 
 Daniel Lothrop, 1840, '41. 
 Asa Roberts, 1842, '45, '64, '65. 
 Benjamin Home, 1843, '56. 
 Daniel Rogers, 1845. 
 Ezra Hayes, 1845. 
 James Brown, 1846. 
 A. S. Howard, 1846. 
 Noah S. Stackpole, 1846. 
 Jabez Dame, Jr., 1847 to '49. 
 Gershom Home, 1847, '48. 
 Richard T. Rogers, 1848, '49, 51, '52. 
 
 '64, '65, '75, '76. 
 Charles B. Kimball, 1849. 
 James Hurd, 1850. 
 Daniel W. Dame, 1851, '52. 
 
 John Legro, 1851, '52, '54, '55. 
 
 John r.ickford, 2'^, 1853. 
 
 Lyman Locke. 1853. 
 
 Samuel Tebbets, 1853. 
 
 Jesse Meader, 1854, '55. 
 
 James Tebbetts, 2'\ 1854, '55. 
 
 Jacob H Lla. 1850. 
 
 Nathaniel Hayes, 1856, '57. 
 
 James M. Fesseiiden, 1857, '58. 
 
 Joshua Vickery, 1857, '58. 
 
 George Robinson, 1858, '59. 
 
 Samuel Roberts, Jr., 1859. '60. 
 
 Richard McDuffee, Jr., 1859, '60. 
 
 Franklin McDuffee, 1860. 
 
 Simon Wentworth, 1861, '62. 
 
 Walter B. K. Hodgdon, 1861 to '63. 
 
 William J. Roberts. 1863. 
 
 Stephen E. Hayes, 1863. 
 
 Jeremiah D. Evans, 1864 to '67. 
 
 Solomon Evans, 1866, '67. 
 
 Samuel Bickford, 1866, '67. 
 
 Stephen D. Wentworth, 1868, '69, '72. 
 
 John F. Torr, 1868, '69. 
 
 Hanson Evans, 1868, '69. 
 
 Samuel S. Hart, 1870. 
 
 John H. Osborne, 1870, "71. 
 
 Nathaniel Dorman, 1871. 
 
 Samuel F. Page, 1872, '73. 
 
 John S. Calef, 1872. 
 
 Augustine S. Parshley, 1873 to 81, '83, 
 
 '84, '90. 
 James Corson, 1873, '74. 
 Harrison Hale. 1874 to '76. 
 Charles W. Dame, 1877, '78. 
 John Greenfield, 1877, 78, '84, '85. 
 Herman W. Roberts, 1879, '80. 
 Joseph O. Hayes, 1879 to '81. 
 Simon L. Home, 1881. '83. 
 William Rand, 1882. 
 Dudley B. Waldron. 1882. 
 William H. Babb, 1882. 
 Charles Estes, 1883, '84. 
 John L. Copp, 1885, '86. 
 Edward E. Evans, 1885, '90. 
 Charles W. Evans, 1886 to '88. 
 John W. Meserve, 1886. 
 John D. Parshlev, 1887, '88. 
 Eben Hilton, 1887. 
 George L. Haves, 1888, '89. 
 Henry :M. Kel'ley, 1889. 
 Daniel F. Jenness, 1889. 
 John W. Tebbets, 1890. 
 
 Prior to 1878 the selectmen had charge of the check-list, Avith 
 full power to regulate the same according to their own judgment 
 under the law. Under the revised Constitution special supervisors 
 
POLITICAL. 535 
 
 of tliG check-list are required to be appointed representing both par- 
 ties. These liave l)een chosen as follows: — 
 
 Noah A. Jenness, 1878. Henry F. Walker, 1884. 
 
 Walter S. Stanley, 1878. Peter Cassidv, 1884. 
 
 Charles Blazo, 1878. William P.lake, 1886, '88. 
 
 George B. Roberts, 1880, '82,' 84. lliley II. Parker, 188G, '88. 
 
 John S. Parsons, 1880, '82. Richard Cross, 1886, '88. 
 AVilliam Tobin, 1880, '82. 
 
 Overseers of the poor were first chosen in 1763, after which no 
 mention is made of such an office until 1788. The list is as fol- 
 lows : — 
 
 Isaac Libbey, 1763. Joseph Plainer, 1794, '95. 
 
 AVeiitworth Hayes, 1763. Ichabod Corson, 1795. 
 
 Dr. James Howe, 1788, '90. Ichabod Pearl, 1795. 
 
 Jacob II inson, 1788, '91, '92. Jonathan Ilussey, 1833. 
 
 Richard Dame, 1788. William S. Ricker, 1833, '39 to '41. 
 
 Lt. Richard Place, 1789, '91 to '95. John Hanson, 1833. 
 
 Dea. Samuel Plumer, 1789. Charles Dennett, 1834 to '38. 
 
 Daniel McDuffee, 1790. John Greenfield, 1834 to '38. 
 
 Moses Home, Jr., 1793. Jeremiah H. Woodman, 1839 to '41. 
 
 David Wingate, 1794. 
 
 Between 1795 and 1833, and since 1841, the selectmen have 
 performed the duties of this office. As in other towns, the support 
 of the poor was formerly let out to the lowest bidder. A vote to 
 that effect is recorded in 1821. In 1826 the subject of a town 
 farm began to be agitated, and E"athaniel Upham and Jonathan 
 Hussey were appointed to investigate the matter. JSTothing how- 
 ever was accomplished until 1831, wdien it was voted, 103 to 29, 
 to buy a farm at a cost not exceeding $2,500, and $500 more for 
 stock, furniture, etc., and Thomas McDuffee, Moses Young, and 
 Moses Hale were appointed to make the purchase before May 17th 
 of the same year. In 1833 J. H. Woodman, D. Barker, Jr., and 
 J. H. Smith were appointed to draft by-laws for the regulation of 
 the inmates of the almshouse. Their report w^as adopted pre- 
 scribing for various speciiied misdemeanors, the penalties of solitary 
 confinement, or short allowance of food, according to the aggra- 
 vation of the offence. The overseer was authorized to build a 
 cell for confinement. In 1863 $1,000 was appropriated to enlarge 
 the almshouse. About this time the plan of supporting paupers 
 by counties instead of towns began to be agitated, and at the 
 March meeting in 1867 the several towns were asked to vote upon 
 
536 ROCHESTER. 
 
 this question. The Rochester vote was 250 against and onl}' 14 
 in favor. Nevertheless the pkin prevailed, and in 1874 the select- 
 men were instructed to sell the town farm at public auction within 
 thirty days, reserving the pest house and the burying ground. 
 Since that time residents needing temporary aid have been supplied 
 at their homes, but those needing permanent help have been taken 
 to the county farm. 
 
 The first constable chosen by the town was John Maefee in 
 1737, and it was " voted that he shall have five pounds for serving 
 when his year is out." The principal duty of this oflice was the 
 collection of taxes, and it was very diificult to get the oflice suit- 
 ably filled. A fine imposed ior refusal was frequently paid on the 
 spot by one who was so unfortunate as to be elected. AW suitable 
 persons were expected to take their turn unless they could pro- 
 cure a substitute, or ofi^er some satisfactory excuse. In 1781 the 
 difficulty appears to have reached a climax. Simon Torr was chosen 
 constable, but was excused from serving "this year.'' Samuel 
 Plumer was chosen, but was " voted out from serving." Elijah 
 Varney was chosen and paid his fine, but afterwards the town " for 
 a good reason " excused him, and refunded the fine. Sanmel Sea- 
 vey was chosen and then ''voted out." Ithamar Seavey was chosen 
 but the vote was reconsidered, and finally, the selectmen were 
 authorized to hire a constable, which plan was usually adopted 
 thereafter. One great reason of the difficulty of filling the oflice 
 was undoubtedly the constantly changing value of the currency, 
 which rendered the adjustment of accounts exceedingly diflicult. 
 Constables were frequently behind in their payments, and the town 
 instructed their agents to prosecute them. In 1785 the town sued 
 Paul Harford, a delinquent collector, and attached twenty-three and 
 one half acres of land in the lower part of the village, also his 
 dwelling house, and his interest in the land on which it stood. 
 This was appraised at ^75, and the land at $8 an acre (p. 129). 
 About 1788 the collection of taxes was let out to the lowest bid- 
 der. This custom was continued for a few years, and again re- 
 vived in 1821, when it was struck off to Ezra M. Drown, at nine 
 mills on a dollar. For the next four years Paul Kimball bid it 
 ofl', receiving, in 1825, $20. Sometimes the selectmen received 
 proposals for collecting taxes during the meeting, and laid them 
 before the town at its close. In 1834 Isaac Twombly was chosen 
 
POLITICAL. 537 
 
 collector by ballot, to have $55 for collecting tlie whole tax, and 
 at the same rate for what he should collect. The practice of choos- 
 ing a collector in town meeting continued till 1845. They were 
 appointed by the selectmen from that time until 1884, when the 
 town returned to the old method of choice at the annual meeting. 
 In 1885 the pay of the collector had increased to |300, and in 
 1887 it was $450. 
 
 In 1800 the warrant for town meeting contained the following 
 article : — 
 
 " To see if the Town will propose or adopt some by-laws and appoint a Com- 
 mittee of Police to regulate some disorders that are likely to happen in said 
 town, particularly to prevent people from suffering their creatures from disturb- 
 ing and wasting the hay and property of travelers and teamsters at and near 
 Norway Plains." 
 
 Joseph Clark, Esq., Capt. Thomas Shannon, Jabez Dame, Capt. 
 Samuel Storer, and Col. John McDuffee were chosen to prepare 
 by-laws, and reported four articles. The first was to prevent horses, 
 cattle, swine, or sheep from going at large in the village, under 
 penalty of one dollar and fifty cents fine with costs. The second 
 was to compel every owner of a dwelling house to keep a good 
 and sufiicient ladder on or adjacent to his house, under penalty 
 of not more than a dollar nor less than twenty-five cents and costs. 
 The third forbade two or more persons playing ball or quoits in 
 the village under penalty of fifty cents and costs; and the fourth 
 provided for obtaining the approval of these by-laws at the Court 
 of Common Pleas. A committee of police was appointed to execute 
 these by-laws, consisting of Capt. Samuel Storer, Joseph Clark,, 
 Levi Dearborn, and Moses L. IS'eal. 
 
 As the population of the town increased the need of stricter 
 regulations began to be felt. At a special meeting. May 30, 1835, 
 the town instructed the selectmen to appoint police officers with 
 power to make and enforce all regulations needed for the good 
 order of the village. The next day they appointed James Far- 
 rington, Charles Dennett, Ivory M. ITute, John McDufi'ee, Jr., 
 Jonathan 11. Torr, Benjamin Barker, and Ebenezer C. Blackmar, 
 who immediately issued and posted through the town a sheet of 
 " police laws," forbidding almost every conceivable misdemeanor 
 under severe penalties of fine and imprisonment. Apparently the 
 town got more than they bargained for, as in the following March 
 
538 ROCHESTER. 
 
 they voted " to dispense with all articles in the police laws." After 
 a few years, however, a permanent police force was found neces- 
 sary. March 13, 1849, $100 was appropriated "to fit up a room 
 or rooms at the Town Hall for a bridewell or lock-up," and Edward 
 Barnard was chosen keeper. March 12, 1851, it was 
 
 " Eesolvecl, that the police officers be provided with suitable badges to be worn 
 on town-meeting days, and that they be paid by the town for their services in 
 keeping order." 
 
 December 19, 1868, it was voted to establish a police court, and 
 to pay the justice $100 a year. S. D. Wentworth now holds the 
 office at a salary of $300. August 28, 1869, the selectmen were 
 instructed " to build a lock-up," and $1,000 was appropriated for 
 that purpose. This "lock-up" was built in the rear of the Town 
 Hall on Wentworth street, and is still in use. The first regularly 
 paid police w^ere appointed in 1886. At the present time (1890) 
 the chief-of-police is N. L. Berry, with seven subordinates. 
 
 Rochester being a county town built a Court House in 1797 
 where Wallace's currying shop now is, near the railroad crossing. 
 The lower story was used by the county courts till the division 
 of the county in 1840. The second story was the Town Hall. 
 The expense of building was met by selling the fourth division 
 school lot and a part of the meeting-house lot. This Town Hall 
 was first used March 26, 1798, prior to which the town meetings 
 had always been held in the meeting-house. In 1802 the town 
 voted to paint the Court House " near the color of Capt. Samuel 
 Storer's house," which had been recently built and painted cream 
 color, and was probablj- admired as the finest house in the village. 
 In 1825 the Court House was repaired by the town at an expense 
 of $200. In 1836 the town voted $100 for the same purpose, pro- 
 vided the citizens would raise a like amount by subscription. 
 After the county had ceased to use it, in 1844, it was voted to 
 repair it for a Town Hall. It was burned in the night, October 
 6, 1849, having been set on fire, it is supposed, out of revenge, 
 by some scamp who had been confined in the " lock-up " there. 
 For the next two years the annual town meetings were held in 
 the freight-house of the Great Falls & Conway Railroad. The 
 town voted $1,200 for a town house including a lot, and appointed 
 John McDuftee, Louis McDufi:ee, and Eben J. Mathes for building 
 
POLITICAL. 539 
 
 committee. They found that a suitable building could not be put 
 up for less than that sura, besides the lot, and March 12, 1851, it 
 was voted to raise $250 to purchase the Silas Wentworth lot, pro- 
 vided the citizens would contribute the balance required. The 
 hall was built during that summer, and the first meeting was held 
 there in September, 1851. In 1852 an appropriation was asked 
 for seating it^ but the article was dismissed, and the same question 
 was negatived every year till March, 1855, when $300 was appro- 
 priated for seating and lighting. The subject of a new Town 
 Hall was broached as early as 1872, and has been discussed, with 
 the appointment of various committees of inquiry, from time to 
 time ever since. At the March meeting in 1888 the selectmen 
 were anthorized to hire a sum not exceeding $50,000 for buying 
 a lot and building a Town Hall, and a committee was appointed 
 to report in May. By the crafty management of the opponents 
 of the scheme, the location recommended by the committee was 
 rejected, and the whole enterprise was defeated, and the old hall 
 of 1851 is still in use. 
 
 An indication of the growing village interests is seen in pro- 
 visions for protection from fire. "When the first fire engine was 
 bought cannot now be ascertained, but we find a vote March 9, 
 1813, not to pay any money for an engine. At the same time it 
 was voted to abate the taxes of James Waldron, James Witherell, 
 and David Barker, who had had buildings burnt. September, 1822, 
 it was voted to abate the taxes of David and William Barker " by 
 reason of their recent losses by fire." In June, 1836, " the Roch- 
 ester fire engine company was enlarged and incorporated." This 
 shows that it had been previously organized, probably for some 
 years. Firewards are first mentioned in 1838, when eleven were 
 appointed : — George Barker, Charles Dennett, John Greenfield, 
 A. S. Howard, Noah Tebbets, James McDuftee, John McDuftee, 
 Jr., N. y. Whitehouse, J. H. Henderson, Paul Kimball, and Rich- 
 mond Henderson. At the annual meeting in March, 1845, $400 
 was appropriated, and a committee appointed to buy a fire engine, 
 provided the citizens would subscribe the same amount. A month 
 later the town adopted a recent act of the Legislature relating to 
 the appointment of fire engineers. S. M. Mathes was elected chief 
 engineer, and John McDuftee, N. D. Wetmore, Jabez Dame, Jr., 
 
540 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Watson Hayes, and James Bodge assistants. March 12, 1850, $400 
 was appropriated for a lire engine at Gonic, and ^300 for making 
 reservoirs at the village. A month after the burning of Dodge's 
 Hotel (p. 487), §500 was voted for a fire engine " to take the place 
 of the old one now in use of the Ancient and Honorable Engine 
 Company," also §500 for additional hose, and §150 for two reservoirs 
 at Gonic. In 1853 the town was asked to abate the poll-tax of fire- 
 men, but refused. In 1853, §50 was voted to build an engine house 
 at Gonic, and in 1855, §45 to buy a sled for each engine company, 
 and two years later §50 for a reservoir. March 9, 1858, the pay 
 of firemen Avas " increased " to §3 a year. Through the elibrts of 
 Judge Kimball a subscription was raised to buy trumpets for the 
 several companies, except the Invincibles, a boys' company, which 
 had already received one. These were presented, at a parade of the 
 whole fire department, October 1, 1859, and the presentation speech 
 was made in the Academy yard, by Edward Sawyer. ]\rarch 12, 
 1861, §400 was appropriated to buy an engine, on condition that 
 what more might be needed for the purpose should be raised by 
 subscription. Two years later, §500 was voted to buy hose to be 
 divided among the several companies, and in 1867 §1,000 was 
 appropriated " to lay iron pipe from force-pump of Norway- Plains 
 Company to the Square." By several votes at various meetings 
 from 1861 to 1868, appropriations were made to build engine houses 
 for the several companies as follows : — §900 for Cocheco Company, 
 §900 for Torrent Company Xo. 2, §1,000 for Tiger Company, and 
 §1,500 for Torrent Company l^o. 5 at East Rochester. In 1870 it 
 was voted to pay firemen five dollars a year. In 1872, §3,000 was 
 voted for a hook and ladder and hose house. In 1877 it was voted 
 to reduce the fire companies to forty men each. In 1880, §300 was 
 voted for a fire-alarm bell. The next year §500 was voted to buy 
 an engine for the use of Tiger Company No. 5. There are now, in 
 1890, three engine companies of forty men each, one at each village ; 
 Pioneer Hose Company and Resolute Hook and Ladder Company, 
 with twenty men each : Cocheco Hose Company and Norway Plains 
 Company, with ten men each. Fifty-three hydrants are maintained 
 at an annual cost of fifty dollars each. Firemen are now paid ten 
 dollars a year. 
 
 Village growth and the rapidly increasing population have made 
 the subject of water-supply a question of no small importance. 
 
POLITICAL. 541 
 
 In 1877 the selectmen were instructed to survey for the introduc- 
 tion of water into the village. The records show nothing further 
 until 1880, when a committee was appointed " to consider the sub- 
 ject of supplj'ing the village with water." At the next March 
 meeting |100 was appropriated " to be used b}^ the selectmen in 
 sinking an artesian well as an experiment for obtaining a supply 
 of water/' but nothing came of it. The " Rochester Aqueduct and 
 Water Company " was chartered in July, 1877, but did not begin 
 work until 1885, and the water was turned on December 1st of 
 the same year. The present officers of the company are Frank 
 Jones of Portsmouth, president; C. B. Gafnc}', vice-president; and 
 Albert "Wallace, treasurer. In 1885 the town voted that the stock 
 of this company be exempt from taxation for five years from March 
 1, 1886. 
 
 At tlie annual town meeting in 1890, it was voted : — 
 
 " That the Selectmen be instructed to hire on notes of the town from time 
 to time so niucli money as may be necessary for the purpose of supplying Roch- 
 ester village with an adequate supply of fresh water, agreeably to the provision 
 of Chap. 242 of the Laws of New Hampshire, enacted at the June session of 
 1881, not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, and that Elias F. Smith, 
 Ezra Pray, James Farrington, John W. Tebbetts, and Albert W. Hayes be a 
 Committee to construct suitable water-works with full power to purchase the 
 present water-works if deemed advisable, take deeds and make contracts in the 
 name of the town, and for said purpose to do and perform all things neces- 
 sary, agreeably to the provision of said chapter; also that they shall extend 
 said water-works to or construct separate water-works for the villages of East 
 Rochester and Gonic as soon as they can obtain the necessary legislation." 
 
 The beginnings of things as shown by the first appointments to 
 various offices form a valuable record from which can be seen the 
 gradual growth of the town by its increasing wants, or a more 
 developed sense of those wants. 
 
 The first tithing-man was John Allen, chosen in 1737 (p. 141). 
 
 The first pound-keeper was Berjamin Fors, in 1737, the town 
 voting to build a pound near his house. In 1786 a pound was 
 built near the meeting-house on Haven's Hill, and as late as 1841 
 a new one was built not far from the meeting-house on the com- 
 mon (p, 141). The first field-drivers were Ebenezer Brewster, 
 William Jenness, and Joseph Tebbets, in 1739. The first " hog- 
 reeve " was Thomas Drew in 1747. From 1807 to 1826 one of 
 the most frequent subjects of debate at town meetings was the 
 question of " excusing swine from wearing a yoke," " such as 
 
542 ROCHESTER. 
 
 go peaceably on the common." Special meetings were held to 
 consider this subject, which seems to have occasioned no little 
 excitement. Until 1823, however, the excuse was always 
 granted. In that year it was voted " not to excuse the inhabitants 
 from yoking their swine," thus reversing the former practice, 
 besides improving the phraseology. For a few years longer the 
 subject continued to be discussed, but the town could never again 
 be brought to consent that swine should run at large. 
 
 The first surveyors of highways were John Layton, Solomon 
 Clarke, and Eleazer Ham, chosen in 1737. 
 
 The first auditors, then called " commissioners," were John 
 Jenness, Samuel Twombly, and John Allen, in 1737. 
 
 The first committee to hire a school teacher was chosen in 1750, 
 and the first superintending committee in 1809 (pp. 157, 161). 
 
 In 1755 Samuel Twombly was chosen " culler of staves," and 
 Ebeuezer Place " culler of shingles." No such oflicers were after- 
 wards chosen, except a " surveyor of staves " in 1790. 
 
 William " Mcfee " and Ichabod Corson were chosen " informers 
 of who kills deer," in 1759, and this oifice was continued for sev- 
 eral years. 
 
 The first parish wardens were Paul Libbey and Richard Place, 
 appointed by the town in 1770. 
 
 In the same year the first " fence viewers " were chosen : — 
 Daniel Wingate, Lieut. Stephen Berry, George Willan, Capt. 
 Jonathan Ham, and Samuel Laighton. 
 
 The first surveyors of lumber were Morris Ellis, Ens. John 
 Burgess, and Silas Dame, in 1785. 
 
 Capt. John Brewster, Jonathan Dame, and Aaron Wingate were 
 chosen " lot layers " in 1786. 
 
 In 1795 Joshua Lane was chosen first sealer of Aveights and 
 measures, and Caleb Jackson sealer of leather. 
 
 The first surveyors of brick were Joshua Knight, Ichabod Cor- 
 son, Jr., Joshua Hartford, and Howard Henderson, in 1798. 
 
 The first money raised by the town Avas £150, March 9, 1738. 
 The first vote to hire money was January 21, 1745, Avhen a com- 
 mittee was appointed to hire £22 to settle an execution against 
 the tOAvn, and to pay for mending the meeting-house windoAvs. 
 In March, 1890, the toAvn debt Avas $52,602.73, and the amount 
 raised by taxation Avas $68,491.89. 
 
POLITICAL. 543 
 
 The first public provision for ligliting the streets was at the 
 March meeting in 1878, when the selectmen were instructed to pro- 
 cure and run fifty street lamps to be placed in the three villages in 
 proportion to their valuation, at a cost not exceeding $2,000 (p.472). 
 
 The first mention of using a check-list is March 13, 1827. The 
 following record of the number of names on the check-list at difter- 
 ent periods shows the gradual increase in the number of voters: — 
 1827,491; 1828,522; 1831,495; 1834,488; 1838,525; 1843,569; 
 1864,917; 1867,1,056; 1868,1,030; 1872,1,198; 1876,1,240; 
 1880,1,683; 1884,2,032; 1890, about 2,400. 
 
 As a town Rochester has been conservative in action, and not 
 easily moved to adopt changes. The disposition of her voters seems 
 to have been to " let well enough alone." This is evident from 
 some of the preceding as w-ell as following votes. September 13, 
 1779, when the plan for a state government was first proposed, 
 Rochester gave only one vote in its favor. When the sense of the 
 people has been taken from time to time on the expediency of re- 
 vising the State Constitution, Rochester has most of the time voted 
 against it. The Constitutional Convention of 1850 proposed fifteen 
 amendments, all of which were rejected in Rochester by a large 
 majority. Of the amendments proposed by the convention of 1876, 
 all but one were adopted. The seven amendments of 1889 were 
 all adopted in Rochester by strong majorities. 
 
 In 1836 the question of dividing Strafford county was presented 
 in March, and again in E'ovember, and had a large majority in the 
 negative. In March, 1838, the vote on dividing into three counties 
 was 22 in favor and 149 against ; but on dividing into two it stood 
 142 for and 41 against. In March, 1839, another vote was called 
 for, which resulted in 165 yeas and 45 nays. 
 
 Sundry other noticeable votes have been as follows: — JSTovember 
 7, 1836, on the expediency of building an asylum for the insane, 92 
 yeas and 14 nays. 
 
 March 13, 1836, it was voted 120 to 1 that it is inexpedient to 
 authorize the recording of deeds by the town clerk. 
 
 November 4, 1854, a vote on abolishing capital punishment stood 
 38 in favor to 184 against. 
 
 March 14, 1848, on the expediency of a prohibitory law^ there 
 w^ere 150 yeas to 74 nays. 
 
544 ROCHESTER. 
 
 March 11, 1851, on the expediency of the Homestead Exemption 
 law, yeas 110 and nays 54. 
 
 At this time there were over a thousand voters, and it is notice- 
 able in all these votes that a very small proportion of the people 
 took interest enough to vote at all. 
 
 The following votes were passed March, 1854 : — 
 
 " Voted to request our Representatives to Congress to oppose any bill for 
 organizing any Territories allowing Slavery therein, where it is now excluded 
 by compact. Voted to instruct our Representatives to the Legislature to vote 
 for no person as United States Senator, unless he is pledged to vote against the 
 extension of Slavery into territory now free." 
 
 Rochester has been liberal in ottering inducements to manufac- 
 turers to locate here. At a town meeting May 4, 1872, 
 
 "Voted to exempt from taxation any establishment proposed to be erected 
 and put in operation in said town within ten years, for the term of five years, 
 for the manufacture of cotton, wool, wood, iron, shoes and boots, and any other 
 material, provided the capital invested shall exceed one thousand dollars." 
 
 Subsequently more specific votes have been passed from time to 
 time, exempting particular firms, under certain conditions, usually 
 for a period of ten years. 
 
CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 
 
 " On that shore with fowler's tact 
 Coolly bagging fact on fact, 
 Naught amiss to thee can float, 
 Tale or song or anecdote ; 
 Village gossip centuries old, 
 Scandals by our grandams told." 
 
 When the farmer having cut and piled his yearly stock of 
 wood has gone to his plowing and planting, his thrifty wife 
 may be seen eveiy snnny day gathering her basket of chips, 
 which she values almost more than the armfuls of solid sticks 
 with which he has filled her kitchen box. So in writing a town 
 history, some chips and knots will be scattered along the path, 
 which, though disjointed and incoherent, are yet too valuable not 
 to be gathered up. 
 
 The Queen Anne cannon procured by Mr. Main (p. 28) seems 
 worthy a brief notice. After thirty years' possession, in 1776 
 the gun was demanded back by Col. Evans acting in the name 
 of the Committee of Safety. The selectmen refused to give it up, 
 as seen by the following letter : — 
 
 "To the Honorable Meshach Weare Esq., President of the General Assembly 
 now sitting. 
 
 Sir : We received an order from the Committee of Safety for the Colony of New 
 Hampshire, in which we were desired to deliver to Col. Stephen Evans a four pound 
 cannon which is in this town to be returned to Piscataqua Harbor, &c. Col. 
 Evans applied for said cannon in April last, but without an order. We told 
 the colonel we looked upon the cannon to be the town's property, and that it might 
 be of service in alarming the country. &c., but still we told him we were wil- 
 ling it should be carried where your Honors should think it would answer the 
 best end, in case he would give a receipt and promise the value thereof equal 
 to what hath been given for other cannon bought for the use of the colony, on 
 which the Col. told us he was in no capacity to receive it on that condition, 
 and so left it. 
 
 On Saturday, 20th June last. Col. Evans sent again for said cannon, and 
 likewise sent the above order. But as the same difficulty subsisted that there 
 was at first (there being no person to give a receipt or rather security,) the 
 cannon was not delivered. 
 
546 ROCHESTER. 
 
 The Selectmen acquainted the Committee of Safety for said Town with 
 their proceedings relative to the cannon. They justify our proceedings, yet 
 thought the cannon ought to be carried where it would answer the best end, 
 but yet thought our request for the value thereof not unreasonable. 
 
 We would herewith testify our readiness to obey all such orders as we shall 
 receive from the Honorable House from time to time, as also our willingness 
 with lives and fortunes to bear our proportional part in defending and securing 
 to us the rights, liberties and privileges we are now contending for, &c. 
 
 We are, Sir, Yours, and the Honorable House's most Humble and Obedient 
 servants. . 
 
 JABEZ DAME, ) Selectmen 
 
 BARNABAS PALMER, )■ of 
 
 WILLIAM ALLEN, ) Rochester. 
 Rochester, July 3, 1776." 
 
 From this time the town retained undisputed possession of this 
 ancient reUc of royahy. It is impossible to trace all its wander- 
 ings, in which it seems to have experienced more than the usual 
 vicissitudes of earthly affairs, — from the minister's to the tavern, 
 — from scaring away "the barbarous Indian enemy," to cele- 
 brating with booming voice many anidversaries of national inde- 
 pendence; — used first by one political party and then the other 
 to hurl notes of defiance to their foes; — ever faithful through 
 good report and evil report; — until, like many a brave soldiei-, 
 its existence was thrown away in a noble cause by the folly and 
 recklessness of its commander. 
 
 Originally intended as an alarm gun to summon the people in the 
 hour of danger during the Indian wars, it was kept at Parson 
 Main's. It was afterwards moved to the Wolfe Tavern (p. 485), 
 a place of no small renown, being not merely the only public 
 house, but the only store, M'here not only accommodations for 
 weary travelers but such necessities of life as rum and crockery- 
 ware were dispensed to anxious customers. Here the old gun 
 for a long time found hospitable shelter, where its powers of loud 
 speaking were not over-tested by warlike youths. 
 
 Among the many episodes of its eventful history, we find the 
 following : On the day the Electors were to meet in 1840, the 
 Whigs arranged to fire a salute with the old gun. Knowing their 
 political opponents would prevent it if possible, they stationed a 
 guard around the place where the gun was kept the night before. 
 But in spite of all precautions, some one was crafty enough to 
 crawl into the house and spike the gun. But the work was so 
 hastily done, that the spike was easily removed, and the last toast 
 
UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 547 
 
 by which the day was celebrated was : — " The rat-tail file, — like 
 all other loco-foco experiments, — a complete failure." 
 
 The cannon was exploded July 4, 1845, by William J. Roberts, 
 William Hodgdon, and others. Its fragments found an inglorious 
 burial among metal of less noble origin in the iron heaps of the 
 foundry. The town had lost a time-honored friend, and there 
 were many mourners. 
 
 At the next town meeting the selectmen were instructed to 
 prosecute the individuals who had sold the old iron. There was 
 a long and expensive lawsuit in which the town was finally de- 
 feated by not being able to establish its ownership. This result 
 seems to have been well deserved by the town for neglecting to 
 care for so valuable a relic. 
 
 The town appears to have had no bills for the support of the 
 poor until 1749. The first pauper was Richard Hammock, one 
 of the original proprietors. Unwilling to acknowledge him as a 
 public charge, after supporting him one year the town sued " the 
 parish of Somersworth" for reimbursement. One item excepted, 
 the bills in reference to Hammock's case were the whole town 
 expenses for that year. As the town soon after refused to "hier" 
 a schoolmaster, the orthography of the records at this time may 
 be of interest to the reader. It was voted to build " a brig at 
 Cosheco river at N'orway Plains." And the Hammock account 
 stands as follows : — 
 
 " To cash paid 2 lawyears — 4 — 19 
 
 to paid Squr. Gage for swairing everdances — 7 — 6 
 
 to paid Squr. Millet for a jackets cloth 1 — 10 — 
 
 to paid Cornal Smith for acoppey of a warrant — 4 — 
 
 to paid for making Richard Hammock a shurt — 3 — 
 
 to paying y«^ jury — 13— 
 
 to treeting y*^ jury — 5 — 
 
 to paid for entering our axion at cort — 15 — 9 
 
 Cash paid for an appel — 5 — " 
 
 The case was evidently lost on the first trial, but on the " appel " 
 it appears that "treeting the jury" was attended with greater 
 success, for no more bills were paid for Richard, and the town 
 was credited with an execution against Somersworth. The amount, 
 however, scarcely exceeded the expenses of the lawsuit, — a result 
 not unknown in modern times. Many years passed before any 
 other pauper was established on the town, for the selectmen were 
 
548 ROCHESTER. 
 
 very prompt to " warn out " all poor persons before tliey could 
 gain a residence. 
 
 Tlie first census of tlie Colony of New Hampshire of, which 
 we have any record was in 1767. The returns from Rochester 
 were as follows : — 
 
 Unmarried men fi'om 16 to 00 years old, 86 
 
 Married men from 16 to 60 years old, 142 
 
 Boys 16 years and under, 257 
 
 Men 60 years and above. 26 
 
 Females unmarried, 280 
 
 " married, 166 
 
 Widows, 22 
 
 Male slaves, 3 
 
 Female slaves, 2 
 
 Total, 984 
 
 The next census was ordered by Governor John Wentworth, 
 n 1773, when Rochester made the following returns : — 
 
 Unmarried men from 16 to 60, 123 
 
 Married men from 16 to 60, 210 
 
 Boys 16 and under, 346 
 
 Men 60 and upwards, 26 
 
 Females unmarried, 437 
 
 " married, 241 
 
 Widows, 34 
 
 Male slaves, 2 
 
 Female slaves, 1 
 
 Total, 1,420 
 
 Another census was taken in 1774, of which we have the fol- 
 lowing Rochester record : — 
 
 " Families, 291 
 
 Free males, 785 
 
 " females, 763 
 
 Slaves, 3 
 
 Total, 1,551 
 
 The first State census was in 1786, of which the following is 
 the return : — 
 
 " State of New Hampshire : Pursuant to a Resolve of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives, the 3'i March 1786, We by the appointment of the Selectmen For 
 the Town of Rochester, Have Numbered the Inhabitants of the Town, and find 
 their To Be 2453 Free Citizens as Taken By us alsow 3 Negroes. 
 
 JAMES ADAMS, 
 DANIEL WINGATE, juu. 
 Rochester June 5"\ 1785." 
 
UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 549 
 
 In 1791 there were reported. 2,857 ioliabitants; and in 1800, 
 3,675, or exclusive of Farmington, which had heretofore been a 
 part of Rochester, there were 2,646. The census returns since 
 1800 have been as follows : — 
 
 1810, 
 
 2,118 
 
 1840, 
 
 2,431 
 
 1870, 
 
 4,104 
 
 1820, 
 
 2,471 
 
 1850, 
 
 3,006 
 
 1880, 
 
 5,788 
 
 1830, 
 
 2,155 
 
 1860, 
 
 3,384 
 
 1890, 
 
 7,395 
 
 As in most New Hampshire towns these early records show 
 traces of the existence of slavery. In 1767 five slaves were re- 
 turned from Rochester, three male and two female. One of the 
 latter was Huldah Bickford (p. 82). The other is unknown. The 
 males were Mrs. Main's "negro man Pomp," "Ca?sar" the slave 
 of Capt. Jonathan Ham who lived at " the Neck," and one un- 
 known. Jonathan Ham was a sea captain, and a man of some 
 note in those times. With the aid of C?esar, who had been trained 
 to the cultivation of tobacco, he was able to raise his own " weed." 
 It is said that he once sent home some coffee, but as he gave no 
 directions about its use, the family cooked it as they would beans. 
 After boiling it a long time with no prospect of softening, they 
 gave it up in disgust, Capt, Ham raised more potatoes than any 
 other man in town. One year his crop filled a half hogshead, 
 and people far and near speculated with much wonder what he 
 could do with so many. Soon after coming from the South, 
 Cpesar awoke one morning to find the ground covered with snow, 
 which puzzled his wits exceedingly. Thinking it must be sugar 
 he seized a hoe and began eagerly scraping it into heaps, and 
 was much vexed, on tasting, to discover his mistake. At one 
 time Capt. Ham was dangerously sick, and Csesar was very anx- 
 ious. When Dr. Howe came, he inquired if " Massa Ham " would 
 get well. The Doctor told him that he thought his master would 
 die, and that nothing but prayer could save him. Ciesar, who was 
 very religi(.)us, immediately hastened to the barn, whither the Doc- 
 tor noiselessly followed, and heard him utter earnestly the following 
 prayer : — 
 
 "O Lord! do sabe Massa Ham! Massa Ham a berry good man! Massa 
 Ham good to make plow 1 Massa Ham good to make harrow ! O Lord 1 don't 
 take Massa Ham ! If you must take somebody, take old Bickford ! he ain't 
 good for nothing." 
 
 The Doctor repeated this to Capt. Ham with such exhilarating 
 
550 ROCHESTER. 
 
 effect that lie began to mend at once. So Caesar's prayer saved 
 his master. He was afterwards known as " Cfesar Wingate " 
 from living for a time at Judge Wingate's on the Chestnut Hills 
 road. Twenty years ago the anthor conversed with an old lady 
 who remembered C?esar well and had many anecdotes of his odd 
 and semi-savage habits. His ebony face, glistening eyes, and ivory 
 teeth made a deep impression on her youthful mind. Like most 
 of the slaves in 'New Hampshire he became free at the close of 
 the Revolution. It is worthy of remembrance that while our 
 toAvn has to bear the stigma of having held men in slavery, one 
 of this abused race stands on the roll of honor, as one of the 
 quota of Rochester in the Revolution, and fought three years for 
 our independence (p. 71). In 1783, the same year that our inde- 
 pendence was acknowledged, the last slave in Rochester died, and 
 Mr. Haven considered the fact worthy of notice in his discourse 
 the following Sabbath. He remarked : — 
 
 " Every one who prizes liberty will piously wish that this may be the last 
 African ever held as a slave in this place. Liberty is alike precious to all; and 
 we ought to abhor the idea of slavery, when it is not a punishment for some 
 previous crime." 
 
 The records of every town will be found to contain some refer- 
 ence to the " surplus revenue" which is a puzzle to most of the 
 present generation. In Jackson's administration the United States' 
 revenue was larger than the expenses of government, and in 1836 
 Congress voted to " deposit the surplus " with the several state gov- 
 ernments. I^ew Hampshire divided her share among the several 
 towns in proportion to the population. March 14, 1837, Rochester 
 voted to receive her part, and the agent appointed received from the 
 state treasurer $5,496.12. This was loaned at six per cent interest, 
 and the town voted to appropriate the income for the support of 
 schools. In December, 1841, it was decided by a vote of more than 
 three to one to divide the " surplus fund" equally among the legal 
 voters and widows having a settlement. The following March an 
 unsuccessful attempt was made to reconsider this vote. Owing to 
 some mismanagement or unwise investment, the amount divided 
 in 1845, which with accumulated interest should have been as much 
 as $6,500, w^as only about $3,700. Had the fund been wisely in- 
 vested and held, the town would have had an annual income of some 
 
UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 551 
 
 $325 for schools. As it was, it practically amounted to nothing for 
 the town's benefit, each taxpayer receiving only a few dollars. 
 
 ROCHESTER MILITIA. 
 
 Public holidays have long played an important part in the lives of 
 the laboring peoj^le of N'ew England. Besides the various state and 
 national holidays, Rochester, like other towns, has often observed 
 certain days of her own for recreation and enjoyment. At present 
 no holiday is so eagerly awaited by the inhabitants of this and the 
 neighboring towns as the Rochester Fair, held at that most delight- 
 ful of seasons, the last of September and the first of October. The 
 general muster of the militia at the same time of year was a holi- 
 day of no less interest and importance to the people of two preced- 
 ing generations. By a state law of 1792, able-bodied citizens be- 
 tween the ages of eighteen and forty-five were required to meet 
 twice a year for military drill. To these spring and fall trainings 
 for each company in its own town was afterwards added the annual 
 muster of the Thirty-ninth Regiment. This regiment consisted of 
 five companies of regular infantry, one from each of the villages of 
 Farmington, West Farmington, Milton Three Ponds, Gonic, and 
 Rochester, together with one Light Infantry Company collected 
 from all parts of the district, and the Rochester Artillery Com- 
 pany.* Sixty years ago this company ranked among the finest 
 military organizations in the State. The only other companies that 
 could be regarded as its rivals were the Strafi:brd Guards of Dover, 
 the Rockingham Guards of Portsmouth, and the Keene Light In- 
 fantry, commanded by the veteran Gen. James Wilson. In its early 
 days this arm of the old militia was the pride of Rochester and em- 
 braced many of her best citizens. This company was organized as 
 early as 1825 by William Hurd,t wdio was its first captain. Under 
 his command the company became noted for efficiency and exact 
 discipline. It was his boast that when drilling as infantry, he could 
 " march them over a ha3'-mow without breaking ranks." His daugh- 
 ter, Mrs. Hubbard, relates, with commendable pride, that when 
 they were to engage in a sham fight and competitive drill at Dover, 
 
 * The following account of this company is mainly on authority of Colonel Whitehouse. 
 
 t William Hurd moved into the village about 1816, and left manj' remembrances of his 
 public spirit, among which are trees of "his planting which still beautify both sides of Main 
 street. 
 
652 ROCHESTER. 
 
 her father, anxious that every member should be on time, had the 
 whole company assemble at his house in the night, where he gave 
 them a hot breakfast and then marched them to Dover, whence 
 they marched back the same night, " bringing the prize with them." 
 They were trained to perform the most difficult evolutions at the 
 motion of the sword, and rarely made a mistake. After the death 
 of Captain Hurd in 1830, Jonathan H. Henderson commanded the 
 company, and his successors in office were Joseph Dame, James M. 
 W. Downs, Charles Demerritt, Lewis Garhmd, George W. Yarney, 
 and Ezekiel Ricker who commanded the company for the last seven 
 years of its existence. Members were carefully selected as to size 
 and all other qualifications, and ever}- man who could not " fill the 
 bill" was rejected. Consequently, membership was sought as an 
 honor, and its ranks were filled with bright, energetic young men, 
 and its officers were men of public spirit, standing, and character 
 in the community. Thus the company was a favorite with the peo- 
 ple, and its gatherings for drill were always looked forward to with 
 much interest. Their gun was an exceptionally fine brass six- 
 pounder, which was kept in a building near where the schoolhouse 
 stands, on the east side of the common, bearing the inscription, 
 " Gun House, 39th Reg't." On the disbandment of the company 
 in 1849, this gun was returned to Portsmouth. 
 
 The same year the " Rochester Phalanx " was organized with J. 
 H. Edgerly as captain, but it was found impossible to arouse suffi- 
 cient militar}' enthusiasm to maintain its activity for more than a 
 year. 
 
 The regimental muster of all these companies was usually held 
 at Rochester, but on different fields : one year at the old trotting 
 park, one year near where Samuel Varney lives, but generally in 
 later years either on the Kenney field (p. 489) back of where Wal- 
 lace's factory now is, or on the Hale field across the railroad from 
 where Breed's factory stands. The scenes and incidents of those 
 muster days defy description. Everybody and his wife and chil- 
 dren, rising long before day, came flocking to town in rattling 
 wagons, hay-carts, ox-carts, and lumbering vehicles of indescribable 
 variety, or hastening across the frosty fields on foot, clad in Sunday 
 garb, with glowing faces and staring eyes, eager to be astonished at 
 the long-expected display, and to enjo}' the sports and excitements 
 of the occasion. The proud militia man himself would get up in 
 
UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 553 
 
 season to do all his chores about the farm, and from miles distant 
 arrive on the scene at five or six o'clock in the morning. And if 
 such was the excitement of private citizens and soldiers, who can 
 estimate the fiery zeal and swelling pride of the oflicers as they 
 strutted about in the morning or issued orders to their companies 
 from the tavern steps, and later in the day came upon the field re- 
 splendent in the glory of blue coats, white pantaloons, and tall caps 
 shining with patent leather and decked with waving plumes of 
 snowy whiteness, — seeming to the gaping crowd greater than king 
 or president ! Usually nobody had a higher appreciation of their 
 greatness than the officers themselves, who resented the slightest 
 infringement upon their exalted dignity. And yet the officer's po- 
 sition was not of unmixed pleasure. It had its drawbacks. His 
 election brought the immediate necessity of treating the company, 
 and 'a frequent method of " honoring an officer " was to assemble 
 around his house in the early morning, weakening him with their 
 furious cheers, and then partake of a hearty breakfast not ungar- 
 nished with other " refreshments," at his expense. Such things 
 have a tendency to constant growth, so that in later times, at least, 
 many refused military ofiice on account of the increasing attendant 
 expenses. 
 
 The muster field at its best presented a gay appearance. The 
 various companies drawn up in line, with muskets and accouter- 
 ments bright and clean, the ofificers scattered between the lines with 
 fine uniforms and stately plumes, the Light Infantry much like the 
 ofiicers but with shorter plumes, and the Artillery Company with 
 their formidable cannon, together with the motley crowd on every 
 side, must have been an attractive and interesting scene. Ginger- 
 bread carts, candy stands, and all sorts of variety shows, with an 
 occasional fight between heated partisans from different towns, af- 
 forded abundant merriment and diversion. Liquor and gambling 
 booths grew more and more frequent, so that one year Captain 
 Samuel Jones and his company from Farmington made a charge 
 upon them and pitched them and their belongings over the fence, 
 (p. 313.) 
 
 The brisk step, tlie martial dignity, and the clear, distinct orders 
 of the morning had, in those days, generally become somewhat 
 limp, languid, and indistinct toward the close of the day. Many 
 still living can remember the great contrast between the inspiriting, 
 
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554 ROCHESTER. 
 
 lies ■ 
 
 clear-cut, exactly-timed strains of fife and drum as the companies 
 came marching to the field in the morning, and the slip-shod, 
 timeless whistle, and fumbling taps as they started on their home- 
 ward way. 
 
 Doubtless many anecdotes might be picked up to illustrate the 
 amusing peculiarities of those great days. It was customary to fire 
 a salute at the moment the Colonel appeared on the field. One 
 Colonel, deeply sensible of the dignity of the office to which he 
 had just been commissioned, complained to the Artillery Company 
 that their salute was not loud enough, — not at all such as the 
 Colonel of the Thirty-ninth Regiment ought to receive. The 
 company made no reply, but the next year loaded their cannon 
 to the very muzzle, and awaited his arrival. As he rode upon 
 the field, erect and swelling with a proud sense of his great dignit}^, 
 the salute came w^th a terrific explosion. Everybody was startled, 
 and the Colonel's horse becoming unmanageable cast his noble form 
 with all its splendid adornments sprawling in the dust. As they 
 intended, no further complaints were made of the weakness of their 
 salute. 
 
 This same Colonel in making the customary speech to the Reg- 
 iment in the afternoon, was very pompous and fond of using high- 
 sounding words without regard to their fitness. One of his expres- 
 sions has come down to the present time. He said he hoped nobody 
 would do anything to " disgrace, enhance, or rklicale " the militia. 
 
 The last general muster was in 1847, and the remembrance of 
 those festive scenes is fast fading away, so that it is now diflicult 
 to realize the important position which " Muster Day " held in 
 the lives of our predecessors. Descriptions of those days not only 
 afford entertainment, but are a valuable part of history, furnishing 
 a characteristic picture of N"ew England life during the first half 
 of the present century. 
 
 A little more than ten years after the dissolution of the militia 
 system, the people were suddenly summoned to arms to defend the 
 life of the Nation, and instead of gala-day festivities, came weary 
 marches, and fields deluged with blood. There was no longer the 
 time or the disposition to 'play at soldiering in presence of the fearful 
 reality. Nearly twenty years elapsed before the young men of 
 another generation began to feel the fascinations of military display. 
 The State made provision for volunteer service, and companies were 
 
UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 555 
 
 formed in all tlie cities and most of the large towns. The company 
 formed at Rochester appears on the state rolls as Co. E, 2d Eegi- 
 ment ^ew Hampshire JS'ational Guard, but was organized as the 
 Sturtevant Guards July 11, 1884. This name was in honor of J. D. 
 Sturtevant (p. 477) who made them a donation of $100. The first 
 officers were Isaac D. Piercy, captain ; Fred L. Chesley, first lieu- 
 tenant; and Horatio L. Gate, second lieutenant. 
 
 " Mechanics' Band " was organized in 1839, by John Hall, who 
 became its leader. The original members, besides himself, were 
 Wingate Chase, Shubael B. Cole, John Crockett, Natt Crosby, 
 William French, William Gledghill, Thomas Hall, John Holler, 
 Benjamin Jellerson, Eli Lord, Markwell McDuftee, John ]^eil, 
 George B. Roberts, Andrew Robinson, I. W. Springfield, Eben 
 Welch, Isaiah IST. Wilkinson, and Charles Young. At the time 
 of the celebrated Tippecanoe Jubilee, June 17, 1840, a log cabin 
 was sent from Great Falls to Concord, with a great crowd of 
 people, among whom were about two hundred from Rochester 
 accompanied by Mechanics' Band. This band attracted much 
 attention and was regarded one of the finest in the State. " On the 
 return of the band to Rochester the ladies of the village awaited it 
 with a beautiful flag, which was presented in a neat speech by Eliza 
 Kenney (afterwards Mrs. Z. Sargent), and a speech of acceptance 
 was made by G. B. Roberts. This flag was kept by John Hall for 
 forty years and presented to the American Band." 
 
 The " Rochester Brass Band " held its first meetings in the old 
 Court House, in September, 1850, and continued six years. Its 
 membership was as follows : — I. W. Springfield, president; Charles 
 G. Horney, leader; George Allison, John Beecher, Andrew Giles, 
 Thomas Hall, Abial Home, Edward Horney, George H. Horney, 
 Benjamin Jellerson, Charles E. Manson, Levi L. Pierce, John H. 
 Richardson, T. Richardson, John W. Ricker, and James Robinson. 
 
 The " American Band," which is still flourishing, was formed 
 in September, 1871. For most of the time Lewis S. Clark has 
 been its director. From 1876 to 1881 this band hired the services 
 of Mr. Carty, and under his skillful training achieved a desirable 
 reputation in the surrounding country. Its financial success has 
 
656 ROCHESTER. 
 
 been largely due to the wise management of its treasurer, Charles 
 F. Caverly. 
 
 In 1889 the " Cadet Band " was formed, composed of French 
 residents, and has already made creditable progress under the 
 directorship of Lewis S. Clark. Rindge'S Band of Gonic was 
 organized the same year, so that Rochester has three bands at the 
 present time. 
 
 East Rochester has had two bands at different times, but too 
 short-lived to achieve much distinction. 
 
 ROCHESTER FAIR. 
 
 In 1874 the people of Rochester becoming dissatisfied with the 
 management of the old County Fair, determined to start one of 
 their own, and the " Rochester Agricultural and Mechanical Asso- 
 ciation " was formed " to improve and stimulate mechanical and 
 agricultural skill." AVithin three weeks after the subject was first 
 broached, the fair was in successful operation on the old Riverside 
 Trotting Park. A hastily collected exhibition of farm and mechan- 
 ical products was displayed in a canvas tent. For the next two 
 years no fair was held because satisfactory arrangements could not 
 be made with the Riverside Association. In 1877 and 1878, how- 
 ever, fairs were successfully held on the same ground. After trying 
 in vain to purchase the Riverside Park, the Agricultural and Me- 
 chanical Association bought a tract of thirty-eight acres, which 
 they named " Cold Spring Park," from the powerful spring in a 
 wooded ravine on its eastern side, from which a steam-pump 
 forces an abundant supply of pure cold water to all parts of the 
 grounds. The first fair held in this park was in 1879. The 
 exhibition building then used was destroyed by a violent storm 
 in the wdnter of 1882, and the present one was erected the fol- 
 lowing summer, being in the form of a Maltese cross 90 feet each 
 way. Besides this there is a mechanics' building 35 by 100 feet, a 
 grand stand capable of seating two thousand persons, and stables 
 1,250 feet in length. There is also an art building 25 by 60 feet 
 with a graceful tower in the center, and a " Cafe " consisting of 
 two wings, each 25 by 77 feet. Nearly $25,000 has already been 
 expended, and during the coming year it is proposed to enlarge 
 the present buildings, to erect a shed 300 feet long for town teams, 
 and largely improve the ground in other respects. 
 
UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 557 
 
 The Association was formed by seventy men who paid a dollar 
 each for membership, and this $70 is all that has been paid in, 
 except the income of the fairs. In 1886 the organization was 
 changed to a stock company with one hundred shares of $50 each. 
 One share was given to each of the seventy original members, 
 but the other thirty shares have never been issued. The first 
 officers were I. W. Springfield, president; A. S. Parshley, secre- 
 tary; and A. W. Haj^es, treasurer; all of whom have retained 
 their offices to the present time. 
 
 This institution has been phenomenal in its growth and success. 
 From the small show in the canvas tent of the first fair, its large 
 and elegant buildings are now yearly crowded with rare and inter- 
 esting products of the soil or of the shop, and from the hundreds of 
 1874, it has come to attract thousands of people from the sur- 
 rounding country to gaze with admiring eyes on its annual displays 
 of agricultural and mechanical productions. The first year only 
 about $1,200 was taken, but in 1890 the receipts were over $10,000. 
 This great success has been due not only to the fact of meeting 
 a public want, but largely also to the enterprising skill of its 
 principal managers, and especially to the efficient energy of its 
 treasurer, Captain Hayes. 
 
 SECRKT SOCIETIES. 
 
 For indisputable antiquity, universal celebrity, and world-wide 
 brotherhood. Freemasonry is easily first of all secret orders. The 
 founding of a Lodge in Rochester was mainly due to the eflbrts of 
 J. H. Woodman (p. 332), who presented a petition therefor at a 
 special communication of the Grand Lodge which was held at 
 the house of Andrew Lovejoy in Sanbornton, October 25, 1809, 
 Edward J. Long being Grand Master. A dispensation was issued 
 to J. H. Woodman, Timothy F. Preston, Benjamin Wiggin, and 
 others, to assemble as a Lodge of Masons in Rochester; and at 
 a quarterly communication of the Grand Lodge at Portsmouth, 
 October 24, 1810, Clement Storer being Grand Master, a charter 
 was granted them to assemble under the title of " Humane Lodge 
 No. 21." This Lodge has from the beginning borne upon its 
 records the names of many of the best and most distinguished of 
 our citizens, and consequently has had a successful and honorable 
 career of useful and benevolent activity. 
 
558 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Temple Chapter No. 20, of Royal Arch Masons was organized 
 under a charter bearing date May 18, A. I. 2405, A. D. 1875, with 
 the following charter members: — James Farringtou, Charles B. 
 Gafney, George Corson, Joseph A. Dame, Charles K. Chase, James 
 H. Edgerly, Solomon H. Feineman, Frederick Feineman, Isaac 
 W. Springfield, Franklin McDuftee, Charles E. Manson, Arthur 
 D. Whitehouse, E. C. Blackmar, Everett M. Sinclair, AVilliam 
 Moore, and Silas G. Kellogg. The first High Priest was James 
 Farrington. The present membership, October, 1890, is 117, with 
 John L. Copp as High Priest. 
 
 Among benevolent organizations of modern origin, Odd-fellow- 
 ship is deservedly pre-eminent, March 16, 1846, Motolinia Lodge 
 No. 18 was instituted by Grand Master S. H. Parker, with Charles 
 Dennett, Stephen M. Mathes, Jacob McDuflfee, M. T. Curtis, and 
 Edwin Bradbury as charter members. Asa P. Hanson, George B. 
 Roberts, I. W. Springfield, and John Stott were initiated the same 
 day, and Asa P. Hanson was the first Noble Grand. At the end 
 of the first year there were 48 members, 39 residing in Rochester 
 and 9 in Farraington. Woodbine Lodge of Farmington, and 
 Miltouia Lodge of Milton both sprang from this Lodge, besides 
 the other two Lodges in Rochester. The character of the mem- 
 bership and the management of this Lodge have secured to Odd- 
 fellowship a high standing in this vicinity. 
 
 Kennedy Lodge I. O. 0. F. was instituted by Grand Master S. J. 
 Osgood, August 24, 1875. The charter members were Thomas 
 Brown, Ira Doe, John Crockett, Charles W. Brown, Osman B. 
 Warren, Wilbur F. Warren, John H. Pingree, George W. Rollins, 
 and James H. Warburton. Twenty-one were initiated the first 
 night, and the first Noble Grand was Charles W. Brown. 
 
 Cocheco Lodge No. 39 I. 0. 0. F. was organized at East Roch- 
 ester, April 26, 1878, Grand Master Henry A. Farrington con- 
 ducting the ceremonies. Elbridge H. Corson was the first Noble 
 Grand. 
 
 Norway Plains Encampment I. 0. 0. F. was instituted September 
 11, 1849, by Past Grand Master S. H. Parker, and the first Chief 
 Patriarch was Thomas Brown. 
 
 Of still more recent benevolent orders, the Knights of Pythias 
 stands foremost. Rising Sun Lodge No. 7, K. of P., w^as instituted 
 
UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 559 
 
 January 5, 1870, with twenty-two charter members. W. F. Horn 
 was first Chancellor Commander, Andrew Daggett holding the 
 same office at the present time, October, 1890. This organization 
 has flourished from the beginning, and bears on its rolls the names 
 of many of our leading citizens. 
 
 The order of "Patrons of Husl)andry," better known to the 
 public as " Grangers," began in the city of Washington in 1867, 
 and has rapidly spread over the whole country. Rochester Grange 
 No. 86 was organized May 30, 1876, and is composed of some of 
 the best farmers in town with their families. The first Master was 
 I. W. Springfield, who held the oflBce for ten years. His successors 
 have been Dudley B. Waldron and Frank P. Wentworth. 
 
 Runnawitt Tri])e IS'o. 9, Improved Order of Red Men, was insti- 
 tuted on the 3d Sun, Warm Moon, G. S. D. 396 (]\Iarch 3, 1887), 
 with T. C. Hennem, Prophet, and J. S. Daniels, Sachem. The 
 Order has rapidly increased, containing at present one hundred and 
 twenty-five members with C. W. Evans, Prophet, and L. G. Cooper, 
 Sachem. 
 
 Sampson Post, G. A. R., has already been noticed (p. 235). 
 
 Other secret orders are quite numerous in Rochester, as : — the 
 Knights of the Golden Eagle; the Golden Cross; the United Order 
 of American AYorkmen; the Ancient Order of Hibernians; the 
 Saint Jean Baptiste Societe; the Ancient Order of Foresters; the 
 Good Templars, and doubtless many more. 
 
 CEMETERIES. 
 
 The first recorded mention of a burial ground in Rochester is 
 found in the Proprietors' record of May 28, 1744, when six acres 
 of land was given to Mr. Main with the condition that he should 
 not encroach on the burying place. This was probably the same 
 burying ground which having been before " given by the Propri- 
 etors" was laid out June 28. 1777, — "beginning about 20 ft due 
 East from the N'orth East Corner of the meeting house." The six 
 acres deeded to Mr. Main included this lot, and lie left it by will to 
 his " heirs and assigns forever." Tradition says that in digging the 
 first grave a stone was found so large that it had to be drawn out 
 
560 ROCHESTER. 
 
 by a joke of oxen, and that it was left as a natural monument at 
 the head of the grave, where it may still be seen near the upper 
 wall. The oldest legible inscription is that of John McDuifee, 
 who died 1752. Another worthy of notice is "In memory of Mrs. 
 Elizabeth Plumer Wife of the Hon. John Plumer Esq. who died 
 Jany 26. 1770." Here also are buried several of the early min- 
 isters, as has been previously mentioned. (Chap. VI.) Another 
 stone bearing the name of Mrs. Elizabeth Cochran recalls a sad 
 accident. She was traveling on horseback with her husband 
 from Londonderry to Conway, and her horse taking fright she 
 was thrown near the Wolfe Tavern where she soon died Oct. 21, 
 1778, in the thirty-first year of her age. This lot is now known 
 as the " Haven Hill Cemetery," and has long ceased to be used, 
 except occasionally by the descendants of a few old families. 
 
 After the new meeting-house was built in 1780, it was proposed 
 to have the common around it for a burying-ground according to 
 the old English custom, and a few interments were made there. 
 But the ground was so wet that the graves would fill with water 
 as fast as they were dug, and the dead were removed to what is 
 now known as the " Old Cemetery." This was laid out in 1800, 
 according to the following record : — 
 
 " Return of Burying ground 
 " Agreeable to a vote of the Town of Rochester passed, we have laid out of 
 the Town's land for a burying place as follows, beginning neai- the clay pits 
 on a line extended from the lower side line of the lot sold Hatevil Knight 
 North 82° east four rods from said Knights corner and run on said line about 
 eleven rods to some land sold to ^laj Solomon Perkins & Benjamin Palmer then by 
 said Perkins & Palmer land twenty rods — then Towns land South 48° east nine- 
 teen rods to a stake then by land left for a four rods road south 50° east eleven 
 rods to the first bounds containing about one acre & fifty five square rods — also 
 we have agreed with Jabez Dame Esq and with Joseph Hanson to move theer lots 
 lower down 2 rods to open a pass to & from said Burying yard between said Jabez 
 Dames lot i<i land of Widow place laid out this 25"^ day of August 18(10 
 
 Rich<i Dame ^ 
 Beard Plummer > Selectmen " 
 Joshua Allen ) 
 
 The claj- pits mentioned refer to a very ancient brickyard near 
 the " Old Cemetery " and recall the following anecdote. Messrs. 
 U. and W. were sworn enemies. Mr. U. was very sick with fever, 
 and one night said to John McDuftee who was watching with 
 him, " I am very sick and may die, and I don't want my bones 
 made into brick, to be put into W.'s hearth, for him to put his 
 feet on." 
 
UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 561 
 
 The oldest legible inscription here is " Marj- B. Wife of Hatevil 
 Knight, Died 1801." This lot remained unfenced for many years, 
 and wdien the little son of Capt. William Hurd died in December, 
 1826, he built a fence around the grave, with a tablet bearing 
 this verse : — 
 
 " Sacred should be the place where sleep the dead, 
 Behold this rooted up, by cattle fed. 
 When our devoted friends are buried here 
 The ungrateful man forgets, nor sheds a tear." 
 
 Through his influence the cemetery was fenced soon after. 
 
 By the eftbrts of Charles A. C. Hanson a fund of nearly five 
 thousand dollars has been secured for the perpetual care of the 
 " Old Cemetery." (Appendix.) The care of this under the annexed 
 conditions was accepted by the town at the annual meeting March 
 11, 1890. 
 
 Foreseeing the necessity of a new cemetery, Franklin McDuftee 
 and Ebenezer G. Wallace bought the land adjoining the " Old Cem- 
 etery " in order to reserve it for that purpose alone. September 9, 
 1864, they sold it to the Rochester Cemetery Association for $750, 
 the same that they paid for it. This lot has since been known 
 as the " New Cemeter}'," and is described in the deed as follows : — 
 
 " Beginuiug on the northerly side of the road leading from Rochester Village 
 to East Rochester at the Southwesterly Corner of land owned by the Great Falls 
 and Conway Railroad Company, thence running north thirty eight degrees west by 
 said Companies' land twenty four rods tivs links thence south fifty one degrees 
 west seventy nine rods fourteen links to the stone post in the northeasterly corner 
 of burying ground recently oi^ened by Walter F. Farrington ; thence south thirty 
 two degrees east by said burying ground nine rods and twenty links; thence 
 southerly by said burying ground fence as it now stands to land of Silas Went- 
 worth ; thence south Seventy two degrees east by said VVentworth's land twelve 
 rods twenty links to the road running to East Rochester; thence by said road 
 north forty nine degrees east thirty six rods eight links ; thence north fifty degrees 
 east by said road forty six rods to the bound begun at." 
 
 They sold the first lot June 1, 1865, to Thomas E. Sherman of 
 Newport, E. I. Sixteen days later they bought of Walter F. Far- 
 rington a small "■ heater-shape " piece of land adjoining. May 9, 
 1877, they purchased of Enoch T. Willey fifteen and seven six- 
 teenths acres just across the road from their first purchase. This 
 lot was bounded on one side by the old road to East Rochester, 
 and on another by the Great Falls & Conway railroad. March 
 23, 1841, the Association bought still another lot adjoining the 
 
562 ROCHESTER. 
 
 last. The first burial here was that of Jonathan Overaud, August, 
 1865 (p. 513). Suice then the '' New Cemetery '' has filled rapidly, 
 and its neatly kept walks and grounds with many fine monuments 
 are worthy of special notice. 
 
 The cemetery back of the Gonic schoolhouse was originally part 
 of the Benjamin Hayes' farm now owued by Col. Charles S. AMiite- 
 house. It is practically, however, a public burying ground, and 
 has been used as such for as many as seventy-five years. It contains 
 some one hundred and seventy-five graves. 
 
 Cold Spring Cemetery, named from a spring of clear, cold water 
 in its northerly corner, is situated on the bank of the Salmon Falls 
 river, just east of East Kochester village, and contains about five 
 acres. The land was bought of George AV. and Joseph Blaisdell, 
 March 29, 1883, by an association consisting of Charles Blaisdell, 
 Elbridge H. Corson, Frank AV. Corson, John L. Dillingham, 
 George L. Hayes, Sidney B. Hayes, George MeCrillis, Joel S. 
 McCrillis, John C. Shorey, and Stephen F. Shorey. Joseph Blais- 
 dell's son Benjamin F., who died November 16, 1864, of wounds 
 received in battle, had already been buried in this lot. After it 
 was laid out as a cemetery, the first burials were children of J. C. 
 Shorey and E. H. Corson, which were disinterred and brought 
 here. The next burial was that of William P. Folsom, who died 
 February 19, 1884. Between seventy and eighty lots have been sold, 
 and the grounds are being beautified and improved every year. 
 
 About half a mile west of Rochester village lies the French 
 Catholic Cemetery which was consecrated May 30, 1886. 
 
 The Irish Catholic Cemetery a little below the village on the 
 new road to Dover was consecrated July 4, 1888. 
 
 Some other small private burying grounds recpiire no special 
 notice. 
 
 A strange fanaticism which gained a footing in East Rochester 
 and other places, about thirty years ago, cannot well be omitted 
 in a history of the town. 
 
 Elder George J. Adams, who had been a Methodist minister for 
 eight years, afterwards a stage actor, and a Mormon preacher, 
 suddenly made his appearance one rainy Sunday in October, 1861, 
 at the house of John AV. Tebbetts, where Isaac Rankius now lives 
 at Blaisdeirs Corner. He had his wife and bov with him and asked 
 
UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 563 
 
 for food and shelter. Duriiiiz; the preceding year he had gathered 
 a few followers at Springlield, Mass., and was now on his way 
 to Maine. At Addison, Me., iind the vicinity he gained a large 
 number of disciples, among whom a Mr, McKenzie joined him in 
 publishing a paper called " The Sword of Truth and Harbinger 
 of Peace," and furnished considerable money for his other schemes. 
 After a few months he came hack to East Rochester and held fre- 
 quent nieetings in the church and in the schoolhouse at BlaisdelPs 
 Corner. Tie declared that he had been appointed of God to es- 
 tablish the true " Church of the Messiah " ; that two angels had 
 ordained him to the Priesthood of Melchizedek, and had given 
 him power to heal the sick by laying on of hands. Many crowded 
 to hear him, and a great impression was made, about forty joining 
 his church. They called themselves " Ephraimitcs," and said that 
 the other churches were Babylon. He persuaded them to turn all 
 their property into money and follow him to Palestine where the 
 Lord would soon come and make them rulers; some over ten 
 cities, and some over five, according to the Scripture promise. He 
 took their money to buy land in what he called the " Valley of 
 Jehoshaphat," near the city of Jatfa, each one paying from $45 to 
 |100 dollars in gold for a lot. By his persuasive speech he induced 
 one hundred and tifty-six persons, about twenty-five of whom were 
 from East Eochester, to intrust their money and themselves to his 
 care. They sailed from Jonesport, Me., on the 10th of August, 
 1866, and on arriving at Jatfa, built sixteen houses on a lot of 
 about four acres just outside the city. They soon found they 
 had been terribly deceived. " The first building put up was a 
 rum-shop, and its best customer was the elder. One of his cronies 
 said that he spent over $500 in liquor in a few months, and was 
 subject to delirium tremens. He had control of the funds, nearly 
 all of which he appropriated to his own use." By the next June 
 starvation was at their doors with no prospect of relief, and many 
 of their number died from the hardships encountered. In the 
 very extremity of their distress, Moses S. Beech of New York 
 gave the money necessary to bring them home, where a remnant 
 of fifty-three arrived November 15, 1867. 
 
564 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Occasional " mad dog" scares fiirnisli excitement to almost every 
 country town. One such occurred in liocliester about 1812, when 
 hydrophobia seemed to have assumed an epizootic form. Col- 
 lector Hayes had a steer bitten in the tail by a mad fox which 
 he fortunately killed on the spot with a stake. The steer was 
 also killed and burned in a great fire built for the purpose. 
 Seeing what appeared to be a mad dog running by, Squire Plumer 
 hastily mounted his horse and hurried to warn the people. After 
 biting some other animals the dog was killed in Mr. Barker's 
 yard. A dog-killer's club was formed, and the members ransacked 
 the tow^n, slaughtering every dog they could find. Some families 
 tried to conceal their pets, but they were all dragged out and 
 slain. One old lady had a hog bitten in the nose, and her hired 
 hands were about to kill it, but she insisted on building a pen 
 wdth a high fence to secure it from harming any other animal, and 
 it gave no further trouble, proving the best hog of the season. 
 
 About the first of November, 1860, quite a sensation was pro- 
 duced by the discovery of human bones, by some boys jumping 
 down a sand bank near the old trotting park, where the notorious 
 " Foss Tavern " once stood. They were thought to be the remains 
 of a young Nova Scotian named Webster who came here from 
 Newburyport, Mass., and was supposed to have been murdered 
 about 1846 by a rival in love. It was known that about 1853 an 
 old woman living near by, had sent for an " elder," when on her 
 death bed, and had made some startling confession, so that she 
 was very carefully attended, being apparentl}- under surveillance 
 instead of neglect as before. 
 
 Every town has its peculiar local names, the origin of which is 
 often a puzzle to succeeding generations. The only remembrancer 
 to Rochester people of the Rev. Avery Hall is found in the name 
 " Whitehall Swamp," sometimes written White Hall. In the dry 
 years of 1761-62 this tract was so deeply burned over that the 
 soil itself was almost destroyed. After the fire, white birches 
 sprang up and covered it so thickly that it became literally white. 
 A large part of it being " parsonage land " belonged to Mr. Hall 
 while he was the legal minister. Hence the name; perhaps, at 
 first, Hall's White Swamp, which would be easily transposed to 
 the present form. The name first appears upon the town records 
 durins: Mr. Hall's ministrv. 
 
UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 565 
 
 " Blue Job " in the edge of what is now Farmington received 
 its name in a similar way. "Blue" describes the appearance of 
 the mountain, or, as some say, alludes to the great number of 
 blueberries that grow there ; and " Job " is from Job Allard who 
 formerly owned the mountain. Of most other Rochester local 
 names the origin is obvious or has already been given, 
 
 E'ew^ Hampshire streams have always been subject to great 
 " freshets " or floods. Old records refer to such in 1770 and 1785, 
 s-weeping away mills and bridges in all directions. That they are 
 less frequent or less destructive in recent times is doubtless owing 
 both to firmer built structures, and floods rendered smaller by the 
 extensive removal of the ancient forests. 
 
 On the first page of the fly-leaf of the old town book, which 
 begins wdth records of 1737, we find the following: — 
 
 " Rochester June y^ 30'" 1759 we had a severe hard frost which killd most of the 
 Pumkins Vines and Beans Squashes and cucumbers and cut the Tops of the corn 
 of through most of the town — 
 
 " Monday 15"^ Jau^ 1770 and the Day before was as Great a Flood of Rain as 
 has been Known in the Age of a man wiiich sv.'elld the fresh Rivers so as to Sweep 
 away most of the Bridges over them hereabout and in this Town in Particular and 
 many Mills were Carried away or much Diimaged." 
 
 A few now^ living still remember the famous " cold season " of 
 1816, and many of the present generation have been deeply im- 
 pressed b}'^ the accounts of it which they have heard from parents 
 or grandparents. The following is a page from " John Plummer 
 Jun^ Day book began the 12'^ day of October 1803." The dates 
 are a little mixed : — 
 
 " 1816 July 4'h Dreadfull windy and cold & frost nites for four days in succession 
 it was so cold that a person felt uncomfortable with winter cloths on ; it stoped the 
 corn from growing and killed a great part of it ; beans and other things in propor- 
 tion the 9"^ there was a total eclipse of the moon and a great frost. Pleasent the 
 10* but not warm. Began to weed the corn the 17"^ rain the 27, a small frost 
 very dry and warm till July 17*^ showers all day a frost finished hoeing 24"^ began 
 to mow 25* some corn spindled, grass uncommonly short, beef low & corn slim. 
 3 loads to odiorne place. 5 at blackwater mowed it in 3 days 18* August. 21*' at 
 night great frost killed most all the corn in the country. Sept, 3'^ finished mowing 
 3 loads at al lards, not | as much hay as usual, very dry and windy Sep' 11'^ at 
 night a heavy frost — Some Corn fit for to roast, but very little 13"^ a storm be- 
 gan, no rain before for about 6 weeks it was the driest time that has been known 
 for many years 16'*^ Cleared off very warm 19"^ a rainy night Cleared off 20"i warm 
 2P' a frosty night 25'^ a very heavy frost 26"^ another killed all the leaves on the 
 corn and part of the stalks, frose the ear through Corn in the milk, not but one 
 ear on twelve acres of ground in the place that is speckt. Cutting it all up by the 
 
Obb ROCHESTER. 
 
 ground and shocking it. October 8 finished diging potatoes 100 bu. in the Young 
 oi'chard 100 in the old orchard & 50 in the little pasture and elsewhere O"' Came 
 up overcast P ^I and rained some overcast the 10"^ misty & a shower P M. 14"^ 
 rain PM began at one. a smart rain 15"^ overcast finished making cider 12 hhds 
 rainy night. 16"' warm & overcast. 17"' rainy all day windy & squally night IS'^ 
 squally morning, windy all day Cleared off 19"! warm 21 overcast 22 rainy & a 
 very rainy night 23 Cleared off warm 25"' got all of the corn, about 10 bushels fit 
 to grind rainy night 2G"' rainy warm with a great deal of rain till NoV„ 11"' then 
 a little snow." 
 
 Many people still remember the spring of 1841 when snowdrifts 
 were over the fences till the first of May, it being the coldest 
 April ever known. Many cattle almost starved being compelled 
 to subsist by browsing trees cut for them by the farmers in the 
 lack of hay. 
 
 To all who remember the "Anti-Slavery Conflict," in which 
 originated the " Woman's Rights '' movement, so called, the name 
 of '' Abby Folsom "' must be familiar, though few may remember 
 that she was from Rochester. She was the daughter of Paul 
 Harford (p. 129), and was born in 1792. She married Peter 
 Folsom, who learned his trade of Capt. Odiorne, and kept a sad- 
 dler's shop in his house next below the Methodist Episcopal church. 
 He was a man of much wit and natural ability, but would have 
 occasional " sprees," though he reformed and was a consistent 
 member of the Congregational church in the latter part of his 
 life. After a few years trial, " Abby " left him, and returned 
 to live with her sister at their old home, from which they removed 
 to Boston. She became noted as an energetic advocate of all so- 
 called " reforms," and as one of the earliest woman lecturers. 
 She was benevolent and sympathetic towards all who were suf- 
 fering whether justly or unjustly, and would go into the courts 
 to plead for those on trial, and into the jails to seek their release ; 
 and if successful, would often take them to her home and aid them 
 to secure employment. She was a frequent visitor to the State 
 House during sessions of the Legislature, and whether there, or 
 at other public gatherings in halls or in churches, it was impos- 
 sible to keep her silent if anything was said that displeased her. 
 She was generally let alone to talk as she pleased, but when it 
 became necessary to good order to restrain and silence her, she 
 became violent and unmanageable. She felt she had a mission 
 and was determined to fulfill it in spite of all opposition. She 
 
UNCLASSIFIED MISCELLANIES. 567 
 
 was fond of little children, and often invited them to her home 
 when living in Rochester, and sometimes visited the schoolroom to 
 give them good advice or repeat to them some text of Scripture. 
 Returning in her last years to the old homestead she died there 
 August •), 1867, aged seventy-five years, and at her own request 
 was buried in the same grave with her sister in the old cemeter3\ 
 
 Only elderly people have now any adequate impression of the 
 intense bitterness of political rancor prevailing during the anti- 
 slavery conflict. At one time both Henry Wilson and a promi- 
 nent Democrat were to speak the same day in Rochester or vicinity, 
 and the friends of each had engaged a dinner for their speaker 
 at the Mansion House. Mrs. Wentworth prepared a special table 
 and dinner for them in her very best style. But when they were 
 ushered into the dining room, the Democrat refused to sit at the 
 same table with Wilson, — a specimen of merely political prejudice 
 which seems hardly possible here at the present time. 
 
 "' Parson Haven " said that he once laughed in meeting. Paul 
 Libbey was a tall, straight man who wore a flannel cap to keep 
 his bald head warm. Levi Dearborn, who was also bald-headed, 
 wore a wig. They were both singers and sat near together. One 
 Sabbath as they were standing singing, Libbey's cap fell oft'. Im- 
 mediately Dearborn threw oft' his wig that he might not look 
 difterent from his old companion. The sight was so amusing 
 that even the minister could not refrain from laughing. 
 
 In his last sickness the family asked Mr. Haven if he had any 
 wishes about the arrangements for his funeral. His answer was: — 
 " You attend to it. I shall be there,, but you will not see me." 
 
 Josiah Main, grandson of the first minister, was something of 
 ••a character" in his day. He was noted for ready wit and skill 
 in argument. Many characteristic anecdotes still survive. One 
 day he was at work for his neighbor. Squire Baker, and sat next 
 him at the dinner table. After asking the blessing, which Avas 
 very long, the Squire sought to clear his throat as usual with a 
 mug of cider which always stood by his plate. Somewhat sur- 
 prised to find it empty, he turned sharply and said, " 'Siah, did 
 you drink that cider?" "I did. Squire," was the answer, "we 
 are taught to watch as well as pray." 
 
568 ROCHESTER. 
 
 He was familiar witli the Scriptures and gifted in the use of 
 language. So one day when a company happened to be gathered 
 at Kurd's store near the common, among whom were Main and 
 Elder Runnals, a bet was made of two quarts of rum, which could 
 pray the best, the Elder or 'Siah ^lain. They had already " im- 
 bibed" rather freely, or the Elder would not have assented to 
 such a sacrilegious test. It fell to the Elder to begin, and he 
 prayed so earnestly that the neighbors and others gathered in 
 considerable numbers before he had iinished. Then Josiah began 
 and prayed with so much apparent fervor and effective eloquence 
 that he easily won the bet. "I don't understand how you did it," 
 said the Elder. " Why, I began where you left olf, and put in 
 what you left out, and that 's how I did it,"' replied Josiah. And 
 then they all took a drink. 
 
 He lived on Haven hill near the graveyard, and when seeking 
 his second wife, told her his home was in the thickest settled 
 part of the town. When she arrived at the little cottage standing 
 alone, she inquired in much surprise, "Where are the people?"' 
 " There they are," said her husband, pointing to the cemetery, 
 " but they are very quiet folks, and won't disturb you."' IN'ot long- 
 after he told her that their residence would be a good place for 
 a shoemaker. " "Wliy so?" asked his wife. "Because when the 
 people come forth at the resurrection, they will all be barefooted,"' 
 was his sober reply. 
 
 Soon after Mr. Upham was settled as pastor, he called on his 
 father's old friend, and said, "I don't see you at church, as I 
 should like to," "ITo," said Siah, "the fact is I have no suitable 
 clothes to appear in there, but I make use of my Bible all the 
 same." " Yes," spoke up his wife, " he uses it to hone his razor 
 Sunday mornings." " Parson," said Josiah, " do you know why 
 a woman does n't grow a beard ?" " IvTo," said Mr. Upham. " Be- 
 cause," was the reply, " she can't hold her tongue still long enough 
 to get shaved." 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 William N. Hastings, mentioned on page 12, distinguishecE for 
 his success in microscopy, is about to publish a pamphlet, " Des- 
 mids of T^ew Hampshire," to contain a list of all desmids abserved 
 by him, with full descriptions and ilhistrative plates of all new 
 ones. Only about one hundred varieties are known in the United 
 States, of which Mr. Hastings has discovered sixteen, a larger 
 number than any other person. He has kindly furnished the 
 following list, with the date when the diagnosis of each was p)ub- 
 lished in the "Anti-Monopolist and Record" : — 
 
 Staurastrum Megalonotum (Nordstedt) variety Obtusum, Hast- 
 ings, var. novum. Sept. 8, 1888. 
 
 Xanthidium Truncatum, Hastings, species novum. This was pub- 
 lished as X. Antilopajum, var. Truncatum, but Prof. Otto Xord- 
 stedt says it is a good species. Oct. 20, 1888. 
 
 Closterium Angustatum, var. Clavatum, Hast. var. nov. Oct. 
 20, 1888. 
 
 EuASTRUM Magnificum, variety Crassioides, Wolle, var. nov. 
 Discovered by \Y. X. H., named by Mr. "WoUe. Published Oct. 27, 
 1888. 
 
 EuASTRUM Hastingsii, AYolle, spec. nov. This was published as 
 E. Wollei, Hast., but Mr. "\Yolle says the name has ah^eady been 
 used and names it as above. Sept. 1, 1888. 
 
 GoxATOZYGON Ralfsii, Brcbisson. Xot new to science, but new 
 to United States flora. Xov. 17, 1888. 
 
 Staurastrum Maamense, Archer. Xot new to science, but new 
 to the United States flora. Xov. 17, 1888. 
 
 Staurastrum Crescentum, Hastings. Spec. nov. March 2, 1889. 
 
 MicRASTERiAS SwAiNEi, Hastings. Spec. nov. This w^as discovered 
 by Seorim Swaine of Rochester, and named as above by W. X. H. 
 June 20, 1889. 
 
570 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Closterium Robustum, Hastings, ^pec. nov. Dec. 26, 1890. 
 
 Ceosterium Maculatum, Hastings, spec. nov. Dec, 26, 1890. 
 
 Closterium Lineatum, var. Costatum, Wolle, var. nov. Nov. 3 
 1888. |, 
 
 The foregoing are all the species and varieties that have been M 
 published. Four more have been discovered and some others 
 
 not fully determined are under consideration. 
 
 (' 
 
 The first page of the first bound volume of Church Records is m\ 
 as follows : — the items evidently having been copied from some • 
 older record. 
 
 " A Book of Records of the Church of 
 Christ in Rochester A. D, 1766. 
 
 "December 26"^ ]728 Timothy Roberts moved his Family into Rochester, being 
 the first Family that Settled in said Town. (p. 43.) 
 
 "June 27"^ 174:6 Joseph Heard; Joseph Richards; John Wentworth; and Ger- 
 shora Downs were killed by the Indians, on the main Road about two Miles 
 from the Foot of the Town. At the same Time Sc place, John Richards was 
 wounded & captivated ; and on the same Day Jonathan Door, a young Lad was 
 captivated by the Indians at Salmon Falls Road in Rochester, (p 22.) 
 
 " May 1^' 1747 The Wife of Jonathan Hodgdon was killed by the Indians, 
 near Squamauagonic Mills, being Sabbath Day Morning." (p. 30.) 
 
 On page 22 the name of John Went\vorth was omitted by 
 mistake. The date of Mrs. Hodgdon's death is evidently as given 
 on page 30, as May 1, 1748 was the Sabbath. Jonathan Hodg- 
 don married again, and had in all twenty-one children. 
 
 Pages 245 and 265. 
 
 The first Sunday school in Rochester was started about 1819. 
 It is remembered that it was a year before the first one in Ports- 
 mouth. Hannah Upham first called a few children together at 
 the Court House. She was assisted by Ruth Haven, and after- 
 wards by Eliza March and Arabella Smith. The books used 
 were the Bible, Watts's Hymns, and the Catechism. At the close 
 of school they marched two and two to the meeting house where 
 they had seats in the gallery. It was .designed for poor children 
 
 1 
 
APPENDIX. 571 
 
 who had no instruction at home. Gradually others came in, and 
 the whole system slowly developed to include all who would meet 
 and study the Bihle. It was at first held only in the summer, 
 being kept through the winter of 1842-43 for the first time. The 
 following is the roll of the Union Sabbath School of 1826. A 
 part of the paper is torn oft', removing entirely the 5th class of boys 
 and mutilating the record of the 9th and 10th classes of girls. 
 The names above each class are written with pencil, and appear to 
 be the teachers. One or two are doubtful. 
 
 "15 Verses Each. Tim (?) Upham. 
 Class let Theodore C. Woodman, George Hoyt, Johu B. Hanson, Joseph H. 
 Hanson, Francis W. Upham, Benjamin D. Colbath, Jasper York, Haniford 
 Odlin. 
 
 Mr. McCriUis. 
 Class 2^ Charles Hurd, Rufus Hoyt, J^ohn Pray, Richard Ross, George Hoyt, 
 Wingate Chase. 
 
 Joseph (?) Smith. 
 Class 3''- Charles L. Hoyt, Albert Upham, Joseph Hurd, Charles Main, Joseph 
 Hayes, Charles Dame, Daniel Calef. 
 
 McDuffee. 
 Class 4"^ Shubal Cole, John D. Hoyt, Samuel Kennev, Charles Dennett, George 
 Main, Oliver H. Tebbets. 
 
 15 Verses. Sarah Ann March. 
 Class 1^' Sophia Henderson, Elizabeth Cole, Mary E. Hanson, Harriet Wood- 
 man, Esther Ann Hanson. 
 
 15 Verses. Miss Cole. 
 Class 2"! Sarah Jane Woodman, Ruth Upham, Maria Demerit, Sophia Hurd. 
 
 12 Verses. Rosa Brewster. 
 Class 3'^ Susan Bartlett Maria Woodman, Juanna Hurd, M. Hoyt. 
 
 12 Verses. Miss Pray. 
 Class 4"^ Caroline Hale, Betsey S. Chase, Roxana Runnels, Emerline Roberts, 
 Martha S. Roberts. 
 
 15 Verses Lucy Hurd. 
 Class 5"^ Marv Ross, Mary Tebbets, Sarah Tebbets, Susan Clark, Charlotte 
 Hurd. 
 
 12 Verses. Caroline March. 
 Class 0* Elizabeth Hoyt, Elizabeth Richards, Sally Hurd, L. Hurd Smith. 
 
 10 Verses. Mary Knight. 
 Claps 7"* Ruth Pierce, Mary Home, Elizabeth Home, Emerline Demerit, Mercy 
 Kenney. 
 
 10 Verses. Miss Dimmick. (?) 
 Class 8"! Dolly Haven, Lydia Haven, Susan Haven, Mary Demerit, Sarah 
 Bickford. 
 
572 ROCHESTER. 
 
 10 
 Class 9"> Hannah York, Elizabeth Hodgdon, Sarah 
 
 6 Verses. 
 Class 10"^ Sarah Charberlain, Mary J Ann Clark, Lavinia Corson, 
 
 Olive C 
 
 Class 11"^ Abigail Henderson, Sarah Ann Hoit, Sarah Jane Cole, Deborah Ann 
 Demerit, Lucretia Gowel, Elizabeth Ricker, Sally Hammet, Elizabeth Calf, Lydia 
 Downs, Maria York. 
 
 Pages 264 and 270. 
 
 The corner stone of the old Wesleyan Chapel was removed July 
 25, 1867, and the copper plates with the other articles mentioned 
 were found in a lead box about eight inches square and one and 
 one half deep, with a cover not soldered on. The documents were 
 in a moldering state, some of them dropping to pieces on the 
 slightest touch. The Bible was much worm-eaten, though the Book 
 of Discipline was in a better condition. The papers could none 
 of them be replaced. 
 
 The corner stone of the new house was laid August 1, 1867. 
 The ceremonies, after the regular church ritual, were as follows : — 
 
 "I. Announcement by the Pastor, Frank R. Stratton, of the several docu- 
 ments to be deposited, consisting of the two copper plates from the old Corner 
 Stone; a new copper plate with the following inscription: ' The Wesleyan Chapel 
 which was erected by the Methodist E. Church A. D. 1825 was demolished for the 
 purpose of erecting a more ample Structure A. D. 1867. Tlie New^ Methodist 
 Church was erected A. D. 1867, and this 
 
 CORNER STONE 
 
 was laid with imposing Masonic ceremonies by the Grand Lodge of New Hamp- 
 shire assisted bv Humane Lodge No. 21, and many visiting Lodges, August 1^* 
 A. L. 5867 ' ; the Bible ; the Book of Discipline : a Hymn Book ; list of Church 
 officials, class leaders, members of society, and building committee ; Centennial of 
 American Methodism ; INIethodist Almanac; Minutes of New Hampshire Confer- 
 ence; Ziou"s Herald; Journal of Grand Lodge of New Hampshire; list of officers 
 and members with the by-laws of Humane Lodge ; Rochester Courier containing 
 Memorial address by the Pastor ; one copy of each paper published in the County ; 
 the circular of invitation and programme of exercises; town report for 1866-67; 
 copy of Boston Journal; currency and coin in circulation from one dollar to one 
 cent; bills of the Rochester Bank of the earliest and latest dates; spectacles 
 worn by Col. John McDuffee, who died 1817, aged 9-1; Photograph of the Pastor 
 finished in India ink by Abbie H. Dennett. 
 
 II. Deposit of the box by John INIcDuft'ee. 
 
 III. Lowering the stone with solemn music by the band. 
 
 IV. Ceremonies of Masonic ritual conducted by Grand Master John H. Rowell 
 of Franklin, assisted by D. G. M. Alexander M' Winn of Farmington ; Senior 
 Grand Warden John R. Holbrook of Portsmouth ; James Farrington of Roch- 
 ester as Junior Grand Warden; and Betton W. Sargent of Rochester as Grand 
 Architect. 
 
APPENDIX. 573 
 
 V. Anthem : ' Wake the song of Jubilee.' 
 
 VI. Address by Governor Walter Harriman. 
 
 VII. Anthem: 'Praise God from whom all blessings flow.' 
 
 VIII. Benediction by Rev. R. M. Sargent of Farmington as Grand Chaplain." 
 
 Page 271. 
 
 " A tribute to the Memory of the Departed Heroes of Metho- 
 dism, both Ministers|and Laymen, of Rochester, ]^. H. : written by 
 request for the Ladies' Re-union Festival held upon the Dedication 
 of their new Church, March 26, 1868. 
 
 BY REV. SAMUEL NORRIS. 
 
 In this glad day of Zion's light, 
 
 With nursing queens and praying kings, 
 
 While we rejoice in prospects bright, 
 We think of days of feeble things. 
 
 Our fathers served the mighty God, 
 
 When few and scattered through the land, 
 
 When persecution like a flood 
 Assailed their cause on every hand. 
 
 Some called them " wolves in sheep's attire" 
 
 Invading other shepherds' folds ; 
 Others, fanatics wild with fire 
 
 To stir up strife in God's households. 
 
 I 
 
 "These zealous heretics contend 
 
 That all the world is harvest field; 
 Yet we our parish lines defend, 
 
 With stubborn hearts refuse to yield." 
 
 But onwai'd still they preached the cross, 
 
 In hamlet, field, or shady grove; 
 Counting the world but dung and dross, 
 
 To deck with stars their crown above. 
 
 A Letois Bates of robust form. 
 
 Dark as a cloud in yonder sky. 
 With voice above the raging storm, 
 
 Cried, "Sinners, O Avhy will ye die?" 
 
 A Josej)h Feck of mother wit. 
 
 Social, but wanting holy fire. 
 Hence many a scornful foe was hit 
 
 By ready shafts of keen satire. 
 
 A Bannister of prime good stock. 
 
 Eccentric, watchful every day, 
 Always retired at nine o'clock, 
 
 And rose at four to sing and pray. 
 
574 ROCHESTER. 
 
 A Damon Young among the best 
 Of all God's workmen in the field; 
 
 'Twas hard to let him go to rest; 
 His master called ; we had to yield. 
 
 The scholar, Ruter, from his youth 
 
 Was consecrated to the cross ; 
 He founded schools, proclaimed God's truth, 
 
 And fell a martyr to the cause. 
 
 John Brodhead, prince of pioneers, 
 
 In those old days of chivalry 
 Led Zion's hosts for scores of years, 
 
 And fell with shouts of victory. 
 
 Charles Baker, too, God's nobleman, 
 Courteous and kind, a genial friend, 
 
 Long worked the old itinerant plan, 
 And gained the conquest in the end. 
 
 We must not pass a Horton's name, 
 
 Able, precise, and dignified; 
 He labored long, acquired some fame, 
 
 Was much lamented when he died. 
 
 Another man of mark has gone, — 
 His preaching like a rushing flood, — 
 
 Far-famed as "■ Beformation John,'''' 
 And many souls were brought to God. 
 
 A son of thunder, Ebcn Blake, 
 For fifty toilsome years he stood. 
 
 Warning all sinners to forsake 
 
 At once their sins and turn to God. 
 
 Nor must we fail in this array 
 
 To give a Sanborn's honored name; 
 
 This gentleman, with some display. 
 He lived to God, and died the same. 
 
 D. Kilburn, in his manhood's prime 
 Mighty to preach, much on his knees; 
 
 For full two hours he many a time 
 Assailed John Calvin's dire decrees. 
 
 0. Scott, " a burning, shining light," 
 A prince in Zion's mighty host; 
 
 His services for black and white. 
 Ages to come will not be lost. 
 
 B. Eastman, too, long known and loved, 
 Was strong for Scripture holiness ; 
 
 Endowed with wisdom from above 
 He lived and died in perfect peace. 
 
APPENDIX. 575 
 
 J. Perkins long traversed our hills ; 
 
 His zeal and pathos made him great, 
 Our best appointments ably filled, 
 
 Was honored much in church and state. 
 
 William D. Cass has closed his day; 
 
 A man of God faithful and strong ; 
 His many friends will love to say 
 
 That ''few have done so well so long." 
 
 N. Bigeloiv and J. B. While 
 
 Were trained to learning from their youth; 
 Soldiers of Christ, to wield their might 
 
 To spread the glorious gospel truth. 
 
 Tall brother Lord, P. Hunger strong, 
 Two foremost men in battle strife, 
 
 Long lived to lead our hosts along, 
 And fell in hopes of endless life. 
 
 B. Fidel, F. Dame, and Worthing^ too, 
 Belonged to this select vanguard ; 
 
 L, Frost, A. Clark, <\xi6. Jaques, who 
 We trust have gained their great reward. 
 
 L. Wallace of the old school race. 
 The preacher and the magistrate, 
 
 Long lived to fill an honored place 
 In doing good in church and state. 
 
 L. Bemictl, and H. Morey, now 
 
 Close up the list of pioneers 
 Who held the mighty gospel plow 
 
 Among our hills in former years. 
 
 But valiant laymen in this band. 
 Quite as effective in their spheres ; 
 
 We can't forget the noble stand 
 
 Which they maintained so many years. 
 
 John Trickey and his godly wife 
 Did good to souls and bodies too. 
 
 Maintained their faith by works through life. 
 Excelled by none, equaled by few. 
 
 We note the Wentworth family, 
 TJionias and Richard, pioneers, 
 
 They loved salvation full and free, 
 And went to rest in ripened years. 
 
 How J. C. Cole would pray and sing! 
 
 His wife and mother swell the strain I 
 For them to live was Christ their king. 
 
 For them to die was endless gain. 
 
576 ROCHESTER. 
 
 And last, not least, Charles Bennett, who, 
 Sagacious, firm, in manners plain, 
 
 A Christian patriot ever true ; — 
 'Tis hard to fill his place again. 
 
 All these have run their mortal race. 
 Their master called them home to rest; 
 
 O may their sons well fill their place, 
 And wait their turn to join the blest 1 
 
 All other friends of righteousness 
 
 Whose honored names have not been given, 
 
 "Who lived for God, and died in peace, — 
 We hope to meet them safe in heaven. 
 
 The memory of the past is sweet. 
 
 The fathers' deeds of love ; — 
 While we enjoy their fruit so great, 
 
 They wear their crowns above. 
 
 ^lay we, their daughters and their sons, 
 
 Prove worthy of our sires, 
 And consummate what they begun, 
 
 And set the world on fire. 
 
 O may this blessed truth abound 
 
 Throughout this world forlorn ! 
 And ^Methodism be handed down 
 
 To nations yet unborn ! 
 
 Conclusion. 
 
 We leave the living grenadier, 
 
 Both clergymen and laymen, 
 To make report in person here. 
 
 With an emphatic Amen I 
 
 Page 300. 
 
 Humphrey Hanson, a 3'onnger Ijrother of Dominicus, composed 
 some Immorous verses describing the various tricks of the dealers, 
 and induced one of the well-known drinkers to recite them in 
 public places about the village. A few of these verses were as 
 follows : — 
 
 " I've a song for your noddles though not very good, 
 For something is meant though not well understood, 
 Concerning our merchants so artful are they, 
 Though they've no rum to sell they'll give it aivay. 
 
 There's C— n, and H— n, and M — h I mean, 
 Three as clever good fellows as ever were seen, 
 
APPENDIX. 577 
 
 But show them your money and tell them you'll pay, 
 Though they've no rum to sell, they'll give it away. 
 
 There's honest J — T — I liked to've forgot, 
 
 For he with the rest has a hand in the plot, 
 
 But for love of your health, for the sake of good pay. 
 
 Both water and rum he in fact gives away. 
 
 Now may God bless and prosper these dear, honest men, 
 "Who in buying and selling will make all they can ; 
 But this must be told them, 'tis well known that they 
 Are selling their rum while they give it away. 
 
 Now as to myself, I've not much to add ; 
 
 I was drunk all last week, and now feel quite sad ; 
 
 And as for my song, I'll ask for no pay, 
 
 But for just half a glass will give it away.'" 
 
 The following sketch written by Charles S. Felker (p. 459) 
 being received too late for Chapter XIY, is inserted here : — 
 
 SAMUEL D E M E R I T T . 
 
 Samuel Demeritt, a well-known blacksmith of Rochester and 
 a highly respected citizen, was born in Madbury in 1789, and at 
 the age of t"wenty-two married Miss Alice Locke of Barrington. 
 They had ten children: — Nancy F. and Lncy C. dying in infancy; 
 while Sophia L., Emeline L., Samuel, Jr., and Alice L. also 
 passed beyond in early life ; Elizabeth J. married Samuel S. Sher- 
 man of Salem, IST. Y., where she lived until his death, when she 
 removed to Dover, N". H. ; Maria B. married Nathan W. Wilson, 
 also a citizen of Salem. These two sisters died at Gonic within 
 eleven days of each other, while on a visit to the old homestead 
 in 1880. Mary J. lived in Dover, K H., until her death in 1875. 
 She was twice married; the first husband being Oliver P. Burley, 
 and the second John S. Glass. Deborah A., now ^Nlrs. William 
 H. Felker, is the only survivor. She was for a number of years 
 a successful school teacher in Dover, but since marriage has resided 
 at the former home of her parents. 
 
 Both Mr. and Mrs. Demeritt came of good stock ; the former 
 being a relative of Maj. John Demeritt who assisted General Sul- 
 livan in the capture of fort William and Mary at Portsmouth; 
 and afterwards took the powder which was first concealed under 
 
578 ROCHESTER, 
 
 the Durham meeting-liouse, but later removed by him to his farm 
 in Madbury for safer keeping, and hauled it in his ox-cart to the 
 colonial army at Boston, arriving on the day of the battle of Bun- 
 ker Hill ; while the latter was a lineal descendant of John Locke, 
 the renowned English philosopher. 
 
 Mr. Demeritt came to the town in 1815, and established his 
 business on Main street, just below the Knight house. He was 
 a master in his trade and besides running two forges, often worked 
 when the town was otherwise hushed in sleep. His great skill 
 in working steel extended to other towns, and brought him a large 
 amount of that kind of work. In public affairs he early mani- 
 fested a deep interest, and became associated with that class of 
 citizens who were known as the solid men of the town, because 
 of their quiet unassuming ways and strong determination to act 
 from conviction. 
 
 When he removed to Gonic in 1827, the place was in a very 
 crude condition. There was no church, no business of any con- 
 sequence except farming, and no more society than the country 
 districts of the present afford. Here he resumed his trade in the 
 brick shop which to-day forms part of a dwelling-house on Main 
 street, and found abundance of work awaiting him. Soon after 
 settling in his new home, he began to deal in real estate in con- 
 nection with his trade, and owned a large farm on the western 
 side of the village. On this farm is located the mineral spring 
 which was a favorite drinking place of the Indians, while the large 
 rock close by served as their lookout. Tradition says that a party 
 of braves were once surprised here while drinking, and the one 
 stationed on the lookout killed, his body being buried at the foot 
 of the rock. Many now follow the example of the red men and 
 resort to this spring in the hot days of summer, while some have 
 been benefited by its medicinal properties. 
 
 He freely gave his time and energy for the improvement of 
 the village, serving as a member of the committee that erected 
 the first church in 1840, which was dedicated in the Freewill 
 Baptist faith, and to this church he and his good wife assumed 
 allegiance. They were liberal in its support, and entertained a 
 large number of those who visited the parish. In fact so many 
 ministers stopped w^th them that their house soon became the 
 favorite resort of the clero-vmen. 
 
APPENDIX. 579 
 
 Mrs. Demeritt possessed a strong and sympathetic nature, while 
 her kind and generous spirit often cheered the unfortunate on 
 their way. Such a woman coakl not be other than a frequent 
 visitor to the sick chamber, where she was greatly valued. She 
 was one of those women who took great delight in ancient things, 
 and among the many family relics cherished by her descendants 
 is a silk dress which is of historical interest. This dress was 
 imported from China about[twp hundred years ago, and is a pure 
 yellow (the Chinese favorite color). It is compactly woven and 
 twice as thick as modern silks. The style is ancient, with short 
 waist, long sleeves, and wide collar, and any one wearing it would 
 probably have no trouble in attracting attention. Although made 
 nearly two centuries ago it is well preserved, especially the color, 
 which has never been changed from the original. This ancient 
 fabric is now in the possession of Mrs. William H. Felker, who 
 very appropriately wore it,' in the centennial year, at the golden 
 wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Downing Varney, wdiere she impersonated 
 Lady Washington. 
 
 " Uncle Demeritt," as he was called in the later years of his 
 life, served in the war of 1812, going to the defence of Ports- 
 mouth. In politics he was a Jacksonian Democrat, but a life- 
 long opponent of slavery, and it is related that a fugitive from 
 Kentucky bondage once rejoiced to find food and shelter at his 
 home. He was very conscientious in judgment, and was often 
 called upon to act as referee. The following incident will illus- 
 trate the great respect entertained for his integrity. A citizen 
 of Barrington once presented a bill against him to Hon. J. H. 
 Woodman for suit. 'Squire Woodman refused with the laconic 
 reply: — "He is an honest man." The suit was afterwards en- 
 tered, however, but during the whole session of court the man 
 failed to appear, and the judge" discharged the defendant in a 
 complimentary manner. 
 
 Samuel Demeritt died June 30, 1856, aged 66 years, and the 
 death of Mrs. Demeritt occurred April 19, 1866, at the age of 79. 
 
580 ROCHESTER. 
 
 The following lines written l\y J. S. Cutler (p. 288) were printed 
 in the " Rochester Leader " of June 20, 1888. 
 
 Where wild Cocheco dashes free, 
 
 Through countless windings on its way 
 
 To give its waters to the sea, 
 
 And birds make glad the summer day, — 
 
 Through shady woods, on plodding nag, 
 Rode Parson Main, — long years ago, — 
 
 The Bible in his saddle-bag. 
 And loaded gun for dusky foe. 
 
 A man of peace, he still believed 
 
 'Twas well to fight at duty's call ; 
 Allowing much could be achieved 
 
 By pushing prayer with musket ball. 
 
 His was a rigid iron creed. 
 
 But well he knew the right from wrong; 
 
 And hard he toiled with word and deed 
 To help the cause of right along. 
 
 With earnest face and stirring blood, 
 
 In time of drouth he prayed for rain ; 
 And when the heavens threatened flood. 
 
 He prayed to make it dry again. 
 
 He stirred the brothers' lagging zeal, 
 
 Backsliders knew his constant care ; 
 Denunciation sharp as steel, 
 
 He gave the scoffer for his share. 
 
 And thus he toiled the seasons through, 
 'Mid summer's heat and winter's frost; 
 
 Encouraging believers true, 
 
 And warning those he counted lost. 
 
 Wherever sorrow raised its cry. 
 
 His heart responded to the call ; 
 A healing fountain never dry. 
 
 His kindness flowed alike to all. 
 
 And hard he strove in devious ways, 
 
 Old Satan's crafty powers to foil ; 
 And ihis we know, — through all his days 
 
 The world was better for his toil. 
 
 Far from the truth these years have brought 
 He stood, — the subject of these rhymes ; 
 
 But in the days in which he wrought. 
 His was the spirit for the times. 
 
 Though rough and rusged were his ways. 
 Such lives the firm foundation laid. 
 
APPENDIX. 581 
 
 On which to-day the world may raise 
 The fairest structure Faith has made. 
 
 And if his creed was iron-bound, 
 
 And somewhat destitute of light, 
 In that great realm his soul has found. 
 
 Long since God's love has set him right. 
 
 And so he lived and toiled and died. 
 
 But where he resteth none can tell ; * 
 Good deeds he scattered far and wide. 
 
 But no man knoweth where he fell. 
 
 Somewhere amid New Hampshire's hills. 
 
 Where bright Cocheco's laughing wave 
 The vale with murmuring music fills, 
 
 The grass grows green upon his grave. 
 
 Somewhere amid the opening flowers 
 
 On lowly vale, or hill's green crest. 
 To-day through springtime's sunny hours, 
 
 The birds are singing o'er his rest. 
 
 So let him lie — it matters not — 
 
 The spot in which his ashes rest ; 
 Such lives can never be forgot, 
 
 And — well — God knoweth what is best. 
 
 Page 561. 
 OLD CEMETERY CONSERVATION FUND 
 
 PEKFETUA. 
 
 Whereas, the burial grounds known as the Old Cemetery, with such grounds 
 as have been added thereunto, and as now (January 18, 1890), enclosed by the 
 fence surrounding the same, and known as the Old Cemetery, situate easterly 
 of the common in Rochester (Village), in the County of Strafford and State of 
 New Hampshire, and bounded by land of the late Albert II. Wentworth, the 
 Rochester Cemetery Association, Mary S. Sanborn and others, are, to a large 
 extent in a neglected condition, and it is necessary that a permanent fund be 
 established for the future care and preservation of said cemetery, forever ; 
 
 Therefore, agreeable to amended Section seven (7), of Chapter forty-nine (49), 
 of the General l^aws of the State of New Hampshire, in relation to public cem- 
 eteries and })arks, approved August seventh (7th), A. D. eighteen hundred and 
 eighty-nine (1889), 
 
 Resolved, that the citizens of the town of Rochester, in the County of Straf- 
 ford and State of New Hampshire, in town meeting assembled, do, by vote, 
 hereby agree that said town of Rochester, in said county and said state, and 
 the citizens of such succeeding governments as may succeed the present town 
 goveriiment, do accept as a sacred trust from 
 
 NOAIl TEliBETTS AND OTHERS, 
 
 * This is evidently a mistake, arising, doubtless, from the facts in regard to Mr. Hill 
 (pp. 86, 89). 
 
582 ROCHESTER. 
 
 for the perpetual proper care, improvement and preservation of the said Old 
 Cemetery, Monied Contributions, aggregating 
 
 FOUR THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX DOLLARS ($4,366), 
 
 the same to constitute a fund to be known as the Old Cemetery Conservation 
 Fund, Perpetua, and to hold the same in trust forever; and to well and safely 
 invest and be accountable for, and do hereby agree to absolutely make good 
 all losses of the same and of the income therefrom, forever, and do hereby agree 
 to receive any and all contributions to said fund, as herein provided, from 
 whomsoever tendered, and incorporate them into the same, and do hereby agree 
 to become accountable for and to absolutely make good all losses of the same 
 and of the income therefrom, forever; and that said fund shall never be dis- 
 turbed or used — and that — the income only can and shall be used as herein 
 provided. 
 
 First : That one half (}4) of each fifty dollars and upward designated con- 
 tribution to said Old Cemetery Conservation Fund, Perpetua, shall have the 
 annual income accruing from said one half ()4) devoted by said authorities 
 (agreeable to the wishes of surviving relatives, as far as is justifiable and con- 
 sistent with the amount of money to be expended) to such lot or grave as said 
 contributor or contributors agree upon and designate, forever, in the following 
 manner : That three fourths ('■^Q of this said income, or so much only of the 
 three fourths (^4) as may be necessary, shall be devoted annually when neces- 
 sary, for all necessary and proper care, preservation and beautifying of said lot 
 or grave, and everything thereon, or that may hereafter be placed or erected 
 on the same forever, and for all reasonable compensation to said authorities for 
 services employed in carrying out the same forever — and— that the remainder 
 (if any) of this said three fourths (X) and the remaining one fourth (J^) shall 
 be set aside and to be well and safely invested by, and accounted for by said 
 authorities, the same to constitute an Emergency Fund, the income therefrom 
 to be added to tlie same annually, and do hereby agree to absolutely make good 
 all losses of the same, and that said Emergency Fund, or so much of it as may 
 be required, shall be used, when needed, for all necessary and proper restoration 
 and reproduction of all existing stones, tablets, monuments, inscriptions, stone 
 edging and fence on, or that may hereafter be placed or erected on said desig- 
 nated lot or grave, and for said purpose only, and — that — 
 
 Second: The remaining one half (}4) of this said class of fifty dollar and 
 upward designated contributions — and — all general contributions to said Old 
 Cemetery Conservation Fund, Perpetua, shall constitute a general part of said 
 Old Cemetery Conservation Fund, Perpetua, the annual income therefrom to be 
 devoted by said authorities, annually, when necessary, for all necessary and 
 proper care, restoration, improvement and preservation of the entire Old Cem- 
 etery at large, aforesaid, in common, and all existing and future lots and graves 
 therein (including all lots and graves that have no one to care for them, re- 
 gardless of contribution to this fund) forever, and for everything on, or erected 
 on, or that may hereafter be placed or erected on the same (agreeable to the 
 wishes of surviving relatives as far as justifiable and consistent with the amount 
 of money to be expended), and for all reasonable compensation to said author- 
 ities for services employed in carrying out the same forever — and — 
 
 Fourth : That all of the existing and future lots and graves and all thereon, 
 gate or gates, and fence or wall surrounding said cemetery grounds to have 
 precedence in this expenditure over the grounds at large, building or buildings. 
 Said Old Cemetery to always remain for the purpose now used, only, distinct 
 and separate from any other cemetery or burial ground forever. That the ap- 
 proach to said cemetery from the highway shall be kept in a passable condition 
 for foot or team by said authorities indeipendent of this fund. And that said 
 fund shall be exempt from any and all taxation forever, and that said author- 
 
APPENDIX. 583 
 
 ities do hereby agree to preserve, care for and perpetuate said Old Cemetery 
 forever, and to faithfully carry out all the measures, i^rovisions and conditions 
 of this instrument forever, without compensation, and cause the same to be 
 placed upon said town and said county records in full, and to be responsible 
 for all money received, invested and disbursed, and to absolutely make good all 
 losses whatever of the same forever, and to acknowledge in one or more of the 
 regular, reliable, established local newspapers of said Rochestei-, the receipt of 
 any and all contributions to said fund at time of receiving the same, stating 
 contributor, object, and amount, and to present their annual account and state- 
 ment of the said fund in their report to the public, annually, forever. 
 
 SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE ABOVE FUND. 
 
 $250 
 
 700 
 600 
 100 
 500 
 350 
 400 
 250 
 
 ISToah Tebbetts, Brooklyn, N. Y., on the Noah Tebbetts lot , 
 Dorainicus Hanson, on the Joseph and Dominicus Hanson lot 
 John jMcDuffee, on the Farrington and JNJcDuffee lot . . . 
 Harriet C Manson, Montclair, N. J., on the William Chase lot 
 Mary T. Seccomb, Brooklyn, N. Y., on the Moses Hale lot . 
 Charles B. Tebbetts, Lynn, Mass., on the Noah Tebbetts lot 
 
 Do. Do. on the Jeremiah H. Woodman lot 
 
 George E. Barnard, Lynn, Mass.. on the Richardson and Barnard lots 
 Francis W. Upham, New York, $50; ilrs. Mary U. Coe, Bangor, i\le., 
 S50; Joseph B. Upham, Portsmouth, $50; Charles U. Bell, Law- 
 rence, jNlass., $10; Eliza U. Bell, Exeter, $5; all on the Nathaniel 
 Upham lot ........... . 165 
 
 Mary Ann Whitehouse, on the Enoch Whitehouse lot . . . , 500 
 
 David Hayes, on the David Hayes lot 200 
 
 Abbie H. Dennett, on the Charles Dennett lot 100 
 
 Clara A. Warren, on the Joseph AVarren and George Robinson lot . 50 
 
 Charles A. C. Hanson, general contribution 101 
 
 Ephraim Hamraett, on the Ephraim Hammett lot 100 
 
 Total $4,306 
 
 SUBSCRIPTIONS SINCE ADDED TO THE CEMETERY FUND. 
 
 Misses Annie and Caroline Barker, on the Barker, JNIarch, and Chap- 
 man lots $200 
 
 ]V[rs. Bradford and Mrs. Rogers, on tlie Woodman lot . . . . 100 
 
 J. II. ^^^a^dwell, $50; Mrs. Pratt, $25; on the Knight lot . . . 75 
 
 Mrs. M. F. Robinson, on the Warren and Robinson lot ... 50 
 
 Total $4,791 
 
584 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 TABLE OF LONGEVITY. 
 
 Parson Haven said : " This town has always been ren:iarkable for 
 old people." 
 
 Tlie following list of deaths of persons eighty years old and up- 
 wards, from 1783 to 1867, was collected by the author. Ages not 
 exact, — supposed to be the nearest full year. 
 
 Date of 
 death. 
 
 1783. 
 
 1784. 
 1791. 
 1793. 
 1795. 
 1798. 
 1798. 
 1799. 
 
 Date of deatli. 
 
 
 
 Date of 
 
 
 Name. 
 
 Age. 
 
 death. 
 
 Name. 
 
 Age. 
 
 Mrs. Timothy Roberts, 
 
 first 
 
 1806. 
 
 Thomas Drew 
 
 95 
 
 civilized woman in town 80 
 
 1807. 
 
 ■\Vidow Biekford 
 
 90 
 
 Widow ]\IeDnltee . 
 
 91 
 
 180a. 
 
 Jonathan Hodgdou 
 
 90 
 
 Widow Perkins 
 
 93 
 
 1811. 
 
 Samuel Win gate . 
 
 90 
 
 Widow Twombly . 
 
 90 
 
 1815. 
 
 Widow Rebecca Trickey 
 
 98 
 
 Samuel Drown 
 
 19 
 
 1815. 
 
 Hon. John Plumer . 
 
 96 
 
 Widow Harford . 
 
 91 
 
 1816. 
 
 Lucy Place 
 
 95 
 
 Ebenezer Jones 
 
 90 
 
 1817. 
 
 Col. John McDuffee 
 
 94 
 
 Widow Richards . 
 
 99 
 
 1819. 
 
 Widow Heard 
 
 92 
 
 Jan. 
 
 June 
 
 July 
 
 Sept. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 May 
 
 Dec. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 April 
 
 May 
 
 Aug. 
 
 Feb., 
 
 April. 
 
 Sept. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 March. 
 April. 
 
 Jan., 
 
 Jan. 
 
 May. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 Feb., 
 
 May 
 
 July. 
 
 31, 182S 
 
 23. 
 
 18. 
 
 21. 
 
 1824. 
 
 15. 
 9. 
 
 1825. 
 
 11. 
 
 1826. 
 
 1827 
 
 1828. 
 
 1829. 
 1829. 
 1830. 
 
 183: 
 
 14. 
 
 1835. 
 1836. 
 
 Name. Age. 
 
 Ephraim Perkins 80 
 
 Lt. Joshua Holmes, a soldier of the Revolution . . 86 
 
 Samuel Stackpole 83 
 
 Widow Meader 91 
 
 AVidow of Ephraim Perkins 90 
 
 AVidow of Timothy Roberts 79 
 
 Joseph Tebbets 82 
 
 Josiah Main ......... 89 
 
 Isaac Twombly 85 
 
 Joseph Dame ......... 84 
 
 Widow of Deacon Trickey 81 
 
 Rev. Joseph Haven 77 
 
 Benjamin Kurd ........ 80 
 
 Widow Sarah Perkins 85 
 
 Morris Ellis 88 
 
 Ephraim Ham, the third white person born in Rochester 90 
 
 James Calef 85 
 
 Lj-dia, wife of Capt. Alexander Hodgdou ... 87 
 
 Benjamin Meder ........ 90 
 
 Abigail Holmes 89 
 
 Stephen Ham ........ 93 
 
 Widow Mary Hayes 91 
 
 David Tebbits, died in Berwick 96 
 
 Widow Mary Downing 90 
 
 James Pickering 84 
 
 Benjamin Roberts, sailed with Paul Jones, a soldier of 
 
 the Revolution ........ 76 
 
 Jolham Nutter ........ 84 
 
 Elijah Tebbetts 92 
 
 Alexander Hodgdou 92 
 
 Caleb Jackson 84 
 
 Benjamin Rollins 83 
 
 Johli Randall 90 
 
 Phebe Wentworth 89 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 685 
 
 July. 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 21, 
 
 1837 
 
 Aufr. 
 
 
 
 Oct: 
 
 13. 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 
 1S38 
 
 Sept., 
 
 
 1840 
 
 Jan., 
 
 
 1842 
 
 Oct. 
 
 18. 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 31, 
 
 1843 
 
 Nov. 
 
 4. 
 
 1844 
 
 Dec. 
 
 10. 
 
 1845 
 
 Jan. 
 
 25. 
 
 1846 
 
 Deo. 
 
 
 1846. 
 
 Ang. 
 
 
 1848. 
 
 June 
 
 1. 
 
 1849 
 
 July 
 
 12 
 
 
 Sept. 
 
 14. 
 
 
 April 
 
 8 
 
 1850 
 
 April 
 
 22. 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 13. 
 
 1851 
 
 July 
 
 21. 
 
 
 June 
 
 16. 
 
 1852 
 
 Aug. 
 
 15. 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 15. 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 9. 
 
 1853. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 14. 
 
 
 AjDril 
 
 8. 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 13. 
 
 .. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 
 1854. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 7. 
 
 
 May 
 
 15. 
 
 1855. 
 1856. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 6. 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 7. 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 19. 
 
 
 April 
 
 8. 
 
 1857. 
 
 July 
 
 13. 
 
 
 April 
 
 
 1858 
 
 Dec. 
 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 21. 
 
 1859. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 27. 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 March 
 
 June 
 
 20. 
 14. 
 
 1860. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 31. 
 
 1861. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 8. 
 
 
 Jan. 
 April 
 
 9. 
 5. 
 
 1862 
 
 Oct. 
 
 8. 
 
 1863. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 23. 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 
 1866 
 
 Aug. 
 
 
 1867 
 
 Lucy, M'idow of Dr. James Howe, died 
 
 Charity Drown 
 
 ]\Irs. Mary Twombly 
 
 Abigail Jenness 
 
 Elipiialet Cloutman 
 
 Betsey Henderson . 
 
 Elizabeth Twombly. 
 
 Mrs. Hannah Knight 
 
 Widow Sarah Hoyt 
 
 Hon. David Barker 
 
 Rose Murray . 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Home . 
 
 Samuel Allen . 
 
 John Gi'ay 
 
 Mary Wingate 
 
 Hatevil Knight 
 
 Phebe Libbey . 
 
 Nathaniel Ham 
 
 Mrs. Lydia Hayes . 
 
 James Chesley 
 
 William Jenness 
 
 Ebenczer Tebbets . 
 
 Widow Rebecca Seavey 
 
 Mrs. Lamson Varney 
 
 Widow Sally Knowles 
 
 Samuel Chamberlain 
 
 Abigail Wallingford 
 
 Stephen Ham . 
 
 James Garland 
 
 Susanna Hanson 
 
 Meribeh, wife of Amos 
 
 James Tebbets 
 
 Mrs. Hannah Nutter 
 
 Hannah, widow of Rich 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Sargent 
 
 Deborah Canney 
 
 Mrs. Abigail Foss . 
 
 Mehitable, widow of James McDuffee 
 
 Mrs. Abigail T. Murray 
 
 Stephen Place 
 
 JMary Garland 
 
 Widow of Amos Main, died in 
 
 James Robinson 
 
 Mrs. Phebe Jenness 
 
 John Nutter . 
 
 Widow Jane Pearl . 
 
 Dolly Dore 
 
 Elizabeth, widow of Stejihen 
 
 Abigail, widow of John Hayes 
 
 Sally Hayes 
 
 Lydia Ham 
 
 .John Nutter . 
 
 Mrs. Tebbets . 
 
 John Murray . 
 
 in Boston 
 
 Main 
 
 d Dame 
 
 Lowell, Mass 
 
 Place 
 
 John S. Parsons furnished the followino- 
 mortality" in the M. E. Society in 1884 
 
 39 
 
 record of " unusual 
 
686 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Date of death. 
 
 May 
 
 11. 
 
 27. 
 
 1884 
 
 June 
 
 12. 
 
 " 
 
 July 
 
 6. 
 10. 
 
 u 
 
 Aug. 
 
 8. 
 28. 
 
 " 
 
 Dec. 
 
 12. 
 
 " 
 
 Feb. 
 
 23. 
 
 1885 
 
 Marcl 
 
 1. 
 
 2. 
 
 15.' 
 
 ;; 
 
 April 
 
 16. 
 17. 
 
 22. 
 
 " 
 
 <. 
 
 .. 
 
 May 
 Oct. 
 
 23. 
 13. 
 
 <. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 13. 
 
 1886. 
 
 March 20. 
 
 " 
 
 April 
 
 8. 
 
 " 
 
 Name. 
 W. Knight Kimball 
 Sarah Varney . 
 Abigail Waldrou 
 Mrs. George Page . 
 ]\Irs. ^^'ylie Knight 
 Mrs. Susannah Dame 
 Mrs. Israel Tuttle . 
 Sarah C. Brock 
 Lydia Walker . 
 Mrs. Mary Duncan 
 Eliza Mclntire 
 Mrs. Otis Scruton . 
 Mrs. Hannah Pray . 
 Mrs. Cynthia Lindsey 
 Mrs. Sarah Hussey . 
 Mrs. C. W. Bradley 
 Jeremiah D. Richardson 
 John B. Clayton 
 Jesse Home . 
 Mrs. Betsey S. C. Hanson 
 
 Age. 
 74 
 82 
 83 
 72 
 37 
 83 
 61 
 74 
 65 
 74 
 72 
 78 
 78 
 92 
 73 
 59 
 76 
 81 
 88 
 71 
 
 The following copy of Baptisms and Marriages from the " Eoch- 
 ester Church Book of Records" from 1737 to 1824 is valuahle to 
 all interested in Genealogy. 
 
 BAPTISMS. 
 
 Aug. 28. 1737 Simon Bussell Baptized upon his Parents acct — 
 
 Sep. 11. Baptized Benj» Babb of Barrington — 
 
 Oct. 2 Rich<i Babb of Barrington Entred Into Cov' & was Himself Bap- 
 tized, & also his Chid John Babb — at y« same time Baptized Solomon 
 Clarke 
 
 Oct. 23. Baptized Beuj'^. Cops. 
 
 Nov^ Baptized Samuel Richards & his wife Sarah & their Children Name- 
 ly Deborah, Samuel, Sarah, Salome also Baptized James Berry. Baptized 
 Mary Drew 
 
 January. Baptized Mary Dearing 
 
 Feb. 8. Baptized Susanna Locke 
 
 March 26. 1737/8 Baptized Lvdia Main My Daughter — 
 
 April. 2. 1738 Baptized Joseph Herd & Sarah Bickford 
 
 June 31.* Baptized Sarah & Elizabeth Johnson at Barrington. 
 
 June 4. Baptized 3 Children at York old Parish 
 
 June. 11. Baptized Daniel jNIacFee 
 
 June 18. Baptized Joseph INIac'Intire At York New Parish y« Father of y« 
 Child Jn" ]\laclntire Then Renewed his Cov* with y' Chh 
 
 June. 25. William & Mark Jennes Entred Into Gov' with this Chh & 
 were both Baptized & at y^ same time Elizabeth Knight of Barrington also 
 took upon Her y*^ Baptismal C'ov' & was Baptized — 
 
 June 28. Baptized at Barrington Abraham & Richard & John Knight i& 
 Roger Swain all Children — 
 
 July. 2. Baptized Daniel Wentworth 
 
 July. 16. Baptized William Hannah, & Jemima Jennes y« Children of W"' 
 Jennes — 
 
 'So written; doubtless June 1. 
 
APPENDIX. 587 
 
 July. 26. BajJtized John & Susanna Layton at Barrington — Baptized 
 Triphena Stiles. 
 
 Feb. 12. Baptized David Cops 
 
 March. 25. Baptized Edward Tebbets upon his Entring Into Gov' & also 
 his child Jonatlian, at y'' same time Baptized Mary Plaice 
 
 April 1. 1739 Baj^tized Daniel Forst. 
 
 April. S. Baptized Robert Knight of above 70 years old 
 
 April 15. Baptized George Hayes 
 
 May. 6. Benj"' & Sam' Merry Jun"" Entred Into Govt & were Baptized. 
 At y« Same time Abigail y« Wife of Sam^ Merry Jun^ Renewed her Baptis- 
 mal Gov' — & I then Baptized y« children of Sam' Merrey Jun^ viz. Joseph 
 & Mai-y Merrey; Also then — Baptized Hannah Wentworth & Hannah 
 Locke. — 
 
 May. 13. Baptized Elisabeth Hammock w° then Entred Into Gov' — Also 
 Baptized at y'= same time Olive Richards — 
 
 May. 20. Baptized Ebenezer GroAv at Newington 
 
 May. 27. Baptized Mary & Sarah Babb at Barrington 
 
 June. 13. Baptized Daniel Jennes at his Fathers House 
 
 June. 14. Baptized Susanna Kenny at her own House Being Sick She took 
 y^ Baptisaial Gov' upon Her 
 
 June. 17. Baptized William Ham & Sarah Tompson. Daughter of Noah 
 Tompson 
 
 July 22. Baptized Betheua Allard. 
 
 Aug. 12. Baptized John Jennes & Izett Bussel 
 
 Sep. 9. Baptized Moses Downs. 
 
 Sep. 16. Baptized Joseph & Mary Dam, twins — 
 
 April 1. 174,0. Baptized Lydia Kenny Being Sick At her Fathers House 
 who dyed Soon after. 
 
 April. 20. Baptized Jonathan Richards 
 
 May. 11. Baptized Timothy Roberts & Esther Gops 
 
 June. 6. Baptized Natlian Horn At his Fathers House Being Sick 
 
 June. 8. Baptized Rebecca Bickford. 
 
 June. 15. Baptized Kezia Knight. 
 
 June. 22. Baptized Hannah Main my Daughter. 
 
 June. 29. Baptized Jontithan Young & liis Wife Anna who then Entred In- 
 to Gov' Also Baptized their Children viz. Hannah, & Jean Young. Also At 
 y« Same time Baptized j<^ widow Elizabeth , Drown Being near to 70 year of 
 age & her Son Samuel Drown w° both Entred Into Gov* & then Baptized 
 his son Solomon. 
 
 Aug. 3. Baptized Anna Forst 
 
 Aug. 24:. Baptized Joim Jennes 
 
 April. 5. 1741. Baptized Gharity Tebbets. 
 
 April. 12. Baptized Elizabeth Hayes. 
 
 May. 3. Baptized Abigail Wentworth. 
 
 May. 24. Baptized Agnes MaeNeal Her mother Jean Mcneal then Entred 
 Into Gov*. 
 
 May. 31. Samuel Whitehouse Entred Into Gov' & was Baptized & his Son 
 Stephen . 
 
 June. 14. Daniel MacNeal Entred Into Gov'. 
 
 June. 18. Baptized Dorothy Babb of Barrington. 
 
 June 21. Eleonour Berry Renewed her Baptismal Gov' & then Baptized 
 John Berry, Henry Allard, & Elizabeth Bussell 
 
 July. 1. Baptized Richard Howard at Barrington. 
 
 July. 12. Baptized Hannah Herd 
 
 July. 26. Mary The wife of Ithamar Sevey Renewed her Baptism' Gov* 
 
 Aug. 16. Baptized Benjamin Herd & Hannah Jennes. 
 
 Aug. 23. Baptized Shem Drown & Abigail Sevey. 
 
588 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Septem'. 6. Hannah y"^ Wife of James Plaice Renewed her Baptismal Gov* 
 Then Baptized hei* child Hannah — 
 
 Sept. 13. Abigail wife of Benj" Tebbetts Entred Into Gov' & Avas then 
 Baptized. Baptized also her Children Benjamin Daniel Ebenezer & Abigail 
 Tebbetts. also at y' time Baptized David Plaice. 
 
 Sep'. 27. Baptized Sarah Jennes & Hannah Hodgdon. 
 
 Oct. 4. Baptized Icabod Blagden — 
 
 Dee. 13. Baptized Elizabeth Downs & Sarah Richards. 
 
 Dec. 20. James Gray Stephen Berry & Abigail Tebbetts Renewed their 
 Baptismal Govenant. Also Thomas Hammock & Solomon Tebbetts Entred 
 Into Gov' & were Baptized 
 
 Dec. 27. John Hammock Jun'' & Elizabeth Pearl Entred Into Gov' & were 
 Baptized 
 
 Jany 3. Martha Kenny Enti'ed Into Gov' & was Baptized. 
 
 Jany. 10. William Ellis John Richards Sarah Layton & Lydia Layton All 
 
 Entred Into Gov' & were Baptized — at y« Same time Mary y« Wife of William 
 Ellis Renewed her Baptism' Gov' 
 
 Feb. 7. Abigail Plaice & Abigail Walker Renewed y'' Baptis^ Gov'. 
 
 Feb. 14. Baptized Ephraim Ghamberlain. 
 
 Feb. 28. Baptized L:izarus Rawlins at Newington. 
 
 March. 14. Baptized Hannah Forst of Barrington. 
 
 March. 16. Baptized Susanna Locke at y'' Neck Lecture 
 
 April. 18. 1742. Baptized Samuel Gops & Elizabeth Forst. 
 
 May. 16. Baptizd Jonathan, John, William, & Abigail Ellis. & Richard 
 Plaice — 
 
 June. 6. Baptized Sarah Cater at Spruce Greek 
 
 June. 13. Baptized Joshua Knight. 
 
 June 20. Baptized Lois Hodgdon — 
 
 July. 4. Baptized Temperance Bickford & Sarah Richards — 
 
 July. Baptized Sarah Roberts & Elizabeth Dearing. 
 
 July. Baptized Daniel Berry Son of Joseph Berry. 
 
 Aug. 8. Baptized Samuel Drew. Baptized James Shute of Barrington 
 
 Aug. 15. Solomon Drown Entred Into Covenant & was Baptized also 
 Baptized his Child Jonathan. 
 
 Aug. 29. Benjamin Tebbetts Entred Into Gov' & was Baptized & then 
 Baptized two of his Children viz William & James — 
 
 Dec"^ 13. Baptized Paul Tebbetts upon his Sick & Death Bed 
 
 Dec. 26. Nathaniel Son of Paul Tebbets Entred Into Gov' & was Baptized 
 — Also Baptized Henry, Paul, Israel, Josiah, & Joyce Tebbetts Children of y® 
 Widow Sarah Tebbetts 
 
 Jany. Baptized Drown of Samuel Drown — 
 
 Feb. Baptized elonathan White House 
 
 March 6. Baptized Gershom' Downs Ebenezer Drown and Hannah Hayes 
 
 1743. Baptized Mary Horn Baptized Mary Gate at her Fathers House at 
 
 Barrington — Baptized Anne Coleman Baptized Edgerly Baptized a child 
 
 for Humphrey GhatBurne at Berwick Mr. Wise Baptized Isaac Millers child. 
 Name Jean 
 
 Sep. 15. Baptized Daniel Berry at his Fathers House. He dyed 
 
 Sep' 18. Baptized Rebecca Herd. Baptized John Forst. Baptized Rebecca 
 Richards 
 
 Dec. 4. Baptized Jean MacNeal. 
 
 Dee'' 11. Baptised Ann Berry Daughter of Joseph Berry — 
 
 Feby. 6. 1743/4 Baptized my Daughter Abigail Main w" was Born Jany 
 27. 1743/4 About 9 at Night — 
 
 March 25. 1744 Baptized Moses Jennes 
 
 April 29, Baptized Moses Gops & W'" Trickey. — 
 
 July. 29. Baptized Sarah Blagdon — 
 
 Sep. Baptized David Richards Son of Sam' Richards. 
 
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 Nov"^ 4. Baptized Savah & Jean Dam Children of Elnathan Dam — 
 
 Jans'. 13 17'U/o Baptized Paul Horn. 
 
 Jany 21. Baptized Sampson Babb at Barrington. 
 
 Jany 27. Baptized Jolin Bickford 
 
 Feby. 3. Baptized William Berry & Mary Hodgdon — 
 
 Fehy. 24. Baptized Thomas Coleman & Betty Knight 
 
 March, 3. Baptized Gershom Wentworth — 
 
 March 24. Baptized Kebecea White House. 
 
 April 7- 1745. Baptized Benj"^ Forst — 
 
 April 28. Baptized Mary Roberts — 
 
 May 5. Baptized Peo;ge Door — 
 
 June Baptized Abigail Tebbetts — 
 
 June 19. Baptized Mary Shute at Barrington. 
 
 June 30. Baptized Thomas Wentworth Son ol Rich'' Wentworth 
 
 July 28. Baptized Jane Richards — 
 
 Oct" 27. Baptized Ephraim Forst of Barrington — 
 
 Dee. 12. Baptized W'" Babb & Jean Sevey 
 
 Feb. 12. 1745/6 Baptized Esther Howard at Barrington Lect 
 
 March 3. Phillip Door Jun"- & his wife Lydia Entred into Cov' & his Wife 
 was Baptized & their children Rich'^ Elizabeth Mary Olive Lydia & Phillip 
 Door 
 
 Marcli 23. Joseph Cook Entred into Cov' & was Baptized & his child 
 Abigail. Also Abr"'" Plaice Entred into Cov' & his Child Ebenezer was Bap- 
 tized Also Baptized James Downs — 
 
 May 25. 1746. Baptized Aron Jennes Mary M'^Neal & Mary Cops — 
 
 May 28- Baptized mary Jennes & Jenny Herd 
 
 June 8. Baptized Nath' Raynes at York old Parish. 
 
 Jvme 15. Baptized Betty Main at York old Parish. 
 
 June 25. Baptized Joseph Cate & Elizabeth Hayes at Barrington 
 
 July. 4. My Daughter Mercy Main was Born three quarters of an Hour 
 After Six of the Clock in y« morning, & She was Baptized on July 6th 1746 — 
 
 Nov 9. Baptized Molly Door — 
 
 Nov 23 Baptized Abigail Young 
 
 Nov'' 30. Baptized Thomas Davis & Abigail Odihorn at Durham 
 
 March 15-1746/7 Baptized Joseph Bickford — 
 
 March 22. Baptized David Allard — 
 
 March 28. Baptized Jean MacCrelis — 
 
 July 5. 1747 Baptized Sarah Forst — 
 
 Aug. 9 Baptized Ebenezer Horn 
 
 Aug. 16. Baptized Edward Lock 
 
 Sep"" 23 Baptized John Herd 
 
 Sep"" 27. Baptized John Berry son of Stephen Berry Jun"" 
 
 Nov'' 22 Baptized Ebenezer Tebbetts & Joslah Wentworth 
 
 Dec. 20. Then Recieved Jn° Beck Into Cov' with y^ lower or Second Chh 
 in Portsm" & Baptized his child Elizabeth Beck Also at y« Same Time Bap- 
 tized Hannah Eliot & John Forst 
 
 Feb. 14. 1747/8. Then Recieved Perkins Ayer Into Cov' with y« South Chh 
 In Portsm" & Baptized his Child & Seven Children more at y« Same Time 
 
 Feb. 21. Baptized two children at y"^ first chh In Portsm° 
 
 Feb. 28. Baptized two children at y"^ South chh in Portsm° 
 
 March 20. Baptized Benj'' Merrey Son of Benj'' Merrey at Rochester 
 
 April. 17. 1748. Reuben" Herd Renewed his Baptismal Cov*. Baptized his 
 Son Shadrach Herd — Baptized at y'' Same Time Lydia Blagdon — 
 
 April 24. Baptized Samuel Herd' Whitehouse 
 
 July. 17. Baptized Mary Bickford Daughter of Rich'' Bickford. 
 
 Sep'' Baptized Anna Cops — 
 
 Nov"" 6. Recieved Charles Roger & Mary his Wife into Cov' & Baptized 
 yr Son John Roger — 
 
590 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Jany. 9 1748/9 Baptized Samuel Sevey, when Dangerously [sick] at his 
 Father Ithamar Seveys House — 
 
 March. Baptized Mercy Cook. 
 
 April. 23. 1749 Baptized W^ Horn & W" Horseman at Dover — 
 
 May. 28. Baptized Elizabeth Babb — 
 
 June 4. Baptized Jonathan Bickford & Job Allard. 
 
 June 11. Baptized Susanna Forst v,'° was born y^ Same Day — 
 
 July. 16 Baptized Samuel Winget. 
 
 July 23. Baptized Lydia Marden Daughter of Jn° Marden. 
 
 July 30. Abner Dam & his Wife Renewed yr Gov' Baptized yr Child Jona- 
 than Dam at y« Same time — Also Baptized Robert M'=Crelis — 
 
 Aug. 20. Baptized James Door Son of Phillip Door Henry Door Son of 
 Henry Door & Mary Trickey. 
 
 Sep'' 3. Baptized Sarah Horn Eleonor wife of W" Chamberlain Ju^^ was 
 Baptized at y^ Same time as also their child William — y® Lord Increase ys 
 Little flock still more abundantly — 
 
 Sep. 17. Noah Cross Renewed his Baptismal Gov' with this Church 
 
 Octob"" 29. Baptized Joshua Edgerly & Stephen Wentworth 
 
 Dec'' 31. Baptized Phebe Horn of Summersworth — 
 
 June. 3. 1750 Baptized Benj'' Son of Ben]'' Berry Betty Ham Daughter of 
 Jon* Ham & Jean Rogers 
 
 June. 10. Baptized Betty Whitehouse — 
 
 June Baptized John Merry Sou of Benj'' Merry. 
 
 July. Baptized Triphena Berry Daughter of Step" Berry Jun"^ 
 
 July 1. Peter Cook Jun"' & Abraham Entred Into Gov' with this Ghh & 
 were Baptized Also at the Same Time Baptized Jon'' Dowuing Cook Son 
 of Peter afore'''^ & Phebe Cook Daughter of Abra"' Cook Afores'' Baptized 
 Also Job Forst Son of Joshua Porst of Barringtou — 
 
 Aug. 5. Joseph Walker Jun'" Renewed his Baptismal Gov' with ys Ghh 
 Baptized his Child John Walker 
 
 Aug. 12. Dan' Winget & his wife Mary Renewed their Baptismal Gov' 
 with ys Ghh Baptized their Son William 
 
 Sep"^ 2. 1750 Baptized Olive Garland & Hannah M-^Neal 
 
 Sep. 9. Baptized Hannah Jennes Abiocail & Sarah Roger — 
 
 Octob^ 7. Baptized Phena Jennes Daughter of Mar'' (?) Jennes 
 
 Octo"" 28. Jn° Piummer & his wife Renewed their Baptismal Gov' Bap- 
 tized yr Child Elizabeth Also Baptized Patience Bickford at y<= Same time. 
 
 Dec"" 9. Baptized Lydia Forst Daughter of Benj» Forst 
 
 Dec"' 19. Baptized Hannah & Benj" Drew at their Fathers House when 
 Sick — 
 
 Jany 20. Baptized Elizabeth Roger 
 
 Jany 27. Baptized Esther Whitehouse Daughter of W"" Whitehouse — 
 
 Feby 10. 1750/51. Baptized Jethro Horn Son of William Horn 
 
 Feby. 25. Baptized Mary Lock at Her Fathers House when Sick. 
 
 April. 7-1751. Baptized Jon* Young Sou of Tho^ Young — 
 
 April 14. Sarah y"^ wife of Joseph Pearl Renewed Her Baptismal Govt 
 with this Ghh At the Same Time Baptized their child Icabod Pearl — 
 
 April 28. Abigail Richards Entred into Gov' & was Baptized. At y* 
 Same time Baptized Mesheck Herd son of Reuben Herd — 
 
 May. 4. Job Clements Renewed his Baptismal Gov'. 
 
 May. 19. Baptized Deborah Tebbetts — 
 
 May 26. Baptized & Recieved Into full Gomuniou with ys Ghh Elisabeth 
 y« Wife of Barnaby Palmer— also Baptized Joseph Coleman & Moses Dam — 
 
 June. 16. Icabod Corson & his Wife Abigail Jn° Plaice & his Wife Lucey, 
 Anna y<= Wife of Tho^ Young all Renewed yr Baptismal Gov' with this chh 
 at y« Same Time Baptized their Children Kczia & Icabod Corson Mary 
 Plaice. Baptized Also James Bickford — Baptized Molley & Margaret Palmer 
 Children of Barnaby Palmer — 
 
APPENDIX. 591 
 
 July. 7. Baptized Abiel Daughter of Abr'" Cook. 
 
 July. 14 Baptized Martlia Drew Daughter of Tho^ Drew — 
 
 July 21. Baptized Ebenezer Hannah & Elizabeth Clements y« Children of 
 Job Clements — At y^ Same Time Baptized Dorothy Wiuget. Isaac Libbey 
 & his wife Sarah Took y'' Cov' upon ym Baptized his wife Sarah Libbey — 
 
 Aug. 11. Baptized Trustham Herd son of Jn^ Herd — 
 
 Sep'' 22. Baptized Bethena Cook Daughter of Peter Cook Jun"" 
 
 Sep"^ 29 Baptized Elihu Hayes Son of Hezckiah Hayes of Dover y* Same 
 Day m^ Cushing Batized at Rochester Ann & Elisabeth young CJhildren 
 of Jon" Young & Betty Corson Daughter of Icabod Corson. 
 
 Nov 24. Baptized Dolley Mighill. 
 
 Dec'' 8. Baptized John Chamberlain & Jonathan Palmer 
 
 Jan^ 21. 1752. Baptized Rawlings Blagdou & Joseph Berry at y'^ Neck — 
 
 Feb. Baptized Deborah Rawlings Daughter of Edw<* Rawlings. 
 
 April. 12. Baptized Sarah Door & Rebecca Trickey — 
 
 May. 3. Baptized Mary Roger 
 
 May 31. Baptized 7 Children at Barringtou viz: Richard Babb (s ?) 
 
 June. 14. Baptized Phebe Doore & Abigail Ham — 
 
 June 28. Abra"^ Pearl Admitted Into Cov* & was Baptized his Wife Re- 
 newed Her Baptismal Gov' Baptized yr son Paul Also Baptized Ja* 
 Knowles. & Joseph Cook — 
 
 July. 26. Baptized Joseph Plummer — Abigail Jennes & Elisabeth Mac- 
 Crelis — Lade Nelson of Barrington Recievecl his Baptismal Cov* with ys 
 Chh Baptized his child 
 
 Aug 23. Baptized Tabitha Foy 
 
 Sep' 6. Baptized Lydia .Jennes Isaac Wentworth 
 
 Sep. 13. Baptized Martha Whitehouse 
 
 Oct. 4. Baptized W"" Horn Sou of W'" Horn of Summersworth 
 
 Oct. 11. Baptized Hannah Merry 
 
 Nov 8. Baptized Jonathan & David Jennes — 
 
 Feby 25. 1753 Baptized Robert Walker 
 
 April 8. Baptized Sarah Daughter of Jn^ Plaice 
 
 May 13. Baptized James Roger Son of James Roger Jun' 
 
 May 27. Baptized Enoch Winget — Moses Bickford & Rebecca Forst. 
 
 June 3. Baptised Abednego Herd 
 
 June. 7. Baptised Richard Plaice upon his Death bed at his Fathers 
 House — y« son of James Plaice — 
 
 June. 10. Baptized Elizabeth & Comfort Sevey — 
 
 June. 11. Baptized Joseph Plaice son of James Plaice. 
 
 June 14. Baptized Lydia & Jon" Plaice children of James Plaice 
 
 June 17. Baptized Joseph Door & Daniel Horn — 
 
 June 24. Baptized Paul Herd & John Pearl. 
 
 July 8. William M.«fee & his wife Renewed yr Baptismal Coy* Baptized 
 yr Child John — 
 
 July 15. Ebenezer Chamberlain Renewed his Baptismal Covt & his Wife 
 Lucretia took y*'- Govt upon her & v/as Baptised also Baptised yr child 
 Susee. 
 
 July 22. Baptised Daniel McNeal & Sarah Dam — 
 
 July 29, Baptized Joseph AUard Rachel Bickford & John Bickford also 
 Sarah Dam 
 
 Aug. 5. Baptized Deborah & Dolly Plaice — 
 
 Aug. 12. Baptized Deborah Dam Daughter of Eln" Dam 
 
 Aug. 19. Baptized James Coleman — 
 
 Aug. 25. Baptized Billy Pevey at his Fathers House 
 
 Sept. 2. Baptized Daniel Pevey & Nathaniel Cook 
 
 Sept 9. Baptized Susanna Richards John Winget — 
 
 Sep' 16. Beuj"' Richards & his Wife Renewed yr Baptismal Cov' Bap- 
 tized 3'r Child Bartholomew — 
 
592 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Sep"" 23. Ebenezer Plaice Juu"" & his Wife took y« Cov' upon ym Baptized 
 his wife Love & his son Moses 
 
 Oct. 11. Baptized ElHs Farnam & Eliphalet Baisdell at To wow 
 
 Oct. 14 Nov 4. Baptized Esther Young daughter of Jon" Young — 
 
 Nov' 19. Baptized James Chamberlain "Son of W'" Chamberlain 
 
 Dec"^ 16. Baptized Timothy Young son of Tho^ Young 
 
 Feby. 7. 1754. Baptized Joshua Corson — 
 
 Feby. 17. Baptized Moses Mighill Son of Ju° Mighill 
 
 Feby 24. Baptized Jean Herd. 
 
 March. 31. Baptized Charles Baker Son of Charles Baker 
 
 April. 14 Baptized Mary Knowles & Jn° Richards — 
 
 April 21. Baptized Joseph Nelson — 
 
 April 28. Baptized Hannah Roger Daughter of Charles Roger 
 
 June. 30. Baptized Paul & Stephen Tebbetts Twins yr Parents Henry & 
 Anna Tebbetts Renewed yr Baptismal Cov' at y^ Same Time — 
 
 July. 14. Baptized Richard Garland of Barringtou & Anna Door (?) of 
 this Town Children — 
 
 July 21. Baptized Sarah Bickford Daughter of John Bickford — 
 
 Baptized Trickey July. 7th. 
 
 Aug. 4. Paul Farnam & his wife Elizabeth came before this Church & 
 Renewed their Baptismal Gov' — At y*^^ Same Time Baptized y Child Mary 
 Farnam — 
 
 Aug. 25. Baptized Lois Berry Daughter of Stephen Berry Jun'' 
 
 Sep'' 1. Dorcas y*^ wife of Eleazar Hodgsdon took upon Her y^ Baptismal 
 Cov' & was Baptized — 
 
 Sep. 8. Baptized Daniel y^ Son of Benj* Merry — 
 
 Sep^ 15. Lemuel Bickford & his Wife Renewed their Baptismal Cov' 
 Baptized yr Child Hannah Also y^ Baptized Lear Rawlings & Moses Forst — 
 
 Sep"' 22. David Layton took y'' Cov' upon Him ct was Baptized His Wife 
 Anna Renewed Her Baptismal Cov' at y"^ Same Time Baptized their child 
 Dolley — 
 
 Oct. 6. Nathan Allen & his Wife Renewed y' Baptismal Covt — Baptized 
 yr Child Joseph. 
 
 Ocf^ 20. Baptized Lydia Allard & Molley Bickford 
 
 Oct. 27. Baptized Sarah Miller 
 
 Nov"^ 3. Baptized James Burnam 
 
 Nov 10. Baptized Beard Plummer 
 
 Nov 17. Nath' Tebbetts & his Wife Renewed their Cov' Baptized their 
 Children viz: Sarah Henry & Mary — Also Baptized Mary WalUngford — . 
 
 Dec 8. Wentworth Hayes & Mary his Wife Renewed their "Baptismal 
 Covenant Baptized their Child Amos Main who was Born Octob"^ 25. 1754 
 about two of the clock in y« afternoon. Also Baptized Mark Jennes — 
 
 Jany. 19. 1755. Baptized Betty Young Daughter of James Young w" y'^ 
 Solemnly promised to Bring up that & all his Children Agreable to y^ Bonds 
 of y« Cov' & to Continue Himself yrin all his Days — 
 
 Feby. 9. Baptized Moses Son of Capt Tim° Roberts at his Fathers House 
 Being Dangerously Sick — y« Same day Baptized WilUam Son of Tho* 
 Pevey — 
 
 March 16. Abigail y^ wife of Daniel Page Renewed her Baptismal Gov'. 
 Baptized yr child Joseph Page — 
 
 March. 23. Baptized Richard Wentworth Son of Richd. Wentworth 
 
 April. 10. Baptized John Coleman at his Fathers House He Being Dan- 
 gerously Sick — 
 
 13. Baptized Charles Tracey Whitehouse, Abigail Whitehouse, Sarah Drew, 
 John Lay ton Mary Dam, Jonathan Horn & Keziah Plaice — 
 
 April 20. Baptized James Plaice & Sarah M'^Fee. 
 
 May. 18. Baptized Betty Ham & Sarah Richards — 
 
 June 22. Baptized James Berry Son of Ephraim Berry — Tho^ Witherel 
 
APPENDIX. 593 
 
 Entree! Into Govt & was Baptized His Wife Renewed Her Gov' at y^ Same 
 Tinui Baptized their child 
 
 June 29. Joseph Tompson Entred into Gov' & was Baptized at y"^ Same 
 
 time his Wife Renewed her Baptism' Govt — [This is recorded again 
 
 on another page as June 22.] 
 
 July 20 Baptized Elizabeth Bickford Ghild of Rich-i Bickford — 
 
 July 27. Baptized Susanna Berry daughter of Benj" Berry 
 
 Aug. 3. Baptized Elizabeth Wiuget Daughter of Sam' Winget 
 
 Aug. 17. Baptized Joseph Herd & Ebenezer Ghamberlain 
 
 Aug. 24. Baptized Abigail Gook Daughter of Peter Gook Jun"" 
 
 Nov'' 23. Baptized Dollee & Mary Plaice children of Abr» Plaice — 
 
 NoV^ 30. Baptized Samuel Palmer & Elizabeth M<=Neal — 
 
 Dec"^ 14. Baptized Lydia Harden — . 
 
 Feby. 11. 175G, Baptized Prudence Lock & Mercy Young 
 
 March Baptized Ebenezer corson & Baptized Samuel Eorst 
 
 Miirch 21. Love y« Wife of Charles Baker Entred Into Gov* & was 
 Baptized. At y^ Same Time Baptized Joseph Richards Son of Jn° Richards & 
 James Witherell — 
 
 May 9. Baptized Tho^ Young Jason Ghamberlain Gomfort Knowles Mol- 
 ley Bickford & Daniel Pearl — 
 
 May 16. Baptized Susanna Garland Baptized Huldah Bickford so called 
 Her Master & Mistress Jennes Bro't Her to Baptism — 
 
 May 30 Baptized AV™ Roger & Mary Door — 
 
 June 6. Baptized Tobias TwombJy. 
 
 June 20. Baptized Susanna Kenney of towow who Took the Baptismal 
 Gov' upon Her' at y*^ Same Time 
 
 June. 23. Baptized Sarah & Hannah Layton upon their mothers Acct at a 
 Lect at Jn° Laytons 
 
 July. 11. Baptized Sarah Pearl — 
 
 July 18. Patience Hartford & Hannah Pearl took y^ Govt upon them & 
 were Baptized At y"^ Same Time Baptized Icabod Allen Son of Nathan Allen 
 
 Aug. 22. Paul Jennes & his Wife Keturah Renewed yr Baptismal Govt. 
 Baptized yr child Betty — 
 
 Sep'". 5 Baptized Ralph Farnam Son of Paul Farnam of Towow — 
 
 DeC^. 8. Baptized Benj" Weymouth Son of Jn° Weymouth At his Fathers 
 House Being Dangerously Sick with Fitts — 
 
 Feh>' — 27. Baptized Edward Rawlings — 
 
 March 17. Baptized Sevey at y'^ Lect at y'' Neck. 
 
 April. 10. Trustham Herd & his wife Renewed yr Baptismal Gov'. Bap- 
 tized yr child Rebecca. Baptized Mary Berry at y« Same Time 
 
 24. Baptized Moses Merry — Ellis" Baptized at Towow Nath' Farnam 
 Susanna Fall Abigail Blaisdell Elizabeth M-^Grelis & Beuj'^ Door 
 
 1757 At y^ iMiuisters Fast at Towow Baptized Mercy Farnam Jn° Blaisdell 
 Ger-shom Farnam 
 
 May 29. Jno Whitehouse & W"" Horn Jun"" Entred Into Covenant & were 
 Baptized, At y* Same Time Baptized Whitehouses 5 Children Viz Joseph, 
 John, Jon% Judith, Elizabeth — Then Baptized W" Horns Child Sam' Herd 
 & W'=' Macfees child James — 
 
 June. 12. Baptized Hannah Place Daughter of Jn° Place 
 
 July. 3. Baptized Abigail & Sarah Herd Twins of Jn" Herd 
 
 July 24. Peter Wallingford Renewed his Baptismal Gov' Baptized his 
 Ghild Sarah & Jona Jennes — 
 
 July 24. 1757 (Being Lords Day) My Grandaughter Elizabeth Hayes was 
 Born about 8 in y'= Evening & Baptized July 31. 1757 Baptized Jacob Lay- 
 ton — Samuel Layton i& Temperance Pevey 
 
 Nov'^ Baptized Tho^ Baker Ephraim Chamberlain Abuer Dam Sarah 
 Jennes 
 
 Dec"" 4. Baptized William Palmer — 
 
594 ROCHESTER. 
 
 May. 7. 1758. Baptized Thomas Chamberlaiu & Joseph Winget 
 May 28. Baptized Experience Kuowles. 
 June. 4. Baptized Sarah Trickey — 
 
 MAREIAGES. 
 
 June 30. 1745. Married Jn° Scates & Abigail Hayes — 
 
 July 22 Married W>" Richardson & Abigail Plaice 
 
 July 28. Married Thomas Young & Anne Roberts 
 
 Dec. 12. jMarried Nath' Tebbetts & Hannah Corson — 
 
 Feb. 22. 174G. Married Samuel Downs & Anne Canney of Summersworth by a 
 Certificate from y'' Parish Clerk ^larried 'William Downs & Mercy Canney of 
 Summersworth by a Certificate from y<' Parish Clerk — 
 
 Aug: 27. 1747. Then Married Jonathan Young & Elizabeth Mundro by a Cer- 
 tificate from y« Town Clerk — 
 
 Nov"^ 12. Then JMarried Charles Roger & Mary Mc\duffe by a Certificate from 
 y« Town Clerk — 
 
 Nov'' 26. Married James Roger Jun"" Lydia Layton by a Certificate from the 
 Town Clerk — 
 
 Dec'' 20. Then IMarried M'' Joseph Langdon Jun"^ & ]\Irs Mary Hunkin by a 
 Licence at Portsm" — 
 
 June 23. 1748. Then Married Abraham Pearl & Abigail Bickford of Roch- 
 ester — 
 
 June. 30. Then Married Daniel Cook of Sommersworth & Judith Perkins of 
 Rochester — 
 
 Octo"^ 6. Then Married W"^ Gage & Mary Conner Both of Dover by a Licence 
 from y^ Governour 
 
 Oct. 13. Then iNIarried Abner Dam & Mary Dana by a Licence from y^ Gov'' — 
 
 Nov'' 14. Then Married Jon" Hodgdon & Drusilla Horn by a Certificate from y^ 
 Town Clerk 
 
 Nov'' 17. Then Married Sam' Emerson & Dorothey Chamberlain by a Certificate 
 from y« Town Clerk — 
 
 Dec'' 5. Then Married Abra'" Cook & Jean Richards by a Certificate from y« 
 Town Clerk — 
 
 Dec 15. Then JMarried Benj'' Stanton Hannah Jones of Summersworth by a Li- 
 cence from y'' Gov'' — 
 
 Aug. 20. 1749. Maried Gilbert Perkins & Charity Hartford — 
 
 Sep"" 17. Married Joseph Walker & Margaret Downs. 
 
 April. 12. 1750 Married John Plaice & Lucey Jennes — 
 
 Nov 20. IMarried Jon" Dam & Mercy Varney 
 
 Dec"" 3. Then Married Jn° Tuttle of Dover & Sarah Danielson of Barrington by 
 a Certificate from the Town Clerk of Dover — 
 
 May 30. 1751. IMarried James Knowles & Experience Chamberlin 
 
 Ocf Married Samuel Ricker of Summersworth & Mary Forst of Dover by y« 
 Governours Licence — 
 
 Dec'' 19. IMarried David Leigh ton & Anne Chamberlain 
 
 April 1. 1752 Alarried Henry Tebbetts & Anna Berry 
 
 April. 22. Married W' Macfee & JMartha Allen 
 
 May 30. 1753 Married Benj" Webber & Allen of Towow. 
 
 June 10. Married Paul Farnam & Elizabeth Door — 
 
 Aug. 15. Married .John Door & Hannah Edgerly — 
 
 Nov U. Married Peter Wallingford & Abigail Walker — 
 
 Nov 29. Married Wentworth Hayes & my Daughter Mary Main by the Gover 
 nours Licence — 
 
 Dec 20. Married John Ellis & Judith Ash of Towow — 
 
 Dec'' 26. Married Joseph Barbar & Mercy Lock — 
 
 Feby 21. 1754. Married Sam' Drown Jun"" & Mary Sevey — 
 
 March. 7. Married Moses Brown & Susanna Tebbetts 
 
APPENDIX. 595 
 
 Oct: 31. Married Jn° Canney & Elisabeth Brock of Summei-sworth by a Certifi- 
 cate from y^ Clerk — 
 
 Dec"^ U6. Married Paul Jennes & Keturah Dam — 
 
 Jany 9t,h 1755 Married Henry Bickford & Abigail Tebbetts of Towow — 
 
 Feby 2. Then Married Annaniah Clarke of Berwick & Mary Hanson of Sum- 
 mersworth by a Certificate from Humphry Chatbourn Town Clerk — 
 
 June 22. Married Aaron Downs & Susanna Hammock — BLLt: 
 
 July. 30. Married John Witherell & Rebecca Clark i". ■ 
 
 Aug. 21. Married George Plaice & Kezia Knight — 
 
 Not'' 23. Married Jn° Walliugford & Lydia Garland of Summersworth — 
 
 Dec'' 1. Married Jon"- Ellis & Abigail Richards — 
 
 Dec'' 3. Married Benj'' Wentworth & Rebecca Hodgsdon — 
 
 Dec'' 4 Married Benj" Hayes Jun'' & Mary Dearing — 
 
 Feby. 8. 1757 Married Richard Door & Patience Tebbetts of Towow — 
 
 March 17. Married Tho* Babb & Meribah Lock of Barriugton 
 
 April 7. JNIarried Isaac Stanton & Patience Hartford. 
 
 21. Married Ebenezer Tebbetts Olive Door of Towow 
 
 The records thus far are from the hand of " Parson Main " 
 and complete the first book. JSTo records of the next years are 
 found till the second volume begins with the pastorate of i\Ir. 
 Hall who ])egan with 
 
 "BAPTISMS IN THE YEAR 1764 ATTESTED BY THE DEACON." 
 
 April 14. Hannah, Daughter of Abraham Pearl & his wife 
 
 May. 6. Hannah Daughter of Trustram Heard & his Wife 
 
 21. Elijah Son of Peter Horn & his Wife Mercy Paul Son of Jacob Cham- 
 berlin & Wife Alice Betty Daughter of Joseph Dam & his Wife Mary Daughter 
 of James Rogers & his Wife Alice Daughter of William Chamberlin & Wife 
 Eienor Daughter of Nathan Allen & his Wife Susannah Daughter of Stephen 
 Berry & his Wife 
 
 June 10. Jonathan Son of John Place & his Wife 
 
 Sep. 9. William Son of David Leightou c^ Wife Hannah Daughter of Will"" 
 M'Duffe & his Wife Keziah Daughter of Joseph Cooke & his Wife 
 
 Oct^. 2S James Wood taken into Covenant & baptised — 
 
 176o. April 21. Trustram Son of Reuben Hard & his Wife Hate-Evil Son of 
 Joseph Knight & his Wife Susannah Daughter of Thomas Young & his Wife 
 Alice Daughter of John Trickey & Wife Sarah Daughter of Lemuel Bickford & 
 his Wife Elisabeth Daughter of Abner Dam & his Wife 
 
 Sep. 14. Jacob Son of Ebenezer Place & his Wife 
 
 1766 July 13. Theodore Son of Wentworth Hays & his Wife James Son of 
 James M'Duffee & his Wife Clement Son of. Benjamin Hays & his Wife 
 Trustram Son of Trustram Heard & his Wife James sou of Ephraim Ham & his 
 Wife Patience Daughter of John Wentworth & his Wife Rebekah Daughter of 
 Peter Horn & his Wife Mercy — 
 
 Sep. William Son of Joseph Cooke & his Wife Jacob Sou of Peter Walling- 
 ford t% his Wife Eleazar Son of Alexander Hogsdon & his Wife 
 
 Thus far is the Deacon's account — 
 
 Oct. 19. Anne Daughter of Ichabod Cosen & his Wife, by Theo. Hall [p. 96]. 
 Nov. 2. Ephraim Sou of Samuell Plummer & his Wife 
 
 13. Benjamin Son of Barnabas Palmer & his Wife Marget Daughter of 
 W^illiam Chamberlin & Wife 
 
 1767 Feb: 1. Elizabeth Daughter of David Leigh ton & his Wife 
 April 19. Lydia Daughter of Daniel Garland & his Wife 
 
596 ROCHESTER. 
 
 24. Lydia & Triphena Daug^ of Ephraira Berry & his Wife Molley 
 Daughter of Dam & his Wife 
 
 May 3. James Son of David Place & his Wife Joseph Son of Jacob Cham- 
 berlin & his Wife Betty Daughter of John Bruster & his Wife Lucy Daughter 
 of John Place & his Wife Sarah Daughter of Samuel Wiugat & his Wife Tem- 
 perance Daughter of Lemuel Bickford & his Wife 
 
 24. Thomas Son of Samuel Chamberlin & his Wife Olive Daughter of Stephen 
 Berry & his Wife 
 
 July 26. Son of Alexander Hogsdon & his Wife 
 
 Aug. 2. Nathaniel Son of Thomas Garland & his Wife Joseph & Benj"^ twins 
 Sons of Ichabod Cosen his Wife 
 
 23. Moses Son of Thomas Young & his Wife 
 
 26. Elisha Son of Nathan Allen & his Wife 
 
 Sep. 6. Dudley Son of Daniel Garland & his Wife Olive Daughter of Reuben 
 Heard & his Wife 
 
 16 the Wife of Aaron Downs 
 
 Oct. 11. Jon" Sam^' & Elisha Sons of Wili"^ Jennes Ju'' & his Wife 
 
 Nov. 8. i annah Daughter of Avery Hall & Wife Mary 
 
 Nov. 15 John Mussett Son of Richard Place & his Wife 
 
 1768. Feb. John Son of Ebenezer Chamberlin & "Wife Daniel Son of Daniel 
 Page & his Wife 
 
 March 9. Mercy Daughter of Abner Dam & his Wife 
 
 May 8. Moses Son of Rollins & his Wife Sarah Daughter of 
 
 Rollins & his Wife 
 
 Oct. 2 William Son of William M"Duffee & Wife Abigail Daughter of Trus- 
 tam Heard & his Wife 
 
 20 : Dolley Daughter of Joseph Heard & Wife Abigail Daughter of Widow 
 Place Sam'i Sou of Widow Place 
 
 23. Mary D of Benjn Hays & Wife Triphena D of Ephaim Berry & Wife 
 
 1769. March 26. Stephen Son of Levy Tole & his Wife now of Leavits Town 
 Mehitabel Daughter of Avery Hall & his "Wife Mary 
 
 April. 15. John Son of Paul Lebby & his Wife Mary 
 23 Paul Son of Richard Place & his Wife 
 
 June 25 Elisha Son of John Bruster & iiis Wife 
 
 July 23 : Moses Son of Samuel Wingate & his Wife 
 
 Aug. 6. Joseph Son of Barnabas Palmer & his Wife Edmond Son of Peter 
 Horn & his Wife Mercy 
 
 Sep. 24. Ebenezer twin Sou of Abraham Pearl & his Wife Elenor Daughter of 
 Abraham Pearl & his Wife Abigail Daughter of Alexander Hodgdon Ju'' — his 
 Wife 
 
 Oct. 8 Molly Daughter of Wentworth Hays & his "Wife Mary. Betty Daughter 
 of Lemuel Bickford & his Wife 
 
 Nov. 5: Penuel Son of Jacob Chamberlin & his "W Susanna Daughter of George 
 Place & his "Wife 
 
 26 : Ebenezer Son of Samuel Plumer & his AYife 
 
 1770 April 1. Betty Daughter of George Place & his Wife 
 
 April. 15: "William Son of William Jennes Ju"" & his "Wife 
 
 May. 13 Abigail Daughter of John Place & his "Wife 
 
 June: 3 Stephen Sou of David Place i^ his Wife 
 
 July 1 Hannah Daughter of Jonathan Hodgdon & his "Wife Mary 
 
 July 15 James Son of James Knoles & his Wife Experience 
 
 Aug 5: John Son of John Bruster & his Wife 
 
 26 John Son of John Garland Jun"' & his Wife of Barrington 
 
 Nov: 18: Mary my Daughter Mercy Daughter of Barnabas Palmer & his 
 Wife 
 
 Dec: 30: Samuel Son of Ephraim Ham & his Wife 
 
 March 1771. Temperance Daughter of Hoit & his Wife 
 
APPENDIX. 597 
 
 May 19 Stephen Son of Joseph Herd & his Wife 
 
 July: 7. Anna Daughter of David Leighton & his Wife 
 14. Lydia Daughter of the Widow Wallingford 
 
 July 21 : Stephen Son of Stephen Berry & his Wife Jacob Son of James M^- 
 Duffee & his Wife 
 
 Aug. 11: Benjamin Son of Benjamin Hays & his Wife 
 
 18 : Elisabeth & Mary Daugliters of John Barker & Wife Elisabeth 
 
 Sep. 15. Joshua Son of Ebenez"^ Chaniberlin & Wife Moultonborough 
 
 James Nailer Son of Jonathan Hodgdon & Wife p'' M'' jNIerriam 
 
 Oct. 6: Jacob Son of Peter Horn & his Wife Mercy Pheby Daughter of Thomas 
 Garland & Wife Eachel 
 
 Nov. 12 Abigail Daughter of Daniel Page & his Wife Paul Son of Dam 
 
 & his Wife 
 
 17. David & John Sons of John Barker & his Wife Elisabeth Lydia Daughter 
 of Ruben Herd & his Wife 
 
 June. 7: 1772. Jacob Son of Jacob Chamberlin & his Wife Alice. N. Durham 
 Samuel Son of Sam" Chamberlin & his Wife pr M'' Belknap 
 
 Aug. 6: Samuel Son of Sam"^ Plummer & his Wife Stephen Son of Ephraim 
 Went worth & his Wife. 
 
 Sep'"" 27. Keziah Daughter of George Place & his Wife Margaret Daughter of 
 James Horn & his W^ife Ester 
 
 Nov. 22. Stephen Son of John Bruster & his Wife 
 
 Dec. 13. Baptized James Horn who was then Taken into Covenant William Son 
 of James Horn & his Wife Ester — Charity & Ester Daughters of James Horn & 
 his Wife Ester 
 
 1773 Abigail Daughter of Ephraim Ham & his Wife by M'" Pike Daughter 
 
 of Aaron Ham & his Wife Son of Lemuel Bickford & his Wife 
 
 June 24. Betty & Margaret Daughters of Ichabod Hays & his Wife Tamsin 
 
 July. 4. James Son of James Horn & his Wife 
 
 July 18 Tamzin Daughter of Wentworth Hays and his Wife Mary 
 
 Nov. Mercy & Hannah Daughters of John Wentworth of East Town 
 
 Dec^ 12: Sarah, Daughter of Hoit & his Wife 
 
 March 13. 1774. Theodore Son of Alexander Hodgsdon Ju"' & his Wife. 
 
 April. 10, Rebekah Richardson — Elisabeth Daughter of Benjamin Hays & 
 his Wife 
 
 June. 26. Olive Daughter of George Place & his Wife 
 
 Dec. 14. Prudence the Wife of Solomon Clark 
 
 April 10. 1775. Mary Daughter of A H & his Wife Abigail Mary 
 
 the Daughter of Ephraim Ham & his Wife 
 
 Mr. Hall's record ends here, and the remainder is in the hand- 
 writing of Mr. Haven. 
 
 AD 1776 BAPTISMS. 
 
 Feb"" 26"* Samuel, Son to Joseph Jones 
 
 March 11"' Mehetabel & Elizabeth, Daughters of David Place. 
 
 April 14"' John, Son to James Foster 
 
 May 19'^ Moses, son to David Laighton 
 
 June 9"* Benjamin, Son to Benj. Hoit 
 
 June 16"i Jonathan, son to the Widow Abigail Pottle 
 
 July 26"* Jane, Daughter to Samuel Jones 
 
 July 28"* Elizabeth, Daughter to Tristem Heard 
 
 August 4* Patience, Wife of Cornelius Jeunes John, son to Cornelius Jennes 
 
 August 13."* Elizabeth, Daughter to Isaac Libby 
 
 Sepf 15"* Daniel, son to Dan' Garland 
 
598 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Sepf 22^1 Stephen & Ebenezer, Sons to Stephen Jenkins Dolle & Sarah, Daugh- 
 ters to Stephen Jenkins Winthrop, Son to Peter Gliddon. 
 
 Ocf 6»' Betty, Daughter to James ]\PDurffee 
 
 NoV 3<^ Joseph, Son to Alexander Hodgdon 
 
 Nov 10"' Betty Knight, Daughter to Edmond Tebbets 
 
 Nov 17"' Isaac Libby, Son to Dan' Knowles 
 
 Dec"^ S*! Ebenezer, Son to Eben'' Place Betty, Martha. & Sally, Daughters to 
 Eben'' Place Mary, Hannah, & Jemima, Daughters to Dan' Knowles 
 
 AD 1777 Feb'' 4"' John, Moses, Aaron, & Paul Sons to Moses Downes Susannah 
 & Elizabeth, Daughters of Moses Downes Stephen & Josiah, Sous to Margaret 
 Downes, which She had by her first husband Willey. 
 
 Feb'' 16"' Daniel, Son to Ichabod Hayes 
 
 Feb"^ 23<i Nathaniel Fisher, Son to Joseph Haven 
 
 April 28"' Mary Libby, upon her making a confession of faith 
 
 July 20* David, Son to David Place Hannah, Daughter to Moses Downes. 
 
 August 3P' Joseph Tucker upon his making a confession of faith Phebe, 
 Daughter to Joseph Tucker. 
 
 October 19 Elisabeth, & Sarah daughters of Ephraim Kimbal 
 
 AD 1778 Jan: 18'" Mary, Daughter to Ebenezer Tebbets 
 
 Feb"^ 8* Abner Hodgdon upon his making a confession of faith. 
 
 Feb' 12"' Paul & Silas, Sons of Abner Dame. jNIoses t)c Jonathan, Sons of Abner 
 Hodgdon. Dolly <fc Sally, daughters of Joseph Dame. 
 
 June 14."' Eleanor, daughter of James Horn 
 
 July 2P' Temperance Knight, daughter to the widow Eleanor Locke. 
 
 July 2G John, Son of Stephen Jenkins 
 
 August 2^ Sarah, Daughter to Iristrem Heard. 
 
 August IP" Daniel Son of Samuel Healy > ^^ ^^^^ j^^^ ^^ gj^^^^^ 
 Samuel, Son oi Amos Horn ) 
 
 Sept"" 20"' Richard, Son of Peter Horn. Rachel, & Abra daughters of Peter Horn. 
 
 Ocf 4'" John, S. of James M<=Duffee 
 
 Ocf 17"' Jonathan, Son of Joseph Dame Lydia, daughter to Ephraim Ham. 
 James, Son to Daniel Garland 
 
 Ocf 24"' Lydia, daughter to Beuj. Hoit 
 
 Nov 22'' Jo.seph, Son to Joseph Haven 
 
 AD 1779 i\Lay 6'" William, Son to W"' Locke George, Son to George Water- 
 house Abraham, Son to Abi-aham Waldron all of Barington Hezekiah, Son 
 to Moses Hays 
 
 May 3P' Kezia, Daughter to Ephraim Holmes ISIolly, Daughter to Thomas 
 Forst Elisabeth, Daughter to W'" Ham all of Barrington Wentworth, Son to 
 Joseph Hayes of Barrington Elizabeth Hayes, Daughter to Joseph Ham, Roch- 
 ester 
 
 June 6"' Simon, Son to Cap' David Place 
 
 June 10'" Spencer, Son to Ephraim Wentworth. Susa & Lydda, Daughters of 
 Samuel Plummer. 
 
 June 20'" Elisabeth, Daughter of Cap' John Brewster 
 
 July 11'" John, Son to Alexander Hodgdon Jun"' 
 
 July 18'" Josiah, Son to Joseph Tucker 
 
 August 29"' Daniel, Son to Richard Garland of Barnstead 
 
 ^Rebecca Greely, Upon confession of her faith in^ 
 
 August 30'" < Christ > New Durham 
 
 (^ Patty, daughter to Joseph Berry ) 
 
 October S^ John Son to Timothy Roberts. Dorothy, wife to W" Tricky, 
 upon her making a confession of faith. Peggy, Molly, Abigail, & Rebecca Forst, 
 Daughters to Timothy Roberts 
 
 Ocf 12'" John, AVilliam, & Benjamin, Sons to W"' Trickey 
 
 Sarah, Hannah, & Rebecca, Daughters to W'" Trickey. 
 
 Ocf 17'" Molly, Daughter to Ephraim Kimbal 
 
APPENDIX. 599 
 
 Dec"^ 6"' Aaron Allard, upon his making a confession of faith 
 
 AD 1780 .Tan"- 16. Samuel. Son to Eben'' Tehbets 
 
 March 26. David, Son to James Forst of Barrington 
 
 July 2*^ Hezekiah, Son to Ichabod Hayes, baptiz'd by M"" Ordway of Middle- 
 town 
 
 July 9"^ Henry, Son to Peter Hayes. 
 
 July 23^1 Sarah, Daughter to Abner Hodgdon 
 
 July 25''> Juda Witheren, daughter to John Witheren, upon her making a con- 
 fession of faith 
 
 Sepf 10"^ Mary, & Anna Daughters of Joseph Page 
 
 Sepf 17"' John, Son to Joseph Haven 
 
 Sepf 24"'- John, Son to Went worth Hayes 
 
 OcV 24"! Oliver, Daniel, & Jacob Sons to Daniel Pevee. Sally, daughter to 
 Daniel Pevee 
 
 Nov"^ 12"' Josiah Durgen, upon his making a confession of faith in Christ. 
 
 Nov"" 28"* Daniel, Son to Josiah Durgen William, Son to William Knight 
 Lois, Daughter to William Knight Charlotte, Daughter to Josiah Durgen 
 
 1781 Jan'' i'-^ Moses, Son to Moses Weymouth Lydia, Daughter to Moses Wey- 
 mouth 
 
 Mai'ch 25"' Abigail, Wife to Tho^ Brown, upon her making a confession of 
 faith 
 
 April 28"* Elisabeth Daughter to Moses Roberts 
 
 April 29"' Ezra, Son to Moses Roberts. Susannah, Daughter to Moses Roberts. 
 
 May 20"' Nathaniel, Son to Alexander Hodgdon Ju"" Molly, Daughter to Ben- 
 jamin Hoit 
 
 May 27"' Jesse, Son to Ephraim Kimball 
 
 June 14* Theodore, & Samuel Emerson, Sons to Samuel Furbur Mary & Elis- 
 abeth, daughters to James Chesley Thomas, Son to James Chesley 
 
 June 17"' Alice, Daughter to Dea" Jacob Chamberlain of the Gore. 
 
 July I''' Sarah, Daughter to David Place 
 
 July 7"' David, Son to James Horn, Dover Jonathan, Son to Benj. Furbur 
 Mary, Daughter to Benj. Furbur 
 
 July 19"' William Kingman, Son to Samuel Hayes of Barrington 
 
 July 22" Roger, Son to Samuel Copps of Lebanon 
 
 July 29"' Tristram, Son to Joseph Tucker 
 
 August 12"! Ephraim, Son to Ephraim Wentworth 
 
 Sepf 9"' Nathaniel, Son to Stephen Jenkins 
 
 Sepf 19* Stephen, Daniel & Robert Sons to Robert M<=Crelus Esther, Elisa- 
 beth & Mary, Daughters to Robert M'^Crelus 
 
 Ocf 7"* John ■s Moses Sons to Tho^ Brown Elisabeth Daughter to Moses 
 Hayes Jun"' 
 
 Ocf 28"' Richard Furbur, Son to James Chesley 
 
 Nov"" 14"' George, Son to Abraham Waldron William, Son to John Kingman 
 James, Son to Hinkson Merden [all] of Barrington 
 
 Dec"' 23'! Abigail, Daughter to Benj. Furbur 
 
 AD 1782 Jan'' 6* Rebecca, Daughter to Ebenezer Tebbets 
 
 April 14* Rebecca, Daughter to Benjamin Forst Jun"' 
 
 May 19"' Hannah Furbur, grand daughter to Benj. Forst 
 
 June 23'! Alexander, Son to John Barker Moses, Son to Moses Roberts Tam- 
 esin, Daughter to Ichabod Hayes 
 
 July 2*1 Daniel, Son to Joseph Hayes of Barrington Betty, Daughter to Sam' 
 Hayes of Barrington 
 
 July 3'^ Abigail, Daughter to John Bennet of New Durham, offered to baptism 
 by her grand parents, Robberts 
 
 July 7"' Isaac, Son to Paul Jennes 
 
 July 14"' John, Ebenezer, James & Henry, Sons to Henry Tebbets Charity, 
 Susannah, & Sarah, Daughters to Henry Tebbets 
 
600 ROCHESTER. 
 
 July 21^' Mary, Daughter to Joseph Haven 
 
 July 28'^ David Copps, Son to Joseph Page 
 
 June 9"^ Deborah Walker, & Martha Bracket twin Daughters to Cap* Parrot of 
 Portsmouth, baptized at M"' Buckminster's IMeeting 
 
 Oct'' 6"! John Fabins. Sou to Samuel Furbur Jonathan, Son to Jonathan Mor- 
 rison Sally, (Wife of Jonathan Morrison) upon her making confession of faith 
 Sally, Daughter to Jonathan ISIorrison Molly, Daughter to Moses Hayes Jun"^ 
 
 Nov 24"' George, Son to Benj Hoit 
 
 1783 April 30'^ Lois, Daughter to John Mardin, upon her death bed 
 
 May 16* l^ydia and Sarah twin daughters of John Gate Elisabeth, daughter to 
 William Locke Elisabeth daughter to George Waterhouse Hannah, daughter to 
 James Howard [all] of Barringtou 
 
 May 26"^ Molly, daughter to Moses Downs 
 
 June 12'^ John, Son to Elisha Blake of Barringtou 
 
 June 29"^ Joseph, Son to Josiah Durgin Rose, daughter to W"^ Knight 
 
 July 13'ii Isaac, Son to David Place 
 
 July 16"^ Joshua, Son to Daniel Horn, on a sick bed. 
 
 August 12*'' Mary and Elisabeth Two Daughters of Sam' Winkly Jun"" Bar- 
 ringtou 
 
 Sepf 29"^ David, Son to Eben"' Wentworth Anne, daughter to Ebenezer Went- 
 worth 
 
 Nov 2"^ Anne, daughter of Robert M'=Crelus. 
 
 1784 May 9* Samuel, Son to Ephraim Kimball Lvdia, Daughter to Joseph 
 Tucker 
 
 July 18"i Hannah, Daughter of Ichabod Hayes 
 
 August 15"^ James, Son to Dan^ Calef Abigail, Daughter to Dan' Calef 
 
 Sepf 5"^ George, Son to Joseph Haven Eward (sic), Son to Henry Tebbets 
 
 Sepf 9"^ Mercy, Daughter to Timothy Davis, of the Gore 
 
 Sepf 12"i Peter, Son to Daniel Horn of Wakefield Temperance, Daughter to 
 Richard Hitlon [Hilton?] 
 
 Sepf 26* A child of Abner Hodgdon''s, No Name 
 
 Ocf 3P' Noah & Isaac, Sons to Noah Thompson, adopted by John Place 
 Hannah, daughter to Noah Thompson, adopted by John Place. 
 
 Dec"" 5"i John, Son Benj. Rollings Sarah, Betty, & Molly, Daughter of Benj. 
 Rollings 
 
 1785 March 14* Solomon Perkins, aged 82. a Quaker, upon his making a 
 Confession of Faith, & desiring to be baptized. 
 
 April 10* Sarah, Daughter to JNIoses Roberts 
 
 June 5* Stephen, Son to Benj Rollings — A twin Nancy, Daughter to Benj. 
 Rollings — A Twin Richard, Son to Benj. Furbur, James & John, Sons to Mo- 
 ses Hayes Jun'' — Twins 
 
 June 26* Nabby, Daughter to James Chesley Martha Horn Daughter to Joseph 
 Page 
 
 July 3'' Patience, Daughter to Stephen Jenkins 
 
 July 17* Nabby, Daughter to Benj. Forst Jun"^ 
 
 August 2P' Sarah, Daughter to Sam' Furbur. 
 
 Sepf 4* Lydea, Daughter to Ephraim Wentworth 
 
 Ocf 2'! Samuel, Son to Jonathan Morrison 
 
 1786 Jan-- 17* John Ganney Son to Robert M<=Crelus 
 June 4* Lucy, Daughter to D"" James How 
 
 June 11* Ezekiel, Son to Ichabod Hayes 
 July 23'' Abigail, Daughter to Elijah Horn 
 August 6* Ephraim, Son to Ephraim Kimball. 
 
 August 13"! Rebecca, Daughter to Joseph Haven Betsey, Daughter to Abner 
 Hodgdon 
 
 Sepf 3<i Jacob, Son to Timothy Davis of the Gore 
 
 »! 
 
APPENDIX. 601 
 
 Ocf 30"> Stephen, Son to Tho^ Pinkham. The Child taken by its grandmother 
 ijerry as hers, & offered by her to Baptisna. 
 
 Nov'' 8"^ Benjamin, Son to Nath' Horn of Dover 
 
 Nov 14"i Jonathan, Son to Tho** Pinkham Deborah, Daughter to John Carr, 
 & l^ydia also his Daughter Sarah, Daughter to Moses Chamberlain 
 
 Nov' IT*'^ Timothy, Son to David Corson 
 
 Nov 20"^ William, Son to David Corson 
 
 1787 July 22'! James, Son to D"" James How Elisabeth, Daughter to Benj. 
 Furbur 
 
 August 5''^ John, Son to Jonathan Morrison Mary, Daughter to John Brewster 
 
 Sepf 2'^ Joseph Sceva upon his making a confession of faith 
 
 Sepf 9"' Samuel, Son to Moses Chamberlain 
 
 Sepf ](P, Tamzin,Wifeof Moses Drown upon her making a confession of faith. 
 
 Oct"^ 17"' Ebenezer Garland upon his confessing his faith in Christ John, James, 
 Ephraim, Samuel, Sons to Ebenezer Garland Patience, Daughter to Ebenezer 
 Garland upon confessing her faith in Christ James, John, Jeremy, Sons to Sam^ 
 Mills Elisabeth, Daughter to Sam' Mills, upon confessing her Faith &c. Mary, 
 Daughter to Sam' Mills Sarah, Daughter to Eleazar Ham Samuel Drown 3'' 
 upon confessing his faith iu Christ Stephen Drown upon confessing his faith in 
 Christ 
 
 Ocf 28"' Sally, Daughter to James Chesley 
 
 Nov l-^' Joel, Son to Sam' Furbur Richard, Son to Richard Furbur Jun"" 
 
 1788 June l"*' William, Son to Dea" Jacob Chamberlain of the Gore 
 June 8"' Esther, — Daughter to Benj. Rollings 
 
 June 15"» Lydia, Daughter to Joseph Haven. Sally, Daughter to Nathaniel 
 Heard . 
 
 August 31^' IMercy, Daughter to f.lijah Horn 
 
 Sepf 14"' David, Son to David Corson Abigail, Daughter .to Joseph Tucker 
 
 Sepf 2^' Rebecca, Daughter of John Knowles James, t/ohn, Daniel, & Eph- 
 raim, Sons to flohn Knowles 
 
 Sepf 2G"' Relief Daughter to Abner Hodgdon 
 
 Ocf 19*^ Pierce, Son to Richard Furbur Jun'' 
 
 Nov 9"' Benjamin, Son to Benj. Furbur 
 
 1789 Abigail Daughter of Benj. Page 
 
 May 3'' Thomas Pickering, Son to -lames Burnham. Sally, Wife to John M. 
 Place, upon her confessing her faith in Christ 
 May 31"' William, Son to John Knowles. 
 ffune 7"' George, Son to James How 
 
 '''"'" ^^* jSTob -~- 1 1^"" Sons of James Chesley 
 
 July 23'' -loshua, Benjamin, Samuel, vSons of Joshua Downing upon their con- 
 fessing their faith in Christ. John, Ellas, Ezekiel, William, Sons of Jonathan 
 Wentworth, the two Eldest confessing their faith in Christ Nathaniel, Son of 
 Enoch Burnham Mary, Mehetibel, Tryphena, Lois, Betsey, Daughters of Enoch 
 Burnham Stephen, Son of Edmund Wingate Lydia, Daughter of Edmund Win- 
 gate Nicholas, Son of Ezekiel Ricker 
 
 Sepf C"* John, Son of Benj. Forst Elisabeth & Phebe, Daughters of John 
 Mnsset Place 
 
 Sepf 13"' Mary Allen, Daughter to Tho** Pinkham 
 
 Sepf 20"' Stephen, Son of Moses Hayes Jun"" 
 
 Ocf 18"' Hannah, Daughter of Eleazar Ham 
 
 Ocf 2-5"' Robinson, Bracket, it Barnabas Sons to Benj. Palmer Patty, Wife 
 of Benj. Palmer, upon making a confession of faith in Christ 
 
 Nov 1^' Abigail, Wife of Silas Dame, upon making a pi'efession of faith in X 
 Sally, Daughter of Silas Dame 
 
 Nov'" IS"* Polly, Daughter of Ichabod Hayes 
 
 Jan'' 19"' 1790 Susannah Palmer, upon a Dying bed. 
 
602 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Jan'' 31^t Enoch Page. Son of Xath' Heard 
 
 March 1^' Nehemiah Kimball, upon a sick bed, after confessing his faith in 
 Christ. 
 
 May 2'^ Daniel, Son of Benj. Page 
 
 May 9"^ Mary, Danghter to Eleazer Hodgdon 
 
 June 6* Mary, Daughter of Joseph Haven Susa, Daughter of Benjamin Rol- 
 lings 
 
 June 13* John, Son of Dea° Jacob Chamberlain, of New Durham Gore 
 
 June 27* Norton, Son of Benj. Scates. Richard, Son of Richard Furbur Jun"" 
 
 July 7* Jonathan, Son of Ichabod Wentworth Nabby, Daughter of Ichabod 
 Wentworth 
 
 July 13* Lucy, Daughter of Jonathan Wentworth By Rev<i Benj. Thurston 
 
 Sepf 27* Dolly Berry, upon a Sick bed 
 
 Nov'' 11* Aaron, Son of Amos Whittum Thomas, Son of Tho^ Horn Molly 
 and Betsy. Daughters of Thomas Horn 
 
 Nov 12"' Lydia, Daughter of John Wentworth 
 
 April 2G* 1701 Francis Nutter upon a Sick Bed, & his confessing Faith in 
 Christ, & his paients also giving him up to the Lord. 
 
 April 30* Dudley Wentworth, upon his confessing his Faith in Christ. 
 
 July 10* Dolly, Daughter of Silas Dame; By M^ Robert Gray 
 
 July 20"^ Martha Perkins, upon a Sick bed ; her age 93 ; in her younger days 
 She professed to be a Quaker. 
 
 August 7* Daughter of Josiah Durgen. By M'' Hasey of Lebanon 
 
 August 14* Betsey, Daughter of Richard Furbur Jun'' 
 
 August 28* Joseph, Son to Hatevil Knight, upon the parents making a confes- 
 sion of faith, renewing the covenant in their house, & promising to do it in pub- 
 lick. The child baptized was dangerously ill. Charlotte, Daughter to Elijah 
 Horn 
 
 Sepf ll"i Joseph, Son to Joseph Clarke Elisabeth Mosely, Daughter to Joseph 
 Clarke 
 
 Sepf 18* Jonathan, & John Sons of Joseph Roberts Elisabeth, Daughter of 
 Joseph Roberts 
 
 Ocf 2<i James, Son of James Chesley 
 
 Ocf 16* Joseph, Son of Joseph Tucker 
 
 Oct"" 23*1 Mathias, & Joseph, Sons of Dudly Wentworth's Widow Nabby, 
 Daughter to Dummer Farnum of Shapleigh. 
 
 Ocf 30* Daniel & Elijah, Sons of W"' Leighton Hall Jackson, Son of D^ 
 James How 
 
 Jan'' 25* 1792 John Nutter (on a Sick Bed) upon his confessing his Faith in 
 Christ. 
 
 May 9* Edmund, Son of Sam* Furbur Thomas, Son of Ezekiel Ricker Nabby, 
 Daughter of Ephraim Kimball. Polly, Daughter of Sam' Furber. 
 
 June 3"^ Ebenezer, Son of John Musset Place 
 
 June 10'' Mercy, Daughter of Ichabod Wentworth. 
 
 July 8"' Abigail, Daughter to Joseph Page 
 
 July 22<i Lydia White, Daughter to Dan' Wingate Jun'' 
 
 July 29* Mary, Danghter of John Raynel 
 
 August 5* Ruthy, Daughter to Joseph Haven 
 
 Sepf 30* Oily, Daughter of Enoch Burnham 
 
 Nov"" 4* Isaac, Son of Tho' Pinkham. Susa, Daughter of Benj. Forst. 
 '^ Nov 11* James, Son of John Richards Jun'" Sarah, Abigail & Elisabeth 
 Daughters of John Richards Jun'' 
 
 Dec'' 9* Benjamin, Son of Benj. Page 
 
 1793 Feb'' 28* Baptized at the House of Cap' James Adams his Children ; the 
 Sons named, 1"' Benjamin, 2'' Amos, S'' Augustus, 4* James, 5* Jesse, the Daugh- 
 ter named Elisabeth 
 
 April 25* Baptized a Daughter of Ichabod Hill by the Name of Betsy. 
 
APPENDIX. 603 
 
 .Tune 22<i Baptized Amos, Son to Dan' Wingate Baptized Abigail, Daughter to 
 W=" Leigh ton 
 
 July 7'" Baptized, Walter Briant, Son to Hatevil Knight 
 
 July 14*'' Baptized, Rebecca, Daughter to James Wentworth Bapf Mary M*^- 
 Duft'ee, Daughter to David Corson 
 
 Sept"" 22'! Baptized Jenny Daughter to Joseph Tucker 
 
 Sepf 2"J* Baptized, Mercy Daughter to Eleazer Ham 
 
 1793 XaJicy, Daughter of Joseph Clark 
 
 Nov 12"' John, Son to Sam' Jeniies IVIercy, Daughter to Sam' Hayes 
 
 Dec'' 29"' Joseph tlilliard, Son of Joshua Lane 
 
 April 10"' 1794 Benjamin, Son of Benj. Scates Oily, Daughter of Joseph 
 Hoit 
 
 June 4*'' Lydia, Daughter of Nath' Heard James, Son of Nath' Heard 
 
 June 8"' Kehemiah, Son of Ephaim Kimball 
 
 July 26"' Joshua, Son of Ednioud Wingate 
 
 August Sl'^' Benjamin, son of Beuj. Page Noah, son of Joseph Haven 
 
 Sepf 14"' Debby, Daughter to James Chesley 
 
 Sept"^ 28"' Martha, Daughter to Ichabod Wentworth 
 
 Ocf 7"* An infant, daughter to Abner Hodgdon 
 
 Ocf 19"' Enoch, Son of Enoch Burnham Nathaniel, Son of Eleazer Hodgdon 
 
 Nov"" 24"' William, Sou of Ezekiel Ricker 
 
 Dec 14"' Joshua Paine, son of Joseph Clark 
 
 1795 May 10*'' Lydia, Daughter of Duramer Farnum 
 June li"' Joseph Willard, son of D"" James How 
 
 July 12"' William, John, Sons of Dan' Calf Susanna, Daughter of Dan' Calf. 
 July 19"' Mary Dole, Daughter of Hatevil Knight 
 July 20"' Thomas Furbur Jun*" by his own desire 
 
 August 2S^ Sarah, daughter of Joseph Page, baptized by M"" Thurston 
 August 28""' Hannah Twombly, (aged 29 years) upon her confession of Faith 
 in Christ 
 Sept' 13"' Daniel Gardener, Son of Dan' Wingate 
 Oct' 22'' Anna, Daughter of Levi Dearborn Esq'^ 
 Nov"" 29* Edward Bell, son of Edward Cole 
 
 Dec'' 3'' Phinehas, son to Ezekiel Ricker William, Son to Sam' Jennes 
 Dec 17"' Phebe Heard, daughter of Joshua Rollins 
 
 1796 Feb"^ 7"' Jacob Main, upon his confession of faith in Christ 
 May IS"* Patience Seavey, Daughter of Sam' Doust Forst 
 
 May 28"! John, sou of W"' Leighton. 
 
 June 22^ Ichabod Hayes, Son to W" Wentworth Mehetabel, Daughter of 
 Dudley Burnham 
 
 June 30"' Samuel & Peter, Sons to David Wallingford Anna, Daughter to 
 Elijah Horu. Abigail, Daughter to David Wallingford 
 
 Sept' 4"' William Messer, upon his confession of Failh in Christ. Nathaniel, 
 Son of the above W-" Messer 
 
 Oct' 9*" Joshua, Son of Joshua Lane ? ^ ^^^ ^^^, ^, ^ 
 
 William, tjon of Benj. Furbur ^ •' -^ 
 
 1797 Feb' 23'^ John, Son of Ephraim Kimball Sarah, Daughter of Sam' 
 Jennes 
 
 May 14"' Martha Burleigh, Daughter of Joseph Clark, by the ReV^^Benj. Balch, 
 of Barrington 
 
 .June 12"' John Carter, Grandson to Dodavi Garland Sally, '^Grandaughter to 
 Dodavi Garland, this child with John Carter adopted by Said Garland 
 
 July 30"' Sally Nowell, and Nancy, Daughters of Benj. Evens 
 
 Sept' 10"' Richard, Son of John Musset Place Sarah Fisher, Daughter of 
 Joseph Haven 
 
 Sept' 28"' Nathaniel Horn, Son of Nath' Heard Hannah, Daughter of Nath^ 
 Heard 
 
604 
 
 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Ocf 22'! Jonathan, Son of Eleazer Ham, (by W Hilliard) 
 
 Feb^ 16'h 1798 Luke, Son of Sam' Furbiir 
 
 June 17"^ John Wingate, Son of Richard Furbur Jun"^ (by M'' Thomson) 
 
 June 24"^ Lois, Daughter of Silas Dame, by M'' Balch of Barrington 
 
 Sepf 16"' Elisabeth, Daughter of AV"" Conner, by B.e\^ Robert (Tray. 
 
 1799 Feb'' 20'*' Mark Huntress, upon his making his confession of Faith Lib- 
 erty, Daughter of Abner Hodgdon Elisabeth Emerson, Daughter of Mark Hun- 
 tress Dolly, Daughter of Mark Huntress Henrietta. Daughter of Mark Hun- 
 tress Joseph Peterson, Son of Mark Huntress John. Son of ]\lark Huntress 
 Joshua, Son of Stephen Brewster Rosietta, Daughter of Stephen Brewster Eliza, 
 Daughter of Sephen Brewster 
 
 July 7"' Rufus King, Son of Benj. Evans Wealthy, Daughter of Benj. Page 
 1800 Feb'' 17"' Benjamin Heard, Son of Joshua Rollins Joshua Nutter, Son of 
 Joshua Rollins 
 
 April ISt" gi^e^b^e^He^ard ^ ^ ^^^.^ Daughters of Joshua Rollins 
 
 April 27"' Rachel, Daughter of Elijah Horn 
 
 May 12"' Stephen Twombly, upon a Sick bed, upon his confession of liis 
 Faith in Christ & the christian Religion. 
 
 May 17"' John Smith Bryant, Son of Hatevil Knight 
 
 June 19* Stephen, Son of Stephen Twombly Anna & Betty Daughters of 
 Stephen Twombly 
 
 Oct*^ 12"* James, Son of Eleazar Ham 
 
 Ocf 26"' John Place, Son of Benj. Evans. 
 
 Nov'' 30"' Jabez, Son of Caleb Dame Anna, Daughter of Caleb Dame 
 
 Sepf 27* 1801 Solomon Perkins, & at the Same time received him into full 
 Communion with y« Chh 
 
 Ocf LS* John Musset. Son of John Musset Place 
 
 Nov"" P' Elisabeth Furbur, Daughter of Stephen Place 
 
 Jan'' 5"' 1802. Rachel, Daughter of Widow Alice Horn. 
 
 Feb"^ 24* Thomas Downs, Son of Moses Downs. 
 
 July 11* Joseph, Son of Benj. Page. 
 
 July 18* Elisabeth, Daugiiter of Cap' Sam' Furbur Eleanor Cooper, Daughter 
 of Ephraim Kimbal 
 
 August 19* Reuben Hanniford & his Wife, Sarah Levi Dearborn, Son of Reu- 
 ben Hanniford John Prentice, Son of Sam' Adams John Brewster, Son of 
 Tliomas Chesley 
 
 Ocf 17* Peter, Son of the Widow Alice Horn ; (By U' Piper) Elisabeth 
 Downing, Daughter of Widow Alice Horn by M' Piper 
 
 Ocf 24* INferibah Emery, Daughter of Caleb Dame 
 
 Feb'' 14* 1803 Elisabeth Lewis Prentis, Daughter of Moses L. Neal 
 
 Feb"" 20* Thomas, & Vincent, Sons of Thomas Pinkham Rebecca, Daughter 
 of Thomas Pinkham 
 
 March 14* John, Son of John Brewster Jun'^ 
 
 July 7* Moses Leavitt: John Prentiss & Samuel Adams, all Sons of Moses L. 
 Neal. 
 
 Ocf 2"* Baptized — Mary, Daughter of Nath' Upham 
 
 Ocf 23<i Polly, daughter of Silas Dame 
 
 March 14"' 1804 Betty, Daughter of John Brewster Jun-" 
 
 May 13* Nancy, a Negress, called Nancy Patterson, by her desire, & upon her 
 confession of faith in the christian religion, or doctrines of the Gospel. 
 
 June 10* Joseph Lemmon, Son of Moses L. Neal Esq' Susanna, Daughter of 
 Stephen Place. Elisabeth Dennett, Daughter of Tho* Chesley. 
 
 June 17* Samuel, Son of Samuel Adams, (of Durham) 
 
 Sepf 16* Alfred, Son of Nath' Upham 
 
 Jan' 18* 1805, Sally, daughter of John M. Place 
 
 May 24* Anne Hilton, daughter of Reuben Hanniford 
 
APPENDIX. 605 
 
 July 24"^ Mary, Wife of Ichabod Corson, upon her bed, being almost exhausted 
 with a consumption 
 
 Sepf 8'*' Abigail Roberts, daughter of Edmond Wingate 
 
 Sepf 22<i Joseph, Son of Silas Dame 
 
 Sepf 29"^ Sally, & John, daughter & Son of Stephen Brewster 
 
 May 25'h 1806. Charles, Son of Stephen Place 
 
 June 8"^ James Armstrong, Son of Moses L. Neal 
 
 ffuly G* George, Sou of John Haven 
 
 Sepf 28*'! Son of Joseph Clark Esq"^ by the Name of Simon 
 
 Ocf^ 19"! James, Son of Thomas Chesley. 
 
 Dec'' 15*^ Baptized the widow Anne Clark upon her confession of her faith in 
 Christ & his gospel ; She being Sick & in danger; but appearing to be under due 
 concern for her Spiritual interest. Her age 72 Years 
 
 1807 May 31-'» Baptized, Timothy, Son of Nath' Upham 
 
 August 30"' Baptized Elisabeth, daughter of Benj. Page 
 
 Ocf^ 9"' 1808 Rev** Isaac Smith ba.ptizd, .lames Horn, Son of Stephen Place 
 
 Jan'' 19''' 1809 P.aptised the widow Hannah Rogers of Rochester, on a Sick bed 
 upon her confession of her faith in Jesus Christ & hopes of glory thro' him. 
 
 Jan"" 28"' Baptised Comfort Trickey upon a Sick bed, upon her confession of 
 failh in Christ Jesus & hopes of Salvation thro' him. 
 
 August 13"' Baptized James AVillard, Son of John Haven 
 
 August 20"' Baptized Sarah, Ann, Daughter of Joseph Clark Esq'' baptized, 
 Joseph Badger, Son of Nath'- Upham Esq"" 
 
 Oct^ 8"' Elijah, & Daniel Wentworth, Sons of Elijah Horn of Milton 
 
 April 22"' 1810. Baptized, Cornelia, Daughter of Oliver Crosby Esq'' of Dover, 
 & at Dover. 
 
 August 19"' Baptized, Lois, daughter of John Richards, by her own desire 
 
 Ocf 4"' Baptized, of the Children of Ens" Nath' Hayes, at a Lecture ; Nabby, 
 Wife of Thomas Downs Jun"" Sons, Ezra, &Zenus; Dughters, besides, Nabby, 
 above recorded, Sabra, Hannah, & Lucinda. 
 
 Ocf 7"' John. Son to John Haven 
 
 April 15"' 1811 Mary Elisabeth, Daucjhter of Joseph Hanson of Durham 
 
 June 9"' .Judith Alraira, Daughter of Nath' Upham P^sq'" 
 
 August 22^1 Lucy Elvira, Daughter of Joseph Clark Esq'' 
 
 Sepf 29' ' Anna, Wife to Paul Downs 
 
 Ocf 13"' Hannah & .Jonas Children of Paul Downs James, Son of Tho^ 
 Downs Jun'' 
 
 Jan'' 22" 1812 Ephraim Hammet upon a bed of Sickness & danger, upon his de- 
 claring his repentance & faith in Jesus Christ, & trust in his merits for eternal 
 Life. 
 
 March lO* Baptized Thomas Plumer, 72 Years of age, he being much out of 
 health ; upon his professing his faith in Jesus Christ, his repentance, & resolution 
 to lead a pious & holy life So long as he lives. 
 
 Nov'' 2^1 Baptized Noah Horn of Farmington, upon his professing his Faith in 
 .Tesus Christ, & his gospel & resolution to lead a christian & holy life, 
 
 ])ec''3'^ Easter, Abigail, Rebecca, and Mary, Daughters of Noah Horn Bap- 
 tized, Jonathan, Son of Noah Horn, with the above Daughters of Said Horn 
 Baptized, Mary Ann, & Tryphena Berry, Daughters of Lieu' James Pickering 
 Jun'' of Rochester 
 
 July 4"' 1813 J^aptized, John Burnham, Son of .Joseph Hanson, of Durham. 
 Baptized, Mary AVingate, Daughter of Pierce P. Furbur of Farmington. 
 
 July 14"' Baptized, Deborah, Wife of W" Palmer Esq'' of Milton upon a Sick 
 bed. 
 
 August 25"' Baptized -Joanna, Wife of Thomas Davis, when She was Sick, of 
 Farmington. 
 
 August 26" Baptized, Mary Esther, Charles William, .Jeremiah Hall, & Sarah 
 Tebbets, Children of .Jeremiah II. Woodman 
 
606 ROCHESTER. 
 
 June 19* 1814 Baptized, Molly Perkins, Daughter of Paul Downs 
 
 Jan"' 22'! 1815 Samuel Augustus, Son of John Parker Hale Esq"" 
 
 May 12'>^ Henry, Son of John P. Hale Esq"- 
 
 Sep' 4^^ Baptized Tlieodore Chase, Son of Jeremiah H. Woodman 
 
 June 11"^ Baptized, Nathaniel Hayes, Son of Tho^ Downs 
 
 Feb^ 18th 1816 Baptized, Ruth Cogswell, Daughter of Nath' Upham Esq^ 
 
 June 23<i Baptized, Ely, Son of Paul Downs 
 
 Ocf 27'h Baptized in Kinsington, N. H. the Son of a Widow Woman, by the 
 name of, Benjamin Cram, 
 
 June 8"> 1817 Baptized, Sarah Jane, Daughter of Jeremiah H. AVoodman Esq'' 
 
 May 24th igiy Francis William, Son of Nath' Upham Esq-^ Baptized by ReVi 
 Asa Piper of Wakefield 
 
 July 5. Rev. Isaac Jones Baptised a child of Jeremiah H. Woodman Esqf by 
 the name of Harriet Crosby. 
 
 August 28'h Elisabeth, Wife of Eli Sumner Susanna, & Martha Thomas, Eli, 
 and Charles children of Moses Brown 
 
 Nov'' l^t Elisabeth Tripte, Daughter of Tho^ Downs Jun'' 
 
 March SO'h 1819 Tamma, Wife of W" Hurd upon her confession of Faith in 
 Christ flesus (upon a Sick bed) 
 
 May 9th \,„j p^Hsabeth. Daughter of John Haven 
 
 July 4th Baptized Lydia, Wife of Jonas C. March Esq'' 
 
 Nov"" 21''t baptized, Albert, Son of Nath' Upham Esq'' 
 
 June nth i«20 Baptized Maria Barker, Daughter of J. H. Woodman Esq'" 
 
 Dec"" 2'' 1821 Baptized Charlotte Cheever, Daughter of J. H Woodman Esq'' 
 
 March S^ 1822 Baptized Sarah, Wife of Trustrum Hard upon a Sick Bed, upon 
 her confession of repentance of her Sins, her faith in Jesus Christ as her only Sa- 
 viour, & resolution, thro' divine grace, to pay a ready & chearful abedience to his 
 gospel. 
 
 July 2P' Baptized, Benjamin Corson, before his being received into the Church 
 
 July 28th Baptized, Beuajah, Son of Benajah Ricker 
 
 June 15th 1823 Baptized Lois, Wife of Tobias Twombly before being received 
 into the Church 
 
 Baptisms Since the ordination of the Rev*! Thomas C Upham July 16"' 1823 
 
 August 3*1 M'' Buzzel, by the name of John Burnham The widow Adams, by 
 the name of Elisabeth 
 
 Both the above made a publick profession of their faith in Christ. 
 
 August IQth Abigail, Wife of Samuel Chamberlain, [by Mr Haven 
 
 August 12th Moses, Mary, Enoch Lydia, & Sarah, — Children of Samuel & 
 Abigail Chamberlain — 
 
 Note. The above children upon their assenting to the confession of faith.] 
 
 The lilies in brackets are in tlie hand of Mr, Upham, 
 
 MARRIAGES AS RECORDED BY MR. HAVEN. 
 
 AD 1776 Feb'' 29th Robart Walker with Dorothy Leaghton, both of Rochester 
 
 March 7th Joseph Tucker with Abigail Heard, both of Rochester 
 
 May 23*1 James Place with Esther Varney both of Rochester 
 
 June 6th James Allen with Mercy Garland both of Rochester 
 
 June 22'! VV"" Whitiker with Sally Hoit, both of Berwick, — by Licence 
 
 June 23'! Elihu Wentworth with Lois Pinkham both of Rochester 
 
 Sept"^ 23<i Mark Harford with Mary Corson both of Rochester 
 
 Nov"^ 6th Simon Torr of Dover with Sarah Ham of Rochester 
 
 Dec' 26th John Tebbets with Jean Heard both of Rochester 
 
APPENDIX. 607 
 
 AD 1777 Jan"" 14* Abraham Cook of Kochester with Abigail Twoirbly of Sorn- 
 ersworth 
 
 Jan' SO*"^ Isaac Weiitworth with Abigail Nutter both of Rochester 
 
 Feb'' 13* Joshua Allen with Martha Varney both of Rochester 
 
 May 22<i Lieut Sam' Nute with the Widow Sarah Welch both of Rochester 
 
 August 3'' Robert Cook with Elisabeth Goodwin both of Somers worth 
 
 Oct' 16* Caleb Wakeham with Sarah Clements both of Rochester 
 
 Nov 24* Joseph Cook of Somersworth with Anna Young of Rochester 
 
 Pec"" 17* Ephraim Tebbets with Eunice Tibbets both of Rochester 
 
 Dec"' lS"i Benj. Furbur with Deborah Tebbets both of Rochester 
 
 1778 Jan'' 26* Richard Tripe of Kittery with Elizabeth Gage of Dover 
 Jan"" 29* David Jenues with Sarah Jennes both of Rochester 
 
 Feb"" 26* James Wille with Kezia Leighton both of Durham 
 April 8* Tobias Ricker with Susannah Richardson both of Rochester 
 Sepf 18* John Barber with Elisabeth Locke both of Barrington. 
 Nov"" 19* John Nute Jun"" With Hannah Place both of Rochester 
 Nov 30* Joseph Plummer with Hannah Bickford both of Rochester 
 Dec"" 15* Edward Rollins with Anna AYentworth, both of Rochester. 
 Dec"" 17* James Chamberlain with Phebe Jackson, both of Rochester 
 Dec'' 22*^ Joseph Thompson Jun"^ with Lydia Green both of Rochester 
 Dec'' — Joseph Bickford with Dorcas Ellis both of Rochester 
 
 1779 March 18"' John Ham with Mary Dam both of Rochester 
 
 June 28* — Benj. Babb of Barrington with Hannah Furbur of Rochester 
 July 29* John Bickford with Elisabeth Pearl, both of Rochester 
 August 10* — Ebenezer Garland Jun"" with Lydia Jackson, both of Rochester. 
 August 26 John Rollings with Elisabeth Leighton both Rochester 
 Sepf 5* John Wille with Mercy Cook, both of Somersworth. 
 Sepf 28'^ James Rogers with Susannah Pinkham both of Rochester 
 Ocf 5* 'Moses Hayes Jun'' of Rochester with Dolly Wingate of Madbuiy 
 Ocf 14* Moses I^owns with Elisabeth Trickey both of Rochester. 
 Nov 4"' Amos Place with Olive Knight both of Rochester 
 
 Nov 25* William Wingate with Deborah Buzzel both of Rochester. Joshua 
 Peavey with Mary Buzzel both of New Durham 
 
 Dec'' S'^ Jonathan Cook of Wakefield with Sarah Downing of Rochester. 
 
 Dec'" 12*'' Daniel Calef with Anna Scribner both of Rochester. 
 
 Dec"" 15* Enoch Hayes with Sasanna Knowles both of Rochester. 
 
 Dec'' 24* James Co'lman of Rochester M-ith Dorcas Wentworth of Somersworth 
 
 1780 -Ian'' 2G* W'" Rogers of the Gore with Mary Chamberlain of Rochester 
 Jan"" 27* Stephen Starbord with Lydia Nayler both of Rochester 
 
 Feb'" 2'' Jason Chamberlain with Mary Brewster both of Rochester 
 Feb"" 14* Timothy Ricker with Lois Plummer both of Rochester Jonathan 
 Young with Sarah Desethering, he of Middleton She of Someisworth 
 Feb'' 17"' -Joseph Ellis of Middleton with Hannah Perkins of Rochester 
 March 9* Ephraim Trickey with Lucy Cook both of Rochester 
 March 21* Moses Jennes of Rochester with Abigail Berry of Barrington Ebe- 
 nezer Horn with Lydia Canny both of Somersworth 
 
 April 3'' John Stanton with Susanna Knight both of Rochester 
 
 April 13* Matthias ^Vek'h with Rachel Pearl both of Rochester 
 
 June 4* W"' Horn of Dover with Lucy Thompson of Rochester 
 
 Jiine 22"^ Samuel Tuttle with Martha Varney both of Somersworth 
 
 July 13* Isaiah Foss with Mary Dow both of Barrington 
 
 August 22"^ Moses Babb with Meribah Lock both of Barrington 
 
 Sepf 7* Beard Plummer with Susanna Ham both of Rochester 
 
 Ocf 7* Zebuloii Durgan of Durham with Lettice Stillson of New Durham 
 
 Dec"" 6* Ebenezer Hanson of Madbury, with Patience ^"arney of Rochester 
 
 1781 Jan"" 11* John Place Jun'' with Patience Downing both of Rochester 
 Feb'' 20"' David Jenues with Lucy Page both of Rochester 
 
608 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Feb"- 22'! David Corson with Mary M-'Durffee both of Rochester 
 April 12* Sam' Lord of Berwick with Abigail Allen of Rochester 
 May 21**' John Tucker of Kittery with Phebe Heard of Rochester 
 August 16"! Sam' Wentworth of Somersworth with Mary Berry ofRochester 
 Hanniel Clark with Judith Berry both of Rochester 
 Sepf 20"> John Allen with INIary Clark, both of Rochester 
 Nov"" 15"^ Daniel Horn with Charity Place, both of Rochester 
 AD 1782 Feb'' 5"^ Joshua Hayes with Hannah Lock both of Barrington 
 Feb"" 28"* John Myrick with Elisabeth Palmer both of Rochester 
 March 7"^ Sam' Roberts of Berwick with Lydia Tebbets of Rochester 
 March 12"^ Benj, Varney With Joanna Ham both of Rochester 
 March 21'*' Silas Tebbets with Sarah Heard, both of Rochester 
 May 9"» Jonathan Heard with Sarah Yetton, both of Rochester 
 June 19* Joseph Hodgdon of Wakefield with Charity Dame of Rochester 
 August P' John Roberts with Ruth Rogers both of Rochester 
 August S'l Philip Jackson with INIary Place both of Rochester 
 Ocf 8* Robert Evens with the Wid" Hannah Heard both of Rochester 
 Oct'" 3P' Ebenezer Hayes with Phebe Huckins both of Barrington 
 Nov 2P' Samuel Hayes of Barrington with Sarah Pearl of Rochester 
 Nov'' 28* John Willey Jun"" with Tamsin Gray both of Barrington Stephen 
 Brock with Elisabeth Berry both of Barrington Richard Foss with Marcy Berry 
 both of Barrington Timothy Roberts Jun"" with Elisabeth Hayes both of Roch- 
 ester 
 
 Feb'' 6* 1783 Ephraira Holmes with Mary Hall both of Barrington 
 Feb'' 27* Samuel Foss, Tertius with Sarah Juukins both of Barrington 
 May 8* Benj. French of New-Market with Mary Harford of Rochester 
 May 22*^ John Huckens of Barrington with Mary Pearl of Rochester 
 Ocf 13* W"i Wentworth Lord of Berwick with Mary Allen of Rochester 
 Ocf 16* .James Marden Jun'' with Fredrica Scevey both of liarrington 
 Ocf 20* John Wentworth of Somersworth with Rebecca Horn of Rochester 
 Nov'' 17* Joseph Pearl Jun'" with Catharine Clark both of Rochester 
 Nov 27* Jedediah Tebbets with Dorothy Tebbets both of Rochester 
 Dec"" 4* Ephraim Tebbets with Esther Tebbets both of Rochester 
 Dec'" 16* Ezekiel Hayes with Margaret Foss both of Barrington 
 Dec" 25* W^i Palmer with Susannah Twombly both of Rochester 
 
 1784 Jan"" 2pt Abraham Pribble of Wolfsboro" with Mary Cole of Rochester 
 Feb"^ 11* Joseph Holmes with Sarah Page, both of Rochester 
 
 Feb'' 12* Nathan Webb Adams of Newington with Elisabith Cole of Rochester 
 
 Feb'' 26* Benj. Berry with Mary Foss both of Barrington 
 
 April 20* Jonathan Leighton Jun"" With Mary Rogers both of Rochester 
 
 April 21'*' Benj. Adams Esq'' of Newington with Susanna Brown of Rochester 
 
 May 23'' Moses (,-hamberlain with Mary Nason both of Rochester 
 
 July 29* Joseph Roberts with Betty Dame, both of Rochester 
 
 Sepf 30* Anthony Pevee with Betty Hammon both of Rochester 
 
 Ocf 7* Elijah Horn with Anna Corson both of Rochester ^^H 
 
 Dec'' 9* Joseph Ricker with Sarah Trickey both of Rochester ^^M 
 
 Dec"" 29* George Snell Hayes with Anna Hawkins both of Rochester 
 
 1785 Jan'" 6* Timothy Heard with Mary Dame both of Rochester 
 
 March Z^ William Henderson with Peggy Roberts, He of Dover, She of Roch- 
 ester 
 
 March 17* Gilbert French with Leah French both of Rochester 
 
 March 24* Timothy Richardson with Anna Perkins both of Rochester 
 
 June 3^1 Moses Hayes Jun'' with Anna Coffin both of Rochester 
 
 Sepf 26* James Place with Abigail Haj'es both of Rochester 
 
 Ocf 16* Benj. Palmer with Patty Harford both of Rochester 
 
 Nov'' 8"' Sam' Allen with Sarah Ham both of Rochester 
 
 Nov 17"' Aaron ¥/hitehouse of Rochester with Rebekah Otis of Barringtou 
 
APPENDIX. 609 
 
 Nov"" 30"^ Abraham Chatnberlin & Sarah White both of the Gore 
 
 Dec"" 1^' Nehetniah Kimball & Mary Goodwin both of Rochester 
 
 1786 Jan'' 4"^ Jolham Twombly with liydia Barber both of Rochester 
 
 JarJ 5^^ John M. Place with Sarah Twombly both of Rochester. 
 
 Jan'' 15""' Jeremiah Dow of New Durham with Elisabeth Perkins of Rochester 
 
 Jan'' 17"' Jonathan Place with Mary Dearing both of Rochester 
 
 Jan"" 19"^ "\V"^ Alurry of Berwick with Elisabeth Tebbets of Rochester 
 
 Jan"' 22'' Dea"^ Sam' Plummer with Abigail Tebbets both of Rochester Sam' 
 
 Palmer with Anna Garland both of Rochester 
 
 March 8"^ William Wille with Anna JNIoody both of Middletown 
 
 March 23'^ Simon Doe of Washington with Mary Weymouth of Rochester 
 
 Nath' Bartlet Doe of Washington with Sarah Weymouth of Rochester 
 April 5"^ James Nutter with Elisabeth Heard both of Rochester 
 May 25"^ Janvrin Fisher with Sally Gage both of Dover 
 August '6^ Joseph Sceva of Conway with Hannah Sceva of Rochester John 
 
 Ham with Esther Merrow both of Dover 
 August 24"' Ezekiel Ricker with Rebecca Whitehouse both of Rochester 
 Sepf 3'' Moses Hanson with Abbot both of Berwick 
 
 Sept' 14"' Eleazer Ham with Lucy Jenness both of Rochester Richard Rundlet 
 
 with Rachel Horn both of Rochester 
 
 Sept' 28"' Jonathan Leighton with iiucy Place both of Rochester 
 NoV^ 16"' David Wiugate with Lydia Tebbets both of Rochester Lemuel Ma- 
 son of Barnstead with Molly Chamberlain of New Durham Gore 
 
 Nov"" 23'' John Palmer with Dorothy Perkins both of Rochester Nath' Johnson 
 
 with Mary Bickford both of Rochester 
 Nov"" 30"' Ephraim Horn with Molly Wentworth both of Somersworth 
 Dec- 2P' Dearborn Jewett v/ith Mary Furbur both of Rochester 
 May 3'' 1787 Anthony Rollins with Abigail Heard both of Rochester 
 May 10"i Meshech Robinson with Esther Perkins both of Rochester 
 Juiie 7"' James Varney of Dover with Martha Wentworth of Rochester 
 July 19"^ Cap* Dan' M-^Duffee of Rochester with Betty Nock of Dover 
 Oof 11"' Eleazer Hodgdon with Elisabeth Leighton both of Rochester 
 Ocf 25"' Stephen Twombly, of Rochester with Betty Hanson of Somersworth 
 NoV^ 8"^ Stephen Wentworth Jun^ with Olive Rollings both of Rochester 
 
 Joshua Hayes with Deborah Brown both of Rochester 
 
 Nov 11"' Jolin Brewster of Barrington with Abiah Brewster of Rochester 
 
 Nov'' 15"' Richard Dame Ju'' with Hannah M'^Duffee Both of Rochester 
 
 Nov' 19"' Sam' Bickford with tlharity Heard both of Rochester 
 
 Nov' 22'' John Place Jun"' With Lydia Garland both of Rochester 
 
 Nov 29"' Silas Dame with Abigail Watson both of Rochester Paul Place with 
 
 Judith Brown both of Rochester 
 
 1788 Jan'' 10'" James M'^Duffee Jun'' with Mehetabel Corson both of Rochester 
 Jan'" 17"' Benj. Hanson of Somersworth with Lydia Twombly of Rochester. 
 
 Michael Runnels w-ith Sarah Dame both of Rochester. 
 
 Feb"" 26"' Jeremiah Dearbon with Betty Copp both of Wakefield. 
 March 23'' Josiah Hall of Conway with Susannah Place of Rochester 
 March 27"' David Morrison with Mary Kimball both of Rochester 
 April 2'' Clement Hayes with Joanna Wentworth both of Rochester 
 April 5"' Moses Downs with Sarah Tripe both of Rochester 
 April 6"' Moses Mighls of Parsonsfield with Elisabeth Page of Rochester 
 April 8"' Andrew Hayes of Barrington with Sarah M<=Duffee Rochester. 
 May 25"' Winthrop Nutter with Charity Meder both of Rochester 
 June 8"' Daniel Horn of Somersworth with Relief Roberts of Rochester 
 June 9* Moses Horn Jun"" with Mary Wingate both of Rochester 
 Sept'' 24"' Sam' Knowles with the Widow Sarah Nute both of Rochester 
 Ocf 2'' Dan' Page Jun'' with Judith Whitehouse both of Rochester. 
 Ocf 16"' Stephen Tebbets with Mehetabal Tebbets both of Rochester 
 
610 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Ocf 28"^ Joshua Merrow with Peggy Garland both of Rochester 
 Nov 19'h John Bickford 3i with Sally Nutter both of Rochester 
 Nov 26'*> W"> Leigh ton of Rochester with Mary Pottle of New Durham Gore 
 Nov"" 27"^ Levi Pickering with Abigail Downs both of Rochester 
 Dec"" 4"* Tobias Hanson of Somersworth with INIolly Roberts of Rochester 
 Dec"" 11* Stephen Rogers with Hannah Hammond both of Rochester 
 1789 Jan"" 1"*' Amos Hodgdon with Elisabeth Ilam both of Rochester Nath^ 
 "Whitehouse of Lebanon with Miriam Ellis of Rochester 
 
 Jan"" 15'^ Joshua Nutter Rollings with Hannah Heard both of Rochester 
 Feb'' 24"^ Dudley Garland with Polly Heard both of Rochester 
 March 12"^ Dan' Brewster Juu"' with jSIary Hayes both of Rochester 
 March 26"' John Tanner with Rebeckah Richardson both of Rochester 
 April 1*' Joseph Pottle with Sarah Wentworth both of Rochester 
 May 14"' Shadrach Ham of Barrington with Elizabeth Mills of Rochester 
 Richard Nutter Jun'' with Dorothy Place both of Rochester 
 June 3^' Tho^ Varney with Margaret Meader both of Rochester 
 June 11* Benj. Wingate with Olive Heard both of Rochester 
 -June 25* Elijah Hussey of Dover with Jane Bickford of Rochester 
 July 19* Silas Roberts with Sarah Davis both of New Durham Gore 
 -July 23'! Moses Place with Susanna Downing both of Rochester 
 "Sepf 3"! Paul Austin with Lydia Downing both of Rochester 
 -Sepf 13* James Chesley Hayes with Betty Twombly both of Rochester 
 ^Ocf 1*' W°» Hill of Barrington with Hannah Hodgdon of Rochester 
 Oct'' 16"' Tho** Varney 3^1 with Susanna Tebbets both of Rochester 
 Ocf 25* Hate-evil Knight with Polly Bryant both of Rochester 
 Nov^ 8* David Wallingford with Sarah Corson both of Rochester. 
 Nov 12* Job Hussey of Somersworth with Elisabeth Downs of Rochester 
 Nov 25* Jonathan Richards Jun'' with Mary Horn both of Rochester 
 J^oV 26* Stephen Clark with Sarah Pearl both of Rochester 
 Dec'' 3P' James Ham of Barrington with Esther Copp of Rochester 
 ,'1790 Jan"' 7* Jonathan Place with Lydia Leighton both of Rochester 
 Web'' 16* Tho** Wentworth of Somersworth with Molly Roberts of Berwick 
 TFeb'' 18* Lieut Benj. Kielle of Dover with Sarah Flagg of Rochester 
 Febf 24* Nath' Pinkham of Rochester with Rebecca Knock of Dover Elisha 
 Cannes with Huldah Drown both of Rochester 
 
 Feb'' 25* Nath' Garland of Somersworth with Hannah Witherell of Rochester 
 «Ephraim Plummer with Anna M'=Duffee both of Rochester. 
 
 June 10* James Worster of New Durham Gore with Hannah Dore of Dover 
 June 16* Benj. Bickford of Ossapee Gore with Kezia Heard of Rochester 
 Ocf 14* Joseph Chamberlain with Hannah Davis both of New Durham Gore 
 Nov 7* Benj. H. Evens with Mary Varney both of Rochester 
 Nov'' 25* Eben"" Varney Jun'' Mary Jennes both of Rochester 
 Dec 2^ Dummer Farnum of Shapleigh with Dorothy Heard of Rochester 
 Dec'' 9* Simon Dame with Margaret Hayes both of Rochester 
 Dec'^ 21'' Eben"' Twombly with Dorothy Wentworth both of Rochester 
 Dec"" 22'! Paul Chamberlain of New Durham Gore with Olive Berry of New 
 Durham 
 
 Dec 23<i James Wentworth with Deborah Weymouth both of Rochester 
 
 1791 Jan' 12* Stephen Pierce with Dorcas Garland both of Rochester 
 
 Jan'' 25* Jonathan Flagg with Mary Ham both of Rochester 
 
 Jan-- 27* Timothy Gerrish with Elisabeth Spencer both of Rochester 
 
 Feb"^ 14* Ephraim Ham with Elisabeth Ham both of Dover 
 
 March 10* Ichabod Wentworth of Rochester with Kezia Cook of Somersworth 
 
 April 14* John Brewster Jun' with Abigail Place both of Rochester 
 
 .June 26* Hezekiah Cloutman with Abigail Card both of Rochester 
 
 June 30* Jonathan Wentworth Jun' With Elisabeth Kimball both of Rochester 
 
 July 14* Anthony Whitehouse with Elisabeth Varney both of Rochester 
 
APPENDIX. 611 
 
 July 21-^' Ephraim Plummer Jun'' with Judith Perkins both of Dover Barnabas 
 Palmer Juu'' with Mary Place both of Rochester 
 July 26* Sam' Bragdon of Shapleigh with Mehetabel Hanscom of Rochester 
 July 28"* Jon" APDuffee of New Durham Gore with Lois Tasker of Barnstead 
 August IS'i^ James Buchannon with Elisabeth Heard both of Rochester 
 Ocf 6* Nath' Horn of Dover with Jane M'^Duffee of Rochester 
 Oof 18"^ Paul Ellis of Rochester with Sarah Hubbard of Berwick 
 No\'' 6"^ Reuben Hanson of Middletown with Hannah Trickey of Rochester 
 Nov'^ 10"^ James Roberts with Molly Leighton both of New-Durham-Gore 
 Nov'' 16''^ John Ricker of Somersworth with Elisabeth Pinkham of Rochester 
 Jonathan Watson with Nancy Leighton both of Rochester 
 
 Nov"" 24* Clement Libbey with Phebe Tebbets both of Rochester Stephen 
 Whitehouse with Lois Downing both of Rochester 
 
 Dec"" h' Jacob I ayes of Rochester with Sarah More of Dover 
 March 4* 1792 George Berry of Barrington with Sarah Forst of Rochester 
 May 3<i Jonathan Heard Jun'' with Hannah Jennes both of Rochester 
 May 15"' Isaac Peari with Jane Tucker both of Rochester 
 June 21^' Joseph Fogg Esq"" of Ossipee with Abigail Wentworth of Rochester 
 July 26"' Sam' Goodel with Susanna Rand both of Rochester 
 Sepf 5* Moses Downs with Mercy Robinson both of Rochester Josiah Nute 
 with Rebecca Nute both of Rochester Stephen Wille of Dover with Temperance 
 Rollings of Rochester 
 
 Sepf 20* John Lock of Barrington with Abigail Page of Rochester. 
 Oct"^ 4"' .John Roberts with Abigail Jones both of Rochester 
 Ocf 14* Robert Knight with Susanna Kimball both of Rochester 
 Nov'' 18* John Sherburne of Waketield with Mary Twombly of Rochester 
 Dec"" S** John Downs & Sarah Door of Rochester married 
 Dec'' 27* W"" Jennes Jun"" with Mary Downing both of Rochester 
 1793. Jan'' P' Dudley Burham with Sarah Wentworth both of Rochester 
 Jan"" 14* Joseph Hanes with Temperance Hoit both of Rochester 
 Jan'' 2-1* John M'=Duffee Jun"" with Elisabeth Fitz-Gerald both of Rochester 
 Feb"" 20* Benj. Downing with Tryphena Kuowles both of Rochester 
 Feb"' 21"' Alexander Whitehouse with Sarah Willand both of Rochester 
 April 8* John Plummer 3'^ with Sarah Perkins both of Rochester 
 May 30* Valentine Langley of Durham with Rebekah Trickey of Rochester 
 July 14"' Penuel CJhamberlain of New-Durham Gore with Molly Rendal of 
 Madbury 
 
 Sepf 19* Dan' Wentworth with Patience Wentworth both of Rochester 
 Ocf 1"'' John Varney with Mary Wentworth both of Rochester 
 Ocf 7* Daniel Hanson of Buxton (Massachusetts) * with Molly Hanson of 
 Somersworth 
 
 Ocf 11* John Nutter and Hanuah Hayes both of Rochester Richmond Hen- 
 derson with Mercy Varney both of Rochester 
 
 Oct"^ 24"' Jacob Wallingford with Abigail Clark both of Rochester 
 Nov' 7* Stephen Brewster with Sarah Knight both of Rochester 
 Nov 20* David French Jun'' with Abigail Roberts both of Rochester 
 Dec' 2'i W"^' Ripley with Lydia Garland both of Rochester 
 
 Dec' 5"' Isaac Bickford of Rochester with Comfort Chamberlain of New-Dur- 
 ham Gore Ephraim Chamberlain Jun' with Mary Davis of New-Durham Gore 
 Dec' 26* Enoch Wentworth with Jane Leighton both of Rochester 
 1794 Jan' 2'^ Enoch Wingate with Mary Meserve both of Rochester 
 Feb' 4* John Wentworth 3'i with Mary Roe both of Rochester 
 Feb' 27* Jacob M-^DufEee with Abigail Flagg both of Rochester 
 May 10* Hanson Libbey with Lydia Wallingford both of Rochester 
 May 28* Eben' Wentworth with Elisabeth Hayes both of Rochester 
 
 Doubtless Maine, which then belonsced to Massachusetts. 
 
612 ROCHESTER. 
 
 June 19"^ John C'averly with Sarah Varney both of Rochester Elisha Allen 
 with Polly Philbrick both of Wakefield 
 
 July 6"^ Ephraim Perkins 3<i with Elisabeth Plummer both of Rochester 
 
 July 8"» Tristram Copp of Tufton-boro' with Priscilla Bickford of Rochester 
 
 Sepf 14* Moses Harford of Dover with Hannah Forst of Rochester 
 
 Oct' 2'^ Eben"" Pearl with Sarah Jennes both of Rochester 
 
 Ocf 16*'^ Jacob Sanbourn of Middletown with Betty Richards of Rochester 
 
 Nov 9"^ Benj. Evens Jun'' with Betsey Place, both of Rochester. 
 
 Nov 12"^ Nath' Whitehouse with Nancy Leighton both of Rochester. 
 
 NoV^ 13"^ Jacob Horn with Abigail Twombly both of Rochester. 
 
 Nov"" 16"^ John Tebbets with Susanna Plummer both of Rochester 
 
 Nov 27"^ Nicholas A^arney with Jane Heard both of Rochester 
 
 1795 Jan'' 22"^ Francis Meder with Elisabeth Whitehouse both of Rochester 
 Feb"" 8"^ Dan' Hanes with Mary Hoit i)Oth of Rochester 
 
 Feb"' 12"^ l^an' Kimball with Sarah Jones both of Rochester John Roberts 
 with Betsey Torr both of Rochester 
 
 Febf 19"^ Timothy Dame with Betsey Lock both of Rochester. 
 April 23'! Enoch Tebbets with Anna Roberts both of Rochester Richard Nut- 
 ter Z'^ with ISIary Wentwoi-th both of Rochester 
 
 May 4"i Dan'" Baker of Somersworth with Betsy Clements of Rochester 
 July 5"^ Benj. Furbur with Kezia Ash both of Rochester 
 July 16* Dan' Hayes 3^^ with Olive French both of Rochester 
 July 30* Paul Horn with Elisabeth Stephens both of Rochester 
 Sepf 6* Meshech Libbey of Eaton with Lydia Heard of Rochester 
 Sepf 10* Tristram Bickford with Elisabeth Drown both of Rochester 
 Sept' 13* Jonas Clark March with Sally Wingate both of Rochester 
 Sepf 24* Robert Mathes with Polly Meserve both of Rochester Joshua Wig- 
 gin of Rochester with Mary Wentworth of Somersworth 
 
 Ocf 11* Joseph Corson with Abra Horn both of Rochester John French with 
 Sarah Treserin both of Rochester 
 
 Nov P' David Leighton Jun' with Anna Watson both of Rochester 
 Nov' 12* Nath' Ham with Abigail Downing both of Rochester 
 Nov 15* Oliver Peavy with Patience Young both of Rochester 
 Dec' 3P' Moses Horn Jun' with Alice Furbur both of Rochester 
 
 1796 Feb' 4* Benj. -Jones with Leah Berry both of Rochester 
 Feb' 8* Tho^ Hanscom with Hannah Clark both of Rochester 
 March 24"' Stephen French with Polly Pinkham both of Rochester 
 April 7"' Stephen Nutter with Abigail Wentworth both of Rochester 
 April 10* Isaac Horn of Dover with Mary Adams of Rochester 
 May 26* George Colebath with Mary Knight both of Rochester 
 
 August IS* John Cator, of Barrington with Susanna Holmes of Rochester 
 
 Sepf 19* William Conner of Dover with Betsy Rollins of Rochester 
 
 Ocf 2'i Paul Dame with Phebe Mathes both of Rochester 
 
 Ocf 6* Benj. Harford with Dorothy Harford both of Rochester 
 
 Nov 10* Ichabod Hayes Jun' with Deborah French both of Rochester Enoob 
 
 Wentworth with Anna Young both of Rochester 
 Nov 13* Eben' French with Abigail AValker both of Rochester James Ran 
 
 with Olive Horn both of Rochester 
 
 Nov' 14* Dennis Hoyt with Jane Wentworth both of Rochester 
 Nov 16"' John Runnels with INlary Horn both of Rochester 
 Nov' 17* Enoch AVilland with Easher Cloutman both of Rochester 
 Dec' 1^' Theodore Hodgdon with Betsey Ham both of Rochester 
 
 1797 Jan' 1^' Eben' Tebbets with Peace Hubbard both of Rochester 
 Jau' 3<i Theodore Ham with Dorothy Alien both of Rochester 
 Feb' 26* Dudley Palmer with Abigail Pickering both of Rochester 
 April 2<i Paul Libbey with Hannah Tebbets both of Rochester 
 April 13* Beuj Trickey with Olive llussey both of Rochester 
 
APPENDIX. 613 
 
 May ll*"^ James Waldron with Betsey Pickerin": both of Rochester 
 August S"! James Downs with Betsey Hayes both of Rochester 
 August 6*'i Paul Horn of Alton with Susannah Nute of Rochester 
 Sept'' 7"' Shadrach Heard with Lydia Hoyt both of Rochester 
 Oct'^ 2-i"^ Elihu Hayes of Lebanon with Betsey Hayes of Rochester 
 Nov 8"! Ebeu*- Ricker of Shapleigh with Judith Witherall of Rochester 
 Nov 9"» Nath' Rand with Betsey Hanson both of Rochester 
 Nov"" 14^*^ Frederick Cate with Lydia Scales both of Rochester. 
 
 1798 Jan'' 4* Enoch Durham with Sarah Libbey both of Rochester 
 
 Jan'" 15'^ Johu Cloutman of Wakefield with Hannah Folsom of Rochester 
 
 Jau"^ 21»' Beuj. Tebbets with Betsey Walker both of Rochester 
 
 March 4"' Josepli Hanson with Charity Dame both ol' Rochester 
 
 March IS'*' Moses Young with Meheiabel Varney both of Rochester 
 
 March 22^^ Jeremiah Cook with Haunah Wentworth botli of Rochester 
 
 April 18"' Nathan Hodgdon with Molly Furbur both of Rochester 
 
 April 26'*' John Hans' n of Dover with Susanna Knight of Rochester 
 
 May 7"' John Twombl}'^ Jun"" with Abigail Meserve both of Rochester 
 
 May 24"' Lemuel Meder with Polly Kimball both of Rochester 
 
 June S*! Andrew Door of Lebanon with Margaret Serjeant of Rochester 
 
 June 10"' Ephraira Hammet with Mary Hayes of Rochester 
 
 June 21^' Stephen Jeunes with Sarah Bussel both of Rochester 
 
 July P^ Samuel Ham with Betsey Bickford both of Rochester 
 
 Sept'' 6"' Daniel Ham with Susanna Ham both of Rochester Isaac Hanson 
 
 with Mary Jones both of Rochester 
 Sepf 20"' James Tebbets with Molly Nutter both of Rochester 
 Sepf 25'^ Mark Read of Rochester with Alice Nutter of New-Durham 
 
 Eli&ha Pike of Rocliester with Sarah Hanson of Dover 
 
 Ocf IS"! Joseph Hodgdon with Poll}^ Roberts both of Rochester 
 
 Nov"" 1*' Moses Whitehouse with Mary Page both of Rochester Jonathan 
 
 Henderson with Sally Hodgdon both of Rochester 
 Nov 25* John Scates with Mary Worster both of Kochester 
 DeC" 27"' Wentworth Cook with Mehetabel Roberts both of Rochester 
 
 1799 Feb'' 21''' Samuel Jones Juu"" with Mehetabel Burnhani both of Farm- 
 ington 
 
 Feb- 28* Benj. Twombly of Lancaster with Judith Twombly of Rochester 
 March S"" Ediiiond Crocket with Abigail Davis both of Alton. 
 March 10* Benj. Adams with Betsey Horn both of Rochester 
 April 18* Tristram Garland of Farmington with Elisabeth Roberts of Rocl: 
 ester 
 
 May 9* Richard Horn with Lucy Scates both of Rochester 
 May 30* Tho* Downs with Rebecca Roberts both of Rochester 
 June 6* John Palmer with Betsey Ellis both of Rochester 
 June 13* Joseph Tebbets Jun'' with Sarah Roberts both of Rochester 
 June 16* Josiah Main Jun"" with Betsey Harford both of Rochester 
 July 3*^ Thomas Stephens of Lebanon with Abigail Ash of Farmingtou 
 July 4* Moses Canney Esq"" of Madbury with Susanna Perkins of Rochester 
 Nov 3-1 Dan' Tasker of Alton with Sally Randall of Rochester 
 Nov 28* Jeremiah Horn Jun"" of Dover with Abigail Tebbets of Rochester 
 W"" Heard with Mary Garland both of Rochester ' James Clark of Barring- 
 ton with Elisa* M'-'Neal of Rochester 
 
 1800 March 6* Jonathan Jeunes of Barrington with Betsey Randal of Roch- 
 ester. 
 
 April 17* Paul Downs with Anna Clark both of Rochester 
 July 3*^ Samuel Bracket with Susanna Brown both of Rochester 
 August 2P' Adam Perkins with Nancy Read both of Rochester 
 Sepf 1*' Silas Goodwin, of Berwick with Anna Clements of Dover 
 Sepf 21^' John Brown with Nancy Harford both of Rochester 
 
614 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Sepf SO**! David M<=Duftee of Rochester with Abigail Waldron of Dover 
 Ocf W^ John Lock of Farmiuijtou with Mercy Dame of Rochester 
 Ocf 23<i Josepli Lancton witli Mere}' Corson both of Rochester 
 Nov 2d Shadraoh Pirkins with Bnd"<:et Harford both of Dover 
 Nov' 16"^ David Evans with Betsey Clark both of Rochester 
 Dec 4"^ Sam' ^'elson Nutter with Sally Cohlbath both of Farmiuiiton 
 Dec'' 8* Dan' Quiinb}' of Rochester with Susanna Murray of Farmiugtou 
 Dec 11* James Garland with Abigail Jennes both of Rochester 
 Dec 25* Stephen Place witli Elisabeth Chesiey both of Rochester Ezra 
 Brock of Barrington witli Sally Evans of Rochester 
 
 Jan"" 8* 1801 Eleazer Pearl of Farmington with Sarah EUis of Rochester 
 March 12* Sam' Chamberlain Jun"" with Abigail Roberts both of Rochester 
 March 17"" Reuben Hanuiford with Sarah Richards both of Rochester 
 April 2<* Hezekiah Hayes of Farmington with Sally Hayes of Rochester 
 Samuel C Jones Juu'' with Sally Hodgdon both of Farmington 
 April 19* Joseph Sherbourne with Polly Alley both of Rochester 
 April 25* Silas Dame with Lucy Ricker both of Rochester 
 May 21^' Sam' Emerson Furbur with Nancy Leighton both of Farmington. 
 May 26* Stephen Nute witb Anna Furbush both of Rochester 
 Mav 28* Miles Chesh y of New Durham with Polly Furbur of Farmington. 
 May 31^' William Tebbets with Mary Pike both of Rochester 
 June 3d Joseph Copp with Lydia Wentworth l)oth of Rochester 
 August 2^ Ens" John Trickey willi Mary Kimbal both of Rochester 
 August 16* Paul Ham with Polly Place both of Rochester 
 Sepf 3'i Paul Kimball of Rochester with Lais Knight of Farmington 
 Sepf 20*^ Jeremiah Berry of Rye with Dorothy Emerson of Dover; He 
 aged 77, She 70, Tobias Twombly Juu'" with Lois Wentworth both of Roch- 
 ester Temple Hoyt with Betsey Heard both of Rochester 
 Sepf 22'i ^Sloses Bickford with Lydia Richards both of Dover 
 Oct"" 15* Livi Jones with Betsey Plummer both of Rochester Tho^ Chesly 
 with Elisabeth Brewster both of Rochester 
 Nov'" 12* James Horn with Polly Chesly both of Rochester 
 Nov'" 19* Joseph Jones Jun'" of Farmington with Lydia M"=Duffee of Roch- 
 
 DeC 18* John Downs of Farmington with Polly Torr of Rochester 
 
 Jan'" 24* 1802 Stephen Tebbets of Philipsburgh with Ruth Tebbets of 
 
 Rochester 
 Jan"^ 28* Dan' Clark of Exeter willi Rachel Wiggin of Rochester 
 Feb"" 18* William Pickering with Abigail Calef both of Rochester David 
 
 Wisgin with Rebecca Garland both of Farmington 
 March 4* James Mordough of Wakefield with Temperance Wentworth of 
 
 Rochester 
 
 March 11* Israel Whitehouse with Olive Varney both of Rochester 
 March 18* Meshach Heard with Patience Odiorne both of Rochester 
 
 Noah Horn with Sarah Wentworth both of Farmington 
 
 April 5* John French with Polly Libbcy, both of Farmington Doctor 
 
 Benj. Libbey with Sukey Demerit both of Farmington 
 April 22^ Shubal Roberts with Rose Tuttle both of Rochester. Joseph 
 
 Berry with Polly Berjin both of Rochester 
 April 25* Joseph Palmer of Rochester with Mary Hanson of Dover 
 Jupe 25* Josiah Wentworth Jun"" with Ri>se Horn both of Rochester 
 July 11* Joshua Chamberlain of Portland with Hannah Brown of Roch- 
 ester 
 
 July 25* Elijah Varney Jun"^ with Sarah Tebbets both of Rochester 
 August 26* George Wentworth with Lydia Nute both of Milton 
 Sepf 23'i W" Drew with Polly Nute both of Dover 
 Ocf 21" Daniel Wentworth with Miriam Wakeham both of Milton 
 
APPENDIX. 61 5> 
 
 Oct' SS*** Jeremiah Jenues of Rochester with Molly Gray of Farmiugton' 
 NoV^ 13"^ Lieut. Johu M'=Duffee with Abigail Torr both of Rochester 
 Nov"" 25"^ Benj. Hoyt with Peggy Downs both of Rochester 
 Nov 27"^ Jou* Clark Esq"' of Nothwood with M" Lilias Shannon of Roch- 
 ester 
 Nov 28"» Silas Varney with Esther Varney both of Rochester 
 Dec 5"^ Tbeodore Monson of Milton with Anna Cloutman of Rochester 
 Dec 16. Jacob Joy of Mndbury with Alice Horn of Rochester 
 Jan'' 16"' 1803 Jeremy Whitehouso with Abigail York both of Rochester- 
 Jan'' 30"> Josiah Smith of Newmarket with Relief Heard of Rochester 
 Feb"" 3<i John Libbey of Wakefield with Sally Langly of Rochester 
 Feb' 16"^ Jedidiah Ricker with Sally Lord both of Milton 
 March 20"' Ichabod Hayes of Milton with Lydia Wentworth of Rochester 
 April 4"' John Bickford Jun"" of Rochester witli Love Brown of Milton. 
 April U'h Roberts Mathes with Sally Jones both of Milton 
 May 1^' Enoch Hoit Jun"' with Mercy Wentworth both of Rochester 
 May 2^ Abraham Heard with Patty M<=Duffee both of Rochester 
 June 13"' Jeremy Young with Hannah or Anne Kimball both of Dover 
 July 7"' David Clark with Molly Twombly both of Rochester 
 August 2'^ James Goodrige of Berwick with Sally Twombly of Milton 
 August 14"' John Ham 3*^ of Dover with Mercy Wentworth of Somers- 
 worth 
 
 Sept'' 1^' Joseph Chesley 3*1 of Durham with Betsey Ham of Rochester 
 Oct' 23>^ Thomas Downs Jun' with Abigi-iil Hayeis both of Rochester 
 Ocf 27"' W'" Warren of Farmington with Susanna Roberts of Rochester 
 Nov' 13"' Joseph Corson with Lydia Ricker both of Milton James Calef 
 with Lois Pickering both of Rochester 
 
 Nov' 17"' Be!!J. Chesley Jun' with Sally Horn both of Farmington thanks- 
 giving day 
 Dec' S* Thomas Berry of Barrington with Molly Hodgdon of Rochester 
 Dec' 15"' James Pickering Jun' of Rochester with Mary Burnham of 
 Farmington 
 
 Jan' 16"' 1804 James Sayward of Shapleigh with Lydia Witherell of Roch- 
 ester 
 Jan' 23'! Amaziah Lord ol" Berwick with Betsey Horn of Somersworth 
 Feb' IS''"' Andrew Peirce with Hannah G. Nasou both of Rochester 
 Feb' IG"' Dan' Wingate with Dorothy Walker both of Farmington. Jon* 
 Downing with Hannah Richards both of Rochester. 
 Feb' 2Z^ Isaac Roberts with Allice Pinkham both of Farmington 
 March 7"' Joshua Rogers with Betsey Hanson both of Rochester 
 March 15"' John Pickering with Lydia Roach both of Newiugtou 
 March 29"' Isaac Jennes with Mercy Wentworth both of Rochester 
 April 16"' John Haven with Nancy Dennett both of Rochester. 
 April 26"' Ephraim Garland with Abigail Henderson both of Rochester 
 April 29"' Benj. Read of Farmington with Abigail Holmes of Rochester 
 May 30"' Stephen Rollins with Polly Ricker both of Rochester 
 June 5^ Cap' Seth Spring of Biddeford With the Widow Anna Dearborii 
 of Rochester 
 June 28"' Moses Twombly of Farmington with Sally Door of Rochester 
 July P' Ezekiel Hayes of Farmington with Polly Clark of Alton 
 July 2'i James Roberts with Mercy Wentworth Both of Milton Solomou 
 Place with Bildary or Belvedira Clapham both of Dover 
 
 Sept' 30"' George Heard with Sally Tebbets both of Rochester 
 Oct' 21^' Josiah Tucker with Betsey Henderson both of Rochester 
 Dec' 16"' Vincent Torr of Dover with Sally Torr of Rochester 
 1805. Jan' 24"! Joseph Drew of Alton with Leah Jones of Farmingtom 
 Jan' 31^' Nath' Jenkins of Milton with Sally Hammctt of Rochester 
 
616 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Feb"" 11"' James Cook with Easter Rollins both of Rochester 
 April 3*1 Charles Pray of Lebanon with Hannah Hayes of Farmington 
 July 9'i> Jonathan G. Footman with Sally Hodgdon both of Dover. 
 August 29"! Hatevil Knight with Mary M^Duffee both of Rochester 
 Sepf 4"! Aaron Downs Jun'' of Rochester with Rebecca Lord of Milton 
 Oct"^ 20"! Reuben Heard Jun'' with Molly Varney both of Rochester 
 Ocf 31*' Jonf^ How with Mehetabei Twombly both of Milton 
 NoV^ o*! Richard Cross with the Widow Abigail Brewster both of Roch- 
 ester 
 Nov'" 17"' Benj. Corson with Patty Ross, both of Rochester 
 Nov 29"! Richard Nutter Ju""" of Rochester with Temperance Rand of 
 Somersworth 
 Dec"^ 8"' Samuel ^Vigo;in with Susanna Fisher, both of Dover 
 Dec"" 25"' Stephen Jenkins Jun'' of INIilton with Ruth Howard of Dover 
 1806 Jan"" 16"' Levi Robinson with Martha Hanson botli of Rochester 
 Jan"" 30"' Richard Chesley with Nancy Twombly both of Dover 
 Feb-- 19"' Beniah Colby with Rebecca Weutworth both of Milton 
 Feb"' 27"' Joel Bickford with Lydia Yarney both of Rochester. 
 March 2'^ Jon" Morrison with Elisabeth Shannon both of Rochester 
 July 3<i Samuel Watson of Dover with Lydia Brown of Somersworth 
 July 6"' Joshua Trickey with Rebecca Tebbets both of Rochester 
 Sepf 14"' Joseph Perkins with Elisabeth Gnge, both of Dover 
 Sepf 25"' Dan' Hayes with Abigail Chesley, both of Rochester 
 Sepf 29"' William Cushing with Nancy Hayes both of Dover 
 Sepf 30"' Samuel Muir of Maryland with Sophia Dame of Rochester 
 Ocf 5"' William Jenness o'^ with Hannah Scevy both of Rochester 
 Nov'' 10"' Jon" Dame Roberts with Lydia Jones, both of Farmington 
 Nov 16"' Lemuel Durnell of Peacham (Vermont) with Patience Hanson 
 of Rochester 
 Nov"' 23'i John Meserve with Sally Hayes both of Milton 
 Nov 27"' Samson Babb of Barrington with Abigail Hammett of Rochester 
 James Harford with Lucy D. Harfol'd both of Milton 
 
 Dec'' 18"' Moses Hammett Jun"" with Rose Tebbetts both of Rochester 
 Dec'' 25"' Thomas AVentworth with Lydia Odiorne both of Rochester 
 Jan"" 8"' 1807 Henry Tebbets with Betsey Hoit both of Rochester 
 Feb'' 5* John D. Hoit with Molly Tebbets, both of Rochester 
 Feb'' 22*1 Stephen Handerson, with Sarah Roberts both of Rochester. 
 March 8"' Ichabod Corson with Joanna Twombly both of Rochester 
 April 2^ James Randall with Sarah Door both of Rochester. 
 April 16"' Benj. Berry Juif of Barrington with Sally Hayes of Farm- 
 ington Charles Colbath with Cl.arlotte Nutter both of Farmington 
 May 10"' Nath' Ham Jun"" of Dover with Hannah Allen of Rochester 
 May ai'*' Thomas Wentworth with Olive Wentworth both of Milton 
 Aui^ust 30"' Ezekiel Wentworth with Rebecca Wentworth both of Somers- 
 worth 
 
 Nov 26"' John Murrey Jun'' with Abigail Furbur both of Farmington 
 Eph'" Hnm Jun'' with the widow Lydia Whitehouse both of Rochester 
 
 Jan'' 7"' 1808 Joseph Hayes Jun'' of Barrington with Lois Demerit of 
 Farmington 
 
 Feb'' 25"! Stephen Wingate of Farmington with Susanna Calef of Roch- 
 ester 
 
 INIarch 28"' Ephaim Kimball with Rachel Akerman both of Farmington 
 Simon Peavey with Mary Varney both of Rochester 
 
 May 5"' John Jenness Jun'' of Barrington with Sarah Robinson of Roch- 
 ester 
 June 12'^' John K. Walker of Farmington with Abra Nute of Milton 
 June 30"' Thomas Bryant with Sally Dame both of Rochester 
 
APPENDIX. 617 
 
 Sept' -i^^ John Kicker of Dover with Susanna Tebbets of Rochester Nich- 
 olas Nute of Wolfboro' with Betsey Hayes of Rochester 
 
 Sepf 25"^ Thomas Davis Ju"' of Newfleld with Anna Davis of Farmiugtoa 
 Ocf 20"i Thomas Gage of Dover with Patty Horn of Somersworth 
 Oct"^ 24* Stephen <)ackson with Betsey Knight both of Rochester 
 Ocf 25'^ Lieut Sam^ Jones of Berwick with Deborah Balch of Milton 
 Nov 16"' James Cook of Rochester with Mercy Wentwortli of Milton 
 Nov 17"' Enoch York with Sally Hayes both of Middleton 
 Nov 20"' Joseph Richardson with Hannah Rogers both of Rochester 
 Nov"^ 30"' Tliomas Richardson with Nancy Odiorue both of Rochester 
 Dec' 4"' Joseph Meder of Rochester with Betsey Leighton of Farmington. 
 Jan'' ig"* 1809 Thomas Roberts of Rochester with" Mehetibel Jones of 
 Farmington 
 Peb"^ 16"' Theodore Furbur with Abigail Walker both of Farmington 
 Feb"^ 27"' Philip Hubbard of Shapleigh with Mary Harford of Rochester 
 March IG"* W"' Hayes of Farmington with Mary Swain of Barrington 
 April 20"' John Jennes with Abigail Page both of Rochester 
 May 1^' Beuj. Page with the Widow Alice Joy both of Rochester 
 June 2H'i Epii"' Corliss Esq"" of Haverhill Massachusetts with the Widow Lucy 
 How of Rochester, New Hampshire 
 July 2'' Joel Varuey with Mehitable Waldron both of Rochester 
 July 27'^ Simon Gray of Barrington with Martha H. Page of Rochester 
 August 7''= Timothy Eastman with Comfort Whitehouse both of Rochester 
 Sepf 14'h Dan> Palmer with Abigail Ellis both of Milton 
 Oct' 5"' Aaron Jenness Juii"" with Sarah Jenness both of Rochester 
 Ocf 12"' Benj. Downing with Hannah Ricker both qf Farmington 
 Nov' IG"! Solomon Lord of Lebanon with Alice Trickey of Rochester 
 Nov 23<i Samuel Hayes with Leah Horn both of Farmington 
 Jonathan Ran let with Polly Langley both of Farmington 
 Dec' 7"' Henry Heard with Sally Richardson both of Rochester 
 Dec' 14"' Joseph Jones Jun' with Elisabeth Roberts both of Farmington 
 Dec' 24* Sara' Twombly Juii' with Sophia Fish, both of Milton 
 Dec' 28"' Sam' H. Sumner with Wealthy Tebbets both of Rochester 
 Jan' 11"' 1810 Joseph Hanson, Jun' with Lydia Haven both of Rochester 
 Jan' 15* Theodore Gilman of Wakefield with Mehitabel Richards of Roch- 
 ester 
 
 Feb' 8* John Henderson with Nancy Nutter both of Rochester 
 Feb' 18* Eben' Garland of Bartlett with Lydia Hayes of Rochester 
 March 11* Charles Ricker with Mary Lord, both of Milton 
 ■ March 29* John Odiorne with Lydia Wentworth both of Rochester 
 April 8* John Smith of Milton with Hannah Perkins of Rochester 
 April 15* Elijah H. Varney with Jane Heard both of Rochester 
 May 14"' Nicholas Ricker with Tryphena Burnham both of Farmington 
 May 31*' Jeremiah Nute of Milton with Martha Reynolds of Dover Win- 
 throp Adams with Dolly Dame both of Rochester 
 
 June 14* William Knight with Temperance Nutter both of Farmington 
 Daniel Furbur of Wolfboro' with Sally Chesley of Farmington 
 
 July 31* Richard Garland of Farmington with Mary Heard of Rochester 
 
 Nov' 4* Dudley "\'arney with Hannah Hussey both of Rochester 
 
 Nov' 18* John Nutter Jun' with Sally Heard both of Rochester 
 
 Nov 22^ Ezekiel Tebbets with Mary Tebbets both of Rochester 
 
 Dec' 2^ Ezekiel Hayes of Rochester with Hope Harford of Dover 
 
 Dec' 13* Charles Iloit with Nancy Garland both of Rochester 
 
 Dec' 27* Richard Davis with Mary Wingate both of Farmington 
 
 Dec' 30* Jacob Whitehouse with Prudence Smith both of Rochester 
 
 1811 Jan' 3*1 Sam' Foss 3'^ of Barrington with Betsey Hayes of Farmington 
 
 Jan' 15* Nath' Robertson of New Hampton with Lydia Plumer of Rochester 
 
618 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Jan"" 31«' Jacob Harford With Sarah Pearl both of Rochester 
 Feb"" 21'*' Stephen Meservey with Susanna Henderson both of Rochester 
 March 3<i Benj. Cheslev Jun'' of Durham with Abigail Page of Rochester 
 March 6"> Eliphalet W'illey of Brookfield with Sally Henderson of Rochester 
 March H'l" Paul Ricker of Somersworth with Elisabeth Hayes of Rochester 
 Daniel Watson with Comfort Trickey both of Rochester 
 
 April 7"^ David Hayes with Elisabeth Furbur both of Farmingtou Domin- 
 icus Varney with Polly Jones both of Dover 
 
 June 9"i\Tohn Colenian of New Durham with Peggy Home of Farmington 
 June 13'h James Hanson with Hannah Place both of Rochester 
 June 20"! Benj. Goodwin with Hannah Richardson both of Rochester 
 August IS*!* Doctor Hiram Cannon to Mary Horn both of Rochester 
 August 29ih Miles Hayes with Betsey Swain Both of Barrington 
 Sepf" 19"" Jonathan Ham with Polly Witham both of Rochester 
 Sepf 26'ii James Wilson with Xancy Odiorne both of Rochester 
 Ocf P' Daniel Horn with Mary Dearborn both of Wakefield 
 Ocf 13"i Uriel Woodman with Hannah Watson both of Farmington 
 Ocf 14*11 Winthrop Colbatb with Abigail Whiteham both of Farmington 
 Nov 10"! Daniel Hayes Jun"" with Betsey Ranlet both of Farmington 
 Nov"" 25* Xathan Lord of Lebanon with Sarah Wingate of Rochester 
 Dec"" 8"i Jabez Dame Jun'' with Betsey Cushing, both of Rochester 
 1812 Jan"" 5"^ Anthony Pickering with Mary D. Knowles, both of Rochester 
 Feb'' 6"> Hezekiah Clark of Barrington with Hannali Ham of Rochester 
 Feb'' IP** Thomas Ricker with Lydia Thompson both of Farmington 
 Feb'' 20"* William Heard with Tammey Baker both of Rochester 
 March 12t'i Jonathan Tebbets Jun"^ with Phebe ' lace, both of Rochester 
 March 16* George Brewster of Wolfborough with the Widow Betsey Rob- 
 erts of Rochester 
 
 March 19* Joshua Trickey with Sarah Chamberlain both of Rochester 
 March 26* James Robinson of Rochester with Mary Babb of Barrington 
 June 7* Samuel Emerson of Conway with Hannah Horn of Farmington 
 June 2P' Amos Burrows of Lebanon with Abigail Heard of Rochester Charles 
 Rogers of Alton with Mary Heard of Rochester 
 
 July 2^ Xath' Runnels of New Durham with Nancy Folsom of Rochester 
 July 16* John Brewster Jun'' with Elisabeth Dame both of Rochester 
 August 27* -Joseph Pearl of Farmington with Betsey Hayes of Milton 
 Sepf 27* Timothy Young of Dover with Sabina Corson of Rochester 
 Nov 12* Daniel Canney of Farmington with Sarah Nelson of Portsmouth 
 Nov 19* James Keay with Nancy Gates both of Somersworth 
 Nov 22'i Norton Scates & Hannah Cook both of Rochester 
 Dec 3*1 Samuel Rand with Sarah Foss both of Rochester 
 Jan"" 2,^ 1813 Jonathan Pinkham with Alice Runnals both of New-Durham 
 Feb'' 7* Jacob Carr with Pvebecca Wallingford both of Milton 
 Febr. 19* Benj. Read with Widow Mercy Smith both of Farmington 
 Feb"" 28* Hunkin Colbath with Polly Nutter both of Farmington 
 March 18* Levi Hayes with Rhoda Varney both of Farmington 
 March 2P' Daniel liame Jun'' With Relief Hodgdon both of Rochester 
 April 8* Joseph Cross with Betsey Garland both of Rochester 
 May 13* Isaac Bickford Jun'' with Polly Whitehouse both of Rochester Ivory 
 Ham with Sally Pickering both of Rochester 
 
 August 2-1* Benajah Ricker with Betsey Bickford both of Rochester 
 Ocf 27* William W. Odlin with the Widow Sarah Hanniford both of Roch- 
 ester 
 
 Nov'' 7* Joshua Downs of Berwick with Comfort Whitehouse of Somersworth 
 Nov 11* Charles Dennet with Nabby Ham both of Rochester 
 Nov'' 14* William Remick with Polly Heard both of Rochester 
 NoV^ 2P' Benj. Jewett of Durham with Susan Jameson of Rochester Joshua 
 Pierce of Lebanon with Sally Ricker of Rochester 
 
APPENDIX. 619 
 
 Nov'' 25**^ Hopley Varney with Lydia Varney both of Milton 
 Dec"- 23"^ Thomas Young of Wakefield with Mary Nute of Milton 
 Feb^ 22'i 1814 John Drew with Martha Weutworth both of Dover 
 May 12"* Thomas Ham Jun"' of Madbury with Betsey Coffin of Dover 
 June 19«h Maj"' Jon" Copp of Wolfboro' with Mary CJark of Tuftonboro' John 
 D Waldron with Elisabeth B (rray both of Barrington 
 
 July 31 2' Francis Peabody with Abigail Raynal both of Rochester 
 August 3*^1 Elihu. G. Norton with Elisabeth Leathers both of Portsmouth 
 August 14'^ Simon Ross with Phebe Nutter both of Rochester 
 August 21^' Joseph Wilson of Sweden,* Massachusetts, with Lydia Clark of 
 Rochester. 
 
 Sepf 12* Aaron Clark Jun' of Barrington with Mercy Ham of Rochester 
 Sepf 15*^ Hiram Grant of Berwick with Mary Horn of Somersworth. 
 Oct'^' 1.1"' Jonas C. March Esq' with Lydia Wingate both of Rochester. 
 Oct'^ LS"* Nath' Green Pike with Betsey VVallingford both of Somersworth 
 Oof 20"' Jacob Ellis Jun-" with Polly Cook both of Rochester 
 Oct' SO'^i Elihu Hayes of Farminglon with Martha Wentworth of Milton 
 Nov"" 17"^ Aaron Hanson with Sarah Ricker both of Somersworth 
 Dec 12'*' Thomas Hussey with Susan Hale both of Barrington Ezra Hayes 
 with Rachel Corson both of Rochester 
 
 Jan' 12'!' 1815 Cap' Ephraim Perkins with M'^ Kezia French both of Farm- 
 ington 
 
 Jan' 26* John M<^Duffee i<^ with Sally Hayes both Rochester 
 Feb' 9* Trustram Heard Jun' with Lydia Richardson both of Rochester 
 Charles Smith with Nancy Richardson both of Rochester 
 
 May 29* Jacob Nute of Milton with Hannah Young of Madbury 
 June 8* Thomas M'^Duffee with Hannah Pierce both of Rochester 
 June 25* Isaac Heard with Alary Hussey both of Rochester 
 July 5* Jonathan Home with Betse}^ Main both of Rochester 
 July 20* Daniel R Carter of Dover with Aby Ricker of Somersworth 
 August 31*' John Roberts Jun' with Lois Dame both of Rochester 
 Sept' 12* Oliver Brook of Portsmouth with Susan Horn of Dover 
 Oct' 2"^ Jonathan H. Henderson with Abigail Nutter both of Rochester 
 Nov' 2^ Benj. Heard of Rochester with Sarah Varney of Lebanon 
 Nov' 12* Samuel AVallingford with Sally Worster both of Milton 
 Nov' 23'^' Benjamin Babb-Lock of Barrington with Betsey Heard of Rochester 
 Dec' 7* John Foss of Milton with Lydia Wingate of Farmington 
 Dec' 28* James M'^Duffee Jun' with Betsey Huntress both of Rochester 
 Jan' 15* 1816 James A. Corson with Rebecca Hayes both of Rochester 
 Jan 25* Ephraim Garland of Lebanon with Patty Varney of Milton 
 Feb' 8* Edv/ard Rollins Jun' with Betsey Ricker both of Rochester 
 Feb' 22^ Enoch Burnham Jun' with Mercy Hayes both of Farmington John 
 Pendexter vv-ith Susan Davis both of Farmington 
 
 March 13* Ezra Durgin of Durham with Temperance Nutter of Rochester 
 March 21'^' Samuel Tuttle with Mary Waterliouse both of Barrington 
 March 28* William Wenthworth with Huldah Hussey both of Farmington 
 May 29* Aaron Downs with Patty Nutter both of Milton 
 June 3'' Simon Batchlder with P^lizebeth B. Pease both of Barrington 
 June 14* Samuel Pinkham with Lydia Raynell both of Rochester 
 June 24* Artemas Rogers with Abigail Snell both of Dover Ezekiel Went- 
 worth with Sally Waldron both of Dover 
 
 July 1^' Simon Otis of Rochester with Joanna Wallingford of Alton 
 Sept' 1^' William Marden with Mary Fowler both of Barrington 
 Sept' 19* Ezekiel Nute with Dorcas Worster both of Milton 
 Oct' 17* John Kenney, of Lebanon with Mary Door of Milton Charles Cor- 
 son of Lebanon with Elisabeth Roberts of Milton Isaac Twombly with Sarah 
 Foye both of Barrington 
 
 * Doubtless, Maine. 
 
620 ROCHESTER. 
 
 Nov 28"^ Jesse Bickford with Eunice Tucker both of Eochester 
 1817 Feb'- ll'h Richard S. Frothingham, of Portsmouth, with Eliza F. Pilsbury, 
 of Farmington 
 
 Feb"- 27"^ John Heard, Jun"" with Elisabeth Knowles both of Rochester 
 March 4* John Lord with Susanna Palmer both of JSIilton 
 March 13* Edmond Furbur with Deborah Walker both of Farmington 
 March 20'" John Hayes with Hannah D. Clark both of Barrington 
 April 2'! Joshua Pray with Keziah Wentworth both of Milton 
 April 20^'' Israel Hanson Jun' of Dover with Eunice Twombly of Milton 
 May 4* David Wingate Jun"- with Lucy Tebbets both of Rochester 
 May 15"^ Samuel Roberts with I\Iary Hayes both of Rochester 
 June 26* Samuel M<=l)uffee with Huldah Tebbets both of Rochester 
 August 17* Dan' Carter of Boston, ]\Iassachusetts, with Betsey B. Blake of 
 Rochester, New Hampshire. 
 
 August 25* Benjamin Waterhouse of Barrington with Sarah Webster of Ports- 
 mouth. 
 
 Sepf 28* Israel Nute with Hannah Fish, both of Milton 
 Ocf l^t Robert Hussey with Hannah Roberts both of Somersworth 
 Ocf 11* Jacob Trickey with Polly Spencer both of Rochester 
 Ocf 26* Docf Hezekiah J. Crockitt of Middleton with Abigail Main of Roch- 
 ester 
 
 Nov"- 27* William Allen of Rochester with Sarah Nute of Milton 
 Dec"" 18* Ichabod Wentworth with Peace Varney both of Milton 
 Decf 5* Ephraim Wentworth with Mary Walker both of Farmington 
 Dec"- 25* Valentine Cook with Huldah Bickford both of Rochester 
 Jan"- 7* 1818. Isaac Richards with Polly Richards both of Rochester 
 Jan"- 28* Edward Leavit, i-esident at Tuftonborough with Abigail Peavey of 
 Tuftonborough 
 
 Feb"- 1"' Tristram Hurd with Sarah Hurd both of Rochester 
 March 11* John Peavey Jun"- with Mary Caverly both of Barrington 
 March 18* Joseph Hussey with Mary Winkley both of Barrington 
 March 29* Timothy Gowell with Sarah F. Haven both of Rochester 
 Ocf 29* Nath' H. Hurd with Lydia Cross both of Rochester 
 June 17* 1819 John Hayes of Rochester with Elisabeth Plumer of Farmington 
 July 25* Nahum Corson with Betsey Twombly both of Rochester 
 August 31«' Richard M'^Duffee with the Widow Hannah Richardson both of 
 Rochester 
 
 Oct' 8"' Dan' Cook with Jenny Place both of Rochester 
 Ocf 10* Dan' Townson Jun'" of Saco with Harriet Shannon of Rochester 
 Dec'' 3<^ John Hurd of Tuftonborough with Susanna Heard of Rochester 
 Dec 26* Isaiah Hodgdon of Wakefield with Susanna Knight of Rochester 
 
 1820 Jan' 23'i John B. Buzel with Susanna Odiorne both of Rochester 
 Jan' 27* Benj. Scates Jun' with Lovey Lyman both of Milton 
 
 Jan' 30* Benj. Plumer with Sarah Roberts both of Rochester 
 March 23^ Tho« W. Tebbets with Meribah Harford both of Rochester 
 April 23<i James Kent of Shapleigh With Jane Tanner of Rochester 
 May 7* Jonathan H. Torr with Sally M<=Duffee 3" both of Rochester 
 July 13* John Chapman with Louisa Ann Barker both of Rochester 
 July 23'' Dan' Nute of Milton with Mary Main of Rochester 
 Oct' 22<i Ephraim Greward with Maria Corson both of Rochester 
 Oct' 26* Isaac Hoyt with Lydia Willand both of Rochester 
 
 1821 March 22'' Jerry Tebbets with Mary Randal both of Rochester 
 Sept' 20* Ephraim Plumer with Sarah Downs both of Rochester 
 
 Sept' 23<i Dodavah Palmer of Newington with Nancy H. Hayes of Rochester 
 Nov' 8* Meshach Wingate with Mary Richardson both of Rochester 
 Dec' 16* Ira Tebbets with Sally Blake both of Rochester 
 Feb' 3<i 1822 Joseph Warren with Olive B. Heard both of Rochester 
 
APPENDIX. 621 
 
 Feb"" 17""' John Stanton of Brookfield with Anna Rollins of Rochester 
 
 Feb'' 2P' Seth M<=Duffee with Lucy J. Roberts both of Rochester 
 
 March 24* William jS'utter with Elisabeth Lock both of Farmiugton 
 
 April 11"^ Michael Mahoney with Dolly Smith both of Rochester 
 
 June 27"^ James Richardson with Peggy Downs both of Rochester 
 
 Nov 28"^ Frederick Heard with Nancy Hayes both of Rochester 
 
 Dec"" 19^^ Benj. Clark with Abigail Richardson both of Rochester 
 
 1823 Jan=- 2&^ Joseph S Ellis with Mary Remick both of Rochester 
 
 March 16'i' Benj. Jelerson with Lydia Heard both of Rochester 
 
 June 1^' Job N Tuttle of Providence R. I. with Ester Blake of This Town 
 
 July 20''^ Solomon Adams of Middletou, Massachusetts with Ruth Haven of 
 
 Rochester, New Hamptshire 
 
 [August 28lh. Timothy Ricker with Dorothy Richardson by Mr Haven 
 September 3d. Eleazer Ham of Rochester with Betsy Robinson of Barrington 
 
 by T. C. Upham.] * 
 
 Nov"^ 20"^ Ephraim Corson of Lebanon with Mary Johnson of Rochester 
 Nov' 25'*' Josiah York Jun"" of Middleton with Sabra Hayes of Rochester 
 Feb"' S"! 1824 Timothy Brewster of Barrington with Hannah Stevens of Alton 
 March 1*' Daniel Rogers with Anna VV Roberts both of Rochester 
 May l&^^' Tho^ Randal with Lucinda Perkins both of Rochester 
 
 The lines in brackets are in Mr. Upliam's hand. 
 
 71. 
 
 Hon, Isaac W. Hammond reports the following names credited 
 to Eochester in Massachusetts records : — 
 
 Colonel Scammon's Regiment. Captain Hubbard's Company. 
 
 James Wentworth. Enlisted May 5, 1775. Discharged July 18, 1775. 
 DoDiKER Garland. Enlisted May 15, 1775. 
 Jonathan Garland. Enlisted May 15, 1775. 
 
 Col. Paul D. Sargent's Regiment. Capt. John Willey's Company, 
 Abner Coffin. October, 1775. 
 
 Col. James Foye's Regiment. Capt. W. H. Ballard's Company. 
 Ebenezer Cornell. October 6, 1775. 
 
622 ROCHESTER. 
 
 The following sketch being received too late for Chapter XIV, 
 is inserted here. 
 
 CHARLES GREEX WARRE]^. 
 
 BY CHARLES FRANK LIVINGSTON. 
 
 One afternoon in I^ovember, 1852, when I was foreman in the 
 Manchester " American " office, then owned by Abbott, Jenks &■ 
 Co., a small freckled-faced boy walked into the counting-room 
 and said to Mr. Jenks that he had come from Rochester to take 
 the place his sister had engaged for him to learn the printing 
 business. Mr. Jenks put his hand on his head, and with one of 
 the prettiest of his pretty smiles replied, " I am afraid that you 
 are yet too small, my little man, to do much in a printing-office." 
 That night when the "little man" went to his dreams, he had 
 the satisfaction of knowing that he was big enough to have 
 earned twenty -five cents at over -work as roller -boy the first 
 evening. This incident illustrates the make-up of the subject of 
 this sketch. When any work was in hand he could be relied 
 on to help " pull through," whether it was for an hour or for 
 all night. He had come to "learn," and invariably shared the 
 early and late office hours of those days with his more experienced 
 associates. By quickly mastering all office details he pushed 
 rapidly to the front, making himself indispensable, and Mr. Jenks 
 soon learned that in this case at least size was no test of capa- 
 bility. In less than three years, September 10, 1855, he became 
 a partner in the business, Henry A. Gage retiring. l^ot long 
 afterwards Mr. Jenks also retired, and the firm became Abbott 
 & Warren. In the early part of 1857 the establishment was sold 
 to Simeon D. Farnsworth. 
 
 Soon after retiring from the "American," Mr. Warren left 
 Manchester for Sioux City, Iowa, then in its infancy. Its people, 
 largely from New Hampshire, had oftered a liberal bonus to 
 whoever would start a newspaper there, and Mr. Warren went 
 thither to secure it. He was joined at Dubuque by his former 
 partner. General Abbott, and with several others journeyed in 
 the month of April across the State of Iowa in a " farmers' 
 wagon " which had been driven from Indiana by one Phil. Clark, 
 an intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln in his early life. This 
 
APPENDIX. 623 
 
 trip occupied ten clays, and Mr. "Warren found himself too late 
 to secure the prize he had traveled so far to obtain. A printer 
 from the office of the Cincinnati " Gazette " had preceded him 
 bj several weeks, and was nearly ready to add to journalism the 
 '' Sioux City Eagle." After getting the business well started, he 
 arranged with Mr. "Warren to run the establishment a few weeks, 
 that he might return and settle up his alFairs in Cincinnati. The 
 paper prospered so well in his hands that the owner prolonged 
 his absence till the spring of 1858. Upon his return, Mr. War- 
 ren's friends proposed to buy the " Eagle '"' establishment and 
 make him a present of it. But the owner refused to sell, and 
 Mr. Warren returned to Manchester. 
 
 J^ot long after, he received a flattering letter from the mayor 
 of Sioux City proposing that if he would join a party about to 
 establish the tovvn of Yankton in Dakota, and start a paper there, 
 they would bear all expenses, and closing with the urgent words, 
 " Come ! Come ! Come ! " But the boy (for he was yet a minor) 
 had already fully satisfied his ambition in the direction of pioneer 
 life, and declined the offer. 
 
 In October, 1858, he went to Andover, Mass., where for nearly 
 eight years he was connected with the widely-known Andover 
 house, one of the oldest book-printing establishments in the 
 country. For six years he managed the printing department and 
 edited the "Andover Advertiser." His health failing, in the 
 spring of 1866 he removed to Burlington, Iowa. The climate 
 proving salutary, he entered upon mercantile life in company 
 with Parsons and Berry, wholesale dealers in stoves and tinners' 
 stock. Coming East twice a year to purchase goods he became 
 favorably known among tin-plate importers, and in 1873 was 
 induced to become the agent of Richards & Co. of Boston, and 
 represented them in the larger western cities for several years. 
 
 Among the tin-plate importers and metal dealers of the country 
 only two command the highest rating on the agency books : — 
 Phelps, Dodge & Co. of New York, the largest house in the 
 world in this line of trade, and Fuller, Dana & Fitz of Boston. 
 After declining an unsolicited offer from the former, on account 
 of the field of labor contemplated, Mr. Warren accepted a posi- 
 tion with the latter house August, 1876, and continues to represent 
 them in the West, with headquarters at Chicago. In 1882 he 
 
624 ROCHESTER. 
 
 visited Europe in the interest of his house, and again in 1885. 
 He commands the Largest business ever done in the West by a 
 Boston metal house. Like many other sons of Eochester, in 
 various fields of labor, he is doing credit to himself and his 
 native town. 
 
 Charles Green Warren is the son of Joseph and Olive Bick- 
 ford (Hurd) Warren of Rochester, where he was born September 
 24, 1837. June 11, 1860, he married Harriet Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Francis and Eliza Marden of Manchester. Their chiklren 
 are Charles Lincoln, Harriet Alice, Abbie Gertrude, and Clara 
 Clarinda. 
 
INDEXES. 
 
GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Abbotsford 328 
 
 Abbott & Warreu 622 
 
 Abbott & Webber 511 
 
 Abbott, Jenks & Co 622 
 
 Absurdity of secession 204 
 
 Academy 170 to 175, 325, 333 
 
 Academy funds 170, 171, 177 
 
 Academy graduates 176 
 
 Academy lot 171 
 
 Academy opened 171 
 
 Academy proprietors 171 
 
 Academy sold. 175, 176 
 
 Academy street 177 
 
 Academv subscription 170, 171 
 
 Accidents 88, 313, 445, 513, 560 
 
 Accidents from intemperance... .305, 307 
 309, 318. 
 
 Adams fund 378 | 
 
 Adams monument 378 
 
 Adams party , 302 
 
 Adams printing press. 378 
 
 Adams's arithmetic 162 
 
 Additions to library 183 
 
 Address before Social Library 124 
 
 Address by Baron Stowe 171 
 
 Admission to academy. . , 172 
 
 Advent chapel 289 
 
 Advent Christian church 290 
 
 Adventists 288 
 
 Advent ministers 289 
 
 Aged people 584 
 
 Agitation 393 
 
 Agricultural association 556, 557 
 
 Agricultural college 460 : 
 
 Agricultural society 333 I 
 
 Agriculture 463 
 
 Aid for families 198, 200, 206 
 
 Alarm bell 540 
 
 Alarms. 57, 58 
 
 Alaska boots 511 
 
 Almshouse 535 
 
 "America" 201 
 
 American band 234, 236, 555 
 
 American Board 250 
 
 American Cincinnatus 181 
 
 American Headers 507 
 
 American Medical Association 443 
 
 American Preceptor 164 
 
 American Workmen 659 
 
 Amherst College 250 
 
 Amount of railroad business 494 
 
 Amours 117 
 
 Amusing courtship 117 
 
 Analytical Reader 162 
 
 Ancient and tlonorable Artillery Co.. 446 
 
 Ancient brickyard 560 
 
 Ancient Congregationalism 80 
 
 Ancient fireplaces 138, 139 
 
 Ancient house 466 
 
 Ancient Order of Foresters 559 
 
 Ancient Order of Hibernians 559 
 
 A^ncient silk dress 579 
 
 Anderson & Cochrane 501 
 
 Andersonville prison 435 
 
 Andover Advertiser 623 
 
 Andover Theological Seminary . .243, 248 
 
 250, 251, 439. 
 Anecdotes.... 97, 109, 110, 111, 117, 132 
 
 154, 246, 261, 297, 298, 299, 303, 321 
 
 322. 323, 325. 327, 348, 399, 479, 480 
 
 546, 549, 554, 560, 567, 568. 
 Annexation of Texas.. 149, 384, 385, 388 
 
 410, 521, 522. 
 
 Anniversary sermon 255 
 
 Annual conference 268, 271 
 
 Annual meetings 530 
 
 Answer to call 90, 98, 99 
 
 Anti-man-hunting League 383 
 
 Anti-Monopolist 190, 191, 192 
 
 Anti-slavery 267 
 
 Anti-slavery riot 383 
 
 Anti-slavery sentiment 384 
 
 Anti-slavery Society 330, 409, 410 
 
 Anti-slavery votes 544 
 
 Appleton & Co 459 
 
 Apprentices 348 
 
 Appropriation for war 197 
 
 Appropriations for schools 163 
 
 Aqueduct and Water Co 541 
 
 Area 9 
 
628 
 
 .56, 59 
 
 Armory square hospital. 
 
 Army chaplain. 
 
 Army rolls 
 
 Arlington Heights 
 
 Arrest of forger 
 
 Arrests 
 
 Artesian well 
 
 Articles of faith 80 
 
 Artillery company 519, 
 
 Artillery drill 
 
 Artillery salute 
 
 Assassination of Lincoln 
 
 Assault on Fort Sumter 
 
 Assembly, Provincial 118, 
 
 Assessments for library 
 
 Assessors 
 
 Association test 
 
 Asylum for insane 345, 448, 
 
 Atchafalaya river 
 
 Atherton " Gag" 
 
 Atrocities of Indians 
 
 Attacks upon Church 
 
 Attempt at burglary 
 
 Auction of poor 
 
 Auction of tax collecting 
 
 Auction of town farm 
 
 Austria burned 
 
 Authority of proprietors 
 
 Authority of the people 
 
 Autobiography 
 
 Ayer, F. & Co 
 
 Babyland 
 
 Back-bone 
 
 Badge of ti thing-man.. . 
 
 " Bad Land" 
 
 Ball-playing forbidden , 
 
 Baltimore conference 
 
 Baltimore riot 
 
 Bands 234, 
 
 Bangor Theological Seminary.. .251, 
 254. 
 
 Bank building , 
 
 Bank burglary 
 
 Bank commissioner 456, 
 
 Bank deposits 483, 
 
 Bank directors 478, 479, 
 
 Bank integrity 
 
 Bank presidents 
 
 Bank re-organized 
 
 Banks 362, 369, 420, 478, 
 
 Bank trustees » 
 
 Baptisms.. 82, 92, 243, 281, 586, 595, 
 
 Baptist chapel 
 
 Baptist Church organized 
 
 Baptist conference 
 
 Baptist meeting-house 282, 
 
 40 
 
 404 
 
 269 
 , 60 
 434 
 481 
 102 
 541 
 , 81 
 551 
 552 
 554 
 206 
 194 
 120 
 182 
 531 
 
 61 
 543 
 227 
 384 
 
 22 
 107 
 481 
 535 
 536 
 536 
 373 
 
 77 
 517 
 159 
 511 
 
 427 
 342 
 142 
 
 . 48 
 537 
 265 
 194 
 555 
 252 
 
 190 
 481 
 479 
 484 
 482 
 482 
 479 
 479 
 484 
 483 
 597 
 281 
 282 
 278 
 385 
 
 j Baptist quarterly meeting 280, 281 
 
 I Baptists 108 
 
 i Baptist vestry 285 
 
 Baptized children 82, 92 
 
 Bargain with the Devil 303 
 
 Barker & Chapman 477 
 
 Barker, David, Jr 494 
 
 Barker's factory 406 
 
 Barker's grist-mill 24 
 
 I Barker store 494 
 
 Barker Tavern... .263, 295, 349, 466, 486 
 494. 
 
 Barrington road 163 
 
 Barter 136, 137 
 
 Bass-viol 142 
 
 Bates College 449, 460, 461 
 
 Battery captured 58 
 
 Battle of Bennington 67 
 
 Battle of Bunker Hill 119 
 
 Battle of Lexington 116, 529 
 
 Battles 435 
 
 Bavaria 225 
 
 Bay State Co 474 
 
 Bean, Canney & Co 467 
 
 Beau porridge 139 
 
 Bears 127 
 
 Bear-traps 127 
 
 Beginning of Methodism 258 
 
 Beginning of war 193, 194 
 
 Beginnings 541 
 
 Beginnings of temperance reform 300 
 
 Belief in witches 110, 
 
 Belknap county. . .170, 304, 382, 407 
 487. 
 
 Bell 141 
 
 Benevolence Ill, 112 
 
 Berry & Place 433 
 
 Berry's Brook 10 
 
 Berwick Academy 429 
 
 Bewitched family. , Ill 
 
 Bible distribution 245 
 
 Bible study -114 
 
 Biblical institute 267 
 
 Bicycle factory 472 
 
 Bid'deford Journal 433 
 
 Bier 143 
 
 Big Black Paver , ... .435 
 
 Birth of first child 44 
 
 Black Sea 324 
 
 Blacksmithing 471, 578 
 
 Blacksmith's shop 465, 466, 497, 499 
 
 Blanket manufacture 477, 478 
 
 Blind Will 16 
 
 Blind Will's Neck 16 
 
 Block houses 20, 48 
 
 Bloodhounds 399 
 
 Blue Job 328, 478, 565 
 
 111 
 413 
 
 242 
 116 
 
629 
 
 Blue Ribbon movement 
 
 Boarding round 
 
 Board of education 
 
 Bolting 
 
 Bonfire 
 
 ' ' Bon E omrae Richard " 
 
 Books for library 
 
 Borrowing fire. 
 
 Boston & Maine Railroad. .185, 371, 
 
 to 493. 
 
 Boston evacuated 
 
 Boston fire 
 
 Boston University 277, 439, 453, 
 
 Boundaries 
 
 Boundaries run 
 
 Bounties 52, 55, 58, 72, 73, 197, 
 
 201, 206, 363. 
 
 Bounty on bears and wolves 
 
 Bounty on scalps 
 
 Bowdoin College.. 172, 176. 228, 243. 
 
 352, 380, 381, 422, 438, 441, 444, 
 
 447, 454,' 455, 461. 
 
 Bowlders 
 
 Box factory 476, 
 
 Box lost.." 208, 
 
 Box shop 
 
 Boycotting 187, 
 
 Bradford Academy. 
 
 Brahmin 
 
 Branches taught in Academy 
 
 Brandy distilleries 
 
 Brant Rock 
 
 Brass clocks 
 
 Brass foundry ,....., 
 
 Bravery 
 
 Breaking a bank 
 
 Brick-making 
 
 Brick schoolhouse. 
 
 Brick store 359, 394, 
 
 Brick vault 
 
 Bridewell 
 
 Brig Mars 
 
 British ..19, 32, 52, 57, 58, 59, 61, 63 
 
 69. 
 
 British agents 
 
 British aggressions 
 
 British attacks at Portsmouth .57, 58 
 
 British enlistments. . , 
 
 British fleet 
 
 Broad Arrow 
 
 Brooks . . 9 
 
 Brown, Thompson & Co 
 
 Brown University 251, 454, 
 
 Browsing cattle 
 
 Brutal surgeon 
 
 Buelduc & Thurston 
 
 Buffalo convention 
 
 318 
 157 
 169 
 189 
 206 
 72 
 179 
 139 
 490 
 
 63 
 
 426 
 
 457 
 
 9 
 
 41 
 200 
 
 127 
 
 18 
 
 325 
 
 445 
 
 10 
 514 
 209 
 511 
 189 
 401 
 324 
 173 
 144 
 
 88 
 133 
 471 
 458 
 481 
 500 
 166 
 397 
 394 
 ,538 
 400 
 ,67 
 
 54 
 
 148 
 
 , 59 
 
 54 
 
 59 
 
 38 
 
 , 10 
 
 377 
 
 459 
 
 566 
 
 223 
 
 489 
 
 393 
 
 Building a chapel 281, 289 
 
 Building a meeting-house... 276, 282, 285 
 
 291, 292. 
 
 Building a vestry 285 
 
 Building committee 100 
 
 Building schoolhouses 166 
 
 Building Town Hall 539 
 
 RuU Run 198, 442 
 
 Bunker Hill.. . .54, 56, 58, 119, 121, 158 
 
 431, 578. 
 
 Burglary 307, 481 
 
 Burgoyne 24, 52, 65, 66, 67 
 
 Burial expenses 86 
 
 Burial of Rev. Amos Main 86 
 
 Burial of Rev. Samuel Hill 89 
 
 Burial under stone 378 
 
 Burnham's store 395 
 
 Burning of Court House 538 
 
 Burnside expedition 442 
 
 Burying ground 86 
 
 Business activity 135 
 
 Business at East Rochester 511 
 
 Business failure 498, 499 
 
 Business integrity 474 
 
 Business of railroads 494 
 
 Business politics 468 
 
 Business summary 516 
 
 BuzzelFs store 465 
 
 By-laws 537 
 
 Cabinet shop 154, 465 
 
 Cadet band 556 
 
 Cadets of Temperance 313 
 
 Caesar 549 
 
 I Cafe 556 
 
 California Conference 268, 270 
 
 California fever 405 
 
 I Call for citizens' meeting 195 
 
 Calling a minister 47 
 
 Call to Rev. Avery Hall 89, 90 
 
 1 Call to Rev. Joseph Haven 98, 99 
 
 Cambridge Law School 453 
 
 Cambridge Platform 80, 82 
 
 j Campbell & Hanscom 381 
 
 Camp fire 236 
 
 Camp Parapet, La 219 
 
 Canada 18, 24, 32, 52, 63, 118, 136 
 
 Canada expedition 122 
 
 Canadian French 19, 291 
 
 Cancers cured 440 
 
 Candidates 89, 98 
 
 Candy factory 469 
 
 Cannon 28, 30, 58, 545 
 
 Cannonading heard 119 
 
 Cannon for soldiers' monument 'J34 
 
 Cannon received 28 
 
 Cape Horn 406 
 
630 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Capital punishmeut 311, 312, 543 
 
 Capture of Montreal 63 
 
 Capture of Quebec 56 
 
 Capture of Fort William and Mary. . . 57 
 
 Capture of Fort William Henry 25 
 
 Capture of Richmond 206 
 
 Capture of Sumter 193, 194 
 
 Carding 501 
 
 Carding by hand 136 
 
 Carding machines 134, 136 
 
 Carpenters hired by British 54 
 
 Carriage making 511 
 
 Carriage shop 471, 472 
 
 Carroll County ... .170, 304, 382, 413, 445 
 487. 
 
 Carroll County Advertiser 185 
 
 Carroll County Pioneer 185 
 
 Carter Building 494 
 
 Catechism 80, 570 
 
 Catholic cemeteries 562 
 
 Catholic meeting-house 291 
 
 Causes of division 150, 151 
 
 Celebration in war time 201 
 
 Celebration of adoption of Constitu- 
 tion 147 
 
 Celebration of Independence 519 
 
 Cemeteries 559 
 
 Cemetery Association 561, 581 
 
 Cemetery bounds 560, 561 
 
 Cemetery fund 581 
 
 Census returns 549 
 
 Centenarian 83 
 
 Centennial Sunday 254 
 
 Central cottage 154 
 
 Ceremonies of laying corner stone. . .270 
 
 Chair manufactory 510, 514 
 
 Chaises 143 
 
 Chandler Scientific School.. 373, 377, 460 
 461, 462, 
 
 Chapel built 281, 288 
 
 Chapel dedicated 281 
 
 Chapel removed 270 
 
 Chaplain in army 269 
 
 Chaplain of legislature 269 
 
 Chaplain of state prison 269, 270 
 
 Character of Earl Rochester 34 
 
 Charges against Parliament 5,3 
 
 Charges against Rev. Avery Hall. .92, 93 
 94, 95. 
 
 Charter conditions 41, 44 
 
 Charter of Rochester 36 
 
 Chautauqua Young Folks' Journal. . .427 
 
 Check-list 534, 543 
 
 Cherokees 176 
 
 Chesley farm 432 
 
 Chesterfield Circuit 260 
 
 Chestnut Hills. 10, 16. 137, 158, 304, 308 
 550. 
 
 Chief justice 116 
 
 Chief of police 538 
 
 Children to be catechised 81 
 
 Chocorua 189 
 
 Choir 91 
 
 Cholera 458 
 
 Choral Union 234, 366 
 
 Chorister 91 
 
 Christening frames 131, 132 
 
 Christian character 120, 377 
 
 Christian commission.. 209, 252, 270, 406 
 
 Christian Endeavor Society 256 
 
 Church action on temperance 304 
 
 Church and state 75, 102, 105 
 
 Church and state separated 242 
 
 Church anniversary 255 
 
 Church bell 282, 291, 298 
 
 Church covenant 278 
 
 Church debt paid 276, 285 
 
 Church discipline.80, 81, 82, 93, 245, 304 
 
 Church divisions 91 
 
 Church draped 206 
 
 Church fast 83, 248 
 
 Church grounds improved 253 
 
 Church histories 246 
 
 Church membership necessary for of- 
 fice 82, 92 
 
 Church music 142 
 
 Church of the Messiah 563 
 
 Church organ 268, 282, 283, 291 
 
 Church organized.. 80, 275, 280, 281, 282 
 284. 
 
 Church principles 80 
 
 Church records 82, 95, 96, 586 
 
 Church singing 91 
 
 Church statues 292 
 
 Church troubles 92, 93, 94, 105 
 
 Cider 127,139 
 
 Cider drunkenness 317 
 
 Cincinnati Gazette 623 
 
 Circulating library 183 
 
 Citizens' riot 498 
 
 Citizens' shoe shop 473 
 
 City of Rochester 129 
 
 Civil engineer 460 
 
 Civilization 204 
 
 Civil service reform 163 
 
 Class meetings 275 
 
 Clay 10 
 
 Clay beds 501 
 
 Clay pits 560 
 
 Clergymen 436 
 
 Clock for church 251 
 
 Clock maker 469 
 
 Clock manufacture 133 
 
 Clocks 133 
 
 Clothing house 131 
 
 Coaches 133 
 
631 
 
 Coat of Arms 335, 336 
 
 Cobbling and rum-selling 498 
 
 Cocheco 14, 41, 43 
 
 Cocheco Aqueduct Association 423 
 
 Cocheco avenue 165 
 
 Cocheco Comjmny 510, 514 
 
 Cocheco Fire Company 540 
 
 Cocheco Hose Company 540 
 
 Cocheco Lodge 558 
 
 Cocheco Manufacturing Company 183 
 
 277, 371. 
 
 Cocheco Mills .512, 513 
 
 Cocheco National Bank 423 
 
 Cocheco Railroad. 371, 490, 491, 492, 494 
 Cocheco River . .9, 10, 328, 355, 368, 476 
 Cocheco Woolen Manufacturing Com- 
 pany 361 
 
 Colburn's Arithmetic 162 
 
 Cold season 565 
 
 Cold Spring Cemetery 562 
 
 Cold Spring Park 290, 556 
 
 Cole's Building 186, 483 
 
 Collapse of Rebellion 206 
 
 Colleague pastor. ...... 240 
 
 Collection of taxes 536 
 
 Collectors 536 
 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons... 443 
 448. 
 
 Colorado 417 
 
 Colored troops 220 
 
 Columbia Law School 455, 45G 
 
 Columbian Band 306 
 
 Comet., 289 
 
 Comforts for soldiers 197, 198, 199 
 
 Coming of Methodism 258 
 
 Commanders of Sampson Post 236 
 
 Commemorative verses 24 
 
 Committee of correspondence. .53, 54, 55 
 116, 119, 
 
 Committee of distribution 197 
 
 Committee of enlistment. . .195, 199, 201 
 Committee of safety. . .58, 59, 60, 6lT 63 
 
 67, 545. 
 Committee on building meeting-house 75 
 
 Committee on ordination 79, 90, 99 
 
 Committee on parsonage lots 103 
 
 Committee on singers 91 
 
 Committee on temperance 189 
 
 Committee to locate meeting-house.. .100 
 Committee to prosecute the pastor. . . 95 
 
 Committee, to regulate prices 73 
 
 Communion silver service 252 
 
 Company of David Place 59 
 
 Compendium of military duty 179 
 
 Concord & Montreal Railroad. . .136, 493 
 
 Concord Railroad. 329 
 
 Conditions of cemetery fund 582 
 
 Conditions of charter 41, 44 
 
 Confederacy 193 
 
 Confederate officer 500 
 
 Confession of British agent 55 
 
 Confession of faith 242, 248 
 
 Conflict for freedom 204 
 
 Congregational church. 363, 366, 374, 407 
 
 Congregationalism 259 
 
 Congregationalism, ancient 80 
 
 Congregational parish 141 
 
 Congregational society 102, 104, 239, 240 
 
 Congressional elections 521 
 
 Congressional votes 523 
 
 Congress, provincial 119 
 
 Conservation fund 581 
 
 Conservatory of Music 374 
 
 Consolidation of school districts. 162, 169 
 
 Constables 536 
 
 Constitution adopted 147 
 
 Constitutional convention. .116, 120, 122 
 
 529. 
 
 Constitutional revision 543 
 
 Construction corps 221, 222, 225, 228 
 
 Consumption of liquor 294 
 
 Continental army 60 
 
 Continental Congress. .52, 58, 60, 61, 67 
 
 68, 529. 
 Continental soldiers.. . .59, 60, 63, 64, 70 
 
 71, 72. 
 Controversy about parsonage lands. . . 108 
 Controversy with Rev. Avery Hall. 91 to 90 
 
 Convention at Exeter 119 
 
 Convention delegates 528 
 
 Coos 118 
 
 Copperheads 206, 202 
 
 Copper plates 570 
 
 Copp's garrison 27 
 
 Corcoran Art Gallery 320 
 
 Cornell University. . 452 
 
 Corner stone 571 
 
 Corner stone laid 263, 264, 270, 296 
 
 Cornhill 420 
 
 Corn shelter 340 
 
 Cornwallis 52, 75 
 
 Corporal punishment 162 
 
 Corson star saddle 478 
 
 Cost of war 204 
 
 Cotton factory 137 
 
 Cotton yarn 476 
 
 Council 240 
 
 Counterfeiters 483 
 
 Counterfeit money 79 
 
 Counterfeits 300 
 
 Country stores 467, 500, 514 
 
 County democracy 456 
 
 County fair 556 
 
 County farm 536 
 
632 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 County temperance convention 306 
 
 County Temperance Society 304 
 
 County town 170, 177 
 
 Courier 495 
 
 Courier and Advertiser 187 
 
 Courier editorials 187 
 
 Court House 170, 171, 538 
 
 Court House burned 313, 538 
 
 Courtship 117, 118 
 
 Covenant 242 
 
 Covenant of cliurch 278 
 
 Covenant renewed 83 
 
 Creed 80 
 
 Crimean war 172 
 
 Cross & Burnham . . .456 
 
 Cruel surgeon 223 
 
 Cruelty to soldiers 223 
 
 Culler of staves 542 
 
 Cultivation of tobacco 144 
 
 Cumberland county, Va 437 
 
 Cure of wens and cancers 440 
 
 Currency 43, 73, 74, 145 
 
 Currency in war time 395 
 
 Currency depreciation 43, 73, 83, 101 
 
 Currency rebellion 140 
 
 Currier mill privilege 505 
 
 Custom house 380 
 
 Cutter's Physiology 442 
 
 Dailv Journal 187 
 
 Dam'e & McDuffee's mill 137 
 
 Danger from Indians 29 
 
 Danville Seminary 437 
 
 Dartmouth College 172, 176, 232, 243 
 
 244, 246, 328, 332, 333, 334, 345, 346 
 348, 368, 373, 374, 377, 380. 407, 408 
 420, 438, 440, 441, 443, 444, 447, 448 
 449, 452, 454, 455, 457, 459. 460, 461 
 462, 474. 
 
 Dartmouth University 352 
 
 Daughters of Temperance 313 
 
 David Place's company 59 
 
 Day & Stevens 466 
 
 Deacons 256 
 
 Deacons chosen 80, 120, 281, 282 
 
 Deacons' seats 141 
 
 Dead languages 156 
 
 Dead languages hated bv Satan 156 
 
 Death from drink. 301, ;f05, 307, 308, 309 
 317. 318. 
 
 Death of Lincoln 206 
 
 Death of Rev. Amos Main 84 
 
 ])eath of Rev. Avery Hall 98 
 
 Death of Rev. Joseph Haven 114 
 
 Death of Rev. Samuel Hill 89 
 
 Debt on meeting-house paid 271 
 
 Debt paid 255, 276, 280 
 
 Debt to the fathers 256 
 
 Declaration of Independence 269 
 
 Declaration of patriotism 61 
 
 Decline of academy I77 
 
 Decoration Day 235, 236 
 
 Dedication 264, 271, 28l', 285 
 
 Dedication at East Rochester 276 
 
 Dedication of monument 235 
 
 Dedication sermon 273 
 
 Deer 128 
 
 Deer protectors 542 
 
 Defaulter 129 
 
 Defense of colony ] 19 
 
 Defiance of law 157 
 
 Delegates to conventions 529, 530 
 
 Delirium Tremens 317 
 
 Demand for paper money 146 
 
 Demeritt house 497 
 
 Democracy 380 
 
 Democratic convention 386 
 
 Democratic party 362, 364, 384, 386 
 
 Democratic revolt 387 
 
 Democrats 148, 154, 189. 206 
 
 Dennett 272, 313 
 
 Dennett coat of arms 335, 336 
 
 Dennetts of England 335 
 
 Departed heroes 573 
 
 Deposits in corner stone 264, 572 
 
 Deposits in savings banks 483, 484 
 
 Deposits scaled down 482 
 
 Depreciation of currency.. 43, 73, 83, 101 
 
 145. 
 
 Desmids 569 
 
 Destruction of liquors 314 
 
 Determined courage 201 
 
 Determination 348 
 
 De Tocqueville 323 
 
 Detroit I'ribune 192 
 
 Devil's bargain 303 
 
 Devonshire, Eng 431 
 
 ] )evoted loyalty 209 
 
 Devotional habits 114 
 
 Devotion to freedom 208, 209 
 
 Diagram of Norway Plains 46, 49 
 
 Diatoms 12 
 
 Differences between propiietors and 
 
 settlers 76 
 
 Difficulties of supporting schools. 157, 158 
 
 Disappointed love 118 
 
 Discipline in church 304 
 
 Discouragements 201 
 
 Dismission of Rev. Avery Hall. . . .95, 96 
 
 Dismission of Rev. Samuel Hill 88 
 
 Disorderly boys 113 
 
 Distilleries . /. 144 
 
 Distribution of parsonage fund 104 
 
 Diving bell 155 
 
633 
 
 Division agitated 150, 151 
 
 Division of county 177, 543 
 
 Division of parsonage fund 253, 271 
 
 Division of school money lOS 
 
 Division of surplus fund 550 
 
 Division opposed 151, 152 
 
 Divisions iu church 01 
 
 Doctrinal discussions 112 
 
 Dodge's building 409, 471, 473. 495 
 
 Dodge's Hotel. 190, 308, 348, 486 
 
 Dodge's hotel burned 540 
 
 Doggerel verses 132 
 
 Dog-killers' club 504 
 
 Dollars first used 72 
 
 Dover Academy 368 
 
 Dover I'v: Winnipesaukee Railroad. . . .371 
 
 492. 
 
 Dover Bank 380 
 
 Dover board of trade 423 
 
 Dover company 56 
 
 Dover Enquirer. . .149, 192, 199, 305, 308 
 
 451. 
 Dover Gazette. . . .135, 192, 301, 386, 400 
 
 Dover horse railroad 423 
 
 Dover monthly meeting 257 
 
 Dover National Bank 370 
 
 Dover Neck 153 
 
 Dover schoolhou.se 105 
 
 Dover Sun 178 
 
 Downing & Tebbets . . .464 
 
 Draft 199, 200 
 
 'Drawing town lots 43, 47, 48 
 
 Dred Scott decision 399, 411 
 
 Dred Scott resolutions 412 
 
 Drinking at funerals 293 
 
 Drinking habits.. 127, 143, 144, 293 
 
 Drunkards posted 300 
 
 Drunken affray 319 
 
 Drunkenness at musters 313 
 
 Drunkenness punished 300 
 
 Drunken schoolmasters 294 
 
 Drunken suicide .317 
 
 Drury's Bluff 225 
 
 Dry Hill 10 
 
 Durham Academy 364 
 
 Durham company 56 
 
 Dwellings 465,466 
 
 Eagerness to enlist 197, 199 
 
 Eagerness to see execution 312 
 
 Earl of Loudon 118 
 
 Earl of Bochester 34 
 
 Early blacksmiths 471 
 
 Early cooking 139 
 
 Early hardships 379 
 
 Early Methodists 573 
 
 Early methods in banking 479 
 
 Early mills 476 
 
 Early shoemakers 473 
 
 Early struggles 180 
 
 Early tanneries 464, 466, 472 
 
 Eastern Hailroad 492 
 
 Eastman's Business College 439 
 
 East Bochester library 183, 184 
 
 East Bochester mills 510 to 514 
 
 East Bochester schoolhouse 165 
 
 Eccentricities 122 
 
 Ecclesiastical council 94 
 
 Education 156, 158 
 
 Education of girls 159 
 
 Effect of Methodism 259 
 
 Effectual prayer 549 
 
 Eildon hills 328 
 
 Ela building 190 
 
 Elections for congress 521 
 
 Electors 518 
 
 Electric lights 472 
 
 Electro-plating 472 
 
 Eliot Bridge company 423 
 
 Elm-street schoolhouse 167 
 
 Eloquence 152, 375 
 
 Emancipation proclamation 199, 412 
 
 Embargo 148 
 
 Encourage your own 185 
 
 End of academy 174 
 
 End of war 208 
 
 Energy in boyhood 421 , 446 
 
 Energy of women 208, 209 
 
 Engine company 539, 540 
 
 Engine house 540 
 
 England and France 19 
 
 English brass clocks 133 
 
 Enlistments 195, 197, 199 
 
 Enrolment of pupils 170 
 
 Enterprise and energy 425 
 
 Enthusiasm.. 198, 199, 200, 201, 206, 259 
 Enthusiastic war meetings.. 199, 200, 201 
 
 Ephraiinites 563 
 
 Episcopal church 453 
 
 Epitaph 442, 560, 561 
 
 Escape of forgers 481 
 
 Eulogy of Washington 74 
 
 Evacuation of Boston 63 
 
 Evacuation of Newport 69 
 
 Evading temperance law 299 
 
 Evening school 320 
 
 Evolution of lights 472 
 
 Evolution of the shoe business 473 
 
 Examination of bank 479 
 
 Example of patriotism 218 
 
 Excitement 194, 198 
 
 Excitement in Revolution 55 
 
 Execution 312, 398 
 
 Exemption from taxes 544 
 
634 
 
 Exeter Academy .327, 348, 354, 364, 381 
 403, 420, 446, 451, 452, 474. 
 
 Exorcism Ill 
 
 Expedition against Canada 63 
 
 Expedition against Crown Point 118 
 
 Expedition against the Senecas 69 
 
 Expenses of burial 86 
 
 Expenses of ordination 90, 99 
 
 Expense of schools 170 
 
 Explosion of cannon 547 
 
 Extensive business 135 
 
 Fac-simile of call for first war meeting 196 
 
 Fac-simile prospectus 188 
 
 Factories 467 
 
 Factory store 467 
 
 Failure in business 498, 499 
 
 Fair Association 556, 557 
 
 Fair buildings 556 
 
 Fairfax hospital 404 
 
 Fairfax Seminary, Va 404 
 
 Fair Oaks 198 
 
 Faithful preaching 105, 106, 107 
 
 False rumors 194 
 
 Family physician 443 
 
 Fanaticism 562 
 
 Faneuil Hall 383 
 
 Farmers and Mechanics' Bank. .362, 306 
 484. 
 
 Farming 116, 463 
 
 Farmington Advertiser 187 
 
 Farmington Bank 187 
 
 Farmington Dock 153 
 
 Farmington Meeting-house 152 
 
 Farm statistics 463 
 
 Farragut's fleet 222 
 
 Fasting and prayer 57, 83, 88 
 
 Fauna 11 
 
 Fear of Indians ] 7, 21, 27, 44 
 
 Fear of ghosts Ill 
 
 Fear of witches 110, 111 
 
 Federalism 154 
 
 Federalists 148, 154, 326 
 
 Federal party 332 
 
 Fee for library 183 
 
 Feineman's store 322, 471 
 
 Female College 176 
 
 Female Seminary 437 
 
 Fiction in library 179 
 
 File factory 47 1 
 
 Financial crash 398 
 
 Fines for refusing oflBce 536 
 
 Fire 361, 430 
 
 Fire-alarm bell 540 
 
 Fire-brick company 472 
 
 Fire engine 539, 540 
 
 Fire engineers 539 
 
 Firemen's pay 540 
 
 Fireplaces 138, 163, 164 
 
 Firewards 539 
 
 First annual conference 268 
 
 First auditors 542 
 
 First bakery 469 
 
 First bank 478 
 
 First bank commissioner 479 
 
 First bank lock 481 
 
 First belL ,141 
 
 First birth 44 
 
 First bounty 72, 197 
 
 First brick house 129 
 
 First brick store 394, 397, 467 
 
 First burying ground 559 
 
 First call for troops 194 
 
 First carding machine 136 
 
 First census 548 
 
 First chaise 143 
 
 First chapter 558 
 
 First church members 80 
 
 First church record 80 
 
 First clocks 133 
 
 First constable 536 
 
 First constitution 527 
 
 First constitutional convention 529 
 
 First cooking stove 339 
 
 First deacons 80 
 
 First deed 43 
 
 First drug store 470 
 
 First examination of bank 479 
 
 First family 570 
 
 First fast 83 
 
 First fence viewers 542 
 
 First field drivers 541 
 
 First Free-will Baptist church 278 
 
 First grave 559 
 
 First green blinds 131 
 
 First high school 168 
 
 First highway surveyors 542 
 
 First hog-reeve 541 
 
 First Homa'opathic physician 444 
 
 First house in Farmington 153 
 
 First independent government 527 
 
 First lodge of Masons 557 
 
 First lyceum 184 
 
 First magistrate 115 
 
 First martyr of Rebellion 220 
 
 First meat market 469 
 
 First meeting-house 75, 76 
 
 First Methodist class 260 
 
 First minister 79, 86 
 
 First money raised 542 
 
 First newspaper 185 
 
 First painted house 131 
 
 First parish 102, 151 
 
 First parish wardens 542 
 
INDEX. 
 
 635 
 
 First pauper 5-17 
 
 First physiciau in Farmington 1 53 
 
 First postmaster, 134, 494 
 
 First pound-keeper 541 
 
 First prec eptor 171 
 
 First provincial congress 527 
 
 First provincial convention 529 
 
 First purchase for library 17.9 
 
 First quarterly conference 260 
 
 First quarterly conference at EastRoch- 
 
 ester 275 
 
 First quarterly meeting 261 
 
 First regiment 197 
 
 First regiment at capital 194 
 
 First representative. 118, 527 
 
 First restaurant 469 
 
 First sabbath school 245 
 
 First school 157 
 
 First school at Gonic 163 
 
 First school committee 161, 542 
 
 First school districts 158, 160 
 
 First school report 162 
 
 First sealer of vreights and measures. 542 
 
 First selectmen 42 
 
 First sermon of Mr. Main 85 
 
 First settlement 570 
 
 First settler 43, 44, 124 
 
 First shoe factory . . , 473 
 
 First store. , 467 
 
 First Sunday school 265, 570 
 
 First surveyors of lumber 542 
 
 First tailor shop 470 
 
 First temperance society 301 
 
 First things. 541 
 
 First tin-worker 471 
 
 First tithing-man 541 
 
 First treasurer 47 
 
 First Univer-salist society 286 
 
 First use of check-list 548 
 
 First volunteers 197, 220 
 
 First vote of church 81, 82 
 
 First wagon 486 
 
 First war appropriation 197 
 
 First war meeting 195, 196 
 
 Five Little Peppers 427 
 
 Flag presentation 555 
 
 Flannels 503 
 
 Flannels lost 209 
 
 Flax 136 
 
 Flaxseed 136 
 
 Flogging in schools 159 
 
 Floods 565 
 
 Flora 11 
 
 Florence prison 435 
 
 Flower of the plain 132 
 
 Flume in Milton 48 
 
 Foot-stoves 141 
 
 Foraging 65 
 
 Foresters 559 
 
 Forgers 480, 481 
 
 Fort Anne 66 
 
 Fort Chicago 458 
 
 Fort Constitution 217, 221 
 
 Fort Erie 326 
 
 Fort Fisher 221, 222, 226, 233 
 
 Fort Independence 65, 66 
 
 Fort McHenry 194 
 
 Fort Pillow 204 
 
 Fortress Monroe 218, 225, 434 
 
 Forts 20 
 
 Fort William and Mary 57, 330, 577 
 
 Fort William Henry 25 
 
 Foss Tavern ". 564 
 
 Foster's Democrat 423 
 
 Foundry and machine company 471 
 
 Four Rod road 43, 45, 46, 49 
 
 Fourth division 48 
 
 Fourth drawing 48 
 
 Fourth of July 294, 302 
 
 Fourth of July celebration 519 
 
 Frame christening 293 
 
 Franklin savings bank 432 
 
 Freemasonry 557 
 
 Free Masons. 341, 347, 372, 374, 399, 431 
 
 436, 448, 469. 
 
 Free rum 315 
 
 Free-will Baptist church... .165, 278, 281 
 
 282, 283, 363, 578. 
 Free-will Baptist Church organized . .281 
 
 Free-will Baptists 401, 402, 404 
 
 Free-will Baptists at East Rochester. .275 
 
 Free-soil convention 393 
 
 Free-soil party 189 
 
 Free soilers 342 
 
 Free thought 404 
 
 Fremont campaign 364 
 
 Fremont glee club 364 
 
 French 118 
 
 French and Indian wars 52. 118, 119 
 
 French Catholics 291 
 
 French church 291, 292 
 
 French jealousy of England 19 
 
 French lady 118 
 
 French revolution 390 
 
 Freshets 501, 565 
 
 Friend imi 371 
 
 Friends. . .18, 62, 106, 257, 309, 321, 324 
 
 507. 
 
 Friends' school 459, 508 
 
 Frog Pond hill 314 
 
 Frontier bank 369 
 
 Fryeburg Academy 345, 346 
 
 Fugitive slave cases 382 
 
 Fugitive slave law 399 
 
636 
 
 Fugitive slaves 391, 399, 579 
 
 Fuller, Dana & Fitz 623 
 
 Fulling mill 137, 464, 466, 476 
 
 Fulling mill at Milton 155 
 
 Fund for old cemetery 581 
 
 Fund for schools 550 
 
 Fund for widows 378 
 
 Funds of Academy 177 
 
 Funeral customs 143, 302 
 
 P'urber's tannery 474 
 
 Furber's tavern 486 
 
 Furnace for church 277 
 
 Gag rule ■ • ■ • 384 
 
 Gallery pews 240 
 
 Gallery plan 241 
 
 Gambrel roof 131 
 
 Garland's Mills 164 
 
 Garrisons 20 
 
 General Assembly 527 
 
 General conference 344, 438 
 
 General muster 651 
 
 Generosity 122, 367, 377, 378 
 
 Geology 10 
 
 George Third 53 
 
 Ghosts 16, 111 
 
 Gilmanton academy . .373, 407, 444, 454 
 
 Girls 143 
 
 Glacial drift 10 
 
 Glee club 164 
 
 Glendon House 515, 516 
 
 Going barefoot to meeting 143 
 
 Golden Cross 559 
 
 Golden Avedding 338, 578 
 
 Gold fever. ... .X 405, 474 
 
 Gonic bank 484, 497, 499 
 
 Gonic brickyard 501 
 
 Gonic cemetery 562 
 
 Gonic Company 477, 499 
 
 Gonic Hill road 186 
 
 Gonic Hotel 509 
 
 Gonic in 1800 496 
 
 Gonic Library Association 184 
 
 Gonic Manufacturing Company 361 
 
 502, 509. 
 
 Gonic meeting-house 278 
 
 Gonic mill built 504 
 
 Gonic Mills 360, 370, 501, 503 
 
 Gonic Xational Bank 362, 366 
 
 Gonic postoffice 509 
 
 Gonic Savings Bank 362 
 
 Gonic schoolhouse 164, 497 
 
 Good Templars 316, 318, 559 
 
 Goodwin garrison 20 
 
 Goodwin, Trask & Company 476 
 
 Gore 134 
 
 Governors 524 
 
 Governor votes 524 
 
 Graduates of academy 176 
 
 Grammar schools 158, 160, 167, 170 
 
 Grammai'-school lot 38 
 
 Grand Army 234, 235, 236 
 
 Grand Lodge of Masons 264, 270 
 
 Grangers 559 
 
 Grange store 469 
 
 Granite Freeman 411 
 
 Grant & Greeley 380 
 
 Grantees 35 
 
 Grantees, purpose of 44 
 
 Great brook 30 
 
 Great Falls & Conway Railroad 187, 309 
 
 371, 490 to 494. 
 
 Great Falls cornet band 201 
 
 Great Falls Journal 192 
 
 Great Falls Manufacturing Company 
 
 371,510. 
 Great Falls, sketches and joiirnal. . .185 
 
 Great Falls Transcript. . . ! 308 
 
 Greenback conventions 146, 147 
 
 Greenbackers 146 
 
 Greenback party 191 
 
 Gristmills. . .464, 466, 498, 499, 501, 510 
 
 Grocery stores 468 
 
 Guard of Honor 355 
 
 Guilt detected 110 
 
 Gun house 552 
 
 Habits of drinking 293 
 
 Hail Columbia 202 
 
 Haines & Ela 464 
 
 Haines's Bluff, Miss 434 
 
 Hale lot 167 
 
 Half-wav covenant. 82, 92, 93, 95, 96, 242 
 
 Hallowell Academy 332 
 
 Hampden Sidney College 348, 437 
 
 Ham's Hill 30 
 
 Hand press 187, 191 
 
 Hanging 312, 398 
 
 Hanscam & McDuffee 476 
 
 Hanson store 494, 495 
 
 Hardships 124, 125, 126, 131, 378 
 
 Harford's land sold ... 50 
 
 Harper's Weekly 231 
 
 Harrison voters 520 
 
 Harvard College or University . . .84, 88 
 
 98, 105, 176, 325, 350, 354, 403, 440 
 
 441, 450, 451, 461. 
 
 Harvard Divinity School 354 
 
 Harvard Law School 456 
 
 Hastv pudding 139 
 
 Hatter 138 
 
 Haven Hill.. 10, 28, 86, 87, 260, 262, 528 
 
 421,431,467, 485, 541. 
 Haven Hill cemetery 560 
 
INDEX. 
 
 637 
 
 Hayden & Scott 383 
 
 Hayes & Tilden 381 
 
 Hayes's block 48-i, 485 
 
 Haynes & Ela, hatters 138 
 
 Heath brook 10, 28 
 
 Height above sea level 10 
 
 Herald of Freedom 192, 409, 410 
 
 Heretics , 81 
 
 Hermitage 298, 326 
 
 Heroic deed 217 
 
 Hertfordshire, Eng 329 
 
 Hibbard & Carr 360 
 
 Hibernians 559 
 
 Highest point 10 
 
 High scliool district 170 
 
 High school house 167 
 
 High school money 168 
 
 High schools. 167, 168, 175, 177 
 
 Highway 118 
 
 Hillsdale College 447 
 
 Hip-roof 131 
 
 Historical aildress 255 
 
 Historical discourse 254 
 
 Historical Society of Virginia 349 
 
 History 182 
 
 History of Bible Society 246 
 
 History of Rochester .375 
 
 History repeated , 145 
 
 Hodgdon & Wentworth. ... 473 
 
 Hodgdon Building 187 
 
 Home lectures , , . . . . 184 
 
 Home lots , 43 
 
 Home-made cloth 137 
 
 Home-made pegs 137, 138 
 
 Home manufactures 136, 137 
 
 Homeopathic Medical College.. 449, 450 
 
 Homeopathy 444 
 
 Homestead exemption 544 
 
 Homestead lots, small 44 
 
 Hong Kong 414 
 
 Honoring an officer 553 
 
 Honor to soldiers 202 
 
 Hook and Ladder Company 540 
 
 Hook and Ladder hall ' 284 
 
 Hopkinton Academy 395, 470 
 
 Hoi-ne & Cross 466 
 
 Home & Hall 474 
 
 Home and Hurd mill 24 
 
 Horrors of Andersonville 435 
 
 Horseback riding 143 
 
 Horseblock 143 
 
 Hosjiital founded 378 
 
 Hospitality 363 
 
 Hotels 190, 485 
 
 Hotel at Gouic 509 
 
 Hotel burned 487 
 
 Hotel closed 316 
 
 Hotel Wrisley 489 
 
 House destroyed by mob 298 
 
 Hoyt brick-yard 501 
 
 Hudson river 63, 119 
 
 Human bones 564 
 
 Humane Lodge.. .201, 229, 264, 332, 372 
 374, 399, 431, 436, 448, 456, 557. 
 
 Humanity 204 
 
 Humor 109 
 
 Humorous verses 576 
 
 Hunt brothers 381 
 
 Hunting 88 
 
 Hurd House 485 
 
 Hussey hill 10, 432 
 
 Hussey plows 47 1 
 
 Hutchins & Coburn 473 
 
 Hydrants 540 
 
 Hydrophobia 564 
 
 Ideal home 421 
 
 Illumination 206 
 
 Importance of labor 463 
 
 Importance of Rochester 129, 150 
 
 Important periods , . 105 
 
 Important votes 543 
 
 Imposture detected HI 
 
 Imprisonment 102 
 
 Improved lock 376 
 
 Improved machinery 505 
 
 Improved Order of Red Men 559 
 
 Income of postoffice 495 
 
 Incorporation of library 182 
 
 Independence of mind 112 
 
 Independent Democrat 411 
 
 Independent Democrats 388 
 
 Indian captures 23, 30 
 
 Indian cunning 21, 22 
 
 Indian cruelties . . .16, 17, 19, 22, 25, 30 
 
 Indian Dore 27 
 
 Indian hostilities 42 
 
 Indian magic 15 
 
 Indian massacres . .16, 17, 18, 22, 25, 30 
 
 Indian names 13, 14 
 
 Indian nations 14, 15 
 
 Indian raid 42.5 
 
 Indian reverence for Mr. Main 86 
 
 Indians 578 
 
 Indian ti'cacheries 21 
 
 Indian tribes 15 
 
 Indian villages 14 
 
 Indian wars 125, 128, 156 
 
 Indictment of liquor dealers . . .313, 314 
 315. 
 
 Indictments for anti-slavery riot 383 
 
 Inducements to manufacturers 544 
 
 Indulgence to i^roprietors 44 
 
 Industry 463 
 
638 
 
 Influence of manufactures 502 
 
 Inhumanity 204 
 
 Inns 143 
 
 Insane asylum 345 
 
 Insanity 296 
 
 Installation 80, 88, 249, 251, 255 
 
 Institutions 204 
 
 Instruction for poor 175 
 
 Integrity 376 
 
 Integrity in business 470 
 
 Intemiaerance in old times 293 
 
 Intemperance in the church 245, 308 
 
 Intermediate schools 170 
 
 Interstate Publishing Company 427 
 
 Intoxication 293 
 
 Introduction of Methodism 107, 258 
 
 Inventive genius 340, 376 
 
 Invincibles 540 
 
 Iowa Conference 274 
 
 Irish Catholics 291 
 
 Irish church 291 
 
 Isinglass river 9, 372 
 
 Isles of Shoals.. .366, 373, 513, 527, 598 
 
 Isms 105 
 
 Issues of war 203, 204, 205 
 
 Jack-at-all-trades 464 
 
 Jafta 563 
 
 Jafta colony 562 
 
 James river 434 
 
 Japan 414, 442 
 
 Jefterson Medical College. 422, 441, 446 
 
 Jennings & Stevens 511 
 
 Jersey Island 406 
 
 Jesuit priests 86 
 
 Jesuits 19 
 
 Jury treating 547 
 
 Kansas conference 269, 270 
 
 Kansas troubles 442 
 
 Keene Light Infantry 551 
 
 Kelley^s Ford 228 
 
 Kennebec river 15 
 
 Kennedy Lodge 234, 436, 558 
 
 Kenney's tavern 489 
 
 Kiesel fire brick 472 
 
 Kindness 364, 377 
 
 Kindness to the poor 330 
 
 King Philip's War 15 
 
 Knight house 175 
 
 Knights of Pythias 558 
 
 Knights of the Golden Eagle 559 
 
 Know Nothing Party 362, 404 
 
 Labor 463 
 
 Labor and capital 416 
 
 Labors of Mr. Main 85 
 
 Ladies' festival 253 
 
 Ladies' Social Circle 277 
 
 Lafayette 181 
 
 Landaff" circuit 263 
 
 Langdon House 489 
 
 Large family 570 
 
 Large mill 504 
 
 Laselle Seminary 474 
 
 Last Indian attack 31 
 
 Last muster 313, 554 
 
 Last Provincial xVssembly 527 
 
 Last slave .550 
 
 Last tithing-man 143 
 
 Late sirring 666 
 
 Latitude 9 
 
 Law and Order League 319 
 
 Law defied 157 
 
 Lawlessness 160 
 
 Lawrence American 220 
 
 Lawrence Courier 187, 192 
 
 Lawrence Daily Journal .... .227, 433 
 
 Lawsuits 102, 547 
 
 Lawyer Clark 466 
 
 Lawyers 450 
 
 Laying out lands 42 
 
 Lead mines 135 
 
 Leather board 155 
 
 Lebanon Academy 177, 454, 455 
 
 Lectures 184 
 
 Lectures on physiology 442 
 
 Legacy to church 242, 255 
 
 Legacy to parish 254 
 
 Legislature 122 
 
 Legislature of New Hampshire 385 
 
 Legislature threatened 146 
 
 Lenticular hills 10 
 
 Letter of Rev. Joseph Haven 98 
 
 Letter to General Assembly 545 
 
 Libbey Prison 173, 219, 226, 233 
 
 Libel suit 189 
 
 Liberality 195, 442 
 
 Liberty Party 521 
 
 Librarians 183 
 
 Library 177 to 180, 458, 515 
 
 Librai'y fee 183 
 
 Library fines 183 
 
 Library membership 179, 183 
 
 Library subscription 178 
 
 Library tax 178 ] 
 
 Life and Li^ht 427 i 
 
 Life worth living 475 
 
 Light infantry 551 
 
 Lightning 251 
 
 Lights 472 i 
 
 Limited education 115 
 
 Lincoln's death 206 
 
 Linen 136 
 
639 
 
 ,141, 
 
 Lines run 
 
 Lining the iiymns 
 
 liiquor agency 
 
 Liquor at funerals 
 
 Liquor consumed 
 
 Liquor dealer njobbed 
 
 Liquor Dealers' Association 
 
 Liquor dealers bought out 
 
 Liquor dealers fined. - . . 
 
 Liquor dealers prosecuted 
 
 Liquor destroyed by mob 
 
 Liquor fines 
 
 Liquor indictments 
 
 Liquor licenses 
 
 Liquor sellers indicted 313, 314, 
 
 Licjuor sold by the yard 
 
 List of deacons 
 
 List of I'epresentatives 
 
 List of soldiers 
 
 List of Whigs and Tories 
 
 Literary fund . . . . , 
 
 Little Long pond 
 
 Loan and Banking Company 
 
 Local correspondents 187, 
 
 Local preachers 
 
 Location of first meeting-house 
 
 Lock-up 
 
 Log cabins 125, 131, 153, 
 
 Log cabin and hard cider 
 
 Longevity 406, 407, 
 
 Long Island hospital 
 
 Longitude . 
 
 Long pastorate 104, 
 
 Lord Cambden 
 
 Lord Loudon 
 
 Lost in mountains 
 
 Lot drawing 43, 47 
 
 Lot given to clerk. 
 
 Lothrop clothing store 
 
 Lothrop, D. & Company 422, 
 
 Lothrop, D, & Sons. ..." 
 
 Lothrops & Pinkham 
 
 Lothrops, Farnham & Company 
 
 Lot layers 
 
 Lot laying 41, 45 
 
 Louisiana 19, 
 
 LovewelPs war 17 
 
 Lowell Courier and Journal 
 
 Lower mill 
 
 Lowlands of Scotland 
 
 Loyalty. 11(5, 198, 200, 201, 208,209, 
 
 Loyalty in preaching 
 
 Loyalty to the king. , , 
 
 Lukewarmness 
 
 Lumber business 
 
 Lumber depredations 
 
 Lumber mill 
 
 151 
 142 
 306 
 302 
 294 
 295 
 315 
 306 
 319 
 306 
 314 
 315 
 307 
 300 
 315 
 299 
 256 
 528 
 209 
 
 62 
 163 
 9 
 485 
 190 
 274 
 
 76 
 538 
 555 
 520 
 584 
 449 
 9 
 105 
 
 52 
 118 
 373 
 , 48 
 
 50 
 422 
 424 
 422 
 422 
 422 
 542 
 ,48 
 433 
 , 18 
 400 
 477 
 328 
 270 
 252 
 
 53 
 
 89 
 511 
 
 48 
 505 
 
 Lumber yard 153 
 
 Lyceums 184 
 
 Lying and tattling 82 
 
 Mad dogs 664 
 
 Mail carrier 135 
 
 Maine 136 
 
 Maine Conference 262, 263, 264. 273 
 
 438. 
 
 Maine law 314 
 
 Maine Wesleyan Seminary 438 
 
 Main-street schoolhouse 166, 167 
 
 Manchester American 622 
 
 Manners in school 159 
 
 Manny & All 511 
 
 Mansion house.. .132, 290, 333, 465, 489 
 
 567. 
 
 Manufacture of clocks 133 
 
 Manufacture of flax 136 
 
 Manufacture of tobacco 144 
 
 Manufactures 131 
 
 Manufactures at Milton 155 
 
 Manufactures encouraged 544 
 
 Manufacturing 476 
 
 Manufacturing facilities 11 
 
 Maple-street schoolhouse 167 
 
 Map of Gonic 496 
 
 March's Dock 153 
 
 Margaret Sidney 427 
 
 Mark Twain 396 
 
 Marshall's Life of Washington 327 
 
 Marshall's spelling-book 162 
 
 Martha's Vineyard 15 
 
 Masonian proprietors j . 118 
 
 Masonic burial 223, 228, 229, 453 
 
 Masonic ceremonies. .263, 264, 270, 572 
 
 Masonic hall 372 
 
 Masonic reception 372 
 
 Mason's patent 118 
 
 Massachusetts Indians 15 
 
 Massacre by Indians 20 
 
 Massacre of Indians 26 
 
 Massacres 25, 30 
 
 Master Junkins 164 
 
 Master Main 164 
 
 Master Oi-ne 159 
 
 Master Tanner 159 
 
 Mast trees 38 
 
 Mathematical analysis 376 
 
 Mayor of Manchester 176 
 
 McClellan Club 187, 189 
 
 McDuff'ee & Dame 464 
 
 McDuftee block. .190, 191, 372, 476, 494 
 
 495. 
 
 McDuflee hall 284, 287, 291, 316 
 
 McDuftee, John & Co 370, 374 
 
 Meader & Glidden 466, 471 
 
640 
 
 Mechanics' band 555 
 
 Mechanics' bank 405 
 
 Mechanics' Company 477 
 
 Mechanics' Manufacturing Co. .370, 476 
 
 M. E. Church 572 
 
 Medical College 422, 443 to 449 
 
 Medical societies. 345, 347, 407, 440, 441 
 
 443 to 448. 
 
 Mediterranean 22G 
 
 Meekness 376 
 
 Meeting-house 47, 140, 141 
 
 Meeting-house at East Rochester . . .282 
 
 Meeting-house at Farmington 152 
 
 Meeting-house at Milton 154 
 
 Meeting-house built . .263, 270, 276, 278 
 
 282, 285, 291, 292. 
 
 Meeting-house debt jmid 271, 280 
 
 Meeting-house dedicated 271, 285 
 
 Meeting-house enlarged. . .252, 268, 280 
 Meeting-house locked against pastor 95 
 
 Meeting-house moved 248 
 
 Meeting-house raising 101, 293 
 
 Meeting-house re-dedicated 273 
 
 Meeting-house repaired 91, 251, 254 
 
 255, 267, 272, 277, 279, 280, 282. 
 
 Meeting-houses 152 
 
 Meeting-house struck by lightning. .251 
 
 Meeting-house tax 75 
 
 Meeting-house voted by proprietors. 75 
 
 Meetings in barns 152 
 
 Members of Library Association 179,183 
 
 Members of Sampson Post 237 
 
 Members received to church 80 
 
 Memorial i^oem 573 
 
 Memorial windows 272 
 
 Men in Revolution 56, 57 
 
 Men lost in Revolution 52 
 
 Mental activity 178 
 
 Mental philosophy 325 
 
 Merrill's Corner 500 
 
 Meserve's planing mill 187 
 
 Methodism 107, 108, 258 
 
 Methodism at East Rochester 274 
 
 Methodist church. 186, 258, 339, 429,431 
 
 Metliodist church at Dover 263 
 
 Methodist Church South 267 
 
 Methodist festival 270 
 
 Methodist heroes 573 
 
 Methodist meeting-house. .263, 270, 272 
 Methodist meeting-house dedicated. .264 
 Methodist meeting-house enlarged. .268 
 
 Methodist ministers 273 
 
 Methodist parsonage 265, 269, 276 
 
 Methodist pastors at East Rochester, 276 
 
 Methodist peculiarities 259 
 
 Methotlist pioneers 339 
 
 Methodist seminary 268 
 
 Methodist vestry 267 
 
 Methuen Gazette 192 
 
 Melhuen Falls Gazette 400 
 
 Mexican War 149, 522 
 
 Mica Silex 472 
 
 Microscopic discoveries 569 
 
 Middlebury College 172 
 
 Middle mill 477 
 
 Middlesex Democrat 380 
 
 Military burial 229 
 
 Military companies 197 
 
 Military drill 199. 551 
 
 Militia.. 55, 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, 68, 69, 72 
 551. 
 
 Militia called out 129 
 
 Militia musters 313 
 
 Militia of New Hampshire 55 
 
 Mill commons 48 
 
 Mille Comon 45, 46 
 
 Miller excitement 288, 289 
 
 Millerism 267 
 
 Mill lands reserved 42 
 
 Mill rents 20, 42, 43, 48 
 
 Mills 476 
 
 Mills at East Rochester 510, 514 
 
 Mills at Gonic 370, 501, 503 
 
 Mills burned 503, 510 
 
 Minerals 10 
 
 Mineral spring 578 
 
 Minister lot 38 
 
 Minister's pew 79 
 
 Minister taxes... 75, 77,78, 101, 151, 152 
 
 Minnesota river 425 
 
 Minute men 52, 58, 59, 197, 323 
 
 Miltonia Lodge 558 
 
 Missionary echoes 191 
 
 Missionary society 152 
 
 Missouri Compromise 399 
 
 Mob 262 
 
 Mobile Bay 226, 228 
 
 Mob in Washington 391 
 
 Mob of citizens 498 
 
 Mob on railroad 490 
 
 Moderate drinking 303 
 
 Moderators 531 
 
 Money raised for academy 170, 171 
 
 Money i-aised for defense 149 
 
 Money raised for high school 168 
 
 Monomake Encampment 381 
 
 Monument to Mr. Haven 114 
 
 Monument to Mr. Main 86 
 
 Moral suasion 304, 306 
 
 Morning Times 380, 381 
 
 Morris Island, S. C 222, 224, 435 
 
 Morse's geography 162 
 
 Mortality 272 
 
 Mortality unusual 586 
 
641 
 
 Moses Kurd house 466 
 
 Motolinia Lodge .176, 201, 234, 341, 558 
 
 Mountain View cemeteiy 433 
 
 Mount Independence 119 
 
 Mourning rings 86 
 
 Mount Choeorua 189 
 
 Mudge, E. & A 511 
 
 Murder 307, 309, 317, 319, 442, 664 
 
 Murder trial 310, 311 
 
 Murphy band 234 
 
 ]SIurray''s grammar 162 
 
 Music in schools 170 
 
 Muster days 498, 552, 554 
 
 Muster fields 552, 553 
 
 Muster rolls . . .31, 56, 59, 60, 63, 65, 66 
 
 68, 70, 71. 
 Mutual council 94 
 
 Nail shop 471 
 
 jSTameless grave 89 
 
 Names of proprietors 38, 44 
 
 Nantucket 15 
 
 Narcotics 190 
 
 Nashua & Rochester Railroad 493 
 
 National bank 482 
 
 National Cemetery.. . .217, 219, 221, 222 
 225, 226, 228, 230, 231. 
 
 National Encampment 236 
 
 National era 391 
 
 National existence 202 
 
 National honor 205 
 
 National hotel 394 
 
 National Institute 328 
 
 National salute 201 
 
 Natural monument 560 
 
 Neck 29 
 
 Neck road 131 
 
 Neck road spring 29 
 
 Needham, first martyr , 220 
 
 Neglect of education 180 
 
 Neglect of schools 156 to 158 
 
 Negro soldier 31 
 
 Nervine hospital 378 
 
 Newark Conference • 271 
 
 New cemetery 561 
 
 New charter for library 182 
 
 New departure for girls 427 
 
 New Durham Ridge 328 
 
 New England Conference .263, 266, 267 
 
 New England Protective Union 469 
 
 New furnace for church 256 
 
 New Hanip.ghire Bible Society 246 
 
 New Hampshire Conference 273, 274 
 
 276, 438. 
 New Hampshire Conference Sem- 
 inary 338 
 
 New Hampshire Courier 411 
 
 43 
 
 New Hampshire Gazette. .. .52, 54, 133 
 134, 178, 440. 
 
 New Hampshire Gazetteer 120 
 
 New Hampshire Historical Society. .350 
 375. 
 
 New Hampshire Legislature 385 
 
 New Hampshire Medical Society . . .440 
 New Hampshire ^Missionary Society. 152 
 246. 
 
 New Hampshire National Guard 555 
 
 New Hampshire Press Association. .443 
 
 New Hampshire Review 186 
 
 New Hampshire Statesman 409 
 
 New Hampshire TemiDcrance Society 302 
 New Hampshire Universalist Conven- 
 tion ../. 287 
 
 New Hampton Institute 398 
 
 New Ijiswich Academy 250 
 
 New London Academy 456 
 
 Newmarket high school ... 457 
 
 Newmarket Wesleyan Academy 170 
 
 New meeting-house 270 
 
 New mill built 361 
 
 New sects 108 
 
 Newspapers 178, 185, 191, 192 
 
 New York Conference 262 
 
 New York University 346, 441 
 
 Niagara 69 
 
 Noah's ark 396 
 
 North Hampton Lunatic asylum. . . ,448 
 
 Norway pines 45 
 
 Norway Plain 45, 327, 328 
 
 Norway Plain brook 28 
 
 Norway Plain mill common 47. 48 
 
 Norway Plains. . .101, 129, 130, 165, 261 
 
 275, 395. 
 Norway Plains Company... 347, 405 ,466 
 
 476, 478. 
 Norway Plains Encampment. . .436, 558 
 
 Norway Plains Fire Company 540 
 
 Norway Plains JNIanufacturing Com- 
 pany 186, 370 
 
 Norway Plains Savings Bank. .370, 374 
 467, 482. 
 
 Notch house 373 
 
 Notre Dame du Sainte Rosaire 292 
 
 Nova Scotia' 18 
 
 Nova Scotian 564 
 
 Nowell & Meserve 469 
 
 Number in Revolution 56 
 
 Number of men furnished 208 
 
 Number of pupils 170 
 
 Number of representatives 527 
 
 Number of volumes in library 18S 
 
 Obey or resign 385 
 
 Object of Avar 202 
 
642 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Occasional preaching 76 
 
 Odd Fellows 175, 176, 381, 436 
 
 Odd Fellows' building 176 
 
 Odd Fellows' hall 290 
 
 Odd Fellowship 558 
 
 Odiorne's Tavern 486,487 
 
 Office only for church members. .82, 92 
 
 Oil-mill 359 
 
 Old Academy building 177 
 
 Old age 125, 128 
 
 Old cemetery 854, 560, 561, 581 
 
 Old cemetery fund 561 
 
 Old epitaphs 560 
 
 Old folks' concert 366 
 
 " Old Junkins " 164 
 
 Old North church 387 
 
 Old oak 143 
 
 Old Smith store 153 
 
 Old Tavern House 486 
 
 Old-time intemperance 293 
 
 Oliver high school 432 
 
 Onion & Richards 466, 475 
 
 Ontario Female Seminary 380 
 
 Opening of academy 171 
 
 Opposers of dead languages 156 
 
 Opposition to division 151 
 
 Opposition to Methodism 260, 262 
 
 Oration 180 
 
 Oration in war time 202 to 205 
 
 Order of Cincinnati 235 
 
 Order of Red Men 448, 559 
 
 Order of the Rising Sun 442 
 
 Ordinance of 1787 390, 392 
 
 Ordinances 106 
 
 Ordination.... 90, 99, 240, 244, 247, 252 
 279, 280, 288, 344. 
 
 Ordination expenses 90, 99 
 
 Organ for church 251, 268 
 
 Organization of church 80 
 
 Origin of Dennett 336 
 
 Ossian's Bards 366 
 
 Ottoman Empire 325 
 
 Our Little Men and AVomen 427 
 
 Overseers of poor 535 
 
 Oyster river 18, 36, 43, 439, 507 
 
 Paper currency 145, 146, 147, 191 
 
 Paper money 146 
 
 Parish debt paid 253, 255, 269 
 
 Parishes 150, 151 
 
 Parish separated from town 239 
 
 Parker, Blanchard & Wilder 513 
 
 Parker, AVilder & Co. .361, 503, 506, 512 
 
 Parochial school 292 
 
 Parsonage 79, 80, 83, 87, 91, 99 
 
 Parsonage at East Rochester 276 
 
 Parsonage built 265, 269, 276, 283 
 
 debt paid 277 
 
 Parsonage fund 104, 258, 271, 281, 287, 290 
 
 Parsonage lands 108 
 
 Parsonage lot. . .38, 87, 90, 102, 103, 104 
 Parsonage repairs.. .91, 99, 253, 254, 277 
 
 Parsonage sold 269 
 
 Parson INIain 580, 595 
 
 Parsons & Berry 623 
 
 Parsonsfield Academy 395, 402 
 
 Party excitement 154 
 
 Party leader 375 
 
 Party spirit 148 
 
 Passaconnaway 15 
 
 Pastors at East Rochester 276 
 
 Pastor's tenure of otfice 94 
 
 Patriotic demonstrations .. .199, 200, 201 
 Patriotic resolutions. . .195, 199, 200, 207 
 
 Patriotic sermon 66 
 
 Patriotic speeches 195, 199, 207 
 
 Patriotic women 208 
 
 Patriotism... 51, 52, 55, 64, 123, 194, 197 
 
 198, 218, 229, 270, 324, 342. 
 Patriotism of past and present. .202, 203 
 
 Patrons of Husbandry 559 
 
 Pay of firemen 540 
 
 Pay of proprietors' clerk 50 
 
 Pay-roll 63 
 
 Peace 18, 31, 32, 74, 205 
 
 Peace congress ... 193 
 
 Peaceful deaths 114 
 
 Peacemaker 116 
 
 Peace sermon 74 
 
 Peat 10, 11 
 
 Peat company 11 
 
 Peculiar burial 378 
 
 Peculiarities of Methodism 259 
 
 Peeble's farm *. 221 
 
 Pemberton mill disaster 367 
 
 Pembroke Academy 395, 454 
 
 Pennsylvania Railroad 491 
 
 Penobscot river 15 
 
 Pension 65, 119 
 
 Pension rejected 119 
 
 People aroused 198 
 
 People supreme 517 
 
 Periodicals 178, 183 
 
 Permanent police 538 
 
 Personalities 189 
 
 Personal prayer , 261 
 
 Pest house 536 
 
 Petition for division 151, 152 
 
 Petition for proprietors' meeting 42 
 
 Petition for protection from Indians 28, 29 
 
 Petition for support of gospel 77, 78 
 
 Pettibone name 427 
 
 Pews sold 101,249 
 
 Pews in gallery 240 
 
643 
 
 Phelps, Dodge »& Co. 623 
 
 Phi Beta Kappa society 332 
 
 Physicians 85, 439 
 
 Physiology, by Cutter 442 
 
 Pierce Memorial church 380 
 
 Pillar of the church 120 
 
 Pillion.... 143 
 
 Pine grove 257 
 
 Pioneer Hose company. 540 
 
 Pioneers 125 
 
 Piscataqua Association 248 
 
 Piscataqua harbor 58 
 
 Pistareen 86 
 
 Pittsylvania county, Va. 437 
 
 Place of first settlement 43 
 
 Place's company 59 
 
 Plain preaching 99, 113 
 
 Plains 10 
 
 Planing mill 187 
 
 Plan of gallery 241 
 
 Pleasant pond 325 
 
 Pocotalgo bridge 233 
 
 Poem .573, 580 
 
 Pointed prayer 261 
 
 Point of Rocks, Va 228 
 
 Police 537, 538 
 
 Police badges 538 
 
 Police court 454, 457, 538 
 
 Police judge 454, 457 
 
 Police laws 537 
 
 Politeness 112 
 
 Political bias 518, 521 
 
 Political bitterness. 567 
 
 Political bolt 189 
 
 Political courage 385, 389 
 
 Political honesty. 381 
 
 Political ostracism 385 
 
 Political revolution 411 
 
 Political squib 388 
 
 Political temperance.. .305, 308, 314, 318 
 
 Politicians 193 
 
 Politics in business 468 
 
 "Pomp" 84, 549 
 
 Ponds 9 
 
 Poor boys' college 380 
 
 Poor farm 535 
 
 Poor warned out 547 
 
 Popish persecution 117 
 
 Popular clamor 145, 146 
 
 Population of Nev? Hampshire 33 
 
 Port hospital 220 
 
 Portland & Rochester Railroad. .371, 491 
 492, 493. 
 
 Portland-street schoolhouse 107 
 
 Portsmouth & Dover Railroad 423 
 
 Post-boy 135 
 
 Post-carrier 133 
 
 Postmasters 430, 454, 494, 509, 513 
 
 Postoffice 133, 134, 494, 509, 516 
 
 PostofBce revenue 495, 516 
 
 Post-rider 134 
 
 Potash 467 
 
 Potomac river 434 
 
 Pottei ies 134 
 
 Pound 141 
 
 Pound built 541 
 
 Pound-street schoolhouse 167 
 
 Poverty 124 
 
 Poverty of settlers 76, 77, 80, 81 
 
 Powder seized 58 
 
 Power of Methodism 260 
 
 Power-press 190 
 
 Practical joke 298, 299 
 
 Prayer 549 
 
 Prayer meetings 260 
 
 Prayer test 568 
 
 Preaching 65 
 
 Preaching bible 88 
 
 Preaching by neighboring ministers. . 76 
 
 Preaching of Mr. Main , - . 85 
 
 Preceptors of Rochester Academy 172 
 
 Preliminary proclamation 199 
 
 Premium on blankets 478 
 
 Presentation of swords 200 
 
 Present to town 126 
 
 Presidential campaign 380, 381 
 
 Presidential votes 518 
 
 President of Harvard University 165 
 
 President of New Hampshire 523 
 
 Press gangs 31, 32 
 
 Price of labor 73 
 
 Price of substitutes 199 
 
 Prices fixed by law 73 
 
 Priests 19 
 
 Primary schools 170 
 
 Prince of deacons 377 
 
 Principals of High School 168, 169 
 
 Principle in publishing 425 
 
 Principles of church 80 
 
 Printing office 190 
 
 Printing press 378 
 
 Prisoners 52 
 
 Prisoners, sufferings of 23 
 
 Prison horrors 435 
 
 Private bankers 370, 374 
 
 Private banking 482 
 
 Private currency 395 
 
 Privateering 71, 499 
 
 Private school 174, 175 
 
 Prize drill 551 
 
 Processions 197, 201 
 
 Proclamation of peace 74 
 
 Proclamation of president 195 
 
 Profanity 120 
 
64i 
 
 Progress in temperance 320 j 
 
 Prohibition 304, 307, 314, 315, 543 I 
 
 Prompt enlistment 194 
 
 Proprietors' book 41 ' 
 
 Proprietors' books and papers 50 
 
 Proprietors' clerks 50, 530 ' 
 
 Proprietors' lands sold for taxes 77 
 
 Proprietors' meeting-house 75 
 
 Proprietors' names 44 
 
 Proprietors of Piochester 38 
 
 Proprietors of Rochester Academy. . .171 
 
 Proprietors taxed 126 
 
 Prosecuting committee 189 
 
 Prosecution of liquor dealers 306 
 
 Prosecution of pastor 95 
 
 Prospectus of Courier 188 
 
 Prosperity of library 183 
 
 Protection 362 
 
 Protection against Indians 47 
 
 Protective Union , 469 
 
 Providence Conference 273 
 
 Providence Journal 258 
 
 Provincial Assembly 76, 77, 118, 120 
 
 127, 527. 
 
 Provincial Congress 55, 56, 119. 527 
 
 Provincial convention 529 
 
 Provision for sacrament 81 
 
 Provisions for raising meeting-house . 101 
 
 Public holidays 551 
 
 Public mourning 206 
 
 Punishment in schools 165 
 
 Pupils in schools 170 
 
 Puritanism 152 
 
 Puritans 150,259 
 
 Purpose of original grantees 44 
 
 Purpose of people '-99 
 
 Quaker library 258 
 
 Quaker meeting-house 257 
 
 Quakers . .18, 62, 106, 257, 321, 324, 357 
 507. 
 
 Qualifications for schoolmaster 158 
 
 Quarrel in the church 92 to 95 
 
 Quarterly conference 260, 276 
 
 Queen Anne cannon 28, 58, 545 
 
 Questions in lyceums 184 
 
 Quit-rent 37 
 
 Quoits forbidden 537 
 
 Paid on liquor dealers 314 
 
 Railroad depots 491 
 
 Railroad leased 371, 491 
 
 Railroad riot 490 
 
 Railroads 371, 490 
 
 Raising Methodist meeting-house 131 
 
 Raisings 131 
 
 Raising second meeting-house . , 101 
 
 Ralle 18 
 
 Rangers 26, 118 
 
 Ranger, The 72 
 
 Rappahannock river, Va 219 
 
 Rattlesnakes 128 
 
 Rawlins garrison 20 
 
 Read & Fabius 153 
 
 Reading 178, 181, 183 
 
 Reading room 183, 184, 191, 305, 319, 515 
 
 Rebel flag 197 
 
 Rebellion 173, 193 
 
 Rebels dispersed 146 
 
 Receiver of stolen goods 297 
 
 Recruiting committee 72, 73, 74 
 
 Recruiting office 55 
 
 Recruits 198, 199 
 
 Re-dedication , 272 
 
 Red men 448, 559 
 
 Red River expedition 217, 218 
 
 Reed's continental regiment 64 
 
 Reed tavern 465 
 
 Referees 96 
 
 Reform 91 
 
 '' Reformation John " 574 
 
 Reform clubs 317 
 
 Refusal to accept result of council .94, 95 
 
 Refusal to pay taxes 102 
 
 Regimental muster 552 
 
 Rejoicing over peace 74 
 
 Rejoicing over victory 206 
 
 Relief fund 515 
 
 Religious excitements 107 
 
 Religious experience 113 
 
 Religious freedom 75 
 
 Religious insanity 296 
 
 Religious societies 103, 104 
 
 Religious taxation 152 
 
 Religious zeal of our fathers 75 
 
 Remarkable epitaph 442 
 
 Remarkable frosts 565 
 
 Removal of courts 177 
 
 Repairs on court house 538 
 
 Repairs of meeting-house 91, 99, 248 
 
 251, 254, 255, 267, 272, 277, 279, 280 
 
 282. 
 
 Repairs of parsonage 91, 277 
 
 Repartee 246 
 
 Representatives... 119, 120, 122, 527, 528 
 
 Reprieve 311 
 
 Republican convention 365 
 
 Republican party 192, 363, 364, 522 
 
 l^epublicans 189 
 
 Rescue of Shadrach 382 
 
 Reservoirs 540 
 
 Resignation 114 
 
 Resolutions ... . .195, 199, 200, 207, 544 
 Result of council 94, 95 
 
645 
 
 Results of Revolution 152 
 
 Retreat 63 
 
 Returued soldiers 198. 201 
 
 Revised constitution 1 19 
 
 Revival.. 93, 188, 244, 245, 253, 260, 269 
 
 271, 275, 278, 279, 280, 282. 
 
 RevcUitiou 100, 102, 119 
 
 Revolutionary anecdotes 323 
 
 Revolutionary incident 577 
 
 Revolutionary patriot 121 
 
 Revolutionary resolutions 52 
 
 Revolution in France 390 
 
 Revolutiouarv soldiers.. 52, 56, 57, 59, 60 
 
 65, 86, 68,"'70, 71, 72. 
 
 Revolvers 197 
 
 Rhode Island 69 
 
 Richards & Co 623 
 
 Richardson's brick-yards 501 
 
 Richmond taken 206 
 
 Ricker's pond 9, 10 
 
 Ridge road 153, 154 
 
 Right of petition 384 
 
 Riudge relief fund 515 
 
 Rindge's band 556 
 
 Riot at Baltimore 194 
 
 Rioters fined , 314 
 
 Rising Sun lodge 558 
 
 Ritchie & Osborne 501 
 
 Rivers ....... 9 
 
 Riverside Association 556 
 
 Riverside Park 556 
 
 Riverside Park, N. Y 355 
 
 Roads 42, 126 
 
 Roasted potatoes 139 
 
 Robbing orchards 113 
 
 Robert College. 325 
 
 Roberts brook 10 
 
 Roberts house 486 
 
 Rochester Academy. . .170, 171, 172, 174 
 
 175, 325, 333, 395, 398, 421. 
 
 Rochester & Nashua Railroad 371 
 
 Rochester Bank. .340, 369, 372, 373, 374 
 
 478. 
 
 Rochester Brass Band 555 
 
 Rochester Cemetery Association 561 
 
 Rochester Company 477 
 
 Rochester Courier. .180, 186, 189 to 192, 
 
 201. 206, 209, 234, 272, 284, 318, 319 
 
 374, 375, 408, 433, 460, 520. 
 
 Rochester Fair 551 , 556 
 
 Rochester Grange 559 
 
 Rochester Hill 101 
 
 Rochester history 375 
 
 Rochester Institute 174 
 
 Rochester Leader 191, 192, 580 
 
 Rochester Loan and Banking Co 407 
 
 Rochester Lyceum 184 
 
 Rochester National Bank 420 
 
 Rochester Neck 338, 497 
 
 Rochester Phalanx 197, 398, 552 
 
 Rochester police court 454, 457 
 
 Rochester Review 185, 186, 192 
 
 Rochester Savings Bank 483 
 
 Rochester Seminary 439 
 
 Rochester University 439 
 
 Rockingham Bank 369 
 
 Rockingham county 382, 413 
 
 Rockingham Guards 551 
 
 Rollins chapel 176 
 
 Roll of companies 56 
 
 Roll of Sunday school 571 
 
 Roman Catholic churches 291 
 
 Roman Catholics 404 
 
 Rose High school 450 
 
 Round pond 9 
 
 Royal Arch Chapter 431, 558 
 
 Rum given away 576 
 
 Rumors 194 
 
 Rumsellers enraged 316 
 
 Rumsellers prosecuted 430 
 
 Rumsellers' tricks 576 
 
 Rum-selling and cobbling 498 
 
 Rum violence 430 
 
 Runnawitt tribe 448, 559 
 
 Rush Medical college 447 
 
 Rutgers College ' 243, 328 
 
 Sabbath breaking 117 
 
 Sabbath observance 245 
 
 Sabbath-school library 255 
 
 Sabbath-schools 201, 245, 258 
 
 Sachems 15 
 
 Saco river 345, 492 
 
 Saci-amento river 406 
 
 Sacrament provided for 81 
 
 Saddler 464 
 
 Saint Francis Indians 26 
 
 Saint Jean Baptiste Society 234, 559 
 
 Saint Mary's church 291 
 
 Saint Paul Comnmndery 347 
 
 Salaries of early ministers. 73, 79, 80, 83 
 
 86, 87, 89, 90, 92, 95, 98, 99, 103. 
 
 Salingers' store 468 
 
 Salmon Falls river. . .9, 13, 25, 150, 309 
 
 476, 562. 
 
 Salmon Falls road 158 
 
 Saloons 189 
 
 Sampson Post 234 to 287,419, 434, 435,436 
 
 Sanctum Sanctorum 297 
 
 Sandwich Academy 455 
 
 Sanguine expectations 197 
 
 Sanitary commission 198, 199, 209 
 
 Santee river expedition. . . .221, 222, 226 
 Sash and blind factory 476 
 
646 
 
 Satan's hatred of dead languages... . 156 
 
 Satinets 503 
 
 Savings banks .. .341, 362, 372, 374, 876 
 397, 405, 420, 482. 
 
 Savings bank deposits 483 
 
 Sawmills . . .464, 466, 501, 505, 510, 514 
 
 Sawyer Post, G. A. R 834 
 
 Scarcity of books 178 
 
 Scarcity of food 379 
 
 Scenes in country store 468 
 
 School commissioners 164 
 
 School districts 158, 160 
 
 School districts abolished 162. 163 
 
 School fund 550 
 
 Schoolhouse 164. 165, 166, 167 
 
 Schoolhouse dedicated 164 
 
 Schoolhouses 162 
 
 School lands 160 
 
 School laws 156, 157, 158 
 
 School lot 38 
 
 School-masters... 157, 158, 159, 164, 166 
 
 School money 168, 170 
 
 School ode 164 
 
 School of oratory 438 
 
 School reports 162 
 
 School-street schoolhouse 167 
 
 School superintendent 460 
 
 School taxes 156, 157 
 
 School text-books 162 
 
 Schooner Pearl 391 
 
 Scotch-Irish 44, 117, 367, 397 
 
 Scotch Presbyterians 33 
 
 Scotland Lowlands 328 
 
 Scott's novels 327 
 
 Scouts 28, 30,31 
 
 Scrip of war time 395 
 
 Scythe factory 134 
 
 Seavey's island 59 
 
 Secession 204 
 
 Second Adventism 288 
 
 Second call for troops 198 
 
 Second division 45 
 
 Second drawing 47 
 
 Second meeting-house 100 
 
 Second minister 87 
 
 Second volunteer 221 
 
 Secretary Seward 197 
 
 Secret societies 557 
 
 Security against fire 537, 589 
 
 Selectmen 533 
 
 Self-denial for church 28 
 
 Selling of parsonage lot 103, 104 
 
 Seminary at Tilton 268 
 
 Senecas 69 
 
 Senior senator 119 
 
 Sentence of death 311 
 
 Separation of church and state 242 
 
 Separation of town and parish 239 
 
 Separation of church and town. 102, 104 
 
 Sepoy rebellion. 218 
 
 Sermon against Methodists 107 
 
 Sermon against Quakers 106 
 
 Sermon in war time 57 
 
 Sermon of Mr. Haven 74 
 
 Sermon on adoption of constitution. 147 
 148. 
 
 Sermon on peace 74 
 
 Sermon on repairs 99 
 
 Sermon to soldiers 64 
 
 Sermon to volunteers 66 
 
 Settlement of Masonian trouble 118 
 
 Settlers, poor 76, 77, 80, 81 
 
 Seven pillars 80 
 
 Seventh of March speech 392 
 
 Sexton 141 
 
 Shadrach 382 
 
 Sham fight 551 
 
 Share mills 476, 510 
 
 Sheritf's box 165 
 
 Ship Leonora 405 
 
 Shoe factories 475, 500,511 
 
 Shoe manufacture 473 
 
 Shoemaking 137 
 
 Shoe-shops 473, 497 
 
 Shops 465, 466, 467, 469 
 
 Sickness in army 64 
 
 Sidney, Margaret 427 
 
 Siege of Boston 59, 119 
 
 Signal cannon 195 
 
 Signer of Declaration 269 
 
 Sincerity 105 
 
 Singing committee 91 
 
 Singing school 249 
 
 Singing seats 91 
 
 Singular burial 378 
 
 Sioux City Eagle 623 
 
 Sisters of Cadets 313 
 
 Sketches 187, 375 
 
 Sketch of Col. John McDuffee.117 to 120 
 Sketch of John Plummer. .115, 116, 117 
 
 Sketch of Norway Plains 129, 130 
 
 Sketch of Rev. Amos Main 83 to 86 
 
 Sketch of Rev. Avery PLall 97, 98 
 
 Sketch of Rev. Joseph Haven. 105 to 114 
 
 Sketch of Rev. Samuel Hill 87, 88 
 
 Slander disciplined 81, 82 
 
 Slavery 193, 202, 204, 205 
 
 Slavery in Rochester 549 
 
 Slavery question 520, 521 
 
 Slavery riot 391 
 
 Slaves 31, 548 
 
 Slaves baptized 82 
 
 Slave territory 544 
 
 Small salary 267 
 
INDEX. 
 
 647 
 
 Small schools 163, 170 
 
 Smoking 143 
 
 Snow storm 425 
 
 Social library 352 
 
 Social Library Association 112 
 
 Social Library Company. 124, 177 to 182 
 186. 
 
 Social librarj'- oration 180 
 
 Society debts paid 269 
 
 Society for Promoting Christian 
 
 Knowledge .240 
 
 Society of Christian Endeavor 2o6 
 
 Society of I'riends 62, 257, 258 
 
 Soft money 191 
 
 Soil : 11 
 
 Soldiers called for 194 
 
 Soldiers' families 197, 198, 200 
 
 Soldiers honored 202 
 
 Soldiers in 1814. 149 
 
 Soldiers in Revolution 66, 57, 59 
 
 Soldiers' levee 209 
 
 Soldiers' monument 233, 234 
 
 Soldiers returning ; 198, 201 
 
 Soldiers' reunion 230 
 
 Somersworth Act 166 to 169 
 
 Somersworth Company 56 
 
 Sons of Liberty 54 
 
 Sous of Temijerance 313, 316 
 
 Sopers 71 
 
 Sorel river 63 
 
 Sounding-board 141 
 
 South Berwick Academy 174 
 
 Southern California Conference 274 
 
 South INlountain, Va 434 
 
 Sovereigns of Industry 469 
 
 Special votes 543 
 
 Specie payments 145 
 
 Siicculation 73 
 
 Speech of 7th of March 392 
 
 Spinal curvature 442 
 
 Spinning 138 
 
 Spirit of reform 91 
 
 Spirit of Seventy- six 208 
 
 Spiritual dearth 259 
 
 Spotsylvania Court-house 221, 226 
 
 Squamanagonic garrison 20, 30 
 
 Squamanagomc mills 570 
 
 Squitter sovereignty 399 
 
 Squire Dame lot 260 
 
 Squire Gage 647 
 
 Squire Millet 647 
 
 Stage business 135 
 
 Stage drivers 488 
 
 Stages 135 
 
 Staging 135, 487 
 
 Standing order , 108 
 
 Star Advocate 472 
 
 Star Route trial 413 
 
 State constabulary 316 
 
 State constitution 529 
 
 State government 116 
 
 State legislature 119 
 
 State Press 443 
 
 State-prison chajilain 269 
 
 State senate 119 
 
 Station agents 491, 492 
 
 Statistics of farming 463 
 
 Statues in church 292 
 
 Steam grist-mill 476 
 
 Steeple 141 
 
 Stillwater 67 
 
 Stook company 512 
 
 Stock in trade 464, 466 
 
 Stock i-aising 116 
 
 Stocks 300 
 
 Store burned 470 
 
 Stores 465, 466, 467, 469 
 
 Story of Jonathan Dore 25 
 
 Stoves 141 
 
 Strafford Academy 177, 364, 421 
 
 Strafford bank 369, 370 
 
 Strafford county.. 147, 170, 304, 322, 326 
 328, 334, 352, 375, 382, 413, 443, 450 
 452, 486,491, 543, 581. 
 
 Strafford county bar 451, 454 
 
 Strafford County Medical Society. . .440 
 
 Strafford Guards 219, 229, 551 
 
 Strafford Lodge 334 
 
 Strafford National Bank 370, 372 
 
 Strange burial 378 
 
 Street lamps 543 
 
 Street lighting 543 
 
 Street lights 472 
 
 Sturtevant Guards 234, 555 
 
 Style of houses 131 
 
 Subscribers to Courier 187 
 
 Subscription for academy 170, 171 
 
 Subscrii^tion for library 178 
 
 Subscription for meeting-house re- 
 pairs 249 
 
 Subscriptions for parish debt 253 
 
 Subscriptions to cemetery fund 583 
 
 Substitutes 199, 200, 201 
 
 Successful men 465 
 
 Success of fair 657 
 
 Sudden death 354 
 
 Suicide from drunkenness 317 
 
 Summarj^ of business 516 
 
 Sumter 193, 194, 222 
 
 Superintendent cf schools 460 
 
 Superintending committee. 161, 166, 169 
 
 Supervisors 535 
 
 Supplies for soldiers. .197, 198, 199, 208 
 Support of ministry 130 
 
648 
 
 Support of poor o35 
 
 Suppression of drunkenness 813 
 
 Suppression of intemperance 301 
 
 Suppression of liquor selling.. .305, 306 
 
 315. 
 
 Supreme court 382 
 
 Sunday-schc ol books 426 
 
 Sunday-school library 258 
 
 Sunday schools . .265, 271, 275, 276, 277 
 
 281, 286, 289, 290, 351, 366. 
 
 Surgeon in army 121, 122 
 
 Surgeon's brutality 223 
 
 Surplus fund divided .550 
 
 Surplus revenue 360, 550 
 
 Surrender of Burgoyne 68 
 
 Surrender of Lee 206 
 
 Surrender of Ticonderoga 67 
 
 Surveying town 41, 42 
 
 Surveys 118 
 
 Surveys, careless 150 
 
 Sussex county, England 335 
 
 Swords presented 200 
 
 Synod 80, 82 
 
 Tailoring 137 
 
 Taking of Richmond 206 
 
 Tankard 242 
 
 Tanneries 473, 475 
 
 Tannery 497 
 
 Tanning . . 329 
 
 Tan-yards 464, 466, 467 
 
 Tariff 288 
 
 Tattered Hag 201 
 
 Tavern house 486 
 
 Taverns 485 
 
 Tavern sign 485, 486 
 
 Taxation without representation 52 
 
 Tax collection 536 
 
 Tax collectors 536 
 
 Taxes abated 539 
 
 Taxes for minister's support 102 
 
 Taxes for preaching 75, 77, 78, 152 
 
 Taxes of soldiers abated 72 
 
 Taxes paid in beef and rum 73 
 
 Taxes severe 126 
 
 Taxes to build meeting-house 101 
 
 Tax lists 464, 467 
 
 Tax on communicants 81 
 
 Tax on proprietors 75, 77, 78 
 
 Teachers of Rochester Academy 172 
 
 Teachers' wages 166, 172 
 
 Teaching school in Meaderborough.159 
 
 Tea party 249 
 
 Telegrams 194 
 
 Temperance 189, 191 
 
 Temperance canvass 302 
 
 Temperance celebration 306 
 
 i 
 
 Temperance conventions . . 304, 305, 306 
 
 315, 430. 
 Tempei-ance excitement. . .306, 308, 317 
 
 319. 
 
 Temperance hotel 489 
 
 Temperance in churches 279, 305 
 
 Temperance in politics 308, 318 
 
 Temperance League 316 
 
 Temperance lectures.. 300, 302, 304, 307 
 
 317. 
 
 Temperance legislation 299 
 
 Temperance meetings 267, 304, 305 
 
 315, 317, 319. 
 
 Temperance mob 314 
 
 Temperance movement 245, 295 
 
 Temperance movement in church . . . 304 
 
 Temperance pledge 305, 306, 317 
 
 Temperance politics 305, 314 
 
 Temperance progress 320 
 
 Temperance resolution 320 
 
 Temperance rioters tried 314 
 
 Temperance selectmen 305 
 
 Temperance societies. .301, 302, 304, 305 
 
 306, 318. 
 
 Temperance triumph 308 
 
 Temple Chapter.. 347, 399, 436, 448, 558 
 Ten-rod road. . . .45, 46, 47, 49, 101, 261 
 
 289, 290. 
 
 Tent meeting 289, 290 
 
 Test Association 122 
 
 Test declaration 60, 331 
 
 Texas 149, 384, 385, 388, 521, 522 
 
 Thayer, N. B. & Co 500 
 
 Thayer School 460 , 
 
 The Hale-storm 411 * 
 
 The Iris 400 f 
 
 The Neck 16, 158 
 
 The Pansy 427 
 
 The Ridge 154 
 
 Third call for troops 198 
 
 Third division 48 
 
 Third drawing 48 
 
 Thirty-ninth Regiment 551 
 
 Threats of Indians 21 
 
 Three days' fight 308 
 
 Throat distemper 44 
 
 Tiger Company 540 
 
 Tilton Seminary 268, 456, 461 
 
 Tinder box 139, 339 
 
 Tin-plate importers 623 
 
 Tippecanoe Club 409 
 
 Tippecanoe Jubilee 555 
 
 Tippecanoe voters 520 i 
 
 Tithes 117| 
 
 Tithing-man 142, 143, 5417 
 
 Tobacco 144 
 
 Tobacconist 144, 464 
 
INDEX. 
 
 649 
 
 Tories disarmed 60, 61 
 
 Torrent Company 540 
 
 Total Abstinence Society 305, 318 
 
 Town autliority in church affairs 75 
 
 Town bounty in 1812 148 
 
 Town clerks 530 
 
 Town conservatism 543 
 
 Town debt 542 
 
 Town divided into thx-ee 151, 152 
 
 Town expenses. 73 
 
 Town fai'm 535, 536 
 
 Town o^rants 34 
 
 Town mdicted 126, 157 
 
 Town hall 270, 283, 290, 538 
 
 Town hall built 539 
 
 Town liberality 544 
 
 Town libraries 178 
 
 Town Jibrary 327 
 
 Town lots 42 
 
 Town-meeting 517 
 
 Town paupers 535 
 
 Town poor 547 
 
 Town privileges 150 
 
 Town prosecuted 102 
 
 Town railroad stock .492, 493 
 
 Townships 150 
 
 Town supersedes proprietors 47 
 
 Trade in East Rochester 511 
 
 Traders in 1820 466 
 
 Traders in 1850 466 
 
 Trades in early days , .464 
 
 Trading with the Devil 303 
 
 Tragedy 445 
 
 Train-tield 41 
 
 Trainings 551 
 
 Transportation of merchandise. 135, 136 
 
 Treadwell & Company 433 
 
 Treating jury 547 
 
 Trespass on parsonage lots 102 
 
 Trespass on school lot 160 
 
 Trial for murder 310, 311 
 
 Trial of temperance rioters 314 
 
 Trickey's hall 804 
 
 Trie-key's ledge 16 
 
 Trip-hammer 134 
 
 Triumi^hant death , 123 
 
 Trotting park 556 
 
 True eloquence 375 
 
 True memorial church 285 
 
 Trumpets for tiremen 540 
 
 Trustees of Rochester Academy 172, 173 
 
 Tnftonborough circuit 260 
 
 Tufts College 287, 288 
 
 Tufts Divinity School 439 
 
 Turkey roasting 139 
 
 Tweed 328 
 
 Two classes of church members 93 
 
 Typical Yankee 396 
 
 Undergi'ound railroad 400 
 
 Union College 339 
 
 Union Democratic store 468 
 
 Union Hotel 509 
 
 Union Mission Band 184, 191, 320 
 
 Union store 469 
 
 Union Sunday school 245, 265, 571 
 
 Unitarian church 407 
 
 Unitarian convention 288 
 
 Unitarian meetings 288 
 
 United Order of American Workmen559 
 
 Universalism 286 
 
 Universalist ministers 286, 287 
 
 Universalists 286 
 
 Universalist society re-organized . . .286 
 University of New York. . .346, 445, 449 
 
 University of Michigan 449 
 
 Unknown contributor 254 
 
 Unpopularity of Rev. Avery Hall. 96, 97 
 
 Unselfish exaiuple 341 
 
 Unusual mortality 272, 586 
 
 Upper mill 476, 477 
 
 Upper parish 101 
 
 Upper sawmill 464, 466 
 
 Valley Forge 52, 68 
 
 Valley of Jehoshaphat 563 
 
 Value of library 180, 181, 182 
 
 Value of lyceums 184 
 
 Value of manufactures 502 
 
 Vengeance for Indian massacre 26 
 
 Vermont 136 
 
 Verses 576 
 
 Verses in memory of John Richards. 24 
 
 Verses on Parson Main 580 
 
 Vestry built 267, 285 
 
 Vestry finished 249, 253 
 
 Veto 174 
 
 Village growth 464 
 
 Village in 1812 134 
 
 Village in 1820 465 
 
 Village schoolhouse 465 
 
 Violence of liquor dealers 307, 316 
 
 Virginia Historical Society 349 
 
 Viscount Harrington 34 
 
 Volunteer Infantry ■. . . .434 
 
 Volunteers 18, 56, 57, 66, 69, 72, 73 
 
 194, 195, 197, 198, 199. 
 
 Votes for Congress 523 
 
 Votes for governor 524 
 
 Votes for president 518 
 
 Votes against slavery extension 544 
 
 Vox Populi 192, 400 
 
 Wages 101 
 
 Wages of teachers 166 
 
 Wakefield-street schoolhouse 166 
 
 Walker's bridge 307 
 
650 
 
 Wallace, E. G. & E 434 
 
 "Wallace's shoe factory 171, 475 
 
 Wallace's tanneries 475 
 
 Walnut-grove church 281 
 
 War appropriation 197 
 
 War begun 193 
 
 War currency 395 
 
 War Democrats 206 
 
 Ward, Roberts & Co 153 
 
 War ended 208 
 
 War loans 195 
 
 Warning out poor . . , 547 
 
 War of 1812 148, 326 
 
 War of Independence 100 
 
 Warren Academy 429 
 
 Warren's express 436 
 
 War rumors 19-4 
 
 War sermon 57 
 
 War with England 148 
 
 War with Mexico 149 
 
 Washington Benevolent Society 154 
 
 Washington eulogized 74 
 
 Washington hall 275, 276 
 
 M^ashingtonians 305 to 308 
 
 Washington mob 391 
 
 Washington University 176 
 
 Watering the jury 127 
 
 Water power 476. 502 
 
 Water supply • 550, 541 
 
 Water works 541 
 
 Watt's Hymns 570 
 
 Wayside 427 
 
 W. C. T. U 184, 191, 319 
 
 Weaving 137 
 
 Webster's Spelling Book 159 
 
 Webster's Third Part 159, 164 
 
 Wecohamet Lodge 334 
 
 Weldeu railroad 219 
 
 Wens and cancers 440 
 
 Weutworth Block 191, 192, 469 
 
 Wentworth farm 431 
 
 Wentworth garrison 21 
 
 Wentworth Hall 284 
 
 AVentworth House 494 
 
 Wentworth street 166 
 
 Wentworth Tavern 485 
 
 Wesleyan Academy 170 
 
 Wesleyan chapel 264, 572 
 
 Wesleyan University 243, 438 
 
 Western Islands 226 
 
 West Indies 349 
 
 Westminster Confession 80 
 
 West Point Academy 458 
 
 Whig celebration 546 
 
 Whig party 332, 362 
 
 Whigs and Tories 62 
 
 "Whigs 388, 389 
 
 " Whipping the cat " 137 
 
 " Whipping the goose " 137 
 
 "Whitehall swamp 23, 564 
 
 « 
 
 Whitehouse's New England Bards. . .366 
 
 AA'hite Mountains 135, 373 
 
 Whitney Blanket Mills 477 
 
 Whittaker's Medical School 347 
 
 Wide Awake 427 
 
 Widows' fund 378 
 
 Wilbraham Academy 438 
 
 Wild animals 11, 12 
 
 Williams College 461 
 
 Will of Mr. Main 84 
 
 Willow brook 10 
 
 Wingate's lane 154 
 
 Wingate's Tavern 154i 
 
 Winnipiseogee 15, 30, 13' 
 
 Winter Hill 56, 11' 
 
 Winter evenings 138i 
 
 Wisconsin State University 438' 
 
 Witch stories 110, 111 
 
 Witticisms 97, 109 
 
 AYolfeborough Academy . .171, 333, 398 
 
 Wolfe Tavern 467, 485, 546, 560 
 
 Wolf's i-tore 469 
 
 Wolf traps 127 
 
 Wolves 127 
 
 Woman's rights 566 
 
 Woman suffrage 416 
 
 Woman's work 199, 208 
 
 Woman's work in early times 136 
 
 Women of Rochester 198, 199 
 
 Wonolanset 15 
 
 Woodbine Lodge 558 
 
 AVoodbridge's Geography 162 
 
 Wooden clocks 133 
 
 Woodman House 489 
 
 Wool carding 360' 
 
 Woolen factories 477 
 
 Woolen goods 506 
 
 Woolen manufacture 476, 502, 512 
 
 AVoolen mills 512, 514 
 
 Wool washing 117 
 
 Worcester & Gaf ney 457 
 
 Worcester & Greenfield 473, 495 
 
 Worcester & Nashua Railroad 493 
 
 AVorkman's Protest 1;:'6 
 
 World's fair 478 
 
 Wounded soldiers 198 
 
 AVreck of sorrow 445 
 
 Yale College 97, 247, 248, 453, 458 
 
 Yankee pluck 349 
 
 Yankee wit 396 
 
 Y'eaton & Co 497, 500 
 
 Y''oking swine 541, 542 
 
 l^ork & Cumberland Railroad 492 
 
 I'ork County Bar 452, 453, 455 
 
 Y'ork County, Me 352 
 
 York Hospital 218 
 
 Zeal of aged woman 197 
 
 Zeal of new sects , 108 
 
 4 
 
 I 
 
 *l 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF TOWNS 
 
 Adams Corner. 23, i6i, 165, 
 
 378. 
 
 Addison, Me 
 
 Alexandria 
 
 Alexandria, Va 219, 
 
 Alfred, Me 453, 
 
 Alton. .318, 402, 407, 436, 441, 
 
 499,613,615,618,619, 621, 
 
 Alton Bay 371, 
 
 Amesbury, Mass 
 
 Amesbury Mills, Mass. . . . 
 Andersonville, Ga — 219: 
 
 229, 232, 233, 435. 
 Andover. Mass 121, 246, 
 
 345, 623. 
 
 Annapolis, Md 218, 
 
 Antietam, Md 217, 225, 
 
 '231, 434. 
 
 Antrim 
 
 Arlington, Va 219, 222, 
 
 Asliburnliam, Mass 
 
 Ashby, Mass 
 
 Ashland, Mass 290, 
 
 Ashtabula, Ohio 
 
 Athens, Me 
 
 Auburn, Mass 
 
 Augusta, Me 272, 
 
 563 
 443 
 231 
 
 492 
 457 
 
 490 
 449 
 .422 
 225, 
 
 Bacon Hill, N.Y. 255 
 
 Baltimore, Md 220, 305 
 
 Bamberg, Germany. 228 
 
 Bangor, Me 172, 380, 583 
 
 Barnstead . . . .134, .337, 345, 408, 
 437, 446, 447, 454, 467, 598, 609 
 611. 617. 
 
 Barnstead, C. E 233 
 
 Barre, Mass 405 
 
 Barrington . .9, .31, 34, 36, 37, 85 
 99, 1.34, 150, 173, 218, 247, 249 
 261, 26S, 343, 344, 372, 443, 448 
 451, 497, 519, 577, 579, 586 to 
 592, .595, 596, 598, 599, 600, 604 
 607 to 612, 614 to G21. 
 
 Baton Rouge, La 225 
 
 Bath 247 
 
 Beaufort, S.C. 229 
 
 Bedford 448 
 
 Belfast, Me 217 
 
 Belle Isle 219, 228, 2.33 
 
 Belle Isle, N.Y 2.54 
 
 Belmont 444 
 
 Benicia, Cal 406 
 
 Bennington, Vt — 24, 67 
 
 Berwick, Me.. . .9, 85, 90, 97, 99 
 100, 133, 264, 274, 27.5, 331, 429 
 474, 588, 595, 606, 608 to 611 
 613, 015, 617. 619. 
 
 Beverly, Mass 450 
 
 Biddeford, Me. .88, 252, 433, 615 
 
 Big Stone Gap, Va 460 
 
 Blaisdell's Coi-ner 282, 562 
 
 Bluehill, Me 254 
 
 Boscawen 332 
 
 Boston, Mass. .11, 55, 56, 59, 119 
 121, 122, 174, 176, 186, 187, 190 
 226, 251, 252, 287, 294, 310, 322 
 323, 328, 331, 333, 335, 350, 351 
 358, 361, 364, 371, 374, 378, 380 
 382, 383, 403, 404, 405, 432, 440 
 444, 445, 446. 448, 449, 461, 478 
 .503, 511, .513, 578, 585, 620, 623 
 
 Bradford 437 
 
 Bradford, Mass 329 
 
 Bradford, Vt 267, 401 
 
 Brattleborough, Vt 230 
 
 Brazos-Santiago, Tex 220 
 
 Brentwood 459 
 
 Brewerton, N.Y 273 
 
 BrimfieUl, Mass 263 
 
 Bristol 328 
 
 Bristol, Me 448 
 
 Brookfield 618, 621 
 
 Brookfield, Mass 453 
 
 Brookline 448 
 
 Brookline, Mass 3.58, 438 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y....121, 122, 172 
 355, 448, 456, 475, 583. 
 
 Brownfleld, Me 480 
 
 Brownsville, Tex 224 
 
 Brunswick, Me 380 
 
 Bucksport, Me. . . 176, 334, 335 
 
 Bull Run, Va 217, 219 
 
 Burlington, Iowa 398, 623 
 
 Burlington, Kan 247 
 
 Burlington, Vt 447 
 
 Buxton, i\Ie 420,611 
 
 Cabot, Vt ..254 
 
 Cambridge, Mass.. ..52, 63, 119 
 
 2.52, 327, 335, 354, 445, 451, 513 
 
 Camden, Va 437 
 
 Camp Nelson, Ky..217, 219, 2,33 
 
 Campton 245, 246 
 
 Canandaigua, N. Y 175, 380 
 
 Candia 437 
 
 Canterbury 266, 445 
 
 Canton, China 450 
 
 Carrollton, La 217, 218 
 
 Castine, Me 249, 2.50 
 
 Castleton, Vt 328 
 
 Cavendish, Vt 267 
 
 Center Harbor. . . 135, 4.52, 477 
 Charleston, S. C . . .193, 226, 232 
 
 435. 
 
 Charlestown, Mass 438 
 
 Charlotte, Vt 436 
 
 Charlottesville, Va 500 
 
 Chelmsford, Mass '. . - . 357 
 
 Chelsea, Mass 213, 255 
 
 Chester 34,36,274 
 
 Chicago, 111.. . .269, 3.51, 365, 427 
 
 447, 457, 623. 
 
 Chichester 266, 276 
 
 Cincinnati, Ohio 447, 623 
 
 City Point, Va 219, 231, 232 
 
 Claremont. 268,269,387 
 
 Cliftondale, Mass 276 
 
 Cloverdale, Cal 277 
 
 Cold Harbor, Va...226, 230, 231 
 
 Colebrook 387 
 
 Columbia, Conn 450 
 
 Columbia Furnace, Va.-.. 226 
 
 Columbus, Ohio 287 
 
 Concord. . .152, 199, 218, 220, 228 
 
 262, 267, 328, 329, 339, 345, 387 
 
 409, 411, 434, 435, 443, 444, 453 
 
 457, 474, 493, 529, 555. 
 
 Concord, Mass 420, 437 
 
 Constantinople 173,324 
 
 Conway. . .135, 219, 345, 346, 371 
 
 452, 457, 488, 560, 609. 
 
 Conway, Mass 362 
 
 Copenhagen, N. Y 489 
 
 Corinth, Vt 401, 402 
 
 Cornish, Me 402, 438 
 
 Covington, Kv 434 
 
 Craf tsbury, Vt 439 
 
 Crown Point 343 
 
 Crown Point, N. Y 118 
 
 Danville, Va 435, 437 
 
 Deansville, N. Y 439 
 
 Decatur, 111 235 
 
 Dedhani, Mass 99, 105 
 
 Deep Run, Va 222 
 
 Deerfleld 243, 290, 387, 511 
 
 Deering, Me... 449 
 
 Denver, Colo 418, 4.57 
 
 Derry 176, 368 
 
 Dorchester, Mass 263 
 
 Dover. 9, 14, 25, 31, 36, 37, 43, 44 
 60, 84. 99, 100, 105, 117, 129 
 134, 135, 130, 141, 1.50, 151, 164 
 172, 173, 177, 179, 185, 186. 187 
 197, 216, 218, 229, 233, 236, 245 
 247, 249, 2.52, 2,55, 258, 261, 263 
 264, 260, 270, 273, 276. 285, 288 
 289, 290, 291, 300, 304, 305, 306 
 310.311,312,314,317,331.334 
 344, 345, 347, 351, 357, 3,59, 364 
 367, 368, 369, 371, 372, 378, 380 
 381, 382, 384, 386, 388, 389, 394 
 402 TO 405, 413, 419, 421 to 
 424, 427, 428, 437, 438 441 to 
 445, 447, 450, 451 to 454, 456 
 4.57, 476, 480, 488. 490, 491, 500 
 .507, 551, ,5.52, 577, 590, ,591, 594 
 601, 605 to 620. 
 
 Drury's Bluff, Va 228, 233 
 
 Dublin, Ireland 266 
 
 Dubuque, Iowa 622 
 
 Dudley, Mass 405 
 
 Durham. 36, 8.5, 100, 118, 134, 172 
 245, 247, 251. 252, 2.53, 2.55, 329 
 330, 364, 397, 432, 440, 450. .589 
 604, 605, 611, 615, 018, 619. 
 
652 
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OF TOWNS. 
 
 East Hardwick, Vt 439 
 
 East Rocliester. .10, 4S, 126, 164 
 210, 219, 268, 274, 275, 277, 2S1 
 282, 283, 289, SIS, 361, 3C2, 365 
 371. 378, 443, 447, 449, 467, 472 
 506; 510, 516, 550, 558, 562. 
 
 East Town 597 
 
 Eaton 135, 231, 612 
 
 Efflngliam 97, 213, 214, 445 
 
 Eliot, Me 88,242 
 
 Elmii-a, N. Y 69, 219 
 
 Bpping 379,387, 511 
 
 Exeter . . . .15, .55, 56, 58, 116, 119 
 146, 174, 175, 251, 332, 334, 348 
 350, 354, 379, 381, 386, 406, 451 
 
 453, 457, 458, 461, 479, 527, 529 
 583, 614. 
 
 Fairfax, Va 404 
 
 Fairfax, Vt 439 
 
 Fall River, INIass 40G, 421 
 
 Falmouth, Me 336 
 
 Farmington..9, 48, 104, 126, 129 
 135, 151, 152, 153, 173, 180, 212 
 215, 217, 218, 245, 251, 253, 255 
 257, 268, 303, 313, 322, 327, 344 
 
 397, 398, 402, 428, 444, 445, 456 
 459, 473, 474, 492, 495, 500, 501 
 511, 519, 549, 551, 553, 558, 565 
 605, 613, 614, 615, 617 to 621. 
 
 Fayette, Me 453 
 
 Fitchburg, 3Iass 280 
 
 Florence, S. C 219, 232, 435 
 
 Franklin 332,446 
 
 Fredericksburg, Va . . .218, 219 
 221, 223, 231, 232, 434, 442. 
 
 Freedom 457 
 
 Friendship, Me 263 
 
 Fryeburg, Me 345, 346 
 
 Galveston, Tex 222 
 
 Gardiner, Me 272 
 
 Georgetown, Ky 455 
 
 Gettysburg, Penn.230, 231, 232 
 
 Gilford 354, 402 
 
 Gilmanton ... .134, 135, 324, 337 
 .387, 407, 444, 445, 454, 457. 
 
 Gilsum 218 
 
 Globe Village, Mass 255 
 
 Goffstown 246, 249 
 
 Gonic....l0, 43, 136, 158, 163, 185 
 186, 190, 192, 217, 219, 220, 222 
 257, 285, 305, 308, 318, 319, 343 
 355 to 359, 361, 362, 364, 366 
 370, 400, 431, 432, 445, 446, 447 
 449, 467, 472, 495, 515, 551, 556 
 577. 
 
 Gordonsville, Va 435 
 
 Gorham, Me 492 
 
 Great Falls. .10, 11, 177, 185, 186 
 233, 247, 249, 253, 255, 276, 281 
 291, 307, 309, 315, 350, 371, 397 
 
 398, 422, 444, 449, 451, 466, 469 
 470, 476, 477, 487, 490, 401, 492 
 510, 5,'i5. 
 
 Greenland 85 
 
 Halifax, N. S 450 
 
 Hallowell, Me 3.32 
 
 Hampden, Me 436 
 
 Hampton.. 120, 249, 276, 333, 450 
 
 Hampton Falls 387 
 
 Hampton, Va 228 
 
 Hanover . .176, 245, 246, 332, 407 
 
 454, 460. 
 
 Hanover, Conn 247 
 
 Harper's Ferry, Va 232 
 
 Hartford, Conn. . . .172, 377, 450 
 Harvard, Mass 252 
 
 Haverhill 84,334 
 
 Haverhill, Mass. . . .33, 121, 122 
 
 276, 335, 3.57, 408, 440, 443, 617 
 
 Hillsborough Bridge. .255, 460 
 
 Hilton Head, S. C 219 
 
 Hiram, Me 437,449 
 
 Hoboken. N. Y 4.'55 
 
 Hopkiuton .... 175, 269, 270, 345 
 
 Hopkinton, Mass 105 
 
 Hubbardton, Vt 67 
 
 Indianapolis, Ind 436 
 
 Ipswich, Mass 121, 247 
 
 Jackson, Miss 435 
 
 Jaflrey 440, 441 
 
 James Island, S. C 226, 233 
 
 Jefferson, Wise 447 
 
 •Jerry's Point 58 
 
 Jersey City, X. J 455 
 
 Jonesport, Me 563 
 
 Kansas City, Mo 355 
 
 Keene 417, 551 
 
 Kenuebunkport, Me 243 
 
 Killingly, Conn 255 
 
 Kingston 288, 451 
 
 Kingston, Mass 3.55 
 
 Kinsington 606 
 
 Kittery, Me.. 58, 96, 133, 336, 403 
 429, 607, 60S. 
 
 Knoxville, Kv 435 
 
 Knoxville, Md 217 
 
 Laconia 253, 332, 422 
 
 Lake Village 402 
 
 Lancaster 252, 613 
 
 Lawrence, Mass... 185, 192, 194 
 
 228, 269, 273, 27.5, 367, 432, 433 
 
 583. 
 
 Lee 134,402 
 
 Lempster 230 
 
 Lewiston, Me 447 
 
 Lebanon, Me... 9, 27, 83, 85, 177 
 
 190, 217, 247, 249, 251, 273, 274 
 
 282, 452, 455, 599, 610, 613, 616 
 
 to 619. 
 
 Lexington, Ky 434 
 
 Lexington, Mass... 55, 116, 158 
 
 194, 323, 513, 529. 
 
 Limington, Me 429 
 
 Londonderry 33, 34, 37, 450 
 
 527, 560. 
 
 Londonderry, Ireland 367 
 
 London, England 368 
 
 Los Angeles, Cal 192,446 
 
 Los Vegas, N. M 446 
 
 Louisburg 52, 56, 118 
 
 Lowell, Mass. .192, 217, 220, 354 
 
 357, 364, 380, 381, 394, 400, 420 
 444, 448, 477, 585. 
 
 Lowthorpe, England 421 
 
 Lynchburg, Va 435 
 
 Lynn, Mass. ..174, 3.55, 444, 476 
 
 583. 
 Lynnfleld, Mass 450 
 
 Machias, Me 451 
 
 Macon, Ga 432,500 
 
 Madburv. . .71, 213, 330, 500, 577 
 
 607, oil, 613, 615. 
 
 Madison 449 
 
 Maiden, Mass 87 
 
 Manchester . . .176, 224, 228, 236 
 
 287, 288, 291, 338, 411, 447, 456 
 
 622. 
 
 Manchester, Conn 2.55 
 
 Manitowoc, Wise 173 
 
 Marblehead, Mass 28S 
 
 Jlarlborough, Mass 436 
 
 Marlow 439 
 
 Marshfleld, Mass 88 
 
 Meaderborough . . . 159, 257, 307 
 
 308, 309, 324, 507. 
 
 Medford, Mass 175, 3.S4 
 
 Melrose, Mass 444 
 
 Memphis, Tenn 233 
 
 Meredith 285, 387 
 
 Meredith Bridge. .332, 422, 452 
 
 Merirten, Conn 97 
 
 Methuen, Mass.... 121, 122, 192 
 
 276, 400, 441. 
 
 Methuen Falls, Mass 192 
 
 Middlebury, Vt 439 
 
 Middleton...54, 72, 134, 135, 223 
 
 441, 599, 609, 611, 612, 617, 620 
 
 621. 
 
 MUford 442 
 
 Milton . . .9, 48, 104, 126, 129, 135 
 
 151, 152, 174, 223, 247, 249, 265 
 
 268, 351, 364, 397, 429, 438, 454 
 
 457, 481, 500, 527, 558, 605, 614 
 
 to 620. 
 
 Milton Mills 268, 274, 452 
 
 Milton Three Ponds 551 
 
 Milwaukee, Wise 173 
 
 Minneapolis, Minn .346 
 
 Mobile, Ala 222 
 
 Montclair, N.J 583 
 
 Montgomery. Vt 439 
 
 Montpelier, Vt 438 
 
 Montreal 63 
 
 Moultonborough. ..379, 387, 597 
 Mt. McGregor, N. Y 355 
 
 Nantucket, Mass 507 
 
 Nashua. .287, 335, 405, 441 to 444 
 448, 493. 
 
 Natick, Mass 473 
 
 Needham, Mass 121 
 
 Neligh, Neb 253 
 
 New Boston 456 
 
 Newbury, iVIass 229, 331 
 
 Newburyport, Mass... 248, 431 
 
 Newcastle 65, 333, 336 
 
 New Durham. ..99, 126, 134, 223 
 
 228, 280, 281, 345, 347, 372, 407 
 
 597, 508, 607, 009, 613, 614, 618 
 New Durham Gore . . . .602, 609 
 
 610, 611. 
 Newfleld, Me.. 233, 429, 444, 617 
 
 New Hampton 452 
 
 New Haven, Conn 97,427 
 
 Newichwannoc 13, 15 
 
 Newington.36, 336, 431, 587, 588 
 
 608, 615, 620. 
 
 New Ipswich 440 
 
 Newmarket .. .251, 274, 288, 291 
 
 406, 422, 443, 450, 608, 615. 
 New Marlborough, Mass.. 455 
 New Orleans, La ..217, 218, 220 
 
 222, 227, 228, 309. 
 
 Newport 460 
 
 Newport, Me 210 
 
 Newport News, Va 434 
 
 Newport, R.I 69,437,561 
 
 Newport, Vt 256, 439 
 
 Newton City, Iowa 394 
 
 Newton, N. Y 69 
 
 New York, N. Y.63, 121, 176, 243 
 
 328, 354, 383, 386, 433, 441, 443 
 
 445, 448, 454, 455, 493, 583, 623 
 
 Nicholasville, Ky 434 
 
 Northampton, Mass 93,251 
 
 451. 
 North Berwick, Me. . . .357, 439 
 
 451, 499. 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF TOWNS. 
 
 653 
 
 North Conwav 175 
 
 Nortbflelfl 235 
 
 North Hampton 240, 245 
 
 North Strafford 191 
 
 North wood 134, 242, 615 
 
 Norway. Me 365 
 
 Norway Phiins 323 
 
 NottinyrhaiB 34,36,437 
 
 Nutfield 33 
 
 Oakland, Cal 433 
 
 Old Orchard, Me 277 
 
 Ossapee Gore 610 
 
 Ossipee 27, 135, 387, 436. 453, 455 
 4.56, 487, 497, 498, 611. 
 
 Paducah, Ky 232 
 
 Paris 328 
 
 Parsonsfleld, Me.. 352, 354, 395 
 402, 447, 609. 
 
 Paugus 17 
 
 Peabodv, Mass 287 
 
 Peacham, Vt 477, .507, 616 
 
 Peavevville, Me 283 
 
 Peekskill, N. y 65 
 
 Pelham 2.50 
 
 Pembroke ' 246 
 
 Penuacook 29 
 
 Pepperell, Mass 441 
 
 Peru, Mass 250 
 
 Petersburg, Va. - . 218, 224, 226 
 
 229, 4.55. 
 Philadelphia, Peiui . . .218, 255 
 365, 422, 442, 446, 529. 
 
 Phillipsburgh 614 
 
 Pittsburg, Penu 405 
 
 rittstield 219, 285, 402 
 
 Pittsfleld, 111 253 
 
 Plymouth 135, 288, 443, 452 
 
 Plymouth, Mass 15 
 
 Pocotalgo, S. C 224 
 
 Pomfret, Conn 449 
 
 Port Byron, N. Y 450 
 
 Port Hudson, La.. 201, 217, 218 
 
 224, 225, 227, 228, 231, 233, 433 
 
 Portland, Me. .236, 438, 493, 614 
 
 Portsmouth 28, 30, 36, 37, 53, 57 
 
 58, 90, 93, 117, 121, 129, 133 
 
 135, 136, 147, 150, 153, 155, 171 
 
 217, 219 221, 222, 228, 235, 242 
 
 247, 287, 298, 300, 322. 326, 333 
 
 334, 336, 337, 369, 382, 386, 400 
 
 402, 413, 428, 429, 431, 440, 451 
 
 460, 467, 485, 494, 507, 527, .541 
 
 551, .5.57, 570, 577, 579, 5S3, 589 
 
 594, 600, 618, 619, 620. 
 
 Portsmouth Grove, E. I. ..223 
 
 Poughkeepsic, N. Y 439 
 
 Providence, R. L. .251, 258, 406 
 
 437, 459, .508, 621. 
 Putnam, Conn ... .449 
 
 Quebec 32,56,63, 118 
 
 Quincy, Mass. 511 
 
 Raleigh, N. C 233, 349 
 
 Reading, Mass 191,439 
 
 Richmond, Me 285 
 
 Richmond, Va.l73, 221, 222, 2.30 
 348. 
 
 Rockford, HI 176, 338 
 
 Roekport, Mass 471 
 
 Rollinsford .500 
 
 Roxbury, Me 334 
 
 Royalton, Vt 447 
 
 Rumford, Me 448 
 
 Russellville, Ky 4.55 
 
 Rye 85,014 
 
 Saccarappa, Me ... 447, 476, 491 
 
 492. 
 
 Saco, Me 283, 352, 402, 620 
 
 Salem 273 
 
 Salem, Mass. . .326, 401, 421, 444 
 
 450, 489. 
 
 Salem, N. Y .577 
 
 Salisbury 332,401 
 
 Salisbury, N. C 222, 225 
 
 Salisbury Plain, Mass 401 
 
 Salmon Falls ... .14, 17, 252, 306 
 
 Sanbomton.. . .173, 210, 331, 332 
 
 .557. 
 Sandwich .135, 378, 429, 445, 4.52 
 
 455. 
 Sanford, Me. . .431, 437, 453, 4.55 
 San Francisco, Cal ... . 406, 414 
 
 433. 
 
 Santa Rita, Cal 447 
 
 Saratoga 52, 66, 67, 68 
 
 Saundersvil'e, Mass 254 
 
 Schenectady, N. Y 220, 338 
 
 Seabrook 275 
 
 Shapleigh, Me. 4.52, 455, 610, 611 
 
 613, 615, 617, 620. 
 
 Sioux City, Iowa 622 
 
 Skowhegan, Me 436 
 
 Slatersville, R. 1 441 
 
 Somers worth. . .9, 85, 90, 98, 99 
 
 133, 1.50, 174, 265, 334, 547, 590 
 
 591, .594, 595, 607 to 612, 615 
 
 to 620. 
 South Berwick, Me. 15, 174, 215 
 
 240, 245, 247, 251. 252, 253, 281 
 
 351, 402, 440. 
 
 South Coventry, Conn 255 
 
 South Hadley, Mass 176 
 
 South Mountain, Md 221 
 
 South Newmarket 266, 287, 288 
 Spottsylvania, Va.231, 232, 435 
 
 Springfield, 111 235 
 
 Springfield, La 227 
 
 Springfield, Mass 220, .563 
 
 Springvale, Me 476, 511 
 
 Spruce Creek, Me 429 
 
 Squamanagonic.l4, 43, 495, 501 
 
 Squamscott Falls 15 
 
 Steep Falls, Me 284 
 
 St. Johns 64 
 
 St. Johnsbury, Vt 250 
 
 St. Louis, Mo. .176, 350, 398, 446 
 
 459, 460. 
 
 Stoneham, Mass 439 
 
 St. Paul, Minn 425 
 
 St. Peter, Minn 424, 425 
 
 Strafford 9, 150, 173, 177, 268, 343 
 
 344, 355, 420, 437, 443, 449, 456 
 
 504. 
 
 Strafford Ridge 344 
 
 Stratham 85, 349, 350 
 
 Suncook , 274 
 
 Sweden, Me 619 
 
 Syracuse, N. Y 219 
 
 Tam worth 135, 223, 449, 455 
 
 Thornton 446 
 
 Three Ponds 155 
 
 Ticonderoga. . .24, 64,'65, 66, 67 
 
 Tiltoii 268 
 
 Topeka, Kan 270 
 
 Topsham, Me 404 
 
 Topsham, Vt 461 
 
 To wow, Me.. . .82, 83, 85, 592 to 
 
 595. 
 
 Trenton, N.J 52 
 
 Tuftonborough . . . .212, 436, 612 
 
 619, 620. 
 Tunbridge, Vt 344 
 
 Union 268,331 
 
 Uxbridge, Mass 251 
 
 Vicksburg, Miss.. .219, 229, 233 
 
 434, 435. 
 
 Wakefield. .97, 111, 126, 134, 135 
 219, 242, 352, 437, 443, 444, 451 
 481, 600, 606, 608, 609 to 615 
 617 to 620. 
 
 Wallingford, Conn 90 
 
 Warner 332 
 
 Warren, Mass 443 
 
 Washington 439, 609 
 
 Washington, D. C..174, 194, 217 
 219, 221, 222, 223, 225, 229, 273 
 326, 381, 382, 404, 410, 413, 434 
 
 435, 4.54, 456, 559. 
 
 Watertown 126 
 
 Waterville, Me 449 
 
 Weare 437 
 
 Weirs 236 
 
 Wells, Me 85, 96, 249, 402 
 
 Wenham, Mass 227,487 
 
 West Lebanon, Me 189 
 
 Westminster, Mass 448 
 
 West Newton, Mass 331 
 
 West Point 70 
 
 Wetmore, N. D 466 
 
 Weymouth, Mass 448 
 
 Wheatland, Va 434 
 
 Whitehall, N. Y 66 
 
 White Ranch, Tex 220 
 
 White Sulphur Springs, Va. 
 
 224, 434. 
 
 Wilderness, Va 435 
 
 Williamsburg, Va 232 
 
 Wilmington, N. C 435 
 
 Woburn, Mass 429 
 
 Wolfeborough .54, 126, 134, 135 
 
 185, 364, 367, 441, 443, 447, 608 
 
 617, 618, 619. 
 
 Woodstock, Me 475 
 
 AVoodstOCk, R. 1 448 
 
 Woodstock, Vt 407, 446 
 
 Worcester, Mass 175 
 
 Yankton, Dak 623 
 
 York, Me. . . .83, 96, 429, 586, 589 
 Yorkto wn, Va 52, 70 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 norc thai! once on a page. The separation of persons bearing the 
 
 is probably somewhat 
 
 Abbot, Dr 327 
 
 Abbot, Eev. George J 161 
 
 2S0, 281. 
 
 Abbott, A. L 23S 
 
 Abbott, Benn 462 
 
 Abbott, Charles M 529 
 
 Abbott, Daniel J 409 
 
 Abbott, Gen 622 
 
 Abbott, J.J 319, 461, 462 
 
 Abbott," John 461 
 
 Abbott, Mrs. J.J 461, 462 
 
 Abbott, Sarah — 455 
 
 Abbott, William P 226 
 
 Adams, Capt.Winborn.... 56 
 
 Adams, George J — 562 
 
 Adams, Isaac 378 
 
 Adams, James 533, 548 
 
 Adams, James 183 
 
 Adams, John 202, 518 
 
 Adams, John Quincv.-372, 384 
 
 519. 
 
 Adams, Joseph 533 
 
 Adams, Lieut. James 146 
 
 Adams, Kev. John F 263 
 
 Adams, Rev. John R 247 
 
 Adams, Rev. Joseph — 76, 77 
 
 Adams, Sam'l 183 
 
 Adams, Seth 378 
 
 Adams, \Y.U 515 
 
 Adisoue, John 534 
 
 Agnew, J.R 515 
 
 Akermai), Benjamin M 171 
 
 Akerman, Mr.s. B 322 
 
 Akermau, Mrs. J 322 
 
 Alden, Hannah.. 421 
 
 Aldeu, John 421 
 
 Alden, Priscilla 421 
 
 Alden, Thomas 40 
 
 Aldrich, Levi L 209 
 
 Alen, Will 78 
 
 Allard, Henry 61 
 
 Allard, Job 565 
 
 Allen, Ama.sa 282 
 
 Allen, Daniel 31 
 
 Allen, Ebenezer 71 
 
 Allen. Elizabeth A 281 
 
 Allen, Jacob 31 
 
 Allen, James 62 
 
 Allen, John. .68, 77, 531, 538, 541 
 
 542. 
 
 Allen, John 534 
 
 Alien, Joshua.. 102, 532, 534, .560 
 Allen, Levi W 281, 314, 466 
 
 469, 473. 
 
 Allen, Kev.B. R 2.51 
 
 Allen, Eev. Henry E 274 
 
 Allen, Sam'l 39, 61, 66, 71 
 
 Allen, Samuel 240, 243, 256, .585 
 
 Allen, Sarah A 281 
 
 Allen, William. . . .32, 48, 54, 61 
 90, 99, 532, 533, 546. 
 
 Allen, Wm. H 169 
 
 Alley, Dan'l 32, 56, 66, 70 
 
 Alley, Ephraim 56, 71 
 
 Alley, Otis 71 
 
 Allison, George 555 
 
 Alon, John 78 
 
 Ambler, John 39 
 
 Ambrose, Albert G 457 
 
 Ambrose, Stephen 452 
 
 Ambrose, Susan 452 
 
 Amsden, Charles H 526 
 
 Anderson, Celia J 438 
 
 Anderson, Chas 209 
 
 Anderson, Ethel D 439 
 
 Anderson, James 439 
 
 Anderson, Gen 194 
 
 Anderson, Gertrude L 439 
 
 Anderson, Laura A 439 
 
 Anderson, Mr 169 
 
 Anderson, Mrs. S. H 439 
 
 Anderson, Rev. G 286 
 
 Anderson, Samuel H 439 
 
 Andrew, John A 383 
 
 Andrews, E 364 
 
 Anthoine, I. G 448 
 
 Anthony, Joseph 477 
 
 Armstrong, Henry J 209 
 
 Arnold, Benedict 63 
 
 Arthur, C. R 436 
 
 Asbury, Bishop 436 
 
 Ashworth, John 515 
 
 Aston, John 39 
 
 Atherton, Charles G 393 
 
 Atkinson, George 524 
 
 Atwell, Charlotte 121 
 
 Atwood, John .525 
 
 Austin, David 196, 209 
 
 Austin, Moses 62 
 
 Austin, Nicholas 54 
 
 Avery, Daniel Plumer 209 
 
 Avery, Frank L 209, 237 
 
 Averj-, John 210 
 
 Avery, John M 232 
 
 Avery, Stephen D 198, 210 
 
 Averj', Samuel A 210 
 
 Avery, Walter M 210 
 
 Ayer, Elizabeth G 454 
 
 Ayer, Rev. Aaron 279 
 
 Babb, John W 210 
 
 Babb, Stephen E 210 
 
 Babb, William H 534 
 
 Bachelder, Mary 441 
 
 Badger, Joseph, Jr 63, 518 
 
 Badger, Judith 454 
 
 Badger, William 329, 525 
 
 Baker, Jacob H 210 
 
 Baker, Nathaniel B 525 
 
 Baker, Rev. Charles. . .265, 574 
 Baker, Rev. Osmon C..161, 267 
 268. 
 
 Baker, Squire 567 
 
 Ballard, Capt. W. H 621 
 
 Ballard, Joseph 1S3 
 
 Bamford, Joseph 210 
 
 Bancroft, George 323 
 
 Bancroft, Mrs. Nathaniel .. 450 
 Bancroft, Mrs. Thomas. ...450 
 
 Bancroft, Nathaniel 450 
 
 Bancroft, Thomas 179, 450 
 
 Banister, Rev. Warren.... 260 
 261, 573. 
 
 Banks, Gen. N. P 227, 433 
 
 Bantam, John 40 
 
 Barker, Anna S 351, 583 
 
 Barker, Benjamin 349 
 
 Barker, Benjamin, Jr 349 
 
 Barker, Caroline M 351, 583 
 
 Barker, Charles A 351 
 
 Barker, David. 131, 162, 349, 464 
 476, 477, 519, 528, 532, 539, 585 
 
 Barker, David, Jr 103, 170 
 
 171, 173, 177. 183, 244, 327, 350 
 476, 519, 528, 535. 
 
 Barker, David , 3d 350 
 
 Barker, Deac. Benj . . . .188, 196 
 241, 248, 249, 253, 256, 350, 476 
 537. 
 
 Barker, Debby 349 
 
 Barker, Deborah 349 
 
 Barker, Emily M 351 
 
 Barker, Eliza M 351 
 
 Barker, George. . . .171, 351, 539 
 
 Barkei', George F 351 
 
 Barker, George W 491, 351 
 
 Barker, Hiram 154 
 
 Barker, .John 532 
 
 Barker, John M 351 
 
 Barker, Jonas M 351 
 
 Barker, Joy W 515 
 
 Barker, Louise, A 350 
 
 Barker, Maria 351 
 
 Barker, Mary 350 
 
 Barker, Mrs. Benjamin ... .351 
 
 Barker, Mrs. David 327 
 
 Barker, Mrs. David, Jr 349 
 
 350, < 
 
656 
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 Barker, Mrs. George 351 
 
 Barker, Phebe 349 
 
 Barker, Thomas S 351 
 
 Barker, William ..134, 170, 349 
 494, 528, 539. 
 
 Barker, William 351 
 
 Barnard, Edward 538 
 
 Barnard, George E 583 
 
 Barnes, Benjamin, Jr 187 
 
 Barnum, Rev. S. H 255 
 
 Barrows, Lorenzo D 526 
 
 Bartlett, Ichabod..333, 382, 518 
 
 525. 
 
 Bartlett, James 452 
 
 Bartlett, Josiali 524 
 
 Bartlett, Rev. W. C 276 
 
 Bartlett. Susan 571 
 
 Bartlett, Thomas 161 
 
 Bass, Rev. E. C....234, 255, 272 
 
 Batchelder, .James 3a3 
 
 Bates, Rev. Lewis 261, 573 
 
 Batty, Michael 210 
 
 Baxter, Elizabeth 408 
 
 Bean, David S 210 
 
 Bean, Ellen 281 
 
 Bean, F. R 515 
 
 Bean, George .J 210 
 
 Bean, Henry F 210 
 
 Bean, Joel 161 
 
 Bean, Levi 210 
 
 Bean, Lucy 210 
 
 Bean, Rev. Samuel 249 
 
 Bean, William M 210 
 
 Beargiu, John 61 
 
 Beard, Lt. Joseph 38,50 
 
 Beary, Stephen 78 
 
 Beauregard, Gen 194 
 
 Bedell, John 526 
 
 Beecher, John 210, 237, 555 
 
 Beech, Moses S 563 
 
 Beede, Eli 520 
 
 Beedle, William 364 
 
 Belcher, J 78 
 
 Belknap, Rev. Jeremiah .. .99 
 
 100. 
 
 Bell, 311 
 
 iSell, Capt. F. M 66 
 
 Bell, Charles H 365, 526 
 
 Bell, Charles U 583 
 
 Bell, Eliza U 583 
 
 Bell, James 431,525 
 
 Bell, John 520 
 
 Bell, .lohn 525 
 
 Bellows, Benjamin 518 
 
 Bell, Polly 179 
 
 Bell, Samuel 524 
 
 Bemis, Dr 373 
 
 Bennett, George A 238 
 
 Bennett, Rev. Leonard — 266 
 
 575. 
 
 Bennett, Robert 210 
 
 Benwick, Abraham 18 
 
 Bennick, Lt. Abram 40 
 
 Bergin, John 56, 65 
 
 Berrey, Joseph 78 
 
 Berry, A. F 2.3S 
 
 Berry, Dr. John M 442 
 
 Berry, Frank H.. . .190, 191, 192 
 Berry, George G.. .190, 191, 192 
 
 Berry, James .59 
 
 Berry, Joseph 59 
 
 Berry. John M 161 
 
 Berry, J. W 471 
 
 Berry, Nathaniel S. . . .525, 526 
 
 Berry, N. L .538 
 
 Berry, Rev. Eben C 274 
 
 Berry, Stephen 61, 65, 77 to 
 
 80, 87, 120. 256, 486, 533, 542. 
 Berry, William 32 
 
 Bickford, Aaron 31 
 
 Bickford, Benjamin 38, 62 
 
 Bickford, Charles W . .230, .530 
 
 Bickford, David 210 
 
 Bickford, Eleazar 40 
 
 Bickford, Henry 499 
 
 Bickford, Huldah 82, 548 
 
 Bickford, Icliabod 31 
 
 Bickford, Ira 289 
 
 Bickford, Isaac 210 
 
 Bickford, James F 210 
 
 Bickford, Jethro 39 
 
 Bickford, John.. . .40, 48, 59, 68 
 
 77, 78, 79, 241, 530, 531, 533. 
 
 Bickford, John, Jr 77 
 
 Bickford, John, 2d 534 
 
 Bickford, John, Sen 38 
 
 Bickford, Jona 62 
 
 Bickford, Joseph 40 
 
 Bickford, Lemuel 61 
 
 Bickford, Mehetabel 210 
 
 Bickford, Mrs 278 
 
 Bickford, Mrs. Isaac 210 
 
 Bickford, Newell J 469 
 
 Bickford, Rev. C. A 285 
 
 Bickford, Richard 532 
 
 Bickford, Samuel 534 
 
 Bickford, Sarah 571 
 
 Bickford, Widow 584 
 
 Bickford, Winfleld S 210 
 
 Bigelow, Rev. Noah.. .262, 575 
 
 Billings, John F 236, 287 
 
 Birke, David, Jr 183 
 
 Birnev, James G 384, 520 
 
 Bissell, Fluvia 247 
 
 Black, Jeremiah S 520 
 
 Blackmar, Charles E..196, 211 
 
 237. 
 Blackmar, Ebenezer C.537, 558 
 
 Blackmar, George 237 
 
 Blackmar, John 526 
 
 Blackstone, William 39 
 
 Blaine, James G 520 
 
 Blaisdell, Benjamin F.210, 562 
 
 Blaisdell, Charles .562 
 
 Blaisdell, Charles C 211 
 
 Blaisdell, Daniel G 211 
 
 Blaisdell, Eliza M 210 
 
 Blaisdell, George W 562 
 
 Blaisdell, James 211 
 
 Blaisdell, James W 198 
 
 Blaisdell, John 211 
 
 Blaisdell, John W 211 
 
 Blaisdell, Joseph. .210, 520, 562 
 
 Blaisdell, Mrs. Joseph 210 
 
 Blake, Betsey B 453 
 
 Blake, Rev. C. E 279 
 
 Blake, Rev. Ebenezer. 260, 261 
 
 574. 
 
 Blake, William 535 
 
 Blasdell, Ephi'aim 179 
 
 Blasdell, William W 179 
 
 Blazo, Charles 161, 447, 529 
 
 535. 
 
 Bliss, Charles H 198,211 
 
 Bliss, Samuel F 211 
 
 Bocock, Richard 515 
 
 Bodge, Caroline 176 
 
 Bodge, James 473, 540 
 
 Bodwell, Dr 122 
 
 Boody, Sylvester O 238 
 
 Booth, 318 
 
 Boiiche, Pierre 211 
 
 Bowditch, Dr 425 
 
 Bowen, Bishop 89 
 
 Bowen, Rev 89 
 
 Bowles. Rev 287 
 
 Boyle, James L 211 
 
 Brackett, Charles R 237 
 
 Brackett, Cyrus 211, 237 
 
 Brackett, Moses D 211 
 
 Bradbury, Edwin 558 
 
 Bradbury, Jane 401 
 
 Bradford, Mrs 583 
 
 Bradford, Mrs. Russell 335 
 
 Bradford, Russell 335 
 
 Bradlee, Rev. Charles W . .272 
 
 Bradley, Adeline 477 
 
 Bradley, Apphia 345 
 
 Bradley, Bishop 291 
 
 Bradley, Charles W....167, 318 
 
 Bradley, Joshua 477 
 
 Bradley, Mrs. C. W 586 
 
 Bradley, Mrs. Joshua 477 
 
 Bradley, Rev. John 1 291 
 
 Bradley, Sophronia E 272 
 
 Bragdon, Charles 520 
 
 Brant, Joseph 70 
 
 Brayant, Walter 48 
 
 Bray, Samuel 400 
 
 Breckenridge, John C 520 
 
 Breckenridge, William J.. 193 
 
 Breed, P. W 474 
 
 Brewer, Ellen 281 ; 
 
 Brewer, Rev. Harvey. .161, 164fl i 
 
 281. ■! 
 
 Brewster, Ebenezer 5411 
 
 Brewster, John. ..61, 64, 65, 67 
 
 72, 74, 100, 532, 533, 542. 
 
 Brewster, Rosa 571 
 
 Brieuster, Lt. John 54 
 
 Bright, Jesse D 390 
 
 Brock, Elijah 520 
 
 Brock, Nicholas. . .211, -238, 529 
 
 Brock, Sarah C 586 
 
 Brock, Stephen . 238 
 
 Broderick, Johannah 457 
 
 Brodhead, .John 574 
 
 Brown, Charles 211 
 
 Brown, Charles W.153, 169, 189 
 
 256, 315, 468, 490, 493, 510, 529 
 
 558. 
 
 Brown, Enoch G 21lj 
 
 Browne, Wallace W 16 
 
 Brown, Frank S 37 
 
 Brown, G. 31 47 
 
 Browning, .John W 212 
 
 Brown, Isaac 179 
 
 Brown. James 528, i 
 
 Brown, John 17 
 
 Brown, John 
 
 Brown, Joseph E 212 
 
 Brown, Joseph F 213 
 
 Brown, Josiah 212, 437 
 
 Brown, Moses 61, 532 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Frank S 377 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Josiah 437 
 
 Brown, Rev. J. H 281 
 
 Brown, Rev. W.W 280 
 
 Brown, Robert 212 
 
 Brown, Susanna 437 
 
 Bi-own, Thomas 90 
 
 Brown. Thomas 61 
 
 Brown, Thomas .. .188, 207, 196 
 
 256, 302, 466, 492, 532, 558. 
 
 Brown, Thomas, Jr 62 
 
 Brown, Warren G 526 
 
 Bruster, Ebenezer 77 
 
 Bryant, James 31 212 
 
 Bryant, Thomas 469 
 
 Buchanan, James 520 
 
 Buck,Dr 443 
 
 Buckley, Louis 212 
 
 Bucks, John 40 
 
 Buffum, David H 11 
 
 Bunker, Daniel ... 31 
 
 Bunker, James 38 
 
 Bunker, Rev. A. W 276 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 657 
 
 Bui'ckstead, Joseph 237 
 
 Burgess, Jolmi 5i2 
 
 Bui-ke, Edmunt) 384 
 
 Burke, EdTvard 212 
 
 Burke, John 212, 237 
 
 Burleigh, Anna H 450 
 
 Burleigh, EUeu M 429 
 
 Burleigh, John 429 
 
 Burleigh, John A 478 
 
 Burleigh, Phehe 429 
 
 Burley, Mrs. Oliver P 571 
 
 Burley, Oliver P 577 
 
 Burnaui, James 38 
 
 Burnam, John 38 
 
 Burnam, Robert 38 
 
 Burnhain, Charles S 238 
 
 Burnham, Enoch 65 
 
 Burnham, Nathaniel . .167, 270 
 468, 482, 483, 530. 
 
 Burnham, R. DeWitt 470 
 
 Burnham, Rev. Benjamin. 260 
 
 Burnham, Robert 18 
 
 Burnham, W. II. Y 467, 500 
 
 Burns, Anthony 383 
 
 Burns, Benjamin F 212 
 
 Burnslde, Gen 211,435 
 
 Burr, M. L 495 
 
 Burroughs, Edward 31 
 
 Burr, Rosalie K 459 
 
 Burt, W illiara L 383 
 
 Burt, Rev. Federal 245 
 
 Busel, Jack 78 
 
 Busell, Jeams 78 
 
 Bussel, Simon 82 
 
 Bussey, John 38 
 
 Butler, A. P 391 
 
 Butler, Benjamin F.. ..194, 520 
 
 Butler, G. E 237 
 
 Butterlield, William 212 
 
 Buzzel, John B .. . .242, 487, 494 
 
 Caine, Patrick 212 
 
 Cairns, Rev. J 273, 274 
 
 Calef, Daniel ...571 
 
 Calef , George. W 212 
 
 Calef, James .584 
 
 Calef, Johns 534 
 
 Calf, Elizabeth 572 
 
 Calhoun, John C 391,302 
 
 Calvin, John 574 
 
 Campbell, Rev. George W .245 
 
 Canney, 480 
 
 Canney, Benjamin 154 
 
 Canney, Charles William .212 
 
 Canney, Deborah 585 
 
 Canney, Ebenezer 212 
 
 Canney, Edward M 212 
 
 Canney, Elizabeth 212 
 
 Canney, Moses 488 
 
 Canney, Mrs. Ebenezer — 212 
 
 Canovim, Rev. Father 291 
 
 Carle, Samuel 39 
 
 Carnes, Rev. Father 291 
 
 Carpenter, George 520 
 
 CaiT, Capt. James 72 
 
 Carr, Edgar S 526 
 
 Carroll, Owen 213, 237 
 
 Carswell, Edward ..316 
 
 Carter, Daniel 453 
 
 Carter, Daniel R 487 
 
 Carter, John 40 
 
 Carter, Mrs. Daniel 453 
 
 Carter, Polly 437 
 
 Carter, Rev. Clark 2.53 
 
 Car-ter, Sanborn B 453, 455 
 
 Carter, Thomas 69 
 
 Cartland, 499 
 
 Cartland, Moses A 411 
 
 Carty, ...555 
 
 45 
 
 Case, Huldah 436 
 
 Cassidy, Peter 535 
 
 Cass, Lewis 380, 520 
 
 Cass, Rev. William D..267, 575 
 
 Caswell, Rev. A. A 276 
 
 Cate, Asa P 525, .526 
 
 Gate, Augustus 212 
 
 Cate, Horatio L 191, 555 
 
 Cate, John G 212 
 
 Cate, Joshua N 520 
 
 Cate, Moses T 166 
 
 Cater, Andrew J 212 
 
 Cater, Isaac C 213 
 
 Cater, Lovey 212 
 
 Cater, Otis 212 
 
 Cater, Mrs. Otis 212 
 
 Catlin, ... 499 
 
 Cavanaugh, Arthur 213 
 
 Cavender, Moody 509 
 
 Caverly, Carrie 448 
 
 Caverly, Charles F. . . .485, 529 
 
 556. 
 
 Caverly, William B 213 
 
 Chadbourn, Dr 443 
 
 Chad wick, George W 213 
 
 Chambei-lain, Ebenezer ..332 
 
 Chamberlain, Levi 525 
 
 Chamberlain, Samuel. .183, 385 
 Chamberlain, Samuel, Jr. .179 
 
 Chamberlain, Sarah 572 
 
 Chamberlain, Thomas.. .59, 66 
 
 70. 
 Chamberlin, Deac. William 
 
 54, 61, 76, 77, 90, 99, 142, 256 
 
 530 to 533. 
 
 Chamberline, Ned 132 
 
 Chamberlin, James 56, 61 
 
 Chamberlin, Samuel — 61, 91 
 
 241, 256. 
 
 Chandler, Dr. Moses 345 
 
 Chandler, Rev. Samuel — 242 
 
 Chapman, Anna 3.50 
 
 Chapman, Henry 350 
 
 Chapman, John 350, 362 
 
 Chapman, Maria 350 
 
 Chapman, Mrs. John 350 
 
 Chapman, Rev. J. M 271 
 
 Chapman, Thomas 350 
 
 Chapman, William 350 
 
 Chace, Martha 331 
 
 Chase, Abraham 429 
 
 Chase, Betsey 429 
 
 Chase, Betsey S . . .397, 429, 571 
 
 Chase, Bradstreet 429 
 
 Chase, Charles K..188, 189, 196 
 
 197, 206, 261, 315, 316, 377, 429 
 
 467, 529, 530, 558. 
 
 Chase, Charles S 429 
 
 Chase, Charles W 213 
 
 Chase, E. W 466 
 
 Chase, George W 429 
 
 Chase, Grace M. J 429, 449 
 
 Chase, Harriet 438 
 
 Chase, Harriet L 429, 347 
 
 Chase, Harriet M 219 
 
 Cha.se, Harry W 429 
 
 Chase, Jessie 429 
 
 Chase, John D 429 
 
 Chase, John, Jr 429 
 
 Chase, John, 3d 429 
 
 Chase, Josiah 429 
 
 Chase, Josiah, 2d 429 
 
 Chase, Maria J 429 
 
 Chase, Mark 429 
 
 Chase, Mary Y 429 
 
 Chase, Maud H 430 
 
 Chase, Mrs. Charles K 377 
 
 429, 430. 
 Chase, Mrs. John, Jr 429 
 
 Chase, Mrs. Simon 429 
 
 Chase, Nellie 429 
 
 Chase, Rev. A. L 277 
 
 Chase, Rev. Edwin S..274, 438 
 
 Chase, Rev. John 429 
 
 Chase, Rev. Stephen 333 
 
 Chase, Sally 429 
 
 Chase, Salmon P 389 
 
 Chase, Sarah 333 
 
 Chase, Sarah F 429 
 
 Chase, Sarah M 430 
 
 Chase, Simon.. 15.5, 171, 196, 263 
 
 264, 265, 272, 339, 347, 397, 428 
 
 429, 466, 467, 478, 479, 486. 
 Chase, William.. . .274, 438, 583 
 Chase, Wingate . . .429, 555, 571 
 
 Chase, Thomas 429 
 
 Chase, Thomas, 2d 429 
 
 Chatburne, Esquire 100 
 
 Cheney, Person C .526 
 
 Chesley, B. F 237 
 
 Chesley, Ebenezer ...56, 61, 66 
 
 67, 70. 
 Chesley, Elizabeth.... 359, 432 
 
 Chesley, Elizabeth L 513 
 
 Chesley, Fred L 530, 555 
 
 Chesley, George W 211 
 
 Chesley, Ichabod 39 
 
 Chesley, James 61, 432, 585 
 
 Chesley, J. Edwin 188 
 
 Chesley, .John 213 
 
 Che.sley, Jonathan 39 
 
 Chesley, Joseph 39 
 
 Chesley, Lewis A 238, 284 
 
 Chesley, Lydia A 432 
 
 Chesley, Mary 98 
 
 Chesley, Philip 39 
 
 Chesley, Rev. Plummer. . .281 
 
 282. 
 
 Chesley, Sally 164 
 
 Chesley, Samuel 39 
 
 Chesley, Shadrack 241 
 
 Chesman, John W 238 
 
 Chisholm, Charles 199 
 
 Choate, Wilbur H 213 
 
 Christie, Daniel M 172, 173 
 
 310, 312, 314, 334, 370, 373, 382 
 
 389, 452, 453. 
 
 Christie, Ira 369 
 
 Chute, A. P 172 
 
 Cilley, Col 71 
 
 Cilley, General 518 
 
 Cilley, Rev 286 
 
 Cilley, Rev. Moses T 271 
 
 Clapp, Elizabeth G. A 454 
 
 Clark. Abram 40 
 
 Clark, Ann 572 
 
 Clark, Benjamin 219 
 
 Clark, C.E 471 
 
 Clark, Charles H 213 
 
 Clarke, Aaron 498, 501 
 
 Clarke, Mrs. Amasa 478 
 
 Clark, George D 238 
 
 Clark, George W 215 
 
 Clark, Haniel 59 
 
 Clark, Jacob 520 
 
 Clark, .James 39 
 
 Clark, James F 213 
 
 Clark, Joseph. .179, 183, 450, 528 
 
 Clark"' Lewis S 555, 5.56 
 
 Clark, Mrs. Hannah 322 
 
 Clark, Mrs. Joseph 450 
 
 Clark, Mrs. Simeon 450 
 
 Clark, Phil 622 
 
 Clark, Rev. Abner. ... 262, 575 
 
 Clark, Robert 135 
 
 Clark, Ruf us 199, 497 
 
 Clark, Samuel 213 
 
658 
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 Clark, Simeon 450 
 
 Clark, Solomon. . .59, 62, 68, 77 
 
 78, 542. 
 
 Clark, Susan 571 
 
 Clark, Susan O... 219 
 
 Clark, Sylvester .520 
 
 Clary, Rev. Joseph W 245 
 
 Clay, Alpheus 213 
 
 Clay, Charles H 213 
 
 Clay. Henry. . .326, 362, 382, 384 
 
 520. 
 
 Clay, Hosea C 213 
 
 Clay, Mrs. Hosea C 213 
 
 Clayton, John B 586 
 
 Clay, William 39 
 
 Cleare, Joseph M 238 
 
 Clements, James 31,39 
 
 Clements, Job 31, 39, 62 
 
 Clements, John ... 39 
 
 Cleveland, Addie M 275 
 
 Cleveland, Grover 436, 520 
 
 Cleveland, Hosmer 247 
 
 Cleveland, Mrs. Hosmer. . .247 
 Cleveland, Rev. A. A.. 275, 276 
 Cleveland, Rev. Ed ward.. 247 
 
 Cleveland, Rev. I. P 251 
 
 Cley, Jeams 78 
 
 Clinton, DeWitt 519 
 
 Clinton, George 518 
 
 Clough, George E 213 
 
 Clough, John 213 
 
 Clough, Mrs. John 213 
 
 Clough, Rev. J. F 290 
 
 Clough, Sarah 213 
 
 Cloutman, Eliphalet 585 
 
 Cloutman, Hezekiah..l79, 532 
 Cloutman, John.... 62, 485, 533 
 
 Cloutman, Thomas 62 
 
 Cobb, Owen 169 
 
 Cochran, Charles A 449 
 
 Cochrane, Alfred E 456 
 
 Cochrane, George E 456 
 
 Cochran, Elizabeth 560 
 
 Cochrane, Mrs. Alfred E . .456 
 Cochrane, Mrs. George E..4.56 
 
 Coe, Mrs. Mary U 583 
 
 Coffin, Abner 71, 621 
 
 CofHn, Fred G 449 
 
 Coffin, H.M 237 
 
 Coffin, Rev. E 286 
 
 Coffin, Rev. S 279 
 
 Coffin, William P 449 
 
 Cogswell, Judith, 243 
 
 Cogswell, Tliomas 324, 457 
 
 Cogswell, Thomas H 526 
 
 Colado, Joakin 214 
 
 Colbath, P,enjamin D 571 
 
 Colbath, Joseph 241 
 
 Colbath, Nehemiah 238 
 
 Colby, Anthony 525 
 
 Colby, J. H. W 173 
 
 Colby, Stephen 214, 237 
 
 Colcord, Benjamin F 214 
 
 Colebroth, Hunking 61 
 
 Cole, Edward 179 
 
 Cole, Elizabeth 470, 571 
 
 Cole, James C.133, 170, 171, 173 
 
 263, 264, 265, 272, 307, 339, 429 
 
 465, 466, 469, 479, 482, 528. 
 
 Cole, John C 575 
 
 Coleman, Eleazar...40, 61, 532 
 
 Coleman, James 59, 65 
 
 Cole, Miss 571 
 
 Cole, Mrs. J. C 470 
 
 Cole, Sarah J 470, 572 
 
 Cole, Shubael 470, 571 
 
 Cole, Shubael B 555 
 
 Collins, Andrew 214 
 
 Collins, James 214, 237 
 
 Collins, John 237 
 
 CoUis, M. M 235 
 
 Colony, Jacob 214 
 
 Colton, Albert T 287, 530 
 
 Conger, Rev. E. L 287 
 
 Conner, Hugh 40 
 
 Conner, James 40 
 
 Conner, John 40 
 
 Conner, Timothy O 214 
 
 Conney, Daniel 31 
 
 Cook, Abraham 62 
 
 Cook, Daniel 59, 66, 70, 71 
 
 Cook, Jenny Ill 
 
 Cook, John 39,61,531, 533 
 
 Cook, Peter 40, 71 
 
 Cook, Rev. E. C. . . .169, 284, 285 
 
 Cook, Rev. J. R 279 
 
 Cook, Richard 71 
 
 Cooper, Lemuel P 526 
 
 Cooper, L. G 559 
 
 Copeland, Hilda B 275 
 
 Copeland, James 275 
 
 Copp, Amasa 481 
 
 Copp, John, Jr 32 
 
 Copp, John L..169, 285, 485, 534 
 
 558. 
 
 Copps, Benjamin 62 
 
 Copps, David 90, 532 
 
 Copps, Esther 179 
 
 Copps, Jonathan ... .77, 78, 531 
 
 Cornell, Ebenezer 621 
 
 Corson, 510 
 
 Corson, Aaron F 214 
 
 Corson, E. H 472, 558, 562 
 
 Corson, Frank W. .515, 529, 562 
 
 Corson, George 188, 558 
 
 Corson, Harriet 165 
 
 Corson, Horatio G 520 
 
 Corson, Ichabod 32, 74, 128 
 
 532, 533, 542. 
 
 Corson, Ichabod, Jr 542 
 
 Corson, James 534 
 
 Corson, James F 214 
 
 Corson, James H 520 
 
 Corson, John 196 
 
 Corson, John R 214 
 
 Corson, Lavinia 572 
 
 Corson. Michael E 520 
 
 Corson, William F 214 
 
 Corson, Rev. F. H 276 
 
 Corson, Samuel 39 
 
 Corson, Zimri 520 
 
 Cosen, Ichabod 54, 62 
 
 Cossen, Joshua 62 
 
 Cotton, Rev. Josiah 88 
 
 Courson, Ebenezer 59 
 
 Courson, Joshua 59 
 
 Courtland, Charles 214 
 
 Cowell, Addie 190 
 
 Cowell, Rev. David B 281 
 
 Cram, N. P 387 
 
 Crannon, Michael 319 
 
 Critchet, Elisha 40 
 
 Crockett, Caroline 432 
 
 Crockett, Charles F 214 
 
 Crockett, John 20, 520, 529 
 
 555, 558. 
 Cromack, Rev. Joseph C . .169 
 
 268. 
 
 Crosby, Dr. Asa 345 
 
 Crosby, Jonathan 39 
 
 Crosby.Natt 655 
 
 Cross, James 171, 214, 469 
 
 Cross, Esther 336 
 
 Cross, EzraP 214 
 
 Cross, George P 214 
 
 Cross, Joseph .103, 171, 173, 183 
 
 214, 528, 530. 
 Crossley, Robert 2X4 
 
 Cross, Nathaniel 222 
 
 Cross, Richar.d. . . .197, 214, 535 
 
 Cummings, Albert G 526 
 
 Cummings, Rev. Jona 289 
 
 Currier, Dr 448 
 
 Currier, Moody 526 
 
 Currier, William 136, 498 
 
 Curtis, George 214 
 
 Curtis, Hattie L 459 
 
 Curtis, M. T 558 
 
 Gushing, Caleb 454 
 
 Gushing, Elizabeth H 437 
 
 Gushing, Jonathan P 347 
 
 Gushing, Mrs. J.P 349 
 
 Gushing, Mrs. Peter 347 
 
 Gushing, Peterl65, 179, 347, 486 
 
 Gushing, Rev 76 
 
 Cushman, Rev. L. P .. .169, 271 
 275, 276. 
 
 Cutler, Julian H 169 
 
 Cutler, Rev. J. S 288, 580 
 
 Cutter, Ammi R 440 
 
 Cutter, Calvin 441 
 
 Cutter, Caroline E 442 
 
 Cutter, Eliza 442 
 
 Cutter,John 441 
 
 Cutter, John C 442 
 
 Cutter, Mrs. Calvin 442 
 
 Cutter, Mrs. John 441 
 
 Cutter, Nehemiah 441 
 
 Cutter, Sarah Ann 440 
 
 Cutter, Walter P 442 
 
 Daggett, Andrew . . .559 
 
 Daily, Thomas J 315 
 
 Dalrymple, Albert H 338 
 
 Dalrymple, Alice E 3.38 
 
 Dalrymple, Bertha 338 
 
 Dalrymple, Dr. II. A 338 
 
 Dalrymple, Mrs. H. A 338 
 
 Dame, 90 
 
 Dame, Abigail 215 
 
 Dame, Abner 54,61 
 
 Dame, Amasa 520 
 
 Dame, Benjamin 62 
 
 Dame, Caleb . .260, 262, 466, 476 
 
 Dame, Charity 369, 394 
 
 Dame, Charles 571 
 
 Dame, Charles H 215 
 
 Dame. Charles W .215, 236, 237 
 
 534. 
 
 Dame, Col 50 
 
 Dame, Daniel. 164, 179, 215, 532 
 
 Dame, Dauiel W 528,534 
 
 Dame, F 575 
 
 Dame, George W 437 
 
 Dame, Hannah 585 
 
 Dame, Jabez. . .32, 54, 61, 90, 99 
 
 100, 101, 129, 170, 196, 428, 437 
 
 464, 476, 528, 531, 532, 533, 537 
 
 545, 546, 560. 
 Dame, Jabez, Jr. . .528, 534, 539 
 
 Dame, .fames 215 
 
 Dame, John B 222 
 
 Dame, John W 275 
 
 Dame, Jona 62, 68, 103, 151 
 
 161, 162, 257, 530, 531, 533, 542 
 
 Dame, Jonathan, 2d 534 
 
 Dame, Joseph. .61, 469, 552, 584 
 
 Dame, Joseph A 558 
 
 Dame, Joseph Wingate 215 
 
 Dame, Meribah 260, 262 
 
 Dame, Mrs. Daniel 215 
 
 Dame, Mrs. G. W 437 
 
 Dame, Mrs. Jabez 437 
 
 Dame, Mrs. Richard 585 
 
 Dame, Paul, 179 
 
 Dame, Richard.... 102, 179, 183 
 
 331, 528, 532, 533, 535, 560. 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS, 
 
 659 
 
 Dame, Silas 261,542 
 
 Dame, Susaunali 586 
 
 Dame, Zebulon 62, 77, 78 
 
 Dam, John, Sea 38 
 
 Dam, William 40 
 
 Damzen, William L 215 
 
 Dana, Hon. James F 264 
 
 Daniel, Joseph 39 
 
 Daniel, Joseph, Jr 39 
 
 Daniels, Albert K 443 
 
 Daniels, John S 448, 559 
 
 Darling, Henry 335 
 
 Darling, Rev. Walter E.. ..255 
 
 Davidson. J. L 237 
 
 Davis, Betsev 428 
 
 Davis, Bryant 31 
 
 Davis, C. A 469 
 
 Davis, E. H 515 
 
 Davis, Herbert. ... . 460 
 
 Davis, James 215 
 
 Davis, Jefferson 391 
 
 Davis, John 215 
 
 Davis, John G 495 
 
 Davis, John H 215 
 
 Davis, Lt. Col. James 38 
 
 Davis, Moses 18,40 
 
 Davis, Moses, Jr 39 
 
 Davis, Nathaniel 466 
 
 Davis, Oren W 510 
 
 Davis, Rev. J. B . . .273, 285, 460 
 
 Davis, Thomas 29, 62 
 
 Davis, Thomas C. .188. 196, 428 
 466. 470, 482. 
 
 Davis, Zebulon 61 
 
 Day, L. D 528,530 
 
 Day, Rev. George T 426 
 
 Dealand, Stephen J 215 
 
 Dearborn, 164 
 
 Dearborn, Levi... 
 
 531, .537. .567. 
 Dearborn, Rev. G 
 
 528 
 
 9,274 
 .. 77 
 .. 61 
 ..516 
 
 Dearing, Clement. . . . 
 
 Deering, James 
 
 Deland, A.H 
 
 Demarest, Rev. G. L ..287, 288 
 Demerit, Deborah Ann. . . . 572 
 
 Demerit, Eli .38 
 
 Demerit, Emerline 571 
 
 Demerit, Maria .571 
 
 Demerit, Marj- 571 
 
 Demeritt, Alice L 577 
 
 Demeritt, Capt. Daniel 344 
 
 Demeritt, Elizabeth J 577 
 
 Demeritt, Emeline L 577 
 
 Demeritt, Lucy C 577 
 
 Demeritt, Maj John 577 
 
 Demeritt, Maria B .577 
 
 Demeritt, Mary J 577 
 
 Demeritt, Mrs. Samuel .577, 579 
 
 Demeritt, Nancy F ,577 
 
 Demeritt, Sally 344 
 
 Demeritt, Samuel. 465, 498, 577 
 579. 
 
 Demeritt, Samuel, Jr 577 
 
 Demeritt, Sophia L 577 
 
 Demerritt, Charles 5.52 
 
 DemerrUj, Deborah A 457 
 
 De Me'rritte, Elizabeth . . 329 
 
 De Merritte, Israel 330 
 
 De Merritte, John 330 
 
 De Merritte, Lois .3.30 
 
 Demming, George T 290 
 
 Denbow, Salathid 39 
 
 Dennett, Abbie H..338, 572, 58;i 
 
 Dennett, Adaline 338 
 
 Dennett, Alexander.. .336, 337 
 Dennett, Alexander, Jr . . . .336 
 
 Dennett, Alice E 338 
 
 Dennett, Charles.. 103, 170, 171 
 182, 183, 184, 188, 196, 263, 264 
 265, 272, 298, 302, 308, 335, 337 
 338, 429, 465, 478, 479, 481, 482 
 528, 530, 534, 535, 537, 539, 558 
 571, 576, 583. 
 
 Dennett, Charles, Jr 338 
 
 Dennett, Charles, 1st 336 
 
 Dennett, David 336 
 
 Dennett, Eliza 338 
 
 Dennett, Ephraim 121 
 
 Dennett, George H 3.38 
 
 Dennett, G. S 338 
 
 Dennett, Harriet 429 
 
 Deimett, Harriet F 338 
 
 Dennett, Herman W 338 
 
 Dennett, Ida F 338 
 
 Dennett, Ira B 230, 237 
 
 Dennett, Israel H 338 
 
 Dennett, John 336 
 
 Dennett, John P 338 
 
 Dennett, Lydia 117 
 
 Dennett, Lyford P 338 
 
 Dennett, Moses 336 
 
 Dennett, IVtoses. 2d 337 
 
 Dennett, Mrs. Alex., Jr.. . .336 
 Dennett, Mrs. Charles, 1st. 366 
 Dennett, Mrs. Ephraim .... 121 
 Dennett, Mrs. George H...338 
 
 Dennett, Mrs. G. 8 338 
 
 Dennett, Mrs. Moses 336 
 
 Dennett, Mrs. Moses, 2d. .3.37 
 
 Dennett, Oliver 337,338 
 
 Dickinson, Anna 415 
 
 Dillingham, John A ,238 
 
 Dillingham, John L 562 
 
 Dimmick, Miss 571 
 
 Dinsmoor, Samuel 525 
 
 Dinsmoor, Samuel, 2d 525 
 
 Dixcn, James P 169 
 
 Dixon, John 27 
 
 Dockham, C. A 187, 433 
 
 Dodge, George D 526 
 
 Dodge, Jonathan T. . . .135, 188 
 249, 487. 
 
 Dodge, J. Thorne 484, 488 
 
 Dodge, Mrs. Jonathan T ..487 
 
 Dodge, Ossian E 366 
 
 Doe, Charles 315,4,30 
 
 Doe, Ira 196,287,558 
 
 Doe, John 38 
 
 Doe, Jonathan 66, 71 
 
 Donahue, Charles T 215 
 
 Donahue, Patrick 215 
 
 Donlay, Peter 212 
 
 Door, Jonathan 570 
 
 Door, Will 78 
 
 Dore, Charles 237 
 
 Dore, Charles H 318 
 
 Dore, Dolly 585 
 
 Dore, Jonathan 23, 25 
 
 Dore, Phillip, Jr 77 
 
 Dorman, Dr .439 
 
 Dorman, Nathaniel 534 
 
 Douglas, Stephen A... 193, 520 
 
 Dow, Betsey 173, 438 
 
 Dow, Dr. E. C 219, 443. 483 
 
 Dow, Dr. Jabez 345, 441 
 
 Dow, John 387 
 
 Dow, John G 438 
 
 Dow, Lydia 401 
 
 Dow, Mrs. E. C 443 
 
 Dow, Mrs. John G 438 
 
 Dow, Neal 318 
 
 Downcs, Mary C 428 
 
 Downing, George 65, 70 
 
 Downing, John 38, 45, 533 
 
 Downing, Jona'n..56, 62, 65, 70 
 
 Downing, Joseph 31 
 
 Downing, Lewis, Jr 409 
 
 Downing, Mary 584 
 
 Downing, Samuel 62,501 
 
 Downs, Aroline B 420 
 
 Downs, Charles W 215 
 
 Downs, Ebenezer 18, 39 
 
 Downs, Frederick G 215 
 
 Downs, Gershom..22, 32, 39, 56 
 62, 78, 420, 570. 
 
 Downs, Hatch 510 
 
 Downs, James 61 
 
 Downs, James M. W 552 
 
 Downs, John 179 
 
 Downs, Joseph 31 
 
 Downs, Lydia 572 
 
 Downs, Moses 61 
 
 Downs, Mrs. F. G 215 
 
 Downs, Mrs. Gershom 420 
 
 Downs, Rebecca P 215 
 
 Downs, Rev. David W.215, 274 
 
 Downs, Rev. Joseph 275 
 
 Downs, Sally P 420 
 
 Downs, Samuel 39 
 
 Downs, Thomas 39 
 
 Downs, William 39 
 
 Drapeau, Michael 215 
 
 Drayton, Charles E 190 
 
 Drew, David F 173, 174 
 
 Drew, Dr. Stephen 174 
 
 Drew, Frank 509 
 
 Drew, .Tohn 39, 63 
 
 Drew, Joseph W 174, 175 
 
 Drew, Meshach T 500, 529 
 
 Drew, Rev. Henry 267, 308 
 
 Drew, Thomas 62, 541, 584 
 
 Drew, Thomas of Bay 38 
 
 Drew, William H 237 
 
 Driver, Samuel 275 
 
 Drown, Charity 585 
 
 Drown, Ezra M 536 
 
 Drown, Joseph 62 
 
 Drown, Moses 59 
 
 Drown, Samuel 29, 62, 584 
 
 Drown, Solomon 61, 71 
 
 Dudley, Henry 168 
 
 Dumane, Rev. Father 291 
 
 Duncan, Mary 586 
 
 Dunham, William H 215 
 
 Dunning, Rev. C. U 273 
 
 Duntley, J. H 238, 471 
 
 Duntley, J. L 167, 461, 473 
 
 Duntley, Mrs. J. L 461 
 
 Duntley, Wilbur L 461 
 
 Duprais, Tafili 215 
 
 Duprev, Baptiste 215 
 
 Durant, Henry F 271,385 
 
 Durgin, Henry 66, 71 
 
 Durgin, James 38 
 
 Durgin, Josiah 56 
 
 Durgin, Rev. B. F 282 
 
 Durgin, Rev. J. M 279 
 
 Durgin, S. H 448 
 
 Durrell. Mrs. J. M 273 
 
 Durrell, Rev. Jesse M 271 
 
 Dutton, Rev. J. M 2.55 
 
 Dyer, Eben S 284 
 
 Dyer, Maria E 284 
 
 Eakins, Rev. William. 271, 285 
 
 Eastice, Joseph 40 
 
 Eastman, Amanda .507 
 
 Eastman, Benjamin C 574 
 
 Eastman, G. C. V 174 
 
 Eastman, Ira A .526 
 
 Eastman, Ira H 454 
 
 Eastman, Mrs. Benj. C 266 
 
 Eastman, Nehemiah ..132, 153 
 173, 478. 
 
660 
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 Eastman, Rev. L. L 276 
 
 Eastman, Rev. Benj. C 266 
 
 Eastman, Royal 11 
 
 Eastwood, Rev, James 288 
 
 Eaton, Lupira M 275 
 
 Eaton, Rev. Mr 287 
 
 Eddy, Col. John 405 
 
 Eddy, Rev. Mr 287 
 
 Edgerly, Charles W. ..199, 200 
 215, 223, 238, 286, 287, 319, 531 
 
 Edgerly, H. B 153 
 
 Edgerlv, James H.161, 166, 169 
 
 176, 1S4, 188, 195, 196, 197, 201 
 
 206, 236, 252, 302, 306, 363, 397 
 
 483, 521, 530, 531, 552, 558. 
 
 Edgerly, Josiah. ..132, 1.54, 179 
 
 Edgerly, Josiah B.153, 154, 398 
 
 Edgerly, M. V- B 526 
 
 Edgerly, Thomas 397 
 
 Edgerlv, Thomas H...216, 235 
 236,237,254,471. 
 
 Edwards, Jonathan 93 
 
 Edwards, Rev. Dr .302 
 
 Edwards, Samuel J 216 
 
 Egerly, John, Jr 39 
 
 Egerly, Samuel 39, 50 
 
 Ehrhorn, August 216 
 
 Ela, Abigail 456 
 
 Ela, Charles S 410, 417, 456 
 
 Ela Daniel 408 
 
 Ela, Enoch 408 
 
 Ela, Frederic P 410, 413 
 
 Ela, Israel 408 
 
 Ela, Jacob H . . .24, 176, 187, 188 
 193, l.-)5, 196, 199, 206, 207, 314 
 381, 399, 409, 456, 465, 492, 528 
 534. 
 
 Ela, Mrs. Daniel 408 
 
 Ela, Mrs. Enoch 408 
 
 Ela, Mrs. J. H 410, 413, 414 
 
 Ela, Mrs. J. H., 2d 417 
 
 Ela, Mrs. Mary H 408 
 
 Ela, Wendell P 410 
 
 Eldridge, Rev. E. D 249 
 
 Elliott, E.D 501 
 
 Elliott, H. H 501 
 
 Ellis, Charles M 383 
 
 Ellis, Hiram \V 237 
 
 Ellis, Jonathan 62, 68, 71 
 
 Ellis, Morris 62, 542, 581 
 
 Ellis, Robert 71 
 
 Ellis, Thomas 71 
 
 Ellis, Walter 216 
 
 Ellis, William 40, 62, 77, 78 
 
 Ellsworth, Oliver 518 
 
 Emerson, ]Micajah D 216 
 
 Emery, Gen 227 
 
 Emery, Stephen A 374 
 
 England, Thomas 216 
 
 E.stes, Charles 534 
 
 Estes, Charles H 216 
 
 Estes, John 520 
 
 Evans, 432 
 
 Evans, Benjamin.. ..18, 39. .500 
 
 Evans, Charles H 462 
 
 Evans, Charles W 534, 559 
 
 Evans, D.J 473 
 
 Evans, Ertwai-rt 39 
 
 Evans, Edward E 534 
 
 Evans, Elizabeth 432 
 
 Evans, Hanson 520, .534 
 
 Evans, J. D. . . .107, 169, 188, 196 
 473, 483, .530, 534. 
 
 Evans, John 18, 432 
 
 Evans, John P 500 
 
 Evans, Joseph 39 
 
 Evans, Martha 164 
 
 Evans, Robert 42, 45 
 
 Evans, Ruf us 432 
 
 Evans, Solomon.. .462, 520, 534 
 Evans, Stephen. .58, 71, 86, 545 
 
 Evans, William 18, 61, 528 
 
 Evarts, Jeremiah 11 
 
 Fall, Rev. Thomas 274 
 
 Falls, G. F 222 
 
 Fall, Thomas 20, 520 
 
 Farley, William 216 
 
 Farnam, Paul 82 
 
 Farnam, Ralph 82, 83 
 
 Farnham, Frances B 440 
 
 Faruham, Jemima 121 
 
 Fanisworth, Ezra 506 
 
 Farnsworth, Simeon D — 622 
 Farragut, Admiral . . . .226, 227 
 
 Farrar, Rebecca 440 
 
 Farrar, Timothy 440, 518 
 
 Farrar, William H 169 
 
 Farriugton, Albert E 346 
 
 Farrington, Elijah . . . .345, 346 
 
 Farrington, Ellen F 347 
 
 Farrington, Hannah 345 
 
 Farrington. Henry A 558 
 
 Farrington, James 264, 345 
 
 369, 378, 380, 394, 446, 478, 479 
 
 528, .531,537. 
 Farrington, James B. .216, 446 
 Farrington, James, 2d. 169, 188 
 
 196, 206, 346, 378, 407, 445, 447 
 
 482, 483, 485, 528, 530, 531, 541 
 
 558, .572. 
 Farrington, Jeremiah. 345, 346 
 Farrington, Jeremiah, Jr .345 
 
 Farrington, John 345 
 
 Farrington, Joseph H 216 
 
 Farrington, Josephine C..347 
 
 Farrington, Lois L 346 
 
 Farrington, Mary 446 
 
 Farrington, Mary H 346 
 
 Farrington, Mrs. Elijah. . .346 
 Farrington, Mrs. James. ..346 
 
 394. 
 Farrington, Mrs. James, 2d 
 
 .347 
 Farrington, Mrs. Jeremiah 
 
 345 
 Farrington, Mrs. Stephen .345 
 
 Farrington, Nancy 345 
 
 Farrington, Nellie 378 
 
 Farrington, Polly 345 
 
 Farrington, Samuel 345 
 
 Farrington, Stephen 345 
 
 Farrington, Stephen, Jr... 345 
 Farrington, Stephen, 3d. . .345 
 
 Farrington, Walter F .561 
 
 Farwell, John E.. .161, 169, 249 
 
 250. 
 
 Faunce, Aaron D 275 
 
 Faunce, E. L 511 
 
 Faunce, Emily J 275 
 
 Fay, Rev. Prescott . . . .169, 207 
 
 252, 255. 
 Feineman, Frederick.. 196, 558 
 
 Feineman, Ida 461 
 
 Feineman, S. H 188, 196, 483 
 
 Felker, Charles S 459, 577 
 
 Felker, Henry W 459 
 
 Felker, Mrs. William H...457 
 
 498 577 579 
 Felker, William H ....358, 457 
 
 497, 498, 577. 
 
 Felker, Samuel D 457, 530 
 
 Fernald, Edwin A 192 
 
 Fornald, Lydia 3.36 
 
 Fernald, William C . . . . 188, 469 
 Fessenden, James 31.. 466, 471 
 
 534. 
 
 Field, Rev.Hezekiab..261, 262 
 
 575. 
 Fillmore, Millard .407, 494, 520 
 
 Finnegan, James 237 
 
 Fisher, Lucy 121 
 
 Fish, Ira 183 
 
 Fish, John 155 
 
 Fiske, Rev. H. S 288 
 
 Fitz, Rev. Daniel 247 
 
 Flagg, Aaron 249, 534 
 
 Flagg, George W 249, 528 
 
 Flagg, William 529 
 
 Flanagan, Edward 216 
 
 Flanders, Benjamin M 529 
 
 Fletcher, B 196 
 
 Fletcher, John 237 
 
 Fletcher, Josiah M 526 
 
 Fletcher, Samuel 452 
 
 Fletcher, Richard 333 
 
 Flint, Samuel 526 
 
 Fogg, George G 387, 407 
 
 Fogg, J. D 276, 511, 514, 529 
 
 FoUet, Nicholas 40 
 
 Folsom, Abby 265, 566 
 
 Folsom, Abraham 312 
 
 Folsom, Abram 510 
 
 Folsom, Charles W.... 169, 189 
 
 190, 191, 192, 196, 216, 237, 283 
 
 364, 397, 529. 
 
 Folsom, David J 189, 196 
 
 Folsom, John . .196, 466, 482, 520 
 
 Folsom, John A 216 
 
 Folsom, John F 249 
 
 Folsom, Josiah 61, 131, 146 
 
 Folsom, Peter 171, 566 
 
 Folsom, Samuel 451 
 
 Folsom, William P 562 
 
 Foote, Henry S 391, 392 
 
 Ford, Edward 457 
 
 Foi-d, John 457 
 
 Ford, Mrs. John 45' 
 
 Ford, Stephen 44! 
 
 Ford, Stephen W 449 
 
 Fors, Benjamin 541 
 
 Forst, Benjamin 77, 79, 531 
 
 533. 
 
 Forst, John 157 
 
 Forst, Samuel 65 
 
 Foss, Abigail 585 
 
 Foss, Alonzo H 216 
 
 Foss, Benjamin 533 
 
 Foss, Dallas 216 
 
 Foss, Dr. David . . .188, 221, 446 
 
 Foss, John W 509 
 
 Foss, Kezia 278 
 
 Foss, Rev. Tobias 161, 279 
 
 Foss, Richard H 216 
 
 Foss, Samuel 70 
 
 Post, Benjamin 39,61 
 
 Fost, Benjamin, Jr 61 
 
 Foster. B. B 449 
 
 Foster, Ellen F 365 
 
 Foster, George C 189 
 
 Foster, James 61 
 
 Foster, Rev 199 
 
 Foster, Rev. Herschel 263 
 
 Fost, William 39 
 
 Fourin, F. Foslin 216 
 
 Fowler, Morris 40 
 
 Fowler, Rev. C. J 271 
 
 Fox, Elbridge W 483 
 
 Fox, George 25si 
 
 Foye, Col. James 621 
 
 Foy, Patrick 238 
 
 Francis, Rev. Eben 286 
 
 Freeman, Asa 451 
 
 Freeman, Jonathan 51S 
 
 Fremont, .Tohn C 520 
 
 French, Bradstreet 61 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 661 
 
 Frencb, Cbarles H 216 
 
 French, David 61 
 
 Frencli, Dr. Otis 407 
 
 French, James 61 
 
 French, Jonathan 59 
 
 French, Kev. H. H 276 
 
 French, llev. Jonathan ...240 
 
 242, 24.5. 
 
 French, Simon 61 
 
 French, William 555 
 
 Friend, John 216 
 
 Frisbie, J. F 404 
 
 Frost, C.P 448 
 
 Frost, Hon. John. a33 
 
 Frost, Rev. Leonard... 262, 575 
 
 Frye, Ed mund 466. 520 
 
 Fuller, John H 186,188 
 
 Furber, Benjamin 59, 185 
 
 Furber, D. Warren .. ..185, 186 
 
 192. 
 
 Furber, James T 1S5 
 
 Furber, Moses 59 
 
 Furber, Pierce P 164, 264 
 
 Furber, Richard.. 61, 68, 99, 129 
 
 532, 533. 
 Fnrber, Richard, Jr . . . .62, 179 
 
 Furber, Samuel 61 
 
 Furber, Thomas 56,61 
 
 Furber, William 38 
 
 Furhush, Charles H .... 520 
 Furbush, Sarah 450 
 
 Gaflfney, Charles B . . . .167, 238 
 454, 455, 485, 531, 541, 558. 
 
 Gafuey, John.. 4.55 
 
 Gafney, Mrs. C. B 456 
 
 Gafney, Mrs. John 455 
 
 Gage, Dr. Eugene F... 448, 449 
 
 Gage, Gen 54 
 
 Gage, Henry A 622 
 
 Gage, John 530, .533 
 
 Gage, Thomas U 448 
 
 Gale, Albert 216 
 
 Gale, Amos 216,237 
 
 Gale, Daniel R ,...216 
 
 Gale, Fernando 237 
 
 Gale, William 316 
 
 Gambling, Benjamin 38 
 
 Garfield, James A 520 
 
 Garland, Celia T 444 
 
 Garland, Claudius W 444 
 
 Garland, Daniel 61 
 
 Garland, Dodifer 621 
 
 Garlauil, Dodovah fil 
 
 Garland, Dr. Jeremiah H.. 335 
 
 Garland , Ebenezer 39, 62 
 
 Garland, George L 444 
 
 Garland, George W 216 
 
 Garland, Hannah 217 
 
 Garland, Jabez 39 
 
 Garland, Jacob J 286 
 
 Garland, James 585 
 
 Garland, James M 216, 286 
 
 Garland. .Jeremiah C .161. 169 
 443. 
 
 Garland, Jona,than 621 
 
 Garland, John 70 
 
 Garland, John E 217 
 
 Garland, John F . 217 
 
 Garland, John W 217 
 
 Garland, Lewis 317, .552 
 
 Garland, Mary .585 
 
 Garland, Mary S 217 , 
 
 Garland, Mrs. .J. C 444 
 
 Garland, Mrs. J. H ....335 I 
 
 Garland, Mrs. Lewis 217 
 
 Garland, Mrs. Rice K 217 
 
 Garland, Nathaniel 63, 443 
 
 Garland, Rice K 217 
 
 Garland, Theodore W 444 
 
 Garland, Willard P 444 
 
 Garlen, John 77 
 
 Garlin, John 65 
 
 Garlon, John 78 
 
 Garrison, William L 403 
 
 Gates, James M 387 
 
 Geald, Samuel 408 
 
 Geer, Alexander H 497 
 
 George Alanson B 230 
 
 George, John H 409 
 
 Gerrish, 155 
 
 Gerrish, Alphonso D..276, 516 
 Geirish, Paul. 38, 40, 41, 42, 75 
 
 530, 533. 
 
 Gerrish, Timothy 38, 41 
 
 Gibbs. John T 400 
 
 Giles, Andrew 555 
 
 Giles, Charles A 224 
 
 Giles, Charles G 286 
 
 Giles, Charles S 186 
 
 Giles, F. S 237 
 
 Giles, John T 217 
 
 Gilligan, Michael 217 
 
 Gilman, Charles W.... 198, 217 
 
 Gilraan, John S 469, 520 
 
 Gilman. John T 518, 524 
 
 Gilman, Miss 406 
 
 Gilmore, Joseph A 526 
 
 Given, Rev. L 280 
 
 Glass, John S 577 
 
 Glass, Mrs. John S 577 
 
 Gledghill, George 477 
 
 Gledghill. William 5.55 
 
 Glidden, Charles A 238 
 
 Glidden, Edwin H 217 
 
 Glidden, Enos L ..196, 217, 238 
 
 Glidden, John C 217 
 
 Glidden, Peter 68 
 
 Godard, John 518 
 
 Goddard, John 524 
 
 Gcodell, David H 526 
 
 Goodwin, Albion N.. ..217, %i1 
 
 Goodwin, Edward F 238 
 
 Goodwin, Fremont 172,457 
 
 476. 
 Goodwin, Ichabod 522, 525 
 
 526. 
 
 Goodwin, .James 60 
 
 Goodwin, James 217 
 
 Goodwin, Jennie L 489 
 
 Goodwin, John 146, 147, 178 
 
 Goodwin, John 178 
 
 Goodwin, Josephine S 439 
 
 Goodwin, Josiah 457 
 
 <ioodwin, Mrs. Fremont... 457 
 
 Good win; Love C 457 
 
 Goodwin, Samuel 59, 439 
 
 Goodwin, Sarah A 439 
 
 Goodwin, Sherwood W 217 
 
 236, 237. 
 
 Goodwin, Wentworth ,520 
 
 Gookin, John W 153 
 
 Gordon, Sarah 452 
 
 Gorton, Rev. James 287 
 
 Gotts. Clara .515 
 
 Gotts, Francis 515 
 
 Gotts, Thomas H 514 
 
 Gould, Edson J 461 
 
 Gould, Muzzey 62 
 
 Gould, Susan E 461 
 
 Gould, William 4ei 
 
 Gove, Hiram 444 
 
 Gowell, Abigail 474 
 
 Gowel, Lucretia 572 
 
 Gowen, B. L. E. . . 201, 232, 489 
 
 Gowen, Emulus 469 
 
 Gowen, Otis F 217 
 
 Grant, Daniel 217 
 
 Grant, Henry 300, 218 
 
 Grant, Mary E 456 
 
 Grant, Rev. E. M 287 
 
 Grant, U.S... .231, 355, 365, 434 
 
 435, 520. 
 
 Gray, Annie 218 
 
 Gray, Enoch W 500, 509 
 
 Gray, Frank H 509 
 
 Gray, James 218 
 
 Gray, John 40, 585 
 
 Gray, Maria 500 
 
 Gray, Moses F 318 
 
 Gray, Mrs. Enoch W 500 
 
 Gray, Mrs. .James 318 
 
 Gray, Rev. Robert 164, 179 
 
 Gray, Solomon S 318 
 
 Greeley, Horace 520 
 
 Green, Benjamin 40, 152 
 
 Green, David. 357 
 
 Greenfield, Charles. .. .420, 482 
 
 483. 
 
 Greenfield, Ella G 420, 454 
 
 Greenfield, Ella S 420 
 
 Greenfield, Frank 421 
 
 Greenfield, George 420 
 
 Greenfield, Hattie A 421 
 
 Greenfield, John.. 171, 173, 419 
 
 420, 428, 478, 479, 480, 528, 539 
 Greenfield, John, 2d,. .420, 534 
 
 535. 
 
 Greenfield, Millie A 420 
 
 Greenleaf, Mrs. Charles. ..420 
 Greenfield, Mrs. George. ..420 
 
 Greenfield, Mrs. John 420 
 
 Greenfield, Sarah E . ..420, 459 
 
 474. 
 
 Greenleaf, Abner F 218 
 
 Greenleaf, Peter 31 
 
 Green, Mrs. David 257 
 
 Green, Rev. Silas. .169, 266, 268 
 Greenwood, Rev. T. J. 164, 286 
 
 Grey, Jerry L 218 
 
 Griflin, Simon G...211, 234, 526 
 
 Griggs, Master 358 
 
 Grover, B. Frank. . 238, 530 
 Guppy, George F. .196, 200, 218 
 
 317, 530. 
 
 Guppy, James, 39 
 
 Guyon, Madame 343, 344 
 
 Hackett, J. M 161, 308 
 
 Hadkell, Eunice 443 
 
 Haile, Samuel W 526 
 
 Haile, William 363, 525 
 
 Hale, Alfred 249, 330 
 
 Hale, Calvin 249, 331 
 
 Hale, Caroline 330, 571 
 
 Hale, Clara 330 
 
 Hale, Eliphalet 329 
 
 Hale, Elizabeth.. . .249, 331, 452 
 
 Hale, Elizabeth W 453 
 
 Hale, Harrison....l96, 331, 534 
 
 Hale,John 451 
 
 Hale, John P., Senior.. 161, 177 
 
 3.50, 381, 451. 
 Hale, John P.. 189, 298, 302, 310 
 311, 312, 3.34, 342, 3.53, 364, 368 
 381, 410, 451, 481, 519, 530, 531 
 522. 
 
 Hale, Luther 249, 329, 330 
 
 Hale, Moses. 102, 135, 143, 170 
 171, 173, 183, 329, 464, 466, 478 
 519, .528, 531, 532, 534, .535, 583 
 
 Hale, Moses, .Jr 329,330 
 
 Hale, Mrs. Calvin 331 
 
 Hale, Mrs. E 249 
 
 Hale, Mrs. Harrison 331 
 
 Hale, Mrs. John P., Sen ... .451 
 Hale, Mrs. Moses 329, 330 
 
662 
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 Hale, Nathan 65, 67, 70 
 
 Hale, Rachel 329 
 
 Hale, Rev. Jonathan L — 245 
 
 Hale, Samuel 451, 467, 524 
 
 Hale, Sarah 331 
 
 Hale, Thomas 329 
 
 Hale, Thomasine 329 
 
 Hale, William 519, 5-24 
 
 Hale, William, Jr 491 
 
 Hall, Albert Clinton 218 
 
 Hall, Caroline 442 
 
 Hall, Daniel 218 
 
 Hall, Dr. Jeremiah F 443 
 
 Hall, Dyer P 232 
 
 Hall, Edwin F 218 
 
 Hall, George W 466 
 
 Hall, James 31 
 
 Hall, Jeremiah 237 
 
 Hall, John 39 
 
 Hall, John. 188, 270, 275, 276, 361 
 
 362, 483, 503, 510, 512, 513, 514 
 
 528, 555. 
 
 Hall, John W 213 
 
 Hall, Joseph D 218 
 
 Hall, Joshua G 430, 457 
 
 Hall, Mary 275, 461, 462 
 
 Hall, :Mrs. Avery 98 
 
 Hall, Mrs. Daniel ... 218, 486 
 
 Hall, Mrs. Nathan 442 
 
 Hall, Nathan 442 
 
 Hall, Rev 90 
 
 Hall, Rev. Avery.. .61, 89 to 98 
 
 564, 595, 597. 
 
 Hall, Rev. George 255 
 
 Hall, Rev. Theophilus 96 
 
 Hall, Sarah 218 
 
 Hall, Solomon M 314 
 
 Hall, Thomas 39 
 
 Hall, Thomas 212, 555 
 
 Ham, Aaron 61 
 
 Ham, Abigail 337 
 
 Ham, Abner 445 
 
 Hamack, Thomas 31 
 
 Ham, Benjamin 445 
 
 Ham, Betsey 222 
 
 Ham, Capt. Jonathan... 71, 90 
 
 241. 532, 533, .542, 549. 
 
 Ham, Charles F 218 
 
 Ham, Charles H 218 
 
 Ham, David F 215 
 
 Ham, Deac 164 
 
 Ham, Eleazar. . . .44, 77, 80, 431 
 
 542. 
 
 Ham, Elizabeth 80 
 
 Ham, Elsar 78 
 
 Ham. Ephraim .. .44, 61, 70, 431 
 
 584. 
 
 Ham, Israel 337 
 
 Ham, John. . .38, 59, 61, 153, 1.54 
 
 Ham, John 218 
 
 Ham, John, Jr 61 
 
 Ham, Jonathan 44, 161 
 
 Ham, Joseph 17, 39 
 
 Ham, J. W 230 
 
 Ham, Lemuel B 286 
 
 Hamlin. Cyrus W 172 
 
 Hamlin, Hannibal 384, 393 
 
 Hamlin, L. D 238 
 
 Hamlin, Rev. Cjtus 325 
 
 Ham, Lydia 218,585 
 
 Hammett, Charles E..218, 237 
 Hammett, Ephraim. ..196, 498 
 
 520, 583. 
 
 Hammett, John 62 
 
 Hammett, Moses .59, 61 
 
 Hammett, Sally 572 
 
 Hammock, Richard — 39, 547 
 
 Hammond, Dr 154 
 
 Hammond, Isaac W 621 
 
 Ham, Mrs. Eleazer 80 
 
 Ham, Mrs. Ephraim 431 
 
 Ham, Mrs. Israel 338 
 
 Ham, Mrs. John 218 
 
 Ham, Nathaniel 44, 585 
 
 Ham, Nathaniel 489 
 
 Ham, Samuel 31,48 
 
 Ham, Sarah . . .164, 368, 419, 428 
 
 Ham, Stephen 584 
 
 Ham, Stephen . .585 
 
 Ham, Sylvester 218,237 
 
 Ham, Thomas 61 
 
 Ham, William 62 
 
 Hancock, W. S 520 
 
 Handerson, Mary 417 
 
 Handerson, Phinehas 417 
 
 Hanscam, 296 
 
 Hanscom, Thomas 131 
 
 Hanson, Aaron 60 
 
 Hanson, Anna 197 
 
 Hanson, Asa P ....169, 286, 302 
 
 394, 558. 
 
 Hanson, Benjamin 39, 149 
 
 Hanson, Betsey S. C 586 
 
 Hanson, Charles A. C..397, 561 
 
 583. 
 
 Hanson, Charles B 218 
 
 Hanson, Dominicus...l8S, 190 
 
 302, 394, 470, 479, 482, 483, 494 
 
 583. 
 
 Hanson, Elizabeth C 281 
 
 Hanson, Esther Ann 571 
 
 Hanson, George W 397 
 
 Hanson, Hannah 347, 394 
 
 Hanson, Hester Ann 3!)4 
 
 Hanson, Humphrey. . .394, 470 
 
 494, 576. 
 
 Hanson, Isaac 72 
 
 Hanson. Jacob. 61, 179, 471, 532 
 
 533, 535. 
 
 Hanson, Jacob 309, 310 
 
 Hanson, James 39 
 
 Hanson, Joanna 369, 3 '4 
 
 Hanson, John... 18, 38, 261, 534 
 
 535. 
 
 Hanson, John B 571 
 
 Hanson, John L 488 
 
 Hanson, Joseph 39, 129, 143 
 
 155, 170, 179, 183, 241, 265, 322 
 
 346, 369, 394, 429, 464, 467, 560 
 
 Hanson, .Joseph H .571 
 
 Hanson, Joseph, Jr 171, 183 
 
 470. 
 
 Hanson, Joseph M 520, 529 
 
 Hanson, Joseph S 394 
 
 Hanson, Lewis 329, 495 
 
 Hanson, Lewis E 428 
 
 Hanson, Lizzie 378 
 
 Hanson, M. A .500 
 
 Hanson, Mary D 346, 394 
 
 Hanson, Mary E 571 
 
 Hanson, Meribah 381, 394 
 
 Hanson, Mrs. Dominicus..397 
 Hanson, Mrs. Joseph. .369, 394 
 
 Hanson, Mrs. Lewis E 428 
 
 Hanson, Nathaniel 38 
 
 Hanson, Phebe. . . .307, 309, 310 
 
 Hanson, Samuel R 281 
 
 Hanson, Sarah 486, 487 
 
 Hanson, Susanna 585 
 
 Hanson, Thomas 38 
 
 Hanson, Tobias 39 
 
 Hanson, William E 219 
 
 Hardie, John 78 
 
 Hardy, Joseph 78 
 
 Hard, Benjamin ..T 364 
 
 Hard, Rev. George H 260 
 
 Harford, Abigail 465 
 
 Harford, Charlotte 465 
 
 Harford, Joshua 179 
 
 Harford, Nicholas 38 
 
 Harford, Paul.. 50, 129, 131, 465 
 
 536, 566. 
 
 Harford, Stephen 77, 78 
 
 Harford, Widow 589 
 
 Harper, William 70 
 
 Harriman, A. J 237 
 
 Harriman, Walter. 270, 526, 573 
 Harrington, Edward W . . .526 
 Harrinjrton. Larkin.. .483, 512 
 
 513, 516, 528. 
 Harrington, Mrs. Larkin.. 513 
 
 Harrison, Benjamin 520 
 
 Harrison, W. H. . . .397, 520, 521 
 
 Hartford, Alonzo 219 
 
 Hartford, Benjamin P. ... 219 
 
 Hartford, Betsey P 219 
 
 Hartford, Charles T 520 
 
 Hartford, Francis M 219 
 
 Hartford, George E 219 
 
 Hartford, Hannah 219 
 
 Hartford, John 219 
 
 Hartford, John T 219 
 
 Hartford, Joshua 155, 542 
 
 Hartford, Mark 61 
 
 Hartford,Mrs. Benjamin P 219 
 Hartford, Mrs. George E..219 
 
 Hai-tford, Mrs. John 219 
 
 Hartigan, Patrick H 529 
 
 Hart, Mary 408 
 
 Hart, Samuel S . . . .516, 520, .534 
 
 Hart, Shackf ord 510 
 
 Hartwell, H. H . . . .161, 268, 273 
 
 275. 
 
 Harty, John D 149 
 
 Harvey, Daniel 39 
 
 Harvey, J. G 191 
 
 Harvey, Matthew 525 
 
 Hastings, Mrs. H. L 290 
 
 Hastings, Mrs. William N.4G1 
 
 Hastings, Rev. H. L 290 
 
 Hastings, William N.. ..12, 161 
 
 461, 569, 570. 
 
 Hastings, WUliam P 461 
 
 Hatch, Isaac — 69 
 
 Haven & Smith 464 
 
 Haven, Dolly 571 
 
 Haven, -lohn 149, 179 
 
 Haven , Lydia 571 
 
 Haven. Rev. Joseph .24, 57, 60 
 
 61, 64, 66, 73, 74. 96, 98, 114 
 
 123, 147, 151, 161, 179, 180, 183 
 
 183, 240, 242, 243, 260, 297, 324 
 
 .325, 372, 5.50, 567, 584, 597. 
 
 Haven, Ruth 570 
 
 Haven, Susan 571 
 
 Hawkins, 305 
 
 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 427 
 
 Hayden, Lewis 383 
 
 Hayes, 305 
 
 Hayes, Abigail 585 
 
 Hayes, Albert W ..219, 483, 541 
 
 557. 
 
 Hayes, Amos 59,65,68 
 
 Hayes, Andrew R 238 
 
 Hayes, Augustus 219 
 
 Hayes, Beimin 78 
 
 Hayes, Benlamin 39, 62, 79 
 
 164, 249, 286, 528, .531, 533, 562 
 
 Hayes, Benjamin F 498 
 
 Hayes, Benjamin, Jr 171 
 
 Hayes, C.H 493 
 
 Hayes, Charles F 226 
 
 Hayes, Daniel 61, 499, 532 
 
 Hayes, Daniel 338 
 
 Hayes, Daniel, Jr 179 
 
 Hayes, Daniel , 3d 179 
 
 Hayes, Daniel W 161 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 663 
 
 Hayes, David 161, 223, 473 
 
 520, 583. 
 
 Haves, Dudley 29 
 
 Hayes, Dudley W 219, 529 
 
 Hayes, Ella L 456 
 
 Hayes, Enoch 68 
 
 Haj-es, Ezra 249, 5S4 
 
 Hayes, Francis C 284 
 
 Hayes. Fruisklin 219 
 
 Haves, Georye L..1V6, 454, 511 
 
 534, 5«2. 
 
 Hayes, Hezekiah 241 
 
 Hayes, Ifiliabod 39, 61, 533 
 
 Hayes, Jamea 532 
 
 Hayes, James D 1C4 
 
 Hayes, James E 219 
 
 Hayes, James O. 529 
 
 Hayes, James Y 249 
 
 Hayes, Jennie 447 
 
 Haj-es, John 39 
 
 Hayes, John L 386 
 
 Ha yes, Joseph 62, 571 
 
 Hayes, Joseph N 529 
 
 Hayes, Joseph O 534 
 
 Hayes, Levi 154, 1S4, 183 
 
 Haves, L,ydia 585 
 
 Hayes, Mary 584 
 
 Hayes, Mary F 373 
 
 Hayes, Mehitable 338 
 
 Hayes, M. L 163 
 
 Hayes, Moses 61, 532, 533 
 
 Hayes, Moses, Jr 62 
 
 Hayes, Mrs. F. C 283 
 
 Hayes, Mrs. John 585 
 
 Hayes, Mrs. Watson. . .255, 454 
 Hayes, Nathaniel., 161, 242, 256 
 
 498, 534. 
 
 Hayes, Orrill H 2.55 
 
 Hayes, Peter 39 
 
 Hayes, K. B 436, 520 
 
 Hayes, Eichard 473, 532 
 
 Hayes, Sally 585 
 
 Hayes, Samuel 39 
 
 Hayes, Sidney B . .161, 275, 276 
 
 .514, 529, 562. 
 Hayes, Stephen E. ...164, 534 
 Hayes, Watson . . . .188, 196, 306 
 
 454, 466, 467, 479, 540. 
 Hayes, Wentworth.61, 532, 535 
 
 Hayes, William 4.58 
 
 Hayes, William 39 
 
 Hayes, William A 174 
 
 Hayes, Zenas 254 
 
 Haynes, Dr 443 
 
 Haynes, Martin A 526 
 
 Hay ward, Eev. Silvanus ..252 
 
 253, 255. 
 
 Hay ward. William 219 
 
 Hazel ton, Mrs. Samuel 346 
 
 Hazelton, Samuel 346 
 
 Hazen, 169 
 
 Head, Xatt 526 
 
 Healey , Betsey 436 
 
 Healey , Joseph 525 
 
 Heard, Benjamin 62 
 
 Heard, George — 59, 66, 67, 70 
 
 Heard, Jacob 164 
 
 Heard, John 62 
 
 Heard, Joseph.,. 22, 62, 77, 570 
 
 Heard, Mesheck 59 
 
 Heard, Nathaniel 466 
 
 Heard, Eeuben 59, 62, 497 
 
 Heard, Reuben, Jr 62 
 
 Heard, Tristram. . . .17, 62, 466 
 
 Heard, Widow 584 
 
 Heard, William W 219 
 
 Heath, Gertie M 457 
 
 Hebbard, Ellery A 413 
 
 Hedding, Rev. Elijah 261 
 
 Hedrick, William H 219 
 
 Hemmenway, Eev 96 
 
 Henderson, 307 
 
 Henderson, Abigail 572 
 
 Henderson, Betsey 585 
 
 Henderson, Charles... 188, 196 
 
 249. 
 Henderson, Howard. ..500, 542 
 
 Henderson, Israel 164 
 
 Henderson, James J.. .186, 187 
 
 192. 
 
 Henderson, John 164 
 
 Henderson, Jonathan 500 
 
 Henderson, Jonathan H.. .183 
 
 286, 495, 497, 501, 539, 552. 
 
 Henderson, Mehetabel 210 
 
 Henderson, Richmond. 29, 171 
 
 241, 501, 539. 
 
 Henderson, Sophia 571 
 
 Henderson, Thomas 313 
 
 Henham, Thomas C 237 
 
 Hennem, T. 569 
 
 Hennem, Thomas G 190 
 
 Hen wood, Owen 238 
 
 Herd, James 39 
 
 Herd, Samuel 39 
 
 Herd, Tristram 38 
 
 Herson, George L 238 
 
 Hester, Michael 219 
 
 Hewes, Joseph 269 
 
 Hewes, Eev. William.. 161, 269 
 
 Hewitt, 302 
 
 Hicks, Eev 287 
 
 Higginson, T. W 383 
 
 Hilliard, Julia 454 
 
 Hill, Isaac 525 
 
 Hill, J.F 374 
 
 Hill.JohnM 526 
 
 Hill, Kings 237 
 
 Hill, Mrs. Samuel 88 
 
 Hill, Oliver 474 
 
 Hill, Eev. George W 282 
 
 Hill, Eev. G. S 280 
 
 Hill, Eev. Henry 269 
 
 Hill, Eev. Samuel.... 87, 88, 89 
 
 581. 
 
 Hills, Elizabeth 443 
 
 Hills, Mrs. Edwin 381 
 
 Hill, Valentine 39 
 
 Hill, William 31,40,371 
 
 Hilton, Eben 526, 534 
 
 Hinckley, John W 219 
 
 Hincks, Gen 218 
 
 Hitchcock, Prof. C. H 10 
 
 Hitchcock, Eev. Wm. D. . . .251 
 
 Hixon, William S 237 
 
 Hoag, Elizabeth 436 
 
 Hoag, Joseph 436 
 
 Hoag. Mrs. Joseph 436 
 
 Hobart, H.C 173 
 
 Hobbs, Benjamin 196, 219 
 
 Hobbs, G. F 164 
 
 Hobbs, Josiah H. . .219, 304, 453 
 
 Hobbs, Mrs. Benjamin 219 
 
 Hobbs, Mrs. Josiah 219 
 
 Hobbs, Rev. Bial 282 
 
 Hobbs, Ehoda 219 
 
 Hobbs, Sarah 453 
 
 Hobbs, Sylvia M 402 
 
 Hobs, James 39 
 
 Hodgdon, Abner 265 
 
 Hodgdon, Alexander.. .61, 532 
 
 584. 
 Hodgdon, Alexander, Jr.. 62 
 
 532. 
 
 Hodgdon, Charles A 220 
 
 Hodgdon, Charles C 319 
 
 Hodgdon, (Jharles H 319 
 
 Hodgdon, Elizabeth 572 
 
 Hodgdon, George 235 
 
 Hodgdon, George W 460 
 
 Hodgdon, Job S 499 
 
 Hodgdon, John 31 
 
 Hodgdon, John B 460 
 
 Hodgdon, Jonathan 30,62 
 
 570, 584. 
 Hodgdon, Jonathan, Jr — 56 
 
 Hodgdon, Joseph 78 
 
 Hodgdon, Mrs. Alexander. 584 
 
 Hodgdon, Mrs. Job S 499 
 
 Hodgdon, Mrs. Jonathan.. 30 
 
 Hodgdon, Sarah 278 
 
 Hodgdon, Thomas 60 
 
 Hodgdon, AV. B. K 187, 188 
 
 196, 473, 534. 
 
 Hodgdon, William 61, 547 
 
 Hodgsdon, Israel 38 
 
 Hodsdon, George W 520 
 
 Hodsdon, William 520 
 
 Hoeg, Enoch 86 
 
 Hogsdon, .John 40 
 
 Hoit, Daniel 525 
 
 Hoit, John 40 
 
 Hoit, Phineas 149 
 
 Hoit, Sarah Ann 572 
 
 Hoitt, Benjamin 61 
 
 Hoitt, Enoch 61 
 
 Holbrook, John E 573 
 
 Holler, John 555 
 
 Holman, Eev. Calvin. .161, 188 
 
 270. 
 Holman, Eev. Sullivan 201 
 
 268, 209, 270, 275. 
 
 Holmes, Abigail 584 
 
 Holmes, Hannah F 437 
 
 Holmes, Hiram 437 
 
 Holmes, John C 437 
 
 Holmes, John S 220 
 
 Holmes, Joshua 437, 584 
 
 Holmes, Mrs. Hiram 437 
 
 Holmes, Mrs. Joshua 437 
 
 Holt, Elizabeth 436 
 
 Holt, Eev. Edwin 247 
 
 Hoodgood, 16 
 
 Horn, Daniel 39,66 
 
 Horne, 154 
 
 Home, Abial 555 
 
 Horn, Ebenezer 56, 62 
 
 Horne, Benjamin 528, 534 
 
 Horne, Charles M 509 
 
 Horne, Eliphalet..l36, 471, 476 
 
 Horne, Elizabeth 571 
 
 Horne, Gershom 76, 87, 534 
 
 Hoi-ne, Gershom H 210 
 
 Horne, Harlan P 220, 237 
 
 Horne, Henry E 529 
 
 Horne, Irving E 191 
 
 Horne, James 50 
 
 Horne, Jeremiah 421 
 
 Horne, Jeremiah, Jr. . .421, 424 
 
 444. 
 
 Horne, Jesse 586 
 
 Horne, Joseph D 194, 220 
 
 Horne, J. Wesley 196 
 
 Horne, Lewis F.. . .220, 237, 497 
 
 520. 
 
 Horne, iMary 451, 452, 571 
 
 Horne, Moses. Jr 535 
 
 Horne, Rev. Jonathan. 289, 290 
 
 Horne, Sarah 585 
 
 Home, Sarah C 161 
 
 Horne, Simon L 214,534 
 
 Home, Sophia 421 
 
 Horne, Wesley B 238 
 
 Homey, Albert 220, 237 
 
 Horney, Charles G 220, 237 
 
 308, 555. 
 Horney, Ed ward.. 220, 237, 555 
 
664 
 
 Hoi'ney, Geoi-ge H 
 
 Horney, Gilbert. . .154, 220, 
 
 Horney, Henry 
 
 Horn, Ichabod 71, 
 
 Horn, James 62, 
 
 Horn, Moses 
 
 Horn, Moses, Jr 
 
 Horn, Peter 
 
 Horn, W. F 
 
 Horn, William 
 
 Horn. William, Jr 
 
 Horscli, Carl H 
 
 Horton, Rev. Jotham. .203, 
 
 574. 
 
 Hovoy, 
 
 Howard, 
 
 Howard, Albert 
 
 Howard, Algernon S ..477, 
 
 531, 534, 539. 
 
 Howard, Andrew 
 
 Howard , Andrew F . . 309 to 
 
 Howard, Clarence 
 
 Howard, David M 
 
 Howard, Elbridge W..220, 
 
 Howard, Epbraim 
 
 Howard, George N 
 
 Howard, Ira T 
 
 Howard, J. O 
 
 Howard, John H 
 
 Howard, Joshua E 
 
 Howard, Levi 
 
 Howard, Locke 
 
 Howard, M. V. B 
 
 Howard, Rev. M 
 
 Howard, Richard 
 
 Howard , Simon O 
 
 Howard, William H 
 
 Howe, Calvin W 
 
 Howe, Charles W 
 
 Howe, David 
 
 Howe, Deac. James 
 
 Howe, Deac. James, Jr — 
 Howe, Dr. James... 61, 121, 
 
 17'J, 343, 528, 530, 532, 535. 
 
 Howe, Farnham 
 
 Howe, Fisher 
 
 Howe, George 
 
 Howe, Hall J 
 
 Howe, Isaac 
 
 Howe, Jacob 
 
 Howe, James, 1st 
 
 Howe, James, 5th 
 
 Howe, John 
 
 Howe. Jonathan 
 
 Howell, James 
 
 Howe, Lucy 121, 
 
 Howe, ^lary 
 
 Howe, Closes 
 
 Howe, ]\Irs. Calvin W 
 
 Howe, I\Irs. Fisher 
 
 Howe, Mrs. Hall J 
 
 Howe, Mrs. James 
 
 Howe, Mrs. James, Jr 
 
 Howe, Mrs. James, 3d 
 
 Howe, Mrs. Moses 
 
 Howes, Rev. Josiah T 
 
 Howe, Willard 
 
 Hoyt, Benjamin 
 
 Hoyt, Charles 17L 
 
 Hoyt, Charles L 
 
 Hoyt, Elizabeth 
 
 Hoyt, Enos 
 
 Hoyt, George 
 
 Hoyt, John D 241, 
 
 Hoyt, John F 229, 
 
 Hoyt, M 
 
 Hoyt, Ruf us 
 
 Hoyt, Rufus A 
 
 Hoyt, Sarah 
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 Hoyt, Sheriff 398 
 
 Hubbard, Captain 621 
 
 Hubbard, Edwin T 449 
 
 Hubbard, Henry 353, 525 
 
 Hubbard, Mrs 551 
 
 Hubbard, Thomas L 449 
 
 Huckins, James 40 
 
 Hughes. Clement 38 
 
 Hull, AsaP 221 
 
 Hull, Dr. D. W 190 
 
 Hull, Moses 190 
 
 Hunking, Mark 40 
 
 Hunter, H 221 
 
 Hunt, Harrison C 173, 184 
 
 Huntoon, Betsey 254 
 
 Huntress, John 31 
 
 Hurd, 242, 501 
 
 Hard, Benjamin 584 
 
 Hurd, Charles 221, 520, 571 
 
 Hurd, Charlotte 571 
 
 Hurd , Edward C 230 
 
 Hurd, Edwin F 445 
 
 Hurd, George F 221, 237 
 
 Hurd, George W ..221, 237, 284 
 
 Hurd, James 306, 483, .534 
 
 Hurd , John 221 
 
 Hurd, Jonas 520 
 
 Hurd, Jonathan 497 
 
 Hurd, Joseph 571 
 
 Hurd, Joseph D 171,445 
 
 Hurd. Joseph W 230 
 
 Hurd, Juanna . .571 
 
 Hurd, L 571 
 
 Hurd, Lucy 571 
 
 Hurd, Moses 129, 466, 485 
 
 Hurd, Moses S 516 
 
 Hurd, Nathaniel H 171 
 
 Hurd, Olive B 624 
 
 Hurd, Reuben 498 
 
 Hurd, Sally 571 
 
 Hurd, Seth T 216 
 
 Hurd, Sophia 571 
 
 Hurd, Timothy 500 
 
 Hurd, William . ..170, 171, 240 
 
 241, 295, 296, 297, 298, 465, 519 
 
 534, 551. 552, 561. 
 
 Hussey, Charles B 221 
 
 Hussey, Charles E 169 
 
 Hussey, Daniel .... 104, 221, 238 
 
 Hussey, Elijah M 176, 454 
 
 Hussey, Enos H 215 
 
 Hussev, Ezekiel 498 
 
 Hussey, George S 212 
 
 Hussey, Hannah 164 
 
 Hussey, Job 39 
 
 Hussey, Jona'n 454, 528, 5.34, 535 
 
 Hussey, Lewis M 221, 237 
 
 Hussey, Micajah 163,498 
 
 Hussey, Mrs. Elijah M 454 
 
 Hussey, Oliver 238 
 
 Hussey, Oliver W 221 
 
 Hussey, Paul 221 
 
 Hussey, Richard 39 
 
 Hussey, Sarah 586 
 
 Hussey, Silas 233, 235, 319 
 
 Hussey, Silas, Jr 196 
 
 Hussey. Thomas S 196 
 
 Hussey, Walter S...10. 221, 238 
 
 Hutchins, Fred S 457 
 
 Hutchinson, Rev. Stephen.279 
 
 Hutchins, Rev. Ellas .312 
 
 Hyatt, Rev. Isaac 161,282 
 
 Hyde, Lawrence 34 
 
 Ingalls, John C 173 
 
 Ingersoll, 172 
 
 Ingham, Thomas 515 
 
 Ingraham, H. C 472 
 
 Ives, Elizabeth 450 
 
 
 Jackman, Alonzo 
 
 Jackson, Amanda M 457 
 
 Jackson, Andrew. .326, 368, 372 
 
 382, 397, 519, 520. 
 
 Jackson, Caleb 61, 542, 584 
 
 Jackson, Dr. C. T 10 
 
 Jackson, Hannah 260 
 
 Jackson, James 61, 440 
 
 Jackson, John Henry 222 
 
 Jackson, Samuel 149 
 
 Jackson, William.. 39, 286, 495 
 
 Jacobs, Jeremiah 222 
 
 Jacobs. Mrs. H. D 475 
 
 Jacobs, Stephen C 222 
 
 Jacques, Rev 575 
 
 Jaff rey , George 40 
 
 James, BishoiJ 275 
 
 James, James W 387 
 
 James, William 77 
 
 Janes, Bishop 438 
 
 Jasper, Rev. O. H..274, 275, 27S 
 Jefferson, Thomas ....332, 518- 
 
 Jeffrey, James 78 
 
 Jelerson, Samuel 196 
 
 Jellerson, Benjamin 5.55 
 
 Jenkings, Joseph, Jr 40 
 
 Jenkins, Charles E 363, 530 
 
 Jenkins, Cornelius 62 
 
 Jenkins, Nancy 446 
 
 Jenkins. Stephen 61 
 
 Jenks, George W 448 
 
 Jenks, Joseph 38 
 
 Jennes, Joseph 75 
 
 Jenness, Abigail 585 
 
 Jenness, Betsey 222 
 
 Jenness, Charles 222 
 
 Jenness, Charles G 238 
 
 Jenness, Charles, Jr 222 
 
 Jenness, Cj-rus 161, 222 
 
 Jenness, Daniel 62 
 
 Jenness, Daniel F 534 
 
 Jenness, Dorothy 272 
 
 Jenness, Ebenezer 444 
 
 Jenness, Freeman 222 
 
 Jenness, George 222, 520 
 
 Jenness, George B 
 
 Jenness, Isaac 183 
 
 Jenness, James M 222 
 
 Jenness, John. . . .62, 77, 79, 222 
 
 531, 533, .542. 
 
 Jenness, Jonathan 222 
 
 Jenness, Kezia 278 
 
 Jenness, Mark 77, 532 
 
 Jenness, IMrs. Charles 222 
 
 Jenness, Noah A . .230, 529, 535 
 
 Jenness, Paul 29, 62 
 
 Jenness, Phebe 585 
 
 Jenness, Stephen 520 
 
 Jenness, Stephen B 222 
 
 Jenness, Stephen S 222 
 
 Jenness, William.. 532, 533, 541 
 
 585. 
 
 Jennis, Aaron 61 
 
 Jennis, David 61 
 
 Jennis, Moses 62 
 
 Jennis, William 62 
 
 Jennis, William, Jr 61 
 
 Jewett, Dearborn 179, 498 
 
 Jiles, Joseph 62 
 
 Johnson, Andrew 207 
 
 Johnson, Charles 473 
 
 Johnson, Charles E 169 
 
 Johnson, C. W 2.37 
 
 Johnson, General 435 
 
 Johnson, George 364, 434 
 
 Johnson, George W 222 
 
 Johnson, Hannah 222 
 
 -Johnson, James H 384 
 
 Johnson, Levi B 222 
 
 f 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 665 
 
 Johnson, Mary 284 
 
 Johnson, Mrs. George 364 
 
 Johnson, Knbert 222 
 
 Johnson, Samuel 222 
 
 Johnson, William 81 
 
 Johnson. William 222 
 
 Jones, Benjamin 153 
 
 Jones, Benjamin H 528, 530 
 
 Jones, Charles A 515 
 
 Jones, Cyrus W 222 
 
 Jones, Dorcas 478 
 
 Jones, Ebenezer 31, 584 
 
 Jones. Frank. ..365, 485, 520, 541 
 
 Jones, George W 222 
 
 Jones, James G 515 
 
 Jones, Joseph 38, 61, 533 
 
 Jones, Levi 179. 481 
 
 Jones, Paul 72, 584 
 
 Jones, Rev. Benjamin 263 
 
 Jones, Samuel 62 
 
 Jones, Samuel 199,222 
 
 Jones, Samuel 553 
 
 Jones, Stephen 38 
 
 Jones, Walter S 223 
 
 Jones, William 40 
 
 Jordon, Samuel 88 
 
 Jual, Christian 223 
 
 Julian, George W 393 
 
 Junkins, Edwin 460 
 
 Junkins, Master 164, 294 
 
 Junkins, Mrs. Sidney E....460 
 Junkins, Sidney E 480 
 
 Kane, Patrick 223 
 
 Kay, Patrick 223 
 
 Keay, Forest L -460 
 
 Keay, Frank 400 
 
 Keegan, John 223 
 
 Keller, 429 
 
 Kelley, Alfred D 466, 471 
 
 Kelley, Climena M 338 
 
 Kelley, Etta M ...449 
 
 Kelley, Henry M..169, 492, 531 
 
 534. 
 
 Kelley, .John B 318, 529 
 
 Kelley. Mrs. Abigail M. . . .410 
 
 Kelley, Susanna 441 
 
 Kelley, William 223 
 
 Kellogg, Rev. Silas G .271, 558 
 
 Kendall, Asa S .526 
 
 Keniston, Rev. Thomas . . .283 
 
 Keunard, William B 237 
 
 Kennedy, 169 
 
 Kenney, Eliza 555 
 
 Keuney, Lowell. .171. 489, 494 
 
 519. 
 
 Kenney, Mercy 571 
 
 Kenney, Samuel 571 
 
 Kenny, John 38 
 
 Kent, Joseph 38 
 
 Kent, George M. D 223 
 
 Kilburn, Pavid. .. 574 
 
 Kimball, Alvah M 188,200 
 
 223, .529. 
 
 Kimball, Arclmr D 439 
 
 Kimball, Augusta 461 
 
 Kimball, Betsey 223 
 
 Kimball, Charles B 534 
 
 Kimball, Daniel 61 
 
 Kimball, Daniel S 455 
 
 Kimball, Dorothy 477 
 
 Kimball, Edward L . 236, 2,37 
 
 Kimball, Elizabeth H 452 
 
 Kimball, Ephraim 179, 532 
 
 Kimball, Fred A 237 
 
 Kimball, Henry... 161, 169, 170 
 
 183, 254, 4.50, 4.55, 511. 
 Kimball, Increase S. ..452, 4.55 
 Kimball, J. B 473 
 
 46 
 
 Kimball, Jeremiah B 223 
 
 Kimball, John W 452 
 
 Kimball, Joseph P 439 
 
 Kimball, Josiah 196, 223 
 
 Kimball, Judge 540 
 
 Kimball, Lucy M 439 
 
 Kimball, Mary 437 
 
 Kimball, Mary E 452, 460 
 
 Kimball, Mrs." Daniel S . . . .455 
 Kimball, Mrs. Nathaniel ..451 
 
 452. 
 Kimball, Mrs. Nehemiah..223 
 Kimball, Mrs. Richard 331 
 
 452. 
 Kimball, Mrs. William A. .4.52 
 Kimball, Nathaniel. . ..451, 452 
 Kimball, Nathaniel T 188 
 
 252, 473, 492, 531. 
 
 Kimball, Nehemiah 223 
 
 Kimball, Paul 536,539 
 
 Kimball, Rev. Henry S ... 255 
 
 285. 
 
 Kimball, Rev. W. S 253 
 
 Kimball, Richard. .161, 184, 249 
 
 306, 310, 312, 331, 368, 451, 477 
 
 .528. 
 
 Kimball, Samuel H 223 
 
 Kimball, William A ...161, 164 
 
 168, 169, 452, 453, 520. 
 Kimball, William K...188, 196 
 
 482. 
 
 Kimball, W. Knight 5S6 
 
 King, 144 
 
 King, Dr 447 
 
 King, Louis 223 
 
 Kingman, Jeremiah 173 
 
 Kittredge, Dr 443 
 
 Kittredge, Jacob 440 
 
 Knight, Caroline 166, 174 
 
 Knight, Charles 62 
 
 Knight, Dr 446 
 
 Knight, Hannah 585 
 
 Knight, Hatevil ...129, 165, 170 
 
 171, 173, 174, 179, 240, 465, 528 
 
 531, 5.32, 534, 560, 585. 
 
 Knight, John 38, 41, 42, 533 
 
 Knight, Joseph 61 
 
 Knight, Joshua 62, 542 
 
 Knigtit, Mary 571 
 
 Knight, Mary B 561 
 
 Knight, Mary M 175 
 
 Knight, Mrs. Hatevil 561 
 
 Knight, Mrs. Wylie 586 
 
 Knight, Walter B 183, 531 
 
 Knight, William 61 
 
 Knipe, Lavina 515 
 
 Knite, Robbard 77 
 
 Knowles, James . .56, 62, 73, 89 
 
 90, 93, 120, 152, 256, 527, 528 
 
 5.30, 531, 532, 533. 
 
 Knowles, John 61 
 
 Knowles, Sally 585 
 
 Knowles, Samuel 499, 500 
 
 Knox, Hosea B 223 
 
 Lafayette, Marquis De — 264 
 329. 
 
 Laguc, Joseph 223 
 
 Laighton, John 59 
 
 Laighton, Samuel 542 
 
 Laiton, John, back river.. 40 
 
 Laiton, Thomas 40 
 
 Lake, Rev. E. H 286 
 
 Lamos, George D 530 
 
 Lamprey, M. C 169, 317 
 
 Lamy, Rev. Urbain 291 
 
 Lancton, Rev 90 
 
 Landers, Mary E 475 
 
 Landers, Seneca 475 
 
 Lane, Betsey 438 
 
 Lane, Charles E 168, 459 
 
 Lane, George B 460 
 
 Lane, Joshua 179, 543 
 
 Lane, Marcenia W 223 
 
 Lane, Winthrop. . .223, 459, 460 
 
 Langdon, Dr 90,93 
 
 Langdon, John 57, 326, 524 
 
 Langworthy, Rev. Isaac P. 
 
 255 
 
 Lavender, William J 223 
 
 Lay ton, John 531,542 
 
 Leathers, William 38 
 
 LeaTitt, Elizabeth 122 
 
 Leavitt, John 31 
 
 Leavitt, Justin M 237, 420 
 
 Leavitt, Mrs. Justin M 430 
 
 Leavitt, Rev. Daniel 290 
 
 Le Blank, Octavio 223 
 
 Lebran, Narcisse 223 
 
 Lee, Rev. Jesse 260 
 
 Lee, Robert E 434 
 
 Lees, .John 360 
 
 Legro, Daniel ,521 
 
 Legro, David 171, 188, 469 
 
 Legro, John... 166, 196, 201, 483 
 
 484, 528, .531, 534. 
 Legro, Rev. Elihu H...223, 273 
 
 Leighton, David 68, 74 
 
 Leighton, Edward 62 
 
 Leighton, Edwin G 223 
 
 Leighton, Ephraim 223 
 
 Leighton, George 520 
 
 Leighton, John.. 40, 48, 532, 533 
 
 Leighton, Levi 501 
 
 Leighton, Mrs. Ephraim . .223 
 Leighton, Nahala Davis. ..223 
 
 Leighton, Nancy F 223 
 
 Leighton, Samuel 532, 533 
 
 Leonard, Michael 224 
 
 Leonard, Rev. Prof.... 287, 288 
 
 Lewis, John 31 
 
 Lewis, Sumner 224 
 
 Lewis, Winslow 444 
 
 Libby, Arthur 224 
 
 Libtay, Isaac ... 61, (S, 157, 466 
 
 530, 531, 532, 533, 535. 
 Libbey , Paul 59, 61, 91, 286 
 
 287, 532, 533, 542, 567. 
 
 Libbey, Phebe 586 
 
 Libbey, Robert M 224 
 
 Libby, Dr 153 
 
 Libby, J. T. S 192 
 
 Libby, Rev. Joseph T 282 
 
 Lincoln, Abraham .... 193, 207 
 
 393, 412, 520, 622. 
 
 Lincoln, Heman 42« 
 
 Lindsey , Cynthia 586 
 
 Lindsey, George S 161, 530 
 
 Little, Archibald 224 
 
 Littlefleld, Rev. C. A 276 
 
 Little, William O ..., 224 
 
 Livermore, Arthur .' .525 
 
 Livermore, Judge 524 
 
 Livingston. Charles F 622 
 
 Locke, Alice 577 
 
 Lock, Edward 62 
 
 Locke, Fanny 364 
 
 Locke, Henry W..200, 224, 364 
 
 509. 
 
 Locke, John 578 
 
 Locke, Joshua 149 
 
 Locke, Lyman 534 
 
 Locke, Mrs. H. W 364 
 
 Locke, Sarah 281 
 
 Lock, James 77, 78 
 
 Lockwood, Belva 520 
 
 Logan, J. C 2.37 
 
 Long, Col. Pierse 65, 66, 122 
 
666 
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 Longfellow, Henry W. 325, 325 
 
 Lord, Eli 555 
 
 Lord, Nathaniel 243 
 
 Lord.Phebe 243 
 
 Lord, Rev. John 262, 575 
 
 Loren, Francis J 334 
 
 Loren, John J 334 
 
 Loring, Rev. Joseph.. .247, 249 
 
 251. 
 Lothrop, Daniel. ..312, 421, 424 
 
 528, 534. 
 Lothrop, Daniel, Jr. ...422, 424 
 Lothrop, James E 421, 423 
 
 424. 
 
 Lothrop, John C 422 
 
 Lothrop, Margaret 428 
 
 Lothrop, Mark 421 
 
 Lothrop, M. Henry 422 
 
 Lothrop, Mrs. Daniel . .421, 424 
 Lothrop, Mrs. Daniel, Jr . .427 
 Lothrop, Mrs. James E....424 
 
 Lothrop, Mrs. Mark 421 
 
 Loud, W. H 515 
 
 Lougee, Arthur J 408 
 
 Lougee, Dr. I. W..190, 406, 460 
 
 183, 520, .529. 
 
 Lougee, Elizabeth M 407 
 
 Lougee, John 406 
 
 Lougee, John F 406, 407 
 
 Lougee, Joseph 406 
 
 Lougee, Joseph, 2d 407 
 
 Lougee, Mary A 408 
 
 Lougee, Mrs. I. W 408 
 
 Lougee, Mrs. John 406 
 
 Lougee, William S 407 
 
 Lougee, William W...408, 460 
 
 Lovejoy, Andrew 557 
 
 Lovejoy, Kev. A . .161, 281, 263 
 
 Lovejoy, Warren F 224 
 
 Love well, Capt. John 17 
 
 Low, Dr 388 
 
 Low, John F 229 
 
 Lowthorpe, John 421 
 
 Luce, Rev. I 274 
 
 Lucy, Rev. Father 291 
 
 Lummas, Nathaniel 39 
 
 Lunt, Frederick H 169 
 
 Luttrell, Andy 426 
 
 Lyman, John D 187 
 
 Lynch, Charles 224 
 
 Macafee, Matthew 127 
 
 Mac Donald, George 427 
 
 MacFee, John 80, 531, 536 
 
 MacFee, Mary 80 
 
 MacFee, Mrs. John 80 
 
 Macflee, John 77 
 
 Mackfee, Jolm 78 
 
 Mackfee, Mathy 78 
 
 Mack, James E 224 
 
 Mack, Thomas 224 
 
 Macpheadris, Archibald... 40 
 
 Macpheadris, John 40 
 
 Madison, James 494 
 
 Magwire, Rev 287 
 
 Mahoney, John 224 
 
 Main, Charles 405, 571 
 
 Main, David 405 
 
 Main, Dr. Jacob 164, 440 
 
 Main, George 571 
 
 Main, Jacob C 224 
 
 Main, Josiah. .50, 53, 61, 84, 440 
 530, .567, 568, 584. 
 
 Main, Meribeh 585 
 
 Main, Mrs. Amos 84, 585 
 
 Main, Mrs. Charles 406 
 
 Main, Mrs. David 405 
 
 Main, Mrs. Jacob 440 
 
 Main, Mrs. Josiah 549 
 
 Main, Rev. Amos. .20, 28, 79, 83 
 
 127, 164, 179, 405, 440, 530, 545 
 
 559, 580. 
 
 Main, Widow 585 
 
 Mallard, Thomas J 224 
 
 Mallette, W.C 237 
 
 Maloon, Mrs. Margaret. . . .322 
 
 Man, Edward 31 
 
 Maun, Rev. Asa 251 
 
 Manson, Albert C 272 
 
 Manson, Charles E . . . . 514, 529 
 
 .555, 558. 
 
 Manson, G. E 515 
 
 Manson, Harriet C 583 
 
 Manson, John 188, 196 
 
 March, Aarou W 323 
 
 March, Caroline 323, 571 
 
 March, Clement 322 
 
 March, Eliza 323,570 
 
 March, Elizabeth .322 
 
 March, Eliza W 351 
 
 March, Emily 323 
 
 March, Emily J 351 
 
 March, Hannah 322 
 
 March, Hannah 323 
 
 March, John 322 
 
 March, John P 323 
 
 March, Jonas C . . .153, 179, 183 
 
 322, 369, 464, 465, 467, 532, 534 
 March, Jonas C, Jr... .323, 528 
 
 March, Lydia 171, 249 
 
 March, Margaret 322 
 
 March, Mrs. Jonas C 322 
 
 March, Nathaniel 322 
 
 March, Sarah 322, 323, 571 
 
 Marcy, Daniel 413, 526 
 
 Marden, Ahbie G 624 
 
 Marden, Charles L 624 
 
 Marden, Clara C 624 
 
 Marden, Eliza 624 
 
 Marden, Francis 624 
 
 Marden, Harriet E 624 
 
 Marden, James 72 
 
 Marden, John 59 
 
 Marden, Mrs. Francis 624 
 
 Marrow, Samuel 77 
 
 Marshall, Grace 4.54 
 
 Marshall, James F 238 
 
 Marshall , J. R 188 
 
 Marsh, Rev. A. F. .161, 169, 252 
 
 Marston, A.N 169 
 
 Marston, Gen. Gilman. . . .189 
 Marston, Winthrop A. .161, 162 
 
 Martin, Noah 525 
 
 Mason, A. W .520 
 
 Mason, Benjamin 40 
 
 Mason, Jeremiah 524 
 
 Mason, John E 188 
 
 Mason, Larkin D 526 
 
 Mason, Rev. Elijah 267 
 
 Mason, Samuel K 526 
 
 Mather, Dr. Cotton 17 
 
 Mathes, Eben J. . . .166, 188, 196 
 
 466, 482, 483, 484, 521, 530, 538 
 
 Mathes, Frank 237 
 
 Mathes, Geoige P 172, 176 
 
 Mathes, James 41 
 
 Mathes, Lizzie 443 
 
 Mathes, Stephen M....249, 443 
 
 466, 479, 528, 530, 539, 558. 
 Mathews, Francis — 18, 38, 42 
 
 45, 533. 
 Matthews, Rev. Samuel S..267 
 
 Maynard, Mary F 448 
 
 Mayo,M.S 405 
 
 McAllister, Rev. W. H. H..277 
 McClellan, Dr 441 
 
 McClellan, George B 520 
 
 McCollester, Rev. S. H 288 
 
 McCormack, Patrick 224 
 
 McCoy, John 31 
 
 McCoy, Rev. William 363 
 
 McCreelis, Robert 59 
 
 McCrellis, James 237 
 
 McCrillis, 571 
 
 McCrillis, Daniel 224 
 
 McCrillis, David 224 
 
 McCrillis, George 289, 562 
 
 McCrillis, Herbert T 511 
 
 McCrillis, Joel S 562 
 
 McCrillis, John G 224 
 
 McCnllom, General 456 
 
 McCutchins, Luther 526 
 
 McDaniels, David 262 
 
 McDonald, James 237 ■ 
 
 McDonald, Rev. R 282 ■ ) 
 
 McDonell, Rev. John T....291 ■ 
 
 McDuffee, 571 ■ 
 
 McDuffee, Anna M . . . .252, 377 ■ 
 
 McDuffee, Archibald 368 ■ ! 
 
 McDuffee, Daniel 67, 68, 73 ■ ' 
 
 179, 368, .535. ■ ' 
 
 McDuffee, Daniel, Jr . .179, 188 
 196, 199, 2S4, 469, 529. 
 
 McDuffee, Franklin 458 
 
 McDuffee, Franklin 11, 169 
 
 184, 187, 188, 189, 196, 202, 229 
 233, 234, 253, 2.56, 315, 318, 323 
 363, 370, 373, 479, 482, 528, 530 
 534, 558, 561. 
 
 McDuffee, George 347, 378 
 
 McDuffee, Jabez 225 
 
 McDuffee, Jacob. . .102, 161, 179 
 
 532, 534, 558. 
 McDuffee, James. . . .54, 63, 532 
 McDuffee, James, 3d.. .179, 539 
 
 McDuffee, Jarvis 174, 458 
 
 McDuffee, Col. John 21,32 
 
 53, 55, 59, 68, 100, 111, 117 to 
 
 120, 179, 368, 458, 476, 486, 518 
 
 537, 528, 531, 533, 537, 572, 584 
 
 McDuffee, John, 1st.. ..367, 368 
 
 560. 
 McDuffee, John, 3d. . . .171, 179 
 
 358, 368, 458, 528, 531. i \ 
 
 McDuffee, John, 4th.... 43, 161« 
 162, 166, 183, 184, 188, 196, 206a 
 249, 255, 270, 308, 346, 347, 360 T i 
 362, 367 to 373, 394, 428, 430 
 478, 479, 480, 482, 483, 494, 520 
 529, 531, 537, 538, 539, 560, 572 
 583. 
 McDuffee, John Edgar ... .373 
 McDuffee, John F..528, 531, 532 
 534. 
 
 McDuffee, John R 377, 460 
 
 McDuffee, Jonathan 179 '• 
 
 McDuffee, Joseph H. .225, 373 | 
 McDuffee, Louis... 131, 161, 171 
 183, 184, 218, 225, 302, 308, 314 ■ 
 528, 531, 538. ■ 
 
 McDuffee, Lovey 225fl 
 
 McDuffee, Lydia S 284 
 
 McDuffee, Mansfield... 367, 368 
 
 McDuffee, Mark well 555 
 
 McDuffee, Martha 367 
 
 McDuffee, Mary Abbie.... 366 
 377, 430. 
 
 McDuffee, Mary Ann 358 
 
 McDuffee, Mehitable 585 
 
 McDuffee, Mrs. Frank 373 
 
 McDuffee, Mrs. George.... 347 
 348. 
 
 McDuffee, Mrs. James 585 
 
 McDuffee, Mrs. John, 3d. ..368 
 458. 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 667 
 
 McDufifee, Mrs. John, 4th.. 369 
 
 394. 
 
 McDuffee, Mrs. Louis 225 
 
 McDutfee, Oliver 378 
 
 McDuffee, Kieharcl, Jr. 196, 534 
 
 McDuffee, Sally 428 
 
 McDuffee, Sarah 249 
 
 McDuffee , Sarah F 377 
 
 McDutfee, S.F 210 
 
 McDuffee, Simon C 225 
 
 McDuffee, Thomas 534,535 
 
 McDuffee, Widow 584 
 
 McDuffee, William. ..54, 61, 64 
 
 74, 128, ,'i32. 
 
 McDuffee, Willis 374, 460 
 
 McElrov, Andrew 515 
 
 Mcfee, William 542 
 
 McHugh, Michael 225 
 
 Mcllroy, Robert. ..189, 206, 315 
 
 483. 
 
 Mclntire, Eliza 586 
 
 Mclntlre, James F 237 
 
 Mclntyre, Rufus 352 
 
 McKean, Frank A 526 
 
 McKee, James 319 
 
 McKendiee, Bishop 436 
 
 McKenzie, 563 
 
 McKinney, Rev. L. F 287 
 
 McKinstry, Mrs 290 
 
 3IcKinstrv, Rev 290 
 
 McKusick, Charles F 238 
 
 BIcNamara, Bridget 224 
 
 McNamara, Michael 224 
 
 McNamara, Mrs. Michael .224 
 
 McNamara, Thomas 224 
 
 McNeal, Daniel 56, 64, 164 
 
 McNeal, John 164 
 
 McSeal, William.... 61, 68,532 
 
 Meade, 481 
 
 Meader, Asa 507, 520 
 
 Meader, Benjamin — 257, 507 
 
 Meader, Benjamin 507 
 
 Meader, Charles H .507 
 
 Meader, Daniel 507, .520 
 
 Meader, Edward H 161 
 
 Meader, Elijah .507 
 
 Meader, George E 507 
 
 Meader, (5erlrude 509 
 
 Meader, Hanson 507 
 
 Meader, James J.. 168, 470, 530 
 
 Meader, Jedcdiah 507 
 
 Meader, Jesse 534 
 
 Meader, John. .161, 2.58, 436, .507 
 
 534. 
 Meader, John E . . .507, 508, 509 
 
 529. 
 
 Meader. Jonathan 507 
 
 Meader, Joseph 507 
 
 Meader, Joshua 429 
 
 Meader, Juditli 257 
 
 Meader, Julia E 507 
 
 Meader, Lcaiuel ..437, 507, .534 
 Meader, Levi.. 188, 459, 507, 588 
 
 Meader, Mehitable .507 
 
 Meader, Mrs. Jesse 437 
 
 Meader, Mrs. John 436 
 
 Meader, Mrs. Lemuel 437 
 
 Meader, M rs. Levi 507 
 
 Meader, Mrs. Stephen 507 
 
 Meader, Mrs. Stephen C. ..509 
 
 Meader, Nathaniel 507 
 
 Meader, Nathaniel, Jr 507 
 
 Meader, Otis .200 
 
 Meader, Rev. Jesse 161, 169 
 
 278, 279, 437. 
 
 Meader, Samuel 171 
 
 Meader, Sarah A. 278 
 
 Meader, Sarah F 507 
 
 Meader, Stephen 507 
 
 Meader, Stephen C ... .161, 499 
 
 506, 507, 508, 529. 
 
 Meader, Tobias 507, 520 
 
 Meader, Walter S 459, 507 
 
 Meader, Widow 584 
 
 Meder, Benjamin 584 
 
 Meder, Jonathan 507 
 
 Meeder, Benjamin 62 
 
 Meeder, Jonathan 62 
 
 Jteeder, Joseph . . ; 62 
 
 Meeder, Nathaniel 62 
 
 Mellen, George W 225 
 
 Mellen,Rev 419 
 
 Melvin, Charles 227 
 
 Merriam, Rev. Matthew... 90 
 
 92, 99. 
 
 Merrill, 164 
 
 Merrill, George S 235 
 
 Merrill, Isaac 483 
 
 Merrill, Rev. James H 252 
 
 Meri-ow, Benjamin 77, 78 
 
 Morrow, Henry 439 
 
 Merrow, Joshua 56, 66, 70 
 
 Merrow, Samuel .56,62, 78, 439 
 
 Merrow. Samuel, Jr 62 
 
 Meserve, Bidfleld 23, 260 
 
 308, .520. 
 
 Meserve, Charles Y 489 
 
 Meserve, Frank P 281 
 
 Meserve, George H 225 
 
 Meserve, Jacob C 225 
 
 Meserve, John W 534 
 
 Meserve J. H 476 
 
 Meserve, Mary 281 
 
 Meserve, Samuel 281 
 
 Meserve, Stephen 489 
 
 Meserve, Vincent 149 
 
 M.eserve, Walter 237 
 
 Meserve, Walter S 225 
 
 Metcalf, Ralph 363, 525 
 
 Mialles, John 127 
 
 Miles, General 232 
 
 Miller, Isaac 532 
 
 Miller, Joseph 77, 78 
 
 Miller, Rev. William 288 
 
 Millet, Thomas 78, 533 
 
 Mills, Beniamin 281 
 
 Mills, Edward B 223 
 
 Mills, George S 460 
 
 Mills, Mary C 281 
 
 Mills, Rev. George A. .255, 256 
 
 273, 460. 
 
 Mills, Sarah 281 
 
 Mills, Wesley B 281 
 
 Miner, Rev. A. A 286 
 
 Moe, John 40 
 
 Monroe, James 519 
 
 Montgomery, General 63 
 
 Montgomery, Rev. Hugh. .275 
 
 Mooney, Colonel 69 
 
 Mooney, Daniel M 394 
 
 Mooney, Mrs. Daniel M....394 
 
 Moore, E. S 238 
 
 Moore, F. B 188 
 
 Moore, R.C 437 
 
 Moore, William 558 
 
 Morey, Rev. Arthur L.161, 280 
 
 Morey, Mrs. Harvey 262 
 
 Morey, Rev. Harvey.. .260, 262 
 
 534, .575. 
 
 Morgan, Gen. John 434 
 
 Morrel 1 , Martha 401 
 
 Morrell, Mary 401 
 
 Morrill, Alfred B 169 
 
 Morrill, I )avid L 525 
 
 Morrill, Ellen J 427 
 
 Morrill, Jedidiah 460 
 
 Morrill, J. G. 469 
 
 Morrill, Joseph 424 427 
 
 Morrill, Mary E 424 
 
 Morrill, Nelson E. B 460 
 
 Morrill, Rev. Enoch. . .289, 290 
 
 Morrill, Rev. Moses 88 
 
 Morrison, Abraham 62 
 
 Morrison, James 225 
 
 Morrison, Jonathan 61, 499 
 
 Morrison, W. N 471 
 
 Morse, Abner 23 
 
 Morse, James W 225 
 
 Morse, S. F. B 327 
 
 Mosely, Lydia 450 
 
 Mott, Valentine 441 
 
 Moulton, Edward S.. ..133, 264 
 
 205, 464, 469. 
 
 Moulton, Eveline 284 
 
 ]\loulton, Larkin B.284, 520,529 
 Moulton, Rev. E. P . . . .281, 285 
 
 Munger, Charles 438 
 
 Munger, Mrs. Charles 438 
 
 Munger, Rev. Philip . .262, 438 
 
 575. 
 
 Munger, Zipporah 438 
 
 Munsey, John 40 
 
 Murphy, Hiram P 225 
 
 JIurphy, Lawrence 309 
 
 Murray, Abigail T 585 
 
 Murray, John 532, 585 
 
 Murray, John A 225 
 
 Murray, Rose 585 
 
 Murray, John D 237 
 
 Musgrove, Rev. G. N 282 
 
 Nason, A. U 493 
 
 Nealand, James 225, 237 
 
 Neal, George A 188 
 
 Neal,John 450 
 
 Neal, Moses L.179, 450, 531, 537 
 
 Neal, Mrs. Moses L 450 
 
 Neil, John 555 
 
 Nelson, Lucy 437 
 
 Newell, Arthur C 447 
 
 Newell, Daniel 497 
 
 Newell, J. A 331 
 
 Newell, John P 176 
 
 Newell, Mrs. A. C 447 
 
 Newell, Mrs. Daniel 497 
 
 Newell, Mrs. J. A 331 
 
 Newell, Rev. Ebenezer F. .261 
 
 264. 
 
 Newell, William H 447 
 
 Newland, Solomon M 225 
 
 Newton, Lydia 437 
 
 Nichols, James T..22.5, 238, 284 
 Nichols, Rev. Samuel. .247, 249 
 
 Nickerson, George H 225 
 
 Night, Robard 78 
 
 Noble, John 176 
 
 Nock, Ebenezer 31 
 
 Nock, James 18, 40 
 
 Nock, Silvanus 39 
 
 Nock, Thomas 39 
 
 Nock, Zachariah 39 
 
 Nordstedt, Prof. Otto 569 
 
 Norris, Joseph S 529 
 
 Norris, Moses, Jr 384 
 
 Norris, Rev. Samuel. ..263, 265 
 
 266, 271, 302, 573. 
 
 Norton, Mary A 406 
 
 Norway, John 39 
 
 Norwood, Esther 405 
 
 Nowell, George D 469 
 
 Noyes, Eliza 275 
 
 Nute, Benjamin 66 
 
 Nute, Ivory M 171, 537 
 
 Nute, Jaines 31, 39, 45 
 
 Nute, John 59,62, 68 
 
 Nute, John R 225 
 
 Nute, Jotham 179 
 
668 
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 Nute, L. S 407 
 
 Nute, Mrs. L. S 407 
 
 Nute, Samuel 39, 56, 61, 532 
 
 Nutter', 4S0 
 
 Nutter, Alphonso J 520 
 
 Nutter, Betsey 337, 470 
 
 Nutter, Charles 213 
 
 Nutter, Hannah 336, 585 
 
 Nutter, Hatevil 39, 40 
 
 Nutter, Henry 40 
 
 Nutter, James 39 
 
 Nutter, James T 520 
 
 Nutter, John... .39, 149, 169, 470 
 585. 
 
 Nutter, John H 225, 238 
 
 Nutter, John, Jr 171 
 
 Nutter, John L 520 
 
 Nutter, Jotham 62, 584 
 
 Nutter, Mary 352 
 
 Nutter, Nancy H 452 
 
 Nutter, Nathan 529 
 
 Nutter, Richard 62, 532 
 
 Nutter, Samuel 337 
 
 Nutter, Willard 520 
 
 Nutting, Nancy 401 
 
 Nye, George E 230 
 
 Nye, Henry 188 
 
 O'Brien, D. W 381 
 
 O'Brien, Lydia 451 
 
 O'Brien, William 451 
 
 O'Connor, James .520 
 
 Odiorne, Benjamin 179 
 
 Odiorne, John 348, 464, 486 
 
 534, 566. 
 Odiorne, airs. John.... 486 487 
 
 Odiorne, Sarah 171 
 
 Odlin, Hanif ord 571 
 
 O'Donnell, J 515 
 
 O'Gorman, Patrick 237 
 
 Orne, 159 
 
 Orne, Frederick A 225, 237 
 
 Orne, Henry H.324, 325, 327, 368 
 Orr, Francis. ..188, 404, 483, 529 
 
 Orr, Frank H 531 
 
 Osborne, George W 499 
 
 Osborne, Hiram S 232 
 
 Osborne, John H 534 
 
 Osgood, Arthur 273 
 
 Osgood, James B 226, 238 
 
 Osgood, James H 226 
 
 Osgood, Marion H 237 
 
 Osgood, S. J 558 
 
 Otis, Francis L 226 
 
 Otis, Frederick 226, 237 
 
 Otis, Joseph 131 
 
 Otis, Locke 520 
 
 Otis, Orange B 226 
 
 Overand, Jona.512, 513, 515, .562 
 
 Packard, Rev. W. S .280 
 
 Packard. Willard S 161 
 
 Packer, Thomas 40 
 
 Page, 296, 305, 307 
 
 Page, Alphonso 226 
 
 Page, Ben.i 143, 171, 498, 499 
 
 Page, Benj., Jr 278, 446, 454 
 
 Page, Carter 349, 437 
 
 Page, Daniel 40, 62 
 
 Page, David C 534 
 
 Page, Harriette 460 
 
 Page, Huldah 446, 454 
 
 Page, James 310, 520 
 
 Page, James W 226 
 
 Page, John 525 
 
 Page, Joseph 61, 278 
 
 Page, Kingman F 454 
 
 Page, Lucy J 349 
 
 Page, Mary 461 
 
 Page, Mary M 437 
 
 Page, Moses 183, 241, 534 
 
 Page, Mrs. Carter 437 
 
 Page, Mrs. George 586 
 
 Page, Mrs. K. F 454 
 
 Page, Mrs. William H 446 
 
 Pageot, Cyrille 530 
 
 Page, Samuel 244 
 
 Page, Samuel F 534 
 
 Page, William 460 
 
 Page, William H 404, 446 
 
 Paine, John T 264, 453 
 
 Paine, Josiah 134 
 
 Paine, Thomas 181 
 
 Palfrey, John G 350 
 
 Palmer, Barnabas.. .61, 99, 179 
 
 432, 528, 530, 532, 533, 546. 
 
 Palmer, Benjamin 560 
 
 Palmer, Jonathan 179 
 
 Palmer, Mrs. Barnabas — 432 
 Palmer, Rev. James M — 161 
 
 164, 169, 184, 188, 251, 252, 255 
 
 Palmer, Robert 31 226 
 
 Palmer, Samuel 155, 179 
 
 Palmer, William.... 06, 70, 179 
 
 528, 532, 533. 
 
 Parker, Charles F 515 
 
 Parker, Charles H 226 
 
 Parker, Clarinda 456 
 
 Parker, Francis J 506 
 
 Parker, Henry R 447 
 
 Parker, John T 447 
 
 Parker, Mrs. Henry R 447 
 
 Parker, Rev. Henry E 215 
 
 Parker, Riley H 238, 535 
 
 Parker, S. H 558 
 
 Parker, Theodore. 383, 403, 404 
 Parshley, Augustine S 183 
 
 235, 238, 484, 529, 534, 557. 
 
 Parshley, John 420 
 
 Parshley, John D..167, 237, 531 
 
 534. 
 
 Parshley, Maria 512 
 
 Parshley, 3Iary F 420 
 
 Parsons, Bradley F 226 
 
 Parsons, Daniel J.. 161, 183, 454 
 
 528. 
 Parsons, John S . . .260, 454, 535 
 
 585. 
 Parsons, Mrs. Daniel J. 420, 4.i4 
 
 Parsons, Mrs. Josiah 4.M 
 
 Parsons, Rev 290 
 
 Parsons, Samuel B.. 387 
 
 Pattee, Dr .....447 
 
 Patterson, Charles 226 
 
 Patterson, Rev 287 
 
 Peabod}', Colonel 69 
 
 Peabody, Oliver 518, .524 
 
 Peabody, William A 226 
 
 Pearl, Abraham 62 
 
 Pearl, Abram 226, 233 
 
 Pearl, Abram W 226 
 
 Pearl, Diamond 62 
 
 Pearl, Eleazar 153, 154 
 
 Pearl , George O 226 
 
 Pearl, Ichabod 535 
 
 Pearl, Isaac 104, 226 
 
 Pearl, Jane 5a5 
 
 Pearl, John 39 
 
 Pearl, Joseph 65, 71, 99, 532 
 
 Pearl, Joshua 61 
 
 Pearl, Mrs. Isaac 226 
 
 Pearl, Paul 66,70 
 
 Pearl , Peter ... 153 
 
 Pearl, Rachel 226 
 
 Pearl, Rufus K 161, 183, 444 
 
 Pearl, Simeon 66, To 
 
 Pearl, William 149 
 
 Pease, Thomas S 237 
 
 Peavey, Anthony 532 
 
 Peavey, Bryant 283, 511 
 
 Peavey, George C 355, 456 
 
 Peavey, Ida A 456 
 
 Peavey, Mrs. G. C 355 
 
 Peavej', William C 71 
 
 Peck, Bishop 438 
 
 Peckham, Rev. F. H 281 
 
 Peck, Rev. Joseph 573 
 
 Peevey, Thomas 61 
 
 Peirer, Benjamin 40 
 
 Pender, Benjamin 39 
 
 Pendexter, Margai-et J — 452 
 
 Penhallow, Samuel 40 
 
 Pepperell, William 333 
 
 Perkins, A. A 11 
 
 Perkins, Asa 441 
 
 Perkins, Charles C 226 
 
 Perkins, Duane T 226 
 
 Perkins, Ephraim 584 _ i 
 
 Perkins, James 31 At 
 
 Perkins, James H 226 l| 
 
 Perkins, Jared 525, 575 I 
 
 Perkins, John 440 ■ 
 
 Perkins, Joshua 39 ■ 
 
 Perkins, Lucretia 454 ■ | 
 
 Perkins, Major 486 l ' 
 
 Perkins, Mrs. Ephraim. . . .584 
 
 Perkins, Mrs. John 441 
 
 Perkins, Nathaniel . . . . 39, 56 
 
 Perkins, Nathaniel W 227 
 
 Perkins, Rev. W. S 287 
 
 Perkins, Roderick R 441 
 
 Perkins, Samuel 39 
 
 Perkins, Sarah 584 
 
 Perkins, Solomon 62,560 
 
 Perkins, Solomon, Jr 61 
 
 Perkins, Thomas 78 
 
 Perkins, AVidow 584 
 
 Perkins, William 441 
 
 Perley, Abram A 473 
 
 Pettee, Rev. 287 
 
 Peverly, James 387 
 
 Philbrick, Daniel M 238 
 
 Phillips, N. C 238 
 
 Phillips, Wendell 383, 403 
 
 Phipps, Benjamin. 506, 512, 513 
 Pickering, Anthony. ..489, 501 
 
 Pickering, Charles F 227 
 
 Pickering, Drusilla 27S 
 
 Pickering, George W. .227, 238 
 Pickering, James. .498, 500, 584 
 
 Pickering, John 518, 524 
 
 Pickering, Matilda 278 
 
 Pickering, Theophilus — 227 
 
 Pickering, Timothy 326 
 
 Pierce, 307 
 
 Pierce, Andrew . . .183, 464, 467 
 
 Pierce, Andrew, Jr 369 
 
 Pierce, Capl. Andrew . ...149 
 
 Pierce, Benjamin 362, 525 
 
 Pierce, Charlotte 334 
 
 Pierce, Ebenezer H 227 
 
 Pierce. Franklin... 380, 386, 387 
 454, 520. 
 
 Pierce, George 367 
 
 Pierce, Ida 367 
 
 Pierce, John C 227 
 
 Pierce, Joseph 151 
 
 Pierce, Levi L 555 
 
 Pierce, Rev. George W....282 
 
 Pierce, Ruth 571 
 
 Pierce, Stephen 334 
 
 Piercy, Isaac D 55 
 
 Pigeon, William 144, 464 
 
 Pike, Abigail 98 
 
 Pike, Charles E....227, 236, 237 
 Pike, Dudley 59,68 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF PEKSONS. 
 
 669 
 
 Pike, John C 169 
 
 Pike, Rev 76 
 
 Pike, Rev. Francis V..161, 247 
 248, 249. 
 
 Pike, Rev. Jamefr 43, 90, 98 
 
 270, 526. 
 
 Pike, Robert 401 
 
 Pillsbury, J- D 196 
 
 Pinckham, Amo3 39 
 
 Pinckham, Riclmrfi 39 
 
 Pinckham, Solomon 33 
 
 Pinckney, Charles E 519 
 
 Pingree, JOhn H.. 238,558 
 
 Pin U ham, George C. . .167, 18S 
 Pinkham, George E. ..200, 227 
 
 Pinkhani, John H 227 
 
 Pinkham, Jonathan 61 
 
 Pinkham, Moses 31.. 
 
 Pinkham, Rev. Isaac 281 
 
 Pinkham, Welis 289, 290 
 
 Piper, Bet sev 436 
 
 Piper, Edward C 165 
 
 Piper, Rev. Asa ...111,242 
 
 Pirie, James 253, 471 
 
 Pitchenger, Henry 227 
 
 Pitkin, Rev 169 
 
 Pitman, Kirke 488 
 
 Place, Abigail 343 
 
 Place, Amos 59,65, 66,71 
 
 Place, Betty 431 
 
 Place, Betsey 260 
 
 Place, Capt. David. ..54, 59. 60 
 
 63, 72, 91. 179, 186. 431, 532. 
 
 Place, Charles 432. 4.H3, 498 
 
 Place, David. Jr 432 
 
 Place, David, 3d 432 
 
 Place, David, 4th 432 
 
 Place, Delraore 432 
 
 Place, Ebenezer 62, 77, 542 
 
 Place, Ebenezer, Jr 61 
 
 Place, Ebnesar 78 
 
 Place, Elizabeth 432, 585 
 
 Place, Eliza F 432 
 
 Place, Ethel 433 
 
 Place, George 29, 59, 61 
 
 Place, George E 192 
 
 Place, Henry 432 
 
 Place, Isaac 164, 432 
 
 Place, Isaac, 2d 432 
 
 Place, James.. 343, 432, 531. 533 
 Place. James H.. . .188, 286, 287 
 
 432, 467. 
 Place, J. Frank.. 185 to 189, 192 
 
 206, 227, 315, 432, 489, 495. 
 Place, John. .29, 59, 62, 127, 149 
 
 431. 
 
 Place, John, 2d 431 
 
 Place, John, 3d 431 
 
 Place, Joshua 66. 70 
 
 Place, Laura 433 
 
 Place, Leonard F 200, 227 
 
 Place, Lucy ,584 
 
 Place, Lydia 260 
 
 Place. Mary 432 
 
 Place, Mary J 400, 432 
 
 Place, Mehitable 432 
 
 Place, Moses.... 431 
 
 Place, Mrs. Capt. David.. .431 
 
 Place, Mrs. Chai-lcs 432 
 
 Place, Mrs. David, 4th 432 
 
 Place, Mrs. Enoch 344 
 
 Place, Mrs. Isaac 432 
 
 Place, Mrs. James F 433 
 
 Place, Mrs. James H 432 
 
 Place, Mrs. Stephen, . .359, 432 
 
 585. 
 
 Place, Noah 286, 431 
 
 Place, Paul 260, 261 
 
 Place, Rev. Enoch 173, 279 
 
 281,343,431. 
 
 Place, Riehard.61,431, 532, 533 
 
 535, 542. 
 
 Place, Samuel 59,431 
 
 Place, Stephen 359, 400, 432 
 
 585. 
 
 Place, Susan A 359, 432 
 
 Place, Susannah 431 
 
 Place, Widow 560 
 
 Plaice, Abraham 31 
 
 Plimpton, Warren 169 
 
 Plumer, Beard.. 38, 61, 102, 179 
 
 528, 533, 560. 
 
 Plumer, Elizabeth 560 
 
 Plumer, Gershom D. . .196, 284 
 Plumer, Henry M 255, 256 
 
 478. 482. 
 
 Plumer, John M 227 
 
 Plumer, John, 3d., 170, 179, 183 
 
 534. 
 
 Plumer, Joseph H 227 
 
 Plumer, Samuel.. ..61, 256, 532 
 
 535. 536. 
 
 Plumer, William 519, .524 
 
 Plummer, Ebenezer 149 
 
 Plummer, Ephraim . . .149, 227 
 
 Plummer, Francis .520 
 
 Plummer, H. N 520 
 
 Plummer, Hon. John 48, 53 
 
 55, 61, 89, 90, 99, 115, 117, 359 
 
 530, 531, 533, 584. 
 Plummer, John, Jr. ...179, .565 
 Plummer, Joseph . . .59, 61, 532 
 
 535. 
 
 Plummer, Mrs. John 117 
 
 Plummer, Thomas 61 
 
 Polk, James K 390, 520 
 
 Poor, Col. Enoch. ...56, 70, 119 
 
 368. 
 
 Porter, Rev 199 
 
 Potter, General 211 
 
 Potter, George W 433 
 
 Potter, Sara 433 
 
 Powers, Chester 442 
 
 Powers, Eunice N 442 
 
 Powers, Mrs. Chester 442 
 
 Powers, Rev 287 
 
 Pratt, Alvan S 175 
 
 Pratt, Mrs 583 
 
 Pratt, Mrs. Alvan S 175 
 
 Pratt, Rev. George H 252 
 
 Praugh, Narcisse 227 
 
 Pray, Dr. J. T. W 164 
 
 Pray, Dr. Sam. 161, .■!45, 440, 443 
 
 Pray, Dr. Samuel, Jr 441 
 
 Pray, Eliza A 166 
 
 Pray, Ezra . . . ,161, 234, 531, 541 
 
 Pray, thuinah 586 
 
 Pray, John 161, 571 
 
 Pray, John W 161, 169, 443 
 
 Pray, Miss .(71 
 
 Pray, Mrs. John 443 
 
 Pray, Mrs. Samuel 440 
 
 Pray, Sally 166 
 
 Prentice, Rev. Josiah 242 
 
 Prentiss, John 450 
 
 Prentiss, Ruth 4.50 
 
 Presbv, Rev. J. W 274, 276 
 
 Prescott, Benjamin F 526 
 
 Preston, Frank B 530, ,531 
 
 Preston , John 440 
 
 Preston, Mrs. John 440 
 
 Preston, Timothy F... .440, 557 
 
 Price, John 520 
 
 Prince, Sidney 227 
 
 Prover, George 227 
 
 Pugh, Rev. Father 291 
 
 Pugsley, Everett 461 
 
 Pugsley, F. L 461 
 
 Pugsley, Frank 227, 461 
 
 Pugsley, John 238 
 
 Pulsif er, Mary 246 
 
 Putnam, Rev, I. W 242 
 
 Quarles, Judge 487 
 
 Quick, Mrs. A.J 319 
 
 Quick, Rev. Abram J. .254, 255 
 
 Quimby , 491 
 
 Quimby, James 289, 520 
 
 Quimby, Rev 283 
 
 Quimby, Rev. M. A 279 
 
 Quimby, Rev. George VV , .287 
 Quint, Rev. A. H 367 
 
 Ralph, Rev. 287 
 
 Ramsbottom, 289 
 
 Ramsbottom, James 227 
 
 Ramsbottom, John 227 
 
 Randall, Horace 228, 237 
 
 Randall, Jeremiah 225 
 
 Randall, John 62, 584 
 
 Randall, Nathaniel 40 
 
 Randall, Rev. 283 /'' 
 
 Randall, Samuel 40 
 
 Randall, William 40 
 
 Randall, William H 237 
 
 Rand, Eleazar 32 
 
 Rand, Lemuel 153 
 
 Rand, William 161, 188, 227 
 
 468, 483, 484, 529, 534. 
 
 Rankin, Rev, Andrew 247 
 
 Rankin, Rev, J. E 426 
 
 Rankins, Charles O 228 
 
 Rankin s, Isaac 562 
 
 Rankins, Jonathan 27 
 
 Rankins, Joseph 39 
 
 Rankin, William G 167 
 
 Rantoul, Robert 328 
 
 Rawlings, Edward 59 
 
 Rawlings, Ichabod 59 
 
 Rawlings, Jeremiah 39 
 
 Rawlings, John 59 
 
 Rawlings, Joseph 31 
 
 Rawlins, John 39 
 
 Rawlins, Moses 68 
 
 Rawson, Hannah 179 
 
 Rawson, Jonathan 179 
 
 Ray, Alsaida 281 
 
 Reding, John R 384 
 
 Reed, Col. James 63 
 
 Reed, General 518 
 
 Reid, Col. George 70 
 
 Rekar, George 39 
 
 Renohls, Job 39 
 
 Renolds,John .39 
 
 Rewitzer, Enos 228, 237 
 
 Richards, A. L 511 
 
 Richard, Samuel 77, 78 
 
 Richards, Eliza 275 
 
 Richards, Elizabeth 571 
 
 Richards, James 209 
 
 Richards, John. ..22, 61, 68, 465 
 
 570. 
 
 Richards, John, Jr 56, 62 
 
 Richards, Jonathan 58, 61 
 
 Richards, Joseph 22, 570 
 
 Richards, Joseph .59, 68, 77, 78 
 
 Richards, Joseph, Jr 77, 78 
 
 Richards, Mrs. John 22 
 
 Richardson, 303 
 
 Richardson, Arthur D 491 
 
 Richardson, Ephraim 489 
 
 Richardson, George F 167 
 
 238, 492. 
 Richardson, Jeremiah D ..586 
 
 Richardson, John H 555 
 
 Richardson, Lemuel 63 
 
 Richardson, Louis 161 
 
 Richardson, T 5,55 
 
 Richards, Orin 1 275, 276 
 
 Richards, Phebe 301 
 
170 
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 Richards, Rev. Abraham.. 274 
 
 Richards, Rev. J)v 273 
 
 Ricluirds, Kev. M. A 273 
 
 Rieliards, Samuel 65 
 
 Richards, Susan 301 
 
 Richards, Tristram 23 
 
 Richards, ^Vidow 584 
 
 Rich, Rev. Prof. 276 
 
 Rlckar, Ephraim 39 
 
 Rickar, John 39 
 
 Rickar, .Joseph 39 
 
 Rickar, Meturin 39 
 
 Ricker, Benjamin 31 
 
 Ricker, Cliarles : 65 
 
 Ricker, Charles E 228 
 
 Ricker, Ebenezer 61. 74 
 
 Ricker, Edward F 190, 287 
 
 Ricker, Elizabeth 572 
 
 Ricker, Ephraim 31 
 
 Ricker, Ezekiel 284, 552 
 
 Ricker, Isaac E 228 
 
 Ricker, John W 555 
 
 Ricker, Jonathan 31 
 
 Ricker, Joseph 69, 71 
 
 Ricker, Lorinda 284 
 
 Ricker, Moses — 31 
 
 Ricker, Mrs. William S....432 
 
 Ricker, Paul 499 
 
 Ricker, Thomas P 228 
 
 Ricker, Timothy 59, 66. 70 
 
 Ricker, Tobias 68, 69 
 
 Ricker, William 229 
 
 Ricker, William S 494, 528 
 
 .534, 535. 
 Rindge, Frederick H..377, 515 
 Rindge, Samuel 8.3(51, 362, .503 
 
 .506, 512, 513, 515. 
 
 Ripley, General 456 
 
 Risley, Rev. John E 205 
 
 Robburts, Thomas 38 
 
 Roberts, Asa 20, 534 
 
 Roberts, Benjamin. 72, 149, 584 
 
 Roberts, Betsey 379 
 
 Roberts, Caleb 72 
 
 Roberts, Elijah 171, 501 
 
 Roberts, Eliza 281 
 
 Roberts, Emeiline 571 
 
 Roberts, George 72 
 
 Roberts, George B 169, 188 
 
 196. 495, 521, 528, 535, 555, 5.58 
 
 Roberts, Harrison 228 
 
 Roberts, Hattie 281 
 
 Roberts, Herman W 534 
 
 Roberts, Hiram R 526 
 
 Roberts, John 149, 465 
 
 Roberts, John, 1st 153,409 
 
 Roberts, John 11 228, 461 
 
 Roberts, John, Jr. 170,171,24,947' 
 
 Roberts, John L 228 
 
 Roberts, John R 14G 
 
 Roberts, John W 228 
 
 Roberts, Joseph 38, 72' 
 
 Roberts, Love v461 
 
 Roberts, Martha S 571 
 
 Roberts, Moses.. 2S, 62, 241. 467 
 Roberts, Moses, Jr 161. 179 
 
 183, .534. 
 
 Roberts Mrs. Jolin L 228 
 
 Roberts'' Mrs. John R 486 
 
 Roberts, Mrs. Levi F 489 
 
 Roberts, Mrs. Timothy ... .584 
 
 Roberts, Rachel 438 
 
 Roberts, Rebecca 228 
 
 Roberts, Samuel, Jr 534 
 
 Roberts, Samuel R 521 
 
 Roberts, Thomas.. .61, 149, 179 
 Roberts, Timothy. 43, 44, 60, 61 
 
 72, 77, 78, 79, 8t, 124, 157, 531 
 
 633, 570. 
 
 Roberts, William J. . . .188, 201 
 
 486, 534, 547. 
 
 Robertson, James 228 
 
 Robertson, Samuel 59 
 
 Robie, Rev. T. S 252 
 
 Robinson, Andrew 555 
 
 Robinson, David 228 
 
 Robinson, George 534, 583 
 
 Robinson, James 555, 585 
 
 Robinson, James F 455 
 
 Robinson, Martha 272 
 
 Robinson, Martha H 228 
 
 Robinson, Meshach 103, 278 
 
 486. 
 
 Robinson, Mrs. David 228 
 
 Robinson, Mrs. M. F 583 
 
 Robinson, Nathaniel D 228 
 
 Robinson, Prof 175 
 
 Robinson, Rev. A. A 290 
 
 Robinson, Samuel 62, 228 
 
 Robinson, Sarah 278 
 
 Robinson, Timothy 39 
 
 Rogers, Augustus J 231 
 
 Rogers, Calvin 228, 238 
 
 Rogers, Captain 100 
 
 Rogers, Charles 127, 533 
 
 Rogers, Daniel..61, 179, 532, 534 
 
 Rogers, Daniel, Jr 66, 71 
 
 Rogers, Edmund 228 
 
 Rogers, Geoi-ge H 210 
 
 Rogers, James 59, 61 
 
 Rogers, James, Jr.. 62, .532, 533 
 Rogers, James Tertius, ... 61 
 
 Rogers, John 59, 71 
 
 Rogers, John P 335 
 
 Rogers, Maj. Robert 26 
 
 Rogers, Mary J 515 
 
 Rogers, Mrs 583 
 
 Rogers, Mrs. Edmund 228 
 
 Rogers, Mrs. John P 335 
 
 Rogers, Nancy 228 
 
 Rogers, N.P 409 
 
 Rogers, Rev. Daniel M 268 
 
 Rogers, Rev. John 261 
 
 Rogers, Robert 16, 17 
 
 Rogers, R. T. . .428, 531, 532, 534 
 
 Rogers, Samuel 534 
 
 Rogers, Stephen H 228 
 
 Rollings, Anthony N 65 
 
 Rollings, Edward 56, 66 
 
 Rollings, Moses €5, 70 
 
 Rollings, Samuel 69, 71 
 
 Rollins, Benjamin 61, 584 
 
 Rollins, Edward. . . .71, 179, 532 
 
 Rollins, Edward A 176 
 
 Rollins, George W 237, 558 
 
 Rollin.s, Ichabod 61 
 
 Rollins, James W 174, 238 
 
 Rollins, J. L 237 
 
 Rollins, John A 387 
 
 Rooks, Richard 40 
 
 Root, Rev. David 247 
 
 Root, S. E 238,447 
 
 Rosier, William 229 
 
 Ross, James 229 
 
 Ross, John D 214 
 
 Ross, Julia A 408 
 
 Ross, Mary 571 
 
 Ross, Richard 571 
 
 Ross, Simon 298, 465 
 
 Ross, Thomas 408 
 
 Roulston, General 456 
 
 Rowe, Charles C 238 
 
 Rowe, Ichabod 521 
 
 Roweil, John H 270, 572 
 
 Rowe, Samuel C 229 
 
 Runnals, Elder 568 
 
 Runnells, John 169 
 
 Runnels, Roxana 571 
 
 Ruskin, John 327 
 
 Russell, James 229 
 
 Russell, Maynard 238 
 
 Russell, Richard 444 
 
 Ruter, Martin 574 
 
 Ryon, Samuel 65, 71 
 
 Safford, Rev. C. G 407 
 
 Salinger, Alex D 461 
 
 Salinger, Isidor 461, 485 
 
 Salinger, Mrs. Isidor 461 
 
 Sal tonstall, Matilda 122 
 
 Sampson, Andrew 229 
 
 Sampson, John C 229, 235 
 
 Sampson, Luther 229 
 
 Sampson, Luther B 206, 229 
 
 237. 
 
 Sampson, Mary E 229 
 
 Sanborn, 305 
 
 Sanborn, Arthur V 347 
 
 Sanborn, Cyrus K 164, 166 ■ i 
 
 169, 183, 188, 200, 207, 234, 236 ■ 
 
 452 to 455, 483, 484, 529. ■ 
 
 Sanborn, David J 196, 521 ■ 
 
 Sanborn, George A 460 ■ 
 
 Sanborn, Hiram M 161, 163 ■ 
 
 455. 1 1 
 
 Sanborn, James F 347 
 
 Sanborn, .J. L 455 
 
 Sanborn, John W 196 
 
 Sanborn, Lepha 455 
 
 Sanborn, Mary A 290 
 
 Sanborn, Mary S 581 
 
 Sanborn, Mrs. A. V 347 
 
 Sanborn, Mrs. C. K. . . .255, 453 
 
 Sanborn, Mrs. W. C 365 
 
 Sanborn, Nathan 460 
 
 Sanborn, Rev. Jacob ..262, 574 
 
 Sanborn, Sarah 290 
 
 Sanborn, Solomon 455 
 
 Sanborn, W.C 365 
 
 Sanborn, William 230 
 
 Sanders, James 229 
 
 Sargent, Daniel 71 
 
 Sargent, Dr. Betton W 229' 
 
 237, 446, 449, 572. 
 
 Sargent, Jacob. . 446 
 
 Sargent, Mrs. B. W. . . .446, 453 
 
 Sargent, Mrs. Z 555 j 
 
 Sargent, Paul D 621 , 
 
 Sargent, R. M 573 | 
 
 Sargent, Sarah 585 ' 
 
 Sargent, Zebadiah 161, 229 
 
 238. 
 
 Sarles, William N 229 
 
 Sawyer, Charles H 526 
 
 Sawyer, Edward 540 
 
 Sawyer, Helen 500 
 
 Sawyer, Rev. Dr 287 
 
 Sawyer, Thomas E . . .368, 500 
 
 525. 
 
 Sayward, Joseph B 521 
 
 Scammel, Colonel 70,71 
 
 Scammon, Colonel 621 
 
 Scales, George 364 
 
 Scates, Hannah 441 
 
 Scates, Smith 364 
 
 Scott, Orange 574 
 
 Scott, Waller 327 
 
 Scott, Winfield 458, 520 
 
 Scruton, Herbert M 438 
 
 Scruton, Hiram W 438, 521 
 
 Scruton, Leon E 461 
 
 Scruton, Mrs. H. M 439 
 
 Scruton, Mrs. H. W 438 
 
 Scruton, Mrs. Otis 586 
 
 Scruton, Stephen 461 
 
 Scruton, Walter S 460 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS, 
 
 671 
 
 Seagrave, Rev. James C. ..161 
 
 169,250,251. 
 
 SeaveJ^ Albert F 238 
 
 Seavej% Cliarlos M 529 
 
 Seavey, Effie 509 
 
 Seavey, Itbamat 62, 536 
 
 Seavev, Jonathan T 249 
 
 Seavey, M. H 188 
 
 Seavey, Rebecca 585 
 
 Seavey, Samuel 62, 536 
 
 Seccomb, Mary T .583 
 
 Sever, Ellen 354 
 
 Sever, JoImi .355 
 
 Seward, William H 198 
 
 Seymour, Koratio 520 
 
 Shannon, Thomas 183, 537 
 
 Shannon, William 183 
 
 Shapleigh, Elizabeth 88 
 
 Sharper, William 71 
 
 Shaw, Jackson 229 
 
 Shaw, Thomas 65, 71 
 
 Sheafe. James 524 
 
 Shepard, Frank P 169 
 
 Shepard, Rev. George ....251 
 
 Sherborne, Josiah 630 
 
 Sherburne, Joseph 183, 464 
 
 532, 534. 
 Sherman, Mrs. Samuel S. .577 
 
 Sherman, Rev. C. S 255 
 
 Sherman, Samuel S 57 
 
 Sherman, Thomas E 561 
 
 Sherman, William H .506 
 
 Sherwood, Rev. B. E 285 
 
 Shinn, Rev. G. H 288 
 
 Shipton.C. E 247 
 
 Shorey, Eliza 229 
 
 Shorey, George E 229 
 
 Shorey, Jeremiah 229 
 
 Shorey, John C. . , 200, 289, 562 
 Shorey, Mrs. Jeremiah — 229 
 
 Shorey, Nathaniel 230, 521 
 
 Shorey, Stephen. ..282, 371, 467 
 
 510, 511, 512, .514, 528, 532. 
 Shorey, Stephen F 511, 516 
 
 562. 
 
 Shm-han, Walter 230 
 
 Shurtleff, Rev. Roswell. . . 246 
 Shute, Gov. Saniael..34, 37, 40 
 
 Sias, John 38 
 
 Sias, John, Jr 38 
 
 Simon, Howard O 2.30 
 
 Simonds, Harlow 230 
 
 Simouds, Samuel S 230 
 
 Simpson, Ann F 350 
 
 Sinclair, 488 
 
 Sinclair. Everrett M.. .512, 514 
 
 558. 
 
 Sinclair, John G 526 
 
 Sinclair, John T 230 
 
 Sinclair, S. T 515 
 
 Sinclair, Willis W 511, 516 
 
 Sleeper, Corydon 515 
 
 Sleeper, Frank 238 
 
 Sleeper, John F 462 
 
 Sleeper, John O 521 
 
 Sleeper, Wesley 462 
 
 Small, Edwin E . . .190, 230, 237 
 
 Small, Joseph 40 
 
 Small, Zachariah 40 
 
 Smart, Jacob 249, 528 
 
 Smart, Elmer J 457, 5.30 
 
 Smart, John 457 
 
 Smart, Mrs. E. J 457 
 
 Smart, Mrs. John 457 
 
 Smith, 318, 571 
 
 Smith, Annie S 511 
 
 Smith, Arabella 379, 570 
 
 Smith, Betsey 452 
 
 Smith, Charles 230 
 
 Smith, Colonel 547 
 
 Smith, Dr. H.J 381 
 
 Smith, Dr. Joseph H.. .161, 345 
 
 379, 394, 395. 
 
 Smith, Dr. William 407 
 
 Smith , Ellas 379 
 
 Smith, Ellas F 541 
 
 Smith, George E 169 
 
 Smith, George O 445 
 
 Smith, Henry 71 
 
 Smith, Jacob D 445 
 
 Smith, James F 230 
 
 Smith, Jeremiah.. 3.32, 451, 524 
 Smith, John. ..142, 171, 183, 379 
 
 452, 465, 494, 532, .534. 
 Smith, John H 161, 182, 183 
 
 452, 494, 528, 535. 
 
 Smith, John R 230 
 
 Smith, John W 2.30 
 
 Smith, Joseph 230, 470, 571 
 
 Smith, Lavinia ^. 230 
 
 Smith, L.D .*. 276 
 
 Smith, Lewis J 211 
 
 Smith, Lizzie 381 
 
 Smith, Lieut. John 38, 78 
 
 Smith, Moody 2S9 
 
 Smith, Mrs 515 
 
 Smith, Mrs. Charles 230 
 
 Smith, Mrs. Clara D 402 
 
 Smith, Mrs. John 379 
 
 Smith, Mrs. John R 230 
 
 Smith, Mrs. Joseph H.381, 394 
 
 Smitli, Mrs. William 499 
 
 Smith, Nancy 230 
 
 Smith, R-'iV 290 
 
 Smith, Rev. Benton 287 
 
 Smith, Rev. Daniel J.. 161, 169 
 
 253,271,274. 
 
 Smith, Rev. H. W 287, 288 
 
 Smifh, Rev. .James A 247 
 
 Smith, Rev. James G 266 
 
 289, 290. 
 Smith, Rev. William T .. ..161 
 
 188, 207, 280. 
 
 Smith, Richard 230 
 
 Smith, Timothy 230 
 
 Smith, W. H 449 
 
 Smith, William 499 
 
 Smith, William B. 171 
 
 Smith, Woodbury 230 
 
 Smyth, Frederick 526 
 
 Sondheim, Henry 206 
 
 Soule, Harrison 471 
 
 Snow, Rev. 281 
 
 Sparks, Jared 165, 3.50 
 
 Spaulding, 500 
 
 Spaulding, Rev. George. ..161 
 
 250. 
 
 Spencer, Amos 59, 65, 68 
 
 Spinney, Joseph 2.37 
 
 Spinney, Joseph F 230 
 
 Splnny, Samuel 149 
 
 Spra gue, William — — 404 
 Springfield, George W ....219 
 Springfield, Isaac W...483, 505 
 
 510, 512, 528, 531, .555, 557, 5.58 
 
 Springfield, John F 460 
 
 Springfield, Mrs. J. F. .453, 460 
 
 Spring, Rev 96 
 
 Stackpole, Dr. 164 
 
 Stackpole, Mrs. P. A 443 
 
 Stackpole, Noah S 534 
 
 Stackpole, Otis 534 
 
 Stackpole, Paul A 443 
 
 Stackpole, Samuel .. ..248, 249 
 256, .584. 
 
 Stackpole, Thomas 161 
 
 Stacy, Daniel L 439 
 
 Stacy, Elizabeth A 439 
 
 Stacy, Josephine 439 
 
 Standley, Ezra 484 
 
 Standley, Walter S 529, 535 
 
 Stansbury, Henry 230 
 
 Stanton, Benjamin 39 
 
 Stanton, Edward 230 
 
 Stanton, John 59, 68 
 
 Starboard, Stephen 68 
 
 Starbord, Thomas 40 
 
 Starbord, Thomas, Jr 40 
 
 Stark, General 67 
 
 Stark, George 526 
 
 Stark, John 118,518 
 
 Stark, William 118 
 
 St. Clair, General 67 
 
 Stearns, Onslow 526 
 
 Steele, John H 311, 525 
 
 Steese, Mi-s. Edward 478 
 
 Stephenson, Col. B. F 235 
 
 Stevens, Enos 525 
 
 Stevens, George W 387 
 
 Stevens, James B 230, 237 
 
 Stevenson, Joseph 39 
 
 Stevens, Paltiah 69 
 
 Stevens, Rev 290 
 
 Stevens, Rev. Mark 290 
 
 Stevens, Thomas 40 
 
 Stewart, Ruth 400 
 
 Stiles, William 77, 78 
 
 Stillinkamp, J. D 230 
 
 St. John, John P 520 
 
 Stoddard, Fannie F 449 
 
 Stone, Harriet M 427 
 
 Stone, John 254 
 
 Stone, Lyman D 230 
 
 Stone, Mrs. John 254 
 
 Stone, Rev. H. M..169, 253, 285 
 
 Stone, Sidney M 427 
 
 Storer, Clement 557 
 
 Storer, Samuel... .131, 333, 467 
 
 537, .538. 
 
 Stott, John 196, 558 
 
 Stowell, Martin 383 
 
 Stowe, Rev. Baron 171 
 
 Stratton, Rev. Frank K. . . .270 
 
 572. 
 
 Straw, Ezekiel A 526 
 
 Strickland, Rev. George C.286 
 
 Stuitevant, Edwin A 478 
 
 Sturtevant, Ellen B 478 
 
 Sturtevant, Fiances A 478 
 
 Sturtevant, John D 166, 199 
 
 2.55, 477, 482, 483, 505, 555. 
 
 Sturtevant, Mrs. J. D 477 
 
 Sturtevant, Mrs. Perez 477 
 
 Sturtevant, Perez 477 
 
 Sullivan. Gen. John.. 57, 59, 63 
 
 69, 179, 518, 524. 
 
 Sullivan, John 450 
 
 Sullivan, John S 230 
 
 Sumner, Charles 389, 403 
 
 Swaine, Seorim 569 
 
 Swan, Molly 345 
 
 Swasey, Herbert C 461 
 
 Swasey, Joseph P 319, 461 
 
 Swayne, John L 521 
 
 Sweatt, Dr. T. J 444 
 
 Sweetlove, Dr 312 
 
 Sweet, Robert V 450 
 
 Swett, 510 
 
 Swett, Rev. David 279 
 
 Swift, Ciiptain 227 
 
 Tabor, Reuben 429 
 
 Tanner, 159 
 
 Tanner, G. W 237 
 
 Tappan, Christopher 518 
 
 Tappan, Rev. Daniel D....251 
 
672 
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 Tar, Benedict 40 
 
 Tarlton, Elias 31 
 
 Tashe, Colonel 64 
 
 Tasb, Thomas, Jr 179 
 
 Taj'lor, Augustus 230 
 
 Taylor, Benjamin 59 
 
 Taylor, Mary 450 
 
 Taylor, Rev.Amasa 261 
 
 Taylor, Zachary 401, 494 
 
 Teague, Cbarles 230, 237 
 
 Teague, Matthew 230, 237 
 
 Tebbets, Benjamin. .77, 78, 144 
 
 Tebbets, Charity 351 
 
 Tebbets, Charles B 355 
 
 Tebbets, Charles E 231 
 
 Tebbets, David 62, 584 
 
 Tebbets, Ebenezer. ..53, 59, 61 
 
 62, 501, 530, 533, 585. 
 
 Tebbets, Edmond 62 
 
 Tebbets, Edward 20, 62, 83 
 
 286, 287, 530 to 534. 
 
 Tebbets, Elijah 62, 584 
 
 Tebbets, Elijah, Jr 62 
 
 Tebbets, Ezekiel 62 
 
 Tebbets, Hall W 355 
 
 Tebbets, Henry 61 
 
 Tebbets, James.... 161, 183, 244 
 
 249, 352, 354, 466, 528, 531, 532 
 
 534, 585. 
 
 Tebbets, J. H. W 231 
 
 Tebbets, John 62 
 
 Tebbets, John S 355 
 
 Tebbets, Jonathan 59 
 
 Tebbets, Joseph. . . .62, 5.32, 533 
 
 541, 584. 
 
 Tebbets, Lucy 443 
 
 Tebbets, Mary 571 
 
 Tebbets, Mrs 585 
 
 Tebbets, Mrs. James 552 
 
 Tebbets, Mrs. Noah 456 
 
 Tebbets, Mrs. Noah, Jr — 456 
 Tebbets, Mrs. Theodore. ..354 
 Tebbets, Noah. .27, 161, 177, 183 
 
 184, 231, 235, 236, 237, 305, 313 
 
 333, 334, 352, 368, 456, 528, 5:^ 
 
 539, 581, 583. 
 
 Tebbets, Noah, Jr 355, 456 
 
 Tebbets, Oliver H 571 
 
 Tebbets, Paul... 77, 78, 531, 533 
 
 Tebbets, Rev 290 
 
 Tebbets, Robert 62 
 
 Tebbets, Samuel 41, 75, 534 
 
 Tebbets, Samuel H 231 
 
 Tebbets, Sarah C 355 
 
 Tebbets, Theodore 354 
 
 Tebbetts, Amanda 281 
 
 Tebbetts, Dorothy 128 
 
 Tebbetts, Elmer 319 
 
 Tebbetts, George 281 
 
 Tebbetts, Henry 497, 534 
 
 Tebbetts, James, 2d 534 
 
 Tebbetts, John W .229, 529, 534 
 
 541, 562. 
 
 Tebbetts, Mary E 272 
 
 Tebbetts, Mrs. Henry 497 
 
 Tebbetts, Rev. Ira J 273 
 
 Tebbetts, Sarah 281 
 
 Tebbetts. William 251, 255 
 
 Tenney, Rev 290 
 
 Thayer, Rev 368 
 
 Thomas, General 229, 232 
 
 Thomas, Lorenzo 446 
 
 Thomas, William 231 
 
 Thompson, Charles 61 
 
 Thompson, Charles W 237 
 
 Thompson, Ebenezer .518, 524 
 
 Thompson, Edmund E 360 
 
 Thompson, Ella M 447 
 
 Thompson, John 231 
 
 Thompson, John F 237 
 
 Thompson, Joseph ..59, 62, 68 
 
 Thompson, Noah 431 
 
 Thompson, Susannah 431 
 
 Thomp.son, Thomas W.... 332 
 
 Thurstin, Abner 40 
 
 Thurston, Andrew J 231 
 
 Thurston, Charles 281 
 
 Thurston, Mrs. A. J 231 
 
 Thurston, Mrs. Oliver 231 
 
 Thurston, Oliver 231 
 
 Thurston, Priscilla 231 
 
 Thurston, Rev. J 276 
 
 Thurston, Susan 231 
 
 Tibbets, Edward 89 
 
 Tibbets, James 248 
 
 Tibbets, John W...,511, 515, 516 
 
 Tibbetts, E. W 276 
 
 Tibbetts, Ezekiel 487 
 
 Tibbetts, Mary 275 
 
 Tibbetts, Rev. Charles 274 
 
 Tibbetts, Rev. Lewis 274 
 
 Tibbits, Ephraim 38 
 
 Tibbits, Henery 38 
 
 Tibbits, John (Sligo) 3s 
 
 Tibbits, Samuel 38 
 
 Tibbits, Thomas 38 
 
 Tibbitts, Elijah 510 
 
 Tilden, Samuel J 520 
 
 Tilton, Edward D 231 
 
 Tilton, G. H 230 
 
 Tilton, Joseph 451 
 
 Tilton, Lawyer 143 
 
 Tilton, Mrs. Joseph 451 
 
 Tilton, Reuben.. ..169, 196, 308 
 
 Titcomb, Benjamin 56, 65 
 
 Tltcomb, Colonel 117 
 
 Titcomb, Elizabeth 117 
 
 Titus, Colonel 209 
 
 Tobin, William 227, 535 
 
 Tobey, Rev. Alvan. . . .247, 251 
 
 252, 253. 
 
 Toby, Samuel 31 
 
 Togers, Richard 521 
 
 Tolley, Thomas 56 
 
 Tombly, Sam 78 
 
 Tompson, John 38 
 
 Tompson, Rev. John ..240, 242 
 
 Torr, A bigail 368, 458 
 
 Torr, Charles 428 
 
 Torr, Charles C 428 
 
 Torr, George A 428 
 
 Torr, John 419, 428 
 
 Torr, John F 188, 428, 534 
 
 Torr, Jonathan. . . .265, 419, 429 
 Torr, Jonathan H..170, 171, 331 
 
 368, 428, 466, 528, 537. 
 
 Torr, Mrs. John F 428 
 
 Torr, Mrs. Jonathan H .... 428 
 Torr, Mrs. Simon. .368, 419, 428 
 
 Torr, Mrs. Simon, Jr 428 
 
 Torr, Sarah E 42S 
 
 Torr, Simon. . .368, 419, 428, 464 
 
 533, 536. 
 
 Torr, Simon A 428 
 
 Torr, Simon A., 2d 428 
 
 Torr, Simon, Jr 428 
 
 Torr, Vincent 428 
 
 Towle, 481 
 
 Towle, A. S 511 
 
 Towle, Di-. Ira 346 
 
 Towner, James — 171, 172, 175 
 
 294, 302. 
 
 Tracy, Levi N 172 
 
 Tracy, Rev. A. P.. .161, 280, 285 
 
 Trafton, Charles 444 
 
 Trafton, I. S 432 
 
 Trask, Bertie E 457 
 
 Trefen, Rev. John L...269, 270 
 
 Trickey, George W.. ..231, 237 
 
 Trickey, Jacob 231 
 
 Trickey, John. . . 39, 45, 61, 532 
 
 533, 575. 
 
 Trickey, John, Jr 61 
 
 Trickey, -fohn P . .231, 237, 467 
 
 Trickey, Joseph 231 
 
 Trickey, Joshua 301 
 
 Trickey, Mary 231 
 
 Trickey, Mrs. Jacob 231 
 
 Trickey, Mrs. William 584 
 
 Trickey, Rebecca 584 
 
 Trickey, Rev. Eben D 143 
 
 171, 265, 273. 
 
 Trickey, Thomas 39, 62 
 
 Trickey, William... 61, 171, 256 
 
 263. 
 
 Trowbridge, Sarah 453 
 
 True, Capt. Henry 401 
 
 True, Ezekiel, 1st 401 
 
 True, Ezekiel, 2d 401 
 
 True, Henry 401 
 
 True, Jacob 401 
 
 True, John 401 
 
 True, Mrs. Capt. H 401 
 
 True, Mrs. Ezekiel, 1st 401 
 
 True, Mrs. Ezekiel, 2d 401 
 
 True, Mrs. Jacob 401 
 
 True, Mrs. John 401 
 
 True, Mrs. Rev. Ezekiel. ..402 
 True, Rev. Ezekiel ....161, 169 
 
 253, 280 to 285, 401. 
 
 True, Sylvia M 284 
 
 Tuck, Amos 386 
 
 Tucker, James F 231 
 
 Tucker, Joseph 62 
 
 Tucker, W. H 492 
 
 Tucker, Tristram 164 
 
 Tufts, Amos 284 
 
 Tufts, W.C 237 
 
 Turner, Caroline H 253 
 
 Turner, Dr 442 
 
 Tuiner, Elizabeth A 439 
 
 Turner, Francis 439 
 
 Turner, Lewis 172 
 
 Tui-ner, Louis 330 
 
 Turner, Mrs. Louis 330 
 
 Turner, Susie A ; 439 
 
 Tattle, Benjamin 499 
 
 Tuttle, Ebenezer 39 
 
 Tuttle, Israel 521 
 
 Tuttle, Mrs. Israel 586 
 
 Tuttle, Thomas 39 
 
 Tvvambly, William 39 
 
 Twomble5% Benjamin. . .40, 62 
 
 Twombley, Jonathan 62 
 
 T wombly, Alonzo H 231 
 
 Twombly, Ebenezer 68 
 
 Twombly, Elizabeth, 585 
 
 Twombly, Ephraim, Jr 179 
 
 Twombly, Isaac. . . . 62, 636, 584 
 
 TAVouibly, .lohn 40 
 
 Twombly, John F 233 
 
 Twombly, John H 437 
 
 Twombly, Joseph 40 
 
 Twombly, Joseph B 231 
 
 Twombly, Mary 585 
 
 Twombly, Mrs. J. H 438 
 
 Twombly, Mrs. Tobias... 437 
 Twombly, Samuel . . .40, 43, 61 
 
 531, 533, 542. 
 
 Twombly, Samuel, Jr 62 
 
 Twombly, Tobias 240, 244 
 
 437, 532. 
 
 Twombly, Tobias, Jr 532 
 
 Twombly, Widow 584 
 
 Twombly, William 534 
 
 Tyler, Abraham 408 
 
 Tyler, John 385 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 673 
 
 Tyler, Rev. Bermett. . .244, 245 
 246. 
 
 Upham, Albert 571 
 
 Upliam.Ur. A 44.: 
 
 Upham, Dr. Albert G — . .328 
 
 Upbam, Dr. Alfred 32S 
 
 Upbam, Francis W . . . .328, 571 
 
 583. 
 
 Upbam, llannab 570 
 
 Upbam, Joseph B 328, .583 
 
 Upham, Mary 327, 350 
 
 Upbam, Mrs. Nathaniel ... .243 
 
 Upbam, Mrs. T. C 243 
 
 Upbam, Nathaniel. ..102, 137 
 
 171, 173, 177. 183, 243, 244, 295 
 
 297, 326, 327; 32.S, 337, 350, 464 
 
 465, 467, 519, 524, 628, 532, 535 
 
 583. 
 Upham, Nathaniel G ..328, 368 
 
 369. 
 Upham, Rev. Thomas C. ..240 
 
 242, 243, 244, 240, 824, 325, 344 
 
 368, 465, 568. 
 
 Upham, Ruth. 571 
 
 Upham, Col. Timothy. -326, 525 
 Upham, Dr. Timothy.. 328, 345 
 
 571. 
 Usher, .Tohn 38 
 
 Vail, Rev. W. S 287. 288 
 
 Van Buren, Martin . . . .382, 393 
 
 397, 520, 521. 
 
 Varan ey, l^eter 38 
 
 Varney, Charles F 284 
 
 Varney, David 62 
 
 Vai-nej', Downing .500, 509, 578 
 Varney, Ebenezer. . .38, 62, 511 
 
 521. 
 
 Varney, Edmund 499 
 
 Varney, Edward 62 
 
 Varney, Elijah 61, 536 
 
 Varney, Eliza A 275 
 
 Varnes', George 43 
 
 Varney, George 149 
 
 Varnc-y, George E 476 
 
 Varney, George W — 231, b^i 
 
 Varney, Isaac 3,57 
 
 Varney, Israel — 501 
 
 Varney, James R 231 
 
 Varney, Job 2.57 
 
 Varney, Joel. ..... .149, 286, 499 
 
 Varney, John B 232 
 
 Varnev, John W .509 
 
 Varney, .Joseph . ..367, 466, 473 
 
 Vax-ney, Lizzie 367 
 
 Varney, Mordecai 62 
 
 Varney, Moses 62, 499 
 
 Varney, Moses, Jr 62 
 
 Varney, Mrs. Joseph 367 
 
 Varney, Mrs. Lamson 585 
 
 Varney, Mrs. Sam'l J.. 400, 432 
 
 Varney, Nicholas 497, .500 
 
 Varney, Nicholas R.. ..188, 196 
 
 495. 
 
 Varney, Olive 357 
 
 Varney, Pliilander 509 
 
 Varney, Pbineas 400, 498 
 
 Varney, Rev. J. H. F ..289, 290 
 
 Varney, Samuel 552 
 
 Varney, Samuel F.200, 201, 232 
 
 Varney, Samuel J 192, 400 
 
 Varney, Sarah 586 
 
 Varney, Silas 497,498 
 
 Varney, Thomas 497, 489 
 
 Veazie, Pbebe S 511 
 
 Vickery, Joshua 529, 534 
 
 Vinal, Henry J 511 
 
 Vinton, Josiab 121 
 
 47 
 
 Vinton, Mrs. Josiab 121 
 
 Virgin, Charles L 448 
 
 Virgin, Frank P 448 
 
 Virgin, Harry L 448 
 
 Virgin, Mrs. F. P 448 
 
 Vittum, Lieut 229 
 
 Wadleigb, Abby 331 
 
 Wadleigh, Warren 521 
 
 Wakefield, Rachel R 275 
 
 Wakeman, Caleb 62 
 
 Waldron, Abigail 586 
 
 Waldron, Daniel ..171, 263, 534 
 Waldron. Dudley B....161, 225 
 ,534, 559. 
 
 Waldron, Elizabeth 272 
 
 Waldron, Eliza P 121 
 
 Waldron, James 539 
 
 Waldron, John 38, 60 
 
 Waldron, Major 15, 16 
 
 Waldron, Luke 437 
 
 Waldron, Richard. . . .36, 38, 40 
 41, 78. 
 
 Waldron, Richard, Jr 38 
 
 Walker, 310 
 
 Walker, Fred A 460 
 
 Walker, Henry F 535 
 
 Walker, James. . . .460, 483, .510 
 516. 
 
 Walker, John 56 
 
 VValker, Joseph... 62, 78, SO, 91 
 179, 256, 532. 
 
 Walker, Joseph, Jr 62 
 
 Walker, Lydia 586 
 
 Walker, IMaj. John 468 
 
 Walker, Mrs. John. 436 
 
 Walker, Rev. A . S 252 
 
 Walker, Rev. Charles 249 
 
 Walker, Rev. James.. .152, 245 
 
 Walker, Rev. John 436 
 
 Walker, Richard 61 
 
 Walker, Robert 61,436 
 
 Walker, Timothy .524 
 
 Wallace, Albert 459, 54) 
 
 Wallace, Arthur L 448 
 
 Wallace, David, Jr 448 
 
 Wallace, Dr. Alonzo S.448, 449 
 
 Wallace, Ebenezer G...11, 152 
 
 188, 196, 201, 206, 221, 287, 313 
 
 363, 459, 474, 483, 484, 529, 530 
 
 i>31, 561. 
 
 Wallace, Edna J 448 
 
 Wallace, Edith M 448 
 
 Wallace, Edwin... 152, 188, 196 
 207, 214, 234, 255, 287, 313, 474 
 483, 485, .529, 531. 
 
 Wallace, Frank F 468, 484 
 
 Wallace, Hiram 521 
 
 Wallace, Linzey 474, 575 
 
 Wallace, Margaret 448 
 
 Wallace, Mrs. Albert 459 
 
 Wallace, Mrs. A. S. 448 
 
 Wallace, Mrs. Ebenezer G.420 
 
 4.59, 474. 
 Wallace, Mrs. Ed win.. 319, 475 
 
 Wallace, Mrs. Linzey 474 
 
 Wallace, Mrs. Sumner 459 
 
 Wallace, Rev. G. W 280 
 
 Wallace, Richardson J — 484 
 Wallace. Sumner.. 459, 485, 529 
 
 Wallingford, Abigail 585 
 
 Wallingford, Jacob B 528 
 
 Wallingford, Moses .521 
 
 Wallingford, Rev. P 268 
 
 Wallingford, Thomas 39 
 
 WaLsh, Rev. Father 291 
 
 Walton, Daniel 71 
 
 Walton, George 38 
 
 Walton, George, .Jr 40 
 
 Walton, Shadrach 40 
 
 Warburton, James H 558 
 
 Ward, Hiram 153 
 
 Ward, Rev. Jonathan 247 
 
 Ward, Rev. W. H 281, 282 
 
 Wardwell, John H 161, 169 
 
 Warr'erC Charles G 622 
 
 Warren, Charles H 232 
 
 Warren, Clara A 583 
 
 Warren, Dr. Moses R..166, 169 
 
 188,441,467. 
 
 Warren, General 379 
 
 Warren, Harriet A 624 
 
 Warren, James 434 
 
 Warren, James E 232 
 
 Warren, John S.. . .168, 188, 233 
 
 441. 
 Warren, Joseph. ..241, 465, 583 
 
 624. 
 
 Warren, Lydia 434 
 
 Warren, Mary. . 266 
 
 Warren, iMiss 469 
 
 Warren, Mrs. Charles G...624 
 
 Warren, Mrs. Joseph 624 
 
 Warren, Mrs. M. R 441 
 
 Warren, Osman B 232, 236 
 
 237, 434, 496, 529, 531, 558. 
 
 Warren, Rev 290 
 
 Warren, Rev. James... 266, 273 
 
 Warren, Susan M 169, 441 
 
 Warren. Wilbur F 232, 236 
 
 237, 529, 558. 
 Washington. George. .59, 63, 74 
 
 154, ISl, 324, 428, 518. 
 Waterhouse, Sylvester ...176 
 
 Waterman, Ruth 442 
 
 Watkins, Daniel 61 
 
 Watson, Daniel.. ..59, 66, 70, 71 
 
 Watson, Davi<l 39 
 
 Watson, Elihu H 528 
 
 ^^atson, I. B 287 
 
 Watson, John.. 23 
 
 Watson, Nathaniel 61 
 
 Watson, Nathaniel, Jr 62 
 
 Watson, Robert 232 
 
 Watson, William 237 
 
 Watson, William H 237 
 
 Wattles, Gurdon W 485 
 
 Watts, Charles S 404 
 
 Watts, Mary E 404 
 
 Weare, Meshech ... .60, 523, 545 
 
 Weaver, A. W 520 
 
 Webster, 564 
 
 Webster, Daniel 392 
 
 Webster, William 452 
 
 Webster, William G. . .301, 452 
 
 519. 
 Webster, Mrs. William ....452 
 Webster, Mrs. William G. .452 
 
 Weeks, Mrs. C. P 470 
 
 Weeks, Nicholas 31 
 
 Welch, Bart 237 
 
 Welch. Bben 5.55 
 
 Welch, Edwin 472 
 
 Welch, Matthias 71 
 
 Welch, Morris 232 
 
 Wells, John S 525 
 
 Wells, Nathaniel 11 
 
 Wells, Theodore 442 
 
 Wengit.John 75 
 
 Wentvvorth, Albert H 581 
 
 Wentworth, Benjamin ... 38 
 Wentwortb, Benning.. . .29, 31 
 
 117, 118. . . 
 
 Wentwortb, Capt. Benjamin 
 36, 38, 41 
 
 Wentwortb, Charles 237 
 
 Wentwortb, Charles F 13 
 
674 
 
 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 Wentworth, Charles H . . . .232 
 
 Wentworth, Daniel 436 
 
 Wentwortb, Dcborali R.. • .2S1 
 Wentworth, Ebenezer..61, 533 
 
 Wentworth, Elihu 61 
 
 Wentworth, Emma J 161 
 
 Wentworth, Ephraim. ..38, 61 
 
 Wentworth, Frank P 559 
 
 Wentworth, George S 232 
 
 43S. 
 
 Wentworth, George W 232 
 
 Wentworth, Gershoni 3S 
 
 Wentworth, Gershom, Jr. . 38 
 Wentworth, Gov. John 54 
 
 116, 126, 485, 527, 548. 
 Wentworth, Isaac. . .59, 61, 188 
 
 Wentworth, J 196 
 
 Wentworth, J. B 174 
 
 W'entworth, James. ..56, 59, 61 
 
 US. 621. 
 
 Wentworth, Jennie L 489 
 
 Wentworth, John 570 
 
 ^Ventworth, John.,.. 50, 77, 530 
 Wentworth, Jonathan.. 56, 188 
 
 315. 
 
 Wentworth, Joseph .526 
 
 Wentworth, Joshua 524 
 
 Wentworth, Josiah 62, 471 
 
 Wentworth, Lois 437 
 
 Wentworth, Loren H. G...2o2 
 Wentworth, Lt. Gov. John 40 
 
 Wentworth, Luther 438 
 
 Wentwortb, Micajah JT — 188 
 
 196, 233, 473, 528. 
 
 Wentworth, Mrs 567 
 
 AVentworlh, Mrs. Daniel... 436 
 Wentworth, Nicholas. ...61, 68 
 Wentworth, Paul 38, 78, 79 
 
 Wentworth, Phehe....420, 584 
 
 Wentwoi-th, Reuben 62 
 
 Wentwortb, Rev. George F. 
 
 274 
 Wentworth, Rev. James J. 278 
 Wentworth, Rev. Lewis.. 274 
 Wentworth, Richard. . . .20, 21 
 
 61, 78, 91, 531, 533, 575. 
 
 Wentworth, R. B 473 
 
 Wentworth, Russell B.186, 531 
 
 Wentworth, Russell K .529 
 
 Wentworth, S. A. J 218 
 
 Wentworth. Silus .144, 188, 286 
 
 287, 471, 561. 
 
 Wentworth, Silas H 489 
 
 Wentworth, Silas J. . . .188, 473 
 
 Wentworth, Simon 534 
 
 Wentworth, Stephen — 50, 55 
 
 467, 485. 
 Wentworth, Stephen D ... .188 
 
 196, 483, 484. 529, .530, 534. 
 VVentworth, Thomas. . . .27, 31 
 
 142,261,262,575. 
 Wentwortb, William.. 483, .528 
 
 Westbrook, Thomas 40 
 
 Weatcot, Thomas 40 
 
 Westcott, W. H 404 
 
 Weston, James A — 526 
 
 Wetmore, Nathaniel D.169, 387 
 
 477, 503, 528, 531, 539. 
 
 Weymouth, Samuel 31 
 
 Wheeler, Ellen 408 
 
 Wlieeler, tlazen 408 
 
 Wheeler, John 447 
 
 Wheeler, Joseph 39 
 
 Whicher, Roland C 232 
 
 Whipple, Emeline 4.56 
 
 Whipple, Emeline F 4.56 
 
 ■WTiipple, John 521 
 
 Whipple, J. W 289 
 
 Whipple, Orrin 456 
 
 White, Elizabeth 84 
 
 White, Ephraim H 461 
 
 Whiteflekl, George 232 
 
 Whitebouse, Albert 367 
 
 Whitehouse, Alice A 365 
 
 Whitebouse, Anthony 464 
 
 Whitebouse, Arthur 367 
 
 White liouse, Arthur D.529, 558 
 
 Whitehouse, Charles S .20, 161 
 
 164, 188, 200, 201, 234, 355, 364 
 
 483, 408, 502, 506, 509, 512, 513 
 
 514,528,529,531,551,562. 
 
 Whitehouse, E. Freeman.. 188 
 
 362, 364, 366, 377, 509, 512, 513 
 
 Whitehouse, Elizabeth A. .364 
 
 Whitehouse, Emily J 367 
 
 Whitebouse, Enoch.. ..188, 252 
 357, 479, 482, 583. 
 
 Whitebouse, Ephraim 131 
 
 Whitebouse, Ephraim H . .530 
 Whitehouse, Israel.. ..149, 357 
 
 498. 
 Whitehouse, Mary Ann.. .583 
 Whitehouse, Mrs. Arthur. .367 
 
 Whitehouse, Mrs. C. S 365 
 
 Whitehouse, Mrs. E. F 366 
 
 377, 4.30. 
 
 Whitehouse, Mrs. Enoch. .358 
 
 Whitehonse, Mrs. Israel. . .357 
 
 Whitebouse, Mrs.N. V. 359, 432 
 
 Whitebouse, X. V. .1.36, 164, 188 
 
 195, 249, 286, 302, 356, 357, 3.58 
 
 370, 467, 482, 497, 498, 499, 503 
 
 500, 568, 512. 513, 528, 530, 531 
 
 539. 
 
 Whitehouse, Sarah 507 
 
 Whitehouse, Silas 357 
 
 Whitehouse, Stephen 498 
 
 Whitebouse, Susan R 475 
 
 Whitebouse, Turner 62 
 
 Whitebouse, Walter B 365 
 
 Whitehouse, Warren S 238 
 
 Whitehouse, William 475 
 
 Whitehouse, William, Jr.. 529 
 
 White, J. B 575 
 
 White, John 84, 232, 237 
 
 White, John H 525 
 
 White, Judge 84 
 
 White, Kathaniel 536 
 
 White, Patrick 232 
 
 White, Rev. Isaac C 251 
 
 Wliite, Samuel 461 
 
 Whitmore, General 118 
 
 Whitney, Angelina H 284 
 
 Whitney, Dr. Frank E..161, 448 
 Whitney, Mrs. Frank E ... .449 
 
 Whitney, Nathan 448 
 
 Whitney, Rev. George W..279 
 
 Whiltaker, Dr 347 
 
 Whittemore, A. J 2.56 
 
 Whittemore, Arthur G 334 
 
 Whittemore, Rev. Aaron. .361 
 
 Wbittier, John G 388 
 
 Whittier, Josiah H 530 
 
 Wbittier, S. C 404 
 
 Wbthouse, Edward 39 
 
 Wibird, Richard 40 
 
 Wier, Eleazar 40 
 
 Wiggin, Benjamin 5.57 
 
 Wiggin, Lafayette 230, 475 
 
 Wiggin, Mrs 381 
 
 Wilcox, Chester P 449 
 
 Wilcox, Dr. Frederick E...449 
 450. 
 
 Wilcox, Mrs. F. E 449 
 
 Wilde, Rev. Father Louis. .291 
 Wilder, Marshall P. . . .503, 506 
 
 Wilkinson, Charles E 232 
 
 Wilkinson, Isaiah N 555 
 
 Wilkinson, J. N 196 
 
 Wilkinson, William 232 
 
 Wilklns, Rev. Elijah 270 
 
 Wilkson, James 31 
 
 Willand, George 62 
 
 Willand, Rev. Charles. 289, 485 
 
 Willan, George 542 
 
 Willard, Nathaniel H 282 
 
 Wille, John 38 
 
 Wille, Thomas 39 
 
 Willey, Abigail 432 
 
 Willey, Charles H 231 
 
 Willey, Charles W 510 
 
 \Tilley, Darius 246 
 
 Willey, Enoch T 233, 561 
 
 Willey, James 432 
 
 Willey, John 621 
 
 Willey, IMaria G 432 
 
 Willey, Moses W 469 
 
 Willey, Mrs. Darius 246 
 
 Willey, Mrs. Enoch T 233 
 
 Willey, Rev. Benj. G.. .247, 249 
 Willey, Rev. Isaac 161, 171 
 
 172, 244, 245, 246, 249, 301, 302 
 
 303, 350, 519, .539. 
 
 Willey, Rev. Worster 176 
 
 Willey, Samuel 39 
 
 Willey, Sarah 233 
 
 Willey, Tolman 176 
 
 Willey, Wentworth 233 _ , 
 
 Williams, Charles II 233 J 
 
 Williams, Jared W 525.B 
 
 Williams, John 39, 40, 233 T 
 
 Williams, Rev. R. O 286 * ' 
 
 Williams, Samuel 40 
 
 Wilson, Harry 233 
 
 Wilson, Henry 237 
 
 Wilson, Henry 233 
 
 Wilson, Hon. Henry.. .327, 567 
 
 Wilson, James 525, 551 
 
 Wilson, John 233 
 
 Wilson, Lovey 455 
 
 Wilson, Mrs. Nathan W 577 
 
 Wilson, Nathan W 577 
 
 Winchester, E. H 406 
 
 Wiuford, John 78 
 
 Winf ord, Richard 532 
 
 Wingate, Aaron. . .1.53, 179, 281 
 
 322, 528, 532, 533, 542. c ; 
 
 Wingate, Abbie A . . .281^ i 
 
 Wingate, Daniel.. 53, 55, 61, 66 ■ 
 
 71, 127, 532, 533, 542. ' 
 
 Wingate, Daniel, Jr — 71, 548 
 
 Wingate, David 59, 535 
 
 Wingate; Cfesar 71,550 
 
 Wingate, Charles C 317 
 
 Wingate, Colonel 64 
 
 Wingate, Col. Joshua 333 
 
 Wingate, Enoch 66, 71, 429 
 
 Wingate, Francis E 281 
 
 Wingate, Jeremj' 153, 479 
 
 Wingate, John 154, 533 
 
 Wingate, Joseph 68, 233 
 
 Wingate, Judge .550 
 
 Wingate, Lydia 322 
 
 Wingate, Mary 585 
 
 Wingate, Sally 322 
 
 Wingate, Samuel. . .62, 127, 584 
 
 Wingate, Samuel, Jr 62 
 
 Wingate, Samuel N 281 
 
 Wingate, Sarah 429 
 
 Wingate, William 61 
 
 Winget, John 39 
 
 Winget, Joshua 48 
 
 Winget, Moses T 39 
 
 Winget, Samuel 39 
 
 Wiukley, Joanna 454 
 
INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. 
 
 675 
 
 Winn, Alexander M 572 
 
 Winslow, Governor 456 
 
 Wise, Jeremiah 431 
 
 Wise, Mrs. Jeremiah 431 
 
 Wiswell, Henry T 453 
 
 Wi swell, Mrs. Henry T.... 454 
 
 Wiswell, Mrs. Thomas 453 
 
 Wiswell, Thomas 453 
 
 Witham, John 528, 5.S4 
 
 Witherell, James 539 
 
 Witherell, John 62, 532 
 
 Wolfe, General 56, 118 
 
 Wolf ord, William 78 
 
 WoUc, Rev .569, 570 
 
 Woodbury, John 521, 522 
 
 Woodbury, John F . . . .387, 526 
 
 Woodbui-y, Levi 525 
 
 Wood. Frank 381 
 
 Wood, John B 307 
 
 Woodman, 310 
 
 Woodman, Charles W.. 172, 302 
 
 333. 453. 446. 
 Woodman, Charlotte C ... .335 
 
 Woodman, Harriet 571 
 
 Woodman, Harriet C.. 335, 444 
 
 Woodman, Jeremiah H — 103 
 
 135, 161, 171, 173, 177, 182, 1^3 
 
 249, 382, 355, 382, 452, 465, 489 
 
 510, 528, 531, 535, 557, 579, 583 
 
 Woodman, Jeremiah H., Jr. 33 
 
 Woodman, John 3S, 59, 01 
 
 Woodman, John 331 
 
 Woodman, Jonathan 50 
 
 Woodman, Maria.... 571 
 
 .Voodman, Maria B 335 
 
 Woodman, Mary E . . . .333. 352 
 456. 
 
 Woodman, Mrs. C. W 334 
 
 Woodman, Mrs. J. H. 333 
 
 AVoodman, Mrs. T. C 335 
 
 Woodman, Rev. Jos . .331, 332 
 Woodman, Rev. Russell... 335 
 
 Woodman, Samuel 335 
 
 Woodman, Sarah J. . . .335, 571 
 Woodman, Theodore C....176 
 
 334, 571. 
 
 Wood, Rev 285 
 
 Woods, Rev. Dr 332 
 
 Woodward, Bezaliel 518 
 
 Woodward, Fannie 454 
 
 Worcester, Horace L..23S, 530 
 
 Worcester, Ichabod 233 
 
 Wojxester, Isaac 454 
 
 Worcester, Joseph H. .169, 454 
 
 456, 482, 483, 495, 530. 
 Worcester, Mrs. Horace L.420 
 
 Worcester-, Mrs. Isaac 454 
 
 Worcester, Philbrick M . . .233 
 
 Wormwood, William 39 
 
 Worster, Ichabod 200 
 
 Worthing, Rev. A. B 174 
 
 Worthing, Rev. Amos H. . .161 
 
 206, 575. 
 
 Wright, Dr 444 
 
 Wright, William 461 
 
 Wright, Wvlie 461 
 
 Wrisley, Mrs 489 
 
 Wyatt, Mrs. Samuel 159 
 
 Wyatt, O. C 235 
 
 Yeaton, Lewis D 238 
 
 Yeaton, Mrs. Nahum 500 
 
 Yeaton, Nahum. . . .500, 501, 529 
 Yelden, James 233 
 
 Yelden, John 226, 233 
 
 York, Charles 233 
 
 York, Dr. J. H 402 
 
 York, Hannah 572 
 
 York, Hannah D 278, 437 
 
 York, Jasper 278, 571 
 
 York, J. H 176 
 
 York, John 39, 171, 278, 403 
 
 York, John C 404 
 
 York, John, Jr 278 
 
 York, Kezia 233 
 
 York, Maria 573 
 
 York, Maria J 278 
 
 York, Mrs. J. H 404 
 
 York, Mrs. Stephen 233 
 
 York, Rebecca 278, 403 
 
 York, Stephen 233 
 
 Yong, Jonathan 77 
 
 Young, Abbie E 233 
 
 Young, Alfred A 233 
 
 Young, Charles 555 
 
 Young, Daniel 199 
 
 Young, George Frank 233 
 
 Young, George W 420 
 
 Young, Herbert 449 
 
 Young, John 319, 529 
 
 Young, John F 217, 449 
 
 Young, Joseph 233 
 
 Young, Mehitable 249 
 
 Yoimg, Moses 528, 535 
 
 Young, Mrs. Alfred A 233 
 
 Young, Mrs. George W 420 
 
 Young, Mrs. Stephen 449 
 
 Young, Rev. Damon. . .263, 574 
 
 Young, Rev. J. S 249 
 
 Young, Stephen 449 
 
 Young, Thomas 38 
 
INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES. 
 
 : may be repeated on the same page. In this index no attempt at identification has been made 
 
 Abbot, Miss 609 
 
 Adams, Amos 602 
 
 Adiims, Augustus 602 
 
 Adams, Bcuiamini.C02, 60S, 613 
 
 Adams, Elisabeth G02, 606 
 
 Adams, James — 602 
 
 Adams, J ames, Jr 602 
 
 Adams, Jesse 602 
 
 Adams, John P 604 
 
 Adams, aiaiy — 612 
 
 Adams, iSathan W 608 
 
 Adams, Samuel 604 
 
 Adams, Samuel, Jr ,604 
 
 Adams, Solomon 621 
 
 Adams, Winthrop 617 
 
 Akerman, Rachel 616 
 
 Ailard, Aaron 599 
 
 Allard, Bathena 5S7 
 
 AUard , David 589 
 
 Allard, Henry 587 
 
 Allard, Job 590 
 
 Allard, Joseph 591 
 
 Allard, Lydia 592 
 
 Allen, 594 
 
 Allen, Abigail ...60S 
 
 Allen, Dorothy 612 
 
 Allen, Elenor 595 
 
 Allen, Elisha 596, 612 
 
 Allen, Hannah 616 
 
 Alien, Icabod 593 
 
 Allen, James 606 
 
 Allen, John 60S 
 
 Allen, Joseph 592 
 
 Allen, Joshua 607 
 
 Allen, Mary 608 
 
 Allen, Martha 594 
 
 Allen, Nathan.. 592, 593, 595, 596 
 
 Allen, Samuel 608 
 
 Allen, William 620 
 
 Alley, Polly 614 
 
 Ash, Abigail. 613 
 
 Ash, Judith 594 
 
 Ash, Kezia 612 
 
 Austin, Paul 610 
 
 Ayer, Perkins 589 
 
 Babb, Benlamlu .586, 607 
 
 Babb, Dorothy .*. 58" 
 
 Babb, Elizabeth 590 
 
 Babb, John 586 
 
 Babb-Lock, Benjamin 619 
 
 Babb, Mary 587,618 
 
 Babb, Moses 607 
 
 Babb, Richard 586, 591 
 
 Babb, Sampson .589, 616 
 
 Babb, Sarah 587 
 
 Babb, Thomas .595 
 
 Babb, William 589 
 
 Baisdell, Eliphalet 592 
 
 Baker, Charles 592, 593 
 
 Baker, Charles, Jr .592 
 
 Baker, Daniel 612 
 
 Baker, Love 593 
 
 Baker, Mrs. Charles 593 
 
 Baker, Thomas 593 
 
 Baker, Tammey 618 
 
 Balch, Deborah 617 
 
 Balch, Rev 604 
 
 Balch, Rev. Benjamin 603 
 
 Barbar, Joseph 594 
 
 Barber, John 607 
 
 Barber, Lydia 609 
 
 Barker, Alexander 599 
 
 Barker, David 597 
 
 Barker, Elisabeth 597 
 
 Barker, Elisabeth, 2d .597 
 
 Barker, John 597, 599 
 
 Barker, John, Jr 597 
 
 Barker, Louisa Ann -. .620 
 
 Barker, Mary 597 
 
 Barker, Mrs. John 597 
 
 Batchelder, Simon 619 
 
 Beck, Elizabeth 583 
 
 Beck, John 589 
 
 Belknap, Jeremy .597 
 
 Bennet, Abigail 599 
 
 Bennet, John 599 
 
 Berlin, Polly 614 
 
 Berry, Abigail 607 
 
 Berry, Anna 594 
 
 Berrv, Ann 588 
 
 Berry, Benjamin. .590, 593, KOS 
 Beri-y, Benjamin, Jr... 590, 616 
 
 Berry, Daniel 588 
 
 Berry, Dolly 602 
 
 Berry, Eleonour 587 
 
 Berry, Elisabeth 608 
 
 Berry, Ephaim 596 
 
 Berry, Ephraim 592, 596 
 
 Berry, George 611 
 
 Berry, James 586, 592 
 
 Berry, Jeremiah 614 
 
 Berry, John 587, 589 
 
 Berry, Joseph. 588, 591, 599, 014 
 
 Beri-y, Judith 608 
 
 Berry, Leah 612 
 
 Berry, Lois 592 
 
 Berry, Lydia 596 
 
 Berry, Marcy 608 
 
 Berry, Mary 593, 608 
 
 Berry, Olive 596, 610 
 
 Berry, Patty 598 
 
 Berrv, Stephen .... 588, 596, 597 
 
 Berry, Stephen, Jr 589, 590 
 
 592, 597. 
 
 Berry, Susanna 593 
 
 Berry, Susannah, 595 
 
 Berry, Tbomas 615 
 
 Berry, Triphena 590, 596 
 
 Berry, William 589 
 
 Bickford, Abigail 594 
 
 Bickford, Beniamin 610 
 
 Bickford, Betsey 613,618 
 
 Bickford, Betty 596 
 
 Bickford, Elizabeth 593 
 
 Bickford, Hannah 592, 607 
 
 Bickford, Henry 595 
 
 Bickford, Huldah 593, 620 
 
 Bickford, Isaac 611 
 
 Bickford, Isaac, Jr 618 
 
 Bickford, James 590 
 
 Bickford , Jane 610 
 
 Bickford, Jesse 620 
 
 Bickford, Joel 616 
 
 Bickford, John 589, 591, 592 
 
 607. 
 
 Bickford, John, Jr 615 
 
 Bickford, John, 3d 610 
 
 Bickford, Jonathan 590 
 
 Bickford, Joseph 589, 607 
 
 Bickford, Lemuel 592, 595 
 
 596, 597. 
 
 Bickford, Mary 589,609 
 
 Bickford, Molley 592, 593 
 
 Bickford, Moses 591,614 
 
 Bickford, Patience 590 
 
 Bickford, Priscllla 612 
 
 Bickford, Rachel .591 
 
 Bickford, Rebecca 587 
 
 Bickford, Richard 589, 593 
 
 Bickford, Sarah. . .586, 592, 595 
 
 609. 
 Bickford, Temperance 588 
 
 596. 
 
 Bickford, Tristram 612 
 
 Blagden, Icabod 588 
 
 Blagdon, Lydia 589 
 
 Blagdon, Rawlings 591 
 
 Blagdon, Sarah 588 
 
 Blaisdell, Abigail 593 
 
 Blaisdell ?, Eliplialet 592 
 
 Blaisdell, John 593 
 
 Blake, Betsey B 620 
 
 Blake, Elisha 600 
 
 Blake, Ester 621 
 
 Blake, John 600 
 
 Blake, Sally 620 
 
 Bracket, Samuel 613 
 
 Bragdon, Samuel .611 
 
 Brewster, Abiah 609 
 
 Brewster, Abigail 616 
 
 Brewster, Betty 604 
 
 Brewster, Capt. John 598 
 
 Brewster, Daniel, Jr 610 
 
 Brewster, Elisabeth... 598, 614 
 
 Brewster, Eliza 604 
 
 Brewster, George 618 
 
 Brewster, John 601, 605, 609 
 
 Brewster, John, Jr . . . .604, 610 
 
 618. 
 
 Brewster, John, 3d 604 
 
 Brewster, Joshua 604 
 
 Brewstei-, Mary 601, 607 
 
 Brewster, Rosietta 604 
 
 Brewster, Sally 605 
 
 Brewster, Stephen . . . .604, 605 
 
 611. 
 
 Brewster, Timothy 621 
 
 Brock, Elisabeth 595 
 
 Brock, Ezra 614 
 
 Brock, Stephen 608 
 
 Brook, Oliver 619 
 
 Bi-own, Abigail 599 
 
 Brown, Charles 606 
 
 Brown, Deborah 609 
 
 Brown, Eli 606 
 
 Brown, Hannah 614 
 
 Brown, John 599, 613 
 
 Brown , Judith 609 
 
 Brown, Love 615 
 
 Brown, Lydia 616 
 
678 
 
 INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MARRI 
 
 Brown, Martha 606 
 
 Brown, Moses 594, 599, 606 
 
 Brown, Susanna.. .606, 608, 613 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Thomas f>Q9 
 
 Brown, Thomas 599, 606 
 
 Bruster, Betty 596 
 
 Bruster, Elisha 596 
 
 Bruster, John 596, .597 
 
 Bruster, John, Jr 596 
 
 Bruster, Stephen 597 
 
 Bryant, Polly 610 
 
 Bi-yant, Thomas 616 
 
 Buchannon, James 611 
 
 Burham, Dudley 611 
 
 Burham, Enoch" 61.3 
 
 Burnam, James .593 
 
 Burnham, Betsey 601 
 
 Burnham, Dudley 603 
 
 Burnham, Enoch. .601, 602, 603 
 Burnham, Enoch, Jr . .603, 619 
 
 Burnham, James 601 
 
 Burnham, Lois 601 
 
 Burnham, Mary 601, 615 
 
 Burnham, Mehetabel..603, 613 
 
 Burnham, Mehetihel 601 
 
 Burnham, Nathaniel 601 
 
 Burnham, Oily 602 
 
 Burnham, Thomas P 601 
 
 Burnham, Tryphena..601, 617 
 
 Burrows, Amos 618 
 
 Bussel, Izett .587 
 
 Bussell, Elizabeth 587 
 
 Bussell, Simon 586 
 
 Bussel, Sarah 613 
 
 Buzel, JohnB 620 
 
 Buzzel, Deborah 607 
 
 Buzzel, Mary 607 
 
 Buzzel, John B 606 
 
 Calef, Abigail 614 
 
 Calef , Daniel 600, 607 
 
 Calef, James 600, 615 
 
 Calef, Susanna 616 
 
 Calf, Daniel 603 
 
 Calf, John 603 
 
 Calf, Susanna 603 
 
 Calf, William 603 
 
 Canney, Anne 594 
 
 Canney, Daniel 618 
 
 Canney, John 595 
 
 Canney, Mercy .594 
 
 Canney, Moses 613 
 
 Cannon, Dr. Hiram 618 
 
 Canny Lydia 607 
 
 Card, Abigail 610 
 
 Carr, Deborah 601 
 
 Carr, Jacob 618 
 
 Carr, John 601 
 
 Carr, Lydia 601 
 
 Carter, Daniel 620 
 
 Carter, Daniel R 519 
 
 Cate, Frederick 613 
 
 Cate, John .600 
 
 Cate, Joseph 589 
 
 Cate, Lydia 600 
 
 Cate, Mary 588 
 
 Cater, Sarah 588 
 
 Cate, Sarah . 600 
 
 Cator, John 612 
 
 Caverly, John 612 
 
 Chamberlain, Abigail 606 
 
 Chamberlain, Alice 599 
 
 Chamberlain, Anne 594 
 
 Chamberlain, Comfort.. ..611 
 Chamberlain, Dorothev- .-594 
 Chamberlain, Eben.. ..591, 593 
 
 Chamberlain, Eleonor 590 
 
 Chamberlain, Enoch 606 
 
 Chamberlain, Ephraim 588 
 
 593. 
 Chamberlain, Ephraim, Jr .611 
 
 Chamberlain, 
 
 602. 
 Chamberlain, 
 Chamberlain, 
 Chamberlain, 
 Chamberlain, 
 Chamberlain, 
 Chamberlain, 
 Chamberlain, 
 Chamberlain, 
 Chamberlain, 
 Chamberlain, 
 
 Jacob... 599, 601 
 
 James.. 592, 607 
 Jason... 593, 607 
 John.... 591, 603 
 
 Joseph 610 
 
 .Joshua 614 
 
 Lucretia — 591 
 
 Lydia 606 
 
 Mary ...606, 607 
 
 Molly 609 
 
 Moses ..601, 606 
 
 Chamberlain, Mrs. Eben.. 591 
 
 Chamberlain, Mrs. Samuel 606 
 
 Chamberlain, Mrs. William. Jr 
 
 590 
 
 Chamberlain, Paul 610 
 
 Chamberlain, Penuel 611 
 
 Chamberlain, Samuel. 601, 606 
 Chamberlain, Samuel, Jr.. 614 
 Chamberlain, Sarah. . .601, 606 
 
 618. 
 
 Chamberlain, Susee 591 
 
 Chamberlain, Thomas 594 
 
 Chamberlain, William. 592, 601 
 Chamberlain, William, Jr. 590 
 Chamberlain, William, 3d. . 590 
 
 Chamberlin, Abraham 609 
 
 Chamberlin, Alice 595, .597 
 
 Chamberlin, Ebenezer 596 
 
 597. 
 Chamberlin, Experience... 594 
 Chamberlin, Jacob.... 595, 596 
 
 597. 
 
 Chamberlin, Jacob, Jr 597 
 
 Chamberlin, John 596 
 
 Chamberlin. Joseph 596 
 
 Chamberlin, Joshua 597 
 
 Chamberlin, Marget 595 
 
 Chamberlin, Mrs. Jacob. ..595 
 
 597. 
 Chamberlin, INErs. Samuel .,597 
 
 Chamberlin, Paul 595 
 
 Chamberlin, Penuel 596 
 
 Chamberlin, Samuel ..596, 597 
 Chamberlin, Samuel, Jr. ...597 
 
 Chamberlin, Thomas 596 
 
 Chamberlin, William 595 
 
 Chapman, John 620 
 
 Chatbourn, Humphry 595 
 
 ChatBurne, Humphrey 58S 
 
 Chesley, Abigail 616 
 
 Chesley, Benjamin, Jr.615, 618 
 
 Chesley, Debby 603 
 
 Chesley, Elisabeth 599, 614 
 
 Chesley, Elisabeth D 604 
 
 Chesley, Isaac B 601 
 
 Chesley, Jacob 601 
 
 Chesley, James. .599 to 603, 605 
 
 Chesley, James, Jr 602 
 
 Chesley, John B 604 
 
 Chesley, Joseph, 3d 615 
 
 Chesley, Mai-y 599 
 
 Chesley, Miles .614 
 
 Chesley, Nabby 600 
 
 Cheslev, Richard 616 
 
 Cheslev, Richard F 599 
 
 Chesley, Sally 601, 617 
 
 Chesley, Thomas.. 599, 604, 605 
 
 614. 
 
 Chesly, Polly 614 
 
 Clapham, Belvedira 615 
 
 Clapham, Bildary 615 
 
 Clark, Aaron, Jr 619 
 
 Clark, Abigail 611 
 
 Clark, Anna 613 
 
 Clark, Anne 605 
 
 Clark, Benjamin .621 
 
 Clark, Betsey 614 
 
 Clark, Catharine 60S 
 
 AGES. ^^^i 
 
 Clark, Daniel 614 ^ 
 
 Clark, David 615 
 
 Clarke, Annanlah 595 
 
 Clarke, Elisabeth M 602 
 
 Clarke, Joseph 602 
 
 Clarke, Joseph, Jr 603 
 
 Clarke, Solomon 586 
 
 Clark, Hannah 612 
 
 Clark, Hannah D 620 
 
 Clark, Hanniel 
 
 Clark, Hezekiah 6181 
 
 Clark, James 6181 
 
 Clark, .Jonathan 615 1 
 
 Clark, Joseph 603, 
 
 Clark, Joshua P 
 
 Clark, Lucy E 6051 
 
 Clark, Lydia 619 J 
 
 Clark, Martha B 
 
 Clark, Mary 608, 61».J 
 
 Clark, Nancy r 
 
 Clark, Polly 615 
 
 Clark, Prudence 597 
 
 Clark, Rebecca 595 
 
 Clark, Sarah Ann 
 
 Clark, Simon 
 
 Clark, Solomon .5971 
 
 Clark, Stephen 610 j 
 
 Clements, Anna 6131 
 
 Clements, Betsy 6121 
 
 Clements, Ebenezer 5911 
 
 Clements, Elizabeth 591 
 
 Clements, Hannah 591 1 
 
 Clements, Job 590, 
 
 Clements, Sarah 607 1 
 
 Cloutman, Anna 6151 
 
 Cloutmau, Easher 6121 
 
 Cloutman, Hezekiah 6101 
 
 Cloutman, John 613i 
 
 Coffin, Anna 
 
 Coffin, Betsey 619 
 
 Colbath, Charles 616 
 
 Colbath, Hunkin 618 
 
 Colbath, Winthrop 618 
 
 Colby, Beniah 616 
 
 Coldbath, Sally 614 
 
 Colebath, George 612 
 
 Cole, Edward 603 
 
 Cole, Edward B 603 
 
 Cole, EUsabith 608 
 
 Coleman, Anne 588 
 
 Coleman, James 591 
 
 Coleman, John 592, 618 
 
 Coleman, Joseph 590 
 
 Coleman, Thomas 589 
 
 Cole, Mary 608 
 
 Colman, James 607 
 
 Conner, Elisabeth 604 
 
 Conner, Mary 594 
 
 Conner, William 604,612 
 
 Cook, Abiel 591 
 
 Cook, Abigail 589, 593 
 
 Cook, .Abraham . ..590, 591, 594 
 607. 
 
 Cook, Bethena 591 
 
 Cook, Daniel 594,620 
 
 Cook, Hannah 607, 618 
 
 Cook, James 616, 617 
 
 Cook, Jeremiah 613 
 
 Cook, Jonathan 607 
 
 Cook, Jonathan D 590 
 
 Cook, Joseph 589, 596, 607 
 
 Cook, Kezia 610 
 
 Cook, Mercy 590, 607 
 
 Cook, Nathaniel 591 
 
 Cook, Peter, Jr. . . .591, 590, 593 
 
 Cook, Phebe 590 
 
 Cook, Polly 619 
 
 Cook, Robert 607 
 
 Cook, Valentine 620 
 
 Cook, Wentworth 613 
 
 Cooke, Joseph 595 
 
INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES. 
 
 679 
 
 Cooke, Kezlab 595 
 
 Cooke, William 595 
 
 Copp, Betty 009 
 
 Copp, Esther 610 
 
 Copp, Joseph G14 
 
 Copp, Jonathan 619 
 
 Copps, Koger 599 
 
 Copps, Samuel 599 
 
 Copp, Tiistvain 612 
 
 Cops, Anna 589 
 
 Cops, Benjamin 5S6 
 
 Cops, David 587 
 
 Cops, Esther 587 
 
 Cops, Marv 589 
 
 Cop*, Moses 588 
 
 Cops, Samuel 5!s8 
 
 Corliss, Ephraim 617 
 
 Corson , A bigail 590 
 
 Corson, Anna 608 
 
 Corson, Benjamin 606,610 
 
 Corson, Betty 591 
 
 Corson, Charles 619 I 
 
 Corson, David 603, 608 
 
 Corson, David, Jr 601 
 
 Corson, Ebenczer 593 
 
 Corson, Ephraim 621 
 
 Corson, Hannah 594 
 
 Corson, Icabod 590, 591 
 
 Corson, Icabod, Jr 590 
 
 Corson, Ichabod OOo, 616 
 
 Corson, James A 819 
 
 Corson, Joseph 612, 615 
 
 Corson, Joshua 592 
 
 Corson, Kezia 590 
 
 Corson, Maria 620 
 
 Corson, Mary 605, 606 
 
 Corson, Mary M 603 i 
 
 Corson, Mebetabel 609 
 
 Corson, Mercy 614 
 
 Corson, Mrs. "icabod. ...590 
 
 Corson, Mrs. Ichabod 605 
 
 Corson, Nahum 620 
 
 Corson, Bachel 619 
 
 Corson, Sabina 618 
 
 Corson, Sai-ah 610 
 
 Corson, Timothy 001 
 
 Corson, AVilliam 601 
 
 Cosen, Anne .595 
 
 Cosen, Benjamin 596 
 
 Cosen, Ichabod 595, 596 
 
 Cosen, Joseph 596 
 
 Cram, Benjamin 600 
 
 Crocket, Edmond 613 
 
 Crockitt, Dr. Hczeklah J . 620 
 
 Crosby, Cornelia 605 
 
 Crosby, Oliver 605 
 
 Cross, Joseph 618 
 
 Cross, T.ydia 620 
 
 Cross, Noah ,590 
 
 Cross, Ricliard 016 
 
 Gushing, Betsey 618 
 
 Cushing, Rev 591 
 
 Cushing, William 616 
 
 Dam, .596, 597 
 
 Dam, Abncr 590. 593 to 596 
 
 Dam, Betty .595 
 
 Dam, Deborah .591 
 
 Dfime, Abigail 601 I 
 
 Dame, Abner .598 j 
 
 Dame, Anna 604 
 
 Dame, Betty 008 
 
 Dame, Caleo 604 
 
 Dame, Charity 608, 013 
 
 Dame, Daniel, Jr 618 
 
 Dame, Dolly 598, 602, 617 
 
 Dame, Eli.sabetli 618 
 
 Dame, Jabez, Jr 018 
 
 Dame, Jonatlian 598 
 
 Dame, Joseph 598, 605 
 
 Dam, Elisabeth 595 
 
 Dam, Elnathan . . 5S9, 591 
 
 Dame, Lois 004, 619 
 
 Dame, Mary 608 
 
 Dame, Mercy 014 
 
 Dame, Meribah E 604 
 
 Dame, Mrs. Silas 601 
 
 Dame, Paul 598, 612 
 
 I )ame, Polly 604 
 
 Dame, Kichard, Jr 009 
 
 Dame, Sally 598, 016 
 
 Dame, Sarah 009 
 
 Dame, Silas... 598, 001, 602, 004 
 005, 609, 614. 
 
 Dame, Simon 610 
 
 Dame, Sophia 616 
 
 Dame, Timothy 613 
 
 Dame, Jabez 604 
 
 Dam, Jean .589 
 
 Dam, Jonathan 590, 594 
 
 Dam, Joseph 587, 595 
 
 Dam, Iveturah .595 
 
 Dam. I\Iary 587, 592, 007 
 
 Dam, Mercy 590 
 
 Dam, Molley 596 
 
 Dam, Moses .590 
 
 Dam, Paul .597 
 
 Dam, Sarah 589,591 
 
 Dana, Mary .594 
 
 Danielson, Sarah 594 
 
 Davis, Abigail 613 
 
 Davis, Anna 017 
 
 Davis, Hannah 610 
 
 Davis, Jacob 600 
 
 Davis, Joanna 005 
 
 Diivis, Mary Oil 
 
 Davis, Mercy 000 
 
 Davis, Mrs. Thomas ... — 605 
 
 Davis, Richard 617 
 
 Davis, Sarah 610 
 
 Davis, Susan 619 
 
 Davis, Thomas 589, 005 
 
 Davis, Thomas, Jr 617 
 
 Davis, Timothy 600 
 
 Dearbon, Jeremiah 009 
 
 Dearborn, Anna 003, 615 
 
 Dearborn, Levi 603 
 
 Dearborn, Mary.. 618 
 
 Dearing, Elizabeth 588 
 
 Dearing, Mary .586, 595, 609 
 
 Demerit, Lois 610 
 
 Demerit, Sukey 614 
 
 Dennet, Charles 618 
 
 Dennett, Nancy 615 
 
 Desethering, Sarah 607 
 
 Doe, Nathaniel B 609 
 
 Doe, Simon 609 
 
 Door, Andrew 013 
 
 Door, Anna 592 
 
 Door, Benjamin 593 
 
 Door, Elizabeth .589, .594 
 
 Doore, Phebe .591 
 
 Door, Henry 590 
 
 Door, Henry, Jr .590 
 
 Door, James 590 
 
 Door, John .594 
 
 Door, Joseph 591 
 
 Door, Lydia 589 
 
 Door, Mary .589, .593, 619 
 
 Door, Moliy 589 
 
 Door, Mrs. Phillip, Jr .589 
 
 Door, Olive 589, .595 
 
 Door, Pegge .589 
 
 Door, Phillip 590 
 
 Door, Phillip, Jr .589 
 
 Door, Phillip, 3d 589 
 
 Door, Richard 589, 595 
 
 Door, Sally 015 
 
 Door, Sarah .591 , 01 1 , 010 
 
 Dore, Hannah 610 
 
 Dow, Jeremiah 609 
 
 Dow, Mary 007 
 
 Downes, Aaron 598 
 
 Downes, Elizabeth 598 
 
 Downes, Hannah 598 
 
 Downes, John 598 
 
 Downes, Margaret 598 
 
 Downes, Moses 598 
 
 Downes, Moses, Jr .598 
 
 Downes, Mrs. Moses 598 
 
 Downes, Paul 598 
 
 Downes, Susannah 598 
 
 Downing, Abigail 012 
 
 Downing, Benjamin.. .001, Oil 
 
 617. 
 
 Downing, Jonathan 615 
 
 Downing, Joshua 001 
 
 Downing, Joshua, Jr 601 
 
 Downing, Lois 6H 
 
 Downing, Lydia 610 
 
 Downing, Mary 611 
 
 Downing, Patience 607 
 
 Downing, Samtiel 601 
 
 Downing, Sarah 607 
 
 Downing, Susanna 010 
 
 Downs, Aaron 595, 596, 619 
 
 Downs, Aaron, Jr 616 
 
 Downs, Abigail 610 
 
 Downs, Anna 605 
 
 Downs, Elisabeth 610 
 
 Downs, Elisabeth T. . 606 
 
 Downs, Elizabeth 588 
 
 Downs, Ely 606 
 
 Downs, Gershom 588 
 
 Downs, Hannah 605 
 
 Downs, James .589, 605, 613 
 
 Downs, John 611, 614 
 
 Downs, Jonas 605 
 
 Downs, Joshua 618 
 
 Downs, Margaret 594 
 
 Downs, Molly 600 
 
 Downs, Molly P 606 
 
 Downs, Moses 587, 600, 004 
 
 607,609,611. 
 
 Downs, airs. Paul 005 
 
 Downs, Mrs. Thomas, Jr ..605 
 
 Downs, Nabby 605 
 
 Downs, Nathaniel H 606 
 
 Downs, Paul 605, 006, 613 
 
 Downs, Peggy 615, 021 
 
 Downs, Sarah 020 
 
 Downs, Samuel 594 
 
 Downs, Thomas. ..004, 000, 613 
 Downs, Thomas, Jr.. . .605, 606 
 
 615. 
 
 Downs, William .594 
 
 Drew, Benjamin 590 
 
 Drew, Hannah 590 
 
 Di-ew, John 619 
 
 Drew, Joseph 615 
 
 Drew, Martha .591 
 
 Drew, Mary 580 
 
 Drew, Samuel 588 
 
 Drew, Sarah 592 
 
 Drew, Thomas 591 
 
 Drew, William 614 
 
 Drown, 58S 
 
 Drown, Ebenczer 588 
 
 Drown, Klisabeth 012 
 
 Drown, Elizabeth .587 
 
 Drown, Huldah 610 
 
 Drown, Jonathan 588 
 
 Drown, Moses 601 
 
 Drown, Mrs. Moses 001 
 
 Drown, Samuel ,587, 588 
 
 Di-own, Samuel, Jv .594 
 
 Drown, Samuel, 3d 001 
 
 Drown, Shem .587 
 
 Drown, Solomon 587, .588 
 
 Drown, Stephen 601 
 
 Drown, Tamzin 001 
 
 Durgan, Zebulon 607 
 
 Durgen, Charlotte 599 
 
680 
 
 INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES. 
 
 Durgen, Daniel 599 
 
 Durgen, Josiah 599, 602 
 
 Durgin, Ezra 619 
 
 Durgiii, Joseph 000 
 
 Durgin, Josiah 600 
 
 Durnell, Lemuel 616 
 
 Eastman, Timothj- 617 
 
 Edgerly, 5t'S 
 
 Edgerl V, Hannah 594 
 
 Edgerly, Joshua 500 
 
 Eliot, Hannah 589 
 
 Elis, Joseph S 621 
 
 Ellis, 593 
 
 Ellis, Abigail 588,617 
 
 Ellis, ISetsey 613 
 
 Ellis, Dorcas 607 
 
 Ellis, Jacob, Jr 619 
 
 Ellis, John 588, 594 
 
 Ellis, Jonathan 588, 595 
 
 Ellis, Joseph 607 
 
 Ellis, Mary 588 
 
 Ellis, Miriam 610 
 
 Ellis, Mrs. William 588 
 
 Ellis, Paul 611 
 
 Ellis, Sarah 614 
 
 Ellis, William 588 
 
 Emerson, Dorothy 614 
 
 Emerson, Samuel 594, 618 
 
 Evans. Benjamin 604 
 
 Evans, David 614 
 
 Evans, John P 604 
 
 Evans, Rufus K 604 
 
 Evans, Sally 614 
 
 Evens, Benjamin 603 
 
 Evens, Benjamin H 610 
 
 Evens, Benjamin, Jr 612 
 
 Evens, Nancy 603 
 
 Evens, Robert 600 
 
 Evens, Sally N 603 
 
 Fall, Susanna 593 
 
 Farnam, Elizabetli 592 
 
 Farnam, Ellis 5!>2 
 
 Farnam, Gershom .593 
 
 Farnam, Mary .592 
 
 Farnam, Mercy 593 
 
 Farnam, Mrs. Paul 592 
 
 Farnam, Paul 592, .593, .594 
 
 Farnam, Nathaniel 593 
 
 Farnam, Ralph 593 
 
 Farnum, Dummer.602, 603, 610 
 
 Farnum, Ls'dia 603 
 
 Farnum, Nabby 602 
 
 Fisher, Janvi-in 609 
 
 Fisher, Susanna 616 
 
 Fish, Hannah 620 
 
 Fish, Sophia 017 
 
 Fitz-Gci'ald, Elisabeth 611 
 
 Flagg, AbiKHil 611 
 
 Flagg, Jonathan 610 
 
 Flagg, Sarah 610 
 
 Fogg, Joseph 611 
 
 Folsom, Hannah 013 
 
 Folsom, Nancy 618 
 
 Footman, Jonathan G 616 
 
 Forst, Anna 587 
 
 Forst, Benjamin. ..589, 590, 599 
 
 601, 602. 
 Forst, Benjamin, Jr . . ..599, 600 
 
 Forst, Daniel 587 
 
 Forst, David 598 
 
 Forst, Elizabeth 588 
 
 Forst, Ephraim 589 
 
 Forst, Hannah 588,612 
 
 Forst, Hannah P 599 
 
 Forst, James 599 
 
 Forst, Job 590 
 
 Forst, John 588, 589, 601 
 
 Forst, Joshua .590 
 
 Forst, Lydia 590 
 
 Forst, Mary 594 
 
 Forst, Molly 598 
 
 Forst, Moses .592 
 
 Forst, Nabby 600 
 
 Forst, Patience S 603 
 
 Forst, Rebecca .591, 599 
 
 Forst, Samuel 593 
 
 Forst, Samuel D 603 
 
 Forst, Sarah 589,611 
 
 Forst, Susa 602 
 
 Forst, Susanna 590 
 
 Forst, Thomas 598 
 
 Foss, Isaiah 607 
 
 Foss, John 619 
 
 Foss, Margaret 608 
 
 Foss, Mary 608 
 
 Foss, Richard 608 
 
 Foss, Samuel, 3d 008, 017 
 
 Foss, Sarah 618 
 
 Foster, James 597 
 
 Foster, John .597 
 
 Fowler, Marj' 619 
 
 Foye, Sarah 619 
 
 Foy, Tabitha .591 
 
 French, Benjamin 608 
 
 French, David, .Jr 611 
 
 Fi-ench, Deborah 612 
 
 French, Ebenezer 612 
 
 French, Gilbert 608 
 
 French, John 612, 614 
 
 French, Keziab 619 
 
 French, Leah 608 
 
 French, Olive 612 
 
 French, Stephen 012 
 
 Frothingham, Richard S ..620 
 
 Furber, Samuel 602 
 
 Furber, Polly 602 
 
 Furbur, Abigail 599, 616 
 
 Furbur, Alice 612 
 
 Furbur, Benjamin 599, 600 
 
 601, 603, 607, 612. 
 
 Furbur, Benjamin, Jr 601 
 
 Furbur, Betsey 602 
 
 Furbur, Capt. Samuel 604 
 
 Furbur, Daniel 617 
 
 Furbur, Edmond 620 
 
 Furbur, Edmund 602 
 
 Furbur, Elisabeth.601, 604, 618 
 
 Furbur, Hannah 607 
 
 Furbur, Joel 601 
 
 Furbur, John F 600 
 
 Furbur, John W 604 
 
 Fnrbur, .Jonathan 599 
 
 Furbur, Luke 6' 4 
 
 Furbur, Mary 599, 609 
 
 Furbur, Mary W 605 
 
 Furbur, Pierce 001 
 
 Furbur, Pie rce P 605 
 
 Furbur, Polly 014 
 
 Furbur, Richard. . .600, 601, 002 
 Furbur, Richard, Jr. . . . 601, 002 
 
 004. 
 Furbur, Samuel 599 to 002, 004 
 
 Furbur, Samuel E 599, 014 
 
 Furbur, Sarah 000 
 
 Furbur, Theodore 599, 017 
 
 Furbur, Thomas, Jr 603 
 
 Furbur, William 603 
 
 Furbush, Anna 614 
 
 Gage, Elisabeth 610 
 
 Gage, Elizabeth 607 
 
 Gage, Sally 609 
 
 Gage, Thomas 617 
 
 Gage, William 5S4 
 
 Garland, Anna 609 
 
 Garland, Betsey 618 
 
 Garland, Daniel 595 to 598 
 
 Garland, Daniel, Jr ...... ..597 
 
 Garland, Dodavi 603 
 
 Garland, Dorcas 010 
 
 Garland, Dudley 596, 610 
 
 Garland, Ebenezer. . . .001, 617 
 
 Garland, Ebenezer, Jr 607 
 
 Garland, Ephraim. 601, 61.5, 619 
 Garland, James.... .598, 601, 614 
 
 Garland, John 601 
 
 Garland, John C es 
 
 Garland, John, Jr 596 
 
 Garland, John, 3d 596 
 
 Garland, Lydia.. ..595, 609, 611 
 
 Garland, Mary 013 
 
 Garland, Mercy 006 
 
 Garland, Mrs. Thomas .. 597 
 
 Garland, Nancy ,..017 
 
 Garland, Nathaniel 596, 010 
 
 Garland, Olive 590 
 
 Garland, Patience 001 
 
 Garland, Peggy 610 
 
 Garland, Pheby .597 
 
 Garland, Rachel 597 
 
 Garland, Rebecca 614 
 
 Garland, Richard.. 592, 598, 617 
 
 Garland, Sally 603 
 
 Garland, Samuel 601 
 
 Garland, Susanna 593 
 
 Garland, Thomas 596, 597 
 
 Garland, Tristram 613 
 
 Gates, Nancy 618 
 
 Gerrish, Timothy 610 
 
 Gilman, Theodore 617 
 
 Gliddon, Peter 598 
 
 Gliddon, Winthrop 598 
 
 Goodell, Samuel 611 
 
 Goodrige, James 615 
 
 Goodwin, Benjamin 618 
 
 Goodwin, Elisabeth 607 
 
 Goodwin, Mary 609 
 
 Goodwin , Silas 613 
 
 Gowell, Timothy 620 
 
 Grant, Hiram 619 
 
 Gray, Elisabeth B 619 
 
 Gray, James 588 
 
 Gray, Molly 615 
 
 Giav, Rev 603 
 
 Gray, Rev. Robert 602, 604 
 
 Gray, Simon 617 
 
 Gray, Tamsin 608 
 
 Greelv, Rebecca — 598 
 
 Green, Lydia 607 
 
 Greward, Ephraim — 620 
 
 Grow, Ebenezer 587 
 
 Hale, Henry 606 
 
 Hale, John P 606 
 
 Hale, Samuel 606 
 
 Hale, Susan 619 
 
 Hall, Avery 596 
 
 Hall, Hannah 596 
 
 Hall, Josiah 609 
 
 Hall, Mary 590, 008 
 
 Hall, Meh'itabel 596 
 
 Hall, Mrs. Avery .596 
 
 Hall, Theophilus 595 
 
 Hani, Aaron 597 
 
 Ham, Abigail .591, 597 
 
 Ham, Betsey 612, 615 
 
 Ham, Betty 590, 593 
 
 Ham, Daniel 613 
 
 Ham, Eleazar 601, 603, 604 
 
 Ham, Eleazffr 609,621 
 
 Ham, Elisabeth 598,010 
 
 Ham, Elizabeth H 598 
 
 Ham, Ephraim.. 595 to 598, 610 
 
 Ham, Ephraim, Jr 616 
 
 Ham, Hannah 601,618 
 
 Ham, Ivory 618 
 
 Ham, James .595, 604, 610 
 
 Ham, Joanna 008 
 
 Ham, John 607. 609 
 
 Ham, John, ,3d 015 
 
 Ham, Jonathan.... 590, 604,618 
 
 I 
 
INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES. 
 
 681 
 
 Ham, Joseph 598 
 
 Ham, Lvclia 598 
 
 Ham, Mary 597, 610 
 
 Ham, Mercy G03, 0)9 
 
 Hammct, Ephraim ..605,013 
 
 Hammett, Abigail 616 
 
 Hammett, JVIosts, Jr 616 
 
 Hammett, Sally — 615 
 
 Hammock, Klisabeth 587 
 
 Hammock, Jolm, Jr 58-8 
 
 Hammock, .Susanna ..595 
 
 Hammock, Thomas .588 
 
 Hammon, Betty 60S 
 
 Hammond, Hannah 6i0 
 
 Ham, Nabby 018 
 
 Hum, Nathaniel 61-2 
 
 Ham, Nathaniel, Jr 616 
 
 Ham, Paul 614 
 
 Ham, Samuel .506, 613 
 
 Ham, Sarah. 601, 006, 608 
 
 Ham, Shartrach 610 
 
 Ham, Susanna 607, 6!3 
 
 Ham, Tlif.oilove — 6!'2 
 
 Ham, Thomas, Jr 019 
 
 Ham, William .587, 598 
 
 Handerson, Stephen 616 
 
 Hanes, Daniel 012 
 
 Hanes, Joseph Oil 
 
 Haniiiforrl, Anne H 004 
 
 Hanniford, Levi D 604 
 
 Hanniford. Mrs. Keuben ..604 
 Hanniford, Keuben . . . .604, 614 
 Hanniiord, Sarah . . .. 604,618 
 
 Hanscom, Mehelabel Oil 
 
 Hanscom, Thomas .612 
 
 Hanson, Aaron 619 
 
 Hanson, Benjamin 609 
 
 Hanson, Betsey 013, 615 
 
 Hans(m, Betty 009 
 
 Hanson, Daniel 611 
 
 Hanson, Ebenezer 607 
 
 Hanson, Isaac 613 
 
 Hanson, Israel, Jr 620 
 
 Hanson, James 618 
 
 Hanson, John 613 
 
 Hanson, John B 605 
 
 Hanson. Joseph 605,013 
 
 Hanson, Joseph, Jr 617 
 
 Hanson, Martha 616 
 
 Hanson, Mary 5:»5, 014 
 
 Hanson, Mary E 605 
 
 Hanson, Molly 611 
 
 Hanson, Moses 609 
 
 Hanson, Patience. 616 
 
 Hanson, Reuben 611 
 
 Hanson, Sarah 613 
 
 Hanson, Tobias 610 
 
 Hard, Mrs. Trustrum . .... 606 
 
 Hard, Reuben 595 
 
 Hard, Sarah 606 
 
 Hard, Trustrum 595, 606 
 
 Harford, Benjamin 612 
 
 Harford, Betsey 613 
 
 Harford, Bridget 614 
 
 Half ord, Dorothy 012 
 
 Harford, Hope 617 
 
 Harford, Jacob 018 
 
 Harford, James 6 i6 
 
 Harford, Lucv 1) 616 
 
 Harford, Mark 000 
 
 Harford, Mary 608, 617 
 
 Harford. Meribah 620 
 
 Harford. Moses 612 
 
 Harford, Nancy 613 
 
 Hartford, Charity .594 
 
 Hartford, Patience .... 593, 595 
 
 Hasey, Rev 602 
 
 Haven, Ann E 600 
 
 Haven , < ; eorge 600, 005 
 
 Haven, James W 605 
 
 Haven, John.. 599, 60.5, 606, 615 
 
 Haven, John, Jr 605 
 
 Haven, Joseph 598 to 603 
 
 Haven, Joseph, Jr 598 
 
 Haven, Lvdia 601, 617 
 
 Haven, Mary .600, 603 
 
 Haven, Nathaniel F .598 
 
 Haven, Noah 6(»3 
 
 Haven, Rebecca 600 
 
 Haven, Rev 600 
 
 Haven, Ruth 021 
 
 Haven, Ruthv 002 
 
 Haven, Sarali F 003, 620 
 
 Hawkins, Anna 608 
 
 Hayes, Abigail.. . ..594, 60S, 615 
 
 Hayes, Ames M 592 
 
 Hayes, Andrew 009 
 
 Haves, Benjamin, Jr ,595 
 
 Hayes, Betsey 613, 617, 618 
 
 Hayes, Betty 599 
 
 Hayes, Clement 009 
 
 Hayes, Daniel 598, 599, 016 
 
 Hayes, Daniel, Jr 618 
 
 Hayes, Daniel, 3d 612 
 
 Hayes, David 618 
 
 Hayes, Ebenezer 008 
 
 Hayes, Elihu ...591, 607, 613, 019 
 Hayes, Elisabeth.. 597, 599. 008 
 
 011,618. 
 Hayes, Elizabeth.. .587. .589, 593 
 
 Hayes, Ezekiel 600, 008, 617 
 
 Hayes, Ezra 605, 619 
 
 Hayes, George .587 
 
 Hayes, George S 608 
 
 Hayes, Hannah 588, 600, 606 
 
 611, 616. 
 
 Hayes, Henry 599 
 
 Hayes, Hezekiah...591, 599, 014 
 Hayes, Ichabod... 598 to 601, 015 
 
 Ilaj'es, Ichabod, Jr 612 
 
 Hayes, Jacob 611 
 
 Hayes, James 600 
 
 Haves, James C... 610 
 
 Hayes, John 599, 600, 620 
 
 Hayes, Joseph . .598, .599 
 
 Hayes, Jo.';eph, Jr 61'j 
 
 Hayes, Joshua 608, 609 
 
 Hayes, Levi oiS 
 
 Hayes, Lydia 017 
 
 Hayes, Lucinda 005 
 
 Hayes, Margaret 010 
 
 Hayes, Mary.. ,592, 010, 613, 020 
 
 Hayes, Mercy 003, 619 
 
 Haj'es, Miles 618 
 
 Hayes, Molly (JOO 
 
 Hayes, Moses, Jr. .599, 600, 601 
 
 607, 608. 
 Hayes, Mrs. Wentworth . . .592 
 
 Hayes, Nabby 005 
 
 Hayes, Nancy. . 610, 621 
 
 Hayes, Nancy H 620 
 
 Hayes, Nathaniel 605 
 
 Hayes, Peter .598 
 
 Hayes, Polly 601 
 
 Hayes, Rebecca 619 
 
 Hayes, Sabra 605, 621 
 
 Hayes, Sally... 614, 616, 017, fl9 
 Hayes, Samuel . . . 599, 603, 608 
 
 617. 
 
 Hayes, Stephen 001 
 
 Hayes, Tamesin 599 
 
 Hayes, Wentworth — 592,594 
 
 598, 599. 
 
 Hayes, William 617 
 
 Hayes, William K .599 
 
 Hayes, Zenus 605 
 
 Hays, Benjamin 595,597 
 
 Hays, Benjamin, Jr 597 
 
 Hays, Betty .597 
 
 Hays, Clement .595 
 
 Hays, Hezekiah .598 
 
 Hays, Ichabod .597 
 
 Hays, Margaret 597 
 
 Hays, Mary 596, 597 
 
 Hays, Molly 596 
 
 Hays, Moses 598 
 
 Hays, Mrs. Ichabod 597 
 
 Hays, Mrs. Wentworth 596 
 
 597. 
 
 Hays, Tamsin 597 
 
 Hays, Tamzin 597 
 
 Hays, Theodore 595 
 
 Hays, Wentworth. .595, 596, 597 
 
 Healj', Daniel 598 
 
 Healy, Samuel 598 
 
 Heard, Abigail... .596, 606, 609 
 
 018. 
 
 Heard, Abraham 015 
 
 Heard, Benjamin 019 
 
 Heard, Betsey 614, 619 
 
 Heard, Charitj' 609 
 
 Heard, Dollev 596 
 
 Heard, Dorothy 610 
 
 Heard, Elisabeth 609, 611 
 
 Heard, Elizabeth 597 
 
 Heard, Enoch P 602 
 
 Heard, Frederick 621 
 
 Heai-d. George 615 
 
 Heard, Hannah — .595, 603, 608 
 
 010. 
 
 Heard, Henrv 617 
 
 Heard, Isaac 619 
 
 Heard. James 603 
 
 Heard, Jane 012, 617 
 
 Heard, Jean 606 
 
 Heard, John, Jr 620 
 
 Heard, Jonathan, Jr. ..608, 611 
 
 Heard, Joseph 596 
 
 Heard, Kezia 610 
 
 Heard, Lydia 0U3, 012, 621 
 
 Heard, Mary 617, 618 
 
 Heard, Meshech 614 
 
 Heard, N.athaniel. .601, 602, 603 
 
 Heard, Nathaniel II 603 
 
 Hoard, Olive 590, 610 
 
 Heard, Olive B 620 
 
 Heard, Phebe 008 
 
 Heard, Polly 610,618 
 
 Heard, Relief 615 
 
 Heard, Reuben 596 
 
 Heard, Reuben, Jr 616 
 
 Heard, Sally 601,617 
 
 Heard , Sara h 598, 608 
 
 Heard, Shadrach 613 
 
 Heard, Susanna 620 
 
 Heard, Timothy 608 
 
 Heard, Tristem 597 
 
 Heard, Tristrem 598 
 
 Heard, Trustam 596 
 
 Heard, Trustram 595 
 
 Heard, Trustram, Jr. . ..595, 619 
 
 Heard, William 613, 018 
 
 Henderson, Abigail 615 
 
 Henderson, Betsey 615 
 
 Henderson, John 617 
 
 Henderson, Jonathan 613 
 
 Henderson, Jonatlian H ...619 
 
 JI enderson, Richmond 611 
 
 Henderson, Sally 618 
 
 Henderson, Susanna. 618 
 
 Henderson, William 608 
 
 Herd, Abednego 591 
 
 Herd, Abigail .593 
 
 Herd, Benjamin 587 
 
 Herd, Hannah 587 
 
 Herd, Je.an 592 
 
 Herd, Jenny 589 
 
 Herd, John 589, 591, 593 
 
 Herd, Joseph ,586, 593, 597 
 
 Herd, Lvdia 597 
 
 Herd, Mesheck 590 
 
 Herd, Paul 591 
 
 Herd, Rebecca 588, 593 
 
682 
 
 INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES. 
 
 Herd, Keuben 5S0, 589 
 
 Herd, Ruben 597 
 
 Herd, Samuel 593 
 
 Herd, Sarah 593 
 
 Herd, Shadrach 589 
 
 Herd, Stephen 597 
 
 Herd, Trustham 591, 593 
 
 Hill, Betsv (iO'2 
 
 Hilllard, Rev G04 
 
 Hill, Ichabod 602 
 
 Hill, William fiio 
 
 Hll ton ?, Richard 600 
 
 Hilton?, Temperance 600 
 
 Hitlon, Richard 600 
 
 Hitlon, Temperance 600 
 
 Hoclgdon, Abigail 596 
 
 Hodgdon, Abner 598 to 601 
 
 603, 604. 
 Hodgdon, Alexander, Jr ..596 
 
 598, 599. 
 
 Hodgdon, Amos 610 
 
 Hodgdon, Betsey 600 
 
 Hodgdon, Eleazer.602, 603, 609 
 Hodgdon, Hannah .588, .596 
 
 610. 
 
 Hodgdon, Isaiah 620 
 
 Hodgdon, 'James N 597 
 
 Hodgdon, John 598 
 
 Hodgdon. Jonathan... 594, 596 
 
 597, 598. 
 Hodgdon, Joseph. .598, 608, 613 
 
 Hodgdon, Liberty 604 
 
 Hodgdon, Lois 588 
 
 Hodgdon, IMary ..589, 596, 60-2 
 
 Hodgdon, Molls' 615 
 
 Hodgilon, Moses 598 
 
 Hodgdon, Mrs. Jonathan. .586 
 
 Hodgdon, Nathan 613 
 
 Hodgdon, Nathaniel. ...599, 603 
 
 Hodgdon, Relief 601, 618 
 
 Hodgdon, Sallv.. ..613, 614, 616 
 
 Hodgdon, Sariih .599 
 
 Hodgdon, Theodore 612 
 
 Hodgsdon, Alexander, Jr ..597 
 Hodgsdon, Mrs. Eleazar. ...592 
 
 Hoflgsdon, Rebecca .595 
 
 Hodgsdon, Theodore .597 
 
 Hodgson, norcas .592 
 
 Hodgson, Eleazar .592 
 
 Hogsdon, Alexander.. 595, ,596 
 
 Hogsdon, Eleazar 595 
 
 Hoit, .596, 597 
 
 Holt. Beniamin 597 to 600 
 
 Hoit, Benjamin, Jr .597 
 
 Hoit, Betsey 616 
 
 Hoit, Charles 617 
 
 Hoit, Enoch, Jr 615 
 
 Hoit, George 600 
 
 Hoit, John D 616 
 
 Hoit, Josenh 603 
 
 Hoit, Lydia .598 
 
 Hoit, Mary 612 
 
 Hoit, Molly .599 
 
 Hoit,011v 603 
 
 Hoit, .Sallv 606 
 
 Hoit, Sarah .597 
 
 Hoit, Temperance 596, 611 
 
 Holmes, Abigail 615 
 
 Holmes, Ephraim .598, 608 
 
 Holmes, Joseph 60S 
 
 Holmes, Kezia .598 
 
 Holmes, .Susanna 612 
 
 Horn , Abigail 600, 605 
 
 Horn, Abra .598, 612 
 
 Horn, Alice 604, 615 
 
 Horn, Amos 598 
 
 Horn, Anna 603 
 
 Horn, Beniamin 601 
 
 Horn, Betsey 602, 613, 615 
 
 Horn, Charity .597 i 
 
 Horn, Charlotte 602 i 
 
 Horn, Daniel. .591, 600, 608, 609 
 
 618. 
 
 Horn, Daniel W 605 
 
 Horn, David 599 
 
 Horn, Drusilla .594 
 
 Horn, Easter 605 
 
 Horn, Ebenezer .589, 607 
 
 Hor n , Edmond 596 
 
 Home, Jonathan 619 
 
 Horn, Eleanor 598 
 
 Horn, Eliiah 595 to 605, 608 
 
 Horn, Elijah, Jr 605 
 
 Horn, Elisabeth D 604 
 
 Home, Peggy 618 
 
 Horn, Ephraim 609 
 
 Home. Rachel 609 
 
 Horn, Ester ,597 
 
 Home, Susan 619 
 
 Horn, Hannah 618 
 
 Horn, Isaac 612 
 
 Horn, Jacob .597, 612 
 
 Horn, James.. .597, 598, 599, 614 
 
 Horn, James, Jr 597 
 
 Horn, Jeremiah, Jr 613 
 
 Horn, Jethro 590 
 
 Horn, Jonathan 592, 605 
 
 Horn , Joshua 600 
 
 Horn, Leah 617 
 
 Horn , Margaret 597 
 
 Horn, Mary.... 588, 605, 610, 612 
 
 618, 619. 
 Horn, Mercy ..595, 596, .597, 601 
 
 Horn, Molly 602 
 
 Horn, INIoses, Jr 609, 612 
 
 Horn, JMrs. James 597 
 
 Horn, Mrs. Peter.. 595, 596, .597 
 
 Horn, Nathan 587 
 
 Horn, Nathaniel 601, 611 
 
 Horn, Noah 605,614 
 
 Horn, Olive 612 
 
 Horn, Patty 617 
 
 Horn, Paul ,5S9, 612, 613 
 
 Horn, Peter. 595 to 598, 600, 604 
 
 Horn, Phebo 590 
 
 Horn, Rachel 598, 604 
 
 Horn , Rebeccii 605, 608 
 
 Horn, Rebekah 595 
 
 Horn, Richard 598, 613 
 
 Horn, Rose 614 
 
 Horn, Sally 615 
 
 Horn, Samuel 598 
 
 Horn, Samuel H 593 
 
 Horn, Sarah .590 
 
 Horn, Thomas 602 
 
 Horn, Thomas, Jr 602 
 
 Horn, William. 590, 591, 593, 607 
 
 Horn, William, Jr 591, 593 
 
 Horseman, William 590 
 
 House, Jonathan White . ..588 
 House, Rebecca White ... 589 
 
 Howard, Esther 589 
 
 Howard, Hannah 600 
 
 Howard, James 600 
 
 Howard, Richard 587 
 
 Howard, Ruth 616 
 
 How, Dr. James 600 
 
 How, George 601 
 
 How, Hall J 602 
 
 How, James 601, 002, 603 
 
 How, James, Jr 601 
 
 How, Jonathan 616 
 
 How, Joseph W 603 
 
 How, Lucy 600,617 
 
 Hoyt, Benjamin 615 
 
 Hoyt, Dennis 612 
 
 Hoyt, Isaac 620 
 
 Hovt, Lydia 613 
 
 Hoyt, Temple 614 
 
 Hubbard, Peace ,,. 612 
 
 Hubbard, Philip 6I7 
 
 Hubbard, Sarah 6I1 
 
 j Huckens, John 608 
 
 1 Huckius, Phebe 60S 
 
 I Hunkin, Mary 594 
 
 Huntress, Betsey 619 
 
 Huntress, Dolly 604 
 
 Huntress, Elisabeth E 604 
 
 Huntress, Henrietta 604 
 
 Huntress, John 604 
 
 Huntress, Joseph P 604 
 
 Huntress, Mark 604 
 
 Hurd, John 620 
 
 Hurd. Mrs. William 606 
 
 Hurd. Nathaniel H 620 
 
 Hurd, Sarah 620 
 
 Hurd, Tamma 606 
 
 Hurd, Tristram 620 
 
 Hurd, William 606 
 
 Hussej^ Elijah 610 
 
 Hussey, Hannah 617 
 
 Hussey, Huldah 619 
 
 Hussey, Job 610 
 
 Hussey, Mary 619 
 
 Hussey, Olive 612 
 
 Hussey, Robert 620 
 
 Hussey, Thomas 619 
 
 Jackson, Lydia 607 
 
 Jackson, Phebe 607 
 
 Jackson , Philip 608 
 
 Jackson, Stephen 617 
 
 Jameson, Susan 618 
 
 Jelerson, Benjamin 621 
 
 .lenkins, Ebenezer 598 
 
 .lenkins, Dolle 598 
 
 Jenkins, John .598 
 
 Jenkins, Nathaniel... 599,615 
 
 .Jenkins, Patience 600 
 
 Jenkins, Sarah 598 
 
 Jenkins, Stephen 598, .599, 600 
 Jenkins, Stephen, Jr.. 598,616 
 
 Jennes, Abigail 591, 614 
 
 Jennes, Aron 589 
 
 .Jennes, Betty 593 
 
 Jennes, Cornelius 597 
 
 Jennes, Daniel 587 
 
 .Jennes, David 591, 607 
 
 Jennes, Elisha .596, 610 
 
 Jennes, Hannah. ..586, 587, 590 
 
 611. 
 
 .Tennes, Isaac 599, 615 
 
 Jennes, Jemima 586 
 
 Jennes, .Jeremiah 615 
 
 Jennes, Jonathan 591, 593 
 
 596, 613. 
 Jennes, John. .587, 597, 603, 617 
 
 Jennes, Keturah 593 
 
 Jennes, Lucey 594 
 
 Jennes, Lydia 591 
 
 Jennes, M 590 
 
 Jennes, Mark 586, 59a 
 
 Jennes, Mary 589, 610 
 
 Jennes, Moses 588,607 
 
 Jennes, Mrs. Cornelius — 597 
 
 Jennes, Mrs. Paul .593 
 
 Jennes, Patience 597 
 
 Jennes, Paul 593, 595, 599 
 
 Jennes, Phena 590 
 
 Jenness, Aaron, Jr 617 
 
 Jennes, Samuel 596,603 
 
 Jennes, Sarah 588, 593, 603 
 
 607, 612. 
 
 Jenness, John, Jr 616 
 
 Jenness, Lucy 609 
 
 Jenness, Sarah 617 
 
 Jennes, Stephen 613 
 
 Jenness, William, 3d 616 
 
 Jennes, William 586,603 
 
 Jennes, William, Jr ...586, 596 
 
 611. 
 
 Jennes, William, 3d 596 
 
 Jewett, Benjamin 618 
 
 i\ 
 
INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MAKllIAGES. 
 
 683 
 
 Jewett, Dearborn 009 
 
 Johnson, Elizabeth 586 
 
 Johnson, Mary 621 
 
 Johnson, Nathaniel 609 
 
 Johnson, Sarali 5S6 
 
 Jones, Abigail 611 
 
 Jones, JJeujainin 01-2 
 
 Jones, Hannah 594 
 
 Jones, Jane 597 
 
 Jones, Joseph 597 
 
 Jones, Joseph, Jr 6U, 617 
 
 Jones, Leah 615 
 
 Jones, Liivi — 614 
 
 Jones, Lyilia 616 
 
 Jones, Mary 613 
 
 Jones, Mehetibel 617 
 
 Jones, Polly 618 
 
 Jones, Rev, Isaac 606 
 
 Jones, Sally 615 
 
 Jones, Samuel 597, 617 
 
 Jones, Samuel C, Jr 614 
 
 Jones, Samuel, Jr 613 
 
 Jones, Sarah 612 
 
 Joy, Alice 617 
 
 Joy, Jacob 615 
 
 Junkius, Sarah 60S 
 
 Keay. James 618 
 
 Keuney, John 619 
 
 Kenny, Lydia 587 
 
 Kenny, Martha 588 
 
 Kenny, Susanna . . . .587, 593 
 
 Kent, James 620 
 
 Kielle, Benjamin 610 
 
 Kinibal, Eleanor C 604 
 
 Kinibal, Elisabeth 59S 
 
 Kimbal, Ephralm 598, 604 
 
 Kimljall, Anne .615 
 
 Kimball, Daniel 613 
 
 Kimball, Elisabeth 610 
 
 Kimball, Ephaim 603, 616 
 
 Kimball, Ephraim 599, 600 
 
 602, 603. 
 
 Kimball, Ephraim, Jr 000 
 
 Kimball, Hannah 615 
 
 Kimball, Jesse 599 
 
 Kimhall, John. 603 
 
 Kimball, Mary 609 
 
 Kimball, Nabby 60^ 
 
 Kimball, Nehemiah . ..602, 603 
 
 609. 
 
 Kimball, Paul 614 
 
 Kimball, Polly 613 
 
 Kimball, Samuel 600 
 
 Kimball, Susanna 611 
 
 Kimbal, Mary 614 
 
 Kimbal, iMolly 598 
 
 Kingman, John 599 
 
 Kingman, William 599 
 
 Knight, Abraham ."j^sO 
 
 Knight, Betsey 617 
 
 Knisht, Betty .5WI 
 
 Knight, Elizabeth 586 
 
 Knight, Hatevil . . ..595, 002, 603 
 
 604, 610, 616. 
 
 Knight, John .580 
 
 Knight, John S. B 604 
 
 Knight, Joseph 595, 602 
 
 Knight, Joshua 588 
 
 Knight, Kezia .587, .595 
 
 Knight, J.ois 599,614 
 
 Knight, Mary 612 
 
 Knight, Mary D 003 
 
 Knight, Olive 007 
 
 Knight, Robert 587, 61 1 
 
 Knight, Rose. 600 
 
 Knight, Richard 586 
 
 Knight, Sarah Oil 
 
 Knight, Susanna . .607, 613, 020 
 
 Knight, Walter B 603 
 
 Knight, William. ..599, 600, 617 
 
 Knight, William, Jr .599 
 
 Knock, Rebecca 610 
 
 Knoles, Experience .596 
 
 Kn oles, James .59fi 
 
 Knoles, James, Jr 590 
 
 Knoles, Mrs. James 596 
 
 Knowles, Comfort 593 
 
 Knowles, Daniel 598, 601 
 
 Knowles, Elisabeth 620 
 
 Knowles, Ephraim 601 
 
 Knowles, Experience, .594 
 
 Knowles, Hannah .598 
 
 Knowles, Isaac L . . .598 
 
 Knowles, James 594, 601 
 
 Knowles, Jemima 59S 
 
 Knowles, John 591,601 
 
 Knowles, John, Jr 601 
 
 Knowles, Mary 592, .598 
 
 Knowles, Mary D 618 
 
 Knowles, Rebecca 6:)1 
 
 Knowles, Samuel 609 
 
 Knowles, Susannah 007 
 
 Knowles, Trypheua 611 
 
 Knowles, William 001 
 
 Laighton, David .597 
 
 Laighton , Moses 597 
 
 Lancton, Joseph 014 
 
 Lane, Joseph H 603 
 
 Lane, Joshua 603 
 
 Lane, Joshua, Jr 003 
 
 i Laiigdon, Joseph, Jr .594 
 
 Langley, Polly 017 
 
 Langley, Valentine Oil 
 
 Langly, Sally 615 
 
 i Layton, Anna . 592 
 
 ! Layton, David .592 
 
 I Layton, Dolley .592 
 
 Layton, Hannah .593 
 
 Layton, Jacob .593 
 
 Layton, John 587, .592, .593 
 
 I Layton, Lydia 588, .594 
 
 j Layton, Mrs. David .592 
 
 ; Layton, Samuel 593 
 
 Layton, Sarah 588, 593 
 
 j Layton, Susanna .587 
 
 I Leaghton, Dorothy 606 
 
 Leathers, Elisabeth 619 
 
 Leavit, Ed ward 620 
 
 ! Lobby, John 596 
 
 Lebby, Mary .596 
 
 Lebby, Mrs. Paul .596 
 
 Lobby, Paul 596 
 
 ' Leigliton, Abigail 603 
 
 i Leighton, Anna 597 
 
 Leighton, Betsey 617 
 
 Leighton, Daniel 602 
 
 Leighton, David. . . .594, 595, 597 
 
 Leighton, David, Jr 612 
 
 Leighton, Elijah 602 
 
 Leighton, Elisabeth. . .607, 609 
 
 Leighton, Elizabeth .595 
 
 Leighton, Jane 611 
 
 Leighton, John 003 
 
 Leighton, Jonathan 609 
 
 Leighton, Jonathan, Jr — 608 
 
 Leighton, Kezia 607 
 
 Leighton, Lydia 610 
 
 Leighton, Molly 611 
 
 Leighton, Nancy.. 611, 013, 614 
 
 Leighton, William 595, 602 
 
 603, 610. 
 
 Libbey, Clement 611 
 
 Libbey, Dr. Benjamin 614 
 
 Libbey, Hanson 611 
 
 Libbey, Isaac 591 
 
 Libbey, John 615 
 
 Libbey, Meshech 612 
 
 Libbey, Mrs. Isaac .591 
 
 Libbey, Sarah 591, 613 
 
 Libbey, Paul 612 
 
 Libbey, Polly 614 
 
 Libby, Elizabeth 597 
 
 Libby, Mary 598 
 
 Lock, Betsey 613 
 
 Lock, Edward .589 
 
 Locke, Eleanor .598 
 
 Locke, Elisabeth 600,607 
 
 Locke, Hannah 587 
 
 Lock, Elisabeth 621 
 
 Locke, Susanna 586, 588 
 
 Locke, Temperance K. . . .598 
 
 Locke, William 598, 600 
 
 Locke, William, Jr 598 
 
 Lock, Hannah 608 
 
 Lock, John 611, 614 
 
 Lock, Mary. 590 
 
 Lock, Mercy 594 
 
 Lock, Meribah 595, 607 
 
 Lock, Prudence 593 
 
 Lord, Amaziah 615 
 
 Lord, John 620 
 
 Lord, Mary 617 
 
 Lonl. Nathan 618 
 
 ! Lord, Rebecca 616 
 
 I Lord, Sally 615 
 
 ! Lonl , Samuel 60S 
 
 ! Lord, Solomon 617 
 
 Lord, William W 608 
 
 Lyman, Lovey 620 
 
 i MacCrelis, Elisabeth 591 
 
 MacCreliSt Jean 589 
 
 MacFee, Daniel 586 
 
 jMacfee, James 593 
 
 IVLacfee, William 593, .594 
 
 Maclntire, John 586 
 
 Mac'Intire, Joseph 586 
 
 MacNeal, Agnes 587 
 
 MacNeal, Daniel 587 
 
 MacNeal, Jean ..588 
 
 Mahoney, Michael 621 
 
 Main, Abigail 588, 630 
 
 Main, Betsey 619 
 
 Main, Betty 589 
 
 Main, Hannah 587 
 
 Main, Jacob 603 
 
 IMain, Josiah, Jr 613 
 
 Main, Lydia. 586 
 
 Main. Mary 594, 620 
 
 Main. Mercy 589 
 
 March, Jonas C. ..606, 613, 619 
 
 March, Mrs. Jonas C 606 
 
 March, Lydia 606 
 
 Marden, James, Jr 608 
 
 Marden, John 590 
 
 Marden, Lydia. 590, 593 
 
 Marden, William 619 
 
 Mardin, John 600 
 
 Mardin, Lois 600 
 
 Mason, Lemuel 609 
 
 Mathes, Phebe 613 
 
 Mathes, Robert 612 
 
 Mathes, Roberts 615 
 
 McCrelis, Elizabeth 593 
 
 McCrelis, Robert 590 
 
 McCrelus, Anne 600 
 
 McCrelus, Daniel 599 
 
 McCrelus, Elisabeth 599 
 
 McCrelus, Esther 599 
 
 McCrelus, John C 600 
 
 McCielus, Mary — 599 
 
 McCrelus, Robert 599, 600 
 
 McCrelus, Robert, Jr .599 
 
 McCrelus, Stephen 599 
 
 McDuffee, Anna 610 
 
 McDnffee, D.aniel 609 
 
 McDuffee, David 614 
 
 McDuftee, Hannah 609 
 
 McDutree, Jacob 597, 611 
 
 McDuffee, James 597, 598 
 
 McDuffee, James, Jr.. .009, 619 
 
684 
 
 INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES. 
 
 McDuffee, Jane 611 
 
 McDuffee, John 598, 615 
 
 McDnffee, John, Jr 611 
 
 McDuffee, John, 3d 619 
 
 McDuffee, Jonathan 611 
 
 McDuffee, Lydia 614 
 
 McDuffee, Maiy 616 
 
 McDuffee, Pattv 615 
 
 McDuffee, Richard 6-20 
 
 McDuffee, Sa)l5', 3d 620 
 
 McDuffee, Samuel 620 
 
 McDuffee, Sarah 609 
 
 McDuffee, Seth 621 
 
 McDuffee, Thomas 619 
 
 McDuff e, Mary 59i 
 
 McDurflee, Betty 598 
 
 McDurffee, James 59S 
 
 McDurffee, Mary 608 
 
 McFee, John 591 
 
 McPee, Sarah 592 
 
 ]\rcFee, William 591 
 
 McNeal, Daniel 591 
 
 McNeal, Elisabeth 613 
 
 McXeal, Elizabeth 593 
 
 McNeal, Hannah 590 
 
 McNeal, Jean 587 
 
 McNeal, Mary 589 
 
 M'Duflee, James 595 
 
 M'Dutfee, James, Jr. .595 
 
 M'Duffee, William, Jr 596 
 
 M'Duftee, William 596 
 
 M'Duffe, Hannah 595 
 
 M'Duffe, William 595 
 
 Meader, Margaret 610 
 
 M eder, Charity 609 
 
 Meder, Francis 612 
 
 Meder, Joseph 617 
 
 Meder, Lemuel 613 
 
 Merden, Hinkson 599 
 
 Merden, James 599 
 
 Merrey, Benjamin .589 
 
 Merrey, Benjamin, Jr . . . . 589 
 
 Merrey, Joseph 587 
 
 Merrey, Mary 587 
 
 Merriam, Rev .)97 
 
 Merry, Abigail 587 
 
 Merry, Benjamin. .587, 590, 592 
 
 Merry, Daniel 592 
 
 Merry, Hannah 591 
 
 Merry, John 590 
 
 Merry, Moses 593 
 
 Meri-y, Mrs. Samuel, Jr 587 
 
 Merrj', Samuel, Jr 587 
 
 Merrow, Esther 609 
 
 Merrow. Joshua 610 
 
 Meserve, Abigail 613 
 
 Meserve, John 616 
 
 Meserve, Mary 611 
 
 Meserve, Polly 612 
 
 Meservey, Stephen 618 
 
 Messer, Nathaniel 603 
 
 Messer, William 603 
 
 Mighill, Dolley 591 
 
 Mighill. John 592 
 
 Mighill, Moses 592 
 
 Mighls, Moses 609 
 
 Miller, Isaac 588 
 
 Miller, Jean 588 
 
 Miller, Sarah .592 
 
 Mills, Elisabeth 601 
 
 Mills, Elizabeth 610 
 
 Mills, James 601 
 
 Mills, Jeremy 601 
 
 Mills, John 601 
 
 Mills, Mary 601 
 
 Mills, Samuel 601 
 
 Monson, Theodore 615 
 
 Moody, Anna 609 
 
 Mordough, James 614 
 
 More, Sarah 611 
 
 Morrison, David 609 
 
 Morrison, John 601 
 
 Morrison, Jonathan... 600, 601 
 
 616. 
 Morrison, Jonathan, Jr ....600 
 Morrison, Mrs. Jonathan ..600 
 
 Morrison, Sally 600 
 
 Morrison, Sally, 2d 600 
 
 Morrison, Samuel 600 
 
 Muir, Samuel 616 
 
 Mundroe, Elizabeth 594 
 
 Murray, Susanna 614 
 
 Muri-ey, John, Jr 616 
 
 Murry, William 609 
 
 Myrick, John 608 
 
 Nason, Hannah G 615 
 
 Nason, Mary 608 
 
 Nayler, Lydia 607 
 
 Neal, Elisabeth L. P 604 
 
 Neal, James A 605 
 
 Neal, John P 604 
 
 Neal, Joseph L 604 
 
 Neal, Moses L 604, 605 
 
 Neal, Moses L., Jr 604 
 
 Neal, Samuel A 604 
 
 Nelson, Joseph 592 
 
 Nelson, Lade 591 
 
 Nelson, Sarah 618 
 
 Nock, Bettv 609 
 
 Norton. Elihu G 619 
 
 Nute, Abra 616 
 
 Nute, Daniel 620 
 
 Nute, Ezekiel 619 
 
 Nute, Israel 620 
 
 Nute, Jacob. 619 
 
 Nute, Jeremiah 617 
 
 Nute, John, Jr 607 
 
 Nute.Josiah 611 
 
 Nute, Lydia 614 
 
 Nute, Mary 619 
 
 Nute, Nicholas 617 
 
 Nute, Polly 614 
 
 Nute, Rebecca E 611 
 
 Nute, Samuel 607 
 
 Nute, Sarah 609, 620 
 
 Nute, Stephen 614 
 
 Nute, Susannah 613 
 
 Nutter, Abigail 607, 619 
 
 Nutter, Alice 613 
 
 Nutter, Charlotte 616 
 
 Nutter, Francis 602 
 
 Nutter, James 609 
 
 Nutter, John 602, 61 1 
 
 Nutter, John, Jr 617 
 
 Nutter, Molly 613 
 
 Nutter, Nancy 617 
 
 Nutter, Phebe 619 
 
 Nutter, Pollv 618 
 
 Nutter, Richard, Jr 610, 616 
 
 Nutter, Richard, 3d 612 
 
 Nutter, Sally 610 
 
 Nutter, Samuel N 614 
 
 Nutter, Stephen 612 
 
 Nutter, Temperance. ..617, 019 
 
 Nutter, William 621 
 
 Nutter, Winthrop 609 
 
 Odihorn, Abigail 589 
 
 Odiorne, John 617 
 
 Odiorne, Lydia 616 
 
 Odiorne, Nancy 617, 618 
 
 Odiorne, Patience 614 
 
 Odiorne, Susanna 620 
 
 Odlin, William W 618 
 
 Ordway, Rev 599 
 
 Otis, Rebekah 608 
 
 Otis, Simon 019 
 
 Page, Abigail. .592, ,597. 601, 602 
 
 611,617,618. 
 Page, Anna 599 
 
 Page, Benjamin. .601 to 60.5, 617 
 
 Page, Benjamin, Jr 602, 603 
 
 Page, Daniel . .592, 596, 597, 602 
 
 Page, Daniel, Jr 596, 609 
 
 Page, David C 600 
 
 Page, Elisabeth 605, 609 
 
 Page, Joseph.. 592, 599, 600, 602 
 
 603, 604. 
 
 Page, Lucy 607 
 
 Page, Martha H 600, 617 
 
 Page, Mary 613 
 
 Page, May 599 
 
 Page, Mrs. Daniel 592 
 
 Page. Sarah 603, 608 
 
 Page, Wealthy 604 
 
 Palmer, Barnabas. 595, 596, 601 
 
 Palmer, Barnabas, Jr 611 
 
 Palmer, Barnaby 590 
 
 Palmer, Benjamin .595, 601 
 
 Palmer, Bracket 601 
 
 Palmer, Daniel 617 
 
 Palmer, Deborah 605 
 
 Palmer, Dodavah 620 
 
 Palmer, Dudley 612 
 
 Palmer, Elisabeth 590, 608 
 
 Palmer, John 609, 613 
 
 Palmer, Joseph 596, 614 
 
 Palmer, Jonathan 591 
 
 Palmer, Margaret .590 
 
 Palmer, Mercy 596 
 
 Palmer, MoUey 590 
 
 Palmer, Mrs. Barnaby 590 
 
 Palmer, Mrs. Benjamin . ..601 
 
 Palmer, Mrs. William 605 
 
 Palmer, Patty 601 
 
 Palmer, Robinson 601 
 
 Palmer, Samuel 593, 609 
 
 Palmer, Susanna 620 
 
 Palmer, Susannah 601 
 
 Palmer, William.. 593, 60.5, 608 
 
 Parrot, Captain 600 
 
 Parrot, Deborah W 600 
 
 Parrot, Martha B 600 
 
 Patterson, Nancy 604 
 
 Peabody, Francis 619 
 
 Pearl. Abraham. ..591, 594, 595 
 
 596. ■ I 
 
 Pearl, Daniel 593 * | 
 
 Pearl, Ebenezer 596, 612 ■ 
 
 Pearl, Eleazer 614 f ] 
 
 Pearl, Elenor 596 
 
 Pearl, Elisabeth 607 
 
 Pearl, Elizabeth 588 
 
 Pearl, Hannah 593, 595 
 
 Pearl, Icabod 590 
 
 Pearl, Isaac fill 
 
 Pearl, John 591 
 
 Pearl, Joseph 590,618 
 
 Pearl, Joseph, Jr 608 
 
 Pearl, Mary 608 
 
 Pearl, Mrs. Joseph 590 
 
 Pearl, Paul 591 
 
 Pearl, Rachel 007 
 
 Pearl, Sarah. . .590, 503, 608, 610 
 
 618. 
 
 Pease, Elizebeth 15 619 i 
 
 Peavey, Abigail 620 ■ 
 
 Peavey, John, Jr 620 « | 
 
 Peavey, Joshua 607 i 
 
 Peavey, Simon 616 
 
 Peavy, Oliver 612 
 
 Peirce, Andrew 615 
 
 Pendexter, John 619 
 
 Perkins, Adam 613 
 
 Perkins, Anna 608 
 
 Perkins, Dorothy 609 
 
 Perkins, Ephraiin 619 
 
 Perkins, Ephraim, 3d 612 
 
 Perkins, E lisabeth 609 
 
 Perkins, Esther 609 
 
 Perkins, Gilbert 594 
 
INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES. 
 
 685 
 
 Perkins, Hami&h 607, 617 
 
 Perkins, Joseph 616 
 
 Perkins, Judith 59*, 61 1 
 
 Perkins, Lucinda 621 
 
 Perkins, Martha 602 
 
 Perkins, Sarah 611 
 
 Perkins, Susanna 613 
 
 Perkins, Solomon 600, 604 
 
 Pevee, Anthony 608 
 
 Pevee, Daniel..... 599 
 
 Pevee. Daniel, Jr 599 
 
 Pevee, Jacob 599 
 
 Pevee, Oliver 599 
 
 Pevee, Sally... 598 
 
 Pevey, Billy .591 
 
 Pevey, Daniel 591 
 
 Pevey, Temperance 593 
 
 Pevey, Thomas .592 
 
 Pevey, William 59-2 
 
 Philbrick, Polly 612 
 
 Pickering, Abigail 612 
 
 Pickering, Anthony E 618 
 
 Pickering, Betsey 613 
 
 Pickering, James, Jr . . 605, 015 
 
 Pickering, John 615 
 
 Pickering, Levi .... 610 
 
 Pickering, Lois 615 
 
 Pickering, Mary A 605 
 
 Pickering, Sally 618 
 
 Pickering, Tryphena B.. ..605 
 
 Pickering, William 614 
 
 Pierce, Hannah 619 
 
 Pierce, Joshua 618 
 
 Pierce, Stephen 610 
 
 Pike, Elisha 613 
 
 Pike, Mary 614 
 
 Pike, Nathaniel G 619 
 
 Pike, Rev 597 
 
 Pilsbury, Eliza F 620 
 
 Pinkham, Aliice... 615 
 
 Pinkham, Elisabeth 611 
 
 Pinkham, Isaac 602 
 
 Pinkham, Jonathan. ..001, 618 
 
 Pinkham, Lois 606 
 
 Pinkljam, Mary A 601 
 
 Pinkham, Natiianiel 610 
 
 Pinkham, Polly 12 
 
 Pinkbara, Rebecca 604 
 
 Pinkham, Samuel 619 
 
 Pinkham, Stephen 601 
 
 Pinkham, Susannah 607 
 
 Pinkham, Thomas 601, 602, 604 
 
 Pinkham, Thomas, Jr 604 
 
 Pinkham, Vincent 604 
 
 Piper, Rev 604 
 
 Piper, Rev. Asa 606 
 
 Pirkins, Sbadrach 614 
 
 Place, Abigail 596, 610 
 
 Place, Amos 607 
 
 Place, Betty 596, 598 
 
 Place, Betsey 612 
 
 Place, Charity 608 
 
 Place, Charles 605 
 
 Place, David 596 to 600 
 
 Place, David, Jr 598 | 
 
 Place, Dorothy 610 
 
 Place, Ebenezer. . .595, 598, 602 
 
 Place, Ebenezer, Jr 598 
 
 Place, Elisabeth 601 
 
 Place, Elisabeth F 604 
 
 Place, Elizabeth ,597 
 
 Place, George 596, 597 
 
 Place, Hannah .593, 607, 618 
 
 Place, Isaac 600 
 
 Place, Jacob ,595 
 
 Place, James 596, 606, 608 
 
 Place, James H 605 
 
 Place, Jenny 620 
 
 Place, John.... 593, 595, ,596, 600 
 
 Place, John, Jr 607, 609 
 
 Place, John M. 596,001 to 604,609 
 
 Place, John M., Jr 604 
 
 Place, Jonathan. . .595, 609, 610 
 
 Place, Keziah 597 
 
 Place, Lucy 596, 609 
 
 Place, Martha 598 
 
 Place, Mary 608, 611 
 
 Place, Mehetabel 597 
 
 Place, Moses 610 
 
 Place, Mrs. John M 601 
 
 Place, Olive 597 
 
 Place, Paul 596, 609 
 
 Place, Polly 614 
 
 Place, Phebe... 601,618 
 
 Place, Richard 596, 603 
 
 Place, Sally 598, 601, 604 
 
 Place, Samuel 596 
 
 Place, Sarah 599 
 
 Place, Simon 598 
 
 Place, Solomon 615 
 
 Place, Stephen 596, 604, 605 
 
 614. 
 
 Place, Susanna 596,604 
 
 Place, Susannah 609 
 
 Place, Widow 596 
 
 Plaice, Abigail 588,594 
 
 Plaice, Abraham 589, 593 
 
 Plaice, David 588 
 
 Plaice, Deborah 591 
 
 Plaice, Doilee 593 
 
 Plaice, Dolly 591 
 
 Plaice, Ebenezer 589 
 
 Plaice, Ebenezer, Jr 592 
 
 Plaice, George 595 
 
 Plaice, Hannah 588 
 
 Plaice, Hannah, 2d 588 
 
 Plaice, James 588, 591, 592 
 
 Plaice, John 590, 591, 594 
 
 Plaice, J onathan 591 
 
 Plaice, Joseph 591 
 
 Plaice, Keziah 592 
 
 Plaice, Love 592 
 
 Plaice, Lucey 590 
 
 Plaice, Lydia 591 
 
 Plaice, Mary 587, 590, 593 
 
 Plaice, Moses 592 
 
 Plaice, Mrs. Ebenezer, Jr. .592 
 
 Plaice, Mrs. James 588 
 
 Plaice, Richard 588, 591 
 
 Plaice, Sarah 591 
 
 Plumer, Benjamin 620 
 
 Plumer, Ebenezer 596 
 
 Plumer, Elisabeth 620 
 
 Plumer, Ephraim 620 
 
 Plumer, Lydia 617 
 
 Plumer, Samuel 596 
 
 Plumer, Thomas 605 
 
 Plummer, Beard 592, 607 
 
 Plummer, Betsey 614 
 
 Plummer, Elisabeth 612 
 
 Plummer, Elizabeth 590 
 
 Plummer, Ephraim... .595, 610 
 
 Plummer, Ephraim, Jr 611 
 
 Plummer, John 590 
 
 Plummer, John, 3d Oil 
 
 Plummer, Joseph 591, 607 
 
 Plummer, Lois 607 
 
 Plummer, Lydia 598 
 
 Plummer, Samuel. . . .595, 597 
 
 598, 607. 
 
 Plummer, Samuel, Jr 597 
 
 Plummer, Susa 598 
 
 Plummer, Susanna 612 
 
 Pottle, Abigail .597 
 
 Pottle, Jonathan 597 
 
 Pottle, Joseph 610 
 
 Pottle, Mary 610 
 
 Pray, Charles 616 
 
 Pray, Joshua 620 
 
 Pribble, Abraham 608 
 
 Quimby, Daniel 614 
 
 Randal, Betsey 613 
 
 Randall, James.. 616 
 
 Randall, Sally 613 
 
 Randal , Mary 620 
 
 Randal, Thomas 621 
 
 Rand, Nathaniel 613 
 
 Rand, Samuel 618 
 
 Rand, Susanna 611 
 
 Rand, Temperance 616 
 
 Ran, James 612 
 
 Ranlet, Betsey 618 
 
 Ranlet, Jonathan 617 
 
 Rawlins, Lazarus 588 
 
 Rawlings, Deborah 591 
 
 Rawlings, Edward ... 591, 593 
 
 Rawlings, Lear 592 
 
 Raynal, Abigail 619 
 
 Raynel, John 602 
 
 Raynell, Lydia 619 
 
 Raynel, Mary 602 
 
 Raynes, Nathaniel 589 
 
 Read, Benjamin 615, 618 
 
 Read, Mark 613 
 
 Read, Nancy 613 
 
 Remick, Mary 621 
 
 Remick, William 618 
 
 Rendal, Molly 611 
 
 Reynolds, Martha 617 
 
 Richards, Abigail .590, 595, 602 
 Richards, Bartholomew. ..591 
 
 Nllichards, Benjamin 591 
 
 Richards, Betty 612 
 
 Richards, David 588 
 
 Richards, Deborah 586 
 
 Richards, Elisabeth 602 
 
 Richards, Hannah 615 
 
 Richards, Isaac 620 
 
 NRichards, James 602 
 
 Richards, Jane 589 
 
 Richards, Jean 594 
 
 ->Richards, John .588, 592, 593, 605 
 
 Richards, John, Jr 602 
 
 Richards, Jonathan 587 
 
 Richards, Jonathan, Jr 610 
 
 Richards, Joseph 593 
 
 Richards, Lois 605 
 
 Richards, Lydia 614 
 
 Richards, Mehitabel 617 
 
 Richards, Mrs. Samuel 586 
 
 Richards, Olive 587 
 
 Richardson, Abigail 621 
 
 Richai'dscm, Dorothy 621 
 
 Richardson, Hannah 618 
 
 Richardson, James 621 
 
 Richardson, Joseph 617 
 
 Richardson, Lydia 619 
 
 Richardson, Mary. 620 
 
 Richardson, Nancy 619 
 
 Richardson, Rebeckah 610 
 
 Richardson, Rebekah 597 
 
 Richardson, Sally 617 
 
 Richardson, Susannah 607 
 
 Richardson, Thomas 617 
 
 Richardson, Timothy 608 
 
 Richardson, William 594 
 
 Richards, Polly 620 
 
 Richards, Rebecca .. 588 
 
 Richards, Salome 586 
 
 Richards, Samuel 586, 588 
 
 Richards, Samuel, Jr 586 
 
 Richards, Sarah. ..586, 5S.«!, 592 
 602, 614. 
 
 Richards, Sarah, 2d 586 
 
 Richards, Susanna 591 
 
 Ricker, Aby 619 
 
 Ricker, Benajah 606, 618 
 
 Ricker, Benajah, Jr 606 
 
 Ricker, Betsey 619 
 
 Ricker, Charles 617 
 
 Ricker, Ebenezer 613 
 
 Ricker, Ezekiel.601, 602,603,609 
 
686 
 
 INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES. 
 
 Ricker, Hannah 617 
 
 Ricker, Jedidiah 615 
 
 Kicker, Jolm 611, 617 
 
 Ricker, Joseph 608 
 
 Ricker, Lydia 615 
 
 Ricker, Lucy 614 
 
 Ricker, Nicholas 601, 617 
 
 Ricker, Paul 618 
 
 Ricker, Phinehas 603 
 
 Ricker,Polly 615 
 
 Ricker, Sally 618 
 
 Ricker, Samuel 594 
 
 Ricker, Sarah 619 
 
 Ricker, Tobias C07 
 
 Ricker, Thomas 602, 618 
 
 Ricker, Timothy 607, 621 
 
 Ricker, ^A'illiam 603 
 
 Ripley, William .611 
 
 Roach, Lydia 615 
 
 Roberts, Abigail 611, 614 
 
 Roberts, Anna 612 
 
 Roberts, Anna W 621 
 
 Roberts, Anne 594 
 
 Roberts, Betsey 618 
 
 Roberts, Elisabeth 599, 602 
 
 613, 617, 619. 
 
 Roberts, Ezra 599 
 
 Roberts, Hannah 620 
 
 Roberts, Isaac 615 
 
 Roberts, James 611, 615 
 
 Roberts, John .598, 602, 608 
 
 611, 612. 
 
 Roberts, John, Jr 619 
 
 Roberts, Jonathan 602 
 
 Roberts, Jonathan D 616 
 
 Roberts, Joseph 602, 608 
 
 Roberts, Joshua ..615 
 
 Roberts, Lucy J 621 
 
 Roberts, Mary 589 
 
 Roberts, Mehetabel 613 
 
 Roberts, Molly 610 
 
 Roberts, Moses 593, 599, 600 
 
 Roberts, Moses, Jr .599 
 
 Robertson, Nathaniel 617 
 
 Roberts, Peggy 608 
 
 Roberts, Pollv 613 
 
 Roberts, Rebecca 613 
 
 Roberts, Relief 609 
 
 Roberts, Samuel 608, 620 
 
 Roberts, Sarah. . . .588, 600, 613 
 
 616, 620. 
 
 Roberts, Shubal 614 
 
 Roberts, Susanna 615 
 
 Roberts, Susannah 599 
 
 Roberts, Thomas 617 
 
 Roberts, Timothy..587, 592, 598 
 
 Roberts, Timothy, Jr 608 
 
 Robinson, Betsy 621 
 
 Robinson, James 618 
 
 Robinson, Levi 616 
 
 Robinson, Mercy 611 
 
 Robinson, Meshech 609 
 
 Robinson, Sarah 616 
 
 Roe, Mary 611 
 
 Roger, Abigail 590 
 
 Roger, Charles.... 589, 592, 594 
 
 Roger, Elizabeth 590 
 
 Roger, Hannah 502 
 
 Roger, James, Jr .591, 594 
 
 Roger, James, 3d 591 
 
 Roger, John 589 
 
 Roger, Mary 589, 591 
 
 Roger, Mrs. Charles .589 
 
 Roger, Sarah 590 
 
 Rogers, Artemas 619 
 
 Rogers, Charles 618 
 
 Rogers, Daniel 621 
 
 Rogers, Hannah 605, 617 
 
 Rogers, James 595, 6o7 
 
 Rogers, Jean 590 
 
 Rogers, Mary 595, 60S 
 
 Rogers, Ruth 60S 
 
 Rogers, Silas 610 
 
 Rogers, Stephen 610 
 
 Rogers, William 607 
 
 Roger, William 503 
 
 Rollings, Benjamin . . .600, 601 
 602. 
 
 Rollings, Betty 600 
 
 Rollings, Esther mi 
 
 Rollings, John GOO, 607 
 
 Rollings, Joshua N 610 
 
 Rollings, Molly 600 
 
 Rollings, Nancy 600 
 
 Rollings, Olive 609 
 
 Rollings, Sarah 600 
 
 Rollings, Stephen 600 
 
 Rollings, Susa 602 
 
 Rollings, Temperance 611 
 
 Rollins,^ 596 
 
 Rollins, Anna 621 
 
 Rollins, Anthony 609 
 
 Rollins, Benjamin H 604 
 
 Rollins, Betsey 612 
 
 Rollins, Easter 616 
 
 Rollins, Edward 607 
 
 Rollins, Hannah H 604 
 
 Rollins, Joshua 603, 604 
 
 Rollins, Joshua N 604 
 
 Rollins, Moses 596 
 
 Rollins, Phebe H 603, 604 
 
 Rollins, Sarah 596 
 
 Rollins, Stephen 615 
 
 Ross, Patty 616 
 
 Ross, Simon 619 
 
 Rundlet, Richard 609 
 
 Runnals, Alice 618 
 
 Runnels, John 612 
 
 Runnels, Michael 609 
 
 Runnels, Nathaniel 618 
 
 Sanbourn, Jacob 612 
 
 Sayward, .James 615 
 
 Scales, Benjamin 602, 603 
 
 Scates, Benjamin, Jr . .603, 620 
 
 Scales, John 594, 613 
 
 Scates, Lucy 613 
 
 Scates, Lydia 613 
 
 Scates, Norton 602, 618 
 
 Sceva, Hannah 609 
 
 Sceva, Joseiih 601 , 609 
 
 Scevey, Frederica 608 
 
 Scevy, Hannah 616 
 
 Scribner, Anna 607 
 
 Serjeant, Margaret 613 
 
 Sevey, 593 
 
 Sevey, Abigail 587 
 
 Sevey, Comfort 591 
 
 Sevey, Elizabeth .591 
 
 Sevey, Ithamar 587, 590 
 
 Sevey, Jean 589 
 
 Sevey, Mary 587, 594 
 
 Sevey, Mrs. Ithamar 587 
 
 Sevey, Samuel 590 
 
 Shannon, Elisabeth 616 
 
 Shannon, Harriet 620 
 
 Shannon, Lilias 615 
 
 Sherbourne, Joseph 614 
 
 Sherburne, John 611 
 
 Shute, James .588 
 
 Shute, Mary 589 
 
 Smith, Charles 619 
 
 Smith, Dolly 621 
 
 Smith, John 617 
 
 Smith, Josiah 615 
 
 Smith, Mercy 618 
 
 Smith, Prudence 617 
 
 Smith, Rev. Isaac 605 
 
 Snell, Abigail 619 
 
 Spencer, Elisabeth 610 
 
 Spencer, Polly 620 
 
 Spring, Seth 615 
 
 Stanton, Benjamin 594 
 
 Stanton, Isaac 595 
 
 Stanton, John 607, 621 
 
 Starbord, Stephen 607 
 
 Stephens, Elisabeth 612 
 
 Stephens. Thomas 613 
 
 Stevens, Hannah 621 
 
 Stiles, Triphena 587 
 
 Stillson, Lettice 607 
 
 Sumner, Eli 606 
 
 Sumner, Elisabeth 606 
 
 Sumner, Mrs. Eli 606 
 
 Sumner, Samuel H 617 
 
 Swain, Betsey 618 
 
 Swain, Mary 617 
 
 Swain, Roger 586 
 
 Tanner, Jane 620 
 
 Tanner, John E 610 
 
 Tasker, Daniel 613 
 
 Tasker, Lois... 611 
 
 Tebbets, Abigail.. 588, 609, 613 
 
 Tebbets, Abigail, 2d 588 
 
 Tebbets, Benjamin. . . .588, 613 
 
 Tebbets, Benjamin, Jr 588 
 
 Tebbets, Betty K 598 
 
 Tebbets, Charity 5S7, 599 
 
 Tebbets, Daniel 588 
 
 Tebbets, Deborah 607 
 
 Tebbets, Dorothy 608 
 
 Tebbets, Ebenezer 588, 598 
 
 599, 612. 
 
 Tebbets, Edmond 598 
 
 Tebbets, Edward 587 
 
 Tebbets, Elisabeth 609 
 
 Tebbets, Enoch 612 
 
 Tebbets, Ephraim 607, 608 
 
 Tebbets, Esther 608 
 
 Tebbets, Eward 600 
 
 Tebbets, Ezekiel 617 
 
 Tebbets, Hannah 612 
 
 Tebbets, Henry... 588, 599,600 
 
 616. 
 
 Tebbets, Henrj% Jr 599 
 
 Tebbets, Huldah 620 
 
 Tebbets, Ira 620 
 
 Tebbets, Israel 588 
 
 Tebbets, James. . . .588, 599, 613 
 
 Tebbets, Jedediah 608 
 
 Tebbets, Jerry 630 
 
 Tebbets, John 599, 606, 612 
 
 Tebbets, Jonathan 587 
 
 Tebbets, Jonathan, Jr 61S 
 
 Tebbets, Joseph, Jr 613 
 
 Tebbets, Josiah 588 
 
 Tebbets, Joyce 588 
 
 Tebbets, I.,ucy 620 
 
 Tebbets, Lydia 608,609 
 
 Tebbets, Mary 598,617 
 
 Tebbets, Mehetabal 609 
 
 Tebbets, Molly 616 
 
 Tebbets, Mrs. Benjamin. . .688 
 
 Tebbets, Nathaniel 588 
 
 Tebbets, Paul 588 
 
 Tebbets, Paul, Jr 588 
 
 Tebbets, Phebe 611 
 
 Tebbets, Rebecca 599, 616 
 
 Tebbets. Rose 616 
 
 Tebbets, Ruth 614 
 
 Tebbets, Sally 615 
 
 Tebbets, Samuel 599 
 
 Tebbets, Sarah 588,599 
 
 Tebbets, Silas 608 
 
 Tebbets, Solomon 588 
 
 Tebbets, Stephen 609, 614 
 
 Tebbets, Susanna 610, 617 
 
 Tebbets, Susannah 599 
 
 Tebbets, Thomas W 620 
 
 Tebbets, Wealthy 617 
 
 Tebbets, William 588, 614 
 
 Tebbetts, Abigail 589, 595 
 
INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES. 
 
 687 
 
 T ebbetts, Anna • 59-; | 
 
 Tebbetts, Deborah ■ • • -^^^ i 
 
 Tebbetts, Ebenezer . . -oW^, 59o 
 
 Tebbetts, Henry ^'-fi. ^94 
 
 Tebbetts, Mary. 5j)2 
 
 Tebbetts, Mrs. Henry. ._■ • -592 
 Tebbetts, Nathaniel , ..592, -^94 
 
 Tebbetts, Paul Of ^ 
 
 Tebbetts, Sarah JJ'- 
 
 Tebbetts, Stepiieu sa-' 
 
 Tebbetts. Susanna oj* 
 
 Thompson, Isaac. bm 
 
 Thompson, Joseph, Jr w, 
 
 Thompson, Lucy ^>y\ 
 
 Tliorapson, Lydia w& 
 
 Thompson, Koah. . • cw 
 
 Thompson, Noah, Jr buo 
 
 Thomson, Rev bo^ 
 
 Thurston, Rev ^i^^ 
 
 Thurston, Rev. Benj 602 
 
 Tibbets, Eunice w' 
 
 Tole, Levy "j^. 
 
 Tolo. Stephen... 59^ 
 
 Tompson, Jo.sepu oJi 
 
 Tompson, Noah J°i 
 
 Tompson, Sarah a»i 
 
 Torr, Abigail W« 
 
 Torr, Betsey...... ^12 
 
 Torr, Jonathan H of" 
 
 Torr, Polly ^\f 
 
 Torr.Sally Wo 
 
 Torr, Simon o"o 
 
 Torr, Vincent...... bl5 
 
 Townson, Daniel, Jr biO 
 
 Trescrin, Sarah 612 
 
 Trickey , ■ ■_• ■ ^ , : 
 
 Trickey, Alice o9-i. f_\' 
 
 Trickey, Benjamin . . . .o9h, 612 
 
 Trickey, Comfort 605, ol8 
 
 Trickey, Elisabeth 607 
 
 Trickey, Ephraim -607 
 
 Trickey, Hannah 5J8, bU 
 
 Trickey, Jacob b20 
 
 Trickey, John 595, 598, (u4 
 
 Trickey, Joshua 618, 618 
 
 Trickey, Mary ; • • ■ 590 
 
 Trickey, Rebecca o9l, o9» 
 
 Trickey, Rebekab. . ... • •• • -^ii 
 
 Trickey, Sarah 594, 598, 60S 
 
 Tiickey, William 58S, 598 
 
 Trickey, William, Jr 59b 
 
 Tricky, Dorothy 598 
 
 Tricky, VV illiam ' • • XrS 
 
 Tripe, Richard 607 
 
 Tripe, Sarah 609 
 
 Tucker, Abigail 601 
 
 Tucker, Eunice 620 
 
 Tucker, Jane 611 
 
 Tucker, Jenny 60d 
 
 Tucker, John • -608 
 
 Tucker, Joseph. .598 to 603, 606 
 
 Tucker, Joseph, Jr 602 
 
 Tucker, Josiah .598, 615 
 
 Tucker, Lydia 600 
 
 Tucker, Phebe 5 « 
 
 Tucker, Ti-islram -599 
 
 Tuttle, JobN 621 
 
 Tuttle, John • . 594 
 
 Tuttle, Samuel 607, 619 
 
 Twombly, Abigail 607, 612 
 
 Twombly, Anna 604 
 
 Twombly, Benjamin 613 
 
 Twombly, Betsey 620 
 
 T\yombly, Betty 604, 610 
 
 Twombly, Ebenezer 610 
 
 Twombly, Eunice 620 
 
 Twombly, Hannah 603 
 
 Twombly, Isaac 619 
 
 Twombly, John, Jr 613 
 
 Twombly, Jonathan 616 
 
 Twombly, Jotham 609 
 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly 
 Twombly 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly, 
 Twombly 
 
 Judith 613 
 
 Lois 606 
 
 Lydia 609 
 
 Mary 611 
 
 Mehetabel 616 
 
 Molly 615 
 
 Moses 615 
 
 Mrs. Tobias 606 
 
 Nancy 616 
 
 , Sally 615 
 
 , Samuel, Jr 617 
 
 , Sarah 609 
 
 , Stephen.... 604, 609 
 
 , Stephen, Jr 604 
 
 , Susannah 608 
 
 Tobias 593, 606 
 
 Tobias, Jr 614 
 
 Upham, Albert. 
 
 606 
 
 upham, Aiueru """ 
 
 Upham, Alfred. 604 
 
 Upham, Francis W bOb 
 
 Upham, Joseph B bOo 
 
 Upham, Judith A bOo 
 
 Upham, Mary 604 
 
 Upham, Nathaniel. 604, 005, 606 
 Upham, Rev. Thomas C .606 
 
 Upham, KuthC 606 
 
 Upham, Timothy 605 
 
 Varney, Benjamin 608 
 
 Varney, Dominicus 61b 
 
 Varney, Dudley 617 
 
 Varney, Ebenezer, Jr bio 
 
 Varney , Elijah H 617 
 
 Varney, Elijah, Jr bl4 
 
 Varney, Elisabeth 610 
 
 Varney, Esther 606, 615 
 
 Varney, Hopley 618 
 
 Varney, James 609 
 
 Varney, Joel bii 
 
 Varney, John • • -bll 
 
 varney, Lydia 616, bl9 
 
 Varney, Martha 607 
 
 Varney, Mary 610, 616 
 
 Varney, Mehetabel . . . •_• • • -613 
 
 Varney, Mercy o94, 611 
 
 Varney, Nicholas bia 
 
 Varnej^ Olive bl4 
 
 Varney, Patience 607 
 
 Varney, Patty 619 
 
 Varney, Peace bfO 
 
 Varney, Polly bib 
 
 Varney, Rhoda • ■ • . -bib 
 
 Varney, Sarah 612,619 
 
 Varney, Silas 615 
 
 Varney, Thomas.... 610 
 
 Varney, Thomas, 3d bio 
 
 ! Wakeham, Caleb 607 
 
 : Wakeham, Miriam 614 
 
 I Waldron, Abigail • • • • 614 
 
 ' Waldron, Abraham.. . .59b, 599 
 Waldron, Abraham, Jr. . . .598 
 
 Waldron, George 599 
 
 Waldron, .fames 613 
 
 Waldron, John D 619 
 
 i Waldron, Mebitable 617 
 
 I Waldron, Sally • • • • -619 
 
 Walker, Abigail. . .588, 594, 612 
 
 ! Walker, Betsey 613 
 
 Walker, Deborah 620 
 
 Walker, Dorothy 615 
 
 Walker, John 590 
 
 Walker, John K 616 
 
 Walker, Joseph 594 
 
 Walker, Joseph , Jr o90 
 
 Wal ker, Mary 620 
 
 Walker, Robart 606 
 
 Walker, Robert 591 
 
 Wallingford, Abigail 603 
 
 Wallingford, Betsey 619 
 
 Wallingford, David... .603, 610 
 Wallingford, Jacob.. . .595, 611 
 
 Wallingford, Joanna 619 
 
 Wallingford, John 59o 
 
 Wallingford, Lj'dia.. . ..597, 611 
 
 Wallingford, Mary • • ■ -592 
 
 Wallingford, Peter.. ..593, 594 
 595, 603. 
 
 Wallingford, Rebecca bib 
 
 Wallingford, Samuel.. 603, 619 
 
 Wallingford, Sarah 593 
 
 Wallingford, Widow 597 
 
 Warren, Joseph 620 
 
 Warren, William bl.-) 
 
 Waterhouse, Benjamin.. ..620 
 Waterhouse, Elisabeth... .600 
 Waterhouse, George. ..598, 600 
 Waterhouse, George, Ji'- ■•59b 
 
 Waterhouse, Mary bl9 
 
 Watson, Abigail b09 
 
 Watson, Anna 612 
 
 Watson, Daniel 618 
 
 Watson, Hannah bi» 
 
 Watson, Jonathan E 611 
 
 Watson, Samuel • ■ • • -616 
 
 Webber, Benjamin 594 
 
 Welch, Matthias 607 
 
 Welch, Sarah 607 
 
 Wenthworth, William 619 
 
 Went worth, Abigail... 58/, 611 
 
 Wentworth, Anna 607 
 
 Wentworth, Anne 600 
 
 Wentworth, Benjamin ....595 
 Wentworth, Daniel.. . .586, 611 
 
 Wentworth, David 600 
 
 Wentworth, Dorcas 607 
 
 Wentworth, Dorothy 610 
 
 Wentworth, Dudley 602 
 
 Wentworth, Dudly 602 
 
 Wentworth, Ebenezer. 600, 611 
 
 Wentworth, Elias 601 
 
 Wentworth, Elihu 606 
 
 Wentv,rorth, Enoch. . . .611, 612 
 Wentworth, Ephraim... 597 to 
 600,620. ^ ^„„ 
 
 Wentworth, Ephraim, Jr.. 599 
 Wentworth, Ezekiel.. .6Ul, 616 
 
 619. 
 
 Wentworth, George 614 
 
 Wentworth, Gershom 5b9 
 
 Wentworth, Hannah.. 587, 597 
 
 Wentworth, Ichabod..602, 603 
 
 610, 620. 
 Wentworth, Ichabod H — 603 
 
 Wentworth, Isaac .591, 607 
 
 Wentworth, James . . . .603, 610 
 
 Wentworth, Jane 612 
 
 Wentworth, Joanna 609 
 
 Wentworth, John. .59o, 597, 601 
 ' 602, 60S. 
 
 Wentworth, John, 3d 611 
 
 Wentworth, Jonathan. 601, 602 
 Wentworth, Jonathan, Jr.. 610 
 
 Wentworth, Joseph 602 
 
 Wentworth, J osiah 589 
 
 Wentworth, Josiah, Jr — 614 
 
 AVentworth, Keziah 620 
 
 Wentworth, Lidea 600 
 
 Wentworth, Lois 614 
 
 Wentworth, Lucy • • • oOf 
 
 Wentworth, Lydia 602, 614 
 
 Wentworth.Martha 603,609,619 
 
 Wentworth, Mary 611, 612 
 
 Wentworth, Mathias _• .602 
 
 Wentworth, Mercy 59(, 602 
 
 615, 617. 
 
688 
 
 INDEX TO BAPTISMS AND MARRIAGES. 
 
 Wentworth, Molly G09 
 
 Wentworth, Xabby 602 
 
 Wentworth, Olive 616 
 
 Wentworth, Patience .595, 611 
 Wentworth, Rebecca.. 603, 616 
 Wentworth, Richard . . 589, 592 
 Wentworth, Richard, Jr . . .592 
 
 Wentworth, Samuel 608 
 
 Wentworth, Sarah. 610, 611, 614 
 
 Wentworth, Spencer .598 
 
 Wentworth, Stephen... 590, 597 
 Wentworth, Stephen, Jr . . .609 
 Wentworth, Temperance. .614 
 Wentworth, Thomas. .589, 610 
 
 616. 
 Wentworth, William. ..601, 603 
 
 Weymouth, Benjamin 593 
 
 Weymouth, Deborah 610 
 
 Weymouth, John 593 
 
 Weymouth, Lydia 599 
 
 Weymouth, Mary 609 
 
 Weymouth, Moses 599 
 
 Weymouth, Moses, Jr 599 
 
 Weymouth, Sarah 609 
 
 Whiteham, Abigail 618 
 
 Whitehouse, Aaron 608 
 
 Whitehouse, Abigail 592 
 
 Whitehouse, Alexander . ..611 
 
 Whitehouse, Anthony 610 
 
 Whitehouse, Betty 590 
 
 Whitehouse, Charles T. . . .592 
 Whitehouse. Comfort. .617, 618 
 
 Whitehouse, Elisabeth 612 
 
 Whitehouse, Elizabeth... .593 
 
 Whitehouse, Esther 590 
 
 "Whitehouse, Israel 614 
 
 Whitehouse, Jacob 617 
 
 Whitehouse, Jeremy 615 
 
 Whitehouse, John 593 
 
 Whitehouse, Jonathan. 5S8, 593 
 
 Whitehouse, Joseph 593 
 
 Whitehouse, Judith. ...593, 609 
 
 Whitehouse, Lydia 616 
 
 Whitehouse, Martha 591 
 
 Whitehouse, Moses 613 
 
 Whitehouse,Nathaniel. 610,612 
 
 Whitehouse, Polly 618 
 
 Whitehouse, Rebecca .589, 609 
 
 Whitehouse, Samuel 587 
 
 Whitehouse, Samuel £[.... 5S9 
 Whitehouse, Stephen. .587,611 
 
 Whitehouse, William 590 
 
 White, Sarah 609 
 
 Whitiker, William 606 
 
 Whittum, Aaron 602 
 
 Whittum, Amos 602 
 
 Wiggin, David 614 
 
 Wiggin, Joshua 612 
 
 Wiggin, Rachel 614 
 
 Wiggin, Samuel 616 
 
 Willand, Enoch 612 
 
 Willand, Lydia 620 
 
 Willand, Sarah 611 
 
 Wille, James 607 
 
 Wille,John 607 
 
 Wille, Stephen 611 
 
 Wille, William 609 
 
 Willey, Eliphalet 618 
 
 Willey, John. Jr 608 
 
 Willey, Josiah 598 
 
 Willey, Mrs 598 
 
 Wille j% Stephen 598 
 
 Wilson, James 618 
 
 Wilson, Joseph 619 
 
 Wingate, Abigail R 605 
 
 Wingate, Amos 603 
 
 Wingate, Benjamin 610 
 
 Wingate, Daniel 603, 615 
 
 Wingate, Daniel G 603 
 
 Wingate, Daniel, Jr 602 
 
 Wingate, David 609 
 
 Wingate, David, Jr 620 
 
 Wingate, Dolly 607 
 
 Wingate, Edmond 603, 605 
 
 Wingate, Edmund 601 
 
 Wingate, Enoch 611 
 
 Wingate, Joshua. 603 
 
 Wingate, Lydia 601, 619 
 
 Wingate, Lydia W 602 
 
 Wingate, Mary 609, 617 
 
 Wingate, Meshach 620 
 
 Wingate, Moses 596 
 
 Wingate, Sally 612 
 
 Wingate, Samuel 596 
 
 Wingate, Sarah 618 
 
 Wingate, Stephen 601,616 
 
 Wingate, William 607 
 
 Wingat, Samuel 596 
 
 Wlngat, Sarah 596 
 
 Wingat, Temperance 596 
 
 Winget, Daniel 590 
 
 Winget, Dorothy 591 
 
 Winget, Elizabeth 592 
 
 Winget, Enoch 591 
 
 Winget, John 591 
 
 Winget, Joseph 594 
 
 Winget, Mary 590 
 
 Winget, Mrs. Daniel 590 
 
 Winget, Samuel 590, 593 
 
 Winget, William 590 
 
 Winkly, Elisabeth 600 
 
 Winkly, Mary 600 
 
 Winkly, Samuel 600 
 
 Wise, Rev 588 
 
 Witham, Polly 618 
 
 Withe rail, Judith 613 
 
 Witherell, Hannah 61ff 
 
 Witherell, James 593 
 
 Witherell, John 695 
 
 Witherell, Lydia 615 
 
 Witherel, Thomas 592 
 
 Witheren, John 599 
 
 Witheren, Juda 599 
 
 Wood, James 595 
 
 Woodman, Chai-les Wm.. .605 
 
 Woodman, Charlotte C 606 
 
 Woodman, Harriet C 606 
 
 Woodman, Jeremiah H 605 
 
 606. 
 
 Woodman, Maria B 606 
 
 Woodman, Mai-y E 605 
 
 Woodman, Sarah J 606 
 
 Woodman, Sarah T 605 
 
 Woodman, Theodore C....606 
 
 Woodman, Uriel 618 
 
 Worster, James 610 
 
 Worster, Dorcas 619 
 
 Worster, Mary 613 
 
 Worster, Sally 619 
 
 Yetton, Sarah 608 
 
 York, Abigail 615 
 
 York, Enoch 617 
 
 York, Josiah, Jr 621 
 
 Young, Abigail 589 
 
 Young, Ann 591 
 
 Young, Anna. .587, 590, 607, 612 J j 
 
 Young, Betty 592B 
 
 Young, Elisabeth 591 ^ ' 
 
 Young, Esther 593 * 
 
 Young, Hannah 587, 619 
 
 Young, James 593 
 
 Young, Jean 587 
 
 Young, Jeremy 615 
 
 Young, Jonathan.. 587, 590, 591 
 
 592, 594, 607. 
 
 Young, Mercy 593 
 
 Young, Moses 596, 613 
 
 Young, Mrs. Jonathan 587 
 
 Young, Mrs. Thomas 590 
 
 Young, Patience 613 
 
 Young, Susannah 595 
 
 Young, Thomas. 590, 592 to 596 
 
 619. 
 Young, Timothy 618 
 
 R B 1 .3 6, 
 
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